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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jaden McDaniels scored 20 points, Anthony Edwards added 18 and the Minnesota Timberwolves beat the Los Angeles Clippers 108-101 on Tuesday night to snap a three-game losing streak.
McDaniels scored at least 20 points for the fourth time this season.
Paul George had 25 points and Kawhi Leonard 23 for the Clippers, who have dropped three straight. Los Angeles' last two losses before Tuesday came in overtime, including a 176-175 double-overtime loss Friday night to Sacramento in the second highest-scoring game in NBA history.
The Timberwolves opened up a 88-75 lead with 11:20 remaining in the fourth quarter. The Clippers slowly whittled away and got to 105-101 after a 3-pointer by Russell Westbrook with 42.2 seconds remaining, but Rudy Gobert's dunk on the ensuing trip down the floor quashed any hopes of a Los Angeles rally.
The Clippers had 25 turnovers that led to 29 Minnesota points. The Timberwolves also had a 60-38 advantage in points in the paint.
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Timberwolves: Gobert, who missed a loss at Golden State on Sunday due to illness, had 16 points and seven rebounds. ... Took first lead with 5:39 remaining in the second quarter on Taurean Prince's layup that was set up after a steal by Mike Conley to make it 45-44. Minnesota led at halftime 58-56.
Clippers: Russell Westbrook had 14 points, 10 assists and seven rebounds. ... Ivica Zubac had 12 points and nine rebounds after missing the last two games due to a right calf injury. ... Jumped out to a 32-20 lead late in the first quarter as they shot 12 of 23 during the first 12 minutes. ... Committed 12 turnovers in the first half that resulted in 18 Timberwolves' points. ...
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Timberwolves: At Los Angeles Lakers on Friday night.
Clippers: At Golden State on Thursday night.
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NEW YORK, Feb. 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Northwind Group, a Manhattan-based real estate private equity firm, today announced that through its real estate debt fund, the firm provided a $313 million first mortgage completion to condo inventory loan secured by a newly constructed, luxury residential condominium skyscraper located in lower Manhattan that was previously known as 125 Greenwich Street. The Borrower is a joint venture between Fortress Investment Group LLC ("Fortress"), Bizzi & Partners ("Bizzi"), and U.S. Immigration Fund, LLC ("USIF"), who together possess extensive experience developing residential properties throughout New York City and other markets.
The 88-story, 912-foot-tall building features architecture by the world-renowned designer Rafael Viñoly, as well as interiors by the critically acclaimed global firm MAWD. The development will offer a range of homes from studios to three-bedroom residences, and panoramic views of the Hudson River, Statue of Liberty, World Trade Center, and New York City skyline. The building will be renamed, and sales will launch this fall, with Douglas Elliman Development Marketing exclusively handling sales and marketing. Fortress and Bizzi are co-sponsors of the development.
"We were able to curate an intricate financing solution that will allow the Sponsor to complete this one-of-a-kind asset. This project will be transformative for lower Manhattan and are excited to work with such high-quality sponsors," said Ran Eliasaf, founder and managing partner of Northwind Group. "We remain bullish on the long-term success of the NYC residential market and committed to lending to quality borrowers with well-located assets. This financing fits well in our strategy and marks another step in our growth as a company."
The building, which has topped out, will be constructed by Time Square Construction in a joint venture with Plaza Construction. Each apartment will enjoy high-end finishes and refined details that are enhanced by the verticality of the building and the residences' one-of-a-kind views. The building will also provide multiple floors dedicated to lifestyle and wellness amenities. Luxurious amenities such as a lap pool, spa, and fitness center will be located on the top floors of the building and provide an exclusive private club experience that takes advantage of the sweeping vistas.
Northwind was able to structure and execute a complicated financing solution for high-quality institutional sponsorship. In recent times, Northwind has deployed over $1.4 billion in loans collateralized by real estate assets through its three discretionary debt funds under management. Northwind intends to deploy at least another $1 billion in debt transactions this year in NYC and other major gateway US cities.
For more information, please visit: northwind-group.com.
About Northwind Group
Northwind Group, founded in 2008 is a Manhattan based real estate private equity firm with $3 billion in AUM that provides loan secured by real estate properties through its discretionary closed-ended debt funds. Northwind's strong track record, industry recognition and widespread experience financing, developing, owning, and managing real estate properties, provide for high-quality deal flow and extensive industry connections with prominent institutions, sponsors, and banks active in the market.
About Fortress
Fortress Investment Group LLC is a leading, highly diversified global investment manager with approximately $45.7 billion of assets under management as of September 30, 2022. Founded in 1998, Fortress manages assets on behalf of approximately 1,900 institutional clients and private investors worldwide across a range of credit and real estate, private equity and permanent capital investment strategies.
About Bizzi & Partners
Founded in 2000 by Davide Bizzi, Bizzi & Partners' development team is composed of professionals who combine their decades of experience in the fields of acquisitions, real estate finance, zoning, master-planning, design, construction management, sales, and marketing, to form a full-breadth real estate company. Through a continuous collaborative effort, the team of the property investment company brings unique insight and versatility to each of the development phases. Bizzi & Partners also handpicks the most prestigious and trailblazing architecture and design firms according to each project's objectives.
About U.S. Immigration Fund, LLC
USIF is a leading EB-5 lender and currently manages approximately $3 Billion in capital that is loaned or invested in approximately $18 Billion in development projects throughout the United States. Being institutionally operated, it has continued to work through difficult situations that have arisen out of the pandemic and successfully managed several NY-centric loans and investments. To date, USIF has received investment from about 5,000 investment clients from 32 countries throughout the World.
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From left, Tift Regional Medical Center Chief Nursing Officer RN Tonia Garrett, OB nurse and DAISY Award winner RN Alana Durrance, and Southwell President/CEO Christopher Dorman take part in a DAISY Award ceremony.
TIFTON -- Tift Regional Medical Center recently honored RN Alana Durrance with The DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses. The award, which was bestowed to Durrance during National Nurses’ Week, is part of the DAISY Foundation's program to recognize the extraordinary efforts nurses perform each day.
Durrance has worked in the obstetrical unit at TRMC for more than a year. A co-worker nominated her for the empathy and warmth she demonstrated to a patient who suffered from the loss of a newborn due to fetal demise.
“Alana exemplified so much compassion by dressing the baby, getting footprints as a keepsake, explaining the process for transporting the baby to the funeral home, and doing other things to help the parents as they grieved,” RN Tonia Garrett, the chief nursing officer at TRMC, said in a news release.
Garrett said that the patient and family consistently complimented Durrance on the care and compassion that was exhibited during the process. The patient stated, “I couldn’t have done this without her. She was simply amazing.”
RN Julie Williams, the director of perinatal services at TRMC, said Durrance has proven multiple times that she would be a wonderful candidate for the DAISY Award.
“Thank you, Alana, for being an extraordinary, dedicated, valuable and very-much appreciated nurse,” Williams said.
As part of the recognition, Durrance’s entire department was treated to a special celebration.
The not-for-profit national DAISY Foundation was established by family members in memory of a man who died in 1999 from complications of a little-known auto-immune disease. The care he and his family received from nurses inspired the award as a way to thank nurses for making a profound difference in the lives of their patients and patient families.
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This partnership will bring UBIX Advanced Intelligence to Sapphire's 1250 Customers
ORANGE COUNTY, Calif., Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- UBIX Labs, the Advanced Analytics for Business company, today announced a strategic partnership with Sapphire, the leading provider of frictionless Digital Operations Transformation software and services to over 1250 mid-market to lower-enterprise companies, to simplify and accelerate the use of Advanced Analytics and Data Science to boost and accelerate the outcomes delivered by digital operations transformation.
Sapphire is the leading provider of multi-platform digital operations transformation in the UK and US and enables business to leverage the power of cloud digital platforms to transform all key business operating functions, from finance to supply chain, asset management to digital operations, and is a leading partner of SAP, ServiceNow, HxGN EAM, Infor SunSystems, and Automation Anywhere.
"Digital operations transformation is the new engine room of business differentiation and the unlimited supply of energy that enables greater agility, intelligence, speed, productivity, and efficiency and competitive advantage. UBIX provides that power. In a world where being 1% more intelligent, 1% more efficient, or 1% more predictive in running your business can deliver an exponential impact, UBIX drives that advantage" commented Chris Gabriel, Chief Strategy Officer at Sapphire.
"UBIX Labs and their rapid to deploy advanced data platform will turbo boost our customers' ability to make intelligent data driven decisions, without the huge dependencies, specialist AI and machine learning skills or complex technologies can sometimes demand. We now have a portfolio of data analytics and data science services that make us uniquely positioned to become the strategic data partner for our customers."
UBIX is an industry leading Advanced Analytics company that enables organizations of all sizes to leverage existing Customer Analytics, ERP & CRM infrastructure, blending transactional and external data to create new insights that drive intelligent action. With UBIX, business users and subject matter experts can quickly and affordably solve challenging analytics problems that are not possible without data science and AI. UBIX handles a wide variety of use cases including intelligent migration, front office, and back-office solutions.
"Through our relationship with Sapphire, more organizations can now exploit the power of UBIX for Intelligent Migration to the Cloud, preserving critical data assets and empowering an Advanced Analytics strategy," said John Burke, CEO of UBIX. "We know that leveraging UBIX's Advanced Analytics Platform, Sapphire can further strengthen its market position and emerge as a leader in delivering Intelligent Enterprise Solutions."
Together, the partnership will see Sapphire incorporate the UBIX Labs Platform into an extended offer across all its digital operating platform portfolio, and eventually lead to a Sapphire white labeled AI Services Platform powered by UBIX Labs.
UBIX is privately funded and based in Orange County, CA. For more information, visit http://www.ubixlabs.com.
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760-331-9470
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Watch: Family dog scares off black bear from New York home
CHATHAM, N.Y. - A courageous dog helped scare off a black bear from a home in upstate New York, as captured on the family’s security camera.
The black bear wandered into Stephanie Behrens’ home on May 22 in Columbia County through a partially opened door, according to Storyful. Video shows the animal poking its head through the open door, before it turns away and walks elsewhere outside.
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Then, apparently deciding that the kitchen may be a better option, the bear returns and slowly makes its way into the house.
The black bear is seen in the home on May 22, 2023, in Chatham, New York. (Credit: Stephanie Behrens via Storyful)
Video shows the animal sniffing and poking around near the kitchen before the family dog runs toward it – prompting the bear to scurry out of the Chatham house.
Behrens then follows and quickly closes the door.
But the black bear wasn’t scared off entirely, as the video then captures the animal peering through the windows of the door.
The dog can be heard barking loudly at the animal, along with someone yelling, "Hey! Go away!"
Harper the dog is seen rushing into the room, as the black bear scurries outside. (Credit: Stephanie Behrens via Storyful)
There are an estimated 6,000 to 8,000 black bears throughout the state, according to New York’s Department of Environmental Conservation. Anywhere from 30% to 35% of those inhabit the Catskill region, which is just west of Columbia County.
Bears are more likely to seek out human food sources in the spring and the summer, the department says. It adds that bears are "opportunistic feeders and will remember where they find easy food, then return to that location frequently."
The department advises everyone to remove bird feeders by April 1, keep garbage in a tightly sealed can inside a sturdy garage or shed, don’t operate refrigerators or freezers outside, keep grills clean, and don’t feed pets outside.
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This story was reported from Cincinnati. | 2023-05-30T18:27:14+00:00 | fox6now.com | https://www.fox6now.com/news/watch-family-dog-scares-off-black-bear-from-new-york-home |
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Freshman Tommy White hit three home runs — the last of which broke N.C. State’s program record — and the Wolfpack beat sixth-ranked Miami 9-6 Wednesday night to advance to the semifinals of the ACC Tournament.
No. 10 seed N.C. State (35-20) plays No. 11 seed Pittsburgh on Saturday for a berth in Sunday’s championship game.
White opened the scoring with a two-out solo home run in the bottom of the first inning, tied the school record with his 25th homer of the season when he hit a two-run shot in the third before setting the mark with a two-run home run in the six that gave N.C. State a 9-5 lead. He finished 3-for-4 with a walk and five RBIs.
LuJames Groover III hit a two-out double to the right-field wall that drove in Noah Soles and Devonte Brown in the fourth inning and later scored on a throwing error to give the Wolfpack the lead for good at 6-4.
Miami starter Carson Palmquist (9-4), who had allowed just five earned runs in 29 1/3 innings over his previous five starts, allowed six hits and six runs — five earned — with four walks and three strikeouts over 3 2/3 innings.
Gaby Gutierrez and Dominic Pitelli opened the third inning with back-to-back walks, CJ Kayfus followed with a single to center that scored Gutierrez and Yohandy Morales crushed a three-run homer to give the No. 3 seed Hurricanes (39-17) a 4-1 lead.
Maxwell Romero Jr. hit a towering homer to right that cut Miami’s deficit to a run in the top of the fifth, but Soles answered with a solo shot in the bottom for N.C. State.
Groover went 3-for-5 with two doubles and three runs. | 2022-05-26T14:24:06+00:00 | sun-sentinel.com | https://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/miami-hurricanes/fl-sp-hurricanes-nc-state-baseball-20220526-mabwu5d6zba35b4anjt7abdnky-story.html |
Goblin sharks are deep-sea fish whose frightening, protrusile jaws served as an inspiration for the terrifying creatures in the “Alien” movie franchise. Little is known about these elusive sharks, and sightings of them are extraordinarily rare. They are known to live in deep coastal waters all over the world but have never been found in the Mediterranean Sea.
But recently, scientists reported the discovery of what they said was a goblin shark that had washed ashore on a Greek beach. Their announcement of the find last year in the journal Mediterranean Marine Science has led to a series of events almost as bizarre as the goblin shark itself, involving competing scientific narratives, a retraction and the possibility that maybe all of the fuss was over a children’s plastic toy.
According to the original scientific paper, the Mediterranean goblin shark was discovered by a man named Giannis Papadakis in August 2020. After finding the specimen, the paper said, Papadakis propped it on some rocks and snapped a photo. The image ended up in the hands of a group of local scientists, and two years later they published it alongside records of other species found in the Mediterranean for the first time.
The paper seemed like a success of citizen science, in which people with no formal scientific training assist professional scientists in research. But it wasn’t long before shark experts around the world started to express their doubts, in a Facebook group, about the authenticity of the goblin shark.
“It didn’t look right,” said David Ebert, author of the book “Sharks of the World.” Ebert said that several things about the shark found in Greece were unusual.
“It’s too small, and its gills don’t look like they’re actually open,” he said. “It doesn’t look natural at all.”
Ebert and others were also skeptical because there had been no direct examination of the shark. The paper was based solely on a photo and a brief description provided by Papadakis.
In November, a group of shark researchers published a comment paper questioning whether the goblin shark found in Greece was a real animal.
“We have doubts” that the goblin shark in the original paper “is a natural specimen,” they wrote. They argued that the specimen’s lack of teeth, its overly rounded fins and its low number of gill slits were not characteristic of a goblin shark.
Soon after, another image was shared on social media, one that would cause the skepticism to reach a crescendo. It was a plastic goblin shark toy sold by an Italian toy company, DeAgostini, and it had an uncanny resemblance to the goblin shark found in Greece.
DeAgostini, the toymaker, could not be reached for comment.
The toy “shows a great similarity to the specimen in the published image,” said Jürgen Pollerspöck, an independent shark researcher and an author of the paper that presented the doubts about the Greek goblin shark’s authenticity.
The authors of the original paper doubled down this month, standing by their claims in a reply to the concerns raised by Pollerspöck and his colleagues. They also amended their size estimate from 30 inches to 7 inches and suggested that the goblin shark in question could be an embryo.
“Embryos of this size are not viable,” Pollerspöck replied.
Then this week, the authors of the original paper retracted it, as well as their reply to the critique, conceding that there was too much uncertainty about the find. Reached by email, one of the paper’s authors declined to answer additional questions.
So ended a nearly yearlong saga that had many shark sleuths squinting at their computer screens.
Pollerspöck said that it was possible for goblin sharks to be lurking in the depths of the Mediterranean Sea but that none had been found.
Whether the shark in this image is found to be a real fish or just a piece of plastic pollution, critics say the publication of the image in a scientific journal draws attention to the imperfections of the scientific peer review process.
“In my opinion, the problem and responsibility lies with the editor of the journal and the reviewers,” Pollerspöck said.
The shark’s unusual appearance wasn’t the only red flag reviewers of the paper should have seen, he said. That the claim in the paper was based on one image provided by a citizen scientist warranted increased scrutiny.
The editor of Mediterranean Marine Science did not respond to a request for comment.
Whether or not the researchers who published the now retracted Greek goblin shark paper ever concede that they published a picture of a toy, Ebert said he wouldn’t be surprised if something like this happens again, given the problems with peer review and the rates of plastic pollution in the seas.
“Anything’s possible,” he noted. | 2023-03-26T22:55:05+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/a-shark-discovery-didnt-look-right-it-may-have-been-a-plastic-toy/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world |
Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) on Sunday wouldn’t join her fellow Democrats’ in calling for the resignation of Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), who Lee is running to replace.
“I have said over and over and over again that I, first of all, I’m most concerned about Senator Feinstein’s health. She’s back at work and she’s doing her job,” Lee said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
Feinstein, who announced in February that she’s retiring at the end of her current Senate term, was absent from Congress for several weeks earlier this year as she battled shingles and complications from the disease. The longtime senator is now facing calls to resign amid concerns about her ability to fulfill her duties including the inability of the Senate Judiciary Committee to confirm judges appointed by President Biden.
Among those calling for Feinstein’s resignation is Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), who is co-chair of Lee’s campaign to replace Feinstein.
Host Jake Tapper pressed Lee on the matter on Sunday, asking whether Khanna speaks for her with his repeated calls for the senator to step aside.
“I respect … my friend, Congressman Ro Khanna. I’m speaking for myself when I say that I hope that Senator Feinstein continues to improve,” Lee said.
“[Feinstein] is back in Washington, D.C., and she is doing her job, and what I am doing is talking to voters and putting forth my record, my experience, my lived experiences and connecting with people so that people understand that I’m going to be fighting continuously for them, or better life for everyone,” the California lawmaker said. | 2023-07-09T15:32:11+00:00 | fox44news.com | https://www.fox44news.com/hill-politics/barbara-lee-wont-join-democrat-calls-for-feinstein-to-resign/ |
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James Madison’s winter teams have picked up where the fall programs left off in their transition to the Sun Belt Conference — by winning.
Women's basketball (17-3, 7-1), picked to finish sixth in the preseason by league coaches, has won 14 of its last 15 and has already won three more games than last season, their last in the Colonial Athletic Association.
The men's team (13-8, 4-4) is among the national leaders in scoring, bench scoring and turnovers forced and is fast approaching its 15-win total from a year ago.
That's after a fall season in which the Dukes won the league volleyball championship and played in the championship games of the men’s and women’s soccer conference tournaments. They would have played for the football title after dispatching East Division champion Coastal Carolina 47-7 in their regular season finale but were ineligible in their first year at the Football Bowl Subdivision level.
“They definitely have hit the ground running and are certainly more than prepared for their kind of first year in the conference,” Sun Belt commissioner Keith Gill said.
Due to NCAA rules, every football program that moves up to the FBS is required to undergo a two-year transition period, during which time programs are ineligible to participate in postseason play.
In basketball, it helps to have attainable goals again this season, women's coach Sean O'Regan said. Last season, both teams were banned by the CAA from the league’s tournament once they announced their plans to jump leagues, a crushing blow delivered early in the season.
“We have a chance to win a championship,” O'Regan said of this year's team. “You know, that’s something that’s small, but in the end, I think it wore on our team a lot more than I even understood.”
The men fared marginally better after the decision last year, then endured a 29-day COVID-19 pause and substantial injuries.
The slight still burned, point guard Terrell Strickland said.
“It just gives us another chip on our shoulder and another thing to prove,” the redshirt sophomore said, “and we thrive off that.”
While the men score plenty (84.5 ppg, fifth nationally), both teams are having success because of a common attention to defense.
O’Regan’s mantra is defend, rebound, run, “in that order,” he said. “I think the first two have been a little bit more of the emphasis for us. I’ve been on their tails about caring about the defensive end. And I’ve been on them maybe even harder about the glass.”
The Dukes rank among the leaders nationally in rebound margin, field goal percentage defense, defensive rebounds per game and rebounds per game. Scoring leader Kiki Jefferson is among the leaders of the charge to prioritize stopping the other team.
“I think it’s easy to say defense wins championships, but honestly, you can make one shot and then get stops, and I think that’s what we’re doing right now,” she said. “I think our defense is leading our way because we take pride in our defense."
So do the men.
“A lot of times our defense leads to offense,” men’s coach Mark Byington said, pointing to the team average of forcing almost 19 turnovers per game, sixth nationally. “A lot of those lead to offense.”
Byington also employs a liberal substitution strategy that sometimes sees seven or eight players in the game before the first media timeout and 10 or 11 getting extensive time. Ten players average close to 20 minutes, and no one averages as many as 27.
“Maybe the other team might have the best player, but we feel like there’s a good chance we might have (the best) three through 11 and so we want to have strength in numbers to try to wear people down,” he said.
His players have bought in, and they relish seeing that strategy take effect.
“We come in waves. ... The last 10 minutes of every game, that’s our time because no team has the same freshness that we’ll have,” said Strickland, who averages almost 16 minutes.
Athletic director Jeff Bourne expects the school’s 8,500-seat Atlantic Union Bank Center, opened in November 2020, to be a “game changer” in recruiting. The arena also houses academic support, strength and conditioning, nutrition and sports medicine resources.
“I think some exciting days are ahead of us,” Bourne said.
As the football rout of Coastal Carolina ended, “We Are the Champions” blared through Bridgeforth Stadium and the band and students celebrated on the field with the team.
James Madison might need to cue up that Queen tune again before too long.
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Grand opening celebration event on Sept. 24
TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Sept. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Trulieve Cannabis Corp. (CSE: TRUL) (OTCQX: TCNNF) ("Trulieve" or "the Company"), a leading and top-performing cannabis company in the United States, today announced the grand opening of its newest West Virginia dispensary in Belle at 2700 Dupont Ave Suite 9. The Belle dispensary will open its doors on Sept. 24 at 10 a.m. EDT for patients, with ongoing hours of 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. from Monday through Saturday, and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Sunday.
Grand opening festivities held throughout the day including partner giveaways, DJs, food trucks, deals and specials, as well as all registered patients will receive a 25% discount. On-site medical care specialists will be available to assist with medical card registration and certification for West Virginia patients.
"We're thrilled to be growing our West Virginia presence in Belle, and we look forward to serving even more patients in the state'' said Kim Rivers, Trulieve CEO. "Trulieve is committed to providing the best quality services and products for the state's registered medical cannabis patients while strengthening community connections in this developing market."
Trulieve patients across West Virginia can choose from a large selection of THC and CBD products available in a variety of consumption methods, including flower, concentrates, tinctures, topicals, ingestibles, and more. Designed to meet every patient's needs, our portfolio of in-house brands includes Cultivar Collection, Momenta, Muse, TruFlower and more.
Trulieve operates medical dispensaries across West Virginia in Belle, Milton, Hurricane, Parkersburg, South Charleston, Weston, and two locations in Morgantown, with plans to open an additional dispensary location by the end of the year in Huntington.
For more information on store locations, please visit https://www.trulieve.com/dispensaries/west-virginia.
About Trulieve
Trulieve is an industry leading, vertically integrated cannabis company and multi-state operator in the U.S., with established hubs in the Northeast, Southeast, and Southwest, anchored by leading market positions in Arizona, Florida, and Pennsylvania. Trulieve is poised for accelerated growth and expansion, building scale in retail and distribution in new and existing markets through its hub strategy. By providing innovative, high-quality products across its brand portfolio, Trulieve delivers optimal customer experiences and increases access to cannabis, helping patients and customers to live without limits. Trulieve is listed on the CSE under the symbol TRUL and trades on the OTCQX market under the symbol TCNNF. For more information, please visit Trulieve.com.
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You know her from the hit TV show “Shark Tank.” Barbara Corcoran, real estate mogul and business investor, is well-known for her savvy business and real estate investments, and she also has a passion for helping small business owners.
As the summer season approaches, many are facing an unusual combination of factors weighing on them — continued supply chain bottlenecks; increased wholesale and raw material prices; higher shipping and supply costs; increased wages; and a tight labor market.
Corcoran is back again this year with the first of her series of free small business webinars, entitled “Business Unusual with Barbara Corcoran, presented by AT&T Business.”
Whether starting, building, running, or growing a business, Barbara has advice on what it takes to simplify operations and navigate current challenges in order to help assure a successful and smooth-running business model and not fear losing sales, market share, or even worse a business failure.
The free, webinar is on Wednesday, May 11th at 2 p.m. Eastern, or anytime after on-demand. It is designed for all types of small businesses — stores, restaurants, online merchants, etc., and whether they have a brick and mortar presence or are online only.
Additional information and registration is available at 888Barbara.com. | 2022-05-04T23:34:48+00:00 | wishtv.com | https://www.wishtv.com/news/allindiana/barbara-corcoran-of-shark-tank-to-host-free-small-business-webinar/ |
CHARLESTON, WV (WOWK) — As the Fourth of July approaches, many places in the Tri-State area are preparing their firework shows.
While fireworks are an American tradition to celebrate Independence Day, some with sensitive ears, such as pets or veterans, can experience high anxiety during the blasts.
To help with this anxiety, 13 News has compiled a list of ways to assist pets, dementia patients and veterans during firework celebrations.
Pets
Health communications agency Curation says loud firework noises can cause fear and anxiety in dogs, causing them to run away or hide. When a dog does this, they are experiencing noise aversion, which causes symptoms similar to a panic attack.
With this in mind, it is important to keep an eye on unusual behavior from your dog that is triggered by loud noises. During Fourth of July celebrations, there are several ways to help your dog cope with stress from firework shows.
- Keep pets secured in a quiet room during the displays.
- Talk to your veterinarian about products and medications that may help.
- Prescription medications such as Trazodone, Valium, Zoloft and more.
- Calming supplements such as CBD, homeopathic medicines and aromatherapy.
- Physical comforters such as anxiety vests or calming caps.
- Make sure your pet is microchipped in case they bolt and escape during the noise.
People with dementia and Alzheimers
According to the Alzheimers Foundation of America (AFA), firework noise can create challenges for families affected by Alzheimer’s disease and other dementia-related illnesses.
The AFA says fireworks can be distressing for someone with dementia, especially if they are a veteran. Even when the person is inside, the noise from firework explosions can cause anxiety or agitation. Large crowds can also be overwhelming for people with dementia.
To prepare for Independence Day, the AFA has provided tips to make the holiday “dementia-friendly.”
- Consider keeping the person indoors at times when fireworks will go off.
- Adapt the fireworks tradition by watching a filmed display on TV.
- Explain to your loved one in advance that there may be loud noises and continue telling them this at different intervals.
- Put on soothing background sounds such as a white noise machine or an air conditioner.
- Have comfort items on hand like a blanket or an article of clothing.
- Occasionally check in with your loved one during the night if they live with you. If they live alone, stay overnight with them or ask a trusted friend, relative or caregiver to do so.
- Keep gatherings small and give guests name tags to help the person with dementia recall who is who.
- Host celebrations during daylight to prevent confusion as the sun sets.
- Keep the person’s routines as normal as possible, including mealtimes, naptimes and bedtimes while incorporating favorite activities throughout the day.
- Get your loved one in the Independence Day spirit with activities like creating decorations, playing patriotic music, baking holiday-themed desserts, or making a photo album with Fourth of July memories.
- Families with questions or concerns can talk to a licensed social worker by calling AFA’s Helpline at (866) 232-8484 or visiting the AFA’s website. The helpline is open seven days a week.
Veterans
According to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), a major part of helping veterans during Independence Day is to plan ahead. Recognizing triggers in advance can prevent potential problems.
Some common triggers for veterans during the holiday include:
- Light sensitivity to fireworks and sparklers, especially at night;
- Strong reactions to sounds like fireworks, ceremonial guns and cannon fire;
- Anxiety in crowds;
- Flashbacks triggered by sounds or smell;
- Feeling distant from family during celebrations;
- Risky behaviors like excessive alcohol consumption.
Other helpful tips include:
- If throwing a celebration, ask guests in advance if they experience difficulties during fireworks;
- Use quieter alternatives to fireworks such as sparklers;
- Consider excluding alcohol or other intoxicating substances from Independence Day celebrations;
- Practice a few self-help tips or relaxation exercises;
- Find more resources for Veterans and their families on the Make The Connection website.
For a list of fireworks in the Tri-State area, click here. | 2022-07-04T15:04:56+00:00 | kxnet.com | https://www.kxnet.com/news/tips-for-helping-sensitive-ears-cope-with-fourth-of-july-firework-blasts/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration on Monday told hospitals that they "must" provide abortion services if the life of the mother is at risk, saying federal law on emergency treatment guidelines preempts state laws in jurisdictions that now ban the procedure without any exceptions following the Supreme Court's decision to end a constitutional right to abortion.
The Department of Health and Human Services cited requirements on medical facilities in the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA). The law requires medical facilities to determine whether a person seeking treatment may be in labor or whether they face an emergency health situation — or one that could develop into an emergency — and to provide treatment.
“If a physician believes that a pregnant patient presenting at an emergency department is experiencing an emergency medical condition as defined by EMTALA, and that abortion is the stabilizing treatment necessary to resolve that condition, the physician must provide that treatment,” the agency's guidance states. “When a state law prohibits abortion and does not include an exception for the life of the pregnant person — or draws the exception more narrowly than EMTALA’s emergency medical condition definition — that state law is preempted.”
The department said emergency conditions include “ectopic pregnancy, complications of pregnancy loss, or emergent hypertensive disorders, such as preeclampsia with severe features.”
"It is critical that providers know that a physician or other qualified medical personnel's professional and legal duty to provide stabilizing medical treatment to a patient who presents to the emergency department and is found to have an emergency medical condition preempts any directly conflicting state law or mandate that might otherwise prohibit such treatment," HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra wrote in a letter to health care providers.
The department says its guidance doesn't reflect new policy, but merely reminds doctors and providers of their existing obligations under federal law.
“Under federal law, providers in emergency situations are required to provide stabilizing care to someone with an emergency medical condition, including abortion care if necessary, regardless of the state where they live,” said Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure. "CMS will do everything within our authority to ensure that patients get the care they need.”
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For AP's full coverage of the Supreme Court ruling on abortion, go to https://apnews.com/hub/abortion | 2022-07-11T21:35:19+00:00 | springfieldnewssun.com | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/nation-world/biden-admin-docs-must-offer-abortion-if-moms-life-at-risk/J4L6LZUHQRF63NI6FPIRP2GMKY/ |
BROWNSVILLE, Texas (KVEO) — A Brownsville resident with a lengthy criminal history has been identified by police as the driver accused of smashing into a crowd at a bus stop in the Texas border town Sunday. Eighteen people were hit, eight of whom were killed.
At a Monday press conference, Brownsville Police Chief Felix Sauceda identified the suspect as 34-year-old George Alvarez. Sauceda said he attempted to flee the scene after the crash, but was held down by people on the scene.
Alvarez was charged with eight counts of manslaughter, 10 counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. His bond is set at $3.6 million.
The crash happened at 8:30 a.m. Sunday in front of the Ozanam Center, which is a shelter for migrants and homeless people in Brownsville. The SUV ran a red light, lost control, flipped on its side and hit the 18 victims, Sauceda said.
When police arrived on scene, officers found multiple bodies and several injured.
Six people died on the scene and 12 people were critically injured, he said. Officials have said the death toll later rose to eight.
Officials are awaiting toxicology reports to determine whether Alvarez was intoxicated, Sauceda said, adding that there was no motive that he could discuss. Investigators were still working to determine if the collision was intentional, as police suggested Sunday.
Sauceda said the Brownsville Police Department is also working with the Venezuelan government to identify those killed in the SUV strike. As of Monday morning, police said at least several of the victims were Venezuelan men. Their names were not released.
Victims struck by the vehicle were waiting for the bus to return to downtown Brownsville after spending the night at the overnight shelter, said Sister Norma Pimentel, executive director of Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley.
Brownsville has seen a surge of Venezuelan migrants over the last two weeks for unclear reasons, authorities said. On Thursday, 4,000 of about 6,000 migrants in Border Patrol custody in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley were Venezuelan.
The Associated Press contributed to this report. | 2023-05-08T18:36:02+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/news/national/police-name-suspect-accused-of-hitting-18-at-texas-bus-stop-killing-8/ |
New York doctors get legal protection to prescribe abortion pills across state lines
NEW YORK (AP) — A law to protect doctors in New York who prescribe abortion pills to patients in states where the procedure is outlawed was signed Friday by Gov. Kathy Hochul, who said the measure would serve women living in states with bans.
Coming a year after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the nationwide right to abortion, the law bars New York officials from cooperating with certain legal actions initiated in states where abortion is banned, such as arrests or extraditions. New York joins several other states with similar telehealth “shield laws.”
“Extremist lawmakers in other states can stop their health care providers from supplying abortion pills. If that’s your state, I feel sorry for your constituents. But they can’t stop us. They can’t stop our providers,” Hochul, a Democrat, said at a bill signing ceremony.
A year after the Dobbs ruling, 14 states have bans on abortion throughout pregnancy — with some exceptions. Other states have adopted deep restrictions. In all, 25 million women of childbearing age now live in states with abortion bans or tighter restrictions.
New York already adopted protections for medical professionals who provide abortion care for patients traveling from states with bans or restrictions. But Hochul and lawmakers expanded protections to telehealth services at a time when more than half of abortions in the U.S. are carried out with medication.
ACT Access co-founder Dr. Linda Prine said they will mail pills as soon as the legislation is signed.
The measure was given final approval in the Legislature earlier this week as it ended its regular session.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The House committee investigating the Capitol riot plans to focus its hearing Thursday on the pressure that Donald Trump put on his vice president, Mike Pence, in a last-ditch and potentially illegal plan to stop Joe Biden’s election victory.
Trump seized on the unorthodox proposal from conservative law professor John Eastman to have Pence turn back the electors when the vice president presided over Congress to certify the election results on Jan. 6, 2021.
Traditionally, Jan. 6 is a ceremonial day, a procedural step tallying the presidential vote. But Eastman’s highly unusual plan — “bold,” he called it — was to have alternative slates of electors submitted to Congress, leaving Pence no choice but to return them to the states to sort it out. Biden would be denied a majority and Trump could win.
As the defeated Trump watched dozens of court cases challenging the 2020 presidential election collapse, he turned to the Eastman plan as a last resort to stay in office.
“John (Eastman) is one of the most brilliant lawyers in the country and he looked at this,” Trump told thousands of supporters at a rally near the White House before sending them to the Capitol on Jan. 6.
“And he looked at Mike Pence, and I hope Mike is going to do the right thing. I hope so. I hope so because if Mike Pence does the right thing, we win the election,” the then-president said.
A look at the Eastman plan in the days before Jan. 6 and why it's central to the congressional investigation:
THE PLAN
Two days before the Capitol attack, Pence was summoned to the White House for an Oval Office meeting with Trump and Eastman to hear about the law professor’s plan to turn back the electors.
With Trump’s false claims of election fraud, Eastman had been circulating what was essentially an academic proposal challenging the workings of the 130-year-old Electoral Count Act that governs the process for tallying the election results in Congress.
The six-point plan was gaining momentum among Trump’s allies in Congress, including key senators, and outside activists.
“BOLD, Certainly,” Eastman said in a memo included in a court filing from the Jan. 6 committee. But he said such an unusual step was needed, falsely claiming “this Election was Stolen.”
If Pence would refuse to count some electors, then the threshold needed to certify the presidential election would drop from the regular 270-vote majority to a lesser number — one presumably that Trump could reach.
If Democrats in Congress objected, as Eastman predicted they would, then under current law the House would be called on to decide the presidency. In that scenario, because the House would vote by individual state congressional delegations, which were mostly Republican majority, the numbers would align for Trump to win.
“The illegality of the plan,” declared the Jan. 6 committee in a court filing, “was obvious.”
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HOW COULD THAT EVEN WORK?
To set the plan in motion, Trump and Eastman convened hundreds of electors on a call on Jan. 2, 2021, encouraging them to send alternative electors from their states where Trump's team was claiming fraud.
Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, and maybe even Nevada and New Mexico were on the list, according to testimony provided to the committee by Greg Jacob, who was counsel to Pence.
Jacob, who is scheduled to testify Thursday before the House committee, was at the Oval Office meeting with Trump and Pence when Eastman outlined the plan on Jan. 4. Jacob received an email from Eastman late the following night.
“Major new development,” Eastman wrote, attaching a letter signed by several members of the Pennsylvania legislature.
“It now looks like PA Legislature will vote to recertify its electors if Vice President Pence implements the plan we discussed.”
Jacob responded in lawyerly prose, asking if it is “not unconstitutional."
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HAD THIS EVER BEEN DONE BEFORE?
While the every-four-year-ritual of certifying the election results has certainly come with objections, nothing of this magnitude had been proposed since the disputed election of 1876 that led Congress to pass the Electoral Count Act.
Routinely, lawmakers from the losing side of a presidential election would wage protest votes during the ceremonial proceedings in Congress. Several Democrats, including then-Sen. Barbara Boxer of California and Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, chairman of the Jan. 6 committee, joined a challenge to Ohio's electors after the 2004 election.
But no defeated president had ever done what Trump did, mounting a wide-ranging campaign to overturn an election that included pressure on the vice president to change the outcome.
When Eastman received Jacob's probing questions, he retorted that the counsel was being “small-minded.”
The professor pointed to past instances in history when presidents essentially violated the letter of the law for a greater outcome, and he suggested such an action was warranted now because the “Constitution was being shredded” over the election.
Jacob replied that he could not believe there was a single Supreme Court justice or any judge who would agree to toss election laws “that have been followed without exception for more than 130 years.”
Eastman's theory, Jacob wrote, was “essentially entirely made up.”
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PRESSURE BUILDS, TRUMP CALLS PENCE
First Pence's team took it all under advisement, apparently buying time as the vice president crafted his own response.
But a day after the Oval Office meeting, the pressure intensified. Rather than just turn the electors back to the states, Eastman said Pence should just throw out the states' tallies outright.
"What I’m here to ask you to do is to reject the electors” Eastman said on Jan. 5, according to Jacob’s testimony.
On the morning of Jan. 6, as the vice president prepared to head to the Capitol to preside over the vote, Trump called.
Trump told Pence he didn't think he had the courage to make a hard decision, according to testimony to the Jan. 6 committee by retired Gen. Keith Kellogg, a national security aide who was with Trump at the time and heard part of the conversation.
“You’re not tough enough to make the call,” Trump said to Pence.
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THE COUNT BEGINS
The first objection during the joint session of Congress was raised by a Republican congressman from the Arizona, one of the states Trump most vehemently disputed was won by Biden.
Congress began working its way through the procedural matter; rioters were closing in on the Capitol.
In an email to Eastman after the attack began, Jacob closed his arguments against the plan, saying: “And thanks to your bullshit we are now under siege.”
At the time, Jacob was sheltering in the Capitol from the mob.
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WHO IS JOHN EASTMAN?
A former Chapman University law professor, Eastman is known in conservative circles for having clerked for Justice Clarence Thomas on the Supreme Court.
Eastman also clerked for retired Judge Michael Luttig, who is also scheduled to testify Thursday. Luttig has called Eastman's ideas “incorrect at every turn” and had been providing legal counsel to Pence's team before Jan. 6.
Ahead of Thursday’s hearing, the vice chair of the House committee, Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., released a video offering a glimpse of what's to come.
In the video, Eric Herschmann, a lawyer at the White House, recounts a final conversation he had with Eastman the day after Jan. 6.
“I'm going to give you the best free legal advice you're ever getting in your life — get a great effing criminal defense lawyer. You're going to need it," Herschmann recalled, saying. "And then I hung up on him.”
Eastman repeatedly invoked his Fifth Amendment rights not to testify during his interview with the committee.
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For full coverage of the Jan. 6 hearings, go to https://www.apnews.com/capitol-siege | 2022-06-15T20:27:56+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/EXPLAINER-How-bold-plan-evolved-for-Pence-to-17244180.php |
MIAMI, May 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Security Token Group ("STG", "Company", securitytokengroup.com), a venture studio focused on building financial infrastructure to support the growth and development of the security token industry, is excited to confirm the closure of the Company's $3 million Series A round, led by Blue Bay Ventures, and including strategic investments from Blizzard Fund (the VC fund of Ava Labs / Avalanche), Exodus, and #miamitech leaders.
"Security Token Group is excited to announce the closure of our Series A round that will drive resources towards innovation across our portfolio," said Security Token Group CEO Herwig Konings. "This industry is seeing a moment of hyperbolic growth, with new tokenizations of businesses, real estate, fund products and more happening almost daily. We can't wait to work with these strategic partners in building the rails that will reduce the pain points for the industry to scale to an institutional level where even Wall Street can participate."
Security Token Group wholly owns subsidiary Security Token Market ("STM", stm.co), the largest repository of security token trading data and news, with a live-trading data feed for over 200 security tokens currently valued at $20B in market capitalization while also tracking over 500 primary offerings. STM also produces professional media programming around the larger blockchain industry, with properties such as The Security Token Show, Spilling the NFTea, Open Tab, and Crypto Con Leche, among others that amass millions of impressions across social media and thousands of hours watched and listened across its YouTube and podcast channels.
Security Token Market recently made headlines through the announcement of its own tokenized crowdfunding campaign, which has demonstrated tremendous interest during the current Testing the Waters period in which over $6M has been pledged by over 1,000 investors from over 25 countries in just the first 90 days. The crowdfund will be in the form of a security token, meaning that investors in the campaign will receive a digital token representing the investment in the company.
"The Security Token Market team has been blown away by the interest demonstrated in our crowdfunding announcement. We've seen a significant increase in traction across our data platform and media properties, and are excited to be a pioneer in driving future secondary market liquidity for crowdfunding campaigns through a security token offering. It was also important for us to lead by example in issuing a token the right way—by embracing securities laws and creating an offering that supports the new benefits of tokenization," said Security Token Market CEO and Security Token Group co-founder Kyle Sonlin.
With the capital committed from its Series A round, STG will also seek to expand on its other business verticals, Security Token Advisors ("STA, securitytokenadvisors.com) and Security Token Capital ("STC, securitytokencapital.com).
Security Token Advisors is the leading consulting firm in the security token industry, assisting asset owners ranging from business owners and family offices with large real estate portfolios to governments and sovereign funds in executing a successful securitization leveraging blockchain technology. These engagements consist of leading an asset owner through the process of tokenizing an asset, beginning with token structuring and working with applicable vendors, including legal support, broker-dealer engagements, and investor relations strategies. STA's experienced team has worked through many compliant securities issuances and has worked with a wide variety of asset classes and jurisdictions.
Security Token Capital will be preparing to launch tokenized investment products that leverage blockchain technology to offer investors new benefits and gains from efficiencies. This new vertical will help support the industry by creating institutional investment products designed to introduce more professional investors and retail traders to security tokens.
Security Token Group has assembled a diverse team of over 25 talented individuals based in Miami, Florida since its founding over 4 years ago. The firm has built industry trust and a strong reputation through its commitment to compliant digital securities being issued around the world. This Series A investment provides the firm with additional growth capital and strategic input to help STG secure market share in this growing industry supported by investment banks and regulators alike.
"I first encountered Security Token Market through their podcast and quickly learned of their vital role in this industry. Security Token Group as a whole has led the way in tokenization education, adoption, market transparency, and community development." said John Nahas, Vice President of Business Development at Ava Labs.
"Security Token Group has continued to innovate since the inception of the security token industry. We could not be more excited to work closely with their team to drive the adoption of the digital securities sector. Security tokens have a massive opportunity to disrupt capital markets and create more efficient financial solutions," said JP Richardson, CEO of Exodus
"Blue Bay Ventures is long-term bullish on the future of tokenized assets and securities. Security Token Group is the company that is smack in the middle of it all. Herwig and Kyle are extraordinary entrepreneurs, and we have full faith in the team's execution at STG. Its platform will certainly spearhead the adoption of the new security token industry in capital markets." said Nico Pantelis, GP of Blue Bay Ventures
More news about the strategic partnership and fundraise will soon be available at blog.stomarket.com.
ABOUT SECURITY TOKEN GROUP
Founded in 2017, Security Token Group is a venture studio focused on building financial infrastructure to support the growth and development of the security token industry. Consisting of three main business subsidiaries, Security Token Market, Security Token Advisors, and Security Token Capital, the conglomerate supports asset issuers across the entire lifecycle of an investment. Learn more at securitytokengroup.com.
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SOURCE Security Token Group | 2022-05-18T12:32:28+00:00 | kwtx.com | https://www.kwtx.com/prnewswire/2022/05/18/security-token-group-closes-3-million-series-strategic-investment-blizzard-fund-exodus-blue-bay-ventures/ |
SILVER CITY, Miss. – Nothing remained of William Barnes’ home in the tiny western Mississippi town of Silver City after a killer tornado tore it off its foundations. He stood in disbelief Saturday as he surveyed the lot where he'd lived for 20 years, twisted debris of cinder blocks and mangled wood siding scattered across where his home once stood.
“We lost everything but got out alive,” he said, holding his young granddaughter in his arms.
Throughout the town of just over 200 people, the stories were similar — utter destruction, incredible survival and tragic deaths from Friday’s twister that killed at least 23 as it surged nearly 170 miles (274 kilometers) across the Deep South.
A child’s Shrek doll lay face down in the dirt next to a pile of broken plywood and branches, feet from a busted-up refrigerator with its back torn clean off. Limbs from several fallen trees blocked an abandoned school bus. Outside the wall of what used to be a house, a bike lay strewn upside down in another pile of debris.
Residents sat in folding chairs outside the mud-splattered ruins of beloved family homes as people came by in all-terrain vehicles and golf carts packed with bottles of water to distribute. A line of cars was parked on the road from first responders and family who had driven in to help with clean up and rescue efforts.
Christine Chinn, who’s lived in Silver City her whole life, said her roof was gone and cars were upended in her yard as she took stock of the damage to her home of 20 years. She took cover with her husband and son in the hallway, covering themselves with a blanket as they desperately sought to protect themselves.
“It just got calm and all of sudden everything just — like a big old train or something coming through,” she said, adding that she feared much of her belongings weren't salvageable.
She said she was "very scared" and had never experienced anything like it.
“I was just praying,” she said.
Christin George said her parents and grandmother narrowly escaped when the tornado blew out the windows and ripped off part of the roof of their home.
She said her parents huddled behind a door that hadn’t been hung yet and threw a blanket over her grandmother to shield themselves from the glass that “shot down the hallway and peppered everybody.”
“Everything else around them is just gone,” she said, at times clutching her hand to her chest. “They were lucky. That’s all there is to it.”
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Associated Press reporter Leah Willingham contributed from Charleston, West Virginia.
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Michael Goldberg and Claire Rush are corps members for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues. | 2023-03-25T21:24:53+00:00 | local10.com | https://www.local10.com/news/national/2023/03/25/after-tornado-harrowing-tales-of-survival-in-mississippi/ |
‘Too much to learn’: Schools race to catch up kids’ reading
ATLANTA (AP) — Michael Crowder stands nervously at the front of his third grade classroom, his mustard-yellow polo shirt buttoned to the top.
“Give us some vowels,” says his teacher, La’Neeka Gilbert-Jackson. His eyes search a chart that lists vowels, consonant pairs and word endings, but he doesn’t land on an answer. “Let’s help him out,” Gilbert-Jackson says.
“A-E-I-O-U,” she and the students say in unison.
Michael missed most of first grade, the foundational year for learning to read. It was the first fall of the pandemic, and for months Atlanta only offered school online. Michael’s mom had just had a baby, and there was no quiet place to study in their small apartment. He missed a good part of second grade, too. So, like most of his classmates at his Atlanta school, he isn’t reading at the level expected for a third grader.
And that poses an urgent problem.
Third grade is the last chance for Michael’s class to master reading with help from teachers before they face more rigorous expectations. If Michael and his classmates don’t read fluently by the time this school year ends, research shows they’re less likely to complete high school. Third grade has always been pivotal in a child’s academic life, but pandemic-fueled school interruptions have made it much harder. Nationally, third graders lost more ground in reading than kids in older grades, and they’ve been slower to catch up.
To address pandemic learning loss, Atlanta has been one of the only cities in the country to add class time — 30 minutes a day for three years. That’s more time for Gilbert-Jackson to explain the confusing ways that English words work and to tailor lessons to small groups of students based on their abilities.
She hopes it will be enough. The school year has been a race to prepare her students for future classes, where reading well is a gateway to learning everything else.
“Yes, I work you hard,” she says about her students. “Because we have too much to learn.”
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SLOW PROGRESS
Right before December vacation, Gilbert-Jackson’s class is subdued and visibly tired. A handful of students, anticipating the long break, don’t come to school. One girl has been out for weeks; now, back in class, she swings her arm across her desk and tries to go to sleep.
“You gotta wake up, baby girl,” Gilbert-Jackson says to her gently. “You need to tell Mama to put you to bed.”
The lethargy is palpable, but Gilbert-Jackson moves on with her lessons. There’s too much to learn.
She reviews suffixes, how to spell words ending in -ch, -tch, and how to make different words plural. Some students have spellings memorized; for those who don’t, Gilbert-Jackson explains the rules that govern spelling. It’s a phonics-based program that the district now mandates for all third graders, in line with science-backed curricula gaining momentum across the country.
Last year, the district started mandating the same curriculum for all first and second graders. It can be dry and tedious stuff, replete with obscure jargon like “digraph” and “trigraph.” The strong readers nod and respond during these sessions, but the students still learning the basics look lost.
To inject fun into the lesson, Gilbert-Jackson turns it into a quiz game. The students perk up as they race to set up their laptops.
“Teach,” Gilbert-Jackson calls out. “How do you spell teach?”
Students have to choose between “teach” and “teatch.”
“Yes!” some of the children shout from their desks as their scores pop onto their screens.
Says Gilbert-Jackson: “I don’t know why I’m hearing so many yeses when only half got it right.”
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LONG-TERM RELATIONSHIPS
As the first semester draws to a close, 14 of her 19 students aren’t meeting expectations for reading. That includes Michael.
Gilbert-Jackson has an important advantage: She has known Michael and most of his classmates and their parents since the first fall of the pandemic. She taught them in first grade and second grade, and followed them to third. She knows how much school many of them missed — and why. The strategy was adopted by Boyd Elementary to give students some consistency through the crisis.
It has paid off. The steady relationship has helped her adapt her approach and care for her students at a school where 81% of families receive food stamps or other government assistance. “I know what they know,” she says.
The long-term connection — or perhaps just the continuity of attending school every day — has helped Michael start reading. At the end of first grade he knew two of the so-called “sight words” —“a” and “the.” By that point in the year, first graders were expected to have memorized 200 of these high-frequency words that aren’t easily decodable by new readers.
Now, midway through third grade, he is reading like a mid-year first grader — two years behind where he’s supposed to be. But, says Gilbert-Jackson, it’s progress. “You can see the wheels turning,” she says. “Sometimes he’ll draw a blank, but he’s still trying.”
When he’s not in school, Michael has been dropping by his apartment complex’s community center most afternoons to read books to the staff, who encourage the activity with pizza parties. His report cards show improvement. His parents have noticed his growth.
“I see a change in him,” says Michael’s stepfather, Rico Morton, who works landscaping and manages a pizza delivery store at night. Morton says he sometimes quizzes Michael and his siblings on trivia and multiplication tables. “He’s matured. Now he speaks in complete sentences,” Morton says. “I feel like he has the potential to be someone.”
But Michael’s days in Gilbert-Jackson’s third grade class are numbered, and he’s still far behind what’s expected for a third grader.
That’s an important inflection point. Until the end of third grade, students generally receive guidance from teachers to perfect their literacy. After that, students are expected to read more challenging texts in all of their subjects and to improve reading skills on their own. Researchers have found students who don’t read fluently by third grade are four times more likely to drop out or not finish high school on time. And if a student fails to graduate, the risks increase. For instance, adults without a diploma are more likely to end up in prison.
Michael isn’t the only student in this perilous zone. A handful of his classmates are also reading or comprehending at the first grade level.
Some, like Michael, didn’t attend Zoom classes. There are two girls who did attend classes, and appeared to be doing well at the time. But Gilbert-Jackson believes their parents were doing some if not all of their work for them, and the girls didn’t learn to read and write.
One of those girls is now reading at the second grade level, but her comprehension is more like a mid-year first grader, says Gilbert-Jackson. “The words just bounce off her,” Gilbert-Jackson says. “She doesn’t internalize what she’s reading. For me, that’s harder to fix.”
The other girl whose mother likely did her schoolwork during online learning is reading at the level of a beginning first grader. Gilbert-Jackson worries about her. “Let’s say she does go to fourth grade: Nobody is going to read anything to her,” she says. “I don’t want to set them up for failure.”
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NOT MANY ALTERNATIVES
Good options are few. On paper, Atlanta’s district policy is to promote elementary school students who “master” reading, math and other subjects. But how often the district actually holds students back is unclear. Atlanta’s school system did not respond to requests for data.
Making students repeat a grade has fallen out of practice across the country, although more students are being held back because of the pandemic. Research before the pandemic showed the practice had mixed academic results, can stigmatize students and causes stress for families. It’s also expensive for school districts, because it could require adding classes and teachers.
These students can attend four weeks of summer school, but that likely won’t be enough to bring them up to third grade reading levels. And attendance by kids who sign up for summer school is notoriously low nationwide.
When the students start fourth grade, their schools will test their reading and math levels, and they “will be placed in the appropriate interventions,” according to the district. Teachers and students will have a daily extra half hour of class next year, the last in Atlanta’s three-year plan to address pandemic setbacks.
Before leaving for Christmas vacation, Gilbert-Jackson started reaching out to students’ parents to talk about how their children were progressing and “what may or may not happen” with their prospects for fourth grade. Though it’s rare, she tells them she could recommend holding back a student or a parent could request it.
She encourages parents to keep working with their kids, buy workbooks at dollar stores and, in some cases, agree to testing to determine whether their children need more specialized help.
The parents of some of her struggling readers don’t return her calls or show up for parent-teacher conferences. In most cases, says Gilbert-Jackson, “I think they mean well.”
“But I think some have the attitude, ‘I’m sending you to school and you better listen to that lady,'” she says, “but there’s not that much support at home.”
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NO EASY SOLUTIONS
While Gilbert-Jackson appears to have a plan to move most of her students forward, two new students are testing the veteran teacher. At this stage of the year, their challenges resist easy solutions.
One day in late February, Gilbert-Jackson asks her students to revise a narrative they’d each been writing about a glowing rock. Most get to work quickly.
One new student, a boy with a 100-watt smile and a halo of loose hair twists, had transferred from another Atlanta public school in November. Instead of taking out his narrative, he chooses a book from the class library and starts writing in his notebook. A few minutes later, he presents his notebook to Keione Vance, the teacher’s assistant.
“So, did you copy this from a book?” she asks. “I know you just copied it.”
She asks him to read to her. He happily starts on the book, an “easy reader” aimed at a first grade reading level. He struggles with words: nice, true, voice, sure, might, outside, and because.
When he arrived in November, it appeared he needed “to learn everything from first, second and third grade,” says Gilbert-Jackson. He often puts his head down in class. “I’m getting more work out of him now. But you can tell when he hits his limit. He’s like, ‘uh-uh.’”
While most of the class works on writing, the other new student, a tall girl with long braids that curl at the end, sits at her desk staring into the distance and humming.
“She’s struggling,” says Gilbert-Jackson. “There’s something I cannot put my finger on.”
Gilbert-Jackson worries she isn’t serving her two new students as well as she’d like. “What they need would require all of my attention,” she says. “This train has been running for three years. I can’t start over.”
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A LAST CHANCE
As the other students in class keep working, some ask Gilbert-Jackson to read their stories. Some are written in complete sentences with few errors. Others lack punctuation and capitalization and have misspellings throughout.
After a few more students ask Gilbert-Jackson to check their stories, she gets the class’s attention.
“Class, class,” calls Gilbert-Jackson.
“Yes, yes,” replies the class.
“Class, class, class,” calls Gilbert-Jackson.
“Yes, yes, yes,” replies the class. And then their teacher says words that, for some of them, may be very daunting.
“Mrs. Gilbert-Jackson cannot be the person who says when your final draft is ready,” she says. “I’m not going to be there when you are in fourth grade. I’m not going to be there when you take your exams.”
Gilbert-Jackson and the other third grade teachers are so concerned about their students’ reading and writing abilities, along with math skills, that they decided after Christmas break to cut back on social studies and science to give students extra instruction and practice for the rest of the year. It’s her last chance to help them before they move on to another teacher — and to the expectation they will read everything by themselves.
The extra time may have helped some students get across the line. Now only seven of the 19 students are below grade level in reading. Of the students who are still behind, Gilbert-Jackson is the least worried about one: Michael Crowder. She’s confident he’ll find a way to navigate the new world ahead of him — a world where he’ll have to be more self-sufficient, even if there is too much to learn.
“He wants it,” she says. “He’ll catch up.”
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Stanislav Budnitsky, Indiana University
(THE CONVERSATION) Since the start of Russia’s war on Ukraine in late February 2022, Russian internet users have experienced what has been dubbed the descent of a “digital iron curtain.”
Russian authorities blocked access to all major opposition news sites, as well as Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Under the new draconian laws purporting to combat fake news about the Russian-Ukrainian war, internet users have faced administrative and criminal charges for allegedly spreading online disinformation about Russia’s actions in Ukraine. Most Western technology companies, from Airbnb to Apple, have stopped or limited their Russian operations as part of the broader corporate exodus from the country.
Many Russians downloaded virtual private network software to try to access blocked sites and services in the first weeks of the war. By late April, 23% of Russian internet users reported using VPNs with varying regularity. The state media watchdog, Roskomnadzor, has been blocking VPNs to prevent people from bypassing government censorship and stepped up its efforts in June 2022.
Although the speed and scale of the wartime internet crackdown are unprecedented, its legal, technical and rhetorical foundations were put in place during the preceding decade under the banner of digital sovereignty.
Digital sovereignty for nations is the exercise of state power within national borders over digital processes like the flow of online data and content, surveillance and privacy, and the production of digital technologies. Under authoritarian regimes like today’s Russia, digital sovereignty often serves as a veil for stymieing domestic dissent.
Digital sovereignty pioneer
Russia has advocated upholding state sovereignty over information and telecommunications since the early 1990s. In the aftermath of the Cold War, a weakened Russia could no longer compete with the U.S. economically, technologically or militarily. Instead, Russian leaders sought to curtail the emergent U.S. global dominance and hold on to Russia’s great power status.
They did so by promoting the preeminence of state sovereignty as a foundational principle of international order. In the 2000s, seeking to project its great power resurgence, Moscow joined forces with Beijing to spearhead the global movement for internet sovereignty.
Despite its decades-long advocacy of digital sovereignty on the world stage, the Kremlin didn’t begin enforcing state power over its domestic cyberspace until the early 2010s. From late 2011 to mid-2012, Russia saw the largest series of anti-government rallies in its post-Soviet history to protest Vladimir Putin’s third presidential run and fraudulent parliamentary elections. As in the anti-authoritarian uprisings in the Middle East known as the Arab Spring, the internet served as a critical instrument in organizing and coordinating the Russian protests.
Following Putin’s return to the presidency in March 2012, the Kremlin turned its attention to controlling Russian cyberspace. The so-called Blacklist Law established a framework for blocking websites under the guise of fighting child pornography, suicide, extremism and other widely acknowledged societal ills.
However, the law has been regularly used to ban sites of opposition activists and media. The law widely known as the Blogger’s Law then subjected all websites and social media accounts with over 3,000 daily users to traditional media regulations by requiring them to register with the state.
The next pivotal moment in Moscow’s embrace of authoritarian digital sovereignty came after Russia’s invasion of eastern Ukraine in the Spring of 2014. Over the following five years, as Russia’s relations with the West worsened, the Russian government undertook a barrage of initiatives meant to tighten its control over the country’s increasingly networked public.
The data localization law, for example, required foreign technology companies to keep Russian citizens’ data on servers located within the country and thus easily accessible to the authorities. Under the pretext of fighting terrorism, another law required telecom and internet companies to retain users’ communications for six months and their metadata for three years and hand them over to authorities upon request without a court order.
The Kremlin has used these and other legal innovations to open criminal cases against thousands of internet users and jail hundreds for “liking” and sharing social media content critical of the government.
The Sovereign Internet Law
In April 2019, Russian authorities took their aspirations for digital sovereignty to another level with the so-called Sovereign Internet Law. The law opened the door for abuse of individual users and isolation of the internet community as a whole.
The law requires all internet service providers to install state-mandated devices “for counteracting threats to stability, security, and the functional integrity of the internet” within Russian borders. The Russian government has interpreted threats broadly, including social media content.
For example, the authorities have repeatedly used this law to throttle the performance of Twitter on mobile devices when Twitter has failed to comply with government requests to remove “illegal” content.
Further, the law establishes protocols for rerouting all internet traffic through Russian territory and for a single command center to manage that traffic. Ironically, the Moscow-based center that now controls traffic and fights foreign circumvention tools, such as the Tor browser, requires Chinese and U.S. hardware and software to function in the absence of their Russian equivalents.
Lastly, the law promises to establish a Russian national Domain Name System. DNS is the global internet’s core database that translates between web names such as theconversation.com and their internet addresses, in this case 151.101.2.133. DNS is operated by a California-based nonprofit, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.
At the time of the law’s passing, Putin justified the national DNS by arguing that it would allow the Russian internet segment to function even if ICANN disconnected Russia from the global internet in an act of hostility. In practice, when, days into Russia’s invasion in February 2022, Ukrainian authorities asked ICANN to disconnect Russia from the DNS, ICANN declined the request. ICANN officials said they wanted to avoid setting the precedent of disconnecting entire countries for political reasons.
Splitting the global internet
The Russian-Ukrainian war has undermined the integrity of the global internet, both by Russia’s actions and the actions of technology companies in the West. In an unprecedented move, social media platforms have blocked access to Russian state media.
The internet is a global network of networks. Interoperability among these networks is the internet’s foundational principle. The ideal of a single internet, of course, has always run up against the reality of the world’s cultural and linguistic diversity: Unsurprisingly, most users don’t clamor for content from faraway lands in unintelligible languages. Yet, politically motivated restrictions threaten to fragment the internet into increasingly disjointed networks.
Though it may not be fought over on the battlefield, global interconnectivity has become one of the values at stake in the Russian-Ukrainian war. And as Russia has solidified its control over sections of eastern Ukraine, it has moved the digital Iron Curtain to those frontiers.
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here: https://theconversation.com/kremlin-tightens-control-over-russians-online-lives-threatening-domestic-freedoms-and-the-global-internet-182020. | 2022-06-30T14:47:04+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/Kremlin-tightens-control-over-Russians-online-17276291.php |
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Man and woman arrested in connection with fatal downtown shooting of Indianapolis cab driver
Two people were arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of taxicab driver in downtown Indianapolis on Saturday, according to the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department.
James Riley, 30, and Alysianna Martin, 29, were taken into custody Tuesday and preliminary charged with murder, according to a police news release.
More:Four people killed in weekend violence: Indianapolis homicides 2022
The shooting occurred in the 400 block of E 11th Street. Officers were dispatched to the area on a report of a suspicious vehicle. The caller reported a cab had been parked at this location with the doors open for a while.
When officers arrived shortly after 4 a.m., they found 55-year-old Abdukadir Filanwaa in the driver’s seat of the vehicle with gunshot wound injuries. Filanwaa was pronounced dead at the scene, according to police.
Anyone with information on the shooting is asked to contact Detective James Hurt at the IMPD Homicide Office at 317-327-3475 or email him at James.Hurt@indy.gov.
More:Police: Man accused of Plainfield shooting remains at large, considered armed & dangerous
Alternatively, those with information can call Crime Stoppers of Central Indiana at 317-262-8477 to remain anonymous.
Contact Jake Allen at jake.allen@indystar.com. Follow him on Twitter @Jake_Allen19. | 2022-09-14T15:53:07+00:00 | indystar.com | https://www.indystar.com/story/news/crime/2022/09/14/2-arrested-in-indianapolis-shooting-death-cab-driver-abdukadir-filanwaa/69494063007/ |
Hardin is on the hunt for a new police chief after Donald Babbin resigned to take a job closer to his home in New Hampshire.
Babbin was tasked with bringing the department back to life in 2021.
“What’s important is that the citizens of the city see what we have done,” he says.
Babbin essentially started the department from scratch. There were no vehicles, weapons, badges, or other employees when he arrived in Hardin nearly two years ago.
By the end of the year, the city once again had a police department that now employs 10 people.
“What I’m really proud of is the short time we have been up and running and everything that was thrown at us. We muddled through, and we have come out on top,” said Babbin.
He says the department now averages between 600 to 700 calls a month and makes around 40 arrests, mostly for minor crimes and warrants.
“I believe the city of Hardin has a great foundation for proactive law enforcement. I believe they have the tools, the policy, to perform at the next level,” he says.
Babbin praised the support has gotten from both citizens and the city.
“It’s not often you see a city or city government support the police at 100 percent. The council through mayor has supported this agency at 110 percent,” he says.
But Babbin also leaves with a few frustrations.
“The county administration has, in my opinion, tried to dismantle this agency. And every time they have attempted something, with trying to arrest me or get an arrest warrant for an officer. We have pushed through and we have done things correctly.”
Babbin is referring to an incident that happened at the Town Pump in March of 2022 when the Big Horn County attorney pursued charges against him and another officer after a man claimed police had used excessive force against him.
The charges went nowhere and were eventually dropped.
But the friction between the city and county remains. Babbin says he can’t be sure of the reasons why.
“They took away the funding that was given to the county and they wanted to resurrect this department. That could be one reason. The other reason is I’m not from Montana. That might be one reason why there was some pushback,” he says.
Babbin has expressed frustration about a lack of cooperation from previous Big Horn County officials, who have not responded to those allegations.
Babbin leaves believing a solid foundation is set for the police department’s future and says it will take a strong chief moving forward.
“Whoever sits in this chair again needs that support and we need to work together. I’m extremely grateful that we do have citizens that do support this agency, that see the difference that we have made, and we need to continue that,” he says. | 2023-04-28T15:50:39+00:00 | ktvh.com | https://www.ktvh.com/news/hardin-police-chief-leaving-department-he-helped-start |
Unleashing Native Microsoft Teams Rooms Experience by Adding MAXHUB XCore Kit to Your BYOD Scenarios
GUANGZHOU, China, July 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- MAXHUB introduces a one-stop hardware solution - MAXHUB XT Series for Microsoft Teams Rooms, elevating the convenience and efficiency of every step of the user journey — spanning procurement, installation, utilization, and post-maintenance.
MAXHUB offers a variety of customized product combinations specifically designed for Microsoft Teams Rooms in three essential bundles. They comprise a Windows-based Microsoft Teams Rooms compute and table top console kit – the MAXHUX XCore Kit, that can be combined with the MAXHUB UC W31 USB camera, the MAXHUB UC BM35 speakerphone, or MAXHUB UC S07 integrated videobar. All of these can be seamlessly paired with MAXHUB commercial displays ranging from 55 to 105 inches, supporting both 16:9 aspect ratio of the MAXHUB CMA series, and 21:9 aspect ratio of the MAXHUB UW105NA, to contribute to a Signature Microsoft Teams Room experience. These bundles have been crafted to meet the needs of meeting rooms with different functional requirements for 1-8 people, covering Focus Rooms, Small Rooms, and Signature Rooms.
Bundle A: MAXHUB XCore Kit — Empowering BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) to switch to Microsoft Teams Rooms smart space
Elevate your meeting space with the MAXHUB XCore Kit for Microsoft Teams, a solution including a Windows-based compute and console, that is competitively priced to enable a full Microsoft Teams Rooms experience at the cost typically budgeted for a BYOD room. This kit boasts a powerful 12th Gen Intel® CoreTM Processor, delivering exceptional performance, and a high-resolution 10.1-inch Teams Rooms console with a motion sensor for an intuitive and immersive user experience. Compatible with Microsoft Teams Rooms, the kit helps facilitate the easy upgrade of existing BYOD rooms to switch to a full Microsoft Teams Rooms, creating smart spaces, with Teams-native audio and video experiences at unparalleled cost effective pricing.
Bundle B: MAXHUB XT10-WS Kit — A more flexible Microsoft Teams Rooms solution for an enhanced user experience
Expanding on the foundation of the XCore Kit, the MAXHUB XT10-WS Kit incorporates a high-quality speakerphone plus a USB camera for your meeting room. This bundle adeptly caters to participants' dynamic audio and video needs, driving a flexible and seamless collaboration experience.
Bundle C: MAXHUB XT10-VB Kit — A simpler Microsoft Teams Rooms deployment solution
Building upon the XCore Kit, the MAXHUB XT10-VB Kit showcases its versatility with the addition of the MAXHUB UC S07 integrated videobar. Designed with simplified frontline one-cable deployment and remarkable expandability, this bundle is most easy to deploy in any room with an existing room display.
Display Options — Rounding up the room display requirements, from Focus Rooms to Signature Teams Rooms
MAXHUB offers a wide range of options to incorporate a MAXHUB display screens on top of the three new Microsoft Teams Rooms bundles mentioned above, providing users with versatile possibilities for customization. MAXHUB delivers a wide range of solutions to optimize meeting spaces with innovative layouts, including tailored "Signature Microsoft Teams Rooms." Among these options, the MAXHUB 105-inch, 21:9 display UW105NA truly stands out, be it the LCD version or the DVLED version. It provides a generous canvas for showcasing project content, accommodating remote attendees, and meeting chats. This enables on-site meeting participants to fully immerse themselves in the displayed meeting content, elevating the overall meeting experience to a whole new dimension and eliminating potential distractions. If a more traditional 16:9 display is warranted, MAXHUB also offers the option to include the CMA Series of displays with sizes ranging from 43 to 98 inches.
"We welcome MAXHUB, as a new hardware partner to the Teams Rooms ecosystem, for Microsoft Teams Rooms and a wide range of USB peripherals Certified for Microsoft Teams," said Albert Kooiman, Senior Director, Microsoft Teams Partner Engineering and Certification at Microsoft. "The MAXHUB Microsoft Teams Rooms XCore Kit is ideal to upgrade any of your high impact BYOD spaces to a full Microsoft Teams Rooms experience, at the most affordable price in the market."
"In the coming months, MAXHUB will bring to market a full range of Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows, including rooms peripherals Certified for Microsoft Teams and a range of commercial displays optimized for the Teams Rooms experience," said Darren Lin, Vice General Manager, MAXHUB Global Business. "In the current scenario where hybrid and flexible work has become the norm, we aim to promote meeting equity, foster collaboration, and maximize efficiency with quality products."
Note:
*CMA = MAXHUB CMA Series Commercial Display/
*UW105NA = MAXHUB UW105NA Commercial Display
About MAXHUB
MAXHUB is an industry leader in smart displays and audiovisual technology, focusing on communication and collaboration. As an R&D-led organization, they have developed a series of industry-leading solutions that help keep people seamlessly connected and make teamwork more efficient and effective.
For more information about MAXHUB, please visit www.maxhub.com.
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A Roadmap to Responsible Offshore Wind Development in the Gulf of Maine
What: Each Friday, Maine Conservation Voters (MCV) hosts a one-hour webinar focused on important and timely topics.
Offshore wind represents an exciting opportunity for Maine’s clean energy future, economy, and communities. As a culmination of 18 months of collaborative stakeholder-driven work, the Maine Governor’s Energy Office (GEO) recently released a draft of the Maine Offshore Wind Roadmap, a plan to develop an offshore wind industry that works for Maine’s people, economy, and heritage. Join Celina Cunningham, deputy director of GEO, and Stephanie Watson, Maine Offshore Wind program Manager for GEO, who will provide an overview of the roadmap and explain how Maine looks to become a model for the nation for floating offshore wind development done right.
When: Friday, Feb. 10, 12-1 p.m.
Where: Online. This is a free event hosted, but you must register to join. Click here to register. | 2023-02-09T17:05:10+00:00 | bangordailynews.com | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2023/02/09/bdn-maine/maine-conservation-voters-hosts-online-lunch-learn-event-30/ |
5-year-old born with half her heart fights for her life daily
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KOAT) – A little girl in Albuquerque is fighting for her life on a daily basis after being born with only half a heart.
“She’s 5 years old. She’s been through so much in life already,” her father, Gary Lange, said.
Family members describe Katherine Lange as free-spirited, loving and caring.
Katherine looks like a perfectly healthy child, but she could have a stroke at any moment.
“It’s very tough, you know? It’s definitely a journey. It takes a village because you don’t know what can happen from one day to the next,” Lange said.
Katherine has a rare heart defect that causes the heart to be underdeveloped in more ways than one.
Lange said his daughter has had three open heart surgeries before she turned three and has had approximately 10 heart catheterizations.
“Just in the last 12 months, she’s had over 40 blood draws,” he said.
But that’s only half the battle for Katherine, as she’s now dealing with liver leakage. Lange explained Katherine is facing protein-losing enteropathy.
“It has to do with the lymphatic system leaking into the liver and blood goes through the pathways through resistance and pushes down on the liver -- which is causing her albumin to leak,” Lange said.
If all else fails, Lange said his little girl would need a heart and liver transplant to save what’s left of her life.
Copyright 2022 KOAT via CNN Newsource. All rights reserved. | 2022-09-20T19:56:40+00:00 | wagmtv.com | https://www.wagmtv.com/2022/09/20/5-year-old-born-with-half-her-heart-fights-her-life-daily/ |
What Visionary Landscape Architects Know
ATLANTA, Nov. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- This fall marks 30 years of HGOR providing clients with solutions that have strategically transitioned places in need of revitalization, development, or analysis to become places that transform communities and enhance the social fabric of a city. As the landscape architecture and planning firm enters this 30th year of practice, a question comes to mind for the five principals.
What makes a GREAT landscape architecture firm?
Industry professionals may say it is a team whose pursuits encompass the desire to make a genuine impact on the environment and people's lives cost-effectively. While this is undoubtedly the traditional endeavor, one may wonder, "Is there more?" For HGOR, there is and always has been more!
In 1992, HGOR set out to design exceptional places for people that provide engaging social spaces and have a solid return on investment for their clients and future generations. Early on, an additional layer of guiding principles emerged, leading to a secondary part of the question. "How can a landscape architecture firm successfully craft solutions resolving specific needs of assignments to produce remarkable places of lasting value while prioritizing a solid return on investment and remaining a steward of the land?"
From day one until today, HGOR has made it a regular practice to look beyond immediate challenges to identify the possible - to incorporate inventive solutions that inspire!
As one of HGOR's first projects, Atlanta's UPS Headquarters holds great significance. This project challenged the team to discover the site's essence and locate the perfect marriage between the fragile forest ecosystem and the corporate headquarters, serving as a guide for future land-preservation projects. The firm's master planning insight earned them a National ASLA Merit Award and an ASLA SE Region President's Award in 1999, and a 1996 GA ASLA Merit Award.
"It is seldom that the final project turns out better than the plans and renderings. This one did."
- Oz Nelson, Former UPS CEO
Projects throughout these 30 years have presented numerous occasions to think outside the box, revealing HGOR's pioneering spirit. Recent notable projects illustrating this include:
- Grant Park Gateway became the World's 1st Triple Certified Project with LEED, SITES, and Parksmart Certifications demonstrating environmental design excellence in public infrastructure.
- Westside Park, Atlanta's largest park, received an Urban Design Commission Award of Excellence for Resilient Infrastructure, boasting a 35.5-acre quarry-turned-reservoir, which serves as Atlanta's major emergency water source.
- Hickory Log Creek Reservoir received a Merit Award for Analysis + Planning from the GA Chapter of ASLA, revealing the incredible value and diversity of the environment and providing sensitive solutions to the challenge of introducing passive recreation within its boundaries.
- Trilith and Assembly Atlanta, uniquely different in design, enabled HGOR the extraordinary opportunity to implement forward-thinking designs to develop an all-new type of mixed-use, film, and entertainment landscape for Georgia, expected to have dramatic positive effects on the economy.
- Gwinnett County, GA's Rowen initiative, a mixed-use research epicenter, has offered another significant accomplishment: aiming to deliver the first-ever SITES-certified roadway and a project that will likely alter the southeast region through environmentally-based site design and research discoveries.
Ultimately, what a visionary landscape architect knows and, given a chance to answer "What makes a great landscape architecture firm" today, after 30 years, the answer may bear a resemblance to the 1992 response. To make the kind of impact that, generally, landscape architects desire means: being unafraid to push past the seemingly impossible, knowing there is the potential to discover game-changing solutions; having confidence and courage to introduce unusual ideas to find they are precisely the concepts needed for site longevity; partnering with other experts who are eager to share successes and failures and work together as a unified team. A visionary landscape architect continuously seeks new strategies without losing sight of the tried-and-true. And a true visionary knows that developing great places comes from listening and understanding the client's needs.
As the firm reflects upon the past 30 years, memorable projects leading to lifelong friendships, noteworthy milestones, and surpassing numerous boundaries must also be recognized. And so, with great appreciation, HGOR celebrates the collaborations, its growth and opportunities, and the institutional knowledge gained along the way.
ABOUT HGOR
HGOR is an Atlanta-based planning and landscape architecture firm that provides holistic design approaches backed by decades of experience in cross-disciplinary innovation. Founded in 1992, HGOR exceeds client expectations by developing people-centric, innovative, cost-effective, and strategically planned design solutions.
CONTACT: Christi Burton, marketing@hgor.com, www.hgor.com
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(NEXSTAR) – Walmart is facing backlash from customers and social-media users over its new Juneteenth-themed ice cream.
Walmart’s “Celebration Edition Juneteenth™ Ice Cream” started attracting attention on Twitter over the weekend, with users calling out Walmart for allegedly trying to capitalize on the holiday.
The ice cream, which was sold under the company’s Great Value brand, featured packaging that encouraged consumers to “share and celebrate African-American culture, emancipation and enduring hope,” according to photos shared on social media. The label also featured a pair of hands high-fiving while another holds up a peace sign.
“Corporate America will co-opt Juneteenth now that it’s a federal holiday like everything else,” wrote one Twitter user. “We don’t have reparations, laws protecting our voting rights, or stopping Police from killing us, but we have ice cream.”
“NOBODY asked for this,” wrote another. “Diversity ain’t making ice cream and slapping a Juneteenth label on it.”
Some users noted that the flavor of Walmart’s Juneteenth Ice Cream — “swirled red velvet and cheesecake” — was also similar to a variety sold by Creamalicious, a Black-owned ice cream brand available at Target.
In a statement shared with Fox television stations, Walmart suggested that it may be in the process of removing the ice cream from sale.
“Juneteenth holiday marks a celebration of freedom and independence,” the company said. “However, we received feedback that a few items caused concern for some of our customers and we sincerely apologize. We are reviewing our assortment and will remove items as appropriate.”
It’s unclear which other items, specifically, Walmart was reviewing, though users on social media suggested Walmart was selling other Juneteenth-themed merchandise, including T-shirts.
A representative for the company was not available to provide further information.
Juneteenth, which is celebrated on June 19, commemorates the 1865 date that Union soldiers arrived to announce enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation — which was issued more than two years before — and bring freedom to enslaved Black people in Galveston, Texas.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb. 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Vinci Partners Investments Ltd. (NASDAQ: VINP) ("Vinci Partners, the "Company," "we," "us," or "our"), the controlling company of a leading alternative investment platform in Brazil, announced today that its board of directors approved a share buyback plan and a share repurchase plan to buy back up to R$60.0 million of the Company's outstanding Class A common shares across both plans. These plans are approved to replace the share buyback and repurchase plans approved by our board of directors on June 15, 2022 (the "Legacy Plans"), which are set to expire on the date that the R$60.0 million buyback limit set thereunder is reached.
The new buyback and repurchase plans will commence on the expiration date of the Legacy Plans and will not have specified expiration dates (other than when the R$60.0 million buyback limit is reached). Vinci Partners expects to finance the purchases with existing cash balances derived from its Distributable Earnings, which is not expected to have a material impact on capital levels. In making the announcement, Vinci Partners Chief Executive Officer and Director Alessandro Horta stated, "We are committed to delivering shareholder value, and these buyback plan authorizations reflect the board's confidence in our current prospects and long-term growth. We believe these plans represent an opportunity to deploy cash from our results in a way that will benefit our shareholders."
Under the share buyback plan, buybacks may be made from time-to-time in open market and negotiated purchases, once the plan becomes effective, in compliance with SEC Rule 10b-18. The specific prices, numbers of shares and timing of purchase transactions will be determined by the Company from time to time in its sole discretion. Under the share repurchase plan, repurchases will be carried out through a broker acting as an agent of the Company, from time-to-time in open market and negotiated purchases, and in compliance with SEC Rule 10b5-1(c)(1)(i)(B). In either case, buybacks are subject to market conditions, available liquidity, cash flow, applicable legal requirements and other factors. The plans do not obligate the Company or any agent to acquire any particular amount of Class A common shares, and may be suspended or discontinued at any time.
The Company had 40,456,206 Class A common shares issued and outstanding as of February 13, 2023.
About Vinci Partners
Vinci Partners is a leading alternative investment platform in Brazil, established in 2009. Vinci Partners' business segments include private equity, public equities, real estate, credit, infrastructure, hedge funds, investment products and solutions, and retirement services, each managed by dedicated investment teams with an independent investment committee and decision-making process. We also have a financial advisory business, focusing mostly on pre-initial public offering, or pre-IPO, and merger and acquisition, or M&A, advisory services for Brazilian middle-market companies.
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SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) _ Citi Trends Inc. (CTRN) on Wednesday reported a fiscal second-quarter loss of $2.5 million, after reporting a profit in the same period a year earlier.
The Savannah, Georgia-based company said it had a loss of 31 cents per share.
The clothing and accessories company posted revenue of $185 million in the period.
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Provides backpacks for 125 students, $10,000 gift and nutritious protein
SALISBURY, Md., Sept. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As part of a commitment to improve the quality of life in its communities, Perdue Farms delivered a little hope to youth ages 8-18 served at the non-profit SAY Detroit Play Center at Lipke Park, an innovative after-school program in northeast Detroit. The outreach is part of the company's Delivering Hope to Our Neighbors® initiative focused on improving quality of life and building strong communities where our associates live and work, and beyond.
Associates from the company's Alexander & Hornung specialty meats brand operation in nearby St. Clair Shores provided 125 students with backpacks filled with school supplies. Additionally, the Franklin P. and Arthur W. Perdue Foundation, the charitable giving arm of Perdue Farms, provided a $10,000 gift to support the after-school programming as well as the company delivered 4,000 pounds of nutritious chicken for its meal program.
"We know Perdue Farms strives to strengthen communities by focusing efforts on several areas that align with our goals at SAY Play like improving education and fighting hunger and poverty," said Mitch Albom, SAY Detroit founder and best-selling author and journalist. "We're grateful to have such a caring new corporate neighbor extend a helping hand with their wonderful generosity.
"The Perdue grant will help us reach our goals by supporting our efforts to increase the number of low-income students we serve by growing our population; by helping to create new academic, computer and arts programming; and by helping us to provide real-world skills and job training initiatives to the community."
Gary Malenke, senior vice president of the Perdue Premium Meats Company pork operations, praised the work of SAY Detroit.
"After-school programming can be a real game changer for our youth," Malenke said. "We learned of SAY Detroit's wonderful track record of impacting young lives and are honored to provide funds and resources to support their Play Center at Lipke Park so they can continue to deliver the kinds of programs for our youth that really make a difference."
As SAY Detroit Executive Director Richard Kelley, explains, "Compared to other communities, our students face obstacles that are mountains to climb. Their childhood experiences include poverty and food insecurity, exposure to violence, high levels of parental stress, and socioeconomic adversity. SAY Detroit Play Center's supportive programming seeks to help members become active, productive citizens for the betterment of themselves, their families, and their community. We're proud to have Perdue as a partner in that journey."
SAY Detroit was founded in 2006 by best-selling author and journalist Mitch Albom to improve the lives of Detroit's neediest residents through shelter, food, medical care, volunteer efforts and education. It serves as the umbrella organization for major projects, such as SAY Play, Working Homes/Working Families, Better Together, and the SAY Detroit Family Health Clinic, serving a population from infants to senior citizens and veterans. To learn more, visit saydetroit.org
The Franklin P. and Arthur W. Perdue Foundation, the charitable giving arm of Perdue Farms, was established in 1957 by company founder Arthur W. Perdue and is funded through the estates of Arthur W. Perdue and Frank Perdue. As part of our belief in supporting the communities where and with whom we do business, the Foundation provides grants on behalf of Perdue Farms in communities where large numbers of our associates live and work. At Perdue Farms, we believe in responsible food and agriculture®.
About Perdue Farms We're a fourth-generation, family-owned, U.S. food and agriculture company. Through our belief in responsible food and agriculture, we are empowering consumers, customers, and farmers through trusted choices in products and services.
The premium protein portfolio within our Perdue Foods business, including our flagship PERDUE® brand, Niman Ranch®, Panorama Organic Grass-Fed Meats®, Coleman Natural®, and Yummy®, as well as our pet brands, Spot Farms® and Full Moon®, is available through various channels including retail, foodservice, club stores and our direct-to-consumer website, PerdueFarms.com.
Perdue AgriBusiness is an international agricultural products and services company.
Now in our company's second century, our path forward is about getting better, not just bigger. We never use drugs for growth promotion in raising poultry and livestock, and we are actively advancing our animal welfare programs. Our brands are leaders in no-antibiotics-ever chicken, turkey, pork, beef, and lamb, and in USDA-certified organic chicken and beef. Learn more at Corporate.PerdueFarms.com.
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New joint venture seeks to bring the American dream of homeownership to more individuals and families across the country
FOOTHILL RANCH, Calif., Nov. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- loanDepot, one of the nation's largest non-bank retail mortgage lenders, today announced the formation of NHC Mortgage, a new joint venture with National HomeCorp, a Georgia-based homebuilder specializing in affordable single-family homes co-founded by industry veteran Wade Jurney. NHC Mortgage is the latest in a series of joint ventures for loanDepot that expand the company's reach in the important purchase mortgage market.
Beginning today, NHC Mortgage will offer full-service, residential mortgage solutions and personalized service in Florida, Iowa and North Carolina, with plans to add Kentucky, Arizona, Virginia, Texas, Alabama, Missouri, Georgia, Tennessee and South Carolina in 2023.
"Affordability is one of the key housing issues of our time and loanDepot's strategic focus on increasing and sustaining homeownership in underserved communities is a natural complement to National HomeCorp's commitment to affordable housing," said Dan Peña, loanDepot executive vice president of national joint ventures. "This new joint venture enables us to bring the American dream of homeownership to even more individuals and families across the country while providing National HomeCorp's customers with the best-in-class customer service loanDepot is known for every step of the way."
With decades of experience, National HomeCorp's team of industry-leading professionals has a shared drive for building affordable homes throughout the nation. The company aims to change the narrative of the housing market to focus on affordable and dependable housing for everyone with a streamlined buying process that takes the stress of home buying out of the equation.
"National HomeCorp is committed to building affordable and dependable homes in incredible communities across the United States, while providing our customers with an exceptional, full-service homebuying experience," said Wade Jurney, CEO and co-founder of National HomeCorp. "loanDepot's industry-leading expertise, technology and infrastructure will allow us to quickly scale and streamline the homebuying process to ensure a terrific experience as our customers embark on their homebuying and building journey."
loanDepot (NYSE: LDI) is a digital commerce company committed to serving its customers throughout the home ownership journey. Since its launch in 2010, loanDepot has revolutionized the mortgage industry with a digital-first approach that makes it easier, faster and less stressful to purchase or refinance a home. Today, as one of the nation's largest non-bank retail mortgage lenders, loanDepot enables customers to achieve the American dream of homeownership through a broad suite of lending and real estate services that simplify one of life's most complex transactions. With headquarters in Southern California and offices nationwide, loanDepot is committed to serving the communities in which its team lives and works through a variety of local, regional and national philanthropic efforts.
This press release may contain "forward-looking statements," which reflect loanDepot's current views with respect to, among other things, its operations and NHC Mortgage. You can identify these statements by the use of words such as "may," "seek," "believe," "expect," "plan," "intend," or "anticipate" and similar expressions or the negative versions of these words or comparable words, as well as future or conditional verbs such as "will," "should," "would" and "could." These forward-looking statements are based on current available operating, financial, economic and other information, and are not guarantees of future performance and are subject to risks, uncertainties and assumptions, including the risks in the "Risk Factors" section of loanDepot, Inc.'s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021 and its subsequent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which are difficult to predict. Therefore, current plans, anticipated actions, financial results, as well as the anticipated development of the industry, may differ materially from what is expressed or forecasted in any forward-looking statement. loanDepot does not undertake any obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statement to reflect future events or circumstances, except as required by applicable law.
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Leading Authentic Heavy Bag Boxing Fitness Brand Comes Together to Celebrate Brand Success,
Dozens of Franchise Partners Awarded
SANTA MONICA, Calif., Oct. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- TITLE Boxing Club, the world's leading boxing fitness brand that offers a full-body, authentic heavy bag workout, recently held its annual convention with a theme of "Eye on the Prize." As the first time the system has gathered since pre-COVID and pre-acquisition, this year's convention was filled with camaraderie, networking, brand announcements and dozens of franchise partner awards.
The three-day conference was packed with exciting presentations, workshops, and roundtable discussions aimed at sharing best practices for franchise partners to leverage assets and resources, build an impactful team and have long-term success. TITLE Boxing Club is gloving up for aggressive growth after months of strategic planning, innovations and appointing key roles to the senior leadership team to further support its franchise network.
"The energy and excitement we felt from our franchise partners at the convention was unmatched," said Todd Wadler, CEO of TITLE Boxing Club and Co-Founder of BoxUnion. "Our entire system has our eye on the prize – and that prize is providing people with boxing for their mental and physical fitness. We've been working hard to train for the fight, and I'm confident that 2023 will be a year of great success for the TITLE brand."
Additionally, a number of franchise partners were awarded with a variety of recognitions from member growth to community engagement and more by the senior leadership team. The highly anticipated "Franchise Partner of the Year" was awarded to Lauren and Billy Macaulay who own four clubs on the east coast: Burlington, MA, Nashua, NH; North Andover, MA; and Woburn, MA. The "Rookie of the Year" award was given to Brent Smith who opened his club in Shreveport, LA in May 2022, and was the first franchise partner to open post-COVID. An equally valuable award, "Grand Opening Bell" was presented to Jeannie Nadolski of Nolensville, TN who also opened in May 2022, and had the highest founding member count since before the pandemic.
"The past two years have caused immense stress and struggle for my clubs – requiring unwavering tenacity to power through," said Lauren Macaulay. "But we kept our members in mind every day through each challenge we faced, and the ability to make a positive impact on so many lives is what kept us going. My husband, team and I are proud and humbled to have been recognized as Franchise Partner of the Year for a second time."
As a purpose-driven brand, TITLE Boxing Club sees itself as a true community partner on a national and local scale. Earlier this year, TITLE held its annual Knockout Stigma Campaign to fight mental health stigmas. Sue Fowler and Cordula Rafalko from Saugus, MA were given the "Mental Health Warrior Award" as the club that raised the most money during the campaign. One of the most coveted awards, the "Spirit Award," was given to Keith and Molly Noel in Cincinnati, OH for their efforts in building and exemplifying the TITLE Boxing Club culture, values, spirit and beliefs. This award also recognized the Noel's work in engaging with their community, and providing inspiration to their members and employees.
This year's conference was supported by a number of vendor partners, including ClubReady, Classpass, Cybermark, Gympass, and Hyperice. Each company was able to network with the franchise partners throughout the convention to share how their services can provide additional support for local clubs.
"It was an honor to join TITLE Boxing Club at their 'Eyes on the Prize' Convention," shared Darol Lain, President of ClubReady. "I came away from it with full belief that Todd and CRO Felicia Alexander are building an incredible boutique fitness brand that will change the lives of so many."
As the leading authentic heavy bag boxing club, TITLE Boxing Club offers a workout designed to build your fitness, control your breathing, and clear your mind. With more than 130 clubs nationwide and a well-regarded digital subscription service, TITLE Boxing Club On Demand, members can work out anytime, anywhere.
For more information on TITLE Boxing Club and its franchise opportunities, please visit https://franchise.titleboxingclub.com/.
About TITLE Boxing Club
TITLE Boxing Club is the world's leading boxing fitness brand that offers a full-body, authentic heavy bag workout designed to build your fitness, control your breathing, and clear your mind. The boutique fitness franchise specializes in boxing and kickboxing classes with more than 130 locations and 40,000+ members. TITLE Boxing Club also allows consumers to workout anytime, anywhere through their digital subscription service, TITLE Boxing Club On Demand.
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Entry into Federal Market Marks Significant Milestone in the Company's Growth Opportunity
PLEASANTON, Calif., July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Workday (NASDAQ: WDAY), a leader in enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources, today announced it has achieved FedRAMP Authorized status at the Moderate security impact level from the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) for Workday Government Cloud, marking the company's official entry into the U.S. federal government market. With FedRAMP authorization status, which is required of cloud technology vendors in the federal sector, Workday is now certified by the federal government in meeting the cloud security requirements and can help federal agencies as they look to accelerate their digital transformations.
With Workday Government Cloud, delivered via Amazon Web Services (AWS), federal agencies will be able to:
- Address Critical Workforce Needs. With Workday Government Cloud, federal agencies will gain the real-time workforce insights needed to help effectively support evolving workforce dynamics, such as attracting and retaining diverse talent.
- Better Manage Finances. Amid rapid change, Workday Government Cloud can help agencies make informed budgetary decisions and better manage resources by tracking key financial performance indicators.
- Keep Pace with Regulation. Workday Government Cloud provides federal agencies with tools they need to help make quick, mission-critical decisions and navigate a rapidly changing regulatory environment.
The U.S. federal market is one of the largest and most complex sectors in the world. Workday, together with its partners, has established experience across multiple industries, including state and local government, healthcare, financial services, education, hospitality, and retail. With this industry-leading experience, Workday can help federal agencies remain agile and adaptable, and navigate the fast-changing world.
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"Our official entry into the federal market is a significant moment in Workday's growth story," said Wayne Bobby, vice president, U.S. Federal Government, Workday. "The sector is facing increased complexity and rapid change and agency leaders want to empower their people to be agile and feel supported in the midst of an evolving environment. We remain committed to bringing federal agencies the finance and HR insights needed to accelerate transformation, streamline work processes, and keep pace in a changing world."
About Workday
Workday is a leading provider of enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources, helping customers adapt and thrive in a changing world. Workday applications for financial management, human resources, planning, spend management, and analytics have been adopted by thousands of organizations around the world and across industries — from medium-sized businesses to more than 50% of the Fortune 500. For more information about Workday, visit workday.com.
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Any unreleased services, features, or functions referenced in this document, our website, or other press releases or public statements that are not currently available are subject to change at Workday's discretion and may not be delivered as planned or at all. Customers who purchase Workday services should make their purchase decisions based upon services, features, and functions that are currently available.
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On the day his investiture welcomed Hubert Benitez as the 12th president in the history of American International College, the guest of honor spoke humbly and let others sing his praises in glowing terms.
And they all did.
“I’m truly humbled to standing here. Thank you for your trust in me,” said Benitez, who assumed the presidency on April 11 and has had a whirlwind first six months.
“I promise only hard work and passion. I think passion is important, for it’s passion that makes things possible.”
The ceremony took place at the Esther B. Griswold Theater on the AIC campus. The college Board of Trustees unanimously chose Benitez to replace Vincent Maniaci, who announced in May 2021 that he would retire as president.
A native of Colombia who came to the United States in 1999, Benitez has a unique background. His early professional years were as a dentist, which Springfield Mayor Domenic J. Sarno noted while declaring Thursday “Hubert Benitez Day” in the city.
“There is an analogy with dentistry. The mouth feeds the heart, soul and mind, and that is what you will be doing here at AIC,” Sarno said.
Benitez delivered key parts of his acceptance address in both English and Spanish. His selection has been seen as the college’s statement to inclusion and diversity, which he has championed at past assignments.
Benitez said his mission would be to increase access to education, expand workforce opportunities, bridge gaps that create disparities, and have AIC provide the tools for students and families to succeed.
“At AIC, 35% of students are first-generation college students, and 55 to 60% display exceptional financial need. We serve those that higher education institutions aspire to serve,” he said.
“We have challenges, but we will confront those challenges and turn them into opportunities. We are revitalizing what needs to be revitalized.
“Today is not about change, but about reimagining. We are dreaming big dreams with goals in mind,” Benitez said.
Those who came to salute the new president were drawn from faculty, administration, the student body, the community and politics. U.S. Rep. Richard E. Neal spoke of the legacy of a college founded in 1885 to give French-Canadian immigrants a better life, and from which he graduated in 1972.
“I was able to ride the crest of what I learned here around the world. I am able to debate Presidents, members of Congress, ambassadors, despots and dictators from around the world because of the confidence I gained at AIC,” said Neal, a Springfield Democrat and chair of the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee.
Among AIC’s attributes are its place as a pioneer of coeducation. In 1982, the college began accepting women at a time that was far from the norm.
College and university presidents in attendance Thursday were John B. Cook of Springfield Technical Community College, Mary-Beth A. Cooper of Springfield College, Sandra J. Doran of Bay Path University, Linda Thompson of Westfield State University and Harry E. Dumay of Elms College.
A moving testimonial was given by Charles Callahan IV, the provost of Plaza College in Queens, N.Y., and a lifelong friend of the AIC president.
“Dr. B, as I call him, started out as a dentist and gradually reinvented himself. He watched my career evolve, and I watched his,” Callahan said.
“At his core, he is an educator. He believes in this college and in all of you,” Callahan told the assembled gathering, after frequently praising Benitez’ mentorship for the impact it made on his own life.
Benitez said that in his first six months, he’s been moved by the loyalty of those associated with the college.
“I’ve been asked, multiple times, what surprised me most about AIC. I always say I’ve found that not only are people grateful to be here, but they love the place,” he said.
A man of deep religious faith, and one who has served at two Jesuit institutions, Benitez said his arrival at AIC was a call to service. He called Thomas Curran, who did the investiture benediction, “my guy, and my guide.”
The president also thanked his wife, Sandra Lozada, and children, Daniel and Ana Ximena, for their decades of support on a journey that required many stops. Daniel Benitez delivered an emotional tribute to his father and said the family was grateful for what has happened since they came to the United States 23 years ago.
“It’s been rigorous and tiresome, but worth every moment. When we would pack, it was always for a higher calling,” the son of the president said.
“We knew one day, he would be seated right here, and (his family) would be standing right here. Trust him, love him, cherish him, because he will do the same for all of you.”
Among his duties, Benitez served as vice president for Strategic Initiatives and Academic Innovation, and as acting chief inclusion officer at Rockhurst University and as president and CEO for Saint Luke’s College of Health Sciences, both in Kansas City, Mo. He has served in other executive leadership roles, including provost and chief academic officer, dean of Health Sciences, department chair and assistant dean, and has held academic rank at the associate professor level.
Others who spoke at the investiture were Nicolle Cestero, representing the administration and staff as chief operating officer and executive vice-president, Traci Talbert of the African-American Female Professors Awards Association, and Michael Dodge, the interim executive vice-president for academic affairs.
Sha’Don Taylor spoke as president of the Student Government Association. Board of Trustees chair Frank Colaccino presented the new president with the ceremonial Presidential Medallion to be worn at special events.
Talbert said she was so interested in communicating with Benitez that she called twice and emailed twice, before tracking him down while he was in Nevada.
“I was thrilled that he called me back, and we spoke for about 15 minutes. I immediately felt his genuine nature,” Talbert said. | 2022-10-20T22:39:20+00:00 | masslive.com | https://www.masslive.com/news/2022/10/hubert-benitez-investiture-ushers-in-new-era-at-american-international-college.html |
WFO LUBBOCK Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, April 25, 2023
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Lubbock TX
748 PM CDT Tue Apr 25 2023
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 830 PM CDT
FOR NORTHWESTERN FLOYD...NORTHEASTERN HALE...SOUTHEASTERN SWISHER AND
SOUTHWESTERN BRISCOE COUNTIES...
At 746 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Claytonville,
or 13 miles northeast of Plainview, moving southeast at 20 mph. This
storm has a history of producing very large hail up to baseball size!
THIS IS A DESTRUCTIVE STORM FOR KRESS...CLAYTONVILLE...LOCKNEY...AND
SOUTH PLAINS.
HAZARD...Baseball size hail and 60 mph wind gusts.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...People and animals outdoors will be severely injured.
Expect shattered windows, extensive damage to roofs,
siding, and vehicles.
Locations impacted include...
Lockney, Kress, Aiken, South Plains and Claytonville.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
This is a dangerous storm! Prepare immediately for large destructive
hail capable of producing significant damage. People outside should
move to a shelter, inside a strong building and away from windows.
Low-level rotation is increasing with this thunderstorm. Severe
thunderstorms can produce tornadoes with little advance notice. Be
prepared to move quickly to a safe shelter, such as an interior
room, a bathroom or closet or basement.
...FLOOD ADVISORY IS CANCELLED...
The Flood Advisory is cancelled for a portion of the Panhandle of
Texas, including the following area, Castro.
Flooding is no longer expected to pose a threat. Residual runoff may
continue to flow across rural roadways. Please continue to heed
remaining road closures.
...FLOOD ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall continues.
* WHERE...A portion of the Panhandle of Texas, including the
following county, Swisher.
* WHEN...Until 900 PM CDT.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
Some low-water crossings may become impassable.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 750 PM CDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to
thunderstorms. Minor flooding is ongoing or expected to begin
shortly in the advisory area. Between 1 and 2 inches of rain
have fallen.
- Additional rainfall amounts of 0.5 to 1 inch are expected
over the area. This additional rain will result in minor
flooding.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Tulia and Happy.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
Be aware of your surroundings and do not drive on flooded roads.
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Shelby County family on the mend after dealing with flu and RSV
SHELBY COUNTY, Ala. (WBRC) -With flu and RSV cases on the rise, a family in Shelby County is dealing with both viruses at the same time
For the past few weeks, the Bell family has been in and out of the doctor’s office dealing with flu and RSV which are running rampant right now in Alabama.
“I remember taking my son back to the doctor’s office a couple of times and it was standing room only,” Ashley Bell said.
It started with Bell’s husband getting the flu. Then her 7-year-old got RSV with all these symptoms.
“The headaches were nonstop,” Bell said. “I think we had a fever later on in the process but of course you had your runny nose, sore throat, coughing, congestion, and originally we treated it as a common cold.”
Her son also had to deal with a sinus infection.
Thankfully, Bell’s loved ones are now on the mend.
As we head more into fall and winter months, health experts say the flu, RSV and Covid-19 could create a “tripledemic” of respiratory diseases. Some doctors believe the viruses may be spreading earlier than usual right now due to a lot of people not being exposed to them over the past two years due to Covid restrictions in place.
“I think if you really want to tee up to be as protected as you can for this season—getting that covid booster as well as an influenza vaccine are probably your best bet,” Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo Director of UAB’s Infectious Diseases Division said.
If you feel like you’ve caught something, go ahead and get it checked. Good hand hygiene is also key as well as staying home from work or school if you are sick.
Bell tells us the past few weeks have been trying for her family. That’s why she’s encouraging everyone to do their part to try and slow down and stop the spread of these viruses.
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The oath of a trapper is lengthy, but here it is in a nutshell. One: Don’t be a bully. Two: Leave trash drops to the artist—and don’t pick up anything you don’t intend to keep. Three: Share the wealth; claim only one piece of trash per day to help your fellow trappers in their hunt. Four: Never stalk the artist, for this is a heat-up. And five: Respect the mission. Should you agree to these terms, you must swear your oath with a digital drop of blood. Welcome to Biscayne World.
This isn’t some apocalyptic commune or survivalist cult. It’s an underground community of art collectors, crypto enthusiasts and 305 ride-or-dies who live by the thrill of keeping Miami’s streets clean. Today, the community is over 2,000 deep on the social chat platform Discord, and they answer to one leader: graffiti artist David Anasagasti, better known as Ahol Sniffs Glue. If you haven’t heard of him, you definitely know his tag: an unfazed, half-opened, striped eye that looks right past you, no matter where you’re standing in Miami.
“Geographies of Trash'' is the name of his ongoing, two-year-old project. Every day, Ahol mounts his bike and hits the road, tagging unsuspecting litter along the way: tires, baby scooters, Starbucks cups, toilet scrubbers—even big household items like toilets and washing machines aren’t spared. Finished pieces are then uploaded to Biscayne World’s “landfill gallery,” as well as Ahol’s personal Instagram, followed by more than 42,000 fans. He’s probably already posted something today.
Ahol never reveals the location, instead showing just enough background to clue in and bait the trappers. Then, the frenzy. Fans throw around guesses as to where the pieces might be, grab their cars or bikes and begin their IRL hunt. Once the item has been found, one lucky trapper has the privilege of not only taking home the unique piece but also collecting a one-of-a-kind NFT.
I feel like we’re treading new grounds.
“It’s about the democratization of art, giving people the opportunities to collect,” Ahol says of the project. “And they’re doing it via trash.”
Over the past two years, Ahol has transformed around 2,000 pieces of detritus into collectible art, minted 839 corresponding NFTs and distributed those among 374 unique wallets. This is a man whose commercial works sell for upwards of $4,000 at art galleries, whose iconography is as Miami as Miami itself. And yet, “Geographies” has become his daily mission, with a net gain of leaving Miami fairer—and cleaner—than it was before.
“[This project] brings up the question: Is it watering down the art?” says Ahol. “The galleries that sell my work see that it could be competition but, in a way, I feel like we’re treading new grounds. Getting on a bike is priceless to me; getting trash off my own city’s streets is priceless to me; engaging with the fanbase is priceless.”
Ahol keeps the community hyped by gamifying the experience, whether it’s handing out “Super Spreader” badges to trappers who donate trash from their collection or posting drawing challenges to win limited edition NFTs. The Biscayne World Discord is always going off with comments, conversations, emoji reactions and memes.
Collectors even have the chance to display their finds at recognized institutions. Last May, it was at The Wolfsonian–FIU. This month, it’s at the Museum of Graffiti as part of their latest exhibit, “Reduce, Reuse, Remix: Graffiti Art for a Better Earth,” open through May 28.
Fifteen local artists were tasked with creating works out of found objects and ink made from air pollution. Geographies of Trash collectors submitted a number of pieces, and a few lucky ones have been selected for display. They include a suitcase, a propane tank, an Andiamo pizza box, a lone Patrón bottle and a whole shrine to Miami’s favorite form of footwear, the chancleta.
“I find it really warms the hearts of the collectors, of the people who have found this stuff and get this acknowledgment,” says Alan Ket, co-founder and curator of the Museum of Graffiti. “Whatever treasure they’ve found has this recognition beyond their home and the community. They’re people from all walks of life.”
Though the environmental element is crucial, to boil Geographies of Trash down to merely clearing the streets of rubbish would be to miss a major point. It’s about entry points and connections: an invitation to explore paths in Miami you might otherwise overlook and gain access to the elusive worlds of art collecting and NFTs. It’s also a gateway to activism—if one artist with a bike and a few cans of spray paint can will thousands of pieces of trash off the streets, imagine what other kinds of transformations can be achieved on a collective scale.
“Reduce, Reuse, Remix: Graffiti Art for a Better Earth” takes place at The Museum of Graffiti in Wynwood through May 28. Geographies of Trash, however, is an ongoing project, and you can join the Biscayne World community—and start collecting your pieces—here. | 2023-05-05T13:45:20+00:00 | timeout.com | https://www.timeout.com/miami/art/i-went-on-an-art-scavenger-hunt-with-this-miami-graffiti-legend |
The NFL combine is winding down and it’s clear the annual scouting event that’s evolved into a made-for-TV spectacle continues to be a required stop on the road to a pro football career amid concerns it can be a demeaning process with diminishing value.
The combine, which launched in 1982 mainly to bring prospects to one location so teams could gather medical information, now unofficially kicks off the upcoming NFL season and puts football back on center stage just weeks after the Super Bowl.
The event is a moneymaking machine for the league, another interview/audition for players and a job fair for unemployed coaches. But opinions vary on how necessary it is today.
NFL Players’ Association executive director DeMaurice Smith strongly opposes the combine because he views it as intrusive and says it’s intended to point out negatives about prospects.
“As soon as you show up, you have to waive all of your medical rights and you not only have to sit there and endure embarrassing questions, and I think that’s horrible,” Smith said last month. “I don’t wanna pooh pooh any of that, but would you want your son to spend hours inside of an MRI (machine) and then be evaluated by 32 separate team doctors who are, by the way, are only doing it for one reason? What’s the reason? To decrease your draft value.”
During interviews at the combine, players have been asked to play putt-putt golf, darts or rock-paper-scissors to measure their competitiveness. Over the years, there have been instances where players were questioned about their sexual preference or whether their mother worked as a prostitute.
NFL executive Troy Vincent has sharply criticized the process and was instrumental in implementing rules to enhance the experience for players and ensure prospects are treated with “dignity, respect and professionalism.”
“Sometimes they share things with you and you scratch your head,” Vincent said about conversations with prospects. “Other times, you’re embarrassed. These are things we can fix.”
Now, teams would forfeit a draft pick between the first and fourth round and be fined a minimum of $150,000 for “disrespectful, inappropriate, or unprofessional” conduct during an interview.
A few coaches and general managers skipped the combine this year — including Les Snead and Sean McVay from the Los Angeles Rams — and are relying on reports from their scouts and assistants.
But most of their counterparts were in Indianapolis along with a record 1,625 media members accredited by the NFL to cover the weeklong activities. The number of credentialed media is up from 628 in 2010. NFL Network carried six days of live coverage highlighted by the individual on-field drills.
The attention the combine received just two weeks after the Kansas City Chiefs defeated the Philadelphia Eagles in a thrilling Super Bowl is a reflection of the NFL’s popularity.
But while fans enjoy watching the sprints and weightlifting, Detroit Lions coach Dan Campbell doesn’t care much about the 40-yard dash times, bench press numbers or any of the other drills. He’s there for what the masses can’t see: the interviews.
“You grade them off the tape. You don’t grade off somebody out here in pajamas running around a 40 with no defender around,” Campbell said of players. “But the meetings are great. The meetings are really pivotal. All the other stuff, whatever.”
Even Campbell’s sound logic comes into question with teams having plenty of access to players at pro days and top-30 visits, their medical history readily available and an abundance of film to properly evaluate prospects.
Still, proponents say the combine is a crucial part of the draft process.
“One hundred percent necessary in my opinion,” Cincinnati Bengals general manager Duke Tobin said. “You want the right fits for your football team and the players want the team that drafts them to be the right fit for them because they’re dependent on finding a good fit early in their career. And this is a chance for all 32 teams to come together and start to really get to know these guys.
“If we start drafting without thorough knowledge of these guys, you’re gonna find that it hurts the players as much as it does the team. And this is a vital part of what we do in the offseason. And again, it’s something that we all look forward to.”
It’s almost become tradition vs. innovation.
While technological advances make information-gathering and communication easier, traditionalists aren’t going to want to mess with what’s been successful.
“It’s got to start with players and their agents understanding that the combine today has nothing to do with how fast you run, how high you jump, and how much you can lift,” Smith said. “We’re now in an era where we know exactly how fast these guys can run, how much they can lift, how far they can jump, do all of those things.
“Why do we insist on them showing up in Indianapolis?” the NFLPA executive director continued. “It’s not for anything physical, right? It’s for the teams to be able to engage in intrusive employment actions that don’t exist anywhere else.”
Leigh Steinberg, one of the original super agents who has represented the No. 1 overall pick a record eight times, considers the combine the “Super Bowl of scouting events.”
“There are certain dehumanizing aspects of the NFL combine evaluative process that need changing and everything that is tested at the combine can be replicated at pro scouting day on every college campus later in March,” Steinberg told The Associated Press. “There is also a need for injury protection insurance covering the event. Having said that, a potential draftee who is invited would be well advised to continue attending the combine unless there is some collective action to modify it’s format.”
The format of the combine may change and the ongoing scrutiny of the process will likely continue, but the combine doesn’t seem to be going away anytime soon.
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Few men in power have delved deeply into gender equality on the main stage of the United Nations this month, but the ones who did went there boldly: claiming feminist credibility, selling “positive masculinity” and resolutely demanding an end to The Patriarchy.
On the first day of the General Assembly gathering of world leaders, Bolivian President Luis Arce touted 2022 as “The Year of the Cultural Revolution for Depatriarchalization” for his country, and urged the United Nations to adopt a decade-long effort to do the same.
Arce said his country wanted to promote policies to “transform this regrettable reality that is caused by patriarchy as the most ancient system of oppression, and that is also linked to colonialism and capitalism.”
Gender equality, as one of the United Nations’ primary goals, has long been a safe talking point for world leaders, and there were many brief and polite mentions of progress made toward female empowerment, including promoting women into prominent roles, ensuring equal educational opportunities for girls, and supporting women’s autonomy over their own bodies.
There were also some leaders who did not say the words “women” or “girls” at all during their time on stage — the king of Jordan, the president of Cyprus, the prime minister of Japan.
At other times, “feminism” — considered an f-word by many for generations — was used proudly.
Liberian President George Weah declared himself “feminist-in-chief.” Andorran Prime Minister Xavier Espot Zamora acknowledged that “feminism is one of the great challenges of the present moment.” Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez trumpeted “the feminist agenda and the struggle for gender equality.”
“We are living in times in which demanding basic rights is still a revolutionary act,” Sánchez said in his U.N. address. “The global threats to women’s sexual and reproductive freedom are yet another example of how painfully slowly the world is moving towards guaranteeing full equality. Worse still, is the fragility of our past social gains, which have fallen victim to backsliding in certain advanced democracies — something quite inexplicable at this stage of the 21st century.”
It was an impassioned jab, apparently directed at the event’s host country, where a recent Supreme Court ruling ended the constitutional right to abortion. In contrast, U.S. President Joe Biden offered only a passing mention of abortion rights — even as the court decision continues to ripple across the nation.
“The future will be won by those countries that unleash the full potential of their populations, where women and girls can exercise equal rights, including basic reproductive rights,” Biden said in his speech.
The contrast was a stark reminder that words matter, said Sylvia Maier, a global gender studies professor at New York University, who said the unabashed use of progressive language by some world leaders on this prominent stage was new, unusual and surprising. The largest gathering of world leaders remains a forum that is dominated by men.
“It’s about time we stop using euphemisms and beating around the bush,” Maier said. “It’s about time that we start talking about what we’re facing in no uncertain terms. … We cannot resolve these issues — which are all interlinked — without really calling it what it is.”
Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi said in his speech that he was a “champion for positive masculinity,” claiming a need for “radical change” while highlighting an African Union men’s conference to tackle a surge in violence against women. “Because equality is not a gift given to women,” Tshisekedi said.
The United Nations has defined positive masculinity as “an innovative approach to engaging and involving men, and making them allies in gender equality and peacebuilding efforts in conflict and post-conflict settings.”
Maier said it’s important to model the so-called idea of “what a good and honorable man should do” — from resisting violence and speaking up as a bystander, to understanding consent, believing survivors of gender violence and creating services to help those in crisis.
“It’s hard work changing social norms, which are really gender stereotypes,” Maier said. “Positive masculinity really means a reinforcement of positive character traits but all of these character traits, they shouldn’t even have a gender.”
The issue is especially acute for Congo. One of the poorest and least developed nations in the world, the country has long struggled with high rates of sexual violence, domestic abuse and child marriage.
“The problem is not masculinity,” said Ousseina Alidou, a professor who leads the Center for Women’s Global Leadership at Rutgers University and serves as president of the African Studies Association. “Who we are is not the problem, but what we embrace as an ideology.”
Alidou said it is commendable that Africa is taking the issue seriously as part of the continent’s healing from its painful history of colonization.
“Patriarchy has been the framework for which colonialism has manifested itself, in the most inhumane way on the African continent,” Alidou said. “Patriarchy is not a monopoly of only one region of the world. It is a world phenomenon.”
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Dynacare, a leading Canadian health and wellness solutions leader, puts consumers in the driver's seat with access to leading, science-backed human optimization system, InsideTracker.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InsideTracker, the leading, truly personalized performance and nutrition system, today entered into an agreement with Dynacare, Canada's most established health solutions company. InsideTracker will provide patient-directed blood testing, expert analysis and science-backed, actionable insights to Canadian consumers through the Dynacare Plus App.
Starting today, individuals can access InsideTracker through a link inside the Dynacare Plus App to select the right plan for them at an exclusive discount. Dynacare patients will also receive education about InsideTracker's industry-leading personalized nutrition and lifestyle platform through video content and physical brochures in Dynacare patient service centers and through Dynacare email and social media channels.
"Dynacare is on a mission to put patients in the driver's seat of their health and wellness, but the missing link for patient-directed testing has always been expert analysis and science-backed, actionable insights," said Vito Ciciretto, CEO of Dynacare. "By collaborating with InsideTracker, we're adding that missing link and helping to provide people with the information they need to move closer to their health and wellness goals."
InsideTracker analyzes the body's data from blood and fitness trackers, as well as an individual's lifestyle, to give a clearer, more holistic picture of what's going on inside the body than ever before. Its carefully curated plans are based on well-researched blood biomarkers that align to goals such as athletic performance, longevity or general health and wellness. The user can conveniently order a Dynacare mobile blood collection from their home or office.
Test results are analyzed along with information about lifestyle, goals and food preferences using a proprietary algorithm fed by decades of peer-reviewed research to determine whether markers are optimized for the individual and their goals. A science-backed, personalized Action Plan is then delivered via a mobile app that syncs with popular fitness trackers to deliver more precise and personalized insights and real-time ProTips that, when combined with regular retesting, allows for continual recalibration to optimize the metrics that matter the most.
"As more Canadians seek out self-directed wellness options, InsideTracker has seen sales in Canada grow an astounding 426 percent in 2022 over the same period in 2021," said Rony Sellam, CEO of InsideTracker. "Through our agreement with Dynacare, we can empower even more Canadians to take control of their health, wellness and performance with the science-backed insights and recommendations that make InsideTracker a leader in precision wellness."
Today's launch of InsideTracker services within the Dynacare Plus App is the first step of a greater integration between InsideTracker plans and the Dynacare patient portal.
Founded in 2009 by top scientists from acclaimed universities in the fields of aging, genetics and biology, InsideTracker is a truly personalized nutrition and performance system. InsideTracker's mission is to help people add years to their lives and life to their years by optimizing their bodies from the inside out. By analyzing the body's data from blood, DNA and fitness trackers, InsideTracker gives a crystal clear picture of what's going on inside, along with a science-backed action plan for improving your health and becoming your best self. Read our peer-reviewed papers in Scientific Reports and Current Developments in Nutrition.
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HOUSTON (KIAH) — A man is accused of kidnapping and assaulting a woman he met online in north Harris County is out on bond.
The date turned as a nightmare starting in Christmas Eve when Zachary Mills, 21, and the victim agreed to meet through the dating app Bumble.
The Harris County Precinct 4 Constable’s Office said they responded to an apartment complex on 24200 Kuykendahl Road in north Houston where Mills was allegedly holding, assaulting and depriving the victim of food for five days until she managed to escape on Dec. 29.
The victim was transported to a nearby hospital.
Mills is out on a $50,000 bond and is facing aggravated kidnapping charges and might face additional charges, Constable Mark Herman said. | 2023-01-09T20:15:25+00:00 | cbs42.com | https://www.cbs42.com/news/crime/man-arrested-after-allegedly-kidnapping-woman-he-met-on-dating-app/ |
WICHITA FALLS (KFDX/KJTL) — Wichita Falls gained a new business downtown while the iconic Big Blue added another tenant on Thursday, September 29, 2022.
That’s when Chelsea Hadden officially cut the ribbon and opened her office for Tip Top Travel Services.
In the days of websites and apps like Expedia, Trivago, and AirBNB, booking a trip by yourself has never been easier, and the age of travel agents seemed all but a memory.
Not according to Hadden, however. She said now, travel agents are needed more than they’ve ever been before.
“You’re seeing it constantly now,” Hadden said. “People are getting stuck in the airports, People are having everything fall through. and, you do it on Expedia, you’re on your own, Expedia’s going to tell you, ‘Sorry.’ Whereas I’m going to tell you, ‘I’m on it’. And I’m going to get it fixed and taken care of.”
It was her experience working on a cruise ship that led Hadden to want to become a travel agent. And she said she couldn’t be happier to be opening her new office inside Big Blue, a staple of her hometown’s downtown skyline.
Hadden grew up in Wichita Falls, moved to Corpus Christi to pursue a degree in theater arts, but eventually, after having her son, moved back to start Tip Top Travel Services.
“I have always loved downtown Wichita Falls,” Hadden said. “I grew up in Wichita Falls. I did shows at the Backdoor Theater and at the Wichita Theater. And, it has grown tremendously since I left and came back.”
Tip Top offers top-to-bottom vacation planning, including hotel booking, flight, and car rental, and even excursions, all across the world.
“I do everything for you. So pretty much, you pack, and I plan,” Hadden said. “I will make it personalized, to you and to your family, and to what you need, and you don’t have to do any of the work, because I do it all for you.”
Hadden said she goes above and beyond for her clients, and not just during regular business hours.
“I’m on call 24/7,” Hadden said. “I don’t care if it’s 1 a.m. if something goes wrong, and there’s water gushing into your hotel room, call me and I will fix it, you don’t have to do that.”
And it’s less expensive than you might think. Hadden said she gets paid by the companies she books with on commission. That means, she’s being paid by the resorts, the airlines, the hotels, and the excursions she books with, not her clients.
“It doesn’t cost you anything extra to book with a travel agent,” Hadden said.
No worries, no extra work. Just wonderful memories to be made. That’s what Big Blue’s latest addition is all about.
For more information, you can visit Tip Top Travel Services on Facebook, check out their website, give Chelsea a call at (940) 386-9391, or send her an email to get started booking your next vacation. | 2022-09-29T22:58:23+00:00 | texomashomepage.com | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/local-news/wichita-falls-woman-opens-travel-business-downtown/ |
What are the best dog toys for separation anxiety?
Dogs can quickly become attached to having company and grow worried when they’re left alone. Separation anxiety can be triggered by sudden changes in routine or environment and lead to destructive, harmful behavior.
Separation anxiety can be dangerous when unchecked, but there are means to help your furry friend cope. One of the ways to alleviate separation anxiety in dogs is through toys. The best dog toys engage a dog to distract it from being left alone, help prevent boredom or provide comfort to reduce stress.
What is separation anxiety?
Separation anxiety happens when a dog has become attached to a person or persons and is left at home. It can develop over time or occur as a result of past trauma. Separation anxiety may result in barking, shaking and marking. Destructive behavior can also ensue, with dogs chewing or ripping clothes or furniture or trying to break free of barriers.
There is no one guaranteed way to eliminate separation anxiety. Providing calming toys, the best chew toys for dogs or interactive puzzles is one approach; others include administering soothing treats or even medication.
Reducing separation anxiety will require regular training, easing the dog into feeling comfortable alone by leaving them for a short period and then increasing the length of time apart. Physical and mental exertion before leaving can help your dog relax. Upon returning home, avoid getting too excited as this can lead your dog to get worked up while you’re away.
11 best dog toys for separation anxiety
While cute and cuddly on the outside, this soft dog toy offers a warm and cozy companion for pets left alone. It features a pulsating heating pad inserted within, offering a clamming and protective sensation for worried dogs. The heartbeat function can be toggled on or off as desired. The purchase includes batteries, so it’s ready for use immediately.
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The Kong is one of the most popular and best chew toys for dogs. It’s a simple plaything that dogs can chew, chase and investigate for treats. When it comes time to leave, placing a reward within the Kong will help redirect your dog. With repetition, they may even begin to associate your leaving with being rewarded. This purchase comes with calming chew treats designed for use with the Kong.
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This cuddly, calming plush toy is paired with a security blanket for extra relief. The blanket offers a sense of protection and a place of warmth for nervous dogs, while lavender beads help soothe them. The blanket also includes a squeaker.
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Nina Ottosson by Outward Hound Beginner Puzzle Toy
This simple, interactive toy is ideal for anxious pups just getting into puzzles. It prevents boredom and provides a welcome distraction from times alone, offering tasty treats as rewards. Your dog needs to move around the ball to dispense treats, stimulating its mind while hopefully removing stress and tiring it out.
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This is another soft, welcoming toy for pups scared to be alone. A gentle simulated heartbeat offers protection within a cozy, furry exterior. This toy also includes a heat pack to add a comforting, warming sensation.
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Outward Hound Hide A Squirrel Plush Dog Toy
This adorable toy is cleverly designed to engage and stimulate worried pups. It features compartments to house stuffed toys and optional treats, challenging your dog to get them out. The interactivity holds a dog’s attention and distracts it from being left alone, minimizing boredom and fear.
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Busy Buddy Calming Treat Dispenser
The Busy Buddy interactive toy is another worthy option to keep your dog engaged while dispensing treats as a reward for their hard work and good behavior. The rubber is scented in chamomile to offer a calming sensation. The dispenser can be adjusted in size based on the size of the treat and how difficult you want the experience to be.
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This cozy and calming toy welcomes dogs of all ages seeking a friend to curl up with. The internal warming pad can be microwaved to provide up to an hour of heat distribution. Like other toys on the list, this one can relieve anxiety, whether during a storm or adapting to a new environment.
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Ethical Pet Soothers Crinkle Plush Toy
This comforting plush provides a safe partner for when your dog is alone and a toy to enjoy when they are feeling playful. The crinkly exterior and internal squeaker stimulate excitable dogs, while the lavender beads within provide a calming experience. Purchase includes one of three randomly selected animals: a pig, a monkey or a cow.
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Distraction and redirection are the foundation of behavioral training. Separation anxiety may be reduced if your dog has something else to focus on when you leave — like a lick pad. This inexpensive and easy-to-clean toy can provide a lengthy distraction. Spread a little peanut butter or treat crumbles across the various patterns to engage your dog when you leave.
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Multipet Aromadog Therapeutic Essential Oil Dog Toy
This soft and squeaky plush provides added comfort by releasing calming lavender essential oil. The furry exterior offers a cuddly companion with its fleece exterior.
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TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — The popular free-to-play (F2P) game Fortnite, is in some hot water.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has asked developer Epic Games to settle allegations of wrongful disputes against credit card charges, of in-game currency for in-game items that were unwarranted due to saving payment information and accidental purchases by children playing the game.
These disputes have previously led to locked accounts.
Epic has taken actions to change the way the payment and refund systems work, now allowing players to opt in or out of saving payment information.
The game interface now makes it clearer when in-game currency or actual currency is needed for the purchases, and a hold-to-purchase feature now re-confirms intent to buy, instant purchase cancellations and self-service refunds.
For more information on privacy and parental controls, visit the Epic Games website.
If you or anyone you know has been affected by one of the following, you or they could be eligible for a refund:
- Parents whose children made an unauthorized credit card purchase in the Epic Games Store between January 2017 and November 2018
- Fortnite players who were charged in-game currency (V-Bucks) for unwanted in-game items (such as cosmetics, llamas, or battle passes) between January 2017 and September 2022
- Fortnite players whose accounts were locked between January 2017 and September 2022 after disputing unauthorized charges with their credit card companies.
To learn more visit the FCT website.
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Which are the best 5-inch-inseam shorts to buy?
Trends in the shape and length of clothing come and go. These trends also tend to vary between clothing for men and women.
For example, women’s shorts have trended towards very short lengths in recent years, while men’s shorts usually sit at or below the knee. But all that changes when it comes to 5-inch-inseam shorts.
This trend is seen across clothing lines for both men and women and includes shorts for all kinds of occasions.
Types of 5-inch-inseam shorts
- Athletic: You’ll find that 5-inch-inseam shorts are great for athletics. They’re long enough to prevent chafing on the upper thighs while you exercise, but short enough to keep you cool. You can get loose-fitting shorts for breathability or go for a skintight pair for activities such as yoga or cycling.
- Casual: Casual 5-inch-inseam shorts are defined by fit, material, color or pattern. For example, you can throw on a pair of bright patterned shorts in a soft fabric for a day at the beach.
- Smart: Warm days aren’t always spent at the beach, and you can still capitalize on this trend for more formal scenarios. For example, try pairing canvas, denim or linen 5-inch-inseam shorts with a collared shirt or blouse for day-to-day wear.
- Outdoor: The 5-inch-inseam shorts trend has also made its way into clothing lines from popular outdoor brands such as Columbia. A pair of 5-inch cargo shorts with plenty of pockets makes for practical and comfortable outdoor activities.
What to consider before buying 5-inch-inseam shorts
- Material: You can pick up 5-inch-inseam shorts in all the usual fabrics such as denim, nylon, cotton and linen. Depending on how warm it is or what you’ll be doing in them, choose a material that will be comfortable and suitable for the occasion. If you need outdoor shorts, look for material that can protect your skin from the sun’s rays.
- Fit: For men’s shorts, 5-inch-inseam shorts can be regular or slim fit. Women’s shorts can range from loose fitting legs in soft fabrics, to structured skinny fits.
- Waistline: Most men’s 5-inch-inseam shorts come with a regular waistline that sits at the hips. Women’s versions are available in low, mid and high-rise waistlines.
- Features: Besides pockets or patterned fabric, you can get 5-inch-inseam shorts with added details to make them stand out. Denim shorts might have a frayed hem on the legs, for example. Casual shorts with a loose fit or shorts made for outdoor activities often have a drawstring waist or belt.
Best men’s 5-inch-inseam shorts to buy
Meripex Apparel Men’s 5.5-Inch-Inseam Elastic Waist Shorts
With an extra half inch on the inseam, these cotton shorts are ideal for a taller- than-average man who still wants the 5-inch-inseam look. Choose from 15 colors including neutral tones and bright shades.
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New Balance Men’s Impact Run 5-Inch Shorts
These pull-on shorts have an elasticated waist and are made from material designed to wick sweat and moisture away from the skin. The waistband sits at the waist and the legs are wide enough to give plenty of movement without riding up the legs.
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Baleaf Men’s 5-Inch Athletic Shorts
These polyester and spandex shorts are great for all kinds of athletic activities, from high-intensity workouts to a gentle walk. They also have pockets with zip closure to keep your valuables safe.
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Goodthreads Men’s Slim Fit 5-Inch Pull-On Shorts
These comfortable canvas shorts come in 21 colors and are perfect for a casual day out or paired with a shirt for a smart vacation outfit. They sit just below the waist and have a slim fit with tapered legs.
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Best women’s 5-inch-inseam shorts to buy
Baleaf Women’s 5-Inch Athletic Shorts
These are loose fitting for comfort but without riding up while you exercise. Available in eight colors from neutral black to bright pastels, they also have a zip pocket so you can keep your valuables safe while you work out.
Sold by Amazon
Champion Women’s Jersey Shorts
These comfortable jersey shorts are super soft, whether you’re out for a stroll or lounging around the house. They’re made from cotton with odor control so your shorts stay fresh all day.
Sold by Amazon
Columbia Women’s Sandy River Short
These nylon midrise cargo shorts come in 27 colors from a safari aesthetic in khaki to bright primary shades or cool pastels. They have a button closure at the waist, two side pockets and a zip pocket at the back.
Sold by Amazon
Heathyoga Women’s Biker Shorts
Some workouts are better with fitted fabric that gives flexibility and comfort. These high-waisted shorts have two side pockets and are made from skintight polyester and spandex that wick moisture away from the skin.
Sold by Amazon
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A popcorn shortage might be just around the corner
(CNN) - In the wake of a record-breaking Memorial Day weekend thanks to “Top Gun: Maverick,” movie theaters are facing a new dilemma – experts are worried a popcorn shortage could be around the corner.
A popcorn shortage could wreak havoc with movie theater profits as Hollywood prepares for more summer blockbusters.
The shortage is partially because farmers are growing less corn in favor of more profitable crops these days.
But shortages in other areas that impact theater popcorn are also at play. For example, suppliers are having trouble getting the lining used inside popcorn bags.
Everything from the bags, to the oil used to pop the corn, and the glue used for the boxes that hold that oil are at risk of supply chain issues.
Since theaters sell popcorn at a massive mark-up, they rely on it and other concessions for most of their profit margins.
Copyright 2022 CNN Newsource. All rights reserved. | 2022-06-09T16:41:00+00:00 | waff.com | https://www.waff.com/2022/06/09/popcorn-shortage-might-be-just-around-corner/ |
The Loren brand introduces its debut US property, bringing new meaning to Austin hospitality with destination restaurant Nido and Milk + Honey spa
NEW YORK, Oct. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The much-anticipated, The Loren at Lady Bird Lake in Austin is now open and is the first U.S. hotel for The Loren Hotels and Residences brand. Featuring 108 well-appointed guest rooms and suites, all with lake and city views, The Loren at Lady Bird welcomes guests to a greenhouse in the park, complete with destination restaurant Nido, milk + honey spa, 24-7 access fitness center, rooftop terrace with infinity pool and signature event space with 180-degree views. Ideally-located in close proximity to downtown Austin, guests can easily explore the city via the pedestrian bridge across the street from the hotel or complimentary e-bikes available upon request. The Loren at Lady Bird Lake joins the brand's flagship property, The Loren at Pink Beach in Bermuda, which opened in 2017.
"We are thrilled to introduce the lively city of Austin to The Loren brand with the opening of The Loren at Lady Bird Lake. The beautification of every day living sits at our core and every design detail has been inspired by our lakefront location with the skyline in the background," says Stephen King, CEO & Founder of The Loren Hotels. "This marks our first property in the US and we know both domestic and international travelers seek elevated hotel stays in locations that organically deliver stellar viewpoints paired with attentive services, amenities and thoughtful design."
The Loren brand worked with a number of talented advisors to bring their vision for The Loren at Lady Bird Lake to life in the Austin including Rhode Partners, Drenner Group, Hoar Construction and Fleur-de-lis Interior design. The Loren at Lady Bird Lake's modern accommodations, impeccable service, and exclusive amenities are the perfect counterpart to the indoor-outdoor environment surrounding Austin's iconic Lady Bird Lake. Elegant king accommodations offer generous spaces with sophisticated modern furnishings and expansive views through floor-to-ceiling windows. Luxurious bathrooms feature natural stone, walk-in spa showers, plush bathrobes, SFERRA towels, and Malin+Goetz products. Rooms at The Loren at Lady Bird Lake also include a fully stocked gourmet minibar featuring thoughtfully-sourced selections from snacks to bourbon and wine. Expansive One and Two-Bedroom Suites feature panoramic, uninterrupted views of Lady Bird Lake to the north and feature a comfortable seating area, perfect for relaxing and taking in the natural surroundings. The Loren Suite and Premier Suite offer balconies with views of choice - from Lady Bird Lake, and Downtown Austin to Texas Hill Country. In-room dining is available for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Guests can expect masterful services and amenities including signature restaurant, Nido, a new restaurant concept that brings the rugged charm of the area surroundings together with the culinary techniques of coastal Europe, all perched above Lady Bird Lake and the energetic cityscape. Diners will feel welcomed to a moody escape, eight floors up, as Nido offers a simple, approachable, and elegant dining experience with an ingredient-first mentality led by Executive Chef Brad McDonald. Outdoor lounge seating is available overlooking Lady Bird Lake. Nido is open for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
As a tranquil destination hotel, The Loren at Lady Bird Lake is also home to milk + honey Spa. The 5,000 square-foot, world-class space offers a full range of all-natural spa and medspa treatments with ten treatment rooms, steam showers, a lounge area, and the amenities rooted in a philosophy focused on healing, wellness and relaxation. A rooftop terrace with infinity pool offers guests an ideal spot to enjoy a full-service poolside experience including food and drinks and a 24-7 fitness center is located on the 7th floor.
Guests ready to book their next trip to Austin and stay at The Loren at Lady Bird Lake can explore a variety of offers and experiences including a limited-time, third night complimentary package.
For more information and to book a stay, please visit: The Loren Hotel at Lady Bird Lake - Luxury Hotel (thelorenhotels.com) and follow @thelorenhotels on Instagram to stay up to date on the latest happenings and offers.
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(WQOW) - A trio of Chippewa Valley baseball players have been picked to participate in this year's Wisconsin American Legion All-Star Game.
Eau Claire Post 53's Dylan OConnell, Chippewa Falls Post 77's Brendan Bresina and Altoona Reds' Logan Lau will represent the Stripes team on August 7 at American Family Field.
The All-Star Game will follow the Milwaukee Brewers' game against the Cincinnati Reds. | 2022-07-08T22:18:41+00:00 | wqow.com | https://www.wqow.com/eye_on_eau_claire/area-legion-players-picked-for-all-star-game/article_ff1eee32-fef6-11ec-a7ac-83c6bb02d4e3.html |
A recent study by the CDC indicated that vaccination coverage among kindergartners nationwide was one percent lower than the previous school year.
The study was taken during the 2020-21 school year.
“It's not a surprise that vaccination rates declined over the last couple of years,” said Dr. Rene Bravo, a primary care pediatrician. “People were scared about returning to the office. They certainly were concerned about the coronavirus. We're starting to see a rebound for sure, at least on the Central Coast.”
While vaccination numbers have dropped for children, there is hope the numbers will rise again.
“People weren't coming into the office to get their well checkups. Usually, you do vaccination with that,” said Bravo.
San Luis Coastal Unified School District Lead Credentialed School Nurse Grace Van Doren said the pandemic made it seem like parents were reticent to take their kids into their doctors’ offices to get their necessary shots.
“We want to protect kids from getting these vaccine-preventable diseases,” said Van Doren. “We want to protect kids who can't have them. “
Santa Barbara County Public Health Immunization Coordinator Kathleen Clerkin said the rise in vaccination rates is expected to improve.
“Vaccination science is important, especially for our kids, because we're trying to prevent diseases which in the past have been very mortal and dangerous for them,” said Bravo.
Van Doren said five vaccines children need are polio, DTap, Hep B, MMR, and varicella.
“It's safe to return now,” said Bravo. “It's safe to return to the medical offices. It's safe to get your vaccinations. It's safe to get on with life now.”
According to the CDC, the targeted vaccination rate is 95 percent. | 2022-04-26T02:13:42+00:00 | ksby.com | https://www.ksby.com/news/local-news/vaccination-numbers-dropping-for-kindergarten-age-children |
MEXICO CITY — (AP) — As many as eight young workers were confirmed dead Tuesday in Mexico after they apparently tried to quit jobs at a call center operated by a violent drug cartel that targeted Americans in a real estate scam.
U.S. and Mexican officials confirmed the brutal story that unfolded late last month when relatives of the youths reported them missing after they did not return from work in an office near the western city of Guadalajara. Suspicions rose last week when heaps of hacked-up body parts were found in plastic bags.
Forensic examiners in the western state of Jalisco said in a statement Monday that tests had confirmed the bodies belonged to the missing call center workers.
A total of six men and two women were reported missing between May 20 and May 22, but the forensic examiners did not mention the number of confirmed identities. There had been doubts about whether one of the youths was among the bodies found.
While the families believed their children worked at a normal call center, the office was in fact run by the Jalisco New Generation cartel, Mexico’s most violent gang. The cartel has branched out beyond its traditional business of drug trafficking, extortion and kidnapping.
Officials confirmed the cartel now operates call centers that scam money from Americans and Canadians through fake offers to buy their timeshares.
Jalisco officials did not offer a motive in the killings of the workers, all but two of whom were under 30. But a U.S. official speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly on the issue said it appeared the youths were killed by the Jalisco cartel after they tried to quit their jobs.
“Best guess is these kids had decided they wanted out of the business,” the U.S. official said, adding the cartel was “sending a message to other defectors.”
“It appears this has happened before,” the official added.
The Jalisco cartel, known by its initials as the CJNG, is famous for its ruthless treatment of supposed traitors, informants or turncoats. For those who have worked for the cartel, knowingly or unknowingly, it appears to be an unwritten rule that the only way out of the gang is death or prison.
An activist group for families of the disappeared, “Por Amor a Ellxs” — roughly, “For Love of Them” — said there are around 15,000 missing people in Jalisco, out of a total of about 112,000 nationwide.
Call centers are a major source of employment in Mexico for young people or migrants who may have learned English in the United States, but who have returned to Mexico.
The timeshare fraud came to light in April, when the U.S. Treasury Department announced sanctions against members or associates of the Jalisco New Generation cartel who apparently ran a similar operation in the Pacific coast resort of Puerto Vallarta, also located in Jalisco state, the gang's home turf.
Brian E. Nelson, the U.S. under secretary of the treasury for terrorism and financial intelligence, said in a statement in April that the “CJNG’s deep involvement in timeshare fraud in the Puerto Vallarta area and elsewhere, which often targets elderly U.S. citizens and can defraud victims of their life savings, is an important revenue stream supporting the group’s overall criminal enterprise.”
The scammers contacted people seeking to sell timeshares in Puerto Vallarta properties.
In a 2023 alert, the FBI said sellers were contacted via email by scammers who said they had a buyer lined up, but the seller needed to pay taxes or other fees before the deal could go through. Apparently, once the money was paid, the deals evaporated.
The FBI report said that in 2022, the agency’s Internet Crime Complaint Center “received over 600 complaints with losses of approximately $39.6 million from victims contacted by scammers regarding timeshares owned in Mexico.”
Ryan Donner, a broker at Ryan Donner & Associates, a real estate firm in Puerto Vallarta, said his firm had been asked for assistance by two people over the last two years who were apparently targeted by the scam.
“It’s infrequent, but yes, we have had it happen,” said Donner, who was able to steer both people away from the scam before they paid any money.
Donner described the fraud as very sophisticated.
He said the scammers sent prospective sellers fake contracts and official-looking documents from the Mexican tax authority apparently saying taxes were due on the prospective sale.
“They have contracts, they have documents that appear to be official documents, it would be very easy to fall into the trap of paying them,” Donner said.
“If a company contacts someone to say that they have a buyer for a property and all they need is money, that is a huge red flag for it being some sort of scam,” Donner said. “That’s not how companies usually work.”
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WFO MEDFORD Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, July 30, 2022
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EXCESSIVE HEAT WATCH
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Medford OR
356 AM PDT Sun Jul 24 2022
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM MONDAY AFTERNOON
THROUGH SATURDAY EVENING...
* WHAT...Dangerously hot conditions with temperatures between
100 and 110 possible. Overnight lows will also be much warmer
than normal, mainly 65 to 70.
* WHERE...West Side Valleys in southern Oregon and northern
California. This includes the Rogue, Illinois, Applegate,
Lower Klamath River, Scott, and Shasta Valleys.
* WHEN...From Monday afternoon through Saturday evening.
* IMPACTS...Extreme heat will significantly increase the potential
for heat related illnesses, particularly for those working or
participating in outdoor activities.
* View the hazard area in detail at
https://www.wrh.noaa.gov/map/?wfo=mfr
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Monitor the latest forecasts and warnings for updates on this
situation. Drink plenty of fluids, stay in an air-conditioned
room, stay out of the sun, and check up on relatives and
neighbors. NEVER LEAVE CHILDREN AND PETS LEFT UNATTENDED IN
VEHICLES UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES! This is especially true during
warm or hot weather when car interiors can reach lethal
temperatures in a matter of minutes.
Take extra precautions if you work or spend time outside. When
possible reschedule strenuous activities to early morning or
evening. Know the signs and symptoms of heat exhaustion and heat
stroke. Wear lightweight and loose fitting clothing when
possible. To reduce risk during outdoor work, the Occupational
Safety and Health Administration recommends scheduling frequent
rest breaks in shaded or air conditioned environments. Anyone
overcome by heat should be moved to a cool and shaded location.
Heat stroke is an emergency! Call 9 1 1.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California released a plan Tuesday detailing how Western states reliant on the Colorado River should save more water. It came a day after the six other states in the river basin made a competing proposal.
In a letter to the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, California described how states could conserve between 1 million and nearly 2 million acre feet of water through new cuts based on the elevation of Lake Mead, a key reservoir.
Its plan did not account for water lost to evaporation and during transportation — a move sought by the other states that would mean big cuts for California.
The 1,450-mile river (2,334-kilometer) serves 40 million people across the West and Mexico, generating hydroelectric power for regional markets and irrigating nearly 6 million acres (2,428 hectares) of farmland.
A multi-decade drought in the West worsened by climate change, rising demand and overuse has sent water levels at key reservoirs along the river to unprecedented lows. That has forced federal and state officials to take additional steps to protect the system.
California’s plan and the separate methods outlined by states Monday came in response to Reclamation asking them last year to detail how they would use between 15% and 30% less water. The federal agency operates the major dams in the river system.
All seven states missed that deadline last August. Six of them regrouped and came to an agreement by the end of January. California was the the lone holdout to that agreement, and responded Tuesday with its own plan.
Unlike the other states’ plan, California’s does not factor the roughly 1.5 million acre feet of Colorado River water lost to evaporation and transportation.
Instead, it proposes reducing water taken out of Lake Mead by 1 million acre feet, with 400,000 acre feet coming from its own users. The state previously outlined that level of cuts in October. Arizona would bear the brunt of bigger cuts — 560,000 acre feet — while Nevada would make up the rest. Those numbers are based on discussions from prior negotiations, California’s letter said.
An acre foot is enough water to supply two to three U.S. households for a year.
The Arizona Department of Water Resources said it was still reviewing California’s proposal and didn’t have an immediate comment.
But Tom Buschatzke, the department’s director, said earlier Tuesday that water managers across the basin couldn’t reach agreement with California on cuts, even at the broader state level.
“The big issues are what does the priority system mean, what does the junior priority mean and how does that attach to that outcome of who takes what cut?” he said. “That was the issue over the summer, that was the issue over the fall, that’s still the issue.”
California has the largest allocation of water among the seven U.S. states that tap the Colorado River. It is also among the last to face water cuts in times of shortage because of its senior water rights.
That has given the state an advantage over others in talks that spanned months over how to cut water use.
California water officials have often repeated that any additional water cuts must be legally defensible and in line with western water law that honors its water rights.
JB Hamby, chairman of the Colorado River Board of California and a board member of the Imperial Irrigation District, indicated California may file a lawsuit if the federal government attempts to count for evaporative losses.
“The best way to avoid conflict and ensure that we can put water in the river right away is through a voluntary approach, not putting proposals that sidestep the Law of the River and ignore California’s senior right and give no respect to that,” he said.
Existing agreements only spell cuts when Lake Mead’s elevation is between 1,090 feet (332 meters) and 1,025 feet (312 meters). If it drops any lower than 1,025 feet, California’s plan proposes even further cuts based on the so-called Law of the River — likely meaning Arizona and Nevada would bear the brunt of them. Those cuts are designed to keep Lake Mead from reaching “dead pool,” when it could no longer pump out water to farms and cities including Las Vegas, Los Angeles and Phoenix.
The reservoir’s current elevation is around 1,045 feet.
In total, California’s plan could save between 1 million and 2 million acre-feet of water based on the elevation levels at Lake Mead, from which Arizona, California, Nevada and Mexico draw their share of the river.
Adel Hagekhalil, general manager for the Metropolitan Water District of California, the nation’s largest water supplier, said it was important to protect key reservoirs “without getting mired in lengthy legal battles.”
Hagekhalil and other water managers pointed to numerous efforts the state has made to drastically reduce its water usage by making agricultural and urban water use more efficient.
“California knows how to permanently reduce use of the river — we have done it over the past 20 years, through billions of dollars in investments and hard-earned partnerships,” he said in a statement. “We can help the entire Southwest do it again as we move forward.”
The new proposals do not change states’ water allocations immediately — or disrupt their existing water rights. Instead, they will be folded into a larger proposal Reclamation is working on to revise how it operates Glen Canyon and Hoover Dams — behemoth power producers on the Colorado River.
Despite California’s inability to reach agreement with the other six states so far, the parties said they hope to keep talking.
“We’re not going to stop the discussions,” said Buschatzke of Arizona, “and maybe we come to an agreement and maybe we won’t.”
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Naishadham reported from Washington, D.C. AP writer Felicia Fonseca contributed from Flagstaff, Arizona.
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Updated May 19, 2023 at 8:51 PM ET
As debt negotiations between the White House and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's team drew to a close Friday evening, there remains uncertainty as to whether the players can reach a deal.
Louisiana Rep. Garret Graves, whom McCarthy tapped to lead the talks along with other senior staff, told reporters that Friday's meeting "wasn't a negotiation" but a "candid discussion about realistic numbers, a realistic path forward, and something that truly changes the trajectory of this country's spending and debt problem."
The talks resumed after an afternoon hiatus.
"At the direction of the speaker of the House, we reengaged, had a very, very candid discussion talking about where we are, talking about where things need to be, what's reasonable and acceptable," Graves told reporters on Capitol Hill. "And that's basically what's going on right now."
McCarthy has previously signaled that negotiators would need to reach a framework by this weekend in order to pass a deal in both chambers of Congress before June 1, the date at which Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says the U.S. could run out of cash to pay its bills.
But North Carolina Rep. Patrick McHenry, a key McCarthy ally who has been part of these talks, did not sound optimistic.
"No," McHenry responded when asked by reporters if he left the evening's talks more confident.
Earlier optimism hit a speed bump
The talks hit a snag earlier on Friday.
"We took a pause because of frustration — this White House will not acknowledge they are spending too much," McCarthy told Fox Business Friday evening.
The negotiations stopped as President Biden is in Japan for the G-7 summit. Before he departed Tuesday, he said he was confident he could reach a deal with McCarthy that would pass through Congress.
For months, Biden said he would only sign a "clean" debt limit bill — one that solely lifts the nation's borrowing limit without addressing spending. House Republicans continue to insist that any deal that raises the debt limit must also include spending cuts.
Biden and McCarthy met at the White House earlier this week with other top congressional leaders. All emerged from the meeting expressing more optimism than before that they could reach a deal to avoid an unprecedented debt default.
Coming out of that meeting, the president designated Steve Ricchetti, who has served in multiple Democratic administrations; and Shalanda Young, a veteran Capitol Hill aide, as negotiators on behalf of the White House. McCarthy heaped praise on the pair on Thursday.
"Very professional — highly respect them — their knowledge," McCarthy told reporters. "Everybody in this place knows [Young], respects her greatly."
Biden previously said he would be "in constant contact" with aides while in Japan and would stay in touch with McCarthy and other leaders as well. He also announced earlier this week he would cut his trip short to finish talks; he returns on Sunday.
Work requirements have been a sticking point
A White House official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity about these closed-door negotiations, told NPR the negotiators took a pause Friday afternoon and said both sides have to negotiate in good faith and recognize they won't get everything they want.
"There are real differences between the parties on budget issues and talks will be difficult. The president's team is working hard towards a reasonable bipartisan solution that can pass the House and the Senate," the official said.
One central demand from McCarthy is for a deal to include new work requirements for adults without dependents who receive support from safety net programs. It's an area some Democratic lawmakers are worried Biden will agree to in order to avoid default.
Asked earlier whether he would accept new work requirements for some programs, Biden reiterated that he would not accept any that impact Medicaid – or, for other programs, cuts that go substantially beyond what currently exist.
NPR White House correspondent Tamara Keith contributed to this report.
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2023-05-20T01:33:16+00:00 | kcbx.org | https://www.kcbx.org/npr-top-news/npr-top-news/2023-05-19/debt-talks-resume-after-a-snag-as-the-country-gets-closer-to-a-possible-default |
Real Salt Lake (10-8-8, fifth in the Western Conference) vs. FC Dallas (11-8-9, third in the Western Conference)
Frisco, Texas; Saturday, 9 p.m. EDT
FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK LINE: FC Dallas -105, Real Salt Lake +267, Draw +257; over/under is 2.5 goals
BOTTOM LINE: Dallas hosts Real Salt Lake looking to prolong a three-game home winning streak.
Dallas is 9-6-5 in Western Conference play. Alan Velasco leads the seventh-ranked scoring team in the Western Conference with four. Dallas has scored 39 goals.
RSL is 8-6-6 in conference play. RSL ranks eighth in the league allowing just 35 goals.
The teams play Saturday for the second time this season. Dallas won the last meeting 1-0.
TOP PERFORMERS: Velasco has scored four goals and added four assists for Dallas. Sebastian Lletget has two assists over the last 10 games.
Sergio Cordova has seven goals and one assist for RSL. Jefferson Savarino has scored four goals over the last 10 games.
LAST 10 GAMES: Dallas: 4-3-3, averaging 1.1 goals, 3.8 shots on goal and 3.9 corner kicks per game while allowing 1.1 goals per game.
RSL: 2-4-4, averaging 1.4 goals, 4.3 shots on goal and 4.8 corner kicks per game while allowing 1.6 goals per game.
NOT EXPECTED TO PLAY: Dallas: Brandon Servania (injured), Jesus Ferreira (injured), Facundo Quignon (injured).
RSL: Tate Schmitt (injured), Danny Musovski (injured), Bobby Wood (injured), Damir Kreilach (injured).
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar. | 2022-08-26T07:21:39+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/sports/article/Dallas-takes-home-winning-streak-into-matchup-17399443.php |
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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Lemon chicken gets even better with a little cheat
Don't you hate it when someone improves on a dish you've made dozens of times, and are pretty sure you've already perfected?
One of my family's favorite meals is a tangy lemon chicken recipe I found years ago in a long-forgotten cookbook that takes around 15 minutes to cook in a simple sauce of butter, olive oil and the juice of one or two fresh lemons.
Dang, has Yotam Ottolenghi got me beat.
In his latest cookbook, the Israeli-born British chef known for his expert take on Mediterranean cooking (much of it vegetarian) takes lemon chicken to the next level by pairing crispy, pan-fried chicken with a sauce that marries homemade preserved lemon with fresh lemon juice kissed with garlic, a pinch of sugar, turmeric and the warm, citrusy bite of cumin seed.
He calls the preserved lemon a "cheat" because, rather than ripening in a jar for a few weeks, the citrus slices are brought to a simmer with juice over medium heat until tender and translucent and then blitzed into a curd-like, spreadable sauce. Also a little different: Rather than simply dusting the chicken in flour to make it fry up crispy, he gives the pounded breasts a 30-minute soak in a mixture of egg white and cornstarch flavored with soy sauce.
Garnished with a crunchy mix of green onion and fresh cilantro, the end result is a standout dish with nuanced layers of flavor you'll want to eat again and again.
If you don't have a meat mallet, use a rolling pin or the bottom of a heavy pan to pound the chicken breast into thin pieces between parchment or waxed paper.
For a complete meal, Ottolenghi suggests serving the chicken with plain white rice and some lightly cooked greens. But it's pretty darn delicious on its own, right out of the pan.
DOUBLE LEMON CHICKEN WITH CHEAT'S PRESERVED LEMON
PG tested
For cheat's preserved lemon
- 1 large unwaxed lemon, ends trimmed and discarded, cut into 1/4 -inch slices, seeds removed
- 1/4 cup lemon juice
- 2 teaspoons flaked sea salt
- For chicken
- 2 large egg whites
- 2 tablespoons soy sauce
- 2 tablespoons cornstarch
- 4 large chicken breasts
- 6 tablespoons sunflower oil
- 1 green onion, trimmed and finely sliced at an angle
- 1/4 cup cilantro leaves, roughly chopped
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- Salt and black pepper
For lemon sauce
- 3 tablespoons preserved lemon (see above)
- 3 cups chicken stock
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1/8 teaspoon ground turmeric
- 1 1/2 teaspoons cumin seeds, toasted and roughly crushed, divided
- 1 1/2 tablespoons cornstarch
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
Make preserved lemon: Put all the ingredients into a small saucepan with lid. Bring to a simmer on medium-high heat, cover with lid and cook for 12-14 minutes, or until rinds start to look translucent and the juice has reduced by about half. Set aside to cool slightly then transfer to the bowl of a food processor and blitz until you have a smooth, spreadable paste.
Meanwhile, in a large bowl, whisk together egg whites, soy sauce, cornstarch, 1/2 teaspoon salt and a good grind of pepper until there are no lumps, about 30 seconds.
Working with one breast at a time, place chicken between 2 pieces of parchment paper and use a meat mallet (or bottom of pan) to pound chicken evenly so it's just 1/2 -inch thick. Transfer to the egg-white bowl and continue with the remaining breasts. Stir everything together gently to coat, then marinate at least half an hour, or refrigerate overnight if you're getting ahead.
Make the sauce by first putting 3 tablespoons of the preserved lemon, stock, butter, garlic, sugar, turmeric and half the cumin in a medium saucepan and placing it on medium-high heat. Bring to a boil, then cook for 15 minutes, stirring a couple of times, until reduced by about half. Add 3 tablespoons of sauce to small bowl, add cornstarch and whisk until there are no lumps. Whisk this back into the saucepan and cook for 1 minute on medium-high, whisking continuously, until smooth and thickened slightly. Remove from heat.
Heat 6 tablespoons oil in a large, high-sided frying pan over medium-high heat. Once hot, fry two of the marinated breasts for 3 minutes per side, or until nicely browned and just cooked through. Transfer to a paper towel-lined plate and continue with remaining chicken. Pour off oil into a bowl. Add lemon sauce to the frying pan and bring to a simmer on medium-high heat.
Put back the chicken breasts and cook for just 3 minutes, gently turning them halfway through. Remove from heat and stir in 2 tablespoons lemon juice for the sauce.
Transfer chicken breasts to a large serving platter with a lip and pour sauce all over. Sprinkle with remaining cumin seeds. In a small bowl, toss together green onion, cilantro and lemon juice and spoon over top.
Serve immediately.
Serves 4.
— "Ottolenghi Test Kitchen: Extra Good Things" by Noor Murad and Yotam Ottolenghi (Clarkson Potter, 2022, $32)
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Marlins vs. Royals Predictions & Picks: Odds, Moneyline, Spread - June 5
Monday's contest at LoanDepot park has the Miami Marlins (32-28) going head to head against the Kansas City Royals (18-41) at 6:40 PM ET (on June 5). Our computer prediction projects a close 5-4 win for the Marlins, so it should be a competitive matchup.
The Marlins will give the nod to Braxton Garrett (1-2) versus the Royals and Carlos Hernandez (0-3).
Marlins vs. Royals Game Info & Odds
- When: Monday, June 5, 2023 at 6:40 PM ET
- Where: LoanDepot park in Miami, Florida
- How to Watch on TV: Fox Sports 1
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
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Marlins vs. Royals Score Prediction
Our prediction for this matchup is Marlins 5, Royals 4.
Total Prediction for Marlins vs. Royals
- Total Prediction: Over 8 runs
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Marlins Performance Insights
- In five games as the favorite over the last 10 matchups, the Marlins have a record of 3-2.
- In its last 10 games with a total, Miami and its opponents have failed to hit the over four times.
- The Marlins have three wins against the spread in their last five chances.
- This season, the Marlins have won 14 out of the 23 games, or 60.9%, in which they've been favored.
- Miami has a record of 5-1 in games when sportsbooks favor them by at least -165 on the moneyline.
- The moneyline for this contest implies a 62.3% chance of a victory for the Marlins.
- Miami has scored the fifth-fewest runs in the majors this season with just 233 (3.9 per game).
- The Marlins have the 17th-ranked team ERA among all MLB pitching staffs (4.30).
Royals Performance Insights
- The Royals have played as the underdog in three of their past 10 games and have gone 2-1 in those contests.
- In its previous 10 games with a total, Kansas City and its opponents have combined to exceed the over/under on three occasions.
- The Royals have compiled a 3-4-0 record against the runline over their previous 10 matchups (oddsmakers set runlines in seven of those matchups).
- The Royals have come away with 15 wins in the 47 contests they have been listed as the underdogs in this season.
- This season, Kansas City has come away with a win six times in 28 chances when named as an underdog of at least +135 or worse on the moneyline.
- The moneyline set for this matchup implies the Royals have a 42.6% chance of walking away with the win.
- Kansas City scores the fourth-fewest runs in baseball (229 total, 3.9 per game).
- The Royals have the 27th-ranked ERA (4.98) in the majors this season.
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M.J. Baird is out in San Antonio for the high school tennis state tournament.
Here’s a look at how our Texoma talent fared in the quarterfinals.
Class 1A
1A Mixed Doubles: Tallon Hayes and Valeria Zavala (Benjamin) defeated Gabe Perez and Sierra Reyes (D’Hanis) 6-1,6-2.
1A Girls Doubles: Jacie Borchardt and Kaydence Carney (Crowell) defeated Sadie Whitaker vs Shadie Whitaker (Bowie Gold-Burg) 6-4, 6-3. Highlights from this match will be posted after KFDX 3 News at 10.
Class 2A
2A Boys Doubles: Dwight Donjuan and Ahlai Donjuan (Quanah) defeated Kyle Wright and Luke Ratcliff (Harleton) 6-1, 6-1.
2A Mixed Doubles: Christian Long and Jennifer Gonzales (Centerville) defeated Sara Schroeder and Kline Mayo (Archer City) 4-6, 7-6, 6-3. Highlights from this match will be posted after KFDX 3 News at 10.
Class 3A
3A Boys Doubles: Dane Keischnick and Max Jones (Vernon) defeated Jacob Tackett and Jackson Rue (Gunter) 6-0, 6-0.
Class 4A
4A Girls Singles: Bailee Lane (Lindale) defeated Jessie Stephen (Wichita Falls) 6-3, 6-4. | 2023-04-26T02:30:55+00:00 | texomashomepage.com | https://www.texomashomepage.com/sports/local-sports/high-school-state-quarterfinals-tennis-tournament-april-25-2023/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is imposing financial penalties on an Iranian-based organization that raised money to target British-American author Salman Rushdie, who was violently attacked in August at a literary event.
Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned the 15 Khordad Foundation, which issued a multimillion-dollar bounty for the killing of Rushdie. He wrote “The Satanic Verses,” which some Muslims consider blasphemous.
American officials say as recently as 2012, the 15 Khordad Foundation raised its bounty to $3.3 million, claiming the full sum would be given to anyone who assassinated Rushdie. Sanctions records show the organization was created in 1979.
Rushdie’s agent says the author has lost sight in one eye and the use of a hand as he recovers from an attack by a man who rushed the stage at the event in western New York.
An Associated Press reporter witnessed the attacker confront Rushdie on stage at the Chautauqua Institution and stab or punch him 10 to 15 times as he was being introduced. The author was pushed or fell to the floor, and the man was arrested.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the organization is also being designated for diplomatic penalties for “providing financial support for an act of terrorism.”
He said the U.S. condemns the attack on Rushdie “in the strongest terms as a blatant assault on freedom of speech and an act of terrorism.”
The sanctions and designations deny the group access to any property or financial assets held in the U.S., and the ability to travel to the U.S.
“The United States will not waver in its determination to stand up to threats posed by Iranian authorities against the universal rights of freedom of expression, freedom of religion or belief, and freedom of the press,” said Brian Nelson, Treasury’s under secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence.
“This act of violence, which has been praised by the Iranian regime, is appalling. We all hope for Salman Rushdie’s speedy recovery following the attack on his life.”
The U.S. has hit Iran’s government with a host of sanctions this year for a variety of actions related to human rights abuses.
Financial penalties were imposed on Iran’s government after the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in September.
She was detained by the morality police, who said she didn’t properly cover her hair with the mandatory Islamic headscarf, known as the hijab. Amini collapsed at a police station and died three days later.
Her death has sparked months of protests across the country of 80 million people. | 2022-10-28T19:00:32+00:00 | wdtn.com | https://www.wdtn.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-us-sanctions-iranian-group-that-put-bounty-on-rushdies-life/ |
MIDDLETOWN, Ohio — Mysterious lights in the night sky above Middletown have some residents puzzled.
Around 10:30 p.m. Wednesday, multiple people said they witnessed strange rotating green lights above them.
Caden Little captured a video of what he saw on Jerry Couch Boulevard near Butler Tech's LeSourdsville Campus.
"I instantly thought like we're under attack (by) aliens," Little said. "It was scary."
Whatever or whoever is responsible for the lights thankfully didn't attack Little. Instead, the lights seemed to vanish instantly from the night sky.
"Like most things when it flies away you can kind of see it leave. But this one it would zip and in like two seconds it was out of sight," Little said.
Bryce Garrick was in his car when he saw the lights. They appear to be moving in a clockwise fashion while hovering before quickly jetting across the sky then disappearing.
The Butler County Sheriff's Office said it did not receive any calls about the lights. Dispatchers said they do not have an explanation for the sightings.
Bryan Simpson, president of the Cincinnati Astronomical Society said how quickly the lights sped off was way too fast to be a drone. He doesn't have an answer for what people saw either. But he did say it is easy to fake these types of videos.
"I think the real test of authenticity is if you get a lot of reports of the same thing. Otherwise it's probably fake. And by lots I want to see at least 20 different reports," Simpson said. "This is so easy to fake with off the shelf motion graphics software for TikTok likes."
Simpson told WCPO that he plans on looking into the origin of these sightings and will update our newsroom when he learns more.
If you saw the lights and have videos or pictures, you can send them to us at newsdesk@wcpo.com
We will update this article when we learn more information.
These sightings come less than a month after a NASA panel held a public meeting to examine hundreds of reports of unidentified flying objects and give feedback on which could not be explained.
The panel detailed some of the main characteristics given in the hundreds of reports that people used to detail what they saw in the UFO sightings.
Those characteristics often included that the objects were usually small or round in shape and size, and they often appeared silver or translucent or white.
Reports said they usually appeared to be flying at about 10,000 to 30,000 feet above the ground, and others noticed that the objects appeared to fly past at Mach 2 speed, while others appeared to be stationary.
Reports said the objects appeared to have no exhaust as a sign of how the object's propulsion functioned.
While NASA admitted that the agency wasn't at a point where they could conclusively say these objects were not coming from outer space, experts said there was not complete certainty on what some of them were, or their origins.
In 2021 the Pentagon said of 144 sightings made by military pilots since 2004, all but one was still unexplained.
Commercial pilots are also hesitant to report sightings, NASA believes. NASA said it is trying to remove any stigma around reporting UFO sightings so that people don't feel they are being seen in a negative light by reporting them. The agency said some scientists have faced online harassment for their efforts to investigate UFO sightings.
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(KRON) – An Instagram influencer was found guilty by a jury in California after she made a viral video about a fake kidnapping, prosecutors said.
Kathleen “Katie” Sorensen, 31, went viral in 2020 when she told her Instagram followers that two strangers tried to kidnap her children while she was shopping in Petaluma, in Sonoma County.
The jury convicted Sorensen on one count of knowingly making a false report of a crime. After the verdict was reached, Judge Laura Passaglia remanded the “influencer” into custody and set bail at $100,000.
Sorensen is now facing a maximum sentence of six months in jail.
“This verdict will enable us to hold Ms. Sorensen accountable for her crime, while at the same time helping to exonerate the couple that was falsely accused of having attempted to kidnap two young children,” Sonoma County District Attorney Carla Rodriguez said. “The case is also important in that it illustrates the importance of using social media responsibly.”
The case stems from a video Sorensen shot in December 2020, aiming to tell a frightening story about shopping in a Michael’s craft store with her 1-year-old daughter and 4-year-old son.
“My children were the targets of attempted kidnap,” Sorensen said in one video uploaded to her account, @motherhoodessentials. “It happened. I want to share that story with you in an effort to raise awareness as to what signs to look for.”
She also said in the video that, while shopping, she overheard the “kidnappers” discussing her children’s features and “was totally paralyzed with fear.”
Two of Sorensen’s Instagram videos racked up more than 4 million views, according to People magazine. She also went to the Petaluma Police Department to report the incident, prosecutors said.
Police obtained video from the store’s surveillance cameras, which was then shown to Sorensen. She pointed out a couple and claimed that they were the perpetrators, prosecutors said.
“She was definitive that the couple approached her children’s stroller and that the male reached for it; she stated she would testify to that fact, and that she wanted the couple prosecuted,” the Petaluma Police Department wrote.
The accused Latino couple said they were shopping for Christmas decorations, the Press Democrat reported. Petaluma police investigated the couple and found no evidence of wrongdoing, according to PPD.
Following the jury’s guilty verdict last week, the District Attorney’s Office wrote a summary of the events they believe transpired on Dec. 7, 2020, inside the Michael’s location in Petaluma.
“Ms. Sorensen went to the Michael’s craft store with her two young children. After purchasing a few items, Ms. Sorensen returned to her car, loaded her children into the car, and left the Michael’s parking lot. A few minutes later, Ms. Sorensen called the Petaluma Police Department and reported that a couple had tried to kidnap her children,” the DA’s Office wrote.
“About a week later, Ms. Sorensen made and published an Instagram video wherein she went into great detail about the near abduction of her young children, adding significant details that had not been disclosed to the Petaluma Police Department,” the DA’s Office continued. “The Instagram video went viral. Ms. Sorensen’s report was determined to be false and was resoundingly contradicted by the accused couple, as well as store video that was obtained.”
Sorensen later moved out of Sonoma County, deleted her viral videos, and switched her @motherhoodessentials account to a private setting. She still has nearly 60,000 followers.
Sorensen posted bail and remains out of custody, jail inmate records show. A date for her sentencing hearing has not been set. | 2023-05-02T16:55:03+00:00 | cenlanow.com | https://www.cenlanow.com/national/motherhood-influencer-convicted-of-lying-about-attempted-kidnapping-on-social-media/ |
Michael Lerner, ‘Barton Fink’ Oscar nominee, dies at 81
(AP) - Michael Lerner, the Brooklyn-born character actor who played a myriad of imposing figures in his 60 years in the business, including monologuing movie mogul Jack Lipnick in “Barton Fink,” the crooked club owner Bugsy Calhoun in “Harlem Nights” and an angry publishing executive in “Elf” has died. He was 81.
His nephew, actor Sam Lerner, announced his death in an Instagram post Sunday. Sam Lerner wrote that his uncle died Saturday but did not provide further details. Neither his nor Michael Lerner’s representatives immediately responded to requests for further comment.
“He was the coolest, most confident, talented guy,” Sam Lerner wrote. “Everyone that knows him knows how insane he was — in the best way...we’re all lucky we can continue to watch his work for the rest of time. RIP Michael, enjoy your unlimited Cuban cigars, comfy chairs, and endless movie marathon.”
Born in 1941 to Romanian-Jewish parents and raised in Brooklyn’s Red Hook neighborhood, Michael Lerner began acting locally as a teen and into his days at Brooklyn College, where he got the chance to play Willie Loman in “Death of a Salesman.” His ambitions to pursue acting professionally crystalized when he received a Fulbright Scholarship and chose to study theater at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, where he lived in an apartment with Yoko Ono for a time, appearing in her short film “Smile” alongside Paul McCartney. His brother, Ken Lerner, also became an actor.
Lerner moved to Los Angeles in 1969, at the urging of an agent who saw his work at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco. He started getting cast in television shows, including “M(asterisk)A(asterisk)S(asterisk)H,” “The Brady Bunch” and “The Rockford Files,” making his film debut in Paul Mazursky’s “Alex in Wonderland,” alongside Charlotte Rampling. But he considered his first significant role to be in the television movie “Ruby and Oswald” (he played Jack Ruby) with Brian Dennehy.
In 1981, he was cast in Bob Rafelson’s remake of “The Postman Always Rings Twice,” alongside Jack Nicholson, who he called one of the most generous actors he’d ever worked with, and Jessica Lange. A longtime cigar aficionado, Lerner felt out of his depths when he was asked to smoke a cigarette in a scene with Nicholson in a jail. Lerner said he held the cigarette with both hands.
He felt more comfortable playing cigar-smoking journalist and politician Pierre Salinger in “Missiles of October,” for which Jackie Kennedy once told him that he’d “out Pierre’d Pierre.”
Lerner also loved working with John Sayles on “Eight Men Out,” in which he played Arnold Rothstein, the crime boss who conspired to fix the 1919 World Series.
“Most of the time I don’t rehearse, but I do a lot of preparation. Especially for a biographical character or one of the studio heads,” he said in 2016. “I did a lot of research for Barton Fink and looked into Louis B. Mayer and all the moguls in Hollywood.”
Joel and Ethan Coen’s “Barton Fink,” released in 1991, is the film Lerner is most remembered for.
“I had auditioned for Joel and Ethan before, for Miller’s Crossing. So I walked into the room, as the character, and I don’t say hello to anybody. And I sit down behind my desk and do this big speech: ‘Bart! Bart! So great to see you,’” Lerner said in 2016. “I did the monologue the way I wanted to do it and I just walked out of the room and that was it. And Joel and Ethan were just sitting in a corner just laughing and laughing and that was it.”
Lerner, who drew inspiration from Preston Sturges movies, said the Coens didn’t give him much acting direction and “were a little nervous that I was talking so fast” but that they let him do what he wanted.
The role got him his first and only Oscar nomination, but in 1992, the Academy Award for supporting actor went to Jack Palance for “City Slickers.”
The Coens called him years later to do a cameo in “A Serious Man.”
Lerner also said he was frequently recognized for his turns in Eddie Murphy’s “Harlem Nights” and “Elf,” as Fulton Greenway. He also played Cher’s father in the television spinoff of “Clueless.”
In the late 90s, he was excited to get a chance to work with Woody Allen on the film “Celebrity,” but it turned into a terrible experience, he said in a 2016 interview.
“He is a schmuck,” Lerner said. “And the movie’s a piece of s—-.”
Lerner also appeared in several bigger blockbusters over the years, including “Godzilla” as Mayor Ebert, “X-Men: Days of Future Past,” as Senator Brickman, and “Mirror Mirror” as Baron.
“Those are good parts but not great acting roles,” Lerner said.
And he never felt cheated by being known as a “character actor” rather than a leading man. In 1999, in an interview with Cigar Aficionado, he said, simply, “Every role is a character role.”
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Smart city innovation driven by the intersection of social, environmental, and economic urban challenges and the impact of transformative technologies
BOULDER, Colo., April 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- A new report from Guidehouse Insights explores the market for smart city technology globally.
The next decade is likely to be one of dramatic change for many cities around the world. Trends that have been core drivers for smart city programs have been accelerated by a combination of the COVID-19 pandemic, the growing impact of climate change, and the rapid digitalization of many services. According to a new report from Guidehouse Insights, the global smart city technology market is expected to grow from approximately $121.1 billion in annual revenue in 2023 to $301.2 billion by 2032 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 10.7%.
"These global challenges are amplifying long-standing local issues around the quality of public services, environmental standards, and social inequalities," says Eric Woods, research director with Guidehouse Insights. "At the same time technology is transforming how cities work and how they are experienced."
Cities are showing a strong commitment to infrastructure investment, digital technologies, and increased sustainability, often supported by central government funding. These ambitions will boost future investments across the smart city market and are likely to accelerate the digitalization of many city services. New business models and finance programs are also expected to help accelerate investment. Additionally, new partnerships are being established across the public, technology, and finance sectors to support smart city investments and overcome the funding gap that has long been a significant drag on the market, according to the report.
The report, Smart Cities, examines recent developments in the global smart city market, with a focus on five key industries: energy, water, mobility, buildings, and government. The study examines key market and technology trends, city strategies, key projects, competitor profiles, and regional developments. Global revenue estimates for smart city technologies, segmented by industry and region, extend through 2032. An executive summary of the report is available for free download on the Guidehouse Insights website.
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Authorities arrested and charged the man who they say shot and killed a mother who was pushing a 3-month-old baby in a stroller in Manhattan's Upper East Side on Wednesday.
In a statement Friday evening, police said 22-year-old Isaac Argro was charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon in connection with the fatal shooting. Authorities have identified the victim as Azsia Johnson.
Police told CNN that Argro has asked for a lawyer, though CNN is not yet aware of the name of his legal representation.
The suspect approached Johnson and shot her once in the head near the intersection of East 95th Street and Lexington Avenue on Wednesday night, authorities have said. The suspect then left on foot, police said.
Johnson was 20 years old. The 3-month-old, who is believed to be Johnson's child, was not harmed.
In a statement after the arrest, New York City Mayor Eric Adams said Johnson's family "is hurting, they deserve justice, and we will deliver it."
Authorities have said they believe the victim and the shooter knew each other and called the shooting a domestic incident. Adams said in a news conference earlier this week officials believed Johnson was targeted.
Investigators were able to learn the child's age and other details about Johnson from domestic incident reports on which her name appeared, one official previously told CNN. The reports include her name, those listed as former boyfriends and the name of a second child who was not with her at the time of the shooting, CNN has reported.
The mayor previously declined to say where the baby was after the shooting, but added city officials were in touch with family members.
The killing comes amid a push in New York City to curb gun violence and reignited conversations around the scourge following high-profile shootings, including massacres at an upstate New York supermarket and an elementary school in Texas. In the aftermath of those shootings, President Joe Biden late last month signed into law the first major federal gun safety legislation passed in decades.
"A woman is pushing a baby carriage down the block and is shot in point-blank range. It shows just how this national problem is impacting families," Adams said in a news conference following Johnson's fatal shooting. "It doesn't matter if you are on the Upper East Side or East New York, Brooklyn."
In January, the mayor unveiled a "Blueprint to End Gun Violence," which includes long-term goals to grow economic opportunities, improve child education and provide more access to mental health resources while addressing the gun crisis. And earlier Wednesday, authorities in the state announced they were filing lawsuits against so-called ghost gun retailers to try and hinder the proliferation of mail-order components used to make untraceable guns that lead to shootings.
On Friday, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed into law a bill restricting the concealed carry of firearms in locations such as government buildings and schools. That comes after a Supreme Court ruling last week that struck down the state's century-old law placing restrictions on carrying concealed handguns outside the home.
Last month, the governor also signed a legislative package tightening state gun laws, including a law that raised the minimum age to buy a semiautomatic rifle to 21.
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PHILADELPHIA — The environment sowed by Kanye West and Kyrie Irving — that antisemitic vibe casting a cloud over the NBA — has sent Daniel Hazan into feelings of sadness and doubt.
As the NBA’s only orthodox Jew player agent, Hazan has been forced to ask himself recently, “Do my clients think I’m manipulating them?”
“Do they think I don’t have their best interests at heart?”
“It draws a level of concern for me,” he told the Daily News.
It’s difficult to gauge the sentiment of NBA players on Irving’s comments or suspension. Former stars Charles Barkley, Shaquille O’Neal, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Reggie Miller all publicly condemned the Nets point guard, but active players have been eerily silent while the Nets, NBA and players union tread lightly on Irving before Thursday’s suspension.
Hazan, still a relative newbie in the agency business at 30 years old, acknowledged he’s concerned “without a doubt” about alienating himself by speaking against antisemitic propaganda. He’s also worried about causing a fuss because it provides people like Kayne West more fuel for hatred.
It’s an unfortunate consequence of being proudly Jewish and operating in the NBA right now.
“That’s always an issue we have in our community — how do we address it?” said Hazan, who represents NBAers Dennis Smith Jr., Tre Mann and Trevelin Queen, among other players overseas. “I almost feel like when you do address these areas of concern of antisemitism, it just strengthens the level of antisemitism. Because the response is strong. And the media comes out and sponsors drop you and there’s a suspension and it’s like, ‘You see, I told you.’
“So I feel it’s always a lose-lose situation when it comes to these things. Because when you don’t acknowledge it, it looks bad. Then when you do acknowledge it, it looks bad. The fire is continuously burning. What we all just wished is to get an apology immediately and put this thing to bed.”
Irving eventually apologized via Instagram for promoting a documentary filled with anti-Semitic tropes, including the well-worn sewage that Jews control the media and the Holocaust is either fictional or greatly exaggerated. But that apology was only after an indefinite suspension levied by the Nets and a week of Irving doubling down or deflecting in interviews.
“I’m torn between being in this business and wanting to build my name because I’m just getting started in this business,” said Hazan, a New York City product who attended Yeshiva University in Manhattan. “So what am I going to do? Am I going to keep my mouth shut or stick up for what I believe in? It’s unfortunate that I have to be put in that situation.”
Still, Hazan also understands he can’t stay quiet. That was reinforced Thursday when the FBI warned of a “broad threat to synagogues in New Jersey.”
“All it takes is for one fanatic to see what Kyrie says and how he feels — and all it takes is one person out of his 18 million followers who walks into a synagogue with a gun and starts shooting people. Or walks into a Jewish school and starts shooting people.
“Once a guy like Kyrie understands that impact, you understand why we take this so seriously. And why this is a very serious thing for us. A lot of people use the word scared. You may not understand it. But we feel a level of insecurity and it’s the result of these hate statements and what that can generate for us.”
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(NerdWallet) – More U.S. workers than ever hold a graduate degree. Years of intensifying job requirements and headlines declaring a master’s “the new bachelor’s degree” nudged a record number of students into grad school.
And yet more well-paying jobs no longer require a college degree at all. In this tight labor market, do college grads need a master’s degree to compete? Maybe not.
“We have all reduced our almost obsession with the master’s degree,” says Johnny C. Taylor Jr., CEO and president of the Society for Human Resource Management.
Anecdotal and statistical evidence shows employers were already pulling back degree requirements even before the pandemic: Data from a job market analysis done by the Burning Glass Institute show a reduction in middle-skills and high-skills requirements — jobs that require more education than a high school diploma — from 2017 to 2019.
If fewer employers are requiring grad degrees to gain entrance to good jobs, prospective students should assess whether advanced degrees are worth taking on debt.
Some fields still require advanced degrees
Advanced degrees are still the key to entering certain professions: Medicine, law and teaching come to mind. In other fields, as long as you can convey you have the skills an employer is looking for, you can get a job without an advanced degree, says Brad Hershbein, senior economist and deputy director of research for the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Advanced degrees could hedge against a recession
Employers are likely reducing education requirements to fill slots, which can be difficult in a tight labor market like this one, experts say. But that doesn’t mean it will last.
“Nobody can quite explain what we’re going through now; I think everyone thinks it’s temporary,” says Gordon Lafer, a professor in the Labor Education & Research Center at the University of Oregon.
Holding an advanced degree could provide a safeguard for the future. If the economic tide turns, Taylor says, the degree becomes a differentiator.
Advanced degrees tend to correlate with lower unemployment rates compared with bachelor’s or associate degrees. But generally, any degree acts as a buffer against unemployment.
During the Great Recession, those with bachelor’s degrees and higher were more likely to keep their jobs, according to 2014 research by the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce. The same goes for job retention during the early days of the pandemic, according to June 2020 data from The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.
Graduate programs don’t always pay off
What consumers need is data that show program-specific outcomes like graduates’ employment rates and average salaries. These are woefully difficult to find. For example, the College Scorecard, a data tool from the U.S. Department of Education, which provides information on outcomes like graduation rates and post-graduate salaries, doesn’t include graduate-level data by major.
The lack of transparency makes it harder for prospective students to make an informed decision. And that could lead some to end up with debt they’re unable to repay.
“Not everyone realizes there’s a risk that it’s a bad financial investment,” says Hershbein.
Graduate loan debt has reached an all-time high, according to data from the federal government and think tanks like the Center for American Progress and Brookings. Unlike undergraduate loans, which have stricter limits on the amount of debt students can take on annually, federal Grad PLUS and private graduate loans allow students to borrow up to the cost of attendance, so it’s easier to rack up debt.
Your earnings after attaining a grad degree will largely depend on your field and employer. Outcomes in some fields are easier to predict than in others, says Hershbein.
“Teachers’ master’s degrees are carefully calibrated; based on union contracts they know what the pay is going to be,” says Hershbein. But outcomes for master’s in areas like public policy or fine arts are more of an unknown, he adds.
Master’s programs are not all equal
Where you get your degree also matters. “If you’re getting an online master’s degree from the University of Phoenix it will pay off less than a master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania,” Hershbein says.
Taylor says the nature of remote learning during the pandemic erased some of the bias around online programs, but employer preference is still skewed toward degrees from elite colleges.
“I think we have to be honest with ourselves: There’s always an elitism that plays itself into the hiring process,” says Taylor.
For graduate students, attending a highly selective university might help them make professional connections to more easily get a job. And grad programs are “cash cows” for universities, says Hershbein. Universities count on the prestige of their undergraduate degrees to attract graduate students into expensive programs.
Students then rack up exorbitant debt for degrees that might not pay off.
An estimated 40% of master’s degree programs do not pay off at all, according to February 2022 data from the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, a nonprofit think tank.
The uncertainty means prospective students will need to do some legwork to prevent graduate school from harming their finances more than it helps their employment prospects. That means graduate applicants should:
- Start with the graduate program costs on a school’s website.
- Search earnings and entry-level degree requirements for occupations using the Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Outlook Handbook.
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TUCSON, Ariz., Nov. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Phantom Space Corp. announced today it has been awarded four new NASA task orders to launch CubeSat satellites into space as part of the new VADR contract.
NASA's VADR missions (for Venture-class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare) missions intend to meet the agency's needs for NASA payloads while also fostering the development of new launch vehicles from both emerging and established launch providers. VADR increases access to space by significantly reducing costs using less NASA oversight to achieve lower launch costs with payloads that can accept a higher risk tolerance.
"The new contracts will help us launch a Golden Age of commercial space, and it's an honor to have NASA onboard—their leadership is invaluable to the space industry, and we are proud to help their programs expand humanity's knowledge of our planet, solar system, and beyond," says Mark Lester, Phantom Space COO and VADR Program Manager for the company.
The company plans to stage the first space flights in 2024, and the NASA CubeSats will be among the first payloads.
Two will be onboard the second Phantom flight, and the other two will be on the fourth flight. The CubeSat launches for NASA will occur at the Vandenberg Space Force Base's Space Launch Complex 8.
The CubeSats will be ferried into space by Phantom's two-stage Daytona rocket, which stands 18.7 meters tall (61 feet) and can transport satellites up to 450 kg (990 pounds) into low-earth orbit.
The Daytona is being designed, built, and tested at Phantom's base in Tucson. It is powered by ten Hadley engines supplied by Ursa Major of Colorado.
Earlier this year, Phantom Space was one of a dozen companies selected by NASA to provide launches for VADR missions, expanding the market for science and technology payloads. The four new streamlined CubeSat Launch Service Mission task orders are Phantom's first winning bids under the new VADR indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract.
"NASA's launch demand will help us grow the market for private demand, as well. This is what smart government funding has done for newly emerging technology for many years," Lester adds.
"The more spacecraft we put up into space, the further we can reduce costs and expand access to space for businesses and nations that couldn't afford it before. There's a whole new space race going on here, and we're inspired to be part of it," Lester adds.
Phantom Space is a space services company providing all-in capabilities for satellite manufacturing to business and government clients: satellite design and production, rocket design and construction, launch services, and constellation management. It was founded by Jim Cantrell and Michael, D'Angelo, both inventors and entrepreneurs. The company aims to provide space technology and launch services that previously were available only to the largest conglomerates and the richest nations, at less than half the cost of current launches. This will expand the market for new "space applications" to even small companies and poor nations, broadening the distribution of beneficial technology to the rest of the world. To learn more, visit www.phantomspace.com.
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SAINT-LOUIS, Senegal (AP) — When the gas rig arrived off the coast of Saint-Louis, residents of this seaside Senegalese town found reason to hope. Fishing has long been the community’s lifeblood, but the industry was struggling with climate change and COVID-19. Officials promised the drilling would soon bring thousands of jobs and diversification of the economy.
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Instead, residents say, the rig has brought only a wave of problems, unemployment and more poverty. And it's forced some women to turn to prostitution to support their families, they told The Associated Press in interviews.
To make way for the drilling of some 15 trillion cubic feet of natural gas (425 billion cubic meters) discovered off the coasts of Senegal and neighboring Mauritania in West Africa in 2015, access to fertile fishing waters was cut off, with the creation of an exclusion zone that prevents fisherman from working in the area.
At first, the restricted areas were small, but they expanded to 1.6 square kilometers (0.62 square miles), roughly the size of 300 football fields, with construction of the platform that looms about 6 miles (10 kilometers) offshore.
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Soon the work was overtaking the diattara, a word in the local Wolof language for the fertile fishing ground that lies on the ocean floor beneath the platform. With 90% of the town’s 250,000 people relying on fishing for income, the catch — and paychecks — were shrinking. Boxes of fish turned into small buckets, then nothing at all.
Saint-Louis, Senegal’s historic center for fishing, has faced many troubles over the past decade. Sea erosion from climate change washed away homes, forcing moves. Thousands of foreign industrial trawlers, many of them illegal, snapped up vast amounts of fish, and local men in small wooden boats couldn’t compete. The COVID-19 pandemic shut down market sales of the tiny hauls they could manage.
The rig was the final straw for Saint-Louis, pushing it to the brink of economic disaster, according to locals, officials and advocates. The benefits promised from the initial discovery of energy off the coast haven’t materialized. Production for the liquified natural gas deal — planned by a partnership among global gas and oil giants BP and Kosmos Energy and Senegal and Mauritania's state-owned oil companies — has yet to begin.
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Traditionally, many women make a living processing fish, while the men catch it; sons, husbands and fathers spend weeks at sea. But with the restrictions, families couldn’t feed their children or pay rent. They begged for leftovers from neighbors. Some were evicted.
Senegalese officials and the gas companies say people should be patient, as jobs and benefits from the gas deal will materialize. But locals say they’ve been stripped of their livelihoods and provided with no alternatives. That's driven some women to prostitution, an industry that’s been legal in Senegal for five decades but still brings shame for those who break cultural and religious norms.
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For them, prostitution is faster and more reliable than working in a shop or restaurant — jobs that don’t pay well and can be hard to find.
Four women who have started having sex with men for money since the rig came to town shared their stories with the AP on condition of anonymity because of the shame they associate with the work. They've hidden it from their husbands and families. They say they know many others like them.
The women explain the influx of cash as loans from friends and relatives. They know prostitution is legal but won’t register with Senegalese officials. That would mean a health screening and an official ID to carry with them.
They’re unwilling to legitimize work they say has been forced upon them.
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________ For one family of seven, hitting bottom came when they were evicted. The father, a 45-year-old fisherman, lost his job. There wasn’t enough food to feed the five children, ages 2 to 11.
The mother tried washing clothes and other jobs, but at less than $10 a day, it wasn’t enough. The family moved in with relatives and she had nothing to feed the children before school each morning.
“I’m obliged to find money through prostitution,” she told the AP, her shoulders hunched and voice weary in a hotel room where she wouldn’t be seen by her husband or friends.
“When we use the money, when my children eat the food I cook from that money, it’s hard,” she said.
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The family and others in Saint-Louis learned of the gas discovery shortly after it was announced in 2015. Two years later, energy companies BP and Kosmos established a presence in both Senegal and Mauritania and partnered with Petrosen and SMHPM, the state-owned companies, respectively.
The Greater Tortue Ahmeyim project, as the overall deal is called, is expected to produce around 2.3 million tons (2.08 million metric tons) of liquified natural gas a year, enough to support production for more than 20 years, according to the gas companies. Total cost for the first and second phases is nearly $5 billion, according to a report by Environmental Action Germany and Urgewald, a German-based environmental and human rights organization. The energy companies say phase one of the project is a multibillion-dollar investment, but didn't specify the amount.
Completion of phase one is expected by the end of this year, when gas production should start, the companies said.
As early as 2018, Saint-Louis residents say, they were warned they would lose access to some of their favored fishing waters. Installation of the breakwater, the area where the platform sits began by 2020.
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BP is the operator and investor, owning nearly 60% of the project in Senegal and Mauritania. The deal promises to create thousands of jobs and provide electricity to a nation where approximately 30% of its 17 million people live without power.
The AP asked BP and Kosmos officials via email to comment for this story. The AP also sought comment about the companies' efforts to mitigate effects of lost income in the community, their response to the women who say they’ve turned to prostitution, and other matters related to the deal.
In a statement to the AP, spokesman Thomas Golembeski said Kosmos had worked to build community relationships and that its employees visit Saint-Louis regularly to inform people of operations and act on feedback. Golembeski emphasized the project will provide a source of low-cost natural gas and expand access to reliable, affordable and cleaner energy. He also cited access to a micro-finance credit fund established for the fishing community.
He referred other questions to BP, as operator of the project.
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BP sent prepared statements in response to the AP’s inquires. BP said it is engaging with the fishing communities in Senegal and Mauritania and trying to benefit the wider economy by locally sourcing products, developing the workforce and supporting sustainable development. More than 3,000 jobs in some 350 local companies have been generated in Senegal and Mauritania, according to the company. BP also cited its work to renovate the maternity unit at the Saint-Louis hospital and its help of 1,000 patients with a mobile clinic operating in remote areas.
But local officials, advocates and residents say they haven’t seen many jobs or other options to combat the economic loss.
BP did not respond to follow-up questions. Neither BP nor Kosmos addressed the AP's questions about women who say they've been driven to prostitution.
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When locals talk about the hardships stemming from the gas project, they use just one word: Fuel. To them, it encompasses all they feel has gone wrong in the community.
The rig looms in the background off the coast. Easy to spot on a clear day, the lights on the platform shine at night and resemble a cruise ship docked offshore. The smell of fish still permeates Saint-Louis, as pirogues — small wooden boats — line the shores and horse-drawn carts carry the diminishing catch to town.
Seasoned fisherman who’ve weathered past storms and changes to the industry say the gas deal poses problems on a different scale, largely thanks to the exclusion zone. Smaller boats aren’t equipped to venture past it, creating overcrowding in other fishing areas and depleting stocks for fisherman.
“Going to the diattara now is like going to hell,” said Aminou Kane, vice president for the Association of Fishermen Anglers of Saint-Louis.
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Since the area became inaccessible, fisherman are quitting, risking their lives migrating to Europe, or fishing illegally in neighboring Mauritania where they face arrest, he said.
Kane, 46, is in the last group. He used to earn more than $1,000 a week fishing in Senegal and now makes roughly half that fishing secretly across the border, he said.
The mother who described turning to prostitution said her husband, too, tried to fish in Mauritanian waters. He left home to seek work there one year ago and she hasn’t heard from him since.
Despite money coming in from prostitution, the women who spoke to the AP said they and others struggle to feed and shelter their families. Some have pulled children out of private school because they can’t pay tuition.
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The women can earn about $40 per client. Most work several times per week, in hotels or at the men’s homes when wives are away. The women describe most clients as well-off Senegalese men, including business leaders and government officials, though some are from neighboring or Western countries.
They find the clients through local contacts. In some cases, the men are family friends to whom the women initially turned to for money or loans. But they say the men eventually insisted upon sex in return for the cash. Some of the men paid well at first, but not as much anymore.
In other cases, women go through intermediaries with established networks of men looking for prostitutes.
A woman who spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity said she's been running a business in Saint-Louis connecting men with prostitutes for seven years. She uses the name Coumbista in her work to protect her identity from her family and said she's seen her clientele drop in recent years, with young fisherman seeing a loss of income due to the gas project.
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Simultaneously, she said, the number of women seeking sex work spiked, increasing her roster by half. She knows of nearly 30 women who started sex work because of gas-related financial woes, and because of general poverty. Most then do the work secretly, she said.
A 29-year-old who turned to her for help last year after her husband stopped fishing sneaks out of the house several times a week after putting their three children to bed. She tells her husband she’s going to see friends or family.
“I am always afraid that I’ll be seen by people who know me,” she told the AP in the backseat of a car turning onto a quiet downtown street as she pointed to a nondescript building, one of two hotels where she has had sex with more than 20 men since she started. “I never thought that one day I would be doing this.”
The local government admits there has been an increase in illegal prostitution in recent years in Saint-Louis. Officials attribute the rise not directly to the energy deal, but to economic troubles overall.
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“It’s not only the fishermen population or the traders, but it’s poverty in general that forces women into prostitution,” said Lamine Ndiaye, deputy to the Saint-Louis mayor.
People’s grievances about the rig are overblown and the community needs to be patient as it will take time to see the dividends, at least until after production, he said.
___ Fossil fuel extraction hits communities particularly hard when the local economy depends on natural resources, according to environmental experts.
“If the land or sea that farmers or fishers rely on is poisoned and out of bounds, then their jobs and access to food have been robbed, and their communities can fall apart,” said Dr. Aliou Ba, head of Greenpeace Africa’s oceans campaign and a Senegalese resident. “That has happened in several countries in Africa, including in the Niger Delta. Oil and gas came in, contaminated the water, killed the fish and ruined many fishers’ way of life.”
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He said the process is already playing out in Saint-Louis, and the community is suffering: “If the authorities let this spread along our coast, hundreds of thousands of fisheries jobs will be at risk, and the millions of people in this region who depend on fish for protein will be threatened.”
Shortly after the gas deal was signed, the companies noted there could be problems in Saint-Louis. A 2019 environmental and social impact assessment by BP and its partners said there were “a lot of uncertainties around the consequences for Saint-Louis fisherman of losing access to potential fishing grounds.” Still, it considered the intensity of the impact low, according to the report.
To mitigate economic consequences, the gas companies are evaluating options for a sustainable artificial reef project in Senegal and supporting 47 national apprentice technicians on a multiyear training program in preparation to work offshore and create jobs and supply chain opportunities, BP said in statements.
The technicians have been provided with 16 months of university training at Scotland’s Glasgow Caledonian university and will gain internationally recognized qualifications, BP said.
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BP did not respond to questions about whether it stood by the company's initial risk assessment.
Papa Samba Ba, director of hydrocarbons for Senegal’s gas and energy ministry, said the objective is that by 2035 half of all gas projects will go to local jobs, companies and services.
Phase one of the project will invest about 8.5% of the gas into Senegal; however, the local gas market isn’t set up yet and could take up to two years to be operational, he said.
There’s also concern among industry experts that because Senegal doesn’t have a history of oil and gas drilling, it won’t have enough skilled laborers, despite the training.
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Fossil liquified natural gas infrastructure provides few direct jobs, and those often go to experts from outside the community, not locals, said Andy Gheorghiu, a climate consultant and co-founder of the Climate Alliance against LNG, a German-based organization focused on the environment.
Some experts point to scenarios that have played out in the U.S. In the fishing village of Cameron in Louisiana, which operates gas export terminals, people haven’t benefited from promised jobs and fisherman have been displaced from the community, according to locals.
“If you drive around Cameron Parish, home of three of these export terminals, you would not believe that these terminals have benefited the community in any way,” said James Hiatt, who lives close to Cameron and is director of For a Better Bayou, an environmental organization. The gas companies promised a new marina, restaurant and fishing pier, none of which have opened, he said.
The AP emailed Venture Global, the gas terminal operator that residents say made the promises multiple times but received no response.
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Environmental watchdogs say it would make more sense to invest in renewable energy. Senegal could create more than five times as many jobs in that sector yearly until 2030, compared with jobs in the fossil fuel industry, according to the Climate Action Tracker, an independent project that tracks government climate action.
But despite the suffering the community attributes to the gas, most say they don’t want the companies to leave. What they want is for the situation to change.
“When I think of my former life and my life today, it’s hard,” said one 40-year-old woman, wiping away tears.
The mother of three said she had to resort to prostitution last year after her husband left the city and cut contact. She’s pulled two of her children out of private school and sent them to public school, where the teachers sometimes don’t show up for days.
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“I hope someone can help me out of this situation,” she said. “One in which no one would ever want to live.” | 2023-04-14T04:33:37+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/world/article/senegal-gas-deal-drives-locals-to-desperation-17896692.php |
The NFL did not give officials a directive to emphasize roughing-the-passer penalties following Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa’s concussion, but the topic will be discussed next week when NFL owners meet in New York, a person with direct knowledge of the matter told The Associated Press.
The person, speaking on condition of anonymity because the conversations are internal, said the league isn’t planning to make any rule changes amid outrage over two disputed calls in Week 5. Roughing-the-passer penalties are down 45% from this point last year. Through Week 5 in 2021, 51 were called. Only 28 have been called this season, according to league stats.
The league’s Competition Committee — comprised of six team owners/executives and four head coaches — makes most of the recommendations for rule changes. Teams can also propose rule changes to be voted on by owners, which require 24 votes to pass.
One idea, suggested by Chiefs defensive tackle Chris Jones on Monday night after he was flagged, might be to allow video review of roughing calls.
That is unlikely, acccording to a person with knowledge of the situation.
The league already went down that road, making pass interference reviewable for one season after an egregious missed foul late in the fourth quarter in the NFC championship in January 2019 cost the New Orleans Saints a trip to the Super Bowl.
The experiment failed miserably and the rule wasn’t considered the next year.
Protecting quarterbacks is a priority for owners, who pay big bucks for the faces of their franchises. Twenty-five QBs are making at least $25 million this season.
The questionable call against Jones — the second in two days — nearly cost Kansas City in its 30-29 comeback victory over the Las Vegas Raiders.
The Chiefs had just scored to trim their deficit to 17-7 when Jones stripped Raiders quarterback Derek Carr from behind just before halftime. The Pro Bowl defensive tackle landed on Carr while also coming up with the ball — replays showed it was clearly loose and that Jones cleanly recovered — but referee Carl Cheffers threw a flag for roughing the passer.
“The quarterback is in the pocket and he’s in a passing posture. He gets full protection of all the aspects of what we give the quarterback in a passing posture,” Cheffers told a pool reporter after the game. “My ruling was the defender landed on him with full body weight. The quarterback is protected from being tackled with full body weight.”
On Sunday, Falcons defensive tackle Grady Jarrett was flagged by referee Jerome Boger for a seemingly harmless sack on Tom Brady. The penalty gave the Buccaneers a first down and allowed them to run out the clock on a 21-15 victory.
Boger made a similar critical call late in the fourth quarter of the Ravens-Bills game a week earlier on a play that many also thought didn’t to warrant a flag.
Boger called another borderline roughing penalty in the Falcons-Buccaneers game when Vita Vea was pushed into Atlanta quarterback Marcus Mariota.
Roughing the passer is the only rule where referees are instructed to err on the side of caution.
The NFL rulebook notes: “When in doubt about a roughness call or potentially dangerous tactic against the quarterback, the referee should always call roughing the passer.”
Jones, who has been flagged for roughing the passer nine times in his career, has a solution.
“We’ve got to be able to review it in the booth, you know what I mean?” Jones said. “I think that’s the next step for the NFL as a whole. If we’re going to call it a penalty at that high (of rate), then we’ve got to be able to review it and make sure, because sometimes looks can be deceiving.”
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AP Sports Dave Skretta contributed.
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More AP NFL coverage: https://apnews.com/hub/nfl and https://twitter.com/AP_NFL | 2022-10-12T12:37:40+00:00 | mytwintiers.com | https://www.mytwintiers.com/sports/ap-ap-source-nfl-to-evaluate-roughing-the-passer-rule/ |
PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. (AP) — The sun tried to poke through thick marine layer in the late afternoon, which would have illuminated Pebble Beach on what already had been a special occasion.
The “Reunion of Champions” was for all past U.S. Women’s Open winners. They gathered for a group photo Monday unlike any previous reunion because of the setting — short and left of the 17th green, with golf’s most famous coastline as the backdrop.
This celebration had a measure of regret.
Sure, they soaked up a view to their left of the fourth green, the steep cliffs along the right side of the sixth fairway, waves lapping the shore along the ninth and 10th holes. So many of them — too many — could only look.
The first U.S. Women’s Open at Pebble Beach came too late for the likes of Juli Inkster, Beth Daniel and Meg Mallon, for Karrie Webb, Patty Sheehan and Se Ri Pak.
For too long, the U.S. Women’s Open rarely went to the A-list of championship courses.
Sheehan in 1992 and Paula Creamer in 2010 won at Oakmont. Mallon won one of her two Women’s Opens at Colonial. But there were far too many other courses that were known only regionally, that provided a stern test but lacked the heritage that makes U.S. Opens memorable.
In Michigan, the men played at Oakland Hills and the women played at Indianwood. In Oklahoma, the men were at Southern Hills and the women at Muskogee Country Club.
There is no point looking back now, only forward; the USGA has done its part in helping to elevate the women’s game with more than just prize money.
Even so, it’s worth noting the original plan was for the Women’s Open to be at Pebble Beach nine years before now.
“It’s going to be at Pebble in 2014,” David Fay, the former executive director of the USGA, said during the 2007 U.S. Women’s Open.
And then it wasn’t. During the 2010 U.S. Open at Pebble Beach, the USGA decided to have the U.S. Amateur at Pebble in 2018 and then the U.S. Open in 2019, the centennial year of the club.
“We will continue to advance the idea of taking the Women’s Open to Pebble Beach,” said former USGA President Tom O’Toole, choosing words that would suggest, “We’ll get back to you on that one.”
But the USGA made good on its pledge, and it didn’t stop there.
Some of those Hall of Famers at the reception Monday could have been reminded of what they’re missing had they walked along the edge of the 18th fairway. The USGA erected posters of future sites, a list that includes Riviera, Oakmont, Oakland Hills, Interlachen, Merion, along with three more trips to Pebble Beach.
Coupled with big increases in prize money — the U.S. Women’s Open led the way in that category, too — the women’s majors are starting to recognize that going to historical courses offers a better chance for the champions to part of history.
Lorena Ochoa won only two majors. She was the first female British Open champion at St. Andrews. Now that the R&A has taken over, the Women’s British has gone to Muirfield (formerly an all-male club), Carnoustie, Royal Troon and Royal Lytham & St. Annes.
The LPGA Championship had been at DuPont Country Club in Delaware before going to Bulle Rock and then going to Rochester at what had been a regular LPGA Tour event. Now that the PGA of America and KPMG are involved, it has gone to Hazeltine and Congressional, and Ronni Yin won the Women’s PGA last week at Baltusrol.
Money matters. So do venues.
“They definitely go hand in hand,” said Michelle Wie West, whose lone major was a U.S. Women’s Open at Pinehurst No. 2 a week after Martin Kaymer won the U.S. Open. “I would say playing for bigger purses and not playing on iconic venues is not a sustainable model. I think it’s a short-term gain.
“I think being on iconic venues is a more sustainable improvement for the tour because it increases the media value, and you have to increase media value to attain more money,” she said. “It’s kind of a chicken-and-egg situation. But I do believe that when you have our women on iconic venues such as Pebble Beach, the fans love it. The fans are the ones that are driving the media value. They love to watch TV and recognize the courses that we play.”
Pebble Beach stands out. It always has, either the PGA Tour event in February or the six U.S. Opens it already has held. Now it’s time for Rose Zhang to go after a left pin on the hourglass green at the 17th, or for Lydia Ko to take on that daunting shot over the ocean on No. 8.
Location matters.
It all started with the 13 founders of the LPGA, who paved the way for Mickey Wright and Kathy Whitworth, who paved the way for Inkster and Sheehan, for Webb and Pak.
Annika Sorenstam, 52 and retired since 2008, received a special exemption to play another Women’s Open because it’s at Pebble Beach. Wie West has effectively retired, but she still is exempt from her 2014 Open victory. No way was she missing Pebble.
Mallon and her generation can only watch and be satisfied with being another link in progress.
It’s not all bad. She at least played Cypress Point on Tuesday.
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AP golf: https://apnews.com/hub/golf and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2023-07-05T04:28:49+00:00 | texomashomepage.com | https://www.texomashomepage.com/sports/ap-column-us-womens-open-at-pebble-reminds-veterans-what-theyre-missing/ |
HOLLYWOOD, FLA. (WSVN) - There was a special reunion at a South Florida hospital. Doctors and their patients shared survival stories.
Pushing past the pain to celebrate life, dozens of trauma survivors reunited with hospital staff and rescue workers at Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood who helped them overcome some of the most harrowing experiences of their lives.
“Every day is Trauma Survivor Day,” said Medical Director Dr.Andrew Rosenthal. “In some ways, it’s a big group hug and in some other ways, it’s a cry fest.”
From the scene of the accident to the operating room, doctors are faced with tough decisions.
“We never know who’s going to make it, and the big man upstairs has a plan, but the rest of us can only do what the book says and try to help patients get through the worst times of their lives,” Dr. Rosenthal said.
Anthony Estrada said he got the worst phone call he’d ever received in his life.
“When I got here, I got hit with a bomb that my wife didn’t make it and my son was fighting for his life,” Estrada said.
His wife was killed on impact in a devastating car crash, while his son, Jacob, spent more than two months in the hospital after suffering from multiple serious injuries, which included his brain and heart.
“If it wasn’t for them, I wouldn’t have Jacob here, celebrating that he’s going to third grade,” Estrada said. “He’s doing great because of everybody here, every doctor in the ICU, PICU, everywhere.”
Megan Bishop was the sole survivor of a plane crash near North Perry Airport in Pembroke Pines in 2021.
“I broke my ribs, I cracked my spine, I needed stitches in my face and I had hematomas in my arms,” Bishop said. “I tell everyone the biggest injury is a broken heart.”
She lost her only child, her four-year-old son Taylor, who was in the car with her.
Although the event is bittersweet, she realizes she can share her pain with a new community.
“It’s a reminder that I can overcome huge things that were capable of breaking me,” Bishop said. “Hearing everybody else’s story and being able to share the grief and the trauma with them, we really are like a family.”
May is Trauma Awareness Month.
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Warm up continues today
SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - Expanding high pressure and plenty of sunshine will lead to warmer temperatures this week.
As the high builds, the winds will remain out of the southeast or south for the rest of the work week. As we know, a south wind will warm us. By the end of the week the highs will run above average by about five degrees. Sunshine and gentle to breezy winds will be the features of the forecast.
Skies will remain dry until the end of the week when the next chance for any rain will come into the forecast by Saturday.
On Frida,y a cold front will approach and stall out over us on Saturday. The instability caused by the front will bring a rain chance. However, moisture will be lacking, so don’t expect anything more than a slight chance for showers.
A low-pressure area will develop on the front Sunday and push the front south on Monday with, again, a slight chance for showers Sunday.
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OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – Three men could be facing charges after a tense start to the June 22 Oklahoma State Board of Education meeting led to one allegedly assaulting a Tulsa teacher and security officer.
Witnesses said Edwards Moore Jr. and Leonard Scott III, a retired veteran also known as “Old Ranger,” were handing out numbers to all the people waiting to get into the meeting.
The numbers represented the order in which people could go inside.
Both men were blocking the entrance to the meeting room in order to enforce the number system.
When a Tulsa teacher tried to go around the two men, one of them allegedly got physical.
According to a probable cause affidavit, Moore “grabbed” and “began pushing” the woman, “telling her she does not have a number and she cannot go in.”
When a Department of Public Safety Security Officer came over to intervene, Moore was seen “aggressively pushing” the officer.
One of the people the duo barred from entering was Sean Cummings.
The probable cause affidavit says Cummings became agitated and began yelling, saying the State was keeping people out of the meeting. However, court documents say “no OSDE staff knew anything about giving out numbers to enter an open meeting.”
“The conflict between Cummings and Scott included violent and threatening words which caused more unrest in the crowd,” the affidavit reads.
The affidavit also says when the security officer stepped between the two, Cummings refused to back down.
All three men were escorted out of the building and the meeting was allowed to proceed.
Disturbing State Business and Incitement to Riot are the offenses listed in the documents for Cummings.
Disturbing State Business, Obstructing Passage to State Building and Incitement to Riot are the offenses listed for Scott.
Disturbing State Business, Obstructing Passage to State Building and two Assault and Battery offenses are listed for Moore.
None have been arrested or formally charged. | 2023-07-06T20:20:05+00:00 | kfor.com | https://kfor.com/news/local/three-could-face-charges-after-confrontation-at-oklahoma-state-board-of-education-meeting/ |
The National Weather Service has issued a Dense Fog Advisory for Butler, Clinton, Greene, and Warren Counties until 8 a.m. this morning.
QUICK-LOOK FORECAST:
- Air Quality slowly returns to normal
- Scattered storm chances (a few strong)
- Below normal temperatures across Miami Valley
>>TRACK THE CONDITIONS: Live Doppler 7 Radar
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WEDNESDAY: Patchy fog turning partly cloudy, humidity returns.
Storm Center 7 Meteorologist Britley Ritz says there is a chance of an isolated shower or storm today.
High temperatures remain in the middle 80s.
THURSDAY: Increasing clouds throughout the afternoon. Showers and storms are possible mainly after 5 p.m.
Temperatures continue to increase with highs in the middle to upper 80s.
FRIDAY: A few showers and storms early, turning partly sunny and more comfortable. Highs in the lower to mid-80s.
SATURDAY: Sunshine continues and is pleasant. Not as humid. Highs in the lower 80s.
SUNDAY: Mostly sunny and humid with temperatures in the middle 80s.
MONDAY: Mostly sunny skies with the chances of an afternoon shower or storm. Temperatures continue to warm in the middle 80s.
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GREENSBORO, N.C. — Duke Energy is conducting emergency power outages.
According to their website, it's due to extremely cold temperatures causing unusually high energy demand across the Carolinas.
Short, temporary power outages have begun.
Duke said the emergency outages are necessary to protect the energy grid against longer, more widespread outages.
Most of the emergency outages will get restored within 15-30 minutes. There are some instances where a crew will need to get dispatched, which could result in a long restoration process.
With strong winds hitting the Triad, it is possible that downed trees are also causing power outages.
You can stay updated on outages by checking the Duke Energy outage map. | 2022-12-24T16:24:43+00:00 | wfmynews2.com | https://www.wfmynews2.com/article/weather/emergency-outages-duke-energy-conducting-rolling-blackouts/83-b3961af0-4147-4543-8554-2640913699e6 |
VANCOUVER, BC, July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Rock Tech Lithium Inc. (TSXV: RCK) (OTCQX: RCKTF) (FWB: RJIB) (WKN: A1XF0V) ("Rock Tech" or the "Company") has entered into a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (the "MOU") with materials distributor and service provider thyssenkrupp Materials Trading GmbH ("thyssenkrupp Materials Trading") in relation to establishing a strategic partnership to supply lithium spodumene concentrate. Rock Tech plans to refine the mineral from the end of 2024 at its proposed converter in Guben, Germany, into high-purity lithium hydroxide, a key element in batteries for electric cars and plug-in hybrids.
The MOU between the two companies also includes a framework relating to the purchase of high-purity lithium hydroxide by thyssenkrupp Materials Trading for the battery market, as well as other by-products resulting from the refining process. Thus, the potential partnership is expected to promote a more resilient supply chain for lithium directly out of Germany, from raw material sourcing, to refining, to meeting demand of the automotive industry and growing electromobility demands.
Markus Brügmann, Rock Tech's chief executive officer says: "With thyssenkrupp Materials Trading we have found al global logistics and trading partner that gives us further security in the supply of spodumene. This is expected to give us a broader base for our input stream, which would take us a big step forward on the road to success."
Wolfgang Schnittker, chief executive officer of thyssenkrupp Materials Trading, says: "The potential partnership with Rock Tech underlines the systematic expansion of our global trading activities in the international battery and electric vehicles industry. The trading of lithium products would add another very important raw material to our supply portfolio for the production of long-life batteries."
Spodumene is one of the most important raw materials, amongst others, for the production of lithium-ion batteries in electric vehicles. For this purpose, the spodumene mineral must be refined into lithium hydroxide, which can then be supplied to cathode manufacturers for the battery industry worldwide. Cathodes are essential components of battery cells. The lithium spodumene concentrate will be used in Rock Tech's first converter in Guben, Germany, which is expected to produce battery-grade lithium hydroxide from 2024.
thyssenkrupp Materials Services is the largest mill-independent materials distributor and service provider in the Western world, with around 380 locations - including around 260 warehouse sites - in more than 30 countries. The extended range of services offered by the materials experts allows customers to focus even more strongly on their individual core businesses. As part of its strategic development "Materials as a Service", the company is focusing on from high-quality raw and basic materials to technical services and the development of intelligent processes in automation, extended supply chain, and warehouse and inventory management. Digital solutions ensure efficient and resource-saving processes for customers and thus provide the basis for sustainable action. From 2030 Materials Services will operate on a climate-neutral basis.
Rock Tech Lithium Inc. is a cleantech company with operations in Canada and Germany that aims to supply the automotive industry with high-quality, "made in Germany" lithium hydroxide. As early as 2024, Rock Tech intends to commission Europe's first lithium converter with a production capacity of 24,000 tonnes per year. This is equivalent to the volume needed to equip around 500,000 electric cars with lithium-ion batteries.
Rock Tech owns the Georgia Lake Project in Ontario, Canada. The Company has set itself the goal of creating a closed loop for lithium, thus closing the raw material gap on the road to clean mobility. As early as 2030, around 50 percent of the raw materials used by Rock Tech are expected to come from the recycling of batteries.
www.rocktechlithium.com
On behalf of the Board of Directors,
Dirk Harbecke
Chairman
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
The following cautionary statements are in addition to all other cautionary statements and disclaimers contained elsewhere in, or referenced by, this press release.
Certain information set forth in this press release contains "forward-looking information" and "forward-looking statements" (collectively, "forward-looking information") within the meaning of applicable securities laws, which are based on Rock Tech's current expectations, estimates, and assumptions in light of its experience and is perception of historical trends. All statements other than statements of historical facts may constitute forward-looking information. Often, forward-looking information can be identified by the use of words or phrases such as "estimate", "project", "anticipate", "expect", "intend", "believe", "hope", "may" and similar expressions, as well as "will", "shall" and all other indications of future tense. All forward-looking information set forth in this press release is expressly qualified in its entirety by the cautionary statements referred to in this section.
In particular, this press release contains forward-looking information pertaining to: expectations regarding the MOU, including statements relating to the benefits and outcomes therefrom; future actions taken by Rock Tech and thyssenkrupp Materials Trading, including with respect to establishing a strategic partnership between the parties, the purchase and sale of spodumene and lithium hydroxide, respectively, and the expected benefits of future arrangements between the parties; statements regarding Rock Tech's proposed lithium hydroxide converter, including its features and location; statements regarding Rock Tech's future plans and expectations, including with respect to the Company's feedstock sourcing strategy and the impact of a strategic partnership with thyssenkrupp Materials Trading thereon; anticipated production of lithium hydroxide and related processing methods and outputs; statements and expectations regarding the electric vehicle industry; Rock Tech's opinions, beliefs and expectations regarding the Company's business strategy, development and exploration opportunities and projects; and plans and objectives of management for the Company's operations and properties.
Forward-looking information contained in this press release is based on certain assumptions, estimates, expectations, analysis and opinions of the Company and in certain cases, third party experts, that are believed by management of Rock Tech to be reasonable at the time they were made. Such assumptions, estimates and other factors include, among other things: the supply and demand for, deliveries of, and the level and volatility of prices of, feedstock and intermediate and final lithium products, expected growth, performance and business operations, future commodity prices and exchange rates, prospects, growth opportunities and financing available to the Company, general business and economic conditions, results of development and exploration, Rock Tech's ability to procure supplies and other equipment necessary for its business. The foregoing list is not exhaustive of all assumptions which may have been used in developing the forward-looking information. While Rock Tech considers these assumptions, estimates and factors to be reasonable based on information currently available, they may prove to be incorrect. Forward-looking information should not be read as a guarantee of future performance or results.
In addition, forward-looking information involves known and unknown risks and uncertainties and other factors, many of which are beyond Rock Tech's control, that may cause Rock Tech's actual events, results, performance and/or achievements to be materially different from that which is expressed or implied by such forward-looking information. Risks and uncertainties that may cause actual events, results, performance and/or achievements to vary materially include the Company's ability to access funding required to invest in available opportunities and projects (including the Company's proposed lithium hydroxide converters) and on satisfactory terms, the current and potential adverse impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and recent geopolitical hostilities; the risk that Rock Tech will not be able to meet its financial obligations as they fall due, changes in commodity and other prices, Rock Tech's ability to attract and retain skilled staff and to secure feedstock from third party suppliers, unanticipated events and other difficulties related to construction, development and operation of the Company's proposed lithium hydroxide converters, the cost of compliance with current and future environmental and other laws and regulations, title defects, competition from existing and new competitors, changes in currency, exchange rates and market prices of Rock Tech's securities, Rock Tech's history of losses, impacts of climate change and other risks and uncertainties described from time to time in Rock Tech's public disclosure documents available on the Company's SEDAR profile at www.sedar.com, including those discussed under the heading "Risk Factors" in Rock Tech's most recently filed Management Discussion and Analysis and Annual Information Form, respectively. Such risks and uncertainties do not represent an exhaustive list of all risk factors that could cause actual events, results, performance and/or achievements to vary materially from the forward-looking information.
We cannot assure you that actual events, results, performance and/or achievements will be consistent with the forward-looking information and management's assumptions may prove to be incorrect. Forward-looking information reflects Rock Tech management's views as at the date the information is created. Except as may be required by law, Rock Tech undertakes no obligation and expressly disclaims any responsibility, obligation or undertaking to update or to revise any forward-looking information, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, to reflect any change in Rock Tech's expectations or any change in events, conditions or circumstances on which any such information is based.
Given these uncertainties, readers are cautioned not to rely on the forward-looking information set forth in this press release.
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Which GE dishwasher is best?
GE has been making quality household appliances since 1905, and today it is the fastest-growing appliance company in the United States. In fact, half of the households in the U.S. have a GE appliance.
A reliable choice, GE dishwashers come with various features, so you can find one that fits your needs, no matter the size of your household or your budget. The best is the GE Top Control Smart Built-In Tall Tub Dishwasher, which is powerful and efficient, giving you sparkling dishes every time.
What to know before you buy a GE dishwasher
Front control vs. top control
Today’s GE dishwashers have a lot of high-tech features, but the first decision you need to make is between the two types of dishwashers available: top control or front control.
- Top control: These dishwashers have the control panel on the top of the unit, and you need to open the door to get access. The sleek front creates a minimal look and makes it easy to clean.
- Front control: These dishwashers have a control panel on the front. The panel is often larger and easier to access. This classic look might not be for everyone, and sometimes buttons can be accidentally pushed.
Color and finish
GE dishwashers come in a variety of colors. The most popular option is stainless steel, but they are also available in white, black and slate. A few models also come in bisque, black slate and black stainless.
If you have young children or keeping a tidy kitchen is a priority, consider getting a fingerprint-resistant model. They are available in stainless steel, slate, black stainless and black slate.
Capacity
Unless you’re purchasing a countertop or compact dishwasher, most standard GE dishwashers are 24 inches wide, 25 inches deep and 35 inches tall.
What sets a dishwasher apart is how much it can hold, and that capacity is measured in place settings. Place settings are the dishes, silverware and glasses used by one person during a three-course meal. Place settings range from 10 on the small side to 16 on the large.
Consider purchasing dishwasher baskets to make the most of your space. They can even help save you time when putting away the dishes.
What to look for in a quality GE dishwasher
Dry Boost
GE’s innovative drying option dries dishes up to three times better than the standard heated dry option. It works exceptionally well on hard-to-dry items, such as plastics.
Active Flood Protect
Forget about your dishwasher leaking and ruining your floor. This feature has a sensor that detects and prevents any water overflow. Some models have additional leak defense that immediately triggers a pump to dispose of excess water.
Hard Food Disposer
This small stainless steel blade grinds up food particles so they can pass through the drain. This prevents you from having to soak or pre-wash dishes, so you can let your dishwasher detergent do the work.
How much can you expect to spend on a GE dishwasher
The price of a GE dishwasher varies depending on the features and the place settings. The smaller and most basic models start at $250, while the newest models with the most high-tech features cost $1,650.
GE dishwasher FAQ
Does GE make dishwashers that are Wi-Fi compatible?
A. Yes, GE makes a line of smart dishwashers with built-in Wi-Fi that lets you control settings, monitor cycles, lock and unlock the door, troubleshoot issues and even order more detergent through the SmartHQ app on your smartphone. Some GE dishwashers come with optimal Wi-Fi that requires you to purchase a U+ connect module separately.
How can I remove stains from the inside of my dishwasher?
A. Mineral buildup and food and detergent residue can stain the inside walls of your dishwasher and even cause rust. If you can’t clean it by hand, try running a regular wash with citric acid crystals in the detergent cup. Then run a normal cycle with detergent.
What’s the best GE dishwasher to buy?
Top GE dishwasher
Top Control Smart Built-In Tall Tub Dishwasher
What you need to know: This 24-inch stainless steel dishwasher with a 16-place-setting capacity is quiet but still powerful and efficient, while the third rack lets you clean more dishes with every load.
What you’ll love: The specialized Dry Boost technology gets dishes dryer than standard heat. No pre-rinse is required because the steam pre-wash loosens food and stains without soaking. The bottle wash jets easily clean water bottles and tall items. The Auto Sense Cycle can help you maximize efficiency and save energy by sensing and tailoring each cycle to the load.
What you should consider: Some customers have reported draining issues after extended use.
Where to buy: Sold by Home Depot
Top GE dishwasher for the money
Front Control Built-In Tall Tub Dishwasher
What you need to know: High Wash Performance and Dry Boost technology mean this dishwasher can clean and dry your dishes thoroughly every time.
What you’ll love: With a 12-place setting capacity and full coverage on the upper and lower racks, cleanup is easy at the end of the night or after a large gathering. The built-in sensor alerts you to water leaks and can give you peace of mind.
What you should consider: Some customers feel this model doesn’t last as long as some of the higher-end dishwashers.
Where to buy: Sold by Home Depot
Worth checking out
Top Control Built-In Tall Tub Dishwasher
What you need to know: This 24-inch model comes in four colors and has the choice of a bar handle or pocket handle.
What you’ll love: The steam option loosens food before the cycle without pre-rinsing or soaking your dishes, while the sanitation cycle reduces 99.9% of bacteria. You can easily clean large items up to 10.5 inches tall because of the adjustable upper rack. The top and side installation brackets give you the option of mounting your dishwasher under any countertop or on the side of the cabinets.
What you should consider: Some customers feel the rack layout is not as efficient as other GE dishwashers.
Where to buy: Sold by Home Depot
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Twitter's iconic blue bird logo was officially replaced Monday with the letter "X." A day earlier, the URL "X.com" began to automatically redirect users to Twitter.
Taken together, the two changes mark the latest and arguably most dramatic changes for the social platform since the billionaire's purchase last year. It may signal a new era for the platform — which Musk has long envisioned as a super app that will offer a variety of services from online banking to video messaging.
"X will be the platform that can deliver, well....everything," Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino wrote Sunday on Twitter.
Musk has hinted at changing Twitter's name to "X" since last year when he was days away from officially owning the company. "Buying Twitter is an accelerant to creating X, the everything app," he said on Twitter.
Our headquarters tonight pic.twitter.com/GO6yY8R7fO
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 24, 2023
Musk's vision for an "everything app" has been compared to platforms like the ubiquitous WeChat app in China.
"He wants to create an app similar to how WeChat is used in China, where it's part of the fabric of day-to-day life. You use it to communicate, to consume news, to buy things, to pay your rent, to book appointments with your doctor and even to pay fines," Ashlee Vance, the author of Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future, told NPR in a May interview.
Social media experts are doubtful of Musk's "everything app"
Twitter's new logo is sleeker and on par with the futuristic style of Elon Musk's other business ventures, Tesla and SpaceX. But social media expert Jennifer Grygiel is skeptical that Musk can create an innovative Twitter as the re-branding suggests.
"I'm not sure he has enough trust from his user base to get people to actually exchange money or attach any type of financial institution to his app," Grygiel, a professor at the University of Syracuse, told NPR.
Grygiel added that Musk hurt Twitter's integrity with decisions like removing blue checks, firing thousands of Twitter staff and reinstating problematic accounts.
Jeffrey Blevins, a journalism professor at the University of Cincinnati, agreed that Musk has dismayed a significant portion of Twitter users — so much so that a rebranding can't hurt.
"I think this is a way, maybe, to try to save it essentially by destroying it and recreating it as something else," he said.
Musk really likes the letter "X" but no one really knows why
For years, the billionaire has been known for having an affinity for the letter X — though he has shared little explanation as to why.
In one of his earliest ventures, Musk called his online bank X.com. That name was later dropped when the platform merged with a competitor to become PayPal.
"Everyone tried to talk him out of naming the company that back then because of the sexual innuendos, but he really liked it and stuck with it," said Vance.
"X" is already the name of Tesla's third electric car model, which debuted in 2015. Musk's spaceflight company is called SpaceX. And in 2020, Musk and his then-partner, the Canadian musician Grimes, named their youngest son "X Æ A-12."
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2023-07-24T13:34:11+00:00 | knkx.org | https://www.knkx.org/2023-07-23/twitter-replaces-its-bird-logo-with-an-x-as-part-of-his-plan-for-an-everything-app |
The Bettendorf Community School District announced the appointment of two new grade-school principals Friday.
Cheyanne McCann will move from Interim Principal to Principal of Paul Norton Elementary School in July, pending board approval.
“Cheyanne has worked hard to support students and build collaborative relationships with families,” Dr. Michelle Morse, the school district superintendent, said in Friday’s release. “She is earnest in her commitment to doing her best and driven to improve academic achievement and support all students and staff.”
McCann was appointed Interim Principal in mid-July 2022. Before becoming an Interim Principal, she was an Extended Learning Program teacher for elementary and high school students. McCann has also served as a summer school administrator and an elementary teacher in the Davenport Community School District.
McCann has a Master of Arts in Educational Administration and a Bachelor of Arts in Elementary Education with a K-8 reading endorsement from St. Ambrose University. She also has a K-8 Reading Endorsement and a K-12 Tag endorsement from Morningside College in Sioux City.
Kevin Turner has been chosen as the Neil Armstrong Elementary School Principal starting in July 2023, pending board approval.
“We are excited that Kevin will join our administrative team,” Dr. Morse said Friday. “He brings leadership experience in supporting the whole child academically as well as supporting the social, emotional, and behavioral health needs of students. He also has experience leading collaborative teacher teams and working with parents.”
Turner is the principal at Monroe Elementary in the Davenport Community School District. He has served as the acting principal and teacher at Jefferson Elementary School in Davenport. In addition, he has been an Elementary Innovator, leading and supporting teachers and learning.
Turner has a Master of Arts in Educational Administration from the University of Northern Iowa and received his Bachelor of Arts in Elementary Education from Monmouth College in Illinois. | 2023-03-24T18:31:45+00:00 | ourquadcities.com | https://www.ourquadcities.com/news/local-news/two-new-principals-picked-in-bettendorf/ |
Question: Bloomington’s Adlai Stevenson I was in the 1890s U.S. vice president under Grover Cleveland, a president largely forgotten. But that’s not the case with his young daughter, Ruth, who remains very popular, maybe even in your own home. Do you know how?
Answer: Ruth Cleveland contracted diphtheria when a child and died only five days later, causing such a national sensation, the Curtiss Candy Co. named its candy bar in her honor, Baby Ruth.
4 creative ways to deal with all those Thanksgiving leftovers
If you aren't in the mood for plain reheated turkey, try turning your leftovers into a bowl of pozole or an elevated grilled cheese.
Give leftover turkey new life with these delicious stuffed potatoes. A drizzle of homemade honey-mustard dressing soaks into the hot potatoes, adding tons of flavor.
This sandwich is amazingly easy to whip up and definitely a crowd pleaser — perfect for post-Thanksgiving guests. I think these taste best with a little leftover bubbly and plenty of napkins.
Thanksgiving leftovers can be assembled into a traditional pozole. Crisp corn tostadas or tortilla chips, broken into the finished soup, add another lovely corn flavor to this bowl of goodness.
Homemade stock will improve any soup, sauce and dish you use it in. While there are plenty of decent canned and boxed stocks and broth, nothing compares to the flavor of homemade. | 2022-11-27T15:06:17+00:00 | pantagraph.com | https://pantagraph.com/print-specific/pantagraph/rail-item/flick-fact-the-little-known-b-n-legacy-of-a-hugely-popular-candy-bar/article_dc6c91b8-6b80-11ed-aeaa-7f8eb1ed3ca4.html |
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ASchubert Jonckheer & Kolbe LLP is investigating potential derivative claims on behalf of shareholders of Fulgent Genetics (NASDAQ: FLGT) relating to possible false and misleading statements to investors about the company's business operations and compliance policies.
Fulgent provides COVID-19, molecular diagnostic, and genetic testing services to physicians and patients. Fulgent and three of its executive officers are currently subject to a class action securities lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California alleging certain false and misleading statements concerning the company's compliance with federal laws. In 2019, Fulgent made numerous public statements that presented the image of a promising company with a high-growth billable testing sector. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Fulgent continued to uplift its billable test revenues, particularly from its COVID-19 testing solutions.
The truth about Fulgent's flawed operations emerged on August 4, 2022, when the company disclosed that it was being investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). The company revealed in a 10-Q filing that the DOJ had issued a Civil Investigative Demand "related to its investigation of allegations of medically unnecessary laboratory testing, improper billing for laboratory testing, and renumeration received or provided in violation of the Anti-Kickback Statute and the Stark Law." In the same filing, Fulgent revealed that the SEC had initiated a non-public investigation into the company's SEC filings from 2018 through the first quarter of 2020. Both disclosures cast doubt on the representations and statements made by Fulgent officers and directors between 2019 and 2022.
The Schubert Firm is investigating potential breaches of fiduciary duty by Fulgent's officers and directors in connection with these allegations.
If you own stock in Fulgent and wish to obtain additional information about your legal rights, please contact us today or visit our website at https://www.classactionlawyers.com/fulgent.
About Schubert Jonckheer & Kolbe LLP
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ATLANTA, Dec. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ServiceMaster Restore is pleased to announce that VantEdge Partners has completed its strategic acquisition of both ServiceMaster by Century and ServiceMaster by Disaster Recon. This multi-location acquisition spans two states and 40 licenses in key markets such as Houston, TX, Dallas, TX, Austin, TX, and Cleveland, OH. The new entity will operate under the DBA of ServiceMaster CDR. Blake Moak, Jillian Moak, and Greg Dennison will continue to manage and lead the combined business into the future.
"We are very excited to be part of ServiceMaster, a clear leader in the restoration industry, and have been extremely impressed with the brand's leadership team and their vision for the future. We are similarly thrilled to be partners with Blake, Jillian, and Greg, who have demonstrated operational excellence and share our excitement about growth and the future of CDR and ServiceMaster." – Trevor Lott, and Jay Matlack, VantEdge Partners
"We are thrilled to have VantEdge Partners invest in our brand. Their management team has a long track record of success building multi-unit franchise organizations and their strategic plans for growth align with ours as a franchisor. Pairing partners such as VantEdge with proven leaders within our network like Blake, Jillian and Greg is a win for all parties involved." - ServiceMaster Chief Development Officer, Jim Boccher
"After years of friendship, sharing best practices, and our businesses working alongside each other, merging our businesses felt like the natural next step. With the support of VantEdge we are eager to align with the vision of Restore leadership, provide a more robust offering for our employees and our customers, better support the network, as well as build an industry leading competitor in the marketplace." – Blake Moak and Greg Dennison
"This is a merger of two highly capable and compatible businesses. Blake, Jillian, and Greg joined forces because they believe together, they can achieve significant growth and establish a best-in-class restoration company across multiple geographies. Their collaboration with VantEdge Partners will provide an exciting and prosperous future for all involved." – ServiceMaster Restore President, John Tovar
To learn more about franchising opportunities within the ServiceMaster Restore network please contact:
For Institutional Investors:
Chief Development Officer
901-355-2618
For Single Location Ownership Opportunities:
National Franchise Development Manager
816.819-9197
With approximately 2,000 franchised and licensed locations around the world, ServiceMaster Restore and ServiceMaster Recovery Management (SRM) serve customers through a global network of franchises available 24/7/365 to provide residential and commercial restoration services resulting from damage caused by water, fire, smoke, or mold. SRM is the large-scale commercial catastrophic disaster restoration unit of ServiceMaster Restore. ServiceMaster Restore is a business unit of Atlanta-based ServiceMaster Brands, a leading provider of essential residential and commercial services. More information can be found at servicemasterrestore.com and srmcat.com.
VantEdge Partners is a family investment office based in Overland Park KS focused on making equity investments in great companies with excellent management teams across a variety of industries, including residential and commercial services. VantEdge has a solid track record of helping businesses grow and succeed.
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SOURCE ServiceMaster Restore Network | 2022-12-03T19:16:40+00:00 | kfyrtv.com | https://www.kfyrtv.com/prnewswire/2022/12/02/servicemaster-restore-network-continues-strengthen-investments-partnership/ |
GLENDALE, Ariz. — A suspect has been arrested for allegedly murdering a 60-year-old delivery driver in Glendale earlier this month after police found a picture of them on the victim's phone.
Rusty French, 62, was taken into custody Thursday for allegedly killing Pamela Rae Martinez on June 11 in Glendale.
Police say Martinez was found unconscious in her vehicle at about 7:30 p.m. near Bell Road and 59th Avenue. The victim had been shot and was pronounced deceased at the scene.
A photograph found on the victim's phone appeared to show French sitting in a van near Martinez's vehicle. Police say the victim had just completed her last food delivery that night when she took this photo.
French and Martinez were not known to each other nor was she delivering food to him that evening.
Glendale police say French admitted to being the man in Martinez's photo but claimed to have "blacked out" the events of June 11. A firearm found in French's home matched ballistically with the type of weapon used to kill Martinez.
French has been booked into jail on one count of second-degree murder.
VERSIÓN EN ESPAÑOL: Una repartidora de comida del Valle fotografió a su atacante antes de que la asesinaran, informó la policía
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Silent Witness:
Arizona's Silent Witness program allows people to send in tips and share information about crimes happening within their local communities.
The program shares unsolved felony case information in multiple ways, including TV, radio and social media.
Anyone who has information on a crime or recognizes a suspect described by the program is asked to call 480-948-6377, go to the program's website online or download the Silent Witness app to provide a tip. The identity of anyone who submits a tip is kept anonymous.
Calls to Silent Witness are answered 24/7 by a live person and submitted tips are accepted at all times. Submitted tips are then sent to the detective(s) in charge of the specific case.
Individuals who submit tips that lead to an arrest or indictment in the case can get a reward of up to $1,000. Have a tip? Submit it on the Silent Witness tip form here. | 2022-06-28T07:58:26+00:00 | kagstv.com | https://www.kagstv.com/article/news/crime/valley-delivery-driver-photographed-killer-before-she-was-murdered/75-0614dc1d-65dd-4151-ae99-25fbe7157f51 |
YPSILANTI, Mich., July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Professors from Eastern Michigan University's Fermentation Science program are collaborating with Midtown Detroit, Inc and Smith & Co. Detroit along with Nain Rouge Brewery on a Detroit-based training school to offer underrepresented students an opportunity to break into the brewery industry. Participants will have hands-on practical training in skills like brewing, packaging, inventory, canning, and marketing for entry-level positions. The Nain Rouge Brewing School is located at 666 Selden in Detroit.
According to a recent survey conducted by the Brewers Association, 88 percent of the people who own craft breweries are white, while American Indian or Alaska Native make up four percent, Asian and Hispanic both at two percent, and Black brewery owners make up one percent.
EMU professors Cory Emal and Gregg Wilmes jumped at the opportunity of collaborating on the training school because they understand the need for more diversity in the growing field. "The brewing industry has historically been one that hires and trains on an apprenticeship model, and that's a system that, often unintentionally, perpetuates a division between in-groups and out-groups," said Emal.
The school opened with the idea of providing hands-on and cost-effective training. The program combines hands-on brewing in a facility that Midtown Detroit, Inc. funded with support from Invest Detroit and DTE Energy Foundation, master brewer training donated by Smith & Co. Detroit along with Nain Rouge Brewery, and the science training by EMU. Field trips to other local breweries and craft cocktail bars are also part of the program.
Jon Carlson, founding member of 3Mission Partners said, "the ultimate goal is to diversify the beer space and views this as an opportunity to create a pipeline towards employment and entrepreneurship. "We don't want to just create another training facility, but to find someone from Detroit to be the next great brewer that continues to push and explore the craft beer industry," said Carlson.
The partners are also planning to enhance training with weekend home brewers camps for Detroiters who would like additional support to improve their skills or launch a facility.
"We hope that some of these students will choose to attend EMU to seek further education and a deeper understanding of the science of fermentation, but our primary goal with this project is to help provide enhanced opportunities and career prospects for underrepresented groups," said Emal. "By helping to build diversity within this industry and bring attention to the depth of the scientific principles involved in producing beer and other fermented products, we hope to attract more students into this relatively new and uncommon field of study."
The training program, which admits four interested individuals, requires a four-day commitment for 12-weeks. Midtown Detroit, Inc. is accepting applications in July for the next class of four beginning in September. Individuals only need a high school degree or GED to participate.
About Eastern Michigan University
Founded in 1849, Eastern is the second oldest public university in Michigan. It currently serves more than 15,000 students pursuing undergraduate, graduate, specialist, doctoral and certificate degrees in the arts, sciences and professions. In all, more than 300 majors, minors and concentrations are delivered through the University's Colleges of Arts and Sciences; Business; Education; Engineering and Technology; Health and Human Services; and its graduate school. National publications regularly recognize EMU for its excellence, diversity, and commitment to applied education. For more information about Eastern Michigan University, visit the University's website. To stay up-to-date on University news, activities and announcements, visit EMU Today.
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DENVER (KDVR) – “Do Not Drive” warnings have been issued for hundreds of thousands of vehicles from multiple makers, including Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, Honda, and Acura, due to airbag defects that have resulted in deaths.
Earlier this month, Honda issued a “Do Not Drive” warning for select 2001-2003 Honda and Acura vehicles over unrepaired Takata Alpha driver side air bag inflators, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced.
In December, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles reiterated its “Do Not Drive” warning for multiple older models, including Dodge Chargers and Challengers, after another person died as a result of a Takata airbag exploding upon deployment in a Fiat Chrysler vehicle. It was the third death attributed to a recalled Takata airbag in a Fiat Chrysler sedan in 2022 and the fifth in total involving such airbags in any car over the past year.
“Left unrepaired, recalled Takata air bags are increasingly dangerous as the risk of an explosion rises as vehicles age,” NHTSA Acting Administrator Ann Carlson said at the time. “Every day that passes when you don’t get a recalled airbag replaced, puts you and your family at greater risk of injury or death.”
Some states, like Colorado, have been notifying drivers who own an impacted vehicle – over 66,000 vehicles in Colorado alone, Nexstar’s KDVR reports – about the recalls.
If your state, dealership, or automaker hasn’t notified you, here’s how you can determine if your vehicle is impacted by this airbag recall and any other manufacturer recalls.
How to check your vehicle for recalls
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said that you can check to see if your vehicle has any recalls by using its website.
Once you are on the website, you can type in Vehicle Identification Number or VIN to see if it has a safety recall.
After you type in the VIN, it will load your vehicle on the page.
The VIN search tool will show if your vehicle is affected by a vehicle safety recall in the last 15 calendar years.
What won’t the VIN search tool show?
The NHTSA said the VIN search tool will not show the following information:
- A vehicle with a repaired safety recall. If your vehicle has no unrepaired recalls, you will see the message: “0 Unrepaired recalls associated with this VIN”
- Manufacturer customer service or other nonsafety recall campaigns
- International vehicles
- There may be a delay with very recently announced safety recalls for which not all VINs have been identified. VINs are added continuously so please check regularly.
- Safety recalls that are more than 15 years old (except where a manufacturer offers more coverage)
- Safety recalls conducted by small vehicle manufacturers, including some ultra-luxury brands and specialty applications
Where to find the VIN of your vehicle
The VIN is a 17-character identification that is specific to your vehicle.
The NHTSA said you can check for it on the lower left of your car’s windshield. You can also find it located on your car’s registration card. It may also be shown on your insurance card.
Nexstar’s Michael Bartiromo contributed to this report. | 2023-02-10T17:49:42+00:00 | wearegreenbay.com | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/national/how-to-see-if-your-vehicle-has-a-recall/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. is suing Paramount Global, saying its competitor aired new episodes of the popular animated comedy series “South Park” after Warner paid for exclusive rights.
Warner says it signed a contract in 2019 paying more than $500 million for the rights to existing and new episodes of the irreverent show, according to a lawsuit filed Friday in New York State Supreme Court.
HBO Max, Warner’s streaming platform, was scheduled to receive the first episodes of a new “South Park” season in 2020. But the company was informed the pandemic halted production, the lawsuit says.
In spite of Warner's exclusive rights to the show until 2025, the company alleges South Park Digital Studios, which produces the shows and is named as a defendant in the lawsuit, offered two pandemic-themed specials to Paramount, which aired them in September 2020 and March 2021.
The lawsuit claims the pandemic specials should have been offered to Warner under the initial contract. The move, called “verbal trickery” in the lawsuit, drove the show's fans to the competing Paramount platform. Nearly all South Park episodes premiere on Comedy Central, one of Paramount’s cable channels, the lawsuit says.
Show creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker, who launched the show in 1997 and oversee the franchise, were not named in the lawsuit.
Gaining streaming rights to “South Park” is a competitive process because of the potentially lucrative market attracting more subscribers, advertisers and a loyal fan base that Warner's lawsuit says consists mostly of young adults.
The 24-page court filing also cites a $900 million deal in 2021 between a Paramount subsidiary and South Park Digital Studios for exclusive content on the Paramount Plus streaming service, which launched the same year.
Warner claims the deal was a deliberate “scheme” between Paramount, its subsidiary MTV Entertainment Studios and South Park Digital Studios to “divert as much of the new South Park content as possible to Paramount Plus in order to boost that nascent streaming platform.”
Warner paid $1,687,500 per episode and alleges it has not yet received all episodes covered by the contract, resulting in damages of more than $200 million.
Paramount Global did not immediately respond to emails from The Associated Press seeking comment on the lawsuit. | 2023-02-25T06:38:42+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/warner-bros-discovery-sues-paramount-over-south-17805208.php |
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Spring has sprung in Western New York! And while that brings nicer weather, it also brings kitten season.
From late March until early May, many pregnant cats are giving birth to litters of kittens.
The 10 Lives Club is one WNY adoption group that focuses on rescuing cats and kittens, and making sure the animals have the medical care they need before being adopted.
This time of year is very busy for the 10 Lives Club as they can have hundreds of cats and kittens in foster homes. While they do recommend that you adopt a kitten from a shelter, Marie Edward the executive director and CEO was able to provide more guidance about what to look for when getting a kitten.
“We’ll you are going to be looking out for a healthy kitten,” Edwards said. She had some kittens on hand as an example.
“These kittens eyes here, nice eyes. There’s nothing goopy on them, nothing around their eyes. They’re nice and healthy kittens because they were raised in a foster home, so they are bottle feed kittens, so they aren’t around anything else outside.”
Being away for other animals also helps kittens stay healthy, which is why Edwards suggests avoiding barn cats.
“They aren’t the healthiest kittens. So, people should really go to a rescue group, the SPCA, or another local group in Western New York to adopt,” Edwards said.
“You want a kitten that has been seen by a vet, vaccinated, tested, things like that. And so you know no diseases are going into your house. And you know that you are going to have a happy, health kitten.”
The 10 Lives Club can help kittens that need care. Many of the cats they take in are from Facebook referrals or even SPCA referrals.
“Call any of the local rescue groups, if they have an opening, they will be able take the cats. Or us or the SPCA.”
And while people often times want the tiny kittens from a shelter or rescue, there is a law in New York State that they have to be spayed or neutered before a rescue group can adopt them out. Kittens can be spayed and neutered at around 15 weeks old.
Once you are out looking for a kitten there are some things you can look for to find the right one for you.
“A playful kitten is nice for a lot of people because they have kids.” “There are going to be two types of kittens, the playful rambunctious one that is going all over, or the calm cat,” Edwards said.
Although, while they are still a kitten, Edwards says there really is no calm kitten.
“You got to be prepared for a lot of work, a lot of play time, a lot attention.”
And socialization with kittens is so important.
“That’s how you have a nice, healthy cat. That’s going to be friendly. You want a cat that is going to be around when people come in your house. Not something that is going to run and hide,” Edwards said.
And for people who may not be ready for a kitten but want a cat, fostering would be a great option.
“Honestly, you don’t need much experience, depending on what part of fostering. for just regular little kittens like I have, you don’t need a lot of experience. You just need food, which we provide, a quite place, a little room maybe for them to stay in. For bottle feeds you do need a little more experience.” Abigail Ferrara, vet assistant at 10 Lives Club and foster mom said.
The 10 Lives Club is looking for support during kitten season. While foster homes are a big need, the group also needs donations.
On Saturday, April 22, the 10 Lives Club will hold a kitten shower at their Blasdell location from noon to 3 p.m. A full list of donations they are looking for is available on their website. | 2023-04-20T16:34:25+00:00 | wgrz.com | https://www.wgrz.com/article/life/animals/kitten-season-has-arrived-heres-some-advice-on-getting-the-right-one-for-you-10-lives-club/71-4da0e5fe-1c40-4668-b120-9cb3f81e8be7 |
JENNINGS, Mo. (KTVI) – Delivering a baby is not for everyone, but do not tell that to 10-year-old Miracle Moore.
Miracle lived up to her name and helped her mom, Viola Fair, deliver her baby sister, Jayla, with the help of a 911 dispatcher.
“She did awesome,” said Scott Stranghoener. “Couldn’t ask for anything better.”
Stranghoener was on the phone with Miracle for 10 1/2 minutes, walking her through the delivery on Oct. 22.
Miracle’s mom went into labor at their Jennings, Missouri, home. There was not enough time to get to the hospital, so Miracle dialed 911 and walked her mom through the delivery of her baby sister.
Miracle was awarded a certificate from county dispatch Wednesday for her bravery and courage during the delivery. She said her favorite part of the delivery was being the first person to see Jayla.
Stranghoener said Miracle was calm and collected during the phone call. At one point, she could be heard telling her mom to lie down with a firm tone, maybe the only time she will ever boss around her mom.
“Miracle said if you don’t want to lay down, I can help you lay down,” Fair said. “I really appreciate that, but I couldn’t get down there until it was time to deliver the baby.”
The experience has given Miracle a story that is already shaping her aspirations as an adult.
“I want to be a doctor,” she said. “I want to be that kind of doctor,” she said, pointing at the emergency medical technicians. | 2022-11-17T16:38:28+00:00 | nwahomepage.com | https://www.nwahomepage.com/news/national/a-miracle-delivery-10-year-old-helps-deliver-baby-sister/ |
By JOCELYN GECKER and DYLAN LOVAN, Associated Press
CECILIA, Ky. (AP) — For fourth-grader Leah Rainey, the school day now begins with what her teacher calls an "emotional check-in."
"It's great to see you. How are you feeling?" chirps a cheery voice on her laptop screen. It asks her to click an emoji matching her state of mind: Happy. Sad. Worried. Angry. Frustrated. Calm. Silly. Tired.
Depending on the answer, Leah, 9, gets advice from a cartoon avatar on managing her mood and a few more questions: Have you eaten breakfast? Are you hurt or sick? Is everything OK at home? Is someone at school being unkind? Today, Leah chooses "silly," but says she struggled with sadness during online learning.
At Lakewood Elementary School, all 420 students will start their days the same way this year. The rural Kentucky school is one of thousands across the country using the technology to screen students' state of mind and alert teachers to anyone struggling.
In some ways, this year's back-to-school season will restore a degree of pre-pandemic normalcy: Most districts have lifted mask mandates, dropped COVID vaccine requirements and ended rules on social distancing and quarantines.
But many of the pandemic's longer-lasting impacts remain a troubling reality for schools. Among them: the harmful effects of isolation and remote learning on children's emotional well-being.
Student mental health reached crisis levels last year, and the pressure on schools to figure out solutions has never been greater. Districts across the country are using federal pandemic money to hire more mental health specialists, rolling out new coping tools and expanding curriculum that prioritizes emotional health.
Still, some parents don't believe schools should be involved in mental health at all. So-called social-emotional learning, or SEL, has become the latest political flashpoint, with conservatives saying schools use it to promote progressive ideas about race, gender and sexuality, or that a focus on well-being takes attention from academics.
But at schools like Lakewood, educators say helping students manage emotions and stress will benefit them in the classroom and throughout life.
The school, in a farming community an hour's drive south of Louisville, has used federal money to create "take-a-break" corners in each classroom. Students can rifle through a "self-regulation kit" with tips on deep breathing, squishy stress balls and acupuncture rings, said school counselor Shelly Kerr. The school plans to build a "Reset Room" this fall, part of an emerging national trend to create campus sanctuaries where students can go to decompress and speak with a counselor.
The online student screener Lakewood uses, called Closegap, helps teachers identify shy, quiet kids who might need to talk and would have otherwise gone unnoticed.
Closegap founder Rachel Miller launched the online platform in 2019 with a few schools and saw interest explode after the pandemic hit. This year, she said, more than 3,600 U.S schools will be using the technology, which has free and premium versions.
"We are finally beginning to recognize that school is more than just teaching the kids reading, writing and arithmetic," said Dan Domenech, executive director of the national School Superintendents Association. Just as free lunch programs are based on the idea that a hungry child can't learn, more and more schools are embracing the idea that a cluttered or troubled mind cannot focus on schoolwork, he said.
The pandemic magnified the fragility of mental health among American youth, who had been experiencing a rise in depression, anxiety and suicidal thoughts for years, experts say. A recent report issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found 44% of high school students said they experienced " persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness " during the pandemic, with girls and LGBTQ youth reporting the highest levels of poor mental health and suicide attempts.
If a silver lining exists, the pandemic raised awareness of the crisis and helped de-stigmatize talking about mental health, while also bringing attention to schools' shortcomings in handling it. President Joe Biden's administration recently announced over $500 million to expand mental health services in the country's schools, adding to federal and state money that has poured into schools to cope with pandemic-era needs.
Still, many are skeptical schools' responses are enough.
"All of these opportunities and resources are temporary," said junior Claire Chi, who attends State College Area High School in central Pennsylvania. Last year, her school added emergency counseling and therapy dogs, among other supports, but most of that help lasted a day or two, Chi said. And that's "not really a mental health investment for students." This year, the school says it has added more counselors and plans mental health training for all 10th graders.
Some critics, including many conservative parents, don't want to see mental health support in schools in the first place. Asra Nomani, a mom from Fairfax County, Virginia, says schools are using the mental health crisis as a "Trojan horse" to introduce liberal ideas about sexual and racial identity. She also worries schools lack the expertise to deal with student mental illness.
"Social-emotional well-being has become an excuse to intervene in the lives of children in the most intimate of ways that are both dangerous and irresponsible," Nomani said, "because they're in the hands of people who are not trained professionals."
Despite the unprecedented funding, schools are having trouble hiring counselors, mirroring the shortages in other American industries.
Goshen Junior High School in northwest Indiana has been struggling to fill a vacancy of a counselor who left last year, when student anxiety and other behavioral problems were "off the charts," said Jan Desmarais-Morse, one of two counselors left at the school, with caseloads of 500 students each.
"One person trying to meet the needs of 500 students?" said Desmarais-Morse said. "It's impossible."
The American School Counselor Association recommends a ratio of 250 students per school counselor, which few states come close to meeting.
For the 2020-21 school year only two states — New Hampshire and Vermont — achieved that goal, according to an Associated Press analysis of data from the National Center for Education Statistics. Some states face staggeringly high ratios: Arizona averages one counselor to 716 students; in Michigan, 1 to 638; and in Minnesota, 1 to 592.
Also in Indiana, the School City of Hammond won a grant to hire clinical therapists at all 17 of its schools but has not been able to fill most of the new jobs, said Superintendent Scott Miller. "Schools are stealing from other schools. There just aren't enough workers to go around." And despite more funding, school salaries can't compete with private counseling practices, which are also overwhelmed and trying to hire more staff.
Another challenge for schools: identifying struggling children before they're in emotional crisis. At the Houston Independent School District, one of the largest in the country with 277 schools and nearly 200,000 students, students are asked each morning to hold up fingers showing how they feel. One finger means a child is hurting deeply; five means she or he feels great.
"It's identifying your brush fires early in the day," said Sean Ricks, the district's senior manager of crisis intervention.
Houston teachers now give mindfulness lessons, with ocean sounds played via YouTube, and a Chihuahua named Luci and a cockapoo named Omi have joined the district's crisis team.
Grant-funding helped Houston build relaxation rooms, known as Thinkeries, at 10 schools last year, costing about $5,000 each. District data show campuses with Thinkeries, which sport bean bag chairs and warmly colored walls, saw a 62% decrease in calls to a crisis line last year, Ricks said. The district is building more this year.
But the rooms themselves are not a panacea. For the calming rooms to work, schools must teach students to recognize they feel angry or frustrated. Then they can use the space to decompress before their emotions erupt, said Kevin Dahill-Fuchel, executive director of Counseling in Schools, a nonprofit that helps schools bolster mental health services.
In the last days of summer vacation, a "Well Space" at University High School in Irvine, California, was getting finishing touches from an artist who painted a mural of a giant moon over mountains. Potted succulents, jute rugs, Buddha-like statuettes and a hanging egg chair brought an un-school-like feel. When school starts this week, the room is to be staffed full-time with a counselor or mental health specialist.
The goal is to normalize the idea of asking for help and give students a place to reset. "If they can re-center and refocus," Blakely said, "they can then, after a short break, go back into their classrooms and be prepared for deeper learning."
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Police allege that the driver of the vehicle in the crash later killed a woman in nearby Nescopeck and the county coroner identified her as his 56-year-old mother.
The nation’s top public health agency is relaxing its COVID-19 guidelines and dropping the recommendation that Americans quarantine themselves if they come into close contact with an infected person.
Authorities say a man accused of firing shots inside the Mall of America before fleeing with the help of several accomplices has been arrested in Chicago.
The statement comes after days of silence from the Justice Department with regard to the search, as is the department's normal practice for ongoing investigations.
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A student at Lakewood Elementary School in Cecilia, Ky., uses her laptop to participate in an emotional check-in at the start of the school day, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022. The rural Kentucky school is one of thousands across the country using the technology to screen students' state of mind and alert teachers to anyone struggling.
Angela Pike watches her fourth grade students at Lakewood Elementary School in Cecilia, Ky., as they use their laptops to participate in an emotional check-in at the start of the school day, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022.
Shelly Kerr, a counselor at at Lakewood Elementary School in Cecilia, Ky., talks about Closegap, a mental health assessment program students start their day using that helps the school identify shy, quiet kids who might need to talk and would have otherwise gone unnoticed, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022. Students can rifle through a “self-regulation kit” with tips on deep breathing, squishy stress balls and acupuncture rings, says Kerr. | 2022-08-17T15:56:49+00:00 | wcfcourier.com | https://wcfcourier.com/news/national/youth-mental-health-is-in-crisis-are-schools-doing-enough/article_ca2dcd33-fa7f-58fb-844a-b0e8a503f006.html |
VENICE, Fla. (AP) — Sheriff’s deputies captured video of a large alligator crawling through a front yard in Florida before making its way into a community lake.
The videowas taken Sunday morning in Venice, Florida, the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office said in a Facebook post.
Deputies estimated the gator to be about 10 feet long (3 meters).
The sheriff’s office notified the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. They also warned neighbors to be on alert because the alligator sauntered down to Harrington Lake to take an Easter morning swim.
Venice is south of Tampa on Florida’s Gulf Coast. | 2022-04-19T23:14:53+00:00 | siouxlandproud.com | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/weird-news/large-alligator-saunters-through-florida-neighborhood/ |
Authorities in Georgia hunted Saturday for a man who remained at large hours after he was suspected of gunning down three men and a woman in a suburban neighborhood south of Atlanta.
Andre Longmore, 40, is believed to be armed and dangerous, Hampton Police Chief James Turner said during a news conference. The shootings happened late Saturday morning in a subdivision in Hampton, a city of roughly 8,500 people.
Officials released few details about the killings. Turner said detectives were investigating at least four crime scenes near one another in the same neighborhood. He said Longmore is a Hampton resident, but declined to discuss a possible motive.
The suspect remained at large more than five hours after the killings, and authorities vowed to keep searching until he was in custody.
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“We’ve done an exhaustive search in the general area and we’re now widening that a little bit,” Turner told reporters.
Investigators were also on the lookout for a Black GMC Acadia SUV that they believe Longmore might be driving.
Longmore doesn’t appear to have a listed phone number and The Associated Press could not immediately find a family member or attorney who could speak on his behalf.
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Authorities didn't release the victims' names, saying they were working to notify their families.
Henry County Sheriff Reginald Scandrett said his office is offering a $10,000 reward for information that leads to Longmore's arrest and prosecution.
He also addressed Longmore directly, saying: “Wherever you are, we will hunt you down in whatever hole you may be residing in and bring you into custody. Period.”
Located about 30 miles (48 kilometers) south of Atlanta, Hampton is home to the Atlanta Motor Speedway, Georgia's racetrack for NASCAR events.
Law enforcement agencies throughout the Atlanta area and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation are assisting in the manhunt and investigation.
The shootings marked the 31st mass killing of 2023, taking the lives of at least 153 people this year, according to a database maintained by The Associated Press and USA Today in a partnership with Northeastern University. | 2023-07-15T23:42:35+00:00 | nbcchicago.com | https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/georgia-authorities-search-man-suspected-killing-four-people/3187510/ |
Chris Cagle retired from the music business in 2015 after many years of touring took their toll on him. He was ready to leave it behind, and didn’t see himself coming back.
The country singer had a few big hits in the early 2000s, including some that still get a lot of play on country music radio, like “What Kinda Gone” and “Chicks Dig It,” songs that came after many years spent learning the ropes in Nashville, as Cagle puts it.
“I thought, ‘People keep telling me these songs are good, so when I get to Nashville, I’ll be a star immediately, and I’ve already got an album,’” Cagle said. “When I got to Nashville, I started to learn what a song really is. I would play at these open mics, and when I would sing, people would just start talking because the songs sucked.”
Cagle went back to the drawing board, writing more and more songs until he eventually developed a knack for it, and people in Nashville started to take notice.
His first two albums, “Play It Loud” and “Chris Cagle,” were certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America, and Cagle saw a lot of success. Success that eventually took a toll on him.
“My dream of being a musician had turned into a nightmare,” Cagle said. “I had lost who I was as a person, as a human. I had lost some of my humanity.”
Cagle stepped away. He returned home, and started spending time with his family, something he was happy with.
But his kids, who knew about his past life as a country star, would hear him sing, and eventually, convince him to go back to making music.
“They’d tell me, ‘We hear you playing in your office, and you sound great,’” Cagle said.
Cagle returned to touring, tentatively, last year. He started with just one show a month, before increasing his scheduled dates in March.
“In the last six months is when I really say I started,” Cagle said. “Around then we started really going hard at touring.”
Now, Cagle mostly performs weekend shows, like the one he’ll be playing at Apache Hotel Casino on Saturday.
“If I keep it on the weekends, I can still have time to pick up my kids from school, and see my family, and it works really well for me,” Cagle said.
He’s also started recording music again, recently putting together new recordings. He’s got no manager, and working outside a label, he said the one thing he misses is the massive amount of musicians and industry professionals he could bounce ideas off of.
“The only people I have listen to the songs now, before I start playing them and recording them, are my kids,” Cagle said. “If they like it, and I hear them singing them later, then I know there’s something to it, and I start seeing how audiences feel about them.”
And Cagle’s return also has been well received by audiences.
“A lot of the old fans have been bringing new people to the shows, and that’s exciting for me,” Cagle said. “For right now, I’ll play wherever I can where people want to hear my music.” | 2022-09-11T09:13:34+00:00 | swoknews.com | https://www.swoknews.com/styles/chris-cagle-to-perform-at-apache-casino-hotel/article_9e3dcaf4-1ba2-5607-abbb-6cbfde122c4d.html |
ROME (AP) — More than 1,400 migrants have been rescued from overcrowded vessels, including a sailboat, in four separate operations in the Mediterranean Sea off southern Italy, the Italian coast guard said Wednesday.
There were 47 migrants, including two children in immediate need of medical care, aboard the sailboat in distress off the region of Calabria, in the “toe” of the Italian peninsula, a coast guard statement said. They were rescued by a coast guard motorboat early Tuesday.
The statement said the rescues began late Monday night and ended in the early hours of Wednesday in the Ionian Sea off Calabria’s east coast. One coast guard vessel took on around 590 migrants from aboard a fishing boat, and then later brought on around 650 migrants from another fishing boat, the statement said.
A coast guard motorboat and an Italian border police ship came to the assistance of a fourth vessel, with 130 migrants aboard.
Authorities didn’t immediately give details on the nationalities of the passengers or routes taken by the migrant vessels. But generally, many boats with migrants sighted off the Ionian Sea set out from Turkey’s coast, where smugglers launch crowded and unseaworthy boats.
Earlier this year, a migrant boat navigating on that route slammed into a sandbank just off a Calabrian beach town and broke apart. At least 94 migrants perished and 80 others survived.
That shipwreck is under criminal investigation, including the role of several members of Italy’s border police corps, which operates vessels off the country’s long coastline. Four suspected smugglers have been arrested.
In addition, prosecutors want to know if rescue efforts could have been launched hours earlier. Italian border police boats reportedly turned back to port because of rough seas, and by the time a coast guard vessel, better equipped to navigate in poor sea conditions, reached the area, bodies were already in the water. In that case, the migrant boat had been spotted hours earlier by a surveillance aircraft operated by Frontex, the European Union’s border monitoring force.
Wednesday’s statement by the coast guard said that crew on a Frontex surveillance plane had spotted a fishing boat with the 590 migrants aboard. A Frontex patrol boat and a Frontex support vessel were among the assets involved in the rescue operations for the two fishing boats, according to the coast guard.
Alarm Phone, a nongovernmental organization that frequently receives satellite calls from migrant vessels in distress and relays the information to maritime authorities in Italy and Malta, was among the organizations signaling the need for rescue for the 130 people aboard the fourth boat.
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Follow AP’s coverage of global migration at https://apnews.com/hub/migration | 2023-06-07T20:47:33+00:00 | fox59.com | https://fox59.com/business/ap-business/more-than-1400-migrants-are-rescued-from-overcrowded-boats-off-southern-italy-by-coast-guard/ |
UnityPoint Health will host a free in-person community education event for loved ones and caregivers of dementia patients in Muscatine, according to a news release.
“How to Prevent Dementia and Stay Safely Home” will be presented by Hamid Sagha, MD, UnityPoint Clinic Mulberry – Internal Medicine. The free in-person event will be held Wednesday, Jan. 18, from 5:30-7 p.m. at Musser Public Library, Room 301, 408 E. 2nd St., Muscatine.
Attendees will learn how to have an action plan to optimize their memory and learn how healthy
lifestyle choices can help prevent, delay or even reverse memory loss at any age and improve
the ability to complete everyday tasks.
“While there is no single cure for dementia, there are things that can be done to make life better
for people with dementia and their caregivers,” says Sagha. “During this presentation, attendees will learn more about the disease and how to help someone with dementia stay safely
in their home.”
The event is free. To register, call 563-264-9482 or email Angelia.Koppe@unitypoint.org.
You also can register online here. | 2023-01-14T20:59:00+00:00 | ourquadcities.com | https://www.ourquadcities.com/news/local-news/free-in-person-session-on-dementia-set/ |
(The Hill) – President Biden signed into law a sweeping bill to lower health care costs and address climate change on Tuesday, sealing a legislative victory more than a year in the making.
The $740 billion bill was significantly slimmed down from the original $3.5 trillion package some envisioned last fall, but nevertheless represents an undeniable win for Biden and Democrats in Congress. It includes some of Biden’s key campaign promises and makes the largest investment in federal climate programs in history.
“With unwavering conviction, commitment, and patience, progress does come,” Biden said in the State Dining Room as he prepared to sign the legislation. “And when it does, like today, people’s lives are made better and the future becomes brighter and a nation can be transformed.”
Biden was introduced by House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) and Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.). Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), who negotiated with Schumer to move the package forward, sat in the front row at the signing and was the only other senator in attendance. He received a round of applause when Schumer credited him with getting the legislation across the finish line.
Biden said he looked forward to signing the bill for 18 months and was flanked by lawmakers when he did so, handing the first pen dramatically off to Manchin.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan, deputy national climate adviser Ali Zaidi and Reps. Frank Pallone Jr. (D-N.J.) and Kathy Castor (D-Fla.), among others, attended the event at the White House.
The room gave a long standing ovation for Biden when he got to the podium. He wore a mask in the room when he wasn’t speaking because first lady Jill Biden tested positive for COVID-19 earlier on Tuesday.
“Joe, I never had a doubt,” Biden said, referring to Manchin, to laughter from the room.
The bill passed through party-line votes in the Senate and House in recent weeks; no Republicans voted in favor of the package.
By 2030, the law is expected to bring U.S. planet-warming emissions down to lower than they were in 2005 through many of its provisions to promote the deployment of clean energy. It also contains provisions that boost fossil fuels, which were included to secure the support of Manchin.
The bill became tailored to focus on bringing down health care costs and addressing climate change throughout negotiations over the past year. It will allow Medicare to negotiate prices for some drugs and shore up health insurance subsidies, giving Democrats a victory over a pharmaceutical industry that has long opposed such measures.
“In this historic moment, Democrats sided with the American people and every single Republican in the congress sided with the special interests,” Biden told the room.
The White House has pointed to the bill as a way to lower costs for American families during a period of high inflation, though some of the provisions of the bill that will ultimately lower prescription drug costs will take years to go into effect.
Still, Democrats view the climate change provisions in particular as game-changing investments.
“It will make the U.S. a global clean energy powerhouse and very likely we will look back on this as the start of a clean energy economic revolution in the same way we look back at the early 1990s as the IT revolution,” said Josh Freed, leader of the climate and energy program at centrist Democratic think tank Third Way.
In introductory remarks, Clyburn declared that the bill would “lead to transformative change in this country.”
Schumer declared it the “boldest climate bill ever.”
“If the last two months could be summed up in a word, it would be persistence,” Schumer added.
Biden’s signing of the bill is expected to kick off a multistate tour to promote the legislation and other administration accomplishments, with less than three months until the November midterm elections.
Biden, who is headed home to Wilmington, Del., on Tuesday night for the remainder of his summer vacation, is scheduled to attend a Democratic National Committee event in Maryland next Thursday. The president is also expected to host another event early next month to celebrate the passage of the bill.
Through the end of August, Cabinet members like Vice President Harris, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Labor Secretary Marty Walsh, are expected to take 35 trips to 23 states to discuss the benefits of the new law with the public.
The bill would pay for climate and health measures by introducing new taxes on large corporations with the package’s tax plan involving a 15 percent minimum tax on the income that big companies report to shareholders. The tax would exempt companies taking advantage of accelerated depreciation, a popular deduction that helps pay for capital investments, which was included to secure the support of Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.).
The bill also places a 1 percent excise tax on stock buybacks. And it includes a boost to the IRS to go after high-income Americans who are paying less in taxes. The IRS will receive $80 billion to increase enforcement and another $15 million to fund a task force on determining how the IRS can deliver a “direct e-file tax return system.” | 2022-08-16T22:25:04+00:00 | ksn.com | https://www.ksn.com/news/national-world/biden-signs-expansive-health-climate-bill-into-law/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — Unhappy with the way they played in two bad losses on the road that pushed them to the brink of elimination, the New York Rangers bounced back with a needed win to keep their season going.
Filip Chytil scored the tiebreaking goal early in the third period and the New York Rangers beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 5-3 Wednesday night in Game 5 of their first-round playoff series.
Jacob Trouba and Alexis Lafrenière each had a goal and an assist, and Adam Fox and Ryan Lindgren also scored for the Rangers. Igor Shesterkin, torched for 10 goals over three periods in the previous two games, had 27 saves.
“We were not happy with what happened in Pittsburgh,” Chytil said. “We just didn’t play the whole season (the) way that we played, just (to) lose games like this in Pittsburgh. So we just had a good meeting, good practice yesterday and we just believed today that we’re gonna win and we’re gonna go back to Pittsburgh.”
Jake Guentzel had two goals and Kris Letang also scored for Pittsburgh, which leads the best of seven series 3-2. Evgeni Malkin had two assists and Louis Domingue finished with 29 saves.
Penguins star Sidney Crosby left with about seven minutes remaining in the second period after taking a hard high hit from Trouba in the offensive zone minutes earlier. He did not return.
Pittsburgh coach Mike Sullivan said Crosby had an upper body injury and his status was being evaluated.
Game 6 is Friday in Pittsburgh, and a potential deciding Game 7 would be Sunday back at Madison Square Garden.
“We played a good 60 minutes,” Lafrenière said. “We defended well and played a good all-around game. We did a good job of staying calm. We have to keep it going and win Game 6. We played a really good one when we needed it most.”
The Rangers got their first power play of the night early in the third period and took advantage as Chytil got a pass from Lafrenière in the right circle, turned around and whipped a shot past Domingue to put the Rangers ahead 4-3 at 2:53.
Lindgren sealed the win with an empty-netter with 16 seconds left.
Letang extended the Penguins’ lead to 2-0 at 7:58 of the second as he got a cross-ice pass from Malkin and fired a slap shot past Shesterkin on Pittsburgh’s first shot on goal of the period.
The Rangers then took the lead as they scored on three consecutive shots in a 2:42 span late in the second.
Fox got the Rangers on the scoreboard with 4:49 left as he got the puck inside the blue line, slowly skated up and fired a shot from the top of the right circle past Domingue’s shoulder.
“Once we got that first goal, it was a big boost for our club,” Rangers coach Gerard Gallant said. “I felt real confident about today. You’ve got to take it one game at a time. We were down three games to one, today I felt real good about our team.”
Lafrenière tied it 90 seconds later as he quickly fired a slap shot in front off a centering pass from Kaapo Kakko.
Trouba put the Rangers ahead another 1:12 later as he skated across the right circle and put a backhander from the middle through Domingue’s skates.
“They pushed, we had a couple of extended D-zone shifts, and we didn’t get it done defensively,” Sullivan said. “We got an experienced group. We just got to keep playing the game. … We didn’t win the wall battles, we didn’t get pucks out, and as a result we had four, five minutes of extended defensive zone play. We simply have to do a better job there.”
The lead lasted just 13 seconds as Guentzel tied it with his second of the night and seventh of the series as he scored off a centering pass from Malkin.
The Rangers outshot the Penguins 11-10 in the first period, limited mostly to shots from the outside.
The Penguins had a 5-on-3 power play early when Chris Kreider was called for slashing and Jacob Trouba for elbowing just 24 seconds into the game. The Rangers held them just two shots on goal during the advantage, with Shesterkin making a nice glove save on Guentzel.
The Penguins took a 1-0 lead with 9 1/2 minutes left as Guentzel got the rebound of his own shot and sent a centering pass from behind the goal line that deflected off Shesterkin’s leg and in. It was his sixth goal of the series.
LINEUP
Lindgren returned to the Rangers’ lineup after missing the previous three games following an upper body injury in Game 1 of this series. The Rangers went with seven defensemen and 11 forwards. Lindgren then left the with an apparent injury early in the second period and headed to the dressing room minutes later. He returned late in the period.
MILESTONES
Kreider played in his 85th career playoff game, tying Don Maloney for the sixth place on the franchise list.
STREAKS
Guentzel scored for the fifth straight game, tying Jaromir Jagr (1996, 2000) and Kevin Stevens (1991) for the fourth-longest streak in one postseason in franchise history. Mario Lemieux (seven twice, six) has the top three. … D Mike Matheson had an assist on Guentzel’s goal, extending his point streak to four games (one goal, five assists). … Fox (three goals, two assists) extended his point streak to five games.
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