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Migrant crossings spike as US plans to lift curb on asylum
WASHINGTON (AP) — Migrants attempted to cross the U.S.-Mexico border at the highest level in two decades as the U.S. prepares for even larger numbers with the expected lifting of a pandemic-era order that turned away asylum seekers.
Immigration authorities stopped migrants 221,303 times along the Southwest border in March, a 34% increase from a month earlier, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection data filed with a federal court in Texas.
The new figures were disclosed as the Biden administration comes under increasing pressure over the looming expiration of a public health order that enabled U.S. authorities to turn back most migrants, including people seeking asylum from persecution.
The number of migrant encounters has gone up nearly every month since President Joe Biden took office, becoming fodder for political opponents who point to the increase as evidence that this administration is weaker on border security than its predecessor.
A backlog of people waiting outside the country to seek asylum, as well as dire economic and political conditions in much of Latin America and the Caribbean, is partially responsible for the increase in migrants. Administration critics blame Biden, arguing his administration’s moves to roll back Trump-era policies has encouraged people to come.
The number of illegal crossings, or those outside official ports of entry, totaled 209,906 in March, surpassing the previous high of Biden’s presidency of 200,658 set in July, and the highest level since March 2000, when it reached 220,063.
Former President Donald Trump also faced a sharp increase in migrant border crossings but the number plummeted with the start of the pandemic. In March 2020, the previous administration invoked Title 42, a little-used public health authority to quickly expel nearly anyone encountered along the Southwest border.
U.S. authorities have expelled migrants more than 1.7 million times under Title 42 authority, named for a 1944 public health law, using the threat of COVID-19 to deny migrants a chance to seek asylum as required under U.S. law and international treaty.
With COVID-19 cases in decline, the Biden administration has said it intends to end the use of Title 42 at the border on May 23.
Several moderate Democrats have joined Republican leaders to call for an extension of Title 42 authority, most recently Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware on Sunday. Sen. Mark Kelly, an Arizona Democrat up for election this year, toured the border last week and warned that the Biden administration is unprepared for asylum restrictions to be lifted.
The rapid expulsions under Title 42 are a significant component of the increase. Migrants are turned back without any legal consequences, and many simply try to cross again and are therefore counted more than once in the total.
More than half of the 221,303 stopped were quickly turned away, either to Mexico or their homelands, according to data supplied to a federal court in Texas as part of that state’s challenge of Biden administration immigration policies.
Most of the rest were processed under immigration authority, known as Title 8, and their ultimate fate varies. About 34,000 were allowed to remain in the U.S. under parole, which will allow them to pursue asylum or legal residency through other avenues. If they are unsuccessful, they could face deportation.
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Associated Press writer Elliot Spagat in San Diego contributed to this report.
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NEW YORK, Feb. 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of Yuga securities, which were sold as various non-fungible tokens (or "NFTs") and the native token ApeCoin (APE) between April 23, 2021 and December 8, 2022, inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important February 7, 2023 lead plaintiff deadline.
The case is against Yuga Labs, Inc., Wylie Aronow, Greg Solano, Kerem Atalay, Zeshan Ali, Nicole Muniz, Jasmin Shoemaker, Patrick Ehrlund, Christopher Lyons, Alexis Ohanian, Amy Wu, Maaria Bajwa, Dean Steinbeck, Guy Oseary, Mike Winkelmann, Madonna Louise Ciccone, Paris Hilton, James Fallon, Electric Hot Dog, Inc., Universal Television, LLC, Justin Bieber, Gwyneth Paltrow, Serena Williams, Thomas Pentz, Austin Richard Post, Calvin Broadus Jr., Kevin Hart, Alexander Pall, Andrew Taggart, Wardell Stephen Curry II, Nayvadius Wilburn Cash, Abel Tesfaye, Khaled Mohammed Khaled, Adidas America Inc., Adidas Venture B.V., Ivan Soto-Wright, and Moonpay USA LLC (together, "Defendants").
SO WHAT: If you purchased Yuga securities, which were sold as a suite of digital assets (including the flagship NFT collection referred to as the Bored Ape Yacht Club ("BAYC") and the native token ApeCoin (APE) on various cryptocurrency exchanges), during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Yuga class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=10344 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than February 7, 2023. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually handle securities class actions, but are merely middlemen that refer clients or partner with law firms that actually litigate the cases. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, defendants violated provisions of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 by making false and misleading statements concerning Yuga's growth prospects, financial ownership, and financial benefits for Yuga securities investors, as well as using celebrity promoters to lure in unsuspecting investors so that Yuga insiders could sell the unregistered Yuga securities in violation of the Securities Act of 1933.
To join the Yuga class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=10344 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action.
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Stuart Fairchild Player Prop Bets: Reds vs. Red Sox - June 1
Published: Jun. 1, 2023 at 6:25 AM EDT|Updated: 44 minutes ago
Stuart Fairchild -- with a slugging percentage of .467 in his past 10 games, including four extra-base hits -- will be in action for the Cincinnati Reds against the Boston Red Sox, with Chris Sale on the hill, on June 1 at 7:10 PM ET.
In his most recent game he had a hitless showing (0-for-2) against the Red Sox.
Stuart Fairchild Game Info & Props vs. the Red Sox
- Game Day: Thursday, June 1, 2023
- Game Time: 7:10 PM ET
- Stadium: Fenway Park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Red Sox Starter: Chris Sale
- TV Channel: NESN
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -167)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +675)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +230)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +140)
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Stuart Fairchild At The Plate
- Fairchild is batting .246 with 11 doubles, a triple, a home run and 14 walks.
- In 43.5% of his games this season (20 of 46), Fairchild has picked up at least one hit, and in six of those games (13.0%) he recorded multiple hits.
- He has gone deep in one of 46 games, and in 0.7% of his plate appearances.
- Fairchild has an RBI in 11 of 46 games this year, with multiple RBI in three of them. He has also driven in three or more of his team's runs in one contest.
- He has scored in 13 of 46 games this season, and more than once 3 times.
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Red Sox Pitching Rankings
- The Red Sox pitching staff ranks 17th in MLB with a collective 8.6 strikeouts per nine innings.
- The Red Sox's 4.70 team ERA ranks 25th across all MLB pitching staffs.
- The Red Sox surrender the third-most home runs in baseball (77 total, 1.4 per game).
- Sale gets the start for the Red Sox, his 11th of the season. He is 5-2 with a 4.72 ERA and 65 strikeouts in 55 1/3 innings pitched.
- In his most recent outing on Saturday against the Arizona Diamondbacks, the left-hander went five innings, giving up one earned run while surrendering four hits.
- Among pitchers who qualify in MLB play this season, the 34-year-old ranks 58th in ERA (4.72), 34th in WHIP (1.157), and 11th in K/9 (10.6).
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READING, Pa. – The Berks County Commissioners on Thursday recognized mental health awareness month by welcoming two Wyomissing high school students to speak on the topic of teen mental health.
Commissioner Michael S. Rivera said mental health awareness month has been observed during the month of May since 1949.
“Together, we fight stigma, provide support, educate the public, and advocate for policies that support the millions of people in the United States affected by mental illness,” Rivera said. “The Pennsylvania Youth Advocacy Network convenes youth and youth serving organizations from across the state to advocate for mental health systems change. One of the initiatives under the network is the Teen Mental Health Awareness Day (May 23,) in which high school youth draft a statewide proclamation, as well as county proclamations, to recognize and highlight things they feel are important to mental health.”
“And a key component of the day is being able to share their perspectives with elected officials,” Rivera added.
Wyomissing student Vanessa Aguay told the commissioners that it is vital for high school students to be able to share their perspective as youth to address mental health.
“The rate of hospital emergency room visits for children's deliberate self-harm rose by 329% between the years of 2007 and 2019,” Aguay said. “Most children in America do not receive mental health treatment even though they may need it. And children of color are also less likely than their peers to receive mental health treatment when they need it.”
“Unfortunately, Pennsylvania and Berks County are no exception to that, and that is why it is essential and imperative for us to prioritize mental health treatment and to address the mental health stigma for all students and for all youth that are affected by it,” she continued. “Youth today are exposed to harmful stigma surrounding mental health and a time formative to one's intellectual and emotional development is essential to providing support and to promote the mental health resources available for all youth. It is important to provide, support and promote available mental health resources for youth of all identities and cultures.”
Aguay went on to state there is currently no legislation that protects teens in Pennsylvania by enabling them to take school excused mental health days to provide rest and recovery.
“As a working group, we have been working on understanding how different communities are impacted by mental health distinctly through work that includes surveys and pledges, and even meeting with legislators on the type of legislation that is being worked on to address youth mental health,” she said. “It is important that we understand that stigma does exist; a stigma that does not allow students to be connected to the resources that do exist and a stigma that enables youth to think that their mental health isn't as important as physical health.“
A second Wyomissing student, Tyler Nolt, noted that 40% of youth feel sad or depressed most days.
“I've been part of those affected by mental health, and what originally kept me from speaking up and getting the help I needed was the stigma behind it,” Nolt said. “I'm so proud to be in a county that is recognizing mental health as a key issue.” | https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/berks/berks-county-commissioners-hear-teen-perspectives-on-mental-health/article_698d9522-fb11-11ed-bece-477b50c362ce.html | 2023-05-25 17:06:21 | 1 | https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/berks/berks-county-commissioners-hear-teen-perspectives-on-mental-health/article_698d9522-fb11-11ed-bece-477b50c362ce.html |
WASHINGTON — Award-winning actress Mary Alice, known for her roles as Leticia "Lettie" Bostic on NBC's "A Different World" and as Effie Williams in "Sparkle," has died, according to multiple media reports.
The New York Police Department confirmed Alice's death on Wednesday to Variety, Deadline and The Hollywood Reporter.
"A shoulder we all stood on. A round of applause for Mary Alice. Thank you legend. Rest Easy," actor Colman Domingo tweeted.
Before becoming an actress, Alice was a school teacher in Chicago. She acted in a community theatre group before landing her first professional role in 1966, in Douglas Turner's New York-based Negro Ensemble Company that was on tour in Chicago. A year later, Alice quit her teaching job and moved to New York.
Alice won a Emmy Award for her role as Marguerite Peck in the NBC drama "I'll Fly Away," which also starred Sam Waterston and Regina Taylor.
On Broadway, Alice won the Tony Award in 1987 for best featured actress in a play for portraying Rose in the original run of August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning "Fences."
Viola Davis, who starred in the same role in the 2016 film adaptation of "Fences," tweeted "RIP Mary Alice...the original Rose Maxson. You were one of the greatest actresses of all time!! Thank you for the work, inspiration and thank you for Rose."
Alice was nominated for another Tony in 1995 for "Having Our Say," and was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 2000.
She appeared in two seasons of "The Cosby Show" spin-off "A Different World." In 2003, she appeared in "The Matrix Revolutions" as The Oracle.
In films, Alice appeared in "Beat Street," "Malcom X," "The Inkwell," "Down in the Delta," "Awakenings," "To Sleep With Anger" and many others.
She retired from acting in 2005. | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/nation-world/actress-mary-alice-dies/507-ad1a51a4-1997-4af6-97fc-b9e43bc64eb6 | 2022-07-29 07:29:52 | 1 | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/nation-world/actress-mary-alice-dies/507-ad1a51a4-1997-4af6-97fc-b9e43bc64eb6 |
The end of daylight saving time causes a 16% increase in collisions between deer and vehicles in the week after the time change, a new study shows.
These types of crashes peak in late October and November due to less sunlight and less visibility for drivers, but these months are also mating season for deer, so they're on the move much more often.
About 2.1 million deer-vehicle collisions happen in the U.S. annually. A permanent move to daylight saving time would reduce the crashes by about 1.7%, according to the study. Such a move also would prevent 2,054 human injuries, 33 human deaths, and $1.19 billion in damages each year. Conversely, a permanent move to standard time would increase the instances of crashes by 3.5%.
The researchers examined about 1 million deer-vehicle collisions occurring between 1994 and 2021 and found that 76% of them happened at nighttime.
Congress is considering making daylight saving time permanent. A 2019 poll from the Associated Press showed that 31% of Americans were in favor of having DST year-round, while 40% supported having standard time year-round. 28% voted for switching between the two.
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The Center for Native Scholarships and the national bank continue their joint efforts to empower Native students
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., June 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- American Indian Graduate Center, the largest Native scholarship provider in the United States, and Wells Fargo continue their partnership with an $850,000, one-year contract that aims to empower hundreds of Native students in pursuing higher education.
"For two decades, Wells Fargo has been a trusted and dedicated partner in the advancement of Native students to achieve their academic goals and pursue their career aspirations. Through this partnership, striving Native students have been able to advance their education with opportunities in obtaining their undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees," said American Indian Graduate Center CEO, Angelique Albert (Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes).
"As a leader helping to empower Native scholars pursue higher education, the American Indian Graduate Center is paving the way for aspiring young leaders of our nation," said Gigi Dixon, Executive Vice President, Head of External Engagement, Wells Fargo's Diverse Segments, Representation & Inclusion. "At Wells Fargo, we value and promote diversity and inclusion in all aspects of business and at all levels. Our strategic investment in AIGC is helping students achieve their lifelong educational aspirations, and we are proud to work with AIGC as they continue to impact the landscape of higher education."
Since initiating a partnership with the San Francisco-based financial services firm, American Indian Graduate Center has given over $6.5 million in scholarships, academic support services, and pandemic relief to Native scholars pursuing higher education. The organizations have collaborated to produce a variety of programming initiatives, including the virtual College Readiness Programs for Native high school students, the academic coaching program Rising Native Graduates for undergraduate scholars applying for graduate and professional school, and an online Student Resource Center for navigating students' college journey.
The collaboration between American Indian Graduate Center and Wells Fargo has created a collective impact on over 18,000 American Indian Graduate Center students and alumni. In February 2023, Wells Fargo will be sponsoring a 50th Gala organization event in Washington, DC. With the upcoming event, Wells Fargo is looking forward to being involved with more student-centered events next year as well.
"I am a recipient of your undergraduate scholarship. Now, I am a graduate of Wells College! With a B.A. in History, I am off to [the] Marines to see if officer training is in my future and later – law school," said Birk Albert in a postcard sent to American Indian Graduate Center.
American Indian Graduate Center is a national private 501(c)(3) non-profit providing scholarships to American Indian and Alaska Native undergraduate, graduate, and professional students throughout the United States. American Indian Graduate Center and American Indian Graduate Center Scholars have awarded more than $350 million in scholarships since inception and are proud to empower Native students from over 500 Tribes in all 50 states with educational funding and academic support services. For more information, *or if you would like to donate visit NativeForward.org.
Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) is a leading financial services company that has approximately $1.9 trillion in assets, proudly serves one in three U.S. households and more than 10% of small businesses in the U.S., and is a leading middle-market banking provider in the U.S. We provide a diversified set of banking, investment and mortgage products and services, as well as consumer and commercial finance, through our four reportable operating segments: Consumer Banking and Lending, Commercial Banking, Corporate and Investment Banking, and Wealth & Investment Management. Wells Fargo ranked No. 37 on Fortune's 2021 rankings of America's largest corporations. In the communities we serve, the company focuses its social impact on building a sustainable, inclusive future for all by supporting housing affordability, small business growth, financial health, and a low-carbon economy. News, insights, and perspectives from Wells Fargo are also available at Wells Fargo Stories.
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MASON CITY, Iowa – A man caught with pot and meth is pleading guilty.
George Leslie Wescott III, 67 of Mason City, has entered a guilty plea to possession of a controlled substance-3rd offense.
Wescott was arrested on January 24 after law enforcement searched a home in the 700 block of S. Illinois Avenue and found both methamphetamine and marijuana.
Wescott’s sentencing is set for September 19. | https://www.kimt.com/news/mason-city-man-pleads-guilty-to-drug-possession/article_ceafb6ce-0797-11ed-9465-dbe60df986e0.html | 2022-07-19 20:35:53 | 0 | https://www.kimt.com/news/mason-city-man-pleads-guilty-to-drug-possession/article_ceafb6ce-0797-11ed-9465-dbe60df986e0.html |
CHARLES TOWN, W.V., Aug. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- American Public Education, Inc. (Nasdaq: APEI) today announced it has appointed Craig MacGibbon as its Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer (CIO). In this role, MacGibbon will lead the organization's software development, cybersecurity, enterprise project management, enterprise architecture, infrastructure, and IT service delivery to support of all of APEI's educational units, including American Public University System (APUS), Rasmussen University, Hondros College of Nursing, and Graduate School USA.
For the past 18 months, MacGibbon has been delegate Chief Technology Officer (CTO) with APEI while also serving as partner at Wavestone US, the North American arm of Paris-based global management and IT consulting firm Wavestone. Prior to that, he was Chief of Application Development and Support at Synovus Financial Corp., where he modernized the development platform and delivered on key banking platforms to position the company for the future.
A U.S. Navy veteran, MacGibbon has nearly 30 years of experience leading global technology teams in developing strategies, architecture, software development, integration, and cybersecurity. Beyond Wavestone and Synovus, MacGibbon held IT leadership roles at Las Vegas Sands, Fifth Third Bank, UIL Holdings, and Michelin Worldwide.
American Public Education, Inc . (Nasdaq: APEI), through its institutions American Public University System (APUS), Rasmussen University, Hondros College of Nursing, and Graduate School USA, educates the service-minded student by providing career-focused higher education and career learning.
APUS, which operates through American Military University and American Public University, is the leading educator to active-duty military and veteran students* and serves approximately 90,000 adult learners worldwide via accessible and affordable higher education. Rasmussen University is a 120-year-old nursing and health sciences-focused institution that serves approximately 15,900 students across its 23 campuses and student service centers in six states and online. It also has schools of Business, Technology, Design, Early Education and Justice Studies.
Hondros College of Nursing focuses on educating pre-licensure nursing students at its six campuses in Ohio and one in Indiana. It is the largest educator of PN (LPN) nurses in the state of Ohio** with approximately 2,400 students. Graduate School USA is a leading training provider to the federal workforce with an extensive portfolio of government agency customers. It serves the federal workforce through customized contract training (B2G) to federal agencies and through open enrollment (B2C) to government professionals.
Both APUS and Rasmussen are institutionally accredited by the Higher Learning Commission (HLC), an institutional accreditation agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. Hondros is accredited by the Accrediting Bureau of Health Education Schools (ABHES). GSUSA is accredited by the Accrediting Council for Continuing Education & Training (ACCET). For additional information, visit www.apei.com.
*Based on FY 2019 Department of Defense tuition assistance and Veterans Administration student enrollment data, as reported by Military Times, 2020.
**Based on information compiled by the National Council of State Boards of Nursing and Ohio Board of Nursing.
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BEIJING (AP) — China has ordered closer adherence to the dictates of the ruling Communist Party and leader Xi Jinping in legal education, demanding that schools “oppose and resist Western erroneous views” such as constitutional government, separation of powers, and judicial independence.
The order was dated Sunday, a week before China’s ceremonial parliament begins its annual session and reinforces the leading role on ideology assumed by Xi, who is named no less than 25 times in the document. Already China’s most powerful leader in decades, Xi was granted a third five-year term as party leader last year and has removed term limits on the presidency, effectively allowing him to rule for life.
Similar directives have been issued in past, with students encouraged to report on professors who speak positively about Western concepts of governance.
Despite the intertwining of the Chinese and global economies, Xi has sought to purge liberal Western concepts from the education system, ordered that foreign religions be “sinicized” in order to operate in China. He has also attempted, with limited success, to reorganize popular culture along more conservative lines, going so far as to ban “effeminate” men from the state broadcaster.
The legal profession has been a particular target, and in the early hours of July 9, 2015, three years into Xi’s first term as party general secretary, a series of raids nationwide resulted in the detention of some 300 human rights lawyers and associated activists. Under such relentless pressure, activist lawyers have been intimidated into silence, effectively preventing the emergence of dissenting voices and public intellectuals independent of the party.
Such approaches are in line with Xi’s more muscular foreign policy that seeks to challenge and possibly supplant the American-led international order that advocates for multiparty democracy, civil society and human rights.
The directive from the party’s General Office said teachers and students of law and legal theory workers must be guided to have a ”clear-cut position and take a firm stance in the face of issues of principle and major issues of right and wrong.” The General Office circulates information within the 96 million-member party, including drafting directives and memos.
In a section titled ”Adhere to the Correct Political Direction,” the directive says teachers and students must “comprehensively implement the party’s education policy, insist on educating people for the party and the country, and focus on cultivating builders and successors of the cause of socialist rule of law.”
“Oppose and resist Western erroneous views such as ‘constitutional government,’ ‘separation of three powers,’ and ‘independence of the judiciary,’ it says.
While China’s constitution pays lip service to ideas such as freedom of speech and religious observation, it places the interests of the party above all. Past attempts at promoting even grassroots democracy at the village level have sputtered in the face of the party’s overwhelming power and the authorities’ willingness to use force and coercion to achieve their desired outcomes.
Apart from a tiny and beleaguered dissident community, the Chinese public has been largely been willing to accept total party control in return for consistent improvements in quality of life. That arrangement has at times been challenged, however, amid a drastically slowing economy, a crisis in local government finances and heavy handed enforcement of COVID-19 containment measures that have prompted rare public protests.
Criticism of the party and government policies is much more lively online, despite censorship and the threat of punishment for those who create and disseminate them.
The annual session of the National People’s Congress, comprised of 2,977 handpicked members, opens Sunday with an annual report on the work of government presented by outgoing Premier Li Keqiang.
The chairman of the body is also due to issue a report, which in past years has also contained pledges to eschew Western political government such as separation of powers and an independent judiciary. | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/international/ap-china-purging-western-erroneous-views-from-legal-education/ | 2023-02-28 18:46:00 | 0 | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/international/ap-china-purging-western-erroneous-views-from-legal-education/ |
Second suspect charged in officer-involved shooting
LOGAN COUNTY, W.Va. (WSAZ) - The second suspect allegedly involved in an officer-involved shooting on Tuesday, July 18, in Logan County has been released from the hospital and charged.
The Logan County Sheriff’s Office said on Thursday Barry Vaughan was released from the hospital and charged with two counts of attempted murder, fleeing with reckless disregard, fleeing causing bodily injury, transferring and receiving stolen property, and obstructing.
Investigators said Marlana Adkins and Vaughan were found parked at an Advance Auto Parts after a 911 call claiming they were shoplifting at a nearby Dollar General. Investigators also said the car they were driving had stolen plates.
Vaughan is accused of acting as if he was complying with officer commands to turn off the vehicle but instead, deputies say he abruptly shifted the vehicle into reverse, pressing the accelerator.
According to the sheriff’s office, when Vaughan attempted to reverse the vehicle to leave the parking lot, an officer attempted to grab the steering wheel from the passenger-side window.
The sheriff’s office went on to say as one police officer was being dragged by the car, Vaughan is accused of nearly hitting a cruiser with the vehicle and backing on to WV Route 10 into the path of oncoming traffic.
At that time, deputies say a Corporal drew his service weapon and stepped in front of the car, while the police officer continued to attempt to gain control of the vehicle from inside.
Vaughan is then accused of shifting the vehicle in to drive, steering it directly toward the Corporal. Deputies say the Corporal was able to sidestep the vehicle and discharged two rounds from his service weapon, hitting Vaughan.
After shots were fired, the vehicle continued forward and hit a parked car in the parking lot.
Barry Ethan Vaughan, 38, of Ironton, Ohio was life flighted to the hospital and released today, July 20.
The passenger in the vehicle, Marlana Dawn Adkins, 37, of West Hamlin, West Virginia was arrested at the scene. Adkins has been charged with malicious assault on a police officer, transporting stolen property across state lines, transferring/receiving stolen property, and conspiracy.
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After being named Miss Gay America 2023 in Little Rock on Friday night, Jonathan Jackson, a.k.a. Tatiyanna Voche', of Washington, D.C., said he was "speechless" in achieving a dream he had worked toward in 16 years of competing.
"There is overwhelming gratitude to all the people that helped push get me to this point," Jackson said. "This is not a one-person job, and I'm a really lucky person to have some amazing, amazing people in my corner and they have been for a long time."
Over the past two years, Jackson traveled the country to support "sisters" in preliminary competitions and at their regular club performances.
When he's not in drag, Jackson is a hairstylist, but said his favorite title is "uncle."
To his fellow contestants vying for the crown, he wants to remind them to appreciate the journey.
"When the moment finally happens, it's almost like a flash of all of the years of people that you've met, people that have supported you and pushed you. The journey makes the end that much sweeter," he said.
Among the other contestants named to the top 10 at the Robinson Center Performance Hall, Jackson stood out in the talent portion with the only tap dance, a performance of "42nd Street." Earlier in the competition, he did a number to "Flashdance." Despite his technique, Jackson said he's never taken a tap dance class but went to school for musical theater at Towson University in Maryland and had help from "amazing people" along the way.
Amid potential laws surrounding the restriction of drag queens' rights, Jackson said the community needs to "bond together" and "stay strong."
"We've been down this road before," he said. "This is not uncharted territory. But we need to stand very strong together and make people know, we're here and we're not going anywhere and we're very proud. And we offer a lot to this community by taking people out of their daily struggles or the sad things that they face on a daily basis. If we can take that away and out of their mind for five minutes, then it's worth it, so it's our time to stay strong as a community."
He said an Arkansas Senate committee's approval last week of Senate Bill 43, which would suspend drag performances in public spaces and categorize them as "adult-oriented" among adult live entertainment and theaters, escort agencies and more, was sad and surprised him.
"After being here the last two years and talking with the hotel staff or the theater staff, they're not in support of that," he said. "And it seems that there are a lot of people in the state that are not. So the only thing I hope is that they speak up and that they make their voice heard. We have a platform as female entertainers, and everyone has a responsibility right now. That's how we move forward in this world, strong and together." | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jan/22/miss-gay-america-speechless/ | 2023-01-22 10:19:27 | 0 | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jan/22/miss-gay-america-speechless/ |
Former President Trump was indicted Thursday after an investigation into his handling of classified documents, setting up the second time this year the front-runner for the 2024 Republican nomination will go through the process of appearing in court and facing charges.
In the meantime, Trump is expected to appear at two separate state GOP events this weekend, more information about the indictment may be revealed and law enforcement will work through logistics of the former president’s high-profile court appearance Tuesday.
Here is what is expected to happen next following Trump’s indictment.
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Trump has a Tuesday court date
The former president posted on social media that he was summoned to appear in court at 3 p.m. Tuesday in Miami, something his attorneys have confirmed.
He is expected to turn himself in, and his attorney, Jim Trusty, signaled Trump will be released following Tuesday’s proceedings.
“There’s not going to be an arrest. This is coming in on a summons. That was appropriate,” Trusty said on CNN on Thursday night. “This is not somebody who’s going to flee. This is not somebody that poses a danger to the community, which are the factors that you would normally consider when you’re talking about release, so, again, no arrest, no warrant, none of that kind of nonsense. But we will go through the bureaucratic process we have to on Tuesday.”
The former president may be asked to enter a formal plea in the case; Trump told Fox News on Thursday night that he intends to plead not guilty.
At Tuesday’s hearing, a judge will likely lay out any travel restrictions or other parameters that Trump must abide by, and the judge may set a schedule for the case moving forward.
Secret Service and others will map out logistics
In the days leading up to Trump’s court appearance, Secret Service and other law enforcement agencies will work out the logistics for what will be an extremely high-profile trip to the Miami courthouse.
“There’s a lot to kind of figure out between the U.S. Marshals and the U.S. Secret Service to make this as smooth as possible, make it safe for the public, and make it efficient in the courthouse,” Trusty said on CNN.
As a former president, Trump already receives around-the-clock Secret Service protection.
The situation will be similar to when Trump appeared in court in Manhattan in April, when Secret Service and local law enforcement scoped out the courthouse, worked through logistics and prepared for the possibility of demonstrations near the building.
Indictment details will become clearer
Trusty confirmed to CNN on Thursday night that his client is facing seven counts, including for violations of the Espionage Act and obstruction of justice.
He said he also believes a conspiracy count is included among the charges, an indication others would face charges in the probe.
But the Justice Department has not commented on the case since Trump broke the news that he was informed of his indictment, meaning key information about the charges, including how many there are, will likely become clearer in the coming days.
Trusty told CNN that Trump’s legal team will get a copy of the indictment “sometime between now and Tuesday afternoon.”
Trump still slated to speak this weekend
Even with the indictment hanging over him, Trump is scheduled to appear this weekend at two separate state Republican Party events in the South.
The Trump campaign sent out an advisory this week alerting that the former president is scheduled to arrive at 1 p.m. Saturday in Columbus, Ga. He will attend the Georgia GOP State Convention and deliver remarks there.
Trump will then travel to Greensboro, N.C., where he is set to arrive shortly after 5:30 p.m. and attend the North Carolina GOP convention, the campaign said.
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BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s assembly called on the member states on Thursday to back the creation of a special court to judge any war crime of aggression by Russia in Ukraine.
The nonbinding resolution was approved by a 472-19 vote with 33 abstentions in the European Parliament, and underscored the EU’s willingness to make sure Moscow should be brought to justice for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The legislature called on the EU “to work in close cooperation with Ukraine to seek and build political support in the U.N. General Assembly and other international forums … for creating the special tribunal for the crime of aggression against Ukraine.”
The call came despite the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court saying his court was capable of effectively dealing with war crimes committed in Ukraine.
Karim Khan at the time pushed back against the plan by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to establish such a special court.
The European Parliament said, however, that it “considers that the establishment of the special tribunal would complement the investigative efforts of the ICC and its Prosecutor, as it would focus on alleged genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Ukraine.”
The Hague-based ICC has launched an investigation into war crimes in Ukraine but can’t prosecute the crime of aggression — the act of invading another country — because the Russian Federation is not a signatory to the Rome Statute, the treaty that created the court.
Since Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, his military forces have been accused of abuses ranging from killings in the Kyiv suburb of Bucha to deadly attacks on civilian facilities, including the March 16 bombing of a theater in Mariupol that an Associated Press investigation established likely killed close to 600 people.
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Annual Revenue Surged 82% in 2021, Tops Among 136 Surveyed Companies
Poll Ranks Arete Wealth No. 6 for Revenue from Alternatives
Arete Wealth Founder, CEO Joshua D. Rogers Credits Impressive Growth to Exceptional Network of Financial Advisors, Focus on Alternatives, Acquisition of Center Street Securities
CHICAGO, May 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Arete Wealth is the industry's fastest growing independent broker-dealer, a recent survey from the respected trade publication, Investment News, reveals.
Following its strategic 2021 acquisition of Nashville, Tenn.-based Center Street Securities, Arete Wealth's year-ago revenue soared to $82.7 million from $45.2 million in 2020; the 82% increase topped all 136 companies polled by Investment News.
In a separate Investment News survey category, the Chicago-based firm ranked sixth in 2021 revenue from alternatives ($28.7 million). A specialist in offering clients access to alternative investments, Arete Wealth boasts a highly regarded Art & Wine Advisory practice, an exclusive service for its financial advisors and clients. The group is thought to be the only one of its kind in the U.S. offered by a financial services company.
In addition to providing full-service broker-dealer services, Arete Wealth is also a registered investment advisor, and insurance firm.
"To be recognized as the fastest-growing independent broker-dealer in the annual Investment News survey is a proud and humbling experience for Arete Wealth," said CEO Joshua D. Rogers who founded the firm in 2007. "Our expansion is a reflection of our commitment to offer Arete Wealth's valued clients investment opportunities they would not be able to find elsewhere from the industry's most capable financial advisors."
Mr. Rogers also cited last year's successful acquisition of Center Street Securities for Arete Wealth landing atop the Investment News survey, noting the deal enhanced Arete Wealth's industry-leading position as a provider of alternative investments.
"With our new teammates from Center Street Securities providing immediate contributions, we are superbly positioned to deliver the industry's highest level of wealth-management service to clients," he said. "For these reasons and more, I am extremely optimistic and convinced the best is yet to come for Arete Wealth, its investors, and its advisors."
Investment News' recognition of Arete Wealth's growth is the most recent acknowledgement of the firm's success. In April, Financial Advisor Magazine's 2022 Independent Broker-Dealer Survey, an analysis that gauges U.S. companies' growth by annual gross revenue, revealed that Arete Wealth ranked No. 35, up eight places from a year-ago. The firm also scored well in another key FA Magazine category, placing seventh in "gross revenue per representative" ($486,622).
And, earlier this month, Crain's Chicago Business announced that Arete Wealth is a finalist in its 2022 "Fast 50" list of Chicago's leading growth companies.
Arete Wealth's impressive past 18 months also included a November 2021 announcement that it had reached a unique two-year agreement with Masterworks, the provider of art investment securities. The deal featured the launch of an affiliated branch office in New York City and for Arete Wealth to act as a comanaging broker-dealer, underwriter, and placement agent for all of Masterworks' art securities products offered for sale in primary offerings.
The new office, Arete Wealth's first in New York City, conducts business under the Masterworks brand and participates as a syndicate member in any transaction that names Arete Wealth as a co-manager. The transaction was reported by The Financial Times and several top trade publications.
About Arete Wealth
Through its full-service broker-dealer, registered investment advisor, and insurance units, Arete Wealth Inc. has been offering comprehensive and sophisticated wealth management services for investors, clients, and partners since 2007. The Chicago-based firm offers high-net-worth investors access to a unique suite of alternative investments in addition to providing services that include investment banking, private equity programs, and other traditional financial planning.
Arete Wealth manages more than $6.0 billion in total assets through its 252 registered representatives, spread across 92 offices in the U.S. Find out more at www.aretewealth.com.
Contact:
Leanne Farley, VP of Marketing
312.940.3684
leanne.farley@AreteWealth.com
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CHICAGO (AP) — Dylan Cease came within one out of his first career no-hitter, and the streaking Chicago White Sox pounded the Minnesota Twins 13-0 on Saturday night.
Cease got a huge ovation when came out to start the ninth. With fans on their feet, he struck out Caleb Hamilton swinging on a 1-2 slider and retired Gilberto Celestino on a fly to center.
Luis Arraez then dumped a line-drive single into right-center on a 1-1 pitch, ending Cease's bid for Chicago's third no-hitter in as many years. Lucas Giolito tossed one against Pittsburgh in 2020, and Carlos Rodón did it against Cleveland on April 14, 2021.
After a meeting on the mound, Cease struck out Kyle Garlick to finish his first career nine-inning complete game. He threw a seven-inning shutout against Detroit in 2021.
Teammates lined up outside the dugout and high-fived Cease as he walked off. Fans chanted “Cease! Cease!” and he came back out for more cheers.
Cease walked Jake Cave in the third and Gilberto Celestino in the sixth for Minnesota’s only other baserunners. Cave was erased when Gary Sanchez bounced into a double play. Celestino was stranded when Cease struck out Arraez.
Cease had seven strikeouts — none until the fifth inning. He threw 103 pitches, 68 for strikes.
Eloy Jiménez, Romy Gonzalez and Elvis Andrus homered as the White Sox rolled to their fourth straight win after losing 10 of 12. The defending AL Central champions, who came in trailing division leader Cleveland by three games, pulled within one of second-place Minnesota.
Jiménez connected for a three-run shot in the first against Tyler Mahle (6-8). Gonzalez added his first career homer in the fourth, a three-run shot off Aaron Sanchez. Elvis Andrus tacked on a grand slam against position player Nick Gordon in the eighth.
Following his memorable drive, Gonzalez had a big grin as he bumped forearms with Josh Harrison after crossing the plate and traded high fives with teammates in the dugout.
Chicago is 4-1 with bench coach Miguel Cairo filling in for ailing manager Tony La Russa. The Hall of Fame skipper is in Arizona tending to an unspecified medical condition.
The Twins lost their third straight after winning five in a row. They also dropped their seventh consecutive road game.
Mahle lasted two innings in his first start since Aug. 17. The right-hander exited because of inflammation in his right shoulder — the same injury that had sidelined him.
TRANSACTION
The Twins optioned left-hander Jovani Moran to Triple-A St. Paul to make room for Mahle.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Twins: RHP Sonny Gray said he was feeling better, though still experiencing some tightness in his right hamstring after exiting Friday’s start. He is scheduled to pitch Wednesday, when the Twins visit the New York Yankees.
White Sox: Cairo said CF Luis Robert was expected to rejoin the team in time for Sunday’s game after traveling to Florida for the birth of his second child — a boy. Robert has been used as a pinch runner and defensive replacement lately while recovering from a sore left wrist. ... Cairo said he hopes RHP Michael Kopech (strained left knee) returns during the team’s seven-game trip to Seattle and Oakland that starts Monday. ... Cairo also said 3B Yoán Moncada (strained left hamstring) is just about ready to return. He is eligible to be reinstated from the 10-day injured list on Monday.
UP NEXT
The series wraps up with White Sox RHP Lucas Giolito (10-8, 5.27 ERA) opposing Minnesota RHP Dylan Bundy (7-6, 4.53 ERA). Giolito is 1-2 with a 7.98 ERA in his past three starts. Bundy has dominated the White Sox, with a career 6-0 record and 3.47 ERA in eight starts and nine appearances. He is 2-0 with a 2.35 ERA in three starts against them this year.
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PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — A man who was shot Sunday afternoon in the Woodbridge area has died, according to the Prince William County Police Department.
Police said officers responded to the 15000 block of Lost Canyon Court in the Woodbridge area at around 2:43 p.m. on Sunday, May 21 for a report of a shooting.
The victim, identified as 25-year-old Michael Eugene Hawkins, was taken to a local hospital with serious injuries and later died.
It was determined that Hawkins was involved in a verbal altercation with another man over an ongoing dispute. The altercation escalated and the two men exchanged gunfire, Hawkins was shot in the leg and the other man ran away from the area.
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- One of the first Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows video bars to enable Microsoft IntelliFrame with multiple video streams, making hybrid work meetings more collaborative and inclusive
- Jabra PanaCast 50 is one of the first front-of-room devices to work with Microsoft's intelligent speaker functionality for Teams Rooms
- Dynamic Composition / IntelliFrame enables multiple ways to get a better view of who is speaking in the room
ORLANDO, Fla., June 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Jabra, a leader in personal sound and hybrid work solutions, announces new AI-powered features for its PanaCast 50 and PanaCast 50 Room System today at InfoComm 2023. Hybrid meetings are top of mind for businesses, with Jabra research* revealing that 80% of all meetings globally are either fully virtual or hybrid. So, it is important that employees get the most out of their meetings, regardless of where they are joining from.
To address this need, in collaboration with Microsoft, Jabra is introducing new updates to its PanaCast 50 video bar, including Microsoft IntelliFrame with multiple video streams, as well as face and voice recognition functionality**. These new features aid Microsoft's next-generation AI tools, including intelligent meeting recap in Teams Premium to revolutionize meeting experiences.
PanaCast 50 enables productivity powered by AI
As organizations strive to increase productivity in light of hybrid working, Jabra's collaboration with Microsoft unlocks a new era of inclusive and dynamic communication. The PanaCast 50 will be one of the first intelligent front-of-the-room Teams Rooms on Windows video bars to enable Microsoft IntelliFrame with multiple video streams. Additionally, with Teams' voice recognition capabilities, the PanaCast 50 allows in-room participants to maintain their identity in the meeting transcript, aiding AI based productivity tools.
With intelligent recap in Teams Premium, you'll get automatically generated meeting notes, recommended tasks, and personalized highlights to help you get the information most important to you, even if you miss the meeting. Meanwhile, Microsoft IntelliFrame gives each in-room participant a dedicated camera view, providing a more inclusive remote experience and providing an optimized front row experience in room-to-room meetings.
Both features play a key role in helping employees to have more productive meetings, get up to speed on focus topics, organize key discussion points, and summarize actions so that the entire group understands the next steps.
PanaCast 50 enables dynamic communication by facial and vocal identity technology
The new multiple video stream functionality enables remote users in the Teams meeting to have a better view of who is in the meeting room with three video streams: the first stream is the current speaker, the second stream is for the previous speaker, and the third stream is the full panoramic room view of the meeting room or space, so no individual is excluded. The upcoming face recognition functionality allows in-room participants – upon authorization with individual enrollment – to display their names to remote users and populate the meeting room roster.
Voice recognition functionality – upon individual enrollment – enables in-room participants to maintain their identify in the meeting transcript, enabling more precise intelligent recaps for users with a Teams Premium license.
Hybrid meetings are also taken to the next level as the system comes equipped with Jabra Intelligent Meeting Space. The new feature allows customers to set a meeting room or space virtual boundary with PanaCast 50, so that people within the defined space are fully included, whereas people outside of the boundary are not inadvertently included. The new feature allows PanaCast 50 to exclude people who are visible through glass walls and are not part of the meeting.
Aurangzeb Khan, Senior Vice President of Intelligent Vision Systems at Jabra, says, "At Jabra, we are always looking for ways to harness the power of cutting-edge AI technologies to revolutionize hybrid and remote meetings. This is why we are thrilled to introduce these new PanaCast 50 capabilities for collaboration with Microsoft Teams. These features are set to give professionals immediate productivity benefits, helping them better navigate the hybrid working era seamlessly, online and offline."
Albert Kooiman, Senior Director, Microsoft Teams Devices Partner Engineering and Certification at Microsoft says, "Microsoft Teams leverages the power of AI to create unique user experiences before, during and after Teams meetings, to enhance employee inclusion and drive natural collaboration. Jabra and Microsoft closely worked together on the PanaCast 50 to make this device an essential component of unlocking these AI powered features for individuals, teams, and businesses."
Building a next generation device management platform
Jabra is looking to bring the same level of innovation into the device management side of our collaboration solution space. With IT managers and partners, the task of managing their installed devices is a vital success factor and Jabra PanaCast customers are no different. Jabra's intelligent meeting room solutions require a management platform that takes full advantage of all the capabilities on offer, while also ensuring we reduce time and effort spent managing them. This reimagined management platform is planned for wider availability by the end of this year.
Find out more at https://www.jabra.com/panacast50
* According to Jabra's 2022 Hybrid Ways of Working Global Report
** Identification of face and voice will only be possible providing an organization has opted into these features and individuals have enrolled their biometric data.
Availability
- Updates to PanaCast 50 will be available during summer and fall, 2023.
- Jabra PanaCast 50 Video Bar System will be available in a phased approach, introducing an Early Adopter Program from June 15, with general availability from September 1.
About Jabra
Jabra is a world leading brand in audio, video, and collaboration solutions – engineered to empower consumers and businesses. Proudly part of the GN Group, we are committed to bringing people closer to one another or to whatever is important to them. Jabra engineering excellence leads the way, building on 150 years of pioneering work within GN. This allows us to create integrated tools for contact centers, offices, and collaboration to help professionals work more productively from anywhere; and true wireless headphones and earbuds that let consumers better enjoy calls, music, and media. GN, founded in 1869, operates in 100 countries and delivers innovation, reliability, and ease of use. GN employs more than 7,500 people and in 2022 reported annual revenue of DKK 18.7bn. GN Audio accounts for DKK 12.5bn. GN brings people closer and is Nasdaq Copenhagen listed. www.jabra.com
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ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Buffalo Bills starting cornerback Tre’Davious White’s return from a left knee injury will have to wait at least one more week.
Coach Sean McDermott on Wednesday ruled out White from playing against the Green Bay Packers on Sunday night. White opened the season on the physically unable to perform list before being cleared to begin practicing two weeks ago after missing 11 months with a torn ligament.
Under NFL rules, the Bills have one more week to add White to the active roster or place him on season-ending injured reserve. The delay in activating the sixth-year player allows White an additional week of practice, especially after missing last week when the Bills were off on their bye.
“Keep taking it one day at a time. He’ll play when he’s ready. He’s progressing,” McDermott said.
Defensive coordinator Leslie Frazier was optimistic about White’s return, when asked about the player on Monday.
“He’s champing at the bit to get going,” Frazier said. “We’re looking forward to when he can go out there with our normal players and play in a game. It doesn’t seem like we’re that far away from that, but we’ll see how this week goes. But so far, so good.”
White was hurt during a 31-6 win at New Orleans on Nov. 25, and had surgery for a torn ACL a few weeks later. He was still spotted walking with a slight limp while spending training camp working out individually on the sideline.
He’s has been a starter since the Bills selected him in the first round of the 2017 draft, and was selected to the All-Pro team in 2019.
The AFC-leading Bills (5-1) come out of their bye week at the healthiest they’ve been since the start of the season. Right tackle Spencer Brown (ankle) was the team’s only regular McDermott said would be held out of practice Wednesday.
The week off also provided starting safety Jordan Poyer additional time to recover from an injury to his ribs which prevented him from flying to play in a 24-20 win at Kansas City on Oct. 16. The Bills instead hired a van and had Poyer make the 14-hour drive to Kansas City.
Though Poyer was cleared to play, the team’s medical staff prevented him from flying because the change in air pressure could have affected a punctured lung, which was caused by the rib injury.
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Voters in Iowa have already begun filling out their ballots in the 2022 midterm elections. One of the choices they will make this year is whether to send Republican Chuck Grassley back for an eighth term in the U.S. Senate. National Democrats have mostly given up on Iowa, which was long seen as a competitive between the two major political parties. Grassley, though, is running in the closest race he has had since his first election to the Senate in 1980.
"This is my 99th county meeting I've had for the 42 year in a row," Grassley said to a round of applause from a friendly mid-day crowd in the rural southwest Iowa town of Bedford in late August.
Sen. Grassley likes to tout his annual tours of Iowa's 99 counties, which are a mix of public and private events that some say are hard for his critics to attend. Grassley has been re-elected for decades to represent this state that many have long seen as purple.
"As things have gotten more polarized, so have people and so you should expect a lot of states that were purple to start to shift one direction," explained political science professor Megan Goldberg at Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa. "[Iowa] has the demographics that like to push us in the rightward direction, not the leftward."
Like so many places in the country, the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade energized supporters of reproductive rights in Iowa. Democrats see Sen. Grassley's role on the Senate Judiciary Committee as a key player in that eventual ruling. Grassley blocked former President Obama's Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland ahead of the 2016 presidential election and then shuttled former President Trump's nominee of now-Justice Amy Coney Barrett through nomination hearings ahead of the 2020 presidential election.
A handful of protesters turn out almost every Friday in the small northeastern Iowa town of McGregor holding signs that say things like "Abortion is Healthcare" and "Women: Vote Like Your Life Depends on it... Because it Does."
"We're barreling towards 2024, which really seems like the last chance we have to stay a democracy," protester Erin Cubbon said. "It's scary."
Cubbon says it's hard to believe Iowa helped launch former Obama's rise to the White House and was among the first to legalize same-sex marriage. It's also the same state Sen. Grassley has been representing in Congress for nearly a half-century.
He has been reelected easily partly because he presents himself as a moderate. But the 89-year-old has learned to embrace Trump like Republican voters have in the state. Grassley accepted his endorsement at a Trump rally in Des Moines last year.
"I was born at night but not last night so if I didn't accept the endorsement of a person that's got 91% of Republican voters in Iowa," Grassley joked to thousands of cheering Trump supporters on the Iowa State Fairgrounds "I wouldn't be that smart."
Republican support is not hard for Grassley to find. That means, though, that he's often facing questions about the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election on the campaign trail. Typically, these questions come from voters concerned about the legitimacy of the 2020 election.
NPR asked Grassley recently why he pivots to talk about election policy instead of pushing back on Trump's false claim about a stolen election.
"I shouldn't have to repeat that. It's a fact that what I said on [December] the 14th, when the electoral votes were counted."
It's clear Grassley is an institution in Iowa but a new Des Moines Register Iowa poll suggests voters might be ready to move on even as this state becomes redder. Grassley is just three points ahead of his Democratic challenger, retired Navy Admiral Mike Franken.
In comparison, Iowa's Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds enjoyed a 17 point advantage over her Democratic challenger, Deirdre DeJear.
Franken is hoping to catapult that public opinion advantage in a reddening state into the U.S. Senate. HE recognizes, though, it is an uphill climb.
"There's a portion of Iowa that will not vote for me because I'm a Democrat, that will not change. I will hold office and I will support them to the best of my ability," Franken said. "That's completely different than the Republican perspective on this state, where it is support your own and to hell with the rest."
Many had written Franken's campaign off after a police report surfaced saying he kissed a former staffer without consent. National Democrats are not engaged in Iowa either. Grassley has the cash advantage but Franken raised twice as much money as Grassley in the last fundraising quarter. Franken is also hammering Grassley on abortion, hoping that will drive Iowans to the polls.
Megan Goldberg at Cornell College says Franken may have a very narrow path to victory.
"Where Republicans go in and they vote for Republicans, for governor, for the House of Representatives and they skip voting in the Senate race, because they're not interested in voting for Grassley," Goldberg said. "But they can't bring themselves to vote for a Democrat."
Expect Franken to highlight Grassley's extensive tenure in Washington in the last days on the campaign trail as he attempts the seemingly impossible task of unseating a titan of Iowa politics.
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In Arizona, worry about access to Colorado River water
By TONY DAVIS
Arizona Daily Star
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Robbie Woodhouse’s grandfather began nearly a century of family farming along the Gila River near Yuma in the middle 1920s when he dug up a bunch of mesquite stumps on his land to make way for his barley, wheat, Bermuda seed, cotton and melon fields.
Farming never really took off at the Woodhouse homestead until 1954, when the federal government finished a 75-mile-long concrete canal to bring Colorado River water to what’s now known as the Wellton-Mohawk Irrigation and Drainage District, which covers about 58,500 acres along the Gila River east of the Colorado.
Today, Woodhouse presides over the governing board of a district with more than 120 individual growers, partnerships, trusts and other operating entities growing about 100 different crops, including seed crops as well as staples like wheat, cotton, lettuce and other produce. Wellton-Mohawk is one of six agricultural districts in the Yuma area that together grow 90% of the cauliflower, lettuce, broccoli and other winter vegetables sold in the U.S.
But now, the future of this district, of farming in the Yuma area in general and of Arizona’s second largest drinking water supply for urban residents are all mired in a sea of uncertainty. Due to a logjam in interstate negotiations for massive cuts in Colorado River water deliveries, farmers and urban users have no idea how much water use they’ll be ordered to cut, possibly starting next year.
All the Yuma area irrigation districts depend entirely on Colorado River water to nourish their crops. While groundwater does lie beneath many of the farm fields, its quality is uncertain or poor in many places.
“Obviously we’re very, very concerned,” said Woodhouse, whose 1,250 acres grow mostly produce, such as cauliflower, broccoli and lettuce. “Without the water, we don’t grow anything. But I wouldn’t say we are scared. We do feel an obligation to do our part.”
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EDITOR’S NOTE: This is part of a collaborative series on the Colorado River as the 100th anniversary of the historic Colorado River Compact approaches. The Associated Press, The Colorado Sun, The Albuquerque Journal, The Salt Lake Tribune, The Arizona Daily Star and The Nevada Independent are working together to explore the pressures on the river in 2022.
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Water officials of Arizona cities of Tucson, Goodyear and Scottsdale are also concerned and a little on edge although they’re not panicking. They are the most dependent of Arizona cities on river water delivered through the Central Arizona Project, a $4 billion, 336-mile-long canal system running from the river to the Phoenix and Tucson areas.
While all these cities have backup supplies, led by groundwater, to cushion them in the short- to medium-term in the event of river water cuts, their long-term picture is more uncertain because the CAP was extended into Arizona nearly 40 years ago precisely to get them off groundwater.
Arizona got about 36% of its total water supply from the river as recently as 2020. That share of river water feeding farms and cities has declined some since then, with the advent of a federally approved Drought Contingency Plan that will cut the state’s river water use by 21% starting in 2023. It’s expected to drop even further in the coming years but nobody knows how much right now.
The uncertainty was triggered first in June, when Reclamation Commissioner Camille Touton testified at a U.S. Senate Committee hearing that to stabilize the river’s declining reservoirs Lakes Mead and Powell, the basin states need to cut their water use by roughly up to 30% starting in 2023, and come up with a plan to do that by mid-August. If a plan doesn’t appear by then, she warned the federal government would impose its own, to “protect the system.”
But mid-August came and went with no agreement and no plan or timetable for a plan from the bureau. The bureau did say at an Aug. 16 news conference, however, that it was going to look closely at several measures such as modifying the Hoover and Glen Canyon dams so they can keep delivering water at lower elevations and counting evaporation of water from Lake Mead and the river against the Lower Basin’s total water supply, thereby reducing that supply by hundreds of thousands of acre-feet a year.
So now, Wellton Mohawk and the other irrigation districts are pushing a plan to cut one acre-foot of water used per acre annually, on 925,000 acres along the Lower Colorado River in Arizona and California. In return, they’re seeking $1,500 an acre-foot in compensation, or a total of $1.387 billion annually.
With that money, they’ll invest in water-efficient farming tools like drip irrigation, gradually switch to less thirsty crops from water-slurping alfalfa and weather economic losses from reduced water use, Woodhouse said.
“What we want to have happen is for each individual farmer to operate their farms in the matter that they want to operate and plant the crops that they feel they can maintain the fertility of their soils,” he said. “I’m sure it’s going to greatly change crop rotations and also change management practices of individual farmers, to exist on less water. It’s real important that those decisions be left to each individual farm.”
This proposal has been roundly criticized by urban water leaders, however. While saying farms must take the biggest water use curbs because they use 72% of Arizona’s water and close to 80% basin-wide, Central Arizona Project officials say the farmers’ price tag is unrealistically high and that whatever money is paid should be used strictly to modernize irrigation practices for the long term.
“Anytime anyone wants to sit down with us and talk about it, we’re more than willing to do so. But no one has been willing to discuss it,” countered Wade Noble, an attorney representing the Yuma-area irrigation districts. “Until we get to that point, our voluntary forbearance of a significant amount of the water we control will remain on the terms we put on the table. We’re not going to negotiate with ourselves.”
Where both Arizona farms and cities agree is that the other river basin states and the federal government haven’t moved fast enough to reduce water use.
“Reclamation has got to show some leadership and say this has got to be done and give us a guide map as to how the system is protected as the commissioner promised what it would be,” Noble said.
The CAP’s board president Terry Goddard and its previous president Lisa Atkins wrote a letter on Aug. 19 to Interior Secretary that made essentially the same point. To date, no written response from Interior has been forthcoming.
With no action forthcoming on a deal, some Arizona water users have pulled back on past commitments to leave water in Lake Mead to prop it up. The Tucson City Council, for instance, had pledged earlier this year to leave 30,000 acre-feet in the lake in 2022 and 2023 but has since backed off that pledge and voted to order its full allocation of 144,191 acre-feet for 2023 pending the negotiations’ outcome. The Gila River Indian Community withdrew an even larger commitment, to leave nearly 130,000 acre-feet in Mead next year. The CAP is holding onto 35,000 acre-feet it was going to leave in Mead and announced plans to remove another 18,000 acre-feet from the lake next year.
“Unfortunately, the community has been shocked and disappointed to see the complete lack of progress in reaching the kind of cooperative basin-wide plan necessary to save the Colorado River system,” said Gila River Indian Community Chairman Stephen Roe Lewis.
Until now, it’s left almost 600,000 other acre-feet of its CAP supply in Mead since 2016. In 2022 alone, CAP users and other Arizona Colorado River users left nearly 800,000 acre-feet in Mead, led by 512,000 acre-feet it legally had to leave there under the terms of the 2019 Drought Contingency Plan due to the lake’s falling levels. Arizona and California left another 268,000 acre-feet in the lake this year from what’s called the “500 Plus Plan,” which had sought a half-million acre-feet in voluntary contributions to the lake, but projections for next year show more water will be removed from the lake under that plan than will be left in it.
Many Arizona cities using river water are preparing for the inevitability they’ll have to use less. In Goodyear, in the Phoenix area’s West Valley, whose population is about 101,000, the city has recharged about half of its annual CAP supplies into the ground for several years. It’s also been recharging treated sewage effluent into the ground, and has stored a total of seven years’ supply of both sources. It anticipates no short-term problems in delivering water to customers, said Ray Diaz, Goodyear’s water resources and sustainability manager.
Colorado River shortfalls aren’t going to affect what the city does now but could in the future.
“What would happen if we were shorted and had to continue our approved development?” said Diaz. “It’s something we would have to look into and really assess what we could afford for the future — how much water we can provide.”
In Scottsdale in the Phoenix area’s East Valley, CAP supplies about 70% of the water for its 250,000 residents. Most is delivered directly to homes and businesses rather than recharged. If the city had to sustain a large cut in CAP supplies, it would have to rely much more heavily on groundwater, said Gretchen Baumgardner, the city’s water policy manager.
It has stored about 230,000 acre-feet of CAP water and treated sewage effluent in the ground — about 2.5 years worth of its current supply — but town officials don’t want to use it all at once, Baumgardner said. It also gets about 15% of its supply from Salt and Verde River surface supplies, delivered by the quasi-public utility the Salt River Project.
“There will be a larger portion of groundwater” used in the future, said Baumgardner, adding that city officials won’t know how much until they learn how drastic the cuts in CAP deliveries will be.
The city is also looking to extend its supply further. Its wastewater treatment plant in North Scottsdale operates a pilot project to treat a small amount of effluent to exceed state drinking water standards, a process called “direct potable reuse.” The city is working with the State Department of Environmental Quality to help set up new state regulations that would allow the plant to reuse its wastewater for drinking on a larger scale.
But when asked if a “Day Zero” could ever arrive in which Scottsdale failed to meet all residents’ demands for water, Baumgardner replied, “It’s just one of those uncertainties right now. That will really be hard to answer,” in part because of a pending effort by federal officials to overhaul its guidelines for operating its reservoirs — an effort that won’t be finished until 2026.
In Tucson, officials of the Tucson Water utility are more optimistic about their ability to survive major CAP cuts. The utility about 40 years ago signed up to take almost a third more CAP water than it needs today to serve the 735,610 customers living inside and outside city limits. That’s allowed it to store nearly five and a half years worth of CAP in large, recharge basins — water that can be pumped when needed during CAP shortages later. The utility also has access to a huge aquifer lying under a large expanse of former farmland northwest of the city that it bought and retired in the 1970s. It also is regularly recharging and storing underground large amounts of partially treated effluent that can be pumped later for drinking.
But there is one cautionary note. A recent Bureau of Reclamation study found that as the Southwest’s climate warms up, runoff of melting snows into rivers and washes surrounding the city is likely to decline, meaning less water will be replenishing its aquifer than in the past. That would increase the possibility that groundwater pumping in place of CAP water use could put increased pressure on the aquifer, triggering higher pumping costs and more likelihood of subsidence in which the ground collapses, possibly triggering fissures.
Ultimately, the story of CAP water in Arizona is a story about groundwater, added Kathryn Sorensen, a researcher for Arizona State University’s Kyl Center for Water Policy. When there’s less Colorado River water delivered to Arizona, the cities, farms and other users fall back on groundwater, she said.
“We are very blessed to have plentiful aquifers in central Arizona we can fall back on,” Sorensen said while noting they are fossil aquifers, meaning water entered them thousands of years ago and they are not easily replaced.
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Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) on Tuesday filed an ethics complaint accusing the state’s attorney general of misconduct during her investigation that found Cuomo sexually harassed 11 women, prompting his resignation.
The 48-page complaint, filed with a state court committee that oversees grievances against attorney conduct, alleges New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) “cynically manipulated” the investigation and accuses two special deputies involved in the investigation of engaging in unethical conduct.
“She engaged in a terrible and quite obvious manipulation of facts, evidence and the law, furthered a false narrative about me and hid evidence that undermined the report from the media and the public,” Cuomo said of James in the complaint.
James’s office had led a months-long inquiry into allegations against Cuomo, releasing a report in August 2021 stating the former governor had sexually harassed at least 11 women.
Cuomo resigned a week later, saying he left office to avoid becoming a “distraction.”
He has continued to question the report and in recent weeks has spent thousands of dollars on digital ads claiming the investigation was motivated by “political grudges” and a “#MeToo-driven rush to judgment.”
Cuomo’s complaint accuses James of violating six attorney conduct rules and alleges the two special deputies, Joon Kim and Anne Clark, violated three of those rules.
The lengthy complaint condemns James for not releasing all of the underlying evidence that supported the report, which Cuomo alleged is “materially misleading,” and claims James has refused to address its errors.
“It has become quite obvious that the reason the Attorney General did not want to release this information — which she subsequently decided to selectively and misleadingly release — was that the information would have contradicted her narrative,” Cuomo wrote.
Cuomo portrayed James as having a conflict of interest in the investigation, noting she launched a short-lived gubernatorial campaign in October, less than three months after the report’s release. James suspended her campaign in December, hours after reports that her office would seek to question former President Trump in a separate investigation.
The former governor also alleged the two special deputies were “anything but disinterested” because one had an “obvious disposition toward a specific result,” while the other’s office had been publicly critical of Cuomo.
A spokeswoman for James’s office said she and the deputies all “hold themselves to the highest ethical standards.”
“Mr. Cuomo resigned after an independent investigation revealed that he preyed on multiple women who worked for him. New Yorkers are ready to move forward and close this sordid chapter in our state’s history,” the spokeswoman added.
The filing also references the committee’s decision to suspend Rudy Giuliani’s law license in the state last year after finding he made false and misleading statements to courts and the public about election fraud claims in the 2020 presidential election.
“As the Giuliani case demonstrates, no lawyer who promulgates false statements is above ethical rules and that certainly includes the Attorney General,” Cuomo wrote.
Cuomo’s filing on Tuesday is the latest salvo in the ongoing legal battle between the high-profile New York Democrats.
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It’s flu vaccine time, and seniors need revved-up shots, experts say
(AP) - Doctors have a message for vaccine-weary Americans: Don’t skip your flu shot this fall -- and seniors, ask for a special extra-strength kind.
After flu hit historically low levels during the COVID-19 pandemic, it may be poised for a comeback. The main clue: A nasty flu season just ended in Australia.
While there’s no way to predict if the U.S. will be as hard-hit, “last year we were going into flu season not knowing if flu was around or not. This year we know flu is back,” said influenza specialist Richard Webby of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis.
Annual flu shots are recommended starting with 6-month-old babies. Flu is most dangerous for people 65 and older, young children, pregnant women and people with certain health problems including heart and lung diseases.
Here’s what to know:
REVVED-UP SHOTS FOR SENIORS
As people get older, their immune system doesn’t respond as strongly to standard flu vaccination. This year, people 65 or older are urged to get a special kind for extra protection.
There are three choices. Fluzone High-Dose and Flublok each contain higher doses of the main anti-flu ingredient. The other option is Fluad Adjuvanted, which has a regular dosage but contains a special ingredient that helps boost people’s immune response.
Seniors can ask what kind their doctor carries. But most flu vaccinations are given in pharmacies, and some drugstore websites, such as CVS, automatically direct people to locations offering senior doses if their birth date shows they qualify.
Webby advised making sure older relatives and friends know about the senior shots, in case they’re not told when they seek vaccination.
“They should at least ask, ‘Do you have the shots that are better for me?’” Webby said. “The bottom line is they do work better” for this age group.
If a location is out of senior-targeted doses, it’s better to get a standard flu shot than to skip vaccination, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
All flu vaccines in the U.S. -- including types for people younger than 65 -- are “quadrivalent,” meaning they guard against four different flu strains. Younger people have choices, too, including shots for those with egg allergies and a nasal spray version called FluMist.
WHY FLU EXPERTS ARE ON ALERT
Australia just experienced its worst flu season in five years, and what happens in Southern Hemisphere winters often foreshadows what Northern countries can expect, said Dr. Andrew Pekosz of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
And people have largely abandoned masking and distancing precautions that earlier in the pandemic also helped prevent the spread of other respiratory bugs like the flu.
“This poses a risk especially to young children who may not have had much if any previous exposure to influenza viruses prior to this season,” Pekosz added.
“This year we will have a true influenza season like we saw before the pandemic,” said Dr. Jason Newland, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at Washington University in St. Louis.
He said children’s hospitals already are seeing an unusual early spike in other respiratory infections including RSV, or respiratory syncytial virus, and worries flu likewise will strike earlier than usual — like it did in Australia.
The CDC advises a flu vaccine by the end of October but says they can be given any time during flu season. It takes about two weeks for protection to set in.
The U.S. expects 173 million to 183 million doses this year. And yes, you can get a flu shot and an updated COVID-19 booster at the same time — one in each arm to lessen soreness.
FLU SHOTS OF THE FUTURE
The companies that make the two most widely used COVID-19 vaccines now are testing flu shots made with the same technology. One reason: When influenza mutates, the recipes of so-called mRNA vaccines could be updated more quickly than today’s flu shots, most of which are made by growing influenza virus in chicken eggs.
Pfizer and its partner BioNTech are recruiting 25,000 healthy U.S. adults to receive either its experimental influenza shot or a regular kind, to see how effective the new approach proves this flu season.
Rival Moderna tested its version in about 6,000 people in Australia, Argentina and other countries during the Southern Hemisphere’s flu season and is awaiting results.
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The U.S. Coast Guard rescued 15 people after their 87-foot pleasure vessel began sinking near Port Aransas on Monday.
Around 9:25 a.m. the coast guard received a call that a pleasure craft, dubbed Pensées, was taking on water and sinking near the Port Aransas Municipal Boat Marina, officials said in a news release.
The coast guard sent its 45-foot response boat to assist with the rescue.
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There were no injuries and occupants of the Pensées were taken off the vessel to a nearby pier, officials said.
The Pensées, however, was submerged near the harbor despite attempts to dewater it with pumps. Officials did not say why the vessel took on water.
Joel Salgado-Castro, operations unit controller at Sector/Air Station Corpus Christi, said in the news release that reliable communication prevented a potential tragedy.
“Thanks to the attentiveness of these boaters and their use of a VHF-FM radio, our rescue crews were able to provide assistance before the situation worsened,” Salgado-Castro said. “Utilization of reliable communication equipment helps us rapidly detect and respond to emergencies.”
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Biden launches new push to limit health care costs, hoping to show he can save money for families
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Friday rolled out a new set of initiatives to reduce health care costs: a crackdown on scam insurance plans, new guidance to prevent surprise medical bills and an effort to reduce medical debt tied to credit cards.
Biden’s remarks will build on previous initiatives to limit health care costs, with the Department of Health and Human Services releasing new estimates showing 18.7 million older adults and other Medicare beneficiaries will save an estimated $400 per year in prescription drug costs in 2025 because of the president placing a cap on out-of-pocket spending as part of last year’s Inflation Reduction Act.
Gearing up for his 2024 reelection campaign as inflation remains a dominant concern for voters, the Democratic president has emphasized his policies to help families manage their expenses, as well as a spate of government incentives to encourage private sector development of electric vehicles, clean energy and advanced computer chips.
Republican lawmakers have criticized Biden’s policies by saying they have spurred higher prices that hurt the well-being of families.
The Biden administration plans to limit what it calls “junk” insurance plans, such as short-term policies that can deny basic coverage as people transition between employers and still need temporary health care coverage.
Neera Tanden, director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, highlighted the case of a man in Montana who received a $43,000 health care bill because his insurer said his cancer was a pre-existing condition.
“That’s not real insurance — that’s junk insurance,” Tanden told reporters on a phone call previewing Biden’s remarks. “We will propose a rule to crack down on these plans.”
The president also announced new guidance on medical billing stemming from 2020′s No Surprises Act. The guidance would limit the ability of insurers that contract with hospitals to claim provided care was not in network and have customers pay more money. Health plans also would need to disclose facility fees that are increasingly charged to patients and can surface as an unexpected cost in a medical bill.
“Frankly, what they are doing is gaming the system — this is not allowed,” Tanden said.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and Treasury Department also are seeking information on third-party credit cards and loans that are specifically used to pay for health care. The higher costs and interest charges can discourage people in need of treatment from seeking care.
The president is expected to also highlight previous efforts to reduce health care costs, including a plan allowing Medicare to negotiate lower prices for prescription drugs and a $35 monthly price cap on insulin for people in Medicare Part B.
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IRVINE, Calif., March 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Alpha Motor Corporation (Alpha) released today information about its company to raise awareness of its California-based Move Humanity® brand and vision.
History
Alpha Motor Corporation (Alpha) is a privately held U.S. automobile and mobility technology company based in Irvine, California. Alpha was founded by Edward Lee and Jada Lee.
Edward Lee is an award-winning American automotive designer with over 20 years of automotive industry experience and is credited as the lead inventor of the Lexus LC Flagship Luxury Coupe and Convertible (U.S. Patents D891989-S, D806609-S, D671458-S). Jada Lee is Co-Founder and Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors at Alpha Motor Corporation and carries over 16 years of business and corporate law experience.
Alpha was founded in 2020 and initially self-funded until 2021 when convertibles notes were issued. The company achieved profitability in 2022. Alpha recently opened a Reg CF equity offering on StartEngine, a private investment platform regulated by the SEC.
In 2023, Alpha received The Certificate of Congressional Recognition from the United States House of Representatives for its technology patents and dedication to sustainable transportation. Alpha was also recognized as the "Electric Vehicle Manufacturer of the Year – California," by Corporate LiveWire Global Awards.
Present Day
Alpha Motor Corporation (Alpha) is an award-winning American automobile company focused on manufacturing mobility solutions that Move Humanity®. Following a successful market introduction in 2020 and backed by over 52,500 vehicle preorder indications, Alpha is advancing to pre-production vehicle development in 2023.
Alpha is backed by:
Patented Technology - Alpha has proprietary advantages in technology, design, and process enabling speed-to-market efficiency of award-winning EV designs.
Strong Market Demand – Alpha has received over 52,500 vehicle preorder indications to date in addition to distribution agreements in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.
Experience And Ability to Execute - Alpha's automotive business proficiency comes from decades of experience at major corporations. Alpha has formed OEM-level strategic partnerships in the U.S. to efficiently develop and manufacture highly competitive EVs.
Alpha is led by automotive professionals working to commercialize its award-winning EV designs. Alpha's patented technology enables speed-to-market efficiency with an aim to manufacture for the EV mass market, which is expected to surpass US$1.5 trillion by 2030.
EV Revolution Led by Alpha
Leveraging award-winning designs alongside patented technology and production methods, Alpha is efficiently creating the next generation of electric vehicles to be equipped with quality performance that is enjoyable and accessible.
Alpha's multi-purpose vehicle system enables shared solutions to streamline EV development. Alpha's unique vehicle system includes dimensionally adjustable chassis, interchangeable power components, interchangeable interior components, interchangeable subsystem components, interchangeable user interface control system, interchangeable body modules enabling vehicle variants, and other patented methodologies, designs, and sustainable industrial practices.
The Alpha lineup encompasses multiple categories for the consumer market – including Utility, Sport, and Adventure Series vehicles. Alpha's patented modular vehicle system allows the company to rapidly create and develop a variety of EV solutions. Alpha is committed to creating the kinds of electric vehicles it believes the world has always wanted to see but that have not existed – until now.
Green Economy Driven by EVs
On a global scale, gasoline-powered vehicles contribute massively to the deterioration of our planet's atmosphere and are not sustainable as we move towards a net zero green economy. Alpha believes that the electrification of cars is the way forward, offering significant savings in fuel, maintenance, and overall ownership costs, compared to gasoline vehicles. Alpha's vision to Move Humanity places focus on sustainability with an emphasis on the impact on consumers. Alpha is convinced that the decisions involving sustainability should consider accountability and values that stand the test of time.
In order to move the needle forward on mass adoption trends, it is Alpha's observation that the current market is lacking in stylish, affordable, and functional EV options, and the company is striving to fill the void.
The EV Advantage
Alpha's technology is backed by a level of experience and expertise that we believe is rare to the emerging EV industry. Alpha's Leadership and Advisory Board carries an impressive track record of scaling business growth for top EV companies including Tesla. They believe in Alpha's potential to become a highly influential brand and will further support the company to achieve significant milestones.
Through decades of automotive research and technical development, company founder, Edward Lee, a multi-award-winning American automotive designer, has worked with some of the world's most well-known automobile manufacturers including Toyota, Lexus, and Audi. Mr. Lee has been recognized by The Center for Leadership at CSU Fullerton for "Excellence in Executive Leadership in Innovation" and was named "Most Motivational Motor Vehicle Manufacturing Chairperson (USA)" by CEO Monthly.
Designed in California with U.S. Manufacturing Power
Since being introduced to the market, Alpha's designs have caught the attention of consumers and industry experts. In 2021, the company's Wolf Electric Truck was exhibited in concept form to the public at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles and has remained on display by popular demand until very recently. This exhibition marked the successful completion of Alpha's proof-of-concept stage generating over 9,600 initial preorder indications for Wolf Electric Truck series alone.
Combining proprietary technology, patented design, and a differentiated go-to-market strategy led by the company's most popular vehicles, Alpha believes it may be poised for international distribution with an end goal of streamlining mass market delivery starting in 2025. At present, the company is actively working towards mass production and is experiencing overwhelming demand, having received a total of over 52,500 vehicle preorder indications to date.
Alpha expects its total production capacity to swiftly fulfill market demand. Separately, Alpha has distribution agreements in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia for 3,150 cars annually, which is in addition to the 52,000 vehicle preorder indications by the direct consumers. That figure is expected to increase on a yearly basis and not representative of Alpha's projected total production capacity. The company also anticipates economic and capital advantages from lean manufacturing operations, tax credits, and government-backed incentives to boost EV sales.
Alpha has formed OEM-level strategic partnerships in the U.S. including UHI, which has a 406,000 sq. ft vehicle manufacturing plant based in Sterling Heights, Michigan. Moreover, Alpha has secured multiple patents, which protects proprietary design, patented technology, and development process to streamline expansion. Alpha believes that this unique advantage may enable the company to swiftly fulfill market demand and gain market share.
Move Humanity Together!
From its early inception, Alpha has caught the attention of consumers and industry experts alike, winning awards for its designs and amassing substantial preorder demand. As the company moves to become a leader in the EV industry, Alpha plans to focus on successful commercialization and expansion well into the future with its diverse, differentiated, and accessible vehicle solutions.
Simply put, Alpha builds cars for the wellness of people and to bring focus to a greener economy. Alpha is a new American EV brand, producing some of the market's most in-demand electric vehicle solutions, and the company looks forward to Moving Humanity.
"Alpha Motor Corporation's vision to Move Humanity® provides anyone who wishes to contribute to furthering its goals with a growth opportunity, purpose to exert influence, and scintillating adventure to follow one's passion.
Creating a culture that positively reinforces giving recognition where it is due and bestowing responsibility where appropriate is essential to building a venture that will shape the way people are motivated and inspired. The underlying philosophy is intended to reward meaningful contributions, which consequently brings about remarkable innovations.
Personally, this journey provides a chance to listen, connect, inspire and lead by example. It affords us with the mandate to not only motivate others but to influence the way in which people are inspired.
I revere the opportunity to pave the way for the next generation and welcome the responsibility to make conscientious decisions that will touch the lives of many.
Success of Alpha Motor Corporation will hinge on its being authentic, respectful, encouraging and empowering in all of its endeavors. My aspiration for our company is to be able to transform the fundamental principles, which shall be fortified by accepting challenges, achieving milestones and extending purpose.
Our company is built on principles that will lead to its triumph and realization of its ambitions and is created by those who understand the significance of upholding such values.
We invite the world to experience what will indeed become evident to all," said Jada Lee, Co-Founder and Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of Alpha Motor Corporation.
About
Alpha Motor Corporation (Alpha) is an award-winning American automobile company focused on manufacturing mobility solutions that Move Humanity®. We innovate sustainable transportation for the wellness of people and our environment by implementing advanced automotive technologies and disruptive industrial practices. Based in Irvine, California, Alpha is committed to creating the kinds of electric vehicles we believe the world has always wanted to see but that have not existed – until now.
Industry and Business
Automotive, Car Manufacturer, Mobility Technology
Organization
Private U.S. Corporation (Founders - Edward Lee, Jada Lee)
Edward Lee (Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer)
Founded 2020
Corporate Headquarters
9551 Irvine Center Drive
Irvine, CA 92618
Recent Awards and Recognition
2023 Certificate of Congressional Recognition Issued by The United States House of Representatives
2023 Electric Vehicle Manufacturer of the Year – California Issued by Corporate LiveWire Global Awards
Please contact pr@alphamotorinc.com for more information.
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By SCOTT BAUER
Associated Press
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A federal judge in Wisconsin has ruled that a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the father of a man shot and killed by Kyle Rittenhouse during a protest in 2020 can proceed against Rittenhouse, police officers and others. The father of Anthony Huber, one of two men shot and killed by Rittenhouse, filed the lawsuit in 2021, accusing officers of allowing for a dangerous situation that resulted in his son’s death. He alleged that Rittenhouse conspired with law enforcement to cause harm to protestors. U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman on Wednesday dismissed motions to dismiss the lawsuit, allowing it to proceed.
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Sensor-windshield integration enables simplified vehicle installation, greater reliability and lower costs
- Opsys Tech offers high-performance True Solid-State Scanning LiDAR
- Wideye, a corporate scale-up of AGC, aims to provide automotive grade glass integration solutions for optical sensors in autonomous vehicles
- The Opsys and Wideye collaboration is targeting delivery of a LiDAR-integrated windshield design suitable for serial production later in the year
LAS VEGAS and HOLON, Israel, Jan. 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Opsys Tech Ltd., a leading developer of patented True Solid-State Scanning LiDAR technology, is proud to announce its collaboration with Wideye to deliver windshield integration of True Solid-State Scanning LiDAR sensors. A LiDAR-integrated windshield prototype will be on display at CES in Las Vegas beginning on January 5, 2023. This LiDAR-integrated windshield will demonstrate seamless integration of sensors behind a fully compliant automotive windshield.
"This project underscores how well our LiDAR sensors can work in multiple parts of the vehicle," said Opsys Tech CEO Rafi Harel. "Our system is extremely adaptable. It will give auto companies the flexibility they need to make LiDAR part of their future safety and ADAS solutions."
Opsys's patented True Solid-State Scanning LiDAR technology allows for a simple and powerful sensor device, which can be easily adapted to different integration options, including areas within the passenger compartment. True Solid-State Scanning LiDAR with a precise beam pattern is capable of compensating the potential distortion introduced by the windshield. The lack of any moving parts in the Opsys sensor helps to keep things cool and silent during operation, meeting comfort demands of modern, quiet electrical vehicles while delivering best-in-class performance.
Wideye, launched by AGC in 2016, strives to make mobility safer with stylish and reliable 360-degree seamless automotive integration solutions. This is made possible thanks to Wideye's innovative soda-lime high-performance glass. This unique glass is transparent to near infra-red and with high optical quality indispensable for the installation of optical sensors, such as LiDAR and cameras, and enables sensor performance on par with exterior integrated solutions, such as those found on the edge of the roof or the front grille.
"From the very beginning, Wideye's vision has been to integrate sensors behind windshield-leveraging existing functionalities -- and therefore meeting the automotive market need for a reliable, cost effective, and stylish integration," said Wideye CEO Quentin Fraselle. "Through this collaboration, our target is to demonstrate that a solution with high performance sensors covering a 120° HFOV is achievable and to bring it to market. Integrated windshields will significantly simplify vehicle installation by using existing heating and cleaning components for the windshield, bringing best value LiDAR solution to the market. "
As one of the world's leading automotive glass experts, Wideye by AGC is enabling autonomous driving by leading the way for sensor integration. Wideye provides a unique windshield design, unleashing full power of Opsys Tech's near infrared LiDAR sensor.
With a meticulously analyzed compound materials, sensor performance in the Wideye windshield remains on par with exterior integrated solutions, such as those found on the edge of the roof or the front grille.
The demonstrated prototype on display at CES 2023 is a major step for Opsys Tech towards product release for windshield integration, which is planned to be available later in the year.
Opsys Tech Solid-State Scanning LiDAR:
- Has no moving parts
- Is extremely durable
- Offers best performance and value
- Delivers "all specs all the time" across the full field of vision with no limitation of installation
The Opsys team invites you to meet us at CES 2023, booth #6507 in Las Vegas, NV and to schedule to take a ride with our live demo in @Vegas traffic.
Opsys Tech was founded in 2016 and has developed a world-leading patented True Solid-State Scanning LiDAR solution that will drive adoption and commercialization of autonomous and semi-autonomous vehicles with maximized safety and performance. Opsys Tech is headquartered in Israel, with locations in the United States, Europe and Asia.
On the Web: www.opsys-tech.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/opsys-technologies
Wideye® by AGC, a corporate scaleup focusing on autonomous vehicle ecosystems, was launched by Tokyo-based AGC Group, a world-leading supplier of flat, automotive and display glass, chemicals and other high-tech materials and components. Wideye is backed by AGC Automotive Europe, AGC Group's European automotive glass branch, which specializes in the production of glazing solutions for carmakers.
Since its launch in 2016, Wideye has focused on enabling ADAS deployment and making fully autonomous vehicles a reality.
On the Web: https://wideye.vision/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/wideye-by-agc/
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Ansys showcases Bianchi's E-Omnia high-performance e-bike during CES 2023
/ Key Highlights
- Ansys simulation helped enable a new approach to road bike prototyping, using every model size and test bench with fewer physical prototypes and design modifications
- With support from Ansys channel partner EnginSoft, Bianchi also uses Ansys software for design and safety verification of its e-bikes in response to growing consumer demands for green mobility
PITTSBURGH, Jan. 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Italian bicycle manufacturer Bianchi used Ansys (NASDAQ: ANSS) simulation software to realize a 70% reduction in frame prototyping in the efficient optimization of its road bike and e-bike designs – speeding time to market and reducing development costs. Ansys solutions helped enable stronger, lighter, stiffer bike frame geometries that meet ISO safety standards while satisfying competitive cycling and e-bike design requirements. Bianchi's E-Omnia e-bike is on display during CES at Ansys booth #4401.
Designing bicycles that conform to numerous applications or environments presents significant challenges for manufacturers. In the world of competitive cycling, there is considerable demand for bikes that are lighter, stiffer and faster. For e-bikes, suspension components must be lightweight, yet strong enough to withstand pavement impacts. To meet these demands, engineers require an understanding of frame design as it relates to material stiffness, weight, component integration, and the aerodynamics of rider and bike in a variety of environments.
Bianchi used Ansys' multiphysics capabilities to understand the impact of frame geometry on overall performance. Within Ansys® SpaceClaim®, Bianchi used a dynamic 3D model of rider position in combination with drivetrain efficiency data to make predictions about what levels of power and performance can be expected during time trials or specific stages of a competitive race. Ansys® Mechanical™ also helped engineers understand and identify the level of suspension e-bike kinematics needed to withstand hard pavement yet conform with lighter component materials — often revealing interesting mechanical properties that led to new design ideas.
"One of the biggest discoveries we made during testing was that frame stiffness is dependent on the geometrical harmony between all the tubes of the frame, including the top tube, which we had previously overlooked," said Marco Borgonovo, head of product at Bianchi. "It's just one of many examples of how using Ansys simulation helped us to understand which parts of the frame really influence aerodynamic performance — where it makes sense to work more and optimize more, rather than stick to conventional wisdom and dismiss the importance of the top tube altogether."
"The role of bicycles has evolved beyond recreation to green transportation," said Walt Hearn, vice president of worldwide sales and customer excellence at Ansys. "This shift reflects a preference for ergonomic designs influenced by lower drag, lighter frames and greater performance. Using Ansys simulation solutions helps our customers efficiently work through large design challenges like these with fewer prototypes, saving them time, effort and costs on the way to something new."
Visit Ansys at CES in Las Vegas from Jan. 5-8, 2023, at booth #4401 to see Bianchi's e-bike, E Omnia, on display and learn more.
When visionary companies need to know how their world-changing ideas will perform, they close the gap between design and reality with Ansys simulation. For more than 50 years, Ansys software has enabled innovators across industries to push boundaries by using the predictive power of simulation. From sustainable transportation to advanced semiconductors, from satellite systems to life-saving medical devices, the next great leaps in human advancement will be powered by Ansys.
Take a leap of certainty … with Ansys.
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Purpose-Built Actigraphy Solution Offers a New Standard for Reliable and Convenient Analysis of Sleep and Activity through Empatica's Proven Health Monitoring Platform
BOSTON, April 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Empatica, a digital health and AI company developing medical-grade wearables and digital biomarkers for health monitoring and diagnostics, today announced the launch of Empatica Actigraphy, a powerful new addition to the company's FDA-cleared Empatica Health Monitoring Platform, offering a new set of digital biomarkers for monitoring sleep and physical activity along with the capability to collect data continuously for up to 14 days on a single charge. The new offering premiered at the American Academy of Neurology's 2023 Annual Meeting, the world's leading gathering of neurology leaders.
"We believe our community of leading researchers and health care professionals deserve the most reliable, accurate and powerful tools for collecting clinical data" said Matteo Lai, co-founder and CEO of Empatica. "Today, they can access more than twenty new digital measures focused on sleep and activity monitoring on our existing FDA-cleared platform and patient-centric technology. We are proud to continue our work to set the standard for digital health measurements."
Empatica Actigraphy offers two distinct "sensor modes" for EmbracePlus, Empatica's advanced smartwatch for continuous health monitoring: Actigraphy Pro and Actigraphy Optimized. These hardware configurations are designed to tackle commonly faced challenges in clinical research and lower the burden of the patient experience, to improve compliance and participation while generating meaningful data over extended time periods.
Empatica Actigraphy was specifically developed to suit the needs of sleep and activity-related studies and provide digital biomarkers across various core areas including:
- Sleep analysis
- Sleep detection
- Gait/step count
- Wearing detection
- Body position
- Activity intensity
- Energy expenditure
- Activity counts
- Activity classification
Empatica's Platform adds key sleep and activity measures to an already rich offering of digital biomarkers including pulse rate, SpO2 and respiratory rate, making it a highly scalable solution beyond the capabilities of other actigraphy options currently available in the market.
Empatica Actigraphy is available today for use in clinical trials. To learn more about utilizing Empatica Actigraphy and the Empatica Health Monitoring Platform, please visit us at https://www.empatica.com/embraceplus/actigraphy/
About Empatica
Empatica Inc is a pioneer in continuous, unobtrusive remote health monitoring driven by AI. Empatica's platform and technology are used by thousands of institutional partners for research purposes, in studies examining stress, sleep, epilepsy, migraine, depression, addiction, and other conditions. Its flagship medical wearable, EmbracePlus, has been developed with key partners including HHS, USAMRDC, and the NASA-funded TRISH.
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Before the U.S. sent Ukraine the first pallet of what would become about $8 billion in weapons and military equipment, officials had high level discussions about whether these arms could fall into the wrong hands. Three government sources familiar with the transfers now tell Newsy that although they support Ukraine's defense, that fear remains.
One source said U.S. officials calculated that Ukraine needs the weapons so urgently, it reduces the risk of stockpiles being misused. But analyst Elias Yousif says weapons tend to outlive wars, even long ones.
Yousif is a conventional defense research analyst at Stimson Center.
"The real concern may be when the conflict comes to an end, which eventually it will, and when the demand by the Ukrainians diminishes, it may increase the incentive to find alternative markets for these systems," Yousif said.
Analysts worry that bad actors, like terrorists, could acquire anything from portable, anti-aircraft Stinger missiles to small arms, which are harder to track. Just last month, a Homeland Security bulletin warned that a pro-al-Qaida magazine was encouraging followers to travel to Ukraine "for training and weapons to use in attacks against the West."
Ukraine's Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov says that some weapons have GPS trackers, which a source in the intelligence community confirmed, and that the country is using a NATO logistics system to monitor weapons.
"This process was already underway but we are happy to expand and increase its tempo to ensure the comfort of our partners," said Oleksii Reznikov, the defense minister of Ukraine.
Ukraine has erected a temporary special commission to keep track of weapons and equipment.
But Jonah Leff, director of operations at Conflict Armament Research, which traces the movements of illicit arms, says that's not enough.
NEWSY'S SASHA INGBER: Ukraine's special commission to monitor these weapons is supposed to last for about a year. Is that enough time?
JONAH LEE: A year is quite a short time for any monitoring of weapons, especially those that are so valued. The proliferation or diversion of weapons can take place any time after a conflict ends. So it's important that any group that's assembled to ensure proper management of weapons continues that work really indefinitely.
President Zelenskyy last week began a campaign against treason and collaboration with Russia.
Iain Overton,says the risk of smuggled weapons would come from potentially corrupt Ukrainians and entrepreneurial Russians. He's the executive director of Action on Armed Violence, an organization that investigates its causes. And he spoke about what happened to Russian weapons in the port city of Odessa, a year after Russia first invaded Ukraine in 2014: "There I began to investigate a port called Oktyabrsk, which was run at the time by a former Soviet naval commander, had links to cronies, associates of President Putin. And it seemed that weaponry systems, even in the height of this proxy war with Russia, were still coming through Ukraine on trains, arriving to Oktyabrsk and then being pushed out from there in naval ships down to places like Syria and other locations in Africa and South America."
He says Russia has something to gain, if Western weapons enter the black market and then surface in attacks outside of Ukraine. "The Russian state itself, fighting a disinformation war, may seek to place weapons seized from the Ukrainian forces, perhaps donated by NATO, and these may be sold on in order to create the propaganda of the deed. Because if a NATO donated weaponry system was found to have been used in, let's say, Nairobi by Salafist jihadists to take down an airline jet, then that would be a not only an act of terrible terror, but it would be a profound propaganda coup for the Russian state who would point all fingers of culpability at Ukraine," Overton said.
The country before the Zelenskyy administration had already been a nexus of the illicit arms trade.
INGBER: Is there historical precedent here?
ELIAS YOUSIF: Ukraine kept a large arsenal of Soviet era equipment up through the 1990s, and with the collapse of the Soviet Union and the economic crisis that followed. It gave the opportunity for criminal entrepreneurs to co-opt that stockpile. And as much as $30 billion worth of Soviet equipment was lost over many years in Ukraine.
The Russians are currently using American and European components on the battlefield in Ukraine.
LEE: We were not expecting to see so many components from all over the world, in all of their weapons systems, including communication devices, other counter-UAV equipment, cruise missiles, drones.
INGBER: So this was before the U.S. imposed sanctions for the war in Ukraine. This isn't, say, a get-around to the production issues that manufacturers in Russia are having to try to keep up with the demand. Is that what you're saying?
LEE: Some of these components were manufactured before and some after.
INGBER: Can you give me an example of a U.S. component?
LEE: I'm not able to discuss company names at this point. I can say that we've seen several semiconductors, electronics, guidance systems. Their use as weapons does constitute a violation of sanctions for some of these countries.
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The entertainment world is bidding farewell to MTV News. The network's heyday ended years ago but, for a time, it was the go-to source for interviews with leading artists and newsmakers, from Madonna to Prince.
The shutdown of MTV News comes as Paramount Global, the parent company of CBS, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central and Showtime announced today that it is laying off some 25% of its staff.
In addition to reports of a soft ad market, Paramount Global is doing considerable restructuring. Earlier this year, Showtime merged with MTV Entertainment Studios.
In an email to staff obtained by NPR, Chris McCarthy, president and CEO of Showtime/MTV Entertainment Studios and Paramount Media Networks, explained the decision-making behind the cuts. While touting the "incredible track record of hits" such as Yellowstone, South Park, and Yellowjackets, McCarthy wrote, "despite this success in streaming, we continue to feel pressure from broader economic headwinds like many of our peers. To address this, our senior leaders in coordination with HR have been working together over the past few months to determine the optimal organization for the current and future needs of our business."
"This is a very sad day for a lot of friends and colleagues," wrote MTV News' Josh Horowitz on Instagram, "Many great people lost their jobs. I was hired by MTV News 17 years ago. I'm so honored to have been a small part of its history. Wishing the best for the best in the business."
The news comes on the heels of a disappointing first quarter earnings report for the corporation. During the earnings call this week, Paramount Global CEO Bob Bakish said the corporation was "navigating a challenging and uncertain macroeconomic environment, and you see the impact of that on our financials, as the combination of peak streaming investment intersects with cyclical ad softness."
A few days ago, MTV announced it was scaling back its annual awards show in the face of an ongoing writer's strike.
Chris McCarthy's full email to Paramount Global staff is below:
Team,
As we finalize the integration of SHOWTIME and continue to transform our business for the future, we have set a great foundation for continued success by consolidating our group into two functions:
Studios – integrating SHOWTIME and MTV Entertainment Studios into one powerful studio team
Networks – combining nine separate teams into one portfolio group
This combination has resulted in an incredible track record of hits including Yellowstone, 1883, Tulsa King, South Park, The Challenge, Teen Wolf, 1923, Drag Race, Mayor of Kingstown, Your Honor, George & Tammy and Yellowjackets – which, taken together, drove record subscribers across Paramount+ and Showtime and helped Paramount+ lead the industry in new subscriber growth.
However, despite this success in streaming, we continue to feel pressure from broader economic headwinds like many of our peers. To address this, our senior leaders in coordination with HR have been working together over the past few months to determine the optimal organization for the current and future needs of our business.
As a result, we have made the very hard but necessary decision to reduce our domestic team by approximately 25%. This is a tough yet important strategic realignment of our group. Through the elimination of some units and by streamlining others, we will be able to reduce costs and create a more effective approach to our business as we move forward. Today we will notify employees whose positions are being impacted with leaders communicating the news directly to those teams/or individuals. These meetings will be followed by individual 1:1s with our HR partners.
I realize these decisions will be very hard for everyone, most of all, those who will be leaving. It's not something we take lightly. We have some of the most passionate and dedicated team members, who bring their full selves to drive our brands and business forward. This is why it's so difficult to say goodbye to our friends and colleagues. To those impacted, we deeply appreciate the passion and creativity you have brought every day. I want to thank you for your many contributions.
Our leadership team and HR partners are committed to ensuring this process is done with empathy and respect.
Sincerely,
Chris
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Ice 6, Raiders 2
First Period
1. Winnipeg, McClennon 1 (Benson, Zloty) 0:44.
2. Prince Albert, Ritchie 1 (Shilo) 6:41.
3. Winnipeg, Arp 1 (Dale, Oiring) 10:25.
Penalties — Geekie Wpg (tripping) 4:22; Brinson Wpg (interference) 13:00; Harmacy Wpg (throwing stick) 15:12; Thurston Pa (slashing) 17:01.
Second Period
4. Winnipeg, McClennon 2 (Pederson, Benson) 4:35.
5. Prince Albert, Crocker 1 (Herman, Kosior) 7:10 (pp).
6. Winnipeg, Arp 2 (Dale) 11:06.
Penalties — Boucher Wpg (boarding) 5:48; Benson Wpg, Kosior Pa (roughing) 8:40; Herman Pa (slashing) 16:45.
Third Period
7. Winnipeg, Oiring 1 (Dale, Arp) 6:44.
8. Winnipeg, Geekie 1 (Harmacy, Nash) 18:02.
Penalties — Pakkala Pa (slashing) 8:37; Dale Wpg (slashing) 11:44; Peardon Pa (hooking) 16:59; Zloty Wpg (tripping) 17:46.
Shots on goal by
Goal — Winnipeg: Hauser (W, ). Prince Albert: Chaika (L, ).
Power plays (goals-chances) — Winnipeg: 0-4; Prince Albert: 1-6.
Referees — Troy Murray, Bryce Sebastian. Linesmen — Brayden Glynn, Levi Schutz.
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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A Florida driver in a fit of road range fired a shot at an SUV that passed him, not realizing it was a marked sheriff's patrol vehicle, authorities said Thursday.
Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office Deputy Daniel Henry was driving home Wednesday night on a dark two-lane road near Tampa when the car ahead of him started hitting the brakes “aggressively,” the agency said in a news release.
Henry decided to pass the car, but when he did the driver fired a shot, striking the SUV near the back. Henry, who was not hurt, pulled over and broadcast a description of the driver and the car.
Another deputy soon spotted the car, which he followed to a home, where he arrested Tracy Swint, 49. the sheriff's office said. It reported that Swint confessed, saying he fired the shot because of road rage but denied knowing the other driver was a law enforcement officer.
Swint is charged with aggravated battery on a law enforcement officer and shooting into an occupied vehicle. He was being held Thursday on $22,000 bond. Court records do not list an attorney for Swint. | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/Sheriff-Florida-driver-with-road-rage-fired-at-17641104.php | 2022-12-08 21:03:12 | 1 | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/Sheriff-Florida-driver-with-road-rage-fired-at-17641104.php |
As soon as they had finished burying a veteran colonel killed by Russian shelling, the cemetery workers readied the next hole. Inevitably, given how quickly death is felling Ukrainian troops on the front lines, the empty grave won't stay that way for long.
Col. Oleksandr Makhachek left behind a widow, Elena, and their daughters Olena and Myroslava-Oleksandra. In the first 100 days of war, his grave was the 40th dug in the military cemetery in Zhytomyr, 90 miles west of the capital, Kyiv.
He was killed May 30 in the Luhansk region of eastern Ukraine where the fighting is raging. Nearby, the burial notice on the also freshly dug grave of Viacheslav Dvornitskyi says he died May 27. Other graves also showed soldiers killed within days of each other — on May 10, 9th, 7th and 5th. And this is just one cemetery, in just one of Ukraine's cities, towns and villages laying soldiers to rest.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said this week that Ukraine is now losing 60 to 100 soldiers each day in combat. By way of comparison, just short of 50 American soldiers died per day on average in 1968 during the Vietnam War's deadliest year for U.S. forces.
Among the comrades-in-arms who paid respects to the 49-year-old Makhachek at his funeral on Friday was Gen. Viktor Muzhenko, the Ukrainian Armed Forces' chief of general staff until 2019. He warned that losses could worsen.
“This is one of the critical moments in the war, but it is not the peak,” Muzhenko told The Associated Press. "This is the most significant conflict in Europe since World War II. That explains why the losses are so great. In order to reduce losses, Ukraine now needs powerful weapons that match or even surpass Russian weaponry. This would enable Ukraine to respond in kind.”
Concentrations of Russian artillery are causing many of the casualties in the eastern regions that Moscow has focused on since its initial invasion launched Feb. 24 failed to take Kyiv.
Retired Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges, the former commanding general of U.S. Army forces in Europe, described the Russian strategy as a “medieval attrition approach" and said that until Ukraine gets promised deliveries of U.S., British and other weapons to destroy and disrupt Russian batteries, “these kinds of casualties are going to continue.”
“This battlefield is so much more lethal than what we all became accustomed to over the 20 years of Iraq and Afghanistan, where we didn’t have numbers like this," he said in an AP phone interview.
"That level of attrition would include leaders, sergeants,” he added. “They are a lot of the brunt of casualties because they are the more exposed, constantly moving around trying to do things.”
Makhachek, a military engineer, led a detachment that laid minefields and other defenses, said Col. Ruslan Shutov, who attended the funeral of his friend of more than 30 years.
“Once the shelling began, he and a group hid in a shelter. There were four people in his group, and he told them to hide in the dugout. He hid in another. Unfortunately, an artillery shell hit the dugout where he was hiding."
Ukraine had about 250,000 men and women in uniform before the war and was in the process of adding another 100,000. The government hasn't said how many have died in more than 14 weeks of fighting.
Nobody really knows the number of Ukrainian civilians who have been killed or how many combatants have died on either side. Claims of casualties by government officials — who may sometimes exaggerate or lowball their figures for public relations reasons — are all but impossible to verify.
Western analysts estimate far higher Russian military casualties, in the many thousands. Still, as Ukraine's losses mount, the grim mathematics of war require that it find replacements. With a population of 43 million, it has manpower.
“The problem is recruiting, training and getting them on the front line,” said retired U.S. Marine Col. Mark Cancian, a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.
“If the war is now moving into a long-term attrition struggle, then you have to build systems to get replacements,” he said. “This has been a difficult moment for every army in combat.”
Muzhenko, the Ukrainian general, said Zelenskyy's admission of high casualties would further galvanize Ukrainian morale and that more Western weaponry would help turn the tide.
“The more Ukrainians know about what is happening at the front, the more the will to resist will grow," he said. “Yes, the losses are significant. But with the help of our allies, we can minimize and reduce them and move on to successful offensives. This will require powerful weapons.”
Yuras Karmanau contributed to this report from Lviv. | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/nation-world/ukraine/ukraine-russia-troops-losses/507-5763d1ae-705f-46b9-8171-b4f207c860bf | 2022-06-04 22:03:10 | 0 | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/nation-world/ukraine/ukraine-russia-troops-losses/507-5763d1ae-705f-46b9-8171-b4f207c860bf |
A company that manufactures carbon-fiber parts for Formula 1 race cars and other high-performance vehicles, as well as the aerospace and defense industries, has launched an off-the-shelf carbon-fiber chassis designed for road and race cars.
Dash-CAE, based in Abingdon, U.K., on Tuesday revealed the TR01, a carbon monocoque chassis that forms a vehicle’s passenger cell and to which front and rear subframes attach. It is aimed at low-volume manufacturers and is priced from below 30,000 British pounds (approximately $38,470), which according to Dash-CAE is roughly half the price of comparable rival solutions.
Dash-CAE said it was compelled to launch the chassis due to the “substantial” growth of the hypercar market, as well as strong demand from the motorsport sector for affordable monocoques.
“The TR01 chassis opens new possibilities for niche automotive manufacturers, and larger international OEMs by offering an affordable, versatile, lightweight, and high-stiffness carbon monocoque chassis,” Tim Robathan, Dash-CAE’s CEO, said in a statement.
WAE, previously the technology division of the Williams F1 team, last year unveiled a complete platform designed for electric hypercars. Called the EVR, WAE’s platform also features a carbon monocoque and can support outputs up to 2,212 hp.
Dash-CAE’s TR01 chassis is designed for two-seat vehicles and can accommodate gas, hybrid, and fully electric powertrains. According to the company, it weighs less than 110 pounds and meets global crash safety standards, including the NHTSA’s FMVSS standards.
The company said it was able to reduce costs due to its in-house approach to all aspects of the chassis’ development, including engineering and design, manufacturing (including additive manufacturing), tooling, and more.
The company hasn’t said whether it already has any customers lined up for the TR01 chassis.
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Public outrage is swift following mass shootings, such as the killing of six people at a Christian elementary school in Nashville. Sorrow and sympathy are widespread. But what comes next from policymakers is likely to depend on which political party is in charge of a state.
Don’t expect new gun controls in Republican-led states, such as Tennessee or Texas.
But when similar tragedies occur in Democratic-led states, more gun limits are likely — even if they already have restrictive laws.
Mass shootings generally don’t seem to change a state’s basic political makeup.
“Democratic-led states tend to focus more on firearm restrictions whereas Republican-led states do not and often emphasize lessening regulations on guns,” said Jaclyn Schildkraut, executive director of the Regional Gun Violence Research Consortium at the Rockefeller Institute of Government.
The fact that responses seem predicated by Republican and Democratic labels is perhaps an indication of the nation’s political polarization — and of differing viewpoints that pin the problem primarily on violent individuals or their easy access to weapons.
TENNESSEE SHOOTING RESPONSE
Following Monday’s shooting at The Covenant School in Nashville, tensions ran high among state lawmakers meeting across town in the state Capitol. Democrats called for action on gun control — and got their microphones cut off by Republican leadership for criticizing their GOP colleagues’ love of the Second Amendment.
“Prayers are good, but faith without works is dead,” Democratic state Sen. Raumesh Akbari implored with a biblical reference. “Let’s not let another preventable tragedy unfold without this legislature taking real action.”
Any action from Republican lawmakers, however, is more likely to move in a different direction. Republicans this year have introduced bills that would make it easier to arm teachers and allow college students to carry weapons on campus.
On the same day as the Nashville shooting, a federal judge approved a legal settlement lowering the minimum age to carry handguns without a permit in Tennessee from 21 to 18. That came just two years after a new law set the age at 21.
BLUE STATES
Michigan’s new Democratic legislative majority took its first steps earlier this month toward passing a sweeping gun safety package.
The Senate voted along party lines for a red-flag law that would allow guns to temporarily be removed from people with potentially violent behavior. It also passed measures requiring anyone purchasing a rifle or shotgun to undergo a background check, which is currently only required for handgun purchases, and to store guns safely where they cannot be accessed by minors.
Much of the package was crafted by Democrats nearly 15 months ago following a shooting at Oxford High School. But the bills saw little movement until Democrats won control of the Legislature from Republicans in last fall’s elections. They’ve gained momentum after a gunman killed three people last month at Michigan State University, not far from the state Capitol.
In Colorado, the Democratic-led Legislature was pursuing a variety of new gun restrictions after five people were killed last November at an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs. After another shooting injured two administrators a Denver high school last week, Democratic majorities are pushing through hours of Republican filibusters to send several gun control bills to Democratic Gov. Jared Polis.
The bills would expand who can petition to temporarily remove a firearm from someone who poses a danger, raise the minimum age for purchasing a firearm from 18 to 21 and institute a three-day waiting period when buying a gun. While Polis supports those three bills, he has demurred from questions around a fourth bill that would ban semi-automatic firearms. That bill faces a steeper battle to become law.
RED STATES
Republican-led Florida responded to a 2018 shooting that killed 14 students and three staff members at a Parkland school by passing laws that raised the gun-buying age to 21, imposed a three-day waiting period for purchases and authorized red-flag laws to temporarily remove guns from people. But that marked a bit of an exception for Republican states.
In Texas, minority party Democrats have filed numerous gun-control bills after a shooter killed 19 children and two teachers last May at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde. Relatives of some of the victims have joined Democratic lawmakers at Capitol rallies urging action. Some proposals would raise the age for owning so-called assault weapons, limit firearm transfers among people and create requirements for safe firearm storage.
But GOP state leaders have made clear from the start that these bills do not have the necessary votes to pass.
Instead, Texas officials responded last summer with about $105 million for school safety and mental health initiatives. The Senate also passed a bill earlier this month that would require the reporting of court-mandated mental health hospitalizations to the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System for people as young as 16. That bill now is pending in the House.
Students from Central Visual Arts and Performing Arts High School in St. Louis, where a gunman killed two and injured seven others last fall, also have traveled to the Missouri Capitol to urge greater gun-control measures. But Democratic-sponsored bills to create a red-flag law allowing temporary gun removals have yet to receive a hearing in the Republican-led Legislature.
Instead, the Legislature approved $20 million for safety grants to schools across the state in response to the shooting, and is considering more money for the program. A House committee also recently endorsed budget amendments that would provide several hundred thousand dollars for mental health care, art supplies and musical instruments at the school.
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Lieb reported from Jefferson City, Missouri. Associated Press writers Jesse Bedayn in Denver; Joey Cappelletti in Lansing, Michigan; Acacia Coronado in Austin, Texas; and Kimberlee Kruesi in Nashville contributed to this report. Bedayn and Cappelletti are corps members for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues. | https://www.fox16.com/news/national/explainer-mass-shootings-seldom-shift-partisan-policies/ | 2023-03-29 14:43:54 | 1 | https://www.fox16.com/news/national/explainer-mass-shootings-seldom-shift-partisan-policies/ |
Who’s ready for a national title tilt in Tampa?
No. 1 Minnesota has bulldozed its way through the NCAA men’s ice hockey tournament so far. Led by Hobey Baker finalist Logan Cooley, the Golden Gophers beat Canisius and St. Cloud State in the regional round before taking care of business against Boston University in the Frozen Four on Thursday. In all, Bob Motzko’s team has outscored its opponents 19-5 in the tournament thus far.
Standing between Minnesota and its first national title since 2003 is No. 2 Quinnipiac, which is seeking to make history this year. Rand Pecknold’s Bobcats beat Merrimack 5-0 in their opening game of the tournament before knocking out two of Minnesota’s Big Ten rivals, Ohio State and No. 3 Michigan, in the ensuing rounds.
Now, the top two teams in college hockey will battle for the national title. Will Minnesota retake its spot atop the college hockey hierarchy, or will Quinnipiac prevail?
Here is everything to know for the 2023 NCAA men’s ice hockey national title game:
Where is the 2023 NCAA men’s ice hockey national championship game?
The 2023 Frozen Four is being held at Amalie Arena, home of the NHL’s Lightning, in Tampa, Fla.
The city is hosting the pinnacle of the college hockey season for the third time. It previously held the Frozen Four in 2012 and 2016.
When is the 2023 NCAA men’s ice hockey national championship game?
Puck drop for Minnesota and Quinnipiac is set to take place at 8 p.m. ET on Saturday, April 8.
How can I watch the 2023 NCAA men’s ice hockey national championship game?
The game will air on ESPN2 and can be streamed on ESPN.com, ESPN+ and the ESPN App.
How many NCAA men’s ice hockey championships has Minnesota won?
Minnesota has won five national championships, tying them with Boston University and Boston College for fifth-most in NCAA history.
This is the Golden Gophers’ fifth Frozen Four appearance and second time in the national title game since they won back-to-back championships in 2002 and 2003.
How many NCAA men’s ice hockey championships has Quinnipiac won?
Quinnipiac is the only team from this year’s Frozen Four group without a national championship – let alone five.
The Bobcats have now reached the national title game three times over the last decade, but the prior appearances both ended in defeat. They lost to intrastate rival Yale in the 2013 title game and fell to North Dakota in the 2016 edition, which was also played at Amalie Arena. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/sports/how-to-watch-quinnipiac-vs-minnesota-in-2023-ncaa-hockey-championship-game/3232451/ | 2023-04-07 17:14:44 | 0 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/sports/how-to-watch-quinnipiac-vs-minnesota-in-2023-ncaa-hockey-championship-game/3232451/ |
CHICAGO, Dec. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Conagra Brands, Inc. (NYSE: CAG) will host a webcast and conference call to review its fiscal 2023 second quarter results on Thursday, January 5, 2023, at 9:30 a.m. ET. The company's news release will be issued at approximately 7:30 a.m. ET.
The live audio webcast and presentation slides will be available on conagrabrands.com/investor-relations under Events & Presentations. The conference call may be accessed by dialing 1-877-883-0383 for participants in the U.S. and 1-412-902-6506 for all other participants and using passcode 8026468. Please dial in 10 to 15 minutes prior to the call start time. Following the company's remarks, the conference call will include a question-and-answer session with the investment community.
A replay of the webcast will be available until January 5, 2024.
About Conagra Brands
Conagra Brands, Inc. (NYSE: CAG), headquartered in Chicago, is one of North America's leading branded food companies. Guided by an entrepreneurial spirit, Conagra Brands combines a rich heritage of making great food with a sharpened focus on innovation. The company's portfolio is evolving to satisfy people's changing food preferences. Conagra's iconic brands, such as Birds Eye®, Marie Callender's®, Banquet®, Healthy Choice®, Slim Jim®, Reddi-wip®, and Vlasic®, as well as emerging brands, including Angie's® BOOMCHICKAPOP®, Duke's®, Earth Balance®, Gardein®, and Frontera®, offer choices for every occasion. For more information, visit www.conagrabrands.com.
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More isolated strong storms will be possible in Alabama on Saturday, according to forecasters.
NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center has a Level 1 out of 5 risk for severe weather in place for south Alabama during the day on Saturday. Areas roughly south of Montgomery will be the places to watch for stronger storms.
A Level 1 risk means that isolated severe weather will be possible.
The National Weather Service said the strongest storms could have damaging wind gusts, hail and heavy rain. There is also the possibility of a tornado.
The most likely time for storms will be during the afternoon and evening hours, according to forecasters.
The rest of the state could also have to deal with rain and even some storms, but severe weather isn’t expected.
Rain could last into Saturday night and Sunday morning before moving out of the state.
The first part of next week looks mostly dry, with rain chances possibly not returning until next weekend. | https://www.al.com/news/2023/04/another-round-of-storms-possible-in-alabama-on-saturday.html | 2023-04-28 14:15:50 | 1 | https://www.al.com/news/2023/04/another-round-of-storms-possible-in-alabama-on-saturday.html |
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Excess bureaucracy, corruption, outmoded energy grids and underdeveloped markets are stopping Balkan countries from exploiting the tremendous renewable energy potential at their fingertips.
Podvelezje, the first wind farm owned by Eelektroprivreda BiH, the largest electric utility company in Bosnia
South East Europe has the potential to be a Shangri-la for zero-carbon energy sources, above all for solar, wind and bioenergy. One expert study after anotherconfirms what is already plain for all to see: the region's long hours of sunshine, gusty coasts and mountain ranges, and immense biomass resources provide exceptional conditions for a thriving renewable energy sector.
The benefits of a clean energy revolution would be enormous for a region that has in the past been disadvantaged in so many ways. Since wind and solar power are now the cheapest energy sources by a long shot, many billions of euros could be shaved off energy costs, and billions more racked up in other benefits, such as cleaner air, which would improve people's health.
The International Renewable Energy Agency, for example, estimates that, driven by solar and wind power, this corner of Europe could produce 739 gigawatts of green power. That's as much as 739 medium-sized nuclear reactors generate in a year and more than three times the electricity that Albania and the countries of the former Yugoslavia currently consume. In short, there is huge export potential in exploiting the natural energy wealth of these countries — all of which currently import fuel.
Moreover, energy systems run on locally generated energy would bolster local revenues rather than the ledgers of far-away multinationals, and a modern, resilient regional energy system would greatly improve the security of energy supply — long a bugbear in the Balkans. Last but not least, although the region is not a first-tier emissions sinner, it is now part of European efforts to lower greenhouse gases and hit international climate goals.
So why are the Balkan countries currently importing expensive fossil fuels and burning the coal and forest wood they cull from their own territories? This is exactly the question that we — Deutsche Welle, a group of first-rate journalists from the region and I — set out to answer. Journalismfund.eu, a Brussels-based grant program, offered to help us investigate the energy sectors in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, North Macedonia and Serbia. The product was five crossmedia reports that uncovered similar hurdles in all five countries but also anomalies unique to each specific country.
The International Renewable Energy Agency estimates that this corner of Europe could produce 739 gigawatts of green power
On the upside, one thing that all five countries had in common was the seminal breakthroughs in terms of legislation that has in recent years opened their energy markets to clean energy producers. This legislation was years in the making, and although not flawless, as our reports from Serbia and Bosnia clearly show, it is a starting point for transformation.
In Albania, Kosovo, Montenegro and North Macedonia, new power exchanges are opening that will provide the integrated short-term markets required for the uptake of large volumes of intermittent renewables.
"There is profit and power in the status quo: in the persistence of coal in Bosnia and Herzegovina, hydroelectric power in Albania, and oil and gas elsewhere," writes Paul Hockenos
Nevertheless, unless the political and business elites in the region whole-heartedly embrace the logic of renewables — which is not at present the case — the region's markets will remain favorable to fossil fuels and hydropower, a renewable energy already plentiful there, for years to come.
Indeed, the ties between energy producers and the state in the region go back a long way, namely to the socialist era, and persist to this day. There is profit and power in the status quo: in the persistence of coal in Bosnia and Herzegovina, hydroelectric power in Albania, and oil and gas elsewhere.
The Maricic family in Ruma, northern Serbia, was keen to harness the power of the sun and installed solar panels on the roof of its house, but quickly found that things were not as simple or cost efficient as they had anticipated
Deeply conservative players involved in these sectors have so far blocked the rollout of solar and wind power and continue to throw a spanner in the works wherever they can. This is why the Maricic family in Ruma, Serbia, encountered such difficulties in making rooftop solar power generation happen in their home, as Sanja Kjaljic reports.
In Albania, offshore and onshore wind power developers were until recently completely held back. Elona Elezi reports that the very first turbines are now going up in northernmost Albania. More will follow, but until the market and a responsive, modern grid — a troublesome issue across the region — are up and running, the development of the wind power sector will be slow and erratic.
North Macedonia could become energy independent, say experts, were just one percent of the country's territory outfitted with solar panels
One factor with the power to propel renewable energies forward in the region is the soaring prices of fossil fuels, which make investment in clean energy pay off all the more quickly.
Moreover, because of international efforts to tackle the climate crisis, the international community has become involved, foremost the EU and its Member States, which help in the form of the Energy Community and projects like the biomass plant in Kosovo that Vjosa Cerkini reports on.
Perhaps the determining factor will be burgeoning popular enthusiasm. There is demand for cheap, clean renewable energy, DW's correspondents report. This is ever more evident on the ground as citizens in the region not only become aware of the vast potential of clean energy sources in their region, but also catch a glimpse of what others are doing elsewhere and what they're missing out on.
This text is the opener of a series of five articles on renewable energy development in South Eastern Europe conducted with the support of journalismfund.eu. Please find the articles and videos hyperlinked in this text above.
Edited by Rüdiger Rossig and Aingeal Flanagan | https://www.dw.com/en/balkan-states-slowly-begin-to-tap-their-vast-renewable-energy-sources-in-the-hope-of-abundant-clean-heat-and-power/a-63167566 | 2022-09-20 14:50:59 | 1 | https://www.dw.com/en/balkan-states-slowly-begin-to-tap-their-vast-renewable-energy-sources-in-the-hope-of-abundant-clean-heat-and-power/a-63167566 |
Academy Award winner Alexandre Desplat score's del Toro's 'Pinocchio' Published December 13, 2022 at 5:03 AM EST Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 6:59 NPR's Rob Schmitz talks to French composer Alexandre Desplat about his score for director Guillermo del Toro's new stop animation film: Pinocchio. Copyright 2022 NPR | https://www.nepm.org/2022-12-13/academy-award-winner-alexandre-desplat-scores-del-toros-pinocchio | 2022-12-13 11:54:17 | 0 | https://www.nepm.org/2022-12-13/academy-award-winner-alexandre-desplat-scores-del-toros-pinocchio |
Pittsburgh storm water project causing delays, disruptions
A Pittsburgh stormwater project is causing major headaches for nearby residents and businesses.
And now, the project has been delayed, forcing even more disruptions.
Aaron Tyler can open his garage on Fleury Way in Homewood, but he cannot get large tractors out of the garage. That makes it difficult to run his landscaping business.
“I've only been able to use small equipment, lawn mowers and things of that nature, when I own and operate larger 52-inch cutters that I can't access,” Tyler said. “It slows me way down.”
The city and the Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority started the stormwater project last fall, and it was supposed to be done in early spring.
But as spring turned into summer, the work stopped. The Tylers tried to get answers.
“We just don't get any reply or any response and when you call, everybody passes the buck,” said Mildred Tyler.
Asked about their concerns, Deputy Mayor Jake Pawlak said, “I can only say that I know we've made every attempt to follow up on the calls we received and to make accommodations.”
Asked if the city can do anything more to help the business, Pawlak said, “We'd be happy to look into that and have further conversation. Again, attempts have been made to coordinate with all property owners on this street.”
But the Tylers said they never heard from the city or the PWSA.
The city said the project was delayed after tests found the soil under the roadbed was unstable.
That required more engineering to be done, forcing the cost to increase from $603,000 to $863,000.
“We usually get it right when we plan for a project like this, but geology is not something that's in our control,” Pawlak said.
For now, Aaron Tyler and his employees have to tread carefully to do their work.
"I worry about him slipping and falling, getting stuck over here,” Mildred Tyler said.
“We need it resolved and we need to resolve it as soon as possible,” Aaron Tyler said.
The city and PWSA said the work will not be done until later fall after the landscaping season is over. | https://www.wtae.com/article/pittsburgh-storm-water-project-causing-delays-disruptions/40643495 | 2022-07-19 00:21:35 | 0 | https://www.wtae.com/article/pittsburgh-storm-water-project-causing-delays-disruptions/40643495 |
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The International African American Museum won’t open in January as planned because of humidity and temperature issues with the building in Charleston, South Carolina, officials announced.
Environmental fluctuations could damage artifacts planned to be on display, The Post and Courier reported, citing a statement from the museum. The museum confirmed the delay in a statement it posted Monday on its Facebook page.
“Museums require extremely stringent humidity controls in order to display the most sensitive of items for extended periods of time,” the statement said. “This delay is necessary to ensure that the museum building achieves the conditions necessary to preserve and protect our most sensitive objects, artifacts, and art.”
Museum officials said they are monitoring the humidity in the facility, which is in downtown Charleston.
The museum is at the former Gadsden Wharf, where tens of thousands of enslaved Africans first entered America.
The museum had been scheduled to open the weekend of Jan. 21, shortly after Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Organizers of the museum broke ground at the site in 2019 after raising more than $100 million in public and private funds.
Museum officials said they still “expect to welcome visitors in the first half of 2023,” The Post and Courier reported. | https://pix11.com/entertainment/ap-entertainment/ap-international-african-american-museum-delays-january-opening/ | 2022-12-20 14:11:57 | 1 | https://pix11.com/entertainment/ap-entertainment/ap-international-african-american-museum-delays-january-opening/ |
TUMI's 19 Degree Aluminum Briefcase "The Case Everyone is After" makes it's Hollywood debut in this non-stop thrill ride
NEW YORK, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today TUMI, a leading international travel and lifestyle brand, unveiled its 19 Degree Aluminum Briefcase which is featured in Sony Pictures' upcoming original action thriller film "Bullet Train," exclusively in theaters August 5.
In Bullet Train, Ladybug is an unlucky assassin determined to do his job peacefully after one too many gigs gone off the rails. Fate, however, may have other plans, as Ladybug's latest mission puts him on a collision course with lethal adversaries from around the globe—all with connected, yet conflicting, objectives— centering around the TUMI 19 Degree Aluminum Briefcase on the world's fastest trains. The end of the line is just the beginning in this non-stop thrill-ride through modern-day Japan from David Leitch, the director of Deadpool 2.
Leading up to the film's theatrical release in North America on August 5, TUMI will be debuting a collaboration with New York Times Advertising on a digital movie-themed crossword puzzle where U.S. residents, 18 years of age or older, will have the choice of completing the crossword puzzle for an engaging, interactive experience or directly entering the contest for a chance to win one of the sought-after limited-edition briefcases, sign-up here. There will be 20 lucky winners randomly selected from those who enter the contest. TUMI will also be activating an integrated marketing program in connection with the world red-carpet premiere of the film as well as and a variety of digital and in-store activities to promote the film.
"There was only one luggage brand who had enough style to fit in with the film's all-star cast as well as the durability that could go head to head with an ensemble of assassins on one of the world's fastest trains and that was TUMI, which perfectly fits in with this edgy, action-packed film," said Jeffrey Godsick, EVP of Global Partnerships and Brand Management and Head of Location Based Entertainment at Sony Pictures Entertainment.
Equally striking from a distance or at close range, the TUMI 19 Degree Aluminum Briefcase boasts a sleek, aluminum crafted exterior with bespoke design and durability top of mind. This limited-edition briefcase features a "Bullet Train" patch card pocket with "Bullet Train" logo in addition to a branded luggage tag. Through the TUMI "Bullet Train" collaboration, only 150 limited-edition briefcases will be available starting July 20th worldwide across select TUMI stores & TUMI.COM priced at US$1,795.00. For those unable to get one of these limited TUMI collector's items, they can visit TUMI.COM to shop the full TUMI 19 Degree Aluminum collection, which is exceptionally striking up close or from a distance, super durable, and boasts a modern silhouette with fluid-looking, strategically contoured angles.
"TUMI is synonymous with quality durability toughness and is always looking to the future for inspiration. With this film, as the screen writers and director started laying out what the environment would look like and the types of pieces that would exist in the film, TUMI was at the top of their list. They looked to TUMI for a hero case to have all those qualities of durability, be able to surpass the battles that it would ensue throughout this epic journey," said TUMI Creative Director, Victor Sanz.
About 'Bullet Train'
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Which toners for dry skin are best?
People of all ages struggle with acne scars. Even if your skin is clear and healthy, there can be blemishes left from past breakouts that alter your complexion. This is even more true for those with dry skin. If your skin is dry and rough, redness and scarring will be more apparent.
Finding a toner that hydrates your face and gets rid of acne scars is one solution to your problems. When searching for toners for dry skin, consider looking into the ingredients and finding unscented products that contain humectants and emollients.
What to know before you buy toners for dry skin
Humectants and emollients
According to the Mayo Clinic, humectants and emollients are agents that draw water and moisture to the skin. Those who have dry skin should consider products with these ingredients, because they will improve the texture of skin and allow products to be absorbed more effectively.
Popular humectants include glycerin, urea, collagen and hyaluronic acid. Paired with common emollients such as castor oil, jojoba oil and argan oil, they work to leave skin feeling soft and hydrated. If you have extremely dry skin, look for a toner that contains lactic acid, as this will work to draw in moisture.
Ingredients
After you are aware of your skin type and the best formulas for your skin, make sure to check the ingredients. Those with dry skin should not only buy products with hydrating agents, but also those that soothe the skin. Watermelon seed oil and aloe vera are two popular soothing agents in toners for dry skin. Amino acids also serve to soothe any redness and irritation.
If you have dry skin, avoid toners containing alcohol. They will further dry the skin and strip it of natural oils.
Unscented
Though the idea of multiple essential oils in products sounds helpful and refreshing, this is not always the case. Certain essential oils will further dry the skin. For example, clary sage, rosemary and frankincense halt oil production and dry out skin. If your skin is already dry and irritated, consider a toner that is unscented or contains a minimal concentration of these oils.
How much you can expect to spend on toner for dry skin
They cost anywhere from $6-$40 depending on size, ingredients and brand. A witch hazel with no other skin-perfecting benefits runs $5-$15 while a toner from a popular brand with vitamins and other skin-soothing nutrients goes for $25-$40.
Tips for buying toner for dry skin
- Use toner as the second step in your skin care routine. First, cleanse your face, then apply the toner before the serums and moisturizers. Some toners can be the last step before you put on makeup; check the product description for instructions.
- Let your toner dry before moving onto the next step in your makeup routine.
- Apply your toner to your neck and chest if those areas are also irritated.
Toner for dry skin FAQ
Are toner and astringent the same thing?
A. An astringent is a toner that absorbs excess oil. This is not a great choice for those with dry skin because not a lot of oil is being produced. Toner works to moisturize the skin and contains little to no alcohol, while an astringent contains alcohol and can strip the skin of moisture.
Do I need to use facial toner every day?
A. Use facial toner every other day instead of everyday. The purpose of a toner is to remove dirt and excess oil from the skin. If your skin is dry, you will see the same effects if you do not use the product every day, and there will be less chance of irritation.
6 best toners for dry skin
Simplified Skin Rose Water Mist Toner
Containing nothing but rose water, this gentle toner hydrates the skin without containing harsh chemicals that could be drying. It’s vegan and cruelty-free, and also works as a hair perfume and makeup setting spray.
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Paula’s Choice Skin Recovery Calming Toner
This toner hydrates dry, flaky skin and helps revitalize and moisturize. It works to fight wrinkles and calm redness while infusing skin with antioxidants to minimize the effects of free-radical damage and environmental stress.
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This facial toner gently removes residue on the skin without stripping it of nutrients. It helps refine the skin’s texture while hydrating, and is alcohol-free and safe for use on dry skin. It’s pH balanced and good for all skin types.
Where to buy: Sold by Ulta Beauty and Amazon
Versed Weekend Glow Daily Brightening Solution
This exfoliating toner is a powerful brightening treatment for uneven skin tone, dark spots and lingering post-breakout marks. It features a four-acid complex with natural skin brighteners that hydrate dry skin. It is gentle and offers visible tone and texture results.
Where to buy: Sold by Target
Tula Antioxidant Water Purifying Toner Face Mist
This works to purify and tone both over and under makeup. It provides protection against the damaging effects of pollution and blue light with antioxidants and contains multiple ingredients that soothe and hydrate the skin.
Where to buy: Sold by Ulta Beauty
First Aid Beauty Ultra Repair Wild Oat Hydrating Toner
Using the soothing, hydrating power of oatmeal, this toner is an excellent choice for dry skin. It also contains hyaluronic acid, an effective humecant. It’s free from ethanol, artificial fragrance, colorants and other ingredients that can affect sensitive skin.
Where to buy: Sold by Ulta Beauty and Amazon
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) _ SmileDirectClub Inc. (SDC) on Monday reported a loss of $21.7 million in its third quarter.
The Nashville, Tennessee-based company said it had a loss of 18 cents per share.
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Viral vector manufacturing and transduction processes today are lengthy and inconsistent
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO and LEXINGTON, Mass., Sept. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --- Cellares Corporation, a life science technology company leading the way in cell therapy manufacturing automation, and iVexSol Inc., a company developing transformative viral vector manufacturing capabilities, today announced a strategic partnership to solve key challenges with viral vector manufacturing in order to accelerate access to life-saving therapies.
Boasting an outstanding safety record, lentiviral vectors (LVV) are key components in CAR-T cell therapy manufacturing. Unfortunately, owing to the lack of a robust and scalable production platform, therapy providers too often experience highly variable quality, inconsistent yields and poor recoveries, leading to severe disruptions in the supply chain.
By combining Cellares' automation and robotics technology with iVexSol's viral vector expertise, the partners aim to develop consistent, high-quality solutions for viral vector manufacturing to improve access to this critical reagent.
"We are excited to be able to supply Cellares with high-quality LVV to support the development of their Cell Shuttle program, with an eye on leveraging this technology to automate the entire manufacturing process, including vector production," said iVexSol co-founder and CEO Rodney Rietze.
Cellares' automated, closed, end-to-end cell therapy manufacturing platform, the Cell Shuttle, can be easily adjusted to different customer processing needs and supports a variety of cell therapy modalities. "While our primary focus has always been cell therapy manufacturing, we intentionally developed the Cell Shuttle in a manner that provides flexibility in the processes and technologies that it can support," said Cellares' co-founder and CEO, Fabian Gerlinghaus. "We are thrilled by the opportunity to partner with the iVexSol team to broaden our capabilities while leveraging their tremendous expertise in viral vector manufacturing."
Financial terms of the agreement have not been disclosed.
The Cell Shuttle is an automated and closed end-to-end manufacturing solution that is flexible and scalable, enabling customers to run the exact processes specified for their cell therapy while meeting commercial-scale patient demand. Compared with currently available cell therapy manufacturing methods, this next-generation platform enables a four-fold reduction in process failure rates and is capable of producing 16+ patient doses in parallel, which increases manufacturing scalability by an order of magnitude. This will reduce the per-patient manufacturing cost by up to 60 percent for most processes.
Cellares is creating the future of cell therapy manufacturing and accelerating access to life-saving cell therapies. The company is developing a one-of-a-kind solution to overcome the limitations associated with manufacturing cell therapies that are more affordable and widely available to patients in need. With Cellares' proprietary platform—the Cell Shuttle—biopharma companies, academic research centers, and CDMOs will no longer have to compromise by either choosing a manufacturing platform that is semi-automated but lacks workflow flexibility, or one that provides customization but not the end-to-end automation needed to manufacture at scale. The company is headquartered in South San Francisco, Calif.
iVexSol, Inc. is a viral vector manufacturing company founded on a proprietary, next-generation, stable lentiviral vector production process that transforms the way these essential gene-delivery vehicles are made. Our Intelligent Manufacturing™ platform ensures the robust and reliable production of high quality, high-titer vector by generating a clonally derived Master Cell Bank of stable vector-producing cells for the production of your gene of interest. Expansion, harvest and release of a vial from your bank enables us to deliver ready-to-use vector "on demand (i.e., within weeks, not months of your order), preserving and accelerating your clinical development timeline.
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Barbie star says film tests ‘heteronormative’ idea of gender, offers ‘scathing critiques’ of iconic doll
Simu Liu applauded the new Barbie dolls for coming in all sizes, colors and 'gender expressions'
"Barbie" star Simu Liu is praising the new film for its attempt to take an iconic fashion doll and turn it into a story that challenges "heteronormative" ideas about gender and deconstructs why people associate certain colors with either boys or girls.
While promoting the new movie, Liu, best known for his role in Marvel’s "Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings," was asked in an interview with Screen Rant’s Joe Deckelmeier about his relationship with Barbie growing up.
Liu said he didn’t have any relationship with Barbie in the past and admitted he grew up in a society where "traditional gender norms" were "pretty heavily enforced."
"You know, colors became gendered, toys became gendered, there were all these rules that were imposed on us," he said. "So, Barbie was always like, ‘Oh that’s not my toy. That’s on the other toy’. And I’m so glad that this movie exists because I think it puts the final nail in the coffin of that very heteronormative idea of what gender is, and what is or is not gendered. How can you make a color gendered, you know?"
He admitted that it felt "great" throughout filming to be around, wear and play with more pink than he "ever thought possible." Liu also said the experience made him feel free to express himself and not feel like that because a certain object or idea is attributed to one gender, that he cannot do those things too.
"That’s, I think, what’s really struck me about being in this movie, what’s evolved in my understanding of Barbie and what it is, and what I hope that an audience will get from it when they watch the movie," he added.
The interviewer then pivoted the conversation to "Power Rangers," another line of popular kids toys that Liu has said he often played with as a child.
Liu said he recently realized that the "representational element" of Power Rangers drew him to the brand and made him feel "very much a part of that world."
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"It was, like, ‘black [person], black [Ranger]. Yellow [person], yellow [Ranger]’. It wasn’t perfect, but it was definitely there, and it was definitely trying," he said.
Liu then tilted the interview back to the Barbie film, which he applauded for recently similarly pushing diversity and upending gender roles.
"Barbie, 50 years ago, even 20 years ago, looked very different than it does now," Liu said.
"It was very strictly blonde, white. As evidenced by now with Issa [Rae] getting her doll and there being so many different types of Barbies of different shapes, colors sizes gender expressions, that now, Barbie means a great deal many things, and Ken can mean just as many things as well. And that’s really cool."
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As the interview concluded, Liu teased that the new Barbie movie, which also stars Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, "really goes there" and "attacks all the criticisms of Barbie in the past."
"It joins in on the conversation, and it’s not just like a fluffy, cash-grabby, sort of like, ‘Look at us, we’re fine. Everything’s perfect.’ There are some really scathing critiques of the idea of Barbie, what Barbie has been or is," Liu said. | https://www.foxnews.com/media/barbie-star-film-heteronormative-idea-gender-scathing-critiques-iconic-doll | 2023-07-12 19:34:36 | 0 | https://www.foxnews.com/media/barbie-star-film-heteronormative-idea-gender-scathing-critiques-iconic-doll |
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The House of Representatives has approved critical legislation to lift the debt ceiling.
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KEVIN MCCARTHY: Passing the Fiscal Responsibility Act is a crucial first step for putting America back on track. It does what is responsible for our children, what is possible in divided government and what is required by our principles and promises.
CHANG: Next, the Senate will take up the bill in a process that could take several days. All of this, of course, is brushing up against the deadline for when the country is projected to run out of money to pay its bills. That deadline is Monday, June 5. Joining us now is NPR congressional correspondent Claudia Grisales, who has been covering this issue relentlessly. Hey, Claudia.
CLAUDIA GRISALES, BYLINE: Hey, Ailsa.
CHANG: All right, so what did we see with this vote tonight?
GRISALES: So this passed by an overwhelming margin. The final vote tally was 314-117. And with that, we saw more than 160 Democrats vote yes and about 150 Republicans to vote for this as well. So Democrats played a major role here, getting this through the chamber. In the end, we saw about 70 Republicans vote no. This includes members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus. We saw progressive Democrats vote no as well. So while Democrats help carry this bipartisan agreement in the House between President Biden and House Speaker McCarthy to final passage, it also got a large boost from moderate Republicans.
CHANG: All right, well, what elements in this bill have attracted the most pushback from Republicans and from some Democrats?
GRISALES: We've heard a lot of concerns from Democrats that this deal was a ransom note in these negotiations to raise the debt limit and frustration about the overall limits on spending. Some Democrats also decried what they saw as legislation installing new limits on federal assistance benefits for women of color, including Wisconsin Democrat Gwen Moore.
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GWEN MOORE: Speaker after speaker has insisted on denying food to poor, old women who are primarily Black and brown. And, you know, it seems like the pound of flesh that you get is more delicious than having savings.
GRISALES: And then, on the other hand, we heard from conservative Republicans who said this was no deal at all and that the GOP could have extracted a lot more from the Biden White House and did not.
CHANG: Well, some Republicans have criticized McCarthy's whole deal-making around all of this, right? Do you think McCarthy will be keeping his job after all of this is over?
GRISALES: We did hear significant discontent among Republicans in the House Freedom Caucus. But this hasn't gained any traction, and McCarthy himself is quite confident. Talking to reporters earlier today, he said he was not worried about losing his gavel. And actually, he said, in terms of those worries, that he had - those worries were, quote, "not at all" in his mind.
CHANG: OK. So the House voted to approve this bill to suspend the debt limit tonight. What are the next steps for the Senate now?
GRISALES: As we know, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has said the so-called debt limit X date - this is the deadline for Monday, June 5 - is coming up, and the Senate already has a list of senators who will vote against this. We saw a preview of that on the Senate floor today with Utah Republican Mike Lee and Vermont Independent Bernie Sanders slamming the legislation and vowing to vote against it. So Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has warned his chamber that, without cooperation, they should prepare for potential votes at the end of this week or perhaps even into the weekend.
CHANG: Oof (ph). That is NPR's Claudia Grisales. Thank you so much, Claudia.
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BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich., Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Agree Realty Corporation (NYSE: ADC) (the "Company") today announced that its Board of Directors has authorized, and the Company has declared, a monthly cash dividend of $0.234 per common share. The monthly dividend reflects an annualized dividend amount of $2.808 per common share, representing a 7.8% increase over the annualized dividend amount of $2.604 per common share from the third quarter of 2021. The dividend is payable October 14, 2022 to stockholders of record at the close of business on September 30, 2022.
Additionally, the Company's Board of Directors has authorized, and the Company has declared, a monthly cash dividend on its 4.25% Series A Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock of $0.08854 per depositary share, which is equivalent to $1.0625 per annum. The dividend is payable October 3, 2022 to stockholders of record at the close of business on September 23, 2022.
About Agree Realty Corporation
Agree Realty Corporation is a publicly traded real estate investment trust that is RETHINKING RETAIL through the acquisition and development of properties net leased to industry-leading, omni-channel retail tenants. As of June 30, 2022, the Company owned and operated a portfolio of 1,607 properties, located in all 48 continental states and containing approximately 33.8 million square feet of gross leasable area. The Company's common stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "ADC". For additional information on the Company and RETHINKING RETAIL, please visit www.agreerealty.com.
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Maxime Cressy beats John Isner in Hall of Fame semifinals
By KEN POWTAK
Associated Press
NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) — Fourth-seeded Maxime Cressy ended John Isner’s 10-match winning streak on Newport’s grass courts, beating the fellow American 6-2, 4-6, 6-3 on Saturday to advance to the Hall of Fame Open final. Cressy will face No. 3 seed Alexander Bublik of Kazakhstan. Bublik beat Jason Kubler of Australia 6-3, 6-2 in the other semifinal. The matches were played before former Australian player Lleyton Hewitt was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame during a ceremony on the side courts. Hewitt was elected into the Hall for the 2021 class, but due to travel restrictions because of the COVID-19 pandemic he was unable to travel for last year’s ceremony. There was no class elected for 2022. | https://kion546.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/07/16/maxime-cressy-beats-john-isner-in-hall-of-fame-semifinals/ | 2022-07-16 22:07:32 | 1 | https://kion546.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/07/16/maxime-cressy-beats-john-isner-in-hall-of-fame-semifinals/ |
Gaming concession extended to December 31, 2022
MACAU, June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Wynn Resorts (Macau) S.A. (hereafter referred to as Wynn) is pleased to announce that it has entered into the Concession Extension Agreement with the Macau SAR Government, to extend the gaming concession of Wynn from June 26, 2022 to December 31, 2022.
Wynn would like to express its sincere gratitude to the Government for its guidance during the Concession Extension Agreement process. Wynn believes that this extension will enable it to make continued contributions to the future development of Macau and the local community. We look forward to the announcement of the requirements and details of the public tender process for the new gaming concessions and will liaise closely with the government to make thorough preparations for active participation in the bidding.
The approval of the Gaming Law Amendment Act has laid an essential long-term foundation to facilitate the orderly, healthy, and sustainable development of the industry. In addition to adhering to the relevant requirements of the Act, Wynn will continue to fulfil its social responsibilities and fully support the Government in promoting the moderate diversification of Macau's economic development, enhancing its competitiveness in integrated leisure and tourism, and further strengthening its profile among international tourists. Wynn will also actively cooperate with the Government to enrich the development of Macau as a world center of tourism and leisure.
In accordance with the terms of the Concession Extension Contract, Wynn has paid to the Macau SAR Government MOP47 million (equivalent to approximately HKD45.6 million) upon signing of the Concession Extension Agreement as contract premium for the extension. For further details of the extension, please see the announcement published on the website of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange at www.hkex.com.hk.
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A Kentucky man who killed three fellow students and wounded five others when he was 14 years old will have to spend the rest of his life in prison without another opportunity to seek parole, the Kentucky Parole Board voted Monday.
Several of those wounded in the shooting and relatives of those who were killed also spoke to the parole board panel last week. Most expressed a wish for Carneal to spend the rest of his life in prison. Carneal told the panel there are days that he believes he deserves to die for what he did, but other days he thinks he could still do some good in the world.
Parole Board Chair Ladeidra Jones earlier told Carneal their “number one charge is to maintain public safety.” She informed him that his inmate file listed his mental health prognosis as “poor” and says he experiences “paranoid thoughts with violent visual imagery.”
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below.
A Kentucky man who killed three fellow students and wounded five others when he was 14 years old should learn on Monday whether he will be released on parole or remain behind bars.
Michael Carneal, now 39, told parole board members last week that he still hears voices like the ones that told him to steal a neighbor’s pistol and fire it into the crowded lobby of Heath High School in 1997. However, Carneal said that with therapy and medication, he has learned to control his behavior.
Speaking by videoconference from the Kentucky State Reformatory in La Grange, he also apologized to his victims, including the entire tightknit community of Heath, just outside of Paducah. The students who were killed in the Dec. 1, 1997, shooting were 17-year-old Jessica James, 15-year-old Kayce Steger, and 14-year-old Nicole Hadley, who Carneal said was a “very good friend” to him.
“I’m sorry for what I did,” he said. “I know it’s not going to change things or make anything better, but I am sorry for what I did.”
Several of those wounded in the shooting and relatives of those who were killed also spoke to the parole board panel last week. Most expressed a wish for Carneal to remain in prison for life. Andrew Hadley, younger brother to Nicole, told the panel he does not understand why Carneal even has a chance at parole when his victims were “sentenced to a life of pain and suffering.”
He told the board how his sister used to drive him to excel both academically and athletically.
“She always wanted to strive to push us to be our best. And we’ve been missing that every day since she was taken from us,” he said. “I’ll never be able to touch her again, or hear her talk me through things.”
Carneal was a 14-year-old freshman when he opened fire on a before-school prayer circle that met in the lobby each morning. He was given the maximum sentence for someone his age at the time, a life sentence with a possibility of parole after 25 years. When the parole board meets on Monday morning, it could vote to release him, defer his next parole decision for up to 10 years, or order Carneal to serve out his full sentence.
Missy Jenkins Smith, who was paralyzed by one of Carneal’s bullets and uses a wheelchair, watched him make his case for parole from her home in Kirksey alongside a friend who was also wounded in the shooting, Kelly Hard Alsip, and their relatives. The group expressed disbelief when they heard Carneal say he had last heard voices in his head a couple of days before, telling him to jump off the stairs.
Jenkins Smith had testified to the parole board the previous day that she thought he was too mentally ill to be released. She was concerned Carneal could become violent again if he stopped taking his medication or his medication stopped working.
“Continuing his life in prison is the only way his victims can feel comfortable and safe,” she told them.
Asked about the shooting by the parole board, Carneal attributed it to a combination of factors that included his mental health and immaturity, but added that it was “not justified at all. There’s no excuse for it at all.” He said there are days that he believes he deserves to die for what he did, but other days he thinks he could still do some good in the world if he were released. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/kentucky-school-shooter-could-walk-free-or-stay-behind-bars/2022/09/26/0caf54b6-3d99-11ed-8c6e-9386bd7cd826_story.html | 2022-09-26 13:32:13 | 0 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/kentucky-school-shooter-could-walk-free-or-stay-behind-bars/2022/09/26/0caf54b6-3d99-11ed-8c6e-9386bd7cd826_story.html |
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Benjamin Jensen, American University School of International Service
(THE CONVERSATION) In response to massive battlefield setbacks, Russia has increased its attacks in Ukraine on everything from power plantsand damsto railways, pipelinesand ports.
These attacks against civilian infrastructure are not random. Rather, they reflect an insidious calculus integral to modern Russian military theory. For more than 20 years, Russian military journals have emphasized the need to conduct noncontact warfare and target critical infrastructure.
As a defense strategist with close to 20 years of military experience, I believe the world should brace for additional strikes as Moscow seeks ways to reestablish an upper hand in the conflict and make up for its declining battlefield position.
‘Initial period of war’
Consistent with the Russian military concept of the “initial period of war” – the belief that keys to winning a conflict are actions from the outset that support mobilization and undermine the adversary – the attacks on infrastructure started before the first shot was fired.
In January 2022, a month before the invasion of Ukraine, a critical undersea cable connecting satellite ground stations in Svalbard, Norway, and the Norwegian mainland was mysteriously cut, with most speculating that Russia was to blame. By targeting this cable while Russia deployed more than 100,000 troops to Ukraine’s border, Moscow was signaling the risk of escalation should NATO get involved in the conflict.
Once the war started, Russia used cyber operations to limit Ukraine’s ability to communicate, temporarily disabling the Viasat satellite internet network.
Cyber operations targeting infrastructure, cable cutting, GPS jamming and electronic attack are key parts of Russian military theory. In fact, Russian military doctrine specifically calls for strategic operations to destroy critical infrastructure, or SODCIT.
These operations select targets primarily for their psychological effect. The belief is that hitting key infrastructure and creating prolonged blackouts, alongside disruptions to the ability to travel and transport goods, make political leaders and the population less willing to resist an attacking force.
Holding key targets at risk
According to Valeriy Aleksandrovich Kiselev, a retired colonel and professor at the Combined Arms Academy of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, modern wars should focus on destroying an enemies’ critical economic infrastructure without employing large concentrations of ground troops.
This concept nests with the Russian approach to coercive strategy – an alternative to traditional warfare that attempts to manipulate the behavior of an opposing force through political, economic and military pressure. The logic is simple: Why fight a protracted conflict when you can use a mix of fear and punishment to get the enemy to surrender?
When this coercive campaign failed in Ukraine, Russia invaded and made seizing nuclear facilities a key part of its ground campaign, using them both as blackmail and an operational shield to protect troop concentrations. In March, Russia moved to seize multiple nuclear power plants across Ukraine. Fighting continues outside the largest of these facilities, in Zaporizhzhia.
After its initial war plan – which relied on rapid troop movement to seize key terrain – was overcome by stubborn Ukrainian resistance and Western support, Russia increased its attacks against transportation infrastructure in an unsuccessful bid to limit Kyiv’s ability to resupply its front-line formations.
In April, Russia launched a series of attacks against railways across central and western Ukraine. In the summer, Russia attacked a major rail hub on Ukrainian Independence Day, killing multiple civilians.
While military campaigns historically target transportation infrastructure, Russia went further. In response to the ongoing counteroffensive – which has seen Ukrainian forces retake formerly Russian occupied land in the east and south of the country – coercive measures by Russia have escalated to include targeting major dams. In mid-September, Russia tried to destroy the dam outside of Kryvyi Rih, a city of half a million people. The city narrowly averted disaster despite two salvos of cruise missiles, which caused severe flooding but didn’t produce a large enough hole to destroy the dam. Later in the month, Russia targeted a dam on the Siverskyi Donets River.
Expanding strategy beyond Ukraine’s borders
Many believe that the attacks on infrastructure are now spreading beyond Ukraine.
Russia is strongly suspected to be behind the sabotage of an undersea gas pipeline in October, leading to an environmental disaster in the Baltic and further squeezing European energy markets ahead of winter.
Meanwhile, an investigation has been launched into an act of sabotage that took down large segments of the German rail network on Oct. 8, 2022. The “targeted and malicious action,” as Germany’s transport minister described it, came after NATO and the EU warned nations to protect critical infrastructure amid tensions in Europe.
These attacks could be harbingers of the next stage of the Ukrainian conflict. As seen in the horrific attacks against 10 Ukrainian cities on Oct. 10, a mix of fear, honor and interest will drive Russia to continue striking infrastructure as part of its larger coercive strategy.
While Vladimir Putin stated the strikes were in response to the attack on the Crimea bridge, the targets indicate Moscow may be trying to break Kyiv’s power generation and distribution capacity ahead of winter. With gas prices high, nuclear plants under threat and pipelines disrupted, Russia is betting it can use a cold winter to gain a new bargaining advantage.
If the sabotage attacks in Germany and on the Nord Stream pipelines are linked to Russia, as most suspect they are, Moscow is clearly signaling that countries supporting Ukraine are not safe from future infrastructure attacks. By using covert action and sabotage targeting infrastructure to complement Moscow’s documented use of energy exports as a coercive lever, Putin is likely reminding the world of his reach without publicly acknowledging his role in ordering attacks.
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here: https://theconversation.com/crippling-civilian-infrastructure-has-long-been-part-of-russian-generals-playbook-putin-is-merely-expanding-that-approach-192226. | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Crippling-civilian-infrastructure-has-long-been-17508943.php | 2022-10-14 13:29:23 | 1 | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Crippling-civilian-infrastructure-has-long-been-17508943.php |
An unusually large number of earthquakes have hit South Carolina this year, but scientists don't know why. (Story first aired on All Things Considered on Aug. 26, 2022.)
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MOSCOW (AP) — The family of Paul Whelan, an American imprisoned in Russia for espionage, said Friday that he has resumed contact after unexpectedly becoming unreachable in November.
Along with WNBA star Brittney Griner, Whelan is the focus of efforts by the United States to arrange a prisoner swap with Russia.
The Associated Press and other news organizations have reported that Washington has offered to exchange Griner and Whelan for Viktor Bout, a Russian arms dealer who is serving a 25-year sentence in the U.S. and once earned the nickname the “merchant of death.”
Whelan’s brother, David, said in an emailed statement that Paul had called his parents early U.S. time on Friday, the first time any family member had spoken with him since Nov. 23. The family had been told that he was moved to a prison hospital, but that the reason for that was unclear because he had not spoken of health problems.
In the call, he did not explain why he was at the hospital, but said he’d been given “special dispensation” to call, indicating he had been prohibited from calling previously, David Whelan said.
“So the call at least acts as a ‘proof of life’ even if nothing else is explained,” he said.
Alexei Tyurkin, the chairman of the prison monitoring commission in the Mordovia region where Whelan is incarcerated, said he was in the prison hospital for “planned treatment,” but did not elaborate, according to state news agency RIA-Novosti.
Whelan, a former Marine who later worked as a corporate security executive, was arrested in Moscow in December 2018. His lawyer said Whelan was handed a flash drive that had classified information on it that he didn’t know about.
Whelan was convicted in 2020 and sentenced to 16 years in prison.
Griner was sentenced to nine years in prison in August for drug possession after vape canisters containing cannabis oil were found in her luggage at a Moscow airport in February. Her prominence as an athlete, including two Olympic gold medals, has drawn wide attention to her case.
Asked by reporters on Tuesday whether a swap is possible before the year’s end, Russia’s deputy foreign minister, Sergei Ryabkov, responded: “There always is a chance.”
“Regrettably, there have been a few occasions when it seemed that a decision in favor of it was about to be made, but it never happened,” Ryabkov said without elaborating. | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/brother-of-russia-imprisoned-american-says-contact-resumed/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world | 2022-12-02 16:29:15 | 1 | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/brother-of-russia-imprisoned-american-says-contact-resumed/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world |
Report: Former tennis champion Boris Becker released from prison, to be deported
Published: Dec. 15, 2022 at 6:44 AM EST|Updated: moments ago
LONDON (AP) — British news agency Press Association reports that German tennis legend Boris Becker has been freed from prison after serving eight months of his sentence and now faces deportation from the UK.
The 55-year-old German, who has lived in Britain since 2012, was released on Thursday morning ahead of his deportation, PA reported, without citing sources.
The three-time Wimbledon champion was jailed for 30 months in April for hiding 2.5 million pounds ($3.1 million) of assets and loans to avoid paying his debts.
The former world No. 1 was declared bankrupt in June 2017.
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NEW YORK — Saying she is ready to share the “unfathomable” experience of being arrested and incarcerated in Russia, basketball star Brittney Griner is working on a memoir that is scheduled for spring 2024.
Griner was arrested last year at the airport in Moscow on drug-related charges and detained for nearly 10 months, much of that time in prison. Her plight unfolded at the same time Russia invaded Ukraine and further heightened tensions between Russia and the U.S., ending only after she was freed in exchange for the notorious Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout.
A WNBA All-Star with the Phoenix Mercury, Griner had flown to Moscow in February 2022 to rejoin UMMC Ekaterinburg, a Russian women's team she has played for in the off-season since 2014.
"That day (in February) was the beginning of an unfathomable period in my life which only now am I ready to share,” Griner said in a statement released Tuesday by Alfred A. Knopf.
“The primary reason I traveled back to Russia for work that day was because I wanted to make my wife, family, and teammates proud. After an incredibly challenging 10 months in detainment, I am grateful to have been rescued and to be home. Readers will hear my story and understand why I’m so thankful for the outpouring of support from people across the world."
Griner added that she also hoped her book would raise awareness of other Americans detained overseas, including Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, arrested in Russia last month and accused of espionage; businessman Kai Li, serving a 10-year sentence in China on charges of revealing state secrets to the FBI; and Paul Whelan, a corporate security executive imprisoned in Russia on spying charges. Around the time Griner was released, Whelan criticized the U.S. government for not doing enough to help him.
Russia has been a popular playing destination for top WNBA athletes in the offseason, with some earning salaries over $1 million — nearly quadruple what they can make as a base WNBA salary. Despite pleading guilty to possessing canisters with cannabis oil, a result of what she said was hasty packing, Griner still faced trial under Russian law.
Griner's memoir is currently untitled and will eventually be published in a young adult edition. Financial terms were not disclosed.
In Tuesday's press statement, Knopf said that the book would be “intimate and moving” and that Griner would disclose “in vivid detail her harrowing experience of her wrongful detainment (as classified by the State Department) and the difficulty of navigating the byzantine Russian legal system in a language she did not speak.”
“Griner also describes her stark and surreal time living in a foreign prison and the terrifying aspects of day-to-day life in a women’s penal colony,” the announcement reads. "At the heart of the book, Griner highlights the personal turmoil she experienced during the near ten-month ordeal and the resilience that carried her through to the day of her return to the United States last December.”
Griner, 32, is a 6-foot-9 two-time Olympic gold medalist, three-time All-American at Baylor University, a prominent advocate for pay equity for women athletes and the first openly gay athlete to reach an endorsement deal with Nike. She is the author of one previous book, “In My Skin: My Life On and Off the Basketball Court,” published in 2014.
In February, she re-signed with the Mercury and will play in its upcoming season, which runs from May through September. | https://www.phillytrib.com/lifestyle/brittney-griner-working-on-memoir-about-russian-captivity/article_592924a3-9801-5ad2-83b8-7a0a616b610a.html | 2023-04-11 19:16:34 | 0 | https://www.phillytrib.com/lifestyle/brittney-griner-working-on-memoir-about-russian-captivity/article_592924a3-9801-5ad2-83b8-7a0a616b610a.html |
Everything is indeed what it seems: Selena Gomez is making a return to Instagram.
The Only Murders in the Building actress shared she's back on the social media platform, accompanying the Jan. 10 post with a couple mirror selfies of herself.
"Wait," she captioned the images, "can you tell I'm back on Instagram ?"
Previously, Selena—the second-most followed woman on the app behind Kylie Jenner—has been candid about how staying offline bettered her mental health, as she delegated posting duties to her team.
"I haven't been on the Internet in four-and-a-half years," she told Good Morning America in April 2022. "It has changed my life completely. I am happier, I am more present, I connect more with people."
It's unclear when exactly she logged back into Instagram to post on her own behalf, but recent posts on her account include a "New Years dump" on Jan. 1 and a "Sister date night" snapshot with Gracie Elliott Teefey last week.
The "Come & Get It" singer—whose been vocal in the past about her bipolar diagnosis, depression and anxiety—originally decided to get off Instagram because being on the platform was "too much information."
"This is too much of my personal life spread out everywhere, and it just felt uncontrollable," she said in 2021 interview for WWD's Beauty Inc. issue. "I felt like my thoughts and everything I was consuming revolved around a million different other people in the world saying good things and bad things. And I just thought, 'Why would I—I don't get anything from it. Nothing is giving me life.' And I just snapped, and I was over it."
"I'm completely unaware of, actually, what's going on in pop culture, and that makes me really happy," she said a year ago. "And maybe that doesn't make everybody else happy, but for me, it's really saved my life."
In the meantime, she's been running with the wolves over on TikTok. | https://www.eonline.com/news/1361175/selena-gomez-officially-returns-to-instagram | 2023-01-12 04:08:58 | 0 | https://www.eonline.com/news/1361175/selena-gomez-officially-returns-to-instagram |
Travis d'Arnaud Player Prop Bets: Braves vs. Phillies - June 20
Published: Jun. 20, 2023 at 6:31 AM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
Travis d'Arnaud -- .189 average over his past 10 games -- will be in action for the Atlanta Braves against the Philadelphia Phillies, with Ranger Suarez on the hill, on June 20 at 6:40 PM ET.
He had a one-hit showing in his previous game (1-for-5) against the Rockies.
Travis d'Arnaud Game Info & Props vs. the Phillies
- Game Day: Tuesday, June 20, 2023
- Game Time: 6:40 PM ET
- Stadium: Citizens Bank Park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Phillies Starter: Ranger Suárez
- TV Channel: TBS
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -238)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +550)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +170)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +120)
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Travis d'Arnaud At The Plate
- d'Arnaud has five doubles, four home runs and eight walks while hitting .268.
- d'Arnaud has reached base via a hit in 16 games this season (of 26 played), and had multiple hits in six of those games.
- He has homered in 11.5% of his games this year, and 3.8% of his trips to the plate.
- d'Arnaud has had at least one RBI in 30.8% of his games this year (eight of 26), with two or more RBI four times (15.4%). He has also been responsible for three or more of his team's runs in one contest.
- He has scored in 10 games this year, with multiple runs three times.
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Travis d'Arnaud Home/Away Batting Splits
Phillies Pitching Rankings
- The pitching staff for the Phillies has a collective 9.3 K/9, the sixth-best in MLB.
- The Phillies' 4.31 team ERA ranks 17th across all MLB pitching staffs.
- The Phillies give up the 10th-fewest home runs in baseball (75 total, one per game).
- The Phillies will send Suarez (1-2) out to make his eighth start of the season. He is 1-2 with a 3.82 ERA and 35 strikeouts through 37 2/3 innings pitched.
- The lefty last appeared on Thursday against the Arizona Diamondbacks, when he went seven scoreless innings while giving up four hits.
- In seven games this season, the 27-year-old has amassed an ERA of 3.82, with 8.4 strikeouts per nine innings. Opponents are hitting .264 against him.
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LAS VEGAS (KLAS) – An airline passenger is facing a federal charge after the FBI said he assaulted a flight attendant and demanded she kiss him on a trip to Las Vegas.
William Morgan was on a Southwest Airlines flight from Palm Springs, California, to Las Vegas on Oct. 3, 2022, when the alleged incident occurred, an FBI agent stated in court documents.
Morgan, who was one of about 100 passengers on the flight, got up from his seat about 20 minutes before landing and “demanded [the flight attendant] kiss him,” documents said. He is also accused of assaulting a flight attendant, grabbing her by the shoulders and attempting to push her into a bathroom.
“[The flight attendant] got up from her jump seat, at which point Morgan put his arms on her shoulders and demanded a kiss again before stating that he was going to have a panic attack if [the flight attendant] did not go into the bathroom with him,” documents said.
Morgan also grabbed a second flight attendant who came to the first woman’s aid, documents said.
“Morgan also said that he needed [the first flight attendant] to kiss him to calm down,” documents said. “Morgan then grabbed [the first flight attendant’s] face and squeezed hard while trying to kiss her. [The second flight attendant] has stated that she was scared for her life and that she was concerned for other passengers.”
Morgan’s traveling party restrained him until the flight landed, per court documents.
It is not publicly known whether Morgan, whose booking photo was unavailable, was a Las Vegas resident or visiting from elsewhere. His place of residence nor his age were listed in court documents.
He faces one count of simple assault, the FBI said.
Prosecutors filed the case on Friday. No arraignment date nor plea had been entered as of Monday. | https://www.pahomepage.com/uncategorized/airline-passenger-allegedly-assaulted-flight-attendant-demanded-kiss-to-help-him-calm-down/ | 2023-06-27 17:50:16 | 1 | https://www.pahomepage.com/uncategorized/airline-passenger-allegedly-assaulted-flight-attendant-demanded-kiss-to-help-him-calm-down/ |
WILMINGTON, Del., Feb. 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Marlette Holdings, Inc., a leading financial technology company that operates the Best Egg platform, today announced the appointment of John L. "Jack" Klinck Jr. to the Board of Directors, effective Feb. 14.
Jack is a senior executive with more than 30 years of extensive international operating experience in financial services and on public, private, and nonprofit boards. Jack started his career at American Express before moving to Mellon Bank, now BNY Mellon. At Mellon, Jack was promoted to CEO of International Operations based in London and Vice Chairman, serving on the Management Committee. After his tenure at Mellon, Jack joined State Street, serving on the Management Committee where he ran Global Strategy, Marketing, Hedge Fund Administration, and Client Management. He led the establishment of a new business unit called Alpha/Global Exchange, building insights from custody and accounting datasets. When Jack left State Street, he embraced fintech investing and advisory work and helped launch Hyperplane Venture Capital, which has incubated two start-ups and made more than 55 investments focused on artificial intelligence and advanced technologies in the B2B space.
As a corporate board member, Jack is experienced in advising growth-oriented companies through complex M&A transactions and the IPO process and positioning innovative companies for success. He helped lead Cardlytics' (CDLX) 2018 IPO and was one of the first directors of Xpansiv, the world's premier carbon trading/renewable energy platform. Jack also serves as a director of Notarize, a Boston-based tech company bringing digital transaction expertise to the financial services industry.
Jack's involvement on nonprofit boards, including Boy Scouts of America for Eastern Massachusetts and the Advisory Council of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, reflect his commitment to his communities. He earned his MBA from The Fuqua School of Business at Duke University and his BA from Middlebury College.
"Jack is a proven leader with deep knowledge of strategy, mergers and acquisitions, finance, capital raising, emerging technologies, and fintech," said Bob Conrads, Marlette Holdings Chairman. "With his track record of advising growth companies, Jack will add critical experience and perspective to our Board."
Marlette Holdings Founder and CEO Jeffrey Meiler said, "Jack is an excellent addition to our Board as we continue to plan and innovate to develop the leading financial confidence platform for customers. We will benefit greatly from Jack's expertise in technology and financial services."
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About Marlette Holdings, Inc.
Marlette Holdings, Inc. is a leading financial technology provider whose subsidiaries develop and operate the Best Egg platform, a financial health leader that provides lending products and resources focused on helping people feel more confident as they manage their everyday finances. Since March 2014, Best Egg has delivered $24 billion in consumer personal loans with strong credit performance, welcomed 822,000 members to the Best Egg Financial Health platform, and empowered over 195,000 cardmembers who carry the Best Egg Credit Card in their wallet. For more information, visit bestegg.com.
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- Collaboration with a leader in gene editing systems is Ionis' latest move to expand and diversify its technology
- CRISPR-Cas gene editing is a natural extension of Ionis' innovative approach to delivering potentially transformative therapies
- Ionis to hold webcast Nov. 14 at 8 a.m. Eastern Time
CARLSBAD, Calif. and EMERYVILLE, Calif., Nov. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: IONS) and Metagenomi today announced that the companies have entered a collaboration that will leverage Ionis' extensive expertise in RNA-targeted therapeutics and Metagenomi's versatile next-generation gene editing systems to pursue a mix of validated and novel genetic targets that have potential to expand therapeutic options for patients. The companies will jointly conduct research aimed initially at delivering investigational medicines for up to four genetic targets. Ionis has the right to add four more targets upon achievement of pre-determined development milestones.
"Ionis was founded over 30 years ago to discover and develop novel, highly personalized medicines using our powerful RNA-targeting technology platform. This partnership with Metagenomi supports Ionis' strategic objective to advance our technology and expand our capabilities to deliver precision genetic medicines. Together, we can broaden the application of gene editing by leveraging Ionis' vast experience in nucleic acid therapeutics to optimize and extend the reach of gene editing for liver targets and to new tissues," said Ionis Chief Executive Officer Brett P. Monia, Ph.D. "This alliance brings our two companies closer to delivering next-generation therapies with the potential to revolutionize the treatment of diseases."
"Gene editing has the potential to transform chronic therapies into potentially curative treatments for patients who currently have limited options," said Brian C. Thomas, Ph.D., chief executive officer and founder of Metagenomi. "This collaboration is a strategic step to combine Metagenomi's leading gene editing toolbox of diverse, specific and highly efficient nucleases, with Ionis' pioneering expertise of RNA-targeted therapeutics, to catalyze the next wave of in vivo gene editing applications. We continue to follow our strategy of partnering with the most experienced teams in the genetic medicines field that will allow us to transform the lives of patients."
Under the terms of the agreement, Ionis will pay $80 million upfront to Metagenomi plus the potential for future milestone payments and royalties. Wells Fargo Securities acted as financial advisor to Ionis on the transaction.
Webcast
Ionis will conduct a webcast on Nov. 14 at 8 a.m. Eastern Time to discuss this announcement and related activities. Interested parties may access the webcast here. A webcast replay will be available for a limited time at the same address.
CRISPR Gene Editing
CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats) gene editing is a technology that modifies the sequence of DNA in cells utilizing a specific RNA-guided nuclease (Cas enzyme). Gene editing enzymes act as molecular word processors to correct the genetic code at the precise spot where it is malfunctioning.
About Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
For more than 30 years, Ionis has been the leader in RNA-targeted therapy, pioneering new markets and changing standards of care with its novel antisense technology. Ionis currently has three marketed medicines and a premier late-stage pipeline highlighted by industry-leading cardiovascular and neurological franchises. Our scientific innovation began and continues with the knowledge that sick people depend on us, which fuels our vision of becoming a leading, fully integrated biotechnology company.
To learn more about Ionis, visit www.ionispharma.com and follow us on Twitter @ionispharma.
About Metagenomi
Metagenomi is a gene editing company committed to developing potentially curative therapeutics by leveraging a proprietary toolbox of next-generation gene editing systems to accurately edit DNA where current technologies cannot. Our metagenomics-powered discovery platform and analytical expertise reveal novel cellular machinery sourced from otherwise unknown organisms. We adapt and forge these naturally evolved systems into powerful gene editing systems that are ultra-small, extremely efficient, highly specific and have a decreased risk of immune response. These systems fuel our pipeline of novel medicines and can be leveraged by partners. Our goal is to revolutionize gene editing for the benefit of patients around the world. For more information, please visit https://metagenomi.co/.
Ionis' Forward-looking Statements
This press release includes forward-looking statements regarding our collaboration and license agreement with Metagenomi, Inc., the therapeutic and commercial potential of genetic targets using gene editing technologies, Ionis' technologies and Ionis' other products in development. Any statement describing Ionis' goals, expectations, financial or other projections, intentions or beliefs is a forward-looking statement and should be considered an at-risk statement. Such statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties, including those related to the impact COVID-19 could have on our business, and including but not limited to those related to our commercial products and the medicines in our pipeline, and particularly those inherent in the process of discovering, developing and commercializing medicines that are safe and effective for use as human therapeutics, and in the endeavor of building a business around such medicines. Ionis' forward-looking statements also involve assumptions that, if they never materialize or prove correct, could cause its results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements.
Although Ionis' forward-looking statements reflect the good faith judgment of its management, these statements are based only on facts and factors currently known by Ionis. As a result, you are cautioned not to rely on these forward-looking statements. These and other risks concerning Ionis' programs are described in additional detail in Ionis' annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2021, and our most recent Form 10-Q quarterly filing, which are on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Copies of these and other documents are available at www.ionispharma.com
In this press release, unless the context requires otherwise, "Ionis," "Company," "we," "our," and "us" refers to Ionis Pharmaceuticals and its subsidiaries.
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CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A judge denied a request to end parole supervision for the getaway driver in the case of a former New Hampshire high school employee who was convicted of recruiting her teenage lover to kill her husband more than 30 years ago, according to an order released Wednesday.
Vance Lattime Jr. was 17 in 1990 when he supplied the car and his father’s gun, which was used to kill Pamela Smart’s husband, Gregory Smart, in Derry. The case inspired the 1992 novel and 1995 film “To Die For,” which starred Nicole Kidman and Joaquin Phoenix.
Lattime pleaded guilty to being an accomplice to second-degree murder. He served 15 years of an 18-year-to-life sentence, getting a three-year sentence reduction in 2005. He’s been on parole since then, without any violations, has married, and found steady employment, according to a motion filed by his lawyer.
“Lattime is truly repentant for his actions. In short, Lattime has been completely rehabilitated,” the motion states.
He asked the judge to suspend the maximum term of his sentence for five years due to good behavior.
Prosecutors objected to his request. They noted that he is on the lowest form of parole supervision, only required to report one time a year.
The judge, who issued his order Tuesday, wrote, “Many times, a man must live with the direct consequences of his actions for the rest of his life, regardless of how much he improves his life. This is such a case.”
Pamela Smart was 22 and working as a high school media coordinator when she began an affair with William Flynn, the 15-year-old student who shot and killed Gregory Smart. Although she denied knowledge of the plot, she was convicted of conspiracy to commit murder and other crimes and sentenced to life without parole. Flynn, Lattime and two other teens cooperated with prosecutors, served shorter sentences and have been released.
Pamela Smart’s lawyer is asking New Hampshire’s highest court to order a state council to hold a hearing on her request to reduce her sentence. Oral arguments are scheduled for Feb. 14.
Her trial was a media circus and one of the first high-profile cases about a sexual affair between a school staff member and a student. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/national/ap-pam-smart-case-getaway-driver-denied-parole-supervision-end/ | 2023-01-12 15:51:50 | 0 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/national/ap-pam-smart-case-getaway-driver-denied-parole-supervision-end/ |
TORONTO, Nov. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Liquid Meta Capital Holdings Ltd. ("Liquid Meta" or the "Company") (NEO: LIQD) (FRANKFURT: N5F) (OTCQB: LIQQF) a decentralized finance infrastructure and technology company focused on bridging the gap between traditional and decentralized finance, announces the results of its annual general shareholder meeting (the "Meeting") held on November 28, 2022.
At the Meeting, Jonathan Wiesblatt, Nicolas del Pino, Stephen Harper, Thomas Kang, David Prussky and Clara Bullrich were re-elected to the Company's board of directors (the "Board") for the ensuing year. The Company's shareholders also approved the appointment of RSM Canada LLP as the auditors of the Company for the ensuing year and authorized the Board to determine the auditor's remuneration.
A total of 17,735,896 common shares were voted in connection with the election of the directors as follows:
Additionally, Stephen Harper and Thomas Kang have resigned from the Board in accordance with the Company's Majority Voting Policy. The Board would like to thank Mr. Harper and Mr. Kang for their contributions to the Company during their tenure of service. The Board determined not to accept the resignation of David Prussky in order to maintain the composition and independence requirements of the Audit Committee of the Board, which will be comprised of a majority of independent directors. The Board will commence a search for an additional qualified independent director to serve on the Audit Committee in accordance with applicable securities law.
Liquid Meta is a decentralized finance infrastructure and technology company that is powering the next generation of open-access protocols and applications. The Company is creating the bridge between traditional and decentralized finance while ushering in a new era of financial infrastructure that benefits anyone, anywhere.
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This news release contains "forward-looking information" and "forward-looking statements" (collectively, "forward-looking statements") within the meaning of the applicable Canadian securities legislation. All statements, other than statements of historical fact, are forward-looking statements and are based on expectations, estimates and projections as at the date of this news release. Any statement that involves discussions with respect to predictions, expectations, beliefs, plans, projections, objectives, assumptions, future events or performance (often but not always using phrases such as "expects", or "does not expect", "is expected", "anticipates" or "does not anticipate", "plans", "budget", "scheduled", "forecasts", "estimates", "believes" or "intends" or variations of such words and phrases or stating that certain actions, events or results "may" or "could", "would", "might" or "will" be taken to occur or be achieved) are not statements of historical fact and may be forward-looking statements.
Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of Liquid Meta to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements are described under the caption "Risks and Uncertainties" in the Company's Filing Statement dated as of December 17, 2021 which is available for view on SEDAR at www.sedar.com. Forward-looking statements contained herein are made as of the date of this press release and Liquid Meta disclaims, other than as required by law, any obligation to update any forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, results, future events, circumstances, or if management's estimates or opinions should change, or otherwise. There can be no assurance that forward-looking statements will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Accordingly, the reader is cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements.
Liquid Meta's operations could be significantly adversely affected by the effects of a widespread global outbreak of a contagious disease, including the recent outbreak of illness caused by COVID-19. It is not possible to accurately predict the impact COVID-19 will have on operations and the ability of others to meet their obligations, including uncertainties relating to the ultimate geographic spread of the virus, the severity of the disease, the duration of the outbreak, and the length of travel and quarantine restrictions imposed by governments of affected countries. In addition, a significant outbreak of contagious diseases in the human population could result in a widespread health crisis that could adversely affect the economies and financial markets of many countries, resulting in an economic downturn that could further affect operations and the ability to finance its operations.
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7 Best VPN Services for Maximum Privacy & Security
Most regular internet users, and especially businesses and other organizations with special security needs, are understandably concerned about their online safety and privacy. Users of the Internet need to be aware of and worried about these issues.
A VPN connection is a secure method of connecting to the internet that many people use to keep their personal information and online activities hidden. The best VPN services may not be the same for everyone, so we take a look at the seven best VPN services, such as CyberGhost VPN, and provide insight to help you choose.
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7 Best VPN Services: Quick Overview
- CyberGhost VPN – Best Overall
- NordVPN – Best for Extra Data Encryption
- ExpressVPN – Best Selection of Countries
- Surfshark – Best for Extra Privacy Options
- ProtonVPN – Best Free VPN Plan
- Windscribe – Best for Flexible Plans
- TunnelBear – Best for Security Audit Frequency
Even while many people use computers and tablets to surf the web, smartphones are by far the most popular method of doing so. In the United States, mobile devices now account for over half of all internet traffic. Somewhere approximately 300 million adults in the United States have a mobile phone.
The inaccessibility of your search terms and browsing history online may not be the only security risk you need to worry about. As more people move their financial transactions online, hackers have greater opportunities to steal sensitive data.
To help you choose, we’ve compiled a list of the 7 best VPN services.
1. CyberGhost VPN – Best VPN Service Overall
Pros:
- This feature supports up to 7 simultaneous connections
- Incredible speeds
- Most extensive server system
- Supports a wide range of optional extras
- There’s a 100% satisfaction guarantee for all of our programs
Cons:
- Confusion surrounds privacy policies
- Expensive
CyberGhost allows for seven simultaneous connections, which is more than other VPN providers. Given that many homes have more than one gadget, it’s a decent mobile VPN.
CyberGhost, however, offers a plethora of supplementary safety options for mobile device usage. Additionally, you may choose the server location CyberGhost suggests for you, or a server optimized for the way you often use the Internet.
Plan Term Lengths and Discounts: 4.8/5
CyberGhost offers four different subscription plans:
- Monthly – $12.99
- Yearly – $4.29/mo, billed at $51.48 annually
- Two years – $3.25/mo, billed at $78 every two years
- Three years + three free months – $2.29/mo, billed at $89.31 every three years
Aside from the monthly plan’s 14-day warranty, all other term lengths come with a 45-day money-back guarantee.
Online Protection Protocols: 4.9/5
A kill switch, split tunneling, and military-grade 256-bit AES encryption are just a few of CyberGhost’s security features. In all, you may choose from more than a hundred different locations across 91 different nations as your new permanent home.
Zero Logs Policy: 5/5
CyberGhost’s No-Logs policy ensures that your information will never be sold or given to other parties like governments. CyberGhost claims it does not log its customers’ online movements:
- Accessed websites
- IP address
- Browsing history
- Session durations
- VPN server connection
- Bandwidth usage
Number of Simultaneous Connections Available: 4.6/5
CyberGhost has the highest number of allowed devices (seven) for an Internet service provider (ISP). One adult may make daily use of a computer, tablet, or mobile phone. CyberGhost is a great option for multi-person households due to its generous simultaneous connection limit.
Servers: 4.9/5
In all, there are over 7,500 CyberGhost servers spread throughout 91 countries.
Overall Score: 4.8/5
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2. NordVPN – Best VPN Encryption
Pros:
- Quick responses from an available support agent through online chat
- Guaranteed refunds
- No records will be kept
- Uses OpenVPN and WireGuard
- Superior detection and prevention of threats
Cons:
- Pricing for renewals is complex
- The speeds are a little sluggish
- Costs more than comparable alternatives
NordVPN’s customizable features include multi-hop links, split tunneling, and support for the Tor browser. Another best VPN service, Surfshark, disclosed a deal with the company only recently. NordVPN has round-the-clock assistance available for your convenience.
Read this NordVPN review on TechPresident.com for an expert evaluation of the VPN service.
Plan Term Lengths and Discounts: 4.3/5
In order to subscribe to NordVPN, you may do it in three different ways:
- Monthly – $11.99
- One year – $4.99/mo, billed annually
- Two years – $3.99/mo, billed at $95.76 for the first two years and $99.48 per year afterward
In case you’re not satisfied with NordVPN, you may request a refund within 30 days.
Online Protection Protocols: 5/5
Multi-hop connections are used by NordVPN instead of relying on a single VPN server to carry your internet traffic. All of the servers are completely out of disk space. NordVPN uses 256-bit AES encryption.
Clients may avoid potentially malicious content including adverts and websites as well as bots with the help of CyberSec. The Threat Protection feature protects you against malicious advertisements, spyware, and trackers even if your VPN connection is off.
If the connection to the VPN server ever drops, the Kill Switch will immediately disable Internet access.
Zero Logs Policy: 4.7/5
According to NordVPN, no customer data is saved or sold during third-party audits.
- Bandwidth usage
- Traffic logs
- IP addresses
- Connection time stamps
- Session information
- Browsing data
Number of Simultaneous Connections Available: 4.7/5
The NordVPN service allows users to connect up to six devices simultaneously. Many users may not need more than six simultaneous connections, however, some service providers do provide more.
Servers: 4.5/5
One of the most well-known VPNs is NordVPN, which offers over 5,600 servers in 59 different locations.
Overall Score: 4.6/5
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3. ExpressVPN – Best VPN Service for Country Selection
Pros:
- There are 94 different locations for servers
- Up-to-date technology
- Help with technological issues is available around the clock
- Get your money back if you’re not happy within 30 days
- Plans are available on a monthly, semiannual, and annual basis
Cons:
- There’s a limit of 5 active connections at once
- Those that involve more than one hop are not included
- It’s pricier than the majority of its rivals
Not only does ExpressVPN provide the usual VPN security, but it also has some unique features, such as the MediaStreamer and Lightway technology. The company’s technical support team is constantly accessible, unlike several competitors.
This company often releases updates to its released apps, which add new functionality and address bugs.
Plan Term Lengths and Discounts: 4/5
ExpressVPN provides three different subscription options to its customers:
- Monthly – $12.95
- Six months – $9.99/mo, billed at $59.95 every six months
- One year + three free months – $6.67/mo, initially billed for 15 months, with renewals every 12 months
A 30-day money-back guarantee is included with each package.
Online Protection Protocols: 4.6/5
ExpressVPN has a safety feature and supports split tunneling. This service provider uses AES 256-bit encryption to ensure that customer data is never retained on its own servers or in its users’ accounts.
Zero Logs Policy: 4.7/5
ExpressVPN promises that it will not log any of its users’ activity, including DNS queries or traffic data.
Number of Simultaneous Connections Available: 4.2/5
At the low end of the scale, ExpressVPN only allows five devices to be connected at once. Nonetheless, if you want to safeguard your home network, you may connect your wifi to your modem. When enabled, this feature safeguards all Wi-Fi-connected devices on your network, including game consoles, IoT devices, and smart TVs.
Servers: 4.6/5
ExpressVPN has a worldwide server network that spans more than 94 countries and has more than 3,000 servers.
Overall Score: 4.4/5
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4. Surfshark – Best VPN Privacy Tools
Pros:
- An infinite number of gadgets may be linked together at once
- The use of WireGuard
- Service is accessible around the clock, every day of the year
- Quite possibly the best live chat assistance ever
- Superior methods of secrecy
Cons:
- Speeds are mediocre at best
- Subscriptions are expensive and renewed every month
- The kill switch is not always effective
Surfshark’s unlocking features extend to smart TVs and game consoles in addition to a broad variety of browser add-ons and mobile applications. The fact that there’s no limit on the number of devices any user may connect at once is a major selling point for this service.
However, Surfshark’s pace is much slower than those of its competitors. A second best VPN service, NordVPN, has partnered with this provider.
Plan Term Lengths and Discounts: 4/5
There are three different contract lengths that Surfshark may pick from:
- Monthly – $12.95
- One year – $3.99/mo, billed at $47.88 yearly.
- Two years – $2.49/mo, billed at $59.76 for the first term and renewing at that price annually after 24 months.
As long as you send the item back within 30 days, you’ll get your money back.
Online Protection Protocols: 5/5
The Internet Key Exchange (IKE) version 2 protocol, along with the original IKE version 1, are both supported by this Virtual private network. Features such as AES-256 GCM encryption and multi-hop split tunneling tools are available for the benefit of subscribers.
Surfshark is a filtering browser that can block websites, advertisements, and even your location using GPS technology. Starting with the present IP Rotator, further functionality enabled by Nexus technology will be made available over the following two years. A new IP address is assigned by the system every few minutes, giving the user a degree of anonymity not seen in other methods.
Zero Logs Policy: 4.8/5
In accordance with its privacy policy, Surfshark does not record information about its user’s activities online, including the amount of data transferred or the sites visited. This policy is easy to read and understand.
Number of Simultaneous Connections Available: 5/5
Surfshark customers in larger households and businesses may use an unlimited number of devices at once, vastly enhancing their online experience.
Servers: 4.1/5
Over 3,200 servers for Surfshark are available worldwide, spread over 65 different nations.
Overall Score: 4.6/5
5. ProtonVPN – Best for Free VPN Service
Pros:
- Uses OpenVPN or WireGuard
- Affordable and adaptable pricing structures
- The free edition has no restrictions on how much data you may use
- Equipped with sophisticated security measures
- Superb velocity
Cons:
- The fundamental layout only allows for 5 concurrent connections
- There’s no ad blocking
- Isn’t Chrome-compatible or easy to use with it
ProtonVPN offers three tiers of service, including a free tier with unlimited bandwidth, which is unusual among VPN services. It’s a great option since it offers both additional privacy safeguards and a straightforward UI.
Plan Term Lengths and Discounts: 4.3/5
ProtonVPN is one of the best VPN services that offers unlimited bandwidth while being completely free. There are three ProtonVPN plans to choose from:
- Basic – $4/mo, billed at $48 yearly
- Plus – $8/mo, billed at $96 yearly
- Visionary (includes a ProtonMail Visionary account) – $24/mo, billed at $288 yearly
Protecting Yourself Online: 4.7
ProtonVPN ensures the safety of its customers by using OpenVPN and WireGuard. 256-bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) or ChaCha20 cryptosystem is employed for security. Some of these features include a kill switch, content screening, and security against DNS leaks. Depending on what you’re looking for in a membership, features like ad blocking, file transfer support, streaming services, access to Tor, and Secure Core may all be available to you.
Zero Logs Policy: 4.8/5
All ProtonVPN accounts are 100% log-free.
Number of Simultaneous Connections Available: 4.1/5
The number of devices a consumer may use concurrently is dependent on the pricing tier of their plan.
- Free – 1 connection
- Basic – 2 connections
- Plus – 10 connections
- Visionary – 10 connections
Servers: 4/5
ProtonVPN has 1,529 servers located in 61 different countries.
Overall Score: 4.4/5
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6. Windscribe – Best VPN Provider Plan Options
Pros:
- Facilitated usage
- Excellent cost-effectiveness
- Up-to-date technology
- Profound DNS filtering
- Use of an unlimited number of devices at once
Cons:
- Although a chatbot is available, real-time communication is not
- Not having assistance available at all hours
- No safety checks
- Slower than the average
Windscribe is superior to other VPN services in the number of malware strains it can prevent. Customers have more options here than at many other businesses.
Plan Term Lengths and Discounts: 4.8/5
You may “Build a Plan” in Windscribe for a little price.
- Monthly – $9
- One year – $4.08/mo, billed at $49 yearly
- Build a Plan – $1 per location, billed monthly
One ScribeForce account may be used by up to five users at once. Users will be charged $3 monthly. Priced at $8 monthly, static Servers may be bought for use in a single location.
If you’ve used less than ten gigabytes in the last three days, you may be eligible for a refund.
Online Protection Protocols: 4.8/5
WireGuard, OpenVPN, and Internet Key Exchange version 2 are some of the protocols used to encrypt and decrypt data.
Zero Logs Policy: 4.5/5
Windscribe claims that it will not record anything about your VPN use, including your IP address or activities. It remembers the date and time of your previous login and how much data you’ve used in the last thirty days.
Number of Simultaneous Connections Available: 5/5
A single Windscribe account may be used on an unlimited number of devices.
Servers: 3.5/5
Windscribe has around 500 servers spread over more than 60 different countries.
Overall Score: 4.5/5
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7. TunnelBear – Best VPN Provider for Independent Security Audits
Pros:
- Simple in design and operation
- Independent and thorough security audits once a year
- Very fast speeds
- Complete protection of user data
Cons:
- Compared to other services, it lacks in key areas
- Data transfer for the free version is highly limited
- Doesn’t bypass regional restrictions on as many services as its rivals
TunnelBear provides a freemium edition in addition to student discounts, making it an inexpensive option.
Plan Term Lengths and Discounts: 4.7/5
TunnelBear offers a free tier as well as two paid plans.
The Unlimited package offers three distinct tiers:
- Monthly – $9.99
- One year – $4.99/mo, billed at $59.88 yearly
- Three years – $3.33/mo, billed once at $12
The TunnelBear team’s plan requires a minimum of two users. $5.75 per user each month is the standard charge. There’s a 70% discount for students who can prove their student status on a two-year subscription.
Online Protection Protocols: 4.1/5
TunnelBear encrypts your data using the robust AES 256-bit algorithm. Though it employs OpenVPN standards, WireGuard is not accepted. Only in times of peak demand can TunnelBear make use of its over 20% virtual server capacity.
Zero Logs Policy: 5/5
Tunnelbear’s policy on user privacy provides extensive information. Neither DNS requests nor IP addresses are logged, according to the TunnelBear website. Nonetheless, it tracks the data use of free users due to the plan’s bandwidth limit.
Number of Simultaneous Connections Available: 4/5
As opposed to the best VPN services, TunnelBear limits users to only five connected gadgets at once.
Servers: 4/5
The TunnelBear network consists of over 3,000 servers located in 49 different nations.
Overall Score: 4.4/5
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Ranking Methodology
Multiple criteria were used in the creation of this ranking of the best VPN services, including:
- Pricing
- Encryption protocols
- Speeds
- The number of allowed simultaneous connections
- Zero log policies
- Features
Those who most closely met all of our criteria and excelled in one or more of those areas were our best VPN services.
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What Is a VPN
Using a virtual private network (VPN), you may connect securely to the internet from your computer. A tunnel’s encrypted connection will keep your online activities private. It may also bypass firewalls and give you an IP address from another country, letting you access sites that normally wouldn’t work in your region.
A computer’s location on the internet is designated by a unique number called an IP address. The IP address of a device may be used to track its geographical origin and the history of websites visited. If you allow your devices to broadcast their exact location, you put yourself in considerable danger from data miners and hackers.
A virtual private network, or VPN, may help you remain anonymous while browsing the web. An alternative is to use a VPN, which will hide your IP address and reveal the providers. A VPN may encrypt your data in transit, protecting it from prying eyes like attackers and data breaches while also shielding your identity and financial information from prying eyes like advertisers and hiding your online activity and purchases from prying eyes like credit agencies.
While a virtual private network (VPN) may significantly improve the security of your mobile phone and other devices, it cannot guarantee your anonymity online or prevent you from being hacked. Don’t download files from suspicious senders or visit unfamiliar websites.
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Should You Use a VPN Constantly
It’s useless to have a VPN if it cannot connect. Using a VPN on a regular basis has several benefits:
- The risk of becoming the victim of a cyberattack rises while using a public Wi-Fi connection. Without your awareness, your device may be joined to a “twin” network, a fake network that closely resembles the one you wish to use. A virtual private network might be useful here.
- Online banking comes with the risk of being hacked and having your personal information stolen. In order to avoid unintentionally conducting financial dealings without utilizing your encrypted tunnel, you should have your VPN active at all times.
- Therefore, your ISP or other third parties may trade your confidential info to marketers who will then use it to send you targeted ads. If you constantly use a VPN, neither third parties nor your Internet service provider will be able to see your browsing history (VPN).
- Not all websites provide the same level of risk, and some might compromise your security more than others. Using a virtual private network (VPN), on a daily basis protects you against the risks of accessing unsecured websites, such as those lacking the HTTPS protocol.
- A player’s Internet service provider (ISP) might slow down their connection or block access from their country. Using a virtual private network (VPN) may help gamers avoid these blocks, opening up access to content from other countries and improving their gaming experience.
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Do VPN Providers Sell Your Data
Some best VPN services, despite their claim that they would keep your browser history private, actually share such information with other parties. If you choose a VPN service that doesn’t keep logs, all traces of your past use and connections will be deleted.
Use of a virtual private network (VPN) leaves a paper trail of your online activities, including URLs, visits, and identities assumed when surfing the web. In your VPN server logs, you may see information such as the amount of data you use, the times you join and disconnect, the length of your sessions, and the frequency with which you use the service.
Even though best VPN services may keep logs for troubleshooting purposes, you should make sure that they do not sell or share your data and that they delete the logs after a fair length of time.
What Is VPN Encryption
If you don’t encrypt your online transactions and communications, anybody may see your personal and financial details. Encryption ensures that only authorized parties, such as yourself, may view your data, even if it’s stolen.
Many best VPN services employ AES 256-bit encryption. In addition to IKEv2, OpenVPN, and WireGuard, you also have additional VPN choices.
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What Are Split Tunneling and Multi-Hop Connections
If you look at the best VPN services, you’ll come across these terms. By using split tunneling, you may decide which programs connect to the internet over your VPN and which do not. Multi-hop connections use many servers rather than just one to conceal your IP address.
What Is a Server
A server is a sophisticated computer used to handle and store data for connections, network systems, and network devices. Virtual private network (VPN) servers are often just regular servers with VPN software installed on top.
Virtual private networks (VPNs) often use both physical and virtual server infrastructure. A physical server may host a virtual server, eliminating the need for dedicated hardware.
There’s a risk that the best VPN services’ overall performance may suffer if it uses too many servers. By adding more servers, we can distribute the load and improve speeds for all users. There will be a greater variety of IP addresses available, and the connection should be more stable than a VPN.
The greater the number of server locations, the better, since you’ll have more options for server setups to choose from.
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How Can You Choose the Best VPN Service
A decent virtual private network (VPN) for mobile devices should include a number of key characteristics, however, they might vary from user to user.
People who use a virtual private network (VPN) for business or when traveling internationally may have different motivations than individuals who employ a virtual private network for personal usage. Verify the best VPN service you’re thinking about.
- Does not keep any logs and will not sell your data
- Guarantees your satisfaction or gives you your money back
- Supports a sufficient number of concurrent connections for your requirements
- Availability at any time of day or night
- Facilitates rapid data transfer
- Provides consistent access to servers from your location
- Utilizes sophisticated encryption methods
- Fully compatible with whatever platform your devices use
The supplementary features of the best VPN service, such as ad filtering, unblocking of streaming, extra security layers, and transparency should also be taken into account. Learn more about each service by reading reviews written by users, experts in the field, and unbiased third parties.
After you have a shortlist of promising options, you should include their monthly and annual costs along with any pricing incentives, such as free months of service.
Though the best VPN services provide significant discounts for yearly subscriptions, it’s still wise to take advantage of any introductory or monthly free trials that may be available.
You may have a taste of the best VPN service while committing to a subscription if you’re unsure it will meet your needs.
Are You Prepared to Make a Decision on the Best VPN Services?
You should think about using the best VPN services if you care about your privacy when surfing the web (VPN). Connecting your phone or other devices directly to the internet might endanger your privacy, so this is a safer alternative.
When trying to choose the best VPN service for your needs, it’s important to read reviews and consider other variables. Like any other business or product, some best VPN service administrators are superior to others. It’s crucial to choose a reliable provider that will keep your data safe.
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AURORA, Colo. (KDVR) — A Colorado police officer was not only not fired after he was found drunk and passed out in his unmarked patrol car in 2019, but now he has received a promotion.
Nate Meier, of the Aurora Police Department, was promoted to agent-detective effective Dec. 24, which brings his salary to $110,399, the department confirmed to KDVR.
Body camera video captured officers responding to the call on March 29, 2019, on a welfare check. Dispatch was told an unconscious person — possibly an APD officer — was inside a car outside Buckley Air Force Base.
Aurora firefighters were already at the scene when officers arrived. Meier was in the driver’s seat of an unmarked Ford Taurus patrol car stopped in the middle of a street with the engine running, according to a report.
“Agent Meier appeared to be disoriented and did not appear to be responsive to instructions from (Aurora Fire Rescue) to open the door to the vehicle. After the wheels were chocked, decision was made to break the passenger side window to the vehicle, which was done by AFR,” an officer who responded to the scene said in the report at the time.
The responding officer said that Meier’s weapons were removed and that he smelled what he believed to be alcohol on Meier, according to the report.
The report goes on to say that Meier admitted to internal affairs that he left work to go home and admitted to drinking vodka from a bottle while at home. He was still on duty at the time.
“You admitted that you were impaired by alcohol. You stated you had no recollections of anything else until you woke up in the hospital,” the report states.
Meier was cleared of criminal charges after a review by the 18th Judicial District Attorney’s Office in 2019.
Why he wasn’t fired
Aurora’s police chief at the time of the incident, Nick Metz, said he didn’t fire Meier because he owned up to his poor decision.
“Since my arrival five years ago, I’ve made it very clear that when an employee makes a
mistake worthy of adverse action, before imposing discipline I not only consider the
actual offense, but I also take into serious consideration whether that individual owns
their mistake, takes responsibility, and takes steps to right the wrong,” Metz said in a 2019 email.
Aurora’s current interim police chief said he had a heart-to-heart conversation with Meier after he was promoted.
“After understanding that I could not stop the promotion,” Interim Police Chief Art Acevedo said, “I brought him in this office, and we had a very frank conversation about what would’ve happened had I been the chief, because it’s in policy.”
Acevedo also said Meier has since quit drinking.
“He should’ve done that before he got himself behind the wheel drunk driving, not after,” Acevedo said.
Because of a rule in Aurora’s charter, enough time had passed that Meier was eligible to accept a promotion to agent-detective and a $10,000 raise late last month.
“If it’s been over two years and they pass an examination, they pass the promotional process,” Acevedo said. “They go on a list, and you cannot bypass them.”
The incident, Acevedo said, was not good for the department’s image.
“It hurt us back then because someone that really committed a criminal offense did not face any consequences,” Acevedo said.
Meier has used this incident to train department recruits.
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Friday work days might be eliminated for most Southwest Allen County Schools employees who work throughout the summer.
The district is eyeing a four-day workweek that would have summertime staff on the clock for 10 hours per day, except for those who work with students during summer school at Homestead High School. Such employees would be expected to work their regularly scheduled hours five days a week every day summer school is in session.
Superintendent Park Ginder presented the recommended hours to the board this week, drawing no questions from members.
The plan would be new for SACS, but it mirrors other districts' practices throughout the state, spokeswoman Stacey Fleming said Thursday.
With the shortened workweek, the central office and school offices normally open during the summer would be open from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Thursday.
To ensure custodial, maintenance and transportation coverage on Fridays, some employees from those areas would have Mondays off instead.
Generally, employees would work from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. with a paid 30-minute lunch, but individuals would be allowed to adjust their hours provided they log 40 total hours.
The district, which operates nine traditional schools, would return to a five-day work schedule on July 24.
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American Lung Association, Ad Council raise awareness among parents and their kids about vaping with new PSAs created by Hill Holliday
CHICAGO, Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Lung Association and the Ad Council today launched a new series of public service advertisements (PSAs) encouraging parents to proactively talk to their kids about the dangers and health effects of vaping. The new PSAs, created pro bono by advertising agency Hill Holliday, are part of a broader campaign to raise awareness about the risks associated with youth vaping and help parents with kids aged 10-14 initiate important conversations with their kids to prevent their kids from starting.
"These new PSAs address the need for parents to educate themselves about the dangers of vaping in a way that feels relevant and timely," said Michelle Hillman, Chief Campaign Development Officer of the Ad Council. "We know that stress and peer pressure are the main motivators for kids to start vaping. With the beginning of a new school year and a host of pressures youth are facing, we're providing parents with critical resources and encouragement to have important conversations with their kids about vaping."
Rates of e-cigarette use by teens increased 73% from 2016 to 2020.[1] Currently 2.1 million kids use e-cigarettes[2] and thousands of kids start vaping every day.[3] Despite the growing number of youth who are vaping, many parents with children between ages 10-14 don't fully realize the risks associated with youth vaping. E-cigarettes contain harmful and addictive ingredients including nicotine, formaldehyde, which is known to cause cancer, and acrolein, and can also cause irreversible lung damage. Nicotine exposure during adolescence can harm the developing brain and lead to a lifetime of addiction to tobacco products. In addition, kids who use e-cigarettes are 4 times more likely to try a traditional cigarette and 3 times more likely to become addicted to nicotine.[4]
"Educational campaigns, and conversations that parents have with their pre-teens about issues like vaping are critical. We know from more than 50 years of efforts to end tobacco use that these educational programs make a difference to deter youth from using these very addictive products," said Harold Wimmer, National President and CEO for the American Lung Association. "While we are seeing historically low smoking rates, youth e-cigarette use is still unacceptably high. Collaboration, like our partnership with the Ad Council and Hill Holliday, is integral to ending the youth vaping epidemic."
Developed pro bono by creative agency Hill Holliday, the new PSAs use pop culture and viral dance video trends to connect parents and their kids as a lead-in to more serious conversations about the dangers of vaping. The spots feature dancer, social media influencer and anti-vaping activist Russell Horning, "The Backpack Kid," who gained fame after his "Flossing" dance video went viral.
"We are proud to launch this important and timely campaign, which will help protect kids' health as they head back to school," said Karen Kaplan, Chair and CEO, Hill Holliday. "We are deeply passionate about our partnership with the American Lung Association and the Ad Council; this ongoing collaboration has had a tremendous positive impact on Americans' health and continues to save lives."
"Young people don't always think about how the choices we make now can really hurt us when we get older," said the now 20-year-old Horning. "I'm proud to use my platform to encourage kids to never start vaping so they can reach their dreams without the health risks of vaping holding them back."
The campaign encourages parents to visit TalkAboutVaping.org for resources to empower parents to talk to their kids about vaping, such as a youth vaping "Get the Facts" page and Conversation Guide.
The "#DoTheVapeTalk" PSAs will appear nationwide in time and space donated by the media, across all advertising formats: broadcast, radio, digital, social, out-of-home and print. TikTok has committed to additional support of the campaign, collaborating with some of the platform's influential creators on the development of custom content, and providing significant donated media to reach parents with the campaign's critical message. Meta has also committed to providing donated media space to reach parents. Since the campaign's 2020 launch, the Lung Association and Ad Council's youth vaping prevention effort has received more than $35.4 million in donated media support across television, radio, print, out-of-home and digital media, receiving over 2.7 billion impressions.
For more information about #DoTheVapeTalk, or to access resources on talking to kids about the dangers of vaping, please visit TalkAboutVaping.org.
The American Lung Association is the leading organization working to save lives by improving lung health and preventing lung disease through education, advocacy and research. The work of the American Lung Association is focused on four strategic imperatives: to defeat lung cancer; to champion clean air for all; to improve the quality of life for those with lung disease and their families; and to create a tobacco-free future. For more information about the American Lung Association, which has a 4-star rating from Charity Navigator and is a Gold-Level GuideStar Member, or to support the work it does, call 1-800-LUNGUSA (1-800-586-4872) or visit: Lung.org.
The Ad Council is where creativity and causes converge. The non-profit organization brings together the most creative minds in advertising, media, technology and marketing to address many of the nation's most important causes. The Ad Council has created many of the most iconic campaigns in advertising history. Friends Don't Let Friends Drive Drunk. Smokey Bear. Love Has No Labels.
The Ad Council's innovative social good campaigns raise awareness, inspire action and save lives. To learn more, visit AdCouncil.org, follow the Ad Council's communities on Facebook and Twitter, and view the creative on YouTube.
Hill Holliday is proud to be one of the top creative marketing agencies in the country, with over 600 employees across our network. Since 1968, Hill Holliday has built its business on winning the daily share battle for clients in the noisiest and most competitive categories. Blending communications planning, media, and technology with superior creative, the agency delivers game-changing ideas for industry leaders like BMW Motorrad, Frontier Communications, Valvoline, Johnson & Johnson, Novartis, Regeneron, and Intra-Cellular Therapies. For more about Hill Holliday's people, work, and culture, visit http://www.hhcc.com.
[1] Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Notes from the Field: E-Cigarette Use Among Middle and High School Students — National Youth Tobacco Survey, United States, 2021. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. October 1, 2021; 70(39): 1387-1389.
[2] Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Notes from the Field: E-Cigarette Use Among Middle and High School Students — National Youth Tobacco Survey, United States, 2021. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. October 1, 2021; 70(39): 1387-1389.
[3] Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. National Youth Tobacco Survey, 2018. Analysis by the American Lung Association Epidemiology and Statistics Unit using SPSS software.
[4] Barrington-Trimis JL, et al. E-cigarette Use and Subsequent Smoking Frequency Among Adolescents. Pediatrics, 2018; 142(6):e20180486
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Revolutionary Development Inspires Stoke and Community With Hawaii's First Deep-Water Standing Wave, Unparalleled Aquatic Activities, Signature Dining and Innovative Events
EWA BEACH, Hawaii, March 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Wai Kai will introduce a new era of experiential recreation when it opens on Saturday, March 25, 2023, in Ewa Beach. Located 35 minutes from Honolulu within Hoakalei Resort, Wai Kai is a year-round venue for active adventurers anchored by the Wai Kai Wave and the adjacent 52-acre recreational Wai Kai Lagoon. Standout elements include three exceptional restaurants, bespoke events, Nalo Kai Club with private lounge and Sessions Lifestyle & Apparel shop. The LineUp at Wai Kai sets the stage for transformative experiences by bringing together the best of the island's activities while celebrating Hawaii's cultural ties to water.
"Wai Kai aims to create community and connection through interactive and engaging activities, dining and events," said Director of Retail Development Larry Caster. "We're excited to provide a unique place for locals to gather while introducing travelers to the vibrant surf and waterman lifestyle for which Hawaii is known."
Surfing:
Powered by citywave®, the Wai Kai Wave is Hawaii's first deep-water standing wave, offering an unrivaled surf experience for all levels from beginner to pro. Spanning 100-feet wide and adjustable from two- to six-feet high, the wave allows up to three lanes with 10 surfers per lane and emulates famous natural standing river waves like Oahu's legendary Waimea River. Six Surfside Cabanas adjacent to the Wai Kai Wave feature interior sofa seating, a mini refrigerator, sound system, live video feeds of the wave and additional amenities. Upcoming plans include the Wai Kai Wave Surf Academy, developed in collaboration with Wai Kai partner Shane Beschen, former world No. 2 ranked surfer, X-Games Champion and Red Bull's high-performance surf coach.
"Our goal isn't to replace the ocean, rather to be a valuable resource for water enthusiasts," said Beschen. "Our custom surfing program and innovative technology enable an in-depth approach to coaching made easier by the consistent and predictable nature of the Wai Kai Wave. It's the perfect practice arena for the sport's best to hone their craft, and an accessible entry point for beginners to learn in a controlled environment."
Beschen and other internationally acclaimed surfers are available for personalized instruction and training sessions. Current and former professional surfers are already flocking to the wave, including Olympic gold medalist Carissa Moore, world champion big wave surfer Kai Lenny, and "Mr. Pipeline" Gerry Lopez.
"I had the best time visiting The LineUp," said Lenny. "It's the perfect environment to improve surfing technique and try out different tricks because it's a never-ending ride. I can't wait to go back."
Watersports:
Guests can choose from a robust program of water activities on the protected 52-acre Wai Kai Lagoon, just steps away from the Pacific Ocean. A variety of watercraft are available to rent, including kayaks, stand-up paddleboards (SUP) and pedalboards, Hydrobikes, outrigger canoes, surfskis, pedal boats, Duffy boat cruises and AquaBana floating cabanas. Rentals are bookable by the hour or through the Play Your Way package, which allows visitors to swap out different watercraft and use the floating cabanas for the same hourly rate as a kayak or paddleboard rental. Individual or double-clamshell lounge chairs are available by reservation at the waterfront.
Dining:
Three unique dining venues will bring friends and family together for a variety of epicurean experiences. The LookOut Food & Drink, a Surfrider Foundation Ocean Friendly Restaurant, provides front-row views of the surf action from its expansive lanai and wave deck, as well as unobstructed views of the adjacent Wai Kai Lagoon and sparkling Pacific Ocean. The menu is inspired by famous surf spots around the world and celebrates the island's unique bounty with a focus on locally sourced products. At Foam Coffee & Bar, guests can sip on a variety of coffees, smoothies, fresh juices, and handcrafted cocktails along with snacks and grab-and-go food items.
Critically acclaimed Kitchen Door Napa debuts in Hawaii as Wai Kai's signature restaurant with a dual-dining concept housed in a two-story, 7,200-square-foot venue. Presented by the trio of partners known for their hospitality and culinary expertise: Michelin-awarded Chef Todd Humphries, Maui-born restaurateur Richard Miyashiro, and Managing Partner Tim Seberson, the synergistic restaurant offers a sophisticated yet approachable menu for broad-ranging appetites. Plaza Grill, the premier restaurant on the upper Plaza Level, boasts a full-service dining room, a wrap-around bar, an open kitchen, a spacious lanai with lagoon views and a parlor for intimate gatherings and celebrations. On the Lagoon level is Boardwalk Cafe, an interactive counter-service restaurant ideal for quick-service. It features an all-day menu of eclectic yet traditional favorites, elevated and prepared a la minute by classically trained chefs.
Events and Programming:
Hawaii-based Events International has partnered with Wai Kai to curate a robust schedule of interactive and engaging events and experiences for all ages. Wai Kai will host memorable group functions and catered events ranging from intimate gatherings to full buyouts. Venues include the 61,200-square-foot Event Lawn, Fire Pit Terrace, Lagoon Promenade along the adjacent Wai Kai Lagoon, the 12,600-square-foot Surfside Lawn by the Wai Kai Wave, and a variety of other function spaces.
Set events include social paddles on the Wai Kai Lagoon; farmers markets highlighting local products and vendors; Wahine Wednesdays, a surf, paddle or yoga session followed by food and drink specials at The LookOut; and Sustainability Sundays, a monthly event featuring a locally based non-profit organizations committed to sustainable solutions. Additional future offerings will include Camp Kai, a multi-day camp for children during certain dates throughout the year.
The signature Wai Kai Show will enthrall guests every Monday evening starting April 17, 2023, and includes a family-style dinner alongside a spellbinding show featuring dancers, musicians and surfers. Hawaiian and Tahitian performers weave a story of water through song and dance and incorporate live surfing by utilizing the Wai Kai Wave - the perfect way to learn about the history of Heʻe Nalu (surfing) and Heʻe Puʻe Wai (river wave surfing).
Sustainability:
The LineUp at Wai Kai has been benchmarked by Sustainable Tourism & Outdoors Kit for Evaluation (STOKE), the only sustainability standard built for the surf park industry. The STOKE Surf Parks standard was created with input from major wave technology providers and surf parks.
In addition, The LineUp at Wai Kai is proud to be working with Sustainable Surf and its Hawaii-based SeaTrees program. For every guest activity booking on the Wai Kai Wave or the Wai Kai Lagoon, one dollar is donated to the SeaTrees program to provide support for the restoration of coral reefs, coastal watersheds, kelp forests, mangroves and educational programs. Each token purchased sequesters one ton of carbon emissions through double certified carbon credits and restores one square-foot of coastal watershed on Maui.
Wai Kai operates with a no single-use plastic policy and all disposable products must be 100 percent BPI certified compostable. Sustainable options for grab-and-go packaging include Sustainable Island Products and Mananalu Water.
Bookings and Membership:
The private Nalo Kai Lounge features a club-style locker room, showers and air-conditioned lounge with concierge services. Visitors can access the club with a day pass or monthly membership. Pricing starts at $90 for a 45-minute surf session and $45 for a one-hour watercraft rental. The LineUp Local is a monthly and annual membership program designed for Kama'aina (local Hawaii residents) and military with price discounts and preferred access to special programming and events. LineUp Local pricing starts at $70 for a 45-minute surf session and $34 for a one-hour watercraft rental.
Bookings are available online here. For more information visit, https://waikai.com/ or https://atthelineup.com/.
About The LineUp at Wai Kai
The LineUp at Wai Kai is an exciting waterfront recreation and entertainment destination at Hoakalei Resort in West Oahu. It will serve as a dynamic social and activity hub featuring the Wai Kai Wave powered by citywave® along with stand-up paddling, kayaking and other water activities on the adjacent Wai Kai Lagoon. Dining venues at The LineUp include The LookOut Food & Drink offering a front-row view of the surf action, and Foam Coffee & Bar. Other amenities include The Nalo Kai Club and Sessions Lifestyle & Apparel. For more information, visit www.atthelineup.com/ or www.waikai.com.
Haseko Family of Companies
As a developer of residential, commercial and resort properties in Hawaii since 1973, the Haseko Family of Companies have built a solid reputation for high-quality projects and a genuine commitment to the community. Among its most prized hotel, commercial and residential projects are the award-winning, master planned communities of Ocean Pointe and Hoakalei Resort, Kauai Beach Villas and Kauai Hilton Hotel, Kaanapali Shores resort condominiums on Maui, The Courtyards at Punahou and Ocean View Center in Honolulu. The Haseko Family of Companies are separate and independent companies which include Wai Kai. For convenience, these companies are referred to as the Haseko Family of Companies.
Surf Park Management, Inc., manager of The LineUp at Wai Kai, is a proven and professional management team focused on delivering successful business results in the emerging surf park arena. Based in San Diego, California, SPM provides consulting and management services to developers and investors to surf parks and their related recreational and hospitality operations. SPM is technology-agnostic and works with the surf technology that works best for the specific venues and its operating parameters. The team consists of surf and sports enthusiasts with deep expertise in complex resort operations and event management.
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Including the cities of Somes Bar, Happy Camp, Callahan, Etna,
Fort Jones, Greenview, and Scott Bar
202 AM PDT Sat Oct 8 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s to lower 90s. East winds
around 5 mph shifting to the west this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 50s to lower 60s. West winds
5 to 10 mph shifting to the southeast after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s to mid 80s. Southeast winds
around 5 mph shifting to the west in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 50s to lower 60s.
Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph shifting to the east well after
midnight.
.COLUMBUS DAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s to mid 80s. East
winds around 5 mph shifting to the north in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Cooler. Lows in the mid 40s to mid
50s.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Highs in the lower 70s to
lower 80s. Lows in the mid 40s to mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...Clear. Highs in the mid 70s to mid
80s. Lows in the mid 40s to mid 50s.
$$
CAZ081-082300-
Central Siskiyou County-
Including the cities of Hilt, Klamath River, and Yreka
202 AM PDT Sat Oct 8 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s to lower 90s. East winds
around 5 mph shifting to the north late this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s. North winds 5 to
10 mph shifting to the west late in the evening, then shifting to
the southwest after midnight shifting to the northeast well after
midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 80s. East winds around
5 mph shifting to the north late in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower to mid 50s. North winds
5 to 10 mph shifting to the west after midnight, then shifting to
the east well after midnight.
.COLUMBUS DAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 80s. East winds
around 5 mph shifting to the northwest in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s to
lower 50s. Highs in the mid 70s to mid 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY...Clear. Lows in the mid 40s to
lower 50s. Highs in the mid 70s to mid 80s.
$$
CAZ082-082300-
South Central Siskiyou County-
Including the cities of Mount Shasta, Dunsmuir, and McCloud
202 AM PDT Sat Oct 8 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s to mid 80s. Northeast winds
around 5 mph shifting to the southwest this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 40s to mid 50s. Southwest winds
5 to 10 mph shifting to the north late in the evening and
overnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s to mid 80s. Northeast winds
around 5 mph shifting to the south in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 40s to lower 50s.
Southwest winds around 5 mph shifting to the north late in the
evening and overnight.
.COLUMBUS DAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s to mid 80s. North
winds around 5 mph shifting to the northwest late in the
afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s
to lower 50s. Highs in the mid 70s to mid 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Clear. Lows in the mid 30s to mid
40s. Highs in the lower 70s to lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY...Clear. Lows in the lower 40s to
lower 50s. Highs in the mid 70s to mid 80s.
$$
CAZ083-082300-
North Central and Southeast Siskiyou County-
Including the cities of Pondosa, Bray, and Tennant
202 AM PDT Sat Oct 8 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s to mid 80s. Northeast winds
around 5 mph shifting to the southwest this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 40s to mid 50s. Northwest winds
5 to 10 mph shifting to the north well after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s to lower 80s. Northeast
winds around 5 mph shifting to the south early in the afternoon,
then shifting to the west late in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 40s to lower 50s.
Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.COLUMBUS DAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s to lower 80s. North
winds around 5 mph shifting to the northwest late in the
afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s
to lower 50s. Highs in the lower 70s to lower 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower
40s to lower 50s. Highs in the mid 60s to mid 70s.
.THURSDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...Clear. Highs in the lower 70s to lower
80s. Lows in the lower 40s to lower 50s.
$$
CAZ084-082300-
Northeast Siskiyou and Northwest Modoc Counties-
Including the cities of Newell, Tulelake, Dorris, and Macdoel
202 AM PDT Sat Oct 8 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 80s. South winds around
5 mph shifting to the north this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower to mid 40s. Northwest winds
around 5 mph shifting to the west after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s to lower 80s. Southwest
winds around 5 mph shifting to the east late in the morning, then
shifting to the north in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower to mid 40s. Northwest
winds around 5 mph.
.COLUMBUS DAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s to lower 80s.
Northeast winds around 5 mph shifting to the northwest in the
afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s to
mid 40s. Highs in the lower 70s to lower 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY...Clear. Lows in the mid 30s to
lower 40s. Highs in the lower 70s to lower 80s.
$$
CAZ085-082300-
Modoc County-
Including the cities of Day, Lookout, Adin, Alturas, Canby,
Davis Creek, and Likely
202 AM PDT Sat Oct 8 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s to lower 80s. Northeast
winds around 5 mph shifting to the west this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 40s to lower 50s. Northwest
winds around 5 mph shifting to the north well after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s to lower 80s. Northeast
winds around 5 mph shifting to the northwest in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 40s.
Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph shifting to the northeast after
midnight.
.COLUMBUS DAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s to lower 80s. East
winds around 5 mph shifting to the northwest in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to
mid 40s. Highs in the lower 70s to lower 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid
30s to lower 40s. Highs in the mid 60s to mid 70s.
.THURSDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...Clear. Highs in the lower 70s to lower
80s. Lows in the mid 30s to mid 40s.
$$
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(WXIN) – Chipotle is promising a major treat (no tricks) for customers this Halloween.
For the first time since 2019, the chain is bringing back its “Boorito” promotion where Chipotle Rewards members can get a free $6 entree for dressing up in costume at one of its restaurants after 3 p.m. on Halloween. (Taxes, tips, and sides are not included in the promo.)
The offer is only available to Rewards members who place their order at a restaurant and then scan the Chipotle app at the register. It does not apply to delivery, digital or catering orders.
“Boorito is all about having fun with your friends and enjoying real food in our restaurants,” said Chipotle Chief Marketing Officer Chris Brandt. “After two years of celebrating virtually, we’re leveling up the in-person experience with fun activations on social that will help bring fans together on Halloween.”
The company is also launching two contests where customers can either win a year’s worth of burritos or cash.
If you want to win some grub, you’ll have to tag Chipotle on the BeReal app on Halloween. Your picture must be taken while in costume at Chipotle. Ten people will get free burritos for a year.
You can also send an email with”BooReal Sweepstakes” in the subject line to sweepstakes@chipotle.com for a chance to win.
If you want the cash, you need to follow @ChipotleTweets on Twitter and enter a code on Cash App when a tweet is sent out about a giveaway on the following days: October 13, 20, 25, or 27. A total of $25,000 will be given out in this contest.
You can find more details about the contests here.
Chipotle says the Boorito promotion is the company’s longest running promotion. This year will be the 22nd year. | https://cw33.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/chipotle-bringing-back-in-store-boorito-promo-for-halloween/ | 2022-10-12 18:45:02 | 1 | https://cw33.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/chipotle-bringing-back-in-store-boorito-promo-for-halloween/ |
SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Wex Inc. (WEX) on Thursday reported fourth-quarter earnings of $88.7 million.
The South Portland, Maine-based company said it had net income of $2.02 per share. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, came to $3.44 per share.
The results surpassed Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of seven analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $3.21 per share.
The provider of fuel payment processing for fleet vehicles posted revenue of $618.6 million in the period, also surpassing Street forecasts. Six analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $575.8 million.
For the year, the company reported profit of $201.4 million, or $4.50 per share. Revenue was reported as $2.35 billion.
For the current quarter ending in March, Wex expects its per-share earnings to range from $3.15 to $3.25.
The company said it expects revenue in the range of $600 million to $610 million for the fiscal first quarter.
Wex expects full-year earnings in the range of $13.55 to $14.05 per share, with revenue ranging from $2.43 billion to $2.47 billion.
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Massive school brawl involving 200 people leads to hospitalized officer, 10 arrests
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB/Gray News) - A massive brawl broke out Wednesday morning on a school campus in Louisiana resulting in a hospitalized officer and multiple arrests.
Baton Rouge officials said 10 people were arrested at East Baton Rouge Readiness Alternative School after multiple fights involving both students and parents broke out across the school’s grounds.
According to the East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office, the EBRP School Board Security responded shortly after 8 a.m. to reports of a major campus disturbance in the courtyard outside the school’s gym. Additional help was requested after the security staff discovered around 200 students and parents fighting.
Officials said a Baton Rouge police officer was seriously injured and taken to a hospital with a broken hip and head lacerations.
Police charged three students with battery on a police officer, which is a felony.
WAFB reports the officer was the only person taken to a hospital, but other injuries were also reported, including an East Baton Rouge Parish sheriff’s deputy, who was punched in the face.
Authorities said they found a loaded gun in the grassy area in front of the school during the fight.
A total of 10 arrests were made by the responding departments. The ages of those arrested ranged from 15 to 18 years old.
In a statement released following the campus-wide fight, the East Baton Rouge Parish School System said fighting originally broke out between two female students before escalating to include more students and eventually non-student adults. The adults arrived on the campus after they received text messages about the initial fight from people on the campus.
The school system said it will continue to cooperate with the authorities to review evidence of what led to the situation, and will work with them to provide increased security.
The NAACP of Baton Rouge also released a statement condemning the participants of the fight as well as the responding law officers who were caught on video striking students involved in the fight.
The school is an alternative school home to students in grades 9-12 who were suspended or expelled from other East Baton Rouge Parish public schools.
The EBR Schools director of communication said the school remains open with increased security.
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May 15, 2023
Marquee match
Michael Martz reports that the June 20 Democratic primary between Sen. Joe Morrissey and former Del. Lashrecse Aird is gaining national attention a year after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
Martz reports that Aird is trying to ride a rising tide of national concern over the future of abortion rights in her quest to unseat Morrissey, a Catholic who says he is personally opposed to abortion, but believes the decision on abortion should be made by a woman and her doctor.
Morrissey is staking his reelection on voters caring about issues other than abortion, such as criminal justice reform, high-speed internet and economic opportunity, in a predominantly Black Democratic district that stretches from eastern Henrico and Charles City counties through the Tri-Cities into rural Southside.
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Morrissey had better hope he is right, political analyst Bob Holsworth said. “To the extent that people vote on that (abortion) issue, he will lose.” READ MORE
WHAT'S NEXT?
Voting rights: House Minority Leader Don Scott Jr., D-Portsmouth and Sen. Mamie Locke, D-Hampton, are holding a 9 a.m. news conference on Monday to criticize the Youngkin administration over voting rights. This likely will touch on Virginia's withdrawal from the Electronic Registration Information Center, a nonprofit membership organization created by state election officials to help improve the accuracy of state voter rolls and register more eligible Americans to vote. Virginia was a charter member of the organization.
Convention: Kevin Bailey, former Del. Tom Garrett and Jennie A. Wood face off Saturday in a GOP convention for the party's nomination in House District 56, a strong Republican district that extends from Goochland and Fluvanna to Appomattox.
WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT
Gas leaks: Luca Powell reports that Richmond Gas Works leaks millions of dollars in natural gas each year "as 170-year-old cast iron pipes corrode or when the pipes are accidentally nicked by construction crews." READ MORE
Vetoes: Michael Martz reports that Gov. Glenn Youngkin vetoed five bills, including two identical measures carried by Republican leaders in both chambers meant to amend a pilot program for underground electric transmission lines to add a project in Fauquier County. Youngkin objected to the inclusion of an electricity distribution line along Route 1 in Fairfax County. READ MORE
Schapiro: Politics columnist Jeff Schapiro writes that John Charles Thomas, the first Black justice on the state Supreme Court, made history and good trouble. READ MORE
Bay cleanup lags: Dave Ress reports that a science group is suggesting new approaches, such as transporting animal waste out of the Chesapeake Bay watershed and offering financial incentives tied to actual reductions in nitrogen and phosphorus pollution. READ MORE
CHOOSING SIDES
A couple of notes across the transom show how the coming fight for the GOP presidential nomination is playing into Virginia's down-card political contests.
First, Rep. Bob Good, R-5th endorsed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for president, saying, in part, that: "Governor DeSantis gives us the best opportunity to win and restore the conservative America-first agenda."
This endorsement is notable for a number of reasons. Good, the fourth member of Congress to back the Florida governor's expected bid, calls himself a “biblical, constitutional conservative." He a former employee of Liberty University, where then-President Jerry Falwell Jr.'s endorsement of Trump in 2016 was instrumental in swaying evangelical voters.
Theoretically, Good's backing of DeSantis could give him a bit of insulation should Good face a GOP challenge for his congressional nomination next year.
As president, Trump endorsed Good in 2020. Good responded at the time by saying: “I’m thankful to have received the support of our President and look forward to working alongside him on his America First Agenda.”
In January 2021, after Democrat Joe Biden defeated Trump, Good objected to the electoral college certification.
DeSantis was a founding member of the House Freedom Caucus, of which Good is now a member.
Also last week, Lance Allen, one of eight GOP candidates in a Winchester-area state Senate primary, took a different tack. On Twitter Allen released his "full and resounding endorsement for @realDonaldTrump for President."
Allen wrote on Twitter: "Our great nation, which thrived under President Trump's leadership, is being dragged down a dangerous path. It’s time to take a stand."
Allen's stance won't hurt him in a strongly Republican 1st District where Trump beat Democrat Hillary Clinton 2-to-1 in 2016. If Allen's name sounds familiar, he was one of the six Republicans who vied for the lieutenant governor nomination that went to Winsome Earle-Sears in a May 2021 convention.
You also might remember that Earle-Sears, who once rallied African American support for Trump, announced in November 2022 that she was breaking with Trump, saying it is time for the GOP to move on.
As for 2024, Gov. Glenn Youngkin continues to keep his powder dry while focusing on this fall's legislative elections. Last November Youngkin declined to take a swipe at Trump after the former president mocked him on social media. “That’s not the way I roll," Youngkin said at the time. "That’s not the way I behave.”
Youngkin is on record - during his September 2021 debate with Terry McAuliffe - as saying of Trump: “If he’s the Republican nominee, I’ll support him.”
IN OTHER NEWS
• Dave Ress and Eric Kolenich report that development is red hot in New Kent County and eastern Henrico County, but Varina residents want to maintain its rural character. READ MORE
• Kolenich reports that Virginia Commonwealth University will raise tuition by 3% next year. READ MORE
• Kolenich further reports that VCU will begin construction on its athletics village this fall. READ MORE
PHOTO OF THE WEEK
FRIDAY TRIVIA
Who was the first U.S. president to be featured on a circulated coin?
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
“This has been a fascinating race to watch. He’s a pro-life Democrat running in a majority-minority district.”
- Political analyst Bob Holsworth on Sen. Joe Morrissey's primary contest with former Del. Lashrecse Aird
TRIVIA ANSWER
Abraham Lincoln became the first president featured on a circulated coin. He was featured on the penny beginning in 1909 to mark the centennial of his birth. | https://richmond.com/richmond-politics-05-15-2023/article_b2aa535e-f2c3-11ed-93e8-7fbbb10d6fd4.html | 2023-05-15 09:47:25 | 1 | https://richmond.com/richmond-politics-05-15-2023/article_b2aa535e-f2c3-11ed-93e8-7fbbb10d6fd4.html |
City’s Malcolm X Park project is an insult and injury to the area
As an abutter of Malcolm X Park, I have spent three decades beating back cultural and environmental displacement in my corner of Roxbury. Recently this has included three years of good-faith participation in what has unexpectedly become the disastrous park improvement project (“Malcolm X Park gets a remake but critics decry some of the changes, specifically the felling of 29 mature trees, which they say is an insult to an area that needs shade,” Metro, July 3).
Since its inception as a relatively modest upgrade to the park’s worn-out area of basketball and tennis courts, the project has morphed under the Rev. Mariama White-Hammond, Boston’s chief of environment, energy, and open space, into a $9 million monstrosity.
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The character, features, and users being eliminated from the area include more than the community-contested selection of trees for removal. Also gone, with minimal transparency or community input, are large puddingstone ledges, broad vistas of natural grass, and numerous (predominantly Latinx) softball and baseball leagues as two playing fields have been torn up to make way for a multi-use field with artificial turf.
I’m surprised to see Mayor Michelle Wu, who has campaigned for racial equity, environmental justice, and climate resilience, and White-Hammond pushing potentially toxic turf on Roxbury’s asthma-riddled children. Their argument for “accessibility” is no excuse for unselectively slaughtering the urban tree canopy and its myriad benefits.
Derrick Christopher Evans
Roxbury
Old photo shows ghosts of trees now gone from suburban street
Two articles in last Sunday’s Metro section really struck a chord (“Trees are trying to help with climate, but we need to let them,” Tricia Glass, Suburban Diary; and “Malcom X Park gets a remake” by Tiana Woodard and David Abel). So many old trees are lost when land is developed. Residents rightfully become upset when these mature trees are removed and replaced. The wildlife that inhabit these areas are deeply affected as well.
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A Facebook group in my community showed an image from decades ago of Elm Street in Milton, where a majestic elm once stood on the corner with just a handful of houses. Those houses still stand but most of the trees of various types are lost.
As I look around my neighborhood, I see a few trees remaining from that era, and I worry about losing them as the neighborhood changes. Urban and suburban planners need to do a better job to save these mature trees that have grown high above the rooftops. Developers need to save existing trees rather than simply replacing them with new ones. The impact of climate change and the role mature trees play in helping to ease humankind’s carbon footprint need to be at the forefront of the decisions of city and town officials alike.
Angela Ryan
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Braves vs. Phillies Probable Starting Pitchers Today - May 27
The Atlanta Braves (31-20) are looking for another big outing from a batter on a roll versus the Philadelphia Phillies (24-27) on Saturday at 4:10 PM ET, at Truist Park. Marcell Ozuna is riding a three-game homer streak.
This contest's pitching matchup is set, as the Braves will send Charlie Morton (5-4) to the mound, while Zack Wheeler (3-4) will answer the bell for the Phillies.
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Braves vs. Phillies Pitcher Matchup Info
- Date: Saturday, May 27, 2023
- Time: 4:10 PM ET
- TV: Fox Sports 1
- Location: Atlanta, Georgia
- Venue: Truist Park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Probable Pitchers: Morton - ATL (5-4, 3.61 ERA) vs Wheeler - PHI (3-4, 4.11 ERA)
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Braves Probable Starting Pitcher Tonight: Charlie Morton
- Morton (5-4) will take the mound for the Braves, his 10th start of the season.
- The right-hander's last appearance was on Monday, when he threw five innings against the Los Angeles Dodgers, giving up six earned runs while allowing seven hits.
- The 39-year-old has an ERA of 3.61, a 2.7 strikeout-to-walk ratio and a WHIP of 1.414 in nine games this season.
- In nine starts this season, he's earned a quality start in five of them.
- Morton has pitched five or more innings in nine straight games and will look to extend that streak.
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Phillies Probable Starting Pitcher Tonight: Zack Wheeler
- Wheeler (3-4) gets the starting nod for the Phillies in his 11th start of the season. He's put together a 4.11 ERA in 57 2/3 innings pitched, with 64 strikeouts.
- In his most recent time out on Monday, the right-hander threw six innings against the Arizona Diamondbacks, allowing three earned runs while surrendering eight hits.
- In 10 games this season, the 32-year-old has a 4.11 ERA and 10.1 strikeouts per nine innings, while allowing a batting average of .249 to opposing batters.
- Wheeler is looking to secure his sixth quality start of the season.
- Wheeler will try to pitch five or more innings for his 10th straight start. He's averaging 5.7 frames per outing.
- The 32-year-old's 4.11 ERA ranks 43rd, 1.228 WHIP ranks 41st, and 10.1 K/9 ranks 18th among qualifying pitchers this season.
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Girl, 15, charged with fatal high-speed hit-and-run crash in Green Bay
GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY/Gray News) – A 15-year-old girl in Wisconsin is facing charges in connection to a fatal crash that killed a 17-year-old boy.
The girl was charged as an adult in court Tuesday afternoon with reckless homicide, hit and run, and taking and driving a vehicle without the owner’s consent, WBAY reported.
The criminal complaint states she was driving a Toyota Corolla, speeding between 116.5 mph and 123.4 mph, in a 35-mph zone, according to calculations by a member of the Green Bay Police Department’s traffic crash reconstruction unit based on security videos from businesses at the corners of that intersection.
The teen is accused of hitting a gray sedan in an intersection and then crashing head-on into another car stopped at a traffic light.
The driver of the gray sedan told police he had a green light and didn’t see any traffic when he started to go into the intersection and the Corolla crashed into the front of his car. He believes the Corolla then swerved and hit a stopped car head-on.
The Corolla spun around twice before it stopped down the block.
According to WBAY, witnesses said they saw a group of teens get out of the car and leave in another vehicle, but a passenger in the seat behind the driver was hanging out the door.
The 17-year-old passenger was pronounced dead at the hospital, 40 minutes after the first 911 call.
The Corolla left at the scene led police to the girl’s mother, who realized her car was missing about an hour before the crash. She said her daughter took her car without her permission.
Officers caught up with the 15-year-old the next day when she was treated at the hospital for a broken arm.
The teen told officers she didn’t stay at the crash scene because she was scared.
We are not identifying the teen driver because there’s a chance the case could get sent down to juvenile court. Her next appearance before a judge is Nov. 9.
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MIAMI (AP) — NBA playoff scoring leader Jimmy Butler was with the Miami Heat for their film session Thursday, without any clarity yet if his sprained ankle will be healed enough for him to play in Game 3 of their Eastern Conference semifinal series against the New York Knicks on Saturday.
And if Heat coach Erik Spoelstra has an answer, he’s not tipping his hand.
“No update. … I’m not going to get into all the minutiae of it,” Spoelstra said. “When we find out how he is feeling on Saturday, we’ll let you know. That’s what the deal is.”
Butler missed Game 2 of the series — a 111-105 win for the Knicks — because of the ankle, which he sprained with about 5 minutes left in Miami’s Game 1 victory at Madison Square Garden.
It was only the fourth game Butler has missed since the last week of January, and two of those were the final two games of the regular season with the Heat locked into the play-in tournament at that point.
Knicks coach Tom Thibodeau, after Game 2, made clear that his team will be ready for a Butler comeback.
“You already know the answer to that,” Thibodeau said. “We will. That’s sort of the nature of the beast right now for everyone. You go in, you know guys are nicked-up this time of the year and so there’s always possibilities that guys could be in or out. … If Jimmy’s available, then we’ll have a plan for him.”
The training room has been a busy place this week for Miami, which has already lost shooting guard Victor Oladipo (knee) for the remainder of the season and shooting guard Tyler Herro (hand) for several more weeks. Wing players Max Strus and Caleb Martin both were dealing with some back pain at times in Game 2, though were able to finish the game.
“I’m good,” Strus said Thursday. “Nothing’s wrong with me.”
Having Wednesday, Thursday and Friday with no games sounds like a needed breather for both sides. New York’s Julius Randle returned in Game 2 from an ankle sprain, and point guard Jalen Brunson has been playing through an ankle issue.
Brunson “didn’t do much” in practice on Thursday, Thibodeau said, noting his status is day-to-day.
“I think the time off does us well, does us justice,” Heat guard Kyle Lowry said. “We’re not complaining about it at all. I think it’s good for our team. I think it’s good for our brains to kind of get a little bit of a break from it, but we still can get the mental reps and all that stuff, so it’s good from that aspect.”
Lowry indicated that he wouldn’t be surprised if Butler tries to play.
“I know how competitive he is,” Lowry said. “I would be optimistic, but who knows. Honestly, we’ve got to go day by day with Jimmy, so we’ll see what happens on Saturday at 3:30.”
Going back to the final two games of last season’s Eastern Conference finals, Butler has been on a playoff tear. He’s averaged 36.9 points — and 40.5 minutes — in his last eight postseason games, on 57% shooting from the field while averaging 7.4 rebounds and 4.6 assists.
In the six playoff games so far this season, he’s averaging the league-best 35.5 points on 59% shooting, with 6.8 rebounds and 4.7 assists per game. Included in that: a career-high 56-point effort against Milwaukee in Game 4 of Round 1, followed by a 42-point outburst two nights later as the Heat became the first No. 8 seed in NBA history to lose no more than one game on the way to beating a No. 1 seed.
Butler’s 35.5-point average is just ahead of Phoenix’s Devin Booker, who will take a 35.4-point-per-game average in these playoffs into Game 3 of the Suns’ Western Conference semifinal series against Denver on Friday.
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Leldon Echols to become Chairman of the EnLink Board of Directors
DALLAS, June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- EnLink Midstream, LLC (NYSE: ENLC) (EnLink) announced today that Chairman and CEO Barry E. Davis will retire from EnLink, the company he led the founding of, after more than 25 years of leadership. Davis will step down from his position as Chairman and CEO on June 20, 2022, at which point Jesse Arenivas will join EnLink as CEO and a director on the EnLink Board of Directors (Board), and Leldon E. Echols will become the Chairman of the Board. Davis will continue in an advisory role until August 31, 2022, to ensure a seamless transition.
Davis led EnLink Midstream's predecessor, Crosstex Energy, from its founding in 1996 through the 2014 merger of Crosstex with midstream assets from Devon Energy Corp., the transaction that created EnLink. Under Davis' leadership, EnLink evolved into a Fortune 500 integrated midstream company with a strong financial foundation and a diverse geographic footprint in several top U.S. basins, which is also pursuing innovative and sustainable energy transition opportunities, such as carbon dioxide (CO2) capture and sequestration (CCS).
"No words can adequately express my gratitude for what being a part of the EnLink family has meant to me," Davis said. "Building EnLink and serving as its CEO has been one of the great accomplishments of my life. I am immensely proud of what we've accomplished to date, growing from $15 million in adjusted EBITDA at the time of the initial public offering of Crosstex Energy in 2002, to a projected $1.2 billion in adjusted EBITDA at the midpoint of our 2022 guidance. I want to express my deep gratitude to our extremely dedicated employees, as well as our incredibly talented management team and Board of Directors who have guided EnLink to what it is today. I'm confident in EnLink's future success with this team and under Jesse's leadership."
Arenivas comes to EnLink after almost 20 years with Kinder Morgan Inc. (KMI), where he helped the company grow to become the largest transporter of CO2 in North America. He served as President of the CO2 segment since 2014 and was appointed President of KMI's Energy Transition Ventures team upon its formation in early 2021. He joined KMI in 2003 and previously served in various financial, accounting, and business development roles, including Vice President of Finance and Accounting for KMI's CO2 business segment. Before joining KMI, Arenivas spent five years at ConocoPhillips Co. in financial and commercial roles.
"Jesse is the kind of visionary leader who will undoubtedly enable the EnLink team to realize our 'Future of Midstream' vision," Davis said. "EnLink has been on an upward trajectory, announcing record adjusted EBITDA for the first quarter of 2022 and signing our first CCS customer, Oxy Low Carbon Ventures. Jesse's deep experience in our industry, including most recently at the forefront of CO2 and the energy transition, combined with his background as a strategic and financially minded business development leader, will foster continued excellence in EnLink's business, as well as momentum in growing EnLink's role in the energy transition."
"I am grateful to Barry and the Board for this opportunity to lead EnLink at such an exciting time in EnLink's journey," Arenivas said. "I've long admired the robust gathering and processing platform integrated with key downstream demand markets that EnLink has built, as well as the 'EnLink Way' approach to operational excellence and innovation that the team has developed. I am confident in our management team, and I look forward to advancing EnLink's vision toward the future of midstream, which includes continuing to drive excellence in traditional midstream, while positioning the company to deliver energy solutions for the future."
Arenivas holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in finance from the University of Texas Permian Basin and is a certified public accountant (CPA).
Echols will become the Chairman of the Board on June 20. He remains the chair of the Board's Audit Committee and a member of the Board's Governance & Compensation Committee. Echols has a long history with EnLink, having been a director on the Board since the company formed in 2014 and a member of EnLink's predecessor company's board since 2008.
Davis' anticipated retirement from EnLink was a part of the succession plan developed and administered by EnLink's Board to maintain strategic leadership continuity, continue to focus on shareholder value, and secure EnLink's long-term success. The Board expresses gratitude to Davis for his service and confidence in Arenivas as the new chief executive.
"Barry successfully led the company through the industry downturn and now has helped position EnLink on an exciting growth trajectory," Echols said. "On behalf of the Board, we want to thank Barry for his leadership and innumerable contributions to EnLink. Looking forward, the Board and I are confident in Jesse's commitment to EnLink's vision and ability to lead the company in EnLink's next phase. I am also honored to be named Chairman of the Board and look forward to continuing to work alongside our talented Board directors and EnLink's executive management."
EnLink Midstream reliably operates a differentiated midstream platform that is built for long-term, sustainable value creation. EnLink's best-in-class services span the midstream value chain, providing natural gas, crude oil, condensate, NGL capabilities, and carbon capture, transportation, and sequestration. Our purposely built, integrated asset platforms are in premier production basins and core demand centers, including the Permian Basin, Oklahoma, North Texas, and the Gulf Coast. EnLink's strong financial foundation and commitment to execution excellence drive competitive returns and value for our employees, customers, and investors. Headquartered in Dallas, EnLink is publicly traded through EnLink Midstream, LLC (NYSE: ENLC). Visit www.EnLink.com to learn how EnLink connects energy to life.
This press release includes forward-looking statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws. All statements, other than statements of historical fact, included in this press release constitute "forward-looking statements". Although these statements reflect the current views, assumptions, and expectations of EnLink's management, the matters addressed herein involve certain assumptions, risks, and uncertainties that could cause actual activities, performance, outcomes, and results to differ materially from those indicated. An extensive list of factors that can affect EnLink's business are discussed in EnLink's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including EnLink's Annual Reports on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, and Current Reports on Form 8-K. EnLink does not assume any obligation to update any forward-looking statements.
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Team to Emphasize Human-Centered Design in Transformative Expansion of Austin Transit
AUSTIN, Texas, March 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Austin Transit Partnership (ATP) announced a partnership with an international design team led by HKS, UNStudio and Gehl to create system-wide architecture and urban design for the light rail program of Project Connect, a major expansion of Austin's public transit system. Project Connect is a transformative, voter-approved investment that includes light rail, expanded bus routes, and more services across the city.
HKS, UNStudio and Gehl will design a technologically advanced, human-centric transit experience true to Austin's culture and landscape. The team comprises architects and planners with collaborative mindsets and local knowledge. Their global infrastructure expertise includes similar award-winning projects in Los Angeles, Melbourne, The Netherlands, Doha, and Beijing.
"We are thrilled to work with this visionary, interdisciplinary design team" says Peter Mullan, ATP Executive Vice President for Architecture and Urban Design. "The design team brings both broad international expertise delivering transit and public realm projects at the highest level of design and an acute sensitivity to Austin's specific culture and heritage. Project Connect gives us the opportunity to stitch our community together more closely and to adapt our core values to our continued growth and our increasingly urban future. To deliver on that promise, we need to bring a human-centered approach to the center of our design process, and this team brings that focus to our collective work."
In November 2020, Austin voters approved Project Connect and the creation of the independent entity Austin Transit Partnership to implement this landmark investment in transit. In partnership with the City of Austin, CapMetro and the community, ATP will deliver on the community's vision for transit in a way that embeds equity, sustainability and transparency as overarching priorities.
Design research and visioning will begin in March 2023, and will continue through the Project Development phase. ATP will share an updated light rail implementation plan in spring 2023.
HKS is a global architecture, design and planning firm with offices in Austin. Chi Lee, HKS Principal and Austin Office Director, says: "We are humbled by this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to demonstrate people-first design that prioritizes equity, well-being and resilience as we design stations for the future light rail program. Project Connect will transform Austin by making more neighborhoods accessible and affordable while promoting sustainable growth and development."
Ben van Berkel, Founder and Principal Architect of global architecture design network UNStudio, adds: "Project Connect will be transformational for the City of Austin. Austin is a city experiencing rapid change as more and more people are drawn to its high quality of life and vibrant cultural scene. Project Connect will advance this by creating a human-centric transit system that celebrates Austin's culture, history and diversity, while making the city more accessible for all of its citizens through an efficient and sustainable transportation system. We are thrilled to contribute to the city of Austin in such a meaningful way alongside our partners HKS and Gehl."
Gehl is an urban strategy and design firm that centers public life and the human experience in the city transformation process. Anna Muessig, Director at Gehl, concludes: "Mobility systems work when they center people's needs in the design process and when mobility infrastructure is an integrated part of a high quality public realm. We are honored to be part of this fantastic team and to work with ATP and the people of Austin to design a station system that celebrates the city's culture and invites people to choose transit to get around."
Project Connect is designed to improve access to essential jobs, health care, education, entertainment and more—making our communities more livable, equitable and sustainable. This transformative investment includes $300 million in funding to prevent the displacement of people and creating more affordable places to live.
Citizens of Austin who would like to get involved in Project Connect are invited to do so. Click here to learn more: https://projectconnect.com/get-involved.
About HKS
HKS is a global firm of architects, designers, planners and advisors who create places noted for their beauty and performance. Our 1,500 people in 26 offices are united by the belief that an environmental, social and governance approach to design achieves design excellence. We value honesty, diversity and inclusion and we celebrate creative thinking. In partnership with our clients and collaborators, we craft powerful ideas and solutions. Together we create places that stand apart.
About UNStudio
UNStudio, founded in 1988 by Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos, is a Dutch architectural design studio specializing in architecture, interior architecture, product design, urban development and infrastructural projects. The name, UNStudio, stands for United Network Studio referring to the collaborative nature of the practice. Centrally located offices in Amsterdam, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Dubai, Frankfurt and Melbourne enable UNStudio to work efficiently anywhere in the world. With a passion for innovation at the heart of their work, their designs stand for quality, originality, optimism and intelligence.
About Gehl
Gehl is an urban design and research consultancy offering expertise in the fields of architecture, urban design, landscape architecture, and city planning. Headquartered in Copenhagen, with US hubs in San Francisco and New York City, Gehl is a networked organization working globally on urban strategy in a wide range of contexts. Gehl partners directly with both public and private sector clients to envision better futures and better outcomes for people. We address global trends with a holistic, people-focused approach, utilizing empirical analysis to understand how the built environment can promote well-being. We apply this analysis to strategic planning and human-centered design to empower citizens, decision-makers, company leaders, and organizations.
About ATP
Austin Transit Partnership (ATP) is the independent entity, accountable, and responsible for the financing, design, construction, and overall implementation of Project Connect—the transformative, voter-approved investment in new transit services. ATP's charge is to deliver on the Austin voters' transit vision in partnership with the City of Austin, CapMetro, and the community – and in a way that embeds equity, sustainability, and transparency as overarching priorities.
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Unique Approach in Regional Planning Process Builds Upon Successful Collaboration
VALLEY FORGE, Pa., April 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities today announced the latest milestone in its historic collaboration with PJM to advance the state's offshore wind goals through the grid operator's competitive transmission planning process.
Today's formal request made by the NJBPU on behalf of the state of New Jersey asks PJM to solicit transmission solutions to serve an additional 3,500 MW of offshore wind energy, totaling 11,000 MW by 2040.
Through its unique State Agreement Approach, PJM will initiate a second competitive solicitation process on behalf of the NJBPU. This process will examine whether an integrated array of open-access transmission facilities, both onshore and potentially offshore, can achieve New Jersey's expanded offshore wind goals in an economical and timely manner. This evaluation is conducted as part of PJM's Regional Transmission Expansion Planning process, and the results will be shared with the NJBPU for a final decision to determine which, if any, additional projects they may wish to pursue.
"We are pleased to be working with New Jersey again to plan for the transmission needed to realize their renewable energy goals," said PJM President and CEO Manu Asthana. "The State Agreement Approach is a proven tool that states can use to advance their policy initiatives, leveraging PJM's planning expertise and competitive processes to drive down costs for New Jersey ratepayers. We believe it can serve as a blueprint for other states to advance their own policies."
The NJBPU in November 2020 invoked the State Agreement Approach to incorporate New Jersey's initial offshore wind goals (7,500 MW by 2035) into PJM's regional transmission planning process. That culminated in the NJBPU awarding $1.1 billion in projects to construct the onshore transmission facilities necessary to deliver those 7,500 MW to New Jersey customers, while minimizing community and environmental impacts and customer costs.
"New Jersey has been a pioneer in developing infrastructure needed to achieve its ambitious offshore wind policies," said NJBPU President Joseph L. Fiordaliso. "NJBPU recognized early on the value of PJM's independent, competitive and proven transmission planning process, and we look forward to continuing to achieve New Jersey's offshore goals reliably and as cost-effectively as possible."
In today's order (PDF), the NJBPU staff also recommends that the Board explore the interest of other East Coast states in coordinating regional offshore transmission solutions, potentially including a regional offshore "backbone" transmission system.
Following today's formal request from the NJBPU and building upon past studies, PJM will include New Jersey's needs for offshore-wind-related transmission improvements in a competitive proposal window tentatively set to open in 2024.
Transmission developers may submit proposals for the development of reliable and cost-effective transmission solutions to help bring offshore wind energy to consumers, and may also include grid-to-onshore substations, onshore substations to offshore collector farms, and an offshore transmission backbone. Additional information and updates will be available through PJM's Planning Community webpage and through PJM's Transmission Expansion Advisory Committee.
About the State Agreement Approach
The State Agreement Approach (SAA) was incorporated into the PJM Operating Agreement in 2013, with the implementation of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's Order 1000. With that order, FERC required regional grid operators to "provide for the consideration of transmission needs driven by public policy requirements in the regional transmission planning processes."
The SAA may be used by any state, or combination of states, to advance state public policy goals, as long as the state (or states) agrees to pay all costs of the project's build-out included in the PJM Regional Transmission Expansion Plan.
PJM Interconnection, founded in 1927, ensures the reliability of the high-voltage electric power system serving 65 million people in all or parts of Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and the District of Columbia. PJM coordinates and directs the operation of the region's transmission grid, which includes over 88,115 miles of transmission lines; administers a competitive wholesale electricity market; and plans regional transmission expansion improvements to maintain grid reliability and relieve congestion. PJM's regional grid and market operations produce annual savings of $3.2 billion to $4 billion. For the latest news about PJM, visit PJM Inside Lines at insidelines.pjm.com.
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AUSTIN, Texas — After a recent survey found that almost 50 EMS and fire stations lacked a proper source of backup power. This has led to dozens of Austin’s emergency centers being set to receive new generators, according to a report from Community Impact.
The generators will cost upwards of $20 million in a measure that was approved by the city council on July 20. The new generators will be funded through the Austin Building Services Department and money given to the American Rescue Plan Act.
ATCEMS stations infamously lost power during winter storms Uri and Mara, causing the emergency services to deal with a high volume of calls which led to a backlog without backup power available. First responders were also busy working extended shifts without access to hot showers, microwaveable meals or a warm break room.
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Cal looks to keep shifting momentum in all-time series vs. Oregon
Two teams coming off impressive efforts, one in a win and one in a loss, meet Wednesday night when Oregon and California duel in a Pac-12 Conference game in Berkeley, Calif.
As has been their pattern in recent conference play, the Ducks (10-8, 4-3 Pac-12) rebounded from a poor outing with an other-extreme type of performance when they rolled past then-No. 9 Arizona 87-68 at home on Saturday.
Meanwhile, Cal (3-15, 2-5) didn’t get the result it wanted because of poor free-throw shooting down the stretch, but still was far more satisfied with Saturday’s 81-78 overtime loss at Washington than it was with its 66-51 flop at Washington State three nights earlier.
A streaky series history between the longtime rivals could be swinging back in Cal’s favor after a 78-64 victory at Oregon in the most recent meeting last February.
The Ducks had taken the previous nine games from the Golden Bears, who themselves had a 12-game winning streak over Oregon from 2009 to 2014.
Oregon coach Dana Altman cited “pride” as the difference between last Thursday’s 90-73 home shellacking at the hands of Arizona State and the 19-point stunner two days later, but senior Jermaine Couisnard could easily have identified as well.
The South Carolina transfer responded to his first start as a Duck with 27 points, one less than he’d totaled in his previous three Pac-12 games.
“Just a different ball club,” Altman said. “I’m disappointed in our maturity and the fact we can’t do that every game. I talked to them about: ‘Who are we? What do we want to be?’ The guys responded. They showed their competitiveness and played with tremendous energy.”
The Golden Bears did as well after seeing their season-best, two-game winning streak go up in flames at Washington State. But three straight missed foul shots after building a late six-point advantage led to overtime at Washington, and Cal fell short after that.
“Really disappointing loss,” Cal coach Mark Fox said. “We had every opportunity to win the game in regulation, and just didn’t finish the plays, didn’t make free throws. When you have those opportunities, you have to seize them.”
Playing again without leading scorer Devin Askew, out with an undisclosed injury, the Golden Bears got a season-high 21 points from freshman Grant Newell in the defeat.
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House Oversight Committee Republicans were admonished by the FBI several times ahead of taking the action the bureau warned against — publicly releasing unverified information gained through a confidential informant.
The tip from the source — memorialized in an FD-1023 form — was never corroborated by the FBI, but it was nonetheless put into the public sphere Thursday as Republicans released what they see as central evidence into whether then-Vice President Biden accepted a bribe.
The release comes after committee members were told “the FBI expressly does not consent to the materials’ public disclosure or further dissemination” and that “the contents of the materials should not be discussed or shared in any form with anyone beyond Members and staff,” according to a disclaimer obtained by The Hill presented to lawmakers before viewing the form.
In the form, the source relays conversations with Mykola Zlochevsky, the founder of Ukrainian energy company Burisma, where Hunter Biden once served on the board.
While Zlochevsky told the informant he paid money to both Bidens, he later purportedly refuted that claim in information provided to Congress during former President Trump’s first impeachment. The White House has also denied in full any claims of wrongdoing.
The release of the information has infuriated the FBI, which hesitated to share the document over concerns it would be improperly handled and risk compromising their source.
“Throughout the FBI’s engagements with Congress, we have been guided by our obligation to protect the physical safety of confidential human sources and the integrity of sensitive investigations. We have repeatedly explained to Congress, in correspondence and in briefings, how critical it is to keep this source information confidential,” the FBI said in a Thursday statement.
“The safeguards the FBI placed on the production of this information are necessary to protect the safety of confidential sources and the integrity of sensitive investigations,” the statement said. “Today’s release of the 1023 — at a minimum — unnecessarily risks the safety of a confidential source.”
The bureau was more explicit in its private correspondence with House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.), obtained by The Hill on Thursday.
A June 9 letter to Comer came the day after the full committee was permitted to review the document in the Capitol’s sensitive compartmented information facility (SCIF), saying members ignored explicit instructions by FBI briefers.
“The Committee and its Members were specifically told that ‘wider distribution could pose a risk of physical harm to FBI sources or others.’ The full text of this admonishment is included below for your reference. We are concerned that Members disregarded the Committee’s agreement that information from the document should not be further disclosed. Several Committee Members publicized specific details regarding their recollection of confidential source reporting purportedly referenced in the document,” the bureau wrote in the letter.
“In addition, we are concerned that several Members insisted upon taking notes during the in camera review—even after being reminded of the restriction on notetaking by FBI employees present.”
Concerns over how the information would be handled were clear from two May letters from the FBI as the bureau wrangled with lawmakers on how to comply with a subpoena for the document.
Both stressed the need to protect confidential sources — something they also note is key for the ability of the FBI to continue to get information.
The agreement to allow Comer to review, but not take, the document came as he threatened to hold FBI Director Christopher Wray in contempt of Congress.
Comer on Thursday defended the release, calling the information part of the FBI’s “record.”
“In the FBI’s record, the Burisma executive claims that he didn’t pay the ‘big guy’ directly but that he used several bank accounts to conceal the money. That sounds an awful lot like how the Bidens conduct business: using multiple bank accounts to hide the source and total amount of the money,” he said in a statement.
But Rep. Jamie Raskin (Md.), the top Democrat on the committee, blasted Republicans for releasing the unverified tip with little other context.
“Releasing this document in isolation from explanatory context is another transparently desperate attempt by Committee Republicans to revive the aging and debunked Giuliani-framed conspiracy theories and to distract from their continuing failure to produce any actual evidence of wrongdoing by the President — even at the cost of endangering the safety of FBI sources,” he said in a statement. | https://www.texomashomepage.com/hill-politics/fbi-expressly-opposed-gop-release-of-unverified-biden-tip/ | 2023-07-20 23:23:55 | 0 | https://www.texomashomepage.com/hill-politics/fbi-expressly-opposed-gop-release-of-unverified-biden-tip/ |
LAS VEGAS, Jan. 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Red Rock Resorts, Inc. ("Red Rock Resorts", "we" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: RRR) announced today that it will release the Company's financial results for the fourth quarter and full year 2022 on Tuesday, February 7, 2023 and will hold a conference call on the same day at 4:30 p.m. ET (1:30 p.m. PT). The conference call will consist of prepared remarks from the Company and will include a question and answer session.
To listen to the conference call, please dial into the conference operator no later than 4:15 p.m. ET (1:15 p.m. PT) at (888) 317-6003 using the passcode: 4932928. For those of you dialing in internationally, your dial in number is (412) 317-6061. A live audio webcast of the call will also be available at www.redrockresorts.com.
A replay of the call will be available through February 14, 2023 by dialing in at (877) 344-7529 or internationally at (412) 317-0088 using conference ID: 7369047. An audio archive of the call will also be available at www.redrockresorts.com.
About Red Rock Resorts
Red Rock Resorts is a holding company that owns an indirect equity interest in and manages Station Casinos LLC ("Station Casinos"). Station Casinos is the leading provider of gaming and entertainment to the residents of Las Vegas, Nevada. Station Casinos' properties, which are located throughout the Las Vegas valley, are regional entertainment destinations and include various amenities, including numerous restaurants, entertainment venues, movie theaters, bowling and convention/banquet space, as well as traditional casino gaming offerings such as video poker, slot machines, table games, bingo and race and sports wagering. Station Casinos owns and operates Red Rock Casino Resort Spa, Green Valley Ranch Resort Spa Casino, Palace Station Hotel & Casino, Boulder Station Hotel & Casino, Sunset Station Hotel & Casino, Santa Fe Station Hotel & Casino, Wildfire Rancho, Wildfire Boulder, Wildfire Sunset, Wildfire Valley View, Wildfire Anthem and Wildfire Lake Mead. Station Casinos also owns a 50% interest in Barley's Casino & Brewing Company, Wildfire Casino & Lanes and The Greens.
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The head of the Iowa Democratic Party won’t seek reelection in the wake of a vote by the national party to put the South Carolina primary ahead of Iowa’s caucuses, which have long been the first presidential nominating contest in the country.
Ross Wilburn announced Saturday that he won’t run for reelection as party chairman in January.
“No one can predict the future. But I have the utmost faith that whoever takes up the mantle next will guide our party with grace through the challenges ahead, as we all continue to work on growing our party and electing Democrats who will fight for the ideas we know are supported by a strong majority of Iowans,” Wilburn said in a statement.
In addition to losing their first-in-the-nation status, Democrats in Iowa lost several key races in the state last month as Gov. Kim Reynolds and U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley cruised to reelection and two longtime Democratic office holders lost their positions.
The next chairman will lead Iowa Democrats as they decide whether to comply with the national party’s decision or follow a state law that requires the caucuses to be held at least eight days before any other presidential nominating contest.
If the state party doesn’t go along with the national party’s decision, Iowa Democrats will run the risk that its delegates will not count toward the national nominating total.
Wilburn, who was the party’s first Black chairman, will remain a state representative.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Two hospitals that refused to provide an emergency abortion to a pregnant woman who was experiencing premature labor put her life in jeopardy and violated federal law, a first-of-its-kind investigation by the federal government has found.
The findings, revealed in documents obtained by The Associated Press, are a warning to hospitals around the country as they struggle to reconcile dozens of new state laws that ban or severely restrict abortion with a federal mandate for doctors to provide abortions when a woman’s health is at risk. The competing edicts have been rolled out since the Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to an abortion last year.
But federal law, which requires doctors to treat patients in emergency situations, trumps those state laws, the nation’s top health official said in a statement.
“Fortunately, this patient survived. But she never should have gone through the terrifying ordeal she experienced in the first place,” Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said. “We want her, and every patient out there like her, to know that we will do everything we can to protect their lives and health, and to investigate and enforce the law to the fullest extent of our legal authority, in accordance with orders from the courts.”
The federal agency’s investigation centers on two hospitals — Freeman Health System in Joplin, Missouri, and University of Kansas Hospital in Kansas City, Kansas — that in August refused to provide an abortion to a Missouri woman whose water broke early at 17 weeks of pregnancy. Doctors at both hospitals told Mylissa Farmer that her fetus would not survive, that her amniotic fluid had emptied and that she was at risk for serious infection or losing her uterus, but they would not terminate the pregnancy because a fetal heartbeat was still detectable.
Ultimately, Farmer had to travel to an abortion clinic in Illinois.
“It was dehumanizing. It was terrifying. It was horrible not to get the care to save your life,” Farmer, who lives in Joplin, said of her experience. “I felt like I was responsible to do something, to say something, to not have this happen again to another woman. It was bad enough to be so powerless.”
Farmer’s complaints launched the first investigations that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, or CMS, has publicly acknowledged since Roe v. Wade was overturned last year. Across the country, women have reported being turned away from hospitals for abortions, despite doctors telling them that this puts them at further risk for infection or even death.
President Joe Biden’s administration has prodded hospitals not to turn away patients in those situations, even when state law forbids abortions. Weeks after the Supreme Court’s ruling, the Democratic administration reminded hospitals that federal law requires them to offer an abortion when a pregnant woman is at risk for an emergency medical condition. The federal government can investigate hospitals that receive Medicare and Medicaid money — which encompasses most facilities in the U.S. — for violations of the law.
Abortions are largely banned in Missouri, but there are exceptions for medical emergencies. In Kansas, when Farmer visited the hospital, abortions were still legal up to 22 weeks. It’s unclear why University of Kansas Health refused to offer Farmer one. Neither hospital immediately provided comment on the case.
CMS has not announced any fines or other penalties against the two hospitals in its investigation, but it did send them notices warning that they were in violation of the law and asking them to correct the problems that led to Farmer being turned away. Federal Medicare investigators will follow up with the hospitals before closing the case.
That likely won’t be enough to convince hospitals and doctors that they should provide abortions in states where they’re operating under the threat of prison time or large fines if they terminate a pregnancy, said Mary Ziegler, a law professor at the University of California, Davis.
“I don’t know how much this approach really helps matters. The possibility of being criminalized for providing care is still there for a lot of these doctors,” Ziegler said. “The incentive here would be to do nothing. The incentive here would be to turn the patient away.”
Nationwide, doctors have reported uncertainty around how to provide care to pregnant women, especially in the nearly 20 states where new laws have banned or limited the care. Doctors face criminal and civil penalties in some states for aborting a pregnancy.
But in a letter sent Monday to hospital and doctors’ associations that highlights the inquiries, Becerra said he hopes the investigations clarify that the organizations must follow the federal law, the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, or EMTALA.
“While many state laws have recently changed,” Becerra wrote, “it’s important to know that the federal EMTALA requirements have not changed, and continue to require that health care professionals offer treatment, including abortion care, that the provider reasonably determines is necessary to stabilize the patient’s emergency medical condition.”
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Mile Square Theatre is having its second production under Kevin R. Free’s first season as Artistic Director with Tom Mula’s Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol. The four-week limited engagement at MST begins Thursday, Dec. 1, and continues through Sunday, Dec. 24.
The show, directed by Jenn Haltman, is a dark retelling of the classic Dickens novel as Jacob Marley is tasked with helping to redeem his old business partner’s soul and undergoes his own transformation.
“When I was a kid, this is the kind of holiday play I wanted to see: something traditional with a dark twist,” says Kevin R. Free. “As an adult, I performed in several versions of “A Christmas Carol,” but none of them looked like this.”
The production stars Sevrin Anne Mason as Jacob Marley, who is making her MST debut, and Jezabel Montero as Scrooge, who are performing courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association.
Mason’s New York credits include “The Crucible” on Broadway; The Vineyard Theatre’s “Lessons in Survival;” Charles Mee’s “Summertime;” “Heartbroke;” “I Can’t Explain it Better Than That;” Charles Mee’s “Trojan Women 2.0;” Charlotte Miller’s “Rocks,” part II of the triptych; “The Calmative;” “Much Ado About Nothing;” and Jessica Dickey’s “Row after Row.” She also helped found the ukulele trio, The Buttery Barmaids, whose select credits include The Rainbow Room, White Eagle Hall, The House of Yes, The Red Room, and The Ukulele Cabaret.
Her film credits include A Quintet (Omnibus Productions), Public Hearing (Automatic Moving Co.), Buffalo Girl (Patch Darragh), and the webseries Help Wanted and Downsized.
Montero began appearing on the stage as a child actor and has been a professional bilingual actor for over 30 years. She is a cum laude graduate of U.C.L.A. with a B.A. in Theatre. Her theatre credits include “Christmas Contigo” (Oregon Cabaret Theatre), “The Cubans” (Miami New Drama/The Colony Theatre), “Dinner For Two” (Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre), “Yo Soy Latina!” (Crossroads Theatre Company), “LobsterFace” (INTAR), “The Giants Have Us in Their Books” (INTAR), “Chewing Mother’s Bones” (Kismet Theatre Company), “La Gringa” (Spanish Repertory Theatre MYC), “Blood Wedding” (Spanish Repertory Theatre).
Her film and TV credits include “Cassanova Was A Woman” (Amazon Prime), “Unlawful Justice” (Amazon Prime), “Dangerous Relationships” (NBCUniversal), and “Far From Heaven” (Sarah Jane Prods.).
Montero has also been the recipient of several A.C.E. and H.O.L.A. awards. When she is not acting, she is writing, directing and producing. She is currently developing an LGBTQ, Latinx cartoon series and a feature film about her childhood called “The Duke and Duchess of Queens.”
The cast also includes Caturah Brown, Dominic Russo, Grant Cary Peterson and Kristin (KP) Sgarro.
Jacob Marley’s “Christmas Carol” plays the following regular schedule through Sunday, Dec. 24: Thursdays at 8 p.m., Fridays at 8 p.m., Saturdays at 3 p.m., Saturdays at 8 p.m., Sundays at 3 p.m.
Tickets are $30 to $45 and are available online at www.MileSquareTheatre.org. Tickets may also be purchased in-person at the theater a half hour before the performance. There will also be a special “Pay-What-You-Will” performance on Dec. 1.
Opening Night is Saturday, Dec. 3, at 8 p.m. The show has a 90-minute runtime. Tickets are $30-$45 and available at milesquaretheatre.org. Mile Square Theatre is located at 1400 Clinton St., Hoboken. | https://www.nj.com/hudson/2022/11/a-different-kind-of-christmas-carol-at-mst-this-december.html | 2022-11-22 23:18:40 | 0 | https://www.nj.com/hudson/2022/11/a-different-kind-of-christmas-carol-at-mst-this-december.html |
NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- A former Columbia University gynecologist who has been convicted of sexually assaulting dozens of women will be sentenced Monday.
Robert Hadden's victims were assaulted in his medical offices in Manhattan between at least 1993 and 2012.
More than $236 million in settlement money has been handed out to more than 200 former patients.
Prosecutors are asking the judge to sentence Hadden to 25 years in prison.
Last month, eleven of Hadden's victims made emotional statements about their continuing pain as they asked a federal judge to keep him behind bars as long as possible.
Many of the women spoke anonymously in Manhattan federal court on June 28th as they described in detail the sexual abuse they suffered during visits to Hadden, 64, whose career at prominent hospitals including Columbia University Irving Medical Center and New York-Presbyterian Hospital spanned from the late 1980s until 2012.
"Robert Hadden is a sexual predator disguised in a white coat," said one woman, who spoke under the pseudonym Emily Anderson.
Many of them thanked Judge Richard M. Berman, who will announce the sentence for Hadden.
Berman responded by praising the women as "brave" and "eloquent."
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The women included a former research nurse at Columbia University Irving Medical Center who says she hopes Hadden spends the rest of his life behind bars.
Hadden, of Englewood, New Jersey, was convicted in January of enticing victims to cross state lines so he could sexually abuse them. At trial, nine former patients testified.
He has been incarcerated for the last several months.
Prosecutors have asked Berman to sentence him to at least 25 years in prison, while defense attorneys have requested three years behind bars.
Hadden's attorneys say he has lost 35 pounds and repeatedly been threatened with violence at a federal jail in Brooklyn, leading him to stay in his cell except to shower or call family members.
Prosecutors say Hadden's abuse of women began soon after he started working in 1987 at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York, which later became New York-Presbyterian Hospital. The institutions have agreed to pay more than $236 million to settle civil claims by more than 200 former patients.
Trial evidence proved Hadden committed anywhere from 167 to 310 acts of sexual abuse or assault on dozens of patients as he honed his abuse techniques so the assaults would go undetected for over 20 years, prosecutors wrote in a presentence submission.
Prosecutors said he sought sexual gratification when he asked victims "detailed, inappropriate, and medically unnecessary questions and provided unsolicited advice and commentary about their bodies, pubic hair, masturbation, sexual activity, sex toys, pornography, and sexual partners."
Among those who spoke in court June 28th was Laurie Kanyok, who noted that it would be exactly 11 years on Thursday since she emerged from an appointment with Hadden and called police, setting off a state investigation that led to a plea deal but no jail sentence.
She said her own daughter is now 11 years old and she knows she'll soon have to introduce her to gynecological care.
"This petrifies me," she told Berman.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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