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The Kyrie Irving era in Brooklyn is over.
The Nets traded the star guard to the Dallas Mavericks on Sunday afternoon, according to ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski. Brooklyn will receive power forward Dorian Finney-Smith, former Net guard Spencer Dinwiddie, a 2029 first-round pick and two second-round picks. The Mavericks also acquire Markieff Morris in the deal.
The trade, which comes just two days after Irving requested to be dealt ahead of the NBA's trade deadline on Thursday, brings an end to Irving's tumultuous four-season tenure in Brooklyn.
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Irving is "ecstatic" about the trade, according to Chris Haynes of Bleacher Report and TNT.
Irving, the No. 1 overall pick in the 2011 draft by the Cleveland Cavaliers, joined the Nets in July of 2019 after spending two seasons with the Boston Celtics. He and Kevin Durant stunned the league at the time by agreeing to deals with the Nets on the first day of free agency.
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But Irving played in just 143 games for the Nets over four seasons -- missing time due to injury, a refusal to get the COVID-19 vaccine amid New York City's vaccination mandate and a suspension earlier this season after posting a link on social media to an antisemitic film.
The team - which also acquired James Harden, only to trade him to the Philadelphia 76ers for Ben Simmons - won just one postseason series during Irving's time with the team.
The 30-year-old Irving, who was voted an Eastern Conference All-Star starter, is averaging 27.1 points, 5.3 assists and 5.1 rebounds this season. He is making $36.9 million after opting into the final year of his deal during the offseason but was unable to reach an extension with Brooklyn earlier this week, leading to his trade request.
The eight-time All-Star now heads to his fourth NBA team, heading to a 28-26 Mavericks team where he'll join forces with another superstar teammate in Luka Doncic.
His former star teammate, Durant, is yet to comment publicly since Irving's trade request. Durant has been sidelined for nearly a month with an MCL sprain, with the Nets going 5-7 in his absence.
Barring another trade by Brooklyn, Durant will be reunited with Dinwiddie, who played for the Nets from 2016 to 2021. The 29-year-old guard averaged 17.7 points, 5.3 assists and 3.1 rebounds this season for the Mavs. Finney-Smith started all 40 games for Dallas this season, averaging 9.1 points and 4.7 rebounds. | 2023-02-05T22:02:31+00:00 | nbcmiami.com | https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/sports/brooklyn-nets-trade-kyrie-irving-to-dallas-mavericks-per-report/2966345/ |
NPR's Elissa Nadworny speaks with Ron Belldegrun, CEO of ByHeart, a manufacturer of baby formula, about his meeting with President Biden to discuss the nationwide shortage and how to fix it.
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NPR's Elissa Nadworny speaks with Ron Belldegrun, CEO of ByHeart, a manufacturer of baby formula, about his meeting with President Biden to discuss the nationwide shortage and how to fix it.
Copyright 2022 NPR | 2022-06-04T22:02:19+00:00 | kunm.org | https://www.kunm.org/2022-06-04/byheart-ceo-discusses-solutions-to-the-fragile-baby-formula-supply-chain |
HOUSTON, Nov. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Minute Suites, the award-winning airport brand that provides private suites for travelers during layovers, had its grand opening for its first location in Houston's George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH). The new site is located near Gate C14. This location has 5 suites, a bathroom, and a shower, open 24 hours daily.
Minute Suites were designed as a place to get work done in peace, escape the hustle of the airport, and recharge before your next flight.
The company has experienced a solid recovery as travel continues to increase in a post-COVID shutdown world. Minute Suites now has thirteen operational locations across ten US airports.
"We are grateful for the opportunity to bring our service to the travelers at the George Bush Intercontinental Airport," Minute Suites Co-Founder and Director Daniel Solomon says. "A major hub for both domestic and international travel, IAH is important to Minute Suites' continued growth and expansion."
"We are happy to have Minute Suites in the United terminal, and we think this is a great addition to the concessions program." David Lopez and Adrianne Victorian, OTG Property Management say.
Minute Suites have a minimum stay of one-hour with additional 15-minute increments available for purchase. An overnight flat rate is also available. Several locations feature a shower service, which can be reserved separately in 30-minute increments.
To book a reservation, visit www.minutesuites.com/reservations or use the Minute Suites Mobile App, available for download via Google Play or the App Store.
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In 2008, Minute Suites, LLC created a healthier way for people to travel. Minute Suites is the first company in North America to provide private suites inside security at airports where travelers can nap, relax, or work. The development of this unique passenger service has resulted in many industry awards, including Best Passenger Service Amenity. For more information, visit www.minutesuites.com.
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PopStroke founder Greg Bartoli explains why the event was conceived and the impact bringing Rickie Fowler and Paula Creamer to the event will have.
It's a common refrain from sports fans watching professional competitions on TV.
"Even I could do better than that."
Area putting aficionados have a chance to put that refrain to the test.
PopStroke, a putting, eating and drinking venue founded in 2018 by Greg Bartoli and Tiger Woods' TGR Ventures, opened its University Town Center location in April. From Oct. 26 to Oct. 28, the location will be home to the inaugural PopStroke Tour Championship, a putting competition sponsored by TaylorMade.
The event will have two competitions, a Team Championship (two players per team) and a Stroke Play (individual) Championship. Combined, the competitions are expected to bring approximately 500 participants to the UTC location.
Both competitions will feature four rounds of 18 holes, with cuts after the second round, just like a PGA Tour event. The team competition has a purse of $100,000 with the winners splitting $20,000 and the individual competition has a purse of $25,000, with the winner getting $5,000.
There's another difference between the two competitions, too. On Oct. 28, the winners of the team competition will get to play against professional golfers Rickie Fowler and Paula Creamer in the "$25K Showdown," a single 18-hole round of putting that will see the winners take all the cash.
The showdown will air Nov. 20 on the Bally Sports family of regional networks as well as on Golf Channel. Fowler has won five career PGA Tour events and has finished second at a major tournament three times. Creamer has won 10 LPGA events including the 2010 U.S. Women's Open. Both golfers are sponsored by TaylorMade, which connected the golfers to the event.
Bartoli said having Fowler and Creamer participate in the inaugural PTC validates the event, giving it instant credibility within the golf world. Bartoli said he is thankful to TaylorMade for helping make it happen.
PopStroke director of marketing Melissa Sullivan said people interested in watching the showdown, but not playing, will be able to enter the venue "for a small fee." That fee is still to be determined as of Oct. 15. In addition, Bartoli said only the Tiger Red course will be occupied during the PTC. The rest of the PopStroke venue will operate as normal, including the Tiger Black (family friendly) course, so non-participants can play a round on that course and order food and drinks before watching the $25K Showdown if they wish.
Parking at PopStroke will be free. Sullivan said the parking lots at Dillard's and other surrounding stores will be used as overflow locations if the PopStroke lot becomes full.
Bartoli said the PTC was born out of PopStroke's unique vision.
"This is what PopStroke is all about," Bartoli said. "We're bringing people together in a competitive, dynamic environment around the game of golf, regardless of age or skill level or background. Putting is a great equalizer. It's not intimidating. A lot of people can do it successfully. Just because a Tour pro can hit the ball 350 yard down the center of the fairway, it doesn't necessarily mean they can putt better than a local golfer who happens to be a great putter. Bringing the two together, it's going to be interesting."
It is the "Pros versus Joes" dynamic of the event that Bartoli said drew interest from the television networks. Bartoli said golf is a unique sport in the way amateurs can compete with professionals if they have a good day. It's different than sports like baseball, where the average person cannot hit a curveball, or basketball, where the sheer athleticism of the professional athletes will win out. Bartoli said he and the networks believe that plenty of golf fans will want to see how the amateurs fare in the 25K Showdown.
The PTC could have been held at any of PopStroke's three other locations — Orlando, Port St. Lucie and Fort Myers — but Bartoli said the UTC location was selected to host because it is the largest and the only one to feature an upstairs section, which will provide a great view to watch the competition and provide plenty of space for the TV crews to operate. Bartoli said the region's love of golf didn't hurt, either.
"It is the perfect venue for us to accomplish this competitive tournament," Bartoli said. "We think this is going to be great for the Sarasota community as well."
The event could prove more challenging for Fowler and Creamer than it appears. The greens at the UTC PopStroke measure 12.5 on the Stimpmeter, a device used to measure the speed of a golf course putting green. The fastest greens on the PGA Tour are often measured at 12 or higher on the device, meaning PopStroke's greens compare favorably.
Entry into the PTC's Team Championship competition costs $500. Entry into the PTC's Stroke Play (individual) Championship costs $250. Registration for both events closes at 5 p.m. Oct. 24. To register or for more information, visit PopStroke's website.
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KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Two more U.S. military planes loaded with tons of aid for Pakistanis affected by flooding from deadly monsoon rains landed Sunday in southern Sindh province, one of the worst-affected regions in the impoverished country.
Saif Ullah, spokesman for the country’s Civil Aviation Authority, said each plane was loaded with about 35 tons of relief aid that would be distributed in the province by the World Food Program. The aircraft landed at Sukkur Airport in Sindh and Ullah said the U.S. operation that began Thursday would continue until Sept. 16.
Pakistan has suffered under extremely heavy monsoon rains that started early this year — in mid-June. Multiple officials and experts have blamed the rains and resulting floodwaters on climate change. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres last week called on the world to stop “sleepwalking” through the dangerous environmental crisis. He has called repeatedly on the international community to send massive amounts of aid to Pakistan.
Ullah said Sunday that two more flights bringing relief goods from the United Arab Emirates landed at Karachi airport. So far, U.N. agencies and several countries have sent multiple planeloads of aid, and authorities say the UAE has been one of the most generous contributors.
Near 1,400 people have been killed, 13,000 injured and millions left homeless by the heavy flooding since mid-June. The waters also destroyed road and communications infrastructure.
In the worst-hit Sindh province, 621 people, including 270 children, were killed and 8,400 people left injured.
Miles of cotton and sugarcane crops, banana orchards and vegetable fields could be seen submerged in floodwaters. Thousands of mud and brick homes caved in under the deluge leaving people homeless and sheltering in tents alongside damaged roads.
According to the latest report from authorities, the unprecedented monsoon rains and and flood destroyed more than 1.5 million houses, 63 bridges, 2,688 kilometers of roads and near half a million animals drowned in the flood water across the Sindh province, leaving over 30 million homeless.
Pakistan’s military chief Gen. Qamar Jawed Bajwa toured the badly affected district of Dadu in Sindh and its surroundings on Saturday. Dadu could suffer further flooding from the rising waters of the Indus River.
“People will continue to suffer if we don’t have a drainage system and dams,” Bajwa told reporters.
He said constructing dams would help produce electricity, curb pollution and decrease global warming and that army engineers have been asked to conduct an initial study.
Bajwa said working on alternate energy sources is essential and called for the gradual reduction of oil and coal as energy sources to minimal levels.
Since June, heavy rains and flooding have added a new level of grief to cash-strapped Pakistan and highlighted the disproportionate effect of climate change on impoverished populations.
Experts say Pakistan is responsible for only 0.4% of the world’s historic emissions that are blamed for climate change. The U.S. is responsible for 21.5%, China for 16.5% and the European Union for 15%.
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Associated Press writer Asim Tanveer in Multan, Pakistan contributed. | 2022-09-11T20:43:58+00:00 | wate.com | https://www.wate.com/news/national-world/ap-international/ap-aid-for-flood-victims-arrives-in-hard-hit-pakistani-province/ |
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If flying makes you nervous, consider flying in and out of Beirut, Lebanon's international airport. The runway is beside a polluted beach and a landfill on one side and densely populated areas on the other. NPR's Ruth Sherlock had a look.
RUTH SHERLOCK, BYLINE: What are the dangers for planes flying out of Beirut airport? They are seagulls and live bullets. I'm standing on a beach which runs parallel to the runway in Beirut airport, and the sea is brown with raw sewage. And behind me is an enormous landfill site. This attracts seagulls.
(SOUNDBITE OF PLANE FLYING)
SHERLOCK: On the other side of the airport runway are residential suburbs of Beirut, and in these areas, it's traditional to fire your gun in celebration or in anger. So when people pass their exams or when a political leader gives a speech, people fire into the air.
MOHAMMED AZIZ: Bullets will travel...
SHERLOCK: In the fuselage, or...
AZIZ: In the fuselage.
SHERLOCK: And one bullet can make a hole in the...
AZIZ: It'll make a hole, of course, because the bullet that goes up has to come down. That's Newton's law. Everything that goes up has to come down.
SHERLOCK: That's Mohammed Aziz. He's a retired pilot and advises Lebanon's national carrier, Middle East Airlines, on security. As he says, this New Year's Eve alone, the company had to ground two of its planes because they were pierced by falling bullets.
AZIZ: So we have it as a part of our checklist now. Whenever we check aircraft, we check for bullets when an aircraft is parked.
SHERLOCK: Beirut-Rafic Hariri International Airport remains busy with people coming for tourism, business and family visits daily. So far, no one is believed to have been injured, but Lebanese media recently reported that a stray bullet hit a passenger's iPhone as he walked out of the terminal, and disease was on a plane that aborted its takeoff when it collided with birds.
AZIZ: We went back to the gate. I could see the aircraft. All the windshield on both side were full of blood from the birds.
SHERLOCK: There are seagulls attracted to the nearby landfill and coastal sewer, and there are also flocks of domesticated pigeons owned by people living in buildings that overlook the runway. In 2017, in an act of desperation, as he says, Middle East Airlines invited some 125 hunters to come and shoot the seagulls. They killed thousands of birds.
AZIZ: Either you shoot the bird or let the bird harm an aircraft. So harming an aircraft with 150 or 250 people on board is not really a choice.
SHERLOCK: Officials with the airport did not provide a comment on the situation. And government officials now say most of the landfill is covered, but some is still exposed, and there are still sewers nearby. Paula Yacoubian, an independent member of Parliament, has campaigned for the landfill to be removed. And she was on the plane that was hit by gunfire after landing.
PAULA YACOUBIAN: And it was really scary. The bullet was 20 centimeter above my head.
SHERLOCK: Yacoubian says politicians have repeatedly appealed to citizens not to fire their weapons, but this is rarely enforced. Lebanon is in an economic crisis that the World Bank has blamed on mismanagement and corruption.
YACOUBIAN: Again, you go back to this inefficient mafia that is ruling the country, and all crises that we live are somehow the result of this mafia.
SHERLOCK: Yacoubian says the story of the gulls, the garbage and the guns at Beirut airport is symptomatic of the failure of Lebanon as a state.
Ruth Sherlock, NPR News, Beirut. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR. | 2023-02-01T06:38:01+00:00 | nepm.org | https://www.nepm.org/2023-01-30/the-dangers-for-planes-at-beirut-international-airport-guns-and-gulls |
Editor’s Note: This story is part of an ongoing series about the proposed 13.6-mile recreational trail between the city of Albany and Sasser that is the subject of a lawsuit pitting the city of Albany against the South Georgia Rails to Trails group.
ALBANY — An announcement this week that Dougherty County had received a $3.2 million federal grant to go with its $5 million in SPLOST funding to complete a section of the Flint River Trail System from Radium Springs to downtown Albany had no impact on the ongoing legal standoff involving the 13.62-mile trail bed from downtown Albany through Lee County into Sasser in Terrell County.
A breach-of-contract lawsuit filed by South Georgia Rails to Trails claiming the city of Albany has failed to uphold its part of a contractual agreement to build a recreational trail over the former rail bed is currently on hold as officials in Dougherty, Lee and Terrell counties wait to see if Albany officials receive a federal RAISE infrastructure grant that officials in all three counties say could put an end to the ongoing conflict.
At the center of the controversy is Albany officials’ contention that no agreement has been reached on moving forward with the trail project because there has been no formal approval on the surface that will be used for the trail. Concrete, asphalt and “natural” construction have been mentioned as options, but with the cost of construction having risen considerably since the 2015 contract was signed, agreeing on a surface has become a vital next step, if the project is to move forward.
“Although there has never been a time when four (Albany) commissioners voted to approve a surface for the trail, the South Georgia Rails to Trails group insists their version of a master plan is the one that is binding, which I think now calls for asphalt,” Albany City Commissioner Bob Langstaff, an attorney, said. “I know we talked at one time about using concrete, but there is no official resolution saying concrete — or any other surface — will be used.”
Thrown into the mix, though, is a Lee County ordinance that calls for concrete as the surface of any trail that goes through the county, and although Lee County Commission Chairman Billy Mathis says that board is willing to be “flexible” when it comes to the ordinance, Langstaff says moving forward without an intergovernmental agreement between all three parties would be foolish.
“I know Billy may say that their board will be flexible, but what matters is if Lee County gets three votes (of its five-member commission) making that official,” the Albany commissioner said. “One of my worries is that once the thing starts, there being a problem with that ordinance. I think what we need is an intergovernmental agreement between the city and Lee County — and probably Terrell County as well — that says the trail should be constructed to specifications X.”
Spencer Lee, the long-time Dougherty County attorney and a principle with South Georgia Rails to Trails, said issues with the trail project surfaced when Ward IV Albany City Commissioner Chad Warbington inserted himself into the project and “negotiated” with Lee County without involving SGRT.
“People have said that we went after Lee County when they said they’d build their own part of the trail,” Lee said. “That’s not correct. We objected because (Warbington and other Albany officials) talked with the folks in Lee County without involving us.
“Yes, we threatened a lawsuit on their proposal because we hadn’t been involved with the deal they said they’d made. As a matter of fact, we’ve always worked with Lee County, and that ordinance they have is not really an issue. There’s been a lot of hell raised about this, but the primary reason is that a new commissioner (Warbington) tried to make himself look good without the background. Lee County could build their section of the trail right now if they wanted to. We (SGRT) just want to know what their plans are.”
The city of Albany, under then-City Manager Sharon Subadan, got bids on completing a portion of the trail utilizing concrete as a surface. The cost, though, was reportedly much higher than the city expected. But Lee said that bid stands as an acceptance of the joint Albany-Dougherty County Flint River Trails Master Plan, even though city officials have said the bids were only “testing the waters” to get an idea of the cost.
“I don’t think the city can sell that,” Lee said. “In essence, they’d be saying they went to these companies and got bids in good faith but didn’t agree to the bids simply because they cost too much. The question was, were the bids within the city’s budget? Because these companies had to put in work to come up with the bids.”
As the focus turns to surfaces, the national Rails-to-Trails Conservancy offers more acceptable options than the three mentioned by local officials. In an introduction to its list of surfaces, the conservancy writes, “Before you choose a specific surface, you should also consider the pros and cons of hard surfaces and soft surfaces. While hard-surface trails are more accommodating, require less maintenance and can withstand frequent use, they are significantly more expensive.
“On the other hand, soft-surface trails cost less but generally do not hold up well under heavy use or varying weather conditions.”
The hard-surface materials OK’d by the conservancy include concrete, crushed stone, soil cement, resin-based stabilized material, boardwalk and recycled materials. Soft surfaces include natural earth and wood chips.
“Another consideration when we decide on a surface is maintenance cost,” Langstaff said. “The city agreed to build a trail, to do it once and that’s it. What happens when the trail needs repairs? That can get expensive, too. Does SGRT have the funds for such repairs?”
Lee said that question is not an issue.
“South Georgia Rails to Trails is — and it’s in the contract we signed with the city — in charge of maintenance, and that includes repairs,” he said. “When there comes a time for any work to be done, we will raise the funds.”
Albany Mayor Bo Dorough said the gist of the disagreement between the city and SGRT is the city’s obligation now that the original five-year completion deadline has been surpassed.
“Looking at it realistically, the best hope for getting the trail done is getting that RAISE grant,” Dorough said. “But looking at the plans that have been floated around, we’re looking at a $7 million investment, and that was the estimate prior to COVID. There’s no way the city can meet such an obligation without assistance.”
Which, of course, leads back to SGRT’s assertion that, while the group has put its lawsuit against the city on hold, if an agreement is not reached in a timely manner, the $7 million suit will be litigated. | 2022-07-03T22:13:01+00:00 | albanyherald.com | https://www.albanyherald.com/features/surface-issues-at-the-heart-of-recreation-trail-disagreement/article_71767a48-fa08-11ec-a18a-ff15e116abfc.html |
BUFFALO, N.Y., June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- M&T Bank Corporation ("M&T") (NYSE: MTB) plans to announce its second quarter 2022 earnings results in a press release that will be issued before the market opens on Wednesday, July 20, 2022.
Following the release, M&T will conduct a conference call and webcast at 10:00 a.m. (ET) to discuss the earnings results. The conference call and webcast may contain forward-looking statements and other material information.
Domestic callers wishing to participate in the call may dial toll free (888) 632-3384. International participants, using any applicable international calling codes, may dial (785) 830-1914. Callers should reference M&T Bank Corporation or the conference ID # MTBQ222. The conference call will be webcast live through M&T's website at https://ir.mtb.com/events-presentations.
A replay of the call will be available through Wednesday, July 27, 2022 by calling (800) 925-9346 or (402) 220-5380 for international participants. No conference ID or passcode is required. The webcast archive of the conference call will be available by 3:00 p.m., July 20, 2022 on M&T's website at https://ir.mtb.com/events-presentations.
About M&T
M&T Bank Corporation is a financial holding company headquartered in Buffalo, New York. M&T's principal banking subsidiary, M&T Bank, provides banking products and services in 12 states across the eastern U.S. from Maine to Virginia and Washington, D.C. Trust-related services are provided in select markets in the U.S. and abroad by M&T's Wilmington Trust-affiliated companies and by M&T Bank.
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The League of Legendary Lions, a collection of over 7,000 unique PFPs, will drop on the GameStop NFT marketplace.
SALT LAKE CITY and VANCOUVER, BC, Aug. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Daz 3D, a leader in NFT strategy, marketing & full-stack development, including generative PFP collections, today announced its latest standout PFP collection: the League of Legendary Lions. Made up of over 7,000 unique PFPs rendered in 3D, the League of Legendary Lions collection will be released in phases on the GameStop NFT marketplace, with the first NFTs available on Friday, August 26, 2022, at a minting price of 0.05 ETH.
From a lion in flames to an Egyptian pharaoh and a gold-plated lion, from a modern DJ to an ancient warrior, this collection is incredibly fun with a massive range of legendary attitudes and attributes. While each PFP is singular, they all have one thing in common: they are the best of the best at what they do and aren't afraid to show it. The collection also includes 10 1:1 lions with rare, exclusive traits.
For hundreds of years, these lions' ancient city, Mammalia, has been kept hidden. Now they want the world to know who they are and to hear their roar. In Mammalia, groups of factions called Prides are the status quo. One faction stands above the rest: The League of Legendary Lions. They're apex legends at everything they do, and everyone in Mammalia dreams of finding a seat among their ranks. They thrive on being the greatest, proudest versions of themselves, which is why only the best have found a spot in their league.
"2022 has been a break-out year for Daz 3D's NFT collections. We have an amazing community behind us and have built a strong track record for quality, one-of-a-kind NFTs. With the League of Legendary Lions on GameStop NFT, we are adding a fun and stunning collection to our lineup," said Preston Woo, chief strategy officer of Daz 3D. "GameStop NFT is the perfect home for this collection as it's clear their users value unique and beautiful digital collectibles. I can't wait to reveal these awesome, and legendary, lions!"
Each PFP rocks their lion's mane with pride – both as a symbol of power and also as a sign of solidarity. If you think you've got what it takes to hold one of Daz 3D's Legendary Lion PFPs, then claim your seat among the League of Legendary Lions on GameStop NFT beginning on August 26!
Join the community and stay up-to-date on collection announcements on Twitter and Discord.
Don't be bored. Don't be lazy. Be Legendary!
About Daz3D
Daz 3D is a leader in NFT strategy, marketing & full-stack development, including generative PFP collections. The company has worked with iconic brands like Warner Brothers, Champion, Coca-Cola, Louis Moinet, and others to create cross-chain NFT collections and wearables for the metaverse. In 2021, it partnered with RTFKT (now Nike) to bring 3D utility to CloneX, and Daz dropped Non-Fungible People, the first of several PFP projects slated for 2022.
Daz3D offers proprietary avatar technology and its free-to-use 3D modeling software, Daz Studio, which has been used by millions of people worldwide. This powerful combination allows artists to create high-resolution stills and animations in 3D scenes and its digital marketplace showcases tens of thousands of products with more than 5 million cross-compatible 3D assets.
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Perplexed that it seems no one can win the gigantic $1.5 billion Powerball prize?
A big reason is that people aren’t buying as many tickets for each drawing as they did five or six years ago.
When fewer people buy tickets, a smaller percentage of the millions of possible number combinations are covered and the likelihood of a winner drops. The next drawing will be held Saturday night.
Of course, many people still are playing Powerball and Mega Millions, the other lottery game offered in most of the country. It’s ticket sales from those Powerball players that fund the prizes and enabled the jackpot to soar by $300 million after there wasn’t a big winner Wednesday night.
In the last drawing for a $1.2 billion jackpot, 46.6% of the 292.2 million possible number combinations were covered. That was up from the 36.3% of all possible number combinations that were picked for Monday night’s drawing, reflecting that ticket sales rise as jackpots climb higher.
But the percentage remains far less than when a record $1.5 billion Powerball jackpot was on the line on Jan. 13, 2016. Back then, ticket sales were so strong that 88.6% of the possible combinations were covered, according to the Urbandale, Iowa-based Multi-State Lottery Association. A few days before that record 2016 drawing, there was a coverage of 77.8% for a $900 million Powerball prize.
The association notes, however, that Powerball drawings now are held three times a week, so even if tickets sold for individual drawings are less, overall sales can be roughly comparable because of the extra game each week.
“It’s very difficult to make a comparison between now and five years ago because this is not really an apples-to-apples comparison,” said Drew Svitko, the Pennsylvania Lottery’s executive director and chairman of the Powerball Product Group.
Even as no one hit the jackpot by matching all five white numbers and the red Powerball, quite a few came achingly close.
Powerball officials note that 19 tickets matched the five white balls and missed the Powerball — earning the players $1 million, or $2 million if they paid extra for a “prize multiplier.” And 238 tickets matched four white balls as well as the Powerball.
There have been 39 consecutive drawings without a Powerball winner, dating back to Aug. 6, and if that winless streak hits 40 drawings after Saturday night, the jackpot will certainly grow to be the largest ever in the U.S. and globally.
The record number of consecutive Powerball drawings without a winner is 41, which ended on Oct. 4, 2021, with a $699.8 million winner in California.
Until someone wins this time, the biggest prize remains a $1.586 billion Powerball jackpot won in 2016 by three ticketholders in California, Florida and Tennessee. That stands just ahead of a $1.537 billion Mega Millions prize won in 2018 by a ticketholder in South Carolina.
The $1.5 billion prize on Saturday night is for winners who take an annuity, paid annually over 29 years. Most winner choose cash, and for the next drawing that would be $745.9 million.
Powerball is played in 45 states, as well as Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. | 2022-11-04T14:49:19+00:00 | wdtn.com | https://www.wdtn.com/nexstar-media-wire/why-is-there-no-powerball-winner-yet/ |
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China announced more military drills around Taiwan as the self-governing island’s president met with members of a new U.S. congressional delegation on Monday, threatening to renew tensions between Beijing and Washington after a similar recent visit by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi angered China.
Pelosi was the highest-level member of the U.S. government to visit Taiwan in 25 years, and her trip prompted nearly two weeks of threatening military exercises by China, which claims the island as its own. In those drills, Beijing fired missiles over the island and into the Taiwan Strait and sent warplanes and navy ships across the waterway’s midline, which has long been a buffer between the sides that split amid civil war in 1949.
China accuses the U.S. of encouraging the island’s independence through the sale of weapons and engagement between U.S. politicians and the island’s government. Washington says it does not support independence, has no formal diplomatic ties with the island and maintains that the two sides should settle their dispute peacefully — but it is legally bound to ensure the island can defend itself against any attack.
American and Taiwanese officials have accused China of using Pelosi’s visit as a pretext for intimidating moves, and a senior U.S. official said recently that Washington would continue to deepen its ties with Taiwan in the coming days and weeks.
The latest trip began Sunday with little notice ahead of time — and drew more ire from China. The delegation was due to leave late Monday.
“China will take resolute and strong measures to defend national sovereignty and territorial integrity,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said at a daily briefing Monday, after Beijing announced new drills in the seas and skies surrounding Taiwan. “A handful of U.S. politicians, in collusion with the separatist forces of Taiwan independence, are trying to challenge the one-China principle, which is out of their depth and doomed to failure.”
The new exercises were intended to be “resolute response and solemn deterrent against collusion and provocation between the U.S. and Taiwan,” the Defense Ministry said earlier.
It was not clear if the new drills had already started since the ministry gave no details about where and when they would be conducted, in contrast to previous rounds.
The U.S. lawmakers, led by Democratic Sen. Ed Markey of Massachusetts, met with President Tsai Ing-wen, Foreign Minister Joseph Wu and legislators, according to the American Institute in Taiwan, Washington’s de facto embassy on the island.
At their meeting, Tsai said her administration was working with allies to ensure stability in the Taiwan Strait and maintain the status quo — a reference to the island’s self-governance, separate from Beijing.
“Russia’s invasion of Ukraine earlier this year has shown the threat that authoritarian nations pose to the global order,” Tsai said.
Markey responded by saying Washington and Taipei had a “moral obligation to do everything we can to prevent an unnecessary conflict and Taiwan has demonstrated incredible restraint and discretion during challenging times.”
The senator also highlighted legislation intended to boost political and economic ties with Taiwan, especially in the critical semiconductor industry. Taiwan is a crucial provider of computer chips for the global economy, including China’s high-tech sectors, and beyond the geopolitical risks of rising tensions in the region, an extended crisis in the Taiwan Strait could have major implications for international supply chains at a time when the world is already facing disruptions and uncertainty.
Markey is one of the few members of Congress still serving who voted for the 1979 Taiwan Relations Act that ensured continued relations with the island following the switch of U.S. diplomatic recognition from Taipei to Beijing. The other members of the delegation are Republican Rep. Aumua Amata Coleman Radewagen, a delegate from American Samoa, and Democrats John Garamendi and Alan Lowenthal from California and Don Beyer from Virginia.
China says it wants to use peaceful means to bring Taiwan under its control, but its recent saber rattling has emphasized its threat to take the island by military force. The earlier drills appeared to be a rehearsal of a blockade or attack on Taiwan that would force the cancellation of commercial flights and disrupt shipping to Taiwan’s main ports as well as cargo passing through the Taiwan Strait, one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes.
The exercises prompted Taiwan to put its military on alert, but were met largely with defiance or apathy among the public used to living in China’s shadow.
The American “visit at this time is of great significance, because the Chinese military exercise is (intended) to deter U.S. congressmen from visiting Taiwan,” Lo Chih-cheng, the chair of the Taiwan legislature’s Foreign and National Defense Committee, said after meeting with the U.S. lawmakers.
“Their visit this time proves that China cannot stop politicians from any country to visit Taiwan, and it also conveys an important message that the American people stand with the Taiwanese people,” Lo said.
A senior White House official on Asia policy said last week that China had used Pelosi’s visit as an excuse to launch an intensified pressure campaign against Taiwan.
“China has overreacted, and its actions continue to be provocative, destabilizing, and unprecedented,” Kurt Campbell, a deputy assistant to U.S. President Joe Biden, said on a call with reporters on Friday.
Campbell said the U.S. would send warships and planes through the Taiwan Strait in the next few weeks and is developing a roadmap for trade talks with Taiwan that he said the U.S. intends to announce in the coming days. | 2022-08-15T23:01:53+00:00 | wjhl.com | https://www.wjhl.com/news/politics/us-congress-members-meet-taiwan-leader-amid-china-anger/ |
Tornado warning issued for parts of Sangamon County
The National Weather Service has issued a tornado warning for parts of Sangamon County and is advising those in the area to seek shelter now.
“At 1219 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado was located near Chatham, or 7 miles south of Springfield, moving east at 75 mph,” according to a release from the NWS. “Flying debris will be dangerous to those caught without shelter.”
According to the weather service, the hail-producing system is also expected to damage or destroy mobile homes and cause damage to roofs, windows, and vehicles.
Those in the area of the storm should move to a basement or an interior room on the lowest floor of a sturdy building. Avoid windows.
“If you are outdoors, in a mobile home, or in a vehicle, move to the closest substantial shelter and protect yourself from flying debris,” advised the NWS. | 2023-06-29T21:04:43+00:00 | sj-r.com | https://www.sj-r.com/story/weather/severe/2023/06/29/tornado-warning-issued-for-parts-of-sangamon-county/70370059007/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — A Belgian man whose wife lost her legs in a deadly terrorist attack on a New York City bike path said he contemplated suicide after he had largely recovered from his physical wounds. He testified Tuesday as a jury considers the death penalty for the militant Islamic attacker.
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Aristide Melissas testified in a federal court in Manhattan to aid the government’s push for a death sentence for Sayfullo Saipov. If all 12 jurors do not agree to end his life, the 35-year-old will automatically spend life in prison.
Melissas said he was undergoing 22 months of rehabilitation from physical wounds that included a fractured skull when he hit an 18-month stretch of mental lows “where I thought of ending my life.”
“Then I said: ‘Don’t do it. You have family. You're strong. Seek help,'” he said.
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Saipov was convicted in late January of charges in the Oct. 31, 2017, attack. He drove a rental truck on a lower Manhattan bike path along the Hudson River at high speed, boasting hours afterward to FBI agents that he had hoped to kill more people. Prosecutors say he had become immersed online in Islamic State group propaganda.
As part of a weeklong presentation of evidence meant to persuade jurors to elect the death penalty, prosecutors have called survivors like Melissas to describe their continuing pain.
They also have argued that Saipov, a citizen of Uzbekistan, remains dangerous and committed to terrorism, even while incarcerated.
Two women who worked at federal jails where Saipov has been held since his arrest say he scared them with his antics after he got angry.
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One said he was so angry about his encounter with a guard the night before that he said he wouldn't remove a covering he had placed over the cell's video camera until the guard's head was cut off.
Another jail employee who works as a guard testified that Saipov once became so angry that he kicked his cell door repeatedly and struck a window so hard that it cracked as he threatened to cut her head off.
Melissas, who testified earlier in the trial as did his wife, returned to the witness stand as prosecutors tried to demonstrate the continuing pain felt by a dozen and a half individuals seriously injured in the attack.
Melissas said he was riding bikes with his wife, his youngest son and a nephew when he heard loud screeching and crashing noises behind him before he was knocked out, only to regain consciousness in a pool of his own blood as a stranger's voice told him an ambulance would arrive soon.
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The one-time chief executive of his family's business said he can no longer work a full day. And each night, he misses cuddling up to his wife's feet so much that he seeks comfort by holding the socks she wore the night before she lost her legs.
“It doesn't change anything,” he said, alluding to what was lost. “I still love her so much.” | 2023-02-15T00:35:15+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/man-hurt-in-nyc-bike-path-attack-says-he-wanted-17784709.php |
Former President Obama in an upcoming interview with CNN says it is “appropriate” for President Biden to challenge foreign leaders on issues in their country that are “troubling.”
Obama gave his comments ahead of the official state visit of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who has been criticized for his government’s treatment of Muslims and a weakening of press freedoms.
“I do think that it is appropriate for the president of the United States, where he or she can, to uphold those principles and to challenge — whether behind closed doors or in public — trends that are troubling. And so, I’m less concerned about labels than I’m concerned about specific practices,” he told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour.
He added that protecting the rights of minority groups in India is essential.
“Part of my argument would be that if you do not protect the rights of ethnic minorities in India, then there is a strong possibility India at some point starts pulling apart. And we’ve seen what happens when you start getting those kinds of large internal conflicts,” he said.
In the full interview, which will air Thursday night, Obama said that part of the duties as president is to meet with leaders of other countries and their governments, even if they aren’t fully democratic.
“But you have to do business with them — because they’re important for national security reasons — there are a range of economic interests,” he said.
“If the president meets with Prime Minister Modi, then the protection of the Muslim minority in a majority-Hindu India, that’s something worth mentioning,” Obama added.
Biden, Obama’s former vice president, made joint remarks with Modi at the White House on Thursday. The Indian prime minister did not respond to a question about the treatment of Muslims in India ahead of a bilateral meeting.
Modi, on his first state visit to the United States, will also give a joint address to Congress later Thursday, which will be boycotted by some Democrats. | 2023-06-22T18:59:14+00:00 | texomashomepage.com | https://www.texomashomepage.com/hill-politics/obama-calls-for-biden-to-discuss-rights-of-ethnic-minorities-in-india-with-modi/ |
School dormitory fire kills at least 20 children
Published: May. 22, 2023 at 5:49 AM CDT|Updated: 6 minutes ago
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — Fire raced through a school dormitory in Guyana early Monday, killing at least 20 students and injuring an undetermined more, authorities said.
The Guyanese government said in a press statement that the fire broke out in the dormitory building of a secondary school in the city of Madhia, 200 miles south of Georgetown, Guyana’s capital.
“We have lost many beautiful souls in that fire,” the government said. It added that several other students are being treated for injuries.
The fire began shortly after midnight.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2023-05-22T10:58:12+00:00 | kxii.com | https://www.kxii.com/2023/05/22/school-dormitory-fire-kills-least-20-children/ |
Kris Bryant Player Prop Bets: Rockies vs. Astros - July 18
Published: Jul. 18, 2023 at 3:28 PM CDT|Updated: 39 minutes ago
Kris Bryant -- 1-for-5 in his most recent game -- will be in action for the Colorado Rockies against the Houston Astros, with Hunter Brown on the mound, on July 18 at 8:40 PM ET.
In his last appearance, he went 1-for-5 against the Yankees.
Kris Bryant Game Info & Props vs. the Astros
- Game Day: Tuesday, July 18, 2023
- Game Time: 8:40 PM ET
- Stadium: Coors Field
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Astros Starter: Hunter Brown
- TV Channel: SportsNet RM
- Hits Prop: Over/under 1.5 hits (Over odds: +170)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +575)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +175)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: -115)
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Kris Bryant At The Plate
- Bryant has seven doubles, seven home runs and 24 walks while batting .256.
- Bryant has reached base via a hit in 41 games this season (of 61 played), and had multiple hits in 17 of those games.
- He has homered in 11.5% of his games in 2023 (seven of 61), and 2.7% of his trips to the dish.
- Bryant has had at least one RBI in 26.2% of his games this season (16 of 61), with more than one RBI four times (6.6%). He has also accounted for three or more of his team's runs in one contest.
- He has scored at least once 23 times this season (37.7%), including three games with multiple runs (4.9%).
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Kris Bryant Home/Away Batting Splits
Astros Pitching Rankings
- The 9.4 strikeouts per nine innings put together by the Astros pitching staff ranks sixth in the league.
- The Astros' 3.77 team ERA ranks fourth across all league pitching staffs.
- Astros pitchers combine to rank 16th in baseball in home runs surrendered (108 total, 1.1 per game).
- Brown (6-6 with a 4.21 ERA and 111 strikeouts in 94 2/3 innings pitched) makes the start for the Astros, his 18th of the season.
- In his last time out on Saturday, July 8, the right-hander went three innings against the Seattle Mariners, giving up five earned runs while surrendering eight hits.
- This season, the 24-year-old ranks 46th in ERA (4.21), 51st in WHIP (1.330), and 10th in K/9 (10.6) among qualifying pitchers.
© 2023 Data Skrive. All rights reserved. | 2023-07-18T21:07:43+00:00 | kwch.com | https://www.kwch.com/sports/betting/2023/07/18/kris-bryant-mlb-player-prop-bets/ |
Cayce Seal’s legacy still alive a year after his death
HANCOCK COUNTY, Miss. (WLOX) - A year after his tragic death, the family of Cayce Seal keeps the memory of the fallen electric utility worker alive through tributes, events and #LLC, or Live Like Cayce.
“It’s been incredible the outpouring of love and support people have given us,” said Doug Seal, Cayce’s father.
The Seal family has been treading the waters of emotion, finances and legal matters since the Bay St. Louis resident died from electric shock while on the job last year.
“We didn’t realize how the systems work. After Cayce’s death, we didn’t realize what was going on.”
If you remember back in April, the Occupational Safety and Health Organization, or OSHA, fined Entergy $40, 959 for three serious safety violations as a result of Seal’s death.
Doug Seal adds they haven’t sought legal action against Entergy due to Mississippi’s Workman’s Compensation rules and a specific clause called Intentional Tort.
“Companies cannot be held liable for workers injuries or deaths if they have worker’s compensation insurance,” Seal added. “Basically, you have a one percent chance of filing suit against a company or corporation. The company has to be willfully negligent in telling you to do something that would end your life in order to be held accountable. I think that is something that was brought to light.”
Doug Seal says he’d like to see that changed, not for his family, but for others on the job that could endure a similar incident, like the one Cayce Seal suffered a year ago.
“I would like to go to our State legislature and say ‘hey, companies need to be held accountable.’ To me, that’s what needs to come out of Cayce’s legacy.”
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CROSSLAKE, Minn. (AP) — A researcher trying to understand what’s causing a decline in Wisconsin’s loon population is expanding his project into Minnesota.
Minnesota Pubic Radio reported Wednesday that Walter Piper, a biology professor at Chapman University in California, has partnered with the National Loon Center to expand his research into Crow Wing County in north-central Minnesota. Last summer Piper’s team attached identification bands to about 80 loons around the Whitefish Chain of Lakes north of Brainerd. The team plans to revisit those territories this summer to find out if the birds survived.
Piper has already determined that Wisconsin’s loon population has decreased by about 22% in the last 25 years. Chicks also are smaller and young loons’ survival rate is lower.
He theorizes that biting black flies may be driving loons off their nests, preventing loons from incubating their eggs. He also theorizes that loons are having a tougher time spotting prey underwater because pollution is making lake water murkier. | 2022-06-09T16:44:35+00:00 | twincities.com | https://www.twincities.com/2022/06/08/researcher-probing-loon-decline-expands-project-to-minnesota/ |
Threats against the FBI from supporters of former President Donald Trump have jumped, even as court documents related to the search of his Florida home are made public.
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Threats against the FBI from supporters of former President Donald Trump have jumped, even as court documents related to the search of his Florida home are made public.
Copyright 2022 NPR | 2022-08-15T09:59:40+00:00 | nprillinois.org | https://www.nprillinois.org/2022-08-15/the-search-of-mar-a-lago-leads-to-outrage-against-the-fbi-by-trump-supporters |
Index earnings fell slightly year-over-year as inflation continued to put pressure on profit margins.
The Golub Capital Altman Index can provide early insight into financial performance of public companies and GDP in advance of earnings season.
NEW YORK, Oct. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Middle market private companies in the Golub Capital Altman Index experienced year-over-year revenue growth of 12% and earnings decline of 2% during the first two months of the third quarter of 2022. This compares to year-over-year revenue growth of 12% and earnings growth of 2% in the second quarter of 2022.
Lawrence E. Golub, CEO of Golub Capital, said, "The U.S. economy continues to muddle through an environment of heightened uncertainty. This quarter's data is consistent with our expectation that economic growth will likely remain low in real terms for the rest of 2022 into 2023. Although profit growth declined slightly in aggregate, the data also shows increasing dispersion in performance by industry and company. Successfully navigating this environment will require management teams and owners to adapt quickly to changing circumstances. In our view, this type of environment plays to the strengths of private equity-backed businesses."
Dr. Edward I. Altman said, "EBITDA growth rates in the first two months of Q3 were negative versus the same period of 2021 with four of the five major industrial sectors registering negative growth. Only Industrials showed relative strong profit growth as these firms improved their cost management after suffering margin pressure in earlier quarters. Indeed, the Consumer and Technology sectors turned negative this past quarter despite revenue growth of more than 12%. The pullback in Consumer sector profit growth suggests companies struggled to pass rising input costs on to consumers, who faced rising prices for food and gasoline. Even Technology companies faced margin pressure, after a long stretch of very strong profit growth. That said, across all four of the sectors we track, companies with the strongest pricing power, like mission critical business-to-business SaaS companies, are in general keeping up with inflation."
The Golub Capital Altman Index ("GCAI"), which is produced by Golub Capital in collaboration with credit expert Dr. Edward I. Altman, is the first and longest-running index based on actual revenue and earnings (defined as earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, or "EBITDA") for middle market companies. It measures the median revenue and earnings growth of approximately 110–150 private U.S. companies in the loan portfolio of Golub Capital, a leading middle market lender. Reported shortly before public company quarterly earnings season, the GCAI has served as a reliable indicator of the overall growth rates in revenue and earnings of public companies in market indexes such as the S&P 500 and S&P SmallCap 600 ("S&P 600"), as well as quarterly Gross Domestic Product ("GDP"), according to statistical back-testing dating back to 2012, when data began to be tracked.
The size and diversity of the Golub Capital loan portfolio ensure that the confidentiality of all company-specific information used in the index is maintained in both the aggregate and industry segment data.
We believe the results (1) are representative of the general performance of middle market companies, which are a major contributor to U.S. private sector employment; (2) can be easily compared to the performance of the public companies that make up major stock indexes; (3) are relevant to the aggregate economic performance of the U.S. economy and (4) provide timely information for the investment community.
The companies in the GCAI operate in a wide range of industries. Results are provided for the total universe of GCAI constituents and by industry segment. Given the index's limited exposure to Financials, Utilities, Energy and Materials, comparisons are made to the S&P 500 and S&P 600 as well as to "adjusted" versions of those indexes that exclude the aforementioned sectors.
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The Golub Capital Middle Market Report analyzes the results of the Golub Capital Altman Index ("GCAI"), which measures the median revenue and earnings growth of approximately 110-150 privately owned companies in the Golub Capital loan portfolio for the first two months of each calendar quarter. It compares these results to the financial performance of well-known market indexes, including the S&P 500 and S&P SmallCap 600. The GCAI is produced by Golub Capital in collaboration with credit expert Dr. Edward I. Altman. Effective Q2 2022, the Golub Capital Altman Index (GCAI) excludes Golub Capital portfolio companies that have recurring revenue-based credit facilities. The data referenced herein may not reflect all companies in the loan portfolio of Golub Capital during the time periods indicated.
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Youth Empowerment Council Awarding $240,000 in Grants To Improve Mental Health of Casper Youth
The Youth Empowerment Council is partnering with the Natrona Collective Health Trust to facilitate the awarding of $240,000 to improve the mental health and well-being of young people in Natrona County.
That's according to a press release from the Natrona Collective Health Trust, who wrote that the two organizations will use a process called Participatory Grantmaking (PGM). According to the release, YEC will develop a grant program, the grantmaking process, and they will make funding decisions on behalf of the foundation.
“One of our core values is to center on community, as we know those closest to the problems know how best to solve them,” said CEO Beth Worthen. “As a foundation seeking to improve the mental well-being of youth in Natrona County, we think it’s critically important for youth to have power, leadership, and decision-making authority on how we do that.”
PGM has a core concept that says 'Nothing about us, without us." The PGM process is about "involving the people most affected by the issues in making decisions around those issues."
YouthGiving.org reports that there are more than 600 youth-led grantmaking programs using this model around the U.S.
The release noted that the YEC project is facilitated by the Trust's Senior Director of Programs and Community Engagement, as well as the Mayor of Casper, Ray Pacheco. Pacheco also has strong ties to YEC as well.
With the partnership of YEC and NCHT, 10 middle school and high school youth are meeting twice a month to develop the program. Additionally, the youth leaders are paid a stipend from the NCHT in exchange for their time and expertise.
Janessa Miramontes is a member of the Youth Empowerment Council as well as a member of the NCHT's Program Committee. She is one of the young people embarking on this project.
“I’ve enjoyed serving on the Program Committee and now helping lead the work with YEC,” Miramontes said. “If we want youth to stay in Wyoming, build families and businesses, and help lead our state, then we need a voice in shaping our present. I appreciate NCHT’s willingness to let us address the problems we see affecting us, and their guidance throughout the process is very appreciated.”
The YEC intends to award the available dollars to local nonprofits by the end of May, 2023. | 2022-12-16T03:07:18+00:00 | k2radio.com | https://k2radio.com/youth-empowerment-council-awarding-240000-in-grants-to-improve-mental-health-of-casper-youth/ |
For four hours, Raymond V. Buelna, a cultural leader for the Pascua Yaqui Tribe, sat on a metal bench in a concrete holding space at the U.S.-Mexico border, separated from the two people he was taking to an Easter ceremony on tribal land in Arizona and wondering when they might be released.
It was February 2022 and Buelna, a U.S. citizen, was driving the pair — both from the sovereign Native American nation's related tribal community in northwestern Mexico — from their home to the reservation southwest of Tucson. They'd been authorized by U.S. officials to cross the border. But when Buelna asked an agent why they were detained, he was told to wait for the officer who brought him in.
“They know that we’re coming," said Buelna, who has made the trip for a variety of ceremonies for 20 years. “We did all this work and then we’re still sitting there.”
Now, the Pascua Yaqui Tribe is trying to change this — for themselves and potentially dozens of other tribes in the U.S.
Tribal officials have drafted regulations to formalize the border-crossing process, working with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's recently formed Tribal Homeland Security Advisory Council, comprised of 15 Native officials across the U.S.
Their work could provide a template for dozens of Native American nations whose homelands, like the Pascua Yaquis, were sliced in two by modern-day U.S. borders.
If approved, the rules would become the first clearly established U.S. border crossing procedures specific to a Native American tribe that could then be used by others, according to Christina Leza, associate professor of anthropology at Colorado College.
The regulations would last five years, to be renewed and amended as needed, and require training local U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents and consular personnel on the tribe’s cultural heritage, language and traditions. It would require a Yaqui interpreter to be available when needed. It also would require close coordination with the tribe so border crossings are prompt.
“This is just something that will help everybody,” said Fred Urbina, attorney general for the Pascua Yaqui Tribe. “It will make things more efficient."
Urbina said the tribe has met with Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas about the proposal. DHS did not immediately respond to repeated requests for comment by phone and email on the status of the regulations.
When family members, deer dancers or musicians living in Sonora, Mexico, make the trip into the U.S. for ceremonies, tribal recognition celebrations or family events, they are typically issued an ID card from the tribe and a visitor visa or parole permit from the U.S. government. Still, they still face border officials who they say lack the cultural awareness to process them without problems.
In the last two years, Buelna said, he has made the roundtrip about 18 times and was detained on four of them. He said border officials question the people he’s escorting, whose first language is Yaqui, without an interpreter, and cultural objects, such as deer and pig hooves, have been confiscated. Officials have touched ceremonial objects, despite only certain people being permitted by the tribe to do so.
Urbina explained that the tribe encountered new challenges when Homeland Security was formed after 9/11 and border security was heightened. It became more pronounced in 2020, when the U.S. prohibited “non-essential” travel across the border to control the spread of the coronavirus. That ban ended this week, but new restrictions are in place.
As a sovereignty issue, Native American nations should be able to determine their people’s ability to cross the border to preserve the ceremonial life of their communities, Leza said.
“If the federal government is saying our particular priorities, our interests in terms of securing our borders, trump your interests as a sovereign nation, then that’s not really a recognition of the sovereignty of those tribal nations,” she said.
Tribes along the U.S.-Canada border face similar problems.
The Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians is headquartered in Michigan, but 173 of its more than 49,000 enrolled members live in Canada. Kimberly Hampton, the tribe’s officer-secretary and vice chair of the Tribal Homeland Security Advisory Council, said those members cross the border for powwows, fasting and to visit with traditional healers and family, but border officials have rudely rifled through eagle feathers and other cultural objects they are carrying.
Hampton wants an agreement that includes having tribal liaisons at border crossings and training developed by the tribe for border personnel.
Members of the Sault Ste. Marie tribe and the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe, which has about 8,000 members in the U.S. and about 8,000 in Canada, said they have also been asked at the border to prove that they possess at least 50% "blood of the American Indian race." It stems from a requirement under the 1952 Immigration and Nationality Act that “American Indians” born in Canada cannot be denied entry into the U.S. if they can prove this — often through a letter from the tribe.
Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe Chief Michael L. Conners wants to eliminate the requirement and boost education for border agents on local and national tribal issues. Drafting regulations specific to the tribe, like the ones the Pascua Yaqui are doing, “would bring a lot of peace of mind to our whole community,” he said.
For Buelna, waiting in that concrete holding space, he was reunited with the pair only after he told a border official he thought they'd been overlooked following a shift change, he said.
“Why can’t there be a system?” Buelna asked. “Why can’t there be already a line for us where we can present the proper paperwork, everything that we need and go about our way?”
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MORGANTOWN, W.Va (WBOY) – A seven-run fourth inning by John Marshall spelled the end of University’s ten-game winning streak as the Hawks fell, 9-1.
After Olivia Masoner drove in University’s lone run in the third inning, the Monarchs exploded for seven in the top of the fourth and added two insurance runs in the late innings. | 2023-04-12T04:51:29+00:00 | wboy.com | https://www.wboy.com/sports/big-inning-dooms-hawks-against-john-marshall/ |
The deal adds seven new companies, including KSS Enterprises, to Envoy Solutions' portfolio
GLENVIEW, Ill., Oct. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Envoy Solutions announced today that it has reached an agreement to acquire seven Michigan-based companies from the Enterprises Group: KSS Enterprises, Sideline Sports, BBC Distributing, Energyst Solutions, Rapid Supply & Sales, EMack Manufacturing, and Star Flooring.
The Enterprises Group of companies specializes in facility supplies, foodservice, and commercial flooring. It focuses on providing education, training, support, and quality products to build strong partnerships with its clients, vendors, and the communities it serves. KSS Enterprises, the largest of the companies, has eleven locations across the Great Lakes region in Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio. By joining forces with KSS and the entire Enterprises Group, Envoy Solutions will enhance key product offerings for its differentiated business model while expanding its geographic footprint into Michigan for the first time. With this new partnership, Envoy Solutions advances its position as a specialized distributor and solution provider serving the U.S. market through a family of regional distributors.
"These are outstanding companies that will help us to solve the industry's toughest challenges as we expand into Michigan and increase our presence in Ohio and Indiana," said Mark M. Fisher, CEO of Envoy Solutions. "I look forward to working with Tom Hill, Ed Stasiak, and their entire teams who will help us deepen our category knowledge, increase our product portfolio, and maintain our commitment to customer excellence. It's great to see distributors in the U.S. continue to join our differentiated business model, which we strongly believe is the way of the future."
"Our associates, our clients, and our companies will all greatly benefit from this partnership with Envoy Solutions," said Tom Hill, CEO of the Enterprises Group of companies.
"Envoy Solutions brings tremendous value to the distribution market in a new way, and we're thrilled to be a part of that," said Ed Stasiak, President of the Enterprises Group of companies. "Together, our like-minded companies will accomplish great things."
This transaction is pending customary regulatory approvals and is expected to close in the fourth quarter of this year.
Glenview, Ill.-based Envoy Solutions is a specialized distributor and solution provider serving the U.S. market through a family of regional distributors. We specialize in Jan-San, foodservice, packaging, and marketing execution. Envoy Solutions offers a broad catalog of top brands and products, along with deep expertise and advice, to help our client-partners succeed. We are driven to make facilities cleaner and more sustainable, people safer, and operations more productive, every day. For more information, please visit www.envoysolutions.com.
The Enterprises Group includes KSS Enterprises, Sideline Sports, BBC Distributing, Energyst Solutions, Rapid Supply & Sales, EMack Manufacturing, and Star Flooring. KSS Enterprises is a distributor of janitorial supplies, packaging, and cleaning equipment. Sideline Sports has been inspecting, repairing, and performing maintenance on indoor and outdoor bleachers throughout the Midwest for more than 35 years. BBC Distributing is a distributor of compostable products, smallwares, restaurant equipment, beverage dispensing systems, cleaning supplies, and more. Energyst Solutions is a distributor of wood floor finishes, equipment and products for sports, commercial, and residential markets. Rapid Supply and Sales serves Michigan's carpet flooring industry as a distributor of quality flooring, tools, materials, and accessories. EMack Manufacturing is a manufacturer of key equipment and tools used in the flooring industry. Star Flooring provides installation of new wood sports flooring and wood stages, as well as maintenance, repairs, and refinishing of existing floors. For more information, please visit https://the-enterprises.com/.
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What to Expect in 2023:The tech bubble has finally popped. Big Tech’s expansion during the pandemic sparked a rush of over-hiring and preposterous valuations among tech startups, leading to a sharp correction at the end of 2022. As reality sets in through this coming year, expect tech firms to cut back on their infamously generous perks and refocus — I’m looking at you, Meta Platforms Inc. — on traditionally reliable business models like advertising and cloud computing. Venture capital investors who help foment the industry’s latest trends will also reprioritize pure tech businesses — think enterprise software and cyber security instead of food delivery and telemedicine. Or, in more practical terms, higher margins over businesses that are capital-intensive and competitive.
Elon Musk’s radical streamlining of Twitter may inspire other social media bosses to go back to their age-old argument about being “tech firms” first and foremost, and tempt them to emphasize artificial intelligence development and engineering over policy work. That would be a mistake, as two major new laws from the European Union are coming down the pipe(1) which will dictate how those companies should oversee content and data on their sites, and how they interact with competitors. One high-tech field probably won’t get much traction, though: the metaverse.
Software firms will also scramble to find ways to make money from generative AI, machine-learning systems that can write essays and create images and videos. The models underpinning those systems made several big breakthroughs in 2022. This year, companies like OpenAI, one of the leading generative AI producers, will have to answer tough questions about how they will prevent their systems from manipulating humans or spreading misinformation at scale. Apple Inc. has been lagging behind in its own AI development, and will likely need to buy a generative AI firm.
From the Year Behind Us:
It’s Awkward Being a Woman in the Metaverse: Meeting people in virtual reality is fun but messier than Mark Zuckerberg’s vision. Also beware the foul-mouthed kids and the griefers.
Facebook Has Probably Peaked: The social network’s first ever drop in daily users was a landmark moment. As Zuckerberg steers quixotically towards the metaverse, it’s hard to see the company heading back to growth.
On the Internet Nobody Knows You’re a Kid – Yet: Lawmakers are pushing tech companies to make the web safer for children. But their proposals won’t do much without strict standards for age verification which nobody can agree on.
Wordle, BeReal and Even Facebook: Apps Get Less Addictive: The growth of apps that prize connection over obsession marks a healthy shift in social media. You only need to look at BeReal once a day.
Facebook, Beware: The Metaverse Is Flat: Most people are visiting virtual worlds through plain old screens on Roblox and Fortnite. Mark Zuckerberg needs to make his metaverse less reliant on VR goggles, so that millions more people can access it.
Creative AI Is Generating Some Messy Problems: Generative AI that can write blog posts and create images is the hot new trend in tech circles, but it will come with thorny legal challenges.
Musk’s Twitter Won’t Die. Look at Telegram: Telegram is an even bigger social network run by a libertarian billionaire. Its popularity should dispel all notions that Twitter will disappear.
(1) The Digital Services Act and Digital Markets Act
This column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the editorial board or Bloomberg LP and its owners.
Parmy Olson is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering technology. A former reporter for the Wall Street Journal and Forbes, she is author of “We Are Anonymous.”
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House Republicans fulfilled a key campaign promise on Monday, passing legislation to rescind the bulk of an IRS funding boost signed into law last year, marking the first bill passed by the GOP-controlled House this Congress.
The bill, which is unlikely to see action in the Democratic-controlled Senate, passed in a party-line 221-210 vote on Monday evening.
Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) announced that the first bill for a GOP-controlled House would be to repeal the new IRS funding in September, when House Republicans released their “Commitment to America” midterm policy and messaging platform ahead of the election.
A boost of about $80 billion in IRS funding over a decade generally aimed at upping high-income enforcement was included in last year’s Inflation Reduction Act, Democrats’ sweeping tax, health and climate bill.
The Republican bill, formally titled the “Family and Small Business Taxpayer Protection Act,” is barely longer than one page. It directs any “unobligated balances of amounts appropriated or otherwise made available” to the IRS from the Inflation Reduction Act to be rescinded.
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated Monday that the legislation would eliminate about $71 billion of the total $80 billion that was allocated for the IRS but would reduce tax revenue by about $186 billion, translating to a $114 billion increase in deficits over the next decade.
Republicans have repeatedly falsely claimed the 87,000 new IRS employees, who would be added over the course of a decade, would be “agents.”
The 87,000 figure comes from a May 2021 Treasury Department compliance report estimating new hires over a decade with the $80 billion funding boost. But only a small portion of the department’s current employees are agents, and the department has said the figure accounts for other workers such as customer service representatives and computer scientists as well as replacements for the 52,000 employees expected to retire or resign within the next six years.
IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig said in an August letter to members of the Senate that the funds from the legislation would be used to up examination of large corporations and high-net-worth individuals and were not designed to raise enforcement for households making less than $400,000. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has also said that the agency would not increase audit rates for those taxpayers making less than $400,000.
Republicans, however, argued that the directives did not prohibit increased enforcement activities directed at middle- and low-income taxpayers, and pointed to a CBO analysis that said the funding boost would mean audit rates “rise for all taxpayers.” They also criticized the legislation for not allocating a larger portion to taxpayer services.
The bill stand little chance in the Senate, and the White House said in a statement on Monday that President Biden would veto it if it came to his desk.
“With their first economic legislation of the new Congress, House Republicans are making clear that their top economic priority is to allow the rich and multi-billion dollar corporations to skip out on their taxes, while making life harder for ordinary, middle-class families that pay the taxes they owe,” the White House said in a statement.
Rep. Adrian Smith (R-Neb.) — the sponsor of the bill who lost a race on Monday to become chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee — touted the measure during debate on the chamber floor Monday, calling it a “first great step” in reforming the IRS to become an agency that works for the public.
“There are numerous reasons to support this bill. It protects families and small businesses. It ensures agencies are funded appropriately. Most importantly, it stops autopilot funding for an out-of-control government agency that is perhaps most in need of reform,” Smith said.
“IRS needs to fix its customer service and return processing problems, not focus on auditing families and small businesses. Americans want an IRS that works for them, not against them. This bill is a great first step in that direction,” he added.
Rep. Richard Neal (D-Mass.), the ranking member of the House Ways and Means Committee, brought attention to the CBO report, saying the bill would lead to a $114 billion surge in deficits over the next 10 years. He also argued that the changes in the bill at hand would make matters worse for the middle class and small businesses.
“They don’t want a fairer tax administration. They think it’s bad for some of their supporters. But you know what? This is — what they’re attempting to do tonight — is bad for middle-class families, it’s bad for small businesses, who then are asked to pay more when the people at the top don’t pay their fair share,” Neal said.
“The American people are wise to what’s being presented here tonight. We live in a two-tier tax system. Wage earners follow the rules. Wealthy billionaires, they get to skirt their responsibilities. And that’s what we’re being asked to vote on tonight,” he later added. | 2023-01-10T03:52:12+00:00 | siouxlandproud.com | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/hill-politics/house-gop-passes-repeal-of-irs-funding-boost-as-its-first-bill-in-the-majority/ |
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FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP)Disgruntled wide receiver Elijah Moore will sit out the New York Jets’ game Sunday against the Denver Broncos after requesting to be traded amid frustration over his lack of playmaking opportunities.
Coach Robert Saleh said Friday ”trading him is not an option,” but Moore will not be with the team in Denver as the Jets – at 4-2 and off to their best start since 2015 – look for a fourth straight victory.
Moore, a second-round pick out of Mississippi who had 43 catches as a rookie last year, will go through workouts with trainers over the next few days and rejoin the team Monday.
”In my view, whether we agree or not, it doesn’t matter, but to ask him to play a football game with where he is from a mental standpoint wouldn’t be fair to him,” said Saleh, who insisted Moore wasn’t being punished by the team. ”That’s strictly my decision.”
On Thursday, Saleh said Moore was excused from practice by the team to be with his family to attend to a personal matter. The wide receiver spent the day away from the facility and then asked to be dealt.
Moore is coming off a promising rookie season during which he caught 43 passes for 538 yards and five touchdowns in 11 games, including six starts. But he has just 16 catches for 203 yards and no scores in six games – all starts – while working in an offense that has focused more on running the ball in recent weeks.
”For me, knowing the individual and know what he wants, he wants to contribute,” Saleh said. ”He’s a competitive kid. He’s a competitive man. He feels like he can do more within the offense to help us across the board. And to me, that’s admirable. You want your guys to have that confidence in themselves where they know that they can do more for the offense.”
But for a team that is having success for the first time in several years and has preached a ”Positive Vibes Only” mantra, there are questions as to whether Moore’s actions could potentially serve as a distraction.
”Our locker room’s fine, it’s rock solid,” Saleh said. ”We all love Elijah. We all understand the business aspect of it. We all know where his heart is, we all know the character we drafted. Elijah’s a great kid. He is. He works his tail off, does everything that’s asked of him. And whether or not people can get out of whack, that’s probably more of a conversation for him.
”But he is a very high-character individual and I get that this can look bad, but it is part of it and part of what we go through in this business.”
Moore became the second Jets wide receiver to request a trade after Denzel Mims, a 2020 second-rounder, did so during training camp. But as is the case with Moore, the team has no plans to deal him.
And in a twist, with Moore not playing Sunday, Mims will be active for the first time this season.
”He has prepared himself to play and he’s going to get his opportunity,” Saleh said.
Moore created some buzz Sunday on social media after New York’s 27-10 victory at Green Bay when he quote-tweeted a reporter’s post that pointed out he had no official receiving targets in the game. He actually had one on a deep incompletion in the second quarter, but it was negated by a penalty.
”If I say what I really wanna say…I’ll be the selfish guy…we winning,” Moore said in the since-deleted post. ”Grateful! Huge blessing! All I ever wanted. Butter sweet for me em but I’ll be solid. So I’ll just stay quiet.
”Just know I don’t understand either.”
On Monday, Saleh said he spoke to Moore, and it appeared the issue was mostly settled. But in the first of three posts on Twitter on Thursday, Moore said: ”Love my teammates!” That was followed by: ”When someone tell u how they feel the first time BELIEVE THEM!” The final tweet read: ”God I need direction.”
All the tweets have since been deleted. Earlier Thursday, Moore also tweeted: ”God makes no mistakes..I trust u through it Allllllll.”
Saleh on Friday reiterated Moore ”is not a bad kid,” and the Jets have high hopes for him.
”He’s going to be a great football player in this league for a long time,” the coach said. ”And it’s just a matter of just being able to stack together a couple of good days.”
NOTES: Rookie DE Jermaine Johnson was ruled out for a second straight game with an ankle injury. … S Ashtyn Davis (hamstring) is questionable to play, but fully participated in practice Friday.
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More AP NFL coverage: https://apnews.com/hub/nfl and https://twitter.com/AP-NFL | 2022-10-22T11:49:31+00:00 | valleycentral.com | https://www.valleycentral.com/nfl/nfl-dallas/coach-saleh-jets-moore-to-sit-vs-broncos-wont-be-traded/ |
By DON THOMPSON
Associated Press
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Since she came to California from Mexico 24 years ago, Maria Bernal has been supporting her family by often working two jobs at fast food restaurants.
But she says she wound up living in a small Kia with her two youngest children, then ages 3 and 15, for six months after she lost her housing in 2019 when one of her employers began paying her minimum wage for eight hours even when she worked a 16-hour double shift.
Union organizers and other advocates say such wage theft and other exploitation is common in the fast food industry, particularly for women and racial minorities who make up many of California’s more than half-million fast food workers. The industry denies such abuses are widespread.
Bernal and more than 100 others who recently rallied outside the state Capitol are pinning their hopes on groundbreaking legislation that would give fast food workers increased power and protections.
The proposal awaiting final action before the California Legislature adjourns Wednesday would create a new Fast Food Council made up of four workers’ delegates alongside four employers’ representatives and two state officials that would set minimum standards for wages, hours and working conditions in California.
Bernal said she hopes the council would give workers like herself “a seat at the table where they will respect us more and not allow wage theft to happen, and also importantly that we won’t be afraid of retaliation.”
Restaurant owners and franchisers say the proposal would drive up the price of fast food. They cite an analysis they commissioned by the UC Riverside Center for Economic Forecast and Development that puts the price increase at 7% to 20%.
A late wage cap added to the bill would keep the increase on the low end of that range. Late amendments limit any minimum wage bump to $22 an hour next year, with cost of living increases thereafter, while the statewide minimum will be $15.50 an hour.
Other late amendments mean the council would also have to be approved by a petition signed by 10,000 fast food workers, and the council would now disappear after six years unless it is renewed.
Matthew Haller, president & CEO of the International Franchise Association, dismissed the last-minute revisions as “an attempt to put lipstick on a pig.”
An earlier version cleared the Assembly in January with no votes to spare after falling short last year, and the revised bill is awaiting consideration in the Senate.
Though California’s effort would be broader, a wage board created by New York’s governor in 2015 led to an increase in fast food wages there, and similar efforts have been tried by some cities. The left-leaning Center for American Progress says that what also are known as workers’ boards, worker standards boards or industry committees could combat economic inequality along with racial and gender pay gaps.
“If we are successful here, workers in Florida, Texas, New York, even Idaho will be heartened and they can replicate our successes,” Democratic Assemblyman Alex Lee said at the workers’ rally.
California’s measure would cover fast food restaurants with at least 100 establishments nationally.
It grew out of the decade-long Fight for $15 and a Union minimum wage movement and efforts by labor unions to organize fast food workers in California and nationwide.
“This is more than just a labor fight. This is a fight about racial justice, this is a fight about gender justice,” said Joseph Bryant, executive vice president of the Service Employees International Union behind the drive. “Eighty percent of the workers are people of color who work in fast food. Two-thirds of the workers are women who work in fast food, and these workers are being exploited.”
Fast food workers in California are paid nearly $3 an hour less than comparable workers in other service sector jobs, according to a joint study released this month by Harvard and UC San Francisco.
Bernal hopes the California law and the ongoing effort to unionize fast food establishments will one day lead to benefits like paid vacations, medical coverage and a retirement plan. She filed a wage claim earlier this year with state regulators seeking $160,000 in back wages and penalties, while her son is alleging child labor law violations and threats by a restaurant manager.
Employees “are still fighting for some of the basic things that should have been happening a long time ago for the fast food workers who serve our community every day, even through a pandemic,” said Democratic Assemblyman Chris Holden, the bill’s author.
But Jesse Lara, whose family-owned business operates 34 El Pollo Loco franchises in Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego counties, said the bill is unnecessary and would harm the company’s more than 1,000 employees.
It unfairly assumes “that we have to rip off our employees to make a profit,” when many of the firms’ managers have promoted from within, he said. Inflation is “killing us,” he said, and higher wages and benefits would force restaurant owners to raise prices and cut workers’ hours to make ends meet.
The pending bill targets bona fide abuses, but also furthers unions’ goals of collective bargaining with the entire industry instead of attempting to organize fast food chains one restaurant at a time, said Janice Fine, a professor of labor studies and employment relations who directs Rutgers University’s workplace justice lab.
Such sector-wide negotiations are common in Europe, she said, but rare in the U.S.
California already has some of the strongest worker protection laws and regulations in the U.S. if not the world, said Matt Sutton, the California Restaurant Association’s senior vice president for government affairs and public policy.
He disputed claims that the fast food sector has a higher rate of labor, unemployment, health and safety incidents, but said the answer regardless should be for lawmakers to put more money into enforcing labor standards instead of creating a new council with unique regulatory power over one industry.
“There are avenues to punish employers when it’s appropriate,” Sutton said.
Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Department of Finance also opposed the bill in June, citing its potential costs and what it said could be “a fragmented regulatory and legal environment.”
“It is not clear that this bill will accomplish its goal, as it attempts to address delayed enforcement by creating stricter standards for certain sectors, which could exacerbate existing delays,” the administration warned.
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — Fire crews are on the scene of a house fire Thursday morning in the Fountain City area just north of Knoxville, according to the Knoxville Fire Department.
The house fire occurred in the 200 block of Cedar Lane near Pratt Road. KFD tweeted about the incident shortly before 6:30 a.m. Cedar Lane was partially shut down as crews responded to the incident.
No further details were yet available. Check back for updates. | 2022-05-19T13:00:08+00:00 | wate.com | https://www.wate.com/news/top-stories/firefighters-work-fountain-city-house-fire/ |
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s Office of Defects Investigation has opened a query into seat belt pretensioners on certain 2020-2022 Kia/Hyundai vehicles, saying that they may rupture or explode.
The ODI said that if the pretensioner ruptures it could release shrapnel, causing abrasions or other injuries.
ODI is aware of three separate incidents of possible faulty seat belt pretensioners. In all three incidents, the driver-side seat belt pretensioner deployed abnormally, causing metal fragments to enter the rear cabin resulting in injuries to the rear occupants.
Hyundai and Kia have issued five separate recalls from October 2021 to April of this year concerning pretensioner ruptures.
The initial ODI investigation includes 2021 Hyundai Elantra/Elantra HEV vehicles; 2021 Hyundai Venue vehicles; 2021 Genesis GV80; 2022 Genesis GV70 vehicles; 2020-2021 Hyundai Accent vehicles; 2022 Hyundai Elantra/Elantra HEV vehicles; 2022 Kia Sorento Hybrid/Sorento PHEV vehicles; 2021-2022 Hyundai Elantra vehicles and 2020 Hyundai Accent vehicles.
The ODI said that it may expand the scope of the investigation if necessary. | 2022-08-12T14:26:56+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/kiahyundai-seat-belt-pretensioners-under-investigation/2022/08/12/b08b39dc-1a45-11ed-b998-b2ab68f58468_story.html |
World's largest source of wild sockeye salmon forecast to deliver 37 million fish, a strong follow-up to last year's record-setting harvest
BRISTOL BAY, Alaska, June 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The highly anticipated annual wild sockeye salmon season in Bristol Bay, Alaska has officially commenced and fishermen are gearing up for what is expected to be one of the most bountiful in history. The 2023 harvest runs through September, and is forecast to be among the top five strongest in the last 20 years, estimating a haul of around 37 million fish. This means plenty of delicious, wild sockeye salmon in restaurants and grocery stores nationwide, making this sure to be the summer of sockeye.
In 2022, Bristol Bay had the largest wild sockeye salmon harvest on record, bringing more than 60 million fish (104% higher than the 20-year average). While this season is unlikely to top that record, it is still anticipated to be 40 percent greater than the average annual run recorded since 1963. The flavor-packed fish is available at retailers nationwide at seafood counters or in the freezer case with many promotions running throughout the summer, driving wild sockeye salmon to one of its most affordable prices in recent years.
Retailers across the U.S., from national chains to regional specialty stores, are gearing up to bring fresh Bristol Bay sockeye salmon to eager customers this summer throughout more than 8,000 stores, coast to coast. If you see sockeye salmon in the grocery store or on menus this year, chances are it came from Bristol Bay.
"We are very excited to kick off the season," says Andy Wink, Executive Director of the Bristol Bay Regional Seafood Development Association (BBRSDA). "With the harvest projected to be similar to years past, consumers can expect wild sockeye to be widely accessible and affordable for all of their summer meals and cookouts." The robust harvests of the last few years reflect the collaborative work between the Bristol Bay fishers, biologists, local community, and seafood processors that make up the industry.
Bristol Bay, Alaska is home to the largest wild salmon run on the planet and produces half of the world's supply of wild sockeye salmon. Its six major river systems support thousands of fishermen and millions of wild sockeye salmon. The pristine environment has been the foundation for 130 years of sustainable harvesting by generations of small boat fishermen. In 1959, Alaska became the only state to include sustainable fishing within its constitution, meaning consumers can feel good about how it's harvested and know that all Bristol Bay sockeye salmon is wild and sustainable.
Alaska sockeye, also known as red salmon, is one of the most popular salmon species due to its deep crimson color and rich flavor. The fish is loaded with omega-3 fatty acids (DHA and EPA), which are essential for promoting heart health, suppressing inflammatory responses, and improving brain function. Sockeye is also naturally high in many essential vitamins and minerals, and boasts the highest vitamin D content of any salmon species.
Wild sockeye salmon can be found fresh throughout the harvest season, as well as frozen, canned, or smoked year-round. Bristol Bay fishermen often freeze their catch just after it leaves the water, locking in nutrients, maintaining quality, and helping to reduce food waste. The firm texture of sockeye makes it perfect for almost all preparation techniques, including grilling, broiling, sautéing, roasting, poaching, steaming, and smoking, making it the perfect protein for any summer dish. For more information, cooking tips and more visit www.bristolbaysockeye.org.
About Bristol Bay Regional Seafood Development Association:
The Bristol Bay Regional Seafood Development Association is a fishermen-funded group with the mission to increase the value of the Bristol Bay fishery through education, quality outreach, and marketing.
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SOURCE Bristol Bay Regional Seafood Development Association | 2023-06-01T13:38:08+00:00 | witn.com | https://www.witn.com/prnewswire/2023/06/01/summer-sockeye-salmon-kicks-off-bristol-bay-alaska/ |
Marine who lost limbs in Afghan airport bombing returns home
FOLSOM, Calif. (KMAX/KOVR) - A Marine critically injured in a suicide bombing at Afghanistan’s Kabul airport received a hero’s welcome in his hometown after months spent recovering.
The crowd at the Folsom Rodeo over the July 4 weekend erupted in cheers for Marine Corps Sgt. Tyler Vargas-Andrews. The 24-year-old was the most severely injured of 18 Marines caught in the airport bombing last August.
“It’s cool to see that there’s other people who care. There’s other patriotic Americans in the country. I think I probably got letters or phone calls from just about every state in the U.S.,” Vargas-Andrews said.
It’s been a long road to recovery, but the 24-year-old is back in his hometown after extensive medical care at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Maryland.
“I was in a giant cast with a foam block around it, and I just couldn’t move. I think that was a hard thing for me, just being stuck,” he said.
Vargas-Andrews lost his right arm and left leg. He’s had 43 surgeries to repair multiple organs, including a lacerated liver and a hole in his bladder from shrapnel.
But he hopes to show he’s still going strong.
“I’m missing half my organs and half my limbs, and I hope I can show people there’s no reason not to go be successful in their own life,” he said.
The same blast that wounded Vargas-Andrews killed 13 of his fellow Marines.
“Those 13 families and their friends, they’re never going to forget it. Hopefully the rest of the world won’t either,” he said.
While Vargas-Andrews heals his body, others have to heal their minds. His family is now pushing for more mental health support for military members.
“They’re hurting, and they carry it, often in silence, because they don’t have the physical injuries. And they’re the ones that are hurting, often the most, because the ones with physical are usually getting the treatment and the help,” said Vargas-Andrews’ mother, Tiffany.
Vargas-Andrews now plans to open an adaptive gym as a way of giving back to his community. He also plans to enter the Paralympics for weightlifting and shooting.
Copyright 2022 KMAX/KOVR via CNN Newsource. All rights reserved. | 2022-07-05T08:34:18+00:00 | kcbd.com | https://www.kcbd.com/2022/07/05/marine-who-lost-limbs-afghan-airport-bombing-returns-home/ |
‘My 600-Lb. Life’ star Larry Myers Jr. dies, family member says
(Gray News) – An aspiring gospel singer who starred in TLC’s “My 600-lb. Life” known as Mr. Buttermilk Biscuits died at 49, according to several reports.
People magazine reports Larry Myers Jr. had just celebrated his 49th birthday June 10, a week before his cousin Todd Darrell confirmed his death in a post on Facebook.
“Larry has fought the good fight. He has overcome some of the biggest challenges he has ever had to face. Rest well Junior, you will be missed,” Darrell wrote in the post.
According to Entertainment Weekly, Myers appeared on “My 600-lb. Life” in January 2022 and weighed 940 pounds when he was on the show.
He continued to document his weight loss journey on his YouTube channel and launched “The Buttermilk Biscuit Show.”
His god-sister Sonya Hines created a GoFundMe to help with funeral costs.
“His struggle with weight gain/loss never dimmed his drive to show love and kindness to all he met,” Hines wrote. “As a family, we want to bring our beloved Larry home one more time so we can lay him to rest with dignity and respect.”
Copyright 2023 Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2023-06-23T17:31:53+00:00 | mysuncoast.com | https://www.mysuncoast.com/2023/06/23/my-600-lb-life-star-larry-myers-jr-dies-family-member-says/ |
Conference Call and Live Audio Webcast Scheduled for Thursday, August 11, 2022, at 10:00 a.m. ET
DALLAS, Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SWK Holdings Corporation (Nasdaq: SWKH) ("SWK" or the "Company"), a life science focused specialty finance company catering to small- and mid-sized commercial-stage companies, announced today that the Company will host a conference call and live audio webcast on Thursday, August 11, 2022, at 10:00 a.m. ET, to discuss its corporate and financial results for the second quarter 2022.
Interested participants and investors may access the conference call by dialing either:
- (844) 378-6488 (U.S.)
- (412) 317-1079 (International)
- Passcode: 10169701
An audio webcast will be accessible via the Investors Events & Presentations section of the SWK Holdings' website: https://swkhold.investorroom.com/events. An archive of the webcast will remain available for 90 days beginning at approximately 11:30 a.m. ET, on August 11, 2022.
About SWK Holdings Corporation
SWK Holdings Corporation is a specialized finance company with a focus on the global healthcare sector. SWK partners with ethical product marketers and royalty holders to provide flexible financing solutions at an attractive cost of capital to create long-term value for both SWK's business partners and its investors. SWK believes its financing structures achieve an optimal partnership for companies, institutions and inventors seeking capital for expansion or capital and estate planning by allowing its partners to monetize future cash flow with minimal dilution to their equity stakes. SWK also owns Enteris BioPharma, whose Peptelligence® and ProPerma® drug delivery technologies create oral formulations of peptide-based and BCS class II, III, and IV small molecules. With Enteris, SWK has the opportunity to grow its finance business by actively building a wholly-owned portfolio of milestones and royalties through licensing activities. Additional information on the life science finance market is available on the Company's website at www.swkhold.com.
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Noted horticulturist Yvonne Savio specializes in drought-tolerant techniques for maintaining gardens. She says the biggest mistake gardeners make is not anticipating the heat and high temperatures ahead of time, and not understanding how deep the roots of plants grow.
“The real trick is to teach the plants to grow deeply in chasing the water, rather than just giving them a sprinkle every day,” Savio says. “It makes you feel better but it doesn’t help the plants a whole lot.” Techniques for getting water to the root systems without flooding the garden include recycling the five-gallon containers that nursery plants come in. Savio buries the buckets half way into the soil between plants. Water comes directly to the root systems of neighboring plants when the bucket is filled. Additionally, she puts a single shovel of manure or compost into the bin which further provides nutrients. Getting to the root systems results in the plants’ ability to withstand higher temperatures. | 2022-07-16T19:44:00+00:00 | kcrw.com | https://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/good-food/peanut-gardening-composting-melons/yvonne-savio-watering-gardens?utm_source=KCRW&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=kcrw-news-rss |
Congress has a tight deadline to approve a new farm bill.
Central Illinois congressman Eric Sorensen, D-Ill., is part of the U.S. House Agriculture Committee that recently reorganized at the start of the 118th Congress in late January.
Sorensen said it will take compromise to meet the needs of farmers and those who need nutrition assistance.
“I’m really optimistic, especially going into the agriculture committee in a farm bill year that happens every five years, that we are going to be able to follow the data,” Sorensen said.
The farm bill expires in September. Advocates for SNAP benefits have called for changes that would prevent those who get employment training from losing eligibility for food stamps.
“We need to make sure that the people that are struggling to make ends meet have what they need,” Sorensen said. “It is the government’s role that we are providing for the people that need it.”
Sorensen also said he wants to see expanded markets for ethanol-blended fuel, including the aviation industry. “We have to make sure that E-15 is able to be used all year round,” he said. “We need to make sure the innovation is there for our farmers going forward.”
Sorensen represents the 17th Congressional District that includes parts of Bloomington-Normal, Peoria and much of central and northwestern Illinois. | 2023-02-20T23:44:14+00:00 | nprillinois.org | https://www.nprillinois.org/illinois/2023-02-20/rep-sorensen-optimistic-congress-can-beat-farm-bill-deadline |
Wednesday Summaries from Mexican football (home teams listed first):
- 'Soldado del Amor' returns to Nuevo Laredo seeking his lost love
- Police: Teen discharged firearm outside the home of his GF's parents
- Laredo man sentenced to 17 years in child porn case
- Affidavit: Man claimed he would jump off a bridge for love
- Man charged in unauthorized vehicle case
- WATCH: Super Bowl ad attacks Tesla's 'reckless' self-driving tech
- Affidavit: Man assaulted his ex, their 2-year-old son
- DA Alaniz announces criminal investigation of District II voter fraud
- Man accused of stealing a 2007 Mazda 3
- Man in human smuggling attempt that killed 3 people gets 21 years
- Video: H-E-B pokes fun at TX customers 'tortilla love'
- 'Enough is enough': Commissioners fed up with delayed projects
- Laredo educators hopeful to see pay raise via House Bill 1548
- Photos: LAPS hosts Valentine's Doggy Date event
- Brothers arrested in fight reported at trucking company
- 'I’m going to kill each one of you': Man threatened LPD officers | 2023-02-15T07:20:17+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/sports/article/mexican-summaries-17785173.php |
Drones sweep for sharks along New York’s coast during rise in encounters with beachgoers
WANTAGH, N.Y. (AP) — Off the coast of Long Island, drones sweep over the ocean, patrolling the water for any danger that might lurk below the surface as beachgoers grow more vigilant because of a recent spate of shark encounters.
Over two days this week, five people reported being bitten by sharks at some of New York’s most popular beaches, leading to heightened surveillance of the area’s waters.
The sighting of a 10-foot (3-meter) shark on Thursday prompted officials to keep people out of the water at Robert Moses State Park, the same Long Island beach that delayed its opening July 4 after a drone spotted a group of 50 sand sharks off the coast.
“We are now more vigilant than ever,” said George Gorman, the state’s park director in Long Island. “We have drones in the sky that watch over the waters. We have lifeguards on WaveRunners that watch over the waters.”
Just a few years ago, encounters with sharks were rare. But more recently, reports of sharks biting people have increased. Last year, eight people reported being bitten by sharks swimming in the shallows off Long Island’s beaches.
“This year, we’ve already had five bites,” Gorman said, “and the season has kind of just begun.”
Even if the injuries have not been serious, he and others are concerned by the rise in shark sightings and encounters.
Cary Epstein, a lifeguard supervisor who pilots drones at Jones Beach, said the tiny battery-powered aircraft make three sweeps each day: once before opening, then sometime midday and a final round before the end of the day.
“Despite the nervousness over what’s going on right now in New York, people swim in the ocean every day, and they have for centuries,” he said. “But we do have to remember that we are cohabitating, and this is their house.”
Drones provide an additional vantage point unavailable to lifeguards on the beach, Epstein said as he demonstrated how he uses the drones to patrol the waters off Long Island.
As he operated one of the drones from the beach, he stared into a small box equipped with controls and a display screen. The craft lifted off, hovering over the sand until it hurled forward over the water and turned into a mere dot as it approached the horizon.
“When you’re up in an elevated lifeguard station or a lifeguard stand, you can see up and you can see out, but you can’t see straight down,” Epstein said. “When we do have sharks that are eating on these fish, it’s very, very clear to us. You could see it, no questions asked.”
But, he warned, “just because you don’t see something doesn’t mean it’s not there.”
Just two months ago, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced the addition of 10 drones to its squadron, bringing the total to 18 that can be used to monitor shark activity along her state’s beaches.
“With New Yorkers and visitors alike preparing to enjoy our beautiful Long Island beaches all summer long, their safety is our top priority,” Hochul said in May. “This year we are taking further action to protect beachgoers by increasing surveillance to monitor for shark activity near beaches off the South Shore.”
An increase in shark sightings might suggest a healthier ecosystem, some say. Cleaner waters allow the small fish that sharks feed on to flourish. More small fish swimming closer to shore means more sharks nipping at their tails.
Prior to 2022, New York had only recorded a dozen unprovoked bites. Over the last decade, there were just four people bitten by sharks, according to data compiled by the International Shark Attack File, which tracks shark attacks around the world.
Florida is usually the country’s leader in shark bites. There were 16 last year, which was twice as many as runner-up New York.
From his elevated perch on the sand at Jones Beach State Park on Thursday, lifeguard Carl Nowicki pointed his gaze out to sea, scanning the water for activity that might attract a hungry shark, such as large schools of bait fish.
“If a drone has spotted a shark, we won’t alert the patrons until they’re all out of the water because we don’t want them to freak out,” he said. “We’ll be very transparent once everyone’s on the sand. We don’t want to cause a panic at a beach.”
Mike Berchoff, who was enjoying the sun and water at Jones Beach, goes into the water more cautiously these days. He doesn’t want to be the next beachgoer to be bitten by a shark.
“I just go out up to my waist. That’s about it,” he said. “I don’t go all the way out there.”
He’s seen more drones taking off lately, which he said provides some reassurance that beachgoers would be alerted of danger.
The first known encounter of the summer happened Monday, when a 15-year old girl felt a bite on her leg while swimming. At a different beach soon after, another teen had to paddle back to shore after something began nibbling on his toes.
A day later, on the Fourth of July, two men reported bites possibly by sharks in two separate encounters 60 miles (97 kilometers) apart.
This is not the same kind of horror that terrorized the fictional East Coast town of Amity Island in the terrifying movie thriller “Jaws.”
For one thing, it’s unlikely the marine animals involved in recent encounters were the fear-inducing great white sharks that linger in deeper waters and are rarely seen close enough to shore to be of real concern.
About a dozen species of sharks swim off the coast of Long Island, none of them considered particularly ferocious, including the sand sharks that are more common in the area and grow to nearly 15 feet (4.6 meters). Their sharp, jagged teeth might cause a fright, but the giant fish are usually docile and typically avoid human contact. A nursery for juvenile sharks is known to exist off Fire Island.
Sand sharks are unlikely to attack humans unless provoked, according to shark biologists. If they do interact with swimmers, it’s usually unintentional.
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(The Hill) – Republican candidate Herschel Walker on Tuesday said he accepted a debate with Sen. Raphael Warnock (D) in October as the two battle it out for a U.S. Senate seat in Georgia.
Walker, a former NFL player, told Fox News host Sean Hannity on his show Tuesday night that he would debate Warnock on Oct. 14 in Savannah, Ga., in an event hosted by news station WTOC.
“It will be his people because we’re in his backyard,” Walker said. “The people need to see the differences between Senator Warnock and Herschel Walker.”
Walker easily won his primary after securing a key endorsement from former President Trump. He avoided debating his GOP rivals, but has faced pressure to confront Warnock ahead of the November general election.
Walker is slipping behind in the polls against Warnock amid multiple accusations about his personal life, including that he embellished his business and academic successes and fathered three children that he did not previously disclose.
Those issues would undoubtedly come up in a debate, potentially forcing Walker to answer the questions about the allegations.
Warnock has repeatedly pressured Walker to debate him and accepted at least three invitations for a debate, including the one in Savannah hosted by WTOC.
In a campaign ad released last week, Warnock slammed his opponent for refusing to agree to a debate and questioned if the candidate was “ready to represent Georgia.”
Walker told Hannity on Tuesday night that he wanted “Warnock to be ready.”
“Now he can quit talking and show the people that he can stand behind his words and show up for the debate,” he said. | 2022-08-03T16:38:57+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/news/national/walker-says-he-will-debate-warnock-in-high-stakes-georgia-senate-race/ |
TAMPA, Fla., June 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Smart Meter, continues to lead the way in the remote patient monitoring (RPM) sector because of its superior cellular-enabled devices and robust data that facilitate better care management. During Men's Health Month, Smart Meter wants to remind patients and providers that high blood pressure and obesity, which can lead to cardiovascular disease (CVD), can be controlled, but must be measured on a regular basis to spot trends and make diet and lifestyle adjustments.
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By BRUCE SCHREINER and REBECCA REYNOLDS
Associated Press
Rescue workers plucked people off rooftops amid fast-rising water Thursday in central Appalachia, where torrential rains unleashed what Kentucky’s governor described as some of the worst flooding in the state’s history.
One emergency official in hard-hit eastern Kentucky described the situation as “catastrophic” as water rescue crews searched for stranded people. Gov. Andy Beshear said hundreds of properties could be destroyed.
“What we’re going to see coming out of this is massive property damage,” Beshear said during a briefing Thursday. “We expect the loss of life. Hundreds will lose their homes and this is going to be yet another event that it’s going to take not months but likely years for many families to rebuild and recover from.”
Flash flooding and mudslides were reported across the mountainous region of eastern Kentucky, western Virginia and southern West Virginia, where thunderstorms have dumped several inches of rain over the past few days.
“Guys, I don’t know how much more rain Buckhorn can handle,” Marlene Abner Stokely said in a video she posted on Facebook, showing how Squabble Creek overflowed and swamped a historic Kentucky church. “You can see it is pretty much taken over.”
Poweroutage.us reported more than 31,000 customers without electricity in eastern Kentucky, West Virginia and Virginia.
“We’re currently experiencing one of the worst, most devastating flooding events in Kentucky’s history,” Beshear said. “The situation is dynamic and ongoing. In most places, we are not seeing receding water. In fact, in most places, it is not crested yet.”
“There are a lot of people in eastern Kentucky on top of roofs waiting to be rescued,” the governor added. “There are a number of people that are unaccounted for and I’m nearly certain this is a situation where we are going to lose some of them.”
Rescue crews worked throughout the night helping people stranded by the rising waters in eastern Kentucky’s Perry County, where Emergency Management Director Jerry Stacy called it a “catastrophic event.”
“We’re just in the rescue mode right now,” Stacy said, speaking with The Associated Press by phone as he struggled to reach his office in Hazard. “Extreme flash flooding and mudslides are just everywhere.”
The storms hit an Appalachian mountain region where communities and homes are built on steep hillsides or down in the hollows between them, where the only flat land often shoulders creeks and streams that can rise in a hurry. But this one is far worse than a typical flood, said Stacy, 54.
“I’ve lived here in Perry County all my life and this is by the far the worst event I’ve ever seen,” he said.
Roads in many areas weren’t passable after as much as 6 inches (15 centimeters) of rain had fallen in some areas by Thursday, and 1-3 more inches (7.5 centimeters) could fall, the National Weather Service said.
Beshear said he has deployed National Guard soldiers to the hardest-hit areas, and three parks in the region were opened as shelters for displaced people.
In Kentucky’s Perry, Leslie and Clay counties, people in low areas were urged to seek higher ground after multiple swift water rescues. Breathitt County’s courthouse was opened overnight, and Emergency Management Director Chris Friley said the Old Montessori School would provide more permanent shelter once crews can staff it.
“It’s the worst we’ve had in quite a while,” Friley told WKYT-TV, “It’s county-wide again. There’s several spots that are still not accessible to rescue crews.”
Perry County dispatchers told WKYT-TV that floodwaters washed out roads and bridges and knocked homes off foundations. The city of Hazard said rescue crews were out all night, urging people on Facebook to stay off roads and “pray for a break in the rain.”
In West Virginia’s Greenbrier County, firefighters pulled people from flooded homes, and five campers who got stranded by high water in Nicholas County were rescued by the Keslers Cross Lanes Volunteer Fire Department, WCHS-TV reported.
Communities in southwest Virginia also were flooding, and the National Weather Service office in Blacksburg, Virginia, warned of more showers and storms on Thursday.
In Buchanan County, which was hit by severe flooding two weeks ago, preliminary assessments of the previous flooding were postponed for safety amid the latest high water, according to Virginia Department of Emergency Management spokesperson Lauren Opett. Officials were determining whether its feasible to conduct the assessments virtually, she said.
And in Wise County, the Office of Emergency Management warned of imminent flooding and road closures in the Pound Bottom area on Thursday morning. Officials advised residents to shelter in place until floodwaters recede or evacuate to a shelter in an elementary school.
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Associated Press Writer Sarah Brumfield contributed to this report from Silver Spring, Md.
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Key takeaways from the Jan. 6 committee’s final report
By Jeremy Herb and Zachary Cohen, CNN
The House select committee investigating January 6, 2021, laid out a damning case over 800-plus pages that former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election led to the violence at the US Capitol, documenting the ex-chief executive’s actions for the record and potentially for criminal investigators.
On Monday, the committee referred Trump to the Justice Department on four criminal charges. On Thursday, the committee effectively showed its work for why it believes Trump is criminally liable for his actions.
In its report, the committee recommends barring Trump from holding office again.
Here are key takeaways from the committee’s final report:
The committee’s full case against Trump
The committee spared no words in laying blame for the violence on January 6 squarely at Trump’s feet.
After holding nine public hearings and releasing a summary of the report earlier this week, the final document reads like an indictment of Trump, explaining his direct role in every facet of the plot to overturn the 2020 election — drawing a clear through-line between Trump’s election denialism and the violence that unfolded.
The panel zeroes in on the section of the Constitution that states an individual who has taken an oath to support the Constitution but has “engaged in an insurrection” or given “aid or comfort to the enemies of the Constitution” can be disqualified from office.
The former president and others have been referred by the committee to the Department of Justice for assisting or aiding an insurrection. The panel calls on congressional committees of jurisdiction to create a “formal mechanism” for evaluating whether those individuals who violate that section of the 14th Amendment should be barred from future federal or state office.
Despite Trump’s attempts to shift blame to Democrats for the security failures that day and a GOP rebuttal report released earlier this week that entirely glossed over the former president’s own role in the attack, the select committee report is an effective conclusion to the panel’s 18-month long investigation.
It leaves no doubt that the committee believes Trump, and Trump alone, was responsible for the January 6 attack.
“None of the events of January 6th would have happened without him,” the report states.
Report pieces together a comprehensive narrative
There were no major new bombshells in the report that the committee released Thursday — instead the committee focused on laying out the depth and detail of its work across its investigation.
The report offered the most comprehensive account to date of what transpired in the two months between Election Day on November 3, 2020, and Joe Biden’s inauguration on January 20, 2021.
It’s a narrative that expands upon the committee’s public hearings over the summer, walking readers step-by-step through the various schemes Trump orchestrated and the help he had from allies inside and outside his administration.
Along the way, the committee showed more details about what it had learned in the 1,000-plus witnesses interviews conducted over the 18-month investigation, including tidbits it hadn’t released publicly previously, such as Trump lawyer Eric Herschmann’s call with Rudy Giuliani the morning of January 6, and that Trump and his inner circle targeted election officials at least 200 times.
It’s more than just Trump
The committee’s public hearings were largely focused on Trump’s role, and there were questions in the weeks leading up to the report’s release about how much it would go beyond the former president.
But while the report’s main headlines were all about Trump, the final report also offers a definitive picture of the attack on Congress, the contributing factors within American discourse as well as law enforcement preparedness and failures.
The report puts in one place intelligence assessments before January 6 from the federal government, including key messages that law enforcement had seen among Trump supporters on online forums.
The committee also interviewed leaders of agencies who were directing law enforcement response, such as the Washington, DC, Mayor Muriel Bowser and police force heads.
The select committee also says it interviewed 24 witnesses and reviewed 37,000 pages of documents for a review of the response of the DC National Guard, which attempts to explain the delayed response of the force to the Capitol.
The committee was told, for instance, that commander of the DC National Guard, Major Gen. William Walker, “strongly” considered deploying troops to the US Capitol on the afternoon of January 6 without approval from his superiors even if it meant he would have to resign the next day.
No corroboration for SUV fight
The committee was not able to corroborate a secondhand account from former Trump aide Cassidy Hutchinson that she was told Trump lunged at his lead Secret Service agent while in his presidential SUV on January 6 and tried to grab the steering wheel because he was angry he wasn’t being taken to the Capitol.
Perhaps in an attempt to pivot beyond the explosive anecdote itself, the select committee emphasized that their goal was to discover the intent behind Trump’s actions in the SUV. Many witnesses, including Trump’s press secretary Kayleigh McEnany and the Secret Service press secretary, have said Trump wanted to go to the Capitol and was angry when told he could not.
Both the driver of Trump’s SUV and the lead Secret Service agent that day, Robert Engel, told the panel they did not remember the events of that day the way that Hutchinson described them.
“Engel did not characterize the exchange in the vehicle the way Hutchinson described the account she heard from (deputy White House chief of staff Tony) Ornato, and indicated that he did not recall President Trump gesturing toward him,” the panel wrote.
Engel also told the panel he did not remember being present when Ornato told the story with Hutchinson in the room.
Hutchinson testified over the summer that she was told the story by Ornato while Engel was in the room and he did not dispute Ornato’s account.
The driver of the vehicle testified to the committee that he did not recall seeing what Trump was doing or if there was movement.
But, the driver described Trump as “animated and irritated,” and testified that Trump said shortly after getting in the vehicle, “I’m the President and I’ll decide where I get to go.”
Ornato told the panel he did not recall communications about the incident in the SUV and had no knowledge of Trump’s anger, the report says.
The committee makes clear in its report it does not find Ornato’s testimony credible.
Report underscored importance of docs obtained from court fights
The committee’s report underscores how the House’s successful court fights to pry loose documents, emails and phone records played a major role in helping the committee flesh out its narrative of January 6.
Some of the most explosive moments of the committee’s investigation stemmed from records the committee obtained, from text messages of former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and other top aides to emails from conservative lawyer John Eastman about Vice President Mike Pence’s role on January 6.
The committee obtained Eastman’s emails after a judge sided with the House in a lawsuit where the committee accused both Eastman and Trump of a criminal conspiracy to obstruct Congress and to defraud the government.
The report included some new details from the emails, including how Eastman emailed Trump’s assistant the day he drafted his memo that falsely claimed Pence could block certification of the election on January 6. Eastman received a call from the White House switchboard shortly thereafter, according to phone records the committee obtained.
In addition to Eastman, the committee identifies a little-known pro-Trump attorney as being the original architect of the legally dubious fake electors plan: Kenneth Chesebro. “The fake elector plan emerged from a series of legal memoranda written by an outside legal advisor to the Trump Campaign: Kenneth Chesebro,” the report says.
The final report — not the final documents
Thursday’s report is the committee’s final word on January 6 — but the committee isn’t done releasing documents just yet.
In addition to its summary and report released this week, the committee also started rolling out some of the transcripts from closed-door depositions, including interviews with numerous witnesses who invoked their Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination as well as bombshell testimony from Hutchinson.
There are more transcripts expected in the committee’s final days from other witness testimony, teasing out evermore details in the hours before the committee is dissolved, as is expected in the new Congress.
Several parties will be eagerly awaiting their release, including GOP lawmakers and Trump himself, who is still facing legal scrutiny on several fronts related to his role in the January 6 insurrection and efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
The committee has already begun sharing evidence with the Justice Department and special counsel Jack Smith, CNN reported this week.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred defended the sport’s treatment of minor leaguers, prompting immediate criticism from a players’ advocacy group.
“I kind of reject the premise of the question that minor league players are not paid a living wage,” Manfred told the Baseball Writers’ Association of America before Tuesday’s All-Star Game.
“I think that we’ve made real strides in the last few years in terms of what minor league players are paid, even putting to one side the signing bonuses that many of them have already received. They receive housing, which obviously is another form of compensation.”
MLB raised minimum salaries in 2021, increasing Class A pay from $290 to $500 per week, Double-A from $350 to $600, and Triple-A from $502 to $700 over the roughly five-month season. Players are only paid in-season, with salaries ranging from roughly $5,000-$15,000 annually.
Amateur players residing in the United States and Canada who are selected in this week’s amateur draft have slot values for their signing bonuses, which clubs use as guidelines, ranging from $8.8 million for the first pick to just under $150,000 for the last selections of the 10th and final round. MLB says it spends about $450 million each year on signing bonuses for first-year players.
Last November, MLB announced it was requiring teams to provide furnished accommodations, with a single bed per player and no more than two players per bedroom. Teams are responsible for basic utility bills.
“Most minor league baseball players work second jobs because their annual salaries are insufficient to make ends meet,” Harry Marino, executive director of Advocates for Minor Leaguers, said in a statement responding to Manfred. “His suggestion that minor league pay is acceptable is both callous and false.”
Papers filed Friday in federal court revealed MLB agreed to pay $185 million to settle a lawsuit by minor leaguers. MLB agreed in the deal to rescind any prohibitions against teams paying wages to minor league players outside of the season.
An early estimate is that perhaps 23,000 players could share the money with an average payment of $5,000 to $5,500, with $55.5 million going to the players’ lawyers.
Leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee have asked Manfred to explain by next Tuesday the impact of potential legislation stripping the sport’s antitrust exemption from covering the sport’s relationship with minor league players.
While players with major league contracts are unionized, players with minor league contracts are not. The Major League Baseball Players Association gave Advocates for Minor Leaguers $50,000 last November, according to a federal disclosure statement.
“It is exciting to see players recognizing and appreciating the power of their collective voice in effecting positive change in things that they live day to day,” union head Tony Clark, a former first baseman, told the BBWAA in a question-and-answer session prior to Manfred’s. “Harry Marino and the Advocates for Minor Leaguers have done a tremendous job in engaging and educating the the minor leaguers and helping them to find their voice. … We are watching. We are providing support when and where possible.”
In other news:
— Manfred said the Oakland Athletics need to quickly reach a binding agreement for a new ballpark, and that relocation — the team is exploring Las Vegas — could be considered if a deal isn’t struck for a facility in the Bay Area. “It needs to happen now. It needs to be done.”
— His preferred location for a new Rays ballpark would be on the Tampa side of the bay rather than in St. Petersburg, but he says the site alone won’t be a determining factor.
— MLB is moving ahead with plans for advertising on uniforms next season. The new labor contract agreed to in March allows teams to add uniform and helmet advertising patches. San Diego in April became the first team to announce a deal for 2023, with Motorola. “I think that jersey patches advertisements on jerseys are a reality of life in professional sports,” Manfred said.
— Clark is worried about the sport’s increased commercial deals with sports gambling companies. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2018 to overturn the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act, which outlawed sports betting. A BetMGM Retail Sportsbook opened this year at Nationals Park in Washington, D.C., and DraftKings is building a sports book scheduled to open next year at the southeast corner of Wrigley Field. “We’re entering a very delicate and, dare I say, dangerous world here,” Clark said. “When you have players suggest that no sooner was PASPA repealed, that they started to have book houses following them on social media, that gets you a little twitchy pretty quick.”
— MLB says it is unable to let former and current major leaguers who defected from Cuba play for their nation in the World Baseball Classic. The Association of Cuban Professional Baseball Players was formed with the goal of gaining entry to the WBC, which will be played next March 8-21.
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If you think the president tells Walmart what to charge for their goods, that makes no sense.
The one to blame is big oil. When they raise their prices on gasoline, diesel and other oil-related products, it affects the cost of everything else.
Big oil touts record profits; that is why inflation has risen. The president has nothing to do with those increases.
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Twenty years after city prosecutors convened a grand jury to investigate the handling of priest-abuse complaints within the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia, the tortuous legal case came to an end with a cleric's misdemeanor no contest plea in a near-empty City Hall courtroom.
Monsignor William Lynn, 71, had served nearly three years in state prison as appeals courts reviewed the fiery three-month trial that led to his felony child endangerment conviction in 2012. The verdict was twice overturned, leaving prosecutors pursuing the thinning case in recent years with a single alleged victim whose appearance in court was i n doubt.
In the end, they said Lynn could end the two-decade ordeal by pleading no contest to a charge of failing to turn over records to the 2002 grand jury. A judge took the plea during a short break from her civil caseload last month, and imposed no further punishment.
“He lost 10 years of his life, 10 years of his priestly life,” said defense lawyer Thomas Bergstrom, speaking of the decade since Lynn's conviction. “It’s a travesty. It’s an absolute travesty.”
“You’re fighting an uphill battle because the public at large misunderstood what he was convicted of. They thought he was an abuser,” Bergstrom said.
Lynn was the first U.S. church official ever charged, convicted or imprisoned over their handling of priest-abuse complaints.
His trial attracted a packed courtroom full of press, priest-abuse victims and outraged Catholics, along with a few church loyalists. Lynn, the longtime secretary for clergy, was accused of sending a known predator — named on a list of problem priests he had prepared for Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua — to an accuser’s northeast Philadelphia parish.
The trial judge allowed nearly two dozen other priest-abuse victims to testify about abuse they had suffered in the archdiocese over a half century. An appeals court later said their weeks of testimony over uncharged acts were unfair to Lynn — who some saw as a scapegoat for the church, given that the bishops and cardinals above him were never charged.
“This is one defendant, one count of endangering the welfare of children, with one group of children,” Judge Gwendolyn Bright said before his retrial was set to start in March 2020. “We’re not bringing in the so-called or alleged ‘sins of the Catholic Church.’”
The pandemic closed the courthouse, and the case against Lynn stalled yet again until the recent plea offer.
A spokesperson for District Attorney Larry Krasner, who inherited the case from his predecessors, called Lynn's unannounced Nov. 2 plea “the appropriate path for bringing finality and closure to the victims, who have endured retraumatization throughout the legal process for years" and said they did not want to face another trial.
The archdiocese did not immediately return a message seeking comment.
Lynn, who remains a priest, has been saying Mass for retired nuns and hopes to assume more duties, according to Bergstrom, who declined to make his client available to the press on Wednesday.
At his trial, Lynn said he had made a list of 35 suspected predator priests so Bevilacqua would address the matter, only to have the list be destroyed.
“I did not intend any harm to come to (the victim). The fact is, my best was not good enough to stop that harm,” Lynn testified.
In recent years, prosecutors were not sure they could get the trial accuser — a policeman’s son who testified to his long struggle with addiction — back in court for the retrial, complicating their trial strategy. Assistant District Attorney Patrick Blessington, the lead trial prosecutor in 2012, had said he could try the case without a victim by arguing that Lynn had placed “a bomb” in the parish, whether or not it went off.
Blessington is now retired. And, ultimately, District Attornery Krasner decided not to try that strategy.
“The victims in this matter expressed to the commonwealth that proceeding (with another trial) ... would cause irreparable harm and further victimize them," his office said in its statement.
The trial accuser said that he had been abused by two priests and his Catholic school teacher. One of them, defrocked priest Edward Avery, took a plea offer days before trial. The Rev. Charles Engelhardt, who said he had never met the accuser, was convicted at a 2013 trial and died in prison. Teacher Bernard Shero was released in 2017 after his conviction was overturned and, like Lynn, pleaded no contest to lesser charges.
The priest-abuse scandal has cost the Roman Catholic church an estimated $3 billion or more, and plunged dioceses around the world into bankruptcy.
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USDA issues alert for frozen chicken tenders that may contain plastic pieces
(CNN) - The U.S. Department of Agriculture has issued a public health alert for a frozen chicken product that may contain foreign material.
The USDA issued the alert for Perdue’s frozen ready-to-eat chicken breast tenders labeled gluten-free.
The agency says the product may contain small pieces of clear plastic and blue dye.
The 42-ounce plastic bags of chicken tenders were produced on July 12 and have a “best if used by” date of July 12, 2023, establishment number “P-33944,” and a lot number of 2193.
They were shipped to BJ’s Wholesale Clubs nationwide, and while the stores no longer sell them, some people could already have the product in their homes.
There have been no reports of injuries, but the USDA says you should not eat the tenders.
Instead, the bag should be thrown away or returned to the store.
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A Texas jury has ordered conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to pay $49.3 million in total damages to the parents of a first-grader killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre. The final award handed down Friday includes $45.2 million in punitive damages and $4.1 million in compensatory damages.The parents of 6-year-old Jesse Lewis say they were tormented by the Infowars host’s false claims that the worst classroom shooting in U.S. history was a hoax orchestrated by the government to tighten gun lawsAttorneys for the family had urged jurors for a financial punishment that would put Infowars out of business. One economist testified that Jones and his company were worth up to $270 million.Related video above: Sandy Hook mom says school shootings can be preventedNeil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis, whose son Jesse was killed at Sandy Hook, testified Tuesday on the final day of testimony in the two-week trial.Both parents said they had received death threats, harassment and experienced ongoing trauma because of Jones.Scarlett Lewis was born in Northwest Arkansas and her 'Jesse Lewis Choose Love Program' has been implemented in local schools.This might not be the last such judgment against Jones, as a judge in Connecticut has already ruled against him in a similar lawsuit. David Lewis lost his grandson that fateful day at Sandy Hook and tells 40/29 News while the financial gain will certainly help his daughter, what we really need is education in the classroom to increase emotional intelligence. Jesse Heslin, was one of 20 children and six staff members killed in the Sandy Hook massacre back in 2012. Talk show host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones claimed for years that the whole incident was fake and the victims were actually actors.In court Jesse’s parents blasted jones from the stand. “Jesse was real, I’m a real mom, there’s nothing out there, nothing, there’s record of jesse’s birth, of me, i have a history, and there’s nothing that you could have found, because it doesn’t exist – that I’m deep state – it’s just not true,” said Scarlett Lewis, Jesse's Mother“I can’t even describe, the last nine and a half years, of the living hell that i and others have had to endure, because of the negligence and the recklessness of Alex Jones,” said Neil Heslin, Jesse's FatherIn response to Jesse’s death – his mother started the choose love movement with the goal of increasing emotional intelligence education in our schools. 40/29 News sat down with Jesse’s grandfather David - a Fayetteville native, he tells us kids need to be taught how to forgive and not get even with violence. “If we teach kids to be emotionally intelligent, this won’t happen, they will not be fearful, and they will be able to overcome these difficulties,” said LewisHe adds it’s all about teaching kids – while they’re young, not to get trapped in the pattern of feeding off their emotions – because that’s when tragedy strikes. “There were a lot of educators that came together to write this curriculum – all aimed at the idea that i can always choose love, in any circumstance, i can choose love instead of fear, and fear is anger, fear is emotional distress, love is the opposite, and you can teach kids how they can react that way, and even how the brain works when you get stimulus that might make you react with fear, and how you can take that if you’re thinking about that, and put it to the frontal cortex and make sense out of this, instead of an immediate reaction," said LewisWe asked David what he feels towards Alex Jones, and he tells me he’s not angry at the things he said to millions of listeners, he just feels sorry for him…“Anytime somebody projects their own lack of emotional intelligence – or their own anger at me – I don’t want it, I don’t want to buy into it, so I make the decision not to do that and it’s a choice for peace for me, i could be mad at Alex Jones forever, I could carry that weight on my back, but I don’t wanna do that, it doesn’t make sense for me," said Lewis.David told 40/29 News his daughter will most likely use the money toward growing the choose love organization.
A Texas jury has ordered conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to pay $49.3 million in total damages to the parents of a first-grader killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre. The final award handed down Friday includes $45.2 million in punitive damages and $4.1 million in compensatory damages.
The parents of 6-year-old Jesse Lewis say they were tormented by the Infowars host’s false claims that the worst classroom shooting in U.S. history was a hoax orchestrated by the government to tighten gun laws
Attorneys for the family had urged jurors for a financial punishment that would put Infowars out of business. One economist testified that Jones and his company were worth up to $270 million.
Related video above: Sandy Hook mom says school shootings can be prevented
Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis, whose son Jesse was killed at Sandy Hook, testified Tuesday on the final day of testimony in the two-week trial.
Both parents said they had received death threats, harassment and experienced ongoing trauma because of Jones.
Scarlett Lewis was born in Northwest Arkansas and her 'Jesse Lewis Choose Love Program' has been implemented in local schools.
This might not be the last such judgment against Jones, as a judge in Connecticut has already ruled against him in a similar lawsuit.
David Lewis lost his grandson that fateful day at Sandy Hook and tells 40/29 News while the financial gain will certainly help his daughter, what we really need is education in the classroom to increase emotional intelligence.
Jesse Heslin, was one of 20 children and six staff members killed in the Sandy Hook massacre back in 2012. Talk show host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones claimed for years that the whole incident was fake and the victims were actually actors.
In court Jesse’s parents blasted jones from the stand.
“Jesse was real, I’m a real mom, there’s nothing out there, nothing, there’s record of jesse’s birth, of me, i have a history, and there’s nothing that you could have found, because it doesn’t exist – that I’m deep state – it’s just not true,” said Scarlett Lewis, Jesse's Mother
“I can’t even describe, the last nine and a half years, of the living hell that i and others have had to endure, because of the negligence and the recklessness of Alex Jones,” said Neil Heslin, Jesse's Father
In response to Jesse’s death – his mother started the choose love movement with the goal of increasing emotional intelligence education in our schools. 40/29 News sat down with Jesse’s grandfather David - a Fayetteville native, he tells us kids need to be taught how to forgive and not get even with violence.
“If we teach kids to be emotionally intelligent, this won’t happen, they will not be fearful, and they will be able to overcome these difficulties,” said Lewis
He adds it’s all about teaching kids – while they’re young, not to get trapped in the pattern of feeding off their emotions – because that’s when tragedy strikes.
“There were a lot of educators that came together to write this curriculum – all aimed at the idea that i can always choose love, in any circumstance, i can choose love instead of fear, and fear is anger, fear is emotional distress, love is the opposite, and you can teach kids how they can react that way, and even how the brain works when you get stimulus that might make you react with fear, and how you can take that if you’re thinking about that, and put it to the frontal cortex and make sense out of this, instead of an immediate reaction," said Lewis
We asked David what he feels towards Alex Jones, and he tells me he’s not angry at the things he said to millions of listeners, he just feels sorry for him…
“Anytime somebody projects their own lack of emotional intelligence – or their own anger at me – I don’t want it, I don’t want to buy into it, so I make the decision not to do that and it’s a choice for peace for me, i could be mad at Alex Jones forever, I could carry that weight on my back, but I don’t wanna do that, it doesn’t make sense for me," said Lewis.
David told 40/29 News his daughter will most likely use the money toward growing the choose love organization. | 2022-08-05T22:45:50+00:00 | 4029tv.com | https://www.4029tv.com/article/alex-jones-42-million/40822195 |
TX Shreveport LA Zone Forecast for Wednesday, July 13, 2022
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National Weather Service Shreveport LA
359 AM CDT Thu Jul 14 2022
TXZ096-142115-
Red River-
Including the cities of Clarksville and Bogata
359 AM CDT Thu Jul 14 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms this morning. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent. Heat
index values up to 104.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds
10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny, hot with highs in the upper 90s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot. Lows in the
mid 70s. Highs in the upper 90s. Heat index values up to 105.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Lows in the
upper 70s. Highs around 100. Heat index values up to 105.
$$
TXZ108-142115-
Franklin-
Including the city of Mount Vernon
359 AM CDT Thu Jul 14 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming clear.
Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot. Lows in the
mid 70s. Highs around 100.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Lows in the
upper 70s. Highs around 100. Heat index values up to 105.
$$
TXZ109-142115-
Titus-
Including the city of Mount Pleasant
359 AM CDT Thu Jul 14 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent. Heat index values up to
104.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot. Lows in the
mid 70s. Highs in the upper 90s. Heat index values up to 105.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot with highs around 100. Heat index
values up to 105.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Lows in the
upper 70s. Highs 100 to 105. Heat index values up to 105.
$$
TXZ111-142115-
Morris-
Including the cities of Daingerfield, Lone Star, Naples,
and Omaha
359 AM CDT Thu Jul 14 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot. Lows in the
mid 70s. Highs in the upper 90s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot with highs around 100. Heat index
values up to 105.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Lows in the
upper 70s. Highs around 100. Heat index values up to 105.
$$
TXZ110-142115-
Camp-
Including the city of Pittsburg
359 AM CDT Thu Jul 14 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms,
mainly this morning. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
Southeast winds around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot. Lows in the
mid 70s. Highs in the upper 90s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot with highs around 100.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Lows in the
upper 70s. Highs 100 to 105. Heat index values up to 105.
$$
TXZ112-142115-
Cass-
Including the cities of Atlanta, Linden, Hughes Springs,
and Queen City
359 AM CDT Thu Jul 14 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms,
mainly this morning. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. Southeast
winds around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Hot. Highs in the upper
90s. Lows in the mid 70s. Heat index values up to 105.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the morning. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot with highs around 100. Heat index
values up to 105.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Lows in the
upper 70s. Highs around 100. Heat index values up to 105.
$$
TXZ126-142115-
Marion-
Including the city of Jefferson
359 AM CDT Thu Jul 14 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms,
mainly this morning. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast
winds around 5 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY THROUGH MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot. Highs in the upper
90s. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. Heat
index values up to 105.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Lows in the
upper 70s. Highs around 100. Heat index values up to 105.
$$
TXZ125-142115-
Upshur-
Including the cities of Gilmer and Big Sandy
359 AM CDT Thu Jul 14 2022
...OZONE ACTION DAY IN EFFECT TODAY...
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms,
mainly this morning. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY THROUGH MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot. Highs around 100.
Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot with highs around 100.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Lows in the
upper 70s. Highs around 100. Heat index values up to 105.
$$
TXZ124-142115-
Wood-
Including the cities of Mineola, Winnsboro, Quitman, and Hawkins
359 AM CDT Thu Jul 14 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent. Heat index values up to
104.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY THROUGH MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot. Highs around 100.
Lows in the upper 70s. Heat index values up to 105.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot with highs around 100. Heat index
values up to 105 in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Lows in the
upper 70s. Highs 100 to 105. Heat index values up to 110.
$$
TXZ136-142115-
Smith-
Including the city of Tyler
359 AM CDT Thu Jul 14 2022
...OZONE ACTION DAY IN EFFECT TODAY...
.TODAY...Partly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. South winds 5 to
10 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 101. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY THROUGH MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot. Highs around 100.
Lows in the upper 70s. Heat index values up to 105.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot with highs around 100. Heat index
values up to 110 in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Lows in the
upper 70s. Highs 100 to 105. Heat index values up to 110.
$$
TXZ137-142115-
Gregg-
Including the city of Longview
359 AM CDT Thu Jul 14 2022
...OZONE ACTION DAY IN EFFECT TODAY...
.TODAY...Partly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming south after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs around 100. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY THROUGH MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot. Highs in the upper
90s. Lows in the upper 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot with highs around 100. Heat index
values up to 105.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Lows in the
upper 70s. Highs around 100. Heat index values up to 105.
$$
TXZ138-142115-
Harrison-
Including the city of Marshall
359 AM CDT Thu Jul 14 2022
...OZONE ACTION DAY IN EFFECT TODAY...
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms,
mainly this morning. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming south after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot. Highs in the upper
90s. Lows in the mid 70s. Heat index values up to 105.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot with highs around 100. Heat index
values up to 105.
$$
TXZ151-142115-
Panola-
Including the city of Carthage
359 AM CDT Thu Jul 14 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms. A chance
of showers. Hot with highs in the lower 90s. South winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming southeast this afternoon. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming south after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Hot. Highs in the upper
90s. Lows in the mid 70s.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot. Lows in the mid
70s. Highs in the upper 90s. Heat index values up to 105.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot with highs around 100. Heat index
values up to 105.
$$
TXZ150-142115-
Rusk-
Including the city of Henderson
359 AM CDT Thu Jul 14 2022
...OZONE ACTION DAY IN EFFECT TODAY...
.TODAY...Partly cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms. A chance
of showers. Not as hot with highs in the mid 90s. South winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming southeast this afternoon. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming south after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot. Highs in the upper
90s. Lows in the mid 70s. Heat index values up to 105.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot with highs around 100. Heat index
values up to 105.
$$
TXZ149-142115-
Cherokee-
Including the cities of Jacksonville and Rusk
359 AM CDT Thu Jul 14 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy this morning, then becoming mostly cloudy.
A chance of thunderstorms. A chance of showers. Hot with highs in
the mid 90s. South winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming southeast this
afternoon. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot. Highs in the upper
90s. Lows in the mid 70s. Heat index values up to 105.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. Heat index
values up to 105 early in the evening.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot with highs around 100. Heat index
values up to 105.
$$
TXZ165-142115-
Angelina-
Including the city of Lufkin
359 AM CDT Thu Jul 14 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. South winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming southeast this afternoon. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 104.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 105.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Hot. Highs in the upper
90s. Lows in the mid 70s. Heat index values up to 105.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. Chance of rain
30 percent. Heat index values up to 105.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot. Lows in the mid
70s. Highs in the upper 90s. Heat index values up to 105.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. Heat index
values up to 105 early in the evening.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot with highs around 100. Heat index
values up to 110.
$$
TXZ152-142115-
Nacogdoches-
Including the city of Nacogdoches
359 AM CDT Thu Jul 14 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy this morning, then becoming mostly cloudy.
A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Hot with highs in the
lower 90s. South winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming southeast this
afternoon. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 104.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
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.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. Heat index
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5 to 10 mph, becoming east this afternoon. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
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5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming south after midnight.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Backers of a proposal to enshrine abortion rights in the Ohio Constitution can begin collecting the more than 413,000 voter signatures required to put the issue before voters this fall, after the petition cleared another hurdle Monday.
The constitutional amendment moves to the signature-gathering phase after the Ohio Ballot Board confirmed the petition language contains only one proposed amendment.
Abortion remains legal in the state up to 20 weeks’ gestation, under a judge’s order issued in a lawsuit challenging a ban once cardiac activity can be detected, or around six weeks into pregnancy. The Republican attorney general has asked the Ohio Supreme Court to overturn the stay.
The fall ballot proposal would assure access to abortion until what is called viability, when the fetus could survive outside the womb. It also would protect caregivers from being punished for performing the procedure or aiding the process.
Ohio Physicians for Reproductive Rights and Ohioans for Reproductive Freedom are aiming to get that proposed constitutional amendment on ballots this November.
Under state law, the groups must collect 413,446 valid voter signatures — 10% of the votes in the last governor’s race — statewide, across at least 44 of Ohio’s 88 counties. Their deadline is July 5 to make the Nov. 7 ballot.
They say they are aiming to gather at least 700,000 signatures to ensure they meet the requirement.
Anti-abortion groups are vowing to fight the proposal and are already urging Ohio residents to vote against it if it makes it to the ballot. | 2023-03-14T18:50:22+00:00 | cbs4indy.com | https://cbs4indy.com/health/ap-health/abortion-rights-proposal-moves-a-step-closer-to-ohio-ballot/ |
In the late 1800s and early 1900s, Lionel Mapleson, then the librarian at New York's Metropolitan Opera, did something new: He took an Edison "Home" model phonograph and recorded operas with an orchestra as they were being sung on stage.
He experimented with recording from places like the prompter's booth, but finally landed on the catwalks high above the stage. Microphones weren't invented yet, so he used a giant horn, perhaps six feet long, to record acoustically.
"The Mapleson Cylinders, at least in terms of sound recording, are definitely among the most important sound documents of the 20th century," said Bob Kosovsky, a librarian in the music division of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts and an expert on early opera recordings.
"It recorded live performances at a time when people didn't think it was possible," he said.
In other words — these are some of the first live recordings of music ever.
Mapleson recorded hundreds of cylinders, of operas but also of his family. Many are lost, perhaps forever. But the New York Public Library had 126 of them until last fall — all the known cylinders except for the 16 in possession of the Mapleson family. The library borrowed those in 1981 to digitize them as best they could and they put the collection on LPs; the result is hissy, scratchy — the music rises up like a ghost underneath a wall of static.
But then, last spring, the library bought an Endpoint Cylinder and Dictabelt Machine, invented by Nicholas Bergh. NPR's story in April last year focused on how the machine worked, saying that it could digitize even broken cylinders with more clarity. And it mentioned how the library was excited to try to re-digitize the Mapleson Cylinders it owned to see if they could make them less noisy.
"So my brother, Peter, who lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, came across the story and he says, 'Oh, did you see this?'" said Alfred Mapleson, the great-grandson of Lionel. "And when I saw it was like, 'Oh, that's great. That means they probably can read the read these broken cylinders as well, which is great, is phenomenal.'"
He reached out to the library to donate them on behalf of the Mapleson family.
"And both Bob and I had just about fell out of our chairs with excitement, it was the best news we had gotten in 10 years," said Jessica Wood, assistant curator in the New York Public Library's music division.
A long family history
Mapleson's family had owned Mapleson Music since the 1700s, Alfred Mapleson said, a company which rented out its own opera orchestrations. They kept the cylinders as part of the business, but when it was sold to Educational Music Service in the 1990s, they kept the more personal things with the family — like the cylinders, which for quite a while were being kept in a beer cooler under Alfred's mother's recliner on Long Island.
But then Alfred moved them to his own house, along with Lionel's journals — about 50 of them. They're more like scrapbooks, really, with photographs and news clippings pasted in, along with thoughts about both Lionel's daily life and the big news of the day — like the sinking of the Titanic (he sailed on a boat to England with some who had survived), or the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake (the Met was there on tour).
He also, said Wood, recorded "the day when Arturo Toscanini and Puccini came to his hotel room in the evening because they decided that act one of the opera Manon needed to be re-orchestrated."
The journals accompanied the cylinders to the library (details of how everything was packed up are here in an NYPL blog post by Wood.)
The librarians have been through about 20 of the journals so far, and there's not a lot about the recordings, though Kosovsky said it's clear that a lot of them were captured, not for posterity, but so his friends could hear themselves sing; many of them would never have heard their recorded voices otherwise. Yet what is there is rich, with detailed information about life in England and New York a century ago.
Alfred Mapleson himself has two sons — but he thought it was important that these journals, these cylinders, be available for others to use for research, so that his family legacy could live on.
"All I can say is I really hope I've done my family proud," he said. "You know, if if Lionel could see this, or or my grandfather, or my dad, they'd be like, OK, you're doing right by by the family. That we all did what was right to perpetuate the Mapleson name and for history. And that's what's most important to me."
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Students should pay attention to Alabama’s record coal mine strikes
September 11, 2022
The term “redneck” is a common identifier in the South to describe someone as dirty, classless or dumb. While it is often used jokingly or in a derogatory manner, the label stems from hard labor and can be a rallying point for Southerners.
The term has a radical history. The coal wars of West Virginia were a brutal conflict between striking miners and coal mine operators in the early 20th century over the low wages, unsafe conditions, poor living spaces and the right to unionize.
Originally, the word “red” was used to insult the striking miners by insinuating they were communists and foreign agents. However, the coal miners took it as a badge of honor and began wearing red bandanas as a sign of solidarity.
They used this insult as a common ground for their movement and turned being a “redneck” into a thing of pride. And the South’s fight for workers’ rights didn’t stop there.
This battle is unfolding again in Alabama. Over 1,000 coal miners in southwest Birmingham have been on strike against Warrior Met Coal since April 1, 2021, marking 528 days of protests.
The brewing of the walkout actually started several years ago when the United Mine Workers of America said the owners of Warrior Met refused to negotiate while charges of unfair labor practices began to pile up in the early stages.
In 2016, miners took a pay cut of $6 per hour and reduction in health insurance and retirement benefits to keep the company afloat during bankruptcy. Warrior Met Coal was said to have offered a $1.50 increase in wages from 2021-2026, a slap in the face compared to what miners had sacrificed.
This past August, Joe Biden’s National Labor Relations Board ordered the union to pay 13.3 million dollars directly to Warrior Met Coal. The board states the charges are for increased labor, lost revenue with unmined coal, increased security throughout the strike and “damages.”
While the miner’s union could barely afford to give the strikers $18,000 a year, Biden’s labor board requires they pay compensation to a company that generated over $1 billion from cutting pay and benefits since 2016.
The labor board’s charges against the union are so excessive that they effectively punish the union for lasting this long. Cecil Roberts, the international union president of the United Mine Workers of America, stated, “This is outrageous and effectively negates workers’ right to strike. It cannot stand.”
The lack of support for the union from mainstream Republicans and Democrats is shocking to say the least. Working class Americans deserve an explanation as to why these coal miners are being punished so severely. And the answer Biden’s board gives us is unsatisfactory.
The National Labor Relations Board was established in 1935 to mediate conflicts between companies and unions. Coupled with Biden’s claim that he will “establish a federal right to union organizing and collective bargaining for all public sector employees,” the decision to punish the unions for doing that exact thing is blatant hypocrisy.
The 13.3 million dollars was decided upon by the board after the union agreed to pay a portion of the monetary damages as a cautionary measure, not knowing that the board would charge them exponentially more than they agreed to. In the midst of the controversy, many are wondering why congressional Democrats aren’t speaking out. Democrats have offered nothing but indifference to the union, leaving the striking workers essentially abandoned.
Clearly, the discourse around worker’s rights in Alabama has been intensifying. As members of the next generation of workers, students at the University should strive to know their rights. If the coal strikes at Warrior Met have shown us anything, it is that solidarity and active knowledge of our rights will be crucial in upcoming years in the workforce.
Gallup found that 71% of Americans currently support labor unions, reaching favorability that has not been seen since 1965. Unions are sweeping through massive companies such as Amazon, Starbucks and Chipotle as individuals recognize the growing benefits of unionization.
The Economic Policy Institute states that union workers receive up to an 11% higher compensation than non-union counterparts on average. They also pay lower health care deductibles for personal and family coverage and receive higher benefits than non-union employees.
Students at the University have everything to gain from learning how unionizing helps them and how to uphold their rights as the next wave of working Americans. With Congress proving they aren’t willing to speak out for workers, it is a necessity that students take up the knowledge that will help them maneuver worker’s rights conflicts.
There are several resources through which students can become more engaged in the fight for workers’ rights. The American Federation of Labor-Congress of International Organization outlines how to start a union, how to contact a union organizer and how unions can help individuals. You can even look at local unions’ efforts such as Bamazon, a collection of workers fighting for unionization against Amazon’s prominent anti-union tactics.
Haley Czarnek is a 2022 law school graduate at The University of Alabama and spent time in law school helping the Birmingham Democratic Socialists of America with unionization efforts across the state.
“Birmingham DSA is working hard to build solidarity with workers, and we make it a priority to support unions and workplace organizers,” Czarnek said.
Getting involved with unions can be a transformational experience for students.
“Getting to know some of the UMWA folks and our local Starbucks workers has been incredible, and UA students should absolutely join if they want to be part of the chapter’s labor work,” Czarnek said.
There are even resources on campus available to UA students. United Campus Workers of Alabama brings the issue home, providing training and opportunities to expand local workers’ rights. There is always room on campus to become involved in unionization efforts.
I was recently elected vice president of Students for Fair Labor, an organization that helps students know their rights on and off campus. We also work with students to make sure their rights are being protected. No matter the level, there are opportunities to lead the new wave of workers’ rights.
Our role in the fight for fair labor is much bigger than we think. If we take advantage of these resources now and learn what our rights are we can create a more stable future for all of us. Every student at the University should take it upon themselves to relentlessly organize and continue the radical southern tradition of unionization. | 2022-09-12T02:50:19+00:00 | thecrimsonwhite.com | https://thecrimsonwhite.com/100127/opinion/students-should-pay-attention-to-alabamas-record-coal-mine-strikes/ |
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Southern California man who once competed on the Philippines national decathlon team was sentenced Monday to 17 1/2 years in federal prison for bilking investors out of more than $35 million with a phony scheme to market cannabis vape pens.
David Joseph Bunevacz also was ordered to pay $35.2 million in restitution by U.S. District Judge Dale S. Fischer, who said he had “preyed on individuals who believed he was their friend” and that the “seriousness of (his) conduct cannot be captured in mere dollars and cents,” according to a statement from the U.S. attorney's office.
Bunevacz, 53, of Calabasas, pleaded guilty in July to securities fraud and wire fraud.
According to his plea agreement, Bunevacz created several businesses as far back as 2010 that he claimed were involved in the cannabis industry and the sale of vape pens.
He raised tens of millions of dollars from at least 10 investors, prosecutors said.
But instead of financing business operations, Bunevacz was accused of using much of it to fund a lifestyle that included a fancy house, Las Vegas trips, jewelry, designer handbags, horses and a lavish birthday party for his daughter.
Bunevacz is a former decathlete at the University of California, Los Angeles, and also competed for the Philippines in the 1990s. | 2022-11-22T02:20:19+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/California-man-gets-17-1-2-years-for-cannabis-pen-17602429.php |
Record breaking education budget clears Senate committee
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - State senators got a look at the record-breaking education budget and the nearly $3 billion surplus. Governor Kay Ivey’s one-time rebate came up for debate because that money would come from the surplus. The rebate passed but it is less than what was expected.
State senators dropped the $400 rebate to $100 per filer, they say this is the cheaper option, but there are still many steps until the final passage for this rebate and the overall Education Trust Fund.
“Without reservation, this has been the most trying budgets,” said Senator Arthur Orr, R-Limesonte County.
State senators approved an $8.8-billion dollar education trust fund. This budget includes a 2% pay increase for teachers.
“They will get a 1% raise regardless of what the legislature does. So if you’re a classroom teacher, you will see a third person all in raised as opposed to a 2%,” said Orr.
Educational support staff rallied outside the state house because they’re tired of being left out of the budget.
“In Birmingham, for instance, a school bus driver can make $5,000 more a year for the exact same job that we’ve got others doing their rural school systems. So we wanted to create matrices, just like the teachers have a minimum salary schedule,” said Amy Marlowe, executive director of the Alabama Education Association.
The staff wants a starting salary of $15 per hour to match the minimum salary for school nurses.
Lesia James is a registrar at Selma High School.
“I enroll, withdraw, I do our transcripts. Also, I do all job verifications. I also do all go to court, some of the students to make sure their attendance is right,” said James.
She says a minimum salary will make a huge difference.
“They’ll be able to meet their bills, even just feel more proud about their job, and they feel like they are worthy of what they do,” said James.
Senator Orr says the body is considering implementing a pay matrix.
The entire education trust fund and the rebate bill now move to the Senate floor for more debate.
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Allied's new silver-level sponsorship further underscores its award-winning commitment to inclusivity and will help Women in Electronics fund key DEI, ESG and growth initiatives.
FORT WORTH, Texas, Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Allied Electronics & Automation, a trading brand of RS Group plc (LSE: RS1), a global omni-channel provider of product and service solutions, is now a silver-level sponsor of Women in Electronics, a nonprofit, 501(c)(3) social impact organization dedicated to expanding the opportunities for women and diverse talent in the electronics industry and related end-user markets.
Women in Electronics (WE) empowers women in the electronics industry by facilitating networking events, ranging from chapter meetings and forums to its annual conference, and offering a monthly leadership growth program and quarterly life balance series to help members develop both personally and professionally. WE also advocates for members through its global mentorship program and development resources, including its "Leader in Highlight" podcast, and celebrates both members and sponsor organizations for their accomplishments and strides in diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts.
Allied's sponsorship of Women in Electronics further underscores its award-winning commitment to inclusivity and will help fund the organization's efforts to promote DEI, improve environmental, social and governance (ESG) policies and support the continued growth of the electronics industry. Women currently only hold 10% of the leadership roles in the electronics industry but, according to data that WE collected from the Peterson Institute for International Economics and Cloverpop, companies with leadership teams at least half comprised of women earn 19% more equity on average. In addition, boards with a higher-than-average percentage of women outperform those with a lower-than-average percentage by 36% and companies with boards in the top quartile of gender diversity are 28% more likely to financially outperform than their peers. Similarly, the data shows that companies with leadership exhibiting age, gender and geographic diversity make better business decisions up to 87% of the time, achieving up to 60% better outcomes twice as fast with half the meetings.
"Allied is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace environment, and we are very proud of our continued efforts to further improve on our current successes," said Katie Cartwright, VP of People at Allied Electronics & Automation. "Sponsoring Women in Electronics gives us access to memberships that will allow our employees to capitalize on the organization's wealth of personal and professional career development resources and allows us to bolster our own DEI and ESG initiatives while funding work aimed at improving those initiatives throughout the industries we serve."
"Women in Electronics is a collaborative community of progressive leaders working to advance meaningful cultural and systemic change throughout the channel in the electronics industry, and we're thrilled to partner with the Allied team under shared organizational values of honor, authenticity, courage and commitment," said Jackie Mattox, Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Women in Electronics. "Together, I believe we can make a positive impact on the face of leadership in the electronics industry and, in particular, the rapidly expanding and increasingly important industrial automation industry."
About Women in Electronics
Women in Electronics (WE) was founded in 2017 by a group of women professionals to offer a sense of community, develop together, and unite with their male colleagues to advance results in gender parity in the Electronics Industry and related End User Markets. As a 501(c)(3) public charity, WE is focused on four organizational goals: empower, advocate, develop, and celebrate, providing leadership growth and development, mentorship, networking, thought-leadership events, and resources. Women in Electronics is supported by leading industry organizations and reaches the broader Electronics Industry through regional chapter meetings and virtual events throughout the U.S. and Europe, with plans to reach a global community. WE is a social impact organization that ensures inclusivity for anyone who would like to be a part of their mission.
To learn more about Women in Electronics, visit https://www.womeninelectronics.com.
Allied Electronics & Automation, part of RS Group
Allied Electronics & Automation is a trading brand of RS Group plc (formerly Electrocomponents plc), a leading global omni-channel industrial product and service solutions provider to customers who are involved in designing, building and maintaining industrial equipment and operations, safely and sustainably. RS Group plc stocks more than 700,000 industrial and electronic products, sourced from over 2,500 leading suppliers, and provides a wide range of product and service solutions to over 1.2 million industrial customers. With operations in 32 countries, we trade through multiple channels and ship nearly 60,000 parcels daily.
We support customers across the product life cycle, whether via innovation and technical support at the design phase, improving time to market and productivity at the build phase, or reducing purchasing costs and optimizing inventory in the maintenance phase. We offer our customers tailored product and service propositions that are essential for the successful operation of their businesses and help them save time and money.
RS Group plc is listed on the London Stock Exchange with stock ticker RS1 and in the fiscal year that ended March 31, 2022, reported revenue of $3.3 billion.
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WFO MIDLAND/ODESSA Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, January 30, 2023
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WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY
URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Midland/Odessa TX
245 AM CST Mon Jan 30 2023
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST
TODAY...
...WINTER STORM WATCH IN EFFECT FROM LATE TONIGHT THROUGH
WEDNESDAY MORNING...
* WHAT...For the Winter Weather Advisory, freezing rain expected.
Total ice accumulations of a light glaze. For the Winter Storm
Watch, significant icing possible. Total ice accumulations of
one quarter inch possible.
* WHERE...Dawson, Martin, Ector and Crane Counties.
* WHEN...For the Winter Weather Advisory, until noon CST today.
For the Winter Storm Watch, from late tonight through
Wednesday morning.
* IMPACTS...Power outages and tree damage are possible due to
the ice. Light icing of bridges and overpasses may create
hazardous driving conditions. The hazardous conditions could
impact the morning or evening commute.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Slow down and use caution while traveling. Prepare for possible
power outages.
Monitor the latest forecasts for updates on this situation.
The latest road conditions can be obtained by calling 800-452-
9292.
...WINTER STORM WATCH NOW IN EFFECT FROM LATE TONIGHT THROUGH
one quarter inch or more possible.
* WHERE...Borden, Scurry, Howard, Mitchell, Midland, Glasscock,
Upton and Reagan Counties.
* WHAT...Freezing drizzle and a light glaze of ice expected.
* WHERE...Gaines, Andrews, Ector and Crane Counties.
* WHEN...From 3 AM to noon CST Monday.
* IMPACTS...Light icing of bridges and overpasses may create
impact the morning commute.
Slow down and use caution while traveling.
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PHOENIX – Donald Trump on Wednesday endorsed the Republican running against Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers, who last week gave powerful testimony to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Bowers, who is blocked by term limits from seeking another term in the Arizona House, is running for an open seat in the state Senate. Trump praised his GOP primary rival, former Sen. David Farnsworth, for supporting the lie that the 2020 election was marred by fraud.
“Bowers must be defeated, and highly respected David Farnsworth is the man to do it,” Trump said in his endorsement. “He will straighten things out and secure your Border.”
In his testimony last week, Bowers walked through what started with a Trump phone call on a Sunday after he returned from church. The defeated president laid out a proposal to have the state replace its electors for President Joe Biden with others favoring Trump.
“I said, ‘Look, you’re asking me to do something that is counter to my oath, ’” Bowers testified.
Bowers insisted on seeing Trump’s evidence of voter fraud, which he said Trump’s team never produced beyond vague allegations. He recalled Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani later told him, “We’ve got lots of theories, we just don’t have the evidence.”
Bowers earned national acclaim with his folksy recitation of the pressure he faced from Trump and his allies, including angry and noisy protests outside his home as his adult daughter lay dying inside from an extended illness.
His performance also drew scorn from Trump allies. Arizona Republican Party Chairwoman Kelli Ward tweeted her own support for Farnsworth the next day.
Bowers said in an interview with The Associated Press that day that he thinks the voters will back him because of his honesty.
“Frankly, we feel good that this will will bring out a large independent group who finally see somebody that they feel they can put some confidence in as Republicans" Bowers said. “I think that’s our strongest part.”
The Legislature's 2022 session ended last week and early ballots will be mailed out next week for the Aug. 2 primary. Bowers said he's focused on winning the seat in the east Phoenix suburb of Mesa.
He said the voters will decide whether it is him or Farnsworth they want in the state Senate.
“But it’s not David Farnsworth — it's Donald Trump,” Bowers said. “David is just a surrogate. And if they want Donald Trump in this position, they they should vote for David.”
Bowers did make some waves when he told the AP before he testified in Washington last week that he would vote for Trump again if the choice were between him and President Joe Biden.
That comment ended up in national headlines, since it came in the same interview where he called the former president's efforts to overturn the 2020 election unconstitutional. He said that Trump's actions have hurt the nation and created distrust in elections, which he said are fair.
He has worked to clarify that remark since it was published. He told the AP that he's even more opposed to Trump after appearing before the commission investing the Jan. 6 attack on Congress. He said he was floored while hearing first hand what Trump did to other officials, including pushing Georgia Secretary of State Brad Brad Raffensperger to find the 11,000 votes Trump would need to reverse is loss in the Peach state.
“I want a robust, open, fair, honest primary election, and I want choices other than Donald J. Trump,” Bowers said. “And there are some great choices available, and I hope we can get them over a finish line and not him.” | 2022-06-30T00:40:55+00:00 | clickorlando.com | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/politics/2022/06/29/trump-endorses-gop-rival-to-jan-6-witness-rusty-bowers/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has for more than two decades accepted luxury trips nearly every year from Republican megadonor Harlan Crow without reporting them on financial disclosure forms, ProPublica reports.
In a lengthy story published Thursday the nonprofit investigative journalism organization catalogs various trips Thomas has taken aboard Crow’s yacht and private jet as well as to Crow’s private resort in the Adirondacks. A 2019 trip to Indonesia the story detailed could have cost more than $500,000 had Thomas chartered the plane and yacht himself, ProPublica reported.
Supreme Court justices, like other federal judges, are required to file an annual financial disclosure report which asks them to list gifts they have received. It was not clear why Thomas omitted the trips, but under a judiciary policy guide consulted by The Associated Press, food, lodging or entertainment received as “personal hospitality of any individual” does not need to be reported if it is at the personal residence of that individual or their family. That said, the exception to reporting is not supposed to cover “transportation that substitutes for commercial transportation” and properties owned by an entity.
A Supreme Court spokeswoman acknowledged an email from the AP seeking comment from Thomas but did not provide any additional information. ProPublica wrote that Thomas did not respond to a detailed list of questions from the organization.
Last month, the federal judiciary beefed up disclosure requirements for all judges, including the high court justices, although overnight stays at personal vacation homes owned by friends remain exempt from disclosure.
Last year, questions about Thomas’ ethics arose when it was disclosed that he did not step away from election cases following the 2020 election despite the fact that his wife, conservative activist Virginia Thomas, reached out to lawmakers and the White House to urge defiance of the election results. The latest story will likely increase calls for the justices to adopt an ethics code and enhance disclosure of travel and other gifts.
In a statement, Crow told ProPublica that he and his wife have been friends of Thomas and his wife since 1996, five years after Thomas joined the high court. Crow said that the “hospitality we have extended to the Thomas’s over the years is no different from the hospitality we have extended to our many other dear friends” and that the couple “never asked for any of this hospitality.”
He said they have “never asked about a pending or lower court case, and Justice Thomas has never discussed one, and we have never sought to influence Justice Thomas on any legal or political issue.”
ProPublica’s story says that Thomas has been vacationing at Crow’s lavish Topridge resort virtually every summer for more than two decades. During one trip in 2017, other guests included executives at “Verizon and PricewaterhouseCoopers, major Republican donors and one of the leaders of the American Enterprise Institute, a pro-business conservative think tank,” ProPublica reported.
Crow wrote that he is “unaware of any of our friends ever lobbying or seeking to influence Justice Thomas on any case, and I would never invite anyone who I believe had any intention of doing that.”
The disclosure of the lavish trips stands in contrast to what Thomas has said about his preferred methods of travel. Thomas, who grew up poor in Georgia, has talked about enjoying traveling in his motorcoach and preferring “Walmart parking lots to the beaches.” | 2023-04-06T20:41:56+00:00 | wcia.com | https://www.wcia.com/news/politics/ap-politics/justice-thomas-reportedly-took-undisclosed-luxury-trips/ |
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — What takes four years to make and costs more than $20,000? A trash can in San Francisco.
That costly, boxy bin is among six trash cans hitting San Francisco’s streets this summer in the city’s long saga in search of the perfect can. Overflowing trash cans are a common sight in the Northern California city, along with piles of used clothes, shoes, furniture and other items strewn about on sometimes-impassable sidewalks.
City officials hired a Bay Area industrial firm to custom-design the pricey trash can along with two other prototypes that cost taxpayers $19,000 and $11,000 each. This summer, residents have the opportunity to evaluate them along with three off-the-shelf options added to the pilot program after officials faced criticism.
Last month, the city deployed 15 custom-made trash cans and 11 off-the-shelf trash cans — each of those costing from $630 to $2,800 — with QR codes affixed to them asking residents to fill out a survey. City officials said they intend to pay no more than $3,000 per can.
San Francisco began its search for the perfect trash can in 2018 when officials decided it was time to replace the more than 3,000 public bins that have been on the streets for almost 20 years.
Officials say the current bins have too big a hole that allows for easy rummaging. The bins also have hinges that need constant repair and locks that are easy to breach. Some people also topple them over, cover them in graffiti, or set them on fire.
The city is so serious about the endeavor it has created interactive maps so residents can track and test the different designs, which include the Soft Square, the priciest prototype at $20,900. The boxy stainless steel receptacle has openings for trash and for can and bottle recycling and includes a foot pedal. The Slim Silhouette, at $18,800 per prototype, is made of stainless steel bars that give would-be graffiti artists less space to tag.
If one of the custom-designed bins is chosen, the cost to mass produce it will be $2,000 to $3,000 per piece, said Beth Rubenstein, a spokeswoman for San Francisco’s Department of Public Works.
“We live in a beautiful city, and we want (the trash can) to be functional and cost-effective, but it needs to be beautiful,” she said.
But the good looks of the shiny new trash cans have not protected them from vandalism and disrespect. Three weeks after being unveiled, several have already been tagged with orange and white graffiti. Others already show the drip stains of inconsiderate coffee drinkers or have attracted dumping, with people leaving dilapidated bathroom cabinets and plastic bags full of empty wine bottles next to them.
Trash on San Francisco city streets has been an issue for decades. In 2007, then-Mayor Gavin Newsom eliminated about 1,500 of the city’s 4,500 trash cans because he said they were not helping keep streets clean and were becoming magnets for more trash. Officials couldn’t say how many receptacles are currently on the curb, but the city plans to replace at least 3,000.
“A trash can is one of the most basic functions of city governance and if the city can’t do something as simple as this, how can they solve the bigger issues of homelessness and safety and poverty?” asked Matt Haney, a former supervisor who lives in the Tenderloin neighborhood and now represents the area in the California Assembly.
New trash cans will be the latest addition to the city’s arsenal against its dirty streets. In 2014, San Francisco launched its “Pit Stop” program in the Tenderloin neighborhood, the epicenter of drug dealing and homelessness in the city, setting up portable public toilets. In 2018, the city created a six-person “poop patrol” team amid demand to power wash sidewalks.
Haney said that as a supervisor he reluctantly agreed last year to approve the pilot program despite the high prices to avoid delays.
“I think most people, including me, would say just replace the damn cans with cans that we know work in other cities, just do it,” he said.
Haney said the “whole trash can saga has this stench of corruption,” referring to disgraced former Department of Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru, who pleaded guilty in January to federal wire fraud charges. Nuru awarded the contract to maintain San Francisco’s trash cans to a company owned by a relative of a developer who has pleaded guilty to conspiracy and is cooperating with federal authorities in the case against Nuru.
On top of the corruption, the city has long been the butt of jokes for how long it takes to complete public works projects of all kinds.
A bus rapid transit system along Van Ness Avenue, one of the city’s main arteries, finally opened this year after 27 years of construction. A new subway line connecting Chinatown with other areas of the city that started construction in 2010 is four years behind schedule. In 2017, the city completed the Transbay Transit Center only a year late, but the $2 billion terminal abruptly shut down six weeks later after crews discovered two cracked steel girders.
Ultimately, what trash can the city gets will depend on feedback from sanitation employees, and the surveys completed by the end of September, Rubenstein said. The new cans are not expected on the streets until the end of 2023.
Diane Torkelson, who often picks up trash in her Inner Richmond neighborhood with other volunteers, recently trekked 5 miles (8 kilometers) with a dozen other civic-minded San Franciscans to examine three of the cans.
The two prototypes were already full when the group arrived to check them out, she said.
“If the trash can is full, it’s of no use, no matter how well it was designed,” she said. | 2022-08-14T04:02:26+00:00 | ksn.com | https://www.ksn.com/news/business/ap-business/what-takes-years-and-costs-20k-a-san-francisco-trash-can/ |
As I pass along a row of mannequins, the sharply tailored, pale blue cotton dashiki stops me in my tracks. Based on a long-sleeved open-necked, centuries old tribal costume, the garment has a sash draped gently from one shoulder to the other like a Roman toga.
The dashiki, part of the Intsinzi Collection from Rwandan design studio Moshions, first appeared on a catwalk in Kigali five years ago. Its graceful cut and clean lines struck me as youthful, elegant and yet deeply traditional. It would be equally at home in an urban or rural environment on a handful of continents.
Now it is part of a visually stunning exhibition at London's Victoria and Albert Museum entitled "Africa Fashion."
The two-level exhibition looks like a roundhouse inside one of the museum's rotundas and includes fashion pieces that range from eye-catching costumes and gowns to ordinary workday dresses. It makes the case that any list of global fashion powerhouses should include African designers — that fashion is not solely the purview of European design houses like Coco Chanel, Christian Dior or Yves Saint-Laurent.
The museum is also making amends for failures in its own collecting and curating practices that have have left vast gaps in its previous offerings around African culture and design.
In an irony of history, the museum is named for a monarch and her consort who presided over the longest expansion of the British Empire. The end of that colonial era in Africa brought not only sweeping political changes but a flowering of creativity in music, art — and fashion.
It is the renaissance and subsequent evolution of the continent's couture that the exhibition "Africa Fashion" seeks to assess and amplify.
Exhibit curator Christine Checinska herself worked for many years as a designer at several major British fashion labels before pursuing a Ph.D. in cultural studies at Goldsmiths' College in the University of London, with her thesis focused on the impact of Caribbean creole culture on British male dress. Ever since, she says, she has sought to explore the relationships between race, culture and cloth.
Checinska has been tasked with expanding the Victoria and Albert museum's permanent collection of African and African diaspora textiles and fashion.
"Across the board, there is recognition that we need to almost have a broader sense of — a broader vocabulary when we're curating," she told NPR, "to incorporate many of the different cultures that perhaps have been missing in the past and to recognize and revisit our own colonial history."
She hopes the show manages "to inspire and to encourage" visitors from all backgrounds but also to offer a glimpse of what she describes as "the genius of African creativity that all too often has been left out."
Below are a sampling of garments from the exhibition that she thinks exemplify African fashion itself and best represent the intention behind the show, which runs through mid-April 2023.
Chris Seydou brings flair — and mud — into haute couture
Seydou's stunning orange checkered suit and wide brimmed hat combination on display are emblematic of the Malian designer's ability to marry contemporary Western tailoring with African materials. Seydou lived in Burkina Faso and Ivory Coast before moving to Paris, where he worked for Yves Saint-Laurent in the 1970s before returning to West Africa to open his own atelier and launch his own line. He often used traditional patterned cloth like Mali's "bògòlanfini" — dyed with fermented mud — and not only marketed his designs across the region but further afield in Europe and the United States. He died in 1994.
IB Kamara, a Sierra Leone-born and London-based stylist who is now editor-in-chief of the magazine Dazed, stepped behind the lens to take three soulful black-and-white portraits of Seydou's clothes on a contemporary model. Kamara has long championed what curator Checinska calls "African heritage fashion." The intention of this Seydou display, Checinska says, is to mark the museum's own conscious celebration of African fashion through a refreshed collecting and curating strategy.
Bubu Ogisi marries fashion and politics
This Nigerian designer does not shy away from political statements in her works. For instance, she incorporates raffia from the Democratic Republic of Congo in this costume on the right to highlight Belgian exploitation in its former colony, where traditional weaving and manufacturing techniques were curtailed to service the foreign desire for products like rubber and ivory.
"Her work is research-based," Checinska explains. "She's sort of 'decolonizing her own mind' – and those are her words – through the deconstruction technique that she uses in her clothes," reimagining traditional styles and reinvigorating ancient materials commonly used in the pre-colonial era.
The curator says that from a purely design point of view she wants to include these two adjacent outfits in her selection for NPR. The one on the right is "exquisite," she says. "The proportion of the long jacket against the shift dress underneath, it's just wonderful fashion." On the blue dress on the left, meanwhile, Checinska highlighted elements drawn from a Nigerian masquerade tradition known as Egungun, pointing to the rows of multi-colored tassels attached to the front of the dark blue dress that create the kind of kaleidoscope effect found on the costumes worn by individuals in a community who act out the role of departed ancestors during ceremonies — a practice that continues in parts of West Africa and diasporas in the Caribbean and Brazil.
Imane Ayissi is a bold Cameroonian trailblazer in Paris
Ayissi is the first Black designer from sub-Saharan African to be included in the annual calendar of haute couture fashion shows, the founder of an eponymous Paris studio that melds traditional artisanal techniques from African countries – including Cameroon, Nigeria and Ghana – with cuts and designs that garnered critical acclaim from Milan to New York. A former ballet dancer and model who once graced catwalks for fashion giants like Givenchy and Valentino, he has sought to encourage an industry in his native Cameroon that produces various types of local textiles, like the raffia derived from palm leaves seen in this bold, backless pink design that wraps around the wearer.
In an interview with NPR, Ayissi emphasized how important local fashion is in Africa, that he wants it to become "a force that functions properly" on the international stage and that the exhibition would help to "educate" people about the continent.
A luxurious combo of past and present from Kofi Ansah
The Ghanaian designer studied at the Chelsea Art School in the U.K. before returning to his homeland, designing clothes with an emphasis on "luxury" as well as "exacting standards and attention to detail," Checinska says. His glittering jacket and shorts set with blue and white floral trim atop delicate buckled shoes (second from the left in the photo below) were first displayed at the Ivory Coast's embassy in London in the late 1980s and encapsulated an effort by the designer to bring the past — the printed fabrics, the ruffled neckline — with him into the new, the curator says, with the sequins and female shorts.
Throughout his career Ansah, who died in 2014, worked to mentor young talent back in Ghana, famously instructing them that, " 'West is not always best, inspiration is all around you,' " Checinska explains, quoting a phrase Ansah used. "There's a sense in which that feels part and parcel of what this show is, also."
Willem Marx is a London-based journalist.
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El Paso Walmart shooting suspect to plead guilty to federal charges
EL PASO, Texas (AP) — The man accused of killing nearly two dozen people in a racist attack at an El Paso Walmart plans to plead guilty to federal charges in the case, according to court records filed days after the federal government said it wouldn’t seek the death penalty in the case.
Patrick Crusius is still charged in state court with capital murder and could still face the death penalty in Texas if convicted in the 2019 mass shooting that killed 23 people.
In a court filing Saturday, defense attorneys asked for a hearing to be set so Crusius could plead guilty to federal charges. He was charged with federal hate crimes and firearms violations.
U.S. District Judge David Guaderrama, in an order Monday, set the hearing for Feb. 8 in El Paso.
Crusius surrendered to police after the attack, saying, “I’m the shooter,” and that he was targeting Mexicans, according to an arrest warrant. Prosecutors have said he published a screed online shortly before the shooting that said it was “in response to the Hispanic invasion of Texas.”
The Aug. 3, 2019, shooting happened on a busy weekend day at a Walmart that is typically popular with shoppers from Mexico and the U.S. In addition to those who died, more than two dozen were injured. Many were citizens of Mexico.
El Paso is a largely Hispanic city that forms an international metro area with Ciudad Juarez with more than 2 million people. On the U.S. side, suburbs stretch into New Mexico.
Although the federal and state cases have progressed along parallel tracks, it’s unclear when Crusius might face trial on state charges. A status hearing in the state case was scheduled for Wednesday afternoon, according to court records.
The district attorney who had been leading the state case, Yvonne Rosales, resigned in November over accusations of incompetence involving hundreds of cases in El Paso and slowing down the case against Crusius. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott last month appointed a new district attorney to “restore confidence” in the local criminal justice system.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2023-01-24T14:46:56+00:00 | newschannel6now.com | https://www.newschannel6now.com/2023/01/24/el-paso-walmart-shooting-suspect-plead-guilty-federal-charges/ |
The White House said Thursday that Iranian troops are “directly engaged on the ground” in Crimea supporting Russian drone attacks on Ukraine's power stations and other key infrastructure, claiming it has troubling evidence of Tehran's deepening role assisting Russia as it exacts suffering on Ukrainian civilians just as the cold weather sets in.
National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters that Iran has sent a “relatively small number” of personnel to Crimea, a part of Ukraine unilaterally annexed by Russia in contravention of international law in 2014, to assist Russian troops in launching Iranian-made drones against Ukraine. Members of a branch of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps were dispatched to assist Russian forces in using the drones, according to the British government.
The revelation of the U.S. intelligence finding comes as the Biden administration seeks to mount international pressure on Tehran to pull back from helping Russia as it bombards soft Ukrainian civilian targets with the help of Iranian-made drones.
The Russians in recent days have increasingly turned to the Iranian-supplied drones, as well as Kalibr and Iskander cruise missiles, to carry out a barrage of attacks against Ukrainian infrastructure and non-military targets. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said this week that Russian forces have destroyed 30% of Ukraine’s power stations since Oct. 10.
“The information we have is that the Iranians have put trainers and tech support in Crimea, but it’s the Russians who are doing the piloting," Kirby said.
He added that the Biden administration was looking at imposing new sanctions on Tehran and would look for ways to make it harder for Iran to sell such weapons to Russia.
The U.S. first revealed this summer that Russia was purchasing Iranian unmanned aerial vehicles to launch against Ukraine. Iran has denied selling its munitions to Russia.
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White House officials say that international sanctions, including export controls, have left the Russians in a bind as they try to restock ammunition and precision-guided munition stocks that have been depleted during the nearly eight-month-old war. As a result, Russia has been forced to turn to Iran as well as North Korea for weaponry.
Air Force Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder, the Pentagon press secretary, told reporters that military officials “wouldn’t be surprised” if the Russians sought more drones from Iran “given their situation.”
Zelenskyy said last week that Russia had ordered 2,400 from Iran.
U.S. officials believe that Iran may have deployed military personnel to assist the Russians in part because of the Russians' lack of familiarity with the Iranian-made drones. Declassified U.S. intelligence findings showed that Russians faced technical problems with the drones soon after taking delivery of them in August.
“The systems themselves were suffering failures and not performing to the standards that apparently the customers expected,” Kirby said. “So the Iranians decided to move in some trainers and some technical support to help the Russians use them with better lethality.”
The Biden administration released further details about Iran's involvement in assisting Russia's war at a sensitive moment. The administration has levied new sanctions against Iran over the brutal crackdown on antigovernment protests spurred by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who died in Iranian security custody.
Morality police had detained Amini last month for not properly covering her hair with the Islamic headscarf, known as the hijab, which is mandatory for Iranian women. Amini collapsed at a police station and died three days later.
Her death and the subsequent unrest have come as the administration tries to bring Iran back into compliance with the nuclear deal that was brokered by the Obama administration and scrapped by the Trump administration.
At the United Nations this week, Ukraine accused Iran of violating a Security Council ban on the transfer of drones capable of flying 300 kilometers (180 miles). Britain, France and the U.S. strongly back Ukraine’s contention that the drones were transferred to Russia and violate a 2015 U.N. Security Council resolution that endorsed the nuclear deal between Iran and six nations — the U.S., Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany — aimed at curbing Tehran’s nuclear activities and preventing the country from developing a nuclear weapon.
Kirby said the administration has little hope for reviving the Iran nuclear deal soon.
“We’re not focused on the on the diplomacy at this point,” Kirby said. “What we are focused on is making sure that we’re holding the regime accountable for the way they’re treating peaceful protesters in their country and supporting those protesters.”
The White House spoke out about Iranian assistance to Russia as Britain on Thursday announced new sanctions on Iranian officials and businesses accused of supplying the drones.
“These cowardly drone strikes are an act of desperation,” British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said in a statement. “By enabling these strikes, these individuals and a manufacturer have caused the people of Ukraine untold suffering. We will ensure that they are held to account for their actions.”
Among the individuals hit with asset freezes and travel bans by the British were Maj. Gen. Mohammad Hossein Bagheri, chairman of the armed forces general staff overseeing the army branches supplying Russia with drones; Brig. Gen. Seyed Hojjatollah Qureishi, a key Iranian negotiator in the deal; and Brig. Gen. Saeed Aghajani, the head the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Aerospace Force UAV Command.
Shahed Aviation Industries, the Iranian manufacturer of the drones being used by Russia, was also hit by an asset freeze. | 2022-10-21T05:46:09+00:00 | nbcchicago.com | https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/iranian-troops-directly-engaged-in-crimea-supporting-russia-us-says/2973675/ |
CHANHASSEN, Minn., April 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Life Time Group Holdings, Inc. ("Life Time" or the "Company") (NYSE: LTH) today announced that its financial results for first quarter 2023 will be released before market open on Tuesday, April 25, 2023. The Company will host a conference call at 10:00 a.m. ET to discuss the financial results and provide a business update.
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LAS VEGAS — New England coach Bill Belichick uttered the same word 10 times during a postgame press conference that lasted a little more than four minutes.
“Mistake.”
It summed up the Patriots’ 30-24 loss to the Las Vegas Raiders on Sunday, with by far the biggest miscue coming on the final play of the game.
After falling behind 17-3 at halftime, the Patriots scored 21 unanswered points to take a 24-17 lead with less than four minutes remaining.
But Las Vegas — which came in 0-4 when leading by double digits at halftime, the first team since at least 1930 to lose four times in a season when leading by double digits at the half — answered with a pair of touchdowns in the final 37 seconds.
“Collectively made too many mistakes and gave up some big plays that were obviously the difference in the game,” Belichick said.
One mistake in particular handed the Raiders the win and knocked the Patriots (7-7) out of playoff position in the AFC.
With the game tied, New England running back Rhamondre Stevenson gained 23 yards on the final play before pitching the ball to wide receiver Jakobi Meyers, who then backtracked before heaving it toward quarterback Mac Jones. Raiders defensive end Chandler Jones snagged the ball, stiff-armed Mac Jones and raced 48 yards for the walk-off win.
“Obviously we made a mistake on it,” Belichick added. “Made a mistake on the play.”
Both Stevenson and Meyers took responsibility, with each saying it was their job to take a knee and send the game to overtime.
“The play call was just a draw play — nothing more, nothing less than that,” Stevenson said. “I’m supposed to know the situation. I’m supposed to know how much time is on the clock in critical situations and I failed to do that today.”
Stevenson said the play started with him, and had he never pitched the ball to Meyers, the ensuing touchdown would have never taken place.
Meyers said he was the one trying to be a hero by extending the play.
“That ain’t his fault. He gave me the ball, I got to be smart with it,” Meyers said. “I thought I saw Mac open. I didn’t see Chandler Jones at the time. Just thought he was open, tried to get it to him, then let him try to make a play with it. But the score was tied, so like I said, I should have just laid down.”
Belichick pointed to plenty of mistakes earlier in the game.
A bad snap resulted in a blocked punt. A false start led to a New England punt with just over two minutes left. And the Patriots allowed the Raiders to convert a fourth-and-10 on their tying drive.
“Obviously we’ve got to do a better job playing situational football and not make critical mistakes in the game,” Belichick said. “We need to try to eliminate all the mistakes that we made. You just can’t do this in this league. Got to work to eliminate those and continue to play the good football that we play, but we just had too many mistakes and too many bad plays to win. That was obvious.” | 2022-12-19T19:35:58+00:00 | newscentermaine.com | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/sports/nfl/patriots/disastrous-last-play-sums-up-day-of-mistakes-by-new-angland-patriots-raiders-last-play-jakobi-meyers-mac-jones-chandler-jones/97-d5964cee-a96d-404a-af02-b95919cb0098 |
President Biden signs bills tackling COVID-19 relief fraud into law
President Joe Biden signed into law two bipartisan bills on Friday aimed at holding accountable individuals who commit fraud under pandemic relief programs.
The two new laws will extend the time period prosecutors have to prosecute individuals who committed fraud through the Paycheck Protection Program or COVID-19 Economic Injury Disaster Loan program, extending the statute of limitations for criminal and civil enforcement against a borrower to 10 years.
During a signing event held on the balcony of the White House on Friday, Biden underscored that it was "essential to extend the statute of limitations for certain pandemic fraud ... to 10 years to make sure fraudsters can't run out the clock."
"My message to those cheats out there is this: You can't hide. We're going to find you. We're going to make you pay back what you stole and hold you accountable under the law," the President said.
In his remarks, Biden squarely blamed his predecessor, former President Donald Trump, for failing to promote safeguards against defrauding COVID-19 economic relief programs.
"Not only did the Trump administration let the biggest businesses with the teams of lawyers and accountants to the front of the line, my predecessor undermined the watchdogs who were supposed to be on the job to make sure relief went to the mom and pop businesses that were supposed to get in the first place," said Biden, who was delivering remarks outdoors due to a rebound positive case of COVID-19. "In my State of the Union address, I made it clear: The watchdogs are back."
"American people deserve to know whether their tax dollars are being spent as intended," he said.
Along with calling on Congress to pass extensions of the statutes of limitation, the White House has pointed out that the President has also called for additional penalties for those who commit fraud on COVID-19 benefits and signed an executive order focused on identity theft in pandemic relief programs.
In the years since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, federal prosecutors have continued to identify fraud related to pandemic relief funds.
The U.S. Secret Service has seized more than a billion dollars in relief funds obtained by fraudsters and, in December, tapped a senior official to work with law enforcement agencies across the country on the issue.
In April, federal prosecutors charged 21 people for allegedly seeking to defraud government health care programs of $149 million through a variety of pandemic-related scams, including selling fake COVID-19 vaccination cards and submitting claims for unnecessary medical tests. | 2022-08-05T21:39:56+00:00 | kcra.com | https://www.kcra.com/article/covid-19-fraud-bills-biden/40821543 |
Pakistan blocks national release of ‘Joyland,’ a story of sexual liberation
By Tara Subramaniam and Sophia Saifi, CNN
Pakistan’s government has blocked the nationwide release of “Joyland,” the first Pakistani movie shown at the Cannes Film Festival, just one week before it was due to hit theaters in the South Asian country.
“Joyland” tells a love story between the youngest son of “a happily patriarchal joint family” and a transgender starlet he meets after secretly joining an erotic dance theater, according to a synopsis on the Cannes Film Festival website.
In August, the country’s Central Board of Film Censors (CBFC) granted a certificate allowing the movie to be released, but on Friday Pakistan’s Ministry of Information and Broadcasting issued a notice saying it was now “uncertified.”
The official notice said written complaints had been received that the movie contains “highly objectional material” that does not conform with the “social values and moral standards of our society.”
The ministry’s notice said cinemas that fall under the CBFC’s jurisdiction cannot show the movie.
“Joyland” won the Un Certain Regard Jury Prize and the unofficial Queer Palm at Cannes in May. It was then submitted to the Oscars as Pakistan’s official entry for the international feature film award. However, it needs to be in theaters for at least seven days before November 30 to remain in contention for the awards.
Despite being banned from release in Pakistan, “Joyland” could still qualify in this category if it is “theatrically exhibited outside of the U.S. and its territories for at least seven consecutive days in a commercial motion picture theater for paid admission,” according to the official Academy rules.
Public outcry
On Tuesday, a close aide to Pakistan’s Prime Minister tweeted that a “high level committee” was assessing the complaints against Joyland and reviewing its ban.
“The committee will assess the complaints as well as merits to decide on its release in Pakistan,” said adviser Salman Sufi.
The review comes after the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan released a statement on Sunday, condemning the government’s withdrawal of certification for “Joyland” as “rabidly transphobic” and a violation of the movie producers’ right to freedom of expression.
“Pakistan’s audiences have the right to decide what they will watch,” the statement said.
Saim Sadiq, the movie’s director, argued in a post on Instagram that the ministry’s reversal was “absolutely unconstitutional and illegal,” and urged them to reconsider.
“Return the right of our citizens to be able to watch the film that has made their country’s cinema proud world over,” Sadiq wrote.
“Our film got seen and certified by all three censor boards in August 2022. The 18th amendment in the Pakistani constitution gives all of provinces the autonomy to make their own decision. Yet the Ministry suddenly caved under pressure from a few extremist factions — who have not seen the film — and made a mockery of our federal censor board by rendering their decision irrelevant.”
The ban has sparked a public outcry and social media campaign using the hashtag #releasejoyland.
Rasti Farooq, one of the actresses in the movie, posted on Instagram supporting efforts to have it released.
“I stand by my film, and everything that it says, with every fibre of my being,” Farooq said.
Pakistani actor Humayun Saeed, who stars in the fifth season of Netflix series “The Crown,” has also weighed in.
“Joyland has made Pakistan proud by becoming the first South Asian film to win the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. It is a story of our people told by our people for our people. Hoping for it to be made accessible to these very people #ReleaseJoyland,” he tweeted.
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Nationwide Recruitment for Successor to Begin
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Therese W. McMillan, executive director of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) and the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) since 2019, notified the Commission that she will retire from both positions on January 31, 2023.
"After more than three decades of exceptional public service spanning local, regional and federal roles, including four years guiding both MTC and ABAG through some of the most difficult challenges ever to face the Bay Area, Therese has established an undisputed record of effective and committed leadership," observed MTC Chair and Napa County Supervisor Alfredo Pedroza. "The Commission is thankful for Therese's dedication to the Bay Area and our residents. Her leadership has strengthened MTC's position to continue the bold initiatives underway."
McMillan, who first joined the MTC staff in 1984 as a transportation planner, served in a series of increasingly responsible positions over the next 25 years, including nine years as MTC's Deputy Executive Director for Policy before her 2009 appointment by then-President Barack Obama to serve as Deputy Administrator of the Federal Transit Administration in the U.S. Department of Transportation. McMillan subsequently served as Acting FTA Administrator from March 2014 to March 2016 before returning to California in April 2016 as planning chief for the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. During the final six years of her original MTC tenure, McMillan also was an instructor of transportation funding and finance in the Transportation Management graduate program at San Jose State University's Mineta Transportation Institute.
"It has been a tremendous honor to serve the Commission and the ABAG Executive Board members, my wonderful staff, our numerous regional partners, and most importantly, the people of the Bay Area," said McMillan.
MTC is the transportation planning, funding and coordinating agency for the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area. ABAG is the regional planning agency for the Bay Area's nine counties and 101 cities and towns, and is recognized as the first council of governments in California. MTC will provide details on the upcoming process for recruiting a new executive director as soon as they are available.
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HONG KONG (AP) — Severe tropical storm Nalgae edged closer to Hong Kong on Wednesday and forced businesses to close, but a finance summit that's meant to restore the city's image as an international financial hub pressed ahead.
As the city braced itself, temporary shelters were opened and theme parks were closed. The Hong Kong Jockey Club scrapped the evening's horse race.
The Hong Kong Observatory raised its No. 8 typhoon signal, the third-highest warning under the city’s weather system, Wednesday afternoon as Nalgae's maximum sustained winds hit 90 kilometers (56 miles) per hour.
The warning, which prompted workers to return home, would remain in force until 6 p.m. Whether the signal would be downgraded later would hinge on the strength of the storm and its distance from the city, the observatory said.
Nalgae killed more than 130 people in the Philippines days ago before moving closer to China’s southeastern and southern coastal regions. Hong Kong, a former British colony, returned to China's rule in 1997.
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Wednesday declared a state of calamity for six months in four storm-battered regions, including in a five-province Muslim autonomous region in the south, where rescuers continue to search for more villagers feared buried in a huge mudslide in a mountainside community.
The storm, about 170 kilometers (105 miles) south-southeast of the city as of 2 p.m. (0500 GMT), was expected to bring winds with mean speeds of 63 kilometers (39 miles) per hour or more, according to the observatory in Hong Kong.
Residents are urged to stay away from the shoreline and stop going to water sport activities, the observatory added.
The government halted various public services, ranging from vaccination and driving license arrangements to child care and elderly centers. Afternoon trading at the local stock market was suspended after the signal was hoisted.
“Nalgae will weaken gradually. However, it will be very close to the vicinity of the Pearl River Estuary tonight,” the weather forecaster said.
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Associated Press writer Jim Gomez in Manila, Philippines, contributed to this report. | 2022-11-02T08:55:48+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Hong-Kong-businesses-brace-for-Tropical-Storm-17551532.php |
Ryan Coogler talks Black Panther sequel 'Wakanda Forever' Published November 26, 2022 at 5:16 PM EST Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 8:06 NPR's Eric Deggans talks with director Ryan Coogler about his latest film, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Copyright 2022 NPR | 2022-11-26T23:18:13+00:00 | mainepublic.org | https://www.mainepublic.org/2022-11-26/ryan-coogler-talks-black-panther-sequel-wakanda-forever |
LONDON (AP) — The ATP is teaming up with You Can Play, a group working to increase LGBTQ inclusion in sports, after 75% of players who participated in a survey by the men’s tennis tour said they had heard other players use homophobic slurs.
The tour announced Friday that it is launching a multiyear education partnership with You Can Play, which has worked with the NHL, MLS and NASCAR.
The ATP’s anonymous, online survey was distributed to hundreds of players last year; 65 responded. Some also agreed to be interviewed.
The ATP said its findings “indicated a strong fear of rejection, isolation from others on tour, and loneliness as being likely barriers to LGBTQ+ players publicly disclosing their sexuality to others.”
There are no openly gay athletes in men’s tennis currently.
The tour said a majority of participants “were supportive of ATP taking action to combat homophobia.”
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WCVB NEWSCENTER 5 AT 5:30. SHAUN: MANY PEOPLE ARE THINKING ABOUT THE NEW YEAR AND A NEW SURVEY SHOWS THAT NOT EVERYBODY IS WELCOME TO WELCOME 2023. JESSICA: HERE WITH SOME INSIGHT IS THAT PSYCHIATRIST AT MGH AND PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING US. >> THANK YOU. JESSICA: LET’S START WITH A STARK NUMBER FROM THIS BOWL. 37% OF AMERICANS DESCRIBED THEIR MENTAL HEALTH AS EITHER FAIR OR POOR, AND THAT’S UP FROM THE SAME TIME LAST YEAR. THAT’S UP. WE TALKED A LOT ABOUT THE MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS IN THIS COUNTRY, ESPECIALLY FOLLOWING THE PANDEMIC AND DURING THE PANDEMIC, DOES IT SURPRISE YOU THAT MORE PEOPLE ARE CONCERNED OR THESE NUMBERS AT ALL? >> IT’S NOT SURPRISING, WE KNOW HOW MUCH STRESS AMERICANS ARE UNDER, AND UNFORTUNATELY THAT COMES OUT IN THEIR VIEWS ABOUT THEIR MENTAL HEALTH. SILVER LINING IS THAT AMERICANS ARE TALKING ABOUT THEIR MENTAL HEALTH. WE’VE PUT IT ON THE NATIONAL AGENDA, AND THE FIRST STEP TOWARDS GETTING ASSISTANCE IN MAKING OUR MENTAL HEALTH BETTER IS TO BE OPEN, A FRIEND AND CANDID. >> ALWAYS HELPS TO TALK ABOUT IT. BACK TO THE POLE, ONE OF FOUR PEOPLE SAID THEY ARE EXPECTING TO FEEL MORE STRESS IN THE NEW YEAR. ARE THERE STRATEGIES THAT WE CAN WORK ON NOW IT’S A KIND OF EASE THAT A LITTLE BIT? >> THE BEST WAY TO DEAL WITH STRESS IS TO BE PREPARED FOR IT. WHAT WE CAN DO IS TRY TO PRIORITIZE AND NOT LET IT SNOW BALL ON US BY BUILDING UP IN OUR MIND, EVEN MAKING A LIST OF WHAT OUR PRIORITIES ARE AND MAKING IT MANAGEABLE SO WE CAN TACKLE IT ONE STEP AT A TIME IS A REALLY GREAT WAY TO GO INTO THE NEW YEAR STRONG. JESSICA: DESPITE THE POLE, THE NUMBERS, A LOT OF PEOPLE SAY THEY ARE MAKING PLANS TO IMPROVE THEIR MENTAL HEALTH. 65% SAID THEY’D EXERCISE MORE. 45% WANT TRY MEDITATION. A LOT OF THESE RESOLUTIONS. 38% SAID THEY’D SEE A THERAPIST, SOMETHING THAT’S BEEN REALLY CHANGING AND CHALLENGING OVER THE PAST THREE YEARS. IT’S GREAT TO MAKE RESOLUTIONS, BUT HOW CAN WE WORK TO MAINTAIN THEM OVER TIME? THAT’S ALWAYS THE TRICKY PART. >> IT SURE IS, AND WE KNOW IF IT WERE EASY TO EXERCISE EVERY DAY AND DO ALL THE THINGS THAT MAKE US HEALTHY, WE WOULD’VE DONE IT A LONG TIME AGO. SO REALLY STICKING WITH OUR NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS IS TO MAKE RESOLUTIONS THAT ARE MANAGEABLE. TO THINK ABOUT ONE STEP AT A TIME, BREAK IT DOWN, AND REMEMBER WE ARE TALKING ABOUT PROGRESS, NOT PERFECTION. IT’S EASY TO BUILD ON SMALL SUCCESSES THEN TO FEEL LIKE WE FAILED BY SETTING OUR GOAL TO RUN A MARATHON BY FEBRUARY. JESSICA: GOOD ADVICE, THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE. SHAUN: HAVE A GREAT NEW YEAR. JESSICA: TOWER VIEWERS, IF YOU HAD QUESTIONS THAT Y
Running an errand on New Year's Day? Here's what's open and closed
Updated: 4:18 PM EST Dec 31, 2022
Video above: Improving mental health in the new yearMany of us will close out 2022 with celebrations that stretch well into the wee hours of New Year's Day.But when 2023, gets underway, we'll just as likely return to familiar routines and habits — caffeine? — and even add in some new resolutions, like a morning walk or healthier eating.If that's the case, there are several grocery chains, drug stores and restaurant chains nationwide open for business on Jan. 1, 2023.But check hours of operation at your local store. Several will have modified hours and are either opening later or closing earlier on New Year's Day.Also, with Jan. 1 falling on a Sunday, for most federal employees, Monday, Jan. 2, will be treated as a paid holiday. This means post offices, government offices and banks will be closed on Monday.Stores open on New Year's DayGrocery stores:Whole FoodsSafewayAlbertsonsWegmansKrogerStop & ShopDrug stores:CVS (pharmacy hours will vary based on location)Walgreens (pharmacies closed on Jan. 1)Rite AidDiscounters:WalmartTargetBJ'sDollar GeneralFive Below (check for modified store hours)Department stores:NordstromJC PenneyKohl'sMacy'sMarshallsTJ Maxx (check for modified store hours)Home improvement and home goods stores:Lowe'sBed, Bath & BeyondIKEAWhat's closedUSPS: Local post offices will be open on New Year's Eve. Post offices will be closed on Jan. 1 and Jan. 2. Mail will not be picked up and will not be delivered.FedEx: Ground and Express services are closed on Jan. 1. On Jan. 2, ground service is open but express service is closed.Government offices are closed on Jan. 2.Banks: Most banks typically follow the federal holiday calendar. This means teller services will be closed.New York Stock Exchange closed on Jan. 2.StoresCostco closed on Jan. 1Trader Joe's closed on Jan. 1Aldi closed on Jan. 1Sam's Club closed on Jan. 1
Video above: Improving mental health in the new year
Many of us will close out 2022 with celebrations that stretch well into the wee hours of New Year's Day.
But when 2023, gets underway, we'll just as likely return to familiar routines and habits — caffeine? — and even add in some new resolutions, like a morning walk or healthier eating.
If that's the case, there are several grocery chains, drug stores and restaurant chains nationwide open for business on Jan. 1, 2023.
But check hours of operation at your local store. Several will have modified hours and are either opening later or closing earlier on New Year's Day.
Also, with Jan. 1 falling on a Sunday, for most federal employees, Monday, Jan. 2, will be treated as a paid holiday. This means post offices, government offices and banks will be closed on Monday.
Stores open on New Year's Day
Grocery stores:
Whole Foods
Safeway
Albertsons
Wegmans
Kroger
Stop & Shop
Drug stores:
CVS (pharmacy hours will vary based on location)
Walgreens (pharmacies closed on Jan. 1)
Rite Aid
Discounters:
Walmart
Target
BJ's
Dollar General
Five Below (check for modified store hours)
Department stores:
Nordstrom
JC Penney
Kohl's
Macy's
Marshalls
TJ Maxx (check for modified store hours)
Home improvement and home goods stores:
Lowe's
Bed, Bath & Beyond
IKEA
What's closed
- USPS: Local post offices will be open on New Year's Eve. Post offices will be closed on Jan. 1 and Jan. 2. Mail will not be picked up and will not be delivered.
- FedEx: Ground and Express services are closed on Jan. 1. On Jan. 2, ground service is open but express service is closed.
- Government offices are closed on Jan. 2.
- Banks: Most banks typically follow the federal holiday calendar. This means teller services will be closed.
- New York Stock Exchange closed on Jan. 2.
Stores
- Costco closed on Jan. 1
- Trader Joe's closed on Jan. 1
- Aldi closed on Jan. 1
- Sam's Club closed on Jan. 1 | 2022-12-31T23:40:07+00:00 | wxii12.com | https://www.wxii12.com/article/new-years-day-whats-open-and-closed/42373444 |
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia-U.S. relations are in a state of “unprecedented crisis” without any sign of improvement, a senior Russian diplomat said Thursday.
Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov argued that the White House’s emphasis on increasing weapons supplies to Ukraine to ensure Russia’s defeat leaves no room for diplomacy.
“I don’t see any prospect for a productive political and diplomatic process,” Ryabkov said at a briefing. “We have a very deep and unprecedented crisis in Russia-U.S. relations. The Biden administration has driven them into a deadlock.”
Ryabkov warned that the U.S. and its allies must carefully assess the risks stemming from supplying increasingly powerful Western weapons to Ukraine.
“The Americans need to thoroughly and deeply weigh the risks linked to their unabashedly cavalier course,” he said.
Ryabkov noted that Moscow doesn’t trust Western statements about self-imposed restrictions on a range of weapons supplied to Ukraine in order to avoid escalation, adding that such assurances in the past have served as cover for a steady expansion of the assortment of arms deliveries.
“We don’t see any sign of reason in any of the NATO and EU members’ capitals,” Ryabkov said. “What they are doing isn’t going to strengthen their security.”
He rejected the U.S. argument that Russia’s refusal to allow the resumption of inspections of its nuclear facilities represents a breach of the New START treaty, the last remaining nuclear arms control pact between the two countries.
The New START treaty, signed in 2010 by President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, limits each country to no more than 1,550 deployed nuclear warheads and 700 deployed missiles and bombers. The agreement envisages sweeping on-site inspections to verify compliance.
Just days before the treaty was due to expire in February 2021, Russia and the United States agreed to extend it for another five years.
Russia and the U.S. have suspended mutual inspections under New START since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, but Moscow last fall refused to allow their resumption, raising uncertainty about the pact’s future.
The U.S. State Department last week said that Russia’s refusal to allow the inspections “prevents the United States from exercising important rights under the treaty and threatens the viability of U.S.-Russian nuclear arms control.” It noted that nothing prevents Russian inspectors from conducting inspections of the U.S. facilities.
Ryabkov on Thursday insisted that Russia has continued to comply with the treaty and exchange information in accordance with it. “We adhere to the treaty and observe its provisions,” he said.
At the same time, he reaffirmed Moscow’s view that resuming inspections wasn’t possible in the current environment.
Ryabkov, who met recently with the new U.S. ambassador to Moscow, Lynne Tracy, also said that the Russian Foreign Ministry has lodged a formal complaint to the U.S. Embassy, charging that its use of social networks represented interference in Russia’s domestic affairs. | 2023-02-09T14:04:27+00:00 | wivb.com | https://www.wivb.com/news/world/ap-russian-diplomat-says-ties-with-us-in-unprecedented-crisis/ |
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — One person is dead and at least three people have been injured after a shooting in Chapel Hill, according to CBS affiliate WNCN.
The station reported those people have been taken to the hospital. The shooting forced one road to close.
Chapel Hill police, as well as the Chapel Hill Fire Department and Orange County EMS, responded to Pritchard Avenue Extension at University Garden Apartments just after 6 p.m.
Police said after arriving they found multiple people had been shot in the area, where there are apartment buildings several blocks north of the UNC-Chapel Hill campus.
According to the CBS affiliate, nearly one month ago, a teenager was killed in a shooting along the same block.
Officers have only confirmed multiple victims were injured.
They did not release the exact number of victims, genders, ages, or severity of injuries for the victims, according to WNCN.
The station said just after 9 p.m., Orange County EMS confirmed at least three people had been shot and hospitalized.
“As the investigation is early, we’re leaving it at multiple victims,” police told WNCN. “No public information currently as far as types of injuries. Pritchard Avenue Extension is closed.”
The station said UNC-Chapel Hill officials planned to send out an alert to students about the shooting.
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Couple hospitalized after driver intentionally runs them over, police say
PHOENIX (AZFamily/Gray News) - A couple in Phoenix was hospitalized after police said a driver intentionally ran them over.
Kirt Haeward and Lisa Lenahan were walking around their neighborhood Monday morning when a man intentionally hit them, according to Phoenix police.
Police said the driver who ran them over claimed the devil told him to kill several people.
The couple’s attorney Chris Goodnow said Lenahan was hit first, then the driver came back and rammed Kirt through a brick wall.
According to Goodnow, Lenahan suffered facial and ankle fractures from the incident. She is currently in a medically-induced coma because of brain bleeding.
Haeward was discharged from the hospital Wednesday afternoon. Goodnow said that, while he is in pain after breaking four ribs, Haeward is surrounded by his family and hopes Lisa can pull through.
“They’ve been separated. Kirt is dealing with his own injuries but thinking heavily of Lisa,” Goodnow said. “The two were unsuspecting that the hit was going to come.”
Goodnow said the two have been together for several years and have four kids and six grandkids between the two of them.
“It’s really a horrible tragedy,” Goodnow said. “When you look at the footage, it’s basically a small miracle they are alive right now.”
A neighbor’s surveillance camera caught the disturbing incident on video.
The driver, identified by police as 49-year-old Refugio Barraza Torres, is seen driving in the video before he slowly pulls up near the couple.
In the video, Lenahan notices the truck and turns around. At that moment the car speeds up, crashing into her. As Haeward goes to check on her, the car rams him through a brick wall.
The video shows a tire pop off as the car backs up, before speeding away.
Investigators said officers tracked a skid trail from the truck to a nearby home. Officers found Torres standing next to the truck with a missing front tire, and he was taken into custody, according to investigators.
Court documents said he told police he was having issues with his brain, and the devil told him to kill three people. Officers asked Torres if he killed three people, and he replied, “I think so,” according to court paperwork.
Torres’ wife reportedly told police he had been acting strange all week. Other family members claimed Torres was taking random medications, police said.
He now faces two counts of aggravated assault.
Goodnow said the couple didn’t know the driver and that they could seek restitution. He also said he wouldn’t be surprised if Torres faces more charges over time.
“All of a sudden, they are hospitalized with broken bones. They never wanted anything to do with this. They never asked for this,” said Goodnow.
The couple’s family has established a GoFundMe to help with medical expenses.
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MIAMI, Nov. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The MiamiWeb3 Summit announces its detailed agenda and more high-profile speakers, including leading figureheads such as Tim Draper, Founding Partner at Draper Associates, Bill Kramer, CEO of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Chuck Mounts, Chief DeFi Officer at S&P Global Ratings and John D'Agostino, Senior Advisor at Coinbase Institutional.
For the full speaker list, visit MiamiWeb3 Speakers
MiamiWeb3 is a summit that focuses on the institutional and policy aspects of Web3, blockchain and crypto ecosystems. The organizers, which include the City of Miami, Atlas, a pioneering Web3 infrastructure provider, and its parent company CTH Group, are organizing an unprecedented gathering of thought leaders and impactful voices at the crypto-focused summit for an intense exploration of Web3 trends across the economy, business, and society.
The agenda spans across three jam-packed days during speakers will "go beyond crypto to embrace Web3".
On the evening of November 28th, VIP guests are invited to join the Welcome Opening Night Reception, meet the speakers and mingle with other guests as Raymond Yuan, Founder of CTH Group and Atlas, welcomes participants to MiamiWeb3. From there, the agenda takes off, with two full days of visionary keynote speeches, challenging panel discussions and unveiling fireside chats where guests are taken on journey through four key themes that accompany the event.
Macro Takes (Nov 29th, morning)
Speakers from government, traditional finance and Web3 discuss their views on the state of the industry and where they see opportunity for future growth, covering the regulatory, financial and technological aspects, participants get a 360-degree birdseye view on everything that matters.
This section features diverse perspectives from speakers such as Francis Suarez, Mayor of Miami, Cynthia Lummis, U.S. Senator of Wymoing, Derek Devens, Managing Director and Senior Portfolio Manager at Neuberger Berman and many more.
DeFi: Beyond Crypto (Nov 29th, afternoon)
There's is much more to Web3 than crypto: there is an entire world of new financial primitives and applications waiting to be explored through DeFi. While DeFi is accessible to individuals, institutions often struggle with custody, compliance, taxation and unlocking the yields made possible through this technology.
Experts across such as Anthona Bassili, Head of Asset Allocators at Coinbase Institutional, Joel Edgerton, Head of Americas Enterprise at Ledger and Alex McDougall, CEO of Stablecorp give insights across the institutional DeFi landscape, and how to access this market.
Web2 to Web3 (Nov 30th, morning)
The transition from Web2 to Web3 is well-underway. From unlocking Bitcoin to Web3 ecosystem investment funds, participants are led through emerging Web3 technologies and the industries that are being built around them.
Industry leaders including Tim Draper, Founding Partner of Draper Associates, Trevor Owens, Managing Partner at Stacks Ventures and Brittany Laughlin, Executive Director of Stacks Open Internet Foundation break down what matters!
Embracing Web3 (Nov 30th, afternoon)
Finally, we look towards the future to "go beyond crypto and embrace Web3". Speakers look towards the future of finance and break down various Web3 innovations including DAOs, NFTs and GameFi.
Exciting speakers and panelists including Sandy Carter, SVP & Channel Chief at Unstoppable Domains, David S. Bennahum, CEO of Ready Games and many more show the opportunities and innovations available in this space!
With MiamiWeb3, Atlas and CTH Group are creating a platform where trends and pressing topics concerning Web3 can be discussed, with globally relevant participation to drive meaningful outcomes: from building out the ecosystem across all verticals to unleashing Web3's full potential with new business models to contributing to a better foundation for fair, equitable, and clean growth for the world.
CTH Group is a leading blockchain infrastructure, venture capital investment, and digital asset management company whose notable investments include Binance.US, Chainlink, Coinbase, and Polkadot. As one of the world's leading and fastest growing Web3 infrastructure companies, Atlas manages data centers worldwide, running nodes for over 100 protocols. Together they combine technical and financial infrastructure while investing ahead of trends before they manifest. At MiamiWeb3, they will be bringing together thought leaders of the Web3 ecosystem and global policy to discuss "going beyond crypto to embrace Web3".
About CTH
Headquartered in Miami, Florida (USA), the CTH Group is a leading company in blockchain infrastructure and talent that is driving the Web3 and digital asset ecosystem. Through three distinct business areas, including: blockchain infrastructure-as-a-service; venture capital investment; and digital asset management, CTH Group's unique triangular business model offers a dynamic and stable approach to this fast-moving sector.
About Atlas
Headquartered in Singapore, Atlas is a global blockchain infrastructure-as-a-service group that drives the evolution of Web3 – the next phase of the internet. The company offers a broad range of value-added services including distributed high-performance computing, node infrastructure, networking, hardware, API support and storage for the Web3 ecosystem.
Atlas is committed to being a global leading next-generation Web3 infrastructure provider that advocates sustainable growth, green energy adoption, power usage efficiency and stability to drive Web3 evolution.
Atlas operates in Asia, North America, and Europe with plans to expand in other regions. It is one of the world's largest application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) companies.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street drifted through a muted day of trading Tuesday, with stocks and bonds making modest moves ahead of reports later in the week with the potential to move markets.
The S&P 500 had its smallest one-day move in more than a year, slipping 0.17 points, or less than 0.1%, to 4,108.94. Most of the stocks in the index rose, as did the Dow Jones Industrial Average, which gained 98.27, or 0.3%, to 33,684.79. The Nasdaq composite slipped 52.48, or 0.4%, to 12,031.88.
The biggest immediate question for Wall Street has been whether the Federal Reserve will keep hiking interest rates in its attempt to get high inflation under control. It’s already raised rates at a furious pace over the last year, enough to slow some areas of the economy and for strains to appear in the banking system.
That’s why markets are gearing up for Wednesday’s report on inflation. Economists expect it to show inflation slowed to 5.2% in March from 6% in February. That would mean continued progress since inflation peaked last summer, but it would also still be well above the Fed’s target.
A reading that’s higher than expected would likely bolster traders’ expectations that the Fed will raise rates by another quarter of a percentage point at its next meeting in May. Higher rates can undercut inflation, but they also raise the risk of a recession later on and hurt prices for stocks and other investments.
Traders in the bond market have been showing nervousness about the Fed possibly going too far on rates and then having to cut them as soon as this summer in order to prop up the economy. But the stock market has remained more resilient, helped by hopes the Fed could thread the needle and raise rates just enough to stifle inflation without causing a severe recession.
“While navigating the fickle market narrative isn’t easy, it helps that rates are pricing in a more pessimistic view compared to equities, which are leaning toward a more optimistic outlook,” said Mark Haefele, chief investment officer at UBS Global Wealth Management. That’s one of the reasons he prefers high-quality bonds over stocks.
Still-high inflation is one of the reasons analysts expect this upcoming earnings reporting season to show the worst drop since the depths of the pandemic in 2020. A bunch of banks will help kick off the earnings reporting season when they tell investors on Friday how much they earned during the first three months of the year.
Besides the backwards-looking numbers, investors say they’re also hungry to hear what CEOs say about current and upcoming conditions. One fear is that banks in particular could pull back on their lending following all the turmoil in their sector, caused in part by the past year’s swift leap in interest rates.
If they do cut off lending to businesses, that could further slow the economy and raise the risk of a recession.
CarMax jumped 9.6% after reporting stronger profit than analysts expected for its latest fiscal quarter, which ended Feb. 28. It had the biggest gain within the S&P 500, and stocks in industries whose profits are most closely tied to the economy’s strength generally rose.
On the losing end was Moderna, which fell 3.1% after it said its potential flu vaccine needs more study in a late-stage clinical trial.
Big Tech stocks were also weak. They and other high-growth stocks are seen as the most hurt by rising interest rates, and a 2.3% drop for Microsoft was the heaviest drag on the S&P 500.
In markets abroad, stocks rose modestly across much of Europe.
In Asia, stocks jumped 1.4% in Seoul after the Bank of Korea left its policy interest rate unchanged for a second straight meeting. It’s one of many regional central that are now slowing or reversing rate increases due to signs of weakness in the economy.
In the bond market, yields were holding relatively steady. The 10-year Treasury yield was holding firm at 3.42%. It helps set rates for mortgages and other important loans.
The two-year yield, which more closely tracks expectations for the Fed, ticked up to to 4.02% from 4.01% late Monday. ___
AP Business Writers Elaine Kurtenbach and Matt Ott contributed. | 2023-04-12T00:13:35+00:00 | keloland.com | https://www.keloland.com/business/ap-business/asian-shares-mostly-higher-after-mixed-day-on-wall-street/ |
The Washington Wizards are continuing their busy offseason.
The Wizards are sending 12-time All-Star guard Chris Paul to the Golden State Warriors in exchange for guard Jordan Poole, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. The Wizards will also receive a protected 2030 first-round pick and a 2027 second-round pick from Golden State in the deal.
Thursday’s trade comes hours before the 2023 NBA Draft and is the latest move for the Wizards, who are looking to retool their roster under new team president Michael Winger. Washington’s first big move was trading star Bradley Beal to the Phoenix Suns in exchange for Paul, Landry Shamet and draft capital.
Around midnight Thursday, the team then sent ex-Knicks forward Kristaps Porzingis to the Boston Celtics in a three-team deal. The Wizards acquired guard Tyus Jones from Memphis and forwards Mike Muscala and Danilo Gallinari (another former Knick) along with a 2023 second-round pick from Boston.
Paul averaged 13.9 points and 8.9 assists per game with the Suns last season. But a groin injury kept him out of the final four games of Phoenix’s second-round playoff loss to the eventual NBA champion Denver Nuggets.
The veteran guard will likely play behind star Stephen Curry and take a reserve role with the Warriors in his 19th season.
The five-time assist champion has an expiring $30 million dollar contract, which probably looks more appealing to the four years and $140 million left on Poole’s deal that he agreed to before the start of last season. The Warriors removed a big chunk of guaranteed money off their books and now will look to possible negations with forward Draymond Green, who is a key contributor to the team’s dynasty. Green declined his player option earlier this week and will test free agency.
Poole averaged a career-high in points (20.4) last season and that number could rise with him being the top scoring option in Washington. He also averaged 4.5 assists and 2.7 rebounds in 82 games with the Warriors last season.
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NEW YORK — Breanna Stewart scored 25 of her 33 points in the first half, Jonquel Jones had 19 points and 13 rebounds and the New York Liberty beat the Atlanta Dream 95-84 on Thursday night.
Atlanta began the second half on a 10-2 run, capped by Allisha Gray’s 3-pointer, to pull to 59-52. New York only scored 16 points in the third quarter as its lead was trimmed to 73-66.
But the Liberty went ahead by double figures for good after scoring nine straight points to begin the fourth. Sabrina Ionescu made it 92-78 after her fourth 3-pointer with 2:58 remaining.
Stewart, who reached 30 points for the fourth time this season, also had 12 rebounds and five assists for New York (18-5). Ionescu finished with 12 points and nine assists. Betnijah Laney scored 12 of her 14 points in the fourth quarter.
Gray scored 18 points of her 25 points in the first half for Atlanta (13-11). Aari McDonald added 18 points. Rhyne Howard and Cheyenne Parker each had 10 points.
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Moderna on Thursday asked U.S. regulators to authorize low doses of its COVID-19 vaccine for children younger than 6, a long-awaited move toward potentially opening shots for millions of tots by summer.
Frustrated families are waiting impatiently for a chance to protect the nation’s littlest kids as all around them people shed masks and other public health precautions -- even though highly contagious coronavirus mutants continue to spread.
Moderna submitted data to the Food and Drug Administration that it hopes will prove two low-dose shots can protect babies, toddlers and preschoolers -- albeit not as effectively during the omicron surge as earlier in the pandemic.
“There is an important unmet medical need here with these youngest kids,” Dr. Paul Burton, Moderna's chief medical officer, told The Associated Press. Two kid-size shots “will safely protect them. I think it is likely that over time they will need additional doses. But we're working on that.”
Now, only children ages 5 or older can be vaccinated in the U.S., using rival Pfizer’s vaccine, leaving 18 million younger tots unprotected.
Moderna's vaccine isn't the only one in the race. Pfizer is soon expected to announce if three of its even smaller-dose shots work for the littlest kids, months after the disappointing discovery that two doses weren’t quite strong enough.
Whether it’s one company’s shots or both, FDA vaccine chief Dr. Peter Marks said the agency will “move quickly without sacrificing our standards” in deciding if tot-sized doses are safe and effective.
While questions are swirling about what's taking so long, Marks pointedly told lawmakers this week that the FDA can't evaluate a product until a manufacturer completes its application. FDA will publicly debate the evidence with its scientific advisers before making a decision, and Marks said multiple meetings would be set to cover several expected applications.
“It’s critically important that we have the proper evaluation so that parents will have trust in any vaccines that we authorize,” Marks told a Senate committee.
If FDA clears vaccinations for the littlest, next the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention would have to recommend who needs them -- all tots or just those at higher risk from COVID-19.
Many parents are desperate for whichever vaccine gets to the scientific finish line first.
“We’ve been kind of left behind as everybody else moves on,” said Meagan Dunphy-Daly, a Duke University marine biologist whose 6-year-old daughter is vaccinated -- but whose 3-year-old and 18-month-old sons are part of Pfizer’s trial.
The family continues to mask and take other precautions until it’s clear if the boys got real vaccine or dummy shots. If it turns out they weren't protected in the Pfizer study and Moderna's shots are cleared first, Dunphy-Daly said she'd seek them for her sons.
“I will feel such a sense of relief when I know my boys are vaccinated and that the risk of them getting a serious infection is so low,” she said.
Some parents even have urged the government to let families choose shots before all the evidence is in.
“This strain of COVID feels almost impossible to dodge," Dana Walker, a mother of an 8-month-old, tearfully told a CDC meeting last week. “Cut red tape and allow parents to protect their kids.”
The FDA will face some complex questions.
In a study of kids ages 6 months through 5 years, two Moderna shots — each a quarter of the regular dose — triggered high levels of virus-fighting antibodies, the same amount proven to protect young adults, Burton said. There were no serious side effects, and the shots triggered fewer fevers than other routine vaccinations.
But the vaccine proved between about 40% and 50% effective at preventing symptomatic COVID-19 during the trial. Burton blamed the omicron variant's ability to partially evade vaccine immunity, noting that unboosted adults showed similarly less effectiveness against milder omicron infections. While no children became severely ill during the study, he said high antibody levels are a proxy for protection against more serious illness — and the company will test a child booster dose.
Another issue: So far in the U.S., Moderna's vaccine is restricted to adults. Other countries have expanded the shot to kids as young as 6. But months ago the FDA cited concern about a rare side effect, heart inflammation, in teen boys, and it hasn't ruled on Moderna's earlier pediatric applications.
Burton said the FDA may consider its vaccine for children of all ages — but also might open it first to the youngest kids who have no other option. He said safety data from millions of older children given Moderna vaccinations abroad should help reassure parents.
While COVID-19 generally isn’t as dangerous in youngsters as adults, some do become severely ill or even die. About 475 children younger than 5 have died from COVID-19 since the pandemic’s start, according to the CDC, and child hospitalizations soared at omicron's peak.
Yet it’s not clear how many parents intend to vaccinate the youngest kids. Less than a third of children ages 5 to 11 have had two vaccinations, and 58% of those ages 12 to 17. | 2022-04-28T13:42:19+00:00 | wgrz.com | https://www.wgrz.com/article/news/nation-world/moderna-children-covid-vaccine/507-f22c8047-4181-421a-8218-d52dd058f599 |
BEIJING (AP) — Honduras formed diplomatic ties with China on Sunday after breaking off relations with Taiwan, which is increasingly isolated and now recognized by only 13 sovereign states, including Vatican City.
Foreign ministers from China and Honduras signed a joint communique in Beijing — a decision the Chinese Foreign Ministry hailed as “the right choice."
The new ties come amid rising tensions between Beijing and the United States, including over China's increasing assertiveness toward self-ruled Taiwan, and signal growing Chinese influence in Latin America. The new China-Honduras relationship was announced after the Honduran and Taiwanese governments made separate announcements that they were severing ties.
The Honduran Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Twitter that its government recognizes “only one China in the world” and that Beijing “is the only legitimate government that represents all of China.”
It added that “Taiwan is an inalienable part of Chinese territory, and as of today, the Honduran government has informed Taiwan of the severance of diplomatic relations, pledging not to have any official relationship or contact with Taiwan.”
Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu told a news conference Sunday that Taiwan had ended its relations with Honduras to “safeguard its sovereignty and dignity."
Wu said that Honduran President Xiomara Castro and her team always had a “fantasy” about China and had raised the issue of switching ties before the presidential election in Honduras in 2021. Relations between Taiwan and Honduras were once stable, he said, but China had not stopped luring Honduras.
The Honduran administration had asked Taiwan for billions of dollars of aid and compared its proposals with China's, Wu said, as he detailed the work Taiwan had done to help develop its former ally.
“The Castro government dismissed our nation's longstanding assistance and relations and carried out talks to form diplomatic ties with China. Our government feels pained and regretful,” he said.
Taiwan's presidential office spokesperson Olivia Lin said in a statement that relations between both sides had lasted for more than 80 years.
“China has suppressed Taiwan's international space for long and unilaterally endangers the region's peace and stability,” she was quoted saying in the statement.
Analysts have warned over the implications of the newly formed ties between China and Honduras. Political analyst Graco Pérez in Honduras said Beijing's narrative would highlight the benefits, including investment and job creation, “but that is all going to be illusory."
Pérez noted that some other countries have established such relations, but “it didn’t turn out to be what had been offered.”
For decades China has funneled billions of dollars into investment and infrastructure projects across Latin America. That investment has translated to rising power for China and a growing number of allies.
In Honduras, it has come in the form of construction of a hydroelectric dam project in central Honduras built by the Chinese company SINOHYDRO with about $300 million in Chinese government financing.
Honduras is the ninth diplomatic ally that Taipei has lost to Beijing since pro-independence President Tsai Ing-wen first took office in May 2016.
China and Taiwan have been locked in a battle for diplomatic recognition since the sides split amid civil war in 1949, with Beijing spending billions to win recognition for its “one China” policy.
China claims Taiwan is part of its territory, to be brought under its control by force if necessary, and refuses most contacts with countries that maintain formal ties with the island democracy. It threatens retaliation against countries merely for increasing contacts.
Taiwan still has ties with Belize, Paraguay and Guatemala in Latin America, and Vatican City. Most of its remaining partners are island nations in the Caribbean and South Pacific, along with Eswatini in southern Africa.
Tsai is set to begin a 10-day trip on Wednesday with visits to Guatemala and Belize. Her delegation will also stop in New York and Los Angeles, Lin said last week. Taiwan's Vice Foreign Minister Alexander Yui earlier said the purpose of Tsai's trip is to highlight the island's friendship with the two Latin American countries.
Despite China’s campaign of isolation, Taiwan retains robust informal ties with more than 100 other countries, most importantly the United States. The U.S. doesn’t have diplomatic relations with Taiwan but has maintained that Taipei is an important partner in the Indo-Pacific.
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RICHMOND, Va., Aug. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- 37th Parallel Properties ("37th Parallel"), a Richmond, VA-based multifamily real estate investment firm, is pleased to announce the recent acquisition of The Heights of Cityview, a 344-unit, 1998-built multifamily asset located in Fort Worth, Texas on behalf of their investors and joint venture partners. This marks the firm's seventh (7) acquisition in the Dallas-Fort Worth metro and twenty-seventh (27) in Texas, investing over $525 million in the state since its inception.
"We are excited to expand our Dallas-Fort Worth footprint with The Heights of Cityview acquisition, an institutional-quality asset in one of the fastest growing Fort Worth submarkets," said Dan Chamberlain, Managing Partner. "With its affordable cost of living, business-friendly climate, and record in-migration, Dallas-Fort Worth has become a top choice for corporate relocations and expansions, driving robust population and job growth. The property is strategically located in Southwest Fort Worth near the Chisholm Trail Parkway, a $1.4 billion tollway connecting the Benbrook suburbs with downtown Fort Worth. This tollway has transformed the submarket, giving residents the ability to commute within minutes to some of the city's largest economic centers," says Chamberlain.
The property features a mix of one-, two-, and three-bedroom units with large floorplans averaging 984 square feet. The all-brick construction, low-density, and direct access garages provide a neighborhood feel. Apartment and community amenities include nine and ten-foot ceilings, 116 direct-access garages, renovated leasing center, clubhouse, and fitness center, as well as a resort-style pool with poolside putting green.
"The Heights of Cityview acquisition marks a continuation of our thematic investment strategy focused on acquiring institutional, core-plus, low-density product located in dynamic submarkets within the South and Southeast's leading growth markets," said Doug Fraser, who heads the acquisition efforts for the firm. "The property has experienced significant rental growth as demand for high-quality, low-density, garden product has quickly outpaced supply, in large part due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and expanded work from home policies. We look forward to continuing to expand our presence in the Dallas-Fort Worth metro as we look for attractive opportunities amid market volatility," says Fraser.
The asset will benefit from floating-rate agency debt, arranged by Cutt Ableson of Berkadia. The property will be managed on-site by RPM Living, founded in Austin, which manages over 112,000 units nationwide. 37th Parallel extends its appreciation to Taylor Hill of Institutional Property Advisors, who represented the Seller in the transaction.
37th Parallel Properties is a privately held, multifamily real estate investment firm based in Richmond, VA. Founded in 2008, 37th Parallel has acquired and managed over 6,100 units and completed transactions totaling more than $950 million across the Southeast and Texas, all while maintaining a 100% profitable track record for its family of high net worth, family office, and institutional investors.
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ATLANTA, Feb. 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- 360Imaging, the industry-leading provider of products and services for digital dentistry, is proud to announce a new name as of February 2023, 3Sixty, as well as a renewed focus on raising business awareness for its clients, designed by its team and key speakers.
3Sixty has been leading the industry of computer-guided surgery for more than 15 years, offering a wide range of innovative solutions to professionals and their patients. Now, the company is focusing on how they can help their clients grow their businesses through a new connection strategy.
"3Sixty doesn't only sells products and services, but our main focus is in providing experience to our customers. We don't only believe in pushing our limits to raise the standards of care and offering innovative dental solutions through our in-house dentists and CAD team, but we push in creating business awareness for our dentists to help increase revenue to help them recession-proof their businesses and ensure our doctors are covered to escalate their business even during an industry slowdown," said CEO Ayman Abouhend.
Through personalized connection with 3Sixty and its dentists, the company is using business webinars to help its clients grow their business awareness through educational webinars that will be held every quarter. In the webinars, keynote speakers that are industry experts will speak to the dentists, offering their best advice for raising business awareness, increasing revenue, and navigating the economic crisis.
3Sixty's new focus will help enhance the customer experience by providing a personalized journey.
Partnering with 3Sixty provides its clients with the unique 3Sixty experience, including:
- Educational programs
- Treatment planning by specialized in-house 3Sixty doctors
- Customization for every case sent to us
- Designs by the CAD Team, dedicated to perfecting your case
- Innovative products like the Anatomic Guides
"Our mission is to provide comprehensive services and needs-based solutions for our clients while offering a smooth, optimized, and valuable workflow for our partners," Abouhend said.
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3Sixty is a pioneer in the world of implantology and digital dentistry. Based in Atlanta, Georgia, we provide a range of unique products and services to implant professionals and their patients.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Fordham will honor the memories of alumnus and longtime high school basketball scout Tom Konchalski and The Associated Press' Hall of Fame basketball writer Jim O'Connell with a tournament at the school's Rose Hill Gym in the Bronx.
The school announced this week that the games played Saturday through Tuesday — featuring the Rams, Holy Cross, Illinois-Chicago and Stonehill — will be the first Tom Konchalski Classic. The tournament's most valuable player will receive the Jim O'Connell MVP Trophy.
Konchalski graduated from Fordham in 1968 and died in February 2021 at age 74 after a long bout with cancer. For nearly four decades, Konchalski published High School Basketball Illustrated, a voluminous newsletter filled with insight and scouting reports about players from around the country. The newsletter was never published online, only printed, and was mailed to college coaches at all levels of college basketball.
O'Connell was sports information director at Fordham from 1976-78 before beginning a four-decade career with AP. He covered every NCAA men's Final Four from 1979-2017 and was given the Curt Gowdy Award from the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2002.
He was also inducted into the United States Basketball Writers Association’s Hall of Fame that year. He died in 2018 at the age of 64 after a long illness.
O'Connell was married for 37 years to Anne Gregory, the leading scorer and rebounder in Fordham women’s basketball history and the first female inductee into the school’s athletic hall of fame.
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Aliyah Boston had 21 points and 11 rebounds, Zia Cooke scored 10 of her 20 points during a 16-0 second-quarter rally and top-ranked South Carolina pulled away in the fourth quarter to rout Kentucky 95-66 on Thursday night.
After battling back to win at Mississippi State on Sunday, the Gamecocks (17-0, 5-0 Southeastern Conference) overcame another road challenge from the Wildcats to retain a share of first place in the conference.
Kentucky’s 16-1 run over the first and second quarters provided a 31-21 lead with 5:27 left in the half and a huge dose of confidence against the reigning national champions. But South Carolina quickly seized momentum. Boston, who was 9-of-11 shooting, responded with a jumper and Cooke added a 3-pointer, a three-point play and two layups during the surge to lead 37-33 at the break.
“It was just me playing my role and letting the game come to me and just being ready when the ball does come to me,” said Cooke, who made 8-of-14 shots from the field with five layups. “We’ve been down before, the game is full of highs and lows at times. We just continued to keep our pace and do what we do.”
The Gamecocks maintained a small cushion after three quarters before going 13 of 17 from the floor in the fourth to pull away.
Maddie Scherr scored a career-high 25 points with five 3s for the Wildcats (8-9, 0-4), who fell to their second top-10 opponent this week. Kentucky lost 67-48 to now-No. 5 LSU on Sunday at Rupp Arena.
Jada Walker added 17 points and Robyn Benton 10 for Kentucky, which shot 42% but was outrebounded just 35-29 by the taller Gamecocks.
“I just went in and tried to talk to them about the positives,” Kentucky coach Kyra Elzy said. “For three quarters against the No. 1 team in the country, you showed what you were made of. They made the run in the fourth, we can learn from that.”
South Carolina nearly doubled Kentucky in scoring in the paint (62-32) on the way to shooting a season-high 64% (35 of 55). Kamilla Cardoso added 12 points and Laeticia Amihere 11 as the Gamecocks also dominated bench scoring 39-10.
Thursday was the teams’ first meeting since Kentucky upset the top-seeded Gamecocks 64-62 to win the SEC Tournament title. South Carolina went on to win its second national title and hasn’t looked back, though it entered the contest in a four-way tie atop the league.
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South Carolina: A double-digit deficit didn’t faze the Gamecocks, who had plenty of time to regroup and use their size and speed to reclaim the lead. Cooke sparked the rally and contributed key plays whenever needed to help her team survive another road test. Red-hot shooting also helped, as they surpassed their 63% accuracy against Auburn.
“Sometimes you’ve just got to let things play out,” coach Dawn Staley said of the pivotal run. “I just wanted to take Kentucky’s best punch and see how we’d respond to it. …. We’re going to feel that. The most important thing is not to panic.”
Kentucky: The Wildcats stayed within reach but just couldn’t stop Boston or Cooke, who found a lot of room inside for layups. Scherr made 10 of 15 from the field and 5 of 7 from deep to surpass her previous best of 22 points on Sunday. Inside scoring was another story against the nation’s top shot-blocking team, which averages 9.6 blocks; South Carolina rejected 11 attempts.
“I know they were going to fall eventually,” Scherr said. “I had all the encouragement from my teammates and coaches, and that’s what got me there.”
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South Carolina: Hosts Missouri on Sunday.
Kentucky: Visits Florida on Sunday to begin a two-game road swing.
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Firework shows contribute to poor air quality
SHERMAN, Texas (KXII) - Tuesday’s 4th of July celebrations across north Texas featured firework shows in Ada, Bonham, Durant, Gunter, Kingston, and more.
While these displays might have been fun shows, they can leave behind sub-par air quality that is dangerous for everyone.
Experts say that fireworks cause a spike in particulate matter pollution, and polluted air typically lingers around for an extra day after big firework shows.
According to a 2015 study from Atmospheric Environment, the national average of air pollutants is about 42% higher in the 24 hours after July 4th firework shows as compared to a normal day.
Health experts say that the risk to healthy individuals is fairly low, but people with asthma or other breathing conditions, especially children, should be extra careful over the next couple of days following a firework show in the area.
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How to choose the best fairy house
You can put a little whimsy in your life with a tiny enchanted house for fairies, gnomes and sprites to live in right in your own backyard. A fairy house should match the spirit of the mythical and legendary wee creatures — vivid imaginations, playful souls and magical powers. Fairy houses may look like tiny cottages, windmills, treehouses, tree stumps or old boots — all styles that attract fairies.
What is a fairy garden?
Fairy gardens are a bit of miniature magic and mystery in your very own yard. The purpose of a fairy garden is enjoyment, either in the form of relaxation and meditation or as a place to let your imagination run wild with fairies, sprites and other magical creatures. Add to yours with some of the many fairy garden accessories and it becomes an outdoor playhouse.
Are fairy houses only for fairies?
With doors and window that open, fairy houses make fine, roomy places for ladybugs to live as well as providing shelter for tiny frogs and toads.
Where can my children learn more about fairies?
Your kids can look up everything about fairies in folklore field guides such as “A Natural History of Fairies” and learn about fairy anatomy, life cycles, habitats and famous fairies from around the world.
Fairy houses
Most fairy houses are less than a foot tall, just the right size for fairies. There are many fanciful designs, but most are made to stand up to the rigors of the outdoors, especially those that are made of resins that are waterproof and won’t corrode.
Best fairy houses
You can place this 7.5-inch-tall mushroom cap fairy house on the ground or use the keyhole in the back to hang it from a tree trunk. The front door opens, a friendly snail sits on the roof and a cute peekaboo kitten looks out the window.
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This 7-inch-tall tree house has the look of stone with a thatched roof, shutters and a door that opens. It comes with a sitting fairy holding a frog that is a possible prince and a standing fairy with a lantern to guide other fairies to their new home.
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Teresa’s Collections Boot Fairy House
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Ovewios Fairy House with Solar Lights and Ornaments
This 11.4-inch-tall house looks as if it was made from a tree, with three stories, a stone stairway, a leafy canopy for a roof and flowering vines growing up the trunk. A lovely fairy clad in lavender swings from the biggest branch on the tree.
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Kids interested in handicrafts will enjoy making their own fairy houses from kits. They get the satisfaction and pride of craftsmanship while making a one-of-a-kind fairy house.
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Wild Pixy Resin Fairy House and Garden Kit
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My Fairy Garden Nature Cottage
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Rolife Wooden Fairy House Model Building Kit
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A house is a good start on your fairy garden, but to make it really come to life and to personalize the design, choose from a variety of garden accessories and turn your fairy house into a little fairy village.
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Haraqi 108-Piece Miniature Fairy Houses with Garden Accessories
You get three micro-houses just over an inch tall and handcrafted with impressive detailing. All the colorful accessories are made of durable, waterproof resin, including ladybugs, owls, rabbits, cows, elephants, chickens, ducks, turtles and a fence, bridge, pond, tower and street lights.
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Mood Lab Fairy Garden Fish Pond Kit
Set up this pond right outside your fanciful fairy house. You get a koi pond with five fish, a lily leaf and frog, a swan and a footbridge. Place the sitting sisters and the fairy with bird so they dip their toes in the pond or dangle their legs from the bridge.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Clay County prosecutor has charged an 84-year-old man in the shooting of a Kansas City 16-year-old who went to the wrong address to pick up his siblings last week.
Clay County Prosecutor Zachary Thompson announced Andrew Lester has been charged with first-degree assault and armed criminal action. A warrant has been issued for the man’s arrest; his bond has been set at $200,000.
The news came shortly after the Kansas City Police Department said it has submitted its case file on the shooting of Ralph Yarl to the Clay County Prosecutor’s Office to review for possible charges.
Attorneys Ben Crump and Lee Merritt, who are representing the Yarl family, released the following statement after the charges were announced:
“Moments after the family got off the phone with President Biden, who offered his prayers for Ralph’s health and for justice, we learned that the prosecutor will be charging the man who is responsible for the deplorable shooting of this innocent boy.
“Gun violence against unarmed Black individuals must stop. Our children should feel safe, not as though they are being hunted. While this is certainly a step in the right direction, we will continue to fight for Ralph while he works towards a full recovery.”
Paul Yarl confirmed to FOX4 earlier Monday that his son Ralph is out of the hospital Monday and on the road to recovery.
Lester allegedly shot Ralph Yarl Thursday night after the teen went to the wrong home to pick up his younger siblings.
Kansas City police said just before 10 p.m. April 13, Ralph meant to go to a home on N.E. 115th Terrace when he mistakenly went to a house on N.E. 115th Street.
When Ralph arrived at the home, the homeowner shot him, police said.
According to his family, Ralph was shot twice, including once in the head. Police would not confirm how many times or where he was shot.
Court documents say Lester fired through a glass door and Yarl did not enter the home, Thompson said Monday.
“As the prosecutor of Clay County, I can tell you there was a racial component,” Thompson said.
The prosecutor said Lester used a .32 revolver, but he did not have any information on if the gun was registered or not.
Investigation
The night of the shooting, Lester was taken into police custody for questioning. He was then released pending further investigation.
“In this case, the prosecutor requires more information from investigators that would take more than 24 hours to compile,” KCPD Chief Stacey Graves said Sunday.
Councilman Brandon Ellington called for immediate charges to be brought forth, saying there is “no justification for mistakenly shooting someone, let alone a child.”
“Failure to prosecute in this case would appear to be misconduct even though prosecutor’s have discretion,” Ellington said in a statement.
On Monday afternoon, a spokesperson for the Kansas City Police Department said the agency had submitted its case file on the shooting to the Clay County Prosecutor’s Office to review for possible charges.
In a news conference later Monday, Thompson announced Lester has been charged with first-degree assault and armed criminal action.
A warrant has been issued for the man’s arrest; he is not in custody at this time. His bond has been set at $200,000.
“In this moment, it is imperative that we allow local law enforcement to investigate all the facts of the shooting. We must ensure that justice is served and the law is upheld. Mr. Yarl and our communities in Kansas City deserve nothing less,” Congressman Emanuel Cleaver said in a statement.
Community support
As of Monday morning, more than $1.2 million had been raised through a GoFundMe campaign to support the 16-year-old.
Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes also put his support behind the Kansas City teen.
“My prayers and support are for Ralph and his recovery. You never want these situations to happen,” Mahomes said Monday.
“It seemed like it should have never even happened. This should have been an easy conversation and both people go on their ways, this kid being able to pick up his family members and being with his family right now and not in a hospital.”
Mahomes said he’s praying for Ralph Yarl and his recovery.
“Then just hopefully the justice system does right by him, and everyone involved we’re able to not have these conversations and we are able to hold each other accountable for our actions,” the Chiefs QB continued.
“So obviously more and more details are hopefully gonna come out and he makes a full recovery and then the justice system does its part and that we’re all held accountable every single day.”
Nearly 1,000 people marched through Kansas City’s Northland on Sunday in support of the injured teen.
“Ralph is quiet. He loves to play video games, play the saxophone and he’s just a good kid, a smart kid, you know,” Paul Yarl told FOX4 Sunday.
Many are not only trying to empathize with the pain Ralph’s family feels but also expressing the idea that it could have been their kid who got an address mixed up.
“This is important. This could be anybody’s child, so I mean with all these people out here, you can see they feel this, too. This could be their child, this could be their son or their daughter,” said Dee Porter, who organized Sunday’s protest.
North Kansas City Schools, where Ralph attended Staley High, released a statement Monday from its superintendent:
“We are devastated to learn one of our students was involved in a horrific incident last week. Ralph Yarl, a junior at Staley High School, was shot after mistakenly arriving at the wrong address to pick up two younger siblings. Our thoughts are with the Yarl family, and I know I speak for all of us when we wish him a full and quick recovery.
“Ralph is an excellent student and talented musician. He maintains a stellar GPA while taking mostly college level courses. While he loves science and hopes to pursue that career path, his passion is music. Thankfully, we know he is now recovering alongside family.
“I know that many of you share the same anger, frustration, shock and disbelief that I am experiencing now. We must allow time for the investigation to be completed. In the meantime, as educators, our focus is on supporting Ralph, his family, our students and staff. Additional resources are available at Staley and throughout our other schools this week. We are prepared and ready to serve.”
Students at Staley High will take part in a unity walk Tuesday, showing support for the 16-year-old and his recovery. Classmates are also collecting cards for Ralph at the school.
National headlines
The news of Ralph Yarl’s shooting has made headlines across the nation and even grabbed the attention of celebrities.
Vice President Kamala Harris tweeted her support for Ralph.
“Doug and I are praying for Ralph Yarl and his family as he fights for his life. Let’s be clear: No child should ever live in fear of being shot for ringing the wrong doorbell. Every child deserves to be safe. That’s the America we are fighting for.”
Actress Halle Berry reacted to the news of the 16-year-old being shot.
“His name is #RalphYarl and I’m sick and tired of this feeling…my heart completely broke when I learned this precious 16-year-old, who accidentally rang the door of the wrong address in an attempt to pick up his siblings, was shot in the head by a man who didn’t want him on his property,” the star tweeted.
“This innocent child is now fighting for his life. This could be your child. This should NOT happen. Please do something today! Join me and please contact Prosecutor Zachary Thompson and demand an immediate arrest and bring the appropriate charges.”
Singer Justin Timberlake called attention to the shooting Monday as well.
“#RalphYarl accidentally rang the door of the wrong house while trying to pick up his siblings. For this, a man shot him in the head. Then shot him a 2nd time as he was on the ground. The man is free and the 16-year-old is fighting for his life in the hospital. This can’t be it,” Timberlake tweeted.
Bernice King, daughter of Martin Luther King Jr., called for charges on Twitter.
“#RalphYarl. My goodness…let’s be for justice, which is a continuum. That means the man who did this should be charged AND we need to work for the legislative and heart change to prevent these tragedies,” she said.
Singer Jennifer Hudson and actress Kerry Washington also shared their thoughts on the shooting:
“My God !!! Heartbroken for this young man and his family. Praying for his complete recovery ! #RalphYarl,” Hudson tweeted.
“Instead of waiting around for #LoveIsBlind…make a phone call. For #RalphYarl. Demand that Prosecutor Zachary Thompson make an arrest and bring the appropriate charges,” Washington said. | 2023-04-18T00:29:53+00:00 | fox44news.com | https://www.fox44news.com/news/kansas-city-teen-out-of-hospital-after-shooting-homeowner-charged/ |
Holed up in her hotel room, Lauren Swaddell could hear the wind howl as Typhoon Mawar approached Guam.
"The storm is going to hit in approximately two hours," she said in a voice memo to NPR, recorded on Wednesday afternoon local time.
"I'm looking out of my window and I just see massive waves in what's normally a super calm bay. Trees are losing their branches. The coconut trees are flying everywhere."
"It is so strange to me that it's only 2pm right now and it feels like it's been an entire day ... Time is moving so slowly with this storm."
At one point, Swaddell says she could feel the walls of the hotel shaking.
Swaddell, 33, grew up in Guam and now works in Washington, D.C. She is visiting home for a work trip, just in time for the category 4 storm to pass over the island.
It brought 140mph winds and forecasts of a 25-foot storm surge, knocking out power throughout the island. The typhoon is the strongest to hit the U.S. island territory in decades.
"This is my fourth major typhoon ever on Guam," Swaddell said.
Typhoon Pongsona was the last major storm to hit the island – a category 4 storm that battered Guam in December 2002. Swaddell said experiencing Mawar was different for her.
"I was in middle school [in 2002], and I was still a kid. So I didn't know the level of responsibility and fear that an adult would have preparing for a typhoon, because my mom took care of all of that ... My mom kept me safe," she said.
This time, it was Swaddell helping out: "I went to my mom's house, helped her board up the home."
Guam is still under flash flood warnings, so a full assessment of the damage will take more time. But Gov. Lou Leon Guerrero told Morning Edition that she knows of at least one rescue mission in which eight people were taken to a shelter.
"There's a lot of anxiety not knowing the outcome of what will happen to the island around us," said Amanda Shelton, a Democratic senator in the Guam legislature.
Shelton braced for the storm while staying in the northern part of the island. In voice memos to NPR, she said she was thankful that President Joe Biden signed off on the island's state of emergency request so quickly – the island has both local and federal emergency responders ready.
"We do have folks here on the ground ready to respond as soon as they are needed, as soon as it is safe for us to go out after the storm passes," Shelton said.
She said that despite the concerns the storm brings, she was heartened by the community response.
"I think that's one positive thing to look at throughout the next several hours," she said, before the storm hit. "We're together, and we're able to pray together and wait out the storm together and help in any way that we can."
While waiting out the storm, the hotel Swaddell was staying at moved guests to a ballroom farther from any windows. As the wind thrashed the outside of the building, guests inside shared a meal.
"There's just a bunch of folks who are sharing drinks, playing games, and meeting each other for the first time and sharing stories," she said.
"There's the stress of it, but also there's this sense that we're all in this together. And there's nothing you can really do besides ride it out."
The storm was forecast to move away from the island as of Wednesday evening local time, according to the National Weather Service (NWS).
"Mawar is forecast to intensify slowly over the next few days, possibly becoming a Super Typhoon over the Philippine Sea well west of the Marianas," the NWS said.
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Ukraine wins Eurovision Song Contest By Joanna Kakissis Published May 15, 2022 at 7:46 AM CDT Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Ukraine has won the Eurovision Song Contest, perhaps Europe's biggest musical competition. NPR's Joanna Kakissis was watching with Ukrainians in Dnipro. Copyright 2022 NPR | 2022-05-15T13:20:36+00:00 | kgou.org | https://www.kgou.org/2022-05-15/ukraine-wins-eurovision-song-contest |
SEATTLE, Nov. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Milliman, Inc., the premier global consulting and actuarial firm, today announced that Pouch Insurance Services has chosen Milliman AccuRate FleetTM as its platform for usage-based insurance scores. AccuRate Fleet is a usage-based insurance score designed to enable more accurate pricing of fleet exposure and driving behavior risk. Developed by Milliman actuaries and data scientists, AccuRate Fleet is based on over a billion miles of commercial auto driving data and thousands of crashes.
"The Milliman AccuRate score allows us to offer extremely fair and accurate pricing to our customers and rewards them with lower rates for driving carefully and managing their fleets," says Steve McKay, CEO of Pouch. "Milliman's combination of statistical and regulatory expertise made the process a win for us."
Milliman AccuRate Fleet is a risk score relating driving behavior to the likelihood of a crash, and allows commercial auto insurers, MGAs, and startups to better match price to risk and improve retention of customers with safe driving habits. Unlike existing filed telematics scores, AccuRate Fleet is developed using over 2.7 billion miles of commercial auto data. These scores have been reviewed and approved by state insurance regulators for use in ratemaking.
"We are excited to help Pouch accelerate the launch of their innovative commercial auto program," says Peggy Brinkmann, a Milliman principal and consulting actuary. "The Milliman AccuRate Fleet score not only helps programs like Pouch's better match rate to risk, but also get to market quickly since it's been approved in 27 states and counting."
To learn more about Milliman AccuRate Fleet, visit https://us.milliman.com/en/products/milliman-accurate-fleet
Milliman is among the world's largest providers of actuarial and related products and services. The firm has consulting practices in healthcare, property & casualty insurance, life insurance and financial services, and employee benefits. Founded in 1947, Milliman is an independent firm with offices in major cities around the globe. For further information, visit milliman.com.
Pouch rewards small businesses for safe driving. With instant quotes, simple sign up, and discounted rates based on your actual driving, Pouch offers a faster and smarter way to buy commercial auto insurance. With Pouch, small business owners can better track and manage their fleet and lower their bills. Learn more at pouchinsurance.com.
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This delivery will be available at the University of North Dakota next semester
CHICAGO and BERKELEY, Calif., Dec. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Grubhub, a leading food ordering and delivery marketplace, and Kiwibot, a leading last-mile robotic delivery company, announced today that they will provide robot delivery services on college campuses across the United States.
Robot delivery from Kiwibot and Grubhub will first be available at the University of North Dakota before rolling out to additional schools next semester. Kiwibot joins Grubhub's existing partners, including Cartken and Starship, on nearly a dozen campuses offering robot delivery.
"When it comes to the campus dining experience, we see robot delivery as a complementary offering to traditional delivery since the robots can navigate hard-to-reach areas on campuses," said Adam Herbert, senior director of campus partnerships at Grubhub. "Our campus partners have been asking for us to help bring this delivery option to their school, and we are excited to partner with Kiwibot to expand this innovative and convenient type of delivery to more colleges across the country."
"It is an exciting endeavor for Kiwibot to expand our partner base," said Felipe Chávez, CEO of Kiwibot. "Our partnership with Grubhub means we'll be able to provide an integrated delivery service that allows students to experience Kiwibot delivery right from Grubhub's app. We are honored to bring innovative solutions to the University of North Dakota community with our disruptive robotic service that delivers meals, happiness and extraordinary moments."
"Bringing a delivery service to campus was an offering we've been wanting to provide at the university, and we are excited for this innovative delivery service to become available to students," said Orlynn Rosaasen, director of dining services at the University of North Dakota. "We know just how busy students are, and this type of delivery will provide them with one more option to access food on campus during their busy days."
Students will be able to select this delivery via the Grubhub app from on-campus dining locations, including the Memorial Union Food court and Wilkerson Dining Center. The Kiwibots rely on the most advanced technology with a high-driving autonomous system and can operate in snow and extreme weather conditions. For safety, they move at the same speed as a human walking pace and can hold up to 25 pounds.
This partnership grows Grubhub's delivery options on college campuses, providing additional opportunities for students to get their favorite meals while creating healthy relationships with technology developments that contribute to making day-to-day life on campus more efficient. Grubhub partners with more than 250 college campuses across the United States to give students the ability to integrate meal plans directly into their Grubhub account and access restaurants both on- and off-campus for delivery and pickup.
For more information on how administrators can bring this delivery experience to their campus, please visit here.
Grubhub is part of Just Eat Takeaway.com (LSE: JET, AMS: TKWY), and is a leading U.S. food ordering and delivery marketplace. Dedicated to connecting diners with the food they love from their favorite local restaurants, Grubhub elevates food ordering through innovative restaurant technology, easy-to-use platforms and an improved delivery experience. Grubhub features more than 365,000 restaurant partners in over 4,000 U.S. cities.
Kiwibot was founded in 2017 and launched its first pilot at the University of California-Berkeley campus. The company aims to revolutionize food delivery with high-driving autonomous robots and has made over 200,000 deliveries on US university campuses and cities. The service lets customers launch last-mile deliveries at a fraction of the time and cost without the hassle of hiring a courier. With recent partnerships, including GrubHub, Kiwibot is committed to a zero-carbon future and aims to create a world where technology, logistics, and delivery are for all.
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The BNY Mellon Global Infrastructure Income ETF provides exposure to infrastructure asset classes while seeking an annualized gross forward-looking 12-month yield of 6% or more for its portfolio
NEW YORK, Nov. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BNY Mellon Investment Management, one of the world's largest asset managers with $1.8 trillion in assets under management1, today announced the launch of the BNY Mellon Global Infrastructure Income ETF (ticker: BKGI). The ETF, which is listed on Cboe Global Markets, is sub-advised by Newton Investment Management North America, LLC (Newton), a BNY Mellon investment firm and leading equity and multi-asset manager with a long track record of investing experience.
The BNY Mellon Global Infrastructure Income ETF provides exposure to traditional and non-traditional infrastructure stocks while also seeking to deliver quarterly income through a global equity portfolio. The fund's traditional infrastructure set includes energy, industrials and utilities, and its non-traditional infrastructure consists of communications, health care and real estate. The fund's dual mandate looks to provide exposure to listed infrastructure while targeting an annualized gross forward-looking 12-month yield of 6% or more for its portfolio2.
The BNY Mellon Global Infrastructure Income ETF is managed by Newton's Deputy Chief Investment Officer of Equities and Head of Equity Income, James Lydotes, CFA, and the firm's Head of Global Equity Research, Brock Campbell, CFA.
"A key differentiator for infrastructure assets compared to other assets is their historic predictability and stability through market cycles as there is a constant need for these services, such as water, electricity, hospitals, and telecommunication, to name a few," said Mr. Lydotes. "Infrastructure is a diverse asset class that aligns with global societal trends and growth demands, such as increasing broadband access via 5G, energy transition, and supporting an aging population through senior living and acute care. We believe infrastructure assets can provide growth potential as well as regular income, and potential equity diversification for clients."
"We are pleased to offer our clients the BNY Mellon Global Infrastructure Income ETF as the newest offering in our growing suite of ETFs. This addition highlights our continued commitment to providing innovative, outcome-orientated strategies through versatile vehicles," said Andy Provencher, Head of North America Distribution at BNY Mellon Investment Management. "Through leveraging the capabilities, knowledge and expertise of Newton in equity investing, we're able to provide a differentiated infrastructure approach for our clients."
The BNY Mellon Global Infrastructure Income ETF becomes BNY Mellon Investment Management's 15th ETF and its seventh active ETF offering.
For more information on infrastructure investing and BNY Mellon Global Infrastructure Income ETF, please visit: www.im.bnymellon.com/etf.
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SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Liberal Democrat Tina Kotek will be sworn in as Oregon’s new governor on Monday, ascending to the state’s highest office after serving a record nine years as state House speaker and becoming one of the first openly elected lesbian governors in the country.
In her inaugural address at the state Capitol in Salem, Kotek is expected to pledge to unite Oregonians after a bitterly fought gubernatorial race — the tightest in a decade — in which Republicans sought to break Democrats’ dominance of the state.
Kotek has said her top priorities will be housing and homelessness, mental health and addiction treatment, and education.
Oregon has struggled for years to address a housing shortage and interwoven homelessness, addiction and mental health crises. Its homeless population has increased by more than 22% since 2020, according to figures from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. It also has the highest drug addiction rate of any state and ranks last in access to mental health treatment, according to federal data from the 2021 National Survey on Drug Use and Health.
Kotek will be replacing term-limited Democrat Kate Brown, whose strict coronavirus pandemic measures made her a polarizing figure. The two worked together for years as respective speaker and governor, and they have similar profiles as progressives and open members of the LGBTQ community. But Kotek sought to distance herself from Brown — and her low approval ratings — toward the end of the gubernatorial campaign, casting her predecessor as ineffective on homelessness.
Kotek won Oregon’s three-way race for governor in November after fending off a stiff challenge from a fellow former state representative, Republican Christine Drazan, defeating her by less than four percentage points.
Kotek was a state representative from 2006 until 2022, when she resigned to run for governor. During her time in the Legislature, she became the longest-serving speaker in Oregon history after nine years in the role and cemented her status as a key player in state politics, earning a reputation for cutting deals and muscling bills through the state House.
As speaker, Kotek spearheaded and passed liberal agendas made possible by Democratic supermajorities, including the nation’s first statewide rent control law. She also helped push through gun storage laws, criminal justice reform and paid family leave, among other measures.
Lawmakers also will be sworn in on Monday. Democrats still control both chambers of the Legislature, but they lost their three-fifths supermajority in November’s election.
Kotek joins Maura Healey of Massachusetts as the first openly lesbian elected governors in the country.
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Claire Rush is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues. Follow Claire on Twitter. | 2023-01-10T00:24:24+00:00 | kfor.com | https://kfor.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-oregons-new-governor-to-be-sworn-in-discuss-her-priorities/ |
For years Meta’s role as an arbiter of speech has placed it in a political hot seat: Conservatives charge it with politically motivated censorship, while liberals contend leaving harmful content online fuels its spread.
As it builds out Threads, Meta will probably offer users control over what kind of content they see — including the diciest and most controversial posts — rather than the company making those decisions on its own, Meta Global Affairs President Nick Clegg told The Washington Post. That’s a strategy that Meta has already embraced on Facebook, where the company has increasingly given users more ways to shape what appears in their news feeds.
“I hope over time we’ll have less of a discussion about what our big, crude algorithmic choices are and more about whether you guys feel that the individual controls we’re giving you on Threads feel meaningful to you,” he said in the interview.
Though the approach diverges from those of rivals like TikTok, it comes amid a throng of upstart social media platforms, like Mastodon and Bluesky, which offer users more control over their experience — and as decisions about content moderation are becoming legally risky.
Earlier this month, a federal judge blocked key Biden administration agencies and officials from communicating with social media companies, charging that the White House was engaging in a “massive effort … to suppress speech” on the internet. Experts have said the July 4 injunction could make it difficult for social media companies to fight election interference and other forms of problematic content, because such tasks often involve communicating with government officials about the threats they are seeing.
Meta has already hinted that it hopes Threads can avoid the quagmires that have led to high-profile congressional hearings with CEOs, lawsuits and a mounting list of technology-focused regulations around the world.
Last week, Instagram head Adam Mosseri wrote that the company will not “encourage” politics and “hard news” on the platform. Upticks in engaged readership are “not at all worth the scrutiny, negativity (let’s be honest), or integrity risks that come along with them,” he added.
But politics has already arrived to Threads, which has attracted more than 100 million users. An array of news organizations have started posting about everything from former president Donald Trump’s super PAC to Russia’s detention of a Wall Street Journal reporter. Meanwhile, politicians such as Republican presidential hopeful Mike Pence, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) have joined the platform.
“They’re not gonna get rid of news and politics,” Graham Brookie, senior director of the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab. “It’s a text-based platform, and it’s likely that news and politics will be a major component of what’s being discussed there because of the medium.”
And the public scrutiny on how Threads moderates political content has already begun as civil society groups eye the potential ramification of the app’s popularity during the 2024 presidential election. On Thursday, two dozen civil rights and digital advocacy groups urged Meta to publicize its trust and safety plans to protect users on Threads.
“For the good of its more than 100 million users, Threads must implement guardrails that curtail extremism, hate and anti-democratic lies on its network,” Nora Benavidez, senior counsel and director of digital justice at the civil rights group Free Press, said in a statement. “Meta must implement basic moderation safeguards on Threads now or the platform will become as toxic as Twitter.
In his interview with The Post, Clegg said Mosseri’s comments didn’t mean the company plans to block or suppress the distribution of political content.
“Are we going to suppress and censor anyone who wants to talk about politics and current affairs? Of course not,” Clegg said. “That would be absurd.” But he added the company probably wouldn’t go out of its way to “massively boost” news on Threads or create a special tab for it in the app.
Meta has said it will apply the same guidelines to Threads as those it enforces on Instagram, where hate speech, harassment and content that degrades or shames private individuals are prohibited. Users who are barred from having accounts on Instagram are also barred from creating profiles on Threads.
Currently, Meta is not including posts on Threads in its third-party fact-checking program. Though posts on Facebook or Instagram that are rated as false by fact-checking partners will also be labeled as such on Threads, according to the company. Meta spokesman Dave Arnold said in a statement that the company’s “industry leading integrity enforcement tools and human review are wired into Threads.”
But Meta and other social media companies have already started to give users more choice in what they see. For instance, Meta recently introduced a handful of new Facebook settings allowing users to change the frequency of sensitive, controversial and conspiratorial content in their news feeds. Under the new effort, users can opt out of Meta’s policy of reducing the distribution of content that independent, third-party fact-checkers have rated as false. The new settings don’t yet apply to Instagram or Threads.
“We feel we’ve moved quite dramatically in favor of giving users greater control over even quite controversial sensitive content,” Clegg said. “That’s the kind of spirit in which we’re going to be building Threads.”
With the launch of Threads, Meta is also joining the decentralized social networking movement. The company has said it plans to ensure Threads supports ActivityPub — the open, decentralized social networking protocol that powers Mastodon and other social media platforms.
On Mastodon, content moderation isn’t controlled by a single company or person. Instead, a network of thousands of sites — called instances or servers — often run by volunteers, set their own rules for the type of content that’s allowed. Users can see posts on other servers and interact with members of those communities. That means if users don’t like the rules on one server they can hop on over to a different instance.
Bluesky, a social media company founded by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, is also building a tool that would allow individuals, businesses and organizations to host their own sites that will be able to communicate with one another. As part of the project, users will be able to transport their accounts from one provider or server to the next and have some control over the algorithms that determine what they see.
“In a federated model, each server has discretion over what they choose to serve and who they choose to connect to,” the company recently wrote in a blog post. “If you disagree with a server’s moderation policies, you can take your account, social connections, and data to another service.”
That new approach diverges from the early versions of social media sites like Facebook and Twitter, which gave users very little choice over the underlying algorithms delivering them content every day.
Now, the social media world appears headed in a different direction, said Jeff Jarvis, a professor at City University of New York who is writing a book about the internet.
“I think I see a glimpse of a different future, with the idea of ‘pick your own algorithm,’ ” said Jarvis. “I see a new model in which we can each have a different world view on social media.” | 2023-07-14T11:29:22+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/14/threads-algorithm-content-moderation/ |
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NEW YORK (NewsNation) — President Joe Biden will address world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly, where he will highlight U.S. efforts to strengthen global health and food security and rally allies to back Ukraine in its war with Russia.
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In addition to the Russian war in Ukraine, European fears that a recession could be just around the corner are heightened. Administration concerns grow by the day that time is running short to revive the Iran nuclear deal and over China’s saber-rattling on Taiwan.
Beyond diplomacy, the president is also doing some politicking. This year’s gathering comes less than seven weeks before pivotal midterm elections in the United States. Shortly after arriving in Manhattan on Tuesday night, Biden spoke at a Democratic National Committee fundraiser for about 100 participants that raised nearly $2 million, and he’s set to hold another fundraiser on Thursday before heading back to Washington.
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U.S. Bancorp, with approximately 77,000 employees and $675 billion in assets as of December 31, 2022, is the parent company of U.S. Bank National Association. The Minneapolis-based company serves millions of customers locally, nationally and globally through a diversified mix of businesses: Consumer and Business Banking; Payment Services; Corporate & Commercial Banking; and Wealth Management and Investment Services. MUFG Union Bank, consisting primarily of retail banking branches on the West Coast, joined U.S. Bancorp in 2022. The company has been recognized for its approach to digital innovation, social responsibility, and customer service, including being named one of the 2022 World's Most Ethical Companies and Fortune's most admired superregional bank. Learn more at usbank.com/about.
About VinFast
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Strongly committed to the mission for a sustainable future for everyone, VinFast constantly innovates to bring high-quality products, advanced smart services, seamless customer experiences, and pricing strategy to inspire global customers to jointly create a future of smart mobility and a sustainable planet. Learn more at: https://vinfastauto.us/.
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ATMORE, Ala., July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- (OTCQX: UBAB)- United Bancorporation of Alabama, Inc., parent company of United Bank, Town-Country United Bank, and UB Community Development, announces its financial results for the period ended June 30, 2022. United reported unaudited consolidated net income of $7.8 million or earnings per share of $2.11 for the six months ended June 30, 2022 as compared to net income of $11.9 million or earnings per share of $3.18 for the same period last year. For the three months ended June 30, 2022 unaudited net income was $4.9 million or earnings per share of $1.36 as compared to net income of $8.3 million or earnings per share of $2.22 for the same period last year.
QUARTERLY HIGHLIGHTS
- Net Income of $4.9 million and EPS of $1.36.
- Asset increase of $224.6 million or 22.1% to $1.2 billion.
- Loans and securities increase of $114.3 million or 20.0% and $129.3 million or 72.5%, respectively.
- Net interest margin of 3.58%, an increase of 28 bps over the prior quarter.
- Dividend declared of $0.18 per share, a $0.06 increase over the July 2021 dividend.
- Stock repurchase of 188,298 shares totaling $5.4 million.
- Tier one capital ratio and tier one leverage ratio were 13.6% and 9.7%, respectively.
About United Bancorporation of Alabama, Inc.
United Bancorporation of Alabama, Inc. (OTCQX: UBAB) is a $1.2 billion financial holding company that primarily serves Southwest Alabama as well as Northwest Florida. United is a Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI), which recognizes its commitment to stimulating economic development in underserved communities. United operates three subsidiaries: United Bank, Town-Country United Bank and UB Community Development. United Bank is also designated as a CDFI and operates 22 locations across five counties. The recently acquired Town-Country United Bank serves Wilcox County and its surrounding counties. UB Community Development focuses on economic and community development through its New Markets Tax Credits, affordable housing and community facilities programs. United Bank has offices in Atmore, Brewton, East Brewton, Flomaton, Monroeville, Frisco City, Bay Minette, Daphne, Foley, Lillian, Loxley, Magnolia Springs, Semmes, Silverhill, Spanish Fort and Summerdale in Alabama. United Bank serves Santa Rosa County, Florida in Jay, Milton and Pace. For a complete second quarter report and financial metrics visit our investor relations tab at www.UnitedBank.com. Member FDIC.
Contact: Leigh Anne Russell Jones
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(251) 446-6165
Leighanne.jones@unitedbank.com
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