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The Cincinnati Reds continued to shed veterans at the deadline, trading their most productive offensive player, Brandon Drury, to the San Diego Padres for a prospect.
The Drury trade followed a deal announced earlier Tuesday that sent starting pitcher Tyler Mahle to the Minnesota Twins in exchange for three minor leaguers.
In recent days, veteran left fielder Tommy Pham was traded to Boston for a player to be named later or cash, and No. 1 starter Luis Castillo went to Seattle for three prospects. Outfielder Tyler Naquin was also sent to the Mets.
Drury was expected to be dealt with the Reds in a major rebuild. After signing a $900,000, one-year deal with Cincinnati in March, the 29-year-old Drury is having a breakout year, leading the team with a career-high 20 homers and 59 RBIs while hitting .274.
“To have two minor league offers coming into the season and to have Cincinnati to give me this opportunity and put my career back on track, it’s been amazing," Drury said in the Reds clubhouse before Cincinnati played Miami. "I can’t thank Cincinnati enough. A huge turning point in my career.”
Drury said he's happy to go to a contender. The Padres are in second place behind the Dodgers in the NL West.
“To be part of that lineup is going to be pretty special, and I’m excited to help them win ball games,” he said.
In exchange for Drury, the Reds got shortstop Victor Acosta, who, according to MLB Pipeline, is the Padres' No. 8 prospect.
The 27-year-old Mahle joins ex-Reds pitcher Sonny Gray with AL Central-leading Minnesota and is expected to bolster a pitching staff ravaged by injuries. Mahle is making $5.2 million this season and is eligible for free agency after the 2023 season.
“Losing is never fun, so that’s always disappointing,” said Mahle, who was in his sixth season with the Reds. "They’ve been good to me. I’m going to miss everyone here, but I’m excited to move on and see what’s in store for me.”
Before the season, the Reds traded away former All-Stars Gray, Jesse Winker and Eugenio Suarez, and All-Star right fielder Nick Castellanos signed a five-year, $100 million deal with the Phillies.
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More AP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/MLB and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2022-08-02T23:31:29+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/sports/article/Reds-keep-shedding-veterans-deal-Drury-Mahle-at-17346760.php |
INDIANA, Pa. , July 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- S&T Bancorp, Inc. (S&T) (NASDAQ: STBA), the holding company for S&T Bank, announced today that a conference call detailing the company's second quarter 2023 earnings will be held live over the Internet at 1:00 p.m. ET on Thursday, July 20, 2023. Christopher J. McComish, chief executive officer, David G. Antolik, president, and Mark Kochvar, chief financial officer, will conduct the conference call. The public is invited to listen.
S&T Bancorp, Inc. intends to release its second quarter earnings before the market opens on Thursday, July 20, 2023.
PERTINENT USER INFORMATION:
What: S&T Bancorp, Inc. 2nd Quarter Earnings Conference Call
When: 1:00 p.m. ET, Thursday, July 20, 2023
Where: S&T Bank's Investor Relations webpage www.stbancorp.com
How: Live and replay webcast over the internet
After the live presentation, the webcast will be archived at www.stbancorp.com for 12 months.
To Ask Questions:
Prior to the webcast, please email questions to investor.relations@stbank.com. Also, participants who log into the conference call will have an opportunity to email their questions directly from the webpage beginning at 12:45 p.m. ET until the conclusion of the presentation.
Second Quarter 2023 Earnings Release:
The S&T Bancorp, Inc. Second Quarter Earnings Press Release can be accessed on Thursday, July 20, 2023 at www.stbancorp.com.
About S&T Bancorp, Inc. and S&T Bank
S&T Bancorp, Inc. is a $9.2 billion bank holding company that is headquartered in Indiana, Pennsylvania and trades on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol STBA. Its principal subsidiary, S&T Bank, was established in 1902 and operates in Pennsylvania and Ohio. S&T Bank was recently named by Forbes as a 2023 Best-in-State Bank. For more information visit stbancorp.com or stbank.com. Follow us on Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn.
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3 people fatally shot, 2 wounded in a town in southern Germany
BERLIN (AP) — Police say three people were shot and killed at a residential building in southern Germany on Friday and another two wounded in a nearby house. A suspect has been arrested. The shooting took place Friday evening in Langweid, just outside the Bavarian city of Augsburg. Police said the suspect, a 64-year-old man, was then arrested. Authorities said the motive was still under investigation. Police said the suspect fatally shot two women, ages 49 and 72, and a 52-year-old man, before continuing to another house in a nearby street. There, he allegedly shot a 32-year-old woman and a 44-year-old man. Both were being treated in a hospital. | 2023-07-28T23:21:03+00:00 | krdo.com | https://krdo.com/news/2023/07/28/3-people-fatally-shot-2-wounded-in-a-town-in-southern-germany/ |
(iSeeCars) – The average new car costs $43,528, while the average one- to five-year-old used car costs $34,291 according to the latest iSeeCars data. While used cars are significantly cheaper than new cars, both are still a major expense. That’s why it’s important to set a realistic budget and determine how much money you can afford to pay for your new — or new to you — car. We have the answers to help you determine that age-old question: how much car can I afford?
1. Determine Your Credit Score
Unless you’re paying for your car in full, you’ll need to secure a car loan. The first step toward getting a car loan and figuring out how much you can afford to pay is determining your credit score. This can also be referred to as your “FICO score” and is a numerical representation of your credit history. The three major credit reporting agencies – Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion – can each provide you with your FICO credit score. Another option is to check with your bank or credit card companies. Many of these institutions also provide a free credit monitoring service that will tell you your credit score.
A credit report, as well as monitoring services, also include a record of your credit history, including any items that are lowering your credit score. The higher your credit score, the better loan term you will be able to secure. Car manufacturers and dealerships will advertise special payment terms like zero-percent financing, but it’s important to remember those terms typically only apply to buyers with favorable, if not top-tier, credit scores.
If your credit score is low, you should try to boost your number before you purchase a car. You should aim for a credit score of 680 or above, but higher is always better. You can start by making sure you make your credit card and loan payments — especially any auto loan payments — on time. Resolve any past-due accounts, and pay down as much of the balance on your loans as you can, especially revolving credit accounts. You should also avoid opening new accounts, as frequent inquiries to the credit bureaus seeking new credit can lower your credit score.
While a good credit score isn’t required to secure a car loan, it will afford you a better annual percentage rate (APR) on the interest you’ll have to pay. The higher interest rate you have, the more you will end up paying in the long run. If you are unable to achieve a favorable credit score, another option is to get a co-signer on your loan. Your co-signer will agree to make loan payments if you default on your loan, which can lower an otherwise high interest rate.
2. Determine Your Down Payment
Making a down payment will lower the amount of the loan, or principle, you will need to take out, which will reduce your monthly payment. This also reduces the overall interest you’ll pay on the loan over time. While this can help make a car easier to afford, don’t deplete your savings account. Be sure to keep enough money on hand for whatever surprises might come your way. Dealers and lenders may offer deals for zero down payment financing, but you can still put money down to shorten the length of your loan and reduce your monthly payment.
3. Estimate the Value of Your Trade-In
The process of trading in your car begins with determining how much your car is worth. Major factors that impact your car’s value include how many miles it has on the odometer and its overall condition. Having your vehicle professionally detailed can also boost the trade-in value for your current vehicle.
Several websites, including Edmunds (Edmunds.com) and Kelley Blue Book (kbb.com) have valuation tools that will give you a ballpark estimate on the value of your car. Make sure you are as honest as possible in answering any questions about your car’s condition. Some valuation tools offer an estimate specifically for trade-in value, but that’s just what it is – an estimate.
You can also sell your car to a private buyer, which will be more profitable than trading your car into a dealership. In this instance, you can price your car in accordance with its market value, which is higher than your car’s trade-in value. A car’s trade-in value is the amount of money a car dealer will offer you for your vehicle, whereas market value, also referred to as private party value, is the amount of money you would get selling your car directly to a buyer. Because dealerships handle the complex process of selling the vehicle, they offer a lower trade-in value to ensure they make a profit when they sell the car.
There are helpful online tools like the iSeeCars Price My Car Tool, which provide a detailed pricing report to help calculate your used car’s value. Simply enter your vehicle’s VIN or provide its make, model, year, trim, style, and mileage.
Whether you decide to sell your car privately or trade-in at the dealership, you can apply your car’s value toward the purchase price of your next vehicle, along with your down payment if you’re making one.
4. Calculate Your Car Budget
Setting a monthly budget will guide your new or used car search. As a general rule of thumb, your car payment should not exceed 10 percent of your monthly income, and your total car expenses (fuel, maintenance, car insurance, registration) should not exceed 15 percent of your monthly take-home pay, which is the amount of money you make each month after taxes. Or, if you’re paying in cash, determine the amount you’re willing to pay for your vehicle. You can use the 15 percent rule as a guide, but if you have other major monthly expenses like student loans, you should determine a monthly payment you can comfortably afford.
5. Determine Your Car Loan Amount
After you determine your monthly payment amount, you can determine how much you can borrow from a lender for your car purchase. One way to do this is by obtaining a pre-approval letter from a financial institution, which will review your credit history to determine how much money they will loan you. Keep in mind that you might be pre-approved for more than you can afford, so make sure you stick to your budget. You can also use a car affordability calculator, which is available on many personal finance websites, by entering your credit score, estimated monthly payment, and desired loan term. Remember — the shorter your loan term, the less you will pay in interest over time. Don’t be tempted to stretch out your loan term in order to have a lower monthly payment, because you’ll end up paying more in the long term. For example, if you purchase a $25,000 used car and put $4,000 down with an interest rate of 4.5 percent, your monthly payment on a four-year loan will be roughly $625 and you will pay $1,488 in interest over the duration of the loan. If you spread the loan out over five years with a higher interest rate of 5 percent, you will pay roughly $396 per month and nearly double, $2,778, in total interest. While a smaller monthly payment might seem appealing, it will cost you a lot more in the long run.
It’s important to note that most lenders will not provide a loan on a vehicle that’s more than five years old, so if you are relying on the financing you should consider a later model used vehicle.
6. Shop Around for the Best Loan Rates
You should always visit a bank or credit union to get pre-approved for a loan before you go to the dealership. Even if you plan on securing an auto loan through the dealership, having a pre-approval option from a financial institution can help you negotiate against the dealer’s rate. It will also show them that you are a serious buyer, which will give you more bargaining power. Because dealers make more money on vehicles they finance, they will likely try to beat the rates you’ve already secured.
7. New Car or Used Car?
When purchasing a vehicle, you have the choice of buying a new or used car. Although they are more expensive, there are perks to buying a new vehicle, including peace of mind, the reduced likelihood of unexpected repair bills, and warranty coverage. New cars also typically come with lower interest rates and financial incentives.
According to an iSeeCars study on off-lease car deals, the average used car loses 39 percent of its value after three years. When you buy a used car, the largest percentage of depreciation has already been absorbed by the original owner, and you get the car at a much lower price. You can even buy a car that is just one year old, which will typically cost 17 percent less than its new version. However, in today’s market, some lightly used cars cost more than their new versions, so be sure to compare the cost of new and lightly used vehicles. You may find that buying a new car is a better financial decision than purchasing a lightly-used one.
If you’re purchasing your used car through a franchise dealer, you will have the option to purchase a certified pre-owned (CPO) car. (Check out our handy guide to learn what does certified pre-owned mean? to better understand the CPO car buying process.) CPO cars are typically used cars that are less than five-years-old and have fewer than 75,000 miles on the odometer. CPO cars typically cost slightly more than non-certified used cars, but they are backed by manufacturer warranties and may also carry special financing. CPO cars combine the best of both the new and used car worlds, by offering added warranty protection on a late-model used car.
8. Buying or Leasing?
Another factor to consider is whether you want to buy or lease your vehicle. If you choose to lease, you don’t need to finance because you’re not buying the car. You just need to be able to afford the down payment and the monthly payments. If you don’t want to borrow from a bank and take out a loan, leasing could be your best option. Your lease payments typically cost less money than what you would pay for a monthly car payment if you were buying the vehicle. You can also get a much nicer car for your money and get to drive a new car every few years. Another benefit of leasing is that you don’t have to pay for repairs, as issues with your car that occur during your lease term are usually covered by the car’s factory warranty.
The downside to leasing is that you never own the vehicle. As soon as your leasing term ends, you will begin the cycle again. If you purchase a vehicle, you will likely be able to enjoy several years without a car payment, provided that you don’t take out too long of a loan term. Another drawback is that car leases come with mileage limits, which commonly range from 12,000 to 15,000 miles per year. If you exceed those mileage limits, you will have to pay excessive mileage fees, which can get expensive. Lastly, the upfront cost to lease is usually more than if you were purchasing. You might need to put down a larger down payment due to your credit score, and it’s likely that the dealership will often want the first month’s payment as well.
For more information on leasing vs. buying a car, refer to our guide.
9. Be Sure to Factor In Extra Costs
It’s important to make sure you budget for more than the advertised price of the car. While each state has different taxes and associated fees, you can expect to pay an extra 10% on top of the purchase price to cover the total cost of the vehicle. This includes sales tax, which is typically 5 percent to 10 percent depending on your state. There’s also documentation and registration fees, which also vary by state and the amount can be found on your state’s department of motor vehicles website. If you’re financing the vehicle, it’s important to understand you’ll also be paying interest on the financed portion of the vehicle. You should also research the car’s ownership costs to get a better understanding of what you’ll be paying per month. Car insurance is a major added expense, and it will cost more on later-model used vehicles. Be sure to check with your insurance agent before you purchase the vehicle to get an idea of what your new monthly rate will be. Be aware that used car insurance rates are also higher on sports cars and performance vehicles. You can also take the opportunity to shop around with other auto insurance companies to compare insurance quotes to ensure you’re getting the best rate. If you’re purchasing an SUV or a less fuel-efficient vehicle, you should also factor in additional fuel costs to make sure there is room in your budget. (You can refer to our list of Best Gas Mileage Cars to help reduce your fuel costs.)
10. Find the Right Car
Once you’ve determined your budget, you can now search for cars within your budget. Helpful car websites and search engines have made it easier and more convenient than ever to find the right car to meet your needs. Car search engines like iSeeCars.com equip buyers with all the information they need to find the right vehicle.
11. Beware of Depreciation
The depreciation on a new car means there’s a much greater loss in its value in the first few years after purchase compared to a used car. After all, The average new car loses nearly half its value after five years. If you’re going to keep your new car for the life of your loan, which will likely be between 5 and 7 years, that’s not a concern. But if you decide to switch cars earlier, the vehicle’s depreciation represents a significant ownership cost. If you plan to switch cars every few years you’ll save a lot of money buying cars that are at least 3 years old. Keep in mind that cars depreciate at different rates, so buying a car that best holds its value is a smart purchase decision.
12. Find the Best Price
Now that you’ve selected which models you’re interested in, you can do your research to find the best deal. While this mainly applies to used cars, which vary greatly in pricing, you can also do research to see which dealerships and manufacturers are offering the best new car incentives and finance rates. You may find that you can afford a more expensive vehicle than you anticipated if you spot a good deal.
Used car search engine iSeeCars.com uses data to objectively rank millions of cars and thousands of dealers, providing helpful insights and guidance to car buyers to find a good car at a good price from a trustworthy seller. Used car search engines and research sites allow you to easily compare prices and features like warranties, vehicle histories, and condition. Tools like the iSeeCars free VIN check will provide you with a pre-purchase analysis to ensure you are making the smartest purchase decision possible. It will also alert you to any red flags that could end up costing you money down the road. This includes:
- Pricing Analysis – Calculates the car’s fair value based on the local market and maps similar cars for sale locally.
- Condition – Analysis of mileage on the odometer, positives and negatives about the vehicle’s features and condition, and other resources like theft record, recalls.
- Depreciation – Estimates how much the car will depreciate over 1, 3, and 5 years
- Supply Analysis –Identifies similar vehicles for sale within the local area.
- Best Time to Buy – Analyzes when or what months may get you a better price.
- Vehicle History – Free CARFAX or Autocheck reports when provided by the seller.
Bottom Line
Whether you’re buying or leasing a car, it’s important to understand that you’ll likely keep your vehicle for several years. When taking out an auto loan or signing a lease contract, do your best to anticipate your future financial situation and make sure you’ll be able to make payments for the duration of the payment term. Also, when you determine how much you can afford to pay for a vehicle, you can still shop for cars that cost less than that amount. Just like it’s important to do your research and shop around for a vehicle, the same rule extends to auto loans. Follow our steps and you will find the best car at the best price within your budget.
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Ready to begin your used car search? The iSeeCars.com used car search engine is the perfect place to start. With millions of listings that rank the best deals first and 59 user-friendly search filters, it can help you find the best car at the best price. And be sure to check out the comprehensive iSeeCars VIN check report to further help guide you through the car buying process and securethe best deal possible.
This article, How Much Car Can I Afford?, originally appeared on iSeeCars.com. | 2022-10-15T23:08:05+00:00 | keloland.com | https://www.keloland.com/automotive/how-much-car-can-i-afford-2/ |
(KTLA) – Two women who are models and social media influencers say they were denied entry into a popular Los Angeles nightclub because of their size.
Ella Halikas said a bouncer told her and fellow “curvy” model Alexa Jay that they couldn’t follow their friends into The Highlight Room in Hollywood.
“(Alexa) asked him, ‘Hey what’s going on? I’m actually with that party you just let in,’ and he said, ‘I know,’ and looked her up and down and said, ‘Not tonight,’” Halikas recounted.
The women shared their story on social media and said it has resonated with women all over the country who have experienced similar discrimination.
“We’re tired of playing safe. We’re tired of just letting this happen and not speaking up about it,” Halikas said in an Instagram post.
“It was so dehumanizing,” said Jay. “It was like we were being looked through. If you experienced any type of discrimination like this, you know exactly how horrible and disgusting it feels, and we are no longer letting this fly.”
The women believe this problem goes beyond one nightclub. Halikas said she has received thousands of messages from other plus-sized women sharing similar stories of being turned away from bars and nightclubs.
“One of my plus-sized friends went to a club in New York City and they said, ‘Everyone else can come in,'” said Halikas. “They let in all her thin friends, got to her and said, ‘You can’t get in.’ She asked, ‘Why?’ and he goes, ‘If you want to come in, pay $4,000.'”
Halikas said her career as a model had put her on runways and on the pages of Sports Illustrated magazine, but it still didn’t stop her from being turned away.
“It felt like we were alone,” said Halikas. “It felt like we were plucked out of a crowd, and I just felt like we need to share this because it’s not about us not getting into the Highlight Room. We don’t care. It’s the bigger picture of how many girls face this every single day. It was discrimination — 100 percent.”
The Tao Group, operators of The Highlight Room, responded to the incident by saying:
“We are aware of Ella and Alexa’s experience. The doorman on this particular evening worked for a third-party promotion company and we’ve removed this individual from the door effective immediately. We have made several attempts to resolve the issue directly with Ella and Alexa and even scheduled a meeting within days to address their experience which they unfortunately cancelled. Our company does not tolerate discrimination of any kind. We are always appreciative of feedback on our operations and continue to work on how to improve our guest experience.”
The women say they’re open to meeting with the Tao Group, but say they don’t believe just firing one doorman is enough. They’re hoping to work on systemic change in the industry while inspiring and empowering other plus-sized women. | 2022-11-11T19:24:35+00:00 | wate.com | https://www.wate.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/thicker-curvy-women-denied-entry-to-bar-rant-goes-viral-on-social-media/ |
Integration with Incode enables Banorte customers to securely create a bank account from their phones with Incode Omni, used in the largest banks and neobanks in the world
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Incode Technologies Inc., the leading identity verification and authentication platform for global enterprises, today announced a strategic integration with Mexico's second largest bank and financial services company, Banorte. Incode's identity verification technology elevates the customer user experience of financial organizations worldwide.
In today's digital world, it is essential for financial institutions to offer frictionless online services to elevate customer experiences and ensure impactful competitive advantages. This new integration verifies a person's identity against the National Electoral Institute (INE) database using Incode's artificial intelligence technology, which guarantees a fast, secure, and reliable experience for the user.
Using the Banorte Mobil app, the applicant can open their account and sign up for products such as mutual funds, insurance or credit cards. Likewise, those who carry out a payroll transfer to Banorte will have the benefit of accessing a payroll credit from the very first payment they receive.
Marcos Ramírez Miguel, CEO of Grupo Financiero Banorte, said: "We offer users the possibility of becoming Banorte customers in a completely digital way, from their cell phones and with immediate access to a bank account without limits. We will continue working to become the best at banking in a digital world."
"We are proud to partner with a financial institution like Banorte in the development of its digital banking, which highlights Banorte's dedication to customer service," said Ricardo Amper, CEO and founder of Incode. "Banorte offers first-class service to its customers, with simple, agile and secure processes that represent the banking of the future."
Like Banorte, global financial institutions and fintechs, hotels, governments, and entertainment venues are using Incode's fully automated artificial intelligence-solutions like Incode Omni to increase revenue and reduce fraud while providing users with a privacy centric experience.
Incode is the next generation platform for identity verification and authentication, which is reinventing the way humans verify their identity and interact with the world's largest companies, with a highly secure and enjoyable Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based experience. Incode's fully automated end-to-end platform enables seamless access across multiple channels with products focused on onboarding, authentication and payment verification that increase conversion and reduce fraud. With its mission to build trust and democratize access, Incode works with several of the world's largest banks, fintechs, hotels, governments, and markets. Incode is headquartered in San Francisco and has offices in Europe and Latin America. https://incode.com/
Grupo Financiero Banorte (GFNorte) is the largest Mexican financial institution. It offers financial services to individuals and corporations through its businesses: banking, brokerage, fund management, insurance, pensions, leasing and factoring, warehousing, portfolio management and Uniteller remittance.
GFNorte also includes Afore XXI Banorte, the country's largest afore (Retirement Funds Management) in terms of asset management. GFNorte is a public company listed on the Mexican Stock Exchange's main index, and has more than 30,000 employees, 1,100 branches, 9,700 ATMs, 156,000 point-of-sale
LinkedIn: Grupo Financiero Banorte
Twitter: @GFBanorte_mx
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ALBERTSON, N.Y., Oct. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Vandis, Inc announced today that it is a certified Cloud Security Solutions partner of Lightspin, a leading cloud security solution for SaaS companies of all sizes. Under the partnership, Vandis will provide the Lightspin platform and cloud security services to its clients. The solution helps security and DevOps teams achieve a resilient cloud security posture, with the ability to detect security risks and eliminate critical vulnerabilities.
Agentless and easy to deploy, Lightspin's Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) prioritizes and remediates cloud security risks in minutes powered by the industry's only Attack Path Engine built on the graph. Supporting Amazon Web Services, Google Public Cloud, Microsoft Azure and Kubernetes, Lightspin simplifies cloud security and compliance via its self-serve offering and graph-based algorithms.
"As many organizations are still struggling with the security challenges of their cloud environments, our solution gives security and DevOps teams the ability to pinpoint and prioritize risks," said Vladi Sandler, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, Lightspin. "We are excited to have Vandis as one of our partners to provide these organizations with their deep knowledge of cloud environments and the expertise to effectively remediate the issues identified.
"We have seen more and more of our clients embrace hybrid cloud and multi-cloud strategies to help them reduce risks and costs while also gaining a more flexible infrastructure that can evolve with their business. As a result, their teams need access to tools that can identify and prioritize security vulnerabilities across cloud platforms and Kubernetes environments," said Andrew Segal, Chief Executive Officer at Vandis. "We are pleased to partner with Lightspin to provide our customers' with the visibility and power they need to protect their infrastructures."
About Vandis
Vandis provides Managed Services and IT Solutions to optimize the security and performance of network infrastructures, on-prem and in the cloud. We design IT solutions to meet each organization's unique needs and goals. For over 38 years, from SMB to enterprise clients, Vandis delivers comprehensive strategies for secure IT infrastructures. www.vandis.com
CONTACT: Max Slygh, mslygh@vandis.com
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TER APEL, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch aid agencies tended Thursday to hundreds of migrants camped in sweltering heat outside an overcrowded center for asylum-seekers as Dutch authorities investigated the death of a baby in the center a day earlier.
The Dutch arm of Doctors Without Borders deployed medics to the tiny village of Ter Apel in the northeastern Netherlands to give first aid and other assistance. A mobile hospital was expected to arrive Friday, the organization’s national director, Judith Sargentini, said. It is the first time the humanitarian group was called in to assist with a Dutch crisis.
For two nights running, some 700 people have slept outdoors because the asylum reception center with an official capacity of 2,000 does not have space for them and the Dutch government is scrambling to find emergency accommodation.
With temperatures above 30 degrees Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit) on Thursday, migrants lay listlessly on blankets under four canvas shades held up by wooden poles. Some sheltered in the shadow of a Red Cross station which had Wi-Fi and power for charging their phones.
Others squabbled as they tried to board a bus to a nearby town. Inside a tent, a medic checked people who wanted care. Blue plastic children’s paddling pools were set up as washing stations, and a small row of portable toilets stood near the covered areas.
Sargentini compared the situation to overcrowded migrant camps in Greece.
“These are 700 people sleeping rough: no showers, very bad facilities, no health care from the institutions,” Sargentini told The Associated Press. “And it might not be as crowded as on the Greek isles, but if you come here after a long journey as a refugee, you think you find safety, but you find neglect. And you sleep like this. Even if you are healthy, you’ll get sick here.”
She said two people were hospitalized Thursday — a man who had a heart attack and another who did not have medication for his diabetes.
State Secretary for Asylum and Migration Eric van der Burg told reporters he was “deeply shocked” by the death of the 3-month-old baby. The cause of death was under investigation, he said.
Mohammad Ali, a 34-year-old Syrian who crisscrossed Europe to reach the Netherlands and has been in Ter Apel for about a month, said he was shocked at the conditions there.
“I’m surprised from the bad conditions here because I didn’t hear about it,” he said.
A number of factors have created the crisis in Ter Apel. It can take months or more to process the asylum applications of migrants arriving from so-called “safe countries” who ultimately are not entitled to stay. A housing crisis means refugees often have nowhere to go once they have been granted a residency permit and therefore stay on at asylum-seeker centers.
While many Dutch towns and cities offered places for Ukrainians who fled the war in their country, the welcome mat has worn thin for asylum-seekers from other countries. The majority of people arriving in Ter Apel are Syrians fleeing their nation’s grinding civil war.
“There’s about 60,000 Ukrainians in municipalities that are being housed there, and there you can see it was possible. But when it comes to non-Ukrainian refugees — people here are mostly from Syria, from Turkey, Afghanistan — municipalities still look the other way,” said Sander Schaap of refugee aid group VluchtelingenWerk.
In a sign of growing anger at the situation among residents, a group protested Thursday night near the asylum-seeker center, carrying banners that said “Real Refugees OK, Troublemakers Go Away” and “Enough of the Nuisance.”
The situation in Dutch asylum-seeker centers has gotten so bad that VluchtelingenWerk last week took the government and its asylum agency to court to produce improvements. Nobody from the agency was available for comment Thursday.
Sargentini wants to see change even sooner, but is not optimistic.
“If we can leave tomorrow because of the government taking its responsibility, we will,” she said. “But currently, together with the Red Cross, we are here to give that needed help.”
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Follow AP’s coverage of migration issues at https://apnews.com/hub/migration | 2022-08-26T11:35:50+00:00 | localsyr.com | https://www.localsyr.com/news/international/ap-dutch-agencies-help-migrants-sleeping-outside-crowded-camp/ |
CLEARWATER, Fla., Feb. 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Stephanie Conners, CEO and president of BayCare Health System, on Wednesday announced a restructuring of BayCare's executive leadership team aimed at positioning West Central Florida's leading not-for-profit health care system to continue to grow and respond to the region's health care needs. As part of the changes, Conners drew exclusively on the internal talent across the health care system, which will open its 16th hospital in March.
"The talent I have found at BayCare is simply extraordinary," said Conners, who became BayCare's fourth CEO in late November. "As BayCare begins its second quarter-century, we are working to ensure that it remains the provider of choice for our region due to our high-quality and compassionate care and our commitment to our communities."
Reporting to Conners as her CEO Cabinet are, in alphabetical order:
- Chief Team Resources Officer: Kyle Barr
- Chief of Staff and Chief Communications Officer: Keri Eisenbeis
- Co-Chief Operating Officers: Lou Galdieri and Kimberly Guy
- Chief Nurse Executive: Lisa Johnson
- Chief Ambulatory Officer: C. Todd Jones
- Chief Financial Officer: Janice Polo
- Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer: Ed Rafalski
- Chief Administrative Officer: Tim Thompson
- Chief Legal Officer: Jennifer Touse
- Chief Physician Executive: Dr. Sowmya Viswanathan
"Together, this team is going to design and deliver BayCare's next chapter of excellence. With this expertise at the table, we are poised to respond to the needs of our patients, our team members, our physicians, and our community to remain at the forefront of high-quality and compassionate care," Conners said.
BayCare, which primarily services Hillsborough, Pinellas, Polk and Pasco counties, will open its 16th hospital in Wesley Chapel next month and has announced plans to possibly build a hospital in north Manatee County.
BayCare also has one of the region's largest physician groups, BayCare Medical Group; it is the largest provider of pediatric and behavioral health services for the region; and it offers extensive lower-cost options for patients through its outpatient services, such as imaging, laboratories and BayCare Urgent Care. BayCare HomeCare provides in-home care to patients across 13 West Central Florida counties. And BayCarePlus, a Medicare Advantage plan, has a 5-star rating from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
In 2022, for the fourth straight year, BayCare ranked among the top 20% of large health systems in the U.S., according to FORTUNE/Merative™, which also ranked BayCare's St. Joseph's Hospitals among the nation's Top 100 Hospitals®. Only 11 other health care systems in the country have maintained that ranking for four straight years.
Reflecting its commitment to its team members, in 2022, BayCare was also named, for the 6th time, to the Best Workplaces in Health Care™ by Great Place to Work® and Fortune magazine.
BayCare is celebrating its 25th anniversary since its founding on July 1, 1997, by a group of local hospitals committed to ensuring that not-for-profit health care continued to serve the region's health care needs. That commitment remains strong, with BayCare returning roughly 10% ($497 million in 2021) of its annual revenue back to the community in the form of direct charity care, patient financial assistance and community programming.
About BayCare Health System
BayCare is a leading not-for-profit health care system that connects individuals and families to a wide range of services at 15 hospitals and hundreds of other convenient locations throughout the Tampa Bay and central Florida regions. Inpatient and outpatient services include acute care, primary care, imaging, laboratory, behavioral health, home care, and wellness. Our mission is to improve the health of all we serve through community-owned, health care services that set the standard for high-quality, compassionate care. For more information, visit BayCare.org.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Over the last year, Joe Biden has been throwing pieces of his domestic agenda overboard in an effort to keep his presidency afloat. Free community college, child care funding, expanded preschool — all left behind.
But there was one critical piece that emerged largely intact, albeit not unscathed. The legislation approved by the Senate over the weekend includes nearly $400 billion for clean energy initiatives, the country’s largest-ever investment in fighting global warming.
The measure, which includes other provisions on taxes and prescription drugs, is expected to be passed by the House on Friday before going to Biden’s desk for his signature. In a statement to The Associated Press, Biden said the legislation will help fulfill his campaign promise to “build a clean energy future and create jobs for American workers building that future.”
“Our children and grandchildren will remember this for many years to come: this bill changes their lives and secures their future more than almost anything Washington has done for decades,” he said.
For the White House, the final result is proof of an approach — more focused on incentives than regulations or penalties — that was born from the failure to advance climate policy more than a decade ago, when Biden served as vice president.
After President Barack Obama took office in 2009, Democrats began pushing legislation that would create a cap-and-trade program to limit greenhouse gas emissions.
The proposal would have limited emissions and forced industries to buy permits to release emissions, creating a financial incentive to operate more cleanly.
But with the economy still struggling to recover from the recession and Republicans in opposition, the legislation stalled in 2010. Joe Manchin, the West Virginia Democrat who was running for Senate at the time, released a campaign advertisement in which he fired a rifle at a copy of the bill.
Christy Goldfuss, the senior vice president for energy and environment policy at the Center for American Progress, was working on Capitol Hill at the time. She said the failure was “absolutely devastating to the climate community, and really led to deep reflection and introspection.”
Another setback came in 2018, when voters in Washington state rejected a carbon tax. If the idea couldn’t even get traction in such a liberal corner of the country, Goldfuss said, what chance did it have nationally?
Feldman said Biden’s experience as vice president informed his thinking about climate policy when he started running for the White House in 2019.
“He had seen President Obama work very hard to get cap and trade over the finish line,” she said. “He knew that we had to try something different.”
Ali Zaidi, the White House deputy national climate adviser, said Biden was helped by the fact that clean energy had become more affordable and recognizable in recent years.
“This is a set of technologies and a set of solutions for which time has come,” he said. “He was able to speak to an American people who knew tangibly what this meant, and the economics lined up to propel action.”
Climate policy was rolled into Biden’s largest domestic agenda, which included expanded educational and safety net programs. However, the whole thing ground to a halt when negotiations between the White House and Manchin stalled in December,
Manchin began talking again with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., this year, starting with a dinner at an Italian restaurant on Capitol Hill.
Schumer acknowledged in an interview with The Associated Press that “climate was hard” to figure out in the negotiations. Manchin is a longtime supporter of coal and oil and Schumer said that “I knew that he would add some tough stuff in.”
Manchin successfully sought more government auctions for oil drilling on federal lands and waters. He also secured a commitment to help with a natural gas pipeline in his state.
Schumer said he had a “north star” during negotiations, which meant substantial reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.
“As long as we were reducing the amount of carbon that goes into the atmosphere by 40% — Biden’s bill was 45 — we could swallow some bad stuff,” he explained.
Schumer said, “And I talked to some of my caucus members and they said, ‘Go for it, We’ll have your back if you have to swallow bad stuff to get a good bill.’”
The final package of climate proposals has been trimmed from the original $555 billion plan, but it’s still brimming with financial incentives for clean energy.
Manufacturing solar panels and wind turbines would earn companies tax credits. More money would help Americans buy electric vehicles or make their homes energy efficient.
“The bill gives people the tools to be part of the climate solution, and have that make sense for their pocketbook,” Feldman said.
There are still some sticks to go along with the carrots.
A crucial element of the bill would charge oil and gas companies fees for excess methane emissions at drilling sites. Methane, the main component of natural gas, is a key contributor to global warming and packs a stronger short-term climate punch than even carbon dioxide.
The methane fee was top priority of Sen. Tom Carper, D-Del., a close Biden ally.
“If we want to make real progress on climate change in a short time, a great place to start is methane,” Carper said in an interview.
But in a sign of the crucial role played by Manchin, the final version of the bill includes a grant program that rewards energy companies that take steps to lower methane emissions at drilling sites.
Carper called the provision a compromise, noting that he and his staff worked with Manchin to address a series of “concerns raised by Joe on behalf of the oil and gas industry.”
Regardless of the compromises, environmentalists were thrilled by the outcome after girding themselves for another setback.
“This is a legacy-defining win for this administration and a signature achievement for the entire climate community who contributed to it,” said Nathaniel Keohane, president of the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions. “After years of inaction in Congress we are now making remarkable and historic progress.”
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Associated Press writers Matthew Daly and Lisa Mascaro contributed to this report. | 2022-08-09T10:03:46+00:00 | upmatters.com | https://www.upmatters.com/science/ap-science/learning-from-failures-how-biden-scored-win-on-climate-plan/ |
First lady Jill Biden tests positive for COVID-19, has 'mild' symptoms
KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. - First lady Jill Biden tested positive for COVID-19 and was experiencing "mild symptoms," the White House announced Tuesday.President Joe Biden continues to test negative after recently recovering from the virus but will wear a mask indoors for 10 days as a precaution.
The Bidens have been vacationing in South Carolina since Aug. 10, and the 71-year-old first lady began experiencing symptoms on Monday. Jill Biden, like her husband, has been twice-vaccinated and twice-boosted with the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. She has been prescribed the antiviral drug Paxlovid and will isolate at the vacation home for at least five days.
"Close contacts of the First Lady have been notified," her communications director, Elizabeth Alexander, said in a statement "She is currently staying at a private residence in South Carolina and will return home after she receives two consecutive negative COVID tests."
The president tested negative for the virus on Tuesday morning, the White House said, but would be wearing a mask indoors for 10 days. He plans to return to Washington on Tuesday to sign Democrats' landmark climate change and health care bill in the afternoon, before continuing to his home in Wilmington, Delaware.
He recovered from a rebound case of the virus on Aug. 7.
"Consistent with CDC guidance because he is a close contact of the First Lady, he will mask for 10 days when indoors and in close proximity to others," the White House said. It said it would increase the president’s testing cadence and report those results.
RELATED: Biden leaves White House for 1st time since getting COVID-19: 'I'm feeling great’ | 2022-08-16T15:45:17+00:00 | fox29.com | https://www.fox29.com/news/first-lady-jill-biden-tests-positive-covid-19-august-16-2022 |
Here's how Michigan's statewide weather alert system works
Would you know what to do if tornado weather threatened Michigan?
It’s a realistic situation to consider. Michigan has an average of 15 tornadoes a year, typically in late spring and early summer, according to the Michigan State Police MIREADY office.
The average lead time for a tornado warning is 10 to 15 minutes with today’s forecasting and communication technology, but in many cases, there will be a heads up from the National Weather Service through a forecast or watch a few hours earlier that such weather is possible.
Because of the severity of damage that tornadic winds will cause, residents and visitors are encouraged to learn about, prepare for such storms and make a plan on what to do as they enjoy spring and summer activity.
The State of Michigan, in cooperation with local authorities across the state, hosts a Severe Weather Awareness campaign each spring to remind residents of the risks of tornadoes and severe thunderstorms. In addition, the National Weather Service hosts “weather spotter” classes every year in Michigan to explain to the public visible signs of such weather through charts, photos and video clips.
The following announcements are used during tornado season:
- Tornado Watch: Tornadoes are possible in your area. Remain alert for approaching storms, make a plan on what to do. Depending on the forecast, a watch with the more severe “Particularly Dangerous Situation” phrasing may be issued. A watch typically is in effect for a few hours and may include multiple counties.
- Tornado Warning: A tornado has been sighted or indicated by weather radar in your area. This is a call to take shelter immediately. A warning is a shorter time frame than a watch, and for a specific area. Depending on the circumstances, a Tornado Warning may be upgraded to a more severe Tornado Emergency alert.
More: How to prepare for strong storms in Michigan
How to get weather alerts
State officials encourage Michigan residents and visitors to learn about the alert systems that are active where they live, work or visit so to have as much notice as possible. Those options include:
- Wireless Emergency Alerts: This is a national alert system that started about 10 years ago to send an alarm and a short emergency message to cell phones and other mobile devices in a given geographic area. It has been used to alert Michigan residents of tornado warnings.
- NOAA Weather Radio: This is a national network of radio stations that broadcast severe weather alerts and other National Weather Service information. A special receiver is needed to listen, although in some cases a car radio or marine radio can tune in to the weather frequency. Many of these devices will sound an alarm tone when a warning is issued.
- Federal Emergency Management Agency mobile app: Free to download and use; and once installed on a phone or other mobile device, it can be programmed to show alerts for multiple locations.
- Local emergency management alert system: Some of Michigan’s county emergency management agencies and municipalities have text-based, email or phone call systems meant to alert the public of emergency situations. Sign-up information will be on local government websites.
- Radio and TV stations: Find out which broadcast stations report on or air the emergency alert system messages for the county you live in or are visiting.
- Outdoor sirens: A siren system, where one is active, is meant to get attention for those who may be outside. Emergency officials urge people who hear the sirens to seek out announcements and instructions through other means such as broadcast stations, NOAA Weather Radio and mobile apps.
What to do during severe weather
Take shelter. Recommended shelter options during a tornado warning are a basement, storm cellar or a specially-designed “safe room” area. If there is not a designated shelter, people should move to the lowest level of a sturdy building, staying away from doors and windows.
Plan ahead with a disaster kit. Emergency officials urge the public to prepare a disaster kit in advance with supplies such as a flashlight or battery-powered lantern, a first aid kit, an emergency radio and fresh batteries to power their devices. For ideas on what to pack in a kit, go to https://www.ready.gov/kit. | 2022-05-21T13:15:44+00:00 | freep.com | https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2022/05/21/michigan-severe-weather-alerts-system/9827310002/ |
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger wants his state to become an early presidential primary host — just not in 2024, as President Joe Biden and the Democratic Party are pushing.
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The Republican election chief, who garnered attention for rebuffing then-President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn his 2020 loss in Georgia, told The Associated Press he’d back an early primary in 2028.
It’s the first time Raffensperger, who sets Georgia's primary election dates, has endorsed the idea of Georgia as an early nominating state, though not as soon as the Democratic National Committee and the White House want.
“Georgia would be a great early primary state in 2028,” Raffensperger told the AP.
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“It has a good cross-section of engaged voters from both parties, and, as everyone seems to now recognize, we run great elections,” the secretary added in a dig at Democrats’ assertions that he and Republican Gov. Brian Kemp have worked to limit ballot access.
Raffensperger’s position highlights the Democrats' challenge in reordering their nominating calendar to elevate racially diverse electorates and de-emphasize Iowa and New Hampshire. Those overwhelmingly white states have opened the nominating process for both major parties for decades and still lead Republicans’ 2024 calendar as it's currently set — with national GOP officials showing little interest in reconsidering their slate.
The secretary's announcement nonetheless shows Democrats aren’t alone in wanting Georgia, now a premier general election battleground, to expand its burgeoning influence into presidential nominating politics.
The question is whether Democrats can find momentum among the Republicans who control the Georgia statehouse and with the national GOP forces necessary to make such a change. That's decidedly harder than Atlanta's push to win the 2024 Democratic convention, a decision that will be made entirely within the party.
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Top Georgia Democrats including Sen. Raphael Warnock and U.S. Rep. Nikema Williams of Atlanta support a presidential primary move, and the state party’s former executive director, Scott Hogan, has taken on the role of the top unofficial lobbyist for the idea, reaching out to Republicans and the business community.
“This isn’t just a political conversation. This is very much an economic conversation,” said Williams, who is also the state Democratic chairwoman. “It’s a benefit across the board, whether Republicans or Democrats.”
Audrey Haynes, a University of Georgia professor tracking the debate, cited studies showing how much more influential an average American voter becomes when they live in an early nominating state. The economic boon, she added, ranges from candidates' television advertising to a year's worth of tourism and consumer spending by traveling national media and the top campaigns' permanent field staffers.
“There's just all this spending to go along with the attention on voters and on local elected officials,” Haynes said.
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Under the Democratic National Committee plan approved Saturday, the party’s 2024 presidential primaries would begin Feb. 3 in South Carolina, the state that propelled Biden’s campaign in 2020. That primary would be followed by Nevada and New Hampshire on Feb. 6, Georgia on Feb. 13 and Michigan on Feb. 27.
The national party has given Georgia Democrats until June to show they can comply with that calendar, though deadline could be extended.
Raffensperger noted the Republican National Committee has locked in its 2024 calendar, with the usual opening slate of Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada. The GOP also plans to limit convention delegates from states that move up to disrupt that traditional quartet.
“This type of move would need to be equitable, take place on the same day, and ensure that no one loses delegates,” Raffensperger said, offering no indications that he’d try to persuade the RNC to reconsider.
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Jordan Fuchs, Raffensperger’s deputy, said calendar reshuffles must “at the start” be a “bipartisan decision,” a tacit acknowledgement that Biden being the genesis of Democrats’ plan does it no favors in Georgia.
“Just because one party is pushing it doesn’t mean it has bipartisan support,” she said.
Kemp, meanwhile, has given no public sign that he wants a change ahead of 2024. Additionally, Kemp’s advisers have noted he has no official role in setting the primary dates.
That said, Kemp is at the apex of his influence as a second-term, battleground governor who won reelection by nearly 8 percentage points; he defeated Democratic power player Stacey Abrams for a second time after dominating a Republican primary challenger who had Trump's backing. So he would be key in any eventual shift.
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A top Kemp adviser, who wasn't authorized to speak on the record about an issue the governor isn't actively pursuing and requested anonymity, said Kemp and his inner circle do not dispute the long-term benefits Georgia would accrue as an early state.
Yet the considerations for the GOP aren’t as straightforward as for Democrats.
Multiple recent presidential cycles — Barack Obama’s nomination in 2008, Hillary Clinton’s in 2016 and Biden’s in 2020 — have highlighted the power Black voters in the South already have in Democratic politics. Biden’s path was especially emphatic, as he stormed to the nomination in a matter of weeks after finishing fourth in Iowa and fifth in New Hampshire, effectively highlighting their shortcomings as Democratic bellwethers. Those two states, though, still reflect the Republican Party’s overwhelmingly white base, giving the GOP little incentive to depose them.
National Democrats, meanwhile, have made clear they want their early nominating window to be stacked with November battlegrounds; that would give their eventual nominee early exposure in key Electoral College states. Georgia Republicans, conversely, are still adjusting to their state's tossup status after dominating at all levels of government for decades before 2020, when Georgia opted narrowly for Biden and two Democratic senators.
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“I certainly believe it’s a two-party state,” said Chip Lake, a veteran GOP campaign operative. “But the conversations among Democrats on what all this means at the presidential level is just more advanced than it is for Republicans right now,” Lake said.
And, he added, Kemp’s previous statements have effectively cut off any bipartisan movement on primaries.
“No one,” Lake said, “wants to get out in front of the governor.” | 2023-02-06T06:09:49+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/key-republican-wants-ga-as-early-primary-state-17765857.php |
- Bill Conner to take strategic role as Executive Chairman
- CRO Bob VanKirk promoted as new President and CEO to help drive organic, inorganic growth
- Next phase focused on MSP/MSSP enablement, leaning into enterprise and accelerating cloud transformation
MILPITAS, Calif., July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SonicWall today announced a change in its executive leadership as President and Chief Executive Officer Bill Conner takes on the role of Executive Chairman of the SonicWall Board. Former Chief Revenue Officer Bob VanKirk has been promoted to President and CEO to lead next growth phase.
"Since divesting from Dell in 2016, we relaunched the SonicWall brand, rebuilt the partner ecosystem, added key virtual and cloud capabilities, released our market-leading RTDMI technology, and successfully delivered our full suite of Gen 7 product and management solutions," said Conner. "These efforts have paid off, with SonicWall experiencing unprecedented sales growth and profitability, including more than eight consecutive quarters of double-digit top-line and bottom-line growth. I couldn't be more proud of Bob for being ready for this new role and for the entire team for what we have all accomplished."
Brian Decker, Deal Partner with SonicWall private equity owner Francisco Partners, noted, "SonicWall has been extremely fortunate to have Bill's leadership for nearly six years as we navigated the challenges and opportunities of our divestiture from Dell and Quest, and the reestablishment of SonicWall's brand and business. Bill's passion for delivering high-quality and world-class cybersecurity solutions that are accessible to organizations of all sizes has helped lead SonicWall to incredible levels of growth and has ensured that we are positioned to move our business to the next level."
"Bill has built a strong team that will help us continue the momentum he created during his time as CEO," said Evan Daar, Deal Partner with Francisco Partners. "We feel confident that Bob will effectively lead SonicWall in the next chapter of its growth, extending its momentum as it builds on the successes that SonicWall has achieved to further accelerate its business. Bob will also benefit from Bill's continued guidance as he assumes the role of Executive Chair."
The SonicWall sales team, aligned with SonicWall's global channel partners, delivered a record fiscal year in 2021 while also delivering a strong start to the current fiscal year.
"Thanks to our strong base of trusted partners, our loyal customers, Bill and the extended SonicWall team, we are in an ideal position to continue our momentum. I believe the strong growth we have experienced will only accelerate as we focus on maintaining our SMB leadership, continue our enterprise expansion and deliver key cloud growth by providing value-added services like MDR, XDR, SD-WAN and SASE to SonicWall's MSP and MSSP partners," said VanKirk.
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2022 murder of 16-year-old girl and 49-year-old man remains unsolved
Birmingham Police calling for more evidence
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - Birmingham Police have hit a dead end in the murder case of a 16-year-old girl and a 49-year-old Birmingham man killed last January, and now they are asking for your help.
Wenonah High School Student, Yasmine Wright, was struck by a stray bullet on her way home from work at the Birmingham Zoo. Police believe that same gunman also killed Ed Harris that night.
Birmingham Police tell WBRC they are looking for a slender Black man that was inside a black Lexus that night, January 8th, 2022. They believe he was the only shooter, but they are also searching for other passengers in the car.
BPD recovered the black car from the crime scene the night of the murders, but officers said they have investigated all of their evidence and leads.
“He has followed up on the evidence he had that evening,” Officer Truman Fitzgerald with BPD said. “We have run out of our evidence trail and we need public help on this one.”
They don’t know if the suspect is still in the area, but believe he was targeting Harris only. BPD said they can’t share why they believe Harris was being targeted, but that he was also innocent. He was shot while ridding a motorcycle. Wright was hit by a stray bullet while driving home from work with her aunt. Officers are just looking for someone else to come forward with another piece of evidence, that can help lead to an arrest.
“Suspects like to speak, there is just no way around that,” Officer Truman Fitzgerald with BPD said. “They like to brag about what they have done. Please come forward. It could be the smallest tip, just give us something. We will take anything that we can to get justice for these families.”
Officers said coming forward can also help prevent future crimes.
“We are seeing individuals going out and committing two or three additional homicides, aside from their first one,” Fitzgerald said. “Just know, if you have information that leads to an arrest, you might not just be helping that homicide victim, you may be preventing a future homicide.”
BPD said they are still checking in with both victim’s family and are hoping to bring them justice.
If you know anything about the case, please contact the BPD Homicide Unit at 205-254-1764 or you can call Crime Stoppers at (205) 254-7777.
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(THE CONVERSATION) Most newer sports are hybrids of older ones, and pickleball is no exception. The progeny of tennis, badminton and pingpong, pickleball is played by singles or doubles teams who hit a ball back and forth over a 3-foot-high net until one opponent commits a fault.
In 1965, the inventors of pickleball played with what they had – a repurposed badminton setup, pingpong paddles and a perforated plastic ball.
Today’s 4.8 million American pickleballers have much more to play with: In the U.S. there are 38,140 courts, 300 manufacturers of pickleball equipment and hundreds of grassroots clubs.
There’s been a good amount of speculation about the explosion of pickleball’s popularity. But now the sport seems poised to burst into the mainstream, with Lebron James and other luminaries of the NBA and NFL recently announcing large investments in the professional circuit.
Still, the young sport is not immune to growing pains. As I argue in my book “Emerging Sports as Social Movements,” the popularity of some fledgling sports may seem self-evident in splashy headlines. But their less visible social undercurrents ultimately shape whether they’ll continue to attract new players and fans.
Pickleball’s feudal period
For an organized sport to grow, it needs structure – a common set of rules, rankings, equipment standards, scheduled events and a sense of identity that can unite players and fans.
At present, pickleball’s social fabric is spread thin and woven together by a network of competing interests. For every headline about pickleball’s miraculous growth you can also find stories about conflicts and infighting among various leagues and governing bodies, as well as between pickleballers and tennis players.
The sport has three professional leagues battling for control of the pickleball kingdom. It has two international governing bodies: the International Federation of Pickleball and the World Pickleball Federation. The lesser lords of pickleball also feud with tennis players over dual-use courts and plans for expansion in public parks, with reports of “turf wars” and “a tug-of-war” between the two racket sports.
“Picklebalkanization,” anyone?
Internal squabbles are common in emerging sports movements. Cornhole, disc golf and esports, for instance, have faced similar challenges. In some cases, conflict can be a good thing. It may spur innovation. But it can also leave some would-be fans, sponsors and players wondering whom they should watch, invest in or play for.
Compared with traditional racket sports, pickleball is less expensive, requires less space and may be more compatible with the aches and pains that come with age. And unlike other emerging sports, pickleball’s future seems bright. But for now it has more in common with French feudalism of the ninth century – when territorial disputes were commonplace – than a modern unified sport movement headed for the Olympics.
Birds of a feather dink together
If two strangers meet in a bar and happen to share an interest in pickleball, they won’t be strangers for long. Shared passion is the glue and fuel of emerging sports communities. But the human tendency to bond with those who are like us also poses a problem for sports seeking to achieve widespread popularity.
Sociological studies show that our love of sameness partly explains why our groups and social networks tend to be homogeneous, such as male-dominated occupations, predominantly white community groups, and friendship circles united by a single religion. For grassroots sports, which spread through social networks, the sameness problem can limit growth by narrowing the flock to those with similar feathers.
Pickleball insiders like to talk about the sport’s relatively balanced gender ratio, which stands at roughly 60% to 70% men and 30% to 40% women. The newest professional league, Major League Pickleball, is promoting the sport through mixed-gender competitions, with teams comprising two men and two women – a unique format in the male-dominated world of pro sports.
But grassroots sports sprout from the ground up, and long-term growth depends partly on the demographic diversity of core players. Pickleball may be trending younger, but one-third of its avid players are of retirement age. Roughly half the population of pickleball players probably saw the Apollo 11 moon landing. Calculating accurate statistics on niche communities is difficult, but based on my review of multiple academic and journalistic sources, pickleballers are predominantly older, white, affluent and suburban. For instance, two survey-based studies with large samples estimated the proportion of white players at 93.5% and 94.1%.
Demographic homogeneity is a tough trend to buck. Of course, some sports, like golf and NASCAR, have expanded their reach without solving the sameness problem. But given the nation’s reckoning around race and gender, a successful push for greater diversity could be the one thing that separates pickleball from the crowd of dreamer upstarts.
Will the revolution even need to be televised?
That sports grow when mainstream media pay attention to them seems obvious. Increased media coverage from ESPN or CBS attracts more participants and consumers, enticing sponsors and fostering stronger sport institutions.
Yet, as a growth strategy, buying airtime on ESPN – which sports like cornhole and ax throwing are doing – may provide little more than airy hope. As pickleball strives to expand its audience, it faces stiff competition from traditional sports brands like the NFL and NBA, as well as emerging brands like esports, mixed martial arts, disc golf, cornhole, drone racing, round net, darts and ax throwing.
With so many options, some sports just won’t make it big. The history of emerging sports is filled with booms and busts. Interest in gambling sports like jai alai and horse racing has declined tremendously since the late 20th century. ESPN’s X Games popularized alternative sports like skateboarding in the late 1990s, but some disciplines, like street luge, were left behind. Drop “poker” in a Google Trends search box and you’ll see that the Texas hold ‘em boom lasted for about three years, from 2004 to 2006.
The next big thing in sports may not boom at all. Given that younger consumers are migrating to streaming services, the revolution may not be televised to a mass audience but instead will be streamed to die-hard fans.
Niche sports like pickleball may have an advantage as sports spectatorship fragments. For small sports, a modest audience with slow but steady growth could be a recipe for sustainable success. There are numerous options for watching pickleball matches, such as YouTube channels, livestreams via Facebook, fuboTV, and some coverage on broadcast and cable channels, but demand for live coverage remains modest.
Ultimately, with so many shiny new sports to choose from, the winners will be determined not by flashy media exposure or top-down commercial forces but rather by bottom-up community development. No matter how hot the publicity gets around pickleball, the consumer base for watching the sport will draw heavily on people who already love playing it. The love of any sport has roots in culture – not commerce.
If pickleball lives up to the hype, it will do so on the backs of volunteers and grassroots organizers who can transform a loose network of casual players into an international community of pickleball fanatics.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Jill Biden urged graduates of a Los Angeles community college on Tuesday to “never forget where you came from,” saying they can learn from their past without being defined by it.
The first lady, a community college English professor, singled out a few Los Angeles City College graduates in her brief remarks, including a 46-year-old woman who realized a childhood dream of becoming a teacher after losing her 25-year career as a graphic designer during the pandemic.
She also told the stories of a woman from the Ivory Coast who went into labor with her third child during her final exam, but still completed her test, and of the U.S. Marine diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder after a tour in Afghanistan but found treatment and enrolled at LACC.
In her first address of the 2022 commencement season, Biden told the more than 1,000 graduates that “you astonish me with your grit and your determination and that is why I love teaching community college.”
As first lady, she continues to teach at Northern Virginia Community College, where she has taught since 2009.
“My charge to you is this: Never forget your path, the people who brought you here, or the lessons you’ve realized along the way,” she said. “Never forget where you came from. It doesn’t have to define you, but it will always have something to teach you.”
“Never forget what made you who you are, and then you will be ready for wherever you choose to go next,” she said.
Biden visited Los Angeles City College in 2016 to announce the start of the Los Angeles College Promise Program, which offers free tuition for all new, full-time students at the Los Angeles Community College District, including LACC, according to the school's website.
Biden and her husband, President Joe Biden, pushed last year for a nationwide program that would provide two years of free community college, but Congress rejected the idea.
The first lady was in Los Angeles to help host, with President Biden, the Summit of the Americas, a gathering of leaders of democracies in the Western Hemisphere. | 2022-06-08T13:30:39+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Jill-Biden-to-L-A-college-grads-Never-forget-17226595.php |
The official Twitter account for the San Antonio Spurs has more than 3.5 million followers, but 1.5 million of them are fake accounts, according to a sports betting company.
Gambling.com released its data on Thursday from an unofficial audit it conducted on the Twitter accounts of all 30 NBA teams. It found that the Spurs have the sixth-most fake followers among the teams but have the eighth-highest share of bots at 41.6 percent.
To collect the data, Gambling.com said it ran the Twitter accounts of every NBA team through a fake follower audit tool, which took a sample of 2,000 random followers and ran diagnostics that strongly correlate with fake followers, including spam accounts, inactive users, propoganda or other non-engaged/non-real users.
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Per CNN, Elon Musk conducted a bot analysis before purchasing Twitter and found that 11 percent of its accounts were either spam or bots. That's a more prevalent amount than on other social media platform, according to CNN. Gambling.com cited Musk's work on Twitter for conducting its audit.
The Los Angeles Lakers had the most so-called fake followers (with more than 4.85 million), according to the data, while the Golden State Warriors had the highest percentage of fake Twitter fans at 45.3 percent.
The Detroit Pistons, who have the fewest Twitter followers, had the fewest fake followers with 403,000, while the New York Knicks had the smallest percentage of bots with 35.1 percent.
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Cubs eighth. Jonathan Villar pinch-hitting for Jason Heyward. Jonathan Villar walks. Andrelton Simmons out on a sacrifice bunt to shallow infield, Austin Riley to Orlando Arcia. Jonathan Villar to second. Christopher Morel out on a sacrifice fly to center field to Michael Harris II. Jonathan Villar scores. Willson Contreras strikes out swinging.
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Today, Talladega police Detective Lisa Garrett officially closes the book on a 35-year career in law enforcement, all with the city of Talladega.
Garrett began her career working as a dispatcher in September 1987, before making the jump to patrol officer 10 years later.
“There was no caller ID when I started out in dispatch,” she said. “Now we’ve got 10 people that are doing what I did back then. My chief at the time wanted me to go into patrol, but I wasn’t really interested at first, I just wanted to be a dispatcher.”
Eventually she realized she was making the highest salary she ever would as a dispatcher, and decided to cross over to patrol duties. There she worked with the late Tim Pitts and fellow retirees Marco Williams and Allen Wheeles — who were present for her retirement party Thursday.
“There have probably been 200 people that have come through this department while I worked here,” she said. And she has learned from them.
“Before I came here, I worked for Palm Beach [a clothing manufacturer], and I got laid off after six months. I didn’t know how to sew then, and I still don’t know how to sew. But since I’ve been here, I’ve learned that I want to make people feel like they’ve been seen and heard, people on the street, people that look like me. I’ve met the most amazing people.”
She also specifically mentioned retired Capt. Ronnie Jones and former Chief Alan Watson, both of whom were present Thursday as well, naming them as the most knowledgeable people she knew.
“I don’t know what the next chapter will be,” she added. “I’ve been loved, felt love. I am grateful for everyone that came to celebrate with me. It swells my heart.” | 2023-04-01T19:40:57+00:00 | annistonstar.com | https://www.annistonstar.com/the_daily_home/dh_news/detective-closes-out-35-years-with-talladega-police-department/article_18356cbe-d018-11ed-8a96-7ff8a448df91.html |
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Homeland Security on Friday announced a process by which migrant workers who witness or are victims of workplace labor violations can apply for protection from deportation, in a development applauded by labor and rights advocates who say it will protect migrant workers who expose abusive working conditions.
Friday’s announcement sets up guidelines on the agency’s website so applicants know what documentation they need to apply and how to go about it.
“Workers are often afraid to report violations of law by exploitative employers or to cooperate in employment and labor standards investigations because they fear removal or other immigration-related retaliation by an abusive employer,” the agency said in a news release. “Agencies tasked with enforcing labor and employment laws depend on the cooperation of these workers in their investigations.”
The agency said that in the past it has been able to use “discretionary authority” to consider requests to protect workers from deportation who are assisting in labor investigations on a case-by-case basis. But the new guidelines create a “streamlined and expedited” process and a centralized location where requests can be submitted.
The new process allows migrant workers to apply for “deferred action,” meaning protection from deportation if they’re taking part in an investigation of workplace labor violations.
As part of the application they’d have to show proof from a labor or employment agency describing the investigation and why they need DHS support. They’d also have to show proof they were working at the company as well as documents like proof of identity. The applications would be reviewed by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, an arm of Homeland Security that handles immigration and citizenship-related requests.
If approved, migrant workers cooperating with a labor investigation can stay in the country for two years. They can also apply for authorization to work legally in the country during that time.
Labor and immigration groups applauded the news as a way to protect migrant workers from employers who might use their immigration status as a way to retaliate against them for coming forward about things like wage or workplace violations.
“As immigration lawyers, we have seen too many of our clients suffer workplace abuses they were too afraid to report for fear of retribution by unscrupulous employers,” said Ann Garcia, staff attorney at the National Immigration Project.
In an October 2021 memo, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said the agency would consider requests for deferred action protection for migrants helping in labor investigations but didn’t set out a detailed policy for how it would be done. Since then, Garcia said, some lawyers have applied on behalf of their clients but it was case by case.
“It was a process of guesswork,” she said. Garcia, who trains other lawyers in aspects of immigration law, said now the formal process will allow her to more easily help other lawyers navigate for their clients.
Stuart Appelbaum, president of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, also applauded the announcement.
“Immigrant workers are critical to the success of our economy, yet they are among those who suffer the most exploitation and abuse at work, and then suffer further from intimidation and retaliation when they stand up for their rights,” said Appelbaum said.
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Browns’ Winfrey has assault charged dismissed after he completed diversion program
CLEVELAND (AP) — Cleveland Browns defensive tackle Perrion Winfrey had a misdemeanor assault charge against him dropped in Texas after he completed a pretrial diversion program.
According to Harris County Court documents, Winfrey’s case was dismissed on June 9.
The 22-year-old Winfrey was arrested in April after he allegedly caused “bodily injury” during an argument with a woman he was dating.
Winfrey has had a turbulent tenure with Cleveland since the Browns drafted him in the fourth round in 2022 out of Oklahoma. He was disciplined by the team as a rookie last season on at least two occasions, and Winfrey acknowledged he needed to mature as a professional.
Last week, Winfrey and cornerback Greg Newsome II were robbed at gunpoint by six masked men in downtown Cleveland outside a nightclub. Neither player was hurt in the incident, which remains under investigation.
Winfrey remained inside the team’s facility last week for two days while the Browns practiced outdoors during minicamp. Coach Kevin Stefanski declined to say if Winfrey was being disciplined. He rejoined his teammates on the third day.
The 6-foot-4, 290-pound Winfrey is expected to be with the team at training camp next month. The Browns will practice the first week in West Virginia.
The Browns are hoping that Winfrey, who showed signs of being a productive player in 13 games last season, can be part of their defensive line rotation this season.
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“I hope it does have a chilling effect.”
Those are the words of Sen. Jim Tomes, R-Wadesville, an Indiana legislator who wants control of school teachers and librarians. He’s the author of Senate Bill 12, which advanced Tuesday out of the Senate and to the House for consideration.
The bill would ban materials deemed “harmful to minors” in school libraries and would also allow felony charges to be brought against a K-12 school teacher, librarian or staff member for providing such material to students.
Under the bill, schools would no longer be able to defend the material in question as being used for “educational purposes.”
It also allows parents to submit complaints and burdens schools with having not only to defend every complaint but also to post a list of books on a website and in hard copy form for parental viewing.
“I hope it’s enough of a chilling effect that they will come to their senses, and have it upon themselves to see to it that for the kids entrusted in their custody, they will do their best to protect their innocence,” Tomes said.
We guarantee if you ask any teacher in the state of Indiana how they feel about their students they would be quick to declare that protecting them is of utmost importance. Suggesting otherwise is unfair.
According to Tomes, he is simply trying to shield “parents, their children” from “really, really, really bad books,” as reported by the Indiana Capital Chronicle. The senator wants to eradicate “raw pornography” from school libraries, the news service reported.
We wonder how long it’s been since the senator has been inside a school library.
We also wonder if someone should explain to him what real pornography is.
As for giving parents control? Why not do that by allowing them to decide what’s appropriate for their children when they do bring a questionable book home instead of using scare tactics against educators who are already leaving the profession and the state in droves because of such nonsense?
Bullying teachers into submission isn’t the way to protect children. In fact, it’s a waste of time.
If Indiana wants its future to look dim, go no further than legislation like Tomes’ that limits ideas and forms of expression. The state needs to do just the opposite in supporting its children: to nurture students who will become fully educated and well-rounded, who can come to the table as a college student, a job applicant or an employee well aware of ideas which are different from their own, able to make persuasive arguments and safe decisions for themselves and their communities.
Children growing up in states banning books and materials will grow up at a disadvantage. Another social gap will form, separating people who are well-equipped to solve problems and build relationships and those without the tools necessary to succeed in life.
Legislators would be smart to use their time more effectively instead of on legislation disguised as something that will ultimately protect children and their parents, which in fact only harms them, hinders their ability to think widely and openly and limits their chance to positively affect their future. | 2023-03-04T05:45:27+00:00 | tribstar.com | https://www.tribstar.com/opinion/editorials/tribune-star-editorial-senators-chilling-effect-may-not-the-kind-he-wants/article_cb6a772a-b92f-11ed-9eb8-831ed5178882.html |
Move over “Dick and Jane.” A different approach to teaching kids how to read is on the rise.
For decades, two schools of thought have clashed on how to best teach children to read, with passionate backers on each side of the so-called reading wars. The battle has reached into homes via commercials for Hooked on Phonics materials and through shoebox dioramas assigned by teachers seeking to instill a love of literature.
But momentum has shifted lately in favor of the “science of reading.” The term refers to decades of research in fields including brain science that point to effective strategies for teaching kids to read.
The science of reading is especially crucial for struggling readers, but school curricula and programs that train teachers have been slow to embrace it. The approach began to catch on before schools went online in spring 2020. But a push to teach all students this way has intensified as schools look for ways to regain ground lost during the pandemic — and as parents of kids who can't read demand swift change.
OK, CLASS. TIME FOR A HISTORY LESSON.
One historical approach to teaching reading was known as “whole language.” (Close cousins of this approach are “whole word” and “look-say.”) It focused on learning entire words, placing the emphasis on meaning. A famous example is the “Dick and Jane” series, which, like many modern-day books for early readers, repeated words frequently so students could memorize them.
The other approach involved phonics, with supporters arguing students need detailed instruction on the building blocks of reading. That meant lots of time on letter sounds and how to combine them into words.
In 2000, a government-formed National Reading Panel released the findings of its exhaustive examination of the research. It declared phonics instruction was crucial to teaching young readers, along with several related concepts.
Whole language had lost.
What emerged, though, was an informal truce that came to be known as “balanced literacy” and borrowed from both approaches. The goal: Get kids into books they found enjoyable as quickly as possible.
But in practice, phonics elements often got short shrift, said Michael Kamil, professor emeritus of education at Stanford University.
“It wasn’t a true compromise,” said Kamil, who had sat on the national reading panel. The approach often led to students learning how to guess words, instead of how to sound them out.
Now, as schools look to address low reading scores, phonics and other elements of the science of reading are getting fresh attention, fueled in part by a series of stories and podcasts by APM Reports. Textbook makers are adding more phonics, and schools have dumped some popular programs that lacked that approach.
WHAT IS THE SCIENCE OF READING?
While the phrase doesn’t have a universal definition, it refers broadly to research in a variety of fields that relates to how a child's brain learns to read. Neuroscientists, for instance, have used MRIs to study the brains of struggling readers.
In practice, this science calls for schools to focus on the building blocks of words. Kindergartners might play rhyming games and clap out the individual syllables in a word to learn to manipulate sounds. Experts call this phonemic awareness.
Students later will learn explicitly how to make letter sounds and blend letters. To make sure students aren’t just guessing at words, teachers might ask them to sound out so-called nonsense words, like “nant” or “zim.”
Gone is rote memorization of word spellings. Instead, students learn the elements that make up a word. In a lesson using the word “unhappy,” students would learn how the prefix “un-” changed the meaning of the base word.
WHY DOES IT MATTER?
For some kids, reading happens almost magically. Bedtime stories and perhaps a little “Sesame Street” are enough.
But 30% to 40% of kids will need the more explicit instruction that is part of the science of reading, said Timothy Shanahan, a professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Other kids fall somewhere in between. “They’re going to learn to read,” said Shanahan, also one of the members of the 2000 panel and the former director of reading for Chicago Public Schools. “They’re just not going to read as well as they could be or should be.”
Complicating the situation, colleges of education often have stuck with balanced literacy despite concerns about its effectiveness. That means teachers graduate with little background on research-backed instructional methods.
The upshot: Parents often pick up the slack, paying for tutors or workbooks when their children struggle, Shanahan said. Extra help can be costly, contributing to racial and income-based disparities.
As a result, a growing number of NAACP chapters are pushing for wider adoption of the science of reading, describing literacy as a civil rights issue.
WHAT IS DYSLEXIA'S ROLE IN THE READING DEBATE?
Parents of children with dyslexia have led the push to use the science of reading. For them, the issue has special urgency. Kids with dyslexia can learn to read, but they need systematic instruction. When the wrong approach is used, they often flounder.
“I can’t even tell you how many screaming fits we had,” recalled Sheila Salmond, whose youngest child has dyslexia. “My daughter would come home and say, ‘Mom, I’m not learning.’ And then it became, ‘Mom, I’m stupid.’”
Salmond found herself testifying before Missouri lawmakers, taking a graduate class so she could tutor her daughter and eventually moving her from a suburban Kansas City district to a parochial school. She now is making progress.
WHAT IS CHANGING?
Just a decade ago, it was rare for a state to have laws that mentioned dyslexia or the science of reading.
Now every state has passed some form of legislation. The laws variously define what dyslexia is, require that students are screened for reading problems and mandate that teachers are trained in the most effective strategies, said Mary Wennersten, of the International Dyslexia Association.
States often look to duplicate what has happened in Mississippi, which has credited reading gains to a curriculum revamp that started a decade ago. The multi-million dollar effort includes training teachers on the science of reading.
The changes have put some curriculum programs in the crosshairs.
Some Colorado districts, for instance, have ditched instructional materials that didn’t pass muster under a state law that requires schools to use scientifically based reading programs. New York City, whose mayor often talks about his personal struggle with dyslexia, is making changes in its schools as well.
WHAT DOES THE SCIENCE OF READING MEAN FOR PARENTS?
Should they be researching the tenets of the science of reading? Do they need to help their children form letters out of Play-Doh? What about drilling their kids on nonsense words? Flashcards?
Only if they want to, said Amelia Malone, director of research and innovation at the National Center for Learning Disabilities.
What parents must do, she said, is read to their kids. Otherwise, she recommends helping teachers when they ask for it and pushing for evidence-based practices in their children’s schools.
“Parents can be part of the solution," she said, "if we educate them on why this is kind of the movement we need.”
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Senator Ted Cruz is calling President Biden a hypocrite when it comes to abortion. The Texas Republican used a Judiciary Committee hearing to blast Biden for supporting abortion now, even though he previously said Roe v. Wade went too far.
Cruz attacked the modern Democratic Party for, in his mind, being out of touch with the American public when it comes to abortion. | 2022-07-12T22:50:32+00:00 | kurv.com | https://www.kurv.com/gop-sen-cruz-calls-biden-a-flip-flopper-on-abortion/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=gop-sen-cruz-calls-biden-a-flip-flopper-on-abortion |
Morris makes history in Sounders' 4-1 win over Sporting KC
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Jordan Morris became the first Sounder to score four goals in a match and Seattle snapped a five-match losing streak on the road with a 4-1 victory over Sporting Kansas City on Saturday night.
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Morris is just the third player in MLS history to score four goals in an away match. Morris is the first to accomplish the feat since Clint Mathis scored five times for the New York/New Jersey MetroStars in a 2000 match in Dallas.
Morris, who leads the league with seven goals this season, took a pass from Léo Chú and scored in the 23rd minute after William Agada staked Sporting KC (0-3-2) to a 1-0 lead with a goal in the fifth minute.
Morris gave Seattle (3-1-1) the lead in the 54th minute, scoring with assists from Chú and João Paulo. He polished off a hat trick when he took a pass from Nicolás Lodeiro and scored in the 69th minute. Chú picked up his third assist and Albert Rusnák his first on Morris' final netter of the night — in the 77th minute.
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Seattle outshot Sporting KC 13-7 with a 7-3 advantage in shots on goal.
Stefan Frei finished with two saves for the Sounders who had a 0-9-1 record in its previous 10 road matches. John Pulskamp had three saves for Sporting KC, which entered play with a 5-2-0 record against Seattle since the start of the 2019 season.
Seattle stays on the road to play the LA Galaxy on Saturday. Sporting KC travels to play the Philadelphia Union on Saturday. | 2023-03-26T05:43:37+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/sports/article/morris-makes-history-in-sounders-4-1-win-over-17860529.php |
The long-planned closure of Eastern Niagara Hospital, the financially struggling health care facility that has served Lockport for more than a century, is now only three months away.
Eastern Niagara Hospital announced Friday that it will close June 17. While the planned closure has been known for several years, the specific closing date is new.
The hospital also filed a notice Thursday with the state Labor Department, alerting the agency to the planned closure that will affect 337 employees – that includes 280 workers at the hospital site on East Avenue and 57 employees at the ambulatory care center at 5875 S. Transit Road.
But only a portion of those workers will lose their jobs. Many of them will continue employment with Buffalo-based Catholic Health System, which has had a management agreement with Eastern Niagara Hospital since October 2020.
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"Yesterday, all ENH employees were notified of the hospital's planned closure date," said Ann Briody Petock, chair of ENH board of directors. "ENH management has been committed to assisting employees find employment with area health care employers. We are pleased that most Eastern Niagara employees have accepted employment offers with other hospitals."
"The model was built for the community based on need, not based on what textbooks would say about hospitals," Catholic Health President and CEO Mark Sullivan said.
Catholic Health spokesperson JoAnn Cavanaugh said the system has so far hired about 120 employees from Eastern Niagara Hospital, more than half of whom have been hired for the under-construction Lockport Memorial Hospital.
Several dozen Eastern Niagara Hospital employees also have been hired at the Transit Road ambulatory center, which will reopen immediately under Catholic Health management after June 17. Catholic Health previously purchased the ambulatory center and will provide urgent care, imaging, occupational medicine and ambulatory surgery services to the community.
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Since Friday's announcement, Cavanaugh said Catholic Health has received several more applications and expects that to continue.
Eastern Niagara Hospital leadership has submitted the required closure plan to the state Health Department, which remains under review, Health Department spokesperson Jeffrey Hammond said. Per Public Health Law, the closure plan must be approved before a facility can close.
The financially pinched Eastern Niagara Hospital, which filed for bankruptcy in November 2019 and would have closed two years ago if not for the management agreement with Catholic Health, said in a statement Friday that it was only able to operate this long by relying on state grants. In fact, the hospital in January received $8.9 million in state Vital Access Provider Assurance Program funding, which will sustain hospital operations through June 17.
Under the agreement with Catholic Health, the plan was for Eastern Niagara Hospital to stay open until the opening of Lockport Memorial, helping to preserve immediate hospital access for more than 80,000 residents in eastern Niagara County.
Cavanaugh on Friday did not immediately provide an updated projected opening date for the $62 million Lockport Memorial. As the final steel beam was raised into place in August, Catholic Health officials said the facility should open by late summer 2023.
Catholic Health executives expressed confidence in their plan for Lockport Memorial Hospital on Tuesday, as the final steel beam was put into place.
In its statement Friday, Eastern Niagara Hospital advised residents in eastern Niagara County who require emergency medical services to call 911 or go to the nearest emergency department for care once the Lockport hospital closes in three months. It then listed those locations as Mount St. Mary's Hospital in Lewiston; Orleans Community Health's Medina Memorial Hospital; Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital; DeGraff Medical Park; Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center; or Kenmore Mercy Hospital.
Urgent care services also will be available at its ambulatory center on South Transit Road as well as WellNow Urgent Care at 5801 S. Transit Road.
The hospital also noted that its Reflections Chemical Dependency Program will close April 1 due to staffing limitations. It advised patients in need of substance use services to contact Clearview Treatment Center (716-298-2115), ECMC (716-898-3471), First Step Crisis Center (716-285-3421), GCASA (585-815-5248), or Recovery Center of Niagara (716-265-3700).
"We are proud of our over 100 years of commitment to health care in Lockport and look forward to the next chapter with the opening of a new hospital in Lockport," Petock said.
Jon Harris can be reached at 716-849-3482 or jharris@buffnews.com. Follow him on Twitter at @ByJonHarris. | 2023-03-17T21:25:28+00:00 | buffalonews.com | https://buffalonews.com/business/local/eastern-niagara-hospital-to-close-in-june-ending-a-century-of-service-in-lockport/article_df5a5af8-c4f5-11ed-b849-fbcf73d2a4dd.html |
North Central Florida Treasures: Singer featherweight sewing machine
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GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) - This week on North Central Florida Treasures Art Adkins has an device that was vital and trendsetting to our fabric history. The Singer featherweight sewing machine, experimenting with the look and style of this new model, Singer commissioned 10,000 221 sewing machines as the first batch to be sold in October, 1933.
Prior to the featherweight sewing machine, most sewing machines had an cast iron base, making them immovable. This device laid just over 11 lbs., allowing the machine to be shared, whereas a community would have to go where the machine is located if sewing was needed.
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In a retail setting it would go for $375, the Singer featherweight sewing machine.
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BERLIN – Germany and Nigeria on Friday signed an agreement paving the way for the return of hundreds of artifacts known as the Benin Bronzes that were taken from Africa more than 120 years ago — an accord that Nigerian officials hope will prompt other countries to follow suit.
Governments and museums in Europe and North America have increasingly sought to resolve ownership disputes over objects that were looted during colonial times.
A British colonial expedition looted vast quantities of treasures in 1897 from the royal palace of the Kingdom of Benin, in what is now southwestern Nigeria, including numerous bas-reliefs and sculptures.
The artifacts ended up spread far and wide. Hundreds were sold to collections such as the Ethnological Museum in Berlin, which has one of the world’s largest groups of historical objects from the Kingdom of Benin, estimated to include about 530 items, including 440 bronzes. Many of them date from the 16th to the 18th centuries.
Two pieces held by the Berlin museum — a commemorative head of a king and a relief slab depicting a king with four attendants — were handed over as German and Nigerian officials signed their “joint political declaration” at the German foreign ministry in Berlin.
“This is just the beginning of more than 1,000 pieces from the Kingdom of Benin that are still in German museums, and they all belong to the people of Nigeria,” German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said. “It was wrong to take the bronzes; it was wrong to keep them for 120 years.”
The bronzes “are some of Africa's greatest treasures, but they are also telling the story of colonial violence,” Baerbock said.
The Nigerian government, which in recent years has stepped up its demands for the return of the Benin Bronzes, said the accord would pave way for the return of 1,130 pieces. It described it as the “single largest repatriation of artifacts anywhere in the world.”
“Germany has taken the lead in correcting the wrongs of the past,” Nigerian Culture Minister Lai Mohammed said. He added that he expects the move to "become a harbinger of more repatriation of cultural property.”
Germany last year announced its intention to return the Benin Bronzes that ended up there.
Officials didn't give a timeline for the return of the remaining artifacts on Friday, but Berlin's Ethnological Museum said a agreement on the rest of the bronzes it holds will follow later this year. The authority that oversees the museum says it expects to keep some on long-term loan. Baerbock said she is looking forward to seeing bronzes “on holidays in Germany.”
Friday's agreement provides for museum cooperation between Germany and Nigeria. Germany is helping Nigeria set up a new museum in Benin City where bronzes will be displayed in the future, Baerbock said.
“It is my sincere hope that other European countries ... will follow in your footsteps,” Nigeria's state minister for foreign affairs, Zubairu Dada, said of Friday's accord.
The Smithsonian removed 10 Benin Bronze pieces from display at its National Museum of African Art in Washington, D.C., and announced a new ethical return policy this year. Other U.S. museums have also begun discussions about returning such objects, while France declared last year that it would return the so-called Abomey Treasures to Benin as part of a wider effort to make amends for colonial wrongs.
Hundreds of objects from the Kingdom of Benin remain in the British Museum in London, which has resisted calls to return them.
“The British Museum remains committed to thorough and open investigation of Benin collection histories,” the museum said in an emailed statement Friday. “This includes fully acknowledging and understanding the colonial history which forms the key context for the development of the Museum’s Benin collections.”
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Frank Jordans in Berlin and Chinedu Asadu in Lagos, Nigeria contributed to this report. | 2022-07-01T18:15:50+00:00 | ksat.com | https://www.ksat.com/entertainment/2022/07/01/germany-nigeria-sign-accord-for-return-of-benin-bronzes/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Fern Hollow Bridge in Pittsburgh became a symbol of the country's troubled infrastructure, collapsing into a ravine earlier this year just before President Joe Biden visited the city.
Biden detoured to survey the scene, where vehicles were stranded on shards of roadway and several people were injured, and he pledged that help was on the way.
The Democratic president hopes to turn the bridge into a symbol of success for his administration when he returns to Pittsburgh on Thursday, less than three weeks before the midterm elections.
A new span is being built, and it could be finished by December. The White House is crediting the bipartisan infrastructure law championed by Biden for the accelerated timeline.
The legislation is one of Biden's most notable successes from the first two years of his term, and he repeatedly emphasizes its impact while traveling the country to roadways, airplane terminals and seaports. Out of roughly $1 trillion in spending, about $40 billion is dedicated to bridges.
John Fetterman, the Democrat running for the U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, is expected to be on hand when Biden visits the bridge.
Afterward, Biden plans to stop in Philadelphia for a fundraiser with Fetterman, trying to replenish coffers that have been drained in one of the year's most expensive races.
Fetterman is competing with Dr. Mehmet Oz, a Republican, for an open seat being vacated by Sen. Pat Toomey, also a Republican. If Fetterman wins, Democrats will have a much better shot at maintaining control of the Senate.
Biden was born in Pennsylvania, and the state remains central to his political identity.
His trip on Thursday will be his 14th to the state since taking office. A 15th trip has already been scheduled for next week, when he's expected to return to Philadelphia for another political event. | 2022-10-20T10:25:05+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Biden-seeks-symbol-of-rebuilding-at-Pittsburgh-17521584.php |
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Cle_Njoku 10 pass from Watson (York kick), 6:27. Drive: 10 plays, 71 yards, 4:57. Key Plays: Watson 14 pass to Bryant on 3rd-and-3; Watson 14 pass to Hunt; Chubb 12 run on 3rd-and-1.
Pit_Pickens 31 pass from Pickett (Boswell kick), 1:47. Drive: 10 plays, 75 yards, 4:40. Key Plays: Pickett 23 pass to Gentry; Pickett 1 pass to Warren on 3rd-and-1.
Pit_FG Boswell 49, :38. Drive: 6 plays, 25 yards, 00:33. Key Plays: Wallace 3 interception return to Pittsburgh 44; Pickett 24 pass to Pickens.
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Pit_FG Boswell 34, 9:04. Drive: 13 plays, 59 yards, 5:56. Key Plays: Warren 22 run; Pickett 10 pass to Na.Harris; Olszewski 1 run on 3rd-and-1.
Pit_Na.Harris 4 run (Boswell kick), 3:12. Drive: 6 plays, 25 yards, 2:30. Key Plays: Kazee 12 interception return to Cleveland 25; Na.Harris 11 run; Pickett 3 pass to Warren on 3rd-and-3.
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Cle_Chubb 2 pass from Watson (York kick), 10:11. Drive: 7 plays, 77 yards, 4:38. Key Plays: Chubb 15 run; Chubb 11 run; Watson 36 pass to Cooper.
Pit_D.Watt 1 run (Di.Johnson pass from Pickett), 4:37. Drive: 15 plays, 75 yards, 5:34. Key Plays: Pickett 17 pass to Pickens on 3rd-and-10; Pickett 27 pass to Co.Heyward on 3rd-and-8; Pickett 9 pass to Co.Heyward on 3rd-and-8.
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RUSHING_Cleveland, Chubb 12-77, Watson 6-44, Hunt 4-13. Pittsburgh, Harris 23-84, Warren 6-36, Sims 1-16, Co.Heyward 1-6, Olszewski 2-4, D.Watt 1-1, Pickett 3-1.
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PASSING_Cleveland, Watson 19-29-2-230. Pittsburgh, Pickett 13-29-0-195.
RECEIVING_Cleveland, Chubb 5-45, Njoku 4-42, Hunt 3-15, Cooper 2-51, Peoples-Jones 2-42, Bryant 2-20, Woods 1-15. Pittsburgh, Pickens 3-72, Co.Heyward 3-45, Warren 3-7, Johnson 2-38, Gentry 1-23, Harris 1-10.
PUNT RETURNS_Cleveland, Darden 1-5. Pittsburgh, Sims 3-20.
KICKOFF RETURNS_Cleveland, Ford 5-93. Pittsburgh, None.
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TACKLES-ASSISTS-SACKS_Cleveland, Jones 5-0-0, Fields 4-4-0, Carter 4-1-0, Garrett 3-4-1, Winovich 3-2-0, Emerson 3-1-0, J.Johnson 2-3-0, D.Bell 2-1-0, Green 2-0-0, Elliott 1-3-0, Winfrey 1-2-0, Delpit 1-1-0, Newsome 1-1-0, Cooper 1-0-0, Ward 1-0-0, Watson 1-0-0, Togiai 0-3-0, Wright 0-3-0, Ragland 0-2-0, Bryan 0-1-0, Harrison 0-1-0. Pittsburgh, Highsmith 6-2-2.5, Fitzpatrick 5-5-0, Spillane 5-3-0, Ca.Heyward 3-5-2, Edmunds 3-2-1, Jack 2-2-0, T.Watt 2-1-.5, Ogunjobi 1-2-1, Sutton 1-2-0, Adams 1-1-0, Leal 1-1-0, Pierre 1-1-0, Loudermilk 1-0-0, Robinson 1-0-0, D.Watt 1-0-0, Jones 0-2-0, Kazee 0-2-0, Wallace 0-1-0.
INTERCEPTIONS_Cleveland, None. Pittsburgh, Kazee 1-12, Wallace 1-3.
MISSED FIELD GOALS_None.
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OFFICIALS_Referee Clete Blakeman, Ump Tab Slaughter, HL Dana McKenzie, LJ Julian Mapp, FJ Terry Brown, SJ Lo Van Pham, BJ Perry Paganelli, Replay Chad Adams. | 2023-01-08T22:05:01+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/sports/article/Pittsburgh-28-Cleveland-14-17703398.php |
Germans face weeks of political maneuvering following Sunday's inconclusive parliamentary election. Neither the Christian Democrats, led by Angela Merkel, nor the Social Democrats, headed by Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, scored a clear victory in the balloting. Now it's unclear what sort of government will emerge.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2022-06-01T16:36:47+00:00 | knkx.org | https://www.knkx.org/2005-09-18/close-german-election-leads-to-uncertainty |
Long before parade attack, Highland Park put tight gun limits in place
In a state with some of the country’s toughest gun regulations and a city that bans semi-automatic weapons, Dana Gordon still feared a mass shooting could happen here.
Gordon, a Highland Park resident and an anti-gun violence activist, knew the familiar questions from victims of mass shootings across the country — how could such violence come to their school, their supermarket or movie theater, their city.
The latest act of mass violence to hit the U.S. came Monday in the northern Chicago suburb, when police said a gunman climbed to the top of a business along Highland Park's Independence Day parade route and opened fire. Seven people died and more than 30 people were wounded.
The violence has focused attention on Highland Park's 2013 ban on semi-automatic weapons and large-capacity magazines.
Illinois officials have long contended that legal and illegal weapons are easily purchased in surrounding states, hampering even the toughest local laws' effectiveness. Authorities said Tuesday that the suspected gunman, a 21-year-old resident of nearby Highwood, legally purchased the rifle used in the attack in the Chicagoland area but did not say exactly where he bought it.
They also have not specified the type of weapon used, only describing it as high-powered and “similar to an AR-15.”
Highland Park's clampdown survived a legal challenge from a local pediatrician and the Illinois State Rifle Association that ended at the U.S. Supreme Court's doorstep in 2015 when justices declined to hear the case.
Highland Park Mayor Nancy Rotering responded to the win, at the time arguing: “Banning assault weapons and large-capacity magazines is a common-sense step to reducing gun violence and protecting our children, our law enforcement and our communities from potential mass violence and grief.”
Two conservative justices — Justice Clarence Thomas, joined by Justice Antonin Scalia — said they would have heard the case and struck Highland Park's limits.
"The overwhelming majority of citizens who own and use such rifles do so for lawful purposes, including self-defense and target shooting,” Thomas wrote.
For Gordon and other activists in Highland Park, Monday's violent attack was a push to continue working toward national restrictions on such weapons and ammo.
Highland Park’s local and federal elected officials back gun restrictions, showing it by their presence at anti-gun violence rallies and their votes. Police were also stationed all along the parade route. But that didn’t stop the killings on Monday, Gordon said.
“People have to realize, there’s nothing that makes any community immune,” she said. “The only thing that’s going to help any of us is if we vote out legislators who refuse to do anything about guns.”
Gordon helped organize an anti-gun violence arts event in town last month following the mass shootings at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, and a school in Uvalde, Texas. Weeks later, she was fielding phone calls from friends who fled their city's holiday parade in terror.
Gordon said since the shooting she’s received dozens of emails from friends and neighbors, expressing their shock that such violence could hit their home. She said it gives her hope that influential voices can make a change — tempered by her belief that national change is the only hope of preventing future mass shootings.
“You can’t protect people all the time,” she said. “This is a gun issue.”
The Buffalo and Uvalde killings did prompt Congress to pass the most sweeping gun violence bill in a decade. The package toughens background checks for the youngest gun buyers, keeps firearms from more domestic violence offenders and helps states put in place red flag laws that make it easier for authorities to take weapons from people adjudged to be dangerous.
But it was signed into law just days after the Supreme Court’s ruling struck down a New York law that restricted peoples’ ability to carry concealed weapons. And it didn't include more sweeping proposals long backed by activists including an assault-style weapons ban and background checks.
“I know there’s much more work to do, and I’m never going to give up, but this is a monumental day,” President Joe Biden said after signing the bill on June 25. | 2022-07-05T22:46:24+00:00 | 4029tv.com | https://www.4029tv.com/article/highland-park-gun-limits-before-parade/40518671 |
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — Big emitters of the heat-trapping gas methane can expect a call from the United Nations starting next year, when the global body launches a new platform to combine existing systems for tracking the potent greenhouse gas from space.
The U.N. Environment Programme said Friday that the new Methane Alert and Response System — MARS for short — is intended to help companies act on major emissions sources but also provide data in a transparent and independent way.
It draws on satellite measurements performed by NASA and the European, German and Italian space agencies. Data from private satellite operators will also be incorporated in future.
“Each of these instruments give us a correct answer to a question that is slightly different, because each of them see different things,” said Manfredi Caltagirone, head of the International Methane Emissions Observatory at UNEP. “So the only way you can have a correct picture is to connect them all together.”
The data will be released 45 to 75 days after it is gathered, meaning companies will have sufficient time to fix the leaks by the time they become public.
“We think it is important not to just create a shaming tool, but to engage the operators and governments so they can act on the specific event,” said Caltagirone.
Releasing the measurements on a U.N.-backed platform would also ensure that it is considered neutral and reliable, providing a standard that prevents companies from “shopping around” for data that makes them look best, he said.
There will be no way to force any emitters to take action though.
“We are realistic that certain companies and certain countries will be more cooperative than others,” said Caltagirone. “But we can make sure this information is available to those who are interested in it.”
The first data will be published in the second half of next year, focusing on large methane leaks. As it matures, the platform will incorporate less dramatic but equally significant sources of emissions such as livestock and rice farms.
Cutting methane emissions worldwide is key to the Paris climate accord’s ambitious goal of capping global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) by the end of the century compared to pre-industrial times. The United States, European Union and others last year launched a pledge to cut overall methane emissions worldwide by 30% by 2030.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden informed Congress on Monday that he will end the twin national emergencies for addressing COVID-19 on May 11, as most of the world has returned closer to normalcy nearly three years after they were first declared.
The move to end the national emergency and public health emergency declarations would formally restructure the federal coronavirus response to treat the virus as an endemic threat to public health that can be managed through agencies’ normal authorities.
It comes as lawmakers have already ended elements of the emergencies that kept millions of Americans insured during the pandemic. Combined with the drawdown of most federal COVID-19 relief money, it would also shift the development of vaccines and treatments away from the direct management of the federal government.
Biden’s announcement comes in a statement opposing resolutions being brought to the floor this week by House Republicans to bring the emergency to an immediate end. House Republicans are also gearing up to launch investigations on the federal government’s response to COVID-19.
Then-President Donald Trump’s Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar first declared a public health emergency on Jan. 31, 2020, and Trump later declared the COVID-19 pandemic a national emergenc y that March. The emergencies have been repeatedly extended by Biden since he took office in January 2021, and are set to expire in the coming months. The White House said Biden plans to extend them both briefly to end on May 11.
“An abrupt end to the emergency declarations would create wide-ranging chaos and uncertainty throughout the health care system — for states, for hospitals and doctors’ offices, and, most importantly, for tens of millions of Americans,” the Office of Management and Budget wrote in a Statement of Administration Policy.
More than 1.1 million people in the U.S. have died from COVID-19 since 2020, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, including about 3,700 last week.
Congress has already blunted the reach of the public health emergency that had the most direct impact on Americans, as political calls to end the declaration intensified. Lawmakers have refused for months to fulfill the Biden administration’s request for billions more dollars to extend free COVID vaccines and testing. And the $1.7 trillion spending package passed last year and signed into law by Biden put an end to a rule that barred states from kicking people off Medicaid, a move that is expected to see millions of people lose their coverage after April 1.
“In some respects, the Biden administration is catching up to what a lot of people in the country have been experiencing,” said Larry Levitt, the executive vice president for health policy at Kaiser Family Foundation. “That said, hundreds of people a day are still dying from COVID.”
Still, some things will change for Americans once the emergency expires, Levitt pointed out.
The costs of COVID-19 vaccines are also expected to skyrocket once the government stops buying them, with Pfizer saying it will charge as much as $130 per dose. Only 15% of Americans have received the recommended, updated booster that has been offered since last fall.
People with private insurance could have some out-of-pocket costs for vaccines, especially if they go to an out-of-network provider, Levitt said. Free at-home COVID tests will also come to an end. And hospitals will not get extra payments for treating COVID patients.
Legislators did extend for another two years telehealth flexibilities that were introduced as COVID-19 hit, leading health care systems around the country to regularly deliver care by smartphone or computer.
The Biden administration had previously considered ending the emergency last year, but held off amid concerns about a potential “winter surge” in cases and to provide adequate time for providers, insurers and patients to prepare for its end.
Officials said the administration would use the next three months to transition the response to conventional methods, warning that an immediate end to the emergency authorities “would sow confusion and chaos into this critical wind-down.”
“To be clear, continuation of these emergency declarations until May 11 does not impose any restriction at all on individual conduct with regard to COVID-19,” the administration said. “They do not impose mask mandates or vaccine mandates. They do not restrict school or business operations. They do not require the use of any medicines or tests in response to cases of COVID-19.”
Case counts have trended downward after a slight bump over the winter holidays, and are significantly below levels seen over the last two winters — though the number of tests performed for the virus and reported to public health officials has sharply decreased.
On Monday, the World Health Organization said the coronavirus remains a global health emergency, even as a key advisory panel for the group found the pandemic may be nearing an “inflexion point” where higher levels of immunity can lower virus-related deaths. China, for example, reported an unprecedented surge in December after lifting most of its COVID-19 restrictions.
Moments before the White House’s announcement, Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla., accused the president of unnecessarily extending the public health emergency to take action on issues like forgiving some federal student loan debts.
“The country has largely returned to normal,” Cole said Monday, introducing a Republican-backed bill calling for an end to the health emergency. “Everyday Americans have returned to work and to school with no restrictions on their activities. It is time that the government acknowledges this reality: the pandemic is over.”
The House was scheduled to vote Tuesday on legislation that would terminate the public health emergency.
The bill’s author, Rep. Brett Guthrie, R-Ky., said he still hopes the House will proceed with a vote. He said he was surprised by the White House move, but thinks the legislation may have played a role in prompting the administration to act.
“I think we should go forward,” he said late Monday as lawmakers returned to the Capitol. “If for some reason they don’t do it on May the 11th, the vehicle is still there for Congress to take back its authority.”
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AP Congressional Correspondent Lisa Mascaro contributed. | 2023-01-31T12:59:06+00:00 | fox59.com | https://fox59.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-president-biden-to-end-covid-19-emergencies-on-may-11/ |
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — The government of El Salvador sent 10,000 soldiers and police to seal off a town on the outskirts of the nation's capital Saturday to search for gang members.
The operation was one of the largest mobilizations yet in President Nayib Bukele's nine-month-old crackdown on street gangs that long extorted money from businesses and ruled many neighborhoods of the capital, San Salvador.
The troops blocked roads going in and out of the township of Soyapango, checking people's documents. Special teams went into the town looking for gang suspects.
"Starting now, the township of Soyapango is completely surrounded," Bukele wrote in his Twitter account. He posted videos showing ranks of rifle-toting soldiers.
More than 58,000 people have been jailed since a state of emergency was declared following a wave of homicides in late March. Rights groups have criticized the mass roundups, saying they often sweep up young men based on their appearance or where they live.
It was part of what Bukele had called in late November "Phase Five" of the crackdown. Bukele said such tactics worked in the town of Comasagua in October.
In October, more than 2,000 soldiers and police surrounded and closed off Comasagua in order to search for street gang members accused in a killing. Drones flew over the town, and everyone entering or leaving the town was questioned or searched. About 50 suspects were detained in two days.
"It worked," Bukele said. The government estimates that homicides dropped 38% in the first 10 months of the year compared to the same period of 2021.
Bukele requested Congress grant him extraordinary powers after gangs were blamed for 62 killings on March 26, and that emergency decree has been renewed every month since then. It suspends some Constitutional rights and gives police more powers to arrest and hold suspects.
Under the decree, the right of association, the right to be informed of the reason for an arrest and access to a lawyer are suspended. The government also can intervene in the calls and mail of anyone they consider a suspect. The time someone can be held without charges is extended from three days to 15 days.
Rights activists say young men are frequently arrested just based on their age, on their appearance or whether they live in a gang-dominated slum.
El Salvador's gangs, which have been estimated to count some 70,000 members in their ranks, have long controlled swaths of territory and extorted and killed with impunity.
But Bukele's crackdown reached another level earlier this month when the government sent inmates into cemeteries to destroy the tombs of gang members at a time of year when families typically visit their loved ones' graves.
Nongovernmental organizations have tallied several thousand human rights violations and at least 80 in-custody deaths of people arrested during the crackdown.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn., Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Parler, the leading viewpoint-neutral, free speech social media platform today issued its midterm election content policy allowing for maximum candidate exposure on the Parler platform. While big tech has signaled its continued commitment to influencing the outcome under the guise of protecting users from misinformation, malinformation, and disinformation, Parler plans to remain true to its First Amendment principles. The company will allow candidates, their campaigns, and news organizations to speak without fear of censorship or suppression.
"While Big Tech attempts to impact the election results, banning opinions and topics they feel hurt their preferred candidates, Parler remains resolute in the protection of free speech," stressed Parler CEO George Farmer. "The health of our Republic depends on a well-informed voting population, and we are the premier destination for all viewpoints."
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- Freedom from censorship: All legal speech is welcome on Parler. Candidate opinions will never get banned or suspended.
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MASON, Ohio (AP) — American Madison Keys upset No. 1 Iga Swiatek 6-3, 6-4 to reach the Western & Southern Open quarterfinals on Thursday.
Swiatek, a two-time Grand Slam champion, hasn’t gotten past the round of 16 in four tournaments since winning Roland Garros in June.
The win was the 24th-ranked Keys’ first in six matches against a top-ranked opponent. She had never won a set against a No. 1 player.
After dropping the first set and losing the first five games of the second, Swiatek rallied to win four straight, fighting off one match point before Keys clinched with a forehand winner to the ad court off a shot that clipped the net.
Swiatek won her first two matches against Keys, including 6-1, 6-0 earlier this year at Indian Wells.
“Obviously, there were a couple of games where I had match point,” Keys said in an on-court interview. “She beat me pretty badly the last time we played, so I was happy to get the win.”
Two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova advanced to the women’s quarterfinals with a 6-1, 4-6, 6-0 win over 2022 Wimbledon finalist and fifth-seeded Ons Jabeur.
No. 1 Daniil Medvedev advanced to the quarterfinals with a 7-5, 7-5 win over Denis Shapovalov. Medvedev is trying to shake off a second-round loss to Nick Kyrgios last week in Montreal and hone his game for the upcoming U.S. Open.
Eleventh-seeded Taylor Fritz became the first man to reach the quarterfinals, edging sixth-seeded Andrey Rublev, 6-7 (4), 6-2, 7-5. | 2022-08-18T20:12:19+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/sports/article/Keys-knocks-out-No-1-Swiatek-of-Western-17382670.php |
Industry Marks Milestone of First Super Bowl Played in Legal Betting State
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- A record 50.4 million American adults (20%) are expected to bet on Super Bowl LVII, a 61 percent increase from the record set in 2022, according to a new American Gaming Association (AGA) survey. Bettors plan to wager an estimated $16 billion on this year's championship game, more than double last year's estimates.
With the expansion of legal sports betting, traditional Super Bowl wagers are expected to pass casual wagers for the first time ever:
- 30 million American adults plan to place a traditional sports wager online, at a retail sportsbook or with a bookie, up 66 percent from 2022.
- 28 million plan to bet casually with friends or as part of a pool or squares contest, up 50 percent from 2022.
Sports betting legalization is also driving fan interest in the NFL, as more than a third (34%) of NFL fans say that the expansion of legal sports betting has made watching an NFL game more exciting.
"Every year, the Super Bowl serves to highlight the benefits of legal sports betting: bettors are transitioning to the protections of the regulated market, leagues and sports media are seeing increased engagement, and legal operators are driving needed tax revenue to states across the country," said AGA President and CEO Bill Miller.
Industry investments in responsible gaming continue to resonate. The majority of traditional Super Bowl bettors (71%) report seeing a responsible gaming message in the last year. Importantly, younger Americans (under 35 years old) are more likely to recall seeing a responsible gaming message and younger bettors are more likely to say it is important to only wager legally.
"As interest in legal sports betting continues to expand, the gaming industry remains committed to responsibly delivering world class entertainment, educating consumers about how to bet responsibly, and combating illegal gambling as we work to build a safe, competitive and sustainable legal market for all," Miller continued.
Bettors are evenly split on the outcome of the game with 44 percent each planning to bet on the Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs.
Background
- 33 states and Washington, D.C currently feature live, legal sports betting markets, with three additional legal markets awaiting launch.
- More than half of American adults (57%, 146M) live in a live, legal sports betting market.
- AGA's Have A Game Plan.® Bet Responsibly™ campaign is bringing sports betting stakeholders together to promote responsible gaming. NFL team partners include the Washington Commanders and New York Jets.
Methodology
Morning Consult conducted the online survey on behalf of the AGA between Jan. 31 – Feb. 1, 2023, among a national sample of 2,199 adults. The data were weighted to approximate a target sample of adults based on age, race/ethnicity, gender, educational attainment and region. The margin of error is +/-2 percent and greater among subgroups. Bettors include those who expect to place a bet online, with a bookie, with a casino sportsbook, in a pool or squares contest, or casually with family or friends.
About the AGA
As the national trade group representing the U.S. casino industry, the American Gaming Association (AGA) fosters a policy and business environment where legal, regulated gaming thrives. The AGA's diverse membership of commercial and tribal casino operators, sports betting and iGaming companies, gaming suppliers, and more lead the $261 billion industry and support 1.8 million jobs across the country.
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NEW YORK, Oct. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP announces that a class action lawsuit has been filed against Rite Aid Corporation ("Rite Aid" or the "Company") (NYSE: RAD) and certain of its officers. The class action, filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, and docketed under 22-cv-04201, is on behalf of a class consisting of all persons and entities other than Defendants that purchased or otherwise acquired Rite Aid securities between April 14, 2022 and September 28, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), seeking to recover damages caused by Defendants' violations of the federal securities laws and to pursue remedies under Sections 10(b) and 20(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the "Exchange Act") and Rule 10b-5 promulgated thereunder, against the Company and certain of its top officials.
If you are a shareholder who purchased or otherwise acquired Rite Aid securities during the Class Period, you have until December 19, 2022 to ask the Court to appoint you as Lead Plaintiff for the class. A copy of the Complaint can be obtained at www.pomerantzlaw.com. To discuss this action, contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888.476.6529 (or 888.4-POMLAW), toll-free, Ext. 7980. Those who inquire by e-mail are encouraged to include their mailing address, telephone number, and the number of shares purchased.
Rite Aid, through its subsidiaries, operates a chain of retail drugstores in the U.S. The Company operates through two segments, Retail Pharmacy and Pharmacy Services. The Pharmacy Services segment provides integrated suite of pharmacy benefit management ("PBM") offerings through, inter alia, the Company's Elixir subsidiary, including technology solutions, mail delivery services, specialty pharmacy, network and rebate administration, claims adjudication, and pharmacy discount programs.
In Rite Aid's Q4 2022 earnings call on April 14, 2022, Rite Aid's President and CEO, Defendant Heyward Rutledge Donigan ("Donigan"), addressed the growth of Elixir's PBM services business during the selling season ending January 1, 2023, stating that (i) in the past few months, Elixir had already "sold 35,000 new members" (as against a total of 55,000 new members in the prior year), (ii) Elixir was a finalist for 150,000 additional new members, and "results have shown that once we get to finalist, we're winning deals 35% of the time," and (iii) Elixir had "a current pipeline of nearly 1 million members and growing."
In a letter to shareholders, dated June 10, 2022, appearing in Rite Aid's 2022 Notice of Annual Meeting of Stockholders and Proxy Statement, Defendant Donigan stated, "[o]ur Elixir account and sales teams are gaining momentum, and we are executing more efficiently by consolidating functions. And the market is noticing—we have added 34,000 individuals covered by Elixir's PBM services since January 1, 2022, with many more in the pipeline."
In Rite Aid's Q1 2023 earnings call on June 23, 2022, Defendant Donigan stated concerning the PBM services business that "[o]ur strong network contracts, new rebate capabilities, innovative clinical services and expertise in government programs have enabled us to add 80,000 new lives for January 1, 2023 start date. These are more new lives than we sold last year. And additionally, the selling season is still in progress, and we've got close to 1 million lives remaining in the pipeline for January 1, 2023." On the same call, Elixir's COO, Defendant Chris DuPaul, advised that "we've had a pretty strong start to our selling season, particularly on the health plan side," and "we're feeling really good about where our lives are headed going into [1/1/23]. . ."
The Complaint alleges that, throughout the Class Period, Defendants made materially false and misleading statements regarding the Company's business, operations, and prospects. Specifically, Defendants made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) despite representations to the contrary, the number of new members (i.e., "lives") that the Elixir PBM services business was adding during the selling season ending on January 1, 2023 was in material decline; (ii) Rite Aid was likely to recognize a significant charge for the impairment of goodwill related to Elixir due to a decrease in "lives" covered by Elixir's PBM services business; and (iii) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
On September 29, 2022, Rite Aid announced a $252.2 million charge for the impairment of goodwill related to the Company's Elixir subsidiary. On an earnings call held later in the day, Rite Aid's Chief Financial Officer, Matt Schroeder, explained that the large impairment charge was related to Elixir based on "an update to our estimate of lives for 2023 based on the latest selling season," and that Rite Aid "expected[ed] lives to go down."
On this news, Rite Aid's stock price fell $1.97 per share, or 28.02%, to close at $5.06 per share on September 29, 2022.
Pomerantz LLP, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, London, Paris, and Tel Aviv, is acknowledged as one of the premier firms in the areas of corporate, securities, and antitrust class litigation. Founded by the late Abraham L. Pomerantz, known as the dean of the class action bar, Pomerantz pioneered the field of securities class actions. Today, more than 85 years later, Pomerantz continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct. The Firm has recovered numerous multimillion-dollar damages awards on behalf of class members. See www.pomlaw.com
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CHICAGO, Nov. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Aequum Capital recently closed a new $50 million revolving line of credit led by Texas Capital Bank. This new financing will augment Aequum's significant equity base to support loan origination volume. With the new credit facility, Aequum is well-positioned to execute on market opportunities and organic growth of its portfolio.
Aequum Capital is a tech-enabled, ESG-focused specialty finance lender that provides senior asset-backed and cash flow debt facilities to small and medium-sized businesses throughout the U.S. that range between $1MM and $10MM.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Wholesale prices in the United States rose 6.2% in December from a year earlier, a sixth straight slowdown and a hopeful sign that inflation pressures will continue to cool.
The latest year-over-year figure was down from 7.3% in November and from a recent peak of 11.7% in March. On a monthly basis, the government said Wednesday that its producer price index, which measures costs before they reach consumers, dropped 0.5% from November to December.
The producer price data can provide an early sign of where consumer inflation might be headed. The data reflects the prices that are charged by manufacturers, farmers and wholesalers, and it flows into an inflation gauge that the Federal Reserve closely tracks, the personal consumption expenditures price index.
The ongoing slowdown in wholesale price growth is adding to evidence that the worst bout of inflation in four decades is steadily easing, though it remains far above the Federal Reserve’s target of 2%.
Last month’s drop was led by gas prices, which sank 13.4% from November to December. Gas prices averaged $3.36 a gallon Wednesday, according to AAA, down from a peak of $5 a gallon in mid-June.
Food prices fell by a sharp 1.2%, led by fruits, vegetables and chicken. One exception was egg prices. Driven up in part by a wave of avian flu, egg prices soared 25% just from November to December.
Excluding volatile energy and food costs, so-called core producer prices rose only 0.1% from November to December. Measured year over year, core prices increased 5.5% in December, compared with 6.2% in November.
“The big picture is one of rapid disinflation, with much more to come,” said Ian Shepherdson, chief economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics.
Producer prices in the nation’s vast service sector — everything from restaurants and hotels to airlines and entertainment venues — ticked up just 0.1% from November to December, the smallest such increase since last April. The Fed has been monitoring this area of the economy in particular as it assesses its progress in combating high inflation.
But rising evidence shows that inflation across the economy is easing after having reached a four-decade peak last summer. At the consumer level, inflation also cooled in December for a sixth straight month to 6.5% compared with a year earlier, from 7.1% in November.
An acceleration in workers’ wages has been slowing, too, which could further help control inflation. In December, average wage growth in the United States was up 4.6% from 12 months earlier, compared with a recent peak of 5.6% in March.
Over the past year, the Fed has rapidly raised its key interest rate in an aggressive drive to cool borrowing and spending and tame inflation, which began surging more than a year and a half ago.
The Fed’s rate hikes have, in turn, led to higher borrowing costs for consumers and businesses. The average mortgage rate is still nearly twice its level a year ago, though it has dipped in recent weeks. Loan costs for auto purchases, credit cards and a range of business borrowing are up sharply, too.
Even as overall inflation gradually slows, costs continue to surge in some pockets of the economy. Particularly in the service sector, wage growth is still contributing to broader inflation pressures. | 2023-01-19T01:39:40+00:00 | everythinglubbock.com | https://www.everythinglubbock.com/news/business/ap-wholesale-inflation-in-us-slowed-further-in-december-to-6-2/ |
LONDON (AP) — Pfizer and BioNTech have asked the European Medicines Agency to authorize their updated coronavirus booster vaccine that includes the most recent omicron subvariants.
In a statement Friday, Pfizer said it is requesting that the EU drug regulator OK its combination COVID-19 vaccine that targets the original coronavirus and BA.4 and BA.5, the latest versions of omicron, which are causing the vast majority of infections globally now. Pfizer and BioNTech are asking that the vaccine be given the green light for people aged 12 and over.
The European Medicines Agency is currently reviewing whether to clear updated versions of vaccines made by Moderna and Pfizer that target the subvariant BA.1, an earlier version of the virus that has since been overtaken by BA.4 and BA.5; that decision is expected next week.
If both of Pfizer’s updated COVID-19 boosters are authorized, the company said its adapted vaccines would be available in Europe “as early as September.”
Last week, the U.K. cleared Moderna’s updated COVID-19 booster targeting the BA.1 version of omicron and said it would be included in the country’s vaccination campaign for people aged 50 and over beginning next month.
Pfizer and rival Moderna both asked U.S. regulators this week to authorize modified versions of their booster vaccine — shots that are half the original recipe and half protection against BA.4 and BA.5.
Health authorities hope that the tweaked boosters might blunt the expected surge of COVID-19 this winter, but it’s still unclear how effective they might be. The gamble is that BA.5, or something similar, still will be circulating this the winter and that immunization with these latest vaccines will still offer significant protection.
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday afternoon's drawing of the "Pick Four-Midday" game were:
9-0-5-3, Fireball: 5
(nine, zero, five, three; Fireball: five)
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday afternoon's drawing of the "Pick Four-Midday" game were:
9-0-5-3, Fireball: 5
(nine, zero, five, three; Fireball: five) | 2022-09-27T20:09:21+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-Four-Midday-game-17470729.php |
Pick your poison against Kiffin’s No. 7 Ole Miss offense
By JOHN ZENOR
AP Sports Writer
Mississippi’s offense has enjoyed the best of both worlds. The seventh-ranked Rebels have been powered by Quinshon Judkins, Zach Evans and the nation’s No. 3 running game. Ole Miss produced 448 rushing yards against Auburn. A week earlier, Jaxson Dart passed for 448 yards against Vanderbilt. Coach Lane Kiffin’s philosophy of going with what works is certainly working. As Kiffin says, “You don’t ever know what you’re going to see when you play us.” Ole Miss visits LSU on Saturday. | 2022-10-18T17:10:50+00:00 | localnews8.com | https://localnews8.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/10/18/pick-your-poison-against-kiffins-no-7-ole-miss-offense/ |
Dig at UK housing site yields major 7th century treasures
By JILL LAWLESS
Associated Press
LONDON (AP) — A 1,300-year-old gold and gemstone necklace found on the site of a new housing development marks the grave of a powerful woman who may have been an early Christian religious leader in Britain, archaeologists said Tuesday.
Experts say the necklace, uncovered with other items near Northampton in central England, is part of the most significant early medieval burial of a woman ever found in the U.K.
The woman is long gone – some tooth enamel is all that remains. But scientists say her long-buried trove will shed new light on life in 7th century England, a time when Christianity was battling with paganism for people’s allegiance.
The items are “a definite statement of wealth as well as Christian faith,” said Lyn Blackmore, a senior finds specialist at Museum of London Archaeology, which made the discovery.
“She was extremely devout, but was she a princess? Was she a nun? Was she more than a nun – an abbess? … We don’t know,” Blackmore said.
The Harpole Treasure – named for the village where it was found, about 60 miles (96 kilometers) northwest of London – was unearthed in April by archaeologists working with property developer Vistry Group on a neighborhood of new houses.
On one of the last days of the 10-week dig, site supervisor Levente-Bence Balázs noticed something glinting in the dirt. It turned out to be a rectangular gold pendant with a cross motif, inlaid with garnets — the centerpiece of a necklace that also contained pendants fashioned from gold Roman coins and ovals of semiprecious stones.
“These artifacts haven’t seen daylight in more than 1,300 years,” Balázs said. “To be the first person to actually see it – it’s just indescribable.”
Researchers say the burial took place between 630 and 670 A.D., the same period as several other graves of high-ranking women that have been found around Britain. Earlier high-status burials were mostly men, and experts say the change could reflect women gaining power and status in England’s new Christian faith.
The Kingdom of Mercia, where the Harpole Treasure was found, converted to Christianity in the 7th century, and the woman buried there was a believer, maybe a faith leader. A large and ornate silver cross was placed on her body in the grave. It is adorned with tiny, astonishingly well-preserved likenesses of human heads with blue glass eyes, who may represent Christ’s apostles. Clay pots from France or Belgium, containing residue of an unknown liquid, were also found.
Within a few decades, as Christianity took hold more widely in England, the practice of burying people with their luxury goods died out.
“Burying people with lots and lots of bling is a pagan notion, but this is obviously heavily vested in Christian iconography, so it’s that period of quite rapid change,” said Simon Mortimer of archaeological consultants RPS, who worked on the project.
The Harpole discoveries will help fill in gaps in knowledge about the era between the departure of Britain’s Roman occupiers in the 5th century and the arrival of Viking raiders almost 400 years later. Experts say it’s one of the most significant Saxon finds since the 7th-century ship burial found in the 1930s at Sutton Hoo, about 100 miles (160 kilometers) to the east.
Once archaeologists have finished their work, the plan is for the items to be displayed in a local museum.
Property developers in Britain routinely have to consult archaeologists as part of their planning process, and Mortimer said the practice has yielded some important finds.
“We are now looking at places we would never typically have looked at,” he said, and as a result “we are finding genuinely unexpected things.”
“The scale of the wealth is going to change our view of the early medieval period in that area,” he added. “The course of history has been nudged, ever so slightly, by this find.” | 2022-12-06T19:26:52+00:00 | localnews8.com | https://localnews8.com/news/2022/12/06/dig-at-uk-housing-site-yields-major-7th-century-treasures/ |
In addition to writing articles, songs and code in mere seconds, ChatGPT could potentially make its way into your doctor’s office — if it hasn’t already.
The artificial intelligence-based chatbot, released by OpenAI in December 2022, is a natural language processing (NLP) model that draws on information from the web to produce answers in a clear, conversational format.
While it’s not intended to be a source of personalized medical advice, patients are able to use ChatGPT to get information on diseases, medications and other health topics.
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Some experts even believe the technology could help physicians provide more efficient and thorough patient care.
Dr. Tinglong Dai, professor of operations management at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School in Baltimore, Maryland, and an expert in artificial intelligence, said that large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT have "upped the game" in medical AI.
"The AI we see in the hospital today is purpose-built and trained on data from specific disease states — it often can't adapt to new scenarios and new situations, and can't use medical knowledge bases or perform basic reasoning tasks," he told Fox News Digital in an email.
"LLMs give us hope that general AI is possible in the world of health care."
One potential use for ChatGPT is to provide clinical decision support to doctors and medical professionals, assisting them in selecting the appropriate treatment options for patients.
In a preliminary study from Vanderbilt University Medical Center, researchers analyzed the quality of 36 AI-generated suggestions and 29 human-generated suggestions regarding clinical decisions.
Out of the 20 highest-scoring responses, nine of them came from ChatGPT.
"The suggestions generated by AI were found to offer unique perspectives and were evaluated as highly understandable and relevant, with moderate usefulness, low acceptance, bias, inversion and redundancy," the researchers wrote in the study findings, which were published in the National Library of Medicine.
Dai noted that doctors can enter medical records from a variety of sources and formats — including images, videos, audio recordings, emails and PDFs — into large language models like ChatGPT to get second opinions.
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"It also means that providers can build more efficient and effective patient messaging portals that understand what patients need and direct them to the most appropriate parties or respond to them with automated responses," he added.
Dr. Justin Norden, a digital health and AI expert who is an adjunct professor at Stanford University in California, said he's heard senior physicians say that ChatGPT is probably "as good or better" than most interns during their first year out of medical school.
"We’re seeing medical plans generated in seconds," he told Fox News Digital in an interview.
"These tools can be used to draw relevant information for a provider, to act as a sort of ‘co-pilot’ to help someone think through other things they could consider."
Norden is especially excited about ChatGPT’s potential use for health education in a clinical setting.
"I think one of the amazing things about these tools is that you can take a body of information and transform what it looks like for many different audiences, languages and reading comprehension levels," he said.
For example, ChatGPT could enable physicians to fully explain complex medical concepts and treatments to each patient in a way that’s digestible and easy to understand, said Norden.
"For example, after having a procedure, the patient could chat with that body of information and ask follow-up questions," Norden said.
The lowest-hanging fruit for using ChatGPT in health care, said Norden, is to streamline administrative tasks, which is a "huge time component" for medical providers.
In particular, he said some providers are looking to the chatbot to streamline medical notes and documentation.
"On the clinical side, people are already starting to experiment with GPT models to help with writing notes, drafting patient summaries, evaluating patient severity scores and finding clinical information quickly," he said.
"Additionally, on the administrative side, it is being used for prior authorization, billing and coding, and analytics," Norden added.
Two medical tech companies that have made significant headway into these applications are Doximity and Nuance, Norden pointed out.
Doximity, a professional medical network for physicians headquartered in San Francisco, launched its DocsGPT platform to help doctors write letters of medical necessity, denial appeals and other medical documents.
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Nuance, a Microsoft company based in Massachusetts that creates AI-powered health care solutions, is piloting its GPT4-enabled note-taking program.
The plan is to start with a smaller subset of beta users and gradually roll out the system to its 500,000+ users, said Norden.
While he believes these types of tools are still in need of regulatory "guard rails," he sees a big potential for this type of use, both inside and outside health care.
"If I have a big database or pile of documents, I can ask a natural question and start to pull out relevant pieces of information — large language models have shown they're very good at that," he said.
The hospital discharge process involves many steps, including assessing the patient’s medical condition, identifying follow-up care, prescribing and explaining medications, providing lifestyle restrictions and more, according to Johns Hopkins.
AI language models like ChatGPT could potentially help streamline patient discharge instructions, Norden believes.
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"This is incredibly important, especially for someone who has been in the hospital for a while," he told Fox News Digital.
Patients "might have lots of new medications, things they have to do and follow up on, and they're often left with [a] few pieces of printed paper and that’s it."
He added, "Giving someone far more information in a language that they understand, in a format they can continue to interact with, I think is really powerful."
While ChatGPT could potentially streamline routine health care tasks and increase providers’ access to vast amounts of medical data, it is not without risks, according to experts.
Dr. Tim O’Connell, the vice chair of medical informatics in the department of radiology at the University of British Columbia, said there is a serious privacy risk when users copy and paste patients’ clinical notes into a cloud-based service like ChatGPT.
"Unlike ChatGPT, most clinical NLP solutions are deployed into a secure installation so that sensitive data is not shared with anyone outside the organization," he told Fox News Digital.
"Both Canada and Italy have announced that they are investigating OpenAI [ChatGPT's parent corporation] to see if they are collecting or using personal information inappropriately."
Additionally, O’Connell said the risk of ChatGPT generating false information could be dangerous.
Health care providers generally categorize mistakes as "acceptably wrong" or "unacceptably wrong," he said.
"An example of 'acceptably wrong' would be for a system not to recognize a word because a care provider used an ambiguous acronym," he explained.
"An 'unacceptably wrong' situation would be where a system makes a mistake that any human — even one who is not a trained professional — would not make."
This might mean making up diseases the patient never had — or having a chatbot become aggressive with a patient or give them bad advice that may harm them, said O’Connell, who is also CEO of Emtelligent, a Vancouver, British Columbia-based medical technology company that's created an NLP engine for medical text.
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"Currently, ChatGPT has a very high risk of being 'unacceptably wrong' far too often," he added. "The fact that ChatGPT can invent facts that look plausible has been noted by many as one of the biggest problems with the use of this technology in health care."
"We want medical AI software to be trustworthy, and to provide answers that are explainable or can be verified to be true by the user, and produce output that is faithful to the facts without any bias," he continued.
"At the moment, ChatGPT does not yet do well on these measures, and it is hard to see how a language generation engine can provide any such guarantees." | 2023-04-21T10:40:02+00:00 | foxbangor.com | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/chatgpt-for-health-care-providers-can-the-ai-chatbot-make-the-professionals-jobs-easier/article_914fdbf5-a612-5f6e-9efc-0430bb9c8fba.html |
The longtime grief counselor was devastated by her own grief.
Velma Matthews, a Baton Rouge minister, said her grief episode was brought on by an arduous two-month bout with COVID-19 a year ago.
“I was sick as I could be,” said Matthews, 63.
The sickness not only took a toll on Matthews’ body — some effects of which still lingers — but also on her mind.
“It was hard and I had to press my way through,” Matthews said. “And I had to keep holding on to my hope. I had to keep saying tomorrow’s going to be a better day. I had to encourage myself in the Lord.”
It’s her experience with COVID, grief and the grace of God that is the impetus behind Matthews’ latest stage play, “You Don’t Know What I’ve Been Through.”
The play is set for noon, April 30 at the Independence Park Theatre, 7800 Independence Blvd., Baton Rouge.
“It’s a way I believe God has given me to minister to the hearts and the souls of people, people who are grieving. Grief is all around us,” said Matthews, who has a master's degree in pastoral counseling, a bachelor's in agriculture economics and has studied psychology and counseling at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary and Liberty University.
The production will be preceded by a seminar from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. led by Laura Jack, national compassion communication coach, bestselling author and founder of The Compassion Code Academy in Austin, Texas.
“You Don’t Know What I’ve Been Through” follows the familiar Grace family. Despite its trials and tribulations, the Grace family overcomes obstacles because of the grace of God.
“The Grace family has been away for 2½ years. We all have been through some horrific things,” said Matthews, who has written two previous plays on the family in 2018 and 2019. “All of us are part of the Grace family.”
The theme for the play is based on Corinthians 12:9: “My grace is sufficient for you, for my strength is made perfect in weakness.”
God’s grace was enough to get her through a dark period, Matthews said.
She said she would sit alone in her room in the silence.
“I thought I was going to die. Literally, I was messed up,” Matthews said. “My body is still going through some things I believe is from COVID. ... Because of the grace of God, I’m alive. God’s grace brought me through this.”
During her illness, Matthews said she would get regular calls of encouragement from Jack, whom Matthews was familiar with but had never met before.
"It wasn't a sermon. She wasn't preaching to me. It was simple words, and it made me feel good," Matthews said. "She played an instrumental part in helping me through grief."
Matthews has since sat under Jack's teachings at The Compassion Code Academy, a "comprehensive communication and leadership coaching program where empathetic leaders are nurtured back to wholeness."
"She teaches us to love ourselves," Matthews said.
“You Don’t Know What I’ve Been Through" will consist of four scenes. Matthews said the play will also deal with several issues, including recent killings, suicide and war.
"Grief is not just about death," Matthews said. "People are grieving but it's not just about death. And if we don't allow God to do what he does, then those emotions will get trapped in our souls."
For tickets ($30), call Lois Comena at (225) 636-1449. For other information, email velma1516@cox.net or go to velmamatthews.com or laurajack.com. | 2022-04-22T12:03:53+00:00 | theadvocate.com | https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/article_0f309e56-b2a3-11ec-8d56-c720e33333fa.html |
NEW YORK, Jan. 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Monteverde & Associates PC firm (the "M&A Firm") announces that a class action lawsuit has been filed in the Southern District of Florida ("Court") in connection with the acquisition of Citrix Systems, Inc. ("Citrix" or "CTXS") by Vista Equity Partners Management, LLC and Elliot Investment Management, L.P. (the "Acquisition"). The lawsuit alleges violations of Sections 14(a) and 20(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the "Exchange Act") caused harm to CTXS shareholders in connection with the Acquisition.
If you are a former Citrix shareholder who held shares as of March 8, 2022, and wish to serve as lead plaintiff, please contact our office. Mr. Monteverde would like to personally discuss with you how to potentially recover your monetary losses in connection with the Acquisition.
If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than February 13, 2023. Any member of the putative class may move the Court to serve as lead plaintiff through counsel of their choice.
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Monteverde & Associates PC is a national class action securities litigation law firm that has recovered millions of dollars for shareholders and is committed to protecting investors from corporate wrongdoing. Monteverde & Associates lawyers have significant experience litigating Mergers & Acquisitions and Securities Class Actions, whereby they protect investors by recovering money and remedying corporate misconduct. Mr. Monteverde, who leads the firm, has been recognized by Super Lawyers as a Rising Star in Securities Litigation in 2013 and 2017-2019, an award given to less than 2.5% of attorneys in a particular field. He has also been selected by Martindale-Hubbell as a 2017-2020 Top Rated Lawyer. Our firm's recent successes include changing the law in a significant victory that lowered the standard of liability under Section 14(e) of the Exchange Act in the Ninth Circuit. Thereafter, our firm successfully preserved this victory at the United States Supreme Court. Also, over the years the firm has recovered or secured over a dozen cash common funds for shareholders in mergers & acquisitions class action cases.
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Veteran-owned Coffee Brand Selected as Presenting Partner of the AB Motorsport Pit Side Experience
INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- NHRA announced today that Fire Department Coffee, a veteran-owned brand that is dedicated to handcrafting great-tasting coffee and supporting first responders, has been named the Official Coffee of NHRA as part of a multi-year agreement.
As the Official Coffee of NHRA, Fire Dept. Coffee will see integrations across all NHRA marketing and social media, with a robust advertising campaign coupled with on-site activations at Pit Side Experiences at all NHRA National Events. Its first on-site presence will be at the Amalie Motor Oil NHRA Gatornationals (March 9-12) at famed Gainesville Raceway.
Fire Dept. Coffee will also spearhead the inaugural "NHRA Hero of the Day" program. The program will identify and honor a local Veteran, firefighter or first responder in the crowd at all 2023 NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series season events.
"We're looking forward to the opportunity to introduce our brand, and our mission, and get out on the track to share Fire Dept. Coffee with NHRA fans across the country," said Luke Schneider, Founder and CEO of Fire Department Coffee. "It's especially exciting to use our new platform to honor a local hero at each event."
For 2023, Fire Dept. Coffee has set its sights on forging partnerships within the racing community, an opportunity to promote keeping drivers – and their fans – fueled on race day and beyond. One key partnership is with NHRA Top Fuel star Antron Brown, a three-time world champion with 71 career wins, and owner of AB Motorsports. Brown became a team owner for the first time during the 2022 season, and will work closely with Fire Department Coffee to introduce his dedicated fanbase and following to the brand throughout the year.
"As we embark on this new venture with the AB Motorsports Pit Side Experience and operate the program internally at ABM, we couldn't be more thrilled to welcome Fire Department Coffee as the presenting partner of the Pit Side Experience," Brown said. "We host upwards of 6,000 guests each year amongst Matco Tools, FVP and the ABM roster of partners, and for Fire Dept. Coffee to see the NHRA and ABM as a prominent marketing platform makes us very proud. We'll have a permanent coffee bar inside the Pit Side Experience for our guests and team to enjoy, and we're ready to help introduce the NHRA fan base to a great coffee brand."
Schneider, a former firefighter/paramedic and U.S. Navy veteran, founded Fire Department Coffee in 2016. He was inspired by the role that coffee plays in helping firefighters stay alert and energized through long shifts. Today, the business continues to be run by active and retired firefighters, who work together to provide a variety of great-tasting coffees – including Fire Department Coffee's proprietary Spirit Infused Coffee (developed in 2016) to consumers. Fire Department Coffee supports first responders through its Fire Department Coffee Foundation, which gives back to firefighters and first responders who have become sick or injured on the job, or who are facing other serious health challenges.
"It's exciting to welcome Fire Department Coffee as the Official Coffee of the NHRA, and we know their high-quality coffee is going to keep fans energized at each race this season," said Brad Gerber, NHRA Vice President and Chief Development Officer. "Their commitment to first responders is equally impressive and it is great to partner with them on the 'NHRA Hero of the Day' program as well."
For more information about Fire Department Coffee, visit www.firedeptcoffee.com. For more information about NHRA, including the 2023 schedule, visit www.NHRA.com.
About Fire Department Coffee
Founded in 2016 by firefighter/paramedic and U.S. Navy veteran Luke Schneider, Fire Department Coffee is a NaVOBA certified veteran-owned business that is dedicated to handcrafting great-tasting coffee and supporting first responders. Its growing assortment of ground, whole bean, single serve coffee pods, and ready-to-drink coffee is freshly roasted in the U.S.A. by a dedicated team of firefighters, first responders, and coffee experts.
For more information about Fire Dept. Coffee, or the Fire Dept. Coffee Foundation, please visit www.firedeptcoffee.com. Follow Fire Dept. Coffee on Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, Instagram,and YouTube.
About Camping World Holdings, Inc.
Camping World Holdings, Inc., headquartered in Lincolnshire, IL, (together with its subsidiaries) is America's largest retailer of RVs and related products and services. Our vision is to build a long-term legacy business that makes RVing fun and easy, and our Camping World and Good Sam brands have been serving RV consumers since 1966. We strive to build long-term value for our customers, employees, and shareholders by combining a unique and comprehensive assortment of RV products and services with a national network of RV dealerships, service centers and customer support centers along with the industry's most extensive online presence and a highly trained and knowledgeable team of associates serving our customers, the RV lifestyle, and the communities in which we operate. We also believe that our Good Sam organization and family of programs and services uniquely enable us to connect with our customers as stewards of the RV enthusiast community and the RV lifestyle. With RV sales and service locations in 42 states, Camping World has grown to become the prime destinations for everything RV. For more information, visit www.CampingWorld.com
About NHRA
Headquartered in San Dimas, Calif., NHRA is the primary sanctioning body for the sport of drag racing in the United States. NHRA presents 21 national events featuring the NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series, NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series, NHRA Pro Mod Drag Racing Series, Flexjet NHRA Factory Stock Showdown™ and Top Fuel Harley Series. NHRA provides competition opportunities for drivers of all levels in the NHRA Summit Racing Series and NHRA Street Legal™. NHRA also offers the NHRA Jr. Street® program for teens and the Summit Racing Jr. Drag Racing League® for youth ages 5 to 17. With 120 Member Tracks, NHRA allows racers to compete at a variety of locations nationally and internationally. NHRA's Youth and Education Services® (YES) Program reaches over 30,000 students annually to ignite their interest in automotive and racing related careers. NHRA's streaming service, NHRA.tv®, allows fans to view all NHRA national events as well as exclusive features of the sport. In addition, NHRA owns and operates three racing facilities: Gainesville Raceway in Florida; Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park; and In-N-Out Burger Pomona Dragstrip in Southern California. For more information, log on to www.NHRA.com, or visit the official NHRA pages on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube.
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. , July 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Alerion Aviation, a leading aircraft charter, management, aircraft sales and maintenance company has added Bombardier Challenger 300 to its charter fleet of aircraft.
Alerion Aviation will offer the aircraft for charter flights. This super midsize aircraft will complement the company's large cabin, long-range aircraft fleet. The Bombardier Challenger 300 aircraft provides a sophisticated and efficient aircraft offering seating for 10 passengers, free high -speed Wi-Fi, large cabin monitors and full forward galley on board to ensure each journey is a comfortable one.
The Challenger 300 is a popular private jet manufactured by Bombardier Aerospace. It is a super-midsize business jet known for its impressive performance and comfortable cabin. It can typically seat up to 8 passengers and has a range of approximately 3,200 nautical miles, making it suitable for medium to long-range flights. The cabin is well-appointed with luxurious amenities, offering a spacious and quiet environment for passengers. The Challenger 300 private jet is considered a top choice in the super-midsize jet category for its reliability, speed, and overall comfort. "Alerion Aviation is proud to offer our charter clients this gorgeous completely refreshed Private Jet" says Bob Seidel, CEO.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — James A. McDivitt, who commanded the Apollo 9 mission testing the first complete set of equipment to go to the moon, has died. He was 93.
McDivitt was also the commander of 1965’s Gemini 4 mission, where his best friend and colleague Ed White made the first U.S. spacewalk. His photographs of White during the spacewalk became iconic images.
He passed on a chance to land on the moon and instead became the space agency’s program manager for five Apollo missions after the Apollo 11 moon landing.
McDivitt died Thursday in Tucson, Arizona, NASA said Monday.
In his first flight in 1965, McDivitt reported seeing “something out there’’ about the shape of a beer can flying outside his Gemini spaceship. People called it a UFO and McDivitt would later joke that he became “a world-renowned UFO expert.” Years later he figured it was just a reflection of bolts in the window.
Apollo 9, which orbited Earth and didn’t go further, was one of the lesser-remembered space missions of NASA’s program. In a 1999 oral history, McDivitt said it didn’t bother him that it was overlooked: “I could see why they would, you know, it didn’t land on the moon. And so it’s hardly part of Apollo. But the lunar module was … key to the whole program.”
Flying with Apollo 9 crewmates Rusty Schweickart and David Scott, McDivitt’s mission was the first in-space test of the lightweight lunar lander, nicknamed Spider. Their goal was to see if people could live in it, if it could dock in orbit and — something that became crucial in the Apollo 13 crisis — if the lunar module’s engines could control the stack of spacecraft, which included the command module Gumdrop.
Early in training, McDivitt was not impressed with how flimsy the lunar module seemed: “I looked at Rusty and he looked at me, and we said, ‘Oh my God! We’re actually going to fly something like this?’ So it was really chintzy. … it was like cellophane and tin foil put together with Scotch tape and staples!”
Unlike many of his fellow astronauts, McDivitt didn’t yearn to fly from childhood. He was just good at it.
McDivitt didn’t have money for college growing up in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He worked for a year before going to junior college. When he joined the Air Force at 20, soon after the Korean War broke out, he had never been on an airplane. He was accepted for pilot training before he had ever been off the ground.
“Fortunately, I liked it,” he later recalled.
McDivitt flew 145 combat missions in Korea and came back to Michigan where he graduated from the University of Michigan with an aeronautical engineering degree. He later was one of the elite test pilots at Edwards Air Force Base and became the first student in the Air Force’s Aerospace Research Pilot School. The military was working on its own later-abandoned human space missions.
In 1962, NASA chose McDivitt to be part of its second class of astronauts, often called the “New Nine,” joining Neil Armstrong, Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and others.
McDivitt was picked to command the second two-man Gemini mission, along with White. The four-day mission in 1965 circled the globe 66 times.
Apollo 9’s shakedown flight lasted 10 days in March 1969 — four months before the moon landing — and was relatively trouble-free and uneventful.
“After I flew Apollo 9 it was apparent to me that I wasn’t going to be the first guy to land on the moon, which was important to me,” McDivitt recalled in 1999. “And being the second or third guy wasn’t that important to me.”
So McDivitt went into management, first of the Apollo lunar lander, then for the Houston part of the entire program.
McDivitt left NASA and the Air Force in 1972 for a series of private industry jobs, including president of the railcar division at Pullman Inc. and a senior position at aerospace firm Rockwell International. He retired from the military with the rank of brigadier general. | 2022-10-18T12:47:08+00:00 | keloland.com | https://www.keloland.com/news/national-world-news/apollo-9-commander-james-mcdivitt-dies-at-93/ |
DELAWARE, Ohio, May 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Greif, Inc. (NYSE: GEF, GEF.B), a global leader in industrial packaging products and services, announced today it will report the company's 2023 second quarter financial results after the market closes on Wednesday, June 7, 2023. A conference call will be held on Thursday, June 8, 2023 at 8:30 a.m. ET to discuss the quarter results.
Greif will provide conference call slides in combination with its second quarter earnings press release on June 7, 2023. The call on June 8, 2023 will include management's live remarks and a question and answer session.
Participants may access the call using the following online registration link: https://register.vevent.com/register/BIcc0c8e2a494a4ab69dce0942b5301cfe. Registrants will receive a confirmation containing dial in details and a unique conference call code for entry. Phone lines will open at 8:00 a.m. ET on June 8, 2023. A digital replay of the conference call will be available two hours following the call on the company's web site at http://investor.greif.com.
Webcast Details
Title: Greif, Inc. Q2 2023 Earnings Conference Call
URL: https://edge.media-server.com/mmc/p/sqrm68ut
About Greif, Inc.
Greif is a global leader in industrial packaging products and services and is pursuing its vision: be the best performing customer service company in the world. The Company produces steel, plastic and fibre drums, intermediate bulk containers, reconditioned containers, jerrycans and other small plastics, containerboard, uncoated recycled paperboard, coated recycled paperboard, tubes and cores and a diverse mix of specialty products. The Company also manufactures packaging accessories and provides filling, packaging and other services for a wide range of industries. In addition, Greif manages timber properties in the southeastern United States. The Company is strategically positioned in over 35 countries to serve global as well as regional customers. Additional information is on the Company's website at www.greif.com.
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Matt Leahy
740-549-6158
matthew.leahy@greif.com
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina woman who controlled two healthcare companies pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges resulting from a scheme in which she collected $17 million after the companies billed Medicare for medical equipment it never delivered, a prosecutor said.
Tanya Parrish Grant, 51, of Raleigh carried out her scheme through her companies, which provided back, shoulder, knee, and wrist braces and other equipment to Medicare beneficiaries, according to a news release from U.S. Attorney Michael Easley.
The news release said Grant's companies billed Medicare for more than $50 million between 2014 and 2021. Medicare paid her more than $17 million, which she used to buy homes in Raleigh and Fort Lauderdale, Florida, a Porsche and several Land Rovers, among other things, prosecutors said.
Grant paid companies in India and Pakistan to provide lists of Medicare patient identities. Her companies then billed Medicare for equipment she claimed to have provided to patients, the news release said.
An investigation also showed that Grant’s companies sent bills for 422 people who were dead, and when she was audited, Grant forged physician orders to support the billings.
Grant faces up to 10 years in prison when she is sentenced later this year. | 2022-07-06T21:40:07+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/North-Carolina-woman-pleads-guilty-to-healthcare-17288428.php |
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“This is not about four-day school weeks,” said board member Trent Smith. “For me, it’s philosophical. … I personally feel like kids should be in school way more than they are.” #oklaed
"Keeper of the Ashes: The Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders," premiering this week on Hulu, looks back at the brutal 1977 killings of three Tulsa-area girls at summer camp.
Carr finished the 2022 Certified Piedmontese Ironman Tulsa triathlon in nine hours, 22 minutes and 59 seconds.
A 90-room, boutique hotel, 88 apartments and 20,000 square feet of retail space are part of the proposal for land downtown at 311 N. Boulder Ave.
Union coach Kirk Fridrich confirmed for the Tulsa World that Shaker Reisig and his family have moved into the Union district.
Kaiser opened Laffa in 2012, offering her unique approach to Israeli cuisine. It was chosen as the best new restaurant of the year for 2013 by the Tulsa World.
"If they’re going to create an environment where abortion is illegal, they need to own it. Show us that “pro-life” is more than a singular ethic. Mothers of the post-Roe future and their children need them to show up with more than words." says editorial writer Bob Doucette.
Law enforcement calls the scam "sextortion," and investigators have seen an explosion in complaints from victims leading the FBI to ramp up a campaign to warn parents from coast to coast.
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Costa Rica and Greece win most desirable countries with New Orleans and Dubrovnik crowned Wanderlust readers' favourite cities
LONDON, Nov. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A country known throughout the world for its staggering beauty and for being a leader in sustainability, Costa Rica was crowned Wanderlust readers' Most Desirable Country (Rest of World) for 2022.
On Tuesday 8th November, hundreds of the world's foremost travel leaders convened at the Tower of London for the 21st Wanderlust Travel Awards, presented by legendary travel broadcaster Simon Reeve. This year, Wanderlust presented a mixture of reader-voted and industry sustainability awards.
"Costa Rica has been a perennial favourite of Wanderlust readers for decades, with its Pura Vida joie de vivre mentality and outstanding natural grandeur influencing our readers' votes once again in 2022" said George Kipouros, Wanderlust Editor in Chief, about the Gold Winner. Securing the Silver prize for this category was Canada, nudging last year's winner, Australia, to Bronze.
New Orleans, took Gold for the Most Desirable City (Rest of World). This vibrant and exciting city came up against strong contenders with Tokyo nabbing Silver just ahead of Cartagena.
Readers voted Greece as their Most Desirable Country (Europe) winner. "A summer in Greece has been a rite of passage for many a traveller – yet our readers our now rediscovering a destination that offers abundant culture, nature and culinary experiences throughout the year and beyond its famed islands" added George Kipouros.
Dubrovnik was crowned the Readers' Most Desirable City (Europe), with the medieval jewel of Tallinn in Silver, followed by ever-popular Lisbon in Bronze.
With the slogan 'Taking the Road Less Travelled', Emerging Destinations are always of interest to Wanderlust. This year, Georgia waltzed to gold; with Central America's Belize, and Saudi Arabia jumping into Silver and Bronze respectively.
Palawan in the Philippines took Gold as Most Desirable Island (Rest of the World); Ireland took Most Desirable Island (Europe). Old favourites dominated other categories, with Favourite Airline going to Singapore Airlines - who have won every single year of the Wanderlust Awards - and Favourite Tour Operator (general) to Audley Travel - another many-times winner - with Exodus Travels and Trailfinders completing the top positions. Sunvil won gold in the Favourite Tour Operator (specialist) category, with Journey Latin America in Silver, and Wild Frontiers in Bronze.
Sustainability has been at the heart of Wanderlust since its launch. New categories recognising Sustainability Initiatives were introduced this year, judged by a panel of industry experts. Exodus Travels were awarded Gold in the Tour Operator category, while Le Manoir Aux Quat'Saisons took the Accommodation category, and Visit Scotland the Tourism Board Gold.
Wanderlust also awarded a Special Achievement Award to the Trans Bhutan Trail, a restored 250-mile ancient trail, connecting many of Bhutan's historic sites. Wanderlust cofounder Lyn Hughes said, "The standard of nominations in the sustainability categories was impressive, with a diverse range of ground-breaking initiatives that are making a difference."
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Did you lose money on investments in IonQ? If so, please visit IonQ, Inc. Shareholder Class Action Lawsuit or contact Peter Allocco at (212) 951-2030 or pallocco@bernlieb.com to discuss your rights.
NEW YORK, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bernstein Liebhard LLP, a nationally acclaimed investor rights law firm, reminds investors of the deadline to file a lead plaintiff motion in a securities class action lawsuit that has been filed on behalf of investors who purchased or acquired the securities of IonQ, Inc. ("IonQ" or the "Company") (NYSE: IONQ) between March 30, 2021 and May 2, 2022, inclusive (the "Class Period"). The lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland and alleges violations of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
IonQ claims to "develop quantum computers designed to solve the world's most complex problems." On or about September 30, 2021, IonQ became a public entity via a business combination with dMY Technology Group, Inc. III ("DTG"), a special purpose acquisition company.
Plaintiff alleges that Defendants made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose: (1) that IonQ had not yet developed a 32-qubit quantum computer; (2) that the Company's 11-qubit quantum computer suffered from significant error rates, rendering it useless; (3) that IonQ's quantum computer is not sufficiently reliable, so it is not accessible despite being available through major cloud providers; and (4) that a significant portion of IonQ's revenue was derived from improper roundtripping transactions with related parties.
On May 3, 2022, Scorpion Capital released a research report alleging, among other things, that IonQ is a "scam built on phony statements about nearly all key aspects of the technology and business." It further claimed that the Company' reported "[f]ictitious 'revenue' via sham transactions and related-party round-tripping."
On this news, the Company's stock fell 9% to close at $7.15 per share on May 3, 2022.
If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than August 1, 2022. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as lead plaintiff. If you choose to take no action, you may remain an absent class member.
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NEW YORK, July 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of securities of Danaher Corporation (NYSE: DHR) between April 21, 2022 and April 24, 2023, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important September 15, 2023 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Danaher securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Danaher class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=17717 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than September 15, 2023. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually handle securities class actions, but are merely middlemen that refer clients or partner with law firms that actually litigate the cases. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, defendants throughout the Class Period made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) as the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic subsided, revenue growth associated with Danaher's COVID-19-related businesses was declining; (2) contrary to the Company's prior representations to investors, revenues associated with Danaher's non-COVID-19-related businesses were insufficient to compensate for the foregoing negative trend; (3) accordingly, Danaher overstated the Company's ability to sustain the growth it had experienced in 2020 and 2021; (4) as a result, it was unlikely that Danaher would be able to meet its 2023 revenue forecasts; and (5) as a result, Defendants' public statements were materially false and/or misleading at all relevant times. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
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OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Republican Rep. Dan Newhouse, who voted to impeach Donald Trump over the Jan. 6 insurrection, appeared well positioned Friday to advance to the general election in his Washington state primary, while fellow Republican Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, who took the same vote, fought to hold off a Trump-backed opponent.
Democrat Marie Perez was the top vote getter in the 3rd Congressional District in southwestern Washington, with 31% of the vote. Herrera Beutler, who had about 24% on Tuesday night, dropped to just over 23% by Thursday night, less than 2,000 votes ahead of Joe Kent – a former Green Beret endorsed by Trump.
Because Washington is a vote-by-mail state and ballots just need to be in by Election Day, it often takes days to learn final results in close races as ballots arrive at county election offices throughout the week.
Updated vote tallies were expected late Friday afternoon in the 3rd District’s largest county, Clark, which had an estimated 45,000 votes left to count. Counties have until Aug. 16 to finish their count and for canvassing boards to certify the results, followed by certification by the secretary of state by Aug. 19.
A mandatory recount would occur if the margin of votes between the No. 2 and No. 3 candidates is less than half of 1% and closer than 2,000 votes.
Under Washington’s primary system, all candidates run on the same ballot, and the top two vote getters in each of Tuesday’s races advance to the November election, regardless of party.
Of the 10 House Republicans who voted for Trump’s impeachment, four opted not to run for reelection. Michigan Rep. Peter Meijer was defeated in a primary Tuesday by Trump-endorsed John Gibbs and Rep. Tom Rice of South Carolina lost to a Trump-endorsed challenger in June. Rep. David Valadao of California — which has an open primary like Washington — survived a primary challenge. Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming is bracing for defeat in her Aug. 16 primary against a Trump-backed rival.
Newhouse, the four-term incumbent in the 4th Congressional District in central Washington, had about 26% of the vote , followed by Democrat Doug White, who had just over 25%. Loren Culp, a Trump-endorsed former small town police chief who lost the 2020 governor’s race to Democrat Jay Inslee, was at about 21 21%.
In another key match in the 8th Congressional District, incumbent Democratic Rep. Kim Schrier advanced to the November ballot with more than 47% of the vote, and will face former state attorney general candidate Matt Larkin in November.
With more than 17% of the vote, Larkin edged out King County Council Member Reagan Dunn, a former federal prosecutor whose mother once held the seat. Dunn conceded the race Thursday. The district is a key target of GOP efforts to retake control of the House. | 2022-08-05T21:15:52+00:00 | pahomepage.com | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/politics/trump-backed-challenger-gains-in-washington-u-s-house-count/ |
LONDON (AP) — The British government’s plan to deport asylum-seekers to Rwanda undermines the “basic dignity” of people who are escaping war and oppression, a lawyer argued Monday during an appeals court hearing aimed at blocking implementation of the policy.
The Court of Appeal in London is hearing an appeal filed by a coalition of groups including immigration rights advocates and public employee unions. They are seeking to overturn a lower court ruling that would allow the first deportation flight to take off as scheduled on Tuesday.
Separately, activists are challenging the deportations on a person-by-person basis, seeking to ensure that no migrants will be eligible for deportation even if the flights are allowed to go ahead.
Raza Husain, a lawyer for the migrants, said the lower court's decision not to issue an injunction against the deportations “cannot rationally be sustained" because of concerns about the protection of migrant rights in Rwanda. As a result, there is a significant chance the policy will ultimately be blocked by the courts, exposing the government to claims for damages from anyone wrongly deported, Husain said in documents filed with the court.
Husain argued that the government’s plan involves the forced removal of asylum-seekers to a country they don’t want to travel to as part of a policy intended to deter others from trying to enter Britain.
“This amounts, on any view, to a serious interference with basic dignity … where those individuals have already suffered significant trauma and have mental health issues,” he said in the court filings.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative government in April announced plans to send some undocumented migrants to Rwanda. Migrants deported under the program would be forced to apply for asylum in Rwanda, not the U.K. Britain paid Rwanda 120 million pounds ($158 million) up front and will make additional payments based on the number of people deported.
The program is aimed at discouraging migrants from risking their lives by crossing the English Channel in small boats after a surge in such journeys over the past two years. But human rights groups say the policy is illegal, inhumane and will only magnify the risks for migrants.
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The first day of the 2022 First Financial Wabash Valley Classic for boys high school basketball wrapped up the way it began Monday at Terre Haute North, with an efficient, workmanlike performance by one of the tournament's contenders.
In the eighth game of the day it was Bloomfield putting on the show, rolling to a 66-37 triumph over South Vermillion in a game that was never really close.
"Defensively, I thought we kind of set the tone," said coach J.B. Neill of Bloomfield. "We were able to take their guys out of their rhythm."
The Cardinals also shot 52% from the field, had 22 assists on 28 baskets, had just four turnovers and seemingly never let the ball rest in one players hands for more than a second or two.
"The kids do a good job playing together well," Neill agreed.
"That was a real tough one," said coach Vince Marietta of the Wildcats. "In the first half we played hard and we played [the Cardinals] physical. But they had a game plan and they executed it. When you have three players who can stroke it like they do, and an all-state player underneath in [Peter] Combs . . ."
Bloomfield had just a 5-4 lead when Neill inserted senior Brett Sherrard in the lineup midway through the first quarter. Sherrard immediately assisted on a 3-pointer by Blake Neill, then went coast-to-coast with a defensive rebound, and Bloomfield was on its way to ending the first quarter on an 11-1 run.
"He gave us a good pick-me-up," Neill said of Sherrard, who had 10 points to complement Combs (20 points on 10-for-12 shooting, 10 rebounds) and Justin Beard (15 points on 5-for-7 shooting from long range). Luke Bush had 10 points and six rebounds and Dylan Conder had eight points for South Vermillion.
The Cardinals now have a quarterfinal game Tuesday against a Shakamak team they've already beaten in conference play, and could see again in the sectional. South Vermillion will try to advance on the other side of the bracket.
"That's the beauty of a holiday tourney," Marietta said. "After the first day, you've decided which title you're gonna get." | 2022-12-27T06:33:47+00:00 | tribstar.com | https://www.tribstar.com/sports/cardinals-wrap-up-first-day-with-stellar-performance/article_bc301e4a-8595-11ed-8973-b7b06cb9e6cd.html |
INDIANAPOLIS — Ready for fall? How about a good scare? If so, some of Indianapolis’ haunted houses open THIS WEEKEND!
In Indianapolis, there’s a good scare for everyone. Check out the opening dates for this year’s spooky season!
- Necropolis Underground – Saturday, September 17
- Haunted Angelus House – Saturday, September 24
- Hannah Haunted Acres – Friday, September 16
- Indiana Fear Farm – Friday, September 23
- Hall’s Haunted Halls – Saturday, October 1
- Indy ScreamPark – Friday, September 7
- The Barn of Terror – Saturday, October 1
- Nightmare on Edgewood Haunted House – Friday, September 23
- Superior Haunted Trails – Friday, September 23
Did we miss one? If so, email hrobinson@fox59.com with the name and opening date. | 2022-09-07T19:14:10+00:00 | fox59.com | https://fox59.com/news/entertainment/heres-when-indianapolis-haunted-houses-open-for-the-season/ |
NEW YORK, Feb. 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Adrienne Landau renews her fashion vows with a modern lifestyle expression. In partnership with Meridian Brands, LLC, the Adrienne Landau brand will launch an expansive collection for Fall 2023 which includes her historically iconic accessories and outerwear, updated and enhanced with two dynamic purposeful apparel collections aptly branded "Adrienne Landau Quartz" and "Adrienne Landau Onyx". Both accentuating the brand's commitment to timeless glamour and intones of Adrienne's creative spirituality. The collections are primarily differentiated by their price point accessibility.
The collection was conceived with the belief that today's woman has seen and worn it all, she is discerning of value, and yearns for ease and elegance. Designed with elemental dressing which builds upon itself supporting the confident woman with sophisticated sensuality, this modernized lifestyle collection effortlessly moves with her from day to night.
An accomplished artist at heart, Adrienne married bold color to rich texture on canvas. Both the Quartz and Onyx collections exemplify the intersection of her unique art and modern fashion. "The Adrienne Landau woman prides herself on making easy glamour possible and is not afraid to express herself honestly. She represents passion, style, and confidence." states Adrienne Landau.
Each collection embraces the wellness of mind and spirit based on the belief that the energy from the earth possess healing qualities. Minerals, stones, and crystals are infused into the designs, and influence the elements of our brand design philosophy.
Adrienne Landau Design, Inc. signed a long-term master licensing agreement with Meridian Brands, LLC. Meridian is a best-in-class brand portfolio company with expertise across all channels of leading women's apparel. Meridian's CEO, Olin Lancaster says, "In Adrienne Landau, we see a Brand with a vision and a strong message which has recently been significantly underplayed. We are confident that the intersection between the Product, its intent, and message is something that will resonate with today's consumer as a brand with purpose".
The Adrienne Landau Fall 2023 Collection will make its debut at Coterie, NYC followed by private appointments in their newly renovated Showroom located in NYC's iconic Fashion District.
Meridian Brands is an industry leader in the design, sourcing, manufacturing, and distribution of branded and private label women's apparel. With a portfolio led by seasoned talent across creative, product development, production, operations, and commerce, the company has the resources, capabilities and understanding of consumers and trends to meet the needs of an ever-changing retail landscape. www.meridianbrandsllc.com
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PINE BLUFF, Ark. (AP) _ Simmons First National Corp. (SFNC) on Thursday reported second-quarter profit of $27.5 million.
The Pine Bluff, Arkansas-based bank said it had earnings of 21 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs, were 52 cents per share.
The results topped Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of three analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 46 cents per share.
The bank holding company posted revenue of $245 million in the period. Its revenue net of interest expense was $225.3 million, also surpassing Street forecasts.
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ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s central bank delivered another massive interest rate cut Thursday despite eye-popping inflation above 80%, moving the opposite way from world economies that are raising rates to control prices as the lira sunk to record lows.
The Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey lowered the benchmark rate by 1 percentage point, to 12%. The lira was trading around 18.38 against the dollar, weakening further than the previous record low of 18.36 in December.
The depreciation of Turkey’s currency is likely to intensify the financial worries of residents who have seen their purchasing power erode during a series of economic shocks in the country.
Turkey has followed President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s unorthodox belief that high interest rates cause high inflation, cutting borrowing costs despite consumer prices rising by 80.21% in August from a year earlier. Traditional economic thinking says raising interest rates fights inflation.
“Inflation is not a crippling economic threat,” Erdogan said in an interview with PBS NewsHour this week. “There are currently countries threatened by inflation rates of 8% and 9%. This rate is 80% in our country.”
He said Turkey would bring inflation under control after New Year’s and that supermarkets were well stocked.
Central banks around the world are taking the reverse action from Turkey, aggressively raising rates to target soaring inflation.
The U.S. Federal Reserve hiked rates by a large three-quarters of a point for the third consecutive time Wednesday, followed Thursday by the Swiss National Bank’s biggest hike ever to its key interest rate. The Bank of England enacted a smaller half-point hike as other banks from Europe to Canada move quickly to rein in rising prices.
Official Turkish statistics released this month showed annual inflation was the worst among the Group of 20 major economies, but independent experts say inflation is actually much higher.
Critics also say the independence of the central bank and the official statistical institute have been undermined under Turkey’s presidency.
Last year, the currency kept hitting record lows as the central bank lowered interest rates from 19%. When it finally hit 18.36 against the dollar, Erdogan announced extraordinary measures that he claimed would safeguard the lira.
The government encouraged people to swap their dollars for the lira and place them in a deposit account that would give the interest rate plus any lira depreciation against the dollar. Though the lira rebounded after that announcement to a high of 11.09, it steadily declined this year. | 2022-09-22T15:55:13+00:00 | everythinglubbock.com | https://www.everythinglubbock.com/news/international/ap-turkish-lira-hits-record-low-before-central-bank-meeting/ |
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Friday’s Mega Millions drawing once again failed to produce a grand-prize winner, causing the jackpot to swell closer to the $1-billion mark.
Friday’s winning numbers — 29, 40, 47, 50, 57 and the Mega Ball 25 — went unmatched once again, continuing a months-long trend that began after the last jackpot-winner was announced on April 18.
The estimated jackpot now stands at $820 million, with a cash value of $422 million.
The jackpot rose to similar heights around the same time last year — leading to a $1.337 billion jackpot being awarded on July 29, 2022. It was the third billion-dollar jackpot won in the competition’s history, according to the Mega Millions website.
The current jackpot amount is the fifth-largest in the game’s history, but still more than $700 million beneath the largest ever won.
Even though the jackpot wasn’t awarded in Friday’s drawing, there were eight fairly big winners who matched all five white balls to earn the second-tier prize of $1 million: Two ticketholders each in Florida, New Jersey and North Carolina won the $1 million prize, with another winner each in California and Michigan.
The next drawing is scheduled for Tuesday, July 25 at 11 p.m. ET. | 2023-07-22T15:45:24+00:00 | kxnet.com | https://www.kxnet.com/news/national-news/mega-millions-jackpot-increases-to-820-million-8-players-will-1-million-prize/ |
PROVIDENCE, R.I., Feb. 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- G-Form®, the innovative sports protection brand, announces its partnership with UK-based ingredient brand, RE ZRO®, with a multi-year, phased investment deal to launch the world's first fully biodegradable impact protection range. Expanding on G-Form's proprietary technology, RE ZRO® will provide new features and benefits to the company's portfolio.
"Collaboration plays a big part in how we develop and build better products. We at RE ZRO are excited to pave the way into the future of impact protection together with our friends and partners at G-Form," shared Wil Marschall, RE ZRO Founder and CEO.
"The partnership with RE ZRO is remarkable. These innovators have developed an advanced sustainable solution delivering fully biodegradable and recyclable protection to a consumer that has been waiting years for this type of product. The G-Form brand is now the house of cutting-edge impact protection technology," stated Glen "Gava" Giovanucci, G-Form's CEO.
G-Form® will be implementing RE ZRO® technology into their new range of products and will also support RE ZRO® by acting as their North American distributors. This injection of capital will enable the UK startup to commercialize their proprietary technologies to the global market and push to become the new standard in sustainability within the impact protection sector.
G-Form's initial range featuring RE ZRO® will enter the market in the Fall of 2023, with additional moto-certified products in the pipeline for Spring 2024.
ABOUT G-FORM
G-Form is a technology-driven protective solutions provider, pioneering the advancement of impact protection. Offering premium products that combine protection, comfort, style, and freedom of motion, G-Form has become a chosen protection brand for athletes looking to level up across various categories including bike, moto, baseball, soccer, lacrosse, and military. For more information about G-Form, visit www.g-form.com.
ABOUT RE ZRO
RE ZRO®, a brand-new impact protection company, has created the world's first 100% recyclable and fully biodegradable body armor, offering consumers the highest possible level of safety with minimal harm to the environment. Available in CE level 1 and level 2, RE ZRO's cutting-edge material science and structural design provide powerful impact absorption that is lightweight, flexible, and highly ventilated.
MEDIA CONTACT
Leah Balzotti
lbalzotti@g-form.com
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Solo Stove introduces a new tabletop fire pit
A fire pit is a great addition to a backyard or even a camping trip. It gives you a place to gather, sets the mood and provides warmth. However, individuals who live in an urban area might not have room for a full-size fire pit. A compact model that safely functions in a limited space, such as on a picnic table, is ideal for someone who doesn’t have a backyard.
Solo Stove is a trusted name in fire pits. The company is known for its innovative and highly efficient products. The latest model is called the Mesa, and it’s specifically designed for use on an outdoor table. This compact, smokeless fire pit employs the company’s signature 360-degree airflow technology, and it can be used with small pieces of wood or pellets.
This sounded like an excellent addition to the company’s line, but we were curious if the Solo Stove Mesa lived up to the high bar other Solo Stove models have set. We tested the new tabletop fire pit, and this is what we found.
Testing the Solo Stove Mesa
Our tester has extensive experience with outdoor products such as fire pits. They were a scout and their family camped out often while growing up. Now that our tester is an adult, they frequently host outdoor events. Besides being familiar with a more traditional bowl-shaped fire pit, our tester has used a number of Solo Stove’s products and had a positive experience with each.
When using the Mesa, our tester paid attention to ease of setup, portability, stability and how easy the fire pit was to clean.
What is the Solo Stove Mesa?
The Solo Stove Mesa is a tabletop fire pit that might be best described as “cute and tiny.” It’s only 6.8 inches tall (with its stand) and 5.1 inches wide. We particularly like that the company finally addressed one of the design areas that we had long been hoping they would. The Mesa is the first Solo Stove fire pit that’s available in six color options: stainless steel, deep olive, mulberry, bone, ash and water.
Because it’s so small, we were curious about Mesa’s weight. When we placed it on a kitchen scale, the diminutive fire pit weighed just under 1 1/2 pounds. This weight included the pellet adapter and the convenient drawstring bag that fits the unit nicely.
Regarding the size of this model, it really is small enough to fit on any table. The Mesa uses tiny pieces of wood or the adapter to supply pellets for fuel. The heat is suitable for about four people who are seated within marshmallow-roasting range.
Solo Stove Mesa price and where to buy
The Solo Stove Mesa tabletop fire pit costs $79.99, and it’s available at Solo Stove.
How to use Solo Stove Mesa
Solo Stove’s Mesa only has four pieces. It’s simple enough to assemble without even looking at the directions. However, we recommend reading them to make sure each piece is placed where it belongs and is facing the proper direction.
The Mesa must only be used with the included stand. Before using, unfold the legs. This allows you to safely place the fire pit directly on wood, grass, wicker, plastic, metal or composite materials.
If you prefer, you can use the Mesa with the included pellet adapter to modify the unit so it can be used with pellet fuel. This is a little more convenient because you won’t need to chop up wood into tiny pieces before use.
When the tabletop fire pit has completely cooled, you’ll find there isn’t much left inside. This is because of the efficient design. To clean, simply turn the unit upside-down over a bag or a can and give it a shake until the ash falls free. It’s a simple and straightforward cleaning process.
Solo Stove Mesa benefits
The Mesa is lightweight, portable, features a durable design and burns with extreme efficiency. There’s barely any smoke once the fire gets started, and it provides a surprising amount of heat for such a tiny unit. We love that you now have color choices when purchasing, plus the convenience of burning wood or pellets. It cleans without effort and makes a fun addition to any backyard, patio or porch space.
Solo Stove Mesa drawbacks
This tabletop fire pit has only one minor design flaw that we could find during our extensive testing. The folding feet which give the Mesa its stability don’t always work well on slatted wood, because the feet might line up with the spaces and create an unstable condition. However, this is not a deal-breaker as a paving stone, tile, small piece of wood paneling or nearly any other flat object can be placed under the fire pit to solve the slat-gap problem.
Should you get the Solo Stove Mesa?
While this isn’t the type of fire pit that will warm you on a crisp night, it’s a nearly flawless product that delivers everything it promises. If you live in an urban area where there isn’t a lot of outdoor space or if you want a portable tabletop fire pit that you can take anywhere, there’s simply no better option available than the Solo Stove Mesa.
Consider other products
If you prefer a propane option, this tabletop model is a solid choice. It has an antique bronze finish and provides 8,000 BTU of heat. The flame is adjustable, but you must purchase the propane tank separately.
Sold by Home Depot and Amazon
If you want a larger option from Solo Stove, the Bonfire 2.0 is the latest model. It’s the company’s mid-size fire pit. The Bonfire 2.0 includes the upgraded removable ash pan and features smokeless burning.
Sold by Solo Stove and Amazon
Outland Living 410 Series Outdoor Propane Gas Fire Table
If you don’t have a table, this fire table from Outland Living conveniently serves as both a table and a fire pit. It provides a cozy gathering place for outdoor parties and features a push-button ignition system for ease of lighting.
Sold by Amazon
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After a whirlwind of three years that saw car prices jump due to supply chain issues, one sector may be leveling off in consumer demand: fun cars.
With an uncertain economy amid inflation and recession fears, 2023 should shape up to the year when used sports cars and convertibles cost less money.
J.P. Morgan Research predicts used car prices will decline by about 10% in 2023. Higher interest rates are impacting affordability, the firm’s lead automotive research analyst Ryan Brinkman wrote in his study.
As the economy is uncertain, consumers gravitate toward practical cars, said Tony Gabriele, a partner at four western New York auto dealerships, including Marina Auto Group in Webster, New York, and Auto Outlets USA, which focuses on used vehicles in Victor, New York.
That means sporty cars may be found at reasonable prices. A 2016 Mazda Miata convertible with just over 25,000 miles is currently priced at $23,500 at Gabriele’s Webster Marina dealership. The catch is the buyer has to know how to drive a stick shift.
Price fluctuation
For now, used car prices are dropping. But that may change if the 2023 economy slides into recession as shoppers will look for used cars instead of new ones.
According to a January study by CoPilot, a car-buying app, used car prices fell for six consecutive months from July to December 2022. That’s a drop of 8.8 percent since January 2022.
Gabriele said that new car inventory is improving, relieving supply chain issues during the pandemic.
“It’s about 70% of what it was pre-pandemic. Rebates and incentives are also improving,” Gabriele said.
Prices for a used car at Gabriele’s four dealerships are about 10% lower than they were a year ago due to the easing of freight problems. The wait for a new car has lessened, but interest rates are higher.
Interest rates for people with good credit on a new car are about 6.5% and 8% for newer used vehicles, Gabriele said. He said there is still a used car shortage for dealers, but the prices are leveling off.
Freight costs
On the supply chain issue, the Council for Supply Chain Management Professionals said in its latest report that freight volumes for sea, air and trucks are likely to decline in 2023. That means the freight rates are on track to drop from their pandemic highs.
The unpredictable factor for freight costs will be oil prices. While it has come down, it is still $1 more a gallon that in January 2022.
Car shoppers will find more inventory for new vehicles in 2023, Gabriele said. Prices on used cars are dropping on vehicles as interest rates rise. That fun convertible or used muscle car will be the best deals since practicality is in vogue in uncertain economic times.
Mary Chao is a New York City-based Specialty Reporter at Scripps News. Email Mary.Chao@Scripps.com. | 2023-02-23T22:24:57+00:00 | news5cleveland.com | https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/national/why-buying-certain-used-cars-will-save-you-money-in-2023 |
BEIJING, Oct. 17. 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- China welcomes companies from all over the world to invest in the country and continue to share its development dividends as the Chinese economy has shifted from high-speed growth to high-quality development, a senior official from the country's top economic planner said on Monday.
"China's door will open wider," said Zhao Chenxin, vice chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and a member of the commission's CPC leadership group, at a press conference on the sidelines of the ongoing 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC), the country's most important political event this year.
The dual-circulation development pattern, where internal and external markets can reinforce each other and with the domestic market as the mainstay, does not mean that China wants to scale back from opening up or even to pursue a self-sufficient economy, Zhao clarified.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has stressed over and again that the new development pattern is an open dual circulation involving both domestic and foreign markets, instead of a closed domestic loop.
The Chinese economy has long been deeply integrated with the global economy, Zhao said, adding that the domestic and foreign markets are interdependent and mutually reinforcing.
China to further encourage foreign investment
China will further step up efforts to encourage foreign investment, Zhao said, adding the country will release and implement the 2022 version of the Catalogue of Encouraged Industries for Foreign Investment, which will further expand the scope of encouraged industries for foreign investment.
China's economy has shifted from high-speed growth to high-quality development, and the country is also facing new situation for attracting foreign investment, he noted.
The country will increase policy support for foreign investment in such areas as advanced manufacturing, higher-quality services, high-tech, energy conservation and environmental protection, he said.
There will also be policy support to foreign investment in China's less developed central, western and northeastern regions, according to Zhao.
Besides, the country will launch the sixth batch of major foreign-funded projects, and help them solve the difficulties in a timely manner in the process of investment, production and operation, so as to ensure the smooth implementation of the projects.
In addition, China will further optimize services for foreign-funded enterprises, and provide more convenience for international investment, exchanges and cooperation on the premise of preventing and controlling the COVID-19 pandemic.
In the first eight months this year, foreign direct investment (FDI) into the Chinese mainland, in actual use, increased 16.4 percent year on year to 892.74 billion yuan ($127.39 billion), against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, complicated international situation and weak cross-border investment, Zhao said.
Specifically, the high-tech industries saw FDI inflow surge by 33.6 percent from a year earlier, he noted.
FDI flowing into the country's western region reported a year-on-year increase of 43 percent, followed by 27.6 percent in the central region and 14.3 percent in the eastern region.
"Generally speaking, multinational companies are confident in investing in China and optimistic about the Chinese market in the long term," he said.
China will promote higher-level opening-up to the outside world, intensify policy efforts to attract foreign investment, and give better play to the positive role of foreign investment in promoting the country's high-quality development, he said.
A rebounding economy with huge opportunities
China's economy showed a significant rebound in the third quarter, Zhao said.
"Consumer prices have risen modestly, in sharp contrast to the high global inflation, and the employment remained generally stable."
He underscored that China's economy has been recovering and resuming its growth momentum despite some fluctuations caused by the unexpected factors this year, such as the external environment, the pandemic and extreme weather.
A slew of policies has been rolled out to shore up the economy, and major economic indicators of the industries, services, investment and consumption are all recovering, according to Zhao.
The country's economy still faces multiple headwinds. But facing the impact of the unexpected factors, China's economy has stabilized and rebounded in a relatively short period of time, showing strong resilience and huge potential, Zhao pointed out.
China, with a population of over 1.4 billion, has the world's largest middle-income class and the advantage of being a super-large market, he noted.
The country's huge market, advanced infrastructure, industrial systems and supply chains have all laid a solid foundation and provided opportunities for various companies to develop.
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ELKHART, Ind., July 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Vala Marketing, the area's leading provider of digital advertising, design, and other online marketing services, has made the move to acquire Web Centre - a web design and digital marketing agency headquartered in Lapeer, MI. The acquisition comes on the heels of Vala Marketing's 6th anniversary of being in business in the Michiana area.
The move to acquire Web Centre began when Grant Mielke, Founder of Vala Marketing, reached out to Robert Norcross, Owner of Web Centre, to discuss the sale in June of 2022. The companies operate similarly which made the transition a quick one. The deal was signed on July 1, 2022.
"Robert and I hit it off right away," Grant Mielke said. "He's done impressive work, and we think similarly in terms of organization and workflows, but most importantly, we value treating people right and providing excellent service above all."
The acquisition of Web Centre fits into Vala Marketing's strategy to provide full-service, turnkey marketing solutions to the Michiana area and beyond by bringing over 100 new clients to Vala Marketing's lineup, as well as a new Account Executive to the team.
"The best part is, they are keeping our incredible staff - and my right-hand person for all of these years - Bailey RaCosta." Robert Norcross said. "I'm so happy for that. So, not only will our clients be even better taken care of than before, but they will have more support to help their businesses grow, which has always been Web Centre's ultimate mission as a business."
"Vala Marketing has been growing and establishing a firm presence in Michigan, so this has felt like a natural next step for the team," Mielke said. "Several of our employees and clients are already on the 'Mich' side of 'Michiana's Premier Marketing Agency', and now we're excited to add Bailey to the team, as well as so many clients in the Central Michigan region."
Norcross has spent the last 13 years growing Web Centre in from its headquarters in Lapeer through Central Michigan, and every single year the company has grown in size, which is what led to his decision to get more help.
"It's been an amazing, meteoric rise," Norcross said. "On a personal level, all of this growth means I've been working non-stop. Early mornings and late nights. And before it catches up to me, and our clients stop getting amazing service, I wanted to get in front of it and make everyone happy. I'm very thankful to all of our clients - and the Lapeer Area - for all of their business over the years. Growing this company has been one of my life's greatest accomplishments."
"Vala's biggest goal with this transition, by a long shot, is taking the best possible care of the Web Centre clients - every bit of strategizing involved with this, all of the decisions we have made, and the steps we have taken to make this all work smoothly have centered around that singular goal as our north star," said Mielke, echoing Norcross's comments. "We are beyond excited to prove ourselves to all of our new clientele and use our expanded service offerings to take Web Centre's clients to new heights."
Vala Marketing is a full-service marketing agency operating out of the Midwest specializing in Social Media Management, Branding, Website Design, and Videography. All media inquiries can be directed to Madison Gridley at Madison@ValaMarketing.com.
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SOURCE Vala Marketing Inc. | 2022-07-29T20:36:09+00:00 | newschannel10.com | https://www.newschannel10.com/prnewswire/2022/07/29/vala-marketing-makes-first-acquisition-with-purchase-web-centre/ |
NEW YORK, June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Digital Turbine, Inc. ("Digital Turbine" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: APPS) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Digital Turbine investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud between August 9, 2021 and May 17, 2022. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
APPS investors may also contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. via email at jlevi@levikorsinsky.com or by telephone at (212) 363-7500.
CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that defendants made false statements and/or concealed that: (1) the Company's recent acquisitions, AdColony and Fyber, act as agents in certain of their respective product lines; (2) as a result, revenues for those product lines must be reported net of license fees and revenue share, rather than on a gross basis; (3) the Company's internal control over financial reporting as to revenue recognition was deficient; and (4) as a result of the foregoing, the Company's net revenues was overstated throughout fiscal 2022; and (5) as a result of the foregoing, defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in Digital Turbine during the relevant time frame, you have until August 5, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you are a class member, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket costs or fees. There is no cost or obligation to participate.
WHY LEVI & KORSINSKY: Over the past 20 years, the team at Levi & Korsinsky has secured hundreds of millions of dollars for aggrieved shareholders and built a track record of winning high-stakes cases. Our firm has extensive expertise representing investors in complex securities litigation and a team of over 70 employees to serve our clients. For seven years in a row, Levi & Korsinsky has ranked in ISS Securities Class Action Services' Top 50 Report as one of the top securities litigation firms in the United States.
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Man accused of opening fire inside Menomonee Falls bar headed to trial
22-year-old Dylan Breidenbach is accused of shooting inside Sal's Pub and Grill in Menomonee Falls Nov. 20.
22-year-old Dylan Breidenbach is accused of shooting inside Sal's Pub and Grill in Menomonee Falls Nov. 20.
22-year-old Dylan Breidenbach is accused of shooting inside Sal's Pub and Grill in Menomonee Falls Nov. 20.
On Wednesday, Waukesha County Court found probable cause to send a Menomonee Falls man to trial for allegedly opening fire inside a bar.
Dylan Breidenbach, 22, is accused of opening fire on Sal's Pub and Grill on Nov. 20.
Wednesday's preliminary hearing was abnormally long, with a lot of new details revealed, including a possible motive.
A detective took the stand at the hearing, revealing that witnesses told him Breidenbach was kicked out of the bar the night of the shooting for harassing customers, particularly female patrons.
Those witnesses then said Breidenbach returned 15 minutes later with a gun.
Police say he fired a single round into the pub, and a bullet was found embedded into the wall behind the bar.
The detective claims Breidenbach told him he was jumped by a group of customers after being kicked out of the bar, and that one of those people held a gun to his head.
"He indicated that 'Victim A' told him that he was going to kill him," said the detective.
"Victim A was going to kill the defendant?" asked the prosecutor.
"Correct," said the detective. "Mr. Breidenbach stated that he told 'Victim A' to quote 'chill' and something to the effect of, 'I've got something for you, too.'"
Police say that's when Breidenbach left the bar and went home to grab his AR 10 rifle, which was used in the shooting.
On the way back to Sal's, Breidenbach's gun accidentally went off in his truck.
Breidenbach's attorney seemed to suggest the one round fired in the bar, was also an accident. The detective pushed back.
"Isn't it also true he also indicated that the shot in the bar was also an accidental discharge?" asked the prosecutor to the detective.
"He didn't indicate that to me, no," said the detective. "Not during my interview with him, no."
A trial date has not been set for Breidenbach's case. His attorney has filed a request for substitution of Judge for Branch 7, so a trial date will be set when a new judge is assigned.
Breidenbach has entered a not-guilty plea.
Police said Breidenbach hit a car while driving away from the pub to grab his gun.
The criminal complaint reveals four hours after the shooting, he agreed to a breathalyzer test, where he blew .119.
The legal level of intoxication is .08. | 2022-12-01T01:48:25+00:00 | wisn.com | https://www.wisn.com/article/menomenee-falls-bar-shooting-sals-pub-dylan-breidenbach/42111641 |
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — At least one person is dead following a massive pile-up involving dozens of vehicles in Oregon Wednesday morning.
The crash happened around 8 a.m. on the southbound side of Interstate 5, roughly 20 miles north of Eugene in Linn County.
According to Oregon State Police, the crash scene spanned more than a mile on I-5, with portions still closed as of 3 p.m. PT Wednesday.
Oregon State Police told Nexstar’s KOIN that at least one person was killed in the crash. About 20 semi-trucks and 45 passenger vehicles were reportedly involved in the collision.
Authorities shared the below photos from the scene:
Crews are still working to clear the crash. Multiple vehicles were heavily damaged, according to officials. At least six commercial vehicles leaked fluid onto the interstate, prompting hazmat and the Department of Environmental Quality to respond.
School buses were called in to shuttle the 30 to 40 people stranded after the crash to a nearby truck stop.
Authorities believe heavy fog in the area led to the crash but additional details haven’t yet been released.
In February, a 100-car pile-up closed a freeway in eastern Oregon for multiple hours. | 2022-10-20T00:30:22+00:00 | wwlp.com | https://www.wwlp.com/news/national/one-killed-in-oregon-pile-up-involving-over-60-vehicles/ |
Three people were killed and two police officers were injured in an "active shooting" situation in Farmington, New Mexico, on Monday.
According to the Farmington Police Department, the suspect was shot and killed when confronted by officers.
"The suspect’s identity is unknown and there are no other known threats at this time," the police department said in a statement on Facebook.
Police have not said exactly where the shooting occurred. However, police have blocked off an area, which is mostly residential.
One of the wounded officers is a member of the Farmington Police Department, officials said, and the other officer works for New Mexico State Police.
The wounded officers were reportedly taken to San Juan Regional Medical Center, where they are said to be "stable."
Farmington is a city located in the northwest corner of New Mexico. It has a population of about 50,000.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
Trending stories at Scrippsnews.com | 2023-05-15T20:32:14+00:00 | koaa.com | https://www.koaa.com/3-dead-2-officers-wounded-in-new-mexico-shooting |
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A former Minneapolis police officer who pleaded guilty to a state charge of aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter in the killing of George Floyd is scheduled to be sentenced Wednesday.
Thomas Lane is already serving a 2 1/2-year federal sentence for violating Floyd's civil rights. When it comes to the state's case, prosecutors and Lane's attorneys agreed to a recommended sentence of three years, and prosecutors agreed to allow him to serve that penalty at the same time as his federal sentence, and in a federal prison.
It's expected that Lane will get a state sentence that coincides with his federal time. Wednesday's sentencing hearing will be held remotely, and Lane will appear via video from the Federal Correctional Institution Englewood, the low-security federal prison camp in Littleton, Colorado.
Floyd, 46, died in May 2020 after Officer Derek Chauvin, who is white, pinned him to the ground with a knee on Floyd's neck as the Black man repeatedly said he couldn't breathe. Lane, who is white, held down Floyd's legs. J. Alexander Kueng, who is Black, knelt on Floyd's back, and Tou Thao, who is Hmong American, kept bystanders from intervening during the 9 1/2-minute restraint.
The killing, captured on widely viewed bystander video, sparked protests in Minneapolis and around the globe as part of a reckoning over racial injustice.
Chauvin was convicted of murder and manslaughter and was given a 22 1/2-year state sentence in 2021. He also pleaded guilty to a federal count of violating Floyd's civil rights, and his state and federal sentences are being served at the same time.
Kueng and Thao were also convicted on federal civil rights charges and were sentenced to three and 3 1/2 years respectively. They have not yet reported to federal prison, and are scheduled to go to trial on state charges of aiding and abetting both murder and manslaughter in October.
When Lane pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter earlier this year, he admitted that he intentionally helped restrain Floyd in a way that created an unreasonable risk and caused his death. As part of the plea agreement, a more serious count of aiding and abetting second-degree unintentional murder was dismissed.
In his plea agreement, Lane admitted that he knew from his training that restraining Floyd in that way created a serious risk of death, and that he heard Floyd say he couldn’t breathe, knew Floyd fell silent, had no pulse and appeared to have lost consciousness.
The plea agreement says Lane knew Floyd should have been rolled onto his side — and evidence shows he asked twice if that should be done — but he continued to assist in the restraint despite the risk. Lane agreed the restraint was “unreasonable under the circumstances and constituted an unlawful use of force.”
Lane did not speak at his federal sentencing and it was not clear if he would speak on Wednesday, though he has a right to make a statement.
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Find AP's full coverage of the killing of George Floyd at: https://apnews.com/hub/death-of-george-floyd | 2022-09-21T04:42:05+00:00 | springfieldnewssun.com | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/nation-world/ex-cop-lane-to-be-sentenced-for-aiding-in-george-floyd-death/SZAIF3IZBVFPRIGMLVK4BSIBYI/ |
Dr. Roach: How to combat risk of heart failure with atrial fibrillation
Dear Dr. Roach: I am an 88-year-old female in relatively good health. A year and a half ago, I did experience atrial fibrilliation and had two cardioversions. (The first was good for a year; the second lasted only three months.) The diagnosis is paroxysmal AFib.
My cardiologist has recommended a third cardioversion, which would require taking 400 mg of Multaq twice a day prior to the procedure, and remaining on this medication for the rest of my life (presuming the procedure is successful; if not, a stronger medication would be required). Or — my choice — I can do nothing, as long as I can tolerate these episodes of fatigue, shortness of breath and palpitations. At the present time, I must be in “remission,” as I am not experiencing any symptoms. (However, when I take an EKG test, it always shows I have AFib.) My blood pressure, cholesterol, triglycerides, etc., are all at good levels. My question: In your opinion, if I choose to “tolerate” intermittent episodes of AFib, in the long run, would this not eventually lead to the development of congestive heart failure?
— S.S.
Dear S.S.: The major concern here, apart from reducing symptoms (which you don’t normally have), is the development of a stroke, so every person with atrial fibrillation is considered for anticoagulation. There are other concerns, including development of heart failure. People with atrial fibrillation who have frequent, fast heart rates are at risk for developing heart failure. “Paroxysmal” AFib comes and goes: There is about the same risk of a stroke with paroxysmal AFib as with continuous AFib.
Apart from medication to reduce the risk of stroke, there are two major strategies called “rate control” and “rhythm control.” Cardioversion (using electricity to break the atrial fibrillation cycle and return the heart to normal rhythm), followed by treatment with anti-arrhythmic drugs like dronaderone (Multaq), is the rhythm control strategy. Rhythm control is generally preferred in people at higher risk for heart disease, especially if they have not had AFib for more than a year. People with symptoms, or a history of heart failure, generally do well with a rhythm control strategy. Otherwise, a rate control strategy is reasonable. As long as the rate is controlled properly (which may require you to wear a device to monitor your heart rate for a period of days or weeks), you are at low risk for developing heart failure.
It’s very important to find out how often these episodes of palpitations are happening and how fast your heart rate is. Medications can be used to slow the heart rate down (the rate control strategy), but occasionally, people continue to have symptomatic episodes, despite medication for slowing down the heart rate, in which case the rhythm control strategy is recommended.
There are still other options. One is a procedure to destroy or isolate the part of the heart that is responsible for the atrial fibrillation, such as a “catheter ablation” procedure. Some people will need a pacemaker after these types of procedures. The Watchman device reduces stroke risk, but does not affect rhythm or rate.
Readers may email questions to ToYourGoodHealth@med.cornell.edu. | 2022-09-22T02:17:54+00:00 | detroitnews.com | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/life/advice/2022/09/22/dr-roach-how-to-combat-risk-of-heart-failure-with-atrial-fibrillation/69509975007/ |
NEW YORK, Oct. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of Stitch Fix, Inc. ("Stitch Fix" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: SFIX). Such investors are advised to contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888-476-6529, ext. 7980.
The investigation concerns whether Stitch Fix and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices.
On December 7, 2021, Stitch Fix admitted for the first time that the Company had downplayed the magnitude of the transition from its subscription-based "Fix" model to its retail-based "Freestyle" model. Stitch Fix further admitted that the Company saw some "short term cannibalization" from new customers who chose to use the new direct-buy Freestyle option rather than the traditional Fix option. In addition, Stitch Fix announced a loss for its first quarter of 2021 and cut its full-year revenue projections.
On this news, Stitch Fix's stock price fell $5.97 per share, or 24%, to close at $19.00 per share on December 8, 2021.
Then, on March 8, 2022, Stitch Fix offered a weak outlook for its third quarter of 2022 and cut its revenue guidance for the full year. In addition, Stitch Fix announced a self-inflicted friction between the Freestyle program and the Fix program. Specifically, Stitch Fix explained that when customers visited stitchfix.com—the primary landing page for customers interested in the Fix—the Company directed them to the Freestyle experience first, and "therefore, in leading clients to the Freestyle experience first, [it] inadvertently created friction" for potential customers interesting in ordering Fix.
On this news, Stitch Fix's stock price fell $0.67 per share, or 6%, to close at $10.34 per share on March 9, 2022.
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ERIE's African American Affinity Network, Asian Pacific Affinity Network, Women's Affinity Network and VP & Wisconsin Branch Manager Fred Johnson honored for 2022
ERIE, Pa., Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Erie Insurance (ERIE) has earned four 2022 Diversity Impact Awards™ from the Global ERG Network, the world's largest network of employee resource groups (ERGs), business resource groups (BRGs) and diversity councils dedicated to making measurable progress on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI).
ERIE's African American Affinity Network, Asian Pacific Affinity Network and Women's Affinity Network were named Top 25 ERG Diversity Impact Award recipients by the organization for 2022. Of the 25 employee resource groups highlighted nationally across all sectors, ERIE had three company affinity networks recognized for successful employee engagement and strategy implementation.
Fred Johnson, vice president and ERIE's Wisconsin branch manager, was also named one of five recipients of Diversity Impact Executive Sponsor of the Year honors. Johnson is the executive sponsor of ERIE's African American Affinity Network and earned this leadership recognition for a second consecutive year.
Johnson and other ERIE affinity network leaders will be honored September 23 at an awards ceremony held during the 2022 Global ERG Summit in Kissimmee, Fla.
"These are all well-deserved awards. The work led by each of ERIE's affinity networks is an important part of our culture – educating, raising awareness and celebrating our diversity is important to creating inclusive workplaces," said Christina Marsh, ERIE's chief diversity and community development officer. "I am pleased with the national recognition for these three affinity networks and Fred Johnson, given the deep commitments each has to advancing DEI here at ERIE."
While Erie Insurance has had a formal commitment to diversity and inclusion for more than 10 years, this national recognition comes at a time when the company is enhancing and elevating its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts under the leadership of Marsh, who reports to ERIE President and CEO Tim NeCastro. This commitment was further supported by the recent hiring of Lance Hyde, the company's new vice president for diversity, equity and inclusion.
"Treating others with dignity and respect has been at the heart of ERIE's values for nearly a century — and we've had a team dedicated to supporting and celebrating diversity and inclusion as an insurer, employer and community partner for more than a decade," NeCastro said. "Research has proven that inclusive cultures translate into proven value to organizations – including higher performing teams that are more innovative and agile. We've taken steps to now move into an activation phase with our DEI practices over the past year so that these practices are part of what we do each day. Our affinity networks help us achieve these much-needed steps."
ERIE is also a signatory member of CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion, the nation's largest CEO-driven business commitment to drive measurable action and meaningful change in advancing diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace.
The 2022 Diversity Impact Awards leverages a data driven and scientifically validated model called The Impact Model™, developed by Dr. Theresa Welbourne, senior affiliate research scientist at the USC Marshall School of Business Center for Effective Organizations and CEO of eePulse. In addition to the recognition, organizations that participate annually in the Diversity Impact Awards process receive benchmarking data to measure their own progress over time.
As we continue our DEI evolution, this recognition and these insights will allow us to build upon this strong foundation," Marsh added.
"The groups participating in the Diversity Impact Awards this year continue to raise the bar for excellence with their initiatives. Their work aligns with the strategic direction of the companies they serve and, as a result, they are recognized as true business partners," said Cile Johnson, principal and chief business officer at Talent Dimensions. "We are in awe of their work to create more diverse, equitable and inclusive organizations where individuals can bring their full and best selves to the workplace and, ultimately, feel they belong."
About Erie Insurance
According to A.M. Best Company, Erie Insurance Group, based in Erie, Pennsylvania, is the 11th largest homeowners insurer, 13th largest automobile insurer and 13th largest commercial lines insurer in the United States based on direct premiums written. Founded in 1925, Erie Insurance is a Fortune 500 company and the 19th largest property/casualty insurer in the United States based on total lines net premium written. Rated A+ (Superior) by A.M. Best, ERIE has more than 6 million policies in force and operates in 12 states and the District of Columbia. News releases and more information are available on ERIE's website at www.erieinsurance.com.
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Ohio House Democrats helped elect a Republican to be House speaker Tuesday, in a demonstration that practical politics still run the Statehouse, unlike Washington’s made-for-TV bluster.
The 32 Democrats in the Ohio House joined 22 of the House’s 67 Republicans to cast 54 votes (of 50 needed) to elect Republican Rep. Jason Stephens, of Lawrence County’s Kitts Hill, House speaker for 2023 and 2024.
With two Republicans absent, the remaining 43 House Republicans voted instead for suburban Toledo Republican Rep. Derek Merrin for speaker. In November, Merrin had won the GOP caucus’s backing for the speakership, but the vote that counted was Tuesday’s.
Then, by voice vote, the Republican State Central Committee on Friday censured the 22 House Republicans who voted for Stephens, saying that “dishonors” the House GOP caucus’s November vote for Merrin.
It also censured Stephens for being sworn on a Bible held by House Democratic Leader Allison Russo, of Upper Arlington.
In 2019 the GOP state committee apparently didn’t condemn the election of GOP Speaker Larry Householder (who drew votes from 26 House Republicans, including Merrin, and 26 House Democrats) -- or the fact that former Democratic State Chair David Leland held the Bible for Householder. The difference may be Merrin’s perceived ties to the religious right, whose voices have grown louder inside Ohio’s GOP.
It’s unclear what specifically shifted in Stephens’ favor after November’s tally, but two demonstrable facts seemed to be in play. The first, revealed by Tuesday’s roll call, is that a number of the House’s senior Republicans supported Stephens, rather than Merrin.
The second fact is that, thanks to term limits, had Merrin been elected speaker, he could only have served one, two-year term. But Stephens is eligible to serve three terms. And the potential continuity of GOP leadership counts for a great deal in an Ohio House that, over the last eight years, has had four speakers and an acting speaker.
Besides Stephens himself, also voting to make him speaker were these 21 other House Republicans: Reps. Cindy Abrams, of suburban Cincinnati; Sara Carruthers, of Hamilton; Jon Cross, of Kenton; Al Cutrona, of Canfield; Jay Edwards, of Nelsonville; Haraz Ghanbari, of Perrysburg; Brett Hillyer, of Uhrichsville; Don Jones, of Freeport; Jeff LaRe, of Canal Winchester; Mike Loychik, of Cortland; Kevin Miller, of Newark; Scott Oelslager, of Canton; Thomas Patton, of Strongsville; Gail Pavliga, of Atwater; Bob Peterson, of Sabina; Tracy Richardson, of Marysville; Monica Robb Blasdel, of Columbiana; Jean Schmidt, of suburban Cincinnati; William G. Seitz, of Cincinnati; D.J. Swearingen, of Huron; and Bob Young, of Green. (Absent were Republican Reps. Adam Holmes, of Nashport, and Gayle Manning, of North Ridgeville). Merrin and the House’s remaining 42 Republicans voted for Merrin for speaker.
Yes, as some yowls from Merrin supporters highlighted, in a 99-member House split between 67 Republicans and 32 Democrats, it was the 32 Democrats who were decisive in the election of a Republican speaker.
What Tuesday’s vote meant in terms of ideology is anyone’s guess, because in today’s General Assembly, the central day-to-day question isn’t conservatism vs. liberalism, but -- thanks to term limits -- “What’s my next job?” And that makes for short-term thinking.
Nonetheless, it’s interesting that among those House Republicans who supported Stephens for speaker are some of the caucus’s most senior members (Oelslager, Patton and Seitz); among its most conservative members (Schmidt); and among its most successful fundraisers (Edwards).
Add to that the fact that former House Speaker Robert Cupp, a Lima Republican, and a genuine gentleman, was nowhere near as … assertive … as the Senate GOP, led by President Matt Huffman, also a Lima Republican. A new speaker, with the potential to serve a half-dozen years -- potentially the first six-consecutive-year speakership since Republican Jo Ann Davidson’s (1995 through 2000) -- should be well-positioned to rebalance the Statehouse lineup.
And that’s really what’s in play with any Statehouse leadership team, not ideology or “philosophy” or” values,” but who gets to call the shots, and how, in an Ohio that, were it an independent nation, would be the world’s 21st largest economy, according to the nonpartisan Legislative Service Commission, the General Assembly’s research and drafting unit.
How all the gears and levers will work in the Ohio House -- for that matter, in the state Senate -- this new session will become obvious after Republican Gov. Mike DeWine submits a proposed 2023-25 state operating budget by Jan. 31.
What’s telling is not how much gets spent, or where it gets spent, but what it gets spent on. By tradition, Ohio’s House gets first crack at a governor’s budget. And the House rewrite of DeWine’s budget will be as good a signal as any of what Speaker Stephens is for -- and against.
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Three distinct organizations mark significant moment to continue 128-year history of safety science leadership
NORTHBROOK, Ill., June 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the UL enterprise revealed new brands for its three organizations — UL Research Institutes, UL Standards & Engagement and UL Solutions. The brands reflect and clarify the unique role that each organization plays in working for a safer world.
"Our expertise in safety science has enabled the advancement of the human experience, including safety at work and home, for more than 128 years," said James Shannon, board chairman, UL Research Institutes and UL Solutions. "While the brands signify a new era for each of our organizations, we share a history and the UL and Underwriters Laboratories names, which are synonymous with safety science leadership. Our brands may be evolving, but our commitment to working for a safer world is constant."
The UL enterprise confronts safety challenges head-on, turning questions and hypotheses into discoveries, and innovating to ensure that scientific knowledge is applied. The three organizations' capacity to create change is amplified by a distinctive network of researchers, engineers, technologists, government regulators, technical experts and business leaders to advance safety science.
Each of the three organizations — two nonprofit organizations and the commercial business — serves a distinct role in helping to advance safety science:
- The UL Research Institutes brand signals its focus on rigorous independent research into ongoing and emerging human safety risks. As threats evolve and their consequences become more severe, UL Research Institutes pursues scientific discovery to advance public safety — marshaling resources to scan for and assess emerging human safety risks in areas such as autonomous systems and artificial intelligence.
- The UL Standards & Engagement brand exemplifies its longstanding role as a critical facilitator of standards-related public-private partnerships around the world. UL Standards & Engagement translates data and safety science research into actionable, rigorous safety standards and drives safety advocacy campaigns focused on improving public safety.
- The UL Solutions brand represents its commitment to partnering with customers and stakeholders around the world to help solve safety, security and sustainability challenges. A global safety science leader, UL Solutions delivers testing, inspection and certification services, together with software products and advisory offerings, that support our customers' product innovation and business growth.
While the logos for the organizations have been updated to reflect the new brands, the existing UL Certification Marks, which signal high-quality performance and independent third-party safety, security and sustainability certification, will remain unchanged.
About UL Research Institutes
UL Research Institutes is a nonprofit research organization dedicated to advancing the Underwriters Laboratories public safety mission through scientific discovery and application. With best-in-class experts, we are the world's premier safety science research organization. We conduct rigorous independent research, analyze safety data and explore at the edges of technology to be the first to uncover and act on emerging risks to human safety.
About UL Standards & Engagement
UL Standards & Engagement is a nonprofit standards development and advocacy organization that translates data from safety science into practical, action-oriented safety standards. We convene experts worldwide and serve as a vital resource for regulators and policymakers. As a part of our public outreach activities, we share knowledge, advance standards-related safety policy partnerships and advocate for standards and regulations that result in positive safety changes.
About UL Solutions
A global leader in applied safety science, UL Solutions transforms safety, security and sustainability challenges into opportunities for customers in more than 100 countries. UL Solutions delivers testing, inspection and certification services, together with software products and advisory offerings, that support our customers' product innovation and business growth. The UL Certification Marks serve as a recognized symbol of trust in our customers' products and reflect an unwavering commitment to advancing our safety mission. We help our customers innovate, launch new products and services, navigate global markets and complex supply chains and grow sustainably and responsibly into the future. Our science is your advantage.
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Campus visits and travel by Supreme Court justices put them in the company of big money donors
WASHINGTON (AP) — When Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas headlined a 2017 program at McLennan Community College in Texas, his hosts had more than a speech in mind. Working with the prominent conservative lawyer Ken Starr, school officials crafted a guest list for a dinner at the home of a wealthy Texas businessman, hoping an audience with Thomas would be a reward for school patrons -– and an inducement to prospective donors.
Before Justice Elena Kagan visited the University of Colorado’s law school in 2019, one official in Boulder suggested a “larger donor to staff ratio” for a dinner with her. After Justice Sonia Sotomayor confirmed she would attend a 2017 question-and-answer session at Clemson University and a private luncheon, officials there made sure to invite $1 million-plus donors to the South Carolina college.
The Associated Press obtained tens of thousands of pages of emails and other documents that reveal the extent to which public colleges and universities have seen visits by justices as opportunities to generate donations -– regularly putting justices in the room with influential donors, including some whose industries have had interests before the court.
The documents also reveal that justices spanning the court’s ideological divide have lent the prestige of their positions to partisan activity, headlining speaking events with prominent politicians, or advanced their own personal interests, such as sales of their books, through college visits.
The conduct would likely be prohibited if done by lower court federal judges. But the Supreme Court’s definition of banned fundraising is so narrow -– simply an event that raises more than it costs or where guests are asked for donations -– that it does not account for soliciting contributors later while reminding them of the special access they were afforded.
“The justices should be aware that people are selling access to them,” said University of Virginia law professor Amanda Frost, an ethics expert. “I don’t think they are naive, but they certainly have been putting themselves in situations where people can credibly claim, ‘I’m giving you access,’ or ‘I’m going to fundraise off my claimed closeness or access.’ And that is a problem.”
In a statement responding to questions, the Supreme Court said: “The Court routinely asks event organizers to confirm that an event at which a Justice will speak is not a fundraiser, and it provides a definition of ‘fundraiser’ in order to avoid misunderstandings.”
“The Court then follows up with event organizers to elicit further information as appropriate,” the statement said. “The Court’s practice has been useful: Justices have declined to be featured at events even though event organizers expressly told Chambers that the events were not fundraisers, following additional inquiry by the Court that confirmed them to be fundraisers.”
Still, the revelations come at a fraught moment for the court, which by constitutional design settles disputes that set fundamental boundaries in American life. The court’s integrity is being questioned because of concerns about ethics abuses by justices and polarizing court rulings, including last year’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade. A 2022 survey put trust in the court at a 50-year low, with just 18% expressing a great level of confidence.
At the heart of some of the questions now being raised about the court is the fact that it operates without a formal code of conduct, leaving justices with no “common reference point,” said retired federal Judge Jeremy Fogel, an appointee of President Bill Clinton.
“Without one, you don’t have an agreed-to set of rules and it becomes a question of, ‘Am I bothered by this?’ or ‘Is this OK with me?’” said Fogel, who led an agency within the federal judiciary tasked with educating judges on ethics matters. “That then gets refracted through a political lens and leads to questions of legitimacy. That’s a real problem.”
Lower court federal judges are generally barred from engaging in fundraising, political activity and “lending the prestige of judicial office” to advance a judge’s own “private interests.”
But Supreme Court justices are asked only to adhere to what Chief Justice John Roberts, in a statement signed by all nine members of the court, referred to in April as a set of “ethics principles and practices.” The justices provide only a limited accounting of expenses-paid travel and sometimes neglect to disclose events altogether.
The court has long benefited from the presumption that the justices, who this year were paid $285,400 -– Roberts earned more -– have chosen public service over far more lucrative opportunities.
But that perception has started to crack after reporting this year by news media exposed ethical lapses, including investigations by ProPublica showing that Thomas repeatedly accepted luxury vacations — including a $500,000 trip to Indonesia in 2019 from Harlan Crow, a billionaire businessman, Republican donor and longtime friend.
The scrutiny has spurred calls for an ethics code and greater transparency for justices’ travel. To fill in some of the information gaps, the AP used more than 100 public records requests to obtain details including identities of donors and politicians invited to private receptions as well as about perks for trips portrayed as academic.
Beyond public institutions, the AP also contacted more than 100 private schools, organizations and charities where the justices spoke, but those institutions are not subject to public records laws and most declined to provide details.
At least one justice, Sotomayor, seemed keenly aware of the peril of being in a setting with donors. Early in her Supreme Court tenure, she rejected a suggestion that she dine with major contributors to the University of Hawaii during a 2012 visit.
“No, the Justice will not do a private dinner at a ‘club’ with Mr. Boas who is a donor of the Law School,” an aide wrote to school officials, referring to Frank Boas, a longtime benefactor.
“Canon 2(B) of the Code of Conduct for U.S. Judges provides that a judge ‘should avoid lending the prestige of judicial office to advance the private interests of the judge or others,’” the aide added. “The Justice is fastidious about following this guideline.”
Before Sotomayor’s 2017 visit to Clemson, her staff advised a preference against donors at a luncheon. But the invitation list nonetheless included guests who had given millions of dollars to the school — some of them posed for photos with the justice — and internal discussions in emails show officials viewed the visit as an opportunity to generate money for a university humanities board. That again shows the ways in which the court’s narrow definition of fundraising has allowed the justices to be used to spur donations.
“We’re hoping the visibility of this visit will drive awareness,” Donna Dant, a senior development director, wrote a Clemson alumni relations official. “And ultimately, generate resources.”
Brian O’Rourke, another alumni relations official, wrote: “When you say $1M donors, please be sure to include our corporate donors at that level too.” An English professor, Lee Morrissey, who helped organize the visit, commenting on the visit’s higher-than-expected costs, described it as a ‘takes money to make money’ moment.” Contacted later he said he did not mean that literally but rather was referring to the general prospect of greater attention for the humanities’ program.
Asked about the event, Clemson spokesman Joe Galbraith told the AP in a statement that the event was not a fundraiser and that there were no “solicitations of donations requested in association with the visit.”
Among the justices who are in demand, Thomas is very popular with conservatives. Officials at McLennan Community College saw him as having special appeal to a certain class of donors.
“I had a few other thoughts about people who might be appropriate to invite to the Clarence Thomas dinner, mainly because they are wealthy conservative Catholics who would align with Clarence Thomas and who have not previously given,” Kim Patterson, the executive director of the McLennan Community College Foundation, wrote in an email.
In September 2017, Thomas visited Waco, Texas, to be interviewed by Starr, a longtime friend and a former independent counsel whose investigation of Clinton’s sexual misconduct made him a household name in the 1990s.
Some school faculty were skeptical of the invitation, but plans moved forward, with the school scheduling a public interview, a book signing and two private dinners.
Starr’s widow, Alice, defended the practice on the grounds that requests for donations were separate from the visit, though wealthy targets of the university’s fundraising efforts were invited.
“It is not giving to the Clarence Thomas event,” she said in a recent interview. “It is giving to the college at a later date because they were treated with courtesy and (invited) to a very special event. Every single college in America does that. And if they don’t, they are not fundraising.”
“‘Friendraising’ is what it’s called,” she added. “And then you do the big ask hopefully later.”
One of those friends, it was hoped, would be Crow.
“May Alice and I share this with Harlan Crow? As you well know, he’ll want to connect with the Justice if at all possible,” Ken Starr, who died last year, emailed a court official. (Crow and his wife declined the invitation). Crow did not respond to requests for comment.
The roughly 100 invitees included locally prominent business people, political leaders, lawyers and donors to the school and the GOP. Guests were shuttled aboard buses to the Mediterranean-style mansion of local businessman Clifton Robinson, which boasts 26 marble columns and sweeping views of Lake Waco. They dined on crab cake bites, beef tenderloin and citrus salmon, school records show.
The school ordered enough copies of Thomas’ 2007 memoir, “My Grandfather’s Son,” for each couple, plus hundreds more for a signing after Thomas’ lecture.
At the time of the event, Robinson served on the board of directors of Hilltop Holdings, a private equity company with a pending case in federal court. Last year, the Supreme Court declined to take up the case, a favorable outcome for National Lloyds Insurance Co., a Hilltop subsidiary that Robinson started.
Robinson said he sat next to Thomas at the dinner but never discussed the case. “I was just on the board. I have no idea about that,” he said.
The day after the dinner, Thomas attended a more intimate meal with several school officials, the Starrs, Robinson, and a half-dozen other guests. The college declined to identify those people, citing guidance from the Texas attorney general’s office that allows higher education institutions to withhold donors’ names.
Thomas was far from alone in attending events where donors were invited.
As University of Colorado law school officials developed a dinner guest list before a 2019 Kagan visit, one organizer proposed a larger “donor to staff ratio” while a second said she was open to suggestions about which “VIP donors” the school “would like to cultivate relationships with.”
A university spokesperson said in a statement that there were “no solicitations” connected to the event and that no gifts were made as a result of it.
Sometimes, a trip by a justice has included both traditional lecturing and mingling with donors. In January 2020, Thomas mixed a four-day teaching assignment at the University of Florida’s law school with gatherings involving university donors and political figures.
The school arranged for its athletic association’s private Embraer Phenom 300 jet to fly to Washington to ferry Thomas and his former law clerk Kathryn Mizelle, at a cost of $16,800. In a statement, a university spokeswoman called the chartered flight “standard practice” for many invited speakers “for whom air travel is necessary.”
Thomas and Mizelle taught a course on religion and the First Amendment and met with students. The justice also attended VIP events with school donors, according to agenda materials from the school.
Former Burger King CEO John Dasburg, a onetime university trustee, and his wife, Mary Lou, were among those included, school records show. The couple has collectively given about $600,000 to Republican candidates for federal office.
Dasburg said that they attended at the invitation of the law school dean and that he asked Thomas to sign a book on First Amendment rights and used the occasion to discuss a dissenting opinion by Thomas that he admired -– from a 2000 case upholding Colorado restrictions on protests outside abortion clinics.
Thomas and Mizelle, a 2012 graduate of the law school, extended their stay into the weekend to attend a gathering of a Florida branch of the Federalist Society, a conservative legal group whose deep-pocketed donors have helped orchestrate the Supreme Court’s shift to the right.
In a crowded ballroom at a Disney World resort, tributes for Thomas were effusive. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who helped introduce Thomas and is now pursuing the Republican presidential nomination, called him the “greatest living justice.” Afterward, Thomas and DeSantis dined at a steakhouse with conservative legal activist Leonard Leo, who has helped seat multiple conservative justices on the court, according to a person familiar with the dinner. The dinner was first reported by CNN.
That September, President Donald Trump nominated Mizelle to the federal bench, despite a rating of “not qualified” from an American Bar Association committee.
In 2014, Thomas visited the University of Texas at Tyler for a lecture and dinner sponsored by a group of donors to then-Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert, who in 2020 spearheaded a lawsuit that sought to empower Vice President Mike Pence to overturn the presidential election that Trump lost to Democrat Joe Biden.
Thomas posed for photographs with guests at a private reception before a dinner sponsored by Louise Herrington Ornelas, a major school donor. Among those invited were Gohmert, local oil executives and industry lawyers, and longtime Republican Party supporters.
“Justice Thomas was a wonderful speaker and helped us just by his presence,” said Rodney Mabry, who was the school’s president at that time, in an interview. “Through the dinner, he helped raise money.”
Thomas was not alone in having a political tinge to some of his travel.
In September 2016, Sotomayor visited Colorado for a series of speeches and book events not listed on her financial disclosure, making it unclear who paid for her travel. A stop in Denver at Metropolitan State University was made at the behest of longtime friend Polly Baca, a Democratic activist, emails show.
Baca, a former Colorado state legislator and Democratic National Committee official, solicited $15,000 in contributions from nonprofit groups, philanthropists, Democratic donors, law firms and corporations to help offset the $30,000 cost.
The sponsors gained admission to a private reception with Sotomayor, where local dignitaries and school donors mingled. Baca said she did not recall raising money for the event.
There have been times when it seems that a justice gives the appearance of repaying a political favor.
Less than six months after Justice Neil Gorsuch was sworn in as Trump’s first Supreme Court nominee, thanks in no small part to the efforts of then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Gorsuch was featured at an event that organizers hoped would help eventually raise money for an academic center at the University of Kentucky law school honoring one of McConnell’s closest friends, the late U.S. District Judge John Heyburn II.
Looking to reach the initiative’s $3.5 million endowment goal, Martha Heyburn, the judge’s widow and founder of the Heyburn Initiative, developed a fundraising document for potential donors that highlighted media coverage from an earlier appearance by Roberts and teased a forthcoming visit by Gorsuch.
The university “has not announced (publicly) that Justice Gorsuch will be the speaker, so please keep this information confidential,” the document states.
University spokesman Jay Blanton said in a statement that the event was not a fundraiser and “that was not the intent of the events in any way.”
After Gorsuch’s public talk, the agenda called for Gorsuch and McConnell, R-Ky., to dine with a small private group before a reception at the university president’s house.
Records show that among those present for the reception was a major Republican donor and owner of one of the nation’s largest coal-mining companies, Joe Craft III, and his wife, Kelly, who would serve as Trump’s ambassador to Canada and this year unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for governor.
The couple has donated at least $13.3 million to Republican candidates and causes at the federal level since 2010.
Craft was then mounting an aggressive effort to push Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency to strip away some regulation of the industry. Last year, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority issued a 6-3 ruling limiting the EPA’s authority to curb carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.
The Crafts have donated millions of dollars to university programs. But Kelly Craft said the couple did not know Gorsuch or speak with him.
“I can assure you, there was nothing discussed,” she said.
In its statement to the AP, the court said, “Justices exercise caution in attending events that might be described as political in nature, following guidance in the Code of Conduct which cautions judges against engaging in political activity. Merely attending an event where an elected official might also be in attendance — such as several of the events described in your email — does not necessarily render the event impermissibly political in nature.”
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Panel: Hearing to show Trump’s Jan. 6 ‘dereliction of duty’
WASHINGTON (AP) — A House committee’s prime-time hearing Thursday will offer the most compelling evidence yet of then-President Donald Trump’s “dereliction of duty” on the day of the Jan. 6 insurrection, with new witnesses detailing his failure to stem an angry mob storming the Capitol, committee members said Sunday.
“This is going to open people’s eyes in a big way,” said Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., a member of the House committee investigating the riot who will help lead Thursday’s session with Rep. Elaine Luria, D-Va. “The president didn’t do anything.”
After a year-long investigation, the House Jan. 6 panel is seeking to wrap up what may be its last hearing, even as its probe continues to heat up.
The committee says it continues to receive fresh evidence each day and isn’t ruling out additional hearings or interviews with a bevy of additional people close to the president. One such figure is Steve Bannon, whose trial begins this week on criminal contempt of Congress charges for refusing to comply with the House committee’s subpoena.
The committee also issued an extraordinary subpoena last week to the Secret Service to produce texts by Tuesday from Jan. 5 and Jan. 6, 2021, following conflicting reports about whether they were deleted.
But panel members say Thursday’s hearing will be the most specific to date in laying out and weaving together previously known details on how Trump’s actions were at odds with his constitutional legal duty to stop the Jan. 6 riot. Unlike members of the public who generally have no duty to take action to prevent a crime, the Constitution requires a president to “take care that the laws be faithfully executed.”
“The commander in chief is the only person in the Constitution whose duty is explicitly laid out to ensure that the laws are faithfully executed,” Luria said. “I look at it as a dereliction of duty. (Trump) didn’t act. He had a duty to act.”
Thursday’s hearing will be the first in the prime-time slot since the June 9 debut that was viewed by an estimated 20 million people.
Luria said the hearing will highlight additional testimony from White House counsel Pat Cipollone and other witnesses, not yet seen before, “who will add a lot of value and information to the events of that critical time on January 6.” She cited Trump’s inaction that day for more than three hours, along with a tweet that afternoon criticizing Vice President Mike Pence for lacking courage to contest Democrat Joe Biden’s win in the 2020 presidential election that may have served to egg on the mob.
“We will go through pretty much minute by minute during that time frame, from the time he left the stage at the Ellipse, came back to the White House, and really sat in the White House, in the dining room, with his advisers urging him continuously to take action, to take more action,” Luria said.
The hearing comes at a critical juncture point for the panel, which is racing to wrap up findings for a final report this fall. The committee had originally expected at this point to be concluding much of its investigation with a final hearing but is now considering possible options for additional interviews and hearings, panel members said.
“This investigation is very much ongoing,” said Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif. “The fact that a series of hearings is going to be concluded this Thursday doesn’t mean that our investigation is over. It’s very active, new witnesses are coming forward, additional information is coming forward.”
For instance, the committee took a rare step last week in issuing a subpoena to the Secret Service, an executive branch department. That came after it received a closed briefing from the Homeland Security Department watchdog that the Secret Service had deleted texts from around Jan. 6, according to two people familiar with the matter.
The finding raised the startling prospect of lost evidence that could shed further light on Trump’s actions during the insurrection, particularly after earlier testimony about his confrontation with security as he tried to join supporters at the Capitol.
“That’s what we have to get to the bottom of,” said Luria, regarding possibly missing texts. “Where are these text messages? Can they be recovered? And we have subpoenaed them because they’re legal records that we need to see for the committee.”
Luria spoke on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Lofgren was on ABC’s “This Week,” and Kinzinger appeared on CBS’ “Face the Nation.”
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Associated Press writer Will Weissert contributed to this report.
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FEMA report: Flood insurance hikes will drive 1 million from market
ST. LOUIS (AP) — When questioned by members of Congress, the Federal Emergency Management Agency said its new update to the nation’s flood insurance program will prompt more people to sign up for coverage, even though many will pay more for it.
But in a FEMA report obtained by The Associated Press under the Freedom of Information Act, the agency estimates one million fewer Americans will buy flood insurance by the end of the decade — a sizable number of people at risk of catastrophic financial loss.
As climate change drives increased flood risk in many parts of the country, FEMA has updated its flood insurance program to more accurately reflect risk, but also make the program more solvent. It’s a response in part to criticism that taxpayers were funding big payouts when coastal mansions in risky locations flooded.
But nine senators from both parties expressed “serious concerns” about the new pricing system in a letter last September, after hearing that the agency’s internal numbers predicted policies would drop off by 20%. The next month FEMA told the AP those figures were “misleading” and “taken out of context” and that on the subject of how many people will be insured “there is no study or report to share.”
The agency painted a different picture, however, at the end of the year when it sent a report to the treasury secretary and a handful of congressional leaders saying higher prices would drive a fall off of 1 million policies compared to the beginning of the decade.
The issue of how many people go uninsured for flooding is vital, said Chad Berginnis, executive director of the Association of State Floodplain Managers.
“We are talking the basic economic health, I think of not only our households and businesses, but our communities at large,” if fewer people buy flood insurance, he said.
The federal flood insurance program was started when many private insurers stopped offering policies in high-risk areas. It operates in the red, paying out more in claims than it collects in premiums. By more accurately setting rates, the update, officially referred to as Risk Rating 2.0, makes it more expensive to develop in flood-prone regions, shifting the risks of disaster towards those homeowners.
Risk Rating 2.0 will factor in a property’s unique flood risk — like its distance to water and cost to rebuild. The old system was based largely on a home’s elevation and whether it was in a designed flood zone. Most policy holders will now see their rates go up. But for the first time, nearly a quarter of policyholders will see theirs go down. Buyers of new policies began seeing the new prices in October.
FEMA downplayed the report obtained by the AP as a pessimistic projection, aimed at forecasting finances, not insurance participation. The agency said it has not directly studied how many people will buy flood insurance.
“There’s numerous reasons that growth could occur as time goes on,” said David Maurstad, a senior executive of the National Flood Insurance Program, adding that an enrollment analysis should consider the agency’s marketing efforts, the program’s clear messaging of flood risk, price decreases and other factors.
But critics like Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., said affordability is a problem and FEMA didn’t disclose the impact of those higher costs.
“This report makes it crystal clear that FEMA failed to be transparent with policyholders, Congress, and ultimately the American public,” Menendez said in a statement. It shouldn’t have taken a records request for details to emerge, he said.
When Francisca Acuña, a climate and community activist in Austin, Texas, was given a new quote, it was hard for her to believe.
“I go, ‘No, you’re making a mistake,’” she said.
Acuña had previously paid $446 a year. Under Risk Rating 2.0, she was quoted $1,893. Rate increases that large are rare. Increases are generally capped at 18% a year, but Acuña, juggling other expenses, had let her policy lapse so she was required to pay the full amount right away.
“There’s no way, no how, that I can afford it,” Acuña said.
Told of Acuña’s situation, Maurstad said the rates reflect actual risk. It’s unfortunate when people face big increases, but ensuring the financial health of the program and accurate rates, is “good public policy,” he said.
Jim Rollo, a New York-based insurance agent, said he’s seeing a change in some buyer attitudes. Some seem more skeptical about properties that have previously flooded and have higher premiums. Others “roll the dice” and forego costly insurance if it’s not required.
“We are writing fewer policies than we were before,” Rollo said.
Congress should create an affordability program for people struggling to buy insurance and fund efforts to improve flood protections, said Joel Scata, a lawyer at the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental advocacy group.
But Maurstad said FEMA’s mission is different from the private sector. FEMA must help people “before, during and after” disasters as well as charge premiums that are risk-based and financially sound.
“We have certain responsibilities we are charged with. The number of policies sold isn’t one of them, again, because we are a government program,” he said.
Nevertheless the agency report predicts that the program, even with higher revenue, will continue to sink deeper into debt.
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Stationmaster charged in Greece train crash that killed 57
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A stationmaster accused of causing Greece’s deadliest train disaster was charged with negligent homicide and jailed pending trial Sunday, while Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis apologized for any responsibility Greece’s government may bear for the tragedy.
An examining magistrate and a prosecutor agreed that multiple counts of homicide as well as charges of causing bodily harm and endangering transportation safety should be brought against the railway employee.
At least 57 people, many of them in their teens and 20s, were killed when a northbound passenger train and a southbound freight train collided late Tuesday north of the city of Larissa, in central Greece.
The 59-year-old stationmaster allegedly directed the two trains traveling in opposite directions onto the same track. He spent 7 1/2 hours Sunday testifying about the events leading up to the crash before he was charged and ordered held.
“My client testified truthfully, without fearing if doing so would incriminate him,” Stephanos Pantzartzidis, the stationmaster’s lawyer, told reporters. “The decision (to jail him) was expected, given the importance of the case.”
Pantzartzidis implied that others besides his client share blame, saying that judges should investigate whether more than one stationmaster should have been working in Larissa at the time of the collision.
“For 20 minutes, he was in charge of (train) safety in all central Greece,” the lawyer said of his client.
Greek media have reported that the automated signaling system in the area of the crash was not functioning, making the stationmaster’s mistake possible. Stationmasters along that part of Greece’s main trunk line communicate with each other and with train drivers via two-way radios, and the switches are operated manually.
The prime minister promised a swift investigation of the collision and said the new Greek transportation minister would release a safety improvement plan. Once a new parliament is in place, a commission also will be named to investigate decades of mismanagement of the country’s railway system, Mitsotakis said.
In an initial statement Wednesday, Mitsotakis had said the crash resulted from a “tragic human error.” Opposition parties pounced on the remark, accusing the prime minister of trying to cover up the state’s role and making the inexperienced stationmaster a scapegoat.
“I owe everyone, and especially the victims’ relatives, a big apology, both personal and on behalf of all who governed the country for many years,” Mitsotakis wrote Sunday on Facebook. “In 2023, it is inconceivable that two trains move in different directions on the same track and no one notices. We cannot, we do not want to, and we must not hide behind the human error.”
Greece’s railways long suffered from chronic mismanagement, including lavish spending on projects that were eventually abandoned or significantly delayed, Greek media have reported in several exposes. With state railway company Hellenic Railways billions of euros in debt, maintenance work was put off, according to news reports.
A retired railway union leader, Panayotis Paraskevopoulos, told Greek newspaper Kathimerini that the signaling system in the area monitored by the Larissa stationmaster malfunctioned six years ago and was never repaired.
Police and prosecutors have not identified the stationmaster, in line with Greek law. However, Hellenic Railways, also known as OSE, revealed the stationmaster’s name Saturday, in an announcement suspending the company inspector who appointed him. The stationmaster also has been suspended.
Greek media have reported that the stationmaster, a former porter with the railway company, was transferred to a Ministry of Education desk job in 2011, when Greece’s creditors demanded reductions in the number of public employees. The 59-year-old was transferred back to the railway company in mid-2022 and started a 5-month course to train as a stationmaster.
Upon completing the course, he was assigned to Larissa on Jan. 23, according to his own Facebook post. However, he spent the next month month rotating among other stations before returning to Larissa in late February, days before the Feb. 28 collision, Greek media reported.
On Sunday, railway unions organized a protest rally in central Athens attended by about 12,000 people according to authorities.
Five people were arrested and seven police officers were injured when a group of more than 200 masked, black-clad individuals started throwing pieces of marble, rocks, bottles and firebombs at officers, who gave chase along a central avenue in the city while using tear gas and stun grenades.
In Thessaloniki, about 3,000 people attended two protest rallies. Several of the crash victims were students at the city’s Aristotle University, Greece’s largest, with over 50,000 students..
The larger protest, organized by left-wing activists, marched to a government building. No incidents were reported at that event.
In the other, staged by Communist Party members at the White Tower, the city’s signature monument, there was a brief scuffle with police when the protesters tried to place a banner on the monument.
“The Communist Party organized a symbolic protest today in front of the White Tower to denounce the crime in Tempe, because it is a premeditated crime, a crime committed by the company and the bourgeois state that supports these companies,” Giannis Delis, a communist lawmaker, told The Associated Press.
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Kantouris reported from Thessaloniki, Greece | 2023-03-06T15:44:35+00:00 | wishtv.com | https://www.wishtv.com/news/international/stationmaster-charged-in-greece-train-crash-that-killed-57/ |
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak promised 125 anti-aircraft guns and other air-defense technology as he made an unannounced visit Saturday — his first — to Ukraine’s snow-blanketed capital for talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
The air-defense package, which Britain valued at 50 million pounds ($60 million), comes as Russia has been pounding Ukraine’s power grid and other key infrastructure from the air, causing widespread blackouts for millions of Ukrainians amid frigid weather.
The package includes radar and other technology to counter the Iran-supplied exploding drones that Russia has used against Ukrainian targets. It comes on top of a delivery of more than 1,000 anti-air missiles that Britain announced earlier this month.
The U.K. has been one of the staunchest Western backers of Ukraine’s resistance to Russia’s invasion. Speaking alongside Zelenskyy, Sunak noted that the U.K. has given 2.3 billion pounds ($2.7 billion) in military aid and pledged: “We will do the same again next year.”
“Your homes, your hospitals, your power stations are being destroyed,” Sunak said in announcing the new air-defense package. “You and your people are paying a heavy price in blood.”
Speaking through a translator, Zelenskyy said Russian strikes have damaged around half of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure.
As snowflakes fell, Zelenskyy greeted Sunak at a presidential palace for their talks. He called the two countries “the strongest of allies.” Walking in the snow, they also inspected captured Russian tanks and other destroyed and rusting military hardware used by the invasion forces that are displayed in a Kyiv square.
“With friends like you by our side, we are confident in our victory. Both of our nations know what it means to stand up for freedom,” the Ukrainian leader said on Twitter.
Former U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who stepped down in July, won wide praise in Ukraine for his backing. Sunak is keen to reassure Ukraine’s leaders that there will be no change of stance under his leadership, although when he was U.K. Treasury chief under Johnson he was considered resistant to demands for higher defense spending.
“The courage of the Ukrainian people is an inspiration to the world,” Sunak said. “In years to come, we will tell our grandchildren of your story.”
He pledged that Britain “will stand with you until Ukraine has won the peace and security it needs and deserves and then we will stand with you as you rebuild your great country.”
Sunak also laid flowers at a memorial for the war dead, lit a candle at a memorial for victims of a deadly Soviet-era famine in Ukraine in the 1930s, and met first responders at a fire station, his office said.
Sunak’s visit came in the wake of a major recent battlefield success for Ukraine: the recapture of the southern city of Kherson.
The restoration of rail connections brought further joy Saturday to Kherson’s residents, who excitedly waited for the first train from Kyiv.
“This is the beginning of a new life,” said 74-year-old Ludmila Olhouskaya, who didn’t have anyone to meet off the train but went to the station to show support. “Or rather, the revival of a former one.”
On the battlefield, Russian forces launched 10 airstrikes, 10 missile strikes and 42 rocket attacks on Ukraine in the last day, the General Staff of Ukraine’s armed forces said Saturday.
In Kherson, the major southern city that Ukrainian forces recaptured more than a week ago, two Russian missiles struck an oil depot — the first time a depot was hit in the city since the Russians withdrew, according to firefighters at the scene. AP reporters said a huge fire and billowing black smoke.
“There was a strong explosion,” said Valentyna Svyderska, who lives nearby. “We were scared, everyone was scared … Because this is an army that is at war with the civilian population.”
Local authorities were struggling to respond to the blaze, the firefighters said, because Russian forces took the city’s fire trucks and ambulances when they retreated.
Russia is pressing an offensive in the eastern Donetsk region, and Ukraine reported heavy fighting around the city of Bakhmut, the town of Avdiivka and the village of Novopavlivka.
Russian forces claimed to have repelled a Ukrainian counteroffensive to take back the settlements of Pershotravneve, Kyslivka and Krokhmalne in Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv province.
Ukrainian forces said they killed or wounded scores of Russian soldiers during an attack on the village of Mykhailivka in the southern Kherson region, and the wounded were taken to hospitals in Crimea. The claim could not be independently verified.
Ukrainian forces also reported they conducted deadly strikes on the Kinburn Spit in Ukraine’s southern Mykolaiv province, a key site for Russian electronic warfare.
Russia kept up its strikes on critical infrastructure, with a rocket attack overnight causing a fire at a key industrial facility in Ukraine’s southern Zaporizhzhia region, according to the region’s chief. Some parts of the regional capital of Zaporizhzhia were left without heat.
The head of Ukraine’s biggest private energy firm told the BBC that Ukrainians who can afford it should consider leaving the country to relieve pressure on its war-damaged power system.
“If they can find an alternative place to stay for another three or four months, it will be very helpful to the system,” said Maxim Timchenko, chief executive of DTEK. “If you consume less, then hospitals with injured soldiers will have a guaranteed power supply.”
In Poland, a funeral was held Saturday for one of the two men who died when a missile landed there this week, according to the state news agency PAP. A military honor guard and Polish and Ukrainian representatives joined the man’s family and members of the community.
NATO member Poland and the head of the military alliance have both said the missile strike in an eastern farming region appeared to be unintentional and was probably launched by air defenses in neighboring Ukraine. Russia had been bombarding Ukraine at the time.
The U.K. Ministry of Defense noted Saturday that Russia conducted its largest ever-debt issuance in a single day, raising $13.6 billion on Wednesday. It said debt issuance is a key mechanism to sustain defense spending.
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Lawless reported from London. Elise Morton in London and Sam Mednick in Kherson, Ukraine, contributed to this story.
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Follow all AP stories about the war in Ukraine at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine. | 2022-11-20T12:55:49+00:00 | upmatters.com | https://www.upmatters.com/news/international/ap-international/ap-uk-pm-sunak-on-surprise-trip-to-ukraine-meets-zelenskyy/ |
MCLEAN, Va., Jan. 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Primis Financial Corp. (NASDAQ: FRST) (the "Company") today announced that it will release fourth quarter 2022 results after the market closes on Thursday, January 26, 2023. Following the release, the Company will host a conference call and audio webcast for analysts and investors at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time on Friday, January 27, 2023.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The Supreme Court’s decision overturning a gun-permitting law in New York has states with robust firearms restrictions scrambling to respond on two fronts — to figure out what concealed-carry measures they might be allowed to impose while also preparing to defend a wide range of other gun control policies.
The language in the court’s majority opinion heightened concern that other state laws, from setting an age limit on gun purchases to banning high-capacity ammunition magazines, may now be in jeopardy.
“The court has basically invited open season on our gun laws, and so I expect litigation across the board,” said New Jersey acting Attorney General Matt Platkin, a Democrat. “We’re going to defend our gun laws tooth-and-nail because these gun laws save lives.”
The court ruling issued Thursday specifically overturned a New York law that had been in place since 1913 and required that people applying for a concealed carry permit demonstrate a specific need to have a gun in public, such as showing an imminent threat to their safety. The court’s conservative majority said that violated the Second Amendment, which they interpreted as protecting people’s right to carry a gun for self-defense outside the home.
While the ruling does not address any other laws, the majority opinion opens the door for gun rights advocates to challenge them in the future, said Alex McCourt, the director of legal research for the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions.
Pro-firearms groups in several states said they plan to do just that.
Attorney Chuck Michel, president of the California Rifle and Pistol Association, said the group is preparing to expand its legal challenges based on the high court changing the legal standard used to assess whether gun control laws are constitutional.
Courts must now consider only whether a gun control regulation is consistent with the Second Amendment’s actual text and its historical understanding, according to Thursday’s ruling. Before that, judges also could consider a state’s social justification for passing a gun control law.
Michel said the standard will affect three prominent California laws. Legal challenges to the state’s limits on assault weapons, its requirement for background checks for buying ammunition and its ban on online ammunition sales are pending before a federal appellate court.
“All of these laws should be struck down under this new Supreme Court standard,” he said.
The Supreme Court also is considering whether to take up California’s law banning ammunition magazines that hold more than 10 bullets, as well as a similar law in New Jersey. He expects the court may consider those laws under the new standard.
The new restrictive landscape for gun laws outlined in Thursday’s majority opinion is not without escape routes for states, especially those that may want to impose some limits on concealed carry permits.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh, joined by Chief Justice John Roberts, said states still can require people to get a license to carry a gun and condition that on such things as background checks and mental health records. They also can limit where guns are allowed, suggesting that states can prohibit firearms in “sensitive places” such as schools, courthouses or polling places.
That leaves an opening for governors and state lawmakers in New York and the six other states with similar concealed carry laws: California, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Rhode Island.
In California, lawmakers are amending legislation to expand the qualifications people must have to obtain a concealed carry permit and to define the places where guns would be off-limits. The revised bill will get its first hearing Tuesday, and lawmakers hope to send it quickly to Gov. Gavin Newsom, who called Thursday’s Supreme Court decision shameful.
Other Democratic governors, lawmakers and state attorneys general also vowed to defend or amend their gun laws.
Most state legislatures are finishing their sessions or have already ended for the year, so any response would likely have to wait until next year. Rhode Island Democratic state Rep. Robert Craven, an attorney, said he would study the opinion in the New York case to determine whether or not it creates a concern that Rhode Island’s requirements could be challenged, and whether that can be remedied by legislation.
He questioned whether the high court will now employ a strict interpretation of the Second Amendment — that the right to bear arms is absolute — and apply it to other laws, such as those banning military-style weapons.
“I see the court headed in that direction,” Craven said.
In Hawaii, Democratic state Sen. Chris Lee said lawmakers will try to determine how else they can ensure public safety and will look at screening, training requirements and ways to keep guns out of certain public spaces — provisions the justices said would be permitted.
“Bottom line is Hawaii is about to become a more dangerous place,” said state Sen. Karl Rhoads, a Democrat. “Hawaii will go from a place where the right to carry in public is the exception to a place where not having the right to carry on the street is an exception. I see no restriction on the type of firearm.”
Gun rights groups in Hawaii and elsewhere applauded the ruling. In Maryland, Mark Pennak, president of a gun rights group challenging that state’s concealed carry law, said he’s “absolutely ecstatic” about the high court’s decision because there’s “simply no way” the law can be defended any longer.
The Democratic leaders of the Maryland General Assembly said that if necessary, they will pass legislation that complies with the new precedent but still protects residents.
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy, a Democrat, criticized the court’s opinion for limiting how states can address the proliferation of firearms in public, but vowed to protect the state’s gun control measures. He said his administration believes the state can still regulate who can carry concealed weapons and where they can take them.
He vowed that his administration “will do everything in our power to protect our residents.”
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Associated Press writers Bobby Caina Calvan in New York; Mike Catalini in Trenton, New Jersey; Jennifer Kelleher in Honolulu; Alanna Durkin Richer in Boston; Don Thompson in Sacramento, California; Marina Villeneuve in Albany, New York; and Brian Witte in Annapolis, Maryland, contributed to this report. | 2022-06-25T02:35:07+00:00 | everythinglubbock.com | https://www.everythinglubbock.com/news/politics/states-brace-for-fight-over-gun-laws-after-high-court-ruling/ |
Of course you do. And if you watch Miami Dolphins games live, it's likely one of the only times during the week you're still experiencing them, if only as background noise as you check your phone.
There was once a time when commercials were a thing to look forward to because you just might get a glimpse of your favorite athlete starring in an ad. There were so many ads back then, you'd be forgiven if you have forgotten more than you remember.
To jog your memory, we've dug up five Miami Dolphins commercials you've likely forgotten, or perhaps never even seen. (Which is to say we didn't bother with Dan Marino's ubiquitous Isotoner ads.)
Don Shula and Jay-Z Sell Beer Together
You heard that right: In 2007, legendary Hall of Fame Miami Dolphins head coach Don Shula did a Budweiser ad with Jigga himself. The two face off in a very meta game of virtual-style football, with Jay-Z needing to cheat to beat the NFL's winningest coach.If not for the beauty of the internet, we might have forgotten that this majestic oddball pairing once took place. Luckily, some hero uploaded it to YouTube for us to cherish forever, and we're hella thankful for that.
O.J. McDuffie Gets Fleeced in Pokémon Card Trade
O.J. McDuffie was once an automatic first down on the field, but he wasn't as clutch in a 2001 United Way ad in which a hard-nosed kid took his lunch money in an intense Pokémon trade.Older Dolphins fans might remember this one — the United Way ads were iconic at the time — but younger Fins fans who know "Juice" as a member of the media covering the team might be laying eyes on this gem of a TV spot for the first time.
Kids Re-Create Dan Marino's Clock Play
There are likely college kids running around in 2022 who saw this Dolphins tickets ad as kids, then turned to their parents who attempted to explain that the man who pulls up in the SUV is the greatest player in Dolphins history and the "Fake Spike" play deserves its own wing in the Hall of Fame.Seeing Marino look so spry and handsome in this 2008 commercial makes us wonder why the Dolphins didn't just reach out and bring him back. As it turned out, that era couldn't have gone much worse.
Don Shula Sells Fertilizer
The above video evidence is the only proof we've got that once upon a time an NFL coach got paid for shilling fertilizer, of all things. Then again, back in 1987, who else would you trust with your fertilizer needs than your favorite NFL team's head coach?Something about Don Shula screams trust him. If he says buy it, you buy it. I wouldn't be surprised if people living in apartment buildings bought Hyponex entirely based on Shula's stare in this ad.
Miami Dolphins Help Wanted Ad
OK, so no one associated with the Miami Dolphins actually appears in this commercial. Still, it's legit filed under Dolphin-Related Ads You Probably Forgot Existed If You Ever Knew of Them in the First Place.Fictional Dolphins representative Pete McGillicutty is seen here looking for applicants for, well, everything. Play quarterback? Apply! Are you an offensive lineman? APPLY! Are you...another offensive lineman? PLEASE APPLY.
This ad made the rounds on Twitter, which was still a relatively new place full of so much promise and so many smiles. Now the commercial resides on YouTube for you to again post on Twitter, a much less happy place filled with Elon Musk and existential dread. | 2022-10-28T20:34:57+00:00 | miaminewtimes.com | https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/five-throwback-tv-ads-featuring-miami-dolphins-15562409 |
AZNA accepting nominations for local nurses awards
YUMA, Ariz. (KYMA, KECY) - The Arizona Nurse Association (AZNA) will recognize local healthcare providers for their work during the pandemic.
They are now accepting nominations for five different categories.
General public and healthcare providers are encouraged to cast their votes.
"It's time to reconnect which is the theme of our presentation our celebration. reconnect bring everyone together," said Loke Ahyo, AZNA Rio Colorado Chapter 7 President.
"Make sure you guys summit your votes before the 15th ok we need to take of our community that has been taking care of us during the pandemic," said Gabriela Chim from Angeles Del Desierto.
The nurses award ceremony will be on May 11.
To submit your vote, you can go to aznurse.org. | 2023-03-14T21:22:44+00:00 | kyma.com | https://kyma.com/news/local-news/2023/03/14/nominations-for-nurses-awards/ |
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- In a paper published in the Astrophysical Journal, scientists describe the discovery of an intermediate black hole buried in gas and dust in a dwarf galaxy. The discovery of the dust-obscured black hole of a previously undiscovered size is exciting since it may help provide clues about how such black holes were seeded in the very early universe.
Typically, galaxies have supermassive black holes at their centers, and astronomers can observe them as the surrounding gas and dust fall into them.
Using NASA's NuSTAR observatory to study a black hole containing 160,000 times the mass of the Sun in the center of the dwarf galaxy J144013+024744, Universities Space Research Association's Dr. Chien-Ting Chen, who is the Principal Investigator, and Shrey Anesh, the lead author and graduate student at University of Alabama in Huntsville, found the black hole to be deeply buried by the gas and dust in the galaxy.
The black hole is a "tiny monster", as it is much more massive than typical stellar mass black holes that are only a few times the mass of the sun, but it is still smaller than the million to billion solar mass supermassive black holes found in typical galaxies. The authors showed the black hole to be enshrouded by a thick column of dust, similar to what we typically see in many actively accreting supermassive black holes.
The host galaxy J144013+024744 has a stellar mass of about 3 billion times the mass of the sun, which is only about 10% of that of the Milky Way.
There are many dwarf galaxies out there in the local Universe (for example, the Milky Way has a few dozens of satellite dwarf galaxies including the Magellanic Clouds), and the fraction of them have a massive black hole (mBH) in the center and it is "key to understand how the supermassive black holes were seeded in the early Universe, because these dwarf galaxies are thought to have undergone fewer galaxy mergers, therefore they are the "fossil records" of the very early Universe that could tell us about how supermassive black holes came to existence in the first place," says Dr. Chen.
"Observationally, finding smaller black holes are harder because they are fainter, and it is even harder to find them when you add a substantial amount of intervening dust," says Dr. Chen.
"We suspected this dwarf galaxy to hide a massive black hole because observations from NASA's Spitzer Observatory have showed the target to have strong mid infrared (IR) emission lines that could only be powered by very energetic photons coming from accreting massive black holes" stated Dr. Chen. Mid-IR emission lines originate from regions that are further away from the black hole, and their wavelengths are longer than typical dust particles, making it possible to see them despite of the presence of dust.
"We thought this dwarf galaxy could have a dust-obscured black hole based on its multi-wavelength properties," Ansh says. "The amount of obscuring column density that we found could imply that a torus-like geometry found in supermassive black holes could extend into intermediate black holes as well." It was unclear whether the smaller black holes in dwarf galaxies would behave similarly to the supermassive black holes in typical galaxies.
"By targeting J144013+024744 with NASA's NuSTAR telescope that can detect high energy X-ray photons with more penetrating power, we can directly measure the amount of dust in our line of sight,' noted Dr. Chen.
Finding J144013+024744's monster black hole to be actually buried behind a screen of dust is quite exciting, since the census of the prevalence of the monster black hole in dwarf galaxies is one of the few actually measurable constrains of how all these supermassive black holes were seeded in the very early Universe.
With the confirmation of the dust obscured monster in J144013+024744, scientists should have a better idea on how and where to look for more of these objects -- by combining hard X-ray and mid-IR emission line observations. Although Spitzer is no longer operating, it's got an even more powerful successor JWST. Combining JWST, NuSTAR and NASA's future hard X-ray missions, astronomers should be able to find more of these tiny monsters lurking in our cosmic neighborhood, and hence getting closer to have a complete census of the black hole population in dwarf galaxies.
Additional Resources: https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.09913
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The historic cattle dipping vat on national forest land near Bondurant has been restored. According to the Sublette Examiner, the vat was used routinely from 1936 to 1938 during outbreaks of sarcoptic scabies. Cattle would be dipped in a special mixture to kill the mites. The newly restored vat has a plaque describing the practice and it now bears the brands of the 14 Hoback Basin cattle ranchers who received quarantine orders during its use.
The Sundance Library recently installed a StoryWalk. The Sundance Times reports the installation contains a children's book spread over 22 placards with interactive activities along the way. The library plans to change the featured book at least four times a year.
The Wheatland High School marching band recently traveled to Colorado to compete in the Friendship Cup Marching Band Contest. According to the PC Record-Times, the band has never competed in a true competition - Wyoming's culminating marching band event is a festival. They earned 8th place.
Special Olympics Wyoming is holding its annual Fall Tournament Competition next Wednesday through Friday. According to K2News, they're still looking for volunteers to help with the event. | 2022-09-30T18:46:23+00:00 | wyomingpublicmedia.org | https://www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/2022-09-30/friday-september-30 |
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Jesús Ferreira scored his second international hat trick, Djordje Mihailovic had two goals and the 13th-ranked United States overwhelmed No. 139 St. Kitts and Nevis 6-0 on Wednesday night in the CONCACAF Gold Cup.
Mihailovic, Bryan Reynolds and Ferreira scored in a 3:50 span to build a 3-0 lead by the 16th minute. The U.S. outshot St. Kitts 34-2.
“We know that we had to come out here and gain points, gain goals, and I think the team went out there and took care of business,” Ferreira said.
Ferreira has 11 goals in 20 appearances and became the fastest American to double-digit goals, accomplishing the feat in three games fewer than Clint Mathis. Seven of Ferreira’s goals have been against St. Kitts and then-No. 170 Grenada.
Ferreira became the fifth American with multiple hat tricks behind Landon Donovan with three, and Peter Millar, Jozy Altidore and Clint Dempsey with two each. Ferreira was the only American starter who played at last year’s World Cup, appearing in the first half of the second-round loss to the Netherlands.
Mihailovic also had two assists for the defending champion Americans, who matched their largest Gold Cup victory margin, also 6-0 against Cuba in 2015 and Trinidad in 2019.
The U.S., which needed a late goal for a 1-1 opening draw against Jamaica, leads Group A with four points. Trinidad and Tobago has three, Jamaica one and St. Kitts none. The top two teams advance and the U.S. needs merely a draw against Trinidad on Sunday at Charlotte, North Carolina.
“Tonight was one more step forward for us,” U.S. interim coach B.J. Callaghan said.
St. Kitts, which became the U.S.’s 100th international opponent. dropped to 0-2 as the U.S. improved to 39 wins, one loss and five draws in the Gold Cup group stage.
Making his first start since June 2019, Mihailovic put the U.S. ahead in the 12th minute before a crowd of 21,216 with a left foot shot from the side of the penalty spot after a cut-back pass from Gianluca Busio.
Reynolds, playing on his 22nd birthday, beat Julani Archibald with a 20-yard volley in the 14th after Alejandro Zendejas’ corner kick bounced twice across the penalty area. He became the first American to score an international goal on his birthday since Earnie Stewart against Honduras in 2001.
Ferreira dribbled into the penalty area following a Busio pass, scoring on a 12-yard angled shot in the 16th to give the U.S. three competitive goals in the shortest span in team history. Ferreira then got past an offside trap to score between the goalkeeper’s legs from a Mihailovic feed in the 25th.
Ferreira added his third from short range in the 50th and Mihailovic added his third international goal in the 79th.
Callaghan inserted seven new starters from last weekend’s opener, adding goalkeeper Sean Johnson, Reynolds at right back, central defender Jalen Neal and left back DeJuan Jones along with Busio and Mihailovic in midfield and forward Cale Cowell. The holdovers were defender Matt Miazga and midfielder James Sands along with Ferreira and Alex Zendejas up front.
Johnson captained the U.S. for the first time.
In the first game, No. 63 Jamaica beat 104th-ranked Trinidad and Tobago 4-1. Demarai Gray, playing on his 26th birthday, scored in the 14th and 30th minutes for his first two international goals. Leon Bailey scored in the 18th and Dujuan Richards got a goal in the second minute of second-half stoppage time. Andre Rampersad scored for the Soca Warriors in the 49th.
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Journal office by appointment only
EUREKA-The Woodford County Journal, 1926 S. Main, Eureka will be open by appointment only. If you have questions on subscriptions call 855-264-2511 for renewals, new subscriptions and delivery problems. For advertising and garage sales call Wendi Adair at 309-467-3314 ext. 202 and for any other question call Mark Barra at 309-467-3314 ext. 211.
United Methodist Sausage and Coffee
ROANOKE-The Roanoke United Methodist Men Sausage Sale pickup day is at the church on Dec. 3 from 7-10 a.m. for those who have ordered sausage. There will also be extra sausage for sale.
United Women in Faith will be serving coffee and rolls in the fellowship hall during the same hours. All are welcome to come and spend time visiting or get a coffee to go.
Tree of Hearts needs gifts
EUREKA-Woodford County Heartline and Heart House Tree of Hearts have set a goal of 1,500 new unwrapped gifts for kids 0-high school aged. This program provides Christmas gifts to low-income people in Woodford County. The Eureka Public Library is a collection point again this year and you may drop off gifts by Dec. 16.
Roanoke to hold Christmas on Main
ROANOKE-Christmas on Main will held in Roanoke on Nov. 26 starting at 6 p.m.
There will be local business raffles, food vendors, Christmas parade, tree lighting, pictures with Santa and a toy donation.
Eureka Holiday Stroll upcoming
EUREKA-The Eureka Business Association’s annual Holiday Stroll will be Nov. 26 from 1-4 p.m. at the Eureka Public Library, 202 S. Main. In addition to Santa and Mrs. Claus, there will be free horse-drawn carriage rides, hot cocoa, and cookies.
Nov. 26 is also Small Business Saturday and the Eureka Business Association (EBA) will be offering a special Holiday Stroll deal on gift check purchases. For every purchase of $50 worth of gift checks, you will get an extra $10 gift check free. This deal will only be available during Holiday Stroll hours at the library. For a listing of EBA members and information about EBA, visit www.eurekabusiness.net. For more information on gift check purchases, contact Cindy O’Neill at the Eureka Public Library, 309-467-2922, extension 5.
Letters to Santa
EUREKA-I hope you have all been good boys and girls. You can write Santa and let him know. Drop off mail boxes will be on the court house lawn at the intersection of 117 and 24, outside of Michael’s Restaurant, Eureka, and at the porch at Eureka Library starting Nov. 19.
If you are going to write to Santa, please do so by Dec. 8. Santa gets really busy in Dec. and can’t guarantee you that he will be able to answer your letter if dropped off after Dec. 8. Be sure to print your name so Santa can read it. Include your address or your e-mail address.
Thanksgiving dinner
ROANOKE—A free Thanksgiving Day community dinner will be held on Thursday, Nov. 25, at noon in the Roanoke Park Building. Anyone in the community is welcome to attend. It is helpful for planning purposes to make reservations. Please contact Edie Yordy by phone 309-923-8681 or 309-645-5439 if you plan to attend.
Eureka College Renaissance Dinner
EUREKA-The Eureka College Chamber Singers will be hosting a Renaissance Christmas Dinner on Dec. 2 and 3 from 6-9 p.m.
The evening will include Christmas carols, English madrigals, humorous theatrics, festive décor and a hearty meal.
Tickets are $25 for adults and $12 for children and Eureka College students. Tickets are available on the college’s website,
Blood Drive coming to Roanoke
ROANOKE-There will be a Red Cross Blood Drive on Dec. 5 at the Roanoke Park Building from 12:30 to 5:30 p.m. Donors can sign up by going to www.redcross.org, calling 1-800-REDCROSS or by contacting Julie Blunier at 309-712-7491.
El Paso Christmas Walk upcoming
The El Paso Christmas Walk is Dec. 3, Line up along Front St. near City Hall to watch as Santa rides a fire truck to Jefferson Park School.
The El Paso District Library will hold its traditional Kiddie Bazaar, Festival of Wreaths and cookie sale from 9 a.m. - noon. There will also be a raffle for various baskets.
A Kids Vendor Fair will be held 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. at Java Cafe where young entrepreneurs will sell their handmade items.
Also between 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Jefferson Park School will host a Kids Corner sponsored by Heritage Health, with free games and Christmas crafts. Free carriage rides will be available on the corner of Elm and 1st streets, and fire truck rides will be held on Front Street.
The following vendors will be at Jefferson Park School from 10 a.m.-2 p.m.: Ace of Cards (pop cards, gifts and holders); Usborne Books & ERIZ Creations (childrens books and craft wood projects); Woman's Club Women of Hope will sell nuts and specialty candies; Tupperware; This and That Creations (wood Christmas trees, evergreen porch pots); Norwex (towels and cleaner); Sparkle and Shine Paparazzi (jewelry); Meadowridge BeeFarm (honey, soaps, lotion, wood and laser cut items); How Sweet It Is (hot cocoa bombs, bundt cakes, cinnamon rolls); Van Horn Sweets (baked goods, cocoa bombs, chocolates, truffles); She Sells (paintings on wood, seasonal décor, jewelry); JAVA Café Coffee Cart; Grandma's Treasure Chest (mesh wreaths, snowman items, ornaments); Scentsy; quilted items and homemade Christmas crafts.
Many local businesses will also have special sales and drawings.
Eureka Rotary to meet
EUREKA- The Eureka Rotary Club will hold their weekly meeting on Nov. 29 at noon in the Dickinson Common at Eureka College. A lunch meal will be available. A representative from Ali Gibbs Feed Co will speak on the process and management of home grown foods for the needy.
They welcome all new and potential members to join them again for an informational subject at their weekly meeting.
Christian Women's Connection to meet
NORMAL-Bloomington-Normal Christian Women's Connection invites all ladies and moms to their December Musical Miracle Brunch Program on Dec. 13, 10-11:30 a.m. at the Holiday Inn, 8 Trader's Circle, Normal.
Special feature will be music with Sharyl Jennings and special speaker will be Lois Kording of Jacksonville with "I Still Believe in Miracles"
Reservations are due by Dec 6 by calling Joan at 309-242-6241. Find them on Facebook at Bloomington-Normal IL Christian Women's Connection.
Journal looking for stories
EUREKA-Do you know someone that has an interesting story or hobby? Do you have a news brief for this column? If so, email Mark Barra at mbarra@pantagraph.com. | 2022-11-18T20:49:54+00:00 | pantagraph.com | https://pantagraph.com/in-brief/article_29ea26be-6779-11ed-865a-ff0fd30dfa00.html |
(WJW) – A Michigan man was arrested for impersonating a police officer after attempting to pull over an actual off-duty cop during a fake traffic stop.
Christian Mansoor, 18, of Macomb Township, was driving a silver BMW with flashing red and blue lights on Monday through the city of Rochester Hills, the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office said in a press release. He then tried to pull over another car being driven by an off-duty police officer with the Waterford Township Police Department.
Mansoor “positioned his vehicle behind hers in an attempt to conduct a traffic stop,” according to the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office.
Mansoor passed the off-duty officer, but she followed and confronted him, according to a news release from the sheriff’s office. When asked for ID, he said he worked for the Detroit Police Department. He then claimed he needed to retrieve his identification from the car, but instead drove off to a trailer park.
When deputies arrived at the trailer park, they found the suspect switching the license plate on his car with that of another car he owned.
“He was arrested after a short foot chase,” the sheriff’s office said.
Mansoor was arraigned Wednesday on a misdemeanor charge of impersonating a public officer. He has since been released on a $5,000 personal bond. | 2023-04-08T19:47:47+00:00 | wnct.com | https://www.wnct.com/top-stories/man-impersonating-detroit-police-officer-is-arrested-after-trying-to-pull-over-off-duty-cop/ |
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