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By JILL LAWLESS, DANICA KIRKA and MIKE CORDER
Associated Press
LONDON (AP) — All eight of Queen Elizabeth II’s grandchildren stood in silent vigil beside her coffin Saturday, capping another huge day in which thousands came to pay their respects. Mourners huddled in a line that snaked across London, enduring the city’s coldest night in months and waits that stretched up to 16 hours.
Authorities warned that more chilly weather was expected Saturday night. “Tonight’s forecast is cold. Warm clothing is recommended,” the ministry in charge of the line tweeted.
As U.S. President Joe Biden and other world leaders and dignitaries flew into London ahead of the queen’s state funeral on Monday, a tide of people wanting to say goodbye streamed into Parliament’s Westminster Hall for another day Saturday. That’s where the queen’s coffin is lying in state, draped in her Royal Standard and capped with a diamond-studded crown.
The numbers of mourners have grown steadily since the public was first admitted on Wednesday, with a queue that snakes around Southwark Park and stretches for at least 5 miles (8 kilometers).
Honoring their patience, King Charles III and his eldest son Prince William made an unannounced visit Saturday to greet people waiting to file past Elizabeth’s coffin, shaking hands and thanking mourners in the queue near Lambeth Bridge.
Later, all the queen’s grandchildren stood by her coffin. William and Prince Harry, Charles’ sons, were joined by Princess Anne’s children, Zara Tindall and Peter Philips; Prince Andrew’s daughters, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie; and the two children of Prince Edward – Lady Louise Windsor and James, Viscount Severn.
William, now the heir to the throne, stood, his head bowed, at the head of the coffin and Harry at the foot. Both princes, who are military veterans, were in uniform. Mourners continued to file past in silence.
Harry, who served in Afghanistan as a British army officer, wore civilian clothes earlier in the week as the queen’s coffin left Buckingham Palace because he is no longer a working member of the royal family. He and his wife Meghan quit royal duties and moved to the United States in 2020. The king, however, requested that both William and Harry wear their military uniforms at the Westminster Hall vigil.
Before the vigil, Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie issued a statement praising their “beloved grannie.”
“We, like many, thought you’d be here forever. And we all miss you terribly. You were our matriarch, our guide, our loving hand on our backs leading us through this world. You taught us so much and we will cherish those lessons and memories forever,” the sisters wrote.
People queuing to see the queen have been of all ages and come from all walks of life. Many bowed before the coffin or made a sign of the cross. Several veterans, their medals shining, offered sharp salutes. Some people wept. Others blew kisses. Many hugged one another as they stepped away, proud to have spent hours in line to offer a tribute, even if it lasted only a few moments.
Overnight, volunteers distributed blankets and cups of tea to people in line as temperatures fell to 6 degrees Celsius (43 degrees Fahrenheit). Despite the weather, mourners described the warmth of a shared experience.
“It was cold overnight, but we had wonderful companions, met new friends. The camaraderie was wonderful,” Chris Harman of London said. “It was worth it. I would do it again and again and again. I would walk to the end of the earth for my queen.”
People had many reasons for coming, from affection for the queen to a desire to be part of a historic moment. Simon Hopkins, who traveled from his home in central England, likened it to “a pilgrimage.”
“(It) is a bit strange, because that kind of goes against my grain,” he said. “I’ve been kind of drawn into it.”
Saturday’s vigil followed one on Friday in which the queen’s four children — Charles, Anne, Andrew and Edward — stood vigil at the coffin.
Edward said the royal family was “overwhelmed by the tide of emotion that has engulfed us and the sheer number of people who have gone out of their way to express their own love, admiration and respect (for) our dear mama.”
On Saturday, the new king was holding audiences with incoming prime ministers, governor generals of the realms and military leaders.
The Metropolitan Police arrested a man Friday night during the viewing for a suspected public order offense. Parliamentary authorities said someone got out of the queue and tried to approach the coffin.
Tracey Holland told Sky News that her 7-year-old niece Darcy Holland was pushed out of the way by a man who tried to “run up to the coffin, lift up the standard and try to do I don’t know what.” She said police detained the man in “two seconds.”
The lying-in-state continues until early Monday morning, when the queen’s coffin will be borne to nearby Westminster Abbey for a state funeral, the finale of 10 days of national mourning for Britain’s longest-reigning monarch. Elizabeth, 96, died at her Balmoral Estate in Scotland on Sept. 8 after 70 years on the throne.
After the service Monday at the abbey, the late queen’s coffin will be transported through the historic heart of London on a horse-drawn gun carriage. It will then be taken in a hearse to Windsor, where the queen will be interred alongside her late husband, Prince Philip, who died last year.
Late Saturday, the government revealed details of where the public can watch the day’s services and processions.
In addition to a number of viewing areas along the route, mourners will be able to watch on screens set up in Hyde Park, close to Buckingham Palace. There also will be screening sites at several towns and cities across the U.K and about 125 cinemas will open to screen the funeral.
Hundreds of troops from the British army, air force and navy held an early-morning rehearsal Saturday for the final procession. As troops lined the picturesque path leading to Windsor Castle, the thumping of drums echoed in the air as marching bands walked ahead of a hearse.
London police say the funeral will be the largest single policing event the force has ever handled, surpassing even the 2012 Summer Olympics and the Platinum Jubilee in June celebrating the queen’s 70-year reign.
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$32M in federal funds will widen Flagstaff's Milton Road, add pedestrian bridge
Major changes are coming to a busy stretch of downtown Flagstaff thanks to $32.4 million in new federal funding for a collection of transportation improvements known as the Downtown Mile project.
The project features numerous safety improvements for pedestrians and bicyclists, including the construction of a pedestrian bridge at Rio de Flag, pedestrian underpasses at Milton Road and connecting South Florence and South Walnut streets, and the installation of gates at the Beaver Street and San Francisco Street railway crossings.
The changes will also include track realignment on a railway that sees between 70 and 100 trains a day and will allow for the future expansion of Milton Road from four to six lanes.
With only one underpass currently located at a high-traffic curve along Route 66, many pedestrians and bicyclists opt to cross the street elsewhere, often in places that could be even more dangerous.
“There is very active trespassing over the rail corridor which is a very unsafe situation,” said Christine Cameron, a senior project manager with the city. “So these new underpasses will remove that conflict, provide encouragement to move people toward multimodal travel, keep people safe and make it much more fun and exciting to get wherever they want to in Flagstaff’s downtown.”
Flagstaff is one of 26 communities nationwide that have so far received funding from the bipartisan infrastructure bill. Flagstaff had to prove these projects met federal guidelines related to safety, multimodal travel and climate action, Cameron said.
The federal funds will be supplemented by $15 million from the city and another $11 million from Burlington Northern Sante Fe Railway, the company that owns the rail infrastructure that runs through Flagstaff. The project is expected to cost nearly $58 million.
“The Downtown Mile is an initiative that will improve public safety and transportation in such a beautiful, rapidly growing city in our district, addressing flood control issues and climate change mitigation in the process,” said Rep. Tom O’Halleran, whose congressional district includes Flagstaff.
This project represents the largest transportation investment in Flagstaff since the construction of Interstate 17 and Interstate 40 decades ago, O’Halleran said in a news release.
The transportation updates at Rio de Flag will coincide with the Rio de Flag Flood Control project, which has been in the works for the past 20 years and has become even more important after a particularly wet monsoon season this year caused significant post-wildfire flooding across town.
In addition to the construction of a pedestrian bridge, the river's channel will be widened, and new surface and underground floodwater structures will be built to prevent floodwaters from encroaching on the surrounding neighborhoods.
“This project will protect 20% of our community from flooding," said Flagstaff Mayor Paul Deasy in a social media post after the funding was secured.
The Army Corps of Engineers hopes to get started on the project at the Rio de Flag by the end of next year, Cameron said, while the other projects still need to go through a design process that could take up to two years. The city hopes to start the rest of the projects by late 2024 or early 2025, she said.
“This is just a huge deal for the community,” Cameron said. “This is something that we’ve never seen before for our community in Flagstaff, so it's really an honor to be chosen and to be able to utilize these funds and bring great things for Flagstaff.”
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These one-piece suits are fun, flattering and ready for all your summer plans
This summer’s one-piece swimsuits are here to shatter all your preconceptions about the style. The one-pieces on the shelves right now can give you full coverage or imitate a daring bikini. They’re available in go-to solids and on-trend patterns. They can be found with creative necklines, bold patterns and embellishments that include ruffles, zippers, belts and more. Whatever you’re looking for in a swimsuit this season, these one-piece styles will have you ready for lounging beachside or lapping the pool.
Summer 2022 swimsuit trends to watch for
This year’s one-piece swimsuits are anything but boring. If your poolside wardrobe needs a refresh, look for one of these style picks.
- Florals may be an obvious choice for summer, but this year’s suits offer a fresh array of graphic, tropical-inspired prints, as well as classic florals that feel more vintage.
- Tropical colors are a popular pick for one-piece swimsuits this year. Flamingo pink, mango, hibiscus red and lime green all make for bold, fun and unique swimwear shades. If they feel too bold, though, try these colors as contrasting trim on a black swimsuit.
- Cutouts are the easiest way to make a one-piece suit more interesting. Open backs are always popular, but this year, keyholes or slits cut under the bust are particularly in-style.
- Puckered, smocked or crinkle fabric adds visual interest to solid-color swimsuits. Some of these fabrics are even super-stretching for a more forgiving fit, so you’ll always feel like your suit fits perfectly.
- Black swimsuits never go out of style, but you can wear one that stands out by looking for one-shoulder silhouettes, ruffles, lace-up details or cutouts.
One-piece swimsuit features
Swimsuit fabric
Almost all swimsuits are made from polyester, nylon or another synthetic fabric that’s been engineered to be elastic, hydrophobic and quick-drying. Some of these fabrics offer high-tech features such as SPF protection or chlorine resistance.
If you plan to mostly wear your swimsuit in a hot tub or pool, look for a suit made from 100% polyester. Polyester is generally more durable and better at withstanding chlorine than nylon.
Swimsuit sizing
Every body is different, and sometimes it feels like every swimsuit sizing chart is different, too. While some swimsuits rely on classic letter sizing, others use number sizing. Some may offer options for different torso lengths. Still others, especially underwire or molded-cup suits, may also take cup size into account. Measure carefully and check the product reviews to see if other shoppers advise sizing up or down.
Bust support
While some swimsuit manufacturers design suits specifically to provide support for those with larger busts, it’s possible to find a one-piece suit that fits well and feels comfortable from almost all retailers. Look for underwire cups or supportive, high-apex molded cups. Halter, V-neck and high-necked swimsuit styles all tend to offer better support for a large bust. Removable, adjustable straps can also make a strapless suit more supportive.
Caring for your swimsuit
It’s tempting to just toss your suit in the washing machine, and some swimsuits can be washed on the delicate cycle, but swimsuits last longer and retain their shape better if they’re hand-washed. Pool chemicals, salt water and UV rays can all take a toll on swimsuit fibers, and spandex in particular is susceptible to breaking down when exposed to body oils. Properly washing your swimsuit will help protect your investment for years to come.
Rinse the suit in cold water as soon as possible after wearing it. If you have time, soak it for half an hour to draw out most of the chemicals and oils the suit may have absorbed. Next, wash it in cool water with a gentle or spandex-specific detergent. Even shampoo will work if needed. Swish your suit in the soapy water for a few minutes and rinse well. Don’t wring out your suit; gently squeeze it to prevent damaging the fibers.
Once your suit is clean, lay it flat to air-dry instead of hanging it up to prevent stretching it out. Keep it out of direct sunlight to protect it from UV damage.
Top one-piece swimsuits
La Blanca Off-Shoulder Ruffle One-Piece Swimsuit
Bold florals are the perfect print for summer, and this swimsuit adds even more fun with a ruffle that serves as off-the-shoulder straps. A lace-up detail adds interest to the back. The suit also offers removable cups and gentle ruching.
Carve Designs Hayes One-Piece Swimsuit
The open back of this one-piece showcases a crisscrossing strap detail. The suit offers a built-in shelf bra, removable pads and adjustable straps. It comes in three colors and prints. Tall sizes are also available.
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Lauren Ralph Lauren Boat Neck Tummy-Control One-Piece Swimsuit
This suit puts a twist on the classic black swimsuit with a cutout back and a layer of sheer ribbing. Along with tummy control, it offers underwire support and full bottom coverage. It closes at the back of the neck with a gold signature clasp.
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Calvin Klein Pleated One-Piece Swimsuit
This suit features a flattering pleated front panel, a square neckline and supportive, adjustable straps. Choose from five solid color choices and four graphical color-blocking styles.
Miraclesuit Escape One-Piece Swimsuit
Featuring fixed underwire cups, high-tech slimming fabric and wide straps, this swimsuit is stylish yet supportive. Flattering draping and a notched sweetheart neckline contribute to the elegant look.
Anne Cole Twist-Front Ruched One-Piece Swimsuit
Sleek and stylish, this suit shows off retro design details, including a sweetheart neckline, ruching and a twist at the bust. Switch between a strapless suit or add the detachable, adjustable halter strap for a different look. It comes in eight colors.
Carve Designs All-Day One-Piece Swimsuit
If you’re looking for a little more coverage, this sporty yet elegant suit offers rashguard-inspired styling. It features a half-zip neck for ventilation, cap sleeves and a built-in shelf bra with removable cups. It’s available in two prints embellished with flattering diamond side details.
Sold by Backcountry and Amazon
Maxine of Hollywood V-Neck Twist Front Shirred One-Piece Swimsuit
Designed to mimic the look of a tankini, this one-piece suit features tummy control and shirred fabric while offering full leg coverage. The V-neck is accentuated with a flattering twist of fabric. It’s available in 14 summery prints and solids.
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Bleu by Rod Beattie Lace-Down One-Piece Swimsuit
For a bold, resort-ready look, try this one-piece with a plunging V-neck and deep back. Both sides are accented with faux lace-up trim. It comes in three colors, all with gold laces. Adjustable straps and removable cups help you achieve the perfect fit.
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How Pinal County farmers are dealing with historic cuts to Arizona’s Colorado River water supply
While Arizona lost 18% of it’s share in 2022, it’s expected to lose an additional 3% in 2023.
CASA GRANDE, Ariz. (3TV/CBS 5) - Farming thousands of acres of alfalfa, Bermuda grass, and more, isn’t just a job for Jace Miller: it’s in his blood.
“My great-great-grandfather came and homesteaded in gilbert in 1919 and began farming,” Miller said. He’s a 5th generation farmer in Arizona and the partner and manager of Triple M Farms. Arizona’s Family recently visited the headquarters in Casa Grande to see how Miller is weathering historic cuts to the state’s Colorado River water supply.
“In 2021, it was growing a lush beautiful cotton crop. Now it’s growing weeds,” Miller said at one of his operations in Eloy.
Miller has had to cut summer cropping back by 50%. In addition to more expensive fuel and fertilizer, it ultimately means you’re food will cost more. Miller says the average price for a bale of hay is around $13 or $14, but now it’s $20.
This comes as a new legislative session begins in Arizona with a renewed interest in water policy.
“Absolutely we’re going to be looking at additional cuts,” said Chelsea McGuire, the director of government relations with the Arizona Farm Bureau.
McGuire says farmers in Arizona can grow crops you can’t find anywhere else, but there are clear challenges. While central Arizona farmers lost their access to Colorado River water, McGuire says in Yuma farmers are finding ways to grow with less water. At the state Capitol, McGuire says her biggest focus is education and explaining to lawmakers what the agriculture industry does with water. “You know it’s really easy to look at the statistics of the state and say, ‘wow AG uses more than 70% of our water. Isn’t that where we should be looking to cut our water use?’ Well you have to remember what agriculture does with that water and that water use is not water waste,” she said. It’s used to create food and fiber to feed families, McGuire added.
“It hurts your pride. You take a lot of pride in the products your produce and the land that you cultivate,” Miller said.
2023 comes with new concerns and while winter is a slower season, Miller hopes they don’t have to go down this road. “We have not had to sell off any equipment or lay off any employees, but that is that is a card that is on the table if things don’t improve we may have to downsize our operation.”
Water crisis aside, this a job miller looks forward to every day. “I guess the best description is its pure bliss. To me, it’s not a job. It’s not even a career it’s a lifestyle.”
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Learning Beyond Paper, Inc. (LBP) and the Early Learning Coalition of Manatee County launch a program to provide early learning providers access to Learning Beyond's advanced curriculum solutions that prepare children for kindergarten and addresses the child care staffing crisis.
Learning Beyond Curriculum provides teachers with immediate online access to 52 weeks of Lesson Plans and over 4,000 Daily Activities in a developmental progression for infants to pre-kindergarten, with integrated standards, learning support, social-emotional development, Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics (STEAM) from infancy and a Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS®) focus in each activity.
This program gives providers of Manatee county a leading edge in early education. Teacher training is embedded into each daily activity, and professional development is included free, building capacity in teachers, and ensuring their success.
Dr. Corinne Muller, co-founder and chief operating officer of Learning Beyond Paper, Inc. states: "Learning Beyond is proud to bring our revolutionary curriculum to the providers, teachers and families of Manatee county. It is our mission to bring early education forward into the 21st century, building capacity in teachers and creating lifelong learners in our children."
Darrell King, interim chief executive officer at the Early Learning Coalition of Manatee County, said: "We are excited to partner with Learning Beyond Paper, and look forward to learning from our providers about the impact this is having on their day to day operations."
The Early Learning Coalition of Manatee County, Inc. is a multi-service agency dedicated to helping children develop skills that they will need to be successful in school and life. The agency's focus is on high quality school readiness opportunities for all children and their families, understanding that it is in the first years of life that a child's future educational success is determined and the critical role of parents, as their child's first and most important teacher. To learn more about the coalition's services, go to www.elc-manatee.org or call 941-757-2900, extension 2101.
Learning Beyond Paper, Inc. brings immersive, affordable, equity-focused curriculum and training solutions to early learning providers worldwide. LBP's curriculum for infants through pre-kindergarten is 100 percent online and includes everything teachers, and administrators need at their fingertips, plus access to professional development. Visit LearningBeyondPaper.com/Florida or on social media at @LearningBeyondPaper.
Contact: Dr. Corinne Muller
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Ex-UFC champion pleads not guilty to attempted murder
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Former two-time UFC heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez pleaded not guilty Monday to felony attempted murder, assault and weapons charges in a case involving a man who allegedly sexually abused one of Velasquez’s children.
Velasquez was charged in March in San Jose, California, after he allegedly shot at a pickup truck carrying a man accused of sexually abusing a 4-year-old family member.
Prosecutors said that on Feb. 28, Velasquez chased a pickup truck carrying the man and the man’s parents at high speeds through three Silicon Valley cities and rammed it with his own truck. He fired a .40-caliber pistol at the vehicle several times, wounding the man’s stepfather, who was driving, in his arm and torso, prosecutors said.
Velasquez was released from jail on Nov. 9 on $1 million bail and ordered to wear a GPS monitoring device.
After entering his plea, Velasquez asked the judge to allow him to travel next month to Arizona State University to wrestle in a Lucha Libre event taking place Dec. 3, KNTV-TV reported.
The judge did not rule on the out-of-state travel request.
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- Synergistic effect with the WEMIX3.0 ecosystem, business expansion to India
- Project led by India's biggest crypto exchange founder and veteran blockchain architect
SINGAPORE, Oct. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Wemade announced a strategic investment in Shardeum, an Indian blockchain project. The company aims to seek synergistic effect through working with Shardeum for WEMIX3.0, its blockchain mainnet. Business expansion to India is also planned.
Shardeum is the world's first EVM(Ethereum Virtual Machine)-based sharded blockchain mainnet. With dynamic state sharding technology, the blockchain can linearly scale and increase TPS(transaction per second) with every node added to the network, and the network can maintain low gas fees indefinitely.
The project, which is also India's first mainnet, is led by Nischal Shetty, founder of India's biggest crypto exchange WazirX and Omar Syed, a veteran blockchain architect.
"Shardeum's excellent technology and the potentials of the project and Indian market was taken into consideration," said Henry Chang, CEO of Wemade. "We will continue to seek partnerships with companies and projects that can strengthen the WEMIX3.0 ecosystem."
Jane Street and The Spartan Group joined this seed round along with Wemade and others.
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Police shoot, arrest 4 gunmen who opened fire at party
NEW YORK (WCBS) - Plainclothes New York detectives got into a gunfight outside a party in the Queens borough. Four suspects, including two teens, were wounded in the exchange.
Shots rang out late Friday night in a quiet Queens community, where New York City Police Department officers were trying to prevent gun violence. Police say members of the Violent Crime Squad learned a party had the potential to grow violent because of local street crews.
Witnesses say the party was mostly for teenagers and may have been held as a sendoff for someone heading to college.
Plainclothes detectives were parked in an unmarked car near the party around 11:30 p.m. when they saw a group of men approach the intersection and pull out guns.
“There was about 75 to 100 people at this party, and now, you have a group of males firing into this group, into this group of people who were partying,” said NYPD Chief of Patrol Jeff Maddrey.
Police say that detectives, realizing danger was imminent, exchanged gunfire with the suspects, injuring and then arresting four of them. The suspects’ ages were 16, 17, 18 and 24. At least two have a criminal history.
Police recovered three guns and say the shooting illustrates “how gun violence continues to beleaguer our communities.”
“Again, I implore members of our community that it’s so important to work together with your police, so we can put it an end to this gun violence,” Maddrey said.
He encouraged the public to call for help when situations look ripe for violence.
None of the NYPD officers involved in the incident were injured. They will be given administrative duties while the officer-involved shooting is investigated.
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HONOLULU — Repairing coral reefs after boats run aground. Shielding native forest trees from a killer fungus outbreak. Patrolling waters for swimmers harassing dolphins and turtles.
Taking care of Hawaii's unique natural environment takes time, people and money. Now Hawaii wants tourists to help pay for it, especially because growing numbers are traveling to the islands to enjoy the beauty of its outdoors — including some lured by dramatic vistas they've seen on social media.
“All I want to do, honestly, is to make travelers accountable and have the capacity to help pay for the impact that they have,” Democratic Gov. Josh Green said earlier this year. “We get between nine and 10 million visitors a year (but) we only have 1.4 million people living here. Those 10 million travelers should be helping us sustain our environment.”
Hawaii lawmakers are considering legislation that would require tourists to pay for a yearlong license or pass to visit state parks and trails. They're still debating how much they would charge.
The governor campaigned last year on a platform of having all tourists pay a $50 fee to enter the state. Legislators think this would violate U.S. constitutional protections for free travel and have promoted their parks and trails approach instead. Either policy would be a first of its kind for any U.S. state.
Hawaii's leaders are following the example of other tourism hotspots that have imposed similar fees or taxes like Venice, Italy, and Ecuador’s Galapagos Islands. The Pacific island nation of Palau, for example, charges arriving international passengers $100 to help it manage a sprawling marine sanctuary and promote ecotourism.
State Rep. Sean Quinlan, a Democrat who chairs the House Tourism Committee, said changing traveler patterns are one reason behind Hawaii's push. He said golf rounds per visitor per day have declined 30% over the past decade while hiking has increased 50%. People are also seeking out once-obscure sites that they’ve seen someone post on social media. The state doesn’t have the money to manage all these places, he said.
“It’s not like it was 20 years ago when you bring your family and you hit maybe one or two famous beaches and you go see Pearl Harbor. And that’s the extent of it,” Quinlan said. “These days it’s like, well, you know, ‘I saw this post on Instagram and there’s this beautiful rope swing, a coconut tree.’”
“All these places that didn’t have visitors now have visitors,” he said.
Most state parks and trails are currently free. Some of the most popular ones already charge, like Diamond Head State Monument, which features a trail leading from the floor of a 300,000-year-old volcanic crater up to its summit. It gets 1 million visitors each year and costs $5 for each traveler.
A bill currently before the state House would require nonresidents 15 years and older visiting forests, parks, trails or “other natural area on state land” to buy an annual license online or via mobile app. Violators would pay a civil fine, though penalties wouldn’t be imposed during a five-year education and transition period.
Residents with a Hawaii driver’s license or other state identification would be exempt.
The Senate passed a version of the measure setting the fee at $50. But the House Finance Committee amended it last week to delete the dollar amount. Chair Kyle Yamashita, a Democrat, said the bill was “a work in progress.”
Dawn Chang, chair of the state Board of Land and Natural Resources, told the committee that Hawaii's beaches are open to the public, so people probably wouldn't be cited there — and such details still need to be worked out.
Rep. Dee Morikawa, a Democrat on the committee, recommended that the state create a list of places that would require the license.
Green has indicated he’s flexible about where the fee is imposed and that he’s willing to support the Legislature’s approach.
Supporters say there's no other place in the U.S. that imposes a similar fee on visitors. The closest equivalent may be the $34.50 tax Alaska charges to each cruise ship passenger.
Hawaii's conservation needs are great. Invasive pests are attacking the state's forests, including a fungal disease that is killing ohia, a tree unique to Hawaii that makes up the largest portion of the canopy in native wet forests.
Some conservation work directly responds to tourism. The harassment of wildlife like dolphins, turtles and Hawaiian monk seals is a recurring problem. Hikers can unknowingly bring invasive species into the forest on their boots. Snorkelers and boats trample on coral, adding stress to reefs already struggling with invasive algae and coral bleaching.
A 2019 report by Conservation International, a nonprofit environmental organization, estimated that total federal, state, county and private spending on conservation in Hawaii amounted to $535 million but the need was $886 million.
At the Diamond Head trail recently, some visitors said the fee would make the most sense for people who come to Hawaii often or who might be staying for several weeks. Some said $50 was too high, especially for those who view a walk through nature as a low-cost activity.
“For a large family that wants to have the experience with the kids, that would be a lot of money,” said Sarah Tripp, who was visiting Hawaii with her husband and two of their three children from Marquette, Michigan.
Katrina Kain, an English teacher visiting from Puerto Rico, said she thought the fee would “sting” some people but would be fine so long as it was well-advertised.
“If tourists were informed about it, then they would be OK with it,” she said. “If that was a surprise $50 fee, it would be a pretty lousy surprise.”
The legislation says proceeds would go into a “visitor impact fee special fund” managed by the state Department of Land and Natural Resources.
Carissa Cabrera, project manager for the Hawaii Green Fee, a coalition of nonprofit groups supporting the measure, said this would ensure the state has money for conservation regardless of budget swings.
Mufi Hanneman, president and CEO of the Hawaii Lodging and Tourism Association, which represents hotels, backs the bill but said Hawaii must carefully monitor how the money is used.
“The last thing that you want to see is restrooms that haven’t been fixed, trails or pathways that haven't been repaved or what have you — and year in, year out it remains the same and people are paying a fee,” Hannemann said. | https://www.weareiowa.com/article/news/nation-world/hawaii-mulls-fees-for-ecotourism-crush/507-31da7003-ac6a-4a74-b76e-da4eb688a8a7 | 2023-04-05 12:17:12 | 0 | https://www.weareiowa.com/article/news/nation-world/hawaii-mulls-fees-for-ecotourism-crush/507-31da7003-ac6a-4a74-b76e-da4eb688a8a7 |
North Korea fires another missile, flies warplanes near South Korean border
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea early Friday launched a short-range ballistic missile toward its eastern waters and flew warplanes near the border with South Korea, the South’s military said, further raising animosities triggered by the North’s recent barrage of weapons tests.
South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement the missile lifted off from the North’s capital region at 1:49 a.m. (12:49 p.m. EDT Thursday).
It said South Korea boosted its surveillance posture and maintains military readiness in close coordination with the United States.
The Japanese Defense Ministry and prime minister’s office also tweeted that North Korea launched a possible missile.
It’s the latest in a series of missile launches by North Korea in recent weeks. North Korea said Thursday that leader Kim Jong Un supervised the test-launches of long-range cruise missiles that he said successfully demonstrated his military’s expanding nuclear strike capabilities.
North Korea said Monday that its missile tests in the past two weeks were simulated nuclear attacks on key South Korean and U.S. targets. North Korea said the weapons tests were meant to issue a warning to Seoul and Washington for staging “dangerous” joint naval exercises involving a U.S. aircraft carrier.
The North Korean launches, part of its record-breaking run of weapons tests this year, were seen as an attempt by Kim to acquire a more intimidating arsenal to pressure its rivals to accept his country as a legitimate nuclear state and lift economic sanctions.
South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff also said in a statement that North Korea had flown warplanes near the rivals’ border late Thursday and early Friday, prompting South Korea to scramble fighter jets.
The North Korean planes flew as close as 12 kilometers (7 miles) north of the inter-Korean border. The South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff said it responded by scrambling F-35 jets and other warplanes, according to the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
There were no reports of clashes. A similar incident took place earlier this month, but it was still uncommon for North Korea to fly its warplanes near the border. Also, in the previous flight this month, North Korean warplanes flew much farther from the border than their flights between Thursday and Friday.
North Korea’s military also issued a statement early Friday accusing South Korea of carrying out artillery fire for about 10 hours near the border Thursday. It didn’t say whether the artillery fire was an exercise or firing at North Korea. The North Korean military said it took unspecified “strong military countermeasures” in response.
“The (North) Korean People’s Army sends a stern warning to the South Korean military inciting military tension in the front-line area with reckless action,” an unidentified spokesman for the General Staff of the Korean People’s Army said in a statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency.
The public affairs office at the South Korean Defense Ministry said it has no immediate comment.
After Wednesday’s cruise missile tests, Kim Jong Un praised the readiness of his nuclear combat forces, which he said were fully prepared for “actual war to bring enemies under their control at a blow” with various weapons systems that are “mobile, precise and powerful,” according to KCNA.
Kim said the tests send “another clear warning to enemies” and vowed to further expand the operational realm of his nuclear armed forces to “resolutely deter any crucial military crisis and war crisis at any time and completely take the initiative in it,” KCNA said.
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Associated Press journalist Haruka Nuga in Tokyo contributed.
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For over 20 years, Scharrell Jackson has lead numerous financial institutions as CFO and COO and built her reputation as a “corporate fixer.” In 2015, she launched “Leadership In Heels,” a speaker series designed to provide leaders an opportunity to share intimate leadership experiences and gain knowledge from prominent business leaders. Jackson has a proven record in various industries, including fintech, professional services, accounting, real estate and construction, manufacturing and distribution, wealth management and banking. She leverages technology and exceeds operational and financial goals. | https://www.latimes.com/b2b/inspirationalwomen/scharrell-jackson | 2022-11-18 18:56:30 | 1 | https://www.latimes.com/b2b/inspirationalwomen/scharrell-jackson |
The former warden of a federal women’s prison in California where inmates said they were subjected to rampant sexual abuse was convicted on Thursday of molesting inmates and forcing them to pose naked in their cells.
Ray Garcia was found guilty of all eight charges and faces up to 15 years in prison. He was among five workers charged with abusing inmates at the federal correctional institution in Dublin, California, and the first to go to trial.
Garcia, 55, retired from his post last year after the FBI found nude photos of inmates on his government-issued phone. Garcia was charged with abusing three inmates between December 2019 and July 2021.
Jurors deliberated over parts of three days following a week of testimony, including from several of Garcia’s accusers and the former warden himself.
“Instead of ensuring the proper functioning of FCI Dublin, he used his authority to sexually prey upon multiple female inmates under his control,” U.S. Attorney Stephanie Hinds said, calling Garcia’s crimes a betrayal of the public trust and his obligations as a warden.
Prosecutors argued at trial that Garcia’s abusive conduct followed a pattern that started with compliments, flattery and promises of transfers to lower security prisons, and escalated to sexual assault.
Testifying on his own behalf, Garcia conceded that he had made mistakes but claimed that some of his alleged wrongdoing — like taking pictures of naked inmates — was done as part of his official duties to document violations of prison policy. Prosecutors countered by calling a prison lieutenant who said he’s never seen a case where it was appropriate for an employee to take photos of a nude inmate.
An Associated Press investigation in February revealed a culture of abuse and cover-up that had persisted for years at the prison, about 21 miles (34 kilometers) east of Oakland. That reporting led to increased scrutiny from Congress and pledges from the federal Bureau of Prisons that it would fix problems and change the culture at the prison.
The trial has called into question the Bureau of Prisons’ handling of sexual abuse complaints from inmates against staff and the vetting process for the people it chooses to run its prisons.
All sexual activity between a prison worker and an inmate is illegal. Correctional employees enjoy substantial power over inmates, controlling every aspect of their lives from mealtime to lights out, and there is no scenario in which an inmate can give consent.
Garcia was in charge of staff and inmate training on reporting abuse and complying with the federal Prison Rape Elimination Act at the same time he was committing abuse, prosecutors say, and some inmates say they were sent to solitary confinement or other prisons for accusing employees of abuse.
Prosecutors say Garcia tried to keep his victims quiet with promises that he’d help them get early release. He allegedly told one victim he was “close friends” with the prison official responsible for investigating staff misconduct and couldn’t be fired. According to an indictment, he said he liked to cavort with inmates because, given their lack of power, they couldn’t “ruin him.”
Garcia was also accused of ordering inmates to strip naked for him as he made his rounds and of lying to federal agents who asked him if he had ever asked inmates to undress for him or had inappropriately touched a female inmate.
“We see inmates dressing and stuff … and if they’re undressing, I’ve already looked,” Garcia told the FBI in July 2021, according to court records. “I don’t, like, schedule a time like, ‘You be undressed, and I’ll be there.’”
Garcia was placed on administrative leave before retiring. He was arrested in September 2021.
Last month, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco directed federal prosecutors across the U.S. to “consider the full array of statutes,” including the federal Violence Against Women Act in cases involving Bureau of Prisons employees who are accused of sexual misconduct.
In those cases, Monaco said prosecutors should consider asking judges for sentences that go beyond the federal guidelines if the sentence recommended in the guidelines isn’t “fair and proportional to the seriousness of the offenses.”
Of the four other Dublin workers charged with abusing inmates, three have pleaded guilty and one is scheduled to stand trial next year. James Theodore Highhouse, the prison’s chaplain, is appealing his seven-year prison sentence, arguing that it was excessive because it was more than double the recommended punishment in federal sentencing guidelines. | https://www.cbs42.com/news/national/ap-ex-prison-warden-convicted-of-sexually-abusing-inmates/ | 2022-12-09 13:01:46 | 1 | https://www.cbs42.com/news/national/ap-ex-prison-warden-convicted-of-sexually-abusing-inmates/ |
MELBOURNE, Australia, April 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- FlexRule® was positioned as a top decision management and automation platform by Forrester's AI Decisioning Platforms Landscape, Q1 2023.
The report says enterprises can leverage FlexRule®'s comprehensive decision management and automation platform to build any domain-specific application for effective decision-making. FlexRule® showcases an array of decisioning use cases, a few being business process routing and pricing decision automation solutions. Its key focus is on healthcare, financial services, and the Government sector while also having its footprint in other industries.
This report directs Technology leaders in precisely choosing the vendor partner for their decision automation journey. It provides insights into how AI decisioning platforms empower enterprises to dramatically improve automated decisions for efficient operations and personalized customer experiences, with reduced risk and industry-leading competitiveness. It says AI decisioning platforms are excellent at the overall decisioning lifecycle, adding to why enterprises should adopt AI decisioning platforms.
According to Forrester, "AI decisioning platforms are software that provides enterprise business and technology teams with tools to author, automate, and ameliorate business decision logic in a wide variety of applications by leveraging combinations of decision intelligence technologies such as business rules, machine learning models, mathematical optimizations, and more."
One of the major aspects of the report is how the markets for AI decisioning and AI/ML platforms will merge. One of the major aspects of the report is how the markets for AI decisioning and AI/ML platforms will merge. Regarding this note, FlexRule® says that with its advanced Decision intelligence, it provides a solid composite AI approach allowing organizations to pick the proper AI techniques and train algorithms out of the box using its AutoML engine, or allowing teams to bring their own trained ML algorithms (BYO) to the platform with FlexRule®'s multidisciplinary AI technology.
About FlexRule®:
FlexRule® is founded to empower all business, operation, and technology leaders to improve the speed and quality of critical business decisions in a changing environment.
FlexRule® provides both an advanced Decision Management suite and methodology called DECISION-CENTRIC APPROACH® to guide organizations through the journey of adapting to changing business requirements with effective and efficient decision automation solutions. With an innovative and future-thinking approach, FlexRule® advanced decision management suite reduces the complexity of technology and makes these advanced decision-making technologies more accessible to everyone in the organization.
Website: www.FlexRule.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/flexrule
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Survey: Little progress made in keeping e-cigarettes out of the hands of US kids
NEW YORK (AP) - The latest government study on teen vaping suggests there's been little progress in keeping e-cigarettes out of the hands of kids.
The data seems to show more high school students vaping, with 14% saying they had done so recently, according to survey results released Thursday. In last year's survey, about 11% said they had vaped recently.
But experts cautioned that a change in the survey makes it difficult to compare the two: This year, a much higher percentage of participants took the survey in schools, and vaping tends to be reported more in schools than in homes.
"It continues to be difficult to assess (vaping) trends since the pandemic," said Alyssa Harlow, a University of Southern California researcher who studies youth e-cigarette use.
Despite its persistence, vaping appears to be less popular than it was: In 2019, 28% of high schoolers said they had recently vaped.
Educators say vaping is still a big problem.
Anecdotally, the 2021-22 school year was worse than it was before the pandemic, said Mike Rinaldi, principal of Westhill High School in Stamford, Connecticut. That school year was the first when most kids returned from remote learning following COVID-19 lockdowns, noted Rinaldi, who speculated that many kids may have taken up vaping as they dealt with mental health issues or stress related to the pandemic.
Kids vaping in school bathrooms and stairwells remains "a constant battle," said Matt Forker, principal of the nearby Stamford High School.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention researchers authored the new study, which is based on a Jan. 18 to May 31 online survey of about 28,000 U.S. middle and high school students.
The study asked about use of e-cigarettes and other vaping devices in the previous 30 days. In addition to the 14% of high school students who said they vaped recently, about 3% of middle schoolers said they had done so.
Of those who vaped, about 28% said they did it every day.
Nearly 85% of the youth who vaped used flavored products. Favored brands included Puff Bar and Vuse, followed by Hyde and Smok.
The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday took action against the makers of both Puff Bar and Hyde following months of urging from congressional lawmakers and parent groups.
The agency sent a warning letter to Puff Bar manufacturer EVO Brands, stating that the company never obtained U.S. permission to sell its products and that they are being marketed illegally. Only a handful of vaping companies have received FDA clearance for their products, which must demonstrate a health benefit for adult smokers.
The agency also said it ordered Hyde manufacturer Magellan Technology to remove its products from the market, after rejecting its application for FDA authorization.
The FDA has struggled to regulate the sprawling vaping landscape, which includes both established companies and smaller startups. Regulators have been pilloried by Congress and anti-vaping advocates for missing multiple deadlines to issue decisions on millions of vaping products submitted by companies.
In the last three years, federal and state laws and regulations have raised the purchase age for tobacco and vaping products, and banned nearly all teen-preferred flavors from small, cartridge-based e-cigarettes.
Some kids also may have been scared away by a 2019 outbreak of vaping-related illnesses and deaths — most of them tied to a filler in black market vaping liquids that contained THC, the chemical that makes marijuana users feel high.
Leaders of one advocacy group said they worry the battle to diminish youth vaping is not going well.
The numbers "may not reflect the much larger reality of youth e-cigarette use that we hear about on a daily basis from parents, teachers, pediatricians, and prevention specialists who are experiencing this urgent and ongoing adolescent public-health crisis," the group, Parents Against Vaping E-Cigarettes, said in a statement.
The FDA tried to ban the leading e-cigarette maker Juul’s products earlier this summer, citing questions about its potential health risks. But it’s been forced to put that effort on hold following a court challenge.
In this year’s survey, about one-fifth of teens who vape reported recently using Juul, though it was no longer a favorite brand. That's a big shift from 2019, when more than half of teens reported Juul as their usual brand.
Instead, many young people have migrated to e-cigarettes delivering laboratory-made nicotine — including Puff Bar — a loophole in FDA’s oversight that Congress closed this year. Despite gaining new authority over those products, the FDA missed a mid-July deadline to issue decisions on the vast majority of those products. | https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/survey-little-progress-made-in-keeping-e-cigarettes-out-of-the-hands-of-us-kids | 2022-10-08 01:58:50 | 1 | https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/survey-little-progress-made-in-keeping-e-cigarettes-out-of-the-hands-of-us-kids |
NEW YORK, May 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Zeagoo, a leading women's clothing brand renowned for its high-quality fashion, is thrilled to announce its highly successful collaboration with more than 100 prominent YouTube and Instagram influencers during the recent Mother's Day campaign. With a cumulative exposure of over 10 million, more than one million people interacted with Zeagoo's Mother's Day event. The brand experienced unprecedented growth and engagement, solidifying its position as a trendsetter in the fashion industry.
The collaboration between Zeagoo and the influencers was designed to celebrate and honor mothers around the world while showcasing the brand's versatile collection of stylish and comfortable clothing options. By partnering with influential personalities across social media platforms, Zeagoo effectively reached a vast and diverse audience, generating significant brand awareness and driving customer engagement.
Through engaging and authentic content, the collaboration successfully resonated with the target audience, highlighting Zeagoo's commitment to providing fashionable and empowering clothing choices for modern women. The influencers, with their dedicated followership, played a pivotal role in amplifying the brand's messaging and creating a sense of trust and credibility among their respective communities.
"We are delighted with the overwhelming response to our collaboration with these talented YouTube and Instagram influencers," said Jennifer Lee, spokesperson for Zeagoo. "Their support has allowed us to connect with millions of people worldwide and showcase our brand's unique blend of style, quality, and affordability. We are incredibly grateful for their partnership and the positive impact it has had on our brand."
The influencers' creative content included personalized styling tips, product reviews, and heartfelt messages about the importance of celebrating mothers. Their efforts not only drove traffic to Zeagoo's online platforms but also generated substantial engagement, fostering a sense of community and encouraging discussions among their followers.
As a result of this collaboration, Zeagoo witnessed a significant increase in website traffic, social media followers, and ultimately, sales. The brand's commitment to delivering exceptional products, coupled with the influencers' influential reach, proved to be a winning formula, creating a mutually beneficial partnership.
Zeagoo is grateful to all the influencers who participated in this collaboration and looks forward to building upon this success in future campaigns. By continuously engaging with inspiring personalities in the digital space, Zeagoo aims to foster authentic connections and further enhance its brand presence in the fashion industry.
About Zeagoo:
Zeagoo is a renowned women's clothing brand committed to providing high-quality fashion at affordable prices. With a focus on empowering women through stylish and versatile clothing options, Zeagoo continues to be a trusted destination for fashion-forward individuals. Offering a wide range of collections, from casual wear to elegant evening dresses, Zeagoo consistently delivers on its promise of exceptional quality and excellent customer service.
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Main Street presents Minerva on Main
AUBURN — Auburn Main Street will present Minerva on Main’s fundraising women’s event on Oct. 13 from 7-8:30 p.m. at The Deli at Sixth & Main.
There will be heavy hors d’oeuvres, desserts and drinks, raffle prizes by WySh Designs and Paper Gourmet, and the inaugural Minerva Awards. The Legacy Minerva Award will be given to a female who has now retired or passed who served the economic community as a leader and driver in the spirit of Minerva during her professional career. The 2022 Minerva Award will be given to someone currently active and serving the economic community as a leader and driver embodying the spirit of Minerva.
The event will cap off an evening of shopping downtown at October’s Girls Night Out and serve as a platform to learn more about what Auburn Main Street does for the community while embracing the success of the women of Auburn.
For ticket information, visit auburnmainstreet.org/2022/10/13/90463/minerva-on-main/.
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Pharr celebrating 15th annual Hub Phest
Several road closures are taking place in Pharr as the city prepares for its 15th annual Hub Phest.
City officials said the phest is one of their biggest events, with last year’s phest drawing nearly 10,000 people.
“We'll have music, we'll have food, a carnival, we'll have a petting zoo, a car show and we'll have a cook-off,” city spokesperson Yuri Gonzalez said. “It's going to be great fun for the entire family."
The phest kicks off Saturday, May 20 at 5 p.m. in Pharr’s downtown area.
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WASHINGTON, D.C., July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Danaher Corporation (NYSE: DHR) (the "Company") today announced results for the second quarter 2022. All results in this release reflect only continuing operations unless otherwise noted.
For the quarter ended July 1, 2022, net earnings were $1.7 billion, or $2.25 per diluted common share which represents a 1.5% year-over-year decrease from the comparable 2021 period. Non-GAAP adjusted diluted net earnings per common share were $2.76 which represents a 12.0% increase over the comparable 2021 period.
Revenues increased 7.5% year-over-year to $7.8 billion. Non-GAAP core revenue growth was 9.5%, including 8.0% non-GAAP base business core revenue growth.
Operating cash flow for the second quarter was $2.0 billion and non-GAAP free cash flow was $1.7 billion.
For the third quarter 2022, the Company anticipates that non-GAAP base business core revenue growth will be in the high-single digit percent range. For the full year 2022, the Company continues to expect non-GAAP base business core revenue growth will be in the high-single digit percent range.
Rainer M. Blair, President and Chief Executive Officer, stated, "We are pleased with our strong start to 2022. Our teams executed well in a challenging environment to deliver high-single digit core revenue growth, double-digit adjusted earnings per share growth and $2.0 billion of operating cash flow. We were particularly encouraged with the high-single digit growth in our base business and believe we gained market share across the portfolio."
Blair continued, "Danaher is comprised of high-quality franchises in attractive end markets with meaningful recurring revenues and durable business models. We believe the combination of our strong portfolio and talented team—all powered by the Danaher Business System—provides a strong foundation in today's dynamic operating environment and positions us well for the balance of 2022 and beyond."
Danaher will discuss its results during its quarterly investor conference call today starting at 8:00 a.m. ET. The call and an accompanying slide presentation will be webcast on the "Investors" section of Danaher's website, www.danaher.com, under the subheading "Events & Presentations" and additional materials will be posted to the same section of Danaher's website. A replay of the webcast will be available in the same section of Danaher's website shortly after the conclusion of the presentation and will remain available until the next quarterly earnings call.
The conference call can be accessed by dialing 877-830-2598 within the U.S. or by dialing +1-785-424-1743 outside the U.S. a few minutes before the 8:00 a.m. ET start and telling the operator that you are dialing in for Danaher's earnings conference call (Conference ID: DHRQ222). A replay of the conference call will be available shortly after the conclusion of the call and until August 4, 2022. You can access the replay dial-in information on the "Investors" section of Danaher's website under the subheading "Events & Presentations." In addition, presentation materials relating to Danaher's results have been posted to the "Investors" section of Danaher's website under the subheading "Quarterly Earnings."
ABOUT DANAHER
Danaher is a global science and technology innovator committed to helping its customers solve complex challenges and improving quality of life around the world. Its family of world class brands has leadership positions in the demanding and attractive health care, environmental and applied end-markets. With more than 20 operating companies, Danaher's globally diverse team of approximately 80,000 associates is united by a common culture and operating system, the Danaher Business System, and its Shared Purpose, Helping Realize Life's Potential. For more information, please visit www.danaher.com.
NON-GAAP MEASURES
In addition to the financial measures prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), this earnings release also contains non-GAAP financial measures. Calculations of these measures, the reasons why we believe these measures provide useful information to investors, a reconciliation of these measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measures, as applicable, and other information relating to these non-GAAP measures are included in the supplemental reconciliation schedule attached.
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
Statements in this release that are not strictly historical, including the statements regarding the Company's expected financial performance for the third quarter and full year 2022, Danaher's prospects and positioning for the future and any other statements regarding events or developments that we believe or anticipate will or may occur in the future are "forward-looking" statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws. There are a number of important factors that could cause actual results, developments and business decisions to differ materially from those suggested or indicated by such forward-looking statements and you should not place undue reliance on any such forward-looking statements. These factors include, among other things, the highly uncertain and unpredictable severity, magnitude and duration of the COVID-19 pandemic (and the related governmental, business and community responses thereto) on our business, results of operations and financial condition, the impact of our debt obligations on our operations and liquidity, deterioration of or instability in the economy, the markets we serve and the financial markets (including as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic), uncertainties relating to U.S. laws or policies, including potential changes in U.S. trade policies and tariffs and the reaction of other countries thereto, contractions or growth rates and cyclicality of markets we serve, competition, our ability to develop and successfully market new products and technologies and expand into new markets, the potential for improper conduct by our employees, agents or business partners, our compliance with applicable laws and regulations (including rules relating to off-label marketing and other regulations relating to medical devices and the health care industry), the results of our clinical trials and perceptions thereof, our ability to effectively address cost reductions and other changes in the health care industry, our ability to successfully identify and consummate appropriate acquisitions and strategic investments and successfully complete divestitures and other dispositions, our ability to integrate the businesses we acquire and achieve the anticipated growth, synergies and other benefits of such acquisitions, contingent liabilities and other risks relating to acquisitions, investments, strategic relationships and divestitures (including tax-related and other contingent liabilities relating to past and future IPOs, split-offs or spin-offs), security breaches or other disruptions of our information technology systems or violations of data privacy laws, the impact of our restructuring activities on our ability to grow, risks relating to potential impairment of goodwill and other intangible assets, currency exchange rates, tax audits and changes in our tax rate and income tax liabilities, changes in tax laws applicable to multinational companies, litigation and other contingent liabilities including intellectual property and environmental, health and safety matters, the rights of the United States government to use, disclose and license certain intellectual property we license if we fail to commercialize it, risks relating to product, service or software defects, product liability and recalls, risks relating to product manufacturing, our relationships with and the performance of our channel partners, uncertainties relating to collaboration arrangements with third-parties, commodity costs and surcharges, our ability to adjust purchases and manufacturing capacity to reflect market conditions, reliance on sole sources of supply, the impact of deregulation on demand for our products and services, the impact of climate change, or legal or regulatory measures to address climate change, labor matters and our ability to recruit, retain and motivate talented employees, international economic, political, legal, compliance, social and business factors (including the impact of the military conflict between Russia and Ukraine and the United Kingdom's separation from the European Union), disruptions relating to man-made and natural disasters (including pandemics such as COVID-19) and pension plan costs. Additional information regarding the factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from these forward-looking statements is available in our SEC filings, including our 2021 Annual Report on Form 10-K and Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the second quarter of 2022. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this release and except to the extent required by applicable law, the Company does not assume any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events and developments or otherwise.
DANAHER CORPORATION
RECONCILIATION OF GAAP TO NON-GAAP FINANCIAL MEASURES
See the accompanying Notes to Reconciliation of GAAP to Non-GAAP Financial Measures.
See the accompanying Notes to Reconciliation of GAAP to Non-GAAP Financial Measures.
See the accompanying Notes to Reconciliation of GAAP to Non-GAAP Financial Measures.
Notes to Reconciliation of GAAP to Non-GAAP Financial Measures
Statement Regarding Non-GAAP Measures
Each of the non-GAAP measures set forth above should be considered in addition to, and not as a replacement for or superior to, the comparable GAAP measure, and may not be comparable to similarly titled measures reported by other companies. Management believes that these measures provide useful information to investors by offering additional ways of viewing Danaher Corporation's ("Danaher" or the "Company") results that, when reconciled to the corresponding GAAP measure, help our investors to:
- with respect to Adjusted Diluted Net Earnings Per Common Share from Continuing Operations, understand the long-term profitability trends of our business and compare our profitability to prior and future periods and to our peers;
- with respect to core sales and related sales measures, identify underlying growth trends in our business and compare our sales performance with prior and future periods and to our peers; and
- with respect to free cash flow from continuing operations and related cash flow measures (the "FCF Measure"), understand Danaher's ability to generate cash without external financings, strengthen its balance sheet, invest in its business and grow its business through acquisitions and other strategic opportunities (although a limitation of free cash flow is that it does not take into account the Company's debt service requirements and other non-discretionary expenditures, and as a result the entire free cash flow amount is not necessarily available for discretionary expenditures).
While we expect overall demand for the Company's COVID-19 related products to moderate as and to the extent the pandemic subsides, as the pandemic evolves toward endemic status we believe a level of demand for the Company's products that support COVID-19 related vaccines and therapeutics (including initiatives that seek to prevent or mitigate similar, future pandemics) and COVID-19 testing will continue. However, on a relative basis, we expect the level of ongoing demand for products supporting COVID-19 testing will be subject to more fluctuations in demand than the level of demand for products supporting COVID-19 related vaccines and therapeutics. Therefore, beginning with the first quarter of 2022, in addition to disclosing core revenue growth, we disclose "base business core sales growth" on a basis that excludes revenues related to COVID-19 testing and includes revenues from products that support COVID-19 related vaccines and therapeutics. We believe this additional measure provides useful information to investors by facilitating period-to-period comparisons of our financial performance and identifying underlying growth trends in the Company's business that otherwise may be obscured by fluctuations in demand for COVID-19 testing as a result of the pandemic.
Management uses these non-GAAP measures to measure the Company's operating and financial performance, and uses core sales and non-GAAP measures similar to Adjusted Diluted Net Earnings Per Common Share from Continuing Operations and the FCF Measure in the Company's executive compensation program.
The items excluded from the non-GAAP measures set forth above have been excluded for the following reasons:
- With respect to Adjusted Diluted Net Earnings Per Common Share from Continuing Operations:
- With respect to adjusted average common stock and common equivalent shares outstanding, Danaher's Mandatory Convertible Preferred Stock ("MCPS") Series A converted into Danaher common stock on April 15, 2022 and MCPS Series B will mandatorily convert into Danaher common stock on the mandatory conversion date, which is expected to be April 15, 2023 (unless converted or redeemed earlier in accordance with the terms of the applicable certificate of designations). With respect to the calculation of Adjusted Diluted Net Earnings Per Common Share from Continuing Operations, we apply the "if converted" method of share dilution to the MCPS Series A and B in all applicable periods irrespective of whether such preferred shares would be dilutive or anti-dilutive in the period. We believe this presentation provides useful information to investors by helping them understand what the net impact will be on Danaher's earnings per share-related measures once the MCPS convert into Danaher common stock.
- With respect to core sales related measures, (1) we exclude the impact of currency translation because it is not under management's control, is subject to volatility and can obscure underlying business trends, and (2) we exclude the effect of acquisitions and divested product lines because the timing, size, number and nature of such transactions can vary significantly from period-to-period and between us and our peers, which we believe may obscure underlying business trends and make comparisons of long-term performance difficult.
- With respect to the FCF Measure, we exclude payments for additions to property, plant and equipment (net of the proceeds from capital disposals) to demonstrate the amount of operating cash flow for the period that remains after accounting for the Company's capital expenditure requirements.
With respect to forecasted core sales related measures, we do not reconcile these measures to the comparable GAAP measure because of the inherent difficulty in predicting and estimating the future impact and timing of currency translation, acquisitions and divested product lines, which would be reflected in any forecasted GAAP revenue.
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Dr. Tarah Hadley was a teen when she rescued her first animal.
An injured eastern box turtle was struggling across the street outside her house in Alexandria, Virginia. She carried the turtle, bleeding and missing a leg, to her mother. They sought help at a local wildlife rehabilitation shelter, where the teen first glimpsed a veterinarian in action.
Growing up, she never had a pet cat or dog. The only pets were canines at her grandmother’s house. But her interest in tending to animals grew when a friend gave her an Amazon parrot named Chi Chi.
Caring for the bird inspired Hadley to pursue a career as a veterinarian. Now, as the San Antonio Zoo’s assistant director of Veterinary Care, Hadley leads an 18-member team protecting exotic animals in their care.
“I love the challenge of doing new things and old things a new way,” Hadley, 53, said.
When the devastating winter ice storm of 2021 brought the city to a halt, Hadley and her team evaluated, warmed and re-homed hundreds of animals on the property. At the onset of COVID-19, Hadley set up protocols that protected the zoo’s endangered species. The team wore double-protection masks, repeatedly washed hands and wore gloves before mandated safety precautions. She made sure at-risk species, such as tigers, lions and primates, were among the first to receive COVID vaccines.
These actions were highlighted in Hadley’s nomination as one of five finalists for American Humane’s The Hero Veterinarian, a national veterinarian award. The ninth annual award honors veterinary professionals dedicated to promoting the human-animal bond and the welfare and health of animals.
Tim Morrow, president and CEO of the San Antonio Zoo, said the zoo community is proud one of their own is among the few finalists for the award.
“Dr. Hadley is an exceptional example of a heroic veterinarian who has uplifted many lives,” Morrow said. “Her transformational leadership, unwavering commitment to wildlife and positive outlook have helped make the San Antonio Zoo the number one in Texas.”
Hadley was at her desk, reading emails when she learned she was a finalist.
“I was so thrilled and excited,” she said. “It was overwhelming. I was humbled to be part of the veterinarians and nurses considered elite and best among their colleagues.”
Being a veterinarian wasn’t her first career. In the early 1990s, Hadley worked as a beat reporter in Atlantic City and New Jersey. But journalism didn’t excite her as much as volunteering on the side at an area zoo, even if a task was scooping up pig and llama poop.
She told her husband she enjoyed working at the zoo. He asked her if she ever thought of becoming a veterinarian, and that’s when the light came on — becoming a physician for animals was her calling. That began studies at Stockton College, Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine and the University of Tennessee. Hadley’s focus was avian medicine. She credited nurses, mentors and internships for strengthening her proficiency and skills.
Hadley, a 2002 graduate of Tufts University, started her own private practice in Atlanta with a focus on exotic animals. She offered free veterinary care to orphaned and injured wildlife at the Atlanta Wild Animal Rescue Effort Wildlife Center. In 2011, Hadley became the nonprofit’s executive director, transforming the small center into the largest wildlife rehabilitation center in Georgia. She recalled they rescued, rehabilitated and released more than 3,500 native species, including birds, rabbits and turtles each year.
Three years later, Hadley faced her first test in providing safety for dozens of animals when a sudden winter storm swept across Atlanta. The freezing temperatures and precipitation prevented aid from reaching the center, but they were successful in preserving the lives of the animals in their care.
The COVID protocols the team started in September 2021 are still in place. Hadley said they’ve vaccinated more than 80 animals and are on their third round of vaccines.
Her concern for animals extends beyond the zoo. Hadley has helped the city’s homeless pet population, handing out free food to owners of dogs without meals.
Hadley said the recognition is an honor and she’s proud to represent the team, zoo and the city.
“All of that experience really comes to bear for me here,” she said. “I honestly couldn’t do what I do without them. We complement each other, all of us as a team. I’m very proud of what we have here at the zoo. Whatever happens, I feel like I’m a winner already.”
A 22-year veteran of the Air Force, Vincent T. Davis embarked on a second career as a journalist and found his calling. Observing and listening across San Antonio, he finds intriguing tales to tell about everyday people. He shares his stories with Express-News subscribers every Monday morning.
Then she was back to work. Hadley leaned over the exam table as licensed veterinary tech Roxanne Frias, 41, held a small, hard-backed patient with blue gloved hands. Hadley checked the heartbeat, listening as a slow, muffled pulse echoed through the monitor’s speaker. She’d come full circle, caring for one more turtle once again.
San Antonians can support Hadley by voting online at herovetawards.org/vote. Residents can vote once a day until 2 p.m. Sept. 15. There were more than 500 nominations of the nation’s top veterinarians and veterinary nurses for the award. Hadley is the third person from the zoo nominated as an American Humane award finalist.
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BEIJING, Nov. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Spring/Summer 2023 Shenzhen Fashion Week, which concluded in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong Province on Tuesday, with focus on green development and sci-tech innovation in the fashion industry.
Themed on "We Can Be", the eight-day event included more than 70 runway shows and over 30 fashion creative activities as well as sustainable development fashion exhibitions and forums to present an eye-catching feast for more than three million audience from online and offline.
It is noted that this year's fashion week proposed a carbon neutrality initiative to call on participants and enterprises to take concrete actions to lower carbon emissions in an attempt to address climate change and demonstrate the environmental protection vision.
As one of the most developed fashion hubs in China, Shenzhen has formed stable industrial and supply chains to attract over 4,100 high-tech enterprises settle in the city's Nanshan District.
In the first three quarters of this year, the city's textile and garment exports reached 51.22 billion yuan, increasing by 9.8 percent year on year, among which exports to markets of the United States, ASEAN and the United Kingdom surged dramatically, according to statistics of Shenzhen Customs.
In recent years, Shenzhen has made efforts to establish key laboratories and conduct scientific research to boost sci-tech innovation, digital transformation as well as supply chain upgrading.
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ATLANTIS, Fla. — Local leaders are condemning what they call an act of hate after antisemitic propaganda was found over the weekend in multiple cars and in driveways in Palm Beach County, including in Atlantis.
It’s a rising trend and officials are planning to discuss it in a roundtable Tuesday.
“It’s just so surprising that somebody feels this way and then that they spew it out to other people,” said Patricia Train, who woke up over the weekend to plastic bags filled with antiSemitic propaganda and wood chips in the front yard of her home in Atlantis.
“I didn’t even really read it that much except it said that Jewish people were satanic,” Train said.
Atlantis police said they arrested a man after an officer saw him throwing the bags and tried issuing a civil citation for littering.
According to police, that man is 33-year-old Nicholas Bysheim. Police say Bysheim refused to give the officer his ID and was arrested in resisting an officer.
Palm Beach County Mayor Greg Weiss called it a start in stopping more incidents like this one.
“At least we know this person has been taken off the streets for at least some period of time,” Weiss said. “It’s not welcome here. We are a very welcoming community, but we don’t welcome hate.”
Weiss is hosting a roundtable along with local leaders, including law enforcement to discuss looking to state legislators about potential new laws to hold these actions accountable. The event is not open to the public.
“Obviously people have First Amendment rights in this country but looking for a law that will make it a crime to project something on someone else’s property without the owner’s permission,” Weiss said.
As for the acts of hate, Train said she hopes they will soon go away.
“We are very open to people and it’s not that kind of community, so the hate is just horrible really,” Train said.
One week after a swastika was projected onto an AT&T building in downtown West Palm Beach, residents and members of the Jewish faith gathered at the same location to show solidarity against antisemitism on Sunday.
Also Sunday, antisemitic propaganda and wood chips were discovered in the morning in the employee parking lot at Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office headquarters, a spokeswoman told WPTV.
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THOUSAND OAKS, Calif., May 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Amgen (NASDAQ: AMGN) will present at the TD Cowen 4th Annual Oncology Innovation Summit at 11:00 a.m. ET on Wednesday, May 31, 2023. David M. Reese, M.D., executive vice president of Research and Development at Amgen will present at the conference. The webcast will be broadcast over the internet simultaneously and will be available to members of the news media, investors and the general public.
The webcast, as with other selected presentations regarding developments in Amgen's business given by management at certain investor and medical conferences, can be found on Amgen's website, www.amgen.com, under Investors. Information regarding presentation times, webcast availability and webcast links are noted on Amgen's Investor Relations Events Calendar. The webcast will be archived and available for replay for at least 90 days after the event.
About Amgen
Amgen is committed to unlocking the potential of biology for patients suffering from serious illnesses by discovering, developing, manufacturing and delivering innovative human therapeutics. This approach begins by using tools like advanced human genetics to unravel the complexities of disease and understand the fundamentals of human biology.
Amgen focuses on areas of high unmet medical need and leverages its expertise to strive for solutions that improve health outcomes and dramatically improve people's lives. A biotechnology pioneer since 1980, Amgen has grown to be one of the world's leading independent biotechnology companies, has reached millions of patients around the world and is developing a pipeline of medicines with breakaway potential.
Amgen is one of the 30 companies that comprise the Dow Jones Industrial Average and is also part of the Nasdaq-100 index. In 2022, Amgen was named one of the "World's Best Employers" by Forbes and one of "America's 100 Most Sustainable Companies" by Barron's.
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NEW YORK -- Smile! You're on camera.
For customers at a New York City supermarket chain, that message is more like: customers' "biometric" data may be collected.
As a way to prevent shoplifting, the Upper West Side location of popular New York City grocer Fairway is using facial recognition technology and other biometric gathering tools, including voice recording, to catch repeat offenders.
Privacy concerns were raised after a sign was posted to the front of the store: "This Business collects, retains, converts, stores, or shares customers' biometric identifier information, which is information that can be used to identify or help identify you."
According to Fairway in a statement, the technology is "helping our store reduce retail crime."
SEE ALSO | TSA trying out facial recognition system at several new airports
This news comes as shoplifting continues to surge across the country. Retailers like Walgreens, Target and Walmart have stores in certain cities because of it.
"This is not a city where you can walk in a store, take what you want, and walk out," said New York City Mayor Eric Adams in response to the city's growing number of shoplifting complaints. In New York, complaints surged to more than 63,000 last year.
Dozen of large retailers are reportedly using facial recognition to catch shoplifters, including entertainment venues like First Energy Stadium in Cleveland, the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif. and Citi Field in New York.
"It's very, very, it's very, very difficult to find a pin in a haystack, so to speak at a large venue or large events," said Scott Spiro, cybersecurity expert and co-founder of Sugarshot. "So yeah, I think you're gonna continue to see the technology distributed."
Recently, the owner of Madison Square Garden came under fire for using facial recognition to identify and remove people.
"There's positives and negatives, for law enforcement there's some huge, huge positives," Spiro continued. "On the negative side and the concerning side, we've got a real challenge potentially around how that data is utilized, especially if it's put in the wrong hands." | https://6abc.com/fairway-market-upper-west-side-facial-recognition-technology/12973077/ | 2023-03-20 13:43:51 | 0 | https://6abc.com/fairway-market-upper-west-side-facial-recognition-technology/12973077/ |
Teen Tyme is bringing some sparkle into people's lives this holiday season. The nonprofit is delivering sparkle boxes to those who may not be able to afford to put gifts under the tree.
Stacey Spencer, founder of Teen Tyme, joins us to discuss more.
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Johannes Vermeer’s “Girl with a Pearl Earring” went back on display at the Netherlands’ Mauritshuis museum Friday, a day after climate activists targeted the 17th-century masterpiece.
“We are incredibly grateful that ‘The Girl’ remained undamaged and is back in her familiar place so quickly,” the museum’s director, Martine Gosselink, said in a statement.
A video posted Thursday on Twitter showed a man pouring a red substance from a can over another protester who appeared to attempt to glue his head to the glass-protected painting. The second man stuck his hand to the panel holding the painting.
The painting was removed from the wall and thoroughly checked in the museum’s conservation studio. It went back on wall Friday afternoon.
Police arrested three people for “public violence against property.” Their identities were not released, in line with Dutch privacy rules.
Earlier this month, climate protesters threw mashed potatoes at a Claude Monet painting in a German museum. Other protesters threw soup over Vincent van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” at London’s National Gallery. In both cases, the paintings were undamaged.
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NEW YORK, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Evolve Capital Partners Inc., a leading independent investment bank specializing in the finance and technology sectors principally serving the mid-market, announced today that Kevin W. McMurchy has joined the firm as Managing Director of Insurance and Financial Institutions Investment Banking. In his new role, Mr. McMurchy will focus on middle-market transactions within the financial services and insurance industries.
Mr. McMurchy has more than 30 years of professional experience, including mergers and acquisitions, valuations, fairness opinions and financial restructuring transactions involving commercial banks, specialty insurance and diversified financial service companies. He has executed domestic, international and cross-border transactions with a combined deal value of more than $30 Billion. Mr. McMurchy has acted as financial advisor to company management teams and Boards of Directors, Special Committees, and/or principal shareholders in assessing, analyzing, and recommending strategic and financial alternatives and opportunities.
Alexander Koles, Founder and Managing Director, stated "the addition of Kevin McMurchy strengthens Evolve Capital's capabilities in financial services and with Kevin's depth of experience and track record of service to his clients, he is an outstanding choice to spearhead this important effort. He will build on our successes we've had in the insurance industry, and we look forward leveraging his deep expertise as we expand our industry coverage."
Most recently, Mr. McMurchy served as the managing director and Group Head of Financial Institutions at Scott-Macon, Ltd. Prior to Scott-Macon, Mr. McMurchy was a managing director and led the Financial Institutions Group with Dresner Partners and was a managing director with Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin and Keefe, Bruyette and Woods (KBW). During his investment banking career, Mr. McMurchy has focused on financial services and insurance markets and advised public and private clients.
Mr. McMurchy holds a Master of Business Administration in Finance from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, and a Bachelor of Arts (Magna Cum Laude) in Economics from Harvard University.
Evolve Capital Partners Inc. ("Evolve") is a growing investment bank focused exclusively on entrepreneurial businesses operating at the intersection of technology-enabled solutions and financial services. Evolve Capital's primary coverage verticals include Insurance, Capital Markets and Lending where we advise technology-enabled service and software companies.
As an independent investment bank, Evolve only advises on mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, capital raises, and financial restructurings. Evolve dispenses bespoke and mission-critical advice in a creative environment generating optimal outcomes. Evolve is based in New York, NY.
For further information please visit www.evolve-capital.com or contact:
Alexander Koles
Founder & Managing Director
Evolve Capital Partners Inc.
1350 Avenue of the Americas, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10019
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WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s surprisingly resilient job market may have delivered yet another month of solid hiring and pay gains in May, if economists’ forecasts prove to be correct. Still, some signs of cooling could emerge in the government report being released Friday.
Analysts have estimated that hiring slowed to a still-healthy pace of 190,000 added jobs last month, according to a survey by the data provider FactSet. That would mark a decline from the robust 253,000 jobs that were gained in April and would fall below the average for the previous three months of about 220,000. The unemployment rate is projected to rise slightly to 3.5% from a five-decade low of 3.4%.
Companies have steadily slowed hiring since January, when the three-month average pace of gains was an unusually strong 330,000.
Federal Reserve officials would welcome a more modest rate of job growth. The central bank has raised its benchmark interest rate 10 times in 14 months in an aggressive drive to conquer high inflation. Fed officials have said they think strong hiring can often fuel inflation if companies feel compelled to raise pay to attract and keep workers. These companies typically pass on their higher labor costs to their customers by raising prices.
A slowdown in job growth and pay raises could help the Fed reach its 2% inflation target. Though inflation has dropped steadily from its peak of 9.1% a year ago, it remained elevated in April at 4.9%, measured year over year.
Top Fed officials have signaled that they expect to forgo a rate increase at their June 13-14 meeting. Doing so would afford them time to assess how their previous rate hikes have affected the inflation pressures underlying the economy. Higher rates typically take time to affect growth and hiring. The Fed wants to avoid raising its key rate to the point where it would slow borrowing and spending so much as to cause a deep recession.
In remarks this week, several Fed officials pointed to Friday’s jobs report — along with the next government report on inflation, to be released June 13 — as important factors in their decision-making. It’s possible that a much stronger-than-expected May jobs report could cause the Fed’s policymakers to consider imposing yet another rate hike this month instead of pausing.
Slower hiring could suggest that the job market is moving toward a more sustainable balance after two years of gangbusters gains that followed the economy’s explosive rebound from the 2020 pandemic recession.
The U.S. economy as a whole has been gradually weakening. It grew at a lackluster 1.3% annual rate from January through March, after 2.6% annual growth from October through December and 3.2% from July through September.
Some signs have emerged that demand for workers, too, is easing just as more Americans are coming off the sidelines and looking for jobs. The low unemployment rate and rising pay have helped persuade more than 2 million people to take jobs or begin looking for work in just the past six months.
“We are seeing some calming down in terms of the jobs market, even if it remains pretty strong overall,” said Sarah House, an economist at Wells Fargo.
The number of people who are quitting their jobs — a sign of confidence in the employment market — has dropped back to near pre-pandemic levels. Companies have also shed temporary employees for the past three months, evidence that labor demand has begun to ebb.
The Federal Reserve’s so-called Beige Book, a collection of anecdotal reports mostly from businesses across the country, reported Wednesday that the pace of hiring gains in April and May had “cooled some” compared with previous reports. Many companies reported that they were fully staffed.
At the same time, despite some high-profile job cuts by financial and high-technology companies, the pace of layoffs remains unusually low. The number of people seeking first-time unemployment benefits, a proxy for layoffs, barely rose from a low level last week.
Many employers are still engaged in so-called “catch-up hiring,” particularly in such sectors as restaurants, hotels and entertainment venues. Though customer demand in these industries has spiked, the number of employed workers remains below pre-pandemic levels.
Consumers, who drive roughly two-thirds of economic activity, are still mostly spending at a solid pace, despite higher prices and borrowing rates. Their spending jumped 0.8% in April, the fastest monthly pace since January, as Americans flocked to airports, restaurants and concert halls, among other places. | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/us-jobs-report-for-may-could-point-to-slower-hiring-as-fed-rate-hikes-cool-demand-for-workers/ | 2023-06-02 12:30:12 | 0 | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/us-jobs-report-for-may-could-point-to-slower-hiring-as-fed-rate-hikes-cool-demand-for-workers/ |
Acquisition to accelerate strategy in thermal comfort solutions
SOUTHFIELD, Mich., May 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lear Corporation (NYSE: LEA), a global automotive technology leader in Seating and E-Systems, today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire I.G. Bauerhin (IGB), a privately held supplier of automotive seat heating, ventilation, active cooling, steering wheel heating, seat sensors, and electronic control modules.
Lear will acquire IGB for €140 million, on a cash- and debt-free basis. The transaction, subject to regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions, is expected to close in the next six to nine months.
The transaction, Lear's second acquisition of a thermal comfort solutions company, will expand the Company's product capabilities into active cooling and complement its existing offerings. In February, Lear acquired substantially all of Kongsberg Automotive's Interior Comfort Systems business unit (Kongsberg), whose comfort seating solutions include seat massage and lumbar, as well as seat heat and ventilation.
"The acquisition of IGB furthers Lear's vertical integration strategy and advances our vision of being the leading provider of innovative thermal comfort solutions," said Ray Scott, Lear President and CEO. "Combining Lear's industry-leading seating expertise and Kongsberg's products and capabilities with IGB's cutting-edge technology will allow us to accelerate the commercialization of efficient, high-performance seating systems that are aligned with the key priorities of our OEM customers and consumers alike."
IGB, a global leader in seat climate control, is headquartered in Gruendau-Rothenbergen, Germany and has more than 4,000 employees at nine manufacturing plants in seven countries. A provider of thermal comfort products since 1976, IGB content can be found on a large range of vehicle types, including luxury, high-volume, niche and electric vehicles, produced by nearly all global automakers. IGB generated approximately €205 million in revenue in 2021.
"IGB is an established and well-respected premium thermal comfort solutions supplier," said Frank Orsini, Lear Executive Vice President and President, Seating. "Their capabilities will allow Lear to grow our Seating business and continue to offer superior in-vehicle experiences to our customers. We look forward to welcoming the IGB team to the Lear family."
"I am confident that our employees will thrive in Lear's thermal comfort solutions business and continue to drive growth and innovation," said Josef Hilmer, CEO of IGB. "Together, we can more efficiently and effectively achieve an optimized and integrated occupant comfort solution for our customers."
About Lear Corporation
Lear, a global automotive technology leader in Seating and E-Systems, enables superior in-vehicle experiences for consumers around the world. Lear's diverse team of talented employees in 38 countries is driven by a commitment to innovation, operational excellence, and sustainability. Lear is Making every drive better™ by providing the technology for safer, smarter, and more comfortable journeys. Lear, headquartered in Southfield, Michigan, serves every major automaker in the world and ranks 179 on the Fortune 500. Further information about Lear is available at lear.com or on Twitter @LearCorporation.
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lankans woke up to confusion on Thursday, still waiting for their embattled president to resign after he fled the country, as the island nation fumes over an economic meltdown that has sparked political chaos.
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his wife fled to the Maldives on Wednesday aboard an air force jet. He made the prime minister acting president in his absence — a move that further roiled passions among a public that blames Rajapaksa for an economic crisis that has caused severe shortages of food and fuel.
On Wednesday, protesters, undeterred by multiple rounds of tear gas, scaled the walls to enter the office of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe as the crowd outside cheered in support and tossed water bottles to them.
Protesters took turns posing at the prime minister’s desk or stood on a rooftop terrace waving the Sri Lankan flag after the latest in a series of takeovers of government buildings by the demonstrators — who see the political maneuvers as delaying their goal of a new government.
Late on Wednesday night, crowds also gathered outside the Parliament. Demonstrators clashed with security officers who fired tear gas into the air.
Wickremesinghe’s office declared a nationwide curfew and imposed a state of emergency giving broader powers to the military and police. The curfew was lifted early Thursday.
Over the weekend, the two leaders both said they would resign after protesters stormed Rajapaksa’s and Wickremesinghe’s official residences in a dramatic escalation of months of protests. Some set fire to Wickremesinghe’s private residence, and his whereabouts were unknown.
The protesters blame Rajapaksa and his powerful, dynastic family for leading the country into an economic abyss, but they are also furious with Wickremesinghe, whom they accuse of protecting the president. Many believe that his appointment in May alleviated pressure on Rajapaksa to resign.
“We need both … to go home,” said Supun Eranga, a 28-year-old civil servant in the crowd on Wednesday. “Ranil couldn’t deliver what he promised during his two months, so he should quit. All Ranil did was try to protect the Rajapaksas.”
But Wickremesinghe has said he will not leave until a new government is in place. He has urged the speak of Parliament to find a new prime minister agreeable to both the ruling and opposition parties.
It’s unclear when that might happen since the opposition is deeply fractured. But assuming that Rajapaksa resigns as planned, Sri Lankan lawmakers have agreed to elect a new president on July 20 who will serve the remainder of Rajapaksa’s term, which ends in 2024. That person could potentially appoint a new prime minister, who would then have to be approved by Parliament.
The political impasse threatens to worsen the bankrupt nation’s economic collapse since the absence of an alternative government could delay a hoped-for bailout from the International Monetary Fund. In the meantime, the country is relying on aid from neighboring India and from China.
With the country in disarray, Chief of Defense Staff Gen. Shavendra Silva called for calm and for cooperation with security forces. Similar comments have rankled opposition lawmakers, who insisted that civilian leaders would be the ones to find a solution.
Protesters accuse the president and his relatives of siphoning money from government coffers for years and Rajapaksa’s administration of hastening the country’s collapse by mismanaging the economy.
The family has denied the corruption allegations, but Rajapaksa acknowledged some of his policies contributed to the meltdown, which has left the island nation laden with debt and unable to pay for imports of basic necessities.
The shortages have sown despair among Sri Lanka’s 22 million people. The country’s rapid decline was all the more shocking because, before the recent crisis, the economy had been expanding, with a growing, comfortable middle class.
“Gotabaya resigning is one problem solved — but there are so many more,” said Bhasura Wickremesinghe, a 24-year-old student of maritime electrical engineering, who is not related to the prime minister.
He complained that Sri Lankan politics have been dominated for years by “old politicians” who all need to go. “Politics needs to be treated like a job — you need to have qualifications that get you hired, not because of what your last name is,” he said, referring to the Rajapaksa family.
After the president fled to the Maldives the whereabouts of other Rajapaksa family members who had served in the government were unclear.
Local media in the Maldives reported Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s planned travel to another country was delayed, forcing him to remain in the Indian Ocean archipelago Wednesday night.
Sri Lankan presidents are protected from arrest while in power, and it is likely Rajapaksa planned his escape while he still had constitutional immunity. A corruption lawsuit against him in his former role as a defense official was withdrawn when he was elected president in 2019.
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Associated Press writers Krishan Francis and Bharatha Mallawarachi contributed to this report.
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Motorist with sign claiming to have an explosive device drives to Canadian border
HOULTON, Maine (AP) — The driver of vehicle with a sign indicating there was an explosive device on board led Maine State Police on a chase on Interstate 95 to the Canadian border on Monday, officials said.
A trooper fired shots after the motorist attempted to maneuver the truck toward the Canadian port of entry in Woodstock, New Brunswick, and the man surrendered without injury, state police said.
The border crossing was temporarily closed, and crime scene technicians and the Maine State Police Bomb Squad were expected to be at the scene through the night, officials said.
Officials said there was no danger to the public.
A state trooper noticed the sign on the vehicle indicating the motorist had an explosive device of some sort after attempting to stop the motorist around 10:40 a.m. Monday. Tony Holford, 42, of Providence, Rhode Island, was charged with aggravated reckless conduct, terrorizing, and failure to to stop, state police said.
State police said the man was taken to the Aroostook County Jail. It was not known if he had a lawyer.
Maine State Police, the state attorney generals office and Canadian authorities were jointly investigating the incident, officials said.
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PUNJAB, Pakistan — When Muhammad Aslam sold his house in Gujranwala, Pakistan, to finance smuggler fees for his two grown sons, he imagined it would pay off when they landed safely on the shores of Europe.
Aslam's sons, Qasim, 36, and Munir, 24, along with two other male relatives, informed their family the trip for the group of four would cost around 10 million rupees, nearly $35,000. They would depart in early May from Noor Jamal – the village where they had moved after selling their house in Gujranwala. They'd drive to Lahore, Punjab's largest city — flying from there to Dubai and then on Libya, where they'd get on a boat headed to Italy.
As they prepared to depart, the men were excited about the prospect of leaving their area in rural Punjab — a cluster of mud-walled houses on the edge of agricultural land where their family members work as contract farmers. Once they made it to Europe, they planned to find jobs as laborers. They expected to earn enough money to cover their living expenses and send funds home to support their wives and children as well as an extended family of around 40 people.
No one in Aslam's family had tried dunki, the colloquial term in the area for illegal migration from Pakistan to Europe, and everything his sons told him about the process was new. "We had no knowledge about it," Aslam said.
Aslam last heard from Qasim and Munir on June 8. Six days later, they were aboard the overloaded migrant fishing vessel that departed from Libya and capsized as it crossed the Mediterranean. The estimated 750 passengers included as many as 350 Pakistani passengers, many of whom were reportedly trapped on the lower level of the boat, as well as Egyptians, Syrians and Palestinians. It was the worst shipwreck off the coast of Greece in a decade.
The two relatives who traveled with Qasim and Munir survived. But the brothers are still missing. The family hopes the men somehow made it out alive and are as yet unaccounted for. But nearly two weeks on, that possibility is increasingly unlikely.
Pakistan's government has cited various figures for how many of its nationals were aboard the ship and how many are presumed dead. Soon after the accident, Mohammad Sadiq Sanjrani, chairman of the Senate, said 300 Pakistanis had died. The country's interior minister on Friday said that at least 350 nationals were on the boat and Pakistan's investigative agency said that 209 that are known to be missing. So far, Greek authorities have recovered 82 bodies. The shipwreck took place in one of the deepest areas of the Mediterranean, and many bodies may be forever lost at sea.
The number of Pakistanis who were aboard the migrant ship is a telling indicator of conditions in the country, which has undergone months of political and economic upheaval. Families of migrants who undertook the journey from Libya say the rising cost of living and lack of options for employment fueled the desire to get out of Pakistan. "Everyone in Pakistan is looking to go outside," said Ibrahim Khan, a close friend of Makhdoom Sadiq, a missing Pakistani passenger from the village of Goleki in Punjab. "If the situation in Pakistan or business was good, nobody would want to leave."
While legal migration takes many steps and much information, the illegal sea route to Europe is widely advertised as a quicker alternative by "agents" who share information on Facebook, TikTok and WhatsApp. They often use pseudonyms and refer to the journey in English as "game," a code word for the illegal journey understood by those who are seeking to take it. Pakistan has arrested at least 10 people for their alleged involvement in a human smuggling network that helped organize travel for victims of the shipwreck. Cases have been registered against alleged smugglers in the Pakistani cities of Lahore, Gujranwala, and Gujrat.
Societal expectations that sons will earn for the household and support aging parents plays a role in the migration trend as young people look abroad for work opportunities. Enticed by social media posts and the prospect of improving their economic conditions, people are willing to risk everything for a future beyond the confines of their villages. "They convince themselves that if they go there, they'll make more money," said Mian Muhammad Khan, a politician from Noor Jamal. Even news of the wreck hasn't deterred them. "After this incident, people still went from our village to Libya," Khan said.
Only 104 people are confirmed to have survived the shipwreck, 12 of them Pakistani. One survivor, Azmat Khan, is also from Goleki, a village just over an hour away from where Qasim and Munir live. According to his brother Javed Iqbal, Khan had married a year earlier and planned to go abroad to provide for his new family. He sold 27 of his buffalo – his main source of income – to raise 3 million rupees for his journey to Europe. "When people [from the village] settle in countries like Italy, Spain and America and come back here, we are impressed by their lifestyle," Iqbal said. "They have big mansions and we have small houses."
Iqbal said his brother made it to the ship's deck from his spot on the lower floor near the window. He jumped from the ship as it started sinking and swam until the Greek coast guard picked him up. Khan's family learned that he was still alive when his picture and identity card surfaced in a WhatsApp group to identify people missing from the wreck. He is now in Libya and has no clear plan for returning home. Pakistan offers him little now, Iqbal said. "Here he's already sold off his property and livestock."
In a grim move, Pakistan has begun DNA testing families of the missing migrants to identify the recovered bodies. The family of 31-year-old Syed Ali Zain from Budho Kalas village said they still have faith that their son is alive, possibly recovering in a hospital, they hope, and unable to make contact. "My heart tells me that wherever Zain is, he is fine," said Zain's mother, Rukhsana Jafri. In an interview with NPR, Zain's father, Syed Ali Raza, broke into tears when talking about the anguish of not knowing the fate of his missing son.
Zain quit his job as a police officer last year to start a rental car business with his friend but became frustrated and depressed when he wasn't making enough money for his family to live comfortably. In hindsight, Jafri said the promise of more money wasn't worth the risk. "I don't think people should go like this but they do it from compulsion. They take a big risk," she said. "My request is that no one should go like this."
In Noor Jamal, Aslam is mostly relying on social media for updates about his sons. Family members saw a post on Facebook claiming some of the boat's passengers were dropped off at a beach in Malta, and Qasim and Munir's names were on the list. Aslam is skeptical about the list and some of his relatives believe it was created by agents and smugglers to avoid responsibility for their possible deaths.
Aslam said the experience has made them even more wary of the journey by boat to Europe, which has stolen away his two sons. It's not likely anyone from his family will attempt the dunki again, he said. "Now we are afraid of the sea."
Betsy Joles is a journalist based in Pakistan. Follow her work on Twitter and Instagram.
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GEORGE WEST, Texas (AP) — A minivan trying to overtake a vehicle in a no-passing zone on a Texas highway crashed head-on into an SUV, which was then rear-ended by another vehicle, authorities said. Six people died and five others were injured.
The crash happened around 6:20 p.m. Friday near George West, about 60 miles (100 kilometers) northwest of Corpus Christi, said Sgt. Guadalupe Casarez of the Texas Department of Public Safety.
“It was a pretty drastic scene,” Casarez said.
The crash remained under investigation Monday, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety. But the department said in a news release that a minivan traveling south on U.S. Highway 59 tried to pass in a no-passing zone and crashed head-on into the northbound SUV. A sedan then slammed into the back of the SUV.
The vehicle that was being passed was not hit in the crash, Casarez said.
The driver of the minivan, Xochitl Veronica Lopez, 39, of Houston, died at the scene, along with a juvenile passenger in the minivan, the department said.
The driver of the SUV, Salvador Almeda Mendoza, 47, of Ganado, Texas, was also killed, along with two passengers, Ilda Briones Nieves, 58, and Honorio Lazo Navarro, 74, both of Ganado.
The sixth person killed was a passenger in the sedan whose name has not been released.
Five other people were taken to a hospital with “non-incapacitating injuries,” the public safety department said.
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Pick 10" game were:
06-07-12-13-16-18-23-27-33-34-37-39-44-47-54-58-61-65-70-77
(six, seven, twelve, thirteen, sixteen, eighteen, twenty-three, twenty-seven, thirty-three, thirty-four, thirty-seven, thirty-nine, forty-four, forty-seven, fifty-four, fifty-eight, sixty-one, sixty-five, seventy, seventy-seven) | https://www.seattlepi.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-10-game-17461038.php | 2022-09-23 02:16:45 | 1 | https://www.seattlepi.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-10-game-17461038.php |
Teen suffers medical emergency, dies days before graduation
HONOLULU (KHNL/Gray News) - A 17-year-old high school student has died after suffering a medical emergency during a swimming meet over the weekend.
KHNL reports that first responders were called on Saturday to a community swimming event.
Emergency medical workers said they transported a 17-year-old, later identified as Tehani Kealoha, to the hospital after she suffered a medical emergency, but she later died.
Kealoha’s friends shared that she was a Moanalua High School senior who was looking forward to graduating this week.
The 17-year-old was reportedly scheduled to participate in a water polo match that Saturday, but that match was postponed due to her sudden death.
“The game was canceled when they found out the news. Everyone was affected by it and couldn’t play,” Kyan Shigekane, a high school sophomore, said.
The postponed match ended up being played on Monday. Kealoha’s fellow swimmers came out to support those competing in the girls’ state high school water polo championship.
Kealoha was part of the Kamehameha Swim Club with her team winning Monday’s match.
Her cause of death remains pending, according to the medical examiner.
The principal at Moanalua High School said Kealoha’s death has “deeply affected the school community, especially with graduation approaching.”
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Ratcheting up his criticism of the Biden administration, Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin on Wednesday moved to delay new tax credits for electric vehicles, a key feature of President Joe Biden's landmark climate law.
Manchin said guidelines issued by the Treasury Department allow manufacturers in Europe and other countries to bypass requirements that significant portions of EV batteries be produced in North America.
The climate law, officially known as the Inflation Reduction Act, "is first and foremost an energy security bill," Manchin said, adding that "the EV tax credits were designed to grow domestic manufacturing and reduce our reliance on foreign supply chains for the critical minerals needed to produce EV batteries.''
Manchin’s bill comes as Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm and White House climate adviser Ali Zaidi are set to attend the Washington, D.C., Auto Show on Wednesday to highlight the Biden administration’s efforts to boost EVs and related infrastructure.
Tax credits of up to $7,500 per vehicle are intended to spur EV sales and domestic production of vehicles and batteries while reducing planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions. European and Asian allies, including French President Emmanuel Macron, have criticized the rules as unfair to foreign manufacturers.
While Macron applauded Biden's efforts to curb climate change, he said during a visit to Washington that subsidies in the new law could be an enormous setback for European companies.
Biden acknowledged "glitches" in the legislation but said "there's tweaks we can make" to satisfy allies.
Manchin's bill follows a decision by the Treasury Department to delay rules on battery contents and minerals until March, while allowing the rest of the program to be implemented on Jan. 1. The Manchin bill directs the Treasury to stop issuing tax credits for vehicles that don’t comply with battery requirements.
“The United States is the birthplace of Henry Ford, who revolutionized the automotive industry,'' Manchin said, calling it "shameful that we rely so heavily on foreign suppliers, particularly China, for the batteries that power our electric vehicles.''
EV sales have tripled since Biden, a Democrat, took office two years ago, the Energy Department said, and there are now more than 2 million EVs and 100,000 chargers on U.S. roadways. The climate law, along with the 2021 infrastructure law and other changes, "are mobilizing public and private sector investments to reinvigorate domestic manufacturing, expand electric vehicle charging and lower transportation costs for American consumers,'' the department said in a statement.
Manchin, chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, was a crucial vote in passing the climate law, which was adopted without support from any Republican. He has said exemptions approved by the Treasury — including one that allows tax credits for EVs purchased for commercial use, such as leasing or ride-sharing, even if they are foreign-made — undermine the law’s intent to reduce U.S. dependence on foreign adversaries and create jobs in the United States.
It is unclear whether Manchin, of West Virginia, can generate support for his bill in the Democratic-controlled Senate, but during the midterm election campaign, Republicans criticized Biden and other Democrats for supporting electric vehicles, citing their relative high costs and batteries that are currently made in China.
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Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) called on House Republicans on Monday to lay out the spending cuts they’re proposing as part of a deal to raise the debt ceiling and decried what he called their strategy of “brinkmanship” and “hostage taking” to open negotiations.
Schumer said in remarks on the Senate floor that Democrats are prepared to “move quickly” and “well in advance of default” to raise the country’s borrowing authority, which is likely set to expire sometime in the first half of this year. Last week, the U.S. reached the $31.4 trillion ceiling, forcing the Treasury Department to resort to “extraordinary measures” to avoid a default.
“Unfortunately, House Republicans have kicked off their new majority by saying ‘yes’ to brinkmanship, ‘yes’ to hostage taking, ‘yes’ even to risking default, all because of draconian spending cuts being pushed by the hard right,” Schumer said. “House Republicans’ approach to the debt ceiling is dangerous, destabilizing, and the only thing it accomplishes is making a bipartisan solution less likely.”
“The new rules that they adopted require them to bring a proposal to the floor of the House and show the American people precisely what kind of cuts they want to make,” Schumer continued. “If Republicans are talking about draconian cuts, they have an obligation to show Americans what those cuts are and let the public react. … Does that mean cuts to Social Security or Medicare or child care or Pell Grants?”
The Democratic leader repeatedly noted that the ramifications stemming from a default are “not some esoteric issue that’s abstract and way up there in the clouds.”
The comments come days after President Biden indicated he plans to meet with Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) to discuss raising the debt ceiling. The White House, however, said later that day he will not entertain policy changes such as spending cuts as part of any negotiation.
McCarthy and conservative Republicans are expected to push for cuts to Social Security and Medicare in any deal, and some national defense spending could also be on the chopping block.
The Treasury Department has yet to lay out an “X date” that the ceiling needs to be lifted by to avoid default. As Schumer noted, Republicans voted to raise the debt ceiling on three occasions during former President Trump’s tenure, including when Democrats were in the minority in both chambers.
“Of course we could have done what MAGA Republicans want: threatening to block debt ceiling extensions unless we got our way,” Schumer said. “This time should be no different.” | https://www.wfla.com/hill-politics/schumer-calls-on-house-gop-to-unveil-proposed-spending-cuts-in-debt-ceiling-negotiations/ | 2023-01-23 23:32:47 | 1 | https://www.wfla.com/hill-politics/schumer-calls-on-house-gop-to-unveil-proposed-spending-cuts-in-debt-ceiling-negotiations/ |
TAMPA, Fla. — A low-pressure system in the Gulf is going to bring rain to the state over the next few days.
While it isn't likely to form into a named system or storm, it serves as a good reminder — hurricane season is here.
HURRICANE RESOURCES
The National Hurricane Center has formation chances for the system at 10% over the next 48 hours and 20% over the next seven days.
ABC Action News Meteorologist Greg Dee said the system could be a rainmaker for the Tampa Bay area, which would be beneficial as much of our area is in a rain deficit.
The system will increase rain chances Wednesday and Thursday; it could also increase rain chances over the weekend, depending on how it develops.
Hurricane season officially starts on Thursday, June 1. The state's disaster preparedness sales tax holiday is currently underway, so you can prepare for the storm season now. | https://www.abcactionnews.com/weather/hurricane/low-pressure-system-in-gulf-with-low-formation-chances-will-bring-rain-to-florida | 2023-05-31 09:56:42 | 0 | https://www.abcactionnews.com/weather/hurricane/low-pressure-system-in-gulf-with-low-formation-chances-will-bring-rain-to-florida |
Sherwan Qasem, a Syrian officer with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières, joins Here & Now‘s Deepa Fernandes to talk about recovery efforts and the personal impact of the deadly earthquake in Syria.
How to help earthquake victims:
- “Here’s how to help victims of the earthquake.”
- How to make sure your donation will do the most good for earthquake survivors
- Earthquakes in Turkey and Syria
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With a voice sounding like an aural doppelganger for Gwen Stefani, Jalena Hegemann of Milwaukee’s Bright-Eyed & Blind might at first be expected to ply her instrument second wave ska and other rhythmic pop styles. Instead, Hegemann’s band harkens back to hooky ‘80s-indebted hard rock on their sophomore album, AFTERTHEMATH.
Bright-Eyed & Blind's approach conjures the notion of an attitudinally rawer Pat Benatar with, perhaps, notes of Patty Smyth's power pop sensibility and the angular vocal phrasing of Missing Persons’ Dale Bozzio. Where that leaves Hegemann and her mates in a commercial rock radio soundscape, it's tough to tell. Their sounds could spark nostalgia among many listeners with songs that doesn't seek to make a carbon copy of any particular artist or era. | https://shepherdexpress.com/music/album-reviews/aftermath-by-bright-eyed-blind/ | 2023-01-05 23:39:48 | 0 | https://shepherdexpress.com/music/album-reviews/aftermath-by-bright-eyed-blind/ |
Ky. minister falls into pond while officiating wedding
CASEY COUNTY, Ky. (WKYT) - A southern Kentucky minister took a fall during a wedding on Saturday. It’s the plunge that is getting a lot of attention on social media.
Jason Coulter had carefully planned what he was going to say at Josh and Whitney Carmicle’s outdoor Casey County wedding.
“All at once a gust of wind takes my notes to the pond,” Coulter said.
As the bride was being escorted down to the dock—and all eyes were on her— Coulter tried to quickly retrieve the notes by reaching down, only to fall into the water himself!
“And no one will even know I’m gone. Until I lean over the rail on the bottom, whatever reason I flip off into the water,” Coulter said.
The video of the fall has gotten a lot of attention on social media, as it’s been viewed thousands of times. Coulter says he wasn’t hurt, nor was his pride. He’s just glad he was able to make the service more memorable for the bride and groom.
The bride even said the fall helped break the ice—or the water—during a very nervous moment.
“I think everybody kind of looks to something special at wedding occasions. At the time it was chaotic, but after it was over, this is a good thing,” Coulter said.
Wet notes in hand, Coulter was able to successfully finish the service. Since then, it’s received a lot of attention.
“I’m excited about it. I love all the comments, the emails, the messages, had a church say, ‘hey we are playing this Sunday morning for our congregation,’” Coulter said.
The woman who videotaped the fall said she at first wasn’t going to take the service, but she’s now very glad she did.
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KPMG will host innovative client experiences in this newly-renovated, high-tech, business arena suite – open all day and extending into Monumental Sports' evening programing of professional sports games and concerts and events
WASHINGTON, June 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Monumental Sports & Entertainment (MSE) and KPMG LLP announced the opening of a transformed, existing arena suite as the newest KPMG Ignition Center, located at MSE's Capital One Arena in Washington D.C. The renovated suite is equipped with the latest technology and will serve as a meeting place for KPMG and its clients to collaborate and solve business problems together, 365-days-a-year, at any time of the day, regardless of the evening game scheduling of the NHL's Washington Capitals, the NBA's Washington Wizards or other live concert or event. When a game, concert or event is hosted in the arena, KPMG will also be able to offer traditional live-event hospitality to their clients as part of an innovative customer experience.
"When KPMG and the senior executives at Monumental Sports came together on this idea, I thought it was brilliant,'" said Ted Leonsis, Founder, Chairman & CEO of Monumental Sports & Entertainment. "Taking a suite normally used to host clients to watch Capitals and Wizards games and innovate within it – bringing customers into an environment that's unexpected and creating a destination to engage people to think differently – is such a big idea. This reinforces the notion that arenas play a central part in the business community's ecosystem — and that we are now creating a new real estate category of shared workspace— turning suites normally used a few hours per game day into workspace, all day and year-round. I believe the shared space will be seen as a very economical investment given the dual benefits of suite usage for entertaining at games and then office space for meetings, working and demo centers for the benefit of customers. This reimagining of suite space is another innovation our team is bringing to our community of business partners. So, I congratulate the leaders at KPMG for being a first mover and an exemplar in finding new uses for the convening operation we have built, and I'm sure others will soon join them."
Seeking to address a business need for KPMG to engage in-person with its clients in an innovative and unique setting and MSE's pursuit of developing additional daypart uses for an otherwise dormant arena, KPMG and MSE senior leaders collaborated to reimagine the existing suite as a hub which capitalizes on the pioneering culture of both organizations. Capital One Arena is filled with premium space that can now be used not only to provide a one-of-a-kind experience for entertaining, but also creates new opportunities for professional service use of the arena during the day. Whereas arena or stadium suites are typically used by sponsors for event-based, social gatherings during sports games and concerts, KPMG Ignition – DC, located within Capital One Arena, represents the most experiential Ignition Center yet.
This 28-person mega-suite can be transformed to meet clients' needs. From its walls to its furniture, the suite's modular and movable functionality creates a unique room design for each business session.
The suite is fully equipped with cutting edge technology. The central video wall displays stories and demonstrations to facilitate discussions. Interactive screen displays are scattered throughout the room, along with high-resolution monitors on the ceiling and at the entryway that showcase relevant visuals during meetings. Plus, video streaming enables people to join sessions from anywhere in the world.
KPMG Ignition Centers have assisted a myriad of businesses across multiple industries by curating experiences using a combination of talent, environment, assets, and methods tailored to help their clients reframe complex problems into future opportunities, and drive value from innovation. And driving value from innovation is a core value which Monumental Sports & Entertainment infuses throughout its platform of professional sports teams, venues, and direct-to-consumer media enterprises.
"This is the first partnership of its kind – an innovation space in a sports and entertainment facility – and a forward-thinking blueprint for arena suites of the future. Innovation can happen anywhere, anytime. KPMG Ignition – DC will provide an opportunity to engage with clients in a collaborative environment outside of their traditional office spaces to lean into disruption and uncover opportunities to create value," Tim Gillis, KPMG Washington DC area Office Managing Partner, said. "The KPMG brand is synonymous with disruptive transformation and innovation. This partnership with Monumental Sports & Entertainment is a representation of how we are transforming our own business and how we bring that same approach – and our ever-evolving capabilities – to help organizations in the DC area do the same."
With KPMG Ignition – DC, located within a 900-square-feet suite on the second level concourse at Capital One Arena, the two organizations will combine a high-energy atmosphere, unique, immersive fan experiences, and extraordinary hospitality to create a one-of-a-kind environment that sparks creativity and the next big ideas in both established and emerging industries.
Washington, D.C. is a global destination for business and tech investment and Monumental Sports & Entertainment's teams, venues and other managed properties serve as convening platforms for the world's most innovative thought leaders. Capital One Arena hosts over 220+ events per year, ranging from professional to collegiate sports, major music and entertainment acts and in-demand family shows, appealing to multiple audiences on any given day of the week.
KPMG currently has Ignition Centers in Atlanta, Chicago, Denver, New York, and KPMG Lakehouse in Lake Nona, Florida, and others around the world. For more information: https://www.kpmg.us/growth-strategy/ignition.html
Monumental Sports & Entertainment is America's leading sports and entertainment family. Our people, players, teams, and events bring excitement and joy to millions. We invest and innovate to consistently raise the game so we can deliver extraordinary experiences that will inspire and unite our community, our fans, and our people. To learn more, please visit www.monumentalsports.com.
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4 siblings among dead in Kentucky flooding
(CNN) - Rescue workers in Kentucky are still trying to find missing people as the death toll continues to rise from catastrophic flooding.
Monday morning, it was up to 30. Four of them are siblings, just 8, 5, 4 and 2 years old.
Their parents, identified as Amber Smith and Riley Noble, got the flash flood warning early Thursday morning in Knott County and got the kids out of their trailer, eventually watching it float off as they clung to a nearby tree.
But the water was too strong, and all four kids were dragged away.
The children were identified to CNN by family members as Chance, 2, Nevaeh, 4, Riley Jr., 6, and Madison, 8.
Their parents hung on to the tree for hours before being rescued, only to find out all four of their kids had drowned. Their children’s bodies were found the next day.
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said he believes recovery crews are “going to be finding bodies for weeks, many of them swept hundreds of yards, maybe a quarter-mile plus from where they were last.”
And more rain is expected overnight Monday into Tuesday morning.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Vegas Golden Knights defenseman Alex Pietrangelo returned to practice Saturday morning after a nine-game absence he took when his 4-year-old daughter became seriously ill.
Pietrangelo said he felt comfortable that his daughter, Evelyn, was progressing well enough that he could return in time for Saturday night’s home game against the New York Islanders.
He said Evelyn came down with the flu over Thanksgiving and then developed encephalitis, which created a lesion on her brain. That caused her to lose her motor skills, including not being able to open her eyes for the first five days.
He said they “tried a course of treatment” that a week later eliminated the brain lesion.
“I don’t want to say a surprise, but that progressed a lot quicker than I guess the original diagnosis,” Pietrangelo said. “They can’t really give you a timetable when your precious little girl is going to get better. It’s pretty scary for Mom and Dad, so I said I wouldn’t go back to work until I feel comfortable with where she is at home.”
Pietrangelo said his daughter returned home Wednesday from a Las Vegas hospital, and the next morning said she wanted to walk.
“We were thinking this could be months down the road,” Pietrangelo said. “(Friday), she just kept walking and walking in circles for a full day. God answered our prayers. It’s a miracle how much she’s come along in the last 48 hours.”
He said Evelyn still faces months of rehabilitation.
His return to the Knights comes as the club is dealing with a series of injuries to their blue line. Pietrangelo is second to Shea Theodore, who is out with a lower-body injury, among Vegas defenseman with 21 points. Theodore has 22 points.
“It’s good for Alex to get back into the group and the mix,” Knights coach Bruce Cassidy said. “You have to take care of your family first. They’re in a better place than they were a few weeks ago, so good for everybody involved and for him to get back out there.”
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ODESSA, Texas (KMID/KPEJ) – Drivers in the Lone Star State are finally seeing some relief at the pump.
AAA Texas says the statewide average for a gallon of regular gas is now $3.95, and some West Texas gas stations are beating that average.
And while the record-breaking inflation doesn’t seem to be going anywhere anytime soon, the pain at the pump has gotten a little bit less painful, and Odessa drivers have some thoughts on that.
“It’s great to see gas prices come down, and with everything else going up, it helps. It really does,” said Odessa driver Edward Gallegos.
“I’ll take any penny and discounts that we can get, but it’s like putting lipstick on a pig,” said West Texas driver Kathy Zapata.
“It is cheaper for me but it’s still kind of expensive. It used to be like $2 a gallon, and that was a lot cheaper,” said Odessa driver April Saucedo.
AAA Texas says on average Texas gas prices have gone down 19¢ in the last week but are stil $1.12 more per gallon than this time last year.
The national average for a gallon of regular unleaded gas is $4.44, and AAA Texas says Lone Star State drivers are paying the lowest average gas price in the country. AAA Texas also says there are many reasons for the current gas price dip, but that an unstable market seems to be the main cause. | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/odessa-drivers-talk-about-falling-gas-prices/ | 2022-07-22 01:50:59 | 0 | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/odessa-drivers-talk-about-falling-gas-prices/ |
From Staff Reports
MAPLETON — Peninsula Township could make changes to its farm processing ordinances.
Township trustees will meet Tuesday to consider the possible changes, meeting documents show.
Among numerous changes, it would tighten requirements for what these businesses could process and sell.
They’ll meet at 7 p.m. in the township hall, 13235 Center Road, and the meeting will be streamed online at https://is.gd/PeninsulaTwpYoutube.
It comes amid a two-year legal battle over how the township regulates wineries, including some classified as farm processors.
The proposed changes generated outcry among several dozen peninsula farm owners who signed a letter passed to the Record-Eagle urging trustees to reject the amendment. | https://www.record-eagle.com/news/local_news/peninsula-could-change-farm-processing-ordinance/article_b0d942a2-7a95-11ed-8e4d-7f0809203984.html | 2022-12-13 06:51:23 | 0 | https://www.record-eagle.com/news/local_news/peninsula-could-change-farm-processing-ordinance/article_b0d942a2-7a95-11ed-8e4d-7f0809203984.html |
Salmonella in ground beef sickens 16, hospitalizing 6, in 4 states, CDC says
(AP) - Ground beef contaminated with salmonella has sickened at least 16 people, including six hospitalized, in four Northeastern states, federal health officials said Tuesday.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said illnesses have been reported in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Massachusetts. Ground beef is the only common food reported in the outbreak. People who recalled what they ate and where they bought it reported eating 80% lean ground beef purchased from ShopRite stores in Connecticut, New Jersey and New York. No recall has been issued, and an investigation is continuing, the agency said.
The true number of people sickened is likely much higher than the number reported, and the outbreak may not be limited to states with known illnesses. Many people who become ill recover without medical care and are not tested for salmonella poisoning. Symptoms of salmonella infection include fever, diarrhea, bloody diarrhea, vomiting and dehydration.
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Pirates second. Carlos Santana doubles to deep right center field. Ke'Bryan Hayes doubles to deep center field. Carlos Santana scores. Tucupita Marcano flies out to center field to Dominic Fletcher. Ji Hwan Bae grounds out to shallow infield, Zac Gallen to Christian Walker. Ke'Bryan Hayes to third. Josh Palacios walks. Austin Hedges grounds out to shallow center field, Geraldo Perdomo to Christian Walker.
1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 2 left on. Pirates 1, Diamondbacks 0.
Diamondbacks third. Dominic Fletcher called out on strikes. Geraldo Perdomo homers to center field. Josh Rojas grounds out to first base, Carlos Santana to Johan Oviedo. Ketel Marte walks. Corbin Carroll strikes out swinging.
1 run, 1 hit, 0 errors, 1 left on. Diamondbacks 1, Pirates 1.
Pirates fourth. Ke'Bryan Hayes flies out to deep center field to Dominic Fletcher. Tucupita Marcano walks. Ji Hwan Bae doubles to deep center field. Tucupita Marcano to third. Josh Palacios singles to left center field. Ji Hwan Bae scores. Tucupita Marcano scores. Austin Hedges reaches on a fielder's choice to shortstop. Josh Palacios to second. Fielding error by Josh Rojas. Andrew McCutchen walks. Austin Hedges to second. Josh Palacios to third. Bryan Reynolds walks. Andrew McCutchen to second. Austin Hedges to third. Josh Palacios scores. Jack Suwinski doubles to deep right field. Bryan Reynolds to third. Andrew McCutchen scores. Austin Hedges scores. Carlos Santana strikes out on a foul tip. Ke'Bryan Hayes singles to center field. Jack Suwinski scores. Bryan Reynolds scores. Tucupita Marcano lines out to second base to Ketel Marte.
7 runs, 4 hits, 1 error, 1 left on. Pirates 8, Diamondbacks 1.
Pirates fifth. Ji Hwan Bae singles to first base. Josh Palacios strikes out swinging. Austin Hedges pops out to second base to Ketel Marte. Andrew McCutchen singles to right field. Ji Hwan Bae to third. Bryan Reynolds homers to center field. Andrew McCutchen scores. Ji Hwan Bae scores. Jack Suwinski singles to right field. Carlos Santana called out on strikes.
3 runs, 4 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Pirates 11, Diamondbacks 1.
Diamondbacks seventh. Gabriel Moreno walks. Dominic Fletcher walks. Gabriel Moreno to second. Geraldo Perdomo pops out to shortstop to Tucupita Marcano. Dominic Fletcher to second. Gabriel Moreno to third. Josh Rojas doubles to deep right field. Dominic Fletcher scores. Gabriel Moreno scores. Ketel Marte grounds out to second base, Ji Hwan Bae to Carlos Santana. Josh Rojas to third. Corbin Carroll hit by pitch. Emmanuel Rivera strikes out swinging.
2 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 2 left on. Pirates 11, Diamondbacks 3.
Pirates eighth. Ke'Bryan Hayes doubles to deep left center field. Tucupita Marcano singles to right field. Ke'Bryan Hayes to third. Ji Hwan Bae singles to shallow center field. Tucupita Marcano to third. Ke'Bryan Hayes scores. Josh Palacios singles to deep right field. Ji Hwan Bae to second. Tucupita Marcano scores. Austin Hedges lines out to deep left field to Lourdes Gurriel Jr.. Rodolfo Castro pinch-hitting for Andrew McCutchen. Rodolfo Castro pops out to shallow right field to Geraldo Perdomo. Connor Joe flies out to shallow center field to Dominic Fletcher.
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Sheriff reports murder-suicide in Copiah County
Published: Nov. 16, 2022 at 10:58 AM CST|Updated: 32 minutes ago
COPIAH COUNTY, Miss. (WLBT) - Two people are dead following an apparent murder-suicide in Copiah County.
The incident occurred Sunday morning at 1181 Hopewell Rd., according to Sheriff Byron Swilley.
Terry Taylor, 47, and Chrstina Taylor, 44, have been identified as the two that are deceased.
Swilley told WLBT the investigation was still ongoing and would not say who was the suspected shooter.
He did say that the two were in the middle of a separation, and believes that could be the motive.
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NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – The Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office announced it raised more than $4,600 for New Mexicans battling cancer. This was part of the annual “No Shave November” fundraising drive.
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AUGUSTA, Ga. (WJBF) — Augusta National Golf Club announced Monday that it will host Road to the Masters Invitational on Sunday, April 2, the eve of the first official practice round of the 87th Masters Tournament.
Celebrity participants will assemble to compete in the soon-to-be-released EA SPORTS PGA TOUR: Road to the Masters video game. The event will follow the conclusion of the Drive, Chip and Putt National Finals.
Four teams of two will play in an alternate-shot format on EA SPORTS PGA TOUR: Road to the Masters. Following nine holes, the top two teams will advance to a three-hole, alternate-shot final round at Amen Corner, hole Nos. 11-13 at Augusta National Golf Club.
Celebrity participants will come from the world of sports, entertainment, gaming, and social media and will convene in Augusta National’s Press Building in front of a live audience. The list of those participating will be announced at a later date. A crew of four broadcasters will deliver commentary throughout the event. Rich Lerner of Golf Channel will serve as the host, while Amanda Renner of CBS and ESPN’s Michael Collins and Marty Smith will provide live analysis.
Road to the Masters Invitational will stream live on Sunday, April 2 from 6:00 p.m. to approximately 8:00 p.m. EDT across the following platforms and channels: Masters.com; @TheMasters on Twitter, YouTube and Facebook; @EA on Twitch; @EASPORTSPGATOUR on Twitter, Instagram and YouTube; @EASPORTS on Facebook; ESPN+; and the ESPN app. An edited version of the show will be broadcast on Wednesday, April 5 at 7:00 p.m. EDT on ESPN2.
Road to the Masters Invitational is a private event and tickets are not on sale. The audience will be through invitation only and include the Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Augusta and the First Tee of Augusta. Expected guests also include the winners of the 2023 Drive, Chip and Putt National Finals, 2022 Asia-Pacific Amateur champion Harrison Crowe, 2023 Latin America Amateur champion Mateo Fernandez de Oliveira, and competitors from the 2023 Augusta National Women’s Amateur.
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Full transcript of “Face the Nation” on Oct. 9, 2022
▶ Watch Video: 10/9: Hobbs, D’Agata, MacFarlane
On this “Face the Nation” broadcast moderated by Major Garrett:
- Anthony Salvanto, CBS News director of election and surveys
- Kari Lake, Republican gubernatorial candidate in Arizona
- Kate Hobbs, Democratic gubernatorial candidate in Arizona
- Peter Baker, Susan Glasser, Nikole Killion, Scott MacFarlane
- Mohamed El-Erian, Allianz Chief Economic Adviser
Click here to browse full transcripts of “Face the Nation.”
MAJOR GARRETT: I’m Major Garrett.
And this week on Face the Nation, we will dive into one of the most closely watched governor’s races in the country and examine problems facing America at home and abroad.
We have new CBS polls in Michigan, Wisconsin and Arizona. And, in back-to- back appearances, we will hear from Republican Kari Lake and Democrat Katie Hobbs, as they are running dead even to be Arizona’s next governor. Our political panel will track this unique Arizona event and the week’s news.
Then: Financial markets remain jumpy, and recession anxieties got more fuel after the OPEC cartel cut oil production. We will check in with top economist Mohamed El-Erian about the road ahead.
Finally, a key bridge linking the Crimean Peninsula with Russia is destroyed. Ukrainians celebrate, while Russia fumes. What are Vladimir Putin’s options? Could one be battlefield nuclear weapons? We will have a report from the region.
It’s all just ahead on Face the Nation.
Good morning. Welcome to Face the Nation. Margaret Brennan is off.
We have new CBS Battleground Tracker polls from several key states. In Michigan, Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer is leading her Republican challenger, Tudor Dixon, 53 percent to 47 percent.
In Wisconsin, we’re tracking two statewide races. The governor’s race between Democratic incumbent Tony Evers and his Republican challenger, businessman Tim Michels, is deadlocked, with both candidates at 50 percent. In the Senate race, incumbent Republican Senator Ron Johnson is polling at 50 percent against his Democratic rival, Mandela Barnes, who is at 49 percent.
We also learned last week in Arizona incumbent Democratic Senator Mark Kelly is narrowly ahead of his Republican challenger, Blake Masters, 51 percent to 48 percent.
Joining us now to discuss all of this is CBS News elections and surveys director Anthony Salvanto.
Anthony, good morning. Catch us up on the dynamics of these Senate races.
ANTHONY SALVANTO: Good morning, Major.
So, Wisconsin and Arizona are two Senate races out of, I think, five that will ultimately determine control the chamber. So, they’re both close for reasons that are across all of these races. And that is, it’s the economy against abortion, which is to say, Democrats are winning voters who are concerned about abortion.
That’s happening in Wisconsin. Mandela Barnes is getting almost three- quarters of those who say it’s very important. And then the economy. Republicans are winning voters who say the economy is most important, going to punish the party in power. And that’s the Democrats. He’s getting almost two-thirds of them.
Now, having said that, each party is sort of jockeying to try to add another set of issues to that list. And on the Republican side, one of those is crime. So, they’re running attack ads. They’re trying to tie Democrats to this unpopular position — and it is unpopular in Wisconsin — of defunding the police.
And when voters perceive, if they perceive that Barnes supports defunding the police — again, that’s their perception — then they aren’t voting for him. And he’s behind Johnson on the idea of, will your — will their policies keep you safe?
Now, Democrats, for their part, would like to add this issue of election integrity, threats to democracy after the attempts to overturn 2020.
MAJOR GARRETT: Under that banner of threats to democracy, some Republicans won their primaries by denying or questioning the 2020 election.
To what degree is that position either being embraced or backed away from or having an effect on the general elections they find themselves in now?
ANTHONY SALVANTO: Well, look, for Republicans, it was almost a litmus test in their primaries. And they’re still supporting their candidates regardless of their stance.
There’s a little bit of evidence that the position of trying to overturn 2020 hurts Republicans in this sense, if you look at independents who believe that Ron Johnson — again, their perception — was trying to overturn the election, they’re not voting for him.
And the way it also connects is on candidate qualities. Take a look at Arizona. A majority of people say that they’d prefer their elected officials say that Joe Biden won, which he did. Now, when you look at voters who say that they think that the candidates are — or a Republican candidate is talking about 2020, they’re more likely to label that candidate as extreme, as opposed to mainstream.
And that goes towards candidate qualities, where Democrats have tended to have an advantage. Those are the dynamics all at work here.
MAJOR GARRETT: Anthony Salvanto, thank you very much.
ANTHONY SALVANTO: Thank you.
MAJOR GARRETT: Now to the race for governor of Arizona.
Our latest poll shows Democrat Katie Hobbs and Republican Kari Lake tied at 49 percent. The two candidates have not scheduled a debate, but they are here to answer our questions. Each candidate will have about eight-and-a- half minutes.
We intend to cover the same issues with each candidate, issues identified by our own polling as of leading concern to Arizona voters. Our ability to cover this ground, of course, will be influenced in no small measure by the length of the candidates’ answers, first Republican Kari Lake, who joins us from Phoenix.
Good morning, and welcome to Face the Nation.
KARI LAKE (R-Arizona Gubernatorial Candidate): Good morning, Major. Thank you so much for having me on.
Just to clarify, I have agreed to any and all debates, and I will be taking part in one without my opponent next week, on the 12th. I would love it if she would show up, because I think there’s a lot of important issues that the people of Arizona need to hear about.
MAJOR GARRETT: We’ll get to that, I promise.
Your Web site is detailed and specific on the question of immigration and border security. You call, if elected as governor, for Arizona to join other states to form what you call a compact to carry out border security separate from the federal government, including arrest and detention.
For the benefit of Arizona voters, can you explain the legal and practical application of this approach?
KARI LAKE: Well, of course, if you know the Constitution, you know that Article 4, Section 4 calls for the federal government to protect us from invasion.
And under Joe Biden’s lack of leadership, we just aren’t seeing that. And we have an invasion at our border. The cartels, these narco terrorist groups have operational control. And they’re using Arizona to smuggle people, to traffic children, and to traffic the most dangerous drug we’ve ever seen, fentanyl.
And so we’re going to invoke our Article 1, Section 10, basically, authority to take care of our own border and protect our own border. It’s right there in black and white in the Constitution. And we meet all three criteria. We have an invasion, our people are in imminent danger, and time is of the essence. There’s no time for delay.
So we’re going to have other states offer help. I have already got a couple other governors who are willing to help out. And I know that if you ask people in other states that are not border states, they deem this crisis on the border as one of the top issues facing our country…
MAJOR GARRETT: Would Arizona…
KARI LAKE: … with so many young people dying of fentanyl poisoning right now.
MAJOR GARRETT: Would Arizona go it alone if it didn’t get this compact agreement with other states?
KARI LAKE: Yes, we will.
But I believe we will get help. I have already talked to some other governors. And they’re — they’re vowing to help us out wherever they can, because they realize that what comes into Arizona, fentanyl, people coming here illegally, children being trafficked, doesn’t stay in Arizona. It goes to all 50 states.
And I just spoke last week to a mother and father who lost their son. And it’s just tragic. We’re losing more people to fentanyl in Arizona since Joe Biden took office than we lost in 9/11 or during COVID.
MAJOR GARRETT: If, as there would likely be, federal challenges were presented, would you, as governor, await for those federal challenges to this state compact be resolved? And would you respect them if they were to any way impinge upon or restrict or nullify the state compact approach?
KARI LAKE: We will — we will challenge the federal government, if they’re going to challenge us. I think we have the right to do this.
And we will have attorneys file lawsuits as well. But we’re not going to back down and let our people be overrun with drugs, watch our children die. We had a 16-year-old die here in the metro area last week from a fentanyl overdose. We can’t keep having this happen. We’re losing our young generation.
So I hope that Joe Biden doesn’t fight us, because then it would really look like he is on the side of the cartels. And I don’t think he wants the people to think that.
MAJOR GARRETT: Your Web site also says that Washington D.C. incentivizes illegal immigration to satisfy — quote — “big business lust for cheap labor.”
Does that big business lust reside in Arizona at all?
KARI LAKE: I think it resides everywhere.
And we saw it with Nancy Pelosi last week. I mean, it was the most racist thing, I think, I have heard her say, although she’s said quite a few things that are offensive. She said these people coming in illegally should go pick fruit in the South. I mean, I couldn’t believe my ears, Major, when I heard that.
We want to make sure that our middle class and our working class are healthy. The Democrats used to care about our working class. And now they appear that they don’t. They want to see five million people come in. These five million people, where are they staying? They’re not staying on the streets.
It’s American citizens who are homeless. And they’re taking jobs from hardworking Arizonans. And we’re going to start putting Arizona first and protecting our citizens in this state.
MAJOR GARRETT: Nominee Lake, our polling shows that abortion is a very important issue to Arizona vote voters. You have been quoted as saying Arizona will be a state “where we will not be taking the lives of our unborn anymore.”
You’ve also more recently been quoted as saying that, in Arizona abortion, should be rare and legal. Are those statements consistent?
KARI LAKE: I — I was in an interview when I said that, and I was — I was telling the interviewer that, when abortion was first presented, they said it should be — it should be rare, safe and legal.
And now it’s become anything but rare. In Katie Hobbs’ world — and you can ask her about this — I understand she’s coming up next — they’re for abortion right up until birth. If you are in the hospital in labor, the abortionists are for giving you an abortion, if you desire one.
MAJOR GARRETT: What are you for?
KARI LAKE: We need to draw the line. We need to draw the line somewhere.
I am going to be the executive of the state, the chief executive officer, and I will follow the law. The law right now as it stands is Governor Ducey’s law at 15 weeks, so we’ll follow the law. Listen, I’m a woman.
MAJOR GARRETT: Would you seek to restrict abortions beyond — closer than 15 weeks?
KARI LAKE: May I finish?
MAJOR GARRETT: Sure.
KARI LAKE: I am — I’m a woman. I’m a mother. I’m all for women’s health care.
I come from a large family. Seven sisters, I have. Of course I want women’s health care. This has moved beyond health care. We’re not giving women choices. I’m for giving women true choices. And when they walk into an abortion center, they’re only given one choice.
And they’re not told that you have the choice to keep your baby, and we can help, and here’s how, or we can help you find a loving family who will adopt your baby. I want to give women true choices. I will uphold the law, whatever that law is.
And I want to see to it that we save more lives. Right now, the Democrats have started pushing so far from that rare but safe to anything goes, up to nine months of pregnancy, after birth. Katie Hobbs, my opponent, actually has voted for — and you look at her voting record — allowing a baby who survives an abortion, that the hospital would refuse medical care and allow the baby to die on a cold metal tray.
She voted for that.
MAJOR GARRETT: We will take that up with Katie Hobbs, I guarantee you.
This week, nominee Lake, a 64-year-old Iowa man was arrested and charged for threatening to lynch Maricopa County Supervisor Clint Hickman. In reaction, Hickman said: “people in positions of influence and leadership in Arizona are silent. How can you be silent?”
Do you have a reply from Mr. Hickman? And would you support and do you support federal and state prosecution of anyone who threatens the lives of an election worker?
KARI LAKE: I think that anyone who threatens anyone’s lives should be detained and questioned. I’m not for violence in any way.
And I should remind you that, during COVID, when a lot of Americans were faced with not being able to use their free speech to speak out against what was happening, they were losing their jobs, they were losing their businesses, they were being forced to get shots that they didn’t want, people were being bullied and — and attacked and also threatened during that time.
I think we need to get back to where we have free speech, and we shouldn’t be threatening people. And I hope that they arrest that man and detain him.
MAJOR GARRETT: Earlier this week, Blake Masters, as you know, Republican nominee for the Senate, said he has not seen evidence of vote-counting problems or election results that would have changed the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.
He also said President Biden is the legitimate president. Do you agree?
KARI LAKE: I think we have major problems in our election system. And we – – and it goes back to 2000.
We had Democrats saying the 2000 election wasn’t fair. They were complaining the 2004 election wasn’t fair. 2016, Kamala Harris spoke out and said that the electronic voting machines were hacked in front of her eyes. And nobody called them election deniers.
And now, all of a sudden, in 2020, Garrett, we don’t have free speech anymore. We can’t speak out against our own elections. All I’m asking for is the ability to speak out. When our government does something wrong, we should be able to speak out against it.
I think we have major…
MAJOR GARRETT: Do you agree with the statement that Blake Masters made?
KARI LAKE: I — I’m not going to take on what Blake said. I’m going to take on what I said.
And what I say is, we have problems in our election. They haven’t been solved in 2016. They weren’t solved in ’18. Just a month or two ago, during our primary election — and I’m sure your voters — your viewers don’t even know this — Katie Hobbs’ office advised the counties on how many ballots to print. This was two months ago.
MAJOR GARRETT: Right. Nominee Lake…
KARI LAKE: And they underprinted ballots in our biggest county, and they ran out of Republican-only ballots one hour into voting.
MAJOR GARRETT: Nominee Lake…
KARI LAKE: We have to restore honesty to our elections. We must restore honesty.
MAJOR GARRETT: In fairness — in fairness and in timing for both you and Katie Hobbs, we have to end it there. Thank you very much for being with us on Face the Nation.
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MAJOR GARRETT: Now to Katie Hobbs. She is the Democratic nominee for governor, and she’s also in Phoenix this morning.
Secretary Hobbs, good morning. Welcome to Face the Nation.
So, your opponent said you don’t want to debate. I would like to ask you, are there any conditions under which you would agree to debate Kari Lake, so the voters of Arizona could hear from the two of you side by side and in real time?
KATIE HOBBS (D-Arizona Secretary of State and Gubernatorial Candidate): Look, what I have been focused on is opportunities like this, where they can see us back to back, and hear directly from us about the issues that are important to Arizonans and how we would govern, without a circus like she created during the GOP Republican primary.
I have no desire to be a part of — of the spectacle that she’s looking to create, because that doesn’t do any service to the voters of Arizona to hear from us, where we stand on the issues and how we would govern.
MAJOR GARRETT: So, sometimes, voters learn things from moments of duress or challenge or circus. Don’t you think you’re strong enough to handle any kind of circus Kari Lake might present, if, in fact, she were to present one? Don’t the voters of Arizona deserve to see that real?
SECRETARY OF STATE KATIE HOBBS: I think the voters of Arizona have had a chance to see how I work under crisis throughout my leadership during the 2020 election as secretary of state, when we had to combat multiple election challenges from former President Trump and his band of election deniers, including my opponent, Kari Lake.
MAJOR GARRETT: So I want to ask you about immigration. We had a long conversation with Kari Lake about that.
Last night, you tweeted: “Arizona bears the brunt of the failures of US immigration policies.”
Now, by our count, that is your second tweet in a month about immigration. Who specifically is responsible for this failure? And why only now did you decide to share that sentiment with your Twitter followers?
SECRETARY OF STATE KATIE HOBBS: Oh, this is certainly not the first time that I have spoken out about immigration in this campaign.
We are a border state, and immigration as it is a very important issue to Arizona border — voters. And, as a border state, we have borne the brunt of decades of inaction in Washington from both parties to address both border security and comprehensive immigration reform.
And — and we need the federal government to step up. But what I want to be really clear about is that my opponent’s positions on this issue are nothing but empty rhetoric. She’s not offering real solutions. When she talked about invoking the constitutional authority of the state, she’s talking about declaring an invasion at our Southern border.
That would do absolutely nothing to increase border security, but it would bring untold levels of chaos into our state. It’s not a real solution. I have a border security plan that’s been endorsed by two border sheriffs because they know that it’s going to focus real solutions and bring meaningful relief and help them make their communities safer.
MAJOR GARRETT: As a practical matter, were Arizonans safer under immigration policies of the present administration or the one just before it?
SECRETARY OF STATE KATIE HOBBS: Look, we’ve had a — a pretty bad immigration policy for decades. We need to get comprehensive immigration reform done. And it’s — both parties in Congress have been dragging their feet to — to get this done.
MAJOR GARRETT: But, when you say there is a failure of current immigration policy, that’s a Biden administration failure, is it not, by definition?
SECRETARY OF STATE KATIE HOBBS: Look, Trump centered his whole immigration policy around finishing the wall. And. it’s not done.
And — but Biden does need to step up immigration and border security, absolutely. Arizona is bearing the brunt of — of illegal drug trafficking, gun trafficking and smuggling. And we do need more border security. It’s not going to get done by declaring an invasion at the border or dismantling the FBI, which is another thing that my opponent has called for.
MAJOR GARRETT: On the question of abortion, your opponent described you as something of an extremist. Those are her words, not ours.
SECRETARY OF STATE KATIE HOBBS: Yes.
MAJOR GARRETT: Do you support the current 15-week ban in Arizona? Or would you seek — seek a different approach? And is there a week limit different than 15 weeks you are in favor of? And, if so, why?
SECRETARY OF STATE KATIE HOBBS: I don’t support the 15-week ban.
But let me just say that Kari Lake is — is entirely misconstruing my position on this issue. You and I both know that late-term abortion is extremely rare. And if it’s being talked about, it’s because something has gone incredibly wrong in a pregnancy.
A doctor’s not going to perform an abortion late in a pregnancy just because somebody decided they want one. That is ridiculous. And she’s saying this to distract from her incredibly extreme position, which has — she’s gone on the record saying she supports Arizona’s complete abortion ban that would — that is in the courts right now being decided if that will be the law of Arizona or not.
She’s called it a great law. She’s called people who seek abortion murderers and executioners. And under a Kari Lake administration, we would have government-mandated forced births that risk women’s lives.
And her position is the one that — that’s extreme. It’s out of touch where — with where the majority of Arizonans are, who support access to safe and legal abortion. And, under her administration, women would not be safe.
MAJOR GARRETT: What would the Hobbs administration’s week limit be for abortion access? If it’s not 15 weeks, what is it?
SECRETARY OF STATE KATIE HOBBS: Look, abortion is a very personal decision that belongs between a woman and her doctor.
The government and politicians don’t belong in that decision. We need to let doctors perform the care that they are trained and take an oath to — to perform.
MAJOR GARRETT: So, if an Arizona voter were to conclude from your previous answer that you do not favor any specific week limit on abortion, would they be correct?
SECRETARY OF STATE KATIE HOBBS: I support leaving the decision between a woman and her doctor and leaving politicians entirely out of it.
MAJOR GARRETT: Our polling also indicates that the economy is very important to Arizona voters. And, on that issue, both the economy generally, inflation specifically, according to our data, you trail your opponent.
What is your approach to inflation and the economy in Arizona? And why is yours superior to that of your opponent?
SECRETARY OF STATE KATIE HOBBS: Well, first, let me say, I’m the only candidate in this race who is not a millionaire.
My husband and I raised our kids through financial ups and downs. And I know the struggle that a lot of Arizonans are feeling right now, having to stretch to put food on the table, thinking about taking a second job, or not being able to pay the mortgage.
And so we have a comprehensive plan to address the rising costs that Arizonans are facing right now that will put money back in their pockets. We cut taxes on all kinds of everyday items like over-the-counter medication, school supplies, diapers, feminine hygiene products. We provide a child — a state-level child tax credit and tax credits for people who want to go back to work in higher-paying jobs to get career and technical education.
Economists have looked at my affordability plan next to Kari Lake’s plan, and they said that my plan does put people back to work and — and help them fight inflation and that Kari Lake’s plan actually will make inflation worse.
MAJOR GARRETT: Do you identify yourself with the Biden economic administration — economic plans and inflation-fighting plans?
And, if so, would you advise the president to campaign along your side in Arizona?
SECRETARY OF STATE KATIE HOBBS: I’m focused on the race here in Arizona and the needs of Arizonans. It’s a race between myself and Kari Lake and — and the — the ideas that we’re bringing to the table.
MAJOR GARRETT: And one — one more time before we let you go, because I think it is on the mind of Arizona voters, are you saying this morning that there is no circumstance that you can envision or would even try to negotiate in which you and Kari Lake would appear at a debate together before the election?
SECRETARY OF STATE KATIE HOBBS: At this point in the race, with 30 days to go, our schedule in terms of — of forums is pretty much set. And — and I’m really happy with where we are in the plans we have to continue talking directly to the voters of Arizona.
MAJOR GARRETT: Katie Hobbs, secretary of state of Arizona, Democratic nominee for governor, thank you very much.
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More than 21 months after the attack on the U.S. Capitol, a trial against defendants charged with seditious conspiracy began here in Washington. New disclosures were presented to jurors in what prosecutors call one of the most important cases seeking accountability.
CBS News congressional correspondent Scott MacFarlane has more.
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SCOTT MACFARLANE (voice-over): A crime unlike any in the nation’s history has led to a criminal trial unlike any in history.
Stewart Rhodes, military vet, Yale Law grad and former congressional staffer, is founder of the far right Oath Keepers group. Along with four co-defendants, he’s standing trial for seditious conspiracy, accused of plotting to attack and block the peaceful transfer of power in America, and facing decades in prison if convicted.
Former Justice Department attorney Michael Greenberger says, no matter the outcome of the six-week-long trial, history will be made.
MICHAEL GREENBERGER (Former Justice Department Attorney): This case is the most important seditious conspiracy case that was ever brought.
SCOTT MACFARLANE: In the trial’s opening days, prosecutors argued the group was plotting just days after the election. Jurors heard a clip of Rhodes from November 9, 2020, urging his group to be ready to fight to create a pathway to keep Trump in power. STEWART RHODES (Founder and Leader, Oath Keepers): I’m willing to sacrifice myself for that. Let the fight start there, OK? That would give President Trump what he needs, frankly.
SCOTT MACFARLANE: Prosecutors showed an open letter written by Rhodes to then-President Trump encouraging Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act, to mobilize military veterans and militias, and order a new election the militia would help administer.
They played this interview clip of Rhodes for jurors:
STEWART RHODES: We have men already stationed outside D.C. as a nuclear option.
SCOTT MACFARLANE: Prosecutors argued the conspirators shared messages referencing civil war and predicting blood and violence, and they said the group staged guns outside the D.C. limits and helped the execution of a military stack formation to breach the Capitol.
For the Justice Department, which has gone to trial against approximately 20 January 6 defendants so far and won convictions in every case before a jury, the stakes here are higher. The Justice Department has limited experience going to trial on the charge of seditious conspiracy, but Greenberger says the trial itself could help avert a future attack.
MICHAEL GREENBERGER: Bringing the trial shows all these people out there who think, oh, I will go to Washington, I will have a good time, it’ll be fun, we will break into the Capitol, no, you’re going to end up, win or lose, convicted or not convicted, devoting a large part of your life and your fortune to defending yourself.
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SCOTT MACFARLANE: The trial resumes Tuesday, and the jurors ought to get comfortable. This could last all the way up to Thanksgiving. Six to seven weeks is the estimate.
MAJOR GARRETT: Speaking of getting comfortable, we have a nice, big, full table here at Face the Nation.
I want to welcome everyone. CBS News congressional correspondent Nikole Killion joins Scott MacFarlane. Also, we have “New York Times” chief White House correspondent Peter Baker and “New Yorker” staff writer Susan Glasser.
Susan and Peter, I want to also let you know, are co-authors of a new book on the Trump presidency called “The Divider.”
It’s great to have you all with us.
Susan and Peter, I want to start with you.
To what degree did what you just saw with Kari Lake, who many in the Trump world regard as a fast — fast-rising star, reinforce what you write about in “The Divider”?
SUSAN GLASSER (Co-Author, “The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017- 2021): Well, thank you very much, Major.
I was really struck in your interview with her that the Trumpist style in American politics, a la the famous paranoid style in American politics, seems to be with us whether or not Trump himself is literally on the ballot.
I think that Kari Lake is an example. First of all, she was rerunning a Trump play from the 2018 midterm elections, which did not work, by the way, in which he falsely claimed that there was an invasion at the Southern border and actually sent real U.S. military troops to defeat this fake invasion.
You have her and other candidates now using this language of invasion. I think we should point out, as a matter of fact, that we are not actually experiencing an invasion, number one.
Number two, you just — you have brazenness, I think, as a superpower. And so you have — for Donald Trump, right, he’s willing to go anywhere, to say anything. And one thing he’s found is that millions will follow him, for example, in the election lies about 2020.
Interestingly, in your interview, she did not — she was not willing to actually come out and say that Joe Biden was not the legitimate…
MAJOR GARRETT: What Blake Masters said…
SUSAN GLASSER: Absolutely, even…
MAJOR GARRETT: … running for the Senate as a Republican in Arizona.
SUSAN GLASSER: Even though they have all sought Trump’s endorsement on the basis that they endorse his false claims. Very interesting.
Does that mean that they can’t quite fully imitate Donald Trump?
MAJOR GARRETT: Peter, and yet — I think it’s important to put the “and yet” — Kari Lake is running neck and neck in Arizona. Donald Trump got millions more votes when he ran for reelection in 2020 than 2016.
What does that tell you?
PETER BAKER (Co-Author, “The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017- 2021”): Yes.
Well, we call the book “The Divider” not because Trump created the divisions in our society, but he managed to — he manifested them. He’s the manifestation of them, and he figured out how to exploit them politically.
And what we’re now seeing is whether he can — he can — his inheritors, if you will, can then translate that same style, that same technique and approach on the state level in places like Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin, and so forth.
And the answer right now is, they have a real strong support. It’s a very evenly divided country. When you see these battleground states at 50/50, it tells you that the Trump part of the country is not just a minority. It is a significant part of America and what — we have to confront that one way or the other, and rather — and it can’t be dismissed.
This is something that’s going to outlast Trump himself.
MAJOR GARRETT: Do you think that voters drawn to it are wrong to be drawn to it, or that that is an acceptable alternative in American politics, and that there is something Democrats are missing about this particular approach?
PETER BAKER: Yes, there’s a politics of grievance, right?
What Trump successfully tapped into is a sense out there of resentment among a lot of Americans, who feel like the elites in some fashion or another have let them down, whether the elites be in Washington or in their state capitals.
It’s also a dividing, of course, along racial lines, along cultural lines, along ethnic and income lines. And it’s been a successful trademark in this era. And the question is, how do you address those concerns in a way that doesn’t exacerbate the divisions, instead of bringing people together?
MAJOR GARRETT: Nikole, you’re on Capitol Hill, but you have also been traveling.
What have you been seeing in relation to the things that Peter and Susan have been talking about? I know you were recently in Georgia. There’s a Trump-preferred candidate there, had a very stressful week. Catch us up.
NIKOLE KILLION: Well, that’s right.
And, in terms of Herschel Walker, for now, the party seems to be standing with him. And so are voters. They are willing to look past his faults. But I think it’s yet another example of many voters being willing to accept anything.
At one point, in our races, the issue of candidate quality was something that meant a lot. But now you have candidates who deny elections, candidates who may have had past transgressions, and yet voters are willing to look past that.
So, and…
MAJOR GARRETT: And, in — and, in the case of the Georgia race, it’s not just a transgression. It’s something that fundamentally disagrees with what his position is, if I understand it correctly, on access to abortion.
NIKOLE KILLION: Well, absolutely.
This is somebody who has been staunchly anti-abortion, doesn’t support abortion with exceptions, but yet these reports have started to come out that, at one point in time, he paid for an abortion for a girlfriend, perhaps encouraged her to get an abortion on a second opportunity.
And so that didn’t happen. This woman claims to be the mother of his child. Again, CBS News has not been able to independently verify some of those claims. But it does raise questions about where he comes down on this issue.
And this race is critical. I mean, this race could really decide control of the Senate. And so this is kind of a make-or-break moment for his campaign.
MAJOR GARRETT: Scott, you watch the trials, the prosecutions resulting from January 6, 2021, very closely, but you also keep a very close eye on the atmospherics around the Capitol and the midterm elections itself.
What is the sense of risk that members of Congress seeking reelection feel they are under, either at home or in the Capitol itself?
SCOTT MACFARLANE: A significantly growing risk.
In just a year’s time, the Capitol Police have investigated thousands of potential threats against members of Congress. And then the Justice Department reveals that it has a task force that is also reviewing hundreds, if not thousands, of potential threats.
And the political impact of this aside — and there may be a significant political impact to election denialism and questioning the integrity of elections — let’s talk about the blocking and tackling of administering elections.
It puts that at risk as well. You chronicle this well in your book. But I will add, I talked to the elections administrator in Lansing, Michigan, Ingham County, Michigan, a purple county in Michigan, concerned about threats against her poll workers, concerned about recruiting poll workers, finding people to come in and want a piece of that.
And we know that some of the administrators of elections nationwide are trying to recruit law students, American Bar Association-related volunteers, somebody to come man the polls in this uniquely toxic environment.
MAJOR GARRETT: Toxic environment, Susan, does that feel like something that will be inevitable, not only in this midterm election?
It’s not going to go away. Clearly, we know that. Will this toxicity, should we assume it will continue all the way up to 2024, possibly beyond?
SUSAN GLASSER: Yes, I think it’s not just a matter of rhetoric, right?
It’s structural changes that are being made in our politics. You have Trump, who’s reoriented the Republican Party and radicalized it. “The Washington Post” reported this week that 299 nominees, Republican nominees for House, Senate and major statewide posts, are election deniers, including in — some will be in key races where they are determining the counting and the certification of votes going forward.
And, by the way, many of those Republican nominees are in safe Republican seats, so they’re now guaranteed to have essentially a wave of Trumpian shock troops who have made election denialism a foundation of the Republican — Republican Party’s new ideology.
So, it’s not just a matter of rhetoric. I think we’re changing the structure of American politics in ways that are designed to exacerbate this ongoing crisis in American democracy.
MAJOR GARRETT: Nikole, it’s pretty clear, if you look at the spending patterns in some of the Senate races, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, dramatic examples of this.
On the Republican side, more than half of the money spent on TV advertising is about crime. To what degree do you see that playing as a potential — potentially pivotal issue in the midterms?
NIKOLE KILLION: Well, it certainly is a Republican talking point and an issue that they want to put front and center.
I was just in Wisconsin over the weekend and talked to Senator Johnson, who is going for his third term. And he did say that he feels that that should be a defining issue in this election.
On the flip side, though, in terms of his opponent, he has tried to paint him as someone who is soft on crime. But in terms of Mandela Barnes, his approach has really been making this abortion rights issue, which we have seen Democrats time and again in a lot of the Senate races really tried to bring that to the fore.
So, again, kind of, as Anthony pointed out earlier, I think it’s the — each party has a different narrative, and it’s a matter of which one is going to rise to the top.
MAJOR GARRETT: Peter, in your book with Susan, do you deduce anything that you think is of lasting and positive value from the Trump year — years?
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PETER BAKER: Well, look, I think it’s reinforced this conversation about what our democracy is and should be, right?
And it’s forced us to look at the structure, as Susan said, of our politics and of our system. But I think that what the concern is, we don’t know where it’s going to lead us. Do we reaffirm our commitment to this system that we created 240-some years ago, or are we going to find ourselves lost?
And I think that that’s the big question heading into 2024.
MAJOR GARRETT: I mean, if the former president were sitting here, he would say: I improved the economy. I made American foreign policy stronger.
PETER BAKER: Yes.
MAJOR GARRETT: Would you say any of that has a validity, based on all the research that went into the book?
PETER BAKER: There are a lot of voters out there who say, look, I like Donald Trump because I liked some of the things he accomplished. I did like tax cuts, or a conservative Supreme Court justice, or regulation cuts or what have you.
But the question that is raised, at least certainly in our book, goes beyond a specific Republican, Democrat, liberal, conservative ideological – – ideological fight. It goes to the larger questions of what we want to be as a country.
And I think that’s what makes Trump unique. He’s not like other Republicans or Democrats. It’s not about policy. It’s not about what our health care should be or tax cuts. It’s about whether you believe in the system that we created.
MAJOR GARRETT: It is a time for uniqueness and larger questions, to be sure.
Peter Baker, Susan Glasser, Nikole Killion, Scott MacFarlane, thank you so very much.
We will be right back.
(ANNOUNCEMENTS)
MAJOR GARRETT: As Russia’s military suffers more setbacks in its invasion of Ukraine, President Biden warned last week that Russian President Vladimir Putin is — quote — “not joking” — unquote — when he talks about using nuclear weapons, saying we face a prospect of nuclear Armageddon unlike anything we have seen since the height of the Cold War.
For more on what’s happening on the ground in Ukraine, CBS News senior foreign correspondent Charlie D’Agata has more.
(Begin VT)
CHARLIE D’AGATA (voice-over): In a serious escalation to the war here, security cameras captured the moment a massive explosion tore through the Crimean bridge on Saturday morning. Russian officials blamed the explosion on a truck bomb, calling it an act of terror.
It comes on the back of a series of setbacks on the battlefields. Ukrainian forces have been clawing back territory on multiple fronts, in the south, toward Kherson, and east in the Donbass region, where we traveled to the liberated city of Lyman.
On the way, we spoke with Colonel Serhiy Cherevaty, who took part in the battle.
Which weapons were important in this fight?
(COLONEL SERHIY CHEREVATY SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
CHARLIE D’AGATA: “Artillery was very important,” he said, “American weapons and, of course, the HIMARS,” the High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems that can strike targets deep behind enemy lines.
(GUNSHOTS)
CHARLIE D’AGATA: But every inch of ground retaken in the very territory President Putin has illegally annexed risks retaliation and deepens the specter of a nuclear response.
And in an interview with the BBC, President Zelenskyy has warned, Russia may be getting ready.
VOLODYMYR ZELENSKYY (Ukrainian President): They begin to prepare their society. That is very dangerous.
CHARLIE D’AGATA: Once again this week, the Russian military showed a reckless disregard for human life.
(MAN SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
CHARLIE D’AGATA: Overnight, rockets rained down on a residential neighborhood in Zaporizhzhia, leveling apartment blocks, killing more civilians, the latest in a series of strikes.
Earlier this week, on a grand avenue in Zaporizhzhia, we found firefighters still dousing a mountain of twisted metal and concrete.
Several hours after the rocket attack, and the building is still smoldering. This is no longer a rescue operation. And this is an upmarket neighborhood in the center of town. The more Russian troops lose against Ukrainian soldiers, the more they retaliate against civilians.
(End VT)
CHARLIE D’AGATA: Renewed shelling at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant has cut the main power lines there.
Engineers have had to rely on emergency diesel generators. President Putin has signed a decree declaring that it’s now officially under Russian ownership — Major.
MAJOR GARRETT: Charlie, thank you.
We will be back in a moment.
(ANNOUNCEMENTS)
MAJOR GARRETT: We turn now to America’s economic challenges.
And to help us out, I want to bring in Mohamed El-Erian. He is the chief economic adviser at financial services company Allianz. He is also president of Queens College in Cambridge. He’s good enough to join us this morning from New York.
So, this week was a very volatile week in the U.S. stock markets. Volatility has been ever-present, I would say, during this calendar year, but this week seemed really volatile.
For my audience, for our audience, break it down. What’s going on? What is the source, if you can identify it, of that volatility?
MOHAMED EL-ERIAN (Chief Economic Adviser, Allianz): So, the main source of this volatility is changing perceptions of the Federal Reserve.
We are in this incredible situation, Major, where good news for the economy is bad news for the markets. And that’s because the markets are worried that the Federal Reserve will tip us into recession by overreacting to strong economic news.
MAJOR GARRETT: Every White House I have ever covered — and it’s been more than one or two — has said, you know, the market isn’t the economy. The economy is the economy. And what markets do, markets are going to do.
Even so, volatility affects people’s retirement, their planning and their sense of their medium- and long-term futures. How should people be looking at that? And when they hear the president, as he did on Friday, talk about navigating this transition, what does that mean?
MOHAMED EL-ERIAN: So, first, there’s volatility, and there’s unsettling volatility, volatility, when things go up and down and, on the whole, you’re better off over time.
But that’s not what we’ve had this year. We’ve had unsettling volatility, because we’ve had the stock market down by anything from 20 to 30 percent. We’ve had bonds, which are supposed to safeguard your investment, also down by about 15 percent.
So, there’s been nowhere to hide. That’s why people feel insecure. That’s why they look at their retirement plans with concern.
The president is right. We are currently on what I think of as a bumpy journey to a better destination, and we need to navigate both the journey and get ready for the destination. There is a possibility that the Federal Reserve makes another mistake and that that bumpy journey actually changes the destination. That’s why the markets are on edge.
MAJOR GARRETT: Is it your perspective that the Federal Reserve has already made a series of mistakes, either not acting fast enough or overreacting?
MOHAMED EL-ERIAN: So it’s made two big mistakes that I think are going to go down in the history books.
One is mischaracterizing inflation as transitory. By that, they meant it is temporary, it’s reversible, don’t worry about it. That was mistake number one. And then, mistake number two, when they finally recognized that inflation was persistent and high, they didn’t act. They didn’t act in a meaningful way.
And, as a result, we risk mistake number three, which is, by not easing the foot off the accelerator last year, they are slamming on the brakes this year, which will tip us into recession.
So, yes, unfortunately, this will go down as a big policy error by the Federal Reserve.
MAJOR GARRETT: Continuing your metaphor, slamming on the brakes, does that mean it is impossible to achieve the either literal or mythical soft landing?
MOHAMED EL-ERIAN: Even Chair Powell has gone from looking for a soft landing, to a softish landing, to now talking about pain.
And that is the — the problem. That is the cost of a Federal Reserve being late. Not only does it have to overcome inflation, but it has to restore its credibility. So, yes, I fear that we risk a very high probability of a damaging recession that was totally avoidable, Major.
MAJOR GARRETT: Washington, D.C. is a hyperpolitical town, not a news bulletin. So it tends to absorb information internationally, sometimes in personal ways.
So there’s a lot of chatter this week that when OPEC Plus decided and announced it was cutting production, that that was against President Biden specifically. Do you agree with that? Or do you think it’s a broader OPEC Plus declaration about the direction of the global economy?
MOHAMED EL-ERIAN: So, first, it does hurt the U.S., and we’ve seen oil prices go up above $90 a barrel.
What does that mean? It means that inflation, which has been coming down, now risks going up again. So, that — that is not good for us. However, that it came as a surprise, it didn’t come as a surprise to me.
OPEC is looking to protect oil prices in the context of declining global demand. All three major areas in the world, China, Europe, and the U.S., are slowing much faster, which means less demand for oil. So, what does OPEC do? They cut back supply.
So, this shouldn’t have come as a big surprise. That’s what they do. That’s the history. But it’s certainly not good news for the U.S. economy.
MAJOR GARRETT: Tying these things together, do you think higher gasoline prices inevitably mean higher inflation, making all the things we’ve discussed more complicated?
And do you have a Consumer Price Index prediction for the near future?
MOHAMED EL-ERIAN: So, the next measure comes out in a few days. That’s going to be for September. Headline inflation will probably come down to about 8 percent.
But core inflation, what measures the drivers of inflation and how broad they are, is still going up. So we still have an inflation issue. Inflation will come down, Major. The question is, does it come down with a slowdown in the economy or a major recession? That is the question that’s being debated right now.
It’s not whether we’ll have inflation coming down. We will. But it’s the cost of that inflation coming down.
MAJOR GARRETT: Is the jobs report this week a silver lining in all of this otherwise gloomy assessment?
MOHAMED EL-ERIAN: It certainly is.
We created 260,000 — 263,000 jobs. That’s a lot for this stage. We also reduced the unemployment rate to 3.5 percent. That’s really low. There was one, one concern, which is that labor force participation, how many people are in the labor force, came down. And that’s not good news. And it talks to the importance of focusing on human capital.
MAJOR GARRETT: One last thing before I let you go. We have about 30 seconds.
About two or three months ago, it was common for people on the Web to see stagflation headlines. We are not in a stagflation situation.
MOHAMED EL-ERIAN: We are. Growth is coming down. Inflation is still high. Unfortunately, it’s not time to eliminate that term yet.
MAJOR GARRETT: Very good.
Mohamed El-Erian, we thank you so much for your time.
And we will be right back.
(ANNOUNCEMENTS)
MAJOR GARRETT: Well, that is it for us today. We want to thank you for watching.
Margaret will be back next week.
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Judith Marks and James Fish, Jr. to Join the Board; Thanks to Edward Rust for Service
IRVING, Texas, Feb. 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT) today announced that Judith (Judy) Marks, Chair, CEO and President of Otis Worldwide Corporation, and James (Jim) Fish, Jr., President and CEO of Waste Management (WM), have been appointed to the Caterpillar board of directors, effective March 1, 2023.
Marks will serve on Caterpillar's Audit Committee and Compensation and Human Resources Committee. Fish will serve on Caterpillar's Audit Committee and Sustainability & other Public Policy Committee. The company also announced that Edward (Ed) Rust will not stand for re-election at the 2023 Annual Shareholder Meeting.
"We are pleased to welcome leaders of such high caliber to our board," said Caterpillar Chairman and CEO Jim Umpleby. "With Judy's leadership of services growth and digital transformation at Otis, and Jim's leadership in developing sustainable solutions that support the transition to a lower-carbon economy, Caterpillar is well positioned to help our customers build a better, more sustainable world and deliver long-term profitable growth."
Marks, 59, has led Otis, the world's leading company for elevator and escalator manufacturing, installation and service, as President since 2017 and was named CEO in 2019. She has served as a director of Otis since 2020 and was appointed as Chair in 2022. In April 2020, Marks led the successful spin of Otis to an independent publicly traded company. Additionally, Marks prioritized and advanced Otis' sustainability program by embedding it into the company strategy as a key element to drive added value for all stakeholders. Prior to joining Otis, she held senior leadership roles at Siemens AG, Lockheed Martin and IBM. In addition to serving on the Otis board, Marks is on the AdvanceCT board and is a member of the Business Roundtable and Chair of its Trade and International Committee.
Fish, 60, has served as President, CEO and a member of the board of WM, North America's largest comprehensive waste management environmental solutions provider, since 2016. Since assuming the role of CEO, Fish has shifted the company's sustainability strategy to focus on minimizing its environmental impact by reducing carbon emissions, investing in differentiated innovative technologies and automation, and expanding recycling and renewable energy infrastructure to help customers achieve their sustainability goals. Prior to this role, he served as the company's CFO beginning in 2012, and held several other key leadership positions since joining the company in 2001. Before his career at WM, Fish held multiple senior leadership positions at Westex, Trans World Airlines and America West Airlines. He began his professional career at KPMG Peat Marwick.
Rust, 72, has been a Caterpillar director since 2003 and is the retired Chairman and CEO of State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company. He also previously served as Caterpillar's presiding director and chaired its Public Policy and Governance Committee.
"On behalf of the entire board, I want to thank Ed for his leadership and guidance over the past 20 years," said Umpleby. "Ed's extensive business experience were of extreme value to our team."
Following the 2023 Annual Shareholder Meeting, the Caterpillar board will be comprised of 11 directors, 10 of whom are independent.
About Caterpillar
With 2022 sales and revenues of $59.4 billion, Caterpillar Inc. is the world's leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, off-highway diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives. For nearly 100 years, we've been helping customers build a better, more sustainable world and are committed and contributing to a reduced-carbon future. Our innovative products and services, backed by our global dealer network, provide exceptional value that helps customers succeed. Caterpillar does business on every continent, principally operating through three primary segments – Construction Industries, Resource Industries and Energy & Transportation – and providing financing and related services through our Financial Products segment. Visit us at caterpillar.com or join the conversation on our social media channels at caterpillar.com/en/news/social-media.html.
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Readers of Valley News & Views in Drayton will go without a paper for two weeks instead of seeing their local newspaper close.
New owners Bob and Diane Simmons, who own Simmons Multimedia Stations and the new Borderland Press in Langdon, will publish their first issue of Valley News & Views on June 16. Publisher/Editor Lesa Van Camp told the Tribune last month the 40-year-old family publication's last edition would be June 2, citing health issues and difficulties finding a buyer and a part-time employee.
“The paper enjoys a solid circulation and advertiser base, and we look forward to carrying on the tradition of great reporting and standards set forth by Lesa and her team,” Diane Simmons told Valley News & Views.
New Publisher Andrea Johnston is building a news team for the paper.
Van Camp, who plans to rest and garden after sending out her final billing, said she's grateful for the newspaper continuing, though some columnists will retire.
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Her husband, Lyle, and his late mother, Roberta, founded the weekly Valley News & Views in 1982. The family sold the paper for financial reasons in 2007, but Lesa Van Camp in 2014 bought it back after the owner died suddenly.
Drayton has about 750 residents in the northern Red River Valley.
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NASHVILLE, Tennessee (AP) — If you missed out on Willie Nelson’s 90th birthday concerts last month in Los Angeles, you can see all the special performances honoring the 12-time Grammy winner in a limited theatrical run.
“Long Story Short: Willie Nelson 90” will be shown in theaters on June 11, with an encore presentation on June 13 and 14. Recorded at the Hollywood Bowl over two nights in April, the concert film will include performances by Nelson, Keith Richards, Neil Young, George Strait, Miranda Lambert, Snoop Dogg and many more.
Nelson, who was also inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame this year, is having a banner year as a nonagenarian. He was honored with an educational endowment at the University of Texas’ LBJ School of Public Affairs and will have a new book about his songwriting called “Energy Follows Thought: The Stories Behind My Songs,” coming out on Oct. 31 through William Morrow.
The Texas actor, activist and songwriter penned hits like “Crazy,” “Funny How Times Slips Away” and “On the Road Again” over his seven-decade career, as well as co-founded Farm Aid.
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(NEXSTAR) – Job security may not be what initially draws you to a career field – it’s hard to imagine a kid dreaming of being a “database administrator” when they grow up – but amid times of economic uncertainty, it can be a major plus.
U.S. News & World Report released its 2023 jobs report, which includes the careers analysts believe will be the most stable in what could be a turbulent economic year. To determine which jobs have the most security, analysts looked at unemployment rates, future job prospects, growth potential and employer satisfaction.
Not every career on the list requires an advanced (and increasingly expensive) college degree. Some of the jobs, like respiratory therapist, only require an associate’s degree.
Several career paths in medicine have been deemed especially secure by U.S. News & World Report’s analysis. The stress of the COVID-19 pandemic made an existing nursing and health care worker shortage even worse. A study published in the journal Health Affairs reported more than 100,000 nurses left the field in 2021. That number represents nearly 2% of nurses nationwide.
Jobs in medicine aren’t just secure, they’re also well compensated. According to the report, a medical and health services manager has a median salary of about $101,000. The highest paid job on the list is orthodontist, with a median salary topping $200,000.
See the 20 most secure jobs in 2023, according to U.S. News & World Report, below:
While sky-high inflation, weakened consumer spending and high interest rates have had economists predicting a recession in 2023, the job market remains strong. Plus, inflation has started to show signs it’s easing.
These trends are raising expectations that the Fed might manage to engineer an often-elusive “soft landing,” whereby the economy slows but doesn’t go into reverse and unemployment rate rises slightly but stays low. It would still mean painful times for many people. But it wouldn’t inflict the widespread unemployment that typically results from a recession.
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ZHOUZHI, China, June 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- A report from CRI Online:
The sonorous sound of Qinchuan instantly unleashes the momentum of a vast host of infantry and cavalry. The loud voices in singing Qinqiang Opera amplify the vigor of mountains and rivers… Inherited by 30 million residents on the 248-mile (800 li) Qinchuan land, Qinqiang Opera boasts a long history and has experienced more ambitious metamorphosis in the new era.
As a cultural symbol of Shaanxi, Qinqiang Opera has different opinions on its origin. According to a clear historical document, the earliest Qinqiang Opera troupe in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) was the Huaqing Troupe (also known as Zhang's Troupe) founded by Zhouzhi people. Since then, Qinqiang Opera troupes have gained extreme popularity among all people, old and young. Hence Qinqiang Opera was deeply rooted in this native land, witnessing the vicissitudes over the past more than 500 years.
In 1935, the Zhouzhi County Troupe was established on the basis of Zhang's Troupe. Since then, this unique opera has been revitalized once again by a lot of enthusiastic artists in the Three Qins land (Shaanxi).
Qinqiang Opera, the original Qin's art, has been stretched so far. Generations of Zhouzhi people prioritized the spreading and inheritance of the Qinqiang Opera art. They carried forward the everlasting art performance on the stage while planning for its sustainability off the stage.
In Zhouzhi County Art Vocational School, those passionate students keep learning the basic skills of Qinqiang Opera, like figure training and singing practice, day by day. At the celebration sites such as temple fairs and festival shows, the shouts of Qinqiang Opera performers on the stage are always echoed with cheers from the audience. The endless resonance propels the thriving development of Zhouzhi's Qinqiang Opera. It has become the cultural heritage and genes of the people living in Shaanxi.
Recently, to better appreciate the charm of Qinqiang Opera, Mohamed Jihad Mohamed Moustafa (Chinese name: Liu Zhengxi), an Egyptian boy and Podareva Anastasia (Chinese name: Tang Xilan), a Russian poetess, who both love traditional Chinese culture, travelled thousands of miles to Zhouzhi County, Shaanxi Province to learn Qinqiang Opera and have an immersive experience of the whole process of performance. Let's look at what they do!
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Syrian and Russian paratroopers conduct joint drill
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syrian state media is reporting that hundreds of Syrian paratroopers took part in a joint drill with their Russian counterparts in the war-torn country in the second joint maneuver this month. The agency did not give further details in its Saturday night report about the drill or say where they took place. It said the aim was to train Syrian paratroopers how to respond in varied circumstances.. Russia is a main backer of the Syrian government has wide presence in Syria where an 11-year conflict has killed hundreds of thousands. Russia became involved militarily in Syria in September 2015 helping to tip the balance of power in favor of the government. | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-news/2022/06/26/syrian-and-russian-paratroopers-conduct-joint-drill/ | 2022-06-26 10:35:47 | 1 | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-news/2022/06/26/syrian-and-russian-paratroopers-conduct-joint-drill/ |
Make a positive, sustainable impression with a new take on the old analog calendar at a time when workers are feeling less than organized
LONDON and BOSTON, Sept. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MOO, designers and printers of premium, customizable products, has launched its Perpetual Planner, a dateless, Swiss-bound book with a clear and helpful canvas for organizing, prioritizing, and doing. Designed to accommodate an array of planning styles and crafted from high-quality materials, the planner reflects MOO's effort to help companies reimagine gifting with meaningful, long-lasting products they will be proud to brand and people will be drawn to use.
Featuring the same durable cloth cover and silky smooth Munken Kristall paper as MOO's popular notebooks, the Perpetual Planner represents a more sustainable way of planning. With no dates to limit its shelf life, there is no need to waste a single page, or dispose of it each year. An innovative, stylish brass or stainless steel calendar clip bookmarks each page and frames the month, weeks and days, and is the type of clever design feature MOO customers have come to expect and appreciate.
The Perpetual Planner comes at a time when staying organized is a struggle. In a recent MOO* poll of more than 1,000 U.S. workers, 73% said they feel only somewhat organized in their professional lives. Additionally, MOO found:
- 8-in-10 know at least 1 coworker who needs help organizing - 56% say at least several of their coworkers need assistance
- 77% said their lives would actually improve if their coworkers were more organized
- 1 in 5 identified their boss as the one person in their lives who needs help being more organized
- 75% said writing things down helps them stay organized and turn plans into action
"We could all use a fresh, analog approach to planning to counterbalance our digital lives," said Richard Moross, Founder and CEO of MOO. "The MOO Perpetual Planner is purposefully designed to give people more control over their days and turn dreaming into doing. It is the right product at the right time for companies searching for useful gifts that will leave a lasting, positive impression."
MOO's Perpetual Planner, starting at $30 (£24.00), includes:
- Durable cloth cover in Midnight Blue, Jet Black, Charcoal Grey or Berry Red
- Brass or stainless steel calendar clip to keep days, weeks and months on track
- Covers 80 weeks with 160 pages of Munken Kristall paper
- Flexible layout with grid and lined sections for list-making, sketching and planning
- Swiss-bound so every page lays flat
- Measures 5.12" x 8.15"
For customization options, visit here.
"MOO has a reputation for making everyday products even better," explained MOO's Global Director of Product and Industrial Design, Toby Hextall. "With the Perpetual Planner, we started with the necessary basics and added only what was useful because ultimately, the content that goes into the planner is even more important than the planner itself."
MOO conducted a Survey Monkey poll of more than 1,000 US workers making $50,000+/year to gather opinions on planning and organizing. Responses were collected and analyzed in August 2022.
MOO, designers and printers of premium, customized products, is headquartered in London with US offices in Boston, Denver and Lincoln, RI. Launched in 2006, MOO helps brands of all sizes look their best by combining accessible design and high-quality products with sophisticated printing and move-mountains customer service. The company is the trusted choice of millions of customers across the globe. Follow @MOO on Instagram and Twitter.
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Officers describe Jan. 6 chaos and fear as judge weighs prison time for Oath Keepers
Police officers who defended the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and public servants who fled the mob’s attack told a judge on Wednesday that they are still haunted by what they endured, as the judge prepares to hand down sentences in a landmark Capitol riot case.
U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta heard victim impact statements a day before he’s expected to deliver the first Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy sentences to Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and an associate convicted of plotting to block the transfer of power from President Trump to President Biden.
Prosecutors are seeking 25 years behind bars for Rhodes, which would be the longest sentence by far handed down among hundreds of Capitol riot cases.
Metropolitan Police Officer Christopher Owens crossed paths with Oath Keepers members in Senate hallways as rioters invaded the building, shouted insults and threw projectiles at police. Owens recalled his wife bursting into tears when she saw the blood and bruises on his arms and legs after the riot.
“We experienced physical trauma, emotional trauma and mental trauma,” Owens said during the hearing in Washington’s federal court . “The traumas we suffered that day were endless.”
Rhodes scribbled notes on a yellow legal pad as he listened to the statements.
The Justice Department is seeking 25 years in prison for Stewart Rhodes, the Oath Keepers founder convicted of seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6 attack.
Terri McCullough, who was chief of staff to then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, said rioters were trying to hunt down the San Francisco Democrat as her staffers hid in a conference room for hours, hearing chants and threats.
“The defendants violated our workplace, our government and our democracy,” McCullough said, adding, “Democracy succeeded.”
Capitol Police Special Agent David Lazarus, who was assigned to Pelosi’s security detail, said some of his co-workers have quit because of what they experienced.
“Lives and careers have been ruined and will never return to normal,” he said.
Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn, who encountered Oath Keepers in the Rotunda, said rioters turned the “citadel of American democracy” into a crime scene. Dunn said he is a “shell of his former self” and dreads coming to work every day.
While he still feels scarred by Jan. 6, Dunn said he found “a little relief” from the jury’s conviction of Rhodes and other Oath Keepers, adding that he is “profoundly grateful that, in this case, justice has been done.”
The judge also heard statements from Virginia Brown, who was a Senate chamber assistant and helped carry a box of electoral votes across the Rotunda on Jan. 6. As the mob breached the Capitol, Brown kicked off her shoes so she could run faster. She recalled fearing for her life and praying that she wouldn’t encounter any insurrectionists.
Four people associated with the Oath Keepers were convicted Monday of conspiracy and obstruction charges in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot.
“I constantly relive the memories of that day,” said Brown, who was a college sophomore at the time. “I cannot measure how many hours of sleep I’ve lost.”
Rhodes was convicted of seditious conspiracy in November alongside Florida chapter leader Kelly Meggs after prosecutors spent weeks making the case that Rhodes and his extremist group followers had plotted an armed rebellion to keep Biden, a Democrat, out of the White House in favor of Trump, a Republican.
Rhodes, who didn’t go inside the Capitol, took the witness stand at trial and told jurors that there was never any plan to attack the Capitol and that his followers who did went rogue.
Meggs will also be sentenced on Thursday, followed by two Oath Keepers on Friday who were acquitted of seditious conspiracy but convicted of other crimes. Another four Oath Keepers convicted of the sedition charge during a second trial in January will be sentenced next week.
Prosecutors are seeking prison sentences ranging from 10 to 21 years for the Oath Keepers besides Rhodes.
The judge canceled the sentencing scheduled this week for one defendant, Thomas Caldwell of Berryville, Va., as he weighs whether to overturn the jury’s guilty verdict on obstruction and a documents tampering charge.
Prosecutors are urging the judge to apply enhanced penalties for terrorism, arguing the Oath Keepers sought to influence the government through “intimidation or coercion.” Judges have so far rejected the Justice Department’s request to apply the so-called terrorism enhancement in the handful of Jan. 6 cases it has sought it in so far, but the Oath Keepers case is unlike any others that have reached sentencing to date.
A former police chief and yoga instructor is indicted along with five other Southern California men for their alleged roles in the Capitol riot.
More than 1,000 people have been charged with federal crimes stemming from the riot. Just over 500 of them have been sentenced, with more than half receiving prison terms ranging from a week to over 14 years.
The sentences for the Oath Keepers may signal how much time prosecutors will seek for leaders of another far-right group, the Proud Boys, who were convicted of seditious conspiracy in a separate trial this month. Those defendants include former Proud Boys national chairman Enrique Tarrio, who is perhaps the most high-profile person charged in the sprawling Jan. 6 investigation. The Proud Boys are scheduled to be sentenced in August and September.
Over seven weeks of testimony, jurors heard how Rhodes rallied his followers to fight to defend Trump, discussed the prospect of a “bloody” civil war and warned that the Oath Keepers may have to “rise up in insurrection” to defeat Biden if Trump didn’t act.
On Jan. 6, Rhodes’ followers shouldered their way through the crowd in military-style stack formation before forcing their way into the Capitol. The Oath Keepers had stashed weapons at a Virginia hotel for “quick reaction force” teams that prosecutors said were ready to get weapons into the city quickly if needed. The weapons were never deployed.
Rhodes’ lawyers are urging the judge to sentence him to the roughly 16 months behind bars he has already served since his January 2022 arrest. In court papers filed this month, his attorneys argued that all of Rhodes’ writings and statements were “protected political speech.”
“None of his protected speech incited or encouraged imminent violent or unlawful acts, nor were any likely to occur as a result of his speech,” they wrote.
Richer reported from Boston.
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A Chick-fil-A in North Carolina has been fined $6,450 for paying workers with meals instead of money and violating child labor laws, the Department of Labor has announced.
An investigation by the DOL found that at a Chick-Fil-A in Hendersonville, N.C., three employees under 18 were assigned hazardous tasks, such as operating, loading and unloading the trash compactor.
"Protecting our youngest workers continues to be a top priority for the Wage and Hour Division," said Richard Blaylock, the district director for the department's Raleigh, North Carolina's Wage and Hour Division. "Child labor laws ensure that when young people work, the work does not jeopardize their health, well-being or educational opportunities. In addition, employers are responsible to pay workers for all of the hours worked and the payment must be made in cash or legal tender."
Additionally, several employees at the location were given tasks like directing drive-thru traffic and were given meal vouchers in exchange, which is a violation of minimum wage standards set by the Fair Labor Standards Act.
Seven employees are owed $235 in back wages, the department said.
In August, a Tampa, Florida, location was fined $12,478 after the agency found that 17 workers between ages 14 and 15 were working past 7 p.m. and more than three hours on school days.
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Conduct Smarter Identity Searches And Contextualized Risk Indicators Using The World's Largest Database Of People and Businesses
NEW YORK, June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ComplyAdvantage, a global data technology company transforming financial crime detection, today announced the release of a new tool called ComplyTry™ enabling anyone to better understand the risk profiles of prospective customers using live sanctions, Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) and adverse media data for free.
The cornerstone of a successful anti-money laundering (AML) program is not only thorough background checks, but also the context that surrounds each identity - people and/or businesses - and whether this context signals any form of illegal behavior, intent, history or association.
Compliance teams throughout the financial services industry are challenged daily to analyze, extract and validate identities that have elevated risk attributes with the ultimate goal of preventing financial crimes before they happen. Given the growing volume, velocity and complexity of financial crime, the task of identifying the potential for risk exposure through contextual analysis has become increasingly complex and time-consuming.
However, with advances in data and machine learning, ComplyAdvantage has optimized this laborious and lengthy process making it fast, accurate and free. With ComplyTry, anyone has the ability to search and assess risk signals that may surround an identity using the company's real-time database of sanctions, watchlists, PEPs, adverse media and more.
Simply input the details and select the data sources you want and then press enter. Each result will be represented by a card that reveals a full and extensive profile with all relevant risk signals included.
The benefits of ComplyTry are numerous, including:
- Ability for anyone to run background checks that are more thorough than search engines using a database that's tailored to find and prevent financial crime.
- Conduct smarter searches with matches found by existing screening providers.
- Leverage intelligent negative news insights that are aligned to the latest Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and EU AMLD recommendations
"We decided to offer ComplyTry after having an incredible response to our ComplyLaunch™ program which offers free access to AML and KYC tools for startups," said Kanisha Patel, Head of ComplyLaunch at ComplyAdvantage. "Like ComplyLaunch, our goal is to continue to democratize access to vital AML tools and information to better fortify our ecosystem against the threat of financial crimes. By making these sorts of programs and tools accessible, everyone from startups to established financial firms will benefit."
Already the preferred choice of some of the world's largest banks, enterprises, and high-growth FinTechs, ComplyAdvantage uses machine learning to help regulated organizations manage their risk obligations and prevent financial crime. ComplyAdvantage is also a leader in providing anti-money laundering insights that including the company's much lauded State of Financial Crime2022 Report, Evolving Use and Sanctions and most recently the Anti-Money Laundering Guide for Growing Crypto Firms.
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ComplyAdvantage is the financial industry's leading source of AI-driven financial crime risk data and detection technology. ComplyAdvantage's mission is to neutralize the risk of money laundering, terrorist financing, corruption, and other financial crime. More than 500 enterprises in 75 countries rely on ComplyAdvantage to understand the risk of who they're doing business with through the world's only global, real-time database of people and companies. The company actively identifies tens of thousands of risk events from millions of structured and unstructured data points every single day.
ComplyAdvantage has four global hubs located in New York, London, Singapore and Cluj-Napoca and is backed by Goldman Sachs, Ontario Teachers', Index Ventures and Balderton Capital. Learn more at complyadvantage.com.
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(NEXSTAR) – Trick-or-treaters across the country are still picking Milk Duds from their molars, but that isn’t stopping Starbucks from moving forward with their peppermint lattes or sugar-plum danishes.
On Nov. 3, Starbucks will debut its annual assortment of holiday cups at locations nationwide, swapping out its traditional single-use cups for other, slightly more festive single-use cups.
This year’s theme (like last year’s) is inspired by “gifts,” according to a Starbucks press release shared with Nexstar. The four new cups for 2022 — nicknamed “Gift-Wrapped Magic,” “Frosted Sparkle,” “Ornament Wonder” and “Cozy Evergreen” — are each also designed with blank gift tags on the back.
“We have always talked about the cups as little gifts, and we hope they feel like a festive present to our customers and store partners,” Gary Jacobson, the Starbucks creative director for 2022’s holiday campaign, said in the release.
As of Thursday, customers at U.S. Starbucks locations can also treat themselves to an assortment of holiday-themed beverages, including the chain’s seasonal Peppermint Mochas, Caramel Brulée Lattes, Chestnut Praline Lattes, Toasted White Chocolate Mochas, Irish Cream Cold Brews and Sugar Cookie Almondmilk Lattes. Starbucks’ holiday food offerings include returning items such as the Reindeer Cake Pop, the Sugar Plum Cheese Danish, the Cranberry Bliss Bar, the Snowman Cookie and the new Chocolate Pistachio Swirl, which appears to be a takeoff on the traditional cinnamon bun.
In other recent Starbucks-cup news — and yes, there was other recent Starbucks-cup news — the coffee chain earlier this year had committed to adopting a communal-cup program by 2025. It would give customers the option of borrowing a reusable cup that they would return upon their next visit. Those communal cups would then be professionally cleaned and provided to other Starbucks customers, who would repeat the process in turn.
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DETROIT -- Taylor Decker has seen a lot. Such is life as the longest-tenured player for one of the worst franchises in professional sports. He’s the only man left from the last time the Lions won more games than they lost. Heck, he’s the only man left from the last time the Lions finished anywhere but dead-last.
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17-year-old killed, 4 hurt in stabbings on Wisconsin river
SOMERSET, Wis. (AP) — A Minnesota teenager died and four other people were seriously hurt after being stabbed while tubing down a Wisconsin river, authorities said.
St. Croix County Sheriff Scott Knudson the victims and suspect, a 52-year-old Prior Lake, Minnesota man, were all on the Apple River when the attack happened Saturday afternoon. Knudson said investigators were working to determine what led to the stabbings and whether the victims and suspect knew each other. They were tubing with two different groups that included about 20 people.
“We don’t know yet who was connected to who, who knew each other or what precipitated it,” Knudson said.
The knife attack happened on a difficult-to-access section of the river near the town of Somerset, Wisconsin, which is about 35 miles east of Minneapolis. The suspect was arrested about an hour and a half later while getting off the river downstream.
“Thank goodness a witness had taken a photo of him,” Knudson told the Minneapolis Star Tribune. “Another witness located him at the exit of the tubing area, where he was taken into custody.”
A 17-year-old boy from Stillwater, Minnesota, died. Two of the other victims were flown to a hospital in St. Paul, Minnesota, and two others were taken there by ambulance. The sheriff’s office said Sunday that the condition of all four surviving victims — a woman and three men in their 20s — ranged from serious to critical. They suffered stab wounds to their chests and torsos.
The sheriff’s office didn’t name the victims, but did provide a few details about them. The victims included a 20-year-old man and a 22-year-old man from Luck, Wisconsin; a 22-year-old man from Elk River, Minnesota; and a 24-year-old woman from Burnsville, Minnesota;
The name of the suspect wasn’t immediately released, but St. Croix County jail records show a 52-year-old man was being held without bond on suspicion of first-degree homicide, four counts of aggravated battery and four counts of mayhem.
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In Focus: Brainerd Man Makes Pottery As a One-Person Operation
Creating pots, dishes, and other utensils made out of baked clay is how artist Nick DeVries makes his living. DeVries, a potter based out of Brainerd, designs and makes his own ceramics, and he does it all by hand.
DeVries was always an art kid in high school, but his love for pottery took off in college, when he studied and traveled with Minnesota potter Jim Loso.
There are many types of ceramics that can be made, but DeVries focuses on making functional items like cups, mugs, and jars. For those looking to make this work into a career like DeVries has, he has one tip that helped him make it this far.
“I think the most valuable thing for me was finding a potter to work with, and really kind of understanding what that life looked like, and whether I wanted to do that or not,” said DeVries.
A showcase of DeVries’ work can be found on his website.
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Regulators monitor tritium leak at Minnesota nuclear plant
Published 6:28 pm Friday, March 17, 2023
ST. PAUL — Minnesota regulators said Thursday they’re monitoring the cleanup of a leak of 400,000 gallons of radioactive water from Xcel Energy’s Monticello nuclear power plant, and the company said there’s no danger to the public.
“Xcel Energy took swift action to contain the leak to the plant site, which poses no health and safety risk to the local community or the environment,” the Minneapolis-based utility said in a statement.
While Xcel reported the leak of water containing tritium to state and federal authorities in late November, the spill had not been made public before Thursday. State officials said they waited to get more information before going public with it.
“We knew there was a presence of tritium in one monitoring well, however Xcel had not yet identified the source of the leak and its location,” Minnesota Pollution Control Agency spokesman Michael Rafferty said.
“Now that we have all the information about where the leak occurred, how much was released into groundwater, and that contaminated groundwater had moved beyond the original location, we are sharing this information,” he said, adding the water remains contained on Xcel’s property and poses no immediate public health risk.
The company said it notified the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the state on Nov. 22, the day after it confirmed the leak, which came from a pipe between two buildings. Since then, it has been pumping groundwater, storing and processing the contaminated water, which contains tritium levels below federal thresholds.
“Ongoing monitoring from over two dozen on-site monitoring wells confirms that the leaked water is fully contained on-site and has not been detected beyond the facility or in any local drinking water,” the Xcel Energy statement said.
When asked why Xcel Energy didn’t notify the public earlier, the company said: “We understand the importance of quickly informing the communities we serve if a situation poses an immediate threat to health and safety. In this case, there was no such threat.” The company said it focused on investigating the situation, containing the affected water and figuring out next steps.
The Monticello plant is about 35 miles (55 kilometers) northwest of Minneapolis, upstream from the city on the Mississippi River.
Tritium is a radioactive isotope of hydrogen that occurs naturally in the environment and is a common by-product of nuclear plant operations. It emits a weak form of beta radiation that does not travel very far and cannot penetrate human skin, according to the NRC. A person who drank water from a spill would get only a low dose, the NRC says.
The NRC says tritium spills happen from time to time at nuclear plants, but that it has repeatedly determined that they’ve either remained limited to the plant property or involved such low offsite levels that they didn’t affect public health or safety. Xcel reported a small tritium leak at Monticello in 2009.
Xcel said it has recovered about 25% of the spilled tritium so far, that recovery efforts will continue and that it will install a permanent solution this spring.
“While this leak does not pose a risk to the public or the environment, we take this very seriously and are working to safely address the situation,” Chris Clark, president of Xcel Energy–Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota, said in the statement. “We continue to gather and treat all potentially affected water while regularly monitoring nearby groundwater sources.”
Xcel Energy is considering building above-ground storage tanks to store the contaminated water it recovers, and is considering options for the treatment, reuse, or final disposal of the collected tritium and water. State regulators will review the options the company selects, the MPCA said.
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BLOOMINGTON — Graduation season kicks off this weekend, with Lincoln Christian University and Illinois Wesleyan University leading the way Saturday and Sunday, followed by a flurry of other college and high school ceremonies.
Here’s what’s planned this month in Bloomington-Normal and beyond:
Lincoln Christian University
Graduation for LCU's undergraduates, graduate students and seminary candidates is set for 10 a.m. Saturday at Open Arms Christian Fellowship (formerly the LCU Chapel). The ceremony will be livestreamed on the school's website.
Illinois Wesleyan University
IWU’s ceremony begins at 1 p.m. Sunday at Kemp Commencement Plaza on the Eckley Quad near State Farm Hall. In the event of inclement weather, the ceremony will be moved to the Activity Arena at the Shirk Center. The ceremony will also be livestreamed at iwu.edu/live.
Burke Nihill, president and CEO of the National Football League’s Tennessee Titans and a 2000 IWU alumnus, will deliver the commencement address.
Illinois State University
ISU’s spring commencement will be held in a series of five ceremonies next weekend in CEFCU Arena. Each ceremony will include the student processional, speeches from university officials, and students receiving their diploma cover as they cross the stage when their name is read.
The schedule on Friday, May 12, includes:
- 4 p.m.: Mennonite College of Nursing and College of Arts and Sciences - Social Sciences, including students in the majors of communication sciences and disorders; economics; politics and government; psychology; social work; and sociology and anthropology.
- 8 p.m.: College of Arts and Sciences - Natural Sciences, Mathematics, and Humanities, including students in the majors of biological sciences; communication; chemistry; English; geography, geology and the environment; history; languages, literatures and cultures; mathematics; philosophy; and physics.
The schedule on Saturday, May 13, includes:
- 9 a.m.: College of Education, Wonsook Kim College of Fine Arts, Interdisciplinary Studies, and University Studies
- 1:30 p.m.: College of Applied Science and Technology
- 6 p.m.: College of Business
ISU will award approximately 3,645 bachelor’s degrees and 720 graduate degrees, with more than 3,500 total students scheduled to participate in next weekend’s ceremonies.
Ceremonies will also be livestreamed at illinoisstate.edu/commencement/stream/.
A commencement photo station with themed backdrops will be set up for graduates and their families in the Bone Student Center Ballroom from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday.
Eureka College
Eureka College will celebrate 83 graduates at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, May 13, in the Christine Bonati Bollwinkle Arena of the Reagan Athletic Complex. The ceremony will also be livestreamed on the college’s YouTube channel.
The keynote address will be provided by 1981 Eureka College alumnus Bob Anderson, CEO of the OSF HealthCare System Central Region.
Heartland Community College
Heartland’s commencement will take place at 6:30 p.m. Friday, May 19, at Grossinger Motors Arena in downtown Bloomington. The evening will include graduate recognitions and remarks from Heartland President Keith Cornille, Board of Trustees Chair Becky Ropp, and two student speakers, Marlphonsia Kimbembe and Rodney Billerbeck.
The ceremony will be livestreamed via Heartland’s Facebook and YouTube pages.
High school graduations
Friday, May 12
- 7 p.m., Delavan High School, Poppenga Gym
Saturday, May 13
- 11 a.m., Lincoln Community High School
- 3 p.m., Hartsburg-Emden High School, in the gym
Sunday, May 14
- 2 p.m., Ridgeview High School
Friday, May 19
- 7 p.m., Dwight Township High School, in the gymnasium
Saturday, May 20
- 2 p.m., Crossroads Area Home School Association, at Calvary Baptist Church, Normal
- 2 p.m., Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley High School, in the gymnasium
Sunday, May 21
- Noon, Streator Township High School, in the gymnasium
- 1 p.m., Tri-Valley High School, in the gymnasium
- 1 p.m., Olympia High School, on the football field
- 2 p.m., University High School, at Braden Auditorium, ISU campus
- 2 p.m., LeRoy High School
- 2 p.m., Blue Ridge High School
- 2 p.m., Fieldcrest High School
- 2 p.m., Central Catholic High School, at Epiphany Catholic Church, Normal
- 2 p.m., Clinton High School
- 2 p.m., Tri-Point High School
- 2:30 p.m., Pontiac Township High School
- 2:30 p.m., Woodland High School
- 3 p.m., Deer Creek-Mackinaw High School, at Jim McDonald Field, Mackinaw
- 3 p.m., Eureka High School, at McCollum Field
- 3 p.m., Roanoke-Benson High School
Friday, May 26
- 6 p.m., Heyworth High School, in the Hornet gymnasium
- 6:30 p.m., Calvary Christian Academy, at Calvary Baptist Church, Normal
- 7 p.m., Prairie Central High School, at the football field in Fairbury
- 7 p.m., Flanagan-Cornell High School
- 7 p.m., Lexington High School
- 7 p.m., Paxton-Buckley-Loda High School
Saturday, May 27
- 2 p.m., Normal Community High School, Grossinger Motors Arena
- 6 p.m., Normal Community West High School, Grossinger Motors Arena
- 6 p.m., Cornerstone Christian Academy
Sunday, May 28
- 3 p.m., Bloomington High School, Grossinger Motors Arena
- 3 p.m., El Paso-Gridley High School
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FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – Tippman Properties currently rents office space in one of Fort Wayne’s most iconic buildings: Lincoln Bank Tower.
However, they have their eyes on a new venture, a large corporate campus on North Clinton Street that includes areas for mixed-use.
The 27.32-acre lot had its rezoning approved at Tuesday’s Fort Wayne City Council meeting by a 8-0-1 vote, with Councilman Russ Jehl being the only one to abstain.
Now, with City Council on board with changes for the land, a more significant effort can be put toward development.
Documents show 11 lots of land, each just about one acre in size, that will be zoned for mixed-use, including three properties on the north side of North Clinton Street and three south of it.
The plan for the site also currently includes a 38,400-square-foot corporate office, 27,500-square-foot research and development building and a 30,000-square-foot warehouse.
Tippman Properties sent WANE 15 a statement about the potential development:
Tippmann Group has experienced tremendous growth since its inception more than 50 years ago. This growth has made it necessary to find a new location for our corporate headquarters. The search has been ongoing, and we have identified multiple suitable sites. We are currently vetting the parcel located on N. Clinton St. The rezoning is just another step in the selection process. Current sites under consideration include both in-state and out-of-state options. A final decision won’t be made until later this year.
-Joe Wharton
Vice President
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Gogoro Releases Third Quarter 2022 Financial Results
Published: Nov. 10, 2022 at 5:00 AM CST|Updated: 1 hour ago
TAIPEI, Taiwan, Nov. 10, 2022/PRNewswire/ -- Gogoro Inc. (Nasdaq: GGR), a global technology leader in battery swapping ecosystems that enable sustainable mobility solutions for cities, today released its financial results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2022.
Third Quarter Summary
Revenue of $102.2 million, up 1.5% year-over-year and up 10.7% on a constant currency basis despite the complex macroeconomic environment
Gogoro Network revenue of $30.4 million, up 17.7% year-over-year and up 28.5% on a constant currency basis. This demonstrates an increase in our battery swapping subscriber base and the ability of our business model to generate recurring revenue
Continued Gogoro Network subscriber growth to more than 505,000 monthly battery swapping subscribers, up 20.8% or 87,000 subscribers year-over year
Gross margin of 17.4%, up slightly from 17.3% in the third quarter last year. Non-IFRS gross margin of 20.0%, up 2.7% year-over-year
Net income of $56.4 million, up from a net loss of $13.4 million in the same quarter last year, primarily due to a $85.8 million favorable change in the fair value of financial liabilities associated with outstanding earnout, earn-in and warrants
Adjusted EBITDA of $9.2 million, down from $15.2 million in the same quarter last year primarily due to $5.0 million investment in operating activities
Successfully completed a new $345 million syndicated credit facility and paid off a $182 million old credit facility obligation following the end of the third quarter
Gogoro updates full-year revenue guidance of $370.0 million to $390.0 million, reflecting continued macroeconomic headwinds
"Despite challenging economic conditions around the world, we delivered solid Q3 financial results. We are still seeing a strong movement by governments, businesses, and consumers to smarter, cleaner and sustainable energy and transportation, especially in the densely populated cities of Asia. Gogoro Network battery swapping continues to generate strong interest and we are working with local partners in China, Indonesia, India and other new markets," said Horace Luke, founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Gogoro. "In the third quarter, we announced a new Singapore-licensed B2B pilot and launched the Gogoro Network and Smartscooters in Tel Aviv, Israel. Last week, we announced our first B2B pilot in Delhi, India with Zypp Electric, India's leading EV-as-a-Service platform that is expected to be live in December 2022."
"Despite the challenging macro-economic conditions, our Q3 results were in line with our guidance, with revenue of $102.2 million and $111.4 million on a constant currency basis in the third quarter, up 1.5% year-over-year and 10.7% on a constant currency basis. Additionally our Gogoro Network revenue was $30.4 million and $33.2 million on a constant currency basis in the third quarter, an increase of 17.7% year-over-year and 28.5% on a constant currency basis. We are investing in our existing Taiwan business and are diversifying our revenue streams to enable new markets, channels and business segments to adopt sustainable energy and transportation," said Bruce Aitken, chief financial officer of Gogoro. "Given the strength of our cash position, the liquidity provided by our new credit facility, and an increased focus on streamlining operational efficiency, we are well positioned to navigate through challenging market conditions while we continue executing across our multiple markets and business lines."
Third Quarter 2022 Financial Overview
Operating Revenues
For the third quarter, revenue was $102.2 million, up 1.5% year over year and up 10.7% year over year on a constant currency basis. Had foreign exchange rates remained constant with the average rate of the third quarter of 2021, revenue would have been up by an additional $9.2 million. Sales of hardware and other revenues for the third quarter was $71.8 million, down 4.1% year over year, and up 4.6% year over year on a constant currency basis. Gogoro Network revenue for the third quarter was $30.4 million, up 17.7% year over year, and up 28.5% year over year on a constant currency basis. Total subscribers at the end of third quarter was more than 505,000, up 20.8% from 418,000 subscribers in the same quarter last year. The Gogoro Network revenue increase was primarily due to the accumulating subscriber base and the high retention rate of all subscribers.
Gross Margin
For the third quarter, gross margin was 17.4%, up slightly from 17.3% in the third quarter last year. For the third quarter, non-IFRS gross margin1 was 20.0%, up from 17.3% in the same quarter last year. The non-IFRS gross margin1 improvement was driven by an increase in the average selling price of our vehicles, favorable changes in our product mix, and the improved cost efficiency of Gogoro's Network operations.
Net Income (Loss)
For the third quarter, net income was $56.4 million, up $69.8 million from a net loss of $13.4 million in the same quarter last year. This was primarily due to a favorable change in the fair value of financial liabilities of $85.8 million in the third quarter compared to $1.7 million loss in the same quarter last year. This was partially offset by a $11.4 million increase in share-based compensation, a $2.1 million increase in sales and marketing expenses mainly due to increase spending in retail marketing campaigns and product launches, a $1.8 million increase in research and development expenses mainly due to increased spending on materials and samples for new Smartscooter models, and a $1.0 million increase in general and administrative expenses. Non-IFRS net loss1 was $16.3 million, up $4.6 million from $11.7 million in the same quarter last year. This was primarily due to $4.9 million investment in operating activities.
Adjusted EBITDA
For the third quarter, adjusted EBITDA1 was $9.2 million, down from $15.2 million in the same quarter last year. The decrease was primarily due to a $2.1 million increase in expenses for sales and marketing programs, a $1.8 million increase in research and development expenses and a $1.0 million increase in general and administrative expenses, as well as a negative foreign exchange impact.
Liquidity
With the addition of a new $345 million credit facility and a $249.1 million cash balance at the end of the third quarter, we are well positioned to manage our liquidity in what is currently a complex macro environment. A majority of our payment obligations are denominated in the New Taiwan Dollar (TWD) and we benefited greatly from the appreciation of $193.1 million cash denominated in USD since early April 2022.
Updated 2022 Guidance
To reflect continued macroeconomic headwinds and the impact on the overall Taiwan vehicle market, we updated our 2022 revenue guidance to $370.0 million to $390.0 million. Nearly all of Gogoro's 2022 full year revenue will be from the Taiwan market.
Conference Call Information
Gogoro's management team will hold an earnings Webcast on November 10th, 2022, at 7:00 a.m. Eastern Time to discuss the Company's third quarter 2022 financial and business results and outlook.
Investors may access the webcast, supplemental financial information and investor presentation at Gogoro's investor relations website (https://investor.gogoro.com) under the "Events" section. A replay of the investor presentation and the earnings call script will be available 24 hours after the conclusion of the webcast and archived for one year.
About Gogoro
Founded in 2011 to rethink urban energy and inspire the world to move through cities in smarter and more sustainable ways, Gogoro leverages the power of innovation to change the way urban energy is distributed and consumed. Gogoro's battery swapping and vehicle platforms offer a smart, proven and sustainable long-term ecosystem for delivering a new approach to urban mobility. Gogoro has quickly become an innovation leader in vehicle design and electric propulsion, smart battery design, battery swapping, and advanced cloud services that utilize artificial intelligence to manage battery availability and safety. The challenge is massive, but the opportunity to disrupt the status quo, establish new standards, and achieve new levels of sustainable transportation growth in densely populated cities is even greater. For more information, visit https://www.gogoro.com/newsand follow Gogoro on Twitter: @wearegogoro.
Forward Looking Statements
This communication contains forward looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Forward looking statements generally relate to future events or Gogoro's future financial or operating performance. In some cases, you can identify forward looking statements because they contain words such as "may," "will," "should," "expects," "plans," "anticipates," "going to," "could," "intends," "target," "projects," "contemplates," "believes," "estimates," "predicts," "potential" or "continue" or the negative of these words or other similar terms or expressions that concern Gogoro's expectations, strategy, priorities, plans or intentions. Forward-looking statements in this communication include, but are not limited to, statements in the section entitled, "Updated 2022 Guidance," such as estimates regarding revenue and Gogoro's revenue generated from the Taiwan market, statements regarding the sufficiency of Gogoro's cash resources, Gogoro's beliefs regarding Gogoro's future operating performance including its ability to grow its subscriber base, projections of market opportunity and market share, potential growth of Gogoro's battery swapping ecosystem in Taiwan and in new markets, timing of Gogoro's launch in India, the capability of Gogoro's technology, Gogoro's business plans including its plans to grow and expand in Taiwan and internationally, the expected use of proceeds from the merger, and statements by Gogoro's founder, chairman, and chief executive officer and Gogoro's chief financial officer.
Gogoro's expectations and beliefs regarding these matters may not materialize, and actual results in future periods are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected, including risks related to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, risks related to macroeconomic factors including inflation and consumer confidence, risks related to the Taiwan scooter market, risks related to political tensions, Gogoro's ability to effectively manage its growth, Gogoro's ability to launch and ramp up the production of its products and control its manufacturing costs and manage its supply chain issues, Gogoro's risks related to ability to expand its sales and marketing abilities, Gogoro's ability to expand effectively into new markets, foreign exchange fluctuations, Gogoro's ability to develop and maintain relationships with its partners, risks related to operating in the PRC, regulatory risks and Gogoro's risks related to strategic collaborations, risks related to the Taiwan market, China market and other international markets, alliances or joint ventures including Gogoro's ability to enter into and execute its plans related to strategic collaborations, alliances or joint ventures in order for such strategic collaborations, alliances or joint ventures to be successful and generate revenue, the ability of Gogoro to be successful in the B2B market, risks related to Gogoro's ability to achieve operational efficiencies, Gogoro's ability to raise additional capital, the risks related to the need for Gogoro to invest more capital in strategic collaborations, alliances or joint ventures, risks relating to the impact of foreign exchange and the risk of Gogoro having to update the accounting treatment for its joint ventures. The forward looking statements contained in this communication are also subject to other risks and uncertainties, including those more fully described in Gogoro's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), including in Gogoro's Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2021, which was filed on May 2, 2022 and in its subsequent filings with the SEC, copies of which are available on our website and on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. The forward looking statements in this communication are based on information available to Gogoro as of the date hereof, and Gogoro disclaims any obligation to update any forward looking statements, except as required by law.
Use of Non-IFRS Financial Measures
This press release and accompanying tables contain certain non-International Financial Reporting Standards as issued by the International Accounting Standards Board (collectively, "IFRS") financial measures including foreign exchange effect on operating revenues, non-IFRS gross profit, non-IFRS gross margin, Non-IFRS Net Loss, EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA.
Foreign exchange ("FX") effect on operating revenues. We compare the dollar amount and the percent change in the operating revenues from period to another period using constant currency disclosure. We present constant currency information to provide a framework for assessing how our underlying revenues performed excluding the effect of foreign currency rate fluctuations. To present this information, current period operating revenues for entities reporting in currencies other than USD are converted into USD at the average exchange rates from the equivalent periods last year.
Non-IFRSGross Profit and Gross Margin. Gogoro defines non-IFRS gross profit and gross margin as gross profit and gross margin excluding share-based compensation expense and exit activities.
Share-based Compensation Expense consists of non-cash charges related to the fair value of restricted stock units awarded to employees. The Company believes that the exclusion of these non-cash charges provides for more accurate comparisons of our operating results to our peer companies due to the varying available valuation methodologies, subjective assumptions and the variety of award types. In addition, the Company believes it is useful to investors to understand the specific impact of share-based compensation expense on its operating results.
Non-IFRS Net Loss. Gogoro defines non-IFRS net loss as net income (loss) excluding share-based compensation expense, the change in fair value of financial liabilities including revaluation of redeemable preferred shares, change in fair value of earnout, earn-in and warrants associated with the merger of Poema, listing expense and onetime non-recurring costs associated with the merger. These amounts do not reflect the impact of any related tax effects.
EBITDA. Gogoro defines EBITDA, as net income (loss) excluding interest expense, net, provision for income tax, depreciation, and amortization. These amounts do not reflect the impact of any related tax effects.
Adjusted EBITDA. Gogoro defines Adjusted EBITDA, as EBITDA excluding share-based compensation expense, the change in fair value of financial liabilities including revaluation of redeemable preferred shares, change in fair value of earnout, earn-in and warrants associated with the merger of Poema, listing expense and onetime non-recurring costs associated with the merger. These amounts do not reflect the impact of any related tax effects.
Acquisition-related Expenses. Gogoro incurs acquisition-related and other expenses which consist of costs incurred after the issuance of a definitive term sheet for a particular transaction and include legal, banker, accounting, printer costs, valuation and other advisory fees. Management excludes these items for the purposes of calculating non-IFRS adjusted EBITDA. Gogoro generally would not have otherwise incurred such expenses in the periods presented as part of its continuing operations. The acquisition related expenses are not recurring with respect to past transactions, can be inconsistent in amount and frequency from period to period and are significantly impacted by the timing and magnitude of Gogoro's acquisitions. While these expenses are not recurring with respect to past transactions, Gogoro generally will incur these expenses in connection with any future acquisitions.
Listing Expense. In connection with the merger with Poema, the excess fair value of shares issued by Gogoro in exchanged for the net assets of Poema was recorded as listing expense in operating expense. The listing expense for the merger is not recurring with respect to past transactions, can be inconsistent in amount and frequency from period to period and are significantly impacted by the timing and magnitude of the merger.
Exit Activities. We has incurred charges in connection with the exit of certain product lines as well as other non-recurring activities. These charges are not representative of ongoing costs to the business and are not expected to recur. As a result, these charges are being excluded to provide investors with a more comparable measure of costs associated with ongoing operations.
These non-IFRS financial measures exclude share-based compensation expense, interest expense, income tax, depreciation and amortization, change in fair value of financial liabilities including revaluation of redeemable preferred shares, change in fair value of earnout, earn-in and warrants associated with the merger of Poema, listing expense and onetime non-recurring costs associated with the merger. The company uses these non-IFRS financial measures internally in analyzing its financial results and believes that these non-IFRS financial measures are useful to investors as an additional tool to evaluate ongoing operating results and trends. In addition, these measures are the primary indicators management uses as a basis for its planning and forecasting for future periods.
Non-IFRS financial measures are not meant to be considered in isolation or as a substitute for the comparable IFRS financial measures. Non-IFRS financial measures are subject to limitations and should be read only in conjunction with the company's consolidated financial statements prepared in accordance with IFRS. Non-IFRS financial measures do not have any standardized meaning and are therefore unlikely to be comparable to similarly titled measures presented by other companies. A description of these non-IFRS financial measures has been provided above and a reconciliation of the company's non-IFRS financial measures to their most directly comparable IFRS measures have been provided in the financial statement tables included in this press release, and investors are encouraged to review these reconciliations.
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A 71-year-old woman died on Wednesday after driving her car into a quarry in Reisterstown, Baltimore County Police said.
Police said that Ella Zagranichny accidentally accelerated and drove her car into the quarry at the 600 block of Quarry View Court while trying to park her 2019 Nissan Rogue at the top of an embankment above the water.
Baltimore County Police and Fire responded to an 8:40 p.m. call on Thursday of a vehicle sinking in the quarry.
First responders attempted a water rescue using a Zodiac rescue boat, specialized teams and a dive unit. Zagranichny was pronounced dead at 9:56 p.m. There were no other victims found in the water, police said.
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FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – Two upcoming events in one day with the Better Business Bureau Serving Northern Indiana and SCORE are ready to help you build a better business and celebrate those already leading in the community.
Learn more about the BBB and SCORE’s Build a Better Business Conference in the interview above. You can also learn about the BBB’s Torch Awards for Ethics in the interview.
The Better Business Bureau and SCORE’s Build a Better Business Conference is Tuesday, November 1st from 7:30 a.m. until 4 p.m. at the Parkview Mirro Center. The Torch Awards for Ethics luncheon is also there from noon until 1.
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The beachfront new-build project in Uvero Alto is expected to feature 349 guest rooms
BETHESDA, Md. and PUNTA CANA, Dominican Republic, Oct. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Marriott International, Inc. today announced the signing of a management agreement with Grupo Puntacana and MAC Hotels to begin construction on the W All-Inclusive Punta Cana in Uvero Alto, an adults-only all-inclusive luxury property in the Dominican Republic. This hotel is expected to be the first W Hotels property in the market and one of the first W All-Inclusive resorts globally.
W All-Inclusive Punta Cana Uvero Alto is anticipated to feature 349 guest rooms with balconies and plunge pools, as well as several suites. With immersive and dynamic adult-focused programming, plans for the resort include a spa with 11 treatment rooms, a retail area, three pools with pool bars and eleven food and beverage destinations.
"Punta Cana is the perfect destination for both the W Hotels brand and an all-inclusive luxury resort," said Laurent de Kousemaeker, Chief Development Officer, Caribbean and Latin America, Marriott International. "We look forward to bringing the vision for this fun adult playground to life with Grupo Puntacana and MAC Hotels."
Today's agreement is a result of the diversification and growth strategy of Grupo Punta Cana. The pioneering work of the company has contributed to the development of more than 40,000 hotel rooms in the area.
"The signing of W Punta Cana Uvero Alto demonstrates our strong commitment to tourism development in Uvero Alto. This project is set to elevate the hotel supply in the region and generate about 600 new jobs," stated Frank Elías Rainieri, President and CEO, Grupo Puntacana.
For MAC Hotels, the original developer of this project, the investment represents its third project in the country. MAC has evolved its hospitality strategy in which the company has traditionally been both an owner and the operator for all of its projects until now.
"Today's signing with Grupo Puntacana and Marriott International allows us to move up to the next stage in our company's growth and development, and we thank both Marriott and Grupo Puntacana for the confidence they have shown us. We are excited to provide an unparalleled experience for guests coming to the beaches of Punta Cana," stated Begoña Amengual, CEO, MAC Hotels.The project is expected to break ground in the coming months with an anticipated opening date in 2025.
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Paul Pelosi attack: Suspect enters not-guilty plea
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The man who allegedly broke into U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s home and beat her 82-year-old husband in October pleaded not guilty Wednesday to six charges, including attempted murder, prosecutors said.
The suspect, David DePape, had planned to kidnap the speaker — who was in Washington at the time of the attack — when he broke into the couple’s San Francisco home on Oct. 28, authorities said. Instead, the 42-year-old defendant severely beat her husband Paul Pelosi with a hammer in an attack that was witnessed by two police officers and shocked the political world.
Paul Pelosi was knocked unconscious and woke up in a pool of his own blood. He later underwent surgery to repair a skull fracture and serious injuries to his right arm and hands. He has since appeared in public wearing a hat and a glove that covered his wounds.
Earlier this month, a judge ruled that prosecutors had presented enough evidence during a preliminary hearing to move forward. Wednesday’s appearance was another arraignment, a procedural move where the defendant enters a plea on the charges that will be brought to trial.
DePape is still being held without bail; his state case returns to court Feb. 23. The public defender’s office declined to comment. A federal case in which DePape has also pleaded not guilty is also ongoing.
He is charged in state court with attempted murder, first-degree residential burglary, elder abuse, assault with a deadly weapon, false imprisonment and threatening a family member of a public official.
During the preliminary hearing earlier this month, a San Francisco police investigator testified that DePape said there was “evil in Washington,” and he was looking to harm Nancy Pelosi because she is second in line for the presidency. Authorities have said DePape was drawn to conspiracy theories.
DePape told police he wanted to hold the Democratic leader hostage and “break her kneecaps” to show other members of Congress there were “consequences to actions,” the criminal complaint alleges.
In November, Nancy Pelosi said she would step down as Democrats’ leader in the House after two decades but remain in office. She and Paul have been married for nearly 60 years.
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SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily 4" game were:
7-5-1-8
(seven, five, one, eight)
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WASHINGTON (AP) — You know you’ve made a cultural impact when Henry Kissinger quotes your own joke back to you. That’s what happened to Billy Crystal, one of five iconic artists selected for this year’s Kennedy Center Honors.
The others selected for the lifetime artistic achievement award are rapper and actor Queen Latifah, opera singer Renée Fleming, 1970s music icon Barry Gibb and prolific hitmaker Dionne Warwick. All will be honored with the traditional gala celebration at Washington’s Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on Dec. 3.
Kennedy Center president Deborah F. Rutter called this year’s crop of inductees “an extraordinary mix of individuals who have redefined their art forms.”
Crystal, 75, came to national prominence in the 1970s playing Jodie Dallas, one of the first openly gay characters on American network television, on the sitcom “Soap.” He went on to a brief but memorable one-year stint on “Saturday Night Live” before starring in a string of movies, including massive hits like “When Harry Met Sally… ,” “The Princess Bride” and “City Slickers.”
But the character he says seems to most resonate with fans is “SNL” talk show host Fernando Lamas.
“After all these years, I still get ‘You look marvelous’ the most,” Crystal told The Associated Press, citing the character’s catchphrase. “I sat next to Henry Kissinger on a plane one time, and even he said it to me.”
Crystal, who also received the Kennedy Center’s Mark Twain Prize for lifetime achievement in comedy in 2007, joins an elite group of comedians to earn both the Twain prize and the Kennedy Center Honor: David Letterman, Steve Martin, Lorne Michaels, Lily Tomlin, Carol Burnett and Neil Simon. Bill Cosby also received both honors, but they were rescinded in 2018 following his sexual assault conviction, which later was overturned.
Warwick shot to stardom in the 1960s as the muse for the superstar songwriting team of Burt Bacharach and Hal David. She said her pride at receiving the honor will be mixed with “a bit of sadness because Burt and Hal won’t be there.” Bacharach died in February, and David died in 2012.
Warwick’s discography includes a multidecade string of hits, both with and without Bacharach, that includes “I Say a Little Prayer,” “I’ll Never Love This Way Again” and “That’s What Friends Are For.”
At age 82, Warwick also cheerfully disregards a bit of Kennedy Center tradition: acting humble and shocked at receiving the honor. In an interview with the AP, Warwick said she absolutely deserved it and had wondered at times what was taking so long.
“As my son said the other day, ‘Congratulations, and it’s about time,’” Warwick said. “I told him everything happens when it’s supposed to happen.”
Fleming, 64, is one of the prominent sopranos of her generation, with a string of accolades that includes a National Medal of Arts bestowed by then-President Barack Obama, a Cross of the Order of Merit from the German government and honorary membership in England’s Royal Academy of Music. Kennedy Center Honors recipients receive personalized tributes and performances from their peers, and Fleming has performed at previous ceremonies honoring jazz saxophonist Wayne Shorter and pianist Van Cliburn.
“There’s nothing else like this in the U.S.,” she said of the Kennedy Center Honor. “I really was hoping one day to get one.”
Fleming is also part of an obscure bit of Kennedy Center Honors trivia, having performed along with fellow 2023 honoree Queen Latifah at the 2014 Super Bowl. Fleming sang the national anthem while Latifah performed “America the Beautiful.”
Latifah has been a star since age 19 when her debut album and hit single “Ladies First” made her the first female crossover rap star. She has gone on to a diverse career that has included seven studio albums, starring roles in multiple television shows and movies and an Oscar nomination for best supporting actress for her role in the musical film “Chicago.”
She also became an iconic presence for gay women of color, despite refusing to publicly comment on her sexuality or personal life for decades. But in 2021, while accepting a lifetime achievement award at the BET Awards, she acknowledged her partner, Eboni Nichols, and their son, Rebel, and ended her speech with the declaration, “Happy Pride!”
Latifah, 53, received the news of her honor while on the set of her TV show “The Equalizer” and said she appreciates the Kennedy Center’s efforts to embrace hip-hop. The cultural center has established its own division of hip-hop culture and made LL Cool J a Kennedy Center Honors recipient in 2017.
“It’s important because hip-hop is a uniquely American artform,” she said, “just like jazz, just like blues, just like rock and roll.”
Gibb, 76, shot to global fame as part of one of the most successful bands in the history of modern music: the Bee Gees. Along with his late brothers Robin and Maurice, the trio launched a nearly unmatched string of hits that defined a generation of music.
“I’ve thought about it from time to time,” Gibb said of the Kennedy Center Honor. “But it would have been arrogance to expect it. … I do wish my brothers were here for this, too.”
Somewhat obscured at the time by the hairy chests and falsettos of their disco peak was the enduring brilliance of Gibb’s songwriting. He said he’s deeply gratified to find his songs living on in multiple covers by modern artists including Alison Krauss, Keith Urban and Jason Isbell. | https://www.koin.com/news/national/billy-crystal-and-queen-latifah-headline-this-years-class-of-kennedy-center-honors-recipients/ | 2023-06-23 09:34:22 | 1 | https://www.koin.com/news/national/billy-crystal-and-queen-latifah-headline-this-years-class-of-kennedy-center-honors-recipients/ |
Sponsor of ‘whippit’ bill clarifies confusion about whipped cream sales in New York
NEW YORK (Gray News) – A new law in New York banning the sale of whipped cream chargers has raised some confusion over the sale of canned whipped cream.
The legislation, sponsored by NY state Sen. Joseph Addabbo Jr., was passed in October 2021, and some stores had recently begun requiring ID to purchase the dessert topping.
The senator, however, issued a statement to clarify that is not necessary.
“My bill is not intended to prevent people under the age of 21 from buying whipped cream dispensers, but the small, individual charger or cartridge inside the whipped cream canisters,” Addabbo explained.
The misreading of the law had led some stores around the state to post signage notifying customers of an age limit and check the ID of customers buying whipped cream cans.
The goal of the law is to combat the use of whipped cream chargers, also known as “whippits,” as a way to get high.
The two-inch steel cylinders can be sold individually or in packs as refills to recharge whipped cream canisters.
“It is the individual charger or cartridge that is the sole target of the bill, which are accessible to younger residents and being used improperly to get the nitrous oxide high,” Addabbo said in the statement.
The whipped cream chargers contain the non-flammable gas, which is known to cause hearing loss, brain damage, limb spasms, heart failure or suffocation when inhaled, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration.
Nitrous oxide is often used during oral surgery to relieve pain, but it is highly addictive if used improperly.
“Nitrous oxide is a legal chemical for legitimate professional use but when used improperly, it can be extremely lethal,” Addabbo said in an October 2021 statement. “Sadly, young people buy and inhale this gas to get ‘high’ because they mistakenly believe it is a ‘safe’ substance. This law will eliminate easy access to this dangerous substance for our youth.”
According to the law, any entity found in violation of selling whipped cream chargers to anyone under 21 would be subject to a civil penalty of up to $250 for an initial offense and up to $500 for each subsequent offense.
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Virginia Cavaliers (19-4, 11-3 ACC) at Louisville Cardinals (3-22, 1-13 ACC)
The Cavaliers have gone 11-3 against ACC opponents. Virginia is 1-2 in one-possession games.
The Cardinals and Cavaliers face off Wednesday for the first time in ACC play this season.
TOP PERFORMERS: Ellis is averaging 17.4 points and 4.7 assists for the Cardinals. Jae’Lyn Withers is averaging 9.7 points and 5.1 rebounds over the last 10 games for Louisville.
Armaan Franklin is shooting 40.3% from beyond the arc with 2.2 made 3-pointers per game for the Cavaliers, while averaging 12.7 points. Kihei Clark is averaging 12.1 points and 6.1 assists over the past 10 games for Virginia.
LAST 10 GAMES: Cardinals: 1-9, averaging 67.0 points, 29.5 rebounds, 10.2 assists, 3.7 steals and 2.3 blocks per game while shooting 43.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 79.2 points per game.
Cavaliers: 9-1, averaging 70.2 points, 28.6 rebounds, 16.8 assists, 6.8 steals and 4.2 blocks per game while shooting 45.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 62.2 points.
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French senators said the chaos outside the national stadium that marred the Champions League soccer final was due to a series of mistakes by police and officials — and not the actions of previously blamed Liverpool fans — with “malfunction at every stage” before, during and after the game.
The senators made a series of recommendations to fix problems ahead of the Rugby World Cup next year and the 2024 Olympics that France will host. The findings of a report into the May 28 final were released Wednesday after the fiasco drew worldwide attention to heavy-handed policing and raised questions about how France manages security at big events.
Laurent Lafon, the head of one of the Senate commissions involved in the fact-finding mission, urged French authorities to draw lessons from the multiple incidents.
“The seriousness of what happened at the Stade de France shows that there are still many adjustments to be made, and many decisions to be taken to ensure that these incidents do not happen again," Lafon said.
He had no doubt that France is capable of organizing major events in the future but said assurances should be given at the highest level, including French President Emmanuel Macron, about the country's determination to prevent any repeat.
Since the final, where kickoff was delayed by more than 30 minutes, French senators have quizzed supporters and officials. Introducing their findings, Lafon blamed a general lack of coordination and authority, saying there was “malfunction at every stage" of the final.
UEFA has also started gathering evidence about issues that marred one of the world’s biggest games in sports. Real Madrid went on to beat Liverpool 1-0 in the final.
Lafon also apologized to Liverpool and Real Madrid fans, saying they were victims and not responsible for the events as French authorities had initially suggested.
France's interior minister, Gerald Darmanin, initially maintained that the presence of up to 40,000 supporters — allegedly mainly Liverpool fans — without tickets or with forged tickets led to the incidents that marred the event. But only 2,471 forged tickets were identified at the Stade de France.
Darmanin also said that dispersing the crowd that had amassed near the stadium’s fences with tear gas was the only way to prevent people getting crushed.
Many supporters also complained about thefts and assaults after the match as they left the stadium.
Francois-Noel Buffet, the president of the Senate’s law commission, said fans' security was not sufficiently ensured, noting that police forces struggled to put an end to the petty crime that took place around the stadium,
He said this should have been foreseen and better handled.
“The number of people mobilized to fight against delinquency was therefore undersized," he said.
Senators also criticized the decision by the police prefecture to set up a pre-filtering system of fans designed to prevent terror attacks in combination with ticket checks by stewards. Buffet said this had unintentionally created a bottleneck, and should not be repeated in the future.
Lafon also criticized the ticketing system by UEFA and said paper tickets were easily forged.
Senators regretted the automatic deletion of CCTV footage of events outside the Stade de France since judicial officials did not request the seizure of the footage within seven days after the incidents.
Buffet recommended that keeping such video for 30 days would become mandatory.
“What we will miss forever are the images. The real regret is there," said Buffet.
Senators also pointed to the poor handling of fans, and where they tried to enter the stadium, as a consequence of a transport strike. Stewards needed better training in future, with improved coordination with police forces.
The Paris police chief, Didier Lallement, has previously justified the pepper spraying of fans, many with families, amid the chaos. Lafon said Lallement had a clear responsibility in the failure, and Buffet recommended more clarity over when the use of tear gas was justified.
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TechForce Foundation Details Solutions to Address Transportation Industry's Technician Problem
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- TechForce Foundation, the only nonprofit 501(c)(3) committed exclusively to career exploration and workforce development for technician professionals across all transportation industry sectors, today released a critical new whitepaper addressing the role that women techs can play in solving the ongoing technician workforce shortage.
Women Techs: Solving the Tech Shortage Problem goes into detail on how the automotive, aviation, diesel, collision, motorsports and other transportation industry sectors can recruit and retain women technicians and offer professional growth opportunities throughout every phase of their careers. TechForce Foundation interviewed women technicians across multiple sectors from the United States, Canada, Australia, and the UK. The interview group spanned every career stage, ranging in age from 19 years old to 60.
"Women make up more than half the population but account for less than 3% of the technician workforce," said Jennifer Maher, CEO of TechForce Foundation. "The women techs we spoke to are thriving, and with demand for qualified technicians across the service and maintenance sector greatly outpacing supply, there is a huge opportunity for the industry to recruit women into these important 'new collar,' STEM careers."
"Today's technician role has transformed to meet the increasing complexity and advancements in automotive technology and with that the need for qualified and diverse talent is great," said John Roth, GM global vice president, Customer Care and Aftersales. "At GM, we are committed to being the most inclusive company in the world. We invest everyday in a culture that allows everyone to bring their whole self to work which includes steps to support and attract more women to consider the skilled trades as an attractive career option."
In addition to collecting and sharing the real-world experience and insights of women techs today, TechForce articulates key steps that employers can take to enhance their ongoing recruitment, retention, and growth strategies.
"It's clear that women seeking technician careers will play a vital part in the service and maintenance industry, where the need for talent at all levels is enormous," said Dana Rapoport, TechForce's Chief Consultant, DE&I. "We hope employers take full advantage of this opportunity, and implement the findings in this whitepaper to welcome this growing pool of diverse, skilled workers eager to contribute to the technician workforce."
Women Techs: Solving the Tech Shortage Problem can be downloaded here TechForce.org/WIT.
About TechForce Foundation
TechForce Foundation is a nonprofit, 501(c)(3) with the mission to champion all students to and through their education and into careers as professional technicians. TechForce powers the technician workforce by awarding more than $1.5 million in scholarships and grants annually to financially-disadvantaged students; changes perceptions towards this evolving, 'new collar' STEM career; and provides local career exploration and workforce development programming. TechForce's online, social network of students, working technicians, instructors, employers, industry professionals and enthusiasts committed to championing the technician workforce is the conduit through which the charity delivers its free resources, programs and career hub for the benefit of aspiring technicians. For more information, visit www.techforce.org. Follow us on TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Linkedin.
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GRENADA, Miss. (AP) — Conservative Mississippi is tough territory for Democrats, but the party sees an unusual opportunity this year to unseat first-term Republican Gov. Tate Reeves. They’re pinning hopes in November on a candidate with a legendary last name who has used his own compelling story to highlight the economic plight of working families in a state that has long been one of the poorest in America.
Democrat Brandon Presley is a second cousin of Elvis Presley, born a few days before the rock ’n’ roll legend died. While campaigning, Brandon Presley talks frequently about government corruption, focusing on a multimillion-dollar welfare scandal that developed when Reeves was lieutenant governor.
Presley, an elected member of the Mississippi Public Service Commission, is unopposed for the Democratic nomination for governor. He is pushing for Medicaid expansion to help financially strapped hospitals while telling voters about his own difficult childhood.
“I understand what working families in this state go through,” Presley told about 75 people at a restaurant in Grenada, a town on the edge of the Mississippi Delta.
The 45-year-old said he was just starting third grade when his father was murdered. Presley’s mother raised him and his brother and sister in the small town of Nettleton, earning modest wages from a garment factory. In his childhood home, “you could see straight through the floors into the dirt,” he said, and his mother struggled to pay for water and electricity.
“And let me say this to you clearly: When my name goes on the ballot in November, the names of families who have had their electricity cut off, who are getting up every day working for all they can to help their kids, to small business owners — your name goes on that ballot in November,” he said.
Mississippi is one of just three states with a governor’s race this year, joining Kentucky and Louisiana. All are places that historically have supported Republicans for statewide office, though Kentucky’s Democratic governor is seeking a second term.
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy, chairman of the Democratic Governors Association, described the three contests as “away games” but said Mississippi may be “the sleeper” — a state where the right Democrat could win. That’s despite voters twice heavily backing Donald Trump for president, the GOP holding all statewide offices and a supermajority in the Legislature and a Democrat not winning a Mississippi governor’s race so far this century.
Reeves, who faces two underfunded opponents in the Aug. 8 primary, has the advantage of incumbency: 31 governors of U.S. states or territories sought reelection last year, and only one lost. Reeves had about $9.4 million in his campaign fund at the end of May, far more than the $1.7 million Presley reported. Republicans also say national Democrats’ enthusiasm for Presley’s bid could be a liability.
Reeves, 49, was a banker from a Jackson suburb before winning his first statewide office 20 years ago. He is campaigning on a record of reducing the state income tax, increasing teachers’ pay, restricting abortion access and banning gender-affirming medical care for people younger than age 18. He also is casting this as an “us-versus-them” election, portraying Presley as part of a national Democratic operation far removed from the realities of life in Mississippi.
“My friends, this is a different governor’s campaign than we have ever seen before in our state because we are not up against a local yokel, Mississippi Democrat. We are up against a national liberal machine,” Reeves told more than 200 supporters at a campaign event in the Jackson suburb of Richland. “They are extreme. They are radical and vicious.”
Reeves said outsiders look at Mississippi with “scorn,” but the state has momentum.
“Are we going to let them stop us?” Reeves asked, and the crowd responded: “No!”
“Are we going to let them make Mississippi conform to California values?” Reeves asked. Again, the response was “No!”
Presley was 23 when he was elected mayor of Nettleton in 2001. During his second term leading the town of 2,000, he won the northern district seat on the Mississippi Public Service Commission, a three-member group that regulates utilities. He is completing his fourth term this year.
As Presley campaigns, he combines blunt criticism of Reeves with gospel and bluegrass songs that affirm the connection to his famous cousin without leaving the impression that he has chosen the wrong line of work.
In Grenada, Presley said a $100 million financial package that legislators and Reeves approved for hospitals this year was a “cheap, dollar store clearance-aisle Band-Aid” when Medicaid expansion could bring the state about $1 billion a year from the federal government.
Murphy said Presley’s style has been winning over donors. At an event Presley attended in New Jersey with Murphy, they exceeded their fundraising goal.
“We’ve got a great candidate. This guy’s the real deal,” Murphy said. “When you listen to what he would do on Day One as governor, you say, ‘You know what? That’s exactly what Mississippi needs.’”
Four years ago, Reeves won the governorship by defeating four-term Democratic Attorney General Jim Hood by 52% to 47%, with two lesser-known candidates in the race.
This year, one independent will be on the general election ballot. Republicans like their chances, given the state’s politics and Reeves’ history of five statewide wins: two for state treasurer, starting when he was 29; two for lieutenant governor; and one for governor.
“Democrats are desperately trying to create a mirage when it comes to Mississippi,” said Republican Governors Association spokesperson Courtney Alexander. “The reality is that Brandon Presley is bought and paid for by national Democrats, while Gov. Reeves’ record of historically low unemployment, historically high graduation rates, and substantial pay raises for Mississippi educators speaks for itself.”
About 38% of Mississippi residents are Black — the highest percentage of any state — and Black voters are vital for Democrats to have any chance of winning statewide.
Janie Houston, a retired kindergarten teacher who attended Presley’s event in Grenada, said some Black voters might not bother to show up in November because Republicans drew legislative districts specifically to protect wide majorities in the Legislature.
“That’s the point of doing all that gerrymandering,” Houston said.
Democrats, she added, are not putting enough support behind down-ballot candidates to offset that advantage.
“They need to come face-to-face with Black voters and any other voter,” she said. “That’s just the way it is. I just don’t think they’re putting enough money behind the candidates to get people to come out in the communities.”
The most influential Black politician in Mississippi, Democratic U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson, did not endorse Hood in the 2019 governor’s race because he said Hood never asked him to. But Thompson endorsed Presley at the outset of this year’s campaign, and the congressman said he will provide any support Presley requests in the coming months.
Thompson said Presley worked with him to help the tiny rural community of Schlater get safe drinking water after the pump for a water well broke, and that Presley has helped other needy areas get reliable electricity. After a tornado devastated the small town of Rolling Fork this spring, Thompson said, “one of the first calls I got was from Brandon Presley asking me what could he do?”
Thompson said Presley found generators in Louisiana to provide electricity for an armory in Rolling Fork that became a disaster relief spot.
“That’s the kind of person, the Brandon Presley that I know,” Thompson said in an interview. “It’s easy to support somebody who demonstrates that they care about people.”
The Reeves campaign event in Richland was in a large, air-conditioned warehouse for a construction equipment dealership. One of the spectators was Terry Felder, a retired offshore oil rig worker who said he voted for Reeves in 2019 and will again this year because he believes Republicans do a better job of controlling government spending.
Felder acknowledged Mississippi has problems but said he thinks the state is in “pretty good shape.”
“Every survey they have, if it’s a bad survey we’re at the top of the list. If it’s a good survey, we’re at the bottom,” Felder said. “But when you’re here, it doesn’t seem that way.”
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BOSTON (AP) — The reigning Eastern Conference champion Boston Celtics suspended coach Ime Udoka after a months-long investigation by an outside law firm that found multiple violations of team policies but did not point to a larger cultural problem of sexual misconduct, owner Wyc Grousbeck said Friday.
“We go to great lengths … to run the organization with the central core value of respect and freedom in the workplace from harassment or any unwelcome attention,” Grousbeck said at a news conference. “This feels very much, to me, like one of a kind. That’s my personal belief. But I’ll have to verify that.”
Neither Grousbeck nor president of basketball operations Brad Stevens would elaborate on the specifics of the violations or the private report that was delivered to the team two days ago. But a person with knowledge of the matter, speaking on the condition of anonymity because the details were not made public, told The Associated Press that it involved an inappropriate relationship with a woman in the organization.
Udoka’s multiple violations involved one woman, a Celtics spokesman said Friday. No one else in the organization is facing discipline, Grousbeck said, adding that the team will be vigilant to make sure that Udoka’s actions aren’t a signal that there is a larger problem.
“I personally don’t believe that they’re a deeper signal,” Grousbeck said. “But we will be — I will be, personally — talking to members of the organization to make sure that that’s the case.”
A first-year coach who is three months removed from a trip to the NBA Finals, Udoka was suspended less than a week before training camp was to open for a team considered among the favorites to win it all this season. Assistant Joe Mazzulla was elevated to interim coach through June 30, 2023; the Celtics say they have not decided about Udoka’s future beyond then.
Stevens grew emotional when discussing the effect the scandal has had on the team — especially the women who were singled out on social media as possibly being involved. The team reached out to employees to offer support.
“We have a lot of talented women in our organization. I thought yesterday was really hard on them,” Stevens said. “Nobody can control Twitter speculation, rampant (expletive), but I do think that we as an organization have a responsibility to make sure we’re there to support them now. Because a lot of people were dragged unfairly into that.”
Grousbeck said the team learned of the problem earlier this summer and immediately brought in an outside law firm to investigate. After receiving the report, Grousbeck met with Udoka and he expressed “acceptance and appreciation for how this has been handled.”
Grousbeck would not say whether the suspension was unpaid but confirmed that it comes with a “significant financial penalty.” A year-long suspension is uncommon but not unprecedented for a professional sports coach, but the lack of public detail about Udoka’s behavior has led some — including Celtics Hall of Famer Paul Pierce — to question whether it was too severe.
Grousbeck disagreed, and noted that Udoka accepted the punishment and apologized.
“I personally feel that this is well-warranted and appropriate, backed by substantial research and evidence and facts,” the owner said. “It was clear that something substantial needed to be done. And it was.”
Mazzulla, 34, led West Virginia to a victory in the 2007 NIT tournament and an upset over ninth-ranked Duke in the next year’s NCAA’s. His only head coaching experience was a two-year stint from 2017-19 at Division II Fairmont State in West Virginia.
“Joe’s going to be in charge. It’s not easy timing for him or the rest of the staff, but he’s an exceptionally sharp and talented person,” said Stevens, who added that he gave no serious thought to stepping back onto the bench himself. “This will be an unbelievable challenge, but I’m really confident in the team and the coaching staff that’s going to take the court on Tuesday. It’s not what we expected to happen, but I’m very confident in them.”
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HONG KONG, Jan. 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- UCLOUDLINK GROUP INC. ("UCLOUDLINK" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: UCL), the world's first and leading mobile data traffic sharing marketplace, today announced that Beijing Huaxianglianxin Technology Co., Ltd. ("Huaxianglianxin"), which UCLOUDLINK has invested in since 2019, has been successfully listed on the China National Equities Exchange and Quotations ("NEEQ"), an over-the-counter stock exchange in China, as of January 12, 2023, under the ticker 874037.
Huaxianglianxin is a mobile virtual network operator ("MVNO") that has a virtual operator license compliant with guidance and regulations issued by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People's Republic of China. UCLOUDLINK holds 6,000,000 shares of Huaxianglianxin and the two companies cooperate in multiple fields, including Internet of Things business.
"Huaxianglianxin has been UCLOUDLINK's trusted partner in developing our local business in mainland China, as it accelerates growth of its cloud communication business throughout the past couple of years," said Chaohui Chen, Director and CEO of UCLOUDLINK. "We congratulate Huaxianglianxin on its NEEQ listing, which we believe will add momentum to its business prospects. We expect it will also benefit UCLOUDLINK as we plan to continue expanding our local business in mainland China. As part of our effort to strengthen our global PaaS and SaaS ecosystem, we strive to explore ways in which we can work with business partners in the post-COVID-19 pandemic era, aiming to provide solutions to both users and carriers with better network quality and connection, enabling not just 'connected' but 'better connection'."
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Eruption at Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano stops after 61 days
HONOLULU (AP) — The latest eruption at Kilauea’s summit on Hawaii’s has paused after 61 days of volcanic activity.
U.S. Geological Survey’s Hawaiian Volcano Observatory scientists said Tuesday lava was no longer flowing on the crater floor of Halemaumau, where all recent volcanic activity had been confined, Hawaii News Now reported.
No significant changes have been observed along the volcano’s rift zones. Scientists on Monday observed small “ooze-outs” of lava flowing sluggishly in the lava lake.
Officials said activity diminished in the afternoon, and by Tuesday, there was no active lava in the crater.
USGS said the reduction in activity was related to the “larger deflationary tilt drop” that began Feb. 17, a common process at Kilauea in which the ground deflates for hours or days. The drop in pressure can then cause eruptions to diminish.
Kilauea began erupting again Jan. 5 after scientists detected a glow within Halemaumau Crater. The latest eruption started after a nearly monthlong pause in activity.
Kilauea is one of the world’s most active volcanoes. A 2018 Kilauea eruption destroyed more than 700 homes.
Before the major 2018 eruption, Kilauea had been erupting since 1983, and streams of lava occasionally covered farms and homes. During that time, the lava sometimes reached the ocean, causing dramatic interactions with the water.
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1st seditious conspiracy sentences in Jan. 6 attack to be handed down for Stewart Rhodes, other Oath Keepers
WASHINGTON (AP) — Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and members of his antigovernment group will be the first Jan. 6 defendants sentenced for seditious conspiracy in a series of hearings beginning this week that will set the standard for more punishments of far-right extremists to follow.
Prosecutors will urge the judge on Thursday to put Rhodes behind bars for 25 years, which would be the harshest sentence by far handed down in the U.S. Capitol attack. Describing the Oath Keepers’ actions as “terrorism,” the Justice Department says stiff punishments are crucial to send a message to future possible instigators of political violence.
“The justice system’s reaction to January 6 bears the weighty responsibility of impacting whether January 6 becomes an outlier or a watershed moment,” prosecutors wrote in court papers this month.
The hearings will begin Wednesday, when prosecutors and defense lawyers are expected to argue over legal issues concerning sentencing and begin hearing victim impact statements. Rhodes, from Granbury, Texas, and Florida chapter leader Kelly Meggs — who were convicted of seditious conspiracy in November — will receive their sentences Thursday, and six more Oath Keepers will be sentenced later this week and next.
Rhodes and Meggs were the first people in nearly three decades to be found guilty at trial of seditious conspiracy for what prosecutors described as a plot to forcibly stop the transfer of power from President Donald Trump to President Joe Biden. Three co-defendants were acquitted of the sedition charge but were convicted of obstructing Congress’ certification of Biden’s victory.
Another four Oath Keepers were convicted of the sedition charge in January during a second trial.
Prosecutors are seeking prison sentences ranging from 10 to 21 years for the Oath Keepers besides Rhodes. The judge canceled the sentencing scheduled this week for one defendant — Thomas Caldwell of Berryville, Virginia — as he weighs whether to overturn the jury’s guilty verdict on two charges.
Prosecutors are urging the judge to apply enhanced penalties for terrorism, arguing the Oath Keepers sought to influence the government through “intimidation or coercion.” Judges have so far rejected the Justice Department’s request to apply the so-called “terrorism enhancement” in the handful of Jan. 6 cases it has sought it in so far, but the Oath Keepers case is unlike any others that have reached sentencing to date.
“The defendants were not mere trespassers or rioters, and they are not comparable to any other defendant who has been convicted for a role in the attack on the Capitol,” prosecutors wrote.
More than 1,000 people have been charged with federal crimes stemming from the riot. Just over 500 of them have been sentenced, with more than half receiving terms of imprisonment ranging from a week to over 14 years. The longest sentence so far came earlier this month for a man with a long criminal record who attacked police officers with pepper spray and a chair as he stormed the Capitol.
The sentences for the Oath Keepers may signal how much time prosecutors will seek for leaders of another far-right group, the Proud Boys, who were convicted of seditious conspiracy in a separate trial earlier this month. They include former Proud Boys national chairman Enrique Tarrio, who is perhaps the most high-profile person charged in the sprawling Jan. 6 investigation. The Proud Boys are scheduled to be sentenced in August and September.
Using dozens of encrypted messages, recordings and surveillance video, prosecutors made the case that Rhodes and his extremist group followers began shortly after the 2020 election to prepare an armed rebellion to keep Biden out of the White House.
Over seven weeks of testimony, jurors heard how Rhodes rallied his followers to fight to defend Trump, discussed the prospect of a “bloody” civil war and warned the Oath Keepers may have to “rise up in insurrection” to defeat Biden if Trump didn’t act.
Jurors watched video of Rhodes’ followers wearing combat gear and shouldering their way through the crowd in military-style stack formation before forcing their way into the Capitol. They saw surveillance video at a Virginia hotel where prosecutors said Oath Keepers stashed weapons for “quick reaction force” teams prosecutors said were ready to get weapons into the city quickly if needed. The weapons were never deployed.
Rhodes, who didn’t go inside the Capitol, took the witness stand at trial and told jurors that there was never any plan to attack the Capitol and that his followers who did went rogee.
His lawyers are urging the judge to sentence him to the roughly 16 months behind bars he has already served since his January 2022 arrest. In court papers filed this month, Rhodes’ attorneys argued that all of Rhodes’ writings and statements were “protected political speech.”
“None of his protected speech incited or encouraged imminent violent or unlawful acts, nor were any likely to occur as a result of his speech,” they wrote.
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BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s embattled central bank governor stepped down on Monday under a cloud of investigation and blame for his country’s economic crisis as several European countries are probing his alleged financial crimes.
Riad Salameh, 73, ended his 30-year tenure as tearful employees took photos and a band played celebratory music with drums and trumpets as he left the building.
His four vice governors, led by incoming interim governor Wassim Mansouri, quickly pivoted to urge fiscal reforms for the cash-strapped country.
“We are at a crossroads,” Mansouri said at a news conference. “There is no choice, if we continue previous policy … the funds in the Central Bank will eventually dry up.”
Salameh kicked off his tenure as governor in 1993, three years after Lebanon’s 15-year civil war came to an end. It was a time when reconstruction loans and aid was pouring into the country, and Salameh was widely celebrated for his role in Lebanon’s recovery.
Now, he leaves his post a wanted man in Europe, accused by many in Lebanon of being responsible for the country’s financial downfall since late 2019.
It was a steep fall for a leader whose policies were once hailed for keeping the currency stable. Later, many financial experts saw him as setting up a house of cards that crumbled as the country’s supply of dollars dried up on top of decades of rampant and corruption and mismanagement from Lebanon’s ruling parties.
The crisis has pulverized the Lebanese pound and wiped out the savings of many Lebanese, as the banks ran dry of hard currency.
With the country’s banks crippled and public sector in ruins, Lebanon for years has run on a cash-based economy and relied primarily on tourism and remittances from millions in the diaspora.
Mansouri said previous policies that permitted the central bank to spend large sums on money to prop up the Lebanese state is no longer feasible. He cited years of spending billions of dollars to subsidize fuel, medicine, wheat and more to keep the value of the Lebanese pound stable.
He proposed a six-month reform plan that included passing long awaited reforms such as capital controls, a bank restructuring law, and the 2023 state budget.
“The country cannot continue without passing these laws,” Mansouri explained. “We don’t have time, and we paid a heavy price that we cannot pay anymore.”
The reforms Mansouri mentioned are among those the International Monetary Fund set as conditions on Lebanon in April 2022 for a bailout plan, though he did not mention the IMF. None have been passed.
France, Germany, and Luxembourg are investigating Salameh and his associates over myriad financial crimes, including illicit enrichment and the laundering of $330 million. Paris and Berlin issued Interpol notices to the central bank chief in May, though Lebanon does not hand over its citizens to foreign countries.
Salameh has repeatedly denied the allegations and insisted that his wealth comes from his previous job as an investment banker at Merrill Lynch, inherited properties, and investments. He has criticized the probe and said it was part of a media and political campaign to scapegoat him.
In his final interview as governor, Salameh said on Lebanese television that the responsibility for reforms lies with the government.
“Everything I did for the past 30 years was to try to serve Lebanon and the Lebanese,” he said. “Some — the majority —- were grateful, even if they don’t want to say so. And there are other people, well, may God forgive them.”
Salameh’s departure adds another gap in crisis-hit Lebanon’s withering and paralyzed institutions. The tiny Mediterranean country has been without a president for nine months, while its government has been running in a limited caretaker capacity for a year. Lebanon has also been without a top spy chief to head its General Security Directorate since March.
Lebanese officials in recent months were divided over whether Salameh should stay in his post or whether he should step down immediately in the remaining months of his tenure.
Caretaker Economy Minister Amin Salam wanted an immediate stepdown, given that the central bank chief had a “legal question mark.”
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(NEXSTAR/WXIN) – Disney+ began streaming its first-ever R-rated content over the weekend, debuting the superhero flicks “Deadpool,” “Deadpool 2” and “Logan” on the streaming platform Friday.
All three films, produced by 20th Century Fox, are based on characters from Marvel Comics — but they wade into much more violent and sexual territory than most Disney-produced Marvel films would dare.
“Hurry and stream your copy of Deadpool, Deadpool 2, and Logan on @DisneyPlus starting this Friday, before someone comes to their senses and they go back in the vault forever,” the official account for the “Deadpool” film franchise tweeted in response to the news.
Previously, Disney+ had focused on family-friendly content, including only films with PG-13, PG or G ratings in its streaming library. Even some of those films, which may have included negative depictions of certain cultures or racist stereotypes, were accompanied by an additional disclaimer warning viewers of problematic content.
For instance, “The Aristocats” is preceded by an advisory because of a “racist caricature of East Asian peoples,” and “Peter Pan” got one because its portrayal of Native Americans “reflects neither the diversity of Native peoples nor their authentic cultural traditions,” the Walt Disney Company explained.
In other cases, certain content was censored — including Daryl Hannah’s nude buttocks in “Splash,” which were digitally covered up when they appeared on Disney+.
Disney+, however, began paving the way for more mature content back in March, according to Deadline, by expanding “into TV-MA/R territory by updating its existing Parental Controls in the U.S.” Along with the new parental controls, Disney+ added several Marvel series to its library, including the TV-MA-rated “Daredevil,” “Jessica Jones” and “Luke Cage,” among other Marvel series that were previously on Netflix, the outlet reported.
While the streaming service’s newest content might delight “Deadpool” and “Logan” fans, one group decidedly not so delighted includes the Parents Television and Media Council, which claims that Disney+ broke its “promise” to parents.
“While Disney+ points subscribers to its parental controls, the mere presence of R-rated and TV-MA rated content violates the trust and sensibilities of families,” Tim Winter, the organization’s president, said in part in a statement released Friday. “What took decades to build is now taking mere months to erase.”
The stars of “Deadpool” and “Logan,” meanwhile, had a bit of a different take.
Hugh Jackman, the star of “Logan,” posted a picture of him and “Deadpool” star Ryan Reynolds hugging on the set of the latter, with the caption, “Thank you @disneyplus for adding brothers-in-arms @deadpoolmovie and #Logan as the first R-Rated movies on the platform. While your choice is questionable, we’ll take it.”
Reynolds also responded on social media, sharing a comical post that suggested several other “family-friendly” Disney films — including “Bambi,” “Old Yeller” and even “The Lion King,” are much more gruesome than they might seem.
“We’re supposed to announce Logan and Deadpool will soon be the first R-Rated movies on Disney+,” Reynolds wrote. “But we all know some Disney movies should already be rated R for irreversible trauma.” | https://www.wowktv.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/disney-adds-3-r-rated-movies-to-platform/ | 2022-07-26 15:01:40 | 1 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/disney-adds-3-r-rated-movies-to-platform/ |
NEW YORK, Dec. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Delcath Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: DCTH), an interventional oncology company focused on the treatment of primary and metastatic cancers of the liver, today announced that the Company granted an equity award, previously approved by the Company's Compensation Committee, as a material inducement to employment for one individual.
The employee received a total of 12,500 shares of the Company's common stock, outside of the Company's Amended and Restated 2020 Stock Incentive Plan ("Plan"). The options were issued upon the employee's grant date ("Grant Date"), and all stock options included within the equity inducement award have an exercise price equal to the closing price of Delcath common stock on the Grant Date with a ten-year term. One-third of the options will vest on the first anniversary of the Grant Date with the remaining two-thirds of the options vesting in equal monthly installments over the following twenty-four months.
The above-described award was granted in accordance with NASDAQ Listing Rule 5635(c)(4), and pursuant to the terms of the Plan. The Plan was adopted by Delcath's Board of Directors in October 2020 and has been amended and restated from time to time.
About Delcath Systems, Inc.
Delcath Systems, Inc. is an interventional oncology company focused on the treatment of primary and metastatic liver cancers. The Company's proprietary percutaneous hepatic perfusion (PHP) system is designed to administer high-dose chemotherapy to the liver while controlling systemic exposure and associated side effects. In the United States, the PHP system is being developed under the tradename HEPZATOTM KIT (melphalan hydrochloride for injection/hepatic delivery system), or HEPZATO, for the treatment of patients with unresectable hepatic-dominant metastatic ocular melanoma (mOM), also known as metastatic uveal melanoma (mUM) and is considered a combination drug and device product regulated by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
In Europe, the PHP system is now regulated as a Class lll medical device and is approved for sale under the trade name CHEMOSAT Hepatic Delivery System for Melphalan, or CHEMOSAT, where it has been used at major medical centers to treat a wide range of cancers of the liver.
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Kevin Bertolero has a disdain for time.
"How many times do you look at a clock, or look at time, and are happy?" Bertolero said. "When was the last time you were like, 'Oh, sick, it's 10:30. Awesome.'"
That's one of the reasons the 30-year-old has been making watches that don't tell time. They're meant to be worn like a traditional watch, except you won't see a clock face when checking your wrist. Instead, you'll find a tiny 3D-printed pool with magnetic duckies and bubbles.
After leaving a stressful job at a plant-based yogurt startup, Bertolero wanted to engage with his "child self."
He was using all sorts of strategies to work through childhood trauma at the time.
"I think all of us are low-key traumatized — you can't not be living in modern society, to some degree," Bertolero said. He said when people's traumas flare up, they use shopping, socializing or community involvement to mitigate discomfort. Bertolero found another option: cute things.
The idea for watches that don't tell time came to him in a "state of semi-sleep"; a watch that's sleek like an Apple Watch, but fun and interactive like Legos.
Little rubber duckies popped into his mind as something indisputably cute. He knew he wanted to make them tiny, because "the tinier something is, the cuter it is. The more people love it."
Bertolero says the sensory aspect of being able to touch and move the ducks are similar to toys like fidget spinners or slime.
Bortelero said he's always been attracted to art, but has no formal training. He found ways to express himself creatively at his local makerspace, where he learned how to 3D print.
He used a friend's resin 3D printer to print a little pool for the ducks to sit in. He posted the process to TikTok and, to his surprise, the video went viral.
@watchesthatdonttelltime A tiny tiny pool for tiny tiny ducks.#duckling #tinythings #design #KeepItRealMeals #wearableart ♬ Pieces (Solo Piano Version) - Danilo Stankovic
A collaborative design process via TikTok excited Bertolero, and he ended up incorporating some of his follower's ideas.
Bertolero said he has sold over 300 watches that don't tell time, and is on track to sell 1,200 by the end of the year. They're available on Etsy and his website, watchesthatdonttelltime.com.
As far as Bertolero knows, there isn't a genre of watches like his — though there are some products on the market, including terrarium watches and a watch without a time-telling face.
"I created these watches because they made my inner child happy," Bertolero said. He thinks his watches evoke the same reaction in a lot of people.
Crystal Burwell, a licensed professional counselor who works with adults and teens, said reengaging with the inner child takes people back to a place where they can treat themselves with care, and that working through an issue therapeutically doesn't look the same for everyone.
She encourages her patients to embrace their "weird, customized happiness" with sensory toys like squishy stuffed animals. It can help people reconnect with that part of themselves they have disengaged with.
Toy designer Whitney Pollett said that there's a demand for simple, comforting toys. Objects that one interacts with tactilely and act as an emotional reminder.
Bertolero said: "I think basically, people are at their wits end."
"And you know, it's nice to have this little wrist reminder that there are cute and happy things around you in the world," he said.
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ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J., May 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Save big with LG Electronics USA (LG) on top-rated kitchen, laundry and cleaning appliances this Memorial Day. Shoppers can take advantage of some of the best deals of the year while upgrading their homes with LG's latest innovations. Plus, homeowners can claim a 5% or 10% rebate when they bundle three or more eligible appliances.1
Get Ready for Summer Entertaining with LG Kitchen Appliances
Save $1,000 off of MSRP on the new LG Counter-Depth MAX™ Refrigerator (LRFOC2606S) – the largest counter depth refrigerator on the market2 with 26 cu. ft. of interior capacity. LG InstaView® refrigerators with Craft Ice™ are the perfect solution for entertaining in style, with spherical ice that elevates any drink and helps keep summer drinks cooler for longer. Available in different configurations and finishes, shoppers can choose their favorite – like the largest capacity French Door refrigerator on the market (LRMVS3006S) – now available for $1,200 off of MSRP.
For summer cooking, take things up a notch with LG's InstaView Double-Oven Slide-In Range (LTEL7337F) and enjoy features like LG ProBake® Convection, Air Fry and Air Sous Vide for $2,399 (a savings of $700 off of MSRP). For effortless cleaning, the 2023 Energy Star Most Efficient Smart Top Control Dishwasher (LDPH7972S) with 1-Hour Wash & Dry, QuadWash® Pro, TrueSteam®, and Dynamic Heat Dry™ is now only $949 ($350 off MSRP).
Save on America's Top-Rated Washers and Dryers
Consumers can score next-level savings on ENERGY STAR® certified LG washers, including durable top-load models, front-load models with advanced cleaning, and steam washers that are CERTIFIED asthma and allergy friendly® by the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America to help eliminate allergens.
Named the most reliable brand for top-load high efficiency washers five years in a row,3 score one of LG's durable and high performing top-load models this Memorial Day. LG's top-load washers feature powerful and efficient technologies such as a 4-Way™ Agitator and TurboDrum™ that can make laundry day easier (WT7400CV; WT7900HBA). With TurboWash3D™, loads can be completed in as little as 29 minutes.4 Homeowners who purchase an eligible top-load washer and dryer pair are eligible for a $100 rebate from now until June 7th, 2023.5
Bring home the new LG Smart Front-Load Washer and Dryer Pair (WM6700HBA; DLEX6700B; DLGX6701B), designed to help consumers take back their day with steam refresh, built-in intelligence and Wi-Fi connectivity for on-the-go laundry access, with a savings of $400 on each unit, giving you a combined savings of $800 off of MSRP on the pair.
Revolutionize your laundry game with LG's innovative vertical laundry solution, the LG Wash Tower™, now available in bright new colorways including Candy Apple Red and Nature Green (WKGX201HGA; WKEX200HGA; WKGX201HRA; WKEX200HRA). The space saving design features a full-sized dryer above the washer in a sleek, single-unit design, available in both electric and gas dryers.
Save up to $700 off of MSRP on the LG Styler (S3RFBN, S3WFBN)– a first-of-its-kind steam clothing care system that uses the gentle power of steam (no chemicals) to refresh and sanitize fabrics, including jackets, clothing, bags, pillows and even stuffed animals.
The above promotions may or may not be able to be combined. For more details and to shop all of LG's Memorial Day savings, visit https://www.lg.com/us/promotions.
About LG Electronics USA
LG Electronics USA, Inc., based in Englewood Cliffs, N.J., is the North American subsidiary of LG Electronics, Inc., a $68 billion global innovator in technology and manufacturing. In the United States, LG sells a wide range of innovative home appliances, home entertainment products, commercial displays, air conditioning systems, energy solutions and vehicle components. LG is 2022 ENERGY STAR® Partner of the Year-Sustained Excellence. The company's commitment to environmental sustainability and its "Life's Good" marketing theme encompass how LG is dedicated to people's happiness by exceeding expectations today and tomorrow. www.LG.com.
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LOS ANGELES, April 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Clubhouse Media Group, Inc. (OTCMKTS: CMGR) ("Clubhouse Media"), a social media firm and digital agency, today announced financial results for year-end 2022. The company has highlighted some of their financial achievements below.
2022 End of Year Summary Compared to 2021 End of Year Summary
- Total net revenue increased 47.7% to $6,283,691, compared to $4,253,765
- Operating expenses decreased 72.6% to $4,251,947 compared to $15,514,421
- Operating loss decreased 79.9% to $2,965,855 compared to $14,731,518
- Gross profit margin increased to 20.5%, compared to 18.4%
- Total liabilities decreased 16.4% to $8,921,990, compared to $10,668,403
Management Commentary
"2022 was a strong year for us and it's reflected in the numbers" said Scott Hoey, Chief Financial Officer of CMGR. "We were able to make improvements in some key areas. We increased revenue, significantly decreased our expenses, and strengthened our balance sheet by eliminating more of our convertible debt. As we continue to narrow the focus to our key revenue drivers and maximize resources, I'm optimistic that the momentum will continue in 2023."
"2022 was a good year for the company financially and our goal is to continue on this trajectory in 2023 by further increasing revenue and decreasing our expenses" said Amir Ben-Yohanan, Chief Executive Officer of CMGR. "Our digital agency (The Reiman Agency) Is working with new brands and talent every month and our creator platform has been growing In popularity (adding more creators and fans on a weekly basis). As a result of this growth, the company does not need to rely on external financing sources nearly as much."
Visit us @ clubhousemediagroup.com
About Clubhouse Media Group, Inc.
CMGR offers and deal-making services, a management division for brands and individual influencer clients, and an investment arm for joint ventures and acquisitions for companies in the social media influencer space.
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS: This release contains "forward-looking statements". Forward-looking statements also may be included in other publicly available documents issued by CMGR and in oral statements made by our officers and representatives from time to time. These forward-looking statements are intended to provide management's current expectations or plans for our future operating and financial performance, based on assumptions currently believed to be valid. They can be identified by the use of words such as "anticipate," "intend," "plan," "goal," "seek," "believe," "project," "estimate," "expect," "strategy," "future," "likely," "may," "should," "would," "could," "will" and other words of similar meaning in connection with a discussion of future operating or financial performance.
Examples of forward-looking statements include, among others, statements relating to future sales, earnings, cash flows, results of operations, uses of cash and other measures of financial performance.
Because forward-looking statements relate to the future, they are subject to inherent risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause CMGR's actual results and financial condition to differ materially from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements. Such risks, uncertainties and other factors include, among others such as, but not limited to economic conditions, changes in the laws or regulations, demand for CMGR's products and services, the effects of competition and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected or represented in the forward-looking statements. Any forward-looking information provided in this release should be considered with these factors in mind. We caution investors not to rely unduly on any forward-looking statements and urge you to carefully consider the risks described in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission from time to time, including our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and subsequent Quarterly Reports on Forms 10-Q and Current Reports on Form 8-K, which are available on the Securities and Exchange Commission's website at sec.gov. We assume no obligation to update any forward-looking statements contained in this press release.
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CALDERON, Jr., John J.
Age 84, of Huber Heights, passed away July 31, 2022. Mass at 11 AM, August 8, at St. Peter Catholic Church. Marker & Heller Funeral Home, Huber Heights Chapel, Huber Heights, OH.
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NEW YORK, June 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- First Citizens Bank today announced that Marc Heller has been promoted to the position of vice chairman of CIT Commercial Services1, a subsidiary of First Citizens Bank, and that Michael Hudgens has been promoted to the role of CIT Commercial Services president with full responsibility for the day-to-day operation of the business. The new appointments are effective July 1.
Heller has been a leader in commercial financing for more than half a century. Since joining CIT in 2004, Heller has been an integral part of CIT Commercial Services' growth and development, first as Northeast regional manager and subsequently as its president since 2016. Under his supervision, CIT Commercial Services emerged as a nationwide leader in factoring, credit protection, accounts receivable management and lending services to consumer product companies, manufacturers, dealers, importers and resellers.
In his new role as vice chairman, Heller will continue to actively support the business, maintaining and expanding client relations while ensuring a smooth transition of management responsibilities. Heller will also continue to provide strategic advice and guidance on business activities and new initiatives.
Since March 2022, Hudgens has served as managing director for all of CIT Commercial Services, supervising regional managers in the Northeast, Southeast and West. As president, his role will expand to include oversight of all CIT Commercial Services leaders and executives with primary responsibility for business growth. Hudgens has deep experience in factoring and other financial services. He is a veteran of 35 years with CIT Commercial Services, including more than a decade as Southeast regional manager.
"I want to congratulate Marc Heller and Mike Hudgens on their new roles, as we look to accelerate growth in CIT Commercial Services and continue positioning the business for long-term success," said Peter Bristow, president of First Citizens Bank. "We are extremely fortunate to have two extraordinary individuals with unparalleled expertise in this field leading our business and supporting our clients."
"CIT Commercial Services is a unique lender with outstanding experience and expertise," Heller said. "I am pleased to continue supporting the business and its existing clients while continuing to collaborate with Mike Hudgens to introduce new consumer products companies to the many ways we can help them better finance their operations and growth."
"I am proud to assume the position of president of CIT Commercial Services, widely known as one of the best and most experienced lenders in the field," Hudgens said. "After all we've accomplished, our business still has tremendous room for growth and I look forward to helping us realize that potential in the months and years ahead."
These latest announcements come on the heels of other recent changes in CIT Commercial Services as the business continues to align itself for success. Last month, First Citizens announced that Thomas Fingleton had been named chief strategy officer for CIT Commercial Services, with Amna Mahmood being promoted to Northeast regional manager and Daniel Goll being named national underwriting manager.
About First Citizens Bank
First Citizens Bank helps personal, business, commercial and wealth clients build financial strength that lasts. Headquartered in Raleigh, N.C., and now celebrating the 125th anniversary of its founding, First Citizens has built a unique legacy of strength, stability and long-term thinking that has spanned generations. First Citizens offers an array of general banking services including a network of more than 550 branches in 23 states and commercial banking expertise delivering best-in-class lending, leasing and other financial services coast to coast. Parent company First Citizens BancShares, Inc. (NASDAQ: FCNCA) is a top 20 U.S. financial institution with more than $200 billion in assets. First Citizens Bank, Member FDIC. Discover more at firstcitizens.com.
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NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PosiGen, the nation's leading provider of renewable energy and energy efficiency solutions for low-to-moderate (LMI) income homeowners, announces the addition of Kyle Wallace as Vice President of Public Policy & Government Affairs. In his new role, Kyle will work with state policymakers, utility commissions, utilities, and community and environmental groups to help shape energy policies to provide equitable access to PosiGen's #SolarForAll commitment.
Kyle brings nearly a decade of energy industry experience to PosiGen. He previously served as the Director of Public Policy for the northeast at Sunrun. He also served on the board of the New York Solar Energy Industries Association. Kyle started in energy through Utah State University's Energy Policy Initiative as a contributor. He then joined Vivint Solar in 2015 and held multiple roles involving public policy, market expansion, and analytics. He holds a Master's degree in Political Science from Utah State University and a Bachelor's degree from Colorado Mesa University.
As the VP of Public Policy & Government Affairs, Kyle will lead PosiGen's state legislative and regulatory work in current and emerging markets. A top priority will be to engage with industry, policymaker, and environmental justice stakeholders to develop equitable policies for rooftop solar, energy storage, and energy efficiency.
"Kyle is the right person to lead the company's efforts to establish PosiGen as the national trusted voice for policymakers on how to bring solar to underserved communities," said Steven Burt, PosiGen Chief Compliance & Policy Officer. "His experience and commitment to clean energy will allow him to take advantage of the opportunities provided by the Inflation Reduction Act and state policies to expand PosiGen's reach."
Kyle was drawn to PosiGen's mission to bring solar to underserved communities. "PosiGen's unique commitment to serving the households who need solar and energy efficiency the most was incredibly powerful to me," he said. "Over the last few years energy equity has been a major source of discussion, but too often those words were not actually leading to meaningful policy action. I'm excited to be in this role where I can be a champion for underserved communities to ensure they too benefit from a clean energy future," Wallace said.
Since 2011, PosiGen has worked to close the clean energy affordability gap by delivering lower utility bills and the benefits of clean energy through solar panels and energy efficiency upgrades to low-to-moderate homeowners. To date, the company has served over 22,000 customers. PosiGen's lease program covers the full cost of installing, maintaining, and ensuring the solar system, and provides energy efficiency upgrades with no minimum credit score or minimum income requirement.
About PosiGen:
Headquartered in New Orleans, LA, PosiGen is the nation's leading residential solar, energy efficiency and energy education provider for low-to-moderate income families. PosiGen has more than 22,000 residential customers, over 520 direct employees and also supports more than 150 employees through its contractors in Louisiana, Mississippi, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. PosiGen's unique services and products make solar energy affordable to homeowners of all income levels, and offers individuals, families, and businesses the opportunity to achieve greater fiscal autonomy and energy independence through lower utility bills. To learn more about PosiGen, please visit www.PosiGen.com
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Alvin Bragg promises not to prosecute theft to establish 'racial equity' balance: 'Crime of poverty'
During the meeting, Bragg promised he would create a fracture between the New York City Police Department and the Manhattan DA office
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said during his campaign that racial equity needed to be a priority and that he didn't believe thievery should be prosecuted since it was a "crime of poverty."
During the May 2021 meeting, Bragg articulated his intention to focus on racial equity instead of prosecuting theft.
"I grew up with friends disappearing over charges like that (theft) and even if there is an alternative [to incarceration, such as diversion programs, there is a] consequence of disruption for the family. We need to asking, 'Does something make us safer?' And prosecuting a young person, even if it doesn't end in incarceration [such as in diversion programs], in my view does not make us safer," he said. "I think we need to move away from what I would call a crime of poverty."
Bragg was speaking to a group from Young New Yorkers in May 2021. The organization "applies a racial justice framework to… all levels of operations" as it diverts individuals facing charges under the age of 25 from the criminal justice system.
NYC FORCES ALL CITY EMPLOYEES TO UNDERGO RADICAL CRITICAL RACE THEORY TRAINING: 'REALLY UNFAIR'
Bragg said his overall intention was to "Shrin[k] the footprint" of the criminal justice system.
A campaign webpage, which has since been scrubbed, said Bragg believed crimes that disproportionately incarcerate Black people are "morally indefensible" to enforce.
"These cases do not belong in criminal court. The punishments are disproportionately harsh, and fall disproportionately on the backs of people of color. This makes them morally indefensible," Bragg stated on his website. "This is why I will not prosecute most petty offenses through the traditional criminal court system… I will either dismiss these charges outright or offer the accused person the opportunity to complete a program without ever setting foot in a courtroom."
"In Manhattan, every single step in the way a case is processed from what someone is charged with, to the plea they are offered, to the sentence they are given, is rife with racial disparities," Bragg said during the 2021 meeting.
The New York City Police Department released data showing New York City's Five Boroughs being overrun with a handful of thieves who were arrested over 6,000 times, and released back into the streets.
During the meeting, Bragg also promised he would create a fracture between the New York City Police Department and the Manhattan DA when he was elected.
"For too long the DA's office has been an adjunct of the NYPD, reflexively processing what they do," he said. Bragg added that prosecution should have its own approach and shouldn't "reflexively" process arrests made by the NYPD.
The statements reflect those from his chief prosecutor, Meg Reiss, who was brought in to Bragg's office. Reiss has advocated to include a critical race theory framework into prosecution years before joining the Manhattan DA.
Reiss previously bragged about letting violent felons out on the streets, including a murderer, Fox News Digital reported.
Before joining Bragg's office, Reiss created the Institute for Innovation on Prosecution which suggested prosecutors should intentionally undermine the charges police officers bring forward.
The institute said prosecutors must focus on "acknowledging our nation’s shameful history of slavery and racism which continues to cloud the criminal justice system."
Bragg's chief prosecutor has argued for critical race theory ideology to be integrated into the criminal justice system as part of a "new paradigm of prosecution," while claiming violent criminals are not necessarily "bad dudes."
"So one of the first things [to] do is change the language: ‘the bad dude.’ What does that mean? What are the circumstances of that person coming into the criminal justice system in the first place? And what is the background to that person?" she said in a 2017 interview unearthed by Fox News Digital.
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Reiss has also harshly criticized "jury pools" for giving officers "the benefit of the doubt" during trials into misconduct allegations.
Bragg's office has been in the spotlight as it leads the hush money probe and indictment of former President Donald Trump on 34 Class E felony charges, which could amount to over 100 years in prison if he is convicted of all charges.
Trump's indictment marked the first time a U.S. president, former or current, had ever been charged with a crime. Trump has accused Bragg, a Democrat, of political bias against him. | https://www.foxnews.com/media/alvin-bragg-promises-not-prosecute-theft-establish-racial-equity-agenda-crime-poverty | 2023-04-20 22:40:09 | 0 | https://www.foxnews.com/media/alvin-bragg-promises-not-prosecute-theft-establish-racial-equity-agenda-crime-poverty |
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