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During MWC Shanghai 2023, Fibocom announces the launch of its 5G smart module SC151-GL empowered by the Qualcomm® QCM4490 Processor. The global version of SC151-GL aims to provide a "one unit fits for world" solution for 5G AIoT markets, and enables the access of mobile smart terminals to the 5G service anywhere, anytime.
SHANGHAI, June 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Fibocom, a global leading provider of IoT (Internet of Things) wireless solutions and wireless communication modules, announces the availability of SC151-GL at MWC Shanghai 2023. Based on the Qualcomm® QCM4490 Processor, Fibocom SC151-GL is the industry-first 5G smart module that supports mainstream frequency bands under 5G network architecture worldwide, which is crucial for customers that require global roaming on their devices to deploy the smart wireless solution faster, more efficient compared to the regional versions.
Fibocom SC151-GL provides a comprehensive smart wireless solution empowered by the Qualcomm® QCM4490 Processor. Compliant with 3GPP Release 16, the module is capable of offering Gigabit 5G experience, in addition to the support of Wi-Fi 6/6E, allowing the connections of multiple end devices simultaneously as well as the high-capacity of data throughput, these features can significantly improve the uplink performance, especially for the latency-sensitive scenarios like warehouse management and manufacturing detection. In terms of network utilization, the SC151-GL is also backward compatible with 4G/3G bands in addition to the compatability of 5G SA/NSA and EN-DC. It is worth highlighting that the module delivers a power-efficient solution for end devices enabled by the added-value TWT (Target Wake Time).
The convergence of AI and IoT is inevitable in the fast-growing digital transformation, and 5G is the key accelerator to implement the migration in 5G AIoT era. Fibocom SC151-GL is a "one unit fits for world" smart wireless solution for customers from the industrial handheld, industrial tablet, point-of-sale devices, body-worn cameras, PoC (push to talk over cellular) industries to minimize the R&D cycle and reduce hardware investments in the early stage of global deployment. Equipped with a set of rich interfaces including MIPI/ USB/ UART/ SPI/ I2C, etc., the module is scalable to meet the demands of various AIoT applications, and the support from software is fully capable of future upgrades to Android 18.
"The booming market of 5G has driven more and more IoT devices to evolve from 4G to 5G, especially for the smart devices such as industrial handheld terminals or tablets that require seamless roaming to satisfy the processing speed of edge computing," said Eden Chen, General Manager of MC Product Management Center, Fibocom. "We are confident to say that the launch of SC151-GL, the industry-first 5G smart module that integrates the capability to support global frequency bands in one unit will help our customers to lead the 5G transformation and digitalization more efficiently."
About Fibocom
Fibocom is a leading global provider of wireless communication modules and solutions as well as the first wireless communication module provider listed on China A-shares stock market (stock code: 300638). Fibocom offers a one-stop solution for industry customers by integrating wireless communication modules, IoT solutions and cloud service. With over two decades of engagement in M2M and IoT communication technology and extensive expertise, we are capable of bringing reliable, convenient, secure and intelligent connectivity service to every industry, enriching smart life with a perfect wireless experience. Fibocom's product portfolio ranges from cellular modules (5G/4G/3G/2G/LPWA), automotive-grade modules, AI modules, android-smart modules, GNSS modules and antenna service. Together, we aim to empower digital transformation across industries such as ACPC (Always Connected PC), mobile broadband, smart retail, C-V2X, robotics, smart energy, IIoT, smart cities, smart agriculture, smart home, telemedicine, etc.
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2023-06-30T08:57:00+00:00
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wafb.com
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https://www.wafb.com/prnewswire/2023/06/30/fibocom-launches-industry-first-sc151-gl-mwc-shanghai-2023-accelerating-global-5g-aiot-commercialization-with-one-highly-integrated-smart-module/
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1 dead in Oklahoma college shooting, suspect in custody
MIDWEST CITY, Okla. (AP) — One person was shot and killed Monday at a small Oklahoma college and police said a suspect was in custody after school officials told students to stay inside. No other injuries were reported.
Midwest City Police Chief Sid Porter said the shooting on the campus of Rose State College appeared to be “domestic-related.” He told reporters at the scene that both the suspect and victim were male.
He did not provide additional details about what led to the shooting on the campus in suburban Oklahoma City, which has about 13,000 students.
Porter said that weeks before the shooting, students and staff at Rose State College had completed an exercise about what to do in the event of an active shooter.
“Thing got locked down real quick,” Porter said. “I just think they did a fantastic job listening to the school and everybody staying down and not panicking because we didn’t know what was going on.”
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2023-04-24T18:44:20+00:00
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kob.com
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https://www.kob.com/news/us-and-world-news/1-dead-in-oklahoma-college-shooting-suspect-in-custody/
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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy plans on holding a vote on his proposal, which included changes to various entitlement programs like food stamps. But the path to becoming a law is very steep.
Copyright 2023 NPR
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy plans on holding a vote on his proposal, which included changes to various entitlement programs like food stamps. But the path to becoming a law is very steep.
Copyright 2023 NPR
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2023-04-25T20:58:55+00:00
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nepm.org
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https://www.nepm.org/national-world-news/2023-04-25/the-impact-that-kevin-mccarthys-debt-ceiling-proposal-would-have-on-food-stamps
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Mom left non-verbal son, 4-year-old daughter alone while at the bar, police say
GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY/Gray News) – A 25-year-old mother is accused of leaving her children alone while she went to a bar in Wisconsin.
Christina Badalamenti was charged Monday with two felony counts of neglecting a child, resulting in no harm to a child under 6 or with a disability, and one misdemeanor count of resisting or obstructing an officer.
According to the criminal complaint, an officer found her non-verbal 6-year-old son wandering alone on a parking ramp while the officer was searching for a driver who ran away during a traffic stop.
Police say the boy was wearing a winter coat with a fur hood, sleeping pants and rain boots.
The officer brought the child to his squad car to get him warm during the 20-degree temperatures.
Police looked at their file of non-verbal persons and found a picture of the boy and his address.
When officers went to the home, they knocked, got no answer but could see a child inside. Once they gained entry, they found the boy’s 4-year-old sister home alone.
“Police were able to contact the 25-year-old Green Bay mom, who was at a bar and claimed that she had left the children with a babysitter who, when interviewed, told officers she was never contacted,” police said.
The children were placed with their father, who lives in Coleman.
Police praised the quick response.
“This could’ve ended in tragedy. We must recognize our officer’s quick actions on the matter and the work by our crime analysis division to identify non-verbal residents when reported to the Green Bay Police by their family members. This resource has proven to be very useful related to this most recent incident,” said Commander Kevin Warych with the Green Bay Police Department.
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2023-01-10T16:14:37+00:00
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kwch.com
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https://www.kwch.com/2023/01/10/mom-left-non-verbal-son-4-year-old-daughter-alone-while-bar-police-say/
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Amber Alert issued for abducted 5-year-old boy from Texas
SMITH COUNTY, Texas (KLTV/Gray News) - An Amber Alert has been issued for an abducted boy from Overton, Texas.
Officials said Zachariah Sutton, 5, was last seen with Pamela Medlock, 59, in a green Jeep Wrangler that has a Texas license plate, KLTV reported.
Zachariah is described as a Black male with black hair and brown eyes. He is 3 feet 5 inches tall and weighs approximately 60 pounds. He was last seen wearing a gray jumpsuit and black and white shoes.
Medlock is described as a Black female with black hair and brown eyes. She is 5 feet 6 inches tall and weighs 135 pounds. She was last seen wearing a plaid jacket and khaki pants.
Anyone with information is asked to call 911 or the Smith County Sheriff’s Office at 903-566-6600.
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2022-11-21T15:09:57+00:00
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kttc.com
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https://www.kttc.com/2022/11/21/amber-alert-issued-abducted-5-year-old-boy-texas/
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It's been a very good year for U.S. manufacturing.
Factories added 467,000 jobs in the last 12 months. And factory production in September was the highest in 14 years, according to the Federal Reserve.
Even as other industries struggle under the weight of rising interest rates, factories keep churning out products to meet consumers' insatiable demand for cars, computers and candy bars. Now manufacturers are working to expand their capabilities, while struggling with supply and labor scarcities and looking to the near-future, where some economists and many on Wall Street say a recession looms.
Auto production has see-sawed in recent months, as carmakers continue to struggle with a shortage of semiconductors. But September was a good month for auto manufacturing, with production climbing by 1%.
Ten months ago, Drew Greenblatt purchased the Madsen Steel Wire Products factory in Orland, Ind., which supplies automakers, among other customers.
"Since we bought them, we've grown the company from 33 employees to 53 employees," Greenblatt says. "We've invested in new technology, robotic press brakes, new bathrooms for the employees. It's an aggressive push to reinvest back into the factory because we're so enthusiastic and optimistic about the future."
The semiconductor shortage epitomizes the challenges factories have faced throughout the pandemic in getting the parts and supplies they need. While those challenges have eased somewhat, managers say supply chains still aren't back to normal.
"I try to keep enough parts on the shelf," says Betty Jane Parrott, whose family-owned business, Milwaukee Metal Products, has been around for more than a century. "But if I have two on the shelf and I sell two, I can't sell another one till I get a new one back. And with four or five months' lead time, I can't anticipate that far in advance what I'm going to need."
Parrott says finding skilled workers is also a challenge.
"A lot of the baby boomers retired during COVID and they were the ones that had years and years of experience," she says. "We've been looking for qualified welders for probably a year. The skilled people, the trained people are very, very hard to find."
Manufacturing still far off its peak more than 40 years ago
Factory employment rebounded to its pre-pandemic level in June--two months earlier than overall employment in the United States. Factories added 22,000 jobs in September, down from 27,000 the month before.
"Manufacturing is roaring back," President Biden declared last month, touting what he called, "the strongest manufacturing job recovery since the 1950s."
But U.S. factories still employ only about two-thirds as many people as they did at their peak, in 1979. Back then, factories accounted for nearly 22% of all the jobs in the country. Today, fewer than 9% of U.S. jobs are in manufacturing.
"Every president wants to increase manufacturing. But the future of jobs is in the service sector," says economist Betsey Stevenson of the University of Michigan.
While some manufacturing jobs have moved overseas, U.S. factories have also become more efficient, allowing them to produce more things with fewer workers.
"We've become so much more productive at making things, we just only need to spend a small share of our resources — our people, our time, our factories, our equipment — making stuff," Stevenson says.
Factory jobs are also more skilled these days, as workers need the know-how to handle more advanced equipment.
While the new Federal Reserve data show factory production is still growing, there are anecdotal signs that demand for manufactured goods may be slowing.
A recent survey by the Institute for Supply Management found new factory orders declined last month. And manufacturing managers have grown more cautious about replacing workers when they quit or retire.
As mortgage rates have risen, home sales have declined. That's likely to curb demand for some manufactured goods such as furniture and appliances.
Factory exports may also be hurt by the strong dollar, which makes U.S. goods more expensive for customers in other countries.
That said, factory owners like Greenblatt remain optimistic. In addition to buying the Indiana factory, Greenblatt has expanded his original plant in Baltimore by more than 50%. And he plans to install two additional robotic wire bending machines next month.
"We're just seeing the demand," Greenblatt says. "We want to have the best technology for our people to make it through potentially stormy times."
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.
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2022-10-20T11:37:49+00:00
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upr.org
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https://www.upr.org/npr-news/2022-10-20/u-s-factories-emerge-as-a-strong-point-in-a-weakening-economy
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- International experts and decision makers to highlight green hydrogen's potential to support global net-zero goals ahead of UAE-hosted COP28 later this year
- Summit to be one of series of high-level events held at ADSW 2023 – highlighting UAE leadership's commitment to practical, inclusive climate action
ABU DHABI, UAE, Jan. 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week (ADSW), the global initiative championed by the UAE and its clean energy powerhouse Masdar to accelerate sustainable development, will hold its first annual Green Hydrogen Summit this year, highlighting green hydrogen's growing importance in the global drive toward net zero.
The Green Hydrogen Summit 2023, taking place on January 18, will be one of the key events taking place at ADSW 2023, which will convene heads of state, policymakers, industry leaders, investors, youth, and entrepreneurs, for a series of impactful dialogues ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28), to be held in the UAE from November 30-December 12. COP28, the Emirates Climate Conference, will see the conclusion of the first Global Stocktake of the Paris Agreement – assessing the progress made by countries on their national climate plans.
H.E. Dr. Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, UAE Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology, Special Envoy for Climate Change, and Chairman of Masdar, said, "We stand at a critical moment as nations prepare to gather in the UAE to highlight progress on meeting climate objectives and to explore pathways to net zero. Ahead of COP28, ADSW2023 will provide a platform for vital dialogue between key stakeholders and decision makers, as we look to forge alliances and develop innovative solutions to deliver an inclusive energy transition. The UAE and Masdar have long believed that green hydrogen will play a key role in that energy transition and as we continue to explore low-carbon and zero-carbon energy solutions, the time is right for green hydrogen to take a more central role at ADSW."
The inaugural Green Hydrogen Summit at ADSW will cover topics including, developments in hydrogen production, conversion, transport, storage, and use. It will include high-level discussions focused on the development of the UAE hydrogen economy, the role of government and regulation, and panel sessions on a broad range of topics including innovation, sustainable finance, green energy in Africa, and hydrogen's value chain.
Mohamed Jameel Al Ramahi, Chief Executive Officer, Masdar, said, "As green hydrogen continues to show growing promise as a critical enabler of our net-zero future, we must unlock its full potential by accelerating research and development and investment in this vital sector. Masdar is excited to launch the ADSW Green Hydrogen Summit to support the development of the UAE's green hydrogen economy and help realize the global energy transition. This inaugural Summit will also pave the way toward COP28 in the UAE, where we can expect green hydrogen to be a key component of a future low-carbon energy market."
The Green Hydrogen Summit is held in partnership with the Hydrogen Council, Atlantic Council, International Renewable Energy Agency and Dii Desert Energy.
ADSW host Masdar announced in December the formation of its new green hydrogen business to support the UAE's green hydrogen economy. Masdar's green hydrogen business aims to produce up to one million tonnes of green hydrogen per annum by 2030. Masdar is already actively involved in a number of projects related to green hydrogen production, including agreements with leading Egyptian state-backed organizations to cooperate on the development of green hydrogen production plants, targeting an electrolyzer capacity of 4 gigawatts by 2030, and output of up to 480,000 tonnes of green hydrogen per year.
ADSW, established in 2008, brings together heads of state, policymakers, industry leaders, investors, entrepreneurs, and youth to discuss, engage and debate climate action and innovation to ensure a sustainable world.
The first international sustainability gathering of the year, ADSW 2023 will again feature the ADSW Summit, hosted by Masdar. Taking place on January 16, the Summit will focus on a wide range of critical topics including Food and Water Security, Energy Access, Industrial Decarbonization, Health, and Climate Adaptation.
As in previous years, ADSW 2023 will feature partner-led events and opportunities for international engagement on sustainability-related topics, including the International Renewable Energy Agency's IRENA Assembly, the Atlantic Council Global Energy Forum, the Abu Dhabi Sustainable Finance Forum, and the World Future Energy Summit.
ADSW 2023 will also mark the 15th anniversary of the Zayed Sustainability Prize – the UAE's pioneering global award for recognizing excellence in sustainability. Masdar's Youth for Sustainability platform will hold the Y4S Hub during the week, which aims to attract 3,000 young people, while the annual forum for Masdar's Women in Sustainability, Environment and Renewable Energy (WiSER) platform will also be held, giving women a greater voice in the sustainability debate.
Key dates for ADSW 2023 include:
- 14 – 15 January: IRENA Assembly, Atlantic Council Energy Forum
- 16 January: Opening Ceremony, COP28 Strategy Announcement and Zayed Sustainability Prize Awards Ceremony, ADSW Summit
- 16 – 18 January: World Future Energy Summit, Youth 4 Sustainability Hub, Innovate
- 17 January: WiSER Forum
- 18 January: Green Hydrogen Summit and Abu Dhabi Sustainable Finance Forum
Registration for the Green Hydrogen Summit is now open and can be found on https://abudhabisustainabilityweek.com/
Contacts:
For more information please visit: http://www.masdar.ae and connect: facebook.com/masdar.ae and twitter.com/masdar
About Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week
Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week (ADSW) is a global initiative established in 2008 by the UAE and its clean energy powerhouse Masdar. For over 15 years, ADSW has brought together heads of state, policymakers, industry leaders, investors, entrepreneurs, and youth, to discuss, engage, and debate climate action and innovation that will ensure a sustainable world. By enabling impactful dialogue and providing a platform to translate pledges into practical outcomes for a net zero future, ADSW 2023 aims to play a crucial role in driving momentum between COP27 and COP28.
About Masdar
Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company (Masdar) is the UAE's clean energy champion and one of the largest companies of its kind in the world, advancing the development and deployment of renewable energy and green hydrogen technologies to address global sustainability challenges. Established in 2006, Masdar is today active in over 40 countries, helping them to achieve their clean energy objectives and advance sustainable development. Masdar is jointly owned by Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), Mubadala Investment Company (Mubadala), and Abu Dhabi National Energy Company (TAQA), and under this ownership the company is targeting a renewable energy portfolio capacity of at least 100 gigawatts (GW) by 2030 and an annual green hydrogen production capacity of up to 1 million tonnes by the same year.
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2023-01-03T12:56:54+00:00
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kswo.com
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https://www.kswo.com/prnewswire/2023/01/03/abu-dhabi-sustainability-week-hosts-first-green-hydrogen-summit-year-climate-action-uae/
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Tech Firm Introduces First of Its Kind Immersive Experience to Sports Betting Market
DALLAS, Sept. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today at SBC Barcelona, SB22 announced VR22, an industry first Virtual Reality Betting Platform, offering a highly immersive experience that combines a 360-degree live game streaming with intuitive betting capabilities. The white-label solution can be tailored for real money gaming and free-to-play using SB22's proprietary transactional platform.
VR22 enables next generation engagement by placing fans directly into the best seats of a game and giving them the ability to interact in real time and in entirely new ways. For example, fans can place wagers on the next play, play in-game contests, win team merchandise and branded NFTs, among a host of other options.
"SB22's VR application is truly immersive and allows fans to experience and wager on games in a highly innovative way," said Keith Wall, Vice President—Sports Commercial at FanDuel.
The VR22 interactive experience is simple and intuitive, using hand-tracking tools and generating system-generated personalized promotions and retention offers using Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence capabilities. The product is geared towards sports betting operators, leagues, and professional sports teams, but the potential application of this tech extends far beyond these verticals.
Marko Savkovic, CTO of SB22, added, "We've put together an engineering and programming team that is without peer in the industry. Our team brings years of experience in sports betting—with specific knowledge and understanding of the US market—along with a deep understanding of enterprise and consumer VR and fintech, to deliver this first of its kind and unique immersive platform. There's simply nothing like it. With this game changing experience, fans can interact in ways they never have been able to before. We are excited to help shape the future of the industry at SB22."
SB22 has created the only truly next generation sports betting, iGaming and free-to-play platform, uniquely built to GLI standards and designed for the US market specifically. It's modern, scalable and modular, with all its functionality, including its proprietary PAM, completely integrated from the ground up. SB22 is the first mobile-centric, iOS-native, fully automated, cloud capable, and VR/AR-ready tech platform in the sports betting industry.
For more information on Product:
www.sb22.com
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2022-09-22T18:09:25+00:00
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mysuncoast.com
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https://www.mysuncoast.com/prnewswire/2022/09/22/sb22-announces-virtual-reality-betting-platform/
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Wreaths Across America (WAA) in Hood River will host a local stop for the WAA Mobile Education Exhibit (MEE) national tour.
The MEE started its tour at the WAA Headquarters in Maine and will be in the area Aug. 9 for a scheduled event that is both free and open to the public. Gorge Composite Squadron of the Civil Air Patrol is coordinating the event, which will take place at Ken Jernstedt Airport located at 3608 Airport Drive, Hood River, between 3:30-8:30 p.m.
The exhibit serves as a mobile museum, educating visitors about the service and sacrifice of our nation’s heroes as well as to serve as an official “welcome home” station for our nation’s Vietnam Veterans, said a press release.
All veterans, active-duty military, their families, and the local community members are invited and encouraged to visit, take a tour and speak with WAA representatives and volunteers. They can also share more about the national nonprofit, and the work its volunteers do to support our heroes and their communities year-round, said a press release.
Gorge Composite Squadron of the Civil Air Patrol has supported Wreaths Across America for the past four years by promoting wreath sponsorships. Cadets of the squadron have also participated in the wreath laying ceremony at Willamette National Cemetery in December.
The public tours for the MEE are free and open to the public with social distancing, sanitation and safety procedures in place to protect the health of all visitors in accordance with the CDCs recommendation for large gatherings stemming from concerns surrounding the pandemic.
Wreaths Across America is the non-profit organization best known for placing wreaths on veteran’s headstones at Arlington National Cemetery. However, in 2021, the organization placed more than 2.4 million sponsored veterans’ wreaths at more than 3,100 participating locations nationwide.
You can sponsor a veteran’s wreath anytime for $15 at Wreaths Across America Gorge Composite Squadron site, www.wreathsacrossamerica.org/pages/162905/Overview/?relatedId=14929. Each sponsorship goes toward a live, balsam wreath that will be placed on the headstone of an American hero as we endeavor to honor all veterans laid to rest at noon on Saturday, Dec. 17 as part of National Wreaths across America Day.
To find local participating cemetery near you to support go to and type in your town and/or state at wreathsacrossamerica.org/pages/search?searchType=location.
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2022-07-27T09:05:56+00:00
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columbiagorgenews.com
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https://www.columbiagorgenews.com/free_news/wreaths-across-america-national-tour-comes-to-hr/article_a8828b02-0c6a-11ed-85c8-5b002863abf5.html
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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday afternoon's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Midday Daily 4" game were:
5-2-0-0
(five, two, zero, zero)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday afternoon's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Midday Daily 4" game were:
5-2-0-0
(five, two, zero, zero)
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2022-09-01T19:35:32+00:00
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ourmidland.com
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https://www.ourmidland.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Midday-Daily-4-game-17413189.php
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Under fire from conservatives, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy worked furiously Tuesday to sell fellow Republicans on the debt ceiling and budget deal he negotiated with President Joe Biden and win approval in time to avert a potentially disastrous U.S. default.
Meeting behind closed doors over pizza for more that two hours at the Capitol, McCarthy walked Republicans through the details, fielded questions and encouraged them not to lose sight of the bill’s budget savings, even though they are far less than many conservatives wanted.
“We’re going to pass the bill,” McCarthy said as he exited the session.
The hard-fought measure is now headed to a House vote Wednesday. Quick approval by both the House and Senate would ensure government checks will continue to go out to Social Security recipients, veterans and others, and prevent financial upheaval worldwide by allowing Treasury to keep paying U.S. debts.
Overall the 99-page package restricts spending for the next two years, lifts the debt limit and includes policy changes such as new work requirements for older Americans receiving food aid and approval of an Appalachian energy pipeline that many Democrats oppose. The House Rules Committee on Tuesday voted 7-6, with two Republicans opposed, to advance the measure to the floor, signaling the tough vote still ahead.
With few lawmakers expected to be fully satisfied, Biden and McCarthy are counting on pulling majority support from the political center, a rarity in divided Washington, to prevent a federal default. Some 218 votes are needed for passage in the 435-member House.
Leaders of the hard-right House Freedom Caucus lambasted the compromise as falling well short of the spending cuts they demand, and they vowed to try to halt passage by Congress. A much larger conservative faction, the Republican Study Committee, declined to take a position. Even rank-and-file centrist conservatives were not sure, leaving McCarthy desperately hunting for votes.
Biden was speaking directly to lawmakers, making more than 100 one-on-one calls, the White House said. Top administration officials are heading to Capitol Hill to brief Democrats privately ahead of Wednesday’s planned vote.
Late in the day, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said the spending restrictions in the package would reduce deficits by $1.5 trillion over the decade, a top goal for the Republicans trying to curb the debt load.
But in a surprise that could further erode Republican support, the GOP’s drive to impose work requirements on older Americans receiving food stamps ends up boosting spending by $2.1 billion over the time period. That’s because the final deal exempted veterans and homeless people, expanding the food stamp rolls by some 78,000 people monthly, the CBO said.
House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries said it was up to McCarthy to turn out votes from some two-thirds of the Republican majority, a high bar the speaker may not be able to reach. Still, Jeffries said the Democrats would do their part to avoid failure.
“It is my expectation that House Republicans would keep their promise and deliver at least 150 votes as it relates to an agreement that they themselves negotiated,” Jeffries said. “Democrats will make sure that the country does not default.”
McCarthy could expect no help from the far right.
“This deal fails, fails completely, and that’s why these members and others will be absolutely opposed to the deal,” Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., the chairman of the Freedom Caucus, said, flanked by others outside the Capitol. “We will do everything in our power to stop it.”
Ominously, the conservatives warned of potentially trying to oust McCarthy over the compromise.
“There’s going to be a reckoning,” said Rep. Chip Roy of Texas.
Despite the late-night meeting at the Capitol, Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., said after the “healthy debate” she was still a no.
Liberal Democrats decried the new work requirements for older Americans, those 50-54, in the food aid program. And some Democratic lawmakers were leading an effort against a surprise provision to greenlight a controversial Mountain Valley Pipeline natural gas project through Appalachia.
Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, said she appreciated that Biden was able to minimize the “extreme demands” Republicans made on spending, but she raised serious concerns about the food stamps and other environmental policy changes.
She also had this warning for McCarthy: “He got us here and it’s on him to deliver the votes.”
Wall Street was taking a wait-and-see approach. Stock prices were mixed in Tuesday’s trading. U.S. markets had been closed when the deal was struck over the weekend.
Overall, the package is a tradeoff that would impose some federal spending reductions for the next two years along with a suspension of the debt limit into January 2025, pushing the volatile political issue past the next presidential election. Raising the debt limit, now $31.4 trillion, would allow Treasury to continue borrowing to pay the nation’s already incurred bills.
All told, it would hold spending essentially flat for the coming year, while allowing increases for military and veterans accounts. It would cap growth at 1% for 2025.
Policy issues were raising the most objections.
Questions were also being raised about the unexpected provision that essentially would give congressional approval to the Mountain Valley Pipeline, a natural gas project important to Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., that many Democrats and others oppose as unhelpful in fighting climate change.
The top Democrat on the House Natural Resources Committee, Rep. Raul Grijalva of Arizona, said including the pipeline provision was “disturbing and profoundly disappointing.”
But Manchin on Tuesday touted the pipeline project as something “we know we need.”
The House aims to vote Wednesday and send the bill to the Senate, where Democratic Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senate Republican leader McConnell are working for passage by week’s end.
Schumer called the bill a “sensible compromise.” McConnell said McCarthy “deserves our thanks.”
Senators, who have remained largely on the sidelines during much of the negotiations between the president and the House speaker, began inserting themselves more forcefully into the debate.
Some senators are insisting on amendments to reshape the package from both the left and right flanks. That could require time-consuming debates that delay final approval of the deal.
For one, Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia planned to file an amendment to remove the pipeline provision.
But making any changes to the package at this stage seemed unlikely with so little time to spare. Congress and the White House are racing to meet the Monday deadline now less than a week away. That’s when Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has said the U.S. would run short of cash and face an unprecedented debt default without action.
A default would almost certainly harm the U.S. economy and spill around the globe, as the world’s reliance on the stability of the American dollar and the country’s leadership fell into question.
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Associated Press writers Aamer Madhani, Seung Min Kim, Farnoush Amiri, Darlene Superville and Mary Clare Jalonick contributed to this report.
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2023-05-31T20:13:06+00:00
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ourquadcities.com
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https://www.ourquadcities.com/news/national-news/ap-debt-limit-deal-heads-to-vote-in-full-house-while-mccarthy-scrambles-for-gop-approval/
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Summer has not peaked yet, but 2023 will likely go down as the hottest season ever recorded in the Northern Hemisphere.
According to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration data, air temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere reached an average temperature of 72.2 degrees Fahrenheit, making it the hottest day on record for the hemisphere. The record comes just weeks after the world as a wholeset new heat records several days in a row.
The temperature was 1.92 degrees above the average temperature set between 1979 and 2000.
There are also indications that this summer could bring the warmest sea surface temperatures on record. As of Monday, the average sea surface temperature in the Northern Hemisphere was 75.74 degrees Fahrenheit.
Sea surface temperatures are more than 2 degrees warmer than average for this time of year, according to the NOAA data.
Generally, sea surface temperatures are at their warmest in late August and early September.
Earlier this year, global sea surface temperatures set a record in nearly 40 years of monitoring. It was measured at 69.98 degrees Fahrenheit in early April.
SEE MORE: Sidewalk, contact burns a real concern with extreme heat
Experts say the combination of climate change and a subsiding La Niña pattern is contributing to the record warmth.
The rise in sea surface temperatures can be directly attributed to higher levels of greenhouse gas, NOAA senior scientist Michael McPhaden previously told Scripps News. Greenhouse gases come from the burning of fossil fuels like gasoline for cars or coal for electricity.
"The fact is we have the data and we have the physical understanding of how the climate system works, that this correlation, that this connection between rising greenhouse gases and rising global temperatures is real," McPhaden said.
The heat was not expected to subside for many Americans. Heat advisories and extreme heat warnings extend from California all the way to Florida.
The high temperature is expected to reach 117 in Phoenix on Tuesday, which would set the daily record, according to the National Weather Service.
Although not expected to hit a record, Las Vegas will still be incredibly warm with a projected high temperature of 112.
Trending stories at Scrippsnews.com
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2023-07-18T13:22:13+00:00
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tmj4.com
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https://www.tmj4.com/monday-was-officially-the-hottest-summer-day-ever
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New York-based firm reaches No. 30 in prestigious national ranking for 2022
NEW YORK, Oct. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Williams Jones Wealth Management, an SEC-registered investment adviser and wealth management firm with offices in New York and Palm Beach, Florida, today announced it has been named to the inaugural Forbes/Shook list of the Top 100 RIA Firms nationwide.
Williams Jones is an investment management firm led by a seasoned team of portfolio managers. The firm has doubled its assets in recent years and currently manages $10 billion in client assets.
"Our first priority is providing top-quality, customized investment and wealth management services for our clients, and we are grateful for the validation that being included on this list provides," said William P. Jones, Jr., founder and Chairman of Williams Jones Wealth Management. "I thank the seasoned professionals on our team who bring so much expertise to our client relationships across the country and help to drive our continued success."
This is the second honor of its type for the firm in 2022. In September, Williams Jones was named to Barron's annual list of the top 100 RIA firms across the country.
Williams Jones was founded in 1988 and provides personalized wealth management services to high-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth clients, endowments and foundations. Williams Jones seeks to build client wealth over time through application of a consistent investment philosophy across equity, fixed income and alternative asset classes.
The firm's team of portfolio managers, analysts and certified financial planners provide customized and comprehensive investment and wealth management services across the country.
Williams Jones Wealth Management is an SEC-registered investment adviser founded in 1988 with offices in New York City and Palm Beach, Florida. For more information about the firm, please visit https://www.williamsjones.com.
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2022-10-26T16:09:33+00:00
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wlox.com
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https://www.wlox.com/prnewswire/2022/10/26/williams-jones-wealth-management-named-inaugural-forbesshook-top-100-ria-firms-list/
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On Wednesday, the Chinese government says it’s relaxing some of its “zero COVID” rules. The announcement comes after widespread protests in cities across the country, with citizens fed up with the sometimes-draconian lockdown measures that were in place.
The lockdowns also hampered the nation’s economy, a key way in which the ruling Chinese Communist Party has maintained a stable grasp on power. What does the set of new rules mean to the world’s number two economy and its people?
Here & Now‘s Scott Tong spoke to the Wall Street Journal’s bureau chief in Beijing Jonathan Cheng to find out.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.
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2022-12-07T21:54:04+00:00
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kgou.org
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https://www.kgou.org/2022-12-07/tensions-remain-in-china-after-recent-unrest
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DETROIT (AP) — Former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder invoked his right against self-incrimination Thursday and declined to answer questions at a civil trial arising from lead contamination in Flint’s water in 2014-15.
Snyder was called as a witness in federal court in Ann Arbor, two days after the Michigan Supreme Court in a separate case said criminal indictments against him and eight other people were invalid.
Snyder’s appearance was already planned. Lawyers and the judge knew he would formally decline to answer questions while any criminal case was pending.
“Your honor, based on the advice of counsel, I would exercise my Fifth Amendment rights,” Snyder told U.S. District Judge Judith Levy.
He repeated the statement twice to lawyers. Jurors on Wednesday watched a recorded deposition of Snyder, a formal interview with lawyers conducted in 2020.
“I wish this never would have happened,” Snyder said of the Flint water mess.
In May, Levy said Snyder had waived his right to remain silent by participating in the deposition before he was charged in 2021. Her decision is under appeal.
Flint managers appointed by Snyder, a Republican, switched the city’s water to the Flint River in 2014 without properly treating it. Lead leached from old pipes for more than a year, a disastrous result.
A handful of Flint families are suing Veolia North America and Lockwood, Andrews & Newman, known as LAN, claiming the engineering firms bear some responsibility because they performed work at the city’s water plant. They deny liability.
Veolia and LAN are not part of the $626 million settlement between Flint residents and the state of Michigan, Flint and other parties.
Snyder was charged with two misdemeanor counts of willful neglect of duty. The charges haven’t been formally dismissed yet following the state Supreme Court decision and could be revived in a new case.
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2022-07-01T05:54:56+00:00
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wwlp.com
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https://www.wwlp.com/news/ap-national-news/ex-michigan-governor-takes-the-5th-at-flint-water-trial/
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UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, Ohio — John Carroll University is getting into the healthcare field by announcing the launch of a brand new nursing program.
The higher learning commission has given the bachelor of science nursing program full approval. Students will train and study in two state-of-the-art labs, one with the latest in mannequin simulators for increased realism.
Both labs are set to open in January.
John Carroll Provost and Academic Vice President Steve Herbert says the program will offer a unique opportunity for well-rounded students.
"We're looking at how do we allow students, our nursing majors, to have minors that are significant to them, perhaps a second major in some cases, be athletes and present and involved in student activities and then also become a nurse. So that's a differentiator for us, in a sense it's a philosophy of the whole person caring for the whole person," Herbert told News Five.
If you'd like to learn more about the new bachelor's in nursing program from John Carroll, visit bsn.jcu.edu
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2022-10-10T21:36:39+00:00
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news5cleveland.com
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https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/local-news/john-carroll-university-launches-new-nursing-program
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FLINT, MI -- Flint Mayor Sheldon Neeley has signed a contract for the Genesee County Sheriff’s Office to continue its operation of the city lockup, a holding facility that’s designed to ease overcrowding at the county jail and to provide a cooling-off period for those who’ve been arrested.
Neeley signed a $2.4-million contract for the county to operate the lockup from Oct. 1, 2022, through Sept 30, 2023, on Friday, May 5.
The deal was sealed after county officials last week discussed the potential for laying off 22 employees who perform work related to the facility because talks over the operating agreement had broken down.
It also comes after Neeley and Sheriff Chris Swanson met last week to work out details of the agreement after the county Board of Commissioners approved it on March 29.
The Flint City Council also approved the contract last September.
A statement released by the city says the arrangement “will continue with enhanced communication and operational processes.”
“We had a refreshing conversation; it was open, engaging, and a learning process for us both,” Neeley said in a statement released by the city. “I continue to welcome the partnership of Genesee County Sheriff Chris Swanson.”
Swanson said on Monday, May 8, that the meeting with Neeley has helped strengthen what he’s called “a great partnership” between the city and county.
When an issue has the potential to impact people, the sheriff said, “You work it out. You negotiate. You meet face-to-face.”
Swanson has described the lockup’s continued operation as critical.
“If we don’t keep this open there are going to be losses and it won’t (just) be money” that’s lost, he told commissioners during a committee meeting last week.
The lockup is owned by the city and has been operated by the county for more than 10 years. Funding for the operation has been provided to the city through the state of Michigan.
Some county commissioners have questioned the three-way partnership because the arrangement has resulted in the county receiving delayed reimbursements and Neeley has suggested the city might operate the lockup without the county’s help in the future.
Flint officials have said recent delayed reimbursements have been the result of no contract having been in place during the past seven months.
The new contract takes the potential county layoffs off the table and assures that the lockup population won’t be moved to the county jail as it was during the COVID-19 pandemic and earlier this year because of staffing and other issues.
Swanson has said he’s tried to keep the lockup population in its fixed location on the second floor of the Flint Police Department despite problems with elevators and equipment, and cells that cannot be used because of their condition.
Before it reopened in August 2021, an inspection of the lockup by the Michigan Department of Corrections noted the need for an evacuation plan for the facility and listed safety concerns including some cells that could not be opened because of broken mechanical parts.
The Journal obtained the inspection report through the Freedom of Information Act.
Read more at The Flint Journal:
As talks break down over Flint lockup, Genesee County considers options, employee layoffs
Faced with staffing shortage, sheriff moves Flint lockup population to county jail
Demolition could be next for historic Flint church with ties to city’s auto pioneers
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2023-05-08T21:50:56+00:00
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mlive.com
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https://www.mlive.com/news/flint/2023/05/mayor-signs-contract-for-county-operation-of-flint-lockup-after-meeting-with-sheriff.html
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AMSTERDAM, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- VEON Ltd. (NASDAQ: VEON) (Euronext Amsterdam: VEON), a global digital operator that provides converged connectivity and services announces the results of the elections conducted at its Annual General Meeting of Shareholders held earlier today.
During the AGM which included the formal presentation of the financial statements of the Company and the election of directors, Group CEO Kaan Terzioglu also provided a year-to-date business update.
Shareholders elected three new members to the Company's Board of Directors: Augie Fabela, Morten Lundal and Stan Miller. Shareholders also elected eight previously serving directors: Hans-Holger Albrecht, Yaroslav Glazunov, Andrei Gusev, Gunnar Holt, Karen Linehan, Irene Shvakman, Vasily Sidorov and Michiel Soeting. The Board would like to thank Gennady Gazin, Leonid Boguslavsky and Sergi Herrero for their contribution and service to the Company.
Holders of approximately 99.9% of the Company's shares were represented at the Annual General Meeting.
Information on the New Directors
Augie K Fabela II is Chairman Emeritus and Co-Founder of VEON Ltd. He is Executive Chairman and Co-Founder of FastForward.ai, a Silicon Valley startup, with a mission to transform how brands and marketers engage with consumers inside social media channels. He is a serial entrepreneur, innovative global leader and #1 bestselling author of "The Impatience Economy". Augie graduated from Stanford University with a B.A. and M.A. in International Relations and International Policy Studies.
Morten Lundal has over 20 years' experience as an executive in the telecoms sector with extensive experience in emerging markets, having held key positions at Telenor Group in Oslo and Vodafone Group in London as well as CEO of Maxis Bhd and Digi.Com Bhd in Malaysia. Morten completed his Master of Business and Economics at the Norwegian School of Management and holds an MBA from IMD in Lausanne.
Stan Miller has over 30 years' experience in both the telecommunications and media industries. He has deep and broad experience as an Executive Director and CEO, NED & INED at listed companies across a number of diverse markets and countries. He is currently CEO of AIH SA (Lux), CEO of Leaderman SArL (Lux), a Member of the Board of MTN Group (Africa), and senior advisor to several leading PE firms. Stan graduated with a Diploma in Law & Administration from Technicon RSA (UNISA). He completed several post graduate programs at University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business (UCT) and at London Business School (LBS).
Disclaimer
This press release contains "forward-looking statements", as the phrase is defined in Section 27A of the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Forward-looking statements are not historical facts, and include statements relating to, among other things, expectations regarding management plans and the ability to successfully execute operating model, governance and development plans. Forward-looking statements are inherently subject to risks and uncertainties, many of which VEON cannot predict with accuracy and some of which VEON might not even anticipate. The forward-looking statements contained in this release speak only as of the date of this release. VEON does not undertake to publicly update, except as required by U.S. federal securities laws, any forward-looking statement to reflect events or circumstances after such date or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events. Furthermore, elements of this release contain or may contain, "inside information" as defined under the Market Abuse Regulation (EU) No. 596/2014.
About VEON
VEON is a NASDAQ and Euronext Amsterdam-listed global provider of connectivity and internet services. For more information visit: www.veon.com
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2022-06-29T15:22:11+00:00
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https://www.wlbt.com/prnewswire/2022/06/29/veon-shareholders-elect-new-members-its-board-directors/
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...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is possible.
* WHERE...Portions of southeast Alabama, Florida and Georgia,
including the following counties, in southeast Alabama, Coffee,
Dale, Geneva, Henry and Houston. In Florida, Gadsden, Holmes and
Jackson. In Georgia, Baker, Calhoun, Clay, Colquitt, Decatur,
Dougherty, Early, Grady, Miller, Mitchell, Seminole and Thomas.
* WHEN...Through this evening.
* IMPACTS...Excessive runoff may result in flooding of rivers,
creeks, streams, and other low-lying and flood-prone locations.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- 2 to 4 inches of rain is forecast for a large portion of the
watch area, with local amounts in excess of 5 inches
possible. This would lead to flash flooding.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
You should monitor later forecasts and be alert for possible Flood
Warnings. Those living in areas prone to flooding should be prepared
to take action should flooding develop.
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Neil Diamond describes coming to terms with having Parkinson's disease
It has taken Neil Diamond some time to process having Parkinson's.
The legendary singer, who went public with his diagnosis in 2018, talked to "CBS Sunday Morning" in an episode this weekend about learning to live with the disorder, which affects the central nervous system.
"This is what I have to accept. And I'm willing to do it," Diamond said. "This is the hand that God's given me, and I have to make the best of it, and so I am. I am."
According to Diamond, it "has just been in the last few weeks" that he has truly come to a place of acceptance.
"Somehow, a calm has moved in, and the hurricane of my life, and things have gotten very quiet, as quiet as this recording studio. And, I like it," he said. "I find that I like myself better. I'm easier on people. I'm easier on myself. And the beat goes on, and it will go on long after I'm gone."
Part of that beat is the Broadway musical, "A Beautiful Noise," based on the singer's life and starring Will Swenson as a young Diamond.
Diamond said of the production, "It was all pretty hard. I was a little embarrassed. I was flattered and I was scared."
He explained his fear was rooted in insecurity.
"Being found out is the scariest thing you can hope, because we all have a facade," he said. "And the truth be known to all of 'em. I'm not some big star. I'm just me."
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2023-04-03T14:46:23+00:00
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albanyherald.com
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https://www.albanyherald.com/entertainment/neil-diamond-describes-coming-to-terms-with-having-parkinsons-disease/article_dc3ab1b7-dccf-5eb7-99ab-279bfe2aea0c.html
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October is coming to an end, but the fun is just beginning.
The Philadelphia Phillies are in Houston Friday to face the Astros in Game 1 of the 2022 World Series.
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The Phillies will be led by All-Star outfielder Bryce Harper, who blasted an epic home run in the eighth inning of Game 5 of the NLCS against the San Diego Padres to send his team to the World Series.
There, he will face a team that has leadership in Reggie Jackson, who is a special advisor to Astros owner Jim McCrane. Jackson won five World Series in his Hall-of-Fame career, two of which were with the New York Yankees in 1977 and 1978. He was the 1977 World Series MVP, becoming Mr. October in Game 6 when he hit three home runs.
Here’s what he says about the dominating Harper, per the Philadelphia Inquirer:
“I know Bryce Harper is a good player. I think he’s moved himself up a notch. But it won’t matter if it stops. Now it counts. Now it starts. You’ve got to finish.”
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“I don’t mind his cockiness or his self-assuredness. He’s a great player. I was cocky, too. I was sure that I was good. I like to see a guy, he’s a good player and he knows it. Ain’t nothing wrong with that.”
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The roof will be closed at Minute Maid Park on Friday when the first pitch of the 2022 World Series is thrown at 8:03 p.m. ET. Aaron Nola will be on the mound for the Phillies. The Astros will counter with likely Cy Young Award winner Justin Verlander.
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Bridget Hyland may be reached at bhyland@njadvancemedia.com.
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2022-10-28T16:22:20+00:00
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nj.com
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https://www.nj.com/sports/2022/10/mr-october-sees-a-little-of-himself-in-phillies-bryce-harper.html
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The Hubble Space Telescope, known for recording awe-inspiring images of the cosmos while advancing the field of astronomy, is under threat.
Private companies are launching thousands of satellites that are photobombing the telescope — producing long bright streaks and curves of light that can be impossible to remove. And the problem is only getting worse.
A study, published Thursday in the journal Nature Astronomy, reveals an increase in the percentage of images recorded by the Hubble that are spoiled by passing satellites. And the data goes only through 2021. Thousands more satellites have been launched since then by SpaceX and other companies, and many more are expected to go to orbit in the years ahead, affecting the Hubble and potentially other telescopes in space.
“We’re going to be living with this problem. And astronomy will be impacted,” said Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics who was not involved in the study. “There will be science that can’t be done. There will be science that’s significantly more expensive to do. There will be things that we miss.”
The Hubble Space Telescope’s legacy cannot be overstated. Because of the observatory, we now know, for example, that the universe is 13.8 billion years old, that most galaxies contain a supermassive black hole at their centers and that stars form in violent processes. The Hubble’s images — including the gorgeous clouds of gas and dust in the “pillars of creation” and the view of nearly 10,000 galaxies in the “Hubble ultra deep field” — never fail to inspire.
But the number of satellites in orbit has significantly increased since the Hubble launched in 1990, and now it is staring at the cosmos through a field of satellites.
In May 2019, SpaceX launched its first batch of Starlink satellites, designed to broadcast internet signals across the globe. Soon after, an outcry emerged among astronomers who were concerned that Starlink’s streaks would jeopardize a number of campaigns to observe the universe from telescopes on Earth.
In response, Elon Musk, SpaceX’s founder and CEO, suggested that astronomers bypass the issue by moving telescopes to orbit.
But Hubble, which lives in low-Earth orbit roughly 335 miles above Earth’s surface, actually resides less than 10 miles below most Starlink satellites. That means that the observatory and other orbital space telescopes are still facing interference from satellite constellations. “Not only do you have to put your telescopes in space, but you also have to put them above all the other traffic,” McDowell said.
“I think we’ll be forced to do that in the decades to come,” he said. But that isn’t possible for current telescopes in low-Earth orbit or spacecraft that governments are building and launching in the coming years.
To quantify the effect of satellite constellations on Hubble, Sandor Kruk, an astronomer at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Germany, and his colleagues analyzed an archive of images taken from 2002 through 2021.
They had help from hundreds of citizen scientists who pored through images to tag those with clear satellite streaks. That data set was then used as a training set for a machine-learning algorithm that analyzed more than 100,000 individual Hubble photos. Their results show that the chance of seeing a satellite in a Hubble image from 2009 to 2020 is only 3.7%. But the chance of seeing one in 2021 is 5.9% — an increase that they say corresponds to Starlink. By the date of the analysis, 1,562 Starlink satellites were in orbit. Another company, OneWeb, had lofted 320 satellites.
Mark McCaughrean, an astronomer at the European Space Agency and a co-author on the new study, is confident in their analysis but notes that this is only a minor issue at the moment. Typically, Hubble takes multiple images that are stacked on top of one another — a technique that will erase any satellites.
And NASA agrees. “While such analyses may show a gradual increase in detected satellite trails over time, most of these streaks are readily removed using standard data reduction techniques, and the majority of affected images are still usable,” a spokesperson said in regard to the latest study. “Satellite streaks do not currently pose a significant threat to Hubble’s science efficiency and data analysis.”
That threat is higher when the Hubble surveys a large swath of the sky. Then it might take only one or two images before redirecting its camera. If a satellite photobombs one of those images, the image might have to be tossed. In addition, the satellites could pose a serious threat to a telescope that hasn’t launched yet. At the end of this year, China plans to send Xuntian, also known as the Chinese Survey Space Telescope, into low-Earth orbit. Xuntian will have a larger field of view than Hubble, making it much harder for satellites to slip by undetected.
“It’s going to be very severely affected by these satellites right off the bat,” McDowell said.
And Xuntian can’t simply launch into a higher orbit. China’s plan is for the telescope to share an orbit with the Tiangong space station so that astronauts can refurbish it if necessary.
A spokesperson from SpaceX declined to comment on the new study but pointed toward the company’s past efforts to mitigate the effects of Starlink. The company has tried a variety of methods to darken its satellites, including a mirror film designed to direct light away from the ground. But Meg Schwamb, a planetary scientist at Queen’s University Belfast who was not involved in the study, worries that the light will be directed up instead and could potentially worsen the situation for space-based telescopes.
There are simply too many unknowns at the moment, including the ultimate number of satellites.
SpaceX hopes to eventually expand the size of its fleet to 42,000 Starlink satellites. Many other companies are in the market, too: Amazon, the British satellite provider OneWeb, a Chinese company called Galaxy Space, and even governments. A combined 431,713 satellites are planned to launch in the coming years. “It’s a bit of a feeding frenzy at the moment,” McCaughrean said.
That estimate is based on filings with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission and the International Telecommunication Union. But even if only 100,000 satellites launched, that would increase the number of satellites in orbit by a factor of 10 since the new study took place — meaning that roughly 50% of Hubble’s images would spot a satellite. And if every other image had a satellite streak, the researchers worry about how much usable science could be gathered.
“When will Hubble not be useful anymore?” McCaughrean asked. “That might be 10 or 20 years away, but it’s not inconceivable that there’s a point at which you say, ‘Let’s not bother anymore.’”
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2023-03-03T02:34:12+00:00
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seattletimes.com
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https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/science/hubble-telescope-faces-threat-from-spacex-and-other-companies-satellites/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world
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Collaboration aims to leverage innovative biosecurity capabilities to promote global health security and accelerate the development of the regional bioeconomy
BOSTON and KIGALI, Rwanda, Aug. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ginkgo Bioworks (NYSE: DNA), the leading horizontal platform for cell programming, and the Rwanda Development Board ("RDB"), representing the government of the Republic of Rwanda, today announced that they have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding ("MOU") with the intent of developing and implementing new biosecurity capabilities in Rwanda.
The initial goal of the planned partnership is to support Rwanda's public health institutions as they work to address biosecurity challenges in the region. Ginkgo, through its biosecurity and public health initiative, Concentric by Ginkgo ("Concentric"), plans to collaborate on the ground with RDB to equip these institutions with biosecurity tools and training as well as the secure data infrastructure they need to leverage automation, data analysis, bioinformatics capabilities, and other critical genomic sequencing technologies.
Concentric leverages a nationwide laboratory network to provide pathogen monitoring capabilities across thousands of sites in the U.S., including schools, airports, and other congregate settings. Concentric aims to build sustainable global biosecurity infrastructure to prepare for the next new variant or novel pathogen, and this planned partnership with RDB is a significant milestone in its international expansion as it continues to scale its biosecurity offering.
RDB, a Rwandan government institution, was established in 2008 to accelerate Rwanda's economic development by enabling private sector growth. Ginkgo will build relationships with Rwandan public health institutions and private sector-led biotechnology initiatives in Rwanda; the RDB will contribute expertise in skills development and on-the-ground support for the partnership.
Concentric and RDB recognize the importance of international collaboration and cooperation to promote global health security as biological threats emerge. Effective pathogen monitoring and data sharing capabilities can empower government officials, community leaders, and other stakeholders to make informed public health decisions. In the long-term, these capabilities can also be leveraged to form the foundation for a sustainable regional bioeconomy. For example, in the context of this MOU, Ginkgo and RDB plan to collaborate to inform workforce development priorities in the areas of biotechnology, biomanufacturing, and bioengineering, and to explore potential opportunities for Rwanda to leverage its biodiversity as a foundation for innovation within its bioeconomy.
"The future of biosecurity is global—COVID-19 has shown us all that pathogens don't recognize national borders. To prepare for the next biological threat, we need the infrastructure in place to build a global weather map tracking the spread and evolution of infectious diseases," said Matt McKnight, General Manager, Biosecurity at Ginkgo Bioworks. "We deeply appreciate Rwanda's leadership working to define a new era of biosecurity, and we are incredibly excited to use our platform to support Rwanda's public health institutions with critical capabilities that we believe will help them face challenges ranging from this pandemic to agricultural and travel biosecurity."
Clare Akamanzi, Chief Executive Officer of the Rwanda Development Board, noted, "The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the need for robust public health and biotechnology infrastructure in Rwanda and around the world. We are excited about our plans to partner with Ginkgo to bring cutting-edge biosecurity capabilities to Rwanda across various sectors including health and agriculture. We believe this will stimulate our growing bioeconomy and help us learn more about our biodiversity."
Ginkgo is building a platform to enable customers to program cells as easily as we can program computers. The company's platform is enabling biotechnology applications across diverse markets, from food and agriculture to industrial chemicals to pharmaceuticals. Ginkgo has also actively supported a number of COVID-19 response efforts, including K-12 pooled testing, vaccine manufacturing optimization and therapeutics discovery. For more information, visit www.ginkgobioworks.com.
The Rwanda Development Board is a government agency responsible for leading the country's transformation into a dynamic global hub for business, investment, tourism and innovation. Its mission is to fast-track economic development in Rwanda by enabling private sector growth. For more information visit www.rdb.rw.
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2022-08-11T12:03:27+00:00
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wsfa.com
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https://www.wsfa.com/prnewswire/2022/08/11/ginkgo-bioworks-rwanda-development-board-announce-plans-develop-implement-new-biosecurity-capabilities-rwanda/
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DOVER, Del. (AP) — A judge has refused to dismiss a criminal charge accusing Delaware’s embattled state auditor of deliberately breaking up payments for a contract she entered into with a former campaign consultant in order to avoid compliance with state procurement law.
In a ruling dated Friday, Superior Court Judge William Carpenter Jr. ruled that an indictment against Kathleen McGuiness sufficiently alleged that she willfully fragmented or structured the payments to circumvent the state procurement code.
Defense attorney Steve Wood argued that the indictment failed to charge an offense or provide fair notice of what McGuiness needed to defend against. He also argued that the indictment failed to allege that she structured two or more no-bid contracts, or which section of the procurement code or state Budget and Accounting Policy Manual she intended to violate.
McGuiness, a Democrat who was elected in 2018 and is responsible for rooting out government fraud, waste and abuse, was indicted in October on felony counts of theft and witness intimidation, and misdemeanor charges of official misconduct, conflict of interest and noncompliance with procurement laws. A trial is scheduled to start later this month.
McGuiness has denied any wrongdoing.
The charges include allegations that McGuiness hired her daughter and one of her daughter’s friends, both high school seniors at the time, as temporary employees in May 2020, even though other temporary employees had to leave their positions because of the lack of available work amid the coronavirus pandemic.
McGuiness is also accused of orchestrating a 2019 no-bid “communications services” contract for a company she had used as a campaign consultant when running for lieutenant governor in 2016. Investigators said McGuiness evaded public bid requirements by keeping the initial contract with My Campaign Group just under the $50,000 threshold that requires public bids.
They also allege that she avoided getting approval from the Division of Accounting, a separate state agency, for the payments to My Campaign Group by splitting up invoices and keeping payments under the $5,000 reporting threshold.
In seeking dismissal of that count, the defense suggested that violation of the procurement rules would require one contract deliberately being divided into two contracts. Prosecutors argued that fragmenting of a contract also includes dividing payments under a single contract to circumvent the code.
In his ruling, Carpenter said the law does not distinguish what part of a contract is being fragmented or subdivided, and that “a fair, unambiguous reading of the statute would logically cover contractual payments.”
“The state is not required to identify the specific section of (law) that the defendant intended to avoid but may simply allege that the defendant’s acts were done to circumvent the code as a whole,” he wrote.
Earlier this month, Carpenter refused to dismiss the felony intimidation count against McGuiness. That charge involved allegations that, when employees in her office became aware of her misconduct, she tried to intimidate the whistleblowers, including submitting more than three dozen requests to the Department of Technology and Information for the contents of their email accounts.
That allowed McGuiness to monitor several employees’ email communications in real time, according to prosecutors, who said McGuiness also monitored the email of a former employee who now works in a separate government agency.
The defense argued that prosecutors had failed to allege the required state of mind to charge McGuiness with intimidation, and that McGuiness would have had to be aware she was being investigated and engage in prohibited conduct with a person she knew to be a witness.
Prosecutors argued that McGuiness simply had to be aware of her improper conduct and understand that her actions would affect the conduct of someone who might be a witness or victim, even if no official proceeding or inquiry was underway.
While finding that the prosecution’s argument was “lacking in common sense,” and that the indictment could have been drafted with greater clarity, Carpenter concluded that the indictment sufficiently alleged conduct that prosecutors assert was intended to prevent or dissuade employees from being cooperative witnesses.
"Whether such conduct was intended as an act of intimidation or simply efforts to appropriately manage her office is a question for the jury to decide,” he wrote.
The judge also noted that McGuiness knew of the attorney general’s investigation no later than Sept. 11, when she was served with a subpoena and target letter.
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2022-05-17T00:29:37+00:00
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ourmidland.com
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https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/State-auditor-loses-bid-to-have-procurement-17177348.php
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- Net income of $69.3 million compared to $46.9 million in the second quarter of 2022
- Diluted earnings per share of $0.32 compared to $0.22 in the second quarter of 2022
- EBITDA1 of $113.0 million compared to $80.6 million in the second quarter of 2022
ATLANTA, Oct. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- RPC, Inc. (NYSE: RES) today announced its unaudited results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2022. RPC provides a broad range of specialized oilfield services and equipment primarily to independent and major oilfield companies engaged in the exploration, production, and development of oil and gas properties throughout the United States and in selected international markets.
For the quarter ended September 30, 2022, RPC generated revenues of $459.6 million, an increase of 22.4 percent compared to $375.5 million in the second quarter of 2022, due to higher customer activity levels and pricing improvements, as well as an increasingly favorable job mix. Operating profit for the third quarter of 2022 was $92.2 million compared to an operating profit of $60.4 million in the second quarter of 2022. Net income for the third quarter of 2022 was $69.3 million, or $0.32 diluted earnings per share, compared to net income of $46.9 million, or $0.22 diluted earnings per share, in the second quarter of 2022. Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA)1 for the third quarter of 2022 was $113.0 million, an increase of 40.3 percent, compared to $80.6 million in the second quarter of 2022.
Cost of revenues during the third quarter of 2022 was $309.8 million, or 67.4 percent of revenues, compared to $260.9 million, or 69.5 percent of revenues in the second quarter of 2022. Cost of revenues increased primarily due to increases in expenses consistent with higher activity levels, such as materials and supplies expenses, maintenance and repairs expenses, employment costs and fuel costs. Cost of revenues as a percentage of revenues decreased due to the leverage of direct employment costs over higher revenues coupled with improved pricing for RPC's services.
Selling, general and administrative expenses were $38.2 million, or 8.3 percent of revenues in the third quarter of 2022 compared to $35.9 million, or 9.6 percent of revenues in the prior quarter. Depreciation and amortization was $20.9 million in the third quarter of 2022 compared to $20.1 million in the second quarter of 2022.
For the nine months ended September 30, 2022, revenues increased 87.7 percent to $1.1 billion compared to $596.7 million for the same period last year. Net income for the nine-month period was $131.4 million, or $0.61 diluted earnings per share, compared to a net loss of $5.1 million, or $0.02 loss per share, in the same period last year.
RPC's revenues for the quarter ended September 30, 2022 increased $234.3 million, or 104.0 percent, compared to the third quarter of the prior year due to improved pricing, higher customer activity levels and a larger active fleet of revenue-producing equipment. Cost of revenues during the third quarter of 2022 increased by $139.2 million compared to the third quarter of 2021. As a percentage of revenues, cost of revenues decreased to 67.4 percent in the third quarter of 2022 from 75.7 percent in the third quarter of 2021 because of improved pricing for our services and leverage of employment costs.
Selling, general and administrative expenses increased by $6.8 million in the third quarter of 2022 compared to the third quarter of the prior year. RPC's operating profit in the third quarter of 2022 was $92.2 million, compared to an operating profit of $8.0 million in the third quarter of 2021. Net income for the third quarter of 2022 was $69.3 million compared to a net income of $5.3 million in the third quarter of 2021. EBITDA1 for the third quarter of 2022 was $113.0 million compared to $26.5 million in the third quarter of 2021.
Rig Count and Commodity Price Statistics
The average U.S. domestic rig count during the third quarter of 2022 was 761, a 5.8 percent increase compared to the second quarter of 2022 and a 52.2 percent increase compared to the same period in 2021. The average price of oil during the third quarter of 2022 was $92.84 per barrel, a 14.8 percent decrease compared to the second quarter of 2022, but a 31.6 percent increase compared to the same period in 2021. The average price of natural gas during the third quarter of 2022 was $8.03 per Mcf, a 7.2 percent increase compared to the second quarter of 2022, and an 82.9 percent increase compared to the same period in 2021.
Management Commentary
"RPC's third quarter financial results reflect significant improvement as favorable industry fundamentals, including higher commodity prices, supported our customers' decisions to enhance their drilling and completion activities. High activity levels coupled with a tight supply of oilfield equipment and crews allowed us to improve our utilization and pricing and generate strong financial results," stated Ben M. Palmer, RPC's President and Chief Executive Officer. "Although a seasonal slowdown during the fourth quarter is possible, our visibility into early 2023 indicates continued strong demand for our services," concluded Palmer.
Summary of Segment Operating Performance
RPC manages two operating segments – Technical Services and Support Services.
Technical Services includes RPC's oilfield service lines that utilize people and equipment to perform value-added completion, production and maintenance services directly to a customer's well. These services are generally directed toward improving the flow of oil and natural gas from producing formations or to address well control issues. The Technical Services segment includes pressure pumping, downhole tools and services, coiled tubing, nitrogen, hydraulic workover services, surface pressure control equipment, well control, and fishing tool operations.
Support Services includes RPC's oilfield service lines that provide equipment for customer use or services to assist customer operations. The equipment and services offered include rental of tubulars and related tools, pipe inspection and storage services, and oilfield training services.
Technical Services third quarter 2022 revenues increased by 22.4 percent compared to the prior quarter and by 105.7 percent compared to the same period of the prior year. Technical Services generated an operating profit of $89.5 million in the third quarter of 2022 compared to an operating profit of $59.8 million in the prior quarter, and an operating profit of $8.3 million in the third quarter of the prior year. The sequential and year-over-year improvements in Technical Services operating results were driven by higher customer activity levels, improved pricing and a larger active fleet of pressure pumping equipment.
Support Services revenues increased by 22.8 percent during the third quarter of 2022 compared to the prior quarter, and by 76.9 percent compared to the same period of the prior year. These increases were due to higher activity levels and improved pricing within rental tools. Support Services generated an operating profit of $5.3 million in the third quarter of 2022 compared to an operating profit of $3.3 million in the prior quarter, and an operating loss of $55 thousand in the same period of the prior year.
RPC, Inc. will hold a conference call today, October 26, 2022 at 9:00 a.m. ET to discuss the results for the quarter. Interested parties may listen in by accessing a live webcast in the investor relations section of RPC, Inc.'s website at rpc.net. The live conference call can also be accessed by calling (888) 440-5966 or (646) 960-0125 for international callers and use conference ID number 9842359. For those not able to attend the live conference call, a replay will be available in the investor relations section of RPC, Inc.'s website beginning approximately two hours after the call and for a period of 90 days.
RPC provides a broad range of specialized oilfield services and equipment primarily to independent and major oilfield companies engaged in the exploration, production and development of oil and gas properties throughout the United States, including the Gulf of Mexico, mid-continent, southwest, Appalachian and Rocky Mountain regions, and in selected international markets. RPC's investor website can be found at rpc.net.
Certain statements and information included in this press release constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including all statements that look forward in time or express management's beliefs, expectations or hopes. These statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of RPC to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied in such forward-looking statements, including statements regarding (i) our belief that favorable industry fundamentals, including higher commodity prices, supported our customers' decisions to enhance their drilling and completion activities, (ii) our belief that high activity levels coupled with an appropriate supply of oilfield equipment and crews allowed us to improve our utilization and pricing and generate strong financial results, and (iii) our belief that while a seasonable slowdown during the fourth quarter is possible, our visibility into early 2023 indicates continued strong demand for our services. Additional discussion of factors that could cause the actual results to differ materially from management's projections, forecasts, estimates and expectations is contained in RPC's Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021.
For information about RPC, Inc., please contact:
Michael L. Schmit, Chief Financial Officer
(404) 321-2140
irdept@rpc.net
Jim Landers, Vice President Corporate Services
(404) 321-2162
JLanders@rpc.net
Appendix A
RPC has used the non-GAAP financial measure of earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) in today's earnings release, and anticipates using EBITDA in today's earnings conference call. EBITDA should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for net income (loss) or other performance measures prepared in accordance with GAAP.
RPC uses EBITDA as a measure of operating performance because it allows us to compare performance consistently over various periods without regard to changes in our capital structure or non-recurring items. We are also required to use EBITDA to report compliance with financial covenants under our revolving credit facility.
A non-GAAP financial measure is a numerical measure of financial performance, financial position, or cash flows that either 1) excludes amounts, or is subject to adjustments that have the effect of excluding amounts, that are included in the most directly comparable measure calculated and presented in accordance with GAAP in the statement of operations, balance sheet or statement of cash flows, or 2) includes amounts, or is subject to adjustments that have the effect of including amounts, that are excluded from the most directly comparable measure so calculated and presented. Set forth below is a reconciliation of net income (loss) to EBITDA, the most comparable GAAP measure. This reconciliation also appears on RPC's investor website, which can be found on the Internet at rpc.net.
The Reconciliation of Net Income (Loss) to EBITDA is shown below:
1 EBITDA is a financial measure which does not conform to GAAP. Additional disclosure regarding this non-GAAP financial measure and its reconciliation to net income or net loss, the nearest GAAP financial measures, are disclosed in Appendix A to this press release.
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2022-10-26T12:08:34+00:00
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wlbt.com
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https://www.wlbt.com/prnewswire/2022/10/26/rpc-inc-reports-third-quarter-2022-financial-results/
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WASHINGTON (AP) — An internal investigation has concluded that U.S. Park Police used unnecessary force in a confrontation with two Australian journalists three years ago during the George Floyd protests near the White House.
The report by the Department of the Interior’s Inspector General, released to the public Wednesday, determines that two unidentified members of the Park Police overstepped their guidelines and training in their encounter with the journalists, who were not named in the report. An Associated Press story at the time identified them as reporter Amanda Brace and cameraman Tim Myers, who were reporting live on the protests for Australia’s Channel 7.
One officer struck Brace with a baton and the other struck Myers with a riot shield and pushed his camera. The report notes that USPP guidelines call for its officers to use “only the minimum level of reasonable force necessary to control a situation.”
Applying that standard, the report concludes that the officer identified as “Officer 1” followed those guidelines when using their shield to shove Myers back but violated them later in shoving Myers’ camera. The second officer’s actions were determined to be clearly out-of-bounds, for striking Brace with a baton as she appeared to be running away.
The report states that “an objectively reasonable officer on the scene would not have concluded that the Reporter posed a threat.”
The confrontation occurred during the June 2020 demonstrations over police brutality and entrenched racial iniquities, sparked by the death of George Floyd at the hands of police officers in Minneapolis. Floyd’s death led to days of sometimes-violent protests across the country, with the D.C. protests centered on Lafayette Park across from the White House.
On June 1, about a half hour before a curfew was set to begin, law enforcement officers abruptly started clearing the area of protestors so that former President Donald Trump could stage a brief photo opportunity in front of St. John’s church. The confrontation with Brace and Myers took place amid that push to clear the area for Trump.
The report notes that as members of the Park Police’s specialized Civil Disturbance Unit, both officers had received advanced training “which included using a shield and a baton to manage a crowd.” However it also acknowledges that the officers were operating in chaotic circumstances under murky guidelines — noting that “the USPP policy does not determine ‘minimum level of reasonable force,’ nor could we find other legal guidance shedding light on this term.”
Park Police Chief Jessica Taylor said in a statement that she was reviewing the full report and that the matter would be referred to the Office of Professional Responsibility “to recommend any corrective actions, including disciplinary actions, if warranted.”
The report notes that one of the officers has since left the force.
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2023-05-25T20:43:13+00:00
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ourquadcities.com
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https://www.ourquadcities.com/news/national-news/ap-us-park-police-used-excessive-force-against-journalists-during-george-floyd-protests-inquiry-finds/
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STRATFORD-UPON-AVON, England (AP) — On a blustery late-winter day in Shakespeare’s birthplace, the foyer of the Other Place theater is a cozy refuge. Visitors are having meetings over coffee, checking emails, writing poetry, learning to sew.
It looks and feels like an arty café in the pictureque streets of Stratford-upon-Avon, but it’s a “warm hub” set up by the Royal Shakespeare Company drama troupe to welcome people struggling to heat their homes because of sky-high energy prices.
Warm hubs have sprouted across Britain by the thousands this winter as soaring food and energy prices drive millions to turn down the thermostat or skimp on hot meals. Research by the opposition Labour Party counted almost 13,000 such hubs, funded by a mix of charities, community groups and the government and nestled in libraries, churches, community centers and even a tearoom at King Charles III’s Highgrove country estate.
Wendy Freeman, an artist, writer and seventh-generation Stratfordian, heard about the RSC’s warm hub from a friend. She lives in “a tiny house with no central heating” and relies on a coal fire for warmth. Like many, she has cut back in response to the cost-of-living crisis driven by the highest inflation since the 1980s.
“You just adapt,” said Freeman, 69, who was using the center as a warm, quiet place to work on a poem. “Little things, like putting less water in the kettle. I was brought up with ‘save the pennies, and the pounds will look after themselves.’ I always cook from scratch and eat what’s in season.
“But it’s nice to go somewhere warm,” she added.
A perfect storm of Russia’s war in Ukraine, lingering pandemic disruption and economic aftershocks of Brexit is putting more people in Britain under financial strain. Households and businesses were hit especially hard after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine drove up the cost of natural gas needed for heating and helped push the U.K. to the precipice of a recession.
The U.K.’s annual inflation rate was just above 10% in January, with food prices up almost 17% over the year. Some 62% of adults are using less natural gas or electricity to save money, according to the Office for National Statistics. A quarter of households regularly run out of money for essentials, pollster Survation found.
Though oil and natural gas prices have fallen from last year’s peaks, the average British household energy bill is still double what it was a year ago. Costs for many are due to rise by another 20% on April 1 when a government-set price cap goes up.
Anne Bolger, a retired math teacher, happened across the warm hub during a walk one day and has come back every week since. She drops in to check emails, prep for math tutoring or do a jigsaw puzzle.
“Today’s the day that I’m appreciating it, because home is freezing,” she said.
The hub runs one afternoon a week in the smallest of the RSC’s three theaters. On Tuesday, the space held a mixture of theater staff, actors on the way to rehearsals and visitors looking to get warm. Organizers provide puzzles, games, toys for children, free tea, coffee and Wi-Fi — even a sewing table.
“I like the fact that it’s such a creative space,” said Bolger, 66. “People are having meetings there, they’re talking, they’re working. I just feel a bit more alive than sitting at home, a bit more connected.”
That’s just what organizers want to hear. They say warm hubs exist to ease loneliness as well as energy poverty.
“The warmth is in the welcome as much as a warm building to come to,” said Nicola Salmon, who oversees the hub as the RSC’s creative place-making manager. “There is always somebody here to chat to.”
Stratford, about 100 miles (160 kilometers) northwest of London, is a prosperous town that makes a good living from William Shakespeare, its most famous son. Even on a wintry weekday, tourists traipse though streets of half-timbered Tudor buildings to see the house where the Bard was born, visit the schoolroom where he studied and stand over his grave in the medieval Holy Trinity Church.
The RSC is one of Stratford’s main cultural attractions and major employers. Salmon says the warm hub is part of the company’s efforts to get closer to its surrounding community, a town that “is often perceived as affluent and well-off” but contains “areas of great deprivation.”
Like Britain’s food banks — now numbering an estimated 2,500 — warm hubs are a crisis measure showing signs of becoming permanent.
The Warwickshire Rural Community Council, a charity covering the county around Stratford, set up a mobile warm hub — a minibus-turned-pop-up outdoor café — in 2021 as pandemic restrictions plunged many rural residents into isolation.
A year ago, the charity ran five hubs across the county, with backing from Cadent, the private company that distributes much of Britain’s heating gas. As winter hit and energy bills soared, the number mushroomed to 90, providing everything from meals to repair workshops and slow-cooking courses meant to reduce gas use.
About 30 of the hubs will stay open this summer — with a view to becoming permanent — and the mobile hub will be on the road five days a week.
“People say we shouldn’t be in this situation, and we shouldn’t be,” said Jackie Holcroft, the charity’s warm hubs manager. “But we are. And I think one of the most amazing things is that you’ve got hundreds, thousands of volunteers around Warwickshire and they’re all coming together to make a difference.”
The RSC’s warm space will close at the end of March, but the company is already planning for its return next year.
“I’ll miss it like crazy,” said Bolger, one of the regulars. “I’m not hoping that the fuel crisis goes on forever, but I am hoping this place will stay open.”
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2023-03-05T00:40:04+00:00
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wwlp.com
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https://www.wwlp.com/business/ap-business/ap-in-britain-warm-hubs-emerge-to-beat-soaring-energy-costs/
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Commitment | Strength | Together
CORONA, Calif., Jan. 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The national marketing campaign, "We're All In," speaks volumes about PRMG's untiring passion and positive mindset whereby leveraging their technology and resources during the most difficult of times in the mortgage industry to help serve their business partners and the customers they all serve together.
For over two decades, PRMG has been committed to serving the mortgage industry. We believe it is our duty to educate, train, and support our loan originators, third-party originators, correspondent partners and those they serve, especially in a time of market compression, uncertainty, and an ever-changing mortgage landscape. We Are Committed!
PRMG remains a privately held mortgage banker. We are not a hedge fund, nor are we beholden to public entities or influences outside of our customers. Remaining nimble and flexible, along with a tenured company culture earned over time, has been a pillar of strength, allowing PRMG to adapt, endure, and grow during the most difficult times in the mortgage industry. We Are Strong!
In alignment with our company culture, PRMG boasts some of the best MarTech in the business. We know the importance of technology, how it integrates with our systems and platforms, and how to leverage it for our business partners. We can overcome nearly any hurdle that stands in our way of progress while remaining committed, dedicated, and stronger than ever to continue delivering best-in-class service! We strive together!
It is without question that many lenders have chosen to downsize their sales and operations significantly, some by up to 70% or more, while others have literally closed their doors as a direct result of low performance and reduced production volume due to market and economic conditions. PRMG being privately held has many advantages, including the latitude to invest in our people and technology during the most difficult of times in the mortgage industry. Our current mindset is to continually look for unique opportunities and leverage this market upheaval to help grow market share for the customers we serve. Paul Rozo, Founder and CEO, PRMG
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2023-01-13T21:55:14+00:00
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wcjb.com
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https://www.wcjb.com/prnewswire/2023/01/13/paramount-residential-mortgage-group-inc-proudly-debuts-their-2023-national-advertising-campaign-were-all/
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ANN ARBOR, MI – A University of Michigan computer science professor and former robotics team coach at Ann Arbor Christian School accused of sexually assaulting a child has been found not guilty by a jury.
After a week on trial and two days of deliberations, UM professor Peter Chen was found not guilty Monday, Dec. 5, of one count of first-degree criminal sexual conduct involving a minor younger than 13.
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2022-12-06T16:14:30+00:00
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mlive.com
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https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2022/12/jury-finds-university-of-michigan-professor-not-guilty-of-sexually-assaulting-child.html
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A confirmed member of the Columbus-based Zohannon criminal street gang was sentenced to serve federal prison time this week for illegally possessing two semiautomatic weapons, one stolen and the other with two loaded magazines attached with a brass catcher, a device designed to capture spent bullets.
COLUMBUS – A confirmed member of the Columbus-based Zohannon criminal street gang who is also a convicted felon was sentenced to serve federal prison time this week for illegally possessing two semiautomatic weapons, one stolen and the other with two loaded magazines attached with a brass catcher, a device designed to capture spent bullets.
Bernard Shaw, 23, of Columbus, was sentenced to serve 60 months in prison to be followed by three years of supervised release by U.S. District Judge Clay Land on April 13 after he pleaded guilty to two counts of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon on Dec. 7, 2022. There is no parole in the federal system.
“Armed repeat criminals caught with guns in Columbus are facing federal prosecution — where the penalties include prison time without parole,” U.S. Attorney Peter D. Leary said in a news release. “The U.S. Attorney’s Office is acutely aware of the pressing violent crime problems plaguing the Columbus community; alongside our law enforcement partners, we are tirelessly working to prevent more shooting deaths and reduce violent crime.”
“Despite prior felony convictions, Shaw continued his criminal lifestyle,” Special Agent in Charge of FBI Atlanta Keri Farley said. “This sentence sends the message that the FBI and our law enforcement partners are determined to make our streets safer by removing violent felons and holding them accountable with prison terms and no opportunity for parole.”
According to court documents, on April 24, 2022, Columbus Police Department officers were on uniform patrol when they observed a vehicle traveling on Dawson Street in Columbus with multiple traffic violations. The driver, Tyquerrius Ford, did not immediately stop, and when he did, he did not have a license and attempted to walk away from the officers and was detained.
Shaw, who was a passenger, leaned against the door to prevent the officer from accessing the vehicle, then got out of the car and fled the scene. Officers found a loaded Glock Model 17 pistol with an extended 31-round magazine in the driver’s seat. The firearm had been illegally modified with an automatic selector switch, allowing the operator of the firearm to continuously fire bullets with one pull of the trigger. In the passenger seat of the vehicle, there was a green bookbag containing a stolen Springfield XD semiautomatic pistol belonging to Shaw. Officers also found bags of marijuana, a scale and 100 small baggies.
On July 22, 2022, Muscogee County Sheriff’s Office deputies and FBI agents located Shaw seated inside a car in the parking lot of the AutoZone on Buena Vista Road in Columbus. He was quickly detained; officers found a loaded Del-Ton 5.56 semiautomatic rifle with two 30-round magazines taped together containing a total of 37 rounds in both magazines belonging to Shaw. Additionally, a brass catcher was mounted on the firearm. Shaw was arrested and his cell phone and rifle were seized.
Shaw has prior convictions in Jefferson County Circuit Court in Kentucky including theft by taking and fleeing police. Shaw is also a confirmed member of Zohannon, a Columbus-based criminal street gang. It is illegal for a convicted felon to possess a firearm.
The case was investigated by FBI, CPD and MCSO. Assistant U.S. Attorney Christopher Williams is prosecuting the case for the government.
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2023-04-15T14:40:36+00:00
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albanyherald.com
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https://www.albanyherald.com/news/gang-member-gets-5-year-sentence-on-gun-charges/article_0b33387e-db8b-11ed-82cd-d75f2171c35e.html
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LEMONT, Ill., Nov. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CITGO Lemont Refinery recently held their annual employee giving campaign for United Way of Will County. A total of $182,778 was raised by more than 530 CITGO employees, including support from the United Steel Workers Union (USW) and matching funds from CITGO Petroleum Corporation. As part of the campaign this year, the Refinery held a car show for employees and retirees inviting United Way partners to come and share information about their organizations.
"For many years CITGO and its employees have fueled the United Way's mission of uniting communities and resources to empower people and create positive sustainable change, and this year's fundraising results are a perfect example of the company's true dedication to support the communities in which it serves," said Kamala Martinez, President and CEO of the United Way of Will County.
The dollars raised will be used to fund over 78 programs throughout Will County that fall within United Way's impact areas of education; economic mobility; and health & wellness. With the need for support greater than ever, CITGO Lemont Refinery employees have once again stepped up to make a difference in the community.
"We are proud to continue to support the United Way of Will County through employee contributions, corporate donations and fundraising events" stated Dennis Willig, Vice President and General Manager CITGO Lemont Refinery. CITGO has raised more than $2.55 million for United Way of Will County over the past 22 years.
About CITGO
Headquartered in Houston, Texas, CITGO Petroleum Corporation is a recognized leader in the refining industry with a well-known brand. CITGO operates three refineries located in Lake Charles, La.; Lemont, Ill.; and Corpus Christi, Texas, and wholly and/or jointly owns 38 active terminals, six pipelines and three lubricants blending and packaging plants. With approximately 3,300 employees and a combined crude capacity of approximately 769,000 barrels-per-day (bpd), CITGO is ranked as the fifth-largest, and one of the most complex independent refiners in the United States. CITGO transports and markets transportation fuels, lubricants, petrochemicals and other industrial products and supplies a network of approximately 4,400 locally owned and operated branded retail outlets, all located east of the Rocky Mountains. CITGO Petroleum Corporation is owned by CITGO Holding, Inc.
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2022-11-21T17:05:27+00:00
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SEATTLE >> A cruise ship that struck an iceberg in Alaska has docked in Seattle for repairs.
The Norwegian Sun arrived in Seattle on Thursday. It hit part of an iceberg on Saturday near Hubbard Glacier in Alaska.
The ship was turned around to Juneau, where it underwent inspection. It was cleared to travel at lower speeds to Seattle by authorities.
A Nevada family who was onboard says the impact sounded like a loud door being slammed.
Benjamin Talbott was hanging out with family when his brother, Anthony Romo, noticed something in the water and told him to take out his phone. Talbott recorded as the cruise ship struck the big chunk of iceberg.
“Then all sudden, boom, the whole ship shakes. And I’m like, ‘Well, what’s going on?’ And then I had to start recording and I looked at the front of the ship and all I see is this … iceberg just turning over and coming down. And I was like, ‘Oh my God, we hit an iceberg,’” he said.
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2022-07-01T02:32:21+00:00
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staradvertiser.com
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https://www.staradvertiser.com/2022/06/30/breaking-news/cruise-ship-that-hit-iceberg-arrives-in-seattle-for-repairs/
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Threatened desert tortoises make major recovery after recent rainfall
LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) - Dozens of desert tortoises were released into the wild north of the Las Vegas Valley, a feat made possible after recent rainfall through the winter and the spring.
Research scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Servicee, the Bureau of Land Management, Nevada Department of Wildlife, and Clark County are monitoring this latest release of tortoises with trackers to monitor their progress. The release was a testament to the recovery of the species across Southern Nevada after it was threatened last fall by predators and the drought.
FOX5 told you how coyotes, in search of food, preyed on the threatened tortoises in search of a meal.
“The drought last fall [was] the worst I’ve seen in the 40 years,” said Todd Esque of USGS. “We regularly evaluate their health and their condition, and it was it was not good.”
He added that their eyes would be sunken and their limbs started to get thin.
“That’s a bad sign when you see them like that,” Esque said of the state of monitored tortoises last October, who struggled to find food in the harsh drought conditions. “The rain this last winter and late spring was a real game-changer.”
He said that the tortoises they have seen this year are out foraging and they look “really healthy and active.”
Scientists were confident that there was enough food in the desert for tortoises in research facilities to live on their own, and they will monitor the tortoises for at least the next two years.
Every time we find the tortoise, we collect environmental data as well as behavioral data. One facet of this project that we are translocating tortoises for, is to do foraging observations. Another thing we could be doing is tracking them to see what they are eating every day. We’re also happy to say that there’s a lot of forage availability out here, so a lot for them to eat
The project also answers a bigger question for scientists: As the drought endures for the next few years, can the desert tortoise adapt and survive?
“The research that’s coming out of this project could have implications, help us get a better idea of what habitat quality means for tortoises, and identify what those variables are that maybe conservationists need to specifically look at in order to conserve the species long term,” Doyle said.
Esque said the tortoises are adapting to the changing climate and even changing their diet.
“We had summer rains last year, which are unusual,” he said. “Tortoises ate plants that grew in the summer. Tortoises actually grew in the summer instead of the spring last year.”
“All the tortoises and other wildlife and plants have made it in the desert and evolve to be out here,” Esque added.
There are many things the public can do to protect the desert tortoise, including the following:
- Be cautious on roadways.
- Stay on paths and do not step on tortoises or their homes.
- Pick up litter so tortoises don’t eat trash.
- Don’t release pet tortoises or reptiles into the wild.
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2023-04-28T07:33:04+00:00
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fox5vegas.com
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https://www.fox5vegas.com/2023/04/28/threatened-desert-tortoises-make-major-recovery-after-recent-rainfall/
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Andie Swim founder stunned by Silicon Valley Bank collapse: “Did we lose everything?”
▶ Watch Video: Silicon Valley Bank client speaks about the impact of the collapse on her business
New York-based swimwear company Andie Swim founder Melanie Travis was caught unprepared by the sudden collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, she told CBS News.
On Friday, Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), the 16th-largest U.S. bank with $210 billion in assets, was seized by California regulators after depositors rushed to withdraw funds over concerns the bank might become insolvent.
SVB catered to envelope-pushing tech startups, internet and software companies, as well as firms in the life science and health care space, and premium winemakers.
Andie Swim was among the bank’s customers and Travis told CBS News that she was “panicked and flustered,” upon hearing the news of the bank’s closing.
Travis said she and her team knew there was a crisis looming and they were working on moving to another bank Friday midday during which she learned SVB had collapsed.
She told CBS News that the bombshell led to three minutes of silence on the phone as she pondered: “Did our company just go bankrupt like this? Did we lose everything?”
“I’ve never had a feeling like that in all my years of working and certainly not since I started Andie,” she said.
Travis told CBS News she was concerned the bank’s collapse would cause her small, 32-person company to fail, too.
“I thought, ‘Wow, maybe this is the final nail in the coffin.’ And we lived through COVID, we got through that. For this to be the end, I just was in shock,” she said.
But Biden administration officials announced Sunday that depositors with accounts at Silicon Valley Bank will have access to all of their money beginning Monday, and “no losses associated with the resolution of Silicon Valley Bank will be borne by the taxpayer.”
The emergency action “fully protects” all depositors, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome Powell and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Chairman Martin Gruenberg said.
Travis confirmed that the company’s money is secure but that she has not been able to move it or access it. Upon hearing the news of the collapse on Friday Travis said she “ran” to open up a new business account at JPMorgan Chase.
“We sell product on a website that consumers buy; we needed a bank where their money for the product would go,” she said.
She said she plans on moving all the money from SVB accounts into their new Chase account and said in the future she will diversify and not rely on just one bank account.
On Monday, President Biden sought to reassure Americans that they can have confidence in the U.S. banking system and quell any concerns about the fallout from SVB’s abrupt failure.
“Americans can have confidence that the banking system is safe,” Mr. Biden said in brief remarks from the White House. “Your deposits will be there when you need them. Small businesses across the country that deposit accounts at these banks can breathe easier knowing they’ll be able to pay their workers and pay their bills, and their hard-working employees can breathe easier as well.”
Aimee Pichee and Melissa Quinn contributed to this report.
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2023-03-14T03:10:02+00:00
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wsgw.com
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https://www.wsgw.com/andie-swim-founder-stunned-by-silicon-valley-bank-collapse-did-we-lose-everything/
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An Army helicopter crashed in Alaska, injuring two soldiers.
According to the Military Times, the helicopter was involved in a "rollover" accident on Sunday in Talkeetna. That's about 100 miles north of Anchorage.
The helicopter was reportedly taking off when it crashed.
The injured soldiers were taken to a hospital for treatment and released Monday afternoon, the Anchorage Daily News reported.
The cause of the crash is still unclear. Investigative teams are expected to visit the Talkeetna Airport crash site this week.
According to the Anchorage Daily News, the two injured soldiers are part of the 25th Combat Aviation Battalion at Fort Wainwright in Fairbanks.
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2023-02-07T18:48:49+00:00
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wsfltv.com
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https://www.wsfltv.com/news/national/2-army-soldiers-injured-in-helicopter-crash-in-alaska
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Parts of Yellowstone will reopen to visitors Wednesday morning, after dramatic floods forced the national park to shut down last week.
“Less than six days ago, Yellowstone National Park was hit with devastating floods,” Park superintendent Cam Sholly said in the release. “Thanks to the tremendous efforts of our teams and partners, we are prepared to reopen the south loop of Yellowstone.”
The south loop includes the Old Faithful geyser and Yellowstone Lake and is accessed via the south, east and west entrances of the park. Some parts of the south loop, including four camp grounds in Wyoming near the border with Idaho and Montana, will remain closed.
Local residents, business owners and tourists are likely to be relieved that parts of the park will reopen. Yellowstone receives the most visitors between June and September, and this summer season was expected to be a particularly busy one, as the national park prepared to celebrate its 150th anniversary.
In an earlier news conference, the park superintendent suggested it was the first time since Yellowstone opened 150 years ago that it had to shut down due to flooding.
The United States Geological Survey, a government agency, said the floods affecting the national park this week represent a 1-in-500-year event.
Katherine Chase, a USGS hydrologist, said provisional data from measurement stations on the Yellowstone River at Corwin Springs and Livingston suggest that “the peak streamflow” had a 0.2 percent — or 1 in 500 — chance of happening. Near Billings, the provisional streamflow was “between the 1% (or 1 in 100) and 0.2% (1 in 500) flood,” the USGS said in a statement.
Still, Chase noted, “while these floods are often referred to as greater than (or rarer than) a 1 in 500-year event, there is the same probability that they could occur in any given year.”
To avoid a crush and further damage to nature and infrastructure in the park once the entrances to Yellowstone’s southern loop reopen, authorities plan to limit the number of prospective visitors. Accordingly, the park has devised a system based on vehicle license plates to determine entry.
On odd calendar dates, only vehicles whose license plates end in an odd number will be allowed in. Even-numbered calendar dates will allow in cars with plates ending in even numbers. Some vehicles will be exempt from this “alternating license plate system,” including essential workers, tour operators and visitors who have booked a stay at hotels or campgrounds inside the park.
“Entrance station staff will turn away vehicles attempting to enter the park when the odd/even numerical digits do not correspond to the odd/even calendar date for entrance,” the Park Service said.
Sholly said park authorities would “monitor” the system and “work together to make adjustments that may be necessary.” He asked those who want to visit the park to “plan ahead and be patient with us.”
As authorities survey the damage, they have indicated that the park’s northern loop could remain closed all summer while they work to repair roads, wastewater lines, trails and other infrastructure there.
Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte (R) urged tourists Saturday to visit Montana and help support tourism-reliant towns that have been devastated by the flooding.
The Montana Democratic Party and some residents criticized the governor for his absence when Yellowstone had to shut down. His office confirmed he was traveling with his wife through Italy when the floods began. While he was overseas, he “delegated his authority to respond to the disaster to Lt. Gov. Kristen Juras,” his office said.
Gianforte was back in the state Friday and visited Gardiner, a gateway community of Yellowstone whose economy relies on tourism. Access to Gardiner was temporarily cut off by the floods last week but has been restored. Gianforte tweeted Saturday that the town, and its neighbor to the north, Paradise Valley, are “open for business.”
The folks I heard from in Gardiner today have a clear and simple message — Gardiner and Paradise Valley are open for business.
— Governor Greg Gianforte (@GovGianforte) June 18, 2022
Let’s support them as they rebuild by bringing them our business this summer. pic.twitter.com/munM2cxwWR
The National Park Service also urged visitors to come back to Yellowstone when they could. It said Friday that while access to Yellowstone “will be less than normal until further notice, there are still incredible opportunities for recreation, wildlife viewing, and great experiences in the park’s gateway communities … as well as surrounding areas in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.”
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2022-06-19T12:05:37+00:00
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washingtonpost.com
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/06/19/yellowstone-national-park-reopening-floods/
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New partnership will enable EL Specialists and teachers to better serve English learners (ELs) by using testing data to identify instructional and testing support needs.
- Districts in Texas and California can opt-in to automatic transfers of student test scores between Summit K12 and Ellevation.
- Summit K12's English Language Development (ELD) progress monitoring benchmarks for language domains can now be found within Ellevation Platform.
- The partnership will bring value to school districts by saving time and increasing the instructional value of both solutions.
BOSTON, March 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Summit K12 and Ellevation have announced a new collaboration between Connect to Literacy Interim Online test data and Ellevation's data and instructional planning platform. For districts in Texas and California that opt-in to the data sharing agreement, the new data integration will support automatic transfers of student test scores between Summit K12 and Ellevation. The partnership will save districts time and increase the instructional value of both products.
"We are excited to bring additional value to school districts through the new partnership between Summit K12 and Ellevation," said John Kresky, the CEO of Summit K12. "Our partners can now view the Summit K12 English Language Development (ELD) progress monitoring benchmarks (pre-, interim-, and summative-assessments) for all English Learners within the Ellevation platform. This includes the online assessments for all four language domains - Listening, Speaking, Reading, and Writing."
"We're thrilled about this collaboration because we've heard directly from district leaders how much they value the interim assessment data from Connect to Literacy," said Teddy Rice, President & Co-Founder of Ellevation. "Having this data in Ellevation will help EL Specialists work with teachers to identify instructional and testing support needs based on fresh data throughout the year."
About Summit K12
Summit K12 supports millions of English Learners in thousands of schools to help students achieve at least one proficiency level growth per year and districts achieve their reclassification goals. Our innovative digital platform delivers English Language Development curriculum through lessons, skills mastery, formative and progress monitoring assessments, and adaptive personalized learning plans. Summit K12 also uses advanced Artificial Intelligence to automatically score speaking items across 112 linguistic dimensions and provides students with virtual coaching to reach their next proficiency level. The platform currently delivers over 25,000 lessons and items, including the 28 unique Texas TELPAS item types and the 27 unique California ELPAC item types. Summit K12 plans to release additional versions specific to WIDA, ELPA21, and NYSESLAT for the 2023-2024 school year.
Learn more at www.summitk12.com
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JW Marshall
Summit K12
jw.marshall@summitk12.com
About Ellevation
Ellevation is a mission-driven company dedicated to helping English Learners (ELs) achieve their highest aspirations. We are an indispensable partner to school district administrators, teachers, and students across the nation, who use our solutions to manage complex program requirements, build the capacity of teachers to serve multilingual learners, and empower students with the academic language necessary for success in school. Ellevation is the only EL program management solution that goes beyond compliance and impacts instruction in every classroom.
Learn more at www.ellevationeducation.com
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Mandy Weger
Ellevation Education
mandy.weger@ellevationeducation.com
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2023-03-23T22:28:48+00:00
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BALTIMORE — Giancarlo Stanton isn’t injured, but he and the Yankees are actively working right now to try and prevent one. The Yankees slugger was out of the starting lineup for the second straight day as he tried to battle through “exhaustion,” and generally being “beat up.”
“He wants to give me extra time. I am just beat up a little bit overall,” Stanton said before the series finale against the Orioles at Camden Yards. “But I am fine. I will be in there Tuesday or later today.”
Stanton missed nine games on the injured list earlier this season with leg issues, which he has struggled with in the past. He said Sunday morning that this “is making sure it doesn’t get there,” to the IL.
Neither Stanton nor Aaron Boone would discuss what the particular issue is right now.
“I just think it’s the middle of the rough stretch of a grueling schedule and stuff and I just think he’s a little beat up, but nothing that I’m concerned about,” the Yankees manager said. “Biggest thing for me is with the off day tomorrow. I just feel like it’s time that gives him a little bit of a reset that I think is going to serve him really well and ultimately serve us really well. I don’t want to push through something right now to where I feel like this is that time when in the past where he gets a little vulnerable with some things and it’s not something I want to mess with right now.”
Since winning the Most Valuable Player award at the All-Star Game on Tuesday, Stanton has gone 0-for-10 with seven strikeouts in 10 plate appearances.
“There’s no injury stuff going on. Other than he was a little exhausted going into the break and coming out, I sensed that a little bit,” Boone said. “Really it’s just my call saying I think it’s wise we take a couple of days right now and get him to where (he’s) the wrecking machine that he is, but I wouldn’t hesitate to use him today.”
Boone said the plan is for Stanton to be in the lineup and the outfield on Tuesday for the Subway Series.
KING EXPLORING OPTIONS
Michael King will need surgery on his fractured right elbow, but the right-hander and the Yankees are still seeking advice from doctors.
“It’s getting a couple of opinions and making sure we’re all buttoned up and then obviously then you have decisions to make,” Boone said. “But the one thing we know is obviously the elbow fracture was confirmed and that’s going to be something that definitely needs to be taken care of.”
King will need surgery to repair the fractured bones in his elbow, but there is the possibility that he is facing Tommy John. Boone said they “don’t know the extent of that,” when asked if there was damage to the ulnar collateral ligament. A team spokesman clarified that to mean they don’t know if there is zero damage or more.
The outlook for King’s career are vastly different options. Surgery for a fractured bone would have King coming back around time for spring training. Tommy John surgery, even the new advanced elbow reconstructions, would have him missing a significant portion of the 2023 season.
“Those timelines are quite a bit different,” Boone said.
INJURY UPDATES
Miguel Castro, on the injured list with a shoulder strain, is still at the very beginning of a shutdown that will likely have a few more weeks of “no throw.”
Luis Severino, on the IL with a strained lat muscle, is getting closer to picking up a ball and starting to throw again.
“Sevy’s doing well,” Boone said. “So he’ll be hopefully reevaluated in the next three to four days to begin his throwing program, but he’s doing well.”
Zack Britton, who had offseason elbow reconstruction surgery, is close to another step in his rehab, Boone said.
“I know he is scheduled to face live hitters for the first time probably in the next 10 days or two weeks,” Boone said. “So again, if that stuff continues to go well, you can kind of timeline it out from there. There’ll be at least a handful of facing live hitters before something like (a minor league rehab assignment) begins but he’s moving in a good direction.”
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2022-07-24T19:42:02+00:00
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denverpost.com
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https://www.denverpost.com/2022/07/24/giancarlo-stanton-aaron-boone-hope-days-off-will-keep-slugger-off-the-il/
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SAN ANTONIO — The office of then-Constable Michelle Barrientes Vela collected fines and fees from defendants who had outstanding warrants without arresting them or bringing them before a judge, witnesses said Wednesday in a sentencing hearing in her evidence tampering trial.
The violation of criminal justice procedures was routine and continued even after Vela was warned by then-District Attorney Nicholas “Nico” LaHood that she needed to stop it, said one of the witnesses, Justice of the Peace Roberto Vazquez, whose Bexar County Precinct. 2 court the constable was elected to serve.
The jarring allegations also were detailed by Renee Garza, a longtime clerk and court manager in Precinct 2, who testified that Vela’s deputies collected fines and fees while executing 93 warrants but that much of the money had to be refunded, “because they didn’t have a chance to go before a judge.”
A jury convicted Vela in September of two counts of tampering with evidence related to her office’s handling of cash. Vela will be sentenced by state District Judge Velia Meza, and Wednesday’s allegations, which had never been made public, came from prosecution witnesses in the sentencing phase of the trial.
Vela faces up to 10 years in prison. With no prior criminal record, she has applied for probation.
On ExpressNews.com: Vela brought deputies to store that accused her son of theft
Vela, a Democrat, served as constable for 33 months before she was forced to resign after publicly announcing a campaign for sheriff while under investigation by Texas Rangers and the FBI stemming from complaints that she shook down a patron at Rodriguez Park in 2019 for security fees on a pavilion he had already paid for.
Vazquez testified Wednesday that he met with Vela to “diplomatically” explain the warrant procedure, “what law enforcement can and can’t do,” because executing those documents is the bulk of what the constable’s office does for his court.
“The meeting did not go very well,” he said, because when he tried to show her the statute in a copy of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure, she took it away from him.
“She said she knew the Code of Criminal Procedure better than any lawyer or judge,” Vazquez said. “I don’t think I have ever heard anyone say that in my career. I brought (the meeting) to a close. I was aware this was going to be a bumpy ride, but I wanted to make sure the court protected itself.”
Vazquez said he tried numerous other times to talk to Vela about the problem and reached out to LaHood and one of his chiefs in the DA’s office. Vazquez said the practice “trickled off” but did not entirely stop after the DA’s office advised her that what her deputies were doing with warrants “was not lawful.”
“It’s a denial of due process” because the defendants never met with a judge, Vazquez said, adding, “I try to do everything to avoid sending someone to jail.”
On ExpressNews.com: Former Bexar constable Vela found guilty of cooking the books
It was unclear why Vazquez did not hold Vela in contempt of court, which was an option for him. Defense attorney Jason Goss, during his questioning of Vazquez, said the procedure he ascribed to Vela’s office violated no criminal statute, and Vazquez agreed.
LaHood, who has represented Vela since her indictment in 2021 and led her defense team at trial, was not present at Wednesday’s hearing.
Also Wednesday, Meza informed prosecutors and defense lawyers that Mark Anthony Sanchez, the attorney representing a former captain in Vela’s office, Marc Duane Garcia, could be disqualified from that job because Sanchez had represented both Garcia and Vela in several lawsuits filed by Precinct 2 staff.
Prosecutors had alerted the court Tuesday that Garcia had agreed to testify for the prosecution against Vela, in exchange for the dismissal of four criminal cases against him. The development with Sanchez could prevent Garcia from being a witness.
On ExpressNews.com: Allegation of political threat to judge clouds case against ex-constable
Vela also is charged with three counts of official oppression in connection with her treatment of two deputies — Leonicio Moreno, once Vela’s chief deputy, and former Deputy Constable Christopher De La Cerda. Each had accused her of harassment and retaliation. The men have sued her and Garcia in state and federal court, alleging discrimination and retaliation.
Online court records indicate Garcia has a trial date of Nov. 28 on state charges of aggravated perjury and three counts of official oppression.
When Vela and Garcia were indicted, they were accused having encouraged or directed other employees to harass Moreno and De La Cerda and create “a work environment that was intimidating, hostile, or offensive.”
A perjury charge against Vela, accusing her of making false statements under oath to obtain an arrest warrant for Moreno for allegedly altering training records, was later dropped. The district attorney’s office later declined to prosecute Moreno for lack of evidence.
Before that, Moreno filed federal employment complaints against Vela and sued her for sex discrimination, alleging she retaliated against him because he refused her alleged sexual advances in a hot tub during a 2017 work conference in Galveston.
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2022-10-05T23:52:21+00:00
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expressnews.com
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43 Fans Will Win a Pair of Tickets to See Carrie Underwood on Tour!
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y., Oct. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Tunnel to Towers Foundation is launching the Carrie Underwood & THE DENIM & RHINESTONES TOUR Ticket Sweepstakes. Fans can enter to win two tickets to see the 8-time GRAMMY® Award winner and 3-time ACM Entertainer of the Year, Carrie Underwood, on THE DENIM & RHINESTONES TOUR, with dates in Fall 2022 and Spring 2023. The tour is making stops at arenas in 43 U.S cities. Fans can enter to win a pair of tickets in the city of their choice.
The tour, promoted by AEG Presents, will kick off on October 15 in Greenville, SC, making stops across the U.S. in cities including New York's Madison Square Garden, Nashville's Bridgestone Arena, and L.A.'s Crypto.com Arena before concluding in Seattle, WA on March 17. Underwood will be joined on THE DENIM & RHINESTONES TOUR by special guest Jimmie Allen on all dates.
Tunnel to Towers is sponsoring the Carrie Underwood & THE DENIM & RHINESTONES TOUR Ticket Sweepstakes. The sweepstakes runs from 12:00 am ET on October 8, 2022 until 11:59 pm ET on March 1, 2023 and is happening in tandem with the tour. Fans can enter for a chance to win online at T2T.org/carrie-underwood-sweepstakes. Entrants must be 18 years of age or older and a legal resident of the fifty United States or District of Columbia. The winner in each city will be notified ahead of each stop on the tour. The winning tickets will be distributed electronically. Entrants are required to read the complete terms and conditions of the sweepstakes upon entering.
When the tour was announced in May, Underwood continued her longstanding tradition of designating a portion of ticket sales from her tours to support worthwhile charities and organizations. She arranged for a donation of $1 from each ticket sold for THE DENIM & RHINESTONES TOUR to be contributed to the Tunnel to Towers Foundation.
"We want to thank Carrie Underwood for her continued support of our Foundation and our mission to protect the families of those who risk their lives every day to protect us," said Tunnel to Towers Chairman and CEO Frank Siller, who added "we are thrilled to offer the chance for some special fans to get the opportunity to see Carrie's new show, live and in person."
The Tunnel to Towers Foundation has been helping America's heroes since 9/11 by providing mortgage-free homes to Gold Star and fallen first responder families with young children and by building custom-designed smart homes for catastrophically injured veterans and first responders. The Foundation is also committed to eradicating veteran homelessness and aiding the victims of major U.S. disasters.
Visit T2T.org/carrie-underwood-sweepstakes or T2T.org for more information.
Carrie Underwood is a true multi-format, multi-media superstar, spanning achievements in music, television, film, and as a New York Times bestselling author and successful entrepreneur. She has sold more than 64 million records worldwide, recorded 28 #1 singles (14 of which she co-wrote), is the most-awarded female country artists for singles in RIAA history, and has seven albums that are certified Platinum or Multi-Platinum by the RIAA, all while continuing to sell out arena tours across North America and the UK. All nine of her consecutive album releases (two of which she co-produced) from the beginning of her career debuted #1 on the Billboard Country Chart, making her the only artist to accomplish that feat. She has won over 100 major awards including 7 GRAMMY® Awards, 15 ACM Awards including three for Entertainer of the Year (the first female in history to win twice and the only female ever to win three times), 22 CMT Music Awards (holding the record for the most award wins ever for the show), 7 CMA Awards, and 15 American Music Awards. She has also built a successful business portfolio inspired by her passion for health and wellness, including her fitness and lifestyle brand, CALIA by Carrie Underwood, bestselling book, FIND YOUR PATH, her fit52 app, and a partnership with BODYARMOR Sports Drink.
The Tunnel to Towers Foundation is dedicated to honoring the sacrifice of FDNY Firefighter Stephen Siller, who laid down his life to save others on September 11, 2001. For more than 20 years the Foundation has supported our nation's first responders, veterans, and their families by providing these heroes and the families they leave behind with mortgage-free homes. For more about the Tunnel to Towers Foundation and its commitment to DO GOOD, please visit T2T.org.
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2022-10-08T05:51:01+00:00
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mysuncoast.com
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Authorities say two suspects have been arrested in a series of deadly robberies at Southern California 7-Eleven convenience stores where two people were killed and three wounded.
Police have been seeking a masked gunman suspected of robbing six Southern California stores. It was not immediately clear who the second person arrested was. The Orange County District Attorney's Office announced the arrests on social media. A press conference is scheduled for 5 p.m. No other details were immediately available.
The attacks took place on July 11 — or 7/11, the day when the company celebrates its anniversary.
A multi-agency press conference will be held at 5 p.m. today to discuss the arrests of two suspects in connection to a string of 7-Eleven robberies and homicides across Southern California.
— OCDA Todd Spitzer (@OCDAToddSpitzer) July 15, 2022
According to the Associated Press, police in the California localities of Ontario, Upland, Riverside and La Habra said they believe 7-Eleven robberies that happened in those towns are also linked. During the confusion, a customer was shot in the head and gravely wounded at a Riverside store, and two people, including a clerk, were shot in La Habra but were expected to survive.
The Riverside shooting victim was identified by his family as 46-year-old Jason Harrell. He was breathing on his own and was no longer in a coma, his brother David Makin told KNBC-TV earlier this week, the Associated Press reported.
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2022-07-15T22:41:55+00:00
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wsfltv.com
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https://www.wsfltv.com/news/national/multiple-suspects-arrested-in-probe-of-deadly-7-eleven-shootings-in-california
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NEW YORK, Nov. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Golub Capital BDC, Inc., a business development company (Nasdaq: GBDC), today announced its financial results for its fourth fiscal quarter ended September 30, 2022.
Except where the context suggests otherwise, the terms "we," "us," "our," and "Company" refer to Golub Capital BDC, Inc. and its consolidated subsidiaries. "GC Advisors" refers to GC Advisors LLC, our investment adviser.
Fourth Fiscal Quarter 2022 Highlights
- Net investment income per share for the quarter ended September 30, 2022 was $0.32 as compared to $0.32 for the quarter ended June 30, 2022. Excluding $0.01 per share in purchase premium amortization from the GCIC acquisition and $0.00 per share of reversal for the capital gain incentive fee under GAAP, Adjusted Net Investment Income Before Accrual for Capital Gain Incentive Fee1 for the quarter ended September 30, 2022 was $0.33. This compares to Adjusted Net Investment Income Before Accrual for Capital Gain Incentive Fee1 of $0.31 for the quarter ended June 30, 2022 when excluding $0.02 per share in purchase premium amortization from the GCIC acquisition and $0.03 per share in the reversal for the capital gain incentive fee under GAAP.
- Net realized and unrealized loss per share for the quarter ended September 30, 2022 was $0.27. Adjusted Net Realized and Unrealized Loss Per Share1 was $0.28 when excluding the $0.01 per share reversal of net realized loss and unrealized depreciation resulting from the amortization of the purchase premium. The Adjusted Net Realized and Unrealized Loss Per Share1 for the quarter ended September 30, 2022 primarily resulted from unrealized losses on our portfolio of investments driven by continued credit spread widening in the market. For additional analysis, please refer to the Quarter Ended 9.30.2022 Earnings Presentation available on the Investor Resources link on the homepage of the Company's website (www.golubcapitalbdc.com) under Events/Presentations. The Earnings Presentation was also filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission as an Exhibit to a Form 8-K. These results compare to net realized and unrealized loss per share of $0.23 during the quarter ended June 30, 2022. Adjusted Net Realized and Unrealized Loss Per Share1 for the quarter ended June 30, 2022 was $0.25 when excluding the $0.02 per share reversal of net realized loss and unrealized loss resulting from the amortization of the purchase premium.
- Earnings per share for the quarter ended September 30, 2022 was $0.05 as compared to $0.09 for the quarter ended June 30, 2022. Adjusted Earnings Per Share1 for the quarter ended September 30, 2022 was $0.05 as compared to $0.09 for the quarter ended June 30, 2022.
- Net asset value per share decreased to $14.89 at September 30, 2022 from $15.14 at June 30, 2022.
- On September 29, 2022, we paid a quarterly distribution of $0.30 per share and on November 18, 2022, our board of directors increased our base dividend by 10% and declared a quarterly distribution of $0.33 per share, which is payable on December 29, 2022 to stockholders of record as of December 9, 2022.
- During the three months ended September 30, 2022, the Golub Capital Employee Grant Program Rabbi Trust (the "Trust") purchased approximately $17.2 million, or 1,271,865 shares of our common stock for the purpose of awarding incentive compensation to employees of Golub Capital. Through the first three calendar quarters of 2022, the Trust purchased $40.4 million, or 2,898,170 shares of our common stock.
Portfolio and Investment Activities
As of September 30, 2022, the Company had investments in 331 portfolio companies with a total fair value of $5,446.4 million. This compares to the Company's portfolio as of June 30, 2022, as of which date the Company had investments in 328 portfolio companies with a total fair value of $5,613.6 million. Investments in portfolio companies as of September 30, 2022 and June 30, 2022 consisted of the following:
The following table shows the asset mix of our new investment commitments for the three months ended September 30, 2022:
Total investments in portfolio companies at fair value were $5,446.4 million at September 30, 2022. As of September 30, 2022, total assets were $5,681.2 million, net assets were $2,544.5 million and net asset value per share was $14.89.
Consolidated Results of Operations
For the fourth fiscal quarter of 2022, the Company reported GAAP net income and Adjusted Net Income1 of $8.1 million or $0.05 per share. GAAP net investment income was $54.0 million or $0.32 per share and Adjusted Net Investment Income Before Accrual for Capital Gain Incentive Fee 1 was $56.5 million or $0.33 per share. GAAP net realized and unrealized gain/(loss) was $(45.8) million or $(0.27) per share and Adjusted Realized and Unrealized Gain/(Loss)1 was $(48.4) million or $(0.28) per share.
Net income can vary substantially from period to period due to various factors, including the level of new investment commitments, the recognition of realized gains and losses and unrealized appreciation and depreciation. As a result, quarterly comparisons of net income may not be meaningful.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
The Company's liquidity and capital resources are derived from the Company's debt securitizations (also known as collateralized loan obligations, or CLOs), unsecured notes, revolving credit facilities and cash flow from operations. The Company's primary uses of funds from operations include investments in portfolio companies and payment of fees and other expenses that the Company incurs. The Company has used, and expects to continue to use, its debt securitizations, unsecured notes, revolving credit facilities, proceeds from its investment portfolio and proceeds from offerings of its securities and its dividend reinvestment plan to finance its investment objectives.
As of September 30, 2022, we had cash, cash equivalents and foreign currencies of $124.1 million, restricted cash, cash equivalents and foreign currencies of $56.4 million and $3,093.6 million of debt outstanding. As of September 30, 2022, subject to leverage and borrowing base restrictions, we had approximately $544.9 million of remaining commitments and availability, in the aggregate, on our revolving credit facility with JPMorgan. In addition, as of September 30, 2022, we had $100.0 million of remaining commitments and availability on our unsecured line of credit with GC Advisors.
On September 2, 2022, we amended our revolving credit facility with JP Morgan to, among other things, amend the interest rate on borrowings to SOFR + 1.75% from LIBOR + 1.75%. The SOFR interest rate is subject to an additional spread adjustment rate ranging between 0.11448% and 0.42826%, depending on applicable tenor. In addition, we entered into an agreement on September 16, 2022 to increase the aggregate commitments outstanding under the JP Morgan facility to $1.2375 billion from $1.1875 billion as of June 30, 2022.
On September 16, 2022, all amounts outstanding under our credit facility with Morgan Stanley were repaid, following which the agreements governing our credit facility with Morgan Stanley were terminated.
Portfolio and Asset Quality
GC Advisors regularly assesses the risk profile of each of the Company's investments and rates each of them based on an internal system developed by Golub Capital and its affiliates. This system is not generally accepted in our industry or used by our competitors. It is based on the following categories, which we refer to as GC Advisors' internal performance ratings:
Our internal performance ratings do not constitute any rating of investments by a nationally recognized statistical rating organization or represent or reflect any third-party assessment of any of our investments. For additional analysis on the Company's internal performance ratings as of September 30, 2022, please refer to the Quarter Ended 9.30.2022 Earnings Presentation available on Investors Resources link on the homepage of the Company's website (www.golubcapitalbdc.com) under Events/Presentations.
The following table shows the distribution of the Company's investments on the 1 to 5 internal performance rating scale at fair value as of September 30, 2022 and June 30, 2022:
Conference Call
The Company will host an earnings conference call at 1:00 pm (Eastern Time) on Tuesday, November 22, 2022 to discuss the quarterly financial results. All interested parties may participate in the conference call by dialing (888) 330-3529 approximately 10-15 minutes prior to the call; international callers should dial +1 (646) 960-0656. Participants should reference Golub Capital BDC, Inc. when prompted. For a slide presentation that we intend to refer to on the earnings conference call, please visit the Investor Resources link on the homepage of our website (www.golubcapitalbdc.com) and click on the Quarter Ended 9.30.2022 Earnings Presentation under Events/Presentations. An archived replay of the call will be available shortly after the call until 11:59 p.m. (Eastern Time) on December 6, 2022. To hear the replay, please dial (800) 770-2030. International dialers, please dial +1 (647) 362-9199. For all replays, please reference program ID number 5111111.
ABOUT GOLUB CAPITAL BDC, INC.
Golub Capital BDC, Inc. ("GBDC") is an externally-managed, non-diversified closed-end management investment company that has elected to be treated as a business development company under the Investment Company Act of 1940. GBDC invests primarily in one stop and other senior secured loans to middle market companies that are often sponsored by private equity investors. GBDC's investment activities are managed by its investment adviser, GC Advisors LLC, an affiliate of the Golub Capital LLC group of companies ("Golub Capital").
ABOUT GOLUB CAPITAL
Golub Capital is a market-leading, award-winning direct lender and experienced credit asset manager. The firm specializes in delivering reliable, creative and compelling financing solutions to companies backed by private equity sponsors. Golub Capital's sponsor finance expertise also forms the foundation of its Late Stage Lending, Broadly Syndicated Loan and Credit Opportunities investment programs. Golub Capital nurtures long-term, win-win partnerships that inspire repeat business from private equity sponsors and investors.
As of July 1, 2022, Golub Capital had over 675 employees and over $55 billion of capital under management, a gross measure of invested capital including leverage. The firm has lending offices in Chicago, New York, San Francisco and London. For more information, please visit golubcapital.com.
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
This press release may contain "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Statements other than statements of historical facts included in this press release may constitute forward-looking statements and are not guarantees of future performance or results and involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements as a result of a number of factors, including those described from time to time in filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Golub Capital BDC, Inc. undertakes no duty to update any forward-looking statement made herein. All forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this press release.
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2022-11-21T22:42:49+00:00
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uppermichiganssource.com
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Making pasta by hand looks impressive, but the truth is that homemade pasta is surprisingly simple to create. You can get started with just three ingredients you likely already have in your kitchen. Even if the only tools you have are a rolling pin and a chef’s knife, you can feed your family and friends a satisfying and delicious meal made entirely from scratch. All you’ll need is a recipe, a couple of hours, and just a little bit of practice.
Is homemade pasta better?
You won’t just get a sense of accomplishment from making your own pasta — it tastes better, too. Fresh pasta has a more tender texture and a more pronounced eggy flavor than commercial dried pasta. The pasta’s springiness holds up equally well, whether it goes into lasagna or straight onto the plate with some butter. You can even try making a pasta dough with unusual ingredients like spinach or saffron for an extra-special meal.
How to get started making pasta
Making the pasta dough
There are as many fresh pasta recipes as there are people who make pasta, but to get started, it’s best to stick with a simple pasta dough that uses just a few ingredients: unbleached all-purpose flour, eggs, and a bit of salt.
If you want, you can use semolina durum flour, which is a more authentic pasta flour with a higher protein content and a coarser texture that helps sauces stick. However, if all-purpose flour is all you have in your pantry, it’ll turn into wonderful pasta.
Place 10 ounces of flour on a clean work surface and make a well. Add two eggs plus four egg yolks to the well and gently start incorporating the flour using a fork, gradually scraping in flour from the sides of the well. Switch to a bench scraper when it becomes too difficult to use a fork and mix until it’s fully combined by scraping and folding over the dough, turning it 45 degrees each time.
Kneading and rolling the pasta dough
You’ll know the dough is ready for kneading when it stops sticking to your hands and holds its shape when rolled into a ball. Knead the dough for about 10 minutes until it’s smooth and satiny, then shape it into a ball. Let it rest, wrapped in plastic wrap, for 30 to 60 minutes to let gluten develop.
Use the bench scraper to cut the ball into four equal portions and cover them with a towel to keep them from drying out. Working with one portion at a time, roll out the dough into an oblong shape between a quarter-inch and half-inch thick.
Making pasta by hand vs. using a stand mixer
If your arms aren’t up to the task of all that kneading, you can use a powerful food processor or a stand mixer. Simply place all the ingredients in the work bowl and run the machine (using a dough hook if you’re using a stand mixer) until a large, smooth ball forms.
How to shape homemade pasta
Making pasta shapes with a pasta machine
Roll out your dough by hand or use a pasta maker. Some pasta machines can create extruded shapes like penne, while others deliver smooth sheets and strands of lasagna or fettuccine. Following the manufacturer’s instructions for the type of pasta you want to make, feed your rolled-out dough between the rollers until it reaches the right thickness.
At this point, you can trim it by hand to make filled pasta or lasagna or run it through the pasta machine to cut it into strands. As the cut pasta strands emerge from the machine, carefully catch them, dust them with flour, shape them into nests, and keep them covered until you’re ready to cook or dry them.
A stand mixer offers another advantage here: after you’ve whipped up a batch of pasta dough in the bowl, use the mixer’s pasta-making attachment to roll out, cut, or shape pasta.
How to make filled pasta
For filled pastas, make sure your filling is relatively dry so you can seal up your pasta and avoid leaking or soggy dough. Avoid the temptation to overload your pasta — follow your recipe’s guidance for the amount of filling to use in each pasta shape.
Depending on the type of stuffed pasta you’re making, you can use a pasta stamp, a pastry wheel, biscuit cutters, or even a chef’s knife to create rounds or squares. Seal the pasta by brushing the edges with a little water, then using gentle pressure to close the shapes. Make sure the filling is fully enclosed and that no air is trapped inside.
How to cook homemade pasta
Cooking fresh pasta
Homemade pasta cooks very quickly — depending on the shape, it will need only two to four minutes in boiling water, and slightly longer for stuffed pasta. Salt your cooking water generously to amplify your pasta’s flavor, especially if your dough recipe doesn’t call for salt. Serve it immediately.
How to dry fresh pasta
Alternatively, you can dry your uncooked pasta to serve at a future date. Leaving an egg-based food out in the open can feel counterintuitive, but when properly dried and stored, there should be no moisture remaining to encourage bacteria.
Toss the pasta shapes in flour, then lay the strands in a single layer on a drying rack or on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Let the pasta dry uncovered and away from heat and sunlight, or use a food dehydrator for more consistency, especially if it’s a humid day. When the pasta snaps instead of bending, it’s ready for storage. Keep it in a dry, airtight container in your pantry or freezer.
FAQ
Q. How long does homemade pasta last?
A. Homemade pasta has a much shorter shelf life than commercially made pasta. Uncooked pasta can be kept in an airtight container in the fridge for just one day. Properly dried homemade pasta can be stored in your pantry for up to six weeks. Alternatively, before you cut your pasta shapes, you can wrap the dough in plastic wrap and freeze it for up to one month.
Q. What sauces go with homemade pasta?
A. How you serve your pasta may come down to personal preference, but the shape of the pasta is a contributing factor. Pair fettuccine or tagliatelle with a homemade alfredo sauce or pesto. Wider pasta like pappardelle is great with slow-simmered meat sauces. You can also highlight the flavor of your fresh pasta (especially ravioli) by simply tossing it in browned butter and high-quality Parmesan.
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2023-07-05T21:35:10+00:00
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sun-sentinel.com
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https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2023/07/05/homemade-pasta-tastes-better-heres-how-to-make-it-7/
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NEW YORK, Nov. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Gross Law Firm issues the following notice to shareholders of Medtronic plc.
Shareholders who purchased shares of MDT during the class period listed are encouraged to contact the firm regarding possible lead plaintiff appointment. Appointment as lead plaintiff is not required to partake in any recovery.
CONTACT US HERE:
CLASS PERIOD: This lawsuit is on behalf of persons and entities who purchased or otherwise acquired Medtronic common stock between June 8, 2019, and May 25, 2022, inclusive.
ALLEGATIONS: The complaint alleges that during the class period, Defendants issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Medtronic's product quality control systems were inadequate; (2) Medtronic had failed to comply with numerous regulations regarding risk assessment, corrective and preventive action, complaint handling, device recalls, and reporting of adverse events; (3) these failures increased the risk of regulatory investigation and action; (4) as a result of the Company's misconduct, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration would delay the approval of additional Medtronic MiniMed devices, including the MiniMed 780G; (5) these delays in product approvals, as well as the Company's need to improve its quality control systems, would negatively affect the Company's financial performance and cause Medtronic to fall further behind its competitors; and (6) as a result of the foregoing, defendants' statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects lacked a reasonable basis.
DEADLINE: November 7, 2022 Shareholders should not delay in registering for this class action. Register your information here: https://securitiesclasslaw.com/securities/medtronic-plc-loss-submission-form/?id=33225&from=4
NEXT STEPS FOR SHAREHOLDERS: Once you register as a shareholder who purchased shares of MDT during the timeframe listed above, you will be enrolled in a portfolio monitoring software to provide you with status updates throughout the lifecycle of the case. The deadline to seek to be a lead plaintiff is November 7, 2022. There is no cost or obligation to you to participate in this case.
WHY GROSS LAW FIRM? The Gross Law Firm is nationally recognized class action law firm, and our mission is to protect the rights of all investors who have suffered as a result of deceit, fraud, and illegal business practices. The Gross Law Firm is committed to ensuring that companies adhere to responsible business practices and engage in good corporate citizenship. The firm seeks recovery on behalf of investors who incurred losses when false and/or misleading statements or the omission of material information by a company lead to artificial inflation of the company's stock. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
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2022-11-02T10:42:49+00:00
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newschannel10.com
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https://www.newschannel10.com/prnewswire/2022/11/02/shareholder-alert-gross-law-firm-notifies-shareholders-medtronic-plc-class-action-lawsuit-lead-plaintiff-deadline-november-7-2022-nyse-mdt/
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Andy Weidenbach says new rinks are the key to producing more hockey talent in Florida.
It was in 2010 when Detroit Red Wings Head Coach Mike Babcock asked Andy Weidenbach to run his team's informal practices before the NHL training camp season officially began.
NHL coaches can't take the ice until the first day of official training, but players often liked to get together and skate before then, so teams would hire local coaches to run the unofficial practices for them.
Weidenbach wasn't just any coach. He was a renowned high school and junior hockey coach who had been leading Cranbrook Kingswood High in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, to state championships.
Still, while Weidenbach, who now lives in Lakewood Ranch, felt respected, he wasn't sure if his role would make the Red Wings accept him as a part of the team.
Then he got his answer.
He had been talking with Babcock when Red Wings' forward Justin Abdelkader entered the room to have a quick heart-to-heart talk with Babcock. Weidenbach thought he needed to leave, but Abdelkader told him to stay. Weidenbach said Abdelkader proceeded to lobby Babcock for more time on the team's power play unit and asked what it would take to get it.
"Work harder," Babcock told him. "Any questions?"
Abdelkader didn't have any.
It was the kind of meeting "outsiders" never hear about. Over the next seven years, Weidenbach continued to be considered an insider as he ran those unofficial practice sessions and also served as the Red Wings' skate coach for the team's developmental program. During Weidenbach's first unofficial practice, he skated up to Red Wings captains Nicklas Lidstrom and Kris Draper, the team's captain and assistant captain, and asked them if there was anything special they wanted the team to work on that day. Lidstrom and Draper looked at each other, then back at Weidenbach. Lidstrom wondered why Weidenbach was asking them, and Weidenbach said it was because they were captains.
"Yeah, and you're the coach," Lidstrom said. "We don't care what you do."
He and Draper then skated away laughing.
Weidenbach said every practice was like that. He relished them all.
Weidenbach coached Cranbrook Kingswood High in Michigan for 26 years, compiling a win-loss record of 504-187-47 and winning 10 Michigan High School Athletic Association Division III state championships while finishing second twice.
He was named the MHSAA Division III Coach of the Year eight times, among a bevy of other awards. In August, he received his biggest honor yet as he was named to the Michigan High School Coaches Association Hall of Fame.
"It was quite an honor, and I was surprised," Weidenbach said. "The Hall of Fame encompasses all sports. There are thousands of teams and coaches up there. I never thought I would be selected. I think my longevity has something to do with it. I guess we touched the lives of a lot of people."
Weidenbach retired and moved his family to Lakewood Ranch in 2019, although he brought his skates, gloves and whistle to Lakewood Ranch with him. He has become involved with the Tampa Bay Lightning's junior hockey programs and he's still coaching in the spring and summer, though the specific organization he's helping with, Premier Hockey Prospects, is no longer sponsored by the Lightning.
After three years, Weidenbach has a pretty good idea of the talent level in Florida.
It might be a surprise, but Weidenbach said the talent gap between players in Florida and players in Michigan and other northern states is not as large as you might think. It is other aspects of the game that cause the separation.
"Up north, the players learn to play the game as a team," Weidenbach said. "Down here, there's not as much depth in the talent pool, so good players can do whatever they want on the ice. There's less structure. They don't have to learn to play team hockey. As a result, they learn bad habits and they hang onto the puck too long. They don't know how to attack a zone when they have a numbers advantage."
It makes sense. Look at the NHL: during the 2021-2022 season, as 12 players born in Florida took the ice for an NHL game. That's a small number, but three of those 12 players were first-round picks, including 2019's No. 1 overall pick Jack Hughes. There's some elite talent to be found here, just not a lot of it — at least not yet.
Weidenbach said the easiest way for Florida to build a larger talent base is to build more ice rinks. With few rinks, it takes considerable amount of travel time for many players to get to the rink. And when they get there, ice time is limited. The more rinks an area has, the more kids can use them and for longer or more frequent periods of time.
It can happen, but the process will be slow.
Weidenbach probably won't remain on the ice to see it happen. He's helping out for now, but he would like to transition to more off-ice roles — ones he can do in his pajamas, he joked.
To that end, Weidenbach is starting to get into video coaching, but he has also partnered with Stream Cortex, a hockey-centric video platform, to produce a "Coach's Corner" podcast, where he talks with people across the industry about how they do their jobs. The podcasts are free on YouTube.
Episodes currently available include a chat with Ohio State women's team defensemen Emily Curlett, who spoke about winning the NCAA Championship. In the coming days, Weidenbach said, he will have an episode with Marc Craig, the Carolina Hurricanes director of pro scouting.
It's a new adventure for Weidenbach, but after accomplishing as much as he has in the hockey world, something new is a welcome challenge. He might not be working as a full-time coach anymore, but he will always have the memories.
"My goals now are to help people or an organization be a little bit better," Weidenbach said.
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2022-09-21T22:12:43+00:00
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yourobserver.com
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https://www.yourobserver.com/article/lakewood-ranch-resident-earned-coaching-wings-in-michigan-ice-hockey?src=rss
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Massive junkyard fire sends black plume of smoke into Philadelphia sky
This story originally appeared on 6abc.
A massive junkyard fire in Philadelphia’s Hunting Park section was sending a black plume of smoke into the sky on Tuesday evening.
Video from Chopper 6 showed crews battling the blaze near Sedgely and Erie avenues.
Multiple vehicles and tires were ablaze inside the junkyard, officials said.
All train traffic in the Philadelphia area was temporarily stopped due to the fire, including Amtrak train routes.
There was no word on any injuries.
SERVICE ADVISORY: Due to ongoing fire department activity, all train traffic in the Philadelphia (PHL) area is temporarily stopped. Trains may incur delays. We will provide updates as more information becomes available.
— Amtrak Northeast (@AmtrakNECAlerts) September 27, 2022
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2022-09-28T00:09:20+00:00
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whyy.org
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https://whyy.org/articles/massive-junkyard-fire-sends-black-plume-of-smoke-into-philadelphia-sky/
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Residents of Bridgeport, Conn., fear the economic fallout of the U.S. Army's decision to eliminate its multi-billion-dollar Comanche helicopter program. The cancellation comes one year after Sikorsky Aircraft opened a new plant in Bridgeport, with about 750 workers, to build the helicopter. John Dankosky of member station WNPR reports.
Copyright 2004 NPR
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2022-05-27T19:58:14+00:00
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wlrn.org
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https://www.wlrn.org/2004-02-24/conn-town-reels-from-comanche-cancellation
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The Biden administration said Monday it was shipping its biggest yet direct delivery of weapons to Ukraine as that country prepares for a potentially decisive counteroffensive in the south against Russia, sending $1 billion in rockets, ammunition and other material to Ukraine from Defense Department stockpiles.
The new U.S. arms shipment would further strengthen Ukraine as it mounts the counteroffensive, which analysts say for the first time could allow Kyiv to shape the course of the rest of the war, now at the half-year mark.
Kyiv aims to push Russian troops back out of Kherson and other southern territory near the Dnipro River. Russia in recent days was moving troops and equipment in the direction of the southern port cities to stave off the Ukrainian counteroffensive.
“At every stage of this conflict, we have been focused on getting the Ukrainians what they need, depending on the evolving conditions on the battlefield,” Colin Kahl, undersecretary of defense for policy, said Monday in announcing the new weapons shipment.
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The new U.S. aid includes additional rockets for the High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, or HIMARS, as well as thousands of artillery rounds, mortar systems, Javelins and other ammunition and equipment. Military commanders and other U.S. officials say the HIMARS and artillery systems have been crucial in Ukraine’s fight to block Russia from taking more ground.
While the U.S. has already provided 16 HIMARS to Ukraine, Kahl said the new package does not include additional ones.
“These are not systems that we assess you need in the hundreds to have the type of effects” needed, Kahl said. “These are precision-guided systems for very particular types of targets and the Ukrainians are using them as such.”
He declined to say how many of the precision-guided missile systems for the HIMARS were included in Monday's announcement, but said the U.S. has provided “multiple hundreds” of them in recent weeks.
The latest announcement brings the total U.S. security assistance committed to Ukraine by the Biden administration to more than $9 billion.
In his nightly video address, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy thanked the United States for the package, and said “100% of it we will use to protect freedom, our common freedom.”
Until now, the largest single security assistance package announcement was for $1 billion on June 15. But that aid included $350 million in presidential drawdown authority, and another $650 million under the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative, which provides funding for training, equipment and other security needs that can be bought from other countries or companies.
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Monday's package allows the U.S. to deliver weapons systems and other equipment more quickly since it takes them off the Defense Department shelves.
In addition to the rockets for the HIMARS, it includes 75,000 rounds of 155mm artillery, 20 mortar systems and 20,000 rounds for them, 1,000 shoulder-mounted Javelin rockets, and other arms, explosives and medical equipment.
For the last four months of the war, Russia has concentrated on capturing the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, where pro-Moscow separatists have controlled some territory as self-proclaimed republics for eight years. Russian forces have made gradual headway in the region while launching missile and rocket attacks to curtail the movements of Ukrainian fighters elsewhere.
Kahl estimated that Russian forces have sustained up to 80,000 deaths and injuries in the fighting, though he did not break down the figure with an estimate of forces killed.
He said the Russian troops have managed to gain “incremental” ground in eastern Ukraine, although not in recent weeks. “But that has come at extraordinary cost to the Russian military because of how well the Ukrainian military has performed and all the assistance that the Ukrainian military has gotten. And I think now, conditions in the east have essentially stabilized and the focus is really shifting to the south.”
The new funding is being paid for through $40 billion in economic and security aid for Ukraine approved by Congress in May.
This is the 18th time the Pentagon has provided equipment from Defense Department stocks to Ukraine since August 2021.
The U.S. and allies still are evaluating whether to supply aircraft to Ukraine, Kahl said. It's “not inconceivable that western aircraft down the road could be part of the mix,” he said.
Zelenskyy early in the war made near-daily appeals for warplanes, calling them essential to protecting Ukraine's skies. The U.S. and some other NATO countries feared that could draw them into more direct involvement with Ukraine's war against Russia, and have not provided Western aircraft.
Separately Monday, the Treasury Department said it was sending $3 billion more in direct economic assistance to Ukraine. That’s part of a previously approved $7.5 billion in economic assistance, with $1.5 billion yet to be disbursed.
Associated Press writers Eric Tucker and Fatima Hussein in Washington contributed to this report.
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2022-08-08T23:45:06+00:00
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nbcmiami.com
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https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/national-international/us-pledges-1-billion-more-rockets-other-arms-for-ukraine/2830780/
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CLEVELAND, Ohio – Cuyahoga County property taxes are coming due in two weeks, and the treasury’s new website makes them easier than ever to pay.
Tax bills for the second half of 2021 were mailed out last week, and the deadline to pay is July 14. Otherwise, a 5% penalty will be assessed on any total past due from July 15-24.
A new payment portal aims to make it easier for residents to pay their bill online, providing revenue for local schools, cities, villages, townships, libraries, and various county-level services.
“We have worked to make it accessible and convenient,” County Spokeswoman Mary Louise Madigan said.
The portal walks residents through four steps:
1. Search your bills
In the Select Payment Type drop down menu, make sure “property tax” is selected. It should be the only option but is required in order to populate the field where you type in your parcel number.
Don’t know your parcel number? There is a hyperlinked tool that will take you to the county’s “MyPlace” website where you can search for the 8-digit number by the property owner’s name or address. Find it next to your name in the search bar or above your name in the “General Information” tab.
If you copy and paste the number into the portal search bar, be sure to include the dashes after the third and fifth digits. Click search.
2. Select payment
The next screen will have a summary of your property and the taxes owed, including any unpaid amount from the first half of the year. You must click “add to cart” to advance.
Click “continue,” you will be directed to a screen where you can put in your payment information. Then click continue.
If you own multiple properties, you will have to complete this process for each one. Those who wish to pay the bills due on all their properties in one transaction, must either pay in person at the Cuyahoga County Administrative building, 2079 E. 9th St, or mail in a check with each bill’s remittance stub.
3. Review and submit
Residents will then have an opportunity to review all their information to make sure they’ve selected the right property and are using the correct payment information. Use the “back” button to make edits or click “continue” to advance.
At this point, residents will be asked to select which amount they intend to pay: the full amount owed, which could include any delinquent taxes from the first half of the year’s bill; the current amount, which would only include the amount due for the second half of the year; or they can enter whatever amount they plan to pay at that time.
4. Confirmation and receipt
Once all the information has been confirmed, residents will receive a receipt that they can print for their records.
Online isn’t the only way residents can pay their tax bills, however. Other options include:
- In person using the cashier station or self-pay kiosk at the Cuyahoga County Administrative building, 2079 E. 9th St. It’s open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on weekdays with extended hours from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. on July 14.
- By mail, with parcel number written on the check, to: Cuyahoga County Treasurer, P.O. Box 94547, Cleveland, OH 44101-4547
- By phone at 1-877-738-1212
- By drop box located on the side of the Cuyahoga County Administrative building at 2079 E. 9th St.
- At any Key Bank branch in the county, though the last day for this service will be July 7
- At one of four Auto Title branches, including at 1585 Golden Gate Plaza in Mayfield Heights, 22121 Rockside Road in Bedford, 12100 Snow Road in Parma, and 27029 Brookpark Road Extension in North Olmsted. Check each location for their hours of operation.
Taxpayers unable to make full payment of their property taxes can call 216-443-7420 to make an appointment with the Treasury Department to discuss payment arrangements.
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2022-06-30T21:14:55+00:00
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cleveland.com
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https://www.cleveland.com/news/2022/06/new-portal-makes-it-easier-to-pay-cuyahoga-county-tax-bills-online.html
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agentinc continues to expand its reach across California and the nation
UPLAND, Calif., June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Einstein Realty, one of San Bernardino County's top producing real estate agencies has agreed to join agentinc, one of the nation's fastest growing real estate companies.
Established in 2019, agentinc offers a next-gen platform that combines shareholder opportunities, an industry leading cap, AI-powered technology, and revenue share program to generate more income and create an optimal work/life balance for its agents.
"We're excited to welcome Sal Kabir, Kerry Thomson, and their entire team of established agents to agentinc," says John McMonigle, founder agentinc. "We built the agentinc platform to attract top talent from around the world and we've been very successful in our endeavors."
Sal Kabir and Kerry Thomson bring decades of elite real estate expertise to the team at agentinc, and will continue to expand the agentinc brand and platform as the company continues to open in 50 states and 50 countries over the next 50 months.
"We took a deep-dive into the agentinc platform and it was obvious that by joining forces we could enhance our reach while also providing our hard-working agents with more financial incentives," says Sal Kabir, founder, Einstein Realty. "Kerry and I have always been dedicated to providing our team with everything they need to succeed, so this was the logical next step."
The news of Einstein Realty joining agentinc comes just weeks before agentinc launches its initial public offering.
"Several upstart real estate companies are floundering right now because they didn't build a sustainable business model," says Kerry Thomson, team leader, Einstein Realty. "John and his team masterfully created a real estate platform that benefits both the agents and the company—it's a win/win for everyone involved."
John McMonigle, who has sold over $8.5 billion as the leader of the Wall Street Journal's #1 Real Estate Team in the World, built agentinc as an alternative to the traditional brokerage model.
"We took the best aspects of the top brokerages and found a way to implement them all into one platform backed by an AI-powered tech stack and next-level lead gen partnerships," says McMonigle. "And what we have now is a real estate company that's built solely for our agents to succeed."
To join agentinc, contact Scott MacDonald at Scott@agentinc.com or 949.433.0496
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agentinc was founded in 2019 by renowned real estate executive, John McMonigle, five-time winner of Wall Street Journal's #1 Real Estate Team in the World award. agentinc's record-breaking and award-winning executive team offers agents stock awards and ground floor shareholder opportunities to expand revenue beyond the listing. With a focus on technology, networking, education, and high-impact marketing, agentinc empowers both clients and agents to achieve their ultimate real estate goals.
Learn more at agentinc.com/about-us
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2022-06-28T14:44:08+00:00
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witn.com
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https://www.witn.com/prnewswire/2022/06/28/elite-san-bernardino-county-real-estate-group-einstein-realty-joins-agentinc/
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A 28-year-old woman and her two children, ages 1 and 2, were shot in a domestic violence incident on the North Side, San Antonio Police Chief Willliam McManus said Monday night.
A man, 50, was arrested in connection with the shooting at a separate residence about a mile away.
Officers responded to the 500 block of Robinhood Place for a call of a shooting at about 7 p.m., where they found a woman on a sidewalk who had been shot in the neck and in the lower torso, McManus said.
The chief did not say where the children's gunshot wounds were, but that the three victims were in surgery at area hospitals. Their conditions are unknown.
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An 8-year-old and an 11-year-old were also in the home during the shooting, but they escaped by breaking windows in different parts of the house and exiting.
"This is infuriating," McManus said. "With all the resources and effort that we've put into assisting domestic violence victims and trying to prevent these things from happening."
The relationship between the suspect and the victims is unknown and McManus said he did know what caused the shooting or if the man lived at the residence where the shooting occurred.
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2023-04-11T04:24:00+00:00
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expressnews.com
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https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/chief-william-mcmanus-says-mom-two-kids-shot-17889891.php
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2022-07-12T18:25:35+00:00
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ourmidland.com
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https://www.ourmidland.com/sports/article/NASCAR-Xfinity-Laps-in-Top-15-17299951.php
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MOULTON — A Lawrence County sheriff's deputy testified at a preliminary hearing Tuesday that he and another deputy found the body of a Caddo man, with a fatal gunshot wound to his face, in the center of the defendant's living room floor.
Lawrence County District Judge Angela Terry found probable cause to support the charge of capital murder against 21-year-old Timothy Dakota McCary in the shooting death of Gavin Ryan Hargrove, 20, and bound the case over to the grand jury.
Sgt. Wheeler Lovelady, the sole witness at the 25-minute hearing, said the deputies found Hargrove's body Dec. 24.
Lovelady said that two witnesses to the shooting told him similar stories. They said McCary and Hargrove had an argument, McCary grabbed a nearby handgun and hit Hargrove in the face and when he did “the gun went off, shooting Mr. Hargrove in the left cheek.”
Questioned by Assistant District Attorney Bobby Lang, Lovelady said the witnesses also told investigators that one of them attempted to leave immediately after the shooting but McCary pointed the gun at them and told them not to do so.
Lovelady said the witnesses also told him they saw McCary take items from Hargrove’s gym shorts and leave the residence.
Florence attorney Tony Hughes, representing one of the witnesses, contacted Lawrence County District Attorney Errek Jett to inform him of the crime and its location, according to Lovelady.
The witness told authorities that McCary shot Hargrove at McCary's residence, 6859 Lawrence County 217 Lot No. 3, and that the defendant’s mother later arrived to clean up the scene.
“The body had been moved,” Lovelady testified. He said a blood trail was present from the couch to the center of the living room floor. “We could smell bleach throughout the residence when we first went into the residence.”
Hargrove was on the couch when he was shot and “began to bleed out,” Lovelady said the witnesses told him.
An autopsy revealed the manner of death was a homicide, Lovelady said.
We continued to look for McCary and learned he was transported to Decatur then Huntsville and back in Lawrence County.” He was located at his aunt’s house on Dec. 25 and apprehended, the deputy said.
“We never found objects taken from Hargrove,” Lovelady added.
Defense attorney Brian David Clark of Huntsville asked Lovelady about body camera footage of the scene when he arrived.
Lovelady said he did not have a body camera on at the time and was unsure if the other deputy did.
Lovelady also told Clark that neither of the witnesses "received promises" for their information.
After the hearing, Clark said the probable cause standard to proceed to the grand jury is generally easy for the state to meet.
“I try to be very realistic,” he said. “The standard is very low. (The judge ) found that the state did it. We’re fine with that. At the same time, we’re happy with what we heard today as far as some particular items we’re looking at. We look forward to giving him the best we’ve got.”
Wendy Lopez of Hartselle is McCary's other defense attorney.
The victim’s mother, District 5 Commissioner Sonia Hargrove, said it was difficult to sit through the hearing.
“It was hard to hear the details of testimony,” she said. “We’re glad he can’t get bond, and he’s charged with capital murder. We’re still looking for closure.”
If convicted of capital murder, McCary could receive life without the possibility of parole or the death penalty.
Also charged in the case is Maranda R. Harville, 42, of Moulton, McCary's mother. She is facing charges of first-degree hindering prosecution and abuse of a corpse, both Class C felonies. The Sheriff’s Office alleged Harville “helped clean up” the scene of the killing. Authorities said Harville lived next to McCary. She was released on $30,000 total bond, $15,000 on each charge.
On Jan. 13, Eldon Cordera Shelton, 32, of Lawrence County was charged with first-degree hindering prosecution and was later released on $15,000 bond in the case. He is accused of providing transportation for McCary near the crime scene and assisting him in hiding from law enforcement agencies before McCary was apprehended.
Lawrence County Coroner Scott Norwood said Hargrove was dead about 17 hours before authorities were notified.
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2022-04-06T06:28:24+00:00
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decaturdaily.com
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https://www.decaturdaily.com/news/lawrence_county/mccarys-capital-murder-case-sent-to-grand-jury/article_6e2440e8-8994-5b69-8cca-e6697328a908.html
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NXTE provides exposure to companies profitably creating innovations that address global systemic risks and advance economic productivity, renewable energies and waste-to-value supply chains
NEW YORK, Nov. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AXS Investments, a leading asset manager providing access to alternative investments for growth, income and diversification, today announced that the AXS Green Alpha ETF (NXTE) surpassed $50 million in assets in just 29 trading days since the launch of the exchange-traded fund (ETF).
NXTE is the industry's first ETF to capture Next Economy leaders and dovetails with many first-of-their-kind ETFs brought to market by AXS Investments. NXTE is sub-advised by Green Alpha Investments, a global investment manager and thought leader widely known for its trademarked Next Economy philosophy and investment strategies, identifying companies poised to be leaders in the rapidly unfolding and expanding sustainable global economy, while possessing growth potential at attractive valuations. The firm also sub-advises the AXS Sustainable Income Fund (AXSKX), which offers the Next Economy approach in a fixed income portfolio.
"We are very pleased with the marketplace's response to NXTE, which was designed to provide investors with a highly differentiated approach to sustainable investing," said Greg Bassuk, Chief Executive Officer of AXS Investments. "Crossing the $50 million mark in just 29 days of trading is an exciting milestone for NXTE, and very reflective of our ability to identify areas of high investor demand to which we can bring first-of-its-kind investment access."
"I'm thrilled to see investors allocating their funds into our Next Economy Select strategy at the same speed and vigor with which they've been voicing their interest," said Betsy Moszeter, Chief Distribution & Marketing Officer of Green Alpha Investments. "NXTE is the first ETF and only equity investment product globally that offers our Next Economy Select strategy with intra-day liquidity, full transparency and the tax attributes afforded by ETFs."
AXS Investments is a leading alternative investment manager providing a diversified family of alternative and sustainable investments for growth, income and diversification. The firm empowers investors to diversify their portfolios with investments previously available only to the largest institutional and high net worth investors. The investor-friendly AXS funds are time-tested, liquid, transparent and managed by high pedigreed portfolio managers with long and strong track records. For more information, visit www.axsinvestments.com.
Green Alpha Investments has been managing sustainable, fossil fuel free investment strategies since 2008 and developed its investment methodology called Next Economy™ – an indefinitely thriving economy driven by companies developing innovative solutions to major systemic risks, like the climate crisis, resource degradation, widening inequality and human disease burden. The firm believes companies that innovate around efficiency gains and sustainable economic and environmental productivity have competitive advantages and should gain market share, which can fuel sales growth, protect margins and sustain free cash flow. For more information, visit www.greenalphaadvisors.com.
Green Alpha is a registered trademark of Green Alpha Advisors, LLC. Green Alpha also owns the trademark to Next Economy.
There are risks involved with investing including the possible loss of principal. Past performance does not guarantee future results. Investors should carefully consider the investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses of any fund before investing. To obtain a prospectus containing this and other important information, please click here to view or download a prospectus online at www.axsinvestments.com. Read the fund's prospectus carefully before you invest.
Environmental Investing Risk: The universe of acceptable investments for the Fund may be limited due to the Sub-Advisor's proprietary research process, which may affect the Fund's exposure to certain companies or industries and may adversely impact the Fund's performance. Small-Cap and Mid-Cap Company Risk: The securities of small- and mid-capitalization companies may be subject to more abrupt or erratic market movements and may have lower trading volumes or more erratic trading than securities of larger, more established companies or market averages in general. Foreign Investment Risk: The prices of foreign securities may be more volatile than the prices of securities of U.S. issuers because of economic and social conditions abroad, political developments and changes in the regulatory environments of foreign countries.
Shares are bought and sold at market price (not NAV) and are not individually redeemed from the ETF. There can be no guarantee that an active trading market for ETF shares will develop or be maintained, or that their listing will continue or remain unchanged. Buying or selling ETF shares on an exchange may require the payment of brokerage commissions and frequent trading may incur brokerage costs that detract significantly from investment returns.
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2022-11-09T19:52:25+00:00
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kfyrtv.com
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https://www.kfyrtv.com/prnewswire/2022/11/09/axs-green-alpha-etf-nxte-surpasses-50-million-first-29-trading-days/
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EYOTA, Minn.-Eyota Days began July 10th with an art camp for the local kids.
Eyota Days is a weeklong community festival bringing the community together for a week in July. The event has been going on for 45 years. Eyota mayor and Eyota Days committee member Tyrel Clark says the event is a way for the community to create memories together.
Clark says, "It's really important, it's really meant to be a fun week for us just to celebrate everything that is Eyota the community, just an opportunity for everyone to get out and have fun with each other.”
Fireworks are planned for Friday evening and a street dance for Saturday. The weeklong art camp keeps kids busy for two and a half hours a day.
Co-director for Eyota Art Camp Jill Magnuson says, "It's just a nice way to start and give the kids something to do during Eyota days during the day."
Kids at the camp are either just out of kindergarten or as old as in the sixth grade, with many returning each year.
Co-director for Eyota Art Camp Megan Tuohy says, “They usually are coming back every year so they usually love it.”
For a list of activities at the event head to the Eyota Days website or Facebook page.
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2023-07-11T01:22:27+00:00
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kimt.com
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https://www.kimt.com/news/eyota-days-brings-the-community-together/article_daa285b8-1f71-11ee-a02e-c390109bfc29.html
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In stark contrast to older physicians, the gender breakdown is equal
among physicians 44 years and younger
CHICAGO, May 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- According to new data released by the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS), more doctors than ever are certified by its Member Boards, which benefits patients and their families across the country.
The 2021-2022 ABMS Board Certification Report shows that more than 975,000 physicians are currently certified by an ABMS Member Board, representing an increase of more than 35,000 physicians (3.7 percent) over the previous year. This data is current as of June 30, 2022.
"Certification by an ABMS Member Board is the cornerstone of physician quality," stated ABMS Senior Vice President, Certification Standards and Programs Greg Ogrinc, MD, MS. "It is incredibly gratifying to see so many physicians nationwide using board certification to demonstrate their specialty expertise and commitment to provide safe, high-quality, and effective care."
The board certification process was created more than 100 years ago as a rigorous, independent evaluation of a physician's experience, knowledge, and skills. Today, certification by an ABMS Member Board supports continuous assessment and professional development activities. While doctors are required to be licensed by the state in which they practice, board certification is a higher standard that doctors choose to attain and maintain.
For more than 45 years, the annual ABMS Board Certification Report has illustrated the continued importance of board certification as a public credential. Several entities use ABMS data as the definitive guide to specialties and board certification in the U.S. For example, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services uses ABMS certification data for its popular "Physician Compare" web site. To verify that their doctor has taken that extra step to practice at the top of their profession and deliver high-quality and safe care, patients can visit www.CertificationMatters.org.
The 2021-2022 ABMS Board Certification Report offers a variety of information about the 40 specialty and 89 subspecialty certification programs administered by the 24 Member Boards that comprise ABMS. This 62-page report also includes a snapshot of the active certificates held by ABMS Member Board certified physicians, also known as "diplomates."
The breakdown of age and gender for the diplomate population continues to change over time. The younger cohort (44 years old and younger) shows an even distribution between male (45.4 percent) and female (44.5 percent). This is in stark contrast to older cohorts, including the 65–74-year-old group, which is 74.4 percent male and 24.2 percent female. Currently, 30.2 percent of all active diplomates are women, while 64.8 percent are men, with approximately five percent of diplomates' genders unknown. The median age of an ABMS board certified diplomate is 55 years old and the mean age is 56.9 years old.
Report highlights include:
- In 2021, the 24 Member Boards awarded 38,901 new specialty certificates and 16,100 new subspecialty certificates.
- Colorful charts and infographics that break down important data, such as the distribution of board certified diplomates by ABMS Member Board, state, age, and gender.
Published annually, the ABMS Board Certification Report can be downloaded from the ABMS website. This report reflects information reported by the 24 ABMS Member Boards and data from the ABMS certification database, which contains more than one million records. The database is updated daily with information received from Member Boards and is considered a primary source for professional certification verification. ABMS offers www.CertificationMatters.org, a free online tool that the public can use to verify that their doctors are board certified.
About ABMS
Established in 1933, the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) is responsible for the creation of standards overseeing physician certification in the United States. Dedicated to improving the quality of care to the patients, families and communities they serve, the 24 ABMS Member Boards develop educational and professional standards and programs of assessment to certify physicians and medical specialists. More than 975,000 physicians and medical specialists are certified by one or more of the ABMS Member Boards in one or more of 40 specialties and 89 subspecialties. For more information about ABMS, visit abms.org or call (312) 436-2600.
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2023-05-24T16:31:16+00:00
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newschannel10.com
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https://www.newschannel10.com/prnewswire/2023/05/24/new-report-record-number-us-doctors-are-abms-member-board-certified/
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Strong to severe storms expected Thursday
WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - Meteorologist Jake Dunne says we have to dodge a few storms to start the day, but any wet weather will exit by midday leaving us mostly cloudy and dry into the afternoon. Milder morning temperatures in the 50s will eventually climb into the 70s later today.
Another, better chance of showers and storms arrives after 5 p.m. into the evening. A noticeable increase in humidity will aid in producing a few strong to possibly severe storms, mainly over central Kansas. The main concern is hail up the size of quarters, and wind gusts up to 60-65 mph.
Friday and the upcoming weekend will feel more like early summer as highs climb into the middle to upper 80s with a little humidity. While a stray storm cannot be ruled out, most of the state will be storm-free on both Saturday and Sunday.
After a warm and dry Monday, storm chances come back to Kansas on Tuesday and/or Wednesday.
WICHITA AREA FORECAST:
Today: Isolated storms until noon, otherwise mostly cloudy. Wind: S 10-20; gusty. High: 76.
Tonight: Showers and storms, mainly in the evening. Wind: SE 5-15. Low: 59.
Tomorrow: Becoming mostly sunny. Wind: SE 5-15. High: 82.
Sat: Low: 60. High: 88. Mostly sunny, breezy, and very warm.
Sun: Low: 61. High: 87. Mostly sunny to partly cloudy.
Mon: Low: 63. High: 84. Mostly sunny.
Tue: Low: 62. High: 85. Partly cloudy; chance of storms into the evening.
Wed: Low: 63. High: 84. Partly cloudy; chance of afternoon/evening storms.
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2023-05-04T12:22:54+00:00
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kwch.com
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https://www.kwch.com/2023/05/04/strong-severe-storms-expected-thursday/
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Prince Harry is going where other British royals haven't for over a century: to a courtroom witness stand.
The Duke of Sussex is set to testify in the first of his five pending legal cases largely centered around battles with British tabloids. Opening statements are scheduled Monday in his case.
Harry said in court documents that the royal family had assiduously avoided the courts to prevent testifying about matters that might be embarrassing.
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His frustration and anger at the press, however, impelled him to buck convention by suing newspaper owners — allegedly against the wishes of his father, now King Charles III.
If Harry testifies as scheduled Tuesday in his lawsuit against the publisher of the Daily Mirror, he'll be the first member of the royal family to do so since the late 19th century, when Queen Victoria's eldest son, Prince Albert Edward, testified twice in court.
The man who would go on to become King Edward VII testified in the divorce proceedings of a woman he was accused of having an affair with (he denied it) and in a slander case involving a man who cheated at cards. Edward VII was the great-grandfather of Queen Elizabeth II, Harry's grandmother.
A look at Prince Harry's legal battles:
HARRY'S HISTORY WITH PHONE HACKING AND PAPARAZZI
The Daily Mirror case is one of three Harry has brought alleging phone hacking and other invasions of his privacy, dating back to when he was a boy.
In court documents, he described his relationship with the press as “uneasy” in court documents, but it runs much deeper than that. The prince blames paparazzi for causing the car crash that killed his mother, the late Princess Diana.
He also cites harassment and intrusion by the British Press and “vicious, persistent attacks” on his wife, Meghan, including racist articles, as the reason the couple left royal life and fled to the U.S. in 2020. Reforming the news media has become one of his life’s missions.
News that British journalists hacked phones for scoops first emerged in 2006 with the arrest of a private investigator and the royals reporter at the now-defunct News of the World. The two were jailed, and the reporter apologized for hacking phones used by aides of Harry, his older brother, Prince William, and their father.
A full-blown hacking scandal erupted five years later when it was revealed that the Rupert Murdoch-owned tabloid eavesdropped on voicemails on the phone of a slain girl, forcing the paper to close and launching a public inquiry.
Since that time, other newspapers have been accused of illegal intrusions that extended to tapping phones, bugging homes and using deception to obtain phone, bank and medical records.
WHO IS HARRY SUING?
The duke is taking on three of Britain's best-known tabloid publishers.
In addition to Mirror Group Newspapers, he is suing Murdoch's News Group Newspapers, publisher of The Sun, and Associated Newspapers Ltd., which owns the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday.
The claims are similar: that journalists and people they employed listened to phone messages and committed other unlawful acts to snoop on Harry and invade his privacy.
In a sign of how much the cases matter to him, Harry attended several days of hearings in March in the case against the Mail publisher.
Several celebrities with similar allegations have also filed claims being heard alongside Harry's, including Hugh Grant in the News Group case, and Elton John and Elizabeth Hurley in the Associated Newspapers case.
Associated Newspapers “vigorously denies” the claims. News Group has apologized for News of the World's hacking but The Sun does not accept liability or admit to any of the allegations, according to spokespeople.
Both publishers argued during High Court hearings this spring that the lawsuits should be thrown out because Harry and the others failed to bring them within a six-year time limit.
The lawyer representing Harry and other claimants said they should be granted an exception because the publishers lied and concealed evidence that prevented them from learning of the covert acts in time to meet the deadlines.
WHAT'S THE CURRENT TRIAL ABOUT?
At the outset of the proceedings, Mirror Group appeared to fall on its sword, acknowledging instances when its newspapers unlawfully gathered information. It apologized in court papers and said Harry and two of the other three claimants in the case were due compensation.
But the admission involving Harry — the hiring of a private eye to dig up unspecified dirt for an article about his nightclubbing — wasn't among the nearly 150 articles between 1995 and 2011 for which he claimed Mirror Group reporters used phone hacking and other illegal methods to gather material. The trial is focusing on 33 of those stories.
Harry's lawyer, David Sherborne, said unlawful acts by reporters and editors at the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and Sunday People were “widespread and habitual” and carried out on “an industrial scale.” He pointed the finger at management, in particular TV personality Piers Morgan, a former Daily Mirror editor.
Morgan has publicly denied involvement in phone hacking, as has Mirror Group in its court submissions. Mirror lawyer Andrew Green said a substantial proportion of the articles at issue involved a “breathtaking level of triviality” and that with the exception of a few instances of unlawful information gathering, the company's reporters had used public records and sources to legally obtain information.
The trial is a test case involving four claimants, including two members of Britain's longest-running soap opera, “Coronation Street.” But the verdict could determine the outcome of hacking claims also made against Mirror Group by the estate of the late singer George Michael, former Girls Aloud member Cheryl and former soccer player Ian Wright.
The case is broken into two parts: a generic case that lasted nearly three weeks in which Harry's lawyer laid out evidence of alleged skullduggery at the newspapers; the second part, starting Monday, with the four claimants testifying about specific acts targeting them.
WHAT ARE THE OTHER LAWSUITS ABOUT?
Harry’s fear and loathing of the press intersects with two active cases that center around the government’s decision to stop protecting him after he abandoned royal duties.
Harry argued his security is compromised when he visits the U.K., saying that aggressive paparazzi chased him after a charity event in 2021. He sued the British government for withdrawing his security detail.
With that lawsuit pending, he unsuccessfully tried to challenge the government's subsequent rejection of his offer to pay for his own police protection.
A judge is weighing whether Harry's libel suit against Associated Newspapers for reporting that he tried to hide his legal efforts to get the British government to provide security should go to trial.
“How Prince Harry tried to keep his legal fight with the government over police bodyguards a secret… then — just minutes after the story broke — his PR machine tried to put a positive spin on the dispute,” the Mail on Sunday wrote in its headline.
In past cases, Meghan won an invasion of privacy case in 2021 against the Mail on Sunday for printing a private letter she wrote to her father. That led to a 1-pound settlement for violating her privacy and an undisclosed sum for copyright infringement.
The couple has also settled lawsuits against photo agencies for flying a drone over their California home and a helicopter over a home where they were living in England.
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2023-06-04T19:15:53+00:00
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BOSTON, Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A new perspective published in Nature Reviews Drug Discovery examines the potential of biomolecular condensates to transform drug discovery. Condensates are membrane-less organelles that form dynamically throughout the cell via a process called phase separation. Over the last decade scientists have recognized the role of biomolecular condensates in cellular organization and disease, marking one of the most revolutionary areas of biology.
In "Modulating biomolecular condensates: a novel approach to drug discovery," a Dewpoint Therapeutics perspective, the authors discuss the largely untapped opportunities for targeting biomolecular condensates to develop therapeutic agents for various diseases. "To our knowledge, this is the first time that a cohesive logic has been assembled outlining how a deep understanding of condensate biology can revolutionize the drug discovery process across therapeutic areas," commented Dr. Isaac Klein, Chief Scientific Officer at Dewpoint Therapeutics and corresponding author.
The authors propose that condensate dysregulation may represent a node of disease origination in patients with different genetic background and environmental exposures, and that these nodes can be leveraged as drug targets. Classical drug discovery focuses on modifying the function of a single target biomolecule. By reimagining the drug target as the molecular community which resides within a condensate, researchers can modify the function of biological pathways and biomolecules that were previously considered "undruggable." Another promising aspect of condensate drug discovery is that by targeting a disease node, a single therapeutic agent might help treat a larger patient population.
"Condensates are unlike anything seen before in drug discovery. Dewpoint is leading the understanding of condensates and the diverse ways new medicines could be developed to restore aberrant condensate function. No one has previously published the potential of biomolecular condensates from a drug discovery perspective, and Dewpoint scientists are bringing forward a groundbreaking perspective to the field," commented Dr. Mark Murcko, Dewpoint Therapeutics Board and Scientific Advisory Board member, and co-corresponding author.
The perspective summarizes the rules that underlie the formation, dissolution and regulation of biomolecular condensates, which have emerged in the last decade. Based on these rules, the authors discuss how condensate dysfunction drives various diseases, including neurodegeneration, cancer, cardiomyopathy and viral infection. Klein comments, "Dewpoint has developed a platform and drug discovery pipeline that exploits cutting-edge technology and a deep understanding of condensate biology to discover novel condensate modifiers, or c-mods. These molecules have the ability to tackle the root cause of complex diseases and address previously undruggable targets."
Condensate-targeted drug discovery was pioneered by Dewpoint Therapeutics as the first biotech company to enter the field, founded in 2018. New rules for the design of condensate modifying therapeutics are continuously evolving along with the new discoveries in the field. Similarly, discovery pipelines are actively under development, bringing hope for new life-saving treatments for patients suffering from debilitating, uncurable diseases.
The article is viewable in Nature Reviews Drug Discovery: https://rdcu.be/cTLfy
Authors for the article include Diana M. Mitrea, Matthäus Mittasch, Beatriz Ferreira Gomes, Isaac A. Klein and Mark M. Murcko. Corresponding authors are iklein@dewpointx.com and mmurcko@dewpointx.com.
Dewpoint Therapeutics is the first company to apply the emerging understanding of biomolecular condensates to drug discovery. Dewpoint believes that a vast range of conditions have pathways that are regulated by condensates or arise from the dysfunction of condensates. Dewpoint currently has more than 20 development programs across an ambitious pipeline with programs spanning oncology, neuromuscular, cardiopulmonary and virology indications, and collaborations with leading global academic and pharmaceutical partners. Dewpoint scientists work in Boston, Dresden and Frankfurt with a shared vision to translate condensate biology into breakthrough treatments for diseases previously considered untreatable.
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(Motor Authority) — Formula 1 aims to be carbon neutral by 2030 and will rely on 100% sustainable fuel as a key step in achieving the goal.
The sport is working with partners to develop the fuel to be introduced by the 2026 season when a new power unit design is to be introduced.
The transition has already started as the cars in the 2022 season are running on E10 fuel which is 10% renewable ethanol and the remainder traditional fossil fuel.
F1 Chief Technical Officer Pat Symonds is heading the team tasked with developing 100% sustainable fuel. Key partners include motorsports’ organizing body, the FIA, as well as Aramco, Saudi Arabia’s national oil company and a major sponsor of F1.
Crucially, the fuel is being developed with a view to having it eventually produced in quantities sufficient enough to supply most cars across the world.
But rather than rely on fuels like renewable ethanol, which require vast crops of plants like corn to be grown, F1 wants to develop a synthetic fuel, referred to in the industry as E-fuels. Potential sources for such fuels include biomass and newer carbon-capture technology.
Porsche is already testing the waters with carbon capture via a pilot plant in Punta Arenas, Chile. Here, a wind turbine generates electricity that is used to split water into hydrogen and oxygen via electrolysis. The hydrogen is then combined with carbon dioxide from the air to produce synthetic, carbon-neutral methanol. This methanol can then be used to create synthetic versions of gasoline and diesel and also kerosene which is used in aviation. Aramco also plans the construction of two plants to produce synthetic fuel, one in Saudi Arabia and another in Spain.
Fuels produced in this way have the potential to keep internal combustion alive in a world of zero carbon emissions, as the emissions are offset when the fuel is produced. The German government is seeking an exception for sustainable fuel from the European Union’s plan to ban combustion engines from 2035.
“E-fuels offer such a wonderful opportunity,” Ross Brawn, F1’s managing director of motorsports, said in a statement. “We’re working on an E-fuel where the carbon circle is completely neutral so the carbon utilized to produce that fuel is the same quantity as the carbon emitted from the internal-combustion engine. It means that the engines do not add anything to the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.”
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2022-08-23T02:59:44+00:00
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BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s biggest industrial union said Monday it will seek an 8% wage increase for millions of manufacturing workers in upcoming pay talks, a demand that is just above the country’s current inflation rate.
The IG Metall union’s demand comes as Chancellor Olaf Scholz seeks to find ways with unions and employers to address the impact of rising prices while preventing an inflationary spiral. Germany has Europe’s biggest economy.
In Germany, wage deals are typically hammered out in negotiations between employers’ organizations and unions that cover a whole industrial sector. IG Metall negotiates for workers in the auto and machinery industries among others, with a total of more than 3.8 million workers.
Negotiations are due to begin in mid-September.
IG Metall chairman Joerg Hofmann said that “the economy needs rising incomes and stable consuption as an existential support.” He argued that most companies are doing well in terms of both orders and earnings, and that “companies can pass on rising costs (but) employees can’t.”
Germany’s annual inflation rate stood at 7.6% in June, slightly below the half-century high of 7.9% it reached the previous month.
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2022-07-11T16:19:26+00:00
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BEIJING (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has embarked on a high-stakes diplomatic trip to China to try to cool down escalating tensions between the two powers that have set many around the world on edge.
Blinken will be the highest-level American official to visit China since President Joe Biden took office, and the first secretary of state to make the trip in five years.
Yet prospects for any significant breakthrough on the most vexing issues facing the planet’s two largest economies are slim, as already ties have grown increasingly fraught in recent years. Animosity and recriminations have steadily escalated over a series of disagreements that have implications for global security and stability.
Blinken arrives in Beijing on Sunday for two days of talks. He expects to meet with Foreign Minister Qin Gang on Sunday, top diplomat Wang Yi, and possibly Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday, according to U.S. officials.
Biden and Xi agreed to Blinken’s trip early at a meeting last year in Bali. It came within a day of happening in February but was delayed by the diplomatic and political tumult brought on by the discovery of what the U.S. says was a Chinese spy balloon flying across the United States that was shot down.
The list of disagreements and potential conflict points is long: ranging from trade with Taiwan, human rights conditions in China to Hong Kong, as well as the Chinese military assertiveness in the South China Sea to Russia’s war in Ukraine.
U.S. officials said before Blinken’s departure from Washington on Friday that he would raise each of them, though neither side has shown any inclination to back down on their positions.
Shortly before leaving, Blinken emphasized the importance of the U.S. and China establishing and maintaining better lines of communication. The U.S. wants to make sure “that the competition we have with China doesn’t veer into conflict” due to avoidable misunderstandings, he told reporters.
Biden and Xi had made commitments to improve communications “precisely so that we can make sure we are communicating as clearly as possible to avoid possible misunderstandings and miscommunications,” Blinken said Friday.
Xi offered a hint of a possible willingness to reduce tensions, saying in a meeting with Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates on Friday that the United States and China can cooperate to “benefit our two countries.”
“I believe that the foundation of Sino-U.S. relations lies in the people,” Xi said to Gates. “Under the current world situation, we can carry out various activities that benefit our two countries, the people of our countries, and the entire human race.”
Biden told White House reporters Saturday he was “hoping that over the next several months, I’ll be meeting with Xi again and talking about legitimate differences we have, but also how … to get along.” Chances could come at a Group of 20 leaders’ gathering in September in New Delhi and at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in November in San Francisco that the United States is hosting.
Since the cancellation of Blinken’s trip in February, there have been some high-level engagements. CIA chief William Burns traveled to China in May, while China’s commerce minister traveled to the U.S. And Biden’s national security adviser Jake Sullivan met with Yi in Vienna in May.
But those have been punctuated by bursts of angry rhetoric from both sides over the Taiwan Strait, their broader intentions in the Indo-Pacific, China’s refusal to condemn Russia for its war against Ukraine, and U.S. allegations from Washington that Beijing is attempting to boost its worldwide surveillance capabilities, including in Cuba.
And, earlier this month, China’s defense minister rebuffed a request from U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin for a meeting on the sidelines of a security symposium in Singapore, a sign of continuing discontent.
Austin said Friday he was confident that he and his Chinese counterpart would meet “at some point in time, but we’re not there yet.”
Underscoring the situation, China rejected a report by a U.S. security firm, that blamed Chinese-linked hackers for attacks on hundreds of public agencies, schools and other targets around the world, as “far-fetched and unprofessional”
A Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson repeated accusations that Washington carries out hacking attacks and complained the cybersecurity industry rarely reports on them.
That followed a similar retort earlier in the week when China said Qin had in a phone call with Blinken urged the United States to respect “China’s core concerns” such as the issue of Taiwan’s self-rule, and “stop interfering in China’s internal affairs, and stop harming China’s sovereignty, security and development interests in the name of competition.”
Meanwhile, the national security advisers of the United States, Japan and the Philippines held their first joint talks Friday and agreed to strengthen their defense cooperation, in part to counter China’s growing influence and ambitions.
This coincides with the Biden administration inking an agreement with Australia and Britain to provide the first with nuclear-powered submarines, with China moving rapidly to expand its diplomatic presence, especially in the Indian Ocean and the Pacific island nations, where it has opened or has plans to open at least five new embassies over the next year.
The agreement is part of an 18-month-old nuclear partnership given the acronym AUKUS — for Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Speaking before Blinken’s departure, two U.S. officials downplayed hopes for major progress and stressed that the trip was intended to restore a sense of calm and normalcy to high-level contacts.
“We’re coming to Beijing with a realistic, confident approach and a sincere desire to manage our competition in the most responsible way possible,” said Daniel Kritenbrink, the top U.S. diplomat for East Asia and the Pacific.
Kurt Campbell, the top Asia expert at the National Security Council, said “intense competition requires intense diplomacy if we’re going to manage tensions. That is the only way to clear up misperceptions, to signal, to communicate, and to work together where and when our interests align.”
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Associated Press writer Seung Min Kim in Washington contributed to this report.
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2023-06-17T19:51:36+00:00
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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Even as Ethiopia’s warring sides attend their first formal peace talks in a devastating two-year conflict, witnesses in the country’s embattled Tigray region tell The Associated Press that forces from neighboring Eritrea are killing some civilians and looting as they and allied Ethiopian forces head for the regional capital.
With internet and telephone access to the region cut off, and independent journalists barred from Tigray, observers say it is increasingly hard to reach people for accounts of the fighting that erupted again in August after a monthslong lull. The United States now estimates hundreds of thousands of people could have been killed in the war marked by abuses on all sides as fears grow the conflict has reached its deadliest phase.
The AP spoke with witnesses from the towns of Shire, Axum and Adwa, where Ethiopian and allied forces are present as they battle Tigray forces. All spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation. It is not clear how many civilians have been killed in recent weeks.
An aid worker from Axum who relocated to Shire this week fearing for his life said civilians were being killed by Eritrean forces there since at least Sunday.
“I witnessed four dead bodies in a village some 4 kilometers away from Axum” while fleeing Tuesday, he said, and described the bodies in civilian clothing. “People are living under nights of terror.”
The Eritreans also were burning crops, he said — an echo of their first occupation in the early weeks of the war.
In Shire, a staffer with an international humanitarian organization said Eritrean forces were looting vehicles and household items, in some cases loading stolen goods onto camels they brought with them. The Eritreans also entered a camp for displaced people, he said, and earlier controlled the local airport. It was not clear whether they still did.
Ethiopian forces occasionally tried to stop Eritrean forces, the two witnesses said. "But they simply watch them most of the time,” the man from Axum said. “Sometimes they try to stop them, but it is beyond their capacity.”
An Ethiopian government spokesman, Legesse Tulu, did not respond to questions about the allegation and whether Ethiopian forces have any control over Eritrean ones.
The African Union-led peace talks between the Ethiopian government and Tigray regional authorities are being held in South Africa, whose government has said the discussions will end Sunday. But Eritrea isn’t part of talks, and it’s not clear whether the deeply repressive country bordering the Tigray region will heed any agreement.
Tigray authorities want the Eritreans out of the region, in addition to the restoration of basic services such as electricity and banking and unrestricted access to humanitarian aid. The United Nations says aid delivery to Tigray ended Aug. 23, a day before fighting resumed, because of “lack of federal clearances,” and it warns of widespread malnutrition and lack of medicines.
A leader of the Tigray forces, Tadesse Werede, said Thursday the Ethiopian government should ensure that Eritrean forces leave Tigray for any peace effort to be sustainable.
In the earliest weeks of the war, witnesses told the AP of widespread looting and violence including killings and rapes by forces from Eritrea, whose government under the only president the country has ever had, Isaias Afwerki, has long been hostile to Tigray leaders. For months, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed denied the Eritreans' presence in Tigray.
Since fighting resumed, the Eritreans have returned. People inside Eritrea have described new military mobilization, and satellite imagery has shown a military buildup near the border with the Tigray region.
Now, as the war with abuses documented on all sides marks two years next week, international expressions of alarm over atrocities in Tigray have soared. The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum warned this week of a “heightened risk of genocide,” noting “the situation has deteriorated exponentially as Ethiopian security forces, supported by Eritrean forces and Amhara special forces, have seized key towns and cities.”
Ethiopia’s government on Friday issued an angry statement alleging “extreme slander” and said it may be “forced to weigh its options and consider its relations with some states and entities.”
And Eritrea’s government in an open letter to the museum accused it of recycling defamatory accusations but acknowledged a “huge loss of life and destruction of property” in the conflict.
The letter did not address the presence of Eritrean forces in Tigray.
But witnesses confirmed it this week in towns including Adwa, where a humanitarian source said Eritrean and Ethiopian soldiers engaged in heavy fighting this week with tanks and long-range weapons on its outskirts. Terrified civilians are fleeing for safety, they said.
Long trapped in Tigray, tens of thousands of civilians are again on the move, some on foot as the U.N. says little fuel has been allowed into the region.
Shire was like a dead city, the humanitarian staffer there said. One of the humanitarian workers who fled to the regional capital, Mekele, told the AP the sometimes deadly bombardment of Shire had intensified in recent weeks. Now Ethiopian and Eritrean forces control the town, the worker said, with their identities made clear by their uniforms and vehicles.
On Friday, a health worker in Mekele said fighting had not reached the regional capital, and Tigray forces spokesman Getachew Reda, one of the representatives at the peace talks, asserted in a tweet that fighting was 160 kilometers away.
The war continues to be deadly for all involved. On Friday, the Ethiopian Red Cross Society said one of its ambulance drivers was killed by “armed forces” and injured passengers were shot and killed.
The driver had been transporting the injured people from Adwa to the neighboring Amhara region, the Red Cross said.
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2022-10-29T08:08:31+00:00
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A 18-year-old Camden man was arrested Friday after he was accused of gunning down a 21-year-old in the city last weekend, officials said.
Daijohn Spaulding was shot at about 2:40 p.m. on the 1400 block of Collings Road on Sunday, the Camden County Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement. Spaulding, of Camden, was brought to an area hospital, where he was pronounced dead about 20 minutes later, authorities said.
Nykwan Taylor was later identified as a suspect and charged Thursday with murder and weapons-related offenses, the office said. He turned himself in to police on Friday and was taken to the Camden County Correctional Facility.
The shooting remained under investigation and anyone with information was asked to contact Detective Jeremy Jankowski of the Camden County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide Unit at (856) 397-3485 and Detective Vincent Russomanno of the Camden County Police Department at (609) 941-9517.
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2023-03-31T23:02:03+00:00
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Tami Adedeji, Maggie Blum and Gabrielle Sanchez each scored to lead DePaul, No. 11 in the NJ.com Top 20, to a 3-0 win over West Milford in Wayne.
Kieran Meehan and Ella Guarini each made a save to earn the shutout for DePaul (4-0).
DePaul led 2-0 at the half.
West Milford fell to 2-3.
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TORONTO, April 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, ChargeLab is announcing the addition of $15 million in new financing to their Series A, doubling funds previously raised and bringing the round's total to $30 million. This expansion includes $10 million in new equity financing at an increased valuation and $5 million in venture debt. The company's first Series A tranche of $15 million led by King River Capital was previously announced on May 18, 2022.
As part of this equity financing, ChargeLab is welcoming two new strategic investors: EV charging network operator, Silver Comet, and intelligent power management company, Eaton. Both strategic investors are collaborating with ChargeLab commercially. Silver Comet plans to build a network of DC fast charging stations leveraging ChargeLab's technology, while Eaton has bundled a version of ChargeLab's platform with its line of EV chargers in North America.
"The EV charging industry remains nascent, making strategic partnerships essential for building a resilient ecosystem," said Zak Lefevre, co-founder and CEO of ChargeLab. "With Eaton as an investor, we're thrilled to be working closely with one of the world's leading providers of EV charging hardware. We've also expanded our portfolio of strategic investors by welcoming Silver Comet as a shareholder."
"What I'm most excited about today is the robustness and scalability of our product," added co-founder and CTO, Ehsan Mokhtari. "Silver Comet and Eaton are incredibly sophisticated players. I'm proud that the product we've built met their high standards for quality and security."
ChargeLab builds software to operate and optimize electric vehicle charging equipment. ChargeLab's software runs at the edge and in the cloud, empowering fleets, building operators, and utilities to deploy large numbers of EV chargers and manage them as an intelligent network. ChargeLab's API-first architecture makes its platform more modular and scalable than those of its competitors. Key capabilities of the ChargeLab platform include automated monitoring of EV chargers, management of pricing and access rules, payment processing, and electrical load balancing.
This additional financing will extend ChargeLab's runway, allow the company to expand its engineering team, and help introduce new products into the market. ChargeLab's objective is to become the most ubiquitous back-end platform for managing smart EV chargers.
About ChargeLab
ChargeLab builds a hardware-agnostic software platform for managing electric vehicle chargers. The company's customers include fleets, building owners, convenience stores, and utilities.
About Silver Comet
Silver Comet Energy, formed in 2022, is a new EV charging network operator and technology provider based in Atlanta, Georgia. Silver Comet Energy partners with convenience store operators to help them deploy and operate DC fast charging sites.
About Eaton
Eaton is an intelligent power management company dedicated to improving the quality of life and protecting the environment for people everywhere. Founded in 1911, the company is marking its 100th anniversary of being listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
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2023-04-14T12:16:36+00:00
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Which cloud gaming services are best?
Google Stadia is a cloud gaming service that launched on Nov. 19, 2019, and has been announced to shut down on Jan. 18, 2023. Until the shutdown completes, it remains one of precious few services like it. Google cites that the shutdown is happening due to low demand, and yet, the idea of cloud gaming is only growing in popularity, albeit slowly and as more of a perk tied to other services than a full stand-alone service. The good news is that there are lots of great alternative options for gaming.
In this article: Nintendo Switch OLED Model, Xbox Series S and PlayStation DualSense Wireless Controller
Cloud gaming options
With the demise of Google Stadia, there are now five could gaming options.
- Amazon Luna – This service offers a rotating selection of games to stream and it comes free with every Amazon Prime subscription. However, to get the best games you need to purchase “channels” for a monthly fee.
- Nintendo Switch cloud gaming – The Switch doesn’t have the power to play some of today’s most power-hungry games natively, so Nintendo lets you buy the right to stream these games from the cloud instead. They aren’t tied to a service or subscription.
- PC cloud gaming – PCs aren’t restricted like game consoles are, so there are various applications, software and services you can use to stream games you own such as Nvidia GeForce NOW. Again though, you need to own each game you want to stream.
- PlayStation Plus Premium – Sony just this year launched a redesigned PlayStation Plus service that’s a combination of the old PlayStation Plus service and PlayStation Now, Sony’s former game streaming service. The new PlayStation Plus comes in three tiers with only the best tier — Premium — offering cloud game streaming. If you have PS Plus Premium, you can stream games to your PC — no PlayStation console is needed.
- Xbox Cloud Gaming – This service is technically still in a beta release, meaning it’s not technically finished. Like PlayStation, it’s also a part of Xbox’s top-tier game subscription service — Xbox Game Pass Ultimate — and not a stand-alone release. Again like PlayStation Plus Premium, you don’t need an Xbox console — you can stream to your PC or even to compatible mobile devices.
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Technically you can use any controller to play games on the Luna service, but this controller is designed specifically for it. It even has Amazon Alexa integration so you can launch Luna on other Alexa-connected screens. Sold by Amazon
Dainslef Luna Controller Phone Clip
This clip is made to attach any smartphone with a width of 2.26 to 3.74 inches directly to an Amazon Luna controller. This lets you stream and play games truly anywhere with maximum comfort. Sold by Amazon
This device bundle includes an Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K Max so you can stream all your favorite shows in the highest visual quality, plus an Amazon Luna controller to play your favorite games. Sold by Amazon
Best Nintendo Switch consoles
This is the current highest-quality Nintendo Switch thanks to its large OLED display that puts the original Nintendo Switch display to shame. It comes with a white dock and white Joy-Cons or with a black dock and red and blue Joy-Cons. Sold by Amazon
The original Nintendo Switch revolutionized gaming by being a home console that can also be used as a portable console, simply by removing it from its TV-connected dock. It comes in three designs. Sold by Amazon
Unlike the original and OLED Switch, the Nintendo Switch Lite is designed exclusively for portable gaming and includes no dock, nor can it be used with any dock you may have or buy separately. Sold by Amazon
Best PC gaming accessories
Logitech G502 HERO Wired Gaming Mouse
Among the benefits of gaming on a computer over a console is the ability to easily use a mouse and keyboard, but that also means you need a top-tier mouse like this one. Sold by Amazon
Corsair VOID RGB Wireless Gaming Headset
Every gamer needs a good headset, no matter where or how they play. This one uses a USB dongle for a wireless connection and has an omnidirectional microphone so your friends can hear you clearly. Sold by Amazon
Steam remains the undisputed champion of PC gaming storefronts. With Steam’s annual winter sale approaching fast, now is a great time to stock up on the funds you need to buy your soon-to-be-streamed games. Sold by Amazon
Best PlayStation accessories
PlayStation DualSense Wireless Controller
There’s no better way to play PlayStation games than with the latest version of the PlayStation Controller. The DualSense even has special features that can only be used with a PS5, though said console remains difficult to find. Sold by Amazon
PlayStation DualShock 4 Wireless Controller
If you’re streaming games from PlayStation Plus Premium to your phone or PC, then you can save a little money by grabbing this PS4 DualShock 4 instead of the PS5 DualSense. Sold by Amazon
PlayStation Wallet Funds — $70
PlayStation Plus Premium comes in three price tiers: $18 a month, $50 every three months and $120 once a year. Grab one or two of these $70 wallet fund codes to prepay for as many months as possible for the best savings. Sold by Amazon
Best Xbox gear
The Xbox Series X’s less powerful little brother remains the only current-generation gaming console you can buy off the shelf. It’s also among the most affordable consoles in gaming history when adjusted for inflation. Sold by Amazon
Xbox has continued to improve its controllers since it released the Xbox Original’s famously huge Duke controller. This version that launched with the Xbox Series X and S is among the best controllers ever made. Sold by Amazon
Xbox Elite Wireless Controller Series 2
Console players usually miss out on all the personalization PC gamers enjoy, but the Xbox Elite Series 2 controller breaks that trend with a dozen-plus ways to tweak it to your preference. Sold by Amazon
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ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — Officials from the Strong National Museum of Play have unveiled this year’s finalists for the National Toy Hall of Fame.
“These 12 toys span the history of play. The top is as old as civilization itself and bingo has been played in some form for hundreds of years,” said Christopher Bensch, vice president for collections at The Strong museum in Rochester, where the hall of fame is housed.
The National Toy Hall of Fame recognizes toys that have “engaged and delighted multiple generations.” Criteria for induction include the toy’s “icon-status,” its popularity across many generations, how it enriches a child’s life, and its uniqueness.
This year’s nominees include game night favorites bingo, the board game Catan, and card games Phase 10 and Rack-O and two lines of figurines — Breyer Horses and Masters of the Universe figures, including He-Man and She-Ra.
A birthday party staple, the piñata, also made the list, as did Nerf toys. Other toys nominated include the Lite-Brite, Pound Puppies, Spirograph, and the top.
Voting to determine which of these toys will be formally inducted is now open to the public through September 21. The three toys with the most votes from the public will make up the “Player’s Choice” ballot, which will be counted alongside those turned in by a national selection committee whose members include industry experts, academics and others.
You can cast your vote here. Inductees will be announced on November 10.
To date, 77 toys have been inducted into the Hall of Fame, from American Girl Dolls and sand to Monopoly and the Nintendo Game Boy. If your favorite toy hasn’t yet been inducted, you can nominate it online. You will need to explain why the toy deserves to be enshrined in the Hall of Fame, and it must have icon-status, longevity, discovery, and innovation.
The National Toy Hall of Fame was established in 1998 and “recognizes toys that have inspired creative play and enjoyed popularity over a sustained period.” While anyone can nominate a toy to the National Toy Hall of Fame, final selections are made on the advice of historians, educators, and other individuals who exemplify learning, creativity, and discovery through their lives and careers.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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2022-09-14T23:36:14+00:00
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pahomepage.com
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WASHINGTON (AP) — As U.S. spy agencies ramped up their work to catch foreign meddling in this year's election, a team of CIA experts studied lessons learned from the contentious 2020 vote. Unexpectedly, their report sparked a controversy within parts of the intelligence community.
In a rare move, their study was withdrawn shortly after it was issued in the spring after rank-and-file officers protested that it failed to address the allegations of politics seeping into intelligence that arose in the 2020 election and that remain unresolved for some today.
Re-issued in September, the study remains classified and its full contents aren’t publicly known. Several people familiar with the matter would say only that it included recommendations on how intelligence leaders could best examine and report election threats attributed to Russia, China and other American adversaries.
The dispute over a relatively routine study and its unusual withdrawal highlight ongoing concerns over how to address the varying foreign threats to U.S. elections — including disinformation, cyber espionage and the amplification of existing divisions within American society. In an increasingly polarized America, some of those tensions have spilled over inside the nominally apolitical world of intelligence, some former officers say.
Some officers have alleged intelligence leaders in 2020 played down findings on Russia to suit the demands of former President Donald Trump, who fired a director of national intelligence in one dispute over Moscow's election meddling. Others say election-related intelligence on China in particular was wrongly played down out of a belief that politicians would misuse it.
The study was requested by the former election threats executive at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which oversees the 18 U.S. spy agencies. It was ultimately republished with what's known as a “scope note” explaining the study was focused primarily on senior leaders and not intended to delve into the politicization of intelligence or other potential issues around elections.
Several people described the debate over the study on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive intelligence matters.
Tim Barrett, the top spokesman for Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines, said intelligence officials have expanded training on objectivity in analysis and worked to better collaborate across agencies.
“We are committed to impartial and inclusive analysis and will continue to provide the insights needed to safeguard our democracy," Barrett said in a statement.
The CIA’s Center for the Study of Intelligence produces internal histories of key moments and issues faced across the intelligence community. Its reports are intended to guide current and future officers.
Nicholas Dujmovic, a retired CIA officer who served on the agency’s history staff, said any decision to withdraw a study would be unusual, but not unprecedented. Dujmovic, now a professor at the Washington-based Catholic University of America, said he did not have specific knowledge of the recently republished study.
“We’re in the intelligence business. We’re in the truth business,” he said. “Occasionally, if we have information that a study is flawed, we might pull it back and rework it.”
One of the study's recommendations was for intelligence agencies to adopt a definition across countries of “election influence” and “election interference.”
The lack of a standard practice was flagged by the intelligence community’s analytic ombudsman, Barry Zulauf, shortly after the 2020 election. Zulauf wrote in a separate report — an unclassified version of which was released in January 2021 — that analysts studying Russia and China defined “influence” differently, possibly leading to the analysts drawing different conclusions about each country's intentions and actions.
The ombudsman accused Trump’s top appointees of delaying and distorting some intelligence findings for political reasons. Some of Trump’s attacks on election-related intelligence became public in 2020, including his firing of the director of national intelligence, Joseph Maguire, after his office briefed Congress that Russia was trying to boost Trump’s reelection campaign.
Zulauf also found the political pressure may have affected analysts focused on China, who “appeared hesitant to assess Chinese actions as undue influence or interference,” in part because they felt Trump would use their findings to attack China and downplay Russia’s interventions in support of him.
Ultimately, U.S. intelligence concluded Russian President Vladimir Putin authorized influence operations intended to help Trump while Chinese leaders “considered but did not deploy” measures. In a dissent published in the same report, the national intelligence officer for cyber said he believed China “took at least some steps” in 2020 to try to undermine Trump, primarily through social media and official statements.
This year, U.S. officials are warning of more foreign campaigns to influence midterm races along with the spread of domestic disinformation, the prospect of cyberattacks, and threats and harassment toward election workers.
“The current election threat environment is more complex than it has ever been,” said Jen Easterly, the director of the Department of Homeland Security’s cybersecurity arm, in a recent media briefing.
Intelligence officials have not given a public briefing on foreign election threats. But unclassified intelligence reports from the Department of Homeland Security, sent to state and local governments, capture some of the current U.S. findings on the intentions of Russia, China and Iran.
Russia is seen as trying to undermine Americans’ willingness to support Ukraine eight months into Putin’s invasion.
Iran may be interested in “exacerbating social divisions and sowing doubt in U.S. democratic institutions,” according to a DHS report issued earlier this year.
And China is probably seeking to influence select midterm races to “hinder candidates perceived to be particularly adversarial to Beijing,” according to a DHS report from September. Officials said in the advisory they believe Beijing sees a lower risk in meddling in the midterms versus a presidential election.
Zulauf, the ombudsman, said in his report released last year that the “polarized atmosphere” of the U.S. has “threatened to undermine the foundations of our Republic, penetrating even into the Intelligence Community.”
That has made election influence a particularly sensitive topic for spy agencies, former officers say.
“In the golden age, the good old days, people at work didn’t know whether your co-workers — also intelligence officers — were Democrats or Republicans,” said Dujmovic, the retired CIA historian. “That has changed over time. There is more partisanship in the workforce and that reflects American society in general.”
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2022-10-27T17:27:20+00:00
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daytondailynews.com
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https://www.daytondailynews.com/nation-world/withdrawal-of-study-highlights-tension-in-us-intel-community/RGEPK3M6KVBJBGLSVZQG2JWTIA/
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2022-07-21T00:18:01+00:00
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ourmidland.com
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https://www.ourmidland.com/weather/article/NY-WFO-BUFFALO-Warnings-Watches-and-Advisories-17318407.php
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WARNER, Norbert C. "Norb"
Age 86, of Tipp City, OH, passed away December 18, 2022. Private family services have been entrusted to Frings and Bayliff Funeral Home, Tipp City, OH.
View the obituary on Legacy.com
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2022-12-21T06:47:33+00:00
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springfieldnewssun.com
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https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/obituaries/warner-norbert/5XNIYYU4TBFI5DKEUGPVZUJRVA/
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WASHINGTON — The parents of Tyre Nichols, the Black man who was severely beaten by a group of Memphis, Tennessee, police officers and died days later, will attend President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address next week at the U.S. Capitol.
Videotape released last week of the violent Jan. 7 encounter between Nichols and the police officers shows the officers savagely beating the 29-year-old FedEx worker for three minutes while screaming profanities at him.
Nichols was hospitalized and died on Jan. 10.
Five police officers, who also are Black, have been fired and charged with second-degree murder and other offenses in Nichols’ beating and death. On Monday, two more Memphis police officers were disciplined and three emergency medical technicians were fired in connection with the case.
Horsford said it was important for Nichols’ parents to hear from the president and their elected representatives in Congress.
“I have invited the Nichols family as guests of the Congressional Black Caucus so they will be there on that day to hear from the president and members of Congress from both sides of the aisle to hear how we will finally take action to keep our communities safe,” Horsford told MSNBC on Monday.
Lawmakers this year are allowed to take guests with them to the House chamber for the Feb. 7 speech for the first time since before the COVID-19 pandemic.
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2023-01-31T14:56:09+00:00
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washingtonpost.com
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/tyre-nichols-parents-to-attend-biden-state-of-union-speech/2023/01/31/5e519ca4-a174-11ed-8b47-9863fda8e494_story.html
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Civil jury finds Bill Cosby sexually abused teenager in 1975
SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) — Jurors at a civil trial found Tuesday that Bill Cosby sexually abused a 16-year-old girl at the Playboy Mansion in 1975.
The Los Angeles County jury delivered the verdict in favor of Judy Huth, who is now 64, and awarded her $500,000.
Jurors found that Cosby intentionally caused harmful sexual contact with Huth, that he reasonably believed she was under 18, and that his conduct was driven by unnatural or abnormal sexual interest in a minor.
The jurors’ decision is a major legal defeat for the 84-year-old entertainer once hailed as America’s dad. It comes nearly a year after his Pennsylvania criminal conviction for sexual assault was thrown out and he was freed from prison. Huth’s lawsuit was one of the last remaining legal claims against him after his insurer settled many others against his will.
Cosby did not attend the trial or testify in person, but short clips from 2015 video deposition were played for jurors, in which he denied any sexual contact with Huth. He continues to deny the allegation through his attorney and publicist.
Jurors had already reached conclusions on nearly every question on their verdict form, including whether Cosby abused Huth and whether she deserved damages, after two days of deliberations on Friday. But the jury foreperson could not serve further because of a personal commitment, and the panel had to start deliberating from scratch with an alternate juror on Monday.
Cosby’s attorneys agreed that Cosby met Huth and her high school friend on a Southern California film set in April of 1975, then took them to the Playboy Mansion a few days later.
Huth’s friend Donna Samuelson, a key witness, took photos at the mansion of Huth and Cosby, which loomed large at the trial.
Huth testified that in a bedroom adjacent to a game room where the three had been hanging out, Cosby attempted to put his hand down her pants, then exposed himself and forced her to perform a sex act.
Huth filed her lawsuit in 2014, saying that her son turning 15 — the age she initially remembered being when she went to the mansion — and a wave of other women accusing Cosby of similar acts brought fresh trauma over what she had been through as a teenager.
Huth’s attorney Nathan Goldberg told the jury of nine women and three men during closing arguments Wednesday that “my client deserves to have Mr. Cosby held accountable for what he did.”
“Each of you knows in your heart that Mr. Cosby sexually assaulted Miss Huth,” Goldberg said.
A majority of jurors apparently agreed, giving Huth a victory in a suit that took eight years and overcame many hurdles just to get to trial.
During their testimony, Cosby attorney Jennifer Bonjean consistently challenged Huth and Samuelson over errors in detail in their stories, and a similarity in the accounts that the lawyer said represented coordination between the two women.
This included the women saying in pre-trial depositions and police interviews that Samuelson had played Donkey Kong that day, a game not released until six years later.
Bonjean made much of this, in what both sides came to call the “Donkey Kong defense.”
Goldberg asked jurors to look past the small errors in detail that he said were inevitable in stories that were 45 years old, and focus on the major issues behind the allegations. He pointed out to jurors that Samuelson said “games like Donkey Kong” when she first mentioned it in her deposition.
The Cosby lawyer began her closing arguments by saying, “It’s on like Donkey Kong,” and finished by declaring, “game over.”
Huth’s attorney reacted with outrage during his rebuttal.
“This is about justice!” he shouted, pounding on the podium. “We don’t need game over! We need justice!”
The Associated Press does not normally name people who say they have been sexually abused, unless they come forward publicly, as Huth has.
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AP Entertainment Writer Andrew Dalton contributed to this report.
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2022-06-21T23:59:35+00:00
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kswo.com
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https://www.kswo.com/2022/06/21/civil-jury-finds-bill-cosby-sexually-abused-teenager-1975/
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Aft Skirt Installation Will Be First Milestone toward Lifting Space Shuttle
Endeavour into Vertical Launch Position for New
Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center
LOS ANGELES, July 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Space Exploration Day - the California Science Center will commence Go for Stack, the complex process of moving and lifting each of the space shuttle components into place for Endeavour's upcoming, awe-inspiring 20-story vertical display in the future Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center, currently under construction. This technically challenging feat has never been done outside of a NASA facility. The installation of the two aft skirts, the base of the solid rocket boosters, will mark the first Go for Stack milestone and lay the foundation upon which the entire shuttle stack will be built. This is the first step in creating the world's only display of an authentic, 'ready-to-launch' space shuttle system; complete with the orbiter Endeavour, solid rocket boosters, and external tank.
The roughly six-month Go for Stack process will start with the installation of the aft skirts, on top of which the solid rocket motors will be stacked to form the solid rocket boosters. This will be followed by the move and lift of the external tank, ET-94; then, Space Shuttle Endeavour's final move across Exposition Park and lift into place by a large crane; and finally, the intricate mating of the orbiter with the rest of the space shuttle stack. Once finished, Endeavour will be in a vertical configuration towering 200-feet tall. The Air and Space Center building will be completed around the full shuttle stack.
After more than eleven years on display at the California Science Center, December 31, 2023 will be the last chance to see Endeavour on exhibit for several years until the Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center opens to the public. While Endeavour is off exhibit, the California Science Center remains one of the largest science centers in the nation, with multiple hands-on exhibit galleries, special exhibitions, and IMAX movies for guests to experience.
"Endeavour will be the star attraction of the Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center, a launchpad for creativity and innovation that will inspire future generations of scientists, engineers and explorers," said Jeff Rudolph, President and CEO of the California Science Center. "We are grateful to be at this point in the construction of the new Air and Space Center, and thrilled to start Go for Stack on July 20 to commemorate Space Exploration Day."
With an impressive artifact collection integrated with hands-on exhibits, the Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center will be a major expansion that will double the Science Center's educational exhibit space, adding 100,000 square feet and 100 new educational exhibits. Guests of all ages will be encouraged to investigate scientific and engineering principles of atmospheric flight and the exploration of the universe. The Air, Shuttle, and Space Galleries will provide a unique educational opportunity for our Los Angeles community and guests from around the world, general admission free. The Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center is the third phase of the California Science Center's three-phase, three-decade master plan to develop one of the world's leading science learning centers. Building construction is underway, and together with artifact and exhibit installation, is expected to take several years.
The California Science Center Foundation is actively fundraising to complete this ambitious project with $320 million raised toward the $400 million EndeavourLA Campaign goal. Everyone can help realize this exciting vision and donations at any level are welcomed. To contribute or learn more, go to EndeavourLA.org.
About the EndeavourLA Campaign
A project of this scope and scale requires the visionary support and leadership of the philanthropic community. EndeavourLA is the California Science Center Foundation's $400 million fundraising campaign that has enabled the acquisition and temporary display of Space Shuttle Endeavour and supports our plans to build the Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center and sustain ongoing exhibits, programs and operations. With commitments totaling $320 million to date, the campaign's balance will be raised during the remainder of the construction period. To learn more, visit EndeavourLA.org.
About the California Science Center
The California Science Center is a dynamic destination where families, adults and children can explore the wonders of science through hands-on exhibits, live demonstrations, innovative programs and large-format movies. Its mission is to stimulate curiosity and inspire science learning in everyone by creating fun, memorable experiences, because we value science as an indispensable tool for understanding our world, accessibility and inclusiveness, and enriching people's lives.
The California Science Center and IMAX Theater are located in historic Exposition Park just west of the Harbor (110) Freeway at 700 Exposition Park Drive. The Science Center is open daily from 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 pm. Please check the Science Center web site for updates at CaliforniaScienceCenter.org.
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2023-07-06T13:35:38+00:00
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wcjb.com
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https://www.wcjb.com/prnewswire/2023/07/06/california-science-center-begin-go-stack-july-20-2023/
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2023-02-08T15:28:08+00:00
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sfgate.com
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https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/nfl-top-performers-receiving-17771395.php
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Louisiana youths held at adult prison’s old death row suffer heat, isolation, advocates say
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Juveniles held in a former death row building at a Louisiana prison for adults are suffering through dangerous heat and psychologically damaging isolation in their cells with little or no mental health care, inadequate schooling and foul water, advocates say in a federal court filing asking a judge to order that the youths be moved.
The document, filed in Baton Rouge and dated Monday, says state officials have broken promises to provide constitutionally acceptable facilities for young people housed at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola — a remote prison farm with a notorious history of violence. With a spring target date for moving the youths to other facilities having passed, advocates for the juveniles are asking for an order ending the housing of juveniles at the Angola facility.
The state Office of Juvenile Justice did not respond to a request for comment Tuesday.
Lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union and other inmate advocates accompanied the filing with affidavits from three youths who are or have been housed at the facility. All talked of foul water from unsanitary faucets in their cells and inedible food. One said he was slammed against a wall by a guard and, another time, was overcome by a chemical irritant that had drifted from another cell when it was used on another detainee.
The document cited weather data indicating outside heat-index values at the prison in a remote part of southeast Louisiana regularly surpassed 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 degrees Celsius) and sometimes 130 degrees F (54 degrees C).
There was also an affidavit from a medical expert who said the prolonged solitary confinement the youths are exposed to causes “significant risk of serious psychological harm.” Another expert discussed the physical and psychological dangers of keeping the youths in un-airconditioned cells, with fans that are unreliable.
“The youth at OJJ Angola Unit are at substantial risk of serious physical and psychological harm due to their extensive and continued exposure to high temperatures and heat index during the summer months in Louisiana,” Dr. Susi Vassallo wrote.
Gov. John Bel Edwards announced last July that juveniles would be housed at the temporary facility at Angola, with an aim of ending the practice the following spring, once renovations were complete at a northeast Louisiana juvenile facility. Since then, advocates say, as many as 70 or more have moved through the facility. The population earlier this month was put at 15. The target date for ending youth incarceration at Angola was recently pushed to late November of this year.
When Edwards announced the plan, state officials were under growing pressure to do something after a series of escapes from the violence-plagued Bridge City Center for Youth in suburban New Orleans. One inmate is suspected in a carjacking and shooting that happened before he was recaptured. Establishing a detention center at Angola was described as a last-ditch but necessary measure amid capacity and safety concerns at juvenile detention facilities.
At Angola, state officials say, the youths are segregated from the adult prison population, held at a building that once held convicts awaiting execution.
From the start, juvenile justice advocates assailed the plan to house juveniles at Angola — an adult prison farm with a notorious history of violence. After a lawsuit was filed in August, U.S. District Judge Shelly Dick declined last September to remove the youths. Acknowledging the possible harm, Dick said state officials had shown they could provide shelter and treatment that would comply with the constitution.
“While locking children in cells at night at Angola is untenable, the threat of harm these youngsters present to themselves, and others, is intolerable,” Dick wrote at the time. “The untenable must yield to the intolerable.”
In their latest filing, advocates again asked Dick to end the practice, saying the state failed to keep its promises.
“Defendants promised safe and sanitary conditions. Defendants broke that promise, locking children in barred cells with only a metal bed and metal toilet/sink, unclean faucets and no drinkable water source, and allowing excessive heat in the housing areas to go unremediated during this hot summer in Louisiana,” the juvenile advocates say.
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2023-07-18T22:26:12+00:00
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kaaltv.com
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https://www.kaaltv.com/news/political-news/louisiana-youths-held-at-adult-prisons-old-death-row-suffer-heat-isolation-advocates-say/
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Mississippi seeks execution date in 2000 killing of teenager
Published: Oct. 4, 2022 at 6:05 PM EDT|Updated: 11 minutes ago
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi attorney general’s office is asking the state to set an execution date for a former U.S. Marine Corps recruiter who was convicted in the 2000 rape and killing of a 16-year-old waitress.
Thomas Edwin Loden Jr. is now 58. He has been on death row since 2001, when he pleaded guilty to capital murder, rape and four counts of sexual battery of Leesa Marie Gray.
She disappeared on her way home from working in her family’s restaurant in northern Mississippi’s Itawamba County. Her body was found the next day in Loden’s van.
Mississippi had its most recent execution in November. That was the first in nine years.
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2022-10-04T22:22:53+00:00
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mysuncoast.com
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https://www.mysuncoast.com/2022/10/04/mississippi-seeks-execution-date-2000-killing-teenager/
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Starbucks is no stranger to offering up dozens of fun coffee flavors, but their latest creation features an ingredient you’re almost guaranteed to have never had in your coffee before: olive oil.
Called Starbucks Oleato, the new line of drinks blends Starbucks arabica coffee with Partanna cold-pressed extra virgin olive oil. The chain says the drinks offer a “velvety smooth, deliciously lush new coffee experience.”
The new line has debuted in Italy with six drinks: Oleato Caffé Latte, Oleato Iced Shaken Espresso, Oleato Golden Foam Cold Brew, Oleato Iced Cortado, Oleato Deconstructed and Oleato Golden Foam Espresso Martini. The last three drinks are available only at the Reserve Roastery Milan and use Starbucks Reserve Espresso.
Starbucks next plans to introduce Oleato in select markets around the world, starting with Southern California this spring, followed by Japan, the Middle East and the United Kingdom.
Starbucks has not said if the drink will be offered in every U.S. state yet. If the company decides to expand the line, it will likely not be anytime soon, as the other debuts around the world won’t happen until later this year.
While the drinks all include olive oil, the other ingredients differ. The Oleato Caffè Latte, for example, is steamed with oat milk, while the Oleato Iced Cortado is made with demerara syrup and orange bitters. The Oleato Deconstructed has passionfruit cold foam.
In certain markets, customers can also add a press (about a spoonful) of Partanna extra virgin olive oil to select beverages. This customization will be infused into some drinks, like espresso beverages and tea lattes. Golden Foam will also be available for customization.
So, why olive oil? While traveling in Italy last year, interim CEO Howard Schultz was introduced to the Mediterranean custom of taking a spoonful of olive oil each day, which he drank alongside his morning coffee. The two at the same time sparked the idea to try them together and the new Oleato line was born.
“Infusing Starbucks coffee with olive oil yielded a velvety smooth, rich texture, with the buttery, round flavors imparted by the olive oil perfectly pairing with the soft, chocolatey notes of the coffee,” Amy Dilger, principal beverage developer for Starbucks, said in a press release. “One thing that’s special about Partanna’s olives is their uniquely nutty, slightly sweet flavors — think of that rich smoothness of a buttery caramel, it’s a natural complement to our coffee.”
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2023-03-01T18:10:16+00:00
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ksby.com
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https://www.ksby.com/starbucks-launching-new-line-olive-oil-drinks
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Padres vs. Angels Probable Starting Pitchers Today - July 3
The San Diego Padres (38-46) and Los Angeles Angels (45-41) clash in the first of a three-game series on Monday at PETCO Park, at 9:40 PM ET. The Padres are coming off a series defeat to the Reds, and the Angels a series loss to the Diamondbacks.
This contest's pitching matchup is set, as the Padres will send Blake Snell (4-7) to the mound, while Jaime Barria (2-3) will answer the bell for the Angels.
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Padres vs. Angels Pitcher Matchup Info
- Date: Monday, July 3, 2023
- Time: 9:40 PM ET
- TV: Fox Sports 1
- Location: San Diego, California
- Venue: PETCO Park
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- Probable Pitchers: Snell - SD (4-7, 3.31 ERA) vs Barria - LAA (2-3, 3.10 ERA)
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Padres Probable Starting Pitcher Tonight: Blake Snell
- The Padres will hand the ball to Snell (4-7) for his 17th start of the season.
- The left-hander last pitched on Wednesday, when he gave up two earned runs and allowed three hits in six innings against the Pittsburgh Pirates.
- The 30-year-old has pitched in 16 games this season with a 3.31 ERA and 11.8 strikeouts per nine innings with a batting average against of .199.
- If he completes six or more innings with three or fewer earned runs allowed, he'll earn his seventh consecutive quality start.
- Snell has pitched five or more innings in seven straight games and will look to extend that streak.
- He has made 16 appearances and finished four of them without allowing an earned run.
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Angels Probable Starting Pitcher Tonight: Jaime Barria
- Barria gets the start for the Angels, his sixth of the season. He is 2-3 with a 3.10 ERA and 40 strikeouts over 49 1/3 innings pitched.
- His most recent time out was on Thursday against the Chicago White Sox, when the righty threw three innings, surrendering five earned runs while allowing seven hits.
- The 26-year-old has an ERA of 3.10, with 7.3 strikeouts per nine innings in 17 games this season. Opposing batters have a .227 batting average against him.
- Barria does not have a quality start so far this season.
- Barria will try to pick up his fourth matchup of five or more innings pitched this season. He averages 2.9 innings per appearance.
- He has had 11 appearances this season in which he did not give up an earned run.
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2023-07-03T19:14:23+00:00
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wfsb.com
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https://www.wfsb.com/sports/betting/2023/07/03/padres-vs-angels-mlb-probable-starting-pitchers/
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum is embarking on a fundraising campaign to raise $25 million for a new building to house its education center and what has become one of the world's unique collections of baseball memorabilia.
Museum president Bob Kendrick said the “Pitch for the Future” campaign is designed to lead to a new 30,000-square foot facility that would be adjacent to the Buck O’Neil Education and Research Center, which is named for the Negro Leagues great who helped to lead the fundraising effort to build the initial museum.
“Our growth from a one-room office to becoming America’s National Negro Leagues Baseball Museum has been an amazing journey," said Kendrick, who also announced that Bank of America had already donated $1 million to the project.
“Now," Kendrick said, "we’re building an organization that will continue to preserve and celebrate the triumphant story of the Negro Leagues but also fortify our position as one of the nation’s most important civil rights and social justice institutions.”
Long before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier, Black players were largely relegated to disparate leagues spread across the U.S., often embarking on long barnstorming tours. But the preeminent organization was the Negro National League, which was founded at the Paseo YMCA in the historic 18th & Vine section of Kansas City, Missouri.
The league was initially composed of eight clubs, including the Kansas City Monarchs of O'Neil, and featured some of the great players of any era — Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson and Cool Papa Bell — many of whom never got to play in the big leagues.
Robinson also played for the Monarchs before the Dodgers signed him in 1945 and baseball's integration began. Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, Ernie Banks and many others also got their starts in the Negro Leagues. But over time, as more Black players signed major league contracts, the era of the Negro Leagues slowly came to an end.
The museum is designed to keep that history alive. It features lockers set up for some of the game's best players, a “Field of Legends” where there are nearly life-sized bronze statues of players on the field, and a collection of memorabilia that includes nearly 200 autographed baseballs donated by Geddy Lee of the Canadian band Rush.
“We share NLBM’s mission to preserve and celebrate the rich history of African American baseball and its impact on the social advancement of America,” Matt Linski, the president of Bank of America Kansas City, said in announcing its donation.
“Our commitment recognizes the importance — culturally and economically — of the 18th & Vine District to Kansas City and we hope it will be an example for other funders to follow," Linski said. "Additionally, this grant is paramount to ensuring greater understanding and better appreciation of the many contributions African Americans have made and continue to make, including Jackie Robinson breaking the major-league color barrier.”
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2023-05-05T13:02:33+00:00
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niagara-gazette.com
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https://www.niagara-gazette.com/sports/negro-leagues-museum-starts-drive-for-new-25m-facility/article_cf2a1720-eb3f-11ed-8f9b-e3c438070b1d.html
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Analysis: Grabbing play-in spots in the West will be tough
Let’s go ahead and put Denver and Sacramento into the Western Conference playoffs. It’s hard to imagine Memphis and Phoenix falling out of the mix, even with Ja Morant away from the Grizzlies and Kevin Durant still not able to make his home debut for the Suns because of ankle trouble. Put them on the bracket as well.
And from there, it’s anyone’s guess.
The West is an absolute mess, and the middle of the pack — the race for the last two guaranteed playoff spots and the four berths into the play-in tournament — is as muddled and murky as possible.
“Hope,” Utah coach Will Hardy said, “is a good motivator.”
True. There’s plenty of hope still out there, too.
The West has, more often than not in recent years, been the power-broker side of the NBA. Not this year. The shinier records are at the top of the Eastern Conference, which is on pace to finish with three of the best four records this season — something that hasn’t happened since 2008-09.
The West has become a logjam this year. Entering Monday, it was the Los Angeles Clippers fifth, defending champion Golden State sixth, Minnesota seventh, Dallas eighth. Then came the most jumbled part of the mess — Utah was ninth, Oklahoma City was 10th, the Los Angeles Lakers were 11th and New Orleans was 12th — with all four clubs starting the day 33-35.
Put another way, 2 1/2 games separated the fifth-place Clippers from the 12th-place Pelicans. Only 4 1/2 games separated the Clippers from the 13th-place Portland Trail Blazers. It’s hard to envision a scenario, given how tight the standings are right now, where at least some West races for seeding don’t go down to the final day.
“No one’s really out of it right now, at this point in the Western Conference,” Hardy said. “There’s a couple teams that have fallen, I guess, out of the race, but 5 through 13 are so tight that every team is competing each night with that hope of like, ‘Hey, if you string a few together, you can really vault in the standings.’ We’d all be lying if we say we don’t check the standings. We definitely do, but it can be a little distracting.”
This is exactly what the NBA wanted when it added the play-in tournament — intrigue all the way to the end of the season. Only the top six teams in each conference are guaranteed playoff spots when the regular season ends on April 9; the next four from the East and West go to a play-in tournament to decide the No. 7 and No. 8 seeds on the respective brackets.
Only three teams — Houston, San Antonio and Detroit — have been eliminated. Charlotte isn’t too far away from joining that trio. Everyone else still has a legitimate chance, at least at the play-in.
“You do have to embrace the competition,” Miami coach Erik Spoelstra said. “When you’re dreaming about things in the middle of the summer, this is what you want. You want games with incredible pressure and context. You don’t want games to have no meaning, to play for lottery balls. You want to have this kind of context. And you want to see what this competition can bring out of you.”
Teams will find out, whether they want to know or not.
There are no fewer than 24 matchups the rest of the way that will pit those teams vying for spots 5 through 8 on the West bracket against one another, meaning those nights could lead to a big swing in the standings.
It also might come down to which teams get somebody back in time to help the cause.
The Lakers may get LeBron James back at some point. The Warriors aren’t sure when Andrew Wiggins — out for personal reasons — could return, or if he will. The Mavericks are dealing with Luka Doncic and Kyrie Irving both having injuries. The Timberwolves hope Karl-Anthony Towns is close to a return from a calf injury. The Pelicans have remained in the race despite not having Zion Williamson, which they’re probably used to by now.
Buckle up. Denver might not get caught atop the West. The trio of Milwaukee, Boston and Philadelphia will finish 1-2-3 in the East in some order. But everything else is pretty much up for grabs, especially in the super-cluttered West.
“It’s funny what a couple of wins can do right now,” Clippers coach Tyronn Lue said.
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2023-03-14T10:06:47+00:00
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kob.com
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https://www.kob.com/sports-stories/ap-basketball/analysis-grabbing-play-in-spots-in-the-west-will-be-tough/
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BEIRUT (AP) — A British court has ruled a London-based company that delivered the explosive ammonium nitrate to Beirut’s port is liable towards the victims of a devastating blast in 2020, Lebanon’s Beirut Bar Association said Thursday.
On Aug. 4 that year, hundreds of tons of the chemical, typically used in fertilizers, detonated, killing more than 200 people, injuring over 6,000 and damaging large parts of Beirut. Families of the explosion’s victims saw the development as a rare step towards justice and against the political intervention that has obstructed the investigative judge leading a probe in Lebanon for over two years.
The ruling in London is an unusual judicial success for the victims’ families, members of whom have advocated for an unimpeded national investigation. Some have opted to file lawsuits abroad.
The London-registered chemical trading firm, Savaro Ltd., is suspected of having chartered the shipment of the ammonium nitrate in 2013 that ended up in Beirut. Documents show a handful of senior political, judicial and security officials were aware of the substance in the port for years, but did not take decisive action to get rid of it.
The Beirut Bar Association, alongside three victims’ families, filed a lawsuit against Savaro Ltd. over a year ago. The judgment by the High Court of Justice in London means that the proceedings now move to a “damages phase” of the case that determines the firm’s compensation for the families, Camille Abousleiman, one of the lawyers involved in the case, told The Associated Press.
“It’s the first time there is an actual judgment on this matter in reputable courts,” Abousleiman, also a former Lebanese labor minister, said. The ruling “certainly will open the door for potential justice in courts overseas.”
Mariana Foudoulian, whose sister Gaia died in the explosion, called the judgment a “very important step.”
“Through this judgment, we can try to access more important details,” Foudoulian told the AP. “This does give us some hope.”
The civil suit against Savaro Ltd. was filed in August 2021. Soon after, UK authorities blocked the firm’s attempts to dissolve the company. It remains unclear who the owner of the company is. The listed owners are agents from a corporate services firm, investigative journalists from Lebanese and international outlets reported. The High Court of Justice in June 2022 ordered the company to reveal its true owners, though the firm never has done so.
Elsewhere, the Swiss foundation Accountability Now and some of the victims’ families filed a lawsuit in Texas against U.S.-Norwegian geophysical services group TGS, which owns a company that allegedly sub-chartered the ship carrying the ammonium nitrate in 2012. Foundation officials said they hoped it would force the company to disclose communications with other parties being investigated.
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2023-02-23T23:16:38+00:00
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ktalnews.com
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https://www.ktalnews.com/news/u-s-world/ap-uk-ruling-delivers-rare-victory-for-beirut-blast-victims/
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BESSEMER, Ala. (WIAT) — A homicide investigation is underway after a man was found shot multiple times in Bessemer Sunday afternoon.
According to Bessemer Police, the shooting happened around 4:30 p.m. at 1300 6th Avenue North. The man was shot inside his parked car with an eight-year-old inside the vehicle. The child was not injured in the shooting.
No arrests have been made at this time. BPD encourage those who may have witnessed this to contact them at 205-425-2411.
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2022-07-25T00:30:22+00:00
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cbs42.com
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https://www.cbs42.com/news/crime/1-dead-in-bessemer-shooting/
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BOSTON, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Greene LLP announces that the international pharmaceutical company, Biogen, Inc, has agreed to pay $900 million to resolve claims brought by Michael Bawduniak, a client of Greene LLP, that Biogen unlawfully paid kickbacks to physicians and other healthcare professionals. The settlement will be paid to the United States and the Medicaid programs of various states in resolution of the False Claims Act action in which the United States did not intervene.
"We believe this settlement represents the largest recovery in the over 150 years of False Claims Act cases to be secured by a whistleblower without the intervention or participation of the United States," said attorney Thomas M. Greene, who served as Mr. Bawduniak's lead counsel throughout more than a decade of litigation.
In 2012, Mr. Bawduniak disclosed to the United States that he believed Biogen, for whom he was then employed, was improperly paying kickbacks to its largest prescribers to discourage them from prescribing Biogen's competitors' products. Mr. Bawduniak had reported his concerns to Biogen's compliance department, which had not taken any action. Based on Mr. Bawduniak's information, the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation asked Mr. Bawduniak to record conversations with Biogen employees that would substantiate his allegations. These recordings confirmed that Biogen deliberately provided substantial monetary and non-monetary compensation to some of its most important prescribers to influence their prescribing and to ensure that they remained loyal Biogen customers.
Thereafter, in April 2012, Greene LLP, on behalf of Mr. Bawduniak, filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts under the federal False Claims Act and the false claims acts of several states. Mr. Bawduniak alleged that Biogen, to prevent its multiple sclerosis drugs from losing market share to newer drugs, knowingly paid its largest prescribers for services Biogen did not need and never intended to use, and which payments served no legitimate business purpose.
For example, Biogen paid hundreds of its customers to provide consulting advice on topics it either could not use, or for which Biogen had all the information it required. Additionally, Biogen also paid hundreds of health care professionals to speak when there was no demand for presentations on Biogen's products and Biogen knew that its prospective speakers would likely never meet their minimum speaking requirements. Mr. Bawduniak also discovered that Biogen knowingly compensated its speakers and consultants a rate significantly exceeding the fair market value for their services. For example, Biogen inflated the amounts paid to most of its speakers and consultants by automatically adding three hours for travel time to their compensation, even when Biogen knew the customers whom it paid did not have to travel or only traveled a minimal distance. And many of Biogen's events were held at sumptuous resorts and restaurants, where Biogen treated its speakers and consultants to lavish meals and free alcohol.
"The excessive consultant meetings always stood out to us as evidence of an improper purpose for these payments to physicians," said Greene. "Over the years, as we learned more and more and gained feedback from nationally renowned experts, we were confident that a jury would agree: the only reasonable explanation for this kind of activity by Biogen was its belief that the prescribers it paid would be more likely to prescribe their drugs."
The Biogen lawsuit was not Greene's first foray into lengthy False Claims Act litigation. In 1996, he brought an action on behalf of a whistleblower alleging that off-label promotion of the drug Neurontin defrauded the United States. That case was resolved in 2004 when Pfizer, Inc. agreed to pay $430 million in civil fines and criminal penalties. Although the United States also elected not to intervene in the Neurontin case, that case became the model that ultimately led to the United States recovering more than $15 billion for unlawful off-label promotion by other drug companies.
The federal False Claims Act and several state statutes allow persons to file qui tam claims on behalf of federal or state governments when they have knowledge of schemes to defraud them. The statutes authorize those governments to intervene in such suits, but also permit the qui tam whistleblowers to pursue their claims if the governments elect not to intervene, which is what happened with Mr. Bawduniak's action.
"Since July 2015, when the United States informed the District Court that it would not intervene in this action, our firm has litigated the case alone, reviewing millions of documents, conducting dozens of depositions, and preparing the case for trial," said Greene. "The settlement with Biogen is a great example of what the False Claims Act is designed to encourage – and taxpayers clearly benefit." As a result of the announced settlement, Mr. Bawduniak will receive an award of between 25% and 30% of the federal portion of the recovery, as well as awards from the states who will share in the settlement.
Michael Bawduniak was represented in the False Claims Act suit by Greene, Michael Tabb, Ryan P. Morrison, Tucker D. Greene, Simon Fischer, Eugenie Reich, and Kiel Green, all members of the Greene LLP firm. Greene LLP is a complex civil litigation firm in Boston specializing in representing qui tam whistleblowers with a low-volume, high-attention approach to litigation.
Contact: Thomas M. Greene
Greene LLP
(617) 261-0040
tgreene@greenellp.com
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2022-07-20T18:25:19+00:00
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kwtx.com
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https://www.kwtx.com/prnewswire/2022/07/20/biogen-inc-agrees-pay-900-million-resolve-whistleblower-claim-regarding-payment-unlawful-kickbacks/
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Both in-person attendees and TV viewers to receive the free commemorative NFT download
LOS ANGELES and NEW YORK, May 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Autograph, the Web3 brand co-founded by Tom Brady, today announced the launch of a commemorative NFT to celebrate Autograph's presence at Capital One's The Match. The premier live golf event series will take place Wednesday, June 1, at the Wynn Las Vegas, where Brady and Aaron Rodgers will team up to face off against Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen.
Autograph's Capital One's The Match '22: The Cart commemorative NFT can be redeemed for free by all Capital One's The Match attendees and TV viewers on May 31, beginning at 9 AM ET. The NFT release on TV and on-site marks one of the most expansive free NFT drops to date.
During Capital One's The Match, Hole #6 will be branded exclusively by Autograph, and a QR code will be displayed on-site and on-screen during the simulcasts on TNT, truTV, and HLN. Collectors can follow the link to redeem the commemorative NFT. Fans who redeem will have exclusive access to a video message from Brady.
"The Match is one of my favorite events of the year, and we created a commemorative NFT so viewers and fans could share in the experience and take away their own unique piece of the event," said Tom Brady.
Additionally, Autograph is providing exclusive VIP access to Capital One's The Match for some of its top collectors. In addition to attending the event, ten VIPs will receive complimentary hotel, flights, and ground transportation to and from Las Vegas and the opportunity to play a round of golf at The Wynn. Autograph will also host additional Autograph community collectors at a private event in Las Vegas and provide each with a general admission ticket to Capital One's The Match, from the limited number available to the public.
Capital One's The Match attendees and TV viewers can redeem Capital One's The Match '22: The Cart commemorative NFT starting May 31 at 9 a.m. ET at Autograph.io. The NFT can also be redeemed by scanning the QR code in person at Capital One's The Match or by scanning the QR code on screen during the simulcasts on TNT, truTV, and HLN at 3:30 p.m. PST / 6:30 p.m. EST.
For more information on Autograph and Capital One's The Match collection, please visit: www.autograph.io.
Autograph is an NFT platform that brings together the most iconic brands and legendary names in sports, entertainment, and culture to create unique digital collections and experiences for users around the world. Notable Board of Director members include Sam Bankman-Fried, Abel Tesfaye aka The Weeknd, Peter Mattoon and Michael Meldman. Co-founded by Tom Brady and headquartered in Los Angeles, Autograph is ushering in a new era of collecting through a streamlined and inclusive process, authentic and creative products, and exclusive partnerships. Members of the star-studded Advisory Board have dropped their first collection that all sold out in record time with drops from Wayne Gretzky, Derek Jeter, Naomi Osaka, Simone Biles, Tony Hawk, Tiger Woods and more.
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2022-05-31T13:10:28+00:00
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kalb.com
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https://www.kalb.com/prnewswire/2022/05/31/autograph-brings-nfts-mainstream-audience-with-massive-free-drop-capital-ones-match/
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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A child likely died from a rare infection caused by a brain-eating amoeba after swimming in an eastern Nebraska river, health officials said, making it the second such probable death in the Midwest this summer and raising the question of whether climate change is playing a role.
The Douglas County Department of Health based in Omaha, Nebraska, reported Wednesday that doctors believe the child died of primary amebic meningoencephalitis, a usually fatal infection caused by the naegleria fowleri amoeba. Health officials believe the child came into contact with the amoeba on Sunday while swimming in the Elkhorn River just west of Omaha.
Officials have not released the child’s identity.
Last month, a Missouri resident died of the same infection likely caused by the amoeba at Lake of Three Fires in southwestern Iowa. Iowa officials closed the lake’s beach as a precaution for nearly three weeks.
People are usually infected when water containing the amoeba enters the body through the nose while swimming or diving into lakes and rivers. Other sources have been documented, including tainted tap water in a Houston-area city in 2020. Symptoms include fever, headache, nausea or vomiting, progressing to a stiff neck, loss of balance, hallucinations and seizures.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says naegleria fowleri infections are rare — there are about three cases in the United States every year — but that those infections are overwhelmingly fatal.
There were 154 cases reported between 1962 and 2021 in the U.S., with only four survivors, according to the CDC. Of those, 71 cases were reported between 2000 and 2021. Texas and Florida recorded the most infections with 39 and 37 cases respectively, and the amoeba is typically found in southern states because it thrives in waters that are warmer than 86 degrees Fahrenheit (30 Celsius).
But infections have migrated north in recent years, including two cases in Minnesota since 2010, Douglas County Health Director Dr. Lindsey Huse noted during a news conference Thursday.
“Our regions are becoming warmer,” she said. “As things warm up, the water warms up and water levels drop because of drought, you see that this organism is a lot happier and more typically grows in those situations.”
According to the National Water Information System, the surface water temperature near where the child was swimming was between 86 and 92 degrees.
Jacob Lorenzo-Morales, a researcher at the Universidad de La Laguna in the Canary Islands who has studied naegleria fowleri, said Thursday that an increase in infections since 2000 can be blamed on two factors: better knowledge and diagnosis of the disease, and the rising temperature in bodies of water providing “a perfect environment” for the amoeba to thrive.
Researcher Sutherland Maciver, who has studied the amoeba at the Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences at Edinburgh Medical School in Scotland, says not all infections are reported and that the 430 cases that have ever been reported worldwide are almost certainly an undercount. And, he said, scientists cannot say with certainty that the Nebraska case is directly attributable to climate change.
The two researchers co-authored a paper titled “Is Naegleria fowleri an Emerging Parasite?” that examined factors behind the increase in reported cases.
Health officials recommend that freshwater swimmers plug their noses, avoid putting their heads underwater and avoid activities such as water skiing and tubing, which could force water into the nose, eyes or mouth. You cannot be infected by drinking contaminated water.
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2022-08-19T14:34:16+00:00
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wjhl.com
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https://www.wjhl.com/news/national/brain-eating-amoeba-suspected-in-new-midwest-death/
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TORONTO (AP) — Teoscar Hernández homered, doubled twice and singled, Danny Jansen drove in five runs and the Toronto Blue Jays moved one step closer to wrapping up the top spot in the AL wild-card race, routing the Boston Red Sox 10-0 Saturday.
The Blue Jays began the day with a 1 1/2-game lead over Seattle atop the wild-card standings.
Ross Stripling and four relievers combined on a four-hitter as Toronto shut out the Red Sox for the second straight day. The Blue Jays blanked Boston 9-0 Friday night.
Jansen homered, doubled and singled and Bo Bichette went 4 for 4 as Toronto opened October with a 21-hit outburst, delighting a sellout crowd of 44,612.
The Blue Jays are 15-3 against the Red Sox this season, matching the most wins they’ve ever had in a season against a single opponent. Toronto went 15-4 against Baltimore in 2002 and again in 2010.
Toronto’s 15 wins against Boston are the most by any AL team against a division opponent this season. Houston won 14 of 19 meetings with Texas.
Stripling (10-4) allowed four hits and struck out three in six innings.
Anthony Bass worked the seventh, David Phelps pitched the eighth and Jordan Romano got two outs in the ninth before Adam Cimber came on and struck out Triston Casas to finish it.
Making his final start of the season, rookie right-hander Brayan Bello (2-8) allowed four runs and a career-high 10 hits in four innings.
Jansen hit an RBI single in the second inning and doubled home two runs in the third.
Hernández and Jansen each hit solo home runs off Zack Kelly in the fifth. Hernández connected for the 23rd time, while Jansen’s homer was his 15th.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Blue Jays: Interim manager John Schneider said INF Santiago Espinal has “sped up” in his recovery from a strained left oblique. The Blue Jays hope Espinal and OF Lourdes Gurriel Jr. (left hamstring) will be able to return in the final series of the regular season at Baltimore next week.
ROSTER MOVES
The Red Sox reinstated RHP Kaleb Ort from the restricted list and recalled RHP Josh Winckowski from Triple-A Worcester. Boston optioned RHP Tyler Danish and OF Jarren Duran to Triple-A. Ort became eligible to come off the restricted list with the expiration Saturday of a Canadian requirement preventing foreign nationals who aren’t vaccinated against COVID-19 from entering the country.
MILESTONE MOMENT
Hitting for Bichette in the seventh, infielder Otto Lopez collected his first big league hit with a single up the middle.
BIRTHDAY BOY
Boston’s Xander Bogaerts went 0 for 4 with a strikeout on his 30th birthday.
UP NEXT
RHP Michael Wacha (11-1, 3.06) starts for the Red Sox Sunday against Blue Jays RHP Kevin Gausman. Wacha allowed season worsts of six earned runs and three home runs against Baltimore in his previous start.
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2022-10-02T00:01:20+00:00
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lmtonline.com
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https://www.lmtonline.com/sports/article/Hern-ndez-Jansen-HR-Jays-hold-wild-card-edge-17480617.php
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GREAT FALLS — According to Wallethub, Montana is now the best state in the country in which to practice medicine.
Wallethub used 19 factors, including annual wage and hospitals per capita, to compare all 50 states and the District of Columbia to determine which is the best for doctors to practice in.
The top five states:
1: Montana
2: South Dakota
3: Idaho
4: Wisconsin
5: Minnesota
The states at the bottom of the list are New Jersey, Alaska, Rhode Island, and Hawaii.
While that may surprise some of you, what the doctors MTN talked with said when asked what makes Montana so great may not surprise you.
Alex Bules, an internal medicine physician at Benefis Health System, has been practicing medicine in Montana since 2016.
What he likes most is the people he gets to take care of.
"There's a certain work ethic that the farmers and ranchers have out here that is really unmatched in the other parts of the country where I've worked," Bules said.
"Work-life balance for me was huge. I wanted to live somewhere where I could be outdoors and explore all kinds of unique parts of the country," said Bules.
Dr. Mark Van Tassel is a diagnostic radiologist at Benefis and has been practicing medicine in Montana since 2017, after completing medical school and residency in the Midwest.
"When I was looking for a job (and) this job came up in Montana I was pretty excited," Van Tassel said. "I wanted to be back in the Mountain West. I grew up in Utah. I enjoy the mountains, enjoy all the activities that come along with the Mountain West and the Mountains."
Montana received a total score of 73.45 in the survey, almost six points better than the next best state, South Dakota.
Like Bules, Van Tassel said the people he gets to interact with working in Montana are a big reason why he likes working in the state.
"It's cool to be around great people. That's a big deal for me," said Van Tassel.
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2023-03-31T22:23:54+00:00
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ktvq.com
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https://www.ktvq.com/news/montana-news/montana-ranked-best-state-to-practice-medicine
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Two competing sports betting measures are on the California ballot this November. They could turn the state into the biggest sports betting market in the world after Berlin. If approved, Proposition 26 would make in-person sports betting legal, and Proposition 27 would make online betting legal.
Billions of dollars in revenue are at stake, and voters are being inundated with ads for and against both measures. In total, proponents and opponents have spent more than $350 million on their campaigns.
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2022-08-25T00:43:42+00:00
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kcrw.com
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https://www.kcrw.com/news/shows/press-play-with-madeleine-brand/sports-betting-trans-kids-sterilization-holocaust-baking/prop-26-27?utm_source=KCRW&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=kcrw-news-rss
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GUANGZHOU, China, June 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Onion Global Limited ("Onion Global", the "Group" or the "Company") (NYSE: OG), a next-generation lifestyle brand platform that incubates, markets, and distributes the world's fresh, fashionable, and future brands to young people in China and across Asia, today announced that the Company had filed its annual report on Form 20-F for the full year ended December 31, 2021 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
The annual report is available on the Company's investor relations website at http://ir.msyc.com/ and on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. The Company will provide hard copies of the annual report, free of charge, to its shareholders and ADS holders upon written request. Requests should be directed to Investor Relations, No. 309 3-05 Huangpu Avenue Zhong Tianhe District, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, People's Republic of China.
About Onion Global Limited
Onion Global Limited (NYSE: OG) is a next-generation lifestyle brand platform that incubates, markets, and distributes the world's fresh, fashionable, and future brands, which we refer to as "3F brands," to young people in China and across Asia. The Company's mission is to be the dream factory of lifestyle brands for young people. The Company's platform offers an integrated solution to develop, market, and distribute new and inspiring branded products, thereby reshaping the lifestyle shopping and consumer culture in China. Onion Global Limited has been listed on New York Stock Exchange since May 2021.
For more information, please visit: http://ir.msyc.com/.
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2022-06-27T13:15:04+00:00
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kmvt.com
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https://www.kmvt.com/prnewswire/2022/06/27/onion-global-filed-2021-annual-report-form-20-f/
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Which burger press is best?
Who doesn’t love a juicy burger cooked on the grill or stovetop? But making delicious burgers at home means shaping them just right — and a burger press can make the job much easier.
A burger press is a handheld tool that forms uniform patties, so they all cook evenly. You can find presses that create burgers in different sizes and thicknesses and even some that are adjustable. If you’re looking for a high-quality press that’s easy to use and clean, the Cave Tools Burger Press is an excellent choice.
What to know before you buy a burger press
Size and adjustability
Many burger presses have a simple design, making burgers in a single size. The size affects not only the diameter of the burger but the thickness as well. If you want burgers in a specific size, check the dimensions carefully to ensure they match.
You can also find some presses that let you adjust the size and thickness of your burgers. For example, an adjustable burger press often lets you make regular-sized burgers and smaller slider burgers if you’re preparing appetizers or cooking for children.
Adjustability is a handy feature because thinner burgers are an ideal option when you want to cook quickly or prefer a well-done patty. On the other hand, thicker patties are a better choice if you prefer a little pink in your burgers.
Material
The material a burger press is made of determines how easy it is to use and clean. Non-stick materials are the best option because you don’t have to worry about your ground meat sticking to the press. That’s why many presses are made of plastic or metal, like aluminum.
Aluminum presses are usually more durable than plastic models, which can crack. Plastic presses are typically more affordable, though. But make sure to choose a BPA-free plastic press, so you don’t have to worry about chemicals leeching into your burgers.
What to look for in a quality burger press
Patty quantity
Most burger presses only make a single patty at a time. However, if you regularly grill or cook for large groups, you can also find presses that make multiple burgers at a time. You may pay a little more for a multiple-patty press, but you can prep your burgers more quickly for barbecues and other parties.
Stuffed burgers
Stuffing burgers with your favorite toppings like cheese, bacon or grilled onions, can take their flavor to the next level. Some presses are designed to let you fill your burger patties with the ingredients of your choice, while still keeping the burgers uniform in size and thickness.
Heat-safe
Some burger presses are heat-safe, so you can use them directly on your grill, pan or griddle. That can ensure that your burgers don’t break during the transfer to your cooking surface or that you can reshape a patty if necessary.
Ease of cleaning
A burger press should be easy to clean, so you don’t have to worry about bits of old meat getting stuck on it. Non-stick presses are the easiest to clean because you can just wipe the meat away. Some plastic burger presses are even dishwasher-safe, so you can toss them on the top rack with your dishes.
How much you can expect to spend on a burger press
You’ll typically pay $2-$30 for a burger press. Plastic burger presses and those that only help you flatten the meat without shaping it usually cost $2-10, while metal presses that also help shape your patties generally go for $10-$20. For cast-iron and other higher-quality metal presses, though, you may spend as much as $30.
Burger press FAQ
Why should I use a burger press rather than shaping burgers by hand?
A. Using a press not only lets you shape and form your burgers more quickly, but it also ensures that they’re all uniform in shape and size. It can help keep your hands from getting dirty, too.
How can I prevent my burgers from sticking to the burger press?
A. Some people like to place a piece of parchment paper between the press and the meat to serve as a non-stick barrier. You can also lightly grease the press with a cooking oil (vegetable, canola, olive or avocado are great options) to prevent the meat from sticking.
Can I use a burger press for veggie or imitation meat burgers?
A. A burger press can work with any type of meat or meat substitute, including ground beef, chicken, turkey, bison, veggie burger meat or imitation meat. However, some types of imitation meat may stick more than others, so you may want to grease the press before using it.
What’s the best way to clean a burger press?
A. Most presses are easy to clean with soap and water. However, if meat is stuck on the press, you may need an abrasive sponge to scrub it off. Plastic presses are often dishwasher-safe, making them extremely easy to clean. On the other hand, cast-iron presses require special handling, so follow the instructions that come with them carefully.
What’s the best burger press to buy?
Top burger press
What you need to know: This top-of-the-line burger press features a simple but extremely effective design that perfectly shapes and flattens your burgers.
What you’ll love: It forms patties quickly and easily. It can make 1/4- and 1/3-pound burgers. The aluminum material makes the press highly durable and clean-up a breeze, and it also comes with parchment paper squares to divide and separate your shaped patties.
What you should consider: It doesn’t work well for stuffed burgers, and some people find that the finished burgers are on the small side.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top burger press for the money
Cuisinart Smashed Burger Press
What you need to know: The durable, heavy burger press can form impressively flat patties that are as flavorful as can be.
What you’ll love: The sturdy, heavy-weight cast iron means the press can last for years. You can use it directly on your grill, pan or griddle, and it has a raised edge that helps burgers stay juicy. It also flattens the patties well, so they have delicious crispy edges.
What you should consider: Some buyers find that the raised edge prevents them from smashing the burgers as much as they’d like.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
What you need to know: This durable, stainless steel press lets you make large stuffed burgers for the whole family in minutes.
What you’ll love: It can make large burgers that can be stuffed with nearly any ingredients. It creates uniformly shaped and sized burgers that cook evenly and the nonstick surface makes clean-up a breeze.
What you should consider: If you press too hard, you may wind up with burgers that are thinner on top than at the bottom.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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2023-03-18T12:44:00+00:00
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localsyr.com
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https://www.localsyr.com/reviews/br-reviews/kitchen-br/utensils-tools-br/best-burger-press/
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NBC4 INVESTIGATES: This Ohio village bank serves millions of customers — and fraudsters prey on it
ATTICA, Ohio (WCMH) — It’s easier than ever to fall victim to fraud in the digital age, but one Colorado man was able to trace just how someone did it to his client.
Prepaid debit cards are a common tool scammers use to steal money, and online debit cards have made ripping you off even easier. Evan Bernabei, a tech-savvy accountant based in Colorado, reached out to NBC4 Investigates after a scammer stole thousands of dollars from his business.
Bernabei’s accounting firm works with realtors. In March he received an email, seemingly from one of his clients.
“It basically stated, ‘Hey, I’m having issues with my bank. I need to update my bank information. Here’s my routing and account number as follows,’” Bernabei said. “I get emails like that several times a month from agents — from real estate owners asking to update bank information. So nothing stood out as out of the ordinary.”
The email was actually from a scammer who’d stolen the client’s identity.
“It wasn’t until about a week later that we realized in talking to that agent that he hadn’t gotten paid,” Bernabei said.
To track down the nearly $14,000 of stolen money, Bernabei Googled the routing number from the email. It led to a bank he didn’t recognize.
“It came to a bank in kind of middle-of-nowhere Ohio called Sutton Bank,” Bernabei said.
Sutton Bank is based in Attica — a village in north-central Ohio about 85 miles from Columbus — and has eight branches. From here, Bernabei called the little bank’s fraud department.
“I provided [customer service with] the bank details,” Bernabei said. “And right away she — she looked it up and she said, ‘Oh, this account belongs to Albert Bank. And we don’t really have any control over them.’”
Albert is not a bank, according to its website. It’s a banking app for which Sutton provides “banking services.”
Consumer finance attorney Alexander Darr explained that distinction draws a fine line between the two companies.
“Albert is a fintech company – a financial technology company — that is essentially using the relationship that Sutton has with the regulatory authorities. It’s a licensed bank, and Albert is not a licensed bank,” Darr said.
Bernabei said Sutton’s fraud department gave him a number for Albert’s customer service, something Dabertin said the bank is required to do when someone calls about one of its fintech partners.
“For our card product, it is a legal requirement that in all cases a phone number be provided. And if the cardholder contacts that number, they have to be able to report their alleged error, and the reporting of that alleged error is required by law to result in a prompt investigation,” Dabertin said.
According to a recording that plays when the Albert customer support phone number is called, Albert does not offer assistance over the phone. The recording directs users to its email address and app. After having no luck getting his money back through Albert’s customer service, which claims to only operate via email and text, Bernabei filed a claim through the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
Darr explained that under the Electronic Funds Transfer Act, Sutton Bank is responsible for protecting consumers from fraud involving Albert debit card accounts. As a result, Sutton Bank responded to Bernabei’s FDIC claim and was able to return half of what Bernabei had deposited into the fraudulent account, around $7,000.
The rest of the money, unfortunately for Bernabei, had already been withdrawn. Weeks after Bernabei first complained, Albert told him they closed the account.
Darr’s advice to protecting your pocketbook: “Be engaged with your financial transactions because you do have these rights, but they have to be executed.”
Albert declined to comment for this report.
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2022-06-03T17:42:31+00:00
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kdvr.com
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https://kdvr.com/news/nationalworld-news/how-a-man-tracked-14000-in-identity-fraud-to-ohio-from-colorado/
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THIBODAUX, La. (AP) — Taylor Grimes caught two of Lindsey Scott Jr.'s five touchdown passes and Incarnate Word coasted to a 49-14 win over Southland Conference rival Nicholls on Saturday in a game that was a nonconference matchup.
Scott was 27 of 36 for 327 yards with Grimes catching 10 for 125.
Marcus Cooper ran for 137 yards and a score and had a touchdown reception.
Darion Chafin, CJ Hardy and Jaelin Campbell also had touchdown catches for the Cardinals (6-1), ranked 10th the FCS coaches poll. Steven Duncan was 4 of 7 for 57 yards and the final touchdown pass.
Incarnate Word had 633 yards of offense with 35 first downs.
Kohen Grainer threw for a touchdown and Leonard Kelly, also a quarterback, ran for the other score for the Colonels (1-6).
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2022-10-16T01:37:41+00:00
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seattlepi.com
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https://www.seattlepi.com/sports/article/Grimes-Scott-lead-Incarnate-Word-past-Nicholls-17512081.php
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(KTLA) — A California man was sentenced to federal prison on Friday for using millions in fraudulent COVID-relief loans to buy luxury sports cars.
Mustafa Qadiri, 42, from Irvine, was sentenced to four-and-a-half years in prison, fined $20,000 and ordered to pay $2,861,050 in restitution, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Authorities say Qadiri fraudulently “obtained $5 million in COVID-relief loans for his sham businesses, then used the money on himself, including purchasing Ferrari, Bentley and Lamborghini cars.”
The loans were also used to fund lavish vacations and other personal expenses, officials said.
“Federal agents seized the Ferrari, Bentley and Lamborghini cars that Qadiri purchased with the fraudulently obtained PPP loans, along with $2 million in ill-gotten gains from his bank account,” court documents state.
Qadiri pleaded guilty in July 2021 to one count of bank fraud, one count of aggravated identity theft and one count of money laundering.
In May and June of 2020, authorities say Qadiri submitted false Paycheck Protection Program loan applications to three banks on behalf of four nonexistent Newport Beach-based companies.
The applications included altered bank records, sham tax returns and false information about employees and their wages, according to court documents.
Qadiri also used someone else’s name, Social Security number and signature to apply for one of the loans, prosecutors said.
PPP loans were created to provide financial support to struggling businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Homeland Security Investigations, the Small Business Administration Office of Inspector General, the FBI and IRS Criminal Investigation investigated the case as part of the El Camino Real Financial Crimes Task Force.
Anyone with information about attempted fraud involving COVID-19 can report it to the Department of Justice’s National Center for Disaster Fraud Hotline at 866-720-5721 or online.
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2023-02-18T22:23:27+00:00
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wivb.com
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https://www.wivb.com/news/national/ca-man-sentenced-for-using-5m-in-ppp-loans-to-buy-luxury-sports-cars/
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Mileage Plan members can earn 1 mile for every $1 spent on all Lyft rides in the U.S. and Canada, plus this holiday season they can earn 2 miles for every $1 spent on Lyft rides – anytime, everywhere; guests can redeem miles for flights
SEATTLE, Nov. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Your travels this holiday season just got more rewarding. Alaska Airlines has hitched a new partnership with Lyft – one of the largest transportation networks in the U.S. and Canada – and we're eager for our guests to come along for the ride.
Starting today, our Mileage Plan members can earn miles for their everyday Lyft rides – such as trips to and from the airport, heading out to a concert or across town for a holiday party. The sky's the limit. All it takes is a simple step of linking your Mileage Plan and Lyft accounts. And we're adding a festive bonus. Between now and Dec. 31, 2022, our members will earn double miles: two miles for every dollar* spent on rides everywhere Lyft operates in the U.S. and Canada.
"We always want our guests to have a terrific travel experience, even when they're not flying with us. Our new partnership with Lyft makes sure our flyers are also cared for on the ground as they go places," said Sangita Woerner, senior vice president of marketing and guest experience at Alaska Airlines. "Alaska and Lyft are both respected brands by millions of customers who turn to us for access to their preferred modes of transportation."
It's easy to start earning miles with Lyft right away:
- The first thing to do is link your Mileage Plan and Lyft accounts at AlaskaLyft.com. Signing up is free.
- Once your accounts are linked, you're ready to earn miles.
- You'll earn one mile for every dollar* spent on all Lyft rides in the U.S. and Canada with no limit on the amount of miles you can earn.
- Make sure Alaska Mileage Plan is selected as your preferred travel partner in the Rewards section in the Lyft app. For additional details, visit AlaskaLyft.com.
- All Lyft rides are eligible for earning miles, which includes Lyft Standard, Wait & Save, Priority Pickup, Shared, Shared Saver, Preferred, Lyft XL, Lux, Lux Black and Lux Black XL rides*.
"We are thrilled to provide our riders with more benefits and opportunities to enjoy a best-in-class travel experience. At Lyft, we're committed to hospitality and to giving our users the chance to unlock the best value for all their transportation needs – a key purpose embedded in this partnership. The Alaska team's dedication to customer loyalty and creating a culture of belonging aligns seamlessly with many of the values that we maintain at Lyft," said Zach Greenberger, Vice President of Strategic Business Development and Supply Chain at Lyft.
There's also a way to earn even more miles. Mileage Plan members with the Alaska Airlines Visa Signature® credit card earn an additional mile for every dollar spent when they use it for payment when riding with Lyft. It's just another way using the credit card for everyday purchases can earn miles redeemable for memorable experiences down the road.
Alaska is a member of the oneworld global alliance. With oneworld and our additional airline partners, our guests can earn and redeem miles with our highly acclaimed Mileage Plan program to fly on more than 20 oneworld and partner airlines all around the globe. Elite status on Alaska automatically matches tier status in oneworld right away and all the benefits that come with it.
*Lyft ride prices/payments that are eligible to earn miles include base fare rideshare charges but exclude taxes, fees, tolls and tips. Bike and scooter rides are not eligible for earning miles. Riders earn rewards with only one travel partner at a time with Lyft. See full offer terms for more details. There are also full terms on the bonus miles being offered between now through Dec. 31, 2022.
The credit card program is issued and administered by Bank of America, N.A. Visa and Visa Signature® are registered trademarks of Visa International Service Association and are used by the issuer pursuant to license.
About Alaska Airlines
Alaska Airlines and our regional partners serve more than 120 destinations across the United States, Belize, Canada, Costa Rica and Mexico. We emphasize low fares and award-winning customer service. Alaska is a member of the oneworld global alliance. With the alliance and our additional airline partners, our guests can travel to more than 900 destinations on more than 20 airlines while earning and redeeming miles on flights to locations around the world. Learn more about Alaska at news.alaskaair.com. Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air are subsidiaries of Alaska Air Group.
About Lyft
Lyft was founded in 2012 and is one of the largest transportation networks in the United States and Canada. As the world shifts to transportation-as-a-service, Lyft is at the forefront of this massive societal change. Our transportation network brings together rideshare, bikes, scooters, car rentals, transit and vehicle services all in one app. We are singularly driven by our mission: to improve people's lives with the world's best transportation.
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2022-11-02T14:00:40+00:00
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wbrc.com
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https://www.wbrc.com/prnewswire/2022/11/02/alaska-airlines-teams-up-with-lyft-new-partnership-earn-miles-wherever-you-go/
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New testimony in Lori Vallow Daybell's weeks-long murder trial revealed the causes of death of her two children, who were both found buried on her husband Chad Daybell's property in June 2020.
During testimony Wednesday, forensic pathologist Dr. Garth Warren said Joshua "J.J." Vallow, Vallow Daybell's 7-year-old son, died from asphyxiation by having a plastic bag over his head and duct tape over his mouth. The child also had scratch marks on his neck and bruising on his arms, according to Scripps News' sister station KIVI, and his body was found intact, wrapped in taped plastic bags.
Scratch marks on the bag could indicate that JJ struggled to get the bag off of his head
— Idaho News 6 (@IdahoNews6) April 26, 2023
Warren went on to testify about the death of Tylee Ryan, Vallow Daybell's 16-year-old daughter. Though he said the death was by homicide, Warren wasn't able to pinpoint the exact cause, noting her autopsy was much more complex.
While J.J.'s autopsy took approximately four hours, Warren said Tylee's took nearly a week to complete. Warren said her remains arrived at the coroner's office in three separate bags, each containing charred remains meshed with mud and dirt. Toxicology evidence did not indicate Tylee was alive when her body was burned, and on Thursday, forensic anthropologist Dr. Angie Christensen described Tylee's bones as "inconsistent" from cases of dismemberment.
Vallow Daybell is charged with murdering her two children and conspiring to kill her husband’s first wife, Tammy Daybell, whose death was also revealed to be asphyxiation. Chad Daybell is separately charged in connection to the three deaths. Both have pleaded not guilty to their charges.
Tylee Ryan was last seen alive at Yellowstone National Park on Sept. 8, 2019, and J.J. Vallow was last seen on Sept. 22, 2019 at school. Nearly nine months later, the children's remains were found on the same day in two different areas on Chad Daybell's Idaho property.
Their disappearances added to a list of strange deaths in Vallow Daybell's life: Her brother Alexander Cox, claiming self-defense, shot and killed her fourth husband, Charles Vallow, in July 2019. Cox later died of a blood clot that December. In October 2019, Tammy Daybell was shot at in her driveway. She was found dead in her home of "natural causes" 10 days later, though the cause of death was later determined to be asphyxiation.
Chad Daybell and Lori Vallow Daybell married in Hawaii in November 2019, two weeks after Tammy Daybell's death. Later that month, the couple told police conducting a welfare check on J.J. that he had been staying with a family friend for months. Shortly thereafter, police discovered Tylee was also missing.
SEE MORE: Attorneys outline complex plot in trial of slain kids' mom
According to the AP, defense attorney Jim Archibald described Vallow Daybell as a loving mother who was particularly interested in religious prophecies involving the end of the world. He said the defendant's beliefs only changed after meeting Chad Daybell, a religious author whose fictional books focused on doomsday scenarios.
Fremont County prosecutor Lindsey Blake told jurors the couple used their religious beliefs to justify their actions "from affair to murder." She noted their belief that some people were "light" or "dark" and that they preached the only way to free an extremely "dark" soul was to kill them. A former friend of Vallow Daybell's testified the defendant told her in September 2019 that both children had become "dark."
Trending stories at Scrippsnews.com
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2023-04-27T22:05:23+00:00
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wrtv.com
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https://www.wrtv.com/lori-vallow-daybell-trial-experts-depict-how-her-two-kids-were-killed
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SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards announced his support for former Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development Shawn Wilson as the next governor Tuesday morning.
“Today, I am proud to endorse Shawn WIlson. When I was elected Governor, the only person I wanted to serve as your Transportation Secretary was Shawn Wilson. Shawn’s reputation speaks for itself. He’s spent his career bringing people together to accomplish the most difficult tasks. In his seven years as Secretary, he has overseen the implementation of the largest infrastructure investments in our state’s history. We are finally tackling the infrastructure projects we have dreamed about for decades. His success in this role was only possible because he works with anyone, regardless of political party, to get things done.
“While in many significant ways Louisiana is demonstrably better today than when I was elected, we have our fair share of challenges, and I believe the only way to overcome them is by putting partisan differences aside to put Louisiana first. Shawn shares my belief that we should put what’s best for our people before what’s best for our political parties. If we’re going to continue to move Louisiana in the right direction, we need Shawn as our next Governor. He’s exactly the type of leader who will bridge the partisan divides that too often take hold of our politics. Donna and I are proud to endorse his campaign, and we ask Louisianans to lift their prayers with ours for Shawn, his wife, Rocki, and their family as they embark on this journey.”
Wilson worked under four governors in the state and said at the time of his announcement that Louisiana needed a governor who would “build bridges, not burn them.”
Wilson is the most prominent Democrat to announce his gubernatorial bid. But he will face at least one primary opponent Daniel “Danny” Cole, a Pentecostal pastor and special education teacher from Central, Louisiana.
In receiving the endorsement, Shawn said:
“The Governor and I have a lot in common – our love of the outdoors, a passion to make our state better, and we both married up by marrying educators. I was honored to serve as Transportation Secretary under Gov. Edwards. He entrusted me with the leadership of a department that would soon make generational change throughout our state. Gov. Edwards and I know the value in working together. We’ve spent the last 7 years bringing people of both parties to the table to find agreement. That’s the only way to get things done for Louisiana, and as our next Governor, I promise to the people of our state that I will work every day to bridge the divides that hold us back. I’m proud to have the Governor’s endorsement, and Rocki and I are so grateful for the support from him and First Lady Donna Edwards.”
Several prominent Republicans in the state have announced their campaigns including Attorney General Jeff Landry, State Treasurer John Schroder, state Senator Sharon Hewitt, and state Representative Richard Nelson.
There are also three lesser-known candidates in the race: Hunter Lundy, a Lake Charles small business owner and attorney, is running as an independent. Xan John, a businessman who unsuccessfully ran for U.S. Senate twice, is running as a Republican; and Jeffery Istre, an oil field worker, and U.S. Army veteran is running as an Independent.
United States Representative Garrett Graves and state House Speaker Clay Schexnayder are also considering a run for the state’s highest office.
Candidates for the Louisiana Governor’s race must submit qualifying papers to the Louisiana Secretary of State between August 8 and August 10.
All candidates will appear on the same ballot on Oct. 14 for the Louisiana “jungle” primary. If no candidate receives more than 50% of the vote the two candidates with the most votes will advance to the general election on November 18.
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2023-03-07T16:41:09+00:00
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ktalnews.com
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https://www.ktalnews.com/news/election/your-local-election-hq/edwards-endorses-wilson-for-louisiana-governor/
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Want to visit the world’s tallest tree? Too bad, it’s off-limits.
The National Park Service said last week that areas around Hyperion are closed, and those who end up near the tree face a $5,000 fine and up to six months in jail.
The tree is located in the Redwood National Park in California.
The National Park Service said it is located around dense vegetation and requires heavy bushwhacking in order to reach the tree. The government said the tree became a popular destination for bloggers and writers.
Those bloggers and writers, the National Park Service said, "trampled and damaged" the surrounding forest.
The tree was discovered in 2006 and is believed to be between 600 and 800 years old. It has a height of around 380 feet rising into the sky, and weighs an estimated 230 tons.
Despite its incredible height, the National Park Service said visiting the tree doesn’t offer all that impressive of a view.
“A view of Hyperion doesn’t match its hype,” the National Park Service said. “Hyperion’s trunk is small in comparison to many other old-growth redwood trees and its height cannot be observed from the ground. Please remember that flying drones and climbing redwoods is illegal. Violators have and will be cited. There are hundreds of trees on designated trails that are more impressive to view from the tree’s base.”
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2022-08-01T20:10:44+00:00
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wsfltv.com
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https://www.wsfltv.com/news/national/visiting-worlds-tallest-tree-could-result-in-fine-jail-time
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Stephen A. Smith has not officially endorsed anyone for the 2024 presidential election, but it seems like he may have a favorite.
Smith shared a link to former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's contribution form to his 5.8 million Twitter followers.
The ESPN analyst says the tweet is a way to find "the best" candidate and at least get Christie on the debate stage.
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"Yes, I know the Gov. Yes, he’s a friend," Smith tweeted. "But this has nothing to do with endorsing him nor anyone else. This is about helping the Gov get on that debate stage so we can all see who’s the best man or woman for the job. This is a way to make that happen:"
That's when Smith posted a link to Christie's contribution form.
Christie was the 55th governor of New Jersey from 2010 to 2018 before Phil Murphy succeeded him.
The 60-year-old announced his candidacy for next year's election on Tuesday.
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Smith's promotion of Christie's campaign comes shortly after he said President Biden should not be re-elected.
"It’s just my personal opinion, that’s all it is. Take it for what it’s worth. Somebody’s gotta say it, so I’m going to say it. We need a new president in 2024. We need a new president," said Smith, who voted for Biden in 2020.
"Let me be very, very clear about where I’m going with this. That could happen to anybody. It’s not a big deal. I’ve tripped and busted my behind on several occasions, sometimes running up the stairs. It happens. It’s not the end of the world. It’s not evidence that he’s just not all there. But he is 80. He’ll be 81 by the end of his term, approaching 82."
Christie also made a run to be the Republican nominee for the 2016 presidential election, but eventually dropped out.
Christie, like Smith, has tackled sports media in the past, having been a guest host on New York's WFAN. He even was considered to take over for Mike Francesa full-time upon his retirement.
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2023-06-09T23:24:01+00:00
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foxbangor.com
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https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/stephen-a-smith-promotes-chris-christies-presidential-bid-on-social-media-hes-a-friend/article_d87564e6-916b-5bb0-bd6d-bfcff0f8e3b5.html
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DENVER, Aug. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- GOLFTEC, the world leader in golf improvement, announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire SkyTrak, golf's #1 consumer launch monitor and simulator.
The impending acquisition builds on each company's powerful reputation and shared mission to provide golfers with the data and insights needed to track performance, have more fun and play better golf. As part of the acquisition, GOLFTEC will invest in enhancing the current SkyTrak user experience as well as create new, innovative solutions that leverage coaching, data, and digital platforms to deliver a GOLFTEC improvement experience to a broader segment of golfers around the world.
"We are incredibly excited about the acquisition of SkyTrak. With this acquisition, we're combining two companies that understand how data and personalized coaching can truly accelerate a person's journey to better golf. As we look to the future, and in conjunction with our parent company GDO, we're excited about delivering an improvement experience that goes beyond the traditional GOLFTEC Training Bay and helps people improve with GOLFTEC anywhere," said Joe Assell, GOLFTEC Co-founder and CEO.
In support of this acquisition, GOLFTEC recently named longtime golf industry veteran Jeff Foster as their Chief Strategy Officer. As part of his role, Foster will be appointed CEO of SkyTrak.
"For more than two decades, GOLFTEC and SkyTrak have been included among golf's most well-respected and impactful brands," said Foster. "This is an incredible opportunity to leverage the strengths of both companies and build an experience that provides limitless opportunities."
Following record sales in 2021 as well as receiving Golf Digest's "Best in Golf" Award for the fifth consecutive year, SkyTrak remains golf's most popular consumer launch monitor that provides golfers of all skill levels with highly accurate, real-time feedback.
"GOLFTEC is the perfect partner at the perfect time," said Don Thorup of SkyTrak. "The demand for non-traditional forms of golf is at an all-time high, and after hearing GOLFTEC's vision for what we could build together, we knew this was the right direction for our brand."
With over 230 locations worldwide and over 900 Certified Personal Coaches, GOLFTEC is the world leader in golf improvement. In 2021, GOLFTEC Coaches provided over 1.5 million golf lessons to nearly 200,000 golfers with an average improvement of seven strokes. In 2022, GOLFTEC will continue its momentum by opening approximately 30 new locations and by developing new digital-first products that enhance and expand the GOLFTEC improvement experience.
Baird served as financial advisor to GOLFTEC.
Raymond James served as financial advisor to SkyTrak.
Since 1995, GOLFTEC's mission has remained the same—to help people play better golf. The GOLFTEC experience is designed for golfers of all ages and abilities to work with an expert Coach to build a game improvement plan customized to their specific needs and goals. GOLFTEC's cutting edge training systems, including the proprietary OptiMotion technology, gives Students and Coaches instant and data-driven feedback. With millions of lessons given and more than 230 locations across the world, GOLFTEC is the world leader in golf improvement.
SkyTrak is golf's most popular consumer launch monitor and simulator. SkyTrak provides golfers of all skill levels accurate, real-time feedback making it a complete practice, play and entertainment system. A great solution for consumers, teachers, club fitters and PGA Professionals, SkyTrak delivers quality ball flight simulations that reflect a golfer's actual performance.
Media Contact: Ryan Gager
720.541.1027
rgager@golftec.com
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2022-08-10T08:03:06+00:00
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ksla.com
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https://www.ksla.com/prnewswire/2022/08/10/world-leader-golf-improvement-golftec-announces-definitive-agreement-acquire-skytrak-1-consumer-launch-monitor/
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2022-11-23T23:21:52+00:00
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bizjournals.com
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https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2022/11/23/cincinnati-health-champion-dr-odel-owens-died.html
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