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BEIJING, April 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- 36Kr Holdings Inc. ("36Kr" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: KRKR), a prominent brand and pioneering platform dedicated to serving New Economy participants in China, today announced the launch of a new automotive content matrix comprising "Future Auto Daily", "PowerOn", and "36Kr Auto". Building on its deep insights and rich experience throughout the industry value chain, the Company will continue to focus on China's transforming automotive sector.
At the 12th Shanghai International Automobile Industry Exhibition that has just opened, 36Kr provided in-depth first-hand coverage spanning from the exhibition venue to new models, participating companies, key personalities, and influencers while also officially unveiling its new automotive content portfolio, including the public WeChat accounts of "Future Auto Daily", "PowerOn", and the WeChat Video Account of "36Kr Auto". The matrix encompasses a broad array of content programs, such as original stories, in-depth reporting, automotive product tests, and interviews. Through these programs, 36Kr will provide brand building, short-form video customization, and shooting and production services to automotive clients. Meanwhile, the Company will work with traditional auto manufacturers, along with auto supply chain, battery, and smart system companies, to jointly explore the development of the automotive industry, better serving China's New Economy participants.
With the rapid development and rise of the global new energy vehicle and smart vehicle markets, technological upgrades and breakthrough innovation will become the latest trend in China's automotive industry. The launch of 36Kr's new automotive content portfolio will lay a solid foundation for solidifying the Company's presence in the automotive sector, exploring immense advancement opportunities to strengthen growth momentum further and unlocking greater enterprise value.
About 36Kr Holdings Inc.
36Kr Holdings Inc. is a prominent brand and a pioneering platform dedicated to serving New Economy participants in China with the mission of empowering New Economy participants to achieve more. The Company started its business with high-quality New Economy-focused content offerings, covering a variety of industries in China's New Economy with diverse distribution channels. Leveraging traffic brought by high-quality content, the Company has expanded its offerings to business services, including online advertising services, enterprise value-added services, and subscription services, to address the evolving needs of New Economy companies and upgrading needs of traditional companies. The Company is supported by a comprehensive database and strong data analytics capabilities. Through diverse service offerings and significant brand influence, the Company is well-positioned to continuously capture the high growth potential of China's New Economy.
For more information, please visit: http://ir.36kr.com.
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This announcement contains forward-looking statements. These statements are made under the "safe harbor" provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements can be identified by terminology such as "will," "expects," "anticipates," "future," "intends," "plans," "believes," "estimates," "confident" and similar statements. Statements that are not historical facts, including statements about the Company's beliefs and expectations, are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve inherent risks and uncertainties. A number of factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statement, including but not limited to the following: the Company's goal and strategies; the Company's future business development, results of operations and financial condition; relevant government policies and regulations relating to our business and industry; the Company's expectations regarding the use of proceeds from this offering; the Company's expectations regarding demand for, and market acceptance of, its services; the Company's ability to maintain and enhance its brand; the Company's ability to provide high-quality content in a timely manner to attract and retain users; the Company's ability to retain and hire quality in-house writers and editors; the Company's ability to maintain cooperation with third-party professional content providers; the Company's ability to maintain relationships with third-party platforms; general economic and business conditions in China; possible disruptions in commercial activities caused by natural or human-induced disasters; and assumptions underlying or related to any of the foregoing. Further information regarding these and other risks is included in the Company's filings with the SEC. All information provided in this press release and in the attachments is as of the date of this press release, and the Company undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statement, except as required under applicable law.
For investor and media inquiries, please contact:
In China:
36Kr Holdings Inc.
Investor Relations
Tel: +86 (10) 5825-4188
E-mail: ir@36kr.com
The Piacente Group, Inc.
Jenny Cai
Tel: +86 (10) 6508-0677
E-mail: 36Kr@tpg-ir.com
In the United States:
The Piacente Group, Inc.
Brandi Piacente
Tel: +1-212-481-2050
E-mail: 36Kr@tpg-ir.com
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LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A group is accused of cheating over several days at a Las Vegas Strip casino, netting more than $200,000 in a dice sliding scheme, documents investigators at Nexstar’s KLAS obtained Thursday said.
The alleged cheating incidents happened at The Cosmopolitan in November and December 2021, involving an estimated loss of more than $225,000, investigators with the Nevada Gaming Control Board said.
Investigators learned “the cheating involved multiple suspects and occurred on the Azure Roll to Win Electronic Craps table,” documents said. The game “is an electronic version of the game of craps,” according to investigators.
“The cheating method involved dice sliding and sliding occurs when the shooter slides one or both dice across the table in order to prevent the cubes from rolling,” the documents said. “The dice will be in the same position as they started, allowing the shooter to control the outcome of the game.”
Investigators with the gaming board also determined the alleged dice-cheating incidents may have also occurred at Resorts World during the same time frame, documents said.
The gaming board’s investigation determined a group of people – Antcharaporn Kamonlert, Hau Ngo, Max Rappoport and Oscar Rodriguez – were “observed both together on the table and away from it, during and after fraudulent dice sliding activities occurred.” All four face several cheating-related charges and are connected to one criminal case, records showed.
“Before illegally sliding the dice [one person whose name is redacted in court documents] would signal the other by placing single wagers in a circle motion around the main screen [wagers],” documents said.
Gaming board investigators identified the suspects through surveillance video and their players’ club cards, documents said.
Over the course of six days in 2021, the group allegedly obtained more than $226,000 through the illegal dice method, documents said.
Judges released all four defendants on their own recognizance. A preliminary hearing was scheduled in Las Vegas Justice Court for June 1. | https://www.localsyr.com/news/national/group-accused-in-225k-dice-sliding-cheating-scheme-at-las-vegas-casino/ | 2023-05-26 01:45:16 | 1 | https://www.localsyr.com/news/national/group-accused-in-225k-dice-sliding-cheating-scheme-at-las-vegas-casino/ |
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump said Monday he will be making a “big announcement” next week as he teased a third presidential run while campaigning on the eve of the final day of voting in this year’s midterm elections.
“I’m going to be making a very big announcement on Tuesday, Nov. 15 at Mar-a-Lago,” Trump said before a cheering crowd in Vandalia, Ohio, Monday night, where he was holding his final rally of the midterm season to bolster Senate candidate JD Vance.
Trump explained that he wanted “nothing to detract from the importance of tomorrow,” even after he had sparked a frantic effort to hold him off after he had told people he was considering officially launching his next campaign Monday night at the rally.
Trump has been increasingly explicit about his plans to seek another term, saying in recent days that he would “very, very, very probably” run again and would be formalizing his intentions “very, very soon.”
“I will probably have to do it again but stay tuned,” he said Sunday night in Miami. “Stay tuned to tomorrow night in the great state of Ohio.”
Republican officials and some people in Trump’s orbit had been urging him for months to wait until after the midterms were over to launch, in part to avoid turning the election into a referendum on him and to shield him from potential blame should Republicans not do as well as the party hopes on Tuesday.
But Trump has been eager to move forward, hoping to piggyback off expected Republican wins after endorsing nearly 300 candidates, as well as to stave off potential challengers like Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and others who have indicated they will run. Indeed, the date of Trump’s announcement — Nov. 15 — is the same day former Vice President Mike Pence will be releasing a book that is seen as part of his own potential campaign rollout.
Trump’s announcement comes as he confronts a series of escalating legal challenges, including several investigations that could lead to indictments. They include the probe into hundreds of documents with classified markings that were seized by the FBI from his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida, as well as ongoing state and federal inquiries into his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol has also subpoenaed Trump and last month issued a letter to his lawyers saying he must testify, either at the Capitol or by videoconference, “beginning on or about” Nov. 14 and continuing for multiple days if necessary.
Trump won Ohio, once considered a bellwether, by 8 points in both 2016 and 2020. The state also proved an early test of his endorsement power when his decision to back Vance in the state’s hyper-competitive Senate primary vaulted the political newcomer to victory in a crowded Republican field.
Vance, an author, venture capitalist and onetime Trump critic, is part of a new generation of Republican leaders who have embraced Trump’s “American First” positions, including his isolationist foreign policy and focus on immigration. | https://www.wane.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-trump-says-hell-make-big-announcement-nov-15/ | 2022-11-08 23:38:39 | 1 | https://www.wane.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-trump-says-hell-make-big-announcement-nov-15/ |
Bucks’ Middleton eager to shake off rust in return to action
Milwaukee Bucks forward Khris Middleton is planning to play his first NBA game in about 7 1/2 months
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Milwaukee Bucks forward Khris Middleton acknowledges he may need some time to adjust as the three-time All-Star gets ready to play his first NBA game in about 7 ½ months.
Middleton plans to make his 2022-23 debut Friday night when the Bucks host the Los Angeles Lakers. He's been recovering from offseason surgery on his left wrist, and the Bucks’ injury report lists him as probable.
“I feel fresh for the most part, but as far as rust, I know that’s still probably going to be there,” Middleton said after the morning shootaround. “So even though I’ll try to shake as much of that as you can off, it’s hard to simulate an NBA basketball game. The style’s just different. The tempo’s different. The rhythm, everything involved. Hopefully I adjust quickly. I’ll lean on my teammates a lot to help me through.”
Middleton, 31, hasn’t played since spraining the medial collateral ligament in his left knee April 20 in Game 2 of the Bucks’ first-round playoff series with the Chicago Bulls. That injury caused him to miss the entirety of the Bucks’ Eastern Conference semifinal with the Boston Celtics, a series Milwaukee lost in seven games.
The 6-foot-7 forward then had wrist surgery in the summer, having played through the injury late last season.
“I don’t think it was anything I shouldn’t have played through or tried to,” Middleton said. “It was just something I was going to have to deal with and get fixed at some time.”
The Bucks have gone 15-5 in Middleton’s absence and are second in the Eastern Conference standings, two games behind the Boston Celtics. He'll attempt to follow up on a 2021-22 season in which he averaged 20.1 points, 5.4 rebounds, 5.4 assists.
“Maybe a little bit longer than I expected, but things happen sometimes in life where you’ve just got to adjust and adapt and deal with it,” Middleton said. “I’m just glad that I am back tonight rather than a couple more weeks later.”
Middleton also had surgery on his left hamstring in fall 2016 and played just 29 games in the 2016-17 season.
Lakers coach Darvin Ham makes his return to Milwaukee on Friday, too. He was an assistant coach on Mike Budenholzer’s Bucks staff from 2018-22.
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Global health in focus
BERLIN, Oct. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The World Health Summit 2022, the world's leading meeting for global health, began on Sunday morning in Berlin. For the first time it is co-hosted by the World Health Organization (WHO). Among the central topics are climate change and health, pandemic preparedness, sustainable health systems and the role of the G7 and G20 in global health. More than 300 speakers from all regions of the world and from all sectors of society are expected, including over 20 government officials.
The entire program is available for free online.
The official opening is tonight at 6:00 PM CEST. Speakers include German Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russel, EU-Commission Director General for Health and Food Safety Sandra Gallina as well as UN Secretary-General António Guterres and Senegal's President Macky Sall via video.
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Digital participation is possible without accreditation. Zoom links are available in the online program and during WHS 2022 at www.worldhealthsummit.org. Video and audio material can be used upon request. Source: World Health Summit
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(WSYR-TV) — The Rome Police Department is putting NewsChannel 9 viewers ‘On the Lookout’ for a suspect from an arson investigation at Liberty Gardens located at 200 North Levitt St on June 11 at 3:40 a.m.
Police say that a male threw a homemade “Molotov Cocktail” at one of the apartments in the 700 building.
The tall man wearing all black caused damage to the building which included char marks to the concrete, and building posts, and damaged an air conditioning unit.
Police tell NewsChannel 9 that there appeared to be only one homemade bomb that was used and there was no one inside Apartment 708, but multiple people were in neighboring ones.
There were no injuries during the incident.
If anyone has information about this case, please contact the Rome Police Departments TIP line at 315-339-7744, Mohawk Valley Crime Stoppers at 1(866)730-8477 or www.p3tips.com | https://www.localsyr.com/news/local-news/on-the-lookout-man-from-arson-investigation/ | 2022-07-01 02:08:43 | 0 | https://www.localsyr.com/news/local-news/on-the-lookout-man-from-arson-investigation/ |
Introducing value-based, all-inclusive cybersecurity packages that include patch management and EDR to protect small and medium businesses from cyber threats
FOSTER CITY, Calif., Feb. 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Qualys, Inc. (NASDAQ: QLYS), a pioneer and leading provider of disruptive cloud-based IT, security and compliance solutions, today announced the expansion of its TruRisk platform to serve the needs of both large enterprises and small and medium-sized businesses. The new offerings, VMDR TruRisk packages and Enterprise TruRisk Management, will help organizations reduce cyber risk across their infrastructure and drive business growth.
Cybersecurity Solutions Tailored for Small and Medium Businesses
Qualys' new packaging combines Vulnerability Management Detection and Response (VMDR), Patch Management and Multi-Vector EDR into tailored offerings for small and medium-sized businesses. These packages, VMDR TruRisk, VMDR TruRisk FixIT and VMDR TruRisk ProtectIT, offer simple, easy-to-deploy, all-inclusive cybersecurity solutions to manage, remediate and protect against continuously emerging cyber threats and reduce risk. The convenient packaging and pricing allow our partners to bring more Qualys offerings to customers and streamline the onboarding process.
"VMDR TruRisk - FixIT has changed the way we address our cybersecurity risks. It helps us prioritize and tackle the most critical vulnerabilities first, allowing us to focus our limited resources on the biggest challenges. With its integrated patch management solution, we no longer need a team of administrators dedicated to manual patches and updates. VMDR TruRisk - FixIT is truly a game-changer for us." Jeff Sturm, VP Data Solutions & IT
VMDR TruRisk – Brings the power of Qualys Cloud Platform and the capabilities of VMDR to small and medium-sized businesses. With VMDR TruRisk, smaller organizations now have access to enterprise-grade asset visibility, vulnerability management, risk assessment, and prioritized remediation workflows.
VMDR TruRisk FixIT – Provides all the benefits of VMDR TruRisk as well as Qualys Patch Management for risk-based detection and remediation. With VMDR TruRisk FixIT, customers can prioritize vulnerabilities and automate patching based on business criticality.
VMDR TruRisk ProtectIT – Delivers the benefits of VMDR TruRisk FixIt plus additional anti-malware and threat protection based on multi-vector and business context for all endpoints to block malware and ransomware.
"TD SYNNEX is committed to uniting IT solutions that deliver business outcomes today and unlock growth for the future," Reyna Thompson, SVP product management, NA, at TD SYNNEX. "With Qualys as part of our vast portfolio of vendor partners, we're able to enrich the breadth and depth of our offerings so customers can do great things with technology."
Availability – Cybersecurity Packages for Small/Medium Businesses
The VMDR TruRisk packages for small and medium businesses is immediately available. For a free trial, visit qualys.com/forms/vmdr-trurisk.
Enterprise TruRisk Management
Qualys is introducing Enterprise TruRisk Management (ETM) to provide a unified view of cyber risk. ETM empowers customers to bring in external security and vulnerability findings from third-party security, vulnerability, and IT tools to the Qualys ecosystem, turning data from multiple sources into action with a single, powerful cyber risk management program. This approach empowers enterprises to communicate and manage risk effectively and brings together security and ITOps to rapidly reduce risk.
"The rapid increase in disclosed vulnerabilities and the speed at which they are weaponized leaves security and IT teams struggling to respond. What is needed is a preventative platform that pulls together all sources of exposure data into one correlated view of risk," said Michelle Abraham, research director, Security and Trust at IDC. "Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Management fills this need by pulling together data from other vulnerability scanners and tools into one platform to deliver data-driven risk prioritization that can drive smarter decisions and faster remediation."
Availability - Enterprise TruRisk Management
Enterprise TruRisk Management will be available for preview in early March. To sign up for the preview, visit qualys.com/etm-preview. Learn more by reading the Enterprise TruRisk Management blog.
"As companies look to consolidate their security toolsets, Qualys is excited to launch these packages that make it extremely simple and economical for customers to adopt multiple Qualys solutions," said Sumedh Thakar, president and CEO of Qualys. "Our expansion of the TruRisk platform to serve both large enterprises and small/medium businesses demonstrates our commitment to enhancing the collection of risk intelligence and in helping organizations respond to risk quickly."
Additional Resources
- Learn more about VMDR TruRisk packages
- Watch the Enterprise TruRisk Management video or VMDR TruRisk video
- Read the Enterprise TruRisk Management blog
- Learn more about Qualys' ML-based Threat Intelligence feeds
- Follow Qualys on LinkedIn and Twitter
About Qualys
Qualys, Inc. (NASDAQ: QLYS) is a pioneer and leading provider of disruptive cloud-based security, compliance and IT solutions with more than 10,000 subscription customers worldwide, including a majority of the Forbes Global 100 and Fortune 100. Qualys helps organizations streamline and automate their security and compliance solutions onto a single platform for greater agility, better business outcomes, and substantial cost savings.
The Qualys Cloud Platform leverages a single agent to continuously deliver critical security intelligence while enabling enterprises to automate the full spectrum of vulnerability detection, compliance, and protection for IT systems, workloads and web applications across on premises, endpoints, servers, public and private clouds, containers, and mobile devices. Founded in 1999 as one of the first SaaS security companies, Qualys has strategic partnerships and seamlessly integrates its vulnerability management capabilities into security offerings from cloud service providers, including Amazon Web Services, the Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure, along with a number of leading managed service providers and global consulting organizations. For more information, please visit http://www.qualys.com.
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Qualys
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EAST CHICAGO - William W. Towns, 89, of East Chicago, IN, passed away Sunday, May 15, 2022, at St. Catherine Hospital in East Chicago, IN. Memorial services will be held Friday, May 27, 2022, at 11:00 AM at Divinity Funeral Home 3831 Main Street in East Chicago, IN. | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/obituaries/william-w-towns/article_928e31a6-6b56-52ec-bbe4-1dfaa676ae29.html | 2022-05-27 06:43:40 | 0 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/obituaries/william-w-towns/article_928e31a6-6b56-52ec-bbe4-1dfaa676ae29.html |
SEATTLE, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sound Pharmaceuticals is pleased to announce that it has enrolled the first patient in its Phase 3 clinical trial involving SPI-1005 for the Treatment of Meniere's Disease (STOPMD-3). Additionally, this marks the first Phase 3 trial of an investigational new drug for the treatment of Meniere's Disease (MD). Prior to STOPMD-3, all US based MD trials involved drugs that were already FDA-approved for other indications. To date, no FDA-approved therapies exist for the treatment of sensorineural hearing loss, tinnitus, vertigo, or dizziness, which together comprise definite or probable MD. "We are grateful to be able to advance this pivotal trial after a 2-year COVID-19 delay" said Jonathan Kil, MD, Co-Founder and CEO. SPI's clinical data from two completed multi-center, randomized, placebo-controlled studies (Phase 1b and Phase 2b trials) showed that oral delivery of SPI-1005 for 21 or 28 days improved sensorineural hearing loss and tinnitus in patients affected by MD. The STOPMD-3 clinical trial is led by Dr. Paul Lambert, Distinguished Professor in the Dept. of Otolaryngology-HNS at MUSC in Charleston, SC and past President of the American Neurotologic Society. "The unmet need for an effective treatment of Meniere's has been elusive and we look forward to leading this pivotal study to test whether SPI-1005 is safe and effective," said Dr. Lambert. Approximately 20 US sites will enroll 200 patients into a randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trial (RCT) where SPI-1005 400 mg twice daily (BID) will be tested against matching placebo. After completing the RCT, patients will be invited to receive open label access to SPI-1005 for 6 to 12 months to further establish the safety of SPI-1005 for intermittent chronic and chronic use.
About the SPI-1005 Phase 1b and Phase 2b clinical trials
The Phase 1b and Phase 2b trials randomized 39 and 126 subjects, respectively to placebo or active doses of SPI-1005, and treated for 21 or 28 days, respectively. Clinically relevant improvements in sensorineural hearing loss were determined using pure-tone audiometry (PTA) and the words-in-noise (WIN) test, two validated measures of hearing sensitivity and specificity administered by an audiologist. Patient-reported outcomes involving tinnitus and vertigo were assessed using the Tinnitus Functional Index (TFI) and Vertigo Symptoms Scale (VSS). Improvement in PTA/WIN and TFI/VSS scores from baseline were compared between SPI-1005 dose groups and the placebo group.
In the Phase 2b study, clinically relevant improvements were observed in low frequency hearing by PTA and WIN scores at 8 weeks after the start of SPI-1005 when compared to placebo. The percentage of subjects showing significant auditory improvements using PTA (≥10 dB gain at one low frequency) in the SPI-1005 400 mg BID dose group rose from 47% at 4 weeks to 61% at 8 weeks, while the percentage showing significant improvements in WIN (≥20% increase in word recognition) rose from 57% at 4 weeks to 68% at 8 weeks. Additionally, SPI-1005 treatment also significantly reduced tinnitus perception or tinnitus loudness (TL) when compared to placebo (p < 0.05). Reductions in TL averaged 1.4 pts in the 400 mg group vs 0.7 pts in the placebo group (30% reduction vs 10% reduction, p <0.02). These Phase 2b data confirmed an initial finding from the Phase 1b trial, that SPI-1005 can reduce tinnitus loudness by clinically relevant levels. These improvements in auditory function further support the use of SPI-1005 to treat sudden sensorineural hearing loss, noise-induced hearing loss, and age-related loss, other indications where hearing loss and tinnitus are prominent features.
About Meniere's Disease (MD)
MD is diagnosed by episodic vertigo or dizziness, fluctuating hearing loss, and intermittent or constant tinnitus, and is thought to be due to a swelling or inflammation of the inner ear. The auditory symptoms of hearing loss and tinnitus often involve only one ear. Patients are typically diagnosed between 40-65 years of age. In addition, some patients experience aural fullness or pressure that can also contribute to dizziness. As patients age, the hearing loss and/or tinnitus become progressively worse resulting in profound hearing loss or intractable tinnitus. For the definitive diagnosis of MD, the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery guidance requires documentation of ≥30 dB of low frequency hearing loss in at least one ear using PTA. Loss of word recognition or speech discrimination, especially in noisy environments or when tinnitus is present, is common in MD and other forms of hearing loss. MD is currently managed with low salt diets, thiazide diuretics, and oral or locally injected steroids. Unfortunately, this standard of care has not been proven to be effective and is not FDA-approved for the treatment of MD.
About SPI-1005
SPI-1005 is an investigational drug that contains ebselen, a small molecule that is a new chemical entity, under FDA classification. Ebselen is a selenorganic compound that mimics and induces glutathione peroxidase (GPx) activity and represents a novel class of anti-inflammatory. GPx activity is critical to several cell types and tissues in the inner ear, retina, prefrontal cortex of brain, lung and kidney, and is often reduced during exposures to environmental insults or aging. Loss of GPx activity has been shown to result in sensorineural hearing loss in multiple animal models. SPI-1005 is given orally and is being developed for several neurotologic indications including noise-induced hearing loss and two types of ototoxicity (hearing loss, tinnitus, dizziness or vertigo): due to aminoglycoside antibiotics (such as tobramycin) and due to platinum-based chemotherapy. To our knowledge, SPI-1005 is the only neurotologic drug currently in Phase 3 testing in the US, Europe, or Asia, that has demonstrated clinically relevant improvements in sensorineural hearing loss and tinnitus.
About Sound Pharmaceuticals
A privately held biotechnology company is testing SPI-1005 under four other active Investigational New Drug Applications involving several neurotologic indications, including an ongoing Phase 2 clinical trial in Cystic Fibrosis patients receiving IV tobramycin for the treatment of pulmonary exacerbation.
Details of the SPI-1005 clinical trials can be viewed online at www.clinicaltrials.gov, or by visiting www.soundpharma.com.
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Shoppers should expect to see more leftover inventory on store shelves as U.S. retailers work to try and sell a surplus of goods that saw lackluster sales last year.
Reuters reported that retailers were sitting on $548.8 billion in inventory in July, an increase of 21.6% from last year.
Chris Butler, a National Tree Company Executive Officer, said, This year is going to be a fantastic year to buy a tree."
Butler said, "Everybody's going to be trying to get through the inventory that they have to make sure they clean out a little bit before the 2023 season."
Kohl's was reportedly selling last year's pajamas at 25% off as more and more products being sold by major retailers are expected to be for sale at deep discounts.
This will come as a relief to many holiday shoppers as inflation hit 8.2% in September.
Richard Galanti, a Chief Financial Officer with Costco, said on an earnings call about goods for sale, "If you add in the cost of holding them and a little cost of interest, I think they're still a little cheaper than the ones we added to the inventory this year." | https://www.kbzk.com/news/national/us-retailers-try-to-sell-leftover-holiday-inventory | 2022-10-20 01:41:31 | 1 | https://www.kbzk.com/news/national/us-retailers-try-to-sell-leftover-holiday-inventory |
Inaugural California brands selected to participate in program providing minority-owned brands with guaranteed shelf space and individualized mentorship
SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - TPCO Holding Corp. ("The Parent Company" or "the Company") (NEO: GRAM.U) (OTCQX: GRAMF), a leading consumer-focused California cannabis company, today announced four participants in the Company's Social Equity Ventures ("SEV") Brand Success Program. Through the SEV Brand Success Program, The Parent Company aims to empower social equity brands with the knowledge and opportunity to scale their business, increase brand awareness, build customer loyalty, expand their retail presence and boost sales.
The Brand Success Program is a 12-week program implemented to provide minority-owned brands with guaranteed shelf space and individualized mentorship from the Company's sales, marketing, retail, and operational teams. Brands will learn best practices, operational procedures, and tips that can be applied to any retail outlet nationwide.
"We're extremely proud to launch the SEV Brand Success Program and partner with these four initial brands," said Troy Datcher, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of The Parent Company. "The SEV team will support BSP participants from the moment they are accepted, and we are committed to providing mentorship that aids each brand in creating a solid, sustainable and scalable business."
The first round of entrants to the SEV Brand Success Program include:
- CRONJA: CRONJA is a Los Angeles-based, black- and veteran-owned cannabis lifestyle company and social equity brand known for its connoisseur-focused strain selection and hand-crafted cannabis accessories. With roots in the Midwest, the lifestyle brand specializes in crafting premium leather rolling trays and cases designed and handmade in Chicago, Illinois. CRONJA offers exceptional-quality packaged indoor flower, premium packaging, fair pricing, and outstanding retail support. CRONJA launched in select The Parent Company's stores on January 19th.
"The Parent Company's mission is to amplify and support minority brands, and we're proud to be selected as part of the Brand Success Program," said CRONJA's CEO, Bryant Bowens. "We've seen positive results from the partnership in the retail market and look forward to collaborating further."
- Substance & Skewville: Plaid America is the Venice, CA-based team behind the art-centric Substance and Skewville brands, which are best known for their tiny 12 packs of premium pre-rolls that each have a unique donation model designed to propel racial equity.
For each pack of Substance sold, $8.46 is donated to help end mass incarceration. An important number in American history, $8.46 pays homage to the last 8 minutes and 46 seconds of George Floyd's life.
Skewville's $2 per pack donation supports prison art programs, which are known to reduce recidivism.
Substance and Skewville will launch products at select stores on January 30th.
"Plaid is extremely grateful to partner with The Parent Company as part of the Brand Success Program," said Plaid's CEO & Co-Creator, Sharoz Makarechi . "We're excited for this opportunity to increase brand awareness of Substance and Skewville and point to initiatives combating the damage done to communities by the false War on Drugs."
- Peakz: Founded in 2018 after winning a distribution license via Oakland's Social Equity Program, The Peakz Company aims to bring culture to the legal cannabis industry. The company's products feature top-shelf luxury flower while providing an authentic connection to cannabis culture. Peakz is known for its curated strains; unique in-house designs; and high-level partnerships and creative collaborations with premium retailers, cultivators and other brands in the space. Peakz is scheduled to re-launch on February 3rd at select stores.
"We are honored to work with The Parent Company and utilize their wide network to continue to grow our business," said Peakz's CEO, Jessie Grundy. "Knowledgeable support and education programs from leading operators are extremely helpful and a big need for emerging brands to break through in the legal marketplace."
- Disco Jays by MAKR House: MAKR House was founded in Oakland, CA, by Amber Senter, a medical cannabis patient who utilized the plant to cope with symptoms of a health condition. Amber is also the co-founder and Executive Director of Supernova Women, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that provides spaces and resources to people of color in the cannabis industry. A house of brands creating accessible, high-quality cannabis products, MAKR House, works to build inclusive supply chains. MAKR House will launch products in early February at select stores.
"I'd like to thank the Parent Company for selecting a diverse and unique group of Black operators and making shelf space available to them," said Amber Senter, Founder & CEO of MAKR House. "It's a fantastic opportunity to collaborate with an operator committed to mission-driven initiatives that go beyond performative measures."
The Parent Company is committed to supporting BSP participants by utilizing the Company's consumer database, team of marketing experts, and robust social media presence to promote each participating brand. BSP participants will receive support through blog posts, SMS ads, website banners, photography, video, content development, and more.
The SEV BSP is currently open for applications from California operators and brands. For more information on how to apply, please email BSPSubmission@theparent.co.
The Parent Company is a leading consumer-focused, vertically integrated cannabis company with twelve retail locations, one delivery hub and a curated product portfolio including Monogram by Shawn "JAY-Z" Carter, Caliva, Mirayo by Santana, Fun Uncle and Deli.
The Parent Company is committed to leveraging its status to help build a more equitable cannabis industry. Its social equity venture fund aims to eliminate systematic barriers to entry and provide minority entrepreneurs with meaningful participation, growth, and leadership opportunities in the multibillion-dollar legal cannabis industry.
Shares of The Parent Company common stock are traded on NEO Exchange under the ticker symbol "GRAM.U" and on the OTCQX under the ticker symbol "GRAMF."
For the latest news, activities, and media coverage, please visit www.theparent.co or connect with us on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Twitter.
References to information included on websites do not constitute incorporation by reference of the information contained at or available through such websites, and you should not consider such information to be part of this press release.
This press release contains forward-looking information within the meaning of applicable securities legislation which reflects The Parent Company's current expectations regarding future events. The words "will", "expects", "intends", "believes" and similar expressions are often intended to identify forward looking information, although not all forward-looking information contains these identifying words.
Specific forward-looking information contained in this press release includes, but is not limited to, statements concerning the Company's Brand Success Program and its inaugural participants. Forward-looking information is based on a number of assumptions and is subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond The Parent Company's control, which could cause actual results and events to differ materially from those that are disclosed in or implied by such forward looking information. Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: changes in general economic conditions including the impact of increasing inflation, the continued significant price compression in flower and distillate oil in the California market, competition in both our wholesale and omni-channel retail channels, business and political conditions, changes in applicable laws, the U.S. and Canadian regulatory landscapes and enforcement related to cannabis, changes in public opinion and perception of the cannabis industry, reliance on the expertise and judgment of senior management, as well as the factors discussed under the heading "Risk Factors" in The Parent Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021 filed with the SEC on March 31, 2022 and in the Company's periodic reports subsequently filed with the SEC and in the Company's filings on SEDAR at www.sedar.com. The Parent Company undertakes no obligation to update such forward-looking information, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as expressly required by applicable law.
Investors should note that there are significant legal restrictions and regulations that govern the cannabis industry in the United States. Cannabis remains a Schedule I drug under the U.S. Controlled Substances Act, making it illegal under federal law in the United States to, among other things, cultivate, distribute, or possess cannabis in the United States. Financial transactions involving proceeds generated by, or intended to promote, cannabis-related business activities in the United States may form the basis for prosecution under applicable U.S. federal money laundering legislation.
While the approach to enforcement of such laws by the federal government in the United States has trended toward non-enforcement against individuals and businesses that comply with medical or adult-use cannabis programs in states where such programs are legal, strict compliance with state laws with respect to cannabis will neither absolve The Parent Company of liability under U.S. federal law, nor will it provide a defense to any federal proceeding which may be brought against the Company. The enforcement of federal laws in the United States is a significant risk to the business of The Parent Company and any proceedings brought against the Company thereunder may adversely affect the Company's operations and financial performance.
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EXPLAINER: What to expect on Day 2 of House speaker election
WASHINGTON (AP) — What was expected to be a day of triumph for House Republicans coming into the majority turned into chaos Tuesday as interparty fighting over who should lead them in their new reign ended with no speaker in the rostrum.
Republicans failed to elect a speaker after Kevin McCarthy could not overcome opposition from the right flank of his party following an hourslong series of votes on the first day of the new Congress.
The opposition from 20 lawmakers, including some of the chamber’s most conservative members, to McCarthy’s speakership handicapped the House’s ability to start its work and delayed the ceremonial swearing-in of hundreds of returning members and freshmen.
GOP lawmakers on Wednesday will try once again to elect a speaker despite uncertainty over how McCarthy could rebound after becoming the first House speaker nominee in 100 years to fail to win the gavel with his party in the majority.
What to know as the House heads into the second day of the speaker election:
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WHY IS THERE NO SPEAKER?
Needing 218 votes in the full House, McCarthy received just 203 in the first two rounds of voting on the first day — less even than Democrat Hakeem Jeffries in the GOP-controlled chamber — and fared even worse with 202 in round three.
A growing chorus of detractors warned for months that the California Republican did not have the votes to win the constitutionally mandated office, which would make him second in line to the presidency. In response, McCarthy negotiated endlessly with members, including Reps. Andy Biggs, Scott Perry and Matt Gaetz, to win their support.
The negotiations went up until Monday night when members of the ultra-conservative Freedom Caucus presented McCarthy with their final offer, which included demands for certain committee assignments in exchange for their votes.
McCarthy refused to oblige, saying he had gone far enough to appease the lawmakers.
“For the last two months, we worked together as a whole conference to develop rules that empower all members, but we’re not empowering certain members over others,” McCarthy told reporters early Tuesday.
As a result, those members and more than a dozen others openly opposed him on the floor.
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WHAT DOES THAT MEAN FOR THE CHAMBER?
Without a speaker, the House cannot fully form since that person effectively serves as the chamber’s presiding officer and the institution’s administrative head.
Swearing in members, naming committee chairs, engaging in floor proceedings and launching oversight investigations will all be delayed until a speaker is elected and sworn into office.
“The spotlight needs to be put on these 19 — now 20 — that are stopping the business of Congress that we got elected to do,” Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., said. “It’s on them.”
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HOW WILL IT GET RESOLVED?
It remains unclear if and when McCarthy passes the threshold to become the next speaker of the House. The current number of Republicans who have pledged support to other candidates is at 20, with some suspecting that list will grow.
The House is scheduled to begin another round of voting for speaker at noon on Wednesday. Once the House is in a quorum — meaning the minimum number of members are present to proceed — the speaker nominee from each party will be read aloud by the respective leaders before a roll-call vote to elect a new speaker.
On Tuesday, Republicans opposing McCarthy nominated a slew of other candidates, including Biggs, Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio and even former Rep. Lee Zeldin of New York.
“I rise to nominate the most talented, hardest-working member of the Republican conference, who just gave a speech with more vision that we have ever heard from the alternative,” Gaetz said Tuesday while nominating Jordan.
To be sure, none of them reached a majority of the votes, but it was enough to detract support from McCarthy, who in a 222-213 majority can’t afford to lose more than a handful of votes.
The candidate to become speaker needs a majority of the votes from House members who are present and voting. Every lawmaker voting “present” lowers the overall tally needed to reach a majority.
Should McCarthy come up short again on Wednesday, the clerk will repeat the roll call vote until he is able to garner a majority or a motion to adjourn is approved.
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HAS THIS EVER HAPPENED BEFORE?
The last time the House did not elect a speaker on the first ballot was 1923 when the election stretched for nine ballots.
At the time, Republicans had won the majority despite losing a staggering 77 seats, shrinking their margin over Democrats from 171 to just 18. The majority party had named incumbent Rep. Frederick Gillett, R-Mass., to the position, but several other candidates, including a Democrat, received votes during the roll call.
This resulted in a series of ballots over three days before House Majority Leader Nicholas Longworth, R-Ohio, held an emergency meeting with those opposing. Their concern, similarly to those issued against McCarthy, was over a series of rules changes that they believed deserved a fair hearing. Longworth obliged and the next day Gillett garnered the 215 votes he needed to remain speaker.
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Associated Press writer Lisa Mascaro contributed to this report.
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NY Binghamton NY Zone Forecast for Saturday, January 14, 2023
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Northwest winds around 5 mph.
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5 mph.
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rain, snow showers and sleet. Highs in the mid 30s. Southeast winds
around 5 mph. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
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likely. Lows in the lower 30s. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
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30s. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
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335 AM EST Sun Jan 15 2023
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.MARTIN LUTHER KING JR DAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 30s.
Northwest winds around 5 mph.
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cloudy. Lows in the mid 20s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
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no sleet accumulation. Highs in the lower 40s. South winds 5 to
10 mph. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
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showers. Lows in the mid 30s.
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Highs around 40.
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.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 20s. North winds 5 to
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5 mph.
.MARTIN LUTHER KING JR DAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 30s.
Northwest winds around 5 mph.
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cloudy. Lows in the lower 20s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
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likely. Little or no snow accumulation. Highs in the upper 30s.
South winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
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showers. Lows in the mid 30s.
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Highs in the upper 30s.
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30s. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
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335 AM EST Sun Jan 15 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy this morning, then becoming partly sunny.
Highs in the upper 20s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
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.MARTIN LUTHER KING JR DAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 30s.
West winds around 5 mph.
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cloudy. Lows in the lower 20s. South winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain showers, freezing
rain, snow showers and sleet. Highs in the upper 30s. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
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rain 70 percent.
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30s. Chance of precipitation 60 percent.
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30s. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
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in the upper 30s. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
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Including the cities of Corning and Hornell
335 AM EST Sun Jan 15 2023
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North winds around 5 mph.
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5 to 10 mph.
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in the lower 40s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to
20 mph. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
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showers. Lows in the mid 30s.
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Highs in the lower 40s.
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30s. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
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Including the city of Watkins Glen
335 AM EST Sun Jan 15 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 20s. North winds 5 to
10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
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.MARTIN LUTHER KING JR DAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 30s.
North winds around 5 mph.
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cloudy. Lows in the mid 20s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Rain showers, freezing rain, snow showers and sleet
likely. Little or no snow accumulation. Highs in the lower 40s.
South winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain
showers. Lows in the mid 30s.
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Highs around 40.
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30s. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
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30s. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
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Chemung-
Including the city of Elmira
335 AM EST Sun Jan 15 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy this morning, then becoming partly sunny.
Highs in the lower 30s. North winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to
20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 10 TO 15. Northwest winds around
5 mph.
.MARTIN LUTHER KING JR DAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 40.
Northwest winds around 5 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 20s. Southwest winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Rain showers, snow showers and sleet likely. Little or no
snow accumulation. Highs in the lower 40s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain
showers. Lows in the mid 30s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 30.
.THURSDAY...Rain likely with a chance of snow. Highs in the upper
30s. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Rain and snow showers likely. Lows in the lower
30s. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow showers.
Highs in the upper 30s. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 20s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 30s.
$$
NYZ025-152100-
Tompkins-
Including the city of Ithaca
335 AM EST Sun Jan 15 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy this morning, then becoming partly sunny.
Highs in the upper 20s. North winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to
20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 10 TO 15. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.MARTIN LUTHER KING JR DAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 30s.
Northwest winds around 5 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 20s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Rain showers, freezing rain, snow showers and sleet
likely. Little or no snow accumulation. Highs around 40. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain
showers. Lows in the mid 30s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain showers.
Highs around 40.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 30.
.THURSDAY...Rain likely with a chance of snow. Highs in the upper
30s. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Rain and snow showers likely. Lows in the lower
30s. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.FRIDAY...Snow showers likely with a chance of rain showers. Highs
in the upper 30s. Chance of precipitation 60 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of snow
showers. Lows in the mid 20s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 30s.
$$
NYZ036-152100-
Madison-
Including the cities of Hamilton and Oneida
335 AM EST Sun Jan 15 2023
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 20s. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 5 to 10 above. Northwest winds around
5 mph.
.MARTIN LUTHER KING JR DAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 30s.
Northwest winds around 5 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 20s. Southwest winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain showers, freezing
rain, snow showers and sleet. Highs in the upper 30s. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Rain showers likely. Lows in the mid 30s. Chance of
rain 70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Rain showers likely. Highs in the upper 30s. Chance of
rain 70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 20s.
.THURSDAY...Rain likely with a chance of snow. Highs in the mid 30s.
Chance of precipitation 60 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Snow and rain showers likely. Lows in the lower
30s. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.FRIDAY...Snow showers likely with a chance of rain showers. Highs
in the mid 30s. Chance of precipitation 60 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of snow
showers. Lows in the mid 20s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 30s.
$$
NYZ037-152100-
Southern Oneida-
Including the cities of Rome and Utica
335 AM EST Sun Jan 15 2023
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 30s. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 5 to 10 above. West winds around
5 mph.
.MARTIN LUTHER KING JR DAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 30s.
West winds around 5 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 20s. Southwest winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain showers, freezing
rain, snow showers and sleet. Highs in the upper 30s. Southeast
winds around 5 mph. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Rain showers and freezing rain likely. Lows in the
lower 30s. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Rain showers likely. Highs in the upper 30s. Chance of
rain 70 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 20s.
.THURSDAY...Rain likely. Highs in the mid 30s. Chance of rain
60 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Snow and rain showers likely. Lows in the lower
30s. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.FRIDAY...Snow showers likely with a chance of rain showers. Highs
in the mid 30s. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of snow
showers. Lows in the mid 20s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 30s.
$$
NYZ044-152100-
Cortland-
Including the city of Cortland
335 AM EST Sun Jan 15 2023
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 20s. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows near 10. Northwest winds around
5 mph.
.MARTIN LUTHER KING JR DAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 30s.
Northwest winds around 5 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 20s. Southwest winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Rain showers, freezing rain, snow showers and sleet
likely. Little or no snow accumulation. Highs in the upper 30s.
South winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain
showers. Lows in the mid 30s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain showers.
Highs in the upper 30s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 20s.
.THURSDAY...Rain likely with a chance of snow. Highs in the mid 30s.
Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Snow and rain showers likely. Lows in the lower
30s. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.FRIDAY...Snow showers likely with a chance of rain showers. Highs
in the mid 30s. Chance of precipitation 60 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of snow
showers. Lows in the mid 20s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 30s.
$$
NYZ045-152100-
Chenango-
Including the city of Norwich
335 AM EST Sun Jan 15 2023
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 30s. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows near 10. North winds around 5 mph.
.MARTIN LUTHER KING JR DAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 30s.
Northwest winds around 5 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 20s. Southwest winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain showers, freezing
rain, snow showers and sleet. Highs in the upper 30s. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain
showers. Lows in the mid 30s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain showers.
Highs in the upper 30s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 20s.
.THURSDAY...Rain likely with a chance of snow. Highs in the upper
30s. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Rain and snow showers likely. Lows in the lower
30s. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.FRIDAY...Snow showers likely with a chance of rain showers. Highs
in the upper 30s. Chance of precipitation 60 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of snow
showers. Lows in the mid 20s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 30s.
$$
NYZ046-152100-
Otsego-
Including the city of Oneonta
335 AM EST Sun Jan 15 2023
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 30s. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows near 10. Northwest winds around 5 mph.
.MARTIN LUTHER KING JR DAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 30s.
Northwest winds around 5 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 20s. West winds
around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain showers, freezing
rain, snow showers and sleet. Highs in the upper 30s. South winds
around 5 mph. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain showers and
freezing rain. Lows in the mid 30s. Chance of precipitation
50 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain showers.
Highs in the upper 30s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 20s.
.THURSDAY...Rain likely. Highs in the upper 30s. Chance of rain
60 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Snow and rain showers likely. Lows in the lower
30s. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.FRIDAY...Snow showers likely with a chance of rain showers. Highs
in the upper 30s. Chance of precipitation 60 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of snow
showers. Lows in the mid 20s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 30s.
$$
NYZ055-152100-
Tioga-
Including the cities of Owego and Waverly
335 AM EST Sun Jan 15 2023
.TODAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 30s. North winds 5 to
10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows near 15. Northwest winds around
5 mph.
.MARTIN LUTHER KING JR DAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 30s.
Northwest winds around 5 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 20s. Southwest winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Rain showers, freezing rain, snow showers and sleet
likely. Little or no snow accumulation. Highs around 40. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain
showers. Lows in the mid 30s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 30.
.THURSDAY...Rain likely with a chance of snow. Highs in the upper
30s. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Rain and snow showers likely. Lows in the lower
30s. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow showers.
Highs in the upper 30s. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 20s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 30s.
$$
NYZ056-152100-
Broome-
Including the city of Binghamton
335 AM EST Sun Jan 15 2023
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 30s. North winds 5 to
10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows near 15. Northwest winds around 5 mph.
.MARTIN LUTHER KING JR DAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 30s.
Northwest winds around 5 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 20s. Southwest winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain showers, freezing
rain, snow showers and sleet. Highs in the upper 30s. South winds
5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain
showers. Lows in the mid 30s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs around 40.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 30.
.THURSDAY...Rain likely with a chance of snow. Highs in the upper
30s. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Rain and snow showers likely. Lows in the lower
30s. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow showers.
Highs in the upper 30s. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 20s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 30s.
$$
NYZ057-152100-
Delaware-
Including the cities of Delhi and Walton
335 AM EST Sun Jan 15 2023
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 30s. North winds 5 to
10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows 10 TO 15. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MARTIN LUTHER KING JR DAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 30s.
Northwest winds around 5 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 20s. West winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain showers, freezing
rain, snow showers and sleet. Highs in the upper 30s. South winds
around 5 mph. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain showers. Lows
in the mid 30s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain showers.
Highs in the upper 30s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 20s.
.THURSDAY...Rain likely with a chance of snow. Highs in the upper
30s. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Snow and rain showers likely. Lows in the lower
30s. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.FRIDAY...Snow showers likely with a chance of rain showers. Highs
in the upper 30s. Chance of precipitation 60 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 20s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 30s.
$$
NYZ062-152100-
Sullivan-
Including the city of Monticello
335 AM EST Sun Jan 15 2023
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 30s. North winds 5 to
10 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows near 15. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MARTIN LUTHER KING JR DAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 40s.
Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 20s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain showers. Highs in the
upper 30s. West winds around 5 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain showers. Lows
in the mid 30s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 20s.
.THURSDAY...Rain likely with a chance of snow. Highs in the upper
30s. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Snow showers likely with a chance of rain showers.
Lows in the lower 30s. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow showers. Highs around
40. Chance of snow 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 20s.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 30s.
$$
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The driver suspected of causing a fiery crash that killed five people, including a pregnant woman, was charged Monday with murder.
Nicole Lorraine Linton was charged with six counts of murder and five counts of vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence, according to the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office. One murder charge was filed for the pregnant woman’s unborn child.
She could face 90 years to life in prison if convicted of all charges.
Linton, a 37-year-old traveling nurse from Houston, Texas, made her first court appearance Monday after being released from a hospital over the weekend. Linton, who appeared in a wheelchair, didn’t enter a plea and her arraignment was continued to October. She was ordered held without bail pending a bail hearing next week.
Prosecutors said Linton’s Mercedes-Benz was doing 90 mph (144 kph) last Thursday when it ran a red light and smashed into cars in a crowded intersection in unincorporated Windsor Hills about 10 miles (16 km) southwest of downtown Los Angeles. Several victims were thrown from the cars and several vehicles caught fire.
The crash killed 23-year-old Asherey Ryan, her 11-month-old son Alonzo Quintero and her boyfriend, Reynold Lester, Sha’seana Kerr said in a GoFundMe posting.
Lester’s family told KABC-TV that the 24-year-old security guard was the father of Ryan’s 8 1/2-month-old unborn child. The family has said Ryan was on the way to a doctor’s appointment for a prenatal checkup when she was killed.
One murder charge — but not an additional charge of vehicular manslaughter — was filed for the fetus, who was identified by the coroner’s office as Armani Lester and listed as born on the same day he died.
“A young family was destroyed in the blink of an eye,” District Attorney George Gascón said at a news conference.
Two other women were also killed but their names weren’t made public as of Monday.
“While the wreckage of this fiery crash at this intersection was removed and traffic eventually resumed, there is catastrophic damage to the families and friends of those killed and injured,” Gascón said. “It is not only a tremendous loss to the families but our entire community who learned of this incredible tragedy or have watched the now viral video of the collision,” he said.
In court, Linton’s lawyer, Halim Dhanidina, said his client has an out-of-state history of “profound mental health issues” that might be linked to the crash but didn’t specify, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Authorities said they haven’t found any evidence that Linton was under the influence of alcohol but prosecutors said she had at least 13 previous crashes — including a 2020 injury accident that totaled two cars — and knew the threat posed by her driving behavior, the Times said. | https://cbs4indy.com/news/national-world/ap-us-news/driver-in-la-crash-that-killed-5-charged-with-murder/ | 2022-08-09 10:33:07 | 0 | https://cbs4indy.com/news/national-world/ap-us-news/driver-in-la-crash-that-killed-5-charged-with-murder/ |
NEW YORK, March 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- LivePerson, Inc. (Nasdaq: LPSN) is providing confirmatory notice, pursuant to the requirements of Nasdaq Listing Rule 5635(c)(4), of recent grants of equity-based incentive awards that LivePerson made under its Inducement Plan.
LivePerson established the LivePerson Inc. 2018 Inducement Plan (the "Inducement Plan") to provide equity-based incentive awards to new hires. In connection with recent employee hires through February 18, 2023, LivePerson has made grants of RSUs to 1 employee totaling 23,272 shares.
RSU and stock option grants generally vest in equal tranches over 3 to 4 years under the Inducement Plan. All grants are subject to the grantee's continued employment on the scheduled vesting date. Each award under the Inducement Plan was granted as an inducement material to the grantee entering into employment with the Company.
About LivePerson, Inc.
LivePerson (NASDAQ: LPSN) is a global leader in Conversational AI. Hundreds of the world's leading brands — including HSBC, Virgin Media, and Burberry — use our Conversational Cloud platform to engage with millions of consumers as personally as they would with one. We power nearly a billion conversational interactions every month, providing a uniquely rich data set to build connections that reduce costs, increase revenue, and are anything but artificial. Fast Company named us the #1 Most Innovative AI Company in the world. To talk with us or our Conversational AI, please visit liveperson.com.
Contact:
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QUEENS (PIX11) — Roberto Clemente was a Major League Baseball icon who made a massive impact on and off the field.
This year is the 50th anniversary of the death of Clemente. On Thursday, hundreds of people spent the day giving back in his name for the 21st Roberto Clemente Day.
The day celebrates both his on-field excellence (15-time All-Star, four-time batting champion) and selflessness in the community. He died in a plane crash on his way to bringing emergency supplies to earthquake-ravaged Nicaragua.
Clemente said that if you have a chance to help others and fail to do so, you’re wasting your time on this earth. Volunteers came to CitiField in Queens to carry on that message. Together, they packed 10,000 meals for Rise Against Hunger.
Fourteen former MLB players were among the volunteers. Each of them were recipients of the Roberto Clemente Award. Winning the award remains one of the proudest moments of former outfielder’s Curtis Granderson’s career.
On the field, the Mets and Pirates will honor Clemente by wearing his number 21 during Thursday night’s game. And before the game, Clemente’s grandson, Roberto Clemente III, will throw out the first pitch using a ball that was painted by one of Clemente’s nieces. | https://www.koin.com/hidden-history/hispanic-heritage-month/latino-baseball-legend-roberto-clemente-honored/ | 2022-09-16 15:41:46 | 1 | https://www.koin.com/hidden-history/hispanic-heritage-month/latino-baseball-legend-roberto-clemente-honored/ |
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called on Western nations Thursday to provide more money to help Ukraine's military keep fighting nearly 5½ months after Russia invaded its neighbor.
“The sooner we stop Russia, the sooner we can feel safe,” Zelenskyy said while addressing defense leaders at a Denmark conference aimed at strengthening financing for weapons, training and demining work in his country.
“We need armaments, munitions for our defense," he added, speaking via a live link from Ukraine.
The conference in Copenhagen is a follow-up to an April meeting at a U.S. air base in Germany that established the U.S.-led Ukraine Defense Contact Group, which coordinates international military support for Ukraine.
Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov, who attended the conference in Denmark's capital, told journalists that acquiring more fighter planes is the country's priority right now.
“In the first stage, we need fighters. After that, demining,” Reznikov said.
Denmark is co-hosting the daylong conference in Copenhagen with Britain and Ukraine. British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace said the goal of the event was securing “concrete steps.”
He announced that Britain says it will send more multiple launch rocket systems and guided missiles to Ukraine to help it resist Russia’s invasion.
The new weapons, whose number wasn't specified, come on top of several rocket-launch systems given by Britain to Ukraine earlier this year. Ukrainian troops have been trained in Britain to use them.
“Our continued support sends a very clear message, Britain and the international community remain opposed to this illegal war and will stand shoulder-to-shoulder, providing defensive military aid to Ukraine to help them defend against Putin’s invasion,” Wallace said.
Before the conference started, the Danish government said it would give Ukraine an extra 820 million kroner ($113 million), which would bring Denmark’s total contribution to the war effort to more than 3 billion kroner ($413 million). Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen called it “a huge donation.”
Part of the money would pay for 130 Danish troops to help train Ukrainian forces in Britain over the coming months.
“We will not let you down,” Frederiksen said as she opened the conference.
Norwegian Defense Minister Bjørn Arild Gram said there was still unwavering Western support for Ukraine.
“There still is a very strong support to help Ukraine, also on the long run. It is decisive for Ukraine to be able to defend itself against the Russian attack," Arild Gram said.
The Kyiv School of Economics released a report Wednesday assessing the cost of war damage to Ukraine’s infrastructure at more than $110 billion. The report said 304 bridges and more than 900 health care facilities were either destroyed or damaged.
___ Jill Lawless in London, and James Brooks in Copenhagen, contributed to this report.
___
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Indianapolis police shoot man wanted in daycare murder
INDIANAPOLIS (WTHR) - Police in Indianapolis shot a man Friday morning during an investigation into a daycare shooting.
The incident occurred around 7:30 a.m. when a woman was shot multiple times while dropping off children at a daycare.
Many children witnessed the attack, as she was declared dead at the scene.
Three hours later, police received reports on the whereabouts of a vehicle that was allegedly used in the crime.
When officers arrived at that location, they discovered the suspect, 33-year-old Orlando Mitchell, holding a rifle.
It is unclear what led police to shoot Mitchell.
He was transported to the hospital in stable condition.
Investigators believe the initial incident is domestic-related.
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SPARTANBURG S.C., Sept. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Crave Hot Dogs & BBQ is one of the fastest growing BBQ and hot dog franchises across the country. Crave offers a true family fun experience from the moment you walk in the door. Crave hosts a great selection of games to play, trivia nights, bingo nights, and even karaoke! At some locations, Crave has ax throwing so that the fun never ends. Each location boasts a rustic modern interior with ample seating as well as the fan favorite self-serve beer wall. Drive-thrus and patios are available at many locations. With 32-48 beer, wine, and cider options on tap, there is something for everyone at the beer wall. Guests can choose from a wide variety of delicious food. With more than 20 topping options, Crave offers a great selection of menu items such as sliders, sandwiches, hot dogs, and plates. Crave invites customers to load up on sides like mac and cheese, corn fritters, fries, and more as well as great dessert options. Some locations even offer breakfast with bottomless mimosas and bottomless bloody marys, Yum! There are also kid friendly meals as well as the amazing deal that kids eat free on Wednesdays! Crave has multiple options for enjoying their delicious food. Through the Crave app, customers can order ahead, pick up curbside, have their food delivered, and earn loyalty points for free perks!
Crave is pleased to announce and welcome one of its newest franchises! Carlos Goodman has signed a franchise agreement for a location in Spartanburg, South Carolina. This will be the second location of many in South Carolina for Crave.
Crave is expanding nationally and always looking for qualified franchisees for brick-and-mortar locations as well as food trucks. For more information on owning your own Crave, please email samantha@iwantcrave.com or visit us at www.iwantcrave.com.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Evening" game were:
8-7-1-4, FIREBALL: 3
(eight, seven, one, four; FIREBALL: three)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Evening" game were:
8-7-1-4, FIREBALL: 3
(eight, seven, one, four; FIREBALL: three) | https://www.sfchronicle.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-4-Evening-game-17365601.php | 2022-08-10 23:55:44 | 1 | https://www.sfchronicle.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-4-Evening-game-17365601.php |
HELSINKI (AP) — Estonia’s foreign minister says the Baltic country has changed its policy toward Israel and will no longer vote for U.N. resolutions condemning Tel Aviv’s actions in the occupied Palestinian territories including the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
Instead, the European country is looking from now on to align its U.N. voting position in such matters with Washington, its closest security policy ally.
According to a report published Monday by the Estonian public broadcaster ERR, Foreign Minister Urmas Reinsalu said Estonia — an European Union and NATO member — recently voted together with the United States against the condemnation of Israel at the U.N.
Previously, Estonia has usually voted for resolutions condemning Israel at the U.N. together with several other countries.
Reinsalu said his country’s foreign policy has changed in this matter.
“Estonia is a member of the EU, and if the EU has a common political position including some U.N. resolutions as well … then naturally we will act in accordance with a jointly agreed EU position,” he said.
However, should the 27 EU countries have differences of opinion, Reinsalu said Estonia would now as a rule align its voting position with Washington.
Reinsalu, who resumed the post of Estonia’s top diplomat in July, didn’t explain what prompted the Baltic nation to make the policy shift.
Estonia, a nation of 1.3 million, held a non-permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council in 2020-2021. | https://www.kron4.com/news/world/ap-international/ap-estonia-changes-tack-wont-side-against-israel-in-un-votes/ | 2022-11-15 00:59:52 | 0 | https://www.kron4.com/news/world/ap-international/ap-estonia-changes-tack-wont-side-against-israel-in-un-votes/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — The powerful algorithms used by Facebook and Instagram to deliver content to users have increasingly been blamed for amplifying misinformation and political polarization. But a series of groundbreaking studies published Thursday suggest addressing these challenges is not as simple as tweaking the platforms’ software.
The four research papers, published in Science and Nature, also reveal the extent of political echo chambers on Facebook, where conservatives and liberals rely on divergent sources of information, interact with opposing groups and consume distinctly different amounts of misinformation.
Algorithms are the automated systems that social media platforms use to suggest content for users by making assumptions based on the groups, friends, topics and headlines a user has clicked on in the past. While they excel at keeping users engaged, algorithms have been criticized for amplifying misinformation and ideological content that has worsened the country’s political divisions.
Proposals to regulate these systems are among the most discussed ideas for addressing social media’s role in spreading misinformation and encouraging polarization. But when the researchers changed the algorithms for some users during the 2020 election, they saw little difference.
“We find that algorithms are extremely influential in people’s on-platform experiences and there is significant ideological segregation in political news exposure,” said Talia Jomini Stroud, director of the Center for Media Engagement at the University of Texas at Austin and one of the leaders of the studies. “We also find that popular proposals to change social media algorithms did not sway political attitudes.”
While political differences are a function of any healthy democracy, polarization occurs when those differences begin to pull citizens apart from each other and the societal bonds they share. It can undermine faith in democratic institutions and the free press.
Significant division can undermine confidence in democracy or democratic institutions and lead to “affective polarization,” when citizens begin to view each other more as enemies than legitimate opposition. It’s a situation that can lead to violence, as it did when supporters of then-President Donald Trump attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
To conduct the analysis, researchers obtained unprecedented access to Facebook and Instagram data from the 2020 election through a collaboration with Meta, the platforms’ owners. The researchers say Meta exerted no control over their findings.
When they replaced the algorithm with a simple chronological listing of posts from friends — an option Facebook recently made available to users — it had no measurable impact on polarization. When they turned off Facebook’s reshare option, which allows users to quickly share viral posts, users saw significantly less news from untrustworthy sources and less political news overall, but there were no significant changes to their political attitudes.
Likewise, reducing the content that Facebook users get from accounts with the same ideological alignment had no significant effect on polarization, susceptibility to misinformation or extremist views.
Together, the findings suggest that Facebook users seek out content that aligns with their views and that the algorithms help by “making it easier for people to do what they’re inclined to do,” according to David Lazer, a Northeastern University professor who worked on all four papers.
Eliminating the algorithm altogether drastically reduced the time users spent on either Facebook or Instagram while increasing their time on TikTok, YouTube or other sites, showing just how important these systems are to Meta in the increasingly crowded social media landscape.
In response to the papers, Meta’s president for global affairs, Nick Clegg, said the findings showed “there is little evidence that key features of Meta’s platforms alone cause harmful ‘affective’ polarization or has any meaningful impact on key political attitudes, beliefs or behaviors.”
Katie Harbath, Facebook’s former director of public policy, said they showed the need for greater research on social media and challenged assumptions about the role social media plays in American democracy. Harbath was not involved in the research.
“People want a simple solution and what these studies show is that it’s not simple,” said Harbath, a fellow at the Bipartisan Policy Center and the CEO of the tech and politics firm Anchor Change. “To me, it reinforces that when it comes to polarization, or people’s political beliefs, there’s a lot more that goes into this than social media.”
One organization that’s been critical of Meta’s role in spreading misinformation about elections and voting called the research “limited’ and noted that it was only a snapshot taken in the midst of an election, and didn’t take into account the effects of years of social media misinformation.
Free Press, a non-profit that advocates for civil rights in tech and media, called Meta’s use of the research ”calculated spin.”
“Meta execs are seizing on limited research as evidence that they shouldn’t share blame for increasing political polarization and violence,” Nora Benavidez, the group’s senior counsel and director of digital justice and civil rights said in a statement. “Studies that Meta endorses, which look piecemeal at narrow time periods, shouldn’t serve as excuses for allowing lies to spread.”
The four studies also revealed the extent of the ideological differences of Facebook users and the different ways that conservatives and liberals use the platform to get news and information about politics.
Conservative Facebook users are more likely to consume content that has been labeled misinformation by fact-checkers. They also have more sources to choose from. The analysis found that among the websites included in political Facebook posts, far more cater to conservatives than liberals.
Overall, 97% of the political news sources on Facebook identified by fact-checkers as having spread misinformation were more popular with conservatives than liberals.
The authors of the papers acknowledged some limitations to their work. While they found that changing Facebook’s algorithms had little impact on polarization, they note that the study only covered a few months during the 2020 election, and therefore cannot assess the long-term impact that algorithms have had since their use began years ago.
They also noted that most people get their news and information from a variety of sources — television, radio, the internet and word-of-mouth — and that those interactions could affect people’s opinions, too. Many in the United States blame the news media for worsening polarization.
To complete their analyses, the researchers pored over data from millions of users of Facebook and Instagram and surveyed specific users who agreed to participate. All identifying information about specific users was stripped out for privacy reasons.
Lazer, the Northeastern professor, said he was at first skeptical that Meta would give the researchers the access they needed, but was pleasantly surprised. He said the conditions imposed by the company were related to reasonable legal and privacy concerns. More studies from the collaboration will be released in coming months.
“There is no study like this,” he said of the research published Thursday. “There’s been a lot of rhetoric about this, but in many ways the research has been quite limited.” | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/technology/ap-technology/ap-deep-dive-into-metas-algorithms-shows-that-americas-political-polarization-has-no-easy-fix/ | 2023-07-28 15:28:17 | 1 | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/technology/ap-technology/ap-deep-dive-into-metas-algorithms-shows-that-americas-political-polarization-has-no-easy-fix/ |
WASHINGTON, June 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Ahead of the first asteroid sample collected by the U.S. arriving on Earth in September, media are invited on Monday, July 24, to meet mission scientists and see NASA's newly-built OSIRIS-REx Sample Curation Laboratory where the agency will study the sample at its Johnson Space Center in Houston.
The asteroid Bennu, the target of the OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security – Regolith Explorer) mission, is a carbonaceous asteroid whose regolith may record the earliest history of our solar system. The Bennu sample may contain the molecular precursors to the origin of life and Earth's oceans, and its study also will help scientists understand planet formation.
The media day will include opportunities to speak with subject matter experts and capture still and moving imagery at the curation lab. Full interviews with subject matter experts will be available after the lab tour concludes.
U.S. and international media interested in participating must request accreditation no later than 5 p.m. CDT Friday, July 7, by contacting the NASA Johnson newsroom at: 281-483-5111 or jsccommu@nasa.gov. Media accreditation is limited due to space.
Johnson houses the world's largest collection of astromaterials from the solar system under one roof, including samples from asteroids, comets, Mars, the Moon, Sun, and dust from other stars. Scientists use world-class laboratories to perform research on planetary materials and the space environment to investigate the origin and evolution of our solar system and beyond.
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TEXAS, USA — "When words can't express how you feel, you make things."
That's what artist Sean Kenney said about his portraits commemorating Uvalde victims, photos of which are going viral online.
He is using LEGO bricks to create each piece of art; the masterpieces will soon be in the hands of each child and teacher's family.
"Try to find a way to capture the spark and the joy that's in their eyes," said Kenney, who's created LEGO art professionally for about 15 years.
When 19 children and two teachers died in last week's rampage on Robb Elementary, it hit close to home for Kenney.
"Not only because I create portraits of kids, but my wife grew up in Texas. I used to live a few hours away from there. My kids are about the same age," he explained.
Kenney lives in Amsterdam now, but part of his heart stayed in Texas.
"I couldn't even express how I was feeling. The sadness, the anger, the confusion, the frustration."
So he looked around online and gathered as many pictures of the kids as he could. Once he found the perfect photos, he created digital renderings of the LEGO portraits for the Uvalde victims.
LEGO portraits of Uvalde victims
"The irony there is children should be playing with toys and not hiding under desks," said Kenney. "In these portraits, I intentionally left many pieces out so they're not finished because these kids didn't get to finish their lives."
Kenney draws them first, then builds them later. Each drawing takes about two to three hours.
Building one, he says, takes about a week. Roughly 10,000 pieces are needed for each portrait.
"I made this as an act of catharsis to express what I was feeling about this situation. I never in a million years thought these families would see these drawing. They started to get tagged and shared and started to send messages reaching out to me," said Kenney.
Kenney says donations came flowing in so he could turn the digital renderings into full-size canvases.
He says friends and volunteers will deliver them to Uvalde families within the next couple of days.
In the future, he plans to build each one out of LEGO bricks -- possibly with the help of the Robb Elementary community. He's still working on that idea.
"If one person like me can just do something as simple as draw and make a change and make people feel better, I guess that's what art is for, and at least it makes me feel like we can all make a difference," he added. | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/special-reports/uvalde-school-shooting/artist-creates-portraits-of-uvalde-victims-out-of-legos-news/273-054b64aa-a8d5-43d6-a1c1-42e5e3dba717 | 2022-06-04 16:47:05 | 0 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/special-reports/uvalde-school-shooting/artist-creates-portraits-of-uvalde-victims-out-of-legos-news/273-054b64aa-a8d5-43d6-a1c1-42e5e3dba717 |
Three people died at Florida’s Panama City Beach Saturday, all in separate drowning incidents.
Water conditions on the day were severe. Double-red flags indicated that no swimming was allowed and that currents were hazardous.
The fatal water incidents occurred behind three different resorts on Front Beach Road.
The Panama City Beach Police Department said officers responded to the first incident at 12:04 p.m., where they found lifeguards actively rescuing a female, 39-year-old Kimberly Ann Mckelvy Moore, from the Gulf of Mexico behind Days Inn. She was brought to shore but unresponsive to life-saving measures. She was transported to a local hospital where she was pronounced dead.
In a second incident, officers found lifeguards actively rescuing a male from the Gulf of Mexico behind Boardwalk Beach Resort at 1:13 p.m. The victim, 63-year-old Morytt James Burden, was transported to a hospital after being unresponsive to life-saving measures, and was pronounced deceased.
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Police responded to a third incident at 4:23 p.m., where lifeguards were attempting to save another male, 68-year-old Donald Wixon, behind Emerald Isle Condos. He was also unresponsive to rescue efforts and pronounced dead at a local hospital.
A spokesperson for Panama City Beach told Scripps News that warning systems are in place across the city when water conditions are dangerous. Here is the full statement:
Every public beach entrance in the city and county (there are 96) has a sign displaying/educating people about the flag warning system.
In addition, the Tourist Development Council flies a plane over the beach with a banner that reads we are under double red and the water is closed.
Code Enforcement officers put up special STOP the Beach is Closed signage on the beach.
The flag warning system includes 52 flags within the City limits, where the flags can be seen flying; they are changed as needed.
The public can sign up for text alerts to receive daily flag status notifications through the Bay County alert system.”
Over the last 10 days, officers responded to calls of 70 swimmers in distress, and 39 of those calls happened on Saturday, police said.
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DENVER, July 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lumen Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: LUMN) (the "Company" or "Lumen") and its indirect, wholly owned subsidiaries Level 3 Financing, Inc. ("Level 3 Financing") and Embarq Florida, Inc. ("Embarq Florida") have commenced cash tender offers pursuant to which (i) Level 3 Financing has offered to purchase any and all of its outstanding 5.375% Senior Notes due 2025 (the "2025 Notes") and 5.250% Senior Notes due 2026 (the "2026 Notes" and, together with the 2025 Notes, the "Any and All Notes") (collectively, the "Any and All Tender Offers") and (ii) Embarq Florida has offered to purchase its 7.125% Senior Notes due 2023 (the "2023 Notes") and 8.375% Senior Notes due 2025 (the "8.375% 2025 Notes" and, together with the 2023 Notes, the "Embarq Notes") and the Company has offered to purchase its outstanding 5.125% Senior Notes due 2026 (the "Lumen Notes" and, together with the Embarq Notes, the "Maximum Tender Notes" and together with the Any and All Notes, the "Notes") (collectively, the "Maximum Tender Offers" and, together with the Any and All Tender Offers, the "Tender Offers") up to an aggregate principal amount of Maximum Tender Notes that will not exceed $1,000,000,000 less the aggregate principal amount of Any and All Notes purchased on the Early Settlement Date (as defined herein), if any (or, if no Early Settlement Date, on the Final Settlement Date (as defined herein)) (subject to increase or decrease by the applicable offeror, the "Aggregate Maximum Tender Amount"); provided that the Tender Offer for the Lumen Notes will be subject to an aggregate principal amount sublimit of $350,000,000 (subject to increase or decrease by us, the "Series Tender Cap"). There is no aggregate principal amount sublimit applicable to any other series of Notes. The Notes subject to the Tender Offers are identified in the tables below:
In conjunction with the Any and All Tender Offers, Level 3 Financing also commenced solicitations (each, a "Consent Solicitation" and, collectively, the "Consent Solicitations"), on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Offer to Purchase and Consent Solicitation Statement (as defined herein), of consents (each, a "Consent" and, collectively, the "Consents") from holders of such Any and All Notes to amend certain provisions (the "Proposed Amendments") of the indenture of Level 3 Financing, dated as of April 28, 2015 (as supplemented, the "2015 Indenture") or the indenture of Level 3 Financing, dated as of March 22, 2016 (as supplemented, the "2016 Indenture"), under which the applicable series of Any and All Notes were issued (each, an "Indenture" and, collectively, the "Indentures"). Subject to the terms and conditions of the Consent Solicitations, the Proposed Amendments would amend the applicable Indenture as described in the Offer to Purchase and Consent Solicitation Statement to, among other things, eliminate substantially all of the restrictive covenants, eliminate certain events of default and modify certain redemption notice requirements contained in such Indenture.
Holders may not tender Any and All Notes without delivering their Consents pursuant to the related Consent Solicitation and may not deliver Consents without tendering their Any and All Notes pursuant to the related Any and All Tender Offer.
The terms and conditions of the Tender Offers and Consent Solicitations are described in an Offer to Purchase and Consent Solicitation Statement, dated July 25, 2022 (as it may be amended or supplemented from time to time, the "Offer to Purchase and Consent Solicitation Statement"). The Tender Offers and Consent Solicitations are subject to the satisfaction or waiver of certain conditions as described therein, including, among other things, completion of the Company's previously-announced divestiture of its Latin America business pursuant to a definitive agreement, dated July 25, 2021, with an affiliate of a fund advised by Stonepeak Partners LP (the "Divestiture Condition").
The amounts of each series of Maximum Tender Notes to be purchased may be prorated as set forth in the Offer to Purchase and Consent Solicitation Statement. The order of priority for the purchase of Maximum Tender Notes (the "Acceptance Priority Levels") is shown in the second table above, with "1" being the highest Acceptance Priority Level and "3" being the lowest Acceptance Priority Level.
Each Tender Offer and Consent Solicitation will expire at midnight, New York City time, at the end of the day on August 19, 2022, unless extended by the applicable offeror with respect to such Tender Offer or Consent Solicitation (such date and time, as it may be extended, the "Expiration Date") or earlier terminated. No tenders of Notes or deliveries of related Consents submitted after the Expiration Date will be valid.
Subject to the terms and conditions of the Tender Offers and the Consent Solicitations, the consideration for each $1,000 principal amount of Notes validly tendered (and not validly withdrawn) and accepted for purchase by the applicable offeror pursuant to the Tender Offers will be the tender offer consideration for such series of Notes set forth in the applicable table above (as applicable, the "Any and All Tender Offer Consideration" or "Maximum Tender Offer Consideration"). Holders of Notes that are validly tendered (with Consents that have been validly delivered, if applicable) and not validly withdrawn (and Consents not validly revoked, if applicable) at or prior to 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on August 5, 2022 (such date and time, as it may be extended by the applicable offeror, the "Early Tender Date") and accepted for purchase by the applicable offeror pursuant to the Tender Offers will be entitled to receive the applicable Any and All Tender Offer Consideration or Maximum Tender Offer Consideration, plus the applicable early tender premium for such series of Notes set forth in the applicable table above (as applicable, the "Any and All Tender Early Tender Premium" or "Maximum Tender Early Tender Premium", and, together with the applicable Any and All Tender Offer Consideration or Maximum Tender Consideration, the "Any and All Tender Total Consideration" or "Maximum Tender Total Consideration", as the case may be), subject to the terms and conditions of the Tender Offers and the Consent Solicitations. Holders of Notes that are validly tendered (with Consents that have been validly delivered, if applicable) after the Early Tender Date but before the Expiration Date and accepted for purchase by the applicable offeror pursuant to the Tender Offers will not be eligible to receive the applicable Any and All Tender Early Tender Premium or Maximum Tender Early Tender Premium, as the case may be. All Notes validly tendered and accepted for purchase by the applicable offeror will, in addition to the applicable consideration set forth in the applicable table above, be entitled to accrued and unpaid interest on such Notes from the last interest payment date with respect to such Notes to, but not including, the applicable Settlement Date (as defined herein) ("Accrued Interest").
Tendered Notes may be validly withdrawn, and delivered Consents may be revoked, at or prior to 5:00 p.m., New York time, on August 5, 2022, unless extended by the applicable offeror with respect to any Tender Offer (or Consent Solicitation, as applicable) (such date and time, as may be extended by the applicable offeror, the "Withdrawal Deadline"). If the applicable Supplemental Indenture (as defined herein) with respect to a series of Any and All Notes effecting the Proposed Amendments is executed, withdrawal of a tender of Any and All Notes of such series after the Withdrawal Deadline will not constitute a revocation of the related Consent. Tenders of Notes and delivery of Consents after the Withdrawal Deadline, but prior to the Expiration Date, may not be validly withdrawn or validly revoked at any time (except in certain limited circumstances where additional withdrawal or revocation rights are required by law).
The applicable offeror reserves the right, but is under no obligation, to increase or decrease the Aggregate Maximum Tender Amount or Series Tender Cap at any time, in each case without extending the Early Tender Date or the Withdrawal Deadline for any Tender Offer or otherwise reinstating withdrawal or revocation rights of holders, subject to applicable law, which could result in the applicable offeror purchasing a greater or lesser amount of Maximum Tender Notes in the Maximum Tender Offers.
The applicable offeror reserves the right, but is under no obligation, at any point following the Early Tender Date and before the Expiration Date, subject to the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions to the Tender Offers and the Consent Solicitations, including the Divestiture Condition, to accept for purchase any Notes validly tendered (with Consents that have been validly delivered, if applicable) and not validly withdrawn (and Consents not validly revoked, if applicable) at or prior to the Early Tender Date (the settlement date of any such purchase being the "Early Settlement Date"), subject to the Aggregate Maximum Tender Amount, the Series Tender Cap, the Acceptance Priority Levels and proration. The Early Settlement Date will be determined at the option of the applicable offeror and is currently expected to occur on August 9, 2022, the second business day after the Early Tender Date, assuming that all conditions to the Tender Offers and the Consent Solicitations have been either satisfied or waived by the applicable offeror, including the Divestiture Condition. The applicable offeror will purchase any remaining Notes that have been validly tendered (with Consents that have been validly delivered, if applicable) and not validly withdrawn (and Consents not validly revoked, if applicable) at or prior to the Expiration Date and that the applicable offeror accepts for purchase, subject to all conditions to the Tender Offers and the Consent Solicitations having been either satisfied or waived by the applicable offeror, including the Divestiture Condition, promptly following the Expiration Date (the settlement date of such purchase being the "Final Settlement Date"; the Final Settlement Date and the Early Settlement Date each being a "Settlement Date"), subject to the Aggregate Maximum Tender Amount, the Series Tender Cap, the Acceptance Priority Levels and proration. The Final Settlement Date is expected to occur on August 23, 2022, the second business day following the Expiration Date, assuming that the conditions to the Tender Offers and the Consent Solicitations are satisfied or waived, including the Divestiture Condition. Notes accepted on the Final Settlement Date, if any, will be accepted subject to the Aggregate Maximum Tender Amount, the Series Tender Cap, the Acceptance Priority Levels and proration, each as described in the Offer to Purchase and Consent Solicitation Statement.
Subject to the Aggregate Maximum Tender Amount, the Series Tender Cap and proration and the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions to the Tender Offers and the Consent Solicitations, including the Divestiture Condition, with respect to the applicable offeror, all Maximum Tender Notes tendered at or before the Early Tender Date having a higher Acceptance Priority Level will be accepted before any Maximum Tender Notes tendered at or before the Early Tender Date having a lower Acceptance Priority Level are accepted, and all Maximum Tender Notes validly tendered after the Early Tender Date having a higher Acceptance Priority Level will be accepted before any Maximum Tender Notes tendered after the Early Tender Date having a lower Acceptance Priority Level are accepted in the Maximum Tender Offers. However, if the Maximum Tender Offers are not fully subscribed as of the Early Tender Date, Maximum Tender Notes tendered at or before the Early Tender Date will be accepted for purchase in priority to other Maximum Tender Notes validly tendered after the Early Tender Date, even if such Maximum Tender Notes tendered after the Early Tender Date have a higher Acceptance Priority Level than Maximum Tender Notes tendered prior to the Early Tender Date, in all cases as further described in the Offer to Purchase and Consent Solicitation Statement.
Acceptance of tenders of any Maximum Tender Notes may be subject to proration if the aggregate principal amount for any series of Maximum Tender Notes validly tendered and not validly withdrawn would result in an amount that exceeds the Aggregate Maximum Tender Amount, or if the Lumen Notes validly tendered and not validly withdrawn would results in an amount that exceeds the Series Tender Cap. If the aggregate principal amount of Maximum Tender Notes or Lumen Notes validly tendered (and not validly withdrawn) at or before the Early Tender Date equals or exceeds the Aggregate Maximum Tender Amount or the Series Tender Cap, respectively, the applicable offeror will not accept for purchase any Maximum Tender Notes or any Lumen Notes tendered after the Early Tender Date, unless the applicable offeror increases the Aggregate Maximum Tender Amount or the Series Tender Cap, respectively, in such offeror's sole discretion.
None of the Tender Offers is contingent upon the delivery of any minimum amount of Consents in the related Consent Solicitation (with respect to the Any and All Tender Offers), the tender of any minimum amount of Notes (either of any series or in the aggregate) or the consummation of any other Tender Offer. The adoption of the Proposed Amendments with respect to either series of Any and All Notes is not conditioned upon the consummation of the other Consent Solicitation or the adoption of the Proposed Amendments in respect of the other series of Any and All Notes.
Level 3 Financing intends to execute a supplement to each Indenture (each, a "Supplemental Indenture") with the trustee with respect to the Proposed Amendments to the applicable Indenture if the requisite consents to effect such Proposed Amendments (the "Requisite Consents") are received, as described in the Offer to Purchase and Consent Solicitation Statement.
Each Supplemental Indenture will become effective upon execution, but will provide that the Proposed Amendments applicable to the relevant series of Any and All Notes will not become operative unless Level 3 Financing accepts for purchase all validly tendered (and not withdrawn) Any and All Notes in the applicable Any and All Tender Offer.
The Company, Level 3 Financing and Embarq Florida may individually amend, extend or, subject to certain conditions and applicable law, terminate the relevant Tender Offer or Consent Solicitation, if applicable, at any time in its sole discretion. Full details of the terms and conditions of the Tender Offers and the Consent Solicitations are described in the Offer to Purchase and Consent Solicitation Statement, which is being sent by the Company to holders of the Notes. Holders of the Notes are encouraged to read the Offer to Purchase and Consent Solicitation Statement, as it contains important information regarding the Tender Offers and the Consent Solicitations.
The Company, Level 3 Financing and Embarq Florida have retained Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, Barclays Capital Inc., RBC Capital Markets, LLC and TD Securities (USA) LLC to act as dealer managers for the Tender Offers and the solicitation agents for the Consent Solicitations. Questions and requests for assistance regarding the terms of the Tender Offers and the Consent Solicitations should be directed to Citigroup Global Markets Inc. at (800) 558-3745 (toll-free) or (212) 723-6106 (collect), Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC at (800) 624-1808 (toll-free) or (212) 761-1057 (collect), Barclays Capital Inc. at (800) 438-3242 (toll-free) or (212) 528-7581 (collect), RBC Capital Markets, LLC at (877) 381-2099 (toll-free) or (212) 618-7843 (collect) or TD Securities (USA) LLC at (866) 584-2096 (toll-free) or (212) 827-2842 (collect). Requests for copies of the Offer to Purchase and Consent Solicitation Statement and other documents relating to the Tender Offers and the Consent Solicitations may be directed to Global Bondholder Services Corporation, the tender and information agent for the Tender Offers, at (212) 430-3774 (for banks and brokers only) or (855) 654-2014 (toll-free) (for all others) or contact@gbsc-usa.com.
None of the Company, Level 3 Financing, Embarq Florida, any subsidiaries, affiliates, directors, managers or officers of any of the aforementioned parties, the dealer managers and solicitation agents, the tender and information agent or the trustees with respect to the Notes is making any recommendation as to whether holders should tender any Notes in response to the Tender Offers or deliver any Consents pursuant to the Consent Solicitations, and no one has been authorized by any of them to make such a recommendation. Holders must make their own independent decision as to whether to tender their Notes and, if applicable, to deliver their Consents, and, if so, the principal amount of Notes as to which any such action is to be taken.
The Tender Offers and the Consent Solicitations are only being made pursuant to the Offer to Purchase and Consent Solicitation Statement. This press release is neither an offer to purchase nor a solicitation of an offer to sell any Notes in the Tender Offers. The Tender Offers and the Consent Solicitations are not being made to holders of Notes in any jurisdiction in which the making or acceptance thereof would not be in compliance with the securities, blue sky or other laws of such jurisdiction. In any jurisdiction in which the Tender Offers and the Consent Solicitations are required to be made by a licensed broker or dealer, the Tender Offers and the Consent Solicitations will be deemed to be made on behalf of the applicable offeror by the dealer managers and solicitation agents, or one or more registered brokers or dealers that are licensed under the laws of such jurisdiction.
About Lumen
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It's the company's third acquisition in the medical communications space in 2 years
NEW YORK, March 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Fingerpaint Group, an integrated collective of healthcare companies that offer commercialization solutions spanning the full product life cycle, is growing its robust medical communications expertise with the acquisition of PharmaHEALTHLabs, a highly scientific healthcare communications agency that specializes in the oncology and biologics space. Details of the transaction were not disclosed.
In 2020, Fingerpaint Group partnered with the San Francisco–based private equity firm Knox Lane to accelerate its trajectory through organic growth and strategic partnerships. Since then, Fingerpaint Group has experienced exponential growth in its roster of capabilities, customers, and talent.
PharmaHEALTHLabs will be rebranded as Fingerpaint Medical Communications and join Fingerpaint Group's Specialty Services offerings, which include medical and scientific communications, market access, and naming and branding capabilities.
"As therapies in the oncology and biologics space become more complex, Fingerpaint Medical Communications' ability to distill the necessary elements of effective communication and optimize strategic execution has never been more critical," said Bill McEllen, Global President, Fingerpaint Group. "This is our third acquisition in the medical communications space in 2 years and the second with a hyperfocused specialty. It supports our mission to continue deepening our expertise in the areas we know are of growing importance to the biopharma industry."
"Jennifer and her team's meticulous approach mixes education, collaboration, and innovation to deliver results that drive measurable value for biopharma companies," said Brannon Cashion, President, Specialty Services, Fingerpaint Group.
"Our deep scientific knowledge ensures each project is not only compelling and engaging, but also simple to understand and communicate," said Jennifer Harmon, Co-Founder and Managing Director of PharmaHEALTHLabs. "Joining Fingerpaint Group will provide our employees with opportunities for growth and give our customers access to the extensive solutions that Fingerpaint Group offers at every phase of the commercialization process."
Excel Partners acted as exclusive financial advisor to PharmaHEALTHLabs in this transaction.
About Fingerpaint Group
Results Measured in Humanity™.
We are an integrated collective of healthcare companies that offer commercialization solutions spanning the full product life cycle. Our creative solutions are fueled by the deep human and scientific insights that drive change. Informed by data and driven by innate curiosity and creativity, Fingerpaint Group solves the business and human challenges that hinder positive health experiences. We believe everything we do can help paint a healthy future.
Fingerpaint Group is composed of marketing services including Fingerpaint, Fingerpaint Multicultural, and Engage; and specialty services including Fingerpaint Market Access, Leaderboard Branding, MedThink Communications, MedThink SciCom, Parsons Medical Communications, and Fingerpaint Medical Communications. Collectively, its companies have been named Agency of the Year 5 times; honored by the Lisbon International Health Festival, DTC National, D&AD, the Clio Awards, and the Webby, Telly, and Global Awards; acknowledged as a DE&I Champion; named Best Places to Work twice by Ad Age; and included on Inc. Magazine's list of the 5,000 Fastest-Growing Companies for 10 consecutive years. Visit Fingerpaint Group at www.fingerpaint.com.
About Knox Lane
Based in San Francisco, Knox Lane is a growth-oriented investment firm composed of a team of accomplished investors and operators with a shared work history and a strong track record of partnering with leading companies to accelerate transformational growth. Knox Lane employs an investor-operator mind-set and seeks to provide support across a number of business components, including human capital, brand management, end-to-end digital transformation, sourcing, supply chain and logistics, strategic acquisitions, and business development. For more information, please visit www.knoxlane.com.
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Colleen Carter
ccarter@fingerpaint.com
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ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — An explosion and fire near an illegal oil refinery site in Nigeria’s Niger Delta region killed at least 12 people Friday, police said, although local residents reported a much higher death toll.
The explosion in Emuoha council area of the southern Rivers state occurred along a pipeline targeted by illegal refinery operators who were trying to steal oil, state police spokesperson Grace Iringe-Koko said.
“We are aware that there was an explosion relating to bunkering activities,” she said, adding that authorities were working to determine the number of casualties and the cause of the incident.
People in the area told The Associated Press that dozens may have died in the fire that raged for hours and that the victims were mostly young people who planned to siphon oil from a pipeline and to transport to an illegal refinery site in at least five vehicles.
Fyneface Dumnamene, executive director of Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre, said a spark from the exhaust pipe of a bus loaded with gallons of crude oil ignited the explosion as the driver attempted to depart.
“Everybody in about five vehicles there was all burnt,” Dumnamene told the AP.
Illegal refineries are a lucrative business in Nigeria, one of Africa’s top oil producers. They are more rampant in the oil-rich Niger Delta region, where most of the nation’s oil facilities are located.
The workers at such facilities rarely adhere to safety standards, leading to frequent fires, including one in Imo state last year in which more than 100 people were killed.
Nigeria lost at least $3 billion worth of crude oil to theft between January 2021 and February 2022. Shady business operators often avoid regulators by setting up refineries in remote areas such as the one in Imo, the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) said last year. | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/police-illegal-refinery-blast-in-nigeria-kills-at-least-12/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_business | 2023-03-03 11:11:40 | 0 | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/police-illegal-refinery-blast-in-nigeria-kills-at-least-12/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_business |
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Note: Two points for a team winning in overtime or shootout; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns.
Wednesday's results
Swift Current 5 Lethbridge 4
Red Deer 6 Victoria 2
Thursday's results
Vancouver 2 Edmonton 1
Friday's results
Winnipeg at Brandon, 7 p.m.
Calgary at Edmonton, 7 p.m.
Victoria at Swift Current, 7 p.m.
Vancouver at Red Deer, 7 p.m.
Everett at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.
Saskatoon at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.
Seattle at Prince George, 7 p.m.
Kelowna at Portland, 7 p.m.
Spokane at Kamloops, 7 p.m.
Saturday's games
Brandon at Winnipeg, 7:05 p.m.
Everett at Regina, 7 p.m.
Seattle at Prince George, 6 p.m.
Swift Current at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.
Kelowna at Portland, 6 p.m.
Tri-City at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.
Victoria at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.
Saskatoon at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Kamloops at Spokane, 7:05 p.m.
Sunday's games
Vancouver at Calgary, 2 p.m.
Red Deer at Edmonton, 4 p.m.
Tri-City at Regina, 4 p.m.
Tuesday's games
Everett at Winnipeg, 7:05 p.m.
Victoria at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Tri-City at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.
Vancouver at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.
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NEW YORK (AP) — British Prime Minister Liz Truss says the death of Queen Elizabeth II is a “very difficult moment” for the country, and acknowledged that dealing with it has been a challenge for her untested new government.
Truss took office just two days before the queen died on Sept. 8, and the first days of her term have been spent attending memorial services and the funeral of Britain’s longest-reigning monarch.
Truss has had to temporarily set aside her policy plans, and said she was “focused on making sure we as a nation mourn her late majesty and welcome King Charles.”
“It has been a momentous period and a period of great grief and sadness in the United Kingdom, and I think you have seen a huge outpouring of love and affection for her late majesty as well as a huge amount of warmth towards King Charles III,” Truss told reporters late Monday as she flew to New York to attend the United Nations General Assembly.
“At the funeral we saw such huge public support and I have also seen that from world leaders who have come to London in unprecedented numbers,” she said.
Truss won a Conservative Party leadership contest on Sept. 5 and was formally appointed prime minister by the queen the next day at Balmoral Castle. Elizabeth died at her beloved Balmoral estate in the Scottish Highlands on Sept. 8, aged 96.
Truss said she was “hugely honored” to have been appointed by the queen in one of the monarch’s final acts.
With the queen’s death, the new prime minister had to put her policy plans on hold during 10 days of national mourning. She said that since the queen died she had had “the most tremendous support” from civil servants, royal staff and the armed forces who worked on the long-rehearsed plans for the monarch’s passing and its aftermath.
“What has been a very difficult moment for our nation, the way it has been handed is tremendous,” Truss said.
“I just feel it’s a very important part of my role as prime minister to make sure that we are marking this very important moment in our nation’s history.”
Britain’s usually rancorous politics, put on pause by the monarch’s death, are due to resume this week. Truss is spending two days at the U.N. trying to build bridges and shore up Western support for Ukraine.
Then on Friday, U.K. Treasury chief Kwasi Kwarteng is due to give an emergency budget statement with details of how the government plans to tackle soaring energy prices and surging inflation. | https://www.ksn.com/news/national-world/ap-international/ap-leader-truss-says-queens-death-is-difficult-moment-for-uk/ | 2022-09-20 11:59:26 | 0 | https://www.ksn.com/news/national-world/ap-international/ap-leader-truss-says-queens-death-is-difficult-moment-for-uk/ |
NEW YORK, Aug. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- King & Spalding announced today that Marisa Sotomayor has joined the firm as a partner in its Corporate, Finance and Investments (CFI) practice group. Sotomayor is based in New York.
Sotomayor represents investment banks and institutional lenders, private credit funds, direct and non-traditional lenders, private equity sponsors and corporate borrowers in a wide range of domestic and cross-border leveraged finance and restructuring transactions, including cash flow and asset-based credits, acquisition financings and leveraged buyouts, syndicated transactions, bilateral and club deals, first/second lien and unitranche loans, refinancings and dividend recapitalizations. She also has experience leading syndicated project financings.
"Marisa is an excellent strategic and cultural fit for our firm and will be a key component of our practice's continuing international growth. She is a smart and well-connected lawyer with a strong reputation in the market and is energetic, highly-motivated, and team-oriented," said Todd Holleman, head of the firm's CFI practice group. "She also is known and respected by many of the partners in our finance practice and highly valued by the clients we share."
Sotomayor joins the firm from Paul Hastings. She is ranked in Chambers USA 2022 and has been named a "Rising Star" by the New York Law Journal, Law360 and the Women's Bond Club and an Emerging Leader by M&A Advisor. She earned her undergraduate degree, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, and her Master of Public Administration degree, each from the University at Albany, State University of New York. She earned her J.D. from the Fordham University School of Law.
"One of the best ways we can serve our clients is by collaborating across teams and capabilities to bring innovative solutions to the table," said Sotomayor. "I know from having worked with many of my new colleagues and from the firm's reputation generally that this approach to client service and legal practice is a hallmark of King & Spalding. I am very excited to see what we can do together to build on the firm's excellent global platform for serving the lending and financial services industry."
Celebrating more than 130 years of service, King & Spalding is an international law firm that represents a broad array of clients, including half of the Fortune Global 100, with 1,200 lawyers in 23 offices in the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. The firm has handled matters in over 160 countries on six continents and is consistently recognized for the results it obtains, uncompromising commitment to quality, and dedication to understanding the business and culture of its clients. More information is available at www.kslaw.com.
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- Guests choose the gear they want, for the full season or for the day, from a selection of the most popular and latest models
- Gear will be tuned and available to guests at any participating resort, guaranteed, with free in-resort delivery plus pick up and drop off slopeside, every day
- Low daily fee for only the days the guest skis or rides
BROOMFIELD, Colo., March 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Vail Resorts, Inc. (NYSE: MTN) today announced My Epic Gear, a new membership program that provides the best benefits of gear ownership but with more choice, lower cost and no hassle. My Epic Gear provides its members with the ability to choose the gear they want, for the full season or for the day, from a selection of the most popular and latest ski and snowboard models, and have it delivered to them when and where they want it, guaranteed, with free slopeside pick up and drop off every day. In addition to offering the best skis and snowboards, My Epic Gear will also offer name brand, high-quality ski and snowboard boots with customized insoles and boot fit scanning technology. The entire My Epic Gear membership – from gear selection to boot fit to personalized recommendations to delivery – will be at the members' fingertips through the new My Epic app.
My Epic Gear will officially launch ahead of the 2024/25 winter season at Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge, Keystone, Whistler Blackcomb, Park City Mountain, Crested Butte, Heavenly, Northstar, Stowe, Okemo and Mount Snow. Further expansions are expected in future years. A limited number of Epic Pass Holders will pilot the membership at Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge and Keystone during the 2023/24 season.
"Having the right gear is essential to the experience of every skier and rider, however, the traditional model of gear ownership and gear rental has not changed in decades," said Kirsten Lynch, chief executive officer of Vail Resorts. "My Epic Gear reimagines gear ownership and gear rental, whether guests want the certainty of their gear for the season or for the day, transforming the quality, service, convenience and cost of one of the most critical parts of the mountain experience."
"Like many other business models in lodging and transportation that leverage technology and scale to allow guests to transition from ownership to the benefits of the 'access economy,' My Epic Gear will leverage our extensive footprint and experience selling, renting and delivering gear, our prime slopeside locations across our mountain resorts, our data, the relationships we have with top gear vendors and over two million Pass Holders, as well as the scale to invest in the technology and most popular gear for the guest," continued Lynch.
My Epic Gear Membership Benefits
- Choose a model of ski or snowboard at the beginning of a season, and be guaranteed that model will be available any day of the season, fully tuned.
- Try a different model of ski or snowboard any day, such as powder skis, based on availability.
- Select from the most popular and latest skis, snowboards and boots.
- Choose from name brand, high-quality ski and snowboard boots with customized insoles and boot fitting process. Option to opt out of choosing boots, if guests prefer to use their own.
- Ease of free in-resort delivery, and slopeside pick up and drop off every day, at every participating mountain resort.
- The new My Epic app will manage the entire experience, from gear selection to boot fitting to delivery.
- Low daily fee for each day the gear is used.
The Gear You Want
At the beginning of the season, My Epic Gear members can select a favorite model of ski or snowboard and that gear will be tuned and available to them every day, at any participating resort, guaranteed.
My Epic Gear will have 15 different leading brands and more than 50 of the most popular and latest ski and snowboard models available, including personalized recommendations to help guests determine the right gear for their needs. My Epic Gear's customized boot fittings will leverage scanning technology, and members will have access to name brand, high-quality boots with insoles for a customized fit. Members can also opt out of choosing boots, if they prefer to use their own.
In addition to choosing their favorite gear for the season, guests can also sample from the most sought-after brands and models of skis and snowboards for all terrains, weather conditions and skill levels, subject to availability. My Epic Gear will collect guest feedback throughout the season and will recommend the best option for a guest based upon their experience level, conditions, and the latest equipment choices, as well as reviews from members in the program.
"Most gear owners have their skis and snowboard sitting idle, untuned, for most of the year, but they want the certainty of having the gear they want when they get on the mountain. My Epic Gear will offer a much lower cost option, without the hassle of transporting, maintaining, or upgrading to the latest models, while still providing the certainty of having the gear they choose when they get on the mountain. For gear renters, My Epic Gear gets them the best skis and snowboards, name brand, high quality-boots with a customized fit, and the specific gear they want, ready for them, when and where they want it," continued Lynch.
Gear When You Want It, Where You Want It
My Epic Gear members will have their chosen gear delivered to where they are staying in-resort, and every day have the benefit of slopeside drop-off and pick-up, eliminating the need to haul gear to and from or around the resort.
The My Epic Gear experience will be completely managed seamlessly on the company's new My Epic App, eliminating the need to ever step foot in a store. Members will select their favorite gear in the app, and where and when they want it every day.
A full season My Epic Gear membership for adults will cost $50, which will unlock the benefits of all the premium gear and convenience and enable daily gear reservations for $50 per day (less than the average daily cost of owning gear for a destination guest and less than the price of premium demo rentals). Child pricing will be introduced as part of the full launch of the program for the 2024/2025 season.
Pilot Season
My Epic Gear membership will be offered exclusively to a limited number of Vail Resorts' Epic Pass Holders during the pilot program throughout the 2023/24 season at Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge and Keystone.
Expansion is planned for the 2024/2025 season at Whistler Blackcomb, Park City Mountain, Crested Butte, Heavenly, Northstar, Stowe, Okemo and Mount Snow, with further expansions planned for future seasons.
My Epic Gear is the latest innovation from Vail Resorts, which also owns and operates retail and rental businesses, including Epic Mountain Gear and Epic Mountain Rentals.
About Vail Resorts, Inc. (NYSE: MTN)
Vail Resorts is a network of the best destination and close-to-home ski resorts in the world including Vail Mountain, Breckenridge, Park City Mountain, Whistler Blackcomb, Stowe, and 32 additional resorts across North America; Andermatt-Sedrun in Switzerland; and Perisher, Hotham, and Falls Creek in Australia. We are passionate about providing an Experience of a Lifetime to our team members and guests, and our EpicPromise is to reach a zero net operating footprint by 2030, support our employees and communities, and broaden engagement in our sport. Our company owns and/or manages a collection of elegant hotels under the RockResorts brand, a portfolio of vacation rentals, condominiums and branded hotels located in close proximity to our mountain destinations, as well as the Grand Teton Lodge Company in Jackson Hole, Wyo. Vail Resorts Retail operates more than 250 retail and rental locations across North America. Learn more about our company at www.VailResorts.com, or discover our resorts and pass options at www.EpicPass.com.
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A 21-year-old Russian soldier facing the first war crimes trial since Moscow invaded Ukraine pleaded guilty Wednesday to killing an unarmed civilian.
Sgt. Vadim Shishimarin could get life in prison for shooting a 62-year-old Ukrainian man in the head through an open car window in the northeastern Sumy region on Feb. 28, four days into the invasion.
Shishimarin, a captured member of a Russian tank unit, was prosecuted under a section of the Ukrainian criminal code that addresses the laws and customs of war.
Ukrainian Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova previously said her office was readying war crimes cases against 41 Russian soldiers for offenses that included bombing civilian infrastructure, killing civilians, rape and looting.
It was not immediately clear how many of the suspects are in Ukrainian hands and how many would be tried in absentia.
Prosecutors plan to continue presenting evidence against Shishimarin following his guilty plea, although the trial is like to be shorter.
As the inaugural war-crimes case in Ukraine, Shishimarin’s prosecution was being watched closely. Investigators have been collecting evidence of possible war crimes to bring before the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
Venediktova’s office has said it was looking into more than 10,700 potential war crimes involving more than 600 suspects, including Russian soldiers and government officials.
With help from foreign experts, prosecutors are investigating allegations that Russian troops violated Ukrainian and international law by killing, torturing and abusing possibly thousands of Ukrainian civilians.
Shishimarin’s trial opened Friday, when he made a brief court appearance while lawyers and judges discussed prosecedural matters. After his plea on Wednesday, the proceedings were continued until Thursday, when the trial is expecgted to resume in a large courtroom to accomodate more journalists.
Ukrainian authorities posted a few details on social media last week from their investigation in his case.
Shishimarin was among a group of Russian troops that fled Ukrainian forces on Feb. 28, according to Venediktova’s Facebook account. The Russians allegedly fired at a private car and seized the vehicle, then drove to Chupakhivka, a village about 200 miles east of Kyiv.
On the way, the prosecutor-general alleged, the Russian soldiers saw a man walking on the sidewalk and talking on his phone. Shyshimarin was ordered to kill the man so he wouldn’t be able to report them to Ukrainian military authorities. Venediktova did not identify who gave the order.
Shyshimarin fired his Kalashnikov rifle through the open window and hit the victim in the head, Venediktova wrote.
“The man died on the spot just a few dozen meters from his house,” she said.
The Security Service of Ukraine, known as the SBU, posted a short video on May 4 of Shyshimarin speaking in front of camera and briefly describing how he shot the man. The SBU described the video as “one of the first confessions of the enemy invaders.”
“I was ordered to shoot,” Shyshimarin said. “I shot one (round) at him. He falls. And we kept on going.”
Russia is believed to be preparing war crime trials for Ukrainian soldiers. | https://www.wishtv.com/news/international/russian-soldier-pleads-guilty-at-ukraine-war-crimes-trial/ | 2022-05-18 19:05:15 | 1 | https://www.wishtv.com/news/international/russian-soldier-pleads-guilty-at-ukraine-war-crimes-trial/ |
Rescue rats trained to search for disaster survivors
(CNN) - A nonprofit is outfitting rats with high-tech backpacks and training them to help search for survivors of natural and man-made disasters.
Natural disasters like earthquakes and hurricanes can level entire communities, and for search and rescue teams, it’s a painstaking task as they work against time to find survivors.
But unlikely saviors are being trained to help out: rats with tiny, high-tech backpacks carrying video cameras.
The project, conceived by Belgian nonprofit APOPO, trains the rats to help first responders search for survivors among rubble in disaster zones.
“Rats are typically quite curious and like to explore – and that is key for search and rescue,” said Donna Kean, a behavioral research scientist and leader of the project.
Some rats have been trained for other emergency situations, like sniffing out landmines and even detecting tuberculosis.
“Even if our rats find just one survivor at a debris site, I think we would be happy to know it’s made a difference somewhere,” Kean told CNN.
Not every rodent can become a part of the rescue pack. APOPO’s programs use African giant pouched rats, which have a longer lifespan in captivity than the common brown rat.
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CARLSBAD, Calif. (WRIC) — Alan Arkin, the award-winning actor from such films as “Little Miss Sunshine,” “Catch-22” and “Argo” is dead at 89.
According to Variety, the Oscar and Tony award-winning actor died at his home in Carlsbad, California, on Thursday, June 29.
“Our father was a uniquely talented force of nature, both as an artist and a man,” a statement from Arkin’s sons reads. “A loving husband, father, grand and great grandfather, he was adored and will be deeply missed.” | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/alan-arkin-award-winning-actor-dead-at-89/ | 2023-06-30 16:12:37 | 1 | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/alan-arkin-award-winning-actor-dead-at-89/ |
LOS ANGELES, April 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Platinum Equity announced today the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire the JELD-WEN Australasia windows, doors and related building products business from JELD-WEN Holding, Inc. (NYSE: JELD) for approximately $461 million.
The transaction is expected to close in the third quarter of 2023, subject to certain closing conditions and regulatory approvals.
"We are proud to have crafted a divestiture solution that delivers speed and certainty to JELD-WEN at a time when the M&A market remains challenging," said Platinum Equity Co-President Louis Samson. "We are excited about the prospects for the Australasia business. Platinum has decades of experience with corporate carve outs, helping establish standalone companies that can maximize their potential."
JELD-WEN's Australasia business is a leading Australian designer, manufacturer and distributor of windows and doors. It employs approximately 5,000 people and comprises 41 manufacturing locations across Australia, Malaysia and Indonesia. Its notable brands include Corinthian®, Stegbar®, A&L®, Trend® and Breezway®, among others.
"JELD-WEN has built an impressive business in Australasia, with well-recognized brands and a long legacy of manufacturing high-quality products," said Platinum Equity Managing Director Adam Cooper. "The business is resilient, has performed well through numerous cycles, and is well-positioned for long-term success."
Mr. Cooper said Platinum Equity is the perfect partner for JELD-WEN's Australasia business.
"With our experience in Australia, knowledge of the building products space, and our carve out expertise and operational capabilities, we look forward to helping the business navigate a dynamic housing market," Mr. Cooper added. "This investment is right in our wheelhouse. We will work with management to continue providing high-quality, reliable solutions for customers across Australia."
Platinum Equity's current portfolio includes Winc, an office products provider formed through a combination of Staples and OfficeMax assets Platinum Equity acquired in Australia and New Zealand. Platinum Equity previously owned Sensis, an Australian directories business the firm acquired from Telstra.
In the building products space, the firm's current portfolio includes Cabinetworks, the largest independently owned manufacturer and distributor of kitchen and bath cabinets in the United States, and PGS, a provider of hard surface floor coverings. Previous building products investments include: Interior Logic Group, a provider of interior design and finish solutions for the homebuilding industry; PrimeSource, a national distributor of specialty building materials; and Nilco, a wholesale distributor of specialty building materials and industrial products.
Gresham Advisory Partners is serving as financial adviser to Platinum Equity, and Allens is serving as Platinum Equity's legal counsel. Macquarie Capital is serving as financial adviser to JELD-WEN and Herbert Smith Freehills is serving as legal counsel.
About Platinum Equity
Founded in 1995 by Tom Gores, Platinum Equity is a global investment firm with approximately $47 billion of assets under management and a portfolio of approximately 50 operating companies that serve customers around the world. Platinum Equity specializes in mergers, acquisitions and operations – a trademarked strategy it calls M&A&O® – acquiring and operating companies in a broad range of business markets, including manufacturing, distribution, transportation and logistics, equipment rental, metals services, media and entertainment, technology, telecommunications and other industries. Over the past 27 years Platinum Equity has completed more than 350 acquisitions.
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Los Angeles is facing some of the most severe water restrictions the city has ever seen. Will lawns survive? Some suggest the city should eliminate this elitist status symbol all together.
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G FUEL Brimstone Will be Available as a Collector's Box and Tub at GFUEL.com for a Limited Time
NEW YORK, March 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- G FUEL is pleased to announce that its second partnership with Edmund McMillen's The Binding of Isaac, G FUEL Brimstone, is now available for pre-order in a Collector's Box and Tub at GFUEL.com while supplies last!
"When G FUEL asked me to do a Brimstone-flavored energy drink due to how stupidly successful our Isaac's Tears flavor was last year, I was all, 'let me get this straight: You want to flavor a drink after demonic blood vomit?!' But no one responded because I was just alone in my office staring at a computer screen," said McMillen. "Then I emailed them back saying 'sure!' And I'm sure excited to see what everyone thinks of the most evil flavor they have released yet!"
Would you sell your soul for Brimstone? Now there's no need when you use the all-new G FUEL Brimstone! You don't need to make a Devil Deal to obtain this sweet, tart and devilishly delicious synergy of Raspberry and Cranberry! What synergies will you find with this flavor?
The limited-edition Brimstone Collector's Box comes with an exclusive "The Binding of Isaac's Four Souls" card so you recharge and deal some damage on the tabletop!
Each 40-serving Tub of G FUEL Brimstone is sugar free and loaded with antioxidants from 18 different fruit extracts. Each serving has only 15 calories and contains 140 mg of caffeine.
"Launching Isaac's Tears was a bloody good time, so we were eager to keep our Binding of Isaac celebration going with a delicious flavor combination based on one of the coolest items in the game," said G FUEL Founder and CEO Cliff Morgan. "As they say, 'Always take Brimstone!'"
Grab the new G FUEL Brimstone Collector's Box and Tub, now at GFUEL.com!
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G FUEL provides fans with a game-changing, performance-driven alternative to standard energy drink products. With an ever-expanding, sugar-free product lineup that includes a powdered Energy Formula, ready-to-drink cans, powdered Hydration Formula and Sparkling Hydration bottles, G FUEL has firmly established itself as a market leader in the energy drink industry.
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Pittsburgh Steelers vs. Carolina Panthers picks, predictions: Who wins NFL Week 15 game?
The Pittsburgh Steelers and Carolina Panthers play on Sunday in a game on the NFL Week 15 schedule.
Which team will win the game?
Check out these NFL Week 15 picks and predictions for the game, which can be seen at 11 a.m. MST on CBS.
The Panthers are a 2.5-point favorite in the game.
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The Arizona Republic: Panthers 20, Steelers 17
Jeremy Cluff writes: "The Panthers are just 1-5 on the road, but this game will be at home, where they are 4-3."
Bookies.com: Take the Panthers vs. Steelers
Bill Speros writes: "The Steelers are recovering from another loss to the Ravens. Oddsmakers have yet to give the Cats much respect this season. Carolina is a 2.5-point home dog in this one and has covered in four straight. Make it five. Here, kitty, kitty."
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ESPN: Panthers have a 53.1% chance to win the game
The site gives the Steelers a 46.2% chance to get the victory.
Draft Kings: Bet the Panthers to cover vs. Steelers
It writes: "If the Steelers are still without Kenny Pickett next week, the Panthers should be able to cover this spread. Mitch Trubisky threw three interceptions against the Ravens, and the Ravens’ run game was successful against the Steelers defense. D’Onta Foreman and Chuba Hubbard should be able to have another big week for the Panthers."
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Sports Betting Dime: Panthers 16.9, Steelers 14
The site's formula predicts that the Panthers will win the Week 15 NFL game.
OddsChecker: Go with the Panthers with the points vs. Steelers
It writes: "The Panthers are hot and at home, the Steelers are cold and likely going to their backup QB. Don’t overthink this one, take Carolina."
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Pictured from left are Mark Harig, Jorden Jenson, Jonathan Rymer and Matthew Mendoza. Harig and Jenson were at Riverland Community College Thursday to present a $500 donation to Rymer, a faculty instructor in the trucking program. The program teaches a 16-week course to students to become semi truck drivers. With shipping in today’s market, there is a tremendous shortage of trained drivers to transport products. Mendoza, who is joining Western Star Lodge, was expected to finish his training through the Riverland program this week. The donation came after Rymer presented about the trucking program at Western Star Lodge’s October meeting. Provided | https://www.albertleatribune.com/2022/11/rcc-trucking-program-gets-500-donation/ | 2022-11-19 04:40:03 | 1 | https://www.albertleatribune.com/2022/11/rcc-trucking-program-gets-500-donation/ |
WASHINGTON, June 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
Media Advisory: Conference to Provide Window on OECD's Tax Work
Dateline: Washington, D.C., June 27-28, 2022
What: 15th Annual OECD International Tax Conference
Who:
Pascal Saint-Amans, Director, OECD Center for Tax Policy and Administration
Peter Robinson, President and CEO, U.S. Council for International Business (USCIB)
Fabrizia Lapecorella, Chair, OECD Committee on Fiscal Affairs; Director General of Finance, Ministry of Finance Italy
Grace Perez-Navarro – Deputy Director, Centre for Tax Policy and Administration, OECD
Martin Kreienbaum – Director General, International Taxation, Federal Ministry of Finance, Germany
Itai Grinberg – Deputy Assistant Secretary (International Tax Affairs), U.S. Treasury
Mike Williams – Director, Business and International Tax, HM Treasury, United Kingdom
Gael Perraud – Co–Chair, OECD Task Force on the Digital Economy; Director of International Taxation and European Affairs, Ministry of Economy and Finance, France
Achim Pross – Head of International Cooperation and Tax Administration Division, Centre for Tax Policy and Administration, OECD
Alan McLean – Chairperson, Business at OECD Committee on Taxation and Fiscal Affairs and Executive Vice President, Tax and Controller, Shell International Limited
Tim McDonald – Chairperson, USCIB Tax Committee and Senior Vice President, Finance & Accounting, Global Taxes, The Procter & Gamble Company
Louise Weingrod – Vice Chairperson, USCIB Tax Committee and Vice President, Global Taxation, Johnson & Johnson
Other tax officials from OECD and G20 governments.
Tax executives from major U.S. and foreign companies.
When:
Conference opens Monday, June 27, 2022 at 8:30 a.m.
Concludes Tuesday, June 28 at 1:05 p.m.
Full agenda and registration at www.uscib.org/2022-oecd-tax-conference/.
Where:
Four Seasons Hotel
2800 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C.
Media & Press Registration:
REGISTER BY June 20
Following years of intergovernmental discussions at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), more than 130 countries and jurisdictions agreed on a landmark Statement and Detailed Implementation Plan on the two-pillar approach to addressing the tax challenges arising from the digitization of the economy, which was subsequently endorsed by the G20. Against this backdrop, the United States Council for International Business (USCIB) will host its latest annual conference on the broad overview of work and next steps, June 27-28, 2022 in Washington, D.C.
The conference is organized in cooperation with the 38-nation OECD, the leading global forum for discussion of international tax policies, along with Business at OECD (BIAC). It provides a unique opportunity for the U.S. business community to interact with key representatives from the OECD Center for Tax Policy and Administration, along with senior tax officials from the U.S. and other key countries involved in the OECD's international tax work.
USCIB promotes open markets, competitiveness and innovation, sustainable development and corporate responsibility, supported by international engagement and regulatory coherence. Its members include U.S.-based global companies and professional services firms from every sector of our economy, with operations in every region of the world. With a unique global network encompassing international business organizations, USCIB provides business views to policymakers and regulatory authorities worldwide, working to facilitate international trade and investment. More information: www.uscib.org.
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BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — The cold and snowy day at Folsom Field began with Deion “Coach Prime” Sanders taking off his white cowboy hat near midfield and taking a bow.
It ended in virtually the same spot, with the Buffaloes huddled around their new coach and the crowd cheering.
Sanders and the Buffaloes certainly staged quite a show Saturday with the stands full of fans eager to catch a glimpse of what could be in store come fall.
In more of a glorified practice than a spring game due to the snowy conditions, the Buffaloes showed something they haven’t in a hot minute — promise.
“I’m amazed and just stoked,” said Sanders, who’s overhauling a squad that went 1-11 last season. “Today was phenomenal. I’m really happy, appreciative and thankful.”
All of it was quite a spectacle. There was the kickoff by Peggy Coppom, a big Buffaloes fan in her 90s who Sanders enticed to boot the ball to begin the action.
“Her kickoff was phenomenal. Went through the uprights and everything,” joked Sanders, who called her the MVP.
The announced attendance was 47,277 fans, which was more than the last nine versions of the spring game combined.
Standers stood out in his cowboy hat, puffy vest with “Prime” stenciled on it and the gold whistle dangling from his neck. He had his play-calling sheet clipped to his side, but he was more motivator than play-caller as he stood behind the line of scrimmage.
It was like one big Colorado reunion, with Buffaloes football royalty showing up to watch. Names like Jeremy Bloom, Michael Westbrook, Kordell Stewart, Mason Crosby and Alfred Williams were there to show support.
Even the national championship trophy was in attendance, giving fans a chance to dream.
“I’ve never seen this type of energy. This is the spring game, remember, a scrimmage,” Bloom said with a laugh. “It’s unbelievable. Coach Prime has exceeded everybody’s expectations. I think a lot of people knew, including me, that if we could get him here, the buzz would be back. I don’t think anybody imagined this — even in your wildest expectations.”
The stars on the field were quarterback Shedeur Sanders and receiver/cornerback Travis Hunter, the two transfers who followed Coach Prime to Boulder from Jackson State.
“We’re heading in a great direction,” said Shedeur Sanders, who wore gold-colored cleats. “Everybody had a great time.”
Under his winter coat, Coach Prime wore a shirt that read, “I ain’t hard 2 find,” a slogan he’s adopted to attract top-level players. His assistant coaches donned sweatshirts with “We Coming” — another of Sanders’ slogans. They’re definitely starting to arrive, too, with numerous recruits on hand for the game.
The elder Sanders was hoping for a 55-degree day and sun. Instead, he got 32 degrees and snow, which made it so that Ralphie, the school’s live buffalo mascot, couldn’t run the field.
This was really the first thing that didn’t go according to Sanders’ plan since he signed on in December.
The Buffaloes energized the fans right away with Shedeur Sanders connecting with Hunter for an early 14-yard score.
Get used to that combination.
“We just try to be in sync,” Hunter said.
The snow, which had to be plowed off the field, caught Hunter off guard.
“I was like, ‘I don’t know about this, Coach. We might have to move this indoors,’” Hunter said. “I hope the pictures came out well.”
Coach Prime makes his players earn their jersey numbers through their play on the field. Hunter has earned his (No. 12). Receiver Montana Lemonious-Craig — a holdover from last season — may be next in line after coming up with several big catches, including a 98-yard touchdown.
And while Shedeur Sanders technically hasn’t earned his number yet, he was wearing No. 2 — the number he wore while compiling big numbers at Jackson State.
“I was looking for certain people to do certain things,” said Deion Sanders, whose team opens the season at TCU on Sept. 2. “And the certain people that I was looking for to do certain things, they did those things really, really well.”
There were wrinkles to work out, of course. Especially on special teams, where the Buffaloes had an extra point and long field goal blocked.
“Hot garbage,” Sanders said. “I don’t want to see that anymore.”
Before the game, several big names in Buffaloes history showed up to mingle with fans, sign autographs and see what could be in store. Although optimistic about the prospects of a turnaround, former NFL player Alfred Williams — a member of Colorado’s 1990 national title team — is tempering his immediate expectations.
“Overnight is probably not realistic,” Williams said of success. “But I would think that if we can get in the conversation to be bowl eligible, that would be fantastic.”
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Brittney Griner, the women’s basketball star who has been detained for months in Russia, met Thursday with officials from the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, the Biden administration confirmed.
“We are told she is doing as well as can be expected under the circumstances,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters aboard Air Force One.
Griner, a star in the WNBA and an Olympic gold medalist, was detained in February for bringing vape cartridges with hashish oil into Russia. Griner pleaded guilty in August, but she has insisted she did not intend to break the law.
She was later sentenced to nine years in prison, and a Russian court has since rejected an appeal. Griner’s legal team has said they are exploring the possibility of additional appeals in her case.
Ned Price, a spokesperson for the State Department, tweeted the embassy officials who met with Griner “saw firsthand her tenacity and perseverance despite her present circumstances.”
“We continue to press for the immediate release of Brittney Griner and Paul Whelan and fair treatment for every detained American,” Price tweeted.
Jean-Pierre noted that the U.S. made a “significant offer” to the Russians seeking the release of Griner and Whelan, a former Marine who has been held in Russia since 2018 on spying charges that he vehemently denies.
“In the subsequent weeks, despite a lack of good-faith negotiation by the Russians, the U.S. government has continued to follow up on that offer and propose alternative potential ways forward with Russians through all available channels,” Jean-Pierre said. “This continues to be a top priority.”
The Biden administration had reportedly floated a potential prisoner swap in which Griner and Whelan would be released in exchange for convicted Russian arms trafficker Viktor Bout, though officials have not confirmed the specifics of the offer.
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By CARLOS VALDEZ and DANIEL POLITI
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — A judge in Bolivia sentenced opposition leader Luis Fernando Camacho to four months of pretrial detention on terrorism charges early Friday, a move that is bound to increase divisions and unrest in the country.
After a virtual hearing that lasted more than seven hours, Judge Sergio Pacheco ordered Camacho, who is also the governor of the Santa Cruz region, to be remanded in custody, agreeing with prosecutors that he was a flight risk and could obstruct an ongoing investigation.
Shortly after the ruling, video showed Camacho getting transferred to a high-security prison in Bolivia’s capital, La Paz, as the governor’s lawyers vowed to appeal.
By the time the judge issued his ruling, a 24-hour strike called for by Camacho’s allies in Santa Cruz had started and road blockades were set up throughout the wealthy region that is widely considered to be Bolivia’s economic engine.
The judge rejected claims by Camacho’s lawyers that the governor’s detention was illegal.
“I’ll never give up on this fight for Bolivia’s democracy,” Camacho said during the virtual hearing that took place while he was held in a jail cell at a La Paz police station. “To the Bolivian people I say, we can’t let them impose a dictatorship like in Venezuela and Cuba.”
Camacho, leader of the opposition alliance Creemos (“We Believe”), was detained Wednesday on terrorism charges and taken to La Paz, a move that sparked protests that led to clashes with law enforcement and several public offices and cars being set on fire. A minister in President Luis Arce’s administration also said his house was set on fire.
Allies of the right-wing opposition leader had characterized the detention as a “kidnapping,” claims that prosecutors rejected.
Protesters also took to the streets celebrating Camacho’s arrest, calling it a key step to get justice for the victims of the 2019 political unrest that led to the resignation of then-President Evo Morales.
As tensions rose in Bolivia, a spokesperson for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said he was “concerned” about the situation in the South American country.
“He calls for calm and appeals to all political and social actors to exercise maximum restraint. He reiterates the importance of adhering to the rule of law and assuring due process and transparency in legal proceedings,” Florencia Soto Niño-Martínez, a spokesperson for the United Nations chief, said.
Prosecutors allege Camacho orchestrated what they describe as a coup in 2019 following elections that the Organization of American States said were marred by fraud.
Morales, who leads the ruling left-wing Movimiento al Socialismo (Movement Toward Socialism), praised Camacho’s detention and said “the courts should also indict Camacho’s accomplices, so these coup efforts won’t ever be repeated.”
Camacho was detained for his repeated failure to appear for questioning by prosecutors, saying he was the victim of political persecution and did not have guarantees of fair treatment.
The opposition has long disputed the government’s characterization of the 2019 protests as a coup and instead argues that the events were legitimate political protests.
During the more than 20 days of protests, 37 people were killed in the streets during a process that led to the installation as interim president of Jeanine Áñez, who is currently facing a 10-year prison sentence. Several opposition and military leaders are also behind bars and facing terrorism charges.
Opposition leaders have accused Arce’s administration of using the courts to persecute political opponents.
Camacho faces numerous accusations of wrongdoing, including for his role in leading a 36-day strike in Santa Cruz against the government this fall. The action demanded taking a national census in 2023 that would likely give Santa Cruz more tax revenue and seats in Congress, and therefore more influence in the country’s political decisions.
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ATLANTA (AP) — Some Republican activists are calling for abolishing Georgia’s open primary system, complaining that too many Democrats crossed over to vote in the state’s GOP primary against candidates endorsed by former President Donald Trump.
That call to close primaries comes after an Associated Press analysis of early voting records from data firm L2 found that more than 37,000 people who voted in Georgia’s Democratic primary two years ago crossed over to cast ballots in the May 24 Republican primary. The five statewide GOP incumbents whom Trump had targeted for defeat — including Gov. Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger — ended up winning their primary elections.
The proposal is likely to face heavy opposition, with top Republicans and Democrats signaling Monday that they see no reason to change Georgia’s open primary system. Like 14 other states, Georgia does not register voters by party. Voters can choose which primary to take part in as they walk up to the polls and switch back-and-forth in subsequent elections without changing their registration.
David Clark, a Republican state House member, and Colton Moore, a Republican state Senate candidate, said they would introduce bills in next year’s legislative session seeking to hold back crossover voting. They appeared at a news conference with Republican Vernon Jones, a Trump-backed congressional candidate facing a June 21 runoff against a challenger who Jones contends solicited Democrats to vote for him.
Moore, who faces no Democratic opposition in November for a state Senate seat in the northwest Georgia suburbs of Chattanooga, Tennessee, said parties should not be forced to associate with people who don’t share their views.
“So all we’re asking is that the parties have the freedom to associate with their base, with their voters who are interested in their morals and their principles,” Moore said. “We’re trying to make the primary pure, and that’s election integrity.”
A spokesperson for House Speaker David Ralston, who controls the flow of legislation in the House, rejected the idea.
“There is no need to change the current primary system,” Ralston spokesperson Kaleb McMinchen said.
Stacey Abrams, the Democratic nominee for governor, also signaled zero interest.
“She supports open primaries because they allow for more participation,” said Seth Bringman, an Abrams spokesperson.
The calls for change are coming from party activists after crossover voters may have provided the margin of victory for Raffensperger, who refused to heed Trump’s calls to overturn his 2020 election defeat in the state.
Raffensperger cleared the 50% threshold required to avoid a runoff election against U.S. Rep. Jody Hice, his Trump-backed challenger, by just over 27,000 votes, according to the latest AP tallies. Based on early voting data alone, 37,144 former Democrats voted in the Republican primary. The total number of crossovers including Election Day votes will be even higher.
An AP examination of voting records from before the Trump era shows at least a portion of Georgia’s 37,000 party switchers in 2022 had been in the Republican camp before Trump took office. Roughly between 9,000 to 13,000 voted Republican in the 2010, 2012 and 2014 primaries, according to the L2 data.
Raffensperger’s campaign has pushed back on the idea that he won the GOP primary because of Democrats, suggesting that a number of crossover voters were actually Republicans who voted Democratic in recent years to protest Trump.
Moore and Jones said they weren’t sure whether crossover voters got Raffensperger or anyone else nominated. A spokesperson for Raffensperger’s office said he was out of town and unavailable for comment.
Crossover voting, also known as strategic voting, is not exclusive to Georgia. Voters across the political spectrum this primary season have sought to thwart Trump-backed candidates who support his lies that the 2020 election was stolen.
While Trump railed against the practice last month, there is nothing inherently wrong with crossover voting. Besides Georgia and 14 other states with totally open primaries, a number of other states allow unaffiliated voters to vote in the primary of their choice, or allow people to change parties on election day to vote in a different primary.
John Opdycke, president of the group Open Primaries, disagreed with claims that it’s illegitimate for voters to switch between party primaries. He said that a system of party registration can leave fast-growing independents as “second-class citizens” unable to influence who wins office in areas controlled by one party
“Georgia doesn’t have Democrats and Republicans, it has voters,” Opdycke said. “Voters are free by law to vote in any primary they see fit.
It’s not clear how often crossover voting is effective. Trump’s opponents encouraged Democrats to help defeat U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene in her Republican primary last week in Georgia. The congresswoman, who has embraced election lies and spoken at an event organized by a white nationalist, won by more than 50 percentage points. | https://www.krqe.com/news/national/some-in-ga-gop-want-closed-primaries-after-trump-picks-lose/ | 2022-06-07 12:39:53 | 1 | https://www.krqe.com/news/national/some-in-ga-gop-want-closed-primaries-after-trump-picks-lose/ |
It's been a long week. Here's what NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour crew has been turning to for joy — and what you should check out this weekend.
She's a Beast and Burnt Toast
I highly recommend two email newsletters I subscribe to. One is called She's a Beast by Casey Johnston, and it's very heavily about weightlifting, which may or may not be a thing you're into. Meanwhile, Burnt Toast by writer Virginia Sole-Smith is about diet, culture, anti-fatness, and all of the many things wrapped up in that.
They are both, in their own ways, about seeing your body as something other than a thing you have to make skinny. And while this may sound very serious, they are honestly joyful. These newsletters are undoing decades of programming that a lot of us have been through, and any time I open them, I feel a little bit happier. — Danielle Kurtzleben
The Bear
I am an avowed Top Chef fan. I really like the process and competency of food shows, but The Bear hit me in an unexpected way. It's about a young up-and-coming chef, played by Jeremy Allen White, who returns to Chicago to take over a restaurant owned by his brother. He butts heads with his staff, gains their respect and tries to put the restaurant on a new path with different kinds of food, while still honoring what makes it so popular within the neighborhood.
I have been a Jeremy Allen White fan since Shameless, but I was really drawn in by his performance here and by the complex questions that the series asks, like the role food has in our memories and in our conceptions of self. So I was really annoyed when I watched all eight episodes and there were not more. — Roxana Hadadi
"Training Montage" by The Mountain Goats
One of my favorite songwriters in the world is making a comeback. The great John Darnielle from The Mountain Goats has written some of the most viscerally intense anthems of all time, songs like "No Children" and "This Year." But in recent years, the group has been putting out these much mellower concept albums about Dungeons and Dragons, goths, or wrestlers, but then couch those impressions in these very mellow, low key, polished and streamlined sounds that don't necessarily match up for me.
Well, they're getting back into shout-along anthem mode in a way I'm really excited about. They've got another concept album coming out in August called Bleed Out, and each song from it is supposed to evoke classic action movies. Their new single "Training Montage" is my favorite new Mountain Goats song in more than a decade and is very much in that vein. It builds up to this great chorus where you can actually pump your fist and shout, "I'm doing this for revenge!" And what could possibly be better? — Stephen Thompson
"The Wire at 20"
June marks the 20th anniversary of the premiere of this little show called The Wire. The New York Times did a package series called "'The Wire' at 20", and I want to give a shoutout to my former colleagues over at the TV desk there because they did some great, interesting work. There are a few stories, including one where they talk to the creators, and another where they speak with some of the actors, who break down some of the five definitive scenes of the show.
But what I found most interesting was an article about the impact of the show on Baltimore, in which they interviewed people who grew up or are currently living there. In sort of oral history-style snippets, these locals talked about their sometimes mixed feelings or anti-feelings about the show, what it's meant, and how it depicted Baltimore, race, and urban living. I highly recommend checking it out if you're a fan of The Wire. — Aisha Harris
More recommendations from the Pop Culture Happy Hour newsletter
It's Pride Month, Black Music Month, and the month everyone suddenly started talking about club music and its Black, queer origins. So I highly suggest checking out critic Craig Seymour's rich history of Black gay men in pop music; it's a great primer that looks at artists who influenced the blues, gospel, hip-hop, and, yes, club music. It comes in two parts, and includes an accompanying playlist.
I really dug Chloe, a six-episode miniseries that aired in the U.K. earlier this year and is now streaming on Amazon Prime. It's a psychological thriller about Becky (Erin Doherty), a young woman who becomes obsessed with the mysterious death of a well-known socialite and cons her way into her inner circle by assuming a fake identity. Be forewarned: This is a very twisty show, sometimes frustratingly so, and I don't think the landing quite sticks. But for the most part, I liked the suspense and Doherty's performance as a (possibly?) unreliable narrator. If a scammer-meets-Single White Female narrative intrigues you, this is worth a shot.
Work and life stuff – have I mentioned lately that I'm writing a book? – have found me slacking on my board games. But recently some friends introduced my partner and I to Splendor, and it has pretty much everything I look for in a board game: quick and easy setup, a fairly even balance of strategy and chance, and a not-too-long play time (about 30-45 minutes once you've gotten the hang of it). The gist of it: it's the Renaissance (of course) and each person is a merchant trying to collect gems and stuff. Get into it! — Aisha Harris
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US prisoner swap offer involving Brittney Griner will be discussed, Russia’s Lavrov says
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Friday that he’s open to a call with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken to discuss a possible prisoner swap involving American basketball star Brittney Griner.
Blinken said Wednesday that Washington had offered Russia a deal that would bring home Griner and another jailed American, Paul Whelan. A person familiar with the matter said the U.S. government proposed trading convicted Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout for Whelan and Griner.
Speaking on a visit to Uzbekistan, Lavrov said his ministry had received an official U.S. request for a call after Blinken made the statement. Russia’s top diplomat said he would be ready once he returns to Moscow and that the timing of the call was being worked out.
Lavrov said he was open to discussing the prisoner exchange, even though the Foreign Ministry hasn’t been involved in previous discussions on the issue.
“I will listen to what he has to say,” Lavrov added.
Asked Thursday about the U.S. offer, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov replied that prisoner swaps were typically negotiated discreetly behind the scenes.
“We know that such issues are discussed without any such release of information,” Peskov told reporters during a conference call. “Normally, the public learns about it when the agreements are already implemented.”
Blinken’s comments marked the first time the U.S. government publicly revealed any concrete action it has taken to secure Griner’s release. The two-time Olympic gold medalist and player for the WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury was arrested at a Moscow airport in mid-February when inspectors found vape cartridges containing cannabis oil in her luggage.
Griner’s arrest came at a time of heightened tensions between Moscow and Washington ahead of Russia sending troops into Ukraine on Feb. 24. Griner’s five months of detention have raised strong criticism among teammates and supporters in the United States.
Her trial on drug charges started in a court outside Moscow this month, and she testified Wednesday that she didn’t know how the cartridges ended up in her bag but that she had a doctor’s recommendation to use cannabis to treat career-related pain.
The 31-year-old has pleaded guilty but said she had no criminal intent in bringing the cartridges to Russia and packed in haste for her return to play in a Russian basketball league during the WNBA’s offseason. She faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted of transporting drugs.
The Biden administration has faced political pressure to free Griner and other Americans whom the U.S. has declared to be “wrongfully detained” — a designation sharply rejected by Russian officials.
Whelan, a corporate security executive from Michigan, was sentenced to 16 years in prison on espionage charges in 2020. He and his family have vigorously asserted his innocence. The U.S. government has denounced the charges as false.
Russia has for years expressed interest in the release of Bout, a Russian arms dealer once labeled the “Merchant of Death.” He was sentenced to 25 years in prison in 2012 on charges that he schemed to illegally sell millions of dollars in weapons.
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Matthew Lee and Eric Tucker in Washington contributed to this report.
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ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A three-story residential building has collapsed in Lagos, Nigeria’s largest city, killing at least five people with many feared trapped, emergency response services said Monday.
“Twenty-three people have been rescued alive including seven children and 16 adults,” said Ibrahim Farinloye of Nigeria’s National Emergency Management Agency. “Nine of those rescued alive have been treated and discharged.”
Among the dead are a mother and her son, said Farinloye.
The residential apartment building collapsed late Sunday night in the Oyingbo area of Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial center and most populated city with more than 14 million people.
Residents and passersby gathered before dawn as they joined a team of emergency and aid workers who searched through the rubble in search of survivors. It is not clear how many occupants were in the apartment building located in a densely populated area of the city.
Building collapses in the West African nation are frequent, including in Lagos which recorded five such incidents last year, including in November when more than 40 people died when a high rise still being constructed crumbled on workers.
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Wynn Bruce, a 50-year-old climate activist and Buddhist,set himself on fire in front of the U.S. Supreme Court last week, prompting a national conversation about his motivation and whether he may have been inspired by Buddhist monks who self-immolated in the past to protest government atrocities.
Bruce, a photographer from Boulder, Colorado, walked up to the plaza of the Supreme Court around 6:30 p.m. Friday – on Earth Day — then sat down and set himself ablaze, a law enforcement official said. Supreme Court police officers responded immediately but were unable to extinguish the blaze in time to save him.
Investigators, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity, said they did not immediately locate a manifesto or note at the scene and that officials were still working to determine a motive.
On Saturday, Kritee Kanko, a Zen Buddhist priest who described herself as Bruce’s friend, shared an emotional post on her public Twitter account saying his self-immolation was “not suicide” but “a deeply fearless act of compassion to bring attention to climate crisis.”
She added that Bruce had been planning the act for at least a year. She wrote: “#wynnbruce I am so moved.” She got sympathetic responses as well as backlash.
Kanko and other members of the Rocky Mountain Ecodharma Retreat Center in Boulder, released a statement Mondaysaying “none of the Buddhist teachers in the Boulder area knew about (Bruce’s) plans to self-immolate on this Earth Day,” and that had they known about his plan, they would have stopped him. Bruce was a frequent visitor to the Buddhist retreat center in the mountains near Boulder where he meditated with the community, Kanko said.
“We have never talked about self-immolation, and we do not think self-immolation is a climate action,” the statement said. “Nevertheless, given the dire state of the planet and worsening climate crisis, we understand why someone might do that.”
On Facebook, Bruce wrote about following the spiritual tradition of Shambhala, which combines Tibetan Buddhism with the principles of living “an uplifted life, fully engaged with the world,” according to the Boulder Shambhala Center. Bruce also posted praise for Vietnamese monk Thich Nhat Hanh, a leader of engaged Buddhism, around the time of his death in January.
Bruce’s act of sitting down and setting himself on fire was reminiscent of the events of June 11, 1963, when Thich Quang Duc, a Vietnamese monk, seated cross-legged, burned himself to death at a busy Saigon intersection. He was protesting the persecution of Buddhists by the South Vietnamese government led by Ngo Dinh Diem, a staunch Catholic.
In a letter to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr,. whom Hanh counted as a friend, Hanh wrote that he drew inspiration from the Vietnamese monk’s self-sacrifice, saying: “To burn oneself by fire is to prove what one is saying is of the utmost importance. There is nothing more painful than burning oneself. To say something while experiencing this kind of pain is to say it with utmost courage, frankness, determination and sincerity.”
In Tibet, anti-Chinese activists have employed self-immolation as a form of protest. The International Campaign for Tibet says 131 men and 28 women – monks, nuns and laypeople among them – have self-immolated since 2009 to protest against Beijing’s strict controls over the region and their religion.
Buddhism as a religion does not unilaterally condone the act of self-immolation or taking one’s life, said Robert Barnett, a London-based researcher of modern Tibetan history and politics.
“Killing yourself is considered damaging in Buddhism because life is precious,” he said. “But if a person self-immolates because of a higher motivation and it’s not out of a negative emotion such as depression or sadness, then the Buddhist position becomes far more complex.”
If self-immolation is done to help the world, it might be accepted as a positive action, Barnett said. He cited a story from the “Jataka Tales,” a body of South Asian literature concerning the prior incarnations of the Buddha in human and animal form. In that particular tale, an incarnation of the Buddha, in an act of selfless compassion, offers himself to an emaciated tigress who was so hungry that she was ready to devour her own cubs.
“But that kind of self-sacrifice is not encouraged, developed or talked about for normal people (other than the Buddha),” he said, adding that this is because of “the immense difficulty of cultivating positive motivation in any situation, let alone maintaining it under stress or in conditions of extreme pain.”
Buddhism emphasizes emotional balance, inclusiveness, kindness, compassion and wisdom, said Roshi Joan Halifax, an environmental activist and abbot of the Upaya Zen Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
“What we’re seeing today among many people is hopelessness,” she said. “What we are called to do is not to be disabled by that sense of futility, but to transform our moral suffering into wise hope and courageous action.”
Despite the pessimism that some climate activists may feel, there is reason to remain hopeful, Halifax said.
“You see that people are waking up to the magnitude of the climate catastrophe,” she said, noting that countries and corporations are moving away from damaging practices and toward clean energy.
“I feel inspired and hopeful by our ability to change and adapt in this ever-changing world,” she said. “My heart is heavy that (Bruce) did not have that kind of optimism.”
Those who knew Bruce saw a man who was kind, playful and idealistic – an avid dancer who participated in weekly events. He was also known for biking and embracing public transportation.
Bruce, who enjoyed the outdoors, brought an intensity to whatever he did, said his friend Jeffry Buechler. On Buechler’s wedding day in 2014, Bruce, on a whim, decided to go for a dip in a cold mountain lake early in the morning, he said.
Bruce also suffered lasting effects from a brain injury he sustained in a car wreck that killed his best friend about 30 years ago, Buechler said.
Marco DeGaetano, who met Bruce in the 1990s when they both attended a Universalist church in Denver, said “Wynn seemed to have an affinity for people who needed help.”
He recalled Bruce being kind to a church member with a mental illness when others distanced themselves.
DeGaetano said he last saw Bruce about a month ago, and he seemed outgoing and friendly as always — every time he saw Bruce, “he had a smile on his face.”
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Bharath reported from Los Angeles and Slevin from Denver. Associated Press writer Michael Balsamo in Washington D.C. and researcher Rhonda Shafner in New York also contributed.
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SHENZHEN, China, Nov. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On November 10, 2022, Geekvape, one of the world's best vapor brands, and oneshot media, a well-known French media outlet, co-hosted an online seminar on electronic cigarette technology with the theme "Leap further" to explore new trends in the advancement of e-cig technology.
The seminar invited industry experts to discuss "technological progress and innovation in the industry" based on four topics: user concerns, structural design of atomizers, battery cells and chips, and future development. Here is the link: https://fb.me/e/2UXBV9XpX
According to Potti, director of marketing at Geekvape, the majority of users experience oil leakage for various reasons. The design of the structure can have a substantial effect on the performance of vaping devices. To provide better answers, the seminar was connected to the Geekvape Shenzhen Laboratory on-site. It has been demonstrated through simulation test experiments that the airflow design of the top and bottom structures is smooth and that their air resistance is identical. However, the top airflow structure has a greater thermal efficiency, allowing it to evaporate the liquid more thoroughly and effectively, resulting in more cloud and a better taste. Additionally, its structural design contributes significantly to preventing leakage.
As the seminar discussion reached its climax, Industry experts agreed that the vape device was a whole, with the atomizer playing a significant role because it determined taste performance. Chips and battery cells influence whether you get the same taste over time.
The site reconnected with Geekvape's product testing lab in order to examine how improved battery cells and chips affect the user experience. The tester explained that the output voltage of the product had a direct impact on the atomization of the nicotine oil, as well as the flavor. Consequently, the level and consistency of the output voltage are crucial. By comparing the output voltage of various products with the same atomization core resistance value, it is proven that the output stability of the Geekvape device is demonstrably superior to that of competitors, and that the entire device is more dependable. Geekvape's devices are also exceptionally competitive in terms of chip output control when using the same battery cell.
Under the impact of numerous elements such as product form, user demand, rules, and regulations, the industry must continuously innovate and introduce new technologies, according to John Dunne, the director general of the UK Vaping Industry Association. As a company at the forefront of the industrial chain, Geekvape has accumulated technology over a long period of time, giving it the ability to withstand worldwide development and respond to market shifts.
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Today’s Headlines: New shows’ triumphs give the Emmys a pulse
By Elvia Limón and Jason Sanchez
Hello, it’s Tuesday, Sept. 13, and here are the stories you shouldn’t miss today:
TOP STORIES
It was a good night for HBO at the 74th Emmy Awards
Times reporters flooded the zone to cover the biggest night in television. HBO was the big winner, with 11 Emmys including best drama for “Succession.” There were also victories for “Ted Lasso,” “Ozark” and “Saturday Night Live.” But, writes TV critic Lorraine Ali, it was the triumph of new shows such as “Abbott Elementary,” “Squid Game” and “Lizzo’s Watch Out for the Big Grrrls” that gave the ceremony a pulse and showed the way forward.
Here’s the list of winners.
Among memorable moments: “Abbott Elementary” star Sheryl Lee Ralph — also a Tony-nominated singer — sang a powerful impromptu rendition of Dianne Reeves’ “Endangered Species.” And “The White Lotus” star Jennifer Coolidge danced off Emmys’ attempt to play her off stage.
More on the 2022 Emmys
- The Emmy Awards telecast might have been pushed a night from its usual Sunday time slot, but the looks that came across the gold-colored carpet made it well worth the wait.
- Who was the person behind the voice announcing the different categories and presenters? That would be comedian and writer Sam Jay, Kenan Thompson’s “Saturday Night Live” colleague.
- “Squid Game” made history multiple times over at the Emmys. It was the first Korean series, and the first TV series not in English, to win a major Primetime Emmy Award.
Illegal weed shops are booming in plain sight
The continuing success of illegal cannabis shops and the struggles of legal ones in the heart of L.A.’s Eastside offers a stark illustration of how California’s legalization of marijuana has gone wrong. Far from being eradicated, the black market is booming in plain sight, luring customers away from aboveboard retailers with their cheaper — if untested and unregulated — product.
Unlicensed dispensaries have become hotbeds of crime. Sometimes the operators are the perpetrators, authorities say, selling cocaine and methamphetamine alongside cannabis. At other times, they are the victims. In August 2021, a man was gunned down in the doorway of the illegal dispensary he ran in East Los Angeles.
Authorities have made little progress in curbing the cannabis black market. Prosecutions are rare, according to court records, and shop employees say some dispensaries don’t even wait a day to reopen after being shut down by the police.
L.A. County reported the nation’s first confirmed MPX death
A Los Angeles County resident has died from MPX — the nation’s first confirmed fatality linked to the disease, public health officials said. Officials publicly reported the death Thursday but said the precise cause was as yet undetermined. Further investigation by county and federal health agencies found the death was from MPX, also known as monkeypox. Another possible fatality due to the disease was reported in Texas in late August, but officials there have not definitively stated that MPX was the cause.
More about MPX
- The virus has wreaked financial havoc on workers who have little paid time off to recover. Healing can take weeks — much longer than the three days of sick leave that California generally requires from employers.
The White House is warning against declaring Ukrainian victory prematurely
Biden administration officials are attempting to tamp down overly optimistic expectations following Ukraine’s significant gains against Russia in recent days. Ukraine claims to have retaken thousands of square miles of Russian-occupied territory in an offensive that began last week. Moscow acknowledged a “regrouping,” which others saw as a retreat.
But in Washington, Pentagon, White House and State Department officials urged caution. They were reluctant to endorse a Ukrainian sense of triumph this early in the battle. U.S. officials said the back-and-forth trade of gains and retreats by Russians and Ukrainians was likely to continue despite the Ukrainian push.
More politics
- Ukraine scored its biggest victories in months in the country’s northeast. But can that help break a bloody stalemate?
- Former President Trump’s legal team said in a court filing that classified materials should not be excluded from the special master’s review of documents found during an FBI search of his Mar-a-Lago estate.
- A high-level United States delegation invited Mexico to participate in a push to shift semiconductor production from Asia to North America and expand the production of electric vehicles.
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CALIFORNIA
Few people are going to L.A. cooling centers. Why? To address scorching heat, the city opened up nine cooling centers with extended hours, later adding two more. But only about 2,256 Angelenos visited between Aug. 31 and Sept. 9 — about 21 visitors per center per day. Homelessness advocates and politicians said that lack of need wasn’t the reason centers weren’t being used; they say there aren’t enough centers or ways for people to get to them.
Nine French bulldog puppies were stolen from a Northridge home. The owner said he left the puppies at his home with a friend Sunday afternoon when two masked men entered the residence and stole the dogs, according to the LAPD. Bulldogs, especially French bulldogs, have soared in popularity in recent years. The high demand for the dogs has made them more prone to theft in California and across the country, as they can go for a steep price on the black market.
A judge denied a hospital release for the nurse in the deadly Windsor Hills crash. The woman charged in the crash poses a threat to public safety and must continue to be held in jail as her case moves forward, an L.A. County Superior Court judge ruled. The decision came after Nicole Linton’s attorneys argued that their client — who is charged with six counts of murder — should be moved to UCLA Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital, where they said she could be further evaluated for mental health issues and possible epilepsy.
Rapper PnB Rock was fatally shot during a robbery at Roscoe’s Chicken & Waffles. Rock, 30, whose real name was Rakim Allen, had been at the restaurant with his girlfriend, who’d posted a location-tagged photo in a since-deleted Instagram post. Sources told The Times that Rock was targeted for his jewelry.
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NATION-WORLD
Pakistan’s prime minister says his flooded country is facing food shortages. Flooding left the impoverished country’s agriculture belt underwater, says Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif. More than 660,000 people, including women and children, are living at relief camps and in makeshift homes after being displaced by the floods.
A second Alex Jones trial is set to begin. A jury will begin hearing evidence today to decide how much conspiracy theorist Alex Jones should pay the families of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting for calling the massacre a hoax, since he already has been found liable for damages to them. Last month, a Texas jury ordered Jones to pay $49.3 million to the parents of one of the students killed in the 2012 shooting in Newtown, Conn. Jones’ lawyer has said an appeal is planned.
Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz suffered fetal alcohol damage, a psychologist said. Attorneys for Florida school shooter Cruz began building their case that his birth mother’s alcohol abuse left him with severe behavioral problems that eventually led to his 2018 murder of 17 people at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
HOLLYWOOD AND THE ARTS
A comedic match made in heaven. Comedy can be cruelly fleeting; one generation’s belly laugh is often the next one’s blank stare. But Steve Martin and Martin Short, now in their 70s, have become hot again. The two were each nominated for an Emmy for their Hulu comedy “Only Murders in the Building.”
Don’t expect political debates on “Sherri.” Instead, “The View” alum Sherri Shepherd is offering lighter fare and leaning into her stand-up comedy background. Her new series premiered on Fox and in syndication, taking over the long-held time slot of “The Wendy Williams Show,” which she guest hosted since last year when the titular host stepped away amid health concerns.
Stagecoach announced its 2023 festival lineup. The annual country music festival at Indio’s Empire Polo Club will star Luke Bryan, Kane Brown and Chris Stapleton.
BUSINESS
After California’s new fast-food labor law was signed, the opposition cranked up. A day after Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Labor Day signing of AB 257, which could raise the minimum wage for franchise restaurant workers as high as $22 next year, critics filed a referendum seeking to block it until the matter could be put before voters. The International Franchise Assn. and the National Restaurant Assn. have spearheaded a renewed effort to block AB 257 from taking effect.
OPINION
What can save restaurants? Try hospitality. Despite the myriad suggestions for saving indoor restaurant dining, somebody forgot to mention hospitality, the unquantifiable element that attracts us to one food palace or neighborhood joint or food truck over another. Hospitality is a relationship, not a delivery system, and the quicker we all step up, customers and employees alike, the better things will be for our favorite restaurants.
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SPORTS
USC’s Brett Neilon keeps it cool. There’s a reason USC offensive line coach Josh Henson calls four-year starting center Brett Neilon “Mr. Steady.” As the team struggled to win games, the offensive lineman dutifully and consistently met with reporters after each game, absorbing questions about the latest blowout and trying to make sense of the inexplicable fall of Trojan football. In his final season with the Trojans, Neilon hopes to make the last turn of his roller-coaster college career a great one.
The Rams and Matthew Stafford are still sore from their opener, and now the line has to shuffle. The seven sacks Rams quarterback Stafford took in the season-opening 31-10 loss to the Buffalo Bills should not faze the 34-year-old as he prepares to play against the Atlanta Falcons on Sunday at SoFi Stadium. But Stafford’s rebound attempt will come behind an offensive line reconfigured because of injuries. Not an ideal situation for the defending Super Bowl champions.
ONLY IN L.A.
Where did L.A.'s phantom towns vanish to? Some were actual burgs that grew and dwindled, were annexed or swallowed up, writes Times columnist Patt Morrison. Some were “dream towns” imagined by real estate developers, planned and platted and sold, but never born. Bearing some fanciful names like Ivanhoe and Wahoo, some were sold off with hopes and prices higher than their survival odds. Others were peddled almost as cynically as Florida swamplands: “ocean view” cities nearly 30 miles from the ocean, and other “view” towns whose vistas were desert desolation.
Patt tells the stories of several of those towns, including Hynes. “The onetime town of Hynes is now the city of Paramount — well, half of it. Hynes was a riverside dairy town and — hard as it is to believe now — the hay capital of the world, at least by bragging measurement. With the neighboring town of Clearwater, it threw annual hay and dairy festivals.”
FROM THE ARCHIVES
Sixty years ago today, Point Reyes National Seashore was established. The Times wrote in 2016 that “without the designation, the peninsula here … may not have fared as well as it has,” considering that it is less than 50 miles from the Bay Area and its about 8 million people. President Kennedy signed the bill designating it as a park service seashore on Sept. 13, 1962.
“Winter is peak season for birds at Point Reyes National Seashore north of San Francisco,” The Times wrote in 2002. “Drakes Estero, a multi-fingered bay, is patrolled by canvasback, ruddy and American wigeon ducks. Great blue herons, willets, godwits and other shorebirds feed along the mudflats. Scores of white pelicans visit annual near the mouth of the bay.” Offshore waters, protected by two national marine sanctuaries, draw seals, whales and other creatures.
Drought has affected the park in recent years. A wildfire struck the park in 2020, and one-third of its tule elk population died over the 2020 winter. Activists stepped up demands for the removal of an 8-foot-high fence that keeps the elk off cattle ranches and, they said, cuts them off from sources of water.
Times staff writer Amy Hubbard contributed to this report.
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Aggieland Humane Society pet of the week: Peanut Butter
Published: Sep. 3, 2022 at 1:45 PM CDT|Updated: 33 minutes ago
BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) - Peanut Butter is the Aggieland Humane Society pet of the week for Sept. 2.
Peanut Butter is a Black Mouth Cur/Terrier mix and is about three years old. She is very sweet and will cuddle with you on the couch. She is vaccinated, spayed, an microchipped.
Aggieland Humane Society is located at 5359 Leonard Road in Bryan. They’re open Monday through Friday from 12:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. and Saturday from 12:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. Take a look at the other adorable pets available for adoption here.
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TONIGHT: An isolated shower possible before 9 pm, then becoming mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
FRIDAY – WEATHER AWARE: We start off the morning with little to no rain, but showers and storms spread north through the morning an into the afternoon. Rain will become fairly widespread through the day, although there may be occasional breaks in the rain in any one spot. Downpours may be heavy at times. The Weather Aware is in place due to the potential for some localized flooding. This may be isolated, with average rainfall totals on the day ranging from around a third of an inch to an inch, but localized spots could see in excess of 3 inches due to slow moving, back-building storms. Downpours will be very efficient rain producers, and recent rains have water-logged our soils, so some isolated flash flooding cannot be ruled out. There’s not really any skill in forecasting specific locations where this will occur. We just don’t have that kind of accuracy on a 24 hour forecast like this, but those who live in flood prone areas should remain weather aware through Friday evening.
HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL:
THURSDAY GAMES: Partly to mostly cloudy. A passing shower can’t be ruled out. Temperatures in the 70s.
FRIDAY GAMES: Numerous showers and a few thunderstorms. Rain may be heavy at times. Lightning delays are possible. Temperatures in the 70s.
COLLEGE FOOTBALL:
Alabama @ Texas: Hot and dry. Temperatures in the 80s at kickoff, approaching the 90s by halftime. The game will end with temps in the low 90s.
Auburn v. San Jose St: Scattered showers and a few storms. Be prepared for downpours and potentially rain delays. Temperatures in the 70s through the game under a cloudy sky.
UAB @ Liberty: The game in Lynchburg looks to be cloudy, but most likely dry. Expect temperatures in the 70s.
Jacksonville State @ Murray State: The weather looks decent in Kentucky for the Gamecocks. Temperatures will be in the 60s, with just a small chance for a passing shower.
THE WEEKEND: While the rain may not be as widespread as Friday, scattered storms will still be around through the weekend. Neither day is a washout, but be prepared for passing showers and storms, some of which could produce locally heavy rain. Highs will stay in the 80s through the weekend.
NEXT WEEK: An honest to goodness cold front will push through the state Monday. That will begin to drop our rain chances by Monday afternoon, and Tuesday through at least Thursday looks dry. The temperatures could drop into the 50s in a few spots Wednesday and Thursday morning! The cool-down won’t last too long, with highs back in the upper 80s by the end of the week, but the drier air will make things more comfortable and shut down rain chances.
TROPICS: We’re still tracking two named storms: Danielle and Earl, in the Atlantic right now, and also tracking two tropical waves in the Eastern Atlantic. The good news? None of these systems will have any direct impacts on the Continental U.S.
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DALLAS, June 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- BAL is once again a top-ranked immigration law firm in the newly released Chambers USA Guide 2023.
For the 11th consecutive year, Chambers has ranked BAL as a Band 1 firm. This year, BAL is one of only two Chambers rated Band 1 immigration law firms.
"BAL LLP is an outstanding team with a stellar track record in the full range of corporate immigration matters," Chambers said.
BAL's California, Massachusetts, Texas and Virginia offices are also ranked Band 1 in the 2023 guide. Chambers also recognized 10 BAL attorneys, representing 18.5% of all immigration attorneys ranked by the publication.
"We are honored to be recognized as a Band 1 firm once again," said BAL CEO Jeremy Fudge, whom Chambers named an Eminent Practitioner of immigration law. "We are especially excited given that Chambers' rankings are based on client feedback. This recognition affirms BAL's commitment to exceptional service, investment in our culture and high-performance legal teams that continue to set the standard in our industry."
In addition to Fudge, Chambers specifically recognized BAL attorneys Ruth Clark, Josiah Curtis, Maria DeLapp, Michelle Funk, Frieda Garcia, Jeff Joseph, Lynden Melmed, Maggie Murphy and Edward Rios. BAL was also ranked Band 1 in Chambers Global: Multi-Jurisdictional Guide 2023 for the United States.
BAL clients interviewed by Chambers provided the following assessments:
- "I have greatly enjoyed working with the BAL team. The lawyers are very proactive in their communication. The relationship is very collaborative and the team is very responsive and very knowledgeable."
- "We chose BAL for its expertise and ability to scale. BAL is a really valued partner."
- "The team takes the time to walk clients through processes and explains things in layman's terms. They are good about setting expectations and pointing out any potential risks."
About Chambers and Partners
Chambers and Partners is the leading independent professional legal research company, operating in over 70 countries and 200 jurisdictions, that delivers detailed rankings and insights into the world's leading lawyers and law firms. With an in-depth research methodology involving detailed interviews and analysis of capabilities, achievement and sector presence, Chambers and Partners ranks the best lawyers and firms on the basis of technical expertise, business acumen, prompt delivery and value for money. Lawyers cannot buy their Chambers' rankings; as a result, its annual directories are considered among the most accurate and reliable.
About BAL
Established in 1980, BAL powers human achievement through immigration expertise, people-centered client services and innovative technology. BAL, with 13 offices across the United States and global coverage in more than 185 countries around the world, operates as a single entity through its oneBAL culture — a uniquely holistic approach, intentionally structured as one team, one brand, one P&L, one standard of excellence and one unifying technology. This united approach enables the firm to deliver the highest level of knowledge, insights and resources from across the entire organization.
At BAL, we pursue the exceptional. To learn more visit bal.com.
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — In a cramped municipal building in a residential area of the Ukrainian capital, a group of people take turns training to shoot using a replica of a machine gun with the help of a weapons training simulator relying on virtual reality.
The nearly 20 participants — all of them civilians and most of them women — have never held a weapon before.
With Russia’s war on Ukraine now in its 17th month, the Kyiv City Administration has opened up training for civilians who want to learn survival skills, including how to shoot, provide first aid and recognize land mines. These and other skills could be used in a hostile environment provoked by missile strikes and other man-made disasters.
In a dark room with tightly closed blinds, the unreal poof-poof sounds of the replica weapons are heard. People enthusiastically ask the instructors how to hold their weapons properly and ask to try one more time.
“I am more than 45 years old. As soon as the opportunity arose, I decided that I needed to refresh some skills and learn something new,” said Kyiv resident Lada Bondarenko. She was especially impressed by the instructor’s lecture on possible land mine threats.
It was a reminder that the Kyiv region, although not currently on the front lines of the war, is still at major risk because of mines left behind by the Russians who briefly occupied areas on the outskirts of the capital in the early days of the war.
While the fighting on the front lines is now largely in stalemate, indiscriminate Russian missile attacks continue to hit residential areas, wreaking havoc and causing almost daily casualties across the country.
Several days after the registration on the city’s website was opened, more than 2,000 people had signed up for the training, around 70% of them women, said the deputy director for Kyiv’s municipal security, Mykhailo Shcherbyna.
“The main goal is for people to learn how to survive and how to respond to these military threats that exist,” he explained.
According to Shcherbyna, by educating people, local authorities try to prevent more casualties in the future. “The war continues, and we don’t know what the next threats will be.”
In his opinion, one of the reasons why most of those who signed up for the training are women is because a large number of men are already at the front. Also, many women come so that these skills will help them protect not only themselves but their children.
But men, too, attend with the protection of their children in mind.
“I came to be able to explain to my children that there are mines that can tear off arms, legs and take life,” said Vitalii Sumin, aged 38.
His house is located in nearby Irpin, an area in the northwestern outskirts of the capital where fierce battles took place last spring. When the Russians retreated last March, many land mines were left in the area, which now could be deadly dangerous, hidden in the grass.
Vitalii’s wife couldn’t attend the training in person, so he transmitted it online while she stayed at home with their 2-year-old child. Next time, he plans to bring the whole family to the training, especially his 13-year-old, he said.
According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, around 174,000 square miles (451,000 square kilometers) in Ukraine are potentially contaminated with mines, about the size of the U.S. state of Florida.
On Tuesday, local authorities held the first such training for civilians. Previously, they mostly trained people who worked in municipal services. In the early days of the war, they taught people basic skills so they could start fighting immediately.
According to Shcherbyna, the deputy chief of municipal security, last year they taught about 15,000 people, and approximately 3,000 of them joined the army.
Instructor Yevhen Naumov said that Russia’s invasion showed that the threat from Ukraine’s biggest neighbor would not disappear easily. In his opinion, by attending this training, people were preparing for the possibility that this war could last for a long time.
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Associated Press writer Illia Novikov contributed to this report.
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Can Cactus star Will Galvan finally win that elusive HS football championship?
It's been so close during Will Galvan's football career at Cactus High School. He's got one more try to get that elusive ring.
Will Galvan might touch the ball 30 times Friday night when Glendale Cactus plays Gilbert Higley for the 5A state high school football championship at Sun Devil Stadium.
But Higley will have to search for him on almost every play.
He could be at wide receiver. In the slot. At running back. Playing quarterback.
"We're going to move him all around," coach Brian Belles said. "He's playing everywhere at all times, and you never know where he's going to be. And when he's going to be there. And he plays the whole game at cornerback, too."
In the 26-18 quarterfinal win over defending 5A champion Phoenix Horizon, Galvan played some quaterback with starter Rudy Gonzales. But Galvan never threw a pass. But, wow, did he run -- 232 yards on 23 carries. And, oh yeah, playing wide receiver in the game, Galvan caught two touchdown passes from Gonzales.
Last week, in the 21-17 win over top-seed Scottsdale Notre Dame Prep, Galvan ran for 87 yards and a score on 22 carries and caught two passes for 48 yards. And he had the game-sealing pass breakup in the end.
"He's a special kid," Belles said.
Cactus is going to be sorry to see him go. At 5 feet 8, 160 pounds, he's one of the smallest players on the field. And one of the hardest to contain. And maybe the most unselfish.
When Belles asked Galvan to give up his quarterback duties before the season and move to receiver, Galvan was all in. Whatever he could do to benefit the team.
But it wasn't without a speed bump. Cactus began the season with a 29-6 loss to Desert Mountain and 48-7 loss to American Leadership Queen Creek. The Cobras barely got by Snowflake, the 4A finalist, 7-0 in the White Mountains, before losing to Open finalist Basha 58-0. All of this came during a 2-3 first half of the season.
They've not lost since with Galvan taking off. Ten of his 13 touchdowns came in the last six games.
"It feels amazing," Galvan said, about returning to the championship game. "Last year was an eye opener, going to the Open and playing a big-level school."
Last year, Cactus, playing in 4A, was too good to play in the 4A playoffs and got bumped up to the Open after going 10-0. In a heartbeat, their season was over, falling to Scottsdale Saguaro 42-21 in the first round. Saguaro went on to win the Open title.
Galvan could just look back at an incredible regular season and a gutsy effort agaisnt Saguaro, one in which he 78 yards and a TD.
His freshman year, Cactus lost to Mesquite 28-27 in the 4A semifinals. As the quarterback his sophomore year, Cactus fell to Mesquite again, this time 39-38, in the 4A championship game, after quarterback Ty Thompson rallied Mesquite during a 15-0 final quarter.
"This year we wanted to come out on top," Galvan said.
It helped that Cactus got promoted from 4A to 5A by the Arizona Interscholastic Association. The Cobras had to replace five offensive linemen. Injuries forced Belles to start two new offensive linemen in the Basha loss. But after that game, two transfers -- Jose Mora and Aman Fears -- came in to take over two spots on the offensive line. That took care of the O-line issues.
Gonzales, a transfer from Glendale Deer Valley, also became eligible and he moved into that starting role. He has thrown for 1,192 yards and eight TDs in seven games, after throwing for 14 TDs last year at Deer Valley.
Another big emergence was sophomore wide receiver Nikko Boncore, who has caught nine TD passes and is averaging 19 yards on 56 catches. He played some on varsity as a freshman, catching six passes for 80 yards and a TD. In his last two playoff games, Boncore had four catches for 118 yards against Horizon, and 148 yards and two TDs on six catches against Notre Dame.
Boncare is among eight two-way starters.
"The mindset (this year) was to get the rings, win a state championship," Boncore said. "Bringing it home. Like the youth football days. That's how we're doing it."
But it won't be easy. Cactus is having to close it out against the best offense it has seen since Basha with quarterback Jamar Malone II, running back Dax Hall and receivers Carter Hancock and Dom Esposito all putting up huge numbers.
"We have to pay a lot of attention to the details of our game plan," Belles said. "But it's going to be hard to stop an offense like that for four quarters. The quarterback is a problem through and through. We've got our work cut out for us."
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LI-COR Inc., a global leader in environmental measurement technology, announces the release of the LI-710 Evapotranspiration Sensor, a breakthrough in measuring actual ET.
LINCOLN, Neb., April 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Measuring evapotranspiration (ET) – the amount of water that moves from soil and plants into the atmosphere – is an important part of drought monitoring, water budgets, irrigation scheduling, watershed management, remote sensing verification, and more. However, direct measurements of ET haven't been widely performed because of the cost and complexity of the methods.
With the LI-710 Evapotranspiration Sensor, LI-COR provides a simplified and cost-effective tool for the direct measurement of actual ET with accuracy that is comparable to traditional eddy covariance, which is the gold standard for collecting actual ET data. The LI-710 makes this critical measurement accessible and affordable to research, monitoring, regulatory, and commercial groups that need to accurately track water.
"We knew that there was a real need to find a way to make high quality, direct measurements of ET more accessible," said Bill Miller, Senior Product Manager at LI-COR. "We made high quality data, ease of use, and low price our top three targets for this project and we kept our focus on designing a sensor that could deliver all three."
LI-COR expects to ship the LI-710 this summer. To learn more and request a quote, visit licor.com/710.
LI-COR is an industry-leading environmental technology innovator of high-quality instrument systems for eddy covariance, plant physiology, soil gas flux, light, gas analysis, and greenhouse gas research. LI-COR instruments and systems are used by networks and researchers around the world.
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Amazon and Water.org expand partnership to bring drinking water to 100 million people
The technology giant is part of one of the largest private investment portfolios in water and climate.
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September 19th, 2022Taking into account data provided by this important association, by 2025 a scenario has been projected in which 50% of the world's population will live in areas with water scarcity as a result of climate change, and in which low-income families will be the most affected by this crisis.
Against this grim backdrop, a new commitment between Amazon and water.org was recently announced to deliver climate-resilient water and sanitation solutions that will provide lasting access to the precious resource for 100 million people in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
In addition to its participation in launching this fund, Amazon is also contributing $10 million to directly empower 1 million people with access to water by 2025, providing 3 billion liters of water per year in areas facing water scarcity.
Since 2020, Amazon and Water.org teams have worked together to provide clean water and sanitation to 250,000 people in communities across India and Indonesia, through microloans that help nearby communities finance water pipe connections and sanitation installations in homes.
Matt Damon, co-founder of Water.org and WaterEquity, stated:
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Water action is climate action. We must focus on global water security by putting the water and sanitation needs of the most vulnerable front and center through our climate discussions and most importantly, our philanthropy.
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Amazon's most recent donation will fuel one of the largest private water and climate investment portfolios to date over the next two years. This is the Fund for Water and Climate, which will support climate-resilient water and sanitation projects, including water reuse infrastructure, wastewater treatment plants, and the reduction of water loss.
“The climate crisis can’t wait and pressing issues like safe water and sanitation require action today. We’ve done incredible work with Water.org the last several years, reaching hundreds of thousands of people, and I’m proud to extend our partnership today to help directly support 1 million people having access to safe water by 2025. We are also encouraging our partners in The Climate Pledge to join us to help reach the most vulnerable communities around the world with safe water and sanitation,” noted Kara Hurst, vice president for worldwide sustainability at Amazon.
For millions, the water crisis is around the clock. Give to @Water monthly and help empower families with safe water and time to pursue education and work that can help break the cycle of poverty. https://t.co/wEaTxvXzOk pic.twitter.com/07oOwzfzyz
— Water.org (@Water) September 20, 2022
In addition to global investments in clean water and sanitation, Amazon, which is the world's largest corporate purchaser of renewable energy and was the first signatory to The Climate Pledge, which now has more than 375 companies committed to net carbon reduction 10 years ahead of the Paris Agreement, it has also committed to decarbonizing its own operations to be net zero carbon by 2040.
“People living in poverty are especially vulnerable to the impacts of climate change because they often lack access to reliable water and sanitation systems. They also have limited access to funding that can help them adapt to growing droughts, declining water quality, and shifting precipitation patterns. Water.org is working to change this,” underscored Gary White, CEO y cofundador de Water.org y WaterEquity.
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NEW YORK, July 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jakubowitz Law announces that a securities fraud class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of shareholders of Inotiv, Inc. (NASDAQ: NOTV).
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The lawsuit seeks to recover losses for shareholders who purchased Inotiv between September 21, 2021 and June 13, 2022.
Shareholders interested in acting as a lead plaintiff representing the class of wronged shareholders have until August 22, 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, Inotiv, Inc. issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Inotiv's acquisition, Envigo RMS, LL ("Envigo"), and Inotiv's Cumberland, Virginia facility (the "Cumberland Facility") engaged in widespread and flagrant violations of the Animal Welfare Act ("AWA"); (2) Envigo and Inotiv's Cumberland Facility continuously violated the AWA; (3) Envigo and Inotiv did not properly remedy issues with regards to animal welfare at the Cumberland Facility; (4) as a result, Inotiv was likely to face increased scrutiny and governmental action; (5) Inotiv would imminently shut down two facilities, including the Cumberland Facility; (6) Inotiv did not engage in proper due diligence; and (7) as a result, defendants' statements about its business, operations, and prospects, were materially false and misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.
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(The Hill) – President Biden said Sunday that the Group of Seven (G7) nations will ban Russian gold imports to further impose financial costs on Moscow for its invasion of Ukraine.
“The United States has imposed unprecedented costs on Putin to deny him the revenue he needs to fund his war against Ukraine,” Biden tweeted on Sunday. “Together, the G7 will announce that we will ban the import of Russian gold, a major export that rakes in tens of billions of dollars for Russia.”
Biden’s announcement came on the first day of a G7 meeting in Germany; a formal announcement is expected later on during the summit.
While it does not bring in as much money as energy, gold is a major source of revenue for the Russian economy. Restricting exports to G7 economies will cause more financial strain to Russia as it wages the war in Ukraine.
The G7 includes the United States, France, Canada, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom and Italy.
The U.S. and its allies have been searching for more ways to punish Russia for the bloody war that recently entered its fifth month. Biden has announced waves of penalties coordinated with allies that range from sanctions on Russian officials and oligarchs to export controls to sanctions on major Russian banks.
Still, Europeans are limited in what they can do because of their dependence on Russian energy imports. European countries have vowed to phase out Russian oil but have not taken steps like the U.S. to do so immediately.
Biden administration officials teased new announcements to squeeze Russia ahead of Biden’s trip to Europe and it’s possible there will be more announcements beyond the plan to ban Russian gold imports.
Biden embarked on the trip to Europe for the G7 meeting and, later, a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit with the goal of demonstrating unity with allies on keeping up pressure on Russia even as the war roils the global economy.
Biden spent Sunday morning meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and later participated in a working lunch with other leaders.
A White House readout of Biden’s meeting with Scholz indicated Ukraine was a main topic of conversation.
“The leaders underlined their commitment to Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, as well as their continued provision of military, economic, humanitarian, and diplomatic support to help Ukraine defend its democracy against Russian aggression,” the White House readout said. “The leaders also discussed efforts to alleviate the impacts of Russia’s war in Ukraine on global food and energy security.”
Biden also thanked Scholz for committing to boosting Germany’s defense spending above NATO’s 2 percent of gross domestic product target.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Morning" game were:
3-9-6-8, FIREBALL: 5
(three, nine, six, eight; FIREBALL: five)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Morning" game were:
3-9-6-8, FIREBALL: 5
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Solar Opposition to Mars
The sun and Mars in opposition warn against broadcasting half-baked opinions. Going too wide too early with your thoughts will cause more trouble than it’s worth. Most arguments aren’t worth taking on, as even winning them barely relates to the end goal. Refine your thought processes privately or with a trusted few.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Like a tree bending in the wind, you will go to great lengths and compromise to make things work. You will be repaid for your emotional flexibility with a relationship that continues to grow.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). It’s hard to tell if your strategy is working, but don’t let that stop you. Sure, there will be complications; assume the best and inch your way forward. Better to hang on through discomfort than to quit when you’re almost there!
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Emotional warmth is a gift you never seem to run out of. You cast everyone in a flattering light. They feel good in it and sense that they look good too. Your receptivity and acceptance are gifts worth more than gold.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Things seem mysterious or even impossible until you figure out how they work. Even the knottiest situation comes unraveled when you know which string to cut. All is illuminated when you know which switch to flip.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). Your brain isn’t the only smart thing in your body. Your stomach is wise because it is unencumbered by thought. It knows what agrees with you and what doesn’t. Direct questions to your stomach and accept its simple answer.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Avoid obsessing over one thing that is not going as you wish. One branch is not the whole tree. Without one branch, the tree and the roots keep doing their thing. Tend to what is essential and all is well.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You’ll offer something to the world. Your offer may come in the form of physical goods, an interaction or simply an energy. Before you make your bid, double-check to make sure you have the resources to deliver.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). Sleep is the simple fix that goes overlooked. You’re well aware that proper rest can resolve all kinds of problems, but it’s easy to forget this when you’re tired. One good night just might fix all.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You have remarkable powers of empathy. Your sensitivity allows you to give just the right thing. You may even have the healing touch. Don’t compromise your boundaries, though. Make sure your needs are met too.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). From the earthworm to the high-flying bird, every creature has a purpose. Even when you don’t know what it is, you’re still serving the purpose. The earthworm and bird don’t worry about that, and neither should you.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Venting can be an addicting habit. It may discharge negativity to air feelings but it’s also possible to create negativity through engaging in too much complaint. Avoid this by being sure to listen more than you talk.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). You chose your arena even though you knew it was going to be a hard place to play. There’s a lot you must do just to stay in the game; it’s worth it to you, though. If this were easy, everyone would do it.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Dec. 8). Among the highlights will be abundant fun times with people who share your sense of humor. You’ll set challenging goals that land you in unexpected situations. Once you decide who you want to be and how you want to feel, life adjusts to support you. Proceed with courage and the way becomes clear. Cancer and Scorpio adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 9, 17, 5, 13 and 28.
CELEBRITY PROFILES: This year Nicki Minaj not only co-hosted the MTV Awards, but she also took home the coveted Video Vanguard Award. As a young girl, Minaj created fantasy characters and alter egos, an escape she’s perfected as an art form to the tune of millions of likes per social media post. Minaj was born when the sun, Mercury, Venus, Uranus and Neptune were all in the passionate, fiery sign of Sagittarius.
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From the publisher's blurb: "Inflation: What It Is, Why It's Bad and How to Fix It" explains what's behine the worst inflationary storm in more than 40 years -- one that is dominating the headlines and shaking Americans by their pocketbooks. The cost-of-living explosion since the COVID pandemic has raised alwarms about a possible return of a 1970s-style "great inflation." Some observers even fear a descent into the kind of raging hyperinflation that has torn apart so many nations. Is this true? If so, should we prepare for the future?
"Inflation" answers these and other questions in an engaging discussion that draws on the singular expertise of Steve Forbes, chairman of Forbes Media, accalimed for his insights on money and the economy; Nathan Lewis, internationally renowned expert on money and taxation; and author and journalist Elizabeth Ames.
"Backed with examples from headlines and history, 'Inflation' is a unique, real-world exploration of the subject that addresses everyday concerns of Americans under siege by rising prices, including steps you should take to protect your wealth.
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NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — In many school shootings, the person who pulled the trigger — often a current or former student — is the only one blamed for the crime. But the arrest last week of a mother, whose 6-year-old son shot his teacher, and a related investigation of school employees shows how parents and educators are facing increasing scrutiny over any responsibility they may bear.
While national statistics are hard to come by, at least seven criminal cases against parents have been filed in the last eight years after a child brought a gun to school and it was fired, intentionally or not.
In Virginia, the mother of the 6-year-old was charged with felony neglect, while prosecutors have started investigating whether the actions of Newport News Public Schools employees could lead to criminal charges. The criminal probe was announced a week after the wounded teacher sued the school system. She accused administrators of ignoring multiple warnings that the boy had brought a gun to school.
Criminal investigations of parents as well as schools are rare, experts say. But they appear to be gaining traction as communities demand accountability and new ways to prevent the violence.
HOW OFTEN ARE PARENTS CHARGED AFTER A SCHOOL SHOOTING?
No one tracks such data, according to groups that advocate for more firearm restrictions. But the number appears small compared to the overall number of school shootings.
Guns came from the home of a parent or close relative in 76% of school attacks where firearms were used, according to a 2019 assessment by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
The K-12 School Shooting Database lists more than 2,000 incidents of gun violence in schools dating back to 1970. A review of its database and news articles shows that at least 11 adults have been charged, including the Newport News mother.
Seven cases have been brought since 2015.
Among them was a Chicago mother charged last year with child endangerment after a gun in her second-grader’s backpack accidentally discharged at school, injuring a 7-year-old classmate. In 2020, the mother of an Indiana teen received probation for failing to remove guns from her home after her mentally ill son threatened to kill students in 2018. He fired shots inside his school and later killed himself.
Teenager Ethan Crumbley pleaded guilty to killing four students at his Michigan high school in 2021. His parents were charged with involuntary manslaughter and accused of ignoring his mental health needs and making the gun accessible at home.
The Newport News boy shot first-grade teacher Abigail Zwerner at Richneck Elementary on Jan. 6 as she sat at a reading table. The 25-year-old was struck by a bullet in her hand and chest. She was hospitalized for two weeks and has had four surgeries.
The boy’s mother bought the gun legally, according to police. Her attorney, James Ellenson, has said she believed her gun was secured on a high closet shelf with a trigger lock.
She faces up to six years in prison if convicted of felony child neglect and a misdemeanor charge of recklessly storing a firearm. Ellenson said the mother hopes to broker a plea deal with prosecutors.
Although charges against parents have been rare, the issue has gained more attention with the rising number of shootings, according to Eve Brensike Primus, who teaches criminal procedure at University of Michigan law school.
Prosecutors have faced mounting political pressure to hold people accountable, she said. But proving negligence is challenging because prosecutors often must show that a child’s actions were reasonably foreseeable.
“The question is: At what point do we charge the parents with being able to foresee that the child would do something like this,” Primus said.
HOW EFFECTIVE ARE CHILD GUN SAFETY LAWS?
The shooting in Newport News has also renewed calls for stronger gun storage laws.
Twenty-nine states — including Virginia — have enacted child-access prevention laws that allow for criminal charges against adults who intentionally or negligently allow children unsupervised access to guns, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
The Newport News mother was charged with a misdemeanor under a Virginia law that prohibits leaving a loaded unsecured gun “in such a manner as to endanger the life or limb of a child” under 14.
Allison Anderman, senior counsel and director of local policy at the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, said the most effective laws go beyond liability and require gun owners to store firearms in a specific manner, particularly when children are around.
Far fewer states have those, although Michigan’s governor signed a safe-storage bill into law last week, following the 2021 shooting by Ethan Crumbley.
But Virginia lawmakers rejected several storage bills in the wake of the Newport News shooting.
The National Rifle Association said it opposes such “one-size-fits-all” mandates and cited other Virginia laws that hold gun owners responsible. Those include the felony child neglect law that’s being used against the mother in Newport News.
D.J. Spiker, the NRA’s Virginia state director, said the group’s members already safely store firearms.
“Why do we need to add more laws to the books?” he said.
HOW OFTEN ARE SCHOOLS INVESTIGATED?
Michael Dorn, executive director of Safe Havens International, which works to make schools safer, said he knows of only a few criminal probes involving school employees after a shooting — and they’re recent.
“I suspect a lot of it is that everybody is just desperate for solutions,” Dorn said.
In Newport News, the prosecutor’s office is seeking a special grand jury to probe if any “security failures” contributed to the shooting by the young boy.
The office didn’t elaborate, but Zwerner’s lawsuit alleges a string of failures by administrators, including ignoring warnings the day of the shooting that the boy had a gun and was in a “violent mood.”
A criminal investigation of school employees also followed the 2021 shooting at Oxford High School in Michigan.
Prosecutor Karen McDonald has noted that school counselors and Ethan Crumbley’s parents had met the day of the shooting over a drawing a teacher found on his desk that included a bullet and the words “blood everywhere.” The 15-year-old was sent back to class after his parents refused to take him home.
No school employees have been charged.
Chuck Vergon, a professor of educational law and policy at the University of Michigan-Flint, said these types of charges are rare because criminal negligence can be difficult to prove.
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How to choose the best fairy house
You can put a little whimsy in your life with a tiny enchanted house for fairies, gnomes and sprites to live in right in your own backyard. A fairy house should match the spirit of the mythical and legendary wee creatures — vivid imaginations, playful souls and magical powers. Fairy houses may look like tiny cottages, windmills, treehouses, tree stumps or old boots — all styles that attract fairies.
What is a fairy garden?
Fairy gardens are a bit of miniature magic and mystery in your very own yard. The purpose of a fairy garden is enjoyment, either in the form of relaxation and meditation or as a place to let your imagination run wild with fairies, sprites and other magical creatures. Add to yours with some of the many fairy garden accessories and it becomes an outdoor playhouse.
Are fairy houses only for fairies?
With doors and window that open, fairy houses make fine, roomy places for ladybugs to live as well as providing shelter for tiny frogs and toads.
Where can my children learn more about fairies?
Your kids can look up everything about fairies in folklore field guides such as “A Natural History of Fairies” and learn about fairy anatomy, life cycles, habitats and famous fairies from around the world.
Fairy houses
Most fairy houses are less than a foot tall, just the right size for fairies. There are many fanciful designs, but most are made to stand up to the rigors of the outdoors, especially those that are made of resins that are waterproof and won’t corrode.
Best fairy houses
You can place this 7.5-inch-tall mushroom cap fairy house on the ground or use the keyhole in the back to hang it from a tree trunk. The front door opens, a friendly snail sits on the roof and a cute peekaboo kitten looks out the window.
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This 7-inch-tall tree house has the look of stone with a thatched roof, shutters and a door that opens. It comes with a sitting fairy holding a frog that is a possible prince and a standing fairy with a lantern to guide other fairies to their new home.
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Teresa’s Collections Boot Fairy House
This old boot looks like the one that belonged to the old lady who lived in a shoe. It is 8.8 inches tall, covered with flowers and succulents, and emits a soft glow at night after charging with its solar panel during the day.
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Ovewios Fairy House with Solar Lights and Ornaments
This 11.4-inch-tall house looks as if it was made from a tree, with three stories, a stone stairway, a leafy canopy for a roof and flowering vines growing up the trunk. A lovely fairy clad in lavender swings from the biggest branch on the tree.
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Fairy house kits
Kids interested in handicrafts will enjoy making their own fairy houses from kits. They get the satisfaction and pride of craftsmanship while making a one-of-a-kind fairy house.
Best fairy house kits
Wild Pixy Resin Fairy House and Garden Kit
This solar-powered house lights up at night. It comes with a working door, bench, chair, bridge with stepping stones, glow stones, toadstools — and a fairy.
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My Fairy Garden Nature Cottage
This charming cottage is made from a flower pot and kids use the included soil and seeds to grow a real garden on the rooftop balcony. This cute little house with a water barrel is a great home for your garden’s ladybugs, too.
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Rolife Wooden Fairy House Model Building Kit
Follow the instructions included with this clever 1/24-scale kit to build the frame and assemble the components. Kids have hours of fun crafting and assembling fairy houses with the included wood, fabrics, threads, beads and paint.
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Fairy house accessories
A house is a good start on your fairy garden, but to make it really come to life and to personalize the design, choose from a variety of garden accessories and turn your fairy house into a little fairy village.
Best fairy house accessories
Haraqi 108-Piece Miniature Fairy Houses with Garden Accessories
You get three micro-houses just over an inch tall and handcrafted with impressive detailing. All the colorful accessories are made of durable, waterproof resin, including ladybugs, owls, rabbits, cows, elephants, chickens, ducks, turtles and a fence, bridge, pond, tower and street lights.
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Mood Lab Fairy Garden Fish Pond Kit
Set up this pond right outside your fanciful fairy house. You get a koi pond with five fish, a lily leaf and frog, a swan and a footbridge. Place the sitting sisters and the fairy with bird so they dip their toes in the pond or dangle their legs from the bridge.
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Haaland criticized over ‘difficult’ choice on Willow project
By MATTHEW DALY
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Interior Secretary Deb Haaland is facing criticism from political allies after the Biden administration approved a contentious oil drilling project in Alaska. Haaland is the first Native American Cabinet head and met with environmental and Indigenous groups opposed to the giant Willow project. Critics call Houston-based ConocoPhillips’ project a “carbon bomb” that would betray pledges made by Haaland and President Joe Biden to fight climate change. Haaland opposed Willow when serving in Congress and says the Interior Department had to make “difficult” choices. While Haaland did not sign the order approving Willow, she defended it in an online video. Environmentalists say the video masked Haaland’s personal opposition to the project. | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national-business/2023/03/17/haaland-criticized-over-difficult-choice-on-willow-project-2/ | 2023-03-17 16:50:37 | 0 | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national-business/2023/03/17/haaland-criticized-over-difficult-choice-on-willow-project-2/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon on Thursday reported its second-consecutive quarterly loss but its revenue topped Wall Street expectations, sending its stock sharply higher.
The Seattle-based e-commerce giant also said it is making progress in controlling some of the excess costs from its massive expansion during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Amazon lost $2.03 billion, or 20 cents per share, in the three-month period ended June 30, driven by a $3.9 billion write-down of the value of its stock investment in electric vehicle start-up Rivian Automotive.
That compared to a profit of $7.78 billion a year ago. It posted a loss of $3.84 billion in this year’s first quarter, its first quarterly loss since 2015, which was also marked by a large Rivian write-down. Analysts had been expecting a 12-cent profit in the latest quarter, according to FactSet.
But Wall Street was cheered by Amazon’s $121.2 billion in revenue, topping expectations of $119 billion. The results came as the company attempts to navigate shifting consumer demand and higher costs, while curtailing the glut of warehouses it acquired during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Shares in Amazon.com Inc. rose almost 14% in after-hours trading.
CEO Andy Jassy said in a statement that Amazon is seeing its revenue accelerate as it invests in its Prime membership and offers more benefits to members, such as its recent deal to give free access to meal delivery service Grubhub for a year.
Subscription services have grown 10% compared to the prior year. Some analysts estimate the company generated roughly $4.6 billion in revenue during its Prime Day shopping event, which it held during the second quarter last year but moved to the third in 2022. Amazon noted sales have also been dampened by foreign exchange rate fluctuations.
“Against this context, Amazon’s performance is reasonable enough — but it is still a very long way from the stellar numbers Amazon usually produces,” said Neil Saunders, managing director of GlobalData.
Jassy noted the company continues to feel inflationary pressure from higher energy and transportation costs, but it’s been making progress controlling expenses related to its fulfillment network.
Between 2019 and 2021, Amazon nearly doubled the number of warehouses and data centers it leased and owned to keep up with rising consumer demand. But as consumers shifted their habits, Amazon found itself with too many workers and too much space, which added billions in extra costs. The company has been subleasing some of its warehouses, ending some of its leases and deferring construction on others to deal with the problem.
Amazon’s Chief Financial Officer Brian Olsavsky said during a media call Thursday the company is slowing down its expansion plans for this year and the next to better align with customer demand. He said the company is also planning to shift capital investments towards its cloud-computing unit AWS.
Amazon’s retail operations both internationally and in North America reported operating losses, showing the company is suffering the same fate as Walmart and Target, Saunders said. Costs are outpacing sales and growth, though Amazon can dip into other profit pools — like AWS — to protect its overall performance, he said.
AWS, which is facing increasing competition from Microsoft Azure, earned $19.74 billion in revenue, a 33% jump from last year. While Amazon’s advertising unit, another burgeoning moneymaker, pulled in $8.76 billion, an 18% increase from last year.
On the labor side, Amazon has been able to reduced its headcount through attrition and staffing levels were more in-line with demand, Olsavsky said. The company had 1.52 million employees by the end of June, down 6.1% from the first quarter. The performance of the broader economy is expected to shape its hiring plans moving forward.
“I don’t think you’ll see us hiring at the same pace we did over the last year, or in last few years,” Olsavsky said, adding the company will continue to hire targeted positions for profitable units, like its advertising business and AWS.
Despite Wall Street’s celebration, the e-commerce and tech giant’s revenue growth still landed at a relatively sluggish 7%, about the same as the first quarter of this year and its slowest in about two decades. It comes as the pandemic-induced consumer reliance on online shopping dies down and Americans are shifting their spending habits away from things like home improvements towards traveling and eating out.
Consumers and businesses are also feeling the weight of surging inflation, which is at its highest in 40 years. Faced with rising costs of food and gas, Americans have dialed back purchases on discretionary items, forcing Walmart, Target and other retailers with extra inventory to offer more discounts on items like electronics. Though Olsavsky said inflation hasn’t cooled down demand.
“We saw demand increase during the quarter and had a very strong June,” he said.
Olsavsky also noted third-party sellers represented 57% of total units sold on Amazon during the quarter, the highest in the company’s history.
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By the end of 2022, seven Wendy's Restaurants will be powered by solar energy from Duke Energy's Community Solar Program, with an estimated 35 total sites expected to go 100% solar by 2025
DUBLIN, Ohio, Nov. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Wendy's Company announced today that seven restaurants in the Central Florida area are now sourcing renewable energy from Duke Energy Florida's Clean Energy Connection program. In early 2023, a total of ten Wendy's restaurants in this region will be powered by solar energy through participation in the program.
Among the inaugural subscribers to the Duke Energy community solar program, Wendy's aims to source 21 Company-operated restaurants with renewable electricity by the end of 2023 and a total of approximately 35 Central Florida restaurants with 100% renewable electricity by 2025, based on Duke Energy's current development plans. Wendy's will source 1,274 kilowatts (kW) of clean energy from the program by the end of this year, ramping up to 6,363 kW by 2025.
"Increasing our sourcing of clean energy is an important component of how we are working to reduce emissions within our System," said Chief Corporate Affairs and Sustainability Officer Liliana Esposito. "Our partnership with Duke Energy Florida offers a cost-effective and easy way to offset our electricity use with renewable energy credits, while at the same time funding solar power that will benefit local communities."
Duke Energy Florida's Clean Energy Connection program enables customers to subscribe to enough blocks of solar power to offset the entirety of their energy consumption while earning credits toward electric bills. Participating customers will support the operation of ten solar sites, which will produce a total of 749 megawatts (MW) of clean energy upon completion in 2024.
"We are grateful for Wendy's early subscription to Duke Energy's Clean Energy Connection Program," said Melissa Seixas, Duke Energy Florida state president Melissa Seixas. "As one of the project's inaugural subscribers, Wendy's is helping to bring clean, renewable energy to small businesses and areas residents."
This collaboration with Duke Energy contributes to Wendy's larger efforts to reduce emissions and minimize the Company's climate impact, a key element of Wendy's Corporate Responsibility platform, Good Done Right. Wendy's is working to validate and publicly disclose a science-based target covering Scope 1, 2 and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions with Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) in 2023.
To learn more about Wendy's Good Done Right progress and work to reduce the company's energy consumption and emissions, visit https://www.wendys.com/whatwevalue.
Wendy's® was founded in 1969 by Dave Thomas in Columbus, Ohio. Dave built his business on the premise, "Quality is our Recipe®," which remains the guidepost of the Wendy's system. Wendy's is best known for its made-to-order square hamburgers, using fresh, never frozen beef*, freshly-prepared salads, and other signature items like chili, baked potatoes and the Frosty® dessert. The Wendy's Company (Nasdaq: WEN) is committed to doing the right thing and making a positive difference in the lives of others. This is most visible through the Company's support of the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption® and its signature Wendy's Wonderful Kids® program, which seeks to find a loving, forever home for every child waiting to be adopted from the North American foster care system. Today, Wendy's and its franchisees employ hundreds of thousands of people across approximately 7,000 restaurants worldwide with a vision of becoming the world's most thriving and beloved restaurant brand. For details on franchising, connect with us at www.wendys.com/franchising. Visit www.wendys.com and www.squaredealblog.com for more information and connect with us on Twitter and Instagram using @wendys, and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/wendys.
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Duke Energy Florida, a subsidiary of Duke Energy, owns 10,300 megawatts of energy capacity, supplying electricity to 1.9 million residential, commercial and industrial customers across a 13,000-square-mile service area in Florida.
Duke Energy (NYSE: DUK), a Fortune 150 company headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., is one of America's largest energy holding companies. Its electric utilities serve 8.2 million customers in North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky, and collectively own 50,000 megawatts of energy capacity. Its natural gas unit serves 1.6 million customers in North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Ohio and Kentucky. The company employs 28,000 people.
Duke Energy is executing an aggressive clean energy transition to achieve its goals of net-zero methane emissions from its natural gas business and at least a 50% carbon reduction from electric generation by 2030 and net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. The 2050 net-zero goals also include Scope 2 and certain Scope 3 emissions. In addition, the company is investing in major electric grid enhancements and energy storage, and exploring zero-emission power generation technologies such as hydrogen and advanced nuclear.
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It's not every day a playwright gets two productions at major non-profit theaters within a few months, much less a playwright who had previously never had a single play staged.
"English was my first production ever," said Iranian-American playwright Sanaz Toossi, 30.
When audiences walked into the Atlantic Theater in February for previews, she said, she was nervous. "Oh, my God, the terror of an audience coming was, like, definitely something I wish I had been prepared for. But also, something I think you can only learn by having an audience coming!"
Toossi needn't have worried – English not only won raves from the local critics, but received the Lucille Lortel award for outstanding new off-Broadway play. Now a second play, Wish You Were Here, has opened at Playwrights Horizons.
In both works, she said, "I wanted to break those expectations about what a play set in the Middle East has to be aesthetically, and also tonally. There are no moments of violence."
Toossi grew up the child of Iranian immigrants in Orange County, Calif., traveling back and forth to Iran many times when she was young. English began as her graduate school thesis at NYU. The Trump travel ban, which cut off Iranian citizens from visiting the U.S., had just been implemented, and Toossi says she was "quietly furious." Her advisor, playwright Lucas Hnath, told her "to just write the thing that you need to write. Write the thing that you love. Don't write what you think is going to be smart or would be cool. Write from your heart."
And so Toossi did.
"I am a proud daughter of immigrants. I grew up with a lot of first gen kids," she said. "To feel that disrespect coming toward my parents and Middle Easterners and Muslims in general, I felt a need to write of the pain of being misunderstood."
She decided to set that first play in an English as a Foreign Language class in her mother's hometown of Karaj, Iran, in 2008. The students and teacher are either planning to emigrate or returning from abroad and each one feels caught between two cultures. Toossi said she wanted to put the audience in the characters' shoes. "I knew that they would never understand how hard it is to learn a new tongue and feel stupid and feel, you know, isolated from where you're from."
She created an interesting conceit for the play: when the characters are speaking Farsi, they talk in fluid unaccented English. When they're speaking English, they speak haltingly, with accents. Only at the end of the play does the audience actually hear two characters speak in Farsi.
Both English and Wish You Were Here are gentle character studies, where an accretion of tiny details adds up to something deeply emotional.
"I think she, like Chekhov, is in love with the absurdity of what it means to be alive and what it means to be human," said Gaye Taylor Upchurch, Wish You Were Here's director. "And investigating that and looking at people in these moments that aren't seemingly big moments in their lives, but that really explode everything about them."
Wish You Were Here tracks the up-and-down friendships of five women over the course of 13 years in Karaj, Iran. It starts in 1978, during the revolution, and continues through the Iran-Iraq War, all the way to 1991 – when only one of these women is left in Iran. As these major political and social changes happen in the background, the women celebrate weddings, talk profanely about bodily fluids and sex and laugh a lot.
"So often, I think with Middle Eastern plays we're tasked to tell these 'other' stories," said Iranian-born actress Marjan Neshat, who has appeared in both plays. "And it's so refreshing and so profound to get to play these nuanced, multidimensional, funny, radical women."
Toossi said that those words could describe her own mother, and that Wish You Were Here is a love letter to her. She pointed to one character's monologue:
She will have a home./A home; one home./I won't teach her Farsi./She will never have to know what an F1 or IR2 is./She won't even know the word revolution./Never./Never.
She will never know how fast this earth can spin underneath you./How one day you can have a home and the next/as you are hurtling through the air/you will have to vanquish home/the word home/the idea of home/as anything that has ever existed or will exist again.
That monologue, she said, "is from a mother describing what she wants for her daughter. And that is 100% my mother."
Wish You Were Here runs at Playwrights Horizons in New York City through May 29.
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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Hundreds of animals, including elephants and endangered Grevy’s zebras, have died in Kenyan widlife preserves during East Africa's worst drought in decades, according to a report released Friday.
The Kenya Wildlife Service and other bodies counted the deaths of 205 elephants, 512 wildebeests, 381 common zebras, 51 buffalos, 49 Grevy’s zebras and 12 giraffes in the past nine months, the report states.
Parts of Kenya have experienced four consecutive seasons with inadequate rain in the past two years, with dire effects for people and animals, including livestock.
The worst-affected areas include some of Kenya's most visited, including the Amboseli, Tsavo and Laikipia-Samburu ecosystems, according to the report's authors. They called for an urgent aerial census of wildlife in Amboseli to get a broader view of the drought's impact on wild animals there.
Other experts have recommended the immediate provision of water and salt licks in impacted regions. Elephants, for example, drink 240 liters (63.40 gallons) of water per day, according to Jim Justus Nyamu, executive director of the Elephant Neighbors Center.
For Grevy’s zebras, experts urge ehancing provisions of hay.
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Make some room, Phi Slama Jama. Another Houston team has reached the top of men's college basketball.
Nearly four decades after Clyde Drexler and Akeem Olajuwon took the Cougars to No. 1, the latest bunch led by Marcus Sasser and star freshman Jarace Walker took over the top spot in the AP Top 25 on Monday. They received 45 of 63 first-place votes from the national media panel, easily outdistancing second-place Texas and third-place Virginia.
“It’s not like we went online and applied for it and waited for a response back. We’ve been working for this,” said Houston coach Kelvin Sampson, whose team is coming off a Final Four and Elite Eight trip the past two seasons. “But remember, it’s a rental. You don’t own it. You’re just renting it because someday somebody else is going to be No. 1.”
North Carolina had been No. 1 all season, but the Tar Heels lost to Iowa State and in a four-overtime thriller to Alabama at the Phil Knight Invitational to cede the top spot to Houston, which beat Kent State in its only game last week.
The last time the Cougars ascended to No. 1 was the final poll of the 1982-83 season, when “The Glide” and “The Dream” along with coach Guy Lewis were the favorites to win it all. They rolled through the NCAA Tournament before falling to Jim Valvano and North Carolina State in an iconic championship game in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
“I’ve never been ranked No. 1,” said Sampson, now in his 34th season as a college basketball coach. “We were ranked all 12 years at Oklahoma. I’m sure we were ranked at Indiana. Then we’ve been ranked five or six straight years. We’re used to having a high level of success.”
Texas received eight first-place votes and Virginia received two. Arizona climbed from 14th to fourth after emerging from a stacked field to win the Maui Invitational. Purdue jumped from 24th all the way to fifth and scooped up eight first-place votes after beating West Virginia, Gonzaga and Duke at the Phil Knight Legacy tourney.
“Our guys are competitive. They’re fun to coach. They get along. They’re out there playing with purpose and that’s what you have to have,” said Boilermakers coach Matt Painter, whose team was briefly No. 1 about this time last season.
“Early in the season, very few teams play with the purpose collectively," he said. "I thought our guys played with a purpose.”
Baylor was sixth, Creighton seventh and U Conn climbed from 20th to eighth after beating Oregon, Alabama and Iowa State to win the Phil Knight Invitational. Kansas fell from third to ninth after losing to Tennessee in the championship game of the Battle 4 Atlantis, while Indiana rounded out the top 10.
There was a tie for 11th between SEC rivals Alabama and Arkansas with the Volunteers, another conference foe, right behind them. Gonzaga dropped from sixth to 14th, its first time outside the top 10 since Feb. 5, 2018, and Auburn was 15th.
Illinois was next followed by Duke and North Carolina in a tough week for Tobacco Road. The Blue Devils fell from eighth after their 75-56 loss to the Boilermakers.
Kentucky and Michigan State joined UCLA, Maryland, Iowa State, San Diego State and Ohio State in rounding out the poll.
RISING AND FALLING
Purdue made a rare 19-spot jump as the poll underwent a massive shakeup. UConn climbed 12 spots, Arizona moved up 10, Tennessee climbed nine and Alabama seven. On the flip side, the Tar Heels tumbled 17 spots, Duke dropped nine, Gonzaga fell eight and San Diego State fell seven.
IN AND OUT
Despite all the movement, Iowa State was the only newcomer this week, checking in at No. 23 after beating Villanova and North Carolina before falling to UConn. The Cyclones replaced Iowa, which dropped out after a one-week stay following its loss to TCU in the title game of the Emerald Coast Classic.
CONFERENCE WATCH
There are six difference conferences represented in the first seven teams in the poll. The Big Ten leads the way with six in the Top 25 while the SEC has five and the Big 12 has four, though three of them are in the top 10.
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Trae Young NBA Playoffs Player Prop Bets: Hawks vs. Celtics - April 15
The Atlanta Hawks, Trae Young included, take on the Boston Celtics at 3:30 PM ET on Saturday in the 2023 NBA Playoffs.
In this article, we dig into Young's available prop bets, providing stats to help you figure out the best wagers to make.
Trae Young Prop Bets vs. the Celtics
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Trae Young Insights vs. the Celtics
- Young is responsible for taking 18.4% of his team's field goal attempts this season with 19 per game.
- Young is averaging 6.3 three-point field goal attempts per game this season, which is 18.4% of his team's shots from beyond the arc.
- Young's opponents, the Celtics, have a middling offensive tempo, ranking 16th in the NBA with 101.9 possessions per game, while his Hawks rank 10th in possessions per game with 102.9.
- Defensively, the Celtics are ranked fourth in the league, allowing 111.4 points per game.
- The Celtics are the 18th-ranked squad in the league, giving up 44 rebounds per game.
- Looking at assists, the Celtics are second in the league, allowing 23.1 per game.
- The Celtics are the fifth-ranked squad in the NBA at allowing threes, conceding 11.6 made 3-pointers per game.
Trae Young vs. the Celtics
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PASADENA, Calif. (AP) _ Arrowhead Research Corp. (ARWR) on Tuesday reported fiscal second-quarter net income of $44.4 million, after reporting a loss in the same period a year earlier.
The Pasadena, California-based company said it had net income of 41 cents per share.
The results topped Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of six analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 39 cents per share.
The drug developer posted revenue of $151.8 million in the period, also exceeding Street forecasts. Six analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $140.2 million.
Arrowhead Research shares have decreased 48% since the beginning of the year. In the final minutes of trading on Tuesday, shares hit $34.25, a decrease of 48% in the last 12 months.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Ahmed Qureia, a former Palestinian prime minister and one of the architects of interim peace deals with Israel, has died at age 85.
A key player in the 1993 Oslo peace accords, Qureia witnessed the rise of the dream of Palestinian statehood that surged during the negotiations. But he also saw those hopes recede, with the prospect of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict drifting further than ever. Domestically, Qureia was riddled with corruption charges that tainted his reputation.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas confirmed Qureia’s death on Wednesday. The cause of death was not immediately made public, but Qureia had been ill for some time with a heart condition.
“Abu Alaa stood in the lead defending the causes of his home and people,” Abbas said in a statement carried by the official Wafa news agency, using Qureia’s nickname.
Born in 1937 in Abu Dis, suburb of east Jerusalem in the occupied West Bank, Qureia joined the Fatah movement in 1968.
He rose quickly through the ranks under the leadership of its founder, late Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, and became a member of its decision-making body, the Central Committee, in 1989. He was also a member of the PLO Executive Committee.
Qureia headed the Palestinian delegation to Oslo, where intensive talks with Israel led to the peace accords in 1993, which created the Palestinian Authority and set up self-rule areas in the Palestinian territories. During ensuing rounds of negotiations with Israelis, he met all Israeli prime ministers who were in office before 2004, including Yitzhak Rabin, Ariel Sharon, Shimon Peres, Benjamin Netanyahu and Ehud Olmert, and U.S. Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.
Peace talks have collapsed in the three decades since the accords. Israel has driven up settlement building in the West Bank, and imposed a blockade on the Gaza Strip after the Islamic militant Hamas took power there after it routed forces loyal to Fatah. Violence is again flaring up between the sides, especially in the West Bank.
In a 2013 interview with the Associated Press marking two decades since the Oslo agreements, Qureia said that if he knew then what he knows now he wouldn’t have agreed to the accords.
“With such kinds of blocs of settlements? No. With the closure of Jerusalem? No. Not at all,” Qureia said in an interview at his office in the Jerusalem suburb of Abu Dis.
After the establishment of the PA, Qureia won a seat in the first parliamentary elections in 1996 and chaired the Palestinian Legislative Council.
After Abbas resigned as the PA’s first prime minister in 2003, Arafat replaced him with Qureia. He held the post until 2006, when the militant Hamas group scored a landslide victory in the second Palestinian elections.
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The Velella velella, a name so nice you gotta say it twice.
Who are they? The tiny disc-like critters are colonial hydrozoans, classified under the phylum of cnidaria, and their eponymous genus of Velella (not a Game of Thrones reference).
Meet Vellela vellela, or By-the-wind-sailor!
— CAStateParksOC (@CAStateParksOC) April 10, 2023
These have been washing ashore #CrystalCove lately.
They are related to #seajellies but are not #jellyfish themselves. They are #hydroids w/ stinging #tentacles they use to paralyze #plankton for food. Notice their “sails” up top. pic.twitter.com/cO0HftuNxr
What's the big deal? California beachgoers have reported seeing thousands of the Velella velella along the shoreline recently, though they typically live far offshore.
Want more on oceans? Listen to the Consider This episode on why melting ice in Antarctica is a big problem for coastal Texas.
What are people saying? Marine biologist Julianne Kalman Passarelli is the education and collections curator at Cabrillo Marine Aquarium in San Pedro, California, and spoke with NPR about the mysterious blobby dudes.
On how they reproduce:
Hydrozoans are just really bizarre because they do something called alternation of generations. That's how they reproduce. And they go back and forth between a polyp stage, a colonial polyp stage, and a medusa stage.
On the structure of the Velella velella and its ecosystem:
[The Velella velella is] a colony of animals. And if you look really closely, all those little things hanging down that look like tentacles are all different organisms within the same colony, and they all work together, kind of like coral, and they all have a different purpose. One is for reproduction, one is for feeding, and one is for defense.
On the textures of the sail:
If you were to touch the top of the sail, it feels like plastic. It's quite thick. And actually what's in there is chitin. And that's the same material that is in the exoskeleton of crustaceans. So it's notoriously hard and protective, but you definitely don't want to pick them up and touch them because they are cnidarians. Their sting is not known to be as toxic as their relatives, the Portuguese man o' war, or even their more distant relatives jellyfish, sea nettles, things like that. But they can cause irritation. I wouldn't suggest picking them up with your bare hands.
I thought these were rocks but it’s the By-the-Wind Sailor or Velellas’again! So many all down the beach! #Bythewindsailor #ktla #FoxNews #news pic.twitter.com/0r8Wtzbxye
— Michele Steer (@Michsteer) April 13, 2023
So, what now?
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TEL AVIV, Israel — Israel is lobbying against calls to hold an urgent session of the United Nations Security Council, following a controversial visit by Israel's far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, to a sensitive holy site in Jerusalem.
On Tuesday, just days after Israel's new ultranationalist government took office, Ben-Gvir toured the hilltop compound that is home to the Al-Aqsa Mosque. The site is revered in Islam as the Noble Sanctuary, where the Prophet Muhammad ascended to heaven, but in Judaism it is called the Temple Mount, because it was the location of the biblical Temples.
Ben-Gvir, previously convicted in an Israeli court of ties to an anti-Arab racist organization, has long called for expanded access and rights for Jews on the hilltop. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended Ben-Gvir's visit, saying there would be no change to the status quo of the holy site. Arab countries and the U.S. warned that any unilateral changes to the way the religious site is run could spark violence.
The United Arab Emirates, a key ally of Israel, says it is pushing, with China's support, for the U.N. Security Council to discuss the situation. The Palestinian Foreign Ministry said it urged the UAE to request the meeting, and that it is expected to take place Thursday.
An Israeli diplomatic official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss internal communications, tells NPR that Israel's Foreign Ministry instructed Israeli embassies to lobby countries against any moves the Security Council might take. Israeli news site Walla News first reported the Israeli efforts to block the proposed U.N. meeting.
The UAE was among the first Arab countries to criticize Ben-Gvir's visit to the compound, and held calls with Turkey and Jordan on the matter. Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey and Bahrain have all slammed the visit, with most of them calling it "provocative."
But the UAE's outspoken criticism is particularly noteworthy, given its warm public embrace of Israel. The two countries, then under Netanyahu and President Donald Trump, opened diplomatic relations in 2020, and just last month, the UAE's ambassador to Israel hosted Ben-Gvir at an Emirati national day celebration.
Elham Fakro, a Bahraini research fellow at the University of Exeter, says public opinion in the Gulf is largely opposed to Israeli actions against Palestinians, and is skeptical that formal ties with Arab states can change Israel's policies.
"I think what's happening now is there's been a maturing of the relationship between the two sides. I think the Emiratis are more confident in the relationship with Israel," says Fakro, author of a forthcoming book on the U.S.-brokered deals that formalized ties between Israel and the Gulf Arab states of Bahrain and the UAE in 2020.
"They're trying to use their influence," she says of the UAE. "Whether or not Netanyahu is going to be a willing partner in that is a different question."
Ben-Gvir's visit to the holy site also drew criticism within Israel from those opposed to the country's new ultranationalist government.
"It's outrageous. It's totally intolerable," former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert tells NPR. "I completely understand the reaction of the international community."
NPR's Aya Batrawy contributed to this story from Dubai.
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SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily 3 Evening" game were:
3-9-2
(three, nine, two)
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The streaking Los Angeles Dodgers will try to take the momentum from their 10-1 homestand on the road, starting Tuesday in the opener of a three-game series against the St. Louis Cardinals.
“This homestand is the best baseball we played (this year),” Los Angeles manager David Roberts said. “This is Dodger baseball.”
The Dodgers have won seven consecutive games and 11 of 12 overall. The injury-depleted Cardinals, meanwhile, won back-to-back games against the Phillies to split a four-game series. They had lost six of their previous seven games, including the first two vs. Philadelphia.
“This team is committed to finishing strong (before the All-Star break),” Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol said. “It’s been a grind. Guys are tired. There’s no hiding that. They’re playing through it, but they’re committed to finishing strong, then resting up and having a strong second half.”
The Dodgers lead the National League in runs per game (5.0) and the majors in team ERA (2.96). They have outscored opponents by 151 runs this season, the second-best differential behind the New York Yankees’ plus-177.
“We’ve been playing good, especially these 20 games in a row that we just did,” Dodgers first baseman Freddie Freeman said. “And the key was our pitching staff this whole time. They give us chances late in games, and for us to be able to get the big hits at the end of games. It was nice to be able to pick them up, because they picked us up the whole time.”
Los Angeles’ Tuesday starter, right-hander Mitch White (1-1, 3.38 ERA) has allowed just five runs (four earned) in 19 1/3 innings over his past four starts.
“It’s really good to see Mitch come into his own,” Roberts said.
In his most recent outing, White limited the Colorado Rockies to one run, which was unearned, and one hit in 5 2/3 innings on Wednesday in a game the Dodgers eventually won 2-1.
He is 0-1 with a 6.00 ERA in two career appearances against the Cardinals, including one start.
With Steven Matz (shoulder) wrapping up his rehabilitation assignment, Cardinals rookie Matthew Liberatore (2-1, 4.74 ERA) with get his first opportunity to face the Dodgers.
Liberatore, a left-hander, has made six starts this season and the Cardinals have won five of them, thanks to strong run support and ample relief help.
On Thursday, he worked four scoreless innings at Atlanta as the Cardinals won 3-2 in 11 innings. Liberatore escaped the fourth inning unscathed after the Braves put runners on second and third with no outs.
“I’ve got two options,” Liberatore said. “I’m going to make the pitch anyway. I can either do it with the conviction and confidence and see what I want to happen happen before it happens, or I can hope for things to happen. I went out there and I said, ‘I’m going to throw it with confidence.’
“And if I get beat, I can lay my head on a pillow knowing that I threw what I wanted to throw.”
The Cardinals got left-handed reliever T.J. McFarland back on Monday from his bout with COVID-19 and subsequent rehabilitation assignment. Left-hander Zack Thompson was returned to Triple-A Memphis to make room on the roster.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Federal agents took a participant in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol into custody for his alleged role in the insurrection after an hourslong standoff Thursday, authorities said.
Eric Christie, 56, was arrested in the Sherman Oaks neighborhood of the San Fernando Valley, according to Laura Eimiller, an FBI spokesperson.
He initially refused to comply with federal agents' orders but surrendered without incident after three hours of negotiations, Eimiller said. She would not comment on whether he was armed during the standoff.
Video and photographs from the insurrection, discovered by online sleuths, show Christie at the Capitol last year wrapped in a rainbow flag with a hammer attached to his belt, federal court documents state.
A video captured Christie yelling "this is our Capitol" into a bullhorn while the crowd rushes into the Capitol as police attempted to keep them back, according to court documents filed in connection with his California arrest.
A federal judge on Friday ordered Christie detained, according to Christie's attorney, George Newhouse.
"We disagreed with the judge's findings that he is a flight risk," Newhouse said in an email to The Associated Press. "Mr. Christie will defend himself in Washington D.C. as he believes that his actions were within the zone of protection provided by the First Amendment."
Christie's arrest Thursday came the same day as the House Jan. 6 committee released its final report, concluding an 18-month investigation, asserting that Donald Trump criminally engaged in a "multi-part conspiracy" to overturn the lawful results of the 2020 presidential election and failed to act to stop his supporters from attacking the Capitol.
Christie faces federal charges of entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds with a deadly weapon, as well as disorderly or disruptive conduct in restricted building or grounds with a deadly weapon, according to court documents.
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- As part of its partnership with FIFA, Globant will also become a FIFAe Series™ Global Sponsor in 2023, 2024 and 2025
- With the sponsorship, Globant continues its journey to reinvent the global sports sector and its commitment to supporting women across industries
NEW YORK, June 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Globant (NYSE: GLOB), a digitally native company focused on reinventing businesses through innovative technology solutions, today announced its support and sponsorship of the FIFA Women's World Cup Australia and New Zealand 2023™, one of the world's biggest sporting events. The announcement derives from the multi-year partnership between Globant and FIFA to supercharge the growth of the FIFA+ streaming platform and support FIFA's flagship global events. As part of the partnership, Globant has also been an Official Regional Supporter for North America and Europe of FIFA World Cup 2022™; an Official Sponsor of several FIFAe Cups; and an Official Tournament Supporter of U17/U20 Men's/Women's World Cup™.
The partnership between FIFA and Globant will create new ways for fans to engage in a sport they love, and empower more women and young girls to support, participate and excel in any area they are passionate about, even those dominated by men.
"We are proud to support the FIFA Women's World Cup and look forward to using our deep technical expertise to help elevate the experiences of fans from all over the world," said Martin Migoya, Co-Founder and CEO of Globant. "With this sponsorship, we will also be able to simultaneously further our company goal of creating space for women to pursue their dreams and achieve in every industry – from technology to sports and beyond."
Diversity, equity, and inclusion have always been core values for Globant whether that's in the world of technology or sports. Globant spotlights diverse communities and has been partnering with some of the biggest platforms and institutions in the sports world. From soccer, to tennis, to eSports and beyond, the company unites teams and communities globally that share common passions.
"FIFA and Globant are strongly aligned in our passion for creating immersive digital and physical experiences that increase fan engagement on a global scale," said Wanda Weigert, Chief Brand Officer of Globant. "Perhaps most importantly, supporting the FIFA Women's World Cup™ feels very authentic to our brand values. From our founding in 2003, increasing diversity and inclusion in the industry has been one of our top priorities, reflected in several initiatives like our Women that Build Awards. Through this sponsorship, we will have a unique opportunity to help propel women's soccer on a global stage, achieve greater inclusion and equity in the sports industry, and inspire the next generation of athletes."
On the heels of recently announced partnerships with some of the world's leading sports organizations, including LaLiga and the LA Clippers, Globant launched its Sports Reinvention Studio – its expert-led business unit specifically focused on reinventing the sports industry through cutting-edge technology solutions – earlier this year.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles judge declared a mistrial and dismissed grand theft charges Tuesday against a former business manager of Marvel Comics mastermind Stan Lee.
Superior Court Judge George Lomeli dismissed the charges against Keya Morgan, who was accused of stealing from Lee, when a jury was deadlocked 11-1 in favor of acquittal after two days of deliberations and a 2 1/2-week trial.
Lomeli said he was stepping in to clear Morgan of three felony counts of grand theft from an elder “in the interests of justice,” according to Variety.
“My client and I have spent four years proving his innocence and today we prevailed,” Morgan’s attorney Alex Kessel said in an email to The Associated Press.
Prosecutors had alleged that Morgan, 41, stole more than $220,000 in proceeds from three memorabilia signings from Lee about six months before Lee died in 2018. Morgan was arrested the following year. Initial charges of elder abuse and false imprisonment against Morgan were dropped long before the trial.
The prosecution argued during the trial that Morgan had preyed on Lee when Lee was in mental decline in the last months of his life, and acted without authority on his behalf.
Kessel argued that the missing money actually went to Lee’s daughter and heir J.C. Lee, who was a witness during the trial.
The proceedings were largely overshadowed by the simultaneous trials of disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein and actor Danny Masterson, which were going on simultaneously with Morgan’s on the same hallway of a downtown LA courthouse.
An after-hours email sent to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office seeking comment was not immediately returned.
Lee, the creative dynamo who co-created characters including Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four and the Incredible Hulk for Marvel and made beloved cameos in the movies that featured his creations, died in November of 2018 at age 95.
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A former Minneapolis police officer pleaded guilty Monday to aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter in the killing of George Floyd just as jury selection was about to begin, though another ex-officer was still headed to trial.
The plea deal for J. Alexander Kueng calls for 3 1/2 years in prison, with prosecutors agreeing to drop a count of aiding and abetting second-degree murder. Kueng is the second officer to plead guilty to the state charge, following Thomas Lane, who pleaded guilty earlier this year.
Their former colleague, Tou Thao, rejected a plea deal earlier this year, telling a judge it “would be lying” to accept any such deal. Jury selection for Thao was expected to begin later Monday.
All three were convicted in February on federal counts of willfully violating the civil rights of Floyd, who was Black. Lane was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in the federal case. Kueng was sentenced to three years and Thao was sentenced to 3 1/2, but for some Floyd family members and activists, the penalties were too small.
Floyd, 46, died May 25, 2020, after Officer Derek Chauvin, who is white, pinned him to the ground with a knee on Floyd’s neck as he repeatedly said he couldn’t breathe. The killing, captured on widely viewed bystander video, sparked protests in Minneapolis and around the globe as part of a reckoning over racial injustice.
Kueng and Lane helped to restrain Floyd, who was handcuffed. Kueng knelt on Floyd’s back and Lane held down Floyd’s legs. Thao kept bystanders from intervening during the 9 1/2-minute restraint.
As part of his plea agreement, Kueng admitted that he held Floyd's torso, that he knew from his experience and training that restraining a handcuffed person in a prone position created a substantial risk, and that the restraint of Floyd was unreasonable under the circumstances.
Kueng's plea called for him to serve his state and federal terms concurrently, just as Lane is doing.
Chauvin was convicted of state murder and manslaughter charges last year and is currently serving 22 1/2 years in the state case. He also pleaded guilty to a federal charge of violating Floyd’s civil rights and was sentenced to 21 years for that and for an unrelated case involving a 14-year-old boy. He is serving the sentences at the same time at the Federal Correctional Institution in Tucson, Arizona.
Kueng is Black, Lane is white and Thao is Hmong American. They were convicted of federal charges in February after a monthlong trial that focused on the officers’ training and the culture of the police department. All three were convicted of depriving Floyd of his right to medical care and Thao and Kueng were also convicted of failing to intervene to stop Chauvin during the killing.
After their federal sentences, there was a question as to whether Kueng and Thao would proceed to trial, with legal experts saying it was likely they'd seek a plea deal with the state that would not exceed the federal sentence and allow them serve both sentences at the same time.
State sentencing guidelines for a person with no criminal record, like Kueng, call for a range from about 3 1/2 years to four years and nine months in prison for second-degree unintentional manslaughter. The presumptive sentence is four years.
If Kueng had been convicted of aiding and abetting second-degree murder, he would have faced a presumptive 12 1/2 years in prison.
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National Pizza Franchise Honors 50-Year Milestone With New Limited-Time Offer to Express Gratitude to Devoted Customers
MADISON HEIGHTS, Mich., April 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Hungry Howie's, the originator of the Flavored Crust® pizza franchise, is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a special limited-time offer to give thanks to its loyal customers for their unwavering support. The '73 Classic large pizza, topped with approximately 73 pieces of Hungry Howie's classic cupped pepperoni, pays homage to the brand's founding year of 1973. Starting Monday, April 24 through Friday, June 30, customers can order the '73 Classic large pizza for carry-out orders only.
"Our journey over the past 50 years has been made possible because of the dedicated franchisees and team members that have worked tirelessly to build the Hungry Howie's brand," said Steve Jackson, CEO of Hungry Howie's. "50-years is a milestone that few companies are able to reach. We are very fortunate to work with a remarkable group that embody our core values every day and continue to drive our business forward."
Hungry Howie's began as a 1,000-square-foot hamburger shop in Taylor, Michigan that has since turned into a successful carry-out and delivery pizza chain. Today, the originators of the Flavored Crust® pizza franchise has expanded to 535 locations across the country. Hungry Howie's is a leader in the national pizza segment and specializes in offering 8 free Flavored Crust® options – Butter, Asiago Cheese, Cajun, Butter Cheese, Sesame, Garlic Herb, Ranch, and Italian Herb. Additionally, the franchise offers a great selection of calzone-style oven-baked subs, Howie Bread®, fresh salads, and more.
The '73 Classic large pizza will be available in-store, online and by phone for carry-out orders only, nationwide, starting Monday, April 24 through Friday, June 30 (prices may vary). For more on Hungry Howie's, franchising information, or to order this limited-time offer, please visit www.hungryhowies.com. View the '73 Classic here.
About Hungry Howie's
Known for inventing Flavored Crust® pizza, Hungry Howie's has been around for 50 years and provides customers of all ages high-quality products at a great value. Currently, the brand has over 535 stores in 21 states across the United States and their customers are big fans of flavor. The menu aims to satisfy all – with dough made fresh daily in-house at all locations, offering original round, deep dish, thin crust, and gluten-free options, coupled with the array of options for just crust, including 8 free Flavored Crust® options – Butter, Asiago Cheese, Cajun, Butter Cheese, Sesame, Garlic Herb, Ranch, and Italian Herb. No one can live on pizza alone, so Hungry Howie's offers a great selection of calzone-style oven-baked subs, Howie Bread®, fresh salads, Howie Wings®, Howie Rolls®, desserts & Pepsi® products.
The company is also widely known for its annual Love Hope & Pizza campaign, giving back to the National Breast Cancer Foundation for the past 14 years. The campaign marks its commitment to give back to local communities, by educating all around breast cancer awareness. To learn more about Hungry Howie's and to stay in the know, check out www.hungryhowies.com or stay up to date through Instagram, Tik Tok, Twitter, and Facebook.
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Can you make pizza in a toaster oven?
A toaster oven uses about one-third to one-half less energy than your regular kitchen oven. If you’re interested in reducing your energy bill, the more meals you can cook in smaller appliances, the better.
The main problem, however, is smaller appliances have less space, meaning you can’t cook large meals in a toaster oven. You might be worried that your favorite comfort food — pizza — can’t be cooked in a toaster oven, but it can. In fact, it might even taste better that way.
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Why do pizza ovens make better-tasting pizza than regular ovens?
Pizza ovens are designed to do one thing: make great-tasting pizza. They make pizza that is evenly cooked, has crunchy toppings, and has a crispy crust yet is still chewy on the inside. A pizza oven can do this because it cooks at a high temperature, roughly 800°F, and radiates heat from all directions, ensuring the pizza is evenly cooked. The effect is somewhat similar to an air fryer: The outside of the pizza quickly gets crispy but it doesn’t burn. This rapid heating also seals in moisture and flavor, giving you a thoroughly satisfying experience with every bite.
What features does a toaster oven need to make pizza?
Because a toaster oven is built to cook more than one type of food, not every model is great for making pizza. A toaster oven best for this task needs to have certain features. Here are the ones to focus on:
Size
If you want to make a pizza in a toaster oven, the toaster oven has to be big enough to fit the pizza. If you’re only interested in making personal pizzas, these range from 8 to 10 inches in diameter and will fit in most toaster ovens. However, if you want to make a larger pizza (one that’s 12 or 14 inches in diameter), you need a toaster oven that’s at least 12 to 14 inches deep.
Convection
The best toaster oven for making pizza has a convection mode. While this sounds like a high-end fancy term, all it means is there are small fans that circulate the hot air inside the oven. This feature combats the hot-spot problem that toaster ovens can have and creates an even temperature in all areas of the cooking space.
High temperature
Pizza needs to be cooked at a high temperature. The ideal temperature is far beyond the range of most toaster ovens. Luckily, it’s possible to cook pizza at a lower temperature. As long as your toaster oven has a temperature setting reaching 400 degrees or 450 degrees, you can make a pizza.
Preheat mode
To have a successful cooking experience, you should preheat a toaster oven. This is especially important when making pizza because you want the temperature as high as possible as soon as you put the pizza in the oven. If your toaster oven has a preheat mode, then you’re all set. If not, you may have to let the oven warm up for about 15 minutes before inserting the pizza.
Light
Since a toaster oven can lose a great deal of heat when the door is opened for even a brief period, it’s important to get a model that has a light. This way, you can check on your pizza without opening the door.
How to make a pizza in a toaster oven
Making a pizza in a toaster oven isn’t hard. However, you do have to pay attention to the details to get the best results. Here’s how to do it in six easy steps.
1. Place the pizza stone in the cold oven
If you’re using a pizza stone, place it in the cold oven — putting a pizza stone in a hot oven will crack it. If you aren’t using a pizza stone, skip this step.
2. Preheat the toaster oven (and pizza stone)
Set your toaster oven to 450 degrees, and wait approximately five minutes. If your toaster oven has a preheat mode, use it. If you’re also preheating a pizza stone, give it about 15 minutes.
3. Prepare the pizza
While the toaster oven is preheating, prepare the pizza for cooking — spread the dough, add toppings, etc.
4. Put the pizza in the oven
Open the door, and slide the pizza onto the pizza stone using a pizza peel. If you don’t have a pizza stone, simply place the pizza in the oven on a pizza pan. Close the door, and make sure the oven is in convection mode (if you have it).
5. Check the pizza
After about five minutes, turn on the toaster oven light to check the pizza. You’re looking for light browning on the crust and bubbling cheese. It will probably take longer than five minutes for this to happen, so keep an eye on the pizza to make sure it doesn’t burn.
6. Remove the pizza
When it’s done cooking, remove the pizza and let it cool before slicing and eating. Don’t forget to turn off the toaster oven.
FAQ
Q. Should I bake or broil my pizza?
A. It’s definitely better to bake your pizza. When you bake something, the heat comes from both the top and bottom of the oven. When you broil, the heat only comes from the top. If you broil your pizza, the crust may not be crispy.
Q. Can you only make rectangular pizzas in a toaster oven?
A. No. As long as the diameter of your pizza doesn’t exceed the depth of your toaster oven, you can make round pizzas in a toaster oven.
Q. What other snacks are easy to make at home?
A. If you like dried fruit, vegetable chips, jerky, and other such treats, you can make them all with little effort using a dehydrator. Learn how to do that in this video.
What you need to make pizza in a toaster oven
Toaster oven
If you want to make pizza in a toaster oven, besides a pizza, the most important thing you need is a toaster oven.
Pizza pan
Quality pizza pans have holes that allow the hot air to circulate around your pizza so the crust heats evenly. The pan can also shield the pizza from excess moisture to keep the crust crispy.
Pizza stone
If you want to step up your pizza-making game, a pizza stone transfers heat directly to the crust so you can get that perfect crispiness, just like you do with brick oven pizza.
Oven mitts
To protect your hands from the high temperature needed to cook pizza, use oven mitts.
Pizza cutter
After your pizza has been cooked, cut it using a high-quality pizza cutter.
Indoor pizza oven
Cooking a pizza in a toaster oven can produce some excellent results. However, if pizza is your all-time favorite food, you might benefit even more by purchasing an indoor pizza oven. These appliances are specifically designed to perform only one task: make great pizza.
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Fire breaks out at Disneyland’s Tom Sawyer Island attraction
Published: Apr. 23, 2023 at 2:15 AM CDT|Updated: 47 minutes ago
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) - An area of the Disneyland resort in California has caught fire, according to a news report.
The fire broke out Saturday night during the “Fantasmic” show in the Tom Sawyer Island section of the resort in Anaheim, KABC-TV reported.
The Anaheim Fire Department told the station there have not been any injuries reported. The extent of the fire damage was not immediately known, KABC reported.
Tom Sawyer Island has been part of Disneyland since 1956, allowing fans to enter the world of one of the main characters of Mark Twain’s book, KABC reported.
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- Good Day Farm flower sold to an Oxford patient today marks Mississippi's first legal medical cannabis sale.
- The Company will celebrate this milestone and its statewide launch with a Grand Opening event at Good Day Farm Hattiesburg this Friday, January 27.
- Mississippi is the fourth state for the leading Southern cannabis company with operations in Arkansas, Louisiana and Missouri.
OXFORD, Miss., Jan. 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Good Day Farm, a leading cannabis company in the South, made history today when its flower was sold to an Oxford, Mississippi medical patient. The cannabis flower, cultivated at Good Day Farm's 130,000 square-foot facility, became the first legal medical cannabis purchase in the state almost one year after the Mississippi Medical Cannabis Act was signed into law.
"As a proud Ole Miss alumnus, I'm elated to make our premium cannabis flower the first product available to patients in Mississippi," said Ryan Herget, Head of Good Day Farm Retail Management. "As one of largest cannabis companies in the South, it's a privilege to serve thousands of waiting patients across Mississippi with truly good products grown and sold by good people. With six convenient dispensary locations spanning from the Tennessee border to the Gulf Coast, we stand ready and eager to serve."
Mississippi is the fourth state for Little-Rock based Good Day Farm, a leading cannabis company in the South with operations in Arkansas, Louisiana and Missouri. The brand's signature portfolio of flower strains are available for sale today, to be followed by Good Day Farm's full assortment of edibles, vapes and tinctures — including its award-winning THC gummies and patient-favorite rechargeable Go Pen vaporizer.
Beginning Friday, the Company will open the first of six Good Day Farm-branded dispensaries, first in Hattiesburg to be followed by Biloxi, Brookhaven, Corinth, Laurel and Tupelo. Good Day Farm Mississippi locations will be open to card-holding medical patients Monday-Saturday, 10:00 am–7:00 pm and Sunday from 12:00–6:00 pm.
To mark this milestone moment, the Good Day Farm-branded dispensary in Hattiesburg will hold a Grand Opening celebration this Friday, January 27. The event will take place at Good Day Farm Hattiesburg, located at 6083 US-98, and will include a 9:30 a.m. ribbon-cutting ceremony followed by a 10 a.m. store opening including branded merchandise giveaways while supplies last.
Now that legal medical sales are underway Good Day Farm expects to scale its Mississippi operations quickly, with plans to double its cultivation and production footprint in the coming year. The Company is also committed to giving back to the communities it serves, most recently donating 840 cases of drinking water to assist disaster relief efforts in Jackson.
Said Zach Wilson, Head of Mississippi Operations, "Our team has worked tirelessly to prepare for this milestone moment, and we're proud to bring Good Day Farm to market as the first brand available to Mississippi patients. From cannabis advocacy and education to jobs and charitable giving, we look forward to demonstrating our long-term commitment to Mississippi in the months and years to come."
For more information about Good Day Farm or to find a dispensary near you, please visit www.gooddayfarmdispensary.com
About Good Day Farm
Founded in 2020, Good Day Farm is the largest licensed medical cannabis producer in the South, supplying the region with an abundant selection of cannabis products in a diverse range of formats, including premium flower, edibles, vapes, concentrates, tinctures and topical creams. With state-of-the-art grow operations and cutting-edge R&D facilities across Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri and Mississippi, Good Day Farm prides itself on being an ambassador of this healing plant in the South, where every day the Company is on a relentless quest to grow, nurture and share really good cannabis. From high-touch and high-tech growing practices to expert extraction methods, everything Good Day Farm does is rooted in a desire to cultivate goodness – good people, good cannabis and good days. Good Day Farm is a proud partner of the Last Prisoner Project and continues to be a strong advocate for the plants over pills movement. For more information or to locate a dispensary, visit www.gooddayfarm.com
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MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa has not been cleared to return to football activities and has been ruled out for Sunday’s playoff game against the Buffalo Bills as he remains in the NFL’s concussion protocol, coach Mike McDaniel said Wednesday.
The Dolphins are preparing for rookie Skylar Thompson to be their starter when they face the Bills for the third time this season. Backup Teddy Bridgewater is working his way back to full strength after dislocating his pinky finger.
McDaniel said he doesn’t know if Tagovailoa will be able to travel with the team this weekend, and although he hasn’t had any setbacks in the healing process, there are “compounding variables” at play that will keep him off the field indefinitely.
Tagovailoa was diagnosed with his second concussion of the season after a Week 16 loss to Green Bay and missed the Dolphin’s final two games of the regular season.
He missed two games earlier in the season after he was concussed in a Week 4 game against Cincinnati on a scary hit that briefly knocked him unconscious. That was four days after he was allowed to return to a game after appearing disoriented following a hit.
The NFL later changed its concussion protocol to mandate that if a player shows possible concussion symptoms — including a lack of balance or stability — he must sit out the rest of the game.
McDaniel declined to say whether there is any concern about Tagovailoa’s long-term health and if there have been any thoughts about how the head injuries will affect the third-year quarterback’s career.
Thompson, in his second start of the season, completed 20 of 31 passes for 152 yards and no turnovers Sunday in a 11-6 victory over the New York Jets.
“The way Skylar thinks, he hopes that’s the worst game that he’s played,” McDaniel said.
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The Biden administration is working to get the U.S. to run on clean energy - the whole country. It's a huge goal with a lot of money involved, and it faces huge challenges. This summer, the U.S. Energy Secretary, Jennifer Granholm, took a road trip, in electric vehicles of course, to promote that effort. NPR's Camila Domonoske was there, too, and she takes us along for the ride.
AUTOMATED VOICE: Turn left, then you will arrive in your destination.
CAMILA DOMONOSKE, BYLINE: The secretary's route through the Southeast was carefully chosen to travel through states where factories to build solar panels and EVs and batteries are booming. This is key to the administration's case for clean energy.
JENNIFER GRANHOLM: And that's jobs, jobs, jobs. And you are seeing it here.
DOMONOSKE: In addition to jobs, jobs, jobs, she also focused on lowering costs...
GRANHOLM: Sun - hey, it's free, right?
DOMONOSKE: ...And national security. At one point in South Carolina, she jumped on a table to point at a chart.
GRANHOLM: Batteries that have been made in China historically. Watch me fall off and hit my head.
DOMONOSKE: The secretary of energy has a lot of energy. When she wasn't standing on furniture, Granholm's other stops showed just how many things have to happen to remake the energy system - and not just to the grid itself. Companies need to scale up factories. Granholm donned an antistatic lab coat to watch workers assemble electric vehicle chargers.
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: This is the initial start of the manufacturing process.
DOMONOSKE: Labs need to invent stuff. She ducked inside a noisy dry room to peek at battery research.
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: This is one of the techniques that we use to develop those lithium-metal anodes of the future.
GRANHOLM: So you guys are planning on actually taking to scale on the development...
DOMONOSKE: People need to change how they shop. The secretary of energy swung by a Home Depot to talk about new rebates for efficient appliances, pausing to aim an electric leaf blower at the press.
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #2: This - is it lighter?
(SOUNDBITE OF LEAF BLOWER BLOWING)
GRANHOLM: That is great. I love it.
DOMONOSKE: Buildings need to get more efficient. She went to a school where the air conditioning was failing but badly needs upgrades.
UNIDENTIFIED STUDENT: Guess what? Something totally awesome happened to our school.
DOMONOSKE: That something - millions of dollars of federal money.
(CHEERING)
DOMONOSKE: But despite all that celebratory noise, this road trip was not a victory lap. Biden wants the U.S. electric grid to release no carbon dioxide by 2035 and the entire economy to be green by 2050 - matching global climate goals. The government is spending hundreds of billions of dollars. It is a huge push, but there is a long way to the finish line. Take those EV chargers - Granholm asked the manufacturer, ABB - are they high-tech enough to send power back to the grid?
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #3: They are not. These are not.
GRANHOLM: They are not.
DOMONOSKE: Not yet. Those cutting-edge batteries - that company, Albemarle, says they could make EVs go farther eventually.
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #4: There's some big technical challenges in pulling that off.
DOMONOSKE: And Home Depot - how will it handle new government rebates so low-income families can actually afford climate-friendly heat pumps?
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #4: We don't know yet.
DOMONOSKE: Because the government hasn't set the rules yet. And that school that got millions for upgrades...
GRANHOLM: We received a thousand submissions. And of those thousands, honestly, we could only afford to give money to 24.
DOMONOSKE: Twenty-four down, a thousand to go - that's just a sample. Every corner of America will have to make a change, and everything takes time - time the climate doesn't have, as Granholm knows.
GRANHOLM: Ultimately, we have got to move as though our hair is on fire because we are in a crisis.
DOMONOSKE: So not a victory lap - more of a kickoff event or an ad campaign. Potential tagline - a clean-energy America is coming soon if everything goes right. Camila Domonoske, NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.
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MILWAUKEE (AP) — Milwaukee Bucks forward Thanasis Antetokounmpo has been suspended one game without pay for head-butting Boston Celtics forward Blake Griffin on Thursday night.
Antetokounmpo was ejected from the game after the incident, which occurred with 1:25 remaining in the Bucks’ 140-99 blowout loss. Antetokounmpo will serve his suspension Sunday when the Bucks host the Philadelphia 76ers.
The 6-foot-7 Antetokounmpo was going up for a shot from under the basket when he took a hard foul from Griffin, which resulted in a flagrant-1 foul on the Celtics forward. Antetokounmpo responded by head-butting him.
Antetokounmpo is the older brother of Bucks teammate and two-time MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo. He has appeared in 33 games and is averaging 0.8 points, 0.9 rebounds and 4.2 minutes. ___
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WFO BROWNSVILLE Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, December 13, 2022
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RIP CURRENT STATEMENT
Coastal Hazard Message
National Weather Service Brownsville TX
808 PM CST Tue Dec 13 2022
...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM 6 AM CST WEDNESDAY
THROUGH WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON...
* WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected.
* WHERE...Kenedy Island, Willacy Island and Cameron Island
Counties.
* WHEN...From 6 AM CST Wednesday through Wednesday afternoon.
* IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away
from shore into deeper water.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and
float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a
direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the
shore and call or wave for help.
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HELSINKI, June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Chris Cooper has been appointed President of Neste US as of 1 July 2022. In his role, he is responsible for supporting and aligning regional business strategies to deliver the strategic growth targets, and he acts as Neste's primary representative for the external community in the US. At the moment, Chris is holding the position of Vice President Americas of Neste Renewable Aviation.
"The US presents important opportunities for our growth strategy in sales and trading, renewable feedstock supply and production, and we want to further strengthen our position in the country. I am very happy to appoint Chris to lead the fast growing US organisation and to further accelerate our renewables' growth strategy execution in the market," says Neste's President and CEO Matti Lehmus.
"I am excited about Neste's purpose of creating a healthier planet for our children. Neste has high ambition to provide its customers sustainable solutions for decarbonizing transportation and for replacing the crude oil based fossil feedstock with renewable solutions," says Chris Cooper, President of Neste US, as of 1 July, 2022. "I am very much looking forward to working with our Neste people in US, and I am eager to continue cooperating not only with aviation customers, but with all US based forerunner partners and companies, and to support our renewable production platform including raw material sourcing to drive the change for a more sustainable future," continues Cooper.
Neste's regional headquarters in North America is in Houston, Texas, and the company employs more than 500 people across the US. Neste's renewable waste and residue sourcing platform in the US includes fully owned Mahoney Environmental, a leading collector and recycler of used cooking oil and Agri Trading, one of the largest independent renewable waste and residue fat and oil traders in the US.
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BINGHAMTON, NY (WIVT/WBGH) – The man who killed Alfred and Paula Latessa in August on the Vestal Parkway is going to trial.
Today in Broome County Court, Stephen M. Moran, 32 of Binghamton, was arraigned before a judge and charged by indictment with Aggravated Vehicular Homicide, Vehicular Manslaughter in the First Degree, Manslaughter in the Second Degree, and other related charges.
Moran is accused of driving on August 8th on the Vestal Parkway at excessive speed, while intoxicated, resulting in a crash that killed the Latessa’s.
Moran, who appeared with his attorney, plead not guilty to all charges.
He faces 8 ⅓ to 25 years in New York State prison if convicted.
“Normally the District Attorney’s Office does not comment on Indictments, however, I believe
the public has a right to be informed of the status of cases such as this. This was an extensive investigation involving the Vestal Police Department, Broome County Sheriff’s Office, Binghamton University police and other agencies. The tragic events of August 8th, 2022, that resulted in the deaths of two innocent people will now move through the court system. We are
currently in the discovery phase and defense counsel will be filing pre-trial motions. No trial
date has been set,” said Michael A. Korchak, Broome County District Attorney. | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/top-stories/wrong-way-parkway-driver-charged-with-homicide/ | 2022-10-27 20:12:54 | 0 | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/top-stories/wrong-way-parkway-driver-charged-with-homicide/ |
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As candidates make their final push before the midterm elections, you may start seeing more of them touting endorsements from celebrities or notable organizations.
That led VERIFY viewer Jack to wonder whether politicians might simply be paying those people to endorse them. Accusations of such payments have drawn controversy for candidates in the past.
THE QUESTION
Is it legal for federal political candidates to pay for endorsements?
THE SOURCES
THE ANSWER
Yes, it’s legal for federal candidates to pay for endorsements. But they need to follow public disclosure laws and report the payments.
WHAT WE FOUND
According to the Federal Election Commission, there is no law banning candidates from paying for endorsements.
A spokesperson told VERIFY, “No provisions in the FEC rules specifically address paid endorsements of federal candidates.”
Campaigns for state or local office are governed by the laws in those jurisdictions, not the FEC, and so may have different requirements depending on where they are.
Federal candidates are legally required to disclose all payments, including those made in exchange for endorsements. The Federal Election Campaign Act requires campaigns for federal office to file regular reports on where their money comes from and where it goes.
That report has to include the name and address of any “person to whom an expenditure… in excess of $200… is made… together with the date, amount, and purpose of such… expenditure.”
The FEC spokesperson confirmed, saying via email that campaigns “must provide a ‘purpose of disbursement’ that describes the nature of the transaction,” for any money disbursed.
So paying for an endorsement isn’t illegal, but trying to hide that payment could get a candidate in trouble.
A notable example of such trouble is former Iowa state senator Kent Sorenson. In 2012 he took money in exchange for endorsements for two Republican candidates for president, first Michelle Bachmann and then later Ron Paul, per court records.
Sorenson was charged with willfully causing false expenditure reports and obstruction of justice, and pleaded guilty and received a 15 month prison sentence. But it was for the coverup, not the payments themselves. He also ran aground of Iowa State Senate ethics rules that say sitting senators can’t take money from campaigns, but the candidates who paid him broke no laws.
Accusations of paying for endorsements can still be a source of controversy, even if the candidate is in the clear legally. In 2019, an Associated Press report revealed a campaign staffer for Democratic presidential candidate and billionaire Tom Steyer had offered local Iowa politicians money in exchange for their endorsements. There was no evidence anyone accepted, and Steyer denied attempting to purchase support, but faced widespread criticism for appearing to be trying to use his wealth to get into office. Steyer didn’t win any delegates in the Iowa caucuses; he dropped out of the race a few months later. | https://www.5newsonline.com/article/news/verify/elections-verify/legal-for-federal-candidates-to-pay-for-endorsements/536-0a931d9b-7a3a-4e1c-b804-0e1630bcacf6 | 2022-10-11 00:22:19 | 1 | https://www.5newsonline.com/article/news/verify/elections-verify/legal-for-federal-candidates-to-pay-for-endorsements/536-0a931d9b-7a3a-4e1c-b804-0e1630bcacf6 |
‘It just rang’: In crises, US-China hotline goes unanswered
WASHINGTON (AP) — Within hours of an Air Force F-22 downing a giant Chinese balloon that had crossed the United States, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin reached out to his Chinese counterpart via a special crisis line, aiming for a quick general-to-general talk that could explain things and ease tensions.
But Austin’s effort Saturday fell flat, when Chinese Defense Minister Wei Fenghe declined to get on the line, the Pentagon says.
China’s Defense Ministry says it refused the call from Austin after the balloon was shot down because the U.S. had “not created the proper atmosphere” for dialogue and exchange. The U.S. action had “seriously violated international norms and set a pernicious precedent,” a ministry spokesperson was quoted as saying in a statement issued late Thursday.
It’s been an experience that’s frustrated U.S. commanders for decades, when it comes to getting their Chinese counterparts on a phone or video line as some flaring crisis is sending tensions between the two nations climbing.
From Americans’ perspective, the lack of the kind of reliable crisis communications that helped get the U.S. and Soviet Union through the Cold War without an armed nuclear exchange is raising the dangers of the U.S.-China relationship now, at a time when China’s military strength is growing and tensions with the U.S. are on the rise.
Without that ability for generals in opposing capitals to clear things up in a hurry, Americans worry that misunderstandings, false reports or accidental collisions could cause a minor confrontation to spiral into greater hostilities.
And it’s not about any technical shortfall with the communication equipment, said Bonnie Glaser, managing director of Indo-Pacific studies at the German Marshall Fund think tank. The issue is a fundamental disparity in the way China and the U.S. view the value and purpose of military-to-military hotlines.
U.S. military leaders’ faith in Washington-to-Beijing hotlines as a way to defuse flare-ups with China’s military has been butting up against a sharply different take — a Chinese political system that runs on slow deliberative consultation by political leaders and makes no room for individually directed, real-time talk between rival generals. And Chinese leaders are suspicious of the whole U.S. notion of a hotline. They see it as an American channel for talking their way out of blowback for a U.S. provocation.
“That’s really dangerous,” Assistant Secretary for Defense Ely Ratner said Thursday of the difficulty of military-to-military crisis communications with China, when Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley pressed him about China’s latest rebuff on Beijing’s and Washington’s hotline setup.
U.S. generals are persisting in their efforts to open more lines of communication with Chinese counterparts, the defense official said, testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. “And unfortunately, to date, the PLA is not answering that call,” Ratner said, referring to China’s People’s Liberation Army.
Ratner accused China of using vital channels of communication simply as a blunter messaging tool, shutting them down or opening them up again to underscore China’s displeasure or pleasure. In Beijing, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning referred questions about Wei’s refusal to take Austin’s call to the Defense Ministry,
China’s resistance to military hotlines as tensions increase puts more urgency on efforts by President Joe Biden and his top civilian diplomats and security aides to build up their own communication channels with President Xi Jinping and other top Chinese political officials, for situations where military hotlines may go unanswered, U.S. officials and China experts say.
Both U.S. and Chinese militaries are building up for a possible confrontation over U.S.-backed self-ruled Taiwan, which China claims as its territory. The next flare-up seems only a matter of time. It could happen with an expected event, such as House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s promised visit to Taiwan, or something unexpected, like the 2001 collision between a Chinese fighter and a U.S. Navy EP-3 reconnaissance plane over the South China Sea. Without commanders talking in real-time, Americans and Chinese would have one less way of averting greater conflict..
“My worry is that the EP-3 type incident will happen again,” said Lyle Morris, a country director for China for the Office of the Secretary of Defense from 2019 to 2021, now a senior fellow at the Asia Society Policy Institute. “And we will be in much different political environments of hostility and mistrust, where that could go wrong in a hurry.”
Biden has emphasized building lines of communications with China to “responsibly manage” their differences. A November meeting between Xi and Biden yielded an announcement the two governments would resume a range of dialogues that China had shut down after an August Taiwan visit by then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Last weekend, the U.S. canceled what would have been a relationship-building visit by Secretary of State Antony Blinken after the transit of the Chinese balloon, which the U.S. says was for espionage. China claims it was a civilian balloon used for meteorological research.
The same week that Chinas balloon flew over the U.S., Austin was in the Philippines to announce an expanded U.S. military footprint there, neighboring China, noted Tiehlin Yen, director of the Taiwan Center for Security Studies, a think tank. “America is also very nationalistic these days,” Yen said.
“From a regional security perspective, this dialogue is necessary,” Yen said.
What passes for military and civilian hotlines between China and the U.S. aren’t the classic red phones on a desk.
Under a 2008 agreement, the China-U.S. military hotline amounts to a multistep process by which one capital relays a request to the other for a joint call or videoconference between top officials on encrypted lines. The pact gives the other side 48 hours and up to respond, although nothing in the pact stops top officials from talking immediately.
Sometimes when the U.S. calls, current and former U.S. officials say, Chinese officials don’t even pick up.
“No one answered. It just rang,” recounted Kristen Gunness, a senior policy analyst at the Rand Corporation. Gunness was speaking about a March 2009 incident when she was working as an adviser to the Pentagon’s chief of naval operations. Chinese navy vessels at the time surrounded a U.S. surveillance ship in the South China Sea and demanded the American leave. U.S. and Chinese military officials eventually talked - but some 24 hours later.
It took decades of Washington pushing to get Beijing to agree to the current system of military crisis communications, said David Sedney, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense who negotiated it.
“And then once we had it in place, it was clear that they were very reluctant to use it in any substantive purpose,” Sedney said.
Americans’ test calls on the hotline would get picked up, he said. And when Americans called to give congratulations on some Chinese holiday, Chinese officials would pick up and say thanks, he said.
Anything more sensitive, Sedney said, the staffers answering the phone “would say, ‘We’ll check. As soon as our leadership is ready to talk, we’ll get back to you.’ Nothing would happen.”
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Lolita C. Baldor in Washington and Huizhong Wu in Taipei contributed.
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CLOVIS, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) –A threatening phone call at Clovis High School prompted a lockdown on campus Tuesday afternoon.
“We immediately in those cases put ourselves in a shelter-in-place facility situation where it allows all our students to come inside and the police come in and help an investigation to confirm that there is not in fact a threat,” said Kelly Avants.
Avants is the school’s communication officer and said the lockdown not only affected Clovis High School but also Clovis Elementary School.
“What we do as a protocol, in this case, is anytime we have a school that gets put down onto a lockdown or a shelter in place status any adjacent schools or anyone who is in close proximity also goes onto that same status,” she said.
The hoax call is just one of many that have hit a number of schools across the state including one here in Fresno.
“At least 40 police units, specialized units all descended on the school fearing the worst, that our most precious resource, our children, might have been hurt,” said Fresno Police Chief Paco Balderrama regarding a hoax call at Bullard High School on Sept. 14.
It is not known if the calls are related, they are being investigated. | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/local-news/clovis-schools-go-on-lockdown-after-hoax-call/ | 2022-09-22 14:51:04 | 1 | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/local-news/clovis-schools-go-on-lockdown-after-hoax-call/ |
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