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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Daily 3" game were:
7-0-2
(seven, zero, two)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Daily 3" game were:
7-0-2
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The Energy Department’s official in charge of spent nuclear fuel is on leave after being charged with the felony theft of a fellow airline passenger’s luggage, the department confirmed Tuesday.
Sam Brinton, deputy assistant secretary of the Office of Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition, appeared on surveillance footage at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport in September taking a bag from a claim that matched the description of luggage a woman had reported missing, according to an October court filing. The filing states that Brinton can be seen removing the tag from the bag and hastily leaving the area.
Brinton, who uses they/them pronouns, initially told law enforcement, “If I had taken the wrong bag, I am happy to return it, but I don’t have clothes for another individual,” but they later conceded they had “not been completely honest” and were “tired and took the suitcase thinking it was theirs,” the filing states.
“Sam Brinton is on leave from DOE, and Dr. Kim Petry is performing the duties of Deputy Assistant Secretary of Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition,” an Energy Department spokesperson told The Hill.
Brinton is due to appear in court in connection with the charges on Dec. 19. The charges are punishable by up to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
Petry, whose resume includes a year as the Office of Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition’s acting deputy assistant secretary before Brinton began, has previously worked for the Energy Department’s Office of Integrated Waste Management as acting director. Since June 2022, she has served as a senior policy adviser at the department. | https://cbs4indy.com/hill-politics/energy-departments-head-of-spent-nuclear-fuel-on-leave-after-alleged-felony-theft-at-airport/ | 2022-11-30 03:42:16 | 1 | https://cbs4indy.com/hill-politics/energy-departments-head-of-spent-nuclear-fuel-on-leave-after-alleged-felony-theft-at-airport/ |
With Home Ownership Feeling Out of Reach for Most Individuals, Fractional Ownership Platform, Pairadime, Launches To Solve Growing Need for Co-Buying Solutions
BELLINGHAM, Wash., Sept. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Co-Buying has gained popularity in the past few years but with housing prices at an all-time high, up more than 43% over the last 2 years, and a recession looming, buyers are seeking smaller mortgages, and "house hacking" has quickly become the new norm. Launching today out of beta, Pairadime, a new end-to-end fractional ownership solution on a mission to simplify the co-buying process, conducted a survey of 1000 millennials in the US around their outlook on home buying. It turns out that millennials are looking for smart solutions to achieve their home ownership dreams.
Historically, people who purchased homes were married couples and single people. Now, with marriage rates declining, home prices out of reach, and interest rates increasing, the profile of today's homebuyer has drastically changed, but there hasn't been a solution to address the new norm. According to the survey only 4% of millennials say they are waiting to buy until they get married.
According to a recent Zillow survey, half of new homebuyers said the process "left them in tears," with Gen Zers and Millennials "far more likely to cry at least once during their home-buying journey. According to Pairadime's findings, 36% would be willing to surrender their independence and move home to save money for their dream home. And those who did buy a home with an unmarried romantic partner and then broke up, realized they had no legal recourse and went through a "Millennial Divorce"
Despite all of this, Millennials aren't the freeloaders they are perceived to be. While recent reports suggest that the bank of mom and dad has been the wind beneath many millennials' wings when it comes to buying a house, Pairadime's study found that 2.5x more millennials said they would prefer to receive financial assistance from their parents as a co-investment rather than a gift (51% versus 21%).
While Millennials aren't looking for a handout from their parents, 45% said they are looking for a real estate agent who is experienced in co-buying to help them through the process, and 36% say they would co-buy with someone they weren't married to if it meant they could get a bigger mortgage. When it comes to who they are willing to live with, 60% say they would prefer to co-buy with a family member, friend, or a person they matched with from an open marketplace, compared to only 25% who said they would prefer to work with a corporation who took equity in exchange for financial assistance.
Enter Pairadime, an end-to-end fractional ownership solution that empowers home buyers to unite to co-buy primary residences, vacation homes, and investment properties. Pairadime is on a mission to make home ownership more accessible by making it easy for unmarried couples, family members, and friends to own real estate together. Co-buyers get paired with Pairadime's network of co-buy certified agents and mortgage brokers, and have unlimited access to Pairadime's custom tools that take them through every step of the co-buying process to overcome all the potential pain points that co-ownership can bring. The co-buyers that use Pairadime own 100% of their property.
The value Pairadime provides to prospective home buyers includes:
- Finding compatible co-buyers
- Creating clarity and building consensus across the group
- Protecting finances and relationships through legal agreements
- Connecting with a co-buying certified real estate agent
- Pairing with an experienced co-buying mortgage specialist
Pairadime operates across all of the U.S. and Canada. It works with both individual real estate agents and entire brokerages, as well as mortgage brokers and lenders on a subscription basis.
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Last April, the city of Chicago rolled out their new tourism slogan: "The Middle of Everything." It's a phrase that not only applies geographically, as Chicago is essentially in the middle of the country, it also extends to the music scene and our guests today, Dos Santos.
For our latest installment of the Sense of Place series, the World Cafe team is exploring Chicago's music scene. In this episode, we sit down with drummer Daniel Villarreal and percussionist Peter "Maestro" Vale, who explain how Dos Santos exists in the middle of a whole lot of different things: genres, influences and cultures.
Plus, the whole band joins us for an exclusive mini-concert.
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2022 has been a rough year for America's personal finances. After rising sharply last year, savings rates have plunged, and credit card debt has ballooned. And that has sparked a throwback movement among some young debtors, as NPR's Stacey Vanek Smith reports.
STACEY VANEK SMITH, BYLINE: Jamie Feldman is a writer and avid TikToker. And about five months ago, she posted a video that changed everything.
(SOUNDBITE OF TIKTOK VIDEO)
JAMIE FELDMAN: I have a lot of debt. I'm starting with about $18,000 in credit card debt, which is so much.
SMITH: Feldman is 33. She's a freelance writer in Brooklyn. And she says there was no big splurge. It was just life in New York, working a low-paying job as a journalist and trying to keep up with wealthier friends - dinner, drinks, shows, weddings, baby showers. Then, during the pandemic, Feldman lost her job, and her finances started to feel out of control. And she felt so alone. Nobody knew about her debt - not her friends, not her mom. So Feldman thought, I'm going to come clean to the whole world on TikTok.
(SOUNDBITE OF TIKTOK VIDEO)
FELDMAN: Why am I telling you this? In order for me to be held accountable, I'm going to need you to come with me on this journey. I'm terrified and scared out of my mind.
SMITH: Feldman's TikToks have been watched millions of times. And she says people have been surprisingly kind, empathizing, offering advice. And for good reason - as prices have risen all across the economy, credit card debt has jumped at its fastest rate in more than a decade. And personal savings in the U.S. is at the second-lowest rate on record. It's left a lot of people like Jamie Feldman drowning in debt with no real idea of how to climb out. Feldman started reading everything she could. And there was this one trend that caught her eye, and she decided to give it a shot on TikTok, of course.
(SOUNDBITE OF TIKTOK VIDEO)
FELDMAN: Hi. I'm Jamie. And I'm a little more than halfway through a month-long experiment where I only use cash to buy things.
SMITH: Cash. Meet the personal finance revolution sweeping the nation. Gen Z and millennials have started using cash to buy things - no Apple Pay, no Amazon Prime, no Venmo, no cards, just cash organized in envelopes - one for groceries, one for gas, one for entertainment. So this is not exactly new. In fact, financial guru Dave Ramsey has been speaking about the envelope system for decades.
(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)
DAVE RAMSEY: We're going to put $500 cash for this pay period in an envelope, write food across the front of that envelope, and then you don't buy anything out of that envelope except...
UNIDENTIFIED GROUP: Food.
RAMSEY: And we don't buy any food ever, except out of the envelope.
SMITH: I met Feldman at the grocery store to watch her put the envelope system to use.
FELDMAN: My groceries envelope. I don't have anything, like, fancy. It's just, like, a Chase Bank-branded envelope. But this is my groceries envelope.
SMITH: Budget for this shopping trip - about $45. And the food has to last her about a week and a half. She's already planned out all of her menus, made a list.
Do you want to shop?
FELDMAN: Yeah, let's shop.
SMITH: And off we went. Feldman is focused. Her eyes do not wander over to the fancy cheeses or to the prepared foods. We roll right past those to the bread aisle, where the store brand is on sale.
FELDMAN: Really good for peanut butter and jelly making, which I've been eating a lot of since I started budgeting.
SMITH: And the price...
FELDMAN: Two ninety-nine, which is pretty good - 20 slices, so...
SMITH: It's 10 sandwiches.
FELDMAN: That's 10 peanut butter and jellies, baby, right there.
SMITH: Feldman does the math in her head as we go - tomatoes, $4; tofu, $1.89; chickpeas, 89 cents. And she has to be vigilant. Prices are always moving. Over the summer, she got into the habit of buying a salmon fillet that she could stretch into five meals.
FELDMAN: That they'll cut up for you at the counter if you bring it over to them.
SMITH: But then the price went from $20 to $40, which of course does not fly with Feldman's $45 grocery budget. What will fly? A whole chicken.
FELDMAN: It's 8.78, and I feel like that's good, right?
SMITH: There are places in the store that she avoids entirely, but they do haunt her a little.
FELDMAN: There are these beautiful olive oils in these gorgeous bottles that are calling out to me.
SMITH: Do you, like, avoid that aisle?
FELDMAN: I - yes (laughter). We didn't go out down there today (laughter).
SMITH: Most of getting out of debt, says Feldman, boils down to these little mundane moments, like chicken instead of salmon or avoiding the olive oil aisle. But those little moments have a big impact.
FELDMAN: It totally changed my understanding of my values and my relationships and with just the way I am in the world. It changed my life. It changed my whole outlook on everything.
SMITH: Feldman cooks more. She spends more time at home. She asks friends to go on walks instead of to dinner or drinks. And some of her friends are not her friends anymore. But she is committed - tracks her spending every day. She uses a mix of debit and cash now. Groceries, though - still all cash.
FELDMAN: How are you?
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: Good. How are you?
FELDMAN: Thank you.
SMITH: The total - $40.22, under budget.
FELDMAN: Thank you.
SMITH: Feldman posts her progress on TikTok almost every day. In fact, sometimes her progress is so fast, she forgets how much of the $18,000 in debt she's paid off, has to correct herself.
(SOUNDBITE OF TIKTOK VIDEO)
FELDMAN: Hi. I'm Jamie. I'm in $16,000 - no. Hi. I'm Jamie. I'm in $15,000 of credit card debt, and I'm a little...
SMITH: Feldman says she is going to keep budgeting, bargain shopping and putting cash into envelopes until her debt is all paid off. Stacey Vanek Smith, NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR. | https://www.kasu.org/money-economy/money-economy/2022-12-05/tiktokers-are-paying-with-cash-to-deal-with-debt | 2023-01-03 20:54:12 | 0 | https://www.kasu.org/money-economy/money-economy/2022-12-05/tiktokers-are-paying-with-cash-to-deal-with-debt |
A general view of the U.S. Capitol after United States Vice President Kamala Harris, voted on the Senate floor to break the 50-50 tie to proceed to the Inflation Reduction Act on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S. August 6, 2022. REUTERS/Ken Cedeno
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Senate on Sunday repelled attempts to amend a $430 billion measure sought by President Joe Biden, as Democrats forged ahead with efforts to pass a bill aimed at controlling climate change and cutting prescription drug costs for the elderly.
Senators, working over the weekend to pass a bill central to Biden's domestic agenda, labored through the morning in hopes of passing the bill before starting an August recess. The bill also seeks to tighten enforcement on tax payments from corporations and the wealthy.
"The time is now to move forward with a big, bold package for the American people," Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said at the start of debate on Saturday night.
He said the legislation contains "the boldest clean energy package in American history" to fight climate change while reducing consumer costs for some medicines and energy.
Democrats have drawn harsh attacks from Republicans over the legislation's $430 billion in new spending and more than $740 billion in new revenues.
Nevertheless, Democrats said their bill has deep support among voters. They hope its passage in the Senate and House of Representatives by the end of next week will help Democratic candidates in the Nov. 8 midterm elections at a time when Biden, their party leader, suffers from anemic public approval ratings.
Democrats are in a battle to retain their narrow control of the Senate and House of Representatives.
After spending several hours on Saturday debating the legislation, senators dug in for a "vote-a-rama" in which Democratic and Republican amendments were offered in rapid-fire.
Democrats hope to pass the bill with only a simple majority under a process called "reconciliation," bypassing a filibuster rule requiring 60 votes in the 100-seat chamber to advance most legislation. That will enable Democrats to pass it over Republican objections.
But they were unable to muster the votes necessary to retain a provision to cap soaring insulin costs at $35 a month on the private health insurance market, which fell outside the reconciliation rules.
The proposal failed by three votes, despite support from seven Republicans. Democrats said the legislation would still cap insulin costs for those on Medicare. Democrats also turned away a Republican amendment to lower insulin costs that would have significantly changed the legislation and risked unraveling their coalition of 50 senators needed to keep the legislation on track.
Republicans forced votes on immigration amendments, including one to prompt hiring of more border patrol agents while cutting other expenditures.
Another Republican proposal would have set into law a Trump administration policy stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic that effectively closed down the U.S. asylum system.
The Biden administration has been in a legal tussle to replace the "Title 42" policy with what it described as a more humane and orderly system for migrants crossing the southwestern border with Mexico.
While the Title 42 amendment was defeated on a 50-50 vote, it is likely to become a campaign issue ahead of the November elections, forcing vulnerable Democratic senators in border states, such as Mark Kelly in Arizona, to defend their opposition.
Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders, a former presidential candidate aligned with Democrats, was soundly defeated on the first amendment offered. It would have vastly expanded the bill's number of prescription drugs eligible for price negotiation under the government's Medicare insurance plan for the elderly.
The 99-1 vote against the amendment drew only Sanders' support.
The Senate also overwhelmingly defeated a bid by Sanders to expand Medicare coverage for eyeglasses, hearing aids and dental care.
This medical part of the wide-ranging bill, negotiated over several months by Democrats, would allow Medicare to begin negotiating in 2026 with the pharmaceutical industry over prices on a limited number of prescription drugs as a way of reducing costs. It also would place a $2,000-per-year cap on out-of-pocket medication costs under a Medicare drug program.
Green incentives
Other portions of the bill would reduce U.S. carbon emissions by 40% in 2030 through federal incentives for the manufacture and purchase of electric vehicles and other "green" energy, with the goal of lowering energy prices overall at a time of high inflation.
The Senate also quickly defeated Republican amendments to cut a newly proposed fee on oil refiners to help pay for cleanup of toxic waste spills and another to immediately expand federal leasing of onshore oil drilling projects.
"Instead of pleading with dictators in other countries to increase oil and gas production, we should expand American production," Republican Senator John Barrasso pleaded unsuccessfully.
The 755-page bill includes a 15% minimum tax on corporations and the closing of loopholes that the wealthy can use to avoid paying taxes. It also would fund hiring of more IRS workers to better enforce tax payments and imposes a new excise tax on stock buybacks. | https://www.unionleader.com/news/national/senate-democrats-fend-off-amendments-to-430-billion-climate-and-drug-bill/article_0424cec9-3f43-585c-a04f-d65eaa8cdc83.html | 2022-08-07 19:09:24 | 0 | https://www.unionleader.com/news/national/senate-democrats-fend-off-amendments-to-430-billion-climate-and-drug-bill/article_0424cec9-3f43-585c-a04f-d65eaa8cdc83.html |
A helicopter pilot said in court on Thursday he and two of his passengers had escaped serious injury by jumping into the ocean when a New Zealand volcano erupted in 2019, killing 22.
Another two of pilot Brian Depauw’s joy flight passengers did not make it to the water, were engulfed by a cloud of hot ash from the White Island eruption, and suffered serious burns.
Belgian-born Depauw, testified at the Auckland District Court on Thursday in the trial of three tourism companies and three directors charged with safety breaches over the Dec. 9 disaster.
“The water is what saved us,” Depauw told the court.
Depauw and his four German passengers were among 47 people on White Island, the tip of an undersea volcano also known by its Indigenous Maori name, Whakaari, when superheated gases erupted. Most of the 25 survivors were severely burned.
Depauw, who currently lives in Canada, said he had only been working for tour operator Volcanic Air for three or four weeks and was making his first unsupervised flight with the company the day the volcano erupted.
He had told his passengers, two German couples, during safety instructions: “If you see me run -- I always kind of make a joke -- follow me as well.”
When the volcano erupted, the passengers wanted to return to the helicopter, but the pilot decided the water was a safer option.
“I heard my customer saying should we run now? I looked behind me and saw the plum going up 1,000 or 2,000 feet (305 or 610 meters) high, I saw boulders and debris arcing toward us, so I said: ‘Run, run, run to the water. Follow me,’” Depauw told police in a video statement recorded three days after the eruption and shown to the court on Thursday.
Depauw and one of the couples crossed the 150 meters (492 feet) to 200 meters (656 feet) to the water before they were overtaken by ash.
“The minute I hit the water, it went black. The ash came and obviously hit us and I couldn’t see anything,” he said.
“It would be a minute or two minutes. I was underwater trying to hold my breath as long as I could until I saw some light through the ash,” Depauw added.
He then helped his two passengers who had avoided burns to a boat. The man had lost his glasses and the woman’s contact lenses were scratched by the ash cloud so both had difficulty seeing.
The couple that didn’t reach the water were “burnt quite badly,” Depauw said.
Court photographs showed Depauw’s helicopter was blasted by the force of the volcano off its landing pad and its rotors were bent.
Under questioning by prosecutor Steve Symons on Thursday, Depauw said he had thought there would be warning signs before the volcano erupted. He had not known at the time that the volcano had erupted as recently as 2016.
“The way I understood it was there would be some signs and some time to vacate the island” if the volcano was about to erupt, Depauw said.
He said his only injuries had been a cut knee, a pulled muscle and some ash in his eyes.
The island’s owners, brothers Andrew, James and Peter Buttle; their company Whakaari Management Ltd.; as well as tour operators ID Tours NZ Ltd. and Tauranga Tourism Services Ltd. have pleaded not guilty to all charges.
Other tour operators have pleaded guilty and will be fined at a later date.
Each of the companies faces a maximum fine of 1.5 million New Zealand dollars ($927,000) while each of the brothers charged faces a maximum fine of NZ$300,000 ($185,000).
The trial, scheduled to run for 16 weeks, was adjourned on Thursday and will resume on Monday. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/national-international/pilot-says-escaped-injuries-by-jumping-into-the-ocean-when-a-new-zealand-volcano-erupted-killing-22/3294974/ | 2023-07-13 07:43:44 | 1 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/national-international/pilot-says-escaped-injuries-by-jumping-into-the-ocean-when-a-new-zealand-volcano-erupted-killing-22/3294974/ |
White House website highlights infrastructure, manufacturing investments as Biden pushes policy wins
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House on Tuesday is launching a website to map and track tens of thousands of infrastructure projects and private manufacturing investments, an effort by the administration to show the positive impact of its policies on the U.S. economy to a skeptical public.
The site, Invest.gov, documents roughly 32,000 infrastructure projects and more than $470 billion worth of investments in the production of electric vehicles, batteries, computer chips, biotech, clean energy and other sectors. President Joe Biden is seeking reelection in 2024 by trying to show how his policies are reshaping the U.S. economy to address climate change and compete with rivals such as China.
Natalie Quillian, deputy White House chief of staff, said the site shows that Biden’s agenda is “underway and working.”
“We want people to be able to see what’s happening in their communities,” Quillian said.
U.S. adults have generally given Biden poor reviews on his economic leadership. Just 33% approve of how the president has handled the economy, according to a May survey by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. High inflation coming out of the pandemic has eroded confidence in Biden’s economic stewardship, overshadowing the 3.7% unemployment rate and more than 13 million jobs added so far during his presidency.
The rollout of the site comes shortly before the administration will engage in additional public outreach with a second round of its “Investing in America” tour. It plans to send out Cabinet secretaries and other officials around the country as part of the two-week July 4 congressional recess. Biden and other top administration officials previously visited parts of the U.S. in March and April in hopes of putting more focus on their policies.
The president plans to bring up the site during Tuesday’s Cabinet meeting. It’s a key piece of a larger effort to keep public attention on a string of legislative wins during Biden’s first two years, when Democrats controlled both the House and Senate. Following $1.9 trillion in pandemic relief, Biden signed a $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill into law. He also secured more than $250 billion to invest in computer chip production and scientific research and created new tax incentives for renewable energy sources that are worth hundreds of billions of dollars.
Users on the site can look at a national map or scroll through projects by state. The site documents private investments of more than $100 million that the administration said its policies helped to spur. It also provides additional economic data and details at the state level, including on how administration policies have increased access to health care coverage and lowered prescription drug prices.
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OCEAN CITY, N.J., March 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Mental health emergencies in young children are growing. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. hospitals saw a 24% increase in mental health emergency visits for children during the months of April to October of 2020. The past few years have been challenging for so many, and times of uncertainty can create anxiety and feelings of worry.
With growing stress among children, Author Deirdre Palm Adams' mission is to help children learn that things that seem scary, may not be so scary after all.
How? Writing children's books. Recent bestseller "Don't Worry Rocky" is the second in the series The Adventures of Rocky, an endearing story of friendship and inner strength. From seemingly scary situations, to forming happy friendships, "Don't Worry Rocky" follows the story of a puppy's day at the beach.
Inspiration struck when Adams saw her own spunky, yet anxious poodle navigate waves, sand, and other animals along the Jersey Shore. A former teacher, Deirdre was reminded of young students trying to make friends and cope with external stressors for the first time.
"It is a great way to inspire kids to have a positive mindset when they come across challenges or are trying new things in their own lives," says Nicole Picone, 2nd Grade teacher.
Adams realized she could use the passions teaching brought her to encourage children to rely on gratitude when they are worried, and to stay focused on all the good things around them.
With childhood summers on the Jersey Shore, Adams knew this landscape was perfect for her children's books. She wrote her first book, "Don't Be Afraid Rocky", in 2021.
"I'm excited to continue with The Adventures of Rocky to teach children to be happy, to enjoy life, to not be afraid…all the messages the law of attraction teaches," said Adams.
Don't Worry Rocky is the second in her series published by Miriam Laundry Publishing and is available on Amazon. The story is brought to life with vibrant illustrations by Lindsay Morano. A portion of proceeds will be donated to the Humane Society of Ocean City.
For additional information, visit www.deirdrepalmadams.com.
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BANGKOK (AP) — Air strikes by Myanmar’s military killed as many as 80 people, including singers and musicians, attending an anniversary celebration of the Kachin ethnic minority’s main political organization, members of the group and a rescue worker said Monday.
The reported attack comes three days before Southeast Asian foreign ministers are to hold a special meeting in Indonesia to discuss widening violence in Myanmar.
The number of casualties at Sunday night’s celebration, held by the Kachin Independence Organization in the northern state of Kachin, appeared to be the most in a single air attack since the military seized power in February 2021 from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi.
Initial reports put the death toll at around 60, but later tallies raised it to about 80.
It was impossible to independently confirm details of the incident, though media sympathetic to the Kachin posted videos showing what was said to be the attack’s aftermath, with splintered and flattened wooden structures.
The military government’s information office confirmed in a statement late Monday that there was an attack on what it described as the headquarters of the Kachin Independence Army’s 9th Brigade, calling it a “necessary operation” in response to “terrorist” acts carried out by the Kachin group.
It called reports of a high death toll “rumors,” and denied the military had bombed a concert and that singers and audience members were among the dead.
The United Nations’ office in Myanmar said in a statement that it was “deeply concerned and saddened” by reports of the air strikes.
“What would appear to be excessive and disproportionate use of force by security forces against unarmed civilians is unacceptable and those responsible must be held to account,” it said.
Envoys representing Western embassies in Myanmar, including the United States, issued a joint statement saying the attack underscores the military regime’s “disregard for its obligation to protect civilians and respect the principles and rules of international humanitarian law.”
Myanmar has been wracked for decades by rebellions by ethnic minorities seeking autonomy, but anti-government resistance increased markedly nationwide with the formation of an armed pro-democracy movement opposing last year’s military takeover.
The Kachin are one of the stronger ethnic rebel groups and are capable of manufacturing some of their own armaments. They also have a loose alliance with the armed militias of the pro-democracy forces that were formed in 2021 in central Myanmar to fight army rule.
Sunday’s celebration of the 62nd anniversary of the founding of the Kachin Independence Organization, which included a concert, was held at a base also used for military training by the Kachin Independence Army, the KIO’s armed wing. It is located near Aung Bar Lay village in Hpakant township, a remote mountainous area 950 kilometers (600 miles) north of Myanmar’s biggest city, Yangon.
Hpakant is the center of the world’s biggest and most lucrative jade mining industry, from which both the government and the rebels derive revenue.
As many as 80 people were killed and about 100 were injured in Sunday’s attack on the first day of a three-day celebration of the KIO’s founding, a spokesperson for the Kachin Artists Association told The Associated Press by phone. He said he first heard there had been 60 deaths, but was later told by sources close to Kachin Independence Army officials that about 80 people had died.
He said military aircraft dropped four bombs on the celebration at about 8 p.m., according to members of his group who were there. Between 300 and 500 people were in attendance and a Kachin singer and keyboard player were among the dead, said the spokesperson, who asked not to be identified because he feared punishment by the authorities.
Those killed also included Kachin officers and soldiers, musicians, jade mining business owners and other civilians, he said. They also included at least 10 Kachin military and business VIPs sitting in front of the stage, and cooks working backstage, he added.
The Kachin News Group, a media outlet sympathetic to the KIO, reported that an initial search found 58 bodies and that government security forces had blocked the wounded from being treated at hospitals in nearby towns. It reported later that more than 20 more bodies had been recovered, bringing the death toll to about 80.
Col. Naw Bu, a spokesperson for the Kachin Independence Army, said by phone that KIA soldiers, musicians, businesspeople and villagers were among the dead, but he could not confirm a casualty number due to communications problems. He said the deaths were a loss for all Kachin people, and its group would fly the Kachin flag at half-staff.
An emergency services rescue worker who was in Hpakant and also asked for anonymity said he saw three military aircraft making bombing runs over the celebration ground, just a few kilometers (miles) away. He said he was barred by the KIO from entering the area but heard that more than 60 people were killed, including a KIA brigade commander.
The Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, a non-governmental organization that tracks killings and arrests, said Friday that 2,377 civilians have died in crackdowns by the security forces since the army took power. Its figure, however, does not always include people killed in military actions in the countryside.
“We fear this attack is part of a pattern of unlawful aerial attacks by the military which has killed and injured civilians in areas controlled by armed groups,” Amnesty International’s deputy regional director, Hana Young, said in a statement.
“The military has shown ruthless disregard for civilian lives in its escalating campaign against opponents. It is difficult to believe the military did not know of a significant civilian presence at the site of this attack. The military must immediately grant access to medics and humanitarian assistance to those affected by these air strikes and other civilians in need,” Young said.
Cambodia, the current chair of the Association of Southeast Asia Nations, said Sunday that the group’s foreign ministers will hold a special meeting in Indonesia this week to consider the peace process for Myanmar. Myanmar’s generals have all but shunned the group’s previous efforts.
“As officials and leaders from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations prepare to host high-level meetings in the coming weeks, this attack highlights the need to overhaul the approach to the crisis in Myanmar,” Amnesty International said. “ASEAN has to step up and formulate a more robust course of action so that military leaders end this escalating repression.” | https://www.wfla.com/news/international/ap-international/ap-ethnic-group-says-myanmar-air-attack-kills-60-at-celebration/ | 2022-10-25 05:34:04 | 0 | https://www.wfla.com/news/international/ap-international/ap-ethnic-group-says-myanmar-air-attack-kills-60-at-celebration/ |
Michigan judge in abortion case denies request to step aside
A Michigan judge who suspended the state’s long-unenforced abortion ban in May has denied a request from state lawmakers seeking to disqualify her from presiding over the key abortion case
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan judge who suspended the state’s long-unenforced abortion ban in May denied a request Friday from state lawmakers seeking to disqualify her from presiding over the key abortion case.
Michigan Court of Claims Chief Judge Elizabeth Gleicher wrote in her decision that at least one of the arguments the lawmakers made “borders on frivolous.”
Gleicher granted a preliminary injunction in May to Planned Parenthood of Michigan that stalled the enforcement of a 1931 state law criminalizing abortion. When the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June, her ruling became the only legal barrier to that ban taking effect.
After Gleicher was assigned to oversee Planned Parenthood's lawsuit, she informed both sides that she regularly contributes to the group and previously represented it in an abortion case decided 23 years ago.
But Gleicher wrote in Friday’s decision that she incorrectly remembered her affiliation with that case. She said that while Planned Parenthood filed statements in support of her client, she did not actually represent Planned Parenthood. She said the Legislature’s argument about her involvement in that case “borders on frivolous.”
In filing their motion seeking to have Gleicher disqualified from the case, the Republican-controlled Michigan House and Senate contended in part that her contributions to Planned Parenthood violated an ethics standard against the “appearance of impropriety.”
She wrote that the argument that judges who have made “small contributions” to an organization involved in a case must recuse themselves was “simply unprecedented.”
Gleicher added that her contributions to Planned Parenthood were generally $1,000 or less, and that her last contribution was in December 2021. | https://www.wnem.com/2022/07/29/michigan-judge-abortion-case-denies-request-step-aside/ | 2022-07-29 18:26:15 | 0 | https://www.wnem.com/2022/07/29/michigan-judge-abortion-case-denies-request-step-aside/ |
By JENNIFER McDERMOTT and MARY KATHERINE WILDEMAN
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A major economic bill headed to the president has “game-changing” incentives for the nuclear energy industry, experts say, and those tax credits are even more substantial if a facility is sited in a community where a coal plant is closing.
The transformative bill provides the most spending to fight climate change by any one nation ever in a single push. Among the many things it could do nuclear energy experts say is spur more projects like one Bill Gates is planning in Kemmerer, Wyoming. Gates’ company, TerraPower, plans to build an advanced, nontraditional nuclear reactor and employ workers from a local coal-fired power plant scheduled to close soon.
Companies designing and building the next generation of nuclear reactors could pick one of two new tax credits available to carbon-free electricity generators, such as wind and solar. To ensure coal communities have a place in the energy transition, both tax credits include a 10-percentage point bonus for facilities sited where residents have relied on fossil fuel plants or mining— a “sizeable incentive” to locate them there, according to Matt Crozat, senior director for strategy and policy development at the Nuclear Energy Institute.
That could include towns in coal-dependent West Virginia, since the state eliminated a ban on nuclear power plants this year. Or in Maryland, where the state announced a partnership in June to look at repurposing a fossil fuel site for a small nuclear reactor. Or in Montana, where lawmakers are looking at advanced nuclear reactors as a possible replacement for coal boilers.
Staffan Qvist, an expert in energy systems analysis and decarbonization strategies, has extensively researched the feasibility of replacing coal plants with emissions-free alternatives in China and Poland. He found that coal plants often make ideal sites for advanced, high-temperature nuclear reactors.
“It’s a growing trend,” Qvist said, “now it’s being talked about everywhere.” Qvist is also founder of Qvist Consulting Limited in the United Kingdom. “You have a site, you have a grid connection. You have equipment that can remain in use, and you have a workforce that could be retrained.”
A design by NuScale Power is the first to be fully certified in the United States and the company is planning to begin operating a small modular reactor in 2029 at the Idaho National Laboratory. The company’s chief financial officer, Chris Colbert, said former coal plants are ideal locations for advanced nuclear technology, in part because transmission lines are already in place.
Colbert also said he thinks potential customers will be more interested in the company’s small advanced reactors because of the incentives in the bill.
There are nearly $375 billion in climate incentives in the Inflation Reduction Act. Among them, there’s a new tax credit available to any carbon-free electricity generator. That includes new advanced nuclear reactors that begin construction in 2025 or later. Existing nuclear plants that expand their output could get credit for that additional electricity production. The credit is worth at least $25 per megawatt-hour for the first decade the plant operates, according to NEI, the industry’s trade association.
Or, owners of a new carbon-free electricity generator could take advantage of an investment tax credit, worth 30% of the amount they paid to build the facility.
The bill also has $700 million to produce the uranium fuel in the United States that many advanced reactors need. And there’s a tax credit for existing nuclear plants worth up to $15 per megawatt hour from 2024 to 2032. That’s enough of a boost that it’s highly likely no nuclear plants will close during that period for economic reasons, Crozat said. There are expanded options for how the credit can be used, with direct payments for certain owners, such as municipal utilities.
The incentives are a game changer for the nuclear energy industry, said Jacopo Buongiorno, professor of nuclear science and engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Buongiorno has studied the future of nuclear energy in a carbon-constrained world.
“This is really substantial,” he said as he read the list of tax credits. “This should move the needle in terms of making these technologies economically viable right off the bat.”
Buongiorno liked that the credits are available to many carbon-free technologies.
“It’s not just nuclear, it’s not just solar, it’s all of the above, which is what we have been preaching as the right approach for decarbonization,” he said. “You need to sort of push everybody here.”
But Grant Smith, a senior energy policy adviser at the Environmental Working Group, said tax credits for small modular nuclear units is a waste of taxpayer dollars. They divert resources from commercially-viable emerging technologies, Smith said, and stokes “the continuing false narrative of cheap, easily-deployed nuclear technology that the sector has been spinning for decades.” Smith leads the nonprofit’s work on accelerating the transition to renewables.
Georgia has the only nuclear project currently under construction in the U.S. Two traditional large reactors were projected to cost $14 billion and are now expected to cost more than $30 billion.
Because of that, Buongiorno said he’d be shocked if there is another order for a traditional large reactor in the U.S. The perception of financial risk, or project risk overall, would be too high, he said.
There are roughly 40 serious concepts in development for the next generation of advanced nuclear reactors worldwide, Qvist said. China was the first to connect one of the next generation of reactors to its grid to produce about 200 megawatts of electricity. A high-temperature, gas-cooled reactor began operating last year.
Kairos Power has applied for a permit to construct a test reactor in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. GE Hitachi is working on a reactor in Ontario, Canada, and if it’s successful, there’s a lot of interest in it in the United States, Poland and elsewhere in Europe, Qvist said.
The largest public power company in the U.S., the Tennessee Valley Authority, launched a program this year to develop and fund new small modular nuclear reactors as part of its strategy to dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The TVA is focused on GE Hitachi’s design.
At least a dozen advanced reactors are projected to come online in the 2020s.
“It’s not far off and it’s not speculative and it’s not on paper,” Qvist said. “There are actually a lot of things really happening.”
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Wildeman reported from Hartford, Conn.
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On Friday before noon, two male toddlers were found wandering in a field alone, no parent or caregiver in sight around the 3200 block of 29th Street West.
Two community members saw the boys alone and called into the Williston Police Department. Officers arrived on scene and found the two toddlers playing outside with the individuals who called in the report at the corner of 29th Street West and 32nd Avenue West. The officer estimated the boys were both between the ages of two and three years old.
The officer reported that neither child was verbal enough to answer questions that could help locate their parents. One of the children was able to lead officers down to their grandmother’s apartment. The grandmother opened the door and was able to provide police officers with names of both boys and called their father.
Upon contacting the father, officers reported that the father stated he had been sleeping because he works overnight shift and that the children’s mother was at work. Officers report that the father admitted the children had zero supervision or care during the time they left the house.
The officer informed the father that the boys were being removed from his care and being placed in the care of social services due to the following reasons:
The children were wandering on a busy road during a high traffic hour
The father was unaware his children were missing until being contacted by law enforcement.
The children are too young to understand how roadways and traffic function and are unable to communicate.
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(Green Car Reports) — The base Tesla Model 3 now qualifies for the full $7,500 federal EV tax credit, joining other Model 3 variants.
On Friday, Tesla fans noted that, when building a base Model 3, Tesla then indicated that it was eligible for a $7,500 credit. At that time, the EPA FuelEconomy.gov list of qualified vehicles indicated that model and some of the lineup was only eligible for $3,750, and Green Car Reports reached out to the EPA for comment.
As of Tuesday, with no further confirmation from EPA, the site was updated to indicate that the entire Model 3 lineup is now eligible for the full amount.
When the federal government initially listed qualified vehicles in April, only those getting the Model 3 Performance could claim the full $7,500. But now the entire lineup is eligible, according to FuelEconomy.gov. That lineup includes the base rear-wheel-drive Model 3 and all-wheel-drive Model 3 Performance and Model 3 Long Range.
This isn’t the only adjustment made to the list of qualified vehicles since it was first announced. Just a few days after that list was released, Volkswagen confirmed that all 2023 ID.4 models qualify for the full $7,500 credit. A shift to local assembly of U.S.-market vehicles, as well as local battery sourcing, allow that.
The base Model 3 currently starts at $41,630 before the credit, so this gives it an effective price below $35,000 if buyers qualify on household income restrictions.
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In order to be able to claim the full amount on the base Model 3, with lithium iron phosphate (LFP) cells, Tesla must have changed sourcing of LFP cells to a U.S. trade partner—not China. Currently LFP cells for EVs aren’t made in the U.S. at any scale, but a Michigan plant making them is key to Ford’s plans for EV affordability. | https://www.kxnet.com/automotive/base-tesla-model-3-now-also-qualifies-for-7500-tax-credit/ | 2023-06-08 17:23:39 | 1 | https://www.kxnet.com/automotive/base-tesla-model-3-now-also-qualifies-for-7500-tax-credit/ |
In the early moments of Thursday’s game against Stanford, Colorado’s Tayanna Jones couldn’t believe when she saw her mom and brother in the stands.
“She definitely surprised me,” Jones said. “I knew she was coming for my senior night. I didn’t know she was coming for the Stanford game.”
A native of North Carolina who has spent the past three years with the CU women’s basketball team, Jones hasn’t had many opportunities to play in front of family. But, this is a special weekend.
On Saturday at the CU Events Center, Jones will be honored during the senior day celebration as the Buffs take on California (noon, Pac-12 Network). She is one of three seniors on the roster, but the only one who will go through the ceremony. Quay Miller and Jaylyn Sherrod could both return for a fifth season, but haven’t made their final decision.
For Jones, it will be a celebration of a five-year journey that began with two seasons at Georgetown before transferring to CU.
“I still haven’t processed it,” she said of nearing the end of her career. “It feels surreal. It’s my last home game here at CU. I think it’s going to be memorable for sure.”
This season, Jones took advantage of the extra year of eligibility granted by the NCAA for all players from the 2020-21 season because of the COVID-19 pandemic. For the first time, Jones has been a full-time starter. The 6-foot-1 wing is averaging career highs in minutes (19.4 per game), points (5.2) and rebounds (4.5) and has a career-high – and team-best – 19 blocks.
“It’s just been another opportunity for me to showcase and just keep playing the game I love, just keep playing with my teammates, who are really incredible to play with; and the coaching staff,” she said. “And just being able to be around an atmosphere where we all want to win, we’re competitive and we love to play basketball.”
Jones knew she could get a prestigious degree from Georgetown, but wanted to challenge herself on the court in the Pac-12, arguably the best conference in the country. She hasn’t regretted the decision.
“I’m grateful because it just seemed like it was a better fit for me overall,” she said. “Everything just fell into place, like I’m supposed to be here, like this is part of my purpose. … Colorado, they have balance. They have the degree and they have the basketball, as well, so it’s been good for me.”
A long, athletic wing, Jones often gives the Buffs great energy, solid defense, and a rebounding presence. She’s had some ups and downs, but her mom and brother saw Jones play one of her best games of the year Thursday. She had nine points, seven rebounds and a career-high three blocks, all while playing solid defense in the 21st-ranked Buffs’ heartbreaking 73-62 overtime loss to third-ranked Stanford.
“I thought Tay was phenomenal tonight,” head coach JR Payne said after the game. “She did everything that she needed to do. She defended, she played really long, she rebounded, she looked to be aggressive off the bounce, she hit a three.
“If we can bottle that and have that Tay Jones for the next three, four weeks of basketball, we are going to continue to be better and better and better. I thought she was awesome.”
Jones is hoping for another awesome game on Saturday, but while she’ll enjoy celebrating her career, she wants one thing more anything else
“I just want to win, honestly,” she said. “That’s my first priority. We want to make sure we get that W tomorrow, handle our business and see what comes after that.
“Definitely walking with my mom and brother (during the ceremony) will be really, really good for me. It’s something I won’t forget. I think it’ll be really fun. I’m just looking forward to it – and trying not to cry.” | https://www.dailycamera.com/2023/02/24/tayanna-jones-aims-for-memorable-senior-day-with-cu-buffs/ | 2023-02-25 04:02:18 | 1 | https://www.dailycamera.com/2023/02/24/tayanna-jones-aims-for-memorable-senior-day-with-cu-buffs/ |
Market barriers include pricing fluctuations, supply chain issues and shortage of skilled labor
BOULDER, Colo., Jan. 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- A new report from Guidehouse Insights examines the global market for smart home technology.
The better-known smart home applications include smart speakers to control lighting and advanced thermostats to reduce energy usage, but another class of solutions enhances the health and well-being of the residents in a healthy home: indoor air purifiers, consumer healthy home equipment like CPAPs, and telemedicine, among others. All of the healthy home solutions satisfy the basic human need of improving quality of life. According to a new report from Guidehouse Insights, smart home technology that enhances the health and well-being of residents is currently a $3.6 billion market that is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 11.6% to $9.7 billion by 2031.
"The global revenue for healthy home technology is significant in that it is comparable to that of advanced thermostats," says William Hughes, principal research analyst with Guidehouse Insights. "This rapidly growing smart homes segment helps healthy people stay well, supports people with chronic issues so they can avoid emergencies, and informs caretakers about any potential crises, so the elderly can remain in their homes as long as possible."
However, several barriers hinder faster growth in the market. A wide range of solutions at different price points can be confusing for consumers. Sales channels can sell only some of the solutions and have the additional pressure of supply chain problems and a shortage of skilled labor. Further, many of the benefits of home health technologies are hard to measure and quantify, according to the report.
The report, Market Data: Healthy Homes, examines how the healthy home segment of the smart home device market will develop across five global regions—North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Latin America, and Middle East & Africa. Analyses for the ten-year period between 2022 and 2031 are segmented by region and category product type: indoor air purifiers, consumer home health equipment, telemedicine, and others. An executive summary of the report is available for free download on the Guidehouse Insights website.
Guidehouse Insights, the dedicated market intelligence arm of Guidehouse, provides research, data, and benchmarking services for today's rapidly changing and highly regulated industries. Our insights are built on in-depth analysis of global clean technology markets. The team's research methodology combines supply-side industry analysis, end-user primary research, and demand assessment, paired with a deep examination of technology trends, to provide a comprehensive view of emerging resilient infrastructure systems. Additional information about Guidehouse Insights can be found at www.guidehouseinsights.com.
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by: Keion Russell Posted: Sep 3, 2022 / 12:36 AM CDT Updated: Sep 3, 2022 / 12:36 AM CDT SHARE SAN ANGELO, Texas- The Christoval Cougars led this one from start to finish tonight. Beating the Eagles 30-10 for their first win of the season. The Eagles will look to get back on track next week in their home game against Bangs. | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/the-christoval-cougars-hand-grape-creek-their-second-loss-of-the-season/ | 2022-09-03 06:17:21 | 0 | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/the-christoval-cougars-hand-grape-creek-their-second-loss-of-the-season/ |
ARLINGTON, Va., June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- RiskSpan, a leading provider of residential mortgage and structured product data and analytics, has announced a series of new enhancements in the latest release of its award-winning Edge Platform.
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(NewsNation) — More than a month has passed since a professional cyclist was killed in Austin, Texas. Her suspected murderer is still on the run, and authorities say she may be traveling under an assumed name.
Kaitlin Armstrong, 34, is considered armed and dangerous. She’s suspected of murdering Moriah Wilson, a rising star in the cycling world, in early May.
Armstrong was brought in for questioning in the murder case, but she was released and has been on the run ever since. Now, investigators say tips have come in that allege Armstrong may be going by her sister’s name in New York state.
A police affidavit related to the case paints a picture of a love triangle gone wrong. According to the document, Wilson had met with the suspect’s boyfriend, fellow pro cyclist Colin Strickland, on May 11 — the night she was killed.
Wilson’s family believed she was not seeing anyone romantically. Still, investigators are looking at the case as a crime of passion.
Strickland, who said he briefly dated Wilson last fall, told police they went swimming and then to dinner. He says he then dropped her off at the home, where she was later found dead with multiple gunshot wounds.
Investigators say one minute after Wilson arrived home, security footage shows an SUV similar to Armstrong’s appearing to pull up outside. Detectives analyzed shell casings found at the scene of the killing against a gun belonging to Armstrong, writing in an affidavit, “The potential that the same firearm was involved is significant.”
Friends of Wilson described the 25-year-old as exceptional in every way. They say she will be missed forever.
On May 12, when officers confronted Armstrong with the video evidence, she reportedly provided no explanation and remained “very still and guarded.” Police later told her she was free to go.
Two days later, images showed Armstrong at an airport in Austin, Texas.
An anonymous tipster who police call credible said Armstrong discovered Strickland was romantically involved with Wilson and became “furious,” “shaking with anger” and wanted to “kill” her.
Police issued a warrant for Armstrong’s arrest May 17. U.S. marshals say Armstrong flew from Austin to Houston and then to New York City. On May 25, another warrant for Armstrong was obtained for unlawful flight to avoid prosecution.
The search for Armstrong has been designated as a U.S. Marshals Service major case, which brings in additional manpower to help further the investigation.
Susan Pamerleau, who is working the case with the U.S. Marshals Service in the Western District of Texas, says authorities won’t stop until Armstrong is in custody.
“The longer she is away, the less freedom she has. Because as we close in, that cuts off more and more options for her in terms of evading arrest,” Pamerleau said.
Pamerleau believes the longer Armstrong is on the run, the more dangerous she may become to the public.
“She’s suspected of committing murder. In a case like that, she may be getting more desperate, and as she does that, she may become more dangerous. Our intent is to find her as quickly as we can and to bring her into custody,” Pamerleau added.
Armstrong is described as 5 feet, 8 inches tall, weighing around 125 pounds. A $5,000 reward for information leading to her capture has been issued.
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A man who made it his goal to push a peanut all the way up to the top of Pikes Peak without using his hands, all to support a charity, has completed his trek and entered the record books.
The "peanut push" started as a bar bet in the 1920s. Then in 1963, Ulysses Baxter set a record, pushing his peanut to the summit in just eight days.
This year, Bob Salem joined the exclusive club of peanut pushers and set a new record.
Bob crossed the finish line Friday morning, marking the end of his week-long journey.
Bob managed to set a new record by completing the peanut push in just 7 days.
But he didn't just make the climb to one-up the previous record holder. This peanut push was for a good cause.
Bob works with the charity "Together and Home at Last," which aims to end homelessness.
He says he wanted to try something unusual to bring more awareness to a worthy cause.
Bob made it to the top in good spirits, and he says his body served him well.
"I'm surprisingly in really good shape. I don't feel sore or anything, it's just the dehydration started kicking my butt a little bit and I know I lost some weight. I know I lost a lot of weight," he said.
Bob has some advice for the next person nutty enough to attempt the push. He says don't do it alone, and stay hydrated.
When he was asked what he planned to do next, he said he was heading home to take a well-deserved nap.
Though Bob may have had his fill of peanuts for a long time, he says his memories from the mountain won't be forgotten anytime soon. | https://www.wfmz.com/news/good-news/man-sets-new-record-for-pushing-peanut-up-pikes-peak/article_6589a0cc-0811-11ed-b236-972bc06e0475.html | 2022-07-20 11:24:13 | 1 | https://www.wfmz.com/news/good-news/man-sets-new-record-for-pushing-peanut-up-pikes-peak/article_6589a0cc-0811-11ed-b236-972bc06e0475.html |
Study evaluated 24-week efficacy and safety of Astellas' fezolinetant in women considered unsuitable for hormone therapy
TOKYO, June 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, "Astellas") today announced positive topline results from the Phase 3b DAYLIGHT clinical trial for fezolinetant, an investigational oral, nonhormonal compound being studied for the treatment of moderate to severe vasomotor symptoms (VMS) due to menopause. VMS, characterized by hot flashes and/or night sweats, are common symptoms of menopause.1,2
The study, comprised of more than 450 women considered unsuitable for hormone therapy, met the primary objective showing statistically significant reduction from baseline in the frequency of moderate to severe VMS to week 24 for fezolinetant 45 mg once daily versus placebo. Serious treatment emergent adverse events (TEAE) occurred in less than 5% of patients, and the most common TEAEs were COVID-19 and headache. Detailed results will be submitted for publication and for consideration at an upcoming medical meeting.
Marci English, Vice President, Head of BioPharma Development, Astellas
"We are delighted the initial assessment of the DAYLIGHT study further validates the role of fezolinetant in reducing the frequency of moderate to severe VMS due to menopause. These 24-week placebo-controlled data add to our growing base of clinical evidence established in the SKYLIGHT studies and provide additional insights on the safety and effectiveness of fezolinetant in women who cannot or choose not to take hormone therapy."
Fezolinetant was approved as VEOZAH™ by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in May 2023, and Astellas is pursuing regulatory approval for fezolinetant in several other countries and regions, including Europe. The DAYLIGHT study generated additional efficacy and safety data to primarily support health technology assessment (HTA) and reimbursement dossiers throughout Europe.
Astellas has already reflected the impact from this result in its financial forecast of the current fiscal year ending March 31, 2024.
About DAYLIGHT
DAYLIGHT (NCT05033886) is a Phase 3b, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, 24-week study to assess the efficacy and safety of fezolinetant in menopausal women aged 40-65 suffering from moderate to severe VMS and considered unsuitable for hormone therapy. A total of 453 women were enrolled at 69 sites in Canada, Europe and Turkey.
About the BRIGHT SKY™ Phase 3 Program
The BRIGHT SKY pivotal trials, SKYLIGHT 1™ (NCT04003155) and SKYLIGHT 2™ (NCT04003142), enrolled over 1,000 women with moderate to severe VMS. The trials are double-blinded, placebo-controlled for the first 12 weeks followed by a 40-week treatment extension period. Women were enrolled at over 180 sites within the U.S., Canada and Europe. SKYLIGHT 4™ (NCT04003389) is a 52-week double-blinded, placebo-controlled study designed to investigate the long-term safety of fezolinetant. For SKYLIGHT 4, over 1,800 women with VMS were enrolled at over 180 sites within the U.S., Canada and Europe.
About Fezolinetant
Fezolinetant is a neurokinin 3 (NK3) receptor antagonist FDA approved in the U.S. for the treatment of moderate to severe vasomotor symptoms (VMS) due to menopause. Fezolinetant is not a hormone. VMS are the feelings of warmth in the face, neck, and chest, or sudden intense feelings of heat and sweating ("hot flashes" or "hot flushes"). Fezolinetant works by blocking neurokinin B (NKB) binding on the kisspeptin/neurokinin B/dynorphin (KNDy) neuron to modulate neuronal activity in the thermoregulatory center of the brain (the hypothalamus) to reduce the frequency and severity of moderate to severe VMS due to menopause.
U.S. Important Safety Information
Do not use VEOZAH if you:
- have cirrhosis.
- have severe kidney problems or kidney failure.
- are taking certain medicines called CYP1A2 inhibitors. Ask your healthcare provider if you are not sure.
Before you use VEOZAH, tell your healthcare provider about all of your medical conditions, including if you:
- have liver disease or problems.
- have kidney problems.
- have any medical conditions that may become worse while you are using VEOZAH.
Tell your healthcare provider about all the medicines you take, including prescription and over-the-counter medicines, vitamins, and herbal supplements. VEOZAH may affect the way other medicines work, and other medicines may affect how VEOZAH works.
VEOZAH can cause serious side effects, including:
- increased liver blood test values. Your healthcare provider will do a blood test to check your liver before you start taking VEOZAH. Your healthcare provider will also do this blood test at month 3, month 6, and month 9 after you start taking VEOZAH.
Call your healthcare provider right away if you have the following signs and symptoms of liver problems:
- nausea
- vomiting
- yellowing of the eyes or skin (jaundice)
- pain in the right upper stomach (abdomen)
The most common side effects of VEOZAH include:
- stomach (abdominal) pain
- diarrhea
- difficulty sleeping (insomnia)
- back pain
- hot flashes or hot flushes
These are not all the possible side effects of VEOZAH. Tell your healthcare provider if you have any side effect that bothers you or does not go away.
Call your healthcare provider for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects of prescription drugs to the FDA. Visit www.fda.gov/medwatch or call 1-800-FDA-1088.
For more information, please see the full Prescribing Information and Patient Product Information for VEOZAH (fezolinetant).
About Astellas
Astellas Pharma Inc. is a pharmaceutical company conducting business in more than 70 countries around the world. We are promoting the Focus Area Approach that is designed to identify opportunities for the continuous creation of new drugs to address diseases with high unmet medical needs by focusing on Biology and Modality. Furthermore, we are also looking beyond our foundational Rx focus to create Rx+® healthcare solutions that combine our expertise and knowledge with cutting-edge technology in different fields of external partners. Through these efforts, Astellas stands on the forefront of healthcare change to turn innovative science into VALUE for patients. For more information, please visit our website at https://www.astellas.com/en.
Cautionary Notes
In this press release, statements made with respect to current plans, estimates, strategies and beliefs and other statements that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements about the future performance of Astellas. These statements are based on management's current assumptions and beliefs in light of the information currently available to it and involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties. A number of factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those discussed in the forward-looking statements. Such factors include, but are not limited to: (i) changes in general economic conditions and in laws and regulations, relating to pharmaceutical markets, (ii) currency exchange rate fluctuations, (iii) delays in new product launches, (iv) the inability of Astellas to market existing and new products effectively, (v) the inability of Astellas to continue to effectively research and develop products accepted by customers in highly competitive markets, and (vi) infringements of Astellas' intellectual property rights by third parties. Information about pharmaceutical products (including products currently in development) which is included in this press release is not intended to constitute an advertisement or medical advice.
References
1 Utian WH. Psychosocial and socioeconomic burden of vasomotor symptoms in menopause: a comprehensive review. Health Qual Life Outcomes. 2005;3:47.
2 Jones RE, Lopez KH, eds. Human Reproductive Biology. 4th ed. Waltham, MA: Elsevier, 2014:120.
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INDIANAPOLIS — Jury duty normally isn't on the list of desired activities for many Hoosiers, but if one state lawmaker's bill passes, you could get paid more for serving.
House Bill 1146 would double the daily jury appearance fee from $15 up to $30 for each day of attendance until the jury panel is created.
Those serving on juries would be paid $80 per day for the first five days of trial and $90 per day starting on the sixth day of trial until the jury is discharged. Currently, the payment is $40/day.
The bill passed out of two committees and the House unanimously and has now been referred to the Senate.
If it becomes law, it would go into effect on July 1.
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Gallatin County purchased the Farm Bureau building on 19th Street to make room for services that were supposed to go into the new courts building but were unable to fit in.
“Everybody that comes in loves this atrium,” says Gallatin County Chief Operating Officer, Nick Borzak.
Gallatin County purchased the farm bureau building for $3.9 million.
“We had some other users in justice building that were going to need a home,” says Gallatin County Commissioner Scott MacFarlane.
“Stick to this first floor for remodeling for level one records and court services and 911 records," says Borzak.
The county originally planned to build a new building which would have cost them about $9 million dollars to build which would have been half the size of the Farm Bureau building.
“Might as well go ask around the neighborhood and see if anybody would be interested in selling new buildings adjacent to our campus,” says MacFarlane.
The county says tenants' leases are month-to-month that will continue through at least next September, which is when they expect to start renovations. The renovations are projected to cost 2 to 4 million dollars.
Having this building next to the old law and justice center is expected to help with flow being next to the new courts building that is under construction.
“You can see the form on the big courts building right on the other side of the snow pile so it's any easy connection,” says Borzak.
As the buildings under construction come together, they see a future of a centralized campus of county services.
“Starting to flesh out that campus gives us some more parts that we can move so we can think about being creative,” says MacFarlane.
The next step for this building is renovations, which the county expects to have done in 2023, and line up with the County Courts building next door to open both up sometime in 2024. | https://www.kbzk.com/news/local-news/gallatin-county-purchases-farm-bureau-building-renovations-to-come | 2022-12-06 01:25:53 | 1 | https://www.kbzk.com/news/local-news/gallatin-county-purchases-farm-bureau-building-renovations-to-come |
Column: ‘They go low, we go high’? Great plan. But have you seen how low Republicans will go?
It was at the Democratic National Convention in 2016 when former First Lady Michelle Obama famously shared her family’s motto: “When they go low, we go high.”
At the time I thought it was a brilliant turn of phrase that made it clear that civility was a choice.
At the virtual DNC in 2020, she reiterated the importance of civility, saying “going high is the only thing that works.” That was something President Obama echoed this past weekend while stumping for Democrats heading into the midterms.
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“We don’t have to shout each other down,” he said. “It’s not a good way to do business. You wouldn’t do that in the workplace.”
Clearly, he hasn’t seen “Succession.”
Anyway, I do wonder how much longer the Obamas’ message of choosing to “go high” will resonate with liberal voters who have grown tired of watching the “low” folks win elections, steal Supreme Court seats and avoid prison. The rules work only if everyone is following them. And while fighting fire with fire usually means everything burns, I don’t blame left-leaning voters for wanting to dish themselves, since they’ve been doing more than their fair share of taking.
Last week Paul Pelosi, the 82-year-old husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, was violently attacked by an intruder in their home in San Francisco. Less than 12 hours later, Virginia’s Republican governor, Glenn Youngkin, was treating the horrifying crime as a convenient setup to a line in his campaign speech: “We’re going to send her back to be with him in California.”
Paul Pelosi’s skull was fractured. He was rushed into surgery. He could have died.
And yet Arizona’s Republican gubernatorial candidate, Kari Lake, joked about it before charges had even been filed. Donald Trump Jr. did so with a meme.
Elon Musk used his new toy — Twitter — to amplify conspiracy theories about the attack as opposed to, I don’t know, well wishes for the victim.
To be completely honest, few moments in life challenge my humanity quite like hearing something bad happening to someone I think is a bad person. I’m not proud of it, but I am aware of the conflict inside.
The lower the political rhetoric descends, the more I understand why Kendrick Lamar began his classic self-examination “Good Kid, M.A.A.D City” with a prayer. When trying to go high, it doesn’t hurt to get some help from above.
When the actor Leslie Jordan passed away in a car accident last week, my heart immediately sank. He was a beautiful soul. But when Rush Limbaugh passed away from lung cancer last year, after a beat — or two — I put my phone down and walked out of the room to avoid any temptation to pick it up and join the conversation. That whole “if you don’t have anything nice to say” thing.
Limbaugh had made a career disparaging women and minorities. He had a segment on his radio show dedicated to mocking people dying of AIDS. Needless to say, I was not sad when he died. I also like to think I wasn’t happy. I would hate to get into the habit of having my joy come from someone else’s pain. If joy is even the right word. That little bump of dopamine probably ought to be labeled “vengeance.”
What is often overlooked in discussions about Michelle Obama’s catchphrase is that she shared it after at least seven bullets hit the upstairs residence of the White House back in 2011. Her mother and younger daughter were inside. There’s no need to revisit all the racist attacks the first Black president endured. All we need to remember is he wasn’t the only Obama who had to endure them.
Civility isn’t the absence of emotions. It is the management of them. We all want to go off on somebody sometimes. That’s only human nature. And sometimes we do go off, and that’s human nature as well. But without civility, relationships cannot develop, and societies struggle to evolve.
When jokes about an attack on an 82-year-old man are considered red meat on the campaign trail, I can’t help but wonder what kind of person is being fed.
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Republican attorney general of Kansas sued Friday to force the state to be among a few that prohibit transgender people from changing their sex on their driver’s licenses and to repudiate the Democratic governor, who continues to allow such changes despite a new anti-trans law.
Attorney General Kris Kobach filed his lawsuit in state court, seeking an order to stop Gov. Laura Kelly, and agencies under her control, from letting transgender people change their licenses. Kobach contends a law that took effect Saturday prevents such changes and requires the state to reverse any previous changes in its records.
Kobach has argued that the law applies in the same way to birth certificates, but the lawsuit filed Friday doesn’t address those documents. The settlement of a 2018 federal lawsuit requires Kansas to allow transgender people to change their birth certificates.
“The Governor cannot pick and choose which laws she will enforce and which laws she will ignore,” reads the lawsuit, filed in state district court in Shawnee County, home to the state capital, Topeka. It seeks to force the governor to enforce the law as he sees it and names as defendants two officials who oversee driver’s licenses.
While Kelly isn’t named as a defendant, the lawsuit holds her responsible for the policy on driver’s licenses.
“Governor Kelly is faithfully executing the laws of the state and has directed her administration to as well,” spokesperson Brianna Johnson said in a statement.
Even with a raft of measures targeting transgender people in statehouses across the U.S. this year, Kansas would be atypical for not allowing them to change sex or gender markers on birth certificates, driver’s licenses or either. Montana and Tennessee also have policies against changing either document, and Oklahoma has a policy against changing birth certificates.
“The state has been doing just fine,” said Adam Kellogg, a 20-year-old transgender University of Kansas student. “The fact that this is an issue now for some reason is confusing, to say the least, when there hasn’t really been a problem.”
The dispute between Kobach and Kelly highlights an odd feature of their generally conservative state’s modern politics. In the past 50 years, Republicans have won every U.S. Senate race, but Democrats have won half of the governor’s races with support from GOP moderates. The Legislature has anti-abortion Republican supermajorities, but a statewide vote in August 2022 decisively affirmed abortion rights.
Kelly won her first term as governor in 2018 by defeating Kobach, who was then the Kansas secretary of state. He staged a political comeback last year by winning the attorney general’s race as she captured a second term, both of them by slim margins.
More than 900 people in Kansas have changed the listing for sex on their birth certificates in the past four years. About 400 have changed their driver’s licenses in that period, about four times as many a month this year as previously. The number of driver’s licenses changes accelerated in May and June as LGBTQ+ rights advocates encouraged people to do it ahead of the new law.
That new law defines a person’s sex as male or female, based on the “biological reproductive system” identified at birth, applying that definition to any state law or regulation. It also says that “important governmental objectives” of protecting people’s privacy, health and safety justify single-sex spaces such as bathrooms and locker rooms.
The governor’s office said last week that the state health department, which handles birth certificates, and the motor vehicle division, which issues driver’s licenses, would continue allowing transgender people to change the markers for sex on those documents. Her office said lawyers in her administration had concluded that doing so doesn’t violate the new law. Kelly is a strong supporter of LGBTQ+ rights and vetoed the measure, but the Legislature overrode her.
But the governor’s statements about the new law are at odds with descriptions from LGBTQ+ rights advocates before the Republican-controlled Legislature enacted it over Kelly’s veto. The advocates predicted that it would prevent transgender people from changing their driver’s licenses and amounted to a legal “erasure” of their identities, something Kobach confirmed as the intent when he issued his legal opinion.
Kansas is also among at least 10 states with a law against transgender people using facilities in line with their gender identities, though it includes no enforcement mechanism.
“For me to go into a bathroom and not have a marker that represents who I am, I was terrified. I was afraid I was going to get accosted or harassed,” said Ty Goeke, a 37-year-old transgender Topeka resident who changed both his birth certificate and driver’s license last month. “Now that I have the correct marker, I feel much better, feel more confident.”
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SEATTLE (AP) — Need Plan B? Tap your credit card and enter B6.
Since last November, a library at the University of Washington has featured a different kind of vending machine, one that’s become more popular on campuses around the country since the U.S. Supreme Court ended constitutional protections for abortion last year. It’s stocked with ibuprofen, pregnancy tests and the morning-after pill.
With some states enacting abortion bans and others enshrining protections and expanding access to birth control, the machines are part of a push on college campuses to ensure emergency contraceptives are cheap, discreet and widely available.
There are now 39 universities in 17 states with emergency contraceptive vending machines, and at least 20 more considering them, according to the American Society for Emergency Contraception. Some, such as the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma, are in states where abortion is largely banned.
Over-the-counter purchase of Plan B and generic forms is legal in all 50 states.
The 2022 ruling overturning Roe v. Wade “is putting people’s lives at stake, so it makes pregnancy prevention all the more urgent,” said Kelly Cleland, the ASEC’s executive director. “If you live in a state where you cannot get an abortion and you can’t get an abortion anywhere near you, the stakes are so much higher than they’ve ever been before.”
Washington this year became first U.S. state to set aside money — $200,000 to fund $10,000 grants that colleges can obtain next year through an application process — to expand access to emergency contraceptives at public universities and technical colleges through the automatic dispensers.
The University of Washington’s machine was installed after a student-led campaign. It offers boxes of generic Plan B for $12.60, about a quarter of what the name-brand versions sell for in stores, and more than 640 have been sold.
The drug is even cheaper in some machines than it is in UW’s, as low as $7 per box. That’s because it is sold at just above wholesale cost, compared with pharmacy retail prices that might go up to $50.
In Illinois and New York, lawmakers are developing legislation that would require at least one vending machine selling emergency contraceptives on state college campuses.
In Connecticut, Yale had to drop plans to install an emergency contraceptive vending machine in 2019 after learning it would violate state law.
But this year the state approved a measure allowing Plan B and other over-the-counter medications to be sold from vending machines on campuses and other locations.
The machines can’t be placed in K-12 schools or exposed to the elements, and they must have temperature and humidity controls and include plans for power outages and expired items.
“This just enables people to have better access and easier access,” said Rep. Nicole Klarides-Ditria, one of several Republicans in Connecticut’s Democratic-controlled General Assembly who supported the measure. “You may need Plan B, as we all know, in the middle of the night, and you won’t have access to a pharmacy until the morning.”
Although the morning-after pill has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration for over-the-counter sale, many stores and pharmacies keep it behind the counter or locked up, require identification for purchase and make the experience of purchasing it intimidating.
“There is a stigma associated with getting access to these medications,” said Zoe Amaris, a University of Washington pharmacy student and board member of UW Pharmacists for Reproductive Education and Sexual Health. “Having a vending machine is so easy. You don’t need to go to a pharmacy. You don’t need to go through your health care provider.”
Plan B is more effective the sooner it is taken, and vending machine access could be particularly crucial for victims of rape when pharmacies are closed. The anonymity the machines afford may also be important to some assault victims.
“When you have a vending machine, it takes away a lot of those barriers,” Cleland said. “Students can go on their own terms to get it when they need it.” | https://wgntv.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/morning-after-pill-vending-machines-gain-popularity-on-college-campuses/ | 2023-07-03 11:09:33 | 1 | https://wgntv.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/morning-after-pill-vending-machines-gain-popularity-on-college-campuses/ |
NOVATO, Calif., Aug. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hennessy Advisors, Inc. (NASDAQ: HNNA) today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement with Stance Capital, LLC ("Stance Capital") and Red Gate Advisers, LLC, among others, related to the management of the Stance Equity ESG Large Cap Core ETF (NYSE: STNC) (the "Stance ETF"). The Stance ETF has current assets of approximately $40 million. The transaction is expected to be completed in the last quarter of 2022.
Upon completion of the transaction, the Stance ETF will be reorganized to become a series of Hennessy Funds Trust named the Hennessy Stance ESG Large Cap ETF (the "Hennessy Stance ETF"), and Hennessy Advisors, Inc. will become the investment advisor.
Neil Hennessy, Chairman and CEO of Hennessy Advisors, Inc., noted, "We are excited to undertake this strategic expansion of our business and to partner with the team at Stance Capital. This unique ETF product is consistent with our historical strength of providing our investors with portfolios focused on long-term value, while kicking off the next stage of our product evolution into the ETF market. We look forward to welcoming the Stance ETF shareholders, and we are committed to a smooth transition into the Hennessy family of investments."
Stance Capital will serve as the sub-advisor to the Hennessy Stance ETF and the current Portfolio Managers Bill Davis and Kyle Balkissoon will continue providing the day-to-day management of the Hennessy Stance ETF portfolio. Additionally, the Hennessy Stance ETF will continue to operate under the Portfolio Reference Basket structure of the Blue Tractor Group, LLC, pursuant to a license agreement. Vident Investment Advisory, LLC will continue to provide trading sub-advisory services to the Hennessy Stance ETF.
Bill Davis, Founder of Stance Capital, added, "Neil Hennessy, Teresa Nilsen, and the team at Hennessy consistently demonstrate a commitment to their shareholders and the asset management industry. We feel confident our shareholders will continue to receive solid portfolio management, excellent shareholder service, and dedicated trustee guidance."
The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions, including SEC approval of an exemptive order allowing the Hennessy Stance ETF to operate under the Portfolio Reference Basket structure licensed by the Blue Tractor Group, as well as approval by the Hennessy Funds Trust Board of Trustees, The RBB Fund, Inc. (of which the Stance ETF is a series) Board of Directors, and the Stance ETF shareholders. The transaction has been structured with the intention that it qualify, for federal income tax purposes, as a tax‑free reorganization under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. Therefore, shareholders of the Stance ETF should not recognize any gain or loss for federal income tax purposes as a result of the transaction.
About Hennessy Advisors, Inc.
Hennessy Advisors, Inc. is a publicly traded investment manager offering a broad range of domestic equity, multi-asset, and sector and specialty mutual funds. Hennessy Advisors, Inc. is committed to providing superior service to shareholders and employing a consistent and disciplined approach to investing based on a buy and hold philosophy that rejects the idea of market timing.
About Stance Capital, LLC
Stance Capital was formed in March 2021 to offer the Stance Equity ESG Large Cap Core ETF to investors. Founding partners Bill Davis and Kyle Balkissoon strive to prove the point that with proper portfolio construction, values alignment can be a free option for investors.
Additional Information Nothing in this press release shall be considered a solicitation to buy or an offer to sell a security to any person in any jurisdiction where such offer, solicitation, purchase, or sale would be unlawful under the securities laws of such jurisdiction.
This press release contains forward-looking statements, which do not relate strictly to historical or current facts. Forward-looking statements are beyond the ability of Hennessy Advisors, Inc. to control and, in many cases, Hennessy Advisors, Inc. cannot predict what factors would cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated by forward-looking statements. Among other risks and uncertainties is the ability of Hennessy Advisors, Inc. to successfully merge the assets of the Stance ETF into the Hennessy investment portfolio. As a result, no assurance can be given as to future results, levels of activity, performance, or achievements, and Hennessy Advisors, Inc. assumes no responsibility for the accuracy and completeness of any forward-looking statements.
This press release is not a solicitation of a proxy from any shareholder of the Stance ETF. In soliciting shareholder approval of the transactions, Hennessy Funds Trust and The RBB Fund, Inc. and their respective trustees and directors, as well as Hennessy Advisors, Inc. and Stance Capital, may be deemed to be participants in the solicitation. Information about the trustees of Hennessy Funds Trust may be found in the 2021 Annual Reports of the Hennessy Funds filed with the SEC on January 5, 2022, and in the Statement of Additional Information filed with the SEC on February 28, 2022. Information about the directors of RBB Fund, Inc. may be found in the 2021 Annual Report of the Stance ETF filed with the SEC on November 4, 2021, and in the Statement of Additional Information filed with the SEC on December 29, 2021. Shareholders of the Stance ETF should read the definitive prospectus/proxy statement that will be filed in connection with the solicitation because it will contain important information, including a description of any direct or indirect interest of the participants in the solicitation. The definitive prospectus/proxy statement and other relevant documents (when available) may be obtained free of charge from the SEC's website at www.sec.gov or by calling 1-800-966-4354.
Investors should consider the investment objective, risks, charges, and expenses of the Stance ETF carefully before investing. A prospectus with this and other information may be obtained at www.stancecap.com, or by calling 617‑875-1062. Read the prospectus carefully before investing.
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By EVGENIY MALOLETKA and DEREK GATOPOULOS
CHERNIHIV, Ukraine (AP) — Danyk Rak enjoys riding his bike, playing soccer and quiet moments with the family’s short-legged dog and two white cats, Pushuna and Lizun.
But at age 12, his childhood has been abruptly cut short. His family’s home was destroyed and his mother seriously wounded as Russian forces bombarded Kyiv’s suburbs and surrounding towns in a failed effort to seize the capital.
Six months after Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine, and with no end to the conflict in sight, The Associated Press revisited Danyk as well as a police officer and an Orthodox priest whose lives have been upended by war.
“I WANT TO BE AN AIR FORCE PILOT”
Tears come to Danyk’s eyes as his mother, Luda, recalls being pulled from the rubble, covered in blood, after shrapnel tore through her body and smashed her right foot.
Twenty-two weeks after she was wounded, she’s still waiting to have her foot amputated and to be fitted with a prosthetic. She keeps the piece of shrapnel surgeons removed during one of her many operations.
Danyk lives with his mother and grandmother in a house near Chernihiv, a town 140 kilometers (nearly 90 miles) north of Kyiv, where a piece of tarp covers the broken bedroom windows. He sells milk from the family’s cow that grazes in the nearby fields. A handwritten sign wrapped in clear plastic on the front gate reads: “Please buy milk to help my mother who is injured.”
“My mother needs surgery and that’s why I have to help her. I have to help my grandmother too because she has heart problems,” Danyk said.
Before schools reopen on Sept. 1, Danyk and his grandmother have been joining volunteers several days a week clearing the debris from buildings damaged and destroyed in the Russian bombardment outside Chernihiv. On the way, he stops at his old house, most of it smashed to the foundations.
“This was my bedroom,” he says, standing next to scorched mattress springs that protrude from the rubble of bricks and plaster.
Polite and soft spoken, Danyk says his father and stepfather are both fighting in the Ukrainian army.
“My father is a soldier, my uncles are soldiers and my grandfather was a soldier, too. My stepfather is a soldier and I will be a soldier,” he says with a look of determination. “I want to be an air force pilot.”
“THIS BRIDGE WAS THE ROAD FROM HELL”
Before the Russian withdrawal from Kyiv and surrounding areas on April 2, suburbs and towns near the city’s airport were pounded by rockets, artillery fire and aerial bombardment in an effort to break the Ukrainian defenses.
Entire city blocks of apartments were blackened by the shelling in Irpin, just 20 kilometers (12 miles) northwest of the capital, along a route where police Lt. Ruslan Huseinov patrolled daily.
Some of the most dramatic scenes from the early stages of the war were of the evacuation from Irpin underneath a destroyed highway bridge, where thousands escaped the relentless attacks.
Huseinov was there for 16 days, organizing crossings where the elderly were carried along muddy pathways in wheelbarrows.
Reconstruction work has begun on the bridge, where mangled concrete and iron bars hang over the river. Clothing and shoes from those who fled can still be seen tangled in the debris.
“This bridge was the road from hell,” says Huseinov, 34, standing next to an overturned white van still lodged into a slab of smashed concrete.
“We got people out of (Irpin) because conditions were terrible — with bombing and shelling,” he said. “People were really scared because many lost their children, members of their family, their brothers and sisters.”
Crosses made from construction wood are still nailed to the railings of the bridge to honor those lost and the effort to save civilians.
“The whole world witnessed our solidarity,” says Huseinov, who grew up in Germany and says he would never again take the good things in life for granted.
“In my mind, everything has changed: My values in life,” he said. “Now I understand what we have to lose.”
“BEFORE THE WAR, IT WAS ANOTHER LIFE”
The floor of the Church of Andrew the Apostle has been re-tiled and bullet holes in the walls plastered over and repainted — but the horror of what happened in March lies only a few yards away.
The largest mass grave in Bucha — a town outside Kyiv that has become synonymous with the brutality of the Russian attack — is behind the church.
“This grave contained 116 people, including 30 women, and two children,” said Father Andriy, who has conducted multiple burial services for civilians found shot dead or killed by shelling, some still only identified as a number while the effort to name all of Bucha’s victims continues.
Many of the bodies were found before the Russians pulled out of the Kyiv region, Father Andriy said.
“We couldn’t bury people in the cemetery because it’s on the outskirts of the city. They left people, dead people, lying in the street. Dead people were found still in their cars. They were trying to leave but the Russians shelled them,” said Father Andriy, wearing a large cross around his neck and a dark purple cassock.
“That situation lasted two weeks, and the local authorities began coming up with solutions (to help) relatives and loved ones. It was bad weather and wild animals were discovering the bodies. So something had to be done.”
He decided to carry out burial services in the church yard, many next to where the bodies had been discovered.
The experience , he said, has left people in the town badly shaken.
“I think that, neither myself or anyone who lives in Ukraine, who witnessed the war, can understand why this happened,” he said.
“Before the war, it was another life.”
“For now we are surviving on adrenaline,” he said. “But I’m worried that the aftermath will last decades. It will be hard to get past this and turn the page. Saying the word ‘forgive’ isn’t difficult. But to say it from your heart — for now , that’s not possible.”
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BOSTON (AP) — Longtime Boston civil rights activist Mel King, whose 1983 campaign for mayor helped the city begin to repair some of the racial divisions sparked during the school busing crisis, has died. He was 94.
King served in the state Legislature for nearly a decade before becoming the first Black man to reach a Boston general mayoral contest, facing off against a fellow state representative, Ray Flynn.
Gov. Maura Healey ordered flags to be flown at half-staff at all state buildings Wednesday, acknowledging the death of King, whom she described as a “dedicated public servant and civil rights champion.”
The election was a test for the city, which had undergone years of strife following the court-ordered desegregation of the public schools in the mid-1970s. Flynn, who represented the predominantly white, Irish neighborhood of South Boston, was an opponent of busing.
But instead of reigniting the discord, the race had the opposite effect, being seen as respectful, even friendly at times.
King brought in support from a range of racial groups, dubbing his movement the “Rainbow Coalition” — a name adopted by the Rev. Jesse Jackson during his presidential campaigns.
“What I believe people want more than anything else is a sense of a vision that’s inclusive and respectful and appreciative of who they are. What the Rainbow Coalition did was to put that right up front because everybody could be a member,” King said in a 1993 interview with The Boston Globe.
Mayor Michelle Wu, the first woman and first person of color elected to lead Boston, offered condolences to the family of King, saying “his transformative ideas have shaped generations of organizers and leaders.”
Flynn said he first met King, who grew up in the city’s racially mixed South End, when the two played basketball as teenagers.
He said he felt an affinity for King, noting their shared working class roots and collaborative work as state lawmakers.
“Mel King would be fighting for affordable housing for the people of the South End and Roxbury, and I would be doing the same for the people of South Boston,” Flynn said. “We were just two kids from the neighborhood who fought hard for our constituents.”
King would go on to lose to Flynn by 30 points. But the race came to be seen as a turning point in a city once described as a collection of ethnic enclaves.
Those divisions boiled over during the busing crisis, with South Boston High School becoming the center of racial strife as Black students were bused to the school under a court-ordered desegregation plan.
During the height of the crisis, crowds sometimes threw stones at buses carrying Black students, and police were stationed on rooftops near the school.
“The city was polarized. It was divided,” Flynn said. “Busing really brought out the worst in the city of Boston. The election brought out the best. People all felt they were part of new opportunities.” | https://www.wdtn.com/news/u-s-world/ap-us-news/mel-king-who-helped-ease-bostons-racial-strife-dies-at-94/ | 2023-03-30 03:13:15 | 0 | https://www.wdtn.com/news/u-s-world/ap-us-news/mel-king-who-helped-ease-bostons-racial-strife-dies-at-94/ |
PAMPLONA, Spain (AP) — Authorities reported no gorings Friday during the second San Fermin Festival bull run in the Spanish city of Pamplona, though six people were taken to the hospital with injuries, the Red Cross said.
The running of the bulls, which lasted three minutes and 10 seconds, produced some hairy moments as runners slipped or tripped and fell while the bulls charged down the narrow streets of the event route.
The bulls at times broke into separate groups, and one of them trailed behind the rest, making the course extra unpredictable for runners trying to scamper out of their way. The lagging bull initially refused to be corralled at the end of the run.
One of the people hurt was stomped on his back by a bull.
The most dangerous injuries at San Fermín are gorings, in which a bull’s horn skewers a runner.
Eight people were gored in 2019, the last festival before a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Sixteen people have died in Pamplona’s bull runs since 1910. The last death occurred in 2009.
Friday’s was the second of the festival’s eight scheduled bull runs. They are followed by drinking, eating and attending cultural events for the rest of the day.
The bulls that run each morning are killed in afternoon contests with professional bullfighters.
The incredibly popular festivities that draw tens of thousands of visitors from around the world.
The festival was made world famous by Ernest Hemingway’s 1926 novel “The Sun Also Rises.” | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/international/no-gorings-but-6-injured-in-2nd-pamplona-bull-run-in-spain/ | 2022-07-08 14:35:52 | 0 | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/international/no-gorings-but-6-injured-in-2nd-pamplona-bull-run-in-spain/ |
OAN Prepares for 2024 Presidential Race Coverage with Placement of Veteran Political Reporter Neil W. McCabe in Florida
SAN DIEGO, Aug. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- One America News Network ("OAN"), a 24/7 source of credible national and international news announced today that journalist Neil W. McCabe has joined the network and will be leading Florida coverage from OAN's Tallahassee bureau.
"Neil is recognized as one of the top national political reporters. We're thrilled he's leading our coverage in Florida as Florida news is becoming national news, especially as we head into the 2024 Presidential race," said Charles Herring, president of OAN.
"We are very familiar with Neil's work, both broadcast and print, and his real-world experience as an Army combat veteran and on Wall Street," Herring said.
"In addition to his Florida coverage, Neil will also be taking on other assignments around the country, including contributing to OAN's 2022 midterm coverage," stated Herring.
"Florida is ground-zero for battles over parents' rights, COVID-19, education reform and gun rights," stated McCabe. "These battles are fought at the state house, the city halls and school boards—wherever they are, we will be there."
In addition to his previous tenure at the network, where he covered Capitol Hill and the White House, McCabe has worked as a national political reporter in Washington for Human Events, Breitbart and The Star News Network. Before coming to Washington, McCabe was a staff reporter for The Pilot, Boston's Catholic paper, and he was a reporter and editor for two Boston-area community papers: The (North Cambridge) Alewife and The Somerville News.
McCabe is a Bronze Star veteran of the Iraq War, where he deployed for 15 months as a combat historian from 2009-2010. He continues to serve in the Army Reserve as a senior public affairs noncommissioned officer.
Follow Neil W. McCabe on Twitter/GETTR/Truth Social: @ReporterMcCabe
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One America News Network, ("OAN"), which launched on July 4, 2013, provides an independent source of credible national and international news around the clock. The network operates news bureaus in Washington, D.C., California, New York, and Florida. In addition, the network utilizes numerous external newsgathering sources, including US Pool feeds. OAN produces eighteen hours of live news every weekday. In addition, the network features three weekday primetime political talk shows, namely REAL AMERICA with Dan Ball, IN FOCUS with Addison Smith, and TIPPING POINT with Kara McKinney. OAN is featured on over a hundred cable and video providers worldwide. In addition, the OAN LIVE app is available on your favorite connected devices. For more information, please visit www.oann.com.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has been followed by a mental health pandemic and many don’t realize how many of those suffering are also living in silence with an eating disorder. Nearly 29 million Americans will have an eating disorder in their lifetime, and Mackenzie Carmichael is one of them.
“I acquired this obsession with control and it specifically led to an unhealthy relationship with food, with eating, with my body," Carmichael said.
She thought she was the exception with her eating disorder but turns out she’s far from it. Eating disorders are the second most lethal illness for adults, second only to opioids, and for children and adolescents, it is the most lethal. That statistic should be a wake-up call and it's why Carmichael is hoping to help others by sharing her story.
“So I’m 28 and when I was 11 or 12, that’s when I acquired my eating disorder," Carmichael explained. “So I got an outpatient team of a therapist and dietitian and went once or twice a week, starting at the beginning, and did that all the way through high school, all the way through senior year. All that's to say, it didn’t stick.”
It wasn’t until she was 26 that she finally got the right care.
“And I truly hit rock bottom. I was 26 and my two best friends approached me and it was the deepest heart to heart I’ve ever had," Carmichael said. “They opened my eyes to the fact that I was extremely unhealthy in my weight, in my mental state, just the fact that I didn’t know what I was doing or recognize those unhealthy patterns I was doing.”
She left home and left college, and made her way to Denver, to the Eating Recovery Center’s inpatient program.
“I completely trusted the system, I just completely let go and I completely got my life back," Carmichael said.
She is just one of the thousands of people who don’t have the right kind of care in their own community, except unlike Mackenzie, many others never seek out help. Elizabeth Easton is the director of psychotherapy at Eating Recovery Center.
“I think it’s upwards of 70% of people don’t reach out because of the stigma and their fear of what it would be like to actually get treatment," Easton said. “Since the beginning of the pandemic we’ve actually seen ER visits, for adolescent girls in particular, double.”
As a country, she points out, we don’t have nearly the amount of recovery centers and resources needed for the number of people suffering.
“I think first and foremost we need to get the word out more to clinicians physicians dietitians of what eating disorders even are so no matter where they leave, whatever resources they have in their town they can identify something is going on and then connect to resources like us who have centers across the country," Easton said.
Second, they have stepped up their virtual services.
“We moved to these five different programs to be offered virtually in 21 different states," Easton said.
She noticed back in 2011 how important reaching rural communities and those who don’t have the right resources is but now it’s needed more than ever.
“And I remember being pretty astonished that our first few patients even then were coming from more rural towns in Colorado, and the also from Montana, Kansas, Alaska, places really all over the country even up to the northeast Rhode Island Vermont etc.," Easton said.
Even in the last year 72% of their patient population comes from outside of Denver.
“I think part of the reason for the lack of centers and resources around the country is that people really haven’t taken this illness seriously," Easton said. “Ultimately we know this thrives in secrecy and isolation and that’s why we’re seeing eating disorders in such a worse place.”
Treatment saved Mackenzie’s life and it can save others. As these experts point out, more centers, more options and more access is what’s needed to get more people on the other side of recovery.
“And I’m two years out of treatment and we still say I am still in recovery but I am sustaining that recovery and I am so far from where I was which is a true testament to the fact that I am willing to talk to you right now and share my story with others," Easton said. | https://www.wtvr.com/news/national/wake-up-call-eating-disorders-are-the-second-most-lethal-illness-for-adults-second-only-to-opioids | 2022-05-05 00:31:23 | 0 | https://www.wtvr.com/news/national/wake-up-call-eating-disorders-are-the-second-most-lethal-illness-for-adults-second-only-to-opioids |
NEW YORK, June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Klein Law Firm announces that a class action complaint has been filed on behalf of shareholders of Energy Transfer LP (NYSE: ET) alleging that the Company violated federal securities laws.
This lawsuit is on behalf of persons who purchased or otherwise acquired common shares of Energy Transfer stock between April 13, 2017 and December 20, 2021, both dates inclusive.
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: August 2, 2022
No obligation or cost to you.
Learn more about your recoverable losses in ET:
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CLASS ACTION CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that Energy Transfer LP made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (a) Energy Transfer had inadequate internal controls and procedures to prevent contractors from engaging in illegal conduct with regards to drilling activities, and/or failed to properly mitigate known issues related to such controls and procedures; (b) Energy Transfer, through its subsidiary Rover Pipeline, LLC, hired a third-party contractor to conduct Horizontal Directional Drilling Activities for the Rover Pipeline Project, whose conduct of adding illegal additives in the drilling mud caused severe pollution near the Tuscarawas River when a large inadvertent release took place on April 13, 2017; (c) Energy Transfer continually downplayed its potential civil liabilities when the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ("FERC") was actively investigating the Energy Transfer's wrongdoing related to the April 13 release and consistently provided it with updated information about FERC's findings on this matter.
WHAT THIS MEANS TO YOU AS A SHAREHOLDER: If you have suffered a loss in Energy Transfer you have until August 2, 2022 to petition the court for lead plaintiff status. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you purchased Energy Transfer securities during the relevant period, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket fees.
HOW TO PROTECT YOUR FINANCIAL INTERESTS: For additional information about the ET lawsuit, please contact J. Klein, Esq. by telephone at 212-616-4899 or click this link: https://www.kleinstocklaw.com/pslra-1/energy-transfer-lp-loss-submission-form-2?id=28446&from=4.
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J. Klein, Esq. represents investors and participates in securities litigations involving financial fraud throughout the nation. The Klein Law Firm is a boutique litigation firm with experience in a wide range of areas including securities law, corporate finance and commercial litigation. Since 2011, our experienced attorneys have achieved superior results for our clients with a personalized focus. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
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Top pre-settlement funding firm is prepared to approve cases within 24-48 hours as cost of consumer goods surge.
CALDWELL, N.J., Jan. 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Legal-Bay LLC, The premier Pre Settlement Funding Company, announced today that as inflation is on the rise, they are prepared to offer funding approvals in as little as 24-48 hours. Legal-Bay has always been a leader in the lawsuit funding industry and their customer service is exemplary. Now they are looking to add "lowest rates" and "quickest approvals" to their list of attributes.
Elevated costs of gas and groceries can be grueling for people who find themselves with limited money, especially as the bills pour in. Plaintiffs with an existing lawsuit may find settlement loans a helpful way to battle the skyrocketing inflation the U.S. is experiencing.
Chris Janish, CEO of Legal-Bay, commented on the company's dedication to assisting their clients, "With costs rising on everything from food to gasoline, people are finding their bank accounts stretched to the limit. Legal-Bay understands the need for extra cash during times like these, and is prepared to offer a solution for the financial stress plaintiffs may be grappling with."
If you're a lawyer or plaintiff involved in an existing lawsuit of any type and need an immediate cash advance against an impending settlement, please visit Legal-Bay HERE or call toll-free at 877.571.0405.
Legal-Bay is a leader in settlement loan services and has some of the lowest rates and quickest approvals in the industry. Any new clients that have an existing lawsuit and need cash now can apply for loan settlement funding. Legal-Bay funds all types of loans for lawsuits including personal injury, slips and falls, car accidents, medical malpractice, unlawful termination, wrongful imprisonment, sexual harassment, and many more.
Legal-Bay's presettlement funding programs are designed to provide immediate cash in advance of a plaintiff's anticipated monetary award. The non-recourse law suit loans—sometimes referred to as loans for lawsuit or loans on settlement—are risk-free, as the money doesn't need to be repaid should the recipient lose their case. Therefore, the lawsuit loans aren't really loans, but rather a cash advance.
To apply right now, please visit the company's website HERE or call toll-free at: 877.571.0405 where agents are standing by to hear about your specific case.
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How to visit Sedona without being a jerk
With its towering red rock formations, spiritual vortices and hundreds of miles of hiking trails, Sedona has long beckoned weekend travelers from L.A. And we keep answering the call. Californians make up the highest percentage of Sedona visitors, after Arizona residents. All over social media, you’ll find influencers standing in rock tunnels and gazing out into the vast Southwest desert terrain above captions like, “Pure magic.”
But many Sedona residents believe tourists are loving their town to death.
“Go home tourists!” reads the headline of a forum post by one Sedona resident, who cites bad behavior like littering, driving ATVs on hiking trails and parking illegally to take “stupid family pics” as reasons for the frustration.
Around 3 million tourists visit Sedona each year — that’s 8,219 visitors a day who use the two main roads, State Routes 89A and 179, to traverse the town of more than 9,700 residents. The pandemic unleashed more people into the northern Arizona haven, with 3.7 million visiting in 2021, according to Michelle Conway, president of the Sedona Chamber of Commerce & Tourism Bureau.
“Sedona was a safe, outdoor-oriented destination during the pandemic, and we got pummeled with the amount of visitation,” she said.
But because it’s a town heavily fueled by tourism, Conway added “there’s no way to pull the drawbridge up.” So with an initiative they’re calling the Sedona Sustainable Tourism Plan, the chamber aims to educate visitors about how to be “sensitive guests.” They’re pointing travelers to the Sedona Cares Pledge (which includes declarations such as “I’ll make my own memories, but not my own trails” and “If I can’t find a parking spot, I will not invent my own”), along with Sedona’s seven principles of Leave No Trace, reminding people to respect wildlife, leave what they find and pack out their trash, among other things.
“We now say goodbye to the idea of our visitor as a mass consumer seeking a few snapshots and experiencing Sedona mostly through a windshield,” the chamber’s website states. It continues: “We also seek a new bond with travelers who share our love and respect for this Most Beautiful Place on Earth.”
In other words, if you’re a day-tripper who’s in it for a few selfies, stay home.
But if you’re looking to immerse yourself in Sedona while respecting its residents and environment, then it’s worth considering a trip to the beloved Red Rocks Country. Just read these dos and don’ts first.
Do go during off-seasons
Plan your Sedona getaway strategically. “In the summer, July and August are quite hot, but they’re less busy,” said Al Comello, a Sedona marketing professional. “Average daily temperatures stay in the 90s, and March to May seem to be perennially the most popular times to visit. In the winter, we do get snow, so summer and winter are also ideal times to visit without crowds.”
At SedonaTraffic.com, you can see the traffic in real time and plan your trip based on reality, he said.
“We would all be happier if tourism was more moderate and consistent year-round,” said Rebecca Schemmer, co-owner of wine and craft beer bar Vino Di Sedona.
Don’t swarm the most popular spots
Sure, you’ll probably want to see Sedona’s most recognized landmarks, including the Chapel of the Holy Cross, Devil’s Bridge Trail and the four most recognized spiritual vortexes — Bell Rock, Cathedral Rock, Airport Mesa and Boynton Canyon. But let me suggest a couple less crowded activities as well: Test your mountain biking skills at the Sedona Bike Park or watch some birds take off at the Sedona Wetlands Preserve.
Also, with more than 400 miles of trails, most in the Coconino National Forest, there are plenty of opportunities for hiking. Local resident and short-term rental owner Cat Sullivan said the Dawa and Cockscomb trails, on Sedona’s northern edge near Dry Creek, “don’t get overrun with people.” At sustainably farmed Alcantara Vineyard in nearby Camp Verde, server Julie Camponeschi said the West Fork of Oak Creek Canyon is a “beautiful, beautiful hike,” but it’s nearly impossible to get a parking spot on weekends. So go on a weekday.
Check the schedule for the free Sedona Shuttle to spare any parking angst. My friend and I found a spot at the Thunder Mountain trailhead and enjoyed a just-right, easy-to-moderate hike on Chimney Rock Loop Trail, one of Sedona’s lesser-known spots.
Do pick up your trash (and really, any trash)
“People are treating the world, and Sedona, like it’s their garbage can,” said Mark Troska of nearby Cottonwood. Residents report litter being left in parking lots, on trails and in the water.
“It makes it hard for the locals, who rarely utilize anything here anymore,” said Jillian Bradshaw, whose father, John Bradshaw, is an owner of Alcantara Vineyard & Winery, where she works.
She hasn’t been to the famous Slide Rock State Park in probably two decades because of crowds and some tourists being so disrespectful, like “wild animals, trashing everything.”
A good rule of thumb in Sedona (or anywhere in nature) is to leave it better than you found it. Doing my part, while kayaking with Verde Adventures, I deftly maneuvered my kayak to pull plastic pipe, a green beer bottle and a plastic bottle full of (gag) urine out of the Verde. The ride was perfect, with the gentlest rapids and the only soundtrack coming from the water and birds around me.
Don’t go off-roading recklessly
Observers document reckless driving and unrelenting noise, especially along Forest Road 525 and Boynton Pass Road, about 20 minutes out of town. “If you drive out there, for 250 feet on either side, trees are dead because of dust that falls on them,” said Sedona Mayor Scott Jablow. “Photosynthesis can’t occur, and we don’t get a lot of rain, so they die.”
Environmental advocate DeAnna Bindley lives there and cites off-highway vehicles, Jeep, Hummer, and dirt bike rentals as frequent travelers. One day she said she counted 320 trips on the road.
“Public land is being tortured and destroyed so people can do these things,” Bindley said.
But Brian Carstens, the general manager of Sedona ATV and Buggy Rental, said he “can’t police everybody every day.” So his company now shows vehicle renters a short video from the Arizona Game and Fish Department, and that has reduced bad behavior and damages by 80 percent. A few basic guidelines: Keep your vehicle quiet (don’t tamper with the manufacturer’s exhaust system), always yield the right-of-way to hikers and bike riders and don’t ride in closed areas.
“Rappers, basketball and football players come from Austria, the Netherlands, and Switzerland to go off-roading, mostly 35- to 60-year-old males,” Carstens said. “Lots of people say this is the best part of their vacation.”
Do consider locally owned hotels over Airbnbs
The number of short-term rental properties in the Sedona area has made it unaffordable for many longtime residents, including local workers. (Last year, the city launched a pilot program that would pay property owners up to $10,000 to pull their listings from Airbnb and VRBO and sign leases with locals instead.)
Hotels are typically a more sustainable option. And there are plenty to choose from. Elegant and modernistic, the adults-only Ambiente “landscape hotel” opened this month and was designed to have minimal impact on the natural environment. While there, gaze at 360-degree red rock views of landmarks such as Ship Rock and Coffee Pot Rock.
“Think ‘Sedona on IMAX,’” said co-owner Jennifer May. “We save every tree and every piece of greenery we possibly can, to leave this natural forest as natural as possible.”
Also in the luxury category, L’Auberge de Sedona on Oak Creek, with cottages, a lodge and super-attentive service, is an exquisite homage to nature with well-cared-for resort cats on site. At the eclectic A Sunset Chateau Boutique B&B, you’ll find lush gardens and outdoor art.
Eight miles out of town, the spectacular Enchantment Resort puts you smack in the middle of a red rocks experience, replete with wildlife, on 70 acres in Boynton Canyon. With an expansive pool, tennis, pickleball, stargazing, a labyrinth and much more, hiking and mountain biking aficionados gravitate to the resort’s architecturally chic Trail House, an “epicenter for outdoor adventures.”
“This is the mecca for mountain biking in the United States,” said biking guide Steve Tedrick, a.k.a., “Shaggy,” who embodies Sedona’s zen-like vibe. “I teach sustainable progression on the mountain bike, and it’s all about the balance and the flow, surfing the geologic wave, if you will.” Surfing that wave down steep hills, over rocks and around sharp corners definitely tests balance and flow — or lack thereof.
According to Brett Briseno, Enchantment Resort and Mii amo destination spa director of sales and marketing, a portion of the tour fee for all hike and bike tours goes directly to the Boynton Canyon Preservation Fund, plus resort employees volunteer twice a year to clean up and maintain the trail system. Mii amo also reopened this month after a $40 million renovation and expansion.
For an intimate, welcoming and pet-friendly boutique property, stay at El Portal Sedona Hotel. It’s next to the Tlaquepaque Arts & Shopping Village, headquarters for gifted local artisans. Or choose the rustic and moderately priced Sky Ranch Lodge, which has rooms 500 feet above the city, spectacular red rock rim views, botanical gardens and tranquil ponds right on site.
Don’t stick to chain restaurants
When you get hungry, Sedona has more than 50 restaurants to choose from. The owner of five of them is acclaimed chef and restaurateur Lisa Dahl — a.k.a. the culinary queen of Sedona — who estimates that her dining brands Mariposa, Cucina Rustica, Dahl and Di Luca Ristorante Italiano, Pisa Lisa and Butterfly Burger collectively feed up to 500,000 people per year.
Dahl believes that “without tourism, there will be no sustainable Sedona,” but hopes that out-of-town guests will “honor the sacredness and beauty that many locals and tourists want to preserve for many generations to come in perpetuity.” My dinner at Mariposa included tantalizing appetizers of portobello three-cheese mushroom empanadas, yucca fries and cauliflower curry bisque. Hint: Make a reservation several months ahead during high seasons.
To go more casual and rustic, opt for the historic Up the Creek on Oak Creek, in Cornville. Try the grilled artichoke and Louisiana Gumbo and a wine from a fabulous cellar, accompanied by piano serenades from sommelier, chef and co-owner Jim O’Meally. Another must do: Drive two minutes to Page Springs Vineyard, which is reminiscent of a Napa Valley vineyard. I loved the hearty Vino Barrio Rojo. Or go casual at Vino de Sedona, selling 900 worldly and local Arizona wines.
Do respect the sacred land
Native Americans discovered Sedona at least 3,000 years before the first white person, Jim Thompson, arrived in 1878, according to Mike Haboush, docent at the Sedona Heritage Museum. “The Sinagua — meaning ‘without water’ — were here long before the Hopi, Yavapai, and Apache,” he said.
Visit ruins and cliff dwellings at Montezuma Castle National Monument, Palatki Heritage Site and its sister site, Honanki, or a small hilltop pueblo at Tuzigoot National Monument.
“Don’t confuse vortex sites with sacred lands,” Haboush said. “During the early ‘70s and the New Age movement, vortexes became popular places to meditate and feel concentrated energy from the earth. The Native Americans also believed there were ‘curtains of energy’ in the area.”
He adds: Please don’t sit and meditate in the middle of a hiking trail or build stacked rock cairns to show “you were there.”
“All of the Verde Valley is considered sacred land,” said Irina Achkasova of One Tribe Tours. The company creates custom itineraries for guests who want to get the most benefit from visiting a vortex area, which may include guided meditations or yoga.
Perhaps the easiest way to take better care of Sedona is to shed the tourist mindset — there are no medals for checking off every spot in your guidebook as quickly as possible.
“Sedona is not about seeing everything,” said Steve Segner, president of the Sedona Lodging Council and co-owner of El Portal Sedona Hotel. “It’s about slowing down a little bit. Walk any trail, take a deep breath and just take nature in.”
In the end, if people respect this magical place, they’ll have the same wonders to look forward to when they return.
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TOKYO (AP) — Global shares were mostly lower on Friday after Wall Street retreated for a second day as market watchers considered earnings reports and various indicators about whether inflation is waning in the U.S. and elsewhere.
France’s CAC 40 lost 0.3% in early trading to 7,169.30, while Germany’s DAX shed 0.4% to 15,455.07. Britain’s FTSE 100 fell 0.2% to 7,893.92. The future for the Dow Jones Industrial Average edged up less than 0.1% to 33,760.00. The S&P 500 future gained 0.1% to 33,769.00.
China reported that its consumer inflation rate ticked up last month as demand revived due to the lifting of pandemic restrictions and travel and spending connected with the Lunar New Year, the country’s biggest holiday.
Producer prices fell 0.8% in January after a 0.7% decline the month before. Consumer price inflation rose to 2.1% from a 1.8% climb in December.
“While most agree the overall economic growth will recover in China this year, there appears to be a lack of conviction on the magnitude of that rebound,” Stephen Innes, managing partner at SPI Asset Management, said in a report.
“But we are at a fork in the road right now regarding whether China will follow a Western reopening game plan or a more Asia-styled cautious reopening approach.”
Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 added 0.3% to finish at 27,670.98. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 slipped 0.8% to 7,433.70. South Korea’s Kospi declined 0.5% to 2,469.73. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng shed 2.0% to 21,190.42, while the Shanghai Composite was down 0.3% at 3,260.67. Shares in Mumbai and Taiwan also declined.
Next week will bring the release of U.S. and British inflation updates, as well as U.S. retail sales and industrial production data. On Tuesday, Japan will report its economic growth figures for the final quarter of 2022.
On Thursday, the S&P 500 fell 0.9% while the Dow industrials lost 0.7%. The Nasdaq composite sank 1%.
“Now that markets have absorbed hawkish reactions by central bankers after the latest rate announcement and data releases, the focus will shift back to data,” Francesco Pesole, a strategist at ING, said in a report.
Global stocks have been flipping from gains to losses and back again amid uncertainty about where interest rates and inflation are heading. High rates can drive down inflation but also raise the risk of a recession and hurt investment prices.
In energy trading, benchmark U.S. crude added $1.88 to $79.94 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Brent crude, the international standard, rose $2.09 to $86.59 a barrel.
In currencies, the U.S. dollar fell to 130.40 Japanese yen from 131.44 yen. The euro cost $1.0742, up from $1.0739.
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BROUSSARD, La. (KLFY) – Police in Louisiana are investigating after 12 squirrel monkeys were stolen from their habitat over the weekend.
Zoosiana, a 45-acre zoological park located roughly 10 miles outside Lafayette, was broken into shortly before midnight Saturday, officials said in a social media post. The suspect allegedly targeted facilities for Zoosiana’s smaller primates and was able to steal 12 squirrel monkeys.
“The remaining squirrel monkeys have been carefully assessed by both the Zoosiana veterinarian and animal care team, and there are no other apparent issues affecting their health or well being,” officials said Monday. “All other animals are accounted for and appear to have been undisturbed.”
Broussard Police Chief Vance Olivier told Nexstar’s KLFY that investigators are reviewing video footage to help capture the suspect or suspects.
It’s a unique investigation but that doesn’t change the protocol.
“In the 13 years of law enforcement, we haven’t really investigated a theft of squirrel monkeys. We’re going to continue investigating it as any other crime that has taken place,” Chief Olivier said.
Zoosiana Director Matt Oldenburg said the focus is to stay on track.
“We checked the remaining squirrel monkeys to make sure there was nothing apparently wrong outside of the situation that occurred. We’re working hard to rebuild their comfort,” Oldenburg told KLFY.
Squirrel monkeys require special care that the suspect or suspects who stole them may not be able to provide that care. Oldenburg added that when one squirrel monkey is missing, those who remain are aware something is out of place.
“If you hear something, we really want to get these animals back to their natural habitat where they’ve been for a while,” Chief Oliver said, encouraging the community to report anything suspicious to authorities.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Broussard Police Crime Stoppers at 337-232-TIPS or Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries.
This theft comes as authorities in Dallas, Texas continue to investigate a string of odd incidents at the city’s zoo. On Monday, police said they believe someone cut an opening in an enclosure and took two emperor tamarin monkeys, small primates with long whiskers that look like a mustache.
The incident follows the Jan. 13 closure of the zoo and a daylong search when a clouded leopard named Nova went missing. On Jan. 21, an endangered vulture named Pin was found dead, and the zoo said the death did not appear to be natural. Zoo President and CEO Gregg Hudson said the vulture had “a wound.”
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LISHUI, China, July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Farmmi, Inc. ("Farmmi" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: FAMI), an agricultural products supplier in China, announced today a new international order for its popular dried Shiitake mushrooms. This order will be exported to Israel and continues the Company's growth.
Ms. Yefang Zhang, Farmmi's Chairwoman and CEO, commented: "Demand for our high quality agricultural products remains strong. We are benefitting from catalysts that we believe will continue to drive our long-term growth. For Farmmi, we are focused on execution from field to table, as we work to capture an even greater share of the global market for fungi. Our goal is to ensure that our customers get the highest quality product they have come to rely on us for, whether they are based in our local market or one of our many expanding international markets, like Israel, Canada, the U.S. or Europe, among others. It is clear that mushrooms have universal appeal and we are well positioned to benefit from this expanding demand as we move forward."
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Established in 1998, Farmmi Inc. (NASDAQ: FAMI) is an agricultural products supplier, processor and retailer of edible mushrooms like Shiitake and Mu Er, as well as other agricultural products. In addition to its offline sales, Farmmi sells its products direct-to-consumer at http://www.farmmi88.com. For further information about the Company, please visit: http://ir.farmmi.com.cn/.
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Quantic Evans recognized by Tier 1 Aerospace and Defense contractor
EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I., April 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Quantic™ Evans ("Evans"), a business of Quantic® Electronics ("Quantic"), was honored as a Gold Medal supplier by BAE Systems in their annual Partner 2 Win Supplier awards. The recognition highlighted Quantic Evans' commitment to exemplary performance and commitment to forming a successful partnership with BAE Systems' Electronics Systems sector in 2022.
"At BAE Systems, we pride ourselves on being able to deliver products to our customers before they are needed, and at the speed of innovation," said Ray Brousseau, Vice President, Operations Electronic Systems. "And what enables us to turn the vision on a designer's notepad into products that change the world are our partnerships with suppliers. These relationships enable us to innovate, produce and deliver faster."
For more than 25 years, Quantic Evans has partnered with leading aerospace and defense contractors such as BAE Systems in the design and development of capacitor solutions. Quantic Evans hybrid wet tantalum capacitors are the most power-dense capacitors in the industry and provide high-reliability and SWaP savings to mission-critical applications.
"Quantic Evans is proud to partner with BAE Systems to support their demanding, defense programs," said Colin McClellan, General Manager, Quantic Evans. "We are honored by this recognition of our commitment to quality and efforts to exceed customer expectations, and we look forward to continuing to expand our working relationship to better protect our armed forces and secure a peaceful future for our nation."
To learn more about Quantic Evans and our portfolio of capacitors, visit www.quanticevans.com.
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WASHINGTON — The number of products recalled as a result of the Jif peanut butter recall is growing.
As federal health officials investigate a multi-state salmonella outbreak, candy, trail mix, and other foods made with the recalled peanut butter are among the rising list of products being taken from stores around the country.
Fudgeamentals of New York is recalling fudge made with Jif peanut butter, the company said in a recall announcement shared by the Food and Drug Administration. The recalled products, including two Walmart-branded fudge trios, were sold at retailers nationwide.
You can find a list of the recalled Fudgeamentals and Walmart-branded fudge in the FDA announcement.
Giant Eagle announced a recall of GetGo branded apples with peanut butter dip sold in GetGo stations across multiple states. According to the supermarket chain, it was sold in about 215 transactions.
WaWa removed its store-branded 4.9-ounce apple and peanut butter dippers (all codes) and JIF Creamy Peanut Butter with lot codes 1274425 through 2140425.
Country Fresh of Spring, Texas, recalled a variety of fresh-cut fruit snack trays and fruit snack cups that contained recalled peanut butter. They were sold under the labels Giant, Market32, Snack Fresh, Snack Sensations and Wegmans.
Mary's Harvest Fresh Foods of Portland, Oregon, issued a recall for apple and celery pieces mixed with 1.5-ounce quantities of Jif To Go Creamy Peanut Butter sold in Oregon and Washington.
The Albertsons Companies announced the recall of 11 store-prepared products, including small peanut butter cream pies and sliced apples with peanut butter, offered at ACME, Albertsons, Eagle, Jewel-Osco, Safeway Tom Thumb and Vons.
Coblentz Chocolate Co. of Walnut Creek, Ohio, issued a recall for chocolate, fudge, caramel corn and other creams that included recalled Jif peanut butter and were distributed nationally from November 12, 2021 to May 21, 2022.
Taher Inc. of Plymouth, Minnesota, is recalling 6.3-ounce containers of "Fresh Seasons Power Packs."
Garden Cut of Indianapolis, Indiana has stopped producing and distributing 0.750z JIF Peanut Butter Cups-containing products. Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, West Virginia, and Wisconsin are the states where the product was distributed.
The original recall came from J.M. Smucker, which recalled certain lot codes of more than a dozen products over salmonella concerns. Here's what to know for the original Jif peanut butter recall.
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Southwest Airlines continued to extract itself from sustained scheduling chaos Thursday, canceling another 2,350 flights after a winter storm overwhelmed its operations days ago.
The Dallas carrier acknowledged it has inadequate and outdated operations technology that can leave flight crews out of position when adverse weather strikes.
Southwest was the only airline unable to recover from storm-related delays that began over the weekend when snow, ice and high winds raked portions of the country.
As has been the case every day this week, the vast majority of flight cancellations nationwide, are Southwest flights.
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According to the FlightAware tracking service, there were 2,451 flights canceled before noon Thursday in the U.S., and 2,357 were Southwest routes or about 58% of its entire schedule.
The airline has warned that cancellations will continue for days.
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BOSTON (AP) — A man is accused of phoning in bomb threats to Harvard University and demanding a large amount of Bitcoin in return, federal prosecutors said.
William Giordani, of Nashua, New Hampshire, was arrested Tuesday on charges of conspiracy and aiding and abetting extortionate threats. He has a detention hearing scheduled in federal court in Boston on Friday. It wasn’t immediately known if he had an attorney.
Harvard University’s police department received six calls regarding bombs and demand for payment on April 13, according to a campus police officer’s affidavit. The caller gave a location and a description of a device, which police found and destroyed. Police, who evacuated the area, said they found no other devices.
The device had a metal locking safe, a package of wire, a quantity of fireworks inside the safe, and a small rectangular box with wires attached to it, police said. It also had a yellow Home Depot sticker and another man’s name. A Home Depot store said someone by that name had allegedly placed an order for some of supplies found in the device.
Police said Giordani was allegedly seen on camera picking up the order at the store, and on surveillance video near where the device was found.
Giordani later told police that “all he did” was respond to a Craigslist ad and “just put some fireworks in a safe and put them at Harvard,” according to the affidavit.
He also said he spoke the person who placed the ad, who said he would be calling police to make a bomb threat to get money and would pay him, the affidavit said.
Police allege that Giordani placed a Craigslist ad posing as a parent of a Harvard student saying they needed someone to drop off supplies for their son. A contact number was the same one that Giordani allegedly used later, authorities said. He also allegedly left a receipt with the parent’s name inside the bag that police recovered.
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NEW YORK, Jan. 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Attorney Advertising-- Bronstein, Gewirtz & Grossman, LLC notifies investors that a class action lawsuit has been filed against Avaya Holdings Corp.. ("Avaya" or the "Company") (NYSE: AVYA) and certain of its officers, on behalf of all persons and entities that purchased, or otherwise acquired Avaya securities between November 22, 2021 and November 29, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"). Such investors are encouraged to join this case by visiting the firm's site: www.bgandg.com/avya.
This class action seeks to recover damages against Defendants for alleged violations of the federal securities laws.
The complaint alleges that, throughout the Class Period, Defendants made materially false and misleading statements regarding the Company's business, operations, and prospects. Specifically, Defendants made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company's internal control over financial reporting ("ICFR") was deficient in several areas; (ii) as a result of these deficiencies, the Company had failed to design and maintain effective controls over its whistleblower policies and its ethics and compliance program; (iii) the Company's deteriorating financial condition was likely to raise substantial doubt as to its ability to continue as a going concern; and (iv) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
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Yankees third. Oswaldo Cabrera flies out to deep right center field to Will Brennan. Jose Trevino homers to left field. Anthony Volpe strikes out swinging. Anthony Rizzo walks. Gleyber Torres singles to right center field. Anthony Rizzo to second. DJ LeMahieu singles to center field. Gleyber Torres to third. Anthony Rizzo scores. Willie Calhoun grounds out to shallow infield to Cal Quantrill.
2 runs, 3 hits, 0 errors, 2 left on. Yankees 2, Guardians 0.
Guardians ninth. Myles Straw strikes out swinging. Steven Kwan singles to center field. Amed Rosario reaches on error. Steven Kwan to second. Fielding error by Clay Holmes. Jose Ramirez singles to left center field. Amed Rosario to second. Steven Kwan to third. Josh Naylor singles to shallow right field, advances to 2nd. Jose Ramirez to third. Amed Rosario scores. Steven Kwan scores. Throwing error by Oswaldo Cabrera. Josh Bell walks. Andres Gimenez strikes out swinging. Mike Zunino walks. Josh Bell to second. Gabriel Arias to third. Jose Ramirez scores. Oscar Gonzalez pinch-hitting for Will Brennan. Oscar Gonzalez flies out to deep right field to Oswaldo Cabrera.
3 runs, 3 hits, 2 errors, 3 left on. Guardians 3, Yankees 2. | https://www.expressnews.com/sports/article/cleveland-n-y-yankees-runs-18001532.php | 2023-05-02 01:47:56 | 0 | https://www.expressnews.com/sports/article/cleveland-n-y-yankees-runs-18001532.php |
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COLUMBUS, Ohio — Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther announced a voluntary curfew on Thursday for Short North bars in an attempt to curb violence happening in the area.
The voluntary curfew includes:
- Encouraging bars and other businesses to close by midnight from Friday to Sunday
- Not allowing any street parking on High Street between Goodale Boulevard to 5th Avenue from 10 p.m. to 7 a.m.
- Allowing rideshare vehicles to only use the curb lane, and COTA buses to stop, pick up and drop off passengers
- Increase in local law enforcement and teens between the ages of 13 to 17 won't be permitted in the area between midnight to 4:30 a.m.
Ginther said he is also signing an executive order that would mandate all food carts to close at midnight.
The announcement follows two shootings in the area within the last two weeks, according to Columbus police, in which a 21-year-old man was killed and another 10 were injured. Four days ago, Arthur Pickens, 21, was shot and killed after a fight escalated. Nearly two weeks ago, there was a shootout on North High Street, which also involved some officers, according to Columbus Police.
Columbus Division of Police Chief Elaine Bryant said there will be an increase of officers patrolling the area between 8 p.m. to 4 a.m.
"You will see officers in cruisers, on bikes and on foot. Along with additional officers, extra lights and cameras will be placed in key areas," Bryant said.
Ginther said the curfew will remain in place until further notice.
"This is not a choice between the Short North and other neighborhoods. This is not a choice between food carts and bars and restaurants because we all lose when violence wins. We are dealing with our new reality that this is a residential district and an entertainment district. Our laws and policies must reflect that reality," said City Council President Shannon Hardin.
Ginther said he feels hopeful businesses will implement the voluntary curfew.
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JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli court ruled Monday that former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert defamed his successor, Benjamin Netanyahu, and ordered him to pay damages to the former leader and his family.
The high-profile defamation suit that kicked off earlier this year pitted the only Israeli prime minister ever to go to prison against the ousted longest-serving leader of the country.
Netanyahu sued Olmert for remarks he made in 2021, after a series of inconclusive parliamentary elections. At the time, Netanyahu refused calls to step down while on trial for corruption charges.
The Tel Aviv Magistrate’s Court dismissed Olmert’s claim that he was “expressing an opinion in good faith” by saying Netanyahu exhibited “crazy behavior” and that his wife and son suffered from “mental illness.”
The court ruled that Olmert’s remarks on DemocraTV in April 2021 constituted defamation of character and ordered the former prime minister to pay damages totaling around $18,000 to Netanyahu and his family, as well as legal costs. Olmert can appeal the decision. | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/international/ap-israeli-court-rules-former-pm-olmert-defamed-netanyahu/ | 2022-11-22 10:13:56 | 0 | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/international/ap-israeli-court-rules-former-pm-olmert-defamed-netanyahu/ |
‘Every day matters’: Man with ALS renews vows with wife
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (WDAY) - A rare diagnosis for a 39-year-old father means he renewed his wedding vows sooner than he ever dreamed because it’s unclear how much time he has left to spend with his family.
Stormi Proulx spent Thursday morning with a party of primpers, prepping her to say “I do” all over again. She and her husband, Josh Proulx, met in a Wal-Mart parking lot, got married in 2004 and have three kids, the youngest just 2 years old.
But then, two years ago, Josh Proulx received the devastating diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, commonly known as ALS.
“That was the speech and the excess saliva, and the sound of his laugh drastically changed. That’s actually the first thing we noticed,” Stormi Proulx said. “With ALS, it’s a terminal illness – no cure, no treatment – we don’t know how much time we have.”
The diagnosis pushed up the plan to renew their wedding vows.
“We just know how important it is now because every day matters,” Stormi Proulx said.
The day had some tough moments, like seeing cellphone video and audio of a once-vibrant dad and husband, who can no longer walk or talk.
“I miss him running around, too, but when I hear his voice, I forget that is what he sounded like. I haven’t heard that for so long. He is amazing, seriously. People can say I have the most amazing husband or my kids have the most amazing father, but even before he got sick, I knew those things,” Stormi Proulx said.
As his wife got ready, Josh Proulx’s care team at Valley Senior Living prepped him for the ceremony on their day off. The loving husband and father uses his eyes to type messages that activate a computerized voice box.
“I am so grateful to everyone making this day possible,” he said, adding he had just one word for the day: “Love.”
The couple exchanged vows once again in front of 150 people, including their children. They refused to allow ALS to derail their long-time romance.
“You look absolutely beautiful,” Josh Proulx told his wife when he saw her in her dress.
The vows ended with a kiss, with a night of dancing and more time together ahead for the family.
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Judge dismisses lawsuit over Missouri’s new voter ID law
A judge has dismissed the lawsuit challenging a Missouri law that requires voters to show a government-issued ID at the polls.
Cole County Judge Jon Beetem’s order on Wednesday means that voters without a photo ID will have to file a provisional ballot in the November election. The provisional ballot will only be counted if the voter returns later that day with a photo ID or if election officials verify their signatures.
The lawsuit was filed on behalf of two women, but Beetem wrote that neither “has alleged a specific, concrete, non-speculative injury or legally protectable interest in challenging the photo ID requirement.”
Officials with the groups that challenged the voter ID law on behalf of the women called the ruling “procedural” and said it doesn’t address the merits of their argument. They said the case will end up before the Missouri Supreme Court, which they said has twice previously struck down less-restrictive requirements.
“Missouri’s Constitution provides all Missourians with the fundamental right to vote,” a statement from the ACLU of Missouri and the Missouri Voter Protection Coalition said. “Voter ID restrictions disenfranchise Missourians, particularly people of color, people with disabilities, rural Missourians, voters with limited income, seniors and students.”
Before now, voters without a government-issued ID could use other means to prove their identities, such as utility bills.
“I applaud and agree with the court’s decision to dismiss this lawsuit since not even the plaintiffs could find a single individual who would be prevented from voting,” Republican Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft said in a news release. “Missouri elections will continue to be safe, secure, and accurate as we prepare for November.”
Among other things, Missouri voters on Nov. 8 will choose a new U.S. senator and will decide if recreational marijuana should be legalized.
Democrats across the nation have sought to expand voter access, while many Republicans have pursued new voting restrictions following former President Donald Trump’s false claim that the 2020 election was stolen from him.
Seventeen states besides Missouri had voter photo identification laws in effect as of this spring, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures, and 19 states had identification laws that accepted proof other than photos.
In a court hearing last month, Missouri Solicitor General John Sauer said the concern that some voters won’t be able to obtain proper identification in order to cast regular ballots amounts to “speculation at its finest.”
ACLU attorney Tony Rothert said the photo ID requirement puts unconstitutional burdens on the right to vote and serves no purpose. “There’s still no evidence of voter-impersonation fraud at the polls,” Rothert said.
Republican Missouri lawmakers passed the measure in May, and Republican Gov. Mike Parson signed it into law in June.
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WASHINGTON, April 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is warning consumers about the risk of smoke inhalation associated with the use of PETRICOR, VARWANEO, and WJZTEK combination smoke and carbon monoxide (CO) detectors. The detectors can fail to alert consumers to the presence of hazardous smoke.
Most fatalities in residential fires are due to smoke inhalation, rather than heat and flames. In typical residential fire scenarios, there may be as little as one or two minutes to escape after the smoke alarm sounds before the conditions in the home become incapacitating or deadly. More than 2,390 people in the United States die every year from residential structure fires. Furthermore, the risk of dying in a fire is twice as high in homes without a working smoke alarm (1.18 per 1,000), as compared to homes with smoke alarms (0.53 per 1,000)."
If a combination smoke and CO detector that does not alert to the presence of an elevated level of carbon monoxide or smoke is installed in a home, and carbon monoxide or smoke enters the home, the consumer will not be warned of these harmful conditions, making injury or death very likely. Smoke sensitivity tests performed on the PETRICOR, VARWANEO, and WJZTEK detectors by CPSC found that they failed to alert when exposed to pre-determined concentrations of smoke, in violation of UL 217, a voluntary safety standard.
The combination detectors are made of white plastic, with approximate dimensions of 4 x 1.5 x 4 inches. The PETRICOR and VARWANEO models feature a digital display. The PETRICOR and WJZTEK models feature a label on the back which lists the model number. The combination detectors are advertised to detect dangerous levels of smoke or carbon monoxide and alert with a flashing red LED and a loud alarm pattern. Model No. MQ-808 was sold under the Amazon ASIN B09DPPFJZJ; and Model No. ACJ-512COM was sold under the Amazon ASIN B0928QZ21C; and Model No. KT-X3 was sold under the Amazon ASIN B07QVC2722 and B07M8LR9M7. The combination smoke and CO detectors were sold on Amazon.com for between $15 and $53.
CPSC urges consumers not to purchase or sell these combination smoke and CO detectors. Stop using them and dispose of these products immediately and install new, working CO detectors. Report a dangerous product or a product-related injury on www.SaferProducts.gov.
Note: Consumers should install combination smoke and CO detectors on each level of their homes and outside separate sleeping areas. Combination smoke and CO detectors should be battery operated or have battery backup. Test combination smoke and CO detectors frequently and replace batteries as needed. Consumers should only buy combination smoke and CO detectors that meet both the UL 2034 and UL 217 safety standards.
Individual Commissioners may have statements related to this topic. Please visit www.cpsc.gov/commissioners to search for statements related to this or other topics.
About the U.S. CPSC
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is charged with protecting the public from unreasonable risk of injury or death associated with the use of thousands of types of consumer products. Deaths, injuries, and property damage from consumer product-related incidents cost the nation more than $1 trillion annually. CPSC's work to ensure the safety of consumer products has contributed to a decline in the rate of injuries associated with consumer products over the past 50 years.
Federal law prohibits any person from selling products subject to a Commission ordered recall or a voluntary recall undertaken in consultation with the CPSC.
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Fall is here, meaning it’s time to put away your summer gear and get out your warm-weather clothing. Unlike winter, fall offers plenty of versatility in the outfits you can wear and is ideal for strutting a stylish pair of boots.
Knee-high boots are a popular choice for many fall outfits, and if you’re looking for an upgrade, now is the perfect time to start shopping. Whether you want something casual or formal, there are many styles to choose from that’ll have you looking great this season.
What to know before buying knee-high boots
Ankle-high vs. knee-high boots
Ankle-length boots are excellent for wearing during the fall and are more versatile than knee-high boots. However, knee-high boots are warmer, so they’re good to wear during fall and mild winter days. If you’ve never worn knee-high boots, getting used to them may take some time, as they can initially feel awkward.
Are over-the-knee boots the same as knee-high boots?
Over-the-knee and knee-high boots are often used interchangeably, but there’s a distinction in shaft height. Over-the-knee boots have a higher shaft that sometimes extends up to the thigh and are best suited for those who want to obscure their knees.
Knee-high boots are more comfortable than over-the-knee boots, but depending on what you wear them with, it can be more challenging to create the appearance of a slim, lean silhouette the way you can with over-the-knee boots.
Price
Knee-high boots vary in price as much as in style, design and color. If you’re not picky, you can find many terrific boots in the $50-$100 range. If you want designer boots made with premium materials that have a more luxurious look, expect to pay up to $300.
Top features to look for in quality knee-high boots
High-quality materials and fabrics
The best boots are made of genuine or synthetic leather and usually have a footbed lined with soft fabric for a comfortable fit. The outsole is made with tough rubber and provides enough traction to prevent you from slipping on wet or slippery surfaces.
Zippers
Some knee-high boots require you to stick your foot in from the top, and although they offer a streamlined look, they can be frustrating to put on and take off, especially if you’re in a hurry. A side zipper on the instep can add a nice touch to a boot, letting you put it on and take it off effortlessly.
Accents
Accents at the top of the boots give them additional flair that makes them stand out compared to boots with a more traditional design. For example, some boots have tie accents at the rear of the top of the shaft, or gold-tone buckles on the side that make them appear more stylish.
Best knee-high boots
Best boots under $100
Journee Collection Mount Women’s Over-the-Knee Boots
They have small block heels measuring 1.2 inches, side zippers and stylish tie accents at the top. They have a padded footbed for long-lasting comfort, a faux-suede upper and a fabric lining for a secure fit.
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Dream Pairs Women’s Knee-High Riding Boots
These have a lightly padded fur lining for superior comfort and an instep zipper that makes them easy to put on and take off. They come in 11 stylish designs and colors and have a heel height of 1.4 inches.
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Steve Madden Tessy Tall Western Boots
They deliver a stylish design and are available in suede and patent leather. They have a pointed toe and a chunky block heel.
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Journee Collection Meg Women’s Tall Boots
These have stylish knee-high styling, a durable faux-suede upper and soft fabric lining for a comfortable feel. The synthetic rubber outsole provides superior traction on wet or slippery surfaces, and the round-toe design gives them a casual but elegant look.
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Tommy Hilfiger Women’s Shyenne Equestrian Boots
They’re made with durable synthetic leather and are perfect for complementing your best fall outfits. They come in five stylish colors and designs and have gold details on the buckle for a sophisticated look.
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Lifestride Xtrovert Women’s Riding Boots
These almond-toe boots are suitable for cool spring, fall and even some light winter days. They have a water-resistant construction, an inset back panel for a comfortable feel and a SoftSystem comfort package in the midsole for all-day comfort and support.
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Journee Collection Jayne Women’s Knee-High Boots
They have a traditional style but are fashionable enough to wear with various outfits. They have a ruched slouch shaft, a durable synthetic upper and a comfortable cushioned midsole. Plus, the rubber outsole provides plenty of traction.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Statewide Central Station (SCS), part of Scutum North America, is pleased to announce the acquisition of Digicom Central Station in Florida. This acquisition marks the first step for both entities to combine resources and tackle the national task of protecting communities using state-of-the-art security and alarm monitoring technology.
Digicom, as part of Statewide, will work on accelerating its development, benefiting from Statewide resources, and setting up synergies for more optimal protection of our clients. Statewide dealers in Florida will have the advantage of joining Statewide's vast dealer network and full support from the company's security monitoring technology. Through the partnership and collaboration, Statewide with Digicom will provide the dealer network with the necessary solutions and tools to be among the top-ranked alarm security providers.
"Scutum North America is excited to share that our footprint has expanded throughout the eastern US, from New York to Florida," says Franck Namy, Scutum Group. "We will continue actively seeking further M&A opportunities as we grow our footprint in the North American market."
Scutum North America provides fire detection, electronic security, and central station monitoring services. It relies on its own UL Listed central stations, which assure the closest personalized attention and service. In this rapidly accelerating market, Scutum North America has established several strategic partnerships to develop its capacities in terms of services and responses to client needs and to increase its performance in the face of a growing and more competitive market.
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Review: Twyla Tharp returns with exhilarating ‘Upper Room’
NEW YORK (AP) — The packed dance audience at New York City Center wasn’t missing a trick.
Just before the lights went down for the second act of Twyla Tharp’s new program Wednesday night, some in the crowd spotted the 81-year-old choreographer sneaking into her seat, small and lithe, with a bob of gray hair — and unmistakable to dance fans. There was a round of sustained cheers.
If the adoration seemed intense, take note that this crowd had just watched her dancers perform “In the Upper Room,” Tharp’s breathtaking 1986 classic that sends dancers to the outer reaches of their capabilities.
Breathtaking is an apt description in more ways than one. Audience members literally gasp, but one imagines the dancers do so even more, in the wings, in the (very) brief breaks between entries and exits. That they manage to find enough breath is almost miraculous — and explains their wide grins at curtain calls.
What are they thinking? It seems the dancers — and there have been many, from different companies, over 36 years — are delighted both with performing the work, and having survived it. There is no doubt that Tharp’s fiendishly difficult choreography, set to the propulsive music of Philip Glass, is a test of endurance that only the best dancers can even contemplate tackling. But there is, always, an undercurrent of joy and exhilaration. Tharp’s masterpiece is a work that virtually nobody tires of seeing again and again — and almost an addiction for some dance fans (guilty as charged).
For this current iteration, which lasts through Oct. 23 at City Center, Tharp has paired “In the Upper Room” with another well-known and very different work, her 1982 “Nine Sinatra Songs.”
And she has brought together an excellent ensemble of 17 dancers from a variety of companies, including New York City Ballet, American Ballet Theater, Martha Graham and Alvin Ailey, plus former dancers from Miami City Ballet and San Francisco Ballet among others. It’s a collection of veterans and some in earlier stages of their careers. Several dancers were on the retirement path; one, Jada German, recently graduated from Juilliard.
In “Upper Room,” the curtain rises on a stage filled with fog, through which dancers suddenly appear — “out of nowhere,” Tharp has said. The nine sections bring different groups on and off — five dancers, 10 dancers, six dancers (there are a total of 13).
First up are what Tharp calls the head “stompers” — female dancers in white sneakers. In this production the honors were done by willowy Kaitlyn Gilliland, formerly of NYCB, and Stephanie Petersen, formerly of ABT.
There are also three standout lead dancers in bright red pointe shoes and anklet socks: Jeanette Delgado, German, and current ABT principal Cassandra Trenary.
The costumes are key: Norma Kamali’s ensembles morph as the 40-minute whirlwind of movement progresses. Black-and-white striped pajama-style outfits peel off, first tops and then bottoms, to reveal bright red leotards underneath. And some of the male dancers — Lloyd Knight, Richard Villaverde and Reed Tankersley — have the job of shedding their shirts midway and displaying, not least through sweat, just how hard everyone is working (very hard).
In the second-act “Nine Sinatra Songs,” Tharp focuses on couples, and more specifically relationships. There’s a fighting couple, a dreamily happy couple, a flirting couple — each vignette set to a song like “Strangers in the Night,” “One for My Baby,” or, twice, as sort of a double finale, “My Way.”
If not as exhausting (or sweat-filled) as “Upper Room,” this piece is certainly demanding on its dancers, with each duet full of complicated lifts and challenging partnering maneuvers. Delgado and Danny Ulbricht laid on the charm and verve in “That’s Life,” and Trenary, so sharp and effective in “Upper Room,” was equally impressive along with Benjamin Freemantle in a challenging duet to “One for My Baby.”
Tharp told The New York Times she chose “Upper Room,” a natural evening-closer, to instead open this show because it exemplified survival at a time when live performing arts like dance, not so long ago, were shut down with no assurance of when they’d return. And yes, the dancers at the end looked thrilled to have “survived” — but also energized, and exhilarated. As the crowd felt, too, when it jumped to its feet.
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BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (AP)Eric Gaines’ 17 points off of the bench helped lead UAB to a 72-60 victory against Western Kentucky on Saturday night.
Gaines shot 7 for 14, including 2 for 4 from beyond the arc for the Blazers (22-8, 13-6 Conference USA). Tavin Lovan added 14 points while shooting 6 of 9 from the field and 2 for 3 from the line, and he also had five rebounds. Trey Jemison recorded 10 points and shot 4 of 6 from the field and 2 for 4 from the line.
The Hilltoppers (15-14, 7-11) were led in scoring by Jairus Hamilton, who finished with 20 points. Dontaie Allen added 10 points for Western Kentucky. In addition, Emmanuel Akot had nine points and seven rebounds.
UAB took the lead with 1:11 remaining in the first half and never looked back. The score was 33-29 at halftime, with Javian Davis racking up eight points. UAB extended its lead to 55-39 during the second half, fueled by a 14-2 scoring run. Gaines scored a team-high nine points in the second half as their team closed out the win.
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UAB’s next game is Saturday against Charlotte on the road, and Western Kentucky visits UTEP on Thursday.
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Kim Kardashian has been sued by the U.S Securities and Exchange Commission after posting advertisements on her Instagram promoting the purchase of cryptocurrency without providing that she was being paid. EthereumMax, the cryptocurrency company that paid Kardashian, is facing claims about running misleading schemes with the help of influencers after it crashed following her post, according to Rolling Stone.
Sam Ruskin, president of the cryptocurrency and block chain investment club, said now more than ever, it is important for Ohio State students interested in cryptocurrency to understand what they’re investing in.
“The way that I see crypto is that it’s a way of building this whole new internet,” Ruskin, a fourth-year in finance, said. “It allows for more productivity, it kind of offers a charitable approach to delivering projects.”
Cryptocurrency, according to Coinbase, is decentralized digital money designed to be used over the internet. Created in 2009, crypto has now gained popularity on social media apps but still lacks first-time user clarity, which can lead to bad investments.
“The problem is, it hasn’t really been demystified yet, which I think needs to be worked on,” Ruskin said.
Julia Whiting, president of the media literacy club at Ohio State, said it can be easy to fall prey to scams on social media, especially with a digital system, such as cryptocurrency, that people may not understand.
“The SEC requires you to disclose if you’re being paid to post for these kinds of companies, And sometimes celebrities don’t do this, or they only do it on one post and don’t include that they’re being paid on associated posts,” Whiting, a third-year in business administration, said.
Austin Lawrence, a second-year in philosophy and vice president of the media literacy club, said this ambiguous tactic was used by Kardashian, as she said in the post a friend recommended her to this cryptocurrency company and used “#ad” only one time.
Lawrence said as crypto becomes more prevalent on social media, it becomes vital for students to look at trustworthy sources and do their own research when participating in online contests or investments.
“Even that little thing can show the motives of what that influencer is trying to promote,” Lawrence said. “Especially with, like, cryptocurrency, how new it is, a lot of people may not understand the basics and then fall easy prey to these scams.”
Lawrence said it may not be that influencers have malicious intent when promoting these scams because they may not understand what they’re promoting.
“I think it’s more just the motive of that check,” Lawrence said. “The influencer may not even understand themselves what they’re doing, they may just say, ‘Oh, it’s another ad, I can get a check for this.’”
Going forward, Whiting said it can be beneficial for students questioning the legitimacy of a cryptocurrency promotion to avoid giving out personal and financial information online, unless you’re expecting to hear from a certain organization or business.
“Avoid random pop-ups about antivirus software or ‘make money quickly’ ads,” Whiting said. “Take time to check with family, friends and your bank to make sure that everything is legitimate.”
Ruskin said another way to avoid getting scammed in terms of crypto is to do your own research.
“For now, if you are interested in investing with crypto, doing your own research is extremely important,” Ruskin said. “Getting to know your community and saying, ‘Alright, are these people really interested in delivering value on this project? Or is this just another scam project?’” | https://www.thelantern.com/2022/10/kardashians-lawsuit-sparks-conversation-about-cryptocurrency-and-scams-at-ohio-state/ | 2022-10-11 02:13:49 | 0 | https://www.thelantern.com/2022/10/kardashians-lawsuit-sparks-conversation-about-cryptocurrency-and-scams-at-ohio-state/ |
BETHESDA, Md., Nov. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Marriott International, Inc., (NASDAQ: MAR) today announced that its board of directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of 40 cents per share of common stock, which represents a 33 percent increase over the previous quarterly dividend amount of 30 cents per share and reflects the company's earnings growth and strong cash generation. The dividend is payable on December 30, 2022, to shareholders of record as of the close of business on November 23, 2022. The company also announced that its board has increased the authorization to repurchase the company's Class A common stock by an additional 25 million shares, for a total of approximately 30.8 million shares currently authorized for repurchase. Year-to-date through November 9, 2022, the company has repurchased 11.6 million shares for $1.8 billion.
Marriott International, Inc., (NASDAQ: MAR) is based in Bethesda, Maryland, USA, and encompasses a portfolio of nearly 8,200 properties under 30 leading brands spanning 138 countries and territories. Marriott operates and franchises hotels and licenses vacation ownership resorts all around the world. The company offers Marriott Bonvoy®, its highly awarded travel program. For more information, please visit our website at www.Marriott.com, and for the latest company news, visit www.MarriottNewscenter.com. In addition, connect with us on Facebook and @MarriottIntl on Twitter and Instagram.
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
9-8-8-6
(nine, eight, eight, six)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
9-8-8-6
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AUGUSTA, Ga., June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- U-Haul® is announcing plans for a state-of-the-art retail, moving and self-storage facility at an undeveloped site at 1070 Claussen Road in Augusta.
U-Haul Moving & Storage of River Watch is scheduled for completion by June 2024. The Company's preliminary plans call for the creation of a four-story building with indoor climate-controlled self-storage, outdoor drive-up storage buildings, and a separate U-Box® portable storage container warehouse.
The facility will offer more than 700 ADA-accessible self-storage rooms with high-tech security features at affordable price points. Customers will also have access to U-Haul truck and trailer sharing, moving supplies and boxes, towing equipment, professional hitch installation, propane and much more. U-Haul acquired the 10.76-acre property on June 14.
Reserve equipment at uhaul.com or contact Reservations at 1-800-GO-UHAUL.
"This property has great visibility from the interstate and River Watch Parkway, making it an attractive location for a full-service U-Haul center," said Kevin Anderson, U-Haul Company of South Carolina president whose territory includes eastern Georgia. "Home to The Masters® golf tournament, Augusta is a growing community. We see thousands of visitors every year, many of whom set their sights on moving here. With all the growth we're seeing in and around Augusta, there is a clear need for us to expand operations and offer residential mobility to more families."
Anderson intends to hire at least 20 Team Members to staff the new store. U-Haul will look to hire locally to promote job growth within the Augusta community. U-Haul, honored as a "Best for Vets 2020" leading veteran-friendly employer by The Military Times, actively recruits veterans and gives them preference in the hiring process. Find U-Haul careers at uhauljobs.com.
"We're eager to get to work and create a state-of-the-art facility that everyone here can be proud of," Anderson added. "The northern Augusta and Martinez neighborhood is underserved in terms of quality self-storage. Our U-Haul dealers in Martinez are also some of the busiest in the region, so we hope to alleviate some of the stress on our dealer network and attend to that demand with a beautiful new Company store."
U-Haul dealers in and around Augusta continue to be available to serve DIY movers. U-Haul has partnered with independent dealers to offer rental equipment since 1945. During these challenging times for small businesses, more than 21,000 dealers across the U.S. and Canada are generating supplemental income through their U-Haul partnership. When customers rent from U-Haul dealers, they are directly supporting small businesses in their community. Because no financial investment is required, dealers are not U-Haul franchises. They are simply small businesses committing their lot space for U-Haul equipment and their time to meet the mobility needs of customers. Learn more about how to partner with U-Haul by visiting uhaul.com/dealer.
About U-HAUL
Since 1945, U-Haul has been the No. 1 choice of do-it-yourself movers, with a network of more than 23,000 locations across all 50 states and 10 Canadian provinces. U-Haul Truck Share 24/7 offers secure access to U-Haul trucks every hour of every day through the customer dispatch option on their smartphones and our proprietary Live Verify technology. Our customers' patronage has enabled the U-Haul fleet to grow to approximately 186,000 trucks, 128,000 trailers and 46,000 towing devices. U-Haul is the third largest self-storage operator in North America and offers 876,000 rentable storage units and 75.1 million square feet of self-storage space at owned and managed facilities. U-Haul is the largest retailer of propane in the U.S., and continues to be the largest installer of permanent trailer hitches in the automotive aftermarket industry. U-Haul has been recognized repeatedly as a leading "Best for Vets" employer and was recently named one of the 15 Healthiest Workplaces in America.
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INDIANAPOLIS — The 107th Running of the Indianapolis 500 is set for Sunday, May 28.
Alex Palou won the pole this year with a record-setting run during qualifying. Rinus VeeKay and Felix Rosenqvist will join him in the front row.
This year’s field includes nine former 500 winners: Helio Castroneves (2001, 2002, 2009, 2021); Scott Dixon (2008); Tony Kanaan (2013); Ryan Hunter-Reay (2014); Alexander Rossi (2016); Takuma Sato (2017, 2020); Will Power (2018); Simon Pagenaud (2019); and Marcus Ericsson (2022).
The green flag is scheduled to drop at 12:45 p.m. Fans can expect to see some of their favorite race day traditions during pre-race ceremonies. Below is a look at the race day and Snake Pit schedules.
Race Day Schedule
Snake Pit Schedule
Combined Race Day and Snake Pit Schedule
- 6 a.m. to 4 p.m. Gates Open
- 7 a.m. Snake Pit Venue Opens
- 8:15 a.m. Jauz (Snake Pit)
- 8:45 a.m. to 10:19 a.m. Borg Warner Trophy March to the Bricks
- 9 a.m. to 9:20 a.m. Cars to Pit Lane
- 9:15 a.m. DJ Diesel (Snake Pit)
- 10:30 a.m. Cars to Grid on Frontstretch
- 10:30 a.m. Subtronics (Snake Pit)
- 11:45 a.m. Break for Pre-Race Ceremonies (Snake Pit)
- 11:47 a.m. Driver Introductions
- 12:18 p.m. Invocation
- 12:24 p.m. National Anthem by Jewel
- 12:36 p.m. “Back Home Again in Indiana” by Jim Cornelison
- 12:38 p.m. Command to Start Engines
- 12:45 p.m. Green Flag Drops on the 107th Running
- 12:50 p.m. Kaskade (Snake Pit)
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NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — A former foreign minister who campaigned as a unifier unconstrained by antiquated ideological and party lines will take on a veteran diplomat with broad voter appeal in Sunday's runoff for the presidency of ethnically divided Cyprus.
As opinion polls consistently indicated in the run-up to the Feb. 5 first round, former minister Nikos Christodoulides, 49, came out on top with 32% of the vote.
Andreas Mavroyiannis, 66, clinched second place with a surprisingly strong 29.6%, some 3.5 percentage points above Averof Neophytou, leader of the country’s largest party, Democratic Rally (DISY).
The failure of Neophytou, 66, to reach the runoff shocked supporters, cast his future as DISY head into doubt and threatened a deep rift within the center-right party.
A long-time DISY member, Christodoulides has been labelled an “apostate” over his decision run against Neophytou for the presidency, with many party cadres pledging never to vote for him.
Conversely, Mavroyiannis’ backing by DISY’s rival, the communist-rooted AKEL party, has turned off many party faithful who fear he'll give AKEL a foothold in government.
Both Christodoulides and Mavroyiannis met with Neophytou to seek DISY’s formal support in the runoff, hoping to tap a huge pool of votes. But after a tumultuous executive committee meeting Tuesday, DISY decided not to formally back either candidate, telling members to vote as they saw fit.
The outcome of the first round was a stinging blow to DISY, which effectively formed the government through the decade-long tenure of outgoing president and former DISY leader Nicos Anastasiades.
The new president will face the tough challenge of trying to revive stalemated peace talks with breakaway Turkish Cypriots, who declared independence nearly a decade after the 1974 Turkish invasion that followed a coup aiming at union with Greece. Reunification has confounded politicians for over nearly half a century of negotiations, despite progress on the shape of an overall deal.
The situation has become much more complicated following the 2017 collapse of talks at a Swiss resort that many believed had come tantalizingly close to a breakthrough. Turkey — the only country to recognize the minority Turkish Cypriots' independence — has since turned its back on a United Nations-backed arrangement for a federated Cyprus. It advocates instead a two-state deal, which the U.N., the European Union, the U.S. and other countries have rejected.
Both Christodoulides and Mavroyiannis were key insiders during the failed 2017 talks, as government spokesman and chief negotiator, respectively. Both have faulted Turkey's insistence on maintaining a permanent troop presence and military intervention rights in a reunified Cyprus as the main reason for the unravelling of negotiations.
Christodoulides has said he draws the line at those two Turkish demands, while Mavroyiannis has softened his stance to woo leftist voters who believe more could have been done to reach a deal in Switzerland.
Both candidates have also advocated tight fiscal discipline without endangering the country’s social safety net, amid intense public concern over soaring inflation.
Mavroyiannis has fended off suggestions that he would shape economic policies according to the directives of his main backer, communist-rooted AKEL, which is blamed for the profligate spending that brought Cyprus to the brink of bankruptcy a decade ago during the presidency of its former, late leader Dimitris Christofias.
Refocused attention on newly discovered natural gas deposits off Cyprus’ south coast as Europe grapples with an energy crunch has figured prominently in the campaigning. Leveraging that energy potential to nudge the peace process forward has been in play for years. Mavroyiannis has floated the possibility of supplying some of that gas to Turkish Cypriots and Turkey to reignite peace talks.
Concern over migration prompted pledges from both candidates to expedite asylum applications and curb the flow of migrants who arrive in the north, cross a U.N.-controlled buffer zone and seek asylum in the richer EU-member south. Tiny Cyprus is among the top EU countries per capita in asylum applications.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Reese Congleton grew up in Colorado Springs feeling as if she had to keep her queer identity quiet, and because she hadn’t come out to many people, she was nervous to go to Club Q for the first time.
But on Monday she recalled how the rainbow lights bounced around the room and the lively crowd shared her excitement. Congleton, 19, said she went from feeling like she had been merely tolerated in public to “being celebrated. … It’s really special not to feel alone.”
In the mostly conservative city of Colorado Springs, Club Q has long been a go-to spot for members of the LGBTQ community — a safe space where many felt they could let down their guard and just be themselves. It’s a place where LGBTQ teenagers can’t wait to be old enough to enter. It’s one of the first spots new LGBTQ residents are sent to meet others in the community and feel a sense of belonging.
But that sense of safety was shattered this weekend when a gunman entered the club as people were drinking and dancing — killing five people and leaving 17 with gunshot wounds. As the community mourned the lives lost, many were also grieving because it happened at a place that’s seen as a sanctuary for many longing to fit in.
“We weren’t out harming anyone. We were in our space, our community, our home, enjoying ourselves like everybody else does,” said Joshua Thurman, who was on the dance floor when the shooting started. “How can we now do anything knowing something like this can happen?”
An 18-and-up gay and lesbian nightclub, Club Q features dancing, drag shows, karaoke and drag bingo, according to its website. Its Facebook page boasts “Nobody Parties like Club Q!,” and posts flyers for a Halloween party, a shots party, as well as trivia. Some described it as a cozy, welcoming place that drew those who wanted to sit down for a meal and relax, as well as those who wanted to dance into the morning hours.
The club’s doors remained closed after the shooting, as many people left flowers at a growing memorial nearby.
Stoney Roberts, the southern Colorado field organizer for One Colorado, an LGBTQ advocacy group, described it as a sacred space and said the shooting felt like a “desecration.”
Roberts, who identifies as a nonbinary trans person, graduated from high school in 2007 and couldn’t wait to be old enough to go to Club Q, which, Roberts said, back then was one of the only safe spaces in Colorado Springs for LGBTQ people.
“I came of age there,” said Roberts, who performed in Club Q’s drag shows from 2009 through 2011. “If it were not for Club Q, if it were not for the experiences I had there, I would not be the person I am.”
A sense of home for members of the LGBTQ community is what Matthew Haynes, one of the club’s co-founders, hoped to create when he started the club two decades ago.
“There have been so many happy stories from Club Q,” Haynes told The Colorado Sun. “People meeting and relationships being born. So many celebrations there. We’re a family of people more than a place to have a drink and dance and leave.”
Colorado’s laws are now among the country’s friendliest to LGBTQ people, though it wasn’t always that way, and Colorado Springs was particularly unwelcoming.
The city of 480,000 located 70 miles (110 kilometers) south of Denver has long held a prominent place for the American evangelical Christian movement. Focus on the Family, a conservative Christian ministry that lobbied for years against LGBTQ rights, has its headquarters there.
After the attack, Focus on the Family president Jim Daly said in a statement that the shooting “exposes the evil and wickedness inside the human heart. We must condemn in the strongest terms possible the taking of innocent life.”
The city’s extensive military presence also contributes to its conservative slant. It’s home to the United States Air Force Academy, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), Peterson Space Force Base and a large Army base, Fort Carson. Many military veterans also live there.
After the shooting, Colorado Springs Police Chief Adrian Vasquez said in a statement that Club Q is a safe haven for LGBTQ people, and “every citizen has the right to be safe and secure in our city; to go about our beautiful city without fear of being harmed or treated poorly.”
Congleton and Ashlyn May, 18, said growing up in Colorado Springs they often felt they had to keep their true selves hidden. May recalled being looked at with disgust when, in a middle school class, she proposed that Queen’s song “I Want to Break Free” was about exploring coming out as gay.
Even now, “it’s scary to hold hands in public,” Congleton said.
But Club Q gave them a place to be themselves. May regularly attends bingo on Wednesday evenings, where a drag queen’s compliment about an outfit tore away their insecurities. “Yes, I am hot!” said May, who was excited to bring their queer younger sister to Club Q for bingo this week to show her “it’s okay to be queer, and it’s okay to love who you love.”
Justin Godwin, 24, and his friend visited Club Q for the first time Saturday and left in an Uber just minutes before the shooting. He said he’s been thinking of all the people who were dancing, sitting at the bar and enjoying the night.
“They’re all there for different reasons, whether they’re regulars, their first time, they’re celebrating something. It’s just supposed to be a fun environment where we feel safe, where people aren’t judging you, giving you looks or anything,” Godwin said. “You’re just being yourself, like no matter how you look, like everyone just feels welcome.”
“It’s just crazy to think someone had the intentions to go in there and just do any harm to anybody,” he said. “It’s just sad for people who find a home somewhere and it gets ruined.”
Korrie Bovee, who identifies as queer, said Club Q has been the cornerstone of a community of like-minded people who have each others’ backs, in a city where verbal harassment is not uncommon and freedom to be oneself is not always found in schools or churches.
“My kids live here,” the 33-year-old said, wiping a tear from her eye. “It’s just hard to know I’m raising my kids in this context.”
Roberts said that as a Black queer person, most places in Colorado Springs seem welcoming, but there is always that “underlying nuance of realizing where you are.”
At Club Q: “You can take a deep breath and you can be your authentic self.”
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TOKYO, April 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Hitachi-LG Data Storage (hereinafter "HLDS") has newly appointed Makoto Hayata (hereinafter "Hayata") as CFO of its Co-President as of April 1, 2023.
HLDS is a global joint venture established in 2001 by Hitachi, Ltd. in Japan and LG Electronics. It focuses on data storage devices such as ODD and Game OPU, and has recently expanded its scope. It is conducting a wireless power transmission business using Electromagnetic technology and is expanding into the sensor business area using Optical and data processing technologies. It is also trying to create new values by providing an integrated solution by combining technologies using AI. In particular, in the ODD industry, it has held the position of Global No. 1 for 22 years, and president&CFO Hayata serves as a representative jointly with president&CEO Min Byung-hoon.
The newly appointed president&CFO Hayata will oversee the overall financial division of HLDS.
President&CFO Hayata, graduated from Waseda University's Department of Political Economy in 1985 and joined Hitachi, Ltd. and is a financial expert who has worked in the finance sector for about 33 years. He also served as head of the Industries Audit Office at Hitachi, Ltd Connective Industries Business Headquarters and has experience working at Hitachi's Chinese subsidiary, so he is well-versed in overseas finance.
"Based on our experience, we will actively support the innovation and advancement of the HLDS business to achieve the HLDS slogan 'Data Solutions for a Better Life and Society,' and at the same time, we will try to contribute to creating a sustainable society," said president&CFO Hayata.
Brief Profile
Min Byung-hoon CEO
Current) December 2018~ President&CEO of Hitachi-LG Data Storage, Inc
Former) 2016.12~2017.12 LG Technology Strategy Team Leader/Executive Director (LG Group R&D Head officer)
Former) 2013.12~2015.12 LG Electronics HE Business Headquarters Convergence Audio Video Business Manager / Executive Director (Business Manager)
Makoto Hayata CFO
Current) 2023.04~ President&CFO of Hitachi-LG Data Storage, Inc
Former) 2020.04~2023.03 Hitachi, Ltd. Head of Industries Audit Office, Connective Industries Business General Headquarters
Former) 2018.04~2020.03 Hitachi, Ltd. Director of Sales and Management Division of the Financial Supervisory Headquarters
Former) 2014.04~2018.03 Hitachi, Ltd. Director of Financial Process Solutions. Finance General Headquarters
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WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — The Latest from Wimbledon (all times local):
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3:45 p.m.
Jule Niemeier is into the quarterfinals in her first Wimbledon appearance after denying British veteran Heather Watson a spot in the last eight.
The 22-year-old Niemeier, who is playing just her second Grand Slam tournament after losing in the first round of the French Open in May, beat Watson 6-2, 6-4 on Centre Court. The German converted her third match point when Watson netted a backhand.
The 30-year-old Watson was playing in her 43rd major tournament and had reached the fourth round of a Grand Slam for the first time.
Niemeier will next face countrywoman Tatjana Maria, who reached her first Grand Slam quarterfinal at the age of 34.
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3:20 p.m.
Tatjana Maria saved two match points in the second set before beating 2017 French Open champion Jelena Ostapenko at Wimbledon to reach her first Grand Slam quarterfinal at the age of 34.
The 103rd-ranked Maria won 5-7, 7-5, 7-5 on No. 1 Court. The German is the oldest woman left in the singles draw and had only been past the second round once in 34 previous Grand Slam appearances.
She saved two match points at 5-4 in the second set, then had a chance to serve out the match at the same score in the third but was broken. But she broke Ostapenko again and then converted her second match point when the Latvian sent a service return wide.
Maria’s previous best result at a Grand Slam was reaching the third round at Wimbledon in 2015. She lost in the first round in her last eight major appearances. Ostapenko reached the Wimbledon semifinals in 2018.
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2:20 p.m.
Eight-time Wimbledon champion Roger Federer hasn’t given up hope of playing again at the All England Club.
Federer received a standing ovation at a celebration of the centenary of Centre Court.
“I hope I can come back … one more time,” the 40-year-old Federer said from Centre Court, standing alongside other Wimbledon champions.
Federer’s eight Wimbledon titles is a men’s singles record but he is not playing at the grass-court tournament for the first time since his debut in 1999.
The 20-time Grand Slam champion hasn’t played since losing in the quarterfinals at Wimbledon a year ago in his 22nd appearance in the tournament.
He said he didn’t think it would take this long to come back from knee surgery last year. He said: “The knee has been rough on me.”
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12:55 p.m.
Wimbledon has its first quarterfinalist in women’s singles: Marie Bouzkova of the Czech Republic.
Bouzkova beat Caroline Garcia of France 7-5, 6-2 in a fourth-round match on No. 2 Court to reach her first Grand Slam quarterfinal.
The 23-year-old Bouzkova will next face either third-seeded Ons Jabeur or Elise Mertens for a place in the semifinals.
Bouzkova upset seventh-seeded Danielle Collins in the first round.
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12:30 p.m.
Roger Federer returned to Wimbledon as the All England Club prepared to celebrate the centenary of Centre Court.
Federer has won eight Wimbledon titles — a men’s singles record — but is not playing at the grass-court tournament for the first time since his debut in 1999.
The 20-time Grand Slam champion was dressed in a dark suit and white sneakers as he walked the grounds toward Centre Court.
Federer said earlier this year that any tournament comeback from his knee surgery last year will not be until at least the late summer.
The 40-year-old Swiss hasn’t played since losing in the quarterfinals at Wimbledon a year ago in his 22nd appearance in the tournament.
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11:15 a.m.
Three-time defending champion Novak Djokovic will be back on Centre Court on Day 7 at Wimbledon as fourth-round play gets started.
The traditional day of rest on the middle Sunday at the All England Club is no more. A British player, Heather Watson, will be first on Centre Court to mark the occasion. She will face Jule Niemeier.
Fifth-seeded Carlos Alcaraz then plays Jannik Sinner, before the top-seeded Djokovic is last in the main stadium against Tim van Rijthoven of the Netherlands.
On No. 1 Court, third-seeded Ons Jabeur will play Elise Mertens.
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The late Scranton Firefighter Stephen Sunday will be among 144 honored this weekend in Maryland by the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation.
Sunday, who died at age 28 late in 2020 from complications COVID-19, will be recognized during the foundation's 42nd memorial weekend at the National Emergency Training Center in Emmitsburg.
His name will be inscribed on a bronze plaque and made a permanent part of the National Fallen Firefighters Memorial, according to the foundation.
Sunday is one of seven Pennsylvania firefighters and 144 nationwide who died during the last few years slated for recognition during a candlelight memorial 7:30 p.m. Saturday and a 10 a.m. service the next day.
U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas will present each family with a badge, a rose and an American flag that flew over the memorial and the U.S. Capitol. Events will be streamed online at the foundation's website, firehero.org.
Sunday's family, Scranton Fire Chief John Judge and Deputy Fire Chief Dan Hallowich will attend, Judge said.
Sunday is one of three fallen city fire bureau staffers recognized by the foundation. The two others are:
• Fire Capt. James L. Robeson, 50, who was electrocuted Jan. 6, 2008, while battling a house fire in the Hill Section that claimed the lives of its two residents.
• Ambulance Lt. John Buchner, a 32-year-old officer struck and killed by a car Nov. 4, 1981, while trying to help a teenage girl who jumped from a bridge over Interstate 81. | https://www.thetimes-tribune.com/news/maryland-memorial-to-honor-fallen-firefighters-to-recognize-scrantons-stephen-sunday/article_d63ef130-1793-57bf-96ac-a0ef8553ef1d.html | 2023-05-03 15:07:14 | 1 | https://www.thetimes-tribune.com/news/maryland-memorial-to-honor-fallen-firefighters-to-recognize-scrantons-stephen-sunday/article_d63ef130-1793-57bf-96ac-a0ef8553ef1d.html |
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Grammys have evolved from their humble beginnings into a daylong feast of music — and there’s many ways to watch the red carpet and show live.
Most of the awards are handed out before that during the Premiere Ceremony, which the Recording Academy will stream live Sunday beginning at 3:30 p.m. Eastern.
Here’s what you need to know about watching the 2023 Grammys, including how to stream and where you can see music’s biggest stars walking the red carpet.
HOW TO WATCH THE GRAMMYS RED CARPET LIVE
E! will host its “Live from the Grammys Carpet” show with its mix of fashion coverage and celebrity interviews, beginning at 3 p.m. Eastern.
The Associated Press will also stream a two-hour red carpet show with interviews and fashion footage. It will be streamed on YouTube, Twitter and APNews.com.
HOW TO STREAM THE GRAMMYS SHOW
This Sunday’s 65th edition could see Beyoncé become the most decorated artist in Grammys history and will feature musical performances from Bad Bunny, Mary J. Blige, Sam Smith, Lizzo as well tributes to the late musicians Takeoff, Loretta Lynn and Christine McVie.
They’ll appear on the main show airing on CBS and Paramount+ beginning at 8 p.m. Eastern.
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A massive fire near a port in southeastern Bangladesh has killed more than 49 people and injured 200 others. The fire broke out at an import-export container depot.
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Florida man gets prison time for selling machinegun converting device to undercover agent
A Jacksonville man was sentenced to five years in prison for selling a device designed to convert a weapon into a machine gun to an undercover agent, the Department of Justice announced Friday.
Darnell Rice Jr, 28, pleaded guilty in August 2022 for selling a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) undercover agent a Glock "switch" which is designed to convert a pistol into a machinegun, allowing the pistol to shoot more than one round of ammunition with a single pull of the trigger.
On Nov. 30, 2021, the agent met with Rice outside his home and attempted to purchase two 9mm firearms. Rice told the agent it was too late in the day to sell the guns, so the agent asked about a Glock "switch," according to the DOJ.
The agent said he would buy the switch that day and a Glock pistol the next day for $1,800. Rice gave the agent the switch that same day.
The next day, Rice went to a federally licensed gun store and brought a Glock 9mm semiautomatic. While signing the paperwork, Rice falsely affirmed that he was the actual buyer of the pistol, the DOJ said.
On Dec. 9, 2022, multiple law enforcement groups drove to Rice's home to serve a search warrant. After searching the home, agents said they found a total of 23 guns and more than 3,400 rounds of ammunition in the home, a press release states.
Investigators said they discovered Rice had been using social media accounts to offer firearms and ammunition for sale and to communicate with customers. At one gun store location, Rice had spent $29,515 on 77 guns. | https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/florida-man-gets-prison-time-for-selling-machinegun-converting-device-to-undercover-agent | 2022-12-02 22:05:38 | 0 | https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/florida-man-gets-prison-time-for-selling-machinegun-converting-device-to-undercover-agent |
To look at Barclays Plc’s share price after its results Wednesday, you’d think it had had a stinker. But it didn’t, and the stock’s initial plunge of more than 10% was excessive.
Investors seem to have gotten overexcited ahead of results, driving the shares up on hopes that the UK bank would exceed elevated forecasts for revenue, profit and especially buybacks. Instead, they were served up good numbers that were nevertheless slightly below estimates and were garnished with a touch of conservatism from Barclays on capital returns.
It will buy back another £500 million ($603 million) of stock, taking the total for 2022 to £1 billion, but analysts were expecting an additional £675 million to be announced. That’s not a huge difference but was enough to take the wind from Barclays’s sails.
Barclays was never among the European banks set to finish 2022 with bucketloads of excess money to hand out to shareholders, like BNP Paribas SA, UBS AG, or UniCredit SpA. However, investors are likely to thank Barclays’s executives later for being cautious with their capital.
Chief Financial Officer Anna Cross preferred the word “thoughtful” to “conservative” as a description of Barclays’s approach in an economic environment that she called “not benign.” But she is also keeping money back to fund growth. Cross expects lending markets to stay competitive, especially in the UK, and funding costs to be higher. That leads to a more cautious outlook for interest revenue growth in 2023 compared to analysts, but she also doesn’t expect a big rise in bad loans.
If the final quarter’s numbers were underwhelming versus forecasts, it’s worth looking at them in the broader context. Barclays’s net interest income grew 31% in 2022 compared with 2021, which is better than big US and European rivals to have reported so far.
Its revenue growth in bond and currency trading was stellar, up 48% for the year in dollar terms, which beat even Goldman Sachs’s 39%. It was helped by being in the right products — such as interest-rates trading — and the growth of its financing for hedge funds. This business produced its strongest revenue since at least 2014, when Barclays adopted its current reporting structure.
Its stock-trading desks lagged rivals, hurt by Barclays’s costly and embarrassing foul-up in structured notes, when it failed to file the correct paperwork with US regulators. The bank announced the co-heads of equities trading were leaving this month, but declined to say whether they were carrying the can. Dealmaking and advisory fees were down 46% for the year, but that’s marginally less bad than the average for the five big US investment banks and better than European rivals.
All in all, it was a solid year for Barclays despite the ructions in markets that troubled most large banks and its own crazy structured notes slip-up – a mistake it at least managed to clean up swiftly and efficiently.
If there’s a downside, it’s that Barclays’s targeted future returns of more than 10% on tangible equity just won’t get pulses racing or generate US-style buybacks. There’s no great restructuring story to get excited about either. Barclays looks like it’s becoming a steady performer that won’t take mad risks with shareholder funds. That might not bowl over investors, but it deserves a better valuation than its current 54% discount to forecast book value.
More From Bloomberg Opinion:
• Barclays Shows How to Get Out of a Blunder: Paul J. Davies
• U.K. House Prices, Meet the Cost-of-Living Crisis: Stuart Trow
• Banks Play Fast and Loose With Riskiest Debt: Marcus Ashworth
This column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the editorial board or Bloomberg LP and its owners.
Paul J. Davies is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering banking and finance. Previously, he was a reporter for the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times.
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JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military shot and killed a Palestinian man on Friday during an arrest raid into the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Health Ministry reported, the latest bloodshed in the deadliest round of fighting in the area in seven years.
Gun battles erupted between Israeli security forces and Palestinian militants erupted in the camp in the northern West Bank, a frequent flash point for confrontations, the Palestinian Health Ministry said.
The ministry initially reported that two had been killed, but later corrected the death toll to one Palestinian killed and another man in critical condition after being struck in the head by a bullet. Another five Palestinians were wounded in the violent clashes, it said.
The Israeli army said it had entered Jenin on Friday to arrest a wanted Hamas militant who had carried out recent attacks against Israeli security forces. The 24-year-old Diaa Muhammad Yusef Salama was armed with an M-16 rifle as Israeli security forces apprehended him and two other suspects, it added.
The raid set off a gunfight as militants in the neighborhood, armed with assault rifles, attempted to block the Israeli incursion. The army said it opened fire on the militants, and warned uninvolved civilians that their presence “poses a life-threatening danger.”
The official Palestinian news agency, Wafa, reported that dozens of Israeli armored vehicles rolled through the camp as Palestinians protested violently outside the government hospital. It identified the dead as 20-year-old Matin Dababa and said a doctor and two paramedics had been wounded as an ambulance was caught in the crossfire.
Israel has been carrying out nightly arrest raids in the West Bank since the spring, when a spate of Palestinian attacks against Israelis killed 19 people.
Israel says its operations are aimed at dismantling militant infrastructure and preventing future attacks, and that it has been forced to act due to the ineffectiveness of Palestinian security forces. The Palestinians see the nightly incursions into their cities, villages and towns as Israel’s way of deepening its occupation of lands they want for their hoped-for state and undermining the security forces.
The Israeli raids have killed over 120 Palestinians, making this year the deadliest since 2015. Most of those killed are said by Israel to have been militants but local youths protesting the incursions as well as some civilians have also been killed in the violence. Hundreds have been rounded up, with many placed in so-called administrative detention, which allows Israel to hold them without trial or charge.
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NAZARETH, Pa. -- One person was taken to the hospital following a bicycle crash in Nazareth.
The crash was reported at about 9:25 p.m. Thursday night in the area of South Convent Avenue and West Center Street.
Officials have not given an update on the person who was hurt.
They also have not said what led to the crash. | https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/lehighvalley/one-person-injured-in-nazareth-bicycle-crash/article_e297acc6-359d-11ed-bf38-b738aab41d47.html | 2022-09-16 10:46:53 | 0 | https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/lehighvalley/one-person-injured-in-nazareth-bicycle-crash/article_e297acc6-359d-11ed-bf38-b738aab41d47.html |
NEW YORK, June 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InvestorsObserver issues critical PriceWatch Alerts for DIDI, SHLS, QNRX, FTCI, and RUN.
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ATLANTA, Nov. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Doux, an award-winning sucka-free haircare brand, is proud to announce its partnership with Baby Tate – emerging rapper, singer-songwriter, and record producer based out of Atlanta, Georgia – for the brand's first-ever social media campaign in honor of the U.S.' second Annual National Hip Hop Month.
With National Hip Hop Month being declared an official U.S. holiday just last year, The Doux's CEO, Founder, Maya Smith, decided to take her brand, inspired by the music and nostalgia of 90's Hip Hop, to new heights this year. The content-forward initiative is geared at merging the culture of the original female queens of the category through Smith's latest Bee Girl collection with new voices in the creative space to elevate true artistry and best-in-class, salon quality haircare.
"Partnering with Tate just made sense," shared Smith. "We always pay homage to the OG artists in the space and now we're looking to elevate the next queens in the hip hop industry, which is what led us to Baby Tate. There are so many synergies between us – from her style, artistry, natural hair game, and more – so to have someone of her talent and vibes join us on this journey is exciting. We've never done a partnership or run a campaign to this extent before, so we're just thrilled to continue immersing ourselves in spaces where our customers are. Any way The Doux can uplift and support women, especially creatives, we're here for it!"
Headlined by Baby Tate and her latest song, Perfect, from her most recent album, Mani/Pedi, The Doux's #ThisIsHowWeDouxIt Campaign will kick off with Tate's original content being pushed out on TikTok and Instagram, unveiling the brand's latest wash & go routine. With a focus on celebrating natural hair textures, each product from the new Bee Girl collection includes Smith's innovative ingredient, cationic honey which smooths the hair's negatively charged cuticle to boost shine, seal in moisture, and fight frizz. The products are even named after iconic Hip Hop / R&B songs by legendary female artists such as the Mist Demeanor Honey Shine Mist, Push It! Braid & Edge Gel, Ladies First Honey Shampoo and more.
To learn more about The Doux, visit thedoux.com and be sure to shop the collection at Walmart. To tune into the rest of the campaign, follow along on TikTok at @ilovethedoux!
The Doux is an award-winning brand of super-fresh, texture-focused solutions inspired by Maya Smith's life as a stylist and her love for The Culture. Merging old-school flava with new-school science, Smith developed a range of simple, multi-functional formulas designed to put an end to the complicated regimens and conflicting information that are shattering one's confidence. At the Doux, we keep it sucka-free by ignoring the yip-yap and fake ingredient hype. Instead, we show & prove by Douxing the work & taking you back to the basics.
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In the age of massive corporations and automation, Symbia Logistics shines as a family owned 3PL that cares deeply about their customers and spearheading the evolution of the supply chain. Symbia Logistics describes themselves as the "leaders of supply change". They're proud to reveal their brand overhaul and new custom website which illustrates the human side of the industry, how it blends with technology, and the importance of meaningful relationships.
EDWARDS, Colo., June 9, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- It is a watershed moment for the global supply chain. A literal laundry list of factors has disrupted international trade affecting procurement routes from the smallest, intra-regional networks all the way to major, worldwide trade routes.
It began with the COVID-19 pandemic. Quarantine measures spurred a radical decrease in demand, which in turn halted large-scale production. Now, two years into the pandemic, heightened geopolitical tensions ranging from the war in Ukraine to surging inflation have further exacerbated the problem. In late April the International Monetary Fund issued a sobering warning by downgrading its 2022 global economic projections from 4.9% to 3.6%.
For the last two years supply chain resiliency has been the battle cry. As popular just-in-time methods buckled to mounting external pressures, everyone from manufacturers to distributors sought to carve out new, hyper-local supply networks to counteract the coming breakdown. Logistics professionals the world over spent 2021 in contingency planning mode looking for new ways to source the raw materials and products necessary for our economy to run.
It's time for the supply chain management industry to take a long, hard look at its policies, and its practices in order to usher in a new era of what Symbia Logistics CEO Megan Smith likes to call "Supply change."
Symbia Logistics came from humble beginnings. The company started out in 1989 offering pallet management, warehousing, and basic 3PL services. At the company's inception, their services were a far cry from the dominant logistical force that they are today. And yet, in their 25 year history, the company's story is one of constant progress.
Today, Symbia Logistics is proud to announce a complete brand overhaul that communicates comforting reassurance and personalized support in an economic climate defined by extreme uncertainty.
Symbia Logistics understands the kind of transformation necessary to thrive in a tumultuous environment like this. "In a short amount of time we've evolved from a rough and tumble pallet refurbishment company to a leading national 3PL with deep technological capabilities. An authentic brand builds trust, so it is important for our customers, prospects and team members to see the vision that we've all been diligently working toward," said Symbia CEO Megan Smith.
Symbia Logistics has pulled out all the stops to create a custom website and updated brand identity, built to stand out from the ultra-competitive digital landscape they find themselves in. Symbia worked with their long-time marketing partner, Hyfyve, who recruited the talent of renowned UK-based graphic artist Barbara Gibson, to adjust both their digital presence and messaging.
"The brand updates and the new website reflect Symbia Logistics' position as the leaders of "supply change". The team deeply values the relationships shared with customers, partners and team members, it was critical that we communicate that sentiment through the graphics and overall tone," said Dennis McMahon, CEO of HyFyve.
If the last two years of supply chain upheaval have taught us anything, it's that there are. In keeping with the theme of supply chain resilience, experienced logistics professionals have had to seek alternative methods to source what they need, when they need it. That means cutting out the middleman entirely. Even seasoned 3PL providers have had to seek out new 4PL partnerships to help them execute on their core business, often at the expense of a customizable experience.
With the brand refresh, Megan and her team at Symbia took that idea and ran with it. The new brand message speaks less in terms of industry jargon and more about what's in it for the customer, an experience where more meaningful relationships can be formed and customized solutions are developed. The reimagined website now features a wider, more inviting palette with a mix of thought-provoking color that speaks to a wide range of potential customers. At the center? Symbia's traditional logo, which is synonymous with integration, quality, and reliability.
This is far more than just an update of their existing brand, however. It's about supply change. In order to maintain relevance and thrive in today's market, it's necessary to appeal to new avenues of general business, materials procurement, and sales. It's an exciting new direction for one of the country's most recognizable 3PL partners.
Changes like this speak to the agility with which Symbia has always moved, continually positioning themselves at the forefront of innovation. From multichannel warehousing capabilities to the very horizon of distribution management practices, Symbia's bread and butter is progress. Throughout the pandemic —and subsequent upheaval— Symbia has adapted with speed and resilience.
In today's rapidly evolving global economy nothing except change is guaranteed. We've seen an unprecedented level of turmoil affect the industry, with one crisis after another rupturing the global supply chain. We must evolve and be future forward in our strategies. To prepare our global supply chain for the future, we need leaders like Symbia Logistics who are committed to ushering in real and meaningful supply change.
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The leading provider of cloud-based e-commerce fulfillment solutions opens new warehouses in Canada and expands its footprint in the US
NEW YORK , May 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ShipHero (https://shiphero.com/), the leading shipping and logistics platform for over 5,000 e-commerce brands and 3PLs, announces its first international acquisition, Canadian delivery provider, Delivery Net, – providing 250,000 square feet of warehouse space in Toronto, anchoring the company's commitment to supporting its customers as they scale operations in new markets.
With ongoing disruptions to the supply chain, it has never been more logistically challenging to ship goods and products, especially internationally. Delivery Net has been a leader in the Canadian marketplace for over twenty years. Now a key partner to ShipHero's growing fulfillment network, Delivery Net will serve as the Canadian 3PL extension for ShipHero, with warehouses in both Toronto and Vancouver. ShipHero now offers fulfillment services out of both locations plus duty-free imports through its Section 321 certification, in addition to integrated zone skipping in its top-rated Warehouse Management Services (WMS) for all Canadian Customers.
For ShipHero CEO & Founder, Aaron Rubin, the expansion of ShipHero couldn't have come at a better time. "Currently, we serve over $8 billion a year of GMV. That significant volume, paired with an unpredictable and fast-growing e-commerce sector, makes expanding our physical network a necessary step in order to optimize the tools and resources we can offer customers" says Rubin.
This activity is the latest in a series of strategic gains made by ShipHero since closing its series-A funding round in 2021, which include the acquisitions of Utah-based warehouse Golden Egg Solutions and Florida's Cargo Cove, alongside a 200,000-square-foot warehouse expansion in North Las Vegas at the close of Q3 2021. In total, ShipHero has expanded its footprint to a total 1.1 million square feet, including 5 acquisitions in the last 12 months.
ShipHero has a $100 million run rate this year, up from $5 million in 2019. The company has experienced 20x growth over the last three years, with plans to further build out its fulfillment capabilities on a global scale in 2022.
For more updates and information on ShipHero, visit: https://shiphero.com/
About ShipHero
ShipHero is a US based, leading provider of cloud-based e-commerce fulfillment solutions that gives online retailers and third-party logistics providers the tools to ship more efficiently anywhere in the world. With more than 5,000 customers located around the globe, ShipHero offers online retailers a suite of services ranging from warehouse management software to outsourced fulfillment as a service. Some notable customers include Glossier, Mars, Universal Music Group and Canadian Tire. Additionally, ShipHero is the official fulfillment network partner for Shopify, and is rapidly scaling a network of warehouses throughout the US to meet the growing demands of today's online retailers.
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OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — Oklahoma City residents were on edge after a big, bad wolf was sighted Tuesday. OK, big and bad may be a tall tale.
“The dog was very timid and was not able to be caught,” said Bruce Stone, city manager for The Village, which is part of the Oklahoma City metro area.
The animal was reported wandering across the metro Tuesday morning.
The Oklahoma City Police tweeted that they were “just responding to a bunch of folks crying wolf” as they tried to get “the pup safely home.”
The animal — a female — didn’t look like she would huff and puff or blow your house down, like the wolf of “Little Red Riding Hood” fame. Stone told KFOR she didn’t make a sound.
“The dog was just sitting there quietly,” said Stone. “[It] just kind of seemed like it was lost and needed help.”
The animal had a collar, so officials knew someone owned her and were probably looking for their pet.
The animal is a hybrid: “85% wolf & 15% Alaskan Malamute pet,” according to the Oklahoma City Police. And she calmly accepted rescue from police, who called her a “cordial canine.”
“Obviously, it is a little unusual that it is a mixed breed,” said Stone.
While it is against the law in The Village to harbor a wolf, there is no mention of mixed breeds.
“I don’t think the public has anything to be concerned about,” said Stone. “Just another loose animal that needs to be captured and taken back to the owner.” | https://www.qcnews.com/nexstar-media-wire/crying-wolf-hybrid-dog-returned-to-owners-after-wandering-city/ | 2022-09-22 22:28:44 | 0 | https://www.qcnews.com/nexstar-media-wire/crying-wolf-hybrid-dog-returned-to-owners-after-wandering-city/ |
LUND, Sweden, July 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Immunovia AB (NASDAQ Stockholm: IMMNOV) announced, that Immunovia, Inc., its American subsidiary, has recently received approval for a Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) Proprietary Laboratory Analyses (PLA) code from the American Medical Association (AMA) for the IMMray™ PanCan-d test. The code will be effective on October 1, 2022. Immunovia is currently in process with the Centers of Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to establish payment for IMMray™ PanCan-d with this PLA code which will be included in the 2023 CMS Clinical Lab Fee Schedule.
"We are very pleased that the AMA has approved a unique CPT PLA code for our IMMray™ PanCan-d test. This is an important step in our ongoing efforts to secure reimbursement for our test," says Philipp Mathieu, CEO and President of Immunovia AB.
The CPT codes offer doctors and health care professionals a uniform language for coding medical services and procedures. It is the most widely accepted medical nomenclature used in the US to report physician and healthcare professional services including laboratory tests under public and private health insurance programs.
PLA Codes are an addition to the CPT code set approved by the AMA CPT Editorial Panel. They are alpha-numeric CPT codes with a corresponding descriptor for laboratories or manufacturers that want to identify their test more specifically.
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Email: philipp.mathieu@immunovia.com
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Tel: +46 736 36 35 74
The information was submitted for publication on July 5, 2022, 9:30 am CET.
About Immunovia
Immunovia AB is a diagnostic company with the vision to revolutionize blood-based diagnostics and increase survival rates for patients with cancer.
Our first product, IMMray™ PanCan-d is the only blood test currently available specifically for the early detection of pancreatic cancer. The test has unmatched clinical performance. Commercialization of IMMray™ PanCan-d started in August 2021 in the USA and IMMray™ PanCan-d is offered as a laboratory developed test (LDT) exclusively through Immunovia, Inc. For more information see: www.immunoviainc.com.
Immunovia collaborates and engages with healthcare providers, leading experts and patient advocacy groups globally to make this test available to all high-risk pancreatic cancer groups.
The USA, the first market in which IMMray™ PanCan-d is commercially available, is the world's largest market for the detection of pancreatic cancer with an estimated value of more than USD 4 billion annually.
Immunovia's shares (IMMNOV) are listed on Nasdaq Stockholm. For more information, please visit www.immunovia.com.
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Hurricane Ian was over southwest Florida for only a few hours.
It will take months to clean up all the damage. Maybe longer. And some of the destruction can’t be cleaned up at all.
From trees getting ripped out of the ground to signs being ripped apart, traffic lights crashing onto roadways and some buildings simply being destroyed, the impact was everywhere and almost nothing was spared. The only difference between one place and the next was the severity of the problems.
“We will get through this,” said Vice Mayor Richard Johnson of Sanibel, Florida. “And we’ll come out on the other side better than we were going in.”
Perhaps, but it will be a massive undertaking, ranging from the cosmetic to the crucial and everything in between.
Fort Myers Beach is, quite simply, destroyed. Businesses are gone. Jobs are obviously lost, at least temporarily. The cleanup will take weeks and that will almost certainly have to precede any rebuilding efforts.
“Our entire staff is safe and although the restaurant sustained incredible damage the structure of the building is intact,” the ownership of Nervous Nellie’s, a seafood restaurant on the beach, said in a statement. “We are hoping to work our way through this and be back stronger than ever.”
Around the region — Naples, Fort Myers, Sanibel — the magnitude of the damage is impossible to ignore. Along U.S. 41, the main road in the region, countless signs outside businesses are damaged, torn or just gone. The steel posts holding street signs in the ground are bent backward, no match for Ian’s wind and force. The doors to storage-unit garages were twisted, sending the belongings inside some of the spaces flying into the air. The majority of traffic lights are out, wires dangling to the road below in some cases.
And in one instance, a metal traffic sign directing drivers toward Interstate 75 got crushed by an electronic traffic sign warning drivers about a closed lane.
“I’ve seen some things,” said Clark Manchin, a construction project manager, as he assessed the mess. “I’ve never seen that.”
Patience was quickly wearing thin. A 7-Eleven worker pleaded with people who filled her store: No $20s, please. Small bills only. “If I run out of change, we have to close,” she pleaded. There was no gas, no hot food and — because there was no running water — no coffee or bathrooms, either.
“I didn’t take this as seriously as I should have,” Mark Crow of Naples said. “I didn’t stock up. I didn’t board up. It’s a mess, man. It’s bad.”
Much of the damage, thankfully, was just cosmetic. The 150-foot-high (50-meter), 250-yard (220-meter) deep nets ringing a Top Golf facility in Fort Myers were shredded, swaying in the afternoon breeze, not far from where a shredded American flag remained atop a pole at an office complex. At Florida Gulf Coast University, a set of bleachers — once on the sideline of the soccer field — blew halfway across the pitch and wound up crushing one of the goals.
Other damage was far worse. At an RV park in Fort Myers, debris from a destroyed golf cart floated in deep standing water Thursday, long after the storm cleared. Downed power lines and the destroyed poles they were attached to blocked the entrance. And down the street was a barn-style building that had been under construction. Its walls collapsed, the roof pinning the shredded lumber on the ground.
The damage assessments, and the cleanup, are just beginning.
“We have to be patient,” Sanibel Councilmember John Henshaw said. “We have to start looking at where are we going to stay and live for a significant period of time. Don’t know exactly what that is. We’ll learn more as we go through this process.” | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/national/ap-after-ian-the-effects-in-southwest-florida-are-everywhere/ | 2022-09-30 12:55:13 | 1 | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/national/ap-after-ian-the-effects-in-southwest-florida-are-everywhere/ |
One person was killed and three others were injured in a shooting Wednesday evening at a mall in El Paso, Texas, police said, sending patrons running or sheltering in a community scarred three years ago by a shooting massacre in a store just down the road.
Two people, both male, were taken into custody after the gunfire inside the Cielo Vista Mall, interim El Paso Police Chief Peter Pacillas said Wednesday night. Police have not commented on possible motives.
"It was chaotic. People did flee. They were scared," police Sgt. Robert Gomez said.
Surveillance video from a bar inside the mall captured more than a dozen people sprinting away from the sound of gunshots and, later, paramedics wheeling in a stretcher.
All four people shot were male, Pacillas said. Two of the injured were brought to the University Medical Center of El Paso in critical condition, the hospital told CNN. The third injured person was also hospitalized, Gomez said, but their condition is unknown.
The mall sits next to a Walmart where a shooting in 2019 killed 23 and left nearly two dozen more injured. Last week, the 24-year-old gunman pleaded guilty to 90 federal charges as part of a plea deal.
The Wednesday shooting is yet another example of gunfire shattering the sense of security many Americans once felt in public spaces, like shopping centers, grocery stores and schools.
So far this year, there have been more than 70 mass shootings across the United States, according to the Gun Violence Archive. Both CNN and the archive define a "mass shooting" as a shooting that injured or killed four or more people, not including the shooter.
Robert Gonzalez was at the mall Wednesday and during the 2019 shooting, he told CNN. He saw people "running to the exit" Wednesday, he said, and video he took inside the mall shows several storefronts had their security gates down. Outside, a second video shows police gathered at the entrance.
"I was working (at the mall) the last time this happened with the Walmart shooting so it just brought back bad memories," Gonzalez said.
Investigators preliminarily believe the shooting occurred around the food court in the upper level of the mall, Gomez said.
Marie Hall had just clocked in for her shift at a salad shop in the food court when she heard gunshots ring out, she told CNN affiliate KFOX. She ran to the back of the restaurant and hid in a walk-in fridge with another employee and two customers, she said.
"Nothing prepares you for that," she told the affiliate. "I didn't really feel safe (going to work) in the beginning because of the shooting in 2019. ... It is definitely going to be more difficult to be going in to work."
An off-duty police officer who was working security in one of the mall's stores was able to respond to the scene within three minutes and take a person into custody, Pacillas said. He did not say when, where or how the second person was apprehended.
Multiple law enforcement agencies, including El Paso police, the Texas Department of Public Safety and US Border Patrol, responded to the scene and worked into the night to clear the building and begin a preliminary investigation, police said.
The FBI, which is assisting with the investigation, has created a website for people to submit photos and video of the incident.
Even some community members who were not present during Wednesday's shooting feel the event has reopened old wounds.
Albert Hernandez, whose sister Maribel and brother-in-law Leo Campos were killed in the 2019 shooting, told KFOX he feels political leaders are "not accepting the full scope of the situation" of gun violence and are "numb to what's going on."
"We felt the same feelings come back to us as the day of the Walmart shooting. Everything comes back and we're just wondering, now what? How many people are going to get hurt?" Hernandez said.
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Derek Meyer will join Associated on August 1st as Chief Financial Officer
Bryan Carson will join Associated on July 18th as Chief Product and Marketing Officer
GREEN BAY, Wis., June 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Associated Banc-Corp (NYSE: ASB) ("Associated") today announced two key appointments to its executive leadership team. Derek Meyer, 55, will join Associated as the Company's next Chief Financial Officer, effective August 1, 2022. He will succeed Christopher J. Del Moral-Niles, who announced his planned retirement from Associated earlier this year. In addition, Bryan Carson, 52, will assume the role of Chief Product and Marketing Officer, effective July 18, 2022.
Andrew Harmening, President and Chief Executive Officer, said, "Today's appointments are important steps in supporting our current growth strategy and will drive Associated forward on our path of value creation. Adding Derek and Bryan to our team will further bolster our ability to generate deposits and create liquidity, while helping us execute our multi-year digital transformation."
Finance
Meyer brings over 30 years' experience in banking including 21 years in finance and 12 years in retail and commercial roles. Most recently he served as Corporate Treasurer of Huntington Bank. During his 22-year tenure at Huntington, Meyer held various senior leadership roles and was responsible for crucial finance functions, including treasury, financial planning and analysis, stress testing, mergers and acquisition due diligence, regulatory matters and process and controls implementation. He was also instrumental in driving the bank's financial strategy, expanding revenue and positively impacting margins.
Harmening said, "Derek is a strategic financial leader with superb business acumen and a passion for team building. His superior track record of achievement across financial functions and deep understanding of the banking industry will be invaluable to our organization."
"I am honored to be appointed CFO at a time of significant opportunity for Associated," Meyer said. "I look forward to working with Andy, the executive leadership team, and the bank's talented finance team to help the Company execute its strategic and financial priorities focused on value-added growth, investments and commitments to all stakeholders."
Product and Marketing
Carson brings 30 years of experience in marketing, product development, pricing, analytics, and distribution within the financial services industry. Most recently he served as EVP of Deposit Products, Customer Segmentation, and Branch & ATM Distribution at Huntington Bank. Prior to that, he served as the bank's Chief Marketing Officer and SVP of Deposit Products & Pricing. Carson also held senior roles at JPMorgan Chase as Marketing Director and MBNA Corporation as Marketing, Product, and Analytics Department Manager.
Harmening continued, "Bryan will lead our product development, marketing and customer experience and insights teams. His leadership and oversight of the Company's commercial, consumer, and digital product strategies will help drive our digital transformation initiatives, identifying new pathways for deposit and liquidity generation. We are confident he will help us deploy innovative solutions and deliver a best-in-class service experience to our customers."
"I am excited to join Associated, a premier financial brand in the Midwest markets and beyond, with an innovative platform and incredible culture of customer service," Carson said. "I look forward to working with the team to drive product and marketing programs to support the Company's growth and evolution to a digital-focused banking leader."
ABOUT ASSOCIATED BANC-CORP
Associated Banc-Corp (NYSE: ASB) has total assets of $35 billion and is Wisconsin's largest bank holding company. Headquartered in Green Bay, Wisconsin, Associated is a leading Midwest banking franchise, offering a full range of financial products and services from more than 200 banking locations serving more than 100 communities throughout Wisconsin, Illinois and Minnesota, and loan production offices in Indiana, Michigan, Missouri, New York, Ohio and Texas. Associated Bank, N.A. is an Equal Housing Lender, Equal Opportunity Lender and Member FDIC. More information about Associated Banc-Corp is available at www.associatedbank.com.
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A new study paints a grim picture of American roads: every day, 20 people walk outside and end up killed by a moving vehicle.
"There are more pedestrians being killed today than in decades," Russ Martin, the senior director of policy and government relations at the Governors Highway Safety Association, told NPR.
The organization, which tracks pedestrian deaths in the U.S., estimates that more than 7,500 pedestrians were killed by drivers last year — the highest number since 1981. The final tally may be even greater given that Oklahoma was unable to provide data due to a technical issue.
Pedestrian deaths have been climbing since 2010 because of unsafe infrastructure and the prevalence of SUVs, which tend to be more deadly for pedestrians than smaller cars, according to Martin. When the pandemic arrived, there was an even greater surge as empty roads gave way to speeding and distracted driving.
The pandemic has waned, but cases of reckless driving — and subsequently the number of Americans killed while walking — has not. The new data, released on Friday, shows the U.S. continues to lag in its effort to improve road safety, even as experts say some solutions are within reach.
States below the Sun Belt ranked as having the highest rate of pedestrian deaths in 2022
For the seventh year in a row, New Mexico was ranked as the most dangerous state for pedestrians.
Arizona and Florida were also placed in the top spots for having high rates of pedestrian deaths in GHSA's estimates.
It is not a coincidence that all three states are situated below the country's Sun Belt. Martin said Southern states tend to see more traffic deaths but it is not exactly clear why.
There are multiple theories: in bigger states, communities are more spread out and as a result, people need to drive more to get around, he said. Another possibility is that Southern states have better weather and people spend more time outside.
"This is all just conjecture, but I think it's certainly worthwhile to take a closer look into what's going on in those states," he added.
Local lawmakers can implement traffic calming measures today
Traffic safety has been an uphill battle in the U.S. for years but there are strategies at lawmakers' disposal to address the crisis today, according to Peter Norton, a professor at the University of Virginia who has studied the history of driving in America.
"The best things we can do will take years, but there are some things we can do now, they don't cost much money and they make a big difference," he said.
For instance, implementing sharp corners instead of round curves at the end of roads forces drivers to slow down to turn and therefore prevents speeding. That technique, along with adding pedestrian islands and large sidewalk bulb-outs, is known as "traffic calming."
Norton said installing speeding and red light cameras can also be effective if they work properly. Adding bike lanes can also keep drivers more alert on the road.
Lowering speed limits is also an important step but only if it is enforced and used alongside other safety measures. Norton warned that roads with a mix of different vehicle speeds tend to be more dangerous.
There are also some local and regional measures the GHSA pointed to that could help prevent deaths.
In Hawaii, police officers are stationed in areas that have seen a higher volume of crashes or foot traffic to look out for reckless driving.
And in Idaho, the state's highway safety office gave out walk audits for community members to identify safety concerns on the street. Local officials then use the results to improve the walkability of neighborhoods.
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The 2022 U.S. Open has officially wrapped up and an array of champions have emerged.
No. 3 Carlos Alcaraz clinched the 2022 U.S. Open men’s singles title after defeating No. 5 Casper Ruud on Sunday in the final.
The Spaniard won after 4 sets – 4-6, 6-2, 6-7, 3-6, officially earning him his first Grand Slam singles title.
Ruud put up a good fight but Alcaraz took the first set 6-4 after about an hour into the match.
The second set started pretty even with both men winning one game right off the bat, but Ruud came from behind to clinch the set 6-2.
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The third set started in Alcaraz’s favor but Ruud wasn’t going to let that slide. He took the lead until the two athletes tied games at 6-6, leading to a tiebreaker that ended in Alcaraz’s favor.
Alcaraz took the fourth set 6-3 and earned the victory.
This is Alcaraz’s best Grand Slam performance in his career so far and he is now officially ranked as World No. 1. The 19-year-old rising star has won five ATP Tour singles titles, including two Masters 1000 titles and currently holds a record of 84-27. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/sports/carlos-alcaraz-downs-casper-ruud-to-win-us-open-mens-singles-title/3069672/ | 2022-09-12 01:13:27 | 1 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/sports/carlos-alcaraz-downs-casper-ruud-to-win-us-open-mens-singles-title/3069672/ |
(Green Car Reports) — From phones to computing to power tools, cutting the cord has been a mark of progress—and much in the same way, wireless charging for EVs could be a game-changer.
With Tesla finally teasing a wireless inductive charging pad within the various forward-looking statements of its Investor Day presentation on Wednesday, consider it game on.
Tesla provided no details about when and even if it might be offering the tech to owners. But with its promise of daily charging without having to manage charge connectors morning and night, there’s likely a very good reason the company decided to include it among glimpses of “cool s***” in its charging future.
“We’ve got to scale our infrastructure, and yes, we want to power it via renewable sources,” said Rebecca Tinucci, Tesla’s head of global charging infrastructure, in concluding the Charging portion of the presentation. “But we’re Tesla, so we also want to make sure that we’re continuing to focus on providing really incredible charging experiences.”
In the presentation slide, on one side was what appears to be a new rendering of the Southern California diner and Supercharger station that Tesla has teased for a long time. On the other side of the slide was a wireless charging pad below a garage-parked Tesla Model S.
It’s also a necessary technology component for self-driving vehicles—and a more elegant approach than the prototype snake charger Tesla has shown in the past.
WiTricity, one of the leading companies focusing toward inductive EV charging for passenger vehicles, wouldn’t comment about whether the example shown with the Tesla is theirs or a licensed form of their technology. However the company has fitted both a Tesla Model 3 and Ford Mustang Mach-E with wireless charging tech for demonstration purposes, and it’s the only company that supplies the technology to a factory OEM application outside China with the Genesis GV60 in its home market of South Korea.
About five years ago BMW and Mercedes-Benz both planned to offer the feature, but both ultimately reversed course—with Mercedes’ availability nixed and BMW limiting availability to a lease-only pilot program with the 530e plug-in hybrid. But an SAE standard ratified in 2020 that assures interoperability, plus interest and investment from a range of suppliers—including Siemens, which took a minority investment in WiTricity—has altogether helped nudge the tech closer to market now.
Tesla isn’t the only company to give the tech the spotlight in recent months. At CES in January, Stellantis’ Ram truck brand teased an inductive charging robot that might allow hands-free charging without parking in exactly the same spot every day.
WiTricity expects an inflection point in the market around 2025 or 2026, when it sees a wider range of luxury and then mass-market models offering the tech as a feature or option. But if Tesla adopts the technology widely around then, it could help significantly lower the cost of entry for the technology.
“History has shown us that things that can go wireless do,” Amy Barzdukas, WiTricity’s chief marketing officer, said to Green Car Reports.
And based on another piece of news to emerge from Investor Day—that Tesla will adopt bidirectional charging capability—going wireless with charging makes even more sense, Barzdukas argued.
“We demonstrated that wireless charging can be bidirectional; that’s become an increased focus, and we see some great opportunities where wireless charging can play a role in stabilizing the grid, because it can allow for passive V2G,” she said. “You don’t have to remember to plug it in to be able to have that support, whether it’s commercial fleets or private individuals, once the regulatory and utility issues get ironed out.”
A study conducted last year for WiTricity among those who currently own an EV or intend to get one within two years showed support. Bidirectional wireless charging placed at the top among premium tech features—topping self-driving capability, premium audio, and park assist. More than 75% of respondents said that they would install wireless charging in their driveway or garage.
That survey didn’t talk cost, and while there have already been some aftermarket entries for Tesla vehicles, the few thousand dollars for a pair of pads and related components has been one of the prohibiting factors up until now.
Costs will drop significantly as the technology is deployed at volume, as materials improve and parts are consolidated, Barzdukas added.
“The price for a wireless charger in 2030 should be easily commensurate with a plug,” the WiTricity executive said.
Efficiency matters for Tesla owners, and it was one of the themes of the Investor Day presentation. So it’s worth pointing out that WiTricity’s tech receives 99% of the energy it sends, coil-to-coil, while its efficiency overall, from the circuit box to vehicle battery, is about 90% to 92%—in the same range as most plug-in charging.
Charging rates are comparable to wired, too. Last June the company reported that its wireless charging system fitted to the Model 3 delivered about 10 kw to the car, equating to about 48 miles of range per hour. At that time, the company noted that its wireless charging wasn’t limited to 11 kw and higher-power versions are possible.
In the meantime, WiTricity plans to sell its setup in an aftermarket charging system for EVs, with the expansion later this year of an early beta test of the system.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The unabashedly liberal city of San Francisco became the unlikely proponent of weaponized police robots last week after supervisors approved limited use of the remote-controlled devices, addressing head-on an evolving technology that has become more widely available even if it is rarely deployed to confront suspects.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted 8-3 last Tuesday to permit police to use robots armed with explosives in extreme situations where lives are at stake and no other alternative is available. The authorization comes as police departments across the U.S. face increasing scrutiny for the use of militarized equipment and force amid a yearslong reckoning on criminal justice.
A new California law requires police to inventory military-grade equipment such as flashbang grenades, assault rifles and armored vehicles, and seek approval from the public for their use.
So far, police in just two California cities — San Francisco and Oakland — have publicly discussed the use of robots as part of that process. Around the country, police have used robots over the past decade to communicate with barricaded suspects, enter potentially dangerous spaces and, in rare cases, for deadly force.
Dallas police became the first to kill a suspect with a robot in 2016, when they used one to detonate explosives during a standoff with a sniper who had killed five police officers and injured nine others.
The recent San Francisco vote has renewed a fierce debate over the ethics of using robots to kill a suspect — and the doors such policies might open. Largely, experts say, the use of such robots remains rare even as the technology advances.
Michael White, a professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Arizona State University, said even if robotics companies present deadlier options at tradeshows, it doesn’t mean police departments will buy them. White said companies made specialized claymores to end barricades and scrambled to equip body-worn cameras with facial recognition software, but departments didn’t want them.
“It’s hard to say what will happen in the future, but I think weaponized robots very well could be the next thing that departments don’t want because communities are saying they don’t want them,” White said.
San Francisco official David Chiu, who authored the California bill to inventory militarized equipment when he was in the state legislature, said communities deserve more transparency from law enforcement and to have a say in the equipment’s use.
San Francisco “just happened to be the city that tackled a topic that I certainly didn’t contemplate when the law was going through the process, and that dealt with the subject of so-called killer robots,” said Chiu, now the city attorney.
In 2013, police used a robot to lift a tarp as part of a manhunt for the Boston Marathon bombing suspect, finding him hiding underneath it. Three years later, Dallas police officials sent a bomb disposal robot packed with explosives into an alcove of El Centro College to end an hourslong standoff with sniper Micah Xavier Johnson, who had opened fire on officers while a demonstration against police brutality was ending.
Police detonated the explosives, killing the suspect. A grand jury declined charges against the officers, and then-Dallas Police Chief David O. Brown was widely praised for his handling of the shooting and the standoff.
“There was this spray of doom about how police departments were going to use robots in the six months after Dallas,” said Mark Lomax, former executive director of the National Tactical Officers Association. “But since then, I had not heard a lot about that platform being used to neutralize suspects … until the San Francisco policy was in the news.”
The question of potentially lethal robots has rarely cropped up in public discourse in California as more than 500 police and sheriffs departments seek approval for their military-grade weapons use policy. Oakland police abandoned the idea of arming robots with shotguns after public backlash, but will outfit them with pepper spray.
Many policies are vague as to armed robots, and some departments may presume they have implicit permission to deploy them, said John Lindsay-Poland of the American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker organization, who has been monitoring implementation of the law.
“I do think most departments are not prepared to use their robots for lethal force,” he said, “but if asked, I suspect there are other departments that would say ‘we want that authority.’”
San Francisco Supervisor Aaron Peskin first proposed prohibiting police from using robot force against any person. While the department said it would not outfit robots with firearms, it wanted the option to attach explosives to breach barricades or disorient a suspect.
The approved policy allows only a limited number of high-ranking officers to authorize use of robots as a deadly force — and only when lives are at stake and after exhausting alternative force or de-escalation tactics, or concluding they would not be able to subdue the suspect otherwise.
San Francisco police say the dozen functioning ground robots the department already has have never been used to deliver an explosive device, but are used to assess bombs or provide eyes in low-visibility situations.
“We live in a time when unthinkable mass violence is becoming more commonplace. We need the option to be able to save lives in the event we have that type of tragedy in our city,” San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott said in a statement.
Three city supervisors who felt otherwise joined dozens of protestors outside City Hall on Monday, the day before the board is set to take a second and final vote on the policy. The demonstrators held signs protesting the use of deadly robots and a large banner that read “We all saw that movie… No Killer Robots.”
“There is no way that I am going to sit by silently and allow a policy as dangerous and reckless as this to be adopted and go into effect,” Supervisor Dean Preston told the crowd.
The Los Angeles Police Department does not have any weaponized robots or drones, said SWAT Lt. Ruben Lopez. He declined to detail why his department did not seek permission for armed robots, but confirmed they would need authorization to deploy one.
“It’s a violent world, so we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it,” he said.
There are often better options than robots if lethal force is needed, because bombs can create collateral damage to buildings and people, said Lomax, the former head of the tactical officers group. “For a lot of departments, especially in populated cities, those factors are going to add too much risk,” he said.
Last year, the New York Police Department returned a leased robotic dog sooner than expected after public backlash, indicating that civilians are not yet comfortable with the idea of machines chasing down humans.
Police in Maine have used robots at least twice to deliver explosives meant to take down walls or doors and bring an end to standoffs.
In June 2018, in the tiny town of Dixmont, Maine, police had intended to use a robot to deliver a small explosive that would knock down an exterior wall, but instead collapsed the roof of the house.
The man inside was shot twice after the explosion, survived and pleaded no contest to reckless conduct with a firearm. The state later settled his lawsuit against the police challenging that they used the explosives improperly.
In April 2020, Maine police used a small charge to blow a door off a home during a standoff. The suspect was fatally shot by police when he exited through the damaged doorway and fired a weapon.
As of this week, the state attorney general’s office had not completed its review of the tactics used in the 2018 standoff, including the use of the explosive charge. A report on the 2020 incident only addressed the fatal gunfire.
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Lauer reported from Philadelphia. AP reporter David Sharp contributed from Portland, Maine. | https://www.ksn.com/news/tech/ap-technology/ap-us-police-rarely-deploy-deadly-robots-to-confront-suspects/ | 2022-12-06 09:26:50 | 1 | https://www.ksn.com/news/tech/ap-technology/ap-us-police-rarely-deploy-deadly-robots-to-confront-suspects/ |
The 2023 Chevrolet Bolt EV once again qualifies for the federal EV tax credit, but now it’s also getting a small price increase.
General Motors lost eligibility for the $7,500 credit when it reached the 200,000-unit sales cap that was previously in place. Under the revamped rules enacted as part of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and due to take effect Jan. 1, manufacturers that previously phased out under the 200,000-unit rule can once again qualify—if they meet new requirements for domestic assembly, as well as sourcing requirements for battery minerals, among other things.
It was previously thought the Bolt EV would only qualify for a $3,750 credit, but because the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) pushed back some of its battery requirements, the Chevy qualifies for the full $7,500 credit for the time being.
GM has raised the price of the Bolt EV by $900 to $27,495 with the mandatory $995 destination charge. The related Bolt EUV looks slated to get a $600 price bump, bringing the base price to $28,795 with destination.
The automaker, when asked about the pricing change and any connection to the EV tax credit, didn’t mention the latter in a statement provided to Green Car Reports: “Due to ongoing industry-related pricing pressures, the Chevy Bolt EV and EUV will see modest price increases starting in 2023, but we expect it to remain America’s most affordable EV. Chevrolet remains committed in its long-standing role to provide true value. We expect to continue building the record sales momentum we saw in 2022.”
This comes after two recent price cuts. GM lowered the price by about $5,000 across the lineup for the 2022 model year, and by about $6,000 for 2023. So the Bolt EV and EUV remain some of the cheapest EVs on the market. It now appears that the Bolt EV may be the lowest-priced car to qualify for the $7,500 EV tax credit, in fact.
GM even offered a retroactive discount to existing buyers following its announcement of the big 2023 model year price cut. A battery recall affected potentially all Bolt EVs and has brought new battery packs to many, likely including some of the older leftover inventory that benefited from that discount.
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Spurred by regulators, 3M to phase out “forever chemicals”
WASHINGTON (AP) — 3M will phase out the manufacturing of so-called “forever chemicals” and try to get them out of all their products within two years, the chemical and consumer products maker said Tuesday.
The decision announced Tuesday arrives after U.S. environmental regulators designated the chemicals — used in nonstick frying pans, water-repellent sports gear, stain-resistant rugs, cosmetics and countless other consumer products since the 1940s - as hazardous substances under the Superfund law.
While the designation is not an outright ban, polyfluoroalkyl substances, better known as PFAS, require a report to federal, state or tribal officials if the amount released into soil or water meet or exceed a certain level. The Environmental Protection Agency could then require cleanups to protect public health and recover cleanup costs.
PFAS have been voluntarily phased out by U.S. manufacturers but are still in limited use and remain in the environment because they do not degrade over time.
3M said its decision was based on multiple factors, including “accelerating regulatory trends focused on reducing or eliminating the presence” of the chemicals in the environment.
The chemicals can accumulate and persist in the human body for long periods of time, and evidence from animal and human studies indicates that exposure to PFAS may lead to cancer or other health problems, including damage to organs including the liver, kidneys and thyroid gland.
3M, based in Saint Paul, Minnesota, said it will exit all PFAS manufacturing and “work to discontinue use of PFAS” in all its products by the end of 2025.
3M makes a broad range of consumer products, including Post-it notes, Scotch Brite cleaning supplies, adhesives and personal protective equipment.
Chemical and other industrial companies have been sued frequently in recent years for downplaying the dangers of the chemicals.
In a November lawsuit, the state of California accused 3M, Dupont and 16 smaller companies of covering up the harm caused to the environment and the public from chemicals manufactured by the firms that have over decades found their way into waterways and human bloodstreams.
Last year, the Biden administration launched a broad strategy to regulate the toxic industrial compounds that the EPA said are increasingly turning up in public drinking water systems, private wells and even food.
The Defense Department, Food and Drug Administration and Agriculture Department were all tapped to join the effort intended to restrict PFAS from being released into the environment and accelerate cleanup.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The world’s first space tourist wants to go back — only this time, he’s signed up for a spin around the moon aboard Elon Musk’s Starship.
For Dennis Tito, 82, it’s a chance to relive the joy of his trip to the International Space Station, now that he’s retired with time on his hands. He isn’t interested in hopping on a 10-minute flight to the edge of space or repeating what he did 21 years ago. “Been there, done that.”
His weeklong moonshot — its date to be determined and years in the future — will bring him within 125 miles (200 kilometers) of the lunar far side. He’ll have company: his wife, Akiko, and 10 others willing to shell out big bucks for the ride.
Tito won’t say how much he’s paying; his Russian station flight cost $20 million.
The couple recognize there’s a lot of testing and development still ahead for Starship, a shiny, bullet-shaped behemoth that’s yet to even attempt to reach space.
“We have to keep healthy for as many years as it’s going to take for SpaceX to complete this vehicle,” Tito said in an interview this week with The Associated Press. “I might be sitting in a rocking chair, not doing any good exercise, if it wasn’t for this mission.”
Tito is actually the second billionaire to make a Starship reservation for a flight around the moon. Japanese fashion tycoon Yusaku Maezawa announced in 2018 he was buying an entire flight so he could take eight or so others with him, preferably artists. The two men both flew to the space station, from Kazakhstan atop Russian rockets, 20 years apart.
Tito kicked off space tourism in 2001, becoming the first person to pay his own way to space and antagonizing NASA in the process. The U.S. space agency didn’t want a sightseer hanging around while the station was being built. But the Russian Space Agency needed the cash and, with the help of U.S.-based Space Adventures, launched a string of wealthy clients to the station through the 2000s and, just a year ago, Maezawa.
Well-heeled customers are sampling briefer tastes of space with Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin rocket company. Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic expects to take paying passengers next year.
Starship has yet to launch atop a Super Heavy booster from the southern tip of Texas, near the Mexican border. At 394 feet (120 meters) and 17 million pounds (7.7 million kilograms) of liftoff thrust, it’s the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built. NASA already has contracted for a Starship to land its astronauts on the moon in 2025 or so, in the first lunar touchdown since Apollo.
Tito said the couple’s contract with SpaceX, signed in August 2021 and announced Wednesday, includes an option for a flight within five years from now. Tito would be 87 by then and he wanted an out in case his health falters.
“But if I stayed in good health, I’d wait 10 years,” he said.
Tito’s wife, 57, said she needed no persuading. The Los Angeles residents are both pilots and understand the risks. They share Musk’s vision of a spacefaring future and believe a married couple flying together to the moon will inspire others to do the same.
Tito, who sold his investment company Wilshire Associates almost two years ago, said he doesn’t feel guilty splurging on spaceflight versus spending the money here on Earth.
“We’re retired and now it’s time to reap the rewards of all the hard work,” he said.
Tito expects he’ll also shatter preconceived notions about age, much as John Glenn’s space shuttle flight did in 1998. The first American to orbit the Earth still holds the record as the oldest person in orbit.
“He was only 77. He was just a young man,” Tito said. “I might end up being 10 years older than him,”
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(The Hill) – A federal judge on Monday granted former President Trump’s request to appoint an independent special master to review materials the FBI seized from his Mar-a-Lago residence last month.
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, who is a Trump appointee, dismissed objections from the Department of Justice (DOJ), blocking prosecutors from further reviewing or using the seized documents in their investigation until the special master completes their review.
Cannon asked DOJ and Trump’s attorneys to submit a joint filing by Friday that includes a proposed special master candidate list.
Trump has accused the FBI and DOJ of executing the search for political purposes, also claiming that some of the documents were protected by attorney-client privilege and executive privilege.
The DOJ had argued in court that a special master appointment would stall its investigation of Trump and that he did not have the authority to claim executive privilege from his time in the White House since he is no longer in office.
“With respect to the Government’s ongoing criminal investigation, the Court does not find that a temporary special master review under the present circumstances would cause undue delay,” Cannon wrote in the ruling.
The FBI’s search at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence on Aug. 8 came as part of a federal investigation into whether Trump violated the Espionage Act and two other statutes. Agents recovered 33 boxes containing more than 100 classified records, although the potential violations do not rely on the documents being classified.
Raising concerns about privileged materials seized in the search, Trump demanded the appointment of a special master two weeks later. Cannon previously announced her preliminary intent to grant the request.
Trump’s demand came as he separately pushed for the release of the unredacted affidavit that led another federal judge to approve the search warrant. That judge released a redacted copy late last month.
Alongside his request for a special master, Trump also asked Cannon to order the return of the seized property from Mar-a-Lago. Cannon on Monday declined to make such a ruling.
“Plaintiff ultimately may not be entitled to return of much of the seized property or to prevail on his anticipated claims of privilege,” Cannon wrote. “That inquiry remains for another day.”
The Hill has reached out to a DOJ spokesperson for comment.
Although she temporarily blocked the DOJ from using the materials in its investigation, Cannon said the intelligence community’s ongoing damage assessment of the documents’ storage at Mar-a-Lago could continue.
DOJ had argued that Trump lacked standing to request a special master because his presidential records were owned by the government, not Trump himself. The judge dismissed the objection, arguing that although Trump may not have ownership of many of the materials, “genuine disputes” exist as to whether others constituted personal records.
Prosecutors also said Trump could not claim executive privilege as a former president against the current executive branch, but Cannon said DOJ’s position “arguably overstates the law.”
DOJ also argued that its filter team already examined the materials to separate privileged documents before handing them off to investigators, so a special master would be unnecessary and cause further delay.
Cannon called into question the accuracy of the filtering, noting that investigators on at least two occasions were given materials they believed were potentially privileged and handed them back to the filter team.
“These instances certainly are demonstrative of integrity on the part of the Investigative Team members who returned the potentially privileged material,” Cannon wrote. “But they also indicate that, on more than one occasion, the Privilege Review Team’s initial screening failed to identify potentially privileged material.” | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/national-news/judge-grants-trumps-request-to-appoint-special-master-to-review-mar-a-lago-documents/ | 2022-09-05 17:13:43 | 0 | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/national-news/judge-grants-trumps-request-to-appoint-special-master-to-review-mar-a-lago-documents/ |
Disney asks judge to dismiss DeSantis-appointed board’s lawsuit in latest tit-for-tat
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Disney on Tuesday asked a state judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by a governing board appointed by Gov. Ron DeSantis to oversee Disney World, claiming the company has been the victim of the “weaponizing” powers of government aimed at punishing it for opposing a law dubbed “Don’t Say Gay,” or the Parental Rights in Education bill, by critics.
Disney’s motion to dismiss filed in state court in Orlando was the latest twist in legal battles being played out in federal and state courts among the entertainment giant, DeSantis and the DeSantis-appointed Central Florida Tourism Oversight District. The fight is over who controls the special governing district which decides what gets built at Disney World and runs the municipal-like services on the 25,000 acres that make up the theme park resort.
“Just over a year ago, Disney expressed a political view that Governor DeSantis did not like. In response, the Governor unleashed a campaign of retaliation, weaponizing the power of government to punish Disney for its protected speech,” Disney said in the motion.
The lawsuit Disney is seeking to dismiss was filed by the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District earlier this month in Orange County, Florida. It seeks to void agreements Disney made with previous board members made up of Disney supporters before the new DeSantis-appointed board members held their first meeting.
The agreements gave design and construction authority to the company, which the DeSantis-appointed supervisors said stripped them of power. The DeSantis-appointed board’s lawsuit said the agreements “reek of a backroom deal,” weren’t properly noticed and that the Disney supporters unlawfully delegated governmental authority to a private entity.
In the company’s motion Tuesday, Disney defended the deals. When “faced with a newly hostile state administration,” Disney executed the deals to protect its investments in central Florida, including billions of dollars in new projects and thousands of jobs, the company said.
Last month, Disney filed a First Amendment lawsuit against DeSantis and the DeSantis-appointed board in federal court, asking a federal judge to void the governor’s takeover of the theme park district, as well as the oversight board’s actions, on the grounds that they were violations of company’s free speech rights.
Disney and DeSantis have been engaged in a tug-of-war for more than a year that has engulfed the GOP governor in criticism as he prepares to launch an expected presidential bid in the coming weeks.
The feud started last year after Disney, in the face of significant pressure, publicly opposed a state law that bans classroom lessons on sexual orientation and gender identity in early grades, a policy critics call “Don’t Say Gay.”
As punishment, DeSantis took over Disney World’s self-governing district through legislation passed by Florida lawmakers and appointed a new board of supervisors. Before the new board came in, the company signed the agreements with the old board, stripping the new supervisors of design and construction authority.
In response, the Republican-controlled Florida Legislature passed legislation allowing the DeSantis-appointed board to repeal the Disney agreements and made the theme park resort’s monorail system subject to state inspection when it previously had been done in-house.
The new legislation repealing the Disney agreements makes the state court lawsuit moot, and litigation filed first in federal court takes priority over subsequent litigation in state court if both cases are dealing with similar issues and parties, under Florida law, Disney said in Tuesday’s motion arguing for the state lawsuit to be dismissed.
The creation of Disney’s self-governing district by the Florida Legislature was instrumental in the company’s decision in the 1960s to build near Orlando. The company had told the state at the time that it planned to build a futuristic city that would include a transit system and urban planning innovations, so the company needed autonomy in building and deciding how to use the land. The futuristic city never materialized and instead morphed into a second theme park that opened in 1982.
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Submits Pledge to DHHS Office of Climate Change and Health Equity to Achieve Net Zero Emissions by 2050
BOSTON, June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CREF Global Corporate Real Estate & Facilities today announced an audacious plan to manage the nation's largest, private, for-profit health system's efforts to achieve net zero emissions by 2050. CREF's partner, Steward Health Care, submitted their plan to achieve a 50% reduction in emissions by 2030, and net zero emissions by 2050, to the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Climate Change and Health Equity, in partnership with the White House.
"We are excited that one of our largest clients and trusted partners, Steward Health Care, has agreed to undertake this ambitious initiative and continues to innovate at the intersection of healthcare, the environment, and the communities they serve," stated CREF Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Bob Gendron.
CREF and Steward recently completed a ten-year energy optimization program for Steward's facilities in the Northeast realizing significant savings and reduction of greenhouse gases in their communities.
Bob Gendron, Chief Executive Officer of CREF Global Corporate Real Estate & Facilities is available for comment if needed.
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Police in Chester County are investigating a shooting that injured two people on Lincoln University's campus on Saturday night.
According to police, the incident happened at about 10 p.m. during a "Yardfest" event at the Chester County school, when officials said, two people -- who officials noted weren't students at the university -- were injured when "a gun was discharged."
"During Lincoln University’s annual Yardfest celebration, tonight, a gun was discharged causing two non fatal injuries. The injured have been transported to the hospital. Campus Police with the assistance of state and local agencies are securing the campus and further investigating the incident," said Lincoln University president, Brenda Allen in a statement.
The school was put on lockdown after the shooting. That lockdown had ended by 3 a.m. on Sunday, officials said.
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An international humanitarian group said a pregnant woman is dead and at least 30 people are missing after a rubber boat collapsed and sank in the Mediterranean Sea near the coast of Libya.
In a press release, Doctors Without Borders said their rescue team reached them by boat and managed to save 71 people on Monday.
The pregnant woman was brought on board the boat, but she "did not survive despite extensive resuscitation efforts by the medical team," the group said.
The group added that three others, including a 4-month-old baby, needed emergency care.
“The survivors are exhausted; many have ingested large amounts of seawater, and multiple people suffered from hypothermia after spending many hours in the water,” says Stephanie Hofstetter, MSF medical team leader on board. “At least 10 people, mostly women, are suffering from medium to severe fuel burns and need further treatment beyond what can be delivered on board,”
The international charity said it took the rescue ship, Geo Barents, three hours to get to them.
On Wednesday, the group reported that those still missing include five women and eight children, three of whom are 1-year-old.
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➡️ At least 30 people reported missing, including 5 women and 8 children
➡️4 women currently on board have lost a child and 1 of them lost her 2 children
➡️ Among the missing children, 3 are one-year old babies
➡️Several people on board have lost a brother pic.twitter.com/rhXg0YKcFZ— MSF Sea (@MSF_Sea) June 29, 2022 | https://www.kgun9.com/news/national/pregnant-woman-dead-30-still-missing-after-rubber-boat-sinks-in-mediterranean-sea | 2022-06-30 21:17:07 | 0 | https://www.kgun9.com/news/national/pregnant-woman-dead-30-still-missing-after-rubber-boat-sinks-in-mediterranean-sea |
CHICAGO (WGN) — Alebrijes are a unique Mexican form of art that have made their way into the U.S., paying homage to dreams and a world of imagination that combines various mystical creatures.
WGN went to Cantigny Park for their latest display of “Alebrijes: Creatures of a Dream World.” Within the park, they found big, colorful sculptures of various mystical creatures.
“An alebrije is an incredible creation that comes from 20th century Mexico,” says Cesáreo Moreno, Visual Arts Director, and Chief Curator at the National Museum of Mexican Art.
The imaginary creatures have been brought to life for decades by Mexican artists and more recently popularized by the Disney movie ‘Coco’.
They are imaginary creatures that came into existence through a dream had by artist Pedro Linares in Mexico City.
Mexican artists like Alberto Moreno Fernandez have also been carrying on the tradition.
Moreno Fernandez is one of six artists commissioned by the Mexican Cultural Center DuPage for the latest display at Cantigny Park -where 49 alebrije sculptures of all shapes and sizes fill the gardens.
“Alebrijes: Creatures of a Dream World” will be at Cantigny Park through early November. The sculptures will then be taken apart and donated to various local organizations, museums, schools and be available to be loaned out to other entities. | https://www.fox16.com/hidden-history/hispanic-heritage-month/what-are-the-mystical-creatures-known-as-alebrijes/ | 2022-10-10 15:22:02 | 1 | https://www.fox16.com/hidden-history/hispanic-heritage-month/what-are-the-mystical-creatures-known-as-alebrijes/ |
Updated January 17, 2023 at 5:12 AM ET
Nashville artist Margo Price's fourth album, released earlier this month, began as a psychedelic trip with her husband and musical partner Jeremy Ivey in 2020.
Price and Ivey wrote a total of 20 songs, half of which made it on Strays. The eclectic album takes wild leaps from indie country to honky-tonk, psychedelia and expansive rock and roll. "I didn't want to get stuck in thinking like, is this country, is this Americana, is this rock and roll, is this psychedelic?" the alt-country singer told NPR's Leila Fadel. "Yet everybody wants to label things and put them in a box. I wanted this album to be feral and free."
It's packed with the raw joy and pain of a rags-to-riches story that saw her pawn her wedding ring, lose a newborn baby but also find love and win a battle over alcoholism.
It's raw and it's real.
"Used to be a waitress but now I'm a consumer / I've been on food stamps I've been out of my mind / I rolled in dirty dollars stood in the welfare line," she sings in the opener, "Been to the Mountain."
The defiant Price then retorts: "This ain't the end!"
Exploring what Price calls "new sonic territory" came from a place of great vulnerability, an "emptiness" she felt when the pandemic hit just as her career was finally getting off the ground.
"It's difficult to be vulnerable. I think this culture doesn't always see that as a strong characteristic. But I've learned that it is one of my best qualities," she said. "If you can find joy after going through something really tragic and if you can figure out how to how to channel that and transform it, I think that is the whole meaning of life."
The couple had traveled to South Carolina, where they brought guitars, notebooks and hallucinogenic mushrooms.
"I have had just absolute revelations that I do not think that I would have came to had I not taken psilocybin," Price said, referring to the hallucinogenic chemical. "I really wanted to take away a lot of the stigma with that and just be transparent about how I've used them and how they have helped me with addiction and depression."
Price also chronicled her struggles in a memoir published in October, Maybe We'll Make It. "I've struggled with self-image my whole life," Price said in the interview. "The success and the money and the fame, those things don't really make your problems go away. Sometimes they amplify them."
But not all the songs on Strays are deeply personal. Some veer into storytelling. For the single "Lydia," Price strums chords on an acoustic guitar as she describes a woman's visit to an abortion clinic. A string band accompanies her on the otherwise spare track.
"It was one of those really mystical songs that kind of came to me after weeks of really being kind of in a manic state," Price said. "That song just kind of poured out of me... None of it rhymed. There wasn't even really a melody. I've always wanted to write a song like that." She wrote the song before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. It now doubles as an ode to women's rights.
"I wrote the soundtrack to probably what a lot of a lot of women in this country are thinking and are going through at this point," she added.
The flip side is "Light Me Up," which explores women's pleasure. "It starts in a very sweet, loving place. And then it it does escalate to basically this big orgasm," Price said. " I thought of all the songs that men have written about their orgasms, that we should explore that."
She describes creating "Hell in the Heartland" as a "cathartic experience." Written shortly after Price quit drinking, it's a reckoning of who she had been and who she wanted to be.
"I was thinking about how you just you get lost looking in the mirror. All you see is this reflection of yourself in the past. And it is talking about living in the present and just being able to shed those things," she said. "It's a very dark song, but it was incredibly cathartic to write and and to play."
While she has engaged in deep self-reflection, Price has not dwelled in it. She's experienced a new burst of creativity — songwriting, but also painting and poetry. "I can go back to those places, but it's just a lot more enjoyable to live my life in the present," she said.
This interview was conducted by Leila Fadel, produced by Chad Campbell and edited by Olivia Hampton. To hear the broadcast version of this story, use the audio player at the top of this page.
This interview was produced by Chad Campbell and edited by Olivia Hampton. contributed to this story
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