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NORTH RIDGEVILLE, Ohio – The first of North Ridgeville’s Ready to Listen workshops took place on Feb. 28 at Liberty Elementary School. The title reflects the new North Ridgeville slogan of Ridgeville Ready! Planning together for a better tomorrow.
About 50 people attended the workshop and discussed a series of questions at each table to offer up thoughts and opinions for future progress for the city. Brian Ashworth, a community planner, conducted the meeting, first introducing the questions that will be important:
· What is a master plan?
· Why a new plan?
· What topics will the master plan cover?
· Who is involved?
· What is the public process?
· What happens to your input?
Many statistics of the city as well as directions for replying were thrown out to the room to begin the process. Later, mapping opinions with stickers showed what each person loved in which parts of the city or places things that could be improved.
Topics included discussions on subjects such as land use, housing, environment and transportation among quite a few others.
A vision statement and a strategic plan is not something to be put on a shelf like the last one was in 2009, said Ashworth. “A lot has changed in our country, and this is an exciting time for the city.”
Data from technical analysis of the answers people give goes into a database, he said, for recommendations and actions during the next six months or so. Plans will then be developed that will be presented to city residents.
Genevieve Flieger and Rudy Ringwall were two city residents who were participating enthusiastically.
Ringwall said, “It was a very good presentation, very informative and we can hope we are moving in the right direction with a master plan.” Flieger heartily agreed.
After the meeting was finished, Mayor Corcoran said, “This whole process is designed to get public feedback. This is the first of three in a row. It’s a good start so far for that feedback we have been looking for. It’s the city’s plan, driven by the feedback. As you can see, there is a lot of enthusiasm. It was important we could bring people together face to face.” He noted also, “Look at this. It is over and people are still chatting.” | 2023-03-06T20:37:33+00:00 | cleveland.com | https://www.cleveland.com/community/2023/03/north-ridgeville-hosted-a-ready-to-listen-city-workshop.html |
New features and improvements expand functionality and empower lifelong learners and non-traditional students
SALT LAKE CITY, July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Instructure, the maker of Canvas, today announced improvements to many of the solutions that make up the industry-leading Instructure Learning Platform coinciding with its annual InstructureCon education event. Canvas LMS now serves as the hub of learning for tens of millions of teachers and students in 70 countries. By adding innovative solutions in additional edtech areas such as assessment, content and analytics, the Instructure Learning Platform demonstrates a commitment to meeting the needs of K-12, Higher Ed and lifelong learners throughout the world. To register for InstructureCon 2022, go to https://www.instructure.com/events/instructurecon.
"Our desire to understand the unique needs of educators and learners worldwide informs our strategy for developing, refining and integrating new products into the Instructure Learning Platform," said Shiren Vijiasingam, Chief Product Officer at Instructure. "One of the key differentiators for Instructure is a product team that prioritizes gathering constructive feedback and leveraging it to create better products efficiently. This focus on innovation empowers educators to do what they do best."
Here are some of the recent updates that make the Instructure Learning Platform even more powerful in 2022:
Instructure has added many strategic tools through acquisition over the last few years. To help navigate this growing family of products, this year Instructure launched a new branding architecture:
- Canvas by Instructure: Learning management solutions built to make teaching and learning easier and more engaging for everyone, throughout their lifelong learning journey.
- Mastery by Instructure: Bringing together the assessment tools and content educators need to implement a successful assessment program that drives learning forward.
- Elevate by Instructure: Improving the use of data and analytics to help solve student and institutional challenges and give educators the information they need to make impactful decisions.
- Impact by Instructure: Driving edtech adoption and engagement to ensure students get the best outcomes for each solution.
Over the past year, our Canvas LMS teams have streamlined the activities of educators and students to enhance the learning process. Among the specific improvements this year, Canvas launched the following:
- Discussions redesign: an evolved user interface now allows for quoting replies, tagging respondents with @mentions and the capability of flagging or reporting replies.
- Assignment enhancements for students: an improved submission workflow includes a progress tracker for each assignment, clear submission options, improved access to rubrics and feedback and access to each attempt if multiple are given.
- Course pacing: a feature that allows the automatic distribution of due dates with different start dates based on an instructor's defined pace, all to better support outcomes-based, or competency-based education (CBE).
- SpeedGrader and Gradebook improvements: updates that streamline grading workflows.
- Canvas Studio updates: Canvas Studio now supports media uploads from Vimeo and automates uploading from Zoom. With improved analytics, instructors can understand how students engage with course videos.
- Canvas Catalog updates: time-saving updates streamline purchasing and enrolling in courses, including in multiple listings at the same time.
- Canvas Credentials: In April, Instructure completed the acquisition of partner Concentric Sky, the makers of Badgr. The micro-credentialing tool was rebranded as "Canvas Badges" and "Canvas Credentials," an advanced suite of tools with unlimited badging, analytics and personalized pathways.
Mastery, Instructure's competency-based solution for K-12 assessment allows teachers to identify what students know and don't know, standard by standard, in real-time when they can most influence learning. Recent improvements include the following:
- Enhanced Integration with Canvas: in addition to the integration points already launched—like linking Mastery Connect Trackers to Canvas courses, automatically creating Mastery Connect assessments as Canvas assignments and viewing data in both the Canvas Gradebook and Mastery Tracker— continued updates were released that allow existing trackers to be migrated to a new Canvas course, supporting instructors in maintaining data across semesters or terms.
- Assessment content additions: expanded high-quality district assessments offerings in several states.
- Expanded tools, workflows and accommodations: new text-to-speech options and improved reporting features.
Educators need more tools to dive deeper into the data around student performance so they can better meet the needs of all learners. The recent updates to Elevate help give educators a more complete picture of their students, curriculum and programs. For example:
- New Assessment Analytics Edition of Elevate K-12 Analytics: gives school districts the ability to compare student outcomes in the Mastery Connect AMS with state assessment results and to disaggregate by demographics and enrollment.
- "Group Perspectives" like recently released student perspectives, Group Perspectives will soon enable highly-visual and interactive views of outcomes for student groups, such as classrooms, schools, English Language Learners and more.
- Elevate Data Quality: planned enhancements include a new user interface and added features such as custom rule writing, user management and integration with Elevate K-12 Analytics will provide additional assurances of downstream data quality in the analytics platform.
Last year Instructure acquired Impact (formerly Eesysoft.) This year, the product team continues to expand integration with the Instructure Learning Platform to provide better insight into adoption and drive deeper and more meaningful engagement. For example:
- Integration: Impact is expanding to even more products in the Instructure Learning Platform.
- Impact Virtual Assistant for Tier 1 Institutions (currently in beta): this will allow educators to intervene earlier with users and anticipate and resolve questions or issues.
Instructure (NYSE: INST) is an education technology company dedicated to elevating student success, amplifying the power of teaching, and inspiring everyone to learn together. Today the Instructure Learning Platform supports tens of millions of educators and learners around the world. Learn more at www.instructure.com.
This press release contains "forward-looking" statements, which are subject to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements regarding the potential, timing, and examples of any strategic alternatives. These statements are not guarantees of future performance, but are based on management's expectations as of the date of this press release and assumptions that are inherently subject to uncertainties, risks, and changes in circumstances that are difficult to predict. Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements include the risk factors described in the Company's initial public offering prospectus filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") on July 23, 2021, and other documents filed with the SEC and could cause actual results to vary from expectations. All information provided in this press release is as of the date hereof and Instructure undertakes no duty to update this information except as required by law.
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13 people shot, stabbed or struck by vehicle in ‘pop up’ party violence, police say
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (WSTM) - Thirteen people were either shot, stabbed or hit by a car after violence broke out early Sunday morning.
Police say it appears the incidents happened during a so-called “pop up” party that was publicized on social media.
Syracuse police said officers responded to a shots fired complaint on Maseena Street triggered by the Shot Spotter system at 12:22 a.m. Sunday.
They discovered a scene of around 200 people gathered for some sort of block party promoted on social media.
“Upon arrival they discovered a tremendously chaotic situation,” Syracuse Police Chief Joseph Cecile said. “Two hundred or so people in the street, people fleeing in all directions both on foot and in cars. They found over a dozen, well 13 is the actual number, victims - gunshot victims, stabbing victims, and also victims that had been hit by those vehicles that were fleeing the scenes.”
Cecile said this is not the first time a party like this has happened in the city.
Rather, every weekend in various parts of the city there are “pop up” parties typically advertised on social media. And the chief admits that sometimes police find out about them, and other times they don’t.
“Our understanding of this one, and it’s very early information, that it was a bunch of high school students who had just graduated and also some older individuals who had come back from college that were meeting here on this block,” Cecile said.
The ages of all 13 victims who were either shot, stabbed or hit by a car range from 17 to 25 years old.
Surveillance footage in the area is being reviewed by officers, but Cecile said this case could be quite long term.
“With as many victims as we have here, we probably also have quite a few suspects. So I think its going to be down the road, before this is released,” he said.
Police did not say whether arrests were made or if any suspects have been identified. The investigation is ongoing.
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PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- DrSnip, a new vasectomy clinic in Portland, is offering a limited time discounted vasectomy for any patients who do not have insurance, or whose plans are not contracted with DrSnip.
"Vasectomy remains an underutilized procedure in the American healthcare system. It's less invasive, less risky, and less costly than a woman's equivalent sterility procedure, tubal ligation," says Shrikesh Majithia, CEO of DrSnip.
And for a limited time, those cost savings are significantly higher. Through the end of the year, the Portland clinic will discount the procedure to $500, including a comprehensive consultation.
"We want the community to know that we're here to help," Majithia notes. "Our hope is to see patients who could not previously come in due to financial constraints. It's one way we can support the community."
The promotion will last through the end of the year. Any patient who is uninsured or has insurance that is not contracted with the clinic, or whose insurance does not cover vasectomy is eligible. And patients with insurance coverage may end up paying even less. "If your plan covers vasectomy, and your deductible has been met this year, the procedure could effectively be free." Majithia says.
DrSnip® has been a leader in vasectomy for over 30 years, serving over 40,000 men and families in the Pacific Northwest. The clinic has developed its own proprietary vasectomy instruments to perform its unique DrSnip Vasectomy Technique.
To learn more, or to schedule your appointment, visit www.drsnip.com, or call 1.888.SNIP.DOC
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President Joe Biden's Covid-19 symptoms "have improved," his physician said Friday, but the President has taken additional medications to address his temperature and cough.
Dr. Kevin O'Connor said in a letter that Biden had a temperature of 99.4 degrees Thursday evening, which was treated with Tylenol.
"His temperature has remained normal since then," O'Connor wrote.
He is also being treated with an albuterol inhaler "that he uses as needed," O'Connor added, as well as "oral hydration."
Biden's symptoms continue to be a runny nose and fatigue. The President had a dry cough earlier Thursday, but he now has "an occasional non-productive, now 'loose' cough," according to O'Connor.
The President continues to take Paxlovid, Pfizer's antiviral drug. O'Connor confirmed that Biden has stopped using previously prescribed medications Crestor and Eliquis "during Paxlovid treatment and for several days after his last dose." In order to prevent a drug interaction, certain medications like Crestor and Eliquis are avoided during Paxlovid treatments.
O'Connor reiterated in his Friday letter that he anticipates "that (Biden) will respond favorably," to treatment. Biden will continue to isolate and be monitored "closely" by the White House medical unit.
White House coronavirus coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha also told John Berman on CNN's "New Day" earlier Friday that Biden's symptoms remained mild as of Thursday night, suggesting that the President's symptoms were "basically the same."
"I got an update last night at 10:00 p.m. and he was doing just fine," he said. Jha added that he would touch base with the White House medical team and speak with the President "directly this morning."
"The symptoms were basically the same -- again, he's got a little runny nose, he's got a bit of a dry cough," Jha said.
Asked again whether any of Biden's symptoms were getting worse, Jha told CNN, "Nope. As of 10:00 p.m. last night, no. It was the same symptoms, about the same level of mildness."
Biden tested positive for Covid-19 on Thursday morning, becoming the second US president to contract the virus during the two-and-a-half year pandemic. In a video posted to Twitter after he tested positive, Biden told Americans that he is "doing well" and that he was continuing to work while in isolation at the White House.
On Thursday night he called Delaware Sen. Tom Carper, who also tested positive for Covid-19, the White House said. And he spoke with the hosts of events he had been scheduled to attend in Wilkes-Barre and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Images posted to Twitter also showed that Biden signed the Formula Act into law on Thursday, which suspends tariffs on certain formula products amid the ongoing shortage, and held a call with his national security team on Friday morning.
Biden is fully vaccinated and twice boosted, and has been prescribed Paxlovid because his advanced age makes him high-risk for experiencing severe illness. Biden is 79 years old.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and Jha are expected to speak to reporters Friday afternoon.
Jha said they still "don't know much" about where the President contracted the virus but said that tracing was underway for any close contacts of the President. He said he was not aware of any subsequent cases. First lady Dr. Jill Biden, who is considered a close contact but has tested negative, will stay in Delaware through the weekend and "following (US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) guidelines," he said.
Jha on CNN Friday also downplayed concerns that the White House press corps has yet to be briefed directly by O'Connor, after one journalist at Thursday's briefing said the White House is playing a game of telephone.
"Dr. O'Connor is his personal physician. You have heard from Dr. O'Connor in the letter. We are fully committed to transparency here. You're going to hear every day from Dr. O'Connor through written communication. He was going to put out his own statement with this assessment of how the president's doing," he said.
He said that many officials are in contact with Biden and "the American people will have a very full complete picture of how the President is doing."
Pressed again by Berman on whether there were plans to make O'Connor available to the press or the public, Jha said that O'Connor "is going to be sharing his information" and that a "variety of administration officials" would share information.
White House officials have been preparing for months for what many viewed as the inevitability that Biden would come down with Covid.
A wave of cases has swept Washington through the spring and summer and as more and more of his top officials and members of his family contracted Covid, officials came to believe it was possible the President himself would get sick, even as they took steps to shield him from the virus.
White House officials had a loose plan in place for the day Biden tested positive, including informing the public when the tests were confirmed and releasing a letter from Biden's physician daily about the President's condition.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jakubowitz Law announces that a securities fraud class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of shareholders of Digital Turbine, Inc. (NASDAQ: APPS).
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The lawsuit seeks to recover losses for shareholders who purchased Digital Turbine between February 26, 2021 and May 31, 2022.
Shareholders interested in acting as a lead plaintiff representing the class of wronged shareholders have until August 5, 2022 to petition the court. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
According to a filed complaint, Digital Turbine, Inc. issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) the Company's recent acquisitions, AdColony and Fyber, act as agents in certain of their respective product lines; (2) as a result, revenues for those product lines must be reported net of license fees and revenue share, rather than on a gross basis; (3) the Company's internal control over financial reporting as to revenue recognition was deficient; and (4) as a result of the foregoing, the Company's net revenues was overstated throughout fiscal 2022; and (5) as a result of the foregoing, defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis.
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CAESAREA, Israel, Nov. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- POLYN Technology, a fabless semiconductor company providing Neuromorphic Analog Signal Processing (NASP) Tiny AI chips, and Edge Impulse, the leading embedded machine-learning (ML) development platform, have partnered to address ultra-low-power on-sensor solutions for wearables, hearables, and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT).
The collaboration aims to leverage the NASP platform to enable more customers to develop application-specific chips for one-dimensional signal processing at the sensor level. This will help expedite the adoption of ML at the Edge.
"Resource-hungry edge devices present more and more complexity in sound processing and this is an important challenge to address," said Aleksandr Timofeev, founder and CEO of POLYN. Additional challenges include power, accuracy, and novel capabilities. The Edge Impulse-POLYN collaboration will help vendors resolve these issues in next-generation products."
POLYN's NASP development framework provides fast and easy conversion of trained neural networks from any well-known ML library into neuromorphic analog chips. Neural-Net-To-Chip automation tools provide a fully functional simulation of the resulting math model, converting it into chip production files. These unique tools dramatically reduce product time to market, CAPEX, and redesign OPEX.
The unique POLYN business model provides customer support throughout the entire product development cycle, including neural network selection, training, optimization, and testing on the software simulation. As a result, the size and structure of the neural network is always optimized to the customer's task, ensuring effective solutions and further investment savings. POLYN's approach supports fast and cost-effective development of tailored solutions that perform deep learning computations on mass-market devices.
Edge Impulse's machine learning software enables enterprises to build smarter edge products, providing powerful automation and low-code capabilities to make it easier to create valuable datasets and develop advanced ML algorithms. Their technology empowers developers to bring more ML products to market faster, and helps teams rapidly develop industry-specific solutions in weeks instead of years.
"We're very excited to work with POLYN to help nurture brand-new solutions using our respective technologies," said Zach Shelby, CEO and co-founder of Edge Impulse. "The combination of their IP and our platform provides opportunities for users to overcome development challenges while finding valuable new applications for their data."
POLYN and Edge Impulse are focusing initially on hearables using POLYN's unique combination of voice detection and voice extraction from any ambient environment with the up to 150uW power consumption, enabling entirely novel designs for hearing aids, hearing assistance products, earbuds, and other miniature devices. Additional capabilities, including music detection and processing, are available for that range of products.
To learn more about POLYN, visit polyn.ai
For more on Edge Impulse, visit edgeimpulse.com
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Although Aspen, Colorado, is known as a haven for the rich and famous, it’s also a spectacular playground for the adventurous, no matter the depth of one’s pocketbook. Here’s the perfect itinerary to maximize your fun during a long summer weekend in and around this high country town.
Take the scenic route to Aspen
Your adventure begins with a couple of stops as you drive over the Continental Divide on your way to town. Independence Pass (12,095 feet elevation at the summit) is one of the highest paved point-to-point roads in Colorado. (Trail Ridge Road and Cottonwood Pass are slightly higher in elevation.)
The pass road began as a trail for miners and pack animals and expanded by 1881 to a stage route connecting Aspen and Leadville. At the summit, make time for a quick hike to the scenic overlook or along one of the adjacent trails. (You can even tackle a couple of thirteeners from here.)
Plan to stop again at the small parking area about 3 miles west of the summit to explore Independence, a scenic ghost town.
In the late 1800s, Ashcroft, Aspen and Independence were booming mining towns. A prospector is said to have struck a rich vein of gold on July 4, 1879, prompting the name for the camp that had been known as Farwell, Chipeta, Sparkhill and other names that didn’t stick. In 1881 and 1882 the town’s population swelled to 1,500 and it boasted more than 40 stores. The mill processed more than $190,000 in gold in two years (about $5.34 million today).
By 1883, ore production dramatically dropped, and miners went in search of fortune elsewhere. Independence quickly turned into a shadow of itself and nearly every resident had left by 1900.
Walking to the remains of the town’s business district, you get a glimpse of what mining life was like at 10,830 feet. The setting is picturesque but life in Independence was tough because of its isolation and harsh weather. Even in summer it can be cold and windy here, so make sure you wear layers.
The ghost town is well preserved, thanks to the Aspen Historical Society. It’s a living history lesson. As you wander around and even into some of the old cabins and buildings, you can see rusted tin cans, bottles and other remnants of everyday life in the late 1800s.
The Farwell Mill is a half-mile from the business district. If you walk there from Independence you’ll follow the steps of miners, as the path was part of the road connecting Independence to Aspen and Ashcroft. You also can drive to a parking lot for the Farwell Mill.
There are trailheads on the west side of the pass with wonderful hikes if you need to stretch your legs, but plan to arrive in Aspen in time to join a downtown walking tour led by a docent from the Aspen Historical Society, which is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year.
There are many historic buildings in Aspen, and taking a guided tour is a fun way to learn the back stories. The oldest building, the Andres, dates to 1885. It was a haberdashery in the late 1800s and early 1900s and now houses Prada. I really enjoyed learning about Aspen’s re-invention from a mining town filled with fortune seekers to a world-class ski and outdoor destination during one of these tours.
If you can afford it, splurge on a stay at the historic Hotel Jerome, which opened in 1889 as a boarding house. It’s one of the oldest hotels west of the Mississippi River. Walking into the lobby, it feels like you’re stepping back to a bygone era. The Living Room, which is one of my favorite hideaways in Aspen, is a great place to spot celebrities.
Even if you don’t stay at the Jerome, visit the infamous J-Bar where cowboys once rode horses indoors, 10th Mountain Division soldiers gathered, and writer and one-time mayoral candidate Hunter S. Thompson set up his de facto office. The burgers are legendary and so is the Aspen Crud, a bourbon-spiked vanilla milkshake created when the J-Bar was a soda foundation during Prohibition.
For dinner, head over to Aspen’s restaurant row. They don’t take reservations at Meat and Cheese Restaurant and Farm Shop, but it’s worth a visit. While you wait for a table to enjoy globally inspired dishes, head downstairs to Hooch Craft Cocktail Bar. The rustic-chic bar is a mash-up of flea market treasures and high-end antiques with a speakeasy vibe.
Admittedly, Aspen’s hotels are pricey. For a nearby oasis, enjoy the 40 acres of rolling meadows at the newly renovated Aspen Meadows Resort (from about $300; look for special shoulder-season rates for Colorado residents) or check out the European chalet-inspired St. Moritz Lodge, one of the area’s best-kept secrets for affordable accommodations (from about $230).
If you’d rather stay in a condo, try The Gant (from about $350), which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. For over-the-top five-star luxury, The Little Nell (from about $600) is Aspen’s crème de la crème.
Explore grottos and cascades and then bike to lunch
Early birds catch the worms – and early hikers get the grottos and cascades to themselves. On one visit, my friend and I got to the Grottos Trail at 6:45 a.m. and had the sites to ourselves.
From the trailhead it takes about five minutes to get to the entrance of the grottos, or ice caves. There’s a sign in front of the opening in the boulders where you climb down about six feet. Inside, you’ll find giant slabs of jagged ice, rocks and boulders that stand in striking contrast to the smooth walls. Scramble out and continue along the trail to see the cascading falls as the sun comes up over the mountains. By the time you get back to the parking area, it likely will be filling up with visitors.
When you get back to town grab a coffee or smoothie at Jus Aspen and stroll over to the John Denver Sanctuary for a mellow adventure. In the Song Garden, native river boulders are engraved with lyrics from some of Denver’s popular songs, including “Rocky Mountain High.” Listening to the rhythms of the Roaring Fork River while reading the lyrics is a relaxing respite in this bustling mountain town. The singer lived in Aspen for most of his adult life.
If you’re visiting downtown on a Saturday morning between mid-June and early October, stroll through the lively Aspen Saturday Market to pick up Colorado produce and artisan goods. The market is one of my favorites in the state.
Rent a bike (I suggest Four Mountain Sports) and ride along the Rio Grande Trail. It’s an 8-mile ride to Woody Creek Tavern, a great place for lunch. You’ll cruise along the shaded, paved path that follows the Roaring Fork River for the first couple of miles. Cool off in the spray from a series of small waterfalls before hitting the McLain Flats section. You’ll be in full sun here, so make sure you take sun protection and water.
Woody Creek Tavern is legendary. Eccentric writer Hunter S. Thompson was a regular patron. Polaroid snapshots of guests cover the walls. Chow down on a burger, sandwich or tacos. The portions are huge, and the margaritas are strong (so strong they come with a warning). The ride back to town likely will keep you from overindulging.
If the afternoon weather is fine, take the gondola up Aspen Mountain. The views are stunning, and the nature trail is an easy hike to enjoy wildflowers. After your ride back down, pop over to the Ajax Tavern for happy hour on the patio. The truffle fries are a must!
Lakes, a ghost town and iconic views near Aspen
Hikers have plenty of local options during their visit. For a bit of a challenge, try the 5.6-mile round-trip hike to Cathedral Lake. To fuel up, grab coffee and burritos at Paradise Bakery, a locals’ favorite. The Cathedral Lake trailhead is just beyond Ashcroft, a ghost town, on Castle Creek Road.
The hike starts in a pine, aspen and fern forest. You’ll feel as if you’ve stepped into a fairytale. The trail ascends quickly along Pine Creek and then opens through some old rockslides and meadows before a series of short and steep switchbacks that will make your thighs and lungs burn. From the top of the switchbacks, it’s about another 15 minutes to the beautiful alpine lake at 11,866 feet. If you’re a wildflower wanderer, this trail is top-notch in peak season.
Ashcroft itself is worth a visit. Sitting at 9,500 feet elevation in the picturesque Castle Creek Valley, Ashcroft was founded as a mining town in 1880 and had 2,000 residents at its peak. You can explore some of the miners’ cabins, a saloon, and a hotel.
For a leisurely lunch, make a reservation at Pine Creek Cookhouse near Ashcroft. The food is outstanding. For an excellent grab-and-go lunch, pick up empanadas at Francesca’s Pasta Market and Empanadas in an unassuming strip center near the Aspen Airport. It’s another locals’ fav.
No trip to the area is complete without visiting the Maroon Bells Scenic Area. Plan ahead since reservations are required whether you want trailhead parking or a ride on the shuttle from Aspen Highlands. Maroon Lake is busiest in the morning. You can avoid crowds by visiting mid-afternoon, but make sure to take rain gear to protect yourself against summer showers. The clouds and fog of a summer storm give the Bells a mystical aura.
When you’re back in Aspen, have an early dinner of gourmet hand-tossed pizza in The Lounge at the Limelight Hotel while you enjoy live music. If large, contemporary rooms are your vibe, The Limelight (from about $430) is a great option to stay in downtown Aspen.
Newbie and veteran anglers will want to cast a line in the area’s Gold Medal waters. Some of the best trout fishing in the world is found along the Roaring Fork and Fryingpan rivers. Off-roaders will enjoy exploring Montezuma Basin in the Maroon Bells Snowmass Wilderness or Taylor Pass in the White River National Forest.
There also are great spots for rock climbing, mountain biking, and paragliding. Paddleboarders will enjoy the calm stretch of the Roaring Fork River running through the North Star Preserve. Or join a Hatha yoga class held atop Aspen Mountain. For a look at the town’s cultural side, plan your trip during one of Aspen’s infamous music festivals or schedule a visit to the Bayer Center.
Whatever your speed, Aspen’s adventurous side shines in the summertime. | 2023-07-26T20:55:15+00:00 | santacruzsentinel.com | https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2023/07/26/aspen-colorado-quick-summer-getaway-adventure-travel-guide/ |
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa hailed “excellent” relations with China as he delivered for the first time a State of the Nation address at a new multimillion-dollar parliament building gifted by the Asian economic giant.
China funded and constructed the imposing and spacious $200 million, six-story parliament building in Mt. Hampden, about 18 kilometers (11 miles) west of the capital, Harare, as a “gift” — signifying its growing influence on the former British colony.
The address, which also served to officially open the last session of the current parliament before elections next year, marks the move from the colonial-era Victorian-style parliament building in central Harare. Zimbabwe says it plans to establish a new “smart” capital city in Mt. Hampden where government offices will be located, away from the congested Harare.
In his speech, Mnangagwa described the mountaintop chamber that sits on 3.3 hectares (8 acres) of land as “majestic.” He said the building is a “testimony of the strategic and comprehensive partnership and excellent fraternal relations” between Zimbabwe and China. The government says Wednesday’s event did not mark the official opening or handover of the building, which would be done on a yet-to-be-announced date.
The countries’ links date back to the 1960s, when China helped train and supply guerrilla fighters in the fight against white minority rule. The country, however, retained close relations with Britain and other Western countries after independence in 1980.
Since 2003, Zimbabwe has looked to China, and also Russia, for friendship and assistance after falling out with Western countries that imposed sanctions following allegations of human rights abuses and vote-rigging perpetrated by then-President Robert Mugabe, who lost power in 2017 and died in 2019.
China is also massively involved in building and financing big-budget infrastructure projects in Zimbabwe that include revamping major airports. A Chinese company built the National Defense College in Harare, which opened in 2014 and was financed with an interest-free $98 million loan from China. Further Chinese involvement spans almost every sector of the Zimbabwean economy — from energy to mining and agriculture
However, unlike his predecessor Mugabe, Mnangagwa has sought to thaw icy relations with the West through an engagement drive that includes applying to rejoin the Commonwealth, a club of mainly former British colonies that Mugabe left in 2003.
Calling Zimbabwe a “friend to all and an enemy to none,” Mnangagwa called for “unconditional” and “urgent” lifting of Western-imposed sanctions and welcomed an invitation to attend the U.S.-Africa Summit next month. The U.S previously did not invite Zimbabwe to the summit during Mugabe’s time. | 2022-11-24T02:37:55+00:00 | kfor.com | https://kfor.com/news/international/ap-international/ap-zimbabwes-imposing-new-chinese-funded-parliament-opens/ |
The shooter who killed eight people at a Dallas-area mall was wearing a patch that read “RWDS” — short for “Right Wing Death Squad” — a phrase that has been embraced in recent years by far-right extremists who glorify violence against their political enemies.
Authorities have not said what they believe might have motivated 33-year-old Mauricio Garcia, who was killed by a police officer who happened to be near the mall Saturday when Garcia opened fire.
Social media accounts authorities believe were used by Mauricio Garcia also appear to have expressed interest in white supremacist and neo-Nazi views, according to an official who spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity because they could not discuss details of the investigation publicly. The official cautioned that the investigation is in the early stages.
Here is a look at the term “Right Wing Death Squad” and how it became a popular symbol among violent extremists:
WHAT’S THE HISTORY OF THE TERM?
The “RWDS” acronym is one of countless shorthand terms used by extremists. Others include “RaHoWa,” short for “racial holy war,” and “ 1488,” an alphabet-driven code combining references to a white nationalist slogan and Adolf Hitler.
The term “Right Wing Death Squad” originally emerged in the 1970s and ’80s to describe Central and South American paramilitary groups created to support right-wing governments and dictatorships and oppose perceived enemies on the left, said Oren Segal, vice president of the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism.
It reemerged in the 2010s among right-wing groups who use it on stickers, patches and in online forums. Other far-right gear and online memes specifically glorify Gen. Augusto Pinochet, the brutal Chilean military dictator whose death squads killed thousands of political opponents.
“It essentially became a phrase that was co-opted to demonstrate opposition to the left more broadly by right-wing extremists,” Segal said.
Heidi Beirich, co-founder of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism, said the Proud Boys, the neo-fascist group of self-described “Western chauvinists,” are largely responsible for injecting “RWDS” into the far-right vernacular.
The group has sold patches and T-shirts adorned with the acronym and celebrating Pinochet’s death squads. Proud Boys have been photographed wearing “RWDS” patches at rallies and wearing T-shirts that read, “Pinochet did nothing wrong.”
Photos shared on social media appeared to show former Proud Boys national chairman Enrique Tarrio and another former Proud Boys leader, Jeremy Bertino, among those who have worn such patches.
Tarrio was convicted last week of seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol for what prosecutors have described as a violent plot to keep President Donald Trump in power. Bertino, who was vice president of the South Carolina Proud Boys chapter, previously pleaded guilty to seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6 riot.
WHICH GROUPS HAVE EMBRACED IT?
The Proud Boys aren’t the only far-right extremists to adopt the term.
“Right Wing Death Squad” was the name of the smaller groups that participated in the white nationalist “Unite the Right Rally” in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017, according to the Anti-Defamation League. The rally turned deadly when a white supremacist rammed his car into a crowd of counterprotesters, killing a woman.
Facebook banned several hate-filled pages, including one named ‘‘Right Wing Death Squad,’’ after the bloodshed in Charlottesville, the New York Times reported.
“It has really become something over the past couple years that has cut across and far beyond any individual group,” said Jon Lewis, a research fellow at the Program on Extremism at George Washington University.
“It has kind of become this rallying cry to some extent: This is what we want, to seize the levers of democratic power, just like Pinochet did, and we want to use the power of the state to then engage in violent genocide effectively against whoever is against us,” he said.
American University professor Cynthia Miller-Idriss, director of the school’s Polarization and Extremism Research & Innovation Lab, said extremists who adopt these terms and symbols often don’t fully understand their origins.
“Nobody is going to accidentally have a ‘Right Wing Death Squad’ patch,” she said. “But it’s because of this whole meme culture, and generally the way that iconography is used to signal encoded speech or messages, they don’t always know exactly” what it means.
WHITE SUPREMACIST GROUPS HAVE NON-WHITE MEMBERS?
Far-right extremist groups like the Proud Boys often point to their Black and Hispanic members to rebut claims that they promote racism or white supremacist ideologies. Tarrio, the former Proud Boys leader, is Cuban American, for example.
The Daily Stormer, a leading neo-Nazi website, launched a Spanish-language edition in 2017 tailored for readers in Spain and Latin America.
Some Hispanics identify as white.
But those who don’t consider themselves to be white “can still be attracted to and support movements that are inherently or explicitly white supremacist,” said Miller-Idriss, author of “Hate in the Homeland: The New Global Far Right.”
“And that is the same way that women can support patriarchal or male supremacist movements,” she added.
Tanya Hernández, a law professor at Fordham University and author of “Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias,” said Latinos are often viewed “as an unwanted other” in the U.S.
“If you are a Latino who is already affected by being viewed as other and want desperately to be part of the club that is the U.S., what better way to make a claim … than to be part of the enforcement, the policing of whiteness within a white supremacist hate group?” she said.
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Associated Press writer Michael Balsamo in New York contributed to this report. | 2023-05-09T04:22:00+00:00 | nwahomepage.com | https://www.nwahomepage.com/news/national/texas-shooters-rwds-patch-linked-to-far-right-extremists/ |
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia Republican Gov. Jim Justice announced Thursday that he is running for Democrat Joe Manchin’s U.S. Senate seat in 2024, setting up what could be a hard-fought campaign against two of the state’s most prominent politicians.
Justice, an ultrawealthy businessman who is barred from running for a third consecutive term as governor, ended months of speculation with the announcement at a posh resort he owns in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. It came on Justice’s 72nd birthday.
“I absolutely will promise you to God above that I will do the job, and I will do the job that will make you proud," Justice told a crowd to a standing ovation.
Among the speakers at the announcement were West Virginia’s other U.S. senator, Republican Shelley Moore Capito, and South Carolina GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham.
Earlier Thursday, Justice’s campaign filed a statement of organization for a Senate run on the Federal Election Commission’s website.
“Jim Justice is a proven winner whose record of creating jobs, cutting taxes, and fighting for conservative values has made him one of the most popular governors in the country,” National Republican Senatorial Committee chairman Steve Daines said in a statement.
Manchin, who endorsed Justice in his first gubernatorial bid before Justice switched parties six years ago and their relationship deteriorated, has said he’ll decide his future political plans in December. Manchin didn't wait for Justice to make his announcement to throw out a warning Thursday morning.
“I am laser focused on doing the job West Virginians elected me to do — lowering healthcare costs, protecting Social Security and Medicare, shoring up American energy security and getting our fiscal house in order," Manchin said in a statement. "But make no mistake, I will win any race I enter.”
Manchin's federal campaign filings show he already has more than $9.7 million cash on hand. If Manchin seeks reelection, Justice’s announcement means Manchin is likely in for his toughest test in his three decades in West Virginia politics. But it was never going to be easy.
Manchin is one of three Democratic senators up for reelection in 2024 who represent a state won by former President Donald Trump in the 2020 election. He has been the only Democrat elected to statewide office in West Virginia since Justice switched his party affiliation in 2017.
Justice criticized both the domestic and foreign policies of Democratic President Joe Biden, but did not mention Manchin at the announcement.
“This nation needs us as Republicans to win,” Justice said. "I’ll ask you to run right with me and absolutely, as we have so many times, run to the finish line together, pull the rope together. We’ll do it.”
The Senate bid by Justice sets up a matchup in the 2024 GOP primary with U.S. Rep. Alex Mooney. Mooney jumped into the Senate race less than two weeks after winning his fifth term in the House last November. State Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, who lost to Manchin in the 2018 general election, has announced he will run for governor next year.
Mooney’s campaign already has started attacking Justice’s record as governor in a 30-second political ad this week.
No Democrats have announced a challenge to Manchin. But Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, a progressive, has suggested he would support a primary opponent to the conservative Democrat, who was responsible for watering down much of President Joe Biden’s social spending agenda.
As governor, Justice took advantage of Trump's popularity amid a red wave in West Virginia. Justice was first elected as a Democrat, then switched to the GOP seven months after taking office, taking the stage at an event with Trump to make the announcement in 2017.
Justice said he told Manchin about the party switch the day before his announcement, keeping it secret even from the governor’s own staff. Manchin said the switch disappointed him.
Now foes, the pair have traded jabs ever since. In 2019, Justice in a news release called Manchin “one of those loud Washington liberals” who hadn’t embraced Trump. He blamed Manchin, a former two-term governor, for the state’s neglected road system. Manchin returned fire, saying “knowing Jim Justice’s character, it’s not a surprise for him to make a comment like this. He blames others for the work he hasn’t done.”
Justice is known for his exuberant and sometimes oddball method of delivery. He attends major events with his beloved English bulldog Babydog in tow, and Thursday's announcement was no different. He also famously brought the pup to his 2022 State of the State address. During the speech, he flashed his dog's rear end to the cameras to send a message to the liberal singer Bette Midler that she could kiss Babydog's “heinie” for criticizing West Virginia residents.
The room of legislators gave him a standing ovation.
In touting the state’s accomplishments, Justice often conjures up one of his favorite sayings: “Any frog who is not proud of his own pond is not much of a frog.”
In January 2023, Justice reintroduced an often-made proposal to cut the state's personal income tax. Justice said legislative leaders told him to either give up trying or “make a big splash.”
“And so here comes me cannonballing into the pool,” the governor said. “By God, I’ll make a big splash. I’ll promise you that ... tonight I’m proposing our West Virginia tsunami that the world will hear in every single way.”
After lawmakers agreed to a compromise tax cut of 21.25%, Justice signed it in early March.
Before going into politics, Justice bought the 6,500-acre (2,630-hectare) Greenbrier resort in White Sulphur Springs out of bankruptcy for $20.1 million. Within a year he constructed a bunker casino beneath the resort’s 721-room hotel and established a PGA Tour golf event that was held on the Old White TPC for 10 years.
Justice reached billionaire status through family-owned farms and coal mines. His worth peaked at $1.7 billion, but he was taken off Forbes’ prestigious list of billionaires in 2021. He blamed a bankrupt U.K. bank for fraudulently inducing him into personally guaranteeing $700 million in loans that were taken out by his companies.
Justice’s businesses faced several other woes, including millions of dollars in penalties from the federal government and court fights over claims his companies failed to deliver coal, pay tax debts owed to counties or contribute toward monthly premiums on employee benefit plans.
Once asked about how he manages cash flow in his businesses, Justice told a reporter, “I don’t sit on a pot of gold.”
During his first years as governor, he didn't spend a lot of time at the seat of government in Charleston, instead choosing to commute from his home in Lewisburg, West Virginia. That prompted a lawsuit by a lawmaker who called him a “part-time governor.” The case concluded in 2021 when Justice agreed to live in Charleston.
Justice made clear soon after being elected that he would continue to coach the Greenbrier East girls basketball team, a job he has held for more than two decades. He led the Spartans to the state championship in 2012.
Whether he continues moonlighting as a coach if he becomes a U.S. senator remains to be seen.
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NORMAN, Okla. (KFOR) – Court records filed in Cleveland County District Court this week reveal that a Norman woman has been charged with Child Neglect and Harboring a Fugitive.
“To know that it’s happening right here is so sad,” said a woman who lives nearby. She asked to stay anonymous.
The court documents show that investigators were called to the house on Donna Drive because “there was concern for three children in the home.” They say the kids are two, eleven and twelve years old.
“I noticed something was going on and they were just gone,” said the neighbor. “I didn’t know what happened.”
According to court records, Ashlee Barnard, 31, let police look around. Inside investigators say they discovered:
- “A safe with a measurable amount of a white crystal substance that tested positive for methamphetamines”
- “Part of a drug kit with two syringes inside”
- “No flowing water in the home”
- “The toilet was almost overflowing with human feces”
- “All of the windows in the house have been knocked out and boarded up if repaired with blankets as curtains”
- “Clothes strewn everywhere”
- “A bong with marijuana in it and half smoked blunt were on a tray at the bedside within reach of children”
On top of all that, court records show police found a wanted fugitive with active felony warrants hiding under Barnard’s bed. The fugitive allegedly has a warrant for “being AWOL from drug court.”
Barnard also told police “the father of her child was selling drugs from the home,” according to court records. The report says the man had been in jail for about two months.
“Given the totality of the circumstances it appears the children were deprived,” said the court records. “Their home is an unfit place for them to live.”
Barnard was arrested. She is set to be in court in late February, according to the Oklahoma State Courts Network.
KFOR reached out to the Norman Police Department, but they tell us they cannot comment because the investigation is ongoing. | 2022-12-31T14:04:18+00:00 | kfor.com | https://kfor.com/news/local/the-children-were-deprived-norman-woman-charged-with-child-neglect/ |
CHEYENNE — Wyoming has another trigger abortion ban up for consideration.
The “Life is a Human Right Act,” sponsored by Rep. Rachel Rodriguez-Williams, R-Cody, aims to go further than Wyoming’s existing trigger ban, preventing abortion in cases of incest or rape and allowing district attorneys and the Wyoming attorney general to sue abortion providers. It also makes interpretations of the Wyoming Constitution and would allow the bill’s sponsor and cosponsors, by joint resolution, to intervene in potential court cases challenging the legislation.
The proposed legislation cleared third reading in the House on Wednesday by a 46-16 vote after lawmakers approved an amendment that would make the legislation a trigger bill, therefore clearing up potential risks that the legislation could create a legal disaster ending in Wyoming having no abortion ban on the books at all.
Debate around the “Life is a Human Right Act” is different from the one lawmakers had last year when the Legislature was wrangling over whether or not to pass an abortion trigger ban, which it ultimately did. As Riverton Republican Rep. Ember Oakley put it, the arguments for and against House Bill 152 aren’t so much centered around anti-abortion or pro-abortion stances, but rather around the questions of what legal vehicle the state wants to use to ban the procedure moving forward.
Many lawmakers in the House have argued that HB 152 is a worse vehicle than last year’s abortion trigger ban, pointing to areas of the bill they feel could conflict with the separation of powers between branches of government, among other constitutional concerns. Some worried that, because HB 152, as originally drafted, would have repealed the abortion ban that’s already on the books, the state could have been left with no ban at all if the new legislation were deemed unconstitutional.
Buffalo Republican Rep. Barry Crago’s amendment — the only one that has so far made it into the bill — attempts to skirt around that concern, making it possible to enact HB 152 only if the current abortion trigger ban is overturned in court.
If that happened, then the bill would take effect five days after the governor — on advice of the state attorney general — certifies to the secretary of state that the Wyoming Supreme Court has deemed the original abortion trigger ban unconstitutional. In essence, it would put in place another trigger bill.
“I think it’s kind of a compromise in between the two positions that are being put forth on this floor,” Crago said.
Backers don’t like change
But hard-line supporters of the bill didn’t budge.
“This is, in essence, going to eliminate what this bill was originally intended to do, and waters it down and eliminates its usefulness,” Wheatland Republican Rep. Jeremy Haroldson, vice chair of the Wyoming Freedom Caucus, said. “I don’t see this as a solution.”
Rodriguez-Williams appeared unwilling to reach a compromise, calling the amendment “unfriendly to the pro-life movement” and “detrimental” to the bill. She added that supporters of the bill don’t believe it would be subject to a preliminary injunction, which would halt its enforcement during litigation. Fred Harrison, an attorney who represents the anti-abortion group Wyoming Right to Life and helped draft the bill, also told the Star-Tribune on Monday that, in his opinion, there’s a “very good chance” that the bill “is so clear that it will not be enjoined.”
Rodriguez-Williams went on to assert that Crago’s amendment “assures that we’ll have abortions continued in Wyoming for the next two years” while litigation on the current abortion trigger ban continues.
Crago, a lawyer who voted in favor of last year’s abortion trigger ban, pushed back on Rodriguez-Williams’ assertions.
“I appreciate that the sponsors on this bill have consulted their attorneys over and over and over again. But if those lawyers told the sponsor that the passage of this bill will not result in an immediate injunction, you need a new lawyer. I’ve consulted my lawyers. They’re all on this amendment,” Crago said. (Reps. Ember Oakley, Martha Lawley and Clark Stith, all practicing or retired lawyers, cosponsored the amendment.)
“I heard the previous speaker talk about, ‘It’s unfriendly, this amendment is unfriendly to the pro-life movement,” Crago continued. “I’ll tell you what’s unfriendly to the pro-life movement: prolonging the litigation longer than we have to, waiting and waiting, just waiting for another answer years down the road.”
Right to life
House Democrats also attempted to push an amendment, sponsored by Rep. Karlee Provenza, D-Laramie, to change penalties for first-degree murder, taking out the option of death sentences.
The point of the amendment was to clear up what Provenza saw as a contradiction between HB 152 and current state statute, which allows for capital punishment; if the state is going to outlaw taking the life of a fetus — which, under the bill, is considered a person — why is it allowed to take the life of anyone else?
In the middle of Provenza’s explanation of the amendment, Rep. John Bear, R-Gillette, chairman of the far-right Wyoming Freedom Caucus and a cosponsor of HB 152, called a Rules Committee meeting, saying the amendment was not germane to the bill. The Rules Committee decided in a split 7-6 vote that the amendment was not germane, with Speaker of the House Sommers siding with the majority.
But Rep. Mike Yin, D-Jackson, appealed Sommers’ ruling, asking for a floor debate and vote on whether Provenza’s amendment was relevant to the bill.
“Besides the title of the bill, in the long title, we’re talking about creating the “Life is a Human Right Act.” I think that alone makes it germane to talk about whether the amendment fits within that title,” Yin said.
Provenza argued that the bill doesn’t specify when people lose the right to life.
“We are trying to protect the rights of people, and we have defined people as starting at conception in this bill, and we have not put an ending to when you lose that right,” she argued.
Bear, the Wyoming Freedom Caucus chairman, said he thinks the state “should differentiate between innocent life and that which is not innocent.”
In response to arguments against the amendment’s relevance to the bill, Provenza read an excerpt from the “findings and purposes” section of the legislation: “This act promotes and furthers Article 1, Section 3 of the Wyoming Constitution, which guarantees that citizens shall be without distinction of race, color, sex or any circumstance or condition whatsoever.”
“Additionally I would argue, not everybody who has been executed by the government has been guilty.”
Rep. Martha Lawley, R-Worland, also brought an amendment that would have taken out “four carefully selected findings” from the bill, including the declaration that the Legislature can make interpretations of the Wyoming Constitution and part of the bill that declares “the life of every human being begins at conception.”
In a previous debate, Lawley had expressed some reservations about voting for the bill as it was originally written because of her concerns about its constitutionality. But she urged the body to move it out of the House Committee of the Whole so that lawmakers could try to address those constitutional concerns. On Wednesday, Lawley described her amendment as an “attempt to carefully use a scalpel to address these concerns, not a sledgehammer.” Her amendment failed. | 2023-02-09T04:03:22+00:00 | wyomingnews.com | https://www.wyomingnews.com/news/local_news/abortion-legislation-amended-into-trigger-bill-on-third-reading/article_96315950-a81a-11ed-b031-07632cee9e32.html |
President Joe Biden announced in 2022 that he would use executive action to forgive billions of dollars in government-backed student debt. The move was meant to alleviate the weight of $1.8 trillion in federal education debt, a figure that has more than tripled in the last 15 years. But then the Supreme Court struck down the plan in late June, ruling that Biden had exceeded his authority as president. Combined with the expiration of pause in student debt payments imposed during the pandemic, the ruling is bad news for millions of Americans falling behind on their debt.
1. What was Biden’s plan?
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The relief package would have provided as much as $10,000 in debt relief for most borrowers and more — as much as $20,000 — for those who received Pell grants, federal awards to undergraduates who displayed exceptional financial need. As many as 43 million borrowers were eligible to benefit from the plan, according to the White House, which said the relief would have canceled the remaining balances for almost half of them. The New York Federal Reserve estimated that the plan would have wiped out more than $400 billion in debt. Almost 26 million people had applied for forgiveness as of November.
2. What else did Biden do?
On his first day in office, he directed the Education Department to extend a freeze on federal student-loan payments and to keep the interest rate at 0%, which means no interest accumulated during the freeze. Biden extended that moratorium, which does not apply to private loans, when he announced the debt relief plan in August 2022. The payments were first suspended in 2020 as part of the pandemic relief effort. The Education Department says that payments will resume in October. A provision in a recent debt-ceiling deal bars the Education Department from extending the freeze again. Biden’s administration has already been forgiving targeted amounts, including the $5.8 billion in debt for students who the government said were defrauded by the defunct Corinthian Colleges Inc., a for-profit college chain.
3. What was the argument in favor of the debt-canceling plan?
When the idea was first floated during the 2020 campaign, part of the rationale for both debt cancellation and the payments pause was to support a pandemic-weakened economy. That seems less apt now, after the US confronted the steepest inflation in decades. Some forgiveness could have helped keep struggling borrowers from defaulting, which can scar credit reports. Some advocates see the issue as generational fairness, saying no previous cohort had to enter adulthood with such a debt burden. There’s also a racial equity element: Forgiving $10,000 in debt to all borrowers regardless of income would have zeroed out loan balances for 2 million Black borrowers and reduced the Black-White gap in the share of individuals with student debt from 9 to 6 percentage points, according to data Senator Elizabeth Warren cited from the University of California Merced and Princeton University. Also, according to the White House, Black borrowers are twice as likely to have received Pell Grants as White borrowers are.
4. What was the court case about?
Six Republican-led states challenged the plan, saying it exceeded the president’s authority. A federal trial judge blocked the program, and the Supreme Court agreed to hear the administration’s appeal on a fast-track basis. The court later expanded the case to include arguments from two borrowers who say they are being unfairly excluded from the full benefits of the program.
5. What else did critics say?
Some said that the plan would be unfair to those who have already paid back student loans or who worked their way through college to avoid debt. Some progressive activists, like Warren, called for forgiving as much as $50,000 in loans, while others pressed for deeper relief for targeted groups, like borrowers who didn’t finish their degrees. And people on all sides of the issue pointed out that forgiving debt would do nothing to alter the economics of education that produced the borrowing in the first place — the rising price tag for higher education. In the end, the Supreme Court majority said that Biden couldn’t use the so-called HEROES Act — a 2001 law that Congress has expanded several times including in 2020 — to authorize loan forgiveness.
6. What happens now?
Biden said after the court’s ruling that he would try a different legal avenue to provide student-loan borrowers with relief, invoking the Higher Education Act of 1965. That law gives the education secretary broad authority to manage the federal student-loan portfolio. The new plan, which the White House said would take months to finalize, will include a 12-month “on-ramp” for borrowers who are struggling to restart payments, Biden said. If they miss monthly payments during this period, they wouldn’t be considered delinquent, reported to credit bureaus, placed in default or referred to debt collection agencies. The plan also includes a new income-based repayment plan that cuts some monthly payments in half.
--With assistance from Josh Wingrove and Alex Tanzi.
(Updates June 30 story with new Biden plan in last answer. A previous version corrected date that student loan payments will resume)
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian military officials said Monday their troops have retaken another southeastern village from Russian forces, among the first — small — successes in stepped-up counteroffensive operations as the war drags on into its 16th month.
Western analysts and military officials have cautioned that an effort to rid Ukraine of entrenched, powerfully armed and skilled Russian troops could take years, and the success of any Ukrainian counteroffensive is far from certain.
Despite their small size, capturing the villages is an incursion into the first line of Russian defenses and could allow Ukrainian forces to try a deeper thrust into occupied areas. Russian forces now control land totaling about one-fifth of Ukraine’s total territory, though that’s far less than they held before blistering Ukrainian counteroffensives last year that retook the northern city of Kharkiv and southern city of Kherson.
On Saturday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said “counteroffensive, defensive actions are taking place” without specifying whether it was an all-out counteroffensive, a day after Russian President Vladimir Putin asserted that the counteroffensive had started and Ukrainian forces were taking “significant losses.” He did not elaborate, and Ukrainian authorities have not publicly specified losses among their troops.
Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar wrote on Telegram that Ukraine’s flag was again flying over the village of Storozhov. A day earlier, Ukrainian officials said they had taken three other small villages — Blahodatne, Makarivka and Neskuchne — south of the town of Velyka Novosilka in the eastern Donetsk region.
The small villages — Blahodatne, for example, had a pre-invasion population of about 1,000 people — are located in the so-called “Vremivka salient,” a section of the front line where the Russian-controlled area protrudes into territory held by Ukraine. While it is just a few kilometers (more than 1 mile) deep, the area has become one of several epicenters of intense fighting.
Ukrainian forces have focused on other patches of the vast front line, including in the Zaporizhzhia region, and near the devastated city of Bakhmut to the north in Donetsk.
Vladimir Rogov, an official with the Moscow-appointed administration of the Zaporizhzhia region at the west end of the front line, said “heavy battles are raging” in the salient on Monday, involving Russian artillery, mortars and air power.
Russian authorities have said their troops have largely held their ground along the more than 1,000-kilometer (600-mile) arc of front line across southern and eastern Ukraine. The Russian Defense Ministry hasn’t confirmed the Russian retreat from the villages.
But Semyon Pegov, a prominent Russian military blogger who goes under the nickname WarGonzo, acknowledged Russian troops had withdrawn from Blahodatne, Neskuchne and Makarivka, and said Ukrainian forces were trying to push forward along the banks of the Mokri Yaly river on Monday.
Alexandet Kots, military correspondent for Russian daily Komsomolskaya Pravda, said Ukrainian forces were attempting to advance, despite heavy losses, toward the town of Staromlinovka, which sits on a strategic highway leading to the key city of Mariupol. Russian forces captured the Azov Sea port city over a year ago, after Ukrainian forces held out for several months in a grueling and desperate defense.
Separately Monday, the Ukrainian Defense Ministry said least four civilians were killed and 16 others have been wounded by Russian shelling over the last 24 hours.
In Donetsk, Russian shelling hit nine towns and villages and left one civilian killed and two others wounded. Donetsk Gov. Pavlo Kyrylenko posted images of apartment buildings and a cultural center damaged by Russian strikes in the town of Avdiivka.
In Kharkiv, to the north, Russian forces pummeled several settlements with artillery, mortar and rocket fire, injuring at least three people, regional state administration chief Oleh Synehubov wrote on Telegram.
The reported Ukrainian advance comes as authorities on both sides of the front line pressed on with rescue and relocation efforts for civilians in the Kherson region driven from their homes by flooding from the breach of the Kakhovka dam last week.
The U.N. and other aid groups say access to fresh drinking water is a crucial need and the possible spread of water-borne disease a big worry.
On Sunday, a local official said three people were killed when Moscow’s troops opened fire on a boat evacuating people from Russian-occupied areas.
Late Sunday, Zelenskyy said envoys from the International Criminal Court have visited the region to investigate the disaster, which has driven thousands from their homes, and left at least 14 people dead.
“It is very important that the representatives of international justice have seen the consequences of this Russian act of terrorism with their own eyes and heard for themselves that Russian terror continues,” Zelenskyy said.
Ukrainian authorities have accused Russian forces, which controlled the area around the dam, of deliberately destroying it. Russian officials have blamed Ukrainian shelling for its destruction.
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Illia Novikov in Kyiv, Ukraine, contributed to this report.
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EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Back-to-back NCAA champion Randolph Ross was booted from the world track and field championships on the eve of his 400 meter preliminary race, about a month after officials could not locate him to take an antidoping test.
The Athletics Integrity Unit announced Saturday it was provisionally suspending the North Carolina A&T sprinter for tampering with the antidoping process after an unsuccessful testing attempt on June 18. The investigation concluded, the AIU said, after officials interviewed him Thursday.
Also ousted from the meet was Kenyan marathoner Lawrence Cherono, who tested positive for a banned substance used to treat chest pain resulting from lack of blood supply and oxygen to the heart. It was the same drug that led to Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva’s doping case at the Beijing Winter Olympics this year.
Both athletes had been scheduled to compete Sunday.
The AIU said there were delays in the processing of Cherono’s test sample, which was taken May 23, that made it impossible for another Kenyan to take his spot.
Ross won his second straight title in the 400 meters at NCAA championships earlier this year,
His father, Duane, won a bronze medal in the 110 hurdles at the 1999 worlds. He later served a two-year suspension related to the case involving coach Trevor Graham and the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative (BALCO) case. Ross coached his son at North Carolina A&T and earlier this year was hired as director of track and field at Tennessee.
Athletes are required to give antidoping authorities detailed lists of where they’ll be so testers can reach them with no notice to collect samples when the athletes are not competing. In some cases, three missed tries can result in an antidoping violation. AIU did not release the specifics of Ross’ case, other than to say “the allegation arises out of the athlete’s conduct during the course of an investigation into a potential whereabouts violation.” | 2022-07-16T23:51:24+00:00 | nwahomepage.com | https://www.nwahomepage.com/news/national-sports/ncaa-champ-ross-booted-from-worlds-for-missed-doping-test/ |
Best top-rated hair products on sale at Ulta
If you want shiny, healthy hair, it’s all about choosing the right hair care products. Ulta’s Gorgeous Hair Event is the perfect time to stock up on shampoo, conditioner and other hair care products and tools because you can score deep discounts on premium and pro-grade brands.
Do you need help deciding what to pick up during the Gorgeous Hair Event? Here are some of the best hair care products you can find at Ulta that are worth checking out during the sale.
Best Ulta hair products
Shampoo
Pureology Strength Cure Shampoo
This sulfate-free shampoo is gentle enough for damaged or color-treated hair. It contains Keravis, a strengthening protein complex that prevents breakage, and antioxidants to help heal and repair existing damage. The formula is also 100% vegan and comes in recyclable packaging.
Sold by Ulta Beauty
Beachwaver Co. BRB Blonde Purple Shampoo
Whether you’re a natural blonde or bleach your hair, this purple shampoo can help brighten your locks and tone down brassiness. It contains Tahitian monoi flower to nourish the hair and shea butter to moisturize. Its HIx Bond Rebuilder complex helps strengthen the hair, making it ideal for color-treated hair.
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Briogeo Superfoods Mango + Cherry Oil Control Balancing Shampoo
This balancing shampoo contains vitamins and minerals that help support both hair and scalp health. Its papaya extract helps balance your scalp’s oil production, while the mango extract and juice boost your hair’s shine. The formula is vegan and cruelty-free.
Sold by Ulta Beauty
Conditioner
IGK Pay Day Instant Repair Conditioner
This nourishing conditioner can help repair damage and cut down on breakage. It also features biomimetic bond-building technology to detangle and soften your hair. It can seal up to 88% of split ends and offers heat protection up to 450 degrees.
Sold by Ulta Beauty
Alterna Caviar Anti-Aging Replenishing Moisture Conditioner
This anti-aging conditioner can transform dull, brittle hair with its patented blend of caviar extract and antioxidants. It also has Omega-3 fatty acids to coat the hair and help it retain moisture for improved shine. The formula is paraben- and sulfate-free.
Sold by Ulta Beauty
AG Care Plant-Based Essentials Boost Apple Cider Vinegar Silicone-free Conditioner
With a 98% plant-based formula, this silicone-free conditioner helps smooth your hair’s cuticle to lock in moisture and boost shine. It also contains mango butter to hydrate and apple cider vinegar to soften. It’s sulfate-, paraben- and gluten-free.
Sold by Ulta Beauty
Treatment and specialty products
Wella Fusionplex Intense Repair Mask
If your damaged hair needs extra TLC, this rich, creamy hair mask can do the trick. It instantly reduces breakage due to combing and brushing and helps prevent future breakage. Best of all, you can see results using the mask for just five minutes each week.
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IGK Cash In Instant Repair Serum
This lightweight, concentrated serum is clinically proven to fix damaged hair and cut down on breakage. It instantly moisturizes the hair and targets split ends and heat damage for healthier, shinier hair. It also contains a blend of oils, including amla and baobab oils, to help seal the cuticle for smoother hair.
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Grow Gorgeous Intense Thickening Hair and Scalp Mask
This nourishing mask is formulated to improve both hair and scalp health and thicken the look of your locks. It contains biotin and caffeine to stimulate your roots and hyaluronic acid to smooth and moisturize. The formula is PETA-certified, so it’s 100% vegan. It’s even safe for color-treated hair.
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Redken All Soft Moisture Restore Leave-in Treatment with Hyaluronic Acid
Boost your hair’s shine and softness with this easy-to-use leave-in treatment. It boosts moisture immediately and offers heat protection up to 450 degrees. It can also help smooth frizz and repair split ends. The formula is lightweight, though, so it won’t weigh your hair down.
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Arctic Fox Semi-Permanent Hair Color
If you’ve been wanting to give a bold hair color a try, this semi-permanent hair color provides vibrant color that will turn heads. It comes in 14 shades, including hot pink, teal and purple, and contains only vegan ingredients. The semi-permanent formula doesn’t include any peroxide, ammonia or other harsh chemicals, either, so it won’t damage your hair.
Sold by Ulta Beauty
Styling products
If braids are your go-to style, this braid balm can help prep your hair for styling. The formula contains HIx Bond Multipliers to strengthen and smooth your hair, so you wind up with neat, frizz-free braids. It also helps create defined waves once you undo your braids. It has a pleasant coconut, vanilla and orchid fragrance.
Sold by Ulta Beauty
Drybar Hot Toddy Heat Protectant Mist
This lightweight heat protectant spray offers heat protection up to 450 degrees when using heated styling tools like your straightener or curling iron. It contains heat-activated rice protein that strengthens the hair, as well as UV protectors to prevent dryness and color fade. It also has a fresh coconut colada scent.
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Bumble and Bumble Thickening Dryspun Texture Spray
Give your hair instant volume with this lightweight texture spray for fine to medium hair. It has a translucent finish, so it doesn’t leave any visible residue behind, making it ideal for even dark hair. The formula offers light to medium hold, keeping your style in place all day.
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Brushes and styling tools
Wet Brush Thick Hair Detangler Brush
This brush is designed specifically for getting through thick, coarse hair, even when wet. It features flexible bristles that move through tangles easily, while the bristles’ cluster patterns are ideally suited for thick hair. It also has an ergonomic, rubberized handle that’s comfortable to hold.
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Chi Coral 1.5-inch Ceramic Flat Iron
This highly rated flat iron has ceramic plates that leave your hair looking smooth and shiny. It can reach a max temperature of 410 degrees, taking 30 seconds to heat up. It also has five preset temperature settings and floating plates for easy, versatile styling.
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Drybar The Mixologist Interchangeable Styling Iron
If you want the most versatility from your styling tool, you’ll love this interchangeable styling iron. It has three heads that easily snap into the handle, so you can create multiple hairstyles with a single tool. It also uses ionic technology to reduce frizz and boost shine while styling.
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BabylissPro Studio Design Series Sensor Dryer
This 1875-watt hair dryer has sensors on both sides that react to light pressure, so it knows when you put it down. It uses carbon ionic technology to reduce frizz and increase shine. You can choose from three heat settings and two speed settings.
Sold by Ulta Beauty
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The North Creek fire, burning on U.S. Forest Service land about six miles northwest of the Beulah Valley, is 100% contained.
#NorthCreekFire_CO increases containment to 100%. Crews have worked extensively to secure and strengthen the fireline. Although containment is 100% light smoke may still be visible due to interior fuels smoldering.https://t.co/VQtlyqfP9e
— USFS_Pike&San Isabel (@PSICC_NF) April 18, 2023
The fire, which started about 1 p.m. Saturday, has burned 50 acres, according to fire officials. Light smoke may still be visible from the interior area of the fire.
The fire, which burned through grass, brush and ponderosa pine, was human-caused, sparked by a campfire, according to Pike & San Isabel National Forest officials. No structures are threatened. Firefighters will continue to patrol the fire throughout the week. | 2023-04-19T00:06:57+00:00 | denverpost.com | https://www.denverpost.com/2023/04/18/north-creek-fire-colorado-wildfire-beulah/ |
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College football is quickly approaching and the first game will kick off on Saturday, August 27. Even though Alabama fell to Georgia in last year’s National Championship, the Crimson Tide are the favorites to win this season at FanDuel Sportsbook. However, a few other programs are right on their heels and our experts broke down the odds surrounding the National Championship for 2022.
Let’s dive into which teams can challenge Alabama in 2022 and explain the reasoning behind our experts’ best bet.
FanDuel Sportsbook has multiple markets for the upcoming College Football season, and you can claim their No Sweat First Bet to fade or follow our experts’ prediction for the 2022 National Championship.
NCAA Football Champion odds at FanDuel Sportsbook
Alabama is the current favorite to win the National Championship in 2022 with +180 odds at FanDuel Sportsbook. The teams with the shortest odds to win it all this season are:
- Alabama (+180)
- Ohio State (+300)
- Georgia (+350)
- Clemson (+800)
- USC (+2000)
- Texas A&M (+2500)
- Oklahoma (+5000)
- Michigan (+5000)
- Notre Dame (+6000)
- Texas (+8000)
- Utah (+8000)
A $10 bet on Alabama profits $18 if the Crimson Tide win their 19th National Championship, while a $10 wager on Ohio State returns $30 of winnings if the Buckeyes win it all.
In addition to wagering on individual teams to win the National Championship, FanDuel Sportsbook has a market for Alabama or Georgia vs. the Field. If you wager on The Field, it means any team outside of Alabama or Georgia can win the National Championship and your bet will win. Alabama and Georgia carry -114 odds, while the Field has a price of -102.
Alabama Football and Georgia Football 2022 season outlook
College football is right around the corner, and Alabama, Ohio State and Georgia appear to be in a tier of their own for the upcoming season. The Crimson Tide lost multiple players to the NFL Draft, but head coach Nick Saban has enough pieces to contend yet again. Heisman Trophy winner Bryce Young returns to run the offense after he threw for 4,872 yards and 47 touchdowns in 2021, and Will Anderson Jr. (101 total tackles and 17.5 sacks) will anchor a defense that allowed 20.6 points per game (17th in NCAA). Alabama will likely return to its seventh title game in nine years but we are confident that Georgia can make it back, too.
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The Bulldogs finally got over the hump in 2021 to win their first National Championship since 1980. Like Alabama, they lost multiple players to the NFL Draft and it will be difficult to replicate their defense from last season. Georgia allowed 10.4 ppg (1st in NCAA) and 279.1 yards per game (3rd in NCAA) but lost key contributors such as Nakobe Dean and Jordan Davis. However, head coach Kirby Smart recruited well; safety Malaki Starks and DL Mykel Williams ranked second and third, respectively, in the 2022 recruiting class. Finally, QB Stetson Bennett will have one last hoorah as he exhausts his eligibility after this year. The senior QB should improve on the 2,862 yards and 29 touchdowns he threw last season.
Expert pick and prediction for NCAAF Champion: Alabama or Georgia (-114)
The only team that will likely contend with Alabama and Georgia this year is Ohio State. Although the Buckeyes could upend either squad, we are confident that Saban or Smart can use their experience to get the job done on the national stage. Since the NCAA created the College Football Playoff, an SEC team has won five out of eight times. Ohio State and Clemson are the only non-SEC squads to win a title, but Urban Meyer was in charge in Columbus in 2014 and QBs Deshaun Watson and Trevor Lawrence were the main reasons the Tigers captured titles in 2016 and 2018.
Alabama’s toughest matchups this season will be at Texas on September 10 and a road trip to Tennessee on October 15. However, they should be able to navigate both matchups and are currently 15-point favorites against the Longhorns and 13.5-point favorites against the Vols on FanDuel Sportsbook. Like Alabama, Georgia is at least a two-touchdown favorite in every game available at FanDuel thus far and its conference schedule is favorable. The Dawgs face both Tennessee and Florida at home.
Both teams could enter the SEC Championship with undefeated records, and as long as the game is competitive both teams will likely qualify for the CFP. Therefore, we’ll back Alabama and Georgia to take the National Championship over the Field as our best bet for the 2022 college football season.
How to bet on NCAAF futures at FanDuel
If you want to bet on the upcoming college football season, you should register for a new account at FanDuel Sportsbook. You can click this link to enroll in their No Sweat First Bet promotion, and there aren’t many sportsbooks that offer our experts’ best bet of Alabama or Georgia to win the 2022 National Championship. You can fade or follow this pick for up to $1,000 without a sweat, but make sure you click this link before making your first bet at FanDuel.
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Voting error is concerning
I voted early at Brookens Administrative Center during the first week of October.
I gave the nice gentleman sitting behind a laptop computer my name and address. He asked me to sign the next box on the signature page sitting in front of his computer. The signature page was hidden from his view by his computer screen.
After checking my name and address, he printed off my ballot, after which I voted and put my ballot in the machine. When I got home, I realized he never validated my signature with the signature on his computer.
Whenever I would vote on Election Day in the past, they would always have a signature book open so they could match my signature. I hope this was just an oversight on that Brookens election official’s part.
CRAIG BURR
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Scream and shout! Well, you’ll need to run fast, too, if Ghostface is coming after you. A new “Scream” movie is slashing up the big screen this week.
Slash and you shall receive — sorry, I mean ask … or maybe mask? Because in the “Scream” movie, Ghostface is back … maybe in more ways than one. Mwahahaha!
It’s all fun and games until someone gets stalked and stabbed by Ghostface.
The iconic slasher is back in “Scream VI,” and this time, the crazed killer is running rampant in the Big Apple.
Speaking of New York City, that’s where the cast got together for last night’s big premiere. Now that’s what we call a bloody good time.
Melissa Barrera: “This movie is a genuine roller coaster ride, and it grabs you and it doesn’t let you go until the end.”
Melissa Barrera is back as Sam Carpenter, AKA Billy Loomis’ daughter.
Her movie dad, played by Skeet Ulrich, was killed off in the original “Scream,” but he still stopped by the red carpet.
Skeet Ulrich: “It’s rare for a franchise to last this long, and to still have this kind of mania about it, it’s pretty magical.”
Another familiar face at the premiere was Courteney Cox, who reprises her role as Gale Weathers in the movie.
And she’s teasing an epic showdown.
Courteney Cox: “I have a great rundown with Ghostface. I don’t know if I survive it, but it was really hard to film and really challenging, and fun.”
Not everyone at the premiere is in the movie.
Demi Lovato’s got a brand-new song, called “Still Alive,” on the soundtrack.
Demi Lovato: “I wanted it to tie into the film, but also, it’s a very personal song for me, too. Lyrically, I wanted to express myself and tell the world how I’m still alive as well.”
“Scream VI” hits theaters Friday.
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Which burnt-orange shower curtains are best?
Burnt orange is trending in interior design for its beautiful accenting qualities. Red like clay and warm like the sun, this natural color looks great in bathrooms, bringing the pristine and utilitarian porcelain whites back down to earth. One of the best ways to introduce a bit of burnt orange into your bathroom decor is with a shower curtain.
Whether you choose patterned or solid is up to your taste, but it’s high time you take advantage of this underused canvas in your home. The best burnt-orange shower curtain is Ebern Designs Dothan Sunset in Hot Desert Shower Curtain and Hooks.
What to know before you buy a burnt-orange shower curtain
Colors that go with burnt orange
Burnt orange is a lovely, dark orange with more brown than yellow. Slightly red, too, this deeper color feels rustic and earthy. You want to look for opposites to complement the warmth of burnt orange. Sage greens, beiges and ochres all look nice with this fiery color. You can also use deep, dark blues to counter-balance it. Lastly, darker browns and reds can also work with warm grays thrown in. When in doubt, think about fall palettes, as the image of turning leaves is the perfect inspiration when pairing this color.
Styling your burnt-orange shower curtain
Given its subdued cheerful vibe and red-clay earthiness, burnt orange is popular in boho and rustic decors. Burnt orange evokes images of crafted pottery and country living out in the desert. But you don’t need a nomadic design scheme to justify using this exciting color. Burnt orange can work wonderfully as an accent in mid-century modern decor, playing off of the natural woods and pastel palettes typically found in contemporary iterations of modernism.
Pattern vs. solid
Choosing between a patterned or solid-color shower curtain is a matter of personal taste. Both can be beautiful ways to introduce this rich color into your bathroom. If you don’t want to commit fully to burnt orange, patterns are a great way to tone down burnt orange and offset it with a complementary or base color.
On the other hand, solid colors provide saturated backdrops for further play and ornamentation. Use these to elevate other patterns, textures and materials in the room. Or color block your bathroom by painting the walls a deep blue or sage green.
What to look for in a quality burnt-orange shower curtain
Material
The three most common materials for shower curtains are cotton, polyester and vinyl. These each have unique properties that will affect their durability and feel:
- Cotton: A premium fabric in the world of shower curtains, cotton offers thick, luxurious warmth. These are easy to clean and the most durable. But cotton is also more expensive than other options. It’s also not waterproof, so you will need a shower-curtain liner.
- Polyester: Ranging from soft like cotton, to shiny like vinyl, this synthetic material is the best of both worlds, offering water resistance and durability. It’s cheaper than cotton, though certainly not as luscious. Polyester often doesn’t require a liner and can be washed.
- Vinyl: The cheapest of the three, vinyl is completely water-resistant. It’s the easiest to print on, offering the widest range of design options. It’s less durable however, so you will have to replace it once or twice a year.
Size
Choosing the right shower curtain size depends on your shower. While the typical shower curtain is a square 72 by 72 inches, if you have a walk-in or freestanding style tub, this will either be way too big or not big enough.
Smaller showers benefit from a narrow shower curtain, at about half the length. Tubs with more than one side exposed should use an extra-wide shower curtain of 108-180 inches depending on the number of sides. And if you have high ceilings, make sure to get an extra-long shower curtain, which adds another foot in length so you don’t spill water all over your floor.
Installation
Shower curtains are easy to install. They either use their built-in grommets or additional shower-curtain hooks. Grommets are the reinforced circular openings at the top of your shower curtain’s hem. If they’re large enough, you can slide them right onto your shower curtain rod. This is the easiest installation method but doesn’t offer the same ease of use once on the rod as hooks.
Shower curtain hooks, on the other hand, are a little fussier to install. These use rings to slide on your rod that then hook into the grommets on your curtain. Their design lets your curtain lie completely flat and makes them easier to pull back and forth.
How much you can expect to spend on a burnt-orange shower curtain
Shower curtain cost depends on the material and size. A vinyl shower curtain is usually $5-$25. Quality polyester ranges between $30-$60. And a premium cotton shower curtain can cost as much as $80-$120.
Burnt-orange shower curtain FAQ
How do I clean my shower curtain?
A. To get rid of mold and mildew, machine wash your polyester or cotton shower curtain once a month. For vinyl, you’ll want to use household cleaner in a well ventilated space.
Do I need a shower curtain liner?
A. Shower curtain liners are inexpensive vinyl barriers that help protect your shower curtain. Most polyester and vinyl curtains do not need them, but a liner can help boost their longevity. Cotton shower curtains need a liner as cotton is not waterproof.
What’s the best burnt-orange shower curtain to buy?
Top burnt-orange shower curtain
Ebern Designs Dothan Sunset in Hot Desert Shower Curtain + Hooks
What you need to know: Bring the brilliant heat of the desert into your bathroom with this gradient burnt-orange shower curtain.
What you’ll love: Transitioning from orange to white, Ebern Designs’ shower curtain offers a burst of color that won’t dominate the space. It’s made from polyester with reinforced grommets. The curtain comes with hooks for easy installation. You have your choice of four sizes.
What you should consider: The sizes offered may cover a few unique showers, but they’re by no means comprehensive, especially for extra-tall showers and freestanding tubs.
Where to buy: Sold by Wayfair
Top burnt-orange shower curtain for the money
What you need to know: Featuring a motif inspired by traditional designs found on the African continent, this shower curtain offers boho style on a budget.
What you’ll love: This hefty, polyester shower curtain comes in narrow and long sizes. The hem is weighted to prevent the shower curtain from flying around in a draft. You get 12 hooks with it.
What you should consider: This curtain is only printed on one side and doesn’t come in extra-wide sizes.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Latitude Run Sanches 18-Piece Embroidery Shower Curtain Set
What you need to know: With a tasteful, embroidered floral pattern in the top quarter panel, this practically solid-color shower curtain set is enough to deck out your entire bathroom in burnt orange.
What you’ll love: You not only get a shower curtain, but two matching bath mats and three matching towels. The curtain comes with rings for hanging and is made from water-resistant polyester. The towels are thin, so use this for decoration rather than as a fully functional bath set.
What you should consider: This set might be a little too much orange for those looking to add a singular accent to their bathroom.
Where to buy: Sold by Wayfair
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AP source: Lakers trading Westbrook to Utah in 3-team swap
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Lakers are trading Russell Westbrook to Utah and reacquiring guard D’Angelo Russell from Minnesota in a three-team, eight-player deal, a person with knowledge of the trade told The Associated Press on Wednesday night.
The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the teams hadn’t announced the major deal made ahead of the NBA’s trade deadline Thursday.
Los Angeles is also getting guard Malik Beasley and forward Jarred Vanderbilt from the Jazz, bolstering its core around LeBron James in a bid to jump-start its sputtering season. The Lakers fell to 25-30 on Tuesday while James set the NBA’s career scoring record, and they sit in 13th place in the 15-team Western Conference.
The Lakers are sending Juan Toscano-Anderson, Damian Jones and their first-round pick in 2027 to Utah with Westbrook.
ESPN and The Athletic first reported the trade. Those outlets also said Minnesota is getting Mike Conley and Nickeil Alexander-Walker from Utah, along with three second-round picks.
Westbrook’s tenure with his hometown team lasted just 130 tumultuous games. The 2017 NBA MVP never thrived with James and injury-plagued Anthony Davis for any significant stretch of time, struggling to mold his possession-heavy game into a more complementary role.
A move to the bench last fall led to minor improvements over a dismal 2021-22 season, but Westbrook still appeared profoundly uncomfortable with the Lakers, who are in danger of missing the playoffs for the second straight year. Westbrook averaged 17.4 points, 7.2 assists, 6.9 rebounds and 3.7 turnovers per game during his time in Los Angeles, where fans grumbled regularly about his poor shooting and turnovers.
The 34-year-old Westbrook is making about $47 million in the final year of his contract. Several months after the Lakers infuriated a large portion of their worldwide fan base by not trading Westbrook in the summer, they swapped him for Russell, who played his first two NBA seasons with the Lakers after they chose him with the second overall pick in the 2015 draft.
Russell was a rookie during Kobe Bryant’s final season, and the point guard was the most consistently entertaining part of two poor Lakers teams before Magic Johnson traded him to Brooklyn in 2017. Russell is now being traded for the fourth time in his eight NBA seasons.
Russell is averaging 17.9 points, 6.2 assists and 3.1 rebounds while hitting a career-best 46.5% of his shots with Minnesota in the final year of a contract paying him more than $31 million this season. His style on both ends of the court also could complement James and Davis better than Westbrook, although the Lakers will have little time to figure it out.
The Timberwolves courted Russell hard when he was on the market in July 2019, when Brooklyn ultimately landed on a sign-and-trade deal that sent Kevin Durant to the Nets and shipped Russell to Golden State. The Wolves eventually acquired Russell at the deadline in Feb. 2020 and teamed him with his draft-class pal, Karl-Anthony Towns.
The Russell-Towns pairing never really took off, in part because of injuries for each player that often kept them from being on the court at the same time. The Wolves drafted Anthony Edwards with the first overall pick in 2020, integrating another high-impact offensive player into the lineup whose value is minimized without frequent touches.
The Wolves made the playoffs in 2022, but only recently have Russell and Edwards truly clicked after coach Chris Finch made Edwards the primary ball-handler and moved Russell into an off-ball position to better maximize his shooting ability.
Russell is shooting a career-best 39.1% from 3-point range, having made five or more shots from deep in six of his last 17 games.
Conley is more of a pure distribute-first point guard than Russell, who has never been a tenacious perimeter defender, either. The 35-year-old Conley is averaging 10.7 points and 7.7 assists in his fourth season with Utah.
Conley will reunite with big man Rudy Gobert, whose transition to Minnesota has been slow. Conley and Gobert meshed well with the Jazz, and their collective experience in the playoffs ought to also help a Wolves team that has been remarkably inconsistent this season while trying to keep up in the crowded race.
There’ll be an even bigger Minnesota reunion on the Lakers, with Vanderbilt and Beasley going to LA where Patrick Beverley already plays — although Beverley is showing up in numerous trade rumors himself in the final hours before the deadline. All four of those players helped the Timberwolves get the No. 7 seed for the playoffs last season before Vanderbilt, Beasley and Beverley were traded to the Jazz in the Gobert deal.
Beasley is a strong outside shooter, averaging 13.4 points while hitting 35.9% of his 3-pointers for the Jazz. The 6-foot-9 Vanderbilt has averaged 8.3 points and 7.9 rebounds per game, excelling on defense and on the boards while starting 41 of his 52 games.
The Lakers began their roster overhaul last month by trading Kendrick Nunn to Washington for Rui Hachimura, who is fitting in well so far as a wing option. Los Angeles also took a swing at acquiring Kyrie Irving, but Brooklyn sent the controversial guard to Dallas.
Toscano-Anderson and Jones played almost no role after joining the Lakers in the offseason.
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AP Sports Writer Dave Campbell in Minneapolis contributed to this report.
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What’s better, a Bose TV sound bar or an LG sound bar?
Nothing completes a home theater setup like a sound bar. A sound bar is excellent for watching movies and listening to loud music, as it creates an immersive experience you wouldn’t get with your TV’s built-in speakers.
Bose and LG are two industry-leading electronics brands, and both make high-quality home theater equipment, but who makes the better sound bars? There are several excellent models to choose from, so consider your needs and which features appeal most to you.
Bose TV sound bar
Bose has been around since 1964 and is widely recognized as a top sound brand. Its cheapest sound bars cost $300-$500; more high-end models can cost up to $1,000.
Bose TV sound bar pros
Bose sound bars are known for their versatility and easy setup process, usually requiring a simple HDMI or optical cable connection to your TV. Audio quality is excellent across all models, and some of them support Dolby Atmos, which delivers multidimensional sound with rich clarity.
Some Bose sound bars have an intuitive Adaptiq feature that analyzes their surroundings to optimize audio quality. The proximity of furniture, walls and other objects is measured, and the sound bar automatically calibrates sound for the best possible listening experience.
Also, Voice4Video technology lets you control the sound bar and perform other TV commands with their voice. You can change channels, adjust settings and control music playback hands-free.
Bose TV sound bar cons
Bose doesn’t offer as many sound bars as LG, and although customers have praised them for their dialogue clarity, others have complained about the bass on some models not being as pronounced as with other sound bars.
Best Bose TV sound bars
This compact sound bar enhances dialogue and uses spatial audio for an immersive listening experience. It has LED lights indicating when certain features are enabled and supports Bluetooth so you can wirelessly stream music. Also, the setup is simple, requiring a sole HDMI or optical cable connected directly to a TV.
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Bose Smart Sound Bar 300 with Bass Module 500
This sound bar delivers spatial sound, clear dialogue audio and rich bass with a sleek acoustic build. It has exclusive Bose Voice4Video technology to access Alexa for hands-free controls and Bose SimpleSync technology for pairing with other compatible Bose speakers and devices. Also, it supports Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, AirPlay 2 and Spotify Connect for wireless streaming.
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This sound bar has a streamlined design and delivers outstanding sound quality, featuring two custom-engineered upward-firing speakers. It has a noise-rejection microphone that can hear voice commands over loud music, and you can set up and access voice assistants such as Alexa and Google Assistant.
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LG sound bar
LG has been around since the 1950s, and although it’s known for its household appliances, it’s no slouch when it comes to electronics. LG sound bars aren’t as ubiquitous as those offered by other brands, but nonetheless, there are many terrific ones. LG sound bars can cost as little as $100-$300, but the most expensive ones often cost $500-$1,000.
LG sound bar pros
LG sound bars have a sturdier build and look than sound bars by other brands. Instead of a mesh fabric covering the speakers, LG sound bars have a metal cover or textured plastic finish. Many also have wireless playback options such as Bluetooth and Wi-Fi and multiple connectivity choices, including HDMI eARC and optical. Also, they offer many calibration settings, letting users tweak them according to their preference.
LG sound bar cons
LG sound bars sound great and reproduce decent bass and clear dialogue, but they don’t offer as much volume as comparable sound bars. Also, there aren’t any sound bars with seven channels, so a wireless rear speaker kit sold separately is required to achieve a 7.1 surround sound experience.
Best LG sound bars
LG SN6Y 3.1 Channel High Res Audio Sound Bar
This sound bar delivers up to 24-bit high-resolution audio and has an intuitive DTS Virtual:X feature that delivers an immersive listening experience. The AI Sound Pro feature automatically tunes bass and treble levels based on what you’re watching, and connectivity is versatile, supporting Bluetooth, HDMI ARC and optical cable.
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LG SP8YA 3.1.2 Channel Sound Bar
This is an excellent choice if you’re looking for an awesome-sounding sound bar with a stylish design. It has Dolby Atmos, upward-firing height channels and a wide soundstage for powerful bass and clear voice output. It supports Dolby Vision, and the outer mesh is made from recycled materials.
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This is perfect for OLED TV owners as it has a minimalist aesthetic that matches their design. It can be paired wirelessly with additional surround sound speakers, and adaptive sound control optimizes audio levels to enhance bass or dialogue clarity. Also, it supports Bluetooth and HDMI eARC connectivity.
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Should you get a Bose TV sound bar or an LG TV sound bar?
Most Bose sound bars offer a broader soundstage than LG sound bars. They have just as many wireless connectivity options and a few additional premium features, such as Adaptiq, which is excellent for those who plan on using their sound bar in a cluttered area.
If models in the same price range and tier are compared, LG has the edge in build and aesthetic design, but Bose offers a more immersive listening experience with more pronounced bass and dialogue clarity. Plus, they can seamlessly integrate with other Bose speakers and devices.
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NEW YORK, June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sycamore Partners, a private equity firm specializing in retail, consumer, and distribution-related investments, today announced that it has acquired Goddard Systems, franchisor of The Goddard School, from an affiliate of Wind River Holdings, L.P., a privately owned investment company.
"Goddard Systems is the leading brand in the large and growing market for premium early childcare and education," said Stefan Kaluzny, Managing Director of Sycamore Partners. "We look forward to partnering with management to support Goddard Systems' thriving franchisee network in furthering the company's important mission of caring for and educating children."
"We are excited to partner with Sycamore as we continue to strengthen our business and build on our track record of success," said Dennis R. Maple, Chairman and CEO of Goddard Systems. "Given our well-established foundation and clear strategic roadmap, we expect this to be a smooth transition for the franchisees and families we serve and support. Our team remains focused on providing families with the highest quality educational environment for which we are known."
Barclays served as financial advisor to Sycamore Partners, and Kirkland & Ellis and Ropes & Gray acted as legal counsel. Baird served as financial advisor to Wind River, and Hogan Lovells acted as legal counsel.
About Goddard Systems, Inc.
Established in 1988, Goddard Systems, the franchisor of The Goddard School, is the acknowledged leader in the premium early childcare and education market segment. Headquartered in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, Goddard Systems has been consistently named one of the top childcare franchises in the United States by Entrepreneur magazine and one of the Top 200 Franchise Systems (in worldwide sales) by Franchise Times. Goddard Systems currently licenses nearly 600 Goddard School franchises that serve more than 80,000 students in 37 states and Washington, D.C. For more information, visit goddardschoolfranchise.com.
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Sycamore Partners is a private equity firm based in New York. The firm specializes in retail, consumer, and distribution-related investments and partners with management teams to improve the operating profitability and strategic value of their business. With approximately $10 billion in aggregate committed capital raised since its inception in 2011, Sycamore Partners' investors include leading endowments, financial institutions, family offices, pension plans and sovereign wealth funds. For more information on Sycamore Partners, visit www.sycamorepartners.com.
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Emilia Clarke is a survivor. The actress is looking back at the frightening medical emergencies she suffered while filming Game of Thrones.
The actress recently opened up to BBC Sunday Morning -- while promoting her forthcoming West End debut in a production of Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull -- and she looked back at her experience dealing with two brain aneurysms, first in 2011 and then in 2013
"It was the most excruciating pain," Clarke shared, adding that it was "incredibly helpful to have Game of Thrones sweep me up and give me that purpose."
Both times Clarke dealt with her brain aneurysms, she required significant recovery time. Now, the actress says she's just thankful for being able to live her life after the amount of damage that her brain went through.
"The amount of my brain that is no longer usable, it’s remarkable that I am able to speak," Clarke said, "and live my life completely normally with absolutely no repercussions."
Clarke marveled that she is "in the really, really, really small minority of people that can survive that," but revealed that there is "quite a bit missing" in her brain.
"Strokes, basically, as soon as any part of your brain doesn’t get blood for a second, it’s gone. So the blood finds a different route to get around, but then whatever bit is missing is therefore gone,” she explained.
Clarke first opened up about the aneurysms in 2019 in a first-person story penned for The New Yorker, where she detailed the painful surgeries and rehabilitation processes she underwent. However, she also explained how she was assured that she was now healthy, and expressed gratitude for her survival and her neurological wellbeing.
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ADANA, Turkey (AP) – A powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake has rocked wide swaths of Turkey and neighboring Syria, killing more than 2,500 people and injuring thousands more. It toppled hundreds of buildings and trapped residents under mounds of rubble or pancaked floors. Authorities feared the death toll would rise further as rescuers on both sides of the border searched Monday through tangles of metal and concrete for survivors. It comes in a region beset by more than a decade of Syria’s civil war and a refugee crisis. Residents jolted out of sleep by the pre-dawn quake rushed outside in the rain and snow to escape falling debris, while those who were trapped cried for help. Major aftershocks continued to rattle the region. | 2023-02-06T18:46:36+00:00 | wtmj.com | https://wtmj.com/homepage-showcase/2023/02/06/death-toll-in-turkey-surpasses-2500/ |
NEW YORK, July 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of UP Fintech Holding Limited (NASDAQ: TIGR) between April 29, 2020 and May 16, 2023, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important August 21, 2023 lead plaintiff deadline in the securities class action filed by the Firm.
SO WHAT: If you purchased UP Fintech 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.
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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 litigate 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 materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose, among other things, that: (1) UP Fintech's business was, quite simply, illegal as it related to operations in China as a result of its failure to obtain the proper licenses; (2) it did not fully disclose to investors that it was engaging in unlawful activity and instead characterized the applicable Chinese laws as ambiguous; (3) the foregoing subjected the Company to a heightened risk of regulatory enforcement; and (4); as a result, Defendants' statements about its business, operations, and prospects, were materially false and misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
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DENVER — Evan Bouchard scored a power-play goal 1:50 into overtime, Stuart Skinner stopped 28 shots and the Edmonton Oilers beat the Colorado Avalanche 2-1 on Tuesday night for their eighth straight win.
Bouchard lined a shot past Alexandar Georgiev to set off a celebration. Moments earlier, Colorado defenseman Bowen Byram drew a penalty for hooking Connor McDavid as the Oilers center powered toward the goal.
McDavid assisted on the OT winner to extend his points streak to 15 games. He’s the first player in NHL history to have three different points streaks of 15 or more games in the same season. He’s only had seven games where he didn’t register a point.
Mattias Ekholm also scored for the Oilers, who remain in the chase for the Pacific Division title with one game remaining. They also extended their points streak to 14 straight games.
A contest featuring two high scoring teams turned into a defensive showdown. It was no surprise, though, this game went into an extra period. Colorado won the previous two meetings this season in overtime.
Ben Meyers scored for the defending Stanley Cup champion Avalanche, who saw their five-game winning streak snapped.
Georgiev made 38 saves, including one on a breakaway by McDavid in the second period. Colorado remains in the driver's seat for the Central Division crown with two games to go. With a point Tuesday, the Avalanche also wrapped up home ice in the first round courtesy of Minnesota’s loss to Winnipeg earlier in the night.
The Avalanche weathered a four-minute penalty in the second period when Devon Toews' stick caught Zach Hyman in the mouth and drew blood.
The game featured five 100-point scorers, marking the first time that’s happened in 37 years, according to NHL Stats.
It was Meyers kicking off the scoring early in the first period when he was credited for a goal that went in off a skate. Just 36 seconds later, Ekholm tied the game off a pass from Ryan McLeod, who was activated from the injured list before the game.
It was McLeod's first game since March 14.
QUITE A SEASON
McDavid is attempting to become the first outright leader in goals, assists and points since Wayne Gretzky in 1986-87. Only eight times has the same player finished as the league’s outright leader in goals, assists and scoring — Gretzky (five times), Phil Esposito, Gordie Howe and Howie Morenz.
Count Avalanche forward Mikko Rantanen as impressed by McDavid's offensive exploits.
“What he’s able to do, never seen anything like it,” Rantanen said. “I feel like he’s getting better, too. I don’t know if that’s possible, but I feel like he is.”
AROUND THE RINK
Oilers forward Ryan Nugent-Hopkins played in his 800th NHL game. He became the fifth player in Oilers history to reach the mark for the franchise. ... Avalanche defenseman Cale Makar missed his fifth straight game with a lower body injury.
UP NEXT
Oilers: Finish the regular season Thursday by hosting San Jose.
Avalanche: Host Winnipeg on Thursday before closing out the regular season Friday at Nashville.
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia retaliated Monday for what it claimed was a Ukrainian terrorist attack on a critical bridge by unleashing its biggest and most widespread attacks against Ukraine in months. The lethal barrage against multiple cities smashed civilian targets, knocking out power and water, shattering buildings and killing at least 11 people.
Ukraine’s Emergency Service said 64 people were wounded in the morning rush hour attacks that Russia launched from the air, sea and land against at least 14 regions, spanning from Lviv in the west to Kharkiv in the east. Many of the attacks occurred far from the war’s front lines.
Though Russia said missiles targeted military and energy facilities, some struck civilian areas while people were heading to work and school. One hit a playground in downtown Kyiv and another struck a university.
Andriy Yermak, a senior adviser to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said the strikes had no “practical military sense” and that Russia’s goal was to cause a “humanitarian catastrophe.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin said his forces used “precision weapons” to target key energy infrastructure and military command facilities in retaliation for Kyiv’s “terrorist” actions — a reference to Ukraine’s attempts to repel Moscow’s invasion forces, including an attack Saturday on a key bridge between Russia and the annexed Crimean Peninsula that Putin called a “terrorist act” masterminded by Ukrainian special services.
Putin vowed a “tough” and “proportionate” response should Ukraine carry out further attacks that threaten Russia’s security. “No one should have any doubts about it,” he told Russia’s Security Council by video.
The Russian president has been under intense domestic pressure to take more aggressive action to stop a largely successful Ukrainian counteroffensive and to react forcefully to Saturday’s attack on the Kerch bridge, whose construction he used to cement his 2014 annexation of Crimea.
Putin’s increasingly frequent descriptions of Ukraine’s actions as terrorist could set the stage for even more bold and draconian actions. But in Monday’s speech, Putin — whose partial troop mobilization order last month triggered an exodus of hundreds of thousands of men of fighting age from Russia — stopped short of an expected escalation from what he calls a “special military operation” to a counterterrorism campaign or martial law.
Moscow’s war in Ukraine is approaching its eight-month milestone, and the Kremlin has been reeling from humiliating battlefield setbacks in areas of eastern Ukraine it is trying to annex.
The head of Ukraine’s law enforcement said Monday’s attacks nationwide damaged 70 infrastructure sites, of which 29 are critical. The Ukrainian General Staff said 84 cruise missiles and 24 drones were used. Ukrainian forces shot down 56 aerial targets, it said.
Blasts struck in the capital’s Shevchenko district, a large area in the center that includes the historic old town and government offices, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said.
Some of the strikes hit near the government quarter in the capital’s symbolic heart, where parliament and other major landmarks are located. A glass-covered office tower was significantly damaged, with most of its blue-tinted windows blown out.
Zelenskyy, in a video address, referred to the rush hour timing of Monday’s attacks, saying Russia “chose such a time and such targets on purpose to inflict the most damage.”
The strikes sent residents of Ukraine’s two largest cities — Kyiv and Kharkiv — into bomb shelters, including subway stations.
While air raid sirens have continued throughout the war in cities across the country, in Kyiv and elsewhere, many Ukrainians had begun to ignore their warnings after months of calm.
Just as traffic was beginning to pick up Monday morning, a commuter minibus, known as a “marshrutka” — a popular alternative to the city’s buses and subways — was struck near Kyiv National University. Nearby, at least one strike landed in Shevchenko Park, leaving a large hole near a children’s playground.
Another target was the Klitschko pedestrian bridge — a landmark in central Kyiv with its glass panels. Closed-circuit television footage showed a huge explosion under the bridge, with smoke rising, and a man running away after the blast, apparently unhurt. No significant damage to the bridge was immediately apparent.
Air raid sirens sounded in every region of Ukraine except Russia-annexed Crimea, for four straight hours.
Associated Press journalists saw multiple bodies at an industrial site on the outskirts of Dnipro city. Four people were killed and 19 injured in the city, officials said.
Witnesses said one missile landed in front of a bus during the morning rush hour, damaging the vehicle but not killing any passengers.
Natalia Nesterenko, a mathematician, saw one missile fly by her Dnipro apartment balcony as she was working in her kitchen, then she heard two explosions.
“It’s very dangerous. I immediately called my kids to see how they are because anyone can be hit — women, children,” she said.
Kharkiv was hit three times, Mayor Ihor Terekhov said. The strikes knocked out the electricity and water supply. Energy infrastructure was also hit in Lviv, regional Gov. Maksym Kozytskyi said.
Three cruise missiles launched against Ukraine from Russian ships in the Black Sea crossed Moldova’s airspace, said the country’s foreign affairs minister, Nicu Popescu.
The attacks brought out a fresh bout of international condemnation of Russia.
The Group of Seven industrial powers scheduled a videoconference Tuesday on the situation, which Zelenskyy will address.
French President Emanuel Macron expressed “extreme concern.” British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly tweeted that “Russia’s firing of missiles into civilian areas of Ukraine is unacceptable.”
“Russia once again has shown to the world what it stands for. It is terror and brutality,” said European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
Some feared Monday’s attacks may just be the first salvo in a renewed Russian offensive. As a precautionary measure, Ukraine switched all schools to online learning until at least the end of this week. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba broke off an Africa tour and headed back to Ukraine.
In an ominous move, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko announced Monday that he and Putin have agreed to create a joint “regional grouping of troops.” He offered no details. His defense minister, Viktor Khrenin, later issued a video warning Ukraine not to provoke Belarus, but added, “We don’t want to fight.”
Lukashenko repeated his claims that Ukraine is plotting an attack on Belarus, sparking fears the stage is being set for preemptive action by Minsk.
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Sabra Ayres in Kyiv, Vasilisa Stepanenko in Kharkiv, and Justin Spike and Yesica Fisch in Dnipro, contributed to this story.
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MADRID (AP) — Spanish police took action Tuesday after the latest case of abuse against Vinícius Júnior, arresting seven people accused of racially insulting the Real Madrid player.
Spanish soccer officials also acted, fining Valencia 45,000 euros ($48,500) and closing part of the team’s stadium for the next five games.
Three people were detained in Valencia for alleged abuse against Vinícius in Sunday’s match between Valencia and Madrid. Four were arrested in Madrid for allegedly hanging an effigy of the player off a highway bridge in January.
The arrests came after an outpouring of support for Vinícius after he said he was abused in Valencia. The case prompted widespread reaction from sports figures and government officials in Spain and worldwide.
The section of Mestalla Stadium that will be closed is where the insults against Vinícius came from, behind one of the goals. It’s also where the club’s more hardcore fans usually are located.
The Spanish federation’s competition’s committee also made the unusual decision to annul the red card shown to Vinícius after an altercation with Valencia players late in Sunday’s match. The committee said video review failed to show the referee the entire altercation, including the part in which Vinícius was grabbed from behind by an opponent.
Vinícius had complained that his red card ended up being a reward to the racists who insulted him.
Spain has been criticized for its lack of action in racism cases in soccer. Brazilian government officials, including President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, had publicly expressed their concerns.
“It’s a crucial moment, a moment to take drastic measures,” Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti said Tuesday. “Now that the issue has visibility, the institutions have to take this opportunity to try to fix this problem.”
All seven were arrested on suspicion of committing a hate crime, police said. None of them were publicly identified, and police did not discuss the timing of the arrests.
Vinícius, who is Black, has been subjected to repeated racist taunts since he arrived in Spain five years ago and especially this season after he began celebrating his goals by dancing.
The 22-year-old Brazilian has heavily criticized Spanish soccer for not doing more to stop racism. He posted a message on Twitter on Tuesday saying racism existed in Spanish stadiums even before he was born, referring to images of former Real Madrid and Brazil defender Roberto Carlos being subjected to racist insults back in 1997.
“What has changed until today?” Vinícius asked.
The match against Valencia was temporarily stopped after Vinícius said a fan behind one of the goals called him a monkey and made monkey gestures toward him. Vinícius considered leaving the field but eventually continued playing.
The effigy of Vinícius was hanged by the neck on the morning of a derby match between Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid in the Copa del Rey. Along with it was a banner with the words “Madrid hates Real.”
The perpetrators used a black figure with Vinícius’ name on it, tied a rope around its neck and hanged it from an overpass while still dark in the Spanish capital.
Police said three of those arrested belonged to one of Atletico’s fan groups, and the other was a follower of the group. Some had prior bookings with police for other crimes.
The hate message on the banner is often used by Atletico’s hardcore fans, though at the time they denied being responsible for the display.
The men arrested in Madrid are between the ages of 19 and 24. Authorities said some were previously identified during matches considered at high risk of violence. Police showed images of them arriving in handcuffs and escorted by agents on Tuesday.
Spanish media said police had used security cameras to identify the perpetrators but no action had been taken until now. Valencia and authorities worked together to identify and detain the suspects in the match against Madrid. The club said it banned the suspects from its stadium for life.
The lights at the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro were turned off Monday night in a show of solidarity for Vinícius, who did not practice on Tuesday citing a minor injury.
“It’s an action of solidarity that is moving,” Vinícius said on Twitter. “But more than everything, what I want is to inspire and bring more light to our fight.”
Vinícius gave thanks for the support he has received.
“I know who you are,” he said. “Count on me, because the good ones are the majority and I’m not going to give up. I have a purpose in life, and if I have to keep suffering so that future generations won’t have to go through these types of situations, I’m ready and prepared.”
Real Madrid reported the Valencia case as a hate crime, and club president Florentino Pérez said Tuesday his club “will not tolerate any more racist incidents against its players.” He called for a restructuring of the refereeing in the country.
The Spanish league has filed nine similar criminal complaints of racial abuse against Vinícius in the last two seasons, with most of them being shelved by prosecutors.
The league said Tuesday it will seek to increase its authority to issue sanctions in cases of hate crimes during games.
Supporters have been fined and banned from stadiums for their abuse against Vinícius, but so far only a Mallorca fan may end up going on trial.
The first trial against a fan accused of racial abuse in Spanish professional soccer is expected this year; the case involved Athletic Bilbao forward Iñaki Williams, who was insulted by an Espanyol supporter in 2020.
The Spanish federation, Spanish league and the government’s top sports authorities on Tuesday launched an anti-racism campaign. It will include the messages “racists out of football” and “together against racism” on broadcasts, logos and advertising boards and players’ armbands.
“The three institutions want to unanimously show their absolute and unequivocal rejection of any racist behavior,” they said in a statement, adding the aim is “to bring together the strength of everyone: institutions, clubs, athletes and fans with the goal of eradicating racism and its agents from our football.”
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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The sight of a red bloodstain on Kenyan Senator Gloria Orwoba’s white pantsuit was so startling that a female security guard rushed over to hide it.
It was an accident, Orwoba said. Just before walking into parliament, she looked down to discover that she had been caught unprepared by her monthly period.
For a moment, she considered retreat. But then she thought about how the stigma around menstruation affects Kenyan women and girls and strode into the building. To those who noticed the stain, she explained she was making a statement.
It didn’t last long. Within minutes, colleagues in the senate became so uncomfortable that another female lawmaker petitioned the speaker to ask Orwoba to leave and change her clothes. Male colleagues agreed, calling the issue “taboo and private,” and Orwoba walked out.
Women make up less than a third of Kenya’s senators: 21 of 67.
A male colleague accused her of faking her accident in parliament, to which she replied in a local media interview that “everyone would rather think it’s a prank, because if it is a prank then it’s acting and that way it doesn’t exist in the real world. Yet our girls are suffering.”
Whether or not Orwoba’s menstrual stain was an accident or a stunt, the controversy it has elicited shows the considerable stigma that surrounds women’s periods in Kenya and in many African countries.
Orwoba hasn’t been silenced. The incident last month has inspired considerable debate in Kenya about “period shaming” of women and the problem of the lack of access to sanitary pads for schoolgirls and others in many African countries.
Inspired, some of Orwoba’s friends have even paid for a billboard in the capital, Nairobi, that shows her in a white T-shirt with the words “I can do bleeding” — a spirited message against menstrual stigma in the largely conservative country.
In an interview with The Associated Press, the bubbly first-time senator acknowledged that the incident has prompted her to concentrate on drafting a bill calling on the Kenyan government to provide an annual supply of sanitary pads to all schoolgirls and incarcerated women.
“For legislators to feel the urgency of legislating things into law, they must be subjected to the advocacy and the noise,” she said of her public campaign.
The 36-year-old said she has never understood why menstruation is spoken of like a secret. She recalled being excited as a teenager to finally have her first period after being the last among her peers to get the “mark of womanhood.”
“My attitude toward menstruation since then has been open,” said Orwoba, who has warned her teenage son to never shame a girl for having her period.
Studies have shown that menstruation causes widespread absences from school in many African countries by girls who stay home for fear of staining their uniforms.
In 2019, one schoolgirl in Kenya killed herself after a teacher called her dirty and kicked her out of class.
One in 10 African schoolgirls misses school during menstruation, according to a U.N. survey, and many, after lagging behind, eventually drop out.
Official efforts and promises to provide sanitary pads have fallen short. In Kenya, the government increased budget funds to distribute pads to schoolgirls in 2018 but the amount was halved the next year.
Neighboring Tanzania removed taxes on sanitary pads to make them more affordable, but many still find them too expensive because of high production and import costs.
Now Orwoba receives calls from organizations that want to make menstruation products accessible to the poor, including a British firm that wants to put up sanitary pad dispensers in public toilets. Such dispensers for condoms have long been common in public toilets across Kenya as part of national campaigns against HIV.
In recent years, Kenya has seen the introduction of reusable menstruation products like washable pads and silicon cups. But the lack of access to water to clean them in some rural communities has prevented some users from embracing them.
Virginia Mwongeli, 24, sells menstruation cups in Nairobi and thinks Orwoba’s bold move will help end period shaming.
“We need to normalize periods,” she said.
The senator’s decision to walk into parliament with stained pants was “totally acceptable as people need to openly discuss menstruation,” said Lorna Mweu, popularly known as Mamake Bobo, who founded Period Party, an organization that holds an annual event in Kenya to help end stigma.
Orwoba said she longs for the day when accidental period stains will be seen as normal, not shameful. Women and girls are using up valuable sanitary pads by wearing them as a precaution out of anxiety, she said: “That’s a whole pack that you’ve wasted because of the fear of staining your clothes.” | 2023-03-09T01:18:03+00:00 | wearegreenbay.com | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/international/ap-international/kenyan-senator-campaigns-against-stigma-around-menstruation/ |
WFO MIDLAND/ODESSA Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, October 11, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD WATCH
Flood Watch
National Weather Service Midland/Odessa TX
1222 PM MDT Sun Oct 9 2022
...FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE MONDAY NIGHT...
* WHAT...Flash flooding caused by excessive rainfall continues to be
possible.
* WHERE...Portions of southeast New Mexico and Texas, including the
following areas, in southeast New Mexico, Central Lea County, Eddy
County Plains, Guadalupe Mountains of Eddy County, Northern Lea
County and Southern Lea County. In Texas, Andrews, Borden, Central
Brewster County, Chinati Mountains, Chisos Basin, Crane, Davis
Mountains, Davis Mountains Foothills, Dawson, Eastern Culberson
County, Ector, Gaines, Glasscock, Guadalupe Mountains Above 7000
Feet, Guadalupe and Delaware Mountains, Howard, Loving, Marfa
Plateau, Martin, Midland, Mitchell, Pecos, Presidio Valley,
Reagan, Reeves County Plains, Scurry, Upton, Van Horn and Highway
54 Corridor, Ward and Winkler.
* WHEN...Through late Monday night.
* IMPACTS...Excessive runoff may result in flooding of rivers,
creeks, streams, and other low-lying and flood-prone locations.
Creeks and streams may rise out of their banks. Flooding may occur
in poor drainage and urban areas.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- Heavy showers and thunderstorms expected to begin over
Southeast New Mexico southward to the Davis Mountains and
spread eastward tonight.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
You should monitor later forecasts and be prepared to take action
should Flash Flood Warnings be issued.
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Prosecutors urge Minnesota Supreme Court to reject appeal by ex-officer in George Floyd’s murder
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — State prosecutors have urged the Minnesota Supreme Court to reject former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin’s request to reconsider his conviction for murdering George Floyd, saying lower courts already got it right.
Chauvin’s attorney asked the state’s highest court last month to hear the case after the Minnesota Court of Appeals rejected his arguments that he had been denied a fair trial. A three-judge panel in April affirmed his conviction for second-degree murder and his 22 1/2-year sentence. In a response filed Tuesday, the attorney general’s office asked the Supreme Court to let that ruling stand.
“Petitioner received a fair trial, and received the benefit of a fulsome appellate review,” prosecutors wrote. “It is time to bring this case to a close.”
Floyd died on May 25, 2020, after Chauvin, who is white, kneeled on the unarmed Black man’s neck for 9 1/2 minutes. A bystander video captured Floyd’s fading cries of “I can’t breathe.” Floyd’s death touched off protests around the world, some of which turned violent, and forced a national reckoning with police brutality and racism that is still playing out.
Defense attorney William Morhman unsuccessfully asked the Court of Appeals to throw out the ex-officer’s conviction for a long list of reasons, including the trial judge’s decision not to move the proceedings out of Minneapolis despite massive pretrial publicity, and the potential prejudicial effects of unprecedented courthouse security.
Another issue was the revelation after Chauvin’s trial that one juror participated in a civil rights event commemorating the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s March on Washington a few months after Floyd’s death. Chauvin raised several of those arguments again in his latest appeal.
Prosecutors urged the Supreme Court not to give Chauvin a “do-over,” saying he received “one of the most thorough and transparent criminal proceedings in the history of this nation.”
The Minnesota Supreme Court could agree to hear Chauvin’s appeal. If so, it would ask each side for detailed briefs and later set a date for oral arguments. Or it could let the Court of Appeals ruling stand as the final word.
After his conviction on the state charge, Chauvin pleaded guilty to a separate federal civil rights charge and was sentenced to 21 years in federal prison, which he is serving in Arizona concurrent with his state sentence.
Three other former officers who assisted Chauvin at the scene — a convenience store where Floyd tried to pass a counterfeit $20 bill — are serving shorter sentences for their roles in the case.
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Trump claim of ‘Crime of Century’ fizzles in 3-year probe
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump once predicted that a special prosecutor appointed during his administration would uncover “the crime of the century” — a conspiracy to sink his 2016 campaign.
Yet here are the results of the three-year probe by prosecutor John Durham: two trial acquittals — the latest on Tuesday — and a former FBI attorney sentenced to probation.
That has fallen far short of Trump supporters’ expectations that Durham would reveal a “deep state” plot behind the U.S. government’s investigation into ties between Russia and Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.
The outcome has led to scrutiny over the purpose of Durham’s appointment by former Attorney General William Barr, who tasked him with sussing out misconduct in the Trump-Russia probe. It also has raised questions about whether or when the current attorney general, Merrick Garland, might move to rein in Durham’s work or hasten its completion.
“You really measure the success of an investigation by what it uncovers in terms of pernicious activity, and he’s uncovered nothing,” said Stephen Saltzburg, a George Washington University law professor and former senior Justice Department official.
There are no signs Durham plans to charge anyone else in his investigation. He is expected to produce a report at some point, but it’s unclear whether he will identify any significant misconduct or errors beyond those already reported by the Justice Department’s watchdog.
Barr gave Durham a broad mandate in 2019 to hunt for wrongdoing by the FBI or other agencies in the early days of their investigation into potential coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia. At the time, Durham was the U.S. attorney in Connecticut with decades of Justice Department experience, including investigating CIA interrogations of terror suspects.
Trump supporters cheered the appointment, and not just because of Durham’s bona fides.
The appointment was made shortly after the conclusion of an investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller, which found substantial contacts between Russians and Trump associates but did not allege a criminal conspiracy between them. In December 2019, a Justice Department inspector general report concluded that the Russia investigation was opened for a legitimate reason but identified numerous errors in how it was conducted — giving Trump and his supporters an avenue of attack and optimism over Durham.
But by the end of 2020, there were signs Durham’s investigation was losing momentum.
One of his top prosecutors resigned without explanation from the Justice Department. Months later, Barr told The Wall Street Journal that he did not believe there had been improper activity during the Russia investigation by the CIA, even though suspicions about the intelligence community had helped prompt Durham’s appointment in the first place.
The year ended with just one criminal case — a guilty plea by an FBI lawyer who admitted doctoring an internal email related to the surveillance of a former Trump campaign adviser. Kevin Clinesmith was sentenced to probation, rather than prison. Notably, the case involved conduct uncovered in an earlier investigation by the inspector general, rather than by Durham’s team.
Two other criminal cases, also narrow in nature, faltered. After deliberating for just a few hours, a jury in May acquitted Michael Sussmann, a lawyer for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign. He had been accused of lying to the FBI during a meeting in which he presented the bureau’s top lawyer with information about Trump he thought should be investigated.
On Tuesday, a jury acquitted Igor Danchenko, a Russian analyst at a U.S. think tank who’d been accused of lying to the FBI about his role in the creation of a largely discredited dossier — a compendium of unproven assertions that sought to tie Trump to Russia and whose creation was funded by Democrats. During the trial, he attacked the credibility of FBI agents who were his own witnesses.
Despite the lack of convictions, Durham has still managed to cast an unflattering light on aspects of the Russia investigation. The Danchenko trial, for instance, centered on the origins of the dossier, which helped form the basis of secret surveillance applications the FBI filed to monitor the communications of ex-Trump campaign aide Carter Page.
Even so, Page was one of numerous threads investigated by the FBI, and the dossier did not initiate the Russia probe. The allegations from Durham’s probe have also not erased the core finding of the Mueller probe — that Russia wanted Trump elected and that Trump’s team welcomed the help — nor have they swayed jurors.
“While Durham essentially tried to put the FBI itself on trial through these prosecutions by pointing to missteps and errors in the early Trump-Russia probe, the cases painted the FBI as more victim than perpetrator and evidence of any orchestrated scheme by FBI agents to steer the investigation for political purposes never materialized,” Robert Mintz, a New Jersey lawyer and former federal prosecutor, wrote in an email.
The Justice Department declined to comment about Durham’s future, including how much longer his team might continue or when he might produce a report. Weeks before he resigned, Barr designated Durham as a special counsel to ensure his investigation would continue in the Biden administration.
A spokesman for Durham declined to comment on criticism of the work.
Garland and senior Justice Department leaders, perhaps careful to avoid the perception of meddling in such a politically charged investigation, have taken a hands-off approach to Durham’s work.
Before Sussmann was indicted, his attorneys appealed to senior department officials in hopes of preventing a charge, according to a person familiar with the matter who insisted on anonymity to discuss private conversations. But the Justice Department rebuffed the protest, allowing the case to proceed.
Now, though, there is rising pressure not only on Durham to wrap up but on Garland, as attorney general, to urge him along.
“I think he was very wise to let this run its course,” Saltzburg said of Garland. “I believe the course has been run. It’s over. I believe what Merrick Garland should say to Durham is, it’s time to submit your report and go home.”
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Associated Press writer Matthew Barakat in Alexandria, Virginia, contributed to this report.
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With higher efficiency and reduced size and weight, the solution allows for increased driving range and further benefits in electric vehicles.
DETROIT, Mich., July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Marelli, a leading global automotive supplier, has developed a new, complete platform of 800 Volt Silicon Carbide (SiC) inverters, ensuring improvements in terms of inverters' size, weight and especially efficiency, which is a critical parameter in electric vehicles. The platform is presented for the first time at the International VDI Congress "Dritev" (Drivetrain Transmission Electrification in Vehicles), held in Baden Baden, Germany, on July 6 and 7 2022, where Marelli is showcasing its electrification technologies at its booth, located at stand B, on the ground floor.
Due to its excellent performance at high temperature and high voltage – enabling smaller, lighter and more efficient solutions – Silicon Carbide is recognised as a technology of choice for power electronics. Thus, it is particularly suitable for inverters, which convert DC (Direct Current) power derived from batteries to AC (Alternating Current) electric power used in electric vehicles' motors. In addition to this, Marelli's new 800 Volt inverter platform also features an optimised thermal structure, thanks to innovative structural and cooling channel designs that drastically reduce the thermal resistance between the SiC components themselves and the cooling liquid. This is a critical aspect in high power applications, where the heat rejection of the power module is significant.
Among the main advantages, the new inverter platform presented by Marelli can extract more energy from the battery at a higher efficiency and secure a significant increase in the driving range of a vehicle. It also ensures faster charging times and better acceleration. Finally, a smaller and more efficient inverter allows a reduction in battery size which delivers cost, weight and sustainability benefits.
"The new inverters platform based on our 800 Volt Silicon Carbide power module technology allows to serve applications where energy use is optimized, the performance is maximized and efficiency is dramatically improved" said Dr. Razvan Panati, Head of Power Electronics Technology of Marelli's Vehicle Electrification Division. "With a complete range of modular solutions, we are able to offer to our customers more flexibility in terms of packaging, cooling system design and energy storage."
The software for all the inverters in Marelli's range is developed in-house by the company and is hosted by an Electric Control Unit located in the same inverter case. The software is compliant with AUTOSAR (AUTomotive Open System ARchitecture) standards and specifically customized for the diagnostic standards required by car makers. Functional Safety requirements are compliant to ASIL D (Automotive Safety Integrity Level D) standard.
The new 800 Volt SiC platform completes the inverters range offered by Marelli, resulting from over ten years of experience, that includes also 400 Volt solutions based both on IGBT (Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor) and Silicon Carbide, and Gallium Nitride (GaN)-based converters in development.
The inverters range is part of the solutions Marelli is showcasing at its booth at the 22nd edition of the International VDI Congress "Dritev", one of the largest industry events in Europe in the field of drivetrain and transmission. At the congress, the company exhibits its portfolio of technologies for vehicle electrification, that includes a full selection of single components, as well as subsystems, up to solutions for the complete integrated vehicle energy management system, applying a "tier 0.5" approach, with the integration of thermal management into the electric powertrain. Alongside inverters, also electric motors, integrated e-axles systems, battery management systems, and solutions for managing all vehicle thermal systems are part of the company's technological offer.
About Marelli
MARELLI is one of the world's leading global independent suppliers to the automotive sector. With a strong and established track record in innovation and manufacturing excellence, our mission is to transform the future of mobility through working with customers and partners to create a safer, greener, and better-connected world. With around 54,000 employees worldwide, the MARELLI footprint includes 170 facilities and R&D centers across Asia, the Americas, Europe, and Africa, generating revenues of 1,380 billion JPY (10.6 billion EUR) in 2021.
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HBAVision™, powered by XP Health, provides HBA clients' plan participants both essential eyewear and eye care coverage
SAN CARLOS, Calif., Jan. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- XP Health, the company dedicated to democratizing vision care with a digital-first vision benefits platform, today announces a partnership with The Health Benefit Alliance™ (HBA), to deliver an easy-to-use, easy-to-administer, and affordable vision benefit that helps remove barriers to care.
The XP Health digital-first approach will help drive incremental growth and overall satisfaction for HBA, giving it a fully functional vision benefits platform for its clients and their plan participants. HBA is committed to removing the barriers to care by designing affordable health plans for employers and employees who have been inadequately served by traditional benefit providers.
XP Health launched for new HBA clients and clients renewing in January 2023 and will roll out to new and renewing clients throughout the year. XP Health will be offered as HBAVisionSM in all but HBA's lowest-level health plan design.
"HBA clients will get to offer the XP Network we're launching with both our XP Marketplace for glasses/contacts AND in-person eye exams, which gives us a network of providers/optometrists and access to 99,000+ provider-locations," said Antonio Moraes, CEO, and co-founder of XP Health. "Almost every enrolled HBA plan participant gets this by default at no added cost, which makes vision care more accessible and affordable. Our commitment to democratize access to high-quality, delightful vision care experiences for hundreds of millions of people will be accelerated with this partnership."
HBA's growing clientele receives access to HBAVisionSM, powered by XP Health through their HBA portal, including both eyewear and in-person eye exam coverage, and access to exclusive savings on designer brands. In addition, HBA client plan participants can save time by uploading prescriptions, trying on glasses virtually, and ordering contacts or glasses in minutes with no copays, no claims, and no hassles.
"We admire XP Health's drive to disrupt a healthcare delivery system that has failed or underserved a large portion of the working population," said Matt Esposito, president of HBA. "By partnering with XP Health, we can change the rules of the game by extending value to every plan participant regardless of need for Rx glasses. We especially like the technology-driven convenience features that make the XP Health offer different and will appeal to our clients and their plan participants."
XP Health democratizes access to high-quality, delightful experiences in vision care that double coverage and reduce costs. It is a digital-first vision platform focused on eye exams and eyewear that uses customer-centric design and technology to create a better member experience and improve access. XP Health was founded to combat the often confusing, expensive, and frustrating experiences common with vision care and vision insurance. XP Health was named to Fast Company's 2021 list of "The World's Most Innovative Companies" and over the past year has expanded from 30 to 1500+ customers, including DocuSign, Navistar, Chegg, Sequoia Consulting, and strategic partner Guardian Life Insurance. To learn more visit xphealth.co.
The Health Benefit Alliance™ was founded in 2018 to address a market in dire need of affordable health benefit choices for all employees. By leveraging innovation and aggressive sourcing through best-in-class partners, HBA consults on valuable plan features to provide a unique and comprehensive menu of affordable, ERISA and ACA compliant health benefit plan designs that mitigate barriers to care and satisfy a broad range of consumer price points. To learn more visit: healthbenefitalliance.com
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NANJING, China (AP) — Former Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou began a 12-day tour of China with a symbolism-laden visit to the mausoleum where the founding father of both China and Taiwan is entombed.
Ma visited the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum in Nanjing, the capital when Ma's Nationalist Party (Kuomingtang) ruled China in the early part of the 20th century. The party claimed to be the legitimate ruler of China for decades and is seen as more sympathetic to integration or unification with the mainland than the ruling Democratic People’s Party.
There, he paid tribute to Sun Yat-sen, the founder of the Republic of China and the Nationalist Party, giving a short speech and then bowing in front of the memorial.
“The people of both sides of the Taiwan Strait belong to the Chinese nation, are children of Yandi and the Yellow Emperor,” he told a group of Chinese and Taiwanese reporters who had been allowed to follow him on the trip, referring to mythical emperors revered as founders of China’s dominant Han ethnicity.
Ma's tour of China comes as tensions between Taiwan and China rise, aggravated by an antagonistic U.S.-China relationship. Taiwan, where the Kuomingtang retreated after losing the civil war in China, is today a self-governed democracy and the U.S. is its largest unofficial ally. China, however claims the island as its own.
Ma's tour comes a few days after Taiwan lost yet another diplomatic ally to China, which has spent the past seven years pressuring countries to switch diplomatic recognition from Taiwan to China.
He has framed the trip as an effort to lower tensions by promoting exchanges, bringing Taiwanese college students with him on the visit, and has said he hopes that his trip could help lower tensions. Observers expect the visit to be more symbolic than substantive.
“Both sides must pursue peace, otherwise, neither will have a future,” he said.
Ma praised Sun, who advocated for a modern Chinese nation and the overthrow of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. It was Sun who founded the Republic of China in 1912, and ruled over the mainland, very briefly. After the retreat to Taiwan, the Kuomingtang continued to call their nation the Republic of China. Meanwhile, the Communist Party took over the mainland in 1949, and renamed the country the People’s Republic of China.
Outside the mausoleum, a crowd of curious onlookers and tourists gathered in the morning to see if they could catch a glimpse of the former President.
Most of the regular tourists expecting to be able to see the mausoleum and the surrounding park found themselves blocked from entering, though a lucky few who had reserved in advance were allowed to enter the site.
“Even though there are some difficulties on the official front, as long as there are benefits to the public and you can build a good foundation, then this will be good for the unification of both sides,” said Chen Shao'an, who had come to the mausoleum to see Ma.
Ma is also visiting the China Modern History Museum, which is the site of the old Presidential Palace in Nanjing.
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Wu reported from Taipei, Taiwan. Olivia Zhang in Nanjing contributed to this report. | 2023-03-28T08:56:56+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/news/politics/article/former-taiwan-leader-ma-views-sun-yat-sen-tomb-in-17863667.php |
JACKSON, Miss. — A Mississippi community with an elaborate Confederate monument plans to unveil a larger-than-life statue of Emmett Till on Friday, decades after white men kidnapped and killed the Black teenager for whistling at a white woman in a country store.
The 1955 lynching became a catalyst for the civil rights movement after Till's mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, insisted on an open-casket funeral in Chicago so the world could see the horrors inflicted on her 14-year-old son. Jet magazine published photos of his mutilated body, which had been pulled from the Tallahatchie River in Mississippi.
The 9-foot (2.7-meter) bronze statue in Greenwood is a jaunty depiction of the living Till in slacks, a dress shirt and a tie with one hand on the brim of a hat.
The Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr., the last living witness to the kidnapping of his cousin Till from a family home, said he won't be able to travel from Illinois to attend Friday's dedication ceremony. But he told The Associated Press on Wednesday: "We just thank God someone is keeping his name out there."
The Till statue at Greenwood's Rail Spike Park is a short drive from an elaborate Confederate monument outside the Leflore County Courthouse and about 10 miles (16 kilometers) from the crumbling remains of the store, Bryant's Grocery & Meat Market in the hamlet of Money.
The unveiling of the statue coincides with the release this month of Till, a movie focusing on Till-Mobley's private trauma over her son's death and her development into a civil rights activist.
A life-sized bronze statue of Till-Mobley is planned in the Chicago suburb of Summit. An Oct. 28 groundbreaking is set for a plaza outside Argo Community High School, where she was an honor student. The statue is scheduled to be in place by late April.
Some wrongly thought Till got what he deserved for breaking the taboo of flirting with a white woman and many people didn't want to talk about the case for decades, Parker said.
"Now there's interest in it, and that's a godsend," Parker said. "You know what his mother said: 'I hope he didn't die in vain.'"
Greenwood and Leflore County are both more than 70% Black and officials have worked for years to bring the Till statue to reality. Democratic state Sen. David Jordan of Greenwood secured $150,000 in state funding and the community commissioned a Utah artist, Matt Glenn, to create the statue.
Jordan said he hopes it will entice tourists to visit Greenwood and learn more about the history of the area.
"So much has been said about this case," Jordan said this week. "Hopefully, it will bring all of us together."
Till and Parker had traveled from Chicago to spend the summer of 1955 with relatives in the deeply segregated Mississippi Delta. On Aug. 24, the two teens joined other young people in a short trip to the store in Money. Parker said he heard Till whistle at shopkeeper Carolyn Bryant.
Four days later, Till was abducted in the middle of the night from his uncle's home. The kidnappers tortured and shot him, weighted his body down with a cotton gin fan and dumped him into the river.
Jordan, who is Black, was a college student in September 1955 when he drove to the Tallahatchie County Courthouse in Sumner to watch the murder trial of two white men charged with killing Till — Carolyn's husband Roy Bryant and his half brother, J.W. Milam.
An all-white, all-male jury acquitted the two men, who later confessed to Look magazine that they had killed Till.
Nobody has ever been convicted in the lynching. The U.S. Justice Department has opened multiple investigations starting in 2004 after receiving inquiries about whether charges could be brought against anyone still living.
In 2007, a Mississippi prosecutor presented evidence to a grand jury of Black and white Leflore County residents after investigators spent three years re-examining the killing. The FBI exhumed Till's body to prove he, and not someone else, was buried at his gravesite in the Chicago suburb of Alsip. The grand jury declined to issue indictments.
The Justice Department reopened an investigation in 2018 after a 2017 book quoted Carolyn Bryant — now remarried and named Carolyn Bryant Donham — saying she lied when she claimed Till grabbed her, whistled and made sexual advances. Relatives have publicly denied Donham, who is in her 80s, recanted her allegations. The department closed that investigation in late 2021 without bringing charges.
This year, a group searching the Leflore County Courthouse basement found an unserved 1955 arrest warrant for "Mrs. Roy Bryant." In August, another Mississippi grand jury found insufficient evidence to indict Donham, causing consternation for Till relatives and activists.
Although Mississippi has dozens of Confederate monuments, some have been moved in recent years, including one that was relocated in 2020 from a prominent spot on the University of Mississippi campus to a cemetery where Confederate soldiers are buried.
The state has a few monuments to Black historical figures, including one honoring civil rights activist Fannie LouHamer.
A historical marker outside Bryant's Grocery has been knocked down and vandalized. Another marker near the site where Till's body was pulled from the Tallahatchie River has been vandalized and shot. The Till statue in Greenwood will be watched by security cameras.
"Anytime they take it down," Jordan said, "we'll just place it back up."
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MALDEN, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts charter school where an 8th grade student was written up for a uniform infraction for wearing a hijab says it understands its “handling of the situation came across as insensitive.”
A family member of the Mystic Valley Regional Charter School student posted on social media a picture of the “School Uniform Compliance Form” the student received from a teacher for the hijab on Thursday. In the description of the infraction, the headscarf worn by Muslim women was misspelled as “jihab.”
The school said in an emailed statement that it allows students to wear religious attire “as an expression of their sincerely held beliefs," but asks students to provide a letter “expressing this desire from a member of their clergy.”
School Superintendent Alex Dan said there were no consequences given to the student and that the form sent home was meant to start the conversation with the family about obtaining a religious accommodation. But Dan acknowledged that the situation was mishandled.
"While we would like to reiterate that the well-respected staff member overseeing the process should bear no responsibility for what has transpired, we understand how our handling of the situation came across as insensitive and look forward to using this moment as a learning opportunity to improve our policies and procedures," the school's statement said.
The Massachusetts chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations says its lawyers are representing the student’s family and are investigating the situation. The student is now wearing a hijab at school, the group said.
CAIR-Massachusetts Executive Director Tahirah Amatul-Wadud said wearing a hijab or other religious attire shouldn't require families to seek an accommodation.
“I would like never for that student have to justify what she is wearing,” she said Sunday. "I don't want them to ever have to justify that this requires an accommodation."
The Mystic Valley Regional Charter School also came under fire in 2017 for a policy of banning hair braid extensions. The parents of then-15-year-olds said their twin daughters, who are Black, were punished for wearing extensions while white students hadn’t been punished for violations of hairstyle regulations.
After intense criticism, including from Democratic Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey, the school abandoned the policy.
In July, Republican Gov. Charlie Baker signed a law prompted by that incident to ban discrimination based on natural and protective hairstyles — such as Afros, cornrows or tightly coiled twists — in workplaces, school districts and school-related organizations in the state.
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This story has been corrected to reflect that the group’s name is the Council on American-Islamic Relations, not Islamic-American Relations. | 2022-08-21T18:57:04+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Massachusetts-student-receives-uniform-violation-17388019.php |
Providing design services as part of $1.5 billion water and wastewater capital program
Key projects to support future resilience of essential water and wastewater infrastructure
DALLAS, Aug. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jacobs (NYSE:J) has been selected as a design consultant for Northern Ireland Water's (NI Water) Major Project Partnership Framework, which will deliver large-scale water and wastewater projects across Northern Ireland.
The framework will deliver individual capital projects, including upgrades to major water and wastewater treatment plants, pumping stations and network mains. One of the first major projects to be delivered under the framework will be vital upgrades at Belfast Wastewater Treatment Works, expected to commence this year, to provide much needed additional and secure capacity. The framework will run for an initial four-year period, with the option to extend for an additional four years.
"Jacobs has supported clients in the U.K. with major water and wastewater solutions for decades and these NI Water projects will make a real difference to people's daily lives," said Jacobs People & Places Solutions Senior Vice President Europe Donald Morrison. "Together with our framework partners, we'll design resilient, sustainable infrastructure to provide essential water and sanitation services to communities and businesses in Northern Ireland."
NI Water provides water and sewerage services to approximately 840,000 households and businesses in Northern Ireland.
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WARSAW, Poland >> A respected Polish scientific institute has classified domestic cats as an “invasive alien species,” citing the damage they cause to birds and other wildlife.
Some cat lovers have reacted emotionally to this month’s decision and put the key scientist behind it on the defensive.
Wojciech Solarz, a biologist at the state-run Polish Academy of Sciences, wasn’t prepared for the disapproving public response when he entered “Felis catus,” the scientific name for the common house cat, into a national database run by the academy’s Institute of Nature Conservation.
The database already had 1,786 other species listed with no objections, Solarz told The Associated Press on Tuesday. The uproar over invasive alien species No. 1,787, he said, may have resulted from some media reports that created the false impression his institute was calling for feral and other cats to be euthanized.
Solarz described the growing scientific consensus that domestic cats have a harmful impact on biodiversity given the number of birds and mammals they hunt and kill.
The criteria for including the cat among alien invasive species, “are 100% met by the cat,” he said.
In a television segment aired by independent broadcaster TVN, the biologist faced off last week against a veterinarian who challenged Solarz’s conclusion on the dangers cats pose to wildlife.
Dorota Suminska, the author of a book titled “The Happy Cat,” pointed to other causes of shrinking biodiversity, including a polluted environment and urban building facades that can kill birds in flight.
“Ask if man is on the list of non-invasive alien species,” Suminska said, arguing that cats were unfairly assigned too much blame.
Solarz pushed back, arguing that cats kill about 140 million birds in Poland each year.
Earlier this month, the Polish Academy institute published a post on its website citing the “controversy” and seeking to clarify its position. The institute stressed that it was “opposed to any cruelty towards animals.” It also argued that its classification was in line with European Union guidelines.
As far as categorizing cats as “alien,” the institute noted that “Felis catus” was domesticated probably around 10,000 years ago in the cradle of the great civilizations of the ancient Middle East, making the species alien to Europe from a strictly scientific point of view.
The institute also stressed that all it was recommending was for cat owners to limit the time their pets spend outdoors during bird breeding season.
“I have a dog, but I don’t have anything against cats,” Solarz said. | 2022-07-27T03:32:33+00:00 | staradvertiser.com | https://www.staradvertiser.com/2022/07/26/breaking-news/polish-institute-classifies-cats-as-alien-invasive-species/ |
After seven years as host of "The Daily Show," host Trevor Noah announced Thursday that he's leaving the show.
Noah made the announcement in a video statement that he shared on Twitter, saying that his time as host of the Comedy Central satirical news program was up.
The Associated Press reported that neither Noah nor Comedy Central have announced when his last show will be.
In a statement, the network said they were “grateful to Trevor for our amazing partnership” and were excited "for the next chapter” of the show, the news outlet
reported.
Noah, a standup comic from South Africa, was relatively unknown when he was named to replace Jon Stewart as host in 2015.
"It's been absolutely amazing," Noah said. "It's not anything I ever expected."
Noah isn't the first host of a late-night comedy show to announce that they were stepping away recently.
The Associated Press reported that Conan O'Brien ended his show last year, and this year, Samantha Bee pulled the plug on hers. | 2022-09-30T23:23:26+00:00 | ksby.com | https://www.ksby.com/entertainment/trevor-noah-announces-hes-exiting-the-daily-show-after-7-years |
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate rushed Wednesday into an almost-certain-to-fail vote toward enshrining Roe v. Wade abortion access as federal law, a blunt display of the nation’s partisan divide over the landmark court decision and the limits of legislative action.
The roll call promised to be the first of several efforts in Congress to preserve the nearly 50-year-old court ruling, which declares a constitutional right to abortion services but is at serious risk of being overturned by a conservative Supreme Court.
President Joe Biden called on the Congress controlled by Democrats to pass legislation to protect abortion services for millions of Americans. But his party’s slim majority appears unable to overcome a filibuster from Republicans, who have been working for decades to install conservative Supreme Court justices and end Roe v. Wade.
“The position of the Biden administration has been clear since day one. We will defend women’s constitutional rights recognized in Roe v. Wade,” White House deputy press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said ahead of the vote.
Congress has battled for years over abortion policy but the Wednesday vote to take up a House-passed bill was given new urgency after the disclosure of a draft Supreme Court opinion by the conservative majority to overturn the Roe decision that many had believed to be settled law.
The outcome of the court’s actual ruling, expected this summer, is sure to reverberate around the country and on the campaign trail ahead of the fall midterm elections that will determine which party controls Congress.
One by one, Democratic senators have stood on the Senate floor delivering speeches contending that undoing abortion access would mean great harm, not only for women but for all Americans planning families and futures.
Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., said that most American women have only known a world where abortion access was guaranteed but could face a future with fewer rights than their mothers or grandmothers.
“That means women will not have the same control over their lives and bodies as men do, and that’s wrong,” she said in the run-up to Wednesday’s vote.
Few Republican senators have spoken out in favor of ending abortion access, even though almost all are certain to join a filibuster to block the bill from advancing. Sixty votes would be needed to move ahead in the 50-50 split chamber.
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, an architect of the effort to install conservative justices on the Supreme Court — including three during the Trump era — has sought to downplay the outcome of any potential changes in federal abortion policy.
“This issue will be dealt with at the state level,” McConnell said.
Some other Republicans, including Sen. John Thune of South Dakota, argue that the House-passed bill is more extreme than Roe, and would expand abortion access beyond other leading countries around the world.
About half the states already have approved laws that would further restrict or ban abortions, including some trigger laws that would take effect once the court rules.
Polls showing most Americans want to preserve access to abortion in the earlier stages of pregnancy, but views are more nuanced and mixed when it comes to later-term abortions.
The draft court ruling on a case from Mississippi suggested the majority of conservative justices are prepared to end the federal right to abortion, leaving it to the states to decide.
Whatever the Supreme Court says this summer will almost guarantee a new phase of political fighting in Congress over abortion policy, filibuster rules and the most basic rights to health care, privacy and protecting the unborn.
In recent years, abortion debates have come to a political draw in Congress. Bills would come up for votes — to expand or limit services — only to fail along party lines or be stripped out of broader legislative packages.
Security was tight at the Capitol where Vice President Kamala Harris was expected to preside, and has been bolstered across the street at the Supreme Court after protesters turned out in force last week following the leaked draft.
In the House, where Democrats have the majority, lawmakers approved the abortion-rights Women’s Health Protection Act last year on a largely party-line vote once the Supreme Court first signaled it was considering the issue by allowing a Texas law’s ban to take effect.
But the bill has languished in the Senate, evenly split with bare Democratic control because of Harris’ ability to cast a tie-braking vote.
It takes 60 votes to overcome a filibuster and Wednesday’s outcome was expected to fall short, renewing calls to change the Senate rules to do away with the high-bar threshold, at least in this case.
One conservative Democrat, Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, told reporters he supports keeping Roe v. Wade, but would be voting no on this bill as too broad — joining Republicans to block its consideration.
The two Republican senators who support abortion access — Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, who faces her own reelection in November, and Susan Collins of Maine — are also no votes, having proposed their own more tailored approach to counter the Supreme Court’s potential action.
Both of the Republican senators, who voted to confirm most of former President Donald Trump’s justices, are in talks over alternatives. But Democrats have largely panned the Collins-Murkowski effort as insufficient’
“I plan to continue working with my colleagues on legislation to maintain – not expand or restrict – the current legal framework for abortion rights in this country,” Collins said in a statement.
Pressure is building on those two Republican women senators to join most Democrats in changing the filibuster rules, but that appears unlikely.
Five years ago, it was McConnell who changed Senate rules to do away with the filibuster to confirm Trump’s justices after he blocked Barack Obama’s choice of Merrick Garland to fill a Supreme Court vacancy at the start of the 2016 presidential campaign, leaving the seat open for Trump to fill after he won the White House.
Both parties face enormous pressure to convince voters they are doing all they can — the Democrats working to preserve abortion access, the Republicans to limit or end it — with the fall elections coming up.
The congressional campaign committees are fundraising off the abortion issue, and working furiously to energize voters who are already primed to engage.
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Associated Press writers Mary Clare Jalonick, Kevin Freking, Darlene Superville and Farnoush Amiri in Washington and David Sharp in Maine contributed to this report. | 2022-05-11T18:39:44+00:00 | pix11.com | https://pix11.com/ap-political/senate-vote-to-support-roe-v-wade-expected-to-fall-short/ |
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Shortly before the European Union envoy met Iran’s nuclear negotiator in Tehran on Wednesday in a last-ditch attempt to salvage Iran’s nuclear deal with world powers, Iran’s Intelligence Ministry announced it had detained two Europeans.
Photos surfaced of the EU coordinator of the nuclear talks, Enrique Mora, looking stern as he shook hands awkwardly with Iranian negotiator Ali Bagheri Kani, who beamed and waved.
The Intelligence Ministry gave scant details about the detained Europeans, saying only that they shared the same unidentified nationality and sought to “take advantage” of the protests springing up in several Iranian provinces as laborers and teachers press for better wages. The Europeans were held on vague charges of planning to cause “chaos, social disorder, and instability,” authorities said.
The provocation came as Tehran vows to execute an imprisoned Swedish researcher later this month — a case that coincides with a landmark war crimes trial of an Iranian official in Sweden.
And, in yet another escalation, Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard reportedly shelled Kurdish targets in northern Iraq. A local official confirmed the strike, saying it caused no casualties.
The events could have obviated negotiations with the visiting EU coordinator. Nonetheless, the schedule proceeded. There were no immediate details from Kani’s meeting with Mora, who has sought to break the deadlock that has prevailed since talks to revive the nuclear deal paused in late March.
Four years ago, former President Donald Trump pulled the U.S. out of the deal, which granted Tehran sanctions relief in exchange for strict curbs on its nuclear program. Talks in Vienna to revive the accord have apparently stalled over an Iranian demand that Washington lift a terrorist designation on the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard.
Despite the deadlock, officials say the urgency to close the deal has grown. Iran’s nuclear program has rapidly advanced, with its stockpile of enriched uranium at some 3,200 kilograms (7,055 pounds) earlier this year compared to 300 kilograms (661 pounds) under the nuclear deal.
Some of that uranium has been enriched up to 60% purity — a short technical step from weapons-grade levels. Iran has stopped the International Atomic Energy Agency from accessing its surveillance camera footage, worrying nuclear nonproliferation experts.
Meanwhile, Russia’s war on Ukraine has increased European interest in sanctioned Iranian crude. Punitive sanctions on Moscow are driving the continent to seek alternatives to Russian oil to curb rising energy prices. Iran says it’s selling its crude despite sanctions and benefiting from the windfall.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian offered his support for ongoing negotiations.
“Talks for the lifting of sanctions will be pursued in the right direction with the aim of reaching a good, strong and lasting agreement and observing Iran’s red lines,” he wrote on Twitter. However, Iran’s hard-liners have criticized any concessions on the designation of the Guard.
Despite repeated Iranian claims that a separate but closely linked deal would unfreeze billions of dollars in assets tied up abroad and result in a prisoner swap with America, the State Department has repeatedly said that no such agreement is imminent.
The reported imprisonment of the two Europeans on Wednesday has revived long-standing accusations from rights groups that Iran uses foreigners and dual nationals as diplomatic pawns to gain leverage in its negotiations with the West. Tehran denies this.
As Swedish prosecutors reported they would seek life imprisonment for Hamid Nouri over Iranian war crimes allegedly committed during the final phase of the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s, Iran announced plans to execute Ahmad Reza Jalali, the imprisoned Swedish researcher, and separate reports emerged that authorities arrested a Swedish tourist in the country.
It was not immediately clear whether the Swedish tourist was one of the two Europeans detained Wednesday.
Iran’s Intelligence Ministry alleged the two Europeans were “expert” foreign agents hired by the unnamed European country, adding that Iranian authorities had pursued them from the “moment of their arrival” and tracked their attempts to mobilize teachers’ protests and assist illegal unions.
Meanwhile, Iran’s Guard said it struck a “terrorist base” near Irbil in Iraqi Kurdistan, according to the semiofficial Tasnim news agency. Projectiles struck uninhabited areas in northern Iraq home to Iranian Kurdish opposition parties, Ihsan Chalabi, a local official told the Irbil-based Rudaw news agency. No damage or injuries were reported from the strike, he said.
The Guard in the past has fired missiles at Kurdish opposition groups in the north of Iraq, stoking regional tensions.
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Associated Press writers Isabel DeBre in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Jon Gambrell in Lviv, Ukraine, and Samya Kullab in Baghdad contributed to this report. | 2022-05-11T18:38:08+00:00 | pix11.com | https://pix11.com/ap-international/iran-detains-2-europeans-as-eu-nuclear-talks-envoy-visits/ |
- Former MegaChips Corporation CEO joins the EdgeCortix Strategic Advisory Board
TOKYO, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- EdgeCortix®Inc., the innovative fabless semiconductor design company with a software first approach, focused on delivering class-leading compute efficiency and latency for edge artificial intelligence (AI) inference; announced a key new appointment to its EdgeCortix Strategic Advisory Board.
The company announced today the appointment of Akira Takata, former CEO and President of MegaChips Corporation who will serve as the Semiconductor Sector Advisor on the EdgeCortix Strategic Advisory Board (ESAB). The ESAB was created as a platform to enable exceptional business and thought leaders to provide EdgeCortix with guidance on core business and market strategies and product go-to-market initiatives based on their respective and unique areas of expertise.
"I am very pleased to be announcing Akira Takata's appointment to head the Semiconductor Sector Advisory role", said Sakyasingha Dasgupta, CEO and Founder of EdgeCortix, "Takata-san's expertise as a founding member of a Japanese semiconductor start-up, and his three decades of leadership of a publicly traded, fabless semiconductor company, focused on consumer, telecom/network and industrial applications, positions him perfectly to contribute as a leading member of the ESAB. While at MegaChips, Takata-san played instrumental roles in key strategic acquisitions like that of SiTime in 2014 and Kawasaki Microelectronics in 2012, both which have proved over time to be transformative decisions. Takata-san's knowledge and expertise gained from transforming MegaChips Corporation into a dynamic, growth oriented, global semiconductor leader will be especially helpful to EdgeCortix as we look to bring our unique industry leading AI acceleration IP and silicon to partners and customers worldwide."
Mr. Takata currently serves on the Board of Directors of SiTime, the market leader in the MEMS based precision timing market. Previously, he was the President and CEO of MegaChips Corporation, from 2011 to 2019, the second largest fabless semiconductor company based in Japan. During his three-decade tenure at MegaChips, Mr. Takata ascended the ranks of the company, from a member of the MegaChips founding team, through various senior positions, including director of Business Unit, director of production management, officer of alliance strategy office and officer of business strategy office, ultimately to the role of CEO. During his tenure, he facilitated the transformation of the company from a largely Japan focused business into a leading, global fabless semiconductor company. From 2014 to 2019, Mr. Takata also served on the Board of Directors of Global Semiconductor Alliance, a leading Semiconductor industry organization.
"I am very pleased to be joining the EdgeCortix Strategic Advisory Board at this transformative moment in the semiconductor business. Given the tectonic shift in information processing at the edge, companies are now seeking near cloud level performance where data curation and AI driven decision making can happen together. Due to this shift, the market opportunity for the EdgeCortix solutions set is massive driven by the practical business need across multiple sectors which require both low power and cost efficient intelligent solutions.", said Akira Takata " Given the exponential global growth in both data and devices, I am eager to support EdgeCortix in their endeavor to transform the edge AI market with an industry leading IP portfolio that can deliver performance with orders of magnitude better energy-efficiency and a lower total cost of ownership than existing solutions. I am very interested to share my perspective with partners and customers alike on the differentiated business value that the EdgeCortix solutions can deliver for their global end customers."
About EdgeCortix Inc.
EdgeCortix is a fabless semiconductor design company focused on enabling energy-efficient edge intelligence. It was founded in 2019 with the radical idea of taking a software first approach, while designing an artificial intelligence specific runtime reconfigurable processor from the ground up using a technique called "hardware & software co-exploration". Targeting advanced computer vision applications first, using proprietary hardware and software IP on existing processors like FPGAs and custom designed ASIC, the company is geared towards positively disrupting the rapidly growing AI hardware space across defense, aerospace, smart cities, industry 4.0, autonomous vehicles and robotics.
For more details or to schedule a demonstration, contact: info@edgecortix.com
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Fayetteville Observer Voter Guide 2022: Meet the candidates for North Carolina Senate 21
Democrat Frank McNeill and Republican Sen. Tom McInnis are competing for the North Carolina Senate District 21 seat currently held by Sen. Ben Clark, who is running for Congress. McNeill is the former mayor of Aberdeen, and McInnis currently serves as a senator in District 25
Below are the candidates' responses to a Fayetteville Observer questionnaire. Responses have been edited for style and grammar.
Tom McInnis
Name: Thomas M. McInnis
Age: 68
Immediate family: My wife is Janice McInnis. We have four children, one of which has passed.
Occupation: I am retired from the auction marketing business, but still active in real estate as a private investor and consultant. I am also an active tree farmer.
Elected office held: I am a past member of the Richmond County School Board. I served for approximately 8 years.
Contact: P.O. Box 3776, Pinehurst, NC 28374; McInnis for NC Senate on Facebook; McInnisfornc.com
What restrictions, if any, would you impose on abortion in North Carolina? If the pregnancy is ectopic, or if the fetus has died and its corpse could cause a deadly infection, or the pregnancy otherwise could severely injure or kill the mother, what language would you put into the statutes to ensure that doctors can terminate the pregnancy and save the mother’s life without fear of being prosecuted? I believe that all life is precious, both unborn babies and their mothers. I believe that late-term abortion is immoral and should never happen. I do believe that there should be exceptions for rape, incest, the life of the mother and when the fetus cannot survive outside of the womb.
When a bill to legalize medical marijuana goes before the General Assembly next year, would you support or oppose it, and why? I have voted on this issue in the past and since I do not know what the new bill will look like, I cannot take a position on this matter at this time. Upon the offering of a new bill, I will certainly give the matter serious thought and will give consideration to the wishes of my constituents.
If the Democratic governor and the Republican leaders who want Medicaid expansion are unable to make a deal for it this year, would you support or oppose doing it next year? What should the government do for lower-income workers and others who don’t have health insurance because they can’t afford to buy it on the open market and who are prohibited by federal law from buying it through Obamacare? I understand the importance of healthcare for all the citizens of North Carolina. I voted for Medicaid expansion in the last session and will continue to support the position that I have taken in the past.
Frank McNeill
Name: Frank McNeill
Age: 66
Immediate family: My wife, Susan, and I have three amazing daughters, Morgan, Meredith and Aubrey.
Occupation: President, McNeill Oil and Propane
Elected office held: Aberdeen Town Board 1979-89; Aberdeen mayor, 1989-92; Moore County School Board, 1998-2002.
Contact: frank@mcneillfornc.com; Twitter, @Frank4NC; facebook.com/votefrankmcneill
What restrictions, if any, would you impose on abortion in North Carolina? If the pregnancy is ectopic, or if the fetus has died and its corpse could cause a deadly infection, or the pregnancy otherwise could severely injure or kill the mother, what language would you put into the statutes to ensure that doctors can terminate the pregnancy and save the mother’s life without fear of being prosecuted? I will oppose the extremist Republican agenda to enact a total ban on the freedom of women to make their own healthcare choices. My opponent, Tom McInnis, is backed by extremists that want to ban abortion and put women in jail who choose to have an abortion, even victims of rape or incest. I’ll uphold Governor Cooper’s veto of those dangerous bills, and instead push for policies to support young families. By focusing on solving the root of the problem, we can ensure abortions are safe, legal and rare.
When a bill to legalize medical marijuana goes before the General Assembly next year, would you support or oppose it, and why? I am disappointed my opponent, Tom McInnis, voted against a bill this session that would have narrowly legalized medical marijuana for serious health conditions. I listened to the dozens of hours of testimony from cancer patients and veterans who pleaded with lawmakers to give them an alternative to sickening opioids and treatments. No veteran should find themselves in a crack house just to buy something to alleviate their PTSD. Just as the state regulates the sale of alcohol, we can regulate the responsible distribution of medical marijuana.
If the Democratic governor and the Republican leaders who want Medicaid expansion are unable to make a deal for it this year, would you support or oppose doing it next year? What should the government do for lower-income workers and others who don’t have health insurance because they can’t afford to buy it on the open market and who are prohibited by federal law from buying it through Obamacare? I wholeheartedly support Medicaid expansion, and I’m disappointed in Republican legislative leaders for kicking the can down the road another year. With the transformation to managed care happening this year, nonpartisan state health officials have pleaded with lawmakers to expand Medicaid to take advantage of over a billion dollars in federal funds. My opponent, Tom McInnis, is a member of Senate leadership, and he owns this disaster. It is obvious to me that the only way we will ever expand Medicaid, provide affordable healthcare to thousands of workers, and support rural hospitals, is to elect a Democratic majority in the legislature. | 2022-10-18T13:02:40+00:00 | fayobserver.com | https://www.fayobserver.com/story/news/politics/elections/2022/10/18/voter-guide-meet-nc-senate-21-candidates-tom-mcinnis-frank-mcneill/69496342007/ |
WORCESTER, Mass. (WWLP) – Geoff Diehl and Leah Allen are set to kick off their cross-state campaign Saturday.
The “Take Freedom Back Tour” across Massachusetts kicks off in Worcester on Saturday, then at 10:45 a.m., it will make a stop at the Daggett Drive West Springfield shopping Area. If you miss them there, you can catch them at the Hampshire county superior court at 12:00 p.m.
The tour continues throughout parts of central and eastern Massachusetts on Sunday and finishes on Tuesday at Boston’s Faneuil hall at a rally hosted by Jeff Kuhner.
Diehl and Allen invited all other Republican statewide candidates to join the tour. Diehl quoted, “We are here to unite people in the name of freedom.” | 2022-10-22T11:08:32+00:00 | wwlp.com | https://www.wwlp.com/news/massachusetts/the-take-freedom-back-tour-begins-in-worcester/ |
U.S. national parks and monuments don't just mark natural beauty or wilderness areas. They also commemorate sites of significant cultural and societal value — including the sometimes secret heritage and contributions of LGBTQ+ Americans to our national history.
Albert Cashier and the Battle of Vicksburg
Albert Cashier was born Jennie Hodgers and assigned female at birth.
He enlisted in August 1862 with the 95th Illinois Infantry as a private under the name "Albert D.J. Cashier."
In May 1863 Cashier fought at the Siege of Vicksburg, which is now commemorated at Vicksburg National Military Park in Mississippi. He was captured while on a reconnaissance mission, and escaped by stealing a gun from a Confederate soldier.
Cashier's secret was revealed after the war, and the U.S. government charged him with fraud. Fellow soldiers from the 95th Illinois defended him, and Cashier ultimately kept his status as a veteran. He was buried with full military honors after he died in October 1915.
Henry Gerber on Governors Island
Henry Gerber enlisted multiple times in the U.S. Army.
Following his service in the Allied Army of Occupation in Coblenz, Germany, from 1920 to 1923, Gerber helped found the Society for Human Rights in 1924. It was the first U.S. organization that sought to protect the rights of gay and lesbian people.
But Gerber's newsletters violated the Comstock Act of 1873, which forbade the sending of "obscene, lewd, and/or lascivious" material, and the Chicago police arrested him.
Gerber later moved to New York and reenlisted. While he served at Governors Island, he was harassed and beaten for his activism. Army investigators searched his quarters and Gerber was detained for weeks in the island's guardhouse.
Gerber was honorably discharged in 1942.
Part of Governors Island is now a national monument, established in January 2001 by President Clinton. Since 2005, the monument has been open to the public, accessible by ferry.
LGBTQ+ and the arts on Fire Island
Fire Island National Seashore, in New York, preserves not just coastal ecosystems, but also a unique history of the early LGBTQ+ arts scene in what is known as "America's First Gay and Lesbian Town."
Frank Carrington bought a house near the Fire Island town of Cherry Grove in 1927. As a theater director and a patron of the arts, he frequently invited guests to the house, including prominent members of the LGBTQ+ community like Truman Capote and his partner Jack Dunphy.
Cherry Grove Community House and Theater, in Cherry Grove proper, later became a focal point of the LGBTQ+ community and arts scene, and helped shape Cherry Grove into one of the first LGBTQ+ enclaves in the U.S.
Both buildings are listed on the National Register of Historic Places, recognizing their contributions to LGBTQ+ history.
Stonewall National Monument
On June 24, 2016, President Obama officially designated Stonewall National Monument in New York City. The 7.7-acre monument includes Christopher Park, Stonewall Inn itself, and the surrounding streets and sidewalks where the Stonewall Riots took place in June of 1969.
The monument marked the first time the National Parks Service had a division dedicated to the history of LGBTQ+ Americans.
Trending stories at Scrippsnews.com | 2023-06-07T00:12:39+00:00 | denver7.com | https://www.denver7.com/exploring-lgbtq-history-at-us-national-parks-and-monuments |
PHOENIX — ABC15 has been covering the pothole problems, on Arizona roadways, for months. On Tuesday, ADOT officials finally went on camera for the first time to answer our questions.
The department held an executive meeting Tuesday to discuss how to move forward with pavement repairs on highways that were damaged by winter weather. They also made themselves available for an interview to ABC15. This comes months after our Operation Safe Roads team started putting pressure on them and after reaching out to the governor's office.
It's become a reoccurring theme - potholes plaguing multiple roadways in our state.
"I had to swerve off the road and thank god we're alive," Anna Margaret told ABC15 about her drive on I-40 near Seligman.
While there have been many issues on I-40, it is not the only roadway in the state that has been falling apart. Another road we've received many complaints about is US 60.
"Bad and then started getting worse," said Wickenburg resident Sam Aro to ABC15 last week.
ADOT told ABC15 Tuesday they will be focusing on these 300 miles of roadway:
- I-40 W of Flagstaff
- I-17 S of Flagstaff
- US 60 S of Wickenburg
- SR 260 - Mogollon Rim area
"Some of those spots... today would be considered poor," said ADOT State Engineer Gregory Byres.
He said the pothole problem happens every year. So then, what makes this year different?
"Record snowfall, record rainfall. So, consequently, it plays havoc with our pavements," Byres explained.
ADOT said their crews are working as quickly as possible to make temporary patching fixes.
"We've used well over 400 tons just in the month of March of patch material," Byres said. "We've used over 900 tons of material over the last three or four months."
However, that is not a permanent solution. We asked ADOT what the plan is for a real solution.
"Basically, milling off the existing surface down for about two inches and coming back with new pavement," says Byres.
But those repairs are likely to only last about five years or so. Nonetheless, that's what ADOT is moving forward with for now.
RELATED: US 60 pavement project causing more problems for drivers
They are reprioritizing funds to make that possible and have a meeting with the Arizona State Transportation Board to discuss the plan this month.
ABC15 asked if that is the best option for roads described by drivers as dangerous in the meantime.
"So, we're asking them [drivers] to take that risk until we can get some more of that work done?" ABC15 asked Byres.
After some silence - we asked again, "How is that not a risk? How is that not a risk?"
"It's a risk to get on the road," Byres said. "Anytime you get in a 3,000-pound vehicle and go 70 miles an hour down the roadway, it's a risk."
"It doesn't help when roads are not maintained well enough for drivers to make their way through some of these areas. That's the bottom line," we responded. ADOT had no further response.
ABC15 will continue to check in with ADOT about the patching plan, as well as the plan for a longer-term solution.
Drivers can submit claims for damage to vehicles against the state.
ABC15 reached out to the Arizona Department of Administration which said drivers will need to fill out a Notice of Claim. Drivers can also look here for more information on filing a claim.
Have a road issue or a question for Operation Safe Roads? Call 833-AZ-ROADS or email roads@abc15.com. | 2023-04-12T14:19:57+00:00 | abc15.com | https://www.abc15.com/news/operation-safe-roads/adot-officials-speak-out-as-potholes-riddle-state-roadways |
PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan and Yasir Al-Rumayyan, the governor of Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, sat beside each other during a CNBC interview wearing comfortable smiles of longtime friends.
That was one of many surprises.
They announced a blockbuster commercial partnership that seemed so unfathomable only a few months ago because they were adversaries in the bitter antitrust lawsuit initiated by Saudi-funded LIV Golf — and because two months ago, they had never even met.
What brought them together in a roundabout way was Monahan appointing Jimmy Dunne — a power broker in golf and on Wall Street with a personal connection to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks — to the PGA Tour board of directors last fall.
It was Dunne and Ed Herlihy, chairman of the PGA Tour policy board, whom Monahan leaned on to set his first meeting with Al-Rumayyan a short time after the Masters.
They were the only PGA Tour principals involved in the deal that joins the commercial business of the PGA Tour, European tour and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund in a for-profit entity that for now goes by “Newco” — new company.
Part of the deal is ending all litigation.
“I came to the table not being comfortable with criticism why we didn’t meet with them,” Dunne said. “If you look at what happened (with LIV), we never would have done anything they did. We never would have hired Greg Norman. We never would have him flying to an event in a a parachute. We never would have done so many of these things.
“What does that tell me? That I have no idea what they’re thinking,” Dunne said. “And when you have no idea what an adversary is thinking, I want to ask them, not their lawyers. I want to ask them directly.”
Herlihy, a New York attorney, is the chairman of the PGA Tour board, and for nearly 40 years a partner at Wachtell, Lipton, Rose & Katz. His focus is mergers and acquisitions of banks and financial institutions.
“The first conversation that I was not a part of was what was the most important conversation because of the position I’ve been in and what we’ve been trying to do with our tour,” Monahan said. “I wanted to rely heavily on those two fine gentlemen to have that first conversation.
“But when they came back and said it was a positive conversation and that I should have a follow-up meeting, I think that’s when things started to develop.”
That Dunne would be arranging the meeting is telling.
Only a year ago, when LIV Golf held its first 54-hole event outside London, Monahan was interviewed on CBS during the Canadian Open. He was asked about the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and the links to Saudi Arabia.
“I would ask any player who left (for LIV), or any player that would ever consider leaving, have you ever had to apologize for being a member of the PGA Tour?” Monahan said.
For Dunne, it’s deeply personal.
Dunne is a good golfer, a member at Augusta National and Shinnecock Hills, the president of Seminole Golf Club. During a phone interview Wednesday, Jon Rahm and Lee Trevino were among those trying to reach him. Justin Thomas and Rickie Fowler have stayed at his house.
He began working at Bear Stearns before co-founding the investment banking firm of Sandler O’Neill & Partners (now Piper Sandler). The firm formerly was located on the 104th floor in the south tower of the World Trade Center.
Dunne was trying to qualify for the U.S. Mid-Amateur on Sept. 11, 2001. He lost 66 employees that day. He doesn’t forget, nor does he choose to talk about it now. As he said to Sports Illustrated last year, “I would not be the fairest judge of Saudi involvement” in LIV because of the friends and colleagues who perished.
Dunne is all about finding solutions, and the PGA Tour was in need of answers.
Monahan said reshaping this year’s schedule with 13 “designated events” averaging $20 million in prize money forced the tour to dip into its reserves, and there were questions how long this could be sustained.
“Between our reserves, the legal fees, our underpin and our commitment to the DP World Tour and their legal fees, it’s been significant,” Monahan said.
Rory McIlroy, one of five player-directors for the PGA Tour board, wasn’t aware of the deal until Dunne called him about 6:30 a.m. Tuesday — some four hours before it was to be announced — and walked him through the details.
“From what I gather, the tour felt they were in a real position of strength coming off of the back of the DP World Tour winning their legal case in London. It sort of weakened the other side’s position,” McIlroy said.
“And they went in there, and the way Jimmy described it: ‘Rory, sometimes you got 280 over water, you just got to go for it.’ And that’s what they did.”
Dunne said he has been in Monahan’s ear about the tour at least talking to the Saudis — not Monahan at first, but Dunne or Herlihy, or perhaps someone from European tour (DP World Tour is the commercial name).
“After the Masters we decided — we had won a bunch of cases — let’s find out what they’re all about,” Dunne said.
In dealing with a group that’s strategy was to outspend, the objective was to unite golf under one umbrella with Monahan in charge and end the litigation that was costing millions.
PIF’s business includes LIV Golf, which is now under the umbrella of the new company — Monahan is the CEO, al-Rumayyan is the chairman, Dunne and Herlihy join them on the executive committee.
That’s what led McIlroy to say on Wednesday, “Technically anyone that is involved with LIV now would answer to Jay. So the PGA Tour have control of everything.”
It’s a lot to digest. Monahan has to work through credibility issues after spending a year fighting a rival that now is his partner, and then dropping the news without warning.
“Circumstances change, and they’ve been changing a lot over the last couple years,” Monahan said. And then it hit warp speed, starting with Dunne and Herlihy.
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AP golf: https://apnews.com/hub/golf and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2023-06-08T19:15:54+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/sports/power-broker-jimmy-dunne-with-9-11-history-helped-get-pga-and-saudis-to-the-table/ |
‘Wordle’ is Google’s top search of 2022
Published: Dec. 7, 2022 at 8:59 AM EST|Updated: moments ago
(CNN) - Google has published its Year-In-Search list for 2022 which is a look back at the top trending searches of the year.
The number one trending search globally was “Wordle,” the wildly popular web-based word-guessing game owned by the New York Times.
Other top searches included “Johnny Depp” in the people category and the actors’ category, “Novak Djokovic” in the athletes’ category and “Ukraine” in the news category.
“Ukraine” was also the third highest trending search overall, just behind “India versus England” in the number two spot and “Wordle” at number one.
Copyright 2022 CNN Newsource. All rights reserved. | 2022-12-07T14:04:57+00:00 | live5news.com | https://www.live5news.com/2022/12/07/wordle-is-googles-top-search-2022/ |
PARADISE ISLAND, Bahamas (AP)Connor Essegian scored a career-high 13 points while Wisconsin beat Dayton 43-42 in Wednesday’s first round of the Battle 4 Atlantis despite shooting just 23.7%.
The Badgers (4-0) survived a slow-paced game that came down to the final seconds. The Flyers (3-2) had a final possession for the win with Kobe Elvis looking to drive, but Max Klesmit blocked Elvis’ runner out of bounds with 2 seconds left and 1 on the shot clock.
The Flyers inbounded the ball to Elvis for a catch-and-pull shot from the right wing, but he couldn’t get it off in time for the shot-clock violation.
The Badgers ended it with Tyler Wahl’s long heave to Klesmit at midcourt for a catch that killed the clock.
Wisconsin made just 14 of 59 shots for the game, including 6 of 29 (20.7%) after halftime. The Badgers also won despite shooting 6 of 27 from 3-point range.
Elvis scored 16 points to lead the Flyers, the Atlantic 10 favorite who was ranked No. 21 in the AP Top 25 before falling out this week. Dayton had its own offensive struggles, going 6 of 29 in the first half before warming up a bit to nearly 42% after halftime behind 14 points from Elvis.
But Dayton made just 4 of 27 3-pointers (14.8%) for the game.
Wisconsin led 23-14 at halftime.
The Badgers advanced to Thursday’s semifinals to play third-ranked and reigning national champion Kansas, which beat North Carolina State in Wednesday’s tournament opener. The Flyers will face the Wolfpack in Thursday’s consolation bracket.
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AP college basketball: https://apnews.com/hub/college-basketball and https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-basketball-poll and https://twitter.com/AP-Top25 | 2022-11-24T20:23:58+00:00 | kxnet.com | https://www.kxnet.com/scoreboard/wisconsin-outlasts-dayton-43-42-in-battle-4-atlantis/ |
Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Monday:
World Wrestling Entertainment Inc., up $5.59 to $71.81.
World Wrestling Entertainment jumped 9.5% after CEO Vince McMahon retired Friday amid an investigation into alleged misconduct.
Weber Inc., down 95 cents to $6.56.
The outdoor grill maker announced the departure of CEO Chris Scherzinger, pulled its 2022 forecast and suspended its dividend.
Emergent BioSolutions Inc., up $1.96 to $33.21.
The developer of vaccines and therapeutics got a boost after the World Health Organization declared the expanding monkeypox outbreak in more than 70 countries a global health emergency.
Koninklijke Philips NV, down $1.59 to $20.55.
The health care technology company lowered its full-year outlook after reporting weak second-quarter results.
Dorman Products Inc., down $11.53 to $105.23.
The automotive parts supplier's second-quarter earnings missed Wall Street's forecasts and it cut its earnings guidance for the year.
Newmont Corp., down $6.80 to $44.59.
The gold miner's second-quarter earnings fell sharply from a year earlier amid higher costs and weaker gold prices.
MasTec Inc., down $4.16 to $68.36.
The infrastructure construction company is buying Infrastructure and Energy Alternatives Inc. in a cash-and-stock deal valued at $1.1 billion.
APA Corp., up $2.02 to $34.43.
Shares in oil and gas producers climbed broadly as the price of U.S. crude, wholesale gasoline and natural gas rose. | 2022-07-25T21:21:40+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Weber-Newmont-fall-WWE-Emergent-rise-17327920.php |
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — A significant severe weather event is possible across Northwest Arkansas and the River Valley, starting Tuesday during the late afternoon and continuing into the early morning hours Wednesday. All modes of severe weather will be possible, including the risk for strong to violent long-track tornadoes.
Current Severe Weather Risk
The most likely area for significant severe weather potential is located in the Moderate Risk (Level 4 of 5), which is currently positioned just to the east of Fayetteville and Fort Smith, along the I-40 corridor. Strong to violent tornadoes are most likely in these areas, where confidence continues to increase in the severe weather potential being realized. From there, a very thin Enhanced Risk (Level 3 of 5) covers the Fayetteville area, as well as the I-49 corridor north of the Bobby Hopper Tunnel. Significant tornado potential also resides in these areas, though some uncertainty still remains. The rest of NE Oklahoma, far NW Arkansas and SW Missouri are under a Slight Risk (Level 2 of 5) of severe weather, which includes far western portions of Benton and Washington counties. The potential for significant severe weather also exists in these areas, but overall confidence is low at this time. There is still the chance that these risks are upgraded as more data becomes available, so stay tuned to the latest information.
Severe Weather Hazards
All modes of severe weather will be possible with this storm system, including large hail up the size of baseballs, damaging wind gusts up to 70 mph and strong to violent tornadoes (EF2-EF5). The tornado potential will exist for an extended period of time with any storms that form in both the evening and overnight hours. Large hail will be more likely during the late afternoon and evening with any initial supercells that develop. Damaging winds will become more likely as we go throughout the overnight hours, with an intense squall line along the cold front.
Timing
One of the uncertainties that surrounds this particular storm system is the timing and evolution of thunderstorms throughout the event. Thunderstorms could begin to fire right around sunset, and any storms that do will have the potential to produce very large hail and strong tornadoes. The confidence in this happening, however, is low. Confidence begins to increase in storm development between 9 P.M. – 2 A.M., where a broken line of supercells could develop to our west, and these storms will have the greatest chance to produce strong to violent tornadoes. This is because the parameters for significant tornadoes will be at it’s highest. After 2 A.M., the cold front will quickly push through the area, transitioning the severe weather threat to favor damaging winds. The storm potential should end by the morning hours Wednesday around 7 A.M. at the latest.
The Role Of The “Cap”
The greatest uncertainty with this system has to do with the “cap”, which acts like a lid on the atmosphere to prevent thunderstorm development. The cap refers to a layer of warm air aloft (typically between 3,000 to 7,000 feet) that can keep storm updrafts from reaching the colder, drier air in the upper levels, which allows bubbling cumulus clouds to erupt with convection. During the daytime hours, the cap will likely hold over Northwest Arkansas and the River Valley, which will keep storms from forming. Once the energy pushes into the area, the cap will rapidly erode, allowing for storms to develop, and thus crank up the severe weather potential. The models are struggling with this particular aspect of the system, which makes this forecast very complicated. Regardless, remain weather aware as we go throughout the next 12-24 hours, and follow the latest information closely.
Prepare For Severe Weather
This is highly complex forecast, with many different factors at play. It is crucial to stay up to date on the newest details over the next several hours, so follow the Weather Authority Team below for up-to-the-minute updates. You can also download the Weather Authority App below by scanning the QR code or searching it up on the Google Play and Apple App Store. Have an emergency plan in place in case of severe weather potential, and remember to D.U.C.K. if a tornado warning is issued for your area! Stay weather aware, and stay safe!!
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To watch the latest video updates from YOUR Weather Authority Team, you can check them out here. | 2023-04-03T21:10:26+00:00 | nwahomepage.com | https://www.nwahomepage.com/weather/weather-blog/weather-blog-significant-severe-weather-possible-tuesday/ |
Which brand makes the best Dutch oven?
The Dutch oven has been around for over 250 years, and its longevity is due to its easy use and versatility. It allows anyone, from seasoned chefs to curious amateurs, to bake, braise, boil, roast and even saute. It is specifically designed for even heat distribution and effective heat retention with a lid that locks in moisture. It’s best used on low to medium heat for slow cooking.
With the best Dutch oven, you can cook every meal of the day — including dessert — for yourself or the whole family. Le Creuset and Staub are among the cookware industry leaders, and both offer quality Dutch ovens. Here’s how they stack up.
Le Creuset Dutch oven
For almost a century, French-based Le Creuset has made handcrafted, high-quality and colorful cookware for the world.
The Dutch oven is Le Creuset’s signature product, available in two shapes (oval and round) and 14 sizes, including 5.25-quart and 9.5-quart. It can be cleaned in a dishwasher, though washing by hand with gentle soap and warm water is recommended. It is compatible with any heat source, including induction stovetops and grills.
Since it is made out of enameled cast iron, the cookware is quite heavy, which is important to keep in mind for storage purposes. Still, most users opt to leave their Dutch oven out on the stove, not only because it is frequently used but also because the color and design stand out.
Le Creuset Dutch oven pros
- Production: Each Dutch oven is handcrafted and undergoes a rigorous testing regimen in order to meet high standards. Each comes with a limited lifetime warranty.
- Colors: Le Creuset is known for its vibrant colors. With any enameled cast iron product, including a Dutch oven, you’ll have your choice of about 10 to 20, including cerise, sage, teal and the iconic flame, which was the first Le Creuset color.
- Longevity: With quality construction, a Le Creuset Dutch oven is made to last a lifetime with proper care; you should only need ever to buy one.
Le Creuset Dutch oven cons
- Price: Le Creuset cookware is expensive upfront. The price for a Le Creuset Dutch oven is higher than its competitors.
- Discontinuation of colors: While Le Creuset always offers many colors, not all the colors remain available indefinitely. Some are retired, which may be problematic if you want to match them with other cookware later on.
- Care: Improper care can cause irreparable damage. Avoid thermal shocks, such as from high temperatures to cold water, as well as abrasive cleaners and metal utensils. Liquid should also always cover the base before heating.
Staub Dutch oven
Staub is also a French cookware company, though founded less than 50 years ago. Staub’s Dutch ovens, also referred to as cocottes, are similar to Le Creuset’s. They are made of cast iron and offered in a range of colors and sizes.
Staub offers both smaller and shallower cocottes ideal for soups and stews for one or two people, as well as larger Dutch ovens with steeper sides, best for baking and braising for a big group.
Staub’s Dutch ovens come with a lifetime warranty and are designed to resist rust, chipping and cracking. While they are dishwasher safe, they should be cleaned by hand.
Staub Dutch oven pros
- Lid: The Staub lid is heavier and fits tighter, which locks in moisture better when compared to the Le Creuset Dutch oven.
- Knob: You can choose a simple design for your lid knob or something more eye-catching. You’ll have the option of a lid that features an animal, including a rooster or a pig, as well as some lid knobs resembling the stem of a fruit or vegetable.
- Price: While still fairly expensive, Staub is slightly cheaper than similarly-sized Le Creuset models.
Staub Dutch oven cons
- Weight: While Dutch ovens are generally hefty, Staub’s come in a higher weight. When cooking for many people, a full pot may be difficult to move around the kitchen, especially when removed from an oven.
- Interior: The color on the inside is brown, which can make cooking and cleaning slightly more difficult. The dark shade may make it hard to see if food is browning effectively.
- Aesthetic: Staub doesn’t quite have the iconic look of a Le Creuset set, so its more modern and somewhat angular design may not be as aesthetically pleasing to some.
Should you get a Le Creuset or Staub Dutch oven?
Both Le Creuset and Staub offer similar, high-quality and colorful Dutch ovens. For those keen on brand and aesthetics, Le Creuset is the best choice with its design and color palette.
More accomplished chefs may prefer Staub, as the heavier-duty construction and superior tighter-fitting lid provide optimal heat retention. However, the darker interior and increased weight of the Staub Dutch oven are not always helpful for casual cooks. They may want to seek out a Le Creuset Dutch oven that provides more convenience.
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LUBBOCK, Texas, Nov. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Quail Forever announces the hiring of Joshua Michna as the new Precision Agriculture & Conservation Specialist to support growers in the Texas High Plains region. This new role is made possible by the collaboration of Quail Forever, Cotton Incorporated, BASF Agricultural Solutions, and the United Sorghum Checkoff Program to boost farm profitability and deliver tangible environmental benefits.
Michna's new role will help landowners make best use of cutting-edge technology and voluntary wildlife conservation practices to identify acres of farmland opportunity. He will work with farmers to develop a Precision Ag Business Plan suited to their operation. By targeting return on investment at a sub-field scale, Michna will help define areas to explore alternative agricultural practices, voluntary conservation programs, cost-share and other funding opportunities to increase profits and success for a producer's operation. The end goal of this position is to offer habitat-based solutions including soil health, water quality, carbon sequestration and rural economic development while maintaining high farm revenues.
"The Habitat Organization is excited and proud to collaborate with the great programs and people at Cotton Incorporated, United Sorghum Checkoff Program, and BASF Agricultural Solutions in this effort to promote farm profitability along with conservation initiatives," Director of Sustainability Partnerships for Quail Forever Brent Rudolph said. "Texas Panhandle cotton and sorghum growers are committed to supporting a healthy environment and bright economic future for their families and communities, and quail, pheasants, and other wildlife will benefit from our efforts to work together here."
The addition of a Texas-based precision specialist adds further momentum to Quail Forever's collaborative agricultural initiatives to deliver sustainability outcomes. Starting in 2019, the Cotton Sustainability & Quail Recovery Project in cooperation with Cotton Incorporated set the table for innovation in the commodity sector. Since that time, the Sorghum for Birds initiative with the United Sorghum Checkoff Program and the recent national sponsorship announcement with BASF Agricultural Solutions have positively transformed Quail Forever's grower relationships in focal regions for upland birds.
"This program is a great opportunity for sorghum and cotton producers in Texas. The collaboration aims to help farmers apply production data and precision ag technologies to identify less profitable acres and create biodiverse habitats," Chief Sustainability Officer and Vice President for Cotton Incorporated Jesse Daystar said. "The project outcomes will benefit the environment and native bird species surrounding cotton farmland while helping producers increase profitability."
"This expanded, multi-commodity conservation collaboration—built upon the strong foundations of ongoing coordination between our industry organizations and Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever—will further enhance sorghum's recognition as The Resource Conserving Crop™️ through targeted conservation delivery in sorghum and cotton rotation systems in West Texas," Director of Sustainability for the United Sorghum Checkoff Program Adam York said. "We look forward to increasing the sustainability of both industries through the shared on-farm impacts of our new Precision Agriculture Conservation Specialist in Lubbock."
"We are excited to collaborate with Quail Forever, Cotton Incorporated, and the United Sorghum Checkoff Program to further the cause of conservation and agricultural sustainability in West Texas," Sustainability Manager for BASF's North American Seeds Ray Daniels said. "This program provides the opportunity for growers to identify alternatives for lower yielding acres that are both environmentally sustainable and economically viable. With access to the resources provided by the Precision Ag and Conservation Specialist, growers will have more options to consider when planning how to maximize their land use in 2023 and beyond."
Growing up on the outdoor traditions of hunting and fishing in South Texas, Joshua Michna has a proud farming and ranching background with experience in all aspects of agriculture including the processing of cotton and sorghum, as well as the maintenance of farming equipment. After receiving a bachelor's degree in wildlife and fisheries management from Texas Tech University, he has worked in precision agriculture as a field technician for South Plains Precision Ag since 2019. Michna was previously employed as a farm technician for Heinrich Brothers Farms and Brushy Branch Ranch since 2009 where he gained firsthand experience with irrigation systems, combine and stripper harvesting, team management, and other ranch duties.
Michna will work closely with ag retailers such as implement dealers, software companies, grain cooperatives, certified crop advisors, ag lenders, and others to support sustainability practices throughout the Panhandle. For more information about precision agriculture and conservation solutions in Texas, contact Joshua Michna at jmichna@quailforever.org or (806) 696-9422.
Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever make up the nation's largest nonprofit organization dedicated to upland habitat conservation. This community of more than 400,000 members, supporters and partners is dedicated to the protection of our uplands through habitat improvement, public access, education and advocacy. A network of 754 local chapters spread across North America determine how 100 percent of their locally raised funds are spent — the only national conservation organization that operates through this grassroots structure. Since its creation in 1982, the organization has dedicated more than $1 billion to 567,500 habitat projects benefiting 22 million acres.
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Derrick Henry was a bit amused by the premise of a question talking about the importance of passing in the modern NFL.
“Is it a passing league?” he said jokingly. “I’m playing. But we (have) guys in the league that are running the ball well, that are efficient and been playing at a high level for an amount of years. So just credit to our RBs in the game. Just keep killing it.”
Henry and his running back friends have been doing just that through the first half of the season with a big assist from a young generation of running quarterbacks such as Lamar Jackson and Justin Fields.
While the big paydays and much of the attention goes to quarterbacks, receivers and other players who impact the passing game either by blocking or defending, there has been a bit of a renaissance when it comes to running the football.
With defenses keeping two safeties deep and playing with fewer defenders near the line of scrimmage to guard against the big play, and offenses more willing to take advantage of that, running the ball is having its biggest success in decades.
Through the first nine weeks of the season, teams are combining for 241.4 yards rushing per game for the highest mark at this point of the season since 1987 when the league used replacements players for three games.
The previous time it happened with real NFL players the entire time was in 1985 when Walter Payton, Marcus Allen and Eric Dickerson were among the game’s biggest stars.
“It feels like there is a little bit of a change around the league where teams really are making a big emphasis and focus to run the football,” Seattle defensive coordinator Clint Hurtt said.
There are five teams averaging at least 150 yards a game on the ground — one more than did it in the past three seasons combined.
The Giants have used their success on the ground to be one of the league’s biggest surprises with six wins already on the strength of a healthy season from Saquon Barkley and using quarterback Daniel Jones in the running game.
Atlanta has remained in contention in what was supposed to be a rebuilding year by capitalizing on the mobility of quarterback Marcus Mariota and backs such as Cordarrelle Patterson.
“People know we want to run the football,” coach Arthur Smith said. “That’s what fires you up, and it won’t be that way every week. We’re going to have a challenge. We know how competitive it is. But when you can run the ball, when they know you’re going to run it, that speaks volumes about your guys.”
Even teams that have dynamic options in the passing game have been using the run to great success to take advantage of how defenses play these days.
The struggling Raiders had their biggest success offensively this season during a three-game stretch when Josh Jacobs rushed for 441 yards against defenses geared to stop Davante Adams.
“You’ve got to be able to function and execute against whatever they do,” coach Josh McDaniels said. “If they’re going to try to protect the deep part of the field and not give up a bunch of big plays, I think that comes back down to execution and discipline for us. I mean, if you have to drive it 10 to 12 plays to score, then you’re going to need to be able to be disciplined enough to do that.”
Perhaps no team has had as much success on the ground as the Bears, who have gotten a big spark on offense when they seemed to ditch the passing game and focus the offense around Fields and his ability to run.
Chicago is averaging 195.4 yards per game on the ground, putting the Bears on pace for 3,322 yards — 26 more than the single-season record set in a 16-game season by Baltimore in 2019.
But the Bears are averaging 243 yards rushing the past four games — becoming the second in NFL history to rush for at least 235 yards in four straight games. That feat was last accomplished by the 1949 Eagles when the sport barely resembled the modern version that took over when rules made passing easier in 1978.
“I think we are just really maximizing our strengths and minimizes our weaknesses right now,” coach Matt Eberflus said.
Fields set an NFL regular-season record when he ran for 178 yards last week against Miami, including an electrifying 61-yard touchdown.
That was part of a record-setting week for quarterbacks, whose combined 801 yards rushing last week were the most ever in a week for the position. The 5,132 yards rushing by QBs are the most ever through nine weeks led by Jackson (635) and Fields (602).
“He’s as fast as any skill position runner,” Miami coach Mike McDaniel said after facing Fields. “Like he is really, really fast and he can cut and break tackles. There are a lot of running quarterbacks. This one in particular I think is very elite and adept at that.”
While watching Fields run through his defense exasperated McDaniel, who even begged him to stop to no avail, the success on the ground has brought joy to other coaches.
Perhaps none more than Seattle’s Pete Carroll, who endured criticism in recent years for not letting Russell Wilson pass more, but now has the top team in the NFC West thanks in part to rookie running back Kenneth Walker III and an offensive approach that suits Carroll’s style.
“It’s always been important, it’s just been that other things drew the attention of the following and the media,” he said. “It was never of less significance because that’s how the game works.”
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AP Pro Football Writer Teresa Walker and AP Sports Writer Tim Booth contributed to this report.
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AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/nfl and https://twitter.com/AP_NFL | 2022-11-10T22:25:56+00:00 | everythinglubbock.com | https://www.everythinglubbock.com/sports/ap-running-game-having-biggest-impact-in-decades-in-nfl/ |
CHICAGO (AP) — Grain futures mixed Thursday in early trading on the Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat for May was down 7.25 cents at $6.7250 a bushel; May corn gained 4.5 cents at $6.5750 a bushel; May oats was up 2 cents at $3.3775 a bushel; while May soybeans increased 1.575 cents at $15.1375 a bushel.
Beef higher and pork lower on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.
Apr. live cattle gained 2.95 cents at $1.7625 a pound; Apr. feeder cattle was up .37 cent at $2.0312 a pound; Apr. lean hogs was off 1.10 cents at $.7190 a pound. | 2023-04-13T16:19:52+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/business/article/grains-livestock-mixed-17895409.php |
NEWRY, Maine — Editor's note: The video attached to this story was published Jan. 3.
Sports fans the world over have been mourning the loss of Ken Block. The 55-year-old action sports superstar died in a snowmobile crash Monday.
A co-founder of the massively popular DC Shoe, Block sold the company in 2004 and then spent his adult life pushing boundaries and creating opportunities for others. He did a lot of that in Maine, as well.
Since 2005, Block was a mainstay at the annual New England Forest Rally, which starts at Sunday River each summer. At last year’s races, NEWS CENTER Maine interviewed families who gathered near Block’s car to meet him.
"Look at the smile on his face," one visibly excited dad wearing a Ken Block shirt said, looking down at his young son as the pair waited for Block to emerge from his trailer.
"It's gonna be a good day. We're gonna have fun."
For much of the past two decades, Block helped take rally driving mainstream, regularly posting videos online of creative stunts, drifting, and rally racing that have attracted 200 million views on YouTube alone.
Team O’Neil, a rally school based in Dalton, New Hampshire, helps run the New England rally each year.
Karl Stone, business manager at the company, described his beloved sport as "humble."
Indeed, despite its rise to prominence on the race circuit, the New England Forest Rally is completely free to attend. Dozens of volunteers pay for their own travel and lodging to come work the weekend.
Stone said a relatively shy Block went out of his way to take care of volunteers each summer. Block’s mastery of social media and care for others, he added, helped bring more fans to the races and inspire a generation of car lovers.
"He was a marketing genius, so to have him at the events and doing these things and documenting it and putting it out to all the people in his audience, never mind the other people it ends up getting in front of organically," Stone said. "It was just huge for the sport."
Block finished second at last year’s New England Forest Rally. His wife, Lucy, finished seventh. His 16-year-old daughter, Lia, is an award-winning driver as well. On the afternoon of his death, Ken Block Tweeted photos and an announcement of Lia's recent work rebuilding a 1985 Audi.
On Wednesday, Lia posted a photo on Instagram of her walking with her dad and wrote she had lost her best friend.
"I grew up, knowing in the back of my head, that I wanted to be just like dad," she wrote in closing. "He was one of the most amazing people in the world, not to mention the best dad I could have ever asked for. I will strive every single day to make you proud. I love you to the moon and back kenny boi." | 2023-01-05T22:37:25+00:00 | newscentermaine.com | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/sports/ken-block-sports-legend-remembered-maine-sports/97-8120e657-ea51-4e3f-882d-c4e898e5d7fa |
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The Browns linebackers were ravaged by injury in 2022 and they’re relying on a number of them to return this season and contribute in Jim Schwartz’s defense.
Mary Kay Cabot, Ashley Bastock and Dan Labbe continue their 23 questions series by looking at the team’s linebackers and how players will bounce back.
They start by talking about how the linebackers will play in Schwartz’s scheme and how having an upgraded defensive line will help them. Then they go through the top players at the position and discuss what to expect. Will Anthony Walker Jr. take back over the mike linebacker job? What will we say about Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah after this season? What is the future for Jacob Phillips?
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Made in the 956: Camille Playhouse in Brownsville celebrates 60th ‘Diamond Jubilee’ season
The Covid-19 pandemic changed forced businesses to close their doors, some of which remain closed.
“So actually, right in March 2020 we were preparing to do a production here of ‘Pittman,’ and I was part of the cast,” Camille Playhouse Board Director David Salinas recalled. “So we were all in rehearsal and information started coming in about two cases in McAllen… and then everything really hit, and we had to cancel the production. It was hard to stop doing all of that."
The Camille Playhouse in Brownsville ended up closing.
“One of the main things we found out when the pandemic hit was that a lot of theaters like this were closing… it was the end of them, but we didn't want that for this theater,” Salinas said. “This theater, this community, needs this theater.”
The Camille Playhouse began having virtual performances.
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“There's a saying in theater that the lights can never not all go out. Once that happens, then the building's done,” Salinas said. “So we always thought, this is us keeping the lights on."
According to Salinas, the playhouse did a series of cabaret shows called “Cabaret from the living room” while the building remained closed. And thanks to community support, the Camille Playhouse go to reopen after following guidelines laid out by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“And that's how we remained in existence,” Salinas said. “We closed our doors, yes, to the public, but we were still open virtually to the community. And I think because of that experience, we just grew stronger."
The Camille Playhouse grew so strong that they’re now kicking off their 60th Diamond Jubilee season with a performance that highlights the last six decades with music from songs that have been performed onstage.
“In between each section, or the decades, I will be talking about the history of the Camille family, the history of the organization, the history of Brownsville, famous people who have performed here or have directed here, and the evolution of the organization, “Salinas said. “As much as we want to entertain people, we also want to enlighten them and teach them about what we're doing here and educate the community about what we can provide and what we've done so far."
More information can be found on the Camille Playhouse’s website.
The Camille Playhouse, entertaining, and Made in the 956. | 2023-07-26T01:09:07+00:00 | krgv.com | https://www.krgv.com/news/made-in-the-956-camille-playhouse-in-brownsville-celebrates-60th-diamond-jubilee-season |
SAN JUAN – Puerto Rican superstar Ricky Martin filed a lawsuit Wednesday against his nephew accusing him of extortion, malicious persecution, abuse of law and damages stemming from false allegations of sexual abuse.
Martin's lawyers said the claim by the nephew, which he has since racanted, has cost the singer millions of dollars in lost income.
The lawsuit filed in the U.S. territory’s Court of First Instance alleges that Martin has been “persecuted, besieged, harassed, stalked and extorted” by his “troubled” nephew for economic reasons. It further alleges that if the nephew does not obtain any financial benefit, he would continue to “assassinate the reputation and integrity of the artist.”
The lawsuit contends the harassment has continued even though Martin’s nephew, identified as Dennis Yadiel Sánchez Martin, admitted under oath in July that he had never been sexually assaulted by the artist.
Sánchez had previously taken legal action against his uncle based on those false allegations, which prompted a judge in Puerto Rico to issue a restraining order against Martin in July that a court later suspended.
Those allegations cost Martin at least $10 million in lost income as a result of canceled contracts and projects as well as $20 million in damages to his reputation, according to the lawsuit.
The attorney who represented Sánchez in that case could not be immediately reached for comment. It wasn’t clear if she also would be representing Sánchez in the lawsuit filed Wednesday.
The lawsuit stated that from October 2021 to January 2022, Sánchez would send up to 10 messages a day to Martin, the majority of them “meaningless diatribes without any particular purpose.”
It also accused Sánchez of publishing Martin’s private number on Instagram, which forced the singer to change his number.
Several months then went by without Sánchez sending a message until he requested the protection order in July against Martin, according to the lawsuit.
It also said Sánchez falsely alleged that he had had a romantic relationship with Martin for seven months and that Martin supposedly did not want the relationship to end and kept calling Sánchez with frequency.
“Nothing further from the truth,” according to the lawsuit.
It also said two restraining orders had previously been filed against Sánchez in an unrelated stalking case. | 2022-09-08T03:44:52+00:00 | ksat.com | https://www.ksat.com/entertainment/2022/09/08/ricky-martin-sues-nephew-alleges-million-dollar-losses/ |
The activist group Moms for Liberty has grown rapidly during the pandemic years, claiming to fight for parents' rights in public education. The Southern Poverty Law Center is labeling it as extremist.
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DENVER (KDVR) — An arctic cold front will arrive in Colorado on Wednesday evening, dropping temperatures to below zero degrees with wind chills as cold as minus 40 degrees.
The Pinpoint Weather team has issued Pinpoint Weather Alert Days for Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
Is it normally this cold in December?
With the extreme cold on the way, you might be wondering if it is normally this cold in December in Denver. The short answer is no.
The average high temperature is around 44 degrees, and the average low temperatures is around 18 degrees.
December records
The National Weather Service says the record high for December in Denver is 79 degrees, which was set on Dec. 5, 1939.
The record low temperature for December in Denver is minus 25 degrees, which was set on Dec. 22, 1990.
Coldest years in December
Here is a look at the coldest years in December in Denver history based on average temperature, according to the NWS:
- 1983: 17.4 degrees
- 1909: 21.2 degrees
- 1878: 22.1 degrees
- 1873: 22.7 degrees
- 1913: 23.1 degrees
Fraser is considered to be the coldest town in Colorado, with an average temperature of 36.2 degrees since 2000, according to data from the National Weather Service. It is considered the coldest because of its low average yearly temperature. | 2022-12-20T17:05:58+00:00 | kdvr.com | https://kdvr.com/weather/wx-news/how-cold-is-it-normally-in-denver-in-december/ |
BOSQUE COUNTY, Texas (FOX 44) – UPDATE: The Connally Independent School District announced Sunday that another passenger in the car was Connally High School freshman Lexi Olvera. This district will also have counselors available to students.
The Midway Independent School District announced Sunday afternoon that a crash in Bosque County claimed the lives of four people – including a high school senior about to graduate.
Mackenzie Bewley and 2021 graduate Evan Lovejoy died in the crash on FM-56, near FM-2114, in Whitney. The crash happened around 9:20 p.m. Saturday, according to Texas DPS Sgt. Ryan Howard.
Sgt. Howard tells FOX 44 News that a Land Rover SUV going south on FM-56 tried to pass another vehicle in a no-passing area, lost control, and crashed into a tree. It was raining at the time.
The Land Rover caught fire and all inside died. Howard wants to remind drivers to slow down when it is raining, which can make the roads extremely slick.
Counselors and members of the school district support team will be available at Midway High School.
Superintendent Dr. George Kazanas said in a statement to parents, “Each of these young adults will be missed greatly. Our thoughts and prayers are with their families and friends in this very difficult time.”
Family members told FOX 44 News on Monday that the fourth victim in this crash is 19-year-old Brouke Lin Olvera – the cousin of Lexi Olvera. Her family says Brouke graduated from Midway ISD in 2020.
In addition, memorial fundraisers have been set up for both Brouke and Lexi at GoFundMe.com. | 2022-05-23T19:11:18+00:00 | fox44news.com | https://www.fox44news.com/news/local-news/bosque-county/crash-claims-the-lives-of-four-people-including-a-midway-hs-senior/ |
- The Hohenstein Quality Label is issued for products that have been rigorously tested and meet defined minimum requirements. Testing criteria is based on decades of scientific research and considers practical, real-use situations. All testing is conducted in Hohenstein's accredited testing labs.
- Greenbutts has certified a biodegradable solution to the world's most littered plastic item, cigarette filters, meeting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal #12 for Responsible Consumption and Production.
SAN DIEGO, Nov. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Greenbutts LLC. ("Greenbutts") announces it has been granted the Hohenstein Quality Label for a novel biodegradable filter technology designed to replace the most littered single-use plastic item - cigarette filters.
An all-natural and fiber-based solution to cellulose acetate filters, Greenbutts' technology becomes one of few alternatives certified as biodegradable by Hohenstein Laboratories ("Hohenstein"), a distinction requiring materials to achieve complete biodegradation to achieve certification. By fully biodegrading, our novel filter technology enables multinational partners and our growing customer pipeline to address their product sustainability while materially reducing the negative impact on our oceans and communities.
"Receiving this certification of biodegradability from Hohenstein is validation of all the hard work over the past decade to develop and optimize our Greenbutts filter technology to be a truly eco-friendly replacement for cellulose acetate. We are excited to offer this certified material to a variety of filtration media products in the near future to help eradicate single-use synthetics used in the filtration industry," said Tadas Lisauskas, CEO of Greenbutts.
Luis Sanches, Chief Strategy Officer of Greenbutts, said "We have put our best minds towards delivering a transformative solution for the global tobacco industry. Our world demands high corporate responsibility coupled with measurable impact, and no matter where our customers may be, we all can do our part. At Greenbutts, we are inspired by our industry peers who are establishing bold and responsible practices towards replacing single-use plastic in their product with a better alternative.
We are dedicated to designing a bright future, inspiring the way we, our customers and our partners grow with our collective goal to lead our industry with sustainable values," Sanches continued.
Greenbutts expects with this certified technology to contribute toward solving the problem of cigarette filter pollution which continues to be one of the most widespread single-use plastic problems facing the world's waterways and environment.
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Since 2010, Greenbutts has worked with R&D institutions, multinational tobacco companies, and industry experts to develop a natural filter technology, capable of replacing the most littered plastic in the world, cigarette filters. Driven by the new single-use plastic (SUP) legislation enforced by governments, the Company is actively engaged in the global commercialization of its proprietary, plastic-free and trademarked material technology, Greenbutts™, fulfilling the global industry demand for biodegradable filters. The technology utilizes fully patented material science and is biodegradable, plastic-free, and water dispersing; designed to reduce the significant environmental impact caused by plastic cigarette filter pollution. The sustainable design of the Company's filter technology includes a natural, rapidly degrading cigarette filter using a proprietary blend of food grade fiber materials. The unique blend of materials is designed to allow for a similar customer sensory experience and filter manufacturing process as acetate filters and provides a seamless transition away from plastic filters for the global tobacco industry. Greenbutts filters will disperse in water within a few minutes and will degrade in compost within days, as opposed to 10-15 years as is the case with traditional cellulose acetate filters. Greenbutts' natural filter technology is fully patented in the U.S., U.K., Canada and is patent pending in additional countries, covering key geographies in the cigarette industry. Greenbutts' fully patented biodegradable filter is one of a kind and solves the major pain-point that multinational producers suffer from: a need for an alternative filter without compromising sensory, taste, or customer experience. The Company's trademarked Greenbutts™ delivers a similar sensorial experience of traditional cigarette filters without the plastic waste left behind, offering a viable alternative to plastic filters while meeting the new SUP legislation initiatives.
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Meteorological scientists are the first to say that with climate change, anything is possible, including Massachusetts being hit with a mega storm similar to Hurricane Ian resulting in death and massive destruction.
In emergency management and crisis communications, the motto is “prepare for the worst and hope for the best.” In the aftermath of Ian, it is incumbent that every local mayor and town manager bring together their emergency management team to review their community and regional disaster response plans. This examination will help to assure that the manpower and equipment needed is not only available and in good working order, but that all team members are trained and prepared to implement the National Incident Management System.
NIMS was created in 2004 by the United States Department of Homeland Security and FEMA to provide one well-trained command structure to direct all responders from all jurisdictions and agencies to work together to effectively and efficiently respond to a crisis or disaster. To be part of the NIMS incident command team, participants are required to study and pass a battery of proficiency tests. NIMS is the gold standard that was effectively used during the Merrimack Valley gas explosion, where hundreds of emergency responders from all parts of the region, worked together under one command structure to address this catastrophic event.
While many communities have NIMS plans in a binder on someone’s desk, it is now time for a comprehensive review of those strategies and to launch tabletop or actual drills to test and assure the plans’ seamless execution. As an emergency management and incident command team member at a multi-hospital system, we drilled extensively with NIMS for all types of serious disruptions to patient care and hospital operations, which included a total hospital evacuation due to a fire and hazard material spill. This massive drill tested our ability to quickly assume command and control of the crisis by effectively coordinating a response by multiple and regional law enforcement, fire, EMS, emergency management and public health agencies.
Refresher training and drills using NIMS is no longer an option for local communities especially after witnessing the devastation caused by Hurricane Ian. City councilors and select boards should now be requesting a through briefing on their town’s emergency management plan and how NIMS factors into it. This information should also be shared with community residents and business owners as a way of helping them understand how their local leaders are prepared for a serious incident in their community.
Coast Guard Vice Admiral Kevin Lundy, who is helping to lead the emergency response to the Florida hurricane, said that because of NIMS, federal, military, state and local responders were able to work as partners in their search, rescue and recovery mission.
No matter how large or small the city or town, NIMS must be practiced regularly to assure emergency response proficiency in times of crisis.
Billerica resident Rick Pozniak, who is credentialed in NIMS, has decades of experience in crisis communications.
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The latest northeast Wisconsin weather forecast from Storm Team 5…
Tonight: Skies will turn mostly cloudy through the night as strong thunderstorms pass well to our south. A chance for light rain is still possible after midnight. Areas of patchy fog may develop as well with lows generally in the upper 40s.
Monday: Mostly cloudy skies and cooler temperatures will be with us to start the new week. Scattered rain showers will be possible as well as highs will be stuck in the 50s. Winds will be off of Lake Michigan and the Bay around 5-15 mph.
Clearing skies Tuesday will bring more sunshine to the area with temperatures rebounding back into the upper 60s. Well see mild temperatures the rest of the week with dry conditions and a decent amount of sunshine. Next weekend will bring our next chance for rain showers as highs gradually fall back into the 60s by Sunday. | 2023-05-08T03:18:58+00:00 | wearegreenbay.com | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/weather/cooler-weather-monday-with-a-chance-for-rain-showers/ |
YPSILANTI, MI - After a search that brought candidates from across the country to Ypsilanti, the city officially has a new police chief.
Kirk Moore, most recently a police captain in a Nevada department with over 500 sworn officers, will take the helm in Ypsilanti on Thursday, April 20, officials said.
“I am incredibly humbled by the opportunity to serve this city in this capacity as the chief of police. We have a lot of work ahead of us. And I’m down, I’m ready for it. This is a fantastic opportunity,” Moore said during Ypsilanti City Council’s Tuesday, April 18 meeting.
He will become the city’s first new, permanent police chief in more than nine years, after former Chief Tony DeGiusti, promoted to the top job in 2014, resigned last August.
Moore comes to Ypsilanti from Henderson, Nevada, a city of some 330,000 people near Las Vegas, where he led the east patrol division, overseeing 75 officers and a $13-million budget, he said in his job interview in Ypsilanti.
Read more: Ypsilanti picks finalist for police chief position after round of interviews
The law enforcement official impressed a selection committee made of up area police chiefs, city officials and community leaders, standing out among the four candidates interviewed in late March, according to City Manger Frances McMullan.
By city charter, McMullan had the responsibility of hiring a new chief. She worked to negotiate a contract with Moore after he was identified as the committee’s top choice, and he subsequently participated in a community meet and greet event in the city.
The four-year contract with Moore provides for a salary of $120,000, a $6,000 moving allowance and use of a city vehicle, according to a copy of the document provided by McMullan.
Moore’s tenure in Henderson stretches back almost 25 years, including more than decade as a patrol officer before promotions to command positions, according to his resume.
“My entire career has prepared me for this moment today,” he told the Ypsilanti selection committee at the beginning of his job interview.
If he was chosen, Moore pledged to invite community members into the police department, involving them in decision-making, boosting transparency and working to build a sustainable staffing model in Ypsilanti.
The department struggled with low morale and a string of officer departures around the time DeGiusti resigned last year, officials said.
Lt. Brent Yuchasz, a veteran of the department, served as interim chief during the period between DeGiusti’s departure and the conclusion of the search process.
Moore will takeover as a relative outsider, though he has spoken highly of his experiences in the city so far.
“I think the city has a wonderful spirit. I believe the people that I’ve met throughout the city have all been very passionate about the city of Ypsilanti, and so it’s very encouraging, it’s exciting, it’s energetic, it’s intoxicating,” he said on Tuesday.
“I look forward to serving, especially the men and women of the Ypsilanti Police Department, and of course this community.”
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DOHA, Qatar (AP) — World Cup viewers in Saudi Arabia say the government has blocked a Qatari-owned streaming service that was supposed to broadcast matches in the kingdom.
The suspension has stunned and outraged customers of TOD TV, which holds the rights to show the World Cup in Saudi Arabia. TOD TV is owned by Qatar's beIN Sports Media Group.
Saudi-based subscribers who weren't able to watch World Cup matches have flooded TOD TV's Twitter account this week with refund requests and screenshots of the service’s website saying “Sorry, the requested page is violating the regulations of the Media Ministry.”
In a message shared by subscribers, TOD TV apologized to viewers “for the temporary loss of service.”
“This is due to reasons beyond our control,” it said. “We value our viewers having a premium user experience and are working on resuming normal services as soon as possible.”
TOD TV, the Saudi Media Ministry and Foreign ministry did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Qatar’s beIN group was caught in the crosshairs of a bitter political dispute between Riyadh and Doha in recent years. Saudi Arabia in 2017 led a group of four Arab countries in imposing a boycott on Qatar over its support for political Islamists, ties with Iran and its funding of Al Jazeera, a satellite news channel that has at times harshly criticized other Gulf Arab governments.
During the boycott, beIN Sports lost its license to broadcast in Saudi Arabia, and Saudi viewers lost their only way to watch soccer from Europe's biggest leagues and Asia's top competitions outside of pirated services. But last year after Saudi Arabia mended ties with Qatar, beIN resumed service for the major Saudi market.
TOD TV is broadcasting some of the matches, including Saudi Arabia's, for free, but 42 matches were only going to be available on the streaming service, which apparently was blocked just before the start of the tournament on Nov. 20. Subscribers reported they have been unable to access the service since the opening ceremony, in which Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman sat just a few seats from Qatar's emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani.
Competition for for revenue and millions of subscribers in the Middle East is escalating among regional streaming services, including the Shahid service operated by the Saudi-owned MBC Group.
The Saudi government is believed to hold a controlling stake in MBC Group after a series of arrests in 2017 ordered by Prince Mohammed over corruption allegations that helped him centralize power in the kingdom.
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Kelly Loving was ‘authentic and unapologetic’ and a mother to her community
Kelly Loving was always there to lend a caring hand, lift others up and encourage them to shine and succeed, said her older sister, Tiffany Loving.
“Because that's how Kelly was. If somebody didn't feel good about their self, she always tried to make them feel confident,” she said.
So when Tiffany and those close to Loving learned she was trying to protect others when she was fatally shot during the Club Q attack in Colorado Springs, they weren’t surprised.
“I mean, her last act on this earth was to put herself between another human being and gunfire … And that's how she left,” said Ben Owen, a family friend, of how Loving reportedly shielded fellow patron Wyatt Kent.
She was buried Tuesday in her hometown of Batesville, Mississippi.
Loving, one of the five victims of the Nov. 20 shooting, died just days after her 40th birthday. She was in Denver and Colorado Springs for just a short stay, visiting from her home in Memphis, Tennessee. Loving was at the club that Saturday night to celebrate her birthday.
“If you look at her pictures, you can tell that is not a face that sits in the house, honey,” said Tiffany, laughing about how social her sister was. “Not a homebody. That's true. She liked to travel, she liked to enjoy life.”
Close-knit sisters who grew up in rural Mississippi
Loving grew up with two sisters in the small town of Batesville, in rural northwest Mississippi. Tiffany said she and Loving were close, and leaned on each other for support.
“She used to always steal my Barbies and get in trouble for it,” Tiffany recalled, laughing before turning serious. “It was really hard growing up down here, though. It was, and that's why we left.”
The sisters moved to Memphis, but Loving struggled to find a supportive community there too.
Tiffany is now hoping to raise money to help others in the trans community in Memphis, especially to make it easier for them to access addiction treatment and mental health support. On a GoFundMe Page, Tiffany said Loving struggled with substance abuse, suicidal thoughts and feelings of self-worth.
“She wasn't accepted down here and back then it was just a really hard time for her, you know, because you can't help who you are,” she told CPR News. “She was born that way. It's just so much hate in this world and negative stuff, but you can't judge people for how they are.”
But Tiffany said her sister put on a brave face and “tried to live and act like it didn't bother her. But it did.”
A woman remembered for her friendship and beauty
Friends describe Loving as someone you could trust and confide in. Janelle Roshea Grays called herself Loving’s "trans mother" and said they immediately clicked when they met 12 years ago in Houston, Texas.
“She had such determination. Anything that she wanted, she was going to try her best to go and get. And she instilled that in her friends so that they could be their best selves.”
Roshea Grays said she gave Loving advice during her transition and was happy to be a part of her growth as a trans woman. But that support worked both ways. She said Loving taught her the true definition of friendship. She described Loving as her “safe place” and said she’ll miss hearing her voice, laughter and sarcasm.
“She was so authentic, unapologetic, and so real,” she said.
“Even when I used to watch her sleep, she'd be so calm and so peaceful, and then she'd just wake up with a ball of energy just ready to take on the world. And that's really what Kelly did.”
Roshea Grays and others shared their memories at the Tuesday memorial service in Batesville. Loving’s casket sat at the front of the room surrounded by pink flowers. It was topped by a picture of her face framed by gold angel wings. Some of Loving’s other family attended.
Her mother, whom Loving was very close to, came from a nearby nursing home, alert but wheeled in on a stretcher. Loving’s other sister and father are deceased.
“She was special. I have never met a person that [made] me feel good about me, like the way Kelly made me feel,” said friend Icysis Dupree, who called Loving "mother" for her support and mentorship in the community.
Dupree said Loving pushed her to be the best version of herself.
“Even when she got on my nerves, it's like, I need that right now,” she said laughing.
Dupree said she wished she could have had longer with Loving.
“We all gonna have a hole for a while,” she said at the funeral. “We got to just find ways to feel it and wait the time.”
Loving’s sister Tiffany said it was important that her sister look beautiful for the visitation, given Loving’s high standards for her own hair and makeup — even flying across the country to get her hair done by her favorite stylist.
“I think she’d be proud of me,” Tiffany told Loving’s friends at the funeral home. And everyone agreed she looked beautiful.
“I hope I've done everything that you would've wanted me to do today,” she said to her sister at the service. “I hope you like your dress and flowers and everything.”
A life lived embracing others
Loving’s friends and family said it was especially heartbreaking that she died the way she did, in an act of violence, given that it was so opposite to how she lived her life — accepting everyone, and with no judgment.
“It's sad that there are people that hate others for literally no reason, because they live in their truth,” said Roshea Grays.
But she said she was trying to keep her mind on who Loving was, and the impact her life had.
“She embraced so many people from so many different walks of life and was a true people person. She never liked being alone. So, oh my God, even in death, Kelly didn't have to die alone. She had four other angels with her.”
Loving’s sister said she hopes all of the victims of Club Q eventually get justice.
“I want to hate the man that did this to you,” she said at the memorial. “But my God tells me to pray for him too. Hate is a very powerful word.”
And she has no regrets about their lives together and how they stood by each other through thick and thin.
“We never gave up. I wouldn't change nothing. I have fought my whole life for you,” she said tearfully and added. “A lot of times I wished I was as pretty as you.”
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The new home essential portable power station is now available on the EcoFlow webstore and Amazon.
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- EcoFlow, an eco-friendly energy solutions company, today launched EcoFlow DELTA 2 on the EcoFlow webstore and Amazon, with special launch deals to mark the occasion. Customers who purchase the new portable power station in the first week of sale will receive a free DELTA 2 Waterproof Bag, while additional coupons will be distributed on EcoFlow's Facebook community and during EcoFlow's YouTube livestreaming event.
Officially unveiled at IFA 2022 in early September, DELTA 2 quickly made headlines in the IFA community and wider media, including CNN, Frandroid, Make Use Of, and Techaeris. In the firm belief that DELTA 2 is a genre-transcending product which will positively impact the way we all live, EcoFlow has decided to give something back to consumers to celebrate its launch.
"The DELTA 2 portable power station is an essential appliance for every modern-day family, especially amid rising energy costs and frequent grid failures," said Bruce Wang, CEO of EcoFlow. "One of EcoFlow's core principles is to give back to our users and the environment by delivering reliable, renewable energy solutions to as many households as possible. DELTA 2 represents the perfect opportunity for us to do just that."
DELTA 2 retails at $999 and can be purchased standalone from the EcoFlow webstore and Amazon, while bundles including the DELTA 2 Extra Battery and combinations of EcoFlow's portable solar panels are also available. From September 16th through 23rd, customers who purchase DELTA 2 will also get a DELTA 2 Waterproof Bag, retailing at $69, for free. Meanwhile, users who have joined EcoFlow's Facebook community group can utilize exclusive coupons of up to 10% off when purchasing DELTA 2. In addition, for US consumers, EcoFlow will hold a DELTA 2 livestreaming event on September 16th to share product details and insights, along with 10% off coupons applicable on Amazon.
In related news, EcoFlow has revealed that DELTA 2's use of LFP batteries will be replicated in the company's future product development, and that a new LFP-powered portable power station series will be released in the coming months.
"LFP batteries are a more stable and longer-lasting alternative to traditional batteries which are a major development in the energy sector," said Wang. "EcoFlow is among the first in the industry to commit to LFP batteries, as we aim to provide greater energy independence for modern families to counter growing energy insecurity."
About EcoFlow
EcoFlow is a portable power and renewable energy solutions company. Since its founding in 2017, EcoFlow has provided peace of mind to customers in over 100 markets through its DELTA and RIVER portable power stations and eco-friendly accessories. EcoFlow's mission is to reinvent the way the world accesses energy by creating quieter, lighter, and longer-lasting renewable power sources.
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Toyota’s CEO said last week that it will be a challenge to boost sales of electric cars to levels anticipated by some U.S. states—including the state of California, which plans to outlaw sales of vehicles not powered by electricity by the middle of next decade.
From Volvo and Bentley to Cadillac and Buick, a number of luxury and niche brands have already declared an end to development of gas-powered vehicles by 2030. Even some mass-market brands like Chevrolet plan to wind down sales of gas-powered vehicles by 2035.
That said, automakers, regulators, and U.S. states are split over whether California’s all-out ban of non-plug-in vehicle sales by 2035 is realistic. Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda is one of the few executives of a large automaker to speak out against the U.S. goal of 50% zero-emissions vehicles by 2030—reportedly calling it “very difficult” at a meeting with dealers last week.
Toyoda reportedly told its dealers that EVs “are just going to take longer than the media would like us to believe,” and he said that the automaker will continue to offer the “widest possible” array of powertrains.
Even as other automakers have ratcheted up EV plans and gasoline retirement dates, Toyota has kept to a May 2021 roadmap that suggests 85% of its U.S. vehicles in 2030 will still have tailpipes.
“That’s our strategy and we’re sticking to it,” said Toyoda, who referred to Toyota as being like a department store with all sorts of powertrains.
Through a translator, Toyoda said that regulations “tend to narrow the options available for solutions toward carbon neutrality,” according to Automotive News.
Toyoda sees not just hydrogen fuel cells but hydrogen combustion as a viable option, longer-term, while in the shorter term hybrids will produce the greatest benefit, he argued, noting that with the batteries that go into a 320-mile electric vehicle, Toyota can produce eight plug-in hybrid models, effectively saving up to eight times the carbon emitted.
In 2019, Toyota was one of the automakers that joined a Trump administration–backed attempt to challenge California’s Clean Air Act exemption, and its precedence in regulating vehicle emissions. Toyota was one of the last automakers pushing back, and it just in August signaled that it would end the fight and recognize the state’s emissions authority.
As these recent comments suggest, that doesn’t mean that Toyota won’t dig its heels in against any of these targets.
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The ground-breaking collaboration creates a joint venture to develop blockchain-based Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) solutions that support monetary sovereignty.
NEW YORK, Dec. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The INX Digital Company, Inc. (NEO: INXD), (INXATS: INX), (OTCQB: INXDF) ("INX"), a broker-dealer and inter-dealer broker - offering the first-ever SEC-regulated digital asset trading platform for both cryptocurrencies and security tokens, announced today that it has officially entered into a strategic partnership with SICPA, a global leader in authentication, revenue realization and secure traceability solutions, to help governments develop innovative and sovereign central bank digital currency ecosystems.
The joint venture, incorporated in Switzerland, combines both blockchain-based infrastructure and digital cash technologies to address the key requirements for Central Bank Digital Currencies, including privacy, security, financial inclusion, resilience and more - paving the way for the development and launch of a secure and scalable environment for all central banks to deploy digital currencies.
"With more than 80% of the world's central banks already considering launching a Central Bank Digital Currency, it's critical now more than ever to provide a viable path to capitalize on the wealth of opportunities digital currencies offer," said Itai Avneri, deputy CEO of INX. "We are excited to collaborate with SICPA and put our unique holistic solution for wholesale and retail CBDC to work as we strive together to pioneer the new digital economy around the world."
INX's team of CBDC and blockchain technologists will work with SICPA's digital team to establish solutions for CBDCs and the supporting ecosystems to assist clients in bolstering monetary sovereignty and efficiently growing the overall country GDP. The combined team will raise the bar in delivering innovative approaches to key requirements issued by central banks and their ecosystems, like compliance, scalability, cross-border transactions and programmability. Many of the complex and advanced security features developed by SICPA will find application in the development of the CBDC ecosystem.
"In any solution we offer to our customers and partners, we are committed to ensuring that it is efficient, inclusive, secure and enables trustworthy and privacy-compliant transactions" said Philippe Amon, CEO and Chairman of SICPA. "By collaborating with INX through this joint venture, we are ensuring that these cardinal virtues of cash will be equally true for the CBDC solutions that will complement the range of monetary solutions available to central banks."
A longstanding trusted partner and advisor to central banks around the world, SICPA has robust expertise in authentication, identification and security solutions, strong digital capabilities, and extensive knowledge of the physical cash ecosystem that allows for the development of new innovative forgery-proof security features to protect monetary sovereignty.
This partnership, signed Friday, Dec 16th, is a pre-planned step to launch the agreement stated in the MOU between the two parties, signed in June 2022.
For more information about INX and its INX.One platform for trading, issuing, minting, and instant settlement of security tokens and cryptocurrencies, visit https://www.inx.co/. For more about SICPA and its solutions for governments and central banks, visit https://www.sicpa.com/.
INX provides a regulated trading platform for digital securities and cryptocurrencies. With the combination of traditional markets expertise and a disruptive fintech approach, INX provides state-of-the-art solutions to modern financial problems. INX is led by an experienced and dedicated team of business, finance, and technology veterans with the shared vision of redefining the world of capital markets via blockchain technology and innovative regulatory approach.
About The INX Digital Company, Inc. INX is the holding company for the INX Group, which includes regulated trading platforms for digital securities and cryptocurrencies, combining traditional markets expertise and an innovative fintech approach. The INX Group's vision is to be the preferred global regulated hub for digital assets on the blockchain. The INX Group's overall mission is to bring communities together and empower them with financial innovation. Our journey started with our initial public token offering of the INX Token in which we raised US$83 million. The INX Group is shaping the blockchain asset industry through its willingness to work in a regulated environment with oversight from regulators like the SEC and FINRA.
In addition to operating two regulated trading platforms for blockchain assets, INX's interdealer broker, I.L.S. Brokers, plans to offer non-deliverable cryptocurrency forwards to Tier-1 banks in the future. For more information, please visit the INX Group website here.
Market leader in security inks and leading provider of secured authentication, identification, traceability and supply chain solutions, SICPA is a long-trusted partner to governments, central banks, high security printers and the industry. Every day, governments, companies and millions of citizens rely on its expertise, which combines material-based covert features and digital technologies, to protect the integrity and value of their currency, personal identity, value documents, e-government services, as well as products and brands. True to its purpose of enabling trust through constant innovation, SICPA aims to further an Economy of Trust worldwide, where transactions, interactions and products across the physical and digital worlds are based on protected, unforgeable and verifiable data.
Founded in Lausanne in 1927, headquartered in Switzerland and operating on five continents, SICPA employs about 3000 people. www.sicpa.com
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NEW YORK (AP) — Super Bowl ads are more than just breaks between gameplay during the biggest sporting event of the year: they offer a glimpse of the country’s zeitgeist, along with how major industries are faring.
This year, crypto ads and automakers are advertising less since those industries are facing problems. Major food brands like M&Ms, tech companies like Google, streaming services including Peacock and m ore alcohol brands have jumped in to take their place.
When Super Bowl LVII kicks off Sunday night with the Kansas City Chiefs taking on the Philadelphia Eagles in Glendale, Arizona, big marketers will be battling it out during the Fox broadcast as well.
Their prize? The chance to capture the attention of more than 100 million viewers expected to tune in for the big game. This price of entry is steep: some advertisers are paying more than $7 million for a 30-second spot, and that doesn’t include the cost of making the ad itself.
This year, viewers can expect stars galore, light humor and catchy songs. For the most part, advertisers are steering away from somber messages or outrageous humor that might have worked to capture attention in decades past, but not now, when the country is still emerging from the pandemic, facing economic uncertainty, and the war continues in Ukraine.
“This year is a ‘don’t worry be happy’ year,” said Kelly O’Keefe, CEO of Brand Federation. “You name it, we’ve had it all and its put us in almost depressed situation. This year people are over it and advertisers are responding really well —there are traditional brands, traditional humor and its going to feel like just a big old group hug.”
WHO’S STARRING?
Stars are commonplace in Super Bowl ads, but over the past few years ads have been more and more stuffed with celebrities. This year is no exception.
Popular celebrities offer goodwill to a brand and help it stand out from the 50-plus or so advertisers during the big game. But with so many stars in ads, it can be harder stand out in a crowded field.
“If you use celebrity in a smart way, it’s huge,” said Rich Weinstein, a professor at VCU Brandcenter. “But with all of these celebrities, are people going to remember who each celebrity is attached to?”
Big names making a splash this year: Melissa McCarthy sings a jingle for Booking.com, Miles Teller dances to hold music for Bud Light and Adam Driver makes multiples of himself for Squarespace. Avocados From Mexico enlists Anna Faris for one of the few slightly risque ads this year, that envisions a present where everyone is naked — including the Statue of Liberty. And tennis star Serena Williams stars in two ads: one for Michelob Ultra and one for Remy Martin. It’s the second year in a row she has had a presence in more than one ad: last year in addition to a Michelob Ultra ad, she starred in an ad for smart home-gym maker Tonal. Even hip hop mogul P. Diddy appears in an ad, in which he tries to make a hit for Uber One.
One unusual star this year: Jesus. A group of Christian donors is paying top dollar for two ads that promote the “He Gets Us” religious message.
WHICH ADS ARE THROWBACKS?
Another tactic that advertisers use to win over viewers is recreating beloved movies and TV shows. This year, online shopping site Rakuten is making a splash by enlisting Alicia Silverstone and Elisa Donovan to recreate a seen from 90s rom-com “Clueless.” Popcorners, a snack brand from Frito-Lay, brought back “Breaking Bad,” which first aired in 2008, with stars Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul.
Other advertisers trying to capitalize on favorite content from years past: T-Mobile’s ad shows John Travolta singing a T-Mobile home internet-themed version of “Summer Nights” from “Grease” with “Scrubs” stars Donald Faison and Zach Braff. And finally, Michelob Ultra evoked “Caddyshack” by setting its ad at the Bushwood Country Club that’s in the movie.
The nostalgia fits the mood of the times, Weinstein said.
“Consumers are looking for a good laugh and to feel comfortable,” Weinstein said. ”It’s less about living in the problems the world faces today and more about leaning into nostalgia and having fun.”
DO STUNTS WORK?
Some first-time advertisers have decided to lean into stunts and gimmicks to make their first foray into the big game stand out. The most notable is Fan Duel, which hired four-time All-Pro tight end Rob Gronkowski to try to make a field goal live during an ad in the third quarter. If he makes it, anyone who places a Super Bowl bet of $5 or more on FanDuel will win a share of $10 million in free bets.
A blockchain-based gaming company, Limit Break, plans to run a QR code during the first commercial break of the game and will give away non-fungible tokens to people who scan it. And for its first national Super Bowl ad, Molson Coors asked people to bet on aspects of its commercial, like whether it will feature Miller Lite or Coors Light.
Kim Whitler, a professor at the Darden School of business, said stunts don’t always translate to positive sales results or brand recognition for brands.
“People want to do stunts because stunts get attention,” she said. “But at the end of the day, the ad has to communicate something that’s unique or better about the brand.”
WHICH ADS WILL BE GAME-TIME SURPRISES?
While many advertisers have released ads ahead of the game, there are always some surprises. Dunkin’ Donuts is running an ad that reportedly will star Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez, although the brand hasn’t confirmed that. Stellantis, which owns car brands Jeep and Ram, will run two undisclosed ads. And M&Ms has kept its advertising under wraps after declaring that its candy spokescharacters were on pause — they’re likely to make an appearance during the game, however. | 2023-02-12T05:39:42+00:00 | keloland.com | https://www.keloland.com/sports/the-big-game/super-bowl-ads-keep-it-light-with-nostalgia-and-stars/ |
Spicy Survey Results Show 93% of Respondents Prefer Some Level of Heat in Their Food
HUNT VALLEY, Md., Nov. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- If you tend to reach for spicier foods, chances are you lead a spicier life. That's according to a new survey commissioned by Frank's RedHot®, the #1 hot sauce in the world*, which sought to learn about consumer preferences and uncover trends as we return to pre-pandemic holiday gatherings and feasts.
The survey explored personality correlations between people who are spicy food enthusiasts, targeting adults who celebrate winter holidays, to discover how they are adding heat to upcoming family meals.
Some of the key findings got saucy:
- 93% of respondents prefer some level of heat in their food. Nearly four in 10 (36%) say they go for medium, 33% go for mild, and 24% like their spice level set to hot.
- Spicy food eaters are more likely to enjoy trying new things (76%), consider themselves attractive (62%), and are more content with their lives (66%) than milder heat lovers.
- Those who like to kick it up a notch are also more likely to describe themselves as creative (54%), confident (51%), and adventurous (44%), as opposed to mild heat lovers who are more likely to describe themselves as empathetic (41%) and shy (37%).
- Almost one-third (32%) of spicy food fans follow a certain diet like vegan or vegetarian — more than double the number of mild heat fans (13%) and more than any other heat preference.
- During the holiday season, medium heat fans consider themselves the best gift givers (56%). However, hot food fanatics are most likely to be tasting the food (48%) or "stirring the pot" causing drama or trouble with friends and family (11%).
- More than one-third (35%) of respondents are tired of eating the same things each holiday season and identified potatoes (46%) and meats (41%) as some of the top blandest foods.
- Respondents are also planning to mix things up in the kitchen this year, with 45% planning to cook different recipes, and 42% wanting to try new foods.
- To amp up flavor, respondents are adding seasoning (44%), mixing unique flavors (39%), and including sauces like hot sauce or a marinade (39%).
"It makes perfect sense that those who take the heat head on are ready to take on anything and everything else. Our loyal fans go big on both flavor and adventure, and they're always chasing the spice of life," said Kevan Vetter, Executive Chef for McCormick®. "For the holidays, we eat the same dishes every year, and people are ready for imaginative recipes and new takes on the classics. Frank's RedHot is the perfect antidote to boring food, infusing dishes with bold flavors and a craveable kick in seconds."
Survey respondents will be happy to learn that Frank's RedHot launched the Frank's RedHot Injector Marinade earlier this month to help enhance average holiday dishes by increasing the heat. This versatile ingredient also makes a great holiday gift for foodies and hot sauce enthusiasts alike. Fans nationwide can order the Frank's RedHot Injector Marinade online or find it in select stores here (prices may vary). For holiday recipe inspiration and more information, visit FranksRedHot.com.
The survey of 2,000 people who celebrate a winter holiday was conducted by market research company OnePoll on behalf of Frank's RedHot between November 1st and November 7th, 2022.
*Source Euromonitor International Limited; based on custom research conducted July 2022 for volume sales (ounces/ml) in 2021 through all retail channels. Hot sauce is defined as a purely liquid spicy table sauce/condiment with vinegar as a substantial ingredient. Excludes chili pastes.
About Frank's
It all started back in 1920 when the first bottle of Original Cayenne Pepper Sauce was introduced. Made with a premium blend of aged cayenne peppers, Frank's RedHot adds the perfect blend of flavor and heat to your favorite foods. Frank's Cayenne Pepper Sauce was used as the secret ingredient in the original Buffalo wings created in Buffalo, NY in 1964. Try our family of products including the Original sauce, Buffalo Wings sauce, Queso Dip seasoning mix, Buffalo Ranch seasoning, Frozen Buffalo Wings and more. Visit www.FranksRedHot.com for more information and recipes.
Frank's is one of McCormick & Company's (MKC) brands. With over $6 billion in annual sales across 170 countries and territories, McCormick is a global leader in flavor. Founded in 1889 and headquartered in Hunt Valley, Maryland USA, McCormick is guided by our principles and committed to our Purpose – To Stand Together for the Future of Flavor. McCormick envisions A World United by Flavor where healthy, sustainable, and delicious go hand in hand. To learn more, visit www.mccormickcorporation.com or follow McCormick & Company on Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn.
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WEST CHESTER, Pa., May 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Venerable Holdings, Inc. (Venerable), today announced an agreement for its wholly-owned subsidiary Venerable Insurance and Annuity Company (VIAC), to recapture approximately $2.8 billion of payout annuity reserves from Athene with an effective date of July 1, 2023.
The business is principally comprised of guaranteed minimum income benefit (GMIB) rider annuitizations and annuitized fixed annuity contracts, all previously reinsured with Athene. Venerable will continue to administer these contracts following the recapture.
"This agreement demonstrates continued execution of our growth strategy, enhancing Venerable's liquidity position and improving the strength and stability of our cash flow profile," said David Marcinek, Chairman and CEO of Venerable. "We appreciate the opportunity to partner with Athene to create value for both organizations."
The transaction is expected to increase Venerable's payout annuity reserves by approximately 57% such that Venerable's payout business constitutes approximately 33% of projected annual cash flow. Venerable's overall projected annual cash flow is estimated to increase by approximately 15%.
Grant Kvalheim, President of Athene said, "We have had a strong relationship with Venerable since its inception, and as a long-term shareholder, we are pleased to partner with David and team in structuring a mutually beneficial transaction. Athene will free up capital supporting this block of business and expects to redeploy it in support of our substantial organic growth aspirations at a time when we have the opportunity to capture particularly attractive spreads."
Sidley Austin LLP is serving as legal counsel in connection with this transaction.
About Venerable
Venerable is a privately held company with business operations in West Chester, Pennsylvania, Des Moines, Iowa, and New York, NY. Venerable owns and manages legacy variable annuity business acquired from other entities. Created by an investor group led by affiliates of Apollo Global Management, LLC, Crestview Partners, Reverence Capital Partners, and Athene Holding Ltd., Venerable is a business with well-established, strategic investors, experienced in successfully building and growing insurance businesses with patient, long-term capital. For more information, please visit www.venerable.com.
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The 96th annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade was kicked off with Lea Michele and the cast of Broadway’s “Funny Girl.” However, the performance left some viewers unhappy.
“Could really do without Lea Michelle tbh,” one person tweeted.
Michele has had some recent controversies. The announcement of her joining “Funny Girl” was met with some contention after accusations that Michele was abusive to a Black co-star on “Glee,” CNN reported.
Still, tickets for Michele’s opening night sold for as much as $2,500 on On SeatGeek, the news outlet reported.
There were also rumors that the singer can’t read, which began in 2017 but was brought up again earlier this year, according to NBC. She then addressed that controversy in her first TikTok.
But her performance during the parade was met with mixed reviews.
“Biggest jumpscare seeing lea Michelle on MY Macy’s Day Parade,” one person tweeted.
“Lea Michele opening the #MacysParade with Don’t Rain on My Parade is the greatest idea since cake,” another person tweeted.
“Lea Michele and the cast of Funny Girl opening the #MacysParade was TOO GOOD,” one Twitter user wrote.
“Lea Michele can’t read but damn it she can sing,” a Twitter user said, referencing the 2017 meme.
“Me and my siblings got the jump scare of a lifetime when Lea Michele popped on the screen this Macy’s Day Parade,” another Twitter user wrote.
Michele and the “Funny Girl” cast also performed “Don’t Rain On My Parade” on Good Morning America. Watch the performance here. | 2022-11-24T14:31:58+00:00 | masslive.com | https://www.masslive.com/entertainment/2022/11/lea-michele-starts-96th-annual-macys-thanksgiving-day-parade-some-fans-unhappy.html |
Rays vs. Mariners: Betting Trends, Odds, Records Against the Run Line, Home/Road Splits
Bryce Miller takes the mound for the Seattle Mariners on Friday at T-Mobile Park against Manuel Margot and the Tampa Bay Rays. First pitch is at 10:10 PM ET.
The favored Rays have -135 moneyline odds to win against the underdog Mariners, who are listed at +115. The over/under is 7.5 runs for the contest (with -105 odds to hit the over and -115 odds on the under).
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Rays vs. Mariners Odds & Info
- Date: Friday, June 30, 2023
- Time: 10:10 PM ET
- TV: ROOT Sports NW
- Location: Seattle, Washington
- Venue: T-Mobile Park
- Live Stream: Watch on Fubo!
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Rays Recent Betting Performance
- In seven games as the favorite over the last 10 matchups, the Rays have a record of 4-3.
- In their last 10 games with a total, the Rays and their opponents have failed to hit the over three times.
- In their last two games with a spread, the Rays failed to cover each time.
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Rays Betting Records & Stats
- The Rays have a 50-20 record in games they were listed as the moneyline favorite (winning 71.4% of those games).
- Tampa Bay has gone 45-12 (winning 78.9% of its games) when it has played as moneyline favorites of -135 or shorter.
- Based on this game's moneyline, the Rays have an implied win probability of 57.4%.
- Tampa Bay has had an over/under set by bookmakers 84 times, and have combined with opponents to go over the total in 47 of those games (47-33-4).
- The Rays have covered 60% of their games this season, going 9-6-0 against the spread.
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Boy, 4, dies after being rescued from freezing river on Christmas Eve
CENTRAL, La. (WAFB) - Authorities say a 4-year-old boy who got lost while on a Christmas Eve hike with his father died after he was found in a freezing Louisiana river.
According to officials, the Central Police Department received a call around 2:40 p.m. Saturday from a “frantic” parent saying his 4-year-old son walked away from him while the two were on a hike. He couldn’t find the boy.
Multiple agencies assisted with the search, including the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office, Central Fire Department and the St. George Fire Department, WAFB reports.
After about an hour of searching, the boy was found in the Amite River near the BREC Frenchtown Conservation Area, according to Central Police Chief Roger Corcoran.
A fireman went into the water, which Corcoran estimates was around 10 degrees, to rescue the 4-year-old.
“The fireman did not hesitate to jump in the water... He did his job as a first responder,” Corcoran said.
Officials say the boy was taken to the hospital in critical condition and later died.
Corcoran says it’s unknown how the boy ended up in the river.
The investigation has been turned over to the detectives in the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office.
Authorities said the East Baton Rouge Coroner’s Office will perform an autopsy on the child.
Copyright 2022 WAFB via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2022-12-26T09:22:22+00:00 | wnem.com | https://www.wnem.com/2022/12/26/boy-4-dies-after-being-rescued-freezing-river-christmas-eve/ |
CEDAR FALLS — The Human Rights Commission will deliver its annual report to the City Council Monday after a year that’s been filled with transitions and progress for the panel.
Several members are relatively new to the commission, which is also waiting for the addition of a paid staff person to help guide its work.
Chairman Eashaan Vajpeyi will share some highlights and answer any questions at the Community Center, 528 Main St., during a 5:55 p.m. finance and business operations committee meeting.
The 27-year department veteran answered questions for 45 minutes on topics ranging from community policing and mental health to school shootings and recruitment.
The 11-member commission has shifted away from work in fact-finding and investigations and has restructured its committees in the areas of education, advocacy, and outreach.
It’s hosted a variety of events, and according to its report, now feels it “has a foundation in place to provide timely responses to concerns from the public.”
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Five new members were appointed within the last couple months after the commission’s size was expanded from nine to 11 by the council and two longtime members, Susan Langan and Teri Lynn Jorgensen, stepped away.
The commission also awaits the hiring of a diversity, equity and inclusion specialist to spearhead tasks that the 11 volunteer commissioners would not be able to accomplish on its own. Right now, Human Resources Manager Bailey Schindel assists the commission in addition to the rest of her day-to-day responsibilities.
Howard expressed support for various initiatives like focusing on officer wellness, adding a K-9 to the force and increasing the bike patrol presence on the trails.
Following the discussion, the city will continue to meet as a committee to iron out some meeting procedural changes, and hear from University of Northern Iowa athletic directors Jamar Thompson and David Harris about the recently launched $50 million fundraising campaign for UNI-Dome renovations.
The regular business meeting starts at 7 p.m. The council will consider acting on several items:
- Scheduling Nov. 7 as the date for a public hearing on the plans for the estimated $21.8 million Main Street Reconstruction Project. Another resolution associated with the massive project, spanning from the intersections of Sixth Street and University Avenue, is on Monday’s agenda for approval.
- Scheduling Nov. 7 as the date for a public hearing on the plans for the Cedar River Recreational Improvements Project estimated to cost $5.8 million. It would be the second time the project’s been approved and placed out for bid. The first came last year when the construction proposals were submitted with significantly higher costs than were originally projected, and the council rejected them.
- An ordinance, on the first of three readings, that would reduce the council’s voting threshold from a two-thirds to a simple majority to override any Planning and Zoning Commission recommendations of denial for zoning ordinance amendments. Green, however, has said he’ll veto it if passed.
- An ordinance, on the first of three readings, that would change the days of allowable usage of fireworks from July 3, 4 and 5 to only July 3 and 4, with the annual option of the council adding another day of use. The cutoff time also will be changed from 10 and 11 p.m., depending on the day, to 10:30 p.m. across the board.
- A $41,700 contract with Waterloo-based Lehman Trucking & Excavating Inc. for the northern Cedar Falls flood buyout program to demolish structures at properties the city now owns – 627 and 1027 Clair St., 628 Longview St., and 824 Cottage Row Ln. Other resolutions associated with the program are on Monday’s agenda for approval.
- A rate of $3.89 per $1,000 taxable value for commercial properties within the Downtown Cedar Falls Self-Supported Municipal Improvement District for fiscal year 2024. The rate is the same as the current year.
- The resignation of LeaAnn Saul as a member of the Planning & Zoning Commission, as well as the re-appointments of Brad Leeper and Oksana Grybovych Hafermann to the commission for five years. | 2022-10-16T11:24:03+00:00 | wcfcourier.com | https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/cedar-falls-city-council-to-discuss-human-rights-commission-report-monday/article_468ff1bb-7770-5577-a3af-7c598423eaf7.html |
NEW YORK, July 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- This press release provides shareholders of Cohen & Steers Total Return Realty Fund, Inc. (NYSE: RFI) (the "Fund") with information regarding the sources of the distribution to be paid on July 31, 2023 and cumulative distributions paid fiscal year-to-date.
In December 2011, the Fund implemented a managed distribution policy in accordance with exemptive relief issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission. The managed distribution policy seeks to deliver the Fund's long-term total return potential through regular monthly distributions declared at a fixed rate per common share. The policy gives the Fund greater flexibility to realize long-term capital gains throughout the year and to distribute those gains on a regular monthly basis to shareholders. The Board of Directors of the Fund may amend, terminate or suspend the managed distribution policy at any time, which could have an adverse effect on the market price of the Fund's shares.
The Fund's monthly distributions may include long-term capital gains, short-term capital gains, net investment income and/or return of capital for federal income tax purposes. Return of capital includes distributions paid by the Fund in excess of its net investment income and net realized capital gains and such excess is distributed from the Fund's assets. A return of capital is not taxable; rather, it reduces a shareholder's tax basis in his or her shares of the Fund. In addition, distributions from the Fund's investments in real estate investment trusts (REITs) may later be characterized as capital gains and/or a return of capital, depending on the character of the dividends reported to the Fund after year-end by REITs held by the Fund. The amount of monthly distributions may vary depending on a number of factors, including changes in portfolio and market conditions.
At the time of each monthly distribution, information will be posted to cohenandsteers.com and mailed to shareholders in a concurrent notice. However, this information may change at the end of the year because the final tax characteristics of the Fund's distributions cannot be determined with certainty until after the end of the calendar year. Final tax characteristics of all of the Fund's distributions will be provided on Form 1099-DIV, which is mailed after the close of the calendar year.
The following table sets forth the estimated amounts of the current distribution and the cumulative distributions paid this fiscal year-to-date from the sources indicated. All amounts are expressed per common share.
You should not draw any conclusions about the Fund's investment performance from the amount of this distribution or from the terms of the Fund's managed distribution policy. The Fund estimates that it has distributed more than its income and capital gains; therefore, a portion of your distribution may be a return of capital. A return of capital may occur, for example, when some or all of the money that you invested in the Fund is paid back to you. A return of capital distribution does not necessarily reflect the Fund's investment performance and should not be confused with 'yield' or 'income'. The amounts and sources of distributions reported in this Notice are only estimates, are likely to change over time, and are not being provided for tax reporting purposes. The actual amounts and sources of the amounts for accounting and tax reporting purposes will depend upon the Fund's investment experience during the remainder of its fiscal year and may be subject to changes based on tax regulations. The amounts and sources of distributions year-to-date may be subject to additional adjustments.
*THE FUND WILL SEND YOU A FORM 1099-DIV FOR THE CALENDAR YEAR THAT WILL TELL YOU HOW TO REPORT THESE DISTRIBUTIONS FOR FEDERAL INCOME TAX PURPOSES.
The Fund's Year-to-date Cumulative Total Return for fiscal year 2023 (January 1, 2023 through June 30, 2023) is set forth below. Shareholders should take note of the relationship between the Year-to-date Cumulative Total Return with the Fund's Cumulative Distribution Rate for 2023. In addition, the Fund's Average Annual Total Return for the five-year period ending June 30, 2023 is set forth below. Shareholders should note the relationship between the Average Annual Total Return with the Fund's Current Annualized Distribution Rate for 2023. The performance and distribution rate information disclosed in the table is based on the Fund's net asset value per share (NAV). The Fund's NAV is calculated as the total market value of all the securities and other assets held by the Fund minus the total liabilities, divided by the total number of shares outstanding. While NAV performance may be indicative of the Fund's investment performance, it does not measure the value of a shareholder's individual investment in the Fund. The value of a shareholder's investment in the Fund is determined by the Fund's market price, which is based on the supply and demand for the Fund's shares in the open market.
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Investors should consider the investment objectives, risks, charges and expense of the Fund carefully before investing. You can obtain the Fund's most recent periodic reports, when available, and other regulatory filings by contacting your financial advisor or visiting cohenandsteers.com. These reports and other filings can be found on the Securities and Exchange Commission's EDGAR Database. You should read these reports and other filings carefully before investing.
Shareholders should not use the information provided here in preparing their tax returns. Shareholders will receive a Form 1099-DIV for the calendar year indicating how to report Fund distributions for federal income tax purposes.
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Caron continues its growth and expansion in the Life Science market
MARIETTA, Ohio, Aug. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Caron Products and Services, Inc. ("Caron"), a leading provider of laboratory equipment used in R&D and manufacturing of biological and biopharmaceutical products such as cell and gene therapy research, today announced Sharon Moseley, Global Human Resources Director. Based in Dallas, Texas, and reporting directly to the CEO, she will advance Caron's HR strategy for expansion while securing key talent to add to Caron's growing team across North America, Europe, and Asia.
Sharon brings extensive HR leadership experience working across varied industries for multinational companies including Ashland Chemical, Tetra Pak, and W.W. Grainger. Her experience spans across all HR disciplines including executive development, business and cultural transformation, talent management, employee engagement, talent acquisition, training and learning development, M&A and workforce integration.
"We are excited to have Sharon lead Caron's Global HR strategy and initiatives. Her extensive background in human resources and leadership experience will help expedite our growth strategy moving forward," said Jay Hexamer, Caron President and CEO. "Her talent and business experience will assist us in key areas of executive alignment, integrating business processes, and managing organizational growth."
"I'm excited to lead Caron's HR strategy to support our growth and global expansion," stated Sharon. "Empowering employees and maximizing company culture allows us to focus on alignment to reach total solutions for the scientific community."
Sharon earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from DePaul University and a Master of Business Administration from Franklin University. She's also an active member of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), a certified Birkman Professional (BCP), and holds an M&A Integration certification (MC&AI).
About Caron Products and Services, Inc.
Founded in 1985, Caron Products is a leading provider of laboratory equipment, environmental chambers and incubators, biosafety cabinets, and Lab Automation Enclosures in the life science industry. Our customers are in the Biopharma, Biotech, Education, Healthcare, and Industrial markets who discover life-changing therapies and consumable products to cure illnesses and to enable a healthier world.
All team members at Caron Products are an important part of our ecosystem and our work has meaningful impact in achieving our main goal of "opening doors for scientists". For more information, visit www.caronproducts.com.
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RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — As expected, Republican lawmakers have introduced a bill to ban abortions after 15 weeks in Virginia.
Del. Kathy Byron (R-Bedford) and state Sen. Stephen Newman (R-Bedford), two of four state lawmakers tapped by Gov. Glenn Youngkin to work on the legislation, have filed a measure to prohibit procedures after 15 weeks with exceptions for rape, incest and when the mother’s life is in danger, according to a release from the anti-abortion organization Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America.
The legislature’s online records show House Bill 2278 filed by one patron, Del. Byron. With Democrats heading towards an apparent 22-18 majority in the state Senate, if Aaron Rouse is certified as the winner of a special election, any attempt to overhaul Virginia’s access to abortion is unlikely.
Virginia allows abortions up until the second trimester of pregnancy — or about 26 weeks — and after the second trimester only when three doctors conclude “the continuation of the pregnancy is likely to result in the death of the woman or substantially and irremediably impair the mental or physical health of the woman.”
Under the legislation filed by Byron, physicians who perform or attempt to perform abortions after that threshold would face a Class 4 felony that carries a sentence of up to 10 years and a possible $100,000 fine.
Byron’s proposal would also require all procedures after the 15-week mark to be performed “in a hospital licensed by the State Department of Health or operated by the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services.”
Stay with 8News for updates. | 2023-01-11T17:16:43+00:00 | wric.com | https://www.wric.com/news/politics/capitol-connection/republican-lawmakers-introduce-gov-youngkins-15-week-abortion-ban-proposal/ |
(NewsNation) — Concerns are growing nationwide for rapidly increasing cases of what health officials have deemed a tripledemic: the flu, RSV and COVID-19, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is once again urging the public to wear face masks indoors.
According to the agency’s Dec. 8 report, 13.7% of Americans now live in communities now rated “high” COVID-19 Community Levels, up from 4.9% of the population last week. An additional 38.1% of Americans are in “medium” areas and 48.2% are in “low” areas.
A number of major cities are now mulling a return to masking measures.
In California, more than 10 counties, including Los Angeles, Maricopa, Nassau and San Bernardino, are now in the “high” tier.
Los Angeles County health officials are again strongly recommending that everyone wears masks indoors.
Over the past week, Los Angeles hospitals saw an average of 1,245 COVID-positive patients every day — that’s a nearly 20% jump over the previous seven days.
“When you put on your mask for these few weeks during this surge, it is about the people of LA County. it is about every individual, every visitor, our health care workers, essential workers and other people who serve. in addition to vaccination, it is one of the easiest things everyone can do right now,” Dr. Barbara Ferrer, Los Angeles County director of public health, wrote in a press release.
In New York, a health advisory notice was sent out alerting hospitals, local health departments, emergency rooms and labs to prepare for rapidly rising cases of respiratory illness.
The Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island are in orange, meaning high-risk levels, while Manhattan is in yellow, the medium-risk level, according to the latest CDC data.
On Dec. 9, state officials urged schools to return to indoor masking to curb the spread of respiratory illnesses.
As the Christmas and New Year’s holidays approach, when families are expected to gather across the country, health officials fear that could put a significant strain on our health care system if people don’t take the proper precautions.
“Our immune system has not been revved up. The vaccine rates are lower. We are a prime sitting target for other respiratory illnesses as we relax our guard down and begin to have contact with other people,” said Dr. Bruce Hirsch, an attending physician in infectious diseases at Northwell Health.
Medical centers across America are reporting higher rates of hospitalizations, and nursing homes are pushing boosters for residents.
As for RSV, the ones at greatest risk are children 6 months and younger who haven’t built up strong immune systems yet. An RSV vaccine is reported to become available by this time next year. | 2022-12-12T17:22:47+00:00 | wwlp.com | https://www.wwlp.com/news/national/cdc-urges-masking-return-as-tripledemic-surges/ |
Kevin Anderson 2023 Hall of Fame Open Odds
A quarterfinal is up next for Kevin Anderson in the Hall of Fame Open, and he will meet Ugo Humbert. Anderson is +900 to win this tournament at International Tennis Hall of Fame.
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Anderson at the 2023 Hall of Fame Open
- Next Round: Quarterfinals
- Tournament Dates: July 15-23
- Venue: International Tennis Hall of Fame
- Location: Newport, Rhode Island
- Court Surface: Grass
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Anderson's Next Match
On Thursday, July 20 at 1:50 PM ET, Anderson will play Humbert in the quarterfinals, after beating Gijs Brouwer 6-3, 7-6 in the previous round.
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Anderson Stats
- Anderson beat No. 145-ranked Brouwer 6-3, 7-6 on Wednesday to make the .
- In one tournament over the past 12 months, Anderson is 2-0 and has yet to win a title.
- In one tournaments on grass over the past 12 months, Anderson has gone 2-0.
- Anderson, over the past year, has played two matches across all court types, and 19.5 games per match.
- On grass, Anderson has played two matches over the past year, and he has totaled 19.5 games per match while winning 64.1% of games.
- Over the past 12 months, Anderson has won 94.7% of his service games, and he has won 35.0% of his return games.
- On grass over the past year, Anderson has been victorious in 94.7% of his service games and 35.0% of his return games.
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March 14, 1973 - May 30, 2023
BLOOMINGTON — Timothy "Tim" Joseph Mitchell, 50, of Bloomington, passed away on Tuesday, May 30, 2023, at St. Joseph Medical Center in Bloomington.
Tim was born in Arlington Heights to Glenn and Judy (Dring) Mitchell on March 14, 1973. He married the love of his life, Tiffany Forbes, on August 24, 2002. They survive.
Also surviving are his daughter, Caitlyn Mitchell; two brothers: Tom (Kimberly) Mitchell and Michael (Maria) Mitchell.
He preceded in death by his grandparents and beloved dog, Sigmund.
Tim graduated from Illinois State University with a bachelor's and master's degree in clinical psychology.
Tim loved to spend time with his family and enjoyed photography, golfing, vacationing, and hosting exchange students. He was an avid Chicago Cubs and Marvin the Martian fan and Devout Catholic. He was a loving husband, father, brother, uncle, and United States 82nd Airborne Division Veteran. He will be greatly missed by his family and friends.
His visitation will be held from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. Wednesday, June 7, 2023, at Carmody Flynn Funeral Home. A funeral will be held at 10:00 a.m. Thursday, June 8, 2023. at Saint Patrick Church of Merna. Officiated by Father Schultz.
His Burial will be held at 1:00 p.m. Thursday, June 8, 2023, at Camp Butler National Cemetery in Springfield.
Those wishing to make a memorial donation in Tim name may do so to his daughter Caitlyn's Education Fund or Humane Society of Central Illinois, 423 Kays Drive, Normal, IL, 61761.
For more information, please visit carmodyflynn.com. | 2023-06-04T06:23:25+00:00 | pantagraph.com | https://pantagraph.com/obituaries/timothy-tim-joseph-mitchell/article_8ee44528-27c4-51ba-bb32-5f3ebcb89c91.html |
Retailers and technology companies led a broad slide for stocks Wednesday after a dismal financial report from Target overshadowed a positive retail sector report from the government.
The S&P 500 fell 0.8%, wiping out most of its gains from a day earlier. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.1% and the Nasdaq lost 1.5%.
Discouraging quarterly updates from Target and other retailers put investors in a selling mood, despite a report showing that U.S. retail sales remained strong last month.
Target slumped 13.1% after cutting its forecasts for the holiday season following a surprisingly big drop in its third-quarter profits. The retailer also said its sales slowed sharply in recent weeks.
“I think the market might be saying the broader data that we have is OK, but what Target is saying is a little more forward-looking in terms of what they expect for the holiday season, and that might not be so good,” said Willie Delwiche, investment strategist at All Star Charts.
Other retailers also helped drag the market lower. Advance Auto Parts fell 15.1% after reporting weak financial results. Best Buy slumped 8.6%. Macy's, which reports its financial results on Thursday, fell 8.1%.
Big technology companies also fell. Chipmaker Micron Technology dropped 6.7% after announcing some production cuts because of weak demand. Nvidia fell 4.5%.
All told, the S&P 500 fell 32.94 points to 3,958.79. The Dow slid 39.09 points to 33,553.83. The tech-heavy Nasdaq dropped 174.75 points to 11,183.66.
Smaller company stocks also lost ground. The Russell 2000 index fell 36.04 points, or 1.9%, to 1,853.17.
Wall Street has been closely watching the latest economic updates, including reports that consumer and wholesale prices continue to cool. Much of the market's prior rally was due to hopes inflation is easing, which could portend less aggressive hikes for interest rates from the Federal Reserve.
The Fed has been raising interest rates in an effort to slow the economy and tame the hottest inflation in decades. Wall Street is worried that it could hit the brakes too hard on economic growth and bring on a recession.
The latest government report on retail sales for October shows that consumer spending remains strong, though it's unclear whether that's because of more purchases or higher prices.
Strong consumer spending is typically a good sign for the economy, but it could make the Fed's strategy of cooling the economy more difficult. The central bank has already hiked its key overnight rate up to a range of 3.75% to 4% from virtually zero earlier this year. It has said it still plans to hike rates further and then to hold them at that high rate for a while in order to grind down inflation.
“The better-than-expected retail sales results don't bolster the case that the Fed" can ease up on its campaign to slow the economy with high interest rates, said Tom Hainlin, national investment strategist at U.S. Bank Wealth Management.
He said resilient consumer spending could improve the possibility that the Fed manages to pull off a so-called “soft landing” with its strategy. That would involve taming inflation without throwing the economy into a recession, or at least avoiding a damaging recession.
Bond yields were mixed. The yield on the 10-year Treasury, which influences mortgage rates, fell to 3.69% from 3.78% from late Tuesday. The yield on the two-year Treasury rose to 4.37% from 4.35% from late Tuesday.
Markets in Europe fell as investors watched developments in Russia's war against Ukraine. Geopolitical tensions had flared a day earlier after a missile fell on farmland in Poland, a NATO member, killing two people. NATO's chief and the president of Poland said there are no indications that the missile was a deliberate attack, adding that Ukraine likely launched the Soviet-era projectile as it was fending off a Russian air assault.
“There is nothing, absolutely nothing, to suggest that it was an intentional attack on Poland," said Polish President Andrzej Duda.
The conflict is hanging over the energy market. A worsening war in Ukraine could cause spikes in prices for oil, gas and other commodities that the region produces. U.S. crude oil prices initially rose, before settling 1.5% lower.
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Yuri Kageyama and Matt Ott contributed to this report. | 2022-11-16T23:05:27+00:00 | springfieldnewssun.com | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/nation-world/wall-street-slips-as-target-stumbles-and-weighs-on-retailers/EPKKLEKMKZFVHIKPEVCKXCAORI/ |
‘Barbenheimer’ arrives as moviegoers flock to a Mattel-mushroom cloud double feature
NEW YORK (AP) — Waves of pink-clad moviegoers passed under carboard palm trees on the frenzied first day of “Barbenheimer.”
After a feverish drumbeat propelled forward by a mushroom cloud of memes, the most anticipated day on the year’s movie calendar finally arrived as “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” — two movie opposites brought together by cross-marketing fate — landed in theaters.
“I think it’s the contrast,” said Lucy Ruiz, 17, as she and a friend made their way into the first showing of “Barbie” on Thursday at the Alamo Drafthouse in Yonkers, New York. “If you want to do both in the same day, it’s like two sides of the same coin.”
For Ruiz, the second half of her “Barbenheimer” would have to wait. “Maybe next week,” she said of seeing “Oppenheimer.”
But many are flocking to see both on opening weekend. The National Association of Theater Owners says some 200,000 moviegoers in North America have booked same-day tickets to each movie. The movie of the summer has turned out to be not “Indiana Jones” or “The Flash,” but a double feature.
“I don’t think I’ve seen anything like this,” says Michael O’Leary, president of the theater association, who compared the phenomenon to a sold-out Taylor Swift concert tour. “But while that’s an amazing special event that captures the cultural attention, it’s not accessible to everybody the way these two movies are. This is a phenomenon open to everyone, regardless of where they live.”
As of Friday, it was already clear “Barbenheimer” had morphed into the movie event of the year. The collision of Greta Gerwig’s bright satire of the Mattel doll and Christopher Nolan’s three-hour opus on J. Robert Oppenheimer, the so-called father of the atomic bomb, wasn’t cannibalizing ticket sales for either but fueling excitement for the most schizophrenic and color-clashing of movie weekends.
Studios forecasts had hovered around an $80 million opening weekend for “Barbie” and about $40 million for “Oppenheimer.” But it’s likely that both will greatly exceed those totals, and maybe even — especially in the case of “Barbie” — double them.
Warner Bros. said Friday that “Barbie” took in $22.5 million in Thursday previews, the best such tally of the year and a clear sign that the film will easily sail past $100 million for the weekend. Universal Pictures’ “Oppenheimer” notched $10.5 million in preshow ticket sales, a likewise strong start.
“Barbenheimer” is poised to be not just a viral trend but a box-office behemoth. For a movie industry that still hasn’t entirely recovered its pre-pandemic footing, it’s a much-needed jolt of moviegoing joy in a summer season where many of the top releases have fallen shy of expectations. Overall sales on the year are running about 20% below the box-office pace of 2019.
As much as the “Barbenheimer” fanfare has been driven by internet fascination, it’s in many ways an old-school movie weekend. Both movies are roundly acclaimed, original works by two of the best filmmakers working today. “Oppenheimer” has been hailed as a masterpiece; in my review, I called it “a kinetic thing of dark, imposing beauty.” The Associated Press’ Jocelyn Noveck called “Barbie” “brash, clever, idea-packed (if ultimately TOO packed) and most of all eye-poppingly lovely.”
For some moviegoers, “Barbenheimer” is their first blush with the once common practice of catching a double feature. Jack Robinson, 17, had tickets to see both movies with friends Saturday. He planned to don a suit for “Oppenheimer” before changing into pink for “Barbie.”
“I used to go to the movies a lot with my family and friends before corona happened. I’m very excited,” said Robinson. “It’ll be interesting to not leave the movie theater. Usually, it’s like bathroom and go home.”
In recent years, theater owners have often bemoaned not having enough films in the marketplace as streaming made inroads and studios increasingly concentrated their release schedules on fewer but bigger films. But “Barbenheimer” points to the possible reward when a varied group of films collective rise the box-office tide.
“Barbenheimer” may have momentarily eclipsed last week’s top film, “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” — which, despite Tom Cruise’s lobbying, is losing IMAX screens to “Oppenheimer” this weekend. But having three big movies in close proximity to one other, O’Leary said, “is a good problem to have.”
“It’s certainly preferable to the alternative,” said O’Leary.
Parrot Analytics found that global demand for the casts of each film — all of whom have been publicly enthusiastic about seeing their rival movie — grew at virtually the same rate between late April and mid-July. The audience demographics are almost opposite one another. “Barbie” is appealing to a largely female and younger audience, while “Oppenheimer” is most popular with males and those over the age of 30, Parrot found.
Yet in a much-divided America, “Barbenheimer” has been the great pop-culture unifier of 2023. There is harmony in contrast.
“I’m doing ‘Barbie’ first and then ‘Oppenheimer’ because I know ‘Oppenheimer’ is going to be something I have to digest,” says Jill Kupnick of Brooklyn.
Movie theaters are catering to the “Barbenheimer” phenomenon with double feature tickets and plenty of “Barbie”-themed promotions of candy and cocktails. But most are programming their own “Barbenheimer” days. Freelance writer Kelsey Weekman called it “the closest we’ve come to having school spirit week as adults.”
“I have a friend who has outfits picked out and knows how she’s styling her hair,” Krupnick says. “There’s a level of play involved that you rarely see in more mainstream cinema. It’s more common with Marvel movies or in the fantasy genre than something like this.”
“Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” have melded together so much that it’s become possible — despite their vast differences — to confuse one for the other. At the Yonkers Alamo Drafthouse, a sharply dressed man wearing a pink shirt beneath a blazer inquired about showtimes for “Oppenheimer.”
A clerk courteously answered and then, noticing the man’s attire, asked, “Did you want times for ‘Barbie,’ too?”
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(The Conversation) – Modern medicine is remarkable.
Conditions like HIV/AIDS and hepatitis C were once virtual death sentences. Both can now be treated easily and effectively.
But for Americans, the wonders of modern medicine come at a steep cost: Total U.S. health spending exceeded US$4.1 trillion in 2020, or $12,000 per person. How those trillions of dollars are spent can seem like a mystery.
The biggest portion of that – hospital care, which makes up 31% of total spending – is now subject to transparency rules that are supposed to make it easier for patients to understand what their treatments cost. But so far hospitals’ compliance has been minimal.
Things are both more transparent and murkier when it comes to the second-biggest chunk of America’s annual medical bill: payments to physicians and for clinical services, which account for 20% of total health care spending, or $810 billion. How much a patient is charged for a hip replacement or a flu shot is the result of a highly technical process involving secretive committee meetings, doctor surveys and federal regulations.
A few decades ago, the federal government developed a seemingly scientific approach to solve these questions. As an expert on health care policy, I’ve learned that the formula is simple. But coming up with numbers for that formula is far more complex.
Physician free-for-all
For the longest time, the federal government tried its best to stay out of the examination room. By and large, medical care was a private endeavor, and physicians and other providers charged what they wanted – or what they thought patients could pay.
Then, in 1965, Congress established Medicare and Medicaid, which are federal programs that provide health insurance for the elderly and poor, respectively. Practically overnight, they turned the government into the largest spender on health care. That meant the Johnson administration had to figure out how to compensate physicians who had long been opposed to government involvement in health care and derided it as “socialized medicine.”
To minimize opposition, an agreement was forged that seemed innocuous enough: Physicians would be allowed to charge Medicare “customary, prevailing and reasonable fees,” and the federal government would not question them.
Yet the inflationary nature of this approach became quickly apparent as many physicians happily took the federal government up on this offer. Doctors often charged Medicare two to four times more than what they charged commercial insurers. The need for changes seemed inevitable.
A new payment system
It took another two decades to create a more evidence-based approach that relied less on a doctor’s discretion and aimed to rein in spending.
After a comprehensive study conducted by Harvard researchers and the American Medical Association, the federal government developed a framework that paid providers based on the resources and skills required for various treatments. The formula, which its creators dubbed the resource-based relative value scale, includes three steps to calculate how much money a physician could charge for a procedure.
First, you have the “relative value unit” for each procedure, which in turn is divided into three components. The main part is a physician’s actual labor. To determine that, the researchers used physician surveys as well as historical payment data to determine how much time, effort and skill each of thousands of medical procedures required. Higher values are assigned to more resource-intensive procedures, such as placing a catheter – 6.29 relative value units – and lower values to procedures requiring fewer, like administering a COVID-19 shot – a fifth of a unit.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has an updated list of relative value units for every procedure imaginable, from an allergy skin test that requires puncturing the skin, which has one of the lowest values, at 0.01 unit, to the repair of a diaphragm hernia, which is the most expensive one listed, at 108.91 units.
The other two components are for general expenses, such as rent and medical equipment, and malpractice insurance. They are also determined by a similar process involving the cost of resources.
The next step involves adjusting these relative value units for local cost differences. The government developed three geographic cost indexes for each component. These figures are multiplied by their corresponding component to get a relative value unit total for that category. These are updated regularly by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Some states have one set of indexes for all cities, while others such as California have several.
Finally, to obtain a dollar value for a medical procedure, the location-adjusted relative value units for each category are added together and multiplied by what is known as a conversion factor to get a dollar amount. The figure is the same across the country and is updated annually, with slight changes from year to year. For 2022, this was set at $34.61.
And voila: You have the prices you’ll pay for thousands of medical procedures.
To give you an example of how this all fits together, imagine you had a 20- to 29-minute appointment with your doctor, known as an outpatient visit. If you live in Alabama, your cost would be $86.90. The physician arrives at that figure by multiplying the relative value units for each component by their geographic index, then converting the sum of 2.51 units times the conversion factor of $34.61. That same visit would cost $118.36 in Alaska and $107.99 in San Francisco.
Problems with the process
While on the whole I believe the current system represents an important step toward developing a more evidence-based approach to physician payments, it’s not without its problems.
One is how physicians themselves dominate the process, mostly owing to its highly technical nature.
A committee made up of 32 physicians from different specialties from around the country meets multiple times a year and votes on recommended changes to the fees physicians are paid. While in theory these fees are set by federal regulators, in virtually all cases regulators accept the committee’s recommendations.
That means a handful of physicians are essentially deciding how the U.S. spends hundreds of billions of dollars annually. Besides potentially having their own personal and specialty interests to pursue, they may also lack the expertise and skills to judge the effectiveness or value of certain treatments over others. There is evidence that relative value units often do not adequately reflect the resources required for many procedures. And the overall process is highly opaque.
Last, the current approach mostly focuses on physician effort and not patient outcomes. This puts it in stark contrast to various efforts to implement pay-for-performance in health care.
Given the state of hyperpartisanship in Washington, D.C., and beyond, I believe it’s unlikely there’ll be any dramatic changes to the system any time soon. But incremental changes are possible and could make a meaningful difference – for example, by expanding the role of primary care physicians on the committee and by extending membership beyond physicians. | 2022-07-09T17:02:52+00:00 | kdvr.com | https://kdvr.com/news/nationalworld-news/how-much-for-an-amputation-or-checkup-it-takes-a-complex-formula-and-a-committee-of-doctors-to-set-the-price-for-every-possible-health-care-procedure/ |
Is The U.S. Truly Ready For EVs?
DETROIT, March 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- With clear gaps between reality vs. projections in the U.S. electric vehicle market, Berylls Strategy Advisors, a global management consulting firm focused on the automobility industry, has completed a market analysis of the projected 30 million electric vehicle sales opportunity in the US. What must these players understand and enact to seize on the potential?
Key insights from the Berylls study include:
- U.S. buyers are contradictory: The U.S. buyer cites good fuel economy, maximizing residual value and low total cost of ownership as the top-three purchase factors. Considering still substantial price differences between EV and ICE, automakers have to push towards making EVs more economic. Do they? The highest selling vehicle in the U.S. is the Ford F-150 pickup truck – ranked as having one of the lowest fuel-economy ratings globally. OEMs must bridge the gap between what U.S. buyers want and how EVs are perceived to perform against such criteria.
- Hey OEMs! You in or out? Considering the substantial size of the U.S. EV opportunity and the U.S. customer product wants, OEMs can no longer treat the States as another platform to sell their Europe/China-centric vehicles – a dedicated product strategy is required.
While current U.S. EV sales shares can hardly compete with the EV sales share in Germany, the U.S. will battle Europe for the runner up position behind China with both regions forecasted to show EV sales above 6 million by 2030. EV growth in the U.S. will dramatically shrink internal combustion engine vehicles (ICE) quickly, likely by more than 30 percent by 2030. The majority of CEOs are concerned about capaibility gaps in their organization and partnerships – from e-drive capabilities to the EV readiness of their dealer network. - Can anyone still unseat Tesla? 15% profit margin at a 64% market share – judging by today's metrics, Tesla is well positioned to claim vast parts of the US' EV growth potential with scale economy advantages and breathing room for tactical price movements. However, OEMs are tripling the number of EV models by 2025 in a joint effort to unseat Tesla and to exploit the Californian's weaknesses (e.g., aftersales and repairability of EVs).
- Made in America: A local-for-local US EV market? The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) and the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) offer nearly 30-times more than federal government investment to date. Access to funding will necessitate a re-assessment of supply chain setup and go-to-market strategies to comply with the investments' production and customer-related criteria. Tesla's Nevada, Ford's Michigan and VW's Ontario plans are only the beginning.
- California Dreaming is not enough: Focusing on purely California – known as an EV pioneer and sales volume leader - will not be enough for players to fully participate in the U.S. EV game. Automakers need to identify those parts of the U.S. that follow the Californian model in optimizing the subsidy, infrastructure and policy triangle. OEMs need to dig deep in their regional assessment to reflect inner-state differences in population density, customer make-up and city-level incentives.
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"The U.S. EV market offers a significant platform for EV growth and scale backed by an unmistakably clear commitment by the U.S. government," says the Berylls US Team. "The U.S. offers a substantial EV alternative to the currently leading EV geographies but makes access to this potential dependent on a laundry list of production and customer-related criteria. The speed of players' demystification of the IRA and the (re-)configuration of their EV value chain will be a key success factor in the U.S. EV race. Stay tuned."
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SOURCE Berylls Strategy Advisors | 2023-03-29T20:43:56+00:00 | witn.com | https://www.witn.com/prnewswire/2023/03/29/berylls-strategy-advisors-releases-market-analysis-global-ev-industry/ |
MANCHESTER, N.H., Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- DSF announced today that it has sold Halstead Manchester, a 640-unit market-rate apartment community located at 22A Country Club Drive in Manchester, NH.
CBRE Capital Markets' multi-housing experts Biria St. John, Simon Butler and John McLaughlin exclusively represented an affiliate of The DSF Group from Boston, MA.
Spread out over nearly 41 acres, the community is comprised of 16 three-story residential buildings and two single-story amenity buildings with two swimming pools.
Originally built between 1981 and 1985, two of the buildings were completely rebuilt between 2013 and 2014. In February 2020, DSF completed their signature Halstead amenity package, allowing Halstead Manchester to rival newer apartment communities in the Manchester market.
In addition to the Halstead amenities, ownership completed significant operating expense reduction initiatives. These green initiatives included replacing boilers with high efficiency models, installing LED lighting and low-flow fixtures, resulting in significant utility savings.
"This sale represents the largest total consideration for a single apartment transaction in the state's history and marked the successful conclusion of our investment strategy for the asset. The New Hampshire market continues to be the top performing market in all of New England," stated Josh Solomon, President of The DSF Group.
With greater than $4.5 billion invested in over 12,000 multi-family units, offices in Boston and Washington D.C. and decades of deep-seated experience, The DSF Group strives to create unique, award-winning properties. We acquire well located multi-family properties near transportation hubs and then reposition the properties through the implementation of well thought out renovations, amenities and technology. From development and renovations through construction and asset management, financing and design, we are hands-on operators. The steady involvement of our principals drives the results of every project we invest in. For more information please visit: www.thedsfgroup.com
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Scott Simon is one of America's most admired writers and broadcasters. He is the host of Weekend Edition Saturday and is one of the hosts of NPR's morning news podcast Up First. He has reported from all fifty states, five continents, and ten wars, from El Salvador to Sarajevo to Afghanistan and Iraq. His books have chronicled character and characters, in war and peace, sports and art, tragedy and comedy. | 2023-03-25T12:28:43+00:00 | kgou.org | https://www.kgou.org/2023-03-25/a-powerful-tornado-has-killed-at-least-23-people-in-the-u-s-south |
Ask either Dave, and he will confirm: The People’s Courts located at 2700 N.E. 82nd Ave. will be headquarters for fun.
Cousins Dave Schrott and Dave Sacks are spearheading the project to turn the old Lumberyard Bike Park property and building into a place for everybody, all ages, especially participants in the newest popular recreation sport out there.
There’ll be 11 pickleball courts — five inside, six outside — and three smaller courts for pickleball games, along with a bocce court, cornhole, putt-putt style disc golf, ping pong, arcade, two full bars and two restaurants (for pizza, burgers and more, including ice cream) in the 48,000-square-foot building. Beverage opportunities will be integrated into the play areas. It’s still under construction, but the indoor courts have been built, and to the pickleball enthusiasts they are a beautiful sight.
Sign you up? Actually, it’ll be for the general public, pay as you play, and it’ll be open sometime during the summer, across 82nd Avenue from Leodis V. McDaniel High School.
“We’ve had this idea for a long time,” Schrott said. “We knew it’d be a great idea for this property.”
Both Daves are involved in real estate, along with Sacks’ father Robert Sacks, and they’ve owned the property for some time (for 11 years it had been a bike park). They own adjacent property, basically assuring that you can drive there and find some place for your vehicle. Being a destination entertainment center, it’s imperative for them to provide safe parking for customers, and plenty of it.
“The location is super centrally located to eastside neighborhoods and Gresham, it’s close to two freeways (Interstate 84, I-205),” said Schrott, who’s originally from Detroit, Michigan.
“We look to create a family-friendly environment,” Sacks added. “We believe it’ll be a place for people not only intending to play pickleball,” kind of like how bowling alleys served as gathering places in the 1960s and ‘70s. The property actually used to house a bowling alley before it became a bike park.
“We’ll offer something unique in the Pacific Northwest. We’re not concerned people will stay away because it’s Portland,” and perceived as being unsafe or unclean. “We’ll draw from all over Portland, and people on the eastside are very familiar with the area. It doesn’t feel foreign to them.”
Not surprisingly, the place has been tagged with graffiti on the outside walls, and it’s right on a major city thoroughfare — you’ll be sipping beverages and playing pickleball right next to 82nd, albeit in a beautified area with fencing. It doesn’t exactly shout safe neighborhood. But, the Daves hope to be some of the agents of change out there. Sacks said they are confident in the city government to further enhance, clean up and protect the 82nd Avenue neighborhoods.
“We’re bringing a vibrant business where we can help the area,” Schrott said. “There are signs of positivity energy. … The Lumberyard had been here for 11 years with no problems.”
Said Sacks, a Lincoln High School graduate: “The reception has been overwhelmingly positive. People don’t want a big empty building here.
“It’ll be super kid-friendly.” They envision The People’s Courts staying open until 10 p.m. on weekdays and midnight on the weekends.
Schrott and Sacks said they don’t want to announce any court fees, yet. But there’ll be hourly rates, reservations can be made and walk-ins will be welcome.
“So many people want to play,” Sacks said. “Having memberships would limit the number of people who could play pickleball here.”
Pickleball, a combination of tennis, ping pong and badminton played with a paddle and a plastic ball with holes, and played by singles and doubles, has become popular due to its less-stressful nature. Anybody can play, as not much strenuous movement is needed. Same with bocce, cornhole, ping pong, etc.
Schrott said they wanted The People’s Courts to be used by anybody.
“There’s a very low threshold for playing.” | 2023-04-24T10:56:59+00:00 | portlandtribune.com | https://www.portlandtribune.com/lifestyle/all-rise-gather-and-play-at-the-peoples-courts/article_dbcd2d70-e07f-11ed-933a-ffca031542d7.html |
Man crushed by car trying to steal catalytic converter from car dealership, detectives say
CHATHAM COUNTY, Ga. (WTOC/Gray News) – The owners of a car dealership in Georgia were shocked to find a body under a car when they arrived to work Tuesday morning.
“I didn’t even get close to him. I called the police right away,” South Bound Auto Sales owner Mike Abouharb said.
Abouharb found the body crushed under the car. From what he saw and what was left behind, he said it appeared the man was trying to steal a catalytic converter.
Chatham County detectives confirmed Wednesday, 32-year-old Matthew Eric Smith’s death was “the result of an attempted catalytic converter theft.”
Abouharb said it’s been tough keeping the doors open to his business over the years.
“Name it ... it happened,” he said. “In any given year, you got between $30 to $50,000 lost in catalytic converters, radios, even tires.”
Tuesday morning’s incident, though, has made them question what the future will look like.
“Everybody thinks the car business, you’re shoveling money. But you make a little money, then get a hit like this and it makes a big toll. It’s a hardship. It’s not worth it,” Abouharb said.
The car dealership said it might consider changing its business model in the near future.
Copyright 2023 WTOC via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2023-03-10T18:36:06+00:00 | wfsb.com | https://www.wfsb.com/2023/03/10/man-crushed-by-car-trying-steal-catalytic-converter-car-dealership-detectives-say/ |
The Premium Health Care Franchise Heads into Annual Franchisee C.A.M.P. with Strong Performance & Aggressive Expansion
HOUSTON, April 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- iCRYO, the fast-growing recovery and wellness brand, announces an impressive start to 2023. Q1 set new records as the brand achieved its highest average unit volume (AUV) quarter in company history, alongside the signing of 12 new franchise agreements across Arizona, Georgia, South Carolina, and Texas.
This news comes on the heels of iCRYO's upcoming annual franchisee conference, aptly titled C.A.M.P – Collaborate, Align, Master, and Party. The event will take place in Las Vegas at Resort World Hotel from April 18-21, bringing together iCRYO's leadership team and franchisees to collaborate on enhancing the franchise model, creating strength in numbers by aligning on the vision, and devising a strategic plan to master the execution. Sponsors for this event include: Theralight, Pulse PEMF, Cryo Built, and NEXT Wellness.
iCRYO is currently on track to have another year of 50%+ of sales growth from the previous year. Key to this strong performance is an effective leadership team, the addition of Medical Ozone Ultraviolet Intravenous Therapy (Ozone UV IV Therapy), NAD+ Intramuscular shots, the Theralight Red Light Bed, upgraded IV & IM formularies, and EmSculpt NEO. iCRYO has also acquired partnerships with 24 Hour Fitness and BTL Industries.
"Over 1/3 of our currently opened locations are on pace to run over a million dollars in total revenue for 2023," said Kyle Jones, Co-Founder and Chief Innovation & Branding Officer of iCRYO. "As communities continue to seek out more holistic wellness options, we're here to make iCRYO's lifestyle-based services accessible to everyone. We look forward to the collaboration, new ideas, and actionable outcomes that result from C.A.M.P. as we continue to aggressively grow our nationwide footprint."
Q1 Signed Franchise Agreements:
- Arizona:
- Georgia:
- South Carolina:
- Texas:
On a mission to elevate the lives of humans around the world through health, iCRYO wellness centers focus on a series of health-related recovery services that target pain management, beauty & anti-aging, athletic recovery, and overall wellness.
Currently, iCRYO has awarded over 250 locations with a plan to build over 1,000 locations in several different countries. To learn more about iCRYO and their franchise opportunity, visit https://icryo.com/start-cryotherapy-franchise-business/.
About iCRYO
Headquartered in Houston, TX, iCRYO is setting the standard for health and wellness nationwide. As one of the leading franchises in the industry, iCRYO is an affordable, convenient and professional wellness franchise that offers Cryotherapy, IV Therapy, Bodysculpting, Red Light Therapy and a hybrid of other wellness services to the communities in which they are located. iCRYO offers a turnkey franchise system for business owners that includes the systems and comprehensive training to provide safe services across the globe. Their mission is to elevate the lifestyle of their team members and guests while setting the standard in the health and wellness market. To learn more, visit www.icryo.com.
MEDIA CONTACT: Taylor Nortman, Fishman Public Relations, tnortman@fishmanpr.com or (847) 945-1300
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SOURCE iCRYO | 2023-04-18T14:12:57+00:00 | wlox.com | https://www.wlox.com/prnewswire/2023/04/18/icryo-announces-impressive-q1-with-record-breaking-same-store-sales-alongside-12-franchise-signings/ |
NEW YORK, Dec. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of Daktronics, Inc. ("Daktronics" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: DAKT). Such investors are advised to contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888-476-6529, ext. 7980.
The investigation concerns whether Daktronics and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices.
On December 6, 2022, Daktronics disclosed that it would be unable to timely file its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended October 29, 2022, and that there is "substantial doubt" about the Company's ability to continue as a going concern. Daktronics also disclosed that it recorded a valuation allowance of approximately $13.0 million for deferred tax assets which "created a covenant violation under our line of credit agreement." The Company further disclosed that "[i]n light of the substantial doubt in our ability to continue as a going concern and our related evaluation of the income tax implications of reaching this conclusion, the Company also expects to conclude that its disclosure controls and procedures and internal control over financial reporting were not effective as a result of material weaknesses."
On this news, Daktronics' stock price fell $1.30 per share, or 39.16%, to close at $2.02 per share on December 7, 2022.
Pomerantz LLP, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, London, Paris, and Tel Aviv, is acknowledged as one of the premier firms in the areas of corporate, securities, and antitrust class litigation. Founded by the late Abraham L. Pomerantz, known as the dean of the class action bar, Pomerantz pioneered the field of securities class actions. Today, more than 85 years later, Pomerantz continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct. The Firm has recovered numerous multimillion-dollar damages awards on behalf of class members. See www.pomlaw.com.
CONTACT:
Robert S. Willoughby
Pomerantz LLP
rswilloughby@pomlaw.com
888-476-6529 ext. 7980
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SOURCE Pomerantz LLP | 2022-12-20T03:31:05+00:00 | wlbt.com | https://www.wlbt.com/prnewswire/2022/12/20/shareholder-alert-pomerantz-law-firm-investigates-claims-behalf-investors-daktronics-inc-dakt/ |
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