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John Eastman, an attorney for the Trump campaign who helped craft its strategy to buck the certification of the 2020 election results, has appealed to a federal appeals court after he was ordered to turn over emails to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack.
Eastman on Thursday asked California-based federal Judge David Carter to stay a ruling forcing him to turn over several emails to the committee after he ruled that they were not protected by attorney-client privilege.
Carter ruled earlier this month the communications were not protected since they likely were exchanged in furtherance of a crime, igniting the crime-fraud exception.
Among those emails was a note from Eastman pointing out that former President Trump was told that a December suit filed in Georgia claiming that unregistered voters and dead people voted in the election there may not have accurate numbers — relaying that concern before the campaign escalated the matter to a federal court.
“Although the President signed a verification for [the state court filing] back on Dec. 1, he has since been made aware that some of the allegations (and evidence proffered by the experts) has been inaccurate. For him to sign a new verification with that knowledge (and incorporation by reference) would not be accurate,” Eastman said.
Carter ordered the email released to the committee.
“President Trump and his attorneys ultimately filed the complaint with the same inaccurate numbers without rectifying, clarifying, or otherwise changing them,” Carter wrote. “President Trump, moreover, signed a verification swearing under oath that the incorporated, inaccurate numbers ‘are true and correct’ or ‘believed to be true and correct to the best of his knowledge and belief.’”
“The emails show that President Trump knew that the specific numbers of voter fraud were wrong but continued to tout those numbers, both in court and to the public. The Court finds that these emails are sufficiently related to and in furtherance of a conspiracy to defraud the United States.”
Eastman earlier this week asked Carter to grant a stay of his ruling, suggesting additional emails would exonerate Trump on that front.
“The affidavit and referenced documents clearly show that no false information was knowingly submitted by the President or his attorneys, and that the complaint was not filed for an improper purpose,” Eastman’s attorney wrote in the filing.
Carter swiftly denied that motion Friday, sending the matter to the appeals court.
Eastman crafted two memos for the Trump campaign detailing methods to resist certifying President Biden’s victory, including one advocating for then-Vice President Mike Pence to buck his ceremonial duties to certify the election results.
Carter previously found in March that it was more likely than not that Trump committed crimes as part of his plot to stay in power. | 2022-10-28T21:52:08+00:00 | upmatters.com | https://www.upmatters.com/hill-politics/eastman-appeals-court-order-to-turn-over-emails-to-jan-6-committee/ |
PITTSBURGH, Aug. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I thought there should be a universal copper T-joint, slip-elbow fitting to save time and money on plumbing projects," said an inventor, from Pittsburgh, Pa., "so I invented the SLIP T. My design can be utilized in many copper water line plumbing piping applications from bathroom toilets and showers to kitchen sinks or hose bibs."
The invention provides an effective way to connect copper piping at one junction point in three different directions at 90 degrees. In doing so, it reduces the need to remove large sections of piping and make several junction points. As a result, it increases convenience and efficiency. The invention features a functional design that is easy to install so it is ideal for plumbers, building contractors, etc. Additionally, a prototype is available.
The original design was submitted to the Philadelphia sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-PDK-212, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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Carlos Correa Player Prop Bets: Twins vs. Mariners - July 25
Published: Jul. 25, 2023 at 9:25 AM CDT|Updated: 38 minutes ago
On Tuesday, Carlos Correa (.360 on-base percentage in past 10 games, 53 points above season-long percentage) and the Minnesota Twins play the Seattle Mariners, whose starting pitcher will be George Kirby. First pitch is at 7:40 PM ET.
In his last game, he went 1-for-5 with an RBI against the Mariners.
Carlos Correa Game Info & Props vs. the Mariners
- Game Day: Tuesday, July 25, 2023
- Game Time: 7:40 PM ET
- Stadium: Target Field
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Mariners Starter: George Kirby
- TV Channel: BSN
- Hits Prop: Over/under 1.5 hits (Over odds: +170)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +400)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +195)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: -110)
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Carlos Correa At The Plate
- Correa leads Minnesota in OBP (.307), slugging percentage (.406) and OPS (.713) this season.
- In 59 of 89 games this season (66.3%) Correa has picked up a hit, and in 18 of those games he had more than one (20.2%).
- He has gone deep in 13.5% of his games in 2023 (12 of 89), and 3.1% of his trips to the dish.
- In 29 games this season (32.6%), Correa has picked up an RBI, and in 11 of those games (12.4%) he had more than one. He has also driven home three or more of his team's runs in four contests.
- In 36.0% of his games this year (32 of 89), he has scored, and in five of those games (5.6%) he has scored more than once.
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Carlos Correa Home/Away Batting Splits
Mariners Pitching Rankings
- The Mariners pitching staff ranks ninth in MLB with a collective 9.1 strikeouts per nine innings.
- The Mariners' 3.83 team ERA ranks fifth across all league pitching staffs.
- Mariners pitchers combine to give up 109 home runs (1.1 per game), the seventh-fewest in the league.
- Kirby (9-8 with a 3.23 ERA and 103 strikeouts in 119 2/3 innings pitched) tries for his 10th victory when he makes the start for the Mariners, his 20th of the season.
- In his last appearance on Thursday, the right-hander tossed seven scoreless innings against the Minnesota Twins while surrendering four hits.
- The 25-year-old's 3.23 ERA ranks 13th, 1.045 WHIP ranks sixth, and 7.7 K/9 ranks 46th among qualifying pitchers this season.
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President Joe Biden is proposing a series of new tax increases on billionaires, rich investors and corporations in his latest proposal for how Congress should prioritize taxes and spending.
The proposal, which is largely a reprise of Biden’s multi-trillion dollar Build Back Better economic package, has little chance of passing Congress, particularly now that Republicans control the House of Representatives. Biden was unable to pass similar tax increases when Democrats enjoyed control of both chambers of Congress, instead settling for slimmed down legislation focusing on energy and health policy known as the Inflation Reduction Act.
But the White House’s proposal foreshadows both Democrats’ strategy ahead of high-stakes negotiations over the debt ceiling and government spending later this year, as well as the economic platform underpinning an expected Biden reelection campaign.
Read more: Debt Ceiling Pushes New Biden Budget Into Market Spotlight
Administration officials argue that the proposals show a commitment to cutting the deficit — projecting that Biden’s budget would slash $3 trillion largely through increased revenues over the next decade — and represent a politically popular return to tax levels in place before former President Donald Trump’s tax reform legislation. Taxes on the wealthy and large corporations have been a rallying cry for progressives for years and polls repeatedly show they are favored by a majority of Americans.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy immediately dismissed Biden’s plans to increase levies, telling reporters Wednesday “I do not believe raising taxes is the answer.”
The Biden proposal would require that the richest 0.01% of Americans pay at least a 25% tax rate. It would also increase the top tax rate for Americans making $400,000 to 39.6% from 37%, reversing one of Trump’s tax cuts — though tax rates for those making below that amount would remain untouched. It additionally calls for investors making at least $1 million to pay that 39.6% on their long-term investments, which are currently taxed at a 20% rate.
The proposal would increase the corporate tax rate to 28% from 21%, undoing another signature Trump tax change. It would also eliminate a loophole that business owners and higher-earners can exploit to avoid paying levies for the Medicare Hospital Insurance Trust Fund on more of their income. White House officials so far have not indicated that Biden’s budget includes new Social Security payroll taxes on wages above $400,000, which some Democrats have proposed to shore up the program.
Read more: Biden Eyes Tax Hike on Income Over $400,000 to Fund Medicare (1)
Private Equity, Crypto
Biden is also calling for an end to valuable industry-specific tax breaks for private equity fund managers, oil companies, as well as investors in crypto and real estate, in his upcoming budget proposal, according to a summary of the plan. Eliminating these would upend the economics of many real estate and investment-fund deals — forcing Wall Street to reinvent the way that many transactions have been done for decades — if they were to become law.
Biden is proposing eliminating the carried-interest tax break, which allows private equity managers and venture capitalists to pay lower rates on their earnings from the investments they make.
The Biden plan also ends a longstanding tax break for real estate investors who can avoid paying capital gains taxes on their profits if they continue to invest the proceeds in other properties.
The administration is also calling to end a break that allows crypto investors to sell their assets at a loss — generating big tax savings — and then immediately repurchase those currencies.
In addition, all special tax preferences for oil and gas companies would be terminated, saving $31 billion.
--With assistance from Erik Wasson.
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States and its allies clashed with Iran and its ally Russia over Western claims that Tehran is supplying Moscow with drones that have been attacking Ukraine — and the U.S. accused the U.N. secretary-general of “yielding to Russian threats” and failing to launch an investigation.
At a contentious Security Council meeting Monday on the resolution endorsing the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and six major powers, the United States and Iran also accused each other of responsibility for stalled negotiations on the Biden administration rejoining the agreement that former President Donald Trump pulled out of in 2018.
Iran’s U.N. Ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani insisted Iran’s negotiating team exercised “maximum flexibility” in trying to reach agreement and even introduced an “innovative solution to the remaining issues to break the impasse.” But he claimed the “unrealistic and rigid approach” of the United States led to the current stalled talks on the 2015 agreement, known as the JCPOA.
“Let’s make it clear: pressure, intimidation and confrontation are not solutions and will get nowhere,” Iravani said.
Iran is ready to resume talks and arrange a ministerial meeting “as soon as possible to declare the JCPOA restoration,” Iravani said. “This is achievable if the U.S. demonstrates genuine political will … The U.S. now has the ball in its court.”
Speaking before Iravani, U.S. Deputy Ambassador Robert Wood said “the door to negotiations remains open” for a mutual U.S.-Iranian return to full implementation of the JCPOA. But he said, “Iran’s own actions and stances have been responsible for preventing that outcome.”
In September, a deal that all other parties had agreed to was “within reach” and “even Iran prepared to say yes,” Wood said, “until at the last minute, Iran made new demands that were extraneous to the JCPOA and that it knew could not be met.”
He said Iran’s conduct since September — notably its failure to cooperate with the International Atomic Energy Agency, the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog, and the expansion of its nuclear program “for no legitimate civilian purpose” — has reinforced U.S. skepticism “about Iran’s willingness and capability of reaching a deal, and explains why there have been no active negotiations since then.”
At the end of the council meeting, Wood asked for the floor to refute Iravani, saying it’s “a fact” that Iran’s extraneous demands and rejection of all compromise proposals are the reason why there has not been a return to mutual compliance with the JCPOA.
“So let me just simply say, The ball is not in the U.S. court,” Wood said. “On the contrary, the ball is in Iran’s court.”
Britain’s U.N. Ambassador Barbara Woodward, whose country remains a party to the JCPOA, told the council Iran’s nuclear escalation is making “progress on a nuclear deal much more difficult.”
“Today, Iran’s total enriched uranium stockpile exceeds JCPOA limits by at least 18 times, and it continues to produce highly enriched uranium, which is unprecedented for a state without a nuclear weapons program,” she said.
In addition, Woodward said, “Iranian nuclear breakout time has reduced to a matter of weeks, and the time required for Iran to produce the fissile material for multiple nuclear weapons is decreasing.” She said Iran is also testing technology that could enable intermediate and intercontinental range ballistic missiles to carry a nuclear payload.
U.N. political chief Rosemary DiCarlo told the council “the space for diplomacy appears to be rapidly shrinking.”
She pointed to an IAEA report that Iran intends to install new centrifuges at its Natanz Fuel Enrichment Plant and to produce more uranium enriched up to 60% at the Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant — a level close to that needed for a nuclear weapon. Iran also removed all IAEA equipment monitoring JCPOA-related activities.
DiCarlo called on Iran to reverse all steps outside JCPOA limits, and on the United States to lift sanctions on Iran outlined in the nuclear deal, and extend waivers on Iranian oil trading.
Iran’s Iravani emphasized that all of Iran’s nuclear activities “are peaceful” and said Iran is ready to engage the IAEA to resolve outstanding issues on nuclear safeguards.
As for what he called the “unfounded allegation” that Iran transferred drones to Russia in violation of the 2015 resolution, Iravani stressed that all restrictions on transferring arms to and from Iran were terminated in October 2020. So he said Western claims that Tehran needed prior approval “has no legal merit.”
Iravani also insisted that drones were not transferred to Russia for use in Ukraine, saying “the misinformation campaign and baseless allegations … serve no purpose other than to divert attention from Western states’ transfer of massive amounts of advanced, sophisticated weaponry to Ukraine in order to prolong the conflict.”
Russia’s U.N. Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia called allegations of Iranian drone deliveries to his country for use in Ukraine “patently concocted and false.” Russia is well aware that Ukrainian representatives “have been unable to provide Tehran bilaterally any documentation to corroborate the use by Russian military personnel of Iranian-origin drones,” he said.
Wood, the U.S. envoy, told the council that Ukraine’s report of Iranian-origin drones being used by Russia to attack civilian infrastructure has been supported “by ample evidence from multiple public sources” including a statement by Iran’s foreign minister on Nov. 5.
He insisted that Iran is barred from transferring these types of drones without prior Security Council approval under an annex to the 2015 resolution.
For seven years, Wood said, the U.N. has had a mandate to investigate reported violations of the resolution, and he expressed disappointment that the U.N. Secretariat, headed by secretary-general Guterres, has not launched an investigation, “apparently yielding to Russian threats.”
Russia’s Nebenzia reiterated Moscow’s contention that investigations are “an egregious violation” of the resolution and the U.N. Charter “and the U.N. Secretariat should not bow to pressure from Western countries.”
Guterres told a news conference earlier Monday, when asked about criticism that the U.N. hasn’t launched an investigation of Iranian-made drones in Ukraine, that “We are looking into all the aspects of that question and in the broader picture of everything we are doing in the context of the war to determine if and when we should” conduct an investigation. | 2022-12-20T21:03:32+00:00 | fox44news.com | https://www.fox44news.com/news/national-world-news/ap-us-and-iran-clash-over-russia-using-iran-drones-in-ukraine/ |
BERLIN (AP) — Russia's announcement that it would reduce natural gas flows through a key European pipeline by roughly 40% appears to be a political move rather than a result of technical problems, Germany’s vice chancellor said Wednesday.
Russia’s state-controlled energy giant Gazprom also told Italian gas giant Eni that it would reduce gas through a different pipeline by roughly 15% on Wednesday. The reason for the reduction has not been made clear, and the Italian company said it was monitoring the situation.
The reduced flows follow Russia's halt of natural gas supplies to Bulgaria, Poland, Finland, Netherlands, Denmark as Europe works to reduce its dependence on Russian energy amid the war in Ukraine. Gas demand has fallen after the end of the winter heating season, but European utilities are racing to refill storage ahead of next winte r with prices high and supplies uncertain.
While gas storages are refilling well, the cutoffs and reductions come on top of an explosion at a liquefied natural gas terminal in Texas whose exports were largely going to Europe, adding another squeeze to the tight natural gas market, said Simone Tagliapietra, an energy expert at the Bruegel think tank in Brussels. He urged Europe "not to be complacent and urgently scale-up coordination" so the continent is "prepared for a possibly difficult winter ahead."
Gazprom said Tuesday that deliveries through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline to Europe would drop after Canadian sanctions over the war prevented German partner Siemens Energy from delivering overhauled equipment.
Siemens Energy said a gas turbine that powers a compressor station on the pipeline had been in service for more than 10 years and taken to Montreal for a scheduled overhaul. But because of sanctions imposed by Canada, the company has been unable to return the equipment to the customer, Gazprom.
German Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck, who is also the country's economy minister and responsible for energy, told reporters in Berlin that he had established with the European Union's executive Commission that the maintenance of Siemens compressor stations on the pipeline isn't subject to EU sanctions.
He said officials are in contact with Canada to check what is possible under Ottawa's sanctions. But he added that, as far as German officials know, the first “relevant” maintenance session isn't due until the fall, and because there are several such installations, that wouldn't explain a 40% reduction.
“So I also have the impression that what happened yesterday is a political decision, and not a decision that is technically justifiable,” Habeck said. “What effect it has on the European and German gas market, we will have to wait and see. As a rule, suppliers have always succeeded in getting hold of gas from other sources.”
He said there's no supply problem in Germany, which gets about 35% of its natural gas to power industry and generate electricity from Russia, and it should be able to keep filling up reserves.
The EU has outlined plans to reduce dependence on Russian gas by two-thirds by year's end. Economists say a complete cutoff would deal a severe blow to the economy, consumers and gas-intensive industries.
“If you have the feeling that all your homework is done and everything is going well, you're wrong,” Habeck said. “It isn't over yet. It may only just be beginning ... making ourselves independent from fossil energy and Russian fossil energy must be advanced at high pressure.”
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) —
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Friday announced she replaced her director of early childhood education over the use of a teacher training book, written by a nationally recognized education group, that the Republican governor denounced as teaching “woke concepts” because of language about inclusion and structural racism.
Barbara Cooper was forced out as as head of the Alabama Department of Early Childhood Education after Ivey expressed concern over the distribution of the book to state-run pre-kindergartens. Ivey spokesperson Gina Maiola identified the book as the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) Developmentally Appropriate Practice Book, 4th edition. Maiola said she understands that the books have been removed from the state classrooms.
“The education of Alabama’s children is my top priority as governor, and there is absolutely no room to distract or take away from this mission. Let me be crystal clear: Woke concepts that have zero to do with a proper education and that are divisive at the core have no place in Alabama classrooms at any age level, let alone with our youngest learners,” Ivey said in a statement.
Ivey’s statement comes as conservative politicians have made a rallying cry out of decrying so-called “woke” teachings, with schools sometimes emerging as a flashpoint over diversity training and parents’ rights.
The governor’s office said Ivey first asked Cooper to “send a memo to disavow this book and to immediately discontinue its use.” Ivey’s office did not say how Cooper responded but that the governor made the decision to replace Cooper and accepted her resignation. Cooper could not immediately be reached for comment.
The book is a guide for early childhood educators. It is not a curriculum taught to children.
The governor’s office, in a press release, cited two examples from the book — one discussing white privilege and that “the United States is built on systemic and structural racism” and another that Ivey’s office claimed teaches LGBTQ+ inclusion to 4-year-olds. Those sections, according to a copy of the 881-page book obtained by The Associated Press, discuss combating bias and making sure that all children feel welcome.
“Early childhood programs also serve and welcome families that represent many compositions. Children from all families (e.g., single parent, grandparent-led, foster, LGBTQIA+) need to hear and see messages that promote equality, dignity, and worth,” the book states.
The section on structural racism states that “systemic and structural racism … has permeated every institution and system through policies and practices that position people of color in oppressive, repressive, and menial positions. The early education system is not immune to these forces.” It says preschool is one place where children “begin to see how they are represented in society” and that the classroom should be a place of “affirmation and healing.”
NAEYC is a national accrediting board that works to provide high-quality education materials and resources for young children. In an emailed response to The Associated Press, the group did not address Ivey’s statements but said the book is a research-based resource for educators.
“For nearly four decades, and in partnership with hundreds of thousands of families and educators, Developmentally Appropriate Practice has served as the foundation for high-quality early childhood education across all states and communities. While not a curriculum, it is a responsive, educator-developed, educator-informed, and research-based resource that has been honed over multiple generations to support teachers in helping all children thrive and reach their full potential,” the statement read.
Cooper is a member of the NAEYC board. In a previously published statement on the organization’s website about the latest edition of the book, Cooper said that book teaches, “applicable skills for teaching through developmentally appropriate practices that build brains during the critical first five years of life.”
Alabama’s First Class voluntary pre-kindergarten programs operates more than 1,400 classrooms across the state. The program has won high ratings from the National Institute for Early Education Research. | 2023-04-22T16:04:13+00:00 | kxnet.com | https://www.kxnet.com/news/national-news/alabama-education-director-ousted-over-woke-training-book/ |
WCIA — Bismarck-Henning graduate Dylan Dodd certainly turned some heads in his Major League Baseball debut Tuesday night in St. Louis, going five strong innings for the Atlanta Braves while striking out three batters and allowing just one run.
It was a Braves road game, but positioned almost right between his college of Southeast Missouri State and hometown of Bismarck, the lefty had lots of fans on hand.
“Honestly I don’t know how many people ended up here,” Dodd said after the game. “I know of maybe 100, 150 that came but I feel like there was definitely some others as well. It just comes back to, it’s the same game. For me, strike one is the biggest thing for me. When I get ahead of hitters it makes me feel a lot more comfortable to be able to trust my stuff and have success.”
With game one in the books now, it will be prime time for game two as Dodd is next slotted to start on Sunday Night Baseball when the Braves host the San Diego Padres. | 2023-04-06T04:59:00+00:00 | wcia.com | https://www.wcia.com/sports/local-sports/loud-cheering-section-propels-dodd-in-mlb-debut/ |
GUANGZHOU, China, Oct. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MINISO Group Holding Limited (NYSE: MNSO; HKEX: 9896) ("MINISO", "MINISO Group" or the "Company"), a global value retailer offering a variety of design-led lifestyle products, today announced that it will hold an annual general meeting of the Company's shareholders (the "AGM") at 9:00 a.m. on December 7, 2022 at 16F, Building A, M Plaza, No. 109, Pazhou Avenue, Haizhu District, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, the People's Republic of China, for the purposes of considering and, if thought fit, passing each of the proposed resolutions set forth in the notice of the AGM (the "AGM Notice"). The AGM Notice and the form of proxy for the AGM are available on the Company's website at https://ir.miniso.com/.
Holders of record of ordinary shares of the Company at the close of business on November 7, 2022, Hong Kong time, are entitled to notice of and to attend and vote at the AGM or any adjournment or postponement thereof. Holders of record of ADSs as of the close of business on November 7, 2022, New York time, who wish to exercise their voting rights for the underlying ordinary shares must give voting instructions to The Bank of New York Mellon, the depositary of the ADSs.
The Company also announced today that it has filed its annual report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2022 with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"). The annual report on Form 20-F, which contains the Company's audited consolidated financial statements, can be accessed on the SEC's website at http://www.sec.gov as well as through the Company's investor relations website at https://ir.miniso.com/.
The Company will provide a hard copy of its annual report containing the audited consolidated financial statements, free of charge, to its shareholders and ADS holders upon request. Requests should be directed to Investor Relations Department, MINISO Group Holding Limited, 8F, M Plaza, No. 109, Pazhou Avenue, Haizhu District, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, People's Republic of China.
The Company has also published the same annual report today for Hong Kong purposes pursuant to the Rules Governing the Listing of Securities on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (the "HKEx"), which can be accessed on the Company's investor relations website at https://ir.miniso.com/ as well as the HKEx's website at http://www.hkexnews.hk.
About MINISO Group
MINISO Group is a global value retailer offering a variety of design-led lifestyle products. The Company serves consumers primarily through its large network of MINISO stores, and promotes a relaxing, treasure-hunting and engaging shopping experience full of delightful surprises that appeals to all demographics. Aesthetically pleasing design, quality and affordability are at the core of every product in MINISO's wide product portfolio, and the Company continually and frequently rolls out products with these qualities. Since the opening of its first store in China in 2013, the Company has built its flagship brand "MINISO" as a globally recognized retail brand and established a massive store network worldwide. For more information, please visit https://ir.miniso.com/.
Safe Harbor Statement
This announcement contains forward-looking statements. These statements are made under the "safe harbor" provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements can be identified by words or phrases such as "may," "will," "expect," "anticipate," "aim," "estimate," "intend," "plan," "believe," "is/are likely to," "potential," "continue" or other similar expressions. MINISO may also make written or oral forward-looking statements in its periodic reports to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"), in announcements, circulars or other publications made on the website of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (the "Hong Kong Stock Exchange"), in its annual report to shareholders, in press releases and other written materials and in oral statements made by its officers, directors or employees to third parties. Statements that are not historical facts, including statements about MINISO's beliefs and expectations, are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve inherent risks and uncertainties. A number of factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statement, including but not limited to the following: MINISO's mission, goals and strategies; future business development, financial conditions and results of operations; the expected growth of the retail market and the market of branded variety retail of lifestyle products in China and globally; expectations regarding demand for and market acceptance of MINISO's products; expectations regarding MINISO's relationships with consumers, suppliers, MINISO Retail Partners, local distributors, and other business partners; competition in the industry; proposed use of proceeds; and relevant government policies and regulations relating to MINISO's business and the industry. Further information regarding these and other risks is included in MINISO's filings with the SEC and the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. All information provided in this press release and in the attachments is as of the date of this press release, and MINISO undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statement, except as required under applicable law.
Investor Relations Contact:
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MINISO Group Holding Limited
Email: ir@miniso.com
Phone: +86 (20) 36228788 Ext. 8039
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Russia has cut off energy supplies to Europe.
It’s causing a crisis. Household heating bills in the U.K. could triple. How long can Europe hold on?
Today, On Point: Europeans facing “energy poverty.” Will it weaken their resolve to support Ukraine, or could it be the reckoning needed to reduce Europe’s dependence on Russian oil and gas?
Guests
Suriya Jayanti, nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center
Former US diplomat, including a tour as energy chief at U.S. Embassy, Kyiv (2018-2020)
Tim McPhie, European Commission’s Spokesperson for Climate Action and Energy. (@TimMcPhieEU)
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Chris Curtis, head of political polling at Opinium Research in London, U.K. (@chriscurtis94)
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
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A Pennsylvania woman who used a bullhorn to direct rioters attacking the U.S. Capitol was convicted on Tuesday of charges that she joined the mob in an attempt to keep President Joe Biden out of the White House.
U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth heard testimony without a jury before he convicted Rachel Marie Powell of felony charges stemming from the Jan. 6, 2021, siege. Powell, who was convicted of all nine counts in her indictment, is scheduled to be sentenced on Oct. 17, according to court records.
Powell, wearing a distinctive pink hat and fur-lined jacket hoodie, joined a mob of rioters who confronted police officers at bike rack barriers on the west side of the Capitol. She used her back to push against the police line, prosecutors said.
A video captured Powell using a bullhorn to encourage other rioters to “coordinate together if you’re going to take this building.” She also gave them “very detailed instructions” about the layout of the Capitol, according to an FBI agent’s affidavit.
Powell told rioters they had “another window to break.” She herself used an ice-axe and a large pipe to break a window, according to prosecutors.
Powell, 41, of Sandy Lake, Pennsylvania, waived her right to a jury trial. The judge convicted her of charges that she interfered with police and obstructed the Jan. 6 joint session of Congress for certifying Biden’s 2020 electoral victory over Donald Trump.
Prosecutors asked Lamberth to jail Powell until her sentencing, but the judge agreed to let her remain free until the hearing.
A lawyer for Powell had no comment on the verdict.
Powell played a “leading role” during the riot, a prosecutor said at a February 2021 hearing.
“She is front and center in the incursion.” Assistant U.S. Attorney Elizabeth Aloi added, according to a transcript.
Powell was arrested nearly a month after the riot. FBI agents found several smashed cellular telephones, gun paraphernalia and other weapons when they searched her home.
Powell and her ex-husband shared custody of six minor children in 2021. She left her children at home when she went to Washington to attend the “Stop the Steal” rally, according to prosecutors.
Shortly before her arrest, The New Yorker interviewed Powell for an article headlined, “A Pennsylvania Mother’s Path to Insurrection.”
“Listen, if somebody doesn’t help and direct people, then do more people die?” she asked her interviewer.
Prosecutors said Powell “showed an inclination towards violence” before the Jan. 6 riot. She posted on Facebook in October 2020 that she agreed “with the possibility of civil war happening.”
“Unfortunately, the only way this is probably capable of being fixed is bloodshed because I’m not so sure our government can be fixed the political way anymore either,” she wrote.
Prosecutors also said Powell described her “surveillance” of an unidentified public official’s home in a November 2020 message to somebody who replied that they were “afraid to ask why” she was there.
More than 1,000 people have been charged with crimes related to the Capitol riot. Approximately 100 of them have been convicted by juries or judges. More than 600 others have pleaded guilty.
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Associated Press writer Alanna Durkin Richer in Boston contributed to this report. | 2023-07-19T15:30:24+00:00 | wboy.com | https://www.wboy.com/news/politics/ap-pennsylvania-woman-who-used-bullhorn-to-direct-capitol-rioters-is-convicted-of-jan-6-charges/ |
BELMONT, Mich., June 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The 2023 Meijer LPGA Classic for Simply Give did not disappoint in its ninth year at Blythefield Country Club, raising $1.25 million for the second consecutive year to feed families across the Midwest and naming Ireland's Leona Maguire as its newest Champion.
Tournament officials proudly announced the event generated $1.25 million for the Meijer Simply Give program. This donation will help stock the shelves of 268 food pantries the retailer partners with across the Midwest as they experience greater need amidst ongoing economic challenges. Including this year's event, the Meijer LPGA Classic has generated nearly $10 million for Simply Give.
"The Meijer LPGA Classic continues to be guided by the unwavering support of our community," Meijer President & CEO Rick Keyes said. "Their passion and commitment have played an instrumental role in fighting hunger throughout the Midwest and I couldn't be more thankful to our team members, volunteers, attendees, sponsors, and of course, the LPGA professionals and staff who have made this remarkable tournament possible."
Finishing 21-under par, Maguire made an eagle and four birdies in the last six holes on Sunday for her second career LPGA title. Over the last two years, Maguire has tracked well at the Meijer LPGA Classic, finishing in second place behind Jennifer Kupcho in 2022 and Nelly Korda in 2021.
"After coming so close two years in a row, I know a lot of people this week were saying you're due one, however golf usually doesn't work like that," Maguire said. "But it was nice that it all worked out well for me this week."
The tournament brought record-setting attendance this year to watch an elite international field of 144 players headlined by six of the world's top-10 golfers.
"It's been an exciting week of exceptional talent, which is truly inspiring to experience year after year," said Cathy Cooper, Executive Director of the Meijer LPGA Classic. "On behalf of Meijer and all who took part in the tournament, we congratulate our 2023 Champion Leona Maguire and look forward to seeing everyone back next year as we celebrate 10 years of the Meijer LPGA Classic for Simply Give."
Dates for the 2024 Meijer LPGA Classic will be released in the coming weeks.
In addition to the $1.25 million raised by this year's event, Meijer will donate $25,000 to a hunger relief organization of Leona's choice as part of a tradition the retailer started in 2021. Last year's champion, Jennifer Kupcho, chose to keep her inaugural donation local to the tournament by supporting Kids' Food Basket in Grand Rapids, Mich. Details on Leona's donation will be shared in the coming weeks.
For more information on the Meijer LPGA Classic for Simply Give, please visit meijerLPGAclassic.com. Stay up-to-date on the latest tournament news using #ForeHunger and #MeijerCommunity.
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Meijer is a Grand Rapids, Mich.-based retailer that operates 501 supercenters, neighborhood markets, Meijer Grocery and Express locations throughout Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky and Wisconsin. A privately-owned and family-operated company since 1934, Meijer has a fundamental philosophy aimed at strengthening the communities it serves and proudly donates more than 6 percent of its net profit each year to charities throughout the Midwest. With hunger as a corporate philanthropic focus, Meijer partners with hundreds of food banks and pantries through its Simply Give and food rescue programs. Meijer also supports education, disaster relief, and health and wellness initiatives. For additional information on Meijer philanthropy, please visit https://meijercommunity.com/home. Follow Meijer on Twitter @twitter.com/Meijer and @twitter.com/MeijerPR or become a fan at www.facebook.com/meijer.
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Located just north of Grand Rapids, Blythefield has been providing families the best golf and social experience in West Michigan since 1928. With the Rogue River flowing through, Blythefield boasts one of the most beautiful championship layouts in Michigan. Previously, Blythefield has hosted the 1953 Western Amateur, the 1961 Western Open, won by Arnold Palmer, and the 2005 Western Junior won by Rickie Fowler. Beginning in 2014, Blythefield is honored to host the Meijer LPGA Classic. Learn more about Blythefield Country Club at www.blythefieldcc.org.
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CHICAGO (AP) — Alecko Eskandrian starred at the University of Virginia before playing for five teams during seven seasons in Major League Soccer. The All-Star forward had five documented concussions during his MLS career, leading to his retirement in 2010.
When it comes to head injuries and soccer, Eskandrian said, the sport has come a long way.
“When I was younger, growing up, that wasn’t even a thing to, hey, report your concussion,” he said. “It was more of like, if you felt OK, you carried through, you carried through, and there were never discussions about short-term, long-terms effects, things like that.”
The 40-year-old Eskandrian, who works for MLS in player relations and player development, shared his perspective while speaking on a panel Wednesday on the first day of a head injury summit at a downtown Chicago hotel.
The conference of scientists, medical professionals and athletic trainers and officials was organized by U.S. Soccer, Major League Soccer, the National Women’s Soccer League and the United Soccer League. It also included speakers from the Premier League, English Football Association and World Rugby.
Looking to build on the findings of the sixth International Conference on Concussion in Sport held in Amsterdam in October 2022, the summit featured presentations and discussion on the latest developments in concussion prevention, diagnosis and care.
“The amount of literature that’s been published in the last two, three, four years is equal to the amount of literature that’s been published in the last 20,” said Margot Putukian, the chief medical officer for MLS. “So this is a really important topic.”
The summit opened a day after the Concussion Legacy Foundation announced that four more former professional soccer players had been diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy — a degenerative brain disease that has been linked to concussions in athletes, combat veterans and others who sustained repeated head trauma.
There was little mention of CTE during the presentations and panels on Wednesday, and no researchers from the Boston University CTE Center — the brain bank that has led the research into the disease that can cause depression and other cognitive difficulties — were invited to address the conference.
Speaking during a break Wednesday, Concussion Legacy Foundation co-founder Chris Nowinski said he was looking forward to a “deeper discussion of heading” and for “a sense of urgency.”
“I don’t think the level of concern for how many soccer players are being diagnosed with CTE is high enough,” Nowinski told The Associated Press. “I don’t think it’s what the players would want it to be, who are actually the ones out there risking CTE and could have a future (CTE) prevented if there were changes made today.”
Asked about the criticism by some CTE researchers, Putukian defended the agenda for the summit — pointing to a Thursday session that includes presentations on neurological markers for chronic degenerative disease, neurocognitive dysfunction and neurodegenerative disease in soccer.
“We’ve, I think, tackled and been very transparent about all the issues,” she said. “We want to hear about all the issues. We want to continue to learn from all the stakeholders that we’ve invited.”
The opening of the summit was filled with signs of progress in concussion research — and plenty of examples of how far there is to go. Beyond conversations about advancements in technology and a growing recognition of several different conditions as factors in diagnosis, experts also touted the importance of exercise in recovering from head injuries.
Gone are the days of resting in a dark room after sustaining a concussion.
“We’re learning that exercise is medicine,” Putukian said. “Exercise makes people feel better. … There’s been an explosion of research and very clear evidence that strict rest is actually deleterious and that it early exercise is really helpful.”
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AP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccer and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2023-05-18T22:20:02+00:00 | wate.com | https://www.wate.com/health/ap-health/ap-soccer-health-officials-gather-for-head-injury-summit-amid-criticism-from-cte-researchers/ |
Florida Gators Quarterback charged with possession of child porn
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) - A University of Florida Gators Quarterback is behind bars at the Alachua County Jail on charges of possession of child porn.
According to the jail’s website, Jalen Kitna, 19, is booked into the jail. He is the backup Gators Football Quarterback.
The Gainesville Police Department arrested Kitna for two counts of distribution of child exploitation material and three counts of possession of child pornography
The department officials say an investigation was launched into Kitna after a tip was made to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. The tip said images of child sexual abuse material were posted on Discord. Detectives determined the images were shared from Kitna’s home on Southwest 38th Drive in Gainesville and he was the account holder.
When interviewed, Kitna told detectives he shared the images but believed them to be legal because he found them online. He then admitted he should not have shared them.
On Wednesday, his home was searched with a warrant and his devices were searched. The analysis of the devices revealed three additional images of child sexual abuse material.
In a statement, the University Athletic Association said the following:
“We are shocked and saddened to hear of the news involving Jalen Kitna. These are extremely serious charges and the University of Florida and the UAA have zero tolerance for such behavior. Jalen has been suspended indefinitely from the football program.”
His father Jon Kitna is a former American football quarterback in the National Football League for the Seattle Seahawks, Cincinnati Bengals, Detroit Lions, and Dallas Cowboys.
Kitna has played sparingly in his two years as a Gator. He did not have any game action in 2021 and was Redshirted. This season, his most significant game action came against Eastern Washington, when he recorded eight completions for 152 yards and a touchdown.
He attended Burleson High School in Texas.
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Should you get Kaytee wild bird seed?
As the first commercial wild bird food supplier in the United States, Kaytee is a respected and popular brand for feeding feathered friends in the backyard. Kaytee produces a wide variety of wild bird food suitable for many different species. Whether you have a single bird feeder or a garden paradise, Kaytee wild bird food is a trustworthy choice to attract wild birds.
Kaytee wild bird food ingredients
High-energy ingredients
Since wild birds spend so much of their time looking for food, it’s important to supply them with nutritious, high-energy food. In particular, seeds with high oil content appeal to birds because they contain lots of nutrients and fat for energy.
A good all-around ingredient to look for in Kaytee bird food is black oil sunflower seeds. These seeds have thinner shells, making them easier for smaller birds to crack into, and they contain a higher oil content along with nutrients such as vitamins A, B and E, protein and fat.
Bird-specific formulas
Kaytee makes wild bird food specially blended for particular species such as cardinals, finches, songbirds and woodpeckers. These can include shelled or unshelled peanuts, sunflower seeds, dried fruit or even mealworms. If you live in an area that frequently hosts a particular species, or if you’re trying to attract a specific type of bird, you may find it worthwhile to put out a Kaytee wild bird food designed just for them.
Kaytee seed blends
If your birdwatching goals include seeing as many different wild birds as possible, a diverse seed blend will be the best choice. Cardinals, chickadees and grosbeaks love sunflower seeds, while robins enjoy mealworms and fruit. Safflower is popular with many bird species and a common ingredient in birdseed blends. Its bitter taste can also help deter squirrels.
Using Kaytee bird food in your bird feeder
Types of bird feeders
Some types of bird food work better in certain kinds of feeders.
- Hopper and tube bird feeders can accommodate just about any kind of birdseed, although small seeds can fall out of tube feeders with mesh siding.
- Platform feeders can hold an even wider variety of bird food, like sunflower seeds or mealworms, but since the food is more exposed, it can go bad faster. Platform feeders are also easily accessed by squirrels.
What kind of bird feeder do you need for Kaytee bird food?
Kaytee wild bird food is available as loose seed mix and in seed cakes. Loose seed mix can be used in hopper, tube or platform feeders, while seed cakes slip into specialized cake or suet holders. Woodpeckers in particular love pecking at seed cakes, which are made with a variety of seeds bound together with honey.
Regardless of what type of bird feeder you use, be sure to discard old food regularly and clean out the feeder to prevent mold or bacteria from sickening visiting birds.
Mess-free wild bird food
Don’t want a mess under your bird feeder? Some Kaytee wild bird food varieties are formulated to be mess-free and waste-free. These varieties contain hulled seeds that are 100% edible. They also won’t sprout if they spill onto your yard or into garden beds. Mess-free birdseed blends tend to be more expensive than standard bird food, but since they help save you from having to clean up after the birds, you may find them worthwhile.
What you need to buy for Kaytee bird food
Kaytee bird food mixes
Kaytee Black Oil Sunflower Wild Bird Food
Birds love these seeds for their high oil content and thin hulls, and you can distribute them from any type of bird feeder. Black oil sunflower is particularly popular with cardinals, woodpeckers, grosbeaks and chickadees. Sold by Chewy and Amazon
Kaytee Nut and Fruit Wild Bird Blend
If you want to spoil your birds, try this high-energy mix. It includes sunflower, safflower and pumpkin seeds for birds like cardinals, grosbeaks and nuthatches as well as raisins and dried cherries for bluebirds, woodpeckers and robins. Sold by Chewy and Amazon
This low-mess seed cake bird food can help attract insect-eating birds like bluebirds. It’s made with hulled sunflower seeds, black oil sunflower, safflower and mealworms. Sold by Amazon
Kaytee Waste-Free Blend Wild Bird Food
This wild bird blend contains hulled sunflower seeds so you won’t have to worry about cleaning up shells. Neither they nor the other ingredients will sprout. Sold by Chewy and Amazon
Bird feeders for Kaytee bird food
Woodlink Going Green Platform Bird Feeder
Serve up your Kaytee birdseed in this eco-friendly platform feeder. It’s made from up to 90% post-consumer recycled plastic and has a powder-coated metal screen floor for drainage. Sold by Amazon
Pop seed or suet cakes into the side of this vinyl-coated basket and hang it up for birds to snack on. The vinyl coating keeps the basket comfortable for birds to land on in all weather conditions. Sold by Chewy and Amazon
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Diver finds more human remains at Lake Mead amid receding water levels
LAS VEGAS (KVVU/Gray News) - The National Park Service said more human remains have been discovered at Lake Mead.
KVVU reports a diver found what appeared to be a human bone in the lake near Callville Bay on Oct. 18.
Officials with the park service said they searched the area the following day and confirmed the finding of human remains.
The Clark County coroner’s office said the team is working on identifying the remains, which marks at least the sixth such discovery so far this year.
Lake Mead is the largest reservoir in the country, stretching between Nevada and Arizona. But water levels have dropped throughout the year due to the ongoing drought conditions in the region.
As the water levels have receded, several items have since been found, including bones and sunken boats.
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WAUKESHA, Wis. — A daycare worker in Waukesha posted her $6,000 bail Friday after being charged with two felony counts of child abuse.
A TMJ4 news crew confronted Heather Miller, 48, at her home in Waukesha. She was in her backyard with two other women. Miller declined to comment on the investigation or allegations against her.
Miller worked with infants at The Lawrence School on Saylesville Road in Waukesha.
According to a criminal complaint, Miller held a baby face down in a crib until he appeared to struggle to breathe. She was taken into custody Wednesday.
The Lawrence School’s website says Miller is a mother of two who has worked in child care for more than 25 years. It says she studied Elementary and Early Childhood Education at UW-Lacrosse.
Parents have called TMJ4 saying they recognized problems with Miller’s care at other facilities she’s worked at in the past, both in Waukesha and Oconomowoc.
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TMJ4 called and emailed the State Department of Child and Family Services. They confirm they are investigating, but are not giving more specifics at this time.
“I just feel like this is a failure to protect and report what’s going on,” said Renee Martinez, whose children used to attend The Lawrence School.
Martinez raised a red flag about The Lawrence School years ago after she went to Waukesha police after she found out from another parent and teacher that her three-year-old son had been left outside alone for more than 30 minutes in December of 2018. She says the police advised her to talk to the owner of the school, Jim Hoeft.
Martinez felt that neither Hoeft nor the police took her concerns seriously enough. She did find out the teacher in question was let go.
“We have to protect our little ones, especially the ones who can’t speak for themselves,” said Martinez. “My son couldn’t tell me what happened to him that day. I had no idea. It makes me question how many other things have gone unreported and unchecked there.”
Hoeft has not returned our repeated calls for comment. The Lawrence School’s website says he opened the daycare in 2014 after nearly 30 years as a car salesman. In his bio, he says that he was inspired to change lives by working with children after his brother died suddenly. He shares this quote: “I'm happy to say at this point, if I left this world today, I have made a difference.”
The sudden closure of The Lawrence School as this investigation continues has a far-reaching impact on dozens of families. Many parents who relied on the facility for their child’s daily care, are scrambling to find other daycare options. Many nearby facilities already have long waiting lists. Parents we have talked to say they are devastated and disturbed by the allegations against the school, its owner, and a caregiver they trusted. | 2022-09-16T23:14:41+00:00 | tmj4.com | https://www.tmj4.com/news/local-news/daycare-worker-charged-with-child-abuse-posts-bail-tmj4-confronts-her-at-her-waukesha-home |
BERLIN, Wis. (WFRV) – The Green Lake County Sheriff’s Office is reporting the theft of multiple street signs in the town of Berlin.
In a release, Deputies say they first got a call about a missing stop sign on Willard Road at Highway 91. Officials say that both the sign and the post were missing and a search of the area found another missing sign.
This sign was once again missing both the sign and its post and was found at the intersection of Willard Road and White Ridge Road. Authorities say that both signs and posts appear to have been removed from the ground and both thefts occurred sometime before April 30.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the Green Lake County Sheriff’s Office.
No other details were provided and Local 5 will update this story if more information is released. | 2023-05-02T18:10:56+00:00 | wearegreenbay.com | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/local-news/stolen-stop-signs-in-green-lake-county-sheriffs-office-looking-for-info/ |
SYDNEY, June 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- CVS Lane LN Pty Ltd ACN 627 251 736 ("the Issuer") proposes to issue debentures (in the form of loan notes) in a number of series up to aggregate face value of $250 million of (Debentures) for subscription by Investors. The Issuer will invest the proceeds of calls to be made under the Debentures in secured real estate debt loans to Australian property owners and developers.
The Issuer is part of the CVS Lane Group, an experienced non-bank, private property lender in Australia, which manages a significant portfolio of Australian real estate loan facilities including via its two flagship real estate funds - the CVS Lane Property Finance Fund and the CVS Lane First Mortgage Fund. The Issuer will invest in similar loan facilities and may invest alongside the two funds.
The loans will typically be on more flexible lending terms than those offered by the mainstream banks and thereby achieve an enhanced return for the Investors. The loan facilities would be provided as secured (either first mortgage or subordinated) debt facilities in funding land acquisition, construction, residual stock and other commercial loans.
Typical investments are expected to be in the $10m - $50m range, for a term up to 36-months and will earn Investors a target net interest rate ranging between 1month BBSY + 4.00% - 9.00% p.a. The Investors in the Debentures will under a security trust have security over all the assets of the Issuer.
Debenture terms and returns will be tailored to individual transactions.
The Subscription Amount for the Debentures may be payable in instalments. Investors may be required to meet calls pro rata as capital is required by the Issuer to fund investments.
The Issuer is inviting prospective Investors to participate in the proposed Debenture issues to be undertaken in June 2023 and periodically thereafter. Interested Investors are invited to notify the Issuer of their interest in the proposed Debenture Issues and the scale of their prospective interest in each Debenture issue.
The offer is made to investors who qualify as 'wholesale investors' as defined in the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) (Act). The Issuer is a corporate authorised representative of CVS Lane Capital Partners Pty Ltd ACN 155 490 154 (AFSL 421125).The Issuer has appointed Polar 993 Limited ACN 642 129 226 (AFSL 525458) (Intermediary) as its intermediary under section 911A(2)(b) of the Act for the purposes of the Intermediary or its authorised representatives making offers to people to arrange for the issue, variation or disposal of the loan notes. The Issuer may only issue, vary or dispose of such loan notes in accordance with such offers, provided they are accepted.
A term sheet and detailed Information Memorandum are available upon request. A Supplementary Information Memorandum will be issued for each issue of Debentures and will outline the specific terms and returns for that transaction.
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In 1992, running as a conservative Democrat not aligned with his party’s presidential nominee, Richard C. Shelby cruised to victory with 65 percent of Alabama’s vote.
Not just surviving, often thriving.
He chaired four Senate committees. He clashed with Senate legends, CIA officials, the Justice Department and the ethics committees. He feuded with Bill Clinton and Donald Trump.
Shelby, 88, got the last laugh on Thursday afternoon as he and his longtime friend, Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.), received a standing ovation moments before the duo’s nearly $1.7 trillion bill funding the federal government received wide bipartisan approval. The two leaders of the Appropriations Committee embraced days before they retire and walk off into the political sunset.
While Leahy was always a Vermont liberal, Shelby has, in his own words, “evolved” over the years. But he always found the political sweet spot and kept winning.
His career is a rebuke to two trends in today’s Senate: those who rush to social media and cable news with outlandish actions seeking attention, and those who sit quietly on the legislative sidelines and do as their party leaders instruct.
“If all you’re interested in is doing everything to please everybody — to say, ‘This is to help me get reelected’ — you’re going to be a House member or a senator of no consequence up here,” Shelby said in a long interview on Monday inside his office where just about everything had been boxed up and sent to storage. “And you’ll be here for the wrong reason.”
Shelby believes his steady popularity back home comes from understanding that voters still value a “senator of consequence,” particularly in the mold of the old-time southern senator who spent decades acquiring power and using it to help constituents.
Born in Birmingham in 1934, Shelby attended the University of Alabama and the Birmingham School of Law, before winning a state Senate seat. He won a House seat in 1978 and entered Congress with a collection of rising stars that included then-Reps. Dick Cheney (R-Wyo.) and Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.)
By 1986, he jumped into an uphill Senate race against an incumbent, Jeremiah Denton, who was a beloved war hero who had spent 7½ years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
“A tough race,” Shelby recalled, winning by fewer than 7,000 votes, just 0.6 percent for his margin. He would never again face a campaign like that one.
He joined another class of future congressional statesmen: Thomas A. Daschle (D-S.D.) and Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.), future majority leaders; John McCain (R-Ariz.), himself a Vietnam hero who won the 2008 presidential nomination; and Barbara A. Mikulski (D-Md.), the longest serving woman in Senate history.
“We were all ambitious. We knew that,” he recalled, noting that he’s the last person in office from those classes of 1978 and 1986.
Early on he asked the Senate majority leader, Robert C. Byrd (D-W.Va.), for a seat on the Appropriations Committee. “Definite Republican tendencies,” Byrd told senior Democrats, explaining his rejection.
Shelby quickly discovered that the days of southern conservatives dominating the Democratic caucus had passed, and after he won a second term in 1992 he openly feuded with President Bill Clinton. White House officials retaliated by offering Shelby just one ticket to the ceremony honoring Alabama’s national football championship. Howell Heflin, the state’s Democratic senator, got 15 tickets.
The day after Republicans swept the 1994 midterm elections, Shelby switched parties. He set out to reshape his state’s economy, beginning with Huntsville.
“A few decades ago, it was a sleepy town by the Tennessee border. Today, it’s a booming technological hub for cutting-edge industries like space exploration and missile defense,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said in a tribute speech to Shelby.
And a trip to Singapore led Shelby to turn Mobile’s port into one of the deepest in the nation. But senators of consequence do more than deliver dollars for their states, and Shelby’s first chairmanship came on the Intelligence Committee.
He counts his vote for the 2002 authorization of the Iraq War among his biggest regrets, blaming CIA officials for misleading Congress about the regime’s arsenal of weapons of mass destruction.
“We were told by our intelligence people and everybody else that that’s what they were doing,” he said, wishing he had listened to his own doubts at the time. “I think that’s one that all of us needed more data.”
Instead, he spent two years fending off a Justice Department investigation into allegations that he leaked classified information during a congressional investigation into the 2001 terrorist attacks. No charges were filed and the Senate Ethics Committee closed the matter without any punishment.
As he recounts his old battles, they often end with the same phrase: “We won that.”
That’s how he described a battle with McCain over a Mobile shipbuilding dispute, and how he and Sen. Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.) again defeated McCain on a dispute over purchasing Russian rockets for the U.S. aerospace industry, with its focus in Huntsville.
“And we won that,” he said, breaking into a smile. “McCain did congratulate me on that.”
The legendary battles with the Arizonan began, like so much in the Senate, on more personal terms. “I think McCain and Shelby’s split came over John Tower,” he recalled.
The former GOP senator from Texas had been nominated by President George H.W. Bush in 1989 for defense secretary, and Shelby had initially pledged to support McCain’s close friend.
But Sam Nunn (D-Ga.), the Armed Services Committee chairman, disliked Tower and held weeks of hearings, including allegations of personal misconduct. Shelby stayed loyal to his chairman, opposing Tower.
He loved traveling the world, particularly with his wife, Annette Shelby, the first woman granted tenure as a professor at Georgetown University’s business school. Leahy recalled how his wife, Marcelle, and Annette Shelby helped save a tense meeting in Havana with the Cuban president, Raúl Castro.
“I’m a professor at Georgetown and I’ve taught many Cubans,” Annette Shelby told Castro, after Marcelle Leahy had prodded the famous dictator’s brother to talk about great-grandchildren.
“Well, the half-hour meeting became two hours,” Sen. Leahy said Friday.
Shelby maintained a fairly staunch conservative posture for most of his tenure. As the top Republican on the Banking Committee, he walked away from talks in 2008 that would lead to the $700 billion Wall Street rescue.
Almost nothing changed politically, as his reelection came in like clockwork, always between 63 and 68 percent, but then ahead of the 2016 campaign Shelby heard footsteps.
Several veteran senators had been caught by hard-charging ideologues in GOP primary campaigns, so Shelby got ready, hiring McConnell’s top political advisers to run a modern campaign. Trump’s ascendancy in Alabama complicated matters, bringing out many first-time voters who weren’t natural Shelby supporters.
“I never ran with Donald Trump. No, I didn’t. I ran ahead of him 20 points,” Shelby said. He won his primary with 65 percent of the vote, well ahead of Trump’s 43 percent plurality.
In his final term, Shelby tried to play the role of institutional caretaker. When The Washington Post broke news that, in his 30s, Republican nominee Roy Moore had romantically pursued teenage girls, Shelby broke ranks in that 2017 special election.
“He would’ve been the face of the party for the wrong reasons, and the face of Alabama for the wrong reason,” Shelby said Monday.
He announced he would write in a different candidate, and nearly 23,000 Alabamians followed suit.
Moore, who received a late Trump endorsement, lost by less than 22,000 votes.
Soon after Shelby announced he would not seek reelection this year, Trump jumped into Alabama politics again, endorsing Rep. Mo Brooks (R), a controversial figure who spoke at the Jan. 6, 2021, rally before the attack on the Capitol.
Shelby gave his support to Katie Britt, his former chief of staff active in state business circles. He funneled $6 million into a super PAC that pummeled Brooks, who often opposed the type of big-spending deals that Shelby used to boost Alabama.
Britt won the primary. In the general election, she received a very Shelby-like endorsement: More than 66 percent of voters backed her.
Britt’s campaign hat hung in Shelby’s office, one of the last things left. He hopes that she follows his path toward being a consequential senator.
“I am, by nature, not against everything. There are a lot of things I’m hard right on, hard right,” Shelby said. “And a lot of things that I think there is tomorrow. The clock ticks forward, we evolve.” | 2022-12-24T13:31:50+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/12/24/richard-shelby-senator-retirement/ |
5 officers charged after Black man paralyzed in police van
New Haven, Conn. — Five Connecticut police officers were charged with misdemeanors Monday over their treatment of a Black man after he was paralyzed from the chest down in the back of a police van.
Randy Cox, 36, was being driven to a New Haven police station June 19 for processing on a weapons charge when the driver braked hard, apparently to avoid a collision, causing Cox to fly headfirst into the wall of the van, police said.
As Cox pleaded for help, saying he couldn’t move, some of the officers mocked him and accused him of being drunk and faking his injuries. Then, the officers dragged him by his feet from the van and placed him in a holding cell prior to his eventual transfer to a hospital.
The five New Haven police officers were charged with second-degree reckless endangerment and cruelty to persons.
The officers turned themselves in at a state police barracks Monday. Each was processed, posted a $25,000 bond and are due back in court Dec. 8, according to a news release from state police. Messages seeking comment were sent to attorneys for the officers.
The case has drawn outrage from civil rights advocates like the NAACP, along with comparisons to the Freddie Gray case in Baltimore. Gray, who was also Black, died in 2015 after he suffered a spinal injury while handcuffed and shackled in a city police van.
Five officers were placed on administrative leave in Cox’s case. The state later dropped all charges against Cox that led to him being put in the van. They included illegal possession of a firearm and threatening.
New Haven officials announced a series of police reforms this summer stemming from the case, including eliminating the use of police vans for most prisoner transports and using marked police vehicles instead. They also require officers to immediately call for an ambulance to respond to their location if the prisoner requests or appears to need medical aid. | 2022-11-28T21:30:11+00:00 | detroitnews.com | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/nation/2022/11/28/prisoner-paralyzed-connecticut-randy-cox/69683360007/ |
Messi, Modric get Argentina, Croatia to World Cup semifinals
December 12, 2022 - 7:28 pm
DOHA, Qatar — Tears are flowing from soccer’s biggest superstars as they make emotional exits from what might be their last World Cup.
First it was Neymar. Then it was Cristiano Ronaldo. Could Lionel Messi be next?
Momentum is building behind Messi’s push to cap his career with the biggest prize in the game. The 35-year-old Argentina playmaker has carried his team to the semifinals, almost in the same way Diego Maradona — the man with whom Messi is so often compared — led the South American nation to its second and most recent World Cup title in 1986.
Now in Argentina’s way is Croatia, a country with a population of 4 million which is establishing a reputation as the most stubborn and durable of opponents while also boasting one of soccer’s most graceful players in Luka Modric.
The teams go head to head at Lusail Stadium — also the venue for Sunday’s final — in a meeting between the last two runners-up at the tournament: Argentina in 2014 and Croatia in 2018.
Argentina might have been expected to be in this position. The team arrived at the World Cup as the Copa America champion, on a 36-match unbeaten run and with Messi back in sublime form for Paris Saint-Germain.
Messi has continued that form in Qatar, scoring four goals.
“For us, he is our leader — he drives us, motivates us,” Argentina defender Nicolas Tagliafico said Monday. “We have that little bit extra when we go on the field. We are delighted that he is our captain.”
There was much less noise around the Croatians, yet they keep on surprising just like four years ago when their run to the final included a 3-0 victory over Argentina in the group stage. They also reached the World Cup semifinals in 1998.
Croatia coach Zlatko Dalic said his team’s World Cup performances are proving to be an inspiration to other underdogs, such as fellow semifinalist Morocco.
“Everyone in life has a right to make dreams,” Dalic said. “The Croatia national team made that dream a reality for all small countries four years ago. We gave other countries the right to have those dreams.
“They are encouraged by our example, by our fight, our qualities. All other national teams are living their dreams and Morocco is no exception … But let us share the same dream.”
Both teams have come through uncomfortable moments. Argentina’s darkest time was right at the start of the tournament, after a 2-1 loss to Saudi Arabia in what will go down as one of the World Cup’s biggest upsets.
Inspired by Messi and one of the most fervent fan followings in Qatar, Argentina won its final two group games, ended up squeezing past Australia 2-1 in the round of 16 and then required penalties to get past the Netherlands in a wild quarterfinal match.
Messi is one goal behind top scorer Kylian Mbappé. They are probably the two standout players at a World Cup that has seen many other top players live up to their lofty reputations.
Modric is a case in point.
He might not have scored a goal. He hasn’t even had an assist. But don’t underestimate the importance to Croatia of the little magician who keeps things ticking in midfield and manages to assert some control for a team which fights until the last minute.
In 2018, each of Croatia’s knockout games went into extra time before the team lost to France in the final. The same thing is happening in Qatar, with victories in penalty shootouts over Japan in the last 16 and Brazil in the quarterfinals.
Croatia looked more comfortable against Brazil than against Japan, which shows the team might be happier to invite pressure and choose its moments to break forward rather than control games and be more susceptible to the counterattack.
Containing Messi will be key and much of the responsibility there lies with holding midfielder Marcelo Brozovic, who protected Croatia’s defense so well against Brazil.
Dalic said Croatia was free from injuries.
“If we manage to win tomorrow,” he said, “that would make it the greatest game for Croatia of all time.” | 2022-12-13T04:26:06+00:00 | reviewjournal.com | https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/soccer/messi-modric-get-argentina-croatia-to-world-cup-semifinals-2693285/ |
The music of TikTok is inescapable.
Whether you hear it on your phone or in the background at the mall, songs that do well on TikTok usually dominate both the charts and playlists.
The social media app is a power player in the music industry with the capability to launch new stars and reignite love for long-forgotten songs.
Dan Whately, senior media reporter at Insider covering TikTok and social media, says record labels and artists are focused on creating songs that make it big on the platform.
“TikTok is no longer the challenger, the newcomer,” Whately says. “It’s really become a major player in music. And I think because it’s established its position in the industry, everyone is paying attention to it now.”
Many artists like Lizzo had tremendous success in promoting their new music on TikTok in 2022. According to TikTok’s end of year report, the singer had the most video views of any artist in the United States this year.
Her song “About Damn Time” dominated the app as it became the soundtrack of a viral dance trend.
“I think artists like Lizzo that really understand the platform and know how to jump in on trends have seen the most success,” Whately says. “I think that’s one thing that really has changed this year from last year. It used to be just a few artists that were doing that and a lot more have tapped into the platform and are spending more time really understanding trends in the app.”
Other artists like Meghan Trainor used TikTok to launch a comeback. Trainor’s song “Made You Look,” which went viral on the platform in October, became her highest-charting single since 2016.
The singer’s presence on TikTok is intertwined with TikTok influencer Chris Olsen. She featured him in dozens of videos with her new song and he promoted her music on his account.
Whately says that artists working with TikTok influencers has become a popular marketing tactic within the music industry, though even the way that strategy works is changing.
“I think it’s become harder to rely on a few creators to make songs really take off just because there’s so many more people on TikTok than there was a couple of years ago or even a year ago,” he says. “A lot of music marketers are thinking about how they can still break through. And sometimes that means hiring dozens of creators to include songs in their videos versus relying on just a few.”
And 2022 also saw older songs getting their moment in the TikTok sun. The stand out this year was Kate Bush’s 1985 song, “Running Up that Hill,” which went viral over the summer when it was featured on the fourth season of Netflix’s “Stranger Things.” Bush reportedly made $2.3 million in royalties just this year.
“It’s one of the most interesting things that’s changed with the arrival of TikTok, which is that labels are now paying a lot closer attention to their catalogs and kind of legacy songs that can really get a second life through TikTok. And it’s a new business opportunity….That’s a whole new fan base for her.”
One other change in the past year has been the popularity of sped-up remixes on the app — when a familiar old song is either pitched up, sped up or layered over another song. These remixes became popular in their own right and can often send the original song climbing back up the charts.
While many of these remixes are organically made by music producers on TikTok, Whately says there are instances where a music marketer or a label will actually pay a producer to create a remix of a song just to bring it new life.
Despite the music industry’s heavy involvement in TikTok this year, there were still moments of organic discovery — where someone with no social capital can rise to fame.
It happened for 15-year-old Yahritza Martinez and her brothers, who are part of a band called “Yahritza y Su Esencia.”
The children of farm workers, the trio spent their days picking fruit before their song “Soy El Unico” went viral on TikTok. The group is now nominated for a Latin Grammy Award.
But it’s harder to organically make a hit on TikTok, Whately says.
“Because there’s a lot more videos being made… I think we maybe are seeing fewer of those organic moments just because there are marketing dollars that are going into pushing certain tracks or certain songs” he says. “But there are still plenty of success stories of up and coming performers that get discovered … The opportunity is still out there.”
Kalyani Saxena produced and edited this interview for broadcast with Catherine Welch. Saxena also adapted it for the web.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2022-12-27T19:56:26+00:00 | kvpr.org | https://www.kvpr.org/2022-12-27/from-lizzo-to-kate-bush-how-tiktok-dominated-the-music-industry-in-2022 |
A new mandate this year from the state Department of Education has school districts across Oklahoma implementing a new “graduation pathway” for the 1% of students in the state with the most significant cognitive disabilities.
The Legislature’s passage in April of House Bill 1041 authorized districts to issue alternate diplomas to students participating in the Oklahoma Alternate Assessment Program.
Within Sand Springs Public Schools, that means the creation of the Sandite Transition Academy, a new program that serves students ages 18 through 22, where completion will result in the issuance of an alternate diploma — and perhaps a new approach to life after the classroom.
“In the past, we had always been told by the state that a special ed diploma doesn’t look any different,” said Carrie Schlehuber, the director of special education for Sand Springs Public Schools. “Districts were doing what we had been instructed to do.
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“We were told their courses needed to look the same,” she said.
That doesn’t mean the students were completing the same courses, however.
For example, special education students weren’t taking Algebra II, per se, Schlehuber said. A teacher would adapt the algebraic reasoning skills of Algebra II to a functional “life skills” level, and special education students were successful at that level.
The problem was that their transcripts showed that they had completed Algebra II.
“As a person on the classroom level, we knew that we weren’t giving them Algebra I and Algebra II work,” Schlehuber said. “The teachers were doing it the right way, but because the state was saying nothing can look different, there wasn’t really a different option” because of the course codes that were dictated by the state.
The mandate “kind of set into motion not only the alternate diploma but also alternate courses,” she said. “That’s exciting.
“So now you’re going to have a student who is in that ‘severe-profound class’ — students with the most significant cognitive and physical disabilities — (and the transcript) is going to show Life Skills Math I, II, III, IV (or) Life Skills Reading I, II, III, IV. And so it really is going to be better. It’s going to be better across the board.”
But that also means that students taking those classes won’t be meeting Oklahoma’s academic standards for high school graduation.
“That’s when the alternate diploma comes into play,” Schlehuber said.
The alternate diploma, which was signed into law by Gov. Kevin Stitt last spring, will be available for the first time to members of the Class of 2024, she said.
But receiving that alternate diploma does not end that student’s right to a free and appropriate public education, or FAPE, “which is why we’re creating the Transition Academy for (students age) 18 through the year of their 22nd birthday,” she said.
IDEA, or the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, has always said districts can keep students through their 22nd birthday if they haven’t yet met graduation requirements, Schlehuber said.
“So we have students already who have stayed with us, but the framework was just that they stayed in the same classroom,” she said.
The program, which will be housed in a couple of classroom spaces between the old Ninth Grade Center and Sand Springs Community Services on the north side of Fourth Street near Garfield Avenue, will be tailored to the needs of each student, Schlehuber said.
Some will spend the entire day in that classroom setting. Others will spend part of the day with the school district and part of the day undergoing on-site job training with the Bridges Foundation, a Tulsa area organization that provides employment opportunities to people with special needs, she said.
“One student in the first cohort is much closer to being job-ready and will spend most of the time in the community” applying for jobs and such, Schlehuber said.
“It’s really important to me (for the program) not to be at the high school, because they’re not high schoolers; they’re adults,” she said.
The first cohort will comprise four students — three females and one male, Schlehuber said, adding that all four have been Sand Springs students for quite some time. All are ages 18 to 20 and graduated with the Charles Page High School classes of 2022 or 2023.
But those diplomas have been rescinded by the state because the students will work instead toward the new alternate diploma.
Leading them will be a job coach and two high school seniors fulfilling paid internships.
“I don’t have a certified teacher for this program because we’re not focusing on academics,” Schlehuber said. “We’re focusing on life and job and employment skills, so I have a job coach.”
But as the program grows, she said, “my goal is that we will have a certified teacher and a job coach and then add more onto that as we have more students. In my mind I’m thinking that will be 20 to 25 students once we have four full years’ worth of students” in the academy.
The student interns are a unique feature to Sand Springs’ program.
“We work really hard at the high school to place all of our seniors in an internship, or they’re at vo-tech or they’re (concurrently at) Tulsa Community College,” Schlehuber said.
“One of our Family and Consumer Science classes is a teaching and learning class, so the students in that class are interested in being educators,” she said. “I have two students in that class who the teacher recommended because they’re both interested in going into special ed,” so they’re going to receive a paid internship to work at the academy.
“So I’m really excited about that part of it, too.”
Although the school district largely had to figure out how to fund the program itself, the state did release a bit of money for curriculum expenses, to the tune of about $5,000 for Sand Springs, Schlehuber said.
During the time the Transition Academy students are with the job coach, the focus will be on building independent living skills. That might include changing beds, cleaning bathrooms or restocking the refrigerator, Schlehuber said, or it might mean learning how to decide on a recipe, make a grocery list, shop for the ingredients and then make the recipe.
“The ultimate goal is living and working as independently as possible,” she said. “Not every one of these students is going to be able to be completely independent. But every one of them has the ability to contribute in an independent way.
“So whatever that looks like for each student is what we’re going to gear it towards.”
That might mean getting a job and living independently, but it could also mean living with their parents but being responsible for cooking dinner two nights a week.
“Our goal is going to be as much support as needed to begin and then backing that support off as much as we can back it off until they’re as independent as they can be,” she said.
Schlehuber said another part of the program will involve educating the students’ family members about such things as guardianships and realistic expectations about independence. Family members often either underestimate or overestimate their person’s ability to be independent, she said.
Although plans for the Transition Academy have necessarily had to come together quickly, Schlehuber had nothing but praise for the longtime employees of the state’s Special Education Department, who she said have been helpful and proactive, holding monthly and even weekly meetings as necessary to help districts put their programming in place.
“I’m not inventing anything,” she said. “There are programs that have been doing this the right way for a while. Lawton Public Schools has a transition program for their adults 18 to 22, and several other districts do, too, but Lawton is really the model program.”
Schlehuber said the Deer Creek school district has created a facility that has hotel rooms in it so students can practice their hospitality industry-type skills.
“My hope for five years down the road, 10 years down the road, is that we have our own space,” she said. “In my mind, ideally, it would be in downtown Sand Springs, just because it’s growing so much right now and there are so many cool business opportunities where maybe we would have our own storefront; where maybe we would be running a product out of that store; or maybe that’s where we’re continuing to do our educational services.”
Schlehuber might not be reinventing the wheel, but she was already a step ahead when it came time to put a plan in motion.
In August 2022, long before the mandate existed and even before the legislation creating it was being debated at the statehouse, she took part in a leadership team activity that asked what her dream project would be if her resources were unlimited.
Schlehuber’s answer was a transition academy.
“It’s always been such a huge dream for me because I know that our students don’t always thrive after they leave high school,” she said. “It’s always bothered me. I felt like we do such a great job, and then they graduate, and then that’s kind of the peak for them. And it just shouldn’t be that way.
“So then when I heard about this mandate, I had to chuckle a little bit. Well, now it doesn’t just have to be a dream.”
Making dreams real takes work, though, and Schlehuber and her staff are putting in their share.
“We’re scrambling a little bit because of the mandate, but for me, at the end of the day, it’s also just the right thing to do, and so we’re going to make it happen,” she said.
“I am already really, really proud of our special ed programming in Sand Springs, and I think this only adds another layer to that.” | 2023-07-26T12:02:46+00:00 | tulsaworld.com | https://tulsaworld.com/news/community/sand-springs/sandite-transition-academy-fulfills-new-state-mandate-for-alternate-diploma/article_da8c9e46-2927-11ee-a7a1-6f3fc7f22f8e.html |
Passport's platform continues to bring easier, more convenient parking payments across New York
NEWBURGH, N.Y., Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The City of Newburgh is excited to launch its first mobile payment option for parking powered by Passport, a leading transportation software and payments company, beginning on Monday, August 8, 2022.
Through Passport's mobile parking application, Passport Parking, motorists will have the ability to pay for and manage parking sessions from their smartphones, as an alternative to using quarters. With a cashless option now available, the City of Newburgh can support its merchants and drivers through a seamless and digital parking experience.
The mobile application is convenient, simple and secure. To begin a parking session, users create an account, enter the zone number marked on nearby signage, their license plate number and the desired length of stay. Users can extend sessions remotely and review parking history and receipts with just a few taps.
"The City of Newburgh continues to thrive and grow as a welcoming community and beautiful tourist destination,'' says City Manager, Todd Venning. "It's a great time to bring Passport's innovative technology to the City and we are excited for the community to see what we've been working on to streamline daily tasks, such as paying to park."
In addition to launching Passport's platform to offer mobile payments for parking, the City of Newburgh also powers its enforcement operations through Passport, allowing the City to utilize an end-to-end parking and enforcement solution with one digital platform. Neighboring locations that also trust Passport to manage their parking operations include the City of Rye, the Village of Larchmont and the Village of Pelham.
"With Passport, the City of Newburgh can provide its residents and visitors with easier ways to pay for parking so they can truly explore the beauty and diversity of Newburgh," says Anthony Caddell, Passport account executive. "We're thrilled to continue our partnership with Newburgh to enhance the user experience while supporting the evolving needs of the City's parking and enforcement services."
The Passport Parking app is free to download from the App Store and Google Play. Users can also manage their parking online at passportparking.com.
Passport is a transportation software and payments company that builds technology to more efficiently manage streets and sidewalks. Based in Charlotte, North Carolina, Passport is trusted by more than 800 cities, universities and agencies, including Chicago, Toronto, Los Angeles and Miami. Passport's digital platform helps cities manage parking and mobility infrastructure, creating more livable, equitable communities. One of the fastest-growing companies on the Inc. 5000 and Deloitte Technology Fast 500 lists, Passport was also named to Fast Company's World's Most Innovative Companies for 2020.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio State University announced plans Thursday to use a $110 million donation from IT innovator and executive Ratmir Timashev’s family foundation to establish a software innovation center with the goal of becoming a new hub for new ideas, entrepreneurship and product development.
It is the largest gift in the university’s history.
“The idea is very simple,” Timashev told the university’s board. “To make Ohio State, Columbus and the Midwest the new high-tech mecca.”
The Center for Software Innovation will bring together the College of Engineering, the Fisher College of Business and other partners in new ways, including through the creation of endowed professorships, cutting-edge academic offerings and hands-on industry experience for students, the university said.
The center aims to catalyze efforts across a region that has recently burgeoned with investments by the technology industry.
Intel is building a $20 billion chip factory just east of the Columbus, and Honda and LG Energy Solution of South Korea are building a $3.5 billion battery plant in nearby Fayette County that the automaker envisions as its North American electric vehicle hub.
Timashev said “every business is a software business” today and the time and place are right for the center to succeed.
“Technologies like artificial intelligence, machine learning, cloud computing, quantum computers will change the world completely in the next five to 10 years,” he said.
The Russian-born Timashev earned a master’s degree in chemical physics in 1996 from Ohio State, one of the largest universities in the country. He co-founded Veeam Software, a global leader in cloud data management whose Americas headquarters is based in Columbus, and also a venture capitalist specializing in IT start-ups.
Ohio State President Kristina Johnson, who is resigning in May, thanked Timashev, his wife, Angela, and their family for the gift, saying it will benefit the university and region and ”stimulate innovation across the country for a very long time to come.”
The university recently named its new music building after the Timashev family after a $17 million donation from their foundation to the university’s College of Arts and Sciences in 2020. That building is part of its new Arts District.
Veeam also donated $5 milIion to the Arts and Sciences College in 2016, to support student scholarships, teaching and research in data analytics and chemical physics. | 2023-02-17T16:10:43+00:00 | upmatters.com | https://www.upmatters.com/technology/ap-technology/ap-ohio-state-plans-software-innovation-center-with-110m-gift/ |
Editor’s Note: The above video is a KXAN story from March 14 on the Texas Rent Relief portal.
AUSTIN (KXAN) — The Texas Rent Relief (TRR) application portal will close on Thursday after thousands of applications were submitted within the first 24 hours, according to a news release from the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs.
More than 70,000 applications were submitted, according to a TDHCA news release.
The TRR portal will close at 11:59 a.m., Central Standard Time, the release said.
For comparison, the highest number of applications seen in a single day when the portal first opened in 2021 was less than 20,000, TDHCA said.
Applicants who have started the application process but not yet completed must upload all documents and submit them by Thursday, the release said. However, submitting an application does not guarantee payment.
TDHCA said closing the portal helps ensure program staff can quickly review applications and distribute the remaining funds.
Applicants facing eviction will be prioritized, TDHCA said, as long as their application includes a valid eviction docket number.
Eva Cortez applied for rental assistance and told KXAN she was facing eviction.
She said, without this assistance, she won’t be able to afford her apartment.
“I have a son, too. So I don’t want to be homeless,” Cortez said.
To qualify for this assistance, renters must show they are at risk of homelessness or hurting financially because of COVID-19.
That includes:
- Past due utility/rent notice(s)
- Eviction notice
- Having to move to unsafe/unhealthy living conditions but for assistance
- Reduction/loss of income/ Increased expenses/financial hardship
- Qualified for unemployment benefits
First-time applicants may be eligible for up to 18 months of rent and utility bill assistance, either with past due payments or a combination of past due and up to three months of current and future payments made on their behalf.
TDHCA said, if you are facing eviction, they encourage you to seek legal assistance, go to your eviction hearing and stay in communication with your landlord and the court. You can visit https://texaslawhelp.org/eviction-referral or call 855-270-7655 for help understanding your options and seeking free or low-cost legal assistance. | 2023-03-16T03:07:49+00:00 | everythinglubbock.com | https://www.everythinglubbock.com/news/latest/texas-rent-relief-application-portal-closing-early-with-more-than-70k-submissions/ |
(WSYR-TV) — Carrie Lazarus joined Steve Tuesday to preview her 10th anniversary special celebrating the ‘Extraordinary: People and Places of Central New York’.
She breaks down what led her to creating the show on NewsChannel 9 a decade ago. Turns out that Steve and the sports department played a role in that inspiration.
The two also discuss their favorite Christmas foods, and how it compares with a recent survey outline the state’s favorite and least favorite food to have around the holidays. | 2022-12-20T19:24:20+00:00 | localsyr.com | https://www.localsyr.com/bridge-street/bridge-street-host-chat-december-20-2022/ |
Attacks against postal carriers are up, and so is mail theft. The U.S. Postal Service is expanding safety measures, but do they go far enough?
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Attacks against postal carriers are up, and so is mail theft. The U.S. Postal Service is expanding safety measures, but do they go far enough?
Copyright 2023 NPR | 2023-07-25T09:57:03+00:00 | wbfo.org | https://www.wbfo.org/2023-07-25/a-jump-in-robberies-of-usps-carriers-is-prompting-agency-to-expand-safety-measures |
By SYLVIE CORBET
Associated Press
PARIS (AP) — A new campaign in France allows young children to flag abusive attacks by simply dropping letters in easily accessible mailboxes across the country, for experts to assess. And the results have led to several police investigations, while giving a rare and shocking snapshot of the scale of child abuse in France.
Started by a police officer who was himself sexually abused as a boy and founded a child protection group called Les Papillons (“Butterflies”), the two-year-old program runs under the motto: “If you can’t say it, write it.”
Most of the written messages deposited over the past year in the 200 white boxes set up in primary schools, sports clubs and other places accessible to some 61,000 children, refer to insults, mockery, and psychological aggression.
But 13% concerns school bullying, 21% physical abuse, and 7% sexual abuse. In the latter group, 30% occurred within the family circle and 70% concerned girls.
“It’s useful for some children who cannot get to speak out loud of painful things, or who don’t know whom to talk to,” said Florence, the principal of a school for 3- to 10-year-olds in a rural area of eastern France.
“It’s very difficult to speak about sexual abuse, especially if that’s about someone in or close to the family — whereas the mailbox is neutral,” she stressed. She asked The Associated Press not to use her full name, to protect the privacy of the children involved.
About half the complaints are from children aged 8-9, and over 15% are aged 6-7, given that the majority of mailboxes are placed in primary schools and most young kids don’t have a mobile phone to call the 119 official helpline for abused children.
Police officer Laurent Boyet, head of Les Papillons, said the initiative helps home in on an issue that is difficult to detect in official statistics.
In projections based on the past year’s responses, the group calculated that out of the country’s 12 million preschool to high school students there could be an estimated 840,000 victims of sexual abuse, including 240,000 cases of incest.
“The great strength of (the) process is that it’s based on the children’s words … There’s no adult interfering,” Boyet stressed.
Boyet wrote a book in 2017 to tell his own story. He said he was raped by his brother, who was 10 years older, when he was between the ages of 6 and 9.
“I know from having been a victim myself: the aggressor forbids (children) to speak … But no one tells you that you cannot write,” he said. “And writing, you can do it quietly in your bedroom.”
Each time a mailbox is installed, Boyet said, explanations are provided to children about the project. A person of trust is designated to pick up the letters at least twice a week. Messages are then assessed by a team of 12 volunteers, all professionals in the field of children’s issues, including psychologists and educators.
About 5% of the cases have been reported to the local authorities’ child maltreatment units in charge of taking necessary measures.
And 1.6% of the messages have been immediately reported to prosecutors, leading to a police investigation, in line with French law regarding “serious and imminent danger” to children. They include all alleged sexual abuses.
It happened in the school where Florence is the principal after a mailbox was set up there when she heard about the initiative from one of the association’s volunteers.
“It seemed interesting,” she said. “I thought there were not many issues in my school so, at the beginning, it was more to clear my conscience. I thought that it wouldn’t hurt. As it turns out, there were some needs.” Florence.
In June, on the very first day the mailbox was set up, a 10-year-old girl left a message naming her grandfather, and describing what appeared to have been instances of incestuous rape. A few days later, police officers confirmed that she and two other girls in her family had allegedly been victims of incest for years.
This was a “tragic” situation, Florence recalled. “In the end, the parents thanked us because it helped their daughter to escape a sexual predator.” The suspected aggressor is now in prison pending trial.
Boyet stressed that almost all children take the mailboxes seriously and that malicious or made-up accusations are “extremely rare.” Only 2% of the messages in the mailboxes are anonymous and almost none are irrelevant, he added.
Before the 2000s, France did not have specific national surveys on interpersonal violence. And it was not until 2015 that a large survey provided a better understanding of violence during childhood.
Carried out by the French Institute of Demographic Studies, Ined, it provided estimates of sexual abuse under the age of 18, based on a sample of nearly 27,000 adult women and men. It showed that 4% of women and O,4% of men said they experienced unwanted sexual touching, while rapes and rape attempts have been reported by 1,5% of women and 0.3% of men.
Boyet said he was not surprised by the figures resulting from the Papillons initiative showing the extent of child abuse. “It strengthened my conviction in the sense that figures we usually use, we know they are under-estimated,” he said. “That’s what gives meaning to the work we are doing.”
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A 13-year-old boy had to be freed from a claw machine after he climbed inside hoping to score a prize, according to an official at a North Carolina amusement park.
Carowinds officials were alerted just before 2 p.m. Sunday that the boy was inside the Cosmic XL Bonus Game, which contained plush prizes, according to Courtney C. McGarry Weber, a spokesperson for the park south of Charlotte.
The medical response team unlocked the machine and the boy was able to get out, she said. He was treated and released from first aid to his guardian.
The boy has been banned from the park for one year for attempted theft, Weber said. | 2023-04-18T16:49:14+00:00 | upmatters.com | https://www.upmatters.com/strange-news/ap-strange-news/boy-13-gets-stuck-climbing-into-claw-machine-for-prize/ |
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — No. 1 overall draft pick Travon Walker signed a four-year, $37.4 million rookie contract with the Jacksonville Jaguars on Thursday, a deal that includes a $24.4 million signing bonus.
Walker's contract is fully guaranteed and includes a team option for a fifth year, both standard for NFL first-round picks. He signed it one day before the Jaguars begin a rookie minicamp.
Fellow first-rounder Devin Lloyd, the 27th overall selection, also signed his rookie deal. He gets a four-year contract worth $12.9 million and a $6.6 million signing bonus.
Jacksonville signed five of its seven draft picks in all, including running back Snoop Conner (fifth round), cornerback Gregory Junior (seventh) and cornerback Montaric Brown (seventh).
Center Luke Fortner and linebacker Chad Muma, both third-round choices, remained unsigned.
Walker and Lloyd are among a dozen first-rounders from the 2022 draft under contract, including four of the first six selections. Walker will count $6.8 million against the team's salary cap this fall.
The Georgia pass rusher rose up draft boards following an impressive combine and landed in Jacksonville to play opposite 2018 Pro Bowl alternate Josh Allen.
The Jaguars chose the 6-foot-5, 272-pound Georgia native over Michigan star Aidan Hutchinson, who set a school record with 14 sacks in 2021 and finished second in Heisman Trophy voting. The team later added Lloyd and Muma in hopes of improving a defense that ranked 20th in the league in yards allowed in 2021 and gave up nearly 27 points a game.
Picking Walker, though, wasn’t nearly the slam dunk that drafting quarterback Trevor Lawrence at No. 1 was a year ago. Critics argued that Hutchinson was the more polished product and pointed to Walker’s limited college numbers. He had 9½ sacks in three years in Athens, including six during last season’s national championship run.
But Jaguars general manager Trent Baalke and coach Doug Pederson see a more versatile player in Walker, who logged snaps at defensive end, defensive tackle and outside linebacker in Georgia’s vaunted defense last fall. His highlights include more than sacks; he stops the run, tackles speedy receivers in the open field and tips passes that lead to interceptions.
He bided his time as a backup for two years with the Bulldogs and started to blossom as a junior. He started all 15 games in 2021, finishing with 37 tackles, including 7½ for a loss, and two pass breakups.
The Jaguars plan to take it slow with Walker, letting him learn the outside linebacker position before shuffling him to other spots along the defensive front.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — A series of white angel wings rise up from the earth bathed in a warm glow of light, their sweeping forms creating a long covered pathway surrounded by trees in a possible centerpiece for the memorial to modern America’s deadliest mass shooting.
It’s one of five potential designs unveiled Monday for a permanent monument on the Las Vegas Strip where 58 people were shot and killed and hundreds more injured at a country music festival on Oct. 1, 2017. Two survivors later died from their gunshot wounds.
The memorial honoring victims, survivors and first responders will be built at the site of the massacre.
Renderings of each design are on display through September at the Clark County government center in downtown Las Vegas, marking a major step in an arduous planning process that began more than three years ago and had been stalled by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Survivors Sue Ann Cornwell, Alicia Mierke and Sue Nelson were among the gallery’s first visitors Monday morning. The three women said they had goosebumps when they realized how much of their input had been incorporated into the potential designs: The number 58, representing the initial death toll. Statues of two young horses, representing the dozens of children whose parents were killed. A bar of music notes from the song “God Bless America,” representing unity.
“To see this come to life, I’m in awe,” Mierke said, tears welling in her eyes. “It is worth the wait.”
Each of the five potential designs includes a garden element, with trees along walking paths or flower beds framing the memorial. One design showcases 15 horse statues, representing the home states and countries of the victims. Another is centered around a cluster of light poles designed to look like candles, each with photos of a victim.
“These concepts show in vivid detail the power of what this memorial effort means to so many in five unique ways,” Jim Gibson, chairman of the Clark County Commission, said in a statement. Gibson’s district includes the site of the shooting.
Later this month, a committee tasked with planning the memorial will collect public input on the design proposals that they say will help them craft their final plan for a memorial. The committee is set to submit its recommendation to the county commission for approval ahead of the massacre’s sixth anniversary.
“No matter which design concept gets recommended, we can be proud of the process our committee put into place and amazing ideas inspired by it,” Commissioner Marilyn Kirkpatrick said in a statement.
The proposed memorials were put together by different design teams with suggestions from the community gathered in a series of earlier surveys, including one that found a clear majority of respondents wanted the memorial to be built on the same spot as the massacre.
In response, MGM Resorts International donated 2 acres (0.8 hectares) of the 15-acre (6-hectare) venue for the memorial. The casino company recently sold the remaining land to the Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation based in central North Dakota.
Kirkpatrick and former Gov. Steve Sisolak formed the planning committee in 2019. It includes a survivor of the shooting and the sister of victim Neysa Tonks, a 46-year-old mother of three from Las Vegas.
The permanent memorial will be separate from a community healing garden in downtown Las Vegas built by more than 1,000 volunteers in the days after the shooting. | 2023-06-05T20:21:45+00:00 | cbs42.com | https://www.cbs42.com/news/national/officials-to-reveal-3d-models-showing-what-a-las-vegas-shooting-memorial-could-look-like/ |
President Joe Biden walked a muddy stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border and inspected a busy port of entry Sunday on his first trip to the region after two years in office, a visit shadowed by the fraught politics of immigration as Republicans blame him for record numbers of migrants crossing into the country.
At his first stop, the president observed as border officers in El Paso demonstrated how they search vehicles for drugs, money and other contraband. Next, he traveled to a dusty street with abandoned buildings and walked along a metal border fence that separated the U.S. city from Ciudad Juarez.
His last stop was the El Paso County Migrant Services Center — but there were no migrants in sight. As he learned about the services offered there, he asked an aid worker, “If I could wave the wand, what should I do?” The answer was not audible.
Biden’s nearly four-hour visit to El Paso was highly controlled. He encountered no migrants except when his motorcade drove alongside the border and about a dozen were visible on the Ciudad Juárez side. His visit did not include time at a Border Patrol station, where migrants who cross illegally are arrested and held before their release. He delivered no public remarks.
The visit seemed designed to showcase a smooth operation to process legal migrants, weed out smuggled contraband and humanely treat those who have entered illegally, creating a counter-narrative to Republicans’ claims of a crisis situation equivalent to an open border.
But his visit was likely to do little to quell critics from both sides, including immigrant advocates who accuse him of establishing cruel policies, not unlike those of his hard-line predecessor, Donald Trump.
In a sign of the deep tensions over immigration, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, handed Biden a letter as soon as he touched down in the state that said the “chaos” at the border was a “direct result” of the president’s failure to enforce federal laws. Biden later took the letter out of his jacket pocket during his tour, telling reporters, “I haven’t read it yet.”
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy dismissed Biden's visit as a “photo op,” saying on Twitter that the Republican majority would hold the administration “accountable for creating the most dangerous border crisis in American history.”
El Paso County Judge Ricardo Samaniego welcomed Biden’s visit but said a current lull in arrivals prevented the president from seeing how large the group of newcomers has been.
“He didn’t get to see the real difficulties,” said Samaniego, who was in the local delegation that greeted Biden. “It was good that he was here. It’s a first step. But we still need to do more and have more time with him.”
Elsewhere in El Paso where Biden did not visit, hundreds of migrants were gathered Sunday outside the Sacred Heart Catholic Church, where they have been sleeping outdoors and receiving three meals a day from faith groups and other humanitarian organizations.
The migrants included several pregnant women, including Karla Sainz, 26, eight months along. She was traveling in a small group that included her 2-year-old son, Joshua. Sainz left her three other children back home in Venezuela with her mother.
“I would ask President Biden to help me with a permission or something so we can work and continue,” she said.
Juan Tovar, 32, one of several people in her group, suggested he also had political reasons for leaving his home country.
“Socialism is the worst,” he said. “In Venezuela, they kill us, they torture us, we can’t talk bad about the government. We are worse off than in Cuba.”
Noengris Garcia, also eight months pregnant, was traveling with her husband, teen son and the small family dog from the tiny state of Portuguesa, Venezuela, where she operated a food stall.
“We don’t want to be given money or a house,” said Garcia, 39. “We just want to work.”
Asked what he’s learned by seeing the border firsthand and speaking with the officers who work along it, Biden said: “They need a lot of resources. We’re going to get it for them.”
El Paso is currently the biggest corridor for illegal crossings, in large part due to Nicaraguans fleeing repression, crime and poverty in their country. They are among migrants from four countries who are now subject to quick expulsion under new rules enacted by the Biden administration in the past week that drew strong criticism from immigration advocates.
Biden's recent policy announcements on border security and his visit to the border were aimed partly at blunting the impact of upcoming investigations into immigration promised by House Republicans. But any enduring solution will require action by the sharply divided Congress, where multiple efforts to enact sweeping changes have failed in recent years.
From Texas, Biden traveled south to Mexico City, where he and the leaders of Mexico and Canada will gather on Monday and Tuesday for a North American leaders summit. Immigration is among the items on the agenda. Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador met Biden at the airport Sunday night and joined him in the presidential limousine for the ride to Biden's hotel.
The numbers of migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border has risen dramatically during Biden’s first two years in office. There were more than 2.38 million stops during the year that ended Sept. 30, the first time the number topped 2 million. The administration has struggled to clamp down on crossings, reluctant to take measures that would resemble those of Trump's administration.
The policy changes announced this past week are Biden's biggest move yet to contain illegal border crossings and will turn away tens of thousands of migrants arriving at the border. At the same time, 30,000 migrants per month from Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti and Venezuela will get the chance to come to the U.S. legally as long as they travel by plane, get a sponsor and pass background checks.
The U.S. will also turn away migrants who do not seek asylum first in a country they traveled through en route to the U.S. Migrants are being asked to complete a form on a phone app so they can go to a port of entry at a pre-scheduled date and time.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told reporters aboard Air Force One that the administration is trying to “incentivize a safe and orderly way and cut out the smuggling organizations,” saying the policies are “not a ban at all" but an attempt to protect migrants from the trauma that smuggling can create.
The changes were welcomed by some, particularly leaders in cities where migrants have been massing. But Biden was excoriated by immigrant advocate groups, which accused him of taking measures modeled after those of the former president. Administration officials disputed that characterization.
For all of his international travel over his 50 years in public service, Biden has not spent much time at the U.S.-Mexico border.
The only visit that the White House could point to was Biden's drive by the border while he was campaigning for president in 2008. He sent Vice President Kamala Harris to El Paso in 2021, but she was criticized for largely bypassing the action, because El Paso wasn't the center of crossings that it is now.
Trump, who made hardening immigration a signature issue, traveled to the border several times. | 2023-01-09T12:46:01+00:00 | kgun9.com | https://www.kgun9.com/news/national/president-biden-inspects-us-mexico-border-in-face-of-republican-criticism |
LONDON (AP) — London’s Metropolitan Police apologized Wednesday to the family of private investigator Daniel Morgan, who was killed with an ax in a pub car park 36 years ago, for the force’s failure to bring those responsible to justice.
The Met, which has been embroiled in a series of scandals over many years that have led to it being labelled racists, misogynistic and homophobic, admitted that its investigation had been “marred by a cycle of corruption, professional incompetence and defensiveness.”
“I unequivocally and unreservedly apologize for the failure of the Metropolitan Police Service to bring those responsible for the murder of Daniel Morgan to justice,” said Met Police Commissioner Mark Rowley.
In addition to the apology, the Met agreed a “mutually satisfactory settlement” with Morgan’s family, who brought a civil suit against the force.
No financial details were disclosed, but the payout is believed to be around 2 million pounds ($2.6 million), according to British media.
Morgan was killed with an ax in the car park of the Golden Lion pub in southeast London on March 10, 1987.
The initial investigation was heavily criticized, with the murder scene not searched and and left unguarded. Not all alibis were sought. And a subsequent investigation by another English police force was believed to have been compromised by the presence of a senior Met officer in the team.
In June 2021, an independent panel produced a scathing report accusing the Met of “a form of institutional corruption” for concealing or denying failings over the unsolved murder.
In May this year, documents relating to the inquiry into Morgan’s death were found in a locked cabinet at the Met’s London headquarters.
The family said in a statement that the two sides the parties were able to agree a “mutually satisfactory settlement of the proposed claims, including an admission of liability on behalf of the commissioner in respect of the conduct of his officers in response to the murder.” | 2023-07-19T12:06:35+00:00 | wwlp.com | https://www.wwlp.com/news/ap-international-news/ap-36-years-later-londons-met-police-apologizes-to-family-of-murdered-private-investigator/ |
By DAVID KLEPPER
Associated Press
In 1998, as nations around the world agreed to cut carbon emissions through the Kyoto Protocol, America’s fossil fuel companies plotted their response, including an aggressive strategy to inject doubt into the public debate.
“Victory,” according to the American Petroleum Institute’s memo, “will be achieved when average citizens ‘understand’ (recognize) uncertainties in climate science… Unless ‘climate change’ becomes a non-issue… there may be no moment when we can declare victory.”
The memo, later leaked to The New York Times that year, went on to outline how fossil fuel companies could manipulate journalists and the broader public by muddying the evidence, by playing up “both sides” of the debate and by portraying those seeking to reduce emissions as “out of touch with reality.”
Nearly 25 years later, the reality of a changing climate is now clear to most Americans, as heatwaves and wildfires, rising sea levels and extreme storms become more common.
Last week, President Joe Biden announced moves intended to expand offshore wind, though he stopped short of declaring a national climate emergency. A Supreme Court ruling last month limited the federal government’s ability to regulate carbon emissions from power plants, meaning it will be up to a divided Congress to pass any meaningful limits on emissions.
Even as surveys show the public generally has become more concerned about climate change, a sizeable number of Americans have become even more distrustful of the scientific consensus.
“The tragedy of this is that all over social media, you can see tens of millions of Americans who think scientists are lying, even about things that have been proven for decades,” said Naomi Oreskes, a historian of science at Harvard University who has written about the history of climate change disinformation. “They’ve been persuaded by decades of disinformation. The denial is really, really deep.”
And persistent. Just last month, even with record heat in London, raging wildfires in Alaska and historic flooding in Australia, the Science and Environmental Policy Project, a pro-fossil fuel think tank, said all the scientists had it wrong.
“There is no climate crisis,” the group wrote in its newsletter.
Years before COVID-19 set off a wave of misinformation, or former President Donald Trump’s lies about the 2020 election helped spur an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, fossil fuel companies spent big in an effort to undermine support for emissions reductions.
Now, even as those same companies promote investments in renewable energy, the legacy of all that climate disinformation remains.
It’s also contributed to a broader skepticism of scientists, scientific institutions and the media that report on them, a distrust reflected by doubts about vaccines or pandemic-era public health measures like masks and quarantines.
“It was the opening of a Pandora’s Box of disinformation that has proven hard to control,” said Dave Anderson of the Energy and Policy Institute, an organization that has criticized oil and coal companies for withholding what they knew about the risks of climate change.
Starting in the 1980s and 1990s, as public awareness of climate change grew, fossil fuel companies poured millions of dollars into public relations campaigns denouncing the accumulating evidence supporting the idea of climate change. They funded supposedly independent think tanks that cherrypicked the science and promoted fringe views designed to make it look like there were two legitimate sides to the dispute.
Since then, the approach has softened as the impact of climate change has become more apparent. Now, fossil fuel companies are more likely to play up their supposedly pro-environmental record, touting renewables like solar and wind or initiatives designed to improve energy efficiency or offset carbon emissions.
Aggressive approaches to address climate change are now dismissed not on scientific grounds but on economic ones. Fossil fuel companies talk about lost jobs or higher energy prices — without mentioning the cost of doing nothing, said Ben Franta, an attorney, author and Stanford University researcher who tracks fossil fuel disinformation.
“We are living within an extended multi-decade campaign executed by the fossil fuel industry,” Franta said. “The debate (over climate change) was manufactured by the fossil fuel industry in the 1990s, and we are living with that history right now.”
The impact of that history is reflected in public opinion surveys that show a growing gap between Republicans and other Americans when it comes to views on climate change.
While the percentage of overall Americans who say they’re concerned about climate change has risen, Republicans are increasingly skeptical. Last year, Gallup found that 32% of self-identified Republicans said they accepted the scientific consensus that pollution from humans is driving climate change, down from 52% in 2003.
By comparison, the percentage of self-identified Democrats that say they accept that human activities are leading to climate change increased from 68 to 88 over the same time period.
Fossil fuel companies deny any intent to mislead the American public and point to investments in renewable energy as evidence that they take climate change seriously.
ExxonMobil CEO Darren Woods told members of Congress last fall that his company “has long acknowledged the reality and risks of climate change, and it has devoted significant resources to addressing those risks.” ExxonMobil’s public claims about climate change, he said, “are and have always been truthful, fact-based … and consistent” with mainstream science.
Asked about its role in spreading climate misinformation, a spokesman for the Southern Company pointed to recent expansions in renewable energy and initiatives meant to offset carbon emissions.
The 1998 “victory memo” laying out the industry’s strategy was created by the American Petroleum Institute. In a statement emailed to The Associated Press, API spokesperson Christina Noel said the oil industry is working to reduce emissions while also ensuring access to reliable, affordable energy.
“That’s exactly what our industry has been focused on for decades,” Noel said. “Any suggestion to the contrary is false.”
The 1998 memo is one of several documents cited by climate activists and some Democratic lawmakers who say they could be used to hold them legally responsible for misleading ratepayers, investors or the general public.
“It’s time for these companies to answer for the harm they have caused,” said Rep. Ro Khanna, D-California.
Republicans, however, have said Democrats want to focus on climate misinformation to distract from failed environmental policies that are driving up gas and energy costs.
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Santa Barbara United Nations Association presents Peace Prize
Song and celebration filled Pascucci Restaurant on State Street Monday evening as the Santa Barbara United Nations Association presented ShelterBox USA with the association’s 6th annual Peace Prize.
The Santa Barbara nonprofit — which focuses on providing temporary shelter, cooking supplies and other basic necessities to displaced populations around the world — has supported more than 2.25 million people in nearly 100 countries affected by natural disasters and conflict during its 22 years of service.
The award, which “honors those in our community who advance the causes of peace, human rights, and humanitarian aid globally,” was presented to ShelterBox USA on Monday evening by Santa Barbara City Councilmember Kristen Sneddon, who applauded the work and mission of the locally-based but globally-active nonprofit.
“Past recipients and issues of importance have included human trafficking, climate change, women’s rights, the future of young people, peace, and humanitarian aid,” Councilmember Sneddon said during her remarks. “The recipient tonight also lives those values and carries them to the world in areas of disaster, and is from right here in our wonderful community. Our community that understands the importance of coming together in disaster, understands what it’s like to be suddenly without shelter, without light, without energy or what we need for clean water. And with that understanding, really appreciates what it is that our recipient brings to the world from our local community.”
During her acceptance speech for the award, ShelterBox USA President Kerri Murray thanked all those who have been involved in the organization’s work. She also highlighted the importance of ShelterBox’s mission at a time when war and civil unrest are wreaking havoc at an unprecedented rate across the globe.
“There are more people displaced today than at any time in recorded history. Prior to the conflict in Ukraine, it was 114 million in January of this year,” Ms. Murray said. “Those are people who are displaced not by chronic homelessness. It’s people who’ve lost everything due to disaster situations, war and violent civil unrest. The fastest growing driver in our world today is war and violent conflict, which is driving the majority of displacement of 114 million people.”
Ms. Murray also took time to dedicate the SBUNA Peace Prize to one of ShelterBox’s beneficiaries, a woman named Esther who was displaced from her home in Nigeria at the age of 14 after Boko Haram — an Islamist extremist group operating in Nigera whose name translates to “Western education is forbidden” — murdered her family and used her as target practice after forcing her to flee into the night.
Esther was able to make her way to the Minawao refugee camp in Cameroon, where ShelterBox is the sole provider of tents to new arrivals, and with the help of the organization was able to begin starting a new life.
“She is indicative of the people that we work to find in the world,” Ms. Murray said, speaking of Esther. “Since that time, Esther has married, she has two children; she is the breadwinner and her family. And not only are we supporting newly displaced people in the camp, we’re also helping the long-term displaced who are there for many years — people like Esther — with the basic things they need to survive.”
Also in attendance was Laura Angelini, a Billboard Top 40 vocalist who serves as ShelterBox USA’s artist ambassador, who performed heartful renditions of “I Have a Plan” and “Put a Little Love in Your Heart.”
Prior to the award’s presentation, SB UNA Vice President Barbara Gaughen-Muller spoke regarding the work of her late husband, Robert Muller, who played a formative role in the early days of the United Nations.
Using his example, she urged attendees to take action in their lives to support the United Nations’ mission of ending conflict around the globe.
“The United Nations was not founded on peace. It was founded to avoid the scourge of war,” Mrs. Gaughen-Muller said. “My message tonight is ‘Use your voice.’ We’re here for a reason — it’s our job to live our destiny and not wait for our eulogy.”
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To donate to ShelterBox or volunteer with the nonprofit, visit shelterboxusa.org. | 2022-10-26T13:54:42+00:00 | newspress.com | https://newspress.com/shelterbox-usa-honored/ |
MORAGA — Just two miles and a year away from his playing days at Campolindo High School, freshman Aidan Mahaney is the leading scorer on a Saint Mary’s team ranked No. 22 in the nation.
Growing up in Moraga, Mahaney was almost destined to play for the Gaels. Coach Randy Bennett first saw him in action when Mahaney was just 5 or 6 years old, playing a youth-league game in the Saint Mary’s gym. His team lost that day.
“Mom tells me the story about how I ran out of the gym crying,” Mahaney said.
Bennett remembers the moment.
“I witnessed it. He didn’t make it to the handshake line,” said Bennett, laughing. “I told his mom right then, ‘I like the guy. He cares a lot.’ That’s how he was from Day 1.”
Mahaney has brought a better-focused version of that same intensity to the start of his college career. When the Gaels climbed into the AP Top 25 this week, Mahaney gained a remarkable distinction: He became the third-highest-scoring freshman on any team in the rankings.
He is averaging 15 points per game for an 18-4 team that sits alone atop the West Coast Conference at 7-0. The Gaels play Saturday at BYU.
During the team’s current nine-game win streak, Mahaney is scoring 16.7 points per game, shooting 50 percent from the field and 46 percent on 3-point attempts.
“He’s been incredible for us,” senior Alex Ducas said after Mahaney scored 20 points in a 77-58 rout of Santa Clara on Saturday night. “He’s kind of smashed expectations of everyone.”
The 6-foot-3, 172-pound guard, who on Monday was named the WCC Freshman of the Week for the seventh time in 11 weeks, said he has tried to live in the moment through everything — practice, weight-room workouts and the games.
“It can be a little crazy when you see yourself on TV,” he said. “But I just trust all the hard work I put in. Because of that, I have a lot of confidence.”
Only six true freshmen among more than 350 Division I teams nationwide have scored more points than Mahaney. And only two of them are doing it for teams that have played well enough to earn Top 25 status.
Brandon Miller averages 19.8 points for No. 2 Alabama and Keyonte George is scoring at a 16.9 pace for 17th-ranked Baylor. Both are projected as NBA draft lottery picks next summer.
Mahaney’s name appears nowhere in the mock drafts, but he has goals like everyone. “I’m not a super open person,” he offered, “but I would say I try to set the bar as high as possible.”
Mahaney has been just what Bennett’s squad needed, providing one more scoring option. He put up 25 points in his college debut vs. Oral Roberts and has posted double-digit totals 18 times.
“Immediately he brought scoring, shooting, competitiveness,” Bennett said. “He brings intelligence. He’s a really good leader. Right now, he leads with his confidence.”
His future college teammates made the short trek to Campolindo several times last year to check out the 2022 Bay Area News Group Player of the Year.
“He’s better than I expected,” Ducas said. “I thought he’d come in and be really good for us but he’s been exceptional. He’s been a focus for us on offense and he’s played really well on defense.
“That kind of gets pushed away a little bit — everyone sees his offense — but he’s holding his own on defense, guarding some of the best guards in the league and doing really well.”
Two weekends ago at USF, Mahaney was given the primary defensive assignment against fifth-year senior Khalil Shabazz, who has scored more than 1,500 career points. Shabazz managed just six points on 1-for-11 shooting.
“Aidan has improved as a freshman to where he’s not a fish on defense,” Bennett said.
“Defense is such a big piece for Saint Mary’s basketball,” said Mahaney alluding to the fact that the Gaels rank fifth nationally, allowing just 57.2 points per game. “I’d be lying if I said I was a great defender right now but I want to be great at it.”
Mahaney’s contributions are all the more impressive because upperclassmen typically lead the way at Saint Mary’s.
Only two freshmen led the Gaels in scoring during Bennett’s first 21 seasons — Daniel Kickert at 12.7 points in 2002-03 and Patty Mills at 14.8 in 2007-08. Mahaney is on pace to break Mills’ freshman record of 472 points. | 2023-01-27T14:33:54+00:00 | santacruzsentinel.com | https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2023/01/27/east-bay-native-mahaney-pushing-no-22-saint-marys-with-scoring-as-a-freshman/ |
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio State linebacker Tommy Eichenberg’s big brother is bigger than most, and like any older sibling would not turn down a chance to trash talk.
Former Notre Dame offensive lineman Liam Eichenberg apparently ran his mouth a bit about this weekend’s game back in the summer. Yet as the game drew closer and the St. Ignatius grads prepared for their seasons — Tommy with the Buckeyes, Liam with the Miami Dolphins — things settled down.
“He just said good luck, you know — play well,” Tommy Eichenberg said.
The younger Eichenberg is expected to open Saturday’s top-five showdown as OSU’s starting Mike linebacker. Having followed his brother’s career, he has a better grasp of the history and tradition of the Fighting Irish than any of his teammates.
Liam Eichenberg started two full seasons for the Fighting Irish before the Dolphins selected him 42nd overall in the second round of the 2021 NFL Draft. He started 16 of 17 games in his rookie season. He remains one of the few difference-making talents from northwest Ohio in recent years to escape the Buckeyes.
Notre Dame, though, did not offer the younger Eichenberg — or even recruit him, he said. He committed to Boston College in June 2018, backed out five months later, and committed to OSU in December.
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Tommy Eichenberg said his family knows not to ask him about football details during the season. That policy apparently even applies to his brother, despite his helpful background in the subject.
“We do sometimes in the offseason,” Tommy Eichenberg said. “We have a lot more in common than just football. We help each other out, but most of the time it’s not about football.”
So who is Liam Eichenberg rooting for on Saturday?
“Ohio State,” Tommy Eichenberg said.
Did he say that or are you telling him that?
“I’m telling him that,” Tommy Eichenberg said. “But we haven’t talked about it.”
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Isaiah Foskey and four other Notre Dame players Ohio State football fans should worry about | 2022-09-01T12:18:50+00:00 | cleveland.com | https://www.cleveland.com/osu/2022/09/ohio-state-football-linebacker-st-ignatius-grad-tommy-eichenberg-faces-notre-dame-family-ties.html |
SAN ANTONIO – “What day and time is trick-or-treating?”
Those of us who were born and raised in San Antonio may find that a strange question, but it's being asked in many Facebook neighborhood groups. Some KSAT viewers are emailing and sending direct messages over social media asking the same thing.
If you’ve lived in the San Antonio area your whole life, you may not realize that some neighborhoods, communities and cities outside of Texas have rules regarding trick-or-treating. For instance, some areas have age restrictions — a fact that was making headlines a few years ago.
Other areas have designated dates and times for trick-or-treating. There has even been a push to create a National Trick or Treat Day.
But, here in San Antonio and surrounding communities, there are no such limitations. Kids go trick-or-treating on Oct. 31 around dinner time. You may see some younger children as early as 4:30 or 5 p.m. while older kids may wait until 7 p.m or so.
It’s traditionally assumed that homes with their porch lights on are participating in the holiday while those with their lights off should be skipped.
And it’s generally accepted that trick-or-treating should end between 9 or 10 p.m. at the latest.
Of course, some neighborhoods and communities have additional trick-or-treating events throughout the month of October, but these guidelines are fairly universal for the San Antonio area on Halloween night.
Here are some other Halloween articles that may interest you: | 2022-10-31T13:49:25+00:00 | ksat.com | https://www.ksat.com/holidays/2022/10/17/what-day-time-is-trick-or-treating-heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-halloween-customs-in-the-san-antonio-area/ |
HAYWARD, Calif., June 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Potrero Medical, announced today that a publication from the Accuryn Registry Study (NCT04669548),"Intra‑abdominal hypertension in cardiac surgery patients: a multicenter observational sub‑study of the Accuryn registry" has been published in The Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing. Dr. Ashish Khanna, MD, FCCP, FCCM, FASA of Wake Forest Medical School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC is the lead author along with Dr Vanessa Moll, Potrero Medical's Chief Medical Officer and esteemed members of the AKI Predict Team. Article Link
Dr. Khanna and colleagues concluded that continuous high-fidelity monitoring of Intra-abdominal Pressure (IAP) shows high, persistent levels of IAP in cardiac surgery patients. Many patients were in advanced grade intra-abdominal hypertension (IAH), which may have otherwise been missed by intermittent-only IAP measurements. Khanna commented "continuous monitoring allows us to see the evolution of IAP as well as the impacts of treatment, which, of course, is a major advantage."
Joe Urban, Potrero Medical CEO, stated "We celebrate the publication and partnership of the three large academic centers that contributed to the findings." Urban further commented, "The next step is to correlate the time spent in IAH with organ dysfunction such as acute kidney injury. This is an exciting first step to incorporating precision medicine- real-time intra-abdominal pressure and urine output- to improve patient outcomes."
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Joseph Yaeger’s work feels like it has seeped out of some gloomy, murky, unknowable past, like his paintings have just barely coagulated into reality. It’s all fragmented, hazy, stuck in a fugue-state of lost memory and pixelated nostalgia.
The young London-based American artist paints found imagery and snippets of films with washed-out realism, but all totally removed from context, cropped-in too tight, distorted and twisted. A hand offers you a pill as you walk in – but it’s not some hallucinogenic to help you trip to wonderland, it’s more like a downer, a hit of Xanax to ease you through the rest of the show.
What comes next is a world of woozy, half-remembered snapshots of hands and eyes and faces. Dennis Hopper holds two phones up to his head, a man is reflected in a woman’s sunglasses, a mirror reflects a woman’s face in front of a man’s. It’s Gerhard Richter-like, scratched and faded. The doubling and reflection continue upstairs: a man peers through bifocal glasses, a woman’s eyes are shielded by a huge male hand. Vision is mediated, manipulated, controlled.
And because it’s obvious that at least some of these scenes come from films, though you can never place which ones, you’re left with this incredibly uncomfortable, disconcerting sensation: an unplaceable déja vu, memories you know are yours but you can’t quite unlock, thoughts on the tip of your tongue, never quite tripping off. You recognise what you’re seeing but can’t figure out where from, so you’re left utterly lost. Everything here is eerily familiar, but totally ungraspable.
Yaeger’s aesthetic fits neatly alongside the hazy, close-cropped, pop-cultural figuration of fellow young Londoners Issy Wood and Louise Giovanelli, a generation of downer realists painting foggy, referential, dark, medicated images.
Not all the paintings here are great, but Yaeger is a very good painter. And somewhere in all these screenshots translated into paint, in these endless lenses and mirrors and haze and fog, there is a pretty accurate reflection of modern life. | 2023-01-10T16:51:20+00:00 | timeout.com | https://www.timeout.com/london/art/joseph-yaeger-time-weft |
Early in his set at the Newport Jazz Festival on Sunday afternoon, Jason Moran left his station at the piano, stepping over to a microphone. "I've been thinking about what it means for people to gather and listen again, together," he said, waving an arm toward the sunbaked crowd at Fort Adams State Park. His words carried layers of connotation, rooted in the shared understanding of something precious lost and found.
That feeling ran throughout the 2022 Newport Jazz Festival, back in full after a pandemic disruption. (There was no in-person event in 2020, and a reduced capacity in 2021.) But this was also its first edition since the death of George Wein, who co-founded the fest in 1954, setting a standard for outdoor music presentation that he continued to refine and realign well into his 90s. So there were bittersweet notes even in the weekend's bounding exuberance, as festival veterans like bassist Ron Carter and composer-conductor Maria Schneider made their mark alongside newcomers like trumpeter Giveton Gelin and singer Samara Joy, who each made glowing, auspicious debuts.
Another first-timer to the Newport Jazz Festival this year: Ozier Muhammad, a brilliant photojournalist who's been on staff at the New York Times for the last 30 years. A lifelong jazz fan, Muhammad was in perpetual motion at Fort Adams, capturing artists both onstage and behind the scenes. This assortment of images represents the merest fraction of what he shot, but it conveys the spirit of the fest — up to and including its finale, an all-star tribute to Wein.
Spearheaded by Christian McBride, Wein's handpicked successor as artistic director of the Newport Jazz Festival (who also serves as host of Jazz Night in America), this was a celebration both poignant and euphoric. Its heavyweight crew included some of the artists nearest and dearest to Wein's heart — like Cécile McLorin Salvant, trumpeters Jon Faddis and Randy Brecker, clarinetist Anat Cohen, and pianist Hiromi. They all converged onstage for the closing number, a rollick through Duke Ellington's "Cotton Tail" that summoned the sound and spirit of Newport Jazz Festivals past, while gleefully barreling ahead.
Alanté Serene edited the photos for this piece.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2022-08-03T19:02:26+00:00 | nepm.org | https://www.nepm.org/jazz-world/jazz-world/2022-08-03/after-a-pandemic-disruption-newport-jazz-festival-makes-a-poignant-euphoric-return |
NEW YORK (AP) — Rafael Nadal’s nose was just fine. So was his tennis. No stitches or even a bandage, 48 hours after he drew blood by accidentally smacking himself with his racket — and not a trace of trouble, as usual, against Richard Gasquet.
Nadal improved to 18-0 against Gasquet across their careers and ran his head-to-head set streak to 34 in a row by winning their third-round matchup at the U.S. Open 6-0, 6-1, 7-5 on Saturday night.
After No. 2 seed Nadal grabbed the initial nine games, Gasquet finally claimed one 70 minutes in. When a 97 mph serve drew a netted return from the 22-time Grand Slam champion, Gasquet raised both arms as the Arthur Ashe Stadium crowd feted him with a standing ovation.
Things reverted to form from there between the two 36-year-olds for the remainder of that set, with Nadal’s groundstroke power and placement too much for Gasquet, who used to be a top-10 player but is now ranked 91st.
Only in the third set did Gasquet make things more competitive, getting to 5-all, before Nadal take the last two games to improve to 22-0 in Grand Slam matches in 2022.
Next for Nadal comes a matchup on Monday against No. 22 Frances Tiafoe, an American who reached the fourth round at Flushing Meadows for the third year in a row. Nadal is 2-0 against Tiafoe.
“Now I believe I can beat him. … I’m definitely going to come after him,” said the 24-year-old Tiafoe, who is from Maryland.
The key?
“Match his intensity from the first point to the last,” Tiafoe said after getting past No. 14 Diego Schwartzman 7-6 (7), 6-4, 6-4. “You can’t really have any dips. He takes advantage of it.”
Nadal won the Australian Open in January and the French Open in June, then got to the semifinals at Wimbledon before pulling out of the grass-court tournament because of a torn abdominal muscle.
Before coming to New York in pursuit of a fifth championship at Flushing Meadows, Nadal tweaked his service motion to ease the strain on his midsection, lowering his toss so as not to reach as far on the swing. The adjustment has not hurt his effectiveness.
And neither did the bizarre mishap in a second-round victory over Fabio Fognini on Thursday, when Nadal’s racket bounced off the court and up into the bridge of his nose on a backhand follow-through. He was left bloodied and dizzy and worried he’d broken his nose.
“A little bit bgger than usual, but it’s OK,” he said with a smile after eliminating Gasquet. “The nose is still there.”
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More AP coverage of U.S. Open tennis: https://apnews.com/hub/us-open-tennis-championships and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2022-09-04T22:51:50+00:00 | localsyr.com | https://www.localsyr.com/sports/sports-news/ap-nadals-nose-just-fine-at-us-open-now-18-0-against-gasquet/ |
EEI Edison Award is electric power industry's highest honor in the US
WALTHAM, Mass., June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- National Grid received the 2022 International Edison Award from the Edison Electric Institute (EEI) for its North Sea Link (NSL) project last evening. The link allows the UK and Norway to share renewable energy across the longest subsea electricity interconnector in the world.
"National Grid is honored to receive the prestigious International Edison Award from EEI," said National Grid CEO John Pettigrew. "The NSL is critical to providing our customers with the affordable, reliable, and clean energy they want and deserve, and it is helping to shape the future of the electric power industry by establishing technologies that increase flexibility for the energy grid, which enables us to efficiently reduce carbon emissions."
National Grid and Statnett's €1.6-billion (approximately $1.7 billion USD) NSL started commercial operations on October 1, 2021, marking a major milestone in the UK's and Norway's journeys to net zero. By enabling the trade of renewable energy between the two countries for the first time, NSL will help the UK to avoid 23 million metric tons of carbon emissions by 2030.
Stretching 720 kilometers (km, approximately 447 miles) across the North Sea between Blyth in the UK and the village of Kvilldal, near Stavanger in southwestern Norway, at depths of up to 700 meters (approximately 2,300 feet), NSL provides clean electricity to power 1.4 million homes.
"Across the globe, EEI and our member companies are focused on getting the energy we provide as clean as we can as fast as we can, without compromising on the reliability or affordability that are essential to the customers and the communities we serve," said EEI President Tom Kuhn. "Because of the NSL, multiple countries are able to take the next step toward powering a net-zero economy. I applaud National Grid for its leadership and congratulate them for winning this prestigious award for this engineering marvel."
Presented annually and selected by a panel of former energy industry executives, the Edison Award is the electric power industry's highest honor in the US. The award was presented in Orlando, Fla., during EEI 2022, EEI's annual thought leadership forum.
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ST. LOUIS — Tage Thompson and Jeff Skinner each had a goal and two assists as the Buffalo Sabres beat the St. Louis Blues 5-3 on Tuesday night.
Thompson extended his point streak to five games, his third streak of five or more games this season. It was also his ninth game this season with three or more points.
Skinner also has a five-game point streak, his second such stretch this season.
Alex Tuch had a goal and an assist, and Owen Power and Dylan Cozens also scored for the Sabres, who snapped a nine-game losing streak in St. Louis dating to Jan. 21, 2012.
Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen made 26 saves for Buffalo, which improved to 2-6-1 in the second game of back-to-backs this season.
Ivan Barbashev, Brayden Schenn, and Jordan Kyrou scored for the Blues, who finished 3-4 on their longest homestand of the season. Jordan Binnington made 26 saves.
Buffalo took control from the opening faceoff with two quick goals 25 seconds apart.
Skinner gave the Sabres the lead 60 seconds in. Thompson created the chance by stripping Tyler Pitlick of the puck in front of the Blues' net and feeding Skinner.
Tuch followed moments later, burying Skinner's feed from behind the St. Louis net.
Power made it 3-0 midway through the first period, scoring on a perfect backdoor feed from JJ Peterka.
Thompson added his 33rd of the season on a backhand 70 seconds into the second.
Back-to-back goals from Barbashev and Schenn in the second gave the Blues some life. Defensemen Torey Krug and Justin Faulk assisted on both goals.
Kyrou’s goal from the high slot 47 seconds into the third cut it to 4-3.
The Blues had a 6-on-4 after Peyton Krebs was called for a faceoff violation with 1:46 left, but Cozens’ empty-netter with a minute left sealed it.
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Star forward Vladimir Tarasenko and Krug both returned for the Blues. Tarasenko sat out 10 games with a hand injury, while Krug missed 13 due to a lower-body injury.
NOTES: The Blues placed LW Pavel Buchnevich on injured reserve after he underwent a surgical procedure to address an ankle infection. Buchnevich, who has 38 points (15 goals, 23 assists) in 38 games, will be re-evaluated after the All-Star break. … Buffalo LW Victor Olofsson had his four-game goal streak snapped.
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Sabres: Play at Winnipeg on Thursday night.
Blues: Play at Arizona on Thursday night. | 2023-01-25T05:47:36+00:00 | wgrz.com | https://www.wgrz.com/article/sports/nhl/sabres/nhl-buffalo-sabres-win-fourth-straight-game-over-blues-on-the-road-over-st-louis-sports-nhl/71-57952270-5402-4a3e-ae8b-6ba4ce83f41e |
NEW YORK, June 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The InfraCap REIT Preferred ETF (NYSE Arca: PFFR) (the "Fund") has declared a monthly distribution of $0.12 per share ($1.44 per share on an annualized basis). The distribution will be paid June 29, 2022 to shareholders of record as of the close of business June 22, 2022.
PFFR Cash Distribution:
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- Payable Date: Wednesday, June 29, 2022
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Santa Ynez Chumash Awards Lompoc Theatre Project with $150K Matching Grant
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SANTA YNEZ, CA – July 24, 2023 – The Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians Foundation has announced a $150,000 matching-grant commitment to the Lompoc Theatre Project, which aims to restore and revitalize the city’s nearly 100-year-old venue.
The Lompoc Theatre has sat dormant since 1991, but the nonprofit group behind the restoration project has a fundraising campaign in place with a plan to ultimately reopen the facility near its 100th birthday in 2027 and bring movies, concerts, live performances and more back to the venue. The Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians has committed to a dollar-for-dollar match up to $150,000 raised by the Lompoc Theatre Project.
“This is a project that can revitalize that stretch of downtown Lompoc and become a hub for entertainment in the area,” said Kenneth Kahn, Tribal Chairman for the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians. “We are proud to support efforts that foster community enrichment through the arts and have the potential to bring together people from diverse backgrounds.”
The Lompoc Theatre, located in the heart of Lompoc near the corner of Ocean Avenue and H Street, showed its last film and closed in 1991. In April 2012, Mark Herrier, the Executive Director of the Lompoc Theatre Project, and a 13-member Board of Directors became the fourth group to attempt to bring the once prominent facility back to life.
“It’s going to change lives,” Herrier said. “This theater was the pride and joy of this town, I get emotional. People were so proud of it. Slowly but surely, it has come to represent a Lompoc that has fallen on hard times. The hard-working people who live here do much of the heavy lifting that benefits the entire county, but they don’t have a single entertainment center of their own. This empty theater has been a symbol of the decline – now it will become the engine for its renaissance.”
The current project is in its second of three phases, with the committee’s sights set on finishing phase two in June 2025 when it reaches a $3 million fundraising milestone, which will allow the group to host a 99-person audience.
The final phase of the project is slated to be complete in 2027, just shy of Lompoc Theatre’s 100th birthday, when the committee aims to reach its $10 million fundraising mark. Once this final phase is complete, the theater will be able to welcome guests through its front doors and host a full audience, as it did when the doors were first opened in 1927.
“We will continue to do movies and we will be recreating Saturday matinees for this new generation of kids,” Herrier said.
In addition to showing movies, the plan is to host live music, concerts, stand-up comedy, salsa dancing, cultural events, political debates, holiday parties, public forums, art and film festivals and Spanish language movie nights.
“There will be something for every single person in town,” Herrier said. “Lompoc is proudly the most diverse community in Santa Barbara County and that diversity will be represented in our programming. The kids in town will feel like this is their stage.”
Between now and the theater’s 2027 reopening goal, there are major interior and exterior restoration projects planned, including roofing, structural, foundational, seating, painting, flooring, walls, electrical system, lighting, fire sprinklers, a resurfaced parking lot, a retrofitted basement, and more.
“Our first year of fundraising we made $4,000,” Herrier said. “Where we are now with this grant from the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians is game-changing.”
To learn more about this project and make a donation, email info@lompoctheatre.org or visit https://lompoctheatre.org/fundraising.
The Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians has donated more than $25 million to hundreds of groups, organizations and schools in the community and across the nation as part of the tribe’s long-standing tradition of giving. To find out more about the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians Foundation and its giving programs, visit www.santaynezchumash.org. | 2023-07-25T02:28:46+00:00 | independent.com | https://www.independent.com/2023/07/24/santa-ynez-chumash-awards-lompoc-theatre-project-with-150k-matching-grant/ |
During training camp, Ravens second-year outside linebacker Odafe Oweh looked every part of a player on the verge of a breakout season, using his speed and strength to wreak havoc on almost every snap.
Oweh’s solid rookie season and preseason performance made him poised to be a foundational piece for a Baltimore defense that hasn’t drafted a Pro Bowl player since cornerback Marlon Humphrey in 2017. But during the first two games of the 2022 season, Oweh hasn’t looked like the “monster” that Humphrey referred to after last year’s home win over the Cleveland Browns, recording just five tackles and zero sacks.
“[Oweh] has got to play better, like all of us do,” coach John Harbaugh said. “We’ve got to coach better, got to play better, and you’ve got to make a name for yourself out there. You’ve got to go do it.”
Oweh’s potential was hard to miss last season. The former Penn State standout totaled 33 tackles (five for loss), five sacks and 15 quarterback hits while contributing to the league’s best run defense.
He stepped up when it mattered most, too, recording four sacks, eight quarterback hits and three forced fumbles in five prime-time games. The first-round draft pick made an immediate impact, forcing a fumble by Chiefs running back Clyde Edwards-Helaire late in the fourth quarter of the Ravens’ Week 2 victory over Kansas City. During the Ravens’ overtime win over the Indianapolis Colts in Week 5, Oweh strip-sacked quarterback Carson Wentz in the red zone late in the first quarter to end a promising 11-play drive.
After 15 games of experience and offseason shoulder surgery that allowed Oweh to play without a brace for the first time since high school, he entered his sophomore campaign with big expectations under first-year defensive coordinator Mike Macdonald, who Oweh said allows him to be himself.
“He should be a guy that, when we need him, he can get to the quarterback,” Macdonald said during training camp.
However, that guy hasn’t shown up yet.
Oweh has yet to record a sack or a quarterback hit through two games, but he has gotten close. In the season-opening win over the New York Jets, Oweh had five quarterback hurries as the Ravens sacked Joe Flacco three times. In a Week 2 loss to the Miami Dolphins, Oweh had three hurries, but Baltimore sacked quarterback Tua Tagovailoa just once as he passed for 469 yards and six touchdowns to lead a 21-point fourth-quarter comeback.
Through two games, the Ravens rank near the bottom of the league in sacks (four) and pressure rate (20.4%) while allowing the most passing yards (768) and touchdowns (seven) in the NFL.
When the Ravens have needed a pass rusher to generate pressure, they’ve often failed. According to Pro Football Focus, Oweh has 35 rushes this season on “true pass sets” — which exclude plays with fewer than four pass rushers, play-action passes, screens, short drop-backs and passes with a time to throw under two seconds — and has six pressures on those reps. Teammate Justin Houston has a pair of sacks, but has just three pressures on 35 rushes in “true pass sets.”
The Ravens have asked a lot out of Houston and Oweh due to the lack of depth at outside linebacker (Steven Means recently suffered a torn Achilles tendon while Tyus Bowser and rookie David Ojabo are recovering from the same injury). Houston, 33, played 49 snaps (69%) against Miami, while Oweh played 58 snaps (82%).
“It’s a tough blow,” Oweh said, referring to the lack of healthy edge rushers. “But we knew coming in that it was going to be like that. We just got to get more conditioned.”
Unlike last year, Oweh said opponents have more film on him, so they can dissect what he does well and plan accordingly. According to ESPN, Oweh is one of the most double-teamed edge defenders in the NFL, getting more attention than stars Joey Bosa of the Los Angeles Chargers and Maxx Crosby of the Las Vegas Raiders, who combined for 18 1/2 sacks last season.
“They know what I’m good at,” Oweh said. “But that’s not an excuse. You learn to have a counter for everything, so I’m working through that.”
After the Ravens’ loss to the Dolphins, Harbaugh said he had breakfast with Oweh, and they had a “great conversation” about working harder and being ready for Sunday’s matchup against the New England Patriots.
“It’s really every aspect of the position,” Harbaugh said. “The biggest thing is that the process leads to the production. Come in every day, take care of business, keep it simple, let’s not overthink everything; start with your stance and your alignment, and we’ll go from there.”
Oweh said he’s hard on himself, but that mindset made him an NFL player. He knows that he can be great, and so does Harbaugh.
“He’s so determined, [he] wants to be so good,” Harbaugh said.
Week 3
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NEW YORK, Dec. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Standard Motor Products, Inc. (SMP) has introduced 214 new part numbers in its December new number announcement. Included in the release is new coverage for 88 product categories, and 84 part numbers for 2021, 2022, and 2023 model-year vehicles.
SMP is committed to providing replacement parts for hybrid and electric vehicles through its Standard® and Four Seasons® brands, which is evident in this release. The December release includes a Drive Motor Battery Pack Charging Cord Adaptor for 2023-08 Tesla vehicles, as well as parts for the 2022-21 Ford Mustang Mach-E, 2020-19 Ford SSV Plug-In Hybrid, and 2019-11 Nissan Leaf. Additionally, Four Seasons® has introduced a new line of Battery Cooling Fan Motors with an initial release of 15 part numbers covering 3.4 million import and domestic vehicles. Applications include the 2017-11 Lexus CT200, 2015-04 Toyota Prius, and 2018-13 Ford C-Max. The addition of more than 110 new Sensors, Switches, Actuators and Connectors also expands SMP's powertrain-neutral coverage.
Jack Ramsey, Senior Vice President Sales and Marketing, SMP, stated, "We're proud to close out the year with the addition of more than 200 new products, bringing our total number of new products to 2,400 for 2022. Standard Motor Products is grateful for the unwavering support and loyalty of our distribution partners and service providers, and we look forward to strengthening these partnerships in the new year."
Standard's Collision Repair program continues to expand with the release of additional Radiator Active Grille Shutter Assemblies, Vehicle Speed Sensors, Tailgate Latch Assemblies, and much more. Additionally, the Standard® ADAS (Advanced Driver Assist Systems) program continues to grow, with 13 new Park Assist Cameras added. New coverage includes popular vehicles like the 2020-18 Chevrolet Equinox, 2020-18 Honda Odyssey, 2021-17 Jeep Compass, and 2020-18 Ford F-150.
Standard® has fuel injection covered, adding an array of new products to support its growing offering. Numerous Fuel Feed Lines have been added for Audi, BMW, Buick, and Chevrolet vehicles. Direct Injection High Pressure Fuel Pumps have also been added for 4.7 million Ford, Toyota, and Lexus vehicles. Fuel Injectors for GDI, Diesel, and MFI categories, as well as Fuel Injector Seal Rings and Fuel Injector O-Rings are also included in the release.
Engine Oil Coolers are now available for popular vehicles like the 2021-11 Ford F-150, 2020-15 Nissan Rogue, and more, while new Ignition Coils are available for the 2020-17 RAM ProMaster. Also included in this month's release are multiple new Blower Motor Resistors, Electronic Throttle Bodies and Power Sunroof Motors.
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Transgender girls in North Carolina would be prohibited from joining female sports teams in middle school, high school and college under legislation passed Wednesday by the Republican-controlled House in one of its first actions since attaining a supermajority earlier this month.
The House approved legislation 73-39, with three Democrats voting in favor, to separate sports by biological sex, based solely on students’ “reproductive biology and genetics at birth.” Trans girls would not be allowed to play on any sports team that corresponds with their gender identity. Trans boys and cisgender girls could only play on teams designated for male athletes if there was no comparable girls’ team, except for wrestling.
House Republicans fast-tracked the bill through two committees earlier Wednesday after hearing debate from trans and cisgender student-athletes. It now heads to the Senate, where a competing proposal could reach the floor as soon as Thursday. The Senate bill would only create restrictions for middle and high school athletes.
At least 20 other states have imposed similar limits on trans athletes at the K-12 or collegiate level. The North Carolina bills are among several introduced this month that would impact trans residents, including restrictions on gender-affirming medical procedures for trans youth and criminal penalties for public performances by some “male or female impersonators.”
Proponents of the House sports bill argue it would preserve opportunities for cisgender girls and protect their safety. But trans kids and their supporters say it’s discrimination disguised as a safety precaution.
“This bill is a bill to be inclusive, not to be exclusive,” said Rep. Kristin Baker, a Cabarrus County Republican and primary sponsor. “This bill is to allow fair and particularly safe, physically safe, competition.”
While sponsors contend the proposal would not permit genital inspections to verify a student’s sex, they did not have an explanation Wednesday for how the policy would be enforced.
The bill also would give students a right to sue if they’re harmed by a trans student violating the restrictions.
Baker and other supporters have repeatedly pointed to a volleyball injury in Cherokee County as justification for their claim that trans participation poses an inherent danger to cisgender girls in the state.
Payton McNabb, a senior at Hiwassee Dam High School in Murphy, suffered a concussion and neck injury after a transgender athlete hit her in the head with a volleyball during a school match last September. McNabb said she still suffers from impaired vision, learning challenges, chronic headaches and partial paralysis on her right side.
“I may be the first to come before you with an injury, but if this doesn’t pass, I won’t be the last,” she said in a committee meeting earlier Wednesday.
The debate drew national advocates like Riley Gaines, a former University of Kentucky swimmer known for criticizing an NCAA decision allowing transgender swimmer Lia Thomas to compete against her in Division I women’s races.
Rep. Vernetta Alston, a Durham County Democrat, criticized the GOP for amplifying a few isolated incidents she said blow the problem out of proportion. Injuries happen all the time in sports, Alston said, regardless of who’s participating. Baker argued an injury like McNabb’s is one too many.
No more than 15 trans athletes have been approved to play high school sports this year in North Carolina, and only two are trans girls.
“It is a pretext for bigotry and part of a larger effort to ban transgender people from living their lives,” Alston said during floor debate, warning that the bill would further exclude a small and already vulnerable population.
Sean Radek, a transgender 17-year-old from Charlotte, said he gave up his greatest passion — swimming — due to the discrimination and discomfort he faced after coming out as a preteen. The isolation he felt after leaving the sport still affects him today, he said.
“Since then, I struggled with depression, self harm and suicidal ideation due to a loss of community, especially when it came to sports,” Radek said. “It’s hard to imagine a 12-year-old giving up his dreams because he found himself … for me, this was reality.”
Mecklenburg County Rep. Tricia Cotham, who gave the GOP a veto-proof supermajority this month when she changed her party affiliation from Democrat to Republican, voted in favor of the bill after she ran last fall on a platform supporting LGBTQ+ rights. Cotham declined to speak to reporters about the bill Wednesday. | 2023-04-20T00:51:31+00:00 | wnct.com | https://www.wnct.com/news/north-carolina/north-carolina-house-approves-ban-on-transgender-athletes/ |
JACKSON -- Regionals this week will sort out who is moving on and who isn’t in high school track.
With the area’s teams warming up for the postseason, several big late-season meets produced some interesting results. For instance in the 100 three of the five fastest times all came from the East Jackson Dome Classic on Friday, with Addison’s Molly Brown, continuing her dominating season, in the top spot followed by Rylie Aylesworth of Columbia Central and Grass Lake’s Grace Bullock.
Bullock was also part of a school-record 4x100 team which challenged for the top spot on our leaderboard, only for the 4x100 team from Hillsdale to come along 24 hours later and run 0.10 seconds faster.
Here is this week’s leaderboard.
100
Molly Brown, Addison, 12.66, at East Jackson, May 12
Kia Charboneau, Hillsdale, 12.84, at Hudson, May 3
Rylie Aylesworth, Columbia Central, 12.85, at East Jackson, May 12
Grace Bullock, Grace Lake, 13.03, at East Jackson, May 12
Alyssa Budd, Napoleon, 13.04, at Napoleon, April 6
200
Rylie Aylesworth, Columbia Central, 26.37, at East Jackson, May 12
Ava Fetterman, Homer, 26.69, at Grass Lake, April 8
Kia Charboneau, Hillsdale, 26.94, at Hudson, May 3
Paige Austin, Homer, 26.99, at Concord, May 13
Grace Bullock, Grass Lake, 27.28, at Western, April 21
400
Megan Roberts, Hillsdale Academy, 58.71, at Hillsdale, May 13
Rylie Aylesworth, Columbia Central, 1:00.10, at Onsted, May 10
Everette Drummond, Jackson, 1:01.24, at Tecumseh, May 12
Maycie Boyer, Leslie, 1:01.25, at Olivet, May 9
Allie Koch, Manchester, 1:02.31, at Napoleon, April 14
Sophia Reynolds, Hanover-Horton, 1:02.32, at Hanover-Horton, April 25
800
Madison Osterberg, Lumen Christi, 2:11.91, at East Jackson, May 12
Megan Roberts, Hillsdale Academy, 2:20.39, at Napoleon, April 14
Sophia Reynolds, Hanover-Horton, 2:22.93, at East Jackson, May 12
Macy Fazekas, Lumen Christi, 2:26.68, at East Jackson, May 12
Allie Koch, Manchester, 2:26.87, at Napoleon, April 14
1600
Madison Osterberg, Lumen Christi, 4:54.27, at Western, May 9
Megan Roberts, Hillsdale Academy, 5:24.50, at Camden-Frontier, May 10
Olivia Perrine, Hanover-Horton, 5:28.39, at East Jackson, May 12
Chloe Khon, Northwest, 5:30.74, at Hillsdale, May 13
Sydney Fazekas, Lumen Christi, 5:38.46, at East Jackson, May 12
3200
Madison Osterberg, Lumen Christi, 10:36.08, at Western, May 9
Chloe Khon, Northwest, 12:03.65, at Hillsdale, May 13
Olivia Perrine, Hanover-Horton, 12:06.64, at East Jackson, May 12
Hope Wilkes, Columbia Central, 12:15.16, at East Jackson, May 12
Macy Fazekas, Lumen Christi, 12:35.11, at Pewamo-Westphalia, April 21
100 hurdles
Molly Brown, Addison, 14.98, at East Jackson, May 12
Keiyera Johnson, Jackson, 15.61, at Jackson, May 9
Mia Hinz, Hillsdale, 16.91, at Hillsdale, May 13
Melyssa McJennett, Columbia Central, 17.44, at Blissfield, May 3
Madison Sallows, Hillsdale Academy, 17.44, at Bellevue, May 3
300 hurdles
Molly Brown, Addison, 47.32, at Onsted, May 5
Keiyera Johnson, Jackson, 47.68, at Saline, May 5
Gracee Robidou, Stockbridge, 48.30, at Olivet, May 9
Olivianna Watkins, Hanover-Horton, 49.02, at East Jackson, May 12
Madison Sallows, Hillsdale Academy, 49.70, at Camden-Frontier, May 10
4x100
Hillsdale, 51.22, at Hillsdale, May 13
Grass Lake, 51.32, at East Jackson, May 12
Homer, 51.55, at Concord, May 13
Western, 52.49, at Stockbridge, May 5
Jackson, 53.00, at Chelsea, April 14
4x200
Hillsdale, 1:48.00, at Hillsdale, May 13
Grass Lake, 1:49.45, at East Jackson, May 12
Hillsdale Academy, 1:51.08, at Hillsdale, May 13
Western, 1:52.66, at Stockbridge, May 6
Hanover-Horton, 1:53.13, at East Jackson, May 12
4x400
Hillsdale Academy, 4:11.04, at Hillsdale, May 13
Lumen Christi, 4:14.16, at Napoleon, April 14
Grass Lake 4:18.56, at East Jackson, May 12
Western, 4:22.60, at Western, May 9
Hanover-Horton, 4:23.28, at Onsted, May 5
4x800
Lumen Christi, 9:50.71, at Pewamo-Westphalia, April 21
Hillsdale Academy, 9:55.22, at Mason, April 28
Hanover-Horton, 10:19.56, at Onsted, May 5
Napoleon, 10:27.74, at East Jackson, May 12
Leslie, 10:54.89, at East Jackson, May 12
Shot put
Ereka Risner, Grass Lake, 37′5.75, at Michigan Center, April 18
Mariah Kerley, East Jackson, 33′10, at Leslie, April 29
Ava Beard, Addison, 33′4, at East Jackson, May 12
Zoie Bamm, Columbia Central, 33′3.5, at Manchester, May 5
Jaylyn Perkins, Homer, 33′2.5, at Homer, April 26
Discus
Jaylyn Perkins, Homer, 123′11.75, at Homer, April 26
Megan Mackinder, Stockbridge, 115′10.5, at Stockbridge, May 5
Mariah Kerley, East Jackson, 107′0.5, at Stockbridge, May 5
Kaylee Kopulos, Springport, 106′6, at Pittsford, April 22
Samantha Snider, Leslie, 99′3, at East Jackson, May 12
High jump
Mara Mitchell, Northwest, 5′3, at Napoleon, April 14
Kayda Herrick, Western, 5′2, at Mason, April 28
Rianna Vincent, Hillsdale, 5′2, at Hillsdale, May 13
Bayli Stewart, Western, 5′0, at Mason, April 28
Mya Viegelahn, Grass Lake, 5′0, at Webberville, April 28
Pole vault
Emma Wildt, Homer, 10′3, at Springport, May 3
Addisyn Rudd, East Jackson, 8′6, at Napoleon, April 14
Kelah Hodge, Hillsdale, 8′6, at Hillsdale, April 11
Alayna Shackelford, Hanover-Horton, 8′6, at Onsted, May 5
Dylana Whalen, Vandercook Lake, 8′0, at Hanover-Horton, May 3
Natalie Coleman, Western, 8′0, at Olivet, April 14
Long jump
Alyssa Budd, Napoleon, 17′9.5, at Napoleon, April 6
Mia Hinz, Hillsdale, 17′4.25, at Onsted, April 26
Keiyera Johnson, Jackson, 17′2.5, at Jackson, May 9
Mara Mitchell, Northwest, 16′11, at Northwest, May 9
Kaytie Warren, Hanover-Horton, 16′10.25, at Onsted, May 5 | 2023-05-15T19:10:20+00:00 | mlive.com | https://www.mlive.com/sports/jackson/2023/05/here-is-the-jackson-area-girls-track-leaderboard-for-may-15.html |
MILWAUKEE — Wade Miley pitched six strong innings and the Milwaukee Brewers made a first-inning run stand up in a 1-0 win over the Cincinnati Reds on Sunday.
The victory pulled the Brewers to within a game of the NL Central-leading Reds heading into the All-Star break. Milwaukee took two of three in the series.
A trio of Brewers relievers—Elvis Peguero, Joel Payamps and Devin Williams—combined to complete the shutout. Williams retired the side in order in the ninth to earn his 20th save in 22 tries.
Christian Yelich led off the Brewers half of the first with a ground-rule double off Ben Lively (4-5) to extend his hitting streak to nine consecutive games. Yelich scored on Jesse Winker’s two-out single to center. The Brewers scored in the first inning in all three games in the series.
After giving up a lead-off double to Kevin Newman in the first, Miley (6-2) retired nine consecutive batters before Matt McLain doubled to start the fourth. Miley then struck out the next three batters to get out of the inning. Miley walked three batters in the fifth but, aided by a double play, didn’t allow a run. The Reds threatened again off Miley in the sixth after consecutive singles by Jonathan India and Elly De La Cruz, but again failed to score.
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Miley gave up four hits and tied a season high with eight strikeouts.
Lively, making his first appearance since June 20 after a stint on the injured list with a right pectoral muscle strain, retired 13 of 14 batters at one point. He gave up four hits and one run in 5⅔ innings while walking two and striking out five.
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The Reds reinstated Lively from the 15-day injured list and designated for assignment RHP Michael Mariot.
Trainer’s room
Reds: OF T.J. Friedl was in pain after fouling a ball off the inside of his right foot in the fifth but remained in the game.
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‘Nothing that would stop me’: Couple gets married at burn center
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/Gray News) - After a chemical spill accident landed a man in the hospital, a team of nurses planned a special wedding for him and his fiancée.
It’s often known to expect the unexpected on your wedding day.
Toccoa natives Preston and Tanesha Cobb had every detail of their wedding planned out – from flowers to venue to the guest list. Everything changed on June 30 after a chemical spill accident landed Preston at the JMS Burn Center at Doctors Hospital, WRDW reports.
Tanesha hasn’t left Preston’s side, and with the accident happening so close to their wedding day, it didn’t look like the couple would exchange vows on July 22.
Mary Cook, a JMS Burn Center nurse, overheard the couple’s wedding conversations and decided to get creative. She gathered a group of nurses to get food, a DJ, flowers and a venue set up.
Cook approached the couple with her idea, and it was an instant yes.
“I was like, ‘Man, she’s not going to want to marry me,’” Preston said. “I’m not the same person that asked her to marry me.”
But their love now is stronger than ever.
“There’s nothing that would stop me from marrying him,” Tanesha said. “Nothing. I knew that this day would come. I didn’t think it would be like this.”
The day almost didn’t happen.
“I literally watched the skin from my elbow, like, detach and literally just go to dust and crumble,” Preston said. “I literally felt like that was going to be the end.”
He is far from the end. Through it all, he has his bride next to his side.
“Even though my condition, it still didn’t stop me from marrying the woman of my dreams,” Preston said.
The nurses at the JMS Burn Center brought the couple to the chapel.
“I wanted to give him something positive out of all this negative,” Cook said. “Preston was adamant that he was not going to change his wedding date.”
He didn’t have to change the date.
“She was like, ‘I got good news for you,’” Preston said. “And I was like, ‘What’s that?’ And she was like, ‘You’re getting married on the 22nd.’”
The newlyweds now truly understand what for better or for worse means.
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Adam Sandler always has a story to tell. The 55-year-old comedian stopped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Monday and went into hilarious detail of how an incident in bed left him with a brutal eye wound.
“I had an accident, everybody,” Sandler said after Fallon pointed out his black eye and scab. “Everything's all right, but I wish it was a good story — it's pathetic.”
The Hustle star went on to explain that the hotel bed he was sleeping in was made too tightly, and at 4 a.m., he couldn't figure out why he was so uncomfortable. While acting out how he was wiggling around in the bed, Sandler explained that as he tried to kick the sheets out, he forgot his phone was on his lap and it flew up, hitting him directly in the face.
“I was bleeding terribly,” Sandler continued. “I mean, I thought it was pitch black in the room, and I feel wetness and I tricked myself. I go, ‘This is probably just thick tears’... I didn't want to get up, you know, because I was tired. And I was like, ‘Ah, we'll fix that later.’"
However, hours later, Sandler would get a glimpse at just how bad the injury was. "I woke up, it was horrible," he recalled. "It was bleeding all over, it was gushing still and there was blood on the bed and all that stuff. So I said, ‘I've got to get this fixed.’ So I went to the Apple store."
Sandler first debuted the black eye on Monday morning during an interview on Good Morning America. "There is nothing cool about this thing," he joked at the time. "It looks so cool. And I'm on the streets of New York, I see people going, 'Oh, OK. He likes to fight, that guy.' I'm like, 'It was a bed accident.'"
This isn't the first injury Sandler has suffered in the past year. Earlier this month, the actor spoke to ET about filming Hustle alongside basketball superstars and how it led to him hurting himself.
"We had some of that going, but that's before I popped my groin," Sandler recalled of shooting hoops with his NBA pro co-stars while filming in Spain. "There was one night my groin couldn't take it anymore. Then I said, 'I guess I'm gonna have to watch these guys go.'"
Sandler told ET his injury was "so bad" and that even a year later he is "still limping around like a fool... it's horrible."
During his chat with Fallon on Monday, Sandler also detailed an unfortunate encounter with a seagull at a nude beach in Spain.
"I want to feel comfortable and confident," he explained of his attempt to embrace the nudity. "I stand up in the water. I take my bathing suit off, I'm still underwater. I'm kind of slowly working up the confidence."
As he was working up the confidence, Sandler said he had second thoughts, knowing someone would likely snap his picture. "There was a Spanish seagull nearby," he said, noting he was still looking for his swimsuit and was trying to keep his private parts underwater. Sandler joked that the seagulls saw him and thought his manhood was a "worm" or "McDonald's French fry" as three of them flew towards him.
For more with the comedian, check out the video below.
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The city foreclosed on this office building 11 years ago. It's now to be redeveloped.
A northwest side office building is to be sold out of foreclosure and renovated to attract small and midsize businesses under a proposal that's received preliminary city approval.
The two-story, 21,000-square-foot building, at 3953 N. 76th St., would be sold by the City of Milwaukee for $75,000 to Jefferson Crest LLC, under a plan endorsed Tuesday by the Common Council's Zoning, Neighborhoods and Development Committee.
The full council is to review that proposal at its Nov. 22 meeting.
Jefferson Crest, led by Daniel Taylor, plans to do renovations totaling around $495,000, according to a Department of City Development report.
Those renovations will create 17 small to midsize office suites. The firm hopes to attract such tenants as professional service providers and wellness service providers, the report said.
Also, Jefferson Crest, which owns three community-based residential facilities, a five-unit apartment building and other residential income properties, plans to move its office there from 8040 W. Appleton Ave.
Also moving there will be the office of Building New Pathways LLC, a home health care services provider, according to its administrator, Siera Payne. That business is now at 902 E. Hamilton St.
She told zoning committee members there's strong demand for small offices, including from entrepreneurs who have been working from their homes during the COVID-19 pandemic.
"They're ready to come back into office space," she said.
The city acquired the building in 2011 through property tax foreclosure.
The vacant building has considerable deferred maintenance, including a leaking roof that has affected its interior as well as defective electrical and plumbing systems, the city report said.
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. chief on Tuesday decried the “terrible truth” that the world is failing to live up to its commitments to protect a growing number of civilians caught in conflicts. The International Committee of the Red Cross, the guardian of treaties enshrining those commitments, lamented that countless civilians are experiencing “a living hell.”
From Ukraine and Sudan to Africa’s Sahel and the Mideast, civilians are scrambling to evade missiles and explosives and to find food and medicine — and the humanitarian situation is deteriorating.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the Security Council should urge countries to respect the rules of war.
“Governments with influence over warring parties should engage in political dialogue and train forces on protecting civilians,” he said. “And countries that export weapons should refuse to do business with any party that fails to comply with international humanitarian law.”
His recent report on the protection of civilians in conflicts in 2022 points to over 100 conflicts worldwide and an average duration of more than 30 years. Last year, though, saw new highs for the number of people forcibly displaced and a 53% increase in U.N. recorded civilian deaths to nearly 17,000, including almost 8,000 in Ukraine.
Mirjana Spoljaric, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, said during recent visits to Africa, Europe and the Mideast she saw a rapidly deteriorating humanitarian situation with “entire regions trapped in cycles of conflict without an end in sight.”
Spoljaric said many of the conflicts are compounded by climate shocks, food insecurity and economic hardship. She issued an urgent call to countries to protect civilians and critical infrastructure in urban areas, pointing to large-scale destruction in Sudan, Syria, Ukraine and Yemen. She also urged that food be provided to all civilians in conflict areas and for access to be given to humanitarian workers.
“We need to break the pattern of violations, and this can be done through strong political will and sustained action,” she said.
Switzerland, which is serving its first two-year term on the Security Council, chose the protection of civilians in conflict as its showcase event. Representatives from over 80 countries were scheduled to speak, a reflection of widespread concern.
Swiss President Alain Berset, who chaired Tuesday’s meeting, said that as the depository state for the Geneva Conventions and the home of the Geneva-based ICRC, respect for international humanitarian law was a long-standing priority for the country.
The number of people facing acute food insecurity rose to 258 million last year, which he noted was “30 times the population of New York City. More than two-thirds of them live in conflict zones, including in Congo, Sudan, the Sahel, Somalia, Myanmar and Afghanistan, or in countries where violence is widespread such as Haiti, Berset said.
He urged all countries to implement a 2018 Security Council resolution against the use of starvation as a method of warfare and unlawfully denying humanitarian access and life-saving supplies to civilians, and a 2021 resolution condemning unlawful attacks that deprive civilians of essential services.
The meeting saw clashes between Ukraine’s Western supporters and Russia, as the council has seen at many sessions since Moscow’s Feb. 24, 2022, invasion of its neighbor.
U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield said the increase in civilian deaths shows the human toll of the war. She also accused Russia of pushing millions of people in Africa and the Middle East into food insecurity by using “food as a weapon of war in Ukraine,” including blocking Ukrainian grain shipments for months.
She said the agreement allowing the shipment of Ukrainian grain from Black Sea ports, which was extended for two months on May 17, was a “beacon of hope to the world.”
Russia’s U.N. Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia claimed very little of the more than 30 million tons of grain shipped under the Black Sea deal has gone to developing countries, and that the shipment from Russia of ammonia — a key ingredient of fertilizer — that was supposed to be part of the July 2022 deal “has effectively not even begun.” | 2023-05-24T15:29:00+00:00 | kdvr.com | https://kdvr.com/news/nationalworld-news/ap-international/ap-un-world-is-failing-to-protect-millions-of-civilians-caught-in-conflicts/ |
By SUSIE BLANN
Associated Press
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia’s military pounded residential areas across Ukraine overnight, claiming gains, as Ukrainian forces pressed a counteroffensive to try to take back an occupied southern region, striking the last working bridge over a river in the Russian-occupied Kherson region, Ukrainian authorities said Saturday.
A Russian rocket attack on the city of Kramatorsk killed three people and wounded 13 others Friday night, according to the mayor. Kramatorsk is the headquarters for Ukrainian forces in the country’s war-torn east.
The attack came less than a day after 11 other rockets were fired at the city, one of the two main Ukrainian-held ones in Donetsk province, the focus of an ongoing Russian offensive to capture eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region.
The Russian Defense Ministry claimed Saturday its forces had taken control of Pisky, a village on the outskirts of the city of Donetsk, the provincial capital that pro-Moscow separatists have claimed since 2014.
Russian troops and the Kremlin-backed rebels are seeking to seize Ukrainian-held areas north and west of the city of Donetsk to expand the separatists’ self-proclaimed republic. But the Ukrainian military said Saturday that its forces had prevented an overnight advance toward the smaller cities of Avdiivka and Bakhmut.
Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov also claimed that Russian strikes near Kramatorsk, 120 kilometers (75 miles) north of Donetsk city, destroyed a U.S.-supplied multiple rocket launcher and ammunition. Ukrainian authorities did not acknowledge any military losses but said that Russian missile strikes Friday on Kramatorsk had destroyed 20 residential buildings.
Neither claim could be independently verified.
The Ukrainian governor of neighboring Luhansk province, which is part of the fight over the Donbas region and was overrun by Russian forces last month, claimed that Ukrainian troops still held a small area. Writing on Telegram, Luhansk Gov. Serhii Haidai said the defending troops remained holed up inside an oil refinery on the edge of Lysychansk, a city that Moscow claimed to have captured, and also control areas near a village.
“The enemy is burning the ground at the entrances to the Luhansk region because it cannot overcome (Ukrainian resistance along) these few kilometers,” Haidai said. “It is difficult to count how many thousands of shells this territory of the free Luhansk region has withstood over the past month and a half.”
Further west, the governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region reported more Russian shelling of the city of Nikopol, which lies across the Dnieper River from Europe’s largest nuclear power plant.
Gov. Yevhen Yevtushenko did not specify whether Russian troops had fired at Nikopol from the occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. Writing on Telegram, he said Saturday that there were no casualties but residential buildings, a power line and a gas pipeline were damaged.
Nikopol has undergone daily bombardment for most of the past week, and a volley of shells killed three people and damaged 40 apartment buildings on Thursday, he said.
Russia and Ukrainian officials have for days accused each other of shelling the Zaporizhzhia plant in contravention of nuclear safety rules. Russian troops have occupied the plant since the early days of Moscow’s invasion, although the facility’s pre-war Ukrainian nuclear workers continue to run it.
Ukrainian military intelligence alleged Saturday that Russian troops were shelling the plant from a village just kilometers away, damaging a plant pumping station and a fire station. The intelligence directorate said the Russians had bused people into the power plant and mounted a Ukrainian flag on a self-propelled gun on the outskirts of Enerhodar, the city where the plant is located.
“Obviously, it will be used for yet another provocation to accuse the armed forces of Ukraine,” the directorate said, without elaborating.
Ukrainian officials have repeatedly alleged that Russian forces were cynically using the plant as a shield while firing at communities across the river, knowing that Ukrainian forces were unlikely to fire back for fear of triggering a nuclear accident.
They said Russian shelling on Friday night killed one woman and injured two other civilians in the city of Zaporizhzhia, which is 122 kilometers (76 miles) from the plant. Ukraine’s southern Mykolayiv region also said a woman died there in shelling.
For several weeks, Ukraine’s military has tried to lay the groundwork for a counter-offensive to reclaim southern Ukraine’s Russian-occupied Kherson region. A local Ukrainian official reported Saturday that a Ukrainian strike had damaged the last working bridge over the Dnieper River in the region and further crippled Russian supply lines.
“The Russians no longer have any capability to fully turn over their equipment,” Serhii Khlan, a deputy to the Kherson Regional Council, wrote on Facebook. His claims could not be immediately verified.
In the north, five civilians were injured overnight as Russia launched missiles at the border Kharkiv region, home to Ukraine’s second-largest city.
The governor of neighboring Sumy said 200 missiles were fired at his region from Russian territory in the last 24 hours. Sumy Gov. Dmytro Zhyvytsky reported a widespread loss of crops as wheat fields caught fire, but he did not mention any casualties.
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PHOENIX (AP) — U.S. transportation officials announced $2.2 billion for local infrastructure projects on Thursday, paving the way for new bridges, roads, bike lanes, railways and ports in scores of communities across the country.
The competitive grants are more than double the amount awarded the previous year under the same program. The influx comes from a $1 trillion infrastructure law backed by President Joe Biden, which provided an additional $7.5 billion over five years for the grants.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said the projects would help modernize America’s transportation systems.
“This is a program that recognizes many of the most interesting and compelling ideas and designs and plans aren’t going to come from Washington, but more of the funding should,” Buttigieg said. “That’s what we’re delivering here.”
Buttigieg traveled to Arizona to highlight projects in Phoenix and Tucson, each of which are receiving the maximum $25 million. In Phoenix, the money will help build a new bike and pedestrian bridge over the Rio Salado, connecting the city’s southern area with downtown.
In Tucson, the money will revamp a prominent street and replace a 1960s-era vehicle bridge that’s in poor condition. It also will add a separate bicycle and pedestrian bridge as part of what Mayor Regina Romero called “a transformative investment in Tucson’s infrastructure.”
While the Tucson project will expand the number lanes for motorists, some projects elsewhere will reduce them. For example, a $17 million grant will help narrow a five-lane road to three lanes in the Chicago suburb of Munster, Indiana, in an effort to decrease traffic crashes. The money also will fund a 10-foot-wide multi-purpose path along the street and plant more than 250 trees.
For many road improvement grants, “we’re doing it in mind of also benefitting the bike and pedestrian side,” Buttigieg said.
Other newly announced projects in the Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity program also provide funding for bicycle and pedestrian paths.
Texas and Kansas are each receiving about $25 million for hiking and biking trails. Huntsville, Alabama, is getting $20 million to improve a pedestrian corridor linking downtown to isolated neighborhoods. Another $20 million is helping finance a new bike and pedestrian bridge over the Potomac River between Arlington, Virginia, and Washington, D.C.
Buttigieg said the U.S. Department of Transportation received about $13 billion in grant applications.
A total of 166 projects across the country are getting a slice of the $2.2 billion. The funding marks a significant increase from the $983 million distributed among 90 projects in 2021. The allotment is the largest dating to 2009 for a program that has undergone multiple name and emphasis changes during the presidential administrations of Barack Obama and Donald Trump.
Though still substantial, the funding doesn’t have quite the buying power as anticipated when the infrastructure legislation passed Congress last year. That’s because inflation has driven up the cost of key transportation construction materials, such as steel plates for bridges and asphalt for paving roads.
This year’s projects range from a new seawall and port improvements in Sitka, Alaska, to the construction of a four-lane parkway in the Virgin Islands.
Among other projects, New Jersey is getting $20 million to elevate a roadway that serves as a main evacuation route for Atlantic City and its casino industry. In Louisiana, $20 million will go toward the design and construction of two train stations along a planned route between Baton Rouge and New Orleans. Whatcom County, Washington, will get $25 million to replace a 60-year-old ferry serving rural Lummi Island with an electric hybrid model.
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Lieb reported from Jefferson City, Mo. | 2022-08-12T15:35:18+00:00 | wdtn.com | https://www.wdtn.com/news/business/ap-business/over-2b-announced-for-roads-bridges-bike-lanes-across-us/ |
First Alert Forecast: heat stress to remain a concern over the coming days
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - Temperatures will be on the rise to the lower and middle 90s this afternoon with heat index values near and just above 100 degrees. With the center of the ridge of high pressure to our north and east, pop-up showers or thunderstorms could develop over the next few hours. A gusty storm or 2 cannot completely be ruled out, mainly off to our southeast. A few additional showers are possible into tonight as a weakening disturbance tracks in from the east. Expect lows to drop to the middle 70s by the early morning hours.
Our weather will continue to be under the influence of high pressure on Thursday as well. Most spots will reach the middle 90s under a mix of sun and clouds. Feels like temperatures will also be back into the triple digits during the peaks heating hours. Scattered showers and storms will also be possible, especially later in the day. Heavy rain and lightning are possible with any downpours or storms that are able to develop.
Although the heat will not let up into Father’s Day weekend, a brief push of drier air will filter in by late weekend into early next week. This will allow for a temporary break from the really humid weather before we trend muggier by mid-week. Highs in the upper 90s could become possible next week as we kick off the first few days of summer. Try to stay cool everyone!
Talkin’ Tropics: The chance for development over the SW Caribbean has gone down today to only a low 30% chance for tropical formation over the next 5 days. Some slow development is possible out this way, but regardless, this disturbance will not be a concern for central MS. It should be more of a weather maker for Central America and possibly Mexico.
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Jayson Tatum has played at an MVP-level this season, Jaylen Brown has made a huge leap as his co-star, but whenever the Celtics have needed a pick-me-up from their supporting cast, they’ve delivered more often than not.
And that may be the biggest difference from last year when assessing the Celtics’ championship hopes.
Brown was out due to an injury he suffered in his 41-point performance on Wednesday. So was Al Horford, who isn’t playing in back-to-backs this season. And Tatum had one of his worst shooting performances of the year, which included several ugly misses in a 7-for-22 night. Still, on the second night of a back-to-back, the Celtics – like they’ve done all season – found a way without them.
Whether it was Malcolm Brogdon, Luke Kornet or even Payton Pritchard, the Celtics’ depth showed up again as they earned one of their gutsiest wins of the season. The C’s took control of the game in the fourth quarter en route to a 109-98 victory over the Kevin Durant-less Nets for their fifth consecutive win.
It was the Celtics’ ninth consecutive win over the Nets – including last season’s postseason sweep – as they moved three games ahead of their rivals from Brooklyn atop the Eastern Conference.
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Following Competitive Process, Accelerate Selects 31 State Education Agencies, School Districts,
Tutoring Providers Among Partners to Join National Community of Practice,
Build Evidence Base for Cost-Effective, Sustainable Learning Solutions
WASHINGTON, Oct. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Accelerate, a new nonprofit organization that seeks to embed high-impact tutoring programs in public schools, today announced it has selected 31 education and research partners to receive over $10 million in grant funding to develop and scale sustainable, cost-effective models for high-impact tutoring that boost academic achievement for students. In addition to supporting innovative programs, the grants target research focused on specific barriers that have previously stood in the way of making high-impact tutoring affordable, accessible, and sustainable. Grantees are working in 28 states across the country.
The announcement comes six months after the organization's formal launch, at which U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona encouraged public schools to adopt high-impact tutoring models, and days after newly released National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) scores showed major declines in academic performance of American schoolchildren.
"We know that good tutoring programs work — partly because well-off families have used them to boost student success for generations. And we know that those same programs can be a powerful tool to close racial and economic opportunity gaps when we give less privileged students the same access. What we haven't figured out yet is how to make high-impact tutoring available for everyone," said Accelerate CEO Kevin Huffman. "With districts deciding how to spend one-time federal funds to combat the effects of the pandemic, solving that challenge has never been more urgent."
Research has found well-designed tutoring programs to be one of the most effective educational interventions. However, the best-proven models are labor-intensive, making them difficult and expensive to expand. Accerelate's grants take aim at that tension.
Accelerate's grantees, which represent school districts, tutoring providers, nonprofit organizations and others across the country, will receive financial and operational support to design, implement, and scale innovative tutoring strategies; join a national community in which they can share best practices and resources; and help inform Accelerate's national research and policy agenda on tutoring. All grantees will participate in formal research to assess program effectiveness and to explore research questions that will shape the design of future tutoring efforts.
"The inaugural cohort of grantees represents some of the most innovative organizations in the space," said Dr. Janice Jackson, Executive Chair of Accelerate and CEO of Hope Chicago. "From tutoring models that are virtual, to models that are embedded in the traditional school day, to models that focus on specific subjects or student populations, each grantee has a unique approach to high-impact tutoring, but all share a common goal of putting forward strategies that are cost effective, that can be scaled over time and that help close achievement gaps, particularly for our most vulnerable learners."
Among the grantees is Reading Partners, a non-profit organization that provides foundational literacy tutoring to students, and has proven successful through randomized controlled trials. The non-profit received a grant to implement and study its new Reading Partners Connects model, a virtual tutoring program based on the successful in-person model.
"We are excited to be part of Accelerate's new initiative to embed high-impact tutoring in public education," said Adeola Whitney, CEO of Reading Partners. "High-impact tutoring is proven to increase student achievement and help close opportunity gaps. While much research has examined the positive effects of in-person tutoring, we are thrilled to be partnering with Accelerate to examine the impact of our Reading Partners Connects online tutoring program which we think can be a game-changer in advancing educational equity at scale."
Among the other grantees:
- Guilford County Schools is partnering with higher education institutions, including local historically black colleges and universities, community members, and high school students to implement in-person tutoring programming for the lowest 20th percentile students in the district. The program will support English language arts, math, and science across all grades.
- Deans for Impact will convene educator preparation programs that are mobilizing teacher candidates to serve as tutors in high-need schools and will develop a policy framework for strengthening the tutor-to-teacher pipeline.
- Black Hills Special Services Cooperative will provide tutoring to high-need, high-poverty schools and families, serving primarily the Native American community on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota.
- Once will partner with school districts in Washington DC, Cleveland, and Hawaii to train paraprofessionals to provide early literacy tutoring based on the science of reading to students in grades K and 1.
The announcement of the inaugural cohort of grantees follows a competitive national selection process. In spring 2022, Accelerate released a Call to Effective Action to recruit partners to design, launch, and scale high-impact tutoring efforts and to build a community committed to impact. A diverse panel of experts reviewed more than 200 letters of intent and invited finalists to submit a full-length proposal. All 31 grantees receiving awards are working with students and schools in this academic year.
View a list of all grantees and a summary of their tutoring models.
Accelerate is a nonprofit organization, incubated and launched by the national nonprofit America Achieves, that seeks to embed high-impact tutoring programs into public schools now and for the long term. Launched in April 2022 with an initial fund of $65 million, Accelerate funds and supports innovation in schools, launches high-quality research, and advances a federal and state policy agenda to support this work.
Accelerate is leading efforts to improve practice on multiple fronts, including as a lead technical assistance partner to the National Partnership for Student Success (NPSS). The NPSS is a joint partnership of more than 100 organizations, The Department of Education, AmeriCorps, the Johns Hopkins Everyone Graduates Center to launch a new coalition formed to expand high-quality tutoring, mentoring, and other evidence-based support programs, with the goal of ensuring an additional 250,000 adults serve in these roles over the next three years.
Accelerate is supported by Kenneth C. Griffin, founder and chief executive officer of Citadel; Arnold Ventures; the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; and the Overdeck Family Foundation.
For more information, visit http://www.accelerate.us.
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EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Ryan Nugent-Hopkins scored his second goal of the game with 3:27 left in regulation, and the Edmonton Oilers beat the Calgary Flames 5-3 on Tuesday night to take a 3-1 lead in the second-round playoff series.
Evander Kane scored his NHL-leading 11th and 12th goals of the postseason, and Zach Hyman added a goal for Edmonton. Leon Draisaitl added three assists and Mike Smith made 29 saves.
Connor McDavid also had two assists. He has 25 points in 11 playoff games for the Oilers, who earned a third straight victory over their provincial rival.
Elias Lindholm and Mikael Backlund scored for Calgary, and Rasmus Andersson added a short-handed goal from his own end in the third period to tie the game at 3. Jacob Markstrom stopped 21 shots.
Calgary will look to stave off elimination on Thursday at home in Game 5.
After trailing 3-0 after the first period and 3-2 through two periods, Calgary tied the game in the third on an Edmonton power play when Andersson fired a 150-foot clearing attempt from his own end that somehow fooled Smith at 10:56.
With the Oilers wobbling, Nugent-Hopkins poked in his fourth goal of the playoffs from in front of Markstrom.
Andersson then took a four-minute penalty for high-sticking with 2:40 left to effectively kill off the game before Kane iced it by scoring into an empty net.
Edmonton also held a 2-1 series lead in the first round against the Los Angeles Kings only to play what the Oilers described as their worst performance of the month in a 4-0 loss. This time, they took a stranglehold on the series without their best effort.
Markstrom, who had allowed 14 goals in the series before getting pulled after two periods with Calgary trailing Sunday’s Game 3 by a 4-0 score, played the puck behind his own net on the first shift, but put it right on Nugent-Hopkins’ stick. He scored his third.
The goal was the third-fastest in Oilers’ playoff history, just short of McDavid (19 seconds in 2020) and Fernando Pisani (16 seconds in 2006).
One of three finalists for the Vézina Trophy as the NHL’s top goalie, Markstrom recovered to deny Darnell Nurse on a chance a couple minutes later before Smith was at full stretch on a Johnny Gaudreau one-time chance.
Calgary winger Tyler Toffoli then took a tripping penalty and the Oilers made the Flames pay when Hyman outmuscled a hobbled Chris Tanev — back in the lineup for the first time since Game 6 of the opening round despite a suspected upper-body injury — in tight, scoring his fifth goal of the series and seventh of the playoffs at 9:53.
The Flames, who topped the Pacific Division in the regular season, pushed back with a couple of decent shifts, but Kane, who was coming off a natural hat trick in Game 3, made it 3-0 with 66 seconds remaining in the period on a shot that nicked blueliner Nikita Zadorov.
Calgary showed some life on slick power play in the second with Kane off for slashing. Lindholm eventually picked the top corner for his fifth goal at 9:04 after the Oilers twice failed to clear the defensive zone.
Backlund got the Flames within one at 3-2 just 36 seconds later when he stepped past Duncan Keith and fired his fourth past Smith.
Smith made a good stop on a Lindholm power-play chance early in the third before Edmonton got its second man-advantage with 11 minutes left in regulation.
Markstrom kept his team within striking distance with a terrific pad stop on Draisaitl, who became the first player in NHL history to register three-plus points in four straight playoff games with an assist on the Oilers’ empty-net goal.
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The Texas A&M football team’s season-opening victory over Sam Houston State on Saturday, Sept. 3 offered a glimpse into the future of football in Aggieland.
The maroon and white shut out the Bearkats 31-0 at Kyle Field, overcoming not just a nearly three-hour-long weather delay, but absences from some of their top players. Sophomore center Bryce Foster, junior defensive back Jaylon Jones and senior tight end Max Wright were out for the game, providing the young recruits more opportunity in the team’s rotation.
As a result, a host of freshmen from A&M’s No. 1-ranked 2022 recruiting class were forced to step up and play significant roles on both sides of the ball for the maroon and white. Wide receivers Evan Stewart and Chris Marshall, defensive lineman Walter Nolen and defensive back Denver Harris all had productive performances.
“They’ve got to play,” coach Jimbo Fisher said. “They're freshmen now. The depth it takes to play in this league and build these guys and get them out there playing, hopefully they'll keep playing each and every week.”
Stewart started as a wide receiver for the Aggies, as expected, and reeled in five catches for 57 yards, including a 23-yard grab. The Frisco native was one of eight five-star signees in A&M’s recent recruiting class and is regarded by many to be a game changer for the Aggies’ offense. Marshall, a fellow five-star recruit, also played a key role in the passing attack with four receptions for 41 yards.
“I thought they played pretty well,” senior wide receiver Ainias Smith said. “Coming in as freshmen, they had the little jitters walking out of the tunnel, but it seemed like all of that went away as soon as the game started. I was excited for them, very happy for them. [They] came out, and they didn't play like no freshmen. They played well.”
Adding the two highly talented wideouts to the offensive depth is a welcome change from last season, in which injuries to current junior wide receiver Chase Lane and current Oregon senior wide receiver Caleb Chapman hampered the team’s scoring ability. With the duo now playing alongside Smith and senior wide receiver Jalen Preston, the A&M passing attack should be more than fruitful this season.
With the injury to Wright, freshmen tight ends Jake Johnson and Donovan Green made appearances during the contest, with Johnson receiving a 2-yard pass from his brother, junior quarterback and LSU transfer Max Johnson. The position group must fill the void left by Jalen Wydermyer, who has since gone to the NFL. Freshman Theo Melin Ohrstrom, a native of Sweden, is another valuable option at the tight end spot.
The highlight of the game for the Aggies was perhaps the defense, which allowed no points, forced two turnovers and gave up just 198 total yards by the opposition. It was led by the usual suspects, with senior defensive back Demani Richardson amassing five total tackles, while junior defensive back Antonio Johnson added four tackles and a sack.
The defensive effort featured plenty of youth, though, as freshmen defensive backs Bryce Anderson and Denver Harris each had two tackles, while freshmen defensive linemen Walter Nolen and L.T. Overton had three and two tackles, respectively. Overton added a sack, as well. Freshmen defensive linemen Shemar Stewart, Enai White and Tunmise Adeleye each had one tackle, with Stewart being credited with half a sack.
“Those guys are very talented,” sophomore defensive lineman Fadil Diggs said. “They're going to strain, run to the ball. I'm glad they got to do that today, because, you know, it can be nerve-wracking playing your first game as a freshman. So I'm glad that they got that out today.”
As much as this freshman class was hyped up during the preseason, it’s not until the regular season begins that a coaching staff can get an idea of what the players are capable of. As beneficial as practice and scrimmages may be, the only true way to gauge a player is to see how they perform in true game action.
“You can simulate games all you want,” Fisher said. “Like I say, ‘Til the lights on the scoreboard matter,’ that's when you can see what guys do. Some guys, it may bother them, and other guys, it enhances [them]. We've got to get better each and every game in what we do and grow and get these guys growing and get them playing with the older guys. Hopefully we can develop into a good football team.”
All in all, Fisher said he was pleased with the production of the freshmen players, saying it was likely the most he’s played in a game across his 35-year coaching career.
“You didn't realize there were freshmen out there,” Fisher said. “The guys played well. They caught the ball, they covered, they rushed, they blocked. They did the things that weren't jumping out at you that, ‘Hey, he's a young guy and he's going to have a lot of mistakes.’ But once they got to playing, man, they were naturally doing things.” | 2022-09-05T04:38:16+00:00 | thebatt.com | https://www.thebatt.com/sports/freshmen-take-center-stage-in-win-over-sam-houston-state/article_4d2bd70e-2ca4-11ed-8d57-bbb249d69b12.html |
Meta’s independent Oversight Board overturned the social media giant’s decision to remove bare chest photos of transgender and non-binary people on Instagram, and urged the company to redefine its rules around nudity in a way that is clear and does not discriminate based on gender.
The board’s Tuesday decision overturned Instagram’s original decision in 2021 and 2022 to remove two photos posted by the same U.S.-based couple who identify as transgender and non-binary. The photos showed images of the couple bare-chested with nipples covered and had captions discussing transgender health care.
The posts were initially removed by Meta, the parent company of Instagram, for violating the platform’s Sexual Solicitation and Community Standard. But Meta restored the posts after finding they were removed in error following the Oversight Board accepting the case to repeal the decision.
“Here, the Board finds that Meta’s policies on adult nudity result in greater barriers to expression for women, trans, and gender non-binary people on its platforms,” the board wrote in its decision.
The Oversight Board is a task force funded by Meta but is made up of outside experts and civic leaders. It is designed to run independently from the company.
The board said the joint cases “highlight fundamental issues with Meta’s policies.” The company’s internal guidance to moderators on when to remove content under the Sexual Solicitation policy is “far broader than the stated rationale for the policy, or the publicly available guidance,” leading to confusion for users and moderators and content being “wrongly removed,” the board found.
The decision also recommends Meta define “clear, objective, rights-respecting criteria” for its Adult Nudity and Sexual Activity Community Standard.
The board’s decisions on specific posts or accounts are binding, but policy recommendations are not, meaning Meta can choose whether to adopt changes suggested by the board.
A Meta spokesperson said they “welcome the board’s decision in this case.”
“We had reinstated this content prior to the decision, recognizing that it should not have been taken down. We are constantly evaluating our policies to help make our platforms safer for everyone. We know more can be done to support the LGBTQ+ community, and that means working with experts and LGBTQ+ advocacy organizations on a range of issues and product improvements,” the spokesperson added. | 2023-01-18T21:23:55+00:00 | wwlp.com | https://www.wwlp.com/hill-politics/oversight-board-urges-meta-to-redefine-nudity-rules-to-avoid-anti-transgender-discrimination/ |
By NASSER KARIMI and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV
Associated Press
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin won staunch support from Iran on Tuesday for his country’s military campaign in Ukraine, with Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei saying the West opposes an “independent and strong” Russia.
Khamenei said that if Russia hadn’t sent troops into Ukraine, it would have faced an attack from NATO later, a statement that echoed Putin’s own rhetoric and reflected increasingly close ties between Moscow and Tehran as they both face crippling Western sanctions. NATO allies have bolstered their military presence in Eastern Europe and provided Ukraine with weapons to help counter the Russian attack.
“If the road would have been open to NATO, it will not recognize any limit and boundary,” Khamenei told Putin. Had Moscow not acted first, he added, the Western alliance “would have waged a war” to return the Crimean Peninsula that Russia seized from Ukraine in 2014 back to Kyiv’s control.
In only his second trip abroad since Russia launched the military action in February, Putin conferred with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the conflict in Syria, and he used the trip to discuss a U.N.-backed proposal to resume exports of Ukrainian grain to ease the global food crisis.
Turkey, a NATO member, has found itself opposite Russia in bloody conflicts in Syria and Libya. It has even sold lethal drones that Ukrainian forces have used to attack Russian troops. But Ankara hasn’t imposed sanctions on the Kremlin, making it a sorely needed partner for Moscow. Grappling with runaway inflation and a rapidly depreciating currency, Turkey also relies on the Russian market.
Erdogan made Putin wait for nearly a minute before entering the room for talks and then praised what he described as Russia’s “very, very positive approach” during last week’s grain talks in Istanbul. He voiced hope a deal will be made, and “the result that will emerge will have a positive impact on the whole world.”
Speaking to Erdogan as their meeting began, Putin thanked him for his mediation to help “move forward” a deal on Ukrainian grain exports. “Not all the issues have been resolved yet, but it’s good that there has been some progress,” Putin added.
U.N., Russian, Ukrainian and Turkish officials had reached a tentative agreement on some aspects of a deal to ensure the export of 22 million tons of desperately needed grain and other agricultural products trapped in Ukraine’s Black Sea ports by the fighting. Reaching the agreement would mark a major step toward alleviating a food crisis that has sent prices of vital commodities like wheat and barley soaring.
The trip to Tehran has symbolic meaning for Putin’s domestic audience as well, showing off Russia’s international clout even as it grows increasingly isolated and plunges deeper into confrontation with the West. It comes just days after U.S. President Joe Biden’s visited Israel and Saudi Arabia — Tehran’s primary rivals.
From Jerusalem and Jeddah, Biden urged Israel and Arab countries to push back on Russian, Chinese and Iranian influence that has expanded with the perception of America’s retreat from the region.
It was a tough sell. Israel maintains good relations with Putin, a necessity given Russian presence in Syria, Israel’s northeastern neighbor and frequent target of its airstrikes. Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have declined to pump more oil beyond a plan approved by their energy alliance with Moscow.
But all the countries — despite their long-standing rivalries — could agree on drawing closer to counter Iran, which has rapidly advanced its nuclear program since former U.S. President Donald Trump abandoned Tehran’s atomic accord with world powers and reimposed crushing sanctions. Talks to restore the deal have hit a deadlock.
Backed into a corner by the West and its regional rivals, the Iranian government is ramping up uranium enrichment, cracking down on dissent and grabbing headlines with optimistic, hard-line stances intended to keep the Iranian currency, the rial, from crashing. Without sanctions relief in sight, Iran’s tactical partnership with Russia has become one of survival, even as Moscow appears to be undercutting Tehran in the black market oil trade.
“Iran is (the) center of dynamic diplomacy,” Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian wrote on Twitter, adding the meetings will “develop economic cooperation, focus on security of the region … and ensure food security.”
Fadahossein Maleki, a member of the Iranian parliament’s influential committee on national security and foreign policy, described Russia as Iran’s “most strategic partner” on Monday. His comments belied decades of animosity stemming from Russia’s occupation of Iran during World War II — and its refusal to leave afterward.
In a sign of increasingly close military cooperation, Russian officials in recent weeks visited an airfield in central Iran at least twice to review Tehran’s weapons-capable drones for possible use in Ukraine, the White House has alleged.
Putin hailed the importance of close ties between Moscow and Tehran at his meetings with the Iranian leaders.
“Our relations are developing at a good pace,” Putin said at the start of the meeting with Raisi, adding that they two countries have worked to “strengthen their cooperation on international security and contribute significantly to the Syrian settlement.”
In a closing statement, he offered strong support to Tehran over the deadlocked nuclear deal, calling for its full revival and a complete lifting of sanctions against Iran to allow a “free development of cooperation in any areas without any discrimination.”
During their trilateral talks, the presidents discussed the decade-old conflict in Syria, where Iran and Russia have backed President Bashar Assad’s government, while Turkey has supported armed opposition factions. Russia intervened in the conflict in 2015, pooling efforts with Iranian forces and using its air power to shore up Assad’s fledgling military.
Erdogan focused on Turkey’s action to push from its borders U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish fighters, following up on previous threats of a new military offensive in northern Syria. The planned operation is part of Turkey’s efforts to create a safe zone along its border with Syria that would encourage the voluntary return of Syrian refugees.
Erdogan said Turkey was determined to “drive out the centers of evil” that target Turkey’s security.
He said Ankara expects Russia and Iran “to support Turkey in this fight,” adding that the regions of Tel Rifaat and Manbij — where Turkey has said it planned to send its troops — had turned into a “terror bed.”
“The greatest favor that would be made to the Syrian people would be the complete removal of the separatist terrorist organization from territories that it occupies,” Erdogan said.
In an apparent reference to Turkey’s concerns, the three presidents said in a joint statement that they “rejected all attempts to create new realities on the ground under the pretext of combating terrorism, including illegitimate self-rule initiatives, and expressed their determination to stand against separatist agendas.”
At the same time, in an earlier, separate meeting with Erdogan, Khamenei sternly warned against the planned Turkish incursion.
“Any sort of military attack in northern Syria will definitely harm Turkey, Syria and the entire region, and will benefit terrorists,” Iran’s top leader said, stressing the need to “bring the issue to an end through talks.”
Humanitarian issues in Syria have also come into focus since Russia used its veto power at the U.N. Security Council last week to restrict aid deliveries to 4.1 million people in Syria’s rebel-held northwest after six months, instead of a year. Erdogan stressed that six months weren’t enough.
Raisi said all parties urged expelling American forces from Syria. In a reference to the U.S. military, Putin denounced what he described as “attempts to cement unlawful foreign military presence and foment separatist sentiments,” and emphasized that all areas east of the Euphrates River should return to Syrian government control,
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'Butter' art fair is back this weekend, and it'll be three times as big as last year's
"Butter," the immersive fine art fair that showcases Black visual artists, has seen just one launch so far — over Labor Day weekend in 2021. Its founder, cultural development firm Ganggang, expected 1,000 adult patrons over the weekend. By the end, they reported more than 3,400 adult tickets sold.
With that, a new Indianapolis hit was born. Its annual status has already become a given, with co-founder Malina Simone Jeffers even seeing someone on social media post their eagerness to enter "Butter season" as "Butter 2" rolls around this weekend at the Stutz building downtown.
"Maybe one of the most pleasant surprises — or even what feels like a really pressuring surprise — is that Indianapolis knows about 'Butter' and talks about it as if there's been more than one," Jeffers said.
To meet and exceed expectations, Ganggang is leaning further into its mission: to build equity and cultural reparations for Black artists into a high-profile event that boosts the city's creative economy. The fine art fair will showcase more than 50 Black visual artists from around the country, and it supports them throughout the process of readying their work for the public and sales.
On top of that, Ganggang will triple the fair's physical size. Instead of housing it in a single space, organizers will expand it into two indoor spaces and one outdoors in and around the former factory, which has been undergoing construction. The indoor halls are in the coming car museum and VisionLoft Events along 10th Street. Just outside will be installations that will create what Jeffers calls a transformational wonderland.
New downtown eats and shops:Celebrated chefs are among 12 new restaurants and more opening in the Stutz
Around that, expect about 30 performing artists over the weekend and a dance party fittingly called "Melt" on Saturday night. Historian Sampson Levingston will give guided tours about the history of the area between the Stutz and Crispus Attucks High School.
"While the fair centers those Black visual artists — and that's what the fair's all about, we're looking to sell their work — there are maybe a hundred creatives and artists involved in making this fair come to life," Jeffers said.
'We want to help (artists) tell their stories'
Like last year, at the core of Butter 2 are the visual artists. Among those are Los Angeles' April Bey and Louisville's Kiah Celeste. Indianapolis artists include Amiah Mims, Johnson Simon and Kaila Austin.
Art mystery:This famous Hoosier painted a mural for Crispus Attucks in the '30s. Why did it disappear?
The curation team — including Jeffers, Ganggang co-founder Alan Bacon, Braydee Euliss and Sarah Urist Green — helps them to prepare their work and, importantly, to sell it. Often, those who run exhibits will simply tell artists that they have space for one or two pieces and give them a deadline, Jeffers said.
"That's what artists are used to. So when they get invited to participate in Butter, they're saying, 'What's my deadline? When do I have to drop off my work, and how many pieces?'" Jeffers said. "We say, 'That's not how we do things here. We actually care about you. We actually want to have a relationship."
Ganggang's curatorial team visits studios, ask what participants need — like help pricing and framing, for example — and provide the artists with resources including professional photos of their work. Rather than requiring the artist to create work along a theme, the team asks artists what they want to say.
"We want to help them tell their stories. This is the amplification of artists' voices, especially post-2020," Bacon said. "What is the story that we'll hear and learn about and know and love as it relates to this year's Butter compared to last year's Butter? Some of the artistry is indicative of the moment that we're in."
The work puts artists in a better position to sell their work, and the formula has been proven. In 2021, Ganggang reported selling 42 pieces of art totaling $65,000 during fair itself and even more in post-sales prompted by Butter patrons who sought out artists' work. Like last year, artists will keep all of the proceeds from their sales and not have to pay fees that venues often charge, Jeffers said.
"This is why culture is so important — it actually breaks down barriers and just allows you to connect," Bacon said.
If you go
What: Butter 2, a fine art fair that highlights Black visual artists
When: Preview Night, 4 p.m.-7 p.m. Thursday; 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Friday; 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Saturday, with Melt running from 9 p.m.-midnight; 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Sunday. Find the full schedule at butterartfair.com/schedule.
Where: 1060 N. Capitol Ave. Along the south side of the Stutz factory building downtown, including 10th Street between Senate and Capitol avenues
Cost: $35. Free for ages 18 and under. $175 Preview Night tickets, which includes Thursday night. Purchase at butterartfair.com.
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WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin judge deferred a decision Tuesday on whether a man accused of killing six people and injuring dozens more when he allegedly drove his SUV through a Christmas parade can represent himself at trial, after the suspect said he doesn’t understand the charges against him or how the state can prosecute him.
Waukesha County Circuit Judge Jennifer Dorow gave Darrell Brooks until Wednesday morning to decide whether he still wants to represent himself. If he does, she promised to schedule another hearing later in the day.
Brooks’ trial is set to begin Monday. It’s unclear if Dorow would delay the proceedings if Brooks is allowed to represent himself. District Attorney Susan Opper filed a brief Monday urging her not to push the trial back, arguing that the trial date was set back in March and that a delay would inconvenience the hundreds of witnesses she might call and extend the parade victims’ emotional turmoil.
Prosecutors say Brooks drove his SUV into a Christmas parade in downtown Waukesha on Nov. 21. He faces 77 charges, including six counts of first-degree intentional homicide and 61 counts of reckless endangerment. Any potential motive remains unclear.
Brooks, 40, pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity but withdrew that plea earlier this month. His attorneys, Anna Kees and Jeremy Perri, last week filed a motion to withdraw from the case because Brooks wants to represent himself.
Brooks told Dorow that he wants to represent himself because Kees and Perri haven’t explained the “nature and cause” of the charges. He did not explain what that meant.
Dorow asked Brooks if he understood what he was doing, if he understood the seriousness of the charges and if he understood that he could face life in prison if he’s convicted on the homicide counts. She also asked if he understood if he waived his right to an attorney he would be on his own against a prosecutorial team with a combined 66 years of courtroom experience.
“Doesn’t make me flinch a bit,” Brooks said.
But he also told Dorow he didn’t understand the charges, the penalties or how legal documents are captioned, and that he didn’t know Opper represents the state, even though she has been at all of his previous court appearances and identified herself as the district attorney.
He finally refused to continue until the judge explained to him how the state has the legal power to prosecute him when the state wasn’t injured.
An exasperated Dorow warned Brooks not to play games with her.
“Sir, this is a legitimate case,” she said. “I’m not going to make a mockery (of it) by letting you ask this question.”
She finally called a recess. When court reconvened she gave Brooks a packet of documents outlining trial administration. | 2022-09-28T02:31:31+00:00 | wearegreenbay.com | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/local-news/judge-delays-ruling-on-parade-suspects-self-representation/ |
KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Jan. 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- On Thursday, Jan. 19, Regal theatres will celebrate moviegoers and their favorite salty, buttery, slightly crunchy snack for National Popcorn Day. Guests of Regal will receive 50% off any size classic popcorn at theatre concession stands nationwide.
"Movie theatres and popcorn have been partners since the 1920s, and Regal has commemorated this long-standing relationship every year on National Popcorn Day," said John Curry, Regal's Senior Vice President of Food Service. "To observe this blockbuster holiday, stop by any Regal and receive 50% off any size popcorn. At Regal, we are the best place to watch a movie and popcorn is the perfect complement for a great moviegoing experience."
To participate in this special one-day offer, movie fans should direct themselves to the concession stand of their nearest Regal theatre on Jan. 19. Once there, pair the signature taste of buttery popcorn with one of the many current releases like Missing, Avatar: The Way of Water, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish and M3GAN showing exclusively in theatres this Thursday. This special offer is available on all classic popcorn, excluding Cheetos popcorn, specialty popcorn and snack packs.
The best place to watch a movie just got better with Regal Unlimited. Regal Unlimited allows subscribers to see as many movies as they want, whenever and wherever they want. The Regal Unlimited subscription pass is exclusively available on the Regal mobile app where moviegoers can choose from three different plans based on theatre location. There are no blackout dates and subscribers can purchase advance tickets as soon as they go on sale. Subscribers also receive a 10% discount on all food and non-alcoholic drink purchases along with automatic membership to the Regal Crown Club.
Regal, a subsidiary of the Cineworld Group, operates one of the largest and most geographically diverse theatre circuits in the United States, consisting of 6,383 screens in 470 theatres in 42 states along with the District of Columbia and Guam as of Jan. 6, 2023. We believe that the size, reach and quality of the company's theatre circuit provides its patrons with a convenient and enjoyable moviegoing experience. We are committed to being "The Best Place to Watch a Movie!" Additional information is available on Regal's website: REGmovies.com.
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Merlin John Schulting
April 14, 1928-December 14, 2022
MASON CITY-Merlin John Schulting, 94, of Mason City, Iowa passed away on December 14, 2022 at Mercy Hospital due to Cardiomyopathy. At Merl's direction, there will be cremation and a private memorial service. Merl was born April 14 in Menominee, Wisconsin to Vincent and Viola (Tranel) Schulting. At 17, Merl enlisted in the US Navy and went on active duty July 4, 1945. World War ll was declared over that year,Merl was discharged a year later on July 13, 1946, and he went on to graduate Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa. Once graduated, Merl joined his father in the Ballroom business, managing his father's Melody Mill Ballroom in Dubuque, Iowa, the largest Ballroom in the Midwest. Merl wore many hats, from Security, Prep and Clean up, Supply Ordering to lining up and caring for the needs of entertainers some of which were Guy Lombardo, Louis Armstrong, Lawrence Welk, Patsy Cline, Duke Ellington and Johnny Cash. It must be mentioned that Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens were scheduled to perform at the Melody Mill on February 10, 1959. This never happened as the three perished in a fatal plane crash after performing at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa on February 3, 1959, and as the American Pie song says, it was The Day the Music Died. Merl married Joyce Launspach on February 2, 1952. While growing their budding family, the Melody Mill was sold in 1964 and Merl took a position as Commercial Representative for Interstate Power Company in Mason City, Iowa. Merl continued working for Interstate Power until his retirement. Once retired, Merl acquired his Iowa Real Estate License, and helped with his wife's business, Joyce Schulting Realty. Merl was also very involved with the Mason City Exchange Club, and he could always be found on July 4 handing out American flags and helping shoot off the Exchange Club sponsored fireworks for the MC community. Merl will be sadly missed by his devoted wife, Joyce, his son Kirk (Cindy) his daughter Jill (John) Rickoff and eight grandchildren, one step-grandchild, and fifteen great-grandchildren. Merl was preceded in death by his parents, his sisters, Shirley Lewis and Darlene Kirch and his son Craig Schulting. If so inclined, Merl's favorite charitable giving was to The Wounded Warrior and Disabled Vets. | 2023-01-08T06:13:39+00:00 | globegazette.com | https://globegazette.com/news/local/obituaries/merlin-john-schulting/article_056e9ef6-bde5-590f-8eb7-f51c9e14fbfc.html |
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C.T. Pan shoots 2-under 69 in round three of the John Deere Classic
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C.T. Pan makes birdie on No. 3 at John Deere
In the third round of the 2022 John Deere Classic, C.T. Pan makes a 7-foot birdie putt on the par-3 3rd hole.
C.T. Pan hit 16 of 18 greens in regulation during his third round at the John Deere Classic, finishing at 11 under for the tournament. Pan finished his day tied for 16th at 11 under; J.T. Poston is in 1st at 19 under; Scott Stallings, Emiliano Grillo, and Denny McCarthy are tied for 2nd at 16 under; and Callum Tarren is in 5th at 15 under.
After a 328 yard drive on the 561-yard par-5 second, Pan chipped his third shot to 7 feet, which he rolled for one-putt birdie on the hole. This moved Pan to 1 under for the round.
After a drive to the left side of the fairway on the 433-yard par-4 fifth hole, Pan had a 180 yard approach shot, setting himself up for the birdie. This moved Pan to 3 under for the round.
On the par-4 sixth, Pan's 109 yard approach to 10 feet set himself up for the birdie on the hole. This moved Pan to 4 under for the round.
At the 361-yard par-4 14th, Pan got on in 2 and missed his par putt from 5 feet, finishing with a 3-putt bogey. This moved Pan to 2 under for the round.
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On June 12, Ken Olin, an actor with more than 270,000 followers on Twitter posted a photo claiming to show fellow actor Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson wearing a political t-shirt.
The shirt said “Keep America Trumpless,” referring to former President Donald Trump.
The photo, as of June 15, had more than 8,700 retweets and 93,000 likes.
THE QUESTION
Is the photo of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson wearing an anti-Trump shirt real?
THE SOURCES
- TinEye, a reverse image search tool
- Warner Brothers
THE ANSWER
No, the photo was doctored. The anti-Trump shirt was edited onto a promotional image of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson from the 2015 film “San Andreas.”
WHAT WE FOUND
Using TinEye, a reverse image search tool, VERIFY traced the original photo back to when Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, a wrestler-turned-actor, starred in the 2015 film “San Andreas.”
The photo was posted on the Warner Brothers studio promotional website for the film, ahead of its theatrical release in May 2015.
Comparing the doctored image to the promotional film image, you can see the building in the background is the same, except the doctored version is slightly lighter. Johnson’s facial expression and posture are exactly the same in the doctored and original images; the only difference is the color and design of the t-shirt.
His shirt in the film promotion image says “Los Angeles Police Department,” and he is seen walking at an airfield holding a helicopter helmet.
This particular meme featuring Johnson in a “Keep America Trumpless” shirt has been circulating online for months. For example, the meme was posted to Twitter in December 2021. This is also not the first meme to be created out of Johnson’s pose from “San Andreas”; here is an example that was posted to Pinterest.
A spokesperson for Johnson had not returned VERIFY’s request for comment at the time of publication.
Johnson has waded into politics in recent years.
Ahead of the 2020 presidential election, Johnson endorsed Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
In 2021, a poll published by Newsweek said 46% of Americans would like to see him run for president in the 2024 election.
In an interview with Vanity Fair, Johnson said he hadn’t ruled out the possibility of running for president. | 2022-06-15T17:50:28+00:00 | wfmynews2.com | https://www.wfmynews2.com/article/news/verify/pop-culture/photo-of-dwayne-the-rock-johnson-wearing-anti-trump-shirt-isnt-real/536-79bcdd1e-2610-4e01-8e11-80cf42a2deb7 |
NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Republican strategist Alice Stewart about Donald Trump's latest presidential run, and the future of the GOP.
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NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Republican strategist Alice Stewart about Donald Trump's latest presidential run, and the future of the GOP.
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Daily Three-Evening" game were:
7-0-8, SB: 6
(seven, zero, eight; SB: six)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Daily Three-Evening" game were:
7-0-8, SB: 6
(seven, zero, eight; SB: six) | 2022-06-19T05:10:15+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-Three-Evening-17251548.php |
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Palestinian death toll from last weekend’s fighting between Israel and Gaza militants rose to 48 Thursday after an 11-year-old girl and a man died from wounds they suffered during the worst cross-border violence in over a year.
Meanwhile, two wounded Gaza children, ages 8 and 14, were fighting for their lives in a Jerusalem hospital. In all, more than 300 Palestinians were wounded over the weekend when Israel struck Islamic Jihad targets across Gaza and the militant group fired hundreds of rockets at Israel.
The death of 11-year-old Layan al-Shaer at Mukassed Hospital in an Arab neighborhood of Jerusalem brought to 17 the number of children killed in the fighting. Hani al-Shaer, a relative, said she was wounded in a drone attack during a surprise opening salvo launched by Israel, hours before any rockets were fired.
Israel said it launched the initial wave of airstrikes, which killed an Islamic Jihad commander, in response to an imminent threat from the militant group, days after Israeli troops arrested one of its leaders in the occupied West Bank.
Two other Gaza children, 14-year-old Nayef al-Awdat and 8-year-old Mohammed Abu Ktaifa were being treated in the intensive care unit at Mukassed.
Nayef, who is blind, was wounded in an Israeli airstrike, while Mohammed was hurt in an explosion that went off near a wedding party and killed an elderly woman, with the circumstances still unclear.
Israel has said as many as 16 people might have been killed by rockets misfired by Palestinian militants. Israeli strikes appear to have killed more than 30 Palestinians, including civilians and several militants, among them two senior Islamic Jihad commanders. It wasn’t immediately clear how the man whose death was announced Thursday was wounded. The Israeli military says it makes every effort to avoid civilian casualties.
A cease-fire took hold Sunday night, bringing an end to the fighting that started Friday. No Israelis were killed or seriously wounded.
Israel and Gaza’s militant Hamas rulers have fought four wars and several smaller battles over the last 15 years at a staggering cost to the territory’s 2 million Palestinian residents. Hamas sat out the latest fighting, possibly because of understandings with Israel that have eased a 15-year Israeli-Egyptian blockade imposed on Gaza when Hamas took power.
In other developments, a Palestinian prisoner on a protracted hunger strike was moved Thursday from an Israeli jail to a hospital because of his worsening condition, the prisoner’s wife said. An Israeli prison service official confirmed the development, speaking on condition of anonymity under regulations.
Khalil Awawdeh has refused food for just over 160 days, according to his family, in a bid to draw attention to his detention by Israel without trial or charge. His case was thrust into the spotlight during the latest Gaza fighting.
Gaza militants have demanded his release as part of the cease-fire that ended the fighting.
Awawdeh, a 40-year-old father of four, was arrested by Israel in December, accused of being a member of a militant group, a charge his lawyer said he denies. Recently, he has been using a wheelchair and was showing memory loss and speech difficulties, according to his lawyer, Ahlam Haddad.
Dalal Awawdeh, Khalil’s wife, said his condition had deteriorated, prompting Israeli authorities to move him to a hospital.
Dr. Lina Qasem from the Physicians for Human Rights Israel organization said Thursday after meeting Awawdeh that his condition was “extremely bad” and that he only drinks water and is refusing additional vitamins, salts and sugar.
“He suffers from a very extreme weakness,” she said. Awawdeh said he will continue his hunger strike until his release from detention, she said, but he “requests that the medical team do what is necessary to save his life because he does not wish to die.”
Prospects for Awawdeh’s release under the cease-fire are uncertain. But his case highlights the plight of hundreds of Palestinians who are being held by Israel under a system that critics say denies them the right to due process, known as administrative detention. The worsening conditions of hunger striking prisoners has in the past whipped up tensions with the Palestinians, and in some cases prompted Israel to accede to hunger strikers’ demands.
Israel is currently holding some 4,400 Palestinians, including militants who have carried out deadly attacks, as well as people arrested at protests or for throwing stones. Around 670 Palestinians are now being held in administrative detention, a number that jumped in March as Israel began near-nightly arrest raids in the West Bank following a spate of deadly attacks against Israelis.
Israel says administrative detention is needed to prevent attacks or to keep dangerous suspects locked up without sharing evidence that could endanger valuable intelligence sources. Israel says it provides due process and largely imprisons those who threaten its security, though a small number are held for petty crimes.
Palestinians and human rights groups say the system is designed to quash opposition and maintain permanent control over millions of Palestinians while denying them basic rights.
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Associated Press writers Tia Goldenberg in Tel Aviv, Israel, and Isaac Scharf in Jerusalem contributed to this report. | 2022-08-12T09:53:06+00:00 | localsyr.com | https://www.localsyr.com/news/international/death-toll-from-weekend-israel-gaza-fighting-rises-to-48/ |
The January transfer window might have closed around Europe, but there's plenty of gossip swirling around as clubs prepare to make moves in the summer. Transfer Talk brings you all the latest buzz on rumours, comings, goings and, of course, done deals.
TOP STORY: Liverpool circling as tensions ... Mount
Chelsea officials are preparing for the departure of Mason Mount this summer as talks over a contract extension continue to stall, according to the Telegraph.
Clubs such as Liverpool, who have been linked with a move for Mount, have been boosted by the news that Chelsea's ongoing contract talks with the midfielder have broken down, as he refuses to accept the Blues' latest offer.
The 24-year-old has rejected what he feels are terms lower than what some of the other players are earning at Stamford Bridge.
Mount has 18 months left on his contract, and if negotiations continue to falter Chelsea will be forced to make a decision on his future, with his contract entering its final year.
Mount was used as a second-half substitute in Chelsea's 1-1 draw with West Ham United on Saturday, and his first-team chances have been blocked by the influx of new signings in January.
Liverpool have been linked to Mount as potential suitors, but the Reds are reportedly prioritising a move for Jude Bellingham in the summer.
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- Manchester United are willing to let right-back Aaron Wan-Bissaka leave in the summer, with West Ham believed to be plotting a £22 million move, according to Football Insider. The 25-year-old defender is in the last 18 months of his contract and was linked with a move away from Old Trafford in January. And though the former Crystal Palace right-back has recently been a consistent starter under boss Erik ten Hag, it is believed that a move is the most likely outcome as he approaches the final year of his contract.
- Napoli president Aurelio De Laurentiis has suggested that his club won't need to consider letting their best players leave, but several Premier League clubs are said to be circling both 24-year-old striker Victor Osimhen and 21-year-old winger Khvicha Kvaratskhelia. That's according to Gazzetta Dello Sport, who believes that some of the figures being spent by English clubs in the January transfer window could be too good for Laurentiis to refuse. Both players have been integral in helping Napoli to a 13-point lead at the top of the Serie A table.
- Ajax Amsterdam central midfielder Edson Alvarez is attracting interest from Arsenal, Newcastle United and Liverpool, according to Calciomercato. The 25-year-old is a regular starter for club and country, racking up 61 caps -- including two at the World Cup in Qatar -- for Mexico. Chelsea attempted to sign Alvarez last summer, while several clubs contacted Ajax in January, though the Dutch club made it clear they weren't prepared to do business in January.
- Internazionale, Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid are all monitoring the situation of Liverpool striker Roberto Firmino, according to Gazzetta Dello Sport. The 31-year forward has been offered a contract extension by Reds officials despite talk of a major rebuild this summer at Anfield, but the Brazilian is yet to put pen to paper. And that has alerted some of Europe's top clubs, who see Firmino as an ideal addition to their forward lines.
- Napoli, Inter Milan and AS Roma are all tracking Eintracht Frankfurt defender Evan Ndicka, according to Calciomercato. The French centre-back is having a fine season for Die Adler and a number of English sides are also said to be interested. Yet it's the Italian trio who are said to be leading the race for the 23-year-old, particularly Napoli who face Frankfurt in the last 16 of the Champions League. Ndicka's contract runs out in June 2023, and so the German club could be tempted to agree on a move now before losing him for nothing in the summer. | 2023-02-12T01:30:29+00:00 | espn.com | https://www.espn.com/soccer/blog-transfer-talk/story/4875768/transfer-talk-liverpool-eye-mount-as-contract-talks-stall |
BOSTON, Nov. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The China Fund, Inc. (NYSE: CHN) today announced its financial results for its third fiscal quarter ended July 31, 2022.
For the nine months ended July 31, 2022, the Fund recorded net investment loss of $145,455 or $.01 per share, versus net investment income of $1,076,354 or $.10 per share, for the nine months ended July 31, 2021. Net realized and unrealized loss on investments and foreign currency transactions for the nine months ended July 31, 2022 was $77,791,631 or $7.56 per share, compared to net realized and unrealized gain on investments and foreign currency transactions of $18,152,584 or $1.74 per share, for the nine months ended July 31, 2021.
The Fund's total net assets on July 31, 2022 were $159,700,212 and its net asset value per share was $15.52 based on 10,288,465 shares outstanding. A combined distribution of $7.2669 per share from net investment income and realized gains was declared in December 2021 and paid in January 2022.
The Fund is a closed-end management investment company with the objective of seeking long-term capital appreciation by investing primarily in equity securities (i) of companies for which the principal securities trading market is in the People's Republic of China ("China"), or (ii) of companies for which the principal securities trading market is outside of China, or constituting direct equity investments in companies organized outside of China, that in both cases derive at least 50% of their revenues from goods and services sold or produced, or have at least 50% of their assets, in China. Whilst the Fund is permitted to invest in direct equity investments of companies organized in China, it presently holds no such investments. The Fund is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol "CHN". The Fund's investment manager is Matthews International Capital Management, LLC.
For further information regarding the Fund and the Fund's holdings, please call (888)-CHN-CALL or visit the Fund's website at www.chinafundinc.com.
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A house in Jamestown Twp that sold for $762,000 tops the list of the most expensive real estate sales in Ottawa County between April 17 and April 24.
In total, 52 real estate sales were recorded in the area during the past week, with an average price of $336,594, $229 per square foot.
The prices in the list below concern real estate sales where the title was recorded during the week of April 17 even if the property may have been sold earlier. | 2023-04-28T15:39:25+00:00 | mlive.com | https://www.mlive.com/realestate-news/2023/04/10-most-expensive-homes-sold-in-ottawa-county-april-17-24.html |
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The Immersive Virtual Experience Celebrates the World of Laura Mercier
NEW YORK, Dec. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Laura Mercier is stepping into the Metaverse. Founded by world-renowned makeup artist and pioneer of the Flawless Face, Laura Mercier has partnered with industry-leading experiential e-commerce platform, Obsess, to launch its debut virtual store, World of Beauty, now live.
The World of Laura Mercier is the brand's first step into a virtually experiential e-commerce presence, offering an immersive and interactive online shopping experience. According to Obsess, one in four consumers have shopped in a virtual store and of those, 70% made a purchase while shopping1.
"This is an exciting time for our consumers to explore Laura Mercier through a new, digitalized lens, that offers an immersion into the brand and its history. The dynamic shopping experience provides consumers with the opportunity to play, discover, test and trial products, while telling the rich story of this iconic brand," said Diane Kim, Global Brand President of Laura Mercier.
Utilizing web VR and AR as the enabling technologies, the HD-quality, 3D and 360 degrees experience that is The World of Beauty features three highly interactive virtual rooms, all designed with the brand's quintessential Parisian aesthetic in mind. This chic virtual store is unveiled to shoppers with a narrative from Laura Mercier herself, sharing background on her artistry and how the brand came to be. The first room offers an introduction to her accredited "Flawless Face" technique, taking shoppers through the steps and products to achieve the iconic look, alongside a virtual shade finder. The second room is a shopping shortcut; here the brand guides consumers to curated selections of products with a direct path to check-out. The final portion of the experience brings the Laura Mercier holiday collection "Wrapped with Love" to life and showcases an interactive 3D unboxing. The platform also offers an interactive hide-and-seek game providing users with gamified elements to encourage trial via mini product giveaways and ultimately lead to purchasing.
"Orveon does not "sell products," but rather "offers experiences" to serve our consumers. They crave digital experiences that also provides them with resources to learn more about our heritage. This is an important and innovative milestone for not only Laura Mercier, but the full Orveon brand portfolio as we continue to digitalize, grow revenue, and drive foot traffic to e-commerce, all while reaching existing and new consumers," said CEO of Orveon, Pascal Houdayer.
"We are thrilled to partner with Laura Mercier to launch an immersive virtual beauty experience that gives consumers a delightful new way to discover, learn about and be inspired by the brand's iconic products and aesthetic," said Neha Singh, Founder and CEO of Obsess. "Visitors can do everything from virtually trying on products to find the shades that are their own personal 'perfect match' to discovering great gift ideas for everyone on their list in the interactive holiday gifting room."
As part of its patented technology, the Obsess platform has industry-leading virtual shopping abilities including social shopping with friends and livestream to and from the virtual store. To capitalize on the Obsess technological advances and engage with brand fans, as well as recruit new ones, Laura Mercier and brand partner, Karen Gonzalez, will host a livestream shopping event on December 6, 2022, at 3:30pm PST / 6:30pm EST.
To experience Laura Mercier's World of Beauty, visit: https://www.lauramercier.com/worldofbeauty.html
Laura Mercier Cosmetics was founded in 1996 by renowned French Makeup Artist Laura Mercier, the pioneer of the Flawless Face. This global luxury line of Makeup, Skincare, Body & Bath and Fragrance is known for its iconic makeup artistry and techniques. Laura is the innovative force behind the award- winning products, French aesthetic, and artistry techniques—helping every woman look—and feel—her best. Acquired by Orveon in 2022, Laura Mercier Cosmetics are distributed through prestige specialty, beauty, and department stores globally. For more information, visit: www.lauramercier.com
Obsess is a leading experiential e-commerce platform that enables retailers to create immersive, branded, discovery-driven virtual stores on their websites and on metaverse platforms. The mission of the company is to create the next-generation online shopping interface that transforms the thumbnail grid into a visual, interactive, social and highly engaging experience. The company is headquartered in New York City. For more information, visit ObsessAR.com.
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In his time in Kansas City, Tyreek Hill has demoralized the Buffalo Bills in recent playoff meetings.
With his Chiefs eliminating Buffalo the past two postseasons, Hill has 20 receptions for 322 yards in those games.
The star wide receiver’s new team, the Miami Dolphins (2-0), however, have been crushed by their AFC East rival the past several seasons with the Bills (2-0) on a seven-game win streak in the series entering Sunday’s 1 p.m. kickoff.
“I wouldn’t say they fear the Bills, probably a little more out of respect,” Hill said Friday of the impression he has received from Dolphins teammates feelings toward Buffalo. “For me, my message to them is, ‘It’s just another football game. Let’s just go out there, do what we’ve been doing our whole entire lives and just play ball. Let’s have fun with it, do what we’re coached to do, and just play fast.’
“The best is supposed to want to play the best. You shouldn’t run from no challenge. … We just got to go out there with the same mentality that we’ve been having. Dominate, conquer and be as deliberate as you can each and every possession that we touch the ball.”
Hill, fellow Dolphins wideout Jaylen Waddle, quarterback Tua Tagovailoa are coming off a historic passing display last Sunday in Baltimore. The Dolphins came back from down 21 points in the fourth quarter to beat the Ravens, 42-38, as Tagovailoa threw for 469 yards and six touchdowns, Hill recorded 190 receiving yards and two touchdowns and Waddle 171 plus two scores.
“One thing that NFL defenses fear is speed,” Hill said, “so let’s just be us. Control what we can control.”
While successful in postseason play against the Bills, Hill has relatively been held in check in regular-season meetings, going for 124 yards on 17 catches in three games, two of them losses.
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The Buffalo secondary will be without cornerbacks Tre’Davious White and Dane Jackson and safety Micah Hyde. Fellow safety Jordan Poyer is questionable.
“The absence of Tre’Davious, really, I feel like slows them down, but those guys over there, Sean McDermott, he has the mentality of next man up, next cornerback,” Hill said of a unit that may count on rookies Kaiir Elam and Christian Benford at cornerback. “Those guys are filling in well for that defense.”
With Hispanic Heritage a theme for Sunday’s game at Hard Rock Stadium, Hill said he’s been picking up more Spanish since living in Miami full-time. He added that his stepsister on his mother’s side of the family is part-Hispanic.
“That’s really important in our household,” Hill said.
“I know a little bit of something something,” Hill added of his Spanish. “I learn from Dora the Explorer, but then my little sister be teaching me too.”
And beyond using a Spanish term for nether-regions that he’s dropped on more than one occasion in speaking of Tagovailoa and coach Mike McDaniel, Hill has even had fun flirting in what might become a second language for him.
“Me being around this area, the one thing I’ve been telling the ladies, ‘¿Te gusta el chocolate, mamacita?’” he joked — we think. | 2022-09-23T22:03:13+00:00 | sun-sentinel.com | https://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/miami-dolphins/fl-sp-dolphins-tyreek-hill-bills-20220923-is77w5v6ezhdfc6mlqdgcznrxq-story.html |
Two Entrepreneurs Recognized for Showcasing Success, Growth and Making a Difference
CHANDLER, Ariz., Nov. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Keap, the leader in sales and marketing automation software for small businesses, hosted its annual ikon conference on Oct. 27-28 and announced the 2022 ikon award winners. The two winners, Wrap Ukraine With Quilts and Lifeonaire, had the opportunity to be voted on by the more than 850 registered attendees during the ikon conference. This year's event gave attendees the opportunity to learn how to power on by optimizing their business, sales and marketing goals with proven strategies from small business experts.
"Given the current state of our economy, there are many challenges that small business owners face on a daily basis, but with these challenges come just as many opportunities, including learning about the potential impact that lifecycle automation strategies can have on their business," said Clate Mask, CEO and co-founder of Keap. "For the Keap community to be able to power on together showcases our purpose to liberate and empower entrepreneurs to strengthen their families, communities, and economies."
Keap attendees were presented the finalists and voted on the winners during the first day of the conference. After the winners were selected, attendees celebrated their success and learned from their stories. Here's a closer look at this year's winners and finalists:
The Let's Grow Award is presented to an entrepreneur that has seen significant growth and success after using Keap. The 2022 winner was Jason Wojo, founder of Lifeonaire, a company that focuses on helping people identify exactly what it is they want their life to look like and then reverse engineer a business to get there.
"Almost every aspect of our business has benefited from Keap. It's crazy how far we've come, from literally having zero of this done to where we are now, and I know we can get even better. There's still more juice to squeeze out of the software," said Wojo. "Utilizing Keap has allowed me to focus on higher-level activities in my business rather than being caught up in the details and day-to-day operations. We drop way less balls now and make less mistakes. We have less need for staffing. We are more consistent in the quality and delivery of our services. Our prospects and customers have a better experience. We're more organized. Put all of this together, it's really elevated the quality of the company, and it all comes back to using Keap as the centralized hub."
Finalists for the Let's Grow Award included Christa Jones, Rose City Professional Organizing Inc. and April Whitney, Petite Power (Petite PWR).
The Power in Purpose Award is presented to an entrepreneur that genuinely cares about their community and operates on the same seven core values as Keap including: We genuinely care, We own it, We learn always, We build trust, We check ego, We dream big, and We win together and uses these core values to fuel their entrepreneurial growth. The 2022 winner was Gina Halladay, co-founder of Wrap Ukraine With Quilts, a non-profit organization on a mission to "wrap" the children and families of Ukraine with the comfort of handmade quilts
"The Keap features and automation were like gas on a fire to our growth. We didn't start out to launch a non-profit when we started Wrap Ukraine with Quilts, we just wanted to help our friends who were Ukrainian refugees. But using Keap enabled us to track every quilt donation, capture donor information for further opportunities and to connect quilters with Ukrainian refugees, "said Halladay. "Keap has helped us track the 13 tons of handmade quilts we have delivered to Ukrainian and in our nine-month history, we have collected, from all 50 U.S. states, and delivered more than 13,000 handmade quilt donations to Ukrainian refugee mothers and children."
Finalists for the Power in Purpose award included Quinn Miller, OraCare and Karyn Laver, The Dance Network.
"The dedication and purpose that Jason and Gina showcase is at the heart of what it means to be an entrepreneur and I am honored that they both use Keap to automate and grow their businesses," said Mask. "All of the winners and the finalists are deserving of the recognition, and I can't wait to see what the future holds for each of them."
ikon, Keap's exclusive annual customer event, was held virtually this year. Keap's founders and product teams, as well as customers, influencers, and small business experts came together to celebrate entrepreneurship, learn, network and strategize about the future growth of their business.
For more information, visit www.keap.com/ikon.
For 20 years, Keap has helped empower and liberate small business entrepreneurs so they can strengthen their families, communities and the global economy. Keap pioneered the sales and marketing automation software market with its Keap Lite, Keap Pro and Keap Max products along with expert coaching. Headquartered in Chandler, Arizona, the company is on a mission to simplify growth for 1 million entrepreneurs worldwide by 2030. Keap is funded by Goldman Sachs, Bain Capital Ventures, Mohr Davidow Ventures and Signal Peak Ventures.
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NEW YORK, Nov. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Gross Law Firm issues the following notice to shareholders of Block, Inc..
Shareholders who purchased shares of SQ during the class period listed are encouraged to contact the firm regarding possible lead plaintiff appointment. Appointment as lead plaintiff is not required to partake in any recovery.
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CLASS PERIOD: November 4, 2021 to April 4, 2022
ALLEGATIONS: The complaint alleges that during the class period, Defendants issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) the Company lacked adequate protocols restricting access to customer sensitive information; (2) as a result, a former employee was able to download certain reports of the Company's subsidiary, Cash App Investing, containing full customer names and brokerage account numbers, as well as brokerage portfolio value, brokerage portfolio holdings and/or stock trading activity; (3) as a result, the Company was reasonably likely to suffer significant damage, including reputational harm; (4) and as a result of the foregoing, defendant's positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis.
DEADLINE: December 12, 2022 Shareholders should not delay in registering for this class action. Register your information here: https://securitiesclasslaw.com/securities/block-class-action-submission-form/?id=33235&from=4
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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court declined on Thursday to take up a case involving a COVID-19 vaccine requirement for health care workers in New York that does not offer an exemption for religious reasons.
The court's action follows a decision in December in which the justices declined an emergency request to halt the requirement. At the time, doctors, nurses and other medical workers who said they were being forced to choose between their jobs and religious beliefs.
Three conservative justices — Neil Gorsuch, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito — dissented earlier and did so again Thursday.
New York is one of three states, along with Maine and Rhode Island, that do not accommodate health care workers who object to the vaccine on religious grounds.
The court had previously turned away health care workers in Maine, who filed a similar challenge, with the same three justices in dissent.
In his dissent, Gorsuch drew a link between the health care workers and the World War II-era Jehovah’s Witnesses schoolchildren who refused on religious grounds to stand and salute the American flag for the Pledge of Allegiance.
The court at first refused to intervene when a public school in Pennsylvania expelled the children. But three years later, the justices overruled the earlier case in a landmark decision that declared schools couldn’t force students to salute the flag or recite the pledge. | 2022-06-30T17:48:10+00:00 | wgrz.com | https://www.wgrz.com/article/news/nation-world/supreme-court-rejects-covid-19-vaccine-mandate-case/507-0ef7fe1d-a1b1-42d4-9caa-2c76c58059ed |
WATCH: Delivery driver narrowly avoids being crushed by tree
Published: Mar. 5, 2023 at 12:09 PM CST|Updated: 35 minutes ago
ERLANGER, Ky. (CNN) – A FedEx driver narrowly escaped serious injury as he dropped off a package in Kentucky.
Severe weather moved through the city of Erlanger in the northern part of the state Friday.
A doorbell camera captured the moment when powerful winds toppled a large tree onto the porch where the driver, Tony Antal, had just stood seconds earlier.
On Saturday, Antal told CNN it was unsettling to see how close he came to dying or getting seriously injured.
At least five deaths are blamed on the strong storms that swept through Kentucky.
Copyright 2023 CNN Newsource. All rights reserved. | 2023-03-05T18:46:36+00:00 | wbrc.com | https://www.wbrc.com/2023/03/05/watch-delivery-driver-narrowly-avoids-being-crushed-by-tree/ |
SÃO PAULO, Brazil — There is silence from current Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who lost Sunday's runoff election, denying him a second term. More than 36 hours after Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's victory, Bolsonaro still has not conceded.
The outspoken right-wing populist Bolsonaro has remained uncharacteristically quiet. He hasn't even issued a public statement.
His communications minister said Bolsonaro plans to meet with the country's Supreme Court justices but will not contest the election results, Reuters reported late Tuesday morning.
Da Silva, a leftist former two-term president, won the election with 50.9% of the vote, compared to Bolsonaro's 49.1% — the slimmest margin in Brazil at least since its return to democracy in the 1980s.
Bolsonaro's continued silence has fueled concerns that he may refuse to recognize the results, as he has previously warned. But some of the incumbent's allies have acknowledged the election defeat, and the fact that da Silva's victory has also been acknowledged abroad would make it much harder for Bolsonaro to contest the results.
Bolsonaro allies say he will concede, but will not congratulate da Silva.
Speaking to supporters in São Paulo on election night, President-elect da Silva said, "Anywhere else in the world, the president who lost would have called me by now and conceded."
Meanwhile, truck drivers loyal to Bolsonaro continue to block roads in at least 13 different Brazilian states, leading to major disruptions. The road to São Paulo's international airport was blocked and many flights were canceled due to disruption.
Many truckers are among the most diehard of Bolsonaro supporters, having benefited from policies such as lowering diesel costs.
On Tuesday morning, the Brazilian Supreme Court ordered federal highway police to clear the blockades.
Bolsonaro once said "only God" could remove him from office and has repeatedly made unfounded declarations about electoral fraud throughout the election cycle.
President-elect da Silva, meanwhile, is making plans for his transfer to office. Local media are reporting that Lula, as he is popularly known, will start naming his transition team as early as Tuesday. He is due to take office on Jan. 1.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2022-11-01T15:54:11+00:00 | kvpr.org | https://www.kvpr.org/npr-news/2022-11-01/brazils-bolsonaro-still-hasnt-conceded-defeat-over-a-day-after-lula-da-silvas-win |
A young president at the U.N. General Assembly touted millennial status symbols like coffee, outdoor adventure and Bitcoin. Another admitted in front of the famous green marble that it was harder to govern a country than to protest in its streets. A foreign minister, once shunned for having only a bachelor’s degree, warned against indifference.
Shaped by the borderless internet, growing economic inequality and an increasingly dire climate crisis, the Generation Y cohort of presidents, prime ministers, foreign ministers and other “excellencies” is making their mark at the largest gathering of world leaders.
This week at the United Nations offers a glimpse of the latest generation of leaders in power, as a critical mass of them – born generally between 1981 and 1996 – are coming to represent countries in the Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa.
Some millennial leaders were making their debuts at the 77-year-old diplomatic institution built in the aftermath of WWII, while there were other notables who didn’t show up but had already arrived on the world stage. Those include Kim Jong Un, who took over the reclusive North Korea in his 20s, and the 36-year-old Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin, who faced controversy recently for a video of her dancing at a private party that went viral.
Jennifer Sciubba, an author and political demographer affiliated with the Wilson Center, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank, said many came into power buoyed by their generation’s disaffection for the status quo, and in that sense millennials and baby boomers are echoes of each other. One stark difference: Life by most measures was getting better after WWII, yet many young people today don’t harbor the same hope.
“A mistake would be to say, ‘Younger generations, they’re more liberal,’ and therefore we’ll see a turn to the left as these people come to the age of influence,” Sciubba said “They’re not monolithic. Dissatisfaction with the status quo — it can show up on either end of the political spectrum.”
Sciubba also noted that it was merely a matter of time before the millennials took their place in the world order. She said the definition of generations are “arbitrary, shorthand for us to understand people.” That’s a truth evident on the UN stage, where differing ideologies from the same Gen Y were on full display.
On Tuesday during the first day of the General Assembly, two young presidents shattered that myth of the millennial monolith when they spoke of their contrasting plights.
There was the 36-year-old president of Chile, Gabriel Boric, who used his air time to lick his wounds after citizens overwhelmingly rejected a new progressive constitution he had championed.
“As a young person who was on the street protesting not very long ago, I can tell you that representing unrest is a lot easier than producing solutions,” Boric said.
The failed proposal was set to replace a dictatorship-era constitution with a new charter that would have fundamentally changed the country to include gender equality, environmental protections and Indigenous rights. The stinging loss was not unexpected, with supporters blaming misinformation online for eroding support for it.
Chile’s youngest-ever president said the lesson he learned was that democracy is humbling.
“With great humility, I wish to tell you today that a government can never feel defeated when the people speak,” Boric said. “Because unlike in the past, when differences in Chile were settled through blood and fire, today, Chileans have agreed to face our challenges in a democratic fashion. And I’m telling you about this because I’m certain that one of the major challenges for humanity today is that of building democracies that really talk to and listen to citizens.”
Meanwhile, the selfie-loving El Salvador President Nayib Bukele – his glamorous wife and young daughter in the audience – said wealthy countries should not interfere with developing nations trying to chart their own paths. His speech came just days after the 41-year-old was accused of pushing toward authoritarianism when he announced he would seek re-election despite a constitutional ban.
In thinly veiled language and metaphor, Bukele pushed back against criticism his administration has received from the United States and European Union for concentrating power and more recently suspending some constitutional rights under an ongoing six-month state of exception.
“Because while on paper we are free and sovereign and independent, we will not really be so until the powerful understand that we want to be their friends, that we admire them, that we respect them, that our doors are wide open to trade, for them to visit us, to build the best possible relations,” said Bukele, whose current term ends in 2024. “But what they can’t do is come to our house to give orders – not only because it’s our house, but because it makes no sense to undo what we’re doing.”
Bukele, who is highly popular at home and on social media, later tweeted a video of his appearance on the conservative U.S. cable channel Fox News. The young president talked about his crackdown on powerful street gangs in which more than 50,000 people have been arrested. Recent polls have shown his actions have broad support even as human rights organizations within El Salvador and abroad say people are being arrested and jailed without evidence.
Rosario Diaz Garavito, the founder of The Millennials Movement, an NGO that works to engage young people in Latin America on the U.N.’s goals, said the diverging leaders both deftly disrupted the usual party politics at home and have proven to be among the most polarizing leaders in the region at a time when multilateralism should be embraced.
“We tend to go from the right wing to the left wing – all the time. And this is actually separating us,” Diaz Garavito said. “They have shown they can think differently, in different ways, but we need to now be able to find common ground as a region.”
As the first generation of digital natives, one constant theme in the political fortunes and misfortunes of millennial leaders emerged in the praise and peril of the internet and social media.
On Wednesday, Czech Republic Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský spoke at length about Russia’s war on Ukraine, and he also lamented how online disinformation was plaguing society while urging for “digital humanism” and solutions to preserve human rights on the internet.
“A lie is not an opinion. For far too long, we have overlooked the spread of disinformation directed against our common values,” Lipavský said. “Let us not forget the COVID-related disinformation. We had to learn the hard way when disinformation began to cost human lives.”
Just last year, the 37-year-old faced opposition from the country’s longtime president, who declared he didn’t want to appoint Lipavsky because of Lipavsky’s reserved attitude toward Israel.
What’s more, he noted, the millennial leader had only a bachelor’s degree.
___ Follow Sally Ho on Twitter at http://twitter.com/_sallyho and for more AP coverage of the U.N. General Assembly, visit https://apnews.com/hub/united-nations-general-assembly | 2022-09-23T02:00:55+00:00 | siouxlandproud.com | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/international/ap-no-millennial-monolith-as-gen-y-leaders-rise-at-un/ |
Gophers beat St. Cloud State 4-1, book 2nd straight trip to NCAA Frozen 4
MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - The University of Minnesota men’s hockey team is headed back to the NCAA Frozen Four.
The Gophers (28-9-1) will head to Tampa next week after beating St. Cloud State 4-1 in the Fargo Regional title game Saturday night at Scheels Arena. Minnesota entered the NCAA Tournament as the No. 1 overall seed, and started things with a 9-2 win over Canisius in the regional semifinal Thursday night.
Saturday, the Gophers got goals from Bryce Brodzinski, Logan Cooley, Jackson LaCombe and Jaxon Nelson, and 28 saves from Justen Close. Minnesota will face Boston University, which beat Cornell 2-1 in the Manchester Regional title game, in next Thursday’s national semifinals in Tampa.
The Gophers took a 1-0 lead in the first period on Brodzinski’s fourth goal of the tournament. He netted a third period hat trick in Thursday’s win. Cooley gave Minnesota a 2-1 lead at 5:57 of the second period after LaCombe hit him on a pass that sent Cooley on a breakaway. It was his 20th goal of the season, and extended a point streak to 15 games.
The Huskies nearly tied the game at 7:04 of the third period, but Kyler Kupka’s shot on an open net off a rebound missed wide. LaCombe gave the Gophers a 3-1 cushion at 16:25 of the third period on a feed from Cooley. Minnesota sealed the win with an empty net goal, as Nelson cleared the puck, banked it off the glass and scored on a shot that was nearly the length of the ice.
The Gophers are headed to the NCAA Frozen Four for the second straight year. They’re seeking their first national championship since 2002-03. | 2023-03-26T01:53:04+00:00 | fox9.com | https://www.fox9.com/sports/gophers-beat-st-cloud-state-4-1-book-2nd-straight-trip-to-ncaa-frozen-4 |
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NEW YORK (AP) — The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame this year will induct Eminem, Dolly Parton, Lionel Richie, Carly Simon and two guys in sunglasses who have scored more No. 1s on the Billboard Hot 100 than all of those other acts combined.
Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis are the rare songwriting and producing team to get into the prestigious hall, and they hope it will lead to more artists like them being inducted.
“Songwriters are like farmers,” said Jam. “When you go to a nice restaurant, the chef is like the artist and you thank him for the meal. But where did he get the food from? Without the farmer, he doesn’t have any food to cook. And that’s the way songwriters are to me.”
The duo's chart-topping pop hits include Janet Jackson’s “When I Think of You;” Mariah Carey’s “Thank God I Found You;” George Michael’s “Monkey;” Boyz II Men’s “On Bended Knee;” Janet and Michael Jackson's “Scream;” and Mary J. Blige’s “No More Drama.” They have five Grammys and went into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2017.
“I don’t know if you could ever recognize songwriters enough. I mean, they are the fuel that fuels everything,” said Lewis. “There are great songwriters out there that never get the shine that they deserve.”
One song in particular might typify the Jam and Lewis range — “Got ’Til It’s Gone,” which combines a folk sample from Joni Mitchell, the hip-hop of Q-Tip and Janet Jackson's R&B voice. “We’re kind of at a crossroads or an intersection of a lot of different music,” said Jam.
Jam and Lewis started out in competing bands and became part of Prince’s band, The Time, in Minneapolis. After parting ways with The Purple One, the duo established a recording studio and production company. Their collaboration with Janet Jackson on her monster albums “Control” and “Rhythm Nation 1814” solidified them as hitmakers.
The Rock Hall on Saturday will also induct Eurythmics, Duran Duran, Judas Priest, Harry Belafonte, Elizabeth Cotten and Pat Benatar. Jam anticipated that one act closely associated with the duo would be the one who inducts them but didn't go into specifics, raising speculation that it will be Janet Jackson.
They credit music executive Clarence Avant and an earlier songwriting powerhouse duo, Gamble & Huff, for showing the way forward. They hope to do the same with their induction: “It’s wonderful and hopefully shines a spotlight on other people like us who do what we do that are deserving.”
They grew up listening to different genres. Jam was a pop fan, soaking in Seals and Crofts, America and Chicago. Lewis leaned more toward Parliament-Funkadelic and Earth, Wind & Fire. “Terry liked the funky bottom. I like the pretty top,” said Jam. You can hear that combo throughout their career, starting with their first hit, S.O.S. Band's “Just Be Good to Me.”
They’re responsible for more than 50 Billboard No. 1 songs on the pop, R&B and dance charts for everyone from Rod Stewart and Sting to Patti LaBelle. They tailor the song to the artist and choose for themselves a non-nonsense wardrobe of black suits and sunglasses. Next year, they celebrate their partnership hitting its 50th anniversary.
“We’re kind of at a point of our careers where we don’t have anything to prove, but we still have a lot to say,” said Jam. “We just want to leave music in a better place, whether it’s through technology, whether it’s through the songs we make, whether it’s the people we influence that are making music now.”
Turn on the radio and you will likely immediately hear the influence of Jam and Lewis. Famed Swedish producer Max Martin channeled the duo while crafting hits for Britney Spears, the Backstreet Boys and NSYNC. Charlie Puth is a fan, and Bruno Mars gave the pair a shout-out on the Grammy stage for paving the way when he won album of the year for “24K Magic.”
One thing Jam and Lewis would like to see change is more recognition for the folks behind the tunes. Lewis worries that music today is often seen like a utility, a faceless service like water or electricity that's taken for granted. Jam misses the days when a record sleeve included tons of information about the music makers, like the name of the engineer and mixer.
“The reason we’re writers and producers now is because we could look at records back in the day and instantly see who produced it and who wrote it,” said Jam.
These days, it's hard to find credits on streaming sites and the duo think that's a problem. “What it does is it devalues the music because it communicates the idea that music just comes out of nowhere. It doesn’t come out of nowhere. There’s people in this,” Jam said.
After decades of making music for other people, Jam and Lewis last year made their debut album as artists, “Jam and Lewis, Volume One” featuring Babyface, Toni Braxton and Mariah Carey. They plan on more such albums and hope to perform live next year, too.
The goal then — as it always has been for these men who push the sonic envelope — is to build a musical bridge in this time of divisions.
“It's all about taking people — young, old, white, Black, straight, gay, Democrat or Republican, whatever — and for the time we’re on stage, bring all of them together,” said Jam. “If you could do that, that to me is the magic of music.”
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Mark Kennedy is at http://twitter.com/KennedyTwits | 2022-11-01T16:11:46+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/entertainment/article/The-Rock-Hall-of-Fame-opens-to-Jimmy-Jam-and-17549432.php |
GRAND RAPIDS, MI-- Northview controlled most of the game against Kenowa Hills as the Knights inched closer heading into the fourth. Northview would go on to defeat Kenowa Hills 66-49 on Tuesday afternoon.
The game was part of the gold bracket of the Holiday Basketball Tournament at Cornerstone University on Tuesday, Dec. 20.
Kenowa Hills’ senior Javion Otten led all scorers with 29 points. Northview’s scoring was led by Tyran Thomas, who finished with 19 points, Parker Swartz finished with 11 points for the Wildcats.
Action continues tomorrow with teams playing in the blue bracket. The gold bracket picks back up on Thursday, you can click here for the full tournament schedule.
Northview will take on the winner of West Catholic and Grandville at 8:15 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 22. Kenowa Hills will face the loser of West Catholic/Northview at 6:30 p.m.
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Grand Rapids girls basketball preseason rankings: Meet the top 10 | 2022-12-21T02:26:10+00:00 | mlive.com | https://www.mlive.com/highschoolsports/2022/12/northview-boys-basketball-defeats-kenowa-hills-66-49.html |
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Vatican: Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI 'absolutely lucid and conscious' and slept well, but his condition is still serious.
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- LPD searching for missing man | 2022-12-29T15:12:55+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/Alert-Vatican-Pope-Emeritus-Benedict-XVI-17682954.php |
LONDON – Google is challenging a record European Union antitrust fine that took aim at the Android operating system's role in restricting mobile competition and consumer choice.
The company said Thursday that it filed the appeal against the 4.125 billion euro ($4.3 billion) penalty “because there are areas that require legal clarification from the European Court of Justice,” the EU’s top court.
Google previously appealed to a lower tribunal, which had slightly lowered the original 4.34 billion-euro penalty in a decision largely siding with the European Commission. It's the largest-ever antitrust fine issued by the commission, the 27-nation bloc's top competition watchdog.
In its 2018 decision, the commission found that the dominance of Google’s Android resulted in less competition and consumer choice. The U.S. tech giant had argued that free and open-source Android resulted in cheaper phones and spurred competition with its chief rival, Apple. Android is the most popular mobile operating system, beating Apple’s iOS.
“Android has created more choice for everyone, not less, and supports thousands of successful businesses in Europe and around the world,” Google said Thursday.
The fine was one of three blockbuster antitrust penalties that the commission hit Google with between 2017 and 2019, highlighting the bloc's early role in cracking down on tech giants.
Google also is appealing its first EU antitrust penalty, a 2.4 billion-euro fine for unfairly favoring its Google Shopping comparison service, to the Court of Justice, which can only rule on points of law.
It's appealing the third penalty, a 1.49 billion-euro fine for abusing its dominance in online search ads, to the EU court's lower tribunal. | 2022-12-01T12:29:55+00:00 | clickorlando.com | https://www.clickorlando.com/business/2022/12/01/google-appeals-huge-android-antitrust-fine-to-eus-top-court/ |
A phrase known to many, patience is a virtue, has been difficult to hear for 26-year-old Molly Lawson.
“I was being annoying on the phone and I called all the time, and they were like, ‘It’s actually here! Just arrived last night’,” says Lawson.
The long-awaited gift didn’t arrive wrapped in a bow, it’s in Lawson’s home because of the community's help.
She was left wondering how she was going to afford a $5,000 standing frame to help alleviate pain from Frederick’s Ataxia, a rare form of Muscular Dystrophy.
Wheelchair bound; Lawson had to leave her job as a social worker.
But after speaking with ABC15 in May, Lawson says, “After it aired, and we woke up in the morning, we were just blown away it was literally overnight, and it surpassed my goal.”
Two months later, Lawson has her standing frame. Her online fundraiser skyrocketed past her goal, to $18,000, with an anonymous donor gifting Lawson with $5,000.
“It was just very amazing of her to do and show that kind of faith and support to someone she never even met,” Lawson says.
The extra money will go toward Lawson’s upcoming surgery. "My foot is pretty screwed up,” says Lawson. “I will need tendon lengthening in my calf, both sides, my ankles, and all five toes.”
With physical and occupational therapy, Lawson is hoping to recover and return to her job within six months. While she’s feeling the immediate relief from the standing frame, it’s also doing so much more.
“I haven’t really stood since I was 18 when I became wheelchair-bound,” says Lawson. “To be able to stand is pretty amazing.”
She says she has a newfound freedom because of ABC15 viewers.
“We’re grateful for you guys for the support and all the donations and well wishes and everything, so thank you guys,” says Lawson. | 2022-07-06T01:54:50+00:00 | abc15.com | https://www.abc15.com/news/uplifting-arizona/valley-woman-receives-generous-donations-for-rare-diagnosis-after-abc15-report |
(NEXSTAR) – With heat records already falling this summer, you may be running your ceiling fan nearly non-stop, but did you know you may not be as cool as you could be?
If you’ve ever taken a close look at the fan, you may have noticed a small switch located on the side of the fan base. The switch, which is found on nearly every fan, can change the direction the fan spins.
Using that switch according to the season will not only keep you more comfortable, but it can also help you save money.
In the summer, make sure that your fan is going in a counterclockwise direction, which forces cool air directly downward and creates a “wind chill effect,” according to Home Depot. In the winter, you can switch it up so the fan rotates clockwise at a low speed, circulating the warm air that gets trapped near the ceiling.
If you have ceiling fans as well as air conditioning, using the fan correctly will allow you to raise the thermostat by roughly 4 degrees Fahrenheit and still feel just as comfortable, according to the Department of Energy. In moderately hot weather, you may even be able to turn off the AC. The DOE reminds people to turn off fans in unoccupied rooms.
According to Energy Star, if you raise your thermostat by just two degrees and use your ceiling fan, you can lower the cost of air conditioning by up to 14%.
If you’re in the market for a ceiling fan, larger fan blades will move more air than smaller ones, but you have to make sure it’s an appropriate size for the space.
The Department of Energy recommends blades be 7 to 9 feet above the floor and 10 to 12 inches away from the ceiling. The blades should be no closer than 8 inches from the ceiling and 18 inches from any walls. | 2023-07-29T15:00:13+00:00 | ourquadcities.com | https://www.ourquadcities.com/news/national-news/overlooked-ceiling-fan-switch-could-make-you-cooler-this-summer/ |
By Abe Márquez
Marisol García Alcántara had run out of water hours earlier when she finally arrived at the white Kia SUV waiting in the desert outskirts of Nogales, Arizona, for her and the six other migrants in her group. It was a hot day in June 2021 and the group had just completed a grueling trip from Mexico to enter the U.S. undetected. García Alcántara’s left leg ached from jumping the border fence and the 37-year-old was relieved to settle into the SUV’s back seat. But within minutes, as the vehicle drove along a Nogales street, she heard sirens from a U.S. Border Patrol vehicle. García Alcántara remembers the SUV slowed down in response. No one expected what happened next. The agent fired his gun at the SUV. The bullet sailed in through the back seat and lodged into García Alcántara’s head just above her left eye.
“I felt something hit me in the head, and I lost my vision but was hearing everyone screaming for help,” García Alcántara told palabra in a recent interview from her home outside Mexico City.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection declined to respond to palabra’s inquiries about the shooting or the agency’s protocols for internal investigations or disciplinary action. Nogales police records say that a Border Patrol supervisor at the scene described the incident as a “fail to yield” and that “one shot was fired.” But even if the vehicle García Alcántara was in had failed to slow down in response to the agent’s siren, CBP’s use-of-force guidelines specify that deadly force is only justified to stop an imminent threat of serious injury or death and “would not include a moving vehicle merely fleeing from officers/agents.”
The same Nogales police records say a little-known unit within the Border Patrol, known as a Critical Incident Team, responded to the scene after the shooting, along with the FBI. But Critical Incident Teams, which for decades were used by Border Patrol to gather evidence on the scene after an agent used force, have been accused by immigrant rights advocates of covering up evidence of agent misconduct and interfering with law enforcement investigations. Furthermore, federal law designates other entities to criminally investigate agent misconduct, and it is unclear under what authority these Critical Incident Teams have to respond first and collect evidence.
In December, CBP told the Associated Press that its Office of Responsibility was still investigating the shooting and it would be reviewed by the agency’s National Use of Force Review Board. Yet García Alcántara says she has never been interviewed by anyone tasked with investigating the shooting or given an opportunity to share her account. She now lives with bullet fragments in her brain and regularly suffers from headaches.
It is still unknown whether the agent responsible for the Nogales shooting will face any consequences, but many such Border Patrol incidents happen with impunity. Border Patrol agents rarely are successfully prosecuted for using excessive force. In fact, in the agency’s 90-year history, advocates say not one agent has ever been convicted for killing someone while on duty. Although President Biden campaigned on bringing “compassion and sensitivity” to the asylum system, immigrant rights advocates say the administration has so far failed to deliver on this promise. In fact, evidence shows that certain kinds of Border Patrol misconduct have increased since Biden took office.
Earlier this month, however, the administration did take one notable step toward increasing accountability within the Border Patrol by announcing it will phase out the agency’s controversial Critical Incident Teams. Advocates have praised the move, while also calling it just a first step.
A legacy of impunity
García Alcántara’s case is one of 236 incidents of apparent Border Patrol misconduct since 2020 that the advocacy group Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) has documented in a new database, Border Oversight. The federal government’s lack of transparency over such incidents led WOLA Director for Defense Oversight Adam Isacon to compile the database.
“I hope that having everything in one place will force a conversation that we are not having enough about Border Patrol’s misconduct,” Isacson said. “The database can help create specific reforms to solve this problem.”
While García Alcántara survived her encounter with the Border Patrol, others have not. The American Civil Liberties Union of Texas has tracked 218 fatal encounters since 2010 with Border Patrol agents and officers at ports of entry that were reported by the CBP or media outlets. Of those fatal encounters, 75 stemmed from vehicle pursuits of migrants attempting to enter the U.S.
“We’ve seen an increase in the number of deaths due to vehicle pursuit in the last two years,” said ACLU of Texas staff attorney Shaw Drake.
In 2021, 23 people were killed in Border Patrol vehicle pursuits of migrants, including high-speed chases, up from two in 2019, according to ACLU data. Also in 2021, the same data set shows 55 people died as a result of Border Patrol agents using lethal force with a firearm. One victim was Cuban asylum seeker Diosmani Laurencio, who was killed by a Border Patrol agent in February 2021 after crossing the Rio Grande in Hidalgo, Texas.
“They shot him more than five times in the chest from close range,” his father Raúl Laurencio told palabra. The incident is currently being investigated by the DHS Office of Inspector General, the CBP Office of Professional Responsibility and the FBI.
When García Alcántara decided to immigrate to the United States to look for work and reunite with her mother, she never imagined the possibility of getting shot by a U.S. law enforcement agent while she was riding unarmed in a vehicle. “The system is broken,” she said. “We are not criminals.”
After the shooting, García Alcántara was taken by helicopter to a hospital in Tucson. Three days later, she was transferred to an immigration detention facility in Florence, Arizona, where she was held for a few weeks. In that time, she said no U.S. government officials ever contacted her to get a statement from her about what had happened in the lead up to the moment she was shot. She was deported back to Mexico a month after the shooting.
“No one investigated,” she said. “I returned to Mexico without making a statement.”
A long fight for accountability
As recently as last November, CBP defended Border Patrol’s Critical Incident Teams that responded to García Alcántara’s shooting. “These teams consist of highly trained personnel available to respond around the clock to collect and process evidence related to CBP enforcement activities as well as critical incidents,” reads a statement the agency gave to Phoenix TV station, ABC 15 Arizona. “In the case of serious incidents involving CBP personnel, members of these teams are sometimes called upon to assist investigators from CBP OPR and other local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies.”
The decision to phase out the Critical Incident Teams came in early May, in the form of a memo from CBP Commissioner Chris Magnus, Biden’s pick to lead the agency. Starting in October, only the CBP Office of Professional Responsibility – without assistance from Critical Incident Teams – will respond to and process the scenes of critical incidents involving border enforcement personnel, such as those that result in use of force, death, or serious injury. “To ensure our Agency achieves the highest levels of accountability, OPR will be the CBP entity responsible for responding to critical incidents and ensuring all reviews and investigations are conducted by personnel with appropriate expertise, training, and oversight,” reads Magnus’ memo. The agency will also beef up the number of people working on investigations for OPR.
These changes are considered a victory for immigrant rights advocates and families of victims of Border Patrol misconduct who had long pushed for an end to the Critical Incident Teams and had prodded Congress to take action.
“The records generated by the Critical Incident Teams are inherently unreliable, these are investigative teams whose mandates were to protect their own and minimize their exposure to civil liability,” said ACLU of New Mexico staff attorney Rebecca Sheff.
In response to concerns raised by advocates, the House committees on Oversight and Reform and Homeland Security sent a letter last January alerting CBP that they were investigating the teams, specifically whether they had “interfered with criminal, civil, or administrative investigations of the use of force by Border Patrol agents to protect these agents from being held accountable for potentially serious misconduct.” The same day, a group of Democratic lawmakers had requested that the U.S. Government Accountability Office conduct a review of CBP’s use of Critical Incident Teams.
Since Magnus was sworn-in last December to lead CBP , immigrant rights advocates had hoped he would start enacting some of the reforms Biden had campaigned on. As Tucson Police Chief, Magnus was known for being an outspoken critic of Trump’s immigration policies and said that Tucson’s leaders “take pride in being welcoming to immigrants.”
Sheff called the new CBP policy a “welcome change” in direction for the Biden administration on Border Patrol accountability and shows “the agency is, at least, somewhat responsive to border communities, and to the families affected by this.”
“I’m delighted they did it,” said WOLA’s Isacson. “I think this was Chris Magnus’ first real test on doing something on accountability that changes the way CBP operated for 35 years.” At the same time, Isacson noted, “there is a long way to go for accountability, this is a baby step.”
Isacson said another step he would like to see would be more funding and oversight over the appropriate entities tasked with conducting Border Patrol misconduct investigations, including more monies for the DHS Office of Inspector General, the CBP Office of Public Responsibility, and the DHS Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties.
Immigrant rights advocates say it is also necessary to have independent investigators re-examine old cases that may have been tainted by the Critical Incident Teams and carry out new investigations to hold Border Patrol agents accountable for any misconduct.
“The elimination of cover-up teams — which engaged in obstruction of justice and acted only in the interest of agents, not the public — is an important first step towards addressing the longstanding problem of Border Patrol impunity,” Vicki B. Gaubeca, director of the Southern Border Communities Coalition said in a press release. “Not a single on-duty agent has been held accountable for taking the lives of hundreds since 2010. Independent investigators should now consider reopening these cases to ensure that families harmed find closure and justice.”
Living through pain
Late last year, García Alcántara filed a claim against the Border Patrol’s Nogales station, a first step in filing a federal lawsuit. The claim says the bullet wound resulted in permanent life-long consequences, including injuries such as “intracranial hemorrhage, orbital fracture, skull fracture, with bullet and broken bone fragments entering her left frontal lobe.” Doctors have also told García Alcántara that she is at risk of suffering from facial paralysis or becoming epileptic. “I don’t know if I will wake up blind or with no memory one day, which makes me sad,” she said.
In the meantime, she is still waiting to learn whether the Border Patrol agent who shot her received any discipline.
“I am asking for justice, so they don’t keep doing this,” said García Alcántara. “I am also asking for a public apology from the person who did this. I’d like to know why he did this to me since I didn’t do anything to him.”
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Abraham Márquez is a freelance writer from Inglewood, California, focusing on immigration and politics. | 2022-05-28T14:16:19+00:00 | cleveland.com | https://www.cleveland.com/palabra/2022/05/can-border-patrols-pattern-of-mistreating-migrants-without-recourse-be-reversed.html |
WASHINGTON — Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has warned airlines that his department could draft new rules around passenger rights if the carriers don’t give more help to travelers trapped by flight cancellations and delays.
Buttigieg is asking airline CEOs to, at a minimum, provide lodging for passengers stranded overnight at an airport and give out meal vouchers for delays of three hours or longer when the disruption is caused by something in the airline’s control.
The Transportation Department on Friday released a copy of the letters, which it said were sent to CEOs of the major U.S. airlines, their regional affiliates, and budget carriers.
A spokeswoman for Airlines for America, a trade group whose members include American, United, Delta and Southwest, said airlines “strive to provide the highest level of customer service.” She said the airlines are committed to overcoming challenges including a tight labor market.
Buttigieg’s agency recently proposed rules around refunds for passengers whose flights are canceled or rescheduled. He told the CEOs the department is considering additional rules “that would further expand the rights of airline passengers who experience disruptions.”
Buttigieg has been sparring with the airlines since late spring over high numbers of canceled and delayed flights. In his latest salvo, he told airline CEOs he appreciates that airlines have stepped up hiring and trimmed schedules to better match the number of flights they can handle.
“Still, the level of disruption Americans have experienced this summer is unacceptable,” he wrote.
So far this year, airlines have canceled about 146,000 flights, or 2.6%, and nearly 1.3 million flights have been delayed, according to tracking service FlightAware. The rate of cancellations is up about one-third from the same period in 2019, before the pandemic, and the rate of delays is up nearly one-fourth.
Federal officials have blamed many of the disruptions on understaffing at airlines, which encouraged employees to quit after the pandemic started. The airlines have countered by blaming staffing problems at the Federal Aviation Administration, which hires air traffic controllers. | 2022-08-20T04:44:13+00:00 | niagara-gazette.com | https://www.niagara-gazette.com/news/buttigieg-warns-airlines-to-help-travelers-or-face-new-rules/article_6755f0d0-1ff5-11ed-89d8-eb723e9badd2.html |
The stars turned out in Washington, D.C. Sunday night for the 45th annual Kennedy Center Honors. Gladys Knight, Amy Grant, George Clooney, Tania León and U2 were celebrated for their contributions to American culture.
Julia Roberts, Matt Damon, Don Cheadle, Eddie Vedder, Brandi Carlile and a host of others offered praise for the artists at the event. President Biden, first lady Jill Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and second gentleman Douglass Emhoff were among those attending the gala.
Nancy Pelosi and her husband Paul, who was attacked at their home a month ago, received a standing ovation.
The honorees received medallions at a State Dept. dinner Saturday night, with Garth Brooks hosting and Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken serving as honorary chair.
"Ultimately, these artists remind us of our common humanity, that no matter who we are or where we're from, we can and we are all moved by the arts," Blinken said.
On the red carpet, actor George Clooney — a big Gladys Knight fan — recalled to NPR a moment from the dinner where the honorees received their medallions. "Gladys got up and sang and, you know, just a cappella started to sing. ... The only thing that was terrible was that I had to follow. So there's 300 people in the room going, this is transcendent — and I'm like 'God, this is horrible! I have follow Gladys Knight!"
Seven time Grammy winner Gladys Knight grew up in Georgia and started singing gospel as a little girl. She and her brother Bubba, sister Brenda and two cousins formed the original Pips. The classic Gladys Knight & The Pips was her brother Bubba and two cousins.
Clooney might not have Gladys Knight's musical chops but there was plenty of love for him as an actor, activist, and friend on Sunday. Don Cheadle praised his philanthropy. Julia Roberts called him a "renaissance man," and Matt Damon ribbed him.
"I know a lot of people think you have movie star looks, but let's be honest: It takes a village to style a star into being People magazine's Sexiest Man Alive. I've been there. Those experts can transform anyone," Damon joked.
Honoree Tania León, a conductor and composer, was one of some 300,000 refugees who left Cuba on the so-called "Freedom Flights" in 1967. She co-founded the Dance Theatre of Harlem two years later. Dancers from the company and pianist Chloe Flower performed one of Tania León's compositions. In 2021, León won the Pulitzer Prize in Music for her work on Stride, commissioned by the New York Philharmonic.
At the State Dept. dinner Leon talked about calling up her ancestors when she creates.
"If I'm going to conduct a concert I say, 'hey, you better come with me because this is difficult.' If I'm going to write a piece, I call on my ancestors and say, 'you better help me because the deadline is in two weeks," she said.
Six-time Grammy winner Amy Grant is the first Christian pop singer to receive a Kennedy Center Honor. CeCe and BeBe Winans, along with the Howard Gospel Choir, performed a medley of Grant's songs.
And singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile told NPR that one of the things she admires about Grant is how inclusive she is: "The way that she's come out in support of LGBTQIA people, specifically me, has — it can't be easy for her. You know, she has had to have taken a bit of heat from her evangelical fans and followers. And I have so much respect for her constantly pushing the boundaries of other people's capacity to love."
Many of the Kennedy Center honorees use their art and their platform to advocate for social justice. And that is very much the case with the Irish band U2, including members Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton, and Larry Mullen Jr. The band has won 22 Grammys and Amnesty International's Ambassador of Conscience award.
"Bono has often said that being famous is nonsense, celebrity is nonsense," said actor Sean Penn. "But it is currency. And the band has spent its currency to show the usefulness of art in the world."
The Kennedy Center Honors airs on CBS, and streams on Paramount+, on Dec. 28.
The audio and web editions of this story were edited by Meghan Collins Sullivan. Ajani Daniel assisted with production.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2022-12-05T17:35:05+00:00 | wlrn.org | https://www.wlrn.org/culture/2022-12-05/u2-gladys-knight-george-clooney-among-2022-kennedy-center-honorees |
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