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Just "Say Yes" to this New Luxury Bridal Jewelry Collection
NEW YORK, Oct. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- You can now "say yes" to jewelry at Kleinfeld® and Zales®! Zales, The Diamond Store, is excited to announce its collaboration with Kleinfeld, the premier wedding dress retailer, to launch a new luxury bridal jewelry collection. Featuring lab-created diamonds in larger carat weights, these rings are fashionable and romantic, inspired by designer wedding dress details such as lace accents, floral appliques, and flowy movements.
"As a leader in bridal jewelry, Zales is proud to collaborate with Kleinfeld, the leader in designer-bridal fashion. This is a fantastic partnership that allows us to marry the elevated style and white glove service of Kleinfeld with our own in-depth fine jewelry expertise. Zales' exclusive collection gives our customers yet an additional, beautiful choice to celebrate their love. It offers our customers who prefer lab-created diamonds a stunning engagement ring and wedding band option with a big, bold look," says Jamie Singleton, President of Zales, KAY and Peoples.
This upscale collection sparkles with round, oval, marquise, pear, princess, and emerald shapes. The center stones range from one to three carats and are graded colorless, with VS clarity. Lab-created diamonds are made of the same material as natural diamonds, and exhibit the same optical, chemical, and physical properties as natural diamonds.
In connection with this collection, Kleinfeld will have an exclusive offer for those who purchase an engagement ring from the collection: they will be treated to an exclusive VIP Kleinfeld Experience. Additionally, Zales will be opening a shop-in-shop located in the lobby of Kleinfeld's flagship store in New York City. The installation will give Kleinfeld customers an opportunity to shop the beautiful assortment of engagement rings and wedding bands during their visit.
The Kleinfeld x Zales assortment features 15 engagement rings and eight ladies' wedding bands, available in yellow and rose 18K gold, and platinum. Engagement rings start at $6,669 and go up to $28,999, and wedding bands range from $1,119 to $3,669. Starting today, the new jewelry collection is available at www.Zales.com, www.Zalesoutlet.com, and over 200 Zales stores and 25 Zales Outlet stores across the country.
Zales The Diamond Store® is a leading brand name in fine jewelry retailing. Zales is operated by Signet Jewelers Limited, the world's largest retailer of diamond jewelry. For additional information on Zales, visit www.Zales.com or follow us on Facebook® (http://www.facebook.com/Zales), Twitter® (www.twitter.com/ZalesJewelers) , YouTube® (https://www.youtube.com/Zales), Pinterest® (www.pinterest.com/ZalesJewelers) and Instagram® (www.instagram.com/ZalesJewelers).
Founded in 1941, Kleinfeld is the largest luxury bridal retailer in the world, carrying an unparalleled selection of American and European designer gowns. The 35,000 square-foot flagship salon is located in the heart of Chelsea, New York City, and is host to TLC's hit show, Say Yes to the Dress. For additional information on Kleinfeld Bridal, visit www.KleinfeldBridal.com or follow us on Instagram® (www.instagram.com/kleinfeldbridal), Facebook® (www.facebook.com/KleinfeldBridal) and Pinterest® (www.pinterest.com/kleinfeld).
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The 2023 Travelers Championship Odds & Preview: Denny McCarthy
Following the first round of the Travelers Championship, Denny McCarthy stands atop the leaderboard with a score of -10.
Looking to bet on Denny McCarthy at the Travelers Championship this week? Read on for the betting trends you need before you make your picks.
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Denny McCarthy Insights
- McCarthy has finished below par seven times and shot 13 rounds with a better-than-average score over his last 18 rounds.
- He has recorded the best score of the day in one of his last 18 rounds, while scoring among the top five in four rounds and the top 10 on five occasions.
- McCarthy has posted a score within three shots of the day's best in six of his last 18 rounds, while finishing within five strokes of the top score of the day eight times.
- McCarthy has finished in the top 10 twice in his past five appearances, and as high as the top five in one.
- The past five times he has played a tournament, he's made the cut four times.
- McCarthy has finished with a score better than the tournament average in three of his past five events, including one finish within three shots of the leader.
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Travelers Championship Insights and Stats
- McCarthy has had an average finish of 60th in his past five appearances at this tournament.
- McCarthy has made the cut two times in his previous five entries in this event.
- The most recent time McCarthy played this event was in 2022, and he failed to make the cut.
- The par-70 course measures 6,852 yards this week, which is 258 yards shorter than the average Tour stop during the past 12 months.
- TPC River Highlands has seen an average tournament score of -5 recently, matching the Tour scoring average including all courses in the past year.
- Courses that McCarthy has played in the past year have measured an average of 7,258 yards, 406 yards longer than the 6,852-yard TPC River Highlands this week.
- In the past year, the events he has played have had a scoring average of -5 among finishers, the same as the average at this course.
McCarthy's Last Time Out
- McCarthy was somewhat mediocre over the 20 par-3 holes at the U.S. Open, averaging 3.10 strokes to finish in the 59th percentile of the field.
- His 4.03-stroke average on the 40 par-4 holes at the U.S. Open was strong, putting him in the 87th percentile of the field.
- On the 12 par-5 holes at the U.S. Open, McCarthy shot better than 43% of the field (averaging 4.83 strokes).
- McCarthy recorded a birdie or better on three of 20 par-3s at the U.S. Open (the tournament average was 1.6).
- On the 20 par-3s at the U.S. Open, McCarthy carded five bogeys or worse (the other participants averaged 3.6).
- McCarthy's seven birdies or better on the 40 par-4s at the U.S. Open were more than the tournament average (4.1).
- In that most recent outing, McCarthy's showing on the 40 par-4s included a bogey or worse eight times (compared to the field's better average, 7.5).
- McCarthy finished the U.S. Open bettering the field's average of birdies or better on par-5s (2.9) with three on the 12 par-5 holes.
- On the 12 par-5s at the U.S. Open, McCarthy recorded fewer bogeys or worse (one) than the tournament average of 1.4.
Travelers Championship Time and Date Info
- Date: June 22-25, 2023
- Course: TPC River Highlands
- Location: Cromwell, Connecticut
- Par: 70 / 6,852 yards
- McCarthy Odds to Win: +600 (Bet now with BetMGM!)
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Back in the 1970s, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers constructed an enormous functioning hydraulic model of the Chesapeake Bay. Although long ago replaced by much more accurate computer simulations, there was one extremely valuable lesson passed along to the busloads of schoolchildren who would visit the 14.5-acre indoor facility on Kent Island: How shallow it all was. Sure, the deepest part of the bay (in real life, a 174-feet “hole” near Bloody Point not far from Annapolis; in the scale model, 21 inches deep) was impressive, but most of the display would hardly raise a splash if you stomped on it. And so youngsters could see firsthand how the nation’s largest estuary was all about the streams, creeks, marshes, wooded bogs and wetlands.
The miracle of the Chesapeake Bay lies not in its depths, but in the complexity of its natural construction, the interaction of fresh and saline waters moved by wind, tide and current; the mix of land and water where spots are sometimes dry, sometimes wet. The shallows provide homes for hundreds of species from birds and fish to mammals and worms while storing floodwaters, filtering pollutants from water, and protecting nearby communities from potentially destructive storm surges.
All this was put at great risk late last month, when the U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling in an Idaho case that provides the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency far less authority to regulate wetlands and waterways. Specifically, a 5-4 conservative majority decided that wetlands protected by the EPA under its Clean Water Act authority must have a “continuous surface connection” to bodies of water. This narrowing of the regulatory scope (after more than a half-century of differing interpretation of “navigable waters” under Republican and Democratic administrations alike) was a victory for builders, mining operators and other commercial interests often at odds with environmental rules. And it carries “significant repercussions for water quality and flood control throughout the United States,” as even Trump-appointed Justice Brett Kavanaugh observed.
In Maryland, the good news is that there are many state laws in place that provide wetlands protections. But that’s a very shortsighted view, particularly when it comes to the Chesapeake Bay. The reality is that water, and the pollutants that so often come with it, don’t respect state boundaries. The Chesapeake draws from a 64,000-square-mile watershed that extends into Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York, West Virginia, the District of Columbia and Delaware. Will those jurisdictions extend the same protections now denied under Sackett v. EPA? Perhaps some, but all? That seems unlikely. And so we would call on President Joe Biden and Congress to restore this much-needed EPA authority under the Clean Water Act and protect the nation’s wetlands — and with them the safety of our water supply, aquatic species and recreational spaces as well as flood protections.
It is too easy, and misleading, to see such court rulings as merely standing up for the rights of land owners when the consequences can be so dire for their neighbors. And it’s a reminder that the EPA’s involvement in the Chesapeake Bay Program has long been crucial as the means to transcend the influence of deep-pocketed special interests in neighboring states. Pennsylvania farmers, to use one telling example, aren’t thinking about next year’s blue crab, oyster or rockfish harvest in Maryland when they decide whether to spread animal waste on their Lackawanna County fields, yet the runoff into nearby creeks can have enormous impact downstream.
And so we would also call on state lawmakers from Richmond to Albany to consider reviewing their own wetlands protections and see for themselves the enormous stakes involved. We can’t offer them a trip to the Chesapeake Bay model. It’s been gone since the 1980s but perhaps a visit to Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge in Dorchester County where American bald eagles fly over tidal marshes so shallow you could not paddle a boat across them but teaming with aquatic life. It’s worth the scenic drive.
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WA Pendleton OR Zone Forecast for Sunday, February 12, 2023
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Zone Forecast Product for Northeast Oregon and South Central Washington
National Weather Service Pendleton OR
358 AM PST Mon Feb 13 2023
WAZ026-140000-
Kittitas Valley-
Including the cities of Ellensburg and Thorp
358 AM PST Mon Feb 13 2023
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. A 20 percent chance of snow in the
morning. Highs in the 40s. Windy. West wind 15 to 25 mph. Gusts
up to 45 mph decreasing to 35 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of snow in the
evening. Lows in the mid to upper 20s. Windy. Northwest wind
20 to 30 mph with gusts to around 45 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 40s. Breezy.
Northwest wind 10 to 20 mph. Gusts up to 30 mph in the morning.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower to mid 20s. Northwest
wind 5 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 40s. West wind 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in
the mid to upper 20s. Highs in the upper 30s to lower 40s.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the 40s. Lows
in the mid to upper 20s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower to
mid 30s. Highs in the upper 40s to lower 50s.
$$
WAZ027-140000-
Yakima Valley-
Including the cities of Naches, Sunnyside, Toppenish, and Yakima
358 AM PST Mon Feb 13 2023
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 40s. Windy. West
wind 15 to 25 mph with gusts to around 35 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid to upper 20s. Windy.
West wind 15 to 25 mph with gusts to around 40 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 40s. Northwest
wind 5 to 10 mph with gusts to around 20 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower to mid 20s. Northwest
wind 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 40s. Light wind.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in
the mid to upper 20s. Highs in the 40s.
.SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 40s
to mid 50s. Lows in the upper 20s to lower 30s.
$$
WAZ028-140000-
Lower Columbia Basin of Washington-
Including the cities of Connell, Prosser, and Tri-Cities
358 AM PST Mon Feb 13 2023
.TODAY...Mostly sunny in the morning, becoming mostly cloudy. A
20 percent chance of rain. Highs in the upper 40s to lower 50s.
Windy. Southwest wind 15 to 25 mph with gusts to around 35 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain or snow in the
evening, then a chance of snow overnight. Lows in the upper 20s.
Windy. West wind 15 to 25 mph with gusts to around 40 mph. Chance
of precipitation 20 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 40s. West wind
5 to 15 mph. Gusts up to 25 mph in the morning.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower to mid 20s. West
wind 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 40s. South wind
5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid to upper 20s.
.THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower
40s to lower 50s. Lows in the mid 20s to lower 30s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower to
mid 30s. Highs in the lower 50s.
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WAZ029-140000-
Foothills of the Blue Mountains of Washington-
Including the cities of Dayton, Waitsburg, and Walla Walla
358 AM PST Mon Feb 13 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain in the morning, then
rain or snow likely in the afternoon. No snow accumulation. Highs
in the mid to upper 40s. Windy. Southwest wind 20 to 30 mph.
Gusts up to 45 mph in the morning. Chance of precipitation
70 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Rain or snow likely in the evening,
then a chance of snow overnight. Patchy blowing snow overnight.
Snow accumulation up to 2 inches. Snow level 1500 feet in the
evening. Lows in the mid to upper 20s. Windy. Southwest wind
20 to 30 mph with gusts to around 40 mph. Chance of precipitation
70 percent.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny. A 20 percent chance of snow in the
morning. Highs in the lower 40s. Breezy. Southwest wind 10 to
20 mph. Gusts up to 30 mph in the morning.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 20s.
South wind 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 40s. South wind 5 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid to upper 20s.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid to
upper 40s. Lows in the mid 20s to lower 30s.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny with a 20 percent chance of snow. Highs in
the upper 40s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper
20s. Highs in the upper 40s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 30s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny with a 20 percent chance of rain or snow.
Highs in the upper 40s to lower 50s.
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WAZ030-140000-
Northwest Blue Mountains-
Including the city of Ski Bluewood Resort
358 AM PST Mon Feb 13 2023
...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM PST TUESDAY...
.TODAY...Rain and mountain snow likely in the morning, then
mountain snow in the afternoon. Patchy blowing mountain snow
through the day. Visibility one quarter mile or less at times.
Mountain snow accumulation of 1 to 3 inches valleys and 3 to
7 inches in the mountains. Snow level 4000 feet in the morning.
Highs in the mid 30s to lower 40s. Windy. Southwest wind 20 to
30 mph with gusts to around 45 mph. Chance of precipitation
80 percent.
.TONIGHT...Snow in the evening, then snow likely overnight.
Blowing snow through the night. Snow may be heavy at times.
Visibility one quarter mile or less at times. Snow accumulation
of 6 to 13 inches. Lows 16 to 23. Windy. West wind 20 to 30 mph
with gusts to around 40 mph. Chance of precipitation 90 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Patchy blowing snow in the morning. A
chance of snow. Highs in the mid 20s to lower 30s. Breezy. West
wind 10 to 20 mph. Gusts up to 30 mph in the morning. Chance of
precipitation 50 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows 13 to 21.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 30s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows 18 to 26.
Highs in the mid 30s to lower 40s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a
20 percent chance of snow. Lows in the lower 20s to lower 30s.
Highs in the mid 30s to lower 40s.
.SUNDAY...Breezy. Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of snow.
Highs in the mid 30s to lower 40s.
$$
WAZ520-140000-
East Slopes of the Washington Cascades-
Including the cities of Appleton, Cle Elum, and Cliffdell
358 AM PST Mon Feb 13 2023
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM PST THIS EVENING
ABOVE 3000 FEET...
.TODAY...A chance of snow in the morning, then snow likely in the
afternoon. Patchy blowing snow through the day. Visibility one
quarter mile or less at times. Snow accumulation of 4 to
8 inches. Highs in the lower 30s to lower 40s. Windy. West wind
20 to 30 mph. Gusts up to 50 mph decreasing to 40 mph in the
afternoon. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow.
Blowing snow in the evening. Patchy blowing snow overnight. Snow
may be heavy at times in the evening. Visibility one quarter mile
or less at times. Lows 14 to 22. Windy. West wind 20 to 30 mph
with gusts to around 55 mph.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with a 20 percent chance of snow in the
morning, then sunny in the afternoon. Highs in the 30s. Northwest
wind 5 to 15 mph with gusts to around 25 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 11 to 19.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 30s to lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 18 to 24.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny with a 20 percent chance of snow. Highs
in the 30s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 50 percent chance
of snow. Lows in the lower to mid 20s. Highs in the mid 30s to
lower 40s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a
20 percent chance of snow. Lows in the lower 20s to lower 30s.
Highs in the mid 30s to lower 40s.
.SUNDAY...Breezy. Partly sunny with a 50 percent chance of rain
or snow. Highs in the mid 30s to mid 40s.
$$
WAZ521-140000-
Simcoe Highlands-
Including the cities of Goldendale and Bickleton
358 AM PST Mon Feb 13 2023
.TODAY...Partly sunny. A chance of rain or snow. Snow level
2500 feet. Highs in the lower to mid 40s. Windy. West wind 20 to
30 mph with gusts to around 45 mph. Chance of precipitation
50 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of snow. Lows
in the 20s. Windy. West wind 20 to 30 mph with gusts to around
50 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. A 20 percent chance of snow in the
morning. Highs in the upper 30s to lower 40s. Northwest wind 5 to
15 mph. Gusts up to 25 mph in the morning.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 18 to 24.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 40s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the
mid 20s to lower 30s. Highs in the upper 30s to upper 40s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 30s.
.SUNDAY...Breezy. Mostly sunny with a 20 percent chance of rain.
Highs in the 40s.
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PHOENIX (AP) — There was a time in Brittney Griner’s life when a mid-season coaching change might have been tough to handle.
Her 10-month detainment in Russia has a way of altering perspective.
The Phoenix Mercury announced on Sunday that they had fired coach Vanessa Nygaard following a 2-10 start to the season and elevated assistant coach Nikki Blue to the top spot. Griner — who recently earned her ninth All-Star selection — said she’s taken those changes in stride as the franchise tries to right its season.
“Not too much surprises me anymore,” Griner said Monday after practice. “I’m not too shocked about change or different circumstances. You’ve got to adapt. I’ve learned to adapt even more.
“This adaptation isn’t that major in the grand scheme of things.”
The Mercury’s tough start and coaching change is the latest challenge in Griner’s return to the WNBA following her ordeal in Russia on drug-related charges that caused her to miss the entire 2022 season. The 6-foot-9 center and her teammates were confronted by what the WNBA called a “provocateur” at the Dallas airport earlier this month and she’s also dealt with a hip injury that caused her to miss three games.
Griner said she was appreciative of everything Nygaard did for her during the past 1 1/2 seasons, but was also excited Blue would get her first chance as a WNBA head coach. Blue joined the Mercury coaching staff last season and has 15 years of coaching experience in the WNBA and college.
“Sometimes you’ve got to shake things up a little,” Griner said. “I think that’s what we did.”
Nygaard took over the team last season and went 17-31. It wasn’t an easy year-and-a-half for Nygaard, with Griner missing all of last season while she was detained in Russia. But the losses kept piling up even after she returned, so the Mercury decided to make a change.
“The final straw is that we’re 2-10,” Mercury general manager Jim Pitman said. “That’s just not good enough. Our organization, our fans, expect a lot from the Phoenix Mercury.
“I’d like to thank Vanessa for all the things she did for our organization. She managed through a lot of adversity over the last year and a half, but at the end of the day, professional sports is a results-oriented business and we’re 2-10.”
There’s hope the Mercury still might have time to turn their season around. The 32-year-old Griner — who returned on Saturday from her hip injury — has been productive on an individual level, averaging 19.1 points per game on a career-high 62% shooting. She’s also averaging 6.4 rebounds and 2.4 blocks.
“A lot of teams don’t have veterans like Brittney Griner or Diana Taurasi,” Blue said. “It’s nice when something like this goes down in the organization, to have those veterans be a calming factor and a calming piece.”
Griner said it’s her job to play even better and help the banged-up Mercury try to compete for a playoff spot. As for her off-the-court challenges, she’s glad the Dallas airport has caused the WNBA to partially re-evaluate the use of charter flights and other travel options.
Griner’s detention in Russia is still a divisive political issue in the United States, particularly after she was swapped for notorious Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout.
“I’ll say this — I think we should have already had the option to use a different airline, a more private airline, a charter flight,” Griner said. “It’s a shame it had to get to rock bottom because I feel like waiting for something to happen, then making a change — you don’t know what that something’s going to be.
“We’ve all seen what can happen in this world,” she added. “When you play the wait-and-see game, you’re really playing with fire, you’re playing with people’s lives. So I’m glad they finally got it together and allow us to do this. It’s just a shame it took so damn long, honestly.”
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JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Beleaguered former South African President Jacob Zuma says he is ready to make a surprise return to politics by standing for a top position at the ruling African National Congress’ conference in December — if he is nominated by party members.
The 80-year-old Zuma was president from 2009 to 2018 before he was forced to resign amid wide-ranging allegations of corruption in government and state-owned institutions.
He was sentenced to 15 months in prison last year for defying a court order to testify at a judicial commission investigating corruption during his tenure, and has since been released on medical parole.
Zuma is also facing trial for corruption in a separate case involving a major arms deal the South African government was negotiating more than 20 years ago, around the time Zuma was a deputy president of South Africa.
In a statement released late Monday, Zuma said some ANC members approached him to consider contesting the position of party chairman at the end of the year.
“I have indicated that I will be guided by the branches of the ANC and that I will not refuse such a call should they deem it necessary for me to serve the organization again at that level or any other,” Zuma said.
The December meeting is expected to be crucial to the future of the ANC and current President Cyril Ramaphosa, who faces stiff opposition in getting reelected as party leader and staying on as the country’s president.
Zuma has been critical of his successor, and the pair are seen to be part of opposing factions within a divided ANC.
Zuma also endorsed his ex-wife, current government minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, to stand for president of the ANC against Ramaphosa.
Ramaphosa’s struggle to get a grip on corruption, a scandal of his own involving the theft of a large amount of cash from his ranch, and an ongoing electricity crisis that has recently left Africa’s most developed economy in power blackouts for up to 10 hours a day all have weakened his standing.
Parliament has formed a three-person panel to investigate if Ramaphosa has a case to answer in the ranch scandal, in which he is accused of money laundering and breaking foreign currency laws by holding cash in U.S. dollars at the property.
He also is accused of bribery for allegedly attempting to cover up the theft of the money to hide its existence. He has confirmed the theft took place and denied any wrongdoing but dodged questions seeking specific information about the incident. Ramaphosa said the money came from the sale of animals on his game farm.
No criminal charges have been brought against Ramaphosa, but Parliament could impeach him if lawmakers find he broke his oath of office. The South African leader is scheduled to appear in Parliament on Thursday to answer more questions from lawmakers about the theft.
Zuma is still popular among some factions of the ANC and at the grassroot level in some regions. It’s unclear how he would deal with an ANC rule that anyone facing criminal charges is ineligible to stand for leadership positions. The rule also demands that those occupying leadership positions should “step aside” from their positions if they are charged.
The corruption charges Zuma faces are linked to a 1999 arms deal, and the case covers a time when he was a political figure on the rise and then deputy president. He is accused of receiving bribes from French arms manufacturer Thales to provide political protection for the multi-billion dollar deal.
Zuma has denied the charges and has moved to have the prosecutor taken off the case, claiming he is biased. | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/world/south-africas-beleaguered-zuma-open-to-return-to-politics/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all | 2022-09-27 17:31:17 | 1 | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/world/south-africas-beleaguered-zuma-open-to-return-to-politics/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all |
(WLFI) – Good Wednesday morning! We are currently tracking a cluster of storms in western Illinois that will work into the viewing area later this morning. The time frame could be from 9 AM to 11 AM this morning.
As we move throughout the afternoon, more scattered showers and storms will develop along a cold front that will move through in the afternoon and early evening.
Severe Weather Outlook for Today/Tonight
The Storm Prediction Center has all of the viewing area underneath a Marginal Risk (Level 1 out of 5) for damaging winds and large hail being the main impacts with some of the stronger storms. Widespread severe weather is unlikely but a few storms could reach severe limits.
Otherwise, it will undoubtedly be a hot and humid afternoon with some sunshine. Look for highs today to be in the upper 80s and lower 90s with heat index values in the mid to upper 90s at times. Winds will also be ramping up from the SSW 10-20 mph and gust up to 30 mph.
By this evening, lingering showers may occur after the frontal passage and we’ll have north wind bringing in fall-like air over the next several days.
Thursday – First Day of Fall!
For your Thursday, expect a windy, cool, and partly sunny day. Low temperatures will be in the mid to lower 50s and then highs will work up only into the mid to upper 60s. It will be windy with wind gusts up to 30 mph out of the north.
Friday + 7-Day Forecast
Friday will be a day much like Thursday with cool temperatures. Morning lows on Friday will be in the lower 40s which we have to go back to early May of this year when we saw temperatures that cool. We will only work up into the mid 60s for Friday’s highs. High school football games look to be in good shape with temperatures in the lower 60s and upper 50s.
Saturday morning may feature a few scattered showers but then clear up for the rest of the day. Highs will be warmer which will be in the mid 70s.
Sunday night, a cold front will move in Sunday into Monday which will bring in some storms to the viewing area.
After the front moves through Monday morning, cooler temperatures will be expected for the beginning of next week with clear and sunny conditions. | https://www.wlfi.com/news/september-21-6-30-am-weather-forecast-update-scattered-storms-today-with-big-changes-coming/article_5bc75942-3991-11ed-9d36-7bcaec046d32.html | 2022-09-21 11:24:58 | 0 | https://www.wlfi.com/news/september-21-6-30-am-weather-forecast-update-scattered-storms-today-with-big-changes-coming/article_5bc75942-3991-11ed-9d36-7bcaec046d32.html |
Imaginative play comes to life with unique STEM sets and collectible plush figures!
IRVINE, Calif., Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Luki Lab continues to bring innovation and fun to kids and kids at heart with NEW releases from Pinxies, House Monsters and the launch of the all new action–themed building set line, DEXOR! Each brand inspires storytelling and imaginative exploration and opens up a world of endless entertainment for kids.
Kids will become engrossed in educational play with the STEM authenticated Pinxies and Dexor building sets. Both Pinxies and Dexor building sets feature highly detailed graphic paperboard panels and bold, colorful building links, as well as a variety of accessories. The character figures can interlock hands with each other and have interchangeable expressions to encourage storytelling for a well-rounded, educational experience.
Through the enchanting world of Pinxies, kids will learn to expand their imagination, play creatively, solve problems, and hone early construction skills with the new Pinxies Butterfly Hot Air Balloon and Pinxies Star Wish Tower creative building sets. They'll join adventurer and expert builder, Koral, as she navigates her way through the Pinxies' world, where discovery and making new friends is just the beginning.
Whether their taking flight in the hot air balloon or joining Koral in her quest to find a fallen star, they will enjoy endless build-and-play fun that includes:
- Over 100 pieces to build impressively tall free–standing sets (18" tall Pinxies Butterfly Hot Air Balloon, Pinxies 22" tall Star Wish Tower)
- 1 Koral character with two interchangeable expressions
- A sticker sheet for decorating
- Buildable friends
- Unique accessories, such as a pretend-play telescope tube with 3 interchangeable colored lenses (Pinxies Star Wish Tower)
Pinxies Butterfly Hot Air Balloon and Star Wish Tower retail for $29.99 and are available on lukilab.com and amazon.com
The new brand Dexor invites kids to enter the world of 10-year-old Derek, a regular kid who has a secret life as a young inventor! Not only does he love to design and build robots, but he also uses them to save his town from one disaster after another. When Derek is in the cockpit of his robot creations, he becomes Dexor, where he must save the world while also finishing his homework on time!
Kids can help Derek transform into Dexor with three action–themed building sets: Robot, T-Rex and Mini Jets. The Dexor figure from each set also fits inside the completed build's hatch for added play and storytelling, and all sets are compatible with one another for even more fun.
Each set includes
- Over 90 pieces in each set
- Derek character figure with two interchangeable expressions
- Accessories
- A sticker sheet for customizing
Dexor Robot and T–Rex retail for $19.99 and Dexor Mini Jets retail for $17.99. All sets are available on lukilab.com and amazon.com. In addition to the new sets, kids can follow along with Dexor's adventures with all-new animated short form episodes launching now on the Luki Lab Kids YouTube channel.
Fans of the mischievous House Monsters will be thrilled to meet the latest additions to the lineup – Blushy and Whirly! Blushy is the bathroom monster. She lives in the vanity and loves to eat all the soap! Whirly is the washer monster. She lives in the washing machine and munches on colorful socks.
Each new character:
- Is made from soft plush with a unique texture specific to each character
- Comes with its own habitat depicting where it lives in your house - designed for both play and display
- Comes with its own I.D. card that shows the monster's home address (hiding place), favorite food and biggest fear
Each House Monster can be found on amazon.com for $18.99, as well as on lukilab.com.
To learn more about the Pinxies, Dexor and House Monsters brands, visit lukilab.com or follow Luki Lab on Instagram and Facebook.
LUKI LAB is an award-winning creator of distinctive toys and games sold worldwide via online, specialty, and mass-market retailers. Luki Lab brands include Pinxies, House Monsters, Gujo Adventure, Clawsome and Robomax, among others. The company has offices in Irvine, CA; Atlanta, GA; Hong Kong and Shenzhen.
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CHICAGO (AP) — Four years ago, Paul Vallas finished toward the bottom of the pack in a crowded race for Chicago mayor. Trying again, focused this time on crime, he was the top vote getter Tuesday, toppling the incumbent mayor and advancing to an April runoff to lead one of the country’s largest cities.
His new campaign message, concentrated on citizens’ safety and support for the police, resonated with voters in this Democratic city in a way it might not have before the COVID-19 pandemic, when rates of violent crime spiked.
“Public safety is the fundamental right of every American. It is a civil right,” Vallas told a cheering crowd at his victory party. “We will have a safe Chicago. We will make Chicago the safest city in America.”
That would be a tall order. But Vallas, a moderate Democrat endorsed by the police union, is promising what many voters want to hear, including plans to hire hundreds more police.
Those voters will have a choice. In the April runoff, Vallas will face Brandon Johnson, a progressive who is backed by the Chicago Teachers Union and says more money for police and incarceration isn’t the answer to making the streets safer.
Both of them finished ahead of Mayor Lori Lightfoot — 34% for Vallas, 20% for Johnson and 17% for Lightfoot, who was criticized for her response to the increased crime and will depart as the first one-term mayor in Chicago in 40 years.
The city’s election is the latest example of a churn in urban politics in the pandemic’s aftermath. Crime was a top concern for voters in races to lead both New York and Los Angeles, and in San Francisco, a district attorney was recalled after frustration about public safety. Perceptions that Democrats were soft on crime also might have hurt the party during the November midterms in House races in places like New York, where Republicans scored surprisingly strong wins in suburban districts.
It’s an issue that the GOP has hammered on and that has divided Democrats for years, particularly after the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police in 2020 sparked protests and calls to “defund” the police.
Even as Joe Biden won the presidency in 2020, some moderates complained that the party wasn’t quick enough to denounce the “defund” rhetoric coming from progressive activists.
Biden was able to largely neutralize that line of political attack by declaring to bipartisan applause in his first State of the Union: “The answer is not to defund the police. It’s to fund the police.”
Although his comment drew criticism from some Black Lives Matter activists and others who argue that larger problems with law enforcement persist, national Democrats have mostly been able to put that issue behind them.
But Chicago’s results showed that concern about crime is continuing to resonate down-ballot, especially in urban centers, where steadfast support for Democrats is strongest.
Joe Trippi, a veteran Democratic strategist who is working with Vallas’ campaign, said that in years of working on mayoral races he’s never seen a contest where crime was so overwhelmingly the top issue for voters. Vallas was the only candidate who made it his core focus, he noted, and his success could be a message to other Democrats.
“I think that is important, for Democrats to make clear that you can be a progressive Democrat and make crime and public safety a top priority,” Trippi said, noting that other goals can’t be achieved if people don’t feel safe.
The intraparty debate will be on full display in Chicago’s April 4 mayoral election, with Vallas and Johnson making very different cases to voters.
Like many U.S. cities, Chicago saw violent crime increase during the pandemic, recording a 25-year high of 797 homicides in 2021, though the number decreased last year and the city has a lower murder rate than others in the Midwest, such as St. Louis. There are still major concerns about an increase in robberies and carjackings and a sense that criminals seem to have grown bolder, striking in neighborhoods that haven’t historically been high targets.
Vallas, the only white candidate, performed best Tuesday in predominantly white neighborhoods that are home to large numbers of police officers and other city workers. Johnson, who is Black, did well in white, liberal areas on the city’s north side and got just enough support everywhere else to stay in second, while Lightfoot won areas with higher Black populations on the south and west sides.
Johnson, 46, is a former teacher and union organizer who sits on the Cook County Board of Commissioners. Speaking to supporters Tuesday, he recalled teaching at a school in Chicago’s Cabrini Green, a former downtown public housing complex where students could see through their windows one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in the city, and having a student tell him he “should be teaching at a good school” instead.
Johnson argues for investing more in mental health care, schools and affordable housing, not more police. He avoided using the word “defund” during the race, and his campaign said he does not want to cut the number of Chicago officers. But after the protests over Floyd’s death, he said on a radio show that defunding is “an actual real political goal,” not just a slogan. He also sponsored a nonbinding resolution on the county board to redirect money from policing and jails to social services.
“We are going to finally retire this tale of two cities,” Johnson said at his own victory party. “No matter where you live, no matter what you look like, you deserve a better, stronger, safer Chicago.”
Vallas, 69, is the former CEO of the Chicago Public Schools and led school districts in New Orleans and Philadelphia. The son of Greek immigrants, he has two sons who were police officers — one of whom is now a firefighter — and was a consultant to the Fraternal Order of Police when the union was negotiating a new contract.
He has called for hiring hundreds more officers, and says many who retired or went to work elsewhere out of frustration with Lightfoot will return if he’s mayor. He wants to return to a community policing strategy, with officers assigned to patrol each of the city’s nearly 300 police beats, and keep schools open on evenings, weekends and holidays so kids have safe places to gather.
Vallas said he wants to rebuild trust between the community and the Chicago Police Department, which is under a federal consent decree to reform its practices after a long history of abuse, particularly in Black and Hispanic neighborhoods.
“I will support our law enforcement officers, but I will also support and have a zero tolerance when it comes to violating the law or violating the Constitution,” he said.
Vallas has dismissed criticism that he is too close to the police union and its controversial leader, who equated Lightfoot’s vaccine mandate for city workers to the Holocaust and voiced support for Jan. 6 insurrectionists. Vallas contends that his endorsement comes from the rank-and-file.
Will Marshall, president and founder of the moderate Progressive Policy Institute, said crime is a vulnerability that Democrats must address, and that avoiding talk of it plays into Republicans’ hands. He said progressives nationally are focused on fighting systemic racism and not making people feel safer.
“These mayors don’t have that luxury,” he said.
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Weissert reported from Washington. AP chief elections analyst Chad Day contributed from Washington. | https://www.kron4.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-chicago-mayors-race-shows-impact-of-crime-in-covids-wake/ | 2023-03-02 16:30:07 | 1 | https://www.kron4.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-chicago-mayors-race-shows-impact-of-crime-in-covids-wake/ |
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After 14 1/2 months of haggling over details and questioning motivations, a plan to expand the College Football Playoff to 12 teams was finally approved Friday, setting the stage for a multibillion-dollar tournament as soon as the 2024 season.
What still needs to be determined is just how quickly the current four-team model can be converted and implemented, but it will happen no later than 2026. When it does, major college football’s championship bracket will triple in size.
“This was a very historic day for college football,” said Mississippi State President Mark Keenum, chairman of the CFP’s Board of Managers that pressed ahead after a process that started in June 2021 with an ambitious plan was derailed for months by provincialism and mistrust.
In a unanimous vote that was necessary to pursue early expansion, the 11 university leaders who make up the board approved the original 12-team proposal. It calls for the six highest-ranked conference champions and six at-large picks — as determined by a selection committee — to make the playoff.
The top four seeds would be conference champions and receive byes into the second round. First-round games would be played on campuses and the rest at bowl sites.
A 12-team, 11-game postseason system to crown a champion could be worth as much as $2 billion in media rights to the conferences that play major college football, starting in 2026.
“So our plans are to begin the 12-team format for sure beginning in the 2026 football season,” Keenum said. “However, we have asked our (conference) commissioners on the management committee to explore the possibility of us beginning the 12-team playoff format before the 2026 seasons, in either 2024 or 2025. We as members of the board recognize there’s some pretty substantial issues that have to be resolved.”
If the new format can be implemented before the current 12-year contract with ESPN expires, the conferences could make an additional $450 million over the final two years. The current deal pays about $470 million per year.
CFP Executive Director Bill Hancock said ESPN under its contract would get the first bid on any new playoff inventory added in 2024 and ’25.
Beyond 2025, there is no TV contract for a playoff. The plan is to take the new format to the open market and possibly involve multiple TV partners instead of just ESPN.
The conference commissioners and Notre Dame athletic director who comprise the CFP management committee are scheduled to meet Thursday in Dallas. Among the logistical hurdles that they need to clear are dates of games, host sites, available television windows and the impact on the regular-season schedule.
The committee also needs to determine how all that new revenue will be shared and then have that approved by the presidents.
Hancock announced in February that expanding for the 2024 and ’25 seasons was off the table and attention would be turned to what the playoff would look like for 2026 and beyond. Last month, the CFP locked in sites and dates for the championship games to be played after the 2024 and 2025 seasons. In a 12-team playoff, those dates would have to be pushed back.
But the presidents ultimately decide what happens with the playoff, and they took matters into their own hands to move expansion forward.
“It was time for us to make a decision,” Keenum said.
Even after the February announcement, there were signs early expansion was not dead. A June meeting of the commissioners in Utah renewed optimism differences could be settled.
“It actually wouldn’t surprise me once we agree on the format, if it happens before the end of the current term,” Pac-12 Commissioner George Kliavkoff said in July.
Kliavkoff was one of three relatively new Power Five commissioners, along with Kevin Warren (Big Ten) and Jim Phillips (ACC), whose various objections to the 12-team proposal last year stalled negotiations.
That 12-team plan had been worked on for more than two years by a subgroup of the management committee that included Greg Sankey of the Southeastern Conference. Skepticism rose between the new commissioners, who had not been part of a process that started in 2019, and the rest after it was revealed the SEC would be adding Texas and Oklahoma to the powerhouse conference by no later than 2025.
Now everybody is on board with the plan.
“The Pac-12 is strongly in favor of CFP expansion and welcomes the decision of the CFP Board,” Kliavkoff said in a statement. “CFP expansion will provide increased access and excitement and is the right thing for our student-athletes and fans. We look forward to working with our fellow conferences to finalize the important elements of an expanded CFP in order to launch as soon as practicable.”
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NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor returned Thursday to the Bronx community where she grew up to see the unveiling of her bronze statue at a shopping center in the heart of the community.
In brief remarks after the likeness was unveiled, Sotomayor, 68, said it was “always so heartwarming” to return to the neighborhood and that she was “deeply touched” by the bust with the Bronx Terminal Market.
Sotomayor, who became the first Hispanic justice to serve on the Supreme Court when she was sworn in in 2009, said she hoped every child who sees the statue of her at the Bronx market knows that she is a proud native.
“I love the Bronx. I love my community,” she said.
The justice said she grew up a few miles away from the shopping center, which sits at the site of a former wholesale fruit and vegetable market that’s been a local neighborhood landmark for generations.
The bust, encased behind protective glass, has her name on its base. It is surrounded by panels that feature a short biography about the justice.
Sotomayor marveled at how much the sculpture resembled her, remarking on how curly her hair is and noting with a laugh that she seemed to be wearing similar dangly earrings Thursday as were memorialized on the statue.
“It’s quite amazing. Looks a lot like me,” she said.
“I think they may have improved on the original a little,” she joked.
After looking through the glass at the bust, Sotomayor spoke to about a dozen people gathered around and wistfully noted that her mother, Celina Báez, died last year but had she been there Thursday, “she would have been bursting with pride.”
Sotomayor posed with several local eighth-grade students who helped unveil the sculpture but did not take any questions.
The statue at the Bronx Terminal Market shopping center is near Yankee Stadium, home to the justice’s beloved baseball team.
The bust was sculpted by artists Gillie and Marc. Sotomayor called them “two visionary artists who share a passion as I do for community service.”
“I am humbled to be a part of their vision,” she added.
The duo also created a bronze statue of the late former Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, which was unveiled in her native Brooklyn last year. | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/politics/ap-justice-sotomayor-visits-bronx-for-bronze-bust-unveiling/ | 2022-09-09 04:30:11 | 0 | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/politics/ap-justice-sotomayor-visits-bronx-for-bronze-bust-unveiling/ |
· The school, which will offer content in over twenty languages, is a project of Waves, a top 50 cryptocurrency company whose goal is to offer transparent, factual, and safe training in cryptocurrencies
MADRID, Sept. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Waves, one of the world's leading cryptocurrency companies, has launched Waves School, a school providing free training in crypto and blockchain. The school, which will deliver its training materials in over twenty languages, was created with the mission to train anyone regardless of background or previous knowledge in investment, making understanding of cryptocurrencies more widespread and accessible. Waves aspires to become 'the blockchain of the people'.
Cryptocurrencies, blockchain, or NFTs are some of the terms that have become quite popular in recent times. However, few really understand them. Only 2% of people with access to the Internet worldwide (about 4.6 billion people) own crypto assets and only 1% consider themselves experts on the subject. Most cryptocurrency investors have a low understanding of finance and technology.
Waves School aims to bring blockchain technology to anyone with an Internet connection. Its first course breaks down the barriers of crypto knowledge and is available in English, Spanish, Italian, French, German, Portuguese, Dutch, Arabic, Chinese, Ukrainian, Hindi, among others.
Users will need to register through the Waves School website. The content has been developed and reviewed by experts in the field. The materials range from history of money, world economy to more specific concepts like lending, borrowing, NFTs and digital assets. Throughout the course, users will be able to take tests, gain rewards for completing modules, accessing a Discord channel, where doubts questions are answered and where users will have the chance to communicate with each other.
Waves School was created by Waves, a company founded by Ukrainian entrepreneur Sasha Ivanov, one of the top leaders in the blockchain sector. Waves a secure, accessible, and transparent blockchain platform, aims to democratise this technology and promote decentralised finance. With its simple interface, Waves defines itself as 'the people's blockchain', where communities play a central role in the crypto ecosystem. The Waves community features DAOs, next-generation DeFi protocols, launchpads and flagship NFT markets. With a market cap of $2 billion, Waves is in the global top 50 cryptocurrencies.
"At Waves we teach from scratch as we know that blockchain technology is accessible to everyone and, with that certainty, we have created free courses to break down the barriers to crypto knowledge. Our motto is 'learn to earn,' says Sasha Ivanov, CEO of Waves. "Education is crucial to understanding the web 3.0 revolution and what it will entail. With solid and good understanding, people are freer to make decisions responsibly," he argues.
This is one of the first school to offer free online crypto training. The decision reflects well on the company's values to put communities first.
The school also allows users to access Waves blockchain, open a Wallet, make their first cryptocurrency investments, and learn good and responsible investment strategies.
More information: https://wavesschool.com/
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Ex-Roman Catholic cardinal, now 92, is not competent to stand trial in sex abuse case, expert says
BOSTON (AP) — Former Roman Catholic Cardinal Theodore McCarrick is not competent to stand trial on charges accusing him of sexually assaulting a teenage boy in Massachusetts decades ago, an expert for the prosecution says, raising doubts about the future of the criminal case against the 92-year-old.
Prosecutors this week disclosed the findings of their expert to the judge, who will ultimately rule on the once-powerful American prelate’s ability to face charges that he abused the boy at a wedding reception at Wellesley College in 1974.
McCarrick has maintained that he is innocent, and pleaded not guilty in September 2021. He was also charged in April with sexually assaulting an 18-year-old man in Wisconsin more than 45 years ago.
In February, McCarrick’s attorneys asked the court to dismiss the case, saying a professor of psychiatry and behavioral science at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine had examined him and concluded that he has dementia, likely Alzheimer’s disease.
At that time, lawyers said McCarrick had a “limited understanding” of the criminal proceedings against him, but that “his progressive and irreparable cognitive deficits render him unable to meaningfully consult with counsel or to effectively assist in his own defense.”
Prosecutors later hired their own expert to assess McCarrick, who filed their own report on the man’s competency, which has not been made public. The judge set a hearing on the matter for Aug. 30.
McCarrick, who lives in Dittmer, Missouri, was charged with three counts of indecent assault and battery on a person over 14. He was not exempt from facing charges because the clock stopped on the statute of limitations when he left Massachusetts.
Mitchell Garabedian, a well-known lawyer for clergy sexual abuse victims who is representing the man accusing McCarrick, said Thursday that his client is “obviously discouraged” by the prosecution expert’s findings. He said his client remains determined to continue with lawsuits he has filed in other states.
“By proceeding with the civil lawsuits my client is empowering himself, other clergy sexual abuse victims and making the world a safer place for children,” Garabedian said.
The Associated Press generally doesn’t identify people who report sexual assault unless they agree to be named publicly, which the victim in this case has not done.
The accuser told authorities during a 2021 interview that McCarrick was close to the man’s family when he was growing up. Prosecutors say McCarrick would attend family gatherings and travel on vacations with them and that the victim referred to the priest as “Uncle Ted.”
Prosecutors say McCarrick abused him over several years including when the boy, who was then 16, was at his brother’s wedding reception at Wellesley College.
Prosecutors say McCarrick told the boy his dad wanted him to have a talk with the priest because the boy was “being mischievous at home and not attending church.” The man told investigators that they took a walk around campus, and McCarrick groped him before they went back to the party. The man said McCarrick also sexually assaulted him in a coat room after they returned to the reception, authorities wrote in the documents.
Prosecutors say McCarrick told the boy to say the “Hail Mary” and “Our Father” prayers before leaving the room.
Ordained as a priest in New York City in 1958, McCarrick was defrocked by Pope Francis in 2019 after a Vatican investigation determined he sexually molested adults as well as children. An internal Vatican investigation found that bishops, cardinals and popes downplayed or dismissed reports of sexual misconduct over many years.
The case created a credibility crisis for the church since the Vatican had reports from authoritative cardinals dating to 1999 that McCarrick’s behavior was problematic, yet he became an influential cardinal, kingmaker and emissary of the Holy See’s “soft diplomacy.”
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BOSTON — If the Mariners were searching to find any sort of positives from another forgettable series at Fenway Park, and there were few after Monday’s victory, they could take minimal solace in the fact that it wasn’t quite as bad as last year this time in May when they were swept in a four-game series at Fenway Park.
The Mariners backed up Tuesday’s disappointing defeat with an even worse performance in Wednesday’s series finale, getting pasted 12-3 by the Red Sox in a game that felt more lopsided than the score.
With swirling and chilly winds gusting up to 20 mph and conditions feeling colder than the mid-40s temperature, Mariners starter Marco Gonzales struggled through his worst outing of the season and one of the worst of his career. He failed to make it out of the second inning and left the Mariners so far behind that a comeback was basically impossible.
“We’ve had some miserable conditions here, including the rain game in 2019,” manager Scott Servais said. “This one was right up there with that. We knew coming into the series they had a really good offense and we needed to pitch well. We certainly did it the first night of the series, but the last couple nights got away from us. We just didn’t execute pitches. Then you look up and they’ve got big numbers up on the board, and it’s tough to come back when you get that far down.”
It was 10th time the Red Sox scored more than nine runs in a game and the 20th time they tallied more than 10 hits.
Gonzales official line: 1 2/3 innings pitched, eight runs allowed on eight hits with two walks and one strikeout.
“I’m not gonna make excuses for my performance,” he said. “I feel like they had a good game plan against me, and I didn’t execute the way I wanted to. The result is what it is. I’m not gonna blame the weather. Everybody had to play in it.”
From Gonzales’ first pitch of the game, the Red Sox worked themselves into hitters counts and hammered pitches all over the venerable ballpark. Gonzales didn’t have the command to get ahead or to generate soft contact.
After retiring Alex Verdugo on a routine ground ball, which was an improvement over the previous game, Gonzales gave up three consecutive singles to Justin Turner, Rob Refsnyder and Rafael Devers for the first run of the game.
Even after he walked Masataka Yoshida to load the bases, Gonzales had a chance to limit the damage to one run after getting Enrique Hernandez to fly out to shallow center. But Pablo Reyes smacked a double off the green monster to score a pair of runs for a 3-0 lead.
His outing and the Mariners’ victory hopes fell apart in the second inning. After retiring Connor Wong, he gave up a double to Alex Verdugo and left a curveball up that Justin Turner put over the monster for a two-run homer and a 5-0 lead.
It only got worse, Gonzales walked Refsnyder, retired Devers on a fly ball to left and allowed an infield single to Yoshida. Hernandez singled to score another run to make it 6-0.
“They were hunting what they wanted to hunt,” Gonzales said. “I felt like I just didn’t get a chance to settle in and execute. I didn’t give myself a chance to even get a sequence out.”
It was Gonzales’ first loss of the season. The Mariners had prevailed in his previous four starts and were 5-2 in games he started this season.
“That’s baseball, man,” Gonzales said. “I’ve been doing this long time and that happens. It’s probably gonna happen again this year. There’s always one or two clunkers a year where you just kind of scratch your head. The good pitchers in this game can move on and produce a quality outing the next time, so that’s what I’m going to do.”
Servais called on Trevor Gott to get the third out. But he wouldn’t do so until he gave up a two-run double to Reyes with both runs charged to Gonzales. Jarren Duran laced a single to left to score Reyes that made it 9-0. The third out finally came from Wong, who made the first out of the inning. He hit into a force out to end the Mariners misery. He was the only Red Sox hitter to not register a hit or reach base in the first two innings.
Down 9-0 after two innings isn’t ideal.
It would get only marginally better for the Mariners.
They pushed across a run in the fourth inning against Red Sox starter Brayan Bello when Jose Caballero singled to score Cal Raleigh.
Boston tacked on three more runs in the fifth off Gabe Speier. The Mariners loaded the bases in the sixth inning and picked up a run on Julio Rodriguez’s fielder’s choice and throwing error on the attempted double play.
The numbers were striking. The Red Sox finished with 16 hits and were 7-for-13 with runners in scoring position while leaving seven runners on base. The Mariners had five hits and worked eight walks, including five off Bello. But they struck out nine times in the game and were 2-for-15 with runners in scoring position and left 12 runners on base. | https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/mariners/marco-gonzales-gets-roughed-up-as-mariners-get-pasted-at-fenway-again/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all | 2023-05-18 03:56:55 | 0 | https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/mariners/marco-gonzales-gets-roughed-up-as-mariners-get-pasted-at-fenway-again/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all |
VANCOUVER, BC, Aug. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Sandstorm Gold Ltd. ("Sandstorm Gold Royalties", "Sandstorm" or the "Company") (NYSE: SAND) (TSX: SSL) has released its results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2022 (all figures in U.S. dollars).
- Record attributable gold equivalent ounces1 of 19,276 ounces (Q2 2021—18,004 ounces);
- Record revenue of $36.0 million (Q2 2021—$26.4 million);
- Cash flows from operating activities, excluding changes in non-cash working capital1 of $21.9 million (Q2 2021—$17.6 million);
- Average cash cost per attributable gold equivalent ounce1 of $273 resulting in cash operating margins1 of $1,593 per ounce (Q2 2021—$227 per ounce and $1,569 per ounce respectively);
- Record net income of $39.7 million (Q2 2021—$8.6 million); and
- Transformative transactions:
- Unlocking value through creation of Sandbox Royalties: In June 2022, the Company closed its previously announced sale of a portfolio of royalties to Sandbox Royalties Corp. ("Sandbox") for $65 million comprising common shares of Sandbox, cash, and a convertible promissory note. With the creation of Sandbox, a diversified royalty company, Sandstorm expects to surface value of certain royalties that it believes are not receiving their warranted value within Sandstorm's existing portfolio.
Based on the Company's existing royalties and contingent on the completion of the Nomad Acquisition, attributable gold equivalent ounces for 2022 is forecast to be between 80,000 and 85,000 ounces. Subject to the conversion of the Hod Maden interest into a gold stream and the closing of the Nomad Acquisition, the Company is forecasting attributable gold equivalent production to be 155,000 ounces in 2025.
During the three months ended June 30, 2022, the Company realized record revenue of $36.0 million compared with $26.4 million for the comparable period in 2021. The increase is attributable to a 7% increase in attributable gold equivalent ounces sold as well as a 4% increase in the average realized selling price of gold. In particular, the increase in revenue was driven by an increase in revenue attributable to the Mercedes mine which commenced making deliveries in April 2022, and an increase in revenue attributable to the Chapada copper stream due to an increase in the average realized selling price of copper and an increase in the number of copper pounds sold. Additionally, there was an increase in revenue attributable to the Vale Royalties, which were purchased in June 2021, and an increase in revenue attributable to the Vatukoula God Stream, which commenced making deliveries in December 2021.
Net income was higher during the second quarter of 2022 when compared to the same period in 2021. The increase is attributable to the increase in revenue (as described above) as well as a $22.9 million gain on the disposal of a portfolio of royalties to Sandbox for consideration of common shares of Sandbox, cash, and a convertible promissory note. Additionally, the increase in net income was attributable to a $12.5 million gain resulting from the sale of the Company's equity interest in Entrée Resources to Horizon Copper. The year-over-year increase in net income was partially offset by an increase in depletion largely due to an increase in attributable gold ounces sold, a decrease in the gains recognized on the revaluation of the Company's investments, and certain items that were recognized during the three months ended June 30, 2021 that did not occur during the three months ended June 30, 2022, including the recognition of a $5.9 million gain on the revaluation of the Company's financial instrument related to the Vale Royalties which was both entered into and disposed of during the three months ended June 30, 2021.
Of the gold equivalent ounces sold by Sandstorm during the second quarter of 2022, approximately 16% were attributable to mines located in Canada, 23% from the rest of North America, 49% from South America, and 12% from other countries.
Streams and royalties on Canadian mines contributed 31% more gold equivalent ounces to Sandstorm when compared to the second quarter of 2021. The change is primarily due to an increase in royalty revenue from the Diavik mine in the Northwest Territories, driven by diamond price increases and the timing of sales, and an increase in ounces received from the Black Fox mine. The increase was partially offset by a decrease in royalty revenues from the Bracemac-McLeod mine in Québec, which is in the process of winding down operations.
The gold equivalent ounces sold from operations located within North America, but outside of Canada, contributed 32% more gold equivalent ounces when compared to the second quarter of 2021. The change was primarily driven by an increase in the ounces received from the Mercedes mine, which commenced making deliveries to Sandstorm in April 2022. The increase was partially offset by a decrease in ounces received from the Santa Elena mine, partly due to mining activity on concessions not subject to the gold stream.
Operations in South America contributed 15% less gold equivalent ounces sold when compared to the second quarter of 2021. The decrease was driven, in part, by a decrease in royalty revenue received from the Aurizona mine in Brazil. As well, in the second quarter 2021, the Company recognized a gain on the revaluation of the financial instrument related to the Vale Royalties purchased in June 2021, resulting in higher attributable gold equivalent ounces for the comparative period in 2021. The decrease was partially offset by an increase in gold equivalent ounces sold from the Chapada mine in Brazil, and an increase in royalty revenue from the Fruta del Norte mine.
Streams and royalties on mines in other countries contributed 87% more gold equivalent ounces sold when compared to the second quarter of 2021. This change is primarily due to an increase in ounces sold from the Vatukoula mine in Fiji, which commenced making deliveries to Sandstorm in December 2021, and an increase in royalty revenue from the Houndé mine in Burkina Faso. The increase was partially offset by a decrease in gold equivalent ounces sold from the Karma mine in Burkina Faso.
A conference call will be held on Friday, August 12, 2022 starting at 8:30am PDT to further discuss the second quarter results. To participate in the conference call, use the following dial-in numbers and conference ID, or join the webcast using the link below:
International: (+1) 416-764-8688
North American Toll-Free: (+1) 888-390-0546
Conference ID: 03581019
Webcast URL: https://bit.ly/3yRtyWU
For more information about Sandstorm Gold Royalties, please visit our website at www.sandstormgold.com or email us at info@sandstormgold.com.
Sandstorm is a gold royalty company that provides upfront financing to gold mining companies that are looking for capital and in return, receives the right to a percentage of the gold produced from a mine, for the life of the mine. After the closing of the Nomad Acquisition announced on May 2, 2022, Sandstorm will hold a portfolio of 250 royalties, of which 39 of the underlying mines are producing. Sandstorm plans to grow and diversify its low cost production profile through the acquisition of additional gold royalties. For more information visit: www.sandstormgold.com.
The financial information included or incorporated by reference in this press release or the documents referenced herein has been prepared in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards as issued by the International Accounting Standards Board, which differs from US generally accepted accounting principles ("US GAAP") in certain material respects, and thus are not directly comparable to financial statements prepared in accordance with US GAAP.
This press release and the documents incorporated by reference herein, as applicable, have been prepared in accordance with Canadian standards for the reporting of mineral resource and mineral reserve estimates, which differ from the previous and current standards of the United States securities laws. In particular, and without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the terms "mineral reserve", "proven mineral reserve", "probable mineral reserve", "inferred mineral resources,", "indicated mineral resources," "measured mineral resources" and "mineral resources" used or referenced herein and the documents incorporated by reference herein, as applicable, are Canadian mineral disclosure terms as defined in accordance with Canadian National Instrument 43-101 — Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects ("NI 43-101") and the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (the "CIM") — CIM Definition Standards on Mineral Resources and Mineral Reserves, adopted by the CIM Council, as amended (the "CIM Definition Standards").
For United States reporting purposes, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") has adopted amendments to its disclosure rules (the "SEC Modernization Rules") to modernize the mining property disclosure requirements for issuers whose securities are registered with the SEC under the Exchange Act, which became effective February 25, 2019. The SEC Modernization Rules more closely align the SEC's disclosure requirements and policies for mining properties with current industry and global regulatory practices and standards, including NI 43-101, and replace the historical property disclosure requirements for mining registrants that were included in SEC Industry Guide 7. Issuers were required to comply with the SEC Modernization Rules in their first fiscal year beginning on or after January 1, 2021. As a foreign private issuer that is eligible to file reports with the SEC pursuant to the multi-jurisdictional disclosure system, the Corporation is not required to provide disclosure on its mineral properties under the SEC Modernization Rules and will continue to provide disclosure under NI 43-101 and the CIM Definition Standards. Accordingly, mineral reserve and mineral resource information contained or incorporated by reference herein may not be comparable to similar information disclosed by United States companies subject to the United States federal securities laws and the rules and regulations thereunder.
As a result of the adoption of the SEC Modernization Rules, the SEC now recognizes estimates of "measured mineral resources", "indicated mineral resources" and "inferred mineral resources." In addition, the SEC has amended its definitions of "proven mineral reserves" and "probable mineral reserves" to be "substantially similar" to the corresponding CIM Definition Standards that are required under NI 43-101. While the SEC will now recognize "measured mineral resources", "indicated mineral resources" and "inferred mineral resources", U.S. investors should not assume that all or any part of the mineralization in these categories will be converted into a higher category of mineral resources or into mineral reserves without further work and analysis. Mineralization described using these terms has a greater amount of uncertainty as to its existence and feasibility than mineralization that has been characterized as reserves. Accordingly, U.S. investors are cautioned not to assume that all or any measured mineral resources, indicated mineral resources, or inferred mineral resources that the Company reports are or will be economically or legally mineable without further work and analysis. Further, "inferred mineral resources" have a greater amount of uncertainty and as to whether they can be mined legally or economically. Therefore, U.S. investors are also cautioned not to assume that all or any part of inferred mineral resources will be upgraded to a higher category without further work and analysis. Under Canadian securities laws, estimates of "inferred mineral resources" may not form the basis of feasibility or pre-feasibility studies, except in rare cases. While the above terms are "substantially similar" to CIM Definitions, there are differences in the definitions under the SEC Modernization Rules and the CIM Definition Standards. Accordingly, there is no assurance any mineral reserves or mineral resources that the Company may report as "proven mineral reserves", "probable mineral reserves", "measured mineral resources", "indicated mineral resources" and "inferred mineral resources" under NI 43-101 would be the same had the Company prepared the reserve or resource estimates under the standards adopted under the SEC Modernization Rules or under the prior standards of SEC Industry Guide 7.
This press release contains "forward-looking statements", within the meaning of the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities legislation, concerning the business, operations and financial performance and condition of Sandstorm Gold Royalties. Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, the impact of general business and economic conditions; the properties underlying the Nomad Acquisition, the mines underlying the BaseCore Transaction; the expectation that the various closing conditions of the Hod Maden transaction will be met; the expectation that the Hod Maden transaction with Horizon will close; the expectations regarding whether the proposed Nomad Acquisition will be consummated, including whether conditions to the consummation of the Nomad Acquisition will be satisfied, or the timing for completing the Nomad Acquisition; the expectations regarding the potential benefits and synergies of the proposed Nomad Acquisition and the BaseCore Transaction (collectively "The Transactions") and the ability of Sandstorm post-completion of the Transactions to successfully achieve business objectives, including integrating the companies or assets or the effects of unexpected costs, liabilities or delays; the expectations regarding the growth potential of Sandstorm including in scale and production and the anticipated benefits of the Transactions; management's expectations regarding Sandstorm's growth; the future price of gold, silver, copper, iron ore and other metals, the estimation of mineral reserves and resources, realization of mineral reserve estimates, the timing and amount of estimated future production. Forward-looking statements can generally be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "may", "will", "expect", "intend", "estimate", "anticipate", "believe", "continue", "plans", or similar terminology.
Forward-looking statements are made based upon certain assumptions and other important factors that, if untrue, could cause the actual results, performances or achievements of Sandstorm Gold Royalties to be materially different from future results, performances or achievements expressed or implied by such statements. Such statements and information are based on numerous assumptions regarding present and future business strategies and the environment in which Sandstorm Gold Royalties will operate in the future, including the receipt of all required approvals, the price of gold and copper and anticipated costs. Certain important factors that could cause actual results, performances or achievements to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements include, amongst others, failure to receive necessary approvals, changes in business plans and strategies, market conditions, share price, best use of available cash, gold and other commodity price volatility, discrepancies between actual and estimated production, mineral reserves and resources and metallurgical recoveries, mining operational and development risks relating to the parties which produce the gold or other commodity the Company will purchase, regulatory restrictions, activities by governmental authorities (including changes in taxation), currency fluctuations, the global economic climate, dilution, share price volatility and competition.
Forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other important factors that may cause the actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements of the Company to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements, including but not limited to: the impact of general business and economic conditions, the absence of control over mining operations from which the Company will purchase gold, other commodities or receive royalties from, and risks related to those mining operations, including risks related to international operations, government and environmental regulation, actual results of current exploration activities, conclusions of economic evaluations and changes in project parameters as plans continue to be refined, risks in the marketability of minerals, fluctuations in the price of gold and other commodities, fluctuation in foreign exchange rates and interest rates, stock market volatility, as well as those factors discussed in the section entitled "Risks to Sandstorm" in the Company's annual report for the financial year ended December 31, 2021 and the section entitled "Risk Factors" contained in the Company's annual information form dated March 31, 2022 available at www.sedar.com. Although the Company has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in forward-looking statements, there may be other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. There can be no assurance that such statements will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. The Company does not undertake to update any forward-looking statements that are contained or incorporated by reference, except in accordance with applicable securities laws.
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This executive education bootcamp presents real-life use cases and fosters participant engagement to assist C-Suite execs in understanding and addressing today's GAI challenges and opportunities
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, GAI Insights, an advisory and analyst firm aimed at empowering organizations to achieve remarkable ROI through the strategic adoption of generative AI technologies, announced their extensive speaker lineup for GAI World Conference. Taking place from September 12-13 in Boston, MA, the two-day, Generative AI (GAI) bootcamp for senior executives, board members, investors and owners will headline experts to discuss immediate operational change and long-term strategic case studies leveraging GAI.
Paul Baier, CEO and Co-Founder of GAI Insights, Jimmy Hexter, Co-Founder of GAI Insights and Professor of the Practice at Boston University's Questrom School of Business, Dr. John Sviokla, Co-founder of GAI Insights and former Harvard Business School professor, and Liz Vanzura, Co-founder of GAI Insights will facilitate and moderate conversations around enterprise GAI case studies, celebrate early adopters and answer the following questions:
- What is Generative AI (GAI) and is it real for business?
- How urgent is it for me and my firm (or my investments) to understand GAI now?
- What are the costs and risks of GAI?
- Where do I begin using GAI most effectively?
- Should I build or buy my GAI efforts?
- How should I organize to grow and scale my GAI capabilities?
- How do I keep my talent and knowledge flow current for competitive advantage using GAI?
Additional speakers from leading, global corporations will take a deep dive into project and technology selection, ROI calculation, team organization structure, and data and IP approaches, while revealing their lessons learned from their very own organizational uses. Sessions include:
- Harvard Business School, Shikhar Ghosh, Professor: How leading companies can and will use Gen AI to drive profitable growth and create sustainable competitive differentiation
- Mayo Clinic, Dr. Thomas Kingsley, Assistant Professor of Medicine and Biomedical Informatics: LLMs in action at world leading organizations - how the Mayo Clinic uses LLMs to improve clinical trials
- Microsoft, Andy Roberts, Data Platform and AI Architect: Four approaches large enterprises are taking with enterprise LLMs
- Flybridge Capital Partners, Chip Hazard, General Partner: How Gen AI startups will reshape the future of technology and change the modern corporation forever
- Jerry, a fintech disruptor, John Spottiswood, Chief Operating Officer: How we leveraged a LLM to revolutionize customer service and drive customer satisfaction
- PwC, Joe Atkinson, Vice Chair, US Chief Products and Technology Officer: Gen AI investment trends and best practices from large companies
- Narratize, the Gen AI coauthor for busy innovators, Katie Trauth Taylor, CEO: How an innovative Gen AI startup creates productivity breakthroughs in innovation
- Health AI expert who implemented AI in large provider organizations, José Pedro Almeida: How healthcare can be improved for the patient, doctors and nurses through creative uses of Gen AI
- Coffee Labs, Al Silvestri, Chief Marketing Officer: Three Gen AI case studies that are transforming the creative process delivering unique, non-traditional marketing solutions for top brands across various categories
- Harvard Business School, David Edelman, Senior Lecturer of Business Administration: Marketing will never be the same - how Gen AI is changing marketing, marketing firms, the marketing function and the job of the marketer
GAI World Conference also brings together a unique collection of the most senior leaders from world class commercial institutions including Harvard Business School, PwC, UBS and Boston University Questrom School of Business who are describing in detail what they're doing and getting from GAI.
"GAI World Conference will feature leading voices across business, technology and medicine to unpack the influence generative AI is having across industries, all based on their first-hand experiences," said Paul Baier, Founder of GAI Insights. "This two-day bootcamp will immerse attendees in a classroom-like setting as they complete a crash course on generative AI, learning from early adopters of the evolving technology. This experience is unlike anything else."
GAI Insights has also announced its collaboration with Boston University Questrom School of Business, their Digital Business Institute, and its Educational Partner for this conference.
For more information or to purchase tickets to Generative AI World Conference, taking place at the Royal Sonesta Hotel in Cambridge from September 12-13, 2023, visit: www.GAIworld.com
A complete list of speakers and session details to date can be found at: https://www.gaiworld.com/speakers
Additional details on GAI Insights can be found at: https://www.gaiinsights.com/
About GAI Insights
At the forefront of AI's evolution, GAI Insights (formerly ChatGPTnuggets) leverages its unique expertise as an advisory and analyst firm to empower organizations in achieving remarkable ROI through the strategic adoption of Generative AI technologies, including ChatGPT. Its reputation is founded on key industry firsts: establishing the largest ChatGPT Meetup group in the US, curating the first-ever list of 15 vetted high-impact ChatGPT use cases, and delivering transformative generative AI workshops to a broad range of stakeholders - from investors to corporate entities and organizations. The GAI Insights email newsletter, now a trusted resource for technologists, corporate leaders, and investors alike, exemplifies a commitment to deliver actionable insights that propel innovation and business growth.
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Authorities in northern Mexico say they have found the bodies of 14 people in an overturned pickup truck submerged in a canal.
The civil defense office in the northern border state of Nuevo Leon said Wednesday that five Guatemalan identification cards or passports were found on the bodies.
The office said the bodies of 10 men, three women and one minor were found Tuesday on the outskirts of the city of Monterrey.
Some of the bodies were found in the submerged vehicle, and some in the water. It was unclear how the pickup wound up in the canal.
Central American migrants frequently travel through the area to reach the border with Texas, and crashes involving vehicles driven by migrant smugglers are not uncommon in Mexico. | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/mexico-finds-14-bodies-in-overturned-pickup-truck-17771716.php | 2023-02-08 18:32:09 | 0 | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/mexico-finds-14-bodies-in-overturned-pickup-truck-17771716.php |
SAN DIEGO – A surge in migration from Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua in September brought the number of illegal crossings to the highest level ever recorded in a fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
The year-end numbers reflect deteriorating economic and political conditions in some countries, the relative strength of the U.S. economy and uneven enforcement of Trump-era asylum restrictions.
Migrants were stopped 227,547 times in September at the U.S. border with Mexico, the third-highest month of Joe Biden's presidency. It was up 11.5% from 204,087 times in August and 18.5% from 192,001 times in September 2021.
In the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, migrants were stopped 2.38 million times, up 37% from 1.73 million times the year before, according to figures released late Friday night. The annual total surpassed 2 million for the first time in August and is more than twice the highest level during Donald Trump's presidency in 2019.
Nearly 78,000 migrants from Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua were stopped in September, compared to about 58,000 from Mexico and three countries of northern Central America that have historically accounted for most of the flow.
The remarkable geographic shift is at least partly a result of Title 42, a public health rule that suspends rights to see asylum under U.S. and international law on grounds of preventing the spread of COVID-19.
Due to strained diplomatic relations, the U.S. cannot expel migrants to Venezuela, Cuba or Nicaragua. As a result, they are largely released in the United States to pursue their immigration cases.
Title 42 authority has been applied 2.4 million times since it began in March 2020 but has fallen disproportionately on migrants from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.
U.S. officials say Venezuelan migration to the United States has plunged more than 85% since Oct. 12, when the U.S. began expelling Venezuelans to Mexico under Title 42. At the same time, the Biden administration pledged to admit up to 24,000 Venezuelans to the United States on humanitarian parole if they apply online with a financial sponsor and enter through an airport, similar to how tens of thousands of Ukrainians have come since Russia invaded their country.
The first four Venezuelans paroled into the United States arrived Saturday — two from Mexico, one from Guatemala, one from Peru — and hundreds more have been approved to fly, the Homeland Security Department said.
“While this early data is not reflected in the (September) report, it confirms what we’ve said all along: When there is a lawful and orderly way to enter the country, individuals will be less likely to put their lives in the hands of smugglers and try to cross the border unlawfully,” said CBP Commissioner Chris Magnus.
The expansion of Title 42 for Venezuelans to be expelled to Mexico came despite the administration’s attempt to end the public health authority in May, which was blocked by a federal judge.
Venezuelans represented the second-largest nationality at the border after Mexicans for the second straight month, being stopped 33,804 times in September, up 33% from 25,361 times in August.
Cubans, who are participating in the largest exodus from the Caribbean island to the United States since 1980, were stopped 26,178 times at the border in September, up 37% from 19,060 in August.
Nicaraguans were stopped 18,199 times in September, up 55% from 7,298 times in August.
The report is the last monthly reading of migration flows before U.S. midterm elections, an issue that many Republicans have emphasized in campaigns to capture control of the House and Senate. Republicans on the House Homeland Security Committee released a one-sentence statement Saturday in response to the numbers: "You’ve got to be kidding.” | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/politics/2022/10/22/illegal-border-crossings-to-us-from-mexico-hit-annual-high/ | 2022-10-23 01:11:50 | 0 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/politics/2022/10/22/illegal-border-crossings-to-us-from-mexico-hit-annual-high/ |
After disembarking from an hour and 15-minute bus ride, St. John’s Prep lacrosse coach John Pynchon was concerned about how his top-ranked Eagles would handle their start at No. 2 Hingham.
The top-ranked Eagles scored twice in the first 30 seconds and rode the momentum to an impressive 13-8 win Saturday afternoon.
“A bus ride like that is always stressful from a coaching standpoint, but our guys were able to get off the bus and get right at them,” Pynchon said.
Chris Esposito assisted on two early strikes by Jimmy Ayers. The Eagles (16-1) struck five more times for a commanding 7-1 lead after one quarter.
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“We told them they had to show up and bring their own guts, and that first quarter was huge because Hingham settled in later in the game and things balanced out but that was the difference,” Pynchon said.
Nine Eagles registered points, highlighted by an eight-point game from Jake Vana (5 goals, 3 assists). Esposito and Jack Doherty combined to go 23 for 25 on faceoffs.
“This matchup is a great way to get us ready for the tournament, it is the type of team and environment we need to be able to play in come June,” Pynchon said. “Just a really good high school game.”
Girls’ lacrosse
Arlington 13, Framingham 12 — Meghan O’Sullivan notched the winning goal in overtime to cap a four-goal comeback for the visiting Spy Ponders (13-3) in the nonleague contest.
Cohasset 22, Pembroke 4 — Reese Hansen netted three goals for the No. 11 Skippers (13-2-1) in the nonleague win.
Baseball
Amesbury 5, Triton 1 — Senior Drew MacDonald went 2 for 3 with two RBIs, pushing Amesbury (15-4) to a first-round win in the Spofford Tournament.
Arlington 4, Malden Catholic 1 — Senior pitcher Brendan Flynn gave up just one hit and one run over six innings for the No. 18 Spy Ponders (16-4) in their nonleague victory.
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Franklin 2, Hopkinton 1 — Eisig Chin dashed home to score the winning run on a wild pitch in the bottom of the ninth for the No. 3 Panthers (19-3) in the championship game of the Rich Pedroli Memorial Daily News Classic in Natick.
Georgetown 6, Newburyport 5 — Ty Girouard dropped in a walkoff single with two outs in the bottom of the seventh inning to propel the Royals (10-9) to the Cape Ann League win in the first round of the Spofford Tournament.
Natick 3, Lincoln-Sudbury 1 — Seniors Jack Gerstein and Matthew Haskell combined on the mound to scatter six hits and surrender one run for the Redhawks (12-8) in the consolation game of the Rich Pedroli Memorial Daily News Classic.
Swampscott 8, Lynn Classical 1 — Matt Schroeder notched five RBIs and Cam O’Brien went the distance on the mound, leading the Big Blue (13-7) to a win in the Doug Mullins Memorial Tournament consolation game.
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Archbishop Williams 5, Bishop Stang 1 — Shelby Parr struck out 11 for the win and Emma Chennett laced three hits for the Bishops (14-7) in the Catholic Central League victory.
Bishop Feehan 6, Taunton 5 — Ava Maloof laced a walkoff single in the bottom of the seventh to win the nonleague showdown for the No. 8 Shamrocks (18-3).
Central Catholic 3, Burlington 0 — Julia Malowitz struck out 14 in the complete game shutout and Katie Fox slapped two hits, including a solo home run to propel the host Raiders (12-6) to the nonleague win over the No. 2 Red Devils (18-2).
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East Bridgewater 7, Hanover 5 — Haley Murphy drove in two runs with a two-out double in the seventh inning, breaking the tie and lifting the Vikings (10-9) to a nonleague win. Amanda Murphy clubbed a two-run homer.
Middleborough 6, Greater New Bedford 1 — Alexandra Welch collected two hits, scored twice and drove in a pair of runs for the No. 20 Sachems (17-4) in the nonleague win over the No. 10 Bears (20-2) in New Bedford.
Millis 15, Canton 1 — Isabella Boines drove in five runs and Lindsay Grattan smacked four hits, scored three runs and collected two RBIs for the Mohawks (11-10) in the first round of the Cardinal Spellman Tournament. Riley Caulfield belted three hits, drove in a pair of runs and scored four times for Millis.
Millis 5, Cardinal Spellman 2 — Junior catcher Frankie Pizzarella finished 2 for 4 with a solo home run in the third inning, leading the Mohawks (12-10) to the Cardinal Spellman Tournament championship. Sophomore Riley Caulfield allowed two earned runs and four hits and struck out four to get the win.
Reading 7, Concord-Carlisle 1 — Sally Cashin tallied an RBI and slapped three hits for the No. 12 Rockets (18-2) in the nonleague win.
Correspondents Peyton Doyle and Cam Kerry contributed to this story. To report scores, call 617-929-2860/3235 or email hssports@globe.com.
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AUGSBURG, Germany (AP) — Augsburg has hired Enrico Maaßen as its coach ahead of the new season after coaxing him from Bundesliga rival Borussia Dortmund’s under-23s.
Augsburg said Wednesday that Maaßen had agreed to succeed Markus Weinzierl, who quit unexpectedly at the end of last season, and that it had reached an agreement with Dortmund over his move.
“We’ve followed the development of Enrico Maaßen with interest over the last years, because he’s a young coach hungry for success who can develop himself and those around him,” Augsburg sporting director Stefan Reuter said.
Maaßen thanked Dortmund “for allowing me to take this next step in my career.”
Weinzierl announced on TV after the last game of the season that he was quitting, having clinched Bundesliga survival with the team a couple of weeks before.
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ROME (AP) — Italian authorities scrambled on Sunday to relieve overcrowding in shelters after scores of boats carrying a total of about 1,000 migrants reached Italy’s southern shores and two of its tiny islands over the weekend.
Nearly 50 boats arrived between Friday night and Saturday on Lampedusa island off Sicily, according to state radio and other Italian media. Other boats carrying migrants reached Pantelleria, another tiny island favored by vacationers.
Hundreds of migrants stepped ashore from the virtual flotilla of smugglers’ vessels on those islands. Several of the vessels launched by migrant smugglers held as few as eight passengers. But others had around 100 passengers aboard, many of them from Tunisia, according to the reports.
Other boats reached the shores of the Italian mainland on Saturday, either unaided or assisted by Italian coast guard vessels.
The Italian news agency ANSA said that 92 migrants, most of them from Afghanistan, reached Puglia — the “heel” of the boot-shaped peninsula — in a sailboat on Saturday. Still other migrants sailed to Calabria in the “toe” of the peninsula, while other boats reached Sicily and Sardinia, Italy’s two biggest islands, in the last two days.
On Sardinia, Carabinieri paramilitary police spotted 29 migrants walking along a road, ANSA said.
The humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders tweeted that one of its rescue ships, Geo Barents, saved 25 migrants, including five minors, from a small boat in distress in international waters near Libya on Saturday night. Geo Barents already had other migrants abroad plucked to safety in other rescue operations, the group said.
With the disembarkation of hundreds of migrants from boats in the last days, the residence temporarily housing rescued migrants on Lampedusa quickly became overcrowded. Corriere della Sera said the residence housed 1,500 asylum-seekers, nearly four times its capacity.
Interior ministry authorities arranged for a commercial passenger ferry to sail from Sicily to Lampedusa, where it was expected to arrive on Sunday night, embark 250 migrants and take them to Sicilian migrant residences to lessen crowding on the tiny island’s facility.
While hundreds of thousands of migrants have set sail from Libyan shores aboard smugglers’ boats in the last decades, many also set out from Tunisia.
Italian media noted the Tunisian coast guard had thwarted at least a score of attempts by vessels filled with migrants to head toward Italy and rescued many others from boats in distress on Friday and Saturday.
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Rehoboth Beach to study parking and traffic this summer in effort to reduce congestion
The study aims to determine the extent of traffic congestion in Rehoboth during the busy summer season and find ways to reduce its impact.
Anyone who’s spent a summer afternoon looking for parking near the beach along Rehoboth Avenue knows the frustration. Its boardwalk draws thousands of visitors every year, making it difficult for drivers, cyclists, and pedestrians to navigate around town.
This summer, Rehoboth’s Board of Commissioners will spend $150,000 to study parking and transportation in town. The study, by Maryland-based civil engineering and planning company Rossi Group, aims to identify ways to reduce those frustrations.
“This study will bring together all of the data we’ve accumulated through previous study efforts,” Assistant City Manager Evan Miller said. “We’re really focused on taking a comprehensive look and providing commissioners with a realistic set of improvement options and recommendations that can be implemented over time to effectively address parking, transportation, and traffic concerns.”
The study will look at congestion, traffic flow, traffic calming, safety measures, and parking policies.
“There’s no doubt that there is a perception that there are not enough parking options in Rehoboth Beach,” Miller said. “This study will help us determine if that perception is reality.”
They’ll look at regular traffic patterns, as well as things like what happens on the roads when a summer thunderstorm pops up, forcing thousands of beachgoers on foot to run for shelter.
“I think we all know that during the summer season when you have a quick heavy rainstorm that rolls in off the beach, Rehoboth Avenue gets backed up and Lake Avenue gets backed up,” Miller said. “So also having an awareness of those odd events that occur and the impact that it has on traffic is going to be another area that we focus on as well.”
The commissioners hope to get preliminary recommendations from the study by the time they start building next year’s budget, which begins in April 2024.
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The family of Brianna Grier, the Black Georgia woman who died after falling out of a moving patrol vehicle, has filed a civil rights lawsuit for $100 million.
The lawsuit, which was filed by family lawyers Ben Crump and Eric Hertz, names Lieutenant Marlin Primus, Deputy Timothy Legette, and Sheriff Tomlyn Primus as defendants and claims “they participated in gross negligence that led to Grier’s wrongful death.”
In July 2022, Brianna Grier, who was the mother of 4-year-old twin daughters, was arrested by the Hancock County Sheriff’s Office after she suffered a schizophrenic episode.
Her mother, Mary Grier called officials for help, but she didn’t know it would be the last time she would see her daughter.
“They wanted the police to help her – take her to the hospital to get help. They had called before asking them for help,” said Crump during the press conference.
Brianna died after she fell out of the sheriff’s cop car while it was in motion.
“There is no excuse, no justification, for why Brianna Grier is dead and why she died in such a horrific manner,” said Crump. “Her daughters continue to ask questions all the time about their mother.”
According to an independent pathology report released by the family, Brianna died due to blunt force trauma to the head, which caused swelling to occur in the brain. She also suffered from a fractured skull.
The report was released August 8, 2022, by Dr. Alicia Wilson of the University of Michigan, the same medical expert who conducted the autopsy of George Floyd.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation also confirmed that Brianna jumped out of the vehicle while moving, but Georgia District T. Wright Barksdale decided not to file any charges against any officers involved.
“Based off of my legal opinion after speaking with the GBI and after reviewing the case file, there are no criminal acts that were perpetrated by those deputies the night Ms. Grier lost her life,” Barksdale said in an interview with AP.
But the latest lawsuit is proof the family isn’t stopping in their fight for justice in the death of Brianna Grier.
One of the most emotional moments of the press conference was when Brianna’s mother, Mary Grier began to talk about her granddaughters.
“I don’t lie to them. I tell them the truth: ‘She’s gone home to live with God,’” she said holding back tears as she spoke.
Hopefully, the latest lawsuit can help the Grier family through this devastating time.
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MARSEILLE (AP) — Two bodies were found Monday in the rubble following an explosion that collapsed a building in the southern French city of Marseille, bringing the confirmed death toll to four as rescuers continue searching for four more people who are unaccounted-for.
Two other bodies had previously been found overnight. The judicial authority will proceed to identify the victims, firefighters said in a statement.
Minister for Cities and Housing Olivier Klein told reporters that at least four people have died, after he met with rescuers on site.
“The hope to find survivors is still there,” Minister for Cities and Housing Olivier Klein told reporters. “It is very meticulous work done by firefighters,” he added, noting the risk for adjacent buildings to collapse. More than 100 firefighters were mobilized for the searches.
Marseille mayor Benoit Payan tweeted Monday that “the pain and sorrow are great.” He expressed his thoughts for the families of the victims and “those who are suffering.”
“Rescue and search operations are continuing, without respite,” he said.
An investigation has been opened for involuntary injury, at least initially sidestepping possible criminal intentions. A gas explosion was among the avenues of investigation, prosecutor Dominique Laurens said Sunday evening.
The collapse occurred shortly before 1 a.m. on Sunday, in an old quarter in the center of Marseille, France’s second-largest city, less than a kilometer (a half-mile) from its iconic old port. About 200 people have been evacuated from their homes in the area.
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Invasive species program gets new name
BAY CO., Mich. (WNEM) - The Bay County Gypsy Moth Suppression Program’s name has been changed due to a species name change.
The Entomological Society of America officially adopted the name “Spongy Moth” as the new common name for the Gypsy Moth in 2021. The new name refers to the forest defoliating insect’s distinctive sponge-like egg masses, which are used in management as a key population indicator.
The program staff wanted the name to include all aspects of their program. Those aspects include their work:
- Managing outbreak Spongy Moth populations in the rural woodlots of northern Bay County;
- Treating and sustaining nearly 3,000 publicly owned ash trees throughout the urban forested areas of Bay County to protect them from the devastating effects of the Emerald Ash Borer; and
- Preparing and educating the public on new invasive species that may affect local horticulture in future years to come.
After consideration, and outreach to local partners on optional names which better represent the diversity of invasive species work the program undertakes throughout Bay County, staff have decided the name of the program will officially be changing to the “Bay County Forest Sustainability Program.”
“We believe the Bay County Forest Sustainability Program is a name that is broad enough to showcase the diversity of invasive species work performed by the program, but also targeted enough to represent the unique niche in which our work can be categorized,” said Program Coordinator Jeremy Lowell.
Lowell also wanted to ensure members of the public that no changes will be occurring to the current millage, to the program operations, or to the management of the current invasive species we work with throughout Bay County.
If you have any questions regarding the program name change you can contact Lowell at 989-895-4195 or email lowellj@baycounty.net.
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DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Cristiano Ronaldo did not threaten to leave the World Cup after being dropped from the team to play Switzerland in the round of 16, Portugal coach Fernando Santos said Friday.
Santos did acknowledge his star player was “not happy” to be told he was not in the starting lineup in a private meeting on Tuesday after lunch, hours before the game.
Ronaldo’s replacement Gonçalo Ramos scored three goals in 6-1 win. The all-time leading scorer for Portugal came off the bench in the 74th minute.
“Cristiano obviously was not very happy about it. He told me ‘Do you really think it’s a good idea?’” Santos said one day before facing Morocco in the quarterfinals.
“He has never told me that he wanted to leave the national team,” Santos said in translated comments, dismissing reports in Portuguese media. “It is time we stopped with this conversation and the controversies. He celebrated all the goals that we scored.”
“It is time for you to leave Ronaldo alone in acknowledgement of what he did for Portuguese football,” the coach said.
Santos declined to say if he would change the team and restore Ronaldo to face Morocco.
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Amnesty International issued a report on Thursday accusing the Ukrainian military of stationing its troops and artillery near hospitals, schools and residential buildings in ways that may amount to war crimes. The international human rights organization says it spent two months in Ukraine interviewing locals and collecting physical evidence to compile the report.
"Viable alternatives were available that would not endanger civilians – such as military bases or densely wooded areas nearby, or other structures further away from residential areas," reads the report.
Responding to questions about Amnesty's findings, Ukraine's deputy Defense Minister, Hanna Maliar, said that Ukraine "regularly conducts evacuations of civilians from conflict areas." Thousands can't or won't flee some of the towns along the front.
But Amnesty International says that Ukrainian troops shelter alongside civilians far from active conflict zones, and that Russian rocket strikes on Ukrainian military positions have left several nearby civilians dead.
Donatella Rovera, the report's author, says that situations like these arise on all sides of any war, and that it's up to Ukrainians to address the concerns as soon as possible.
"I think the level of self-censorship on this issue has been pretty extraordinary," said Rovera.
Like Amnesty International, NPR's journalists also have witnessed some evidence of military presence near bombed civilian areas.
Ukrainian officials have claimed that their defensive posture against Russia justifies all tactics used so far, and that the report unfairly implicates Ukraine in war crimes. One top adviser to Ukraine's president even accused the human rights group of being Russian propagandists fostering disinformation.
"Please stop creating a false reality where everybody is equally to blame [for the war]" said Dmytro Kuleba, Ukraine's foreign minister, in a video broadcast on television. He joined a chorus of others, including Amnesty International's own Ukraine office, in saying that foreign observers should blame only Russia for any threats against civilians.
Amnesty International has produced dozens of reports about Russian war crimes. Rovera said she personally investigated when hundreds of tortured bodies turned up in suburban Kyiv after Russia retreated from the area.
"To say that issuing a four-page press release compares to hundreds of pages that we've published since the beginning of the Russian invasion ... it's just not true," said Rovera.
The report notes that reports of Russia's use of illegal weapons in civilian areas — including cluster munitions and anti-personnel landmines — should give Ukraine even more reason to keep its troops far away from civilians.
Amnesty International gave the Ukrainian Defense Ministry six days to respond to specific evidence about Ukrainian military presence in civilian areas. The rights group's Ukraine office says that wasn't enough time.
Rovera says that she understands Ukrainians are, in many ways, outgunned and outmatched, but that the credibility of Ukrainian's moral high ground requires a total adherence to international law — even if it puts its military at a tactical disadvantage.
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(WFLA) — YouTuber MrBeast said he declined a spot on the Titan submersible before the tragic trip that killed five people, according to a Sunday tweet.
The YouTuber and philanthropist, whose legal name is James Stephen “Jimmy” Donaldson, revealed he was invited earlier in the month, but he said no.
In the tweet, Donaldson posted a text message from an unknown sender saying, “The team would be stoked to have [him] along.”
“Kind of scary that I could have been on it,” Donaldson wrote.
Officials said OceanGate’s Titan submersible imploded while visiting the wreckage of the Titanic, resulting in the deaths of OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush and four other people.
Donaldson isn’t the only one who declined a spot on the submersible.
Las Vegas businessman Jay Bloom said he and his son were offered seats at a discount but refused to go after expressing concerns over the vessel’s safety.
Instead, his tickets went to Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his 19-year-old son, Suleman Dawood, who were among those killed.
Donaldson has gained more than 150 million YouTube subscribers through his entertaining stunt videos, such as recreating a game show version of the popular Korean Netflix series “Squid Game” and giving the winner $456,000. He relies on corporate partners like Honey, TikTok and Quidd to pull off the stunts that have made him a celebrity.
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The partnership will bring automated kitchens to the pizza franchise to improve customer experience, ensure consistent quality, and improve operational efficiency.
TORONTO and COLUMBUS, Ohio, July 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Appetronix has entered into an exclusive partnership with Donatos Pizza and its sister companies Agápe Automation and the Grote Company to launch a fully-autonomous pizza vending machine. This groundbreaking collaboration will pave the way for the development of a standalone, fully autonomous restaurant that combines cutting-edge technology with the art of creating delicious pizzas. The first unit will deploy in Donatos hometown of Columbus, Ohio.
The fully autonomous restaurant developed for Donatos by Appetronix will leverage state-of-the-art robotics and data science technologies -- enabling a seamless and efficient dining experience for customers, from placing orders to receiving their pizza. The mission of Donatos Pizza to promote goodwill through product, service, principles, and people will only be made stronger by this partnership as the advanced robotics will handle the pizza-making process with precision, ensuring consistent quality, faster service, increased order accuracy, and a seamless digital interaction. Additionally, data science solutions will enhance customer interactions, personalize recommendations, optimize inventory management, and improve operational efficiency with predictive machine maintenance.
Founded on May 31, 1963 on the south side of Columbus, Ohio, Donatos features the Edge to Edge® pizza created by Jim Grote with premium toppings abundantly covering every famous thin crust. Over the past 60 years, Donatos has been recognized as an industry innovator, consistently pushing the boundaries to deliver exceptional pizza experiences to its loyal customers.
"We are thrilled to be working with Appetronix to deliver an intuitive, automated system to create our pizza, accessible to people everywhere. Utilizing technology to provide a better customer experience through improved speed and product consistency has been a focus of mine since the first Donatos restaurant opened," said Jim Grote, Donatos Pizza, the Grote Company and Agápe Automation Founder.
Agápe Automation and the Grote Company will co-develop the autonomous pizzeria with Appetronix. Agápe Automation, the innovation arm for Donatos Pizza, will focus on new technologies for both fully autonomous stand-alone restaurants as well as small prep-bots for existing restaurant kitchens. The Grote Company brings invaluable experience and infrastructure to the partnership as the leading manufacturer of state-of-the-art slicing and food assembly equipment for companies the world over.
Appetronix brings to the table its expertise in advanced robotics and data science solutions, enabling automation and optimization of the restaurant operations. Through the partnership with Donatos, Appetronix aims to revolutionize the restaurant industry by introducing a new era of autonomous dining experiences.
"We are truly honoured to partner with the Grote family and contribute to the future of one of the most iconic pizza brands in the United States (Donatos Pizzeria by Appetronix). The collective experience of our combined teams now has an amazing platform to dramatically transform the restaurant industry and accelerate our collective growth strategy", says Nipun Sharma, Co-Founder & CEO of Appetronix Inc. "I would also like to take this opportunity to announce the change of our company name from SJW Robotics to Appetronix (appetite + robotics), as we provide advanced automation, robotics and data science solutions to restaurant brands with a real-estate agnostic solution that tackles labour shortage, environmental sustainability and restaurant profitability – delivering the best quality food and value to consumers."
About Appetronix Inc.
Appetronix Inc. (formerly SJW Robotics) is a foodtech company specializing in the development and design of autonomous robotic solutions for commercial restaurant kitchens. With an expert team with extensive experience in restaurant kitchen design, worldwide expansion of restaurant chains, advanced automation, robotics, and data science, Appetronix is at the forefront of innovation in the foodservice industry. Our mission is to revolutionize the way restaurants operate by leveraging cutting-edge technology to deliver custom solutions that are scalable and tailored to meet the requirements of the next generation of quick-service restaurants. Our autonomous robotic solutions holistically automate all back of house functions including portioning, cooking, plating, and even cleaning with a singular goal of providing the best tasting food.
Contact: Ivana Palumbo, admin@sjwrobotics.com
About Donatos Pizza
Donatos features the Edge to Edge® pizza, created by Jim Grote who founded Donatos in 1963. With 459 locations in 27 states, Donatos and its franchise partners operate 176 traditional restaurants in Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia, South Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Florida. Donatos' products are also proudly served in 283 non-traditional locations (273 locations with Red Robin, plus sports and entertainment venues). For more information about Donatos, visit donatosfranchise.com.
Contact: Carolyn Butler, cbutler@donatos.com
About Agápe Automation
Agápe Automation is the food-tech innovation company that creates the automated Sm^rt Kitchens of the future. We envision exponential growth for pizza operators. Our mission is to make the kitchen a better place.
About Grote Company
The Grote Company was founded by Jim Grote in 1972 and has been a family-owned and operated manufacturer of food processing equipment known for exceptional customer service, unparalleled craftsmanship, dependability, and quality. They are the leading manufacturer of slicing and food assembly equipment for companies the world over.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Investigators believe a shooting that damaged power substations in North Carolina was a crime. What they haven’t named yet is a suspect or a motive.
Whatever the reason, the shooting serves as a reminder of why experts have stressed the need to secure the U.S. power grid. Authorities have warned that the nation’s electricity infrastructure could be vulnerable targets for domestic terrorists.
Tens of thousands of people lost their electricity over the weekend after one or more people opened fire on two Duke Energy substations in Moore County, which is roughly 60 miles southwest of Raleigh. Nobody has been charged in the shooting as of Monday.
Here’s a look at what is known about the shooting and why it could have implications across the U.S.
WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT THE SHOOTING?
The outages in North Carolina began shortly after 7 p.m. on Saturday when one or more people opened fire on two power substations in Moore County, the county’s sheriff said. The outages left tens of thousands of people without electricity, and the equipment could take days to repair, according to Duke Energy.
Moore County Sheriff Ronnie Fields said at a Sunday news conference that authorities have not determined a motive. He said someone pulled up and “opened fire on the substation, the same thing with the other one.” The sheriff said that it appeared gates were breached at both sites. The Pilot newspaper in Southern Pines, North Carolina reported that a wooden post holding up a gate had been snapped at one of the substations and that it was lying in an access road Sunday morning.
The sheriff noted that the FBI was working with state investigators to determine who was responsible. He also said “it was targeted.”
“It wasn’t random,” Fields said.
Duke Energy spokesman Jeff Brooks said that the company has multiple layers of security at each of its facilities but declined to provide specifics. He said that the company has planning in place to recover from events like the shooting and that they are following those plans.
Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Ruth Clemens said the department’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has offered support to Duke Energy as it efforts the restoration of power.
TARGETS FOR EXTREMIST GROUPS
Federal authorities have warned that the power grid could be a prime target for extremist groups that embrace “accelerationism,” a fringe philosophy that promotes mass violence to fuel society’s collapse.
In January, a U.S. Department of Homeland Security report warned that domestic extremists have been developing “credible, specific plans” to attack electricity infrastructure since at least 2020. The DHS report warns that extremists “adhering to a range of ideologies will likely continue to plot and encourage physical attacks against electrical infrastructure.”
The department wrote that attackers would be unlikely to produce widespread, multistate outages without inside help. But its report cautioned that an attack could still do damage and cause injuries.
Members of white supremacist and antigovernment groups have been linked to plots to attack the power grid. In February, three men pleaded guilty to conspiring to attack U.S. energy facilities. Authorities said they were driven by white supremacist ideologies to “sow mayhem and division among Americans.”
OTHER ATTACKS
Fears of an attack on the nation’s electricity infrastructure are nothing new. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ordered grid operators to increase security following a still-unsolved April 2013 sniper attack on a California electric substation.
The attack on the Pacific Gas & Electric Company’s Metcalf Transmission Substation in an isolated area near San Jose, California, caused power outages and led to calls for millions of people to conserve energy.
The attack involved snipping fiber-optic phone lines and firing shots into the PG&E substation. The FBI said at the time that it found no evidence that it was an act of terrorism.
Former U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu, who chaired the Senate Energy Committee in 2014, said at the time that it was fortunate the attack didn’t cause a blackout in Silicon Valley, “the horrors of which could only be imagined.”
In the wake of that attack, FERC and other agencies recommended utilities to take specific measures to protect vulnerable substations, like adding walls, sensors or cameras. Still, many remain exposed in rural areas of the U.S. And experts have warned for years that taking out a few substations could cause rolling blackouts in the U.S., leaving millions without power.
A Utah man was arrested in 2016 and later sentenced to federal prison time after he used a rifle to shoot the cooling fins of a substation, rupturing the radiator piping and causing the substation to overheat and fail. Court documents said the man had planned to attack other substations as part of an effort to take down power in a large chunk of the western United States.
WHAT’S THE CHALLENGE IN PROTECTING THE GRID?
The vastness of American electricity infrastructure makes it difficult to defend. Power plants and substations like those targeted in North Carolina are dispersed in every corner of the country and connected by transmission lines that transport electricity through farmland, forests and swamps.
“The grid is massive,” said Erroll Southers, a former FBI official and professor of homeland security at the University of Southern California.
The targets also present an increasing challenge to secure because attackers don’t always have to get as close as they did in North Carolina in order to do damage, Southers said. With the right rifle, skill and line of sight a sniper could take a shot from as far as 1,500 meters (about 4,900 feet) away.
Protecting substations against a long range rifle shot is “extremely challenging, if not impossible,” he said.
Southers said all of these challenges mean that protecting the electricity infrastructure can come down to response and backup systems more than defense. “Those are the kinds of things that you put in place to protect, knowing that you may not be able to stop the rifle shot.”
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This season the Lincoln Southeast girls soccer team needed a goalkeeper, and Johanne Hagen wanted a team to play for.
And just like that it was a perfect pairing of an American high school soccer team and a Norwegian foreign exchange student.
And Hagen got a win in her first match as the starting goalkeeper, with the No. 6 ranked Knights beating Lincoln High 2-0 on Monday at Seacrest Field in the opener for both teams.
Southeast broke through with two goals in the second half. Each goal was scored by a freshman — Avaerie Graves first and then Reece Fittje.
Southeast took four freshmen for the varsity team after losing seven seniors from its Class A state runner-up team in 2022, and the rookies are already making an impact.
“At halftime, Reece said, ‘Don’t worry, I’m going to turn up this half,” Southeast coach Liz Sundberg-Kremer said. “I said, ‘OK’, and then she scored.”
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The Knights’ biggest change since last season is that goalie Samaya Hogg isn’t on the team. She was a junior last season when she was player of the year for the Journal Star, but she graduated early to begin her college soccer career at Southern Illinois-Edwardsville.
That had Sunberg-Kremer a little concerned about what Southeast would do at goalie.
“I was at (summer) lifting and conditioning trying to recruit volleyball players or softball players or someone who had touched a soccer ball,” Sundberg-Kremer said. “Or it didn’t even matter. We just needed a goalie, because we didn’t have another one in our program. And then all the girls came back and said, ‘Liz, Liz, we found a goalie. She’s an exchange student and she’s from Norway.’
"I was like ‘Great, she’s our starting keeper.”
Hagen did have soccer experience, having played in Norway for about 11 years, including a few years as a goalie.
Her brother had been an exchange student in Chicago, and after she saw he had a great experience she wanted to try it too. The 17-year-old also loves adventures, having already traveled to 30 countries (Greece is her favorite).
She is from Trondheim, Norway, a city with a population of about 180,000. On her exchange student application, she wrote that she loves the beach and sun.
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“But I really like it here because it’s completely different from where I live in Norway,” Hagen said. “I can see the ocean from my bedroom window. But here it’s like triple landlocked by states. And I wanted to get a new experience, and I definitely got that here.”
Hagen had hoped to play soccer while in the U.S.
“I knew I would play soccer, but I did not think that I would make varsity,” she said.
She said it is amazing to get to meet so many people while being part of a team. In Norway, like many countries, there are only club sports and not school teams.
“Soccer in the U.S., the school team, it’s amazing,” Hagen said “It’s completely different, and it’s really motivating to have the whole team. I really enjoy it.”
She likes playing goalie, and not just because she says you don’t have to run as much as the other players.
“The feeling when you save a goal, I really like that,” Hagen said.
The coach thinks having Hagen has bonded the team, because everyone wants to make her feel comfortable and have a good experience. Hagen isn't just new to this team, she’s also new to this country.
Sundberg-Kremer also thinks Hagan can help the team.
“She makes really great saves in practice,” she said. | https://journalstar.com/sports/high-school/soccer/goalie-from-norway-may-save-the-day-for-lincoln-southeast-soccer-team/article_f4c96808-c77e-11ed-9476-2b5e0f37e422.html | 2023-03-21 03:25:21 | 1 | https://journalstar.com/sports/high-school/soccer/goalie-from-norway-may-save-the-day-for-lincoln-southeast-soccer-team/article_f4c96808-c77e-11ed-9476-2b5e0f37e422.html |
A new two-hour HBO documentary revisits the life and career of Mary Tyler Moore, an actor most famous for playing indelible, very funny and significantly modern everyday women in two excellent TV sitcoms.
Moore won Emmys in the 1960s as housewife and mother Laura Petrie on The Dick Van Dyke Show, and then again in the '70s as single working woman Mary Richards on The Mary Tyler Moore Show. In their way, those were groundbreaking roles, but Moore challenged barriers elsewhere, succeeding both on Broadway and in the movies when, at the time, television stars seldom succeeded in crossing over to theater or film.
For the most part, Moore kept her private life private; she had a complicated childhood, three marriages and her own sometimes troubling family issues, including her mother's alcoholism and, eventually, her own. Director James Adolphus' documentary, Being Mary Tyler Moore, manages to touch all these bases — some more deeply than others.
One of the executive producers of this program is Robert Levine, Moore's third husband, who provides all manner of home movies and other material. The results aren't always flattering, but they do illuminate some of the connections between the actor's private life and the roles she played, as well as some of the battles she fought — or chose not to fight — in pursuing her career.
The approach Adolphus takes as director is to have no narration, and to rely instead on vintage TV clips and new audio interviews. Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Oprah Winfrey, Phylicia Rashad and others talk about the impact of Moore's TV roles on their own careers — but they're only heard, not seen. The TV clips are more valuable.
One clip shows the first on-screen dramatic role of Moore's career, in which she plays a telephone operator in a TV series called Richard Diamond, Private Detective, starring David Janssen, later of The Fugitive. In the show, Moore's character, "Sam," is always at her telephone switchboard — but her face is never seen, only her legs and the back of her head are visible. Moore appeared in the series for a short time before being replaced; in the documentary, she reveals that she lost the role because she asked for a raise.
As we go chronologically through Moore's career, some of the stops seem too superficial. The Dick Van Dyke Show, created by Carl Reiner, was much more significant than the time it's given here. Even the excerpts from the episodes could have showcased the series — and Moore — much better.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show is treated more skillfully: Clips are chosen from that show that reflect on her relationship with her real-life father, or that contain all the expected highlights. But while MTM Enterprises, which launched with The Mary Tyler Moore Show, changed television completely – and is more than worthy of its own documentary – that's more the story of Moore's second husband, Grant Tinker. He ran MTM, which eventually produced The Bob Newhart Show, Lou Grant, Hill Street Blues and St. Elsewhere. Moore says in this documentary she was never interested in producing or directing — just dancing and acting. But in crafting and approving the concept for her own series, she did launch all those ships.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show was as barrier-busting, in its way, as the outspoken humor of All in the Family and the anti-war sentiment of M*A*S*H. All those shows, by the way, eventually ended up on the same Saturday night of programming on CBS — paired with The Bob Newhart Show and The Carol Burnett Show. Then and now it remains the best night of television in television history. And this documentary, Being Mary Tyler Moore, helps you appreciate the show, and the actor, even more.
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A bill that would limit certain teachings on race in public schools and allow parents to challenge educational materials is moving through the Republican-controlled South Carolina House of Representatives.
The proposal is the latest iteration of a GOP-led nationwide effort to crack down on what some conservative politicians have dubbed “critical race theory." The South Carolina measure — cosponsored by several members of the Legislature's newly formed Freedom Caucus — would bar curricula from including or promoting certain concepts around race and other demographics.
Prohibited ideas include the notions that “an individual, by virtue of the race, sex, ethnicity, religion, color, or national origin of the individual, inherently is privileged, racist, sexist, or oppressive, whether consciously or subconsciously” and that a person “bears responsibility for actions committed in the past by other members” sharing their identity.
Similar measures have been proposed in other Republican-dominated statehouses. The language in the South Carolina bill mirrors sections of a law signed last year by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a likely 2024 presidential hopeful who has made “critical race theory” a frequent target. A federal judge in Florida has issued a temporary injunction preventing the law from taking effect in colleges after previously blocking its implementation in businesses. This week, DeSantis' administration rejected the College Board’s Advanced Placement African American Studies course.
Critical race theory is a way of thinking about America’s history through the lens of racism, which subscribing legal scholars say is systemic in the nation’s institutions. But it also has become a catchall phrase to describe concepts some conservatives find objectionable, such as white privilege, systemic inequality and inherent bias.
The South Carolina bill — which would take effect for the 2024-2025 school year — requires that school district websites include a list of approved textbooks. It would also require that schools create a process for parents to challenge materials potentially violating the guidelines.
A House subcommittee focused on K-12 education in South Carolina gave the bill a favorable report on Tuesday by a 4-2 vote. Lawmakers heard testimony at a public hearing where individuals were each given one minute to speak.
Republican Rep. Raye Felder emphasized that the bill does not prevent classroom lessons on “controversial aspects of history” or “the history of ethnic groups.” Rather, Felder said the bill seeks to ensure that teachings on both the “inspirational” and “shameful” history of the United States are non-biased.
“Public education should be a fair and open system where teachers, educators, and the community are valued and included,” Felder said.
Palmetto State Teachers Association Director of Government Affairs Patrick Kelly encouraged lawmakers to adopt an amendment he said would “foster critical dialogue” by encouraging parents to bring their concerns to the teacher in question before filing a formal complaint.
Other lawmakers sought clarification on the bill’s requirement that library materials be age and grade appropriate.
“Anyone could file a complaint against a teacher because they have a different definition about what is age appropriate,” Democratic Rep. Deon Tedder said. “For example, it’s fact-based that African Americans were enslaved and beaten and chained. For some parents, that may not be age appropriate.”
Advocacy groups rallied opponents to testify against the measure. The American Civil Liberties Union of South Carolina criticized what the group called vague language in the bill that would chill teachers’ speech and misrepresent American history. Critics feared the measure would create a hostile environment in a state struggling to retain educators amid a teacher shortage.
Democratic Rep. Kambrell Garvin said the bill would have driven him out of the classroom if it had been law when he was teaching.
“I would have felt intimidated,” Garvin said. "I would have felt worried or concerned had I had to worry about somebody going to report me for teaching a historically significant fact."
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James Pollard is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues. | https://www.mrt.com/news/education/article/s-c-committee-advances-limits-to-classroom-17739581.php | 2023-01-24 23:32:26 | 1 | https://www.mrt.com/news/education/article/s-c-committee-advances-limits-to-classroom-17739581.php |
RHODES, Greece (AP) — Deadly fires raging in Greece and other European countries advanced on Wednesday, destroying homes and threatening nature reserves during a third successive wave of extreme temperatures.
The summer wildfires have struck countries across the region, prompting the European Union to expand its support, sending two Spanish firefighting planes to Tunisia after wildfires in neighboring Algeria left at least 34 people dead in recent days.
Here’s a look at some of the major wildfires across Europe.
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More wildfires broke out Wednesday in the central mainland, with the most serious near the city of Volos, where outlying villages and a nearby industrial zone were ordered evacuated. The fire service said there were no immediate reports of people trapped in factory buildings.
It said two people were found dead following fires in the surrounding area — an older woman burnt to death in a caravan and a shepherd who had gone to save his flock. Volos residents were urged to stay indoors due to the smoke inhalation hazard.
Further south, a wildfire triggered a precautionary evacuation order for some outskirts of the town of Lamia.
New evacuations were ordered overnight on the islands of Corfu, Evia and Rhodes, where thousands of tourists were moved to safety over the weekend.
Authorities said the charred remains of a missing farmer were found in southern Evia — a discovery made following the death of two Greek firefighting pilots, in a crash during a low-altitude water drop.
The heat wave in Greece has pushed temperatures back above 40 C (104 F) while strong winds hampered firefighting efforts. The fire on Rhodes has damaged an inland nature reserve.
Rhodes resident Philippos Karageorgiou lamented how the blazes destroyed “forest areas with virgin forest of several years … from herbs to anything you can imagine, and Rhodes was famous for all of these.”
Following three days of destruction, most major fires in Algeria have been contained or put out, thanks to a huge mobilization of aerial and ground resources as well as falling temperatures, authorities said.
The death toll stood at 34, including 10 soldiers assisting an evacuation. The coastal and densely-forested Bejaia area was hardest hit.
Critics say the government’s efforts to prepare for the wildfires were insufficient following two deadly fire seasons.
Fires in August 2022 claimed 37 lives in the northeastern Taraf region. July 2021 saw the most significant damage in recent years, with at least 90 deaths in the northern Tizi-Ouzou region, 33 of them soldiers.
The bodies of two older people were found in a home that had been consumed by flames near the Palermo airport, on the island of Sicily, which had been closed temporarily because of the encroaching flames, according to Italian news reports.
Firefighters battled wildfires across southern Italy as searing temperatures continued to scorch Sicily, Sardinia and Calabria, where dozens of fires broke out and multiple evacuations were ordered.
Freak storms in the north of the country also left two people dead on Tuesday from falling trees.
A wildfire was burning several kilometers away from the famous walled town of Dubrovnik, in the country’s south along the Adriatic Sea coast, where water-dropping planes and more than 100 firefighters held back the blaze before it reached houses overnight.
The medieval stone city is a protected heritage site and Croatia’s best-known tourism destination.
“It’s been a long night, but we managed to stave off the part (of the fire) that is important because of the houses,” firefighting unit commander Stjepan Simovic said. “We must be careful because the wind has started to pick up and the fire can grow again.”
More than 500 firefighters continued to combat a blaze close to Lisbon, Portugal. The fire forced the evacuation of 90 people from their homes along with 800 farm animals.
The blaze near the coastal town of Cascais, 30 kilometers (19 miles) west of Lisbon, was brought under control early Wednesday, helped by cooler temperatures. Firefighters remained in the area to watch for any further flare-ups as temperatures and winds rose again Wednesday. Fears rose that it might spread deep into the nearby Sintra-Cascais Natural Park. No injuries were reported.
A hospital and a dozen homes were evacuated as a precaution in the coastal town of Kemer, where firefighters for a third day battled a blaze raging through woodland. At least 10 planes, 22 helicopters and hundreds of firefighters were deployed.
Five helicopters with night-vision capabilities worked through the night, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported. Authorities said residential areas were not under threat in Kemer in the Mediterranean coastal province of Antalya.
Water-dropping planes, helicopters and firefighters were also deployed to a forest blaze Wednesday near the district of Beykoz, in Istanbul, where temperatures reached 43 C (109.4). The cause of the wildfire on the Asian side of the city wasn’t immediately known and it wasn’t clear if residential areas were under threat.
Teams were also battling two fires near the towns of Kinik and Odemis in the western coastal province of Izmir, Anadolu said. At least three villages near Kinik were evacuated as a precaution.
Officials said that sparks from a brush cutter set off a wildfire on Gran Canaria island off the northwest coast of Africa. The fire in the la Caldera de Los Marteles volcanic area started when a worker using the cutter was clearing land with two others, island president Antonio Morales told reporters.
The three workers tried in vain to extinguish the ensuing fire before calling emergency services. Some nine water-carrying helicopters were being used by firefighters and Morales said they hoped to have the blaze under control later in the day. About 300 hectares (740 acres) of the mountain area has been burnt.
Tunisia’s interior minister, Kamel Fekih, said Wednesday that the wildfires that broke out in the country in recent days are now under control, signaling an end to the immediate danger.
He said a “few fire pockets” in the northwestern areas of Malouleh and Ain Sobh are currently being addressed but “no longer pose any danger.” Earlier in the week, a school principal in the northwestern town of Nefza died of asphyxiation because of heavy smoke from the flames.
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Derek Gatopoulos reported from Athens. Jovana Gec in Belgrade, Serbia; Suzan Fraser in Ankara, Turkey; Ciaran Giles in Madrid; Bouazza Ben Bouazza in Tunis, Tunisia; Veselin Toshkov in Sofia, Bulgaria; and Nicole Winfield and Frances D’Emilio in Rome contributed to this report. ___ Associated Press climate and environmental coverage receives support from several private foundations. See more about AP’s climate initiative here. The AP is solely responsible for all content.
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PANAJI, India (AP) — India's foreign minister is expected to hold bilateral talks Thursday with counterparts from China and Russia ahead of a Central Asian security forum meeting.
Foreign ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization began arriving in host India's tourist hotspot Goa, where they are expected to discuss deepening economic and security cooperation in the region on Friday.
The planned meeting between India's Subrahmanyam Jaishankar and China's Qin Gang comes as the two countries remain embroiled in a three-year-long intense standoff involving thousands of soldiers stationed along their disputed border in the eastern Ladakh region. During a meeting last week between their defense ministers, India accused its neighbor of eroding ties by violating bilateral agreements, and China said the border conditions were “stable overall.”
A clash three years ago in Ladakh killed 20 Indian soldiers and four Chinese.
The differing tone of the statements reflects India’s desire to draw attention to what it says is the deployment of a large number of Chinese troops, their aggressive behavior, and attempts to unilaterally alter the border status quo between the countries.
China, for its part, has tried to downplay moves to consolidate its border presence and often portrays the frictions as part of deliberate attempts by the United States to sow discord between the two nuclear-armed Asian giants.
Analysts say India is also likely to be concerned over Russia's growing reliance on China as its invasion of Ukraine drags on.
New Delhi's relationship with Moscow, its Cold War ally, has remained strong. But Beijing gaining more sway over Moscow could prove frustrating for India in the long run. While Jaishankar is unlikely to raise this in the SCO meeting, he could bring it up with Russia's Sergey Lavrov on the sidelines.
India will also be hosting Pakistan Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, who is set to arrive later Thursday, in what will be the first visit from a high-ranking official from India’s archrival in nearly a decade. Zardari’s attendance triggered speculations of a thaw in strained relations between the two South Asian countries, though both leaders have dismissed reports of a bilateral chat.
“During my visit, which is focused exclusively on the SCO, I look forward to constructive discussions with my counterparts from friendly countries,” Zardari tweeted before he set off for India.
The two countries have a history of bitter relations, mainly over Kashmir, a disputed Himalayan region that was split between them but claimed by both in its entirety. India and Pakistan have fought two wars over Kashmir since gaining independence from British colonial rule in 1947.
Jaishankar held talks with the SCO's Secretary General, Zhang Ming, earlier on Thursday and is also expected to speak with Uzbekistan's foreign minister.
Russia and China founded the SCO in 2001 as a counterweight to U.S. alliances across East Asia to the Indian Ocean. The group includes the four Central Asian nations of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, which Russia considers its backyard. In 2017, India and Pakistan became new members and Iran is set to join later this year.
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DALLAS, Nov. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- COMSovereign Holding Corp. (NASDAQ: COMS) ("COMSovereign" or the "Company"), a U.S.-based developer of 4G LTE Advanced and 5G Communication Systems and Solutions today issued the following CEO Update Letter:
To Our Fellow COMSovereign Stakeholders:
Having served as COMSovereign's Interim CEO for just over 8 weeks, I wanted to share with you my initial thoughts, observations, and a glimpse of our collective vision for where our Company needs to go and what must be done to get there.
Three areas of critical importance as I write this letter are: 1) to improve our ability to drive revenue; 2) to complete and file our quarterly financial reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") and address our public listing status on Nasdaq; and 3) to secure interim capital which can support our operations.
From a top-line prospective, our wireless connectivity and tethered aerial platform businesses represent our primary sources of revenue. These products are built around unique, proprietary differentiating technologies, and deliver unmatched capabilities to their respective clients. In the wireless business, we are actively fulfilling customer orders through existing inventory and at Drone Aviation, we continue to make progress against its $8.4 million subcontract award. In each case, we continue to seek ways to maximize the value of these products.
Regarding the status of our SEC filings, we are working diligently to address our filing delays caused by reductions in staff and turnover as well as the stock price-related deficiencies which could result in our shares being delisted from Nasdaq. We have recently enlisted additional support to assist us in completing our quarterly financial reports and have requested a hearing before the Nasdaq Hearings Panel and obtained a stay of further action pending the issuance of the Panel's decision.
In terms of capital funding, we continue to have discussions with several parties regarding both interim and longer-term opportunities. These potential fundings would enable the Company to increase resources in key areas such as increased production as well as back-office operations and sales. Furthermore, we are continuing discussions regarding the sale of certain products or non-performing assets which can provide increased cash and further maintain our focus on the wireless connectivity markets.
Working closely with the Board of Directors, I have met with, and listened to, our employees, customers, partners, and investors. What was made abundantly clear is a shared recognition of the significant value of our technologies and the role they could play in supporting an always connected wireless world. Whether we are serving the large public networks or the diverse range of private networks, the forthcoming 5G revolution demands trusted solutions delivering maximum performance, resiliency, and security. Fortunately for COMSovereign, these are just some of the defining hallmarks of our DragonWave, Fastback, and VNC radio products. This connected world also includes an increasing role for drones and other aerial platforms such as our tethered aerostats, which can deliver secure and persistent access to altitude for both Communications and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance applications. It was also clear that while COMSovereign's vision is compelling, better execution was needed in managing and integrating its portfolio of technologies and efficiently aligning its underlying operations. To address these challenges, our team is focused on four key initiatives: Streamlining the Business, Ensuring Support for Our Customers and Partners, Refining Our Technology Vision and Roadmap, and Improving Our Corporate Operations:
Operating the business on a strong and efficient foundation is critical to our success. As part of this, COMSovereign has been undergoing a strategic review of its entire operation – its products, subsidiaries, internal processes, production, and product development efforts. Critical elements here include:
- Focusing our offerings on connectivity for operators of wireless networks of all sizes, public and private. Key to this is our Fastback, DragonWave, VNC hardware and Saguna Mobile Edge Compute ("MEC") software.
- We have lowered our overhead costs by as much as 75% though headcount reductions and closing several office locations. The review is ongoing, and we will continue to focus on the most effective way to innovate, build, sell, service, and support our solutions, but do so in a fiscally prudent manner.
- As I indicated earlier, we continue to explore the sale or licensing of our technology as well as our significant intellectual property ("IP").
One of fundamental value drivers of COMSovereign was its large installed base of customers which numbered over 700+ including tier one carriers, and smaller regional network operators. These customers rely on the performance, reliability, and ease-of-use of our DragonWave and Fastback radios to address the unique network challenges they face, even for their most demanding situations. What we have heard from both existing and potential customers in new markets, is a desire to have consistent product availability and support. As such, rectifying past issues with supply chains and production has been a major focus:
- Although supply chain challenges remain, we are beginning to see improvements in backlogs with the flow of key componentry now available and a reduction in lead times. These improvements will allow us to better respond to demand we are seeing while our design and engineering teams continue address the remaining challenges with components still utilized in our products.
- We have reengaged with our contract manufacturing ("CM") partners. These CMs will enable us to more cost effectively address demand which continues to outstrip our supply capacity. Central to this effort will be the availability of funding to invest in consistent and increased production.
- We are exploring new partnerships in North America outside of our traditional go-to-market channels with a focus on enterprise and government segments while rebuilding relationships with our existing international partners throughout Asia and Europe. Having reviewed our solution portfolio, we believe there are additional partnerships that can enable us to provide our customers with a more complete, fully integrated offering.
- We intend to expand our engineering through both internal hiring and growing our relationships with existing engineering services partners.
COMSovereign's vision was the creation of a US-based provider of 5G technology that could enable service providers, governments, and enterprises to connect wherever and whenever it was needed. This vision was backed by decades of field-tested experience, unique technology capabilities and strong IP. We intend to build upon these foundational elements with a solidified and achievable roadmap for the future:
- Uniquely differentiated products designed with resiliency and security at their core, founded on providing information assurance, and built on a trusted and transparent supply chain. Our products will feature self-optimizing networking technology and integrated edge computing capabilities to reduce deployment times and costs and deliver higher performance.
- Building upon over 20 years of wireless innovation, we will accelerate development of a next generation, standards-compliant unified platform tailored to the needs of the wireless transport and access market today, but flexible enough to evolve with the industry of tomorrow. This unified solution will deliver the benefits of enhanced capability and flexibility to carriers and network operators by utilizing our existing IP.
Underlying all our transition initiatives is the commitment to ensuring we have the right business organization, operations, and personnel required to achieve our goals. The Board and I have already identified and prioritized several areas where investment and improvements are necessary:
- We intend to make improvements in sales, accounting, engineering, and support while ensuring that headcount is properly aligned to support operations and revenue.
- We are taking steps to augment our accounting and finance operations which we believe will improve our financial reporting processes as we seek to complete our quarterly filings in a timely manner.
In conclusion, the Board, our team, and I believe that the issues we face are indeed fixable. We share a commitment to realizing the value of our technology, IP, and talent and have taken steps to address the challenges which are impeding the Company's ability to deliver on the tremendous opportunities ahead of us. While there is a lot of work to do, we have a clear and focused plan, one that we believe defines an achievable path forward for the Company and can benefit all stakeholders. I look forward to communicating our progress with you in the weeks and months ahead.
Sincerely,
David Knight
Interim Chief Executive Officer
COMSovereign Holding Corp. (Nasdaq: COMS) has assembled a portfolio of communications technology companies that enhance connectivity across the entire data transmission spectrum. Through strategic acquisitions and organic research and development efforts, COMSovereign has become a U.S.-based communications provider able to provide 4G LTE Advanced and 5G telecom solutions to network operators and enterprises. For more information about COMSovereign, please visit www.COMSovereign.com.
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Gio Reyna started in his first match with the U.S. after his parents disparaged then-coach Gregg Berhalter for his lack of playing time at the World Cup, a 7-1 rout of 173rd-ranked Grenada in the CONCACAF Nationals League on Friday night at St. George’s.
Ricardo Pepi and Weston McKennie had two goals each and Alejandro Zendejas scored his first international goal. Christian Pulisic and Brenden Aaronson also scored for the No. 13 Americans, who had never won by a 7-1 score.
Pepi ended a 10-match international scoreless streak when he put the U.S. ahead with a fourth-minute header off Pulisic’s cross. Pulisic and Luca de La Torre had two assists each for the Americans, who for the first time since Major League Soccer launched in 1996 failed to field at least one MLS player.
Berhalter used Reyna sparingly at the World Cup and the 20-year-old nearly was sent home by Berhalter for lack of hustle in training. The player’s parents, former U.S. captain Claudio Reyna and former women’s player Danielle Egan Reyna, notified the U.S. Soccer Federation of a 1992 domestic violence incident involving Berhalter and the woman he later married — Danielle Egan’s former college roommate.
The USSF commissioned a law firm to investigate and appointed Anthony Hudson interim coach after Berhalter’s contract expired Dec. 31. The law firm said there was no legal impediment to retaining Berhalter, who remains a candidate, and the USSF put off a coaching decision until after a new sporting director is hired, probably this summer.
In the first competitive U.S. match since the World Cup, Reyna started in central midfield rather than his wing role under Berhalter. He played until the 64th minute.
Auston Trusty made his U.S. debut, paired in central defense with Mark McKenzie, who got his first start since October 2021. Forward Taylor Booth made his debut in the 64th.
Right back Bryan Reynolds made his first start since December 2021. The U.S. starting lineup included goalkeeper Matt Turner and, left back Joe Scally, McKennie along with Luca de la Torre, Pulisic, Reyna and Aaronson in midfield, and Pepi at striker following his omission from the World Cup roster.
The U.S. improved to 5-0 against Grenada with a 22-3 (15-2) goals advantage.
Pepi scored from 7 yards in the fourth minute, his first international goal since October 2021. Aaronson scored in the 20th minute off Pulisic’s feed, his seventh international goal. and McKennie Aaronson’s Leeds teammate, scored in the 31st, getting a head to Pulisic’s angled free kick and volleying with his weaker left foot.
Myles Hippolyte scored in the 32nd minute for Grenada in his international debut, beating Turner from 16 yards. McKennie got his 11th international goal in the 34th after Trusty headed down a cross. knocking the ball in with his right foot from short range.
Pulisic scored his 23rd international goal in the 49th minute with a shot that bounced in off goalkeeper Jason Belfon, and Pepi got his fifth international goal in the 53rd, scoring from 6 yards after running onto de la Torre’s through ball. Zendejas, who committed to the U.S. over Mexico, made his American competitive debut in the 64th minute and scored from 23 yards following a turnover in the 72nd minute.
Johnny Cardoso entered in the 76th in his American competitive debut, tying him to the U.S. program.
The Americans complete group play Monday in Orlando, Florida, against El Salvador, which has five points. and would advance to the semifinals in June with a win or draw. Grenada finished last in the group with one point.
Notes: After meeting with the U.S. team in Orlando, Reims midfielder Folarin Balogun visited New York Yankees camp in Tampa. The 21-year-old midfielder, on loan from Arsenal, is eligible to play for England, the U.S. and Nigeria. … D Miles Robinson, who hasn’t played for the U.S. since tearing his left Achilles on May 7, was a healthy scratch.
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BERLIN (AP) — Finance ministers from the Group of Seven industrial powers on Friday pledged to impose a cap on the price of Russian oil in a bid to limit the Kremlin’s revenues and ability to fund its war in Ukraine, while also curtailing the war’s impact on energy prices and inflation.
The ministers said they would impose the cap by barring insurance or shipping companies from helping Russia sell oil at prices above the set limit.
The decision follows discussions at the group’s summit earlier this year and aims at solving one of the vexing problems with sanctions against Russia: Global oil prices have risen on fears of restricted supply, which has only fattened the Kremlin’s take.
Meanwhile, skyrocketing energy prices have fed inflation that is squeezing consumers in rich and poor countries alike and threatens to push Europe into recession.
In a statement issued by Germany, which chairs the G-7 this year, the ministers said they “confirm our joint political intention to finalize and implement a comprehensive prohibition of services which enable maritime transportation of Russian-origin crude oil and petroleum products globally.”
Providing those services “would only be allowed if the oil and petroleum products are purchased at or below a price (‘the price cap’) determined by the broad coalition of countries adhering to and implementing the price cap,” they added.
The statement did not give any proposed figure for a potential price cap and also did not specify when the G-7 aims to finalize the plan. It said that “we invite all countries to provide input on the price cap’s design and to implement this important measure,” calling for a “broad coalition in order to maximize effectiveness.”
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters at a Friday briefing that in the upcoming weeks the administration will announce the price cap level, coalition partners and guidance for market participants.
The G-7 is made up of the United States, Germany, France, Britain, Italy, Canada and Japan.
When they met in June in Germany, G-7 leaders agreed to explore a price cap but said the idea needed further discussion, a testimony to the complexity of implementing it.
The measure — pushed by U.S. President Joe Biden — could work because the service providers are mostly located in the European Union or the U.K. and thus within reach of sanctions. To be effective, however, it would have to involve as many importing countries as possible, in particular India where refiners have been snapping up cheap Russian oil shunned by Western traders.
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak has said Russia will refuse to sell oil to countries or companies that observe the cap.
The U.S. has already blocked Russian oil imports, which were small in any case. The European Union has decided to impose a ban on the 90% of Russian oil that comes by sea, but that does not take effect until the end of the year.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said that the G-7 had taken “a critical step forward” and that “today’s action will help deliver a major blow (to) Russian finances and will both hinder Russia’s ability to fight its unprovoked war in Ukraine and hasten the deterioration of the Russian economy.”
“We have already begun to see the impact of the price cap through Russia’s hurried attempts to negotiate bilateral oil trades at massive discounts,” Yellen said in a statement.
A senior U.S. Treasury official, insisting on anonymity to discuss the strategic thinking, said the caps would create a new baseline price for countries such as China and India that are not part of the coalition that purchase oil from Russia. Lower prices paid to Russia by these nations would accomplish the coalition’s goal, said the official, who added that Russia is aggressively trying to lock in long-term contracts now to limit the loss of potential oil revenues.
Friday’s G-7 statement said the group encourages other oil-producing countries to increase production in order to decrease volatility in energy markets.
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David McHugh reported from Frankfurt, Germany. Josh Boak in Washington contributed.
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‘We the People’ is the White House’s theme for the holidays
WASHINGTON (AP) — Drawing decorating inspiration from America’s founding documents, Jill Biden chose a “We the People” theme to deck the White House halls and to remind Americans of what unites them throughout the year, especially during the holidays.
Journalists were given a sneak peek early Monday before the first lady was to unveil the transformational work of a small army of volunteer decorators during an event later in the day.
As part of Joining Forces, her White House initiative to support military families, Biden will be joined by National Guard leaders from across the country, as well as National Guard families. Her late son, Beau Biden, was a major in the Delaware Army National Guard.
“The soul of our nation is, and always has been, ‘We the People,’” she says in prepared remarks released by the White House. “And that is what inspired this year’s White House holiday decoration.”
The decorations include more than 83,000 twinkling lights on trees, garlands, wreaths and other displays, 77 Christmas trees and 25 wreaths on the exterior of the executive mansion.
A copy of the Declaration of Independence is on display in the library, while the always-show-stopping gingerbread White House includes a sugar cookie replica of Philadelphia’s Independence Hall, where the Constitution and Declaration of Independence were signed. The Constitution opens with the phrase, “We the People.”
“The values that unite us can be found all around you, a belief in possibility, optimism and unity,” Biden says in her prepared remarks. “Room by room, we represent what brings us together during the holidays and throughout the year.”
A new addition this year is a menorah, used in Jewish worship, that was built by White House carpenters from wood that was removed during a Truman-era renovation. The menorah is located on the State Floor.
Some 50,000 visitors are expected to pass through the White House during the holidays, including tourists and guests invited to various receptions. Among them will be French President Emmanuel Macron, who is scheduled to meet with President Joe Biden on Thursday and be honored that evening at a White House state dinner, the first of the Biden administration.
More than 150 volunteers began decorating the interior and the exterior of the White House last week and continued through the Thanksgiving holiday. Planning began in the spring.
Illustrations of the family pets — dog Commander and cat Willow — can be found in the Vermeil Room, where the décor represents different ways of showing kindness and gratitude.
Groupings of snowy trees fill corners of the East Room, which reflects nature and recreation. Four well-known national parks are depicted on the fireplace mantels: Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, Great Smoky Mountains and Shenandoah.
In the Blue Room, the official White House Christmas tree — an 18 1/2-foot (5.6-meter) Concolor fir from Auburn, Pennsylvania — is decorated to represent unity and hope with handmade renderings of the official birds from all 57 territories, states and the District of Columbia.
The State Dining Room is dedicated to the next generation — children — and trees there are decorated with ornaments that are self-portraits of the students of the 2021 Teachers of the Year, “ensuring that children see themselves” in the décor, the White House said.
Hanging from the fireplace in the State Dining Room are the Biden family Christmas stockings.
The gingerbread White House was made using 20 sheets of sugar cookie dough, 30 sheets of gingerbread dough, 100 pounds (45 kilograms) of pastillage, 30 pounds (14 kilograms) of chocolate and 40 pounds (18 kilograms) of royal icing.
“We the People” are celebrated in the Grand Foyer and Cross Hall on the State Floor, where metal ribbons also are inscribed with the names of all the states, territories and the District of Columbia.
“Mirrored ornaments and reflective surfaces ensure that visitors can see themselves in the décor, noting that the strength of our country — the Soul of our Nation — comes from ‘We the People,’” the White House said.
The White House noted that the holiday guide book visitors will receive was designed this year by Las Vegas-based Daria Peoples, who is Black. Peoples is a former elementary school teacher who has written and illustrated a series of picture books to support children of color, including those who have experienced race-based trauma.
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CHICAGO — Drew Smyly lost a perfect game bid when he collided with his catcher while trying to field an eighth-inning dribbler that went for an infield single in the Chicago Cubs’ 13-0 rout of the Los Angeles Dodgers on Friday.
Smyly (2-1) struck out 10 and walked none in 7 2/3 innings. He threw 68 of his season-high 103 pitches for strikes.
David Peralta accounted for Los Angeles’ only baserunner against Smyly on a 32.9 mph leadoff dribbler in the eighth that trickled between third base and the mound. Smyly and Yan Gomes each went for the grounder, and the catcher tumbled over the pitcher as the left-hander picked up the ball.
Smyly was checked by manager David Ross and an athletic trainer, but the pitcher stayed in the game. He retired Miguel Vargas on a popup to third and struck out James Outman before he was pulled by Ross.
Smyly received a thunderous ovation from the crowd of 30,381 as he made his way to the dugout at Wrigley Field.
There have been 23 perfect games, including Don Larsen’s in the World Series. Seattle’s Félix Hernández pitched the last in 2012.
Jeremiah Estrada finished a one-hitter for Chicago. Nick Madrigal robbed Jason Heyward with a diving grab at second base for the final out.
The Cubs became the second team to score double-digit runs six times in its first 19 games, matching the 1885 Chicago White Stockings.
The Dodgers lost for the fourth time in six games. Julio Urías (3-2) allowed five runs and seven hits in 3 1/3 innings after losing to the Cubs in his previous start.
Chicago broke open the game with seven runs in the fifth inning. Wisdom hit a three-run shot for his ninth homer. Mancini singled in Bellinger before Hoerner hit a drive to left for his first homer of the season.
MAKING MOVES
The Cubs recalled Estrada from Triple-A Iowa and optioned right-hander Javier Assad to their top farm club. Estrada had no record and a 3.18 ERA in five appearances with the big league team last year.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Dodgers: RHP Michael Grove was placed on the 15-day injured list with a right groin strain. RHP Jake Reed was promoted from Triple-A Oklahoma City, and RHP Ryan Pepiot (left oblique strain) was transferred to the 60-day IL. ... INF Chris Taylor (left side soreness) came in to play second base in the sixth inning. “I think now, as we get through today, I think we can look at him more as an everyday, can-do-anything, available player,” manager Dave Roberts said before the game.
Cubs: RHP Jameson Taillon is working on keeping his arm in shape while he is sidelined by a left groin strain. He was placed on the 15-day IL on Thursday. “Definitely improvement from when I first did it. Improvement from yesterday,” he said. “It’s only been a few days but we’re like slowly adding different things as we go to keep it moving and kind of test it out.” ... RHP Codi Heuer (Tommy John) is scheduled for a one-inning simulated game Saturday in Arizona.
UP NEXT
Dustin May (1-1, 3.00 ERA) starts for Los Angeles on Saturday and fellow right-hander Hayden Wesneski (1-0, 4.15 ERA) pitches for Chicago. May permitted five runs and eight hits in 5 2/3 innings in an 8-6 loss to the New York Mets on Monday. Wesneski tossed seven innings of one-run ball in a 10-1 win at Oakland in his previous start.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — More than three decades after a bomb brought down Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing everyone aboard, a former Libyan intelligence official accused of making the explosive appeared Monday in federal court, charged with an act of international terrorism.
The extradition of Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi marked a milestone in the decades-old investigation into the attack that killed 259 people aboard the plane and 11 on the ground. His arrival in Washington sets the stage for one of the Justice Department’s more significant terrorism prosecutions in recent memory.
“Although nearly 34 years have passed since the defendant’s actions, countless families have never fully recovered,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Erik Kenerson said during a court proceeding attended by victims’ relatives.
The Justice Department announced Sunday that Mas’ud had been taken into U.S. custody, two years after it revealed that it had charged him in connection with the explosion. Two other Libyan intelligence officials have been charged in the U.S. for their alleged involvement in the attack, but Mas’ud was the first defendant to appear in an American courtroom for prosecution.
The New York-bound Pan Am flight exploded over Lockerbie less than an hour after takeoff from London on Dec. 21, 1988. Citizens from 21 countries were killed. Among the 190 Americans on board were 35 Syracuse University students flying home for Christmas after a semester abroad.
The bombing laid bare the threat of international terrorism more than a decade before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and produced global investigations and punishing sanctions. Several victims’ relatives who weren’t sure a criminal case would ever be brought described as surreal the news that Mas’ud was finally in American custody.
Stephanie Bernstein, whose husband, Michael, was a Justice Department prosecutor returning from England aboard Pan Am 103, said she felt a “tremendous amount of satisfaction.” She said her husband prosecuted Nazis and felt strongly that there was no statute of limitations for murder.
“He had a fortune cookie adage on his door that said, ‘The law sometimes sleeps, but it never dies.’ This shows that the law never dies, that the United States government is going to take care of its citizens in life and in death and that the government has not forgotten,” Bernstein said.
Outside the courthouse Monday, Paul Hudson carried a photograph of his daughter, Melina, a 16-year-old student who had been returning for the Christmas holidays from an exchange program. He recalled how, after the crash, her belongings were scattered around the Lockerbie countryside. The family did get back her passport and her notebook.
“And the notebook had, on the cover, the quote ‘No one dies unless they’re forgotten,’ and I’ve tried to live by that,” he said. Remembrances of his daughter are an “everyday thing” and “this time of year, it gets stronger.”
The bearded and balding Mas’ud wore a green jail uniform, and walked with a halting gait to the defense table. He spoke occasionally through an interpreter, and the federal defenders who represented him at the hearing said he wanted to be represented by lawyers of his own choice.
At one point, as the charges were being discussed, Mas’ud said in Arabic that he could not speak until he saw his attorney.
A detention hearing was set for later in the month.
The announcement of charges against Mas’ud on Dec. 21, 2020, came on the 32nd anniversary of the bombing and in the final days of the tenure of then-Attorney General William Barr. At the time, Mas’ud was in Libyan custody. The announcement was a career bookend for Barr, who in his first stint as attorney general in the early 1990s had announced criminal charges against two other Libyan intelligence officials.
The Libyan government initially balked at turning over those two men, Abdel Baset Ali al-Megrahi and Lamen Khalifa Fhimah, before ultimately surrendering them for prosecution before a panel of Scottish judges sitting in the Netherlands as part of a special arrangement.
In Mas’ud’s case, a newly unsealed Justice Department indictment includes three charges related to the explosion, including destruction of an aircraft, resulting in death. Prosecutors said in court that they would not be pursuing the death penalty because that punishment was not available for those specific crimes at the time the bombing occurred.
U.S. officials did not say how Mas’ud came to be taken into U.S. custody, but late last month local Libyan media reported that Mas’ud had been kidnapped by armed men on Nov. 16 from his residence in Tripoli, the capital. That reporting cited a family statement that accused Tripoli authorities of being silent on the abduction.
A breakthrough in the Justice Department’s investigation came when U.S. officials in 2017 received a copy of an interview that Mas’ud, a longtime explosives expert for Libya’s intelligence service, had given to Libyan law enforcement in 2012 after being taken into custody following the collapse of the government of the country’s leader, Col. Moammar Gadhafi.
In that interview, U.S. officials said, Mas’ud admitted building the bomb in the Pan Am attack and working with two other conspirators to carry out the attack. He also said the operation was ordered by Libyan intelligence and that Gadhafi thanked him and other members of the team after the attack, according to an FBI affidavit.
That affidavit said Mas’ud told Libyan law enforcement that he flew to Malta to meet al-Megrahi and Fhimah. He handed Fhimah a medium-sized Samsonite suitcase containing a bomb, having already been instructed to set the timer so that the device would explode exactly 11 hours later, according to the document. He then flew to Tripoli, the FBI said.
Al-Megrahi was convicted in the Netherlands while Fhimah was acquitted of all charges. Al-Megrahi was given a life sentence, but Scottish authorities released him on humanitarian grounds in 2009 after he was diagnosed with prostate cancer. He died in Tripoli, still protesting his innocence.
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WINNIPEG, MB, Jan. 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - Pollard Banknote Limited ("Pollard Banknote") (TSX: PBL) is pleased to announce that, following a competitive procurement process, it has been awarded a primary contract from Norsk Tipping, Norway's national lottery, to supply instant scratch tickets. The three-year contract commenced December 1, 2022 and will automatically renew for one additional year.
This is the second consecutive contract where Pollard Banknote has been named primary supplier, marking the continuation of the long-standing partnership between Pollard Banknote and Norsk Tipping. Most recently, Norsk Tipping achieved notable sales success with the launch of several products featuring Pollard Banknote's industry-leading innovations, including Scratch Tab™, featured in the best-selling holiday game, Flax Julekalender. Offering big value in an oversized ticket, Flax Julekalender continues to be a player favourite at Christmas every year. The Lottery has also leveraged Pollard Banknote's Scratch FX™ innovation, which adds sparkle and shines brightly at retail, to drive record-setting sales that benefit good causes across Norway.
Pollard Banknote also shares the Lottery's commitment to raising funds for good causes while providing products and services responsibly and ethically. Throughout the duration of the contract, Pollard Banknote will continue to work alongside Norsk Tipping to ensure it upholds sustainable and environmentally friendly practices.
"Pollard Banknote has been a trusted partner for many years and through this new contract we look forward to leveraging more of their industry experience and expertise, including strategic marketing services, as well as exciting product innovations," said Hans Erland Ringsvold, Head of Gaming Operations, Norsk Tipping. "We are excited to continue to work together to offer our players instant scratch tickets, both retail and online, in an innovative and sustainable manner that grow revenues to the benefit of sports, culture, and humanitarian organisations in Norway."
"We are thrilled to continue our successful relationship with Norsk Tipping," said Julia Cloutier, Senior Director, Sales & Marketing, Pollard Banknote. "The Lottery has leveraged many of Pollard Banknote's exciting product innovations over the years, including Scratch FX™, Iridescent FX™, and Scratch Tab™. This new contract will allow us to continue to work with the Lottery to offer our latest innovations and sustainable, market-specific strategies to ensure growth that benefits good causes across Norway."
Founded in 1948, Norsk Tipping is a wholly state-owned lottery located in Hamar, Norway. Its social mission of offering attractive games within responsible frameworks to create profits for good causes has enabled the Lottery to contribute over 183.5 billion Norwegian kroner (approximately $18.6 billion USD) to sport, culture, health, and humanitarian causes throughout Norway.
Pollard Banknote is a leading lottery partner to more than 60 lotteries worldwide, providing high-quality instant ticket products, licensed games, in-lane ticket options, and sales-driving merchandising solutions from its Schafer Retail Solutions + portfolio. It also offers a full suite of digital offerings, ranging from world-class game apps to comprehensive player engagement and iLottery solutions, including strategic marketing and management services. The company is a proven innovator and has decades of experience helping lotteries to maximize player engagement, sales, and proceeds for good causes. Pollard Banknote also provides pull-tab tickets, bingo paper, ticket vending machines, and its Diamond Game and Compliant Gaming electronic games and devices to charitable and other gaming markets in North America. Established in 1907, Pollard Banknote is owned approximately 64.3% by the Pollard family and 35.7% by public shareholders, and is publicly traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: PBL). For more information, please visit our website at www.pollardbanknote.com.
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CODY, Wyo. - Wyoming’s Department of Transportation will plow snow from the road to Montana’s Cooke City and Silvergate if Yellowstone National Park is closed to them next fall and winter.
But Yellowstone's Park Superintendant predicts road repairs will be complete to reopen the north and northeast entrances by mid-October.
Cooke City and Silvergate are Yellowstone’s northeast entrance gateway communities during the summer season. Tourism businesses here thrive on the park visitors who drive through and stop for food, gas, and lodging.
But in the winter it is a snowmobiler’s private paradise because the highway east of Cooke City is allowed to accumulate snow.
It’s called the plug by locals.
The Director of Cody Country Snowmobile Association, Bert Miller, said in 2013: “Well the trail system links from the Beartooth Mountain Range, and Cooke City. We have 100 to 125 miles between there of groomed and marked trails.”
But June’s flooding washed out much of the roadway inside the northeast part of the park. So for now, there is no way out of the towns through Yellowstone. And unplowed, the plug on the other end of the highway would strand people in the towns.
Yellowstone Superintendant Cam Sholly vowed to keep the stretch of road open.
“If the repairs are not completed by October 15, then Yellowstone, with the help of Montana and Wyoming, will insure that the plug is plowed until those temporary repairs are in place,” he said.
Wyoming Department of Transportation officials recently told Wyoming’s Park County Commissioners that the agency is getting ready to plow the plug, anyway.
“What the level of service through the park looks like is still a little bit up in the air," WYDOT District Engineer Pete Hallsten said. "Oftedahl is just getting started in rebuilding the road from the Tower Junction up through the northeast gate.”
WYDOT Spokesman Cody Beers also said the agency is ready to keep the road open in winter.
“We’re going to make sure they have access to the outside world until that road inside the Northeast gate reopens,” he said.
Terri Briggs owns a motel right in the middle of the plug. Snowmobilers are her only clients in the winter. She would like to see the plug plowed in a way that would allow sleds and cars on Highway 212.
Cooke City/Silvergate Chamber President Terri Briggs remarked: “…It might be a great experiment that is pushed on us that is very welcome.”
When asked about the possibility, Miller said: “We’d like to see the road remain as a trail going into Cooke City, but we also realize there could be some special needs for the people of Cooke City, and we might have to do things a little bit differently, but we want to see the trail remain a trail.”
If the plug has to be plowed, people in Cody who don’t have snowmobiles might like it, too.
During the summer, they have to drive only 52 miles to get to the park’s East Entrance.
But during the winter the drive to Silvergate and Cooke City is a five to seven-hour trip through I-90 to Livingston, down to Mammoth, and through the park. It would be much shorter to drive on the Chief Joseph Highway to the gateway communities and take less than half the time.
And Briggs would like to have some extra winter business, after a dismal summer season.
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RENO, Nev. -- Conservationists are seeking an emergency court order to block construction of a Nevada lithium mine after a U.S. judge directed a federal agency to revisit part of its approval of the plans but allowed construction to go forward in the meantime.
Four environmental groups want U.S. District Judge Miranda Du in Reno to temporarily halt any work at a subsidiary of Lithium Americas' mine near the Oregon border until they can appeal her ruling earlier this month to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
They filed on Tuesday a formal notice of their intent to appeal to the circuit court in San Francisco and an emergency motion for injunction in Reno pending the appeal.
"This mine should not be allowed to destroy public land unless and until the Ninth Circuit has determined whether it was legally approved," Talasi Brooks, a lawyer for the Western Watersheds Project, said Tuesday.
Lithium Americas didn't respond to a request for comment Tuesday. The company said in a statement last week that construction at the mine was "imminent" after Du ruled Feb. 6 the Bureau of Land Management had acted legally -- with one possible exception -- when it approved plans for the mine in January 2021.
She ordered the bureau to go back and determine whether the company had established valid mining rights on 1,300 acres of neighboring land, where it plans to bury millions of tons of waste rock removed from the open pit it intends to dig deeper than the length of a football field to mine the lithium.
Du stopped short of granting the opponents' request to block any work at the site until the validity of the claim was established under the Mining Law of 1872 on the adjacent lands about 200 miles northeast of Reno.
The White House says the mine planned by Lithium Nevada Corp., a subsidiary of Lithium Americas, is critical to ramped-up efforts to produce raw materials for electric vehicle batteries.
"There's no evidence that Lithium Nevada will be able to establish valid mining claims to lands it plans to bury in waste rock and tailings, but the damage will be done regardless," Brooks said in a statement Tuesday announcing the filing of the new emergency request for an injunction.
"The flawed and fast-tracked approval of this mine would inflict long-term damage to a critical sage grouse population, scare off nesting golden eagles and potentially destroy the groundwater resources for an extensive area surrounding the project site," added Kevin Emmerich, co-founder of Basin and Range Watch, another co-plaintiff in the case.
Du said in her Feb. 6 ruling that it was one of the rare instances where it was proper to stop short of vacating a government agency's approval of an overall project to allow the bureau to re-examine the adequacy of one element of the plan -- the disposal of the waste rock.
She made clear her ruling incorporates part of a recent ruling by the 9th Circuit in a fight over the Mining Law of 1872 in a case in Arizona that could prove more onerous to mining companies that want to dispose of their waste on neighboring federal lands.
In that case, the San Francisco-based appellate court upheld an Arizona ruling that the U.S. Forest Service lacked authority to approve Rosemont Copper's plans to dispose of waste rock on land adjacent to the mine it wanted to dig on a national forest southeast of Tucson. The service and the Bureau of Land Management long have interpreted the mining law to convey the same mineral rights to such lands. | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/feb/23/court-filing-seeks-to-block-lithium-mine/ | 2023-02-23 09:32:53 | 0 | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/feb/23/court-filing-seeks-to-block-lithium-mine/ |
Washington residents who test positive for the coronavirus can now get a free telehealth appointment for treatment consultation, regardless of their insurance coverage.
Late last week, the state Department of Health launched the new telehealth option as an expansion of the federal government’s initiative to increase access to COVID-19 treatments.
Antiviral pills authorized to treat COVID — Pfizer’s Paxlovid and Merck’s molnupiravir — are available by prescription only and should be started within five days of when symptoms begin, according to the Food and Drug Administration.
Telehealth appointments via phone or video call to discuss COVID treatments had previously been only available to insured patients who receive care through a provider that offers them, according to the health department. The new program makes these visits available to everyone, regardless of insurance status, with no out-of-pocket costs.
“At DOH, we value equity and innovation, and have embraced those values throughout our COVID-19 response,” said Dr. Umair Shah, Secretary of Health, in a news release. “Ensuring that we can equitably connect communities with therapeutics is pivotal so that we can continue our mission of reducing unnecessary death from this disease.”
Statewide, COVID cases have remained relatively flat over the last couple months, with 213 new cases per 100,00 people from July 17 to July 23. Hospitalizations have increased over the same time period and may be plateauing at a seven-day rate of about 10 per 100,000. The death rate has increased, with 80 COVID deaths recorded from June 23 to June 29, the most recent complete data.
In Cowlitz County, COVID cases appear to be slowly decreasing or flattening, with about 141 per 100,000 from July 17 to July 23. In the county and statewide, the number of cases reported is an undercount because not everyone gets tested or reports at-home test results, according to the health department.
Hospitalizations rise and fall from week to week, but overall admissions per month have slowly increased, according to Cowlitz County Health and Human Services. The most recent weekly hospitalization rate is above the state average, at 12.7 per 100,000.
Last month, the county recorded an increase in COVID deaths, with 13 so far in July, up from two in June, according to the county health department.
County health staff plan to get the word out locally about the new free option through the department’s website, social media pages and other outreach efforts, said Stefanie Donahue, communications manager.
“We’re pleased to see new options for people to access COVID-19 treatments and are hopeful the state’s announcement last week helped broaden awareness,” she said. “We want people to know COVID-19 treatments are potentially life-saving, particularly for those who are at higher risk of severe disease.”
Not everyone who tests positive for COVID-19 needs treatment. Oral antivirals are important for people who are at high risk of hospitalization, including people who are 65 and older, pregnant, or obese, or have chronic medical conditions, as well as those taking immunosuppressant treatments, according to the Department of Health.
People can set up a telehealth appointment through the state’s new program at the Department of Health’s telehealth webpage at bit.ly/3cYUIEb or by calling the COVID call center at 1-800-525-0127 and pressing #. The call center can set up appointments from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Mondays and 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesdays through Sundays and state holidays. Telehealth appointments are available in 240 languages through translation services and can be arranged through the call center. | https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/wa-expands-telehealth-options-to-improve-access-to-covid-treatment/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_seattle-news | 2022-08-02 03:06:03 | 1 | https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/wa-expands-telehealth-options-to-improve-access-to-covid-treatment/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_seattle-news |
Both Keke Palmer and Draya Michele looked fabulous in the Alex Perry ruched mini dress, and now we want one in our closets!
Every now and then, celebs fashionably twin up, and this time Keke Palmer and Draya Michele gave us a stylish double whammy that we love! The queens stepped out in a $1,800 (now on sale – yes, we checked) Alex Perry multicolored ruched dress, and both stars flexed in the garment. The strapless dress features a sweetheart neckline and opera-length gloves. Palmer gave us Jessica Rabbit vibes in her dress as she wore her hair in a similar style as the cartoon character and served body like Jessica Rabbit is famously known for.
The Big Boss star never looked so glamorous as she worked the dress with diamond hoop earrings, Miu Miu heels, Dolce & Gabbana sunglasses, and a Kate Spade NY mini bag. Palmer posted the hot look to her Instagram with the caption, “Coming for everything I’m owed. #NewEra Have y’all watched the Big Boss movie and listened to the album? Don’t be late nah…..” Her followers loved her look and lit up her comment section with all the praises.
Draya Michelle sported her Alex Perry garb at a Grammy event back in February. The fashion designer styled her dress with clear sandals and a white feathered purse. She wore her hair in a messy bun and framed her gorgeous face with tendrils. Of course, her curves added pizazz to the dress, filling it out in all the right places.
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- Transaction has completed following shareholder and court approvals
- Novamind shareholders and RSU holders have been issued 0.84 Numinus shares per Novamind share
- As a result of the acquisition, Novamind has ceased trading on the Canadian Securities Exchange (CSE)
- Reid Robison has been appointed Chief Clinical Officer and Paul Thielking has been appointed Chief Science Officer
- Michael Tan has been promoted to President and Chief Operating Officer
VANCOUVER, BC, June 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Numinus Wellness Inc. ("Numinus", the "Company") (TSX: NUMI) (OTCQX: NUMIF) is pleased to announce the acquisition (the "Transaction") of Novamind Inc. ("Novamind") has completed, following Novamind's receipt of a final order from the BC Supreme Court. As a result of the acquisition, Numinus now operates 13 wellness clinics, four clinical research facilities and a dedicated psychedelics research lab – positioning the company as a leading integrated mental wellness company providing ketamine- and psychedelic-assisted therapies.
This acquisition significantly grows Numinus' client service offerings, geographic reach, and revenues. Numinus and Novamind clients will benefit from access to a greater variety of services and treatments over the coming months, including the expansion of virtual therapy services at US-based clinics and increased group therapy offerings in Canada. The transaction has also provided a strong US platform for potential continued growth in partnership and acquisition opportunities. On a proforma basis, the combined business generated C$11.9 million of annual revenues (trailing four quarters reported, as at June 10, 2022).
"This acquisition elevates our collective service offering, and we look forward to helping an even greater number of people access effective and safe treatments to support mental wellness," said Payton Nyquvest, Founder and CEO, Numinus. "We warmly welcome the Novamind team to Numinus and believe our shared values and focus on client service will ensure a seamless integration as we continue to grow as one unified company."
Executive Appointments
Numinus is also pleased to announce the appointments of Dr. Reid Robison (MD) as Chief Clinical Officer and Dr. Paul Thielking (MD) as Chief Science Officer, who both join the Company from Novamind.
Dr. Robison was most recently Chief Medical Officer at Novamind. He is a board-certified psychiatrist and co-founder of Cedar Psychiatry and serves as the Medical Director for the Center for Change, a leading center for the treatment of eating disorders. He was previously a coordinating investigator for a study on MDMA-assisted therapy for eating disorders, sponsored by the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). As an early adopter and researcher of the use of ketamine in psychiatry, Dr. Robison also led a pivotal intravenous ketamine study for treatment-resistant depression by Janssen, leading up to that company's recent FDA-approval of Spravato™. To date, Dr. Robison has guided thousands of ketamine-assisted therapy sessions and hundreds of Spravato™ dosing sessions. Dr. Robison is an adjunct professor at both the University of Utah and Brigham Young University.
Dr. Thielking was most recently Chief Scientific Officer at Novamind and is board certified in psychiatry, hospice and palliative medicine, and integrative medicine. He is the principal investigator for a psilocybin-enhanced group psychotherapy intervention for cancer patients with depression and a co-investigator on a study for ketamine-assisted psychotherapy for opioid use disorder. He has extensive experience with creating group therapy interventions for patients with serious illness and has successfully integrated ketamine-assisted psychotherapy services within an academic outpatient oncology clinic for cancer patients with depression. Dr. Thielking was director of psycho-oncology at the University of Utah Huntsman Cancer Institute for five years and previously an associate professor in the department of psychiatry at the University of Utah. He is a graduate of the California Institute of Integrative Studies' Certification of Psychedelic Therapy and Research program.
Numinus is also pleased to announce that as a result of his growing responsibilities, Michael Tan has been promoted to President and Chief Operating Officer. In his new role, Mr. Tan will oversee all Company operations and will lead strategic directives to drive revenue growth through future footprint and product line expansions. Mr. Tan has been instrumental in Numinus' growth, and joined the Company in 2019.
As a result of the increased medical and research expertise added to Numinus' expanded executive team, Dr. Evan Wood, Chief Medical Officer, will now be able to continue in his role in a reduced capacity, in order to enable him to maintain his important advocacy, clinical and teaching work. Dr. Wood remains committed to Numinus over the long term and will continue as the Company's Chief Medical Officer through the integration of Novamind, though with reduced office hours.
Integration and Consolidation of Operations
As a result of the acquisition, Numinus now has 13 operating wellness clinics across North America, four clinical research sites and a dedicated psychedelics research laboratory. The Company intends to continue operating all of these locations and is reviewing previously announced organic clinic growth plans, considering the significantly expanded scale this acquisition has provided.
Clinics in Utah and Arizona will continue to operate under existing branding until later this year, at which point all locations will be rebranded to reflect the Numinus brand.
Securities Issuance
As approved by shareholders on June 8, 2022, Numinus has issued 43,474,659 common shares to the former shareholders and RSU holders of Novamind, as consideration for the acquisition – representing 0.84 of one (the "Exchange Ratio") Numinus common share per each Novamind share and Novamind restricted share unit (RSU). Given securities processing times, these Numinus shares should settle in Novamind investor accounts by June 16, 2022.
In connection with the Transaction, all 3,346,052 incentive stock options of Novamind were cancelled and replaced at the Exchange Ratio through the issuance of 2,810,684 incentive stock options of Numinus (the "Replacement Options") with each Replacement Option being exercisable to acquire one common share of Numinus (a "Common Share"), and of which (i) 2,453,684 Replacement Options are exercisable at a price of approximately $0.4762 per Common Share until December 11, 2025, (ii) 252,000 Replacement Options are exercisable at a price of approximately $1.1905 per Common Share until December 22, 2025, and (iii) 105,000 Replacement Options are exercisable at a price of approximately $0.4762 per Common Share until April 30, 2025.
In addition, all 19,044,831 outstanding warrants of Novamind have been adjusted in accordance with their respective contractual terms and will be exercisable at the Exchange Ratio to acquire 15,997,658 Common Shares.
In connection with the Transaction, the Company engaged Eight Capital ("Eight Capital") as exclusive financial advisor. In consideration of the services provided by Eight Capital, the Company agreed to pay a fee in the amount of $700,000 (the "Completion Fee"), of which $200,000 are to be paid in Common Shares valued at $0.45 per Common Share, being 444,444 Common Shares (the "Completion Fee Shares"), with the balance of the Completion Fee to be paid in cash. The issuance of the Completion Fee Shares is subject to approval from the Toronto Stock Exchange. The Completion Fee Shares will be subject to resale restrictions expiring four months and one day from the date of issuance in accordance with applicable securities laws.
Details of the Transaction are set out in Numinus' management information circular dated May 4, 2022, which is available under the Company's profile on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.
About Numinus
Numinus Wellness (TSX: NUMI) helps people to heal and be well through the development and delivery of innovative mental health care and access to safe, evidence-based psychedelic-assisted therapies. The Numinus model - including psychedelic production, research and clinic care - is at the forefront of a transformation aimed at healing rather than managing symptoms for depression, anxiety, trauma, pain and substance use. At Numinus, we are leading the integration of psychedelic-assisted therapies into mainstream clinical practice and building the foundation for a healthier society.
Learn more at www.numinus.com and follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
Forward-Looking Statements
This news release includes certain "forward‐looking information" and "forward‐looking statements" (collectively "forward‐looking statements") within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities legislation, including statements regarding the plans, intentions, beliefs and current expectations of the Company with respect to future business activities and operating performance. All statements in this news release that address events or developments that the Company expects to occur in the future are forward‐looking statements. Forward‐looking statements are statements that are not historical facts and are often identified by words such as "expect", "plan", "anticipate", "project", "target", "potential", "schedule", "forecast", "budget", "estimate", "intend" or "believe" and similar expressions or their negative connotations, or that events or conditions "will", "would", "may", "could", "should" or "might" occur, and include information regarding expectations regarding the potential benefits of the Transaction and the ability of the combined company to successfully achieve business objectives; and expectations for other economic, business, and/or competitive factors.
Forward‐looking statements necessarily involve assumptions, risks and uncertainties, certain of which are beyond the Company's control. These forward‐looking statements are qualified in their entirety by cautionary statements and risk factor disclosure contained in filings made by the Company with the Canadian securities regulators, including the Company's financial statements and related MD&A for the financial year ended August 31, 2021 and its interim financial statements and related MD&A for the three and six months ended February 28, 2022, all filed with the securities regulatory authorities in all provinces and territories of Canada, except Québec, and available under the Company's profile at www.sedar.com. The risk factors are not exhaustive of the factors that may affect the Company's forward‐looking statements. The Company's forward‐looking statements are based on the applicable assumptions and factors management considers reasonable as of the date hereof, based on the information available to management of the Company at such time. The Company does not assume any obligation to update forward‐looking statements if circumstances or management's beliefs, expectations or opinions should change other than as required by applicable securities laws. There can be no assurance that forward‐looking statements will prove to be accurate, and actual results, performance or achievements could differ materially from those expressed in, or implied by, these forward‐looking statements. Accordingly, undue reliance should not be placed on forward‐looking statements.
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The University of Oregon is apologizing after football fans launched into an offensive chant.
Oregon was playing BYU, which is operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, on Saturday.
A clip posted online shows the crowd shouting, "(Expletive) the Mormons."
The governor of Utah commented on the video, saying, "Religious bigotry alive and celebrated in Oregon."
The University of Oregon said the chant coming from the student section was "disgraceful."
"These types of actions go against everything the university stands for, and it goes against the spirit of competition," the university tweeted. "We can and will do better as a campus community that has no place for hate, bias or bigotry.
Oregon's governor retweeted the university's statement. She added that the chant was "unacceptable."
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MUMBAI, India, June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Decimal Point Analytics (DPA), a leading financial research and analytics firm, secured an investment of $ 4.7mn from a global insurance company in the GCC region. This is in line with the growth strategy and expanding DPA's geographical presence across the globe.
The capital raised will build DPA's delivery capability, strengthen the team and create a next-generation technology platform to facilitate their client operations. DPA has been rapidly increasing the number of employees in response to solid demand for its services. It has recently opened its third operational center in GIFT City near Gandhinagar/Ahmedabad; the company expects the next growth phase to be facilitated from this center.
The focus is three-fold, the first is to continue adding fresh layers of solutions for their customers, such as CRM and ESG analytics. Next is to build DPA's technology platform that will act as RPA for data ingestion and data analytics. Finally, consider strategic acquisitions of business operations that naturally align with the company's long-term objectives.
Shailesh Dhuri, CEO, of Decimal Point Analytics, says, "Over the past years Decimal Point Analytics' ability to bring AI and ML in financial research has helped extensively transition to the new paradigm and see the growth momentum continuing in ESG and related field. With the investments, we are looking to expand our services in risk management, catastrophe modeling, actuarial services, and others. Using the latest and innovative technology will enable our clients to achieve significant enhancement through quality, timeliness, and efficiency."
Decimal Point Analytics was formed in 2003 by senior professionals from the Indian Capital Markets and is a global provider of Research and Data Analytics products and services, including Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence-based solutions. Key client categories include Data Providers, Asset Management Companies, Private Equity Firms, Hedge Funds, Banks, Insurance Companies, and Broking Houses. DPA's background and understanding of Financial Research and its strengths in Technology provide it an edge in effectively understanding and solving client problems.
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- Sibel Health announces a new FDA 510(k) clearance making it a leading digital health company with a comprehensive solution for home sleep diagnostics, and continuous patient monitoring for neonates, infants, and adults.
- Sibel Health presents key findings at the International Maternal Newborn Health Conference 2023 in Cape Town, South Africa
- Montreal Children's Hospital testing Sibel sensors towards the goal of the world's first wireless neonatal intensive care unit
CHICAGO, May 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Sibel Health, an award-winning digital health company spun out of the Querrey Simpson Institute for Bioelectronics at Northwestern University, announces a new 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for continuous neonatal and infant monitoring for babies born of any gestational age to infants of 2 years at the International Maternal Newborn Health Conference in Cape Town, South Africa. The ANNE® One platform is now cleared as a clinical-grade continuous monitoring solution for neonates, infants, and adults. Sibel Health recently closed a Series B financing round led by The Steele Foundation for Hope in 2022 with a mission to deliver Better Health Data for All®.
The ANNE® One platform offers a growing list of physiological parameters including heart rate, respiratory rate, skin temperature, body temperature, apnea-hypopnea index, total sleep time, snoring, chest wall movement, body position, pulse rate, peripheral arterial tonometry, and SpO2. "We're excited to see that our technology can be used to monitor babies wirelessly born of any gestational age in the hospital for heart rate, skin temperature, and body temperature," noted Sarah Coughlin, Senior Regulatory Affairs and Quality Assurance Engineer at Sibel health. "We see the ANNE® One system to be broadly applicable across the entire clinical care continuum from pediatrics to adults," added JooHee Lee, Senior Product Manager and cofounder of Sibel Health.
Sibel Health was founded on a commitment to serve the pediatric population having won the 2020 Nature SpinOff Prize for its pioneering work in wirelessly monitoring premature neonates. Now, the company is announcing a deeper collaboration with Montreal Children's Hospital and McGill University. "We're already testing the Sibel system here with the vision to jointly create the world's first wireless NICU. It's especially exciting to now be able to offer a continuous wireless monitoring solution for sick kids born at any gestational age including extreme prematurity—particularly during a time where our pediatric hospitals are under so much pressure," says Guilherme Sant'Anna MD PhD, neonatologist and principal investigator of the Smart Hospital Project at The Montreal Children's Hospital. Ha Uk Chung PhD, VP of R&D and cofounder, notes "it is satisfying to see what started off as my graduate student project at Northwestern University with publications in Science and Nature Medicine is now FDA-cleared and commercially launching in this special population. We're looking forward to working with Dr. Sant'Anna in the Smart Hospital Project to bring wireless monitoring to neonates along with AI-driven clinical intelligence and neonatal specific dashboards."
Pediatric medical innovation remains a challenge. The vast majority of medical devices used in pediatrics are not FDA-cleared or designed for children. "At Sibel Health, pediatric medical device development has been and will always be a major focus for us. We know that going wireless will have the greatest impact for our littlest patients. The ability to announce our FDA-clearance and clinical performance data at the 2023 International Maternal Newborn Health Conference, a pivotal meeting convening the world's experts maternal newborn health community, is especially rewarding given that the majority of neonatal deaths happen in low income settings." says Steve Xu MD, CEO and Cofounder.
About Sibel Health:
Sibel Health is an award-winning digital health company with a mission to deliver Better Health Data for All®. Based in Chicago with an international office in Seoul, the company's FDA-cleared ANNE® platform includes advanced wearable sensors, AI-enabled data analytics, and an integrated mobile software and cloud platform. Sibel's partnerships include some of the most respected healthcare organizations worldwide. For more information, please visit us at www.sibelhealth.com and follow us on LinkedIn.
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America needs to rethink how we address mental health needs.
Two of the main reasons organizers cited for the Kaiser strike are the ever-increasing workload and excessively long wait times for patients to access care. While the pandemic certainly exacerbated these issues, neither is new. According to a projection tool from the American Psychological Association, which looks at both the supply and expected demand nationwide for licensed psychologists through 2030, we are currently unable, and will continue to be unable, to meet demand for the foreseeable future. The same is true for social workers, psychiatrists, psychiatric nurses and licensed mental health counselors. The nation’s need for these mental health professionals continues to outpace our supply — leading to an overstretched mental health workforce and contributing to long wait times.
But underlying these issues is an even more fundamental problem.
In the U.S., the dominant model for how health maintenance organizations like Kaiser and other large health organizations offer mental health services is through one patient to one provider, face to face, in-person treatment with a trained mental health provider who has a master’s or doctoral degree. In other words, it’s a resource-intensive model in a field that we already know has extremely limited resources.
But the reality is, not every person needs this kind of intensive treatment to meet their mental health needs.
For example, consider a person experiencing some mild depression. Maybe they’ve lost interest in activities they once enjoyed, are having difficulties concentrating at work, are feeling more irritable or angrier than usual and are experiencing some unwanted appetite or weight changes. Let’s also say this person has a supportive family and friend network, stable housing and a decent job. This person likely doesn’t necessarily need one hour a week of in-person, long-term therapy with a doctoral-level psychologist. Instead, they may find tremendous benefit by seeing a behavioral specialist in their primary care setting or partake in brief short-course (five to 12) sessions of individual therapy. Or they could utilize group, internet, app-based or even evidence-based self-help books — known as bibliotherapy — as interventions. Additionally, they might find support through trained lay professionals or peers.
By continuing to treat patients with mild-to-moderate common mental health disorders using a resource-intensive, one-size-fits-all approach, regardless of the level of care they need, the mental health care system is exhausting the very resources we need to treat patients — mental health professionals.
We clearly need to get smarter and more efficient at deploying the tools and resources we have so that we can increase and expand access to care.
One way to do that is by shifting our mental health care system to a stepped care model — which is a system of providing mental health treatment so that the most effective, yet least resource intensive treatment is delivered first. Treatment only then “steps up” to a more intensive level as needed.
Continuing the example from earlier, if the person with mild depression experiences an increase in intensity, frequency or associated distress, or if the person begins to have thoughts that they want to harm themselves or others, their treatment might shift from a lower-intensity intervention like group therapy, for example, to an ongoing one-on-one therapy with a doctoral-level psychologist.
While not implemented widely in the U.S., stepped care is already the recommended mode for treating common mental health problems in the United Kingdom and studies have shown its clinical benefits and cost effectiveness to be promising. For example, a 2019 economic analysis of stepped care in the Australian health care setting found it to be a cost-effective way to approach treating adults with mild-to-moderate anxiety disorders. Moreover, a 2016 meta-analysis of studies on stepped care found that the model was significantly better at reducing anxiety symptoms than standard care. The same review also found that stepped care allowed patients to receive treatment for their anxiety disorders at a higher rate, concluding that stepped care “has the potential to reduce the burden on existing resources in mental health and increase the reach and availability of service.”
That is exactly what America needs.
To be sure, some people seeking mental health treatment will need access to the most intensive and specialized resources. In a stepped-care model, those individuals will gain access to the resources they need because patients who do not require those high levels of treatment will have their needs met via other channels, giving the most highly trained resources increased bandwidth to address the patients who most critically need their attention. This will ultimately improve and expand desperately needed access to mental health services.
Our country’s current mental health care system is not working. In order to meet the growing demand for mental health services without exhausting our limited and currently taxed mental health workforce, we must radically rethink and redesign the system. Our nation’s mental health depends on it.
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What is considered “life-saving” to now legally perform an abortion in Arizona?
PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) - In Arizona, the attorney general says the territorial law, which bans abortion unless medically necessary to save a mother’s life, is back in effect. As a result, many providers here have stopped performing abortions altogether, but there’s confusion over when a pregnancy becomes life-saving and how the law will be enforced.
What is considered life-saving to now perform a legal abortion in Arizona? That’s what many doctors are trying to figure out. However, Valley OBGYN Greg Marchand said they’re very rare.
“Despite the fact that I’ve been involved with about 10,000 pregnancies, I’ve really only seen two cases in my career where it was medically necessary or medically indicated to save the mother’s life,’ Dr. Marchand said.
He’s performed two that were due to underlying diseases and conditions that affected the mother. Dr. Marchand said primarily his patients ask about abortions for reasons of birth defects or major fetal issues. But now, with the attorney general announcing the territorial ban is back in effect, those won’t be an option in Arizona.
“If that is the case, I’ll be instructing any patients that they’re going to have to make the trek over to California for any termination services,” Dr. Marchand said.
Arizona’s Family asked Valley hospitals what they’re telling their doctors right now. While the HealthAlliance representing the hospitals said they couldn’t provide comment, Arizona’s Family obtained two internal letters from a source that went out to providers within HonorHealth and Banner Health hospitals.
While HonorHealth said they’re still working on guidance and clarity, Banner Health’s was more detailed. It went out on June 27th and started off by saying they believed the territorial law was back into effect after the overturning of Roe, which the attorney general declared this week.
The Banner Health letter gave specific advice to providers that included:
- If the fetus is still alive, providers may not perform an abortion even though the fetus is not expected to survive for long inside or outside the womb.
- In case of fetal death, a provider is permitted to perform a medical procedure to remove the fetus from the mother’s body. We believe this would not be “procuring a miscarriage” because the fetus is not alive.
- If the mother has an ectopic pregnancy, a provider is permitted to perform an abortion because it is necessary to save the life of the mother.
“I’m very skeptical that a law from 1865 that says you get 2 years in prison for doing an abortion that was legal last month would ever be prosecuted by a prosecutor,” said Dr. Marchand.
Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell told Arizona’s Family this week she would not prosecute abortions due to rape or incest but would not clarify if she would prosecute other abortions.
As for enforcement of the law, the state health department said they aren’t an enforcement agency and pointed us to the Arizona Medical Board. The board’s executive director told Arizona’s Family they only investigate complaints and base their decisions on evidence.
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Bud Light, top US seller since 2001, loses sales crown to Modelo as backlash continues
After more than two decades as America’s best-selling beer, Bud Light has slipped into second place.
Modelo Especial, a Mexican lager, overtook Bud Light in U.S. retail dollar sales in the month ending June 3, according to Nielsen data analyzed by Bump Williams Consulting. Modelo controlled 8.4% of U.S. grocery, convenience and liquor store sales; Bud Light fell to 7.3%.
It’s a milestone in the months-long sales decline Bud Light has experienced since early April, when critics vowed to boycott the brand after it sent a commemorative can to Dylan Mulvaney, a transgender influencer. Bud Light has also faced backlash from Mulvaney’s fans, who think the brand didn’t do enough to support her.
Dave William, Bump Williams’ vice president of analytics and insights, said Bud Light has been the top-selling U.S. beer since 2001, and it could still retain that crown this year. He noted that Bud Light’s year-to-date market share of 9% is still outpacing Modelo’s, at 8%. And Bud Light’s sales volumes are higher.
But Modelo appears to have the advantage, with its dollar sales increasing by double-digit percentages every week. The launch of a new light beer, Modelo Oro, in May is also boosting awareness of the brand.
Sales in bars and restaurants, which are harder to track, aren’t included in the retail numbers, and Bud Light far outpaced Modelo in those venues prior to April. But David Steinman, the vice president and executive editor of Beer Marketer’s Insights, said Modelo’s bar and restaurant sales have been growing quickly, and it’s believed that Bud Light took an even steeper sales hit in bars and restaurants than in groceries.
Bud Light’s U.S. retail sales were down 24% the week ending June 3, while Modelo Especial sales were up 12%, according to Dave Williams.
Scott Scanlon, an executive vice president at the consulting firm Circana who follows the alcohol market, said Mexican imports like Modelo and Corona have been the biggest bright spots in the otherwise stagnant U.S. beer market for years.
When Modelo first went on sale in the U.S. in the 1990s, it was primarily marketed to Hispanic drinkers, Scanlon said. It launched English-language ads in 2015 and has broadened its consumer base significantly since then. It’s especially popular among younger drinkers, who like its fuller flavor, Scanlon said.
Scanlon said Modelo is already the top seller in markets like Los Angeles and Chicago, but it could still see a lot of growth ahead on the East Coast.
“Modelo was going to become the No. 1 beer brand. It was destiny because the growth numbers we are seeing and have been seeing are astonishing,” Scanlon said. “The only question was time.”
Scanlon said the pandemic accelerated Modelo’s U.S. sales, since it sees more of its sales from retail stores than from bars and restaurants. And Bud Light’s missteps further accelerated its rise.
Grupo Modelo, the Mexican brewer, is owned by Anheuser-Busch InBev, the same parent company of Bud Light. Constellation Brands, a Rochester, New York-based company, has been licensed to sell Modelo in the U.S. since 2013 as part of an agreement with antitrust regulators after InBev bought Grupo Modelo.
Constellation said Wednesday it has nearly doubled its marketing spending on Modelo over the past five years and continues to see a “runway for growth” in the U.S. But Bud Light will try to counter that.
Last month, InBev said it will triple its marketing spending in the U.S. this summer, with a focus on sports and music festivals. Bud Light also continues to be a high-profile sponsor of LGBTQ+ Pride events.
Messages seeking comment were left Wednesday with Anheuser-Busch.
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Arkansas aiming for Final Four in Musselman’s fourth year
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — Coach Eric Musselman has led Arkansas to two straight Elite Eight apperances in the NCAA Tournament. With only two returning rotation players from last year, the Razorbacks are still thinking Final Four. With the nation’s No. 2 recruiting class and five players from the transfer portal, Arkansas reloaded enough to be ranked No. 10 in the preseason AP Top 25 Poll. Freshman guard Nick Smith. Jr. is projected lottery pick and made first-team All-SEC honors. | https://localnews8.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/10/20/arkansas-aiming-for-final-four-in-musselmans-fourth-year/ | 2022-10-20 13:20:53 | 0 | https://localnews8.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/10/20/arkansas-aiming-for-final-four-in-musselmans-fourth-year/ |
Wayward dachshund returns home after days on the run
NORTH ATTLEBOROUGH, Mass. (WJAR) - It is not uncommon for dogs to run away, but that doesn’t make it any easier for their worried owners.
So when the owners of a lost Massachusetts dog asked their community for help, their neighbors stepped up.
What started out as a nightmare for Dorothy and Glenn Haskell has turned into a happy ending.
“It was an absolute dream,” Dorothy Haskell said.
Positioned peacefully in her arms now, this 14-month-old daredevil dachshund named Chelsea is back home safe and sound after being on the run literally for almost four days.
“Knowing your dog is on Route 95, it’s a nightmare,” Dorothy Haskell said.
Last Sunday, Chelsea was playing with her sister Coco in their backyard when she escaped through a small hole in the fence.
They tried to get her, but she took off.
Glenn Haskell had been out for a jog. “Veered off my run and went after her, you know, but she went into the woods and gone,” he said.
From there, they posted on social media.
“(Neighbors were) coming out their doors, they were hiking through the woods. They were leaving their lights on. They were leaving water out,” Dorothy Haskell said.
They were pleading to the public to help find her as day turned to night.
“This is not going to, it’s not going to end well between her and a fox or a raccoon,” Glenn Haskell said.
The next morning, they made flyers, stuffing them in mailboxes all over. Then that night, a call came in.
“A woman is yelling, ‘Your dachshund, I know she’s up on Route 295. There’s a driver pulled over on the side of the road,’” Dorothy Haskell said.
That same driver called state police. They all tried to grab her, following her across an on ramp.
“And across three lanes of Route 95,” Dorothy Haskell said.
Spooked, the dog went back into the woods.
On Tuesday, Dorothy Haskell went back out there desperately with police, realizing there was a river nearby.
“To the officer and I said, ‘I think it’s time to call it.’ And suddenly he yelled, ‘Oh my God, she’s right there in the bushes,’” she said.
Chelsea ran back to the median and onto the highway again. Drivers began to pull over. One woman stopped traffic, but Chelsea kept going.
Having exhausted nearly all resources, the Haskells got help from Missing Dogs of Massachusetts, a volunteer-run group that help owners get their dogs back.
“A trap in our side yard. And she had me put out dirty laundry…” Dorothy Haskell said.
Just after midnight Wednesday, prayers for the pooch were answered.
“Dogs in Massachusetts, the woman called me, and she said, ‘She’s in the trap. Go out and get her.’ Because they had a camera,” Dorothy Haskell said.
The Haskells are so happy to have Chelsea back home and can’t thank the community enough for caring.
“It definitely restored your faith in humanity,” Dorothy Haskell said.
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The Commander of the NATO Combined Air Operations Centre in Torrejon, Spain, says more American bases on European soil will make it easier for NATo to activate troops.
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Tennessee beats Alabama football on last-second field goal for first series win since 2006
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. − Alabama football looked like it had the game clinched.
Kool-Aid McKinstry was running toward the end zone, and even if he didn't make it, the Crimson Tide appeared to be in control. Alabama had a lead in the final minutes Saturday and was about to have the football deep in Tennessee Vols territory.
But wait. There was a flag. Pass interference on Alabama.
The play was coming back. Shortly after, Tennessee tied the game.
The Crimson Tide, whether it was early in the game or toward the end, just couldn't get out of its own way.
Tennessee took advantage of a missed field goal late, and the Vols kicked the game-winner at the buzzer to beat Alabama 52-49 at Neyland Stadium. Tennessee snapped a 15-year losing streak to Alabama.
Here are observations and takeaways from the game between No. 1 Alabama (6-1, 3-1 SEC) and No. 8 Tennessee (6-0, 3-0).
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Defense struggles against Hendon Hooker and company, outside of a few turnovers
Alabama was well aware of the tempo with which the Vols offense operates. It was talked about repeatedly throughout the week. Knowing about it often didn’t matter, though.
The Crimson Tide struggled to slow Tennessee’s fast-paced offense. Blink, and the Vols had already run several plays. That quick tempo prevented Alabama from affecting Hooker, and the Vols offense rolled early. Tennessee had already scored three touchdowns by the end of the first quarter.
Hooker and the receivers continued to find soft spots in coverage, and Alabama struggled to find ways to disrupt a usually clean pocket for Hooker. That led to plenty of offensive success for the Vols.
Alabama eventually stopped the bleeding and had a few impressive plays. There were a couple of fourth-down stops and DeMarcco Hellams became the first defender to intercept Hooker in about 11 months. Dallas Turner also recovered a fumble for a touchdown.
Still, the defense couldn’t stop giving up plays late, in particular to Jalin Hyatt. He cooked the Crimson Tide secondary for 207 receiving yards and five touchdowns.
Then Tennessee drove down the field in the final minute, ending with the game-winning kick.
Discipline problems and mistakes put Alabama behind early
It almost became silly how Alabama was finding ways to get penalized on one first-quarter drive.
First, there was holding on the kickoff return. Tennessee had just taken a 14-7 lead and the Crimson Tide needed to respond. On the first offensive play, another holding penalty. Before Alabama could run another play, the Crimson Tide had a false start. The drive only got worse from there. Mix the penalties with a Traeshon Holden drop, and James Burnip soon had to punt out of Alabama’s end zone.
The Crimson Tide reached seven penalties for the game by Burnips’ punt. More than five minutes still remained in the first quarter. In the first half alone, Alabama had nine penalties for 71 yards.
Those got in the way of an Alabama team that already had enough of a problem facing a talented Tennessee team in a hostile Neyland Stadium.
As far as mistakes go, none were more glaring than Quandarrius Robinson’s punt return mistake when he tried to pick up a loose ball and Tennessee recovered. Shortly after the turnover, the Vols took a 28-10 lead with 11:41 left in the first half.
Bryce Young’s shoulder is more than fine
Young was injured recently? He certainly didn’t look like a player fresh off a shoulder injury.
After missing the previous week's game vs. Texas A&M, the reigning Heisman Trophy winner was back to his old tricks as Alabama's quarterback: making defenders miss, extending plays, throwing footballs into tight windows.
His third-quarter drive to help Alabama take its first lead was a masterpiece. Young led a 12-play, 75-yard march made possible by his Houdini-like moves and remarkable throws. The pass to tight end Cameron Latu along the right sideline was nothing short of impressive.
Jahmyr Gibbs continues to be a gamer
Outside of Young, the next player you would want to have the football in an important moment is Gibbs.
He froze defenders at times. He also proved clutch when it came to scoring. He had three rushing touchdowns by the end of the third quarter.
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Russia has been sending some US-provided weapons captured in Ukraine to Iran, sources say
By Natasha Bertrand, CNN
Russia has been capturing some of the US and NATO-provided weapons and equipment left on the battlefield in Ukraine and sending them to Iran, where the US believes Tehran will try to reverse-engineer the systems, four sources familiar with the matter told CNN.
Over the last year, US, NATO and other Western officials have seen several instances of Russian forces seizing smaller, shoulder-fired weapons equipment including Javelin anti-tank and Stinger anti-aircraft systems that Ukrainian forces have at times been forced to leave behind on the battlefield, the sources told CNN.
In many of those cases, Russia has then flown the equipment to Iran to dismantle and analyze, likely so the Iranian military can attempt to make their own version of the weapons, sources said. Russia believes that continuing to provide captured Western weapons to Iran will incentivize Tehran to maintain its support for Russia’s war in Ukraine, the sources said.
US officials don’t believe that the issue is widespread or systematic, and the Ukrainian military has made it a habit since the beginning of the war to report to the Pentagon any losses of US-provided equipment to Russian forces, officials said. Still, US officials acknowledge that the issue is difficult to track.
It’s not clear if Iran has successfully reverse-engineered any US weapons taken in Ukraine, but Tehran has proven highly adept at developing weapons systems based on US equipment seized in the past.
A key weapon in Iran’s inventory, the Toophan anti-tank guided missile, was reverse engineered from the American BGM-71 TOW missile in the 1970s. The Iranians also intercepted a US-made drone in 2011, a Lockheed Martin RQ-170 “Sentinel”, and reverse-engineered it to create a new drone that crossed into Israeli airspace in 2018 before being shot down.
“Iran has demonstrated the capability to reverse-engineer US weapons in the past,” said Jonathan Lord, a senior fellow and director of the Middle East security program at the Center for a New American Security. “They reverse-engineered the TOW anti-tank guided missile, creating a near-perfect replica they called the Toophan, and have since proliferated it to the Houthis and Hezbollah. Iran could do the same with a Stinger, which could threaten both civil and military aviation throughout the region. A reverse-engineered Javelin could be used by Hamas or Hezbollah to threaten an Israeli Merkava tank. In the hands of Iran’s proxies, these weapons pose a real threat to Israel’s conventional military forces.”
The coordination is yet another example of Moscow’s growing defense partnership with Tehran, which has intensified over the last year as Russia has become increasingly desperate for external military support for its war against Ukraine. The partnership is not only further destabilizing Ukraine, but it could also threaten Iran’s neighbors in the Middle East, National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said last month.
CNN has reached out to the Russian embassy in Washington and the Iranian UN mission for comment.
US has been warning about threats posed by Iran
Senior US military officials, including Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, were both in the Middle East this month for discussions with their counterparts there that centered around the threats posed by Iran, the Pentagon said.
“Over the past year, Russia’s military cooperation with Iran has deepened. and that poses serious challenges for this region and for the safety of your citizens,” Austin said at a press conference alongside Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant in Tel Aviv on Thursday.
“Iran is gaining important battlefield expertise and experience in Ukraine that will eventually transfer to its dangerous proxies in the Middle East,” Austin said. “In return for Iranian support in Ukraine, Russia has been offering Iran unprecedented defense cooperation, including on missiles and air defense.”
Huge, unanticipated losses of equipment and harsh Western sanctions have made it difficult for Russia to continue producing the weapons and ammunition it needs to maintain its offensive in Ukraine. As a result, Russia has asked for and received hundreds of drones from Iran, as well as artillery and tank rounds, that Russian forces have used to devastating effect against Ukrainian civilians and infrastructure.
In exchange, Iran has sought billions of dollars worth of military equipment from Russia, according to the White House, including fighter jets, radar systems and helicopters.
The Pentagon late last year expanded its efforts to track US weapons provided to Ukraine, including through on-site inspections conducted by US military personnel stationed at the US embassy in Kyiv.
Undersecretary of defense for policy Colin Kahl told lawmakers earlier this year that the US has seen instances of the Russians capturing some US-provided systems on the battlefield, but not in large numbers.
“What we’re not seeing is any evidence of significant diversion,” Kahl said. “Our assessment is, if some of these systems have been diverted, it’s by Russians who have captured things on the battlefield, which always happens, but that there’s no evidence the Ukrainians are diverting it to the black market.”
Asked about this reporting, a defense official referred CNN to Kahl’s comments.
The State Department also said in an October fact sheet that “pro-Russian forces’ capture of Ukrainian weapons, including donated materiel, has been the main vector of diversion so far and could result in onward transfers.”
The department also specifically cited man-portable air defense systems — a category that includes Stingers — and anti-tank missiles as “particularly sensitive and advanced conventional weapons” that, if diverted, could hinder regional security.
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ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Anaheim forward Justin Kirkland was hospitalized overnight after getting into a car accident on his way to the Ducks' game against the Boston Bruins on Sunday night.
The Ducks announced Monday that Kirkland remains under evaluation, but has full mobility and is communicating with his family and with visiting teammates. They expect Kirkland to be released from the hospital within the next two days.
“We are thankful for the quick care and treatment Justin received from first responders and medical staff at UCI Health," Anaheim general manager Pat Verbeek said. “Justin is in great spirits, and we hope he will be released shortly.”
The 26-year-old forward made his NHL debut on Dec. 20 with the Ducks, who signed him as a free agent last summer. He was a third-round pick by Nashville in the 2014 draft, and he spent most of the past six seasons in the AHL with affiliates for the Predators and the Calgary Flames.
Kirkland has played in seven games this season for the last-place Ducks, going scoreless with a minus-3 rating.
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WASHINGTON — Six Republican-led states are suing the Biden administration in an effort to halt its plan to forgive student loan debt for tens of millions of Americans, accusing it of overstepping its executive powers.
It’s at least the second legal challenge this week to the sweeping proposal laid out by President Joe Biden in late August, when he said his administration would cancel up to $20,000 in education debt for huge numbers of borrowers. The announcement, after months of internal deliberations and pressure from liberal activists, became immediate political fodder ahead of the November midterms while fueling arguments from conservatives about legality.
In the lawsuit, being filed Thursday in a federal court in Missouri, the Republican states argue that Biden’s cancellation plan is “not remotely tailored to address the effects of the pandemic on federal student loan borrowers,” as required by the 2003 federal law that the administration is using as legal justification. They point out that Biden, in an interview with CBS’ “60 Minutes” this month, declared the Covid-19 pandemic over, yet is still using the ongoing health emergency to justify the wide-scale debt relief.
“It’s patently unfair to saddle hard-working Americans with the loan debt of those who chose to go to college,” Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge, who is leading the group, said in an interview.
She added: “The Department of Education is required, under the law, to collect the balance due on loans. And President Biden does not have the authority to override that.”
The states of Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and South Carolina joined Arkansas in filing the lawsuit. Iowa has a Democratic attorney general, but the state’s Republican governor, Kim Reynolds, signed on the state’s behalf. The states argue that Missouri’s loan servicer is facing a “number of ongoing financial harms” because of Biden’s decision to cancel loans. Other states that joined the lawsuit argue that Biden’s forgiveness plan will ultimately disrupt revenue to state coffers.
Biden’s forgiveness program will cancel $10,000 in student loan debt for those making less than $125,000 or households with less than $250,000 in income. Pell Grant recipients, who typically demonstrate more financial need, will get an additional $10,000 in debt forgiven.
The administration also said it would extend the current pause on federal student loan repayments — put on hold near the start of the pandemic more than two years ago — once more through the end of the year.
The administration faced threats of legal challenges to its plans almost immediately, with conservative attorneys, Republican lawmakers and business-oriented groups asserting that Biden was overstepping his authority in taking such sweeping action without the assent of Congress.
Democratic lawmakers battling in tough reelection contests also distanced themselves from the student loan plan, as Republican officials called it an unfair government giveaway for relatively affluent people at the expense of those who didn’t pursue higher education.
In their lawsuit, the Republican attorneys general also contend that the forgiveness program violates the Administrative Procedures Act, which lays out how federal agencies should make regulations in order to ensure executive branch policies are well-reasoned and explained.
“The president does not have the authority to put himself in the place of Congress,” Rutledge said in the interview. “These actions must be taken by Congress and he can’t override that.”
To justify the plan’s legality, the Biden administration is relying on a post-Sept. 11, 2001, law meant to help members of the military that the Justice Department says allows Biden to reduce or erase student loan debt during a national emergency. But Republicans argue the administration is misinterpreting the law because, in part, the pandemic no longer qualifies as a national emergency.
Another lawsuit against Biden’s student loan program was filed this week in an Indiana federal court by the Pacific Legal Foundation, a libertarian legal advocacy group that employs a lawyer who says he would be harmed by the forgiveness plan. The lawyer, Frank Garrison, says erasing his current debt load will trigger a tax liability from the state of Indiana, which is among at least a half dozen states where the forgiven loan amounts will be subject to state taxes.
The White House dismissed the lawsuit as baseless because any borrower who does not want the debt relief can opt out. The Education Department is still on track to unveil the application for the forgiveness plan in early October.
Republicans have also seized on the Biden plan’s price tag and its impact on the nation’s budget deficit. The Congressional Budget Office said this week that the program will cost about $400 billion over the next three decades. The White House countered that the CBO’s estimate of how much the plan will cost just in its first year, $21 billion, is lower than what the administration initially believed.
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CHESAPEAKE, Va. (AP) — A shooter opened fire in a Walmart in Virginia late Tuesday, leaving six people dead, police said, in the second high-profile mass killing in a handful of days. The assailant is also dead.
The store in Chesapeake is now safe and will likely be closed for several days during the investigation, Officer Leo Kosinski said in the early hours of Wednesday.
The shooting came three days after a person opened fire at a gay nightclub in Colorado, killing five people and wounding 17. Earlier in the year, the country was shaken by the deaths of 21 when a gunman stormed an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.
Tuesday’s shooting also brought back memories of another at a Walmart in 2019, when a gunman police say was targeting Mexicans opened fire at a store in El Paso and killed 22 people.
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Earlier, Kosinski said he couldn’t say how the gunman died but that he didn’t believe police fired shots.
The shooting had apparently stopped when police arrived at the store in Chesapeake, which is Virginia’s second-largest city and lies next to the seaside communities of Norfolk and Virginia Beach.
Mike Kafka, a spokesman for Sentara Healthcare, said in a text message that five patients from the Walmart were being treated at Norfolk General Hospital. Their conditions weren’t immediately available.
Walmart tweeted early Wednesday that it was “shocked at this tragic event.”
U.S. Sen. Mark Warner said in a tweet that he was “sickened by reports of yet another mass shooting, this time at a Walmart in Chesapeake.”
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kris Kobach, the Kansas Republican who helped lead Donald Trump’s short-lived presidential voter fraud commission, wants to rid his state of ballot drop boxes and says as he runs for attorney general that discounting talk of fraud is “ignoring reality.”
The expanded use of drop boxes for mailed ballots in 2020 didn’t lead to any widespread problems, according to an Associated Press survey of state election officials across the U.S. that revealed no cases of fraud, vandalism or theft that could have affected the results. And Kobach’s position puts him at odds not only with Democrats and voting-right advocates, but Kansas’ Republican secretary of state, Scott Schwab, who says the state’s elections are secure and drop boxes are safe.
Kobach, who was secretary of state for eight years before Schwab, said Wednesday that allowing drop boxes prevents Kansas from enforcing a 2021 law against what Republicans call ballot “harvesting,” making it illegal for individuals to deliver ballots for more than 10 other people. Voting-rights advocates see the law as unnecessary for securing elections and contend it only hinders assistance to poor, minority and elderly voters.
Kobach argued that with drop boxes, people can get a voter’s permission to deliver ballots and identify themselves on the ballot envelope with a false name and drop the signed enveloped in the drop box and officials can’t see that someone has delivered too many ballots. Election officials say the ballot would still be legal if the voter is properly registered and wanted to vote.
“There are still other layers of protection, but it makes our anti-harvesting statute pretty, pretty weak when drop boxes can be used to circumvent it,” Kobach said.
Kobach declared Tuesday night in a debate with Democratic opponent Chris Mann that the state “needs to get rid of drop boxes.” He said Wednesday that as attorney general he would urge the GOP-controlled Legislature to enact a law barring counties from using them.
“Those on the left who say there is no election fraud are simply ignoring reality,” Kobach said during the debate.
Mann said in a statement after the debate that eligible voters should have “equal access to the ballot box.”
“Ballot drop boxes make that possible,” he said.
As attorney general, Kobach could prosecute cases of alleged voter fraud, but he would have no power to tell counties how to run elections. He acknowledged that all he could do about ballot drop boxes is urge the Legislature to ban them.
Schwab has pushed back hard against attacks on drop boxes and said in a statement Wednesday that counties have used them for decades. Kansas counties deployed 191 of them in 2020, averaging one box for about every 10,000 registered voters.
“It’s an efficient way for Kansans to return their advance-by-mail ballot without allowing the federal government to be involved,” he added. “Drop boxes are more secure than the post office.”
Kobach’s race this year is an attempt at a political comeback after he gave up the secretary of state’s office to run unsuccessfully for governor in 2018 and lost a U.S. Senate primary in 2020. He championed stricter voting and voter ID laws years before Trump named him vice chair of his election fraud commission in 2017.
With the wide circulation among Republicans of Trump’s false statements that the 2020 election was stolen from him, Kobach has stopped short of publicly doubting Democrat Joe Biden’s victory.
But in his interview Wednesday, Kobach said “there’s no question” fraud occurred in 2020 at least the battleground states of Michigan and Pennsylvania. He added that Americans will never know “how many fraudulent ballots were cast.”
An Associated Press review last year of every voter fraud case from 2020 in the six presidential battleground states disputed by Trump found fewer than 475, not enough to make any difference.
Kobach still touts more than a dozen voter fraud prosecutions he launched as secretary of state, most over people voting in different places in the same election. Kobach also still takes credit for a 2013 Kansas law that required new voters to provide papers proving their U.S. citizenship to register.
The federal courts struck that law down. A judge found it only nominally prevented non-citizens from registering but violated Kansas residents right to vote. During its first three years on the books, 35,000 Kansas residents couldn’t register, amounting to one in seven applicants.
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The second release from George Dickel and Social Hour celebrates summer's signature serves
NEW YORK, June 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- For their first collaboration, George Dickel and Social Hour brought fans the quintessential autumnal cocktail – the Harvest Whiskey Sour. Just in time for the summer, the brands are teaming up once again to launch another seasonally-inspired release in the form of a slow-sipping bourbon cocktail – Social Hour Bourbon Smash made with Dickel Bourbon.
The new Bourbon Smash made with Dickel Bourbon is a mint julep meets a whisky sour. Boasting notes of tart meyer lemon and muddled mint, the cocktail can be enjoyed with friends and is best served over ice in a glass garnished with a mint sprig, lemon wheel, peach slice or strawberries.
With this release, fans of craft cocktails don't have to sacrifice quality for convenience to enjoy a seasonal cocktail on the same level, as this offering exemplifies the high standard and approachability both brands are known for. At the center of the drink is George Dickel's award-winning Dickel Bourbon that's been aged 8 years and helps make Bourbon Smash a delicious cocktail with the same quality you'd expect from a cocktail bar.
"We couldn't have asked for a better first step into the canned cocktail space than through our partnership with Social Hour. Our first release was a fall-flavored spin on the Whiskey Sour, and with the Bourbon Smash, we're putting a new, summer twist on the classic cocktail," said Nicole Austin, General Manager and Distiller at Cascade Hollow Distilling Co. "I couldn't be more excited for whisky fans to enjoy the refreshing taste of the Bourbon Smash. To make that perfect summer cocktail, you need an approachable and balanced bourbon that's able to work well in a cocktail – and that's Dickel Bourbon."
"With our first collaboration being so well received, it only made sense for our next craft cocktail to continue to lean into seasonality," said Tom Macy, Co-Founder and CEO at Social Hour Cocktails. "The Bourbon Smash is hands down my favorite whiskey-based warm weather cocktail. Now you can enjoy one by simply pouring over and adding a fresh garnish like a mint sprig or peach slice."
Starting today, the Bourbon Smash will be available for purchase at retail locations in the New York City area. Consumers outside of New York can purchase the offering online on the Social Hour website. This limited time offering has a suggested retail price of $28 for a 4-pack. At 250 mL, the Bourbon Smash includes three servings per can.
No matter how you choose to celebrate the start to the summer season or enjoy the new Bourbon Smash, please remember to drink responsibly.
About Social Hour
Social Hour is a line of craft canned cocktails created by two of the world's most respected bartenders, industry legend Julie Reiner and bartending veteran, Tom Macy. Featuring five expressions including classics - Gin & Tonic, Whiskey Mule - and original creations - Pacific Spritz, Yuzu Sunset Fizz – Social Hour is designed to honor the ritual of gathering together with friends, over world-class drinks. For more information visit www.socialhourcocktails.com and follow on social media @socialhourcocktails.
About George Dickel
Since 1870, the fine folks at Cascade Hollow have honored George Dickel's dream of crafting the smoothest Tennessee whisky around. Today, 150 years later, we're still making award-winning whisky at our historic distillery in Tullahoma, TN. Tucked away in the Tennessee hills and surrounded by 600 protected acres of forest and crystal-fresh springs, Cascade Hollow has always been our home. Led by General Manager and Distiller Nicole Austin, the team at Cascade Hollow Distilling Co. continue the tradition of producing smooth sippin' whisky through high standards of authenticity and craftsmanship. A proud member of the Tennessee Whiskey Trail, we invite you to visit our home and learn more about how we make George Dickel Tennessee Whisky. For more information, go to www.GeorgeDickel.com or check out @georgedickel on Facebook or Instagram. Your friends at Cascade Hollow remind you to always drink responsibly.
About Diageo North America
Diageo is a global leader in beverage alcohol with an outstanding collection of brands including Johnnie Walker, Crown Royal, Bulleit and Buchanan's whiskies, Smirnoff, Cîroc and Ketel One vodkas, Casamigos, DeLeon and Don Julio tequilas, Captain Morgan, Baileys, Tanqueray and Guinness.
Diageo is listed on both the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: DEO) and the London Stock Exchange (LSE: DGE) and their products are sold in more than 180 countries around the world. For more information about Diageo, their people, brands, and performance, visit www.diageo.com. Visit Diageo's global responsible drinking resource,www.DRINKiQ.com, for information, initiatives, and ways to share best practice. Follow on Twitter and Instagram for news and information about Diageo North America: @Diageo_NA.
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- In response to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) proposed updates to the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for Fine Particulate Matter, Harold Wimmer, President and CEO of the American Lung Association, issued the following statement:
"Today's proposal from EPA to update the national annual limits on particulate matter pollution misses the mark and is inadequate to protect public health from this deadly pollutant.
"Particle pollution kills. It can cause breathing problems, asthma attacks and a host of other harms, from cardiovascular problems to lung cancer to fetal harm. Children, seniors, people with lung or heart disease and people who work outdoors are disproportionately at risk, as are people in low-income communities and many communities of color who are exposed to higher levels.
"The Clean Air Act requires EPA to set National Ambient Air Quality Standards for criteria air pollutants. The NAAQS for particulate matter, a particularly dangerous criteria pollutant, is currently at levels that do not protect health. Current science shows that stronger limits are urgently needed at the levels of 8 µg/m3 for the annual standard and 25 µg/m3 for the 24-hour standard to protect vulnerable populations.
"We are deeply disappointed that EPA's proposal today did not include a standard of 8 µg/m3 in the proposed range of options for the annual standard. The Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee recommended a range of standards that included an annual level as protective as 8 µg/m3 and a 24-hour range as protective as 25 µg/m3. EPA did not follow these expert recommendations.
"Rather than actually proposing the science-based, most protective 8 µg/m3 annual level or the 25 µg/m3 24-hour level, EPA is only inviting comments on those protective levels. This falls far short of what is needed to meet the White House's stated goals of furthering public health and environmental justice. The Clean Air Act requires standards that are requisite to protect public health with an adequate margin of safety. EPA must follow the law and strengthen both the annual and 24-hour standard to protect public health.
"Health organizations and experts are united in their ask of EPA to finalize the national standards for particle pollution at 8 µg/m3 for the annual standard and 25 µg/m3 for the 24-hour standard. More protective standards are necessary to drive cleanup nationwide in communities that currently experience unhealthy levels of deadly particle pollution. This is vitally important in communities with a polluting source, like a power plant or port, located nearby. Inadequate standards leave too many communities behind. Strong particulate matter standards are needed to protect public health and further environmental justice.
"A stronger 24-hour standard is also important to better inform the public when air pollution levels are unhealthy. The NAAQS are the basis for EPA's air quality index (AQI), which people nationwide use to plan their activities based on the air quality forecast that day. Right now, EPA's outdated 24-hour standard means that people may be told that the air outside is safe to breathe on a day when it is not. EPA's failure to propose stronger 24-hour standards is a missed opportunity for public health. We note that EPA is proposing updates to air monitoring and the AQI. We will provide detailed comments in support of improving public understanding of air pollution threats in their communities.
"We will file detailed technical comments and provide testimony at the public hearing to urge EPA to strengthen the final standards and to promptly finalize this proposal no later than August 2023. We encourage the public to do the same by taking action today at Lung.org/stronger-standards.
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CONWAY, N.H. (AP) — Bakery owner Sean Young was thrilled when high school art students covered the big blank wall over his doorway last spring with a painting of the sun shining over a mountain range made of sprinkle-covered chocolate and strawberry donuts, a blueberry muffin, a cinnamon roll and other pastries.
The display got rave reviews, and Young looked forward to collaborating with the school on more mural projects at his roadside bakery in Conway, New Hampshire.
Then the town zoning board got involved, deciding that the pastry painting was not so much art as advertising, and so could not remain as is because of its size. Faced with modifying or removing the mural, or possibly dealing with fines and criminal charges, Young sued, saying the town is violating his freedom of speech rights.
The painting could stay right where it is it if showed actual mountains, instead of pastries suggesting mountains, or if the building wasn’t a bakery.
“They said it would be art elsewhere,” Young told The Associated Press in an interview. “It’s just not art here.”
“The town should not have the right to police art,” he said.
The controversy has residents of this town of 10,000 grappling with big questions about creativity and liberty as it tries to preserve its rural character. Like other White Mountain communities that draw skiers, nature lovers and shoppers, Conway is under development pressure, making the sign dispute fraught with worries that any concession to commerce could change what they hold dear.
Many — including the zoning board members — applauded the students’ colorful work, but said rules must be followed, even if they’re old and outdated. At about 90 square feet (8.6 square meters), the mural is four times bigger than the sign code allows.
Following a longstanding democratic tradition of New England town meetings, residents deliberated how to define a sign before ultimately voting down changes last week. The local newspaper said the proposed wording wasn’t clear. Ultimately, a judge may have to resolve what remains an open debate in town.
“Those kids put their heart in it,” retiree Steve Downing said. He thinks the painting should stay.
“Everyone has to comply with the ordinance,” said Charlie Birch, a former U.S. Forest Service worker. “And even though it was done by the students, which was well done, and I give them a lot of credit for it … if you have the ordinance, ‘One for all,’ that’s where we are. You can’t really make any exceptions, otherwise everybody else will want the exception.”
Art teacher Olivia Benish, who worked with three students on the project, apologized to the board in September for not doing “due diligence” to make sure the mural would comply. She didn’t respond to requests for an interview. But she told the board members that there has to be a way to give students the opportunity to create positive public works of art “without upsetting the law and the powers that be,” according to the town minutes.
The lawsuit Young filed in January argues that the town is unconstitutionally discriminating against him. He asked a judge to prevent the town from enforcing its sign code.
And now other businesses have been drawn into the controversy.
Long before the pastry painting was installed, the town had allowed other murals at a local shopping center, but in December the town found that three of those artworks are, indeed, signs that violate size limits. They go before the zoning board on Wednesday.
Young, who is being represented by the Virginia-based Institute for Justice, asked for $1 in damages. Meanwhile, he’s selling T-shirts as a high school art department fundraiser, saying “This is Art” with the artwork on the front, and “This is a Sign” of a roadside “Leavitt’s Country Bakery” sign on the back.
“As Conway officials have confirmed, the town does not consider a painting to be a “sign” if it does not convey what town officials perceive to be a commercial message,” the lawsuit says. “But the town’s perception is that any mural depicting anything related to a business is a ‘sign.’ This is governmental discrimination based on the content of the speech” and the speaker’s identity, it said.
The lawsuit says the town’s sign definition is “incredibly broad,” with no mention of murals in the code: A sign in Conway is “any device, fixture, placard, structure or attachment thereto that uses color, form, graphic, illumination, symbol, or writing to advertise, announce the purpose of, or identify the purpose of any person or entity, or to communicate information of any kind to the public, whether commercial or noncommercial.”
Board member Luigi Bartolomeo said he thinks the pastry painting is art, not advertising. He read the definition out loud a t the board’s meeting in August, and said he agrees with a local attorney who called it “unconstitutionally vague.”
“I think it’s a very badly written piece of code here,” said Bartolomeo, who recently retired. But Board Chairperson John Colbath said the board has to work with the ordinance, which was approved by voters, and that there is a process to change that.
“If they had done a seasonal mural on the wall — covered bridges and sunflowers and what have you — and it did not represent what your business is in, then it would be more likely to be a well-respected piece of art and not construed as a sign,” Colbath said at the August meeting.
He said to Young, “I understand the art thing — and you look and you see a mountain — but the general public sees donuts on the front of the bakery.”
“I think most of the people said it’s art,” Young responded.
In its denial of Young’s appeals, the board concluded that the bakery won’t be negatively affected without the display.
“This supposed distinction between murals and signs shouldn’t matter,” attorney Betsy Sanz of the Institute said in a news release. “After all, nothing in the First Amendment distinguishes between art and commercial signs — or commercial speech of any kind.”
The town and Young agreed in February to pause court proceedings — and any potential fines or charges — pending a vote on a revised definition that would allow the painting to stay. But it failed in last week’s elections, with 805 to 750 voting against it, according to the town clerk’s office. The judge now wants to hear from both sides by May 10.
“We’re ready to keep going,” Young said.
Town Manager John Eastman declined an interview, referring questions to town lawyer Jason Dennis, who said he would soon meet with town officials to discuss next steps.
The Conway Daily Sun offered its analysis in an editorial last week: “Voters smartly concluded that the proposed new definition of signs would only further complicate enforcement. That said, it is not a stretch to conjecture that most voters are fine with the murals at Leavitt’s Country Bakery and Settlers Green. We suggest the town figure out a way to back off enforcement until a clearer definition can be written, one that accommodates ‘art.'” | https://www.wowktv.com/news/u-s-world/is-this-art-or-an-ad/ | 2023-04-18 11:28:45 | 1 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/u-s-world/is-this-art-or-an-ad/ |
Cardi B and Offset's marriage is up, but there once was a time when it was down.
Back in 2020, the "WAP" rapper filed for divorce from the Migos star, describing their relationship as "irretrievably broken" with "no prospects for a reconciliation" in court documents. However, Cardi ultimately called off their legal separation two months later and submitted new paperwork to have her initial filing dismissed.
So, what made her change her mind? Her husband's willingness to change, according to Cardi.
"Me and Offset, we was not seeing eye-to-eye," she recalled of their rough patch during the Jan. 17 episode of Revolt's The Jason Lee Show. "This was like, the same year I filed for divorce and everything."
While Cardi did not exactly specify what made her want a divorce in the first place—telling host Jason Lee it was Offset's story to share—she did say the issue that was "really bothering" has since been addressed by her husband.
"The main thing that I wanted him to stop and everything, he stopped and he changed," she explained, "and it showed me that he wanted to change for me."
A year after their reconciliation, Cardi and Offset welcomed son Wave in September 2021. (The two are also parents to 4-year-old daughter Kulture, while Offset is dad to three other children from previous relationships.)
In November 2021, Cardi said her brief split with Offset actually made their relationship stronger. "Of course we went through some challenges," she told E! News' Daily Pop. "We had to get to know each other better. But I feel like I've never been happier."
Cardi added, "It's the family, the unity, the friendship that we have, the 'I have your back, you have my back.'" | https://www.eonline.com/news/1361855/cardi-b-reflects-on-decision-to-call-off-divorce-from-offset?cmpid=rss-syndicate-genericrss-us-top_stories | 2023-01-19 00:09:24 | 1 | https://www.eonline.com/news/1361855/cardi-b-reflects-on-decision-to-call-off-divorce-from-offset?cmpid=rss-syndicate-genericrss-us-top_stories |
HUNTINGTON — In Fayetteville, West Virginia, on Oct. 15, Cabell County resident Irv Johnson stood 876 feet in the air, with the front of his shoes teetering over the edge of a platform.
Excited and full of adrenaline, he tried to balance his body against the wind. But almost as soon as he had stepped onto the platform, his instructor propelled the two off the edge of the New River Gorge Bridge, headed to the thrashing water below.
It only took two seconds for the parachute to be released and catch the air, slowing down Johnson’s descent, but for him, it felt like a lifetime.
After making a secret promise to himself to make the jump, Johnson had waited for this moment for three years.
For a man whose family hails from the gorge, the Bridge Day experience was a moment that came full circle.
Staple of Appalachia
The New River Gorge Bridge has been a staple in the Mountain State’s heritage since its opening Oct. 22, 1977. The steel arch bridge is 924 feet long and was known as the world’s longest single-span arch bridge for 26 years.
Johnson said his grandmother lived on one side of the gorge and would make a 40-minute trip — longer if the weather was poor — down a road with one-and-a-half lanes and no guardrails.
During Johnson’s childhood, his family spent a lot of time visiting the gorge, even after his grandmother moved. He vaguely remembers watching the famous bridge being built when he was about age 10.
Since 1980, hundreds of thousands of people have made the trek to Fayetteville for Bridge Day to watch daring BASE jumpers drive into the gorge below with just a parachute and hope.
The celebrations and extravaganza of Bridge Day are reminiscent of the day the bridge opened, when West Virginians were invited to be the first to cross the bridge on foot. Each person got a certificate and bragging rights for making the 3,030-foot walk, including Johnson’s grandmother.
“Years ago my mom was cleaning out some stuff and she found that certificate, some old photos, and also I had written a report about the bridge in fifth or sixth grade,” he said. “So she’s like, ‘Here’s your report and these pictures I thought you’d want to have,’ so that was cool.”
Spending time outdoors has always been a favorite pastime for the Johnson family, who often visited the area to vacation. On one of their more recent excursions, Johnson and his wife, Linda, to whom he has been married for 30 years, went whitewater rafting on the New River during Bridge Day 2019.
On that day, Johnson made a promise to himself he would make the jump. Fearing he would not hold on to the promise or reach the requirements to jump, Johnson kept it secret from everyone but his wife for more than a year.
A promise kept
Making the jump isn’t like attending an amusement park where you can get in a line to ride as you choose. There is training, education and safety measures that have to be followed.
After research, Johnson opted for a tandem jump with an instructor. To do this, he had to weigh less than 170 pounds — about 30 pounds less than his normal weight and barely above his weight in high school. But with dedication, persistence and a wonderful wife at his side, Johnson met all the requirements.
“Literally the only person that knew this was my wife for over a year,” he said. “I was afraid I couldn’t make weight, and I didn’t want to embarrass myself or for someone to think it was a stunt.”
But then came COVID-19, canceling Bridge Day 2020.
The following year, Johnson was ready to tell his secret, letting friends and family — even his children, who had been left in the dark — know he would be making the leap during Bridge Day 2021. But once again the event was canceled at the last minute due to the pandemic.
By then the secret was out. For another year, Johnson would have to wait for his moment as his community kept the pressure on him to jump in 2022.
“A lot of my friends just said, ‘Why would you do that? That’s insane,’” he said.
Jump
The jumpers stay together in a hotel the night before Bridge Day. Johnson said it was a cool scene with jumpers from all over the world taking over the entire hotel. The majority are professionals, with only about a dozen in the same shoes as Johnson, with little to no experience.
“There’s everybody in the lobby and they’ve got these parachutes strung out,” Johnson said. “They’re super long with all these cords as they’re packing, and it’s a cool bunch of people.”
About 7:30 a.m. Oct. 15, Johnson stepped on a bus as about 300 jumpers were taken to the bridge after undergoing a day of education and information sessions, along with security measures.
As the event kicked off at 9 a.m., Johnson was one of the first to take the plunge. On top of the platform he stood facing east, the warmth of the sun hitting his face and the wind blowing hard as he looked below at a gorge from where his ancestral roots looked back at him.
“You have to physically walk out there, the winds blowing 20 miles,” he said. “You have to put your feet on the ledge and you are looking down at that moment, so that was the scariest part, and then obviously the freefall.”
He didn’t have time to think how scared he was at that moment. Before he knew it, he was falling. The two seconds it took for the chute to be released felt like a lifetime. Johnson said that’s when he started to take in the view and the beauty of it all, before he was instructed to prepare for landing about a minute later.
He could have landed in a rescue boat, trees — some of which had long ropes attached in anticipation jumpers could land there — or in the river. Johnson landed in cold, shallow waters of the New River.
“I was glad to feel it,” he said. “I knew I was on the ground and nothing was damaged.”
West Virginian: Wild and Wonderful
Johnson said anytime a person does something dangerous, they should seek family support first. If his mom had told him to not jump, he probably wouldn’t have.
While Johnson has no regrets from his experience, the man who is still healing from the death of his father earlier this year said his father would have loved it. Johnson gets his craving for adventure from his parents, and he wants to live up to that, he said.
“(My mom) said, ‘This is something your dad would have loved,’” Johnson said, which meant a lot. Johnson said his father would have been right next to him if circumstances had been different.
The Johnson family has always been a tight-knit group, taking advantage of the outdoors of West Virginia, from water skiing to baseball, dirt bikes and more. The Huntington East High School and Marshall University graduate said his and his brother’s childhood was adventurous because of that.
“My family has always been about the outdoors. We’ve always been about going to the mountains. We’ve always loved West Virginia,” Johnson said.
The family built their name in the Huntington area via their photography business. Once his parents retired and sold the business, Johnson searched for a new position after 30 years of working for it. He landed a position in politics as Cabell County’s assessor, where he has remained since taking office in 2013.
He said the position is a good managerial position for him as he makes sure the office adheres to state code. He calls taxpayers the office’s customers. While he is by all definitions a politician, Johnson says he tries not to be a stereotype of the word, and he works to make the area a more positive place.
Working as the assessor has given him more time to spend with family on weekends, he said. His two children — Ashley and Nick — have grown, leaving Johnson and his wife “empty nesters.” Johnson said while he and his wife aren’t doing as many extreme activities as they once did — aside from his jumping off the bridge — they still enjoy visiting the mountains to explore.
While the jump took just a few minutes from start to end, Johnson said the memories, along with positive health and mental implications it brought, will last a lifetime.
Johnson said he would love to do the jump again to take in the experience feeling more relaxed and with the fear behind him.
Johnson said West Virginia needs to be promoted in a positive light. Visiting Bridge Day and the Mountain State for the first time were Johnson’s friends from Miami. He said they were blown away by the tourism, beauty and cost of living the state has.
They plan on coming back, he said. | https://www.herald-dispatch.com/features_entertainment/bridge-day-jump-is-full-circle-moment-for-cabell-county-assessor-with-gorge-roots/article_e6c142b8-247f-5100-8aa7-4e76bb7a904d.html | 2022-10-23 06:36:30 | 1 | https://www.herald-dispatch.com/features_entertainment/bridge-day-jump-is-full-circle-moment-for-cabell-county-assessor-with-gorge-roots/article_e6c142b8-247f-5100-8aa7-4e76bb7a904d.html |
Former President Trump’s digital trading cards have sold out less than 24 hours after he first announced they were available.
As of Friday morning, the site selling the non-fungible tokens (NFTs) says they are sold out, and links to purchase the digital cards are no longer available.
OpenSea Data, which tracks the sales and markets for NFTs, indicated there were 45,000 of the Trump cards initially made available for purchase for $99 each. The Trump digital cards were the top trending item on the site as of Friday morning.
Trump posted on Truth Social on Wednesday that he would be making a “major announcement” without providing any details. Some had speculated the announcement would be related to the Speaker race playing out among House Republicans or Trump’s largely inactive 2024 presidential campaign.
Instead, Trump revealed a line of digital trading cards that could be purchased with cryptocurrency or a credit card. Proceeds from the cards — which, among other looks, depict the former president as an astronaut and a cowboy — will not go to Trump’s campaign but to Trump himself through a licensing deal.
The announcement drew mockery and disbelief from liberals and some conservatives.
President Biden tweeted that he had some “major announcements” of his own, listing off a series of policy wins in recent weeks. Stephen Bannon, a former Trump White House and campaign official, appeared exasperated by the announcement during his radio show on Thursday and suggested whoever was involved with the effort should be fired. | https://www.wjhl.com/hill-politics/trumps-digital-cards-sell-out-within-a-day/ | 2022-12-16 18:24:51 | 0 | https://www.wjhl.com/hill-politics/trumps-digital-cards-sell-out-within-a-day/ |
MADISON, Wis. , June 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Madison Liquidators has recently expanded the available power hub and charging station products by adding new lines by MOD. Prioritizing these new products means that providing power to a conference table or around the office is more convenient and tailored to modern devices. MOD's wide scoping design seeks to fundamentally change the way an office is powered.
The MOD line differentiates itself from other power solutions with features such as; desktop wireless chargers, innovative monitor arms that provide power at the base of the monitor, in-desk and pop-up surface power and more. While Madison Liquidators features many high-quality power and charging options, these new MOD lines offer flexibility, variety, and modernity to a classic solution.
With the MOD series of products, it's important that customers can now find the right solution to utilize the grommets that come with every desk. Being able to reliably power the multiple devices necessary for work is essential for productivity. This will eliminate moments of borrowing chargers, unplugging other devices due to limited outlet space and ill-fitting power solutions. Convenience and tailored solutions are at the basis of this budding relationship between MOD and Madison Liquidators.
Quality, durability, and color options also add another element of distinction. The power hubs can lay on surfaces, be clamped to the sides or back of a desk, stand horizontally on a steady base, pop up from a grommet with a simple click or clamp to poles. They are manufactured using metal and plastic and come in unique colors ranging from black, white and silver to blue and pink. A multitude of shapes also abound. While office solutions must prioritize function, design also takes precedents as differing office styles merit consideration.
Madison Liquidators is proud to make a new online home for MOD power hubs and lighting series as it's a match that reinforces the values that the company has always embodied. Innovative offerings by MOD are being added to the online marketplace every day and Madison liquidators hopes that with these additions, it will attract more consumers looking for value, style, and functionality in their office furniture.
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Watch as 29 schools from Lehigh, Northampton, and Warren County participate in the 2023 Freddy Awards LIVE from the State Theatre in Easton, Pa.
The Freddy Awards is a 3-hour, live television show that recognizes and rewards outstanding achievements in local high school musical theater.
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ANNAPOLIS, Md., Aug. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- American Military tribute brewery Armed Forces Brewing Company will sponsor the 2022 Nashville is Grateful Golf Tournament to benefit the Special Operators Transition Foundation, a non-profit organization that provides tailored transition programs to top tier Special Operations leaders in order to strengthen America's best businesses with elite veteran talent.
"Armed Forces Brewing Company's mission is to make great American beer and employ great American Veterans," said Alan Beal, CEO. "We are excited to help the Special Operators Transition Foundation, who share our passion of helping our special operator Veterans transition into the civilian workforce."
Former Navy SEAL Robert J. O'Neill, a Director of Armed Forces Brewing Company, will host the golf tournament to be held on September 26th, 2022 at Old Hickory Country Club outside of Nashville. O'Neill will be joined by Kid Rock, Special Operators, and musical guests for the event.
Armed Forces Brewing Company has expanded recently into Texas including 197 H-E-B supermarkets and recently won a contract to be distributed in Walmart and Sam's Club in 2023. Their most popular beers include Preamble – We The People, a light beer made with a single American hop grown by U.S. Military Veterans; Special Hops IPA, a bold, adventurous American Pale Ale that is a tribute to U.S. Navy SEALS and Cat Shot – an American craft lager that pays homage to pre-prohibition style lagers, naval aviators and aircraft carrier deck crews.
Armed Forces Brewing Company is owned by Military Veterans and is known for great tasting beers as well as its outrageous and patriotic videos for its public stock offering, which has already attracted more than 5,000 investors. More information on investing as little as $200 in the SEC-qualified public offering is available at https://ownarmedforcesbrewingco.com/ourmission/
About Armed Forces Brewing Company
Armed Forces Brewing Company was created to pay homage to the U.S. Military through its beers that pay tribute to each branch of the Military. Launched in 2019, Armed Forces Brewing Company was founded by patriotic experienced veterans of the food and beverage industry and Military Veterans and plans to employ Veterans and Veteran family members as at least 70% of its workforce to make and sell great American beer.
For more information, visit https://ownarmedforcesbrewingco.com/ourmission/
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LULING, Texas — In Washington, D.C., this week, lawmakers are working to try and get wrongfully detained Americans out of foreign countries.
President Joe Biden signed an executive order to sanction criminals, terrorists and government officials who hold Americans captive abroad, and the U.S. Senate approved a resolution calling for Brittney Griner's release. The WNBA star has been a Russian prisoner for 155 days on marijuana charges.
While her case has been very high profile, there's another case involving a Texas businessman that most have never heard about. Mark Swidan has been held in a Chinese prison for almost 10 years. His mother fears that she won't live long enough to see her son come home.
In the small town of Luling, Texas, a mother's love never wavers. Inside her tiny apartment, Katherine Swidan lives surrounded by memories of happier times with her youngest son, Mark.
"I remember him at five or six years old. If he heard the national anthem in the game or something, he was the first one to stand up," she said. "He's a fantastic photographer, artist, he designs homes, he designs jewelry."
She slowly went through all of Mark's things that's she's kept, all while waiting for him to come home.
"I had to keep his clothes," she said. "These are his golfing hats, photography equipment like lenses and things."
It's been almost 10 years since Katherine Swidan has seen her son in person.
The last time the Chinese government let her speak to Mark Swidan was a 5-minute phone conversation in 2018.
"I don't even remember what I said. I just remember hearing his voice," she said.
She treasures a large box filled with old artwork and letters Mark Swidan was allowed to send home. It also holds letters she's gotten from lawmakers, the U.S. Ambassador to China and the State Department.
"This is from Sen. [John] Cornyn in 2017, and I can't get a hold of him now, so I just gave up on him," she said, adding that she's tired of waiting in vain for the government to help her son.
In 2012, Mark Swidan was in China on a business trip, buying flooring and fixtures. He was arrested and detained after officials accused him of buying and selling drugs. Mark Swidan lost his fiancée, his freedom and could possibly lose his life.
"He's never confessed through all the torture, the starvation," Katherine Swidan said.
A Chinese court gave Mark Swidan the death penalty. And while that's been delayed, his torturous detention continues.
"I'm already 72. I cannot ... I cannot die without seeing his face again," Katherine Swidan said with tears in her eyes. "I don't want his legacy to be just a box of stuff. And if he does come back and I'm not here, I want him to know that I ... I did everything I could possibly do."
Swidan isn't alone. A mural unveiled in D.C. this week displays Mark's face, along with 17 other Americans who are currently being held by foreign governments.
There's no official figure for how many Americans are being held overseas, but human rights groups estimate there are at least 60 U.S. citizens being wrongfully detained in about 18 countries around the world.
Attorney Jason I. Poblete is president of the Global Liberty Alliance, which helps defend people whose fundamental rights are violated by authoritarian governments.
"When you travel around the world and you're caught in a legal system that's not the best, in some cases substandard, these things can happen," he said. "And then there's this big shock: Is America coming to help me? Well, guess what? They're not. In most cases, it takes a while."
Poblete said the torture Mark Swidan is going through locked away in a Chinese prison is truly inhumane.
"This man has not slept in a dark room in almost 10 years, they have not turned the lights off," he said. "He has been kept in a very small cell. He has been forced and subjected to extreme psychological pressure and pains."
Poblete hopes that as more and more people hear about the Swidans' case, the wheels of justice will start to turn faster, and his case will be made a priority.
"In Mark's case, it's frankly baffling why this man has been in that facility for almost 10 years ... the U.S. government has failed Mr. Swidan," he said.
Right now, all Katherine Swidan can do is worry and wait, and she continues to pray someone will step forward and do what they can to bring her son home before it's too late.
"The worst-case scenario is that people in the government just ignore what I'm saying, and they keep having meetings, meetings, meetings, and then Mark dies in the interim," she said. "You know, I don't know everything that goes on secretly in the government. I don't want to know. I just want Mark to come home."
Earlier this month, Katherine Swidan received a letter from Nicholas Burns, the U.S. Ambassador to China. In it, he wrote that getting Mark Swidan released is a "top priority" to the Embassy, the State Department and the White House. He also wrote that embassy officials recently tried to visit the prison where Mark Swidan is being held but were denied due to COVID-19 protocols.
KVUE reached out to Sen. John Cornyn's office about Mark Swidan's case as well. A spokesperson told us, "Senator Cornyn's office made contact with federal agencies on his behalf and shared those updates with his family. Sen. Cornyn's office is committed to working with all Texans in need of assistance."
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BELFAST, Northern Ireland — Cheering crowds greeted King Charles III on Tuesday in Northern Ireland on his tour of the four parts of the United Kingdom, where the visit drew a rare moment of unity from politicians in a region with a contested British and Irish identity that is deeply divided over the monarchy.
Hundreds of people lined the street leading to Hillsborough Castle near Belfast, the royal family’s official residence in Northern Ireland, in the latest outpouring of affection following Queen Elizabeth II’s death on Sept. 8. The area in front of the gates to the castle was carpeted with hundreds of floral tributes.
Charles and his wife Camilla, the Queen Consort, got out of their car to meet villagers — waving to the crowd and sometimes using both hands to reach out to people, including schoolchildren in bright blue uniforms.
Charles even petted a corgi — famously his late mother’s favorite breed of dog — held up by one person, and some chanted “God save the king!”
“Today means so much to me and my family, just to be present in my home village with my children to witness the arrival of the new king is a truly historic moment for us all,” said Hillsborough resident Robin Campbell as he waited for Charles.
But he added: “It is also a day tinged with great sadness as we witness a loving son coming to our village while we are all in mourning for the loss of a truly magnificent queen and his loving mother.”
While there was a warm welcome in Hillsborough, the British monarchy draws mixed emotions in Northern Ireland, where there are two main communities: mostly Protestant unionists who consider themselves British and largely Roman Catholic nationalists who see themselves as Irish.
That split fueled three decades of violence known as “the Troubles” involving paramilitary groups on both sides and U.K. security forces, in which 3,600 people died. The royal family was touched personally by the violence: Lord Louis Mountbatten, a cousin of the queen and a much-loved mentor to Charles, was killed by an Irish Republican Army bomb in 1979.
A deep sectarian divide remains, a quarter century after Northern Ireland’s 1998 peace agreement.
For some Irish nationalists, the British monarch represents an oppressive foreign power. But others acknowledge the queen’s role in forging peace. On a visit to Northern Ireland in 2012, she shook hands with Sinn Fein deputy leader Martin McGuinness, a former IRA commander – a once-unthinkable moment of reconciliation.
Alex Maskey, a Sinn Fein politician who is speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly, said the queen had “demonstrated how individual acts of positive leadership can help break down barriers and encourage reconciliation.”
In a sign of how far Northern Ireland has come on the road to peace, representatives of Sinn Fein are attending commemorative events for the queen and meeting the king on Tuesday.
Maskey expressed condolences to the king at an event in Hillsborough Castle attended by leaders from all the main political parties in Northern Ireland.
Charles responded that his mother “felt deeply, I know, the significance of the role she herself played in bringing together those whom history had separated, and in extending a hand to make possible the healing of long-held hurts.”
He said he would draw on his mother’s “shining example” and “seek the welfare of all the inhabitants of Northern Ireland.”
Still, not everyone was welcoming the new king.
On the Falls Road in Belfast, a nationalist stronghold, several walls are decorated with murals of Bobby Sands, an IRA member who died while on a hunger strike in prison in 1981, and others killed in the Troubles.
“No, he’s not our king. Bobby Sands was our king here,” said 52-year-old Bobby Jones. “Queen never done nothing for us. Never did. None of the royals do.”
Later, Charles and Northern Ireland politicians are to attend a “service of reflection” for the queen at St. Anne’s Cathedral in Belfast.
The president and prime minister of the neighboring Republic of Ireland also are due to attend, despite tense relations between Dublin and London over Brexit. Since Britain left the European Union in 2020, the U.K. and the EU have been wrangling over trade rules for Northern Ireland, the only part of the U.K. that shares a border with a member of the bloc.
On Monday night, Charles and siblings Anne, Andrew and Edward briefly stood vigil around their mother’s flag-draped coffin in St. Giles Cathedral as members of the public filed past.
The following morning, a man wearing a suit adorned with medals stood silently, bowed his head and moved on. A woman dabbed away tears with a handkerchief. Another woman with two young children in school uniforms walked slowly past the coffin.
In the line of mourners outside the cathedral in the historic heart of Edinburgh, Sheila McLeay called the queen “a wonderful ambassador for our country.”
“She was such an example for every single one of us. She was dignified. She was just, she was beautiful inside and out. And I have known her all of my life. And I miss her very much,” she added.
The queen’s coffin was scheduled to leave Scotland later Tuesday to be flown back to London and driven to her official London home, Buckingham Palace. On Wednesday, it will be taken through central London to Parliament, where the queen will lie in state until her funeral in Westminster Abbey on Monday. Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to line up to pay their last respects at the coffin.
The Royal Air Force C-17 Globemaster that will carry the coffin has been used to evacuate people from Afghanistan and to take humanitarian aid and weapons to Ukraine following Russia’s invasion, U.K. Air Chief Marshal Sir Mike Wigston said.
Early Tuesday, scores of workers cleaned litter and weeds from the road from the air force base where the plane carrying the coffin will land.
Lawless and Corder reported from London. | https://www.mcall.com/news/nation-world/ct-aud-nw-queen-elizabeth-death-20220913-7gybhxf2qbgrvozz5apjgitsoy-story.html | 2022-09-13 15:41:36 | 0 | https://www.mcall.com/news/nation-world/ct-aud-nw-queen-elizabeth-death-20220913-7gybhxf2qbgrvozz5apjgitsoy-story.html |
NEW YORK, July 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jakubowitz Law announces that a securities fraud class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of shareholders of Unilever PLC (NYSE: UL).
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This lawsuit is on behalf of all persons who purchased or otherwise acquired Unilever American Depositary Receipts between September 2, 2020 and July 21, 2021, inclusive.
Shareholders interested in acting as a lead plaintiff representing the class of wronged shareholders have until August 15, 2022 to petition the court. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
According to a filed complaint, Unilever PLC issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: a) in July 2020, the board of Ben & Jerry's, one of Unilever's marquee brands, passed a resolution to end sales of its ice cream in "Occupied Palestinian Territory" ; and b) this boycott decision risked adverse governmental actions for violations of laws, executive orders, or resolutions aimed at discouraging boycotts, divestment, and sanctions of Israel adopted by 35 U.S. states.
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MUMBAI, India, July 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Shriram Transport Finance Company Limited, a limited liability company incorporated in the Republic of India (the "Company"), hereby announces an offer to purchase for cash (the "Tender Offer"), upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Tender Offer Memorandum dated July 29, 2022 (the "Tender Offer Memorandum"), any and all of the outstanding U.S.$750,000,000 5.950% Senior Secured Notes due 2022 issued by the Company (the "Notes") under the second amended and restated trust deed dated December 27, 2019, as modified, supplemented and amended from time to time, between the Company and The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited and Axis Trustee Services Limited (the "Trust Deed").
Capitalised terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Tender Offer Memorandum, which is available on the Tender Offer Website
(https://projects.morrowsodali.com/stfc).
**SUMMARY OF THE TENDER OFFER**
(1) The Company will also pay accrued and unpaid interest on the Notes purchased pursuant to the Tender Offer up to, but not including, the expected Payment Date pursuant to the Tender Offer.
**DETAILS OF THE TENDER OFFER**
Noteholders must validly tender and not validly withdraw the Notes (or deliver to the Information and Tender Agent a notice of guaranteed delivery) at or prior to the Expiration Time to receive the Consideration. Noteholders who validly tender their Notes may withdraw such Notes at any time prior to the Expiration Time by following the procedures described in the Tender Offer Memorandum. Except for guaranteed delivery tenders according to the guaranteed delivery procedures described in the Tender Offer Memorandum, no tenders will be valid if submitted after the Expiration Time.
The Company is concurrently offering to purchase its outstanding U.S.$475,000,000 4.15% Senior Secured Notes due 2025 (together with the Tender Offer, the "Concurrent Tender Offers"). The Company intends to unwind certain of its hedge transactions in connection with the Concurrent Tender Offers. The mark to market valuation of the hedge transactions expected to be unwound in connection with the Concurrent Tender Offers should not be negative (the "Hedge Unwind Condition"). If the Hedge Unwind Condition is not satisfied or waived by the Company in its sole discretion, the Company will not accept any validly tendered Notes pursuant to the Tender Offer.
**PURPOSE OF THE TENDER OFFER**
The purpose of the Tender Offer is to is to optimize the Company's balance sheet and reduce debt.
**INDICATIVE TIMETABLE FOR THE TENDER OFFER** (all times are New York City time)
Commencement Date – July 29, 2022
Expiration Date and Time – 5:00 p.m. on August 11, 2022
Delivery date for tenders made via Notice of Guaranteed Delivery – 5:00 p.m. on or around August 17, 2022, which is the second business day following the Expiration Date
Payment Date – On or around August 17, which is the second business day following the Expiration Date
Payment Date for Notes tendered via Notice of Guaranteed Delivery – On or around August 19, which is the second business day following the delivery date for tenders made via Notice of Guaranteed Delivery
**DEALER MANAGERS**
Barclays (Tel: In Hong Kong: + 852 2903 3266 / In London: +44 20 3134 8515 / U.S. Toll-free: +1 (800) 438-3242 / U.S. Collect: +1 (212) 528-7581 // Email: NJASyndicate@barclays.com / liability.management@barclays.com)
Deutsche Bank (Tel: +852 2203 8652 // Email: asiasyn@list.db.com)
HSBC (Tel: +852 3941 0223 / +44 207 992 6237 / +1 212 525 5552 // Email: liability.management@hsbcib.com)
J.P. Morgan (Email: liability_management_asia@jpmorgan.com)
Standard Chartered Bank (Tel: +44 20 7885 5739 / +852 3983 8658 / +65 6557 8286 // Email: liability_management@sc.com)
**THE INFORMATION AND TENDER AGENT**
Morrow Sodali Limited (Email: stfc@investor.morrowsodali.com / Tender Offer Website: https://projects.morrowsodali.com/stfc / +852 2319 4130 / +44 20 4513 6933 / +1 203 609 4910)
Questions and requests for assistance in connection with tendering Notes and participating in the Tender Offer and the submission of a tender instruction should be directed to the Information and Tender Agent. Questions and requests for assistance in connection with the Tender Offer should be directed to the Dealer Managers.
**DISCLAIMER**
THIS ANNOUNCEMENT DOES NOT CONSTITUTE OR FORM PART OF AND SHOULD NOT BE CONSTRUED AS AN OFFER OR AN INVITATION TO PARTICIPATE IN THE TENDER OFFER. THE TENDER OFFER IS BEING MADE PURSUANT TO A TENDER OFFER MEMORANDUM, A COPY OF WHICH WILL BE DELIVERED TO THE NOTEHOLDERS, AND WHICH SETS FORTH THE COMPLETE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE TENDER OFFER. NOTEHOLDERS ARE URGED TO READ THE TENDER OFFER MEMORANDUM CAREFULLY BEFORE MAKING ANY DECISION WITH RESPECT TO THEIR NOTES.
TENDER OFFER WEBSITE: HTTPS://PROJECTS.MORROWSODALI.COM/STFC
NEITHER THIS ANNOUNCEMENT NOR THE TENDER OFFER MEMORANDUM CONSTITUTES AN OFFER TO BUY OR THE SOLICITATION OF AN OFFER TO SELL NOTES IN ANY JURISDICTION IN WHICH IT IS UNLAWFUL TO DO SO, AND TENDERS OF NOTES FOR PURCHASE PURSUANT TO THE TENDER OFFER WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED FROM NOTEHOLDERS IN ANY CIRCUMSTANCES IN WHICH SUCH OFFER OR SOLICITATION IS UNLAWFUL. IN THOSE JURISDICTIONS WHERE THE SECURITIES, BLUE SKY OR OTHER LAWS REQUIRE AN INVITATION TO TENDER TO BE MADE BY A LICENSED BROKER OR DEALER AND THE DEALER MANAGER OR ITS AFFILIATE IS SUCH A LICENSED BROKER OR DEALER IN SUCH JURISDICTIONS, ANY INVITATION SHALL BE DEEMED TO BE MADE ON BEHALF OF THE OFFER BY THE DEALER MANAGER OR SUCH AFFILIATE, AS THE CASE MAY BE, AND NO INVITATION IS MADE IN ANY SUCH JURISDICTION WHERE THE DEALER MANAGER OR ITS RELEVANT AFFILIATE IS NOT SO LICENSED.
NEITHER THIS COMMUNICATION NOR ANY INFORMATION HEREIN NOR THE FACT OF ITS DISTRIBUTION SHALL FORM THE BASIS OF, OR BE RELIED ON IN CONNECTION WITH, ANY CONTRACT OR COMMITMENT OR INVESTMENT DECISION WHATSOEVER. ANY INVESTMENT DECISION SHOULD BE MADE SOLELY ON THE BASIS OF THE TENDER OFFER MEMORANDUM.
THE TENDER OFFER AND THE TENDERING OF NOTES (NOT BEING SECURITIES LISTED ON A STOCK EXCHANGE IN INDIA) WILL NOT BE REGULATED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE BOARD OF INDIA (BUY BACK OF SECURITIES) REGULATIONS, 2018, AS AMENDED. THE TENDER OFFER WILL NOT BE, AND HAS NOT BEEN, OFFERED IN INDIA BY MEANS OF ANY DOCUMENT AND DOES NOT CONSTITUTE AN ADVERTISEMENT, INVITATION, OFFER OR SOLICITATION OF AN OFFER TO BUY BACK ANY NOTES IN VIOLATION OF APPLICABLE INDIAN LAWS. ACCORDINGLY, ANY NOTEHOLDER PARTICIPATING IN THE TENDER OFFER WILL BE DEEMED TO HAVE ACKNOWLEDGED, REPRESENTED AND AGREED THAT IT IS ELIGIBLE TO TENDER ITS NOTES PURSUANT TO APPLICABLE LAWS AND REGULATIONS.
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OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Carter Verhaeghe scored twice and Spencer Knight stopped 27 shots for his second career shutout as the Florida Panthers beat the Ottawa Senators 4-0 on Thursday night.
With the victory and Nashville’s 5-4 shootout win over Western Conference-leading Colorado (56-18-7), the Panthers (58-17-6) clinched their first Presidents’ Trophy for the best record in the regular season and home ice advantage throughout the Stanley Cup playoffs.
“I think it was big,” Panthers head coach Andrew Brunette said of Knight’s performance. “It was big for the group and I think it was big for him. He was solid the whole game. I’m proud of our group that we kind of buckled down and kind of had a bit of a checking mentality where we didn’t give up a whole lot in the third period, to make sure we got him the shutout.”
Sam Reinhart and Sam Bennett also scored for Florida, which halted Ottawa’s four-game winning streak.
Filip Gustavsson made 26 saves for Ottawa.
With the top seed in the Eastern Conference locked up, the Panthers rested a few of their starters, including Jonathan Huberdeau, Aleksander Barkov, Claude Giroux, MacKenzie Weegar and Gustav Forsling.
Florida held a 1-0 lead to open the third and scored two goals in a 21-second span in the opening minutes of the third period.
Bennett controlled an Anthony Duclair rebound out front to make it 2-0, and moments later Eetu Luostarinen found Verhaeghe, who scored over a sprawled Gustavsson.
“I think it kind of deflated them a little bit,” Verhaeghe said. “They thought they were still in the game, but getting two quick ones like that and making it 3-0 kind of puts it out of reach. I mean, they do play a hard game. Give them credit — it was good.”
Verhaeghe scored his second of the game midway through the period for his 24th of the season.
“I just thought we played really slow,” Senators coach D.J. Smith said. “We held on to (the puck) and brought it back and really didn’t put their “D” under any kind of pressure and then we got beat. Bunch of turnovers, two-on-ones and we didn’t play them very well and they end up in the net and then you start trailing.”
The Panthers had a great opportunity to extend their lead early in the second with a two-man advantage for 51 seconds, but were unable to capitalize.
Florida kept coming, but Gustavsson was solid, making a big save on Verhaeghe. At the other end of the ice, Knight was holding his own, stopping Auston Watson on a great chance.
Bennett grabbed the puck from Drake Batherson at the goal line and passed it to Reinhart, who scored his 33rd of the season from the hashmarks to give the Panthers a 1-0 lead in the first.
“Certainly, you want to finish better than that,” Smith said. “Tomorrow we’ve got to play a lot harder than that. We didn’t play by any of the structure that we play with that’s allowed us a chance to win every night.
“No matter how many guys are out, you play with a structure and you stay in it. We had a lot of people on their own page and, you know, long shifts. We’ve played a lot better hockey.”
NOTES: Eugene Melnyk’s daughters Anna and Olivia were on hand to drop the puck for the home finale. Florida’s Aleksi Heponiemi, Matt Kiersted, and Cole Schwindt were all in the lineup. Anton Lundell (upper body) and Radko Gudas (lower body) missed the game while nursing minor ailments.
UP NEXT
Florida: At Montreal Canadiens on Friday.
Ottawa: At Philadelphia Flyers on Friday.
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"It can feel like it's just a conversation about hair, but it's not," Tracee Ellis Ross says as the trailer for OWN and Disney's Onyx Collective new docuseries opens.
"It never is," Oprah Winfrey responds.
That's the basic premise behind The Hair Tales, a six-part series exploring the stories and beauty of Black hair from Black women's perspectives, and featuring some of the top talents from the worlds of Hollywood, politics, and music. From the history that influences the most intricate styles to the artistry that goes into creating such beautiful hairdos and the complex way that hair has become part of Black identities, the series will delve into everything about hair through the lens of influential Black women.
The trailer gives a brief, but illuminating look at what fans can expect from the series -- guest stars Issa Rae, Rep. Ayanna Pressley, CHIKA, Marsai Martin, Chloe Bailey and Winfrey lay their intimate hair tales on the table with executive producers Ross and Michaela angela Davis. Surrounded by brilliant voices of academic and cultural leaders, gifted hairdressers, and extraordinary sisters, the series presents a collage of resilience, style and purpose.
Watch the trailer ahead:
Created by Davis and produced by Culture House, Joy Mill Entertainment and Tetravision and Harpo Films, the series will debut with the first two episodes on Hulu and OWN, with two episodes releasing weekly on Hulu and one episode releasing weekly on OWN.
The Hair Tales premieres on Saturday, Oct. 22 on Hulu and at @ 9pm ET/PT on OWN.
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Stuck behind a dump truck going 14 mph through one of the towns that dot Hwy 154 in Southern California, I can’t help but think Acura is selling the 2024 Integra Type S short on this first drive program. I shouldn’t be frustrated by slowpokes. I should be negotiating the corkscrew at Laguna Seca.
Not all of this route is so tame—it opens up into some fun canyon roads later—but this is a street drive instead of a track drive because Acura is touting the Integra Type S as a more mature street car than the related Honda Civic Type R, which is billed as a track machine. The Civic Type R may be slightly sharper, but the Integra Type S is no less capable and more inviting to boot.
Acura Integra Type S: Rowdy power
The Integra Type S and Civic Type R share a basic structure, a powertrain, and suspension. Even the tires are the same right down to the size and brand.
The engine is the one element of the Integra Type S that has a sharper edge than the Civic Type R, but only slightly. It’s the same 2.0-liter turbo-4 with the same 25.2 psi of boost that gives it incredible power. Here, it makes 320 hp at 6,500 rpm and 310 lb-ft of torque from 2,600-4,000 rpm. That beats the Civic Type R by 5 hp, but Acura says the Integra Type S is also programmed for better mid-range torque.
The Integra Type S can launch from 0-60 mph in a tad over five seconds, and here it’s chomping at the bit to run free and unfettered from traffic. It’s a torque-rich engine with strong responses from a stop. It’s also responsive in the mid-range and all the way up to its 7,000-rpm redline, though any difference between the Type S and Type R would require back-to-back drives that aren’t available here.
Like the Civic Type R, getting the Integra Type S to launch hard is tricky, as power goes only through a 6-speed manual transmission to the front wheels and Acura provides no launch control function.
I try a couple of hard starts and find it’s best to launch at about 2,000 rpm with about three-quarter throttle. Revving much higher than that causes the wheels to spin when you come off the clutch, and Acura has an rpm cut-off at 3,400 rpm that retards the power. The front end reacts admirably, too, giving only the hint of torque steer without a hard pull to one side or the other. Acura limits torque steer with equal-length half-shafts, a mechanical limited-slip differential, and a dual-axis MacPherson strut front suspension that separates the knuckles and dampers.
The engine is even chattier than in the Type R, at least from the outside of the car. It has essentially the same exhaust system as the Honda with a single exhaust valve and three center-mounted 4.3-inch outlets, but it lacks the Honda’s front resonator and thus the louder sound. That sound comes in two stages, as the valve opens at higher rpm with the car in the Comfort drive mode, lower rpm in Sport mode, and always stays open in Sport Plus. Sport Plus also triggers some pops and bangs from the exhaust on downshifts, upshifts, deceleration, or when revving the engine.
From the driver seat, the engine certainly makes its angry beehive noises heard, but they don’t interfere with conversation because the Integra has more sound deadener than the Civic. I didn’t even notice the pops and bangs, or the sound of the blow-off valve, until I rolled down the windows.
The manual transmission is a typical Honda/Acura delight, with short throws, positive engagement, and a great feel through its metal and leather shift knob. My only complaint is a light clutch with a high engagement point that requires a few shifts to get used to.
Acura Integra Type S: Front-drive wonder
The Integra Type S’s front-wheel-drive layout also isn’t ideal for handling, but you wouldn’t know it by driving the car. It takes its place with the Civic Type R as the best handling front-wheel-drive cars on the market.
Acura upgrades the standard Integra to get there. In fitting the different suspension components from the Civic Type R under the Integra, Acura engineers widened the front track 3.5 inches and the rear track 1.9 inches. The tubular front stabilizer bar is 2 mm wider at 29 mm, and the solid rear bar is 2 mm wider than the one on the A-Spec Integra at 20.5 mm. The multilink rear suspension also has high-rigidity knuckles and unique bushings made from a material Acura would not divulge. It all reacts through a sport-tuned version of the Integra’s three-way adjustable dampers. The body structure hasn’t changed, but Acura adds more bonding material.
The suspension makes room for bigger wheels and tires as the Type S rolls on 265/30R19 Michelin Pilot Sport 4Ss mounted on 19 x 9.5-inch wheels at each corner. The wheels may be bigger than the A-Spec model’s 18s, but they’re 6.5% lighter.
While the variable steering ratio is actually slightly slower than on other Integras, it’s still very quick with a ratio that ranges from 11.62:1 at full lock to 14.9:1 on center. The brakes also grow 1.5 inches up front to 13.8 inches with Brembo 4-piston calipers and 0.9 inch in the rear to 12.0 inches with single-slot calipers.
With power sent only through the front wheels, those Michelins have to manage the acceleration and steering, and carry most of the braking force, and they do it all well.
The open canyon roads I experience later in the day reveal much but not all of the hatchback’s handling prowess.
Like other Integras, the Type S has weighty, direct steering that firms up even more at highway speeds to improve high-speed stability. The car turns in to corners quickly, and the rear end follows along dutifully. It waterbugs through ess turns, and puts its power down efficiently when accelerating out of corners thanks to the wide tires and limited-slip diff.
Those tires can only do so much, though, so balancing the weight for turning, accelerating, and braking is important. When too much speed makes it push in a corner, letting off the throttle or a small dab of brake tucks the nose in nicely to carve through the turn. When exiting a corner too fast, it will run wide, but a little less throttle gets it back on track.
This is all easy to feel thanks to a little bit of body lean, no matter the damper setting, through the well-tuned suspension. In each of the three damper modes—Comfort, Sport, and Sport+—the Integra Type S is a half step softer than the Civic Type R’s suspension, which we found created a too-busy ride on broken pavement. Comfort provides an everyday comfortable ride quality, Sport+ borders on hard over bumps, and Sport is the sweet spot for twisty roads.
Overall, the Type S feels like it has all the performance of the Type R. It would probably put up about the same time around a track like Laguna Seca, but it’s more comfortable on the street. That fits with the car’s more grown-up character, which is also reflected in its looks and equipment.
Acura Integra Type S: The grown-up choice
The Integra Type S sports a variety of exterior changes to improve performance.
Up front, it wears a larger, more open grille with a diamond-pattern mesh and 170% more airflow than other Integras. This air cools the engine and flows through a vent in the aluminum hood for lift reduction. The lower fascia has larger air intakes with areas for brake cooling and canards that help create air curtains around the front wheels.
Wider lower sills match wheel flares that make the car 2.8 inches wider than other Integras, and the rear end has an integrated lip spoiler and a gloss-black diffuser with triple center-exit exhaust finishers.
The changes give the Integra Type S a purposeful stance that doesn’t stray too far into boy racer territory thanks mostly to the lack of a Civic Type R-like rear wing. That may mean the Acura has slightly less downforce on a track than the Honda, but it’s a fair price to pay to drive a car with a design that exercises wise restraint.
The interior changes much less. The seats have the same design as in other Integras but they get firmer bolsters, synthetic suede inserts, and contrast stitching. Heated and with eight-way power adjustments and four-way power lumbar adjustments, they’re sporty and comfortable seats, but they aren’t as firm as the Recaros and more extreme sport seats offered by other manufacturers. Bigger folks will appreciate that, but smaller people may not; I like them. The rear seat is shaped for two passengers instead of the standard three of other Integras.
The interior also features a perforated leather steering wheel and shift knob, a synthetic suede shift boot with colored stitching, and a lower dash that is color-matched to the buyer’s choice of Red, Ebony, or Orchid interior colors.
Acura also outfits the Type S with luxury car levels of standard equipment, including a 10.2-inch digital instrument cluster, a 9.0-inch touchscreen, a head-up display, 16-speaker ELS audio, wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, and wireless smartphone charging.
Standard safety features consist of blind-spot monitors, rear cross-traffic alerts, automatic emergency braking with pedestrian detection, active lane control, adaptive cruise control, front and rear parking sensors, and traffic sign recognition.
This all comes for a price of $51,995 including an $1,195 destination fee. That’s about $10,000 more than the Civic Type R, which won the Motor Authority Best Car To Buy 2023 award. However, the Integra Type S is more civil than the Civic and better equipped. It can also likely perform just as well as long as a slow-moving dump trunk isn’t blocking the way. We’ll aim to make that happen during our Motor Authority Best Car To Buy 2024 testing later this year.
Acura paid for travel and lodging for Motor Authority to bring you this firsthand report.
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Over the river, and through the wood,
To Grandfather’s house we go;
The horse know the way to carry the sleigh
Through the white and drifted snow
Thanksgiving poem by Lydia Marie Child
One thing I learned a long time ago: the more specific something is, the more it rings as universally true.
At the Gianelli home in Hoboken, New Jersey, nobody stands on ceremony. In fact, they just barge right in without knocking, but as this is family custom, no one finds this incongruous. That’s the setting for CRT’s production of Joe DiPietro’s wistful yet hilarious family comedy “Over the River and Through the Woods”.
The play was produced by CRT in 2005, and proved so popular with audiences that they’ve brought it back as part of their 50th anniversary season. It’s not hard to see why.
We’re in the Gianelli home, specifically Aida Gianelli (Catherine Gaffney), her husband Frank (Richard Daniel), and Nunzio Cristano (Bill Coughlin) and his wife Emma (Cara D’Emanuele), the maternal grandparents of our narrator, grandson Nick (John Cavaseno). It’s a modest but cozy home with lots of photos and knick-knacks, and the kinds of signage you’d buy at Target or Hobby Lobby. This is where Nick has had Sunday dinners with both sets of grandparents for his entire life. These folks believe that the right choice of cheese or the right danish can be considered lifestyle choices.
As the play opens, Nick is nervously trying to get up the nerve to tell his family some big news; easier said than done, since all four relatives get distracted if a car drives by or the wind blows. Nick’s big news is that he’s been offered a promotion that will require him to move to Seattle. The news doesn’t go over well, and the next week, his grandparents invite him to Sunday dinner, having fixed him up on a blind date with Caitlin O’Hare (Alice K. Johnson). An embarrassed Nick makes snide comments throughout the meal, and when he asks Caitlin to go to dinner, she dresses him down for being so rude, and calls him a jerk. (Okay, she calls him a stronger word.)
Deena Conley directs this able six-hander with lots of love and subtle human behavior. Every single member of the cast gets a scene to shine within; each character has some quirk that defines them, whether it’s Emma and Nunzio’s endless enthusiasm for any topic, Aida’s need to prepare food and Frank’s mandolin playing.
The first act has a set piece dinner scene and the second act stages a Trivial Pursuit game with the whole family that are delights to experience. In many ways, Emma’s emotional risibility becomes the signature for the two sets of grandparents, and Cara D-Emanuele is so good at fighting back powerful emotions that she must see through; in the interest of full disclosure, I worked with her on two plays, but that doesn’t change my mind about how funny and sweet she is here.
Bill Coughlin is a great foil here; his boisterous nature is hiding real pain and illness. Catherine Gaffney’s Aida is always sweeping in and out of the kitchen with food as a universal cure-all while Richard Daniel’s Frank strums his mandolin and complains about not being able to drive anymore. When the lights shift and Nick talks to us from a place of memory, John Caveseno has a curious habit of squinting, but he soon settles into a rhythm with the other actors, and he’s a wonderful listener.
The play would seem to hinge on Nick getting together with Caitlin and staying in Hoboken. Well, it does and it doesn’t. Without giving too much away, it’s refreshing that Caitlin is seen as something more than a romantic cure for Nick’s lifestyle blues. Even in this breezy comedy, there are no easy answers, just the ongoing flow of family.
“Over the River and Through the Woods”
Cortland Repertory Theatre
Through July 2
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6799 Little York Lake Road,
Preble, NY
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Elly De La Cruz had a message for the Washington Nationals dugout after his latest home run traveled 455 feet at Nationals Park on Wednesday night in the Cincinnati Reds’ 9-2 win.
Nationals manager Davey Martinez had umpires check to see if De La Cruz’s bat was legal during his second-inning at-bat, as he believed a tracking device might have been in the knob.
De La Cruz’s knob had a tracking sensor cover on it, and Martinez felt that umpires needed to take a look. He was eventually told to take it off after a brief stoppage in play.
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De La Cruz’s ended up striking out in that at-bat. However, he got his revenge in the fifth inning, his third at-bat after flying out previously, and he did not let it go to waste.
The emerging star waited on a curveball that sat right down the middle, and as Reds fans have loved since he was called up, he hammered it over the wall for his fourth home run of the season.
ELLY DE LA CRUZ BRINGS NEW LIFE TO REDS ORGANIZATION
However, De La Cruz did not just admire his big fly in the batter’s box. He turned to look at the Nationals dugout and pointed to the knob of his bat, which was allowed to have the tracking sensor put back on, telling them they can check it again before rounding the bases.
It was a stone-cold move by the rookie, but showed that perhaps De La Cruz was offended by Martinez’s act to have him checked out.
De La Cruz finished a whopping 3-for-6 with two runs scored and an RBI from his homer to add to his impressive resume since he was called up by Cincinnati on June 6.
The 21-year-old phenom is hitting .318/.356/.536 with a .892 OPS, four homers, eight doubles, two triples and 14 RBI over 26 games.
It is not just Reds fans who have loved what the switch hitter has been able to do since the Reds gave him a shot in the bigs. De La Cruz’s knack for flare, hustle and all-around skill on the field has been a pleasure for all fans to watch.
He even has a cycle under his belt, notching a single, double, triple and home run against the Atlanta Braves on June 23. De La Cruz had four RBI in that game as well.
While De La Cruz seems to have a very bright future ahead, it appears he does not like to be thrown off at the plate.
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REHOVOT, Israel, Jan. 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Nova (Nasdaq: NVMI), a leading innovator and a key provider of metrology solutions for advanced process control used in semiconductor manufacturing, today announced that Dror David, Chief Financial Officer, will present at the 25th Annual Needham Growth Conference on Wednesday, January 11, 2023, at the Lotte New York Palace hotel.
The fireside chat, moderated by Quinn Bolton, senior research analyst, is scheduled for 11:45 am EST. A live webcast of the presentation will be available via a live webcast from a link on Nova's Investor Relations website – https://www.novami.com/investors/events/. Mr. David will be available for one-on-one in-person meetings during the two days of the conference. To schedule a meeting please contact your Needham salesperson.
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Nova is a leading innovator and key provider of material, optical, and chemical metrology solutions for advanced process control in semiconductor manufacturing. Nova delivers continuous innovation by providing state-of-the-art high-performance metrology solutions for effective process control throughout the semiconductor fabrication lifecycle. Nova's product portfolio, which combines high-precision hardware and cutting-edge software, provides its customers with deep insight into developing and producing the most advanced semiconductor devices. Nova's unique capability to deliver innovative solutions enables its customers to improve performance, enhance product yields, and accelerate time to market. Nova acts as a partner to semiconductor manufacturers from its offices worldwide. Additional information can be found at Nova's website link – https://www.novami.com/.
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Health & Science Kids born in the summer may be more likely to get the flu, researchers say By Steve Inskeep, A Martínez Published July 17, 2023 at 4:10 AM CDT Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 1:40 Two Harvard researchers say a summer birthday could mean a kid is more likely to catch the flu. Copyright 2023 NPR | https://www.kasu.org/health-science/health-science/2023-07-17/kids-born-in-the-summer-may-be-more-likely-to-get-the-flu-researchers-say | 2023-07-17 11:26:11 | 0 | https://www.kasu.org/health-science/health-science/2023-07-17/kids-born-in-the-summer-may-be-more-likely-to-get-the-flu-researchers-say |
A new Ford patent filing has surfaced that hints at a driver-assist system designed to prevent collisions with trains.
First spotted by Motor1, the patent application was filed with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in 2021, but was only published on March 30, 2023. As Motor1 notes, the document shows two possibles implementations of this idea, each using sensors to detect oncoming trains as a car approaches a railroad crossing.
In one version, sensors would be placed on the railroad tracks on both sides of a crossing, and communicate with sensors in the vehicle. If the system detects a train, it warns the driver not to cross. Placing sensors on both sides of a crossing allows the system to confirm that a train is really out of the way before giving the all-clear, and that it isn’t, for example, reversing back over the crossing.
The second version pares things back a bit. Instead of placing sensors on the tracks, it would rely on in-car hardware, such as cameras and lidar, to watch the crossbars and warning lights at railroad crossings—the cues human drivers sometimes ignore when approaching railroad crossings.
Ford also mentions sending information to other vehicles, so that drivers know a train is occupying the crossing before they reach it. This feature, which sounds like the vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication the automaker in 2018 said could help eliminate traffic lights, could be helpful to emergency vehicles, allowing them to reroute around trains, Ford detailed in the patent.
This system would also help increase vehicle automation, according to Ford, allowing cars to automatically stop at railroad crossings without drivers having to take over. The automaker has filed several patents that could be applied to autonomous vehicles, but the core technology itself is still under development. So it might be awhile before anything like Ford’s train-detecting system appears in a production vehicle.
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RIO LINDA, Calif. — A large fire at a junkyard in Rio Linda near W M Street and W 6th Street is sending plumes of thick black smoke into the air Friday evening.
According to the Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District, no structures are being threatened by the fire, though multiple RVs and other equipment are at risk.
ABC10 has a crew at the scene and this story will be updated with more information as it’s available.
WILDFIRE PREPS
According to Cal Fire, the 2021 fire season started earlier than previous years, but also ended earlier, as well. January 2021 saw just under 1,200 acres burned from nearly 300 wildfires. Fires picked up in the summer when the Dixie Fire burned in five Northern California counties — Butte, Plumas, Shasta, Lassen and Tehama. The Dixie Fire started on July 13 and wasn't contained until Oct. 25, burning nearly 1 million acres. It has since become the second-largest wildfire in state history and the largest non-complex fire.
Overall, 2.5 million acres were burned in 2021 from 8,835 wildfires. Over 3,600 structures were destroyed and 3 people were killed.
If you live in a wildfire-prone zone, Cal Fire suggests creating a defensible space around your home. Defensible space is an area around a building in which vegetation and other debris are completely cleared. At least 100 feet is recommended.
The Department of Homeland Security suggests assembling an emergency kit that has important documents, N95 respirator masks, and supplies to grab with you if you’re forced to leave at a moment’s notice. The agency also suggests signing up for local warning system notifications and knowing your community’s evacuation plans best to prepare yourself and your family in cases of wildfires.
Some counties use Nixle alerts to update residents on severe weather, wildfires, and other news. To sign up, visit www.nixle.com or text your zip code to 888777 to start receiving alerts.
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JACKSON COUNTY, Ore. – The Jackson County Commissioners Wednesday morning approved fee increases to county parks for next year.
County staff routinely check on the cost of county parks and adjust based on a variety of factors.
The County says in most cases, the cost to host someone at a campsite has increased due to inflation, so the fee changes are meant to account for that.
The increases are between two and ten dollars per night for various county campsites.
The County Commissioners said that most of the increases were less than the rate of inflation and a couple are set to decrease.
“We don’t put any of your tax money into it. What we do is it is a program that is designed to pay for itself, so when people go to a campsite, edit what they are essentially doing is funding our park system,” Jackson County Commissioner Dave Dotterer said.
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Wynton Marsalis has done just about everything in the world of music.
One thing he hasn't, however, is team up his Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with a college marching band — until now.
“I've never seen a jazz band like ours play with a marching band, where the actual music we're playing is integrated into the music the band is playing,” Marsalis said during one of his many stops this week in Ann Arbor, where the Grammy and Pulitzer winner is taking part in a weeklong residency at the University of Michigan.
On Thursday, the 60-year-old Marsalis and members of the JLCO strode onto the Michigan Marching Band's practice field to rehearse for Saturday's show. They'll play during the Michigan football team's game against Penn State at the 107,000-seat Michigan Stadium.
The legendary trumpeter opened the rehearsal with a solo that was met with raucous applause from those who packed the field. Afterward, Marsalis was surrounded by band members and others who waited patiently to pose for a picture with him.
The University Musical Society, a nonprofit affiliated with the University of Michigan and one of the oldest performing arts presenters in the country, brought Marsalis and his orchestra to southeast Michigan for the residency. It includes a pair of concerts at the school's Hill Auditorium as well as masterclasses and workshops, plus a performance for K-12 students and a visit to a federal prison.
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And, of course, the halftime show at the Big House.
“Hopefully, you are going to win the game. We know the music is going to be good,” Marsalis jabbed at Michigan athletic director Warde Manuel during a lecture and discussion earlier in the week at the Michigan Theater.
“That’s the plan,” Manuel said. | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Wynton-Marsalis-joins-forces-with-Michigan-17509809.php | 2022-10-14 19:40:11 | 0 | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Wynton-Marsalis-joins-forces-with-Michigan-17509809.php |
Industry-first research demonstrates the critical and immediate need to expand virtual care access to address the mental health crisis among youths
SAN MATEO, Calif., March 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Brightline, the leader in virtual behavioral health care for children and families, today announced the first peer-reviewed research demonstrating the effectiveness of virtual behavioral health offerings in improving clinical outcomes in children, teens, and their caregivers. Published in JMIR Formative Research, the study highlights how a scalable virtual solution can address the worsening mental health crisis among youths by improving much-needed access to behavioral health care for families.
Exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, the ongoing pediatric mental health emergency continues to worsen by almost every measure. From increased anxiety to depression, substance abuse, and suicidality—children, teens, and their families are facing unprecedented challenges today when it comes to mental health. However, demand and access are not aligned, as there are limited ways for parents to get evidence-based pediatric behavioral health care for their children and teens.
Brightline's nationwide virtual behavioral health care service, which is eliminating the biggest barriers to care, has now published the first study of its kind on virtual behavioral health offerings for youths. Conducted between February and September 2022, Brightline's study illustrates the effectiveness of virtual pediatric behavioral health services in improving clinical outcomes for children, teens, and their caregivers:
- Most children and teens showed significant overall improvement after receiving care through virtual therapy (69%) and coaching (75%) programs;
- More than 70% of children and teens experienced reductions in internalizing symptoms such as anxiety and depression following virtual therapy and coaching sessions;
- Caregivers reported significant reductions in stress associated with caring for their child's behavioral health needs across all levels of virtual care provided.
"These findings underscore the immense opportunity for virtual behavioral health care to provide immediate relief to not only kids and teens, but also caregivers amid the ongoing youth mental health crisis," said Dr. David Grodberg, Chief Psychiatric Officer at Brightline and author of the study. "As the leading provider of virtual pediatric behavioral health, Brightline is capable of making a real difference in the lives of children and families currently lacking affordable access to essential pediatric behavioral health services."
Recent increases in support for employer-sponsored behavioral health programs have demonstrated positive outcomes. However, these programs focus on the needs of adults rather than the specialty behavioral health care required to treat children, teens, and families. Brightline's seasoned providers have years of experience working with children of all ages and deliver expert virtual therapy, psychiatry, and coaching nationwide. Based on real-world protocols designed specifically for children, teens, and caregivers, Brightline is uniquely capable of providing an affordable and scalable virtual solution to meet the demand and needs of children and families who lack timely access to quality pediatric behavioral health services.
"As recent data on the youth mental health crisis has shown, there is an urgent need to provide access to timely, high-quality mental health care to families. By leveraging the power of technology coupled with experienced pediatric and adolescent behavioral health providers to deliver evidence-based care, we are able to fill in gaps in access to care that are so needed," said Jennifer La Guardia, PhD, Vice President of Care Innovation at Brightline. "This study helps demonstrate the immediate impact that innovative virtual care models like Brightline can provide for children and families."
Following the publication of its first peer-reviewed research last year, Brightline continues to conduct rigorous research to understand youths' behavioral health needs better and further develop its solution to meet the diverse needs of children, families, employers, and health plans. This latest study, titled, "Clinical and Psychosocial Outcomes Associated With a Tele-behavioral Health Platform for Families: Retrospective Study," is published in JMIR Formative Research.
About Brightline
Brightline is the first virtual behavioral health solution built specifically to care for children, teens, and their families across a broad range of needs. With multidisciplinary care teams comprised of coaches, therapists, and psychiatrists, evidence-based programs, and a family-focused approach, Brightline brings care to families across the country right when and where they need it. Founded by leading digital health entrepreneurs Naomi Allen and Giovanni Colella, MD, the company is backed by leading investors GV (formerly Google Ventures), KKR, Oak HC/FT, and Threshold. Recognized as the pioneer in family virtual behavioral health, Brightline was listed as one of Fast Company's 2022 Most Innovative Companies and Fierce Healthcare's 2022 Fierce 15. Brightline is headquartered in San Mateo, CA, United States, and is available nationwide. Learn more at hellobrightline.com.
About JMIR Publications
JMIR Publications is a leading, born-digital, open access publisher of 30+ academic journals and other innovative scientific communication products that focus on the intersection of health and technology. Its flagship journal, the Journal of Medical Internet Research, is the leading digital health journal globally in content breadth and visibility, and it is the largest journal in the medical informatics field.
To learn more about JMIR Publications, please visit https://www.JMIRPublications.com.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg sued Rep. Jim Jordan on Tuesday, an extraordinary move as he seeks to halt a House Judiciary Committee inquiry that the prosecutor contends is a “transparent campaign to intimidate and attack” him over his indictment of former President Donald Trump.
Bragg, a Democrat, is asking a judge to invalidate subpoenas that Jordan, the committee’s Republican chair, has issued or plans to issue as part of an investigation of Bragg’s handling of the case, the first criminal prosecution of a former U.S. president.
U.S. District Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil, a Trump appointee who previously served as a federal bankruptcy court judge, declined Tuesday to take immediate action on the lawsuit. She scheduled an initial hearing for April 19 in Manhattan, the day before the committee plans to question, under subpoena, a top former prosecutor who was involved in the Trump probe.
Bragg’s lawsuit, a forceful escalation after weeks of sparring with Jordan and other Republican lawmakers in letters and media statements, seeks to end what it says is a “constitutionally destructive fishing expedition” that threatens the sovereignty and integrity of a state-level prosecution.
“Congress lacks any valid legislative purpose to engage in a free-ranging campaign of harassment in retaliation for the District Attorney’s investigation and prosecution of Mr. Trump under the laws of New York,” the lawsuit says, citing the lack of authority in the Constitution for Congress “to oversee, let alone disrupt, ongoing state law criminal matters.”
In response, Jordan tweeted Tuesday: “First, they indict a president for no crime. Then they sue to block congressional oversight when we ask questions about the federal funds they say they used to do it.”
The Judiciary Committee recently issued a subpoena seeking testimony from a Mark Pomerantz, the former prosecutor who previously oversaw the Trump investigation and sparred with Bragg over the direction of the probe before leaving the office last year. Pomerantz, who has declined to cooperate with the committee, is under subpoena to testify at a deposition on April 20 unless Vyskocil intervenes. The committee has also sought documents and testimony from the DA’s office but Bragg has rejected those requests.
The committee is scheduled to hold a hearing in Manhattan on Monday on crime in New York City and what it alleges are Bragg’s “pro-crime, anti-victim” policies. The DA’s office, however, points to statistics showing that violent crime in Manhattan has dropped since Bragg took office in January 2022.
In response, Bragg said that if Jordan, who is from Ohio, “really cared about public safety,” he would travel to some of the major cities in his home state, where crime is reportedly higher than in New York.
Bragg is represented in the lawsuit by Theodore Boutrous, a well-known First Amendment lawyer who has also represented Trump’s estranged niece, Mary Trump, in legal clashes with her famous uncle.
Vyskocil previously made headlines when she dismissed a defamation lawsuit brought against Fox News host Tucker Carlson by former Playboy model Karen McDougal, who was paid $150,000 through the National Enquirer to keep quiet about an alleged sexual encounter with Trump. In on-air remarks, Carlson called the payoff “a classic case of extortion,” but Vyskocil ruled in 2020 that the conservative commentator was engaging in “rhetorical hyperbole and opinion commentary” and that he was not “stating actual facts.”
In his lawsuit, Bragg said he’s taking legal action “in response to an unprecedently brazen and unconstitutional attack by members of Congress on an ongoing New York State criminal prosecution and investigation of former President Donald J. Trump.”
Trump was indicted on March 30 with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to hush-money payments made during the 2016 campaign to bury allegations that he had extramarital sexual encounters. He has denied wrongdoing and pleaded not guilty at an arraignment last week in Manhattan.
Republicans have been railing against Bragg even before Trump’s indictment, with Jordan leading the cause by issuing a series of letters and subpoenas to individuals involved with the case. Pomerantz refused to voluntarily cooperate with the committee’s request last month at the instruction of Bragg’s office, citing the ongoing investigation.
Jordan sees Pomerantz and Carey Dunne, who were top deputies tasked with running the investigation on a day-to-day basis, as catalysts for Bragg’s decision to move ahead with the hush money case.
Bragg’s lawsuit sets up what is an already tenuous fight over the scope and limits of congressional oversight powers into new territory. House Republicans have argued that because the Manhattan case involves campaign finance and what prosecutors say was a conspiracy to undermine the integrity of the 2016 election, Congress has direct oversight.
Many expected that Jordan would subpoena Bragg by now but it appears the forceful back-and-forth between the two elected officials has come to a head. Jordan’s committee has come hard at Bragg, but a court fight over a committee subpoena could impede its momentum and amplify criticism among Democrats that the panel is playing politics instead of addressing substantive issues.
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Amiri reported from Washington. Associated Press reporter Larry Neumeister in New York contributed to this report.
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President Biden on Thursday weighed in on the Supreme Court following its decision to upend affirmative action in college admissions, calling it “not normal.”
“This is not a normal court,” the president said at the White House when asked whether thought the institution had gone “rogue.”
The president opted not to respond to a question about whether there should be term limits for Supreme Court justices, an idea floated earlier in the week by Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), the former longtime House Speaker. In his remarks, Biden strongly disagreed with the court’s decision to strike affirmative action, which limited the use of race as a factor in college admissions.
Earlier on Thursday, the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) said the court’s legitimacy is now in question, calling the decision “radical.”
In the opinion that broke along ideological lines, conservative justices invalidated admissions practices at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina, ruling they did not comply with the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of equal protection.
More on the Supreme Court’s ruling from The Hill
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- READ: Supreme Court’s affirmative action majority opinion
- Thomas in rare occurrence reads affirmative action opinion from bench
- Five things to know about Supreme Court’s decision to curtail college affirmative action
- Black leaders blast Supreme Court for overturning affirmative action
Conservative Justice Clarence Thomas read his concurring opinion from the bench, a rare occurrence for him, and advocated for a colorblind view of the Constitution. Liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor, meanwhile, read a blistering dissent from the bench.
The president, meanwhile, urged colleges and universities in the U.S. to maintain a commitment to ensuring diverse student bodies
“We’re not going to let this break us,” Biden said on Thursday, vowing to discuss the decision and next steps further. | https://cw33.com/hill-politics/biden-on-affirmative-action-decision-this-is-not-a-normal-court/ | 2023-06-29 20:05:17 | 0 | https://cw33.com/hill-politics/biden-on-affirmative-action-decision-this-is-not-a-normal-court/ |
DALLAS, Nov. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (Nasdaq: TXN) today announced the pricing of two series of senior unsecured notes for an aggregate principal amount of $800 million. The notes consist of the following:
- $300 million of 4.700% senior unsecured notes due November 18, 2024; and
- $500 million of 4.600% senior unsecured notes due February 15, 2028.
TI expects to use the net proceeds of this offering for general corporate purposes. The offering is expected to close on November 18, 2022.
J.P. Morgan Securities LLC; Mizuho Securities USA LLC; and Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC are serving as joint book-running managers for the offering.
The offering of the notes is made only by means of a prospectus and a related prospectus supplement, copies of which may be obtained for free by visiting EDGAR on the Securities and Exchange Commission website at www.sec.gov or, in the alternative, from J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, 383 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10179, Attention: Investment Grade Syndicate Desk, by phone: (212) 834-4533 (collect); Mizuho Securities USA LLC, Attention: Debt Capital Markets, 1271 Avenue of the Americas, 3rd Floor, New York, New York 10020, by toll-free phone: (866) 271-7403; or Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, Attention: Prospectus Department, 180 Varick Street, 2nd Floor, New York, New York 10014, by phone: (866) 718-1649.
This news release does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any of the notes or any other securities, nor will there be any sale of the notes or any other securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such an offer, solicitation or sale is not permitted.
About Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments Incorporated (Nasdaq: TXN) is a global semiconductor company that designs, manufactures, tests and sells analog and embedded processing chips for markets such as industrial, automotive, personal electronics, communications equipment and enterprise systems. Our passion to create a better world by making electronics more affordable through semiconductors is alive today, as each generation of innovation builds upon the last to make our technology smaller, more efficient, more reliable and more affordable – making it possible for semiconductors to go into electronics everywhere. We think of this as Engineering Progress. It's what we do and have been doing for decades.
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The cult-favorite beverage brand founded by Emma Chamberlain now offers Vanilla and Mango Matcha in addition to their best-selling classic Matcha Powder
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Chamberlain Coffee, the leading coffee lifestyle brand and brainchild of Emma Chamberlain, announced today the launch of two new flavored matcha powders: Vanilla and Mango. Made with organic A-Grade, ceremonial matcha, these two new flavor innovations are an extension of the brand's ultra-popular classic Chamberlain Coffee Matcha Green Tea that has amassed thousands of new brand fans and has sold out a groundbreaking five times. Like Chamberlain Coffee's original Matcha, the Vanilla and Mango flavors are vegan, non-GMO, gluten-free, and are pure-plant products made from 100% organic Japanese green tea.
The expansion of Chamberlain Coffee's Matcha collection further exemplifies the brand's commitment to consistent product innovation and category growth. Both the Vanilla and Mango Matcha powders are all-natural, rich in antioxidants, and deliver a clean, sustainable boost of energy without a crash. Like a trip to the tropics, the Mango Matcha is light, fruity, and best-served over ice and frothy milk for instant vacation energy — designed to evoke long-lasting relaxation with every sip. The Vanilla Matcha is an energizing tea that takes cozy to new levels and serves as the perfect morning or afternoon-pick-me-up. These two new flavor innovations offer an approachable and completely unique beverage experience, designed for seasoned matcha drinkers and the matcha-curious alike.
"At Chamberlain Coffee, our goal is to continuously innovate, and create new and exciting products that appeal to our loyal consumer base. While these new flavored matcha recipes were designed with our community in mind, we hope to reach new audiences and convert even more people into regular Matcha drinkers," said Chamberlain Coffee CEO Christopher Gallant.
Since the brand's inception in 2019, Chamberlain Coffee has built up a cult-following that has propelled the brand's sales. In addition to their Matcha collection, the brand offers a variety of lifestyle products (from branded merchandise to custom coffee accessories) and several different coffee blends (available in single-serve bags and whole and ground beans) to help tap new audiences and appeal to the masses.
"I absolutely love Matcha (ALMOST as much as coffee), which is why we created our own Chamberlain Coffee Matcha back in Fall of 2021. It's the perfect caffeinated drink for non-coffee drinkers and has remained a best-seller since its launch. Expanding our Matcha category was exciting to us because there's so many unique ways to enjoy it. I can't wait to see how our customers get creative with the product and come up with fun new recipes using the Vanilla and Mango flavors," said Chamberlain Coffee founder and investor Emma Chamberlain.
In addition to Chamberlain Coffee's unprecedented product growth, the brand has also seen success through retail expansion and brand partnerships. The product has recently launched in LA hot-spot Erewhon, national grocer Sprouts and digital delivery market Gopuff — while releasing a steady cadence of product collaborations with brands like Levi's, OffLimits Cereal, Nutpods, and most recently Swoon, to create a Matcha Lemonade.
Consumers can find Chamberlain's new flavored matcha powders on ChamberlainCoffee.com for $23 per 30g tin. For more information on Chamberlain Coffee, and to stay up to date on the latest product launches, follow on Instagram at @chamberlaincoffee.
Founded by YouTube phenomenon Emma Chamberlain, Chamberlain Coffee is high-quality, sustainably sourced organic coffee roasted in California, so you can feel good about the coffee you're sipping on. No pesticides, no BS. Available in single-serve bags, instant sticks, ground and whole bean options, Chamberlain Coffee is symbolized by different characters to encapsulate the different coffee drinker in all of us. The brand also has various other delicious offerings, including their 5x sold-out Matcha, Cocoa Grizzly Hot Chocolate, and recently launched Chocolate Covered Espresso Beans. Supporting coffee-farming communities in Latin America, Chamberlain Coffee works with Food4Farmers to ensure long-term food security for coffee-farming families.
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JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska Republican U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski has won reelection, defeating Donald Trump-endorsed GOP rival Kelly Tshibaka.
Murkowski beat Tshibaka in the Nov. 8 ranked choice election. The results were announced Wednesday, when elections officials tabulated the ranked choice results after neither candidate won more than 50% of first-choice votes.
The race also included Democrat Pat Chesbro and Republican Buzz Kelley, who suspended his campaign after the August primary and endorsed Tshibaka.
Murkowski was the only Senate Republican who voted to convict Trump at his impeachment trial last year who was on the ballot this year. Trump was not convicted. But her vote was a sore point for the former president, who vowed to campaign against her.
In 2020, before that year's election and far before Tshibaka jumped into the Senate race, Trump announced plans to campaign against Murkowski after she criticized him: "Get any candidate ready, good or bad, I don’t care, I’m endorsing. If you have a pulse, I’m with you!”
He appeared at a rally in Anchorage in July for Tshibaka and Sarah Palin, whose run for Alaska's lone U.S. House seat he endorsed. He more recently participated in a telerally for Tshibaka in late October. Tshibaka, who worked in federal inspectors general offices before leading the Alaska Department of Administration for two years, credited Trump with helping to raise her name recognition and give her candidacy a boost.
Murkowski, who was censured by state Republican party leaders last year for offenses that included her impeachment vote, paid little attention to Trump during a campaign in which she emphasized a willingness to work across party lines and focused on her record and seniority. Murkowski, a moderate who has been in the Senate since 2002, is the most senior member of Alaska’s congressional delegation following the death in March of Republican Rep. Don Young, who held Alaska's House seat for 49 years.
Murkowski is no stranger to tough reelection fights. She won a general election write-in campaign in 2010 after losing her party primary that year to a tea party Republican. Coming into this race, she had never won a general election with more than 50% of the vote.
This year’s elections were held under a new system approved by voters in 2020 that replaced party primaries with open primaries and instituted ranked voting in general elections. Under the open primary system, the top four vote-getters, regardless of party affiliation, advance to the general election.
Tshibaka criticized a super PAC aligned with Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell for running ads against her when she said those resources could have been used to help Republicans in other states.
She said she “ranked the red,” or the Republican candidates, on her ballot — but not in the Senate race. She said she did not consider Murkowski a “red" candidate.
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Aptitude partners with Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) to accelerate the commercialization of the Metrix Multiplex STI panel for Point-of-Care and Over-the-Counter use. This product will transform access to critical diagnostic information in the domestic market and in Low and Middle Income Countries.
SANTA BARBARA, Calif., July 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Aptitude Medical Systems has been awarded a significant grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop point-of-care diagnostic tests for Chlamydia trachomatis (CT), Neisseria gonorrhoeae (NG), and Trichomonas vaginalis (TV). This funding is pivotal for tackling the global public health challenges posed by sexually transmitted infections (STIs), particularly in low- to middle-income countries.
The MetrixTM platform from Aptitude, one of only four platforms to have received an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for an over-the-counter COVID-19 molecular test, showcases the platform's potential for user-friendly, effective diagnostic solutions, irrespective of an individual's training level.
Scott Ferguson, CEO of Aptitude Medical Systems, said: "This generous funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation endorses the promising capabilities of our Metrix platform and will achieve a truly meaningful public health impact. The platform's proven over-the-counter, user-friendly interface paves the way for a new generation of diagnostics that solves access to critical health information - not only in the U.S. but especially globally where transforming health equity demands a disruptive solution."
The COVID-19 pandemic has shown the critical need for accessible, rapid diagnostic tools and the role innovation plays in meeting these demands. With this award, Aptitude can extend its significant work from COVID-19 diagnostics to STIs, a significant global public health issue. "We aim to empower individuals to take control of their health with prompt, reliable, inexpensive diagnostic tools," said Kevin Nichols, VP of Strategic Initiatives at Aptitude. "Imagine the capability to directly detect and reflex to the right treatment for most pervasive and threatening STIs - directly in a doctor's office, clinic, pharmacy or at home. The development of these point-of-care tests for STIs represents a significant step in democratizing diagnostics, making healthcare more equitable across all socio-economic levels."
Aptitude Medical Systems is committed to revolutionizing healthcare through innovative diagnostic solutions. The company's mission is to make healthcare more accessible and affordable to all.
To learn more, visit www.aptitudemedical.com, and follow Aptitude on LinkedIn.
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The new name marks the next phase in Tampa General's purchase of Tower Radiology.
TAMPA, Fla., July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Tampa General Hospital and Tower Radiology have taken the next step in expanding their footprint by renaming Tower Radiology to TGH Imaging powered by Tower.
In January of this year, Tampa General announced it had fully purchased Tower Radiology, expanding its state-wide outpatient sites to 83 with the addition of Tower's 21 imaging centers throughout Hillsborough, Pasco, Pinellas and Palm Beach counties. Tampa General was previously a 50% partner in Tower before this recent purchase of the remaining 50% ownership interest.
After decades of working closely, it was a natural fit for Tower and Tampa General to come together to combine Tower's 25 years of industry expertise and Tampa General's drive to deliver world-class patient care through innovation to enhance the quality and coordination of outpatient care and achieve the optimal patient experience and outcomes.
Under the leadership of Sherri Lewman, senior vice president of enterprise imaging, TGH Imaging powered by Tower will bring together essential assets that will significantly increase access, maximize efficiency, and enhance quality to benefit patients and physicians in the area.
"This purchase builds on the long history of success and partnership between Tower Radiology and TGH to bring world-class care to Tampa Bay," stated Lewman. "The endeavor will allow TGH to streamline care between the inpatient and outpatient settings, ensuring our patients receive a seamless and high-quality experience across the system of care. Additionally, increasing our footprint by 21 locations means that Tampa General patients can get the care and diagnostics they need closer to home."
Named to the enterprise imaging position in January of this year, Lewman brings more than two decades of experience to her role. She is a Certified Nuclear Medicine Technologist (CNMT) and holds a master's degree in health administration from Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton.
Future plans call for more investment in innovation and expansion of the outpatient radiology footprint throughout the state while continuing to set the standard in radiology with excellent service and advanced technology.
TGH Imaging powered by Tower, provides advanced radiology services in a comfortable, convenient, outpatient setting at 21 locations throughout Hillsborough, Pasco, Pinellas, and Palm Beach Counties. Accredited in nine radiology modalities by the American College of Radiology, awarded a Breast Imaging Center of Excellence and designated as a Lung Cancer Screening Center. TGH Imaging offers specialized services such as 3D mammography, high field wide-bore MRI, weight-bearing open MRI, extremity open MRI, cardiac MRI, CT low-dose lung screening and PET/CT. Tower's 65 plus board-certified radiologists hold certifications in all 11 radiology subspecialties and participate in the academic missions of research and teaching through serving as faculty for USF College of Medicine, Department of Radiology. For more information, go to www.TGHimaging.com.
Tampa General Hospital, a 1,041-bed, not-for-profit, academic medical center, is one of the largest hospitals in America and delivers world-class care as the region's only center for Level l trauma and comprehensive burn care. Tampa General Hospital is the highest-ranked hospital in the market in U.S. News & World Report's 2021-22 Best Hospitals, and one of the top four hospitals in Florida, with five specialties ranking among the best programs in the United States. Tampa General Hospital has been designated as a model of excellence by the 2022 Fortune/Merative 100 Top Hospitals list. The academic medical center's commitment to growing and developing its team members is recognized by two prestigious 2021 Forbes magazine rankings – America's Best Employers by State, third out of 100 Florida companies and first among health care and social organizations, and 13th nationally in America's Best Employers for Women. Tampa General is the safety net hospital for the region, caring for everyone regardless of their ability to pay, and in fiscal year 2020, provided a net community benefit worth more than $182.5 million in the form of health care for underinsured patients, community education, and financial support to community health organizations in Tampa Bay. It is one of the nation's busiest adult solid organ transplant centers and is the primary teaching hospital for the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine. With six medical helicopters, Tampa General Hospital transports critically injured or ill patients from 23 surrounding counties to receive the advanced care they need. Tampa General houses a nationally accredited comprehensive stroke center, and its 32-bed Neuroscience, Intensive Care Unit is the largest on the West Coast of Florida. It also is home to the Jennifer Leigh Muma 82-bed Level IV neonatal intensive care unit, and a nationally accredited rehabilitation center. Tampa General Hospital's footprint includes 17 Tampa General Medical Group Primary Care offices, TGH Family Care Center Kennedy, TGH Brandon Healthplex, TGH Virtual Health, and 21 TGH Imaging powered by Tower outpatient radiology centers throughout Hillsborough, Pasco, Pinellas and Palm Beach counties. Tampa Bay area residents also receive world-class care from the TGH Urgent Care powered by Fast Track network of clinics, and they can even receive home visits in select areas through TGH Urgent Care at Home, powered by Fast Track. As one of the largest hospitals in the country, Tampa General Hospital is the first in Florida to partner with GE Healthcare and open a clinical command center that uses artificial intelligence and predictive analytics to improve and better coordinate patient care at a lower cost. For more information, go to www.tgh.org.
Media Contact: Karen Barrera
Assistant Director of Communications & Partnerships
(813) 844-8725 (direct)
(813) 928-1603 (cell)
kbarrera@tgh.org
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