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HONOLULU — Ken Potts, one of the last two remaining survivors of the USS Arizona battleship, which sank during the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, has died. He was 102.
Howard Kenton Potts died Friday at the home in Provo, Utah, that he shared with his wife of 66 years, according to Randy Stratton, whose late father, Donald Stratton, was Potts' Arizona shipmate and close friend.
Stratton said Potts “had all his marbles” but lately was having a hard time getting out of bed. When Stratton spoke to Potts on his birthday, April 15, he was happy to have made it to 102.
“But he knew that his body was kind of shutting down on him, and he was just hoping that he could get better but (it) turned out not,” Stratton said.
Potts was born and raised in Honey Bend, Illinois, and enlisted in the Navy in 1939.
He was working as a crane operator shuttling supplies to the Arizona the morning of Dec. 7, 1941, when the Pearl Harbor attack happened, according to a 2021 article by the Utah National Guard.
In a 2020 oral history interview with the American Veterans Center, Potts said a loudspeaker ordered sailors back to their ships so he got on a boat.
“When I got back to Pearl Harbor, the whole harbor was afire,” He said in the interview. “The oil had leaked out and caught on fire and was burning.”
Dozens of ships either sank, capsized or were damaged in the bombing of the Hawaii naval base, which catapulted the U.S. into World War II.
Sailors were tossed or forced to jump into the oily muck below, and Potts and his fellow sailors pulled some to safety in their boat.
The Arizona sank just nine minutes after being bombed, and its 1,177 dead account for nearly half the servicemen killed in the attack. Today the battleship still sits where it sank eight decades ago, with more than 900 dead entombed inside.
Potts recalled decades later that some people were still giving orders in the midst of the attack but there was also a lot of chaos. He carried his memories of the attack over the course of his long life.
“Even after I got out of the Navy, out in the open, and heard a siren, I’d shake,” he said.
Stratton noted that the only remaining survivor from the Arizona is now Lou Conter, who is 101 and living in California.
“This is history. It’s going away,” Stratton said, adding: "And once (Conter is) gone, who tells all their stories?”
Several dozen Arizona survivors have had their ashes interred on the sunken battleship so they could join their shipmates, but Potts didn't want that, according to Stratton.
“He said he got off once, he’s not going to go back on board again,” he said.
Stratton said many Arizona survivors shared a similar dry sense of humor. That included his own father, who was severely burned in the attack and also did not want to return to the ship as ashes in an urn.
“'I’ve been cremated once. I’m not going to be cremated twice,'” Donald Stratton joked, according to the younger Stratton, before his death in 2020 at age 97.
“They had that all throughout their lives. They had the sense of humor, and they knew sooner or later they would pass,” Randy Stratton said. “Our job now is to keep their memories alive.”
Potts is survived by his wife, Doris. Information on other survivors was not immediately available. | 2023-04-23T13:52:35+00:00 | ktvb.com | https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/nation-world/ken-potts-one-of-last-2-uss-arizona-survivors-dies-at-102-pearl-harbor/507-40337ace-df00-4c90-a76e-07762b47e95e |
M&M'S puts the "fun" in funding initiatives from 20 trailblazing women to create a positive impact on the world.
NEWARK, N.J., March 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, M&M'S®, proudly part of Mars, announced the 20 winners of its "Flipping the Status Quo" program. These women were nominated by friends, family and colleagues for positively impacting the community around them and paving new paths for those who follow, redefining what happiness and success look like for women everywhere. M&M'S is thrilled to award each of these game-changing women with a $10,000 grant to further fund their missions.
Doubling down on its purpose to create a world where everyone feels they belong, M&M'S is offering up its platforms this International Women's Day to spotlight the winners across M&M'S digital and social platforms, as well as several retail stores, including the Las Vegas, Disney Springs, Mall of America, and Times Square locations. The brand identified winners in partnership with the M&M'S FUNd Advisory Council, a group of external partners who are experts in the space of belonging.
The 20 women who are flipping the status quo include:
- Ahna Miller: Flipping the Status Quo in disability inclusion.
- Angie Wallace: Flipping the Status Quo in mental health stigmas.
- Cat Smith + Kiah Gibian: Flipping the Status Quo in the culinary world.
- Consuela Poland: Flipping the Status Quo in occupational gender stereotypes.
- Courtney Pettway: Flipping the Status Quo in financial education.
- Emily White: Flipping the Status Quo in voter turnout.
- Gretchen Evans: Flipping the Status Quo in overcoming disabilities.
- Janet Huger-Johnson: Flipping the Status Quo in excellence in education.
- Kathy Meyer: Flipping the Status Quo in period poverty.
- Kimberly Lozzi: Flipping the Status Quo in dressing for success.
- Leah Meyerhoff: Flipping the Status Quo in equality in filmmaking.
- Liz Maday: Flipping the Status Quo in girls' sports.
- Lynne Hughes: Flipping the Status Quo in grief support.
- Magybet Mendez: Flipping the Status Quo in immigration education.
- Marissa Soria: Flipping the Status Quo in mental health care.
- Melanie Adams: Flipping the Status Quo in fashion in male-dominated industries.
- Neha Shukla: Flipping the Status Quo in innovation and technology.
- Tiffany Yu: Flipping the Status Quo in the disabled community.
- Veronika Scott: Flipping the Status Quo in social injustice.
"The M&M'S brand is committed to using the power of fun to create a world where everyone feels they belong," said Gabrielle Wesley, Chief Marketing Officer, Mars Wrigley North America. "The winners of the M&M'S Flipping the Status Quo program are breaking barriers and positively impacting their communities across the U.S., creating a space for more incredible women to follow in their footsteps. Their immense efforts to flip the status quo in areas such as well-being, equality, education, and inclusion are an inspiring example of how harnessing the power of fun through meaningful passions and initiatives, can help to create a world where everyone feels they belong."
Earlier this year, M&M'S released its first-ever packs spotlighting the dynamic female M&M'S characters, in celebrations of women everywhere who are flipping the status quo. The limited-edition product features Purple, Brown and Green on inspirational packaging, and is the first united representation of the female trio spokescandies.
As part of the Flipping the Status Quo campaign, M&M'S is providing nearly $1 million in support for organizations that are committed to uplifting and empowering women. $1 from every limited-edition pack sold (totaling up to $500k) will go towards supporting She Is The Music and We Are Moving the Needle. Additional donations (totaling up to $400k) outside of the limited-edition packs will be made to Female Founder Collective, Geena Davis Institute On Gender and Media and the 20 nominated women who are flipping the status quo, as part of the overall program.
More information on the 20 inspiring winners and a full list of their initiatives and organizations can be found on mms.com/flipthestatusquo, or via M&M'S social platforms on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and TikTok.
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HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. (AP) — Police: Suspect in mass shooting at July 4 parade fled to Madison, Wisconsin, and contemplated shooting there.
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Zelenskyy wants Putin trial; Russia accuses US on drones
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Ukraine and Russia pressed their wartime rhetoric Thursday, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy expressing confidence that Vladimir Putin would be convicted of war crimes, and the Kremlin alleging that the U.S. was behind what it called an assassination attempt against the Russian president.
The countries’ leaders have personally attacked each other multiple times during the war that Russia started by invading Ukraine in February 2022. The latest flare-up came Wednesday, with Russia’s claim that Ukraine had attacked the Kremlin in Moscow with drones meant to assassinate Putin.
Zelenskyy denied that Ukrainian forces were responsible for the purported drone attack. The Kremlin promised unspecified retaliation for what it termed a “terrorist” act, and pro-Kremlin figures called for the assassinations of senior Ukraine leaders.
Uncertainty still surrounds exactly what happened in the purported attack.
Putin’s spokesman on Thursday accused the United States of involvement. To generate domestic support for the war, Moscow has often tried to blame Washington for trying to destroy Russia through its help for Ukraine.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters during a daily conference call that the Kremlin was “well aware that the decision on such actions and terrorist attacks is not made in Kyiv, but in Washington.”
“And then Kyiv does what it’s told to do,” Peskov said, without offering evidence for his claim.
John Kirby, a spokesman for the U.S. National Security Council at the White House, described the claim as “ludicrous.” Zelenskyy, in the Netherlands, said he was “not interested” in the Kremlin’s opinion.
U.S intelligence officials are still trying to determine who was behind the drone incident and are exploring various possibilities, including a false flag operation by Russia or that a fringe group with sympathies for Ukraine could have been involved, according to a U.S. official.
But the official, who spoke Thursday on the condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive matter, said intelligence officials don’t yet have any definitive answers. The official added that the Biden administration “certainly would not support the strike against Mr. Putin.”
Zelenskyy’s top adviser, Mykhailo Podolyak, claimed Thursday that Russia had “staged” the alleged drone attack. He cited the delay in Russian state media reporting it and “simultaneous video from different angles” that appeared to show the aftermath of the alleged 2:30 a.m. attack.
The Washington-based Institute for the Study of War also saw evidence of staging.
“Russia likely staged this attack in an attempt to bring the war home to a Russian domestic audience and set conditions for a wider societal mobilization,” the think tank said.
Given recent Russian moves to bolster security, it’s “extremely unlikely that two drones could have penetrated multiple layers of air defense and detonated or been shot down just over the heart of the Kremlin in a way that provided spectacular imagery caught nicely on camera,” the ISW stated.
In The Hague, where the International Criminal Court is based, Zelenskyy urged the global community to hold Putin accountable and told the war crimes court’s judges that Russia’s leader “deserves to be sentenced for (his) criminal actions right here in the capital of the international law.”
In March, the ICC issued an arrest warrant for Putin for war crimes, accusing him of personal responsibility for the abductions of children from Ukraine. It was the first time the global court circulated a warrant for a leader of one of the five permanent U.N. Security Council members.
Zelenskyy’s visit to the Netherlands came a day after he went to Finland, which doubled the size of NATO’s border with Russia when it joined the military alliance last month, largely out of its concerns about Moscow’s long-term ambitions.
The Ukrainian president also used his trip to press the prime ministers of Belgium and the Netherlands to send advanced warplanes so his country can achieve “justice on the battlefield.” Zelenskyy has successfully assembled significant Western military and political support for Ukraine’s defense since the war began.
Zelenskyy traveled in a Dutch-supplied plane and an armored car, with security kept tight at his appearances. Next week, he is expected to go to Berlin, the capital of European Union economic powerhouse Germany, in the latest display of the Western might marshaled against Putin.
Zelenskyy’s trips have paid dividends. After traveling to Washington last December and then London, Paris and Brussels in February, Ukraine received heavy artillery and tanks.
But the chances of Putin standing trial in The Hague are remote. The court, which puts individuals on trial for genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and aggression, doesn’t have a police force to execute its warrants. The Russian leader is unlikely to travel to any of the ICC’s 123 member nations, which are under obligation to arrest him, if they can.
On the battlefield, Ukraine’s military said that three Russian drones that hit the southern city of Odesa early Thursday had “for Moscow” and “for the Kremlin” written on them, seemingly implying they were sent in retaliation for the reported strike on the Kremlin.
Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, was the target of an air attack Thursday morning, for the third time in four days, but defense systems intercepted all drones and missiles. On Thursday night, air raid sirens sounded again. After the all-clear was given, Ukraine’s military said it had taken down one of its own drones that had “lost control” over the capital, but at least one other drone was reportedly shot down in another area of the city and it was not clear whether it was Russian or also Ukrainian.
People sheltered in underground tunnels beneath Kyiv’s Maidan Square as air raid sirens wailed. Two defensive missiles streaked across the evening sky, and a loud explosion was heard. No casualties were immediately reported.
In Russia, drones hit two oil facilities in southern regions of the country near Ukraine in what appeared to be a series of attacks on fuel depots behind enemy lines, Russian media reported Thursday.
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The Netherlands has been a strong supporter of the Ukrainian war effort. Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s government has promised 14 modern Leopard 2 tanks it is buying together with Denmark. They are expected to be delivered next year.
The Netherlands also joined forces with Germany and Denmark to buy at least 100 older Leopard 1 tanks for Ukraine.
In addition, the Dutch government sent two Patriot air defense missile systems, promised two naval minehunter ships and sent military forensic experts to Ukraine to assist with war crime investigations.
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York Energy Storage LLC has applied with a federal agency to run a feasibility study for a dam and power turbine on the Susquehanna River in Chanceford Township, York County.
The project is not the first time that a dam has been proposed in the area. Similar projects were proposed in both 1990 and 2011 to large local pushback and both proposals were scrapped.
The company, which is owned by Brookfield Energy Group in Toronto, applied on Feb. 6 to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for approval to run a four-year feasibility study for a $2.1 billion dam and power turbine that would be adjacent to Lake Clarke, which is formed by the Safe Harbor Dam on the Susquehanna River.
“It's very concerning, and it is sort of a bit of a deja vu,” said Mark Platts, president of the Susquehanna National Heritage Area. The Susquehanna National Heritage Area is a non-profit that works to “enhance quality of life and economic vitality by promoting the preservation, conservation, and interpretation of the river’s cultural and natural heritage,” according to its website.
York Energy Storage LLC is being led by engineering partners William McMahon and Jan Sockel.
“We are as green as there is in the storage of electricity,” McMahon said.
McMahon also pointed out that the dam is green renewable energy that is stable and matches where trends in the sourcing of energy are going to continue as compared to other sources that cause emissions into the air.
The proposal
Power is generated by dams when water is released from a stored source in a manmade lake or reservoir behind the dam. The water then runs through the dam to turbines connected to a generator, which produces electricity. and the water is returned to the river downstream.
The proposed new construction would require 1,000 acres of land in York County. The proposal states that the new plant would produce up to 8,560 megawatt-hours in a 10-hour cycle.
The proposed project would displace about 30 properties, McMahon said.
“Those people aren't going to like it and I can't blame them,” McMahon said. “I wish there was a way to avoid that but there are very few locations where this kind of project is working well.”
McMahon said that the company would help those displaced and while realizing that they will not like it the project will benefit billions in his opinion of people having reliable electricity and eliminating blackouts and brownouts.
For the project there would be two surface water reservoirs required. Lake Clarke would be the lower reservoir, the proposal states. The second, new reservoir would require 600 acres of surface area to be flooded and require a 1.9-mile-long, 225-foot-high dam west of the river and two smaller dikes.
The dam will operate by taking water from the lower reservoir and pumping it up to the upper reservoir which then can be used to create power by traveling through turbines, McMahon explained. If the upper reservoir is completely empty it would take 12 hours at about 85o megawatts to fill up and the water could then run back down and generate electricity at full power for 10 hours making it 80% efficient.
The dam would be able to operate at variable speeds according to McMahon depending on the need of the power grid. They are hoping that it will eventually be run by PJM so it can be adjusted to pump up or down in real time to match the current power needs.
The project would take several years to complete. All turbine generators for the project would be new and are expected to last for 50 years, according to the proposal, which also states the dam is not to consume any water during the process or affect the quality of the water after it is pumped. However, it does have the potential of affecting fish populations in the lower reservoir of Lake Clarke, which the company states it will study with the intent of minimizing conflicts.
Revisiting old plans
Similar projects have been proposed in the past but were dropped.
In November 2013, a Massachusetts energy company withdrew its federal application to build a $1 billion hydroelectric reservoir at a Girl Scout camp in York County, according to LNP | LancasterOnline archives. The 1,660-acre project would have created a 600-acre reservoir with a 2-mile-long earthen dam, flooding part of the Camp Echo Trails Girl Scout Camp in York County which is currently closed.
A 1990 proposal would have flooded 300 acres of the Girl Scout camp and displaced 25 homes. Lancaster County commissioners and Manor Township supervisors jointly hired an attorney in 1997 to oppose the project. That project was dropped in 2000.
McMahon said that he was a part of the 1990 proposal. According to McMahon the project then was not possible due to deregulation at the time and the price of electricity in the daytime and at night. McMahon said the company was unable to continue as they would have wound up losing its potential to cover their expenses.
The York Energy Storage LLC references the 1990 attempt to build a dam, stating that “it should be noted that the proposed project was previously studied under a FERC Preliminary Permit (Project No. 10868-000) filed on January 17, 1990, by MidAtlantic Energy Engineers, Ltd under the name Cuff’s Run Pumped Storage. Many of the studies performed at that time are available and will be considered for applicability and need for updating.”
Additionally, the proposal goes on to say that consultants call the region “the best pumped storage site in the Mid-Atlantic region” and that the timing of the project is consistent with the expected growth of renewable energy projects.
Conservationists concerns and impact to community
The proposed project is creating a sense of deja vu for local conservationists.
“Along with our partners, we are gathering information about the proposed project and its possible impacts on the Susquehanna Riverlands, a conservation landscape that the Conservancy and PA DCNR (Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources) have invested heavily in to protect for the benefit of our community and nature,” Phil Wenger, president and CEO of Lancaster Conservancy, said in an email Friday, adding that the conservatory will study the issue further. Lancaster Conservancy is a nonprofit that protects and restores natural lands for future generations according to the organization's website. Included on lands that the organization owns, there are preserves in Lancaster County as well as along the Susquehanna River in York County.
“Enough is enough,” said Platts, of the Susquehanna National Heritage Site. “You know, a lot has changed in the 50 years or so since the last power plant was built.”
The area is now used for outdoor recreation including hiking and boating, Platts pointed out. That focus on outdoor recreation in the area has been an economic generator from heritage and outdoor tourism, he said. It is an effort that Platts said state and local governments as well as nonprofits have invested time and money into to preserve the land.
Outdoor recreation contributes about $12 billion to the Pennsylvania economy and supports aout 150,000 jobs, according to the most recent data available from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, or about 1.5 percent of the state’s total economic productivity.
Platts also expressed concern that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, based in Washington, D.C., is looking at big national issues and will not be as engaged in what happens in the local communities or those communities’ priorities.
The next step for the Susquehanna National Heritage Area, Platts said, is for discussion among the board of directors and within the organization.
A representative with the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and National Resources declined to comment at this time.
“We are completely aware that our 1000 acres is in an important area,” McMahon said. “We are doing our work committed to enhancing it to the maximum extent to the benefit of the public.”
McMahon said that the company is dedicated to keeping and producing trails and recreation in the space and “better opportunities for the public than exist right now.”
Ultimately, McMahon said that the project when finished would look like a lake with forests around it.
Manor Township Manager, Ryan Strohecker, when reached for comment said he wasn't aware of the latest proposal.
The York Energy Storage plan includes at least $8 million for proposed studies including animal populations, endangered species, nests, fish populations, and recreation opportunities.
The project would create 300 jobs during construction and 25 permanent jobs, the proposal stated. Additionally, the proposal says that the dam would create significant property and business taxes for the government and utilize local businesses.
The proposal also stated that the dam would create a green footprint “with no emissions, noise, visual impact, traffic concerns, crime or emergencies.”
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Principal, forced to resign after showing David statue photo, visits Florence masterpiece
ROME - A former Florida school principal who was forced to resign after students were shown an image of Michelangelo’s iconic statue of a nude David viewed the masterpiece in person on Friday in Florence.
Cecilie Hollberg, who directs the Accademia Gallery in Florence, where the David is the star attraction, said that Hope Carrasquilla, her husband and two children, came straight to the museum right after they arrived in the city.
Carrasquilla stepped down as principal of Tallahassee Classical school in the Florida city last month after one parent claimed the towering sculpture was pornographic. Other parents complained they weren't notified in advance that their children would be shown the nude figure during a lesson featuring the Renaissance.
Hosting Carrasquilla was an "immense pleasure," the gallery director said.
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"I am happy to be able to welcome her and introduce her to the beauties of our museum, besides showing her the David, a sculpture that, I repeat as I have said, has nothing to do with pornography,'' Hollberg said in a written statement. "It's a masterpiece, it represents a religious symbol of purity and innocence, the victory of good over evil."
Hollberg added that the work's nudity "is a clear expression of the Renaissance, which puts man at the center of attention."
Michelangelo's marble sculpture depicts the Biblical David, naked, with a sling over his shoulder and a rock in his hand, ready for battle with Goliath.
A call to Carrasquilla's cell phone went unanswered.
FILE - Restoration work on Michelangelo's masterpiece David is completed May 24, 2004, at the Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence, Italy. (Franco Origlia/Getty Images)
Hollberg noted that currently more than 50% of the gallery visitors come from the United States.
"I am sure that Mrs. Carrasquilla will find here, in Florence, the welcome and the solidarity that she deserves,'' the director added.
The Florida school is attended by some 400 students from kindergarten through 12th grade. | 2023-04-30T18:20:17+00:00 | fox6now.com | https://www.fox6now.com/news/florida-principal-forced-out-after-showing-david-statue-photo-visits-masterpiece-in-person |
WFO PENDLETON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, August 9, 2022
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...HEAT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM NOON MONDAY TO 11 PM PDT
TUESDAY...
* WHAT...Temperatures up to 106 expected.
* WHERE...Portions of central, south central and southeast
Washington and central, north central and northeast Oregon.
* WHEN...From noon Monday to 11 PM PDT Tuesday.
* IMPACTS...Hot temperatures may cause heat illnesses to occur.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Drink plenty of fluids, stay in an air-conditioned room, stay out
of the sun, and check up on relatives and neighbors. Young
children and pets should never be left unattended in vehicles
under any circumstances.
Take extra precautions if you work or spend time outside. When
possible reschedule strenuous activities to early morning or
evening. Know the signs and symptoms of heat exhaustion and heat
stroke. Wear lightweight and loose fitting clothing when
possible. To reduce risk during outdoor work, the Occupational
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rest breaks in shaded or air conditioned environments. Anyone
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Hurricane Ian flood damage payouts near $800M
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - The National Flood Insurance Program has paid more than $793 million to people who sustained damage in Hurricane Ian, as the total continues to steadily increase, the Federal Emergency Management Agency said Monday.
The program has received about 44,700 flood claims from the Category 4 hurricane, which made landfall Sept. 28 in Southwest Florida and caused damage across the state.
Last week, the program said it had paid out about $706 million. Residents who have mortgages on properties in designated flood zones are required to have flood insurance, which is mostly purchased through the federal program. But most Floridians don’t have flood insurance, exacerbating problems from the powerful Ian.
Residential property insurance policies cover wind damage, but not flood damage.
Citizens’ policy count continues climbing
The state-backed Citizens Property Insurance Corp. added more than 3,500 policies last week, as homeowners continue to turn to it for coverage.
Citizens had 1,132,701 policies as of Friday, up from 1,129,154 policies a week earlier and 1,121,114 policies two weeks earlier. Customers have poured into Citizens during the past two years as private insurers have dropped policies and raised rates because of financial losses.
As a comparison, Citizens, which was created as an insurer of last resort, had 532,788 policies on Nov. 30, 2020, and 741,420 policies on Nov. 30, 2021. | 2022-11-29T03:49:15+00:00 | fox35orlando.com | https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/hurricane-ian-flood-damage-payouts-near-800m |
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Washington Lottery's "Hit 5" game were:
09-13-16-19-21
(nine, thirteen, sixteen, nineteen, twenty-one)
Estimated jackpot: $455,000
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Washington Lottery's "Hit 5" game were:
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MONTREAL, May 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Marianna Naturals Corp. is pleased to announce that its very owner co-founder and Chairwoman of the Board, Heather Marianna has been invited as a featured guest star at the official book launch of the Wealth Edition of Women Gone Wild.
Rhonda Swan a world-renowned author and inspiration to women everywhere, invited Heather to the June 8th, 2022, event as she has continued to demonstrate her outstanding entrepreneurial skills and her devotion to connecting with and helping women globally.
The book launch will be held in Henderson, Nevada at the Green Valley Ranch Hotel, June 8th, 2022, from 3PM to 6PM, at 2300 Paseo Verde Parkway, Henderson, NV, 89052.
The WEALTH Edition is about redefining wealth in every area of the lives of women and showing the power of connection & collaboration by sharing their wild stories and support for each other. WGW is a safe space for women to share their WILD stories and what they went through to get to where they are today. There are stories of triumph, failure, and inspiration.
Official sponsors and partnerships of the event include Marianna Naturals & Beauty Kitchen, Ice Shaker, Top Talent Publishing, LA Tribune, Revenge MD, Tronus Footwear, Unstoppable Branding Agency, Clark Agency, Rhonda Swan Show, USA Today and Forbes Monaco.
Celebrity attendance includes Shark Tank Shark, Kevin Harrington, businesswoman and author Elena Cardone, wife of Billionaire Grant Cardone, founder of the 10X Empire, J2X Olympic Gold Medalist Jamie Anderson, Danelle Delgato the Millionaire Maker, The Lohans, Danette May, Santia Deck, Diana Wentworth, New York Times Best Seller and co-author of Chicken Soup for The Soul, Patti Negri Star of Ghost Adventures and many more.
"Women Gone Wild is an invitation for women everywhere to rise. It is an inspiring rally cry to find the unstoppable, inextinguishable, powerful force that exists within all of us and to invite that part of us to step forward and lead"
-Heather Marianna, Founder of Beauty Kitchen, and Co-Founder & Chairwoman of Marianna Naturals
The Women Gone Wild book series was birthed during an event in Bali, Indonesia in January 2019.The founder of the book series, Rhonda Swan and 8 of her female clients were discussing how scarce it is to see women collaborating in business these days, and how badly this needed to change. started to tell each other their story one by one and discovered the one true connection for women is the very stories that got them to where they are today. Women Gone Wild is a transmission that calls the innate feminine wisdom to rise. It is about healing the insecurities, the fears, and the inherited patterns that stop women trusting their innate wisdom (intuition) that effortlessly flows through them. It's about recognizing all the ways we have been keeping ourselves contained and restrained in effort to fit into a certain archetype of woman. It's about co-creating a whole new archetype of woman – a woman who does not keep herself small in-order-to make others feel more comfortable.
Visit Women Gone Wild: https://wgwbook.com
'Marianna Naturals ® was born from our belief that the world deserves 100% natural skin care and cosmetics without the use of chemical preservatives. A celebrity skin care and health & wellness brand producing products that are hand-made fresh at our facilities in the USA which are always Cruelty-Free, Paraben-Free, and Sulfate-Free.' Beauty Kitchen's founder and CEO, Heather Marianna, skyrocketed in popularity with the launch of her Beauty Kitchen YouTube series in 2012 where she showcased simple, do-it-yourself beauty recipes made with common kitchen household ingredients. The series generated a powerful following of more than 4 million viewers. Heather Marianna has starred on Bravo's luxury-travel series, "Tour Group" in 2015 and was featured on Oxygen's "My Super Shopping Addiction" in addition to appearing on several episodes of MTV's "Teen Mom OG." The DIY guru has also appeared on countless news segments across the country as a beauty expert, showcasing her own simple tricks and tips. She is the official beauty expert for KSNV-NBC 3 in Las Vegas and appears monthly to captivate viewers with new DIY tutorials. In 2020 she and fellow Co-founder Joel DeBellefeuille teamed up to launch Marianna Naturals a similar but unique brand focused on expanding across the US border into Canada.
Marianna Naturals' products are sold in Faire.com a wholesale marketplace for retailers & brands; as well as Walmart.ca, Etsy.com, Boutsy.com, Tundra.com and Beautykitchenonline.com
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Man fatally stabbed during alleged road rage incident
CHICAGO (WLS) - A man was arrested after police said he allegedly fatally stabbed another man during a road rage incident in Chicago.
Alan Perez, 25, is behind bars tonight charged with first-degree murder in the death of Jeremy Walker, 36.
“He was just a big teddy bear. The sweetest person ever,” Walker’s girlfriend, Jessica Evans, said. “But he also had a very protective side of his family and of himself. And it’s just unfortunate that things transpired the way that they did.”
While relieved Perez was arrested, she’s still angry.
“Because it just doesn’t make sense,” she said.
Chicago police reported the two men got out of their cars during a road rage incident Tuesday evening. Investigators said Perez had a knife and allegedly stabbed Walker in the neck.
Walker later died at the hospital.
“This was a horrible, senseless act of violence that will not be tolerated within the city of Chicago,” Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx said.
Officers located the suspect’s car the next morning and obtained a search warrant. Perez later turned himself in.
This stabbing adds to growing concerns about crime in the River North neighborhood of Chicago.
We’ve seen challenges with crimes that don’t normally occur,” Supt. David Brown with the Chicago Police Department said. “And we are focused with our resources and our strategies to improve and reduce those crimes in this area.”
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Company Receives Honor for Second Straight Year
AUSTIN, Minn., April 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Hormel Foods Corporation (NYSE: HRL), a Fortune 500 global branded food company, has been named one of America's Most Trustworthy Companies by Newsweek for a second straight year.
"We are honored to be recognized as one of the most trusted companies in America. Building a culture of trust is not a one-time achievement, but a continuous effort," said Jim Snee, chairman of the board, president and chief executive officer of Hormel Foods. "At Hormel Foods, we strive to earn and maintain the trust of our customers and stakeholders every day through our actions and our commitment to transparency, accountability and integrity. Our recognition as one of the most trusted companies in America is a testament to the dedication and hard work of our team members who are the foundation of our success."
Hormel Foods has long been a leader in transparency, sustainability and corporate responsibility, including being named one of America's Most Responsible Companies for a fourth consecutive year by Newsweek, being recognized as one of the World's Top Female-Friendly Companies by Forbes and being recently named one of Barron's 100 Most Sustainable Companies.
Additionally, Hormel Foods has an ambitious set of corporate responsibility goals that it will strive to achieve by 2030 (the 20 By 30 Challenge), an initiative that has already led to significant reductions in packaging, nonrenewable energy use, greenhouse-gas emissions, water use and solid waste sent to landfills. The goals of the 20 By 30 Challenge were based on a robust key-topics-assessment process that identified and prioritized the issues most relevant to the company and its stakeholders.
Newsweek partnered with Statista to compile its annual ranking of America's Most Trustworthy Companies, which analyzed 3,100 publicly traded U.S. corporations with annual revenue over $500 million, across 23 different industries. An independent survey of more than 25,000 U.S. residents was conducted to determine the list of companies that Americans trust the most, ranked by industry.
To view the full list of America's Most Trusted Companies 2023, visit www.newsweek.com/rankings/most-trustworthy-companies-america-2023.
About Hormel Foods — Inspired People. Inspired Food.™
Hormel Foods Corporation, based in Austin, Minn., is a global branded food company with over $12 billion in annual revenue across more than 80 countries worldwide. Its brands include Planters®, SKIPPY®, SPAM®, Hormel® Natural Choice®, Applegate®, Justin's®, WHOLLY®, Hormel® Black Label®, Columbus®, Jennie-O® and more than 30 other beloved brands. The company is a member of the S&P 500 Index and the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats, was named on the "Global 2000 World's Best Employers" list by Forbes magazine for three years, is one of Fortune magazine's most admired companies, has appeared on the "100 Best Corporate Citizens" list by 3BL Media 13 times, and has received numerous other awards and accolades for its corporate responsibility and community service efforts. The company lives by its purpose statement — Inspired People. Inspired Food.™ — to bring some of the world's most trusted and iconic brands to tables across the globe. For more information, visit www.hormelfoods.com and http://csr.hormelfoods.com/.
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Participant in Ruby Ridge standoff, Randy Weaver, dies at 74 Published May 13, 2022 at 1:25 AM EDT Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 3:31 Randy Weaver, known for the Ruby Ridge standoff in Idaho, has died. The 11-day standoff with federal agents 30 years ago, left three people dead. Copyright 2022 NPR | 2022-05-13T06:34:44+00:00 | nepm.org | https://www.nepm.org/2022-05-13/participant-in-ruby-ridge-standoff-randy-weaver-dies-at-74 |
A Georgia homeowner held a burglary suspect, who was accused of more than a dozen car break-ins, at gunpoint until deputies arrives to make the arrest.
The Towns County Sheriff’s Office was called to a home on Gumlog Road on May 20 about someone breaking into vehicles.
Deputies arrived at the home to find that multiple vehicles had been entered. The deputies quickly identified the two suspects as Hunter Adams, 18, and Travis Foskey, 21.
A call in the same area was made to deputies a short time later in which a homeowner was holding a suspect, later identified as Adams, at gunpoint inside her residence. The woman had returned home to find the suspect wearing her husband’s clothing.
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The sheriff's office said an investigation determined the suspect had forced entry into the home.
When deputies arrived at the home, the suspect attempted to run before he was tackled by deputies and taken into custody. Adams was charged with felony burglary and 20 counts of felony entering an automobile.
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Investigators identified the second suspect as Foskey and obtained warrants for his arrest. Foskey was arrested the following morning. He is charged with felony burglary and 20 counts of felony entering an automobile.
"Sheriff Ken Henderson commends the homeowner for her quick action and holding the suspect until deputies arrived, and the deputies and investigators for the quick arrest of these suspects," the sheriff's office wrote on Facebook. "This type of criminal activity is not an ever day occurrence in Towns County." | 2023-06-04T09:10:00+00:00 | foxbangor.com | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/georgia-homeowner-holds-burglary-suspect-at-gunpoint-until-law-enforcement-arrives/article_2f43ba7c-08c0-5f18-b60e-b3854db01749.html |
ReMix Ideas to host second annual Black Ownership Bus Tour
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ReMix Ideas to host second annual Black Ownership Bus Tour
ReMix Ideas announced it is hosting its second annual Black Ownership Bus Tour beginning Monday.The tour is scheduled to stop in Fayetteville on Monday. It's also set to stop in Springdale, Bentonville, Rogers, Fort Smith, and Little Rock later throughout the week.The goal of the tour is to connect with Black-owned businesses to see what challenges they are facing and to collaborate on solutions.The tour will have "pitch competitions" for businesses' chance at a $5,000 business grant in each city.For the full schedule, visit the ReMix Ideas Official Website.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. —
ReMix Ideas announced it is hosting its second annual Black Ownership Bus Tour beginning Monday.
The tour is scheduled to stop in Fayetteville on Monday. It's also set to stop in Springdale, Bentonville, Rogers, Fort Smith, and Little Rock later throughout the week.
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The goal of the tour is to connect with Black-owned businesses to see what challenges they are facing and to collaborate on solutions.
The tour will have "pitch competitions" for businesses' chance at a $5,000 business grant in each city.
For the full schedule, visit the ReMix Ideas Official Website. | 2023-03-27T11:24:07+00:00 | 4029tv.com | https://www.4029tv.com/article/remix-ideas-annual-black-ownership-bus-tour/43425821 |
The flavor of a Snickers candy bar can now be dusted on just about anything - ice cream, cookies, milkshakes and yogurt.
B&G Foods said the new Snickers Shakers Seasoning Blend will be available at retailers nationwide this month.
Last year the company launched the successful Twix Shakers Seasoning Blend.
The Snickers version is a blend of the candy’s chocolate, peanut and caramel flavors that can be sprinkled on your favorite treats such as pancakes, waffles and fruit.
“At Mars we are consumer obsessed and have noticed the clear desire that has emerged among consumers to be able to add the flavors of their favorite confections to both sweet and savory foods,” said Michelle Deignan, senior brand director, Mars Wrigley.
“We’re pleased to partner with B&G Foods to allow consumers to experience the delicious and satisfying taste of Snickers in a completely new, and shake-able, way with Snickers Shakers Seasoning Blend.”
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Ukrainian army leaving battered city for fortified positions
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — After weeks of ferocious fighting, Ukrainian forces have begun retreating from a besieged city in the country’s east to move to stronger positions, a regional governor said Friday, the four-month mark in Russia’s invasion.
The planned withdrawal from Sievierodonetsk, the administrative center of the Luhansk region, comes after relentless Russian bombardment that has reduced most of the industrial city to rubble and cut its population from 100,0000 to 10,000. Ukrainian troops fought the Russians in house-to-house battles before retreating to the huge Azot chemical factory on the city’s edge, where they remain holed up in its sprawling underground structures in which about 500 civilians also found refuge.
In recent days, Russian forces have made gains around Sievierodonetsk and the neighboring city of Lysychansk, on a steep bank across a river, in a bid to encircle Ukrainian forces.
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Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk have been the focal point of the Russian offensive aimed at capturing all of the Donbas and destroying the Ukrainian military defending it — the most capable and battle-hardened segment of the country’s armed forces. The two cities and surrounding areas are the last major pockets of Ukrainian resistance in the Luhansk region — 95% of which is under Russian and local separatist forces’ control. The Russians and separatists also control about half of the Donetsk region, the second province in the Donbas.
Russia used its numerical advantages in troops and weapons to pummel Sievierodonetsk in what has become a war of attrition, while Ukraine clamored for better and more weapons from its Western allies. Bridges to the city were destroyed, slowing the Ukrainian military’s ability to resupply, reinforce and evacuate the wounded and others.
Much of the city’s electricity, water and communications infrastructure has been destroyed.
Luhansk Gov. Serhiy Haidai said Ukrainian troops have been ordered to leave Sievierodonetsk to prevent bigger losses and move to better fortified positions. Ukraine’s military spokesman declined to confirm the retreat order, saying government policy prevents comments on Ukrainian troop movements.
“Regrettably, we will have to pull our troops out of Sievierodonetsk,” Haidai told The Associated Press. “It makes no sense to stay at the destroyed positions, and the number of killed in action has been growing.”
A senior U.S. defense official, speaking in Washington on condition of anonymity, on Friday called the Ukrainians’ move a “tactical retrograde” to consolidate forces into positions where they can better defend themselves. This will add to Ukraine’s effort to keep Russian forces pinned down longer in a small area, the official said.
Haidai noted that while the retreat is under way, some Ukrainian troops remain in Sievierodonetsk, facing massive Russian bombardment that has destroyed 80% of buildings.
“As of today, the resistance in Sievierodonetsk is continuing,” Haidai told the AP. “The Russians are relentlessly shelling the Ukrainian positions, burning everything out.”
Haidai said the Russians are also advancing toward Lysychansk — from Zolote and Toshkivka, adding that Russian reconnaissance units conducted forays on the city’s edges but its defenders drove them out. The governor added that a bridge leading to Lysychansk was badly damaged in a Russian airstrike and is unusable for trucks. Ukrainian military analyst Oleg Zhdanov told the AP that some of the troops moving away from Sievierodonetsk are heading to the fight in Lysychansk.
In other battlefield reports, the Russian Defense Ministry declared Friday that four Ukrainian battalions and a unit of “foreign mercenaries” totaling about 2,000 soldiers have been “fully blocked” near Hirske and Zolote, south of Lysychansk. The claim couldn’t be independently verified.
Following a botched attempt to capture Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, in the early stage of the invasion that started Feb. 24, Russian forces have shifted their focus to the Donbas, where the Ukrainian forces have fought Moscow-backed separatists since 2014.
After repeated requests to its Western allies for heavier weaponry to counter Russia’s edge in firepower, Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov said medium-range American rocket launchers had arrived. The senior U.S. defense official said Friday that more Ukrainian forces are training outside Ukraine to use the High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, or HIMARS, and are expected back in their country with the weapons by mid-July.
The U.S. approved providing the precision-guided systems at the end of May, and once they were in the region, Ukraine’s forces needed about three weeks of training to operate them. The rockets can travel about 45 miles (70 kilometers).
The U.S. will send an addition $450 million in military aid to Ukraine, including four more of the medium-range rocket systems, ammunition and other supplies, U.S. officials announced Thursday.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged music fans at the Glastonbury Festival to “spread the truth about Russia’s war.” Speaking to the crowd at the British music extravaganza by video on Friday before a set by The Libertines, Zelenskyy said, “We in Ukraine would also like to live the life as we used to and enjoy freedom and this wonderful summer, but we cannot do that because the most terrible has happened – Russia has stolen our peace.”
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An official with the pro-Moscow administration in the southern city of Kherson that was captured by Russian troops early in the invasion was killed in an explosion Friday. The pro-Russian regional administration in Kherson said that Dmitry Savlyuchenko died when his vehicle exploded in what it described as a “terror attack.” There was no immediate claim of responsibility.
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Yuras Karmanau reported from Lviv.
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The speaker of the House, Rep. Scott Saiki, has 29 years of service in the Legislature, so his reading recommendations should make good advice.
When giving his opening remarks at the start of the Legislature in January, Saiki was addressing a 76-member state House and Senate, a political group with 18 freshmen and another six having only one term’s worth of experience. So it made sense he would be starting with the basics.
“Let me mention one other thing. The Sesame Street playbook,” Saiki told the youthful members.
“The Sesame Street word of the day is: “cooperation.”
“Cooperation is the process of working together toward the same ends.
“In order for Hawaii to be successful, we must all endeavor to be in cooperation with each other,” the veteran told the newcomers.
Excellent advice for a group that would turn out to be more fractious than most. Republicans, just six out of the 51 state House slots, easily voted in Rep. Lauren Cheape Matsumoto as GOP leader, although newcomer Brenton Awa and senior GOP member Sen. Kurt Fevella spent some time tussling over who would be GOP leader and who would be the floor leader, the only two positions available. Fevella won.
The House Democrats had a major mid-session explosion when it was disclosed that freshman Kailua member Rep. Natalia Hussey-Burdick was upset with what was reported as many House members drinking at a private gathering in Saiki’s office. Hussey-Burdick, who disliked the failure of a pet bill that would assist local midwives, issued a press release saying that “I texted a friend about my concerns that some people at the party seemed likely to drive drunk, and my friend in turn alerted members of the HPD. The police never arrived, and instead, word of this tip to the police somehow made its way to the people attending the party.”
Reporters asked Saiki if there would be repercussions. According to news reports, Saiki said no discipline would be taken against any House members, Indeed, House rules require that members vote to launch a formal investigation before any action can be taken.
In her press release, Hussey-Burdick said, “After much introspection I see now that the kind thing to do in this situation would have been to check in with my colleagues and try to arrange a safe way for them to get home. I have apologized to my colleagues for choosing an unkind course of action …”
Although Hussey-Burdick noted that “I am working to repair my relationships with my colleagues to move on from this unfortunate incident,” it will be difficult in a profession based on trust.
In politics, the public appreciates the outspoken crusader as compared to the tattletale. Good examples are Hawaii’s two U.S. Senators, Brian Schatz and Mazie Hirono. Both are longtime Hawaii Democrats who came up through the Hawaii Legislature and took positions opposing major political leaders.
Hawaii’s senatorial duo can take pride in their latest ratings. The national public opinion outfit, Morning Consult, last week released a survey conducted of job approval between Jan. 1 and March 31. It shows Schatz as the nation’s highest rated senator, 65%. Hirono held the eighth-highest job satisfaction rating with 60%.
When incumbent governors were surveyed, Hawaii’s Josh Green came in sixth, with an approval rating of 62%. If state legislators are looking for career models, Schatz, Hirono and Green have the numbers that are worth considering.
Richard Borreca writes on politics on Sundays. Reach him at 808onpolitics@gmail.com. | 2023-04-23T10:22:11+00:00 | staradvertiser.com | https://www.staradvertiser.com/2023/04/23/editorial/on-politics/column-in-a-profession-based-on-trust-state-lawmakers-must-learn-that-cooperation-is-the-rule/ |
Which dandruff shampoo for color-treated hair is best?
Set the scene: You wake up the day after getting your hair done, excited to style your new cut and color, only to discover a collection of white flakes on your scalp. A dandruff flare-up is always inconvenient, but especially after spending big on hair coloring. Luckily, there are effective dandruff shampoos for color-treated hair.
You want your color to last, and many dandruff shampoos contain harsh chemicals such as sulfates that strip your color. Color-safe dandruff shampoos, on the other hand, hydrate your hair to help hold the color, while the anti-dandruff ingredients clear the buildup of cells on your scalp.
How to deal with dandruff in color-treated hair
A dandruff shampoo for color-treated hair helps restore balance to your itchy, flaky scalp and extend the life of your color. The first course of action when dealing with dandruff is often to find an effective dandruff shampoo, but other steps can also improve the appearance of your scalp.
Start at your scalp and brush your hair out to the ends to eliminate the oils collecting on your scalp. Washing your hair more often will also prevent buildup, but try not to use the dandruff shampoo every time.
Depending on the color-safe dandruff shampoo, you will probably want to thoroughly rub it into your scalp, then let it sit for an extended time so the anti-dandruff ingredients can get to work. Make sure to fully rinse the product out of your hair so nothing is left over that might cause irritation.
Exfoliating your scalp with a scalp shampoo brush is another remedy for color-treated hair. You use these brushes in the shower, and the best ones have flexible bristles that gently break down cell buildup. Use a scalp shampoo brush every time you wash your hair, alternating a color-safe shampoo with a dandruff shampoo for color-treated hair. Throw in a scalp-and-hair leave-in treatment, and your flaky scalp won’t stand a chance.
A flaky scalp can be stubborn, so consult a dermatologist if the issue continues or worsens. Scalp care is essential to healthy hair, and if you know you’re prone to dandruff, continue using products that help exfoliate the scalp even if dandruff clears. Consider limiting heat styling and inform your stylist if flare-ups after coloring become regular.
Best color-safe dandruff shampoos
Paul Mitchell Tea Tree Special Shampoo
Tea tree oil is a known dandruff remedy due to natural antifungal properties that reduce buildup on the scalp. This shampoo contains tea tree oil as one of its main ingredients and includes lavender to calm irritation. Combining their powers with peppermint results in a cooling effect that feels amazing when you have an itchy scalp.
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You can’t go wrong with this best-selling anti-dandruff shampoo containing ketoconazole, a proven dandruff-preventing ingredient formulated to be gentle. It’s been salon-tested on color-treated hair and forms a thick lather that leaves your scalp feeling fresh and clean. You use it twice a week.
Where to buy: Amazon
Many influencers have talked about their obsession with this Australian shower essential, and it has the vegan-friendly ingredients to back up the hype, including peppermint and aloe vera to soothe and green tea to treat. There are no silicones or sulfates, making it excellent for people with color-treated hair experiencing flakiness due to dandruff, dry scalp and even psoriasis.
Where to buy: Ulta Beauty
First Aid Beauty Anti-Dandruff Shampoo with 1% Pyrithione Zinc
Thanks to its gentle, dermatologically tested formula, this shampoo is gentle enough for those with sensitive skin. It contains clean ingredients and is safe for use on color-treated hair. The pyrithione zinc tackles the root causes of dandruff, while calendula calms and soothes the scalp.
Where to buy: Ulta Beauty
Briogeo Scalp Revival Charcoal and Coconut Oil Micro-Exfoliating Shampoo
This 2018 Allure Best of Beauty shampoo doubles as an exfoliator that removes dead skin cells from your scalp. It uses the cleansing powers of charcoal to clean and balance the scalp. It also includes vitamins such as biotin, which strengthens hair to achieve more fullness, while oils such as peppermint and spearmint soothe irritation and maintain even pH levels. The natural ingredients guarantee that this shampoo is safe to use on all hair types, including color- and keratin-treated hair.
Where to buy: Amazon
Klorane Balancing Shampoo with Galangal
Designed to deal with flaky scalps, this shampoo is effective from the first use and leaves hair soft and shiny. Free from parabens, sulfates, mineral oils and silicones, it’s gentle on your scalp and suitable for color-treated hair.
Where to buy: Ulta Beauty
Biolage Scalpsync Anti-Dandruff Shampoo
Biolage products are inspired by nature, making its dandruff shampoo gentle yet effective for all hair types, even color-treated hair. It controls the appearance of flakes and helps you achieve a clean, healthy scalp. For best results, use it twice a week and let it sit on your scalp for at least two minutes.
Where to buy: Ulta Beauty
Head & Shoulders Supreme Soothe and Strengthen Hair and Scalp Shampoo and Conditioner
Head & Shoulders is the granddaddy of dandruff shampoos, and these dandruff experts know how to treat a flaky scalp. Their Color Protect line shampoo and conditioner will work to soothe your scalp and strengthen your hair at the roots. The argan oil will keep your color-treated hair soft and hydrated.
Where to buy: Amazon
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ALLEN COUNTY, Kan. (KSNW) — The Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI), Humboldt Police Department, and Allen County Sheriff’s Office arrested a Humboldt woman on suspicion of drug crimes on Thursday.
A news release from the KBI says around 9 a.m. on July 14, law enforcement executed a search warrant at an apartment building in Humboldt. Methamphetamine and a weapon were found at the location.
Following the search, 54-year-old Cindy Reynolds was arrested on suspicion of possession of methamphetamine with the intent to distribute, possession of narcotics with the intent to distribute, felony possession of drug paraphernalia, and criminal use of a weapon.
An investigation is ongoing. | 2022-07-14T21:31:14+00:00 | ksn.com | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/humboldt-woman-arrested-on-suspicion-of-meth-possession-distribution/ |
US economy likely grew modestly, if at all, last quarter
WASHINGTON (AP) — After going backward from January through March, the U.S. economy probably didn’t do much better in the spring.
On Thursday morning, the government will reveal just how weak economic growth was in the April-June quarter — and perhaps offer clues about whether the United States may be approaching a recession.
The report comes at a critical time: On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate by a sizable three-quarters of a point for a second straight time in its push to conquer the worst inflation outbreak in four decades. The Fed is aiming for a notoriously difficult “soft landing”: an economic slowdown that manages to rein in rocketing prices without triggering a recession.
Forecasters surveyed by the data firm FactSet have estimated that the nation’s gross domestic product — the broadest measure of economic output — eked out a tepid annual gain of 0.8% last quarter. Modest as it would be, that would amount to a sharp improvement over the economy’s 1.6% contraction in the January-March quarter.
Still, quarterly growth that sluggish would represent a drastic weakening from the 5.7% growth the economy achieved last year. That was the fastest calendar-year expansion since 1984, reflecting how vigorously the economy roared back from the brief but brutal pandemic recession of 2020.
Some economists fear that GDP actually shrank again from April through June, delivering the back-to-back negative quarters that constitute an informal definition of recession. The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta’s running estimate of GDP growth, based on available economic data, is signaling a 1.2% second quarter decline.
Most economists, though, point, in particular, to a still-robust labor market, with 11 million job openings and an uncommonly low 3.6% unemployment rate, to suggest that a recession, if one does occur, is still a ways off.
For one thing, the first-quarter economic contraction wasn’t as alarming as it looked. It was caused mainly by factors that don’t reflect the economy’s underlying health: A wider trade deficit, a consequence of Americans’ keen appetite for foreign-made goods, slashed 3.2 percentage points from first-quarter growth. And a post-holiday-season drop in company inventories lopped off an additional 0.4 percentage point.
The strength of America’s job market, Fed Chair Jerome Powell said at a news conference Wednesday, “makes you question the GDP data.’’
The economy posted some encouraging news Wednesday: June reports on the trade deficit (narrower), inventories (higher) and orders for high-priced factory goods (better than expected) suggested that second quarter GDP might turn out to be stronger than previously feared. Economists at JP Morgan have doubled their forecast for April-June growth to an annual pace of 1.4%.
Even so, recession risks are growing as the Fed’s policymakers pursue an aggressive course of rate hikes that, while they may ease in the months ahead, will likely extend into 2023. The Fed’s hikes have already led to a doubling of the average rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage in the past year, to 5.5%. Home sales, which are especially sensitive to interest rate changes, have tumbled.
Some economists have echoed an observation Powell made at his news conference Wednesday, that the economy, looked at as a whole, does not appear to be in the grip of recession.
“We do not think the economy is in recession at present,’’ Tim Quinlan and Shannon Seery, economists at Wells Fargo, wrote this week.
Quinlan and Seery estimated that GDP expanded at a glacial 0.2% annual pace in the April-June quarter — “a harbinger of worse to come as we are forecasting the economy to enter a mild recession early next year.”
Even if the economy does record a second straight quarter of negative GDP, most economists would not regard it as signaling a recession. The definition of recession that is most widely accepted is the one determined by the National Bureau of Economic Research, a group of economists whose Business Cycle Dating Committee defines a recession as “a significant decline in economic activity that is spread across the economy and lasts more than a few months.”
The committee assesses a range of factors before publicly declaring the death of an economic expansion and the birth of a recession — and it often does so well after the fact.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2022-07-28T11:26:31+00:00 | wymt.com | https://www.wymt.com/2022/07/28/us-economy-likely-grew-modestly-if-all-last-quarter/ |
By MICHAEL CASEY
Associated Press
BOSTON (AP) — The Boston City Council voted Wednesday to form a task force to study how it can provide reparations for and other forms of atonement to Black Bostonians for the city’s role in slavery and its legacy of inequality.
The unanimous vote means Boston now joins a conversation about reparations that is happening across the country from Providence, Rhode Island to California.
Boston will be closely watched given its troubled racial history, including its role in supporting and financing slavery even after Massachusetts abolished the practice in 1780. Supporters of reparations cited its history of segregated housing as well as a political economy after Emancipation that reduced opportunities for Black Bostonians. The result of that, they said, is a a wide wealth gap between white and Black families that remains today.
“This ordinance is only the start of a long awaited yet necessary conversation,” City Councilor Julia Mejia said. “The City of Boston, like many areas around the United States, has profited from the labor of enslaved African Americans and has further disadvantaged them by barring them from participating in the same economic mobility opportunities as their white counterparts.”
Tanisha Sullivan, the president of the NAACP’s Boston branch, called the vote a “historic and important step forward on what will be a deliberative, robust and inclusive process to help our city better understand the role it played in supporting the enslavement of Black people in the United States.”
Lawmakers across the country have pushed their states and cities to study reparations. Evanston, Illinois became the first U.S. city last year to make reparations available for Black residents, and public officials in New York will try anew to create a reparations commission in the state. California has formed a commission to study the issue and is meeting Wednesday to consider what form reparations could take and eligibility requirements to receive possible payments.
In Providence, Rhode Island, the mayor earlier this year proposed spending $10 million of federal coronavirus funding on reparation efforts. The money would be spent on financial literacy and homeownership, workforce training, small business development and other programs recently recommended by the city’s reparations commission.
In Boston, activists have been calling for years for the city to atone for its role in slavery. The idea of reparations was first proposed in the 1980s by Bill Owens, the first Black state senator in Massachusetts. He died earlier this year.
Rev. Kevin Peterson, founder of the New Democracy Coalition which has advocated for reparations for several years, acknowledge the ordinance wasn’t perfect but that it “moves our city forward.”
“This reparations ordinance moves us closer to justice for the living legacy of those who were once enslaved in Boston,” he said. “We can only look forward to a productive reparations process and changing the perception of Boston.”
The task force in Boston will examine reparation models and study the disparities that have existed in the city as it relates to the African-American community. It will also collect data on “historic harms” to Black Bostonians and hold hearings where it will gather testimony from the community on problems they have faced.
The panel will make recommendations for reparations as well as ways to eliminate policies and laws that continue to cause harm to Black Bostonians. It will also recommend how the city will issue a formal apology to the “people of Boston for the perpetration of gross human rights violations and crimes against humanity on African slaves and their descendants.”
“The time is right for us to begin a process of exploring the mechanisms by which a robust policy of reparations can manifest for Boston’s Black community,” Councilwoman Tania Fernandes Anderson said in a statement. “After centuries of entrenched and embedded structures of institutional racism, as emblematized by chattel slavery, legalized segregation, redlining, lynching, racist realty practices, and inequities in education, health care, and policing, amongst other categories, it is clear that a debt is owed to the people who have faced these matters.”
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At least 5 hospitalized after overdosing at SF home on Christmas Day, authorities say
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SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — The San Francisco Fire Department confirms to ABC7 News that multiple people overdosed at a private residence on Christmas Day.
Fire officials say they received a call around 2 p.m. for six patients initially in critical condition. They say it happened in the 1700 block of Post Street.
Five patients were taken to a local hospital and one was not transported.
All of the victims are adults.
At this time, there is no update on their conditions and officials could not confirm if fentanyl was involved.
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GREEN BAY, Wis. — For the Milwaukee Bay View football team, it was a tour of Lambeau Field. But little did they know what was behind the curtain.
“Nothing but excitement,” Bay View player Alonzo Jones says. “We finally got new helmets. I can’t even explain the moment really.”
A.J. Dillon was there to surprise Bay View players with new helmets for the upcoming football season. The Packers running back got quite a thrill out of being part of the surprise.
“It means a lot and it’s very easy for me to reflect back and realize I was that kid not too long ago,” Dillon says. “I’m really excited with what the Packers are doing for these schools here and I’m wishing all these teams the best of luck.”
“The helmets are definitely an upgrade,” Bay View player Jaqwavis Hill says. “We’re going to show out next season.”
“It’s really important,” Dillon says. “I feel like if I were to have that same opportunity as a high school player it would be the coolest day of my week, month, year, whatever, so hopefully everyone enjoyed it.”
For the Redcats, it was a day they won't soon forget.
“It’s great to know we have the Green Bay Packers looking out for us next season,” Hill says.
The helmets were awarded as part of the Packers Helmet Give Back Program, which invited coaches and athletic directors from around the state to apply to receive new helmets last fall. The gift is part of a donation match by Xenith as part of their Community Give Back Program and their Buy a Helmet Give a Helmet Program.
Bay View was one of three teams who were surprised with the helmets after their tour of the stadium, but Kenosha St. Joseph, Milwaukee Academy of Science, and Racine Park were among seven other high schools also awarded $6,000 worth of brand-new Xenith helmets for their football team. The helmet packages will be awarded this summer and each package will be custom-made to fit each school’s colors to supplement or replace their existing equipment inventory.
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Available for download on Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, and more. | 2023-04-18T01:50:14+00:00 | tmj4.com | https://www.tmj4.com/sports/green-bay-packers/milwaukee-bay-view-among-high-schools-to-receive-helmet-donation-from-green-bay-packers |
The most successful syndicated program in the history of television joins the world's leading Play.Works roster of CTV Games
NEW YORK and TEL AVIV, Israel, June 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Play.Works, the number one provider of Connected TV (CTV) games and original TV channels, today announced the launch of the Wheel of Fortune Game on Roku.
Spin the wheel, solve puzzles, and train your brain playing the official Wheel of Fortune game on Roku with family and friends. Guess letters and watch them appear on the iconic puzzle board. This new game from Play.Works also features a unique game within a game, that takes you from state to state across the USA, from Alabama to Wyoming, as you level up.
"Streaming video has ignited a CTV revolution and with games, we are seeing its potential explode," said Jonathan Boltax, CEO of Play.Works. "CTV owners are digital natives and crave interactive content – they don't just want to watch their favorite shows, they want to play them! As one of the most successful game shows of all-time, Wheel of Fortune is an obvious fit for CTV. It is a crown jewel in the Play.Works' CTV game catalog, the largest of any publisher with over 200 titles and growing quickly."
Viewers can begin enjoying the free Wheel of Fortune game on the ROKU platform today and the Play.Works' game will roll out on other CTV platforms in coming months.
ABOUT PLAY.WORKS
Play.Works (www.play.works) is the #1 provider of CTV games and original TV channels designed to engage viewers with fun gaming experiences on the primary screen. Play.Works has the largest CTV games catalog in the world with over 400+ titles built from the ground-up, including Play.Works originals, Crossy Road, Trivia Crack, Doodle Jump, and classic games from Atari®. Play.Works' video AVOD and FAST channels, including Like Nastya, PW Kids®, Ninja Kidz TV and BRB Travel + Food®, feature original television programming from top creators and new voices. Play.Works CTV games and video services have a combined reach of over 250 million homes, and can be found on world leading players such as Comcast, Cox, SKY, Roku, Vizio, LG, Samsung and most major pay TV platforms in North America and the UK.
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SOURCE Play.Works | 2023-06-26T13:53:51+00:00 | kalb.com | https://www.kalb.com/prnewswire/2023/06/26/playworks-launches-wheel-fortune-game-roku/ |
Wyoming Inmate Serving Life Sentence for Murder Dies in Prison
A Wyoming inmate serving a life sentence for murder has died, the Department of Corrections announced Wednesday.
Agency spokesman Paul Martin says 75-year-old Donald L. Souter died Sunday, Sept. 4, at the Wyoming Medium Correctional Institution in Torrington.
Souter was convicted of first-degree murder in Washakie County and sentenced to life on April 22, 1982.
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25 True Crime Locations: What Do They Look Like Today?
Below, find out where 25 of the most infamous crimes in history took place — and what the locations are used for today. (If they've been left standing.) | 2022-09-08T03:54:34+00:00 | k2radio.com | https://k2radio.com/wyoming-inmate-serving-life-sentence-for-murder-dies-in-prison/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Casa Blanca: La primera dama Jill Biden experimenta "rebrote" de COVID-19; el presidente da negativo.
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- Controversial plan could see famed Hawaii resort return to glory | 2022-08-24T17:30:47+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Casa-Blanca-La-primera-dama-Jill-Biden-17395320.php |
BOSTON, Aug. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund (NYSE: PDT) (the "Fund"), a closed-end fund managed by John Hancock Investment Management LLC and subadvised by Manulife Investment Management (US) LLC, announced today sources of its monthly distribution of $0.0975 per share paid to all shareholders of record as of August 11, 2022, pursuant to the Fund's managed distribution plan. This press release is issued as required by an exemptive order granted to the Fund by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Notification of Sources of Distribution
This notice provides shareholders of the John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund (NYSE: PDT) with important information concerning the distribution declared on August 1, 2022, and payable on August 31, 2022. No action is required on your part.
The following table sets forth the estimated sources of the current distribution, payable August 31, 2022, and the cumulative distributions paid this fiscal year to date from the following sources: net investment income; net realized short term capital gains; net realized long term capital gains; and return of capital or other capital source. All amounts are expressed on a per common share basis and as a percentage of the distribution amount.
You should not draw any conclusions about the Fund's investment performance from the amount of this distribution or from the terms of the Fund's managed distribution plan.
The Fund estimates that it has distributed more than its income and net realized capital gains; therefore, a portion of your distribution may be a return of capital. A return of capital may occur, for example, when some or all of the money that you invested in the Fund is paid back to you. A return of capital distribution does not necessarily reflect the Fund's investment performance and should not be confused with "yield" or "income."
The amounts and sources of distributions reported in this Notice are only estimates and are not being provided for tax reporting purposes. The actual amounts and sources of the amounts for tax reporting purposes will depend upon the Fund's investment experience during the remainder of its fiscal year and may be subject to changes based on tax regulations. The Fund will send you a Form 1099-DIV for the calendar year that will tell you how to report these distributions for federal income tax purposes.
The Fund has declared the August 2022 distribution pursuant to the Fund's managed distribution plan (the "Plan"). Under the Plan, the Fund makes fixed monthly distributions in the amount of $0.0975 per share, which will continue to be paid monthly until further notice.
If you have questions or need additional information, please contact your financial professional or call the John Hancock Investment Management Closed-End Fund Information Line at 1-800-843-0090, Monday through Friday between 8:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m., Eastern Time.
Effective October 1, 2021, copies of all notices informing shareholders of distributions made by the fund in excess of accumulated net investment income will be posted on John Hancock Investment Management's public website (jhinvestments.com) and on the Legal Notice System (LENS), a service offering of the Depository Trust Company (DTC) accessible by broker-dealer firms. To the extent required, notice may also be provided via press release. John Hancock Investment Management distributed paper copies of these notices by mail until March 30, 2022. Effective April 1, 2022, the notices will be delivered exclusively via the methods described above.
Statements in this press release that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements as defined by the United States securities laws. You should exercise caution in interpreting and relying on forward-looking statements because they are subject to uncertainties and other factors which are, in some cases, beyond the Fund's control and could cause actual results to differ materially from those set forth in the forward-looking statements.
An investor should consider a Fund's investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses carefully before investing.
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A company of Manulife Investment Management, we serve investors through a unique multimanager approach, complementing our extensive in-house capabilities with an unrivaled network of specialized asset managers, backed by some of the most rigorous investment oversight in the industry. The result is a diverse lineup of time-tested investments from a premier asset manager with a heritage of financial stewardship.
About Manulife Investment Management
Manulife Investment Management is the global brand for the global wealth and asset management segment of Manulife Financial Corporation. We draw on more than a century of financial stewardship and the full resources of our parent company to serve individuals, institutions, and retirement plan members worldwide. Headquartered in Toronto, our leading capabilities in public and private markets are strengthened by an investment footprint that spans 18 geographies. We complement these capabilities by providing access to a network of unaffiliated asset managers from around the world. We're committed to investing responsibly across our businesses. We develop innovative global frameworks for sustainable investing, collaboratively engage with companies in our securities portfolios, and maintain a high standard of stewardship where we own and operate assets, and we believe in supporting financial well-being through our workplace retirement plans. Today, plan sponsors around the world rely on our retirement plan administration and investment expertise to help their employees plan for, save for, and live a better retirement. Not all offerings are available in all jurisdictions. For additional information, please visit manulife.com.
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SOURCE John Hancock Investment Management | 2022-08-31T21:04:22+00:00 | kwch.com | https://www.kwch.com/prnewswire/2022/08/31/john-hancock-premium-dividend-fund-notice-shareholders-sources-distribution-under-section-19a/ |
Jamie Foxx is speaking out for the first time since being hospitalized for an unidentified “medical complication.”
On Wednesday (May 3), Foxx took to Instagram to thank his followers for their support amid his ongoing hospitalization, per TMZ.
“Appreciate all the love!!!” the Oscar-winning actor posted on social media. “Feeling blessed.”
Foxx broke his silence hours after reports surfaced that he would not serve as host for the upcoming season of Beat Shazam. Nick Cannon is set to replace Foxx as host of the game show while Kelly Osbourne will take over for Foxx’s daughter, Corinne Fox, as DJ.
The actor-singer gave a social media shoutout to Cannon on Wednesday for filling his hosting shoes while teasing to fans that he would “see you all soon.”
News of Foxx’s hospitalization came last month when his daughter revealed on Instagram that he experienced an unidentified health issue.
“We wanted to share that, my father, Jamie Foxx, experienced a medical complication yesterday,” read the April 12 Instagram statement from “the Foxx family.” “Luckily, due to quick action and great care, he is already on his way to recovery.”
The family has declined to give further details on Foxx’s health condition.
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Two sets of rain chances bring added rain totals to region
COLUMBUS – SUMMARY: Two rounds of major rain chances accompanies rising temperatures into the upper 60s and potentially 70s by the weekend.
THURSDAY: Afternoon temperatures hit the upper 60s as rain chances return to the region. Scattered showers and thunderstorms will be prevalent throughout much of the day. Lows touch the lower 50s overnight.
FRIDAY: Afternoon highs take a slight dip as a line of heavier showers and storms make their way into the region. The main line should arrive in the region around lunch time, getting out of the region by the early hours Saturday. Lows bottom out in the mid to upper 50s.
REST OF THE WEEK: A few days of respite over the weekend makes way for the next major rain-maker next week, as a cold front makes it’s way into the region. Highs climb into the upper 60s over the weekend, touching the 70s in places, before colder air brings highs back into the lower 60s by next Wednesday. Lows climb into the lower 60s by overnight Monday. | 2022-12-29T13:07:30+00:00 | wcbi.com | https://www.wcbi.com/two-sets-of-rain-chances-bring-added-rain-totals-to-region/ |
Firework prices are blowing up
(CNN) – Fireworks aren’t the only thing exploding this Fourth of July weekend – firework prices are also blowing up.
The shortage over the past two years appears to be winding down, but supply chain issues remain.
Costs for shipping, raw materials and labor have also helped conspired to push prices up.
Higher demand has also been a factor, as consumers turned to at-home firework displays the last two years due to the cancelation of public displays.
The CEO of one fireworks distributor estimates his costs have at least doubled since 2019.
The American Pyrotechnics Association says costs are 35% higher industrywide.
This year, though, retailers and distributors say they are more ready to match demand.
Copyright 2022 CNN Newsource. All rights reserved. | 2022-07-01T16:41:28+00:00 | waff.com | https://www.waff.com/2022/07/01/firework-prices-are-blowing-up/ |
LOS ANGELES (AP)Sean McVay is grateful for the days he spent pondering his professional future after the roughest season of his life.
That time allowed him to articulate everything he loves about coaching, and they left him more determined than ever to stay in the fight.
McVay said he made “a decision for years to come” when he elected to stick with the Los Angeles Rams after the first losing season of his precocious NFL career. The youngest head coach ever to win the Super Bowl strongly considered walking away from his draining profession, but several days of reflection and conversations led McVay to a refreshed mindset and a genuine excitement for the future.
“For me, the most important thing was reestablishing a purpose,” McVay said Friday in his first extensive public comments about his decision to return for a seventh season and beyond with Los Angeles.
“This is a blessing to be able to do this,” McVay added. “I love coaching. I love working with players and coaches, and I think in some instances, when you lose your way, you can lose your perspective on things.”
McVay said he found that perspective in January during the days after the Rams finished 5-12. Freed from the week-to-week grind of preparing and patching an injury-plagued team that lost nine of its last 11 games, McVay was able to perceive the many positives in his highly paid, emotionally tumultuous job.
“When you go through some of the things that we went through last year, you can really get lost in things becoming a burden more than a blessing,” McVay said. “When you really take a step back and get a chance to reflect, sometimes that reflection is best served after the humbling experiences and the challenging experiences.”
McVay also said repeatedly that he doesn’t expect to put the Rams and their fans through the same uncertainty they experienced in the past two offseasons while he openly contemplated retirement or a move to a cushy broadcasting booth.
With the Rams beginning a franchise reset of sorts following their losing season and the probable departures of several veterans, McVay was visibly excited to continue for several seasons to come.
“I’m really committed to not having this become a story every year,” McVay said. “Because I know that’s probably something that people are asking or wondering, and I don’t take that lightly. That was why the reflection, because there was never a doubt whether you wanted to coach again. It’s really just, ‘Are you going to be able to have the appropriate perspective to be the best version of yourself for the players and the coaches?’ And I feel confident that that can exist moving forward.”
The 37-year-old McVay is 60-38 in six seasons in charge of the Rams with five winning seasons, four playoff berths, three NFC West titles, two Super Bowl appearances and one championship. He is still the youngest head coach in the NFL heading into his seventh season.
Once he could see more clearly after the season, the Rams’ first major struggles of his career also stoked McVay’s competitive fire.
“To say that as a competitor that that’s something that I would have felt comfortable walking away with, no,” McVay said. “I would not have felt comfortable walking away from a situation where I think I owed more to the people than that.”
McVay is already hard at work on the process described by general manager Les Snead as a “remodel,” rather than a rebuild. The Rams are preparing for a future constructed around Matthew Stafford, Aaron Donald and Cooper Kupp as they head into a spring with 10 draft picks and a determination to solidify their foundation after years of flashy veteran acquisitions.
McVay also must establish cohesion in a coaching staff with 10 new members, including offensive coordinator Mike LaFleur, special teams coordinator Chase Blackburn and a host of veteran assistants. McVay seemed particularly excited about the opportunities created by the introduction of a host of new voices around him and defensive coordinator Raheem Morris.
Although the Rams are in transition, McVay isn’t ready to put any ceiling on their possibilities for next season. He’s still exuding excitement as a coach who has already done it all, but is determined to show he can do it again.
“Let’s not try to write the story before we’ve even opened up the first page of the book,” McVay said with a grin. “Let’s figure out what we can do with the circumstances.”
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AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/NFL and https://twitter.com/AP-NFL | 2023-03-11T04:27:36+00:00 | kxnet.com | https://www.kxnet.com/nfl-draft/sean-mcvay-says-hes-back-for-the-long-haul-with-la-rams/ |
By CHRIS LEHOURITES
AP Sports Writer
WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Four activists wearing “Where is Peng Shuai?” T-shirts were stopped by security at Wimbledon on Monday and had their bags searched.
Peng is a retired professional tennis player from China who last year accused a former high-ranking member of the country’s ruling Communist Party of sexual assault. She has made very few public appearances since then.
A similar episode happened to someone wearing a T-shirt supporting Peng at this year’s Australian Open. A spectator in Melbourne was removed from the grounds, but the tournament later reversed its decision and allowed people to wear the clothing as long as they didn’t congregate in large groups or cause problems for other spectators.
Jason Leith of the Free Tibet organization said he and his three colleagues put on the white T-shirts after entering the grounds of the All England Club on Monday.
“We didn’t have these on when we came in because we worried about not being let in. So we put them on and we were just walking around and a few people wanted selfies with us, so we were taking pictures with people,” said Leith, who is British.
Security arrived a short time later when the four men were walking under the big screen at the base of Henman Hill, Leith said.
“(They) started asking, ‘Are you planning to do any direct protesting? Are you planning on disrupting things?’” Leith said. “And then they asked, ‘Oh, do you mind coming over here so we can search your bags?’
“So then they started going through our bags. I guess they were looking for flags. They were looking for anything that might be used in any other form of protest.”
The men were allowed to remain at the grass-court Grand Slam and keep wearing the shirts but were asked not to approach any other spectators to talk about Peng, Leith said.
“That’s a bit strange. Why aren’t we allowed to talk to people?” said Leith, the head of income and engagement at Free Tibet.
Wimbledon organizers said the activists were welcome to stay on site.
All England Club CEO Sally Bolton said on Day 1 of the tournament that a spectator with a shirt mentioning Peng would be allowed to attend.
“We do have ground entry rules, and those ground entry rules are really focused on everyone’s quiet enjoyment of the tennis,” Bolton said. “So that’s not about what people are wearing; it’s about the way people behave.”
Peng disappeared from public view last year after accusing former Communist Party official Zhang Gaoli of sexual assault. Her accusation was quickly scrubbed from the internet, and discussion of it remains heavily censored.
Peng won two Grand Slam women’s doubles titles in her career, including at Wimbledon in 2013.
The women’s professional tennis tour canceled its tournaments in China because of the situation surrounding Peng.
Last year, Leith was arrested in Greece for disrupting the Olympic flame ceremony. The flame was headed for China ahead of this year’s Winter Olympics in Beijing.
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Aid worker killed in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — The International Rescue Committee said Saturday one of its workers was killed in an attack in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region.
The IRC worker was “delivering lifesaving humanitarian aid to women and children” at the time of the explosion in the town of Shire on Friday, the aid group said in a statement. Another worker was wounded in the attack, it said.
“The IRC is heartbroken over the loss of our colleague and will work to support our staff and their families during this terrible time. Aid workers and civilians should never be a target,” the IRC statement said.
A World Food Program spokesperson in Ethiopia said in a statement to The Associated Press that the U.N. agency received reports of an explosion near where the IRC, a WFP implementing partner, “was distributing nutritionally fortified foods to WFP beneficiaries, including vulnerable mothers and children.”
“WFP condemns any deliberate targeting of humanitarian activities and strongly calls on all parties to the conflict to respect and protect humanitarian relief operations and personnel, in line with their obligations under international humanitarian law,” the statement said.
The aid worker is the second IRC staff member to die in the Tigray war. Another IRC employee was killed at the Hitsats refugee camp near Shire in December 2020.
Neither the IRC nor the WFP confirmed who was behind the latest attack. There were no details on the nationality of the victim.
Shire and other Tigrayan towns have been struck multiple times by airstrikes since hostilities resumed in late August between the Tigray forces and Ethiopia’s federal government. The fresh fighting has halted aid deliveries to Tigray, where 5 million people are in urgent need of humanitarian help.
The Tigray forces have claimed that Eritrea has launched a full-scale offensive across Tigray’s northern border, in support of Ethiopia’s federal military.
Aid distributions are being hampered by a lack of fuel and an ongoing communications blackout in Tigray. A U.N. team concluded that “10 starvation-related deaths” occurred at seven sites for internally displaced people in northwestern Tigray between Sept. 4 and Sept. 14, according to an internal document by a humanitarian agency shared with the AP.
Millions of people in northern Ethiopia, including the neighboring regions of Amhara and Afar, have been uprooted from their homes and tens of thousands of people are believed to have been killed since the conflict broke out in November 2020.
African Union-sponsored peace talks to resolve the conflict were supposed to take place in South Africa last month, but were postponed owing to logistical and technical issues.
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The high-stakes battle over President Biden’s student debt relief plan reached the Supreme Court on Tuesday, with each justice giving a glimpse into their thinking during back-to-back oral arguments.
Biden’s plan appears in peril after the court’s conservative majority cast doubt on the administration’s authority to forgive up to $20,000 in student debt for qualifying borrowers in two separate challenges.
The case more broadly touched on a number of legal issues — states’ ability to challenge administration policies they don’t like and the scope of executive authority — that revealed insights into each justice’s approach to cases.
Here’s a key statement from each justice during Tuesday’s arguments:
John Roberts
Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts arrives before President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at the Capitol, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023, in Washington. (Jacquelyn Martin, Pool)
“We’re talking about half a trillion dollars and 43 million Americans. How does that fit under the normal understanding of ‘modifying’?“
Roberts, the chief justice, near the start of the first argument pressed U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar on how the HEROES Act justifies cancelling hundreds of billions of dollars in debt.
The law, which the administration cites as authorizing the plan, enables the education secretary to “waive or modify” federal student financial assistance programs in connection with national emergencies — in this instance, the pandemic.
But Roberts repeatedly stressed the plan’s price tag, quoting the late conservative Justice Antonin Scalia as defining “modify” as “moderate change” and questioning how Biden’s plan falls under that definition.
Clarence Thomas
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas delivers a keynote speech during a dedication of Georgia new Nathan Deal Judicial Center in Atlanta, Feb. 11, 2020. (Associated Press/John Amis)
“Could you explain then, in other provisions there is express language as to cancellation, and, of course, there isn’t here.”
Like most oral arguments, Thomas became the first justice to ask a question before remaining fairly quiet afterward.
Thomas leveraged the opportunity to kick off the high-stakes argument by noting other statutes that explicitly refer to debt cancellation. He compared that to how the administration is justifying their plan as merely a waiver and modification.
It became the first of many moments in which the court’s conservatives appeared to invoke the “major questions” doctrine, which requires Congress to speak clearly when authorizing an agency to take actions with vast economic and political significance.
In his only other line of questioning to the solicitor general during the first case, Thomas noted the difference between past uses of the HEROES Act to pause student loan payments during the pandemic.
“Forbearance fits more comfortably in waive or modify language,” Thomas said. “It’s you simply forbearing on collecting an underlying debt, but you don’t cancel the debt. And that’s what we’re talking about here.”
Neil Gorsuch
Gorsuch gave Campbell an opportunity to challenge some of the Biden administration’s claims about the student debt relief program. (Greg Nash)
“I understand the Secretary has considerable expertise when it comes to educational affairs, but in terms of macroeconomic policy, do we normally assume that every Secretary, cabinet member, as learned as they are, has that kind of knowledge?”
Gorsuch gave Nebraska Solicitor General James Campbell, who represented the state challengers, an opportunity to push back on the administration’s assertion that the Education Department has the expertise to exert authority over debt relief.
The administration insists that since the Education Department is given authority to forgive student debt in other contexts, Congress had foreseen the possibility of debt relief when it gave the department emergency authority under the HEROES Act.
“No, we don’t. When we’re dealing with a nearly half-trillion dollar loan cancellation program, this is squarely in the ken of Congress,” Campbell responded to Gorsuch’s question.
Brett Kavanaugh
Kavanaugh appeared wary of using executive authority for the cancellation of student debt during his arguments. (Getty)
“Some of the biggest mistakes in the Court’s history were deferring to assertions of executive emergency power. Some of the finest moments in the Court’s history were pushing back against presidential assertions of emergency power.“
Kavanaugh’s views on the limits of executive power were a frequent topic in his confirmation hearings, but he appeared wary on Tuesday of using executive authority for a massive cancellation of student debt.
He referenced an amicus brief from a Fordham Law School Professor Jed Handelsman Shugerman, who called the plan a “case study” for how administrations abuse emergency powers
“And that’s continued not just in the Korean War but post-9/11 in some of the cases there,” Kavanaugh continued. “So, given that history, there’s a concern, I suppose, that I feel at least, about how to handle an emergency assertion.”
Samuel Alito
Alito pressed Prelogar on why the Biden administration considers the student debt program to be fair. (Stefani Reynolds)
“Why is it fair? If it was, if you didn’t have to do it? Why is it in the answer to say that it was warranted? Maybe it was warranted, but why was it done? I guess you don’t want to answer the question.”
Alito again proved his reputation as a searing questioner during the second argument, a challenge from two individual borrowers who did not qualify for the full $20,000 in relief.
He pressed Prelogar on why the administration believes the plan is fair, asking multiple times and expressing dissatisfaction with Prelogar’s answers in each iteration.
Alito stressed that the administration was not legally required to forgive the debts, so it is legitimate to inquire about the view of how the Education Department evaluated the plan’s fairness.
“All right. I’ll try one more time. Why was it fair to the people who didn’t get arguably comparable relief?” Alito later asked.
Sonia Sotomayor
Sotomayor emphasized the challenges that student borrowers may face without receiving debt relief. (Getty)
“There’s 50 million students who will benefit from this, who today will struggle.”
Sotomayor during a 2017 interview described a “continuing tension” in the U.S. between people who believe everyone must pull themselves up, and those who believe societal inequalities build barriers that must be struck down for some people to “have a chance.”
In a similar vein on Tuesday, she highlighted at length the harms that some student borrowers could face without debt relief.
“Many of them don’t have assets sufficient to bail them out after the pandemic,” Sotomayor added. “They don’t have friends or families or others who can help them make these payments. The evidence is clear that many of them will have to default.”
“Their financial situation will be even worse because once you default, the hardship on you is exponentially greater,” she continued. “You can’t get credit. You’re going to pay higher prices for things. They are going to continue to suffer from this pandemic in a way that the general population doesn’t.”
Elena Kagan
Kagan used a hypothetical situation involving an earthquake to make a point about the utilization of emergency authority. (Stefani Reynolds)
“Congress doesn’t get much clearer than that. We deal with congressional statutes every day that are really confusing. This one is not.”
Kagan expressed in blunt terms her views on the clarity of the HEROES Act.
She went on to ask Campbell, who represented the states, a hypothetical involving an earthquake, repeatedly stressing the value of emergency authority.
“This isn’t a massive delegation to the Secretary of Education. It’s designed to deal with emergency conditions. You have a lot of power in emergencies. When those people’s homes are destroyed, you have the power to discharge their loans.”
Ketanji Brown Jackson
Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson answers questions during the third day of her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on Wednesday, March 23, 2022. (Greg Nash)
“I feel like we really do have to be concerned about jumping into the political fray, unless we are prompted to do so by a lawsuit that is brought by someone who has an actual interest.“
After a number of her colleagues raised alarm about executive overreach, Jackson during the final line of questioning in the states’ challenge noted that the judiciary, too, is part of the separation of powers dynamic.
Jackson tied her point to her concerns about giving the challengers standing, suggesting that it would improperly lead the courts to encroach on the political branches of government.
Amy Coney Barrett
Barrett notably broke with her fellow conservative justices in questioning Missouri’s argument. (Bonnie Cash)
“If MOHELA is an arm of the state, why didn’t you just strong-arm MOHELA and say you’ve got to pursue this suit?”
Before the court reaches the merits, they first must establish that a challenger has standing, meaning the legal capacity to sue. Missouri’s standing theory received the most attention.
Barrett’s questioning broke with her conservative colleague’s sympathy towards Missouri’s argument, and it instead more closely mimicked the skepticism of the court’s liberals.
The debate revolves around whether the Higher Education Loan Authority of the State of Missouri (MOHELA) is an arm of Missouri, or if MOHELA’s purported revenue losses from the debt cancellation would cause it to miss out on payments it owes to the state treasury.
The court’s liberals noted that MOHELA itself had the capacity to sue, but it didn’t.
“Why didn’t the state just make MOHELA come then, if MOHELA is really an arm of the state?” asked Barrett. “And all of this would be a lot easier.”
But even if Barrett and the three liberals reject that the challengers have standing, the five remaining conservatives could still deliver the debt relief plan’s fatal blow. | 2023-03-01T02:23:51+00:00 | nwahomepage.com | https://www.nwahomepage.com/hill-politics/student-loan-forgiveness-key-statements-from-each-justice/ |
Struggling to make anything positive happen early, the Madison Prep Chargers took advantage of a huge break just before halftime and carried the momentum into the second half on their way to a 27-8 win over Southern Lab on Thursday night at A.W. Mumford Stadium.
Southern Lab (1-1) led the entire first half after scoring first midway through the second quarter.
Following an interception by Dylan Day, the Kittens drove 57 yards and scored on a 13-yard pass from Marlon Brown to Ian James. Brown then passed to Denhim Hunt for the 2-point conversion to give Southern Lab an 8-0 lead.
It appeared that would be the halftime score when the Kittens ended a Madison Prep drive at the 2-yard line by recovering a fumble with 22 seconds remaining in the half.
Needing to run only one play to end the half, Brown fumbled the quarterback-center exchange and the Chargers (1-1) recovered the miscue at the 3-yard line.
Madison Prep took advantage on the next play when quarterback Tylon Johnson scored on a keeper and the Chargers cut the deficit to 8-6 at halftime.
How it was won
Madison Prep carried the momentum of the late first-half score into the second half, which it dominated.
After forcing a Southern Lab turnover on downs on the opening drive of the second half, the Chargers drove for the go-ahead score.
With the ball at the Madison Prep 40, Johnson eluded a rush and passed to a wide-open Hezekiah Dantzler near the 20. Dantzler made one defender miss and outran the rest of the defense to the end zone.
Johnson ran for the 2-point conversion and the Chargers led 14-8 with two minutes remaining in the third quarter.
Keilan Sherman added a 10-yard touchdown run with 6:40 remaining in the game to put the game away for the Chargers. Alfred McKnight later scored from 2 yards out.
In the second half, Madison Prep held Southern Lab to 67 yards of total offense.
Player of the game
Madison Prep quarterback Tylon Johnson: Johnson completed 11 of 21 passes for 103 yards. He also ran for 54 yards and his ability to avoid rushers gradually wore down the Southern Lab defense.
Notable
- After committing six penalties for 50 yards in the first half, Madison Prep only committed one penalty in the second half.
- Treylan James and David Jones each had a first-half interception for the Chargers.
- Sherman rushed for 83 yards on 23 carries.
- For the game, Madison Prep outgained Southern Lab 198-154.
- Joshua Davis led Southern Lab with 46 yards rushing. | 2022-09-09T04:08:27+00:00 | theadvocate.com | https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/sports/high_schools/article_fd817cee-2fdd-11ed-9525-2f4d20d3350f.html |
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Democrat Thomas McDermott tried to spark his underdog challenge to Indiana Republican U.S. Sen. Todd Young on Sunday by attacking his positions on issues spanning abortion, federal spending and marijuana legalization.
Young responded with criticism of President Joe Biden and the Democratic-controlled Congress for sparking higher inflation and gasoline prices as the candidates faced each other during their only scheduled televised debate ahead of the Nov. 8 election.
McDermott, who is the mayor of Hammond, and other Democrats have campaigned heavily on protection of abortion rights in the wake of Indiana's Republican-dominated Legislature voting over the summer to make it the first state to enact an abortion ban after the U.S. Supreme Court eliminated federal abortion protections by overturning Roe v. Wade in June.
McDermott has called for a federal law reinstating abortion rights and criticized Young for voting to confirm three conservative Supreme Court justices nominated by former President Donald Trump who helped form the court's majority in the abortion ruling.
"He gerrymandered the Supreme Court so that Roe vs Wade was overturned," McDermott said.
Young said he believed that state Legislatures should decide what abortion policies should be and that what he called a "conversation" in all 50 states should continue.
"I do accept exceptions and I'll accept whatever the people of Indiana decide," Young said.
The Indiana ban, which state courts have blocked following a lawsuit filed by abortion clinic operators included exceptions allowing abortions in cases of rape and incest, before 10 weeks post-fertilization; to protect the life and physical health of the mother; and if a fetus is diagnosed with a lethal anomaly.
Libertarian candidate James Sceniak said "politicians should not act as physicians" and called, instead, for working to reduce the number of abortions not through bans but by looking for ways to help pregnant women and making contraception more easily available.
Young, who is s eeking a second six-year Senate term has followed a front-runner strategy of mostly ignoring McDermott, who has been Hammond's mayor since 2004 but is little known outside northwestern Indiana. Sunday's debate, which was organized by the nonprofit Indiana Debate Commission and broadcast on several TV stations around the state, will likely be their only face-to-face meeting.
Despite Democrats and Republicans fiercely fighting for control of the current 50-50 Senate, Indiana's Senate race hasn't seen the tens of millions in outside spending that it attracted four years ago when Republican Mike Braun defeated Democratic U.S. Sen. Joe Donnelly and in 2016 when Young won the Senate seat over former Democratic U.S. Sen. Evan Bayh.
McDermott assailed Young for numerous votes to increase federal spending during his six years as a senator and previous six years in the U.S. House and then trying to blame the Biden administration for the worldwide problems with inflation.
"He wants us to believe that Joe Biden is responsible for 100% the nation's problems right now and he shares responsibility for that," McDermott said. "Senator Young's been in office for 12 years and he needs to take responsibility for the spending that he's created."
Young countered that the economy was improving before Biden and congressional Democrats pushed through the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan earlier this year.
"Unfortunately, the first thing they did in the office is rush through a stimulus bill," Young said. "This is the last thing you want to do a stimulus bill which led to all manner of inflation."
Young defended his push in the Senate for providing billions in federal money to encourage more semiconductor companies to build chip plants in the United States, saying it was needed in the face of an ambitious China.
McDermott, a lawyer and U.S. Navy veteran, also advocated for federal marijuana legalization as the drug remains illegal for all uses in Indiana.
McDermott called Indiana's law an "ancient policy" retained by Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb and GOP legislative leaders that threatens people who legally buy recreational marijuana in Michigan or Illinois with jail once they enter the state.
Young said marijuana legalization would "probably be a third-tier priority" for him, citing inflation, national security and crime among those needing more attention first, while saying he would work with states that enact their own marijuana laws. | 2022-10-17T19:25:40+00:00 | kokomotribune.com | https://www.kokomotribune.com/news/state_news/indiana-us-senate-candidates-split-on-abortion-spending/article_c3616d04-4e3b-11ed-9b94-2fca6751d02e.html |
The Los Angeles Kings have signed forward Trevor Moore to a five-year, $21 million extension, the team announced Thursday.
The contract, which runs through the 2027-28 season, carries an average annual value of $4.2 million per season.
The 27-year-old Moore, which was acquired from the Toronto Maple Leafs during the 2019-20 season, has 7 goals and 11 assists with a team-leading 103 shots on goal this season. Overall, he has 42 goals and 65 assists in five NHL seasons. | 2022-12-15T23:11:17+00:00 | espn.com | https://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/35259906/kings-trevor-moore-signs-five-year-21-million-extension |
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) _ Pinnacle Financial Partners Inc. (PNFP) on Monday reported first-quarter profit of $129.1 million.
The Nashville, Tennessee-based bank said it had earnings of $1.65 per share.
The results topped Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of six analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $1.60 per share.
The regional bank operator posted revenue of $362.1 million in the period. Its revenue net of interest expense was $343 million, which met Street forecasts.
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ROANOKE COUNTY, Va. – A school bus was hit by a vehicle that ran a red light Monday morning, according to the Roanoke County Police Department.
Authorities say it happened at about 6:40 a.m. on Peters Creek Road near Northside High School and involved bus 45.
We’re told no students were on board at the time of the crash.
According to authorities, the bus driver was transported for possible injuries.
Roanoke County Police says charges have been placed for failure to obey a traffic signal.
Stay with 10 News as this breaking news story develops | 2022-10-03T15:47:44+00:00 | wsls.com | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/10/03/school-bus-involved-in-crash-near-northside-high-school-no-students-on-board/ |
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — An official said Thursday that at least eight inmates have died at an overcrowded prison in Haiti that ran out of food two months ago, adding to dozens of similar deaths this year as the country’s institutions crumble.
Hunger and oppressive heat contributed to the inmates’ deaths reported this week by the prison in the southwest city of Les Cayes, Ronald Richemond, the city’s government commissioner, told The Associated Press. He said the prison houses 833 inmates.
“Whoever can help should help immediately because the prisoners are in need,” he said.
The United Nations Security Council released a report last week saying 54 prison deaths related to malnutrition were documented in Haiti between January and April alone in the country of more than 11 million people.
It urged Haiti’s government “to take the necessary measures to find a long-lasting solution to the prison food, water and medicine crisis.”
The country’s severely overcrowded prison system has long struggled to provide food and water to inmates. It blames insufficient government funds and the problem has worsened in recent months, leading to a new rise in severe malnutrition and deaths.
By law, prisons in Haiti are required to provide inmates with water and two meals a day, which usually consist of porridge and a bowl of rice with fish or some type of meat.
But in recent months, inmates have been forced to rely solely on friends or family for food and water, and many times they are unable to visit because gang-related violence makes some areas impassable, said Michelle Karshan, co-founder of the nonprofit Health through Walls, which provides health care in Haiti’s prisons.
The nonprofit joined three other organizations this year to feed the roughly 11,000 inmates in Haiti’s 20 prisons for three months, helping at a time when the country was increasingly unstable following the July 7 killing of President Jovenel Moïse.
But the situation has since deteriorated.
“These deaths are very painful,” she said. “The internal organs start to fail one by one. … It’s a horrible thing to witness.”
Health through Walls has launched several programs to target the problem long term, including starting a garden at a prison in northern Haiti that produces spinach and other crops, along with a chicken coop and a fish farm.
“But that’s one prison,” Karshan said. “The bottom line is the prison system has to take responsibility. They can’t sit back. … They’re the government.”
Les Cayes and other cities in Haiti’s southern region also have been affected by a spike in gang violence that has blocked the main roads leading out of Haiti’s capital, making it extremely difficult to distribute food and other supplies to the rest of the country, said Pierre Espérance, executive director of Haiti’s National Human Rights Defense Network.
In addition, a water pump that the Les Cayes prison relies on has long been broken, forcing relatives and friends of inmates to carry buckets of water from long distances, Richemond said.
Les Cayes, like surrounding cities, is also still struggling to recover from a 7.2 magnitude earthquake that struck southwest Haiti in August, killing more than 2,200 people and destroying or damaging thousands of buildings.
Richemond said some of the prison cells were destroyed and have not been rebuilt, forcing authorities to cram even more people into a smaller space.
The cell occupancy rate in Haiti stands at more than 280% of capacity, with 83% of inmates stuck in pretrial detentions that in some cases can drag on for more than a decade before an initial court appearance, according to the U.N. Many prisoners take turns sleeping on the floor while others simply stand or try to make hammocks and attach them to cell windows, paying someone to keep their spot.
In January 2010, some 400 detainees at the prison in Les Cayes rioted to protest the worsening conditions. Authorities said police killed at least 12 inmates, and up to 40 others were wounded.
Espérance, with the National Human Rights Defense Network, blamed the current situation on the government and said officials need to impose rule of law.
“The situation is getting worse every day,” he said. “They can only fix the problem for one or two weeks. After that, the problem will continue. Today, it’s Les Cayes. Tomorrow, it could be somewhere else.”
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Coto reported from San Juan, Puerto Rico. | 2022-06-23T23:16:50+00:00 | siouxlandproud.com | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/international/official-8-more-die-as-haiti-prisons-lack-food-water/ |
Local journalism is a cornerstone of democracy and a vital source of information for communities across the country, with newsrooms covering local politics, high school sports, local business openings, cultural events, and other matters that help a community remain vibrant and connected. But the industry is facing an existential crisis because of the unyielding power of Big Tech platforms such as Google and Facebook.
With less than four weeks left in this Congress, now is the time for the Senate to pass the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA) (S. 673 and H.R. 1735). The JCPA was favorably reported out of Committee on Sept. 22 with strong bipartisan support and now must head to the floor for a vote. The JCPA will hold tech giants accountable and provide a necessary lifeline for local papers, requiring Big Tech to compensate small and local outlets for the use of their content.
Big Tech benefits tremendously from journalism content, yet they refuse to pay local publishers fairly for the journalistic content that fuels their platforms. As a result, local papers are being replaced by tech platforms using black box algorithms designed to keep users inside their walled gardens – all while charging exorbitant ad fees – up to 70 percent of every advertising dollar.
Since 2000, U.S. newspaper circulation has dropped by half, with 31 million fewer daily newspapers in circulation in 2020. The vast majority of U.S. counties with no regular newspaper – “news deserts” – are in rural areas. Despite record audiences, since news outlets transitioned to digital, revenue has drastically declined.
The tech giants have built their empires by profiting off the hard work of journalists without fairly compensating them. And as local publications struggle to stay afloat, Big Tech has only doubled down on their anticompetitive practices, further consolidating their control over the flow of information.
This is fundamentally unfair, and the JCPA will bring about much-needed change.
The JCPA will benefit small and local publishers exclusively and impose severe penalties if the tech platforms do not negotiate with them in good faith. The bill has a limited scope of six years to address a broken marketplace, while the broader competitive landscape is fixed through other legislation and the courts. The JCPA also incentivizes publishers to hire more journalists and protects our Constitutional freedoms of speech and the press. The bill’s scope is limited to compensation and does not allow for negotiations around up/down ranking or display – it serves only to ensure fair compensation for local news outlets. The JCPA has strict transparency requirements on the terms of each agreement reached between tech platforms and journalism providers and establishes clarity in how news outlets spend the funds they receive.
News publishers around the world are being compensated by Big Tech. Australia passed a similar policy to the JCPA, the News Media Bargaining Code, for media organizations to bargain for payment, which has produced significant revenue (billions of dollars, if translated to the U.S. market) for hundreds of publications of all sizes. One Sydney journalism professor noted that she hadn’t seen her industry so financially robust in decades. There are so many open positions for reporters, they cannot all be filled, a signal of the improved economic health of the industry. The swift and clear successes of the Australian Code – and efforts in other countries such as Canada, the UK, European Union, and more – should serve to encourage the passage of the JCPA in the United States.
Thousands of hometown papers from across the political spectrum, as well as both Democrats and Republicans in Congress, support the JCPA. Moreover, in these highly polarized times, polling data found that 70 percent of Americans support the JCPA. The JCPA has such broad support because ultimately, it is about basic fairness.
Local papers cannot afford to endure several more years of Big Tech’s use and abuse, and time to take action is dwindling. If Congress does not act soon, we risk allowing social media to become America’s de facto local newspaper. The Senate must advance the JCPA to the Senate floor for a vote before the end of the year to rein in Big Tech and restore fairness to local journalism – one of the most important checks and balances we have against corporate power and government corruption – before it’s too late.
— The News/Media Alliance, a nonprofit association based in Washington, D.C., that advocates on behalf of journalism and news businesses
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Alabama made a leap into the NCAA Tournament’s top seeds two years ago only to fall short of the Final Four.
This time, the Crimson Tide has risen to the top of the field of 68 with a team that coach Nate Oats believes is better equipped to meet those expectations.
Alabama (29-5) gets to stay home as the No. 1 overall seed in the NCAA Tournament and the headliner of the South Region bracket after landing the program’s first-ever top seed when Sunday’s field of 68 teams was revealed. That came hours after the Tide closed out a second Southeastern Conference Tournament title in three seasons.
Alabama opens play in Birmingham on Thursday, facing the First Four winner between Texas A&M-Corpus Christi and Southeast Missouri State.
The Crimson Tide owned a 2-seed in the 2021 tournament taking place in the Indianapolis bubble due to the pandemic, but fell in the Sweet 16 to Final Four-bound UCLA. Oats figures this year’s team has more offensive punch, versatility, depth and rim protection.
“We’ve tried to build a team that can still win when we don’t shoot it well,” Oats said after the SEC title win in Nashville, Tennessee. “Can we be great on defense, rebound the ball well, take care of the ball? If we do that, even if we shoot poorly, I think we can generate enough free throws, rim shots to win.”
Alabama is one of four teams to rank in the top 20 of KenPom’s efficiency metrics for offense and defense, joining fellow No. 1 seed Houston, Texas (a 2-seed) and Connecticut (a 4-seed). It’s also one of the nation’s most prolific 3-point shooting teams, ranking fourth nationally in attempts per game (29.8) and 11th in makes (10.1).
Yet the success has come with the program dealing with the fallout of being tied to a murder case. Former Tide player Darius Miles and another man have been indicted on capital murder charges for the January shooting death of 23-year-old Jamea Harris.
The case also involves star freshman Brandon Miller, with a police investigator testifying last month that Miles texted Miller to bring him his gun that night. Neither Miller nor current player Jaden Bradley, who police said was also at the scene, have been charged and both have continued to play.
The program has compounded the scrutiny with public missteps, including Oats having to apologize for a set of comments and later for Miller’s pat-down routine during pregame introductions before a win against Arkansas.
“Obviously we never lose sight of the tragedy that’s kind of marked our season,” Oats said after the SEC Tournament. “It’s always there.”
TOP CHALLENGERS
Arizona is the No. 2 seed in the South after the Wildcats (28-6) won the Pac-12 Tournament for the second time in as many seasons under Tommy Lloyd. They have KenPom’s No. 4-ranked offense by averaging 120 points per 100 possessions.
Baylor is the No. 3 seed, with Scott Drew’s Bears (22-10) ranking as one of six teams to tally at least 10 wins against quadrant 1 teams to top a postseason resume.
VIRGINIA’S ADJUSTMENT
Virginia is the 4-seed after sharing the Atlantic Coast Conference regular-season title and before losing to Duke in the ACC Tournament final. But the Cavaliers lost starting forward Ben Vander Plas on the eve of the ACC Tournament to a season-ending injury, which has forced coach Tony Bennett to make a late-season rotation pivot that could be a factor in March.
That has meant more minutes for 6-foot-11 redshirt junior Kadin Shedrick, who went from not playing at all for the last two regular-season games to playing at least 17 minutes in three ACC tourney games.
HELLO AGAIN
There are some teams enjoying returns after lengthy absences, starting with Southern Conference champion Furman.
The 13th-seeded Paladins (27-7) will face the Cavaliers for their first tournament game since 1980 — three years before current coach Bob Richey was born. Their previous five NCAA bids all came between 1971 and 1978.
There’s also No. 11 seed North Carolina State and a 31-win team in College of Charleston as the 12-seed, with both in the field for the first time since 2018.
ROUNDING OUT THE BRACKET
Maryland earned the No. 8 seed in Year 1 under Kevin Willard and will face No. 9 seed West Virginia. Fifth-seeded San Diego State will face Charleston in what could be a popular 5-12 upset pick for bracket pools along with the Furman-Virginia matchup.
In the bottom of the bracket, Creighton is the 6-seed and will face N.C. State while Baylor will face 14th-seeded UC Santa Barbara. Missouri and Utah State meet in a 7-10 matchup while 15th-seeded Princeton faces Arizona.
ROAD TO HOUSTON
The regionals will be held in Louisville, Kentucky, which would have Alabama playing within its league footprint about 420 miles north of its Tuscaloosa campus.
The Crimson Tide is the favorite to reach the Final Four and the second-biggest favorite to win the title behind Houston, according to FanDuel Sportsbook. The seeds held with Arizona and Baylor next, though Creighton jumped ahead of Virginia and San Diego State to come out of the South.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said Thursday that the U.S. is developing “sharper rules” to track, monitor and potentially shoot down unknown aerial objects, following three weeks of high-stakes drama sparked by the discovery of a suspected Chinese spy balloon transiting much of the country.
The president has directed national security adviser Jake Sullivan to lead an “interagency team” to review U.S. procedures after the U.S. shot down the Chinese balloon, as well as three other objects that Biden said the U.S. now believes are most likely “benign” objects launched by private companies or research institutions.
While not expressing regret for downing the three still-unidentified objects, Biden said he hoped the new rules would help “distinguish between those that are likely to pose safety and security risks that necessitate action and those that do not.”
“Make no mistake, if any object presents a threat to the safety and security of the American people I will take it down,” he added, repeating the legal justification cited for the downings — that the objects, flying between 20,000 and 40,000 feet posed a remote risk to civilian planes.
The downing of the Chinese surveillance craft was the first known peacetime shootdown of an unauthorized object in U.S. airspace — a feat repeated three times a week later.
Biden sharply criticized China’s surveillance program, saying the shootdown sent a “clear message, the violation of our sovereignty is unacceptable,” but said he looks to maintain open lines of communication with Beijing. Secretary of State Antony Blinken postponed his first planned trip to China as the balloon was flying over the U.S., and a new meeting with his Chinese counterpart has yet to be scheduled.
“I expect to be speaking with President Xi and I hope we can get to the bottom of this,” Biden said, adding, “But I make no apologies for taking down that balloon.”
Biden said the rules would remain classified so as not to “give a roadmap to our enemies to try to evade our defenses.”
Rep. Jim Himes of Connecticut, the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said he expected the U.S. would keep its radar systems set going forward to detect slow-moving balloons as well as fast-moving aircraft and other possible intruders. But he said he had impressed on White House officials late Tuesday that security forces would have to fine-tune their response for when they spot balloons of unknown provenance.
“The White House scrambling fighters and tankers” and special forces, he said, “is not going to be a scalable solution to every bit of airborne junk.”
The Chinese balloon has escalated tensions between the U.S. and China. Blinken travels Thursday to the Munich Security Conference and there is speculation he might use the opportunity to meet top Chinese foreign policy official Wang Yi, who will also be attending the conference.
Biden had remained largely silent on the objects downed Friday off the coast of Alaska, Saturday over Canada and Sunday over Lake Huron. On Monday, the White House announced earnestly there was no indication of “aliens or extraterrestrial activity.” By Wednesday, U.S. officials said they were still working to locate the wreckage from the objects, but that they expected all three to be unrelated to surveillance efforts.
“The intelligence community is considering as a leading explanation that these could just be balloons tied to some commercial or benign purpose,” said White House national security spokesman John Kirby. No country or private company has come forward to claim any of the objects, Kirby said. They do not appear to have been operated by the U.S. government.
Still unaddressed are questions about the original balloon, including what spying capabilities it had and whether it was transmitting signals as it flew over sensitive military sites in the United States. It was believed by American intelligence to have initially been on a track toward the U.S. territory of Guam, according to a U.S. official.
The U.S. tracked it for several days after it left China, said the official, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive intelligence. It appears to have been blown off its initial trajectory and ultimately flew over the continental U.S., the official said.
Balloons and other unidentified objects have been previously spotted over Guam, a strategic hub for the U.S. Navy and Air Force in the western Pacific.
It’s unclear how much control China retained over the balloon once it veered from its original trajectory. A second U.S. official said the balloon could have been externally maneuvered or directed to loiter over a specific target, but it’s unclear whether Chinese forces did so.
After the balloon was shot down, the White House revealed that such balloons had traversed U.S. territory at least three times during President Donald Trump’s administration unknown to Trump or his aides — and that others have flown over dozens of nations across five continents. Kirby emphasized Monday that they were only detected by the Biden administration.
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AP writers Nomaan Merchant and Ellen Knickmeyer contributed. | 2023-02-17T16:41:03+00:00 | fox59.com | https://fox59.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-biden-to-speak-on-unknown-aerial-objects-amid-review/ |
Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon has signed into law the nation’s first explicit ban on abortion pills since they became the predominant choice for abortion in the U.S. in recent years.
Gordon, a Republican, signed the bill Friday night while allowing a separate measure restricting abortion to become law without his signature.
The pills are already banned in 13 states that have blanket bans on all forms of abortion, and 15 states already have limited access to abortion pills. Until now, however, no state had passed a law specifically prohibiting such pills, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a research group that supports abortion rights.
A group seeking to open an abortion and women’s health clinic in Casper said it was evaluating legal options.
“We are dismayed and outraged that these laws would eradicate access to basic health care, including safe, effective medication abortion,” Wellspring Health Access President Julie Burkhart said in a statement Saturday.
The clinic, which a firebombing prevented from opening last year, is one of two nonprofits suing to block an earlier Wyoming abortion ban. No arrests have been made, and organizers say the clinic is tentatively scheduled to open in April, depending on abortion’s legal status in Wyoming then.
The Republican governor’s decision on the two measures comes after the issue of access to abortion pills took center stage this week in a Texas court. A federal judge there raised questions about a Christian group’s effort to overturn the decades-old U.S. approval of a leading abortion drug, mifepristone.
Medication abortions became the preferred method for ending pregnancy in the U.S. even before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the ruling that protected the right to abortion for nearly five decades. A two-pill combination of mifepristone and another drug is the most common form of abortion in the U.S.
Wyoming’s ban on abortion pills would take effect in July, pending any legal action that could potentially delay that. The implementation date of the sweeping legislation banning all abortions that Gordon allowed to go into law is not specified in the bill.
With the earlier ban tied up in court, abortion currently remains legal in the state up to viability, or when the fetus could survive outside the womb.
In a statement, Gordon expressed concern that the latter law, dubbed the Life is a Human Right Act would result in a lawsuit that will “delay any resolution to the constitutionality of the abortion ban in Wyoming.”
He noted that earlier in the day, plaintiffs in an ongoing lawsuit filed a challenge to the new law in the event he did not issue a veto.
“I believe this question needs to be decided as soon as possible so that the issue of abortion in Wyoming can be finally resolved, and that is best done with a vote of the people,” Gordon said in a statement.
In a statement, Wyoming ACLU advocacy director Antonio Serrano criticized Gordon’s decision to sign the ban on abortion pills.
“A person’s health, not politics, should guide important medical decisions — including the decision to have an abortion,” Serrano said.
Of the 15 states that have limited access to the pills, six require an in-person physician visit. Those laws could withstand court challenges; states have long had authority over how physicians, pharmacists and other providers practice medicine.
States also set the rules for telemedicine consultations used to prescribe medications. Generally, that means health providers in states with restrictions on abortion pills could face penalties, such as fines or license suspension, for trying to send pills through the mail.
Women have already been traveling across state lines to places where abortion pill access is easier. That trend is expected to increase.
Since the reversal of Roe in June, abortion restrictions have been up to states, and the landscape has shifted quickly. Thirteen states now enforce bans on abortion at any point in pregnancy, and another, Georgia, bans it once cardiac activity can be detected, or at about six weeks’ gestation.
Courts have put on hold enforcement of abortion bans or deep restrictions in Arizona, Indiana, Montana, Ohio, South Carolina, Utah and Wyoming. Idaho courts have forced the state to allow abortions during medical emergencies. | 2023-03-18T19:18:08+00:00 | valleycentral.com | https://www.valleycentral.com/news/politics/ap-politics/wyoming-governor-signs-measure-prohibiting-abortion-pills/ |
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A child marriage bill is heading to the West Virginia governor’s desk after lawmakers agreed to let 16- and 17-year-olds get married with restrictions.
The House of Delegates passed the bill 83-9 without debate Saturday, a day after the Senate easily endorsed it after making changes to an earlier House version. Republican Gov. Jim Justice hasn’t publicly indicated whether he’ll sign it.
Currently, children can marry as young as 16 in West Virginia with parental consent, and anyone younger than that regardless of age can get married with a judge’s waiver.
The bill passed Saturday would remove the possibility that anyone younger than 16 could marry. Those ages 16 and 17 would have to obtain parental consent and they couldn’t marry someone more than four years older than them. Existing legal marriages, including those done in other states, would be unaffected.
The bill was thought to be dead on Wednesday night when the Senate Judiciary Committee rejected it, but the bill was resurrected by Sen. Charles Trump on the Senate floor Thursday and moved to Friday’s final vote. Saturday was the final day of the legislative session.
Some Democrats, including the bill’s sponsor, Del. Kayla Young of Kanawha County, had hoped to eliminated child marriage altogether, while some Republicans spoke about how they or their parents had married before adulthood and that such marriages protect families.
Young said the bill likely would have died without the Senate amendment. She said prior to the House’s vote that she was pleased that the bill prevents those younger than 16 from marrying and prohibits larger age gaps.
“This is a huge step to protecting our youngest children,” Young said on Twitter.
Seven states have set the minimum age for marriage at 18, all since 2018, according to the nonprofit group Unchained At Last, which seeks to end forced and child marriage. Supporters of such legislation say it reduces domestic violence, unwanted pregnancies and improves the lives of teens.
According to the Pew Research Center, West Virginia had the highest rate of child marriages among the states in 2014, when the state’s five-year average was 7.1 marriages for every 1,000 children ages 15 to 17. Recent figures were unavailable. | 2023-03-12T03:21:47+00:00 | valleycentral.com | https://www.valleycentral.com/news/national-news/ap-us-news/bill-banning-marriages-under-age-16-passes-in-west-virginia/ |
On Sunday night at the University of Michigan Medical School's annual white coat ceremony, incoming medical students recited oaths, received their white coats – then dozens of them walked out.
At issue was the keynote speaker: Dr. Kristin Collier, a Michigan faculty member and primary care physician who has spoken publicly about her Christian beliefs and anti-abortion views.
In a video posted online, dozens of students can be seen walking out of the auditorium as Collier began her address. The video, recorded and posted by Detroit resident Brendan Scorpio, has been viewed more than 11 million times.
Incoming medical students walk out at University of Michigan’s white coat ceremony as the keynote speaker is openly anti-abortion pic.twitter.com/Is7KmVV811
— Scorpiio (@PEScorpiio) July 24, 2022
In an interview with NPR, Scorpio, who attended the ceremony to support a friend in the incoming medical student class, estimated that roughly 70 of the 170 incoming students walked out, followed by some friends and family "in solidarity."
In total, he guessed, 35 to 40% of the audience took part in the walkout.
"The overall message that the students wanted to push was that reproductive rights, abortion, is health care," Scorpio said. "Reproductive rights for anyone who is able to give birth are incredibly important and should be something that's allowed to everyone in the country."
In an emailed statement, the University of Michigan said that Collier was chosen for the keynote address through a system of nominations and voting by a medical school honor society.
"The White Coat Ceremony is not a platform for discussion of controversial issues," the school's statement said. "Dr. Collier never planned to address a divisive topic as part of her remarks. However, the University of Michigan does not revoke an invitation to a speaker based on their personal beliefs."
The university remains "committed to providing high quality, safe reproductive care for patients, across all their reproductive health needs," including abortion care, the statement said.
Collier has served on Michigan's faculty for 17 years, according to her introduction by a dean, who described her as an "enormously popular" teacher and physician. She serves as director of the medical school's Health, Spirituality and Religion program.
Collier is a frequent speaker and panelist on issues of bioethics and the role of spirituality in healthcare. On her Twitter, she has written about racism, ageism and ableism in medicine and advocated for better healthcare access for incarcerated people and residents of rural America.
But it was her anti-abortion comments that came under scrutiny by Michigan medical students.
In an interview with a Catholic newsletter published last month, Collier said that she had been raised in a non-religious household and had come to Christianity – and her current anti-abortion views – as an adult, after finishing medical school and becoming a physician.
"[H]olding on to a view of feminism where one fights for the rights of all women and girls, especially those who are most vulnerable. I can't not lament the violence directed at my prenatal sisters in the act of abortion, done in the name of autonomy," Collier wrote in the days after the publication of a draft of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
holding on to a view of feminism where one fights for the rights of all women and girls, especially those who are most vulnerable. I can’t not lament the violence directed at my prenatal sisters in the act of abortion, done in the name of autonomy.
— Kristin Collier (@KristinCollie20) May 4, 2022
"Liberation that costs innocent lives is just oppression that is redistributed," she concluded.
After medical school officials invited her to speak at the ceremony, students circulated a petition calling for a change of speaker, citing anti-abortion comments in her tweets and public appearances. More than 400 students, alumni and faculty have reportedly signed it.
"An anti-choice speaker as a representative of the University of Michigan undermines the University's position on abortion and supports the non-universal, theology-rooted platform to restrict abortion access," the petition's authors wrote.
Abortion is legal in Michigan, though the procedure is subject to a number of restrictions, including a post-viability ban except when the mother's life is endangered. Women seeking an abortion in Michigan are subject to an "informed consent" law and must wait 24 hours before undergoing the procedure.
In her remarks on Sunday, Collier did not expressly mention abortion. Instead, she urged incoming students to retain their humanity as they move through their medical education and career.
truly grateful for the support, emails, texts, prayers and letters I’ve received from all over the world regarding the event that will happen today. i feel so bolstered by it. and for my team that have carried me daily thru this —I love you
— Kristin Collier (@KristinCollie20) July 24, 2022
"You can easily end up seeing your patients as a bag of blood and bones, or viewing life as molecules in motion," she said. "Get to know your patients as human beings, not just as their scans, labs, chemistry and data."
Before the ceremony, apparently in response to news of the petition calling for her removal as keynote speaker, Collier wrote on Twitter that she felt "truly grateful for the support, emails, texts, prayers and letters I've received from all over the world."
"[I] feel so bolstered by it. and for my team that have carried me daily thru this —I love you," she wrote.
Collier did not respond to NPR's request for comment.
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DALLAS, Dec. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ROC Energy Acquisition Corp. (Nasdaq: ROC) (the "Company") announced today that an affiliate of ROC Energy Holdings LLC (the "Sponsor"), has deposited an aggregate of $2,070,000 (representing $0.10 per public share) (the "Extension Payment") into the Company's trust account for its public stockholders. This deposit enables the Company to extend the date by which the Company has to complete its initial business combination from December 6, 2022 to March 6, 2023 (the "Extension"). The Extension is the first of two three-month extensions permitted under the Company's governing documents.
The affiliate of the Sponsor loaned the Extension Payment to the Company. The loan is non-interest bearing and convertible, at the lender's discretion, into units identical to the units issued in the Company's private placement that was consummated in connection with the Company's initial public offering.
The Company is a blank check company formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses. While the Company may pursue an acquisition in any business industry or sector, it intends to concentrate its efforts on the non-operated, upstream oil and gas sector in the U.S. The Company is led by Chief Executive Officer Daniel Jeffrey Kimes and Chief Financial Officer Rosemarie Cicalese.
This press release may include, and oral statements made from time to time by representatives of the Company may include, "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Statements regarding possible business combinations and the financing thereof, and related matters, as well as all other statements other than statements of historical fact included in this press release are forward-looking statements. When used in this press release, words such as "anticipate," "believe," "continue," "could," "estimate," "expect," "intend," "may," "might," "plan," "possible," "potential," "predict," "project," "should," "would" and similar expressions, as they relate to us or our management team, identify forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements are based on the beliefs of management, as well as assumptions made by, and information currently available to, the Company's management. Actual results could differ materially from those contemplated by the forward-looking statements as a result of certain factors detailed in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"). All subsequent written or oral forward-looking statements attributable to us or persons acting on our behalf are qualified in their entirety by this paragraph. Forward-looking statements are subject to numerous conditions, many of which are beyond the control of the Company, including those set forth in the Risk Factors section of the Company's registration statement and prospectus for the Company's initial public offering filed with the SEC. The Company undertakes no obligation to update these statements for revisions or changes after the date of this release, except as required by law.
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EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Noah Lyles pulled in front of teenage sensation Erriyon Knighton at the finish to win the 200 meters at the U.S. track and field championships Sunday.
“I do what it takes to win,” proclaimed Lyles, who cheekily pointed to Knighton as he hit the tape in 19.67 seconds.
Lyles won the 200 at the 2019 world championships in Doha and the bronze medal at the Tokyo Olympics last summer. He’ll be challenged again by Knighton in the worlds next month in Eugene.
“Job not finished,” said Knighton, just 18.
Temperatures in the mid-90s greeted athletes for the final day of the competition at Hayward Field. Events moved to earlier in the day because of the heat.
The top three finishers in each event will be on the U.S. team for the world championships, given they have met the required performance standard.
Olympic gold medalist Athing Mu was challenged the last 100 meters by Ajee Wilson, but pushed to finish first in the 800 in 1:57.16.
“It was a fast field, we were all together kind of throughout the whole race. I felt like we’d still be together the last 100, I just wanted to try my best to finish strong,” Mu said. “Ajee was right on me, I had to push a little harder to get to the line.”
Sha’Carri Richardson did not qualify for Sunday’s 200 final, her only remaining chance to make the U.S. team for the worlds. Her time in the semifinal, 22.47 seconds, put her out of contention. She did not comment to reporters afterward.
Richardson also failed to make the field for Friday’s 100 meter final, which was won by Melissa Jefferson of Coastal Carolina. Richardson’s failure to qualify for the finals in either race was something of a surprise, given her form at recent meets.
With her ever-changing hair color and long nails, Richardson grabbed attention at last year’s Olympic trails with a statement-making win in the 100. But she was suspended because of a positive test for marijuana, which kept her off the team sent to the Tokyo Games.
Abby Steiner of Kentucky, who set a college record in the 200 at this year’s NCAA championships, won the event in 21.77, the leading time in the world this season and a personal best.
Daniel Roberts won the 110 hurdles in 13:03. Two-time Olympian Devon Allen, the fan favorite who ran track and played football at Oregon, finished third to make the team for worlds.
Allen is trying to balance track life and football after recently signing with the Philadelphia Eagles as a wide receiver. At worlds, the 110 hurdles are set for July 17. Eagles players are slated to report for training camp nine days later.
Bryce Hoppel made his second straight U.S. team for worlds in the 800, finishing in 1:44.60. He was followed by Jonah Kowech, who achieved the standard with his finish, and Brandon Miller, who threw himself over the line to secure third.
“I just wanted it so much,” Miller said.
Rai Benjamin won the 400 hurdles in 1:44.60, best in the world this season. Benjamin was coming off a bout with COVID-19 that drained his energy.
“This weekend was a lot on me, I’m kind of banged up, obviously, but I’m just happy to come out and get the win today. Going to worlds,” Benjamin said.
Emma Coburn won her 10th national title in the steeplechase, finishing in a season-best 9:10.63.
Chase Ealey won the shot put at a meet-record 67 feet, 3 1/2 inches (20.51 meters). Elise Cranny won the national title in the 5,000.
On the men’s side, Grant Fisher won the 5,000 in a meet-record 13:03.86. Donald Scott won the title in the triple jump, while Shelby McEwen won the high jump and Ethan Dobbs won the javelin.
Hayward Field, on the University of Oregon campus underwent $200 million in renovations to host the worlds, track and field’s biggest event outside of the Olympics.
It is the first time that the world championships will be held on American soil. | 2022-06-27T03:27:24+00:00 | ourquadcities.com | https://www.ourquadcities.com/sports/lyles-edges-knighton-for-the-national-title-in-the-200/ |
Leading Fitness Franchise Expands into the Texas Market with the First of Over 30 New Health Clubs
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., Jan. 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Retro Fitness, one of the fastest growing health club franchises, today announced the opening of the first clubs under Project LIFT, a new company initiative to open 500 health clubs in 50 Black and Brown communities across the country over the next 5 years. BlackRock's Impact Opportunities Fund and James Collins, Managing Partner of Eastwood Capital Partners, together have committed to developing a minimum of 80 new Retro Fitness Health Clubs in four different regions in the country, the first of which are now open in Dallas, Texas.
"We are excited to partner with James Collins on our Project LIFT initiative and to announce the first four new health clubs in Dallas, Texas," said Andrew Alfano, Chief Executive Officer at Retro Fitness. "This investment is the largest development deal in the history of the company, more importantly we are proud that it is about making a significant difference and giving back to Black and Brown communities."
Retro Fitness is looking to incentivize others to take this journey with them. Project LIFT investors will benefit by receiving a waived franchise fee and 50% off year one royalties. Additionally, Retro Fitness will be donating a percentage of its royalties back to an organization within the community for the life of the business. This initiative further supports Retro Fitness' commitment to making a lasting, profound impact on the health club industry and the communities in which they serve.
"It has been extremely gratifying working with the Retro Fitness team and seeing the first health club locations under its Project LIFT initiative come to life," said James Collins, Managing Partner at Eastwood Capital Partners. "I'm excited to see the positive impact we make with these first locations in the greater Dallas area, and I'm even more excited to continue my partnership with the Retro Fitness team as we open more health clubs for local communities to benefit from, in more ways than one."
As a world class franchise, Retro Fitness is one of the few franchisors in any industry that offers a true, full suite of services. In addition to real estate site selection and negotiation, construction and delivery of a true turnkey box, dedicated area managers and a Support Center for training and development, they also offer services that consist of an in-house media agency, call center, accounting services and more, all to ensure franchisees and investors are supported from the start.
The first four locations are now open in the greater Dallas area. For more information on the addresses of the new locations, please see below:
- Mesquite-Galloway Avenue, 2524 N. Galloway Avenue, Mesquite
- Dallas-Beltline Rd. 7989 Belt Line Road, Ste #200, Dallas
- Richardson-Beltline Rd. 1301 E. Beltline Road, Richardson
- Garland-Broadway Blvd. 3265 Broadway Blvd Suite 102, Garland
For more information on how to become an investor in Project LIFT, please visit RetroFitness.com/Franchising/Project-LIFT/.
For nearly 20 years, Retro Fitness has been providing members with a timeless approach to exercise, health and fitness. With 200 health clubs open or in development, Retro Fitness is one of the fastest growing High Value-Low Price fitness franchises in the United States. With a new executive leadership team led by former Starbucks executive, Andrew Alfano, Retro Fitness provides investors and franchisees with a full suite of services including real estate site selection, training, in-club support, marketing services, and operations to deliver a turnkey and operational solution.
James Collins is an experienced private equity investor. During his 22 years of private equity investing, Collins has been an integral member of deal teams that have invested approximately $0.5 billion of equity capital in several platform investments – consumer products and retail, business services, communications, and transportation and logistics companies. Prior to working as a private equity investor, Collins worked as a strategic management consultant and mergers and acquisitions investment banker at Bain & Company, Inc. and Bowles Hollowell Connor & Co., respectively. Collins earned his Bachelor of Business Administration from Howard University and his Master in Business Administration from Harvard Business School. He currently sits on corporate and not-for-profit boards of directors, including Points of Light, the world's largest organization dedicated to volunteer service, Board of Directors, chairing its Finance, Investment and Audit Committee, and serving as a member of Points of Light's Executive Committee.
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Memorial services and funerals for three of the seven people killed when a gunman opened fire on a July Fourth parade in Highland Park, Illinois, are scheduled for Friday, the first formal opportunity to grieve the deaths of two beloved grandfathers and a former synagogue preschool teacher who were fatally shot.
Services are scheduled for 63-year-old Jacquelyn Sundheim, 88-year-old Stephen Straus and 78-year-old Nicolas Toledo-Zaragoza.
The accused 21-year-old gunman was charged Wednesday with seven counts of first-degree murder in the attack. Prosecutors have said they also expect to bring attempted murder charges against him; more than 30 people were wounded in the attack in the affluent northern Chicago suburb home to about 30,000 people near the Lake Michigan shore.
Services for another victim, 69-year-old Eduardo Uvaldo, are scheduled for Saturday.
Details about the remaining victims have not been made public. Authorities have identified them as 35-year-old Irina McCarthy and 37-year-old Kevin McCarthy who were attending the parade with their 2-year-old son; and 64-year-old Katherine Goldstein, a mother of two.
Additional reporting by The Associated Press.
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MOSCOW — A Russian court has started hearing American basketball star Brittney Griner’s appeal against her nine-year prison sentence for drug possession.
Griner, an eight-time all-star center with the WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury and a two-time Olympic gold medalist, was convicted Aug. 4 after police said they found vape canisters containing cannabis oil in her luggage at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport.
Griner took part in the session via video call from a penal colony outside Moscow where she has been held.
Griner admitted having the canisters in her luggage but testified she inadvertently packed them in haste and had no criminal intent. Her defense team presented written statements that she had been prescribed cannabis to treat pain.
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KEY DEVELOPMENTS:
– ‘They took my big love’: Ukraine woman searches for answers
– German president arrives in Ukraine as tensions rise
– EXPLAINER: Dirty bombs sow fear and panic, cause few deaths
– Ukraine hospital’s staff fight dark memories of occupation
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MOSCOW — The Kremlin-backed head of the Russian region of Chechnya has called for wiping out entire cities in Ukraine in retaliation for Ukrainian shelling of Russia’s territory.
Authorities in Russia’s Kursk and Belgorod regions that border Ukraine have repeatedly reported Ukrainian shelling that damaged infrastructure and residential buildings.
Ramzan Kadyrov, the regional leader of Chechnya, previously sent troops from the region to fight in Ukraine. He said Tuesday that Russia’s response to the alleged Ukrainian attacks has been too subdued.
“Our response has been too weak,” Kadyrov said in a statement posted on his messaging app channel. “If a shell flies into our region, entire cities must be wiped off the face of the Earth so that they don’t ever think that they can fire in our direction.”
Kadyrov has repeatedly made hawkish statements urging the Kremlin to intensify the war in Ukraine.
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KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine’s presidential office said Tuesday that at least seven civilians have been killed and three others have been wounded in the latest Russian shelling of the eastern Donetsk region.
The attacks came as the Russians pressed their offensive on the strategically placed towns of Bakhmut and Avdiivka and also shelled other areas in the Donetsk region, which is part of Ukraine’s industrial heartland of Donbas.
As part of its attacks over the past 24 hours, the Russian military also again struck the cities of Nikopol and Marhanets facing the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant across the Dnieper, damaging residential buildings, a factory and water supply network.
In the Mykolaiv region, Russian shelling damaged residential buildings and a kindergarten.
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BERLIN — German and European Union leaders have gathered experts in Berlin to start work on a “new Marshall plan” for the rebuilding of Ukraine.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Tuesday that the aim is to discuss “how to ensure and how to sustain the financing of the recovery, reconstruction and modernization of Ukraine for years and decades to come.”
Scholz, who co-hosted the meeting with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, said he’s looking for “nothing less than creating a new Marshall plan for the 21st century — a generational task that must begin now.” That was a reference to the U.S.-sponsored plan that helped revive Western European economies after World War II.
Von der Leyen said the World Bank puts the cost of damage to Ukraine so far at 350 billion euros ($345 billion).
She said that, in addition to longer-term help, “Ukraine needs fast rehabilitation right now as we speak” as Russia targets Ukrainian electricity and other infrastructure ahead of the onset of the winter. She called those “pure acts of terror.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy emphasized that point in a video address from Kyiv. He said that Ukraine has a $17 billion “fast recovery” plan to repair damage to hospitals, schools, transport and energy infrastructure among other things, but “as of now we haven’t received a single cent for the implementation of the fast recovery plan.”
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre said Tuesday that “the messages from the Russian leadership indicate that Russia is steering toward a long-term break with the West.”
“An isolated Russia is bad news,” Gahr Støre said, according to Norwegian broadcaster NRK. “It is disturbing that today there is so little contact and direct communication with Russia. It weakens the possibility of finding a negotiated end to the war.”
In a speech to the Norwegian parliament, Gahr Støre said that after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 28, “we clearly see how much is at stake.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin “takes high risks. And the willingness to take risks seems to increase in line with bad news from the battlefield,” he said according to Norwegian news agency NTB. “We are now in the most demanding security political situation since World War II.”
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BERLIN — Germany’s president has arrived in Kyiv for his first visit to Ukraine since Russia’s invasion began eight months ago.
President Frank-Walter Steinmeier said after arriving Tuesday that “it was important to me in this phase of air attacks with drones, cruise missiles and rockets to send a signal of solidarity to Ukrainians,” German news agency dpa reported.
Steinmeier plans to meet President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during his visit.
The German president, whose position is largely ceremonial, made it to Ukraine at his third attempt.
In April, he hoped to visit with his Polish and Baltic counterparts, but said his presence “apparently … wasn’t wanted in Kyiv.” Steinmeier has been criticized in Ukraine for allegedly cozying up to Russia during his time as foreign minister.
Last week, a planned trip was put off because of security concerns.
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PHILADELPHIA, July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bartlett Bearing Company, Inc., an independent authorized distributor of bearings and accessories headquartered in Philadelphia, PA, debuted their new company brochure at this year's EASA Convention in St. Louis. The 20-page full color brochure marks the company's recent brand update with a sleek new design, the first printed version since 2014.
"Bartlett Bearing is proud to be family-owned and operated, as we have been since 1951," says the company's President, Sarah Musser. "This brochure helps to illustrate the values our customers have come to know us by, as well as give people the opportunity to see what kind of benefit we can offer them from a products and service standpoint."
The brochure represents Bartlett Bearing's commitment to its customers, highlighting the history of the company, while showcasing its products and services.
"Over the decades we have been in business, our customers have come to know Bartlett Bearing for our dependability, technical expertise, and the unparalleled inventory we offer," stated Mike Pulley, Vice President of Sales and Operations for the company. "Our real value still lies in the people that make this possible and I think this latest brochure does a great job of really highlighting that."
The brochure is available for digital download by visiting www.bartlettbearing.com/brochure/
Physical copies are available upon request.
Bartlett Bearing Company, Inc. is a family-owned and operated bearing distributor founded in 1951, specializing in serving the electro-mechanical repair industry nationwide. Bartlett has grown to six, fully stocked locations as Authorized Distributors for major manufacturers such as SKF, Timken, NTN, Koyo, The Schaeffler Group, and many more. With over 70 years of experience, our highly knowledgeable staff strives to provide the highest quality service for our customers 24/7/365. For more information, visit our website at www.bartlettbearing.com.
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CHAMPAIGN — Jeffrey V. Nesbitt, 64, of Champaign died at 4:26 p.m. Wednesday (July 27, 2022) at Carle Foundation Hospital, Urbana. Funeral arrangements were incomplete at Leek & Sons Funeral Home, 1215 W. Bradley Ave., Urbana. | 2022-07-30T05:29:04+00:00 | news-gazette.com | https://www.news-gazette.com/obituaries/jeffrey-v-nesbitt/article_a0c0f328-0f93-11ed-9260-6b9c71f765b4.html |
TikTok dismisses calls for Chinese owners to sell stakes
Washington — TikTok was dismissive Wednesday of reports that the Biden administration was calling for its Chinese owners to sell their stakes in the popular video-sharing app, saying such a move wouldn't help protect national security.
The company was responding to a report in The Wall Street Journal that said the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S., part of the Treasury Department, was threatening a U.S. ban on the app unless its owners, Beijing-based ByteDance Ltd., divested.
“If protecting national security is the objective, divestment doesn’t solve the problem: a change in ownership would not impose any new restrictions on data flows or access," TikTok spokesperson Maureen Shanahan said. "The best way to address concerns about national security is with the transparent, U.S.-based protection of U.S. user data and systems, with robust third-party monitoring, vetting, and verification, which we are already implementing.”
The Journal report cited anonymous “people familiar with the matter.” The Treasury Department and the White House’s National Security Council declined to comment.
Late last month, the White House gave all federal agencies 30 days to wipe TikTok off all government devices.
The Office of Management and Budget called the guidance a “critical step forward in addressing the risks presented by the app to sensitive government data.” Some agencies, including the Departments of Defense, Homeland Security and State, already have restrictions in place. The White House already does not allow TikTok on its devices.
Congress passed the “No TikTok on Government Devices Act” in December as part of a sweeping government funding package. The legislation does allow for TikTok use in certain cases, including for national security, law enforcement and research purposes.
Meanwhile, lawmakers in both the House and Senate have been moving forward with legislation that would give the Biden administration more power to clamp down on TikTok.
Rep. Mike McCaul, the chairman of the House Foreign Relations Committee, has been a vocal critic of the app, saying the Chinese Communist Party is using it to “manipulate and monitor its users while it gobbles up Americans’ data to be used for their malign activities.”
“Anyone with TikTok downloaded on their device has given the CCP a backdoor to all their personal information. It’s a spy balloon into your phone,” the Texas Republican said.
TikTok remains extremely popular and is used by two-thirds of teens in the U.S. But there is increasing concern that Beijing could obtain control of American user data that the app has obtained.
The company has been dismissive of the ban for federal devices and has noted that it is developing security and data privacy plans as part of the Biden administration’s ongoing national security review. | 2023-03-16T03:19:28+00:00 | detroitnews.com | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/2023/03/15/tiktok-dismisses-calls-for-chinese-owners-to-sell-stakes/70014657007/ |
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia took aim Sunday at Western military supplies for Ukraine, launching airstrikes on Kyiv that it claimed destroyed tanks donated from abroad. Ukraine said the missiles hit a train repair shop. Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that any Western deliveries of long-range rocket systems to Ukraine would prompt Moscow to hit “objects that we haven’t yet struck.”
The cryptic threat of a military escalation from the Russian leader didn’t specify what the new targets might be, but it comes days after the United States announced plans to deliver $700 million of security assistance for Ukraine. Those weapons include four precision-guided, medium-range rocket systems, as well as helicopters, Javelin anti-tank weapon systems, radars, tactical vehicles and more.
Military analysts say Russia is hoping to overrun Ukraine’s embattled eastern industrial Donbas region, where Russia-backed separatists have fought the Ukrainian government since 2014, before any U.S. weapons that might turn the tide arrive. The Pentagon said last week it will take at least three weeks to get the U.S. weapons onto the battlefield.
Russian air strikes in the eastern city of Druzhkivka destroyed buildings and left at least one person dead, a Ukrainian official said Sunday. Residents described waking to the sound of missile strikes, with rubble and glass falling down around them.
“It was like in a horror movie,” Svitlana Romashkina said.
Donetsk governor Pavlo Kyrylenko urged city residents to leave, saying on Facebook that ruined buildings can be restored but “we won’t be able to bring back the lives lost.”
The Russian Defense Ministry said air-launched precision missiles were used to destroy workshops in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine, including in Druzhkivka, that were repairing damaged Ukrainian military equipment.
Meanwhile, Ukraine’s General Staff said Russian forces fired five X-22 cruise missiles from the Caspian Sea toward Kyiv, and one was destroyed by air defenses. Four other missiles hit “infrastructure facilities,” but Ukraine said there were no casualties.
Nuclear plant operator Energoatom said one cruise missile buzzed close to the Pivdennoukrainsk nuclear plant, 350 kilometers (220 miles) to the south, and warned of the possibility of a nuclear catastrophe if even one missile fragment hit the plant.
On the Telegram app, the Russian Defense Ministry said high-precision, long-range air-launched missiles were used on the outskirts of Kyiv, destroying T-72 tanks supplied by Eastern European countries and other armored vehicles in a train car repair shop.
But the head of Ukraine’s railway system rejected the claim that tanks were inside. Oleksandr Kamyshin said four missiles hit the Darnytsia car repair plant, but no military equipment has been stored there. He said the site was used to repair gondolas and carriers for exporting grain.
“Russia has once again lied,” he wrote on Telegram. “Their (Russia’s) real goal is the economy and the civilian population. They want to block our ability to export Ukrainian products.”
In a television interview that aired Sunday, Putin lashed out at Western deliveries of weapons to Ukraine, saying they aim to prolong the conflict.
“All this fuss around additional deliveries of weapons, in my opinion, has only one goal: To drag out the armed conflict as much as possible,” Putin said. He insisted such supplies were unlikely to change the military situation for Ukraine’s government, which he said was merely making up for losses of similar rockets.
If Kyiv gets longer-range rockets, he added, Moscow will “draw appropriate conclusions and use our means of destruction, which we have plenty of, in order to strike at those objects that we haven’t yet struck.”
The U.S. has stopped short of offering Ukraine longer-range weapons that could fire deep into Russia. But the four medium-range High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems in the security package include launchers on wheels that allow troops to strike a target and then quickly move away — which could be useful against Russian artillery on the battlefield.
The Spanish daily El Pais reported Sunday that Spain was planning to supply anti-aircraft missiles and up to 40 Leopard 2 A4 battle tanks to Ukraine. Spain’s Ministry of Defense did not comment on the report.
A billowing pillar of smoke filled the air with an acrid odor in Kyiv’s eastern Darnystki district over the charred, blackened wreckage of a warehouse-type structure. Soldiers blocked off a nearby road leading toward a large railway yard.
Before Sunday’s early-morning attack, Kyiv hadn’t faced any such Russian air strikes since the April 28 visit of U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres. The attack triggered air raid alarms and showed that Russia still had the capability and willingness to hit at Ukraine’s heart, despite refocusing its efforts to capture Ukrainian territory in the east.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24 has led to untold tens of thousands of civilian and troop deaths, driven millions from their homes, sparked strong sanctions against Putin’s government and allies and strangled exports of critical wheat and other grains from Ukraine through Black Sea ports. That has caused bread shortages and rising prices that are hurting low-income countries in Africa, the Middle East and beyond.
In recent days, Russian forces have focused on capturing Ukraine’s eastern cities of Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk. On Sunday they continued their push, with missile and airstrikes on cities and villages in the Donbas.
The U.K. military said in its daily intelligence update that Ukrainian counterattacks in Sieverodonetsk were “likely blunting the operational momentum Russian forces previously gained through concentrating combat units and firepower.” Russian forces previously had been making a string of advances in the city, but Ukrainian fighters have pushed back in recent days.
The statement also said Russia’s military was partly relying on reserve forces of Luhansk separatists.
“These troops are poorly equipped and trained, and lack heavy equipment in comparison to regular Russian units,” the intelligence update said, adding the move “indicates a desire to limit casualties suffered by regular Russian forces.”
Far from the battlefield, Ukraine’s national soccer players are hoping to secure a World Cup spot when the team takes on Wales later Sunday in Cardiff.
On the diplomatic front, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov was heading to Serbia for talks with President Aleksandar Vucic, followed by a visit to Turkey on Tuesday, where the war in Ukraine is expected to be a key topic.
Turkey has been trying to work with U.N. and the warring countries to clear the way for Ukrainian grain to be exported to Turkish ports, though no deal appeared imminent.
Ukrainian authorities said Ukraine and Russia had exchanged bodies of killed troops, in the first officially confirmed swap. Ukraine said Saturday each side had exchanged 160 bodies two days earlier on the front line in the southern Zaporizhzhia region.
Russian officials haven’t commented on the exchange.
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Follow AP’s coverage of the Ukraine war at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine | 2022-06-05T16:44:30+00:00 | wivb.com | https://www.wivb.com/news/russian-missiles-strike-kyiv-shattering-sense-of-calm/ |
Sustainability commitment backed by large investment
WYLIE, Texas, Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Design and construction professionals today are tasked with selecting products that have the lightest impact on the environment. Those who understand the entire life cycle of building materials can help create a more sustainable building industry.
Carlisle Coatings & Waterproofing (CCW) is helping that effort by providing four Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs), covering most products in its waterproofing and air and vapor barrier lines.
EPDs are independent third party assessments using standard methods and metrics to quantify a product's impact on the environment. CCW's EPDs are product specific with cradle-to-gate scope. "Cradle to gate" addresses the environmental impact from raw material extraction to production of the finished good, staged, and ready for shipment to the customer.
"Securing an EPD requires considerable time and financial resources," says Brian Carey, product manager for commercial air barriers with Carlisle Weatherproofing Technologies. "It requires an ethical, disciplined organization to provide the facts and data to the independent parties for the EPD inputs. We are happy to provide EPDs to help our customers assess the environmental impact of their projects."
The CCW EPDs can contribute to one point in LEED v4 Materials and Resources "MR" section, "Building Product Disclosure and Optimization" category. Go here for more information.
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Austria: 35 migrants found in trailer, driver arrested
BERLIN (AP) — Police say 35 migrants were found in the trailer of a truck in southern Austria after the vehicle was damaged and an employee at a repair workshop heard noises from inside. The driver was arrested. The Polish-registered vehicle drove the wrong way out of a highway rest area on Wednesday afternoon, triggering traffic spikes that damaged its tires and caused some of them to catch fire. The truck was taken to a garage for repairs. Several hours after the highway incident, a garage employee noticed noises and voices coming from the sealed trailer, police said. Another employee, using an infrared camera, saw evidence of movement inside the vehicle. | 2023-04-06T16:10:46+00:00 | krdo.com | https://krdo.com/news/2023/04/06/austria-35-migrants-found-in-trailer-driver-arrested/ |
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KALAMAZOO, Mich. (AP) _ Stryker Corp. (SYK) on Thursday reported first-quarter profit of $323 million.
On a per-share basis, the Kalamazoo, Michigan-based company said it had net income of 84 cents. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs and amortization costs, came to $1.97 per share.
The results exceeded Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of 12 analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $1.93 per share.
The medical device maker posted revenue of $4.28 billion in the period, which also topped Street forecasts. Ten analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $4.2 billion.
Stryker expects full-year earnings in the range of $9.60 to $10 per share.
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The remains of a West Virginia soldier killed during the Korean War will be buried next month.
Graveside services for U.S. Army Cpl. Paul Mitchem, 20, of Avondale, will be held Sept. 2 at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, the Army said in a news release.
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency accounted for Mitchem in February 2021. He was a member of Company K, 3rd Battalion, 34th Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division.
Mitchem was reported missing in action in July 1950 after his unit sustained heavy casualties near Ch'onan, South Korea. His unit was forced to retreat and his body was not initially found.
Remains recovered in October 1950 were determined to be unidentifiable and were buried in Honolulu, Hawaii. Remains exhumed in 2019 from the Punchbowl cemetery were confirmed as Mitchem though DNA testing and dental and anthropological analysis.
A rosette will be placed next to his name on the Courts of the Missing Walls at the Punchbowl to indicate he has been accounted for.
According to the Army, more than 7,500 Americans remain unaccounted for from the Korean War. | 2022-08-22T07:39:39+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/Remains-of-WVa-soldier-killed-in-Korean-War-to-be-17388771.php |
HARRISON TOWNSHIP, MI -- A 27-year-old woman was killed early Sunday morning after a fire started in her apartment that appears to be cooking related. According to Fox 2 Detroit, firefighters were dispatched to the Lake St. Clair Apartments around 3:50 a.m. after a resident of the complex saw flames coming from an apartment window.
Firefighters were able to gain access to the apartment where the flames were seen and discovered Taryn Gainey, who was transported to a nearby hospital. Gainey was declared dead on arrival and police say foul play is not suspected.
Several neighbors suffered from smoke inhalation due to the fire and many residents have been displaced by the blaze.
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Sen. Marshall touts legislation earmarking unused COVID funds for school security
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - An estimated $150.1 billion of available COVID funds has yet to be spent by schools according to U.S. Senator Roger Marshall. Thursday (6/9), he and U.S. Congressman Mike Garcia (CA-25) introduced the Safe Schools Act legislation. The law would allow COVID relief dollars for the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) fund to be used by schools to “harden themselves” with physical security measures. According to a news release, that would include locks, panic buttons, individual room security systems, video surveillance, and hiring and paying the salaries of armed school resource officers. Current ESSER guidelines require expenses be related to COVID-19.
According to Marshall’s office, the Kansas Department of Education has only spent $261.3 million of the $1.28 billion funds awarded to it. Nationally, of the $189.5 billion of COVID money for schools, state education agencies have yet to spend 79.2% of it or $150.1 billion.
“What happened in Uvalde was a horrific tragedy,” Senator Marshall said. “While many have been quick to play politics, one thing we can all agree on is that Congress must act to harden schools. For these reasons, I am introducing this legislation that allows the abundance of unused COVID relief dollars to be diverted to secure schools in Kansas and throughout the nation.”
Rep. Garcia agreed. “Now more than ever, we must be proactive in securing our schools. All Constitutional options need to be examined to ensure our children are safe in the classroom. I’m proud to join Senator Marshall in introducing the Safe Schools Act, a common-sense bill that would allow schools to spend leftover COVID relief funds on crucial security improvements to protect students from harm.”
According to the news release, there were 67 disrupted plots against K-12 schools from 2006-2018 – 66% of the schools had no system for alerting officials to concerns or threats.
Text of Senator Marshall’s Safe School’s Act is available HERE. Senators Tim Scott (SC), Thom Tillis (NC), Steve Daines (MT), Rick Scott (FL), Chuck Grassley (IA), Todd Young (IN), and Mike Braun (IN) have cosponsored the legislation.
Copyright 2022 WIBW. All rights reserved. | 2022-06-09T16:17:23+00:00 | kwch.com | https://www.kwch.com/2022/06/09/sen-marshall-touts-legislation-earmarking-unused-covid-funds-school-security/ |
NEW YORK, Oct. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Gross Law Firm issues the following notice to shareholders of Fulgent Genetics, Inc..
Shareholders who purchased shares of FLGT 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: March 22, 2019 to August 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: (i) Fulgent had been conducting medically unnecessary laboratory testing, engaging in improper billing practices in relation to laboratory testing, and providing or receiving remuneration in violation of the Anti-Kickback Statute and Stark Law; (ii) accordingly, Fulgent was likely to become subject to enhanced legal and regulatory scrutiny; (iii) Fulgent's revenues, to the extent they were derived from the foregoing unlawful conduct, were unsustainable; (iv) the foregoing, once revealed, was likely to subject the Company to significant financial and/or reputational harm; and (v) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
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The 2024 Mazda 3 sedan rolls into the new model year with standard blind-spot monitors and a significant price hike of $1,620 from last year’s base car, Mazda disclosed Tuesday.
The base 2024 Mazda 3 sedan costs $25,335, including a $1,165 destination fee. That makes it about $500 more than the 2024 Honda Civic and at least $3,000 more than the 2023 Hyundai Elantra. The price hikes decrease as the trim levels increase for other models. In the five other trims, the Mazda 3 can be had as a sedan or hatchback, but the 2.5 S Premium with the 6-speed manual only comes as a hatchback.
The newly standard blind-spot monitors complement other standard driver-assist tech including automatic emergency braking, adaptive cruise control, active lane control, a rear door alert, and automatic high beams. Standard convenience features include cloth upholstery, 16-inch wheels, keyless start, as well as a convoluted 8.8-inch infotainment display with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto.
The Mazda 3 comes with a choice between two engines this year, with base models designated as 2.5 S getting a 2.5-liter inline-4 making 191 hp and 186 lb-ft of torque. A 6-speed automatic transmission sends power to the front wheels, except on the Premium grade that swaps in a 6-speed manual. All-wheel drive is limited to only a few of the seven trims listed below.
Top line Turbo models use a 2.5-liter turbo-4 that generates 227 hp and 310 lb-ft (250 hp and 320 lb-ft with 93-octane fuel) and the two Turbo models come standard with all-wheel drive and the 6-speed automatic.
The 2.5 S Select Sport costs $790 more than the 2023 Mazda 3 2.5 S Select. It adds synthetic leather seats, a leather-wrapped steering wheel and shift knob, and it rides on 18-inch aluminum alloy wheels. It can be had as a sedan for $25,855, and it also serves as the entry point for hatchback models at $26,855.
The 2.5 S Preferred costs $640 more at $27,355 or $1,200 more with the hatchback. Standard features include a sunroof, synthetic leather, heated front seats, and a power driver seat.
The S Carbon Edition only comes with all-wheel drive this year and costs $30,225, which is only $560 more than last year’s AWD model. The hatchback costs $1,200 more. It builds off the Preferred trim but the inside pops with red leather upholstery.
The 2.5 S Premium only comes with front-wheel drive and a 6-speed manual and only as a hatchback, and costs $31,525. Mazda doesn’t bundle a manual transmission with the Turbo engine or AWD, though.
The Turbo models start with the 2.5 Carbon Turbo model with standard all-wheel drive and a price of $32,915 for the sedan; the hatchback is $1,200 more. Black trim elements complement 18-inch black metallic wheels on the outside, and the inside features a 10.3-inch touchscreen with wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, as well as wireless smartphone charging.
The top-of-the line 2.5 Turbo Premium Plus costs $36,615 for the sedan and $37,815 for the hatchback. Standard features include a Bose 12-speaker sound system, a surround-view camera system, rear parking sensors, navigation, and traffic sign recognition.
The 2024 Mazda 3 hatchback goes on sale this summer, followed by the sedan in the fall.
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In a 2024 Republican presidential field full of long-shot candidates, Miami Mayor Francis Suarez may be — on paper anyway — the longest long shot of all.
No sitting mayor has ever been elected U.S. president, a job that historically has been won by governors, vice presidents, senators or Cabinet secretaries. Some former mayors have become commander in chief, but only after serving in higher-profile positions.
None of that has deterred Suarez, who announced his campaign this past week by talking up his experience leading the city of about 450,000 residents. Being a two-term mayor of Miami, he said, has helped him understand and confront issues facing most Americans, such as crime and homelessness. In the video for his kickoff, Suarez went for a run past his childhood home and his high school and spoke of his record of cutting taxes and expanding Miami’s technology economy.
“In Miami, we stopped waiting for Washington to lead,” Suarez said.
The 45-year-old corporate and real estate lawyer, a former president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, is competing for the nomination against two other Florida residents — former President Donald Trump and Gov. Ron DeSantis. They have consistently been first and second, respectively, in early primary polling, well ahead of the rest of the field.
That has so far made it difficult for other candidates to break through. Among them are former Vice President Mike Pence, Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, radio host Larry Elder and businessman Vivek Ramaswamy.
Throughout U.S. history, just three presidents were former mayors, though each — Andrew Johnson, Grover Cleveland and Calvin Coolidge — held offices such as governor or vice president in between. And while this year’s primary field is crowded and the odds for a sitting mayor long, there is recent precedent both for a mayor to become a major candidate and for a person without government experience at all to become president.
Trump, a businessman and former reality television star, is the only person elected president without ever having served in public office or in the military.
In the 2020 election cycle, Pete Buttigieg — the young mayor of South Bend, Indiana — was the biggest surprise success story of the Democratic primary. Known during the campaign as “Mayor Pete,” he had a top finish in the leadoff Iowa caucuses and a close second-place finish in New Hampshire before flailing in more diverse states and dropping out to back Joe Biden.
When Biden won the presidency, he tapped Buttigieg to be his transportation secretary, and Buttigieg is now considered one of the party’s most promising future presidential candidates.
Buttigieg leaned heavily into his experience as mayor in his campaign, including his own work to turn around a Rust Belt city that was once described as “dying” because of the shutdown of manufacturing. He liked to tell voters that Washington should run more like the best U.S. cities.
Voters appreciated that being a mayor is a hands-on job and that mayors are accountable to voters in a way that senators and governors are not, said Lis Smith, a senior adviser to Buttigieg’s campaign who shaped his communications from the start. One of Buttigieg’s favorite lines while campaigning was about how he frequently ran into his constituents at the grocery store. The fact that Buttigieg was not a product of Washington also “was very, very appealing to voters,” Smith said.
“Republican and Democratic voters don’t have a lot in common these days, but I think that one thing they do share is their distaste for Washington politics and Washington politicians,” Smith said.
But Smith also warned that while mayors get to claim credit for all of the things that go right in their community, they also carry the responsibility for things that go wrong.
Buttigieg experienced that when a white South Bend police officer fatally shot a Black man, prompting the mayor to step away from campaigning so he could respond not just to the shooting but also to questions about racial inequality and tensions between Black residents and police in South Bend. That, Smith said, “by far was the toughest part” of his candidacy.
Suarez, the son of Miami’s first Cuban-born mayor and the only Hispanic candidate in the race, believes he can help the party better appeal to Hispanic voters. He also promotes his relative youth compared with the rest of the field — most of whom range in age from their 50s to 70s — saying he represents “generational change” that America needs.
“It’s time for a leader who can connect with segments of our country that Republicans have historically lost,” Suarez said during a speech about his presidential campaign at the Ronald Reagan Library in California on Thursday night.
Then, briefly repeating his credentials as Miami’s leader, he slipped for a moment into mayoral mode.
“I believe this city needs more than a shouter or a fighter,” Suarez said, apparently substituting “city” for “country.”
“I believe it needs a servant. It needs a mayor.” | 2023-06-18T22:52:08+00:00 | kxnet.com | https://www.kxnet.com/news/politics/ap-politics/miamis-francis-suarez-looks-to-become-first-sitting-mayor-to-be-president/ |
The following data is supplied by Colorado Weekly Homebuyers List Inc., 303-744-2020. Listed are the buyer, the seller and the amount.
Allenspark
Benjamin and Rebecca Swanson — 40 Hill St., Shirley A. Saffry, $365,000.
Andrea and Neal Rayner — 9972 State Highway 7, Formidoni Family Trust, $661,100.
Boulder
Jill Park — 2800 Kalmia Ave., Apt. A326, Marshall P. Hayes, $405,000.
Jean Kearns — 4975 Twin Lakes Road, Apt. 80, Bradley Lewis, $412,000.
Jan Kadlec — 7443 Spy Glass Court, Karen Lynn Tracy, $425,000.
Piper Jacksonsevy — 3797 Talisman Place, Apt. C, Troy A. Walton, $425,000.
Benjamin Searchinger — 4985 Twin Lakes Road, Apt. 85, Sharleen H. Simpson, $455,000.
Michael and Thomas Mark — 300 Shining Star Trail, Joshua Kuhn, $514,000.
Robert Collett — 4500 Baseline Road, Apt. 3403, Mary Ann Schumacher Trust, $600,000.
Leela Greenberg — 4725 16th St., Apt. 102, Breckschorr 4725 LLC, $625,000.
Christopher and Edwina Jordan — 1850 Folsom St., Apt. 1010, Jms Fourth Talent LLC, $700,000.
Elizabeth Weiss — 1850 Folsom St., Apt. 305, Alexandra Kestenbaum, $700,000.
Deborah Ross — 745 Arapahoe Ave., Apt. 303, Christopher and Edwina Jordan, $785,000.
David Levitt — 2603 Tumwater Lane, Brett Jeremy Astor, $875,000.
Kevin and Marina Fleming — 3165 Westwood Court, Jennifer Frazier, $950,000.
Alison Willam — 425 Oneida St., George Garmany, $1,104,000.
Paul Warner — 830 12th St., Barbara B Steiner, $1,200,000.
Peter Gonda — 215 Manhattan Drive, William and Margaret Jobe, $1,252,000.
Caitlin Mixter — 1418 Deer Trail Road, Kyle Jeffrey Drewry, $1,256,500.
Chris and Jennifer Anderson — 487 Pearl St., Joshua Radoff, $1,300,000.
Marc and Allyson Patterson — 5843 Orchard Creek Lane, Warren and Pamela Schuckies, $1,400,000.
Benjamin and Quan Bader — 1303 Oakleaf Circle, Purnima Oza, $1,445,000.
Natalie Burkhard — 3360 15th St., Aaron and Nicol Seabaugh, $1,500,000.
Allison and Robert Wettach — 2460 Grape Ave., Koel A. Thomae, $2,001,100.
Karina Berg — 379 W. Arapahoe Lane, Gary Berg, $2,500,000.
Jodi and Richard Steel — 5313 Westridge Drive, Peter Seamans, $2,800,000.
Indra Raj — 505 Maxwell Ave., John and Kelly Wyatt, $3,500,000.
Peter Fitzgerald — 3778 Wonderland Hill Ave., Sarah A. Lesley Family Trust, $6,300,000.
Broomfield
Amy Bliven — 1050 Opal St., Unit 104, Chelsea E Sturgeon, $310,000.
Debra Hayes — 3580 Boulder Circle, Unit 101, Susan Wilson Living Trust, $420,000.
Kathryn Atkins — 17 Amesbury St., Pak Ap LLC, $435,000.
Chad Johnerson — 2100 Alcott Way, Thb Baseline LLC, $448,500.
Peter Holben — 209 Cypress Circle, Hugh G. Gordon, $457,000.
Kacey and Ryan Bingham — 1990 W. 166th Drive, KB Home Colo. Inc., $477,400.
Lalaine Bill — 13900 Lake Song Lane, Unit C4, Brett Axe, $485,000.
Giovanni Tolvo — 13331 Grove Court, Daniel and Leez Fitzgerald, $500,000.
James Hoversen — 2096 Alcott Way, Thb Baseline LLC, $522,300.
Ryan Magnuson — 14300 Waterside Lane, Unit X5, Frank William Pantely, $525,000.
Dane Christiansen — 2092 Alcott Way, Thb Baseline LLC, $550,200.
Kamilla Shamsutdinova — 2104 Alcott Way, Thb Baseline LLC, $559,200.
Alexaundria and Michael Warren — 3164 W. 12th Ave. Court, James and Marie Folmar, $570,000.
Tracy Jarvis — 4707 Pasadena Way, Oliver and Jannelle Schlensog, $595,500.
Ryan Keeling — 750 Coral St., Sandra M. Harlow, $675,000.
Jerin and Grace Damo — 530 W. 175th Place, Valeriia and Konrad Pi, $675,000.
Brandon Hill — 605 Lotus Way, Stuart and Jessica Love, $703,000.
Austin and Gwendolyn Mitsch — 3974 Cambridge Ave., Richard Detsch, $720,000.
Jason and Abigail Ragan — 14155 Shannon Drive, Lydia Grand, $852,000.
Angela McCoy — 2561 Lake Isle Lane, Dan Truong, $900,000.
Peter and Erin Glaws — 16065 Cameron Way, Judith and Irwin Margolis, $934,000.
Nicholaus and Marya Monahan — 1440 Dunsford Way, Clinton B. Smith, $940,000.
Michael and Carey Smith — 3452 Harvard Place, Benjamin and Bri Hamilton, $965,000.
Brennan and Caitlin Duffy — 4841 Aspen Creek Drive, Andrew and Kelli Detzel, $1,205,000.
Erie
Hannah Ross — 1435 Blue Sky Way, Unit 8-305, Rachel Cavalier, $388,000.
Dylan Patch — 144 Montgomery Drive, D. Richard Patch, $480,000.
Mrinal Biswas — 1672 Gilpin Alley, CalAtlantic Group Inc., $545,000.
Sijia Hao — 1661 Drake Aly, CalAtlantic Group LLC, $547,500.
Venkata Gadde — 1667 Drake Aly, CalAtlantic Group LLC, $554,700.
Sarah Saperstein — 1988 Fairway Pointe Drive, Gregory W. Clark, $560,000.
Neil and Heidi Smith — 397 Maplewood Drive, Susan E. Bowen, $650,000.
Theresa Murphy — 72 Starlight Circle, Parth A. Pandya, $659,900.
Daniel and Deborah Raessler — 1115 Mircos St., Karen and Ronald Piersky, $675,000.
Stella Ulm — 2342 Irons St., KB Home Colo. Inc., $692,700.
Andrew and Devon Vig — 151 Starlight Circle, Adam and Angela Rodriguez, $693,000.
Stephanie Silberman — 1939 Kinnikinnick Drive, Lucas and Allyson Spence, $700,000.
Michelle and Terri Green — 1418 Lombardi St., Jesse and Danielle Alberts, $700,000.
Janna Christybittel — 3198 Billington Drive, Donald and Suzanne Dumond, $730,000.
Maegan Prince — 2143 Pinon Circle, Brenda Gonzalez, $731,000.
Nicholas and Kassie Marquiss — 2089 Pinon Place, Autumn and Charles Smith, $875,000.
Kenneth and Kathleen Cegila — 1638 Parkdale Circle N., Ronald and Ashley Leach, $900,000.
Paul and Deborah Lingenfelter — 2482 Vale Way, Broker Power Buyer LLC, $925,000.
Timothy Kuhn — 790 Meadowlark Drive, Lennar Colo. LLC, $949,800.
Stamatia Kostakisas — 1207 Northview Drive, Bradford and Cynthia Taylor, $989,500.
Arnold and Viola Raben — 632 Indian Peaks Drive, David and Consuela Milford, $1,100,000.
Barbara and Kirk Holub — 2791 Eagle Circle, Roger and Robin Kitlowski, $1,335,000.
Lafayette
Anna and Jefferson Hofgard — 1262 Milo Circle, Unit A, Justin and Susan Solomon, $426,500.
Shannon Lamb — 732 Julian Circle, David Scott Perkins, $450,500.
Paul Gonzales — 1075 Delta Drive, Apt. B, Michael and Denise Smith, $462,500.
Bryanna Guy — 2285 E. Cherrywood Drive, Miranda Renee Fox, $551,000.
Thomas McKoy — 665 Wild Ridge Lane, Mary A. Malina, $696,500.
Todd and Lisa Peters — 804 N. Bermont St., Heidi Beth Stein, $731,200.
Ryon and Kelly Tracy — 601 San Juan Drive, Markel Homes Constr. Co., $866,200.
Elisa Macias — 459 Rainbow Lane, Markel Homes Constr. Co., $924,700.
Kyle Hamilton — 1357 Lander Lane, Matthew and Lindsay Gaudyn, $1,000,000.
Dale Martz — 355 Indian Peaks Trail W., J. and Heidi Garthwaite, $1,600,000.
Matthew and Nicole Duster — 1559 Birchwood Court, Raymond and Janie Wade, $2,500,000.
Mark Gmur — 10484 Sunlight Drive, Carlos and Cristina Veraza, $2,800,000.
Longmont
Rory Flynn — 101 Reed Place, Jessica and Ingmar Thompson, $355,000.
Joan Cherno — 2125 Calais Drive, Unit F, Marjory M. Cerinich, $410,000.
Jose Hernandez — 43 E. 17th Ave., Jared Linnus Wege, $445,000.
Michelle and Travis Paullin — 1921 Rice St., William C. Cassel, $450,000.
Logan Ditirrofeiten — 10706 Butte Drive, Devan M. Wagner, $450,000.
Julie Kollar — 1737 Grove Court, Edward and Judith Denny, $463,000.
Christian Sampson — 1206 Lefthand Drive, Jose and Doris Rodriguez, $525,000.
Julia Sandovalacosta — 1340 Hilltop Drive, Brenda and Fernando Lopez, $535,000.
Thomas Person — 232 River View Court, Ahamad Yazeer Zeinudeen, $546,000.
Rebecca Kallemeyn — 1677 Venice Lane, Jill Ann Reed, $549,000.
William and Renee Renee — 1821 Juniper St., Lauren and Kathryn Proctor, $550,000.
Mahendra and Sushila Tamrakar — 1249 Bistre St., Mario and Inna Westbrook, $590,000.
Thomas Cook — 12783 Grandview Drive, Paul Bryan Chapman, $625,000.
Isa Fox — 629 Stonebridge Drive, Nicholas and Tamara Graff, $635,000.
Will Scott — 1866 Spruce Ave., Opendoor Property Trust I, $636,000.
Kimberly Netherton — 2439 Maplewood Circle W., John and Carolee Jacobsen, $715,000.
Lelia Saunders — 1516 Judson Drive, Ben T. Verrill, $747,500.
Eric and Karen Cutti — 1510 Tanager Place, Zachary and Nicole Barber, $789,900.
Mark Bodnarczuk — 2729 Falcon Drive, Jocelyn Woodruff, $800,000.
Matthew Haefner — 1825 Ashford Circle, Mary Jo Tyman, $805,000.
Jocelyn Woodruff — 643 Crawford Circle, Devin and Angela Beck, $850,000.
Michael Villalaz — 5666 Cottontail Drive, Markel Homes Constr. Co., $886,800.
Noel and Maeve Toit — 6481 Redwing Place, John Scott, $900,000.
Jill and Jeffrey Odorizzi — 4946 Maxwell Ave., Derek Hayes, $1,155,700.
Prateek and Kristin Lal — 1514 Orion Place, Mark L. Fenton, $1,300,000.
Carolyn Lee — 7165 Redwing Place, Donald Combee, $1,750,000.
Louisville
Mary Wood — 1949 Centennial Drive, Diana Di Stefano, $365,000.
Michelle Carollo — 542 Ridgeview Drive, Thomas J. Ward, $610,000.
Gandasari and U. Win — 728 Club Circle, Judith Carol Huntting, $790,000.
Sarah Wheeler — 623 McKinley Ave., Daniel and Lynne Ross, $972,000.
Vanessa Currie — 1573 Ridgeview Drive, Jeffrey and Melissa Hersey, $1,030,000.
Kevin Scott — 231 S. Harding Court, Matthew and Nicole Duster, $1,300,000.
Christopher and Haley Ringwood — 826 W. Dahlia Court, Richard and Stephanie May, $1,375,000.
Michael and Emily Peterson — 805 Rock Rose Court, William and Darc Barnhill, $1,525,000.
Robert Wirtz — 452 W. Griffith St., Sean and Jennifer McGlothlin, $1,555,000.
Kristin and Keith McInerney — 517 Grant Ave., Renee and John Albert, $2,415,000.
Lyons
Muezetta and Ted Cromer — 111 Longs Peak Drive, Clifton and Jene Bergan, $775,000.
Niwot
Andrew Buckingham — 8060 Niwot Road, Apt. 43, Deena Raffe, $250,000.
Jens Neubert — 8424 Brittany Place, Kenneth and Jenine Rubin, $2,300,000.
Superior
Michael and Margaret Ellwood — 1975 Piper St., Lisa J. Rapp, $445,000.
Nicholas Comito — 3151 Huron Peak Ave., Nicholas and Kelsey Drane, $851,000.
Annette and Colby Severson — 1371 Lanterns Lane, Bc Lanterns Rock Creek LLC, $935,700.
Christopher and Lauren Daniels — 408 S. Second Ave., Mds Properties LLC, $1,275,000.
Derek Drechsel — 963 Northern Way, Tibor and Mia Lukac, $1,500,000. | 2022-05-02T12:10:20+00:00 | dailycamera.com | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/05/02/boulder-county-are-home-sales-may-2-2022/ |
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — A wife, mother and teacher from Grand Island is waiting for new lungs and now there is a call for community support, hoping to let her and her family breathe a little easier.
On this week’s Sweet Buffalo Monday, News 4 at 7 was joined by Deanna Morris, her husband John and their daughters Lydia and Celia, along with Kim LaRussa from Sweet Buffalo.
You can watch the full segment above.
To donate to a GoFundMe to help support the family with housing, daily expenses and uncovered medical bills, click here.
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AWARD: Julie Harmon has received the University Staff Employee Appreciation Award for May at UW-Stout.
Harmon, of Arkansaw, is an administrative assistant III in the counseling, rehabilitation and human services department. She has worked at UW-Stout for 39 years.
Harmon received a certificate of recognition, a UW-Stout travel mug and a UW-Stout blanket.
Students, faculty and staff may nominate university staff members who demonstrate a commitment to excellence and the university community.
The award, in its 16th year, was established by the Chancellor’s Office and is co-sponsored by the University Staff Senate.
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SCHOLARSHIPS: Seven area high school graduates have received scholarships from the Dove Healthcare Community Foundation.
The recipients are Jacob Goff of Barron, Stephanie Gallion of Bloomer, Kyrah Oemig of Chippewa Falls, Megan Awe and Hanna Brown of Eau Claire, Amara Wilkinson of Osseo-Fairchild and Olive Spagnolo of Rice Lake.
The foundation was established in 2019 to recognize and encourage high school seniors pursuing a career in a health care-related field at an accredited technical college or four-year university.
Applicants included with their completed application an essay about why they chose a career in health care, educational and career goals, influential persons or events, opportunities they had to work or observe their chosen career field, as well as how the scholarship would affect their future education.
“Our scholarship selection committee had the wonderful honor of reviewing applications from many talented and driven students,” foundation chairman Joe Muench said.
“The workforce needs in health care are great and the opportunities are endless, so it was exciting to have a glimpse into the aspiring, young minds ready to take on the challenge,” he said. “Our foundation is so happy to play a small role in supporting their bright futures.” | 2022-06-24T06:47:40+00:00 | leadertelegram.com | https://www.leadertelegram.com/news/local-briefs/around-town-briefs-6-24-22/article_cf0a736f-5aa9-5a7f-8604-a2b80abaed84.html |
MOUNTAIN HOME, Idaho — UPDATE:
Fire officials say crews are in the process of securing the perimeter of the Doubletapp Fire and that the fire should be contained by 8 p.m. Monday. Officials expect containment sometime tomorrow. I-84 has been reopened.
ORIGINAL STORY:
Firefighters are working on a new brush fire off of Interstate 84, near Simco Road.
Named the Doubletapp Fire, the blaze is already 200 acres in size. Officials with BLM Idaho Fire say four engines, three large air-tankers, two dozers and a water tender are all on scene.
#BLMBODFire is currently fighting the Doubletapp Fire off I84 near Simco Road. Estimated size 100 acres. BLM resources responding 4 engines, 2 dozers, a water tender and 3 Large Air-tankers. pic.twitter.com/EHvP8uajvg
— Bureau of Land Management Idaho Fire (@BLMIdahoFire) August 22, 2022
Drivers are asked to use caution throughout the area and expect traffic delays. Ada County Sheriff's officials report the fire has stopped traffic on the interstate in both directions between milepost 71 and 74.
Traffic Alert: a vehicle fire that lit a grass fire has stopped I-84 traffic in both directions by the Stage Stop east of Boise between MP 71 and 74. Fire crews are actively fighting the blaze.
— Ada County Sheriff (@AdaCoSheriff) August 22, 2022
This is a developing story. Idaho News 6 will provide more updates as they become available. | 2022-08-23T02:27:07+00:00 | kivitv.com | https://www.kivitv.com/news/brush-fire-burning-off-i-84-near-simco-road-drivers-should-expect-delays |
LAKE FOREST, Ill. (AP)The Chicago Bears have treated quarterback Justin Fields like another running back within their offense by letting him carry the ball repeatedly, at the risk of injury.
Now Fields is nursing a left shoulder injury and the Bears face the possibility of using backup Trevor Siemian as a starter for the first time.
”We’ll see where he is on Wednesday,” coach Matt Eberflus said of Fields on Monday at Halas Hall. ”So, we’ve got time, we’ll see where it is and go from there.”
Eberflus wouldn’t reveal the nature of the injury or severity after Fields had a postgame X-ray.
Eberflus wouldn’t even say if the possibility of a season-ending injury has been ruled out.
About the only health issue he did address regarding Fields were leg cramps suffered throughout the game. The Bears decided on a Fields run to start the final drive despite his cramping legs.
”We know he’s dealt with that before, because obviously he puts out a lot of energy during the game and we’re gonna call our plays that we think are the best there,” Eberflus said. ”So that’s what we did and we went with it.”
Fields took a hit running toward the sideline on a play starting the final Bears possession, but stayed in the game for two more plays. One was a botched draw play when Fields had to keep it again, slid and was hit on his right side. Then came a game-sealing interception.
So much of the Bears offense has come through Fields’ running in the past five weeks and it required altering the way they run numerous plays within the attack as they leaned on his legs.
Now they would need to switch back to a more conventional-style attack if Siemian is the starter against the Jets on Sunday.
”I don’t think that would take that much,” Eberflus said. ”We would just lean on one side of the offense as opposed to leaning on the side that we’ve expanded to, to a certain degree. I think that would be a pretty easy transition.
”Trevor is obviously a very smart individual, a very good passer, has a great grasp of the offense. He’s been here since Day 1 – high functional intelligence. So we’re excited about that guy.”
Siemian actually started a game for the Jets in 2019, but since then he has started only four games, all for the Saints, and lost all of them.
There just seems to be something about Thanksgiving week for the Bears and backup quarterbacks.
In 2018 they started backup Chase Daniel because of an injury to Mitchell Trubisky and won at Detroit. They won last year in Detroit on Thanksgiving when backup Andy Dalton started for Fields, who had broken ribs.
WHAT’S WORKING
The pass defense. After they had given up 257 passing yards on average through the course of three straight games, the Bears rose up and limited Atlanta to 131 yards, their fewest allowed through the air since Week 6.
The return to health of cornerback Jaylon Johnson was a factor. They allowed just six completions of 10 yards or longer Sunday and the Falcons failed on all four third down passes while going 2 of 9 on third downs.
WHAT’S NOT
Two-minute drill. The have now failed on five straight game-closing two-minute drills.
”We’ve lost a lot of close games that we should have won when it comes down to like five, six, seven plays,” running back David Montgomery said. ”Ultimately, we all gotta do our part. We can’t have mental errors. We’re not good enough to do that.”
STOCK UP
Jaquan Brisker. They rookie strong safety from Penn State made a career-high 11 tackles, including one for loss. He continues to lead the team in sacks with three and is being used more often in blitz situations.
STOCK DOWN
Kicker Cairo Santos. Two weeks ago, Santos missed an extra point in a 31-30 loss to Detroit. On Sunday he missed for the first time this season on a field-goal attempt, a 56-yarder in the first half that Eberflus said was definitely within range because the kick came indoors.
INJURIES
Starting right guard Teven Jenkins was active for Sunday’s game, but did not get on the field because of the hip injury that has kept him out of two games. Eberflus said it was a case where the second-year lineman was healthy enough to be a backup on the day, but not a starter. Jenkins was able to practice last Friday and they’ll be looking for his return this week after the line allowed four sacks Sunday.
KEY NUMBER
7 – Fields has seven rushing touchdowns after a 4-yarder Sunday. He has rushed for a TD in five straight games.
UP NEXT
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Millersville University is one of 39 Pennsylvania post-secondary institutions receiving a grant to combat sexual assault and violence.
As part of the It’s On Us PA campaign, MU is receiving $30,000 in funding from Jan. 1 to May, 31, 2024 to aid in developing strategies to combat sexual assault and violence. The Pennsylvania Department of Education awarded more than $1.3 million in grants of no more than $60,000 for each institution.
With the help of It’s On Us funding, schools are expected to improve sexual violence awareness, prevention and response systems while changing campus culture in regards to sexual violence.
MU plans to use the funding specifically to bolster already established programs including its sexual violence awareness training for employees and students and its Be the One to Speak Up campaign raising awareness to the positive impacts of bystander intervention and education, according to university spokesperson Janet Kacskos.
“The It’s On Us PA campaign cultivates change and provides colleges, universities, and postsecondary career and trade schools with the support and resources necessary to protect learning environments and ensure they are free from sexual assault, harassment, and violence,” Acting Secretary of Education Eric Hagarty said in a news release.
Gov. Tom Wolf launched the It’s On Us campaign in 2016, making Pennsylvania the first statewide campaign under the national It’s On Us campaign created in 2014 under former President Barack Obama. MU has received It’s On Us funding six of the seven years – totaling roughly $180,000 – since the 2016 launch in Pennsylvania.
As part of MU’s own annual It’s On Us campaign in 2018, 715 students took the It’s On Us Pledge, placing the university as third in the top three campuses nationally with the most pledges.
To take the pledge a student leaves their signature as a “personal commitment to help keep women and men safe from sexual assault. It is a promise not to be a bystander to the problem, but to be part of the solution.”
In 2022, Wolf also signed into law a requirement that all post-secondary institutions adopt a definition of consent as part of their code of conduct or sexual misconduct policy. Institutions were also required to enter into a memorandum of understanding for services with at least one rape crisis center or one domestic violence program.
By July 1, each institution is required to implement an sexual violence educational program in consultation with a rape crisis center or domestic violence program.
MU works with Lancaster Domestic Violence Services and Lancaster YWCA to develop educational programs and awareness campaigns, Kacksos said. | 2023-01-13T11:06:21+00:00 | lancasteronline.com | https://lancasteronline.com/news/local/pennsylvania-department-of-education-awards-mu-30-000-grant-to-combat-sexual-assault-and-violence/article_6259b430-92ba-11ed-a996-8f258a429abb.html |
Biden to speak on threats to democracy ahead of midterms
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will deliver remarks Wednesday evening on threats to democracy, as he seeks to raise the stakes for voters less than a week before the midterm elections.
Biden, who has repeatedly said that “democracy is on the ballot” on Nov. 8, will speak from Washington’s Union Station, blocks from the U.S. Capitol, the White House said, at 7 p.m..
“It’s from Capitol Hill, because that is where there was an attempt to subvert our democracy,” White House senior adviser Anita Dunn told Axios on Wednesday morning, referencing the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection,
Previewing Biden’s remarks, Dunn said Biden “will be very clear tonight that he is speaking to people who don’t agree with him on any issues, who don’t agree on his agenda, but who really can unite behind this idea of this fundamental value of democracy.”
The speech comes days after a man seeking to kidnap House Speaker Nancy Pelosi severely injured her husband Paul in their San Francisco home, and as threats of political violence have rattled members of Congress and election workers.
“The threat of political violence which most Americans find abhorrent, the idea that you would use violence to further your political means, it’s something that unites almost all Americans and that we can all be united against, and obviously, we’ve seen horrible things happen quite recently,” Dunn told Axios.
Biden last delivered a primetime speech on what he called the “continued battle for the soul of the nation” on Sept. 1 outside Independence Hall in Philadelphia, in which he condemned the “MAGA forces” of former President Donald Trump and his adherents as a threat to America’s system of government.
“They promote authoritarian leaders, and they fan the flames of political violence that are a threat to our personal rights, to the pursuit of justice, to the rule of law, to the very soul of this country.
The remarks come as hundreds of candidates who have falsely denied the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election are on ballots across the country, with many poised to be elected to critical roles overseeing elections.
In contrast with the September remarks, which drew criticism from some corners for being paid for by taxpayers, Biden’s Wednesday speech will be hosted by the Democratic National Committee.
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A mother was left in a panic after her non-verbal 8-year-old daughter somehow ended up on the wrong bus and unaccounted for.
Lacie Mohr put her daughter on a bus for the first day of a summer program at Mike Davis Elementary. When it was time for the bus to drop her off, Mohr’s special needs daughter was nowhere to be found.
Mohr loves her daughter, Tiffany. She is on the autism spectrum, tends to be non-verbal and likes to run off.
Monday was Tiffany’s first day of summer school.
“She was due to get off the bus at 1:28 p.m. I went downstairs at 1:20 p.m. aAnd I have the bus tracking app, so I was following it, and I knew the bus was late,” Mohr said.
Around 2:30 p.m., the bus Mohr put her daughter on that morning pulled in and dropped another child off. That’s when she realized something was wrong.
“The bus driver saw me standing out there, so he opened the window and said, ‘Are you waiting on Tiffany?’ And I said, ‘Yes.’ And he said, ‘They never put her on my bus,'” Mohr said.
So Mohr called the school. Then 911. The Collier County Sheriff’s Office report says being the first day of school for special needs kids, attendance was done on paper instead of Focus. Teachers did not have access to the photos of students.
Turns out the teacher thought Tiffany was a different child the whole day and put her on the wrong bus.
Deputies were able to find the bus Tiffany was on. The Sheriff’s Office report says the driver pulled over and waited for Mohr to reunite with her daughter.
The Collier School District said in a statement to WINK News that it’s important to note the child was safe and supervised the entire time.
Mohr told WINK News for more than two hours, she could only imagine the worst.
“I just thought that they were going to find her in a canal somewhere that she wandered off. I just, I didn’t know where my daughter was, and it was scary,” Mohr said. | 2023-06-21T00:19:08+00:00 | winknews.com | https://winknews.com/2023/06/20/mike-davis-elementary-naples-child-missing/ |
NEW YORK and CALGARY, AB, July 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The INX Digital Company, Inc. (NEO: INXD, INXATS: INX, OTCQB: INXDF) ("INX"), a US-regulated broker-dealer, ATS, and transfer agent announced today that it will enable the primary capital raise and issuance of Convertible Concepts Corporation's CCNA Token, a digital security that offers U.S. accredited and international investors the opportunity to participate in the greener future of automotive transportation and logistics. With $15 million already raised, the SEC-regulated security token is available for a $2,000 minimum investment starting today.
"As our 7th token offering on INX.One in less than a year, we're thrilled to welcome CCNA to our robust lineup of innovative companies looking to efficiently and securely raise capital leveraging the power of blockchain and tokenization," said Itai Avneri, Deputy CEO & COO of INX. "By democratizing alternative investments, investors from all over the world are able to benefit from the wealth of opportunities available through digital assets like the CCNA Token - especially in industries like the automotive and logistics industry, which is ripe for disruption."
Convertible Concepts solves the automotive transportation industry's big problem of single use equipment which leads to empty return trips of vehicle transporting trailers. These empty backhauls account for 42% of auto transport miles, 2 billion gallons of wasted diesel fuel and 22 million tonnes of avoidable CO2 emissions globally each year. Through ingenious convertible trailers, versatile freight boxes and software driven logistics solutions, CCNA fulfills a critical environmental need and is poised to become a market leading solution through ongoing discussions with leading automotive manufacturers.
"This problem is our opportunity, as we monetize normally empty miles reducing carbon footprint, improve efficiencies and help reduce the cost of the distribution of finished vehicles. All automotive stakeholders, including the customer, stand to benefit from Convertible solutions." Bill Pawluk, CEO, Convertible Concepts Corporation.
The CCNA token is offering its token holder group 40% of total CCNA profits in North America without a cap on ROI.
The INX.One platform is the only fully-regulated platform for listing and trading both SEC-registered security tokens and cryptocurrencies. INX.One offers a seamless and secure single point of entrance for institutional and retail investors to maximize opportunities to engage with digital financial instruments. It is also a true Token-as-a-Service (TaaS) platform designed for capital raise purposes – streamlining the entire issuance process by offering everything needed to quickly and easily issue a digital security token and to raise capital.
To learn more about INX, which continues to lead the industry in providing novel trading and capital raising financial instruments to enterprises and companies worldwide, which includes INX ONE visit https://www.inx.co/. For more information about the CCNA Token please visit https://invest.convertibleconcepts.com/.
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INX provides regulated trading platforms for digital securities and cryptocurrencies. With the combination of traditional markets expertise and a disruptive fintech approach, INX provides state-of-the-art solutions to modern financial problems. INX is led by an experienced and dedicated team of business, finance, and technology veterans with the shared vision of redefining the world of capital markets via blockchain technology and a disciplined regulatory approach.
About The INX Digital Company, Inc.: INX is the holding company for the INX Group, which includes regulated trading platforms for digital securities and cryptocurrencies. The INX Group's vision is to be the preferred global regulated hub for digital assets on the blockchain. The INX Group's overall mission is to bring communities together and empower them with financial innovation. Our journey started with our initial public token offering of the INX Token in which we raised US$84 million. The INX Group is shaping the blockchain asset industry through its willingness to work in a regulated environment with oversight from regulators like the SEC and FINRA.
In addition to operating two regulated trading platforms for blockchain assets, INX's interdealer broker, I.L.S. Brokers, plans to offer non-deliverable cryptocurrency forwards to Tier-1 banks in the future. For more information, please visit the INX Group website here.
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Survivors and faith leaders rallied Friday at the Utah State Capitol to demand change to a state law that exempts religious leaders from requirements that they report child sexual abuse brought to their attention in spiritual confessions.
“If we as a people, as churches and as a state are failing to protect our children, then we are failing,” Lindsey Lundholm, the rally’s organizer, told an audience of more than 100 in Salt Lake City that included survivors of abuse applauding while tears streamed down their faces.
Lundholm spoke of her firsthand experience of abuse growing up in Idaho as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. As a young girl and member of the faith widely known as the Mormon church, she said she told a local bishop about her abuse and instead of reporting it to law enforcement, the bishop guided her abuser to seek forgiveness from God.
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Lundholm’s story was one of many shared on the steps of the Capitol, which stands on a hill above the church headquarters and its Salt Lake Temple. Other women also shared their stories and read aloud written accounts collected for the demonstration, using them to demand lawmakers require clergy report abuse when it’s confessed to them.
The rally comes two weeks after an Associated Press investigation found the church’s abuse reporting system can be misused by church leaders to divert abuse accusations away from law enforcement and instead to church attorneys who may bury the problem, leaving victims in harm’s way.
The AP story, based on sealed records and court cases filed in Arizona and West Virginia, uncovered a host of concerns that victims have raised about the helpline. Those include how church officials have cited exemptions to mandatory reporting laws, so-called clergy-penitent privilege, as an excuse for not reporting abuse brought to their attention of children as young as 5 years old.
Since its publication, the church has criticized the story as flawed. In a statement this week, its representatives said the help line “has everything to do with protecting children and has nothing to do with cover-up,” but did not dispute any of the story’s facts.
Utah is among more than 20 states with similar laws that give reporting exceptions to clergy who receive information about child neglect or sexual abuse during spiritual confessions. The exemptions do not extend to therapists, doctors or any other adult known to offer confidential counsel.
In Arizona, church attorneys are attempting to use clergy-penitent privilege to limit what its officials have to answer questions about in a lawsuit that accuses them of conspiring to cover-up child sex abuse. A judge ruled this week that church officials had to answer questions.
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox and lawmakers from different faith backgrounds and both sides of the aisle have recently come out in support of changing the state law exempting clergy from mandatory reporting. But such a law could face an uphill battle in Utah, where the church commands sizeable cultural and political influence, counts an estimated two-thirds of residents as members and relies on volunteers to serve as clergy members.
Rep. Angela Romero, a Democrat whose efforts to end the exemption stalled in 2020, said Friday that she remained committed to changing the law.
“I’m tired of making excuses for perpetrators,” she said, noting that her push had recently won support from Latter-day Saint Republicans.
In addition to Romero and survivors, Friday's rally also included a rabbi and former Latter-day Saints bishop. Stuart Smith, the bishop, said clergy could benefit from clear abuse reporting guidelines.
“Such a requirement, codified in state law, may have the additional benefit of allowing the helpline for bishops now operated by the LDS church to better perform its stated purpose — which is to provide expertise and resources to help the victims of abuse,” he said. | 2022-08-20T16:35:34+00:00 | wcfcourier.com | https://wcfcourier.com/news/national/protesters-demand-utah-require-clergy-to-report-sex-abuse/article_0c4d11ef-e082-5a26-aa39-41428708afa2.html |
CALGARY, AB, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - AuditSoft, the pioneer of cutting-edge COR auditing solutions, is pleased to announce that it has been selected by the BC Municipal Safety Association (BCMSA) as its strategic partner to provide Certificate of Recognition (COR) safety auditing and OHS data management solutions.
AuditSoft continues to grow and disrupt the OHS COR auditing industry by delivering user-centric, intuitive solutions that unlock a wealth of OHS information through data analytics to drive business intelligence.
"BCMSA is forward-thinking and sees the opportunity to advance the safety performance of its members by tying audit performance to safety performance. This will not only allow BCMSA to make informed decisions but will also allow BCMSA members to compare their performance with that of their peers," says Ben Snyman, CEO and Co-founder of AuditSoft.
This ability to standardize, digitize, aggregate, and compare audit results and performance within industry sets AuditSoft apart in the market, which has historically been incapable of this level of analysis, and is fueling its rapid adoption.
At the BCMSA, annual COR audits are an invaluable tool when it comes to reducing injuries and accidents in the workplace and improving workplace safety culture. The BCMSA's mission is to empower people to create healthier and safer workplaces through the creation and sharing of knowledge and resources.
"The AuditSoft solutions will allow us to expand on the knowledge component of our mission by unlocking the data element that is captured in each audit and tying that to safety performance statistics so that we can make better data-driven decisions," says Mike Roberts, Executive Director of BCMSA.
BCMSA will roll out the AuditSoft OHS COR auditing and data management solutions to its members in fall of 2022.
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AuditSoft is the leading provider of OHS auditing software. Associations and Certifying Bodies partner with AuditSoft to supply their members with cutting-edge auditing tools and to unlock valuable audit insights. AuditSoft is also the best rated audit software application by auditors. Find more information on AuditSoft: auditsoft.co
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The British Columbia Municipal Safety Association (BCMSA) is an independent, non-profit organization committed to improving worker health and safety in all industries throughout the province. Safety is their business. BCMSA works to improve safety programs and implement effective occupational health and safety management across the province. Their onsite, virtual, and online courses, as well as their resources equip employers and employees with invaluable prevention training that serves to reduce human and financial costs.
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Stitch TV: Food & how it connects us
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Come with us across the country as we show you what stitches us together — and in this case, it's food.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A Missouri man flew to Washington, rented a U-Haul truck and drove straight to the White House, where he crashed the truck into a security barrier and began waving around a Nazi flag in the culmination of a six-month plan to “seize power” from the government, authorities said Tuesday.
Sai Varshith Kandula, 19, removed the flag from a backpack shortly after smashing the box truck into the barrier near the north side of Lafayette Square on Monday around 10 p.m., according to charging documents. He was quickly arrested by a U.S. Park Police officer who rushed to the scene of the crash and saw him take out the flag.
Kandula later told Secret Service agents that he’d flown from St. Louis on a one-way ticket that night after months of planning. He wanted to “get to the White House, seize power, and be put in charge of the nation,” and he said he would “kill the president, if that’s what I have to do,” charges state.
Kandula, who is from the St. Louis suburb of Chesterfield, Missouri, said he bought the flag online because he admires the Nazis’ “great history” as well as their “authoritarian nature, eugenics, and their one world order.”
No one was injured in the crash. No explosives or weapons were found in the truck or on Kandula.
Kandula rented the U-Haul in Herndon, Virginia, and had a valid contract in his own name, the company said. People can rent a truck from U-Haul at age 18, and there were no red flags on his rental record that would have prevented the contract, according to U-Haul.
A witness, Chris Zaboji, said the driver smashed into the barrier at least twice. Zaboji, a 25-year-old pilot who lives in Washington, was finishing a run close by Lafayette Square when he heard the loud crash of the U-Haul truck hitting the barrier. He said he took out his phone and captured the moment the truck struck the barrier again before he heard sirens approaching.
“When the van backed up and rammed it again, I decided I wanted to get out of there,” he said.
Officers from the Secret Service and the Metropolitan Police Department searched the truck after the crash. Video posted by WUSA-TV shows a police officer at the scene picking up and inventorying several pieces of evidence from the truck, including a Nazi flag.
Kandula was arrested on multiple charges, and prosecutors charged him with damaging U.S. property.
Biden was briefed on the crash Tuesday morning by the Secret Service and Park Police, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said. “He’s relieved that no one was injured last night,” she said.
The U.S. Secret Service monitors hundreds of people who have made threats to the president, but it’s not clear whether Kandula was on their radar at all or if he had threatened the president before, which would trigger the Secret Service’s involvement.
No attorney was listed for Kandula in court records, multiple telephone numbers listed under his surname in public records were out of service, and efforts by The Associated Press to reach relatives who could speak on his behalf on Tuesday were not immediately successful. People at a Missouri home listed as being associated with Kandula would not speak with an AP reporter.
Lafayette Square offers perhaps the best view of the White House available to the public, and Kandula sent multiple people running when he drove onto the sidewalk to reach the barrier.
The square has also long been one of the nation’s most prominent venues for demonstrations. The park was closed for nearly a year after federal authorities fenced off the area at the height of nationwide protests over policing following the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, but it reopened in May 2021.
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Associated Press writers Jim Salter in Chesterfield, Missouri, Colleen Long and Michael Balsamo in Washington and newsgathering producer Beatrice Dupuy in New York contributed to this report. | 2023-05-24T11:18:07+00:00 | mytwintiers.com | https://www.mytwintiers.com/news-cat/business-news/ap-business/ap-missouri-man-accused-of-deliberately-crashing-u-haul-truck-into-security-barrier-near-white-house/ |
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Farm-to-table rarely works in New England. This James Beard winner gets it right
TURNER, MAINE — Visiting one of the newly recognized America's Classic winners brought me to rural Maine on a recent Saturday. It was an adventure, and one I recommend. Though spending the night in the big city of Portland makes sense for even more fun (and dinner) and a leisurely-paced drive.
But let's not rush the story.
My favorite part of the annual James Beard Foundation award galas in New York City (I went to two or three) was learning about the America's Classics winners. These restaurants are the opposite of the trendy restaurants that win the annual Beard awards, considered the Oscars of the food world.
America's Classics are restaurants with timeless appeal and beloved in their regions for quality food that reflects the character of their communities. They all have a history of more than two decades but many are much older.
Olneyville New York System in Providence was recognized as a classic in 2014 and Aunt Carrie's in Narragansett in 2007. Both offer a taste of place, I think we'd all agree. Their popularity extends across both generations and time.
Six new America's Classics, one for each region, were named by James Beard last week. For the Northeast, there was Nezinscot Farm in Turner, Maine, recognized for its Café and Coffee Shop. The announcement included this description: "The Café has something beautiful and exciting on every shelf—cases of homemade cheeses and meats, bagels, freshly baked pies, and perfect breads rolling out the kitchen, topped with farm eggs and homemade sausage and cheeses."
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The farm offered "homemade everything" as "the instrument of creating and sustaining a warm space to gather around food."
Who wouldn't want to go?
But I was skeptical. Over my two decades covering food and dining, I've heard a lot of platitudes about farm-to-table. It's never delivered. It's simply not practical either financially or geographically. Here in New England, we have a short growing season and few large animal farms. The cost of getting farm goods all year round is generally prohibitive.
To my amazement, Nezinscot Farm delivered on all its promises. They baked the bread on which the hamburger, ground from beef on their farm, was served. It came with microgreens they grow and pickles they made. Even the cheese was one of the more than a dozen they make on the farm.
The cafe was born some 35 years ago when Gloria and Gregg Varney married. Gloria insisted they open a café on the farm that had been in his family for 100 years. She's still the woman cooking behind the counter today. What the family has grown is amazing.
We shared a table with a young family who also read about the Beard award and made their first visit from another part of rural Maine. There was so much to see however, I could barely stay in my seat as I explored the store.
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There was the case with fresh brownies, bliss bars, biscuits and bagels. Cookies and doughnuts were in another case. Five varieties of bread (from sourdough to Anadama) stood on open shelves. There was the full cheese case with 14 kinds of cheese from Camembert to cheddar. Prepared foods, including soups and stews, ground meat and steaks, filled three cases. There were homemade candles, teas, dried peppers and herbs, and a whole floor of yarns.
There are a few long tables and seats. At the counter where you order, they don't take your money until after you pick up your food and eat. You might want to add something to take home, the young man behind the register told me. Two friendly farm dogs roamed the room.
Nezinscot Farm is not just a taste of the farm, it's a model for sustainable food and living. It's a beautiful place. And they just started making their own gelato.
Details: Nezinscot Farm, 284 Turner Center Rd., Turner, Maine, nezinscotfarm.com. They have a calendar of special events and are on Instagram. | 2023-03-22T13:54:08+00:00 | providencejournal.com | https://www.providencejournal.com/story/entertainment/dining/2023/03/22/maines-nezinscot-farm-cafe-turner-me-a-new-james-beard-americas-classic-winner/69974990007/ |
Pakistan mosque blast death toll rises to 92 as country faces ‘national security crisis’
By Sophia Saifi, Rhea Mogul and Saleem Mehsud, CNN
The death toll from a suspected suicide bomb that ripped through a mosque in northwestern Pakistan Monday has risen to at least 92, marking one of the deadliest attacks in the country in years as it faces what one analyst described as “a national security crisis.”
Peshawar deputy commissioner Shafiullah Khan on Tuesday confirmed the fatalities and said more than 80 victims were still being treated in hospital following the blast at the mosque in a police compound in the city.
Nasarullah Khan, a police official who survived the explosion, said he remembered seeing “a huge burst of flames” before becoming surrounded by a plume of black dust.
Khan said his foot broke in the blast and he was stuck in the rubble for three hours.
“The ceiling fell in… the space in between the ceiling and wall is where I managed to survive,” he said.
Meanwhile, hope was fading in the search for survivors as rescue workers sifted through the rubble of the mosque that was all but destroyed Monday, when worshipers — mainly law enforcement officials — had gathered for evening prayers.
Photos and video show walls of the mosque reduced to fragments, with glass windows and paneling destroyed in the powerful blast.
“We are not expecting anyone alive to be found. Mostly dead bodies are being recovered,” Bilal Faizi, a rescue spokesperson, said Tuesday.
Conflicting claims
The blast Monday is the latest sign of the deteriorating security situation in Peshawar, capital of the restive Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province that borders Afghanistan and the site of frequent attacks by the Pakistani Taliban, known as Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP).
The TTP is a US-designated foreign terrorist organization operating in both Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Last year, the breakdown of an already shaky year-long ceasefire between the TTP and Pakistan’s government threatened not only escalating violence in that country but potentially an increase in cross-border tensions between the Afghan and Pakistani governments.
Initially on Monday, TTP officials Sarbakaf Mohmand and Omar Mukaram Khurasani had claimed the blast was “revenge” for the death of TTP militant Khalid Khorasani last year.
But the TTP’s main spokesperson later denied the group was involved in the attack.
“Regarding the Peshawar incident, we consider it necessary to clarify that Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan has nothing to do with this incident,” TTP spokesperson Muhammad Khorasani said in a statement late Monday. “According to our laws and general constitution, any action in mosques, madrasas, funerals grounds and other sacred places is an offense.”
Pakistan authorities say an investigation is underway and have not confirmed either claim.
On Monday, Peshawar Police Chief Mohammad Aijaz Khan said the blast inside the Police Lines Mosque was “probably a suicide attack,” echoing a statement from Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.
“The brutal killing of Muslims prostrating before Allah is against the teachings of the Quran,” Sharif said, adding that “targeting the House of Allah is proof that the attackers have nothing to do with Islam.”
‘A national security crisis’
Rights groups have condemned the deadly attack, which has raised fears of fresh violence amid a deteriorating security situation in the country.
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan in a statement Monday said the attack could have been avoided if the “state heeded earlier warnings from civil society about extremist outfits in the province.”
“Ill-equipped law enforcement personnel continue to be targeted in incidents that dearly cost civilian and police lives. We demand the state take action now,” the statement said.
Madiha Afzal, a fellow in foreign policy at the Brookings Institution in Washington, said the 2021 Taliban takeover in Afghanistan has “emboldened” the TTP and other terror groups.
“The TTP has also been emboldened by a Pakistani state that has had a shaky, uncertain response to the group in the last couple of years,” she said, adding a “sloppy policy toward terrorist groups has been more or less consistent across governments in Pakistan since the mid-2000s.”
Negotiations with the militants have “failed repeatedly because these groups are existentially opposed to the Pakistani state and constitution,” she added.
“This is now a national security crisis for Pakistan once again. The solution has to be a concerted military operation (against the TTP),” she said. “But that is now complicated by the fact that the TTP can go across the border into Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.”
The attack also comes at a fragile time for Pakistan, which has been grappling with a cost of living crisis as food and fuel shortages wreak havoc in the country of 220 million.
Sharif’s government has struggled to revive the country’s economy, further devastated by deadly floods last year that killed more than 1,500 people and submerged entire villages.
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Gripping a slim lead Wednesday, trying to keep CJ Abrams’s home run as the go-ahead hit, Manager Dave Martinez turned to Kyle Finnegan with two on and two down in the seventh inning, a bit earlier than usual. Carl Edwards Jr., a typical option for that sort of spot, went on the injured list before the game. Mason Thompson, another of Martinez’s firemen — a reliever who can collect groundouts or strikeouts with runners on base — had entered with one out, walked the first batter he faced and retired the next two.
But Martinez didn’t take any chances with a win in sight. So here came Finnegan, Washington’s closer for much of the year, to handle a jam under a steady rain at Nationals Park. The St. Louis Cardinals’ Dylan Carlson stood in the box. To that point, each inning had whizzed by, a quick pace set by the pitch clock, efficient starting pitchers and at least a few examples of impatient hitting. And on the fifth pitch of the at-bat, after Finnegan fell behind 3-1, he misplaced a fastball that Carlson couldn’t barrel, instead bouncing it to Abrams at short to end the threat.
“I was watching Mason, and the conditions were tough,” Martinez explained after a 3-0 victory that let the Nationals avoid a series sweep. “He got two big outs for us, and Kyle has been throwing the ball really well. So why mess with it?”
Trevor Williams blanked St. Louis (31-44) for six-plus innings, yielding five hits and no walks while striking out four across 75 pitches. The Cardinals’ Miles Mikolas matched Williams aside from Abrams’s homer, a solo shot in the fifth, and an RBI double by Jeimer Candelario in the sixth. After a Lars Nootbaar single opened the St. Louis seventh, Thompson took over for Williams, then Finnegan took over for Thompson, then Hunter Harvey shut the door in the ninth. Washington (28-45) added an insurance run in the eighth when Luis García notched his second double of the game and Candelario knocked him in with a groundout.
The action lasted 2 hours 12 minutes, the rain only thickening over the final two innings. But no matter how it happened, the Nationals notched their fourth win of June before hosting Arizona in a makeup game Thursday afternoon and then heading to San Diego and Seattle. You take ’em however you can get ’em.
“When you see rain in the forecast, it’s easy to shut your mind off and think you’re going to get rained out,” Williams said. “But for everyone to come and play and be locked in from the first pitch was huge for us.”
Before the series finale, a pair of injuries forced the Nationals to shuffle their roster. Center fielder Victor Robles returned to the 10-day IL with back spasms. Edwards landed on the 15-day IL with right shoulder inflammation. To replace them, the club promoted outfielder Derek Hill and lefty Joe La Sorsa, who was recently claimed off waivers from the Tampa Bay Rays. Hill started in center and hit eighth. La Sorsa became Martinez’s first left-handed reliever since Anthony Banda was designated for assignment April 30.
Robles and Edwards are notable losses amid a rough month. Edwards, 31, is a potential trade chip if he can impress ahead of the Aug. 1 deadline. When healthy, Robles, 26, has been one of the team’s better hitters, posting a .299 batting average, a .385 on-base percentage and a .364 slugging percentage in 126 plate appearances. He had played in five games since he was activated from the IL on Friday. In those contests, he logged five singles, a double, a walk and four strikeouts. But in a lopsided loss Tuesday, Robles didn’t seem to be at 100 percent in the field or on the base paths. He even pulled up on a ball in right-center, leading to a short spat with pitcher MacKenzie Gore in the dugout.
Last week, Robles told reporters he still felt some back soreness while running. According to Martinez, though, Robles kept telling his manager he was okay aside from a little nagging. It’s common for players to stretch the truth because they want to be on the field. Yet when the two spoke Tuesday night, Robles admitted he should pull back again. That’s why he was swapped out for Hill.
“Based on conversations I had with him, he said he was ‘good to go, good to go, good to go,’ ” Martinez explained. “The more I watched him, the more I watched his jumps and stuff, something didn’t look right. But he kept telling me he was fine. … After [Tuesday’s game], I wanted to really sit down with him and talk to him and get out of him exactly what I thought he’d say. So I think it’s a smart thing to do for him.”
La Sorsa didn’t enter the game; the 25-year-old has made two major league appearances, both with the Rays this year. But Hill had three solid at-bats: an infield single in the third, a full-count lineout in the fifth, then another lineout in the seventh. Seeing that he had broken out for Class AAA Rochester in May, the early results were encouraging.
The offense was otherwise charged by Abrams, García and Candelario, who combined for six hits and all three runs. Abrams chipped in that homer and a pair of infield singles to finish 3 for 3. And that was in support of Williams, who mixed his fastball, slider and change-up — not to mention a handful of sweepers and curves — before Thompson, Finnegan and Harvey handled the rest. It was the first time Williams had pitched six innings and allowed no runs for the Nationals, who signed him to a two-year, $13 million contract in the offseason. They needed it, too, because the win snapped a five-game skid. | 2023-06-21T23:53:14+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2023/06/21/nationals-cardinals-losing-streak/ |
Former CEO, Curt Sardeson, staying on to Oversee Newly Formed Team Focused on Inorganic Growth
RALEIGH, N.C., July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Open Sky Group, global specialists in Blue Yonder solutions, announces that Chief Revenue Officer (CRO), Chad Kramlich, has been named CEO, effective July 1, 2022. Former CEO, Curt Sardeson, will redirect his attention to focus solely on Open Sky Group's inorganic growth.
Kramlich joined Open Sky Group in 2015 and moved to the role of CRO three years ago. Since then, he has effectively grown the firm's client roster by 150% with a 321% increase in workforce and 299% increase in overall revenues. He spearheaded improvements to the company's culture resulting in a better work-life balance and expansion of time off and an increase in health coverage for all employees. Chad has also furthered the development and empowerment of the leadership team across sales, marketing, and client services.
"Over the last seven years, our company has evolved a great deal," said Sardeson, who will steer Open Sky Group's new growth opportunities involving mergers and acquisitions. "Chad's deep experience with client services and his leadership with our marketing and sales teams have given him the background to be the perfect CEO in leading our efforts for continued growth on today's ever-challenging, global logistics stage."
Kramlich was most recently appointed to Blue Yonder's Partner Advisory Board, strengthening ties with Blue Yonder, even as Open Sky Group earned its fifth Blue Yonder Top Channel Partner Award in North America since 2017.
"It's an exciting time to be in the supply chain software business," Kramlich said. "As the digital economy drives customer expectations to new heights and technology plays a bigger role in the way fulfillment gets done, we expect to see new opportunities arise to help our clients improve business outcomes and create amazing experiences for their customers. I'm excited for this opportunity to continue Open Sky Group's growth, expand our industry leading culture and deepen our relationships with our clients and Blue Yonder."
Since its founding in 2006, Open Sky Group has pioneered numerous breakthroughs in the way warehouse, labor, and transportation management systems are deployed and serviced. For instance, its agile methodology and no-modifications approach to implementation are designed to accelerate client time-to-value, while its managed services help ensure optimal system performance and productivity from WMS, LMS, and TMS investments.
In 2017, the company partnered with Australia-based FourPL to launch Open Sky Group Pty Ltd, establishing a global presence for the firm. This association was further emphasized in 2021, when the firm signed world-ranked PGA Tour Australian golfer, Cameron Smith, as its brand ambassador.
"We've been a client of Open Sky Group since 2018 and I've known Chad since his time at RedPrairie," said Director of Infrastructure, IT at Brother International Corporation, Robert Higgins. "Open Sky Group's forward-thinking, client-focus, and high level of energy, support my Team's ability to provide solutions that support our business operations and help Brother remain a top competitor in our sector for many years."
Open Sky Group was recently listed as an industry leader in ARC Advisory Group's latest WMS Global Market 2020-2025 System Integration and Consulting Services Analysis Report.
"Having a channel partner like Open Sky Group in our corner year after year adds a lot of value to our Blue Yonder platform and solutions that bring digital transformation to our joint customers, ensuring their supply chains can pivot around disruptions and be ready for what's next," said Wayne Usie, Executive Vice President- Market Development, Blue Yonder.
To learn more about Open Sky Group and Blue Yonder solutions, please visit OpenSkyGroup.com.
Open Sky Group, global specialists in Blue Yonder warehouse management, labor management, and transportation management solutions, helps lower costs and risk with its proprietary methodology and no-modifications approach to upgrades and implementations. As the largest, dedicated Blue Yonder WMS Implementation partner and one of the first accredited for WMS, Open Sky Group is committed to client success and strives every day to be the best consulting partner on the planet for supply chain solutions.
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NEWTON, Ill. (WCIA) – A Jasper County family of four has been missing for two months. A mother, father and their two young sons were last seen at home on February 10. While several law enforcement agencies conduct a nationwide search, loved ones back in Newton reflect on the red flags they noticed leading up to their disappearance.
One of the last messages 11-year-old Aiden Lutz sent his half-sister, Brittany Lutz, says: “There’s nothing to do when we’re not going somewhere.”
He said his family was taking a vacation but he didn’t know where, and that it was “boring” because he’s “usually playing video games.” Brittany says she hasn’t heard from Aiden since the day he left with his brother and parents.
“On February 14 I did text my father Stephen and said if they needed to get away, I could take the boys and just get them back to a normal life. He said they have a normal life, they aren’t together and he’s not allowed to be around them,” she recalled.
At the end of 44-year-old Stephen Lutz’s lengthy text response to his daughter, he said: “There is nothing wrong with our house or the way we raise our children. So thank you for the offer but all we need is love, support, togetherness and healing.” That was the last time Brittany heard from Stephen.
Newton Police say the family’s cell phones have been disconnected.
“I’m also worried that they haven’t been alive since the tenth,” Brittany said.
At the time, Stephen Lutz was out on bond, ordered not to contact his wife or enter their home. Newton Police said in a news release Lutz appeared in court on January 19 facing domestic battery charges. They issued an “Attempt to Locate” on February 14, four days after the family was first reported missing. The department said: “though at the time we had no evidence to suggest immediate danger for any of the parties we are taking the necessary precautions due to the length of time the parties have been missing.”
The release also said: “there have been previous reports of domestic violence in the home and the above charges are still pending.” Newton Police Chief Riley Britton says Illinois State Police and the FBI have joined their investigation, through the course of which they determined it’s possible the Lutz family left the state.
“I will say it’s been challenging having a whole family as missing,” Britton said.
Especially after reviewing the text exchanges.
“That made it a challenge for us too. How far can we go if the family is on a vacation?” Britton said.
He says they won’t stop investigating until they’ve made physical contact with the family. In the meantime, Brittany Lutz is growing increasingly worried – replaying childhood memories from a time she says was the start of her father’s methamphetamine-fueled delusions and violence.
“He could be an awesome dad one moment and the most random thing would anger him and he would just treat me like I was the worst person he knew,” Brittany said.
Like flipping a switch, Brittany says Stephen could become a different person. While she says he never abused her, she says he was arrested for hitting his wife, Monica, on January 17. Newton Police cannot provide any further details on that case at this time.
“From what I was told, Monica and the boys had to run to a neighbor’s house to be able to call 9-1-1 and get away from him. They had no shoes on,” Brittany said.
Brittany says Monica eventually went back to him, and that she later learned of another alarming incident from January. She says Aiden walked into his parents’ bedroom to find Stephen talking to a clown mask on the wall.
“And Steven said: ‘I know what I need to do. I need to kill three people. First my wife Monica, then my son Aiden, then my son Nicholas,'” Brittany said.
Back in December, Brittany says Stephen attempted to commit suicide in front of his wife and children by stabbing himself in the neck. He was admitted to a psychiatric ward and released a week later. In 2020, she says Stephen was arrested for solicitation of a minor. She chose to cut contact with him, but by extension was distanced from Monica, Aiden and Nicholas, who hardly left their house. The boys are home-schooled, and one neighbor says it seemed as though Stephen intentionally prevented his wife from socializing with neighbors or having friends in general.
“This family did keep to themselves quite a bit,” Chief Britton said.
Brittany says Stephen was raised by his grandmother, who says he’s been angry, hot-headed and controlling since he was a child.
“She wanted nothing to do with him because of the domestic violence. She was trying to get Monica to stay away from him and get help for the boys,” Brittany said.
That’s what Brittany tried to do around noon on February 10. She says she stopped by the family’s house expressing that she wanted to help. When she returned a few hours later, they were gone.
“They boys’ school workbooks and everything were still sitting on the kitchen table. Food out that looked like they were in the middle of eating it,” Brittany said.
Britton says he’s hoping people will reach out to police with information that will help them solve the case.
“Steven and Monica, if you happen to see this – just please reach out to us. We want to make sure that you’re safe, we want to make sure that the kids are safe. Please. I know you guys know me, we’ve known each other for a while. Please contact and if you want to talk to me specifically, you can. I just want to know that you guys are all safe,” Britton said.
The Missing Persons Awareness Network is working to raise $20,000 to reward anyone who can lead authorities to the family. According to police, their last known vehicle was a 2005 Ford F-150 with the license plate #3078512B. Stephen Lutz is reported to be 5’6, 200 pounds, with short brown hair and brown eyes. Monica Lutz is reported to be 5’4, 180 pounds with long brown hair and brown eyes. Nicholas Lutz is reported to be 4’3-5, with brown hair, brown eyes and olive skin. Aiden Lutz is reported to be 4’7-5, with brown/red hair and brown eyes.
Anyone with relevant information is encouraged to contact the Newton Police Department at 618-783-8478. The Missing Persons Awareness Network can be contacted at 312-620-0788. | 2023-04-13T05:22:28+00:00 | wcia.com | https://www.wcia.com/news/newton-family-of-4-missing-since-february-fbi-joins-investigation/ |
NMU recognizes MLK Day through service projects
MARQUETTE, Mich. (WLUC) - Northern Michigan University spent the day recognizing MLK’s legacy through service projects Monday afternoon.
Members of NMU’s Black Student Union (BSU) decorated cookies for the D.J. Jacobetti home for veterans. The project was just one at NMU’s Day of Service Monday in honor of Martin Luther King Jr.
The BSU’s president says dedicating time to honor King’s legacy is especially important at a school with a predominantly white student body.
“Martin Luther King dedicated his life to pushing us forward and helping us get to a certain spot to where we are comfortable being integrated into different communities and societies,” NMU BSU President Marlanaysia Rosser said. “Helping with that you get a different experience and perspectives.”
Attendees could participate in different projects like writing cards for Mill Creek Assisted Living or making fleece blankets for the Women’s Shelter. One student says she used the opportunity to learn about the day’s significance.
“I think it is really important to learn so I know how to be a better ally and learn what I can do to make campus life better for other individuals,” Freshman Emma Iles said.
Keynote speaker Angela Mohrmon says it is important during MLK Day to include everyone and use it as a teaching tool.
“Having these celebrations where we can all come together is going to bring that point of view to the forefront to those people who have not experienced it with the U.P. being predominately white,” Mohrmon said. “So having these celebrations and including everyone, showing them, this is what we go through and giving them a little piece of that might help them understand and build a better community.”
Rosser says there are still ways, we can strive to do better.
“A lot of our parents and grandparents were alive during that time so that is why it is very important for us knowing ‘we have done this and took these steps’ but a lot of times for black students and black people it is like two steps forward and five steps back. It is just important to keep moving forward and making sure you are doing things successfully,” Rosser said.
Both Rosser and Mohrmon say that while MLK Day is one day out of the year his legacy should be recognized all year long.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Two U.S. military veterans who disappeared three months ago while fighting Russia with Ukrainian forces were among 10 prisoners, including five British nationals, released by Russian-backed separatists as part of a prisoner exchange mediated by Saudi Arabia, officials said Wednesday.
Alex Drueke, 40, and Andy Huynh, 27, went missing in the Kharkiv region of northeastern Ukraine near the Russian border June 9. They had traveled to Ukraine on their own and became friends because both are from Alabama.
Their families announced their release in a joint statement from Dianna Shaw, an aunt of Drueke.
“They are safely in the custody of the U.S. embassy in Saudi Arabia and after medical checks and debriefing they will return to the states,” the statement said.
Shaw said both men have spoken with relatives and are in “pretty good shape,” according to an official with the U.S. embassy.
President Joe Biden’s national security adviser Jake Sullivan welcomed the releases and thanked the governments of Ukraine and Saudi Arabia for their work to secure the detainees‘ freedom. “We look forward to our citizens being reunited with their families,” he said in a tweet.
In a later statement, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the United States “is appreciative of Ukraine including all prisoners of war, regardless of nationality, in its negotiations” and thanked Saudi government partners for securing the release of the 10 prisoners, including the two Americans.
The Saudi embassy released a statement saying it helped secure the release of 10 prisoners from Morocco, the United States, the United Kingdom, Sweden and Croatia. Shaw confirmed that Drueke and Huynh were part of the group.
The United Kingdom said five British nationals had been released, and lawmaker Robert Jenrick said one of them was Aiden Aslin, 28, who had been sentenced to death after he was captured in eastern Ukraine.
“Aiden’s return brings to an end months of agonising uncertainty for Aiden’s loving family in Newark who suffered every day of Aiden’s sham trial but never lost hope. As they are united as a family once more, they can finally be at peace,” Jenrick tweeted.
British Prime Minister Liz Truss heralded the news on social media.
“Hugely welcome news that five British nationals held by Russian-backed proxies in eastern Ukraine are being safely returned, ending months of uncertainty and suffering for them and their families,” she tweeted.
Moroccan media reported that the released prisoners included Brahim Saadoun, 21, who was sentenced to death in June after being accused of terrorism and trying to overturn the constitutional order. Captured by Russian-backed separatists in Ukraine, the court claimed he was a mercenary, while Saadoun’s father said he had enlisted in Ukraine’s regular army.
Russian state television had previously said Drueke and Huynh were being held by Russian-backed separatists in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine. The U.S. does not recognize the sovereignty of the Donetsk People’s Republic and has no diplomatic relations with them, making it necessary for others to lead efforts to get the men released.
Drueke joined the Army at age 19 after the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and he believed he could help Ukrainian fighters because of his training and experience with weapons, Shaw said previously. Drueke left in mid-April.
Druke’s mother received a call from Saudi Arabia on Wednesday morning and an embassy worker handed the phone to the man, Shaw said.
“He got on the phone and said, ‘Hi mom, it’s your favorite child,’” she said.
Huynh moved to north Alabama two years ago from his native California and lives about 120 miles (193 kilometers) from Drueke. Before leaving for Europe, Huynh told his local newspaper, The Decatur Daily, he couldn’t stop thinking about Russia’s invasion.
“I know it wasn’t my problem, but there was that gut feeling that I felt I had to do something,” Huynh told the paper. “Two weeks after the war began, it kept eating me up inside and it just felt wrong. I was losing sleep. … All I could think about was the situation in Ukraine.”
Huynh told his fiance he wants a meal from McDonald’s and a Pepsi-Cola when he returns home, Shaw said.
The two men bonded over their home state and were together when their unit came under heavy fire. Relatives spoke with Drueke several times by phone while the two were being held. | 2022-09-22T04:26:40+00:00 | wnct.com | https://www.wnct.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-family-2-american-veterans-captured-in-ukraine-released/ |
Today’s Penn State football news headlines feature predictions for the Lions’ Saturday showdown at Auburn and some insights into why Jordan-Hare Stadium can be such a difficult place for opponents to play.
Penn State rolls into Saturday as a 3-point favorite in a game that appears to have decided advantages on both sides, namely Auburn’s run game and home-field advantage and Penn State’s passing game. The clash of those strengths and weaknesses has wide variations in this week’s collection of predictions, where the staff at Lions247 all like a Penn State win and a majority of PennLive staff and guests are going with the Tigers. Two of three analysts on AL.com’s “Joe vs. the Pro and the Hero” are on board with the Lions, and Barrett Sallee from CBS Sports has Penn State covering the spread.
Speaking of home-field advantage, Josh Pate of 247Sports has some serious concerns for Penn State and its ability to deal with Jordan-Hare Stadium atmosphere. Pate tweeted about “voodoo” at Auburn’s home field, which will feature an “Orangeout” for Saturday and a crowd looking to leave its mark on the game. The Lions are road-tested following Week 1′s win at Purdue, but this showdown in SEC country could have a much different feel.
Those headlines and more highlight today’s Penn State football news roundup:
Penn State-Auburn prediction: Another Sean Clifford show?: Wogenrich [All Penn State]
Auburn bringing toughness to fight against Penn State: Goodman [AL.com]
Penn State-Auburn football score predictions from Lions247: Brennan [Lions247]
Predictions | Can Penn State football get the job done at Auburn?: staff [Daily Collegian]
Penn State vs Auburn Odds, Picks and Predictions: Nittany Lions Alpha the Tigers: Ponnaiya [Covers.com]
SEC college football picks, odds in Week 3: Texas A&M struggles with Miami, Auburn plays Penn State tight: Sallee [CBS Sports]
Respected analyst predicts Auburn football upset vs. Penn State: Hughes [Fly War Eagle]
How can Penn State leave Auburn with a victory Saturday evening? Here are 2 key matchups: Sauber [Centre Daily Times]
Penn State-Auburn matchups: Who will have the edge at Jordan-Hare Stadium?: Pickel [Blue-White Illustrated]
Penn State LBs prepping ‘hard hats’ for Auburn ground game: Fitz [Blue-White Illustrated]
Auburn rushing attack ‘the first test’ for Penn State: King [Auburn Undercover]
No. 22 Penn State’s Olu Fashanu puts Sean Clifford’s ‘mind at ease’ at left tackle: Destin [Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]
Can Auburn use the ‘Orange out’ to payback Penn State’s ‘White Out’?: Wilborn [AL.com]
Penn State ‘hopeful’ to return tight end Theo Johnson at Auburn: Gallen [Lions247]
James Franklin embracing ‘challenge’ of Jordan-Hare Stadium’s unique atmosphere: Krause [Onward State]
Penn State’s defensive line aiming for ‘more production’ ahead of Auburn: Fremin [Onward State]
James Franklin update status of Kaytron Allen, talks running back rotation ahead of game vs. Auburn: Chavanelle [Blue-White Illustrated]
Barrett Sallee: Consider Penn State a pivot point for Bryan Harsin: Hughes [Fly War Eagle]
Premium articles ($):
Penn State-Auburn game predictions: Reviews are mixed as Lions hit the road to face Tigers’ bruising running game: Hockensmith [PennLive]
Penn State football practice notes and observations: Lions continue Auburn week prep: Fitz [Blue-White Illustrated]
James Franklin on Penn State’s safety play vs. Auburn, Johnny Dixon’s ascent, more post-practice takeaways: Flounders [PennLive]
Penn State visits Auburn: Inside a college football team’s complicated road trip: Snyder [The Athletic]
Penn State-Auburn matchups: Olu Fashanu vs. Derick Hall, red-zone offense in the spotlight: McGonigal [PennLive]
Penn State’s secondary came up big vs. Purdue. At Auburn, it will be the front-seven’s turn: McGonigal [PennLive]
Penn State’s 4 keys vs. Auburn: The Lions’ script for a statement victory over an SEC foe: Flounders [PennLive]
Penn State lining up important official visit for top 2023 target: Snyder [Blue-White Illustrated] | 2022-09-15T17:14:35+00:00 | pennlive.com | https://www.pennlive.com/pennstatefootball/2022/09/penn-state-auburn-picks-are-a-mixed-bag-will-the-lions-feel-the-voodoo-at-jordan-hare-stadium-and-more.html |
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(AP) — A New York City judge’s son who stormed the U.S. Capitol wearing a furry “caveman” costume was sentenced on Friday to eight months in prison.
U.S. District Judge James Boasberg said Aaron Mostofsky was “literally on the front lines” of the mob’s attack on Jan. 6, 2021.
“What you and others did on that day imposed an indelible stain on how our nation is perceived, both at home and abroad, and that can’t be undone,” the judge told Mostofsky, 35.
Boasberg also sentenced Mostofsky to one year of supervised release and ordered him to perform 200 hours of community service and pay $2,000 in restitution.
Mostofsky had asked the judge for mercy, saying he was ashamed of his “contribution to the chaos of that day.”
“I feel sorry for the officers that had to deal with that chaos,” said Mostofsky, who must report to prison in approximately one month.
Mostofsky was carrying a walking stick and dressed in a furry costume when he joined the mob that attacked the Capitol. He told a friend that the costume expressed his belief that “even a caveman” would know that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from former President Donald Trump.
Also on Friday, a federal judge agreed to postpone a trial in July for members of the far-right Oath Keepers militia group charged with conspiring to forcefully halt the peaceful transfer of power after President Joe Biden’s 2020 electoral victory.
A first jury trial for five of nine Oath Keepers members charged with seditious conspiracy, including group founder Stewart Rhodes, is now scheduled to start on Sept. 26 and is expected to last about a month. A second trial for the other four defendants is scheduled to start on Nov. 29.
U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta agreed to give defense lawyers more time to prepare for trial but indicated that he isn’t inclined to grant another delay. A few defense attorneys expressed concern about the possible impact if a congressional panel investigating the Jan. 6 riot releases its report around the same time as the first trial. Mehta said that wouldn’t be a reason for another delay, “even if 435 members of Congress start reading from the report on the courthouse steps.”
More than 780 people have been charged with federal crimes related to the Capitol riot. Over 280 of them have pleaded guilty, mostly to misdemeanors.
A Tennessee man, Albuquerque Head, pleaded guilty on Friday to assaulting Metropolitan Police Department Officer Michael Fanone. Head pulled Fanone into a crowd of rioters who beat him, shocked him with a stun gun and stole his badge and police radio. An Iowa man, Kyle Young, pleaded guilty on Thursday to assaulting Fanone, who was seriously injured by rioters and has since testified before Congress about the attack.
More than 160 defendants have been sentenced, including over 60 who have been sentenced to terms of imprisonment ranging from 14 days to five years and three months.
In Mostofsky’s case, federal sentencing guidelines recommended a prison sentence ranging from 10 months to 16 months. Prosecutors recommended a sentence of 15 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release.
Mostofsky was one of the first rioters to enter the restricted area around the Capitol and among the first to breach the building itself, through the Senate Wing doors, according to prosecutors. He pushed against a police barrier that officers were trying to move and stole a Capitol Police bulletproof vest and riot shield, prosecutors said.
“Mostofsky cheered on other rioters as they clashed with police outside the Capitol building, even celebrating with a fist-bump to one of his fellow rioters,” prosecutors wrote in a court filing.
Inside the building, Mostofsky followed rioters who chased Capitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman up a staircase toward the Senate chambers. He took the police vest and shield with him when he left the Capitol, about 20 minutes after entering.
Mostofsky frequently wears costumes at events, according to his lawyers.
“To put the matter with understatement, the New Yorker is quirky even by the standards of his home city,” they wrote.
A New York Post reporter interviewed him inside the Capitol during the riot. He told the reporter that he stormed the Capitol because “the election was stolen.”
Mostofsky has worked as an assistant architect in New York. His father, Steven Mostofsky, is a state court judge in Brooklyn.
“The fact that his father is a judge means that he should have been better able than other defendants to understand why the claims of election fraud were false,” said Justice Department prosecutor Michael Romano.
Boasberg said none of the supportive letters submitted by Mostofsky’s family and friends explain how he “went down this rabbit hole of election fantasy.”
“I hope at this point you understand that your indulgence in that fantasy has led to this tragic situation,” the judge added.
Aaron Mostofsky pleaded guilty in February to a felony charge of civil disorder and misdemeanor charges of theft of government property and entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds. Mostofsky was the first Capitol rioter to be sentenced for a civil disorder conviction.
Mostofsky’s lawyers asked for a sentence of home confinement, probation and community service. Defense attorney Nicholas Smith described Mostofsky as a “spectator” who “drifted with the crowd” and didn’t go to the Capitol to interfere with the peaceful transfer of power.
“He did things he should not have done,” Smith said. “But there’s a big difference between an ideologue who is motivated to commit violence and someone who ends up doing bad things when they find” themselves in a crowd. | 2022-05-07T20:24:34+00:00 | siouxlandproud.com | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/national-news/man-who-stormed-capitol-in-caveman-costume-gets-prison/ |
One common worry for parents is whether they are paying too much, or too little, attention to their children. "Ask Amy" columnist Amy Dickinson gives advice on how parents can create the right balance in the relationship between parent and child.
Amy Dickinson, syndicated "Ask Amy" columnist for the Chicago Tribune
Laurence Steinberg, professor of psychology at Temple University and author of the book The Ten Basic Principles of Good Parenting
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2022-08-29T13:08:08+00:00 | kgou.org | https://www.kgou.org/education/2007-09-13/do-your-kids-need-more-of-you-or-less |
Jan. 6 committee to issue criminal referrals, chairman says
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol will make criminal referrals to the Justice Department as it wraps up its probe and looks to publish a final report by the end of the year, the panel’s chairman said Tuesday.
Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., told reporters that the committee has decided to issue the referrals recommending criminal prosecution, but did not disclose who the targets will be or if former President Donald Trump will be among them.
“At this point, there’ll be a separate document coming from me to DOJ,” Thompson told reporters at the Capitol.
The decision to issue referrals is not unexpected. Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., the vice chair of the committee, has for months been hinting at sending the Justice Department criminal referrals based on the extensive evidence the nine-member panel has gathered since it was formed.
Thompson said the committee is meeting later Tuesday to discuss the details.
“The Committee has determined that referrals to outside entities should be considered as a final part of its work,” a spokesperson for the select committee told The Associated Press. “The committee will make decisions about specifics in the days ahead.”
While Congress can send criminal referrals to the Justice Department, it is ultimately up to federal prosecutors whether to pursue charges.
Copyright 2022 Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2022-12-06T18:25:17+00:00 | witn.com | https://www.witn.com/2022/12/06/jan-6-committee-issue-criminal-referrals-chairman-says/ |
Michael J. Fox and wife Tracy Pollan are headed for a major milestone! The couple, who met in the '80s while starring together on Family Ties, will celebrate 35 years of marriage in July.
"It's been an interesting life," Fox tells ET's Brooke Anderson in a new interview, opening up about their relationship ahead of their upcoming A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Cure Parkinson's gala. The couple will be joined by host Denis Leary for a night of comedy and music -- featuring Jim Gaffigan, Samantha Bee, Brad Paisley and more -- for the Oct. 29 benefit in New York City. Proceeds from the event will benefit the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research.
"She's smart and she loves me and she's protective and she's everything," Fox gushed of his longtime love.
Together, the couple shares four children -- son Sam, 33; twin daughters Schuyler and Aquinnah, 27; and daughter Esme, 20.
"The kids are great and it's her fault," he cracks. "It has nothing to do with me."
Fox was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 1991 when he was just 29 years old. Since then, he's become a vocal advocate of funding research and increasing awareness for the disease, raising a staggering $1.5 billion over the last two decades. Today, at 61, Fox tells ET that he's feeling "good," though every day brings something new to tackle.
"I don't think there's anything like a typical day at all, ever," he shares. "Not to get too heavy about it, my health issues have given me every different day, so it's been how I deal with that. It can be different but consistently, it's good. I mean, I love my family, I love my work, I love my situation, I'm happy."
For Fox, thinking of "the alternative" is what keeps him positive.
"The alternative isn't good," he muses, "so, no, I just love life and it's a matter of acceptance. The more you accept, the more you are grateful for it, because you see the contrast between what's good and what's not and what you have in your life. My family, my career and the people I meet every day."
Fox says his wife even calls him "Mr. Mayor" for his habit of conversing with people while out and about in New York. It's his love of people, he says, that fuels the ongoing efforts of his foundation.
"It's so humbling to have started this more than 20 years ago in 2000 with the idea of advancing research in Parkinson's, finding a cure, hopefully, and what we discovered along the way is that you can't do anything without the patients," he says. "For so long, the patients were the neglected part of the process and it happens in all kinds of disease studies and disease research, that they tend to hurry past the patient to try to find the answer."
He continues, "I'm an actor, I'm like a goofball and I stumbled into this situation -- not that anyone wanted to design for themselves -- but I recognized it immediately as a real opportunity. All these people coming to me, relaying their stories and identifying with mine -- and empathy and sympathy all combined ... We don't get this opportunity very often. So I do my best to seize it and grab some people that were smart, and we launched into it."
Tickets to Fox's A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Cure Parkinson's gala are available here. Donations to his foundation can be made here.
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LUSAIL, Qatar (AP) — Lionel Messi is making a record 26th appearance at the World Cup, breaking a tie with Germany great Lothar Matthäus.
Messi’s games have been spread over five World Cups, starting in 2006. He has 11 goals in total, tied for sixth in the all-time list.
Messi has said this is likely to be his last World Cup.
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Gainesville commissioners vote to reduce salaries amid property tax hike talks
Gainesville commissioners agreed to take a series of steps that could help alleviate some financial concerns expressed by lawmakers a week earlier.
The first move will hurt their own wallets.
With a 5-2 vote late Thursday evening, the City Commission agreed to begin repealing an ordinance that nearly doubles each official's salary later this year. The raises were initially approved by the previous commission. At the time, only two of the current leaders in office supported the move, though each also voted Thursday in favor of overturning the pay bumps that have an annual $400,000 impact.
Commissioner Cynthia Chestnut, who made the motion, said the issue comes down to setting an example for the city residents.
"I don't think we can go to the taxpayers for a property tax increase and say to them, 'We just increased our salaries to $71,000,'" she said. "I just can't do that."
More:Lawmakers grill Gainesville officials over utility management, debt
Last week, city officials were grilled by lawmakers about Gainesville's financial situation and its plan to resolve $1.7 billion in debt during a Florida Joint Legislative Auditing Committee meeting − a group comprised of House and Senate members for both major political parties. City officials a few days later began making suggestions for cuts, including jobs and initiatives.
Commissioners also agreed Thursday to ask the committee to help begin talks with the University of Florida to consider payment in lieu of taxes since it buyers power from another energy provider, not Gainesville Regional Utilities. Under Florida law, university property is off the tax rolls, which has long created issues for city government as the campus has seen significant growth and continues to sprawl.
The city will also begin reviewing areas to consolidate services between GRU and the general government side.
Though the motion on the raises passed, not all were in favor. Casey Willits said that he reduced his full-time job at UF to part-time due to the time commitment of being a commissioner. Chestnut said the elected job was historically intended to be a part-time position, adding that people can decide how invested they want to be.
At-Large Commissioner Reina Saco, during the nearly 12-hour meeting, offered a stern retort directed at Chestnut, saying she would like the meeting times moved.
"If I'm going to be paid for 20 hours, I will stop working on the 20th hour and you will be down a commissioner," she said.
Saco went on to say that if Chestnut and others are truly serious about saving taxpayer funds, then they should consider removing both At-Large seats to save hundreds of thousands in salaries, benefits and staff time and resources.
"If we're going to lead by example, we should be willing to cut off our entire salaries and our entire positions, as we ask staff to cut positions," she said. | 2023-03-03T07:54:36+00:00 | gainesville.com | https://www.gainesville.com/story/news/local/2023/03/02/gainesville-commissioners-reduce-salaries-with-ongoing-debt-talks/69965380007/ |
A prominent Florida businessman and his wife, a National Rifle Association (NRA) executive committee member, say their daughter and granddaughter were among the four people killed on board a Cessna aircraft that flew over restricted airspace in Washington, D.C., before crashing in the mountains of Virginia on Sunday.
Barbara Rumpel, who has served on the NRA's Women's Leadership Forum, reacted Sunday night in a Facebook post for an NRA event, writing, "My family is gone, my daughter and granddaughter." On Monday morning, her Facebook page was no longer publicly available.
John Rumpel, who runs the Florida-based company Encore Motors of Melbourne Inc., which the crashed plane was reportedly registered to, told The New York Times that his daughter, 2-year-old granddaughter, her nanny and the pilot were aboard the plane.
He said that they were returning to their home in East Hampton, on Long Island, after visiting his house in North Carolina.
SMALL PLANE CRASHES IN DETROIT BACKYARD; PILOT, PASSENGER UNHARMED
John Rumpel also lost his daughter Victoria at age 19 in a 1994 scuba-diving accident. The couple named the assisted living home Victoria’s Landing in Melbourne after Victoria, according to the facility’s website.
A pilot himself, John Rumpel told the newspaper that he had little information about what happened, but suggested the plane could have lost pressurization which led to the erratic flight path and crash.
Authorities have not confirmed the identities of those aboard the plane or what caused the crash.
CREWS STILL CLEANING UP FOLLOWING 2 TRAIN DERAILMENTS IN MINNESOTA, NORTH DAKOTA
The Cessna Citation took off from Elizabethton, Tennessee, bound for Islip, New York, the Federal Aviation Administration said. The aircraft inexplicably turned around over Long Island and flew a direct path over Washington, D.C., before crashing in the sparsely populated town of Montebello, Virginia, around 3 p.m., There were four people on board.
Flight tracking sites showed the jet suffered a rapid spiraling descent, dropping at one point at a rate of more than 30,000 feet per minute before crashing in the St. Mary’s Wilderness.
Virginia State Police confirmed to Fox News Digital that first responders reached the crash site just before 8 p.m. and found no survivors.
As the Cessna plane flew over Washington, D.C., the military scrambled a fighter jet that caused a loud sonic boom that was heard across the capital region. Officials said the small aircraft was not responding to radio transmissions before the crash.
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The Associated Press contributed to this report. | 2023-06-05T19:13:59+00:00 | foxbangor.com | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/prominent-florida-family-linked-to-plane-that-flew-over-dc-crashed-in-virginia-mountains/article_cbfe5c6e-10fa-5cd7-99c0-09d35a4daded.html |
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Companies run by a former professional wrestler received “sham contracts” in Mississippi and misspent millions of dollars of welfare money that was supposed to help some of the neediest people in the U.S., according to a new federal indictment.
The indictment of former wrestler Ted “Teddy” DiBiase Jr., 40, of Madison, Mississippi, was unsealed Thursday, two days after it was issued by a grand jury in Jackson.
It is the latest development in a sprawling Mississippi corruption case involving wealthy and well-connected people receiving contracts from the state Department of Human Services from 2016 to 2019.
DiBiase was a WWE wrestler in the 2000s and 2010s. The indictment accuses him and co-conspirators, including former Mississippi Department of Human Services director John Davis, of fraudulently obtaining federal money and using it for their own benefit.
According to the indictment, Davis directed funds from The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP) and the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program to two nonprofit organizations — Family Resource Center of North Mississippi Inc. and Mississippi Community Education Center.
Davis directed the organizations’ directors to award contracts in 2017 and 2018 to DiBiase’s companies, Priceless Ventures LLC and Familiae Orientem LLC, for social services that the companies did not provide, the indictment said.
“DiBiase allegedly used these federal funds to buy a vehicle and a boat, and for the down payment on the purchase of a house, among other expenditures,” the Justice Department said in a news release Thursday.
The Associated Press left a phone message with DiBiase’s attorney Thursday, seeking comment on the indictment.
DiBiase is charged with one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and to commit theft concerning programs receiving federal funds, six counts of wire fraud, two counts of theft concerning programs receiving federal funds and four counts of money laundering.
If convicted, he would face up to five years in prison for the conspiracy count, up to 20 years for each wire fraud count and up to 10 years for each count of theft concerning programs receiving federal funds and for each count of money laundering, the Justice Department said.
Davis pleaded guilty last year to charges tied to welfare misspending in state’s largest public corruption case.
DiBiase’s brother, former pro wrestler Brett DiBiase, has pleaded guilty to state and federal charges tied to the case.
The welfare misspending scandal has ensnared high-profile figures, including retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre, who is not facing criminal charges but is among more than three dozen defendants in a civil lawsuit that the current Human Services director filed to try to recover some of the welfare money wasted while Davis was in charge.
Mississippi has ranked among the poorest states in the U.S. for decades, but only a fraction of its federal welfare money has been going toward direct aid to families. Instead, the Mississippi Department of Human Services allowed well-connected people to fritter away tens of millions of welfare dollars from 2016 to 2019, according to the state auditor and state and federal prosecutors.
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families money helped pay for pet projects of the wealthy, including $5 million for a volleyball arena that Favre supported at his alma mater, the University of Southern Mississippi, Mississippi Auditor Shad White said. Favre’s daughter played volleyball at the school starting in 2017. | 2023-04-20T19:41:14+00:00 | siouxlandproud.com | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/sports/ap-sports/former-wrestler-charged-in-mississippi-welfare-fraud-case/ |
Mission-Driven Nonprofits Partner to Preserve Affordability of Magnolia Plaza Senior Apartments
Amid Housing Affordability Crisis, Rising Rents Leave Low-Income Seniors on Fixed-Incomes Susceptible To Housing Insecurity
NEW YORK, July 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CPC Mortgage Company, a mission-driven nonprofit mortgage lender, and BRIDGE Housing, a leading nonprofit developer, owner and manager of affordable housing in California, Oregon and Washington, announced $19.4 million in financing to refinance and preserve the Magnolia Plaza Senior Apartments. Located at 630 Baden Avenue in South San Francisco, CA, the property provides 125 units of affordable housing for low-income senior citizens.
According to reports, the senior citizen population is one of the fastest growing in the country, with seniors facing higher cost burdens as they age. With many seniors living on lower, fixed incomes, they often face a difficult choice of either paying the rising costs of rent or paying for other necessities, putting them at increased risk of housing instability.
"As a nonprofit lender, we look at deals through a lens of social impact. Every borrower and every transaction has the potential to help us continue to invest in communities," said John Cannon, President, CPC Mortgage Company. "Partnering with a company like BRIDGE Housing that shares our values and is committed to lifting up the communities they serve was a natural fit. We're proud that BRIDGE chose CPC Mortgage Company to provide the financing that allows them continue their work of bringing safe, quality affordable housing to the communities they serve."
"For seniors, particularly those with lower incomes, it makes all the difference in the world to have a stable, affordable home," said Ken Lombard, President and CEO of BRIDGE. "We're grateful for the innovative partnership with CPC Mortgage Company, which will help us preserve and enhance Magnolia Plaza's affordability for the long term."
"It was a pleasure to work with Jonathan Stern and BRIDGE's acquisition and capital market teams to help facilitate the purchase and preservation of this legacy asset," said David Galst, Vice President and Mortgage Officer at CPC Mortgage Company's California office. "Complex, affordable transactions with expedited timeframes can be particularly challenging to get to the closing table. The partnership between CPC Mortgage Company and BRIDGE, two nonprofits with extensive experience in affordable housing, helped make the process and execution of both the bridge and perm loan much smoother."
Built in 1988, the property is a 125‐unit, garden‐style apartment building that is age restricted to seniors age 62 and over. While there is a current requirement that 63 units be income-restricted to residents with incomes at or below 80% area median income, BRIDGE has initially restricted 84 of the units to 80% AMI or lower, and expects to be able to increase this number going forward.
The complex provides elevators, laundry facilities, community room, library, computer lab, and landscaped garden walkways. Magnolia Plaza Senior Apartments is adjacent to an architecturally distinguished surplussed school building, which was renovated by the City of South San Francisco as a senior center for the residents of both the development and the larger community. The complex includes a historic reconstruction of the city's original one-room schoolhouse as a project office and community room.
BRIDGE was a member of the original enterprise that constructed Magnolia Plaza Senior Apartments in 1988, and recently purchased the property from the remaining partners. The Community Preservation Corporation (CPC), the nonprofit parent company of CPC Mortgage Company, extended a $19.4 million bridge loan that was essential to BRIDGE's acquisition of the property due to an expedited closing timeline and the complex structure of the transaction. The first mortgage financing CPC Mortgage Company is providing via a Freddie Mac Targeted Affordable Housing loan that is refinancing the CPC bridge loan, providing BRIDGE with flexibility to resyndicate the property in the future.
The partnership between BRIDGE and CPC Mortgage Company brings together two unique mission-driven organizations, an owner-investor and a lender, that each focus on creating a social impact through responsible investments in multifamily housing. CPC Mortgage Company provides access to affordable and flexible mortgage products that are critical for multifamily building owners to maintain the physical and financial health, and the affordability of their properties. BRIDGE is a mission-driven nonprofit that pays close attention to the double-bottom line of financial and social return on investment, always in pursuit of quality, quantity, affordability and in keeping with its core values.
CPC Mortgage Company is a subsidiary of The Community Preservation Corporation (CPC), an S&P AA- rated, nonprofit multifamily finance company that has delivered more than $12.5 billion to finance more than 220,000 units of affordable and workforce housing. As the only nonprofit mortgage lender with a suite of Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae and HUD/FHA nationally licensed products, CPC Mortgage Company brings its flexible capital and unique expertise to borrowers and communities to expand and preserve affordable and workforce housing. Revenue generated from CPC Mortgage Company supports the mission-aligned work of CPC to create a positive social impact through investments in housing and community development. Visit us at communityp.com/mortgagecompany
BRIDGE Housing Corporation, a leading nonprofit developer and owner of affordable housing, creates and manages a range of high-quality, affordable homes for families and seniors in California, Oregon and Washington. Since it was founded in 1983, BRIDGE has participated in the development of more than 18,000 homes. For more information, visit www.bridgehousing.com
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