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Alameda Health System physicians strongly recommend a flu shot this year.
ALAMEDA, Calif., Nov. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Alameda Health System's Alameda Hospital will offer free influenza (flu) vaccines on Wednesday, Nov. 2 and Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2022 to community members who are three-years-old and older. The free community clinics will be set up in the Alameda Hospital parking lot at 2070 Clinton Avenue. Clinicians will administer shots from 2:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., or while supplies last.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends that everyone over six months old get a flu vaccine yearly, with rare exceptions. Medical experts say that it's especially important to get vaccinated this year.
"This flu season has the potential to be severe," said Dr. Felicia Tornabene, Chief Medical Officer at Alameda Health System. "The key to decreasing everyone's risk of serious complications from the flu is to get vaccinated."
All flu vaccines for the 2022-2023 season are quadrivalent, meaning they are designed to protect against four flu viruses, including two influenza A viruses and two influenza B viruses. Flu vaccines can prevent you from contracting the flu – and if you do get sick - the vaccine can prevent serious illness.
Don't take chances with the flu, especially this year. Come get your shot at Alameda Hospital. Appointments are not required – masks are. For more information, call 510-814-4362 or email PACE@alamedahealthsystem.org.
ALAMEDA HEALTH SYSTEM (AHS) is a leading public health care provider dedicated to caring, healing, teaching and serving all. AHS is a haven for the most vulnerable among us and an advocate for equitable, compassionate, and culturally sensitive care regardless of social and financial barriers. AHS is a vanguard of medical excellence, with a teaching hospital that draws the nation's best medical students. As one of Alameda County's 15 largest employers, AHS is a major economic power providing more than 5,100 jobs and contributing nearly $560 million annually in salaries, wages and benefits. AHS is also home to more than 760 physicians across the nine facilities within the health system. Since 1864, AHS has served the East Bay's health care needs. For more information, visit AlamedaHealthSystem.org.
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Welcome to The Daily 202! Tell your friends to sign up here. Tobi, researcher for the Early 202 (which you should subscribe to if you don’t already!), is in for Olivier today. He’ll be back next week.
The big idea
McCarthy set to meet with president of Taiwan
When House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) sits down with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen today in California, he will become the highest-ranking U.S. official to meet with a Taiwanese president on American soil.
The carefully planned meeting will take place behind closed doors at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif. Reps. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.), chairman of the new House select committee on China, and Pete Aguilar (D-Calif.) are expected to be there, per CNN.
The meeting follows Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries’s (D-N.Y.) own private sit-down with Taiwan’s leader in New York last week, as well as a separate confab with Sens. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.).
McCarthy originally planned to travel to Taiwan — like his predecessor did last year against the wishes of senior members of President Biden’s national security team — but was persuaded not to due to security and political concerns.
- The security concerns: A senior Taiwanese official told the Financial Times that Tsai’s administration provided McCarthy’s office with “some intelligence about what the Chinese Communist party is recently up to and the kinds of threats they pose.”
- The political concerns: “His office was advised that such a visit could be exploited for political purposes in the run-up to January’s presidential election in Taiwan,” our colleagues Ellen Nakashima, John Hudson and Dan Lamothe report. “The opposition Nationalist Party, his aides were told, could use a trip to portray Tsai’s Democratic Progressive Party’s cross-strait policy as dangerous, unnecessarily provocative and raising the risk of war with China.”
A way to ease tensions?
Former U.S. ambassador to China Max Baucus, who has called then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) high-profile trip to Taiwan a mistake, said today’s meeting is a step in the right direction toward tempering explosive relations between the United States and China because it is being held in California, not Taipei.
- “All sides have toned down their rhetoric,” Baucus told The Daily 202. “That’s really what we should be doing — the United States and China — not being too belligerent with each other, talking things over, trying to find some common ground.”
- “I think this visit shows that maybe we could manage this relationship after all,” Baucus added.
But despite the change in scenery, Beijing is still angry about the meeting.
China, which claims Taiwan as its territory, “has repeatedly called on U.S. officials not to engage with Taiwanese leaders, viewing it as support for Taiwan’s desire to be viewed as separate from China,” per Reuters.
Beijing has slammed the meeting as a violation of the United States’ “one-China policy” and threatened retaliation. (The “one-China policy” recognizes that the People’s Republic of China is the sole legitimate government of China.)
But Baucus said the recent rhetoric from China was just that — rhetoric.
“The rhetoric is pretty hot over Taiwan, but that’s where it stops,” he said.
Still, U.S. officials are concerned that China will react aggressively to the meeting — similarly to the way the government reacted to Pelosi’s visit.
All eyes on Beijing
By the time Pelosi led a delegation of lawmakers to Taiwan last summer, defying U.S. and Chinese officials, the White House had been working around-the-clock to de-escalate tensions between the world’s two largest economies. White House officials at that time were preparing for increased military activity in and around the Taiwan Strait. That moment came after Pelosi’s arrival and lasted well after.
The trip, the first of its kind in 25 years and a culmination of Pelosi’s decades-long career as an outspoken critic of Beijing, prompted a muscular response from China that included ballistic missile fire over the island and the deployment of warships to the Taiwan Strait.
This time U.S. officials are unsure of how Beijing will react.
“China’s response could be harsh objections or sanctions on McCarthy and other U.S. officials. It might even be a display of military force that matches or exceeds the dramatic display” following Pelosi’s visit, per our colleagues Ellen Nakashima, John Hudson and Dan Lamothe.
“The reality is that administration officials don’t know how Beijing will react to Tsai’s travel through the United States. That uncertainty, experts say, underscores the situation’s volatility.”
The state of relations
Tsai’s closely watched meeting in California is the final leg of her tour through the Americas and her first U.S. stopover since 2019. While Taiwanese leaders routinely traverse the United States during international travel — Tsai has done so six times — today’s meeting is significant because it comes as the relationship between the United States and China continues to fall to historic lows.
The current state of relations between Washington and Beijing is a remarkable shift from President Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping’s agreement to maintain open lines of communication following a three-hour-long meeting in Bali, Baucus said.
The encounter, which occurred on the sidelines of the November Group of 20 summit, was supposed to smooth the rift between the two. Now, nearly six months later, China’s foreign ministry is threatening to “resolutely hit back” for a meeting between a U.S. official who is second in line to the presidency and the president of a self-governing island.
- “This was a routine transit, yet Beijing is exploiting the Speaker’s meeting to ratchet up tensions on the Taiwan Strait,” Rep. Gregory W. Meeks (D-N.Y.), the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said in a statement. “Congress will continue to support our friend Taiwan in the face of the PRC’s bullying and call on all parties to maintain the status quo for the sake of peace and stability.”
A State Department spokesperson echoed Meeks’s sentiment, saying in a statement that “President Tsai’s transit is routine and reflects longstanding practice. We have been clear that there is no reason for Beijing to turn this transit–which is consistent with longstanding U.S. policy—into something it is not or use it as pretext to overreact.”
It’s unclear if McCarthy will end up visiting Taiwan in the near future, but if he does, he’ll join the long list of U.S. officials to have done so (or plan to) in recent months, including Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R), Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) and Sen. Todd C. Young (R-Ind.).
(Youngkin is expected to lead an international trade mission to Asia and meet with Tsai during a stop in Taiwan this month.)
Politics-but-not
What’s happening now
Sutherland Springs victims, U.S. reach tentative $144.5 million settlement
“The Justice Department has reached a tentative $144.5 million settlement with victims and relatives of those killed in the 2017 mass shooting at a church in Sutherland Springs, Tex., and plans to end its appeal of a lawsuit that found the U.S. Air Force partially responsible for the attack,” Holly Bailey reports.
N.C. lawmaker flips parties, handing state GOP a veto-proof majority
“A North Carolina state lawmaker elected as a Democrat is defecting to the GOP, handing Republicans a veto-proof supermajority in the state’s legislature. Rep. Tricia Cotham’s party change gives the GOP increased power over key issues like abortion and elections,” Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff reports.
Israeli forces raid al-Aqsa Mosque; at least 12 injured as tensions rise
“Israeli police raided one of this city’s holiest sites early Wednesday, arresting scores of Palestinians who were inside, and sparking rocket fire into Israeli airspace from Gaza and retaliatory Israeli airstrikes hours later,” Louisa Loveluck, Niha Masih and Miriam Berger report.
Trump says Republicans in Congress should ‘defund’ Justice Department, FBI
“A day after being arraigned in a Manhattan courtroom on state charges, former president Donald Trump said Wednesday that the Republican-led Congress should ‘defund’ the Justice Department and FBI ‘until they come to their senses,’” John Wagner reports.
Lunchtime reads from The Post
Trump’s legal drama could soon continue in Georgia
“Trump’s legal peril is far from over. Among those closely watching the proceedings were state and local officials in Georgia, where Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Willis (D) is expected to announce in coming weeks whether she will file charges in connection to efforts by Trump and his allies to overturn the state’s 2020 presidential election results,” Holly Bailey reports.
More post-arraignment reads:
- Who is Karen McDougal and how is she linked to the Trump case?
- Analysis: Donald Trump, a tawdry case and a nation still mired in his chaos
- Waiting, whistling and trampling: The Trump spectacle feeds on itself
- ‘Frustrated and upset,’ Trump goes silent, then seethes
- Here’s what happened at Donald Trump’s arraignment in New York
… and beyond
Stormy Daniels on the Trump Indictment and What Really Happened in That Nevada Hotel Room
“Daniels has told this story many times. These days, she’s hyper-focused on correcting some common misconceptions about her tale—like, what she means by ‘hotel room.’ ‘People think hotel room and they think, you walk in and there’s the bed,' she notes. ‘It wasn’t like that. His room was like a giant apartment—it had a formal dining room! So it didn’t seem completely insane for me to hang out there, or for him to suggest we order up food …. I never got the sense he was trying to seduce me. He’d put on his suit, and we were just talking, he was asking me questions about my work. Good questions,’” Maya Singer writes for Vogue.
The latest on covid
FDA to okay second omicron-targeting booster for some, officials say
“Federal regulators have decided to authorize a second omicron-specific coronavirus vaccine booster shot for people who are at least 65 or have weak immune systems — an effort to provide additional protection to high-risk individuals, according to several officials familiar with the plan,” Laurie McGinley and Lena H. Sun report.
The Biden agenda
Biden to visit Northern Ireland and Ireland, White House announces
“President Biden will travel next week to Northern Ireland to mark the 25th anniversary of a landmark peace accord there before heading to Ireland, his ancestral homeland, as part of a four-day trip, the White House formally announced Wednesday,” John Wagner and Tyler Pager report.
Biden says tech companies must ensure AI products are safe
“President Joe Biden said Tuesday it remains to be seen if artificial intelligence is dangerous, but that he believes technology companies must ensure their products are safe before releasing them to the public,” the Associated Press’s Zeke Miller reports.
Democrats cheer contrast between Biden and Trump indictment
“Democratic election strategists, while muted in their public responses, have been privately overjoyed with the contrast. Trump’s legal troubles have helped him raise millions for his presidential campaign and boosted his polling in the GOP primary battle, but many Democrats believe the ultimate impact of the legal travails will ultimately damage Trump if he once again wins the Republican nomination,” Michael Scherer and Tyler Pager report.
What it costs to finance a car, visualized
“The average monthly payment for a new vehicle hit a record $730 in the first quarter, up from $656 in 2022. And 16.8 percent, or about 1 in 6 of them, are paying $1,000 or more a month — also a new all-time high,” columnist Michelle Singletary writes.
Hot on the left
Opinion
We finally know the case against Trump, and it is strong
“With the release of the indictment and accompanying statement of facts, we can now say that there’s nothing novel or weak about this case. The charge of creating false financial records is constantly brought by Mr. Bragg and other New York D.A.s. In particular, the creation of phony documentation to cover up campaign finance violations has been repeatedly prosecuted in New York. That is exactly what Mr. Trump stands accused of,” Karen Friedman Agnifilo, a former Manhattan chief assistant district attorney, and Norman Eisen, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, write for the New York Times.
Hot on the right
Centering Trump: The former president’s indictment put his GOP rivals in an awkward position
“Even as they seek to displace him as the GOP’s leader, Trump’s rivals have almost uniformly moved to defend him even before Tuesday’s arraignment in New York City, arguing that the former president is being unfairly targeted because Democrats want to take down a marquee Republican,” Alex Roarty writes for McClatchy DC.
- “The resulting praise for Trump has not only put his would-be foes in an awkward position, it’s drowned out their own messages and once again made the former president the center of attention in the GOP presidential primary. And a race in which Trump was already widely considered a favorite has, at least for now, tilted even further in his direction.”
Today in Washington
At noon, Biden will have lunch with Vice President Harris.
In closing
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The rock band R.E.M. isn't exactly religious, yet spiritual themes do creep into its music. Singer Michael Stipe tells host Steve Inskeep he comes from a "place of faith," and that generations of men in the Stipe family have been Methodist ministers. On what's being called R.E.M.'s best new album in ages, Accelerate addresses religious issues, while also drawing inspiration from faith.
"Houston," in particular, deals with questions of faith in response to what happened to the victims of Hurricane Katrina. The narrator's religious faith is challenged by the events he's witnessed — particularly the Bush administration's response in the storm's aftermath.
The song came about when bassist and keyboardist Mike Mills heard guitarist Peter Buck playing a new guitar part, and was inspired to respond with an ominous organ line. Stipe said the music presented an opportunity to write about Hurricane Katrina.
"I've always felt since the early days," Stipe says, "that when I'm writing a vocal part, my job is to make it sound like that's the only vocal part that [could] ever possibly go along to that piece of music."
Accelerate's opening track takes its title and inspiration from the English clergyman and metaphysical poet, George Herbert. "Living Well Is the Best Revenge" is a common phrase, and the band admits to only recently discussing what the term really means. Buck jokingly adds, "When I was 15, I had no idea what that meant. That made no sense to me. I thought revenge was the best revenge."
Stipe had been reading much about the media around that time, and "Living Well" was his response. He imagines himself in the song turning a table onto a television personality, singing, "Don't turn your talking points on me / History will set me free." Stipe admits that the act is a little immature, but ultimately cathartic.
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- New study offers the first comprehensive, county-level life expectancy estimates in the US and highlights important differences among racial and ethnic groups.
- The analysis reveals that despite overall life expectancy gains of 2.3 years (from 76.8 years in 2000 to 79.1 years in 2019) during the 20-year study period (2000–2019), disparities among racial and ethnic groups remain, with Black populations still experiencing shorter life expectancy than White populations.
- Life expectancy among the American Indian/Alaska Native population did not improve during the study period.
- During the last 10 years of the study (2010–2019), life expectancy growth was stagnant across all races and ethnicities, setting the stage for declines in life expectancy that have been reported since the COVID-19 pandemic.
- The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation's interactive data visualization tool shows the life expectancy trends by racial and ethnic group in 3,110 counties in the 20-year span of the study.
SEATLLE, June 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Overall life expectancy in the US increased by 2.3 years, from 76.8 years in 2000 to 79.1 years in 2019, but disparities among the racial and ethnic groups remain widespread and persistent, according to a new study published in The Lancet. The study marks the first county-level analysis of life expectancy in the US over an extended time period that includes estimates for the American Indian/Alaska Native (AIAN) and Asian/Pacific Islander (API) populations as well as Black, Latino, and White populations.
In contrast to similar studies, researchers are offering county, state, and federal health leaders a unique, granular view of life expectancy spanning two decades, which suggests that among five racial and ethnic groups, improvements in life expectancy were more widespread across counties and generally larger from 2000–2010 compared to 2010–2019. However, life expectancy nationally remained stagnant in the US over the past 10 years. Moreover, these findings are prior to COVID-19 and suggest that the pandemic came on top of cracks in the US health system and continued disparities that need to be addressed.
Using de-identified death records from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Vital Statistics System (NVSS) and population estimates from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), researchers looked at life expectancy at birth by year, county, and racial and ethnic group from 2000 to 2019 across 3,110 counties in the US. At the national level and in most counties, life expectancy increased more for the Black population (+3.9 years) than any other racial and ethnic group, including a small number of counties where the life expectancy of Black populations exceeded their White counterparts during the study period. However, researchers also noted that significant disparities in life expectancy remain between Black and White populations. API and Latino populations had the highest life expectancy, while American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) populations had the lowest.
The latest findings also suggest that although life expectancy increased in 3,079 counties (97.4%) in the first 10 years, it declined in more than half of counties (59.9%) in the last 10 years. From 2010 to 2019, API (0.8 years increase), Latino (0.3 years increase), Black (0.5 years increase), and White (0.1 years increase) populations experienced only small improvements in life expectancy. Over the entire period, life expectancy among AIAN populations remained the same. Life expectancy also varied widely among counties in all years. For example, in 2019, it ranged from as low as 64.5 years to as high as 91.7 years.
"Gains in life expectancy are noteworthy but stop short of suggesting we're closing the gap that persists among different racial and ethnic groups. These disparities set the stage for further inequities the US recorded among different racial and ethnic groups when the COVID-19 pandemic hit in 2020. The US logged more COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths in those communities compared to White populations," said Dr. Ali Mokdad, senior author from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington. [1]
Despite narrowing gaps, life expectancy for Black populations remained lower than White populations
Between 2000 and 2019, life expectancy increased more for Black populations than any other racial and ethnic group, rising by 3.9 years from 71.4 years in 2000 to 75.3 years in 2019. However, life expectancy remained lower among Black populations compared to White populations in 1,287 counties among 1,480 counties where there was sufficient population to produce reliable estimates in 2019, and differences ranged from -15.5 years to 7.9 years.
At the same time, the increase in life expectancy for the White population was more moderate, with an overall increase of 1.7 years between 2000 and 2019, from 77.3 years to 78.9 years. However, between 2010 and 2019, life expectancy for White populations increased by only 0.1 years.
"These varied outcomes in life expectancy raise significant questions. Why is life expectancy worse for some and better for others? The novel details in this study provide us the opportunity to evaluate the impact of social and structural determinants on health outcomes in unprecedented ways. This in turn allows us to better identify responsive and enduring interventions for local communities," said Dr. Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable, co-author and director of the US National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD). [1]
Gains for API and Latino populations but alarming trends for AIAN populations compared to other groups
API populations (+2.9 years, from 82.8 years in 2000 to 85.7 years in 2019) and Latino populations (+2.7 years, from 79.5 years in 2000 to 82.2 years in 2019) experienced larger than average increases in life expectancy and the highest life expectancy nationally and across most counties throughout the analysis period.
However, life expectancy for AIAN populations indicated an alarming trend. Even in the context of stagnating trends for White populations, the already large gap between the AIAN and White populations grew from 2000 to 2019, both nationally and in most counties, from 4.1 to 5.8 (+1.7 years). In fact, in 2019, life expectancy among the AIAN population (73.1 years) was 12.5 years lower than among the API population (85.7 years).
Improved reporting systems are urgently needed to identify and address disparities
The study's results highlight considerable variation in life expectancy among racial and ethnic groups, locations, and over time, exposing both positive and negative trends. The life expectancy disparities reported in this study underscore the pressing need for local-level, detailed data to support targeted efforts to address and eliminate racial and ethnic health disparities and their root causes.
"The pandemic exposed stressors and weaknesses in local and national systems that continuously put our most vulnerable populations at risk. These findings offer county, state, and federal leaders a unique look at the pervasiveness of health disparities in their respective communities," said study author Dr. Laura Dwyer-Lindgren of IHME. "It's a call for direct action in the form of meaningful policy changes to address systemic issues and to help all people living in the US live longer, healthier lives." [1]
The authors call for future studies and applaud ongoing research addressing disparities in life expectancy and inequities in social determinants of health.
IHME's data visualization tool is an interactive map of the 3,110 counties in the US that shows trends for both sexes, all ages, and race and ethnicity for all-cause mortality and life expectancy from 2000 to 2019. Additional county-level estimates by sex and age are available for 21 major causes of death, alcohol, smoking, hypertension, obesity, physical activity, and diabetes.
NOTES TO EDITORS
This study was funded by the US National Institutes of Health. A full list of the US Health Disparities Collaborators involved in the study is available at the end of the manuscript.
The labels have been added to this press release as part of a project run by the Academy of Medical Sciences seeking to improve the communication of evidence. For more information, please see: http://www.sciencemediacentre.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/AMS-press-release-labelling-system-GUIDANCE.pdf if you have any questions or feedback, please contact The Lancet press office pressoffice@lancet.com
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You probably wouldn’t send your child to school with a fever or upset stomach, but would you keep them home if they were anxious or depressed? Several states have implemented policies to allow mental health days for students, and even more are considering similar guidelines.
In December 2021, U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy issued an advisory on what’s been dubbed a youth mental health crisis highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic, which he said was “devastating” on adolescent mental health. Among other recommendations, Murthy advised that mental health should be recognized as an essential part of overall health.
“Mental health challenges in children, adolescents and young adults are real and widespread,” Murthy said in a statement. “Even before the pandemic, an alarming number of young people struggled with feelings of helplessness, depression and thoughts of suicide — and rates have increased over the past decade. The future wellbeing of our country depends on how we support and invest in the next generation.”
A Children’s Hospital Association report showed a sharp increase in the percentage of children visiting the emergency room for mental health issues between March and October 2020. The number increased 24% for kids ages 5 to 11 and 31% for ages 12 to 17. Similarly, a report published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicated significant increases in emergency room visits by adolescent females (aged 12 to 17 years) for a variety of mental health conditions, and a study of New Jersey hospitals reported pronounced ER visits by teens aged 12 to 17 for mental health conditions during the pandemic.
“The pandemic, with its isolation, didn’t help,” California state Sen. Anthony Portantino told The Washington Post. “The pandemic exacerbated the need, but if it can hasten the fix, then that is something positive.”
Portantino, a Democrat who introduced a bill signed into state law in 2021 that aims to give students education on mental health from a qualified professional at three distinct stages of their K-12 careers, lost his brother, Michael, to suicide in 2010. The lawmaker says he hopes other families can avoid the same tragic loss through legislation like California Senate Bill 224.
States That Allow Mental Health Absences
In June, Washington passed House Bill 1834 into law, making it the 12th state to excuse student absences for mental health reasons. The states with similar laws include:
- Arizona
- California
- Colorado
- Connecticut
- Illinois
- Kentucky
- Maine
- Nevada
- Oregon
- Utah
- Virginia
- Washington
The laws vary by state. Some require a doctor’s note, and others limit the number of mental health days students can take, for instance. However, parents must sign a note excusing their child in all cases, and students must make up missed schoolwork, just like in the case of a traditional sick day. Similar bills have also been proposed in Maryland, Massachusetts, New York and Pennsylvania. However, 36 states still have no legislation regarding mental health days for students in the pipeline.
“The more we can shift to a prevention mindset and integrate mental health promotion into schools from a young age,” Tamar Mendelson, director of the Center for Adolescent Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, told NPR, “I see that as very key to helping reduce the needs for treatment that we see in young people.”
How to Best Use a Mental Health Day
Nearly one-third of parents surveyed by VeryWellMind and Parents were unaware of mental health days for kids, and roughly as many felt their children were too young to experience mental health issues. However, research has shown that even preschoolers can exhibit signs of depression and anxiety.
Parents who recognize the need for their kids to a day off to nurture their mental health should try to be intentional with the time taken.
Spend the day engaging in activities that help your child feel calm and centered. Don’t push them to talk about emotions or negative experiences all day. However, if your child wants to discuss feelings, relationships or issues they are dealing with, actively listen.
If you feel your child needs more help than you can provide, don’t hesitate to reach out to a professional. For example, you can ask your family’s healthcare provider or the school counselor for a recommendation. You can also call or text the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 988 or chat with someone at 988lifeline.org 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
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As a kindergarten teacher on “Abbott Elementary,” she can get an unruly class to sit up and listen. And that’s exactly what Sheryl Lee Ralph did at the Emmys — capturing the attention of a packed theater and a global TV audience with a stirring acceptance speech for the ages.
It was the first Emmy (and nomination) for stage and screen veteran Ralph, at 66, and she made the most of it, delivering the ultimate feel-good moment of an Emmy show that sometimes felt flat or uneven, despite the well-known comic talents of host Kenan Thompson and the return of a pre-pandemic crowd.
It was a show that rewarded previous winners in several major categories. “Succession" and “Ted Lasso,” the big winners in drama and comedy, were repeat winners, as were a number of actors.
Still, there were new and groundbreaking wins like that of actor Lee Jung-jae of “Squid Game,” the first Asian to win the award and a major breakthrough for a foreign-language show along with Hwang Dong-hyuk's prize for directing. There was Ralph's acting prize and Quinta Brunson’s writing award for “Abbott Elementary." And then there was winner Lizzo, crying as she reminded her audience of the urgency of young people being able to see people who look like them represented in media and culture.
A few notable moments of the night:
A TEACHER SCHOOLS HER AUDIENCE
Sheryl Lee Ralph had already broken into tears before the show, when she’d been handed a tablet on the carpet with a recorded message of support from a beloved aunt. She declared that no matter what happened inside, she’d already won. Luckily, Ralph had more winning to do. Declared the victor for supporting actress in a comedy, she ascended the stage and sang the powerful opening to “Endangered Species” by Dianne Reeves: “I am an endangered species but I sing no victim’s song. I am a woman, I am an artist, and I know where my voice belongs.” She then admonished anyone watching who'd ever had a dream, to not give up. “This is what believing looks like,” she said. Sometimes it’s not clear early on what the big moment of an awards night will be. On this Emmy night, it was clear.
NO ‘CROWN,’ BUT A SUCCESSION
Two actresses have already won Emmys for playing the late Queen Elizabeth II on the same show, “The Crown.” Will there be a third, when Imelda Staunton takes over, after Claire Foy and Olivia Colman? In any case, “The Crown,” last year’s drama winner, was not in contention this year, and “Succession” was able to win its second prize, after winning in 2020. It was not the only repeat winner, by far. “Ted Lasso” repeated last year’s win as best comedy, as did its star, Jason Sudeikis, and supporting actor Brett Goldstein. Other repeats: Zendaya of “Euphoria,” repeating her prize from 2020, and Jean Smart, who won her second comedy actress award for “Hacks.” There had been thoughts of an “Abbott Elementary” upset in the comedy category, but it was not to be.
LIZZO’S POIGNANT REMINDER
She was visibly blown away by Ralph’s speech, but soon Lizzo was onstage for her own emotional win for her competition series, “Lizzo’s Watch Out For The Big Grrrls,” in which contestants vie to be her backup dancers, beating out frequent winner “Ru Paul’s Drag Race.” The singer gave a compelling lesson on how crucial representation is in our pop culture. “When I was a little girl, all I wanted to see was me in the media,” she said. “Someone fat like me, Black like me, beautiful like me.” She said she eventually did, but SHE had to be that person. Lizzo gave a shout-out to her dancers up in the balcony. “This is for the big girls!” she said.
MARTIN SHORT GETS IN A DIG
There wasn’t a lot of politics mentioned in Monday night's show, but “Only Murders in the Building” star Martin Short managed to get in a dig at a favorite target on some awards nights, Donald Trump. "Really, what an audience you are,” Short said. “I wish I could box you up and take you home, like classified White House documents.” Co-star Steve Martin decided to get things back to the main reason for the evening. “Have you or someone you love ever considered a reverse mortgage?” he quipped.
HEADING HOME
When Jerrod Carmichael won best writing for a comedy special with his “Jerrod Carmichael: Rothaniel,” he decided to end the evening then and there on a high note, saying he was going home. “I made something that was of great personal consequence to me and this definitely contributes to the meaning of it," he said of his very personal special. “I’m not like a sore winner, but I’m gonna go home because I can’t top this right now.”
ABOUT THOSE THANK-YOU CAPTIONS
It seemed like a good idea — leading up to the Emmys, nominees were told to send in written lists of people they’d like to thank, to be used in captioning, so their eventual speeches could be more creative, unencumbered by all those names. In reality, though, only some winners had the captioning, and even those who did proceeded to thank a long list of people anyway, making it all feel rather moot.
IF YOU’RE GONNA GET PLAYED OFF, DANCE!
Jennifer Coolidge was a sentimental favorite to win for “The White Lotus,” and when she did, regaling the audience about a lavender bath she’d taken that day that had an unforeseen effect, she quickly ran out of time with more to say. When the music wouldn’t stop despite her pleading “Wait, hold on!,” she just decided to smile and boogey along with it. The crowd roared.
OR NOT:
Matthew Macfadyen of “Succession,” winner for supporting actor in a drama, was also played off, but he didn’t dance. No, this is Tom Wambsgans, so he's no doubt quietly humiliated and enraged and who knows what'll happen next season.
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Judge suspends Michigan’s dormant 1931 abortion ban
DETROIT (AP) — A judge on Tuesday suspended Michigan’s dormant, decades-old ban on abortion, which means the procedure would not be illegal in the state even if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns its historic Roe v. Wade decision.
The Michigan law, which makes it a crime to assist in an abortion, has been on the books since 1931. But it has had no practical effect since the Supreme Court legalized abortion nationwide in 1973.
The court, however, could throw out that landmark ruling before July, leaving abortion issues for each state to decide.
Court of Claims Judge Elizabeth Gleicher granted a preliminary injunction sought by Planned Parenthood of Michigan, saying the abortion ban likely violates the Michigan Constitution.
“After 50 years of legal abortion in Michigan, there can be no doubt but that the right of personal autonomy and bodily integrity enjoyed by our citizens includes the right of a woman, in consultation with her physician, to terminate a pregnancy,” the judge said.
“From a constitutional standpoint, the right to obtain a safe medical treatment is indistinguishable from the right of a patient to refuse treatment,” Gleicher said.
Gleicher said other Michigan laws regulating abortion will remain in full effect.
The attorney general’s office typically defends against challenges to Michigan laws. But Attorney General Dana Nessel, a Democrat, declined to get involved; She, too, believes the abortion ban is illegal and welcomed the injunction.
Instead, Right to Life of Michigan and the Michigan Catholic Conference stepped in to oppose Planned Parenthood.
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer called the injunction a victory.
It “sends the message that Michigan’s 1931 law banning abortion, even in cases of rape or incest, should not go into effect even if Roe is overturned,” Whitmer, a Democrat, said. “It will help ensure that Michigan remains a place where women have freedom and control over their own bodies.”
The lawsuit by Planned Parenthood, which performs abortions, is one of two legal challenges in the state. Whitmer, who supports abortion rights, has asked the Michigan Supreme Court to bypass lower courts and declare the 91-year-old law unconstitutional.
In May, Politico published a leaked draft of a U.S. Supreme Court opinion. The document indicates the court could be poised to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Gleicher, who also serves as chief judge on the Michigan Court of Appeals, informed the parties in April that she makes annual contributions to Planned Parenthood and, as a lawyer, represented the organization in a 1997 case. She said she didn’t feel it should disqualify her.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The Carolina Panthers are turning to quarterback Baker Mayfield to lead their offense.
Coach Matt Rhule announced Monday that Mayfield will start Carolina’s Sept. 11 regular-season opener against his former team, the Cleveland Browns — a decision that had been anticipated for several weeks.
Mayfield, acquired in a trade with the Browns earlier this offseason, beat out incumbent starter Sam Darnold for the starting quarterback job.
“When we started this process, we were looking at three things,” Rhule said. “Number one, mastery of the offense, number two, situational football excellence, and number three, moving the ball and getting guys involved. That’s been our focus all along. Baker has made a lot of improvement, a lot of growth in all three areas in a short amount of time.”
Mayfield was known as a fiery competitor during his four years with the Browns, and said Monday the chip on his shoulder “is back.”
“I feel extremely healthy, so I’m ready to go,” Mayfield said. “I’m loving football again and a fresh start is great for everyone every once in awhile. I am just going to take this opportunity and make the most of it and not take it for granted.”
Rhule said he’s been impressed with how quickly Mayfield has picked up new coordinator Ben McAdoo’s offense after joining the team on July 6.
“It’s not easy what he did — between the verbiage and the checks and all of the options that we give him. We think he’s a really smart guy,” Rhule said. “As he stays in the offense he will grow and grow and grow and get better and better and better.”
Both Mayfield and Darnold came into the league as the No. 1 and No. 3 overall picks in the 2018 draft, but Mayfield has enjoyed more success.
Mayfield is 29-30 as an NFL starter with 92 touchdown passes and 56 interceptions; Darnold is 17-32 as a starter with 54 TD passes and 52 INTs.
Mayfield led the Browns to an 11-5 record in 2020 and a first-round playoff win over the Pittsburgh Steelers.
But Mayfield struggled with a shoulder injury last year, and the Browns decided to go in a different direction by trading for controversial quarterback Deshaun Watson.
Cleveland’s pursuit of Watson essentially marked the end of Mayfield’s career in Cleveland.
“Obviously there is a lot of attachment there and I’m not going to sit here and be a robot and say that it doesn’t mean anything. It will,” Mayfield said of the season opener against the Browns. “But right now all that matters is me continuing to improve until the regular season starts.”
Browns coach Kevin Stefanski didn’t know Mayfield had been selected as Carolina’s starter until being informed by a reporter.
“I didn’t see that,” Stefanski said. “I think we’ll wait to talk about Carolina until we get there. I’m still in the Week 3 of the preseason mode.”
Darnold’s future as the starter in Carolina seemed on rocky ground when the Panthers tried to land Watson. When that fell through, the Panthers turned their attention to the disgruntled Mayfield.
A deal was brokered only after Cleveland agreed to pay $10.5 million of Mayfield’s contract this season. The Panthers are paying him $4.8 million.
Rhule said he still has tremendous confidence in Darnold, and added that he handled the news like a professional.
Darnold said he felt as if he was given a fair chance to win the job.
“I really did go out there every day and give it my all, and it just didn’t go my way,” Darnold said.
For Darnold, the decision leaves his career at a crossroads — although he said he’s not going to dwell on that now.
“It’s tough, I’m not going to lie,” Darnold said. “But it is what it is.”
But Darnold went to say, “I’m going to do everything I can to support Baker and get him ready to play a game.”
Rhule originally said the Panthers would keep three quarterbacks on the roster, but that was before rookie third-round draft pick Matt Corral suffered a Lisfranc ligament tear in his left foot in a preseason loss to the New England Patriots.
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AP Sports Writer Tom Withers in Cleveland contributed to this report.
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FRISCO, Texas (AP) — The Dallas Cowboys dumped Cooper Rush as their backup quarterback two years ago, only to bring him back a few months later after Dak Prescott's first major injury.
Now they're looking for him to win the same way he did a year ago in Minnesota, starting Sunday against defending AFC champion Cincinnati after Prescott fractured a bone near his right thumb in a season-opening loss to Tampa Bay.
“It’s crazy to think about,” Rush said Thursday after his only padded practice before the Cowboys (0-1) face Joe Burrow and the Bengals (0-1) at home. “That is what this league is. Never really know. You just want to be here. Be in it.”
Dallas gave longtime Cincinnati starter Andy Dalton a $3 million contract to back up Prescott in 2020, when the Cowboys had four different starters in the COVID-19 year after Prescott's season-ending ankle injury in Week 5.
The Dalton signing led to Rush's release after two seasons as Prescott's primary backup, and he spent some time on the practice squad of the New York Giants.
Rush was a free agent again when the Cowboys' situation at QB became truly chaotic with a concussion and positive COVID-19 test for Dalton. Rush re-signed, and when Dalton moved on to Chicago last year, he won the backup job — again.
The Cowboys were rolling at 5-1 when Prescott strained his right calf, and Rush kept the momentum going with a last-minute touchdown pass in a 20-16 victory over the Vikings. It's his only NFL start.
Until now.
“I played a lot of games in college so you kind of remind yourself you’ve played football your whole life,” said Rush, who originally signed with Dallas as an undrafted free agent out of Central Michigan in 2017. “Coach (Mike) McCarthy told me that before the game last year, ‘You’ve been playing quarterback your whole life, just go play.’”
Rush knew it would probably be just one start last year. As expected, Prescott returned and led the Cowboys to the NFC East title before a wild-card loss at home to San Francisco.
While the Cowboys have kept Prescott off injured reserve so far, leading to hope he might be ready within four games, there's little question Rush will get multiple starts this time.
Star running back Ezekiel Elliott would have been fine with multiple starts last year.
“I know he’s on top of this offense," Elliott said. "I know he knows it inside out, maybe not as well as Dak, but very well. We’ve all got a lot of confidence in Coop and I think last year has a lot to do with that.”
Rush had another training camp competition for the backup job this year, beating out Will Grier in the first full camp with Dallas for the former Florida and West Virginia quarterback.
The 28-year-old Rush has lasted this long in Dallas because of a standout preseason as a rookie five years ago.
But his subsequent preseasons weren't as good, and there was plenty of talk about Grier leapfrogging him on the depth chart.
It hasn't happened.
“He’s a quiet guy, keeps to himself a little bit,” five-time All-Pro right guard Zack Martin said. “But he does have that fire when he comes in the huddle. He commands it. When you show that you know exactly what’s going on, it just kind of calms everyone down. He’s been here a long time. He knows exactly what’s going on.”
The quiet personality contrasts that of Prescott, who commanded the locker room around reporters even as a fourth-string rookie when the Cowboys were Tony Romo's team in 2016.
Prescott's emergence as a leader was almost instantaneous when he started from the first snap of his first year after Romo's preseason back injury. Rush has always operated in the shadows, with a steady presence that fits his current job description well — just keep the Cowboys on track.
“If you look at Cooper’s personality along with Dak, it’s a very good blend,” McCarthy said.
“Cooper’s strength is his confidence in his detail. He’s very consistent, so there’s definitely a steadying-of-the-ship personality in him.”
Rush's stint could be fairly short, if owner/general manager Jerry Jones' optimism about Prescott's recovery is any indication. It could be as long as seven games, all the way to Dallas' open week.
If Rush doesn't play well, his stint as the starter might not last as long as Prescott's absence. But there's unlikely to be any change in his expression.
“I do feel in command and in charge,” said Rush, who was 24 of 40 for 325 yards with two touchdowns and an interception for a 92.2 rating against the Vikings.
“It goes back to knowing your stuff. They know that I know it. When you know your stuff, you can go back to lead and command and guys will respect (you).”
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ROGERSVILLE
Virta Mae Crunk, 97, of Rogersville died Tuesday, June 28, 2022, at her residence.
Visitation will be Thursday, June 30, 2022, 10-11 AM at Elkins East Chapel. Funeral services will follow at 11 AM in the chapel with Brother Bobby Walton officiating. Burial will be at Barkley White Cemetery.
Mrs. Crunk was a member of the Elgin Missionary Baptist Church.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Nathan and O’Dell Manus; five siblings; son, Roger Glover; grandson, Clifton Dison; sons-in-law, Morris Wilbanks and Wenston Dison.
Mrs. Crunk is survived by her children, Janie Butler (Johnnie), Patsy Wilbanks, Bonnie Dison, Linda Glover, Charles Crunk (Teresa), and Shelia Simpson (Gerald); 14 grandchildren; 26 great-grandchildren; and 12 great-great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers will be her great-grandchildren.
Special thanks to Amedysis Hospice.
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LANCASTER COUNTY – Multiple crews battled a large hay bale fire in Werst Hempfield Township, Lancaster County. It happened Sunday night along Prospect Road. There’s no word what triggered the blaze. No injuries were reported. Units spent the evening putting out hot spots within the bales. | 2022-11-15T02:17:12+00:00 | wdac.com | https://wdac.com/hay-bale-fire-in-lancaster-county/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hay-bale-fire-in-lancaster-county |
At least 12 inmates died at Santa Fe County jail, or at a hospital following a jail incident, between 2019 and 2022.
Almost half of them died last year. And two more have died less than halfway through 2023.
In an effort to increase inmate safety, Warden Derek Williams and his staff — along with other Santa Fe County officials — are in the beginning stages of procuring sets of two new technological devices which they hope will streamline security protocols and give medical staff members a better gauge on how specific inmates are faring at a moment's notice.
While jail officials hope these new devices will make it easier to monitor inmates, issues securing a robust Wi-Fi system in the facility and a lengthy procurement process mean it could be several months or more before these technologies are implemented.
And the parents of some inmates who have died at the jail in recent years expressed skepticism about whether these new technologies would make a difference in keeping inmates alive.
"I don't see a whole lot of changes," said Antonio DeVargas, whose 34-year-old daughter Carmela DeVargas died of an epidural abscess and antibiotic-resistant staph infection in the jail in November 2019. "A whole bunch of people have died after my daughter passed away, and I don't know that that's going to change."
Technology might help monitor inmate health, but Wi-Fi a barrier
The first device, said jail Maj. Carlos Markman-Lopez, would be a phone-like apparatus carried by corrections officers to log their rounds as they check on inmate pods electronically. He added the devices are expected to send a signal to shift supervisors if a unit check isn't performed on time, allowing the mistake to be caught almost immediately.
Markman-Lopez added that a move from paper logs to an electronic system will cut his staff's time to complete inmate checks by 60-70%.
The other set of devices being mulled over by the county are "Apple Watch"-like bands worn by inmates to monitor their basic vital signs which medical staff members can monitor in real time.
"What that does for us — it helps us to have eyes where we don't have eyes," jail Health Services Administrator Ashley Hannan said in an interview. "So, it's not realistic for us to be face in front of you 24 hours a day, even with the regular checks. … It just gives us a little bit of a leg up for those individuals whom we've identified who have immediate medical concerns."
Deputy County Manager Elias Bernardino talked about the electronic bands in February, noting they were one of the emerging technologies which could be instituted at the jail with a more robust Wi-Fi system. However, while Bernardino said such a system had been installed in the facility in February, he said in a recent interview it does not penetrate individual cells.
"We're going back to — how do we modify this structure so that way we can extend that network?" he said.
Bernardino added that the county's goal is to fix the Wi-Fi coverage and pilot the technologies inside the jail within the next fiscal year. To reach its goal, jail officials will need to present completed scopes of work for each of the two proposed innovations to county commissioners for approval before the county starts taking bids from several companies making comparable devices.
Hannan said the electronic bands would likely be piloted in the jail's medical wing before possible expansion to the rest of the facility.
"I want to make sure that it is bridging that gap [between routine checks] and it's actually serving us," Hannan said. "Ultimately, I think the goal is for expansion. … There's no set timeframe or anything like that."
Families of deceased inmates skeptical
While the promise of new security and medical devices seem like positive steps, DeVargas and Susie Schmitt both said they are not fully convinced.
Schmitt's son, 34-year-old Rex Corcoran Jr., died of infective endocarditis in the jail in November 2019.
Schmitt was adamant no new jail initiatives posited by the county would ensure inmates' safety as effectively as instituting Medication-Assisted Treatment — also known as the MAT program — which provides people undergoing opioid withdrawal with approved, prescribed medications.
"If they had that in the beginning — the get-go — then they wouldn't have to monitor so many people going through withdrawals because that would be eliminated," Schmitt said.
When asked about the MAT program in September, then-county spokeswoman Sara Smith said the jail has a variety of protocols in place to treat inmates with opioid withdrawal, such as offering palliative medications. She added medication-assisted treatment is only available to certain inmates — including those with a current prescription at the time they are booked into the jail or if they are pregnant.
As for the devices themselves, Schmitt said she wants to know more specifics on what the electronic medical bands will detect and what will be classified as an emergency.
"What if an inmate breaks their [electronic band]? What is the consequences there? Are they billed for it?"
DeVargas said the electronic bands could be of use to families during cases in which jail staffers don't respond properly to the plight of their loved one. If an inmate is experiencing medical issues and there's no respone, DeVargas said, the electronic records from the devices could clearly show that and give grieving families a basis for litigation.
However, while he believes anything which might help inmates survive the jail is a step forward, he asked what good investing in new technologies would do if jail staffers do not care about the inmates on a human level.
"All these electronic devices, they don't have a heart. They don't have a heart. And as long as the correctional officers don't have a heart, and the doctors are incompetent and don't have a heart themselves, I don't know that the investment in these electronic devices are going to do any good," DeVargas said.
Warden: We care but must consider liability
Of the 12 inmates whose records were provided by the county and died from incidents at the jail between Jan. 1, 2019, and March 24, 2023, four died by hanging themselves or from the consequences of an attempted suicide by hanging.
That includes Joseph Vukosovich, an Albuquerque man who died March 24 in a hospital after hanging himself in the county jail the day before. Vukosovich was facing several charges after being accused of messaging and trying to meet a person he thought was an underage girl for sex. According to an incident report provided by the sheriff's office, he was in the jail's general population when he hanged himself.
Williams declined to provide specifics Monday on circumstances surrounding Vukosovich's death. However, he said inmates are evaluated by multiple staff members when being booked into the facility.
As for accusations that he and his staff do not care about the inmates, Williams pointed to his facility's Matrix Substance Abuse Relapse Prevention program as proof of how the facility is striving to help improve the lives of those housed within it.
"No matter what story we ever tell, it's never going to be good enough for the parent of someone who is grieving the loss of a loved one, and there's always going to be information that we know about that we'll never be able to share because of litigation and other concerns that we have as a government entity," Williams said. "Would I love to call the parents and loved ones of every single person that's ever had a loss? Yeah, but it's something that's never going to happen because of the nature of liability."
Hannan said she and the rest of the jail's medical staff are asking the county for devices like the electronic medical bands precisely because they do care about the inmates they treat.
"You know, we refer to them as patients, not inmates," Hannan said. "That's who they are to us. They are my patients. … We have no judgment based off of any reason that they are here." | 2023-04-16T10:25:18+00:00 | santafenewmexican.com | https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/santa-fe-county-jail-officials-hope-technology-will-prevent-inmate-suicides/article_f8469e4c-d2fa-11ed-9d4d-53941ae6f766.html |
For years, beavers have been treated as an annoyance for chewing down trees and shrubs and blocking up streams, leading to flooding in neighborhoods and farms. But the animal is increasingly being seen as nature’s helper in the midst of climate change.
California recently changed its tune and is embracing the animals that can create lush habitats that lure species back into now-urban areas, enhance groundwater supplies and buffer against the threat of wildfires.
A new policy that went into effect last month encourages landowners and agencies dealing with beaver damage to seek solutions such as putting flow devices in streams or protective wrap on trees before seeking permission from the state to kill the animals. The state is also running pilot projects to relocate beavers to places where they can be more beneficial.
The aim is to preserve more beavers, along with their nature-friendly behaviors.
“There’s been this major paradigm shift throughout the West where people have really transitioned from viewing beavers strictly as a nuisance species, and recognizing them for the ecological benefits that they have,” said Valerie Cook, beaver restoration program manager for California’s Department of Fish and Wildlife. The program was funded by Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration last year.
The push follows similar efforts in other Western states including Washington, which has a pilot beaver relocation program, Cook said. It marks a new chapter in Californians’ lengthy history with the animals, which experts say used to be everywhere, but after years of trapping, attempts at reintroduction, and then removal under depredation permits, are found in much smaller numbers than they once were — largely in the Central Valley and northern part of the state.
It is unknown how many beavers live in California, but hundreds of permits are sought by landowners each year that typically allowed them to kill the animals. According to the state’s Department of Fish and Wildlife, the beaver population in North America used to range between 100 million and 200 million but now totals between 10 million and 15 million.
Kate Lundquist, director of the WATER Institute at the Occidental Arts & Ecology Center, said she expects California’s changes will lead to fewer beavers killed in the state and a growth in wetland spaces. She said she believes the past three years of drought and devastating wildfires contributed to the state’s shift on beavers.
“There has been increased motivation to identify and fund the implementation of nature-based climate smart solutions,” she said. “Beaver restoration is just that.”
Beavers live in family units and quickly build dams on streams, creating ponds. The pools help slow the flow of water, replenishing groundwater supplies, and can also stall the spread of wildfires — a critical issue for a state plagued by fires in recent years, said Emily Fairfax, professor of environmental science and management at California State University, Channel Islands.
“You talk to anyone who has lived near beaver ponds. They’ll tell you: These things don’t burn,” said Fairfax, who has researched beavers and the ponds they build.
The animals are not a protected species but help create habitat that is critical for others such as the coho salmon, which is listed under the Endangered Species Act. Young salmon grow and thrive in beaver ponds before heading to the ocean, which gives them a better shot at survival, said Tom Wheeler, executive director of the Environmental Protection Information Center, which has long pushed for California to try to resolve problems with beavers without killing them.
Officials at the California Farm Bureau said they were studying the change and have not yet taken a position on it.
California will continue to issue depredation permits as needed, but the state wants people to try other solutions before resorting to killing the animals, officials said. Those could be wrapping trees with wire mesh or using flow devices on streams to control beaver pond levels to prevent flooding.
In some cases, it may involve relocating beavers to places that want them. Vicky Monroe, statewide conflict programs coordinator for California’s Department of Fish and Wildlife, said her office has long received requests from groups that want beavers, but the state didn’t have a mechanism to legally move them until recently.
California has planned two pilot relocation projects, including one to bring beavers back to the Tule River. Kenneth McDarment, a councilmember for the Tule River Indian Tribe, said the tribe started seeking ways to reintroduce beavers nearly a decade ago due to drought and hopes to see them relocated later this year.
“We’re going to give these beavers a chance to do what they do naturally in a place where they’re wanted,” he said.
The state is also hoping to educate people about the benefits of beavers.
Rusty Cohn, a 69-year-old retired auto parts businessman, said he knew little about the animals before he spotted chewed trees on a walk through the Northern California city of Napa in a region better known for winemaking than the critters. He later observed beavers building a dam on a trickling stream, converting the area into a lush pond for heron, mink and other species, and became a fan.
“It was like a little magical place with an incredible amount of wildlife,” Cohn said. That was eight years ago, he said, adding that beaver sightings in that spot are becoming rarer amid increased development, but he can still find them on streams throughout Napa. | 2023-07-26T00:34:20+00:00 | kron4.com | https://www.kron4.com/news/national/ap-us-news/ap-california-aims-to-tap-beavers-once-viewed-as-a-nuisance-to-help-with-water-issues-and-wildfires/ |
This Special Launch is in support of their Year-Long Partnership with the Organization
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To reach It's a 10's commitment of a $100,000 minimum donation to the organization, sales proceeds of each bottle will go directly towards supporting The Trevor Project's free and confidential 24/7 crisis services, allowing them to reach the more than 1.8 million LGBTQ young people who seriously consider suicide in the U.S. every year.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Closing statements are set before a jury Tuesday in the trial of ex-Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder and lobbyist Matt Borges, where both Republicans are accused of participating in a $60 million bribery scheme that federal prosecutors call the largest corruption case in state history.
The government alleges Householder orchestrated a scheme funded by Akron-based FirstEnergy Corp. to secure the speakership, elect legislative allies, then pass and defend a $1 billion nuclear power plant bailout benefiting the electric utility. Borges is accused of seeking to bribe an operative working to overturn the bailout law.
Both are charged with conspiracy to participate in a racketeering enterprise involving bribery and money laundering, which carries a punishment of up to 20 years in prison. Both pleaded not guilty and maintain their innocence.
The six-week trial came 2 1/2 years after Householder, Borges and three others were arrested in the case.
Prosecutors called an FBI agent to the stand who walked jurors through the highlights of thousands of pages of subpoenaed records, then played them secretly taped conversations and questioned firsthand participants in key events surrounding the alleged scheme. | 2023-03-08T00:23:50+00:00 | wric.com | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/closing-statements-tuesday-in-householder-corruption-trial/ |
After more than a century as Fort Bragg, the Army's largest base by population becomes Fort Liberty Friday. Bragg is among nine army bases that are dropping the names of Confederate leaders.
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After more than a century as Fort Bragg, the Army's largest base by population becomes Fort Liberty Friday. Bragg is among nine army bases that are dropping the names of Confederate leaders.
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol stressed the need for wealthy nations to share their advanced technologies and innovations with developing countries, particularly when it comes to closing the education gap and fighting infectious diseases.
“In the era of digital sophistication, one of the most urgent tasks for the global community and the U.N. is promoting global cooperation to narrow the digital divide which exacerbates polarization between nations,” Yoon told leaders gathered in New York Tuesday for the U.N. General Assembly.
Yoon said his country will continue to widely share its advanced digital technology and data, “and spare no effort in providing support and in investing in education.”
He also noted that South Korea has helped accelerate research and development for COVID-19 therapeutics and vaccines by pledging $300 million toward the ACT-A, a global initiative that pools together resources from governments, health organizations, scientists, businesses and philanthropists to counteract the pandemic. At the same time, the country is increasing its contribution to the Global Fund to fight against infectious diseases including AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
Yoon, who was elected earlier this year, acknowledged on Tuesday the threat to humanity posed by nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction but made no mention of the threat on South Korea’s own doorstep — North Korea. Last month, after the North had test-fired two suspected cruise missiles, Yoon said that his government had no plans to pursue its own nuclear deterrent, instead calling for more diplomacy.
Yoon closed his speech Tuesday by pointing out that the first mission of the U.N. after its founding in 1945 was to approve South Korea “as the sole legitimate government on the Korean Peninsula” and to also help defend the country against the North during the Korean War by sending in U.N. forces.
“Thanks to such efforts by the United Nations, Korea was able to become what it is today,” he said, invoking his nation’s formal name: “As such, the Republic of Korea will protect and expand the freedom of global citizens; and together with the United Nations, we will fulfill our responsibilities to promote peace and prosperity around the world.”
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DALLAS (AP) — The average price that Americans pay for gasoline is closing in on $5 a gallon, another drain on the wallets of consumers who are paying more for many other essentials too.
AAA said the nationwide average for regular on Thursday was $4.97 a gallon, up a quarter in just the last week and $1.90 more than drivers were paying a year ago.
GasBuddy, a service that helps drivers find deals on gas, said the average surpassed $5 for the first time ever.
Pump prices have been rising steadily for months, shooting past the $4 mark in early March. They track the cost of crude oil, which was rising even before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine drove oil even higher.
Fears of short supplies are being compounded by demand, which usually picks up around Memorial Day at the end of May — the unofficial start of summer and vacation trips in the U.S.
California has the highest average price, at $6.40 a gallon, according to AAA. Several other Western states and Illinois are higher than $5.50.
The lowest average is in Georgia, at $4.41.
Quentin McZeal of Oakland, California, said it used to cost him $100 to fill up his tank and now it’s more like $140-$160. The prices have forced him to change his behavior and make different choices, like turning down people who ask for rides unless they’re willing to kick in for gas.
“It’s a lot of other things I can’t do because I have to pay for gas, you know what I’m saying?” McZeal said. “Less food, less playtime because I got to get gas. I got to go to work, right?”
He blames the government, and the war in Ukraine, for the high gas prices.
While the $5 mark on average is new, Americans paid more for gasoline back in July 2008, when inflation is considered. The high of $4.11 a gallon then would be equal to about $5.40 a gallon today.
Americans aren’t the only ones paying more to fill up. This week, gasoline prices in the United Kingdom hit a record 182.3 pence ($2.30) per liter, or about $8.80 per gallon.
Analysts expect prices will keep rising until they get so high that demand falls — nobody knows exactly when or where that might be. In the meantime, any unexpected refinery shutdowns — for example, from a hurricane along the Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast — could send prices spiraling higher.
“I’m afraid we’re not at the end of the road yet,” said GasBuddy analyst Patrick De Haan. “We have very little margin for error this summer. We need every barrel of refining capacity we can get.”
The pandemic led to refinery closures that have caused U.S. refining capacity to drop by about 800,000 barrels a day since the start of 2020, according to government figures. That has put pressure on remaining refiners to run hard to meet rising demand.
Refiners have been reluctant to invest in new facilities because the transition to electric vehicles is casting doubt on long-term demand for gasoline. The owner of one of the nation’s largest refineries, in Houston, announced in April that it will close the facility by the end of next year.
Pump prices are surging just as consumers try to cope with inflation in the cost of food, housing, cars, airline tickets and other needs and wants. U.S. consumer prices in April were 8.3% higher than a year ago — only slightly better than March inflation, which was the highest since 1981. May figures are due out Friday.
On both sides of the Atlantic, pressure is growing on governments to do something to help motorists.
In Washington last month, House Democrats voted for a bill to crack down on what they called price gouging by oil companies, but Republican opposition made Senate approval unlikely. This week in the U.K., the president of the motoring association AA said prices are “crippling the lives of those on lower incomes, rural areas and businesses,” and the government must intervene.
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AP video journalist Terry Chea in San Francisco contributed to this report. | 2022-06-09T22:06:24+00:00 | fox44news.com | https://www.fox44news.com/news/business-news/gas-prices-rising-toward-5-a-gallon-in-us-record-in-uk/ |
The best Asian-owned brands to check out this AAPI Heritage Month
IN THIS ARTICLE:
- Fly By Jing Triple Threat Variety Pack
- Maison Miru Classic Huggie Hoops
- Material Kitchen The Trio of Knives
Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month is observed throughout May in the U.S. and recognizes the achievements of those originating from Asia and the Pacific Islands. If you want to support those communities, you can purchase products made by brands owned and operated by Asian and Pacific Island entrepreneurs. Plenty of terrific products are worth a look, and with holidays such as Mother’s Day right around the corner, you can gift someone special something supporting AAPI Heritage Month.
What products can I buy to support AAPI Heritage Month?
You can find products of all kinds to support AAPI Heritage Month. Some make everything from beauty and fashion to tech and food of the best Asian-owned and Pacific Islander-owned brands.
For example, if you’re a culinary enthusiast, you can find seasonings and sauces to add an Asian-inspired flair to your favorite foods. Those interested in beauty and fashion can find fragrances, makeup and handbags. There are many excellent products to choose from, and you might discover something new that becomes a recurring favorite on your shopping list.
Best products by Asian-owned brands
Fly By Jing Triple Threat Variety Pack
This variety pack features three hot sauces and seasonings to add an extra kick to your favorite dishes. It comes with a sweet and savory Zhong sauce, a Sichuan chili crisp crunchy hot sauce and a Mala spice mix seasoning, all rich in nutrients and made with 100% natural ingredients.
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Maison Miru Classic Huggie Hoops
Those who love gold hoop earrings will appreciate the simple but elegant design of these classic hoop earrings. They’re made from 14-karat gold-plated brass and can be worn independently or as part of an ear stack for a more flashy look. Each hoop has a 12-millimeter diameter and a 20-gram post.
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Material Kitchen The Trio of Knives
This set of knives was featured in Oprah’s favorites list of 2021, and we can see why. It’s a trio of stainless steel knives with excellent durability and sharpness. The razor-edge design is inspired by narrow-tipped Japanese knives, and the evenly-distributed weight makes them comfortable to use for extended periods.
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If you love ramen but want something 100% plant-based with outstanding flavor, you’ll love these instant noodles. It contains notes of Sichuan peppercorns, anise and fennel and is loaded with proteins and other nutrients. Plus, it’s low in carbs, making it a suitable choice for many diets.
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Brightland The Duo Extra Virgin Olive Oils
These 100% plant-based extra virgin olive oils are made on small, family-owned farms and are cold-pressed for a fresh and pure taste. Awake is bold and perfect for roasting and pairing with chicken, pasta and potatoes, while Alive is smooth and suitable for drizzling on salads, hummus and spinach.
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Jason Wu Eau de Parfum Purse Spray Three-piece Travel Gift Set
This set of fragrances is an excellent gift for any special occasion or for traveling. They’re loaded with notes of fig, lily of the valley, bergamot and pink pepper, making them exquisite for summer wear. Plus, they contain the rare jasmine flower, one of the most prevalent ingredients in top-quality fragrances.
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Honua Skincare Olena Beauty Oil
This beauty oil is rich in Hawaiian botanicals and is terrific for treating skin inflammation. It contains high-quality ingredients such as olena turmeric, Noni, Kukui nut, Kamani, Chia seed and rosemary. It’s suitable for moisturizing, blending and evening skin tone and can effectively treat acne, psoriasis, eczema and other skin conditions.
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Sanzo Flavored Sparkling Water Variety Pack
Sparkling water is a healthier alternative to traditional soft drinks such as soda, and this variety pack offers four excellent Asian-inspired flavors, including yuzu, calamansi, lychee and mango. This sparkling water is made with real fruit, contains no artificial flavors, and packs less than 20 calories.
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Gunas New York About Last Night Clutch Shoulder Bag
This clutch shoulder bag is excellent for keeping personal items such as makeup, keys, money, cards and your phone. It’s made from vegan faux leather and has a secure magnetic closure, a removable chain link strap and a cotton faux suede interior. Plus, it has 22-karat gold-plated brass hardware and a lengthy 17-inch drop.
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Police: 2 faculty members shot at Denver high school
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November 30th 2021. Oxford High School in southeastern Michigan, *** 15 year old student using *** handgun shot and killed four students, six students and one teacher were injured using Oxford as an example. We examine what is any school supposed to do before and after *** shooting, this is clarified, my son is not *** child anymore. You know, when you're, when you're *** teenager, there's *** certain like cloak of invincibility that you're, you're surrounded by loss isn't something they know much of Once the shooting happened, it just, it took all that away. Lori Bordeaux's son survived the shooting at Oxford High School in Michigan in 2021 and he is now *** senior. They're still looking for answers on the morning of November 31, an Oxford student exhibited troubling signs. He was seeing, researching bullets online, creating disturbing drawings, watching shooting videos and even left *** dead bird head in the bathroom after seeing these red flags, the student, his family, school counselors and administrators met, but his parents refused to take him home and he was allowed to stay at school. The gun was in his backpack later that same day, he would use it and kill four students. What should *** school do when seeing these red flags? What could have prevented the tragedy? FBI guidelines say by engaging in the assessment and management process. As soon as *** person of concerns, identified threat managers are more likely to succeed in preventing *** violent outcome. Management strategy should be led by *** threat assessment team to help identify potential suicidal or homicidal students before an incident occurs. According to the district's guidelines, the team should also inform parents and coordinate services with law enforcement and mental health agencies. The National Association of School Psychologists recommends that all school staff members participate in annual risk assessment training and simulation drills. The year after the shooting, two former school board members say they stepped down because the district failed to enact threat assessment policies that have been approved since 2004. Given the events at Oxford High School, Lori, her son and other local families also question of proper threat assessment procedures took place before the shooting over *** year after the shooting at Oxford, an independent investigation has yet to be completed. By comparison, the investigation into Parkland shooting took 180 days for Uvalde 90 days. The people who have the answers aren't going to speak. So at this point in time, it's gotta be mandatory and it has to come with subpoena power. We can't leave it up to the people who are saying we did nothing wrong. Just recently, *** Michigan judge ruled that the school district and its employees cannot be defendants in two wrongful death lawsuits. Lawyers for the plaintiffs vowed to appeal and several other suits are still pending. The Oxford School District declined three offers from the Michigan Attorney General's Office to investigate the shooting separate from the sheriff's own investigation. Instead, the school district has hired Guidepost Solutions, *** security consulting firm to conduct an independent review of the days leading up to during and after the mass shooting. In an email, the school said people inside and outside our community who have joined our call for transparency and accountability can rest assured that all facts will come to light through the ongoing criminal investigation and various lawsuits. The review is expected to be completed in spring 2023. Lori Bordeaux said she hopes litigation will lead to *** federal investigation of the school and prevent future incidents of gun violence by pressuring the school to implement threat assessment training. We talked to one of the contributors of the fbi's guide to threat assessments. Katherine Sh White parents and the community are frustrated about whether the threat assessment process worked or didn't work. One of the things that I think it's fair to ask is, did they know about it ahead of time? What was the threat assessment team doing or, or was it, you know, form over substance following Sandy Hook in 2012. Katherine worked under then Vice President Biden to create and run the active shooter program. This aim to help communities prevent and recover from similar tragedies. I authored the initial research that the FBI did in the first few years of the time that we studied 2000, early, two, 2000, there were six incidents *** year using the same criteria that number rose to 60 incidents in 2021. It almost seems like until it hits *** community they don't do perhaps all they could do because there is always *** great desire to hope it never happens here When it does happen. Trauma and other challenges are likely to follow. According to research, K through 12 students who had been exposed to *** shooting at school are more likely to be chronically absent or held back *** grade, less likely to graduate high school or attend college By their mid 20s. Students exposed to *** shooting were more likely to be unemployed and had lower earnings compared to their peers who had not experienced the school shooting. *** couple of weeks after the shooting, my son said he wanted to switch schools. Our Children went right back to the exact same classrooms. The only thing they did was close one classroom, one bathroom. My son went back to the same fifth hour that he was in that day. And um That's the type of thing that honestly an investigation should be looking into is how did that affect our Children. In August 2022, Oxford schools announced *** three-year recovery plan that includes security threat assessment upgrades and mental health support in order to reclaim their school district and community makes me sad to think they lost their community because they haven't. And I think that's one of the big takeaways for me having been at so many of these scenes is all they've dealt with is somebody who intruded into their community. They shouldn't really have to feel that they have to reclaim it. It's always going to be theirs. When reached for comment, Oxford High responded From day one. We have cooperated with the ongoing criminal investigation and will continue to do so because our community deserves justice and accountability. We are also fully cooperating with the civil litigation process and will continue to do so. Sadly, Oxford is not *** unique tragedy. These types of shootings are on the rise and they have been for several years and that is in great part of culture issue for the United States, for communities that don't talk to their kids about the stresses they might be under, but also don't lock their guns up. You know, it's astonishing to think that most school shootings occur with *** legally purchased and available gun to somebody who may be *** minor, 90% of shootings by minors involved *** gun found in the home. That was the case for the Oxford shooter whose parents purchased *** handgun for their son days before the shooting, the parents were charged with four counts of manslaughter. Their trial has been temporarily halted by the Michigan Supreme Court and sent back to the court of appeals. Both parents remain in custody. Michigan currently doesn't require gun owners to secure their guns safely. Only these states do. Kelly Breen, *** Michigan state representative is looking to change that michiganders and people across the country agree that red flag legislation or extreme risk protection orders, safe storage and improving background checks. Those just makes sense. They just make sense. It's not just about stopping the next mass shooting, but it's about making sure that somebody poses an imminent threat to themselves or others. While making this video. Michigan was struck by another school shooting on February 13th, 2023. *** man killed three students and injured five others in *** dining hall at Michigan State before killing himself. One disturbing aspect of this event. Survivors of both the Oxford High school shooting and the Sandy Hook shooting grew up and were now attending Michigan State surviving one school shooting only to have to survive. Yet another talking about school shootings is complicated. But understanding the facts is the first step toward finding solutions to protect students.
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Police: 2 faculty members shot at Denver high school
Two school administrators were shot at a Denver high school Wednesday morning after a handgun was found during a search of a student, authorities said.The juvenile suspect remained at large and the gun was not immediately recovered following the shooting at East High School, Police Chief Ron Thomas said.The shooting happened at around 10 a.m. in an area away from classrooms as the student was undergoing a daily search as part of a “safety plan,” officials said. One of the administrators was critically injured and is undergoing surgery. The second victim was in stable condition, Thomas said.Police know the identity of the suspect and were confident they would apprehend him, he said."He obviously is armed and dangerous and willing to use the weapon, as we’ve learned this morning,” said Denver Mayor Michael Hancock, warning the community as they search for the suspect.Earlier this month students from the school skipped class and marched to Colorado’s state Capitol to demand stricter gun laws, following the death of a fellow student who was shot while sitting in a car near the school.The suspect in Wednesday's shooting had transferred to East High School from another district, Denver Schools Superintendent Alex Marrero said. Officials did not reveal why the student was subject to daily searches.The school, not far from downtown near a busy street that cuts through the city, was placed on lockdown as police investigated the shooting.Denver Public School confirmed the victims were administrators. Hundreds of parents lined up along a road near the school, with the scene sealed off by police.Wednesday was the second anniversary of 10 people being shot and killed at a supermarket in Boulder, Colorado.This is a breaking news story. Check back for updates.
Two school administrators were shot at a Denver high school Wednesday morning after a handgun was found during a search of a student, authorities said.
The juvenile suspect remained at large and the gun was not immediately recovered following the shooting at East High School, Police Chief Ron Thomas said.
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The shooting happened at around 10 a.m. in an area away from classrooms as the student was undergoing a daily search as part of a “safety plan,” officials said. One of the administrators was critically injured and is undergoing surgery. The second victim was in stable condition, Thomas said.
Police know the identity of the suspect and were confident they would apprehend him, he said.
"He obviously is armed and dangerous and willing to use the weapon, as we’ve learned this morning,” said Denver Mayor Michael Hancock, warning the community as they search for the suspect.
Earlier this month students from the school skipped class and marched to Colorado’s state Capitol to demand stricter gun laws, following the death of a fellow student who was shot while sitting in a car near the school.
The suspect in Wednesday's shooting had transferred to East High School from another district, Denver Schools Superintendent Alex Marrero said. Officials did not reveal why the student was subject to daily searches.
The school, not far from downtown near a busy street that cuts through the city, was placed on lockdown as police investigated the shooting.
Denver Public School confirmed the victims were administrators. Hundreds of parents lined up along a road near the school, with the scene sealed off by police. | 2023-03-22T18:27:30+00:00 | wyff4.com | https://www.wyff4.com/article/shooting-denver-school/43389948 |
It turns out that the Land of Lincoln is not entirely immune to the contagion of election denialism and voter suppression.
Nationally, hundreds of election deniers are running for office; some of them refuse to say they’ll accept the results of their elections.
Election officials across the country are bracing for possible disruption by extremist groups planning “aggressive poll watching.” They’re also resigning in large numbers in the face of harassment, threats and bogus charges of fraud — constituting a major loss of badly needed professionalism and experience and, in many cases, an opening for those who want to dictate election results of their own liking.
On a smaller scale so far, similar efforts are afoot in Illinois, purportedly to promote “election integrity” but actually aimed at undermining confidence in our elections.
WBEZ-FM 91.5 has reported on a coordinated campaign of “copycat letters from conspiracy theorists” going to county clerks across the state, threatening lawsuits and citing vague “evidence” that “America has not had a free or fair election since 2017.”
These letters are inspired, and use language provided, by My Pillow founder Mike Lindell, a major purveyor of false conspiracy theories about the 2020 election. One observer told WBEZ that the letters are part of a national campaign to “grind these small offices to a halt and deluge them with public records requests.”
The Tribune has reported on a lawsuit by U.S. Rep. Mike Bost, R-Murphysboro, that challenges a state law allowing mail-in ballots to be counted if they’re received within 14 days of Election Day. This suit is absurd, since election officials have three weeks to finalize results and settle disputes before officially reporting returns. People who follow the rules shouldn’t be penalized for mail delivery issues.
The lawsuit was filed by Judicial Watch, a right-wing legal group that assisted then-President Donald Trump’s effort to stop the counting of mail-in votes in 2020. It’s one of more than 100 lawsuits challenging election rules that have been filed across the country.
The Tribune also reported that Republican gubernatorial candidate Darren Bailey has hired two prominent election deniers, both linked to Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, for his “election integrity” project. They want 2,000 poll watchers to target precincts with “ultra high levels” of voter turnout.
Illinois Families for Public Schools, which has been tracking extremist activity demanding censorship at local school boards and library boards in the state, has noted that harassment of volunteer local board members has caused some to quit and made it harder to find new candidates. This is not healthy for our civic life.
These groups have challenged the registrations of hundreds of individual voters in places such as Rock Island County, often misusing national databases and misinterpreting registration laws. There’s a danger that these ill-informed partisan efforts will result in disenfranchising legitimate voters.
They can also potentially be intimidating. In Rock Island, right-wing canvassers went door to door asking voters to sign affidavits saying whether they’d voted in 2020 — and who they had voted for.
Poll watching has long been an important part of our election process. But experience in other states has shown that when organized by groups that believe our elections are fraudulent across the board, poll watchers have a tendency to be heavy-handed and intentionally disruptive.
Even a limited number of unfounded challenges can result in voting delays, longer lines and voters turning away in frustration. Indeed, that may be the goal.
Threats, bullying, intimidation and dirty tricks were once the hallmark of the Democratic machine of Cook County before reformers from both parties largely brought them to heel. Is that the model these self-proclaimed “patriot” groups want to emulate?
Meanwhile, these groups have an agenda of “election reform,” including replacing machine-based voting with hand counts. All experiments with this have shown that machine voting — especially in jurisdictions with thousands of voters and dozens of races with multiple candidates on the ballot — is far more efficient and accurate.
They’re also calling for repeal of a range of election reforms that increase voter access. These include early voting, vote-by-mail, and same-day registration.
As Cook County clerk, I worked with people across the state including Republicans to pass many of these measures, which made Illinois a leader in expanding ballot access.
And Illinois voters have embraced them wholeheartedly. In 2020, a third of all Illinois ballots were cast by mail. That year, more than 3 million Illinoisans voted early. Nationally, 69% of Americans voted early or by mail.
We should listen to millions of Illinois voters who trust these reforms and use them — and not to a small cadre of conspiracy-minded people — and we should continue to improve access to democracy.
David Orr is a former Cook County clerk and founder of Good Government Illinois.
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Election officials and democracy experts are sounding the alarm, as Republicans who deny the 2020 election results have now moved closer to overseeing the voting process in five different states.
Arizona could become No. 6 on Tuesday, when GOP voters there will decide in that state's primary whether they want to nominate one of the two election deniers running for secretary of state.
"These are the people who set the rules, who count the votes, and ultimately who are responsible for defending the will of the people," said Joanna Lydgate, the executive director of States United Democracy Center, a nonpartisan organization that has been tracking election-denying candidates running for governor, attorney general and secretary of state nationwide. States United shared its most recent findings exclusively with NPR ahead of their release.
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"In 2020, when we had a sitting president try to overturn an election, we saw all across the country state and local officials who stood up and who protected our freedom to vote," Lydgate said. "So if we want to see that happen again in the future we have to make sure that we are putting people in these positions who believe in free and fair elections."
The duties of a state secretary of state vary, but in most cases, they are the state's top voting official and have a key role in carrying out election laws.
Across the country, numerous Republican candidates for these positions — and others with some role in election administration, like governor and attorney general — have embraced the lie that widespread fraud affected the 2020 election results.
Of the 16 Republican secretary of state primaries that have been held so far this year, 12 featured at least one candidate who questioned the legitimacy of Joe Biden's win in 2020, according to States United.
And four of those candidates won spots in November's general election: in Alabama, Indiana, Nevada and New Mexico. A fifth candidate, Kristina Karamo in Michigan, won a party vote to become the Republican nominee there during an endorsement convention in April.
Should any of those candidates win in November and be elected a state election head, that could present two fundamental issues, says Rick Hasen, director of the Safeguarding Democracy Project at UCLA.
"One: Are they going to administer elections fairly? And two: Even if they do, are others going to believe that they administer elections fairly?" said Hasen, speaking with NPR's 1A. "It really can lead to a massive decline in both experience on the ground and confidence that our elections are going to be fairly conducted."
Many election deniers have used the false narrative that the 2020 election was stolen as justification to strip back voting access measures like ballot drop boxes and other forms of early voting, as well as election security tools like the Electronic Registration Information Center.
Tammy Patrick, a former election official in Arizona and now a senior adviser at Democracy Fund, called the trend "deeply troubling."
"We can debate policy issues, like what's the right timeline for voter registration or proper security protocols," Patrick said. "But I never thought we would be talking about individuals governing our election system ... who felt that they should put their fingers on the scale."
Patrick said she speaks to election officials in other countries who look to the U.S. for leadership, and she doesn't know what to tell them.
"They say to me things like, 'We turn to you to set the standard ... and if you're struggling after having been a democracy for hundreds of years, what hope do we have?' "
Will Arizona be No. 6?
Arizona's secretary of state primary on Tuesday will be widely watched, as the state has become an epicenter of the election denial movement since 2020.
Two of the four Republican candidates running to oversee voting there have made a name for themselves by embracing election conspiracies.
Shawnna Bolick, a GOP state representative, proposed a bill last year that would have allowed the legislature to override the will of the voters in choosing presidential electors (a tactic embraced by Donald Trump's team following the 2020 election).
Mark Finchem, another state representative running for Arizona's top voting position, introduced a resolution to decertify 2020 election results in the state.
Finchem — a longtime member of the Oath Keepers, a far-right extremist group — was at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and in an interview with NPR earlier this year he declined to call what happened there a riot or an insurrection.
"What happens when the People feel they have been ignored, and Congress refuses to acknowledge rampant fraud. #stopthesteal," he tweeted that day, with a photo of people waving Trump flags on the Capitol steps.
Trump endorsed Finchem in the race last September.
Two Republicans who are not election deniers are also running for secretary of state in Arizona: Michelle Ugenti-Rita and Beau Lane.
Where Republican voters stand
Even though polling data indicates a majority of Republican voters still believe fraud impacted the 2020 election, primary results this year suggest a more complicated picture, as a number of prominent election deniers have lost races running against more moderate candidates who did not spread misinformation about the 2020 results.
Overall, States United found that election deniers have actually lost more GOP primary contests than they've won in races for governor, attorney general and secretary of state.
That includes in Georgia, which saw Trump-endorsed Rep. Jody Hice lose in the Republican primary for secretary of state to incumbent Brad Raffensperger, who has spent the past two years arguing that the 2020 election was free and fair.
Also notable was Colorado, where election denial hero and Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, who is facing charges for allegedly tampering with election equipment, lost in her bid for the Republican nomination for secretary of state.
Peters finished second, and the winner, former Jefferson County Clerk Pam Anderson, told Colorado Public Radio that it was a sign that voters want professionals elected to these sorts of offices.
"We want free, accessible and fair elections, and will push back on political hyper-partisan rhetoric around elections administration," Anderson said.
Lydgate, of States United, however cautioned against focusing too much on where election deniers have lost. She pointed back to Georgia in 2020, when Trump called Raffensperger after the election and pushed him to "find" votes, and said even one election denier in a position of power is too many.
"If somebody else had been in that position and had been willing to go along with that, we might have seen a different outcome," she said. "The truth is that a single election denier in a single state could throw our elections into chaos, could put our democracy at risk."
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TORONTO, May 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Ikänik Farms, Inc. (CSE: IKNK.U) (FSE: DFMA) (the "Company" or "Ikänik Farms") is pleased to announce that it has filed articles of amendment with the effective date of May 25, 2022, to change its name from Ikänik Farms Inc. to "Pideka Group Inc." The Company's new stock symbol on the Canadian Securities Exchange will be "PDKA".
The CUSIP number assigned to the Company's Subordínate Voting Shares is 72004D106 (ISIN CA72004D1069). The CUSIP number for Series A Voting shares will be provided in a future press release.
No action is required to be taken by shareholders with respect to the name change. Outstanding share and warrant certificates are not affected by the name change and do not need to be exchanged. Shareholders do not need to tender their existing shares as the transfer agent will be pushing out the new shares to all existing shareholders. Shareholders should ensure that the transfer agent has their current contact information.
"The Company has transitioned its business to produce raw cannabis flower and derivatives for manufacturing pharmaceutical cannabis products for medical applications from its indoor cultivation facility called "Pideka" in Bogotá, Colombia, and it simply made sense that as part of this process, we change our corporate name to align with the brand equity that "Pideka" has established over the past several years as a leading indoor pharmaceutical supplier of psychoactive cannabis flower" said Borja San De Madrid, CEO.
Filing 2021 Audited Financial Statements.
Further to its press release dated April 29, 2022, the Company's financial team and auditors are continuing to work diligently to complete the audit of the annual financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2021 (the "Audited Financial Statements") of Ikänik Farms, Inc. to enable the Ontario Securities Commission (the "OSC") to revoke the Failure‐to‐File Cease -Trade Order issued against the Company (the "FFCTO") on May 9, 2022.
Lancaster Capital Advisory has been engaged to assist with the field work and audit for its operations in Colombia and changes to the Company's corporate accounting processes, consolidation of systems and location. The Company intends to file the Audited Financial Statements by no later than July 29, 2022.
Upon completion and submission of the Audited Financial Statements, under National Policy 11-207, such filing will automatically initiate a review process by the OSC, without any application by the Company. Following such review, the Company expects the FFCTO would be revoked by the OSC shortly thereafter.
The Company confirms there has been no material change to the information relating to the Company's delay in filing the Audited Financial Statements since its news release on April 29, 2022, that has not been disclosed.
Filing 2022 Q1 Interim Financial Statements
The Company is announcing that it will not be in a position to file its 2022 quarterly financial statements, the accompanying management's discussion and analysis for the quarter ending March 31, 2022 (the "Quarterly Financial Filings") by the May 31, 2022 filing deadline due to a combination of internal and external delays and factors associated with the preparation process, including the recent downsizing of the Company in California where it maintains its corporate accounting, the departure of the Company's Controller, and the onboarding and integration of the Company's new Controller into its corporate systems. The Company's management are moving expeditiously to complete the Quarterly Financial Filings, which it anticipates being filed prior to June 15, 2022
Executive and Board Changes
Ryan Ciucki has tendered his resignation as CFO and Director of the Company. The Company expects to announce the appointment of a new CFO in the very near future. Danny Gillis has also resigned as a Director of the Company. Further to the press release dated April 25, 2022, the Company expects to complete the appointment of two independent directors to the Company's Board of Directors in June, 2022.
About Pideka Group (formerly Ikänik Farms)
Pideka Group is multi-national operator with a medical grade indoor cultivation facility and laboratory (Pideka) in Colombia which holds GMP-PHARMA and Good Agricultural and Collection Practice (GACP) certifications, and a retail operation in California.
Forward Looking Statements
This news release includes "forward-looking information" and "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Canadian securities laws and United States securities laws (together, "forward-looking information). All information, other than statements of historical facts, included in this news release that address activities, events or developments that the Company expects or anticipates will or may occur in the future is forward-looking information. When used in this news release, words such as "will", "could", "plan", "estimate", "expect", "intend", "may", "potential", "believe", "should", and similar expressions, are forward-looking information, including, but not limited to: statements with respect to the Audited Financial Statements and Quarterly Financial Statements, including the anticipated delay in filing the Audited Financial Statements and Quarterly Financial Statements and timing to complete the Company's audit and the anticipated lifting of the cease trade order following the filing of such financial statements.
Although the Company has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking information, there can be other factors that cause results, performance or achievements not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended, including, but not limited to: changes in laws, a change in management and the inability to complete the audit of the Audited Financial Statements or the inability of management to complete the preparation and filing of the Quarterly Financial Statements in a timely manner.
There can be no assurance that such information will prove to be accurate or that management's expectations or estimates of future developments, circumstances or results will materialize. As a result of these risks and uncertainties, the results or events predicted in the forward-looking information may differ materially from actual results or events.
Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking information. The forward-looking information in this news release is made as of the date of this release. The Company disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise such information, except as required by applicable law, and the Company does not assume any liability for disclosure relating to any other company mentioned herein.
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Pope Francis began a historic visit to Canada on Sunday to apologize to Indigenous peoples for abuses by missionaries at residential schools, a key step in the Catholic Church's efforts to reconcile with Native communities and help them heal from generations of trauma.
Francis kissed the hand of a residential school survivor as he was greeted at the Edmonton, Alberta, airport by Indigenous representatives, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mary Simon, an Inuk who is Canada's first Indigenous governor-general.
The gesture set the tone of what Francis has said is a "penitential pilgrimage" to atone for the role of Catholic missionaries in the forced assimilation of generations of Native children. This visit has stirred mixed emotions across Canada as survivors and their families cope with the trauma of their losses and receive a long-sought papal apology.
Francis had no official events scheduled for Sunday, giving him time to rest before meeting Monday with survivors near the site of a former residential school in Maskwacis, where he is expected to pray at a cemetery and apologize.
Francis exited the back of his plane with the help of an ambulift, given his strained knee ligaments have forced him to use a wheelchair. The simple welcome ceremony occurred in an airport hangar, where Indigenous drums and chanting broke the silence. As Trudeau and Simon sat beside Francis, a succession of Indigenous leaders and elders greeted the pope and exchanged gifts. At one point, Francis kissed the hand of residential school survivor Elder Alma Desjarlais of the Frog Lake First Nations as she was introduced to him.
"Right now, many of our people are skeptical and they are hurt," said Grand Chief George Arcand Jr. of the Confederacy of Treaty Six First Nations, who greeted the pope. Yet he expressed hope that with the papal apology, "We could begin our journey of healing .. and change the way things have been for our people for many, many years."
Indigenous groups are seeking more than just words, though, as they press for access to church archives to learn the fate of children who never returned home from the residential schools. They also want justice for the abusers, financial reparations and the return of Indigenous artifacts held by the Vatican Museums.
Assembly of First Nations National Chief RoseAnne Archibald, one of the country's most prominent Indigenous leaders, said several members of her family attended residential schools, including a sister who died at one in Ontario. She described it as "an institution of assimilation and genocide."
During her flight to Alberta, she said, "I was just so overcome with emotion and there were different times on the plane where I really had to stop myself from breaking into a deep sob," she said. "I realized that I am an intergenerational trauma survivor and there are so many people like me."
Francis' week-long trip — which will take him to Edmonton, Quebec City and finally Iqaluit, Nunavut, in the far north — follows meetings he held in the spring at the Vatican with delegations from the First Nations, Metis and Inuit. Those meetings culminated with a historic April 1 apology for the "deplorable" abuses committed by some Catholic missionaries in residential schools.
The Canadian government has admitted that physical and sexual abuse was rampant in the state-funded Christian schools that operated from the 19th century to the 1970s. Some 150,000 Indigenous children were taken from their families and forced to attend to isolate them from the influence of their homes, Native languages and cultures and assimilate them into Canada's Christian society.
Then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper issued a formal apology over the residential schools in 2008. As part of a lawsuit settlement involving the government, churches and approximately 90,000 surviving students, Canada paid reparations that amounted to billions of dollars being transferred to Indigenous communities. Canada's Catholic Church says its dioceses and religious orders have provided more than $50 million in cash and in-kind contributions and hope to add $30 million more over the next five years.
Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 2015 had called for a papal apology to be delivered on Canadian soil, but it was only after the 2021 discovery of the possible remains of around 200 children at the former Kamloops residential school in British Columbia that the Vatican mobilized to comply with the request.
"I honestly believe that if it wasn't for the discovery ... and all the spotlight that was placed on the Oblates or the Catholic Church as well, I don't think any of this would have happened," said Raymond Frogner, head archivist at the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation.
Frogner just returned from Rome where he spent five days at the headquarters of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, which operated 48 of the 139 Christian-run residential schools, the most of any Catholic order. After the graves were discovered, the Oblates finally offered "complete transparency and accountability" and allowed him into its headquarters to research the names of alleged sex abusers from a single school in the western Canadian province of Saskatchewan, he said.
The Inuit community, for its part, is seeking Vatican assistance to extradite a single Oblate priest, the Rev. Joannes Rivoire, who ministered to Inuit communities until he left in the 1990s and returned to France. Canadian authorities issued an arrest warrant for him in 1998 on accusations of several counts of sexual abuse, but it has never been served.
Inuit leader Natan Obed personally asked Francis for the Vatican's help in extraditing Rivoire, telling The Associated Press in March that it was one specific thing the Vatican could do to bring healing to his many victims.
Asked about the request, Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said last week that he had no information on the case.
At a news conference Saturday in Edmonton, organizers said they will do all they can to enable school survivors to attend the papal events, particularly for the Maskwacis apology and the Tuesday gathering at Lac Ste. Anne, long a popular pilgrimage site for Indigenous Catholics.
Both are in rural areas, and organizers are arranging shuttle transport from various park-and-ride lots. They noted that many survivors are now elderly and frail and may need accessible vehicle transport, diabetic-friendly snacks and other services.
The Rev. Cristino Bouvette, the national liturgical coordinator for the papal visit, who is partly of Indigenous heritage, said he hopes the visit is healing for those who "have borne a wound, a cross that they have suffered with, in some cases for generations."
Bouvette, a priest in the Diocese of Calgary, said the papal liturgical events will have strong Indigenous representation — including prominent roles for Indigenous clergy and the use of Native languages, music and motifs on liturgical vestments.
Bouvette said he's doing this work in honor of his "kokum," the Cree word for grandmother, who spent 12 years at a residential school in Edmonton. She "could have probably never imagined those many years later that her grandson would be involved in this work."
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HICKSVILLE, N.Y., Feb. 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Sandata is pleased to announce that Raj Bhavsar has joined the organization as Chief Technology Officer. In this role, Bhavsar will be responsible for leading both the Product and Engineering teams with a focus toward accelerating delivery of new and enhanced solutions to our customers, including leveraging world-class technology to support our industry leading products.
"What attracted to me to Sandata was 'who do we help each day? And what role can I play?' We help those that struggle with health care the most, whether that's accessibility to health care, navigating the system, or paying for health care," said Bhavsar. "I've been a part of the health care journey in many ways over 20 years—I ran the provider side, and I've also run the payer side, so I've been on all sides of the spectrum and understand the struggles in each."
Bhavsar joins Sandata from Relatient, where, as the CTO, he was responsible for all aspects of technology for their patient engagement platform. Prior to that, he held the CTO position at Optum Financial, where he developed and led strategic roadmaps for next-generation technology of the nation's leading consumer directed healthcare platform.
"Raj has a distinguished career built on bringing product and engineering organizations together to create rapid growth," said Emmet O'Gara, Sandata Chief Executive Officer. "His deep experience not only in the CTO position, but in leading product innovation and expansion will keep Sandata on the path of delivering world-class solutions to our customers."
About Sandata
Sandata Technologies, LLC, is a leading U.S. provider of technology to improve ease of collaboration between Medicaid payers and providers to deliver care. Sandata's transformative technologies and extensive industry experience creates benefit for clients through embedded expertise to support and problem-solve. As a national EVV leader, Sandata's suite of solutions offers its 15,000-plus agencies, 21 state Medicaid departments, and 50-plus managed care organizations the tools and capabilities to advance quality of care and improve
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Live coverage: Milwaukee Brewers vs. Philadelphia Phillies, lineup and game updates
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Tonight's Milwaukee Brewers lineup
LF Christian Yelich
C William Contreras
SS Willy Adames
DH Jesse Winker
1B Owen Miller
RF Raimel Tapia
3B Andruw Monasterio
2B Brice Turang
CF Joey Wiemer
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P Julio Teheran
Tonight's Brewers starting pitcher Julio Teheran
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JACKSON, Miss (AP) — Mississippi officials on Friday approved the city of Jackson’s request for $35.6 million in federal funds to help fix its crumbling water infrastructure, following this summer’s flooding-induced breakdowns that left 150,000 people without running water for days.
The Mississippi Municipality and County Water Infrastructure Grant Program approved the full amount the state’s capital city requested to pay for seven water and sewer projects.
State lawmakers created the program in 2022 to provide grants matching the federal government’s aid for cities and counties financed through the American Rescue Plan Act. The dollar-for-dollar match means Jackson will have $71.3 million to upgrade its water system.
Congress passed the sweeping American Rescue Plan Act to tame the public health and economic crises caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba said the funds would help provide reliable drinking water to a city that has periodically lost access to such a basic necessity.
“We are grateful for the assistance and will continue to explore all potential funding avenues to achieve this end,” Lumumba said.
Over $400 million in match funds will be awarded for the entire state in two rounds. Applications for the $180 million first round closed on Sept. 30. About 430 cities and counties in Mississippi applied for funding. The second round of funds will be awarded sometime in the spring. Jackson-area legislative leaders plan to press for money during the 2022 legislative session, which begins in January.
“I was told by the executive director that one of the city’s drinking water projects scored higher than any other application in this first round,” said Democratic Sen. John Horhn of Jackson. “We are looking for the state to do more once the regular session begins in January.”
A lingering boil water notice preceded the late summer crisis after testing revealed the tap water was unsafe.
Among seven water and sewer system upgrades, the funds will be used to help replace a raw water pump at the beleaguered O.B. Curtis water treatment plant, which fell into crisis in late August after torrential rain fell in central Mississippi. The deluge altered the raw water quality entering Jackson’s treatment plants. That slowed the treatment process, depleted supplies in water tanks and caused a precipitous drop in pressure.
Understaffing at its water treatment plants, a shrinking tax base and political disputes between city and state officials have also contributed to the city’s water woes.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Monday that the water in Jackson is safe to drink based on samples it collected over the past several months. But the agency is still waiting on another round of test results to determine whether Jackson has too much lead and copper in its water. The results are expected in mid-November.
On Oct. 20, the EPA said it was investigating whether Mississippi state agencies have discriminated against Jackson by refusing to fund water system improvements in the city, where more than 80% of residents are Black and about a quarter of the population lives in poverty.
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AP sources: Pirates, OF Reynolds agree to 8-year deal
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Bryan Reynolds is sticking with the Pittsburgh Pirates.
The veteran outfielder has agreed to an eight-year deal worth $106.75 million, three people with knowledge of the agreement told the Associated Press. They spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because the deal was not official pending a physical.
The contract is the richest in the history of the Pittsburgh Pirates and gives the club another cornerstone to build around as it tries to emerge from four straight last-place finishes in the NL Central.
The 28-year-old was an All-Star in 2021 and is hitting .294 with five home runs and 18 RBIs this season. The team is off to a surprising 16-7 start heading into a three-game series with the Los Angeles Dodgers beginning Tuesday night.
The deal comes less than five months after Reynolds requested a trade.
Pittsburgh general manager Ben Cherington insisted the team was willing to do what it takes to keep Reynolds in the fold, and both sides made progress toward an agreement in recent weeks.
The new deal includes a $2 million signing bonus, a club option for 2031 and a limited six-team no-trade clause.
The soft-spoken switch-hitter arrived in January 2018 as part of the trade that sent 2013 NL MVP Andrew McCutchen to San Francisco.
Five years later, McCutchen is back with the Pirates and Reynolds is now the anchor of a lineup that’s helped Pittsburgh get off to its best start since 1992 despite losing young shortstop Oneil Cruz to a fractured left ankle earlier this month.
Pittsburgh believes it is starting to emerge from a bottom-up overhaul. The club signed third baseman Ke’Bryan Hayes to an 8-year, $70-million extension in April 2022 and has followed up by locking down Reynolds.
The Reynolds move also gives the team some future stability after recent years of massive roster churn. Cherington has stockpiled a significant number of high-profile prospects since taking over in 2019 and has found in Reynolds and Hayes two youngish building blocks that will give the club an identity as it tries to return to contention for the first time since reaching the playoffs three straight years from 2013-15.
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Ronald Acuña Jr. Player Prop Bets: Braves vs. Marlins - July 1
Published: Jul. 1, 2023 at 7:31 AM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
Ronald Acuna Jr. -- hitting .390 in his past 10 games -- will be in action for the Atlanta Braves against the Miami Marlins, with Eury Perez on the mound, on July 1 at 4:10 PM ET.
In his most recent appearance, he strung together two hits (going 2-for-3 with a home run and two RBI) against the Marlins.
Ronald Acuña Jr. Game Info & Props vs. the Marlins
- Game Day: Saturday, July 1, 2023
- Game Time: 4:10 PM ET
- Stadium: Truist Park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Marlins Starter: Eury Pérez
- TV Channel: BSSE
- Hits Prop: Over/under 1.5 hits (Over odds: +155)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +250)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +120)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: -175)
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Ronald Acuña Jr. At The Plate
- Acuna leads Atlanta with 109 hits and an OBP of .413, plus a team-best slugging percentage of .595.
- Among qualified hitters in baseball, he ranks second in batting average, fourth in on-base percentage, and second in slugging.
- Acuna enters this game on a 11-game hitting streak. During his last games, he's hitting .444 with four homers.
- Acuna has picked up a hit in 64 of 81 games this year, with multiple hits 33 times.
- He has gone deep in 23.5% of his games in 2023, and 5.4% of his trips to the dish.
- In 42.0% of his games this year, Acuna has driven in at least one run. In 12 of those games (14.8%) he recorded two or more RBI, while accounting for three or more of his team's runs in seven contests.
- He has scored in 50 of 81 games this season, and more than once 20 times.
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Marlins Pitching Rankings
- The 9.5 strikeouts per nine innings compiled by the Marlins pitching staff ranks fourth in MLB.
- The Marlins' 4.03 team ERA ranks 13th across all league pitching staffs.
- Marlins pitchers combine to surrender the ninth-fewest home runs in baseball (86 total, one per game).
- The Marlins are sending Perez (5-1) to the mound for his 10th start of the season. He is 5-1 with a 1.34 ERA and 54 strikeouts through 47 2/3 innings pitched.
- The right-hander last appeared on Sunday against the Pittsburgh Pirates, when he tossed six scoreless innings while giving up four hits.
- The 20-year-old has put up a 1.34 ERA and 10.3 strikeouts per nine innings across nine games this season, while giving up a batting average of .182 to opposing hitters.
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Here & Now‘s Scott Tong speaks with Valencia Gunder, national co-leader of the Black Hive initiative, who is concerned that she and other Black environmentalists are being left out of the part of the Biden climate change agenda that is aimed at helping communities of color affected by pollution and rising sea levels.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of Unisys Corporation (NYSE: UIS) between August 3, 2022 and November 7, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important January 10, 2023 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Unisys securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Unisys class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=9648 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than January 10, 2023. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually handle securities class actions, but are merely middlemen that refer clients or partner with law firms that actually litigate the cases. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, throughout the Class Period, defendants made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) the Company's 2022 financial guidance was significantly overstated; (2) accordingly, once the truth was revealed, it was likely that Unisys would be required to negatively revise its 2022 financial guidance; (3) in addition to the foregoing, material weaknesses existed in the Company's internal control over financial reporting; and (4) as a result of all of the foregoing, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
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A ProPublica investigation out Thursday reveals that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has failed to disclose luxury vacations and free travel provided by conservative billionaire Harlan Crow.
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A ProPublica investigation out Thursday reveals that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has failed to disclose luxury vacations and free travel provided by conservative billionaire Harlan Crow.
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ALLENTOWN, Pa. — A man was arrested after an explosive was found in a bag checked onto a Florida-bound flight at an eastern Pennsylvania airport, federal authorities said.
Marc Muffley, 40, is charged with possessing an explosive in an airport and possessing or attempting to place an explosive or incendiary device on an aircraft, according to a criminal complaint.
Prosecutors allege that the material was found in a suitcase Muffley had checked in Monday at Lehigh Valley International Airport to Allegiant Air Flight 201, which was bound for Orlando Sanford International Airport in Florida.
After an alert during security screening, the bag was examined and found hidden in the lining was a “circular compound” about three inches in diameter encased in a wax-like paper and clear plastic wrap.
An FBI bomb technician X-rayed the compound and concluded that it contained a granular powder consistent with a "commercial grade firework" and "suspected to be a mixture of flash powder and the dark granulars that are used in commercial grade fireworks."
Attached to it was a “quick fuse” similar to a candle wick — apparently part of the original manufacture of the compound — as well as a “hobby fuse” that burns more slowly and appeared to have been added after the manufacture, authorities said.
Authorities said they concluded that both the black powder and flash powder “are susceptible to ignite from heat and friction and posed a significant risk to the aircraft and passengers,” according to the criminal complaint.
The baggage also contained “a can of butane, a lighter, a pipe with white powder residue, a wireless drill with cordless batteries, and two GFCI outlets taped together with black tape,” authorities said.
GFCI outlets are a type of circuit breaker.
Authorities said Muffley was paged over the airport’s public address system and shortly thereafter he was seen leaving the airport. He was traced to a Lansford address where he was arrested by the FBI late Monday night.
Officials said he remains in custody pending a probable cause hearing and detention hearing Thursday at 1:30 p.m. in Allentown, with Muffley attending via videoconference.
It’s unclear whether Muffley has an attorney. A working number for him couldn’t be found Wednesday. | 2023-03-02T00:05:42+00:00 | wfmynews2.com | https://www.wfmynews2.com/article/news/nation-world/explosive-found-in-bag-pennsylvania-airport-man-arrested/507-cc7be7a4-3b26-4710-9406-6ae9704c4e66 |
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., Aug. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Attorney Juliet Sussman Elected Co – Chair of the AAJ's National Timeshare Litigation Group.
The law firm of Sussman & Associates, specializing in Real Estate litigation for over 40 years, and for the past fifteen (15) years the face of the Timeshare exit and cancellation industry, announced today that Attorney Juliet Sussman was named co-chair of the Timeshare Litigation Group of AAJ. At the ripe young age of 25, Juliet is one of the youngest co-chairs in the history of American Association for Justice ("AAJ"), formerly the Association of Trial Lawyers of America.
The Timeshare Litigation Group is a collective of consumer advocate attorneys across the United States who represent individuals in their goal of being released from their timeshare obligations. Juliet's father, Mitchell Sussman, considered by many to be the "godfather" of timeshare exit litigation recently handed the baton to his daughter Juliet. Ms. Sussman was appointed the position of co-chair in July of 2022 at the Seattle AAJ conference.
The Timeshare Litigation Group assists members investigating and litigating cases against timeshare selective developers. It is well known that certain timeshare developers engage in fraudulent and deceptive practices to induce consumers into purchasing timeshare intervals for tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars. After purchase, the consumers cannot rid themselves of the timeshare interest, which frequently carry mortgages, high interest rates, and "in perpetuity" contracts with a lifetime of fees.
According to the American Resort Development Association ("ARDA") the timeshare industry is an $8.1 billion dollar industry. ARDA purports that 9.9 million households in the United States own a timeshare.
The Timeshare Litigation Group was formed at the 2021 AAJ Spring Meeting by Juliet's co – chair, Panda Kroll. Members have access to the Timeshare Litigation Group Document Library and the Litigation Group list server. Education programs and meetings are held throughout the year.
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Events surrounding Queen Elizabeth II's state funeral on Monday capped 10 days of national mourning that were watched by hundreds of thousands of people packed onto the streets of London and millions around the world. Those are just a few of the staggering array of numbers generated by the death of the 96-year-old monarch after a 70-year-reign.
Here are some figures that have swirled around London and the rest of the United Kingdom in the aftermath of death on Sept. 8 at her summer retreat in Scotland of the only monarch most Britons have ever known.
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— 2,000: Dignitaries and guests in Westminster Abbey for the the state funeral, ranging from King Charles III and other royals to world leaders including U.S. President Joe Biden to members of the British public who helped battle the COVID-19 pandemic.
— 800: Guests at a committal service later in the day at St George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle.
— 5,949: Military personnel deployed throughout the meticulously choreographed operation that began with the queen's death on Sept. 8 at her Balmoral Estate in the Scottish Highlands. That number comprises 4,416 from the army, 847 from the navy and 686 from the air force. In addition, around 175 armed forces personnel from Commonwealth nations have been involved.
— 1,650: At least that number of military personnel will be involved in the pomp-filled procession of the queen's coffin from Westminster Abbey to Wellington Arch after her funeral. A further 1,000 will line the streets along the procession route When the coffin reaches Windsor, 410 military personnel will take part in the procession, 480 will line streets, 150 will be in a guard of honor and line steps and 130 more will fulfil other ceremonial duties.
— 142: Royal Navy ratings who will pull the state gun carriage carrying the queen's coffin on Monday when it leaves the Houses of Parliament for her funeral.
— More than 10,000: Police officers. Metropolitan Police Deputy Assistant Commissioner Stuart Cundy said the “hugely complex” policing operation is the biggest in the London force’s history, surpassing the London 2012 Olympics which saw up to 10,000 police officers on duty per day.
— 22: Miles (36 kilometers) of barriers erected in central London alone to control crowds and keep key areas around the Houses of Parliament, Westminster Abbey and Buckingham Palace secure.
— 1 million: The number of people London transport authorities expect to visit the capital on Monday. Around 250 extra rail services will run to move people in and out of the city.
— 5: Miles (8 kilometers) of people lining up to file past the queen's coffin in Westminster Hall. The mammoth queue stretched back from the Houses of Parliament along the south bank of the River Thames to Southwark Park. The number of people who viewed the coffin over four days is not yet known.
— 125: Movie theaters that will open their doors to broadcast Monday's funeral live.
— 2,868: Diamonds, along with 17 sapphires, 11 emeralds, 269 pearls, and 4 rubies, sparkle in the Imperial State Crown that rested on the queen's coffin as it lay in state.
— 2: Minutes of silence at the end of the funeral at Westminster Abbey.
— 1: Coffin. The silent eye in the days-long storm of pomp, pageantry and protection is a single, flag-draped oak coffin carrying the only monarch most Britons have ever known. | 2022-09-19T11:50:01+00:00 | fox17online.com | https://www.fox17online.com/news/world/by-the-numbers-facts-and-figures-about-the-queens-funeral |
Rescuers brace for more rain as relentless storms flood Northeast, Vermont hit hard
Andover, Vermont — Swift water rescue teams and local officials across Vermont braced for more precipitation and flooding Tuesday after persistent heavy rains drenched the state and other parts of the Northeast, unleashing fast-moving waters that washed out roads, trapped residents in their homes and disrupted travel.
One person was killed in New York as she tried to leave her inundated house.
There have been no reports of injuries or deaths related to the flooding in Vermont, according to emergency officials. But dozens of roads were closed, including many along the spine of the Green Mountains. And the National Weather Service issued flash flood warnings and advisories for much of the state from the Massachusetts line north to the Canadian border.
The U.S Army Corps of Engineers said late Monday they expected two dams to release water overnight, causing “severe flooding” downstream likely to affect multiple towns.
Rescue crews from North Carolina, Michigan and Connecticut were among those helping to get to Vermont towns on Monday that had been unreachable since torrents of rain began belting the state, according to Mike Cannon of Vermont Urban Search and Rescue.
Swift water rescue teams in Vermont have done more than 50 rescues, mainly in the southern and central areas of the state, Vermont Emergency Management said Monday night.
“We have not seen rainfall like this since Irene,” Vermont Gov. Phil said, referring to Tropical Storm Irene in August 2011. That storm killed six in the state, washed homes off their foundations and damaged or destroyed more than 200 bridges and 500 miles (805 kilometers) of highway.
What’s different is that Irene lasted just about 24 hours, Scott said.
“This is going on. We’re getting just as much rain, if not more. It’s going on for days. That’s my concern. It’s not just the initial damage. It’s the wave, the second wave, and the third wave,” he said.
Flooding hit Vermont’s state capital, with Montpelier Town Manager Bill Fraser estimating Monday night that knee-high waters had reached much of downtown and were expected to rise a couple more feet during the night.
Some people canoed to the Cavendish Baptist Church in Vermont, which had turned into a shelter while volunteers made cookies for firefighters working on rescues.
“People are doing OK. It's just stressful,” shelter volunteer Amanda Gross said.
Vermont Rep. Kelly Pajala said she and about a half dozen others evacuated early Monday from a four-unit apartment building on the West River in Londonderry.
“The river was at our doorstep,” said Pajala. “We threw some dry clothes and our cats into the car and drove to higher ground."
The slow-moving storm reached New England after hitting parts of New York and Connecticut on Sunday. Rainfall in certain parts of Vermont exceeded 8 inches (20 centimeters) by late Monday, and the National Weather Service in Burlington said more rain was forecast for Tuesday.
One of the worst-hit places was New York’s Hudson Valley, where a woman identified by police as Pamela Nugent, 43, died as she tried to escape her flooded home in the hamlet of Fort Montgomery.
The flash flooding dislodged boulders that rammed into the woman’s house and damaged part of its wall, Orange County Executive Steven Neuhaus told The Associated Press. Two other people escaped.
“She was trying to get through (the flooding) with her dog,” Neuhaus said, “and she was overwhelmed by tidal wave-type waves.”
The U.S. Military Academy at West Point was pounded with more than 8 inches (20.32 centimeters) of rain that sent debris sliding onto some roads and washed others out.
Officials say the storm has already wrought tens of millions of dollars in damage.
“Nine inches of rain in this community,” New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said during a briefing on a muddy street in Highland Falls. “They’re calling this a ‘1,000 year event.’”
As of Monday evening, several washed-out streets in Highland Falls remained impassable, leaving some residents stuck in their homes, according to Police Chief Frank Basile. The village police station itself was full of mud and leaves after being flooded with about 5 inches (13 centimeters) of water, Basile said.
Atmospheric scientists say destructive flooding events are spurred by storms forming in a warmer atmosphere, making extreme rainfall a reality. The additional warming that scientists predict is coming will only make it worse.
The storm also interrupted travel. There were hundreds of flight cancellations at Kennedy, LaGuardia and Newark airports and more than 200 canceled at Boston's Logan Airport, according to the Flightaware website. Amtrak temporarily suspended service between Albany and New York.
Troy Caruso, who owns a golf course, five restaurants and a motel in Ludlow, Vermont, said he's been checking the damage to his properties and in the town of about 800 people. A supermarket and shopping center were “wiped out,” he said, as was a steakhouse and possibly a burger joint he owned.
“It’s flooded beyond belief,” Caruso said of the town, noting that the 10th hole of his golf course was underwater.
“We just got done cleaning up these properties, flowers planted, the whole nine yards,” he said. “We are going to have to start all over again.” | 2023-07-11T13:22:10+00:00 | detroitnews.com | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/nation/2023/07/11/rescuers-brace-for-more-rain-as-relentless-storms-flood-northeast-vermont-hit-hard/70400892007/ |
MONROE, N.C. — Editor's Note: This story discusses sexual violence. While specific acts are not discussed or described, reader discretion is advised.
Joshua Lee Burgess, 35, has been sentenced to death less than three years after he tortured and killed his teenage daughter, Zaria Burgess, in Monroe, North Carolina.
On Friday, the jury handed down Burgess' sentence after three hours of deliberations, according to the Union County District Attorney's Office. The sentencing came after a three-week trial.
Burgess killed his 15-year-old daughter on August 18, 2019, according to the district attorney's office. According to investigators, he psychologically and sexually tortured Zaria for 22 hours at his home along Airport Road. He then cut her throat.
In addition to being convicted of first-degree murder, Burgess was convicted of statutory rape, three counts of statutory sex offense, and first-degree sexual exploitation of a minor. In addition to a death sentence, Burgess was handed an additional 76 years of incarceration.
At the time of Zaria's murder, law enforcement said the case was an example of "pure evil." The 15-year-old was visiting her father for the weekend. After the killing, Burgess reportedly told the Union County Sheriff's Office he had killed someone.
At the time, Zaria Burgess was a rising high school sophomore. She was on the dance team and in the marching band at Monroe High School. Her band director Alan Sturdivant previously said she was full of energy and was an ideal member of the band's dance team.
Joshua Burgess will now be housed at Central Prison in Raleigh, North Carolina, which is where the North Carolina Department of Public Safety says male death row offenders are housed. The state's execution protocol dictates death by pentobarbital, a type of lethal injection. Burgess' execution date must be scheduled at least 15 days after his sentencing, but no more than 120 days.
If you or a loved one is facing domestic violence, help is readily available. You can call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 800-799-7233 or text START to 88788. Resources for help are available in both North Carolina and South Carolina. | 2022-06-03T22:51:25+00:00 | 5newsonline.com | https://www.5newsonline.com/article/news/crime/josh-burgess-zaria-death-sentence-crime-local-union-county-monroe-nc/275-e163c6c0-d3e1-4673-b4d6-28e9b0e1761f |
IRVING, Texas (AP) — There are representatives from the Big 12’s four future members attending the conference’s spring meetings, along with the lingering presence of Texas and Oklahoma, the league’s only football national champions who still are three years away from their scheduled departures to the SEC.
Outgoing commissioner Bob Bowlsby, who announced his retirement earlier this year with plans to stay on until his replacement is found, figures he is down to 30-90 days left on the job.
“This meeting has got some weirdness to it,” Bowlsby said. “It would be less than forthright to not admit that there’s some strangeness to it, and perhaps even some periods when there’s a little bit of tension. But, you know, people are working together in good faith. And we get along and work together because we have to.”
A time of membership transition in the Big 12 comes when it, like schools and leagues across the country, are dealing with transfer rules and how student-athletes are getting compensated for use of their names, images and likenesses, and just who is involved with that process.
“I don’t know that the change in membership is causing us any particular scrambling,” Bowlsby said. “The members going out, the continuing members, we all share the same challenges. … It’s not like they’re coming in to a uniquely different environment with a different set of challenges.”
BYU will officially join the Big 12 next summer. The growing anticipation is that current American Athletic Conference schools Cincinnati, Houston and UCF will as well, instead of having to wait until July 1, 2024.
The Big 12, a 10-team league since 2011 and that way for another year, could have 14 schools for two years after that. Texas and Oklahoma will move to the SEC no later than July 1, 2025.
“I think the tenor’s good. I mean, honestly, you move on from some of the decisions. We know the two schools, Oklahoma and Texas, are leaving. But at the same time, they’re league members for the next two years,” West Virginia athletic director Shane Lyons said. “And with the four new schools coming in … they start having a voice in the process. You’re looking at the league as a whole to say what’s best for the league.”
Athletic directors had their joint meeting Thursday with the Big 12 board comprised of the president or chancellor from each member school. The board’s executive session Friday, which is expected to include an update on the search for a new commissioner, will wrap up the meetings.
Texas AD Chris Del Conte said there is “nothing that’s contentious.” He described the meetings business as usual while including discussions about the reshaping of the league.
“It’s a little different, but we’re all participating and making decisions that are going to best serve the institutions, for us for a shorter period of time than the others,” Oklahoma AD Joe Castiglione said.
Bowlsby said the agenda for the annual meetings that began Wednesday maybe should have been color-coded. There were some items for the current 10 members, some for all 14 schools, others for the future schools that are observing and interacting without a vote on issues, and even some for only the eight remaining schools — Baylor, Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State, Oklahoma State, Texas Tech, TCU and West Virginia.
There will be no final decisions this week on future schedules — for football or other sports — and if the league would return to divisions.
The Big 12 became a 10-team league and scrapped divisions in 2011, during a two-year transition when Colorado, Missouri, Nebraska and Texas A&M left the league while TCU and West Virginia came in. Changes in NCAA legislation allowed the Big 12 in 2017 to resume its football championship game, pitting the top two teams in the standings after a round-robin league schedule.
“We’re still considering whether divisions are the right thing for us, or whether one group together is the right thing,” said Bowlsby, adding that could differ among sports.
As for NIL, which went into effect last summer with few guidelines, Lyons said there have been a lot of positives and negatives.
“So where do we end up somewhere in between, where our student-athletes can capitalize of name, image and likeness, but we’re not using them for pay-for-play, and we’re not using it for inducements,” Lyons said. “That’s the bad part right now … some institutions are using it as recruiting inducements and making promises on the front end. And that was really never anticipated. It was a matter of once a student-athlete becomes a student-athlete, how he or she can capitalize off their name, image and likeness.” | 2022-06-03T19:43:43+00:00 | upmatters.com | https://www.upmatters.com/sports/ap-sports/some-weirdness-at-big-12-with-future-and-soon-former-teams/ |
AKRON, Ohio, Feb. 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- BIT Mining Limited (NYSE: BTCM) ("BIT Mining," "the Company," "we," "us," or "our company"), a leading technology-driven cryptocurrency mining company, today announced that it has received a letter from the New York Stock Exchange (the "NYSE"), dated January 31, 2023, notifying the Company that it has regained compliance with the NYSE's continued listing standards.
On July 29, 2022, the NYSE notified the Company that it was not in compliance with the NYSE's continued listing standards because, as of July 28, 2022, the average closing price of the Company's American Depositary Shares (the "ADSs") was less than US$1.00 per ADS over a consecutive 30 trading-day period.
On December 23, 2022, the Company effected a change to a new ratio of one (1) ADS to one hundred (100) Class A ordinary shares, par value US$0.00005 per share, which had the same effect as a one-for-ten reverse share split.
In its letter dated January 31, 2023, the NYSE confirmed that a calculation of the Company's average stock price for the 30-trading days ended January 30, 2023, indicated that the Company's stock price was above the NYSE's minimum requirement of $1 based on a 30-trading day average. Accordingly, the Company is no longer considered below the $1 continued listing criterion.
About BIT Mining Limited
BIT Mining (NYSE: BTCM) is a leading technology-driven cryptocurrency mining company, with a long-term strategy to create value across the cryptocurrency industry. Its business covers cryptocurrency mining, mining pool, data center operation and mining machine manufacturing. The Company owns the world's top blockchain browser BTC.com and the comprehensive mining pool business operated under BTC.com, providing multi-currency mining services including BTC, ETC and LTC. The Company also owns a 7-nanometer cryptocurrency mining machine manufacturer, Bee Computing, enabling the Company's self-efficiency through vertical integration with its supply chain.
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BENGALURU, India (AP) — India will miss its renewable energy target for the end of the year, with experts saying “multiple challenges” including a lack of financial help and taxes on imported components are stalling the clean energy industry.
The country has installed just over half of its planned renewable energy capacity, a high level parliamentary report found last week.
The target, set in January, 2018, would have increased India's renewable energy capacity to 43% of its current energy mix. The government now says it hopes to achieve the goal by mid-2023.
The shortfall is down to "inconsistent federal and state-level renewable energy policies, excessive custom duties on renewable energy related products as well as financing issues,” said Vibhuti Garg, an energy economist based in New Delhi, who added that the solar industry is particularly vulnerable to such roadblocks.
She added that “improving the financial health of government-owned power companies” would help build out renewable capacity in India. State-owned power companies have been struggling as a result of delays in government grants and consumer payments and the COVID-19 pandemic which led to shutdowns of energy-heavy industries.
India's parliamentary committee stated that ministry-level approvals for solar projects take “an unduly long time” making it difficult for new solar parks to open.
It added that state-owned energy companies owe 117 billion rupees ($1.5 billon) to renewable energy generators and developers and the debt contributed to the slow buildout of clean energy.
The Indian government’s ministry of new and renewable energy, which is in charge of meeting the nation’s renewable energy targets, attributed the failure to meet targets to the COVID-19 pandemic.
India, the third largest emitter of carbon dioxide after China and the U.S., recently finalized its climate targets and pledged that 50% of power generation will be from clean energy sources by 2030. The country's energy needs are expected to double by the end of the decade as the populations grows and the government seeks to improve living standards.
India's climate targets were rated as “insufficient” by Climate Action Tracker, an organization which conducts independent scientific analysis to determine if a country's ambitions are in line with limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) or 2C (3.6F).
Other observers say that the failure to meet these targets is not as big a setback as it appears to be.
While the target won't be achieved, "it has played an important role in directing India’s electricity and power generation systems towards renewable energy,” said Ashish Fernandes of Climate Risk Horizons, an organization which looks at the risks climate change poses to India's economy.
He added that long-term agreements to purchase coal power has stopped federal and state energy companies from investing heavily in renewables.
“We need to start retiring old, expensive coal plants and replacing them with renewable energy. This can save energy companies and consumers a lot of money as well,” he said.
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BERLIN (AP) — German officials say they expect more people to be detained in connection with an alleged far-right plan to topple the government that saw 25 people rounded up Wednesday, including a self-styled prince, a retired paratrooper and a judge.
The plot was allegedly hatched by people linked to the so-called Reich Citizens movement, which rejects Germany's post-war constitution and the legitimacy of the government.
Georg Meier, the top security official in Thuringia state, told public broadcaster Deutschlandfunk on Thursday that he expects a second wave of people being detained as authorities review evidence.
Meier accused the far-right Alternative for Germany party of fuelling conspiracy theories like those that allegedly motivated the plotters detained across the country this week.
Those held include a former Alternative for Germany lawmaker, Birgit Malsack-Winkemann, who is also a Berlin judge. The party condemned the alleged coup plans.
Also detained was Heinrich XIII Prince Reuss, who prosecutors consider one of the two ringleaders of the plot. The 71-year-old member of the House of Reuss continues to use the title of ‘prince' despite Germany abolishing any formal role for royalty more than a century ago.
While some in Germany have questioned whether the suspected extremists would actually have been able to pull off any serious attack, authorities said the involvement of serving and former members of the army and police showed the plot needed to be taken seriously.
Germany is highly sensitive to far-right extremism because of its Nazi past and repeated acts of violence carried out by neo-Nazis in recent years, including the killing of a regional politician and the deadly attack on a synagogue in 2019.
Two years ago, far-right extremists taking part in a protest against the country’s pandemic restrictions tried and failed to storm the Bundestag building in Berlin. | 2022-12-08T11:56:02+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Officials-predict-more-arrests-over-German-17639711.php |
Airport employees in strike vests are on the move in Departure Hall B in Terminal 1 of Frankfurt Airport in Munich, Germany, Friday, Feb. 17, 2023. Thousands of flights to and from German airports were canceled Friday as workers walked out to press their demands for inflation-busting pay increases. The strikes at seven German airports, including Frankfurt, Munich and Hamburg, affected almost 300,000 passengers and forced airlines to cancel more than 2,300 flights.
An airport employees in a strike vest of the trade union verdi stands in front of a display board at Frankfurt Airport in Munich, Germany, Friday, Feb. 17, 2023. Thousands of flights to and from German airports were canceled Friday as workers walked out to press their demands for inflation-busting pay increases. The strikes at seven German airports, including Frankfurt, Munich and Hamburg, affected almost 300,000 passengers and forced airlines to cancel more than 2,300 flights.
Airport employees in strike vests are on the move in Departure Hall B in Terminal 1 of Frankfurt Airport in Munich, Germany, Friday, Feb. 17, 2023. Thousands of flights to and from German airports were canceled Friday as workers walked out to press their demands for inflation-busting pay increases. The strikes at seven German airports, including Frankfurt, Munich and Hamburg, affected almost 300,000 passengers and forced airlines to cancel more than 2,300 flights.
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An airport employees in a strike vest of the trade union verdi stands in front of a display board at Frankfurt Airport in Munich, Germany, Friday, Feb. 17, 2023. Thousands of flights to and from German airports were canceled Friday as workers walked out to press their demands for inflation-busting pay increases. The strikes at seven German airports, including Frankfurt, Munich and Hamburg, affected almost 300,000 passengers and forced airlines to cancel more than 2,300 flights.
BERLIN (AP) — Thousands of flights to and from German airports were canceled Friday as workers walked out to press their demands for inflation-busting pay increases.
The strikes at seven German airports, including Frankfurt, Munich and Hamburg, affected almost 300,000 passengers and forced airlines to cancel more than 2,300 flights.
Christine Behle of the Verdi labor union told public broadcaster RBB-Inforadio that failure to reach a meaningful deal with employers on pay could result in a “summer of chaos” at German airports.
The union is seeking a 10.5% increase for its members, or at least 500 euros, to make up for high inflation seen in Germany and elsewhere last year due to the knock-on effects Russia's attack on Ukraine has had on global food and energy prices.
Verdi chairman Frank Werneke told weekly Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung that the willingness among its members to stage strikes was big and future walkouts could reach “another dimension.”
He noted that recent strikes at airports, public transport and childcare facilities could be extended to garbage removal services and hospitals.
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The San Diego Padres have lost 13 of their past 14 games in Colorado, including six of seven at Coors Field this season, but they are only looking ahead to the opener of a three-game series on Friday night in Denver.
San Diego (83-67) has won five of its past six games overall to maintain its grip on the National League’s second wild-card spot. The Padres remain in prime position to make their first playoff appearance following a full regular season since 2006.
“It’s a little different environment for us in that every game feels like the last game,” Padres manager Bob Melvin said. “I don’t think you go in thinking about what happened earlier in the season or what the track record is in any particular place, it’s just putting our best foot forward. We feel good about where we are as a team right now.”
San Diego saw its five-game winning streak end with a 5-4 loss to the visiting St. Louis Cardinals on Thursday afternoon. The Padres had combined to allow just one run in the four games leading up to the series finale against the Cardinals.
Sean Manaea wasn’t part of the string of recent quality starts by San Diego, but the left-hander is the lone Padres pitcher to win a game in Denver this season.
Manaea (7-9, 5.18 ERA) allowed two runs in 6 1/3 innings of a 6-5 win at Colorado on July 11.
The victory ended a 10-game losing streak for San Diego at Coors Field, but the Padres lost the next three games in the series to begin a new skid.
Except for Manaea, the starting pitchers for San Diego in the other six games in Coors Field this season have had a rough time, combining for an 0-3 record and a 9.76 ERA.
The Rockies (64-86) are coming off a four-game sweep at the hands of the visiting San Francisco Giants.
Colorado elicited some excitement, however, when it promoted shortstop Ezequiel Tovar from Triple-A Albuquerque on Thursday.
Tovar, MLB.com’s No. 28 overall prospect, did not make it into a 3-0 loss to the Giants in the series finale, but the 21-year-old Venezuelan is expected to make his major league debut in the opener against San Diego on Friday.
If he does, Tovar would become the youngest position player in club history.
Colorado manager Bud Black has not seen Tovar play since spring training, but he liked what he saw.
“I saw a young player who looked confident, who looked excited, ready to be in big-league camp,” Black said. “I saw an everyday readiness when he practiced, albeit short because of the lockout. He looked very determined and comfortable. When games started, he looked very comfortable and confident and talented.”
The Rockies are planning to start Ryan Feltner on the mound.
Feltner (3-8, 6.05 ERA) pitched one of his best games of the season in San Diego on June 11. He gave up one run on two hits over six innings but didn’t get any run support and the Rockies lost 2-1 in 10 innings.
In two career starts against the Padres — both this season — Feltner holds a 3.72 ERA and a pair of no-decisions.
He earned a win in his latest outing, giving three runs and six hits in 5 1/3 innings during a 4-3 road victory against the Chicago Cubs on Sunday.
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How to Watch the Stars vs. Red Wings Game: Streaming & TV Channel Info for April 10
Published: Apr. 10, 2023 at 11:12 AM CDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
The Dallas Stars will travel to face the Detroit Red Wings on Monday, April 10, with the Stars victorious in three consecutive games.
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Stars Live Stream, TV Channel and Game Info
- When: Monday, April 10, 2023 at 7:00 PM ET
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- Where: Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, Michigan
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Stars vs. Red Wings Head-to-Head
Stars Stats & Trends
- Defensively, the Stars have been one of the stingiest squads in NHL action, allowing 212 total goals (2.7 per game) to rank sixth.
- The Stars score the eighth-most goals in the league (269 total, 3.4 per game).
- In their last 10 matchups, the Stars are 7-2-1 to earn 80.0% of the possible points.
- Defensively, the Stars have given up 24 goals (2.4 per game) in those 10 outings.
- They have averaged 3.5 goals per game (35 total) over that stretch.
Stars Key Players
Red Wings Stats & Trends
- The Red Wings' total of 260 goals conceded (3.3 per game) is 20th in the league.
- The Red Wings' 235 goals on the season (3.0 per game) rank them 22nd in the league.
- In the past 10 contests, the Red Wings have earned 70.0% of the possible points with a 5-4-1 record.
- Over on the defensive end, the Red Wings have allowed 3.3 goals per game (33 total) in those 10 outings.
- They are scoring at a 3.4 goals-per-game average (34 total) during that span.
Red Wings Key Players
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A federal judge denied Bob Baffert’s request to lift his two-year suspension by Churchill Downs Inc., ruling Friday that the Hall of Fame trainer did not prove its discipline hurt his business and reputation.
Baffert will miss his second consecutive Kentucky Derby, and per a Churchill Downs rule, he has until Feb. 28 to transfer his Derby contenders to other trainers in order for them to possibly run in the May 6 race. Horses earn Derby qualifying points by finishing in the top five of designated races; any horse trained by Baffert after the February deadline is ineligible to earn points.
Baffert last year transferred Taiba and Messier to former assistant Tim Yakteen for the Derby. Taiba finished 12th and Messier was 15th among 20 horses.
Baffert had sued Churchill Downs following his banishment in June 2021 after a failed postrace drug test by now-deceased colt Medina Spirit, who crossed the finish line first in the 147th Derby. The Kentucky Horse Racing Commission ultimately disqualified the colt in February 2022 and suspended Baffert for 90 days for a series of failed tests by his horses.
Baffert argued that Churchill Downs did not give him notice nor explain the suspension. His attorney, Clark Brewster, contended earlier this month that the historic track was subject to state guidelines for due process. U.S. District Court Judge Rebecca Grady Jennings ultimately rejected that argument and said that, as privately owned company, Churchill Downs can set its own disciplinary policies.
“Failing to punish trainers whose horses test positive in marquee races could harm (Churchill Downs, Inc.’s) reputation and the integrity of their races,” Jennings wrote.
A message left with Brewster was not immediately returned.
Among Baffert’s top 3-year-olds this season are Arabian Knight and Cave Rock. Arabian Knight is owned by Saudi Arabian businessman Amr Zedan. Jennings wrote that an affidavit given to the court states that Zedan will move his horses to another trainer if Baffert remained banned by Churchill Downs.
While Baffert is banned from the first of the Triple Crown races, he’s eligible to run horses in Maryland at the Preakness and in New York at the Belmont Stakes. His one-year suspension by the New York Racing Association expired in January.
Churchill Downs had wanted the case dismissed, citing nine failed tests by Baffert-trained horses as justification for disciplining horse racing’s most visible figure. The list of violators includes 2020 Kentucky Oaks third-place finisher Gamine, who was ultimately disqualified.
Medina Spirit failed his test for having in his system the regulated medication corticosteroid betamethasone, which Baffert and Brewster have argued came from an ointment rather than an injection.
Track president Mike Anderson said the decision by Churchill Downs CEO Bill Carstanjen stemmed from Baffert’s “refusal to take responsibility for repeat violations.”
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(WFRV) – The next time you pick up your favorite cheese, you might be looking at a locally made label.
It’s how Sohn Manufacturing in Elkhart Lake got its start. Now they’ve expanded with more products and to a worldwide market, and they’re looking for people to join this family-owned company.
You can join Local 5 Live on Friday at Road America in Elkhart Lake. You can find directions to Road America and the show here. | 2022-07-20T16:30:59+00:00 | wearegreenbay.com | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/our-town/our-town-sohn-manufacturing-in-elkhart-lake/ |
BetMGM expected to be EBITDA positive in the Second Half of 2023
JERSEY CITY, N.J., Jan. 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- BetMGM, one of the leading sports betting and iGaming operators in North America, jointly owned by MGM Resorts International (NYSE: MGM) ("MGM Resorts") and Entain plc (LSE: ENT) ("Entain"), is today providing an update on performance and outlook for 2023.
- BetMGM finished FY 2022 with a strong financial performance
- Same-state growth in net revenue from digital operations of 51%
- Higher gross gaming margins resulting from improved customer experience and other product improvements
- Same state CPAs reduced by 21% year-over-year due to data-focused marketing strategy and increased scale
- Improved approach to player bonusing delivered by our data science team
- BetMGM has established itself as a leading sports betting and iGaming operator in North America
- Continued market leadership in iGaming with approximately 30% market share3
- Online sports betting market share of 13%, with 20% share in markets where BetMGM was live on day one3
- Our Q4 2022 online sports net revenue margin has doubled versus Q4 2021 as we continue to optimize our bonus environment
- Expanded online footprint in 2022 with launches in six new markets: New York, Louisiana, Illinois, Ontario, Kansas, and Maryland
- Opened four new retail sportsbooks: Nationals Park in Washington, DC, Casino del Mar in Puerto Rico, The Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas, and at State Farm Stadium, the first retail sportsbook at an NFL stadium and home of the 2023 Super Bowl
- Launched in Ohio on January 1, 2023, with online sports betting and two retail sportsbooks at MGM Northfield Park and at the Reds' Great American Ball Park
- Created the first industry-led online responsible gaming standards in collaboration with a coalition of other online gaming operators
- Increased funding for gaming research, joined the National Council on Problem Gambling and prioritized customer service across all facets of our business
- Implemented the award-winning responsible gaming program, GameSense, companywide
- Committed to continuously expanding our product tools to proactively monitor customers and curate messaging to ensure safe and responsible play
- BetMGM is well positioned to achieve net revenue from operations of between $1.8 and $2 billion in FY 2023 and be EBITDA positive in the second half of 2023
- Wholly supportive of BetMGM's stellar performance and with confidence in management's plan, MGM Resorts and Entain expect to invest a combined additional $150 million in FY 2023
Conference Call:
BetMGM will host a conference call at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time today, which will include an overview of its results, followed by a Q&A session. The call will be accessible via webcast or dial in – registration details below:
The live webcast will be accessible at: Webcast Registration.
For those wishing to ask a question, please register at: Dial-in Registration. Upon registration, dial-in details and a personalized PIN will be provided.
The webcast details and replay will also be accessible via
OR https://entaingroup.com/investor-relations/results-centre/.
Management Commentary:
Adam Greenblatt, Chief Executive Officer of BetMGM, commented: "The talented team at BetMGM continues to execute our plan with purpose, passion, and discipline. 2022 was a year in which we delivered against many key strategic initiatives and achieved several company milestones, including exceeding our financial targets, launching a redesigned BetMGM mobile app and furthering our commitment to Responsible Gambling. With continued and unwavering support from our shareholders, we look to 2023 confident in achieving further key milestones, including $1.8 to $2 billion in net revenue from operations and being EBITDA positive in the second half of 2023."
Notes:
- FY 2022 net revenue for BetMGM on a GAAP basis is expected to be approximately $1,403 million, which includes approximately $55 million related to Nevada MGM operations for which BetMGM records on a net basis as BetMGM is considered to be the agent in the Nevada transactions for GAAP purposes.
- FY 2022 EBITDA is an unaudited estimate.
- Market share for last three months ending October 2022 by GGR including only U.S. markets where BetMGM was active; internal estimates used where operator-specific results are unavailable.
- BetMGM operates iGaming and Online Sports Betting in five markets and Sports Betting only in twenty markets.
Forward-looking statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, which involve substantial risks and/or uncertainties, including those described in the MGM Resorts International public filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. BetMGM has based forward-looking statements on management's current expectations, assumptions and projections about future events and trends. Examples of these statements include, but are not limited to, BetMGM's expectations regarding its financial outlook (including forecasted net revenues from operations, EBITDA, and amounts expected to be invested by MGM Resorts and Entain in 2023), projected market share position, and its expected growth in new and existing jurisdictions. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance, conditions or results, and involve a number of known and unknown risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other important factors, that could cause actual results or outcomes to differ materially from those discussed in the forward-looking statements. Included among the important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated in such forward-looking statements are: the significant competition within the gaming and entertainment industry; BetMGM's ability to execute on its business plan; changes in applicable laws or regulations, particularly with respect to iGaming and online sports betting; BetMGM's ability to manage growth and access the capital needed to support its growth plans; and BetMGM's ability to obtain the required licenses, permits and other approvals necessary to grow in existing and new jurisdictions. In providing forward-looking statements, BetMGM is not undertaking any duty or obligation to update these statements publicly as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law. If BetMGM updates one or more forward-looking statements, no inference should be drawn that it will make additional updates with respect to those other forward-looking statements.
Non-GAAP Financial Information
This press release includes net revenue from operations, which has not been prepared in accordance with GAAP. BetMGM believes this presentation, which it uses for its own analysis of operations, is useful in that it reflects the true economic performance of the business. If BetMGM presented net revenue from operations in accordance with GAAP, then BetMGM would present the revenues associated with its Nevada digital and retail sports betting operations differently, until such time as BetMGM is licensed as a Nevada gaming operator. Currently under GAAP, its calculation of Net Revenue would be on a basis net of operating costs, such that the GAAP reported Net Revenue would be lower than the Net Revenue reported herein, with Net Income remaining the same.
About BetMGM
BetMGM is a market leading sports betting and gaming entertainment company, pioneering the online gaming industry. Born out of a partnership between MGM Resorts International (NYSE: MGM) and Entain Plc (LSE: ENT), BetMGM has exclusive access to all of MGM Resorts' U.S. land-based and online sports betting, major tournament poker, and online gaming businesses. Utilizing Entain's U.S.-licensed, state of the art technology, BetMGM offers sports betting and online gaming via market leading brands including BetMGM, Borgata Casino, Party Casino and Party Poker. Founded in 2018, BetMGM is headquartered in New Jersey. For more information, visit http://www.betmgminc.com/.
About MGM Resorts International
MGM Resorts International (NYSE: MGM) is an S&P 500® global entertainment company with national and international locations featuring best-in-class hotels and casinos, state-of-the-art meetings and conference spaces, incredible live and theatrical entertainment experiences, and an extensive array of restaurant, nightlife and retail offerings. MGM Resorts creates immersive, iconic experiences through its suite of Las Vegas-inspired brands. The MGM Resorts portfolio encompasses 32 unique hotel and gaming destinations globally, including some of the most recognizable resort brands in the industry. The Company's 50/50 venture, BetMGM, LLC, offers sports betting and online gaming in North America through market-leading brands, including BetMGM and partypoker, and the Company's subsidiary LeoVegas AB offers sports betting and online gaming through market-leading brands in several jurisdictions throughout Europe. The Company is currently pursuing targeted expansion in Asia through the integrated resort opportunity in Japan. Through its "Focused on What Matters: Embracing Humanity and Protecting the Planet" philosophy, MGM Resorts commits to creating a more sustainable future, while striving to make a bigger difference in the lives of its employees, guests, and in the communities where it operates. The global employees of MGM Resorts are proud of their company for being recognized as one of FORTUNE® Magazine's World's Most Admired Companies®. For more information, please visit us at www.mgmresorts.com. Please also connect with us @MGMResortsIntl on Twitter as well as Facebook and Instagram.
About Entain plc
Entain plc (LSE: ENT) is a FTSE100 company and is one of the world's largest sports-betting and gaming groups, operating both online and in the retail sector. The Group owns a comprehensive portfolio of established brands; Sports brands include BetCity, bwin, Coral, Crystalbet, Eurobet, Ladbrokes, Neds, Sportingbet, Sports Interaction and SuperSport; Gaming brands include Foxy Bingo, Gala, GiocoDigitale, Ninja Casino, Optibet, Partypoker and PartyCasino. The Group owns proprietary technology across all its core product verticals and in addition to its B2C operations provides services to a number of third-party customers on a B2B basis.
The Group has a 50/50 joint venture, BetMGM, a leader in sports betting and iGaming in the US. Entain provides the technology and capabilities which power BetMGM as well as exclusive games and products, specially developed at its in-house gaming studios. The Group is tax resident in the UK, operating in over 40 regulated or regulating territories. Entain is a leader in ESG, a member of FTSE4Good, the DJSI and is AA rated by MSCI. The Group has set a science-based target, committing to be carbon net zero by 2035 and through the Entain Foundation supports a variety of initiatives, focusing on safer gambling, grassroots sport, diversity in technology and community projects. For more information see the Group's website: www.entaingroup.com
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Current marketing leader to take company's helm while other longtime employees are promoted to new leadership roles
RALEIGH, N.C., Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Raleigh-based Industry Intelligence leader Vertical IQ announced today that David Buffaloe will assume the role of company president. Buffaloe will be responsible for driving the organization's growth, strategy, and execution, while co-founder and CEO, Bobby Martin, will continue to drive the corporate vision and support business development.
"I have tremendous confidence in David's leadership," Martin noted. "He has gained the respect of the team by being a great listener, learner, and organizer, thoughtful in his approach to challenges. David also has been effective in each leadership role he has taken on at Vertical IQ. We're fortunate he's part of our team and willing to take the helm to help us succeed."
Buffaloe joined the Vertical IQ team in 2019, bringing with him more than 25 years of marketing experience in the technology space. His CMO role at Vertical IQ has evolved to encompass management of the research and product teams as well.
"I'm honored and excited to take on this new challenge, leading a company I love working for," said Buffaloe. "My goal is to build on the vision we have been focused on for the past few years, innovating for new markets while remaining laser-focused on our current customers' success and satisfaction."
In addition to Buffaloe's new role, two other employees were recently promoted:
- Company co-founder and current EVP of sales, Susan Bell, has been named Chief Sales Officer.
- Courtney Farfour, previously the director of customer accounts, was added to the leadership team as VP of Customer Success.
"During their years with Vertical IQ, both Susan and Courtney have been exceptional assets to our organization, consistently exceeding their goals and proving their astute leadership skills again and again," added Martin. "We are fortunate to have them on our leadership team to ensure the company's continued success."
To learn more about Vertical IQ, visit www.verticaliq.com.
Headquartered in Raleigh, N.C., Vertical IQ is a recognized leader in Industry Intelligence. Whether pitching a local brewery or a national biotech company, successful sales, marketing, and customer success teams use Vertical IQ to better understand a prospect's or client's business challenges before, during, and after meetings. Covering more than 560 distinct industries, over 3,400 local economies, and more than 97 percent of the U.S. economy and Canada, Vertical IQ equips users with the confidence and credibility to make memorable first impressions and sustain enduring relationships.
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SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – The Shreveport police are investigating what led to the fatal shooting of a Shreveport man found shot to death in his Queensborough home
According to the coroner, 57-year-old John Anthony Crosby was found by concerned relatives Sunday just after 12:30 p.m. in the 3300 block of Catherine Street.
The coroner identified Crosby through fingerprint comparison. Shreveport police continue to investigate this shooting. | 2023-04-10T04:52:55+00:00 | ktalnews.com | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/crime/relatives-find-shreveport-man-shot-dead-in-home-police-investigate/ |
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Konnor McClain won her first U.S. gymnastics national championship Sunday night, rallying past Shilese Jones in the finals to complete a stunning turnaround since switching training gyms last year.
The 17-year-old McClain posted a two-day total of 112.750, just ahead of Jones at 111.900. Jordan Chiles, part of the U.S. team that won silver at the 2020 Olympics last summer, finished third. Kayla DiCello took fourth, followed by Olympic floor exercise champion Jade Carey in fifth and Skye Blakely in sixth.
McClain was expected to be a factor in the run-up to the Tokyo Games but struggled so much early in the competition season that she felt like “the most garbage gymnast ever,” as she said on Wednesday.
A change of scenery from West Virginia to Texas helped considerably. McClain has flourished at Dallas-based World Gymnastics Academy, owned and operated by Valeri Liukin, the father of 2008 Olympic champion Nastia Liukin. Her confidence has soared in lockstep with her development.
She began Sunday just less than a point behind Jones but took the lead in the first rotation when she drilled her double Yurchenko vault while Jones hopped off the balance beam. She never gave the lead back, though there were some nail-biting moments late.
McClain led Jones by a half-point going into the final rotation but lost her balance while trying to complete a wolf turn spin. Her score of 13.850 opened the door for Jones, who was waiting to go on uneven bars as McClain's score flashed.
It appeared for most of Jones' polished bars set that she was ready to slip by McClain to the top of the podium. Then came her dismount, which she under-rotated, forcing her to sit on the mat, her hopes of a national championship gone.
It was a difficult ending to a promising meet for the resilient 20-year-old.
Jones put together the best single-day performance of her career on Friday, sprinting to the front with four powerful and polished routines that validated her decision to push toward the 2024 Olympics rather than head to college at Florida.
The momentum she built on opening night didn't last long. A miscue on beam cost her the lead. Yet she bounced back following a long 45-minute wait with a dynamic and decidedly grown-up floor routine that seemed to loosen her up.
If Jones was still stewing about falling behind, it didn't show. During warm-ups before vault, Jones basically bench-pressed Chiles, lifting her friend clear over her head during a “Lion King”-themed competition between rotations.
It was a moment that symbolized the slightly looser, more relaxed vibe atop the women's program in the first meet under a new leadership paradigm that split the job of the high-performance director into three separate but equal positions.
Olympic medalists Alicia Sacramone Quinn (strategic lead) and Chellsie Memmel (technical lead) and Dan Baker (developmental lead) are charged with putting together a program that is athlete-centric and world-class at the same time.
Even with reigning Olympic champion Sunisa Lee waiting before returning to elite competition and Simone Biles on sabbatical, the Americans appear to be in good position to reclaim the top of the podium at the 2022 world championships.
Chiles and Carey, who are attempting to compete at the elite and collegiate level at the same time, were solid in their first meet at the sport's highest level since Tokyo. Leanne Wong, who claimed silver in the all-around at the world championships last fall, overcame a foot injury to put together two graceful sets on bars and beam.
Those three, along with McClain, Jones and DiCello appear to be the top contenders to make the five-woman team that will head to Liverpool, England for world championships in late October. The group will be chosen at a national team camp earlier in the month.
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Wahoo! ‘The Super Mario Bros. Movie’ is No. 1 for third week
By JAKE COYLE
AP Film Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” continued to rack up coins at the box office, leading ticket sales for the third straight weekend, as the animation hit neared $1 billion after just 18 days in theaters.
The weekend’s top new release, the horror reboot “Evil Dead Rise” debuted solidly, launching with $23.5 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. But that was no match for Universal Pictures’ “The Super Mario Bros. Movie,” which grossed $58.2 million in its third weekend.
“The Super Mario Bros. Movie” is setting a torrid pace for an animated movie. This week, it became the highest-grossing animated released of the pandemic era, with domestic ticket sales up to $434.3 million through Sunday and its global tally at $871.1 million. When “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” soon passes $1 billion worldwide, it will be just the fourth film of the pandemic era to reach that benchmark, following “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” “Top Gun Maverick” and “Avatar: The Way of Water.”
“Evil Dead Rise,” From Warner Bros. and New Line, is the fifth installment (and first in a decade) in the thriller franchise that Sam Raimi began with this 1981 ultra-low-budget classic, “Evil Dead.” Though Raimi’s subsequent and much-adored films starring Bruce Campbell grew increasingly slapstick, marrying comedy and horror, the 2013 reboot and “Evil Dead Rise” (with Raimi as an executive producer) rely on chillier frights.
“Evil Dead Rise,” which had a reported budget of $17 million, also had originally been planned as an HBO Max release. When Warner Bros. decided direct-to-streaming films weren’t financially appealing, it pushed some films – including “Magic Mike’s Last Dance” and “House Party” – to theaters, and simply canned a few others including “Batgirl” and “Scoob! Holiday Haunt.”
Amazon Studios’ “Air,” likewise initially was intended to go straight to streaming, has also continued to perform well theatrically. The Ben Affleck-directed film, about Nike’s courting of Michael Jordan, dipped a modest 29% in its third weekend with $5.5 million to bring its cumulative total to $41.3 million.
But while horror remains one of the most dependable genres at the box office, and families — after a long dry spell of all-audience releases — have flocked to “Super Mario,” some adult-oriented releases have continued to have a harder time attracting audiences.
Guy Ritchie’s “The Covenant,” starring Jake Gyllenhaal as an injured army sergeant in Afghanistan, opened with $6.3 million in 2,611 theaters. But with mostly good reviews (81% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes) and an “A” CinemaScore from ticket buyers, the MGM release may hold well in coming weeks.
Ari Aster’s “Beau Is Afraid,” the most expensive movie ever made by specialty studio A24, expanded until near-wide release, going from four theaters to 926. Aster’s three-hour opus, received with more mixed reviews than his previous two films (“Hereditary,” “Midsommar”), took in $2.7 million.
Searchlight’s “Chevalier,” starring Kelvin Harrison as the 18th century French composer and violinist Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, also failed to make a dent. It took in $1.5 million in 1,275 theaters.
But with overall business in movie theaters largely thriving thanks to spring hits like “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” and “John Wick: Chapter 4” ($168.9 million domestically in five weeks of release), the theatrical industry will have much to celebrate when it convenes Monday in Las Vegas for the annual CinemaCon. Studios, beginning with Sony Pictures on Monday, will hype their summer blockbusters as Hollywood looks to return to pre-pandemic box-office levels.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Comscore. Final domestic figures will be released Monday.
1. “Super Mario Bros,” $58.2 million.
2. “Evil Dead Rise,” $23.5 million.
3. “The Covenant,” $6.3 million.
4. “John Wick: Chapter 4,” $5.8 million.
5. “Air,” $5.5 million.
6. “Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves,” $5.4 million.
7. “The Pope’s Exorcist,” $3.3 million.
8. “Renfield,” $3.1 million.
9. “Beau Is Afraid,” $2.7 million.
10. “Suzume,” $1.6 million.
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Follow AP Film Writer Jake Coyle on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/jakecoyleAP | 2023-04-23T19:52:50+00:00 | localnews8.com | https://localnews8.com/news/2023/04/23/wahoo-the-super-mario-bros-movie-is-no-1-for-third-week/ |
Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott says her donations have yielded more than $14 billion in funding for about 1,600 nonprofits since 2019, according to her long-awaited website Yield Giving, unveiled Wednesday night.
Scott also announced that she plans to introduce an “open-call process” that allows nonprofits seeking donations from her to send information to her for evaluation. Until now, Scott and her team secretly contacted organizations that they were interested in first, then offered unrestricted donations after receiving the group’s data.
“Information from other people – other givers, my team, the nonprofit teams I’ve been giving to – has been enormously helpful to me,” Scott wrote in a new essay. “If more information about these gifts can be helpful to anyone, I want to share it.”
The website name plays on two meanings of the word “yield:” to produce something positive and to give up control, which together represent Scott’s approach to giving.
“What we have seen from a lot of big donors, big foundations, billionaires is a very top down approach that assumes that the donor knows best, that sees nonprofits sometimes in a negative light,” said Phil Buchanan, president of The Center for Effective Philanthropy, which has studied Scott’s giving.
Scott’s approach falls on the other end of the spectrum, he said, “which is to say, ‘We as donors can yield to those talented people in nonprofits working closest to communities who know best what is needed and how to do it.’”
Some of the donations on Yield Giving have not previously been disclosed, including the single largest gift reported — a $75 million gift to the organization Co-Impact’s fund that supports gender equality and women’s leadership globally. Scott, and her then husband Dan Jewett, had been listed among the fund’s donors, but the gift amount had not been published. Co-Impact did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Another $40 million donation to the nonprofit consulting group that has helped Scott vet and select recipients of her donations was also disclosed.
“While we are an advisor of Scott’s on her philanthropy, we did not have prior knowledge of or involvement with the decision to include Bridgespan as a grant recipient,” The Bridgespan Group said in a statement Wednesday. The group has posted a list of donors who gave to it in 2022 on its website, though it said in the statement that it does not “have a practice” of announcing donations.
Nonprofits disclose information about who funds them in tax forms submitted to the IRS that are eventually made public. But the pandemic has contributed to delays in processing forms from 2020. The disclosure by Scott of this information about her donations helps increase transparency around her giving.
Scott has signed The Giving Pledge, promising to give away more than half of her wealth, which largely comes from her divorce from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. Scott, whose net worth Forbes currently estimates at $27 billion, has not given any interviews about her donations, opting to discuss her reasons in a handful of essays that she posted on Medium and now on Yield Giving.
On the site, Scott writes that she and her team evaluate organizations by analyzing their “potential for sustained positive impact,” including their finances, history, measurement of outcomes, and if they have “experienced leadership representative of the community served.”
Scott says the “open-call” process she plans to start will focus on specific types of organizations or certain locations. She plans to post criteria for eligibility and selection, as well as naming the panel evaluating the applications publicly.
Scott promised to release the database of donations in an essay in March 2022, saying the site would not go live until “it reflects the preferences of every one of these nonprofit teams about how details of their gifts are shared.”
Buchanan said his organization, which has received a gift from Scott, received a short form in September asking how they wanted to be listed on the website, their mission, geographic area and whether they wanted the amount of the donation disclosed.
The anti-poverty nonprofit GiveDirectly was also aware that Scott’s website would list her $60 million gift to its Project 100+ program in 2020, as the second-largest reported gift to a single organization, said Tyler Hall, GiveDirectly’s director of communications. The Project 100+ program provided $1,000 payments to nearly 200,000 American households in need during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Hall hoped being listed on Scott’s website would be a “signal boost” for the nonprofit as an organization doing good work and that it has a good idea.
“Giving money directly to people who are in poverty is a great way to help,” Hall said. “We could move $500 million dollars if we were given that in a year because there’s so much need. And this can be targeted and distributed so thoughtfully and so quickly.”
However, some organizations, including Habitat for Humanity International, said they had not been contacted by Scott’s representatives specifically about posting content to her website.
Easterseals and its affiliates, which collectively received $162 million from Scott in 2020, also said they had not heard from Scott’s representatives about the website, but say it has submitted extensive reporting about their use of the funds.
“We remain grateful for Ms. Scott’s generous philanthropy and will continue to impact the lives of people with disabilities, including veterans and seniors, through her transformational support,” Sharon Watson of Easterseals said by email.
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Thousands of people from around the country have traveled to the small town of Gower, Missouri, after it was discovered that the body of a nun who died there four years ago had not decomposed for the most part.
Sr. Wilhelmina (Lancaster) of the Most Holy Rosary, the foundress of the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles, died at age 95 on May 29, 2019.
She was buried shortly thereafter in a simple wooden casket. She was not embalmed, and her grave was dug by hand by her sisters, said the website of the monastic order.
Recently, with construction of a new altar underway, the sisters of the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles "decided the rightful place of our holy foundress was in the Church."
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"This practice is very common in religious communities, even before their cause [for canonization] has been introduced," the website also noted.
Sr. Wilhelmina was exhumed on April 28 — and although the top of her casket had caved in and there was dirt on her remains, her body and the items she was buried with were in a "remarkably preserved condition," according to the sisters.
"The careful process of cleaning and removing the dirt and mold began, and the body began to lose volume since the initial exhumation with exposure to air," said the monastery.
"Thus some shrinking and darkening took place. All facial features were visible, but as falling dirt had caused damage, especially to the right eye, a Sister carefully created a wax mask to cover the face."
Her profession candle, crucifix and rosary were all intact, said the monastery, in addition to the flowers that had been buried with the body.
Her religious habit, which the monastery described as being "made from natural fibers," was completely preserved.
"The synthetic veil was perfectly intact, while the lining of the coffin, made of very similar material, was completely deteriorated and gone," said the monastery.
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Sister Wilhelmina was known for her devotion to the traditional Latin Mass and her faithfulness to Benedictine contemplation and the Liturgy of the Hours, according to several sources.
In the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox traditions, it has been found that some people do not decompose as expected after death.
This is called "incorruptibility," according to Catholic Answers, a website.
"Similar to how the Father did not allow Jesus’ body to experience corruption while in the tomb (see Acts 1:27), God provides that the bodily remains of some of his faithful ones will not undergo bodily corruption," said the site.
A statement posted online from the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph, the diocese where the monastery is located, acknowledged the unusual happenings in Gower.
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"The condition of the remains of Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster has understandably generated widespread interest and raised important questions. At the same time, it is important to protect the integrity of the mortal remains of Sister Wilhelmina to allow for a thorough investigation," said the diocese.
Bishop James V. Johnston Jr. of Kansas City-St. Joseph is "working to establish a thorough process for understanding the nature of the condition of Sister Wilhelmina’s remains," said the diocese.
"There is a well-established process to pursue the cause for sainthood, but that has not been initiated in this case yet," it also said.
"Bishop Johnston invites all the faithful to continue praying during this time of investigation for God’s will in the lives of the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles; for all women religious; and [for] all the baptized in our common vocation to holiness, with hope and trust in the Lord."
Sr. Wilhelmina's body will be reinterred in its new location in the monastery's church on May 29.
She will be encased in glass, said the monastery.
On Saturday, the sisters of the abbey posted a long message about Sr. Wilhelmina, saying that they are directing all who inquire to this statement.
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They noted, in part, "Regarding what seems to be the miraculous preservation of Sister’s body, we are given the opportunity to contemplate the great gifts God gives us every day, especially the ones that are literally hidden from our eyes."
Their note also said, "We believe that even as Sr. Wilhelmina’s whole life and death was a miracle, pointing the way to Almighty God, that what she has left behind continues to point to His Resurrection and the life of glory that awaits us." | 2023-05-27T22:38:35+00:00 | foxbangor.com | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/missouri-miracle-exhumed-nun-whose-body-did-not-decompose-attracts-travelers-to-small-town/article_acfb8b89-14f5-55e9-abbe-6269613f9a36.html |
Virginia agencies say they are preparing for the winter season armed with lessons learned from a January snowstorm that wreaked havoc across the state and paralyzed 48 miles of Interstate 95 south of the nation’s capital.
The debacle along the East Coast’s busiest highway raised questions about the state’s preparedness for disasters while prompting two investigations and calls for changes to emergency protocols. It was one of the region’s worst travel meltdowns since a 2011 snowstorm created extended gridlock around Washington during the evening rush.
The three primary agencies that respond to weather-related emergencies on state roadways — the Virginia Department of Transportation, Virginia State Police, and the Virginia Department of Emergency Management — said they ramped up training and revised policies while also working on corrective actions issued by the Virginia inspector general in the aftermath.
“VDOT is committed to continually improving our practices to reach our mission during snowstorms — keeping travelers and workers safe,” VDOT spokeswoman Marshall Herman said.
As heavy precipitation fell in the early hours of Jan. 3, tractor-trailers jackknifed on hilly stretches, snow-removal crews became overwhelmed and motorists were left trapped without assistance. Highway traffic cameras went dark and overhead signs didn’t clearly communicate to drivers to avoid the highway ahead, even as it became impassable. It wasn’t until early the next morning that Virginia leaders officially shut down the road.
State officials blamed the incident on challenging conditions from a storm that hit much of the state with more snow than expected. Traffic camera outages and spotty cellphone service left responders unable to assess road conditions that rapidly turned hazardous amid heavy commercial traffic and travelers moving through the corridor after the New Year’s weekend.
“Sometimes you can have all the plans in the world, but Mother Nature will throw you a curveball. And in this case, it was just the worst possible situation,” said state Sen. David W. Marsden (D-Fairfax), who chairs the Senate’s transportation committee. “This was a lesson to be learned.”
After that icy 36 hours in January, Virginia has been more quick to declare states of emergency ahead of storms, prompting a faster response to deploying resources. State transportation officials said that approach also helps to streamline communications between the transportation, police and emergency management agencies that are responsible for storm responses.
Plans this winter call for more “clear and actionable” messages to the public, and when warranted, said Herman, “more aggressive messaging encouraging motorists to avoid travel.”
An August report by the state inspector general’s office criticized VDOT’s communications with the public as ineffective, noting that messages did not clearly state the need to avoid travel on I-95 or, in some cases, provide inaccurate information.
The IG report issued 18 corrective actions to the state agencies, intended to improve response protocols that could ease problems during future storms. Officials at VDOT, VDEM and the State Police said they are working to finalize the recommendations, some of which have an end-of-the-year deadline.
“We always have and will continue to promote emergency preparedness messages for all hazards, to include snow events,” said Lauren Opett, a spokeswoman a VDEM, which is responsible for providing resources to localities and state agencies during and after an emergency.
Opett said the agency is working to complete “a full assessment of our plans, policies, and procedures.” She declined to provide more details, citing ongoing work to implement the inspector general’s corrective actions.
Driver advocates say it is also important for residents to be prepared for such scenarios in wintry weather. On road trips, experts recommend drivers stay aware of weather along the entire route and be flexible to detour or wait out storms.
Experts also recommend that drivers keep an emergency kit available during all seasons, which can be handy if traffic becomes stalled after a serious collision. According to AAA, 40 percent of American drivers don’t carry an emergency kit in their vehicles.
During winter, an emergency kit should include first-aid supplies, drinking water, snacks, a flashlight with extra batteries, jumper cables, warm gloves, clothes, hats and blankets. Gas tanks shouldn’t fall below a quarter full and a mobile phone and charger should be accessible.
“It’s important to be prepared,” said Ragina Ali, spokeswoman for AAA Mid-Atlantic. “I’m hoping that incidents like this have caused people to carry an emergency kit in their vehicle. Unfortunately, they’re painful reminders of how important it is to actually have one with you.”
Ali said travelers should follow social media accounts or websites of state departments of transportation where they are traveling. In turn, she said agencies should “do their best to advise motorists of what is expected as far as weather goes … and also advise motorists to stay off the roads,” when necessary.
VDOT said it is conducting a “multipronged review” of its state, district and local messaging systems, while employees have received preparedness training that emphasizes improved messaging. The state’s 511 system, a key source of traffic information that remained relatively quiet during January’s storm, is receiving an upgrade expected to be finished next year, Herman said.
The state has also purchased a new system to enable two-way communication between drivers and VDOT crews during emergencies. A new service to launch in December will allow in-cab safety alerts to commercial vehicles during weather events. The state has also partnered with Waze to provide emergency updates, officials said.
VDOT’s nine districts have also identified additional locations to stage wreckers and snowplows, especially where work zones effect movement in the area.
VDOT also plans to have more staff available to drive routes and report on conditions, prioritizing areas where traffic cameras become unavailable. At the recommendation of the inspector general, VDOT also is exploring the use of backup power for highway cameras, although those plans are in early phases.
Virginia State Police said it has acquired several drones equipped with cameras that can be used to assess traffic incidents and identify traffic chokepoints and detour routes, particularly in places where VDOT cameras are not available.
VDOT said each of its districts will set up its own “district command” during major weather events, placing local leadership in a position to better report to the agency’s central office in Richmond.
State police are reviewing emergency response policies and procedures to ensure they align with the recommendations of two investigations into the storm. Spokeswoman Corinne Geller said the agency also has changed its communications policy so its superintendent’s office is kept informed of critical incidents and “significant unusual occurrences.”
The three agencies are continuing to work on a plan for handling long-term closures and assisting stranded motorists, officials said, with directives to coordinate wellness checks, and if necessary, message motorists through texting software already used in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. More immediately, police have started to tag agencies in neighboring states when posting about conditions on social media.
Marsden said he is confident state agencies and Virginia leadership will be prepared to confront severe storms and have learned from the problems that surfaced in January along I-95.
“What you’re probably going to see on the administration’s part this winter is hyper-vigilance,” he said. “We learned from it. I think we’ll do better.” | 2022-11-22T12:11:08+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2022/11/22/virginia-i95-storm-lessons/ |
WASHINGTON, N.C. (WNCT) — The Washington Planning Board on Tuesday will consider approving plans for 60 apartment units to be built on a Clarks Neck Road property.
City Council earlier this month approved changing the property’s zoning to residential multifamily. The planning board will review the property’s site plan and proposed exterior building facade. In supporting documents, city staff said those plans meet the requirements set forth in the zoning ordinance. “Minor specific details” are still being reviewed by staff and will need to be approved by the Technical Review Committee before building permits are issued.
Beaufort County officials have been discussing ways to bring more affordable housing options to the area. The county commissioners recently approved a charter for the new Beaufort County Workforce Housing Task Force. | 2023-02-22T23:21:40+00:00 | wnct.com | https://www.wnct.com/local-news/washington/board-to-review-plans-for-new-washington-apartment-complex/ |
The best deals from the Home Depot Red, White and Blue Sale
July 4th is an ideal time to get together with your family and friends. Still, there’s more to the holiday than fireworks. Home Depot’s 4th of July Sale is an excellent time to save on lawn care and gardening supplies. Additionally, many name-brand power tools are deeply discounted, meaning it’s a great time to pick up necessities for your next DIY project.
Home Depot 4th of July tool deals
Home Depot is one of the best places to buy tools. They carry mostly well-known brands, and you can purchase many tools in sets. Many power tools are over 20% to 30% off during the July 4th sales event.
Cordless drills
Cordless drills are more versatile and nearly as powerful as corded-electric models. Many cordless drills feature batteries that you can use with other cordless tools. For example, Milwaukee cordless drills include batteries you can use with Milwaukee-brand impact drivers, nail guns and orbit sanders.
Socket wrench sets
Socket wrenches let you reach places that many adjustable wrenches can’t. You’ll want a set of wrenches that can stand up to extreme forces. Wrenches made from chrome, vanadium and molybdenum tend to be the strongest.
Power tool sets
If you need several tools, you can save money buying them in a set. Home Depot has comprehensive tool sets that have everything you’ll need. Still, you can save money buying a smaller set with just a few items. Many power tool sets include durable bags to store your new array of tools.
Home Depot 4th of July lawn and garden deals
Since the sale is in the middle of the summer, it’s an ideal time to buy lawn and garden supplies. Whether you’re planting a garden or just need new lawn tools, Home Depot is sure to have what you need.
Planters
Planters are an ideal way to grow vegetables or flowers. When buying a planter, you should consider its size, material and weight. Large ones are often relatively expensive, but they result in larger plants. You may decide to move your plants, so you’ll want planters that aren’t too heavy to carry.
Lawn mowers
Lawn mowers are the most important landscaping tool you’ll ever buy. Cordless mowers are among the quietest but least powerful. Corded-electric mowers are generally more powerful than cordless models, but the cord can get in the way. Gas mowers are typically the most powerful, although they’re loud and often require maintenance.
Home Depot 4th of July major appliance deals
Home Depot has every type of appliance you could imagine. If you’ve never bought a major appliance online, this is an excellent time to try it. Home Depot offers free shipping on most orders over $45 and most major appliances.
Refrigerators
You can shop for refrigerators from well-known brands like Samsung and LG. When shopping for a refrigerator, you’ll want to consider whether you want a top-freezer, bottom-freezer or side-by-side model. Additionally, it’s important to consider the fridge’s dimensions. If you have a cabinet that hangs over your refrigerator, it may be best to choose a shorter model.
Many refrigerators have additional features that are worth considering. For example, some have showcase doors that let you access frequently used products without opening the entire door.
Electric ranges
Electric ranges are often more affordable and safer than gas models. Many feature smooth glass cooktops and expandable burners. When buying an electric range, it’s important to consider its size, energy consumption and additional features.
Washers and dryers
When choosing a washer and dryer, you’ll want to know whether you want a top-load or front-load model. Front-load washers often require less water than top-load models. Additionally, they’re usually quieter and allow clothes to dry more quickly. Still, top-load washers typically have a larger capacity and don’t require you to bend down.
Best Home Depot 4th of July deals
Best cordless drill deals
DeWalt Atomic 20-Volt Max Cordless Brushless Drill And Driver
This drill is lightweight and powerful. It has an LED work light that illuminates the space in front of it. This set includes a drill, battery, charger and a small toolbag. Many were impressed with its battery life.
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Milwaukee M18 18-Volt Lithium-Ion Cordless Drill Driver And Impact Driver Combo Kit
This kit includes a cordless drill, an impact driver, two batteries, a charger and a toolbag. The included batteries are compatible with over 200 tools. The tools have a 5-year warranty, and the batteries have a two-year warranty. The drill’s torque is powerful enough to get the job done but gentle enough not to hurt your wrist.
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Ryobi One+ 18-Volt Cordless Drill And Driver Kit
The drill features a 24-position clutch and a two-speed gearbox. This kit includes a cordless drill, an impact driver, two batteries, a charger and a toolbag. The tools have a 3-year limited warranty. Many were impressed with the drill’s power and battery life.
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Best socket wrench set deals
Husky 3/8-Inch Drive Mechanics Tool Set
This 70-piece set includes one ratchet and three extensions. Most people said they were impressed with the wrench’s comfortable grip and socket release button. The chrome finish makes the set easy to clean, and it is backed by a lifetime warranty.
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GearWrench 3/8-Inch And 1/2-Inch Drive Master Impact Socket Set
This kit includes extensions, SAE sockets, metric sockets and universal adapters. The tools are made from molybdenum and coated in black oxide for enhanced durability and corrosion resistance.
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Best power tool set deals
Ryobi One+ 18-Volt Cordless Six-Tool Combo Kit
This kit includes a drill, impact driver, circular saw, reciprocating saw, multi-tool, LED light, two batteries and a tool bag. The tools are backed by a 3-year warranty. The batteries are compatible with over 200 Ryobi tools.
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Milwaukee M18 18V Lithium-Ion Five-Tool Combo Kit
This kit includes a drill, impact driver, circular saw, grinder, multi-tool, two batteries and a toolbag. Many were impressed with most of the included tools.
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Dewalt 20-Volt Max Cordless Combo Kit
This kit includes nine tools, two batteries and two toolbags. A 3-year limited warranty backs the tools, and the batteries are compatible with over 200 Dewalt-brand tools.
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Best planter deals
Varadek Midland 30-Inch Plastic Tall Square Planters
These are available in black, white and brown. Many were impressed with the plastic’s durability. They feature a stylish design and aren’t excessively heavy.
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Root Pouch Breathable 15-Gallon Fabric Planting Containers
This includes five large planters. They have handles, making them easy to move around. They’re available in brown, green and white. Many were impressed with the durability and low price.
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Best lawn mower deals
Yard Machines Briggs and Stratton Gas Push Mower
This features a 20-inch cutting path and ships fully assembled. Many people said they were impressed with this mower’s durability.
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Makita 18-Volt Cordless Self-Propelled Lawn Mower Kit
This has a 21-inch cutting path and comes with four batteries. It features a sleek black-and-blue design. It’s powerful compared to most battery-powered mowers.
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Ryobi 13-Amp Electric Walk Behind Lawn Mower
It’s lightweight and easy to store. It features a 20-inch cutting path and is powerful enough to cut through dense grass. It’s built to last and includes a removable bag.
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Best refrigerator deals
GE Profile Smart Four-Door French Door Refrigerator
This features a door-in-door rotating bin, letting you easily access your favorite foods and condiments. The sleek, stainless-steel design looks great in any kitchen. Many were impressed with the storage space.
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LG Electronics Side by Side Refrigerator With InstaView
The showcase door is ideal for easily accessing food. It features a sleek design and a roomy interior. It’s available in stainless steel and black stainless steel.
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Best electric range deals
Samsung Smart Freestanding Electric Range
This WiFi-enabled range lets you preheat your oven and adjust the temperature using your phone or voice controls. The stovetop holds a consistent temperature and the oven preheats quickly.
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This oven features smart capabilities and a built-in air fryer. It’s available in stainless steel and black stainless steel. It has five burners and an easy-to-clean interior.
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Best washer and dryer deals
LG Electronics Graphite Steel WashTower Laundry Center
This features a stylish look and takes up less floor space thanks to its stackable design. It’s quiet, efficient and easy to use. It’s backed by a 10-year limited warranty.
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Magic Chef All-In-One Ventless And Washer Dryer Combo
This includes a child lock and a one-year parts and labor warranty. Many loved the convenience of not having to switch their laundry over when it finished washing.
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Worcester’s Lucky’s Cafe has permanently closed its doors, at least for the time being, owner Peter Armer confirmed Wednesday.
Armer said that he hoped to eventually reopen in another location, but wasn’t sure if or when that would happen.
“We’re considering any options we have. We have no commitment to anything specific, but hopefully it’ll turn around and well have something offered to us that we can pursue,” he said.
Armer and co-owner Patti Hallinan ran Lucky’s for more than 30 years at 102 Grove St., but were forced to leave the space in December 2021 when their landlord did not renew their lease, MassLive previously reported. That space is now home to Fuel America.
In June 2022, Lucky’s reopened at 10 Chestnut St., the former Fallon Health building. While Armer was optimistic at the time that the restaurant’s loyal following from its previous location would make the move with it, that didn’t happen, and with many Fallon Health office workers working from home post-pandemic, there was little traffic from inside the building either.
Lucky’s recently began offering Sunday brunch, which was popular when they were on Grove Street, in the hopes of making up for some of the traffic.
On April 17, Lucky’s posted on Facebook saying the restaurant would be closed for the day, and it never reopened.
In March, Fallon Health sold the two-building complex to Synergy Investments, the same company that owns Worcester Plaza at 446 Main St., for $10.5 million. | 2023-04-26T21:10:49+00:00 | masslive.com | https://www.masslive.com/dining/2023/04/luckys-cafe-closes-in-worcester-one-year-after-moving-to-chestnut-street.html |
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The storms in the metro have caused rain waters to flow into the arroyos. It’s carrying not just water but trash dumped or left in the arroyos.
There’s been a big push over the years to keep Albuquerque’s arroyos clear from trash, debris, and people setting up homeless encampments. Have those efforts made a difference?
Recent rainfall has shown there’s still a lot of work to be done.
“Everything that is in the arroyo upstream is down here. You can see tires, grocery carts, furniture. You could see everything,” said Mark Mabry who patrols the arroyos.
In an effort to curb trash from flowing down the arroyos and into the Rio Grande, Albuquerque Metropolitan Arroyo Flood Control Authority (AMAFCA) has been filtering out trash and debris for years.
“I am happy to say that we collected more trash last year than we did the year before and the year before that,” said AMAFCA Executive Engineer Jerry Lovato.
Recent pictures from the Embudo Arroyo in the Northeast Heights show large amounts of trash, shopping carts, and what appears to be a refrigerator after being pushed out by fast-moving water.
“That means two things. One: Our system is efficient, and it’s working like it is intended to, and two: people are still not picking up their trash, and they are allowing it to end up in the road and streets and ultimately into the channels,” said Lovato.
Lovato said crews are sent out to pick up the debris, but the biggest problem they see in the arroyo is homeless encampments.
“It is not unusual to have between 10-15 encounters a week, and so a lot of times we have repeat offenders and a lot of times we have new people.”
However, Lovato said the reinforcement of last year’s no-trespassing ordinance has made a difference.
“Over the last year, we have seen a large decrease in the amount of homeless encampments that have been established within channels and inside box culverts and under bridges.”
Lovato explained recent clean-up has helped crews prepare for this year’s monsoon season, and he is confident they will continue their streak of having less trash and encampments in the arroyos.
AMAFCA stated it will also be pushing for more safety with billboards warning of the risks of hanging out in the arroyos. | 2023-06-07T23:19:01+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/news/albuquerque-metro/amafca-working-to-keep-arroyos-clear-of-debris-and-homeless-camps/ |
ATLANTA (WXIN) – Chick-fil-A has rolled out a few new menu items for the fall season.
The chicken chain is debuting an Autumn Spice Milkshake — its answer to the pumpkin-spice craze, seemingly — and bringing back its Grilled Spicy Deluxe Sandwich, described by Chick-fil-A as a “favorite seasonal sandwich.”
This limited-time shake is made with with fall-inspired flavors, including cinnamon and crunchy bits of brown sugar spice cookies, according to the company’s website.
“Guests love our milkshakes, especially our seasonal flavors, so we are excited to introduce the perfect treat to welcome the fall season,” said Leslie Neslage, director of menu and packaging at Chick-fil-A, in a press release.
The sandwich, meanwhile, is essentially a grilled version of Chick-fil-A’s spicy chicken sandwich, with lettuce, tomato and Colby-Jack cheese.
Chick-fil-A says the Autumn Spice Milkshake is being added to the menu at participating locations after a successful test in Salt Lake City, where it received an “overwhelming amount of positive feedback.”
“We’re eager for our Chick-fil-A milkshake enthusiasts to try the Autumn Spice Milkshake this fall,” said Neslage.
The Autumn Spice Milkshake will only be on the menu at participating restaurants for a limited time. Customers can also order through the Chick-fil-A app or online. | 2022-09-09T18:48:00+00:00 | valleycentral.com | https://www.valleycentral.com/news/chick-fil-a-introduces-new-shake-brings-back-spicy-sandwich/ |
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) – Get ready for a night of food, fashion, and inspiration is gearing up.
Girl Talk Inc. has been serving Knoxville girls since 2006 providing them them mentors to guide each of them on their personal and professional journey’s.
A big way the organization makes their mission known is with their annual Fashion Show Gala. On Saturday, August 13 the Girl Talk Inc. will be holding a night of a fun fashion show, food and drinks, and great photo opportunities. Tickets are on sale now.
Professional women in the Knoxville area and a few girl talk mentees will take the stage for a fun fashion show showing off not just what is on the outside, but on the inside. Confidence, radiance, and elegance will be all that these girls will be showing off.
This year, the Girl Talk Inc. Fashion Show Gala will preview their “glow up” over the years. Girl Talk Inc. offers 3 different ways you can get involved. Their mentorship programs include 1×1 Mentor, School & Site-Based, and LIFE Prep Academy.
There is always a chance to get involved with this great organization, visit their website to find your perfect fit. | 2022-07-15T04:21:21+00:00 | wate.com | https://www.wate.com/living-east-tennessee/11th-annual-fashion-show-to-benefit-local-organization/ |
Man arrested in Dallas Korean-owned hair salon shooting indicted on hate crimes
By Chris Boyette, CNN
A man accused of shooting three people in a Dallas hair salon in May has been indicted on seven counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon as a hate crime, according to the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office.
“A Dallas County Grand Jury has returned multiple indictments on Jeremy Smith, 37, charged in connection to shootings allegedly motivated by bias or prejudice against Asian Americans — thus classified under Texas law as a hate crime,” the DA’s office said in a news release Tuesday.
The grand jury met August 4, according to the DA’s office.
Smith was arrested May 16 and remains in the Lew Sterrett Justice Center on a $700,000 bond, the DA’s office said.
CNN has reached out to Smith’s attorney, Don Guidry, for comment.
Suspect fired multiple shots and fled, affidavits said
On May 11, Smith entered Hair World Salon, a Korean-owned business, with a .22 caliber rifle and began shooting, according to the probable cause affidavits obtained by CNN. He fired approximately 13 times, hitting three people before running back to his vehicle and fleeing, according to the affidavit.
One person was shot in her right forearm, one was shot in the foot and one was shot in the lower back, the affidavit states.
Authorities have surveillance video of a man who matches the complainants’ description running back to a vehicle, the affidavit says. The affidavit describes the vehicle seen on the surveillance video as a red Honda Odyssey minivan.
Smith said he was in the area of the shooting at the time, the affidavit states, adding that he owned two guns: a .380 handgun and a .22 caliber rifle “that looks like an ‘AK-47,’ ” and he was the only person with access to his vehicle. A .380 handgun magazine with four live rounds in it was found in the suspect’s pocket when he was taken into custody.
On May 16, a search warrant for Smith’s vehicle was executed and police found a cell phone, a Jimenez .380 handgun, a gun magazine with four live rounds and a box of Winchester .380 ammunition with six live rounds, the affidavit states.
Police interviewed Smith’s girlfriend who told them Smith had been in a motor vehicle crash about two years ago with an Asian male, and since then, Smith “has had near panic attacks when he is around anyone of Asian descent. Anytime the suspect (Smith) is around anyone of Asian descent he begins having delusions that the Asian mob is after him or attempting to harm him. Due to the delusions, the suspect has been admitted to several mental health facilities,” according to the affidavit.
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CNN’s Andy Rose, Paradise Afshar and Raja Razek contributed to this report. | 2022-08-10T15:48:52+00:00 | keyt.com | https://keyt.com/news/2022/08/10/man-arrested-in-dallas-korean-owned-hair-salon-shooting-indicted-on-hate-crimes/ |
(The Hill) — The West Virginia Coal Association and several other state-based coal industry groups on Wednesday blasted the tax and climate deal that Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) agreed to last week, warning it will “severely threaten American coal” and an estimated 381,000 jobs.
“This legislation is so egregious, it leaves those of us that call Sen. Manchin a friend, shocked and disheartened,” the groups wrote in a blistering statement that accused the West Virginia senator of zigzagging in the energy debate.
“Sen. Manchin has seemingly fought against numerous climate measures advanced over the past year by the national democratic establishment,” the groups said. “The current Schumer-Manchin draft agreement on climate and energy frankly leaves us questioning the motivation and sincerity of Manchin’s previous stance and his repeated chant: we must ‘innovate not eliminate.’”
The groups warn the deal Manchin crafted with Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) after months of negotiation “will quickly diminish our coal producing operations and all but obviate any need to innovate coal assets.”
The groups argue the bill — which Democrats have dubbed the Inflation Reduction Act and plan to pass this weekend — will do “nothing for coal or coal generation” and won’t reduce inflation or lower household energy costs.
“By turbocharging the lofty incentives that already extend to renewable energy, our nation’s baseload (reliable) coal electric generation assets will continue to be devalued and thrust into rapid decline,” the groups warned.
The statement was signed by Chris Hamilton, the president of the West Virginia Coal Association, as well as the leaders of the Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas and Wyoming mining associations.
Manchin on Tuesday said he didn’t agree with predictions the bill will lead to coal plants closing in his state.
“I don’t think that’s the case at all,” he told reporters. “We have to have a vibrant fossil industry. We have a lot of coal plants that have been pretty old.”
“Coal is going to be needed for the base load that we’re going to have to have,” he said, arguing that coal will continue to generate enough electricity to meet minimum domestic demand.
Manchin also cited permitting reform, an initiative he is pushing in conjunction with the energy and climate provisions in the budget bill, as something that will also help fossil fuel producers. | 2022-08-04T14:54:20+00:00 | texomashomepage.com | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/national-news/coal-industry-shocked-and-disheartened-by-manchin-climate-deal/ |
ISLAMABAD (AP) — The U.N. said Wednesday it cannot accept a Taliban decision to bar Afghan female staffers from working at the agency, calling it an “unparalleled” violation of women’s rights.
The statement came a day after the U.N. said it had been informed by Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban that Afghan women would no longer be allowed to work for the world body. That announcement came after the U.N. mission in the country expressed concern that its female staffers were prevented from reporting to work in eastern Nangarhar province.
The Taliban decision is “an unparalleled violation of women’s rights, a flagrant breach of humanitarian principles, and a breach of international rules,” Wednesday’s statement said.
The Taliban have not commented publicly on the ban.
The U.N. statement said several U.N. national female personnel have already experienced restrictions on their movements, including harassment, intimidation and detention.
“The UN has therefore instructed all national staff – men and women – not to report to the office until further notice,” the statement said.
Despite initial promises of a more moderate rule than during its previous stint in power in the 1990s, the Taliban have imposed harsh measures since taking over the country in 2021 as U.S. and NATO forces were pulling out of Afghanistan after two decades of war.
Girls are banned from education beyond sixth grade. Women are barred from working, studying, traveling without a male companion, and even going to parks. Women must also cover themselves from head to toe.
Prior to Tuesday, Afghan women were already barred from working at national and international non-governmental organizations, disrupting the delivery of humanitarian aid. But the ban did not cover working for the U.N.
That changed this week. On Wednesday, the U.N. mission said that under the Taliban order, no Afghan woman is permitted to work for the U.N. in Afghanistan, and that “this measure will be actively enforced.”
The ban is unlawful under international law and cannot be accepted by the United Nations, the statement said.
The secretary-general’s special representative for Afghanistan, Roza Otunbayeva, was engaging Taliban authorities to convey the U.N.’s protest and to seek an immediate reversal of the order. The U.N. said it is also engaging member states, the donor community and humanitarian partners.
“In the history of the United Nations, no other regime has ever tried to ban women from working for the Organization just because they are women,” said Otunbayeva. “This decision represents an assault against women, the fundamental principles of the U.N., and on international law.”
Ramiz Alakbarov, the U.N. deputy special representative for Afghanistan, said at a news conference in New York that both male and female Afghan national staff have been asked to stay home until they can return to work under “normal conditions.”
“We will not have a situation where we are only working with all-male teams,” he said.
The U.N. has about 3,900 staff in Afghanistan, including approximately 3,300 Afghans and 600 international personnel. The total also includes 600 Afghan women and 200 women from other countries.
Alakbarov said this means all 3,300 U.N. national staff will stay home until the women can return to work, and they will be paid.
He said the ban doesn’t apply to international female staff and they are able to move freely and provide aid. But he said they are only about 30% or less of the total U.N. Afghanistan staff.
Alakbarov said the new U.N. policy in the country will be revised depending on what sort of exemptions or operational environment can be negotiated. However, he said there is no scenario in which the U.N. would provide aid in the country with men only.
“It is not possible to reach women without women and without women, they will not be reached. And that’s the unfortunate reality,” he said.
Alakbarov said U.N. officials led by Otunbayeva met Tuesday with the Taliban’s foreign minister and they were told “there will be no additional order because the order was already issued in December,” apparently a reference to the Taliban decision that month to bar women from working for NGOs.
Taliban restrictions in Afghanistan have drawn fierce international condemnation. But the Taliban have shown no signs of backing down, claiming the bans are temporary suspensions in place allegedly because women were not wearing the Islamic headscarf, or hijab, correctly and because gender segregation rules were not being followed.
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Lederer reported from the United Nations. | 2023-04-05T22:35:04+00:00 | wboy.com | https://www.wboy.com/news/world/un-officials-condemn-taliban-ban-on-female-afghan-staffers/ |
Ole Miss WBB heading to Stanford, will face Gonzaga in NCAA Tournament
Ole Miss women’s basketball is set to play Gonzaga in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. The Rebels earned a No. 8 seed after a 23-8 season, going 11-5 in SEC play. Head coach Yolett McPhee-McCuin has led the Rebels to back-to-back 20 win seasons for the first time since 1995.
The Rebels broke their NCAA Tournament drought last season, making it to the big dance for the first time since 2007, but were bounced in the first round by South Dakota. They got over the hump last year by making the tournament, this season McPhee-McCuin has made it clear that she isn’t satisfied with a tournament appearance. They want to make a run.
That run starts against No. 9 Gonzaga. They finished 28-4 and 18-1 in the West Coast Conference.
The other side of the region features top seeded Stanford and No. 16 Southern/No. 16 Sacred Heart. The Rebs and Gonzaga tip off on Friday.
We’ll have you covered throughout the Rebs’ NCAA Tournament journey. | 2023-03-13T08:20:48+00:00 | wcbi.com | https://www.wcbi.com/ole-miss-wbb-heading-to-stanford-will-face-gonzaga-in-ncaa-tournament/ |
Authorities in northern Idaho are not ruling out more criminal charges after the arrests of 31 white nationalists who are accused of planning to riot at a Pride festival.
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Authorities in northern Idaho are not ruling out more criminal charges after the arrests of 31 white nationalists who are accused of planning to riot at a Pride festival.
Copyright 2022 NPR | 2022-06-14T09:24:01+00:00 | wlrn.org | https://www.wlrn.org/2022-06-14/police-in-idaho-arrested-dozens-of-patriot-front-members-near-a-pride-event |
AUSTIN, Texas, June 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Aurigo Software, the leading provider of capital planning and construction management software for infrastructure and private owners, announced it has entered into a multiyear contract with the Hawaii Department of Transportation (HDOT) to streamline the state's transportation planning process. Hawaii's Statewide Transportation Plan encompasses the state's entire transportation infrastructure, ensuring that capital programs are comprehensive, integrated, and publicly accountable. Aurigo's flagship product suite, Masterworks, will help HDOT prioritize project requests, manage the use of state and federal funds, and keep track of program performance throughout delivery.
HDOT has the responsibility to plan, design, construct, operate, and maintain state facilities in all modes of transportation, including air, water, and land. The agency was formed shortly after Hawaii became a state in 1959 and is comprised of three modal divisions (airports, harbors, and highways) and a support services division. The DOT currently manages eleven commercial service airports, four general aviation airports, ten commercial harbors, and thousands of highway lane miles, all spread across the state's six major islands.
"Hawaii's unique geography and multimodal approach to transportation requires careful planning and selection of the right projects to meet their residents' infrastructure needs," said Balaji Sreenivasan, CEO and founder of Aurigo Software. "Our team is delighted to partner with the state to streamline how projects are evaluated and funded, leading to more reliable multiyear forecasts, and reduced financial risk for their statewide program. We're thrilled to contribute to their mission and support a safer, more connected future in Hawaii."
Aurigo's Masterworks will allow HDOT to create capital projects, prioritize them, and estimate their costs. Funding across different sources will be set up and tracked, providing the agency with a robust and flexible way to associate, update, and combine funds on projects when needed. The system will also automate the obligation and reimbursement process for federal funds, integrating with the Federal Highway Administration's Financial Management Information System (FMIS).
Additionally, the system will integrate with HDOT's existing technology stack, including design software provided by Autodesk, to create a comprehensive digital lifecycle management solution for the plan-build environment. Pre-configured application interfaces will allow HDOT to transfer data between different phases on a project, providing a single source of truth across the entire lifecycle.
According to the state's most recent transportation plan, HDOT intends to deliver capital improvements totaling over $1.4 billion in 2024 to Hawaii's highways, airports, and harbors. The highway system provides mobility for over 1.4 million Hawaii residents—including a civilian labor force of approximately 680,000 people—over 8 million visitors, and over 32 million tons of freight each year. Masterworks will allow state planners to conduct what-if analysis on proposed plans to help identify optimal project combinations based on available funding and strategic priority.
"Hawaii DOT is excited to implement Aurigo's Masterworks platform to support our strategic goals of improved safety, resiliency, and economic vitality," said Ed Sniffen, Director of the Hawaii Department of Transportation. "Modernizing our capital planning operations will speed up approval times and help deliver the infrastructure Hawaiians need now and in the future."
Hawaii joins several other states using Masterworks to modernize their capital programs, including Utah, Delaware, Massachusetts, and Iowa. The company has seen expanding interest in its capital planning capabilities as major public agencies take advantage of funding from the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act passed in November 2021.
About Aurigo Software
Aurigo builds software that helps build the world. Aurigo provides modern, cloud-based solutions for capital infrastructure and private owners to help them plan with confidence and build with quality. With more than $300 billion of capital programs under management, Aurigo's solutions are trusted by over 300 customers in transportation, water and utilities, healthcare, higher education, and the government with over 40,000 projects across North America. Aurigo helps capital program executives make better decisions based on proprietary artificial intelligence and machine learning technology. Aurigo is a privately held U.S. corporation headquartered in Austin, Texas, with global offices in Canada and India. Learn more at www.aurigo.com.
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Galion 72, Upper Sandusky 63
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WILLAMINA, Ore. (AP) — A student and a deputy were treated at a hospital Tuesday after they likely were exposed to fentanyl at an Oregon middle school, authorities said.
The Yamhill County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement Wednesday that one of their deputies on Tuesday went to Willamina Middle School southwest of Portland to follow up on a case and was asked by a staff member to help check a bathroom for a suspicious odor.
The deputy went to the modular classroom bathroom, noted a strong acrid smell and requested that staff and students evacuate the classroom, according to the sheriff’s office.
The deputy started exhibiting symptoms indicative of a possible overdose, and some students also reported feeling unwell, the sheriff’s office said.
Employees with the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Emergency Services responded, gave aid to one student and checked on two others. One student was taken by ambulance to a Salem hospital. The deputy was also treated at a hospital after a supervisor saw that the deputy needed medical attention.
The deputy reported tightness in the chest with a restricted ability to breathe, along with other symptoms, and exhibited confusion and the inability to speak coherently, the sheriff’s office said.
The sheriff’s office said a student may have been burning what at this time are believed to be counterfeit M30 pills containing fentanyl.
The Willamina School District notified parents and the affected classroom was ventilated and thoroughly cleaned, the sheriff’s office said.
Multiple documented fentanyl overdoses have happened the county in the last four days, one of which was fatal, according to the sheriff’s office. Because of that, authorities are concerned about a potential regional distribution of a particularly potent batch of counterfeit pills. | 2023-01-19T16:29:30+00:00 | ksn.com | https://www.ksn.com/news/national-world/ap-us-news/ap-2-treated-for-likely-fentanyl-exposure-at-oregon-school/ |
NEW YORK, Jan. 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- TransPerfect, the world's largest provider of language and technology solutions for global business, today announced a major contract renewal for Guaranteed Rate. Building off Guaranteed Rate's September 2022 launch leveraging TransPerfect's GlobalLink platform, this collaboration will support Guaranteed Rate's multi-channel communications campaign for Spanish-speaking consumers in the US.
Guaranteed Rate specializes in providing easy, transferable, and affordable mortgage loans through a system that aims to simplify home buying. Increasing accessibility through an exceptional Spanish-language process is a top priority for Guaranteed Rate. With Spanish-speaking agents as well as Spanish educational materials, transaction documentation, corporate websites, and customer support services, Guaranteed Rate is one of the first mortgage organizations to provide an end-to-end experience in Spanish.
Guaranteed Rate chose TransPerfect and its GlobalLink technology to support the creation and launch of its customer-facing content, including marketing and supporting materials, with minimal assistance needed from IT and project management teams. The simplicity of the launch and maintenance has resulted in significant cost and time savings for Guaranteed Rate.
GlobalLink is a cloud-based, intuitive platform designed to manage the complex demands of creating, deploying, and maintaining multilingual content, drastically reducing the time and effort required throughout the localization process.
"When members of the Latino community come to us, we are keenly aware that they are seeking more than just a house. The well-being of their families, their hopes and aspirations, and the future they plan to build for themselves—it's all rolled into one," remarked Arlyn Kalinski, Vice President of LEP Compliance for Guaranteed Rate. "That's why our mortgage process, tools, and services are groundbreaking. For Guaranteed Rate, it's about equal access. It's about educating and empowering the consumer so that they are able to reach the dream of homeownership."
TransPerfect President and CEO Phil Shawe commented, "Buying a home is a significant personal milestone that many aspire to reach. We appreciate Guaranteed Rate's commitment to Spanish-speaking consumers and are grateful that we're able to continue assisting in their efforts."
About Guaranteed Rate
Guaranteed Rate Companies is a leader in mortgage lending and digital financial services. Headquartered in Chicago, the Guaranteed Rate Companies have more than 8,000 employees in over 850 branches across the U.S., serving all 50 states and Washington, D.C. Since its launch in 2000, Guaranteed Rate Companies have helped more than 1 million homeowners with home purchase loans and refinances, with a total loan volume of more than $116 billion in 2021 alone. The company has cemented itself as an industry leader by introducing innovative technology, offering low rates and delivering unparalleled customer service. Honors and awards include: Top Lender for Online Service for 2018 by U.S. News & World Report; Best Mortgage Lender for Online Loans and Best Mortgage Lender for Refinancing by NerdWallet for 2021; HousingWire's 2020 Tech100 award for the company's industry-leading FlashClose℠ technology; No. 3 ranking in Scotsman Guide's 2021 list of Top Retail Mortgage Lenders; Chicago Agent Magazine's Lender of the Year for six consecutive years; and Chicago Tribune's Top Workplaces list for seven consecutive years. Visit rate.com for more information.
About TransPerfect
TransPerfect is the world's largest provider of language and technology solutions for global business. From offices in over 100 cities on six continents, TransPerfect offers a full range of services in 200+ languages to clients worldwide. More than 6,000 global organizations employ TransPerfect's GlobalLink® technology to simplify management of multilingual content. With an unparalleled commitment to quality and client service, TransPerfect is fully ISO 9001 and ISO 17100 certified. TransPerfect has global headquarters in New York, with regional headquarters in London and Hong Kong. For more information, please visit our website at www.transperfect.com.
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Carla Hall’s bright smile could light a dark room.
This isn’t some fake effervescence linked to always being “on,” a phrase used to describe television personalities and their on-camera personas.
In Hall’s case, it’s a true passion for helping, which is why she linked with Pepsi Dig in Day, which is Nov. 6, and the company’s efforts to help Black-owned restaurants. That passion extends to the changing nature of Black cuisine, which can include African and Caribbean food and tried-and-true soul food.
In an easy, breezy interview that reflects her outgoing personality, Hall discussed how soul food has evolved, why Roots Southern Table by Top Chef alum Tiffany Derry is one of her favorite eateries, and what she likes to cook for herself. The conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity.
What is Pepsi Dig In Day?
It’s about driving awareness to these Black-owned restaurants. And I want to point out that as soon as somebody says Black, brown, they think about soul food. But it’s also Caribbean food, it’s African food. And I’ve been saying over the last eight years that African food will be the next big thing on the horizon. I’m excited … that there’s a dedicated day for these businesses.
What unique challenges do Black-owned restaurants continue to face?
Part of the problem is visibility. A lot of restaurants don’t have the marketing dollars or a PR company and go out there and have that presence in the media. I think in this day and age, everyone’s like, “‘Oh, where are the Black-owned restaurants? A lot of times, people don’t know where they are.”
When people hear “marketing,” they often hear “expensive.” But it doesn’t have to be if you use social media.
Exactly. As someone who had a catering company, I always thought my food is good, and (customers) will tell friends. And in this day and age, that isn’t the case. A lot of business is driven through social media. I hear businesses all the time say, “’ I don’t want to do that. I don’t have time.’ “It’s an effort they need to make.
You often talk about the diversity of Black cuisine. But when people hear Black-owned restaurant, what do they think?
They think soul food. Hands down, I’m going to get the best macaroni and cheese, oxtails, and some sweet potatoes. People know what sells and what’s expected in their community. But I think that there’s a way to have those dishes and have some everyday dishes. Let’s say you go out to eat frequently. You cannot eat that soul food every day.
How has soul food evolved and changed?
One of my favorite restaurants, by Tiffany Deery, is in Dallas. She has old-school soul food. They do gumbo. She has all those dishes we see as soul food on her menu. But it’s a fine dining menu. She also has dishes like Black Eyed Pea fritters and Black-Eyed Pea hummus, where she’s taking those indigenous ingredients and showing them differently. A chef, as a creative person, you don’t want to feel stuck in this space. You also want to show people what’s possible. Every other culture in their cuisine is growing. I think we are challenging old-school soul food.
What advice do you have for restaurant owners?
You have to know your numbers, You have to understand profit and loss and what dishes make money. Service is really important. When I go to a restaurant, a lot of times, and it’s a generalization, but people say, “”Oh, the service is so slow in a Black restaurant.’ “So it’s understanding service and how to maintain those restaurants. Because this program is really about repeat business, promoting and actually supporting these entrepreneurs into the future. We’re talking about a day, but we’re hoping to change the map of some of these businesses.
What’s the secret to your success?
My superpower is that I genuinely love people. I don’t pretend to love people. So when I have conversations with them, I don’t plan my conversation. I have a conversation. And I think that when people meet me, they feel like they’ve known me because I’m the same whether I’m on television or in person. I get that support, and I’m very grateful for the community of fans.
What’s your favorite meal to make for yourself?
I love eggs. So the thing that I’m going to make for myself is a French omelet, some pan-roasted tomatoes, and a salad. That’s my go-to. I will always have lemon because on my salad. I’m going to have like lemon zest, balsamic and olive oil. I can never get eggs the way I like them at a restaurant. So that’s the one thing that I don’t go out to have.
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SINGAPORE, Oct. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- LightInTheBox Holding Co., Ltd. (NYSE: LITB) ("LightInTheBox" or the "Company"), a cross-border e-commerce platform that delivers products directly to consumers around the world, today announced it will hold its 2022 annual general meeting of shareholders at 51 Tai Seng Avenue, #05-02B/C, Pixel Red, Singapore 533941 on December 16, 2022 at 10:00 a.m., local time.
No proposal will be submitted for shareholder approval at the annual general meeting. Instead, the annual general meeting will serve as an open forum for shareholders to discuss Company affairs with management.
The board of directors of the Company has fixed the close of business on November 4, 2022 as the record date (the "Record Date") for determining the shareholders entitled to receive notice of the annual general meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof. Owners and holders of the Company's ADSs on the Record Date are welcome to attend the annual general meeting in person with valid proof of identification and ADS ownership as of the close of business on the Record Date. Those who hold ADSs indirectly through a brokerage firm, bank or other financial institution should contact their brokerage firm, bank or other financial institution for a letter or brokerage statement confirming their ADS ownership as of such date.
The Company has filed its annual report on Form 20-F, including its audited financial statements for the financial year ended December 31, 2021, with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"). The Company's annual report can be accessed on the Company's website at http://ir.lightinthebox.com, as well as on the SEC's website at http://www.sec.gov. Shareholders may request a hard copy of the Company's annual report, free of charge, by contacting the Company at ir@lightinthebox.com.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jakubowitz Law announces that a securities fraud class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of shareholders of Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC).
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WFO NEW YORK CITY Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, April 30, 2023
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* WHERE...Southern Queens and Southern Nassau Counties.
* WHEN...Until 7 PM EDT this evening.
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OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – It was a scary start to the morning for one Oklahoma City man with his truck getting stuck in 5-6 feet of water.
“Well, that’s shocking to me, too – when your employees send you a picture and see a vehicle standing or sitting in a hole like that,” said Ray Hite, ownere of Hite Plastics.
Hite has owned Hite Plastics in Oklahoma City for about 30 years – but he’s never seen anything like this.
He says the mess started Tuesday afternoon when repairs were made to a water line with a fire hydrant leaking.
“As we were leaving for the day around four o’clock we noticed the water was rushing out onto the street,” Hite said.
So they called the city to report the leak and didn’t think much of it – until Wednesday morning around 6:30 when employees started showing up to work – leaving one of them in a hole!
“It’s dark of course and they saw some water on the road – but never thought that there would be a wash out of this size – enough to practically swallow his truck,” Hite said.
Suddenly the water started rushing into the man’s cab, into his seat.
“He climbed out through the window and was on top of the vehicle until the fire department showed up and got him a ladder to get him out,” said Hite.
Hite says he thinks the water was as deep as 5-6 feet.
He says crews were quick to come out and start pumping it out.
While he waits for repairs – he’s just thankful his employee is ok.
“He’s all right,” Hite said. “He’s fine, a little shaken. Got some wet socks and shoes that he needs to go get dried out.”
The city has a program where people who have incurred damages can file a claim with the city.
You just have to file and see if you qualify through review with the city attorney’s office. | 2023-01-12T02:29:07+00:00 | kfor.com | https://kfor.com/news/local/water-leak-leaves-oklahoma-city-man-pickup-stuck-in-deep-water-outside-business/ |
For President Biden, there appears to be little strategic ambiguity in his stance on a Chinese invasion of Taiwan.
If China invades, Biden said Monday, the U.S. will come to Taiwan’s aid militarily.
That statement from the president is far from the first time he’s indicated he’s willing to use military force against China to defend Taiwan.
Far from a gaffe, Monday’s remarks at a Tokyo press conference looked intentional, say some educated observers. And they have extra layers of geopolitical meaning after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — something Beijing is watching closely.
“I think to some extent it does reflect Biden’s personal views, and it’s starting to feel like it’s pretty sincere,” said Michael O’Hanlon, director of research in foreign policy at the Brookings Institution. “There’s only so many times you can walk something like this back and have the walking back be convincing.”
The remarks on Monday were Biden’s strongest comments to date in what has become a pattern of pledging to defend Taiwan. The White House said it did not reflect a change in U.S. policy.
The United States has for decades abided by the “One China” policy, which recognizes Beijing as the representative government of China but considers Taiwan’s status unsettled. At the same time, under the Taiwan Relations Act of 1979, the U.S. is committed to providing Taiwan with arms for its defense. The law does not commit the U.S. to sending troops to Taiwan to defend it.
The U.S. government has typically aimed for “strategic ambiguity,” sidestepping questions to avoid outlining a definitive response should Taiwan come under attack. But Biden has repeatedly thrown ambiguity to the wind and been clear cut in committing to coming to Taiwan’s aid.
“If he keeps signaling that he would find a military response appropriate, without caveating or conditioning that, it suggests pretty strongly a kind of strategic clarity as opposed to strategic ambiguity,” O’Hanlon said.
Matthew Kroenig, deputy director of the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, said that the inconsistent rhetoric coming from the White House could also be part of a “master plan” to actually maintain strategic ambiguity. He also acknowledged that it’s possible Biden misspoke but expressed doubt that such a gaffe would happen numerous times.
“Either way, you have the president of the United States now saying three times he would defend Taiwan,” he said.
The White House said the latest remarks didn’t reflect a policy change, which left some Democrats criticizing the White House for walking back Biden’s remarks. They said doing so plays into GOP talking points that the president is making mistakes.
“Anytime there’s a threat to the president’s perceived command of the job, it’s always going to be a challenge for this White House because so much of his political good fortunes have come from his perceived confidence and his abilities to the job,” said Democratic strategist Joel Payne. “If you’re in the president’s inner circle, you have to be vigilant about the competency argument.”
In August, Biden was asked in an ABC News interview about Chinese claims that the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan showed it was an unreliable ally.
“We made a sacred commitment to Article 5 that if in fact anyone were to invade or take action against our NATO allies, we would respond. Same with Japan, same with South Korea, same with — Taiwan. It’s not even comparable to talk about that,” Biden said at the time.
The White House said at the time the U.S. policy toward Taiwan had not changed.
In October, at a CNN town hall, Biden again said the U.S. had a commitment to defend Taiwan if it were attacked by China. The White House again clarified the administration’s policy had not changed, something Biden himself reiterated in November on a call with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
But Monday marked Biden’s most extensive comments to date, and he gave a clear answer in an exchange with a reporter about the need to defend Taiwan from Chinese aggression.
“Are you willing to get involved militarily to defend Taiwan if it comes to that?” Biden was asked at a press conference in Tokyo alongside the Japanese prime minister.
“Yes,” Biden responded. “That’s the commitment we made.”
“Look, here’s the situation. We agree with the ‘One China’ policy … but the idea that to be taken by force, just taken by force, is just not appropriate,” Biden continued. “It will dislocate the entire region and be another action similar to what happened in Ukraine.”
Biden said he does not believe China will attempt to take Taiwan by force, adding that the united global response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine can serve as a deterrent against possible aggression by Beijing.
Bonny Lin, director of the China Power Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, noted public support for Taiwan has steadily grown in recent years on both sides of the aisle, driven largely by disapproval of China’s behavior in the region.
Lin also argued the backdrop of the war in Ukraine is important, given China has not spoken out against the Russian invasion. Biden is likely sending a message that China should not mistake the lack of U.S. military involvement in Ukraine for a lack of willingness to defend Taiwan, Lin said.
Some foreign policy analysts, including Kroenig, have argued in favor of the U.S. moving away from “strategic ambiguity” and toward a policy of so-called strategic clarity in order to deter China from making a move on Taiwan.
“This is the third time @potus has spoken out in favor of strategic clarity on Taiwan and third time WH staff has tried to walk it back,” tweeted Richard Haas, president of the Council on Foreign Relations. “Better to embrace it as new US stance, one that is fully consistent with one-China policy but that alters how US will go about implementing it.”
But O’Hanlon argued officials need to be careful about committing to defending Taiwan, citing studies he has done that cast doubt on whether the U.S. military could successfully defend the island nation against a Chinese attack under certain blockade scenarios.
O’Hanlon said that Biden’s words would likely serve as a deterrent while also contributing to the already elevated U.S.-China tensions.
“It does probably increase deterrence but at the cost of worsening relations,” he said. “And then you can decide whether that’s worth it based on how likely you thought it was they were going to attack in the first place.” | 2022-05-24T11:37:15+00:00 | wric.com | https://www.wric.com/news/politics/biden-showing-little-strategic-ambiguity-when-it-comes-to-taiwan/ |
Which probiotic for dogs is best?
Healthy bacteria is good for the overall health and digestive system for humans—and the same goes for dogs. Dog probiotics can help improve your furry friend’s gut health or treat a particular digestive problem. That said, it can be difficult to select the correct probiotic supplement for your dog, since there are so many different dog probiotics on the market. If you are searching for a probiotic for dogs, then the Honest Paws Pre+Probiotic is a good bet.
What to know before you buy a probiotic for dogs
Benefits and use
Probiotics for dogs can help boost the overall health and immune function of all dogs, but these supplements also may help dogs with particular health issues. For example, probiotics may help reduce problems caused by inflammatory bowel disease, improve stool formation, decrease the symptoms of diarrhea and boost your dog’s digestive health following a round of antibiotics.
Types
There are a few different kinds of probiotics for dogs out there, including probiotic chews, probiotic tablets and probiotic powders.
Existing medical conditions
It’s important to consider your dog’s existing medical conditions when buying a probiotic supplement for them. For example, if they are already on regular medication or have a chronic health condition — particularly something that impacts their immune system — consult with your vet before starting your dog on a probiotic supplement. Some bacteria strains are more beneficial than others when it comes to autoimmune diseases and similar health problems.
What to look for in a quality probiotic for dogs
Bacteria species
Probiotics for dogs come with a diverse range of different bacteria strains and species. Some bacteria strains and species have specific benefits for your dog, particularly if they have certain health issues. For example, the AHC7 strain can reduce inflammation, while enterococcus faecium can help promote the growth of good bacteria and improve your dog’s immune response.
CFUs
Probiotics for dogs tend to list the number of colony-forming units, or CFUs, in a serving. A CFU is an estimate of the amount of viable bacteria in a probiotic serving. You should choose a probiotic for your dog with five to 10 billion CFUs.
Prebiotics
Many probiotics for dogs also include prebiotics, which are indigestible plant fibers that help feed good bacteria and boost your digestive system.
How much you can expect to spend on a probiotic for dogs
Probiotics for dogs typically range in price from less than 50 cents per serving to more than $1 per serving, depending on the serving size, the package size and the number of colony-forming units.
The most basic and budget-friendly probiotics for dogs go for less than 50 cents per serving, while midrange probiotics for dogs cost about 50 cents to $1 per serving. High-end probiotics for dogs cost more than $1 per serving.
Probiotic for dogs FAQ
Can you give your dog human probiotics?
A. Human probiotics are not meant to meet the specific needs of dogs. You should only give your dog probiotics that are specifically meant for dogs.
Do probiotics for dogs give dogs any side effects?
A. Probiotics for dogs can lead to some bloating and gas, but you shouldn’t be concerned about these symptoms unless they are causing your dog a lot of discomfort. That said, if your dog has diarrhea, vomits or has any negative side effects after you give them the probiotics, stop giving them the probiotics and speak to your vet.
Should you give probiotics to your dog with their food?
A. It’s okay to give probiotics to your dog with food for the most part, but check the directions on the supplement container, since some probiotics for dogs need to be consumed on an empty stomach.
If you do choose to give your dog probiotics with their food, ensure their food is either slightly warm or cold, since extreme heat can kill off beneficial bacteria in the probiotics.
What’s the best probiotic for dogs to buy?
Top probiotic for dogs
What you need to know: This powerful probiotic for dogs from Honest Paws offers relief and health benefits for your furry pal.
What you’ll love: This well-rounded probiotic for dogs is infused with rice-extract blend and natural chicken flavor for an enjoyable flavor. The probiotic contains a combo of inulin and other ingredients to help boost your dog’s digestive health.
What you should consider: This dog probiotic is fairly expensive, but it’s also high quality.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top probiotic for dogs for the money
Petvitality Pro Probiotics for Dogs With Natural Digestive Enzymes
What you need to know: These simple-to-use probiotics for dogs from Petvitality Pro work well at helping with your dog’s digestive issues.
What you’ll love: Most dogs enjoy the chew form of this probiotic, which you can give to them as a treat.
What you should consider: There are some reports of this probiotic causing gas and other negative symptoms in dogs.
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Worth checking out
Purina Fortiflora Canine Nutritional Supplement
What you need to know: This fast-working dog probiotic from Purina is tolerated well by most dogs and simple to sprinkle over their food.
What you’ll love: You can give this probiotic to dogs after treatment with antibiotics such as Flagyl. It may also help eliminate red stains around your dog’s eyes. Many customers reported excellent results with this probiotic for dogs.
What you should consider: This probiotic supplement for dogs does not always work well.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "All or Nothing Midday" game were:
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WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — It’s a reunion seven decades in the making. A Kansas soldier is back in the Sunflower State years after he was killed in combat in Germany.
“Excited” isn’t usually a word people use when a loved one passes, but that’s the emotion the Dorsey family felt when they were reunited with a family member’s remains 70 years after he was lost in battle.
“It’s overwhelming,” Jerry Dorsey, nephew of the fallen soldier, said. “Just to know that we have finally have some closure. It’s exciting.”
“We always wondered why and where he had passed away,” Jerry said, “what happened in the battle, which battle he was in.”
Private Carl Dorsey was a cadet in the Hurricane Force Battle in Germany near the Belgian border in 1944.
Carl was declared missing in action on Dec. 5.
Army Pvt. Carl Dorsey (Courtesy U.S. Army) A photo that includes Carl Dorsey (Courtesy U.S. Army)
“He was part of a team that was stabilizing a particular point, and they got overrun by a German task force that went in and rushed him,” Jerry said.
Carl’s remains wouldn’t be found until May 1946 — five months after his death.
“From the story we got, there was a German resident there that had found his body off the side of the road,” Jerry said. “He took the remains and buried him.”
Carl’s remains were placed in a grave for unidentified American soldiers in Germany in 1950.
In 2021, a historian studying unresolved American loss in the area where Carl lost his life had one last set of unidentified remains — possibly belonging to the fallen army cadet.
The remains were flown to Nebraska’s Offutt Air Force Base, where DNA from the family was collected and confirmed it was Carl.
“It’s overwhelming,” Jerry said. “It’s totally amazing how much the United States military goes to find the family member.”
The long-awaited funeral service with full military honors for Carl is on Sept. 3. He’ll be buried in Grenola, Kansas, next to his mother and father. | 2022-08-26T00:13:41+00:00 | ksn.com | https://www.ksn.com/news/state-regional/kansas-family-reunites-with-army-cadets-remains-70-years-after-his-passing/ |
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ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday discussed his objections to Sweden and Finland joining NATO with the two Nordic countries’ leaders, Erdogan’s office said.
He spoke to Finnish President Sauli Niinisto and Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson in separate calls to address Ankara’s concerns about those it considers terrorists in their countries, the presidential communications office said in a statement.
It said Erdogan called upon Sweden to lift defensive weapons export restrictions it imposed on Turkey over Turkey’s 2019 incursion into northern Syria. Erdogan also said he expected Stockholm to take “concrete and serious steps” against the Kurdish Workers’ Party, or PKK, and other groups that Turkey views as terrorists.
He told Niinisto “that an understanding that ignores terrorist organizations that pose a threat to an ally within NATO is incompatible with the spirit of friendship and alliance,” the statement added.
In another call, the Turkish president also raised Turkey’s concerns with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, who has said he would listen to Turkey’s concerns on the matter.
On Thursday, Niinisto and Andersson visited Washington, where they spoke with U.S. President Joe Biden about their bids to join NATO in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
While other NATO nation appear welcoming to have Finland and Sweden join, Turkey has raised objections to their accession, principally over the presence of alleged terrorists in their countries and the block on arms sales.
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Follow all AP stories on the war in Ukraine at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine. | 2022-05-22T10:02:11+00:00 | wric.com | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/turkeys-erdogan-talks-to-swedish-finnish-leaders-on-nato/ |
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — In a prosecution believed to be a national first, a former Florida sheriff’s deputy is about to be tried on charges he failed to confront the gunman who murdered 14 students and three staff members at a Parkland high school five years ago.
Peterson, 60, is charged with seven counts of felony child neglect for four students killed and three wounded on the 1200 building’s third floor. Peterson arrived at the building with his gun drawn 73 seconds before Cruz reached that floor, but instead of entering, he backed away as gunfire sounded. He has said he didn’t know where the shots were coming from.
Peterson is also charged with three counts of misdemeanor culpable negligence for the adults shot on the third floor, including a teacher and an adult student who died. He also faces a perjury charge for allegedly lying to investigators. He could get nearly a century in prison if convicted on the child neglect counts and lose his $104,000 annual pension.
Prosecutors did not charge Peterson in connection with the 11 killed and 13 wounded on the first floor before he arrived at the building. No one was shot on the second floor.
According to the National Association of School Resource Officers, which represents campus police, Peterson is the first U.S. law enforcement officer tried for allegedly failing to act during a school shooting. Texas authorities are investigating the officers who didn’t confront the Uvalde gunman who killed 19 elementary students and two teachers last year, but none have been charged.
Peterson “is just a coward,” parent Andrew Pollack said, calling him an obscenity. His 18-year-old daughter Meadow was the adult student murdered on the third floor.
“He wouldn’t have gone in with full body armor and a bazooka,” Pollack said. Other victims’ relatives have made similar statements.
Peterson has insisted he would have confronted Cruz but thought the shots came from a sniper, perhaps firing from nearby trees. A deputy for 32 years, he had been at Stoneman Douglas for nine years after 19 years at other schools. He said after a hearing last week that he is “eager” for the trial to start.
“I want the truth to come out, and if it is going to be through a trial, so be it,” Peterson said. “Not only the people in Florida, the country, most importantly the families, they need to know the truth about what happened, because unfortunately it has never been told.”
Peterson retired shortly after the shooting and then was fired retroactively.
Robert Jarvis, a Nova Southeastern University law professor, said there is no question Peterson deserved firing but prosecuting him “seems like such an overreach.”
“Peterson is an easy punching bag, but many, many people failed on February 14,” he said. “Peterson ... is being made into a scapegoat.”
To gain a conviction, prosecutors must convince jurors that Peterson knew Cruz was firing inside the building and that his actions and inaction exposed the victims to harm.
Security videos show that 36 seconds after the attack began, Peterson exited his office about 100 yards (92 meters) from the 1200 building and jumped into a cart with two unarmed civilian security guards, according to a state report. They arrived at the building a minute later.
Peterson got out of the cart near the east doorway to the first-floor hallway. Cruz was at the hallway’s opposite end, firing his AR-15-style semiautomatic rifle.
Peterson, who wasn’t wearing a bullet-resistant vest, didn’t open the door. Instead, he took cover 75-feet (23 meters) away in the alcove of a neighboring building, his gun still drawn.
The shooting “was so loud and so close. I thought it was probably outside,” Peterson told investigators two days after the massacre.
He said he heard “two, three” shots. The security guards told investigators they heard many more shots than three and it was clear they came from the building. Peterson’s attorney, Mark Eiglarsh, said he will call 22 witnesses who will testify they also thought the shots were coming from outside the 1200 building.
Inside, Cruz climbed to the building’s upper floors, firing approximately 70 more shots over nearly four minutes.
Outside, Peterson radioed arriving deputies to stay clear of the building. He said he didn’t notice when bullets smashed into a second-floor window about 70 feet (20 meters) from where he stood.
Peterson didn’t leave his spot for 48 minutes. That was 45 minutes after the shooting ended and 40 minutes after off-campus officers stormed inside, finding carnage on the first and third floors. Cruz had fled.
For Peterson to be convicted of child neglect, prosecutors must first show he was legally a caregiver to the juvenile students. Florida law defines a caregiver as “a parent, adult household member or other person responsible for a child’s welfare.”
Eiglarsh has argued there is an exemption for most police officers that covers his client. Circuit Judge Martin Fein ruled that is for the jury to decide, noting that Florida courts have found babysitters, landlords and even kidnappers to be caregivers.
If jurors find Peterson was a caregiver, they then must determine whether he made a “reasonable effort” to protect the children or failed to provide the care necessary to maintain their health.
Eiglarsh has argued that Cruz had a superior firearm and Peterson would have risked death by pursuing him. The state report says Peterson had completed three active shooter courses over the years that teach tactics for such situations.
“I predict that at least one juror will decide that while Peterson was the wrong man in the wrong place at the wrong time, holding him criminally accountable is simply ... too much,” Jarvis said. That would result in a hung jury.
Miami criminal defense attorney David S. Weinstein, a former prosecutor, believes Peterson will likely testify — something most defendants avoid. Jurors will want to know why Peterson thought his actions were “reasonable or prudent,” he said.
Cruz's jury couldn't unanimously agree he deserved the death penalty. The 24-year-old former Stoneman Douglas student was then sentenced to life in prison. | 2023-05-30T16:01:30+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2023/05/30/scot-peterson-parkland-school-shooting/ad985012-fef5-11ed-9eb0-6c94dcb16fcf_story.html |
Las Vegas ‘on the clock’ as city prepares to host Super Bowl for first time
LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) - The countdown has begun.
Las Vegas is the host city of Super Bowl LVIII. At a press conference at the Super Bowl LVII Media Center at the Phoenix Convention Center Monday, the Las Vegas Super Bowl Host Committee was handed the first official Super Bowl LVIII football, marking the handoff from Phoenix to Las Vegas.
Those gathered on stage to commemorate a successful Super Bowl LVII and usher in Super Bowl LVIII at the one-year-out mark included:
- NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell
- Nevada Governor Joe Lombardo
- Las Vegas Super Bowl LVIII Host Committee President CEO Sam Joffray
- Las Vegas Super Bowl LVIII Executive Host Committee Steve Hill, President/CEO, LVCVA
- Las Vegas Super Bowl LVIII Executive Host Committee Chair Maury Gallagher, Executive Chairman of the Board, Allegiant Air
- Las Vegas Super Bowl LVIII Executive Host Committee Co-Chair Sandra Douglass Morgan, President, Las Vegas Raiders
- Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs
- Jay Parry, President and CEO, Arizona Super Bowl Host Committee
- Michael Bidwell, Owner, Arizona Cardinals
- David Rousseau, Board Chair, Arizona Super Bowl Host Committee
- Larry Fitzgerald, Executive Board Chair, Arizona Super Bowl Host Committee.
“Las Vegas knows how to do big events,” said NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. “It was less than a year ago that we were there for the 2022 NFL Draft, and we had the Pro Bowl just a week ago. They have done an extraordinary job at understanding how we want to present the NFL in that community, and more importantly, how to do it Las Vegas-style.”
“We are very cognizant that we have one opportunity to get the first Super Bowl in Las Vegas right,” said Steve Hill, President/CEO of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority. “We are going to work very hard, and we have an exceptional team. We’ve been working to do this for 60 years, so we are excited about the opportunity and are excited about the team we have put together in Las Vegas to make this happen.”
After the reveal, the Super Ball began its journey from Phoenix to Las Vegas, where it will be featured at events and celebrations around the destination leading up to Super Bowl LVIII on February 11, 2024 at Allegiant Stadium.
The LVCVA and Las Vegas Raiders were invited by the National Football League to collaborate on a bid to host Super Bowl LVIII and were approved by the 32 clubs in 2021.
With an estimated total economic impact of more than $500 million based on previous Super Bowls, Super Bowl LVIII will significantly benefit the greater Las Vegas area and the entire State of Nevada through direct spending, additional tax dollar generation, increased room occupancy, and job creation
In addition to hosting Super Bowl LVIII, Las Vegas hosted the NFL Pro Bowl and NFL Draft in 2022 and the NFL Pro Bowl Games in 2023.
Additional facts about the Super Ball can be found here.
The full list of the Las Vegas Super Bowl LVIII Host Committee members can be found here.
For more information on Super Bowl LVIII in Las Vegas and opportunities to participate, click here.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said Thursday the U.S. would immediately begin turning away Cubans, Haitians and Nicaraguans who cross the border from Mexico illegally, his boldest move yet to confront the arrivals of migrants that have spiraled since he took office two years ago.
The new rules expand on an existing effort to stop Venezuelans attempting to enter the U.S., which began in October and led to a dramatic drop in Venezuelans coming to the southern border. Together, they represent a major change to immigration rules that will stand even if the Supreme Court ends a Trump-era public health law that allows U.S. authorities to turn away asylum-seekers.
“Do not, do not just show up at the border,” Biden said as he announced the changes, even as he acknowledged the hardships that lead many families to make the dangerous journey north.
“Stay where you are and apply legally from there,” he advised.
Biden made the announcement just days before a planned visit to El Paso, Texas, on Sunday for his first trip to the southern border as president. From there, he will travel on to Mexico City to meet with North American leaders on Monday and Tuesday.
Homeland Security officials said they would begin denying asylum to those who circumvent legal pathways and do not first ask for asylum in the country they traveled through en route to the U.S.
Instead, the U.S. will accept 30,000 people per month from the four nations for two years and offer the ability to work legally, as long as they come legally, have eligible sponsors and pass vetting and background checks. Border crossings by migrants from those four nations have risen most sharply, with no easy way to quickly return them to their home countries.
“This new process is orderly,” Biden said. “It’s safe and humane, and it works.”
The move, while not unexpected, drew swift criticism from asylum and immigration advocates, who have had a rocky relationship with the president.
“President Biden correctly recognized today that seeking asylum is a legal right and spoke sympathetically about people fleeing persecution,” said Jonathan Blazer, the American Civil Liberties Union’s director of border strategies. “But the plan he announced further ties his administration to the poisonous anti-immigrant policies of the Trump era instead of restoring fair access to asylum protections.”
Even with the health law restrictions in place, the president has seen the numbers of migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border rise dramatically during his two years in office; there were more than 2.38 million stops during the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, the first time the number topped 2 million. The administration has struggled to clamp down on crossings, reluctant to take hard-line measures that would resemble those of the Trump administration.
That’s resulted in relentless criticism from Republicans who say the Democratic president is ineffective on border security, and the newly minted Republican House majority has promised congressional investigations on the matter.
The new policy could result in 360,000 people from these four nations lawfully entering the U.S. in a year, a huge number. But far more people from those countries have been attempting to cross into the U.S. on foot, by boat or swimming; migrants from those four countries were stopped 82,286 times in November alone.
Enyer Valbuena, a Venezuelan who was living in Tijuana, Mexico, after crossing the border illegally, said Thursday’s announcement came as no surprise but a blow nonetheless.
“This was coming. It’s getting more difficult all the time,” he said by text message.
Some Venezuelans waiting on Mexico’s border with the U.S. have been talking among themselves if Canada is an option, Valbuena said. He had been waiting for the outcome of the pandemic-related asylum ban before trying to enter the U.S. again and is seeking asylum in Mexico, which offers a much better future than Venezuela.
“If it becomes more difficult (to reach the U.S.), the best path is to get papers in Mexico,” said Valbuena, who currently works at a Tijuana factory.
Mexico has agreed to accept up to 30,000 migrants each month from the four countries who attempt to walk or swim across the U.S.-Mexico border and are turned back. Normally, these migrants would be returned to their country of origin, but the U.S. can not easily send back people from those four countries for a variety of reasons that include relations with the governments there.
Anyone coming to the U.S. is allowed to claim asylum, regardless of how they crossed the border, and migrants seeking a better life in the U.S. often pay smugglers the equivalent of thousands of dollars to deliver them across the dangerous Darien Gap.
But the requirements for granting asylum are narrow, and only about 30% of applications are granted. That has created a system in which migrants try to cross between ports of entry and are allowed into the U.S. to wait out their cases. But there is a 2 million-case immigration court backlog, so cases often are not heard for years.
The only lasting way to change the system is through Congress, but a bipartisan congressional effort on new immigration laws failed shortly before Republicans took the House majority.
“The actions we’re announcing will make things better, but will not fix the border problem completely,” Biden said, in pressing lawmakers to act.
Under then-President Donald Trump, the U.S. required asylum seekers to wait across the border in Mexico. But clogs in the immigration system created long delays, leading to fetid, dangerous camps over the border where migrants were forced to wait. That system was ended under Biden, and the migrants who are returned to Mexico under the new rules will not be eligible for asylum.
Biden will also triple the number of refugees accepted to the U.S. from the Western Hemisphere, to 20,000 from Latin America and Caribbean, over the next two years. Refugees and asylum-seekers have to meet the same criteria to be allowed into the country, but they arrive through different means.
Border officials are also creating an online appointment portal to help reduce wait times at U.S. ports of entry for those coming legally. It will allow people to set up an appointment to come and ask to be allowed into the country.
At the U.S.-Mexico border, migrants have been denied a chance to seek asylum 2.5 million times since March 2020 under the Title 42 restrictions, introduced as an emergency health measure by Trump to prevent the spread of COVID-19. But there always has been criticism that the restrictions were used as a pretext by the Republican to seal off the border.
Biden moved to end the Title 42 restrictions, and Republicans sued to keep them. The U.S. Supreme Court has kept the rules in place for now. White House officials say they still believe the restrictions should end, but they maintain they can continue to turn away migrants under immigration law.
The four nationalities that Biden addressed Thursday now make up the majority of those crossing the border illegally. Cubans, who are leaving the island nation in their largest numbers in six decades, were stopped 34,675 times at the U.S. border with Mexico in November, up 21% from October. Nicaraguans, a large reason why El Paso has become the busiest corridor for illegal crossings, were stopped 34,209 times in November, up 65% from October.
But Venezuelans were seen far less at the border after Mexico agreed on Oct. 12 to begin accepting those expelled from the United States. They were stopped 7,931 times, down 64% from October.
Venezuelans have said the changes have been difficult, particularly with finding a sponsor who has the financial resources to demonstrate the ability to support them. And even if they find a sponsor, sometimes they delay their arrival because they don’t have the economic resources to pay for the flight to the U.S. For some, the Venezuelan passport that they need has expired, and they cannot afford to pay for the renewal.
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Spagat reported from San Diego. Associated Press writers Rebecca Santana in Washington and Gisela Salomon in Miami contributed to this report. | 2023-01-05T22:58:25+00:00 | wearegreenbay.com | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/international/ap-international/ap-biden-restricting-nicaraguans-cubans-and-haitians-at-border/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Defense Secretary Ash Carter, who opened combat jobs to women and ended a ban on transgender people serving in the military, has died at age 68.
Carter died Monday evening after suffering a heart attack in Boston, his family said in a statement Tuesday.
Known as a defense thinker and strategist, Carter was a nuclear expert, three-time Pentagon executive, budget guru and academician who had served as a defense civilian in the building over a period of 35 years.
Gen. Martin Dempsey, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, noted at Carter’s retirement ceremony in 2017 that his focus on the less glamourous aspects of the job such as people management had made him known as the “most important, least known figure in Washington.”
Carter had not previously served in the military but mastered the nuts and bolts of the Defense Department, a skill set that helped him quietly shape notable change, particularly when it came to who was allowed to serve in uniform.
In December 2015, after three years of study and debate, Carter ordered the military to open all jobs to women, removing the final barriers that kept women from serving in combat, including the most dangerous and grueling commando posts.
“I made the decision to admit women to all military specialties without exception,” Carter said in a later interview on the decision. “They are 50% of the population. We can’t afford to leave off the table half of the population who can, if they’re the ones who have the best qualifications, do the job.”
The following year, Carter was responsible for ending the ban on transgender troops, saying it was the right thing to do.
“Americans who want to serve and can meet our standards should be afforded the opportunity to compete to do so,” Carter said in June 2016, laying out a one-year plan to implement the change. “Our mission is to defend this country, and we don’t want barriers unrelated to a person’s qualification to serve preventing us from recruiting or retaining the soldier, sailor, airman or Marine who can best accomplish the mission.”
Before Carter was named defense secretary by President Barack Obama, he served in the Obama administration as the Pentagon’s top procurement officer and oversaw the department’s effort to speed more than 24,000 Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles to Iraq and Afghanistan during the height of both conflicts to better protect U.S. troops.
At the time, thousands of U.S. troops were being maimed or killed by roadside bombs because there was not adequate protection in the vehicles they were operating. Carter frequently mentioned the rapid development and procurement of those vehicles as one of his proudest accomplishments.
“At peak production, the United States shipped over 1,000 MRAPs a month to theater. And there, they saved lives,” Carter said at a 2012 ceremony marking the completion of the vehicle production. “And you all know me, I would have driven one in here today, if I could get it through the door.”
In lauding his contribution to the nation’s defense, President Joe Biden on Tuesday said Carter took seriously his “sacred obligation” to the men and women in uniform.
“He was relentless in his pursuit of technology solutions for our warfighters, rapidly accelerating delivery of mine resistant vehicles to our troops to protect them from improvised explosive devices in Iraq and Afghanistan,” Biden said in a statement. “His work saved countless lives and limbs.”
Obama said in a statement Tuesday that he “relied on Ash’s strategic counsel as we invested in innovation and a stronger, smarter, more humane, and more effective military for the long term.”
On at least one occasion, Carter split with Obama on a notable issue: Obama’s decision to commute the 35-year prison sentence of Chelsea Manning. Manning was convicted in 2013 of espionage for leaking classified information while deployed in Iraq as an Army private.
Carter, a native of Philadelphia, served as the 25th defense secretary and “loved nothing more than spending time with the troops, making frequent trips to Iraq and Afghanistan to visit U.S. forces with his wife Stephanie,” his family said in a statement. “Carter always set politics aside; he served presidents of both parties over five administrations.”
Carter was sworn in as defense secretary in February 2015. He was immediately confronted with the rise of the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria and China’s rapid militarization of islands in the South China Sea. During his tenure Carter oversaw the Obama administration’s “Pivot to the Pacific,” an attempt to rebalance military resources and focus on a rising China. He traveled multiple times to U.S. aircraft carriers in the Pacific as the U.S. increased its naval presence there to counter Beijing’s own more aggressive stance.
However, his continued focus on process reform and military modernization, including the establishment of a new defense innovation hub to get Silicon Valley more directly tied to the Pentagon, was sometimes criticized as out of touch as the military shifted again into an intensified conflict in the Middle East.
“I think he will be long remembered in the halls of the Pentagon as a visionary,” said former Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James, who led the Air Force during Carter’s tenure as defense secretary as they announced the Pentagon would develop the nation’s first new strategic stealth bomber in decades, the B-21 Raider. It is scheduled to be unveiled to the public this December.
“Today, the entire Department of Defense mourns the loss of a towering intellect, a steadfast leader, a devoted mentor to countless public servants, and a great patriot who devoted his life to strengthening the security of the country that he loved,” Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said in a statement.
Carter earned bachelor’s degrees in physics and in medieval history, summa cum laude, at Yale University, and received a doctorate in theoretical physics from Oxford University. Carter was a Rhodes Scholar, a physics instructor at Oxford University, and a post doctoral fellow at Rockefeller University and M.I.T., and an experimental research associate at Brookhaven and Fermilab National Laboratories.
Carter had most recently served as the director of Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. He is survived by his wife, Stephanie, and two children.
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Associated Press writer Lolita Baldor contributed to this report from Washington. | 2022-10-25T21:15:49+00:00 | cbs4indy.com | https://cbs4indy.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-harvard-school-ash-carter-obama-defense-chief-dies-at-68/ |
Enables Assured Ethernet in Connectbase Product Catalog and Quoting Responses for Provider Ecosystem
BOSTON, Jan. 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Connectbase, The Industry Cloud for Connectivity, announces its partnership with LB Networks for buying and selling connectivity with assurance. Through this partnership, Connectbase and LB Networks are able to provide an Assured Ethernet transparency option to connectivity buyers leveraging the Connectbase platform.
"Through this partnership between Connectbase and LB Networks we provide an enhanced, end-to-end customer experience with intelligence and assurance. The network assurance builds on the trust and confidence in the data and serviceability that users of The Connected World experience," said Ben Edmond, CEO and Founder at Connectbase. "LB Networks has partnered with service providers across our ecosystem to enable their buyers to have SLA and performance-assured experiences, and now we are able to bring that knowledge to providers' product catalogs and quoting experience to help buyers make the best decision."
Both buyers and sellers of connectivity will benefit from the integration of LB Networks' OcularIP into the Connectbase ecosystem. Buyers receive location-based insights and pricing coupled with OcularIP's assurance of performance in their quoting experience which enables them to make better buying decisions. Decisions based on quality and not just price. Sellers gain the ability to differentiate their brands, products and services, distinguishing them via a performance-assured network offering.
"When we launched LB Networks, we always had in mind the concept of building a SaaS platform to help companies and service providers accelerate their business," said Raymond Chiu, CEO and Chief Architect at LB Networks. "OcularIP adds assurance capabilities to The Connected World platform and adds another dimension of information to optimize sellers' performance and offer the check mark that gives buyers the confidence that the services will deliver."
OcularIP collects and normalizes metrics from installed network infrastructure to provide service analytics, compliance reporting and visualization. The Assured Ethernet capability enabled by OcularIP further expands on the value that Connectbase adds to the market that transforms how connectivity is bought and sold.
About LB Networks
Since our founding in 2009, we have empowered hundreds of clients worldwide – helping them save thousands in SLA penalties and Call Center costs every month while giving them an edge to win new, high-value accounts.
OcularIP was born in the cloud – there are no servers or equipment to deal with, and it will work with your existing systems. We require zero commitment and minimal investment. Pay only for what you use and cancel anytime. Learn more at https://lbnetworks.co/ and follow us on LinkedIn at linkedin.com/company/lb-networks/.
About Connectbase
Connectbase is The Industry Cloud for Connectivity. Connectbase is a partner to the industry, enabling next generation buying and selling of connectivity, including automated quoting, and providing deep, trusted insights. Connectbase's industry-leading platform, The Connected World, serves almost 300 providers globally, managing 1.8 billion locations across more than 150 countries. The Connectbase team has built a connected ecosystem transforming network buying and selling processes. Visit Connectbase at www.connectbase.com and follow us on LinkedIn at linkedin.com/company/connectbase-us/.
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2023 RBC Heritage Schedule: Thursday Start Time, How to Watch Live Stream, Tee Times & Pairings
Tune in to see the first round of the 2023 RBC Heritage on Thursday, April 13 in Hilton Head, South Carolina at the 7,121-yard, par-71 course at Harbour Town Golf Links, as the golfers fight for a piece of the $20M purse. Jordan Spieth is the event's defending champion.
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Empowering the Next Generation of Professional Drivers
BLAIRSVILLE, Pa., June 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- PGT Trucking, Inc., a leader in the transportation industry, is excited to announce the opening of their new truck driver training center in Blairsville, PA. This expanded facility has been designed to equip incoming drivers with the necessary skills, knowledge, and hands-on experience required to build safe and successful careers in transportation.
"With the growth of our organization, we needed a larger facility where we could develop our driver training programs," said Chris Cousins, PGT Trucking, Director of Training. "The demand for skilled and qualified truck drivers has never been higher, and our new driver class sizes have been growing week over week. This new location has given us the opportunity to create an environment with advanced resources, expert instruction, and real-world training that closely mirrors the challenges drivers face on the road."
The new training center is located less than one mile from PGT's Blairsville Terminal, within the New Village Institute campus, at 500 Innovation Drive, Blairsville, PA 15717. This facility offers incoming drivers:
- Comprehensive Curriculum: Designed to cover all aspects of flatbed trucking, including pre- and post-trip inspections, truck maintenance, navigation, trip planning and regulations, PGT's incoming drivers receive a well-rounded education that prepares them for the demands of the profession.
- Extensive Hands-On Training: Under the guidance of experienced instructors, drivers develop the necessary maneuvering techniques, driving strategies, securement standards and safety protocols essential for success in the trucking industry.
- Leading Technology: PGT embraces technology that enhances the driver lifestyle and helps drivers perform their daily duties safely and efficiently.
"This larger space provides us with the resources to train and support our drivers and solidifies our commitment to their growth and success here at PGT Trucking," added Cousins.
About PGT Trucking:
PGT Trucking, Inc., founded in 1981, is a multi-service transportation firm offering flatbed, dedicated, international and specialized services. Headquartered in Aliquippa, PA, PGT is the leader in progressive freight transportation and fleet evolution. PGT operates over 1,000 power units and 1,500 trailers, exceeding customer expectations, focused on the Future of Flatbed®. PGT was recognized as a 2023 Best Fleets to Drive For®. At PGT Trucking, "Safety is Everyone's Job – All the Time." Visit www.pgttrucking.com.
Contact: Katie Irvine, PGT Trucking
Phone: 724.987.1812 Email: kirvine@pgttrucking.com
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TUCSON, Arizona — Arizona men's basketball's transfers not only have big shoes to fill, but they have big minutes to fill as well.
Following the departure of Dalen Terry, Christian Koloko, and Bennedict Mathurin to the NBA draft, head coach Tommy Lloyd has gone to the transfer portal to fill his roster for the 2022-23 season. Joining Arizona are former Texas guard Courtney Ramey, former Campbell guard Cedric Henderson Jr. and former Gonzaga guard Matthew Lang.
Ramey started 106 games from Texas and is expected to start alongside Kerr Kriisa in the backcourt.
"We're going to count on Courtney for a significant part of the ball-handling and decision making," said Lloyd. "We're going to hitch our wagon to his experience and grit."
Henderson Jr. was two-time All-Big South for Campbell, and shot 50% from the floor last season.
"I was impressed with Cedric's feel for the game," said Lloyd. "What I really like is his ability to make plays without the ball with his cutting and ability to move."
Lang was a reserve for Gonzaga and isn't expected to play a large role on the court, according to Lloyd. | 2022-06-29T18:15:06+00:00 | kgun9.com | https://www.kgun9.com/sports/local-sports/three-transfers-added-to-arizona-mens-basketball |
Elon Musk wants Twitter again — and Twitter is game. The billionaire Tesla CEO has proposed to buy the company at the originally agreed-on price of $44 billion, bringing the tumultuous, monthslong saga another step closer to a conclusion.
Musk made the surprising turnaround not on Twitter, as has been his custom, but in a letter to Twitter that the company disclosed in a filing Tuesday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
It came less than two weeks before a trial between the two parties over Musk’s attempt to back out of the deal is scheduled to start in Delaware. Musk also faced a scheduled deposition by Twitter attorneys starting Thursday.
In response, Twitter said it intends to close the transaction at $54.20 per share after receiving the letter from Musk. But the company stopped short of saying it’s dropping its lawsuit against the billionaire Tesla CEO. Experts said that makes sense given the contentious relationship and lack of trust between the two parties.
“I don’t think Twitter will give up its trial date on just Musk’s word — it’s going to need more certainty about closing,” said Andrew Jennings, professor at Brooklyn Law School, noting that the company may also be worried about Musk’s proposal being a delay tactic. After all, he’s already tried to unsuccessfully postpone the trial twice.
Trading in Twitter’s stock, which had been halted for much of the day pending release of the news, resumed trading late Tuesday and soared 22% to close at $52.
But even if the deal now goes through without a hitch, it’s too soon to call a victory for Twitter, said Jasmine Enberg, an analyst with Insider Intelligence.
“The deal will solve some of the short-term uncertainty at the company, but Twitter is essentially in the same place it was in April,” she said. “There is still plenty of uncertainty around what Musk intends to do with Twitter, as well as the future of a company with a leader who has wavered in his commitment to buying it. And if we’ve learned anything from this saga, it’s that Musk is unpredictable and that it isn’t over yet.”
Musk’s proposal is the latest twist in a high-profile saga involving the world’s richest man and one of the most influential social media platforms. Much of the drama has played out on Twitter itself, with Musk — who has more than 100 million followers — lamenting that the company was failing to live up to its potential as a platform for free speech and had too many bots.
While some logistical and legal hurdles remain, Musk could be in charge of Twitter in a matter of days — however long it takes him and his co-investors to line up the cash, said Ann Lipton, an associate law professor at Tulane University.
A letter from Musk’s lawyer dated Monday and disclosed by Twitter in a securities filing said Musk would close the merger signed in April, provided that the Delaware Chancery Court “enter an immediate stay” of Twitter’s lawsuit against him and adjourn the trial scheduled to start Oct. 17.
Attorneys for Musk did not respond to requests for comment Tuesday.
Musk has been trying to back out of the deal for several months after signing on to buy the San Francisco company in April. Shareholders have already approved the sale, and legal experts say Musk faced a huge challenge to defend against Twitter’s lawsuit, which was filed in July.
Eric Talley, a law professor at Columbia University said he’s not surprised by Musk’s turnaround.
“On the legal merits, his case didn’t look that strong,” Talley said. “It kind of seemed like a pretty simple buyer’s remorse case.”
Musk claimed that Twitter under-counted the number of fake accounts on its platform, and Twitter sued when Musk announced the deal was off.
Musk’s argument largely rested on the allegation that Twitter misrepresented how it measures the magnitude of “spam bot” accounts that are useless to advertisers. Most legal experts believe he faced an uphill battle to convince Chancellor Kathaleen St. Jude McCormick, the court’s head judge, that something changed since the April merger agreement that justifies terminating the deal.
Musk remained mum about the turn of events on Twitter until late Tuesday afternoon, when he tweeted that “Buying Twitter is an accelerant to creating X, the everything app” without further explanation. | 2022-10-05T13:52:53+00:00 | chicagotribune.com | https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-elon-musk-twitter-20221005-hk5gurtrmfab3jq3zl6mwwgcie-story.html |
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Harold Lewis has been fighting drug addiction for years, but only recently started thinking recovery could be fun.
The 59-year-old former cook earned small prizes — candy, gum, gift cards, sunglasses and headphones — for attending meetings and staying in treatment for opioid addiction during a 12-week program in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
“Recovery should be fun because you’re getting your life back," Lewis said.
For an increasing number of Americans, addiction treatment involves not only hard work, but also earning rewards — sometimes totaling $500 — for negative drug tests or showing up for counseling or group meetings.
There's brain science behind the method, which is known as contingency management. And barriers to wider adoption of reward programs, such as government concerns about fraud, are starting to crumble.
“We’re in a state of desperation where we need to pull out all the stops and this is something that works," said Dr. James Berry, who directs addiction medicine at West Virginia University.
U.S. overdose deaths climbed to a record high during the pandemic. While opioids are mostly to blame, deaths involving stimulants such as methamphetamines also are climbing. Often, people die with multiple drugs in their system.
Medication can help people quit abusing opioids, but stimulant addiction has no effective medicine. Rewards programs — especially when the dollar value increases with consistent performance — are widely recognized as the most effective treatment for people addicted to stimulants.
Since 2011, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has used the method with 5,700 veterans. Rewards are vouchers the vets redeem at their local canteen. Over the years, 92% of the urine tests done on these veterans have been negative for drugs, said Dominick DePhilippis of the VA's substance use disorders program.
When done right, reward programs can be a bridge from the difficult days of early recovery to a better life, said Carla Rash, associate professor of medicine at UConn Health, who studies the method. It helps people make better decisions in the moment, tipping the scale when the immediate rewards of using drugs are difficult to resist.
The rewards can “provide a little bit of recognition for people’s efforts," Rash said.
For Casey Thompson, 41, of Colville, Washington, the first month after quitting meth was the worst. Without stimulants, he felt burned out and exhausted.
“Even standing up, you could fall asleep,” Thompson said.
Earning gift cards for passing drug tests helped, he said. During his 12-week program, he received about $500 in Walmart gift cards he spent on food, shirts, socks and shampoo. He's a trained welder and is looking for work after a recent layoff.
“I’m a totally different person than I was,” said Thompson. ”I was already planning on being clean, so it was just extra.”
More than 150 studies over 30 years have shown rewards work better than counseling alone for addictions including cocaine, alcohol, tobacco and, when used alongside medications, opioids.
The method is grounded in brain science. Psychologists have known for years that people who prefer small, immediate rewards over larger, delayed ones are vulnerable to addiction. They may vow to quit each morning and start using again by afternoon.
And neuroscientists have learned from imaging studies how addiction takes over the brain’s reward center, hijacking dopamine pathways and robbing people of the ability to enjoy simple pleasures.
“It’s very much using that same dopamine reward system that’s the basis for addictions to promote healthy behavior change,” said psychologist Stephen Higgins of the University of Vermont, who pioneered the method in 1991. His recent research shows it helps pregnant women quit smoking and improves the health of their newborns.
“Biologically, the use of substances lights up the same part of the brain that is lit up when a person wins the lottery, falls in love or experiences something really positive and exciting," said psychologist Sara Becker of Northwestern University.
The same pathway is lit up if someone wins a reward.
“That’s part of what’s powerful about these programs,” Becker said.
Support has never been stronger. The Biden administration backs the method in its National Drug Control Strategy. This fall, California will launch a pilot program designed to reward $10 gift cards passing drug tests for stimulants. Oregon will use tax revenue from the state’s legal marijuana industry to pay for similar incentives. Montana launched a program in March using a federal grant.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is working to revise its guidance on how much government grant money can be spent on prizes, rewards and cash cards. Researchers say the current $75 limit per patient is arbitrary and ineffective and should be raised to $599.
The method “is a widely studied and proven intervention that has been successful in treating people with a variety of substance use disorders," said Dr. Yngvild K. Olsen, who directs the U.S. government's Center for Substance Abuse Treatment.
Reward programs can be low tech — slips of paper drawn from a fish bowl — or high tech — using “smart” debit cards programmed so they cannot be spent at liquor stores or converted to cash at an ATM.
Maureen Walsh is a 54-year-old Philadelphia flower shop owner who stays off opioids with help from a smartphone app called DynamiCare. When she passes a saliva test, she earns cash on a smart card. She uses the money to treat herself to a new pair of shoes or make a donation to a favorite cause.
“The reward to me was knowing that I was clean and the test showed it,” Walsh said.
For Lewis, the Connecticut man in recovery from opioids, a weekly prize drawing became a way for him to bring home gifts for his mother.
“The prizes make me feel good," he said. “But the prizes make my mother feel great. I’m talking Tony the Tiger GREAT!”
On a recent summer day, Lewis had earned the chance to pull 10 slips — 10 chances to win prizes, including a tablet computer. The big prize eluded him, but he won six small prizes and $20 in grocery gift cards.
“Recovery is just not all balled-up fists and clutched teeth, you know what I mean?" Lewis said later. “It can be fun, where you can exhale and you can breathe and get excited — because you don’t know what you’re going to win today.”
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AP videojournalist Emma H. Tobin contributed to this report.
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The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Department of Science Education. The AP is solely responsible for all content. | 2022-09-08T02:30:38+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/living/article/Candy-cash-gifts-How-rewards-help-recovery-17423813.php |
Students at Iowa State University will have the opportunity to study climate science in the upcoming school year.
The university is launching a new major focusing on climate science this fall. The one-of-a-kind study program aims to prepare students to solve climate-based challenges.
Chair of geological and atmospheric sciences Kristie Franz said she’s excited to introduce the new major to students. Although scientists have been talking about climate change for decades, Franz said it’s become an urgent issue to students in recent years.
“The current generation is recognizing the legitimacy of the science and observing it as well, just along with the rest of us,” Franz said. “And they really want to do something about it because it's their future. So, they want to be a part of the solution.”
“I want to help be a voice for the world that is struggling right now."Daniel Musel, incoming freshman
She said the area of study will prepare students for a wide variety of careers – from sustainable design planners to climate advisors for private industries, like insurance.
The bachelor of science degree will allow students to choose from six areas of focus: advanced climate science, data visualization, design and planning for sustainability, policy and human behavior, science communication and agriculture and natural resources. But, all pathways will give students the knowledge to strategize against climate change, said Franz.
That’s what attracted ISU junior Owen Halverson to the major. He plans on studying advanced climate science, building off the framework of many of the meteorology courses he’s already taken. Halverson said he sees the degree as a means to address increased severe weather patterns.
“This is one of the biggest, if not the biggest problem facing the world right now,” he said. “And this is the way I see that I can be helpful to everyone else in the future.”
The coursework will consist of many classes within the university’s earth science department, but will go a step further and integrate economic and communications courses.
Associate professor Lindsay Maudlin – who was brought on to teach climate science courses – said an interdisciplinary look at climate change is vital to preparing students to tackle the issue.
“It’s more than just a one discipline kind of problem,” Maudlin said. “It's something that impacts all aspects of life. So, students will have the ability to think about things as a system and as a whole instead of just an individual component.”
"They really want to do something about it because it's their future. So, they want to be a part of the solution."Kristie Franz, chair of the geological and atmospheric sciences department
Incoming freshman Daniel Musel said the climate science major is part of what drove him to choose the university. He said he’s excited to not only dive into climate science, but also to have the opportunity to take communications courses that will help him translate that science to others.
“Bridging the gap between the social and more of the hard sciences and combining them into science that anyone can understand when it's explained in this way,” Musel said.
A 2021 survey of those between the ages of 16 and 25 from all over the world found that the majority of young people are incredibly worried about changing weather patterns. Nearly 60 percent of those surveyed reported feeling “very” or “extremely” worried about climate change.
Musel said he believes it’s something that people need to worry about and plan for. He said he hopes, come August, he can begin working down that path.
“I want to help be a voice for the world that is struggling right now,” Musel said. | 2022-08-01T16:43:01+00:00 | iowapublicradio.org | https://www.iowapublicradio.org/education/2022-08-01/iowa-state-university-launches-new-climate-science-major |
A divided Supreme Court has blocked a Texas law, championed by conservatives, that aimed to keep social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter from censoring users based on their viewpoints.
The court voted in an unusual 5-4 alignment Tuesday to put the Texas law on hold, while a lawsuit plays out in lower courts.
Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett voted to grant the emergency request from two technology industry groups that challenged the law in federal court.
The majority provided no explanation for its decision, as is common in emergency matters on what is informally known as the court’s “shadow docket.”
Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Elena Kagan and Neil Gorsuch would have allowed the law to remain in effect.
In dissent, Alito wrote, “Social media platforms have transformed the way people communicate with each other and obtain news.”
It’s not clear how the high court’s past First Amendment cases, many of which predate the internet age, apply to Facebook, Twitter, TikTok and other digital platforms, Alito wrote in an opinion joined by fellow conservatives Thomas and Gorsuch but not Kagan.
The order follows a ruling last week by the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that found a similar Florida law likely violates the First Amendment’s free speech protections.
Republican elected officials in several states have backed laws like those enacted in Florida and Texas that sought to portray social media companies as generally liberal in outlook and hostile to ideas outside of that viewpoint, especially from the political right.
The Texas law was initially blocked by a district judge, but then allowed to take effect by a panel of the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. | 2022-06-01T16:55:46+00:00 | newson6.com | https://www.newson6.com/story/629728a2a80f20072535335c/supreme-court-blocks-texas-law-on-social-media-censorship |
Updated June 28, 2022 at 5:56 PM ET
ALBANY - Gov. Kathy Hochul is trying to make history as the first female governor elected in the state of New York, but first she'll have to ward off a pair of primary challengers Tuesday to even have a chance.
Hochul, a Democrat from Buffalo, who had been New York's No. 2 official, rose to power in August after former Gov. Andrew Cuomo resigned under the weight of multiple sexual harassment allegations and scandals surrounding his once-lauded response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Her elevation to the state's top office made her the first woman to serve in the role, but still, no woman has ever been elected to the position.
Now, Hochul is running for a full, four-year term as an incumbent with just 10 months in office under her belt. And her first electoral test comes Tuesday when Rep. Tom Suozzi – running to her right – and New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Wiliams – running to her left – will try to wrest the Democratic gubernatorial nomination from her.
"We are going to win the battle of the hearts and minds," Hochul said at a June 15 rally of her labor-union supporters. "We are working tirelessly with all of you to give people the reason to come back, and to not just survive but thrive."
Hochul has positioned herself as the frontrunner in the three-way primary field, in part through a relentless campaign fundraising strategy that saw her amass more than $30 million — far outpacing any of her opponents.
The governor's campaign has blanketed the state's airwaves touting her record during her short time in office, which includes a gas-tax reduction through the end of the year and a series of gun-control and abortion-access measures she signed into law just this month.
On Saturday, the day after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the right to an abortion, Hochul tweeted from her official account, "My message to anyone who needs abortion care: New York will be your safe harbor."
My message to anyone who needs abortion care: New York will be your safe harbor. pic.twitter.com/CfbvrsFJAy
— Governor Kathy Hochul (@GovKathyHochul) June 25, 2022
But Hochul's tenure has not been without controversy. She selected then-state Sen. Brian Benjamin, a Manhattan Democrat, to replace her as lieutenant governor despite questions over his past campaign-fundraising tactics. Within six months, Benjamin was arrested on federal bribery charges and resigned.
Hochul's opponents have faulted her for spearheading a deal to build a new $1.4 billion football stadium for the Buffalo Bills, which came with $850 million in direct public subsidies. And they've latched on to her past positions on gun issues, which earned her an "A" rating from the National Rifle Association when she represented a conservative-leaning district in Congress a decade ago.
"She was a member of the United States Congress, voted with the NRA, was endorsed by the NRA and took money from the NRA," Suozzi, a Long Island congressman, said during a June 16 debate. "The governor changes her positions based upon the office she's running upon."
Hochul has said her views have changed on the issue of gun control, and she successfully led the effort to boost the minimum age for purchasing a semi-automatic rifle from 18 to 21 in New York after an 18-year-old killed 10 people in a Buffalo supermarket last month.
"Judge me by what I've done," she said. "Because a lot of people have evolved since I took that position. You know what we need? More people to evolve."
Williams, the No. 2 official in New York City, is the candidate favored by progressives, including the Working Families Party, the influential third party with a habit of backing insurgent, left-leaning candidates. This is his second race against Hochul; he came within seven percentage points of defeating her in the 2018 lieutenant governor primary.
He has criticized the governor for not doing more to focus on street-level crime in Harlem, the Bronx and other areas susceptible to gun violence.
"Gun violence cannot be solved by state legislation alone," Williams said during the debate. "People who are new to this they always try to deal with the mass shootings because the handgun violence is harder to deal with."
The Republicans
The winner of the Democratic primary will face the candidate that emerges from a contentious, four-way Republican primary Tuesday between Rep. Lee Zeldin, former Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino, businessman Harry Wilson and Andrew Giuliani, a former Trump administration aide who is son of former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
Zeldin, of Long Island, has the backing of Republican Party leaders across the state, who voted earlier this year to make him their designated candidate — a distinction that gave him an automatic spot on the primary ballot without petitioning.
Giuliani is making his first run for elected office and has made his unabashed support of Donald Trump a central part of his campaign. During a debate earlier this month, Giuliani repeated the discredited, incorrect claim that Trump rightfully won the 2020 election, going as far as claiming a "crime" had been perpetrated on the American people.
But Trump has not formally endorsed any candidate in the Republican race. Along with Giuliani, Trump counts Astorino and Zeldin — both of whom have been staunch defenders of Trump on cable news programs — as allies.
New York has more than twice as many Democrats as Republicans, with independent voters also outpacing the GOP. The state hasn't elected a Republican to statewide office since George Pataki won his third term as governor in 2002.
It is a closed-primary state, meaning only enrolled members of a party can vote in their respective primary.
Copyright 2022 WNYC Radio | 2022-06-28T22:59:06+00:00 | kcbx.org | https://www.kcbx.org/npr-top-news/npr-top-news/2022-06-27/in-n-y-s-primary-2-democrats-and-4-republicans-are-running-to-oust-gov-hochul |
At first, Hannah Heath thought she probably just had a bad case of food poisoning. The Sarasota, Fla. resident was vomiting and had chills and a fever. But four days later, she was still really sick.
"Finally I called my husband and I was like, 'You have to take me to the ER, I think I'm dehydrated; I think I need an IV,'" said Heath, 39.
This was in late June, and Heath hadn't yet heard that malaria cases were cropping up in Sarasota county. When doctors at Sarasota Memorial Hospital told her she had the disease, she was in disbelief.
"I was like, 'You're kidding me, right?'" Heath said. "Because I haven't been outside the country, so it was just surreal."
Heath spends time outside with her family, so mosquito bites are not uncommon. She has no idea which bite might have infected her, or when. Doctors told her it probably happened weeks before her symptoms first developed.
First local transmission in U.S. in 20 years
Heath is one of eight known people in recent months who have contracted malaria in the U.S., after being bitten by a local mosquito, rather than while traveling abroad. The cases comprise the nation's first locally transmitted outbreak in 20 years. The last time this occurred was in 2003, when eight people tested positive for malaria in Palm Beach, Fla.
One of the eight cases is in Texas; the rest occurred in the northern part of Sarasota County.
The Florida Department of Health recorded the most recent case in its weekly arbovirus report for July 9-15.
For the past month, health officials have issued a mosquito-borne illness alert for residents in Sarasota and neighboring Manatee County. Mosquito management teams are working to suppress the population of the type of mosquito that carries malaria, Anopheles.
Sarasota Memorial Hospital has treated five of the county's seven malaria patients, according to Dr. Manuel Gordillo, director of infection control.
"The cases that are coming in are classic malaria, you know they come in with fever, body aches, headaches, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea," Gordillo said, explaining that his hospital usually treats just one or two patients a year who acquire malaria while traveling abroad in Central or South America, or Africa.
She felt 'miserable' at first
Malaria is mostly found in tropical countries and is caused by a blood-borne parasite that spreads to humans through some species of mosquito. It can take weeks for someone to develop symptoms after they've been bitten by an infected mosquito.
The diagnostic challenge in Sarasota, initially, was that those symptoms are common in many diseases. The first patient was admitted in late May, but had no recent travel history, so staff at Sarasota Memorial weren't expecting malaria. It took scientists in the hospital's laboratory noticing parasites in a blood sample, for doctors to even consider that as a diagnosis, said Gordillo.
But by the time Heath arrived in the emergency room on June 27, they were on alert.
"They knew what to do pretty quickly, so I could start treatment pretty quickly," Heath said.
Heath was hospitalized for five days. She considers herself to be an active person who is normally in great health, but the malaria left her exhausted and "miserable."
In addition to suffering from dehydration, her platelet count had dropped. That increases the risk of internal bleeding, which meant her movements had to be closely monitored.
"I couldn't get out of bed without somebody there to make sure I didn't fall, and they wrapped padding around the edges of the bed, the side rails, because I could have hurt myself if I would have hit my arm, there could have been internal bleeding," Heath said.
A slow but steady recovery
During this acute phase, Heath's doctors prescribed Coartem, an oral antimalarial drug, to treat the parasites infecting her red blood cells.
The nausea and headaches she suffered are common symptoms of malaria as well as common side effects of the medication, so Heath couldn't pinpoint the cause. Regardless, she described her first few days in the hospital as particularly rough. Medical teams gave her other medications to relieve her symptoms and discomfort.
Some other malaria patients developed severe symptoms as well, Gordillo said, but in each case, staff were able to manage them.
"This has been around for years," he said. "There are good treatments, there's straight-forward diagnosis" — once it's suspected in an area.
All the locally acquired cases were of Plasmodium vivax malaria, a strain that typically produces milder symptoms or can even be asymptomatic, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But the strain can still cause death, and pregnant people and children are particularly vulnerable.
So far, the patients Sarasota Memorial has seen have all responded well to treatment, Gordillo said.
After a few days, Heath started to feel the benefits of her malaria treatment and was discharged after five days. There was some lingering fatigue, but Heath reported she was doing yoga again a few days after coming home.
But her treatment is not over. Last week, Heath started a second round of medication from home called Primaquine, which targets any remaining malaria parasites that may be in her liver, which can cause relapse. She will complete that course of treatment this weekend.
She expressed gratitude for hospital staff for taking care of her during a difficult time.
"I do appreciate that they knew what it was. They knew how to take care of it and I'm feeling great now," Heath said.
Tackling the mosquitoes that spread malaria
Malaria does not spread from human-to-human contact; a mosquito carrying the disease has to bite someone to transmit the parasites.
Workers with Sarasota County Mosquito Management Services have been especially busy since May 26, when the first local case was confirmed.
Like similar departments across Florida, the team is experienced in responding to small outbreaks of mosquito-borne illnesses such as West Nile virus or dengue. They have protocols for addressing travel-related cases of malaria as well, but have ramped up their efforts now that they have confirmation that transmission is occurring locally between mosquitoes and humans.
Staff have increased surveillance for Anopheles mosquitoes in the northern Sarasota area, where all the malaria cases so far have been. Workers regularly check traps set throughout the county for adult mosquitoes, and examine water sources for signs of larvae.
Their primary goal is to eliminate mosquitoes before they mature and can start flying around biting people. Part of the process involves spraying chemicals called larvicides near ponds, ditches and other places containing pools of stagnant water, where mosquitoes like to lay their eggs.
When necessary, the team also uses targeted spraying of insecticides to kill adult mosquitoes in the air. They spray at night, when Anopheles are most active. This is particularly important in the days immediately following a confirmed malaria case.
Now that a seventh case has been reported, workers are scouring woods, ponds and other places to see if they've missed anything, according to manager Wade Brennan.
"This is what our crews are focused on, but when it comes to private property we need everybody's help," said Brennan, speaking at a press conference on July 18.
They are asking residents to check their yards for standing water that attracts mosquitoes. Those with large wooded areas or ponds on their property can contact mosquito management for assistance.
The county sent 140 mosquito specimens to the CDC for testing. Three came back positive for malaria, but none since early June.
While organizations like the World Health Organization have cautioned climate change could lead to more global cases and deaths from malaria and other mosquito-borne diseases, experts say it's too soon to tell if the local transmission seen these past two months has any connection to extreme heat or flooding.
"We don't have any reason to think that climate change has contributed to these particular cases," said Ben Beard, deputy director of the CDC's division of vector-borne diseases and deputy incident manager for this year's local malaria response.
"In a more general sense though, milder winters, earlier springs, warmer, longer summers – all of those things sort of translate into mosquitoes coming out earlier, getting their replication cycles sooner, going through those cycles faster and being out longer," he said. And so we are concerned about the impact of climate change and environmental change in general on what we call vector-borne diseases.".
Beard co-authored a 2019 report that highlights a significant increase in diseases spread by ticks and mosquitoes in recent decades. Lyme disease and West Nile virus were among the top five most prevalent.
"In the big picture it's a very significant concern that we have," he said.
Lessons learned about local risks — and prevention
For now, officials say the best protection against malaria for residents is to use insect repellant and cover up with long-sleeved clothing, especially before sunrise and after sunset, when Anopheles mosquitoes are most active.
"It's just so important, if we can stop those mosquito bites we can stop this from going any further," said Brennan, of Sarasota's mosquito control unit.
Hannah Heath is definitely on board. Since she's come home, she makes sure she, her husband and 6 year-old son have bug spray when they go outside.
"I don't want anybody to go through that, but I'm just thinking like, I don't want to see my son go through what I went through, so I'm more aware of it," she said.
Heath says her neighbors in the Sarasota area should seek treatment quickly if they have malaria symptoms.
For most Americans the risk of contracting this disease is extremely low, according to the CDC. But awareness is still important, Beard notes.
"This is mosquito season and people need to wear the repellants," he said. "Malaria is a risk in the Sarasota area but there are a lot of other mosquito-borne illnesses as well."
This story comes from NPR's health reporting partnership with WUSF and KFF Health News.
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