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BOSTON, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- STRM.BIO, a pre-clinical, VC-backed biotechnology company that is leveraging extracellular vesicles (EVs) to deliver gene therapies and developing new therapeutics for rare blood diseases, announced today it has been awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant for approximately $2,100,000 from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The award will allow the company to further advance its proprietary EV technology for use as a novel non-viral gene therapy delivery platform.
The specific objective of this NIH funding opportunity is to support the development and evaluation of innovative approaches to deliver genome editing machinery into somatic cells, with the goal of enabling the use of genome editing therapeutics to treat human disease. STRM.BIO has developed a proprietary, large capacity EV-based system for in vivo nucleic acid and protein delivery that specifically targets hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) in bone marrow, is amenable to large scale commercial manufacture, and presents with low immunogenicity which confers unique potential for repeat dosing.
"It is critical to the future of the field that the next generation of gene therapies be delivered as simple injections in standard clinical settings," said Jonathan Thon, CEO and Founder of STRM.BIO. "Current ex vivo approaches, in which a patient's cells are edited in culture and then transplanted, are not a sustainable model. Patients undergo harsh conditioning before receiving an ex vivo gene therapy treatment, which often has severe side effects and can be fatal. These treatments also require specialized facilities and training and are too expensive to be supported by payers as a routine option. Our EV-based delivery system has the potential to efficiently deliver gene editors safely to the bone marrow following intravenous injection—specifically the long-term HSCs in the bone marrow we all strive to target for durable gene correction. This is big. This precision targeting creates promising new options to treat rare blood diseases and represents a paradigm shift over HSC transplant."
This SBIR award will enable the company to optimize procedures for loading their proprietary EVs with cargo, further characterize the biodistribution and delivery pattern of cargo-loaded EVs, and verify feasibility of STRM.BIO EVs for in vivo cargo delivery in a pre-clinical model of human genetic hematologic disease. With this grant, the company aims to expand pre-clinical proof-of-concept support for the use of this novel system as a non-viral, in vivo genome editor delivery system for the treatment of inherited hematologic diseases.
Based in Boston, MA, STRM.BIO is a pre-clinical, VC-backed biotechnology company that is leveraging extracellular vesicles (EVs) to deliver gene therapy in a better way: simpler, safer, practical. Our work will open the door to the future of medicine for patients living with rare diseases worldwide. STRM.BIO is committed to bringing gene therapy to life. Please visit strm.bio and follow us on Twitter @STRMbio and on LinkedIn to meet our growing team of partners and collaborators and stay up to date on our progress.
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2022-07-26T12:37:21+00:00
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kfyrtv.com
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https://www.kfyrtv.com/prnewswire/2022/07/26/strmbio-receives-21-million-sbir-grant-advance-extracellular-vesicle-technology-non-viral-vivo-delivery-gene-therapies/
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'Heart of Gold': Woman known to feed neighborhood cats struck, killed in Orlando; suspect driver sought
Orlando - Neighbors in Orlando are angry and heartbroken after a woman was struck and killed by a vehicle, and the driver who hit her allegedly drove off without stopping or offering any help.
The woman was identified as 80-year-old Michelle Allen.
According to neighbors and a friend, Allen was homeless, kind, and known to feed the stray cats near the neighborhood.
"They call her "the cat lady," one person said. "Heart of Gold."
"She was homeless, and she would spend her whole social security check just feeding animals. That’s what she loved," said friend Debra Franklin. She said Allen was on her way to feed the cats when she was hit.
"When she got hit, the cats were all standing right there. You could see nothing but cats there waiting for her. My heart was broken," Franklin said.
Florida Highway Patrol said Allen was on her tricycle Monday night near West Lancaster Road and Calypso when she was struck, possibly by a black 2005-2011 BMW 3 Series. A passenger side mirror was left at the crash site and troopers are asking anyone with information, including repair shops or mechanics, who may have seen a similar vehicle with a missing mirror to contact FHP.
"If you see a black BMW that’s missing the passenger side mirror, please call 911 or dial," said Lt. Tara Crescenzi.
"It made me very upset. I was actually pretty angry that it happened. She doesn’t deserve something like that," said Joshua Burgos, who lives in the neighborhood.
Franklin said the intersection is dangerous with too many speeding drivers.
"This road is terrible. My husband don’t even want me to walk to the store," she said, adding that Allen was reportedly hit by a vehicle two years ago.
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2022-10-14T22:45:58+00:00
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fox35orlando.com
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https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/heart-of-gold-woman-known-to-feed-neighborhood-cats-struck-killed-in-orlando-suspect-driver-sought
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ROME (AP) — Former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi is alert and in stable condition on his second day in intensive care at a Milan hospital, a top political aide said Thursday, citing an update from the media mogul’s main doctor.
“I spoke this morning with Professor (Alberto) Zangrillo. He told me that Premier Berlusconi spent the night quietly,” said Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani, who is the coordinator of Forza Italia, the political party that Berlusconi created some 30 years ago. “His condition is stable,” Tajani said, interviewed on Italian state television.
A statement from Forza Italia said Berlusconi on Thursday morning had telephoned several party officials about political matters.
Zangrillo, Berlusconi’s longtime physician, is a chief anesthesiologist at San Raffaele hospital, where his patient is being treated. Only a week earlier, Berlusconi had left the same hospital, after several days of tests.
Meanwhile family members continued to visit Berlusconi. Spotted arriving at the hospital were his brother, Paolo, his eldest daughter, Marina, and his younger son, Luigi.
On Wednesday, shortly after Berlusconi was admitted to the hospital, Tajani said the former three-time premier is suffering from a respiratory problem stemming from a previous infection.
The last years have seen Berlusconi, who is 86, suffer numerous health problems, including heart ailments and COVID-19 in 2020, which saw him hospitalized then in critical condition with pneumonia.
His brother made no comment upon arriving at the hospital Thursday morning. But when he left the hospital the night before, Paolo Berlusconi said of his brother: “He’s a rock. Thus, he’ll make it this time, too.”
The former three-time premier and now senator has had a pacemaker for years, underwent heart surgery to replace an aortic valve in 2016 and overcame prostate cancer decades ago.
On March 31, Berlusconi tweeted when he left the hospital after a battery of tests that he was “ready and determined to commit myself as I’ve always done to the country I love.”
Tajani said: “We all want to be optimistic. We hope that the lion returns to guide the party, which has no factions but only one leader.”
With no political heir apparent despite Berlusconi’s multiple health setbacks, Forza Italia has seen its popularity at the polls slump to a fraction of what it enjoyed years ago, when voters helped to repeatedly propel him into the premiership despite his legal woes.
Among the messages for a quick recovery was one from Premier Giorgia Meloni, who tweeted “Forza Silvio,” riffing off the soccer chant that Berlusconi turned into the name of his political party, which is currently one of two junior coalition partners in Meloni’s nearly six-month-old right-wing government.
On Wednesday, during a Senate confidence roll-call vote when Berlusconi’s name was called and an official said “absent,” a round of applause erupted from across the political spectrum in Parliament’s upper chamber.
Berlusconi’s senate seat is fruit of his latest political comeback, in September general elections, a decade after he was banned from holding public office over a tax fraud conviction stemming from dealings in his media empire.
In recent months, he has triggered uproar with comments about his old friend, Russian President Vladimir Putin, boasting that the two had exchanged birthday greetings and blaming Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for the war. Meloni’s far-right Brothers of Italy party of Meloni is staunchly in favor of military aid for Ukraine. Earlier this week, Tajani insisted that Berlusconi is committed to a peaceful solution to the war.
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Luca Bruno in Milan contributed to this report.
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2023-04-06T11:46:50+00:00
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localsyr.com
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https://www.localsyr.com/news/international/berlusconi-spends-1st-night-in-hospital-said-to-be-stable/
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NEW YORK – A yearslong saga that ensnared the publishing world culminated in a New York courtroom Friday when a con artist pleaded guilty to a plot that defrauded scores of authors by duping them into handing over hundreds of unpublished manuscripts.
Filippo Bernardini, an Italian citizen who had been working in publishing in London, pleaded guilty to a single count of wire fraud in connection with a phishing scheme that baffled the book world for years.
The announcement was made by the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, Damian Williams, who said Bernardini is set to be sentenced April 5 before before U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon.
“Filippo Bernardini used his insider knowledge of the publishing industry to create a scheme that stole precious works from authors and menaced the publishing industry," Williams said in a statement.
Authorities say Bernardini, 30, used email accounts to impersonate literary agents and editors to con authors out of their manuscripts.
“Through impersonation and phishing schemes, Bernardini was able to obtain more than a thousand manuscripts fraudulently,” Williams said.
Bernardini, who hasn't publicly explained his motives, faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. As part of his guilty plea, he agreed to pay restitution of $88,000.
Authorities say the scheme began sometime around August of 2016 and continued until last January, when he was arrested.
Bernardini created fake email accounts by registering more than 160 internet domains that, prosecutors said, “were confusingly similar to the real entities that they were impersonating, including only minor typographical errors that would be difficult for the average recipient to identify during a cursory review.”
He impersonated hundreds of people over the course of the scheme, obtaining more than a thousand manuscripts through his deceit.
Works by Margaret Atwood and Ethan Hawke were among those targeted.
What made the plot more mystifying was that no attempts were apparently made to sell the stolen manuscripts.
In the indictment, Bernardini was described as working in London for a “major, international, US-based publishing house.” A LinkedIn profile for a Filippo B. said he worked for Simon & Schuster, which had said that it was “shocked and horrified” by the fraud.
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2023-01-06T23:46:26+00:00
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wsls.com
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https://www.wsls.com/entertainment/2023/01/06/con-artist-pleads-guilty-in-phishing-plot-that-duped-authors/
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(WETM) — Today’s Pet of the Week is a very good girl from Animal Care Sanctuary.
Nayla is a large, mixed-breed dog who is very intelligent and loves being active. This smart girl is already crate trained and does well on a leash, so she’s looking for someone who can give her a challenge and teach her more skills. Nayla’s current caretakers think she’d be the perfect candidate for agility and obedience training because she catches on to things so fast.
Nayla’s caretakers also think she’d do really well on hikes. This energetic baby would be the perfect companion for exploring all of the beautiful parks and trails in the area. Nayla also loves to play outside and play with other dogs.
If you aren’t super active, Nayla’s cool with that, too. Nayla loves snuggling and vegging out on the couch. She’s also a big fan of belly rubs. This girl loves people and kids, and she makes friends with new people everywhere she goes.
Nayla would do well in a home with kids, preferably over the age of 6 due to her large size. Even though Nayla likes to play with other dogs, she can be selective about which dogs she likes. Nayla’s caregivers think she would do well in a home with other dogs as long as she’s introduced to them properly. Nayla is not a fan of cats and should be in a kitty-free home.
Nayla would like to tell you that Animal Care Sanctuary is participating in Bissell Pet Foundation National Adoption Event. Adoption fees are reduced to $50 for dogs and $25 for cats until May 15.
Anyone interested in adopting Nayla can call 570-596-2200 or visit animalcaresanctuary.org.
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2023-05-08T18:47:39+00:00
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mytwintiers.com
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https://www.mytwintiers.com/community/pet-of-the-week/pet-of-the-week-nayla-animal-care-sanctuary/
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- In-person event to take place on Dec. 16 at InterContinental Hanoi Landmark72
- Some 500 participants expected from political, business circles of Korea, Vietnam
SEOUL, South Korea, Dec. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Korea-Vietnam Economic Cooperation Forum 2022 is hosting a series of special speeches and panel discussions on Dec. 16 from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. at Grand Ballroom, InterContinental Hanoi Landmark72 in Hanoi, Vietnam. The event is co-hosted by Herald Corp., publisher of The Korea Herald and Herald Business, the Korea International Trade Association, the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and the Vietnam-Korea Friendship Association.
The event will be held under the tagline of "Great Together, Next Prosperity 100!" aimed at discussing shared prosperity of Korea and Vietnam of the coming century that could be building on top of the 30 years of economic ties.
The Korea-Vietnam Economic Cooperation Forum 2022 expects to host more than 500 participants from political and business circles in Korea and Vietnam, including Rep. Kim Tae-nyeon of the Democratic Party, who heads Korea-Vietnam Parliamentary Friendship Group; North Chungcheong Province Gov. Kim Young-hwan; North Gyeongsang Province Gov. Lee Cheol-woo; Korean Ambassador to Vietnam Oh Young-ju; Hanoi Mayor Tran Sy Thanh; Tran Duy Dong, deputy minister of Planning and Investment of Vietnam; and Ngo Dong Hai, secretary of the Thai Binh Provincial Party Committee.
The forum comes against the backdrop of a strong partnership that Korea and Vietnam has built over the course of three decades since they established the economic ties in December 1992. Korea's trade volume with Vietnam rose 162-fold from $493 million in 1992 to $80.7 billion until 2021. Economic and cultural exchanges in both public and private sectors are thriving, as Vietnam designated the Korean language as one of the major foreign-language electives in 2021.
The event will also invoke discussions over ways to nurture new business opportunities at multiple angles, as Korea and Vietnam are stepping up its bilateral efforts by elevating their ties to comprehensive strategic partnership.
A keynote speech under the theme, "Taking Korea-Vietnam economic ties to the next level" will be delivered by Jeong Man-ki, vice chairman of the Korea International Trade Association. This will be succeeded by a special speech of Thai Binh Provincial Party Committee Secretary Ngo Dong Hai, which will revolve around ways for direct economic cooperation between provincial governments of Korea and Vietnam. Also delivering special speeches are governors of Korean provinces over blueprints for enhanced cooperation with Vietnamese counterparts, involving a nature-based tourism development project by North Chungcheong Province and a metaverse push to attract hallyu fans by North Gyeongsang Province.
Other notable speakers at the panel discussions are thought-leaders such as Choi Joo-ho, president of Samsung Vietnam; Bui Quang Tuan, director general of the Vietnam Institute of Economics; Han Seung, head of overseas development group at Daewoo E&C; Kim Chun-jin, president of the Korea Agro-Fisheries and Food Trade Corp.; and Cho Bong-hyun, vice president of Industrial Bank of Korea.
"Korea and Vietnam is ready to open the new era together based on the strong friendship and trust built over the past 30 years. The forum will lay the basis for the joint prosperity and invite intriguing ideas to outrun competitors in the global power rivalry," The Korea Herald Chief Executive Officer Choi Jin-young said.
The forum will be followed by a networking event. Hosted by Vu Tien Loc, president of Vietnam-Korea Friendship Association, the night event will also feature a Vietnamese traditional folk performance and performance by Korean-Vietnamese singer Hari Won and Korean singer Lee Sun-hee.
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2022-12-15T05:05:43+00:00
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wcjb.com
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https://www.wcjb.com/prnewswire/2022/12/15/korea-vietnam-economic-cooperation-forum-2022-highlight-elevated-bilateral-ties/
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Rives Township Hall, April 25, 2023, 348 Main Street Rives Junction MI.Nathan Clark | Nclark1@Mlive.comBy Nathan Clark | nclark1@mlive.comIf you purchase a product or register for an account through one of the links on our site, we may receive compensation.
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2023-06-08T19:36:04+00:00
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mlive.com
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https://www.mlive.com/news/jackson/2023/06/petition-language-for-recall-of-rives-treasurer-passes.html
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Weather Alert - extreme heat Wednesday, but changes soon to follow
Practice heat precautions if working outdoors
WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - Hotter weather is going to kick in for midweek and heat index values could easily top 105 for Wednesday afternoon. We’ve issued a Weather Alert Day as much of the state will be bracing for some extreme temperatures. It most likely won’t last long as a front drops into the region later in the week and brings some storms to the area with heat relief.
Look for a clear sky to start the day Wednesday, and it will be sunny throughout the afternoon. Highs will warm well into the 90s, but the higher humidity will lead to heat indices well above 100. Take frequent breaks to avoid heat related illness. A few storms may pop up to the east of Wichita, but they won’t stick around for very long before clearing the area.
Thursday won’t be quite as hot, but most of the state will still have highs near or just above 90. Get ready for another round of storms to impact the area Thursday evening and overnight. While widespread severe weather is not likely, a few storms could produce some wind gusts above 60 and some of the rain could be heavy from time to time.
More active weather is likely Friday evening and into the night for the area. Storms will start in western Kansas and then spread to the southeast.
It won’t be cool over the weekend, but temperatures are forecast to drop below average for most of the state, resulting in 80s for highs.
Wichita Area Forecast:
Tonight: Clear. Wind: S 5-15. Low: 72.
Tomorrow: Sunny to mostly sunny; dangerous afternoon heat. Wind: S 5-15. High: 96.
Tomorrow Night: An isolated evening storm, then partly cloudy. Wind: S 5-15. Low: 73.
Thu: High: 93 Partly cloudy; scattered evening/overnight storms.
Fri: High: 91 Low: 72 Partly cloudy; evening/overnight storms.
Sat: High: 90 Low: 70 Partly cloudy; isolated evening storms.
Sun: High: 88 Low: 67 Mostly sunny to partly cloudy. A few overnight storms.
Mon: High: 90 Low: 68 Partly cloudy.
Tue: High: 93 Low: 69 Mostly sunny and hotter.
Copyright 2023 KWCH. All rights reserved. To report a correction or typo, please email news@kwch.com
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2023-07-11T21:33:33+00:00
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kwch.com
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https://www.kwch.com/2023/07/11/weather-alert-extreme-heat-wednesday-changes-soon-follow/
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RALEIGH, N.C., Jan. 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Cordance today announced that Sharon Love has been appointed Chief Executive Officer, effective January 3, 2023. Love succeeds John Bennett, who will be assuming an advisory role with the company.
Love is a seasoned technology executive with experience across investing and operations. She was previously President & CEO of Community Brands, where she transformed Community's revenue streams to create a high-margin, double-digit growth business, and oversaw improvements to its product portfolio, customer delivery and cloud operations. Before her role with Community Brands, Love held executive roles with Social Solutions Global, CentralSquare Technologies NCR, Lenovo, FedEx and Dell. She also sits on the boards of Karmak and Yellowbird.
"I am proud to take on the CEO role and am eager to advance the promising strategy John and his team have put in motion," said Love. "Cordance is a launchpad for great leaders and businesses in the software industry. I look forward to working with the Cordance team and carrying on our mission of enabling these impressive entrepreneurs to build the next generation of category-defining technology companies."
"I'm happy to pass the reins of Cordance to Sharon's very capable hands," said John Bennett, outgoing CEO of Cordance. "I am confident she is the right leader at this important time for the company to oversee our continued growth and work with leading software entrepreneurs. I wish her and the entire Cordance team continued success."
Cordance (cordance.co) is dedicated to accelerating the growth of vertically focused business-to-business (B2B) software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies through acquisition and long-term tactical and financial guidance. Cordance's team of experienced operators and subject-matter experts have a passion for software and building businesses, and partner with founders to help them scale their businesses and realize their companies' full potential. Cordance seeks businesses with strong leadership and high potential for profitable growth to work together to increase year-over-year revenue, company efficiency, and impact. Cordance is based in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Contact: Andrew Chironna, achironna@prosek.com
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2023-01-19T08:47:50+00:00
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kswo.com
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https://www.kswo.com/prnewswire/2023/01/18/cordance-appoints-sharon-love-chief-executive-officer/
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Death toll from train station attack in Ukraine rises to 25
POKROVSK, Ukraine (AP) - The death toll from a Russian rocket attack as Ukraine observed its Independence Day has risen to 25, including an 11-year-old boy found under the rubble of a house and a 6-year-old killed in a car fire near a train station that took a hit, a Ukrainian official said Thursday.
The deputy head of the Ukrainian presidential office, Kyrylo Tymoshenko, provided the updated casualty figures from Wednesday’s attack. A total of 31 people sustained injuries, he said.
The strike served as a brutally painful reminder that Russia is capable of employing military force that causes civilians to suffer the most and tests Ukraine’s resilience after six months of a grinding war.
In Geneva on Thursday, the U.N.’s human rights chief, Michelle Bachelet, decried the time since Russian President Vladimir Putin sent troops into the neighboring country as “unimaginably horrifying.” She called on Putin “to halt armed attacks against Ukraine.”
The lethal train station strike took place in Chaplyne, a town of about 3,500 people in the central Dnipropetrovsk region. It came after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned that Moscow might attempt “something particularly cruel” this week as Ukraine marked both its 1991 declaration of independence from the Soviet Union and the six-month point of Russia’s invasion on Wednesday.
Hours before the train station attack, Russia insisted it was doing its best to spare civilians, even at a cost of slowing down its offensive in Ukraine.
GRAPHIC WARNING: Videos included in this story may contain disturbing content.
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, speaking Wednesday at a meeting of his counterparts from a security organization dominated by Russia and China, said Russia was carrying out strikes with precision weapons against Ukrainian military targets, and “everything is done to avoid civilian casualties.”
“Undoubtedly, it slows down the pace of the offensive, but we do it deliberately,” he said.
It was the second time Shoigu has made such a claim; he said the same thing in late May.
Elsewhere in Ukraine, three people were killed in the eastern region of Donetsk on Wednesday and one more was wounded, Gov. Pavlo Kyrylenko said on Telegram.
Nikopol, a city across the river from the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, came under more Russian shelling overnight, Valentyn Reznichenko, the governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region, said.
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Follow all of AP’s coverage of the war in Ukraine at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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2022-08-25T10:32:01+00:00
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kfyrtv.com
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https://www.kfyrtv.com/2022/08/25/death-toll-train-station-attack-ukraine-rises-25/
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Frank Lucas wins reelection to U.S. House in Oklahoma's 3rd Congressional District.
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2022-11-09T07:27:43+00:00
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ourmidland.com
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https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Alert-Republican-Frank-Lucas-wins-reelection-to-17570132.php
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Senate Republicans pressure the President to compromise as debt ceiling deadline looms
The President has invited GOP leaders to the White House next week.
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - President Joe Biden will meet with Republican leaders next week to try to reach a deal on raising the debt ceiling. Meanwhile, the United States Treasury says the nation could default as soon as June 1st if lawmakers don’t act.
On Tuesday, Senate Republicans continued to pressure the President to negotiate government spending cuts, before they’d agree to raise the debt ceiling. They want the bill that passed the House last week to be the starting point for negotiations at the White House. As for talk of an extension, Senator Rick Scott of Florida and other Republicans said they don’t support it.
“It’s all up to Joe Biden If he comes to his senses and shows up, he’ll get a deal done,” said Sen. Scott, who added that President Biden should be agreeing to negotiations every day to get the debt ceiling deal done.
The President has already promised to veto the House bill, that passed last week along party lines. It would raise the debt ceiling, and cut billions in federal spending. Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), who chairs the appropriations committee, said the House GOP bill would have a devastating impact on families. She called it a political bill to satisfy Republicans far right members.
“Cutting back essential provisions from families, for our communities at a time when we’re trying to get our economy back on track. Cutting jobs, hurting people who are just trying to make it today on SNAP. I mean it is just horrendous. So what they offered us was chaos or chaos. The answer is no. Do your job. Pay our bills. Pay our debt,” she said.
Republicans argue, their plan is reasonable and that it would rescind unspent pandemic relief, left over from COVID-19.
The President will meet with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on May 9th.
Copyright 2023 Gray DC. All rights reserved.
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2023-05-04T18:10:33+00:00
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newschannel6now.com
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https://www.newschannel6now.com/2023/05/04/senate-republicans-pressure-president-compromise-debt-ceiling-deadline-looms/
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BERLIN (AP) — Researchers say efforts to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere aren’t being scaled up fast enough and can’t be relied on to meet crucial climate goals.
A report published Thursday by scientists in Europe and the United States found that new methods of CO2 removal currently account for only 0.1% of the 2 billion metric tons sucked from the atmosphere each year. That compares with roughly 37 billion tons of annual CO2 emissions.
Most current greenhouse gas removal is achieved by planting trees and managing forests and other natural carbon sinks, which themselves are under considerable threat.
New carbon removal technologies include so-called direct air capture, where CO2 is sucked from the atmosphere and stored underground. Another method known as biochar involves burning plant matter and then burying the carbon-heavy waste.
Both have been heavily criticized by environmentalists even as they attract considerable funding from governments and companies seeking solutions to the climate crisis. Developing countries argue that their contribution to global carbon removal — mostly in the form of forests and land management — are equally important and deserve greater recognition.
The study concludes that novel carbon removal needs to increase 30-fold by 2030 to achieve the emissions reductions required to keep global temperature rise below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) and ideally no more than 1.5 C (2.7 F) by the end of the century.
Achieving ‘net zero’ emissions by mid-century — a goal many countries are aiming for and experts say is necessary to meet the targets agreed in the 2015 Paris climate accord — would require an increase in carbon dioxide removal by a factor of 1,300 and few countries have realistic plans for doing so, the authors said.
“We are really lagging behind significantly when it comes to carbon removal,” said study co-author Jan Minx of the Berlin-based Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change.
“If we want a robust strategy to achieve the Paris climate goals then we need to restrict dependence on carbon removal … through rapid and far-reaching emissions reductions,” he said. “But at the same time the expansion and development of carbon removal methods needs to be boosted.”
Oliver Geden of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, who also contributed to the report, said natural means of carbon removal, such as reforestation, are currently more cost-effective than artificial methods. But there are limits to how much land can be devoted to forests and rising global temperatures increase the risk that carbon stored that way could be released again, such as through wildfires.
He noted the rapid rise of solar and wind power plants as examples for how new technologies could have a measurable impact on efforts to curb climate change.
The authors of the study say they plan to regularly publish a regular ‘ State of Carbon Dioxide Removal.’
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2023-01-19T20:57:57+00:00
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wearegreenbay.com
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https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-study-big-gap-in-carbon-removal-effort-key-to-climate-goals/
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MIDDLETOWN — Once a dedicated movie theater, the Sorg Opera House is going back to its roots by bringing movies back to the community. A new event series, “Colonial Days” will honor its rich history.
“We have a strong following of patrons, who come in and say, ‘Oh, I saw ‘E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial’ here,’ and we received a Facebook post today that said, ‘I saw every Elvis movie here,’ and we thought, this is great, untapped potential,” said Nancy Griffith, president, of the Sorg Opera House Revitalization Group.
She said, “I love that people remember seeing films here. It’s like a little piece of nostalgia. Childhood memories are coming back, and we can introduce it to a new generation of people. I also love that it’s downtown. A lot of things are happening downtown.”
To kick off the “Colonial Days” event series, the Sorg will show two movies Saturday, May 14. “A League of Their Own,” and “Bad News Bears.” Showtimes will start at 9 a.m. with alternating screenings every two-and-a-half-hours.
“We are going to show the films for free, and you can come anytime during the day that they are running. We will have some concessions on sale, and we’ll have a raffle basket or two. All of the proceeds we are trying to raise will go directly into our mortgage fund. We are trying to pay off our mortgage before the end of the year,” Griffith said.
The mortgage amount is $165,000, and for a non-profit, she said it’s a “huge amount.” A $5,000 payment is going out next month.
“The non-profit doesn’t own the building. We are in a lease-to-own situation, and we’ve been making yearly payments for several years, and this is our last yearly payment before our balloon payment is due next year,” Griffith said.
Donations are not required to attend. Those that desire to donate may also make donations through the Middletown Community Foundation.
Griffith said the Middletown Community Foundation was instrumental in getting modern projection equipment installed in the theater. The equipment was acquired from a church, who had a projector and screen available for sale.
“Thanks to these grants we were able to acquire projectors and a screen to enhance our facilities. This will positively impact both our live music and theatrical productions in addition to adding more community programs,” she said.
Concertgoers, volunteers, and musicians alike often come through the doors of the Sorg Opera House with fond memories of the Colonial Theater. For several decades of the Sorg’s storied history, the Colonial Theater was a staple for local entertainment on the silver screen.
Going forward, movies will be shown on select dates. The hope is to offer them once a month. Movie selections will vary from family-friendly and themed films to date-night movies, and more.
Bob Melloh, a member emeritus on the board of the Sorg Opera Revitalization Group (SORG) has fond memories of his father, Bernie Melloh, working at the theater as a projectionist for 40 years.
“We were able to keep the original 35-millimeter projectors and are working to display them to the public once we finish second balcony renovations,” said Bob Melloh, who spent many years of his childhood at the theater.
In recent years, the Sorg has continued to bring concerts, theater, and musical productions to the stage in Middletown.
“For a lot of folks in Middletown, the Sorg is a weekend staple for live events,” said Larry Mulligan, board secretary for the SORG. “‘Colonial Days’ will allow us to offer even more diverse programming for all ages.”
Quite a few of the patrons, and others that come into town remember this as the Colonial Theater, he said.
“We wanted to pay homage to that with these events, and we’re hoping to have a few more throughout the year,” Mulligan said.
He said the Sorg occupies a space in downtown that’s a catalyst for live events and overall economic development.
“We have a lot of great breweries, restaurants, and small businesses in downtown, and we bring a lot of traffic into our theater, and the more people that know about it, the more we can offer quality programming,” Mulligan said.
A basket featuring Dayton Dragons tickets and other baseball memorabilia will be raffled off at the conclusion of the event. Proceeds from the event will go toward ongoing restoration efforts at the Sorg Opera House.
How to go
What: “Colonial Days” movie events at the Sorg Opera House
When: 9 a.m. Saturday; Two movies will be shown with various show times. “A League of Their Own” will be shown at 9 a.m., 1:30 p.m. and 8 p.m.; “Bad News Bears” will be shown at 11:30 a.m., 4 p.m. and 6 p.m.
Where: Sorg Opera House, 63 S. Main St., Middletown
Admission: Free. Concessions will be available for sale and a portion of the proceeds will benefit the Sorg. Donations will also be accepted.
More info: Visit sorgoperahouse.org and www.facebook.com/SorgOperaHouse. There will be a raffle drawing at the conclusion of the event.
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2022-05-13T15:12:18+00:00
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daytondailynews.com
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BOSTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors on Tuesday announced an investigation into whether the police department in Massachusetts’ second-largest city routinely uses excessive force or discriminates against residents based on race or gender.
The civil investigation into the Worcester Police Department will review how the agency addresses misconduct complaints and discipline; review department policies, procedures and training; and evaluate how officers interact with the public, collect evidence, and complete investigations, the U.S. attorney’s office in Boston said in a statement.
“Based on information provided to the Justice Department, we find significant justification to investigate whether the Worcester Police Department engages in a pattern or practice of racially discriminatory and gender-biased policing, and uses excessive force,” Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division said in a statement.
The “majority of Worcester’s officers do their jobs with honor, pride, restraint and distinction,” said U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts Rachael Rollins, but she added that the investigation’s “ultimate goal is to ensure that policing in Worcester is constitutional, safe, and effective all while the civil rights of their residents remain intact”
City leaders pledged full cooperation with the investigation.
“The city and Worcester Police Department collectively strive to deliver the highest quality of municipal services to residents and will continue to do so in a transparent and professional manner as the investigation takes its course,” police Chief Steven Sargent, Mayor Joseph Petty and acting City Manager Eric Batista said in a statement.
Worcester has roughly 200,000 residents and is about 40 miles (65 kilometers) west of Boston. More than 23% of its population is Latino or Hispanic, and 13% is Black or African American, according to Census Bureau statistics.
The Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 prohibits state and local governments from engaging in a pattern or practice of conduct by law enforcement officers that deprives individuals of rights protected by the Constitution or federal law, federal prosecutors said.
The Justice Department conducted a similar investigation of the Springfield Police Department that was settled earlier this year with a consent decree.
The U.S. attorney’s office did not point to any specific incidents that spurred the investigation, but in April, a Black man sued the city and five officers saying he was wrongfully charged with murder based on his race and what his attorneys called fabricated evidence.
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2022-11-15T20:49:12+00:00
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seattletimes.com
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https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/justice-dept-begins-probe-of-massachusetts-police-department/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world
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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Former Minneapolis police Officer Thomas Lane is hoping for a sentence Thursday that could let him go free after as little as two years in prison for his role in the killing of George Floyd.
His attorney, Earl Gray, has argued that the rookie was the least culpable of the four officers involved in Floyd’s death under Officer Derek Chauvin’s knee in May 2020, a killing that sparked protests in Minneapolis and around the world, and launched a national reckoning on race.
Lane is one of three former Minneapolis officers who were convicted by a federal jury in February of violating Floyd’s civil rights by depriving him of medical care. He faces a separate sentencing Sept. 21 in state court after changing his plea there to guilty to a reduced charge of aiding and abetting manslaughter.
Lane and fellow rookie J. Alexander Kueng helped restrain Floyd while Chauvin, who is white and was the most senior officer on the scene, killed Floyd by kneeling on his neck for nearly 9 1/2 minutes despite the handcuffed and unarmed Black man’s fading pleas that he couldn’t breathe. Chauvin’s partner, Tou Thao, helped hold back an increasingly concerned group of onlookers outside a Minneapolis convenience store where Floyd tried to pass a counterfeit $20 bill in August 2020.
Federal prosecutors have asked U.S. District Judge Paul Magnuson to follow nonbinding federal sentencing guidelines and sentence Lane to 5 1/4 to 6 1/2 years.
But Gray has asked for 2 1/4 years. Under federal probation rules, and assuming good behavior, that would result in two years in prison. That happens to be what Lane is facing under his plea agreement on the state charge, which calls for a sentence of three years but likely would amount to two under the state’s parole system.
Gray argued during the trial that Lane “did everything he could possibly do to help George Floyd.” He pointed out that Lane suggested rolling Floyd on his side so he could breathe, but was rebuffed twice by Chauvin. He also noted that Lane performed CPR to try to revive Floyd after the ambulance arrived.
“Any reasonable person should just be disgusted, should be infuriated” that Lane was ever charged, Gray told jurors in his closing argument.
Lane testified he didn’t realize how dire Floyd’s condition was until paramedics turned him over. Prosecutor Manda Sertich countered that his expressions of concern showed he knew Floyd was in distress but “did nothing to give Mr. Floyd the medical aid he knew Mr. Floyd so desperately needed.”
When Lane pleaded guilty in state court in May, Gray said Lane hoped to avoid a long sentence. “He has a newborn baby and did not want to risk not being part of the child’s life,” he said.
Chauvin pleaded guilty to separate federal civil rights charges in December in Floyd’s killing and in an unrelated case involving a Black teenager. That netted a 21-year sentence when he appeared before Magnuson two weeks ago, toward the low end of the range of 20 to 25 years both sides agreed to under his plea deal.
Magnuson had harsh words for Chauvin at the hearing, saying, “You absolutely destroyed the lives of three young officers by taking command of the scene.”
Chauvin was already serving a 22 1/2-year state court sentence for second-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. His federal and state sentences are running concurrently. While his plea agreement meant accepting nearly three more years behind bars than his state sentence alone, he’s expected to be safer and have more freedom in the long run. Minnesota corrections officials have kept Chauvin in solitary confinement in the state’s maximum security prison for his own safety, given his notoriety. He has not yet been transferred to the federal prison system.
Magnuson has not set sentencing dates for Thao and Kueng. But he has scheduled a hearing for Friday on objections by their attorneys to how their sentences should be calculated under the complicated federal guidelines. Prosecutors are seeking unspecified sentences for them that would be lower than Chauvin’s but “substantially higher” than Lane’s.
Thao and Kueng, who have turned down plea deals, are scheduled to go on trial Oct. 24 on state charges of aiding and abetting both second-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter.
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Find AP’s full coverage of the killing of George Floyd at: https://apnews.com/hub/death-of-george-floyd
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2022-07-21T04:22:55+00:00
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wwlp.com
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https://www.wwlp.com/news/top-stories/ap-top-headlines/ex-cop-thomas-lane-faces-sentencing-in-george-floyd-killing/
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Wayne Rooney has agreed to coach D.C. United in Major League Soccer, a person with knowledge of the move said.
The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity Sunday because the deal had not been announced.
The longtime English soccer star played for the MLS club in 2018 and 2019. Once visa paperwork is complete, Rooney is set to replace interim coach Chad Ashton, who replaced Hernan Losada earlier this season.
D.C. United is tied with Chicago for the fewest points in the 28-team league with a record of 5-10-2. United lost 7-0 on Friday night at the Philadelphia Union, matching the MLS record for largest margin of defeat.
Rooney, 36, starred for Manchester in the English Premier League from 2004-17 and is the leading goal-scorer in the history of the English national team.
Rooney resigned as English club Derby’s manager last month after 18 months in charge. His reunion with D.C. United was first reported by The Washington Post.
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2022-07-11T03:48:40+00:00
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wsls.com
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https://www.wsls.com/sports/2022/07/11/ap-source-wayne-rooney-agrees-to-coach-dc-united/
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Texas Roadhouse releasing candle inspired by its honey cinnamon butter
Published: Sep. 21, 2022 at 10:01 PM EDT|Updated: 18 minutes ago
(Gray News) - If you love the smell of the honey cinnamon butter served at Texas Roadhouse, you’ll soon be able to bring that scent home.
Texas Roadhouse announced this week that it is releasing a candle that smells like its honey cinnamon butter paired with its signature rolls.
The restaurant unveiled the new candle on its social media, saying, “We have perfected the scent of the delicious honey cinnamon butter you enjoy on your fresh-baked bread and put it in candle form.”
Fans can order the cinnamon butter-inspired candle starting on Friday for $12, according to the announcement.
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2022-09-22T02:24:38+00:00
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foxcarolina.com
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https://www.foxcarolina.com/2022/09/22/texas-roadhouse-releasing-candle-inspired-by-its-honey-cinnamon-butter/
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WFO LAS VEGAS Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, December 12, 2022
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WINTER STORM WATCH
URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Las Vegas NV
733 PM PST Thu Dec 8 2022
...WINTER STORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM LATE FRIDAY NIGHT
THROUGH LATE SUNDAY NIGHT...
* WHAT...Heavy snow possible. 12-30" will be possible above
7,000 feet in the Sierra. In the White Mountains, 10-20" will
be possible above 7,000 feet. 5-12" will be possible below
7,000 feet in both the Sierra and White Mountains. Winds could
gust as high as 45 mph, resulting in areas of blowing snow.
* WHERE...Eastern Sierra Slopes and White Mountains of Inyo
County.
* WHEN...From late Friday night through late Sunday night.
* IMPACTS...Travel will be difficult-to-impossible and
dangerous. Blowing snow may result in visibility reductions.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...An incoming system is expected to bring
moderate-to-heavy snow to the eastern Sierra slopes and the
White Mountains of Inyo county over the weekend.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A Winter Storm Watch means there is potential for significant
snow accumulations that may impact travel. Continue to monitor
the latest forecasts.
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2022-12-09T04:18:18+00:00
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expressnews.com
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https://www.expressnews.com/weather/article/CA-WFO-LAS-VEGAS-Warnings-Watches-and-Advisories-17641891.php
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BOSTON (WWLP) – A 10-week operation between national, state and local agencies has resulted in the recovery of 225 endangered missing children across the country, including 32 here in Massachusetts.
“Operation We Will Find You” is the first nationwide missing child operation that focused on areas with high amounts of missing children. The children include runaways and those abducted by non-custodial people. U.S. Marshalls, Homeland Security, state and local police helped located 32 missing Massachusetts kids.
U.S. Marshal for the District of Massachusetts, Brian A. Kyes, stated “I am grateful for the cooperative efforts amongst our federal, state, and local law enforcement partners across the Commonwealth in locating and recovering our community’s most vulnerable children. The USMS will continue to focus on keeping all of our kids safe from harm’s way.”
The following agencies participated in the operation in Massachusetts:
- Massachusetts State Police
- Department of Youth Services
- Department Children Family Services
- Attleboro Police Department
- Brockton Police Department
- Beverly Police Department
- Boston Police Department
- Cambridge Police Department
- Chelsea Police Department
- Fall River Police Department
- Haverhill Police Department
- Lawrence Police Department
- Lynn Police Department
- Medford Police Department
- Northborough Police Department
- Randolph Police Department
- Worcester Police Department
- Suffolk County DA
Across the country, 42 children were found in the city where they went missing and 10 were found outside the United States. In addition, a top 15 Most Wanted couple that ran away to Mexico was found with their five children.
A total of 169 children were recovered and another 56 children were found safe. The youngest child returned was just six months old. More than 40 cases of trafficking across the country were reviewed by local law enforcement and the U.S. Marshalls Services. Of the cases closed, 86% were endangered runaways, roughly 9% were family abductions and 5% were considered missing.
Since U.S. Marshalls partnered with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in 2005, more than 3,000 missing children have been located.
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2023-05-24T16:48:38+00:00
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wwlp.com
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https://www.wwlp.com/news/operation-we-will-find-you-32-missing-children-from-massachusetts-located/
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TORONTO — Aaron Judge tied Roger Maris’ American League record of 61 home runs in a season, hitting a tiebreaking, two-run drive for the New York Yankees in the seventh inning against the Toronto Blue Jays on Wednesday night.
The 30-year-old slugger drove a 94.5 mph belt-high sinker with a full-count from left-hander Tim Mayza over the left-field fence at Rogers Centre. The 117.4 mph drive took just 3.8 seconds to land 394 feet from the plate and it put the Yankees ahead 5-3.
Judge watched the ball clank off the front of the stands, just below two fans who reached over a railing and tried for a catch. He pumped an arm just before reaching first and exchanged a slap with coach Travis Chapman.
The ball dropped into Toronto’s bullpen and was picked up by Blue Jays bullpen coach Matt Bushman, who turned it over to the Yankees.
Judge’s mother and Roger Maris Jr. rose and hugged from front-row seats. He appeared to point toward them after rounding second base, then was congratulated by the entire Yankees team, who gave him hugs after he crossed the plate.
Judge moved past the 60 home runs Babe Ruth hit in 1927, which had stood as the major league mark until Maris broke it in 1961. All three stars reached those huge numbers playing for the Yankees.
Barry Bonds holds the big league record of 73 for the San Francisco Giants in 2001.
Judge had gone seven games without a home run — his longest drought this season was nine in mid-August. This was the Yankees’ 155th game of the season, leaving them seven more in the regular season.
The home run came in the fourth plate appearance of the night for Judge, ending a streak of 34 plate appearances without a home run.
Judge is hitting .313 with 130 RBIs, also the top totals in the AL. He has a chance to become the first AL Triple Crown winner since Detroit’s Miguel Cabrera in 2012.
Maris hit No. 61 for the Yankees on Oct. 1, 1961, against Boston Red Sox pitcher Tracy Stallard.
Maris’ mark has been exceeded six times, but all have been tainted by the stench of steroids. Mark McGwire hit 70 home runs for the St. Louis Cardinals in 1998 and 65 the following year, and Bonds topped him. Sammy Sosa had 66, 65 and 63 during a four-season span starting in 1998.
McGwire admitted using banned steroids, while Bonds and Sosa denied knowingly using performing-enhancing drugs. Major League Baseball started testing with penalties for PEDs in 2004, and some fans — perhaps many — until now have considered Maris the holder of the “clean” record.
Among the tallest batters in major league history, the 6-foot-7 Judge burst on the scene on Aug. 13, 2016, homering off the railing above Yankee Stadium’s center-field sports bar and into the netting above Monument Park. He followed Tyler Austin to the plate and they become the first teammates to homer in their first major league at-bats in the same game.
Judge hit 52 homers with 114 RBIs the following year and was a unanimous winner of the AL Rookie of the Year award. Injuries limited him during the following three seasons, and he rebounded to hit 39 homers with 98 RBIs in 2021.
As he approached his last season before free agent eligibility, Judge on opening day turned down the Yankees’ offer of an eight-year contract worth from $230.5 million to $234.5 million. The proposal included an average of $30.5 million annually from 2023-29, with his salary this year to be either the $17 million offered by the team in arbitration or the $21 million requested by the player.
An agreement was reached in June on a $19 million, one-year deal, and Judge heads into this offseason likely to get a contract from the Yankees or another team for $300 million or more, perhaps topping $400 million.
Judge hit six homers in April, 12 in May and 11 in June. He earned his fourth All-Star selection and entered the break with 33 homers. He had 13 homers in July and dropped to nine in August, when injuries left him less protected in the batting order and pitchers walked him 25 times.
He became just the fifth player to hold a share of the AL season record. Nap Lajoie hit 14 in the AL’s first season as a major league in 1901, and Philadelphia Athletics teammate Socks Seabold had 16 the next year, a mark that stood until Babe Ruth hit 29 in 1919. Ruth set the record four times in all, with 54 in 1920, 59 in 1921 and 60 in 1927, a mark that stood until Maris’ 61 in 1961.
Maris was at 35 in July 1961 during the first season each team’s schedule increased from 154 games to 162, and baseball Commissioner Ford Frick ruled if anyone topped Ruth in more than 154 games “there would have to be some distinctive mark in the record books to show that Babe Ruth’s record was set under a 154-game schedule.”
That “distinctive mark” became known as an “asterisk” and it remained until Sept. 4, 1991, when a committee on statistical accuracy chaired by Commissioner Fay Vincent voted unanimously to recognize Maris as the record holder.
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2022-09-29T02:20:47+00:00
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cleveland.com
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https://www.cleveland.com/guardians/2022/09/yankees-aaron-judge-hits-61st-home-run-ties-roger-maris-al-record.html
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Luxor’s arena for gamers to retain HyperX sponsorship and name
Luxor’s HyperX Arena has held 700 events and hosted more than 500,000 people since it opened in 2018.
And California-based HyperX and Allied Esports, a subsidiary of Allied Gaming & Entertainment Inc., announced Monday it has renewed its naming rights agreement with the 1,000-capacity arena, that hosts a number of esports tournaments and events. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
“HyperX is excited to retain the naming rights sponsorship of the HyperX Arena Las Vegas and continue our commitment and dedication to esports and the gaming community,” said Daniel Kelley, HyperX’s director of marketing. “Allied Esports is a key partner for us, with their ability to deliver a best-in-class esports destination in a city that has become nationally known for its esports, sports and entertainment.”
As part of the multiyear agreement, HyperX will continue to receive prominent branding and signage inside and outside of the venue, as well as across all arena promotions, content and social media platforms. HyperX and Allied Esports also will continue to partner on a variety of co-branded experiences and events at the arena focused on growing their gaming and esports communities.
Among the events produced at the arena were League of Legend All Stars, NHL World Championship and NBA 2K The Turn. The facility also has hosted numerous esports personalities including Mr.Beast, Ninja, Jabbawockeez, Timthetatman and Ludwig.
As the official peripheral partner of HyperX Arena, HyperX will continue to provide gaming headsets, keyboards, mice and mouse pads, and USB microphones for esports tournaments, special events and gamers visiting the arena.
Contact Richard N. Velotta at rvelotta@reviewjournal.com or 702-477-3893. Follow @RickVelotta on Twitter.
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2023-05-08T15:01:44+00:00
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reviewjournal.com
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https://www.reviewjournal.com/business/casinos-gaming/luxors-arena-for-gamers-to-retain-hyperx-sponsorship-and-name-2773931/
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COLUMBIA, S.C. – The mother of the bride had just unwound with a change of clothes and a glass of wine on her short-term rental's balcony when the sound of sirens gave the first impression that her daughter's wedding night had gone awry.
Within minutes, Lisa Miller was riding with her new in-laws to the South Carolina beach road where authorities say a woman driving under the influence at twice the speed limit slammed into the golf cart escorting a happy couple away from their sparkler-filled goodbye at a reception overlooking the Atlantic shoreline.
“She was around all her people. And her face was just lit up like — I don’t know how to describe it," Lisa Miller said of her daughter. “This light coming off her face, she was just so happy.”
A day that had begun blissfully with charcuterie and mimosas along the beach ended with hours spent in agony outside a hospital where she had wrongly been told her daughter had been taken. Then, Lisa Miller said she learned that the bride's father had identified the body back at the crash site.
Samantha Miller, 34, died Friday in Folly Beach, South Carolina, while still wearing her wedding dress. The groom, Aric Hutchinson, is recovering from a brain injury and numerous broken bones after the golf cart was thrown 100 yards (91 meters). Two other occupants also reportedly suffered injuries of varying severity.
At the wedding reception, Samantha Miller had asked the DJ to make a surprise announcement for a dance with “the most important person in the bride's life." Mom and daughter were soon dancing to “Just the Way You Are” by Bruno Mars.
That act emblematized the Charlotte, North Carolina, native's positive nature, her mother said.
“She never met a stranger. She wanted to make sure that everybody was taken care of. She doesn’t ever want anybody to be sad or mad," Lisa Miller said. "Sam doesn’t want this to destroy our lives. We know that.”
She and her daughter, Mandi Jenkins, are now urging drivers to reconsider how a split-second decision to take the wheel while drunk may have lasting consequences for a “real family” like theirs. She pointed inebriated ride seekers towards apps like Uber or Lyft.
Jamie Komoroski, 25, has been charged with reckless vehicular homicide and three counts of driving under the influence causing death or great bodily injury. She told the responding officer that she had consumed one beer and a drink with tequila about an hour before the crash, according to an affidavit obtained by The Associated Press.
She grew uncooperative after refusing to complete a sobriety test, according to the affidavit, and the officer had to help her stand. The officer then reported getting a warrant for two vials of blood after she refused to provide a breath sample at the station.
“We hope that whoever sees this — maybe it will help somebody that has made those poor decisions before stop or maybe not ever make that decision by seeing that real people are affected," Lisa Miller said.
The accident has spotlighted traffic safety in a community that has recently moved to combat speeding. Folly Beach residents successfully pushed the South Carolina Department of Transportation in 2018 to lower the speed limit by five miles per hour to 25 mph.
State Rep. Spencer Wetmore, the city administrator at the time, vowed Tuesday to continue fighting for safer roads after a “horrible tragedy" that she told AP "has completely broken my heart.”
In the tragedy's immediate wake, Lisa Miller said she wanted to leave and never return to the beach town that was supposed to be the launchpad of her daughter's next chapter. But she since has been heartened by the surrounding community's outpouring of support.
People have brought dinner to Lisa Miller and Jenkins for the past few nights. A realtor connected them with an oceanside condo where they plan to stay at no charge for the next month.
Now, Lisa Miller said she wants to move there and be around “good-hearted, genuinely caring people." The two emphasized that they want to aid Hutchinson, the groom, through his recovery.
“When he gets out of the hospital, it’s not going to be over. He’s going to need a lot of support physically and emotionally," Jenkins said. “And we will be there for him, too.”
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AP researcher Rhonda Shafner contributed to this report.
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James Pollard is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues.
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2023-05-03T01:51:14+00:00
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clickorlando.com
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https://www.clickorlando.com/news/national/2023/05/02/family-of-bride-killed-in-wreck-warns-about-drunken-driving/
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- GEP SOFTWARE enabling sourcing, supplier and contract management for all indirect and direct spend to drive greater value to millions of customers
- The bpost group is Belgium's leading postal operator and a growing parcel & omni-commerce logistics partner in Europe, North America and Asia
CLARK, N.J., Dec. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- GEP®, a leading provider of procurement and supply chain strategy, software and managed services to Fortune 500 and Global 2000 enterprises worldwide, announced that the public company bpost group — Belgium's leading postal operator and a growing e-commerce logistics provider in Europe, North America and Asia — has selected, rolled out and started using GEP SOFTWARE™, the industry's leading procurement and supply chain platform.
Headquartered in Belgium, with more than 36,000 employees and 4.3 billion euros (US$4.7 billion) in global revenue, bpost makes it easier to buy and sell online, thanks to its wide range of services for the whole e-commerce chain. The group supports businesses to expand their omni-commerce activities across the globe with astute end-to-end solutions and smart partnerships. It is using GEP SOFTWARE for digital transformation across the source-to-contract (S2C) process encompassing sourcing management, project management, contracts and supplier management to improve efficiencies and compliance across the tendering and contracting process.
GEP SOFTWARE encompasses GEP SMART™, recently named the world's best procurement software for the second year in a row, and GEP NEXXE™, the next-generation cloud-native supply chain unified platform. It enables Fortune 500 and Global 2000 clients to drive optimum efficiency, agility, visibility and actionable intelligence into all procurement, purchasing and supply chain functions while eliminating burdensome infrastructure and support costs to achieve maximum ROI.
GEP SOFTWARE™ provides award-winning digital procurement and supply chain platforms that help global enterprises become more agile, resilient, competitive and profitable. With beautifully rendered interfaces and flexible workflows, GEP® provides users fresh, intuitive digital workspaces that yield extraordinary levels of user adoption and meaningful gains in team and personal productivity. GEP products capitalize on machine learning and cognitive computing, advanced data and semantic technologies, IoT, mobile and cloud technologies, and are designed to incorporate continual innovations in technology. GEP's software integrates quickly and easily with third-party and legacy systems, such as SAP, Oracle and all other major ERP and F&A software. And with superb support and service, GEP is an industry leader in customer satisfaction and loyalty. A leader in multiple Gartner Magic Quadrants, GEP's cloud-native software and digital business platforms consistently win awards and recognition from industry analysts, research firms and media outlets, including Gartner, Forrester, IDC, Procurement Leaders and Spend Matters. GEP SOFTWARE is part of Clark, NJ-based GEP — the world's leading provider of procurement and supply chain strategy, software and managed services. To learn more, visit www.gepsoftware.com.
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2022-12-05T16:19:47+00:00
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kcrg.com
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https://www.kcrg.com/prnewswire/2022/12/05/geps-procurement-amp-supply-chain-software-goes-live-bpost-nvsa-transforming-procurement-belgiums-leading-postal-amp-e-commerce-logistics-operator/
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BROOKLYN, N.Y. (WPIX) — A McDonald’s worker allegedly shot by a man whose mother complained about receiving cold French fries has died of his injuries, according to authorities.
The New York Police Department confirmed the death of Matthew Webb, 23, of Queens, on Friday morning.
Webb was shot in the neck Monday evening outside the fast-food restaurant where he worked, allegedly by a man whose mother had argued with Webb about the quality of her fries, officials have said.
Michael Morgan, 20, rushed to the McDonald’s after hearing the argument on a FaceTime call with his mother, according to authorities.
Morgan and Webb got into a physical altercation outside the restaurant, police have said. During that fight, Morgan allegedly reached for a gun and shot Webb in the neck, according to officials.
Prior to Webb’s death, Morgan had been charged with attempted murder and criminal possession of a weapon. His girlfriend, Camellia Dunlap, 18, has also been charged with criminal possession of a weapon for allegedly handing Morgan the gun and running away with it after the shooting, according to officials.
Following his arrest in the McDonald’s incident, Morgan, of Brooklyn, New York, was also charged in an unrelated homicide from 2020, police said.
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2022-08-05T16:05:30+00:00
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WFO MIDLAND/ODESSA Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, June 3, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Midland/Odessa TX
929 PM CDT Fri Jun 3 2022
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT
FOR NORTHEASTERN WARD AND SOUTHERN WINKLER COUNTIES...
At 928 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 7 miles northwest of
Thorntonville, or 9 miles west of Monahans, moving southeast at 25
mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to
roofs, siding, and trees.
Locations impacted include...
Monahans, Kermit, Wink, Thorntonville, Wickett, Roy Hurd Memorial
Airport, Monahans Sandhills State Park and Winkler County Airport.
This includes Interstate 20 between mile markers 68 and 88.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
Continuous cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Move indoors immediately. Lightning is one of nature's leading
killers. Remember, if you can hear thunder, you are close enough to
be struck by lightning.
Torrential rainfall is occurring with this storm, and may lead to
flash flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of northwestern
Glasscock, northeastern Midland, southeastern Martin and southwestern
Howard Counties through 1015 PM CDT...
At 930 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Greenwood, moving southeast at 25 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts of 50 to 55 mph and nickel size hail.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Midland, Greenwood, Stanton, Lomax, Courtney, Elbow, Stanton
Municipal Aiport, Spraberry and Big Spring McMahon-Wrinkle Airpark.
This includes Interstate 20 between mile markers 139 and 173.
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.
A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until 300 AM CDT for
western Texas.
LAT...LON 3215 10214 3238 10168 3202 10135 3176 10192
TIME...MOT...LOC 0230Z 311DEG 20KT 3208 10191
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.88 IN
MAX WIND GUST...55 MPH
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When Anthony Weaver was asked about his confidence in the Ravens being able to mount an interior pass rush, he flashed his boyish grin and then nodded his head in approval.
We’ll see if that optimism becomes reality.
Weaver, the team’s assistant head coach and defensive line coach, has one of the top position groups on the roster when it comes to talent, experience and youth. He has to piece it all together while trying to provide the Ravens with one of their biggest offseason needs: pressure up the middle. A year ago, the Ravens (8-9) allowed 57 sacks and collected only 34.
“I’m extremely comfortable in it because of the players we have,” Weaver said of the Ravens’ pass rush. “There are guys like, shoot, Calais Campbell — he’s got 90-something [93 1/2] career sacks — Justin Houston, Odafe Oweh — I think you’re going to see the best version of him this year — and then you’ve got other guys that are on the come [up], like Justin Madubuike, Broderick Washington.
“So, I feel extremely confident in our ability to get there; we’ve practiced that way and I think you’ve seen it so far in the preseason, and you’ll see the dividends of that work come game day.”
The Ravens appear to have more versatile linemen as opposed to the one-dimensional pass rushers or basic run-stoppers of the past. The team has traditionally been strong against the run — they were ranked No. 1 in the NFL last season, allowing an average of 84.5 rushing yards per game — but it was almost meaningless when they allowed a league-high 278.9 passing yards per game. Injuries can be blamed for some of that. So can a lack of pressure on the quarterback.
Maybe that has changed. The Ravens now have two nose tackles who can rush the passer. Veteran Michael Pierce is strong and powerful enough to collapse the pocket, while rookie Travis Jones has quick feet, strong hands and loads of potential. Like Pierce, he should be able to force quarterbacks to move or step up in the pocket.
The key is getting both of those players in game shape. Jones weighs 334 pounds and is expected to miss several weeks with a sprained ankle. Pierce weighs 355 pounds and doesn’t appear to be in top game shape yet.
Weaver disagrees.
“That kid is incredible,” Weaver said of Jones, “so the same youthful enthusiasm you see out here on the football field, he attacks the training room the same way. So, I wouldn’t be shocked to see him defy the odds of the timetable they’ve given him. He’s not a kid I’m counting out.”
As for Pierce?
“I think he is 100% right now,” Weaver said. “If you put on the practice tape, he’s all over the film, just constantly around the quarterback, in the backfield and keeping our guys clean. So, it’s just a matter of us letting him loose now to the rest of the public.”
Right now, let’s just say Weaver is a wishful thinker. Pierce struggled with his weight during his last year in Baltimore in 2019 and was once told to leave practice because coach John Harbaugh thought he wasn’t in shape to play. In July 2020, Pierce opted out of the season with the Minnesota Vikings because of COVID-19 concerns. In 2021, he played in only six games and suffered an elbow injury that eventually put him on injured reserve.
With Jones missing some time, it will probably take another week or two for the third-round pick to improve his conditioning.
It’s great to be confident, but even better when the talent is proven.
Madubuike has done everything well in his first two seasons to earn a starting job at tackle. He reshaped his body — no more baby fat — and his exceptional quickness can disrupt running plays and allow him to gain a step on offensive linemen in pass protection. This should be Madubuike’s breakout season.
Campbell is the on-the-field teacher, almost a requirement in every position group. He is still good enough to win one-on-one matchups and disrupt passing lanes with those outstretched arms rising from his 6-foot-8, 307-pound frame.
Now in his 15th season, Campbell has become a valuable sounding board for Weaver. However, he’s missed five games in the past two seasons because of COVID and various injuries. The Ravens might have to put him on a snap count, especially early in the season.
“He can take in everything from a presnap perspective and use it to his advantage, where a lot of younger players can’t,” Weaver said of Campbell. “So, some of that disruption that you see is certainly his talent, but it’s also just his ‘FBI’ [football intelligence] and knowing when to take those moves.
“I have a tremendous amount of respect for Calais, so guys like him, whether it was the J.J. Watts I’ve been around, the Kyle Williams’, I’m going to let them do their thing. I’m always going to refine and tweak and make sure that everything is right. You’re always making sure the car is in alignment and it’s going straight, but they have the things that will work for them, and I’m just trying to make sure I can mold what we do around that.”
The Ravens kept five defensive linemen on their initial 53-man roster Tuesday, including Washington, and later re-signed veteran end Brent Urban. They also signed Isaiah Mack, a preseason standout, to the practice squad.
During training camp, the defensive line appeared to have the right chemistry.
“Those guys that are all in their third year, they feel the kinship, that they all want to go out there and prove themselves, and they’ve had some incredible leadership that they’ve taken bits and nuggets from — all of them,” Weaver said. “And now to see it kind of all come together, I think you’re going to see the absolute best version of them all.”
We’ll see.
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Teeghen Rath went 3-for-3 with 4 RBIs and scored twice as Cedar Falls rallied for a doubleheader split with Dubuque Wahlert Friday.
After losing a tight 4-3 contest in the opener, the Tigers scored four times in the first and twice in the second to take a commanding 6-0 lead en route to a 11-5 win in the night camp.
Colin Coonradt scored three times, while Logan Wroe tripled and drove in run to pace the Tigers offensive attack in game two. Additionally, Derek Woods, Shae Buskohl and Payton Marsh each had two hits.
Wroe pitched three innings of relief allowing just one run to earn the save for winning pitcher Reece Reints.
In the opener, a three-run bottom of the fourth proved to be the difference for the Golden Eagles.
Coonradt drove in two runs with a pair of hits, while Rath also drove in a run.
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Western Dubuque 6-10, West 4-0: The Wahawks lead 3-1 early in the opener, but the defending 3A state champion Bobcats scored in five of the six innings they batted to pull out a victory in the opening game.
Tayvon Homolar went 2-for-3 with a first inning double and drove in a run for West. Cael Caughron and Jesse Alcorn also had run-scoring hits for the Wahawks.
In game two, Western Dubuque scored three times in each of the first three innings before finishing the game in the fifth.
Columbus Catholic 9, Jesup 4: The Sailors scored eight times in the first three innings to seize control of the game en route to earning their 10th win of the season.
Myles Gardner went 2-for-3, while Connor Knudtson doubled and drove in two runs. Nick Merrifieldand Nick Hagarty each scored twice.
Brevin Dahl and Jack Miller each collected two hits for the J-Hawks. Miller drove in two runs.
Janesville 10, Clarksville 0: The Wildcats scored nine times in the first inning to take command early.
Gabe Meaney finished 2-for-3 with 3 RBIs, while Blake Porter also drove in two runs. Blayne Porter, Isaac Jones and Keegan Eastman all scored twice.
Kole Haan allowed just three hits and struck out 10 in five innings of work to earn the win.
Dike-New Hartford 13, Oelwein 2: Gus Varney went 4-for-4 with a home run and 5 RBIs to power the Wolverines past the Huskies.
Lewis Textro doubled and drove in three, and Cole McCumber drove in two runs. Carson Costello also had a big night for DNH going 3-for-4 with three runs scored.
Ray Gearhart drove in two runs for Oelwein.
Hudson 9, Union 0: Nathan Rueber allowed just three hits and walked one in a complete game shutout for the Pirates.
Rueber also went 2-for-4 at the plate, while Oliver Thompson doubled and drove in two runs. Tate Van Dyke had three hits, and Caleb Ham and Camden Davis also doubled in the game for Hudson.
Wapsie Valley 13, Denver 3: The Warriors scored six times in the fifth and sixth innings to pull way for the victory.
Jaxson Kuhlman doubled and drove in three runs, while Manny Huebner and Blake Hesse each had 2 RBIs.
Nashua-Plainfield 17, West Fork 0: Karson Chyma doubled and drove in four runs, while Bo Harrington and Dawson Glaser each drove in three runs for the Huskies.
Harrington doubled twice as Eli Kalainoff. Kendrick Huck, Kaden Wilken and Chyma also had two baggers in the game.
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2023-06-10T20:29:26+00:00
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WESLACO, Texas (KVEO) — With the national average price for a dozen eggs at nearly $4, people are becoming more inclined to buy chickens to raise at home.
But is raising chickens all it’s cracked up to be, and do the savings add up?
Before you shell out for hens, we sought as much insight as we could from Leroy Moreno, the owner of Moreno’s Feed & Pet Stores in Weslaco, Texas.
At Moreno’s — “The best place in town to pick up chicks” — 5-month-old hens are sold for $25 and 2-day-old baby chicks are sold for $3.
Moreno said chickens begin laying eggs at six months and do not require the fertilization of a rooster unless baby chicks are desired. Otherwise, hens will continuously lay five to seven eggs a week without any work on your end, other than feeding, housing and cleaning.
Some might think it is more economical to source eggs at home by purchasing a $3 chick or $25 hen. But in six months, how much will that chicken eat?
Based on the national average ($4 per dozen eggs) and estimating that a family of five eats about a dozen eggs every week and a half, that family would spend about $72.8 on store-bought eggs over six months. And they will have purchased just about 200 eggs in that time.
If someone purchased three hens that were ready to lay eggs (at around $25 apiece), then that household would be producing about 21 eggs a week.
But, according to Moreno, three chickens — on average — would go through a 50-pound bag of feed in 20 days. A 50-pound bag of feed is marketed at about $18 in Weslaco, Texas.
A household with hens on a proper feeding schedule, therefore, would be shelling out about $163 every six months just on feed in order to produce 546 eggs, which is significantly more money, and more eggs, than just buying 200 at the store. Having fewer hens will bring your cost down, naturally, but the above estimate ($163 every six months) doesn’t include the price of the chicken or the cost of care, including the coop and fencing. And prices on eggs, feed and materials for care will vary depending on where you live.
Depending on how many eggs your family plans to consume, the work may be worth the investment. But Moreno admitted that even commercial farms would have trouble turning a profit on egg sales alone.
“The large [farms] have government subsidies; they cannot survive selling dozens of eggs for $2 or $3,” said Moreno.
“So, either you’re a big boy, or you get out of the business.”
Cost aside, there may still be advantages to harvesting your own eggs. The founders of Coop, an Austin-based business that offers beginners’ courses in raising chickens, recently told Nexstar’s KXAN that homegrown eggs can boast more beta carotene and vitamin B, and less cholesterol, than store-bought.
Customers are also lining up, they said, to pre-register for Coop’s “Intro to Chickens 101” courses, hoping to learn the basics of caring for hens of their own.
But what these beginners should know, Moreno added, is that hens don’t produce a consistent volume of eggs throughout their lives.
Baby chicks, for instance, will not lay eggs for six months and they require a great deal of care. For the first four weeks, when chicks cannot fully grow their feathers, they must be in a box or cage with a heat source such as a lamp or heater.
In the cold months and during their molting period, chickens do not lay eggs either, Moreno said. The molting period is when a chicken loses its feathers and grows in new ones, much like a snake that sheds its skin. This is typically in July and August.
Moreno said the chickens cannot eat just any grain, either. Moreno said healthy chickens require mineral grit and oyster shells to provide calcium. For the best results, hens need greens and filtered water, as well.
“And during the day, the healthiest thing is to get them out into the yard for an hour or two hours or all day just eating grass and eating bugs out in the yard, which is the healthiest way to raise chickens,” Moreno said.
Not to mention the installation of a chicken coop. While every city has its own ordinance regarding livestock, Weslaco allows residents to own six chickens at once, the feed owner said. Those interested in investing in chickens should be sure to check their city’s ordinances before purchasing.
According to Moreno, there is no land restriction required to own the birds because most cities require that chickens be in a coop to not disturb neighbors.
After a few years, chickens may stop producing as many eggs, and owners could be left with barren hens. During this time, folks who simply wanted to invest in fresh, homegrown eggs typically need to decide whether to keep the animal as a pet or use it as poultry.
While the idea of having fresh eggs every morning may sound enticing, it is also important to weigh the pros and cons, and factor in the responsibilities of raising healthy hens.
From a cost standpoint, those thinking about buying a few chicks may also want to think about why they’re undertaking these responsibilities. For hobby? For health? For profit?
The latter, Moreno indicated, is pretty tough for farmers, let alone the average homeowner.
“I don’t know how [small-time farmers] could survive unless they’re living on something else,” he said. “Not many are doing it small-time for a full-time living. There are some, but very few.”
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2023-01-29T17:03:56+00:00
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kfor.com
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https://kfor.com/news/will-buying-chickens-save-you-money-on-high-egg-prices/
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DocuSign Announces First Quarter Fiscal 2023 Financial Results
Published: Jun. 9, 2022 at 3:05 PM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
SAN FRANCISCO, June 9, 2022/PRNewswire/ -- DocuSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: DOCU), which offers the world's #1 e-signature solution as part of the DocuSign Agreement Cloud, today announced results for its fiscal quarter ended April 30, 2022.
"We delivered solid first-quarter results, growing revenue by 25% year-over-year and adding nearly 67,000 new customers, bringing our total global customer base to 1.24 million. We also bolstered our leadership team with key new hires who, together with our existing team, are ensuring we're well-positioned to grow and scale our business," said Dan Springer, CEO of DocuSign. "With over a billion users worldwide, the proven value of our products, and the significant opportunity we have ahead of us, we're confident in our ability to successfully navigate the challenges of a dynamic global environment."
First Quarter Financial Highlights
Total revenue was $588.7 million, an increase of 25% year-over-year. Subscription revenue was $569.3 million, an increase of 26% year-over-year. Professional services and other revenue was $19.4 million, an increase of 13% year-over-year.
Billings were $613.6 million, an increase of 16% year-over-year.
GAAP gross margin was 78% for both periods. Non-GAAP gross margin was 81% for both periods.
GAAP net loss per basic and diluted share was $0.14 on 200 million shares outstanding compared to $0.04 on 194 million shares outstanding in the same period last year.
Non-GAAP net income per diluted share was $0.38 on 206 million shares outstanding compared to $0.44 on 208 million shares outstanding in the same period last year.
Net cash provided by operating activities was $196.3 million compared to $135.6 million in the same period last year.
Free cash flow was $174.6 million compared to $123.0 million in the same period last year.
Cash, cash equivalents, restricted cashand investments were $1,063.8 million at the end of the quarter.
A reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP financial measures has been provided in the tables included in this press release. An explanation of these measures is also included below under the heading "Non-GAAP Financial Measures and Other Key Metrics."
Operational and Other Financial Highlights
Executive Appointments. DocuSign appointed the following key new leaders:
DocuSign CLM Essentials. DocuSign introduced CLM Essentials, a fast, easy and affordable way to get started with CLM. CLM Essentials makes contract management accessible to medium sized businesses and departments that are looking for a quick solution to help automate many of the most common agreement processes — such as document generation, collaboration, workflows and repository.
DocuSign Agreement Cloud 2022 Product Release 1. DocuSign announced many new product capabilities and enhancements with highlights in the following areas:
Microsoft Partnership Expansion. On June 7, 2022, DocuSign announced an expansion of its global strategic partnership with Microsoft to offer new DocuSign Agreement Cloud integrations and capabilities across Microsoft's business solutions. As part of the agreement, Microsoft and DocuSign will also expand the use of each other's products within their own organizations. Microsoft will adopt DocuSign's products and services, including DocuSign eSignature and CLM, to streamline select e-signature and contract management workflows.
Outlook
The company currently expects the following guidance:
The company has not reconciled its guidance of non-GAAP financial measures to the corresponding GAAP measures because stock-based compensation expense cannot be reasonably calculated or predicted at this time. Accordingly, a reconciliation has not been provided.
Webcast Conference Call Information
The company will host a conference call on June 9, 2022 at 1:30 p.m. PT (4:30 p.m. ET) to discuss its financial results. A live webcast of the event will be available on the DocuSign Investor Relations website at investor.docusign.com. A live dial-in will be available domestically at 877-407-0784 or internationally at 201-689-8560. A replay will be available domestically at 844-512-2921 or internationally at 412-317-6671 until midnight (ET) June 23, 2022 using the passcode 13728945.
About DocuSign
DocuSign helps organizations connect and automate how they prepare, sign, act on, and manage agreements. As part of the DocuSign Agreement Cloud, DocuSign offers eSignature, the world's #1 way to sign electronically on practically any device, from almost anywhere, at any time. Today, over a million customers and more than a billion users in over 180 countries use the DocuSign Agreement Cloud to accelerate the process of doing business and simplify people's lives.
For more information, visit www.docusign.com, call +1-877-720-2040, or follow @DocuSign on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram.
Copyright 2022. DocuSign, Inc. is the owner of DOCUSIGN® and all its other marks (www.docusign.com/IP).
This press release contains 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, that are based on our management's beliefs and assumptions and on information currently available to management, and which statements involve substantial risk and uncertainties. Forward-looking statements include all statements that are not historical facts and can be identified by terms such as "may," "will," "should," "expects," "plans," "anticipates," "could," "intends," "target," "projects," "contemplates," "believes," "estimates," "predicts," "potential," or "continue" or the negative of these words or other similar terms or expressions that concern our expectations, strategy, plans or intentions. Forward-looking statements in this press release include, among other things, statements under "Outlook" above and any other statements about expected financial metrics, such as revenue, billings, non-GAAP gross margin, non-GAAP diluted weighted-average shares outstanding, and non-financial metrics, such as customer growth, as well as statements related to our expectations regarding our growth, the benefits of the DocuSign Agreement Cloud, and the anticipated benefits of our strategic partnership with Microsoft, including the implementation of new integrations or features and the adoption of certain products. They also include statements about our future operating results and financial position, our business strategy and plans, market growth and trends, and our objectives for future operations. These statements are subject to substantial risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such statements.
These risks and uncertainties include, among other things, risks related to our expectations regarding the continuing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, including the easing of related regulations and measures as the pandemic and its related effects begin to abate or have abated, on our business, results of operations, financial condition, and future profitability and growth; our expectations regarding the impact of the evolving COVID-19 pandemic on the businesses of our customers, partners and suppliers, and the economy, as well as the macro- and micro-effects of the pandemic, including the pace of the digital transformation of business and differing levels of demand for our products as our customers' priorities, resources, financial conditions and economic outlook change; global macro-economic conditions, including the effects of inflation, rising interest rates and market volatility on the global economy; our ability to estimate the size of our total addressable market, and the development of the market for our products, which is new and evolving; our ability to effectively sustain and manage our growth and future expenses, achieve and maintain future profitability, attract new customers and maintain and expand our existing customer base; our ability to scale and update our platform to respond to customers' needs and rapid technological change; the effects of increased competition in our market and our ability to compete effectively; our ability to expand use cases within existing customers and vertical solutions; our ability to expand our operations and increase adoption of our platform internationally; our ability to strengthen and foster our relationships with developers; our ability to expand our direct sales force, customer success team and strategic partnerships around the world; the impact of any data breaches, cyberattacks or other malicious activity on our technology systems; our ability to identify targets for and execute potential acquisitions; our ability to successfully integrate the operations of businesses we may acquire, and to realize the anticipated benefits of such acquisitions; our ability to maintain, protect and enhance our brand; the sufficiency of our cash, cash equivalents and capital resources to satisfy our liquidity needs; limitations on us due to obligations we have under our credit facility or other indebtedness; our failure or the failure of our software to comply with applicable industry standards, laws and regulations; our ability to maintain, protect and enhance our intellectual property; our ability to successfully defend litigation against us; our ability to attract large organizations as users; our ability to maintain our corporate culture; our ability to offer high-quality customer support; our ability to hire, retain and motivate qualified personnel; our ability to estimate the size and potential growth of our target market; uncertainties regarding the impact of general economic and market conditions, including as a result of regional and global conflicts or related government sanctions; and our ability to maintain proper and effective internal controls. Additional risks and uncertainties that could affect our financial results are included in the sections titled "Risk Factors" and "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" in our annual report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2022 filed on March 25, 2022, our quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended April 30, 2022, which we expect to file on June 9, 2022 with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"), and other filings that we make from time to time with the SEC. In addition, any forward-looking statements contained in this press release are based on assumptions that we believe to be reasonable as of this date. Except as required by law, we assume no obligation to update these forward-looking statements, or to update the reasons if actual results differ materially from those anticipated in the forward-looking statements.
Non-GAAP Financial Measures and Other Key Metrics
To supplement our consolidated financial statements, which are prepared and presented in accordance with GAAP, we use certain non-GAAP financial measures, as described below, to understand and evaluate our core operating performance. These non-GAAP financial measures, which may be different than similarly-titled measures used by other companies, are presented to enhance investors' overall understanding of our financial performance and should not be considered a substitute for, or superior to, the financial information prepared and presented in accordance with GAAP.
We believe that these non-GAAP financial measures provide useful information about our financial performance, enhance the overall understanding of our past performance and future prospects, and allow for greater transparency with respect to important metrics used by our management for financial and operational decision-making. We present these non-GAAP measures to assist investors in seeing our financial performance using a management view, and because we believe that these measures provide an additional tool for investors to use in comparing our core financial performance over multiple periods with other companies in our industry. However, these non-GAAP measures are not intended to be considered in isolation from, a substitute for, or superior to our GAAP results.
Non-GAAP gross profit, non-GAAP gross margin, non-GAAP operating expenses, non-GAAP income from operations, non-GAAP operating margin, non-GAAP net income and non-GAAP net income per share: We define these non-GAAP financial measures as the respective GAAP measures, excluding expenses related to stock-based compensation, employer payroll tax on employee stock transactions, amortization of acquisition-related intangibles, amortization of debt discount and issuance costs, fair value adjustments to strategic investments, and, as applicable, other special items. The amount of employer payroll tax-related items on employee stock transactions is dependent on our stock price and other factors that are beyond our control and do not correlate to the operation of the business. When evaluating the performance of our business and making operating plans, we do not consider these items (for example, when considering the impact of equity award grants, we place a greater emphasis on overall stockholder dilution rather than the accounting charges associated with such grants). We believe it is useful to exclude these expenses in order to better understand the long-term performance of our core business and to facilitate comparison of our results to those of peer companies and over multiple periods. In addition to these exclusions, we subtract an assumed provision for income taxes to calculate non-GAAP net income. We utilize a fixed long-term projected tax rate in our computation of the non-GAAP income tax provision to provide better consistency across the reporting periods. For fiscal 2023, we determined the projected non-GAAP tax rate to be 20% tax rate.
Free cash flow: We define free cash flow as net cash provided by operating activities less purchases of property and equipment. We believe free cash flow is an important liquidity measure of the cash that is available (if any), after purchases of property and equipment, for operational expenses, investment in our business, and to make acquisitions. Free cash flow is useful to investors as a liquidity measure because it measures our ability to generate or use cash in excess of our capital investments in property and equipment. Once our business needs and obligations are met, cash can be used to maintain a strong balance sheet and invest in future growth.
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2022-06-09T21:30:57+00:00
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wlox.com
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https://www.wlox.com/prnewswire/2022/06/09/docusign-announces-first-quarter-fiscal-2023-financial-results/
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Classes are canceled this week at a Newport News, Va., elementary school, where police say a first grader fired a gun and wounded a teacher on Friday.
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Classes are canceled this week at a Newport News, Va., elementary school, where police say a first grader fired a gun and wounded a teacher on Friday.
Copyright 2023 NPR
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2023-01-09T11:35:32+00:00
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mainepublic.org
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https://www.mainepublic.org/2023-01-09/charges-are-pending-against-a-virginia-first-grader-after-a-teacher-was-shot
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Stocks are closing mostly lower Friday after new data on the hot U.S. jobs market suggested the Fed won’t soon rein in its aggressive rate hikes.
The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq fell, while the Dow Jones industrials notched a small gain.
Employers unexpectedly accelerated their hiring last month and added hundreds of thousands more jobs than forecast. While the data suggests the economy may not be in a recession, it also undercuts investor hopes that inflation may be close to peaking. Treasury yields jumped.
On Friday:
The S&P 500 fell 6.75 points, or 0.2%, to 4,145.19.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 76.65 points, or 0.2%, to 32,803.47.
The Nasdaq fell 63.03 points, or 0.5%, to 12,657.55.
The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies rose 15.37 points, or 0.8%, to 1,921.82.
For the week:
The S&P 500 is up 14.90 points, or 0.4%.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average is down 41.66 points, or 0.1%.
The Nasdaq is up 266.87 points, or 2.2%.
The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies is up 36.59 points, or 1.9%.
For the year:
The S&P 500 is down 620.99 points, or 13%.
The Dow is down 3,534.83 points, or 9.7%.
The Nasdaq is down 2,987.42 points, or 19.1%.
The Russell 2000 is down 323.49 points, or 14.4%.
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2022-08-05T20:44:20+00:00
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sfgate.com
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https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/How-major-US-stock-indexes-fared-Friday-8-05-2022-17355120.php
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HANOVER TOWNSHIP, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — The Hanover Township Police Department arrested a man, Saturday, on charges of stalking and harassment.
Police say 57-year-old Frank Marcinkowski, was arrested on Saturday following an ongoing incident at the DHL facility on New Commerce Boulevard in Hanover Township.
Officers say Marcinkowski was continuously conducting himself in a manner that led the victim to fear for their safety. The victim reported Marcinkowski to the police and a warrant for his arrest was issued, police say.
According to law enforcement, Marcinkowski voluntarily turned himself in and arrived at police headquarters to be taken into custody on Saturday, March 11, around 8:30 a.m.
Marcinkowski was arranged on charges of stalking and harassment after which he was released on $5,000 unsecured bail.
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2023-03-12T00:37:02+00:00
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pahomepage.com
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https://www.pahomepage.com/news/crime-courts/hanover-twp-man-accused-of-stalking-and-harassment/
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Celtics backcourt of Tatum, Brown and Smart won't play in Milwaukee Bucks vs. Boston Celtics at Fiserv Forum
The Bucks go after an 11th straight victory tonight and try to move closer to the top spot in the Eastern Conference as they face the Boston Celtics Tuesday night. Get live updates from Fiserv Forum.
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Celtics stars Jayson Tatum, Marcus Smart and Jaylen Brown are out vs. Bucks
Boston will be shorthanded Tuesday night as the star backcourt trio are all out of action vs. the Bucks. Tatum (non-COVID illness) and Brown (facial fracture) are the Celtics' two leading scorers and Smart (ankle) is the reigning defensive player of the year.
Bucks injury report
- Giannis Antetokounmpo (right knee soreness), probable
- Pat Connaughton (left calf soreness), probable
- Bobby Portis (right MCL sprain), out
- Jae Crowder (return to competition conditioning), out
Who do the Bucks play next?
Milwaukee finishes up the “first half” of the season on Thursday when they head to Chicago to play the Bulls at the United Center at 6:30 p.m. The Bucks are 0-2 against the Bulls, who are an under .500 team. Chicago is lead by all-star DeMar DeRozan and former all-stars Zach LaVine and Nikola Vučević.
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2023-02-14T23:34:03+00:00
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jsonline.com
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https://www.jsonline.com/story/sports/nba/bucks/2023/02/14/tatum-brown-smart-out-of-milwaukee-bucks-vs-boston-celtics-game/69901232007/
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TRIPOLI, Lebanon — On a recent weekday in Lebanon's second-largest city, the atmosphere at a branch of the IBL Bank is tense. Security and police are gathered outside. Soldiers are clutching M16 rifles. People are crowding the entrance.
Inside, Zahra Khaled, a 53-year-old in a wheelchair who's in urgent need of medical care, is refusing to leave until she is given her savings. The bank has frozen all of it — tens of thousands of dollars. After selling personal possessions and exhausting all other options, she and her adult daughter have now entered the bank and will not budge.
Lebanon's banks froze most accounts three years ago amid an economic collapse. This year, faced with increasingly desperate circumstances, more people are resorting to extreme measures to access their savings. Khaled's protest is one of the milder tactics. Other Lebanese have taken to robbing banks for their own funds, brandishing real or toy guns. Most take only what they are owed, and so far no one has been reported killed in a robbery.
At the IBL Bank, Khaled has the backing of her own relatives and other depositors. "I'm here to support her to get her savings," says Mahmoud al Khattib, a retired soldier whose bank account is also frozen. "The stink of this corrupt system has affected us all."
The World Bank says Lebanon's leaders spent decades running the country's economy like a Ponzi scheme. According to its investigation, politicians and their financiers hollowed out public services to enrich themselves and those around them. When the economy collapsed in 2019, the report says, Lebanon's bank owners should have assumed the losses. Instead they froze depositors' accounts.
Since then, the country's politicians and heads of financial institutions have resisted implementing economic reforms — such as laws on money laundering — that would unlock funding from the International Monetary Fund. Critics say one of the reasons for this is because leaving the laws vague has allowed politically well-connected Lebanese to get their money out of the country.
Meanwhile, more than 80% of the population lives in poverty, including Khaled's family.
Khaled negotiates with the staff at her bank branch for hours. But eventually the cashiers and managers leave, and police escort her and her family out, empty-handed.
"The bank brought the cops on us. We're only asking for our rights," her son Ismail Mohammed, 32, shouts, gripping the handles of his mother's wheelchair. "You've left us to starve."
"May God smite our leaders," his mother cries.
Khaled lives with her sister in a large apartment with high ceilings and brightly colored traditional Lebanese floor tiles. But it's so empty now that their voices echo in the rooms. Khaled has sold her furniture, piece by piece, just to get by. A small coffee table in the living room is piled with cans and vegetables they'd emptied from the kitchen fridge before selling it too.
Ismail Mohammed shows NPR bank statements indicating the family has close to $90,000 in their account. Part of this is money is from a house he and his mother sold just before the banks froze depositors' accounts.
In the economic collapse, Mohammed lost his job. The Lebanese lira has lost almost 90% of its value since October 2019, and inflation has soared. Now, the family's debts are piling up.
"It's humiliating," Mohammed says. "We're even forced now to take produce from the grocer's on credit. I can't bring myself to look the greengrocer in the eye."
Khaled's daughter Amina Mohammed, 35, says she and her husband and their three children will be evicted by the end of December if they cannot pay their rent. She's also worried for her mother's health. Khaled has already lost her right leg to diabetes. Now she has pains in her left leg and doctors have told her she needs an MRI scan and possibly surgery — all things she cannot pay for.
"When your mother needs medicine and you have money you can't access — what do you do?" says Amina, shaking with rage. "What choice do you have?"
Several days after their visit to the bank, Zahra Khaled's family tells NPR that the bank has agreed to give them some of their savings so she can pay for medical care. Some banks do sometimes release funds for individual depositors on compassionate grounds. But overall, for now, there's no solution and most depositors question if they will ever see their money again.
Kamel Wazni of the Lebanese Control Commission, which supervises the country's banking sector, can't rule out that some of the depositors' money might be gone for good. Billions of Lebanon's dollar reserves have been taken out of the country, and billions more have been spent on subsidies and seeking to respond to the economic collapse.
Banks do allow withdrawals of $400 per account per month, plus some Lebanese currency, in a strategy that he says will repay as many as 70% of depositors.
But this does little to help those who need larger and more immediate sums. So depositors have started coordinating their actions, even forming a movement.
"A depositor gets into the bank; we are outside," says Ibrahim Abdallah, a spokesperson for a group called Cry of the Depositors, recalling a bank heist.
He says the crowd cheers the robber on: "We're like: 'Yeah! Do it. Come on!' We're giving them some motivation."
The group has lawyers — they too include depositors locked out of their savings — who sometimes offer legal advice to those staging heists on how to protect themselves from prosecution.
Abdallah says he knows these robberies to "liberate" deposits are not right.
"The normal process [if you've been wronged] is to go through the legal route." But in Lebanon, he says, the legal route is blocked by corrupt judges.
The country's leaders, he says, "are forcing the depositors to become criminals."
At a protest by Cry of the Depositors outside a hotel in downtown Beirut where bankers gathered for a conference, Abdallah points to a nearby glass-paneled skyscraper whose many apartments he helped sell through his work in real estate.
"I have millions in the bank. Millions," he says. "My son sometimes says, 'Let's go have dinner.' I can't afford to have a dinner."
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2022-12-17T16:21:00+00:00
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kunm.org
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https://www.kunm.org/npr-news/npr-news/2022-12-17/people-in-lebanon-are-robbing-banks-and-staging-sit-ins-to-access-their-own-savings
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SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily 4" game were:
1-6-8-2
(one, six, eight, two)
¶ Ticket-holders with all four winning numbers in the order given win the top prize. Lesser amounts are also awarded to ticket-holders with other varying combinations of the winning numbers.
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2022-08-23T02:31:58+00:00
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seattlepi.com
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https://www.seattlepi.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-4-game-17390945.php
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CONOVER, N.C. — A man who had been reported missing for over a year is the same person whose remains were found behind a home in Conover in September, police revealed.
On Wednesday, the Conover Police Department announced that a body found buried behind a home on 4th Avenue SW is Richard Lee Moris, 54, who was reported missing on Aug. 26, 2021.
Morris's remains were found on Sept. 16 in a shallow grave. The remains were found in the grave, although they did not appear to be recent, and were sent to a medical facility to determine if they were human remains.
Police say Morris's cause of death is unknown at this time. The autopsy on the body has not been completed at this time.
No charges have been filed at this time. Conover police are continuing to investigate this incident.
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2022-10-13T00:24:03+00:00
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wcnc.com
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https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/local/remains-found-behind-conover-home-identified-as-man-missing-since-2021-robert-lee-morris-north-carolina/275-ee25a96b-9b55-47ad-92ec-b5c8ad7c3825
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NPR's Cheryl W. Thompson speaks with Mary McCord, executive director of the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection, about the role of armed militias in the attack.
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NPR's Cheryl W. Thompson speaks with Mary McCord, executive director of the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection, about the role of armed militias in the attack.
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2022-06-12T21:52:05+00:00
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kcbx.org
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https://www.kcbx.org/2022-06-12/a-look-at-the-role-armed-militia-groups-may-have-played-in-the-weeks-before-jan-6
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Red Roof will open 50 new properties in 2023, representing 60 percent year on year growth
COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Red Roof®, an award-winning leader in the lodging industry, will open 50 properties — new builds and conversions — in 2023, representing 60 percent year on year growth. The company attributes this strong growth to continued demand for the brand.
As the company celebrates a half century of serving guests in 2023, it is continuing to deliver record performance by adapting to a dynamic environment where both guests and hotel operators are facing economic pressures. Red Roof delivered record revenue in 2022, which increased 6.9% percent year over year.
"Our model works, and we are seeing the outstanding results in our business. Demand for the Red Roof brand is fueling growth as we continue to listen and evolve, improving the value proposition for guests as well as hotel owners and operators," said George Limbert, Red Roof President.
With 76% brand contribution1 and 104.7% RevPAR index2, ten percent of the new properties will be Red Roof PLUS+, meeting the needs of consumers looking for enhanced amenities at a value price. While consumers continue to belt tighten, there are those guests looking for a 'PLUSed' up experience and the highest level of comfort in a modern, sleek room at an affordable price. The new Red Roof PLUS+ properties will be in cities including: Brooklyn, NY; Jamaica, NY; Virginia Beach, VA; San Antonio, TX and Belleville, MI. Five additional locations are expected to open in 2024.
"We are re-polishing the Red Roof PLUS+ brand in our portfolio, as there is high demand for this offering of increased amenities at an affordable price point, especially in this uncertain environment," said Marina MacDonald, Red Roof Chief Marketing Officer. New quality standards and added amenities will be implemented, including upgraded vending and coffee and enhanced exterior lighting.
In the last two years, Red Roof has moved aggressively in the strong and high demand extended stay category, opening eleven HomeTowne Studios properties, with ten additional openings expected in 2023. As the Red Roof brand draws closer to 700 properties systemwide, the company is also launching a new dual-branded prototype, which offers franchisees an additional Red Roof option— Red Roof Inn and HomeTowne Studios, on the same property. The dual brand provides both guests and franchise owners increased flexibility and added value.
"The dual-branded prototype, featuring 150 rooms, a centralized reservation system and shared labor provides operational efficiencies and positions the properties well for profitable growth," said Red Roof Chief Development Officer Matthew Hostetler.
About Red Roof
Red Roof is an award-winning leader in the lodging industry, recognized for creating the innovative Upscale Economy® segment serving millions of guests each year. With coast-to-coast locations, Red Roof, now in its 50th year, has over 60,000 rooms in more than 680 properties in the U.S. and internationally in Brazil and Japan. Whether business or leisure, short trips or extended stays, in the hearts of cities or on the road, Red Roof has a property for every traveler, delivering the best experience and value in the lodging industry. Red Roof is pet-friendly, as one well-behaved pet is welcome per room nationwide at no additional cost*. Ranging from economy to midscale, the Red Roof portfolio of brands includes Red Roof Inn® and Red Roof PLUS+®, with enhanced amenities in clean, modern, comfortable rooms; HomeTowne Studios by Red Roof®, offering guests A Brand New Way to Extended Stay®; and The Red Collection®, a hyper-local soft brand in the Hearts of Cities You Love™. Red Roof offers franchisees Genuine Relationships. Real Results.® – a unique owner-operator experience establishing common ground with franchisees. Guests can go Beyond Free Nights® with the Red Roof industry-leading loyalty program, RediRewards®. Hospitality goes beyond the hotel room through Red Roof's ESG program, Purpose with Heart— an umbrella for operating behaviors and policies, as well as Red Roof's existing legacy social responsibility program, Room in Your Heart. For reservations, visit redroof.com, call 800.RED.ROOF, or download Red Roof's free app for iOS and Android devices.
Red Roof's Vision: To provide the best experience and value in the lodging industry for our guests, owners, team members, partners, and communities.
*Pet accommodations policy may vary at some locations. To verify a hotel's pet policy, please review hotel information online at redroof.com or by contacting the hotel directly.
- The Brand Contribution is the percentage of room revenue generated for the properties through the Red Roof Inn website, call center, group bookings, National Sales, Global Distribution systems (GDS), third party web sites and by RediRewards members booked directly with Affiliate-owned and Franchised properties in the U. S. open and operating for at least 1 full year, and all of calendar 2022 with any temporary closures being less than 90 days, 76 properties.
- STR Average Revenue per Available Room Index based performance for all Affiliate-Owned and Franchised Red Roof hotels open and operating for at least one year and for all of calendar 2022 with any temporary closures being less than 90 days, 76 hotels.
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2023-03-20T14:59:53+00:00
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kswo.com
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https://www.kswo.com/prnewswire/2023/03/20/demand-red-roof-brand-continues-drive-strong-profitable-growth/
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DeSantis takes over Disney district, punishing company
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday signed a bill that gives him control of Walt Disney World’s self-governing district, punishing the company over its opposition to the so-called “Don’t Say Gay” law.
The bill requires DeSantis, a Republican, to appoint a five-member board to oversee the government services that the Disney district provides in its sprawling theme park properties in Florida.
“Today the corporate kingdom finally comes to an end,” he said at a bill signing ceremony in Lake Buena Vista. “There’s a new sheriff in town, and accountability will be the order of the day.”
The signing came as DeSantis gears up for an expected presidential run and marks a high-profile legislative victory for a governor whose leveraging of cultural and political divides has pushed him to the fore of national Republican politics.
The takeover of the Disney district began last year when the entertainment giant, facing intense pressure, publicly opposed “Don’t Say Gay,” which bars instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in kindergarten through third grade and lessons deemed not age-appropriate.
DeSantis moved to quickly to penalize the company, directing lawmakers in the GOP-dominated Legislature to dissolve Disney’s self-governing district during a special legislative session, beginning a closely watched restructuring process. DeSantis and other Republican critics of Disney slammed the company for coming out against the education law, calling it a purveyor of “woke” ideology that inject inappropriate subjects into children’s entertainment.
This month, the governor called on lawmakers to return to the Capitol for another special session to finalize state control of the district, as well as approve legislation around some of his other key legislative priorities on immigration and voter fraud.
In taking on Disney, DeSantis furthered his reputation as a culture warrior willing to battle perceived political enemies and wield the power of state government to accomplish political goals, a strategy that is expected to continue ahead of his potential White House run.
The feud also reinforced the governor’s brash, go-it-alone leadership style, penalizing a massive employer, tourism driver and political donor in the state over the company’s stance on a piece of legislative policy.
DeSantis, whose book, “The Courage to be Free,” is coming out Tuesday, has moved in recent weeks to expand his political network through fundraisers and meetings with donors, elected officials and conservative influencers, adding to the speculation around his larger political aspirations.
The coming months will be critical to DeSantis as he builds his profile out beyond Florida. He is expected to utilize the coming regular legislative session, which begins next week, to bolster his conservative agenda before he announces his candidacy for president.
The new law changes the district’s name from the Reedy Creek Improvement District to the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District and subjects it to various layers of state oversight. Board members were previously named through entities controlled by Disney.
It leaves the district and its financial abilities and debt obligations intact, addressing a chief concern of surrounding governments. It also prevents people who have worked with or contracted with a theme park in the past three years from serving on the district’s new governing board.
At his news conference, DeSantis said he would appoint Tampa attorney Martin Garcia as the chairman of the district’s new governing board, along with new board members Bridget Ziegler, a conservative school board member and wife of the Florida Republican party chairman Christian Ziegler; Brian Aungst Jr., an attorney and son of a former two-term Republican mayor of Clearwater; Mike Sasso, an attorney; and Ron Peri, head of The Gathering USA ministry.
Having a separate government allows the district to issue bonds and provide zoning, fire protection, utilities and infrastructure services on its land. Republican critics of the district argue it gives Disney a commercial advantage unavailable to others.
Disney did not immediately return an emailed request for comment.
The creation of the self-governing district was instrumental in Disney’s decision to build near Orlando in the 1960s. The company had told the state it planned to build a futuristic city that would include a transit system and urban planning innovations, so the company needed autonomy in building and deciding how to use the land. The futuristic city never materialized and instead morphed into a second theme park that opened in 1982.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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2023-02-27T19:23:12+00:00
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waff.com
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https://www.waff.com/2023/02/27/desantis-takes-over-disney-district-punishing-company/
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats launched a new legislative effort Wednesday in one of the few areas that appears to be generating bipartisanship in Congress — taking on China.
The aim is to build on last year’s bipartisan passage of a bill to boost computer chip production in the United States with more than $52 billion in manufacturing incentives and semiconductor research. That package, like the new one, was touted by lawmakers as a necessary step toward making America more competitive with China.
But passage of a second bill could prove more difficult. Republicans have taken the majority in the House, placing more emphasis on spending cuts than on enacting new programs, and have so far found little common ground with the Senate.
Still, a new House committee focused exclusively on countering China is supported by lawmakers in both parties as they try to speak with one voice on issues such as human rights abuses and bringing supply chains back to the United States. And many of the ideas raised Wednesday by Senate Democrats dovetail with proposals circulating in the House.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., long a critic of China, is betting that he can forge new bipartisan partnerships on China despite the divides in Congress on other issues.
“The Chinese government is not constraining itself in its pursuit to dominate the 21st century,” Schumer said. “If we in America rest on our laurels, if we let the CCP beat us, it would have serious consequences for the world’s democratic nations.”
Schumer said the new legislation will focus on such areas as limiting U.S. technology and capital from going to Chinese companies. It could also include curbs aimed at preventing China from buying U.S. farmland and provisions that would give the Biden administration more authority to review and potentially restrict foreign-made computer apps.
The bill will also focus on deterring the Chinese government from engaging in conflict with Taiwan. Schumer said the various provisions will be packaged into one large “Chinese government competition bill.”
The legislation is clearly in the formative stages. Schumer was vague on a timeline for consideration, saying Democrats hope to get a bill together “within the next several months.”
While Democrats see the passage of last year’s semiconductor and science bill as a model for China-focused legislation, some Republicans are skeptical. Sen. John Thune, the No. 2-ranked Senate Republican, said he’s unconvinced that legislation with a big price tag can advance in a divided Congress. The CHIPS and Science Act that passed in the last Congress had a projected price tag of about $280 billion over 10 years.
“It will be challenging, and partly because of what we’re talking about here, spending and debt, concerns about too much spending and the impact it has had on inflation, the way the deficit is exploding,” Thune told reporters.
Yet, lawmakers are eager to show voters they’re willing to confront China, particularly as the Chinese take stances in opposition to America’s interests on the global stage, such as President Xi Jinping’s efforts to boost Russian President Vladimir Putin as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues to devastate civilian areas.
“There are a few areas where we have agreement, it seems like these days,” said Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich. “But one area that we do agree on is ensuring we compete successfully against the Chinese government on the global stage.”
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2023-05-04T04:52:55+00:00
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kxnet.com
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https://www.kxnet.com/news/politics/ap-politics/new-legislation-to-counter-china-pushed-by-senate-democrats/
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BANGKOK (AP) — The passing of Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union and for many the man who restored democracy to then-communist-ruled European nations, was mourned Wednesday as the loss of a rare leader who changed the world and for a time gave hope for peace among the superpowers.
But the man who died at age 91 on Tuesday was also reviled by many countrymen who blamed him for the 1991 implosion of the Soviet Union and its diminution as a superpower. The Russian nation that emerged from its Soviet past shrank in size as 15 new nations were created.
The loss of pride and power also eventually led to the rise of Vladimir Putin, who has tried for the past quarter-century to restore Russia to its former glory and beyond.
“After decades of brutal political repression, he embraced democratic reforms. He believed in glasnost and perestroika – openness and restructuring – not as mere slogans, but as the path forward for the people of the Soviet Union after so many years of isolation and deprivation” President Joe Biden said.
He added that “these were the acts of a rare leader – one with the imagination to see that a different future was possible and the courage to risk his entire career to achieve it. The result was a safer world and greater freedom for millions of people.”
Gorbachev won the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize for his role in ending the Cold War but although widely feted abroad, he was a pariah at home.
Putin acknowledged that Gorbachev had “a deep impact on the course of world history.”
“He led the country during difficult and dramatic changes, amid large-scale foreign policy, economic and social challenges,” Putin said in a short telegram sending his condolences to Gorbachev’s family.
Gorbachev “realized that reforms were necessary and tried to offer his solutions to the acute problems,” Putin said.
Reactions from Russian officials and lawmakers were overall mixed. They applauded Gorbachev for his part in ending the Cold War but censured him for the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Oleg Morozov, a member of the main Kremlin party, United Russia, said Gorbachev should have “repented” for mistakes that went against Russia’s interests.
“He was a willing or an unwilling co-author of the unfair world order that our soldiers are now fighting on the battlefield,” Morozov said, in a reference to the current war in Ukraine.
World leaders paid tribute to a man some described as a great and brave leader.
Outgoing British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that “in a time of Putin’s aggression in Ukraine, his tireless commitment to opening up Soviet society remains an example to us all.”
French President Emmanuel Macron described Gorbachev as “a man of peace whose choices opened up a path of liberty for Russians. His commitment to peace in Europe changed our shared history.”
German leaders praised Gorbachev for paving the way for their country’s reunification.
“We will not forget that perestroika made it possible to try to establish democracy in Russia and that democracy and freedom became possible in Europe, that Germany could be united and the Iron Curtain disappeared,” Chancellor Olaf Scholz told reporters.
However, Scholz also pointed out that Gorbachev died at a time when many of his achievements have been destroyed.
“We know that he died at a time when not only democracy in Russia has failed — there is no other way to describe the current situation there — but also Russia and Russian President Putin are drawing new trenches in Europe and have started a horrible war against a neighboring country, Ukraine,” he said.
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier echoed Scholz’s praise.
“I bow before a great statesman,” Steinmeier said in a statement. “Germany remains bound to him in gratitude for his decisive contribution to German unity, in respect for his courage to open up democratically and to build bridges between East and West, and in remembrance of his great vision of a common and peaceful house of Europe.”
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, who was part of the Spanish government when the Iron Curtain fell, remembered Gorbachev as a man who “sent a wind of freedom through Russian society. He tried to change the communist system from inside, which became impossible.”
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called him “a one-of-a kind statesman who changed the course of history” and “did more than any other individual to bring about the peaceful end of the Cold War.”
“The world has lost a towering global leader, committed multilateralist, and tireless advocate for peace,” the U.N. chief said in a statement.
Guterres quoted Gorbachev’s observation in his 1990 Nobel Peace Prize speech that “peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity.”
“He put this vital insight into practice by pursuing the path of negotiation, reform, transparency and disarmament,” the U.N. chief said.
Gorbachev’s contemporaries pointed to the end of the Cold War as one of his achievements.
“Mikhail Gorbachev played a critical role in the peaceful end to the Cold War. At home, he was a figure of historical importance, but not in the way he intended,” said Robert M. Gates, who headed the CIA from 1991 to 1993 and later became U.S. defense secretary.
“”By weakening the police state and dismantling Stalinist economic structures, he set in motion the collapse of the Soviet Union as its diverse nationalities declared independence and the economy cratered. In doing so, Gorbachev gave the peoples of the USSR the opportunity for a vastly different and better future, an opportunity subsequently taken from them,” he added.
Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said in a tweet that “his life was consequential because, without him and his courage, it would not have been possible to end the Cold War peacefully.”
In Asia, he was remembered as a leader with the courage to bring change.
“The curtain has come down on one of the world’s most significant leaders. He was a pivotal figure at a defining moment. When the world saw conflict and stalemate, he saw peace and possibility,” Australian Treasurer Jim Chalmers said at a news conference.
Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida noted Gorbachev’s important role in the reduction of nuclear weapons held by the Soviet Union and United States, saying he had made “great achievements.”
“Mr. Gorbachev, who possessed great strategic vision and decisive execution, played a very important role,” he said.
Israeli President Isaac Herzog called Gorbachev “one of the 20th century’s most extraordinary figures. He was a brave and visionary leader, who shaped our world in ways previously thought unimaginable.”
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Edith M. Lederer at the United Nations and other AP journalists around the world contributed to this report.
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More AP stories on Mikhail Gorbachev here: https://apnews.com/hub/mikhail-gorbachev
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2022-08-31T09:48:20+00:00
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Moomoo users can create their own avatar and participate in activities through its app and the mooverse during the month-long celebration
PALO ALTO, Calif., Oct. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Moomoo, the investing app offering zero-commission trading, celebrates its parent company, Futu Holdings Limited (Nasdaq: FUTU)'s 10th anniversary with an in-app experience for its users – mooers. The mooverse was launched on Oct. 11 allowing mooers to create their own avatar, participate in opportunities to win additional items for their avatar through quizzes and share their experience with other like-minded investing peers.
Users who participate in the mooverse activities have the opportunity to share a US$200,000 cash coupon. This prize will be distributed among 5,000 qualified users worldwide on Oct. 29.
Advancing financial literacy
Since its inception in 2018, moomoo has launched more than 1100 free courses and articles to improve the financial literacy of its users. It frequently conducts paper trading competitions, tutorial video challenges and quizzes in the US, Singapore and Australia, providing users the ability to trade like a pro.
"We aim to educate investors to make informed investing decisions about their financial wealth," states Justin Zacks, VP Strategy at Moomoo Technologies Inc. "We believe this is a key differentiator to our trading platform. We invest relentlessly on financial education, creating learning opportunities for investors at all levels."
Additionally, moomoo offers a place for its users to connect within its proprietary online community. This offers mooers an opportunity to learn from each other and create a community of like-minded individuals. With 19 million worldwide users on platforms of moomoo and its sister brand Futubull, moomoo believes investing does not need to be done alone and should be available to anyone interested in trading.
Transforming the investing experience
With the vision of becoming an influential global financial services platform, moomoo was established in the US in 2018. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, moomoo aims to be part of the Silicon Valley's center for high tech and innovation.
After its success in the US, moomoo continued to expand globally with launches in Singapore and Australia in 2021 and 2022, respectively.
"Moomoo has a strong commitment to drive technology innovations that will transform your investing experience. The company insists on developing all its proprietary technology from back-end to front-end, therefore it is able to pinpoint the problems promptly," states Matthew Wilson, Chief Market Strategies of moomoo. "We believe that technical innovation should cater to the various needs of all investors. This is where moomoo and Futu will put their efforts in the next decade."
In the past 5 months, moomoo released over 70 app updates that added 4,401 new features, including 1,419 on Android, 1,556 on iOS system, 626 on Mac and 800 on PC.
Moomoo's 'mooverse' is now available to registered moomoo US users via its mobile app.
Download moomoo app and join mooverse here - https://anniversary.futuhk.com/tenth
About moomoo
Moomoo is a next-generation one-stop digital financial services platform created by Moomoo Technologies Inc., a fintech company based in Palo Alto, California.
Moomoo integrates trading, market data, and social networking with advanced features, such as AI-powered analytics and anomaly detection functions. It supports free online account-opening and provides access to trade stocks and ETFs in multiple global markets such as the United States, Hong Kong SAR, Singapore, and Australia. Moomoo and its brand affiliates also offer rich investor education content and an interactive online community with over 19 million users in more than 200 countries globally.
Moomoo's parent company is the Nasdaq-listed fintech company Futu Holdings Limited ("Futu"), which is headquartered in Hong Kong SAR. Futu's subsidiary is also one of the largest brokerages in Hong Kong SAR. On March 8, 2019, Futu was listed on Nasdaq (stock symbol: FUTU).
*Users of Moomoo Technologies Inc. and its affiliates as of 09/06/2022.
*$0 commission trading is available only to U.S. residents trading in the U.S. markets through Moomoo Financial Inc.
Moomoo is a financial information and trading app offered by Moomoo Techonologies Inc. In the U.S., investment products and services on Moomoo are offered by Moomoo Financial Inc., Member FINRA/SIPC. Any illustrations, scenarios, or specific securities referenced herein are strictly for illustrative purposes. Past investment performance does not guarantee future results. Investing involves risk and the potential to lose principal.
For more information, please visit moomoo's official website at www.moomoo.com.
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McDonald's Board of Directors Urges Shareholders to Vote FOR ALL of its Director Nominees on the WHITE Proxy Card TODAY
CHICAGO, May 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- McDonald's Corporation (NYSE: MCD) today announced that leading proxy advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services ("ISS") has recommended that McDonald's shareholders vote on the WHITE proxy card FOR ALL of McDonald's director nominees in connection with the Company's 2022 Annual Shareholders' Meeting, scheduled to be held on May 26, 2022, at 9:00 a.m. CT. Accordingly, the McDonald's Board of Directors urges shareholders to vote FOR ALL of McDonald's director nominees on the WHITE proxy card and to disregard any materials, including any gold proxy card, that may be sent by the Icahn Group.
In its report sent to clients on May 16, 2022, ISS stated:
- "On balance, the dissident campaign has not made a sufficient case, on an issue-specific or broader view of ESG, that the immediate replacement of incumbent directors is necessary at this time."
- "… the prevailing scientific evidence [regarding sow welfare], along with the realities of commercial-scale agriculture, seem to suggest that there is a reasonable basis for the view espoused by [McDonald's] board."
- "…we are hesitant to support a proxy contest predicated on ESG issues in instances where the dissident is economically divorced from the potential impact of its proposals on the company's financial performance."
- "In assessing this campaign, shareholders may want to consider that the board, which has overseen strong performance since the pandemic, is also dealing with developments in Ukraine, which have had a material impact on the company (MCD announced it would temporarily close its more than 800 restaurants in Russia in March)."
McDonald's appreciates ISS' support of the election of all of McDonald's directors. As evidenced by this recommendation and the Company's performance, McDonald's directors possess the experience, expertise, and qualifications that will continue to enable the effective execution of our strategy and drive long-term value for stakeholders and support for the communities we serve.
The Board reminds shareholders that every vote is important.
Shareholders with questions or who need assistance voting their shares may call the Company's proxy solicitors: Innisfree M&A Incorporated at (877) 456-3463 (toll-free from the U.S. or Canada) or (412) 232-3651 (from other countries); or Kingsdale Advisors at (855) 683-3113 (toll-free in North America) or (416) 867-2272 (outside of North America).
Additional materials regarding McDonald's 2022 Annual Shareholders' Meeting can be found at VoteForMcD.com.
Centerview Partners and PJT Partners are acting as McDonald's financial advisors. Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP and Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP are serving as legal counsel.
About McDonald's
McDonald's is the world's leading global foodservice retailer with more than 39,000 locations in over 100 countries. Approximately 95% of McDonald's restaurants worldwide are owned and operated by independent local business owners.
Forward-Looking Statements
This release and other written or oral statements made from time to time by McDonald's Corporation ("McDonald's") contain forward-looking statements about future events and circumstances. Generally speaking, any statement not based upon historical fact is a forward-looking statement. In particular, statements regarding McDonald's plans, strategies, prospects and expectations regarding its business and industry are forward-looking statements. They reflect McDonald's expectations, are not guarantees of performance and speak only as of the date hereof. Except as required by law, McDonald's does not undertake to update such forward-looking statements. You should not rely unduly on forward-looking statements. McDonald's business results are subject to a variety of risks, including those that are described in its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2022 and subsequent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC").
IMPORTANT ADDITIONAL INFORMATION REGARDING PROXY SOLICITATION
McDonald's has filed a definitive proxy statement and WHITE proxy card with the SEC in connection with its solicitation of proxies for its 2022 Annual Meeting. MCDONALD'S SHAREHOLDERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO READ THE DEFINITIVE PROXY STATEMENT (AND ANY AMENDMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTS THERETO), THE ACCOMPANYING WHITE PROXY CARD AND OTHER DOCUMENTS FILED WITH THE SEC IN THEIR ENTIRETY BECAUSE THEY CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION. McDonald's shareholders may obtain a copy of the definitive proxy statement (and any amendments and supplements thereto), the accompanying WHITE proxy card and other relevant documents filed by McDonald's with the SEC without charge from the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. McDonald's shareholders may also obtain a copy of these documents without charge by sending a request to shareholder.services@us.mcd.com or visiting the investor section of the McDonald's website at www.investor.mcdonalds.com.
CERTAIN INFORMATION REGARDING PARTICIPANTS
McDonald's, its directors and certain of its executive officers are participants in the solicitation of proxies from McDonald's shareholders in connection with the matters to be considered at the 2022 Annual Meeting. Information regarding the ownership of McDonald's directors and executive officers in McDonald's common stock is included in the definitive proxy statement for its 2022 Annual Meeting, filed with the SEC on April 8, 2022, which can be found through the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. Changes to such ownership have been or will be reflected on Statements of Changes in Beneficial Ownership on Form 4 filed with the SEC. Details concerning the nominees of the McDonald's Board of Directors for election at the 2022 Annual Meeting are also included in such definitive proxy statement.
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2022-05-16T18:19:19+00:00
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MUNICH (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy planned to give the opening address Friday at a major annual conference on international security policy, where Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was expected to dominate the event after almost a year of war that has produced worldwide repercussions.
About 40 heads of state and government, as well as politicians and security experts from almost 100 countries, including the United States, Europe and China, were expected to attend the three-day Munich Security Conference in Germany. Zelenskyy is participating by video link.
For the first time in two decades, conference organizers did not invite Russian officials. Western countries have sought to isolate Russia diplomatically over the invasion of Ukraine that began on Feb. 24 2022.
German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said Russia’s war in Ukraine would overshadow the proceedings. Western officials and analysts say the conflict is approaching a critical phase as it enters its second year next week.
The war is “not merely a European conflict” but has implications far beyond the continent, Pistorius said. Economies around the world have reeled from the war's impact on grain supplies, energy prices and inflation.
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris was set to join the leaders of France, Germany and the U.K. at the Munich conference.
At the same conference last year, held just days before Russian President Vladimir Putin sent troops into Ukraine, Harris shared U.S. warnings that Russia was about to attack its neighbor and said, “Not since the end of the Cold War has this forum convened under such dire circumstances.”
In a speech scheduled for Saturday, the vice president will lay out what’s at stake in the war and why it matters, to bolster the case for maintaining U.S. support for Ukraine for as long as it takes, the White House said.
Ukraine is depending on Western weapons to thwart Putin's ambition of securing control of large areas of the country, in what has become a test of governments' resolve amid increasing financial costs.
Zelenskyy portrays Ukraine as defending Western values of freedom and democracy against tyranny and argues that his country needs to be properly provisioned to fend off Russia’s much bigger force. Western countries have sided with him, but at times they have been slow to meet his requests.
Kyiv, after receiving Western pledges of tanks and more ammunition, is now hoping for fighter jets, but some countries have balked at sending them.
Frans Timmermans, the executive vice president of the European Union's executive commission, said the 27-nation EU so far has maintained unity on the issue.
“I think everyone can see how important it is for Ukraine to win this war,” Timmermans said. “This is important for our Europe, too, because Putin isn’t just attacking Ukraine, he is also attacking us in the sense that he doesn’t support our values.”
He said it was important to make clear that Europe will support Ukraine however long the war lasts. “Putin is in difficulty,” Timmermans said, adding that the Russian leader would seek to put severe military pressure on Ukraine in the coming weeks and months.
Timmermans also expressed hope that China could exert pressure on Russia to end the war.
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Frank Jordans in Berlin contributed.
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2023-02-17T11:56:59+00:00
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ourmidland.com
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https://www.ourmidland.com/news/politics/article/leaders-focus-on-ukraine-war-at-munich-security-17790424.php
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US says North Korea has not responded to attempts to discuss American soldier who ran across border
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea hasn’t responded to U.S. attempts to discuss the American soldier who bolted across the heavily armed border, officials in Washington said, underscoring that the serviceman’s prospects for a quick release are unclear at a time of high tensions and inactive communication channels.
Pvt. Travis King, who was supposed to be on his way to Fort Bliss, Texas, after finishing a prison sentence in South Korea for assault, ran into North Korea while on a civilian tour of the border village of Panmunjom on Tuesday. He is the first known American held in North Korea in nearly five years.
“Yesterday the Pentagon reached out to counterparts in the (North) Korean People’s Army. My understanding is that those communications have not yet been answered,” Matthew Miller, a spokesperson for the U.S. State Department, told reporters Wednesday in Washington.
The U.S. and North Korea, who fought during the 1950-53 Korean War, are still technically at war since that conflict ended in a truce, not a peace treaty, and have no diplomatic ties. Sweden provided consular services for Americans in past cases, but Swedish diplomatic staff reportedly haven’t returned since North Korea ordered foreigners to leave the country at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The U.S. can also reach North Korea via a hotline at the U.S.-led U.N. Command in Panmunjom — known as the “pink phone.”
Miller said the State Department has reached out to officials in South Korea and Sweden. Jeon Ha-kyu, a spokesperson of South Korea’s Defense Ministry, said Thursday his ministry is sharing information with the American-led U.N. Command in South Korea, without elaborating.
Currently, there are no known, active dialogues between North Korea and the U.S. or South Korea.
The motive for King’s border crossing is unknown. A witness on the same tour said she initially thought his dash was some kind of stunt until she heard an American soldier on patrol shouting for others to try to stop him.
King’s family members said the soldier may have felt overwhelmed by legal trouble in South Korea that could lead to a discharge from the military.
King, 23, was serving in South Korea as a cavalry scout with the 1st Armored Division. He was released earlier this month from prison. In February, a Seoul court fined him 5 million won ($3,950) after convicting him of assaulting someone and damaging a police vehicle, according to a transcript of the verdict obtained by The Associated Press. The ruling said King had also been accused of punching a man at a Seoul nightclub, though the court dismissed that charge because the victim didn’t want King to be punished.
On Monday, King was escorted to the airport — but left before boarding his plane. It wasn’t clear how he spent the hours between that moment and when he joined the Panmunjom tour Tuesday. The Army realized he was missing when he did not get off the flight in Texas as expected.
North Korea has previously held a number of Americans who were arrested for anti-state, espionage and other charges. But no other Americans were known to be detained since North Korea expelled American Bruce Byron Lowrance in 2018. During the Cold War, a small number of U.S. soldiers who fled to North Korea later appeared North Korean propaganda films.
“North Korea is not going to ‘catch and release’ a border-crosser. ... However, the Kim regime has little incentive to hold an American citizen very long, as doing so can entail liabilities,” said Leif-Eric Easley, a professor at Ewha University in Seoul.
“For Pyongyang, it makes sense to find a way of extracting some compensation and then expel an American for unauthorized entry into the country before an isolated incident escalates in ways that risk North Korean diplomatic and financial interests,” he said.
Other experts say North Korea won’t likely easily return King as he is a soldier who apparently voluntarily fled to North Korea, though many previous American civilian detainees were released after the United States sent high-profile missions to Pyongyang to secure their freedom.
King’s case happened as North Korea has stepped up its criticism of the United States over its recent moves to bolster its security commitment to South Korea. On the day of King’s border crossing, the U.S. deployed a nuclear-armed submarine in South Korea for the first time in four decades. North Korea later test-fired two missiles with the potential range to strike the South Korean port where the U.S. submarine docked.
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Associated Press writers Scott Bauer in Madison, Wisconsin, and Melissa Winder in Kenosha, Wisconsin, contributed to this report.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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2023-07-20T12:22:20+00:00
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kttc.com
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jay Leno underwent surgery for serious burns suffered when flames erupted as he worked on a vintage car and remains hospitalized for further treatment, the physician overseeing his care said Wednesday.
The former “Tonight Show” host was in good condition and his wife, Mavis, is with him at the Grossman Burn Center north of Los Angeles, said Peter H. Grossman, medical director of the center at West Hills Hospital.
“He is in good spirits today,” Grossman told a televised news conference. Last weekend, Leno suffered burns to his face, hands and chest that the plastic surgeon categorized as second-degree or verging on more severe.
Some of the facial wounds “are a little bit deeper and a little more concerning" because they're showing signs of progressing to third-degree, as can happen with burns, Grossman said.
Treatment intended to keep the burns from worsening includes high-pressure oxygen therapy to stimulate healing, along with surgery in which the burn wounds are cleaned and shaved away, he said. A temporary “biological skin substitute” is placed over the area, he said.
Leno came through one surgery well and a second is planned this week, Grossman said. The comedian is up and walking, telling jokes and is a hit with the staff, even giving out cookies to young patients.
The fire occurred at the Burbank garage where Leno stores his famed collection of cars and other motor vehicles. In a statement earlier this week, Leno referred to the burns as “serious” but said he would need only "a week or two to get back on my feet.”
Grossman said he appreciated Leno's eagerness but has cautioned him to be realistic.
“I had to tell him that he needs to step back a little bit and just realize that some of this takes time," he said. “He’s very compliant, he understands that. I think he’s realizing that he does need to perhaps take it a little slower than he initially anticipated.”
The doctor said he expects Leno to make a full recovery but that it was too early to know if there would be “remnants” of the injury. He didn't elaborate.
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2022-11-17T14:57:31+00:00
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fox17online.com
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The annual Iditatod sled dog race came to a historic finish in Nome, Alaska, on Tuesday. For the first time all top-three finishers claim Alaska Native heritage.
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The annual Iditatod sled dog race came to a historic finish in Nome, Alaska, on Tuesday. For the first time all top-three finishers claim Alaska Native heritage.
Copyright 2023 Alaska Public Media
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2023-03-16T10:32:03+00:00
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kpcc.org
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(Our Auto Expert) – The 2024 Ford Mustang Dark Horse is here to redefine the legacy of the world’s best-selling sports car. As the latest addition to the Mustang family, this remarkable vehicle marks a new chapter in its 59-year history. With its powerful engine, cutting-edge technology, and captivating design, the Mustang Dark Horse is set to wow both existing fans and a new generation of sports car enthusiasts.
The Mustang Dark Horse boasts the first new Mustang performance series title in 21 years. It is also the most powerful non-Shelby edition ever created, thanks to its unique 5.0-liter Coyote V8 engine that churns out an impressive 500 horsepower. However, the Dark Horse is not just about raw horsepower; it is a vehicle designed for both street and track use.
Equipped with available carbon fiber wheels from Carbon Revolution and the Handling Package, the Mustang Dark Horse is the most track-capable 5.0-liter V8 street-legal Mustang ever produced. Its performance is further enhanced by the specially designed blue ember metallic paint, adding exclusivity to this exceptional vehicle.
The Mustang Dark Horse exudes a menacing presence with its bold shadow graphic surrounding the darkened LED headlamps, lower side skirts, rear fixed rear wing, new race-inspired diffuser, and darkened quad exhaust tips. Its design is a testament to the Mustang’s storied motorsports history, combining aggression and elegance in one stunning package.
This powerhouse of a car comes equipped with a full suite of next-gen technology specifically designed to enhance performance. The standard MagneRide shocks, capable of monitoring wheel and tire movement 1,000 times per second, ensure an unparalleled driving experience. The Mustang Dark Horse is not just a pretty face; it’s a technologically advanced beast.
For those who prefer manual control, the Mustang Dark Horse comes standard with a unique six-speed TREMEC manual transmission and a special Mustang Dark Horse transmission oil cooler to keep the stallion cool under pressure. Alternatively, there is the option to choose Ford’s advanced 10-speed automatic transmission for seamless gear changes.
The Mustang Dark Horse is not just a car; it’s a symbol of Mustang’s storied motorsports history. With its unique design, powerful engine, and advanced technology, it is set to make history itself. This street and track performance Mustang is sure to be a fan favorite for years to come.
Conclusion:
If you’re in search of a car that combines style, performance, and innovation, the 2024 Ford Mustang Dark Horse is the ultimate choice. Its powerful engine, track-ready capabilities, and advanced technology are a testament to the Mustang’s legacy. Whether you’re an existing fan or a new sports car lover, the Mustang Dark Horse is sure to ignite your excitement. Get ready to experience the thrill of the road like never before.
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2023-07-31T15:37:15+00:00
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fox59.com
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https://fox59.com/automotive/ford-introduces-the-most-powerful-non-shelby-mustang-ever/
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TOKYO (AP) — A historic baseball stadium in Tokyo where Babe Ruth played could be demolished, part of a disputed redevelopment plan harshly criticized by environmentalists.
Ruth played at the Meiji Jingu Stadium in 1934 on a barnstorming tour with other American stars that included Lou Gehrig, Lefty Gomez and Jimmie Foxx. Ruth homered several times before 60,000 fans in games at the stadium, which is still home to the Japanese league champion Yakult Swallows.
Only three other major ballparks remain where Ruth played: Fenway Park, Wrigley Field and the Koshien Stadium in Kobe, Japan. Wrigley and Fenway have been renovated, but plans to save Meiji Jingu have been dismissed by developers and politicians.
The stadium was opened in 1926 in an area known as Meiji Gaien, a green patch in central Tokyo that’s famous for an avenue lined with about 150 ginko trees. Plans call for razing the ballpark and a neighboring rugby stadium and rebuilding them in different spots in the reconfigured space, making room for a pair of towering skyscrapers and a shopping area.
“I really think we shouldn’t sacrifice nature in order to get short-term economic growth,” said Natsuka Kusumoto, a university student campaigning against the redevelopment. “In order to stop global warming we have to face how to balance economic growth and nature conservation.”
She said real estate developers, construction companies and Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike “don’t hear the voice of the people who live in this town.”
“Around this area in Jingu Gaien there are lots of trees that have been living for 100 years,” she said. “They will cut the old trees in order to build skyscrapers or rebuild this baseball stadium.”
The new baseball stadium will be built flush against the ginko trees, which environmentalists say will damage the complex root system and kill or damage the trees.
Opponents of the project have gathered about 180,000 signatures on petitions, and on Sunday hundreds protested in front of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government building.
A Tokyo Shimbun poll last year showed 69.5% against the project.
The massive project could take 13 years to complete and the baseball stadium will stand for several more years. But the clock is ticking.
Koike, the Tokyo governor, is at the center of the storm. Activists believe she has the power to cancel the project but has given developers the go-ahead to start preliminary construction. The city’s Environmental Assessment Committee is still studying the project and has raised questions.
Famous Japanese composer and musician Ryuichi Sakamoto, days before his death on March 28, sent an emotive letter to Koike to oppose the project as his last cause.
“We should not sacrifice the precious trees of Jingu that our ancestors spent 100 years protecting and nurturing, just for quick economic gain,” Sakamoto wrote, according to the Japanese news agency Kyodo.
Koike touched on the redevelopment — being led by real estate company Mitsui Fudosan — at a press conference two months ago. She was a driving force behind the 2020 Tokyo Olympics but has not been implicated in the widespread corruption around the Games.
The presence of the Olympics helped the city pass an ordinance lifting height restrictions in the area, enabling plans for the new skyscrapers.
Koike said the number of trees in the area would increase from 1,904 to 1,998 through the redevelopment, and that “green area coverage” could increase from 25% to 30%.
“However, not all trees are equal. Huge 100 year-old trees provide significantly more CO2 sequestering and cooling effect than small new saplings,” said Rochelle Kopp, who runs a Tokyo management consulting company and is a leader of the protest movement.
She also said Koike was misleading to say “green area coverage” would increase.
“Although the surface area of green will increase, the volume of green will go down significantly due to the felling of large trees.”
Kopp said an injunction to stop preliminary work could be filed in the next few weeks. She also said 27 members of Japan’s national parliament have begun to examine the project. She said parts of the planning were complete, but much was still pending.
Koike has tried to distance the Tokyo city government from the project, suggesting it was an outside initiative. However, Kopp said records from a meeting in 2012 indicate the city government had proposed switching the location of the two stadiums to the national government.
Japan’s mainstream newspapers have given little coverage to the issue, although the left-leaning Asahi Shimbun has called for a major review of the project “on grounds it could result in significant environmental damage.”
Activists say lifestyles have changed since the pandemic, putting into question the need for more office space.
“When I was a child I played in Jingu Gaien,” area resident Mao Kawaguchi said at the weekend protest. “I think the forest in Jingu Gaien belongs to everybody. Frankly, I feel like my ability to live is being threatened, just for the interests of a very small number of companies. They want to change the place so they can squeeze as much money out of it as possible.”
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2023-04-13T14:16:32+00:00
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BRUSSELS (AP) — Campaigning groups have launched legal action to challenge a decision by the European Union’s executive arm to include 30 gas projects in a list of operations considered as beneficial to the 27-nation bloc’s energy market.
The campaigners said on Tuesday that the European Commission has given “these climate-destructive projects VIP status, in contradiction of its legal obligations.”
They said the projects are worth 13 billion euros and will lock the region into dependency on the fossil fuel that EU institutions say that they want to get rid of.
The projects, which include the Baltic Pipe Project designed to bring Norwegian gas to Poland and the development of gas infrastructure in Cyprus, are part the so-called list of Projects of Common Interest. They are eligible for funding from a program designed to boost energy, transport and digital infrastructure. The fund for the 2021-2027 period allocates a budget of €5.8 billion to the energy sector.
“Billions of euros are bound to be wasted on 30 major pieces of gas infrastructure,” campaigners said, highlighting the EastMed pipeline — a project to create a 1,900-kilometer (1,180-mile) pipeline to connect Eastern Mediterranean offshore gas fields to Greece and Italy.
Supporters of the gas projects argue that they would improve Europe’s energy security, particularly in the context of energy sanctions taken against Russia for its war in Ukraine. The bloc is seeking alternatives to decrease its dependence on Russian gas, which accounts for about 40% of the EU’s gas consumption.
The environmental groups said they have launched their action using a procedure allowing individuals and independent organizations to request an administrative review of legal acts adopted by EU institutions or bodies.
They requested that the EU commission review the decision that justified the inclusion of gas projects, and threatened to ask the Court of Justice of the EU to rule on the matter if it does not amend its decision
“This list amounts to a VIP pass for fossil gas in Europe, when we should be talking about its phase-out,” said Guillermo Ramo, a lawyer for the ClientEarth group. “The Commission did not consider the impact of methane emissions derived from gas infrastructure projects — in spite of evidence that these are substantial. That’s unlawful as it directly clashes with the EU’s own climate laws and its legal obligations under the Paris Agreement.”
World leaders agreed in Paris in 2015 to work to keep global temperatures from increasing more than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit), and ideally no more than 1.5 degrees C (2.7 F) by the end of the century. Scientists say both goals will be missed by a wide margin unless drastic steps are taken to reduce emissions.
The groups’ legal action came as European lawmakers on Tuesday debated proposals from the “Fit for 55” package set up by the Commission to achieve the EU’s climate goals of cutting emissions of the gases that cause global warming by 55% over this decade.
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2022-06-07T21:03:23+00:00
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TAYLORVILLE, Ill. (WCIA) — The Taylorville Police and Fire Departments are gearing up for National Night Out and are asking the public for help.
National Night Out is a way for police departments across the nation to connect with their communities. Taylorville Police and Fire will be hosting their National Night Out event on August 2 from 5 to 9 p.m. at the Christian County Fairgrounds, with everything from food to music and games.
“That’s the best way for, as we’re out and about, these kids and families, they know the police, they see them, they can trust them if they need something, they know they can always come up to us,” said Taylorville Police dispatcher Kayleigh Boston. “This is a great way to create a partnership with our community.”
Taylorville Police and Fire are partnering with several departments, including Assumption Police, Stonington Police, Kincaid Police, Edinburg Police and Morrisonville Police, along with the Christian County Sheriff’s Office. They are asking the community for donations, which will be accepted up until the event.
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2022-07-26T05:47:27+00:00
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wcia.com
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https://www.wcia.com/news/taylorville-police-fire-readying-for-national-night-out/
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Enhancing trust and safety for developers and users on Stellar with advanced security solutions
SAN FRANCISCO, May 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- AnChain.AI, a leading Web3 digital asset security, and risk monitoring firm, today announced its integration with Stellar, the pioneering decentralized open-source blockchain network for cross-border payments and asset issuance. This integration paves the way for Stellar's thriving developer community to leverage AnChain.AI's AI-powered Web3 risk management and security solutions to enhance their security posture as they drive innovation.
As digital assets and cross-border payments continue to rise, the need for fraud prevention solutions has become increasingly apparent. AnChain.AI's CISO Investigation platform provides an additional layer of trust to institutions developing on Stellar. By utilizing AnChain.AI's Open Blockchain Ecosystem Intelligence (OpenBEI), Stellar developers can prioritize security and customer safety from the earliest phases of building.
"As the Web3 ecosystem continues to expand, it's becoming increasingly clear that security is not a luxury, but a necessity," said Dr. Victor Fang, CEO & Co-founder of AnChain.AI. "We are committed to providing cutting-edge security and risk monitoring solutions that enable Web3 platforms to operate with confidence. We're excited to build a more secure and sustainable Web3 future on Stellar."
AnChain.AI utilizes AI digital asset risk assessment and early detection of suspicious activity. AnChain.AI's technology solutions underpin the regulatory efforts of leading government agencies, financial institutions, and enterprises worldwide, including the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Through this integration, AnChain.AI continues demonstrating its commitment to a more secure blockchain ecosystem, ensuring that all participants in the Stellar community can confidently engage.
"Having AnChain.AI integrate with Stellar is a breath of fresh air for the thriving community of Stellar projects," said Mark Heynen, Vice President of Partnerships at Stellar Development Foundation. "These types of solutions help equip developers and enterprises with the necessary tools to prioritize security and compliance from the get-go. This integration lays a sturdy foundation for Stellar ecosystem innovators to create more secure cross-border payment and asset issuance solutions."
This integration represents a significant step towards increasing community awareness of the risks associated with rapidly evolving Web3 technology, particularly as regulatory scrutiny in the digital asset space intensifies. By solidifying a shared commitment to sustainable and secure development, this integration lays the foundation for the next-generation Web3 innovation on the Stellar network.
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2023-05-08T15:39:29+00:00
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MINOT, N.D. (KXNET) — Nearly 8,500 COVID cases in children ages 6 months to four years old have been reported across North Dakota, according to the North Dakota Department of Health.
COVID cases in children can cause hospitalizations and long-term complications.
Now, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has endorsed the recommendation that children ages 6 months to 5 years old should be vaccinated against the coronavirus.
“There are a number of benefits to COVID-19 vaccination which we’ve seen in older ages groups and now children as young as six months will be able to have some of those benefits,” said Molly Howell, the Immunization Director for the Department of Health. “Both the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines were authorized by the Food and Drug Administration.”
A First District Health Unit nurse says it’s great news that more kids are able to be vaccinated to help stop the spread of COVID.
“And that’s just gonna help us to get more immunity out in our community so the more people that are vaccinated or have been exposed to it, the less mode of transmission we have with the COVID vaccine,” said Lacey McNichols. “So hopefully that means we’re gonna have less cases of COVID moving forward.”
The Department of Health says the pediatric COVID-19 vaccines are arriving early this week, and are expected to be delivered to healthcare agencies around the state by the end of the week.
“The vaccine will be available at all local public health departments, your pediatrician, family practice office, and then some pharmacies will also carry the vaccine, however, pharmacists may only administer vaccinations to children three and older,” said Howell.
And for those who may be a little hesitant, McNichols says health officials know more about the effect of the vaccine versus the virus.
“As parents, we don’t wanna see our kids get sick,” said McNichols. “We don’t want our kids to stay out of activities. So getting them the vaccine is the safest thing. Gives them that protection so if they’re exposed to somebody that maybe chose not to get the vaccine and they’re exposed to that person, then they won’t get sick. “
McNichols says if anyone has any questions about the vaccine, they should call their pediatrician or local public health unit.
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2022-06-21T01:46:17+00:00
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Two biopharmaceutical companies will give $5 million and $500,000, respectively, to nonprofit organizations in the United States and abroad that are responding to the growing monkeypox outbreak. The pledges come as the early philanthropic response to the disease, which disproportionately affects LGBTQ people, has been fairly muted compared with the early days of COVID-19.
Gilead Sciences, which produces HIV medicines, is providing up to $5 million to nonprofits in the United States and abroad that are working to prevent and treat monkeypox. It will give $350,000 each to GLAAD, the Human Rights Campaign, the National Black Justice Coalition, and the National Center for Lesbian Rights. Those nonprofits will collaborate on a public education campaign and create materials about vaccination, treatment, and prevention that can be shared with organizations across the country.
Gilead will also give another $500,000 to NMAC, a nonprofit working to end the HIV epidemic, which will use the money to lead an advocacy campaign focused on ensuring monkeypox vaccines are distributed equitably and to fight vaccine hesitancy. The remaining $3 million will be distributed in grants of up to $50,000 to Gilead’s grantees outside the U.S. that are also seeing a rise in monkeypox cases.
ViiV Healthcare, another pharmaceutical company focused on HIV treatments, will make $500,000 in grants to nonprofits in the United States helping with outreach, education, and testing related to monkeypox.
Both companies have a history of helping LGBTQ people deal with health issues and supporting people who have HIV/AIDS or are at risk of getting it.
Tanya Gulliver-Garcia, director of learning and partnerships at the Center for Disaster Philanthropy, said she is not aware of any other major grants for the disease.
“It’s possible, and this has been my prediction from the beginning, that a lot of the funding for monkeypox is going to be very local,” she said. “It will be community foundations and small corporations giving to organizations in their own city or town.”
That smaller scale of giving is in stark contrast to the billions of dollars in funding that foundations and corporations gave in the early days of COVID-19. By May 2020, U.S. grantmakers had given $6 billion in response to the coronavirus spread, according to Candid.
The differences in giving for COVID-19 compared with monkeypox in part stems from differences between the diseases. COVID-19 was a new, not fully understood virus that spread aggressively and could be fatal. Monkeypox is a disease that has been around for decades, spreads through close physical contact, and is very rarely fatal, according to the CDC. Gulliver-Garcia said that the difference also can be attributed to the fact that the current monkeypox outbreak so far has largely affected men who have sex with men.
“This, for me, is very reminiscent of the late ’80s, early ’90s, when HIV and AIDS were considered to be a queer disease,” she said. “Mainstream media didn’t pay a lot of attention.”
Government and mainstream philanthropy only began to take more action, she said, after HIV and AIDS began to spread more broadly.
Because the philanthropic response has been limited, LGBTQ nonprofits and health centers on the front lines responding to monkeypox have struggled to finance their work. Leaders said they had to find money in their budgets to pay for the monkeypox response since few grants are available. Their efforts also have been hampered by a limited supply of vaccines and the spread of misinformation, several nonprofits told the Chronicle of Philanthropy.
Gilead’s decision to donate to nonprofits was prompted by concerns its officials were hearing from grantees starting in May, said Jane Stafford, executive director of corporate giving at Gilead.
Stafford said grantees told her and colleagues, “We need dedicated funding that we can use to put out education, to have vaccine clinics, to make sure that we have enough (personal protective equipment) for staff that are currently working, and then, in some cases, to provide funding for temporary staff to come in and help these organizations.”
With more than 14,000 cases of monkeypox reported across the country, California, Illinois, and New York have joined the federal government in declaring states of emergency.
The outbreak has largely affected gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men, although the virus can be spread to anyone through close, skin-to-skin contact. About 94% of people who have tested positive had sexual or intimate contact with men within the three weeks before their symptoms began, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
As a result, LGBTQ organizations with experience serving gay and bisexual men and health providers that treat patients with HIV/AIDS are helping. According to federal government estimates, 41% of people who have gotten monkeypox so far have also been HIV positive.
One of the biggest obstacles health providers have faced is the sparse supply of vaccines. The United States had only 2,400 doses of the vaccine on hand when the outbreak began, which would have been enough to vaccinate just 1,200 people. The Biden administration ramped up supply, recently announcing an additional 1.8 million doses will be available. The demand still has outmatched the number of available vaccines, according to federal health officials.
As of August 16, the San Francisco AIDS Foundation had distributed about 1,300 vaccines. And about 11,780 people are on the nonprofit’s waitlist of eligible recipients. TPAN, a health provider in Chicago that serves people with HIV and those at risk of getting it, has distributed 400 doses. But the demand has been triple that amount, according to Kara Eastman, the organization’s CEO.
Racial disparities in the vaccine rollout also remain a persistent challenge. In New York City, where monkeypox cases have been particularly high, Black people received just 12% of the doses despite making up 31% of those at risk of contracting the disease, the city’s Health Department reported.
Daniel Driffin, a consultant with NMAC working on an equitable monkeypox response, said he worries that people will get frustrated and stop seeking chances to get vaccinated.
Nonprofits and health providers responding to monkeypox have also seen a strain on their resources after dealing with COVID-19.
“It has been both a time-intensive and a resource-heavy response that has not seen a financial support behind it in the same ways that we saw happening early on (with COVID-19),” said Tyler TerMeer, CEO of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation. The organization has tapped into its budget to create a hotline to field questions about monkeypox and pay more staff to host vaccine clinics during the evenings and weekends.
TPAN in Chicago held an online appeal to raise funds that attracted $3,000 in donations to deal with monkeypox.
“This is a time for philanthropy to step up and identify groups that they are already supporting and offer up resources to help us,” Eastman of TPAN said. “Because while this is being inaccurately categorized as something that’s impacting only one group in the country right now, it’s a public-health issue.”
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This article was provided to The Associated Press by the Chronicle of Philanthropy. Kay Dervishi is a staff writer at the Chronicle. Email: kay.dervishi@philanthropy.com The AP and the Chronicle receive support from the Lilly Endowment Inc. for coverage of philanthropy and nonprofits. The AP and the Chronicle are solely responsible for all content. For all of AP’s philanthropy coverage, visit https://apnews.com/hub/philanthropy.
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2022-09-01T19:24:30+00:00
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https://www.keloland.com/business/ap-business/ap-limited-funding-hampers-charities-early-monkeypox-response/
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ALBUQUERQUE,N.M., June 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Blythe Landry, LCSW, M.Ed.'s new book, "Trauma Intelligence: The Art of Helping in a World Filled with Pain," addresses the crucial understanding of trauma and how it impacts us and those we care for.The world is currently riddled with people experiencing trauma. Unaddressed trauma, such as childhood abuse, COVID 19, mass shootings, drug addiction, the climate crisis, mental health challenges, political unrest, work related violence and domestic abuse can negatively impact every facet of our lives. Addressing trauma in effective ways, however, can make a positive difference.
As reviewed by Elizabeth Taylor, Former Literary Editor of The Chicago Tribune and current Co-Editor of The National Book Review: "Blythe Landry understands the range of traumas experiences that haunt so many people, regardless of their differences -- they share the reality that their lives are shaped by some form of trauma. Landry explores childhood trauma, of course, but she extends the notion of trauma beyond childhood. She explains a range of trauma, that one wouldn't anticipate, ranging from medical trauma to workplace trauma. In lucid prose and with a warm, open tone, Landry not only explains the far-reaching effects of trauma, but she also explores wise and practical ways to determine tools to respond to the echoes of trauma that too often undermine one's life. A generous, wise book for anyone eager to live a fulfilled life -- and a remarkably pleasant, enlightening reading experience."
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2022-06-15T13:42:29+00:00
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the "Pick Four-Evening" game were:
2-2-2-5, Fireball: 7
(two, two, two, five; Fireball: seven)
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the "Pick Four-Evening" game were:
2-2-2-5, Fireball: 7
(two, two, two, five; Fireball: seven)
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2022-09-11T03:43:38+00:00
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https://www.ourmidland.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-Four-Evening-game-17433288.php
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Updated April 26, 2023 at 6:11 PM ET
After overcoming internal divisions, the Republican-led House of Representatives approved a bill on Wednesday led by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy that links lifting the country's debt ceiling with spending cuts and a series of GOP policy changes.
The bill's passage comes after Republican leaders met overnight to address concerns from several GOP members, including eliminating the plan's original aim to repeal tax credits for ethanol productions. That provision was ultimately removed.
McCarthy and his top vote counter, Rep. Tom Emmer, R-Minn., both worked into Wednesday to secure the votes to pass the Limit, Save and Grow Act of 2023. The speaker argued changes to the plan were minor.
"What you have to look at... were technical changes," McCarthy told reporters. "We didn't change the bill overall."
McCarthy had earlier on Tuesday insisted he would not make any changes to the bill. However, a group of midwestern lawmakers descended on his office to voice opposition to the bill's provision to repeal tax credits for ethanol production, arguing farmers in their districts rely on them. Separately some conservatives pushed leaders to ramp up work requirements for adults without dependents who receive safety net assistance like food stamps.
Wisconsin Rep. Derrick Van Orden, who led the effort to preserve the ethanol credit, told NPR he would back the package and stressed the bill would help boost the speaker's leverage with President Biden.
"It is our responsibility to get Kevin McCarthy to the table with Joe Biden," Van Orden said, adding then it's McCarthy's "burden" to get the president to a place where they can work on the country's fiscal future.
Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., the chair of the House Freedom Caucus, a bloc of conservatives, told reporters the changes were a "balance" and he would back the bill. "The popular wisdom is we're supposed to be on defense here in the House; we're going to be on offense I think," he said.
With just a razor-thin majority, Republicans couldn't afford to lose more than a handful of votes.
Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., who voted against the bill told reporters earlier he was planning to vote no and the only thing that would move him would be "true debt reduction, not rate of growth."
As the day continued, one by one, some of the key holdouts said they would move to support the legislation after negotiations with McCarthy and others. Among them was Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., who said she was a "yes" after meeting with McCarthy Wednesday afternoon.
Earlier, Mace had criticized the proposal, pushing for a commitment from GOP leadership on a plan to reduce the deficit over time. After her meeting with the speaker, she said he assured her Republicans would work in the future towards a balanced budget.
"I feel heard by the speaker, I will support the debt ceiling vote today," Mace said.
The challenges highlight the narrow path McCarthy faces to pass major legislation with a slim majority. He'll face a much tougher battle to pass a bipartisan plan to address the debt limit to avoid a financial default for the country.
The Republican bill is not expected to advance in the Senate, where Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York and other top Democrats have labeled key provisions in the bill "nonstarters."
McCarthy's strategy to muscle the proposal through the House on a largely party-line vote is to force Biden back to the negotiating table. The two have not had an extended discussion about the issue since February 1.
The president and top congressional Democrats have insisted for months that they would not accept anything except a clean bill to increase the nation's borrowing authority. They maintain any demands to attach spending cuts or provisions to unwind provisions of President Biden's energy or climate proposals threatens a possible default, which could send the financial markets reeling.
What's in the GOP bill
The House GOP bill raises the nation's borrowing authority by $1.5 trillion, or through March 2024 — whichever comes first. It rolls back spending levels for most federal programs to those in place two years ago. The measure limits the growth of federal spending to 1% annually.
The bill's framework reflects a series of demands from a bloc of hard line GOP lawmakers who opposed his election as speaker in January and pushed for commitments for how to handle negotiations on the debt limit. After five days and 15 votes, many of his detractors backed his bid, or voted present after McCarthy pledged he would not allow a House vote on a bill to increase the country's borrowing authority without federal spending reductions.
McCarthy also vowed the House would approve a budget that would balance in 10 years, but negotiations inside the House GOP conference over a budget resolution have stalled without agreement. Instead, McCarthy decided to move a separate debt bill with other policy items House Republicans have championed. The bill includes provisions to speed permitting of new energy projects, roll back Biden's student loan forgiveness program and claw back unspent federal COVID-19 money.
Pressed by conservatives, the legislation also includes new requirements for adults without dependents who are recipients of federal safety net programs like food stamps and Medicaid. It would increase — from 50 to 56 years old — the age limit of those subject to food stamp work reporting requirements. Failing to report working a minimum of 20 hours a week for a three-month period would trigger a removal from the program. A change made late Tuesday night would put these requirements in place beginning in 2024, a year earlier than the initial version of the bill specified.
When asked about possible political blowback from adding work requirements to a bill that wasn't expected to move in the Senate, Rep. Bryan Steil, R-Wisc., told reporters a recent state referendum on the issue proves the policy has broad support, He said "80% of the people that voted in the state of Wisconsin - a 50-50 state - said yeah, we should be able to have work requirements for able-bodied childless adults. I don't think it's a political loser at all."
The bill would also repeal key provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act — the signature bill of the president's term that funds climate, health care and energy programs.
President Biden has threatened to veto the package
The White House issued a statement vowing President Biden would veto the bill if it reached his desk.
McCarthy has waved off the veto threat to reporters, saying the president also vowed to oppose GOP bills to end the pandemic and block a D.C. crime bill, but he later supported their measures.
Republican's passage of their debt limit bill also increases pressure on the president to relent and start talks on what a compromise package could look like. Both parties insist defaulting on the country's debt is not an option.
Biden told reporters as he was walking away from a press conference on Wednesday that he was willing to meet with McCarthy, but not on whether or not the debt limit is extended.
"That's not negotiable," Biden said.
On Tuesday, Biden made a point to criticize the House GOP legislation in a speech to labor union members. He said McCarthy's package included "huge cuts in important programs" that many in the middle class depend on while preserving tax cuts for the wealthy. The White House argued the plan amounts to "the same old trickle down dressed up in MAGA clothing."
Fitch Ratings released new analysis on Tuesday suggesting the escalating political fight over the debt limit could have an impact.
"Repeated near-default episodes brought on by debt limit debates could erode confidence that the U.S. government's repayment capacity is resilient to political dysfunction and may affect Fitch's view of the sovereign credit profile."
NPR's Ximena Bustillo, Barbara Sprunt and David Gura contributed to this story.
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.
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NEW YORK (AP) — A lawyer who purchased gasoline that another lawyer used in firebombing an unoccupied New York City police car during protests over George Floyd's death in 2020 was sentenced Thursday to a year and a day in prison.
Colinford Mattis, appearing in federal court, was also ordered to pay just over $30,000 to the New York Police Department for the destroyed vehicle.
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An attorney for Mattis declined to comment. Mattis is expected to start his sentence in March.
Mattis and Urooj Rahman were arrested May 30, 2020, as demonstrations and protests raged over the killing of Floyd at the hands of police in Minneapolis.
According to video footage, Rahman threw an incendiary device into the parked police vehicle, setting its console ablaze and causing severe damage.
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Mattis was driving the minivan they were in when police arrested them, and authorities said they found a lighter, a Bud Light beer bottle filled with toilet paper and a gasoline tank in the back. They said Mattis bought the gasoline.
Initially, the two lawyers had faced much more severe charges and possible years-long prison sentences, but prosecutors reduced the charges and they pled guilty to conspiracy.
Federal authorities had asked for Mattis to be sentenced to between 18 to 24 months in prison.
Both Mattis and Rahman have been disbarred. Rahman was sentenced in November to 15 months in prison.
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2023-01-27T03:51:53+00:00
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seattlepi.com
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In 2020, as statues of Confederate generals and other contentious historical images were being taken down in many cities, Sanford Biggers, the acclaimed New York-based contemporary artist, and Amy Gilman, the director of the Chazen Museum of Art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, were watching with keen interest.
A year earlier, while visiting the museum, Biggers had encountered a statue by Thomas Ball that depicted Abraham Lincoln standing tall, his outstretched arm hovering above a freed slave who crouches seminude at his feet. Known as “The Emancipation Group,” it was a 4-foot marble sculpture from 1873.
Gilman had expressed her discomfort about continuing to show it without context.
They had agreed to think about it together. But do what?
“The museum was almost ashamed, it seemed, of the piece being in their collection,” Biggers said in a recent interview in his studio in the Bronx in New York City. “They were about to put that thing into storage. And I was like: This is actually an opportunity to open things up.”
The result is “re:mancipation,” an unorthodox exhibition that opened in February and runs through June 25. It combines historical interpretation, close study of objects and open-ended collaboration among artists, professors, students, community members, dancers and more.
It includes two other versions of the statue, besides the museum’s. A bronze from 1865, possibly the first one Ball made, is borrowed from the Colby College Museum of Art. A marble from 1875, from the Kemper Art Museum in St. Louis, is installed alongside casts of its components, made by 3D scanning, that allows for a close read of its details. (Ball made many versions of the statue, with variations. They included a monument in Washington, D.C., installed in 1876, and its replica in Boston, in 1879. The Boston version was taken down in 2020, but the Washington statue remains up.)
Also in the Chazen exhibition, British and American portraiture from the collection is accompanied by text about how the portrait’s subject, or its artist, drew wealth or otherwise benefited from the plantation economy or the trans-Atlantic trade in slaves and commodities, or how the artistic choices in the work reflect racist or imperial aesthetics. A timeline begins with African civilizations, weaving Black history into the conventional Western-focused art history narrative, then turns local, documenting struggles for inclusion at the university.
Running on a large screen is video of events in which participants respond to “Emancipation Group”: conversations, fabric workshops, DJing, dance and performance. There are also quilt works by Biggers; sculptures from his “Chimeras” marble series, which blend European and African archetypes; spaces to read and meet; and more.
It all makes for an unusual ensemble. “It’s a bold move for an indexical museum at a university to do something like this, because it’s touching into contemporary art practice,” Biggers said.
The project, he added, was a kind of “process piece” provoked by the Ball sculpture: “a response of how to analyze it collectively, look at what it did and how it functioned, and how we can repurpose it to serve something different now.”
Gilman said that the tumult of 2020, when statuary like Ball’s was deemed racially and politically offensive and was being removed, made it urgent to deal with “Emancipation Group” in an innovative manner — and trust an artist to lead the way.
“Something opened up with COVID and with the murder of George Floyd — and then the decision that Boston made to actually remove the statue from view,” Gilman said. “Everyone opened up in a way that we were not ready before.”
For Biggers, whose more visible ventures in the same period included “Codeswitch,” a traveling museum survey of quilt works, and “Oracle,” a statue installed at Rockefeller Center and then at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, “re:mancipation” was an under-the-radar pandemic project.
He made multiple visits with his collaborator Mark Hines, a founding partner in MASK Consortium, which digitizes art using 3D scanning; the two also play together in the band Moon Medicin. They brought others, including DJ Rich Medina, rapper Pharoahe Monch, jazz trumpeter Keyon Harrold, artists Lynore Routte and Wildcat Ebony Brown, plus faculty, students and Madison residents.
While preparing “re:mancipation,” Biggers resisted making his own sculpture in response to “Emancipation Group.” But eventually he relented.
His new work, “Lifting the Veil,” will join the exhibition in May. A marble statue with the same dimensions as “Emancipation Group,” it shows a seated Lincoln holding a scroll. The president will be draped in a quilt; above him stands Frederick Douglass, his hand over Lincoln’s head as if to raise the fabric. It is a pointed reference, as Douglass gave the speech to inaugurate Ball’s statue in Washington in 1876.
In the studio, Biggers showed a model of the sculpture, which was being fabricated at a quarry in Wisconsin, and a red-and-blue quilt that he was considering for the textile part.
He had realized, he said, the similarities between the “Emancipation Group” sculptures and another classic image: Booker T. Washington lifting the veil of ignorance from an ex-slave, as shown in a 1922 statue by Charles Keck on the Tuskegee University campus.
“What if we made it Frederick Douglass lifting the veil of ignorance off Lincoln?” Biggers said. “Because those two had a confrontational but somewhat friendly exchange over several years.” Making Lincoln barefoot, he added, implied “that he has not totally evolved to maturity or wisdom. Obviously, Frederick has his shoes on.”
The spirit of the piece, Biggers said, was similar to what Douglass expressed in his speech in 1876: how Lincoln’s role was important but only part of the story.
Its backers hope that “re:mancipation” will inject ideas into both museum practice and the debates over monuments. Deborah Cullen-Morales, program officer at the Mellon Foundation, which contributed $250,000, said the project can prove a valuable example.
“It can model how institutions should and are capable of having complex conversations about fraught objects and their fraught subject matter,” Cullen-Morales said.
Biggers said he hoped the exhibition would demonstrate that there were alternatives to taking down an objectionable monument or leaving it up unchallenged.
“It’s really up to the people who live with these things,” Biggers said. “But rather than have just one way you’re supposed to respond to monuments, it’s better to have these options.”
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2023-04-30T01:16:11+00:00
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seattletimes.com
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https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/an-exhibition-proposes-alternatives-to-removing-contentious-statues/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world
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(WXIN) — Movie fans should get ready to pay more for the best seats in the house.
AMC has announced “Sightline,” a new three-tiered pricing system in which moviegoers will pay a certain price for their tickets depending on where they sit.
According to the movie theater chain, there are three tiers: standard, value and preferred “sightlines.”
- Standard Sightline: The most common seats are available for the traditional ticket price.
- Value Sightline: Seats in the front row, as well as select ADA seats, are available at a lower price than Standard Sightline seats. Value Sightline pricing is available only to AMC Stubs members, including the free tier membership (AMC Insider).
- Preferred Sightline: These seats are typically in the middle of the auditorium and are priced higher than Standard Sightline seats. AMC Stubs A-List members may make reservations in the Preferred Sightline Section at no additional cost.
“Sightline” applies to all showtimes after 4 p.m. It won’t be in effect for Discount Tuesday. The new pricing system has already launched in select markets and will roll out nationally by the end of 2023.
AMC Theatres offering “Sightline” pricing will provide a detailed seating chart outlining the options and prices online, on apps and at the box office, the company said. The approach mirrors other entertainment options, like concerts and sporting events, that charge a premium for seats with more desirable views.
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“While every seat at AMC delivers an amazing moviegoing experience, we know there are some moviegoers who prioritize their specific seat and others who prioritize value moviegoing,” said Eliot Hamlisch, EVP and CMO, AMC Theatres. “Sightline at AMC accommodates both sentiments to help ensure that our guests have more control over their experience, so that every trip to an AMC is a great one.”
The new pricing structure is the latest adjustment from the movie theater chain. Last year, AMC introduced “variable pricing,” which charged higher ticket prices for high-demand movies such as “The Batman.”
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2023-02-06T21:06:48+00:00
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kron4.com
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https://www.kron4.com/news/amc-changing-ticket-prices-based-on-where-you-sit-in-theater/
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — C.J. McCollum scored 14 of his 30 points in the third quarter and the New Orleans Pelicans overcame Ja Morant’s 36-point effort to beat the Memphis Grizzlies 113-102 on Tuesday night.
McCollum had averaged just 9.5 points on 27% shooting in his previous four games, but he was 7 of 13 from long range to help make up for Zion Williamson’s scoring absence with the star forward out with a bruised right foot.
“I’ve been playing like crap lately and feeling like crap and shooting the ball really poorly, which is uncharacteristic,” McCollum said. “You’re going to make shots; you’re going to miss shots. My track record speaks for itself in how I work and how I perform. You just keep swimming.”
Pelicans coach Willie Green said his teammates playfully mauled McCollum in the locker room for fighting through his shooting woes.
“We all joked around in the locker room and said, ‘Welcome back,’” Green said. “That’s the C.J. we’re accustomed to seeing. He’s been under the weather for a few days now. We knew that he would get his legs back under him.”
The Pelicans led 89-87 after three quarters and opened the fourth with a 15-4 run, led by five points from reserve guard Jose Alvarado, to take a 104-91 lead. The Pelicans also got 19 points each from Brandon Ingram and Larry Nance Jr., and they held Memphis to 15 fourth-quarter points.
McCollum hit three 3-pointers in the third quarter, and his seven overall helped the Pelicans finish with a season high 18 3-pointers on 38 attempts.
“You’ve got to tip your cap,” Memphis coach Taylor Jenkins said. “Obviously, they’ve got some lethal scorers in McCollum, Ingram and their teammates did a good job tonight.”
Morant had a 24-point first half to power Memphis to a 60-59 lead. Morant did his damage driving into the paint and also from the outside, going 8 of 12 from the floor, including 2 of 3 from long range. He also made 6 of 8 from the foul line and had three first-half steals.
Dillon Brooks added 19 for Memphis.
But Morant wasn’t happy with his team’s 42-point second half.
“We’ve just got to be able to finish in the paint and knock down open looks,” he said. “That’s pretty much what we’ve been doing all season, which made us a good team offensively.”
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Grizzlies: F/C Jaren Jackson made his season debut after missing the first 14 games after right foot surgery. He looked rusty on 3-of-14 shooting. … G/F Desmond Bane, averaging 24.7 points a game, was out with a sore right toe. … Morant returned after missing Sunday’s loss at Washington with left ankle soreness.
Pelicans: Williamson missed the game with a right foot contusion and is day-to-day to return, said coach Willie Green. Williams, who is averaging 23.5 points, 6.4 rebounds and 3.9 assists a game, hurt his foot Saturday early in the fourth quarter of a 119-106 victory over Houston. Green said there was “definitely some hope” he could play Wednesday night when the Pelicans host the Bulls.
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2022-11-16T13:29:07+00:00
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wwlp.com
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https://www.wwlp.com/sports/ap-mccollum-pelicans-beat-grizzlies-without-injured-williamson/
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These tools can make it easier to prepare your favorite recipes for Passover
Passover is a Jewish holiday celebrating the Hebrews’ freedom from slavery in Egypt. It begins with a special meal called a Seder, a joyful celebration that includes symbolic elements representing the enslaved Hebrews’ liberation.
If you have the right kitchen tools, you can take much of the stress out of preparing your Passover meal. These gadgets can help you make your family’s favorite Seder recipes with ease.
In this article: Cuisinart 14-cup Food Processor, Braun MultiQuick 7 Immersion Hand Blender Set and Farberware Nonstick Steel Roaster.
What foods are typically served at a Passover Seder?
Food traditions vary among regions and families, but the main dietary restriction for Passover is the exclusion of leavened bread. This includes any bread made with wheat, rye, oat, spelt or barley flour that has been in contact with water and left to rise. In addition to bread, some cakes, cookies, pasta and other foods that include flour are banned during Passover.
While the full menu differs from family to family, Passover dinners all have a Seder plate that features six elements:
- Zeroa, a roasted lamb shank bone, represents the Passover sacrifice.
- Beitzah, a roasted egg, symbolizes how life endures.
- Maror, a bitter herb such as horseradish, represents the bitterness of slavery.
- Karpas, a green vegetable such as parsley, symbolizes hope.
- Haroseth, a paste made of fruit, dried nuts and other spices, represents the mortar used by the enslaved Hebrews to build for the pharaohs.
- Chazeret, or another bitter herb, is not included on all Seder plates.
In addition to the foods on the Seder plate, common dishes served at a Passover dinner include brisket, roast chicken, gefilte fish, potato kugel, roasted vegetables and various soups.
Best kitchen gadgets for preparing a Passover Seder meal
Cuisinart 14-cup Food Processor
This large food processor can help with blending and chopping for many Passover recipes, including making your own horseradish. It has a large food chute to cut down on prep work and a 14-cup bowl that’s ideal for preparing large family meals.
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All-Clad Copper Core Five-ply Bonded Stockpot
Prepare your favorite soup or gefilte fish recipe in this large, high-quality stockpot. It boasts five-ply bonded construction with stainless steel, aluminum and a copper core for even heating and warp resistance. It’s dishwasher-safe for easy cleaning.
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Cuisinart Chef’s Classic Enameled Cast Iron 7-quart Round Covered Casserole
This round casserole dish is perfect for preparing brisket or roast chicken. It features porcelain and cast-iron construction that can keep your food warm. Its sturdy, wide handles make it easy to carry to the table for serving.
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Priority Chef Potato Ricer and Masher
This dishwasher-safe potato ricer comes in handy for making many potato dishes for Passover, including potato blintzes. It is made of stainless steel that’s corrosion- and stain-resistant and has easy-to-hold silicone handles.
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Braun MultiQuick 7 Immersion Hand Blender Set
If your Seder meal includes soup, this hand blender makes it easy to puree ingredients right in the pot. It has an extra blade that provides additional power when blending large or hard ingredients. It comes with a whisk and two-cup chopping attachment.
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Farberware Nonstick Steel Roaster
Whether roasting chicken or vegetables for your Passover dinner, this durable alloy steel roasting pan is oven safe up to 450 degrees. It has easy-to-grip handles for safe handling and includes a chrome-plated drip rack.
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This zester and grater can zest lemons and other citrus fruits for Passover recipes, as well as grating garlic and other ingredients. It’s dishwasher-safe, comes with a plastic cover for easy storage and is made of durable, surgical-grade stainless steel that stays sharp.
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Dash Everyday 2.5-quart Stand Mixer
If you like to make meringue cookies or other cookies and cakes for Passover, this stand mixer makes it easy to whip up any batter. It has six preset speeds for versatility and a tilt-head design that lets you add ingredients without making a mess.
KitchenAid Plastic Mixing Bowls
These durable plastic mixing bowls have integrated handles and pour spouts to prevent spills and other messes in your kitchen. They’re dishwasher-safe and have non-slip bases to provide stability, keeping them in place during mixing.
Wilton Recipe Right Medium Bread Loaf Baking Pan
Make your favorite honey cake recipe for Passover with this heavy-gauge steel loaf pan. It has a non-stick surface, so it releases your breads and cakes easily. It’s dishwasher-safe for easy cleaning.
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Worth checking out
- This Le Creuset Enameled Cast Iron Round Dutch Oven is perfect for searing and preparing brisket for your Passover dinner.
- The dishwasher-safe Oxo Good Grips Potato Masher is an ideal alternative to a potato ricer if you prefer easier cleanup after your Passover dinner.
- For a fuss-free brisket recipe, you can use the All-Clad Programmable Slow Cooker, with an easy-to-read digital display and a 6.5-quart oval insert.
- Make delicious sponge cake for your Seder with this Wilton Angel Food Cake Pan, which is made of durable aluminum and heats evenly.
- This Cuisinart Boxed Grater helps shred vegetables and other ingredients quickly and easily.
- The easy-to-use Oxo Good Grips Swivel Peeler lets you peel potatoes and other vegetables for your Passover recipes.
- Never worry about your meringue cookies sticking to the baking sheet again with this Silpat Set of Two Nonstick Silicone Baking Pan Mats.
- The Spiralizer Seven-blade Vegetable Slicer can quickly turn your favorite veggies into noodles during Passover.
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2023-03-25T15:54:27+00:00
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wwlp.com
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https://www.wwlp.com/reviews/br/kitchen-br/cookware-cooking-tools-br/best-kitchen-gadgets-for-preparing-a-passover-seder-meal/
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BURG, Germany (AP) — Two teachers in eastern Germany tried to counter the far-right activities of students at their small town high school. They counseled bullies who threatened to beat up immigrant classmates. They gave more lessons about their country’s Nazi past. They invited in a Black rapper to talk about mutual respect.
None of it helped. In desperation, Laura Nickel and Max Teske wrote a public letter in which they described an atmosphere of intimidation at Mina Witkojc School in Burg. They reported students greeting each other with the Nazi salute, scratching swastikas on their desks and playing music with racist lyrics in the hallways.
“Teachers and students who openly fight against far-right students and teachers fear for their safety,” the two said in the letter they sent to local newspapers. “The problem has to be recognized and openly fought. Schools should be places free of fear, full of open-mindedness and safety for everyone and cannot provide a home for the enemies of democracy.”
Even so, Nickel, who taught English and history at the high school, and Teske, a math and geography teacher, were unprepared for the backlash their call to action produced. A letter from an anonymous group of parents demanded their dismissals. Stickers with their pictures and the caption “Piss off to Berlin” plastered light poles near campus. On social media, someone declared a desire to “hunt them down.”
Further disheartened by what they say was a lack of support from colleagues, the principal and local administrators, Nickel and Teske announced when the academic year ended two weeks ago that they were leaving the school and the town located 116 kilometers (72 miles) southeast of Berlin.
“Far-right extremist statements, actions, slogans, homophobia and sexism were and are the order of the day at this school,” Nickel, 34, who worked at Mina Witkojc for four years, told The Associated Press in a joint interview with Teske, 31, who taught there for three years.
Neither the school nor the local school authority responded to the AP’s requests for comment on the teachers’ resignations.
But Teske and Nickel’s experience has aroused fears in the German capital that the far right has gained a greater foothold in some parts of the former East Germany than many thought. Experts say that especially in the south of Brandenburg state, where Burg is located, an entire network of tattoo parlors, nightclubs, youth groups and fan clubs of the FC Energie Cottbus soccer team spread the messaging of the far-right Alternative for Germany, or AfD, party.
Earlier this month, Brandenburg state’s domestic intelligence service declared Young Alternative for Germany, the AfD’s wing for supporters age 14 and above, as particularly radical and put it under official surveillance as a “proven right-wing extremist” group.
The state education ministry, which was criticized for not supporting the teachers enough, announced last week that authorities had identified a teenager suspected of originally posting the “hunt them down” post on Instagram.
Amadeu Antonio Foundation Executive Director Timo Reinfrank, whose organization promotes human rights while working against right-wing extremism, racism and antisemitism in Germany, told the AP that southern Brandenburg state has become “a zone of fear which the Nazis have declared as their home zone.”
Reinfrank said that’s not really a surprise for those familiar with the area, where the far right was active even before AfD’s founding a decade ago. The foundation he leads was named for an Angolan contract worker who in 1990 was beaten to death when a group of about 50 youths with baseball bats went looking for Black people to attack in the Brandenburg town of Eberswalde.
AfD was founded in 2013 and first entered Germany’s parliament four years later after campaigning on an anti-migrant platform. Recent polls show the party with a record level of support nationally, about 20%.
The reasons for its particular appeal in eastern Germany are manifold. East Germany was a communist dictatorship until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, and many people there lost their jobs after Germany’s 1990 reunification. Residents still speak of feeling like second-class citizens compared to Germans in the country’s west.
AfD has used the coronavirus pandemic and the influx of 1.2 million Ukrainian refugees since Russia invaded Ukraine as opportunities to promote an “us vs. them” narrative and to offer what seem like simple answers to complex problems, experts say.
Many think AfD could emerge as the strongest party when Brandenburg and the fellow eastern states of Saxony and Thuringia hold elections next year. In Thuringia, the AfD candidate last month won the county administrator’s post in Sonneberg, the first time since the Nazi era that a far-right party placed first at the county level.
Meanwhile, Chancellor Olaf Scholz ’s center-left governing coalition with the environmentalist Greens and the pro-business Free Democrats has a reputation for infighting and faces strong headwinds over immigration, an environmental plan to replace millions of home heating systems and inflation that remains high.
For people like Nickel and Teske, standing up against right-wing populists comes at a steep personal price. After the teachers announced their withdrawal from Burg, the head of the AfD chapter in Cottbus, Brandenburg state’s second-largest city, cheered on Twitter that Teske, whom he called a “leftist radical informer,” and his “accomplice” were gone.
The police are investigating threats against the teachers, and officers patrol past their homes frequently. When Teske goes out, he often looks over his shoulder to see if somebody might be following him. Recently, a man approached him in a grocery store from behind and whispered, “Get out of here,” into his ear, he said.
Yet he refuses to see the decision to leave town as a defeat. By calling out the dire conditions at the school, he and Nickel sparked a much-needed national debate about the rise of the far right in Germany, Teske said.
“We will continue to be loud, we will continue to make a political impact, and won’t let the far right win,” he said.
Germany, where the Nazi party was elected to power 90 years ago and led the country into World War II and the Holocaust, has a special responsibility to fight far-right populism, Nickel added.
“History repeats itself, and I believe that we must definitely do something now to put a stop to anti-democratic parties in Germany,” she said.
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2023-07-25T19:07:11+00:00
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pix11.com
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https://pix11.com/ap-international/ap-two-teachers-called-out-far-right-activities-at-their-german-school-then-they-had-to-leave-town/
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Anthony Santander had a hunch.
With so few left-handed pitchers to face in 2016, when Santander played in High-A in Cleveland’s organization, the few at-bats the switch hitter took from his natural right-handed side of the plate began to feel more unnatural. He swing timing was off, his movements felt clunky and he felt uncomfortable at the plate.
So he made a decision. With a left-handed pitcher on the mound, Santander surprised his manager and everyone else when he strode to the plate and set up to hit left-handed, creating a left-on-left matchup he hadn’t seen in years — if ever. The first pitch, a fastball, he swung through. But the swing felt good, so he was encouraged.
And then the pitcher threw two sliders. Both swept off the plate, away from his flailing bat. He walked back to the dugout, strikeout under his belt, and he knew.
“You know what?” he thought. “I’m better off trying to hit right-handed.”
Since that moment, Santander has never stood in for an at-bat swinging from the same side as a left-handed pitcher. He learned his lesson, and by refocusing as a switch hitter despite limited opportunities in the minor leagues to face left-handers, Santander has made his mark with the Orioles from both sides of the plate.
On Monday, Santander hit home runs as a lefty and a righty — doing so for the first time since 2019. On Thursday afternoon, he stepped in as a right-hander and crushed a three-run, walk-off homer to lift the Orioles over the New York Yankees, 9-6.
It’s a testament to Santander’s versatility, creating matchup problems for opposing teams. And it’s a reward for not giving up on right-handed hitting all those years ago, when two sliders taught him that switch hitting was the best path forward.
“We’re here as a switch hitter,” Santander said through team interpreter Brandon Quinones. “It was one of the best decisions I’ve made in my career.”
As Santander developed as a prospect in Venezuela, the idea to become a switch hitter was first presented to him as a 15-year-old. He was intrigued, buying into the idea that major league teams would find that appealing.
His first step to learn to swing left-handed was in the cage, using a tee or taking soft toss and focusing on hitting to the opposite side of the field. After three weeks, he jumped to on-field batting practice. And after five weeks, Santander began trying to hit lefty in developmental games.
By the time he arrived in Low-A in Cleveland’s organization, an elbow injury prompted the club to make him a designated hitter for nearly the full season. They wanted Santander to develop further as a switch hitter, and those extra at-bats paid dividends, even though he missed fielding.
He saw an improvement in pitch recognition from either side of plate, developing an understanding for how pitchers wanted to attack him. He grew his power evenly. It has led him here, where his switch-hitting prowess helps an Orioles lineup with few left-handed hitters.
Last season, as Santander battled an ankle injury, his at-bats from the right side were affected. Each time he rotated, his ankle hurt, resulting in four homers from the right side compared with 14 from the left.
Now that he’s injury free, the results are evening out — he has four homers as a lefty and three as a righty through 39 games.
“I’ve always said I’m a switch hitter with power from both sides,” Santander said. “But last year, cause of the ankle, I wasn’t able to be on my leg, so it was soft.”
He showed Thursday his power isn’t soft any longer from the right side. But would Santander ever consider a left-on-left matchup in the future?
“Hell no,” he said. He learned his lesson in 2016. He didn’t need any reminding.
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2022-05-20T11:33:43+00:00
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twincities.com
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https://www.twincities.com/2022/05/20/anthony-santander-almost-gave-up-right-handed-hitting-after-a-walk-off-homer-he-and-the-orioles-are-glad-he-didnt/
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Senior midfielder Luke McCormick and redshirt junior defender Bjarne Thiesen of the West Virginia University men’s soccer team have been named to the All-Sun Belt Second Team, the conference announced on Friday.
With the accolades, the Mountaineers have now placed multiple players on all-conference teams in 13 of the last 14 seasons.
A native of Derby, England, McCormick has tallied three goals with one assist for seven total points this fall. He has logged 707 minutes of action in 13 matches, including eight starts, with 12 shots and five shots on goal.
McCormick has 17 career assists at WVU, good for a tie for No. 6 in all-time program history. Previously, he was an All-MAC First Team selection in 2020-21 and 2021, and he was placed on the 2019 MAC Tournament Team as a freshman.
Thiesen leads West Virginia with 1,399 minutes played this season. The Kiel, Germany, native has started all 16 matches and has scored one goal – a game-winner – on eight shots. Defensively, Thiesen also has helped the Mountaineers post five shutouts, including three in Sun Belt play.
The honor is the first of Thiesen’s career, and it adds to a growing list of 2022 accolades for the defender. Prior to the start of the year, he was named to the MAC Hermann Trophy Watch List and appeared on multiple preseason All-America teams.
The Mountaineers open postseason play against Coastal Carolina on Sunday, Nov. 6, in the Sun Belt Quarterfinals. Kickoff is set for 3 p.m. ET, at the Bell Soccer Complex in Lexington, Kentucky.
For more information on the Mountaineers, follow @WVUMensSoccer on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
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2022-11-04T23:27:03+00:00
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wboy.com
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https://www.wboy.com/goldandbluenation/mccormick-thiesen-earn-all-sun-belt-honors/
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Fox News won’t show continuous live coverage of Thursday’s first televised hearing into the deadly attack on the US Capitol, putting the conservative news outlet at odds with its competitors.
Fox Corp. said on Monday it will cover the hearings that begin at 8 p.m. New York time “as news warrants” on its flagship news channel. Fox News will offer special coverage beginning at 11 p.m., after its regular schedule of primetime shows by hosts Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham. Live coverage will be relegated to other platforms like Fox News Audio and Fox Business Network.
Rival networks plan to interrupt their primetime lineups for the hearings. CBS and ABC will air the proceedings live, according to network representatives. NBC will offer live coverage on its cable news channel, MSNBC, and its streaming service, Peacock, and special coverage on its network channel.
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Fox News’ decision has drawn criticism online, including from lawmakers. US Representative Adam Kinzinger, one of two Republicans on the House select committee investigating the attack, tweeted last night that Fox News employees who want to maintain credibility as journalists should “speak out, or quit. Enough is enough.”
Members of rival media networks as well as prominent Democrats, including Hillary Clinton and Representative Steve Cohen of Tennessee, also criticized Fox.
A Fox News Media spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment.
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2022-06-07T19:23:10+00:00
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bostonglobe.com
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https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/06/07/nation/fox-news-chooses-tucker-carlson-over-jan-6-hearing-drawing-backlash/
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LONDON, Dec. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] today announced that Dr. Brendan Nelson AO will take over as president of Boeing International (BI) and lead the company's international strategy and corporate operations. The former Australian diplomat and government minister will succeed Sir Michael Arthur when he retires from Boeing in early 2023 after five decades of service in the public and private sectors, including the past four years at the helm of Boeing International.
Nelson, the second non-U.S. citizen to lead the organization, will report to Boeing President and CEO Dave Calhoun and join the company's executive council. The Australian citizen has been president of Boeing Australia, New Zealand and South Pacific since February 2020. He will move to London to take up his new role, effective Jan. 12, 2023.
"Brendan brings to his new position vast experience in government and diplomacy, industry and non-profit associations, that will serve us well as we continue to grow as a global company while navigating the dynamics of the geopolitical environment," said Calhoun.
Since joining Boeing in 2014, Arthur and Boeing International have worked to expand the company's global business in recent years. Boeing now has customers in 150 countries and a worldwide supply chain of 20,000 suppliers and partners. The company operates in 65 different countries, including major operations in Australia, India, the Middle East and United Kingdom, and employs more than 25,000 people outside of the United States who are engaged in design, development, manufacturing, services and support.
"On behalf of our global team, I want to sincerely thank Sir Michael for his tremendous contributions, his tireless service to our customers, employees and industry over the past eight years," added Calhoun.
Nelson will oversee 20 regional offices in key global markets. His responsibilities will include developing the company's growth and productivity initiatives outside the United States, forming new business and industrial partnerships, overseeing international affairs, enhancing Boeing's local presence and providing global functional support.
When he served as Australian Minister of Defence, Nelson oversaw deployments to Iraq, Afghanistan, East Timor and the Solomon Islands. He later served as Australia's ambassador to Belgium, Luxembourg, the European Union and NATO for three years. Nelson is a long-time and passionate advocate of veterans' affairs and prior to joining Boeing in 2020, Nelson was the director of the Australian War Memorial for seven years.
Maria Fernandez PSM will succeed Nelson as president of Boeing Australia, New Zealand and South Pacific effective Dec. 20, 2022. She will be the senior company leader in the Oceania region and board chair of Boeing Australia Holdings. In this role, Fernandez will coordinate Boeing Australia activities, lead government relations and direct the implementation of the company's strategy to expand its local presence and grow the business.
"Maria has had a distinguished career with more than 20 years of leadership experience in the Australian national security sector and was the first woman to lead an Australian intelligence agency. She has the ideal background for this position," said Nelson.
Fernandez has held senior executive positions in Australia's departments of Home Affairs, Defence, Immigration and Border Protection, and Education. Prior to joining Boeing, she ran a consultancy that provided strategic advisory and independent assurance services to Australian government agencies.
As a leading global aerospace company, Boeing develops, manufactures and services commercial airplanes, defense products and space systems for customers in more than 150 countries. As a top U.S. exporter, the company leverages the talents of a global supplier base to advance economic opportunity, sustainability and community impact. Boeing's diverse team is committed to innovating for the future, leading with sustainability, and cultivating a culture based on the company's core values of safety, quality and integrity. Join our team and find your purpose at boeing.com/careers.
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2022-12-04T23:15:23+00:00
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BOONE, Iowa (WHO) — The Iowa High School Athletic Association will not be getting involved with any disciplinary actions handed down to a high school wrestler who has agreed to plead guilty to felony assault in juvenile court after it was moved from adult court.
“Legally, we don’t have the standing to impose good conduct rules or penalties for violations of local schools’ good conduct policies,” Tom Keating with the IHSAA said.
Keating cited the 1972 US Supreme court case Bunger vs. IHSAA as a precedent.
“The court told the athletic association, in so many words, to stay out of the business of good conduct rules,” Keating said.
Jasmine Goeders, who resigned from the school board effective immediately Monday, learned Blume was back on the wrestling team after he won a tournament over the weekend.
“I don’t know any of us knew that he had been competing. I certainly didn’t and when I followed up with that I was told that the current policy dictates that he had to sit out twenty percent of his current athletic season which happens to be wrestling,” Goeders said.
Goeders was told the student wrestler satisfied his suspension and was allowed to rejoin the team.
“As much as we wish everyone would understand our situation and what the law tells us, they don’t always understand. When they reach out we try and explain it to them,” Keating said.
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2022-12-15T17:38:10+00:00
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siouxlandproud.com
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10 side hustles you can launch yourself
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10 side hustles you can launch yourself
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Looking for ways to make a little extra cash? Whether you’re saving for a particular goal or just trying to combat inflation, taking on a side hustle alongside your day job can help put a little more money in the bank.
Vending Mavericks highlighted 10 side hustles people could start on their own at a relatively low cost, including those involving skill or mastery and others that can be done without.
Hustle culture is prevalent throughout American culture—showing up in our TV, movies, social media, and everyday lives. If you’re ready to hit the grind, remember that not all side jobs are created equal. Some require more upfront investment than others.
While the jobs on this list cost little to start, you may need various skills, tools, and resources—access to reliable transportation, for instance. Be sure to do an audit of the resources at your disposal before deciding which side hustle is best for you.
This kind of work is on the rise: 2022 Census Bureau data showed about 27.1 million nonemployer business establishments nationwide in 2019. Following a period of record business applications, that number is likely higher now. Check out these options if you’re ready to jump on the trend.
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Open an Etsy shop
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Are you crafty? Do you crochet in your spare time or dabble with digital design? Try turning your hobby into cash by opening an Etsy shop.
It only takes a few minutes to start selling on Etsy. Listings cost $0.20, and you’ll also be charged a 6.5% transaction fee and payment processing fee of 3% plus $0.25. If you want to advertise your listing beyond Etsy, you’ll also need to pay a 15% fee for offsite ads.
These fees can add up quickly, so consider this in tandem with labor time and the cost of materials when setting prices.
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Sell goods at markets, fairs, and festivals
Girl looking at the colourful handmade jewelry on the local fair outside.
Another option for making some cash off your creativity is to sell your products at markets, fairs, or festivals.
Start by doing a search for markets and fairs in your area. Most major sites will have an application page with a list of the kinds of businesses they feature and the requirements to score a spot. For instance, the Texas Farmers Market currently warns that the wait list is long for those selling sweet confections.
You might still be subject to fees with this option, but it’s possible they’ll be less than an online vendor like Etsy. Additionally, ensure you don’t need any specific license to qualify—especially if you’re selling food. Requirements vary by state.
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Sign up for rideshare and delivery
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If you have access to reliable transportation, you could also consider signing up for a ride-share or delivery service. Both Uber and Lyft have specific vehicle requirements you must meet to be eligible to carry passengers.
The major benefit of this side hustle is that you can make as much out of it as you are willing to put in. Services like DoorDash, Uber Eats, Gopuff, and more allow drivers to set their schedules. You’ll typically earn money in the form of a base fare, tips, and special promotions during peak delivery times.
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Walk dogs
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Did you know animal lovers can earn cash just by hanging out with pets? Services like Rover and Wag! allow you to sign up to walk dogs, cat-sit, or provide other pet-related services on your own time and at your own rate.
To set yourself up for success on these platforms, be sure to do your research on the going rate for other sitters in your area. If you set prices too high, you might not get as many hits on your listing; too low, and you aren’t making as much as you’re worth.
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Clean homes
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Cleaning homes is another great option for bringing in extra income. Hourly rates for maid services range between $9 and $16 on average, but you could bring in more in the right area.
There are a couple of ways to get started cleaning homes. You could work independently, marketing and finding clients via social media, neighborhood groups, or friends and family. Or you could sign up to work with a national service to get access to extra benefits, including transportation and cleaning supplies.
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Perform errands, maintenance, and repairs
Cropped shot of a maintenance man.
Are you a whiz at assembling Ikea furniture? Looking for a way to combine earning extra money with getting a workout? Advertising services like assisting with moves, running errands, or helping with repairs on a site like TaskRabbit could be for you.
When you sign up to become a Tasker, the site will give you the going rate for someone providing that particular service in your area. For instance, help moving in Austin, Texas, is currently worth about $51 per hour. You have the power to adjust these rates as you get more experience and feel more confident with your ability to score work.
The best part? After a $25 registration fee, you’ll keep 100% of your service fees and tips. There’s no listing or transaction fee for Taskers.
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Freelance
Man looking on screen of laptop computer in a coffee shop.
Nearly 2 in 5 Americans provided freelance work in 2022. Those skilled in writing, editing, photography, and other in-demand work can take on additional jobs at almost no cost. Most of the time, you’ll just need a computer, internet connection, and whatever software and equipment you already use for these purposes—like cameras and lighting.
Freelance opportunities abound if you do the work to find them. Tap your network on LinkedIn, check out job boards on Indeed or Glassdoor, or sign up for an aggregator site like Fiverr or Upwork. Each of these options has pros and cons: Tapping your own network requires a bit of extra searching on your part, but you won’t have to pay the service fees associated with aggregator sites, and vice versa.
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Operate a vending machine
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Ever bought a candy bar at the laundromat and wondered where the money went? In many cases, people own and operate their own vending machines at a steep profit.
Operating a vending machine requires more upfront investment than other side hustles on this list. You’ll have to invest in the machine itself, which could be anywhere from a few hundred dollars for a used machine to a few thousand for a new one. You’ll also need to cover the cost of stock to fill it up.
Then, find the right place for your machine, and contact that business owner. This might be a school, shopping mall, laundromat, or other local business. Some owners will charge you a percentage of the profits for the space, while others might charge fixed fees or apply no fees. You also might have to secure a vending license.
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Teach a class in something you’re good at
Woman instructor with headset in exercise class with group.
Though typically reserved for specialists in a given field, teaching a class is another great way to use your knowledge to earn extra income. For those with in-demand certifications and expertise, you might be able to teach via online learning platforms like Udemy or Coursera.
If you have an advanced degree, you also might be qualified to teach a course at your local community college. Adjunct professor salaries vary significantly by state and metro area but average more than $26 an hour.
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Create media
Male freelancer working on movie production with computer software.
Digital content creation is a booming industry. From independent blogs to YouTube channels or TikTok accounts, content creators leverage brand partnerships, advertising, and more to bring in thousands annually.
Growing a following on a major social platform can take time and investment, however. You’ll need to make sure you have all the best editing software, filming equipment, and other tools needed to create your particular brand of media. You’ll also need to be well-versed in selling yourself when it comes to landing partnerships and setting rates. But the biggest factor is time. The more your audience grows, the more brands will be interested in partnering with you.
Data reporting by Paxtyn Merten. Story editing by Jeff Inglis. Copy editing by Paris Close. Photo selection by Clarese Moller.
This story originally appeared on Vending Mavericks and was produced and
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2023-06-09T08:30:50+00:00
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keyt.com
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https://keyt.com/stacker-money/2023/06/08/10-side-hustles-you-can-launch-yourself/
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CINCINNATI — Hanser Alberto had four hits, a career-high four RBIs and the Chicago White Sox scored 11 runs in the second inning to rout the Cincinnati Reds 17-4 on Sunday.
The offensive outburst could be a big boost for the White Sox who will be without designated hitter Eloy Jiménez for up to six weeks following his appendectomy.
“We lost Eloy and we’ll miss him,” Alberto said. “We know what kind of player he is. We want him to come back to see a better team. We need to just go out there and have fun, score some runs, and do some damage.”
The White Sox, who’ve struggled this season with runners in scoring position, delivered plenty of big hits against Graham Ashcraft (2-1) in the second, sending 14 batters to the plate.
Alberto hit a two-run homer to snap Ashcraft’s 33-inning homerless streak. Andrew Benintendi had a two-run single, and Andrew Vaughn tripled in two more runs.
Ashcraft’s eight earned runs in the second eclipsed his season total of seven over five starts.
“(Alberto’s) home run was a jam shot,” Ashcraft said. “But that’s no excuse. That’s when you get into the mental part of the game. I didn’t want to come out and do that to the bullpen.”
Gavin Sheets hit a three-run homer off Casey Legumina to cap the historic frame.
“When you can get a couple guys on and put the ball into the seats, it’s nice to see,” White Sox manager Pedro Grifol said. “It was a great job by our offense to keep the pressure on those guys.”
It was the most runs allowed by the Reds in an inning since April 13, 2003 against the Phillies when they gave up 13 in the fourth inning.
Michael Kopech (1-3) allowed four solo homers by pitched six innings to earn his first victory of the season.
“The put some good swings on me, but our offense made my job a lot easier,” Kopech said. “Hopefully we can ride that momentum for a while.”
Jonathan India’s ninth career leadoff home run tied him with Barry Larkin for third on Cincinnati’s all-time list. Things took a turn for the worst from there.
“There is nothing fun about games like that, but it’s just one game,” Reds manager David Bell said.
RISPY BUSINESS
The White Sox came in batting .176 with runners in scoring position in their previous 14 games, after going 1 for 8 in Saturday night’s loss. On Sunday, they were 8 for 13 (.615).
“The at-bats with runners in scoring position were really good,” Grifol said. “We put a lot of focus there.”
ON THE MEND
Jiménez was discharged from the hospital on Saturday night after undergoing an appendectomy at Good Samaritan Hospital in Cincinnati.
“I talked to him today and he sounded really good,” Grifol said. “When he answered the phone, he sounded like normal Eloy. He was obviously in big-time pain yesterday.”
Jiménez is hitting .258 with four doubles, four home runs, and 15 RBI.
He was placed on the 10-day injured list on Sunday, and catcher Carlos Pérez was recalled from Triple-A Charlotte.
TRAINERS ROOM
White Sox: 3B Yoán Moncada (back) played five innings and homered on Sunday for Triple-A Charlotte. He will be reevaluated on Monday. ... Closer Liam Hendriks, who is coming back from stage 4 non-Hodgkin lymphoma, made his second rehab appearance for Charlotte on Sunday, allowing a run and two hits in an inning.
Reds: OF Jake Fraley (lower back stiffness) who was scratched from the lineup on Saturday, was available off the bench on Sunday. ... 1B Joey Votto (shoulder surgery) is working out at Great American Ball Park, but there is no timetable for him to resume minor-league rehab.
UP NEXT
Reds: RHP Luke Weaver (0-2, 7.88) will face RHP Max Scherzer (2-2, 5.56) in Tuesday’s opener of a three-game series against the Mets.
White Sox: RHP Dylan Cease (2-1, 4.58) will face RHP Zach Greinke (1-4, 5.25) in Monday’s series opener in Kansas City.
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2023-05-08T00:35:13+00:00
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‘Days of Our Lives’ actor John Aniston, Jennifer Aniston’s father, dies at 89
(Gray News) - Actor John Aniston, known for his role as Victor Kiriakis on the NBC soap opera “Days of Our Lives,” had died at the age of 89.
Aniston’s daughter, actress Jennifer Aniston, confirmed that he died on Friday in an Instagram post.
“You were one of the most beautiful humans I ever knew,” Jennifer Aniston wrote. “I am so grateful that you went soaring into the heavens in peace - and without pain.”
John Aniston played the role of Victor on the daytime program for decades, and was nominated for a Daytime Emmy in 2017 for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series.
“Days of Our Lives” also tweeted a video tribute, stating, “Your legend will live on.”
He also received a Daytime Emmy Lifetime Achievement Award this year. Aniston also had a role as Martin Tourneur on longtime soap opera “Search For Tomorrow” from 1979-1984.
Aniston also appeared on popular television programs “Mad Men,” “Gilmore Girls” and “The West Wing.”
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2022-11-14T16:23:04+00:00
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kxii.com
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The Department of Transportation said a new dashboard launching in time for the Labor Day travel weekend will help passengers understand their rights when flights are delayed.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said the airline industry has had an “unacceptable” number of flight disruptions this summer. The Department of Transportation said when it shared plans about the dashboard with airlines, nine of the nation’s 10 leading airlines made improvements to their customer service.
For instance, United Airlines now offers meal vouchers when flights are delayed at least three hours. American Airlines now offers a hotel room for interruptions that grounds a passenger overnight if the airline is at fault for the cancellation.
According to the DOT, nine of the 10 listed airlines guarantee meals and eight of the 10 guarantee hotel accommodations when an airline issue causes the delay or cancelation.
The dashboard includes information from Alaska, Allegiant, American, Delta, Frontier, Hawaiian, JetBlue, Southwest, Spirit and United airlines. The dashboard shows what airlines will provide passengers in the event of delayed or canceled flights.
“Passengers deserve transparency and clarity on what to expect from an airline when there is a cancelation or disruption,” said Buttigieg. “This dashboard collects that information in one place so travelers can easily understand their rights, compare airline practices, and make informed decisions. The Department will continue to support passengers and to hold airlines responsible for adhering to their customer obligations.”
According to Cirium data, 66.8% of the flights it tracked in North America had on-time arrivals. That’s down from 72.25 percent in March 2022 and 75.3% in January.
Amid rising delays, the DOT has proposed rules for the airline industry that would make it easier for customers to garner refunds for flights delayed or significantly changed.
Although airlines have said air traffic control staffing has contributed to higher levels of cancellations, Buttigieg said staffing has not contributed to most delays.
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2022-09-01T18:17:30+00:00
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https://www.tmj4.com/news/national/flight-delayed-or-canceled-new-dashboard-outlines-what-airlines-offer
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America's Favorite Tea Introduces "Your Cup of (Hard) Tea™" This National Tea Day
ROCHESTER, N.Y., April 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- To coincide with National Tea Day, a new hard iced tea, bound to delight tea lovers everywhere, is entering the market! Made with real brewed Lipton tea, natural fruit flavors and a triple-filtered, premium malt base, Lipton Hard Iced Tea takes America's favorite tea and reimagines it as a 5% ABV non-carbonated product. This great tasting and refreshing hard iced tea is launching in four just-sweet-enough flavors that are inspired by Lipton tea fan favorites: Lemon, Peach, Half & Half and Strawberry.
"Lipton Hard Iced Tea is what you want hard iced tea to taste like," said Lisa Texido, Brand Director for Lipton Hard Iced Tea. "We created the recipe to make sure that the smooth, balanced flavor people love about Lipton iced tea really came through. I think people will be surprised that a hard iced tea can be this delicious – it's a must-try."
About the Flavors
All four flavors are made with real brewed Lipton tea:
- Lemon: Tart lemon flavor and smooth Lipton iced tea combine in this classic 5% ABV flavor.
- Peach: Juicy peach flavor makes this fruity, 5% ABV hard iced tea stand out in the crowd.
- Strawberry: A balanced blend of ripe strawberry flavor, 5% ABV and smooth Lipton iced tea for sunshine-ready sipping.
- Half & Half: Lipton iced tea meets the just-sweet-enough flavor of lemonade in this refreshing 5% ABV hard iced tea blend.
Find all four flavors in a 12-can variety pack or grab a single-serve 24oz can of Lemon or Peach. Lipton Hard Iced Tea is available at national and local retailers and convenience stores in select states.
"We're so excited to launch these flavors just in time for the warm weather – you're going to want to sip them all summer long," added Texido.
About Lipton Hard Iced Tea:
Lipton Hard Iced Tea is a 5% ABV, non-carbonated alcoholic beverage, made with real Lipton brewed tea, natural flavors and our premium, triple-filtered malt base. Lipton Hard Iced Tea is smooth, refreshing and seriously delicious. Try it in four 5% ABV, just-sweet-enough flavors: Lemon, Peach, Half & Half and Strawberry.
For more information, visit www.liptonhardtea.com
Stay connected with Lipton Hard Iced Tea on Instagram: @liptonhardtea
Always enjoy responsibly.
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2023-04-21T13:16:23+00:00
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NEW YORK (AP) — Giancarlo Stanton smashed a titanic home run, Aaron Judge also went deep and Jhony Brito won his brilliant major league debut as the New York Yankees beat the San Francisco Giants 6-0 on Sunday.
Kyle Higashioka also homered off Ross Stripling, who served up all three long balls in his first start for San Francisco. New York took two of three in the initial series of the season.
Brito (1-0) yielded only two hits — one a bunt single — over five impressive innings. He struck out six and walked one, showcasing a polished changeup to put away batters.
With projected starters Carlos Rodón, Luis Severino and Frankie Montas sidelined by injuries, the 25-year-old right-hander from the Dominican Republic won a spot in New York's rotation with a strong spring that included 5 1/3 perfect innings against Toronto his last time out.
Brito went a combined 11-4 with a 2.96 ERA at Double-A and Triple-A last season.
Stripling (0-1) escaped a bases-loaded jam in the first, but Judge lined his second home run of the season to left field in the third.
Anthony Rizzo followed with a sharp single and Stanton launched a 485-foot drive to nearly straightaway center field that soared way over the tinted restaurant windows above Monument Park. The ball even cleared the camera perch above that and landed on a pedestrian walkway in front of a bar.
Stanton lingered a bit to admire the 118-mph drive and then tossed his bat aside to round the bases. It was his second-longest home run since Statcast began tracking in 2015, behind a 504-foot shot at Coors Field in August 2016, and the third-longest at Yankee Stadium during that time, behind two homers by Judge in 2017 that surpassed 490 feet.
Stanton grounded into a game-ending double play with the bases loaded in a 7-5 loss Saturday.
Higashioka connected leading off the fourth against Stripling, who gave up four runs and six hits in five innings. The right-hander won 10 games with a 3.01 ERA for Toronto last season before signing a $25 million, two-year contract with the Giants.
New York added two runs in the seventh without a hit, thanks in large part to three walks and three wild pitches by 6-foot-11 reliever Sean Hjelle. Rizzo drove in rookie Anthony Volpe with a sacrifice fly.
Ron Marinaccio put down a San Francisco threat in the sixth and struck out the side in the seventh. Colten Brewer worked two hitless innings in his Yankees debut to finish the three-hitter.
New York improved to 29-2, including the playoffs, when Judge and Stanton homer in the same game.
NEW POSITION
Isiah Kiner-Falefa had no trouble in center field for the Yankees — his first major league appearance in the outfield. Kiner-Falefa was New York’s primary shortstop last season but was shaky in the field and provided little offense. He has been moved to a utility role this year.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Giants: Placed catcher Joey Bart on the 10-day injured list, retroactive to March 31, with a strain in the middle of his back. “We don’t expect it to be a long-term thing,” manager Gabe Kapler said. “We discussed the possibility of like, seven days. Maybe a few more.” Hjelle was recalled from Triple-A Sacramento.
Yankees: RHP Tommy Kahnle (biceps tendinitis) will probably start playing catch in the next couple of days, manager Aaron Boone said. ... INF DJ LeMahieu was rested.
UP NEXT
Giants: RHP Anthony DeSclafani starts Monday afternoon against White Sox RHP Michael Kopech in Chicago's home opener. San Francisco plays nine straight day games to begin the season.
Yankees: All-Star LHP Nestor Cortes gets his first start of the season Monday night at home against NL champion Philadelphia. RHP Taijuan Walker makes his Phillies debut.
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2023-04-02T21:08:13+00:00
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expressnews.com
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Shannon Valentine-Sanders had been suffering from mysterious symptoms for a couple weeks last year when she vaguely remembers sending an emergency alert to her family from a KFC parking lot in Matlacha, on Florida’s Southwest coast. “I didn’t know where I was,” she says. “I thought I was drugged or poisoned or something.”
Seeing her pain, exhaustion and forgetfulness, hospital doctors connected her illness to toxins secreted by blue-green algae floating in mats around the sailboat she’d lived on over the summer. She’d battled to keep the ropes and hull clean, even swimming among the scum as she scrubbed.
Sixteen months after she fell ill, Valentine-Sanders remains a prisoner of her symptoms. “I just was never right after that,” she says.
Hurricanes that hit Florida in September and October this year pushed millions of gallons of nutrient-rich sewage and fertilizer into waterways across Florida, including the St. Johns River, feeding blooms that could turn toxic during the weeks and months to come.
“The pollution will stick around for a long time,” says St. Johns Riverkeeper Lisa Rinaman. “We’re not seeing any positive toxicity reports in the St. Johns at the moment, but these outbreaks, they can be toxic one day and not the next.”
Experts have long cautioned people to stay away from the blooms and to protect their kids and pets. Exposure to poisons produced by the blooms can occur through the air or through the water.
As scientists and officials monitor for new algae blooms and test them for toxins after the back-to-back storms, victims and researchers are warning health effects can last years and turn deadly. While more research is needed, it’s becoming clear that long-term maladies range from Alzheimer’s disease to liver damage.
An ancient threat, revived
Warming temperatures and salinity changes caused by rising sea levels and intensifying rainfall, along with fertilizer and sewage runoff, are all amplifying the growth of toxic blooms of blue-green algae — and boosting the blooms’ armory, leading to the production of more potent poisons.
These algal blooms predominantly flourish in freshwater and are technically made up of bacteria — not plants — called cyanobacteria. Cyanobacteria are distinct from the algae responsible for “red tides” in marine environments, though both can result in harmful algal blooms.
Geoff Scott, a clinical professor at the University of South Carolina’s Arnold School of Public Health, says cyanobacteria evolved billions of years ago, when temperatures and carbon dioxide concentrations more closely resembled those being ushered in now by the effects of heat-trapping air pollution.
“These toxins were there to basically allow one species to thrive over another,” Scott says. “It is a competitive advantage to be able to produce these.”
Cyanobacteria are a natural part of freshwater ecosystems, but they can become dangerous when colonies bloom in such large amounts that they essentially overwhelm the environment, outcompeting other algae species. Blooms can form as discolored water, green scum, or dense mats of algae-like growth. Many emit a foul odor.
As blooms die and decompose, they can release toxins that are harmful to humans and other animals. These toxins can have a range of effects, including damage to the liver, kidneys, and central nervous system.
The toxins most often associated with harmful algal blooms are microcystins, which primarily affect the kidneys and liver. A growing body of research is finding meaningful connections between microcystin exposure and other health threats.
Some research shows that blue-green algae may enhance the risks of Vibrio vulnificus – another poisonous bacteria.
Vibrio, which often thrive amid blue-green algae blooms, sicken an estimated 80,000 Americans each year, a number that Scott says has risen dramatically in recent decades. He says the typical season during which vibrios cause sickness has expanded from the hottest months of each year now to April through October.
“It used to be primarily an illness in the Gulf of Mexico,” Scott says. “We now have cases in the Gulf of Alaska, so it spread geographically and temporally. If you increase time and space, that’s going to increase the number of cases. But also we have seen increased virulence.”
Data lacking on long-term health effects
More than a year after she first fell ill, Valentine-Sanders says she has poor memory, feels chronically exhausted, gets dizzy frequently and suffers from breathlessness and crippling muscle and joint pain. Underlying medical conditions have been inflamed and “my cognitive function is really poor compared to what it used to be,” she says.
Results of a recent MRI pointed to brain stem compression, likely caused by inflammation, that may require surgery. In addition to the blue-green algae exposure, she says she was also sickened by red tides in 2001 and 2003 in Naples.
Valentine-Sanders, 51, spent much of her early life living and spending time on the waters around Pine Island, Cape Coral and Fort Myers. Though she moved to North Carolina in 2005 after Hurricane Charley, she frequently visits family in and around her old South Florida stomping grounds. During her lifetime, she has seen water quality in the area decline and instances of blue-green algae rise.
“Seeing the water from when I was a kid to when I was there — like, in that same place, you could see the bottom,” says Valentine-Sanders. “Now you can’t see anything.”
When Valentine-Sanders’ illness was diagnosed as exposure to blue-green algae, it received a medical classification number that was introduced just three years ago.
“We know quite a bit about the acute exposure symptoms,” says Shirley Gordon, a nursing professor at Florida Atlantic University. “But we don’t have strong data to inform us about any potential long-term effects as a result of being exposed over time to the harmful algal blooms.”
Public health researchers use data reported by hospitals and clinics to assess how often patients are seeking treatment for symptoms related to toxic algae exposure. But, as with many emerging health risks, symptoms may be misdiagnosed or miscoded. Patients might not know it’s important to mention their exposure to algal blooms, and doctors might not ask.
Even when acute exposures are suspected, Gordon says healthcare providers may not be able to effectively diagnose or treat their patients.
“One of the challenges in practice is that currently there are no tools available for the practitioner to use to determine the presence of microcystin toxins or breva toxins in the body,” Gordon says. “And we don’t know at this point what level of toxin — even if we were able to measure those levels — we don’t know what level of toxin in the body might be causing pathological symptoms.”
To better understand the long-term risks, Gordon is leading new research that will track health metrics and exposures to harmful algal blooms among adults who live or vacation on Florida’s coasts and lakes.
“Once they’re admitted into the study, then we follow them over time,” Gordon says. “The goal is to follow them each time there’s a bloom following their enrollment so we can look to see if those symptoms are changing over time, remaining the same over time, or or are non-existent.”
Despite a shortage of data on long-term impacts, research led by Saurabh Chatterjee, a physiologist and professor of medicine and environmental-occupational health at the University of California at Irvine, shows threats can compound over time, with children and obese people more at risk of fatal liver and kidney diseases, particularly if they’re exposed repeatedly.
“If you have liver disease, then you have a risk of developing cognitive issues,” Chatterjee says.
Otherwise healthy people face growing risks as well, as the more they’re exposed to toxins from the outbreaks, the more likely their infections are to become resistant to antibiotic medicines, according to Chatterjee.
Chatterjee cautioned that a lot more work is required before health threats from blue-green algae outbreaks are fully understood and new treatments developed. For now, he says, better systems are being put in place in some regions to protect people from being exposed to their poisons.
Florida’s Health Department provides updates on harmful blooms through its website, and users can sign up for email updates. But when harmful blooms strike, messaging to the public isn’t always crystal clear.
In Jacksonville and south along the St. Johns River, Riverkeeper Lisa Rinaman says there’s “lots of room for improvement” when it comes to warning residents of dangers. “Some of the health departments put out signs, but there’s not a consistent protocol, which has been a concern of ours.”
This story was produced through a collaboration between ADAPT and Climate Central.
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2022-12-15T15:46:24+00:00
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https://www.wlrn.org/environment/2022-12-15/after-ian-and-nicole-experts-warn-of-health-risks-from-blue-green-algae
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WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — Christmas carols are one of our oldest holiday traditions.
In fact, some probably predate the holiday itself. We know music itself is ancient, dating back to before there was the written word.
The oldest music we have proof of is known as the “Hurrian Hymn to Nikkal” or “Hurrian Hymn No. 6.” It is essentially prayers set to music to Nikkal, Goddess of the orchards and wife of the moon god in the ancient Amorite-Canaanite city of Ugarit in what is modern-day Northern Syria. The hymns are believed to date back to around 1400 BCE.
The earliest Christmas carols were hymns explicitly devoted to the holiday that started appearing around the 4th century ACE. Some of those early hymns are still used today in the Greek Orthodox and Catholic Church.
While they certainly can count as the first Christmas holiday-specific songs, it’s difficult to call them carols as they don’t lend themselves to being something one would sing outside of a church setting.
We don’t really know for sure how Christmas caroling began. The best guess is that it was probably part of the oral tradition that surrounded winter solstice celebrations prior to the spread of Christianity across Europe.
Now, I could explain a ton of early European and English history, about the Britons, Anglo-Saxons, Norse, and Roman invasions to provide a lot of context to these traditions, but there’s a lot of information there. So, we’ll will try to condense it all as much as possible.
Caroling appears to have sprung from an Old Norse word that turned into an old English word, which became Wassail, a word meaning roughly “good health.” It was part of a feast that featured a warm punch. Someone started referring to that punch as Wassail.
The punch, which contained ale, spices, and probably some wine, was so good, someone thought to go from door to door to share it. It became a way to check on neighbors to see how they were faring the winter, and it’s possible the punch had some medicinal qualities as well.
Alcohol and singing tend to go hand in hand, and so Wassailing eventually became a door-to-door singing event so popular a song was written about it.
Here We Come A-Wassailing
So about that Wassail thing: We know the song is really old because of a clue in the song itself called an archaic intensifying prefix.
It goes back to that history stuff mentioned earlier. To be brief, the Britons were a Celtic people who inhabited England from the Bronze age until the Romans arrived.
The Romans eventually abandoned them, and the Anglo-Saxons moved in. The two cultures eventually melded into one with a distinct language, and then, the Normans invaded in 1066.
Many Old English words, the Anglo-Saxon language, were replaced with the Norman’s proto-German, which kind of sounded like a mixture of modern English, Dutch, and German.
With this new “Old English” language came new rules of grammar, and one of those changes was the end of that archaic intensifying prefix. A-wassailing is an archaic intensifying prefix.
So the “Here We Come A-Wassailing” song we sing today is from around the 1850s. However, it’s just a cover of one much older that we lost the lyrics for, that was written sometime before 1066.
Oh Christmas Tree
Some of you know this song by its German name, “O Tanenbaum.” Would you believe that it’s not a Christmas song?
It’s actually a Silesian folk song written sometime in the 16th century by composer Melchior Franck. It was originally titled “Ach Tanenbaum.”
The original song is just about the resilience and evergreen nature of the fir tree. Sometime in the 20th century, we don’t know when, the song was translated into English and became a song about the Christmas Tree.
Good King Wenceslas
So this one is really complicated because it has to do with the Holy Roman Empire, the feudal structure, cults, and Henry VIII.
We will start at the beginning. Good King Wenceslas wasn’t a king at all.
He was the Duke of Bohemia. Now, people tend to associate Bohemia with Germany or German speaking regions of Europe.
However, Bohemia is actually the Czech Republic and a Slavic region. In fact, Wenceslas is the Anglicized spelling.
His name was really Václav I. He died young but built many churches and was considered very pious and good.
After his death, a cult reportedly rose up, spreading the good word of Václav into places like Russia. He was quickly made a saint and was given the posthumous title of King.
Getting to the song about him, the melody is from a Spring Carol (yes, that’s an actual thing.) from the 13th Century called “Tempus adest floridum” which translates to “Eastertime Has Come.”
The words came much later in 1853. English hymn writer John Mason Neale was part of a movement that was working to incorporate Catholic ceremonies, saints days, and music back into the Anglican Church.
The Anglican Church came about because in the 16th century, Henry VIII broke the Church of England away from Catholicism so he could get divorced. Thankfully there are no carols about that.
A friend of Neale’s had given him an old Catholic hymnal from the 1500s, where he found the tune. He then took a story he had written earlier about Wenceslas in a children’s book and adapted it into lyrics for the song.
If you’ve never heard the song or have and don’t understand the lyrics, it’s about a miracle the King allegedly performed. While out with a Page attempting to deliver food and supplies to his lord who freezing and starving, the Page complains that they are going to freeze to death.
Wenceslas tells him to look for his footprints and step where he steps, and he will stay much warmer. He does, and he doesn’t freeze to death, and eventually safely arrives with Wenceslas at their destination.
God Rest You Merry Gentlemen
When Gutenberg introduced the printing press to Europe, it not only had an impact on literacy, it had a big impact on music. The printing press gave the means to codify music outside of the church.
Popular music, that stuff played in courts, inns, and taverns that you always see depicted as being played by mustachioed, lothario bards, dressed in tights with bright clothes and hats with a single giant feather plume coming out of the top, that type of music was taught from memory by ear. That is until the invention of the printing press. As you can imagine, a song first composed and written in the 1300s could probably change quite a bit in 200-300 years of being taught orally.
Thankfully, the printing press brought about something called the broadsheet. It was a single piece of paper on which music could be printed on. It was cheap and easy to mass produce.
Many of these broadsheets survive to this day. It’s how we are able to trace the origins of many songs.
Thanks to these sheets, the earliest copy we have of God Rest You Merry Gentlemen can be traced to the 1650s. It’s a bit different, but overall it’s the same meaning and message.
It was originally titled Sit You Merry Gentlemen. At some point prior to 1760, when another broadsheet was found, it changed to the song we know today as God Rest You Merry Gentlemen.
Because the broadsheet mostly preserved the song, it was able to survive, even getting mentioned in articles in the 1800s. It was so popular it was even referenced in Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol.”
What Child Is This?
This is another one that we can thank broadsheets for preserving this song’s melody. Many people already know that this carol borrows the melody of “Greensleeves.”
In fact, “Greensleeves” is often wrongly attributed to be a Christmas song. Given what the song is likely about, it is definitely not a Christmas song. Well, unless your family traditions are way beyond the norm.
Let’s start by saying that it’s likely “Greensleeves” is a really, really old song. However, the first written copy we can find is a broadsheet printed in England in 1580 with the title, “A Newe Northen Dittye of ye Ladye Greene Sleves,” registered by one Richard Jones.
Then over the next year, six different versions of the song were published under various names by various composers, one being Richard Jones again. This points to the song maybe being a common tune with various different versions appearing over the years that someone finally decided to write down.
What seems to be the consensus about the subject of the song is that to put it delicately, she was a woman of shall we say, ill repute. The Roxanne of her time period, putting out that red lamp centuries before Sting and the Police, came up with their own tune.
Somewhere around 1865, William Chatterton Dix, an English writer of hymns and carols, set his lyrics “What Child Is This” to the tune of Medival Roxanne and a Christmas classic was born.
Oddly enough, it was far more popular in the United States than in England. However, that might be because England may have been too busy secretly snickering about the bawdy origins of the tune for it to be taken seriously as a Christmas carol.
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2022-12-10T16:41:00+00:00
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cenlanow.com
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https://www.cenlanow.com/national/surprising-stories-behind-some-of-the-oldest-christmas-carols/
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House panel: Trump’s bills to Secret Service ‘exorbitant’
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s private company arranged for the Secret Service to pay for rooms at his properties in excess of government-approved rates at least 40 times during his presidency, including two charges for more than $1,100 per night, according to documents released Monday by a congressional committee.
The Secret Service was charged room rates of more than $800 per night at least 11 times when agents stayed at Mar-a-Lago in Florida, the Trump hotel in Washington, D.C., and other properties, the Democratic-led House Oversight Committee said. It noted that Trump made over 500 trips to his properties while president.
The “exorbitant” rates point to a possible “taxpayer-funded windfall for former President Trump’s struggling businesses,” wrote N.Y. Rep. Carolyn Maloney in a letter Monday to the Secret Service requesting more information.
The Trump Organization denied that the Secret Service charges were a problem and said it provided rooms and other services at cost, at big discounts or for free.
“The Trump Family is likely the first family in American history to have not profited off of the United States government,” said Eric Trump in a statement. He added, “President Trump funded the vast majority of his campaign with hundreds of millions of dollars of his own money and turned away billions of dollars in real estate deals worldwide.”
In total, the Trump Organization charged the agency responsible for protecting the president and his family at least $1.4 million, according to Secret Service records released by the committee. The committee said the total bill was likely higher because the panel only got records through September 2021 and payments for trips abroad were not included.
The former president has been repeatedly criticized by Democrats and government watchdogs for what they say were brazen attempts make money from taxpayer funds during his presidency.
In addition to money from the Secret Service when he and his family visited his clubs and hotels, Trump played host to foreign officials at his properties, also requiring lodging for accompanying agents. The president tried to arrange for his Trump National Doral Golf Club in Florida to be chosen as the venue for a Group of Seven meeting of global leaders, only to pull back after an outcry of about self dealing.
Among the documents released Monday was a bill tied to 2017 trip by Trump’s oldest son, Don Jr., to the Trump International Hotel down the street from the White House. That resulted in a Secret Service room charge of $1,185 per night, more than five times the government-approved per diem rate, the committee said, though the agency is allowed to make exceptions.
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2022-10-17T21:16:05+00:00
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wymt.com
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https://www.wymt.com/2022/10/17/house-panel-trumps-bills-secret-service-exorbitant/
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IRPIN, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian video-game vendor Roman Kryvyi, fresh from a soccer game on a snow-blanketed field in suburban Kyiv, sat up close to a TV in a kebab shop as intermittent city power returned just in time for Tuesday’s World Cup game between Wales and England.
For the 22-year-old soccer buff, there was no question about which side to support in the matchup: He remembers how he was crestfallen — rolling on the floor in despair and on the verge of tears — when Wales ousted his beloved Ukraine in the qualifiers. The grudge hasn't worn off.
“Only England! England has supported us in a military way,” Kryvyi said, overlooking the fact that England and Wales are both part of the United Kingdom — whose government has generously backed Ukraine with firepower and other support as it tries to repel Russia's invasion. He wants England to go all the way.
With their team not having made the finals this year, many Ukrainian soccer fans are throwing their support behind European countries that have backed Ukraine's fight against Moscow's forces, or teams with greats like Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo or Lionel Messi of Argentina. Others just want to see top-notch play, out of appreciation for the game.
For Ukrainians these days, soccer trails well behind mere survival in the order of priorities. But the sport — as in many places around the world — can offer an escape from the troubles of daily life. For players, running around a field can offer up camaraderie and churn up body heat, and in this war-battered, says simply: Life must go on. Watching the World Cup in Qatar gives a sense of connection to the rest of the world.
Like many fans in Ukraine, Kryvyi and teammate Hlib Kuian, 21, were far from certain that they would be able to see the England-Wales match. Russian military strikes in recent weeks have devastated power plants, rendered internet services uncertain and affected basics like water and heating — on top of the deaths and injuries they have caused.
Only minutes before Tuesday evening's match, which England ended up winning 3-0, Mazza Cafe kebab-stand operator Mashrabjan Haydarov spotted that the lights had come back on in an apartment building across the street, so he turned off the generator outside that had been powering his bulbs and TV, and switched back to the local grid.
Then, even though the electricity was back, the internet popped off momentarily. The friends, accustomed to daily setbacks large and small, shrugged off the delay until the service rebooted. They also had to return home right when the match was set to end because of an 11 p.m. wartime curfew.
“In my house. I have no internet, so it’s a big problem for me,” said Kuian, an economics student. The only alternative to going out to see the match, he said, was watching it on his mobile phone's small screen.
For all their interest in watching the World Cup, Kuian and Kryvyi prefer being on the field themselves.
As night fell, their team joined up with two others on a fenced-in field in a public park in Irpin, a town that Russian forces occupied earlier this year — and their pullout exposed suspected atrocities committed against civilians.
In yet another sign of the Ukrainian resourcefulness that has become legendary in their war-battered country, the teams purchased and strung up lights to illuminate the field, and powered them up with an old — and recharged — car battery on the sideline. One player got up on a motorized scooter to shovel off the field, as snowflakes continued to fall.
Time was that they would have preferred to play in Irpin's larger stadium, but it was pockmarked by craters and a nearby cultural center gutted as Ukrainian and Russian forces battled for control of the town.
As for the obstacles to soccer-playing, electricity shortages and other woes, Kuian is taking them in stride.
“I have to live with it. I know who made this (happen)," he said. "I know that the Russian Federation wants that I live like this.”
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Vasilisa Stepanenko in Irpin, Ukraine, contributed to this report.
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2022-11-30T10:11:30+00:00
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sfgate.com
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https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/In-Ukraine-seeing-World-Cup-playing-soccer-pose-17620188.php
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Micron will invest $15 billion though the end of the decade on a new semiconductor plant in its hometown that the chipmaker said will create 17,000 American jobs.
Sanjay Mehrotra, president and CEO of Boise, Idaho-based Micron, said his company’s investment was made possible by last month’s passage of the CHIPS and Science ACT of 2022, a $280 billion bill aimed at bolstering U.S. competitiveness against China and avoiding another chip shortage like the one that derailed the auto and tech industries during the pandemic.
The CHIPS law sets aside $52 billion to bolster the semiconductor industry, which due to COVID-related supply chain constraints beginning in 2020, has struggled to manufacture the diminutive chips that power everything from smartphones to computers to automobiles.
“Our new leading-edge memory manufacturing fab will fuel U.S. technology leadership, ensuring a reliable domestic supply of semiconductors that is critical to economic and national security,” Mehrotra said.
Micron said locating the manufacturing plant at the company’s operational headquarter will improve efficiency and help get products to market faster.
Boise Mayor Lauren McLean said the partnership will help the city’s economy grow and attract and diverse workforce.
“This is a once in a generation investment in Boise from a home-grown company that is critical to the economic vitality of our community, our state and our nation,” McLean wrote on Twitter.
McLean and Mehrotra last month attended President Biden’s bill signing ceremony for the CHIPS and Science Act. Idaho’s entire congressional delegation, all Republicans, voted against it.
Biden called the Micron announcement “another big win for America.”
Micron is one of Idaho’s largest employers. The company has several chip manufacturing plants around the world, including in Singapore and Taiwan.
Last week, the chipmaker Intel Corp. announced that it would break ground Sept. 9 on its planned $20 billion Ohio semiconductor facilities. The factories, known as fabs, are expected to open in 2025. President Biden is scheduled to attend the groundbreaking.
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Rebecca Boone contributed from Boise, Idaho.
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2022-09-01T19:32:47+00:00
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keloland.com
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https://www.keloland.com/news/technology/ap-technology/ap-micron-to-invest-15-billion-on-memory-chip-plant-in-boise/
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MAINE, Maine — A Maine man was attacked and killed in Clearwater, Florida last week.
Jeffrey Chapman, 49, was attacked with a tire iron and beaten to death while riding his bike early in the morning on Mandalay Avenue on Oct. 19. Police said it was a random attack.
A 26-year-old man, Jermaine Bennett, was arrested the next day at his job in the town of Wesley Chapel, Clearwater Police spokesman Robert Shaw told NEWS CENTER Maine.
Shaw said Bennett admitted to striking Chapman several times in the head with a tire iron-like device.
"He showed no remorse whatsoever. He said that he chose his victim randomly and blamed 'the ills of society' for the murder," Shaw said. "I don't know if we know what that means."
Chapman was president and CEO of a financial services firm and had moved part-time to Florida in recent years, the Bangor Daily News reported.
His body was found on a sidewalk early the next morning in a residential area in northern Clearwater Beach.
Bennett was charged with first-degree murder and is being held without bail, Shaw said.
Police continue to look for a second suspect.
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2022-10-27T19:59:59+00:00
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newscentermaine.com
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https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/crime/maine-man-murdered-in-florida-clearwater-killed-crime/97-4a757007-495e-4c52-9a0a-7aea96fc2ca9
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Former President Trump on Tuesday lashed out at Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and his wife, former Trump administration Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, for “unnecessary turmoil” within the GOP in the wake of House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy’s (Calif.) failure to win the lower chamber’s Speakership.
“There is so much unnecessary turmoil in the Republican Party,” Trump said, adding that the disorder is due in large part to McConnell, Chao and their “RINO” allies, using an acronym for “Republicans in name only.”
The statement is the latest example of Trump attacking not only McConnell but also his wife, who last month denounced the former president’s frequent use of a racist nickname for her. Trump repeated the nickname in his latest statement.
The former president’s comments came just after the House on Tuesday sat through three votes for Speaker, only to adjourn without a winner.
Democrat Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.) came out ahead of McCarthy in all three rounds of voting, but neither candidate secured the necessary 218 votes to take the top leadership spot — despite Republicans holding 222 seats after this year’s midterms.
Nineteen Republicans voted against McCarthy in the first two votes, and the number of dissenters rose to 20 in the third round.
Trump had initially tried to help McCarthy get the votes he needed, but declined on Tuesday to say whether he’d continue supporting the lawmaker after he lost the three consecutive rounds of voting.
The House will head into a fourth vote when it reconvenes on Wednesday at noon, and the process will continue until a nominee gets a majority of lawmakers’ ballots.
Trump has long expressed his contempt for McConnell and for his former Transportation secretary. McConnell’s pullback from the former president has continued to rile Trump — and Chao resigned after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
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2023-01-04T03:33:12+00:00
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fox44news.com
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https://www.fox44news.com/hill-politics/trump-attacks-mcconnell-wife-over-gop-turmoil-after-mccarthy-fails-to-win-speakership/
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Dear Annie: I am in my 70s and have seven grandchildren who I love very much. I am writing because my 4-year-old granddaughter does not want to hug me, and I’m not sure what to do about it. I think I know the cause, which started when she was 2 and the whole world was coping with the pandemic.
When I would see her when she was 2 and 3 years old, we could not hug because everyone was saying, “keep your distance” because of COVID-19. So we would do “air hugs” and “bear hugs,” which meant that I would open my arms as if I were about to hug her, but instead I would simply hug the air. I doubt if she understood why I didn’t hug her.
Now when I see her, if I put my arms out for a hug, she shakes her head no and hides behind a couch or something like that. She is definitely letting me know that she doesn’t want to hug.
I have told my son and daughter-in-law about this and said that it was those early experiences during the pandemic that reinforced the message of “don’t touch.” They say I’m probably right, but I don’t want to understand the problem; I want my little granddaughter to hug her grandpa! My daughter-in-law says that the more I see her, the more comfortable she will be with me and the more likely we can hug as time goes along. What do you think? -- Feeling Isolated
Dear Feeling Isolated: Despite how you signed your letter, you are by no means alone. Millions of people were told not to touch for two years, and we do not know the long-term consequences of this. I suspect there will be studies down the road addressing this issue. In the meantime, listen to your daughter-in-law and spend as much time as possible with your granddaughter -- and with all of your grandchildren.
Dear Annie: I feel disconnected from a society in which many people are disconnected. I see parents looking at their phones when they should be giving their children their undivided attention.
They think they are not disconnected because they have 500 “friends” or 1,000 “followers,” but most people have few real, meaningful connections with close friends and family members. Our children should not be competing with a bunch of strangers for our attention.
If you put away the phone, they will remember it, and that gesture will mean the world to them. And, while you may not know what is trending on TikTok, you will know your children. You will have conversations and connections with them that phone-obsessed parents don’t have with their children.
If the kids are young, may I suggest that they get flip phones instead of phones with internet and social media? If I had anything to do over, it would be not giving my daughter a smartphone until she was at least 15 or 16. It changes us all, and not for the better. -- Missing the Old Days
Dear Missing the Old Days: Thank you for your warning, which is a good one. Many of us are more addicted to our smartphones than is healthy, and we are just now discovering the number of negative consequences. We learn even more as the years pass.
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2023-02-12T08:34:00+00:00
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masslive.com
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https://www.masslive.com/opinion/2023/02/dear-annie-granddaughter-wont-hug-her-grandpa-what-do-i-do.html
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Concord at Emory & Henry
Game time: 1 p.m.
Radio: WEHC, 90.7 FM
Coming in: Season-opener for both teams
What to watch for: The NCAA Division II era officially gets ushered in for Emory & Henry College’s football program today. … E&H was pegged for an 11 th -place finish in the 12-team South Atlantic Conference in the preseason coaches poll. Defensive linemen Jay Swegheimer from Orlando, Florida, and Donovan Pinnix from Eden, North Carolina, are among the many returnees for the Wasps and are poised for promising seasons. Pinnix made 59 tackles last season. … Ivan Phillips (Dobyns-Bennett) will also be counted on to play a big role for Emory & Henry’s defensive unit. … Virginia Tech transfer Houston Sage (Lee High) has joined the Wasps. The offensive lineman played in the Pinstripe Bowl last season for the Hokies. … E&H’s last league title came in 2000 when the Wasps won the Old Dominion Athletic Conference championship. That was also the last year E&H made the NCAA playoffs. … This is the first time E&H has played Concord since a 48-0 loss to the Mountain Lions in 1981. … Concord holds a 20-10-1 edge in the all-time series. … Emory & Henry defensive coordinator Tommy Buzzo is a Concord alum, while linebacker Brent Butler of the Wasps began his collegiate career at Concord. … Concord went 4-6 last season, while E&H was 6-4. … Freshman wide receiver Eli McCoy (Twin Springs) is on the Concord roster. Jawaine Massenburg, who played at the University of Virginia’s College at Wise, is an assistant coach for the Mountain Lions.
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2022-09-03T19:48:27+00:00
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heraldcourier.com
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https://heraldcourier.com/sports/college-football-capsule-concord-at-emory-henry/article_4868a7e2-2bb9-11ed-9edd-6bba29fa55e3.html
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Ringbrothers has produced some impressive Ford Mustang builds over the years, but the Wisconsin hot rod shop has come up with yet another new spin on Ford’s pony car.
This 1969 Ford Mustang Mach 1, known as Patriarc, debuted at the 2022 SEMA show and is the result of over 5,000 hours of work, according to Ringbrothers. Those hours went into completely reengineering the chassis and powertrain, and extensively modifying the body.
Patriarc is powered by Ford’s Aluminator 5.2 XS crate engine. The 5.2-liter V-8 produces 580 hp and 445 lb-ft of torque, which is sent to the rear wheels through a Tremec T-56 Magnum 6-speed manual transmission and Strange Engineering differential that fits Ford’ s 9.0-inch rear end with 31-spline axles.
The Mustang also features a custom chassis integrated with the stock unibody, incorporating front and rear independent suspension components with Penske Racing Shocks coilovers at both ends. Michelin Pilot Sport 4S tires mounted on 19-inch front and 20-inch rear HRE G-Code Edition wheels provide the grip, while front and rear Baer six-piston calipers and 14-inch rotors provide the stopping power.
Ringbrothers didn’t leave the body untouched either, but respected the work of Ford’s designers.
“The Mustang Mach 1 has always been an aggressive looking car,” Ringbrothers co-owner Jim Ring said in a statement. “And we wanted to add to those classic good looks with subtle but critical changes.”
Those changes included widening the body 2.0 inches in every direction, lowering the rear quarters, and fabricating a new floor pan and transmission tunnel. Some carbon fiber pieces were added as well, including a hood, front spoiler, rear diffuser, and side scoops that direct air over the taillights.
The interior received new upholstery in a blue tone to match the exterior, modern climate controls and gauges, a roll cage, and a Ringbrothers carbon fiber steering wheel.
Patriarc is one of four new builds Ringbrothers unveiled at the 2022 SEMA show, alongside the Bully 1972 Chevrolet K5 Blazer, Strode 1969 Chevrolet Camaro, and an Enyo super truck based on a 1948 Chevy pickup.
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2022-11-04T22:33:42+00:00
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The annual crackdown on fireworks purchasers ahead of the Fourth of July is well underway in the Bay State, as State Police have seized thousands of illegal fireworks and issued 10 summonses so far in June.
After fireworks incidents jumped last year in Massachusetts, public safety officials are again urging residents to leave fireworks to the professionals this summer.
“@MassStatePolice have seized 1000’s of illegal fireworks and issued 10 summonses so far this month,” the Massachusetts Department of Fire Services tweeted on Wednesday.
“Fireworks are illegal in Massachusetts even if bought legally in another state,” the state agency added. “Don’t risk injury, fire, or a day in court: Leave fireworks to the pros.”
After a record-setting number of fireworks-related fires were reported in 2020 and then a sharp decline in 2021, fireworks incidents in Massachusetts rebounded last year.
Fireworks-related fires and explosions in Massachusetts skyrocketed at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, jumping from 57 incidents in 2019 to 189 incidents in 2020. These numbers dropped in 2021, when 80 incidents were reported statewide.
In 2022, however, Massachusetts fire departments reported 106 fires and explosions tied to fireworks, a nearly 33% increase over 2021.
More than half of these incidents took place during the week of July 4, 2022. Overall, the fireworks-related incidents last year caused 38 injuries and $414,279 in damages — more than double the property loss caused by fireworks in 2020.
“Every single year in Massachusetts, people are hurt and property is destroyed by illegal fireworks,” State Fire Marshal Peter Ostroskey said. “As we count down to the weeks when most of these incidents occur, we’re reminding everyone that fireworks are illegal because they are dangerous. There will be plenty of permitted fireworks displays this summer, so stay safe and leave fireworks to the professionals.”
Last year, joint enforcement efforts by the Massachusetts State Police and Department of Fire Services led to about 40 criminal summonses for violating the state’s fireworks laws.
They also took off the streets nearly 3,000 packages of aerial shells, cakes, fountains, bottle rockets, large rockets, Roman candles, sparklers, and other dangerous, illegal devices worth upward of $46,000.
The Massachusetts Department of Fire Services has a list of professional fireworks displays on its website — www.mass.gov/service-details/leave-fireworks-to-the-professionals.
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2023-06-21T23:56:06+00:00
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bostonherald.com
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https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/06/21/massachusetts-state-police-seize-thousands-of-fireworks-ahead-of-july-fourth-leave-fireworks-to-the-pros/
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This offseason, Devils forward Jesper Bratt gambled on himself.
The 24-year-old Swedish winger - who posted a career-best 73 points (26 goals and 47 assists) in 2021-22 - opted for a one-year, $5.45 million contract, which set up a “prove it” opportunity for him this season.
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2022-10-26T16:00:19+00:00
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nj.com
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https://www.nj.com/devils/2022/10/devils-jesper-bratt-continues-dominant-stretch-vs-red-wings.html
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Homemade Ice Cream: Viral TikToker shares her favorite treat to get you through the summer heat
Published: Jun. 21, 2022 at 3:40 PM CDT|Updated: 37 minutes ago
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (TENNESSEE VALLEY LIVING) - In the mood for a sweet treat and a fun summer activity all in one?
Ally Burnett, also known as Sugar Pusher on TikTok and Instagram, is teaching us how to make homemade blueberry cheesecake ice cream.
All you need is cream cheese, heavy whipping cream, whole milk, salt, brown sugar, any flavoring of your choice and any kind of ice cream maker. Pro-tip: adding in any kind of alcohol for flavoring helps keep the ice cream from freezing too hard!
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2022-06-21T21:17:38+00:00
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https://www.waff.com/2022/06/21/homemade-ice-cream-viral-tiktoker-shares-her-favorite-treat-get-you-through-summer-heat/
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A group of Hudson Regional Hospital emergency medical technicians (EMTs) and Secaucus police officers were honored this week for saving a man’s life earlier this year.
With Mayor Mike Gonnelli, Police Chief Dennis Miller and Hudson Regional Hospital President and CEO Dr. Nizar Kifaieh among the attendees, EMTs Dionis Ynoa, Michael Vales, Lourdes Quiles and Pedro Saldanha, along with Lt. Christopher Rinaldi and Police Officers Mikhail Kowlessar and Kasey Kelly were each given the Secaucus hospital’s Lifesaver Award Tuesday in a ceremony.
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2023-03-23T13:45:01+00:00
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nj.com
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https://www.nj.com/hudson/2023/03/hudson-regional-hospital-hail-emts-and-police-officers-as-heroes.html
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One of the most grueling climbs in the world claimed the life of an American.
The 69-year-old died on May 1 while attempting to scale Mount Everest.
He was climbing with a group from International Mountain Guides when he died.
"We can confirm that this event was not the result of a climbing accident or route condition that would be of potential impact or safety concern to any other teams on the mountain," the group said in a statement.
SEE MORE: Record-breaking climbers safely return from Mount Everest
The climber was reportedly at an elevation of 21,000 feet when he died.
"He was feeling unwell and passed away at Camp 2," Pasang Tshering Sherpa told Agence France-Presse. "Efforts are underway to bring (back) his body."
This wasn't the man's first attempt at climbing Mountain Everest. AFP reports he reached Camp 3 last year before abandoning the climb.
Hundreds of people attempt to climb Mount Everest every year, but it's not uncommon for a life to be lost on the trek. Since the early 1900s, more than 300 people have reportedly died while attempting to climb the world's tallest mountain.
The American is the fourth person to die on Mount Everest this year. Three Nepali climbers reportedly died after being caught in an avalanche in April.
Trending stories at Scrippsnews.com
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2023-05-02T17:58:27+00:00
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abc15.com
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https://www.abc15.com/american-dies-while-attempting-to-climb-mount-everest
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DENVER — Officials with Denver Public Schools released a list Tuesday of 10 elementary and middle schools they say are facing closure and consolidation with other nearby schools due to declining enrollment.
The DPS schools listed below are facing closure:
· Columbian Elementary will unify with Trevista at Trevista
· Palmer Elementary will unify with Montclair School of Academics and Enrichment K-5 grades at Montclair and ECE at Palmer
· Math Science Leadership Academy (MSLA) will unify with Valverde Elementary at Valverde
· Schmitt Elementary will unify with Godsman Elementary at Godsman
· Eagleton Elementary will unify with Cowell Elementary at Cowell
· Fairview Elementary and Colfax Elementary will unify with K-5 grades at Cheltenham and ECE at Colfax
· International Academy of Denver at Harrington will unify with Columbine Elementary and Swansea Elementary in a new enrollment zone with Columbine and Swansea.
· Denver Discovery School will unify with schools in the Greater Park Hill - Central Park Enrollment zone.
· Whittier K-8 will unify with schools in the Greater Five Points Elementary Enrollment Zone and the Near Northeast Middle School Enrollment Zone.
The district will present these recommendations to the board of education Nov. 3. Members of the board are scheduled to vote on the list Nov. 17.
Officials had warned parents earlier this year that come 2024, the district could potentially close or consolidate schools struggling with low enrollment. A declining enrollment advisory committee was organized and criteria were voted on, which was then presented to Superintendent Alex Marrero.
According to experts, a decline in the number of school-aged children isn't just a Denver issue.
"It's really simple, we've seen a slow down in births," said Elizabeth Garner, a demographer for the state. "Starting back in 2007, that was our peak birth year, we've seen a slowing in births ever since. So with fewer kiddos, that means lower school enrollment."
The district said in the past five years, elementary and middle school enrollment has declined by more than 6,000 students, resulting in a loss of $61 million annually. DPS expects an additional loss of approximately 3,000 elementary and middle school students over the next four years.
Some parents have concerns about how these closures could impact the district's Black and Latino communities, while others feel the district's Spanish-speaking families have been shut out of the process.
In a letter sent to parents last week, Superintendent Marrero said the decision to close certain schools was not based on performance.
"School consolidation is about bringing communities together to solve for the enrollment decline, not because of school performance concerns, and we will treat them as such. We are working to do something different that honors our people. We want you to know that we are working to finalize agreements with our bargaining associations to create a process that would guarantee all impacted DPS team members a role in DPS for 2023-24 and plan to share more information as agreements are finalized," Marrero said in the letter. "We recognize the difficulty of these decisions and know that the discussion of consolidating schools is very difficult. Please know that we do not take this topic lightly, and that we are grounding this work in what we believe is best for our scholars, and the impact the current state has on our scholars, teachers and leaders."
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2022-10-26T00:30:15+00:00
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denver7.com
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https://www.denver7.com/lifestyle/education/denver-public-schools-releases-list-of-schools-facing-closure-consolidation
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(NEXSTAR) – President Biden has been considering some sort of federal student loan forgiveness for weeks, and it appears it will be a few more weeks before he announces his decision.
Biden will likely announce his plans regarding student debt in July or August, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday. This means the potential decision will come close to the end of the student loan payment moratorium, which is currently set to expire on August 31.
The White House has repeatedly stated the Biden administration continues to assess options regarding student loan forgiveness, and that no decision has yet been made.
In April, multiple sources confirmed to The Hill that Biden was considering expunging at least $10,000 per borrower. Biden has already stated he isn’t considering forgiving $50,000 per borrower. That’s not a big surprise — while on the campaign trail, Biden supported a much smaller plan of up to $10,000 in forgiveness per borrower.
An analysis by the Federal Reserve found forgiving $10,000 per borrower would result in roughly 11.8 million borrowers – slightly more than 31% – having their entire balance eliminated. If the Biden administration were to move forward under this plan, an estimated $321 billion in federal student loans would be forgiven.
How much in debt forgiveness each borrower receives could be dependent on their income. Sources told The Washington Post that relief could be limited to those who make less than $125,000 or $150,000 per individual tax filers or $250,000 or $300,000 for couples who file together.
Forgiveness could also be restricted to loans used for undergraduate education, excluding programs that require additional schooling. When asked about Biden’s concerns about providing relief to borrowers that attended schools like Harvard and Yale, former White House press secretary Jen Psaki explained the president wants to ensure the relief is “targeted to those graduates who have the greatest needs.”
Opponents to student loan forgiveness have argued any relief would benefit Americans with higher incomes who are more capable of paying the loans back.
There has also been confusion regarding Biden’s power to cancel student loans. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has said he lacks legal authority, instead remarking that it “would be an act of Congress.” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, on the other hand, has argued Biden could do it under the same legal provision Trump used to delay payments and interest accrual at the start of the pandemic.
Republicans have introduced legislation to not only limit Biden’s authority to extend a payment moratorium but “prohibit the president from canceling outstanding federal student loan obligations due to a national emergency.”
“The majority of Americans do not have college degrees,” Sen. Mike Braun (R-IN) said in April regarding his proposed legislation, called the Stop Reckless Student Loan Actions Act. “Why should they be forced to pick up the tab for college degrees in the name of pandemic relief? This transfer of wealth is not a move to ‘advance equity,’ but rather a taxpayer handout to appease far-left activists.”
Under the Biden administration, roughly $25 billion in federal student loan debt has been canceled for some 1.3 million borrowers. Last week, the Department of Education announced it will discharge the outstanding federal student loans of former Corinthian Colleges students after the school was accused of defrauding students out of millions in federally backed loans. In total, $5.8 billion in loans will be canceled for 560,000 borrowers, making it the largest single-loan discharged by the Education Department.
While $25 billion in total relief may seem like a lot, it equates to about 1.5% of the $1.6 trillion in federal student debt Americans have. Pressure continues to grow for more debt forgiveness as the end of the payment moratorium and midterm elections near.
The Education Department has also confirmed it is “working on new regulations that will permanently improve a variety of the existing student loan relief programs, significantly reduce monthly payments, and provide greater protections for students and taxpayers against unaffordable debts.” Details on these regulations have not yet been released.
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2022-06-06T22:21:15+00:00
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krqe.com
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https://www.krqe.com/news/national/heres-when-biden-could-announce-decision-on-student-loan-forgiveness-report/
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HAMBANTOTA, Sri Lanka (AP) — A Chinese navy vessel arrived at a Beijing-built port in southern Sri Lanka on Tuesday, after its port call was earlier delayed due to apparent security concerns raised by India.
The Yuan Wang 5 sailed into the Hambantota port and was welcomed by Sri Lankan and Chinese officials. The development could spark worry in India, which views China’s rising influence in the Indian Ocean with suspicion.
Sri Lanka has referred to the Yuan Wang 5 as a “scientific research ship,” but there are fears in India that the vessel could be used to surveil the region, with multiple media reports calling it a “dual-use spy ship.”
“The Yuan Wang 5 is a powerful tracking vessel whose significant aerial reach — reportedly around 750 km — means that several ports in Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh could be on China’s radar,” the Indian Express newspaper wrote.
The closely watched developments surrounding the vessel underscore the competing interests of regional giants India and China in the small island nation. For more than a decade, Sri Lanka’s strategic location in the Indian Ocean and along one of the busiest shipping routes has seen both countries vie for influence.
Over the years, Beijing was widely seen as having an upper hand with its free-flowing loans and infrastructure investments. But Sri Lanka’s economic collapse proved an opportunity for India to gain greater sway, as New Delhi stepped in with massive financial and material assistance to its neighbor.
The ship has permission to dock in Hambantota until Aug. 22, Sri Lanka’s Foreign Ministry said last weekend. It added that China had agreed the ship would keep its identification systems on and would not carry out any research activities while in Sri Lankan waters.
“Given the geopolitical dynamics in the region and Sri Lanka’s heavy vulnerability on the economic front, Sri Lanka is playing with two fires at a diplomatic level,” said international affairs analyst Ranga Kalansooriya.
The Yuan Wang family of naval vessels serve both the Chinese missile force and its space program, which is run by the People’s Liberation Army, the military wing of the ruling Communist Party.
Previous official Chinese media reports have described PLA officers serving in command positions aboard the vessels in the Yuan Wang class, which may also have civilians in their crews.
China Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Wang Wenbin dismissed concerns about the ship in a briefing Tuesday.
“I would like to reiterate that the marine scientific research conducted by the research ship Yuan Wang 5 conforms to international law and international common practice, and will not affect the security and economic interests of any country,” he said.
On Monday, India gifted a maritime reconnaissance aircraft to Sri Lanka to strengthen its maritime security. The Indian Embassy said the aircraft would help Sri Lanka tackle multiple security challenges such as human and drug trafficking as well as other crimes in its coastal waters more effectively.
Indian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said last week that India was aware of the planned visit by the vessel and that it carefully monitors any development that affects its security and economic interests and would take all measures to safeguard them. He also dismissed claims last week that India put pressure on Sri Lanka to delay the ship.
As Sri Lanka endures its worst economic crisis, India in recent months has provided crucial assistance including food, fuel, medicines and cooking gas. At the same time, China’s agreement to restructure its infrastructure loans to Sri Lanka is vital for the country to reach a bailout program with the International Monetary Fund.
China has lent Sri Lanka billions of dollars for development projects, some of which have been criticized as having little practical use. They include the Hambantota port, built with Chinese money under former President Mahinda Rajapaksa in his home region, despite the plan having been rejected by an expert panel.
When the port failed to generate enough revenue to pay back the loan, Sri Lanka in 2017 was forced to hand the facility and thousands of acres of surrounding land to Beijing for 99 years — giving China a key foothold in the country directly opposite India’s coastline.
Kalansooriya said while Sri Lanka is unable to discount both regional powers, President Ranil Wickremesinghe is tasked not only with salvaging the country’s economy but also maintaining a diplomatic balance.
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This story corrects that Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson’s comments were on Tuesday, not Monday.
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Associated Press writer Krishan Francis in Colombo, Sri Lanka, contributed to this report.
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2022-08-16T21:34:09+00:00
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wate.com
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https://www.wate.com/news/national-world/ap-international/chinese-navy-ship-docks-in-sri-lanka-stokes-indias-concern/
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DENVER (KDVR) — After a cooler few days in Denver, temperatures will heat back up to the 80s and 90s this week.
Sunshine and dry weather will move back in Monday and Tuesday. Monday’s high temperatures will hit the upper 80s on the Front Range.
Some spots will hit the 90s on Tuesday. It could be Denver’s 65th 90-degree or higher day of the year.
Rain chances will move back in Wednesday and Thursday, cooling high temperatures into the mid-80s.
Drier weather will return on Friday with only a 10% chance for storms. Sunshine and dry weather will move back in Saturday and Sunday with highs in the upper 80s.
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2022-09-12T00:48:00+00:00
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kdvr.com
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https://kdvr.com/weather/weather-forecast/warm-temperatures-return-monday-tuesday/
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FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J., Jan. 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX), a leading global medical technology company, announced today that it will host a live webcast of its Annual Meeting of Shareholders on Tuesday, January 24, 2023, at 1 p.m. (ET).
The live webcast of BD's presentation can be accessed from the BD investor relations website, investors.bd.com. A replay of the event will be available on the same webpage following its conclusion.
About BD
BD is one of the largest global medical technology companies in the world and is advancing the world of health by improving medical discovery, diagnostics and the delivery of care. The company supports the heroes on the frontlines of health care by developing innovative technology, services and solutions that help advance both clinical therapy for patients and clinical process for health care providers. BD and its 77,000 employees have a passion and commitment to help enhance the safety and efficiency of clinicians' care delivery process, enable laboratory scientists to accurately detect disease and advance researchers' capabilities to develop the next generation of diagnostics and therapeutics. BD has a presence in virtually every country and partners with organizations around the world to address some of the most challenging global health issues. By working in close collaboration with customers, BD can help enhance outcomes, lower costs, increase efficiencies, improve safety and expand access to health care. For more information on BD, please visit bd.com or connect with us on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/company/bd1/ and Twitter @BDandCo.
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2023-01-06T21:53:36+00:00
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uppermichiganssource.com
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https://www.uppermichiganssource.com/prnewswire/2023/01/06/bd-announces-webcast-annual-meeting-shareholders/
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Late May is a critical deadline for selecting reduced Relative Maturity (RM) hybrids
DOWNERS GROVE, Ill., May 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Syngenta Seeds announced that it is offering farmers its NK® Corn Replant Calculator* for free, which will help agronomists and farmers make data-based decisions on whether to consider replanting their corn. The 2022 growing season got off to a cold and rainy start across much of the Corn Belt, and Mother Nature is forcing many farmers to make a difficult decision: deal with varied corn emergence, which can set the stage for less-than-optimal final stands and reduced yield potential, or replant corn at an additional cost.
Recommendations from the NK® Corn Replant Calculator are generated from publicly available data, and calculations are based on a farmer's location, original planting date, replant date, current plant density and desired plant density. While the Calculator provides replanting recommendations based on university data, there's no definitive resource for replant decisions.
"Farmers make countless decisions throughout the growing season, but the decision on whether or not to replant a corn crop is arguably one of the most significant in terms of potential ROI," says Todd McRoberts, NK Seeds Agronomy Manager. "It's not always a black-and-white decision, but there are simple steps farmers can take to build confidence in their decision to invest in a replant."
Steps to Consider a Potential Replant
- Determine Your Existing Stand. To estimate stand, count the number of healthy plants in the length of a row that equals 1/1,000 of an acre (Table 1) and multiply the number of plants by 1,000.
"Take several counts throughout various areas of the field to get an accurate final stand," advises McRoberts. "If stand loss is occurring in distinct zones, limit your stand count measurements to those areas of replant consideration." - Compare Estimated Replant Yield Potential versus Potential of Existing Stand. Reference Table 2 to figure your percent yield potential of corn by emerged stand and planting date.
"This calculation will provide a lot of clarity into the yield potential both options offer," adds McRoberts. - Decide Whether Relative Maturity Should Be Reduced for Replant. Once a farmer decides to replant corn, the next big decision is whether to reduce hybrid RM.
"Choose a hybrid that can reach maturity prior to the first frost," says McRoberts. "Hybrids compensate for the abbreviated growing season and will reach black layer within fewer growing degree units than if planted earlier."
Now is the time for farmers to devise a replant plan, if necessary, and to decide whether a different RM is necessary. McRoberts cautions that the increased yield potential of a fuller-season hybrid often outweighs the cost of drying grain. He recommends that farmers plant full-season hybrids adapted for a given area until the last week in May and then change to a mid-season hybrid (4-7 RM) — and never switch to 8-11 RM hybrids earlier than adapted full-season hybrids unless drying grain is not an option.
Visit NKSeeds.com/ReplantCalculator to access the NK Corn Replant Calculator. To learn more about NK corn hybrids or soybean varieties for your area, contact your NK Seeds retailer.
* The replant calculator is provided by Syngenta as a reference tool for agronomists and farmers. It is not intended to be nor should it be used as a definitive source of agronomic guidance on any matter. The replant calculator provides data gathered from the university data and publications listed below. Syngenta assumes no responsibility for the results of this data, nor does it represent that the data is current. The universities periodically update their databases; therefore, the replant calculator may not reflect the most current data.
About Syngenta
Syngenta Crop Protection and Syngenta Seeds are part of Syngenta Group, one of the world's leading agriculture companies. Our ambition is to help safely feed the world while taking care of the planet. We aim to improve the sustainability, quality and safety of agriculture with world class science and innovative crop solutions. Our technologies enable millions of farmers around the world to make better use of limited agricultural resources.
The content of this release is for information purposes only. This release is not and should not be construed as an offer to sell or issue or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities or other property interests.
To learn more visit www.syngenta.com and www.goodgrowthplan.com. Follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/SyngentaUS and on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/company/syngenta.
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2022-05-26T20:01:28+00:00
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kcbd.com
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https://www.kcbd.com/prnewswire/2022/05/26/nk-seeds-offering-free-corn-replant-calculator-tool-help-farmers-make-corn-replant-decisions/
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WEST MONROE, LA. (KTVE/KARD) — With the support of Louisiana District 5 U.S. Representative Julia Letlow and U.S. Senator Dr. Bill Cassidy, the city of West Monroe has received $7.4 million in federal funding to be put towards infrastructure improvements across the city.
$5 million of this funding will be going towards the North Trenton Street Bike and Pedestrian Safety Improvement Project. This project includes constructing 10-foot wide shared bicycle and pedestrian paths along Trenton Street as well as drainage improvements and other advancements.
West Monroe Mayor, Staci Mitchell, says that this is just a part of the larger project plan that the city has for citizen safety.
“The project that the city will be receiving appropriations funding for through Congresswoman Julia Letlow is a pedestrian safety project so it will improve safety for pedestrians and bicyclists, as well as some vehicular safety on Trenton Street. It’s just one component of our larger plan for connectivity and improvements throughout the city of West Monroe.”
With the funds going through a process before the city receives them, Mayor Mitchell is hoping to see improvements within the next one to two years.
“We won’t see the funding for a while there’s a process to go through. So I hope that we’ll see some construction on some projects within maybe a year to 18 months. This is a multi-year long-term project and this is just the beginning. And it’s a good part of it, it’s a large part of it so we’re excited about it.”
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2023-01-21T16:27:33+00:00
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cenlanow.com
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https://www.cenlanow.com/state-news/west-monroe-receives-federal-funding-for-corridor-project/
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Strategy calls, team dynamics & trends entering May: IndyCar's winners and losers at Barber
LEEDS, Ala. -- Raw performance in each on-track session is important, but four races into the 2022 IndyCar season, we're getting to a point where what that speed, execution and luck (or lack of it all) says about a team or driver's place in the series is starting to mean much more.
It's why Callum Ilott can finish 25th Sunday and come away relatively pleased and why four drivers in the top-14 are likely frustrated. Here are my Winners and Losers:
Winners
Pato O’Ward
I went much longer and deeper on O’Ward’s rebound-of-a-weekend in a separate piece, but it can’t be said enough how much an impact his mental shift seems to have had on his mood, confidence and ability to execute. It’s a reminder that, on his and its best days, O’Ward and Arrow McLaren SP can deliver.
Perhaps more important was the fact Sunday’s win came on a road course, a type of track where the No. 5 Chevy driver had recorded only two of his 10 IndyCar podiums. As team president Taylor Kiel said Sunday, what had once been the team’s biggest Achilles heel may be trending towards its strength. We’ll see soon enough in the next race of the year on the road course at IMS.
More on Pato's momentum:
- Indy 500 is looming, contract squabbles over, O'Ward is 'winning freaking races'
- How O'Ward earned extension: 'Fights aren't enjoyable, but everything's fixable'
Alex Palou
Ever so quietly, relative to the early domination of Team Penske and Arrow McLaren SP’s rebound Sunday, last year’s defending series champ now holds the points lead. More important than his 3-point edge on Scott McLaughlin, though, is that Palou stood on the podium at each of the next five tracks on the schedule during his title run in 2021. His string of 11 podiums over his first 20 races with Ganassi is impressive already, but there’s no reason to expect this incredibly hot start of Palou’s to cool off as we dive deeper into May and transition into June.
Insider:Why isn't anyone talking about defending champ Alex Palou?
It’s been said many times, but his consistency is remnant of his six-time champion teammate Scott Dixon, who’s had several stints ending up on the podium more than 50% of the time during his own career. Like Power and Dixon among the top-6 in points, it’s merely a matter of ‘when’ that first win of 2022 will come. For Palou though, it wouldn’t propel him up near the lead but increase what he’s already built.
Rinus VeeKay
Up until he gave up a pass for the lead with under 30 laps to go, Sunday’s IndyCar race appeared to be VeeKay’s to lose. Forget O’Ward’s go-ahead pass or the fact the Ed Carpenter Racing driver fell away quickly during the final stint – a race like Sunday only further confirms that his poor performance in the back half of 2021 appears to have been the fluke, rather than the strong start of that season.
More:How VeeKay off-track priority changes led to second career pole at Barber
The 21-year-old now has a pair of top-6 finishes this year, has led laps in three of the four races and is headed to the IMS road course as the defending GMR Grand Prix winner and a former IndyCar polesitter on the track. Afterwards is the Indy 500, where he led laps a year ago, has started in the first two rows each of his two starts and took 8th his second time around. Perhaps this is the year VeeKay can be a dark horse title contender beyond early June.
Will Power
After practice and qualifying, Race No. 4 looked as if it was setting up to be the ‘early-season forgetful one’ of Will Power’s campaign. In the eight seasons since his 2014 title, he’s logged 13 finishes outside the top-10 in those seasons’ early segments. After he slid off-course in Practice No. 2 and qualified a lowly 19th, he looked prime to add another.
But whereas the Power of old might have faded, this year’s version wasn't rattled, selected the right strategy and put together incredible fuel-saving and tire management to jump 15 spots in the field for his third consecutive 4th-place finish. Because the three drivers ahead of him in points have combined for seven of the 12 podiums this year, he remains 4th in the standings, but one win would change that.
Callum Ilott
More than a decent race result, Juncos Hollinger Racing and its rookie Ilott needed to prove they could string together a solid weekend with pace throughout. The 25th-place finish, due to Ilott’s spin in Turn 9 on Lap 32, doesn’t come close to painting the picture of the great weekend they had. Before the race, Ilott was one of four drivers to finish in the top-11 in all four on-track sessions, and he was one of just seven to do so outside the Saturday afternoon warmup.
Through three races together this year, the No. 77 Chevy team would too often start off with mid-pack performance and then drift back – either not making progress while others did or experimenting in the wrong directions and making it tough to find their way back. As the only one-car team in one of the deepest, closest IndyCar fields in decades, no one would fault them if their pace had them mired to the back. If Ilott can stay away from spins and contact moving forward, a much bigger result will come.
Losers
Three-stoppers
I asked several drivers in the lead-up to Sunday whether they preferred to have races like Sunday’s, where there was a legitimate strategy decision to make on stops, or those like St. Pete and Long Beach, where hardly anyone strays from the obvious. The resounding answer? Not only did decisions make for more exciting racing, but it gave those who struggled in qualifying a better shot at redemption.
We saw an example of that in Will Power (qualifying 19th, finished 4th) and Scott Dixon (13th and 5th), who opted for two stops Sunday, but the contenders who opted for three – including Romain Grosjean, Colton Herta, Marcus Ericsson and Josef Newgarden – were all but out of the victory picture as soon as Ilott spun and caused a caution. The first three, at least, finished within one position of where they started, so it wasn’t a total loss. Had they chosen two, they likely would’ve been in similar spots with how the race played out. But they were one small spin away from perhaps making up the podium themselves.
Romain Grosjean
If Graham Rahal is to be believed, the veteran IndyCar driver’s public frustrations with Grosjean after the pair made contact twice may signal a deeper issue for the Andretti driver. Not that anyone competes in high-level open-wheel racing to be liked, but Rahal insinuated he was far from alone in his discontent with the longtime F1 driver’s antics on-track.
More:Graham Rahal says Romain Grosjean has 'overstayed his welcome'
It’s unclear, too, whether Grosjean made contact with Rahal intentionally the second time or not – Rahal believes so, while Grosjean stated it was merely racing. You could watch NBC’s overhead video and understand Rahal’s point, but there’s only one person who truly knows. With a ramp up in media coverage and attention in the coming weeks, this storyline is unlikely to die down, and it will be interesting to see how opinions inside the paddock around IndyCar fans’ favorite driver transform.
Kyle Kirkwood
How his race unfolded doesn’t have as much to do with the driver himself, but Kirkwood, no doubt, was unhappy with 22nd after his first IndyCar top-10 in Long Beach. After qualifying 21st, the A.J. Foyt Racing rookie suffered an extra-lengthy stop on his first trip to pitlane Sunday due to a mechanical failure with equipment changing the right-front tire. On a three-stop strategy like most of the back half of the field, Kirkwood likely wouldn’t have been more than a couple spots higher up in the results had that failure not happened.
He said Friday he didn’t have nearly the confidence in his new team’s permanent road course program as its street course one where he’d made two appearances in the Fast 12 in qualifying. The season’s first road course weekend proved that, while Foyt has made some considerable jumps this offseason, its star rookie will only be able to do so much.
Drivers on two-car teams
The drawback of driving on a two-car team is there’s only one other person to compare yourself to directly. And when that teammate has an incredible weekend, and you struggle, it shows all the more in the results. Felix Rosenqvist (started 6th, finished 16th), Conor Daly (started 22nd, finished 19th) and Helio Castroneves (started 16th, finished 21st) all fell in that boat. Rosenqvist made the Fast Six alongside O’Ward, but dropped like a rock in the race, despite also running the same two-stop strategy. Daly and Castroneves both opted for three stops while their teammates (VeeKay and Simon Pagenaud, who moved from 24th to 11th). When there’s that much of a discrepancy in the strategy call, I imagine it’s hard not to wonder ‘what if?’ the next day, when you see your teammate thrive far ahead of you.
Email IndyStar motor sports reporter Nathan Brown at nlbrown@gannett.com. Follow him on Twitter: @By_NathanBrown.
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LONDON — Pomp and pageantry? Check. Flag-waving tourists? Check. A modern monarchy able to revamp a medieval ritual into something accessible to a younger, more diverse United Kingdom? Maybe.
King Charles III's coronation Saturday will have a shorter parade route, a role for all Britons rather than only aristocrats — and a nod to the country's myriad faiths.
It's also likely to have protesters upset about the more than $125 million price tag for U.K. taxpayers during a painful cost-of-living crisis.
And it might rain.
Here are 10 sights you'll see at this weekend's coronation — and two you likely won't.
What you will see
1) Crowns, obviously
King Charles will be crowned with St. Edward's Crown, named for the last Anglo-Saxon king of England, Edward the Confessor. He lived in the 11th century, but the crown was made some 600 years later in 1661, for King Charles II.
It's solid gold, a foot tall, capped with velvet, lined with ermine and encrusted with rubies, amethysts, sapphires, topazes, tourmalines and a garnet. It's heavy — nearly 5 pounds. "It weighs a ton!" recalled the late Queen Elizabeth II, who wore the St. Edward's Crown for her 1953 coronation.
It's worn only a short time by British monarchs at their coronations. It'll be in use for about an hour on Saturday and then be put back into storage at the Tower of London.
But it may be the most recognizable of the royals' many crowns: Its silhouette is part of the coat of arms on British passports, police badges and mailboxes.
Charles has a "working crown" to wear on his way out of Westminster Abbey: the Imperial State Crown, made in 1937. The monarch wears this crown to the opening of Parliament too. It's one of as many as seven crowns that may grace the king's head.
Camilla, the queen consort, will be crowned with a newly remodeled version of Queen Mary's Crown, originally made in 1911. It has a silver frame, lined with gold, and is covered with 2,200 diamonds (minus one very controversial diamond; scroll down for more on that). It's smaller and lighter, weighing only a little over a pound.
2) Regalia — royal bling
The Coronation Regalia is a selection of sacred and secular items that hold symbolic meaning for the monarchy. It includes orbs, scepters, swords and rings, which are all part of Britain's famous Crown Jewels.
The king will hold the Sovereign's Orb in his right hand during the service. It's a 17th-century golden sphere adorned with precious jewels and a cross on top, meant to represent the Christian world. Charles will also be presented with two scepters during his coronation: Both are golden rods. One is known as the Sovereign's Sceptre with Cross. It features a heart-shaped diamond nestled below a cross, symbolizing power and justice. The other features a dove and is known as the Rod of Equity and Mercy.
While the United Kingdom isn't the only European country to have a royal family, its royals are the only ones who use regalia in coronations. Other monarchies, such as Norway and the Netherlands, have regalia on display but don't use it in ceremonies.
3) Key moment: the anointing
After a procession into Westminster Abbey and presentation of the regalia, the more than 1,000-year-old coronation ceremony will get underway. First, the public — even people watching on TV from home — will be asked to swear allegiance to King Charles. There may be trumpets and exclamations of "God save the king!" (In past coronations, it was only the aristocrats in the room who were asked to do this.)
Then the monarch puts his hand on a Bible and takes an oath to uphold the law and be a "faithful Protestant." (In addition to being Britain's head of state, he's also the head of the Church of England.)
After the oath, the king's glittering golden robes will be removed, and he'll sit on an ancient wooden chair in front of a high altar. (Fun facts: The BBC calls the chair the oldest piece of furniture still used for its original purpose in the U.K. And even though it has been refurbished over the centuries, the Coronation Chair still bears graffiti, including this cheeky carving: "P. Abbott slept in this chair 5-6 July 1800.")
What happens next is the absolute heart of the ancient rite: the anointing.
"It all culminates in the crown, but that can only happen because he has been anointed with holy oil," says Alice Hunt, a historian of monarchy at England's University of Southampton. "That's the moment when the monarch is understood to actually become king. Something changes at that moment."
The archbishop of Canterbury will pour consecrated oil from a 17th-century golden ampulla into a 12th-century spoon. The oil is harvested from the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem. (This time it's vegan, but in past coronations it reportedly contained additives from the glands of small mammals and the intestines of whales.)
"He'll be anointed probably in three places — hands, breast and head," Hunt explains. "It's the most important part and also the most provocative. Even monarchs have said, 'What happens to me when I'm anointed?'"
But it's a secret religious rite that has never been televised. There has been lots of speculation about whether that might change this time around. But a new screen has been prepared to shield it from view, as at past coronations.
4) Thousands of guests, some controversial
More than 2,200 people have been invited to the ceremony inside Westminster Abbey. (That's down from more than 8,000 people invited to Elizabeth's 1953 coronation.) The guest list includes representatives from more than 200 countries — including first lady Jill Biden, but not her husband — and as many as 100 heads of state.
No U.S. president has ever attended a U.K. coronation. For centuries, no other crowned royals did either. The ceremony was supposed to be between a monarch and his or her people. But in a break with tradition, Charles has invited fellow royals from Europe and Arab states.
In a move that might anger some China hawks, Chinese Vice President Han Zheng is also attending. Han was the architect of Beijing's 2019 crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong.
Another guest shows how much times have changed: Michelle O'Neill, the vice president of the Irish nationalist party Sinn Fein. The party is linked to the Irish Republican Army, a paramilitary group that used a bomb to kill King Charles' grand-uncle, Lord Louis Mountbatten, in 1979. It has been 25 years since the Good Friday Agreement ended decades of violence and affirmed Northern Ireland as part of the U.K. Sinn Fein recently won the most seats in the Northern Ireland Assembly.
5) Parade — rain or shine! But rain is forecast
Charles has opted for a shorter parade route than his mother did, and a different vehicle.
Still, the British military says more than 6,000 members of its personnel will take part — making this its biggest ceremonial operation in 70 years. To prepare, they've been rehearsing in the middle of the night all week.
Up in front will be the Cross of Wales, which contains two small shards of wood from what some believe was the original cross on which Jesus was crucified. But in a nod to modern Britain's myriad faiths, the procession will also include leaders of Jewish, Hindu, Sikh, Muslim and Buddhist groups. They'll reportedly deliver a greeting to the king in unison.
Charles and Camilla will depart Buckingham Palace in the Diamond Jubilee State Coach — which looks ancient but is actually only 10 years old. It's pulled by horses but also has electric windows, air conditioning and hydraulic stabilizers to prevent it from swaying.
They'll make their way along The Mall — a ceremonial promenade, not a shopping center — to Trafalgar Square and then past the Whitehall government buildings and Parliament to Westminster Abbey. Thousands or possibly millions will likely line the nearly 1.5-mile route.
After the ceremony, they'll reverse direction and return along the same path, but in a different carriage, the Gold State Coach. It's encrusted in gold leaf and is so heavy, weighing more than 4 tons, that it needs eight horses to pull it and can still move only at a walking pace.
If all goes well, the parade will end with a military flyover and royal wave from the Buckingham Palace balcony.
6) Protesters
The anti-monarchy group Republic says it's mobilizing more than 1,000 protesters in Trafalgar Square, around a statue of King Charles I — who was beheaded in 1649.
"It's time to get rid of the monarchy," Graham Smith, Republic's leader, told NPR. "We will be chanting, 'Not my king!' when Charles goes past."
On Wednesday, ahead of the coronation, U.K. authorities imposed the Public Order Act, which makes it a criminal offense to disrupt public transit or lock oneself to landmarks, as well as increases police powers to search suspects and seize property.
But the government's security chief says coronation protesters will be allowed along the parade route.
7) Page boys — but apparently no page girls
The king's grandson Prince George will be among the pages of honor at Westminster Abbey. George — who is second in line to the throne — is believed to be the youngest future king to play an official role at a coronation. He may help carry the regalia into Westminster Abbey, ahead of the king.
In a break with tradition, some of Camilla's grandchildren — who are not strictly royals — will also play a role in a ceremony, possibly in holding a canopy over the queen consort during her anointing. Camilla's grandsons, Louis, Gus and Freddy, will reportedly take part, as well as her grandnephew Arthur Elliot.
Some British media outlets initially reported that it was Camilla's wish for all her grandchildren — including the girls — to play a role in the ceremony. But later reports list only the boys.
These are Camilla's grandchildren through her first marriage, to Andrew Parker Bowles. So a blended family will be on display at the heart of Britain's monarchy.
8) New tunes, and a few celebs
Twelve pieces of music commissioned and composed for the coronation will debut during the ceremony Saturday. They include six pieces for orchestra, five choral works and a piece for the organ. Plus a new coronation anthem by Andrew Lloyd Webber, the man behind popular musicals Cats and The Phantom of the Opera.
In a nod to Charles' late father, Prince Philip, who had Greek heritage, the Byzantine Chant Ensemble will perform music based on the Bible's Psalm 71 during the presentation of regalia.
A gospel choir will also perform.
And for the first time at any coronation, girl choristers from around the U.K. will sing alongside the legendary boy sopranos of the Choir of Westminster Abbey.
"There's some symbolic resonance in bringing in girls to sing in this space that is really sort of at the heart of the monarchy," says Rebekah Peeples, a sociologist at Princeton University who is writing a book about all-boy choirs. "These are groups that were born in a history of exclusion, because girls and women couldn't sing in public for centuries."
It's not just professional musicians getting involved either.
The Choir of the Earth — a virtual group of singers who came together online during the COVID-19 pandemic — has made a recording of the "Hallelujah" chorus from Handel's Messiah to commemorate Charles' coronation.
Hundreds of singers in dozens of countries recorded themselves on their cellphones, and the choir's producers mixed their voices together. They'll post the final product on the choir's website Friday night.
Then on Sunday, the Coronation Concert will take place at Windsor Castle, with a lineup including singers and American Idol judges Lionel Richie and Katy Perry; U.K. acts like Take That, Freya Ridings and Alexis Ffrench; and Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli.
9) Commonwealth countries
Charles isn't just the king of the U.K.'s four constituent countries, England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. He's also the head of state of 14 Commonwealth countries. They include Canada, Australia, New Zealand and several island nations in the Caribbean and Pacific.
And he's the ceremonial leader of what's known as the Commonwealth, a voluntary association of more than 50 independent member states, many of which were once part of the British Empire but no longer retain Britain's monarch as their head of state. Today the organization holds sporting competitions and is a tool of Britain's soft power to promote peace, development and democracy.
Leaders, representatives and members of the armed forces of some Commonwealth countries will be seen on Saturday. They will display their countries' flags and represent "the diversity and traditions of the UK and Commonwealth Armed Forces," the British government's website says.
Even though much of the Commonwealth will be present in some form at the ceremony, some members in recent years have sought to become republics. In 2021, Barbados removed Queen Elizabeth II as its head of state and replaced her with a president. Jamaica is making plans to follow suit. It's unclear whether either country is sending a representative to Charles' coronation.
10) Quirky merch
Alongside the regular Union Jack-themed knickknacks, London's street vendors are also selling mugs, flags, plates and thimbles with King Charles' face on them. Royal superfans are even making their own merchandise, from "Coronation Flakes" cereal to King Charles-themed tea cozies. Nespresso has limited-edition coffee capsules called Jewels of Nespresso to commemorate the event.
Not all the swag is meant to be a celebration of King Charles though. There's coronation toilet paper, T-shirts that read "Not my king" and other items with unflattering and exaggerated caricatures of Charles.
With the U.K.'s recent economic woes, retailers and hoteliers are hoping the coronation brings a much-needed boost.
It's a mixed bag for the souvenir vendors so far. Some along Regent and Oxford streets in central London told NPR they're barely selling any of the coronation-themed merchandise they've stocked. But Fernando Santos, working at a kiosk opposite Big Ben, says his sales have picked up.
"Today I'm selling mugs and flags — 100 pieces today," he said. "King Charles is very good for my business."
Two sights you won't see
1) Meghan, Duchess of Sussex
She has a prior engagement with a 4-year-old.
After much speculation, Buckingham Palace confirmed last month that Prince Harry will attend his father's coronation but his wife, Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, will not. The couple lives in California, and Saturday is also the fourth birthday of their son, Prince Archie.
There has been a very public rift between the couple and the rest of the royal family in recent years. In January, Harry released a memoir called Spare in which he detailed a physical altercation with his brother, Prince William. Last year, the couple also made a Netflix documentary that claims the royal family did not defend them when they were attacked in the press.
2) The Kohinoor diamond
One of the most glittering of the Crown Jewels is a 105-carat diamond originally found in India some 800 years ago. Over the centuries, it passed through Mughal, Persian and Afghan hands before being taken from a 10-year-old Sikh prince and given to Queen Victoria.
Legend holds that calamity befalls any male monarch who wears the Kohinoor, which means "mountain of light" in Persian. So it's normally worn by queen consorts — in their coronation crowns. Tradition holds that Camilla would wear it Saturday.
Except India wants it back. So do other countries whose rulers once had it. Even the Taliban claim it's theirs.
So for now, the royals have decided to keep the Kohinoor on display in the Tower of London — a giant, sparkling reminder of imperial plunder that's too sensitive to parade around.
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