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GENEVA — One hundred days into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the war has brought the world a near-daily drumbeat of gut wrenching scenes: Civilian corpses in the streets of Bucha; a blown-up theater in Mariupol; the chaos at a Kramatorsk train station in the wake of a Russian missile strike.
Those images tell just a part of the overall picture of Europe’s worst armed conflict in decades. Here’s a look at some numbers and statistics that — while in flux and at times uncertain — shed further light on the death, destruction, displacement and economic havoc wrought by the war as it reaches this milestone with no end in sight.
THE HUMAN TOLL
Nobody really knows how many combatants or civilians have died, and claims of casualties by government officials — who may sometimes be exaggerating or lowballing their figures for public relations reasons — are all but impossible to verify.
Government officials, U.N. agencies and others who carry out the grim task of counting the dead don’t always get access to places where people were killed.
And Moscow has released scant information about casualties among its forces and allies, and given no accounting of civilian deaths in areas under its control. In some places — such as the long-besieged city of Mariupol, potentially the war’s biggest killing field — Russian forces are accused of trying to cover up deaths and dumping bodies into mass graves, clouding the overall toll.
With all those caveats, “at least tens of thousands” of Ukrainian civilians have died so far, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Thursday in comments to Luxembourg’s parliament.
In Mariupol alone, officials have reported over 21,000 civilian dead. Sievierodonetsk, a city in the eastern region of Luhansk that has become the focus of Russia’s offensive, has seen roughly 1,500 casualties, according to the mayor.
Such estimates comprise both those killed by Russian strikes or troops and those who succumbed to secondary effects such as hunger and sickness as food supplies and health services collapsed.
Zelenskyy said this week that 60 to 100 Ukrainian soldiers are dying in combat every day, with about 500 more wounded.
Russia’s last publicly released figures for its own forces came March 25, when a general told state media that 1,351 soldiers had been killed and 3,825 wounded.
Ukraine and Western observers say the real number is much higher: Zelenskyy said Thursday that more than 30,000 Russian servicemen have died — “more than the Soviet Union lost in 10 years of the war in Afghanistan”; in late April, the British government estimated Russian losses at 15,000.
Speaking on condition of anonymity Wednesday to discuss intelligence matters, a Western official said Russia is “still taking casualties, but … in smaller numbers.” The official estimated that some 40,000 Russian troops have been wounded.
In Moscow-backed separatist enclaves in eastern Ukraine, authorities have reported over 1,300 fighters lost and nearly 7,500 wounded in the Donetsk region, along with 477 dead civilians and nearly 2,400 wounded; plus 29 civilians killed and 60 wounded in Luhansk.
THE DEVASTATION
Relentless shelling, bombing and airstrikes have reduced large swaths of many cities and towns to rubble.
Ukraine’s parliamentary commission on human rights says Russia’s military has destroyed almost 38,000 residential buildings, rendering about 220,000 people homeless.
Nearly 1,900 educational facilities from kindergartens to grade schools to universities have been damaged, including 180 completely ruined.
Other infrastructure losses include 300 car and 50 rail bridges, 500 factories and about 500 damaged hospitals, according to Ukrainian officials.
The World Health Organization has tallied 296 attacks on hospitals, ambulances and medical workers in Ukraine this year.
FLEEING HOME
The U.N. refugee agency UNHCR estimates that about 6.8 million people have been driven out of Ukraine at some point during the conflict.
But since fighting subsided in the area near Kyiv and elsewhere, and Russian forces redeployed to the east and south, about 2.2 million have returned to the country, it says.
The U.N.’s International Organization for Migration estimates that as of May 23 there were more than 7.1 million internally displaced people — that is, those who fled their homes but remain in the country. That’s down from over 8 million in an earlier count.
LAND SEIZED
Ukrainian officials say that before the February invasion, Russia controlled some 7% of Ukrainian territory including Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014, and areas held by the separatists in Donetsk and Luhansk. On Thursday, Zelenskyy said Russian forces now held 20% of the country.
While the front lines are constantly shifting, that amounts to an additional 58,000 square kilometers (22,000 square miles) under Russian control, a total area slightly larger than Croatia or a little smaller than the U.S. state of West Virginia.
THE ECONOMIC FALLOUT IN RUSSIA AND UKRAINE …
The West has levied a host of retaliatory sanctions against Moscow including on the crucial oil and gas sectors, and Europe is beginning to wean itself from its dependence on Russian energy.
Evgeny Gontmakher, academic director of European Dialogue, wrote in a paper this week that Russia currently faces over 5,000 targeted sanctions, more than any other country. Some $300 billion of Russian gold and foreign exchange reserves in the West have been frozen, he added, and air traffic in the country dropped from 8.1 million to 5.2 million passengers between January and March.
Additionally, the Kyiv School of Economics has reported that more than 1,000 “self-sanctioning” companies have curtailed their operations in Russia.
The MOEX Russia stock index has plunged by about a quarter since just before the invasion and is down nearly 40 percent from the start of the year. And the Russian Central Bank said last week that annualized inflation came in at 17.8 percent in April.
Ukraine, meanwhile, has reported suffering a staggering economic blow: 35% of GDP wiped out by the war.
“Our direct losses today exceed $600 billion,” Andriy Yermak, the head of Zelenskyy’s office, said recently.
Ukraine, a major agricultural producer, says it has been unable to export some 22 million tons of grain. It blames a backlog of shipments on Russian blockades or capture of key ports. Zelenskyy accused Russia this week of stealing at least a half-million tons of grain during the invasion.
… AND THE WORLD
The fallout has rippled around the globe, further driving up costs for basic goods on top of inflation that was already in full swing in many places before the invasion. Developing countries are being squeezed particularly hard by higher costs of food, fuel and financing.
Crude oil prices in London and New York have risen by 20 to 25 percent, resulting in higher prices at the pump and for an array of petroleum-based products.
Wheat supplies have been disrupted in African nations, which imported 44% of their wheat from Russia and Ukraine in the years immediately before the invasion. The African Development Bank has reported a 45% increase in continental prices for the grain, affecting everything from Mauritanian couscous to the fried donuts sold in Congo.
Amin Awad, the U.N. crisis coordinator in Ukraine, said 1.4 billion people worldwide could be affected by shortages of grain and fertilizer from the country.
“This war’s toll on civilians is unacceptable. This war has no winner,” he told reporters in Geneva via video from Kyiv on Friday. “Today we mark a tragic milestone. And we know what is needed the most: An end to this war.”
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Karmanau reported from Lviv, Ukraine.
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Diana Taurasi re-signs with Phoenix Mercury for her 19th season in 2023
Diana Taurasi, the face of the Phoenix Mercury franchise since arriving in 2004, has signed a multi-year contract to return to the only WNBA team she's ever played for, the Mercury announced on Saturday.
Taurasi's list of accolades is extensive, from being the WNBA's all-time leading scorer to being a five-time Olympic gold medalist. She helped lead the Mercury to three league championships and needs just 307 points this season to become the first WNBA player to top 10,000.
“Diana Taurasi belongs in a Mercury uniform, and we are grateful for the continued faith she demonstrates in our organization by returning year after year," Mercury General Manager Jim Pitman said in a statement. "The way she prepares her body, how much she cares about winning, and how much she cares about our franchise — on and off the court — are just a few of the things that make her a transcendent athlete and quite literally the greatest of all time. We look forward to more accolades, more historic moments, and more wins.”
Last year Taurasi, who will turn 41 in June, averaged 16.2 points, 3.9 assists and 3.4 rebounds before her season was cut short by a quad injury. Still, Taurasi's average of 31 minutes per game was her most since the 2013 season.
Additionally, Taurasi made 92 threes, second-most in the league. She owns five of the six seasons of 90 made threes in WNBA history. She also became the first player in WNBA history with a 30-point game at age 40, something only Michael Jordan and Dirk Nowitzki have done in the NBA.
Taurasi currently holds Mercury franchise records in 16 categories (outright or shared): seasons (18), games played (503), games started (503), minutes played (15,565), points scored (9,696), scoring average (19.27), field goals made (3,041), field goal attempts (7,121), three points made (1,297), three-point attempts (3,569), free throws made (2,314), free throw attempts (2,655), defensive rebounds (1,755), assists (2,152), steals (483) and championships (3).
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DAVIE, Fla. , Aug. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Green Scientific Labs Holdings Inc. ("Green Scientific Labs" or the "Company") (CSE: GSL), a leading multi-state provider of innovative cannabis and hemp testing technologies and methods, announces Paul Crage's departure as CEO of the Company, effective July 29, 2022. Since helping co-found Green Scientific Labs in 2018, Mr. Crage has played an active role in the development and success of the organization. Green Scientific Labs has grown from an idea to a leading multi-state testing laboratory, servicing over 1,200 marijuana and hemp clients while striving to set the gold standard in cannabis compliance testing.
The Board of Directors has appointed Chief Compliance Officer, Rafael Bombonato, as interim CEO of the Company effective August 1st, 2022.
"I am honored to have been asked to serve as Interim CEO of Green Scientific Labs as our Board of Directors begins the process of permanently fulfilling the position. I am very confident in our staff's ability to make this a smooth transition for our customers and staff," says Rafael Bombonato.
Mr. Bombonato has over 15 years of compliance, quality assurance, and product safety experience in the food, dietary supplement, pharmaceutical, and for the last five years in the medical cannabis industry. Mr. Bombonato holds a bachelor's degree in Molecular Biology, Microbiology, and Biotechnology and a master's degree in Business Administration. Mr. Bombonato's career is dedicated to product quality, safety, efficacy, and compliance. Mr. Bombonato is part of the cannabis technical committee at Cannabis Safety and Quality) and Safe Quality Food ("SQF"). He is also a Quality Auditor, HACCP trained, SQF Practitioner, and is involved in policy, regulation, and guideline development throughout all aspects of the cannabis industry.
"We cannot thank Paul enough for his years of service, contributions to the organization and wish him the very best as he moves on to his next venture. While we will miss him and his leadership, we are extremely excited about the future of Green Scientific Labs and have the utmost confidence in Rafael Bombonato to step in and lead us in the right direction," stated Michael Richmond, Chairman of Green Scientific Labs.
Green Scientific Labs (CSE: GSL) is a leading, multi-state provider of innovative cannabis and hemp testing technologies and methods. The Company's labs perform product testing to help cultivators, manufacturers, and retailers stay compliant with state and federal regulations. Green Scientific Labs delivers superior marijuana, cannabis, hemp, and CBD testing services, and provides industry leading customer service for its clients.
For more information, please visit https://www.greenscientificlabs.com/.
This news release contains certain "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities legislation and may also contain statements that may constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of applicable United States securities legislation. Such forward looking information and forward looking statements are not representative of historical facts or information or current condition but instead represent only the Company's belief regarding future events, plans or objectives, many of which by their nature are inherently uncertain and outside of the Company's control. Often, but not always, such forward-looking information or forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "plans", "is expected", "expects", "scheduled", "intends", "contemplates", "anticipates", "believes", "proposes" or variations (including negative and grammatical variations) of such words and phrases, or state that certain actions, events or results "may", "could", "would", "might" or "will" be taken, occur or be achieved Such forward looking information and forward-looking statements are based on the Company's current projections and expectations about future events and financial trends that management believes might affect its financial condition, results of operations, business strategy and financial needs, and on certain assumptions and analysis made by the Company in light of the experience and perception of historical trends, current conditions and expected future developments and other factors management believes are appropriate. Forward-looking information and statements involve and are subject to assumptions and known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors which may cause actual events, results, performance, or achievements of the Company to be materially different from future events, results, performance, and achievements expressed or implied by forward-looking information and statements herein. Although the Company believes that the assumptions and factors used in preparing, and the expectations contained in, forward-looking information and statements are reasonable, in light of the use of assumptions and the significant risks and uncertainties inherent in such information and statements, undue reliance should not be placed on such information and statements, and no assurance or guarantee can be given that such forward-looking information and statements will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such information and statements as a result of known and unknown risk factors and uncertainties affecting the Company, including but not limited to, risks regarding the cannabis-testing industry or cannabis industry generally, failure to obtain regulatory or stock exchange approvals, economic factors, the equity markets generally and risks associated with growth and competition. Any forward-looking information and statements herein are made as of the date hereof and the Company assumes no obligation and disclaims any intention to update or revise any forward-looking information and statements herein or to update the reasons that actual events or results could or do differ from those projected in any forward looking information and statements herein, whether as a result of new information, future events or results, or otherwise, except as may be required by applicable securities laws. All written and oral forward-looking information and forward-looking statements attributable to the Company or persons acting on its behalf is expressly qualified in its entirety by this notice regarding forward-looking information and forward-looking statements.
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MAPUTO, Mozambique (AP) — A new offensive by Mozambique's Islamic extremist rebels in the embattled northern province of Cabo Delgado has increased the number of displaced by 80,000 and undermines the government’s claims of containing the insurgency.
The rebels have expanded their area in a campaign that has lasted for more than two months. The new offensive, which started in June, follows a period of relative calm when the commander-general of Mozambique's national police had declared that “the war against terrorism is almost at an end.”
That claim proved to be hollow as the fighters have struck further south than ever before, burning villages and beheading civilians in the Ancuabe, Chiure and Mecufi districts which had previously been untouched by the conflict since it began in October 2017.
The latest bout of violence brings the total number of people displaced in Cabo Delgado to just under 950,000, according to estimates by the International Organization for Migration.
Despite the military support that Mozambique is receiving from troops sent by neighboring countries and Rwanda, the rebels are far from defeated. The foreign troops were deployed in Cabo Delgado a year ago, following the extremists' seizure of the strategic town of Palma in March, 2021.
“The prevalence of attacks a year after the beginning of the foreign military intervention confirms what was already clear" that the government is wrong to say the insurrection has been caused by an external invasion with obscure interests, said Albino Forquilha, executive director of FOMICRES, an independent peacebuilding organization in Mozambique.
“The truth is that the conflict has internal origins due to bad governance and a poor relationship between the state and the local population,” Forquilha continued. “As long as the government ignores this fact, the attacks will not stop.”
Mozambique's security forces and the allied foreign troops have succeeded in driving insurgents from the main towns of Cabo Delgado into the forests, but this has effectively put rural civilians on the frontline. Since June, the insurgency has been characterized by relentless hit-and-run assaults on undefended villages, forcing the military and police off-balance as they rush to respond from one incident to the next.
“In the context of logistical limitations, whether due to the number of soldiers or military equipment, the increase in the number of attacks across dispersed areas will limit the pursuit of armed groups by government forces and their partners,” said João Feijó, a researcher at the Mozambique-based Observatory of the Rural Environment. “It is a strategy that aims to increase the difficulties for government forces and their partners, and they need to devise an adequate response to this.”
The 16-nation Southern African Development Community is due to decide in August whether to further extend its military intervention, which originally had a mandate for three months, beginning in July 2021.
The experience of the last year suggests that more than just military force is needed to bring the insurgency to heel, say analysts.
“I do not see a quick end to these attacks,” said Forquilha. “Even if the military intervention had managed to expel the insurgents, I don’t doubt that dissatisfaction would continue in the minds of the youth. Because the problem here is not destroying insurgent bases, it is getting young people to identify with the state.”
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Gould reported from London.
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Driving from Phoenix to Flagstaff? Here are the best times to leave and 2 alternate routes
As we count off the number of days above 110 degrees in Phoenix this summer, this heat wave has got us down in the dumps.
Being unable to leave home without feeling the scorching heat has us begging for cooler temps.
If this describes you, then your first solution might be planning a trip up north. Perhaps to somewhere like Flagstaff, elevation 7,000 feet, where the temperature is lower and you can be amid the greenery, the historic downtown and the clear starry skies.
Here’s a survival guide for driving to Flagstaff during peak summer season and things to do when you get there.
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Are more people driving I-17 to Flagstaff this summer?
Doug Nintzel, a spokesman for the Arizona Department of Transportation, said summer weekends are almost always busy along Interstate 17 between Phoenix and Flagstaff. Popular destinations along the way include Prescott, Sedona, Cottonwood and Jerome.
Traffic is heaviest northbound on Friday and Saturday morning and southbound on Sunday.
“No doubt, the current heat wave has people thinking about trips to the high country,” Nintzel said.
Is the drive from Phoenix to Flagstaff hard?
The most direct route to Flagstaff is I-17 north. It's about 145 miles from central Phoenix and roughly two hours on a good day. However, heavy traffic and road construction can contribute to lengthy delays, particularly in summer.
Some people choose to take longer routes from Phoenix to Flagstaff to avoid the stress, Nintzel said.
“Some drivers might decide they have the time to take these different, some might say scenic, routes,” Nintzel said.
One option is taking State Route 87 north past Payson and then using Lake Mary Road to approach Flagstaff, Nintzel said. Another alternate route involves taking U.S. 60 to Wickenburg and SR 89 to Prescott. There are a few ways of reaching Flagstaff from there. A navigation app can point out your best option.
He said these routes add “considerable” miles to the trip and are suggested when I-17 is closed or has significant slow-moving traffic due to a crash, disabled vehicle or other event, such as a brush fire.
No matter which route you choose, Nintzel recommended setting aside at least a couple of extra hours of travel time, knowing that you could experience slow traffic on another route as well.
Best and worst times to drive from Phoenix to Flagstaff
It's usually best to leave Phoenix for Flagstaff on I-17 by about 1 p.m. on a Friday or wait until early Saturday morning, Nintzel said. The later you leave on Saturday morning, the more traffic you are likely to encounter.
You can stay up to date on any construction-related restrictions that can affect the trip by checking ADOT's Traveler Information site at az511.gov or calling 511.
Best and worst times to drive from Flagstaff to Phoenix
An early start is usually best for the return trip as well. Nintzel said many drivers decide to get on the road by late Sunday morning.
“Of course, there are no guarantees,” he said. “All it takes is a fender bender along the southbound highway, especially along the steeper, winding area south of the Sunset Point rest area, to create long backups and delays. This also is the time of the year when brush fires can require closures of the highway.”
Where can you stop on the drive from Phoenix to Flagstaff?
The Sunset Point rest area, at milepost 252, has finally reopened following a year of repairs. The restrooms, vending areas, water and septic systems have all been upgraded. There's a patio with dramatic views of the Bradshaw Mountains, as well as ramadas and a pet-relief area.
There’s also a rest area McGuireville, at milepost 296 north of Camp Verde. It includes parking, restrooms and shaded picnic tables.
Tips for driving in extreme heat
Nintzel offered these suggestions for your summer road trip in Arizona:
- Bring a cooler with ice and drinking water.
- Pack a blanket or towel that you can kneel on if you have car trouble or a flat tire.
- Bring snacks, sunscreen and an umbrella in case you get caught in a road closure.
- Keep your phone fully charged.
- Have your fuel tank at least three-quarters full in case of delays or detours.
- Pack any items that will keep you as comfortable as possible in case you're forced to stop along the highway.
Extreme heat can also cause car problems. Make sure your car is in good shape before you leave town. This includes checking tire pressure, monitoring the engine temperature and maintaining proper fluid levels.
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What is the weather in Flagstaff this weekend?
According to the National Weather Service, Flagstaff is under a heat advisory until 8 p.m. Friday. The high is expected to be 93 degrees, with a low of 59.
On Saturday the high will be close to 91 degrees and the low will be near 58. Sunday you’re looking at a high of 89 and a low of 57.
The weather service recommends: “Drink plenty of fluids, stay in an air-conditioned room, stay out of the sun and check up on relatives and neighbors.” And never leave kids or pets in a vehicle unattended.
Get the latest updates from the National Weather Service Flagstaff at https://www.weather.gov/fgz or on Twitter.
3 fun things to do in Flagstaff this weekend
Flagstaff is known for its breweries. Places such as Mother Road Brewing Co. and Lumberyard Brewing Co. are great stops to grab a bite and a nice cool beverage.
In the mood for a concert or other event? Head to the Orpheum Theater, which has been around since the early 1900s. Upcoming events include Community Market After Dark, with dancing, drinking, live music and games, and Starry Nights: A Free Family Summer Club, with star studies, tea parties and environmental education. Get more info at https://orpheumflagstaff.com/upcoming-events.
For something different to do after dark, visit Lowell Observatory. This is where Pluto was discovered, and its attractions include the 24-inch Clark Refractor Telescope and the Giovale Open Deck Observatory. Meet an Astronomer takes place every Saturday at 7 p.m. You can meet a planetary scientist, researcher or Lowell astronomer and look at real-time images of planets, stars and galaxies with their MallinCam.
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TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) – A Tampa Bay area attorney says he may have to live with the effects of scar tissue on his lungs for the rest of his life after testing positive for COVID-19 in January.
Bryant Camareno says his doctors cannot be sure when he was first infected with the virus. He began feeling ill in October and a test came back positive months later.
“I’m not a doctor, but from what they’ve explained, the COVID protein can stay in your system,” said “I was officially diagnosed in January and, quite candidly, my life hasn’t been the same.”
Camareno said his doctor urged him not to attend his daughter’s wedding in January but he attended anyway.
“I looked pale. I had raccoon eyes,” he said.
COVID pneumonia in both lungs left him with scar tissue which continues to cause him to cough and be short of breath, according to Camareno. He now has inhalers and has been to two pulmonologists.
“I’ve had judges tell me, ‘Mr. Camareno, I can hear you. You’re struggling to breathe. Take a break or slow down,’” he said. “I just have to learn how to control my speaking patterns. I can go walking, I just can’t go running.”
This week, Florida Department of Health Press Secretary Jeremy Redfern replied to a tweet, writing “Long COVID = anxiety.” Some on social media accused Redfern of being “dismissive.”
“The anxiety is not what caused the scar tissue in my lungs. It’s not what caused me to have pneumonia and it’s not causing me to continue to have to catch my breath and have labored breathing,” Camareno said.
In an email responding to News Channel 8’s request for clarification on the tweet, Redfern directed us to another tweet he sent Friday.
“Let’s circle back. Conflating ‘long covid’ to every possible impact of COVID-19… muddies the waters. It gets in the way of actual research that helps patients. For instance, a lung transplant due to pulmonary fibrosis isn’t ‘long covid,'” he wrote.
“You see the same thing in person after person after person,” said Dr. Kathleen Haggerty, director of the Watson Clinic’s long-haul COVID clinic in an interview last year.
Dr. Haggerty was not available to respond to Redfern’s comments Friday. However, Lakeland’s Watson Clinic confirmed there is now an eight-month waitlist to be treated.
“Most of the people that I’m seeing are not old people. These are people who have had fairly moderate courses of COVID,” Dr. Haggerty said in prior interviews.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention continues to research post-COVID conditions.
“Post-COVID conditions are a wide range of new, returning, or ongoing health problems that people experience after first being infected with the virus that causes COVID-19,” the CDC website on the matter reads.
While the CDC states anyone who was infected can experience post-COVID conditions, it estimates prevalence of long-haul COVID are rare. Symptoms occur at one month or longer after infection in 13.3% of cases and 2.5% of cases at three months or longer.
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LAS VEGAS, Nov. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Wynn Resorts (Nasdaq: WYNN) is pleased to announce that Wynn Resorts Macau received a provisional award of a gaming concession from the Macau government. The ultimate award of the gaming concession contract remains subject to the final documentation of its exact terms and conditions with the Macau government.
About Wynn Resorts
Wynn Resorts, Limited (Nasdaq: WYNN) is traded on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the ticker symbol WYNN and is part of the S&P 500 Index. Wynn Resorts owns and operates Wynn Las Vegas (wynnlasvegas.com), Encore Boston Harbor (encorebostonharbor.com), Wynn Macau (wynnmacau.com), and Wynn Palace, Cotai (wynnpalace.com).
Wynn and Encore Las Vegas feature two luxury hotel towers with a total of 4,748 spacious hotel rooms, suites and villas, approximately 194,000 square feet of casino space, 21 dining experiences featuring signature chefs and 11 bars, two award-winning spas, approximately 513,000 rentable square feet of meeting and convention space, approximately 155,000 square feet of retail space as well as two theaters, two nightclubs, a beach club and recreation and leisure facilities including Wynn Golf Club, an 18-hole, 128-acre championship golf course.
Encore Boston Harbor is a luxury resort destination featuring a 211,000 square foot casino, 671 hotel rooms, an ultra-premium spa, specialty retail, 16 dining and lounge venues, and approximately 71,000 square feet of state-of-the-art ballroom and meeting spaces. Situated on the waterfront along the Mystic River in Everett, Massachusetts, the resort has created a six-acre public park and Harborwalk along the shoreline. It is the largest private, single-phase development in the history of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Wynn Macau is a luxury hotel and casino resort located in the Macau Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China with two luxury hotel towers with a total of 1,010 spacious rooms and suites, approximately 252,000 square feet of casino space, 14 food and beverage outlets, approximately 31,000 square feet of meeting and convention space, approximately 59,000 square feet of retail space, and recreation and leisure facilities including two opulent spas, a salon and a rotunda show.
Wynn Palace is a luxury integrated resort in Macau. Designed as a floral-themed destination, it boasts 1,706 exquisite rooms, suites and villas, approximately 424,000 square feet of casino space, 14 food and beverage outlets, approximately 37,000 square feet of meeting and convention space, approximately 107,000 square feet of designer retail, SkyCabs that traverse an eight-acre Performance Lake, an extensive collection of rare art, a lush spa, salon and recreation and leisure facilities.
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TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — According to Russian state TV, the future of the Ukrainian regions captured by Moscow’s forces is all but decided: Referendums on becoming part of Russia will soon take place there, and the joyful residents who were abandoned by Kyiv will be able to prosper in peace.
In reality, the Kremlin appears to be in no rush to seal the deal on Ukraine’s southern regions of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia and the eastern provinces of Donetsk and Luhansk, even though officials it installed there already have announced plans for a vote to join Russia.
As the war in Ukraine nears its six-month mark, Moscow faces multiple problems in the territory it occupies -– from pulverized civilian infrastructure that needs urgent rebuilding as colder weather looms, to guerrilla resistance and increasingly debilitating attacks by Kyiv’s military forces that have been gearing up for a counteroffensive in the south.
Analysts say that what could have been a clear victory for the Kremlin is becoming something of a muddle.
“It is clear that the situation won’t stabilize for a long time,” even if referendums eventually are held, says Nikolai Petrov, a senior research fellow in Chatham House’s Russia and Eurasia Program. “There will be the guerrilla movement, there will be underground resistance, there will be terrorist acts, there will be shelling. … Right now, the impression is that even the Kremlin doesn’t really believe that by holding these referendums, it would draw a thick line under it.”
Moscow’s plans to incorporate captured territories were clear from the outset of the Feb. 24 invasion. Several weeks in, separatist leaders of the self-proclaimed “people’s republics” of Donetsk and Luhansk, which the Kremlin recognized as independent states, voiced plans to hold votes on becoming part of Russia. While forces backed by Moscow control almost all of Luhansk, some estimates say Russia and the separatists control about 60% of the Donetsk region.
Similar announcements followed from Kremlin-backed administrations of the southern Kherson region, which is almost completely occupied by Russians, and in the Zaporizhzhia region, large swaths of which are under Moscow’s control.
While the Kremlin coyly says it is up to the residents to decide whether they formally want to live in Russia or Ukraine, lower-level officials talked about possible dates for the balloting.
Senior lawmaker Leonid Slutksy once mentioned July, although it did not occur. Vladimir Rogov, a Moscow-installed official in the Zaporizhzhia region, suggested the first half of September. Kirill Stremousov, a Kremlin-backed official in Kherson, talked about scheduling it before the end of the year.
As summer wanes, there is still no date for the referendums. Pro-Russian officials in Kherson and Zaporizhzhia say the votes will take place after Moscow takes full control of the rest of the Donetsk region, but the Kremlin’s gains there have been minimal recently. Still, campaigns promoting the votes are reportedly well underway.
Russian TV shows cities with billboards proclaiming, “Together with Russia.” Stremousov reports from Kherson almost daily on social media about his trips around the region, where he meets people adamant about joining Russia. In the Russian-controlled part of Zaporizhzhia, the Moscow-installed administration already has ordered an election commission to prepare for a referendum.
Balloting aside, there are other signs that Russia is planning on staying.
The ruble has been introduced alongside the Ukrainian hryvnia and has been used to pay out pensions and other benefits. Russian passports were offered to residents in a fast-track citizenship procedure. Schools were reported to have switched to a Russian curriculum, starting in September.
Russian license plates were given to car owners by traffic police, with Kherson and Zaporizhzhia assigned Russian region numbers 184 and 185. The Russian Interior Ministry, which oversees the traffic police, did not responded to an Associated Press request for comment to clarify how that was legal, given that both regions are still part of Ukraine.
Ukrainian officials and activists, meanwhile, paint a picture that contrasts sharply with the Russian TV portrayal of a bright future for the occupied territories under Moscow’s generous care.
Luhansk Gov. Serhiy Haidai told AP that 90% of the population in the province’s large cities has left. Devastation and squalor “reigns” in the cities and towns seized by Russia, he said, and there are only a few villages not under Moscow’s control after weeks of exhausting battles.
Residents use “water from puddles” and build “a bonfire in the yard to cook food on, right next to garbage, Haidai said.
“Our people that manage to return home to collect their belongings don’t recognize towns and villages that used to blossom,” he added.
The situation isn’t as dire in the southern city of Kherson, which sits just north of the Crimean Peninsula that Moscow annexed from Ukraine in 2014, according to pro-Ukrainian activist Konstantin Ryzhenko. Kherson was captured without much destruction early in the war, so most of its infrastructure is intact.
But supplies of essential goods have been uneven, and prices for food and medicine brought in from Russia have spiked, Ryzhenko told AP, adding that both are of “disgustingly low quality.”
Early in the war, thousands of Kherson residents regularly protested the occupation, but mass repressions forced many either to flee the city or to hide their views.
“Demonstrations have been impossible since May. If you publicly express anything pro-Ukrainian, an opinion on whatever subject, you are guaranteed to be taken into detention, tortured and beaten there,” Ryzhenko said.
Melitopol Mayor Ivan Fedorov, whose city in the Zaporizhzhia region also was occupied early in the war, echoed Ryzhenko’s sentiment.
Mass arrests and purges of activists and opinion-makers with pro-Kyiv views began in May, said Fedorov, who spent time in Russian captivity for refusing to cooperate. More than 500 people in Melitopol remain in captivity, he told AP.
Despite that intimidation, he estimated that only about 10% of those who remain in the city would vote to join Russia if a referendum takes place.
“The idea of a referendum has discredited itself,” Fedorov said.
Kherson activist Ryzhenko believes a referendum would be rigged because “they’re already talking about voting online, voting at home. … So, you understand, the legitimacy of this voting will be nil.”
Russian political analyst Dmitry Oreshkin said that because so many people have left the occupied regions, “there will be nothing close to a proper polling of the population about their preferences.”
But Ukrainian authorities still have to regard such votes as a serious issue, said Vadim Karasev, head of the Kyiv-based Institute of Global Strategies think tank.
“After the referendums take place, Russia will consider the southern lands as part of its own territory and view Ukrainian attacks as attacks on Russia,” Karasev said in an interview.
He said the Kremlin might also be using the threat of referendums to pressure Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to agree to negotiations on Moscow’s conditions or else risk “losing the south” and a large part of its vital access to the sea.
Zelenskyy has said that if Moscow goes ahead with the votes, there will be no talks of any kind.
In the meantime, Ukrainian forces continue sporadic strikes against the Russian military in the Kherson region. On Thursday, Ukraine’s Operational Command South reported killing 29 “occupiers” near the town of Bilohirka, northeast of Kherson, as well as destroying artillery, armored vehicles and a military supply depot.
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Voting began Friday in Moscow-held regions of Ukraine on referendums to become part of Russia, Russian-backed officials there said.
The Kremlin-orchestrated referendums, which have been widely denounced by Ukraine and the West as shams without any legal force, are seen as a step toward annexing the territories by Russia.
The votes are being held in the Luhansk, Kherson and partly Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk regions.
The vote, which asks residents if they want their regions to be part of Russia, is certain to go Moscow’s way. That would give Russia the pretext to claim that attempts by Ukrainian forces to regain control are attacks on Russia itself, dramatically escalating the seven-month war.
The referendums follow Russian President Vladimir Putin’s order of a partial mobilization, which could add about 300,000 Russian troops to the fight. The balloting will continue for five days through Tuesday.
As the votes was getting underway in the occupied regions, Russian social media sites were full of dramatic scenes of tearful families bidding farewell to men departing from military mobilization centers. In cities across the vast country, men hugged their weeping family members before departing as part of the draft. Russian anti-war activists, in the meantime, planned more protests against the mobilization.
Election officials will be bringing ballots to people’s homes and setting up makeshift polling stations near residential buildings during the first four days of the referendums, according to Russian-installed officials in the occupied regions, who cited safety reasons. Tuesday will be the only day when the voters will be invited to come to regular polls.
Polls also opened in Russia, where refugees from the occupied regions can cast their votes.
Denis Pushilin, separatist leader of Moscow-backed authorities in the Donetsk region, called the referendum on Friday “a historical milestone.”
Vyacheslav Volodin, speaker of Russia’s lower house of parliament, the State Duma, addressed the occupied regions Friday in an online statement, saying: “If you decide to become part of the Russian Federation — we will support you.”
Valentina Matviyenko, chair of Russia’s upper parliament house, said that residents of the occupied regions were voting for “life or death” at the referendums.
The voting takes place against the backdrop of incessant fighting in Ukraine, with Russian and Ukrainian forces exchanging fire as both sides refuse to concede ground.
On Friday morning, pro-Russia officials in the Zaporizhzhia region reported a loud blast in the center of Melitopol, a city that Moscow captured early on in the war. Official Vladimir Rogov didn’t offer any details as to what caused the explosion and whether there was damage and casualties.
Moscow-backed authorities in the Donetsk region also accused Ukrainian forces of shelling the city of Donetsk, the region’s capital, and the nearby city of Yasynuvata.
Ukrainian officials, in turn, reported new rounds of Russian shelling in various parts of the country. Vitaliy Kim, governor of the Mykolaiv region in southern Ukraine that borders the Kherson region, said explosions rang out in the city of Mykolaiv in the early hours of Friday.
Valentyn Reznichenko, governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region, said the Russians unleashed a barrage of shelling on Nikopol, a city across from the Dnieper River from the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, on Friday morning.
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Healthcare among top expenses for retirees
Average 65-year-old retired couple will need $300K for healthcare
InvestigateTV - Healthcare is the number one expense to plan for as you prepare for retirement, according to our partners at the financial website NerdWallet.
The average 65-year-old retired couple will need about $300,000 in after-tax savings to handle health care costs, according to a 2021 report from Fidelity. Specific costs will depend on where you live, how long you live and your overall health.
Long-term care is another major cost. Seniors who live to be 80 have about a one in four chance of needing long-term care and the cost of those facilities typically average $4,500 a month.
Dental care is next. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, the average senior who used Medicare dental services paid nearly $900 a year out of pocket.
Finally, prescription drugs are also a big expense in retirement. A study from The Senior Citizens League (TSCL) showed retirees spent an average of $3,875 out-of-pocket annually on prescription drugs.
A financial planner specializing in retirement needs can help you stress test your financial plan for health events and other expenses, plus they can help you come up with a plan for any gaps in your coverage.
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SANTA FE, N.M. — Actor Alec Baldwin has reached an undisclosed settlement in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of Halyna Hutchins, the cinematographer killed on the "Rust" movie set last year.
"Throughout this difficult process, everyone has maintained the specific desire to do what is best for Halyna’s son," Baldwin said in a statement shared on social media. "We are grateful to everyone who contributed to the resolution of this tragic and painful situation."
Baldwin was pointing a gun at Hutchins when it went off in October 2021, killing Hutchins and wounding the director, Joel Souza. They had been inside a small church and setting up to film a scene.
The lawsuit was filed in February against Baldwin and the movie's producers. Hutchins' husband Matthew said the settlement was subject to court approval, and exact terms were not released.
"The filming of Rust, which I will now executive produce, will resume with all the original principal players on board in January 2023," Matthew Hutchins said in a statement.
He said he was not interested in "attributions of blame":
"All of us believe Halyna’s death was a terrible accident," the statement read. "I am grateful that the producers and the entertainment community have come together to pay tribute to Halyna’s final work."
In his own statement obtained by Deadline, Souza said he would continue to direct "Rust" with Matthew Hutchins as producer.
"Though certainly bittersweet, I am pleased that together, we will now complete what Halyna and I started," Souza said. "My every effort on this film will be devoted to honoring Halyna’s legacy and making her proud. It is a privilege to see this through on her behalf."
What to know:
Baldwin has said the gun went off accidentally and that he did not pull the trigger. But a recent FBI forensic report found the weapon could not have fired unless someone pulled the trigger.
New Mexico medical investigators ruled in August that Hutchins' death was an accident. It was not known how much weight the ruling would hold as prosecutors decide whether to file charges.
The state has granted funds to pay for possible prosecutions connected to the shooting, with the Santa Fe New Mexican reporting last month that as many as four people could face charges. District attorneys did not say whether anyone definitely would be charged, but Baldwin was one of the possible defendants.
Baldwin has said he does not believe he will be criminally charged in the shooting.
Can production resume?
Matthew Hutchins said filming will resume in January, but other legal concerns remain for "Rust."
Rust Movie Productions continues to challenge the basis of a $137,000 fine against the company by New Mexico occupational safety regulators who say production managers on the set failed to follow standard industry protocols for firearms safety.
The state Occupational Health and Safety Review Commission has scheduled an eight-day hearing on the disputed sanctions, starting April 12, 2023. It was not immediately clear whether filming of “Rust” can resume before workplace sanctions are resolved.
At least four other lawsuits brought by crew members remain.
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Program teaches underserved creators how to monetize their work online
BROOKLYN, N.Y., Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In April, Black Web Fest, a non-profit organization highlighting Black creators, launched the Black Web Fest x Web Monetization program to educate creators about web monetization. Through the program, the organization is providing several independent Black filmmakers unrestricted grant funding and marketing support.
According to an article by the Americans for the Arts, The Impact of Covid-19 on Internationally Marginalized Artists and Creative Workers, BIPOC creators are less likely to monetize their work online. "We created this program out of necessity. As venues, businesses, and in-person events shuttered during the pandemic; many Black creators struggled economically. Due to the digital divide, some artists did not have access to technology, the internet, or the skills to transition from traditional methods. Through this program, we provided over 40 Black filmmakers the tools to monetize their work online" said Victoria Coker, Founder of Black Web Fest.
This year marks Black Web Fest's sixth annual festival, which will be held from September 30 to October 1. The event will also feature films and series from the web monetization program. To learn more about Black Web Fest 2022, visit: https://blackwebfest.org/bwf-2022/
Here is the list of Black Web Fest x Web Monetization program grantees:
Shoutout 2 My Therapist, Stefanie Philpott
SEX, VLOGS, AND KIDNAPPINGS, Kyla Sylvers
QuaranDream!, Jeffrey Elizabeth Copeland
Marooned, Christopher Lamadieu
Hide & Seek, Ajoké Adebesin
LOOP, Ivan Mbakop
VICTUS, Yolanda Ross
Church: A Film by Mac Infinity, BDe'Auan (de-on) McClaine
Boxed, Wanjiru Njendu
One Hundred Days and Thinking, Conrad Khalil
REAL MEN DON'T…: An exploration of modern manhood and masculinity., Elton Loud
Why I Turf", formally "Turfin, Latiece Brown
A grant from the Interledger Foundation funded the Black Web Fest x Web Monetization program. The Interledger Foundation is a non-profit advocate for the web, promoting innovation, creativity, and inclusion by advancing open payment standards and technologies that seamlessly connect the global society.
The Black Web Fest is an organization that helps Black creators build sustainable careers by providing accessible programs and services. Their core themes are new media and technology. Black Web Fest events include film screenings, panels, game jams, and more. The organization previously held events in New York, Atlanta, and London. To learn more visit blackwebfest.org.
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‘Most horrible thing’: Child mauled by dog at in-home day care, mother says
MAZOMANIE, Wis. (WMTV/Gray News) - A mother in Wisconsin says her son was seriously injured by a dog while he was at a home day care this week.
Madison Roth told WMTV that her 16-month-old son Isaiah Ede was bitten so badly by the dog that he required surgery at the hospital with more surgeries expected in the future.
“It’s probably the most horrible thing I’ve ever seen in my entire life,” Roth said. “I saw my son’s face just mangled. His whole face was ripped, and he was screaming.”
Roth said she was called to the home day care Wednesday morning about the situation and jumped into an ambulance with her baby.
Isaiah was rushed to American Family Children’s Hospital in Madison. She said he had surgery and is currently doing OK. But she was worried he might not survive.
“I was scared,” she said. “There was blood everywhere.”
Roth said she started taking her son to the home day care, which is at a family friend’s house, about six months ago. She said Whitney Hague runs the day care out of her home and that she previously watched her two older daughters without any problems.
“She’s a wonderful lady,” Roth said. “She does activities with the kids, but this should have never happened. There should’ve been any dog left alone by him.”
Roth does not know if Hague’s in-home day care is credited through the state of Wisconsin.
After the incident, Hague said her concern is about the baby and his family.
According to Roth, county officials told her that the dog involved has since been euthanized.
Animal services said they responded that morning to the home day care regarding the dog bite and the owner of the dog has been cooperating with their ongoing investigation.
Roth said she wants other parents to learn from this and not take their children to a day care with pets.
“I just hope people recognize where their children are and who they’re around,” she said. “Anything could happen, especially when it comes to animals. I wouldn’t trust it.”
The Roth family started a GoFundMe to help pay for medical expenses and other bills.
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SAN DIEGO, July 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Sony Electronics Inc. today revealed pricing and availability for the new Sony BRAVIA XR A95L QD-OLED 4K HDR Google TV. This model comes in 55" (54.6" diag.), 65" (64.5" diag.) and 77" (76.7" diag.) class sizes with suggested retail price starting at $2,799.99. The A95L offers Sony's best color ever and will be available for pre-order starting August 21 at Sony authorized dealers nationwide.
U.S. pricing and availability details:
- 77" Class (76.7" diag): $4,999.99 MSRP (Available to pre-order on 8/21/2023)
- 65" Class (64.5" diag): $3,499.99 MSRP (Available to pre-order on 8/21/2023)
- 55" Class (54.6" diag): $2,799.99 MSRP (Available to pre-order on 8/21/2023)
Canada pricing and availability details:
- 77" Class (76.7" diag): $6,999.99 MSRP (Available to pre-order on 8/21/2023)
- 65" Class (64.5" diag): $4,999.99 MSRP (Available to pre-order on 8/21/2023)
- 55" Class (54.6" diag): $3,999.99 MSRP (Available to pre-order on 8/21/2023)
For full A95L specifications, please visit: https://electronics.sony.com/tv-video/televisions/all-tvs/p/xr65a95l
BRAVIA XR A95L QD-OLED 4K HDR Google TV Key Features:
Enjoy the brightest and widest range of colors and hues, powered by the intelligent Cognitive Processor XR™. With a QD-OLED screen enhanced by XR Triluminos Max™, experience color performance with up to 200% as much color brightness of a conventional OLED TV. Individually lit pixels produce pure black, so your favorite movies, shows, and games burst to life on screen with extraordinary detail and depth.
- Google TV: Get access to all your favorite streaming apps in one place with Google TV™, and simply use your voice to search and ask questions with Google Assistant. 1
- Intelligent and powerful TV processing: Powered by Sony's intelligent Cognitive Processor XR™, hundreds of thousands of individual on-screen elements are processed and remastered in the blink of an eye, boosting color, contrast, and clarity.
- Sony's widest palette of colors: With QD-OLED panel technology and enhanced by XR Triluminos Max™, millions of self-illuminating individual pixels deliver more saturation and brightness to every color.
- Definitive contrast: By pairing the QD-OLED panel and XR OLED Contrast Pro™, see up to 200% color brightness compared to conventional OLED TVs, bringing scenes to life with pure black and our brightest colors.
- Multi View: Exclusively on the A95L, use Multi View to split your screen and enjoy watching content from two different sources at the same time. Such as playing a game on one side and watching a walkthrough on the other.2,3
- Perfect for PlayStation® 5: Take your gaming to the next level with exclusive features Auto HDR Tone Mapping and Auto Genre Picture Mode for optimized picture quality while gaming and streaming on your PS5® console.4
- All game settings in one place: With Game Menu, quickly manage your gaming picture settings and exclusive assist features in a single convenient interface.
- With Acoustic Surface Audio+™, actuators behind the TV vibrate to produce audio from the entire screen elevating the sound and improving dialogue. An integrated subwoofer delivers powerful bass to round out the sound.
- Pairs perfectly with Sony soundbars: Paired with select Sony soundbars, Acoustic Center Sync synchronizes the TVs speakers with the soundbar, boosting the center channel for clearer, fuller vocals. When connected, soundbar settings automatically appear on the TV's Quick Settings menu for easy to control of volume, sound field, and other soundbar features.5
- Enhanced TV experience with included BRAVIA CAM: Connect the supplied BRAVIA CAM to unlock Ambient Optimization Pro which automatically optimizes the picture and sound to where you're sitting in the room. You can also enjoy video chat with friends and family on the big screen.6
- All Eco settings in one place: With the Eco Dashboard, energy saving settings can now be centrally managed. You can easily customize energy saving settings for your TV usage, viewing environment, and the content you are watching.
Sony is keeping its commitment to decreasing plastic usage through its Road to Zero initiative. To reduce environmental impact, Sony is working on multiple aspects of the product life cycle, such as reduction of virgin plastic use, improvement of transportation efficiency and reviewing energy consumption during use. Additionally, the new Eco Dashboard included on all 2023 BRAVIA XR models allows users to easily customize energy saving preferences and settings.
About Sony Electronics, Inc.
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1 User must accept Google Terms of Service (http://www.google.com/policies/terms/), Play Terms of Service (https://play.google.com/intl/en-US_us/about/play-terms/index.html) and Privacy Policy (http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/) to use TV. User must connect to a Google Account to use certain advertised features, including voice to activate linked apps, and install certain apps and operating software during setup. Use of TV without connecting to a Google Account allows only basic TV features and certain apps. Wireless connectivity requires 802.11 home network (802.11n recommended). Network services, content, operating system, and software of this product may be subject to separate or third-party terms and conditions and changed, interrupted or discontinued at any time and may require fees, registration and credit card information. Apps must be compatible with TV. App availability varies by region and device. Google TV is the name of this device's software experience. Google, Google TV and other marks are trademarks of Google LLC.
2 Screen Size feature will be available via future firmware update.
3 Multi View feature will be available via future firmware update.
4 To activate Auto HDR Tone Mapping, must enable feature when pairing TV and PS5 for the first time; or will need to disconnect TV and PS5, perform factory reset on PS5 and enable the feature during initial setup. Auto Genre Picture Mode works when Auto Picture Mode on the TV is set to ON. Both features are supported only when PS5 and TV are directly connected. Applicable models: All BRAVIA XR models, X85K, X80K.
5 Acoustic Centre Sync works with compatible Sony soundbars and AV receivers. For full compatibility list visit https://www.sony.net/hav_faq.
6 Other than video chat, some BRAVIA CAM features may require future firmware update.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday designated two “forever chemicals” used in cookware, carpets and firefighting foams as hazardous substances, clearing the way for quicker cleanup of the toxic compounds, which have been linked to cancer and other health problems.
Designation as a hazardous substance under the so-called Superfund law doesn’t ban the chemicals. But it requires that releases of PFOA and PFOS into soil or water be reported to federal, state or tribal officials if they meet or exceed certain levels. The EPA could then require cleanups to protect public health and recover cleanup costs.
PFOA and PFOS have been voluntarily phased out by U.S. manufacturers but are still in limited use and remain in the environment because they do not degrade over time. The compounds are part of a larger cluster of “forever chemicals” known as PFAS that have been used in consumer products and industry since the 1940s. The term is short for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, which have been used in nonstick frying pans, water-repellent sports gear, stain-resistant rugs, cosmetics and countless other consumer products.
The chemicals can accumulate and persist in the human body for long periods of time, and evidence from animal and human studies indicates that exposure to PFOA or PFOS may lead to cancer or other health problems.
“Communities have suffered far too long from exposure to these forever chemicals,” EPA Administrator Michael Regan said in a statement Friday. “The action announced today will improve transparency and advance EPA’s aggressive efforts to confront this pollution.”
Under the proposed rule, “EPA will both help protect communities from PFAS pollution and seek to hold polluters accountable for their actions,” Regan said.
The Superfund law allows the EPA to clean up contaminated sites and forces parties responsible for the contamination to either perform cleanups or reimburse the government for EPA-led cleanup work. When no responsible party can be identified, Superfund gives EPA money and authority to clean up contaminated sites.
The EPA’s action follows a recent report by the National Academies of Science that calls PFAS a serious public health threat in the U.S. and worldwide. It comes after an EPA announcement in June that PFOA and PFOS are more dangerous than previously thought and pose health risks even at levels so low they cannot currently be detected.
The agency issued nonbinding health advisories that set health risk thresholds for PFOA and PFOS to near zero, replacing 2016 guidelines that had set them at 70 parts per trillion. The chemicals are found in products including cardboard packaging, carpets and firefighting foam and increasingly found in drinking water.
The EPA said in a statement that it is focused on holding responsible companies that manufactured and released significant amounts of PFOA and PFOS into the environment and will not target individual landowners or farmers “who may have been inadvertently impacted by the contamination.” The agency also said it is committed to further outreach and engagement to hear from communities affected by PFAS pollution.
Erik Olson, a health and food expert at the Natural Resources Defense Council, called the announcement an important step to clean up hundreds of contaminated sites across the country and protect millions of families exposed to the toxic chemicals.
“Listing PFOA and PFOS as hazardous under Superfund law should allow EPA to hold polluters responsible for that contamination,” he said. “Ratepayers and public utilities should not be footing the bill for industry’s decades of wonton use of these dangerous chemicals.”
Attorney Rob Bilott, an anti-PFAS advocate, said the EPA’s proposal “sends a loud and clear message to the entire world that the United States is finally acknowledging and accepting the now overwhelming evidence that these man-made poisons present substantial danger to the public health and the environment.”
Bilott, whose work to uncover the widespread presence of PFAS chemicals in the environment and in human blood was highlighted in the 2019 film “Dark Waters,” said the EPA must work to ensure that costs of cleaning up the toxins are borne by PFAS manufacturers that caused the contamination — “not the innocent victims of this pollution who didn’t create the toxins and were never warned any of this was ever happening.”
Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., said she supports strong action to address PFAS contamination in West Virginia and across the country but was concerned about “the unintended consequences that today’s proposal could have.”
If finalized, “property owners, farmers, employers, essential utilities and individuals may be liable for unknowingly having PFAS on their land, even if it was there years or even generations prior to ownership and came from an unknown source,” Capito said.
She urged the EPA to develop an enforceable drinking water standard to promote the health and safety of all Americans.
The American Chemistry Council, which represents major chemical companies, called the EPA’s proposal “an expensive, ineffective and unworkable means to achieve remediation for these chemicals.”
Listing the chemicals under Superfund could harm local fire departments, water utilities, small businesses, airports and farmers, the group said. “The proposed (Superfund) designation would impose tremendous costs on these parties without defined cleanup standards,” the council said in a statement.
The EPA said it expects to propose national drinking water regulations for PFOA and PFOS later this year, with a final rule expected in 2023.
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WRENTHAM — When Xaverian visited King Philip on Friday night, it was like bringing a mirror to the 50-yard line.
Both teams, basically every year, play the same way. They excel with ball control offense, hard-hitting defense, dependable special teams, and the knack for making the big play when it’s needed.
The game played out almost exactly to the stereotype, and it was King Philip that emerged victorious 19-14. To what should be to no one’s surprise, King Philip’s defense made the most impactful play with a 37-yard interception return for a touchdown by Carson Meirer in the third quarter.
Xaverian got on the board with two touchdown passes, but King Philip held on to improve to 3-0. The visiting Hawks drop to 2-1.
“So proud of those guys,” said KP running back and linebacker Will Astorino. “They gave it all they had. We knew they were going to be a tough challenge. Every single one of their players outweighed us by a good 15 pounds. We played with some heart and passion. That’s how KP plays though.”
Warriors coach Brian Lee was happy with the win but noted how Xaverian kept coming back.
“I didn’t feel good until right about now,” Lee said.
Neither team sustained much in the way of drives early. KP led at halftime based on a 33-yard Matthew Kelley field goal in the second quarter.
But Meirer made his pick-six early in the third, and the way KP’s defense was playing, it looked like that would be enough.
“It was huge, because we definitely struggled on offense,” Lee said. “This was a defensive battle. Everybody was having trouble moving the ball. Once we got up 10, it really felt like, ‘All right. OK.’ We got a little bit of breathing room here. It was a huge, huge play for us because we were struggling on O.”
After another Kelley field goal, this time from 30 yards out, the Warriors held a 13-0 lead with 4:53 left in the third quarter.
Xaveran finally broke through when quarterback Henry Hasselbeck threw a 77-yard touchdown pass to Jonathan Monteiro to end the third quarter.
KP was able to get a little breathing room in the fourth when Nathan Kearney carried a scrum into the end zone from six yards out. KP helped sustain the drive when it drew Xaverian offsides on fourth down near midfield.
Quarterback Tommy McLeish then hit Kelley for a 36-yard gain to set up the Kearney score. McLeish completed 5 of 9 passes for 89 yards.
Hasselbeck hit Monteiro for another touchdown, this time from 25 yards out, but it was too little, too late. KP recovered the onside kick to seal it.
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Top Player Prop Bets for Golden Knights vs. Panthers Stanley Cup Final Game 5 on June 13, 2023
Jack Eichel is one of the top players with prop bets available when the Vegas Golden Knights and the Florida Panthers play at T-Mobile Arena on Tuesday (starting at 8:00 PM ET).
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Golden Knights vs. Panthers Game Info
- When: Tuesday, June 13, 2023 at 8:00 PM ET
- TV Channel: TNT, truTV, CBC, SportsNet, and TVAS
- Where: T-Mobile Arena in Paradise, Nevada
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- Points Prop: 0.5 (Over Odds: -222, Under Odds: +165)
- Assists Prop: 0.5 (Over Odds: -111, Under Odds: -120)
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- Points Prop: 0.5 (Over Odds: -154, Under Odds: +115)
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Chandler Stephenson has accumulated 65 points (0.8 per game), scoring 16 goals and adding 49 assists.
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- Points Prop: 0.5 (Over Odds: -167, Under Odds: +125)
- Assists Prop: 0.5 (Over Odds: +145, Under Odds: -200)
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(WFRV) – Part of Local 5 Live summer Our Town series to get a closer look at some of the beautiful communities in the area and the Fremont/Weyauwega area is not only a great place to visit but you may even want to live here.
Re/Max Agent Erricka Raleigh can help you do just that. She spoke with us with more on the best places to stay, eat, shop, see live music and how to get started.
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Ocala Police are searching for a thief that stole a lawnmower worth about $15,000
Published: Nov. 22, 2022 at 1:34 AM EST|Updated: 1 hour ago
OCALA, Fla. (WCJB) - Ocala Police officers are trying to find a lawnmower thief.
Officers say a Scag Turf Tiger model riding mower, worth about $15,000, was stolen from a business last month.
Investigators want to talk to anyone who recently bought a lawnmower like this one or knows someone who did.
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Man, 48, charged after harboring 16-year-old runaway girl 3 times, police say
TULSA, Okla. (Gray News) – A 48-year-old Oklahoma man is facing charges for harboring a 16-year-old runaway girl on three separate occasions, police said.
According to the Tulsa Police Department, Christopher Bartley was first caught June 16 at his apartment in Tulsa with the 16-year-old girl who had run away from home.
Bartley was charged with harboring a runaway juvenile, false impersonation of a peace officer, and contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Police said Bartley had told the girl that he was a former Tulsa police officer and current U.S. Marshal, neither of which were true.
He bonded out of jail shortly after his arrest, police said.
At the end of June, Bartley was found a second time with the same 16-year-old girl. She was returned home to her family. Police did not clarify if Bartley faced charges for that incident.
On July 28, Bartley was caught for a third time with the same 16-year-old girl, but this time, the two were found in California.
The situation unfolded when Bartley contacted the Newport Beach Police Department asking about homeless outreach programs. When officers met with him, they became suspicious of the situation. They found the 16-year-old girl with Bartley and discovered that Bartley had warrants in Oklahoma from a missing court date.
Police said Bartley was arrested in California and charged with harboring a juvenile runaway, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, and sex crimes involving a minor.
According to the Orange County Sheriff’s Department jail records, Bartley is being held on a $100,000 bond. He is scheduled to appear in court Aug. 17.
Tulsa police said Bartley will be extradited back to Oklahoma soon. The teen girl was placed in protective custody in California and will be reunited with her family again.
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Chinese automaker Geely’s Zeekr brand this week unveiled its third model, a nearly Tesla Model Y-sized crossover that will sell for less than $30,000 in its home market.
The Zeekr X follows the 009 van and the 001, a hatchback based on a concept originally badged for Geely’s Lynk & Co. brand, in the all-electric Zeekr brand’s lineup. Deliveries in China are scheduled to start in June with a base price of 189,800 yuan, equivalent to $27,600 at current exchange rates. European sales will follow, but there are no plans to bring the X to the U.S.
Geely is also the parent company of Volvo and Polestar, which influenced the development of the Zeekr X. The crossover was designed in Volvo’s hometown of Gothenburg, Sweden, albeit at what Zeekr claims is a standalone design studio. The styling itself hews closely to the Lynk & Co.-inspired look of the 001.
The X also shares Sustainable Electric Architecture (SEA) underpinnings with the Polestar 3 and Volvo EX90 electric SUVs. It’s a bit smaller than those other SEA-based models, however. At 175 inches long, it’s around the same size as the Volvo XC40 Recharge. And with Zeekr’s billing as a “premium electric car company,” the longer Model Y is surely in the upstart EV’s crosshairs.
Zeekr claims an impressive 3.7-second 0-62 mph time, as well as 348 miles of range on China’s CLTC testing cycle. That would likely equate to something less than 300 miles by U.S. EPA standards, but more than 250 miles.
The Zeekr crossover also boasts a few novel tech features, including a sliding touchscreen that can be repositioned in front of the passenger. It’s an alternative to the fixed front-passenger screens now being offered on Mercedes-EQ electric models. The B-pillar also includes facial recognition and a small screen that shows the state of charge.
Zeekr aims for an “asset light strategy” that looks to suppliers for core tech. One example is a partnership with CATL that Zeekr has said will deliver EVs with 600 miles of range. The Zeekr 009 uses CATL’s cell-to-pack tech to achieve an estimated 514 miles of range on the CLTC testing cycle, so the brand is already well on its way toward that goal.
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Easter is full of symbolism, but it’s also steeped in traditions, including family meals. Lamb is a popular Easter Sunday meal, and this recipe for “Roasted Lamb with Roasted Asparagus” from “Feast of the Seven Fishes: A Brooklyn Italian’s Recipes Celebrating Food & Family” (Powerhouse Books) by Daniel Paterna can make for the perfect Easter entree.
Lamb is most tender in spring and mild in flavor, and it pairs well with the earthiness of asparagus.
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Roasted Lamb with Roasted Asparagus
INGREDIENTS
For lamb:
1 leg of lamb or loin of lamb, about 4 to 5 pounds
5 garlic cloves, sliced
2 tablespoons olive oil
4 cups dry white wine
1 fresh bay leaf
4 sprigs fresh rosemary
4 to 5 sprigs fresh thyme
DIRECTIONS
Cut small slits in the meat of the lamb with a sharp paring knife. Insert a slice of the garlic into each slit. Place the lamb in a large sealable plastic bag and add the olive oil, 2 cups white wine, bay leaf, rosemary, thyme, salt, and pepper. Seal the bag tightly and place in the refrigerator to marinate for 12 hours.
Remove the lamb from the fridge the next day, at least 4 hours before roasting. Keep the lamb sealed in the marinade bag and allow it to come to room temperature. Heat the oven to 400 F.
Remove the lamb from the bag with marinade. Place it on a rack in a roasting pan. Add 2 cups of wine. Roast for 1 1/2 hours or until the thermometer reads 150 to 160 F. Baste with drippings while roasting. Serve warm.
For asparagus:
4 pounds of asparagus, remove woody ends
2 cups coarse bread crumbs
1 cup grated Romano cheese
2 tablespoons garlic powder
Freshly ground black pepper, to taste
4 large eggs
Sea salt, to taste
DIRECTIONS
Preheat the oven to 400 F. Place the bread crumbs, cheese, garlic powder, and black pepper in a dish or bowl wide enough to hold the asparagus. Mix well to combine thoroughly.
Put the eggs in another dish or bowl of similar size and beat well. Working in batches, dip the spears into the egg, making sure they are coated well. Immediately place them in the bread crumb mixture and toss until each spear is fully coated.
Transfer the breaded asparagus to a large baking sheet. Place the asparagus in the preheated oven and bake for 30 minutes or until the breading is browned and crispy. Serve with wedges of fresh lemon.
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Jay Clayton, former Chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and now-exec Chair of Apollo Global Management and Senior Policy Advisor to Sullivan & Cromwell LLP joins Collectable as strategic advisor on regulatory, markets and governance matters
NEW YORK, June 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, leading collectibles investment platform Collectable, announced that Jay Clayton, the former Chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ('SEC') will join the company as a Strategic Advisor on regulatory, markets and governance matters. Clayton also serves as the non-executive Chair of Apollo Global Management, one of the largest asset managers and as a Senior Policy Advisor to the Sullivan & Cromwell law firm.
"As a leading fractional ownership company, we have a massive opportunity to provide liquidity, optionality, transparency, and a regulated market infrastructure to a trillion dollar collectibles industry as it emerges into mainstream investor prominence," said Collectable CEO Ezra Levine. "Jay's experience and expertise with markets and regulation will be invaluable as we chart this path and we are thrilled to welcome him to the team."
As Chair of the SEC, Clayton focused on modernizing the regulation and oversight of financial markets, concentrating on the interests of long-term, retail investors. As part of this vision, he worked to create an avenue for the digitization of securities and other assets ultimately expanding investment opportunities and reducing costs for retail investors.
"Collectable is committed to providing the collectibles markets with a high-functioning and transparent infrastructure that will enhance liquidity oversight and confidence in a growing market that is driven by fan passion," said Jay Clayton. "I look forward to working with the Collectable team to continue to develop and improve the market for this asset class."
Collectibles have emerged as an burgeoning alternative asset that both institutional investors and everyday investors are looking to hold. The industry has caught the eyes of a wide array of financial institutions and sophisticated investors who are exploring the inclusion of the asset class in diversified portfolios. Through its fractional ownership platform, Collectable is providing investors an easy, regulated and transparent way to diversify into this burgeoning asset class.
Collectable is the premier fractional ownership platform and community for collectibles, starting with sports collectibles. Collectable is re-imagining collecting and investing in collectibles, a long overdue modernization of a timeless tradition through fractionalized shares, more access, more liquidity, lower price point, and less exclusivity. Since September 2020's launch, Collectable has completed over $50 million of securitized collectibles transactions, completed over 200 initial offerings, amassed ~75,000 users, and set numerous fractional and collectibles records. You can learn more at www.Collectable.com or by downloading the app on iOS and Android.
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For the first time ever, Jimmie Austin OU Golf Club will play host to the Korn Ferry Tour this weekend for the Compliance Solutions Championship.
Since 1989, the tour has been run under a variety of names and formats, but has always served the same purpose — to be a developmental tour that provides professional golfers a path to the PGA Tour. OU’s home course has hosted numerous amateur and collegiate events, but now it finds itself as the venue for a professional championship.
The 72-hole tournament begins on Thursday and ends on Saturday Tickets are available now at compliancesolutionschampionship.com and run from $35 for a single-day general admission ticket and $70 for a weekend ticket.
Here’s everything you need to know about the inaugural Compliance Solutions Championship:
What’s on the line?
The Korn Ferry Tour home to some of the top professional golfers in the world that haven’t earned their PGA Tour card.
In addition to competing for the overall goal of earning status on the PGA Tour, the Compliance Solutions Championship has a total purse of $1,000,000 with $180,000 and 500 points going to the winner. This is the 15th tournament of the Korn Ferry Tour season, which runs for 26 events through the Korn Ferry Tour Championship in early October.
The top 30 players in the Korn Ferry Tour Points List at the end of the season earn their PGA Tour card for the next season.
Who’s in the field?
Jimmie Austin is going to be tested by a deep field that consists of 47 of the top 50 players in the Points List.
The field has 10 combined wins on tour this season, headlined by Points List leader Ben Kohles (1,344 points) who already has a pair of wins under his belt. Several players have gone on to have success on the PGA Tour, but are battling to regain their status.
Nine players in the field this weekend have won 19 PGA Tour events including Heath Slocum (four wins) and Grayson Murray (one win).
The field is also stacked with local talent. There are eight former Sooners playing this weekend: Quade Cummins, Martin Flores, Michael Gellerman, Chris Gotterup, Grant Hirschman, Logan McAllister, Patrick Welch and Charlie Saxon.
Among the former Sooners, McAllister is currently the highest on the Points List with 589 in 18th place.
Many more have ties to the state of Oklahoma such as Bo Van Pelt (Oklahoma State alum) and Rhein Gibson (UCO alum).
About the course
The site of the 2023 NCAA Norman Regional will be playing even longer than it did in May. The major difference on the scorecard comes at the par-4 16th, which will have a new tee box in play that adds 35 yards to the hole.
The hole is now playing 460 yards, which will add some extra challenge to an already difficult stretch of the golf course. Over 225 rounds were played at the Norman Regional and No. 16 played as the third-easiest hole on the back nine.
No.’s 15 and 17 were the two toughest holes on the course, playing 0.26 and 0.36 strokes over par respectively through the tournament. The average score over the 54-hole event was 72.25, but played 1.35 shots over par on the toughest day.
It takes a low score in order to win on the Korn Ferry Tour, so expect players to be aggressive early and often at the 7,487-yard course. Last weekend the Korn Ferry Tour was at Crestview Country Club in Wichita, Kan. and Ricky Castillo won in a three-hole playoff with a final score of 19-under par. | https://www.normantranscript.com/sports/korn-ferry-tour-professional-golf-comes-to-jimmie-austin-for-inaugural-compliance-solutions-championship/article_bb00653c-0fda-11ee-8d66-9f54622f7e5d.html | 2023-06-21 03:36:06 | 0 | https://www.normantranscript.com/sports/korn-ferry-tour-professional-golf-comes-to-jimmie-austin-for-inaugural-compliance-solutions-championship/article_bb00653c-0fda-11ee-8d66-9f54622f7e5d.html |
LONDON (AP) — Police in Northern Ireland said Monday they were looking into an unverified statement by an Irish Republican Army splinter group claiming responsibility for the shooting of a senior police officer.
A statement purportedly from the dissident group known as the New IRA appeared on a wall in Londonderry late Sunday, claiming it was responsible for Wednesday’s attack on Detective Chief Inspector John Caldwell.
Two masked men shot Caldwell in front of his young son after the off-duty officer coached a children’s soccer team in Omagh, about 60 miles (nearly 100 kilometers) west of Belfast. Caldwell remained in critical condition in hospital.
Assistant Chief Constable Mark McEwan said Monday police were aware of the claim of responsibility and was “reviewing its contents as part of the overall investigation.”
Police said last week they were treating the attempted murder of Caldwell as terrorism-related, and that the New IRA was its primary line of enquiry.
Six men were detained for questioning.
Paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland put down their arms after the 1998 Good Friday peace accord largely ended three decades of violent conflict, known as “the Troubles,” between Irish republican and British loyalist groups and U.K. security forces.
But small IRA splinter groups have continued to launch sporadic attacks on security forces. The last fatal attack on a police officer in Northern Ireland was the April 2011 killing of Constable Ronan Kerr, who died when a booby-trap bomb exploded under his car in Omagh. | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/international/ap-ira-splinter-group-claims-responsibility-for-police-shooting/ | 2023-02-27 13:19:33 | 0 | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/international/ap-ira-splinter-group-claims-responsibility-for-police-shooting/ |
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WJW) – A teen reported missing in July 2022 was found this week with a 41-year-old man in Columbus, Ohio.
According to a release from the U.S. Marshals Service, authorities had been working with Cuyahoga County Job and Family Services since the 14-year-old girl was reported missing on July 9, 2022, in Garfield Heights, Ohio.
She was featured on Fox 8’s “Missing” segment in January.
USMS recovered the girl and identified the man with her Wednesday morning. The man is under investigation by local authorities, and charges are pending.
The girl was to be safely returned to CCJFS.
“The continued efforts of our Missing Child Unit and the cooperation of local law enforcement led to this safe recovery,” U.S. Marshals’ Pete Elliot said in a release. “Every day mattered for this 14-year-old girl. We can rest easy knowing she is safe.”
No further information was immediately available. | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/teen-girl-missing-9-months-found-with-41-year-old-man-in-ohio/ | 2023-04-13 20:20:31 | 1 | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/teen-girl-missing-9-months-found-with-41-year-old-man-in-ohio/ |
The ETFs aim to serve investors by keeping investing simple, straightforward and easy to understand
WINDSOR, Conn and DENVER, June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SS&C Technologies Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: SSNC) today announced SS&C ALPS Advisors, an asset manager and wholly-owned subsidiary of SS&C, added the following O'Shares ETFs to its ETF offerings:
- ALPS | O'Shares U.S. Quality Dividend ETF (OUSA)
- ALPS | O'Shares U.S. Small-Cap Quality Dividend ETF (OUSM)
- ALPS | O'Shares Global Internet Giants ETF (OGIG)
- ALPS | O'Shares Europe Quality Dividend ETF (OEUR)
The ETFs are converting to the ALPS lineup following the completion of SS&C's acquisition of O'Shares ETFs.
"These ETFs are differentiated strategies and core allocations for my family wealth. The quality dividend growth strategies are designed to reduce risk and exposure to stress events by avoiding lower-quality stocks. In addition, our thematic strategy is focused on internet and tech stocks selected for strong revenue growth, providing a portfolio of stocks with almost 100% more revenue growth than generic growth indexes," said Kevin O'Leary, Chairman of O'Shares. "We look forward to working with SS&C ALPS leadership and sales teams to support the growth of the funds in all markets across the country."
The ALPS | O'Shares ETFs are designed for investors with objectives ranging from wealth preservation and income to growth and capital appreciation. Each ALPS | O'Shares ETF reflects a rules-based investment philosophy, including quality as an essential characteristic, with profitability measures, cash earnings and strong balance sheets.
"The seasoned O'Shares quality and dividend methodology strengthen our set of strategic building blocks for delivering investment solutions to improve investment outcomes," said Laton Spahr*, President of SS&C ALPS Advisors. "The O'Shares ETFs complement our existing income and thematic ETF investment principles."
* Laton Spahr is a Registered Representative of ALPS Distributors, Inc.
Important Disclosures
An investor should consider the investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses carefully before investing. To obtain a prospectus containing this and other information, call 1-866-759-5679 or visit www.alpsfunds.com. Read the prospectus carefully before investing.
Shares are not individually redeemable. Investors buy and sell shares on a secondary market. Only market makers or "authorized participants" may trade directly with the Fund, typically in blocks of 5,000, 25,000 or 50,000 shares.
All investments are subject to risks, including the loss of money and the possible loss of the entire principal amount invested. Additional information regarding the risks of this investment is available in the prospectus.
Effective 6/17/2022, the O'Shares U.S. Quality Dividend ETF reorganized into the ALPS | O'Shares U.S. Quality Dividend ETF, the O'Shares U.S. Small-Cap Quality Dividend ETF reorganized into the ALPS | O'Shares U.S. Small-Cap Quality Dividend ETF, the O'Shares Europe Quality Dividend ETF reorganized into the ALPS | O'Shares Europe Quality Dividend ETF and the O'Shares Global Internet Giants ETF reorganized into the ALPS | O'Shares Global Internet Giants ETF.
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Cartken's AI-powered sidewalk robots will land in Miami before multi-city expansion in 2023
MIAMI, Dec. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Uber Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: UBER) and Cartken, a leading robotics company, today announced a new partnership for food deliveries via automated robots in Miami, Florida. Uber Eats consumers in Miami will have the opportunity to have orders delivered by Cartken's self-driving robot.
Starting today, Uber and Cartken will begin operating with select merchants in the Dadeland area of Miami-Dade County with plans to expand in Miami-Dade and to additional cities in 2023. Cartken's AI-powered sidewalk delivery robots currently are used for neighborhood food and grocery delivery, campus meal delivery and curbside pickup across the country. Uber Eats will be its first formal partnership with a global on-demand delivery app beyond college campuses.
"We are excited about how this partnership with Uber will bring the advantages of robotics to food delivery—and ultimately create more connected communities," said Christian Bersch, Co-founder and CEO at Cartken. "Together, we have the opportunity to reduce traffic congestion, help local merchants to increase delivery capacity, and bring consumers fast, convenient, and emission-free deliveries."
Uber's partnership with Cartken is an expansion of the company's efforts to use automated and autonomous technology to unlock greater innovation for consumers and merchant partners in Miami and beyond.
"Miami is a thriving Uber Eats market and we are excited to bring its residents a little more Uber magic through sidewalk robot delivery," said Noah Zych, Global Head of Autonomous Mobility and Delivery at Uber. "Our partnership with Cartken marks another important milestone for our efforts in automated and autonomous technology and will provide greater reliability and affordability to Miami merchants and consumers."
Uber Eats delivers instant access to local commerce, helping people across the world discover restaurants and merchants, order meals, groceries, alcohol, and more at the touch of a button—and get it delivered reliably and quickly. The business leverages Uber's technology and logistics expertise to partner with 870,000 merchants in 11,000+ cities globally.
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Cartken is an AI-powered robotics company building sidewalk delivery robots currently used for neighborhood food/grocery delivery, campus meal delivery, and curbside pickup. The autonomy guiding our robots makes them the safest and most reliable in the market today. We serve as a technology provider in a B2B relationship allowing our partners to own the consumer relationship. Cartken's team of ex-Google engineers and operators combine deep expertise in self-driving cars, AI-powered robotics, and delivery operations.
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Dominating defense was the calling card of Westmont as it shut out Champaign Academy 18-0 on April 19 in Illinois baseball action.
In recent action on April 13, Champaign Academy faced off against Chicago Intrinsic.
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Searchers use drones to look for missing Texas boy
EVERMAN, Texas (WFAA) - Searchers in Texas are again looking for a missing 6-year-old boy in Everman, located in the north-central part of the state, over the weekend.
They used drones to look overhead and searched on the ground after examining new information in the boy’s disappearance.
Noel Rodriguez-Alvarez went missing last month, and family members say they haven’t seen the child since last November.
Authorities presume Noel is dead and are looking for his mother and stepfather.
Both flew to India with six other children days before news of noel’s disappearance became public.
Saturday’s search in Everman started in the morning with a new group of people than previously.
“We don’t have the resources that they have,” said Chief Craig Spencer of Everman Police Department
Spencer said Texas Search and Rescue, or TEXSAR, joined the search Saturday.
Spencer’s team paused their searches for about a week to analyze and collect more data while also reducing the area of the search for Noel.
“Rather than casting a big, fish net and missing a bunch, we wanted to make sure that we’re very targeted with our searches,” he said.
That’s where TEXSAR comes into the picture.
Because of the greenery, TEXSAR’s drones and the equipment’s heat-detecting tools are needed to help provide a different view.
“Some of the search area is very thick and heavy with brush and mesquite,” Spencer said. “That often times makes it pretty difficult for the searchers on the ground to really get deep in there and take a look.”
TEXSAR also brought human remains detection canines as well as boats.
“We want to make sure that our crews are well-rested,” Spencer said. “We want to make sure we’re not missing anything because in a case like this where there’s already a significant lack of physical evidence, we just can’t afford to miss anything on it.”
Spencer said investigators are done searching for the weekend, and even if they haven’t found Noel yet, these new volunteers and this new equipment will continue to be helpful moving forward.
“Today’s going to be a win for us regardless of what comes out of this because even if we don’t locate any evidence supporting the location of Noel, obviously we are going to know where he’s not, and it’s going to lead our investigation in a different path going forward,” Spencer said.
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Ball State Cardinals (20-9, 11-5 MAC) at Akron Zips (20-9, 12-4 MAC)
The Cardinals are 11-5 against MAC opponents. Ball State is 3-2 in one-possession games.
TOP PERFORMERS: Castaneda is shooting 40.7% from beyond the arc with 3.6 made 3-pointers per game for the Zips, while averaging 21.5 points. Freeman is shooting 61.9% and averaging 17.4 points over the past 10 games for Akron.
Jarron Coleman is averaging 14.5 points and 3.8 assists for the Cardinals. Jaylin Sellers is averaging 14.5 points and 3.4 rebounds while shooting 49.5% over the past 10 games for Ball State.
LAST 10 GAMES: Zips: 7-3, averaging 76.7 points, 30.6 rebounds, 14.5 assists, 5.1 steals and 2.7 blocks per game while shooting 47.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 70.3 points per game.
Cardinals: 7-3, averaging 77.5 points, 34.5 rebounds, 14.2 assists, 5.1 steals and 3.1 blocks per game while shooting 46.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 73.3 points.
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(The Hill) – The FBI’s search of former President Trump’s estate in Florida is a political thunderbolt that on Tuesday had a number of Republicans thinking it could boost his standing in a future presidential race.
Trump seized on the raid to rally his supporters, while Republicans across the political spectrum offered support for the former president — including potential rivals for the 2024 nomination.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis called it an “escalation in the weaponization of federal agencies,” while former Vice President Mike Pence said it “undermines public confidence in our justice system.” He demanded “a full accounting” of the matter.
Critics of Trump also offered worries that the surprise search could help the former president.
One of the most high-profile remarks came from a former Trump and Pence staffer who has emerged as a major critic of Trump over his role in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
“This, I’m hoping, goes beyond simply not complying with some archiving laws, or DOJ [the Department of Justice] just handed Donald Trump the Republican nominee and potentially the presidency,” Alyssa Farah Griffin, the former official, said on CNN.
“If it’s seen as some sort of massive overreach and not something incredibly serious, this is a very good day for Donald Trump,” she added.
It was far too early on Tuesday to know for sure how much the FBI raid signaled legal jeopardy for Trump, or just how the political reverberations would be felt in the November midterm elections and beyond.
But the news scrambled a political scene in which Democrats had dared to feel more optimistic about their chances in the midterms after a series of legislative victories culminating in Sunday’s passage of a massive climate, tax and health care bill.
In recent months, Trump had also seemed to be weakened by relentless attacks from the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, which had revealed damaging testimony from Republicans about Trump’s actions on that day.
Various polls still indicated that Trump was a favorite to win the GOP nomination, while suggesting DeSantis was closing in as a real rival.
Monday’s raid, which was reportedly focused on classified material taken from the White House, outraged Republicans and quickly shifted the focus in Washington back to Trump.
The FBI has never before executed a search warrant on the residence of a former president, let alone one who has publicly floated a possible comeback campaign for the White House against the man who defeated him.
Saul Anuzis, a longtime Republican consultant and former Michigan GOP chair, said the Florida raid could help Trump recreate the success he saw during his 2016 White House bid, when he rallied voters around a message that he was the only person who could cleanse Washington of rampant corruption and abuse of power.
“If you look at why Trump was as successful as he was in 2016, it’s that people thought he was the one guy willing to go to Washington and take on the swamp,” Anuzis said.
The raid was a remarkable step for federal investigators looking into Trump’s actions, and some voices on Tuesday argued it could actually offer an opening to Trump’s GOP rivals.
“The logjam of Republican candidates waiting to see if Trump was going to run just burst. There’s no need for them to wait anymore,” Dan Eberhart, a Republican donor, said. “The FBI raiding Trump’s beloved Mar-a-Lago rips the 2024 Republican primary wide open. The Trump era is over, and it’s anybody’s ball.”
Trump has openly spoken about the possibility of launching another White House bid, saying in an interview last month that he was only weighing whether it was better to make a formal announcement before or after November’s midterm elections.
Sources downplayed any potential benefit of announcing his candidacy immediately in the wake of the FBI search, but some Trump allies indicated the former president was as committed as ever to running again.
“One thing I can tell you: I believed he was going to run before. I’m stronger in my belief now,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) told reporters in South Carolina on Tuesday after speaking to Trump earlier in the day.
But top Republican officials have also sought to dissuade Trump from mounting another presidential bid before the 2022 midterm elections, fearing that a campaign could distract from the GOP’s plans to focus on economic issues like inflation this year and bolster Democrats’ efforts to tie the broader party to Trump and his many controversies.
Democrats immediately seized on the news as yet more proof that Trump is unfit to govern. But they are also aware that the raid on the former president’s private residence has the potential to backfire.
One longtime Democratic strategist warned that if the FBI’s Mar-a-Lago search fails to turn up any evidence of a serious offense, it could energize the GOP’s ultra-conservative base and potentially erode Democrats’ support among moderates wary of government overreach.
“If there’s nothing significant here and it appears to be political persecution, you’re going to have a huge backfire that motivates the Trump base and the conservative base, and also has some unintended consequences with moderates,” the strategist said.
“I think it’s a very dangerous political situation with regard to backfiring among a broader audience.”
Still, while Republicans once again fall in line behind Trump, some in the party are aware of the risks of nominating Trump for a third time, especially if he’s under the cloud of an investigation or an indictment stemming from Monday’s raid.
Multiple polls in recent weeks have found roughly half of Americans already believe Trump should face criminal charges for his actions around the Jan. 6 riot. He’s still facing investigations in Georgia and New York, as well.
A New York Times poll released last month found that despite Biden’s approval ratings sinking to 33 percent, he still led Trump in a hypothetical 2024 match-up, 44 percent to 41 percent.
“It certainly helps [Trump] in the primary and hurts him for the general,” said Sam Nunberg, a former adviser to Trump’s 2016 campaign. “It’s the typical conundrum.” | https://www.localsyr.com/news/national/fbi-thunderbolt-scrambles-political-predictions-on-trump/ | 2022-08-10 18:45:12 | 1 | https://www.localsyr.com/news/national/fbi-thunderbolt-scrambles-political-predictions-on-trump/ |
Misrach Ewunetie, a 20-year-old undergraduate student at Princeton University, has been found dead on campus after she went missing Oct. 14, a local prosecutor's office said.
Ewunetie, who was expected to graduate in 2024, was found behind tennis courts at the school by a facilities employee at about 1 p.m. Thursday. An autopsy will be conducted to determine her cause of death, but there were no obvious signs of injury and her death does not appear suspicious or criminal in nature," New Jersey's Mercer County Prosecutor's Office said.
Before her death, Ewunetie was last seen Friday, Oct. 14 at about 3 a.m. near Scully Hall, a dormitory building on campus. Her family contacted the school's department of public safety Sunday saying they had not heard from her in days and asked them to do a wellness check.
The department issued a missing alert Monday and had increased the law enforcement presence at the school. Helicopters and drones had also been circling the area as the search continued.
"Misrach's death is an unthinkable tragedy," Princeton Vice President W. Rochelle Calhoun said. "Our hearts go out to her family, her friends and the many others who knew and loved her."
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Hayfield HS principal arrested for criminal sexual conduct
Published 3:20 pm Tuesday, December 13, 2022
Accused of criminal sexual conduct dating back to 1997
A Hayfield Community Schools administrator has been arrested and faces four felony counts of criminal sexual conduct.
A warrant was issued Tuesday by Wabasha County Court seeking the apprehension of Hayfield High School Principal Grant Thomas Klennert. Wabasha County Jail listed Klennert in custody late Tuesday afternoon.
Thomas has been charged with three felony counts of first degree criminal sexual conduct and one felony count of second degree criminal sexual conduct.
According to the court complaint, the accusations came after Wabasha County detectives received a tip on Oct. 19, 2022, from a victim claiming Klennert “forcefully” sexually assaulted the victim during a span of years between 1997 and 2003 — when Klennert was a teenager.
The victim was in elementary school at the time and told detectives that the last time an assault took place was early in 2003.
Two other victims have also come forward and reported assaults. The complaint states that one was around 13 or 14 and the other was seven years old at the time of the assaults.
According to the complaint, investigators twice tried reaching Klennert with no reply received, prompting Tuesday’s arrest warrant.
In a statement issued Tuesday, Hayfield Superintendent Gregg Slaathaug said the district was aware of the accusations and working with law enforcement.
“The Hayfield School District is aware of the pending criminal charges regarding Grant Klennert, an employee of the school district,” the statement read. “The school district takes the safety and security of our students very seriously and has been cooperating and will continue to cooperate fully with law enforcement in its investigation.”
The statement also said that Klennert is currently on administrative leave, but declined to say anymore.
“This is the extent of the information the school district can provide about this matter at this time,” Slaathaug said. “All further data is classified as private or confidential pursuant to state and/or federal law.” | https://www.austindailyherald.com/2022/12/arrest-warrant-issued-in-wabasha-county-for-hayfield-high-school-principal/ | 2022-12-14 05:18:54 | 1 | https://www.austindailyherald.com/2022/12/arrest-warrant-issued-in-wabasha-county-for-hayfield-high-school-principal/ |
You don’t have to rely on salt alone to prevent your food from being bland.
Kylee Scales is showing how herbs can also have a major impact on flavor with a yummy take on flatbread in Kylee’s Kitchen.
Eggplant flatbread with herby tomato salad
Yield: Serves 4-6
Ingredients for the eggplant spread:
- 1 Tablespoon oil
- 2 shallots, minced
- 1 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1 teaspoon ground coriander
- 1/4 teaspoon smoked paprika
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cayenne
- 1/4 teaspoon fresh ground black pepper
- 2 large eggplants, peeled, medium dice
- 1 (14.5 ounce) can diced tomatoes, drained
- 2 Tablespoons lemon juice
Ingredients for the herby tomato salad
- 2 teaspoons pomegranate molasses
- 2 teaspoons extra virgin olive oil
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon sumac
- 1 shallot, minced
- 1 pound tomatoes, medium dice
- 1/2 cup chopped walnuts, toasted
- Naan or flatbread for serving
- 1 cup herb mixture (I like mint, dill, and parsley), chopped
Directions for the eggplant spread
- Heat oil over medium-low heat. Add shallots and cook until soft, about 2 minutes.
- Add spices and saute until shallots are evenly coated.
- Add eggplant and tomatoes. Mix until evenly coated in spices and cover with lid.
- Reduce heat to low and cook for 1 hour.
- Remove lid. Eggplant should be very soft. Smash and bread into pieces with wooden spoon.
- Remove from heat and stir in lemon juice.
Directions for the herby tomato salad
- In large bowl, mix pomegranate molasses, oil, lemon juice, sumac, and shallots.
- Stir in tomatoes and walnuts.
Directions for the flatbread
- Heat up naan or flatbread.
- Spread about 1/4 cup of eggplant dip over flatbread.
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Baltimore County State’s Attorney Scott Shellenberger moved closer Wednesday to a win in the Democratic primary, with only a small portion of ballots left to count.
The latest results show Shellenberger up 1,932 votes over challenger Robbie Leonard — with about 3,000 uncounted votes remaining.
Vote-counting has dragged on for days due to the large number of mail-in ballots cast. While Leonard had a small lead on election night, Shellenberger gained ground as mail-in votes were tallied.
Shellenberger is seeking a fifth term as the county’s top prosecutor. Leonard is a former public defender and secretary of the state Democratic Party.
County canvassers are scheduled to resume counting Friday, with about 3,000 ballots left, said Andrew Bailey, the attorney for the county elections board. The certification of county election results is also scheduled for Friday.
Despite the odds, Leonard remained upbeat in comments to The Baltimore Sun on Wednesday night.
“Each day I receive messages of excitement from friends and supporters who get notified from the Board of Elections that their vote was counted,” he said in a text message. “It was great to see over 1,600 more votes come in for us today. I’m excited to close out strong on Friday.”
Shellenberger has said he will not comment on the election results until they are final.
In the Republican race, James A. Haynes has nearly 55% of the vote over Deborah Hill at about 45%.
Haynes is a retired administrative judge with the U.S. Department of Labor and former state assistant attorney general. Hill is an attorney in private practice. | https://www.capitalgazette.com/maryland/bs-md-co-states-attorney-wednesday-20220728-af6lza4kojespcxgewpevxzfq4-story.html | 2022-07-28 07:33:20 | 0 | https://www.capitalgazette.com/maryland/bs-md-co-states-attorney-wednesday-20220728-af6lza4kojespcxgewpevxzfq4-story.html |
PHOTO FEATURE — Lamar State College Orange hosts career day
Published 12:06 am Saturday, April 1, 2023
Lamar State College Orange offered thanks to the many employers and job seekers who came to the annual Job Fair Wednesday in partnership with Workforce Solutions Southeast Texas. “It was a great success,” according to LSCO. | https://www.orangeleader.com/2023/04/01/lamar-state-college-orange-hosts-career-day/ | 2023-04-01 12:17:22 | 0 | https://www.orangeleader.com/2023/04/01/lamar-state-college-orange-hosts-career-day/ |
DENVER (AP) — Colorado’s secretary of state office says it mistakenly sent postcards to about 30,000 noncitizens encouraging them to register to vote, blaming the error on a database glitch related to the state’s list of residents with driver’s licenses.
The office of Democratic Secretary of State Jena Griswold insisted none of the noncitizens will be allowed to register to vote if they try.
The news comes at a time of widespread skepticism — often unfounded — of voting integrity following the 2020 presidential election and as Griswold, who has touted her role as a national advocate for secure elections, seeks reelection in the November midterms.
Colorado’s Republican Party chair, Kristi Burton Brown, condemned Griswold for the error, saying in a Monday statement that “Jena Griswold continues to make easily avoidable errors just before ballots go out” by mail on Oct. 17.
Griswold faces Republican Pam Anderson, a former suburban Denver clerk and head of the state’s county clerks association, who is a staunch advocate of Colorado’s all-mail voting system.
Griswold’s office said in a statement that the postcards were mailed Sept. 27. The error happened after department employees compared a list of names of 102,000 people provided by the Electronic Registration Information Center, a bipartisan, multistate organization devoted to voter registration, to a database of Colorado residents issued driver’s licenses.
That Department of Revenue driver’s license list includes residents issued special licenses for people who are not U.S. citizens. But it didn’t include formatting information that normally would have allowed the Department of State to eliminate those names before the mailers went out, Griswold’s office said Monday.
The incident is under investigation, it said. Colorado Public Radio News first reported the error.
Colorado is among at least 18 states, along with the District of Columbia, that issue driver’s licenses to non-U.S. citizens, according to the National Council on State Legislatures. Colorado also automatically registers eligible voters when they obtain their driver’s license from the Department of Motor Vehicles.
Griswold’s office said it was unaware that anyone who received the postcards in error had tried to register.
It is sending notices to the roughly 30,000 people who aren’t citizens but who mistakenly received the postcards. And it is applying several efforts to prevent or reject anyone not eligible to vote from registering, including comparing Social Security Numbers required for each application, on a daily basis. County clerks also will refer suspect cases to local district attorneys for review.
Sean Morales-Doyle, director of the Voting Rights Program at the Brennan Center for Justice, said the fact that the mistake was caught shows the system is working.
“It should show, first of all, that mistakes can happen, but secondly that there are checks in place to make sure mistakes don’t result in disaster,” Morales-Doyle said. “It’s not good this happened. It appears to be a case of human error and a database error and not some conspiracy, which I think some critics would seize on.”
Morales-Doyle said there have been very few incidents of noncitizens attempting to register in the U.S. because the consequences are so severe — up to and including deportation.
The Electronic Registration Information Center, known as ERIC, is a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving U.S. voter rolls and encouraging registrations. Some 33 states and the District of Colombia belong to the group. Under its contract with ERIC, Colorado sends a mailing to eligible residents encouraging them to register each election cycle.
The Colorado postcards, in English and Spanish, specify that residents must be U.S. citizens and at least 18 years old to register. They tell recipients how to register but are not a registration form.
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This story has been corrected to show the postcards were mailed Sept. 27, not Sept. 7. | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/national/ap-colorado-30000-noncitizens-got-vote-registration-mailer/ | 2022-10-10 22:18:27 | 1 | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/national/ap-colorado-30000-noncitizens-got-vote-registration-mailer/ |
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WATCH: Las Vegas police respond to reports of aliens in a backyard
(CNN) - Newly released body camera footage from a bizarre police call shows officers freaked out by a family’s otherworldly claims.
Shortly after Las Vegas police witnessed a strange, green streak falling from the sky, they were called to a family’s home with reports of a “non-human creature” in their backyard.
“It was like a big creature, around 10 feet tall,” a family member said.
One officer is heard saying he is “so nervous” and has “butterflies.”
“My partner saw something fall out of the sky. I’m kind of curious,” an officer tells the family in the video.
Officers searched the neighborhood and spoke to other residents but found nothing.
The case was eventually closed as unfounded, but the responding officers were clearly a bit rattled.
An officer joked with the family saying if the beings come back, “deal with it yourself.”
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A lot of us would love to travel all the time, but, unfortunately, it can be an expensive habit to keep up with. If you want to check items off your bucket list, Tia Mowry recommends signing up for the Marriott Bonvoy Boundless Credit Card. Right now, card users can enter a contest to get a trip of a lifetime worth $50K.
In an exclusive E! interview, Tia talked all about the contest, using the Marriott Bonvoy Boundless Credit Card to make the most of her travels, and she shared her affordable vacation must-haves.
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Tia Mowry's Travel Must-Haves
Aveeno Positively Radiant Daily Facial Moisturizer with Broad Spectrum SPF 30 Sunscreen & Soy, Improves Skin Tone & Texture, Hypoallergenic, Oil-Free & Non-Comedogenic
"This sunscreen for the face gives a natural healthy glow. SPF 30 and it's oil free so it's a clean, non-sticky application."
This product has 5,000+ 5-star Amazon reviews.
Palovue Lightning Headphones Magnetic Earphones
"These have noise cancellation, awesome sound, and are super comfortable. Get two pairs because everyone always steals them!"
These have 1,500+ 5-star reviews.
Moggei Fuzzy Socks- 6 Pairs
"These are a must have when on the plane! Super soft and snuggly. They keep your feet warm and comfy transatlantic!"
YQXCC 4 Pack Cooling Towels
"These cooling towels come in a pack of 4 so everyone in the family can have one. They really help beat the heat in the summer and keep you cool while working out or laying by the pool! No sweat!"
These four packs come in 10 colorways.
Tia Mowry Travel Q&A
E!: When you travel, do you usually check a bag or go for the carry-on.
TM: Depends on the length of my trip but usually I check my bag.
E!: Do you use packing cubes or any other organizational products when you travel?
TM: I use all kinds of things to organize my suitcase— shoe bags, mesh laundry bags, packing cubes. I love being organized especially when traveling!
E!: Name a beauty product that you never leave the house without.
TM: A hydrating lip balm.
Laneige Lip Sleeping Mask Intense Hydration with Vitamin C
"Put this on at night or before a flight. Super hydrating and luscious. You wake up with completely hydrated lips!"
This lip mask has 10,900+ 5-star Amazon reviews and 899.7K+ "Loves" from Sephora shoppers.
Porsha Williams, Drew Sidora, Nicole Martin, and Ashley Haas recommended it too.
Insect-Repellent Spruce Scarf
E!: What's an item that you always bring on a trip that everyone asks to borrow?
TM: This insect repellant wrap is the best invention ever! Not only is it beautiful but it keeps mosquitos away!
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LONDON, Nov. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- KodyPay (kodypay.com), a rapid-scaling payments company, has raised an additional US$5 million in Q3 2022. The financing round involved major shareholders alongside new strategic investors bringing the total funding raised to US$10 million.
KodyPay brings the ease and optionality of online payments to brick & mortar businesses. Using an all-in-one iOS/Android app for tablets or physical card machines, KodyPay has created a one-stop, fully integrated payment solution.
The company's payment technology allows businesses to accept both physical card payments & online ordering at once. All while benefiting from data typically generated by an online transaction, bringing the benefits of e-commerce to in-person payments.
Businesses can also accept an expanding range of non-card payment types with KodyPay. These will comprise leading e-wallets, buy-now-pay-later, open banking and cryptocurrency, with automated payment reconciliation across all payment service providers.
As part of KodyPay's infrastructure, businesses can use custom checkout options. Fast casual dining venues can offer contact-free checkout using built-in products such as KodyPay's no-app QR code ordering. Businesses can then increase revenue by letting consumers avoid the need to be served by staff.
Businesses can sign up online in minutes to benefit from low transaction fees, saving up to 60% on processing costs. Those operating in hospitality have seen up to a 20% increase in staff tips. In addition, sales data and customer analytics gained from using KodyPay can help businesses to grow and increase profitability.
With a successful trial in October 2021 and a public beta launch in July 2022, KodyPay has seen significant growth. It now has gross payment volumes (GPV) exceeding £100M on an annualised basis after increasing at an average of 90% month over month. The company has more than 500 venues signed up in the UK and expects strong growth in the coming year.
KodyPay has used funds to scale its headcount across the UK and invest in its strategic partnerships to release new product features. These will soon include embedded finance, enhanced data analytics or loyalty to provide businesses with more value and increase growth.
In the past year, KodyPay has expanded its employee base and leadership team, with Joao Martins (Founding CTO at Series B/C Yapily) and Pierre Baigts (VP of Product at Series B Tiller - exited to SumUp) joining as CTO & CPO, respectively.
"Our ultimate aim is to bring the ease and optionality of online payments to brick & mortar businesses. This oversubscribed funding round validates the KodyPay team's outstanding efforts as we continue to deliver on our mission. We are now better positioned than ever to truly become the future of payments and build the solutions businesses deserve." said Founder, President & CEO, Yoyo Chang.
About KodyPay
KodyPay is on a mission to make in-person payment acceptance easy. Today, paying in person presents common problems for businesses, such as high costs, long queues, and limited choice of payment methods. KodyPay fully integrates the payment ecosystem. This way, businesses can offer customers more control over their payment choices to make transactions quicker and simpler.
KodyPay was founded by a small group of final-year high school students. Having launched in October 2021, 22-year-old founder Yoyo Chang (CEO) studied at the University of Cambridge & York whilst raising US$10M. Today, KodyPay's platform is growing to connect millions of end-users with venues all over the UK.
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With decades of industry experience, TriNet Pharma's restructured management primes company for growth and optimizes recruiting processes
DALLAS, Feb. 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- TriNet Pharma, a high-performing recruiting and talent consulting agency specializing in the Medical Science Liaison (MSL) space, is restructuring its senior management team with new leadership that provides diverse experience and pays tribute to the trailblazing spirit of their late founder and CEO Bryan Vaughan. After Vaughn's passing, principal investor and co-founder Terry Mulloy became CEO and now Mara Vaughan, who also founded the company with her late husband, will be joining the leadership team as President. Since its founding in 2009, TriNet Pharma has been a leader in talent consulting and recruiting services for life sciences companies worldwide. To continue that level of service for their clients, Terry and Mara have brought in industry recruiting veteran Elaine Peng as Senior Vice President to lead the company's innovative and proprietary recruitment solutions.
In addition to the strategically renovated leadership team, TriNet Pharma is recognizing Founder, Bryan Vaughan, for his valiant efforts in the industry, through a legacy grant in his name. Vaughan's contributions and dedication to the MSL space have made a significant and lasting impact on this industry and the mission of this grant is to inspire future industry innovation.
"We are grateful to honor the memory and aspirations of Bryan with the help of a legacy grant," TriNet Pharma Founder Mara Vaughan said. "His passion for TriNet Pharma came from his admiration and understanding of the important role that MSLs and medical affairs staff play in all of our lives. In turn, we are fueled by Bryan's passion to ignite TriNet Pharma's growth with a new leadership team with significant industry experience."
"2023 is a pivotal year for TriNet Pharma. With new leadership, we're excited to continue the expansion of our growth efforts throughout the globe, which would not have been possible without the incredible foundation that Bryan built," said Senior Vice President, Elaine Peng. "TriNet Pharma is rooted in its mission and values and will consistently work to pay tribute to the legacy that Bryan spent his life achieving."
TriNet Pharma is an outcome-based agency with a refined set of pre-marketing strategies for clients, which is a competitive differentiator that sets them apart from other life science recruiting agencies. TriNet Pharma believes relationships are the key to success and works to build partnerships with all of its clients. To learn more about TriNet Pharma, visit trinetpharma.com.
About TriNet Pharma
TriNet Pharma has been leading the recruiting industry since 2009, growing from a small family business focusing on Medical Science Liaisons (MSLs) to the second-largest firm in its industry. TriNet Pharma specializes in placing all types of medical affairs professionals for Life Sciences companies worldwide. It's known for helping the most successful life sciences companies form and enhance their medical affairs teams. With its team of highly skilled recruiters and marketing experts, TriNet Pharma sources, screens, and secures top industry talent through a variety of tailored recruitment solutions for pharma, biotech, device, and diagnostic development companies throughout the world. To learn more, visit trinetpharma.com.
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BOSTON — A letter written by Alexander Hamilton in 1780 and believed stolen decades ago from the Massachusetts state archives is going back on display — though not exactly in the room where it happened.
It will be featured alongside Massachusetts’ original copy of the Declaration of Independence.
Hamilton, the first Secretary of the Treasury who’s been getting renewed attention in recent years because of the hit Broadway musical that bears his name, wrote the letter to the Marquis de Lafayette, the French aristocrat who served as a general in the Continental Army.
Dated July 21, 1780, it details an imminent British threat to French forces in Rhode Island.
“We have just received advice from New York through different channels that the enemy are making an embarkation with which they menace the French fleet and army,” Hamilton wrote. “Fifty transports are said to have gone up the Sound to take in troops and proceed directly to Rhode Island.”
It’s signed “Yr. Most Obedt, A. Hamilton, Aide de Camp.”
The letter was forwarded by Massachusetts Gen. William Heath to state leaders, along with a request for troops to support French allies, Galvin’s office said.
The letter was believed to have been stolen during World War II by a state archives worker, then sold privately.
It resurfaced several years ago when an auctioneer in Virginia received it from a family that wanted to sell it. The auction house determined it had been stolen and contacted the FBI. A federal appeals court ruled in October that it belonged to the state.
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WFO BOSTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, July 12, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Boston/Norton MA
747 PM EDT Tue Jul 12 2022
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN HARTFORD COUNTY
IS CANCELLED...
The severe thunderstorm which prompted the warning has moved out of
the warned area. Therefore, the warning has been cancelled.
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT
FOR NORTHWESTERN TOLLAND COUNTY...
At 746 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Tolland, or 7
miles northeast of Vernon, moving east at 35 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and penny size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect damage to trees and power lines.
Locations impacted include...
Vernon, Mansfield, Ellington, Tolland, Coventry, Stafford and
Willington.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
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GENEVA (AP) — Fury at top Credit Suisse managers. Lament over damage to Switzerland’s image as a stable, reliable banking center. Relief that authorities stepped in to help protect deposits, but worry about keeping cash invested in a bank that failed to manage its own money adequately.
On Swiss streets, emotions were running the gamut among Credit Suisse customers after the government this weekend orchestrated a takeover of the country’s second-largest bank by rival UBS — a bid to prevent further upheaval in the global financial system that began with the collapse of two U.S. banks.
How the merger, with a fire-sale price of 3 billion Swiss francs ($3.25 billion), will play out and its impact on worldwide finance are largely unknown. That has left those stuck in the middle — customers and bank workers — uncertain about what comes next in the deal to create one Swiss megabank.
“My money is already invested in two or three banking establishments,” customer Elisabeth Pictet said after exiting the biggest Credit Suisse branch in central Geneva. “I am not a millionaire, but it is true that in the long run maybe I will even more favor local, regional banking establishments.”
Pictet — whose husband hails from a legendary banking family in Switzerland — said she’s not gotten any communication from the bank about how to proceed but praised the government for a “wise decision” that reassured many Swiss residents like her. She said Tuesday that she’s had no trouble withdrawing cash.
“I feel a lot of anger at Credit Suisse managers because in the end, their employees will lose their jobs — many employees who did their work professionally,” said Pictet, 59, who is transitioning into retirement from a health care job. “Now, we’ll only have a single big bank — UBS — and that is not good: It’s good to have competition, and we won’t have that anymore.”
Asked if Credit Suisse had told customers how to manage their assets since the deal emerged Sunday, a bank spokeswoman said that “until the transaction has closed, business continues as usual for Credit Suisse and its clients.”
That likely won’t be the case for Credit Suisse’s 50,000 workers, 17,000 of whom are in Switzerland, as the two banks combine. The Swiss bank employee’s association is demanding that job losses be held to a minimum, that no layoffs happen until year’s end, and the government provide an unspecified jobs guarantee.
“It is impermissible that the companies are secured by tax dollars but the employees come away with nothing,” the group said in a prepared statement. “The billions in guarantees from the federal government must be linked to conditions favorable to the employees.”
The impact of the merger is extensive. Many of Switzerland’s 8.5 million people have accounts in either UBS or Credit Suisse.
“I myself am grateful as a customer that this worked out,” said Finance Minister Karin Keller-Sutter at a news conference Sunday to announce the hastily arranged deal.
She said she has accounts at both banks.
“I think what we have done now is really to protect those people who have money at Credit Suisse,” Keller-Sutter said, with small- and medium-size companies able to keep paying their workers, carry out transactions and access their savings.
Octavio Marenzi, CEO of consulting firm Opimas LLC, agreed that Credit Suisse depositors need not worry about their money now — though he noted reports of snap withdrawals worth billions of dollars last week amid confusion about the bank’s future.
The Swiss central bank and government have since guaranteed loans to the combined bank worth hundreds of billions of dollars.
“Basically, the Swiss National Bank has stepped in and said, ‘Your deposits are safe,'” said Marenzi, whose firm focuses on capital markets.
Bank runs are a risk for even the biggest and safest banks, but “with Credit Suisse, things look very, very safe indeed at this stage in terms of deposits. So I wouldn’t be in a rush to move money out of there,” he said.
It’s a different story for those who entrusted their money to Credit Suisse for wealth management or investment advice.
“Those customers are scratching their heads and saying, ‘Well, if you can’t manage your own money, why would you be able to manage mine?’ And that’s a fair question,” Marenzi said.
Swiss regulators and officials, reportedly under intense pressure from other Western governments and ultra-rich investors, forged the Credit Suisse takeover by UBS in a bid to stop more banking-sector turmoil.
Credit Suisse’s problems — ranging from big losses on hedge fund bets to a spying scandal and failing to prevent money laundering by a Bulgarian cocaine ring — predated the recent collapse of U.S. banks but drew fears about its vulnerability.
For some in Geneva, there was sentimentality about the looming disappearance of a storied Swiss bank whose origins date to the budding railroad industry in the mid-19th century.
Credit Suisse customer Mokhtar Zada, 78, a retired former financial-sector worker originally from Afghanistan, said the demise of Credit Suisse wouldn’t affect him because he too has an account at UBS and could just transfer money to it if necessary.
“But what a waste,” said Zada, clutching a Credit Suisse savings booklet that he first received in 1965 and had shown as a sort of souvenir to bank employees. “It’s really too bad that a bank with 170-odd years of history is going to vanish just like that.”
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Police on Route 30 were out to control ‘idiots’ in muscle cars, not street rods: officials
This past weekend, the street rods were in town and, as is the tradition in York, spectators lined Route 30 to watch the parade of the candy-colored automotive dreams along the bypass.
And, as usual, the police were out in force.
And, as usual, some spectators took to social media to criticize police – York City and Northern York County Regional, specifically – for either trying to drive the street rods away or using the event as an opportunity to fill their coffers with fine money. Police have been drawing that kind of criticism for much of the 49 years that the street rods have been convening at the York Expo Center.
One woman posted on the Fixing York Facebook page, “So after the 1st night of the street rods in town this weekend, does York have a chance of actually keeping these classics here for years to come, or did the cops take another big money drawer out?”
Not everybody agreed with that sentiment. A sampling of responses included, “The cops are only doing their job” and “It’s the immature people who are making it tough.”
That last comment continued, “We are our own worst enemy. There’s no reason to go out and do burnouts and such. The hot rodders don’t do that.”
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That much is true. Police officials said they weren’t out in force to control the behavior of the street rodders; they were there to contain the behavior of spectators, mostly the guys who take the opportunity to show off their muscle cars or hot-rodded Honda Civics and VW Golfs.
Police were stationed all along Route 30 last weekend. On Friday night, at about 10:30 or so, police still had a large presence even though many spectators had dispersed. One police car, lights ablaze, was parked on the bypass’ median strip.
“We did have a police presence out there,” said Capt. Daniel Lentz of the York City Police Department. “We are out there to make sure everybody operates their motor vehicles safely.”
That’s not always the case. Lentz said some people with muscle cars and hot-rodded compacts were drag racing between traffic lights on the bypass and were performing burnouts in the parking lots of the shopping centers that line the highway.
“The people with muscle cars come out to put on a show,” Lentz said. “That can be very frustrating for us.”
The police presence is mostly prophylactic, seeking to deter law breaking, Lentz said. The city had 12 to 15 cruisers on Route 30, with some officers working overtime to cover the event while still being able to police the city. “We know it’s a huge event,” Lentz said.
The facts do not support the assumption that police use the opportunity to write tickets with the goal of making money on the event. Lentz reported that police wrote 20 traffic citations and one non-traffic citation over the weekend and made one arrest for aggravated assault.
He said police departments get about $3 in fees from each ticket written. So, York City police “made” $63 by writing tickets, an amount that would put one officer on the street for one hour. “We’re not out there writing tickets,” Lentz said. “That’s not our motivation. We’re out there to deter improper behavior.”
The National Street Rod Association appreciates the presence of the police. Craig Meads, the marketing director for the NSRA, said that the organization has nothing to do with what he called “night cruising” by people he described as “idiots.”
He understands that the police need to keep a lid on it. At events in other cities, he said, police have had to respond to keep spectators from misbehaving. In Springfield, Missouri, police line the town’s main drag to deter those who would drag race or smoke their tires. In Louisville three years ago, some street racers got so out of hand that police had to close down the street outside the event venue.
“For the police, it’s a fine line,” Meads said. “They want to keep things safe for people who want to come out and see our cars. But it sometimes gets out of hand. It can be a tough thing for police to manage.”
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Demand for new vehicles in Cambodia is growing along with the economy and the middle class.
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia, June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Kingdom of Cambodia's first Ford assembly plant was inaugurated on June 16 in Pursat province, as more Cambodians seek new Ford models in a growing economy.
The new plant represents a capital investment of $21 million.
In the first 5 months of May 2022, the Ministry of Public Works and Transport registered 4,800 Ford cars and trucks, a 33 percent increase over the same period in 2021, when Cambodia registered 3,600 Ford vehicles. All had been imported.
Ngorn Saing, CEO of RMA (Cambodia) Plc, an authorized Ford automobile distributor in Cambodia, noted at the inaugural event that the plant, in Pursat's easternmost Krakor district, would create more than 500 jobs and assemble about 9,000 vehicles each year.
The company is also working with the Polytechnic Institute of Pursat Province (PIPP) to train staff and improve the technical skills needed for jobs at the plant.
Speaking at the inauguration, Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) Deputy Commander and Royal Cambodian Army (RCA) Commander Lieutenant General Hun Manet said the improvement in living standards in Cambodia and the country's current state of development make the Kingdom a promising place for foreign investment.
"The establishment of a Ford assembly plant in Pursat, Cambodia, now is a source of pride for locals as well as people across the country, as well as a welcome to the presence of heavy and modern industry," he said.
"This factory is a model of a successful opportunity that will serve as a pioneer and encourage further large-scale investment, especially in the automotive sector in the future."
Used cars currently account for 83 percent of the Cambodian market for passenger cars, with revenue at US $242 million in 2022, according to the General Department of Land Transport (GDLT). However, the demand for new cars is growing at a rate of 17 percent annually, parallel with the growing Cambodia economy. Cambodians are attracted to the latest technology, safety systems, quality guarantees and after-sale service that come with new cars.
Ford's new assembly plant is the latest in a wave of new factories in the country, including nine new automobile manufacturing plants in 2021.
According to the Cambodia Automotive Industry Federation (CAIF), the Kingdom's vehicle market is growing at an estimated 35 percent in 2022.
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By DAN GELSTON
AP Sports Writer
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Imagine this: Jalen Hurts back at quarterback for the Eagles only six days after his right shoulder was mashed into Bermuda sod on a blustery afternoon in Chicago.
The scenario ostensibly has gone from long shot once it was revealed that Hurts had sprained his throwing shoulder — the arm that helped guide Philadelphia to the best record in the NFL and cemented him as a bona fide MVP contender — to plausible on Saturday at Dallas.
“I’m feeling fine, feeling fine,” Hurts said Tuesday. “Definitely a chance.”
What a relief for the Eagles.
What a scare for the rest of the playoff field.
Even if Hurts doesn’t play Saturday when the 13-1 Eagles can clinch the NFC East and the No. 1 seed in the NFC with a win, the fact his availability is on the table means he avoided the worst-case scenario of a significant injury that could have cost him significant time.
Eagles coach Nick Sirianni refused to rule out his franchise QB.
“I do not put it past Jalen Hurts, I don’t put anything past Jalen Hurts as far as his physical and mental toughness,” Sirianni said Tuesday. “There’s a chance he can play this week.”
That lessens the need for a reboot of Minshew Mania in Philly.
The Eagles could take a safe rout and go with backup QB Gardner Minshew, a former starter in Jacksonville who has played well in spot duty and garbage time in two seasons with Philly. The common thought was let Hurts heal up, rest and lay the groundwork for the playoffs.
Plus, the Eagles have been down this path before, in December 2017 when MVP front-runner Carson Wentz was lost to injury and yielded the starting spot to Nick Foles.
Foles went out and won the Eagles the franchise’s first Super Bowl, when he asked his coach about a trick play, “You want Philly Philly?”
So, you want repeat repeat?
Not this year. Hurts is still the man.
“We will play him when he’s ready to play,” Sirianni said. “If that’s this week, it’s this week. If it’s next week, it’s next week. When Jalen’s ready to play, he’s ready to play. All aspects of it.”
The 24-year-old in his second season as a starter has absorbed a variety of hard licks that never knocked him out of a game. Not even against the Bears. Hurts said he grasped he was injured the moment he was tackled by defensive tackle Travis Gipson. He stayed in the game and went 7-of-10 passing for 110 yards — and hit wide receiver A.J. Brown for a 68-yard reception.
“I’m very aware of my body,” Hurts said. “I’ve always been that way. I try and be mindful of those things. I’m pretty good at kind of overcoming those kind of different things.”
Hurts has thrown 22 touchdowns and has 3,472 yards passing, and he has rushed for 747 yards and 13 touchdowns. His 35 total touchdowns this season tied the franchise record set by Randall Cunningham in 1990.
“I’m not one to really talk about myself,” Hurts said. “Obviously, being the quarterback of the Philadelphia Eagles, you can’t run from it.”
After Dallas, the Eagles close the season with home games against New Orleans and the New York Giants. Should they earn the No. 1 seed in the conference, the Eagles could play up to two home games at Lincoln Financial Field in the playoffs.
Hurts wouldn’t mind a repeat of an October win at the Linc when he threw for 155 yards and two touchdowns in a 26-17 victory over the Cowboys.
“I think the best thing for me is being ready to play,” Hurts said.
Hurts had been an MVP front-runner on most betting sites, but he stood at 4-1 on Tuesday, per FanDuel SportsBook. Also per FanDuel, the Cowboys are now a 5 1/2-point favorite to beat the Eagles.
Hurts’ odds might shoot back up should he not miss a snap. Hurts continued to air out against the Bears after the injury and did not seem to be in any pain when he talked to the media after the game, all promising signs for this week.
“I don’t want to talk about myself,” Hurts said. “It took a lot of grit, it took some courage, it took the people around me. We have a ton of guys that have to play through things. We have a ton of guys that have to overcome adversities and obstacles in front of them. I think that was something that we did together.”
The Eagles got more good news Tuesday when star tight end Dallas Goedert was activated off the injured list after he missed five games with a shoulder injury. Goedert, who has 43 receptions for 544 yards and three touchdowns, was hurt in Philadelphia’s only loss of the season, in November against Washington.
Hurts suffered an ankle injury and missed a game last season against the New York Jets. Minshew was 20 of 25 for 242 yards and two touchdowns in a 33-18 victory on the road and later asked Sirianni what he needed to do to become the starter.
The answer for Saturday might be the same now for the looming free-agent QB as it was a year ago: No one takes Hurts’ spot.
“It’s not the first time I’ve had things I’ve had to overcome,” Hurts said. “Nothing changes about this other than the publicity of it. The mentality of this team, it’s truly about just being ready go into Saturday. It’s going to take everybody like it does every week.”
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NEW YORK, Aug. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jakubowitz Law announces that a securities fraud class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of shareholders of Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN).
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Shareholders interested in acting as a lead plaintiff representing the class of wronged shareholders have until September 6, 2022 to petition the court. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
According to a filed complaint, Amazon.com, Inc. issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: 1) defendants knew or recklessly disregarded that the Company's infrastructure and fulfillment network investments substantially outpaced demand; 2) those investments were a massive, self-imposed, undue drain on Amazon's financial condition; 3) contrary to defendants' public statements and undisclosed to investors, defendants had already implemented cutbacks to Amazon's fulfillment capacity by July 2021; and 4) as a result of defendants' misrepresentations and omissions, Amazon's common stock traded at artificially inflated prices during the class period.
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The arrogance, corruption, and dishonesty of many of our most prestigious universities have become so bad that the only reasonable historic American parallel is Lincoln Steffens's 1904 book "The Shame of the Cities."
Steffens’ book was a stunning exposure of big city government corruption that convinced the American people to enact a profound wave of reforms.
Now, some of our greatest educational institutions have been corrupted by foreign interests and money. This is hurting American students, our culture of freedom of ideas – and in some cases threatening our national security. The integrity of some of our oldest, most established universities has eroded to the point that only a major reform movement will save them – and our future.
At a minimum, we need a federal law that requires real-time, online publication of all foreign gifts to universities.
CHINESE DONORS FUNNELED MILLIONS INTO UNIVERSITY RUNNING PENN BIDEN CENTER DURING BIDEN PRESIDENCY
Consider three cases in New England: The University of Pennsylvania, the University of Delaware, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The University of Pennsylvania created the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement for former Vice President Joe Biden when he left office. It became a holding ground for key members of the Biden team, including the current Secretary of State. In fact, 10 Biden administration officials were on the Penn-Biden Center payroll:
Chinese Communists have donated an estimated $67 million to the University of Pennsylvania. We don’t know the actual amount or distribution – because the University of Pennsylvania refuses to open its books and be transparent or accountable.
Of course, is the center in which a number of classified documents were found. Who put them there, who used them, and why they were taken there all remain a mystery.
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Fox News: "The Chinese Communist Party’s inside every major American university today with research dollars and with their students.
"They’re at the University of Pennsylvania, too… And we now know that this Chinese money, these Chinese officials met classified documents in that space."
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Under the previous administration, the U.S. Department of Education reported more than $6.5 billion in foreign funding and resources had been uncovered and never disclosed (contrary to law) by American universities. Money was funneled in from China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar just to name a few.
Former Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos said in 2020 that The University of Delaware’s Biden Institute was even more secretive than the University of Pennsylvania’s Biden Center. The institute houses 1,875 boxes of then-Sen. Biden’s papers and many gigabytes of electronic data – and everything is secret. Because the University of Delaware is so politically connected and powerful, it is exempt from state Freedom of Information Act laws. We have no idea who gave money to the Biden Institute or who got it.
Finally, while he was Secretary of State, Pompeo was blocked from speaking at MIT, because university officials thought it would offend the Chinese. One of our most prestigious universities refused to host America’s top diplomat, because their relationship with China was more important. (NBA anyone?)
As Rep. Mike Gallagher, chairman of the new Select Committee on China, wrote to me in an email:
Congress must act to uncover and stop the Chinese Communist penetration of American higher education – and its role in the growing anti-American attitudes of many of our most important institutions of learning. The American people deserve to know.
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SinglePoint is teaming up with Public to demystify the burgeoning clean energy and energy storage sector and plans on providing retail investors with direct access to SinglePoint leadership
NEW YORK, March 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- SinglePoint (SING), a leading renewable energy and sustainable lifestyle provider, today announced a partnership with Public, an investing platform that allows everyone to invest in stocks, ETFs, crypto, and alternative assets—all in one place. The partnership will provide in-platform, comprehensive, clean energy programming to millions of retail investors.
The new branded content series will offer contextual information about renewable energy, including information on alternative energy sources, the clean energy supply chain, and policy impact.
Clean energy continues to be a high-interest category for retail investors, and it was among the most-cited areas of interest for retail investors, according to a recent survey1. Moreover, 62 percent of retail investors say that context around how industries operate and clearer communications from IR teams would help them make more informed decisions. Forty-five percent say they prefer to engage with this content in new formats, such as audio shows or industry briefs.2
In addition to providing clean energy programming, SinglePoint leadership will leverage Public's platform to ensure that its investor relations content and business updates reach retail investors through executive Q&As and shareholder news briefs. More than half of retail investors say that transparent leadership is "very important" when it comes to investment decisions, and 89 percent of investors surveyed said that executive accessibility is an important factor.3
"We are continuing to prepare for a successful uplisting to a national exchange, we're excited to continue building on retail investor momentum via regular transparent updates to our 34,000 shareholders," said Wil Ralston, CEO at SinglePoint, Inc. "We're eager to work with Public as they are providing a truly innovative platform focused on the needs of the modern retail investor."
The Public platform includes embedded content and information so that people can improve their skills and knowledge in the same place they invest.
"Retail investors are eager to engage with companies they are interested in, in the places they expect it, and with context that helps them become better-informed investors," said Katie Perry, GM of IR Innovation at Public. "Innovative companies and leadership teams are realizing the importance of meeting retail investors where they are and providing access to all types of shareholders."
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1 | Public Retail Investor Survey (Sept. 2022)
2 | Public Retail Sentiment Survey (Feb. 2023)
3 | Public Retail Investor Survey (Sept. 2022)
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Dozens of heavily armed men swarmed through the Mexican colonial-era city of San Cristobal de las Casas, and President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Wednesday that one person was killed in confrontations between two gangs.
López Obrador said the confrontation involved “two groups that are fighting for control of a market” in San Cristobal. The dispute apparently involved the control of contraband sold in the market.
It was unclear if either of the groups were drug gangs. López Obrador claimed that 75% of homicides in Mexico “are related to confrontations between gangs.”
Powerful drug cartels, and their disputes for territory, have fueled much of Mexico’s persistently high homicide rate. There were over 34,300 homicides in Mexico in 2021.
López Obrador said that in states where one gang is in undisputed control, there are few murders.
Frightened residents in San Cristobal de las Casas posted videos of the armed men Tuesday, showing organized squads of men carrying military-style rifles through the city.
San Cristobal de las Casas was briefly taken over by Indigenous Zapatista rebels during their 1994 uprising. The southern city is popular among tourists.
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In the two games since losing Manny Machado to an left ankle injury, the San Diego Padres have produced only seven runs on 10 hits over 20 innings.
And they won both games — with two different acting managers.
The Padres are in position to earn a series sweep Wednesday afternoon when they oppose the visiting Arizona Diamondbacks.
Veteran left-hander Madison Bumgarner (3-6, 3.45 ERA) will start for Arizona against a possible Padres piggyback of starter Mike Clevinger (1-0, 3.77) and Nick Martinez (2-3, 4.03).
While Bumgarner is set for his 15th start of the season and is coming off his first win since May 10, Clevinger will be making only his second start since May 17.
Clevinger was on the injured list from May 18-June 4 due to a triceps strain. After one game back — an outing limited to three innings — he went on the COVID-19 injured list. He finally returned on Friday and worked two innings of two-run ball in relief against the Colorado Rockies.
Clevinger also started the season on the IL because of a knee strain.
“We don’t know what kind of pitch count will be available for Clevinger Wednesday,” said Ryan Christenson, who on Tuesday replaced Ryan Flaherty as acting manager as the Padres await the return of manager Bob Melvin, who has been sidelined due to the COVID-19 protocol since June 11.
Clevinger has worked a total of 19 innings this season in four starts and the one relief outing, completing as many as five innings only one time.
Martinez, meanwhile, has been the Padres’ fifth, sixth and seventh starter depending on who is available at any given time. This week, he his rotation spot as staff ace Joe Musgrove was cleared from the COVID-19 protocol and is scheduled to return to the rotation on Thursday.
“I would imagine Martinez would be available out of the bullpen Wednesday behind Clevinger,” Christenson said.
Pitching isn’t the Padres’ biggest concern. The Diamondbacks amassed just three runs on nine hits the past two nights, and they didn’t manage a hit or a run in five innings against the San Diego bullpen on Tuesday.
“The theme is, these guys keep coming at teams no matter what the score,” Christenson said. “The most encouraging thing on the road trip (that ended Sunday) was how all parts of the order were contributing. There were some nice rallies going where guys were just passing the baton.
“When this lineup is doing things like that, it’s very encouraging.”
The lineup could face a challenge on Wednesday against Bumgarner, who was sharp in his most recent outing. He limited the Minnesota Twins to two runs in six innings during a 7-2 win on Friday.
Arizona manager Torey Lovullo said after that game, “(Bumgarner) kind of controlled the game from the third inning on. I thought he did a really nice job of making pitches and executing. (We) made plays behind him, and that’s key.”
However, Bumgarner has always had issues with the Padres and has yet to post a win over San Diego in a Diamondbacks uniform, .
Bumgarner has a 13-13 career record against the Padres with a 3.72 ERA in 42 appearances (41 starts). As a member of the Diamondbacks, Bumgarner is 0-3 with a 6.35 ERA against the Padres in six starts.
Clevinger will be facing Arizona for the first time in his career. Martinez has opposed the Diamondbacks just once, when he allowed one run in six innings during a no-decision in 2015.
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Which cotton throw blanket is best?
No matter what time of year it is, you can make yourself more comfortable with a cozy throw blanket. Throw blankets come in various materials, but cotton throw blankets are always a safe bet. They’re soft, breathable and easy to launder. And since cotton is naturally hypoallergenic and moisture-wicking, it’s an ideal material to provide an extra layer of comfort.
Finding the right blanket depends on how and where you want to use it, as well as what style, size and color you prefer. One of the best cotton throw blankets is the Pre-Washed Organic Muslin Cotton Throw Blanket. Its cozy, waffle-square pattern gives it a classic design that’s perfect for any decor style.
What to know before you buy a cotton throw blanket
Versatility
Throw blankets are great multipurpose items for your home. They can be decorative additions to complement the decor in your living room or bedroom. You can even mix and match your throw blankets with throw pillows to complete a color or design scheme.
Throw blankets are also functional, especially if you want to stay warm while sitting on the couch in the winter or relaxing on the porch during a cool summer evening. You may even want to use one as an extra layer for your bedding.
Size
Throw blankets typically aren’t big enough to fit a mattress, but they still come in various sizes. One of the most common sizes is 50 inches by 60 inches, but you can find smaller or larger ones for other purposes. However, even the largest throw blanket won’t cover more than one person.
What to look for in a quality cotton throw blanket
Color and design
Cotton throws are popular, so you should have no problem finding them in just about any color. You can also find them with different designs and patterns if you want to add some texture to your room’s decor.
Edging
The edging of cotton throws varies. Hemmed blankets are common, but you can also find throws with tassels and fringe if you’re looking for something with a little more style. Pay attention to care instructions for blankets with edging, as these may require more delicate washing.
How much you can expect to spend on a cotton throw blanket
You can find quality cotton throw blankets for between $30-$60. Small, basic cotton throw blankets cost around $10, while luxury blankets can cost over $200.
Cotton throw blanket FAQ
What’s the best way to wash a cotton throw blanket?
A. You should always follow the care instructions for your cotton throw blanket. It’s best to wash in a gentle cycle with cold water and mild detergent. Avoid bleach and fabric softeners because they can stiffen the fabric over time. Then, tumble dry at a low temperature.
How many throw blankets should I have in one area of the house?
A. Every room and design scheme is different, but a good rule of thumb is to keep things asymmetrical and in odd numbers. For example, if you have two pillows, you’ll want one blanket. If you have three pillows, you’ll want two blankets. If you want people to have access to multiple blankets, consider storing them in a basket.
What size throw blanket should I buy?
A. If you’re selecting a blanket for a couch, you want it to be bigger, so it stands out and won’t slip between the cushions. It’s best to use smaller throws when you want to add color and texture. You’ll want a larger, more throw if you plan on people using it to stay warm.
What’s the best cotton throw blanket to buy?
Top cotton throw blanket
Pre-Washed Organic Muslin Cotton Throw Blanket
What you need to know: Available in 10 colors and two sizes, this throw blanket with fringed edges makes an excellent addition for a couch or sofa.
What you’ll love: Lightweight, soft and made with four layers of muslin, the colors of this blanket won’t fade over time. It’s multi-purpose, and works great both indoors and outside. It’s easy to care for and gets softer after each wash.
What you should consider: This blanket is thin, so it might not be the best option if you’re looking for a throw that provides added warmth.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top cotton throw blanket for the money
What you need to know: Soft and lightweight, this quality shabby chic throw won’t unravel or shed.
What you’ll love: It comes in 25 colors and styles, and it features 2-inch fringes on each side. It’s versatile and can be used indoors as an accent piece or outdoors as a picnic blanket.
What you should consider: The blanket is delicate. Make sure you either wash it by hand or put it in a mesh bag before machine washing in cold water on the gentle cycle.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Threadmill Premium Luxury Throw Blanket
What you need to know: This throw is soft, lightweight and features a herringbone design. It’s great for adults and children to use when lounging around the house.
What you’ll love: Available in 15 styles and colors and in three sizes, you’re bound to find one to match your design scheme. The breathable, moisture-wicking properties make this blanket ideal for year-round use. This throw will become softer and smoother after each wash while maintaining its sturdiness. It’s also fade-resistant, so it won’t lose its color over time. And the 100% satisfaction guarantee makes it a great gift choice for any occasion.
What you should consider: Some customers felt the blanket collected too much lint after they washed it.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Late-season hunting opportunities in North Dakota
BISMARCK, N.D. (KFYR) - Even with snow on the ground and cooler temperatures, there’s still plenty of late season hunting opportunities. Mike Anderson explains in this week’s segment of North Dakota Outdoors.
The upland game hunting season in North Dakota closes on January 1, 2023, allowing for plenty of late season hunting opportunities.
“We have pheasants and grouse and partridge. Still plenty of them out there to be had, and portions of state certainly have a fair amount of snow on the landscape, but if you plan accordingly, it’s certainly some opportunities out there. So there are some different refuges that open up for late season upland game hunting opportunities,” said Bill Haase, NDGF assistant wildlife division chief.
Another great opportunity is waterfowl hunting as fall slides into winter.
“Of course, a lot of our sloughs are frozen, but the Missouri River System, Nelson Lake, there’s some places that stay open late into fall. And so, those areas concentrate a lot of the Canada geese and some mallards at times. And so, it’s often field hunting opportunities that we’re talking about. And depending how deep the snow gets and how cold the weather becomes; they’ll stick around often well into December,” said Haase.
If you’re looking to harvest a deer late season, there are some opportunities there as well.
“Archery season is open until January 1st in late season, especially with the winter we’re having already congregate deer at times and can be some great hunting opportunities for folks that want to get out there,” said Haase.
Furbearer hunting and trapping opportunities are available late season, too.
“I saw a lot of coyotes on the landscape. Unfortunately, fur prices are down a little bit. But with that, the competition is down as well so that’s a great opportunity for folks to get out and coyote hunt if that’s something they’re interested in. We do have mountain lions here in North Dakota and there’s a season for that. Check our website, we have two different zones, and they may be open all the way into March, possibly, depending on if the quotas are filled,” said Haase.
If you plan to hunt late season you need to properly prepare for weather conditions.
“Let somebody know where you’re at before you leave. Have plenty of extra clothes and warm clothes in your vehicle,” said Haase.
For more late season hunting opportunities, visit the Game and Fish Department’s “Where to Hunt” page at gf.nd.gov.
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Healthcare company to unveil latest addition to Skin Health Solution Program at 2022 WOCNext conference
NORTHFIELD, Ill., June 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Medline today announced a new version of its Optifoam® Gentle EX Foam Dressing. Updated to help reduce pressure injuries, the company will debut the product in-person at booth #511 during the 2022 WOCNext conference in Fort Worth, Texas, from June 5-8. Medline's Optifoam Gentle EX dressing is a key product in the company's Skin Health Solution Program, a holistic approach to skin and wound care focused on people, process and products.
Medline's Optifoam Gentle EX is designed to help displace pressure when used with pressure injury prevention protocol. The product features five unique layers to help absorb shear force and friction and manage moisture:
- Silicone layer minimizes trauma to the wound with gentle adhesion.
- Absorbent layer super-absorbs and retains exudate.
- Transfer layer helps move fluid and moisture away from the skin and helps prevent leakage.
- Foam layer absorbs exudate to minimize pooling at the wound's surface.
- Breathable film acts as a waterproof barrier to seal out germs and dirt.
While the legacy product has been broadly available to healthcare providers since 2018, Medline leveraged customer feedback to enhance the Optifoam Gentle EX design to improve its adhesive and flexibility to help keep the dressing in place on the body for longer.
"We want our products to be valuable tools that make it easier for staff to do the right thing and ultimately drive positive change and improved patient outcomes. We always encourage customer feedback so we can promptly make any changes that promote a more positive experience," said Bruce Shapiro, vice president of Medline's Advanced Wound Care division. "We look forward to gathering in-person again at this year's WOCNext conference and having meaningful conversations with WOC nurses about how care practices have been evolving at their organization and opportunities to help them enhance best practices."
Medline will be showcasing its comprehensive Skin Health Solution Program at WOCNext 2022. In addition to Optifoam Gentle EX, attendees can learn more about additional products, including Comfort Glide Turning & Repositioning System, HeelMedix heel offloading boot and Remedy Phytoplex. Collectively the system of products addresses the four contributing factors of pressure injuries: prolonged pressure, moisture management, friction and shear.
Medline will also host multiple education sessions, including a seminar presented by distinguished skin and wound care experts titled, "At-Risk Skin – Are We Doing What We Think We Are? 21 New Consensus Statements." In the WOCNext Poster Hall, the company is also sponsoring two case study presentations, each showcasing a health system's unique skin health clinical challenge and the solutions provided by Medline. These interactive presentations will allow attendees to learn more and engage directly with the representatives from those health systems.
Learn more about how Medline is helping healthcare providers enhance best practices in skin health at https://www.medline.com/skin-health/, and visit the company at booth #511 during the WOCNext 2022 conference.
Medline is a healthcare company; a manufacturer, distributor, and solutions provider focused on improving the overall operating performance of healthcare. Partnering with healthcare systems and facilities across the continuum of care, Medline provides the clinical and supply chain resources required for long-term financial viability in delivering high-quality care. With the scale of one of the country's largest companies and the agility of a family-led business, Medline is able to invest in its customers for the future and rapidly respond to a dynamically changing market with customized solutions. Headquartered in Northfield, Ill., Medline has 30,000+ employees worldwide and does business in more than 125 countries and territories. Learn more about Medline at www.medline.com.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A man working as a loss prevention officer for a Rite Aid store in Portland, Oregon, has been charged with raping a woman he accused of shoplifting.
Daniel Luis Cassinelli, 43, was arraigned Wednesday on four counts of first-degree rape, first-degree sodomy and two counts of first-degree sex abuse, Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt said. It wasn't immediately known if he has a lawyer to comment on his behalf.
The charges stem from 2015 when Cassinelli was working at the Rite Aid and allegedly accused a woman in the store of shoplifting.
Cassinelli allegedly escorted her to a secluded room, used his position of authority and the threat of reporting her to police to make her feel that she was unable to leave. Cassinelli then subjected her to non-consensual sex acts, Schmidt said. He then allegedly escorted her back to the main store upstairs and allowed her leave.
Interviews with Cassinelli have led Portland police investigators and prosecutors to believe that Cassinelli may have committed similar criminal conduct with other victims, Schmidt said.
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CEDAR FALLS — The Volunteer Center of the Cedar Valley has announced the following needs of local organizations:
The Jesse Cosby Neighborhood Center needs volunteers to help deliver meals to those who are home bound.
The Riverview Center is looking for volunteers for some holiday decorating.
The Waterloo and Cedar Falls community schools and Operation Threshold are looking for volunteers to adopt a family for Christmas.
Contact the Volunteer Center of Cedar Valley at (319) 883-3015 or information@vccv.org, or go online to vccv.org for a complete listing of volunteer opportunities in the Cedar Valley.
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Family gets abandoned vehicle notice and fine for car they sold years ago
PHOENIX (KPHO/Gray News) - A family in Arizona recently received an abandoned vehicle notice along with a fine for a car they haven’t owned in years.
The notice from the Arizona Department of Transportation showed up months ago in the mail for Bruce Mathews’ daughter. It came with a fine of $500 and a blocked Motor Vehicle Division account.
“She was horrified when she first received the notice,” Matthews said.
Mathews said he had helped his daughter sell the 2007 Chevy Cobalt to a scrapper years ago.
“It wasn’t hers,” he said. “Hadn’t been hers for six years.”
Mathews contacted ADOT’s abandoned vehicle unit to resolve the issue. He said he had recently thrown out old paperwork related to the sale since enough time had passed and there seemed to be no reason to keep it.
“We had sent the notice into the MVD that the vehicle had been sold and signed the title over to the salvage company,” he said. “I figured clearly they would have the paperwork, so I’ll just call them.”
However, when he called, he said they did not have the paperwork.
“This is wrong. They put up a block wall. It just frustrates you that much more, makes you that much more determined,” Mathews said. “If it’s happening to us, it’s happening to other people.”
KPHO contacted the MVD to find out what exactly happened to the Cobalt in the years since the Mathews sold it.
They said Bill Lamoreax, a spokesperson for the agency, told them they were unable to find records showing a transfer of ownership.
“The right things were done by signing the back of the title, but then the one thing that didn’t happen was that title wasn’t then ever submitted to the MVD to get reprocessed and retitled,” Lamoreaux said.
When selling a vehicle, it’s important to make sure it is completely out of the seller’s name. Lamoreaux recommended the buyer and seller come to the MVD office together to make sure the vehicle is properly transferred.
Fortunately for the Mathews, some years-old insurance information helped prove the vehicle had been sold, and the MVD wiped away the fine.
“We are very happy to get this particular case resolved in a positive manner for this customer,” Lamoreaux said.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Three days after federal agents searched former President Donald Trump’s Florida home for classified documents, FBI Director Christopher Wray emailed his workforce urging them to tune out criticism from those who “don’t know what we know and don’t see what we see.”
The work was done by the book, the director wrote in his Aug. 11 email. “We don’t cut corners. We don’t play favorites.”
The internal message was an acknowledgment of the unprecedented nature of the search and the subsequent pummeling the bureau had been receiving from Trump and his supporters. It also was a recognition that the FBI had been navigating a moment so fraught that the normally taciturn Wray felt compelled to address employees about the ramifications of the investigation.
The pressures on Wray and the FBI have grown since then and are only likely to intensify. In its long history, the FBI has rarely been at the center of so many politically sensitive investigations. Agents are simultaneously examining the retention of classified documents by Trump and President Joe Biden. And they’re scrutinizing efforts by Trump and his allies to overturn the 2020 election ahead of the Jan. 6, 2021, storming of the U.S. Capitol.
The probes, overseen by Justice Department special counsels, are unfolding in a hyper-partisan environment as the 2024 presidential election nears and as Congress launches its own investigations of the FBI. All the while, the bureau has been subjected to regular attacks from Trump, his supporters and influential right-wing pundits, with the former president saying FBI “misfits” are less credible than Russian President Vladimir Putin.
In an interview with The Associated Press this week, Wray acknowledged the FBI was enduring tough times. But he downplayed the impact the “noise” had on day-to-day work, insisting the opinions he most valued were those of “the people we do the work for and those we do the work with.”
“I look not just at the one or two investigations being discussed breathlessly on social media or cable news but at the impact we’re having across the country to protect the American people,” he said.
Adding to the tension: Republicans are using their newly minted House majority to investigate the investigators, accusing the FBI of abuses ranging from unfairly targeting Trump to suppressing free speech. They’ve highlighted disputed, uncorroborated whistleblower complaints against supervisors that the FBI for privacy reasons says it’s constrained from fully responding to.
Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, a Wray critic and chair of the House Judiciary Committee, told the AP last week he supported rank-and-file agents but was concerned about the leadership.
For Wray, the turbulence is more a continuation of a recent trend than something new.
He was appointed by Trump in 2017 after the chaotic firing of his predecessor, James Comey, and as the FBI investigated ties between Russia and Trump’s 2016 campaign. Furious over that probe, Trump lashed out at Wray for the remainder of his term and openly flirted with firing him.
The director fastidiously ignored the verbal assaults, adhering to a “keep calm and tackle hard” mantra that he has repeatedly conveyed to agents but that can seem incongruous with a climate that is decidedly not calm. His approach did not change as the bureau initiated investigations involving the current and former presidents.
“We’re not well-served by wading into the fray, taking the bait and responding to every breathless allegation,” Wray told the AP. “So we will continue to push back and correct the record when we appropriately can. But as long as I’m director we’re going to follow the FBI’s long history and tradition of letting our work do the talking.”
The AP spoke to about two dozen current and former FBI officials for this story. Most spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss FBI matters publicly. Many of those interviewed said they were distressed to see the FBI entangled in politics, lamenting not only the barrage of attacks the bureau faces but also Justice Department policies and actions, like a memo directing the FBI to address threatening rhetoric at school board meetings, that they believe have injected the bureau into the partisan fray and invited criticism.
Some who are personally supportive of Wray and respect his approach to the job contend he and the FBI could more forcefully punch back against false narratives and do better in explaining its work to the public. That’s admittedly a complicated calculus for the FBI given that Comey was widely criticized for public statements about the Hillary Clinton email probe, an experience that exists as a cautionary tale for the more circumspect Wray.
Greg Brower, who worked with Comey and Wray when he was the FBI’s top liaison to Congress, said he believes Wray strives to do what’s right without regard to pressure and was unlikely to adapt his style to satisfy critics. Though not inclined to second-guess Wray, he said it could be argued that Wray’s “conventional” style should be modified for unconventional times and that aggressive pushback was needed to prevent false narratives from taking hold.
“It does appear sometimes that the narrative that the bureau’s opponents are creating, the very often false narrative, it takes on a life of its own and becomes reality for all intents and purposes. It causes the bureau to be completely mischaracterized in a way that’s hard to undo,” Brower said.
Joshua Skule, a former top agent, echoed that assessment, saying “truth is decaying in our society. To combat that, you have to overcommunicate, in the field office and from headquarters.”
Though the attacks aren’t always rooted in facts, the perception matters because regardless of how the Trump and Biden investigations are resolved, the FBI and Justice Department will have to persuade the public that the probes were done thoroughly and professionally.
The partisan environment magnifies self-inflicted wounds that have damaged the FBI’s credibility, making it more difficult to counter conspiracy theories and questionable narratives.
The recent indictment of an ex-FBI counterintelligence official gave FBI critics fodder. The FBI came under pressure at a congressional hearing last week over a leaked field office memo that warned of potential Catholic extremists, a document Attorney General Merrick Garland called “appalling” and said had been withdrawn. Older errors during the Trump-Russia investigation, including bungled wiretap applications targeting a Trump aide, continue to shadow the bureau years later.
“We take those to heart each and every day,” FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate said about the Trump-Russia mistakes in a separate interview.
The inherent tripwires of politically explosive investigations were manifest last summer, when some in the FBI resisted the idea of serving a search warrant at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, believing a more cautious approach was better and that the Trump team was entitled to more time to cooperate, according to a person with knowledge of the talks. The Washington Post earlier reported the disagreements.
In the days after the search, as U.S. officials warned of an alarming spike in threats against the FBI, a 42-year-old Trump supporter attacked the FBI’s Cincinnati field office. No FBI employees were harmed, but police killed the gunman.
For his part, Wray said he tries to communicate as much as he can about the FBI’s work, including about the Chinese espionage threat or other priorities, but no matter how much he does so, “the focus is on the manufactured controversies of the day or the one or two cases that get all the attention.”
He believes a key part of his job is to step up outreach to his 38,000-member workforce. Besides the message after the Mar-a-Largo search, he held an employee town hall in December, taking questions about public perception of the FBI, agent safety and allegations of politicization.
He also frequently visits the bureau’s 56 field offices to speak to agents and local law enforcement. Last month, he journeyed to Norfolk, Virginia, where he discussed violent crime prevention and national security issues. But national politics intruded even there.
During a news conference with local journalists, Wray was asked whether the recent and intense public scrutiny of the bureau was impeding investigations. He offered a rosy take, saying that though he understood the concern, the FBI was “humming along and growing like gangbusters.”
”At the end of the day,” he said of the workforce, “they’re not doing it to attract popularity contests on social media or to win the adoration of pundits.”
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The Ergatta Rower will be available through BestBuy.com starting November 22nd
NEW YORK, Nov. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ergatta, the game-based home fitness brand, today announced that its connected rowing machine, The Ergatta Rower, will be available for purchase through BestBuy starting today. This distribution deal follows Ergatta's successful expansion into the UK and Ireland, and marks the first time the rower will be available through a retail channel partner, solidifying the company's position as a leading connected fitness brand.
The Ergatta Rower features a suite of competitive games, calibrated to an individual's fitness level to provide a uniquely motivating workout. Instead of a typical boutique fitness class experience, Ergatta offers a library of thousands of interactive workouts, competitive games and racing options. It also provides collections of workouts, known as Push Programs, that users can progress through over several weeks to achieve specific fitness and endurance goals. The workouts are all available on demand and there are multiple live racing events each week. The Ergatta Rower is made from sustainably sourced cherry wood and handcrafted in the USA. It is designed to compactly and aesthetically fit in modern homes and living spaces.
"The traditional boutique and home fitness products focus on follow-along and class-based offerings," said Tom Aulet, Co-founder and CEO of Ergatta. "However, a large segment of the population relies on a different set of intrinsic motivators and Ergatta builds solutions tailor-made for them. Our programming is competitive, both against yourself and others in our community, and centered around individual progress and achievement. Through this partnership with Best Buy, we are giving more people access to our game-based offering that is completely different from the traditional workout class. We couldn't be happier to partner with a company like Best Buy, that deeply understands as well as we do where the fitness industry is heading and how important gaming is to that future."
Ergatta's decision to work with Best Buy as its first major distribution partner is rooted in Best Buy's distinct focus on gaming innovation and technology-based wellness products. In recent years, Best Buy has become a leader in enhancing the at-home gaming experience by working with innovative companies that provide products and services focused on connected health, active aging, activity tracking, and telehealth, with numerous fitness and gaming companies including NormaTec, Hyperice, Whoop, Xbox, Playstation, and more.
The Ergatta Rower retails for $2,499.00 and can be purchased at BestBuy.com and Ergatta.com within the US. It is also available in the UK and Ireland, with additional international markets launching later this year.
Ergatta is the leader in game-based fitness, an approach created to provide a thoughtful alternative for those who aren't motivated by traditional fitness classes and instructor-led workouts. Instead of a typical class, Ergatta's workouts encourage its members through thousands of different game options that are constantly evolving and improving to captivate members and motivate them to achieve their goals. Unlike the group fitness classes and training applications that have saturated the fitness market, Ergatta offers workouts both live and on-demand that are carefully calibrated towards individual user profiles and fitness objectives. Using active intelligence, the membership-based platform matches racers to create rivalries and automatically recalibrates with increased levels of fitness. Handcrafted in Rhode Island from durable and beautiful cherry wood, the Ergatta machine was designed to physically and aesthetically compliment the home. Crafted for mobility, the rower, which utilizes near-silent water resistance technology, can be effortlessly transported and stored within seconds. It is intuitively designed so it is easy to use without any prior rowing knowledge. The Ergatta rower is available for purchase for $2,499.00 on www.Ergatta.com. The brand's investors to-date include Advance Venture Partners, Greycroft, Fifth Wall, Gaingels, TechStars, and WaterRower as well as high-profile angel investors Hans Tung (GGV), musicians Chamillionaire and E-40, Adrian Auon (Forward, Google), Mustafa Suleyman (DeepMind, Google), Mark Pincus (Zynga), Operator Partners, Scott Dorsey (ExactTarget, High Alpha), Joe Zawadzki (MediaMath), and Steve Simon (Indiana Pacers).
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Rays vs. Rangers Predictions & Picks: Odds, Moneyline, Spread - June 11
Sunday's contest between the Tampa Bay Rays (47-20) and the Texas Rangers (41-22) at Tropicana Field has a good chance to be a tight matchup, as our computer prediction projects a final score of 4-3, with the Rays coming out on top. Game time is at 1:40 PM ET on June 11.
The Rays will look to Shane McClanahan (9-1) against the Rangers and Martin Perez (6-1).
Rays vs. Rangers Game Info & Odds
- When: Sunday, June 11, 2023 at 1:40 PM ET
- Where: Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida
- How to Watch on TV: BSSUN
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Rays vs. Rangers Score Prediction
Our prediction for this matchup is Rays 4, Rangers 3.
Total Prediction for Rays vs. Rangers
- Total Prediction: Under 8.5 runs
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Rays Performance Insights
- The Rays have played as the favorite in nine of their past 10 games and won eight of those contests.
- In its last 10 games with a total, Tampa Bay and its opponents have combined to hit the over three times.
- Over their last 10 games, the Rays are 2-1-0 against the spread.
- The Rays have won 43, or 74.1%, of the 58 games they've played as favorites this season.
- Tampa Bay is undefeated in 12 games this season when favored by -200 or more on the moneyline.
- The moneyline for this contest implies a 66.7% chance of a victory for the Rays.
- Tampa Bay has scored the second-most runs in the majors this season with 384.
- The Rays have a 3.58 team ERA that ranks third among all MLB pitching staffs.
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JUNO BEACH, Fla., July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NextEra Water Texas, LLC, an indirect subsidiary of NextEra Energy Resources, LLC, announced that it has completed the previously announced acquisition of a portfolio of rate-regulated water and wastewater utility assets in eight counties near Houston, Texas, from Quadvest, L.P.
"This acquisition marks our first purchase of water and wastewater assets and furthers our strategy to build a world-class water utility in the coming years," said Bruce Hauk, president of NextEra Water. "We are committed to meeting high standards for the operation of these assets and providing exceptional service to community residents and businesses."
Through this transaction, NextEra Water acquired a portfolio of 23 water and five wastewater utility systems located in the counties of Aransas, Brazoria, Fort Bend, Harris, Jackson, Matagorda, Montgomery and Waller. The approximately 2,700 customers are now being served by NextEra Water Texas.
In addition, NextEra Water previously announced that it has entered into an agreement to purchase the wastewater system owned by Towamencin Township in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Assuming timely regulatory approval, the sale is targeted to close in the second half of 2023.
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NextEra Water and its affiliate, NextEra Water Texas, LLC, are regulated water and wastewater utilities that pursue opportunities to acquire, develop, build and operate potable water, wastewater and reclaimed water utilities projects. To learn more, visit www.NextEraWater.com
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BERLIN — UBS said Monday that it has completed its takeover of embattled rival Credit Suisse, nearly three months after the Swiss government hastily arranged a rescue deal to combine the country's two largest banks in a bid to safeguard Switzerland's reputation as a global financial center and choke off market turmoil.
A statement from the bank said that "UBS has completed the acquisition of Credit Suisse today, crossing an important milestone."
UBS had said last week that it expected to complete the acquisition worth 3 billion Swiss francs ($3.3 billion) as early as Monday.
It's a pivotal moment for the two Zurich-based rivals, whose combination has raised concerns about thousands of expected job losses, drawn rebukes and lawsuits over the terms of the deal, and stirred fears about the impact of creating a Swiss megabank that would be too big to fail.
"This is a very important moment — not just for UBS, (but) for Switzerland as a financial location and for Switzerland as a country," UBS CEO Sergio Ermotti said on Friday. "So we do feel the responsibility, but we are fully motivated."
Ermotti, who returned to UBS to push through the deal, acknowledged that "the coming months will certainly be bumpy" but said the bank was "very focused on doing on it right."
The Swiss government orchestrated the rescue of Credit Suisse over a weekend in March after the lender's stock plunged and customers quickly pulled out their money, fearing its collapse could further roil global financial markets in the wake of the failure of two U.S. banks.
The 167-year-old Swiss bank had seen a string of scandals over the years that hit the heart of its business, ranging from bad bets on hedge funds to failing to prevent money laundering by a Bulgarian cocaine ring and accusations it didn't report secret offshore accounts that wealthy Americans used to avoid paying U.S. taxes.
UBS will inherit ongoing cases against Credit Suisse and the financial repercussions those entail, including a recent ruling in Singapore that said Credit Suisse owes former Georgian Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili hundreds of millions of dollars for failing to protect the billionaire's money in a trust pilfered by a manager.
Credit Suisse is appealing that and a similar case in Bermuda, where Ivanishvili says a bank subsidiary failed to prevent "fraudulent mismanagement" of his assets in two life insurance policies.
Switzerland's government has agreed to provide UBS with 9 billion Swiss francs (nearly $10 billion) in guarantees to cover any losses it may face from the takeover after UBS covers any hits up to 5 billion francs ($5.5 billion).
That emergency rescue plan is facing political pushback ahead of parliamentary elections in October. Switzerland's lower house has rebuked it in a symbolic vote, and lawmakers have approved setting up an inquiry into the deal and the events leading up to it. The Swiss attorney general's office already has opened a probe.
Credit Suisse investors also have sued the country's financial regulators after about 16 billion Swiss francs ($17.7 billion) in higher-risk bonds were wiped out.
The U.S. Federal Reserve, the European Union's executive branch and others worldwide have signed off on the takeover. Credit Suisse was classified as one of 30 globally significant banks because its collapse posed a wider risk to the financial system.
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BUCHAREST (AP) — NATO returns on Tuesday to the scene of one of its most controversial decisions, intent on repeating its vow that Ukraine — now suffering through the 10th month of a war against Russia — will join the world’s biggest military alliance one day.
NATO foreign ministers will gather for two days at the Palace of the Parliament in the Romanian capital Bucharest. It was there in April 2008 that U.S. President George W. Bush persuaded his allies to open NATO’s door to Ukraine and Georgia, over vehement Russian objections.
“NATO welcomes Ukraine’s and Georgia’s Euro-Atlantic aspirations for membership in NATO. We agreed today that these countries will become members of NATO,” the leaders said in a statement. Russian President Vladimir Putin, who was at the summit, described this as “a direct threat” to Russia’s security.
About four months later, Russian forces invaded Georgia.
Some experts describe the decision in Bucharest as a massive error that left Russia feeling cornered by a seemingly ever-expanding NATO. NATO counters that it doesn’t pressgang countries into joining, and that some requested membership to seek protection from Russia — as Finland and Sweden are doing now.
More than 14 years on, NATO will pledge this week to support Ukraine long-term as it defends itself against Russian aerial, missile and ground attacks — many of which have struck power grids and other civilian infrastructure, depriving millions of people of electricity and heating.
In a press conference Monday in Bucharest after a meeting with Romania’s President Klaus Iohannis, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg highlighted the importance of investing in defense “as we face our greatest security crisis in a generation.”
“We cannot let Putin win,” he said. “This would show authoritarian leaders around the world that they can achieve their goals by using military force — and make the world a more dangerous place for all of us. It is in our own security interests to support Ukraine.”
Stoltenberg noted Russia’s recent bombardment of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, saying Putin “is trying to use winter as a weapon of war against Ukraine” and that “we need to be prepared for more attacks.”
North Macedonia and Montenegro have joined the U.S.-led alliance in recent years. With this, Stoltenberg said last week before travelling to Bucharest, “we have demonstrated that NATO’s door is open and that it is for NATO allies and aspirant countries to decide on membership. This is also the message to Ukraine.”
This gathering in Bucharest is likely to see NATO make fresh pledges of non-lethal support to Ukraine: fuel, electricity generators, medical supplies, winter equipment and drone jamming devices.
Individual allies are also likely to announce fresh supplies of military equipment for Ukraine — chiefly the air defense systems that Kyiv so desperately seeks to protect its skies. NATO as an organization will not offer such supplies, to avoid being dragged into a wider war with nuclear-armed Russia.
But the ministers, along with their Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba, will also look further afield.
“Over the longer term we will help Ukraine transition from Soviet-era equipment to modern NATO standards, doctrine and training,” Stoltenberg said last week. This will not only improve Ukraine’s armed forces and help them to better integrate, it will also meet some of the conditions for membership.
That said, Ukraine will not join NATO anytime soon. With the Crimean Peninsula annexed, and Russian troops and pro-Moscow separatists holding parts of the south and east, it’s not clear what Ukraine’s borders would even look like.
Many of the 30 allies believe the focus now must be uniquely on defeating Russia.
“What we have seen in the last months is that President Putin made a big strategic mistake,” Stoltenberg said. “He underestimated the strength of the Ukrainian people, the Ukrainian armed forces, and the Ukrainian political leadership.”
But even as economic pressure — high electricity and gas prices, plus inflation, all exacerbated by the war — mounts on many allies, Stoltenberg would not press Ukraine to enter into peace talks, and indeed NATO and European diplomats say that Putin does not appear willing to come to the table.
“The war will end at some stage at the negotiating table,” Stoltenberg said Monday. “But the outcome of those negotiations are totally dependent on the situation on the battlefield,” adding “it would be a tragedy for (the) Ukrainian people if President Putin wins.”
The foreign ministers of Bosnia, Georgia and Moldova — three partners that NATO says are under increasing Russian pressure — will also be in Bucharest. Stoltenberg said NATO would “take further steps to help them protect their independence, and strengthen their ability to defend themselves.
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SAN DIEGO, Oct. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sempra (NYSE: SRE) (BMV: SRE) plans to release its third-quarter 2022 earnings by 7 a.m. ET, Thursday, November 3.
Sempra executives will conduct a conference call at 12 p.m. ET, Thursday, November 3. Investors, media, analysts and the public may listen to a live webcast of the conference call by registering on the Investors section of the company's website and clicking on the appropriate link.
Prior to the conference call, a slide presentation detailing the earnings results also will be posted by 7 a.m. ET, Thursday, November 3, on Sempra's website.
For those unable to obtain access to the live webcast, it will be available on replay a few hours after its conclusion on the company's website.
About Sempra
Sempra's mission is to be North America's premier energy infrastructure company. The Sempra family of companies have 20,000 talented employees who deliver energy with purpose to nearly 40 million consumers. With more than $72 billion in total assets at the end of 2021, the San Diego-based company is the owner of one of the largest energy networks in North America helping some of the world's leading economies move to cleaner sources of energy. The company is helping to advance the global energy transition through electrification and decarbonization in the markets it serves, including California, Texas, Mexico and the LNG export market. Sempra is consistently recognized as a leader in sustainable business practices and for its long-standing commitment to building a high-performing culture focused on safety, workforce development and training, and diversity and inclusion. Sempra is the only North American utility sector company included on the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index and was also named one of the "World's Most Admired Companies" for 2022 by Fortune Magazine. For additional information about Sempra, please visit Sempra's website at sempra.com and on Twitter @Sempra.
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HOBOKEN, N.J., May 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Aggua Force Ltd., The collaborative data management platform, launches today a new business solution within the cloud management sector: Data Cost Management & Optimization tool.
These solutions take cloud management to the next level as it promises to save organizations money and keep them on top of their data pipeline.
This first-of-its-kind solution will allow teams to comprehend and take action on computing costs (at the job level) and storage expenses (at the table level) thanks to the unique ability to manage and report on granular data prices (column-level lineage).
Aggua's Cost Management and Optimization solutions were developed to support modern cloud-based data tech-stack, with Snowflake (Cloud-based computing); BigQuery (Google serverless data warehouse); and Redshift (Amazon cloud data warehouse) at the core of the data architecture. These unique and sought after capabilities will help organizations save on data spend and give room to invest in other things that matter in the core of their business.
Aggua's Cost Management and Optimization solutions offers the following benefits to businesses of all types:
- It provides you with the ability to calculate the total warehouse credit per query in your own currency, meaning it can be used by companies across the globe.
- Enables you to filter your cost by, data warehouse, database, cluster or scheme
- Allows you to view a complete breakdown by the user, query, time, data type and reason for the cost.
- Automatically connecting the cost of queries upstream or downstream from the data warehouse to its origin (e.g. ETL, BI, Dashboard, etc.) eliminated manual change analysis or investigation, such as identifying unused dashboards in your pipeline and cutting the cost spent on generating them, leveraging end-to-end lineage.
- You can set it up so that it sends you immediate notifications and alerts when you exceed your cost limit or threshold.
- The recommendation engine will analyze your cost across the entire lineage and suggest methods in which you can optimize your spending according to expert Aggua insights.
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Utnik continues, "This solution has been in the trial phases with our design partners for the past year and we saw an average of 30% reduction in our customers data spend. If that amount of cost savings, we are confident that it is ready to go to market and hit the ground running. Aggua developed the Cost Management solution from the ground up to support the needs of companies at heart and with a deep understanding of where data is headed in the near future. Many of our customers already believe that Cost Management truly is the future of Data Cloud Management because it offers businesses peace of mind."
Liat Ashkenzai, Head of Data at Artlist stated that she finds the Aggua Cost Management solutions to be compelling in understanding the costs Artlist are spending on data. She added that it is a game changer because it gives her data team another perspective on the data processes that up until now they did not have visibility to as well as provides solutions to problems that need immediate attention.
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CLEVELAND (AP) — Two men accused of stuffing five walleye with lead weights and fish fillets during a lucrative fishing tournament on Lake Erie pleaded not guilty to cheating and other charges on Wednesday.
Jacob Runyan, 42, of Broadview Heights, Ohio, and Chase Cominsky, 35, of Hermitage, Pennsylvania, made no comments during their brief court appearances in Cleveland. Their attorneys declined to comment about the case after the hearing.
Assistant Cuyahoga County Prosecutor James Gutierrez also declined to comment, referring questions to a spokesperson.
The cheating allegations surfaced Sept. 30 when Lake Erie Walleye Trail tournament director Jason Fischer became suspicious because Runyan and Cominsky's fish were significantly heavier than walleye of that length typically are. An angry crowd at Gordon Park in Cleveland watched Fischer cut the walleye open and announce there were weights and fish fillets stuffed inside them.
An officer from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources confiscated the fish as evidence.
Runyan and Cominsky were indicted earlier this month on felony charges of cheating, attempted grand theft, possessing criminal tools and misdemeanor charges of unlawfully owning wild animals.
Both were released Wednesday on personal bonds of $2,500.
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WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — The last time Elina Svitolina was Grand Slam semifinalist — twice, actually, in 2019 — she was pursuing the usual trappings of success in professional sports: trophies, money, fame, etc.
Now Svitolina plays for more important reasons. For her daughter, Skaï, who was born in October. For her country, Ukraine, where a war that began with Russia’s invasion in February 2022 continues to this day.
And Svitolina firmly believes that those quite different factors actually do affect the way she swings a racket and the way she handles important moments on a tennis court. Enough so that she is one of the last four women remaining at Wimbledon after adding to her series of surprising victories over major champions with a 7-5, 6-7 (5), 6-2 victory against No. 1-ranked Iga Swiatek on Tuesday.
“War made me stronger and also made me mentally stronger. Mentally, I don’t take difficult situations as, like, a disaster, you know? There are worse things in life. I’m just more calmer,” said Svitolina, 28, who once was ranked as high No. 3 and now is No. 76 after taking time off to start a family with her husband, tennis player Gael Monfils.
She only returned to the tour three months ago.
“Also, because I just started to play again, I have different pressures,” Svitolina said after kneeling down, then covering her face with her hands, when Swiatek missed one last forehand at Centre Court. “Of course, I want to win. I have this motivation, like huge motivation, to come back to the top. But I think having a child — and war — made me a different person. I look at the things a bit differently.”
She received a wild-card entry from the All England Club to get into the field and now will face another unseeded player, 42nd-ranked Marketa Vondrousova, for a berth in Saturday’s final.
Vondrousova, the 2019 French Open runner-up, beat fourth-seeded Jessica Pegula 6-4, 2-6, 6-4 by grabbing the last five games after being a point from trailing 5-1 in the last set at No. 1 Court. Pegula dropped to 0-6 in major quarterfinals.
“I don’t know what happened,” the left-handed Vondrousova said.
Both women’s matches Tuesday were interrupted when rain arrived and the courts’ roofs were shut so play could continue. Swiatek used the break to animatedly chat with her sports psychologist, who was up in the stands, then headed toward an off-court lounge to huddle with her coach.
None of that helped her figure out what was wrong with her spin-heavy forehand, which accounted for 57 total errors — 28 unforced, 29 forced — and 22 winners.
Swiatek, who was coming off claiming her fourth Grand Slam title at the French Open last month, felt the change in the way Svitolina smacked balls over the Centre Court net. That included a stretch where Svitolina won 20 of 22 points during a stretch that spanned the end of the first set and start of the second.
“She played with more freedom and more guts. Sometimes, she really just let go of her hand,” Swiatek said, pantomiming a forehand, “and she played really, really fast.”
Novak Djokovic reached his 46th Slam semifinal — tying Roger Federer’s record for men — by defeating No. 7 Andrey Rublev 4-6, 6-1, 6-4, 6-3, and next will face No. 8 Jannik Sinner. Djokovic is seeking a fifth consecutive championship at Wimbledon and an eighth overall — numbers that also would equal Federer — and his 24th career Grand Slam trophy.
Sinner made it to his first major semifinal by eliminating Roman Safiullin 6-4, 3-6, 6-2, 6-2.
“It means a lot me,” Sinner said. “We put a lot of work in — many, many hours off court, a lot of sacrifice — for this moment.”
Svitolina certainly did not expect to still be around this deep into the fortnight. She originally wasn’t even planning to get back in action after giving birth until around now. But she and Monfils started working out together on Jan. 2, and Svitolina’s progress was substantial enough that she altered her timeline.
Good call.
She added the win against Swiatek to those against seven-time major champion Venus Williams in the first round, 2020 Australian Open winner Sofia Kenin in the third, and two-time Australian Open champ Victoria Azarenka in the fourth.
There is definitely a sense of urgency with all of this.
“It’s less years that I have in front than behind me. I have to go for it. I don’t have time to lose anymore. I don’t know how many years I will be playing,” Svitolina said. “You practice for these moments, for these big moments.”
And for the kinds of moments that come after she leaves the court.
On Tuesday, Svitolina FaceTimed with Skaï, who is at home in Monte Carlo with Monfils and the new grandparents.
“She was really distracted with her ice cream, so I was not the priority there,” Svitolina said. “She is still at this age when she doesn’t care if I win, if I lose.”
There are, naturally, those who do care. A lot.
Svitolina’s phone has been inundated by messages of support from her her native country, and she’s seen videos of kids there following her matches.
“This really makes my heart melt, seeing this,” she said. “Just happy I could bring a little happiness to the people of Ukraine.”
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — State regulators on Friday approved an application from Dominion Energy Virginia to build an enormous offshore wind farm off the coast of Virginia Beach and recover the cost from ratepayers.
No parties to the monthslong proceeding had opposed the approval of the project, which will help the utility boost the proportion of its generation that comes from renewable resources. But many had raised concerns about affordability and possible risks to the utility's captive ratepayers.
In its Friday order, the State Corporation Commission noted that the 176-turbine Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind Project will likely be the single largest project in Dominion's history and said that because of its size, complexity and location, it faces an array of challenges. The commission included in its order three “consumer protections," including a performance standard.
The commission’s order also approved facilities that will connect the wind farm to the existing transmission system.
Robert Blue, Dominion Energy's president and CEO, said in a statement that the company was pleased with the approval but was reviewing the specifics of the order, “particularly the performance requirement.”
The project, which will be located about 27 miles off the coast, has an expected capital cost of $9.8 billion and has drawn broad support from local officials, policymakers, business groups and trade unions, who say it will help fight climate change and create jobs. Backers quickly celebrated the commission's decision.
“We applaud the SCC for greenlighting new offshore wind power in Virginia. As the largest offshore wind project in the country, this project is a critical piece of our clean energy transition because it complements solar by generating power at night when the sun isn’t shining,” Will Cleveland, a senior attorney for the Southern Environmental Law Center, said in a statement.
Regarding costs, the SCC order said that over the wind farm's projected 35-year lifetime, including the construction and its 30-year projected useful life, a typical residential customer is expected to see an average monthly bill increase of $4.72, with a peak monthly bill increase of $14.22 in 2027.
“To be clear, total Project costs, including financing costs, less investment tax credits, are estimated to be approximately $21.5 billion on a Virginia-jurisdictional basis, assuming such costs are reasonable and prudent. And all of these costs ... will find their way into ratepayers electric bills in some manner,” the order said.
Dominion said in a news release that because offshore wind turbines have no fuel costs, the project is expected to save Virginia customers more than $3 billion during its first 10 years of operation.
The consumer protections in the commission's order include a requirement that Dominion file a notice within 30 calendar days if it finds that the total project costs are expected to exceed the current estimate or if the final turbine installation is expected to be delayed beyond Feb. 4, 2027. Annual filings will also have to address “any material changes” to the project and explain any cost overruns.
The SCC also ordered that beginning with the commercial operation and extending through the life of the project, customers will be “held harmless” for any shortfall in energy production below a certain threshold.
Such a performance standard will protect customers who are paying for the project “from also having to pay for replacement energy if the Project does not generate the amount of electricity upon which Dominion bases its request and its cost estimates," the order said.
The order goes on to warn that the performance standard, however, will not protect customers from cost overruns, or if the project is abandoned.
Commissioner Judith Jagdmann emphasized in a concurring opinion that the project was “legislatively favored.”
The 2020 Virginia Clean Economy Act, a sweeping overhaul of the state’s energy policy enacted by Democrats, included a number of renewable energy mandates intended to help address the threats of climate change and paved the way for the project.
The General Assembly, Jagdmann wrote, could consider implementing additional consumer protections.
Friday’s decision came after months of voluminous filings in the case and a multiday evidentiary hearing in May.
The company already has a two-turbine pilot project up and running. The 2.6-gigawatt, utility-scale project's schedule calls for construction to be complete in 2026. Dominion expects the project to generate enough clean energy to power up to 660,000 homes. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Virginia-regulators-OK-Dominion-s-planned-17355274.php | 2022-08-06 07:51:19 | 1 | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Virginia-regulators-OK-Dominion-s-planned-17355274.php |
BEIJING, Nov. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, the first EU leader to come to Beijing after the successful convening of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, paid an official visit to China on Friday.
Noting the complex and fluid international landscape, Chinese President Xi Jinping told Scholz that the two major countries, with great influence, should work together "in times of change and instability" and contribute more to global peace and development.
Scholz stressed that his country hopes to maintain communication and coordination with China to better safeguard regional and world peace and security.
China-Germany cooperation benefits EU, and the world
As Germany is a pivotal country in the EU, the continent's prosperity is closely associated with Germany, and thus deepening China-Germany and China-EU cooperation will serve the interests of both sides and beyond.
During their meeting, Xi stressed that China is ready to work with Germany to build a future-oriented all-round strategic partnership and push for new progress in China-Germany and China-EU relations.
China and Germany should respect each other, accommodate each other's core interests, adhere to dialogue and consultation, and jointly resist the interference of camp confrontation, Xi said.
China is ready to strengthen coordination and cooperation with Germany and the EU in international affairs and jointly find solutions to global issues such as climate change, biodiversity protection and food security, said the president.
Scholz said that the world needs a multi-polar pattern and the role and influence of emerging countries should be taken seriously.
Germany opposes camp confrontation, he stressed.
Meanwhile, the two leaders also exchanged views on the crisis in Ukraine. China supports Germany and the EU in playing an important role in promoting peace talks and building a balanced, effective and sustainable European security framework, Xi said.
"This is a critical moment for both Germany and China. Their relationship may not be based on shared political values, but on reciprocal interests, on the common fight against climate change and the strong willingness to build a multilateral world," said Song Xin, former political adviser at the European Parliament, in an article published on CGTN.
Liu Lirong, an associate professor at the Institute of International Studies of Fudan University also told CGTN that China-Germany cooperation not only benefits the EU but also the world.
"China is the second largest economy in the world, and Germany is the largest economy in the EU. Chinese-German cooperation is of great significance in addressing many global challenges such as climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic and global food security," Liu said.
China-Germany cooperation shows huge potential
The German chancellor's visit coincides with the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between China and Germany.
Over the past 50 years, China-Germany practical cooperation has deepened, and bilateral trade has grown by nearly a thousand-fold, Xi said, adding that the two sides should continue to make the "pie" of common interests bigger.
In this regard, he highlighted revitalizing cooperation in new areas such as new energy, artificial intelligence and digitalization while expanding the potential of cooperation in traditional areas.
Scholz said that China is an important economic and trade partner of Germany and Europe, and his country is ready to deepen economic and trade cooperation with China.
Germany firmly supports trade liberalization and economic globalization and opposes "decoupling", he stressed.
China was Germany's most important trading partner in 2021 for the sixth consecutive year. The trade volume between them has mushroomed to more than $250 billion in 2021 from less than $300 million at the very beginning of diplomatic relations.
In the first nine months of this year, foreign direct investment into the Chinese mainland expanded 15.6 percent year on year to 1.00376 trillion yuan. In U.S. dollar terms, the inflow went up 18.9 percent year on year to $155.3 billion, data from China's Ministry of Commerce showed.
(Cover: Chinese President Xi Jinping meets with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, November 4, 2022. /Xinhua)
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There’s another adaptation that can help you survive a heatwave: diet.
Counterintuitively, ice cream will warm you up in the long run, while fresh fruit and vegetables can keep you cool. We get this and other tips. from Washington Post environmental reporter Allyson Chiu.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
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MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Erling Haaland and Phil Foden scored hat tricks Sunday as Erik ten Hag was humiliated in his first Manchester derby.
Manchester City destroyed rival Manchester United 6-3 at the Etihad and moved to within a point of Premier League leader Arsenal.
It was Haaland’s third hat trick of the season – and his third in successive home league games.
Ten Hag becomes the sixth United manager since Alex Ferguson’s retirement to lose his first derby – but had a heavier defeat than either David Moyes or Ralf Rangnick, who both lost by margins of 4-1.
The Dutchman came into the game having been named manager of the month in the Premier League but any celebrations were short-lived after a traumatic afternoon for United in the highest-ever scoring meeting between these teams.
It was a case of damage limitation at the halftime interval after City raced to a 4-0 lead in an utterly dominant display.
Pep Guardiola’s team controlled 62% of possession by the midway point and was ahead after just eight minutes through Foden.
United had already survived one goal-mouth scramble in the opening moments by way of warning of what was to come.
Haaland struck twice in the space of three minutes later in the half, and then set up Foden for the midfielder’s second just before halftime.
A number of empty seats appeared in the away section of the crowd, with many United fans failing to show for the second half.
Those that did stay witnessed United’s Antony score a wonderful goal from distance after 56 minutes.
But City was soon dominating again, with Haaland completing his treble and then setting up Foden to do likewise.
Substitute, Anthony Martial, scored twice in the last 10 minutes – the second from the penalty spot – but the humiliation had been complete long before.
Guardiola hailed Haaland’s latest performance.
“Of course, the quality we have alongside him helps him to score goals. But what he has done, I didn’t teach him once,” Guardiola said.
“When the ball is right, and he attacks the box, how he moves behind the central defender away from the action, he has incredible instincts that the ball will arrive there and it comes from his mum and dad. He was born with that.”
Ten Hag was heavily critical of his players, accusing them of lacking bravery.
“Lack of belief. I’ve seen some highlights — it was obvious we are defending not on the front foot. We let them play,” Ten Hag said. “In possession we were not brave enough, made tactical mistakes, decisions, mistakes and then you get hammered.”
Cristiano Ronaldo was an unused substitute, with Ten Hag saying the Portugal great did not deserve to be put through the humiliation of coming on in such a defeat.
“I wouldn’t bring him in because out of respect for Cristiano, for his big career,” he said.
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Harlan County students enjoy environmental camp
HARLAN, Ky. (WYMT) - Fourth grade students from Harlan County had a chance to enjoy 4-H environmental camp recently. 4-H agent Raymond Cox said he looks forward to this event each year.
“They’re getting to talk with and listen to professionals in their field. I know they have teachers, good teachers but sometimes you don’t learn all of the things in school that you’re going to be learning here,” said Cox. “So, it’s really really interesting and it’s a way of getting out into the community and getting to do some things outside the classroom.”
Fourth grader, Torrie Fundy said she has learned things she never knew before the camp.
“My favorite part of today was I volunteered for the firefighter activity over there and it was really fun,” said Fundy. “There was this like triangle of fire and it had like oxygen and heat and fuel, and I’ve never known that until today.”
Cox said when he started the camp 25 years ago, he wanted kids to be able to enjoy the outdoors.
“We’ve had five and six presenters each day and they are from different agencies throughout the state, and we’re learning about water safety, air safety, pollution,” said Cox. “They get to play a game of archery, and we have the forestry service teaching them all about fires and tree identification.”
He also hopes it prepares them for the future.
“We hope they learn things that will and rules that will help them, prepare them for later in life you know, and many of them will want to hopefully some of them will learn that this might be their career they want to take up,” he said.
There were around 400 fourth graders that went to environmental camp.
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Mystery Snow Shovelers Revealed to be ‘The Lawn Rangers’
When Jeremy Toribio, Mike Duffy, and Arlanzo Deleon were driving through Casper and saw an elderly woman attempting to shovel her walk after Casper's latest snowstorm, they didn't even hesitate.
They got out of their truck and got to work.
"I'll tell you what," Toribio told K2 Radio News. "When we're driving around and we see an older lady struggling, or anybody struggling really, to get their snow removed, we just jump in and lend a helping hand. That lady yesterday, she was struggling, one shovel at a time, you know? And so, I was like 'Hey, we should stop and help this lady, you guys down?' And they said yeah. So we just hopped out of the truck and jumped into action."
It was a move that did not go unnoticed. The elderly woman told her daughter about it, who posted about it on Facebook.
"My husband was getting ready to go clear my parents driveway this morning," Gina Brady wrote on Casper Classifieds. "I called my mom to let her know he would be on his way and she said there was no need because God sent her 3 angels. I am not sure who they were, but this morning, 3 gentlemen driving a black Chevrolet truck, saw my 73-year-old mom shoveling a path and they stopped and asked if they could help."
Brady said, at the time, the men who helped didn't want any sort of payment, or really even any kind of acknowledgement. But she wanted to at least know who they were, so that she could properly thank them.
So K2 Radio News wrote up an article and, not even two hours later, their identities were revealed.
Read More: 73-Year-Old Casper Woman Seeking Identities of Three ‘Angels’ Who Shoveled Her Walk
"Last night I was just scrolling through my phone, checking K2 News on Facebook (nice), and I read the article and I'm like, 'Oh, yeah, we did that,'" laughed Toribio.
He left a comment, saying it was him, and then the floodgates were opened. Numerous people commented on the post, stating how kind it was for Toribio and his team to help out.
Turns out, it wasn't the first time, nor would it be the last, that they did something like this.
They call themselves 'The Lawn Rangers,' which is ingenious. It was Toribio's idea.
"I was looking for a different landscaping name," he stated. "So I came up with 'The Lawn Ranger' years ago. We're a small landscaping business in town and we mow lawns, do sprinkler systems and all the other stuff landscaping entails through the summertime. And then, as we progress to the fall, we do fall cleanups, gutter cleaning, and whatever else. Then when snow comes, we do snow removal for residentials and a few businesses in town that we take care of."
So, yes, you could argue that 'The Lawn Rangers' were simply doing their job. Except, it wasn't their job. They didn't charge the woman. They just did it because it was the right thing to do.
"It's not something I would say that we just go around looking to help people out," Toribio said. "But if we're driving a route and we see random people here and there who need help - it's not every day, but we do try to jump in and help out."
Toribio and his girlfriend also create and contribute to various fundraisers throughout the year.
"We've all had friends that have passed away through the years," he stated. "So there's a couple fundraisers we do every year, for a friend of ours. Our buddy Tucker Greeno passed away a few years ago, so every year we get a pool tournament going on and we raise money for his family. And then we have another one for another one of my friends that passed away from stage four cancer. We do a yearly 10-ball tournament for him to just raise money and bring people together and to keep their memory going. It's not even all about the money; it's just getting together and remembering these people that have passed."
Toribio also volunteers with the Youth Suicide Prevention Golf Tournament.
"We do it at Three Crowns Golf Course every year, because you know how youth suicide is in Wyoming."
Toribio does a lot for the community, because he loves this community.
"I've lived here for 27 years and I've always kind of had a good reputation in this town, in this community. Word of mouth goes a long way around here."
Indeed it does. The response to the snow shoveling story is proof of that.
It wasn't much. It took all of maybe 30 minutes. But what 'The Lawn Rangers' did for that older woman left an impression on not only her, but on her daughter, on this writer, on the entire community. It was a simple act; an intentional act of kindness. But it embodied everything that is good about the Christmas season, and everything that is good about Casper.
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BEIJING, Feb. 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Over the past three years, China has always been putting people's lives and health first and adapting its COVID-19 response in light of the evolving situation, in efforts widely believed to have bought precious time for a smooth transition.
The country has achieved a major and decisive victory in its COVID-19 prevention and control since November 2022, the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee said at a meeting on Thursday.
It has been proved that the CPC's major judgment, policy decision and strategy adjustment on COVID-19 are completely correct, said the meeting, which was presided over by Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee.
"The measures are effective. The people recognize them. And the achievement is huge," it said.
'A miracle'
China has kept optimizing and adjusting its COVID-19 prevention and control measures since November 2022, with the focus on protecting people's health and preventing severe cases.
In a major shift in its response policies, the country started to manage COVID-19 with measures designed for combating Class B infectious diseases, instead of Class A infectious diseases since January 8, 2023.
It was noted at Thursday's meeting that China has realized a stable transition in its epidemic prevention and control stages in a relatively short period of time.
With more than 200 million people having received medical treatment and nearly 800,000 seriously ill patients effectively cured since November, China has kept its COVID-19 death rates among the lowest in the world.
"We have achieved a major and decisive victory in terms of epidemic prevention and control, creating a miracle in the history of human civilization in which a country with a huge population successfully emerges from a pandemic," said the meeting.
A new phase
As China's COVID-19 response enters a new phase, the country has been speeding up efforts to consolidate what has been achieved over the years in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic.
It is important to strengthen epidemic monitoring capacity and improve regular early warning systems by establishing a sound surveillance and reporting mechanism, the meeting of the CPC leadership pointed out.
It also called for efforts to make a scientific plan for next-stage vaccinations, in particular to increase the vaccination rates of the elderly.
In face of the evolving COVID-19 strains, China has also stepped up the nation-wide promotion of booster shots. According to an updated action plan released by the State Council joint COVID-19 prevention and control mechanism, nine combinations of booster vaccines developed in different technical routes, including vaccines providing good cross immunity against the Omicron strain, are now available.
Thursday's meeting also underscored efforts to guarantee the production and supply of medical supplies, and improve their coordinated deployment mechanism.
Efforts should also be made to advance scientific and technological breakthroughs in the health sector in a coordinated manner, and improve the level of life and health science and technology, the meeting concluded.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Furious about surging prices at the gasoline station and the supermarket, many consumers feel they know just where to cast blame: On greedy companies that relentlessly jack up prices and pocket the profits.
Responding to that sentiment, the Democratic-led House of Representatives last month passed on a party-line vote — most Democrats for, all Republicans against — a bill designed to crack down on alleged price gouging by energy producers.
Likewise, Britain last month announced plans to impose a temporary 25% windfall tax on oil and gas company profits and to funnel the proceeds to financially struggling households.
Yet for all the public’s resentment, most economists say corporate price gouging is, at most, one of many causes of runaway inflation — and not the primary one.
“There are much more plausible candidates for what’s going on,” said Jose Azar an economist at Spain’s University of Navarra.
They include: Supply disruptions at factories, ports and freight yards. Worker shortages. President Joe Biden’s enormous pandemic aid program. COVID 19-caused shutdowns in China. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. And, not least, a Federal Reserve that kept interest rates ultra-low longer than experts say it should have.
Most of all, though, economists say resurgent spending by consumers and governments drove inflation up.
The blame game is, if anything, intensifying after the U.S. government reported that inflation hit 8.6% in May from a year earlier, the biggest price spike since 1981.
To fight inflation, the Fed is now belatedly tightening credit aggressively. On June 15, it raised its benchmark short-term rate by three-quarters of a point — its largest hike since 1994 — and signaled that more large rate hikes are coming. The Fed hopes to achieve a notoriously difficult “soft landing” — slowing growth enough to curb inflation without causing the economy to slide into recession.
For years, inflation had remained at or below the Fed’s 2% annual target, even while unemployment sank to a half-century low. But when the economy rebounded from the pandemic recession with startling speed and strength, the U.S. consumer price index rose steadily — from a 2.6% year-over-year increase in March 2021 to last month’s four-decade high.
For a while at least — before profit margins at S&P 500 companies dipped early this year — the inflation surge coincided with swelling corporate earnings. It was easy for consumers to connect the dots: Companies, it seemed, were engaged in price-gouging. This wasn’t just inflation. It was greedflation.
Asked to name the culprits behind the spike in gasoline prices, 72% of the 1,055 Americans polled in late April and early May by the Washington Post and George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government blamed profit-seeking corporations, more than the share who pointed to Russia’s war against Ukraine (69%) or Biden (58%) or pandemic disruptions (58%). And the verdict was bipartisan: 86% of Democrats and 52% of Republicans blamed corporations for inflated gas prices.
“It’s very natural for consumers to see prices rising and get angry about it and then look for someone to blame,’’ said Christopher Conlon, an economist at New York University’s Stern School of Business who studies corporate competition. “You and I don’t get to set prices at the supermarket, the gas station or the car dealership. So people naturally blame corporations, since those are the ones they see raising prices.’’
Yet Conlon and many other economists are reluctant to indict — or to favor punishing — Corporate America. When the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business asked economists this month whether they’d support a law to bar big companies from selling their goods or services at an “unconscionably excessive price’’ during a market shock, 65% said no. Only 5% backed the idea.
Just what combination of factors is most responsible for causing prices to soar “is still an open question,’’ economist Azar acknowledges. COVID-19 and its aftermath have made it hard to assess the state of the economy. Today’s economists have no experience analyzing the financial aftermath of a pandemic.
Policymakers and analysts have been repeatedly blindsided by the path the economy has taken since COVID struck in March 2020: They didn’t expect the swift recovery from the downturn, fueled by vast government spending and record-low rates engineered by the Fed and other central banks. Then they were slow to recognize the gathering threat of high inflation pressures, dismissing them at first as merely a temporary consequence of supply disruptions.
One aspect of the economy, though, is undisputed: A wave of mergers in recent decades has killed or shrunk competition among airlines, banks, meatpacking companies and many other industries. That consolidation has given the surviving companies the leverage to demand price cuts from suppliers, to hold down workers’ pay and to pass on higher costs to customers who don’t have much choice but to pay up.
Researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston have found that less competition made it easier for companies to pass along higher costs to customers, calling it an “amplifying factor’’ in the resurgence of inflation.
Josh Bivens, research director at the liberal Economic Policy Institute, has estimated that nearly 54% of the price increases in nonfinancial businesses since mid-2020 can be attributed to “fatter profit margins,” versus just 11% from 1979 through 2019.
Bivens conceded that neither corporate greed nor market clout has likely grown significantly in the past two years. But he suggested that during the COVID inflationary spike, companies have redirected how they use their market power: Many have shifted away from pressuring suppliers to cut costs and limiting workers’ pay and have instead boosted prices for customers.
In a study of nearly 3,700 companies released last week, the left-leaning Roosevelt Institute concluded that markups and profit margins last year reached their highest level since the 1950s. It also found that companies that had aggressively raised prices before the pandemic were more likely to do so after it struck, “suggesting a role for market power as an explanatory driver of inflation.”
Yet many economists aren’t convinced that corporate greed is the main culprit. Jason Furman, a top economic adviser in the Obama White House, said that some evidence even suggests that monopolies are slower than companies that face stiff competition to raise prices when their own costs rise, “in part because their prices were high to begin with.’’
Likewise, NYU’s Conlon cites examples where prices have soared in competitive markets. Used cars, for example, are sold in lots across the country and by numerous individuals. Yet average used-car prices have skyrocketed 16% over the past year. Similarly, the average price of major appliances, another market with plenty of competitors, jumped nearly 10% last month from a year earlier.
By contrast, the price of alcoholic beverages has risen just 4% from a year ago even though the beer market is dominated by AB-Inbev and spirits by Bacardi and Diageo.
“It is hard to imagine that AB-Inbev isn’t as greedy as Maytag,’’ Conlon said.
So what has most driven the inflationary spike?
“Demand,’’ said Furman, now at Harvard University. “Lots of government spending, lots of monetary support — all combined together to support extraordinarily high levels of demand. Supply couldn’t keep up, so prices rose.’’
Researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco estimate that government aid to the economy during the pandemic, which put money in consumers’ pockets to help them endure the crisis and set off a spending spree, has raised inflation by about 3 percentage points since the first half of 2021.
In report released in April, researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis blamed global supply chain bottlenecks for playing a “significant role” in inflating factory costs. They found that it added a staggering 20 percentage points to wholesale inflation in manufacturing last November, raising it to 30%.
Still, even some economists who don’t blame greedflation for the price spike of the past year say they think governments should try to restrict the market power of monopolies, perhaps by blocking mergers that reduce competition. The idea is that more companies vying for the same customers would encourage innovation and makes the economy more productive.
Even so, tougher antitrust policies wouldn’t likely do much to slow inflation anytime soon.
“I find it helpful to think about competition like diet and exercise,” NYU’s Conlon said. “More competition is a good thing. But, like diet and exercise, the payoffs are long term.
“Right now, the patient is in the emergency room. Sure, diet and exercise are still a good thing. But we need to treat the acute problem of inflation.’’
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AP Economics Writer Christopher Rugaber contributed to this report. | https://cbs4indy.com/news/national-world/ap-us-news/greedflation-is-price-gouging-helping-fuel-high-inflation/ | 2022-06-26 16:49:08 | 1 | https://cbs4indy.com/news/national-world/ap-us-news/greedflation-is-price-gouging-helping-fuel-high-inflation/ |
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 3 Evening" game were:
7-6-0
(seven, six, zero)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 3 Evening" game were:
7-6-0
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ATLANTA (AP) — Test scores for Georgia students recovered some in the 2021-2022 school year from from their pandemic plunge, but remain significantly below pre-pandemic levels, raising questions about whether students can fully recover and how long that might take.
The Georgia Department of Education released the annual Milestones test results Friday. Students in grades 3-8 as well as high schoolers take the tests. Federal law requires most of the tests.
Officials in the state Department of Education, which has downplayed the importance of standardized testing under Republican state Superintendent Richard Woods, are taking a positive approach to the results, which were generally improved from 2021, when Georgia administered tests under federal mandate despite opposition by Woods.
“You will see that results have not yet reached pre-pandemic levels, but they show that academic recovery is underway in Georgia’s public schools," Allison Timberlake, deputy state superintendent for assessment and accountability, told reporters Wednesday in a pre-release briefing.
Normally, test results would be used to assign A-to-F letter grades to schools and districts. That won't happen for a third year in a row because the state can’t reliably compute some figures. There was no testing in 2020 and shares of students taking the tests in 2021 varied widely from school to school, making it generally invalid to compare 2021 and 2022 results at the school or district level, officials said.
Instead, the state will publish multiple measures that are normally parts of the overall grade, after the federal government waived part of the requirements for the state’s normal evaluation system.
Proficiency levels — the share of students meeting expectations for what they should know — averaged above 43% in English language arts and math in 2019, the last year before the pandemic. Last year they averaged above 38% in English language arts and above 37% in math. While most grades showed improvement from 2021, seventh graders continued to sink in both math and English.
Achievement levels on four required high school tests rebounded strongly after particularly sharp drops in 2021, when the state Board of Education, after strong pressure from Woods, voted to make those tests count nothing in a student's grade. This year, the tests returned to counting 20% of a student's grade in American literature and composition, algebra, biology and U.S. history. But even with big increases, achievement levels did not return to pre-pandemic levels.
The state will use the 2022 results to set new baseline measurements that will be used to calculate how much student achievement grows from year-to-year, meaning schools could get a lot of credit for growth if they return to pre-pandemic achievement levels.
Timberlake said that although all Georgia schools returned to in-person learning last year, students were still missing class because of COVID-19.
“We know that students had less opportunity to learn all the content standards given the interruptions from the pandemic, so when scores are lower, we don’t know if it’s because they actually performed lower or they just didn’t have the opportunity to learn all the standards as they would in a typical year.”
Meghan Frick, a spokesperson for the state Department of Education, said the state has taken steps to “proactively address learning loss," including hiring academic recovery specialists, providing grants for afterschool and summer programs, providing formative assessments to help schools evaluate student achievement before the state tests and providing free slots in Georgia's virtual school.
The state in June released a report on teacher burnout that warned that it was unrealistic to expect achievement to return to pre-pandemic levels "without giving teachers the time, support, resources, and compassion to meet students at their current academic levels.”
NWEA, a not-for-profit group that makes tests used by schools nationwide, released a report last week that found achievement levels were rebounding somewhat nationwide, but that a recovery to pre-pandemic levels “is years away” and that federal COVID-19 aid is likely to run out before then. NWEA also found that nonwhite students and students in high-poverty schools remain disproportionately impacted.
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INDIANAPOLIS – In an unusual move, the Indianapolis Colts have named Jeff Saturday their interim coach in the aftermath of Frank Reich’s firing.
Saturday. 47, will join owner Jim Irsay and general manager Chris Ballard at a 6 p.m. press conference at the team headquarters.
It’s the latest seismic shockwave to ripple through the franchise in the last few weeks: the benching of Matt Ryan, the elevation of Sam Ehlinger, the firing of offensive coordinator Marcus Brady, trading Nyheim Hines to Buffalo and dismissing Reich.
Saturday is no stranger to the Colts, but has zero experience as a coach at the collegiate or NFL level. He’s been head coach at Hebron Christian Academy in Dacula, Ga., and current is an analyst for ESPN.
Also, Irsay bypassed two individuals of the staff with head coaching experience: defensive coordinator Gus Bradley and senior defensive assistant John Fox.
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SAN ANGELO, Texas (AP) — Like millions of 10-year-olds, Uziyah Sergio Garcia loved video games, swimming and trampolines. He was also a natural at football, taking to it seamlessly when he and his grandfather started tossing the ball together over spring break.
“Such a fast little boy and he could catch a ball so good,” his grandfather, Manny Renfro, told The Associated Press. “There were certain plays that I would call that he would remember and he would do it exactly like we practiced.”
Uziyah, who went by Uzi, was the last of the 21 people killed in the Uvalde school massacre — 19 children and two teachers — to be laid to rest. His funeral was held Saturday at the Immanuel Baptist Church in San Angelo, where he lived before moving last year to Uvalde, about 200 miles (322 kilometers) to the south.
“We will miss saying, ‘I love you and Jesus loves you,’ especially his reply, ’… and Jesus loves you too!” his family wrote in an obituary for the boy, remembering for his contagious laugh, love of silly jokes, and sweet and outgoing nature.
Uzi’s favorite after-school snack was a Nutella sandwich with blue Takis, which he would try to persuade others to try, The New York Times reported.
“He was goofy, he loved to make you laugh,” Nikki Cross, an aunt the boy lived with, told the newspaper.
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HONG KONG, Dec. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Recently, Fosun International received numerous accolades in domestic and international markets, including multiple ESG awards from international financial media International Business Magazine, Finance Derivative and Hong Kong stock connect information platform Zhitong Caijing.
The market highly recognizes Fosun's focus on its core businesses and global innovation capabilities
On 28 December, Fosun International was notified by International Business Magazine that it was awarded the "Best Global Innovation-Driven Consumer Group Asia 2022" and the "Best CSR Company Asia 2022" by the magazine in recognition of Fosun's successful transformation into a global innovation-driven consumer group, Fosun's innovation capabilities and strategy of focusing on household consumption upgrades. The magazine also highly recognized the contribution of COMIRNATY® COVID-19 mRNA vaccine jointly developed by Fosun and BioNTech, a Germany biotechnology company to the fight against the pandemic.
The judging panel believes that Fosun is actively making strategic focus in the face of the constant changes in the macro environment. On 15 December, Fosun held the Fosun's 30th Anniversary ONE FOSUN Family Members' Carnival and revealed the future development direction of Fosun: Fosun will reinforce its positioning as "a global innovation-driven consumer group", focus on its core business strategically around the consumption needs of global families, and strengthen the two core growth engines of globalization and innovation. The market is optimistic about Fosun's strategies of accelerating its strategic transformation and focusing on household consumption sectors. A number of investment banks, including Morgan Stanley, Citi, and Goldman Sachs, have published reports and assigned Fosun International an "Overweight" or "Buy" rating.
Fosun's two treasures, "drug + vaccine" highlight the Group's innovative achievements and social responsibility contributions to the fight against the pandemic
The technology innovation capabilities that Fosun accumulated the years have continued to bear fruit. For example, in the health segment, since July this year, Azvudine, China's first oral medication for COVID-19 jointly developed by Fosun Pharma and Genuine Biotech, has been widely used in assisting the fight against the epidemic in various places. Recently, Fosun Pharma approached a number of online medical platforms for cooperation to improve the accessibility of Azvudine through multiple channels, so as to further meet the needs of home treatment of patients infected with COVID-19.
The COVID-19 mRNA vaccine, COMIRNATY® jointly developed by Fosun and BioNTech, a German biotechnology company, has also made continuous progress. In November 2022, Hong Kong SAR and Macao SAR introduced the COMIRNATY® bivalent vaccine, which can protect against the Omicron variant, and vaccination became available on 1 December for local residents under the government vaccination programs in Hong Kong SAR and Macao SAR, respectively. As regards the self-paid COMIRNATY® COVID-19 mRNA vaccine, the self-paid COVID-19 vaccination service of the COMIRNATY® BNT162b2 COVID-19 mRNA vaccine has been officially rolled out as of 1 November 2022 in Macao SAR. On 19 December 2022, Fosun Pharma announced that its subsidiary has received the certificates of Drug/Product Registration in relation to the official registration of COMIRNATY® BNT162b2 vaccine and COMIRNATY® bivalent vaccine in Hong Kong SAR, pursuant to which, COMIRNATY® BNT162b2 has been registered to be used for primary course of vaccination for individuals of 12 years of age and older and COMIRNATY® bivalent vaccine has been registered for use as a booster dose for individuals of 12 years of age and older.
Finance Derivative commends Fosun's efforts to promote the sustainable development of ESG
Another international financial media, Finance Derivative recently awarded the "Best ESG Company Hong Kong 2022" to Fosun International, commending Fosun's continuous efforts to promote the sustainable development of China and the world.
On the domestic front, Fosun International received the "Best ESG Award" and the "Best PR Team Award" at the 7th Zhitong Caijing Capital Market Conference and Listed Company Awards on 19 December, in recognition of Fosun's efforts in the past year to actively fulfill social responsibilities, focus on communicating with global stakeholders and creating long-term value amid the pandemic.
In August 2014, Fosun joined the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) and is devoted to the global commitment to sustainable development, promoting the achievement of the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through participating in related activities globally and locally. As a participant in the UNGC, Fosun supports the ten principles of UNGC in the areas of human rights, labor, environment and anti-corruption, relentlessly promoting their close integration with Fosun's ESG strategies and actively engaging its member companies in the implementation of ESG strategies.
In 2015, the United Nations officially released 17 sustainable development goals, aiming to comprehensively and thoroughly solve the social, economic and environmental development issues from 2015 to 2030, and achieve sustainable development subsequently. The Group actively responds to the UN SDGs and combines its ESG vision and objectives to identify the sustainable development goals relevant to its businesses, assisting the realization of UN SDGs by 2030 from multiple dimensions.
Since 2019, Fosun International has established the ESG Board Committee and the ESG Working Group to comprehensively improve ESG management and ensure the implementation of each ESG indicator. Fosun International has also established an ESG Management Committee as well as an ESG Executive Committee to promote the effective implementation of ESG strategies and initiatives.
In recent years, Fosun has achieved remarkable ESG performance. Its MSCI ESG rating was AA and the Hang Seng Sustainability rating was A. Fosun International has been selected as a constituent stock of Hang Seng ESG 50 Index (top 50 large-to-mid cap) for two consecutive years and it has been included as a constituent stock of the Hang Seng Corporate Sustainability Benchmark Index for three consecutive years, which includes 87 Hong Kong-listed companies with the most outstanding performance in corporate sustainability (top 20% of the Hang Seng Composite Index constituent stocks). Besides, its FTSE Russell ESG rating improved significantly, outperforming the industry average, and it has been included in the FTSE4Good Index Series for the first time this year. Its S&P CSA ESG score ranked ahead of 90% of its global peers and significantly ahead of the industry average. All these affirm Fosun's ESG achievements and the global recognition of Fosun's ESG efforts.
2022 marks the 30th anniversary of Fosun's establishment. Standing at the new starting point of 30 years of establishment, Fosun will continue to strengthen its core businesses, deepen innovation and globalization. Fosun will continue to join hands with customers, partners, investors and all parties in the society to forge ahead and continue to uphold its original aspiration of "Contribution to Society", so as to actively promote the sustainable development of ESG to fulfil Fosun's mission of "Creating Happier Lives for Families Worldwide".
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WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of Twist Bioscience Corporation (NASDAQ: TWST) between December 13, 2019 and November 14, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important February 10, 2023 lead plaintiff deadline.
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CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Tuesday his official delegation to Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral next week will include racehorse trainer Chris Waller and wheelchair tennis star Dylan Alcott.
Waller and Alcott are among 10 “everyday Australians” who will represent Australia at Monday’s state funeral at Westminster Abbey in London, Albanese said.
“It was a request from the palace that 10 everyday citizens who make contributions to the local communities be invited to the queen’s funeral,” Albanese told reporters in Canberra.
At least one Pacific neighbor leader, Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape, has accepted Australia’s offer of help to get to the funeral.
Australia is one of 11 British Commonwealth nations in the Oceania region, most of them tiny South Pacific islands.
Albanese hosted diplomats from 22 Commonwealth countries at his official residence on Tuesday to commemorate the late queen.
“All Commonwealth nations were invited to this reception and it was an opportunity for Commonwealth nations to express together our condolences, but also to celebrate the life and the sacrifice of Queen Elizabeth II, a life of service to the Commonwealth including to Australia,” Albanese said. | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Horse-trainer-wheelchair-athlete-to-attend-royal-17437842.php | 2022-09-13 12:08:13 | 1 | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Horse-trainer-wheelchair-athlete-to-attend-royal-17437842.php |
WFO NEW YORK CITY Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, August 7, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service New York NY
729 PM EDT Sun Aug 7 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of central Fairfield,
west central New Haven and northern Westchester Counties through 815
PM EDT...
At 728 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Ridgefield, or 7 miles south of Danbury, moving east at 20 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph and half inch hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Danbury, Shelton, Newtown, Stratford, Trumbull, Ridgefield, Monroe,
Bethel, Wilton, Seymour, Derby, Weston, Redding, Georgetown and
Ansonia.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
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More than half of essential workers who qualified for state-funded coronavirus pandemic bonuses will receive discounted payments under modifications the General Assembly adopted Monday.
The Senate voted 33-0 shortly after 9 p.m. to approve the revised bonus schedule as part of an omnibus measure that also extended the state’s gasoline tax holiday and bolstered winter heating assistance. The House had passed the measure 134-7 late Monday afternoon.
Leaders of the legislature’s Democratic majority said they had no choice, given the limited funds Gov. Ned Lamont would support for the Premium Pay program.
But they also noted that, despite discounts, essential workers who earn less than $50,000 per year still will receive the full $1,000 bonus that was advertised.
Still, others who expected to get $1,000 will get as little as $200, and those who earned between $100,000 and $150,000 per year will get $100.
“Look, there’s a negotiation that happens,” Speaker Matt Ritter, D-Hartford, said during a late morning press conference minutes before the House opened the special session at noon. “That’s where we’ve landed.”
Ritter was referring to last-minute negotiations with Lamont to bolster the $30 million budget for Premium Pay for health- and child-care providers, supermarket employees, delivery drivers and other private-sector workers who staffed essential services during the worst of the coronavirus outbreak in 2020.
Despite demand that far outstripped available resources for bonuses — and a $2.85 billion budget surplus projected for the current fiscal year — Lamont has refused to give labor advocates all that they’ve sought for the bonus program.
The administration says private-sector employers share the responsibility to reward these workers.
But businesses counter that it was Lamont and legislators who not only created Premium Pay but who also badly underfunded the program. State officials advertised grants of $1,000 for full-timers who earned less than $100,000 per year, bonuses ranging from $200 to $800 for those making between $100,000 and $150,000, and a $500 payment for income-eligible part-timers.
While the $30 million program budget couldn’t support more than 28,500 grants of $1,000 each — after marketing and administrative costs were removed — the comptroller’s office reported more than 134,000 applications had been approved.
And then, late last week, another problem was discovered. State Department of Labor data used to determine eligibility had to be updated, resulting in another 21,000 applications being approved.
The comptroller’s office estimates that it would take $142 million to fully fund all grants. The only alternative, under the rules Lamont and lawmakers adopted, would be to proportionally discount all grants by about 80%.
Rep. Sean Scanlon, D-Guilford, who co-chairs the legislature’s Finance Committee and who will be sworn in as Connecticut’s new comptroller on Jan. 4, urged the governor to boost the program budget to the full $142 million.
Lamont originally agreed to go only to $90 million. After the extra 21,000 approved applications were recognized, the governor agreed to go up to $105 million.
Working with that budget, lawmakers decided to keep grants at $1,000 — but only for essential workers who made less than $50,000 per year. That involves about 66,000 or nearly 45% of the 155,000 approved applicants.
The rest will receive discounted payments when checks are sent out in January.
Those making more than $50,000 but less than $100,000 were also supposed to get a $1,000 bonus. Instead, the revised schedule includes bonuses of:
- $800 for those earning between $50,000 and $60,000;
- $750 for those earning between $60,000 and $70,000;
- $500 for those earning between $70,000 and $80,000;
- $250 for those earning between $80,000 and $90,000;
- $200 for those earning between $90,000 and $100,000.
Those who make between $100,000 and $150,000 will get a $100 bonus instead of the $200 to $800 payment that was initially advertised for workers in that earning range.
Part-timers will receive $200 instead of $500.
“When we had to compromise, we made sure that … the people who made the lowest were getting the most amount of payment for this, because that’s the people who need the help the most,” Scanlon said.
“I think that we’re able to provide a very meaningful payment to a lot of workers, particularly those in the lower income brackets,” Ritter added. “That is far better than our neighboring states have done.”
Ed Hawthorne, president of the Connecticut AFL-CIO, has warned repeatedly that discounting bonuses, at the same time the state enjoys one of the largest projected budget surpluses in its history, would weaken worker morale statewide.
Hawthorne also says that pandemic bonuses shouldn’t be viewed as a need-based program but rather a benefit that workers earned by risking their lives to help society.
“It’s worth remembering that Gov. Lamont made workers essential with the stroke of his pen in March 2020,” he said.
“We couldn’t have successfully navigated the COVID pandemic without their dedicated service to our state and our communities,” Hawthorne added. “More than 155,000 essential workers were deemed eligible to receive a modest financial reward to recognize their risks and sacrifices. We are disappointed that Gov. Lamont has not seen fit to fully fund the Premium Pay program and instead excludes many, especially nurses, respiratory therapists and other health care professionals, from any meaningful recognition. I fear a $100 check will be viewed as more of an insult than recognition of a job well done.”
Sen. Julie Kushner, D-Danbury, co-chairwoman of the Labor and Public Employees Committee, predicted legislators and Lamont haven’t heard the last of what many call “hero pay” and warned them to brace for a renewed debate in January.
“It feels like we’ve forgotten them [essential workers] in large part,” said Kushner, whose panel had recommended a $750 million bonus program that would have rewarded public- and private-sector essential workers with individual grants up to $2,000.
But it also would have cost $750 million, nearly seven times the amount Lamont agreed to support for the current program. Legislative leaders also said they believe most lawmakers wouldn’t back a program that generous.
Kushner said she particularly was disappointed to see bonuses discounted of just $100 for workers who earn more than $100,000 annually.
This group could include some hospital staff who not only risked their lives and worked frequent overtime shifts but who faced emotional trauma when the death toll was at its highest.
“Many may feel more insulted than thanked by this,” Kushner said.
Rep. Tammy Nuccio, R-Tolland, said her daughter is a hospital nurse who faced those long, traumatic shifts day after day.
“My daughter has signed more death certificates than I think she ever should have had to sign at the age of 25,” Nuccio said, adding that the bonus discount “changes it beyond recognition.”
Minority Republicans in the legislature have argued Premium Pay was a poorly conceived and executed political stunt whose primary purpose was to help Democratic legislators and Lamont win reelection this fall. The GOP said the state instead should have focused on providing about $1.2 billion in sales, income and other tax cuts. Lamont and the legislature approved a $650 million relief plan.
Rep. Laura Devlin of Fairfield, who was Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob Stefanowski’s running mate this fall in their unsuccessful bid to unseat Lamont and Lt. Gov. Susan Bysiewicz, said Democrats tantalized essential workers by advertising $1,000 bonuses.
“Most will get minimal amounts,” Devlin said. “If that’s not smoke and mirrors, I don’t know what is.” | https://www.ctpublic.org/2022-11-29/ct-essential-worker-bonuses-to-be-cut-for-all-but-lowest-income | 2022-11-29 12:33:11 | 1 | https://www.ctpublic.org/2022-11-29/ct-essential-worker-bonuses-to-be-cut-for-all-but-lowest-income |
Surprise! (Again.)
Actor and producer Emmy Rossum has announced the birth of her first son with her husband, New Jersey director-producer-writer Sam Esmail.
Surprise! (Again.)
Actor and producer Emmy Rossum has announced the birth of her first son with her husband, New Jersey director-producer-writer Sam Esmail.
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Continued Momentum with Second AAA-Rated Securitization of 2022 Following Strong Business Performance
NEW YORK, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Octane® (Octane Lending Inc.®), the fintech revolutionizing the buying experience for major recreational purchases, announced that it has closed a $375 million securitization ("OCTL 2022-2") collateralized by its fixed-rate installment powersports loans. This transaction, Octane's second securitization of 2022 and sixth since launching the program in December 2019, follows a period of record-breaking success for the company.
OCTL 2022-2 issued four classes of fixed-rate notes: Class A, Class B, Class C and Class D, which Kroll Bond Rating Agency (KBRA)* and Standard & Poor's (S&P)** rated as AAA/AA(sf), AA/AA-(sf), A/A(sf), and BBB/BBB(sf), respectively in a private offering pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
Through this issuance, the company continued to diversify its investor base with new investors, which is a testament to the strength and growth of the program. Additionally, due to significant investor demand, Octane was able to secure an upsize of the transaction from an initial target issuance of $300 million to $375 million in notes. J.P. Morgan acted as lead bookrunner and structuring agent, with Credit Suisse and Truist Securities as joint bookrunners.
Steven Fernald, Chief Financial Officer at Octane, said: "Our ability to attract and retain such a diverse mix of institutional investor partners is particularly notable in the current market environment. We are grateful for their continued support, which also better positions us to connect people with their passions and make buying better through our revolutionary, end-to-end digital experience."
This issuance follows a period of consistent, strong performance for Octane. The company overcame inventory constraints and other headwinds to solidify its position as one of the top three non-captive lenders in the industry. During the first half of 2022, it increased originations by 67% year over year through its in-house lender Roadrunner Financial, Inc., and increased fundings in its consumer channel by 80% year over year. Over the same period, Octane entered two new markets, tractors and trailers, signed new OEM partnerships, and launched new products to increase the speed and ease of buying.
Octane's first asset-backed securitization of 2022, OCTL 2022-1, a $375 million transaction which closed in May, also received a AAA-rating from KBRA and was upsized from an initial $275 million target issuance. The company has completed nearly $1.9 billion of asset-backed securitizations to-date.
This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of such jurisdiction.
*KBRA's ratings are subject to all of the terms and conditions set forth in the related report and KBRA's website, which you should review and understand, and can be accessed here.
**The full analysis for S&P's ratings, including any updates, which you should review and understand, is available on standardandpoors.com and can be accessed here.
About Octane:
Octane® is revolutionizing recreational purchases by delivering a seamless, end-to-end digital buying experience. We connect people with their passions by combining cutting-edge technology and innovative risk strategies to make lifestyle purchases - including powersports vehicles and outdoor power equipment - fast, easy, and accessible.
Octane adds value throughout the customer journey: inspiring enthusiasts with our editorial brands, including Cycle World® and UTV Driver®, instantly prequalifying consumers for financing online, routing customers to dealerships for an easy closing, and supporting customers throughout their loan with superior loan servicing.
Founded in 2014, we're a remote-first company with 550+ employees and over 30 OEM and 4,000 dealer partners. Visit www.octane.co.
Contacts:
Media Relations:
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Director of Corporate Communications at Octane
Press@octane.co
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CA Sacramento CA Zone Forecast for Thursday, May 26, 2022
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620 FPUS56 KSTO 270856
ZFPSTO
Interior Northern California Zone Forecasts for California
National Weather Service Sacramento CA
155 AM PDT Fri May 27 2022
Spot temperatures and probabilities of measurable precipitation
are for today, tonight, and Saturday.
CAZ013-272300-
Shasta Lake Area / Northern Shasta County-
Including the city of Shasta Dam
155 AM PDT Fri May 27 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs 62 to 77 higher elevations...74 to
82 lower elevations. Prevailing southwest winds up to 10 mph with
gusts to around 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain showers. Colder.
Lows 41 to 55 higher elevations...51 to 60 lower elevations.
Prevailing southwest winds up to 10 mph with gusts to around
25 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain showers in the
morning, then rain showers likely and a slight chance of
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs 50 to 65 higher
elevations...63 to 71 lower elevations. Prevailing southwest
winds up to 10 mph with gusts to around 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain showers and
a slight chance of thunderstorms in the evening, then partly
cloudy with a slight chance of rain showers after midnight.
Colder. Lows 33 to 47 higher elevations...42 to 51 lower
elevations. Prevailing west winds up to 15 mph with gusts to
around 30 mph.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then clearing. A slight
chance of rain showers. Warmer. Highs 53 to 68 higher
elevations...66 to 74 lower elevations. Prevailing northwest
winds up to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 34 to 49.
.MEMORIAL DAY...Sunny, warmer. Highs 61 to 76.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Clear. Lows 40 to 55. Highs 66 to 81.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 46 to 61. Highs
74 to 89.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows 50 to 65.
Highs 74 to 89.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
SHASTA DAM 80 59 69 / 10 30 70
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CAZ014-272300-
Burney Basin / Eastern Shasta County-
Including the city of Burney
155 AM PDT Fri May 27 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs 63 to 75. Prevailing southwest
winds up to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain showers.
Lows 39 to 50. Prevailing southwest winds up to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain showers and a slight
chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs 54 to 66.
Prevailing southwest winds up to 15 mph. Gusts up to 30 mph in
the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain showers and
a slight chance of thunderstorms in the evening, then mostly
clear after midnight. Colder. Lows 30 to 41. Prevailing west
winds up to 15 mph with gusts to around 30 mph.
.SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 49 to 61 higher elevations...57 to
64 lower elevations. Prevailing northwest winds up to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 28 to 38.
.MEMORIAL DAY...Mostly sunny. Warmer. Highs 56 to 69.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Clear. Lows 34 to 43. Highs 60 to 75.
.TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 40 to
54. Highs 69 to 84.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 71 to 83.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
BURNEY 72 44 63 / 10 30 60
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CAZ015-272300-
Northern Sacramento Valley-
Including the cities of Redding and Red Bluff
155 AM PDT Fri May 27 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs 80 to 86. South winds up to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain showers.
Lows 56 to 61. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph shifting to the south
after midnight. Gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain showers in the
morning, then a chance of rain showers in the afternoon. Highs
70 to 80. South winds up to 15 mph. Gusts up to 25 mph in the
afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a chance of rain showers in
the evening, then clear after midnight. Cooler. Lows 46 to 53.
Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts to around 25 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 71 to 79. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph
with gusts to around 25 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 48 to 54.
.MEMORIAL DAY...Sunny. Highs 77 to 83.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Clear. Lows 54 to 60. Highs 79 to 89.
.TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 57 to
67. Highs 86 to 96.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 87 to 93.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
REDDING 83 58 74 / 10 20 60
RED BLUFF 85 60 79 / 10 10 40
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CAZ016-272300-
Central Sacramento Valley-
Including the cities of Chico, Oroville, and Marysville/Yuba City
155 AM PDT Fri May 27 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs 83 to 89. South winds up to 15 mph.
Gusts up to 25 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 58. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph shifting to the southeast after midnight. Gusts up to
25 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of rain showers in the
afternoon. Highs 75 to 82. South winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts to
around 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. A slight chance of rain showers
in the evening. Cooler. Lows 48 to 53. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph shifting to the northwest after midnight. Gusts up to
25 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 75 to 81. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph
with gusts to around 25 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows around 54.
.MEMORIAL DAY...Sunny. Highs 79 to 84.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 54 to 62. Highs
81 to 91.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 92 to 98.
Lows 56 to 65.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 89 to 95.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
CHICO 86 60 80 / 0 10 20
OROVILLE 85 59 79 / 0 10 10
MARYSVILLE/YUBA CITY 86 56 80 / 0 10 10
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CAZ017-272300-
Southern Sacramento Valley-
Including the city of Sacramento
155 AM PDT Fri May 27 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming partly
cloudy. Highs 79 to 87. Southwest winds up to 10 mph with gusts
to around 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows 53 to 59. South winds 10 to 15 mph
with gusts to around 25 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming mostly
sunny. Highs 74 to 82. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts to
around 25 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. A slight chance of rain showers
in the evening. Lows around 51. Southwest winds up to 15 mph with
gusts to around 25 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 74 to 82. Northwest winds up to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 48 to 56.
.MEMORIAL DAY...Sunny. Highs 78 to 84.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 50 to 60. Highs
80 to 90.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs 90 to 97.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 56 to 62.
Highs 87 to 97.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
SACRAMENTO 84 58 79 / 0 10 0
SAC EXEC AIRPORT 83 56 79 / 0 10 0
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CAZ018-272300-
Carquinez Strait and Delta-
Including the city of Fairfield/Suisun
155 AM PDT Fri May 27 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming partly
cloudy. Highs 75 to 81. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts
to around 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 56. Southwest winds 10 to
20 mph with gusts to around 30 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then clearing. Highs
71 to 77. West winds 10 to 20 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 49 to 55. West winds 10 to
20 mph. Gusts up to 30 mph in the evening.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 74 to 80. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 49 to 55.
.MEMORIAL DAY...Sunny. Highs 77 to 83.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows around 55.
Highs 80 to 86.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs 86 to 92. Lows
54 to 60.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 81 to 87.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
FAIRFIELD/SUISUN 80 54 77 / 0 10 0
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CAZ019-272300-
Northern San Joaquin Valley-
Including the cities of Stockton and Modesto
155 AM PDT Fri May 27 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming mostly
cloudy. Highs 78 to 86. Northwest winds up to 10 mph with gusts
to around 20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 53 to 59. Northwest winds up to
15 mph with gusts to around 25 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then clearing. Highs
72 to 82. Northwest winds up to 15 mph. Gusts up to 25 mph in the
afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 49 to 55. West winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts to around 25 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 72 to 80. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph
with gusts to around 25 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 47 to 55.
.MEMORIAL DAY...Sunny. Highs 74 to 84.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 50 to 60. Highs
78 to 88.
.WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs 88 to 97. Lows
53 to 63.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 84 to 94.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
STOCKTON 84 57 79 / 0 0 0
MODESTO 84 58 79 / 0 0 0
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CAZ063-272300-
Mountains Southwestern Shasta County to Western Colusa County-
Including the city of Alder Springs
155 AM PDT Fri May 27 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs 58 to 73 higher elevations...75 to
83 lower elevations. Light winds becoming southwest up to 10 mph
in the afternoon. Gusts up to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Colder. Lows 40 to 55 higher
elevations...54 to 60 lower elevations. Prevailing west winds up
to 15 mph with gusts to around 30 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain showers in
the morning, then mostly cloudy with a chance of rain showers in
the afternoon. Highs 48 to 63 higher elevations...66 to 74 lower
elevations. Prevailing southwest winds up to 15 mph with gusts to
around 30 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. A slight chance of rain showers
in the evening. Colder. Lows 32 to 46 higher elevations...46 to
52 lower elevations. Prevailing west winds 5 to 15 mph with gusts
to around 30 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 50 to 65 higher elevations...66 to
74 lower elevations. Prevailing northwest winds 5 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 37 to 52.
.MEMORIAL DAY...Sunny, warmer. Highs 59 to 74.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Clear. Lows 44 to 59. Highs 64 to 79.
.TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 51 to
66. Highs 71 to 86.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 69 to 84.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
ALDER SPRINGS 67 46 57 / 0 10 40
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CAZ066-272300-
Northeast Foothills/Sacramento Valley-
Including the city of Paradise
155 AM PDT Fri May 27 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs 69 to 82. Prevailing southwest
winds up to 10 mph. Gusts up to 25 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain showers.
Lows 50 to 60. Prevailing south winds up to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain showers and a slight
chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs 59 to 71 higher
elevations...65 to 75 lower elevations. Prevailing south winds up
to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain showers and
a slight chance of thunderstorms in the evening, then partly
cloudy with a slight chance of rain showers after midnight.
Colder. Lows 40 to 52. Prevailing southwest winds up to 10 mph in
the evening becoming light. Gusts up to 25 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs 61 to 75. Prevailing northwest winds up to
10 mph with gusts to around 25 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 42 to 54.
.MEMORIAL DAY...Sunny, warmer. Highs 68 to 80.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Clear. Lows 48 to 60. Highs 71 to 86.
.TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 54 to
68. Highs 77 to 92.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 77 to 89.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
PARADISE 75 57 68 / 0 10 20
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CAZ067-272300-
Motherlode-
Including the cities of Grass Valley and Jackson
155 AM PDT Fri May 27 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming mostly
cloudy. Highs 71 to 81. Prevailing southwest winds up to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows 50 to 56. Prevailing southwest
winds up to 10 mph in the evening becoming light.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming partly
cloudy. Highs 62 to 76. Prevailing southwest winds up to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain showers in the
evening, then a slight chance of rain showers after midnight.
Lows 44 to 52. Prevailing southwest winds up to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 63 to 75. Prevailing west winds up
to 10 mph with gusts to around 25 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 42 to 50.
.MEMORIAL DAY...Sunny. Highs 67 to 79.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Clear. Lows 47 to 55. Highs 70 to 85.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Clear. Lows 54 to 60. Highs 76 to
91.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 57 to 63.
Highs 79 to 92.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
GRASS VALLEY 74 51 67 / 0 10 10
JACKSON 77 52 71 / 0 10 0
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CAZ068-272300-
Western Plumas County/Lassen Park-
Including the cities of Chester and Quincy
155 AM PDT Fri May 27 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs 54 to 69 higher elevations...60 to
75 lower elevations. Prevailing southwest winds up to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. At higher elevations, a slight chance
of rain showers. At lower elevations, a slight chance of rain
showers after midnight. Colder. Lows 36 to 51. Prevailing
southwest winds up to 15 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain showers and a slight
chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs 44 to 59 higher
elevations...51 to 66 lower elevations. Prevailing southwest
winds up to 15 mph. Gusts up to 30 mph in the afternoon.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain showers and
a slight chance of thunderstorms in the evening, then partly
cloudy after midnight. Colder. Lows 29 to 44. Prevailing
southwest winds up to 15 mph with gusts to around 30 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 45 to 60 higher elevations...52 to
65 lower elevations. Prevailing west winds up to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 28 to 43.
.MEMORIAL DAY...Mostly sunny. Warmer. Highs 54 to 69.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Clear. Lows 35 to 50. Highs 59 to 74.
.TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 43 to
58. Highs 66 to 81.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs 65 to 80.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
QUINCY 75 44 65 / 10 10 30
CHESTER 72 42 63 / 10 10 30
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CAZ069-272300-
West Slope Northern Sierra Nevada-
Including the city of Blue Canyon
155 AM PDT Fri May 27 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs 56 to 71 higher elevations...67 to
77 lower elevations. Prevailing southwest winds up to 15 mph with
gusts to around 30 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Colder. Lows 35 to 50 higher elevations...46 to 56 lower
elevations. Prevailing south winds up to 10 mph with gusts to
around 25 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain showers in the
afternoon. Highs 45 to 60 higher elevations...56 to 68 lower
elevations. Prevailing southwest winds up to 15 mph with gusts to
around 30 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain showers and a
slight chance of thunderstorms in the evening, then a slight
chance of rain showers after midnight. Colder. Lows 27 to
42 higher elevations...40 to 48 lower elevations. Snow level
above 8000 feet. Prevailing southwest winds up to 15 mph with
gusts to around 30 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 44 to 59 higher elevations...57 to
67 lower elevations. Prevailing west winds up to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 29 to 44.
.MEMORIAL DAY...Mostly sunny. Warmer. Highs 52 to 67.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Clear. Lows 34 to 49. Highs 57 to 72.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Clear. Lows 40 to 55. Highs 64 to
79.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 43 to 58.
Highs 66 to 81.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
BLUE CANYON 66 47 55 / 10 10 10
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans are processing the nightmare of the slaughter of children in Texas, the racist murders in Buffalo, New York, and the other numbingly repeated scenes of carnage in the United States.
They’re contending with what feels like highway robbery at the gas pump, they’re nagged by a virus that the world can’t shake, and they’re split into two hostile camps over politics and culture — the twin pillars of the nation’s foundation.
They’ve already been through two set-piece dramas of presidential impeachment — indeed, through the wringer on all things Donald Trump.
Now, beginning in prime time on Thursday, the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol is setting out to establish the historical record of an event damaging not only to a community or individual families but to the collective idea of democracy itself.
After more than 100 subpoenas, 1,000 interviews and 100,000 documents, the committee has a story to tell in hearings that open this week. A story for the ages, it’s been said.
The open question: How much will the country care?
The committee’s examination of the actions of Trump and all the president’s men and women, more aggressive than any inquiry before it, has produced a multitude of plot lines that together will tell the tale of a violent uprising fueled by the venom and lies of a defeated president.
Many Republicans, even those who condemned Trump and the violence in the moment, have adopted a “nothing more to see here” posture since, even rejecting calls for an independent Sept. 11-style commission to investigate.
An entire disinformation ecosystem sprung up with utterly false claims about the nature and character of the attack. Rather than condemn the attack, Trump continues to insist his defeat by 7 million votes should be overturned, in effect validating the rioters’ cause.
Dozens of the insurrectionists have been brought to justice, many of them being convicted or pleading guilty to serious crimes. But the committee’s goal is larger: Who in a position of power should also be held to account?
There are endless ribbons of inquiry.
Did Vice President Mike Pence refuse to leave the besieged Capitol because he suspected the Secret Service, at the behest of Trump, was trying to take him away to stop him from certifying Democrat Joe Biden’s victory? Did Trump flush incriminating papers down the White House toilet?
How to explain the gap of more than seven hours in White House telephone logs of Trump’s calls during the insurrection? Will it stand in history alongside the infamous 18 1/2-minute hole in President Richard Nixon’s secret White House recording system in 1972?
The Watergate affair, which exposed Nixon’s cover-up of politically motivated criminal acts and destroyed his presidency, centered on a question posed by a Republican senator, Howard Baker, in a Tennessee drawl: “What did the president know, and when did he know it?”
For the Jan. 6 committee, the key question about Trump’s involvement in the insurrection is: What did the president do, and when did he do it?
One aim is to establish whether Trump’s acts are criminal, as one judge has mused they may be, and whether that would prompt a politically fraught Justice Department prosecution of an ex-president.
More broadly, the effort addresses who might be punished in the large circle of Trump enablers. Some of them are members of Congress who helped him plot how to try to overturn an honest election only to huddle in fear with everyone else in a Capitol hideout when the rioters — in service of that plot — swarmed the marbled corridors of power Jan. 6, 2021.
The prime-time setting for the committee hearing is a rarity and something of a throwback to an era when people gathered en masse at their televisions in the evening before video streaming atomized viewership.
Rep. Jamie Raskin, a Maryland Democrat on the committee, set expectations that may be hard to live up to as the committee tries to renew the interest of this short-attention-span country in machinations that are nearly 18 months in the rearview mirror.
The hazards in that mirror are closer than they appear, as committee members see it.
“The hearings will tell a story that will really blow the roof off the House,” Raskin said in April. “Because it is a story of the most heinous and dastardly political offense ever organized by a president and his followers and his entourage in the history of the United States.”
That offense? In short, he told a Washington forum, “an inside coup” coupled with a violent attack by “neo-fascists.”
Trump is not expected at any of the hearings, but his words and actions will hang heavy over the proceedings as lawmakers look to place him at the center of the chaos. It seems highly plausible that he will find a way to rail against them that does not involve being under oath.
The committee almost certainly will look to draw a tight connection between Trump’s vociferous rejections of the election results and his Jan. 6 rally outside the White House sending the angry crowd off to Capitol Hill.
Free from the burden of proof beyond a reasonable doubt, committee members are likely to try to show that the riot that ravaged the Capitol was not a spontaneous gathering but part of a broader conspiracy and a natural outgrowth of weeks of denunciations of democratic processes.
Biden framed Jan. 6 and its aftermath in existential terms about the threat posed to democracy. It’s a “battle for the soul of America,” he said. But a president can only have one No. 1 priority at a time, and this isn’t his. Time and again, he’s said it’s inflation.
Whatever revelations the hearings may produce, much is already known because the attack played out on screens large and small in real time, and Trump exhorted supporters to “fight like hell” in shouts for the world to hear.
“In quieter times, the hearings would have a stronger hold on public attention,” said Kathleen Hall Jamieson, director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania and an authority on political communications. “But, as is, they will be competing for attention with topics with greater immediate relevance in our lives.”
Hungry babies lacking formula. Soaring prices for gas and groceries. Rising COVID-19 hospitalization among the vaccinated. The scenes of destruction in Ukraine and the threat that the Russian invasion will escalate to include use of nuclear weapons. And there’s monkeypox.
“To say nothing of summer vacation,” Jamieson added.
“If the hearings are to do anything other than reinforce our existing political biases,” she said, “they will have to reveal previously covered-up goings-on that threatened something that Democrats, independents and most Republicans can agree should be sacrosanct.”
Some of the inquiry’s juicy bits are out already. Text messages and emails, thought to be private when sent, have become public, including from chief of staff Mark Meadows.
But the committee has been sitting on much more information and will have tens of thousands of exhibits and hundreds of witnesses, said Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, the committee chairman.
Seven Democrats and two Republicans — both shunned by their party — make up the committee. Among them the stakes are surely highest for Rep. Liz Cheney, the deeply conservative but fiercely independent Wyoming lawmaker who is practically alone in the GOP in assailing Trump while also seeking reelection to Congress.
Daughter of a vice president and once an embodiment of the Republican establishment, she is now a renegade in a new order dominated by Trump, who wants her unseated in her primary in August.
That new order became ever clearer in February, when the Republican Party censured Cheney and the committee’s other Republican, Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger, who’s not seeking reelection, for taking part in the inquiry. The party adopted a resolution saying the witnesses summoned by the committee for their actions on and around Jan. 6 had only been engaging in “legitimate political discourse.”
Matthew Delmont, a Dartmouth College history professor specializing in Black history, said Jan. 6 cast such an ominous shadow that he expects people in the United States, for all of their other pressing preoccupations, to be drawn to the inquiry.
“I think people will watch the Jan. 6 hearings because they want to understand how our democracy reached this precipice,” he said. “I don’t know how many people will be willing to hear the evidence that will be presented, but I think it is important for the findings to be shared openly so people today and in the future can appreciate what happened.”
Jan. 6 shares certain distinctions with other past agonies. As with 9/11, you can shorthand the date, Jan. 6, and people know. Like Watergate, it speaks to corrupt acts in the highest office. As with the Challenger space shuttle explosion and 9/11 and more, the scene brought so much visceral shock that many people remember where they were and what they were doing when they saw it.
As far as the far right is concerned, the historical analogy is the Boston Tea Party, with liberals, Democrats and the Washington establishment as the redcoats.
Trump-friendly Republicans sanitized what happened that day, once the shock that nearly all felt on Jan. 6 subsided. In measurements of public opinion, Republican voters in the main said they believe the 2020 election was rigged, when by absolutely all measures — the courts, nonpartisan and even Republican state officials, and the Trump administration’s own election monitors, including his attorney general — the election was purely fair.
A year later, the patently violent uprising was remembered as very or extremely violent by fewer than 4 in 10 Republicans polled, compared with almost 9 in 10 Democrats.
Even so, there were signs in the latest Republican primaries for the 2022 midterms that Trump’s obsession about getting fired by the voters all those months ago is wearing thin even with them.
Trump won the 2016 election with a minority of voters, lost the House to the Democrats in 2018 and lost in 2020 by a decisive margin — not a glowing electoral record.
Still he holds sway over his party, thanks to supporters whose loyalty seems immovable. Unswayed by facts throughout the fight to discredit and upend Biden’s election, they won’t be easily dislodged by a congressional committee’s revelations.
Through Trump’s presidency, audacious falsehoods and elaborate exaggerations were the order of the day. But Trump, at times, had a knack for speaking a larger truth that penetrated his fog of hyperbole and misinformation.
So it was with his comment in Iowa in January 2016, en route to the Republican nomination. The comment foretells that even if the Jan. 6 committee manages to “blow the roof off the House,” Trump may remain golden with millions who love him.
“I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters, OK?” Trump said then. “It’s, like, incredible.”
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Associated Press writer Eric Tucker contributed to this report.
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LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry’s historic showdown Tuesday with the publisher of a British tabloid exposed his deep suspicions of the press but offered little concrete evidence to support accusations of phone hacking that he said caused so much anguish in his life.
The Duke of Sussex became the first senior member of the royal family to testify in more than a century as he held a Bible in his right hand and, in a soft voice, swore to tell the “whole truth and nothing but the truth” in the High Court in London.
Harry accuses the publisher of the Daily Mirror of using unlawful techniques on an “industrial scale” to score front-page scoops on his life.
Dressed in a dark suit and tie as he sat in the witness box, Harry told Mirror Group Newspapers attorney Andrew Green that he had “experienced hostility from the press since I was born.” The prince accused the tabloids of playing “a destructive role in my growing-up.”
Green apologized for the one instance Mirror Group has admitted to hiring a private investigator to dig up dirt on Harry, which was not among the claims he has brought. Mirror Group denies or doesn’t admit his other allegations.
Green acknowledged that the duke had “lived a life of tabloid life intrusion,” and then in a sympathetic tone set about dismantling his case.
Taken back in time to his 12th birthday and onward through early adulthood, he was confronted with articles that he has complained about and asked to identify the source of wrongdoing by Mirror Groups’s journalists.
Harry was forced almost immediately to acknowledge that he wasn’t certain he read the 33 specific articles about him when they were published.
“Is it realistic, when you have been the subject of so much press intrusion by so many press, both domestic and international, to attribute specific distress to a particular article from 20 years ago, which you may not have seen at the time?” Green asked.
“It isn’t a specific article; it is all of the articles,” Harry said. “Every single article has caused me distress.”
He suggested the articles were the result of phone hacking or some other unlawful information gathering method that “desperate journalists” relied on for any news nugget about his life.
The 38-year-old son of King Charles III is the first senior British royal since the 19th century to face questioning in a court. An ancestor, the future King Edward VII, appeared as a witness in a trial over a gambling scandal in 1891.
Harry has said the royal family avoided legal entanglements to prevent having to be put in the witness box.
The case dates from 1996 to 2011 — a period when phone hacking by tabloid journalists was later discovered to have been widespread. It led to revelations of more intrusive means such as phone tapping, home bugging and using deception to obtain flight information and medical records.
Harry’s fury at the U.K. press runs through his memoir, “Spare.” He blames paparazzi for causing the car crash that killed his mother, and said intrusion by the U.K. press, including allegedly racist articles, led him and his wife, Meghan, to flee to the U.S. in 2020 and leave royal life behind.
When pressed to be specific about what information had been illegally harvested, Harry repeatedly told the lawyer that the source of information in stories was “highly suspicious” or that he should ask the reporter who wrote the article.
He said some of the journalists had been known for hacking or that there were invoices to third parties, including private investigators known for snooping, around the time of the articles. He suggested other records had been destroyed.
Time and again, as Green laid out evidence to the contrary and what was described by Harry as a nefarious act had a more innocent explanation.
The source of a 1996 story that mentioned how badly he was taking his parents’ divorce appeared to have come from public comments his mother, the late Princess Diana, had given to reporters.
Information about his 18th birthday came from his own mouth and, apparently, palace press people who set up an interview with him and the Press Association, which was widely used or quoted in many papers, including the Daily Mirror.
A Daily Mirror story headlined “Snap, Harry breaks thumb like William” in 2000 came from a spokesperson at his father’s office, which had given the Press Association the news the day before.
Harry remained steadfast that the paper’s former royal editor, Jane Kerr, who is due to testify Wednesday, relied on some unlawful means to report the story.
“Probably herself or she got someone else to do her dirty work for her,” he said.
When asked whose phone she hacked, Harry suggested it could have been the doctor’s.
“Are you not in the realms of total speculation?” Green said.
“No, I do not believe so,” Harry said.
Harry said the articles caused him to become depressed and paranoid, distrustful of friends, who he feared were feeding information to the media. His circle of friends shrank, relationships fell apart and he felt constantly in the glare of the journalists who were shaping the narrative of his life.
“I genuinely feel that in every relationship that I’ve ever had — be that with friends, girlfriends, with family or with the army, there’s always been a third party involved, namely the tabloid press,” Harry said in a written witness statement released Tuesday.
Setting out the prince’s case, his lawyer, David Sherborne, said Monday that from Harry’s childhood, British newspapers used skullduggery to cover all facets of his life — from school injuries to experimenting with marijuana and cocaine, to ups and downs with girlfriends.
“Nothing was sacrosanct or out of bounds” for the tabloids, the lawyer said.
Green said Monday that there was “simply no evidence capable of supporting the finding that the Duke of Sussex was hacked, let alone on a habitual basis.”
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In a rare move for the famous video game publisher, Nintendo acknowledged fans’ and critics’ complaints regarding performance issues in “Pokémon Scarlet” and “Violet” Wednesday, tweeting that it takes player feedback “seriously” and is working on improvements to the game.
A software update for #PokemonScarletViolet (Ver. 1.1.0) will be released on 12/1. Please visit our website for more information: https://t.co/4kh6Dtui4c
— Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) December 1, 2022
We take the feedback from players seriously, and will continue to work on improvements to the games.
“We are aware that players may encounter issues that affect the games’ performance,” wrote Nintendo in the update’s patch notes. “Our goal is always to give players a positive experience with our games, and we apologize for the inconvenience.”
Despite releasing patches for previous mainline games, Nintendo typically does not directly address feedback, and tends to focus patches more on outright glitches than broad game performance issues.
“Pokémon Scarlet” and “Violet,” released Nov. 18, are the series’ first fully open-world effort. The game’s developer, Game Freak, also released “Legends Arceus” earlier in 2022; then, too, Pokéfans pointed to the game’s performance issues and graphical shortcomings as one of its bigger weaknesses.
“Scarlet” and “Violet,” however, took those issues to a whole new level, spawning a frenzy of social media posts showcasing the disappointing — and often hilarious — bugs and glitches encountered in-game.
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— よ (@t_a_b_e_r_u) November 18, 2022
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— 世界のワダイ！@最多情報源バスニュース (@world_buzz_news) November 20, 2022
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— Kraken Mare (@KrakenMare77) November 18, 2022
The slew of social clips did not appear to change Nintendo and developer Game Freak’s patch schedule; “Arceus” received its first substantial patch at approximately the same time. But while previous game entries’ official patch notes contain specific changes made within each update, “Scarlet” and “Violet’s” patch notes simply state that “other select bug fixes have been made,” suggesting a higher-than-usual volume of updates.
It remains to be seen what precisely has been affected by the patch.
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Puffy, dark skin under the eyes is incredibly frustrating to deal with — and those of us who suffer from this will go to great lengths to get rid of the problem so as not to look older and tired. That’s why we seek out eye cream for dark circles.
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WYLIE, Texas — Fundraisers on sites like GoFundMe are common now for families in dire need: medical emergencies, family disasters and funerals.
One North Texas family is also asking you to consider the value of helping them create one final good memory.
At a home in Wylie, the one with a rusting white van parked outside, you can find 17-year-old Weston Groff playing his favorite video game: Red Dead Redemption II.
The unintended irony - Weston is in a race against the end of his game too.
"And what is his understanding of all of that?” WFAA reporter Kevin Reece asked his mom Sandy Groff.
“Everything,” she said.
Everything, his mom says, of a doctor's diagnosis.
"Yes, it is terminal,” she said.
It’s called Friedreich's ataxia, an inherited nerve disorder. The effects can be much like ALS or muscular dystrophy.
"One doctor told Weston several years ago that he wasn't going to live to his 18th birthday, which is this year,” Groff said.
"So he's sort of put that time stamp on the bottom of his foot, and I just keep telling him there's no expiration stamp on the bottom of your foot. Doctors don't know everything. You make life what you make out of it."
And to make more of his life, Weston decided he needed a bucket list. And, he agreed to openly talk about it.
"How difficult is it to have these problems?” Reece asked him.
“Like 7 out of 10,” he said while seated in his motorized wheelchair. “Miserable some days. Some days it's alright. Just depends on the day I guess."
With however many days he does have left, he told his mom he wants to see the Grand Canyon; he wants to have a margarita party on his 21st birthday if he makes it that far.
But money is tight. That rusted white van might not get them there.
So, that's why Weston's mom started a GoFundMe: Weston's Bucket List. A few dollars to help them rack up a few more memories.
"I just want to make him happy. I just want him to smile, just to see him light up and make them all smile,” his mom said.
"I think it's important to her, as much as it is to me,” said Weston.
"We don't know if he's going to live that long. But to have those goals is something to look forward to and not just look forward to… death,” his mom said.
So, with a little help, the Groffs, including Weston's support dog Cosmo, will hit the road and tally one more family adventure.
Another reason for Weston to love his mom?
"How would you rate her on one to ten of being a mom?” Reece asked him.
"10 out of 10,” he said with a laugh.
"Well when she's sitting right next to me, it kinda [sic] has to be good,” he said, as he smiled.
And a good memory is what they’re hoping will be possible, wherever the road takes them next.
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WASHINGTON, June 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Asia Group ("TAG") is excited to announce changes to its corporate leadership that will further advance the firm's mission of developing an industry-leading strategic and business advisory consultancy for companies in the Indo-Pacific region.
Mr. Rexon Y. Ryu will become President of The Asia Group and work closely with CEO Nirav Patel to guide the firm's strategic direction and continued growth. A leading expert on U.S. national security and Indo-Pacific alliances and partnerships, Rexon will continue to lead TAG's practices on aerospace & defense and South Korea, chair The Asia Group Foundation, and co-host the Tea Leaves podcast with Bloomberg's Shery Ahn.
"Rexon's exceptional leadership across the firm and commitment to helping clients unlock opportunities will serve us well as we write a new and exciting chapter for The Asia Group," said TAG CEO and Co-Founder Nirav Patel. "In nearly seven years at TAG, Rexon has helped drive strategic defense sales across Asia. In addition to his seasoned strategic counsel for our corporate clients, Rexon's network spans business and governments across the world and brings an unrivaled depth of connectivity to The Asia Group."
Rexon Y. Ryu draws on over two decades of experience working in business, global diplomacy, national policymaking, and executive leadership to provide companies with in-depth strategic guidance to effectively navigate the Indo-Pacific. Rexon previously served under three presidents, as Chief of Staff to Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, and as a foreign policy advisor in the U.S. Senate.
Ambassador Kurt Tong, a prominent authority on diplomacy and economic affairs in East Asia, will become Managing Partner of The Asia Group. Alongside this role, Kurt will continue to lead the firm's Japan and Hong Kong practices, assist with its China and region-wide work, spearhead TAG's innovative thought leadership programs, and serve as a Director on The Asia Group Foundation Board.
"Kurt constantly redefines the standard for excellence in delivering insight and analysis to discerning observers of Asia," said Nirav. "His decades of high-level experience bring unmatched capabilities as we expand our presence across the Indo-Pacific and drive forward an integrated client servicing approach that pairs global strategy with local solutions."
Ambassador Kurt Tong brings thirty years of experience in the Department of State as a career Foreign Service Officer, most recently serving as Consul General and Chief of Mission in Hong Kong and Deputy Chief of Mission in Tokyo. Kurt played vital leadership roles as one of the original architects of the Trans-Pacific Partnership and U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement, and a key negotiator of the Six-Party Talks with North Korea.
The Asia Group is the premier strategic and business advisory firm to the world's leading companies seeking to excel across the Indo-Pacific. With a team of dynamic and experienced professionals – from consultants and former senior government officials to lawyers and investment bankers – The Asia Group supports companies with end-to-end integrated strategies for market entry and expansion. To learn more about The Asia Group, please visit www.theasiagroup.com or reach out to media@theasiagroup.com.
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GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas, April 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Colorado State University's AgNext and regional dairy council Dairy MAX have announced a strategic alliance as part of a continued commitment to improve sustainability in animal agriculture. The collaboration with Dairy MAX marks AgNext's first official commitment from the dairy industry. Dairy MAX has agreed to support strategic initiatives of the AgNext program, continuing its work of advancing sustainable dairy production and raising up the next generation.
"We are excited to work collaboratively with Dairy MAX and its farmers on the advancement of cutting-edge technology development and innovative management strategies that continue driving the dairy industry toward sustainable outcomes," said Dr. Kim Stackhouse-Lawson, AgNext director.
As part of this alliance, Dairy MAX joins a group of diverse, world-class researchers charged with finding sustainable solutions through processes that are practical for dairy farmers, and ethically valued by consumers.
Ensuring the animals receive exceptional care, along with strengthening industry sustainability for future generations, have been dairy farmers' top priorities for many years. Dairy MAX, a nonprofit regional dairy council representing more than 900 dairy farmers, has utilized various avenues to educate and share this message through farming, education, business development and health and wellness.
"This collaboration, and our belief and support of the AgNext program, highlights the value Dairy MAX places on the pursuit of knowledge and advancing the sustainability and resiliency of dairy farming," stated Marty McKinzie, Dairy MAX's chief growth officer. "The data and research collected through this program will support protecting the environment for all and ensure a future for dairy farmers to continue providing unmatched nutrition in dairy products with minimal environmental impact."
Dairy farming has always adapted and evolved with a focus on sustainability and environmental stewardship. The combined efforts of AgNext and Dairy MAX highlight how progressive the agriculture industry is – working to protect and improve the environment through conservation and sustainable practices.
"AgNext is positioned and ready to lead animal agriculture toward the discovery of sustainable solutions that are applicable for farmers based on their operational needs, are considerate of regional variability between operations and enhance profitability for farmers," said Stackhouse-Lawson. "The AgNext research team is thrilled to join together with Dairy MAX and share in the commitment to sustainability in dairy systems."
AgNext and Dairy MAX will work collaboratively to advance the health and sustainability of the entire value chain to improve food security and create stronger communities.
To learn more about sustainability efforts from AgNext and Dairy MAX, visit AgNext.colostate.edu and DairyDiscoveryZone.com/sustainability.
About AgNext
AgNext is a leader for research in animal and ecosystem health while enhancing profitability of the supply chain and serves as the crossroads for producers, industry partners, and researchers to come together to innovate real time solutions for sustainability animal agriculture. Our research focuses on advancing the science of animal agriculture to ensure a continued safe, secure, and nutritious food supply. Our mission is to identify and scale innovation that fosters the health of animals and ecosystems to promote profitable industries that support vibrant communities. Learn more at agnext.colostate.edu.
About Dairy MAX
Founded more than 40 years ago, Dairy MAX is one of the leading regional dairy councils in America – representing more than 900 dairy farmers and serving communities in eight states: Colorado, southwest Kansas, Louisiana, Montana, New Mexico, western Oklahoma, Texas and Wyoming. A nonprofit organization, Dairy MAX is part of a nationwide effort to promote American agriculture, support dairy farming and drive impact for every dairy farmer. The organization operates five audience outreach programs: business development, consumer marketing, health and wellness, industry image and relations and school marketing. For more information about Dairy MAX and its team of experts, visit DairyMAX.org. Dairy resources and delicious recipes are available at DairyDiscoveryZone.com.
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A Pennsylvania man pleaded guilty on Monday to attacking police officers and an Associated Press photographer during the Jan. 6, 2021 riot on the U.S. Capitol.
In a deal with prosecutors, Alan Byerly, 55, admitted to wielding a stun gun while confronting officers who were trying to protect the Capitol from the angry mob. He also admitted to assaulting AP photographer John Minchillo, who was documenting the chaos and violence outside the building where lawmakers were meeting to certify President Joe Biden’s election victory.
In exchange for pleading guilty to two charges stemming from the attacks, prosecutors agreed to drop several other charges Byerly was facing, including civil disorder. An attorney for Byerly declined to comment Monday.
Federal guidelines recommend a sentence between about three and four years behind bars, U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss said. Byerly, of Fleetwood, is scheduled to be sentenced in October.
Byerly, who was arrested last year, is among three people who have been charged with assaulting Minchillo, who was wearing a helmet-style gas mask when he was pushed, pulled and punched by a group of men outside the Capitol. The assault was captured on video by a colleague.
Byerly was seen on camera standing behind a group of people who pulled Minchillo backward down a set of stairs leading up to the western front of the Capitol building, according to charging documents.
At the bottom of the stairs, Byerly and three other people grabbed the photographer and pushed, shoved and dragged him, authorities say. Byerly grabbed Minchillo with both hands and pushed him backwards before continuing to push and drag him away from the stairs, prosecutors say.
Minchillo found himself backed up against a stone wall by the attackers. Authorities say another man, Benjamen Scott Burlew of Miami, Oklahoma, lunged toward the photographer and shoved him over the wall, causing Minchillo to land on his back. Burlew was arrested last August and is scheduled to go to trial in October.
A third man charged in the assault was arrested in May. Rodney Milstreed is accused of grabbing Minchillo by his backpack and pulling him backward down the stairs and then shoving him. In a Facebook post a few days later, Milstreed said attacking the photographer was “worth it,” adding “Hit him with everything god give. The crowd cheered,” according to the court papers.
Authorities say shortly after assaulting Minchillo, Byerly approached police officers standing behind a row of bike racks who were trying to hold back the pro-Trump mob. Byerly approached the officers while holding up a stun gun and activated the weapon, but police were able to knock it out of his hand, prosecutors say.
Byerly continued to charge at the officers, striking and pushing them, and grabbed one officer’s baton, authorities said. Officers were eventually able to restrain Byerly, but he got away with the help of another rioter, according to charging documents.
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Scottie Scheffler held onto the lead Saturday at the WM Phoenix Open in a bid to successfully defend his title and regain the No. 1 spot in the world.
The second-ranked Scheffler shot a 3-under 68 in front of some 200,000 fans — including WNBA star Brittney Griner — at TPC Scottsdale to get to 13 under, two strokes ahead of third-ranked Jon Rahm and Nick Taylor.
“Something I talked about at the beginning of the week was I felt like I’ve been on the outside looking in on Sundays,” Scheffler said. “To be in the final group with a two-shot lead, I believe, is definitely a position I want to be in. I’m looking forward to tomorrow.”
Rahm also had a 68, holing a curling 40-footer for birdie on the stadium 16th for his third birdie in four holes.
“A couple of swings that weren’t that bad put me in some bad situations,” Rahm said. “I was able to scramble really well.”
Griner watched the action on rowdy 16th. The Phoenix Mercury center is spending time at home to recover from her time in a Russian jail. She was traded in a dramatic prisoner swap in December.
Taylor shot 67.
“It’s fun being in this environment,” Taylor said. “I think if you’re not having fun, you probably shouldn’t be doing what we’re doing. It’s a lot of fun.”
Scheffler would take the No. 1 spot from Rory McIlroy — tied for 28th at 3 under after a 70 — with a victory, as long as McIlroy finishes worse than solo third. Scheffler also could get to No. 1 by finishing solo second if McIlroy is 36th or worse and Rahm doesn’t win.
Rahm, the former Arizona State star from Spain, would go to No. 1 with a victory if McIlroy finishes worse than a three-way tie for second, or by finishing solo second if McIlroy finishes worse than solo 47th and Scheffler doesn’t win.
Jordan Spieth and Adam Hadwin were 10 under.
Speith had the best score in the delayed second round, finishing off a 63 in the morning. He added a 69 in the third round, highlighted by a 77-yard bunker shot to 3 feet to set up a birdie on the par-4 17th.
“I could drop a bucket of balls and not hit another one inside of 10 feet,” Spieth said. “I feel like a strength of my game is those kind of in-between bunker shots that are normally some of the most challenging shots in golf. For whatever reason I just feel comfortable in the uncomfortable in those kind of situations.”
Hadwin had a 71, playing in the final group with Scheffler and Rahm. He hit to 1 1/2 feet for birdie on the 16th, the closest of the round on the par-3 hole on the final tee shot of the day.
In the morning, Hadwin — on the 11th green Friday when second-round play was suspended because of darkness — finished off his second straight 66 for a share of the lead with Scheffler at 10 under.
Last year, Scheffler beat Patrick Cantlay in a playoff for his first PGA Tour title. Scheffler added victories in the Arnold Palmer Invitational, WGC-Match Play and Masters and was the PGA Tour’s player of the year.
The 26-year-old Texan followed a bogey on the par-5 13th — his first bogey since his fourth hole Thursday — with a birdie on the par-4 14th, hitting a 5-iron shot 210 yards to 4 feet. He also birdied the 17h.
“Feel good,” Scheffler said. “I didn’t hit it as well today as I hoped to. But still got around in 3 under. Kept the ball in play for the most part. Just kept plugging along. Only one bogey was good today.”
He went to the driving range after the round.
“I just wanted to hit a couple drivers, a couple irons,” Scheffler said. “Nothing specific. I hit about five balls and five putts and came back here.”
Rahm opened the year with consecutive victories in the Sentry Tournament of Champions and The American Express.
“Hopefully, tomorrow I can get off a better start, play a good front nine and go into that back nine with a solid chance of getting it done,” Rahm said.
Rickie Fowler, the 2019 winner, had a 67 to join Tyrrell Hatton (67), Sungjae Im (67), Jason Day (68) and Xander Schauffele (70) at 9 under. Schauffele bogeyed Nos. 15 and 16.
“Just managing our way around,” Fowler said. “Obviously, I know I can play well at this place. Love the atmosphere. Love the fans. So, trying to draw from them as much as I can.”
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