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Heart of the Valley: Living with diabetes
Living with diabetes is not easy, but it is manageable as long as you commit to a lifestyle change.
That's something Sandra Flores learned the hard way. She was diagnosed with pre-diabetes over a year ago.
"When it came to diabetes, I was ignorant. People think oh diabetes, well that just means I can't have sugary treats," Flores said. "At first, I only eliminated sweets from my diets and did a little bit of exercise in my house, just like dancing, a little bit of aerobics, but nothing more, and only when I felt like it."
Before her diagnosis, Flores weighed 305 pounds.
"My husband had to lift me out of bed. I had horrible knee pain. I couldn't walk down the stairs and if I did, I was terrified and held onto the railing really tight. It was difficult for me to do basic daily activities," Flores said.
DHR Health Endocrinologist, Dr. Melany Castillo, says exercising and laying off the sweets is a good start, but it's a common misconception that only sugary foods contribute to high blood sugar.
"If you exercise, but you keep eating a high carbohydrate diet, you're going to still become diabetic because you're exposing your body to more sugar than it can handle," Castillo said.
Fried tortillas, rice and pan dulces all fall into that high carb food group. Dr. Castillo says replacing unhealthy foods in your diet is key.
"The majority of people in the Valley will become diabetic, but we can stop that if we make sure that we invest the time of cooking the food at home to make sure that we're not eating so much outside and that we don't need so many carbohydrates," Castillo said.
While there are common symptoms of the disease, not everyone will get them. The easiest thing you can do is check your glucose levels at one of our free screening locations or talk to your doctor.
Watch the video above for the full story. | 2023-04-25T00:57:47+00:00 | krgv.com | https://www.krgv.com/news/heart-of-the-valley-living-with-diabetes |
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – “The Jump In2 School Bash” was an event created to bring hope, joy, guidance, and resources to those kids in our community who may need that extra hand. It’s a safe and fun community event where they provide kids with backpacks, school supplies, and even haircuts to help get them ready for the new school year.
They have also created a safe and fun community event where they are able to provide kids with backpacks and school supplies to help get them ready for the new year. They will provide free haircuts, kids’ manicures free gifts, games, activities and so much more. Most of all they bring the community of leaders, small business owners businesses and our hero’s all together to be a inspiration and example to the kids of what’s possible.
The School bash will be Saturday, July 29, from 12 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Located at the Bernalillo County Sheriffs’ Posse 10308 2nd St. NW 87114. For more information visit Facebook page. | 2023-07-20T19:43:28+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/news/albuquerque-metro/get-kids-ready-for-back-to-school-with-jump-in2-school-bash/ |
Barn guests can participate in challenges to earn virtual prizes
SPRINGDALE, Ark., Oct. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hillshire Farm® brand, known for its farm-inspired craftmanship in every recipe, has entered the metaverse for the first time with its iconic Red Barn.
The barn features an interactive gaming experience in Decentraland, a 3D virtual world browser-based platform. Visitors of the Hillshire Farm™ barn will be greeted by a farmer-inspired non-playable character (NPC) who will share key locations to visit within the game and details about the quest. Users are challenged to build a sandwich as quickly as possible using ingredients accessible on the farm.
Quest players will earn "Barn Bucks," a non-monetary in-game currency that can be used to unlock exclusive Hillshire Farm brand in-game wearables, like The Rope Sausage Belt and The Farm Overalls.
"We wanted to create an engaging experience for consumers that matches the level of care and craftsmanship we put into each of our products," said Courtney Ballantini, Vice President of Marketing Communications with Tyson Foods. "Virtual reality gives marketers a new way to creatively bring brands to life while providing entertainment value. We're excited about the possibilities ahead for our brands in the metaverse."
The Hillshire Farm barn was built in partnership with British metaverse technology company, LandVault, the largest platform-agnostic metaverse building company.
"We're happy to partner with the Hillshire Farm brand as they enter the Metaverse and offer players a genuinely fun and rewarding experience," noted Samuel Huber, founder and CEO of LandVault. "As the Metaverse continues to gain more traction, it's becoming imperative for traditional and respected mainstream brands to get comfortable with virtual worlds and prepare to fully embrace the Web3-centric future."
For additional information about the Hillshire Farm Brand visit www.hillshirefarm.com and follow @hillshirefarm on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.
Hillshire Farm brand has been providing quality meat products since 1934. Our products are versatile, easy to use and are available in convenient stay-fresh packaging in a variety of cuts, sizes and flavors. The Hillshire Farm portfolio includes Hillshire Farm lunch meat, Smoked Sausage, Fresh Sausage, Lit'l Smokies Cocktail Links and kids poppable snack packs from Hillshire Farm Snacked! brand. For more information on these products and the Hillshire Farm brand, visit www.hillshirefarm.com for additional information.
Not too long after establishing itself as the leader in metaverse building, LandVault began working with Admix, a pioneer in helping major brands become relevant in virtual worlds across the gaming universe through their technology. As synergies became more aligned over time, LandVault and Admix merged into a single entity that can provide a suite of solutions for major brands to enter the metaverse and virtual worlds with meaningful interaction and purpose. Today, LandVault is the world's leading metaverse development studio with over 100 employees worldwide, a powerful community of experts, and a leadership team that is always pushing the boundaries of what is possible for the future. This is why LandVault is the chosen metaverse resource for many of the world's largest brands. For more information, please visit: https://landvault.io/
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CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois will become one of three states to require employers to offer paid time off for any reason after Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a law on Monday that will take effect next year.
Starting Jan. 1, Illinois employers must offer workers paid time off based on hours worked, with no need to explain the reason for their absence as long as they provide notice in accordance with reasonable employer standards.
Just Maine and Nevada mandate earned paid time time off and allot employees the freedom to decide how to use it, but Illinois’ law is further reaching, unencumbered by limits based on business size. Similarly structured regulations that require employers to offer paid sick leave exist in 14 states and Washington, D.C., but workers can only use that for health-related reasons.
Illinois employees will accrue one hour of paid leave for every 40 hours worked up to 40 hours total, although the employer may offer more. Employees can start using the time once they have worked for 90 days. Seasonal workers will be exempt, as will federal employees or college students who work non-full-time, temporary jobs for their university.
Pritzker signed the bill Monday in downtown Chicago, saying: “Too many people can’t afford to miss even a day’s pay … together we continue to build a state that truly serves as a beacon for families, and businesses, and good paying jobs.”
Proponents say paid leave is key to making sure workers, especially low-income workers who are more vulnerable, are able to take time off when needed without fear of reprisal from an employer.
But critics say the law will overburden small businesses already struggling to survive the post-pandemic era amid the high inflation that has gripped the nation for nearly two years.
National Federation of Independent Business Illinois state director Chris Davis said that business owners are best positioned to work with their employees one-on-one to meet their needs.
The new law is “a one-size-fits-all solution to a more intricate problem,” he said.
Bill sponsor Rep. Jehan Gordon-Booth, a Peoria Democrat, said the bill is the product of years of negotiations with businesses and labor groups.
“Everyone deserves the ability to take time off,” she said in a statement. “Whether it’s to deal with the illness of a family member, or take a step back for your mental health, enshrining paid leave rights is a step forward for our state.”
“This is about bringing dignity to all workers,” she said at the signing.
Ordinances in Cook County and Chicago that already require employers to offer paid sick leave have been in place since July 2017, and workers in those locations will continue to be covered by existing laws rather than the new state law.
Any new local laws enacted after the state law takes effect must provide benefits that are greater or equal to the state law.
Molly Weston Williamson, paid leave expert at the Center for American Progress, said the law “creates a strong foundation for employers to build from while generating a healthier, more productive workforce.”
But Williamson added that while Illinois’ law is a step in the right direction, U.S. paid leave laws remain “wildly out of line with all of our economic peers internationally.”
“In the United States, federal law does not guarantee anyone the right to even a single paid day off work. Not when you’re sick, not when you have a baby, not when your mom has a stroke. Not a single paid day,” she said.
Joan Van, a server at an international hotel chain and single mother of three, currently has no paid time off.
But the Belleville parent leader with Community Organizing and Family Issues said that knowing that she will have five days next year brings a smile to her face.
“It’s going to help out a lot of people, a lot of mothers, a lot of single mothers at that,” she said.
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Savage 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. | 2023-03-13T22:35:16+00:00 | texomashomepage.com | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/business/illinois-enacts-mandatory-paid-leave-for-any-reason/ |
- Strategic restructuring follows comprehensive review of company's growth and efficiency objectives as part of ongoing transformation
- Aggressive action builds on strategic progress to monetize non-core assets, reinvest capital in organic and inorganic growth initiatives, and shift to higher-margin, higher-growth business mix
- Actions expected to result in meaningful, sustainable EBITDA margin expansion beginning immediately, and substantial improvement in the second half of 2023 and beyond
TROY, Mich., July 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Kelly (Nasdaq: KELYA, KELYB), a leading global specialty talent solutions provider, today announced strategic restructuring actions that will further optimize the company's operating model to enhance organizational efficiency and effectiveness. These actions are part of the comprehensive transformation initiative the company announced in May to drive EBITDA margin improvement and accelerate long-term profitable growth.
The strategic restructuring actions realign business-critical resources to Kelly's business units, streamline corporate resources, reduce redundant organizational layers, and optimize work processes. These structural changes simplify the company's operations and unlock additional resources to invest in growth. As a result of these actions, the company has implemented a workforce reduction plan and notified affected employees in accordance with applicable employment laws and regulations. Employees whose roles were included in the workforce reduction are eligible for applicable severance, benefits, and outplacement services.
"Today marks a difficult but necessary step forward on Kelly's journey to accelerate profitable growth," said Peter Quigley, president and chief executive officer. "These actions follow an exhaustive review of the company's business and functional operations to determine how we can work more efficiently to improve profitability over the long term. I am confident the structural improvements we have made to Kelly's operating model position the company to pursue new avenues of growth that will enable it to deliver greater value for customers, talent, and shareholders."
As a result of the strategic restructuring actions, Kelly expects to see meaningful expansion of its EBITDA margin beginning immediately with substantial improvement in the second half of 2023 and beyond. The company expects to incur a restructuring charge from these actions in the range of $7.5-$8.5 million in the third quarter of 2023. Mr. Quigley and Olivier Thirot, executive vice president and chief financial officer, will provide additional details about the strategic restructuring as it relates to the company's ongoing transformation, including expectations for EBITDA margin improvement, during its upcoming second-quarter earnings conference call on August 10, 2023.
About Kelly®
Kelly Services, Inc. (Nasdaq: KELYA, KELYB) helps companies recruit and manage skilled workers and helps job seekers find great work. Since inventing the staffing industry in 1946, we have become experts in the many industries and local and global markets we serve. With a network of suppliers and partners around the world, we connect more than 450,000 people with work every year. Our suite of outsourcing and consulting services ensures companies have the people they need, when and where they are needed most. Headquartered in Troy, Michigan, we empower businesses and individuals to access limitless opportunities in industries such as science, engineering, technology, education, manufacturing, retail, finance, and energy. Revenue in 2022 was $5.0 billion. Learn more at kellyservices.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This release contains statements that are forward looking in nature and, accordingly, are subject to risks and uncertainties. These statements are made under the "safe harbor" provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Statements that are not historical facts, including statements about Kelly's financial expectations, are forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in this release include, but are not limited to, (i) changing market and economic conditions, (ii) disruption in the labor market and weakened demand for human capital resulting from technological advances, loss of large corporate customers and government contractor requirements, (iii) the impact of laws and regulations (including federal, state and international tax laws), (iv) unexpected changes in claim trends on workers' compensation, unemployment, disability and medical benefit plans, (v) litigation and other legal liabilities (including tax liabilities) in excess of our estimates, (vi) our ability to achieve our business's anticipated growth strategies, (vi) our future business development, results of operations and financial condition, (vii) damage to our brands, (viii) dependency on third parties for the execution of critical functions, (ix) conducting business in foreign countries, including foreign currency fluctuations, (x) availability of temporary workers with appropriate skills required by customers, (xi) cyberattacks or other breaches of network or information technology security, and (xii) other risks, uncertainties and factors discussed in this release and in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. In some cases, forward-looking statements can be identified by words or phrases such as "may," "will," "expect," "anticipate," "target," "aim," "estimate," "intend," "plan," "believe," "potential," "continue," "is/are likely to" or other similar expressions. All information provided in this press release is as of the date of this press release and we undertake no duty to update any forward-looking statement to conform the statement to actual results or changes in the Company's expectations.
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Thousands of civilians have been killed in the war in Ukraine. An 11-year-old girl was among Monday's casualties after Russia hit areas across Ukraine. Her father says she shouldn't be a statistic.
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Thousands of civilians have been killed in the war in Ukraine. An 11-year-old girl was among Monday's casualties after Russia hit areas across Ukraine. Her father says she shouldn't be a statistic.
Copyright 2022 NPR | 2022-10-11T10:10:29+00:00 | nprillinois.org | https://www.nprillinois.org/2022-10-11/an-11-year-old-girl-was-among-the-casualties-in-russias-strikes-across-ukraine |
A step closer towards commercialization to fulfill brand demands
SAN DIEGO and ARCO, Italy, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sustainability leader Genomatica (Geno) alongside longtime collaborator Aquafil [ECNL:IM] successfully completed the first demonstration scale production runs for plant-based nylon-6. The material is intended to reshape the $22B nylon industry, enabling brands to meet demand from consumers for sustainable everyday materials from apparel to automotive parts to carpets. Geno and Aquafil have produced the first several tons of plant-based nylon-6 building block caprolactam, have converted it to nylon-6 polymer and are now in the process of transforming it for evaluation in nylon applications — such as yarns for textile and carpet and engineering plastics as part of pre-commercial quantities from demonstration production taking place in Europe.
The companies have been collaborating to first produce pilot-scale quantities of plant-based nylon-6 and have now advanced to produce pre-commercial quantities at demonstration scale which will help determine the final design of future commercial plants. The material will go to leading global brands and their value chain partners who are eager to explore and develop renewable products, create showcase goods and test feedback with customers.
"Now, more than ever, global brands are taking action to incorporate sustainable materials into their products," said Christophe Schilling, Geno CEO. "We're working to build purposeful, traceable and transparent supply chains, in this case for nylon-6, with the goal to provide more sustainable products that consumers demand and material solutions that can help brands achieve their ESG goals."
"The world needs every possible approach put into action to make supply chains sustainable, and making bio-based nylon is an essential piece of that," said Giulio Bonazzi, Aquafil CEO. "Plant-based nylon can perfectly complement our approach to depolymerizing nylon products once they reach the end of their useful life. Together, we share a vision to lead the transition to more sustainable materials which has driven our long-term collaboration."
Plant-based nylon-6 is Geno's third major product line on a path to commercialization. The company has executed high impact deals with a range of brands to accelerate the global commercialization of sustainable materials, with the potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 100 million tons in upcoming years. Recent milestones advancing the sustainable materials transition include: a collaboration with lululemon (NASDAQ: LULU) to bring plant-based materials into lululemon's products, a production milestone with partner Covestro (OTCMKTS: COVTY) for plant-based HMD used in sustainable coatings, a partnership with Asahi Kasei (OTCMKTS: AHKSY) and a newly formed venture with Unilever (NASDAQ: UL) to commercialize and scale plant-based alternatives to feedstocks like palm oil or fossil fuels to make key ingredients used in everyday cleaning and personal care products.
About Genomatica (Geno)
Geno is harnessing biology to remake everyday products and materials built by and for the planet. In response to the urgent climate crisis, Geno is developing and scaling sustainable materials derived from plant- or waste-based feedstocks instead of fossil fuels. Geno's technology, built over the last 20 years, now drives materials and ingredients in applications ranging from cosmetics, carpets, to home cleaners, apparel and more. To learn more, visit genomatica.com.
About Aquafil
Founded in 1965, Aquafil is one of the main producers of nylon in Italy and worldwide. The Group is present in seven countries and in three different continents, with over 2,800 employees at 19 production sites located in Italy, Slovenia, United States, China, Croatia, Scotland, Thailand and Japan. Aquafil is a pioneer in the circular economy also thanks to the ECONYL® Regeneration System, an innovative and sustainable process able to create new products from waste and give life to an endless cycle. For more information, visit www.aquafil.com.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) – He left her Post-it notes so she could remember. The socks, one of his notes told her, go in the drawer.
He’d found a pair in the freezer.
He disconnected the microwave and child-proofed the gas stove, he explained. He wanted to protect her from anything he could, but Richard couldn’t protect her from everything.
Richard was married to Ann for a quarter of a century before she died, having suffered from a tumor and a rare, severe form of dementia. After her death, Richard said his life spiraled. The grief was crippling. He underwent heart surgery five months after her passing. Then he had a stroke.
On Monday night, as the October sun sank below the horizon, Richard sat on a bench across from Linn Park and Birmingham City Hall. Soon, the temperature would quickly drop, reaching 37 degrees before morning. The wind chill would dip just below freezing, according to the National Weather Service.
But Richard, like thousands of people facing unsheltered homelessness in Alabama and across the country, felt he had nowhere to go. The city had announced earlier on Monday that a warming station would be opened Tuesday and Wednesday nights in anticipation of a potential freeze. But on Monday, as day stubbornly turned to night, Richard pulled his jacket around him a little tighter. It was before the freeze, but the darkness – and the cold that accompanied it – would still come.
“Keep Boutwell open”
Just across the street in Linn Park, Larry Coleman sat on a bench, bundled in a green hoodie. A Birmingham native, Larry said he had recently been renting a room in a home near downtown, but the building needed serious repairs that the landlord wasn’t willing to make. He’d been forced to move out.
Still, Larry stressed that he felt his experience facing homelessness is temporary.
Soon, he said, he’ll find another room to rent, and he’ll be able to get on his feet. Until then, he’ll do his best to stay warm on the streets of the Magic City with the aid of a sleeping bag and a steadfast spirit.
Larry said that he doesn’t think warming centers should be limited to the city’s shelters.
Historically, warming shelters in Birmingham have been operated in venues like Boutwell Auditorium and the BJCC, but starting Tuesday, Birmingham will partner with the Jimmie Hale Mission to host a warming station at its location on 2nd Avenue North, according to the city.
Larry said that the more places are open for folks to keep warm, the better, but that he believes the Boutwell in particular should always be open for those living on the streets when temperatures drop.
“I think they ought to keep Boutwell open,” Larry said, the lights of city hall glowing a pinkish hue behind him. “Everybody’s here. It’s just close by.”
In its announcement, the city said it would be providing transportation to the mission from four locations – Brother Bryan Park, Kelly Ingram Park, the Faith Chapel Care Center, and Linn Park.
Larry and the others in Linn Park Monday night did not know about the city’s plan to offer transportation to the warming station in the coming evenings. And that plan was a plan for the next day. Larry needed a plan that night.
A blustery background
As 2022 began, snow had fallen in Birmingham, and with no warming station open, some of the city’s most vulnerable were left out in the cold. Boutwell Auditorium, the city later explained, had been “unavailable” as a warming station.
Local advocates for those facing homelessness criticized the lack of foresight on the part of city leaders. “They know winter is coming every year,” one activist said.
In the wake of the controversy, the city’s operations manager, Don Lupo, outlined the city’s policy for opening warming stations in an interview with CBS 42.
“When the temperatures fall below 32 (degrees) on consecutive nights and when the space is available, we attempt to do a warming station,” Don Lupo, the city’s operations manager, said in January.
Rethinking a threshold
Back in Linn Park, Derrick Boyd sat on the curb of a sidewalk, a suitcase by his side.
Derrick grew up in Birmingham, he said, and faced legal troubles that contributed to his difficulty maintaining stable housing.
He said that he understands that government officials have to put some limitations on when warming stations are open. But having a strict rule based on a temperature threshold, he argued, is unrealistic and unfair.
Whether it’s 30 degrees with no wind or 40 degrees with a wind chill below freezing makes no real difference to someone sleeping on the streets, Derrick said.
“It gets so cold out here you can’t sleep,” Boyd said. “I had tons of covers and blankets and it felt like I was walking out here with nothing on.”
Policies regarding when warming centers open vary from city to city across the U.S. Some cities open warming centers each day the temperature falls below freezing. Others use more complex formulas for when they should open, taking into account factors like rain and wind.
Marisa Zapata, an associate professor and director of Portland State University’s Homelessness Research and Action Collaborative, said policies about when warming stations will open should be clear, transparent, and explained carefully to the community, including those who will be impacted the most by the policy – those sleeping on the city’s streets.
Those policies, she said, should also take into consideration circumstances like wind chill and rain. If policies around warming stations are too rigid, she said, it may provide a city with an opportunity to think more closely about the policy, its purpose, and its implementation.
“A good public policy is one that’s being constantly re-evaluated and questioned,” she said.
In the shadow of city hall
Sitting across the street from Birmingham City Hall, Richard had done his share of re-evaluating and questioning.
Richard was born in Hoover when it was just a “one-light town,” he said. He met his wife young and fell in love. The two eventually moved to Montevallo, where he frequently did plumbing work for the university.
Ann’s health difficulties had started with minor short-term memory issues. That’s when the Post-it notes came into play. Soon, the family found out that Ann was suffering from a tumor. The surgeons were able to remove it, but Ann’s health continued to decline. She developed a rare form of dementia, and life quickly became a struggle, Richard said.
“Taking care of her turned out to be a full-time job,” he said.
His eyes teared up in the chilled October air as he remembered his wife.
“I took care of her from start to finish,” he said. “I seen the best of her, and I seen the worst of her.”
Ann had been his whole life.
“Ann was a hell of a woman. I’ll never find another one like her,” he said. “She believed in everybody. She trusted everybody. She seen the good in everything. She didn’t ever have a bad word to say for nobody. By her being the way that she was, she made me want to be a better person.”
He’s still trying to become that better person, he said. He just needs some help.
Richard said that when Ann died, he felt paralyzed.
“It got the best of me,” he said. “I kind of went off the deep end.”
His own health would soon take a downturn. He’d end up on the streets, where he’s been since 2018.
An open heart surgery and a stroke later, Richard said he feels folks like him facing homelessness in Birmingham are looked down on.
“They actually treat homeless people like third-world citizens,” he said. “It happens every day with folks – the way they look at you. Like they’re better than you and ‘What are you doing taking up my air?’”
You get used to it, Richard said, but it makes imagining more caring policies difficult for folks living on the street.
But Richard’s still got ideas.
Richard said that officials should consider the reality that despite warming stations only being open overnight, temperatures during the day often fall to an unsafe temperature.
“It’s still cold at 7 [in the morning],” he said. “You’re going to get cold during the day just like you are at night.”
Hypothermia and other weather-related injuries can occur in temperatures well above freezing, according to the CDC.
Richard also said that a cutoff at a particular temperature doesn’t make sense.
“It’s just as cold at 33 as it’s going to be at 31,” he said.
And, like many others facing homelessness, Richard said he is also hesitant to go to an institutional facility like the Jimmie Hale Mission to get out of the cold at all. Barriers to entry like paperwork, pets not being allowed, and other factors can discourage those living on the streets from accessing shelters, even in emergency situations where their lives could be at risk.
Larry Coleman, too, is skeptical of going inside.
“It’s a long story,” Larry explains, his voice trailing off.
Still, he said he wishes there were additional warming station locations with fewer barriers to entry. Until then – and on nights no warming station is open – Larry said he will continue to sleep in the shadow of city hall.
“I have my sleeping bag,” he said. “It’s bearable. I’ve been out here a while. So you get used to it.” | 2022-10-19T15:27:24+00:00 | cenlanow.com | https://www.cenlanow.com/health-2/before-the-freeze/ |
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — The horde of rioters who invaded government buildings on Jan. 8 in an attack on Brazil’s democracy left behind a trail of destruction whose full scope is only now coming into full view.
Following a painstaking survey of the ruins, the national artistic heritage institute on Thursday night released a 50-page report, the bulk of which is a photographic catalog of the damages. They go far beyond the shattered glass on the exteriors of the presidential palace, Congress and Supreme Court, all architectural icons.
Modernist furniture was burned, portraits defaced, sculptures decapitated and ceramics smashed. Carpets were found soaked with water from the buildings’ sprinkler systems, as well as with urine.
The rioters — die-hard supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro who refuse to accept his election defeat — marred the iconic marble ramp leading up the presidential palace with scratches, some stretching two feet in length, according to the report. Into a historic wooden table at the Supreme Court they carved “Supreme are the people” — a phrase popular among backers of Bolsonaro, who often strained against the checks of the top court.
Among the artworks destroyed was a 17th-century clock made by Balthazar Martinot and that the French royal court gifted to the Portuguese King. The only other Martinot clock in existence is in France’s Palace of Versailles, though is half the size, Brazil’s presidency said in a statement. A 60-year-old bronze sculpture of a flautist by Bruno Giorgi was also thrashed (should this be trashed?), and its pieces found spread across a room on the presidential palace’s third floor.
Vandals pitched rocks through the canvas of a mural by Emiliano Di Calvalcanti. The presidential palace said in its statement that the painting, “As Mulatas”, is valued at some $1.5 million, though works of that size tend to fetch quintuple that amount at auction.
“The damage was not random, it was obviously deliberate,” Rogerio Carvalho, the presidential palace’s curator, said in an interview while sitting before the disfigured painting. The work “was perforated in seven places using rocks taken from the square with a pickaxe. Which is to say, there is a movement of intolerance toward what this palace represents.”
The total cost of the destruction hasn’t yet been established. Senate president Rodrigo Pacheco placed the damage in his congressional chamber alone in the millions.
The day after the uprising, Justice Minister Flávio Dino said Federal Police surveys will enable the attorney-general’s office to hold perpetrators financially responsible.
This collection “is an artistic treasure of the Brazilian people, which belongs to the nation and whose integrity needs to be respected,” Brazil’s culture minister, Margareth Menezes, told reporters on Tuesday. “The idea is to create a memorial about this violence we suffered, so that it never happens again.”
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AP writer Biller reported from Rio de Janeiro | 2023-01-13T04:07:08+00:00 | fox44news.com | https://www.fox44news.com/entertainment-news/ap-brazil-reckons-with-artistic-treasures-ruined-in-riot/ |
Hoover nonprofit working to include Jewish community in holiday celebrations
HOOVER, Ala. (WBRC) - Some neighbors in Hoover say they want more representation in the city’s holiday celebrations, including a menorah.
According to the nonprofit Hoover Ahead, over the last 10 years diversity has grown in the city and with that comes rich heritage.
Hoover Ahead recently sent a letter encouraging the mayor and city council to consider including a menorah lighting in Hoover’s holiday celebrations.
Kim Boettner, an ambassador for Hoover Ahead said the Jewish community is an integral part of the Hoover community.
“There is no fair reason that I can understand that would allow us to celebrate Christian faiths in the public square but deny our Jewish brothers and sisters the opportunity to do the same,” Boettner said.
Hoover Ahead’s goal is to make sure every citizen in Hoover feels safe, respected and seen.
“That makes us more familiar with our neighbors, it builds trust, respect and it does not diminish any religion,” Boettner said.
Hoover Ahead sent the letter on Nov. 15 and have not received a response as of the writing of this story.
I reached out to the City of Hoover for a response, they sent a statement of the following:
“Hoover is a wonderfully diverse community, and we are all excited that the holiday season is here. Out of respect for our diverse community and the different people groups represented, we want to celebrate the holidays in the most inclusive way possible. The City’s decorations and tree lighting ceremony do not promote any belief system over another and adhere to the Constitutional and other legal requirements regarding separation of church and state. We encourage everyone to celebrate the holidays with family, friends, and neighbors in accordance with their personal beliefs and traditions.”
Kim said one of the things she loves about Hoover is that faith and family are celebrated, and she hopes the mayor and council will consider including this request in future holiday celebrations.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "All or Nothing Midday" game were:
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UK plans to burn $5 billion in wasted pandemic protective gear
The British government plans to burn billions of dollars in unusable personal protective equipment purchased in haste during the coronavirus pandemic, a public spending watchdog said Friday.
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The idea of burning the face masks, gowns and other equipment to generate power has not impressed the watchdog committee. The panel is investigating how the government came to spend $5 billion on protective gear that has to be dumped because it is defective or does not meet U.K. standards.
Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee said the government planned to dispose of 15,000 pallets a month of the gear “via a combination of recycling and burning to generate power.”
“The costs and environmental impact of disposing of the excess and unusable PPE is unclear,” the committee noted.
Pat Cullen, chief executive of the Royal College of Nursing, a professional body, accused the government of “sending billions of pounds up in smoke.”
The government said not all the $5 billion worth of equipment would be burned. The Department of Health said only about $835 million worth of the PPE was “unusable in any context.” It said some of the excess stock would be repurposed for use by dentists or donated to charities, transport agencies and other countries.
In a report, the accounts committee found that the Department of Health lost 75% of the 12 billion pounds it spent on PPE in the first year of the pandemic to inflated prices and faulty products.
Opposition Labour Party lawmaker Meg Hillier, who chairs the committee, said the PPE saga was “perhaps the most shameful episode in the U.K. government response to the pandemic.”
“The government splurged huge amounts of money, paying obscenely inflated prices and payments to middlemen in a chaotic rush, during which they chucked out even the most cursory due diligence,” she said.
Government minister Robin Walker acknowledged Friday that “mistakes were made” early in the pandemic. But he said it was “a totally unprecedented situation” in which countries around the world were scrambling to acquire supplies during a health crisis. | 2022-06-11T12:14:06+00:00 | wisn.com | https://www.wisn.com/article/uk-plans-to-burn-billions-in-wasted-ppe/40259213 |
Sailings include the Disney Dream's first full season of departures from Fort Lauderdale, Florida
CELEBRATION, Fla., Dec. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Tropical destinations, on board magic and a variety of fan-favorite itineraries to the Bahamas, Caribbean and Mexico await Disney Cruise Line guests in early 2024. With two year-round home ports in the Sunshine State, including the first full season of sailings from Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, along with voyages from Texas, Louisiana and California, guests of all ages will be able to escape winter with one-of-a-kind magical vacations at sea.
Bookings open to the public on Dec. 15, 2022. For more details, visit the 2024 Itineraries page of disneycruise.com.
The Disney Dream will begin early 2024 with an assortment of cruises to the Bahamas and western Caribbean. Guests will choose from three- and four-night getaways to the Bahamas and five-night vacations to the western Caribbean, all of which will feature classic Disney Cruise Line experiences such as Broadway-style shows, innovative dining, character encounters and fireworks at sea.
All sailings from Florida will include a stop at Castaway Cay, a picturesque private island oasis reserved exclusively for Disney Cruise Line guests. Located in the turquoise waters of the Bahamas, Castaway Cay provides the ultimate escape with something for everyone, including adventure, relaxation and quality time with the family.
The Disney Wish will kick off 2024 with three- and four-night voyages to Nassau, Bahamas, and Castaway Cay departing from Port Canaveral, Florida, Disney Cruise Line's home port located just one hour from Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando. Cruises aboard the Disney Wish combine enchanting entertainment and numerous Disney Cruise Line firsts, bringing to life Disney, Marvel, Pixar and Star Wars stories around every corner of the vessel.
Also from Port Canaveral, the Disney Fantasy will continue seven-night sailings to the white-sand beaches of the eastern and western Caribbean. Disney Cruise Line guests on eastern Caribbean cruises will visit stops in Tortola and St. Thomas, while western Caribbean itineraries will feature the ports of Cozumel, Mexico; Grand Cayman; and Falmouth, Jamaica. Every Disney Fantasy sailing also includes a stop at Castaway Cay, along with several days at sea for families to enjoy all the fun and relaxation offered on board.
The Disney Magic will have two limited-time engagements in Galveston in early 2024. After ringing in the New Year from the Lonestar State, the ship will embark on Caribbean adventures ranging in length from four to six nights through the end of January. Upon returning for another month-long stint between March and April, the ship will sail cruises ranging from four to seven nights to the western Caribbean during the popular spring break period.
New Orleans will welcome the Disney Magic back for a second consecutive year in February 2024 with four-, five- and seven-night cruises to the Caribbean. Families will have the opportunity to arrive early or extend their vacation to enjoy jazz and jambalaya in the city that inspired Walt Disney Animation Studios' "The Princess and the Frog."
After returning from its inaugural season in Australia and New Zealand, the Disney Wonder will arrive in San Diego, California in March 2024 for three- to seven-night voyages to Mexico, including the Baja peninsula. Known for its vibrant culture, stunning beaches and saltwater adventures, families will be able to visit some of Mexico's most prized destinations, including Cabo San Lucas, Puerto Vallarta, Mazatlan and Ensenada, along with stops to the inviting shores of Catalina Island off the California coast.
To learn more about Disney Cruise Line or to book a vacation, guests can visit disneycruise.com, call Disney Cruise Line at 888-325-2500 or contact their travel agent.
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OXON HILL, Md. — Fifteen months ago, Dev Shah spent a miserable five hours spelling outdoors in chilly, windy, damp conditions at a supersize regional competition in Orlando, Florida, only to fall short of his dream of returning to the Scripps National Spelling Bee.
“Despondent is the right word,” Dev said. “I just didn’t know if I wanted to keep continuing.”
Look at him now.
Soft-spoken but brimming with confidence, Dev asked precise questions about obscure Greek roots, rushed through his second-to-last word and rolled to the National Spelling Bee title Thursday night.
Dev, a 14-year-old from Largo, Florida, in the Tampa Bay area, first competed at the national bee in 2019, then had his spelling career interrupted. The 2020 bee was canceled because of COVID-19, and in the mostly virtual 2021 bee, he didn't make it to the in-person finals, held in his home state on ESPN's campus at Walt Disney World.
Then came the disaster of last year, when he was forced to compete in the Orlando region because his previous regional sponsor didn't come back after the pandemic.
“It took me four months to get him back on track because he was quite a bit disturbed and he didn't want to do it,” said Dev's mother, Nilam Shah.
When he decided to try again, he added an exercise routine to help sharpen his focus and lost about 15 pounds, she said.
Dev got through his region. He flexed his knowledge in Wednesday's early rounds by asking questions that proved he knew every relevant detail the bee's pronouncers and judges had on their computer screens. And when it was all over, he held the trophy over his head as confetti fell.
“He appreciated that this is a journey, which sounds very trite but is really quite true,” said Dev's coach, Scott Remer, a former speller and study guide author. “I think the thing that distinguishes the very best spellers from the ones that end up not really leaving their mark is actually just grit.”
Dev's winning word was “psammophile,” a layup for a speller of his caliber.
“Psammo meaning sand, Greek?” he asked. “Phile, meaning love, Greek?”
Dev soaked up the moment by asking for the word to be used in a sentence, something he described a day earlier as a stalling tactic. Then he put his hands over his face as he was declared the winner.
“I would say I was confident on the outside but inside I was nervous, especially for my winning word — well, like, before. Not during,” he said.
Runner-up Charlotte Walsh gave Dev a congratulatory hug.
“I'm so happy for him,” said Charlotte, a 14-year-old from Arlington, Virginia. “I've known Dev for many years and I know how much work he's put into this and I'm so, so glad he won.”
The winner’s haul is more than $50,000 in cash and prizes. When Charlotte returned to the stage later to congratulate Dev again, he reminded her that the runner-up gets $25,000.
“Twenty-five thousand! What? I didn't know that,” Charlotte said.
Earlier, when the bee was down to Dev and Charlotte, Scripps brought out the buzzer used for its “spell-off” tiebreaker, and Dev was momentarily confused when he stepped to the microphone.
“This is not the spell-off, right?” Dev asked. Told it was not, he spelled "bathypitotmeter" so quickly that it might as well have been.
“I practiced for the spell-off every day, I guess. I knew it might happen and I prepared for everything, so I kind of went into spell-off mode,” he said. “But I also was scared for the spell-off.”
Dev is the 22nd champion in the past 24 years with South Asian heritage. His father, Deval, a software engineer, immigrated to the United States from India 29 years ago to get his master's degree in electrical engineering. Dev's older brother, Neil, is a rising junior at Yale.
Deval said his son showed an incredible recall with words starting at age 3, and Dev spent many years in participating in academic competitions staged by the North South Foundation, a nonprofit that provides scholarships to children in India.
The bee began in 1925 and is open to students through the eighth grade. There were 229 kids onstage as it began — and each was a champion many times over, considering that 11 million participated at the school level.
The finalists demonstrated an impressive depth of knowledge as they worked their way through a sometimes diabolical word list chosen by Scripps' 21-person word panel, which includes five past champions.
This year's bee proved that the competition can remain entertaining while delving more deeply into the dictionary — especially early in the finals, when Scripps peppered contestants with short but tough words like “traik” (to fall ill, used in Scotland), “carey” (a small to medium-size sea turtle) and “katuka” (a venomous snake of southeastern Asia).
“There are a lot of hard words in the dictionary,” Dev said. “There are realms of the dictionary that the word panelists need to dive into and I think they did a great job of that today.”
With the field down to four, Shradha Rachamreddy was eliminated on “orle,” a heraldry term that means a number of small charges arranged to form a border within the edge of a field (she went with “orel”). And “kelep” — a Central American stinging ant — ousted Surya Kapu (he said “quelep”).
While sometimes Scripps’ use of trademarks and geographical names can anger spelling traditionalists who want to see kids demonstrate their mastery of roots and language patterns — and even the exceptions to those patterns — Scripps has made clear that with the exception of words designated as archaic or obsolete, any entry in Merriam-Webster’s Unabridged dictionary is fair game.
Dev is happy to be closing that book for now.
“My main priority is sleep. I need to sleep. There have been a lot of sleepless nights these last six months,” he said. “I need to sleep well tonight, too. There's a lot more sleep debt.” | 2023-06-02T22:00:47+00:00 | kagstv.com | https://www.kagstv.com/article/news/nation-world/national-spelling-bee-winner/507-8622e2a0-cccc-4f97-bf4f-39deb271ad5d |
BUDAPEST, Hungary >> After a rocket attack in eastern Ukraine, half of Rambo’s face was mangled and bloody. Shrapnel had ravaged the right side of his head, and it was uncertain if he would survive.
The 3-year-old German shepherd, who had accompanied Ukrainian soldiers on the front lines of the war, received emergency surgery that saved his life. Now, Rambo is training with the Budapest police department in neighboring Hungary and serving as a reminder that dogs — and people — with disabilities can do great things.
Recovered from his brush with death in northeastern Ukraine’s Kharkiv province, Rambo is learning how to interact with children, older adults and disabled people at police demonstrations and rehabilitation institutions, according to Lt. Col. Maria Stein with the Budapest Metropolitan Police.
Demonstrating the tasks performed by canine units is part of the department’s crime prevention program, with a goal of teaching young people to be more tolerant and to respect one another’s differences, Stein said.
“Nowadays, unfortunately, it happens that children mock each other because they wear glasses, because they have braces, because their ears look funny or whatever — because they’re different,” she said. “With Rambo, we might be able to sensitize these children a little and show them that yes, he is injured, he’s different, but he can do the same things as other dogs.”
Rambo’s journey to police service didn’t come easy. Last year, shrapnel from the rocket attack, which also injured some Ukrainian soldiers, blew away pieces of skull, damaging his jaw and severely mangling his right ear.
After his initial surgery, Rambo was taken to safety in western Ukraine. Violetta Kovacs, head of a Hungarian organization dedicated to rescuing German shepherds, soon collected him and brought him to a rehabilitation center near Budapest.
“The dog needed immediate help,” Kovacs, head of the German Shepherd Breed Rescue Foundation, said. “We had to operate again here in Hungary because several of his teeth were causing him great pain because of the injury, which required immediate intervention.”
Rambo spent eight months at the center, where his jaw was reconstructed, his right ear amputated and several teeth removed. He underwent training to be socialized with other dogs, Kovacs said, but his fondness for children was clear from the start.
Gyula Desko, a lieutenant colonel with the Budapest Metropolitan Police, then adopted Rambo, providing him with further training and a home.
He called Rambo a “very friendly, good-natured dog” who is making good progress in his training and whose survival was “a miracle.”
“Working with him requires more patience and more attention, as we do not know what kind of mental problems his head injury caused him,” Desko said, but Rambo is “so open with people and accepts them, despite his injuries and the shock that befell him.”
It’s those qualities, Desko said, that the police force hopes will inspire those who meet Rambo to open themselves to kindness and acceptance.
“As a police dog, one can see through him that you can live a full life even when injured, and can be a useful member of society and do very diverse things,” Desko said. | 2023-06-11T21:18:28+00:00 | staradvertiser.com | https://www.staradvertiser.com/2023/06/11/news/german-shepherd-injured-in-ukraine-joins-hungarian-police/ |
Juul Labs agrees to pay $462 million settlement to 6 states
NEW YORK (AP) — Embattled electronic cigarette-maker Juul Labs Inc. will pay $462 million to six states and the District of Columbia, marking the largest settlement the company has reached so far for its role in the youth vaping surge, New York Attorney General Letitia James said Wednesday.
The agreement with New York, California, Colorado, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Mexico and Washington, D.C. marks the latest in a string of recent legal settlements Juul has reached across the country with cities and states.
The vaping company, which has laid off hundreds of employees, will pay $7.9 million to settle a lawsuit alleging the company violated the state’s Consumer Credit and Protection Act by marketing its products to underage users, West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey announced Monday. Last month, the company paid Chicago $23.8 million to settle a lawsuit.
Minnesota’s case against Juul went to trial last month with the state’s Attorney General Keith Ellison asserting that the company “baited, deceived and addicted a whole new generation of kids after Minnesotans slashed youth smoking rates down to the lowest level in a generation.”
Like some other settlements reached by Juul, this latest agreement includes various restrictions on the marketing, sale and distribution of the company’s vaping products. For example, it is barred from any direct or indirect marketing that targets youth, which includes anyone under age 35. Juul is also required to limit the amount of purchases customers can make in retail stores and online.
“Juul lit a nationwide public health crisis by putting addictive products in the hands of minors and convincing them that it’s harmless,” James said in a statement. “Today they are paying the price for the harm they caused.”
James said the $112.7 million due to New York will pay for underage smoking abatement programs across the state.
District of Columbia Attorney General Brian Schwalb said in a statement that Juul “knew how addictive and dangerous its products were and actively tried to cover up that medical truth.”
A spokesperson for the Washington D.C.-based Juul said that with Wednesday’s settlement, “we are nearing total resolution of the company’s historical legal challenges and securing certainty for our future.”
The spokesperson added that underage use of Juul products has declined by 95% since 2019 based on the National Youth Tobacco Survey. According to the CDC though, since surveys were administered online instead of on school campuses during the pandemic, the results cannot be compared to prior years.
In September, Juul agreed to pay nearly $440 million over a period of six to 10 years to settle a two-year investigation by 33 states into the marketing of its high-nicotine vaping products to young people. That settlement amounted to about 25% of Juul’s U.S. sales of $1.9 billion in 2021.
Three months later, the company said it had secured an equity investment to settle thousands of lawsuits over its e-cigarettes brought by individuals and families of Juul users, school districts, city governments and Native American tribes.
Juul rocketed to the top of the U.S. vaping market about five years ago with the popularity of flavors like mango, mint and crème brûlée. But the startup’s rise was fueled by use among teenagers, some of whom became hooked on Juul’s high-nicotine pods.
Parents, school administrators and politicians have largely blamed the company for a surge in underage vaping.
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US sanctions against Iran, Russia, Afghanistan, China and Venezuela have all made the news in recent weeks. That may seem like a lot of countries that the US is sanctioning. But they're just five of the roughly 23 countries that the US is currently sanctioning around the world.
The Office of Foreign Assets Controls (OFAC) at the US Treasury says sanctions use trade restrictions and the blocking of assets to accomplish foreign policy and national security goals. Some of these sanctions date back to 1996. So how successful have they been?
Not very, says Agathe Demarais, in her new book Backfire: How Sanctions Reshape the World Against US Interests.
Demarais works at the Economist Intelligence Unit, as its global forecasting director. Previously, she worked on sanctions for the French government, as a senior policy advisor to the Treasury. She says a review of all US sanctions since 1970 shows that targeted countries altered their behavior in a way that the US hoped they would just 13 percent of the time.
"The reality is that sanctions are sometimes effective, but most often not, and it is hard to accurately predict when they will work," she says.
From the Cudgel to the Laser
Sanctions have been around in some form or another since the days of Ancient Greece. The French used them (unsuccessfully) against the British during the Napoleonic wars, and they have been used by other countries many times since. But they have become particularly prevalent since the 1960s, when the US first imposed sanctions on Cuba.
Demarais identifies the development of sanctions into three phases, from the crude tool of the embargo, to the much more incisive weapon of the financial sanction, to the pinpoint focus of the individual sanction.
The first phase, the trade embargo, has rarely, if ever, been met with success, she says. President Eisenhower imposed a trade embargo on Cuba in 1960, in response to Fidel Castro's decision to nationalize three American oil refineries. But, Demarais says, retaliation for the seizure of the plants was not the objective: regime change in Havana was. More than sixty years later, the same regime remains in place.
The US sanctions on North Korea, which initially began as an embargo, morphed into something more sophisticated after North Korea withdrew from an international treaty on nuclear proliferation in 2003. OFAC began looking for better ways to put pressure on the country, and identified a bank that was helping North Korea get around its trade restrictions. By targeting the bank, OFAC destroyed the sole conduit for all North Korea's international banking transactions, a severe blow. And with that, the financial sanction was born.
"The idea behind financial sanctions is beautifully simple," Demarais says. They make it "difficult to raise funds, conduct international business, or launder the proceeds from illicit activities" by making it harder to use banks. Cash, she says, is still king when it comes to global transactions. But when nations or people have to transfer large amounts of money, they need to use wire transfers and therefore banks.
The third phase of sanctions, the individual sanction, is a natural next step. Financial sanctions aim to shut down bank, country and company cash supply lines; individual sanctions are designed to isolate and alienate specific people in key sectors of a target country's economy or political system. Demarais tells the story of the sanction, in 2018, of seven Russian businessmen. One of the principal sources of intelligence used by OFAC to choose these targets: the Forbes top 100 list of richest Russians, cross referenced with the Kremlin public telephone directory.
Financial sanctions, then, whether aimed at corporations, countries or individuals, are a good deal more targeted than embargoes and blockades. But even they have had mixed results, Demarais says. Moreover, they often backfire or cause collateral damage, affecting innocent people in the targeted country and even the interests of the United States itself.
Backfire
That is kind of the point. Financial sanctions are designed to inflict pain on the people of a targeted country, with the hope that they will get fed up and advocate for political change. But it's a delicate balance.
The pressure can work: Demarais points to the example of Iran in 2012, when the Obama administration convinced the Swift financial transaction system to cease doing business with Tehran. Unable to do any international business, the Iranian economy crashed. A year later, Iranians elected a new, moderate president, Hassan Rouhani. Two years after that, Iran signed a deal to accept limitations on its nuclear program.
The Swift sanction was a success. But the long-term fallout for the people of Iran — who were still living under other sanctions — was devastating. Consumer prices rose by 30 percent. Living standards plummeted. When Covid hit, a few years later, sanctions affected Iran's ability to get medicine and other supplies. The virus tore through the country, and hundreds of thousands of people died.
Demarais notes that the human cost of sanctions is often so high that it turns the people of the sanctioned country against the sanctioner. This happened in Iran in 2012, and in Venezuela, after US sanctions in 2018 triggered a one million percent inflation hike. It has also happened in Russia more recently. Russian citizens angry in part at US sanctions have been reportedly queueing up to join the army, even after a year of war and economic isolation.
The loss of hearts and minds in a target country is one thing, but sanctions can backfire in very specific ways that damage the US, Demarais says. She points to the embargo on grain exports to the USSR that the Carter administration put in place in 1980. The administration wanted to pressure the USSR to get out of Afghanistan, and figured that because the US supplied a third of Russia's grain supply, this was a good pressure point.
But the USSR simply switched to new suppliers, and US farmers were left with a glut of grain. The market crashed. Land values plummeted. Farms went out of business. The embargo was lifted a year later, but the damage was done. Russia didn't trust the US, and neither did anyone else. American farmers' share of the global markets in corn, soybeans and wheat all dropped.
The Artful Dodgers
Another reason sanctions have limited effects, Demarais says, is that they are often easily avoided. Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, Russia has combated sanctions by sourcing new markets for its most important exports. India and China have bought its oil, and it has used other allies as conduits to smuggle other goods.
"We're seeing a lot of trade between Turkey and Russia these days, for instance," Demarais says. "So it appears that some smuggling could be taking place via Turkey, which doesn't impose sanctions, even though it is a NATO member."
But circumvention is the old way of doing things, Demarais says. It's logistically challenging, time consuming and expensive, as you generally have to sell your goods cheaper. The new school of sanctions dodgers uses inoculation.
"It's about a preemptive approach to vaccinate their economies, insulate their economies from the impact of sanctions, and these innovations take place in the financial sphere," Demarais says.
She says this inoculation takes a three pronged approach. The first prong is currency protection. She notes that Russia vaccinated itself ahead of its invasion of Ukraine by keeping half of its reserves in non-western currencies, in rubles and rupees and renminbi, so that it could continue to trade.
"The second part is [finding] alternatives to Swift, the global Rolodex connecting all banks around the world," she says.
China has taken the initiative in this area, having seen what happened to Iran when it was disconnected from Swift in 2012. It has begun developing an alternative, called the Cross-Border Interbank Payment System (CIPS).
"It is much smaller than Swift," Demarais says, "But it just exists. So it gives China a plan B in case it were to be cut off from Swift. And it actually gives China an offensive capability too, because one day China could say, to do business with Chinese firms, you need to use CIPS. And so that would give China the possibility to cut off entire countries or companies from its market."
Finally, Demarais says, countries aiming to inoculate themselves from the effects of sanctions are developing digital central bank currencies. Again, China has taken the lead here, creating a financial realm that is completely disconnected from the US dollar and international currency markets, and thereby totally insulated from American influence.
"These are not crypto," she says. "These are digital currencies that are stored on the mobile phones of more than 300 million Chinese people. Sanctions from western countries have zero bite on such digital currencies, which are completely managed by the central bank in China."
The Cheap Lure of Sanctions
So if sanctions don't work most of the time, backfire often, and are increasingly easy to evade, why does the US keep using them?
Demarais says it's because they're easy to implement, they cost very little, and they are comparatively risk free.
"Sanctions are a very popular tool because they fill in the gap between empty diplomatic declarations," she says. If a country does something the US doesn't like, the administration doesn't have many options. On one end of the response spectrum, it could make a strongly worded statement, which might feel like too little. On the other end...
"On the other end of the diplomatic spectrum, you have military interventions, deadly, costly, and unpopular. Sanctions fill the void in between these two extreme options."
Sanctions waste neither blood nor treasure — or, at least, usually not American blood or treasure, which is what's important to American politicians. And they are simple to implement.
"You can spend one night drafting sanctions and then implement them very quickly afterwards," says Demarais, noting she has personal experience with this, from her time working with the Treasury of France. "And they appear to be cheap because they are implemented in practice by the private sector. There's no sanctions police. So it is a form of externalization of US foreign policy."
The American government does nothing more than dream up and impose these sanctions by fiat. The actual work of sanctioning is done by civilian institutions like banks and organizations like Swift, which check financial transactions for compliance with sanctions.
Given the ease with which sanctions can be imposed, and the lack of cost associated with them, it's not surprising that they're used so enthusiastically and so often by US administrations. Demarais says she doesn't expect that to change. But, she says, because countries have gotten wise to sanctions, and figured out how to pre-empt them, the West would be wise to look back at what has and hasn't worked when it comes to sanctions, and devise a playbook accordingly.
When Sanctions Work
Sanctions don't fail all the time, Demarais says, and on studying the universe of sanctions, she has observed a few rules of thumb.
First, speed is everything.
"Sanctions tend to work fast or never," she says. "They provoke a shock within the targeted economy. So if you're a small economy, essentially you settle your dispute with the US very quickly, or you decide that sanctions are the new normal and you will adjust."
Sometimes countries do succumb to sanctions: Turkey did in 2018, when it was persuaded by sanctions to release an American pastor named Andrew Brunson. But after several years, sanctions become baked into the economy. States increase domestic production, find ways to circumvent restrictions, and reduce their reliance on imports.
Second rule of thumb: sanctions with a limited objective are more likely to be successful.
"Targeted states need to have a very clear picture of what they need to do to get sanctions lifted," Demarais says, noting that this is exactly what happened with Iran in the run up to the nuclear deal in 2015. "Iran knew exactly what it needed to accept: curbs on its nuclear ambitions. And in return for that, it would get the lifting of sanctions."
Third, multilateral support is crucial for sanctions to be effective.
Napoleon's blockade of the English was a failure, even though he controlled most of Europe. He did not, however, control the rest of the world, and Britain used its navy to develop new markets. America's sanctions against North Korea have also failed to achieve their objective of regime change, because they do not involve China, with which North Korea does 90 percent of its trade, and Russia, which takes care of the rest.
Demarais says the US appears to have learned this lesson with regard to its sanctions of Russia over the war in Ukraine.
"There's been a very high level of collaboration between the US and the EU and other Western countries," she says. "This has been very positive because it means that sanctions are much stronger. And that there are no disputes regarding the scope and the impact of US sanctions."
Finally, Demarais says, successful sanctions tend to target countries with which the US has close economic ties.
"Sanctions must target economic partners because otherwise there will be no economic ties to cut, she says. She points again to Turkey, which is a trading partner of the US and also a member of NATO. The sanctions worked in that case because there was a great deal at stake: their trading relationship.
"If you target an economy that you have zero ties to, sanctions will have very little bite because if you have zero trade, zero economic relations, zero diplomatic, or military relations with the country, you can cut them off very easily. They won't feel anything, and won't have any incentive to restore these ties."
Partners have much to lose, she says. Adversaries do not.
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NEW YORK (AP) — When Daniella Malave started working for Chipotle at 17, the main benefit she was seeking was free food. As it turned out, she also got a free college education.
While working full time for the chain, Malave completed two years of community college with annual stipends of $5,250 from Chipotle. After that, she enrolled in the company’s free online college program, through which she earned a bachelor’s degree in business management from Wilmington University in 2020.
“I didn’t have to pay for my education,” said Malave, 24, who now works as a recruiting analyst for Chipotle in New Jersey. “Every time I say it out loud, I’m like, ‘Is this real?’”
Chipotle is one of more than a dozen companies that have launched free or almost-free college programs for their front-line workers over the last decade. Since 2021 alone, Walmart, Amazon, Target, Macy’s, Citi and Lowe’s have made free college available to more than 3 million U.S. workers.
Companies see the programs as a way to recruit and retain workers in a tight labor market or train them for management positions. For hourly employees, the programs remove the financial barriers of obtaining a degree.
Thousands of people are now taking advantage of the benefits. Starbucks, which operates an online college program through Arizona State University, says 22,000 workers are currently enrolled in its program. Guild Education, which administers programs for Walmart, Hilton, Disney and others and offers online programs at more than 140 schools, says it worked with 130,000 students over the last year.
But some critics question whether the programs are papering over deeper problems, like pay so low that workers can’t afford college without them or hours so erratic that it’s too hard to go to school in person.
“I do think they are providing these programs to skirt around the issue of just paying people more, giving people more certainty, improving their quality of life,” said Stephanie Hall, a senior fellow at The Century Foundation, a nonpartisan think tank.
Hall said a lack of data also makes it difficult to judge the programs’ effectiveness. Chipotle, Walmart, Amazon and Starbucks, for example, don’t share graduation rates, in part because they’re hard to calculate because students often take a semester off or take more than four years to earn a degree. Rachel Carlson, CEO for Guild Education, which also doesn’t reveal graduation rates, says the more relevant data is whether college classes help employees get promotions or wage increases.
Others question the quality of the online programs and whether students’ degrees will be marketable or help them pursue other careers, especially since many companies limit what employees can study. Discover only fully funds 18 bachelor’s degrees at eight universities through Guild, for example.
“My sense is that most of these programs are hoping that employees would stay with the company,” said Katharine Meyer, a fellow in the governance studies program for the Brown Center on Education Policy at the Brookings Institution.
Amazon for its part touts college programs that offer opportunities outside the company, like nursing. But Walmart pared down the number of programs it offers to 60 from 100 because it wanted to focus on skills that would align with careers at the company.
More than 89,000 workers have participated in Walmart’s college program and more than 15,000 have graduated, said Lorraine Stomski, Walmart’s senior vice president of associate learning and leadership.
Tanner Humphreys is one of them. He started working at Walmart in 2016, bouncing around hourly jobs as he tried to accommodate his in-person class schedule at Idaho State University. But under the company’s online program, which it launched with Guild in 2018, he transferred his credits to Southern New Hampshire University and graduated in February with a bachelor’s degree in computer science. At 27, he now works at Walmart’s headquarters for its cybersecurity team as a salaried employee.
“I was working paycheck to paycheck, living with a whole bunch of friends to pay my rent and stuff,” he said. “The change from an hourly to salary is truly life changing.”
Companies paying for college or graduate school isn’t new. But for decades, the benefit was mostly offered to salaried professionals. In many cases, workers were required to spend thousands of dollars for tuition up front and then get reimbursed by their company.
Starbucks’ program, which launched in 2014, was initially a tuition-reimbursement program, but in 2021, it began covering tuition costs upfront. Now, 85% of the company’s stores have at least one employee in the program, which will celebrate its 10,000th graduate in December.
Carlson said companies see an average return of $2 to $3 for every dollar they put into education because it saves recruitment and retention costs. Walmart said participants leave the company at a rate four times lower than non-participants and are twice as likely to be promoted.
“If I know it’s going to cost me $7,000 to have my cashier not show up tomorrow, I would rather spend our average of our partners today — $3,000 to $5000 — paying for her to go to college,” Carlson said.
Companies say the programs also give opportunities to minorities. Macy’s, which started its program with Guild earlier this year, said that half of the women enrolling are women of color.
Some companies, like Chipotle and JPMorgan Chase, offer online programs through Guild as well as stipends students can put toward in-person learning at local institutions. Amazon’s college programs offer a mixture of online and in-person learning at local community colleges or universities.
Hall said she would like to see more companies offer that kind of flexibility, since online learning isn’t ideal for everyone.
Zachary Hecker, 26, a Starbucks employee in New Braunfels, Texas, began working toward his bachelor’s in electrical engineering last summer through the company’s college program.
Hecker appreciates the free tuition, but he often wishes he could attend classes in person or have more choices beyond Arizona State. His classes are challenging, he said, and professors aren’t always able to meet and offer guidance.
But Carlson said online classes are ideal for the average Guild enrollee, who is a 33-year-old woman with children. Carlson said students in its programs often lack consistent access to a car and need to be able to study anytime, like after kids are in bed.
The chance to earn a free degree can be life-changing. Angela Batista was 16 and homeless when she started working for a Starbucks in New York.
“College was never in my dream,” Batista said, now 38. “I didn’t even have the audacity to fantasize about it.”
This December, she will graduate from Arizona State University with a degree in organizational leadership paid for by Starbucks. And now her son, who also works at Starbucks, is starting work toward his own degree. | 2022-10-23T19:05:57+00:00 | cbs42.com | https://www.cbs42.com/news/national/companies-lure-hourly-workers-with-college-tuition-perks/ |
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — From Charlotte to Gastonia, property owners are questioning recent revaluations that say their home values have skyrocketed.
The new values were released earlier this year for the first time since 2019.
"We have appealed this because there’s no way that we could sell our house for $600,000," Marian Parlier, a Gastonia resident, said.
While each situation is different, we took the question to an expert to see if most homeowners could actually sell their homes at the new rate.
"I know the numbers seem a little bit astonishing when you look at your values," Tiffany Johannes, President of the Canopy Realtor Association, said, "but oftentimes, you are going to be able to get that much or more for your home."
The Canopy Realtor Association analyzes the real estate market in Charlotte and surrounding counties and the data shows sellers still have the upper hand, according to Johannes.
"That doesn't mean that a seller can ask any price they want," she said. "They've got to ask a reasonable price. They've got to have a home that has curb appeal, maintenance taken care of, and in good condition to get top dollar in today's market.”
As for those looking to buy a home, she said research is key.
"Do your homework. Do your research. Work with a realtor who can advise and counsel you on the best steps and the best practices because there are deals to be had out there," Johannes said.
So, the next time you look at your home's new value and wonder should I buy or sell, she said don't count yourself out.
"Talk to a realtor. Make sure that you know your options and you understand them well and move forward," Johannes said, "because if you're sitting on the sidelines and you have a reason to make a move, now's not a bad time at all.”
To view more market data for the Charlotte area, visit Carolinahome.com.
Contact Kayland Hagwood at khagwood@wcnc.com and follow her on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. | 2023-04-30T03:28:53+00:00 | wfmynews2.com | https://www.wfmynews2.com/article/money/you-likely-can-sell-your-home-despite-high-revaluation/275-2c8ae520-1b87-4390-ba5a-2786a29b367f |
The following article will give the reader a brief look at the past history of Wilkinson High School from 1938 to 1971. At the end of the existence of the school, a brand new era of education in the life of Orangeburg’s Black and white students took on a combination between Orangeburg High School and Wilkinson High School.
Orangeburg County in 1704 was settled by Blacks and whites. At that time, they both played a vital and different role in the development of our county. For more than 200 years, whites dominated all of the major functions in the life of the people who lived here.
All of the aspects of life here in Orangeburg were controlled and led by the whites. From the years of slavery to the year 1865 when freedom was granted to all of the people residing in America, the Blacks have been the majority of the population of our county.
Then, in 1954, our United States Supreme Court laid out their landmark decision that “the United States state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality.”
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Wilkinson High School, which became the first school built in South Carolina for the exclusive instruction of Negro high school students, was founded in 1938. Prior to this time, the education of Black students in Orangeburg came from the Johnson School, the Sterling School, the Dunton Memorial School, Claflin University and South Carolina State College.
The Times and Democrat printed on Jan. 11, 1938: “C.M. Brice, the resident WPA engineer, said yesterday he plans to begin construction next Monday on the new negro high school building to be erected in this school district. The building will be located in the vicinity of the Dunton Memorial School. The cost of the project will be approximately $25,000 of which the sponsor, the local board of trustees, will provide around $7,500.”
Dr. A.J. Thackston was the first superintendent. The school was named Wilkinson High School in honor of the late Dr. Robert Shaw Wilkinson, the second president of South Carolina State College.
Dr. J.C. Parler was named the first principal. The faculty consisted of seven teachers with an enrollment of 204 students. The school was located on Goff Avenue adjoining Dunton Elementary School. The first building contained the principal’s office, auditorium and nine classrooms.
On March 8, 1939, The T&D printed: “News of Interest to Colored People —Negro High School Making Progress — Wilkinson High School Orangeburg’s new school plant (the first to be devoted exclusively to the instruction of Negro high school students) is rapidly taking its place as one of South Carolina’s secondary schools after less than six months of operation under the guidance of James C. Parler.”
Then at the end of the school year in 1940, The T&D printed on May 31, 1940: “Wilkinson High Ends Session-Large Class of Graduates to Receive Diplomas Next Week — The second Commencement address at Wilkinson High School will be delivered by the Rev. A.J. Thomas, Chaplin of Civilian Conservation Corps, Hardeville, Friday, May 31, at 8 p.m.
“This program is intended to stimulate further interest in continued studying either in the atmosphere of formal training to be found in a college or in improving one’s labor bargaining power in the modern industrial world.”
After 8-1/2 years, Wilkinson became accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. It was the seventh high school for Negroes in South Carolina to meet the rigid requirements of this accrediting agency.
On June 3, 1942, the president of South Carolina State College, M.F. Whittaker, delivered the address to the 88 seniors of Wilkinson High School.
The May 1945 commencement for the school started with the annual senior sermon at Trinity Methodist Church. The final exercises were held at White Hall on the campus of State College. In that year, there were a total of 92 candidates graduating.
Then on Dec. 5, 1947, The T&D printed: “Branch Library Opened At Wilkinson School — The Wilkinson Branch of the Orangeburg County Free Library has been opened to the public at the Wilkinson High School grounds, library officials announced.
“Visitors were invited to inspect the library, which is operated jointly by the Free library and Wilkinson High School which supplied the site for the building. It is being used by both school children and by the Negro public.”
The 1949 school year in Orangeburg brought a record number of students. The white pupils included 1,119 in elementary schools and 709 in high school. The Negro elementary enrollment was 1,582, and 583 were enrolled at Wilkinson High School.
Understanding the value of Wilkinson High School to the community, the first Wolverine Club was started in 1949. The T&D reported on Oct. 22, 1949: “Wolverine Club Membership Drive Started — Well-wishers of Wilkinson High School are invited to become members of the Wolverine Club, a booster’s organization recently formed to help and encourage the athletics and extra-curricular activities of Wilkinson High School.
“The club has been organized along the lines of other quarterback clubs and has as its objective to encourage good sportsmanship among the players and aid in the promotion of good sportsmanship on the part of spectators. They propose to give financial aid to the extra-curricular program of the school.”
In 1952, Dr. Parler was promoted to the position of administrative principal of Negro schools. Robert E. Howard was appointed the second principal for Wilkinson High School.
Then in 1953, Wilkinson was relocated. It is now located just east of the intersection of the Belleville Road and Highway 21 bypass. Chester A. Ray became the assistant principal. That year marked the 15th annual commencement exercise, and there were a total of 85 students to graduate.
The school was housed in a modern structure containing 13 wings, library and gymnasium. The faculty had grown to 57 teachers, serving some 1,300 students.
On Feb. 2, 1954, The T&D announced: “Community Education Center Opens Feb. 11 — The Community Education Center for 1954 will begin Thursday, February 11 and continue for six consecutive Thursday nights at the Wilkinson Senior High School. The school recently moved into new and modern buildings on the Belleville Road, according to announcement released this week.
“With all the Orangeburg City Schools cooperating, the Community Education Center will offer an opportunity for adults, young and old, to return to school and keep abreast of the times through the study and discussion of the many challenging problems of the day.”
Then in May 1954, James Green, representing Wilkinson High School, won the Junior Singles Championship of the National Junior Development Tennis Tournament held at Virginia Union University. Green defeated Willie Daniels of Washington, North Carolina, in the finals 7-5, 6-4.
He qualified to participate in the National Interscholastic Championship in Charlottesville, Virginia, on June 20.
The students at Wilkinson High School always participated on a high level in all types of events that were sponsored in the state. In April 1955, Marion Johnston won first prize in the field of mechanical drawing at the State Trade and Industrial Tournament and Convention that was held in Georgetown.
Also, in May of 1955, the Wilkinson tennis team won its eighth state tennis crown. James Green and George Hunter rallied to beat Coleman Blalock of Mather Academy.
In the girl’s singles, Beverly Rhodes defeated Minion Dickerson of Booker Washington High.
During the 1956 Wilkinson High School football season, they closed with a 58-0 victory over Findley High of Chester. Albert Owens and John Harper, a pair of lightning fast halfbacks, led the Wolverines to their most decisive win of the season. Owens scored three times, twice after snaring passes and once on a 35-yard dash, while Harper raced 53 yards for one score and ran back a punt 65 yards for another.
The 1957 Palmetto State Science Fair was held in April at the Columbia Township Auditorium. Of the many projects entered in the competition, Wilkinson High School carried away all of the honors.
A first-place honor went to Eima Ruth Sullivan for her project on a cycling plant for natural gas. The second-place honor went to John McLeod for an atomic power plant; and the third-place honor went to Robert Moore for his project on a jet engine.
In March of 1958, the Wilkinson boys won the Lower State AAA basketball title with a conference record of 12 wins and no losses. The team was coached by William Senior.
Then on March 27, 1958, The T&D printed an article on one of its carriers and a 16-year-old student, from Wilkinson, who developed the “Trip Meter:” “T&D Carrier Invents Parking Meter Tripper — Shellie Louis, Jr., 16, Times and Democrat carrier boy, Negro son of a carpenter who lives at 271 Treadwell St., and Evelyn Louis, an elementary education teacher at Reevesville School who commutes to her classroom each day, invented a Trip Meter.
“It is a device added to a parking meter which trips the meter when an automobile leaves, thus nullifying any free time the departing motorist might have left. It works with a hose and air pressure which activates a spring-loaded cylinder. The idea is very similar to that used by many service stations to let the operator know that an auto has arrived.”
That year of 1958, Harris A. Marshall, superintendent of Orangeburg City Schools, presented 125 diplomas to the graduating class. Dr. K.W. Green, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at South Carolina State College delivered the annual Wilkinson High School Senior Sermon.
On May 31, 1960, The T&D reported: “Graduation Slated For Wilkinson — One hundred and thirty-three students will receive their high school diplomas tonight in graduation exercises of Wilkinson High School. The theme for the event will be “Educational Principles and Life.”
Sadly, The T&D announced on Jan. 2, 1961, the passing of the first principal of Wilkinson High School. “Dr. J. C. Parler died early Sunday morning in the Orangeburg Region Hospital. In 1938, he became the first principal of the Wilkinson High School.”
Since the year of 1950, the Orangeburg city school system had built individual plants for its school system. By 1961, they included Orangeburg High, Edisto Drive and Sheridan -- all white; and Wilkinson, Nix Elementary, Whittaker and Randolph -- all Negro.
This period of growth by the Orangeburg city schools was called the “Financial Fifties.”
The Wilkinson High School boys and girls track team displayed their talent and ability more and more as the years moved forward. In May 1961, the Wilkinson boys and girls captured the lower state AAA titles for the second straight year at the South Carolina State College stadium.
Later on June 6, 1961, The T&D reported: “Wilkinson High Graduate To Go To West Point — Harold A. Jenkins, Jr., a 1961 graduate of Wilkinson High School and son of Major Harold A. Jenkins, professor of military science at South Carolina State College and Mrs. Bernice M. Jenkins, has been accepted as a candidate to the United States Military Academy at West Point.”
Then in 1962, the Wilkinson High School Wolverines football team won its first state title championship. The T&D reported on Nov. 25, 1962: “Wilkinson Wins State AAA Title — Wilkinson High School’s Wolverines of Orangeburg rolled to an overwhelming 21-7 triumph over Carver High School here Saturday night to win the South Carolina Negro AAA football Championship.
“Quarterback Stanley Jacobs was at his peak as he consistently hit his targets with passes for long yardage. Two of his aerials were for touchdowns — both to end Thomas Kennedy on plays covering 25 yards.”
The next year in 1963, the boys scored 12 points to win the Lower State track and field meet at South Carolina State.
In 1964, the push by the Blacks in Orangeburg to integrate the school system grew more and more as the parents fought to get their children enrolled in the white schools. The parents of the Black students were successful in their efforts in the courts. Plus, the 1964 Civil Rights Bill and Titles would authorize the attorney general to sue to compel school desegregation.
Wilkinson High School like many other schools of that time had an ample number of outstanding students to win awards and scholarships. In May of 1964, Marian Theresa Day, a senior, was announced as one of 35 winners of a $500 Donald Russell Scholarship Award in English.
The scholarship was for the school year 1964-65 to any school of her choice in the state.
In the fall of 1964, a total of 19 Black students were the first to be admitted to formerly all-white schools in the city of Orangeburg. The careful planning by the leaders in the school system paid off when the schools began their classes without any incidents.
The T&D reported on Aug. 25, 1964: “18 Negroes To Integrate Four O’burg White Schools Friday, Orangeburg High, Thackston Junior High, Mellichamp and Ellis Avenue Schools Will Desegregate.
“At that time, the local school system began to operate under the Freedom of Choice plan whereby a student could decide where he or she wanted to attend school.”
Also in August of 1964, Wade Hampton Academy opened its doors as a private school for whites who did not want to attend the public schools in Orangeburg. The academy had a total enrollment of 293 students, 185 in the elementary school and 108 in the high school.
As these changes in the education of the Black and white school children here in Orangeburg came about, it marked the beginning efforts to integrate the public schools.
The school life at Wilkinson basically remained the same in the instructions, activities and the other aspects. In March of 1965, the Wilkinson High Wolverettes won the 4-A State Girls Basketball Championship.
The Orangeburg Massacre happened on Feb. 8, 1968. Delano Middleton, a 17-year-old Wilkinson High School student, was killed along with two college students, Samuel Hammond and Henry Smith, near the campus of South Carolina State College.
The loss of Middleton was devastating to his Wilkinson classmates as well as the community, state and nation. In that same year, the Wilkinson High School girls basketball team won their fourth straight state championship.
On March 1, 1970, The T&D printed the article, “Wilkinson Girls Win Sixth Straight AAAA Title — The Wilkinson Wolverettes concluded their victory march and took their sixth consecutive AAAA state title against the Sims Tigerettes out of Union 67-41 Saturday night at South Carolina State College Coliseum.”
That win marked the last girls’ basketball championship by Wilkinson High under the coaching of Nathan Perry. The next and last year of the winning girls’ basketball team in 1971 was led by Coach Anthony Jarvis. Unfortunately, the girls were ice-cold in their efforts to win the state championship for a seventh and last time in the name of Wilkinson High School. Their efforts were wiped out by the score of 43-27, by the Union Yellow Jackets.
From 1964 until the 1970-1971 school year, the efforts by the federal government to desegregate the entire school system continued to push for a completion. Here in Orangeburg, more and more black students were attending Orangeburg High School and the other predominately white elementary and middle schools.
To mark the ending of the Wilkinson High School, The T&D printed on May 29, 1971: “Wilkinson Story Featured Sunday — “The Story of Wilkinson High School” will be told in Sunday’s edition of The Times and Democrat. Twenty-six pages including hundreds of inches of articles and 171 photographs tell the story of this high school.
“’The Story of Wilkinson High School’ is unique in South Carolina newspapering in that from the beginning to the end of the edition it was a total high school show, including the sale of all advertising matter.”
A few of the achievements in sports during the years of the Wolverines and Wolverettes are:
• Football: State Champions 1962 and 1969
• Basketball: Girls Champions 1965-1970
• Girls State Runner-Up 1971
• Boys State Runner-Up 1958 and 1969
• Holiday Basketball Tournament: Champions 1964 and 1967
• Track: Girls State Champions 1969 and 1970
• Boys State Champions 1969
• Wilkinson Relay Champions 1966
• Tennis: State Champions 1949, 1950, 1951 and 1952
The 1971 class marked the final year for the Black students graduating from Orangeburg High that included 36 out of a total of 292 seniors. And the final graduating class of white students at Wilkinson High was five out of a total of 221 seniors.
The next article will feature the first year of the 1971-1972 new Orangeburg-Wilkinson High School. | 2022-07-31T18:59:11+00:00 | thetandd.com | https://thetandd.com/lifestyles/the-story-of-wilkinson-high-school-brings-value-to-the-community-state/article_bad5d48d-991a-5502-991e-c4ee08651d65.html |
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union moved closer to ending a trade dispute with U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday following months of wrangling over the billions of America-first incentives in his clean technology plans and said it would ramp up a similar subsidy-laden effort at home.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen told the parliament plenary that in its attempt to produce at least 40% of the clean tech needed by 2030 in the 27-nation bloc, it would allow for the “tax breaks and the flexible use of EU funds” on top of simplifying and speeding up industrial approvals.
She spoke of a “striking symmetry” between the U.S. efforts and the European Green Deal plans.
“Both of them are simultaneously a climate strategy and a strategy for investment and growth,” von der Leyen said.
Her upbeat comments came on the eve of the European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, tabling plans for the Net-Zero Industry Act on industrial incentives and a Critical Raw Materials Act, which seeks to reduce EU over-reliance on China when it comes to new tech materials like rare earth supplies and lithium.
Since the EU does have such minerals too, the plan calls to boost capacity to at least 40% of consumption and make sure that recycling is improved too.
It all amounts to a major effort that the EU needs to push through to remain relevant in a future where green technologies will become the standard and strategic economic independence paramount in a world of quickly shifting alliances and developments.
It made it all the more essential for the EU and Washington to find a truce on the trade spat that has divided them since last summer when Biden’s $375 billion clean energy law was passed.
“In other words, the two biggest and most advanced economies in the world are now moving in the same direction,” she told the lawmakers. | 2023-03-15T12:28:33+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/eu-closer-to-ending-us-trade-spat-moves-on-green-deal-funds/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all |
MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Manchester City and Erling Haaland got a wake up call they didn’t know they needed before their Champions League semifinal against Real Madrid.
The Norwegian goal machine has hardly put a foot wrong this season. But against Leeds on Saturday he allowed himself a moment of indulgence which almost backfired on the defending English Premier League champions.
Cruising with a 2-0 lead at Etihad Stadium, Haaland passed up the chance to score a late penalty by handing over the duty to Ilkay Gundogan, who was on for a hat trick.
Gundogan hit the post and Leeds scored a minute later to set up an uncomfortable finish in a match that City totally dominated.
City won 2-1, but against Real Madrid at the Santiago Bernabeu on Tuesday, such a lapse in judgement could prove much more costly.
A miffed Pep Guardiola made sure City took the lesson on board.
“Erling is the best penalty taker right now so he has to take it,” the manager said. “If Gundo scores everyone is ‘OK, hat trick, well done.’ But a taker is a taker. At 2-0, this is a business, not a situation where we cannot forget it.”
Memories are still fresh of the semifinals against Madrid last season, when City led by two goals on aggregate going into the 90th minute of the second leg. In a dramatic finish, Madrid scored twice to force extra time, and a 95th-minute penalty knocked City out.
City is looking unstoppable in its pursuit of a treble of trophies, including the Premier League and the FA Cup, but perhaps it was all getting a little too easy for Guardiola’s players. Haaland has 51 goals already, and Saturday’s win extended their unbeaten run to 20 games in all competitions, not to mention moving the league leaders four points clear of second-placed Arsenal.
“Everyone was incredibly focused knowing what we are playing for,” Guardiola said. “But at 2-0 you have to close it and not give them anything. If you have control, you have control.”
Rodrigo’s goal changed the mood inside the stadium as relegation-threatened Leeds, under new manager Sam Allardyce, went in search of an unlikely equalizer.
It didn’t come, but after this late scare, Haaland surely won’t pass up a penalty shot if one comes his way in Madrid on Tuesday.
LIVERPOOL MARCHES ON
Liverpool has probably left its run just a little too late.
A sixth straight win has moved Jurgen Klopp’s team to within a point of fourth-placed Manchester United.
But United has two games in hand, meaning it would take a big slump to miss out on Champions League qualification.
Liverpool, though, is definitely applying pressure in the final weeks of the season, which encourages Klopp after such a frustrating and inconsistent campaign.
Mohamed Salah’s goal secured a 1-0 win against Brentford and the striker’s 100th at Anfield.
“Six games ago nobody would have thought we would be here,” Klopp said. “We cannot do more than win football games.
“We have to make sure we finish the situation in the best possible way.”
The win also earned goalkeeper Alisson his 100th clean sheet for Liverpool.
CHELSEA FINALLY WINS
At the 10th time of asking, Chelsea secured a long-awaited win after beating Bournemouth 3-1 to end a miserable run.
It was interim manager Frank Lampard’s first victory since returning to Stamford Bridge last month and his first with Chelsea since his final game in charge before he was fired in 2021.
Conor Gallagher, Benoit Badiashile and Joao Felix all scored, and Matias Vina got Bournemouth’s goal as Chelsea ended a run of six straight losses under Lampard.
“We came in off the back of a tough run, it’s been a tough year and there is a lot work to do,” Lampard said.
RELEGATION FIGHT
Julen Lopetegui has coached Spain and Real Madrid. He’s also won the Europa League, but says the job he has done at Wolverhampton is his finest work.
“I have won the Europa League and played with Sevilla in the Champions League but, for me, this is the most important achievement,” Lopetegui said after securing Premier League survival by beating Aston Villa 1-0.
“We arrived here five months ago with 10 points after 16 matches at the bottom, four points from the team above. We were in a very bad situation with bad belief and low morale.”
Wolves have reached 40 points, considered the benchmark for survival and 10 clear of the drop zone.
KANE GOALS FEAT
Harry Kane is out on his own as the second highest scorer in league history after his goal in Tottenham’s 1-0 win against Crystal Palace.
The England striker moved past Wayne Rooney with his 209th goal in England’s top division. Only Alan Shearer, on 260, is ahead of him.
Kane has already become the record scorer for England and Tottenham this season.
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More AP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccer and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2023-05-07T09:48:58+00:00 | qcnews.com | https://www.qcnews.com/sports/man-city-and-haaland-avoid-scare-ahead-of-real-madrid-clash/ |
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Witnesses tell The Associated Press that drone strikes in Ethiopia’s Oromia region killed several dozen civilians last week. The attacks in strongholds of the rebel Oromo Liberation Army came amid intensified fighting between federal forces and the outlawed group.
“I lost three of my brothers in a drone attack on Wednesday, Oct. 19,” said a witness who spoke on condition of anonymity out of fear for his safety. “The attack happened around 12 p.m. in the Metta Welkite area. There was an earlier drone strike, and they went out to carry injured people to health centers. But they themselves were killed by a drone along with 20 others. My brothers were all students … (And) we buried their mutilated bodies.”
The deadliest drone strike occurred Sunday during a graduation ceremony in West Shewa’s Cobi County for members of the OLA, which Ethiopia has labeled a terrorist organization.
“Residents were told by the rebel group to attend the ceremony, so hundreds of people were there … (because) not attending the event was not an option,” an engineer who witnessed the aftermath of the attack said. “What I saw some 20 minutes after the attack was a carnage. Women, children, the elderly and some members of the rebel group were killed.”
Local officials declined to comment on the strikes, and federal officials have not provided details. But the opposition Oromo Federalist Congress, one of Ethiopia’s largest political parties, confirmed the attacks in a statement issued Tuesday.
“The irresponsible drone attack on Sunday killed 7- and 10-year-old children, mothers, the elderly and disabled people,” the statement from the party with a strong base in the Oromia region said. “The government … is busy using drones and fighter jets against civilians. And it is trying to hide these killings against ethnic Oromos from the public.”
The Oromo Liberation Army, which the Ethiopian government accuses of carrying out mass killings in recent months, alleged Tuesday that the government used drones and other airborne assets to “indiscriminately massacre civilians” in the Metta, Nunu Qumba, Wama Hagalo and Cobi areas of western and central Oromia over the past few days.
The OLA asserted a death toll in the hundreds and said schools and civilian gatherings were targeted.
The rebel group was once a military wing of an opposition party, the Oromo Liberation Front. Its members came back to Ethiopia in 2018 after Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed invited exiled groups and political figures to return home.
However, the military wing soon detached itself from the party and began deadly confrontations with government forces while asserting it stood for the safety and self-determination of the Oromo people, Ethiopia’s largest ethnic group.
Local reports suggest the rebel group is widening its reach as government forces are engaged in another deadly conflict in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region.
The conflict in Oromia is separate from the Tigray one. But late last year, the OLA and Tigray forces announced an alliance with the aim of toppling the Ethiopian government. The government and Tigray representatives began peace talks this week. | 2022-10-26T11:20:49+00:00 | wjhl.com | https://www.wjhl.com/news/international/ap-witnesses-drone-strikes-in-ethiopias-oromia-kill-civilians/ |
An Alabama man pretending to be a student at Stanford University was found to have been living in campus dormitories for nearly 10 months, according to university officials.
William Curry, from Birmingham, Ala., was removed from campus on Thursday after a resident assistant for Crothers Hall found the man living in the basement of the dorm, the Stanford Daily reported. Resident assistants at Crothers Hall told the student newspaper that Curry posed as a sophomore studying pre-med and falsely claimed he was recruited to the Stanford men’s track and field team in 2020.
Stanford spokesperson Dee Mostofi told the San Francisco Chronicle that Curry was reportedly on campus “several times” since December 2021 — despite receiving multiple stay-away letters. However, campus officials said they were unable to locate him until Thursday, after he was accused of stealing a TV from the dorm’s basement.
University administrators and campus police knew about Curry for months and removed him from various campus buildings at least four times, the Stanford Daily reported. He was previously accused of breaking into several campus dorm rooms and harassing multiple students, the newspaper reported, and at one point he allegedly told campus police he was homeless and “trying to escape the rain.”
Students living at the dorm where Curry was caught said he had been living in the building since the second week of the fall semester and was let in regularly by “sympathetic resident assistants.” According to the newspaper, dorm RAs frequently requested — but were denied access to — rosters of residents who live in the basement’s rooms, where Curry was found living.
“On several occasions, we’ve asked for a roster of residents living in the basement and have been told that the request couldn’t be accommodated because it would be a ‘student privacy violation,’” read a screenshot published by the Stanford Daily. “Without such a roster, we ultimately can’t verify who should and shouldn’t be in the dorm. This is a policy we have pushed back against and will continue to push back against.”
In a statement, Stanford officials said that although the university has protocols and policies in place to prevent non-students from entering and living in student housing, “the unique aspects of Mr. Curry’s persistence and ability to integrate himself with our student community has made it clear that gaps exist in those protocols.”
“We will immediately undertake a review to ensure our procedures do not allow for this type of incident to happen again,” the statement read. | 2022-11-02T05:11:11+00:00 | santacruzsentinel.com | https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2022/11/01/a-man-pretended-to-be-a-student-at-stanford-he-got-away-with-it-for-nearly-a-year-2/ |
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FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. (AP)The Atlanta Falcons on Tuesday released running back Damien Williams, the veteran who never returned after a rib injury in his first game with the team.
The release of Williams came one day after coach Arthur Smith announced rookie quarterback Desmond Ridder will start in Sunday’s game at New Orleans. Marcus Mariota has been benched, leaving his status for the remainder of the season uncertain.
Smith said the switch to Ridder was performance based, but added Mariota is having a chronic knee problem checked out and was expected to be placed on injured reserve.
Logan Woodside, who was signed off Tennessee’s practice squad, will serve as Ridder’s backup against the Saints.
Williams was projected to be the top backup to Cordarrelle Patterson, but instead was placed on injured reserve on Sept. 17 with the rib injury suffered in Atlanta’s 27-26 season-opening loss to New Orleans. He had only two carries for 2 yards in his only game with Atlanta, never coming off IR.
Rookie Tyler Allgeier, Patterson and Caleb Huntley have led Atlanta’s balanced running game.
Williams began his career with Miami in 2014. Following four seasons with the Dolphins, he also played for Kansas City for two seasons before appearing in eight games with Chicago in 2021.
One day after releasing inside linebacker Nate Landman, the Falcons signed Landman to their practice squad on Tuesday. Offensive lineman Parker Ferguson was released from the practice squad.
Landman has one tackle in seven games this season.
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US military says senior IS commander killed in Syria
BEIRUT (AP) — A drone strike carried out by the American-led coalition in northwestern Syria has killed a senior member of the Islamic State group who was in charge of planning attacks in Europe, the United States military said Tuesday.
The man killed Monday in the strike was identified by a U.S. military statement as Khalid Aydd Ahmad al-Jabouri. The military statement added that his death “will temporarily disrupt the organization’s ability to plot external attacks.”
Monday’s strike was the latest by the U.S. military to kill a top official with the extremist group that once controlled large parts of Iraq and Syria, where it declared a “caliphate.” From the areas they once controlled, the extremists planned deadly attacks in Europe that killed scores of people. In recent years, such attacks have decreased because the Islamic State group lost the last sliver of land it controlled in March 2019.
The extremist sleeper cells are still launching deadly attacks in Syria and Iraq.
Opposition activists in northwest Syria said the man killed showed up in the area about 10 days ago claiming to be a displaced person from the eastern province of Deir el-Zour, bordering Iraq. Al-Jabouri is one of Iraq’s biggest tribes that also has presence in east and north Syria and the man might have said that he is from Deir el-Zour to hide his Iraqi identity as residents of east Syria speak Arabic dialect similar to the one spoken in Iraq.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition war monitor, said on Monday that one person was killed in a drone strike near the rebel-held village of Kefteen. The Observatory’s chief Rami Abdurrahman identified the dead man as an Iraqi citizen who was struck with a missile as he spoke on his cellular phone outside the home he rented.
The opposition’s Syrian Civil Defense, also known as the White Helmets, said it evacuated the man from the scene of the attack and he later succumbed to his wounds.
The strike was the latest in a series of attacks over the past years targeting al-Qaida-linked militants and senior members of the Islamic State group in northwestern Syria.
Most of those killed by U.S. strikes in the rebel-held Idlib province over the past years were members of al-Qaida offshoot Horas al-Din, which is Arabic for “Guardians of Religion.” The group includes hardcore al-Qaida members who broke away from Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the strongest insurgent group in Idlib province.
In February, a drone strike killed two men, whom local activists initially identified as Horas al-Din members. The Observatory later said that one of the two killed was a senior member of the Islamic State group that was defeated in Syria in March 2019.
The founder of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was hunted down by the Americans in a raid in Idlib in October 2019. His successor, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, was also killed in a U.S. raid in February 2022 in northwest Syria.
In October, Syrian rebels killed the group’s leader, Abu al-Hassan al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, and he has since been repalced by Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurayshi.
None of the al-Qurayshis are believed to be related. Al-Qurayshi is not their real name but comes from Quraish, the name of the tribe to which Islam’s Prophet Muhammad belonged. IS claims its leaders hail from this tribe and “al-Qurayshi” serves as part of an IS leader’s nom de guerre.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2023-04-04T12:02:21+00:00 | kalb.com | https://www.kalb.com/2023/04/04/us-military-says-senior-is-commander-killed-syria/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — It was the stuff of novels: For years, a con artist plagued the publishing industry, impersonating editors and agents to pull off hundreds of literary heists. But the manuscripts obtained from high-profile authors were never resold or leaked, rendering the thefts all the more perplexing.
The Thursday sentencing of Filippo Bernardini in Manhattan federal court brought the saga to an end and, with it, finally some answers. After pleading guilty to one count of wire fraud in January, Bernardini was sentenced to time served, avoiding prison on a felony charge that carried up to 20 years in prison. Prosecutors had asked for a sentence of at least a year.
Bernardini, now 30, impersonated hundreds of people over the course of the scheme that began around August 2016 and obtained more than a thousand manuscripts, including from high-profile authors like Margaret Atwood and Ethan Hawke, authorities have said.
In an emotional, four-page letter to Judge Colleen McMahon submitted earlier this month, Bernardini apologized for what he characterized as his “egregious, stupid and wrong” actions. He also offered insight into his motivations, which had long stymied victims and observers alike even after his plea.
He described a deep love of books that stemmed from childhood and led him to pursue a publishing career in London. While he obtained an internship at a literary agency there, he wrote, he had trouble securing a full-time job in the industry afterward.
“While employed, I saw manuscripts being shared between editors, agents, and literary scouts or even with individuals outside the industry. So, I wondered: why can I not also get to read these manuscripts?” he recounted.
He spoofed an email address of someone he knew and mimicked his former colleagues’ tone to ask for a manuscript that had yet to be published. The success of that deception turned his quest for ill-gotten books into “an obsession, a compulsive behaviour.”
“I had a burning desire to feel like I was still one of these publishing professionals and read these new books,” he wrote.
“Every time an author sent me the manuscript I would feel like I was still part of the industry. At the time, I did not think about the harm I was causing,” he added. “I never wanted to and I never leaked these manuscripts. I wanted to keep them closely to my chest and be one of the fewest to cherish them before anyone else, before they ended up in bookshops.”
As part of a bid to avoid prison, Bernardini’s lawyers also submitted more than a dozen letters to the judge from his friends and family. In a novelistic twist of sorts, among them was a letter from a victim — writer Jesse Ball, the author of “Samedi the Deafness,” “Curfew” and “The Divers’ Game.”
Bernardini impersonated Ball’s editor to convince the writer to send several unpublished manuscripts, Ball said in his letter pushing for leniency. Decrying the state of the industry as “more and more corporate and cookiecutter” and referring to the crime as a “caper” and a “trivial thing, frivolous thing,” Ball argued that “we must be grateful when something human enters the picture: when the publishing industry for once becomes something worth writing about.”
“For once a person cared deeply about something—what matter that he was an interloper? You cannot imagine the soul crushing boredom of run-of-the-mill publishing correspondence,” Ball wrote, adding that he suffered no harm from the thefts other than some confusion. “I’m grateful that there is still room in the world for something facetious to occur now and then.”
In weighing arguments from the prosecution and defense, McMahon pushed back on the idea that the crime was victimless, with New York magazine’s Vulture — the publication that brought the mystery to public attention with a 2021 story called “The Spine Collector” — reporting that “she was especially moved by a letter from a literary scout” who had been accused of Bernardini’s crimes. Vulture also reported that McMahon expressed sympathy for Bernardini in light of a new autism diagnosis, but said it didn’t excuse the threats he made in some correspondence. But she concluded a prison sentence wouldn’t help the victims.
Bernardini — an Italian citizen and British resident who was arrested at John F. Kennedy International Airport in January 2022 — will be deported from the U.S. Court documents show he asked to be deported to the United Kingdom, where he lives with his partner and dog, with Italy as the designated alternative.
As part of his guilty plea, Bernardini agreed to pay $88,000 in restitution, which court documents show will go to Penguin Random House.
“The cruel irony is that every time I open a book,” Bernardini wrote of his one-time passion, “it reminds me of my wrongdoings and what they led me to.” | 2023-03-25T11:03:38+00:00 | texomashomepage.com | https://www.texomashomepage.com/weird-news/book-thief-in-plot-that-duped-famous-authors-avoids-prison/ |
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Dozens of people were injured in a massive traffic pileup amid snowy conditions in southern Wisconsin on Friday, which blocked Interstate 39/90 for hours, authorities said.
Beloit Memorial Hospital said at least 27 people were treated for injuries sustained in the crash, WIFR-TV reported. The extent of their injuries was not immediately clear, the station said.
State Patrol officials said snow, ice and whiteout conditions were factors in the crash.
Most of southern Wisconsin remained under a winter weather advisory Friday afternoon with more snow expected Saturday.
The crash occurred at around 12:30 p.m. in Rock County between Janesville and Beloit, the State Patrol said in a statement posted on its Facebook page. Troopers arrived to find the interstate blocked in both directions.
Troopers diverted traffic onto side roads. The southbound lanes reopened just after 8 p.m., the State Patrol said on Twitter late Friday.
WIFR-TV posted live video of the scene just before 4 p.m. showing semitrailers backed up as emergency workers assisted motorists.
As of 6 a.m. Friday, the Beloit area had seen 2.2 inches of snow over the last 24 hours, according to the National Weather Service.
The State Patrol said in a separate statement that another multi-vehicle crash around 1:30 p.m. Friday blocked northbound Interstate 41 in Kenosha County near the Wisconsin-Illinois border. Those lanes reopened by 7:35 p.m. Snow, ice and whiteout conditions factored into that crash as well, according to the State Patrol. | 2023-01-28T14:12:39+00:00 | everythinglubbock.com | https://www.everythinglubbock.com/news/national/ap-snow-leads-to-massive-pileup-in-wisconsin-dozens-injured/ |
Grand Canyon basketball will play rest of season without WAC Preseason POY Jovan Blacksher
Grand Canyon point guard Jovan Blacksher Jr., who was trying to return to form from an ankle injury, sustained a season-ending knee injury last week at Sam Houston.
Blacksher, the WAC Preseason Basketball Player of the Year, who led the Antelopes to their first NCAA Tournament appearance two years ago, suffered a torn anterior cruciate ligament, according to GCU insider Paul Coro.
He played only nine minutes of the Sam Houston game, before sustaining the injury. GCU won that game 72-68 in overtime behind guard Ray Harrison's 28 points.
GCU split the Texas trip, falling to Stephen F. Austin 73-68. The Lopes are at home tonight at 7 to face UT Arlington. They are dedicating the rest of the season to the former Phoenix Shadow Mountain standout, who won four state championship rings in high school, before signing with GCU.
Three of GCU's next four games are at home.
Read more: Weekly Arizona college basketball preview
Blacksher, who made All-WAC last season, played in 12 of GCU's first 16 games. He was hobbled by an ankle injury that caused him to miss three games, before the knee injury last week.
He averaged 10.7 points, 2.4 assists and 2.3 rebounds in 27.7 minutes a game. This is Blacksher's fourth season starting for the Lopes, but he is listed as a junior because the NCAA granted athletes an extra year due to COVID in 2020. He averaged 15.8 points last season.
GCU has been without center Yvan Ouedraogo for the last four games due to a broken hand that caused him to undergo surgery. He could be back later in the season. Ouedraogo's injury caused coach Bryce Drew to burn 7-foot freshman Isaiah Carr's redshirt. Carr has started the last three games.
The Lopes also have been wihout redshirt freshman guard Isaiah Shaw due to a leg injury. He was a spark off the bench during non-conference play.
Harrison, a sophomore transfer from Presbyterian, is leading the Lopes (11-5, 2-1 WAC) with 15.1 points and three assists a game. He has scored at least 16 points in the last nine games.
GCU will also rely more on guards Chance McMillian, Josh Baker and redshirt freshman Kobe Knox in Blacksher's absence.
To suggest human-interest story ideas and other news, reach Obert atrichard.obert@arizonarepublic.com or 602-316-8827. Follow him on Twitter@azc_obert | 2023-01-12T15:33:33+00:00 | azcentral.com | https://www.azcentral.com/story/sports/college/gcu/2023/01/12/gcu-jovan-blacksher-jr-will-miss-rest-of-season-with-torn-acl/69801863007/ |
MESA, Ariz. (AP) — A teacher-in-training darted among students, tallying how many needed his help with a history unit on Islam. A veteran math teacher hovered near a cluster of desks, coaching some 50 freshmen on a geometry assignment. A science teacher checked students’ homework, while an English teacher spoke into a microphone at the front of the classroom, giving instruction, to keep students on track.
One hundred thirty-five students, four teachers, one giant classroom: This is what ninth grade looks like at Westwood High School, in Mesa, Arizona’s largest school system. There, an innovative teaching model has taken hold, and is spreading to other schools in the district and beyond.
Five years ago, faced with high teacher turnover and declining student enrollment, Westwood’s leaders decided to try something different. Working with professors at Arizona State University’s teachers college, they piloted a classroom model known as team teaching. It allows teachers to dissolve the walls that separate their classes across physical or grade divides.
The teachers share large groups of students — sometimes 100 or more — and rotate between group instruction, one-on-one interventions, small study groups or whatever the teachers as a team agree is a priority that day. What looks at times like chaos is in fact a carefully orchestrated plan: Each morning, the Westwood teams meet for two hours of the school day to hash out a personalized program for every student, dictating the lessons, skills and assignments the team will focus on that day.
By giving teachers more opportunity to collaborate and greater control over how and what they teach, Mesa’s administrators hoped to fill staffing gaps and boost teacher morale and retention. Initial research suggests the gamble could pay off. This year, the district expanded the concept to a third of its 82 schools. The team-teaching strategy is also drawing interest from school leaders across the U.S., who are eager for new approaches at a time when the effects of the pandemic have dampened teacher morale and worsened staff shortages.
“The pandemic taught us two things: One is people want flexibility, and the other is people don’t want to be isolated,” said Carole Basile, dean of ASU’s teachers college, who helped design the teaching model.
ASU and surrounding school districts started investigating team teaching about six years ago. Enrollment at teacher preparation programs around the country was plummeting as more young people sought out careers that offered better pay, more flexibility and less stress.
Team teaching, a concept first introduced in schools in the 1960s, appealed to ASU researchers because they felt it could help revitalize teachers. And it resonated with school district leaders, who’d come to believe the model of one teacher lecturing at the front of a classroom to many kids wasn’t working.
“Teachers are doing fantastic things, but it’s very rare a teacher walks into another room to see what’s happening,” said Andi Fourlis, superintendent of Mesa Public Schools, one of 10 Arizona districts that have adopted the model. “Our profession is so slow to advance because we are working in isolation.”
Of course, revamping teaching approaches can’t fix some of the biggest frustrations many teachers have about their profession, such as low pay. But early results from Mesa show team teaching may be helping to reverse low morale. In a survey of hundreds of the district’s teachers last year, researchers from Johns Hopkins University found those who worked on teams reported greater job satisfaction, more frequent collaborations with colleagues and more positive interactions with students.
Early data from Westwood also show on-time course completion — a strong predictor of whether freshmen will graduate — improved after the high school started using the team approach for all ninth graders. ASU has found that students in team-based classrooms have better attendance, earn more credits toward graduation and post higher GPAs.
The model is not for everyone. Some teachers approached about volunteering for a team have said they prefer to work alone. Team teaching can also be a scheduling nightmare, especially at schools like Westwood where only some staff work in teams.
On a recent morning at Westwood High, the four teachers and 135 freshmen on the team settled into a boisterous routine.
They ignored the Halloween music that blared from the school speakers, marking a new period for the older students. As their peers in the higher grades shuffled to another 50-minute class, the freshmen continued into a second hour of their work. Most students busied themselves with the day’s assignments, alone or in pairs, while others waited for a specific teacher’s help.
The team regularly welcomes other educators into the classroom, for bilingual or special education services and other one-on-one support. But substitute teachers are rare, since teachers can plan their schedules to accommodate their teammates’ absences.
Another benefit of teams, teachers say, is that they can help each other improve their instruction. During the planning session earlier that morning, English teacher Jeff Hall shared a critique with a science teacher: Her recent lecture, on something she called “the central dogma of biology,” had befuddled him and their other teammates.
“If the science is too confusing for me, can you imagine the frustration you feel as kids?” Hall said. But the science teacher, he said, wouldn’t have known about the confusion on her own.
Hall, who moonlights as an improv comic, had quit teaching right before COVID. He worked odd jobs and realized what they offered that teaching didn’t: a chance to work alongside other adults and collaborate. The need for a steadier paycheck convinced Hall to return to the classroom last year, but he only applied for positions to teach on a team.
“Why don’t we do this for every teacher?” Hall said. “Why was I — a student teacher with zero experience teaching English — handed the keys to an entire class of kids on day one? All alone? That doesn’t work for anyone.”
Proponents of the ASU model acknowledge it doesn’t work perfectly. It presents thorny questions, for example, about how to evaluate four teachers on the performance of 135 students. And teachers on the Westwood team argue they receive too little training on the model.
Students, however, have noticed a difference.
Quinton Rawls attended a middle school with no teams and not enough teachers. Two weeks into eighth grade, his science teacher quit — and was replaced by a series of subs. “I got away with everything,” recalled the 14-year-old.
That’s not the case in ninth grade, said Rawls. He said he appreciates the extra attention that comes with being in a class with so many teachers.
“There’s four of them watching me all the time,” he said. “I think that’s a good thing. I’m not really wasting time.”
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Congress is inching closer toward repealing two Iraq war authorizations decades after their enactment, with bipartisan support emerging to reassert congressional authority, protect against a potential misuse of military force and send a message of support to Iraq, now a strategic U.S. ally.
The Senate is considering legislation to repeal Authorizations for the Use of Military Force (AUMFs) for the 1991 Gulf War and the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq after a strong 68-27 bipartisan procedural vote on March 16 to advance the bill.
And House Republicans appear ready for a debate on the Iraq war authorizations, should similar legislation move to the floor in the lower chamber.
Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) signaled his support for repealing authorizations for both wars, saying he was “into it.”
“I don’t have a problem with that,” McCarthy said at a Republican retreat in Orlando, Fla., last week. “I was not here to vote on either of the creation of those, but you’re 20 years into this now.”
McCarthy emphasized he would not support a repeal of another AUMF passed in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, attack to fight against global terrorism, which has been used to authorize a number of military actions across the world. The 2001 AUMF is not included in the House or Senate legislation.
The House Speaker is not the only Republican signaling support for the Iraq war repeals in the GOP-controlled House. Both Tom Cole (R-Okla.) and Chip Roy (R-Texas) are co-sponsors of the House legislation introduced this year to repeal the Iraq war AUMFs.
Rep. Jack Bergman (R-Mich.), a member of the House Armed Services Committee, said he was seeing “positive” signals in the GOP conference for a discussion on the legislation.
“I believe it’s time for us to have the debate both in the House and Senate,” Bergman told The Hill. “Because you can have a debate, and then you could look at it and say, ‘Well, we’re not going to repeal it, but maybe we’re going to do something different.’
“You consider what kind of powers the president should have,” Bergman added, “which could mean repealing it.”
The 1991 Gulf War, supported by an AUMF passed that same year, involved a brief campaign as U.S. forces quickly and successfully repelled an Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.
An AUMF passed in 2002 supported an invasion of Iraq the following year.
Former President George W. Bush ordered military force after making the case Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was hosting weapons of mass destruction and had supported Al-Qaeda. A United Nations task force later failed to find nuclear weapons in Iraq and no evidence ever emerged of Hussein’s ties with the terrorist group.
Hussein was ousted from power within two months after U.S. forces captured the capital of Baghdad. Bush quickly declared victory and said the major campaign was over.
U.S. troops remained in the country until 2011, when former President Obama pulled them out after years of fighting insurgent groups. American forces returned a few years later, at the request of the Iraqi government, with some 2,500 troops remaining there today.
Congress has tried for several years to repeal the AUMFs. This year’s effort comes as the 20th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq passed on Monday, a day that was marked by the solemn remembrance of one of America’s most unpopular wars.
Khury Petersen-Smith, a Middle East fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), a progressive think tank, said consideration of the repeals during the 20th anniversary of the war was fueling discourse and potentially setting the U.S. on the path to passage.
“The fact that is the context in which this vote is coming up lends itself to passing,” he said. “I think there is a very limited, but no less important, reflection on the 2003 invasion of Iraq that is if not critical, then a bit regretful.”
However, there remains some opposition to repealing the authorizations over concerns it would create a vacuum and give rise to U.S.-designated terrorist groups such as ISIS.
While a repeal would not force American soldiers to withdraw from Iraq, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said on the Senate floor last week the U.S. needs the authorizations “to make sure ISIS doesn’t come back.”
“When they had a foothold in Iraq and Syria … all hell broke loose,” Graham said. “In 2023, Americans are serving in Iraq, and we owe it to them to make sure we can use whatever military force necessary to protect them.”
Petersen-Smith from IPS said there may also be opposition to repealing the wars because the 1991, 2001 and 2002 AUMFs have institutionalized open-ended wars.
He also argued that opponents may see a repeal of the Iraq AUMFs as “acknowledging the U.S. is guilty of horrendous human rights abuses.”
Leading the effort to repeal the AUMFs on Capitol Hill are Sens. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) and Todd Young (R-Ind.), who have repeatedly warned that a sitting president can technically misuse the war authorizations if they remain on the books. Former President Trump justified a 2020 strike on Iranian general Qasem Soleimani in Baghdad by citing the 2002 Iraq war AUMF.
The senators have also pushed for the AUMF repeals to relay a symbolic show of support to Iraq — a key partner for the U.S. in the Middle East — and to send a message to foreign adversaries that Washington can turn enemies into friends.
For veterans of the Iraq war, repealing the AUMFs would also serve as closure. The U.S. invasion cost the lives of more than 4,000 American troops.
Several organizations representing veterans and servicemembers have expressed clear support for the legislation, including the American Legion.
Sarah Streyder, the executive director of the Secure Families Initiative, a nonpartisan group that represents military spouses, family members and veterans, said she “strongly supports repealing the dangerous, outdated Iraq war authorizations.”
“Occasions like the recent 20th anniversary of the Iraq war are solemn reminders that we need so much more than casual platitudes from our non-military neighbors — we need tangible policy action,” Streyder said in a statement. “We need voters and policymakers to show that they’ve learned from the mistakes of the last 20 years to avoid suffering the same loss and sacrifice in the next 20.”
Veterans of the Iraq war who are now in Congress could be among those who move the legislation forward. In his comments last week, McCarthy said lawmakers who served deserved a chance to weigh in on the AUMFs.
Rep. Cory Mills (R-Fla.), an Army veteran who served for seven years in Iraq and was injured twice by explosive devices, said the AUMFs were “being purposely misused for what was not their intended purpose.”
“It is also a direct abdication of our roles and responsibilities,” Mills said, referring to Congress. “I can tell you right now that I’ll be happy” upon repeal.
Meanwhile, the Senate considered and proposed several amendments to the legislation.
Speaking on the Senate floor on Thursday, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said a final vote could come early this week and passage was a “matter of when, not if.”
“Americans want to see an end to endless Middle East wars,” Schumer said. “Passing this [bill] is a necessary step to putting these bitter conflicts squarely behind us.” | 2023-03-27T10:53:59+00:00 | siouxlandproud.com | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/hill-politics/decades-later-congress-nears-repeal-of-both-iraq-war-authorizations/ |
SESTRIERE, Italy (AP) — Olympic champion Petra Vlhová led after the opening run of a World Cup slalom on Sunday as she searched for her first win of the season.
The Slovakian skier posted a time of 58.51 seconds in Sestriere to take an advantage of 0.24 over Switzerland's Wendy Holdener, who ended her lengthy wait for a slalom victory last month in Killington, Vermont.
Mikaela Shiffrin of the United States was third, 0.33 slower than Vlhová.
Two other skiers were within a second of Vlhová — Lena Dürr and Anna Swenn Larsson, who also won in Killington in a joint first-place finish.
The 27-year-old Vlhová won the slalom title last season — as well as Olympic gold — but finished second in the overall standings to Shiffrin. Vlhová won the overall title the previous year.
Shiffrin leads the overall standings after winning the two season-opening slalom races. Vlhová finished third in both.
Neither finished on the podium in the slalom or the giant slalom in Killington and both opted out of the speed races in Lake Louise in Canada last weekend.
Vlhová finished third in Saturday's GS to trim Shiffrin's lead in the overall standings to 25 points.
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Black people going about their daily lives — then dying in a hail of bullets fired by a white man who targeted them because of their skin color.
Substitute a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, with a church in South Carolina,and Malcolm Graham knows the pain and grief the families of those killed Saturday are feeling. He knows their dismay that racial bigotry has torn apart the fabric of their families.
“America’s Achilles’ heel continues to be … racism,” said Graham, whose sister, Cynthia Graham-Hurd, was among nine parishioners fatally shot by avowed white supremacist Dylann Roof in 2015 during Bible study in Charleston.
“As a country, we need to acknowledge that it exists,” Graham said. “There’s a lack of acknowledgment that these problems are persistent, are embedded into systems and cost lives.”
For many Black Americans, the Buffalo shooting has stirred up the same feelings they faced after Charleston and other attacks: the fear, the vulnerability, the worry that nothing will be done politically or otherwise to prevent the next act of targeted racial violence.
Law enforcement officials said suspected gunman Payton Gendron, 18, drove 200 miles from his hometown of Conklin, New York, to Buffalo after searching out and specifically targeting a predominantly Black neighborhood.
He shot 11 Black people and two white people at the grocery store, authorities said. Ten people died.
A 180-page document, purportedly written by Gendron, gives plans for the attack and makes references to other racist shootings and to Roof. The document also outlines a racist ideology rooted in a belief that the U.S. should belong only to white people. All others, the document said, were “replacers” who should be eliminated by force or terror. The attack was intended to intimidate all non-white, non-Christian people and get them to leave the country, it said.
The idea that those killed at the Tops Friendly Market lost their lives because of the shooter’s racism is “sick,” said Steve Carlson, 29, who is Black and grew up knowing Katherine Massey, one of the victims.
“It’s not right. You don’t pick what ethnicity you’re born to,” Carlson said. “These people were just shopping, they went to go get food for their families.”
At State Tabernacle Church of God in Christ, Deacon Heyward Patterson was mourned during services Sunday. Pastor Russell Bell couldn’t wrap his mind around the attack and Patterson’s death.
“I don’t understand what that is, to hate people just because of their color, to hate people because we’re different. God made us all different. That’s what makes the world go ’round,” he said.
But as abhorrent as the shooting was, it was hardly an isolated incident. The history of the United States is filled with white supremacist violence, starting from even before its official origins.
Black people have borne and continue to bear the brunt of much of it, but other groups have also been targeted in attacks because of their race, including Latinos in the 2019 shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, where 22 people were killed.
Gunmen with biases against religion and sexual orientation have also carried out targeted violence: the shootings at a San Diego synagoguein 2019and a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, in 2016.
Democratic Florida state Rep. Carlos Guillermo Smith, who is gay and of Peruvian descent, immediately had flashbacks to the Pulse nightclub shooting that left 49 victims dead. The shooter targeted gay patrons in what was a largely Latino crowd.
“It’s déjà vu all over again in Orlando,” said Smith, who represents an Orlando district. “2016 seems like a long time ago, but in 2022 there’s a lot more hatred and bigotry out there.”
Experiencing violence of any kind is obviously traumatic, but the impact of targeted violence like this has ripples on a broader level.
“To be targeted for these things that you cannot control, it’s not only extremely painful emotionally, but it also impacts the way you perceive the world going forward after that,” said Michael Edison Hayden, spokesperson for the Southern Poverty Law Center, which advocates for civil rights.
Hate crime laws are on the books in recognition of that reality. The effect of events like these is “you’ve increased the vulnerability of everyone who looks like the target,” said Jeannine Bell, a professor at Indiana University’s Maurer School of Law. “This is a different type of crime because it impacts not just the victims, but also the community.”
While there’s always hand-wringing and dismay after incidents like these, that hasn’t translated into a commitment to address the bigotry that underlies them, said Cornell Williams Brooks, a professor at the Harvard Kennedy School and former president and CEO of the NAACP.
He’s weary of political leaders’ promises to do more about white supremacist threats and gun violence.
“Count the number of sympathy cards and flowers, prayers and thoughts that have been extended to the victims of mass shootings, to the victims of racialized violence,” he said. “Do we really need (politicians) showing up to our places of worship to help bury our folks and do nothing to stop the carnage?”
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Farrington reported from Tallahassee, Florida. Associated Press writer Carolyn Thompson contributed from Buffalo.
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Nationals third. CJ Abrams triples to center field. Lane Thomas doubles to deep right field. CJ Abrams scores. Luis Garcia strikes out swinging. Joey Meneses called out on strikes. Luke Voit strikes out swinging.
1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Nationals 1, Cardinals 0.
Nationals sixth. Cesar Hernandez singles to shallow left field. Ildemaro Vargas reaches on a fielder's choice to shallow infield. Cesar Hernandez out at second. Josh Palacios singles to left field. Ildemaro Vargas to second. CJ Abrams singles to shallow infield. Josh Palacios to second. Ildemaro Vargas to third. Lane Thomas walks. CJ Abrams to second. Josh Palacios to third. Ildemaro Vargas scores. Luis Garcia singles to shallow infield. Lane Thomas to second. CJ Abrams to third. Josh Palacios scores. Joey Meneses singles to left center field. Luis Garcia to second. Lane Thomas to third. CJ Abrams scores. Luke Voit out on a sacrifice fly to center field to Lars Nootbaar. Lane Thomas scores. Keibert Ruiz walks. Joey Meneses to second. Luis Garcia to third. Cesar Hernandez flies out to left field to Corey Dickerson.
4 runs, 5 hits, 0 errors, 3 left on. Nationals 5, Cardinals 0.
Nationals eighth. Joey Meneses grounds out to shallow infield, Tommy Edman to Albert Pujols. Luke Voit grounds out to shortstop, Nolan Gorman to Albert Pujols. Keibert Ruiz homers to right field. Cesar Hernandez walks. Ildemaro Vargas grounds out to shallow infield, Tommy Edman to Albert Pujols.
1 run, 1 hit, 0 errors, 1 left on. Nationals 6, Cardinals 0. | 2022-09-05T23:56:48+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/sports/article/Washington-St-Louis-Runs-17420949.php |
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NFL camps open this week with most of the focus on players who aren’t showing up.
All-Pro defensive tackle Chris Jones skipped Sunday’s first workout with the defending Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs over a contract dispute.
Veterans with the New York Giants and Las Vegas Raiders are scheduled to report on Tuesday, but Saquon Barkley and Josh Jacobs are expected to hold out because they didn’t receive long-term deals after getting the franchise tag. Both star running backs would earn $10.1 million this season under the tag.
Neither Barkley nor Jacobs signed the franchise tender, which means they wouldn’t be fined for missing practices. They’d lose $560,611 per game if they sit out during the season.
Holdouts are nothing new in the NFL and they used to be more common decades ago. Jones is due to make $19.5 million in base salary this season and carries a salary cap hit of almost $28.3 million, so the Chiefs are motivated to get a new deal done. He faces a mandatory fine of $50,000 per day.
“Look, we love Chris Jones and when he decides to report, we’ll welcome him,” Chiefs owner Clark Hunt said. “I don’t want to get into speculating on when that’ll happen, or if it’ll happen.”
Barkley and Jacobs are a different story. They’re angry and frustrated. They feel undervalued and underappreciated. So do many of their peers around the league.
“There’s really nothing we can do,” Cleveland Browns running back Nick Chubb said Sunday after he took part in a Zoom call with several backs around the league on Saturday. “We’re kind of handcuffed with the situation.”
It’s expected Barkley and Jacobs will eventually report. Missing games only costs them money they’ll never regain. But there’s no incentive for them to show up before September.
The biggest story line beyond holdout players surrounds Aaron Rodgers, the New York Jets and their appearance on HBO’s “Hard Knocks.” Rodgers and the Jets already were going to be under the microscope. Now, television cameras will be there to follow them every step of the way.
Jets coach Robert Saleh downplayed any added pressure to win because of Rodgers.
“What I’ve noticed in New York is that they really don’t care,” he said. “You’re either winning or you’re not, it doesn’t matter who you’ve got. The expectation to win is constant in this league. You’ve always got that monkey on your back, like you’ve got to get that result. I’ve said it before — as important as the result is, if that’s your only focus, you’re going to skip on the process that it takes to get that result that you want, so the pressure lies in how you handle the day, how you’re getting better.”
Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs reported last week, eager to get working on becoming the first team to repeat since the New England Patriots in 2003 and ’04.
“It’s hard to win the Super Bowl,” Mahomes said. “I think I’ve noticed that from my first one to my second, you can do everything the right way and you don’t win.”
The Philadelphia Eagles, who report Tuesday, are aiming to become the first team since the 2018 Patriots and fourth ever to win a Super Bowl the year after losing one.
“This team has to find an identity for itself,” Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts said.
Plenty of eyes in camp will be on rookie QBs Bryce Young in Carolina, C.J. Stroud in Houston and Anthony Richardson in Indianapolis.
Young, the No. 1 overall pick, already took over first-team reps in the offseason and appears headed to start Week 1. Stroud, the No. 2 pick, should get a similar opportunity with the Texans and first-year coach DeMeco Ryans. Richardson, who was picked fourth and didn’t have much playing experience in college at Florida, probably won’t start right away for the Colts but he’s expected to supplant veteran Gardner Minshew at some point.
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WARREN, Mich., Nov. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Universal Logistics Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: ULH) announced that Tim Phillips, Universal's Chief Executive Officer, and Jude Beres, Chief Financial Officer, will participate in a fireside chat at the Stephens Annual Investment Conference.
The event will begin at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time on Wednesday, November 16, 2022, and will be broadcast live via webcast at http://www.universallogistics.com. To access the event, click on "Investor Relations" and follow the link to the webcast. A link to the replay will be available following the event.
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Universal Logistics Holdings, Inc. ("Universal") is a holding company that owns subsidiaries engaged in providing a variety of customized transportation and logistics solutions throughout the United States, and in Mexico, Canada and Colombia. Our operating subsidiaries provide customers with supply chain solutions that can be scaled to meet their changing demands and volumes. Universal's consolidated subsidiaries offer customers a broad array of services across the entire supply chain, including truckload, brokerage, intermodal, dedicated, and value-added services. In this press release, the terms "us," "we," "our," or the "Company" refer to Universal and its consolidated subsidiaries.
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It’s been more than a century since a major storm like Hurricane Ian has struck the Tampa Bay area, which blossomed from a few hundred thousand people in 1921 to more than 3 million today.
Many of these people live in low-lying neighborhoods that are highly susceptible to storm surge and flooding they have rarely before experienced, which some experts say could be worsened by the effects of climate change.
The problem confronting the region is that storms approaching from the south, as Hurricane Ian is on track to do, bulldoze huge volumes of water up into shallow Tampa Bay and are likely to inundate homes and businesses. The adjacent Gulf of Mexico is also shallow.
“Strong persistent winds will push a lot of water into the bay and there’s nowhere for it to go, so it just builds up,” said Brian McNoldy, a senior research associate at the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric and Earth Science. “Tampa Bay is very surge-prone because of its orientation.”
The National Hurricane Center is predicting storm surge in Tampa Bay and surrounding waters of between 5 and 10 feet (1.5 and 3 meters) above normal tide conditions and rainfall of between 10 and 15 inches (12 and 25 centimeters) because of Hurricane Ian.
“That's a lot of rain. That's not going to drain out quickly,” said Cathie Perkins, emergency management director in Pinellas County, where St. Petersburg and Clearwater are located. “This is no joke. This is life-threatening storm surge.”
Officials in the area began issuing evacuation orders Monday for a wide swath of Tampa, with the St. Petersburg area soon to follow. The evacuations could affect 300,000 people or more in Hillsborough County alone.
Gov. Ron DeSantis took note of the region's vulnerability in a Monday afternoon news conference in Largo, Florida.
“Clearly, when you look at the Tampa Bay area, one of the reasons why we fear storms is because of the sensitivity of this area and the fragility of this area," DeSantis said.
The last time Tampa Bay was hit by a major storm was Oct. 25, 1921. The hurricane had no official name but is known locally as the Tarpon Springs storm, for the seaside town famed for its sponge-diving docks and Greek heritage where it came ashore.
The storm surge from that hurricane, estimated at Category 3 with winds of up to 129 mph ( 207 km/h) was pegged at 11 feet (3.3 meters). At least eight people died and damage was estimated at $5 million at the time.
Now, the tourist-friendly region known for its sugar-sand beaches has grown by leaps and bounds, with homes and businesses along the water the ideal locations — most of the time. Hurricane Ian could threaten all of that development.
Just as an example, the city of Tampa had about 51,000 residents in 1920. Today, that number is almost 395,000. Many of the other cities in the region have experienced similar explosive growth.
A report from the Boston-based catastrophe modeling firm Karen Clark and Co. concluded in 2015 that Tampa Bay is the most vulnerable place in the U.S. to storm surge flooding from a hurricane and stands to lose $175 billion in damage. A World Bank study a few years before that placed Tampa as the seventh-most vulnerable city to major storms on the entire globe.
Yet for years storms seemed to bypass the region somewhat inexplicably. Phil Klotzbach, research scientist in the Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University, noted that only one of five hurricanes at Category 3 strength or higher has struck Tampa Bay since 1851.
“In general, cyclones moving over the Gulf of Mexico had a tendency of passing well north of Tampa,” the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration said in report on the 1921 storm.
Also lurking in the waves and wind are the impacts of climate change and the higher sea levels scientists say it is causing.
“Due to global warming, global climate models predict hurricanes will likely cause more intense rainfall and have an increased coastal flood risk due to higher storm surge caused by rising seas,” Angela Colbert, a scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, wrote in a June report.
McNoldy, the University of Miami researcher, noted that Hurricane Andrew's storm surge today would be 7 inches (17 centimeters) higher than it was when that storm pounded South Florida 30 years ago.
“As sea level rises, the same storm surge will be able to flood more areas because the baseline upon which it’s happening is higher,” McNoldy said.
Amid all the science, a local legend has it that blessings from Native Americans who once called the region home have largely protected it from major storms for centuries. Part of that legend is the many mounds built by the Tocobagan tribe in what is now Pinellas County that some believe are meant as guardians against invaders, including hurricanes.
Rui Farias, executive director of the St. Petersburg Museum of History, told the Tampa Bay Times after Hurricane Irma's near miss in 2017 that many people still believe it.
“It’s almost like when a myth becomes history,” Farias said. “As time goes on, it comes true.”
It appears Hurricane Ian will give that legend a test in the coming days. | 2022-09-27T15:59:07+00:00 | kivitv.com | https://www.kivitv.com/news/national/vulnerable-tampa-bay-has-not-seen-a-direct-hit-from-hurricane-in-more-than-a-century |
Huntsville murder conviction upheld by Attorney General Marshall
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) - Attorney General Steve Marshall announced Monday that the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals upheld a Huntsville murder conviction.
Sherman Moore was convicted in 2022 of murdering William Matthews in 2019.
Evidence at the trial showed that on Feb. 17, 2019, Matthews was at a friend’s home when Moore stopped by. Moore then asked Matthews about a local drug dealer and the friend told Moore that he would get him more information.
Moore then left the house but said something to Matthews first. Moore returned to the home, entered the front door and shot Matthews in the back. Matthews did at a local hospital.
Moore claimed he had gone to the house to buy drugs but got into a confrontation with Matthews and shot him in self-defense.
Moore was found guilty and sentenced to 25 years in prison but sought to have the conviction reversed upon appeal.
In a court session on Feb. 3, 2023, the murder conviction was upheld.
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SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily 4" game were:
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¶ 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. | 2023-01-06T04:19:05+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-4-game-17698218.php |
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenyan police were investigating the death of an LGBTQ activist whose body was found stuffed in a metal box, as human rights groups on Friday decried the killing.
Edwin Chiloba’s body was found on Wednesday on a road in Uasin Gishu County in the west of the country.
Police say a motorcycle taxi operator reported seeing the box being dumped by a vehicle with no license plates.
The rider reported the incident to police officers who were manning a nearby roadblock.
Officers who opened the box found the decomposing body of a man, whom they described as wearing women’s clothes.
The deceased was identified as Chiloba and his body was taken to the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital to establish the cause of death.
Police spokesperson Resila Onyango said the motive wasn’t yet known.
“We don’t know for now why he was killed that way. Experts are handling the matter,” she said.
Chiloba has in the past been attacked and assaulted for his activism, his friend Denis Nzioka tweeted on Thursday.
The Kenya Human Rights Commission on Friday said Chiloba was a victim of “another disgusting act of homophobic violence.”
Amnesty International secretary-general Agnès Callamard tweeted that a full and independent investigation into Chiloba’s “heart-breaking” killing must be carried out, “leaving no stone unturned.”
Chiloba, who was a fashion designer, was eulogized by local activist Njeri Migwi, who said that “he embodied fashion.”
The calls for justice have spread outside Kenya as Ghanaian human rights organization Rightify called on President William Ruto to “ensure the protection and promotion of human rights of sexual and gender minorities.”
LGBTQ people living in Kenya have often decried discrimination and attacks in a country where sex between men is illegal.
Kenya is largely a conservative society and the president has in past said that gay rights are a nonissue in the east African country. | 2023-01-06T17:44:23+00:00 | siouxlandproud.com | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/international/ap-kenyan-lgbt-activists-body-found-in-metal-box/ |
The successful Nashville event was focused on the future of telemedicine.
SIOUX FALLS, S.D., Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Avel eCare's first annual Customer Forum and Innovation Summit was successfully held in Nashville, TN, on August 14-16, 2022. The summit brought thought leaders from across the country together to share insights and perspectives on innovations in telemedicine and the future of healthcare delivery.
"We've established the value of telemedicine as a care delivery vehicle – that is clear. Now, it's time to explore opportunities for how to drive innovation moving forward. We've only scratched the surface of what's possible. This event was an opportunity for our customers, industry experts, and policy leaders to get together to exchange knowledge and share their vision for telemedicine in years to come," said Avel eCare CEO, Doug Duskin.
Click HERE to read a blog post from Doug where he goes into more detail about the Forum and his vision for the future of telemedicine.
The event kicked off with a special address from Marsha Blackburn, U.S. Senator from Tennessee. Following the keynote, a range of customers and industry thought leaders took the stage to share use cases, best practices, and perspectives on topics such as how telemedicine can help fill vital gaps in care, alleviate staff burnout, and ensure access to clinicians and specialists for patients in rural and underserved areas.
Sessions on the agenda included:
- Expanding Access and Improving Outcomes with Tele-behavioral Health
- Cybersecurity - Protecting your Systems to Protect your Patients
- New Era of Critical Care: Critical Care on Demand
Also included in the lineup was an examination of the telehealth waivers, licensing flexibilities, disaster credentialing, and common policy challenges healthcare organizations face when launching and scaling a telemedicine program.
Customers who attended the forum represented 23 different healthcare organizations and facilities, and the feedback was overwhelmingly positive. One guest remarked, "the Avel eCare Customer Forum was a terrific event, providing tons of opportunities to learn, share, and interact with folks across healthcare ecosystems."
Avel eCare plans on continuing this forum annually and is already finalizing details for the 2023 event.
Avel eCare offers the largest and most comprehensive virtual health networks in the world, partnering with more than 450 health care systems, rural hospitals, outpatient clinics, long-term care facilities, schools, and correctional facilities across the country.
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Lynx vs. Sun: Odds, spread, over/under and other Vegas lines - July 30
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 4:36 AM CDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
The Connecticut Sun (18-6), on Sunday, July 30, 2023 at 1:00 PM ET, aim to build on a three-game home winning streak when hosting the Minnesota Lynx (12-13).
In this article, you will check out the spread and odds across multiple sportsbooks for the Lynx vs. Sun matchup.
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Lynx vs. Sun Game Info
- Game Day: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Game Time: 1:00 PM ET
- TV Channel: CBS Sports Network and NBCS-BOS
- Location: Uncasville, Connecticut
- Arena: Mohegan Sun Arena
Lynx vs. Sun Odds, Spread, Over/Under
Check out the odds, spread and over/under for this WNBA matchup posted on several sportsbooks.
Lynx vs. Sun Betting Trends
- The Sun have put together a 13-10-0 record against the spread this season.
- The Lynx have won 12 games against the spread this year, while failing to cover 12 times.
- Connecticut has not covered the spread when favored by 11.5 points or more this season (in one opportunity).
- Minnesota has covered the spread once when an underdog by 11.5 points or more this season (in five opportunities).
- So far this season, 14 out of the Sun's 23 games have gone over the point total.
- A total of 13 Lynx games this year have gone over the point total.
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DALLAS (AP) — Luka Doncic and Kyrie Irving are just two games into figuring out how to be co-stars for the Dallas Mavericks, who are behind schedule based on last season’s surge that sparked a deep playoff run.
The Mavericks have no choice but to win games while working out the kinks because of a tightly packed Western Conference.
There’s roughly a three-game difference between home-court advantage in the first round and missing the playoffs altogether, and second-year coach Jason Kidd accepts that reality a year after a strong second half that sent the Mavs on their way to the West finals.
“This would be a good time to have that kick, but again, with Kai, we’re still getting to know each other,” Kidd said Wednesday as the club returned from the All-Star break with a practice a day before starting a six-game homestand against San Antonio.
With that, Kidd smiled and referred to the last time Doncic and Irving were on the court together with the Mavs, when they passed back and forth multiple times and didn’t get a shot off in the final seconds of a 124-121 loss to Minnesota.
“There’s going to be some times when you can see those two out there playing catch with one another,” Kidd said. “Hopefully that’s over. One of them will shoot the ball, I guarantee.”
Irving missed the last game before the break with back tightness, and solo Doncic wasn’t enough in a 118-109 loss at Denver when Dallas trailed by as many as 21 points.
Doncic was out for Irving debut’s because of a heel injury that sidelined him for four games. The pair is 0-2 together, but barring injury, Dallas can expect Doncic and Irving to be together on the court in most, if not all, of its 22 remaining games.
Center Dwight Powell is one of the starters tasked with helping the new pairing work.
“At the end of the day, I’ve just got to be ready for the opportunities they’re creating because they gravity of those two is insane,” Powell said. “Having them out there at the same time, I really got to be ready for a multitude of situations, and their creativity means I have to be making decisions on the fly.
“It’s a lot of film. It’s getting used to guys in practice. But it’s one of those things that comes with time. Looking forward to how we all kind of grow together over these next few games.”
A year ago, the Mavs started their surge around the new year, finishing fourth in the West and beating Utah twice without an injured Doncic in a six-game series win in the first round.
After blowing out Phoenix on the road in Game 7 of the West semifinals, Dallas lost to Golden State in five before the Warriors won the title.
The roster wasn’t quite the same this season after Jalen Brunson, a huge part of the first-round win over Utah, left for New York in free agency. A similar surge hasn’t happened.
There’s plenty of time for the Mavs to get back to where they finished in the standings last season, maybe even higher, if their All-Star tandem can reach its potential.
“It’s beautiful to watch someone so creative play the game the way he does,” Powell said, referring to Irving but aware he’s been watching something similar from Doncic for five seasons. “To have two guys that are at that level of mastery is exciting for us around them and gives us a crazy amount of firepower. It’s on us to remain ready.”
Irving had 32 points, a game-high 15 assists and played a Team LeBron-high 29 minutes in a 184-175 All-Star Game loss to Team Giannis. Doncic, a fellow Team LeBron starter, played 19 minutes and scored four points.
Now the numbers will be more similar — both scored in the 20s in their debut together and in the 30s against the Timberwolves. And both will be pushing 40 minutes per game, another issue for Kidd to sort out.
The soon-to-be 24-year-old Doncic probably won’t play every minute after halftime, which he has done several times while remaining neck-and-neck with Philadelphia’s Joel Embiid in the scoring race.
“For Kai, I think it’s just a matter of the time spent on and off the floor with the guys,” Kidd said. “With the break, everybody kind of goes their separate way. We’ve got 22 games left. Now it’s just about connecting not only on the floor but off the floor. He’s an adult. He knows how to do that.”
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AP NBA: https://apnews.com/hub/NBA and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2023-02-23T04:30:05+00:00 | ksn.com | https://www.ksn.com/sports/ap-sports/ap-mavs-need-wins-in-tight-west-as-doncic-irving-try-to-mesh/ |
Tiger Woods facing legal clash with ex-girlfriend as Masters nears
(AP) - Tiger Woods’ former girlfriend wants to nullify a nondisclosure agreement she signed with golf’s biggest star in a legal dispute that involves allegations of an abrupt breakup after six years together.
The court documents have come to light a month before Woods, whose comeback from injuries has restored his popularity, returns to Augusta National to play in the Masters.
Attorneys for Woods’ ex-girlfriend, Erica Herman, are asking for clarity on what she can and cannot say, according to documents filed in Martin County Circuit Court in south Florida.
Woods lives in Hobe Sound in Martin County, north of West Palm Beach, and the complaint said Woods and Herman had been living together.
According to the complaint, a trust controlled by Woods is trying to silence Herman with an NDA she signed while involved in a “personal and professional relationship” with Woods.
The complaint argues it should be nullified under the “Speak Out Act,” which became federal law in December and prohibits an NDA from being enforced when sexual assault or sexual harassment is involved.
Herman has not specifically accused Woods of sexual abuse; the civil cover sheet indicates the case involves sexual abuse.
Herman filed a separate complaint on Oct. 26 accusing the trust established by Woods — the Jupiter Island Irrevocable Homestead Trust — of violating the Florida Residential Landlord Tenant Act.
She alleges they had an 11-year oral tenancy agreement, and that five years remained on it when she was removed from the property through what she described in the complaint as “trickery.”
Herman, who once worked at his Jupiter Woods restaurant, alleges Woods’ agents persuaded her to pack for a short vacation. She claims when she arrived at the airport, they told her she had been locked out of the house and was not to return.
She also alleges the agents “attempted to justify their illegal conduct” by paying for a hotel room and certain expenses for a short period of time. The complaint says the agents removed her belongings and misappropriated $40,000 in cash that belonged to her, “making scurrilous and defamatory allegations about how she obtained the money.”
Woods’ agent at Excel Sports Management, Mark Steinberg, has not responded to a phone call and a text message seeking comment.
Woods and his wife divorced in 2010, some nine months after he was caught in a series of extramarital affairs that cost him blue-chip corporate sponsors and tarnished an image that been largely impeccable.
Since then, he has had a series of injuries and surgeries, including fusion surgery on his lower back in 2017, and shattered bones in his right leg from a February 2021 crash in Los Angeles when he drove his SUV off a coastal road while driving about 85 mph.
He returned from four back surgeries to win the 2019 Masters for his first major in 11 years and his 15th career Grand Slam title. Equally remarkable was coming back from the car crash that he said nearly led to amputation of his right leg, playing in the Masters — and making the cut — just over a year later.
Woods is able to play only a limited schedule because of his injuries, and people continue to follow his every move. In Los Angeles three weeks ago, fans stood two-deep along just about every fairway for a glimpse of him.
Woods chose to sit out The Players Championship this week, instead resting for the Masters on April 6-9. He needs one more PGA Tour victory to set the career record he shares with Sam Snead at 82.
He was first seen in public with Herman at the Presidents Cup in late September 2017, and she had been a steady presence at the larger events, such as the 2019 Masters. But she was not with him at his Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas the first week in December, nor at the Genesis Invitational he hosted at Riviera in California three weeks ago.
The complaint filed Monday on the NDA doesn’t provide details about what information Herman might want to disclose or make specific allegations against Woods.
The complaint says because of “aggressive use” of the NDA, Herman is unsure whether she can disclose “facts giving rise to various legal claims she believes she has.” It also says she is unsure what other information about her own life she can discuss and with whom.
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A KFC employee in St. Louis has been hospitalized after a customer shot him because he was upset that the restaurant had run out of corn, police said.
The shooting happened Monday evening in the city's Central West End neighborhood.
Investigators said the man tried to place an order in the restaurant's drive-thru lane. He became upset and threatened employees when he was told the business was out of corn, police said.
The man had a handgun when he drove up to the drive-thru window. A 25-year-old employee who went outside to talk to the driver returned to the restaurant and said he had been shot, police said.
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The driver fled and had not been arrested as of Tuesday afternoon.
The victim was hospitalized in critical but stable condition.
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PORTLAND, Ore. — Buoy Beer Company's popular brewery in Astoria is closed until further notice after its roof collapsed and part of the original building caved in Tuesday evening. The company is now trying to figure out how to keep its employees working.
"We are working on plans to keep our entire team working and figure out ways to get back to brewing, as our brewhouse and fermentation facility has not been affected," David Kroening, president of Buoy Beer Company, said in a statement Wednesday.
The damaged building housed Buoy Beer's restaurant, small batch brewery, several brewing tanks and its canning line. The facility was closed and unoccupied at the time of the collapse and no one was hurt, according to officials.
By Wednesday, the building was fenced off to the public and city manager Brett Estes said it's been deemed unsafe to occupy.
"We will continue to work with the City of Astoria officials and other professionals to inspect things more thoroughly as we figure out the next steps," the company's statement said.
Buoy Beer's brewery, located on the water near the mouth of the Columbia River, has established itself as a staple for locals and tourists alike.
"It's also one of my favorite places to eat," said Astoria resident Kevin Hudson. "It's really sad to see it like this though. One of my friends actually works there. I don't think they're having anyone work there right now."
The company said it will likely take some time to meet with city officials and figure out what needs to be done to move forward.
"We are humbled by the overwhelming support from our local community as well as our industry friends," the company's statement said. "We feel lucky to live and work in this place and in an industry like ours. Thank you for all your kindness while we navigate this situation."
Buoy Beer's sister companies, Pilot House Distilling and River Barrel Distribution, were unaffected by the collapse and will continue to operate as normal. | 2022-06-16T01:16:06+00:00 | king5.com | https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/buoy-beer-closed-indefinitely-after-collapse/283-a1f58c52-4ee2-4f36-9b86-cdce79a68480 |
WEST HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Paxson Wojcik scored 19 points as Brown beat Hartford 65-51 on Sunday.
Wojcik added six assists for the Bears (5-4). Kalu Anya added 12 points while shooting 5 of 7 from the field and 2 for 4 from the line. Kino Lilly Jr. shot 4 for 11, including 3 for 9 from beyond the arc to finish with 11 points.
Briggs McClain led the Hawks (4-7) in scoring, finishing with 19 points, six rebounds and three steals. Jared Kimbrough added 11 points and three steals for Hartford. Kurtis Henderson also put up 10 points and five assists.
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WCIA — Highlights, reaction and scores from high school playoff action on Monday including Mahomet-Seymour softball’s 4-1 super-sectional win over Highland to send the Bulldogs to their first state tournament.
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Mahomet-Seymour 4, Highland 1 | 2022-06-07T02:16:46+00:00 | wcia.com | https://www.wcia.com/sports/local-sports/hs-scoreboard-6-6-22/ |
CHICAGO, Aug. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the world's leading derivatives marketplace, today announced that CME Clearing has further expanded the collateral it accepts and now will permit clearing members to deposit Short-Term U.S. Treasury Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) to meet initial margin requirements.
CME Clearing accepts the widest range of collateral of any major clearing house. The addition of short-term ETFs gives clearing members and their clients greater flexibility and increased efficiency in managing their collateral costs. In particular, the ETFs pay a dividend, which is more operationally efficient and mitigates the need for clients to re-invest maturity proceeds for individual U.S. Treasury securities.
"We are very pleased to provide our market participants with additional capital efficiencies by continuing to expand the types of collateral we accept," said Suzanne Sprague, Senior Managing Director and Global Head of Clearing & Post-Trade Services. "We've worked closely with ETF sponsors to ensure that this new collateral both meets our rigorous risk management standards and offers a broader range of collateral choices for clearing members."
"iShares launched the first four-bond ETFs 20 years ago believing they would modernize fixed income markets by increasing transparency and liquidity while unlocking sophisticated portfolio and trading capabilities for our clients," said Carolyn Weinberg, Global Head of Product for ETF and Index Investments, BlackRock. "Margin and collateral are a new use case for bond ETFs like SGOV and SHV, which further demonstrates how they are useful, resilient investment tools that can improve outcomes for individuals and large institutions alike."
"Treasury ETFs such as the Goldman Sachs Access Treasury 0-1 Year ETF (GBIL) are a useful form of collateral that may benefit clients who have challenges managing the roll of a U.S. Treasury Bill portfolio, or who simply wish to outsource treasury management," said Mike Crinieri, Global Head of ETFs at Goldman Sachs Asset Management. "We are excited to work with CME Clearing to deliver the operational efficiency of the ETF wrapper for collateral purposes."
"We appreciate that CME Clearing has developed an initiative to create a flexible and efficient funding solution for market participants with initial margin requirements," says Emily McKinley, Head of Institutional Specialists for Invesco ETFs and Indexed Strategies. "CME Clearing's addition of the Invesco Treasury Collateral ETF (CLTL) and other short-duration U.S. Treasury ETFs as eligible collateral expands the available toolset for collateral providers and receivers."
"This initiative aims to bring flexible and efficient funding solutions for market participants with initial margin requirements and highlights an additional use case for short term treasury ETFs," said Kimberly Russell, Vice President and Market Structure Specialist at State Street Global Advisors.
The short-term ETFs invest in U.S. Treasury securities with less than one-year to maturity and are portable instruments held at the Depository Trust Company. More information about this new acceptable collateral is available here.
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Nationwide Retirement Institute ® research also finds only about half of U.S. families feel confident they can save enough for retirement
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the majority of U.S. parents (60%) cite inflation or rising living costs among their top financial concerns as they look ahead at the next 12 months, according to a new survey by the Nationwide Retirement Institute. Less than half of parents (45%) have a positive perception of their family's financial situation and nearly four in five say inflation and rising prices will influence their vote in mid-term elections. Nearly one-third (32%) want to see legislation to ease the financial burden on parents and caregivers.
This volatile environment is contributing to a grim outlook on the future, with 88% of parents expecting an economic downturn in the next year. Only about half of U.S. parents feel confident they will be able to save enough for retirement or their children's education, and only 48% say they are on track to meet their financial goals.
While parents overwhelmingly want support with their family's finances, more are turning to family and friends (56%) and prayer (29%) than a professional (27%) for financial advice.
"With the cost of living high and fear of a recession looming, parents' confidence in their family's financial situation is waning," said Kristi Rodriguez, senior vice president of Nationwide Retirement Institute. "It's understandable that families are looking for comfort during this difficult time, whether with friends and family or through their faith, but the most important step they can take is to connect with a financial professional and create a plan."
Parents are making major lifestyle changes to offset inflation
In response to inflation pressures, U.S. parents are pulling back on discretionary spending. The top actions include:
- Dining out less often (48%)
- Reducing how much they drive (41%)
- Purchasing different or cheaper items than they typically would (41%)
They are also relying more on credit to pay for items, with one in four (23%) reporting they have accumulated additional credit card debt and another 16% saying they've used 'buy now, pay later' apps or services in response to inflation.
Gen Z families are faring worse due to inflation
The study also found the inflationary squeeze is hitting Gen Z particularly hard, and they are leaning on safety nets to soften the blow. Twenty one percent received food or household goods from a food bank and 14% have moved in with family members in the past year, compared to the average of parents at 13% and 6%, respectively. Roughly three in four Gen Z parents (74%) report that they live paycheck to paycheck most of the time and nearly a third (29%) rate their family's financial situation as 'poor' — almost double the average for U.S. parents overall.
The study revealed three key areas where Gen Z parents are struggling the most:
- Paying for childcare: Roughly three in 10 (32%) Gen Z parents report they spend 50% or more of their take home pay on childcare, and one in five (21%) say they took on another job in the past year to better meet the needs of their children — nearly 10 percentage points higher than the national average for parents. Another one in 10 (9%) quit their job this year to focus on childcare.
- Finding affordable housing: Despite homeownership being a top goal for 40% of Gen Z parents, half (49%) cite the cost of rent or housing as one of their top financial concerns — 21 points higher than among U.S. parents overall.
- Planning for their family's finances: Two in five (39%) Gen Z parents report they did not do any financial planning before they had children, compared to 28% of the national average. Another 87% of Gen Z parents say they wished they started saving or investing earlier.
Parents are taking their concerns to their employers
Parents are looking to their employers for improved benefits to help balance work and childcare. Nearly half of parents (48%) want to see increased flexibility in work hours, and more than a third (39%) want improved health insurance benefits. Nearly a quarter (23%) of parents want improved parental leave policies.
"While each family's path to financial wellness is unique, our survey clearly demonstrates that there's an immediate opportunity for financial professionals to help build confidence and security through financial literacy, especially for younger families who are struggling in today's economic environment," added Rodriguez. "Financial professionals can help with planning and other financial decisions such as maximizing workplace benefits to help families solve some immediate financial concerns."
Financial professionals can help clients stay on top of changes in the economy and the markets with insights from Nationwide. Sign up at blog.nationwidefinancial.com/markets-economy.
Methodology
Edelman Data and Intelligence (DxI) conducted an online survey on behalf of Nationwide of 1,000 nationally representative adult U.S. parents ages 18 and over with children under the age of 18 and 150 Gen Z parents with children under the age of 7. The survey was fielded from July 11 through July 21, 2022.
About Nationwide
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"Text Connect means instant connection for incarcerated individuals, which is important because staying connected with loved ones is foundational to successful reentry."
– Dave Abel, Aventiv Technologies CEO
DALLAS, Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Securus Technologies, the leading technology company driving efforts to better serve the incarcerated through rehabilitative justice, has launched Text Connect, an instant messaging program in select correctional facilities. As one of the first programs to provide real-time, instant communication for incarcerated people and their families, Text Connect has the potential to revolutionize the correctional communications landscape. In just the first fifty days of the pilot, friends and family added over 500,000 messages to current communications plans and have already sent nearly 450,000 real-time messages to communicate with their incarcerated loved ones.
"For too long, correctional facilities were digital deserts. We are changing that. We listened to our consumers seeking the convenient connection tools that technology can provide and created Text Connect. This new offering mirrors the quick and easy text messaging most people take for granted today, however it's built with the security measures needed to operate successfully in a corrections environment," said Dave Abel, CEO of Aventiv Technologies, the parent company of Securus Technologies. "Our initial sites are demonstrating that demand for instant communication among incarcerated people and their loved ones is strong. Instant communication provides instant connection, and connection gives hope and inspiration."
"When Securus approached us to see if we wanted to be a pilot site for Text Connect, we jumped at the opportunity to be first in line. They offer many communication services that make it easier for our population to get the support they need from their loved ones. Text Connect has offered a fast and easy solution since March 2022. This service was an absolute success and I would recommend it to any facility that is interested in streamlining communications between incarcerated individuals and their friends and family," said LaPorte County Jail Commander, Captain Al Ott.
Friends and family can access Text Connect through the Securus mobile app on their smartphones, and the incarcerated can use it on the Securus tablets. With a nominal charge per message, Text Connect prioritizes affordability alongside instant communication.
Text Connect overcomes logistical barriers that often impede instant communication between incarcerated people and their loved ones. Security software can flag any dangerous or inappropriate messages in real-time, so communications aren't impeded by the manual screening that traditional mail requires. Text Connect allows incarcerated people the chance to be more integrated into their loved ones' day-to-day lives, creating unprecedented opportunities for relationship-building and communicating with the people who matter most in their lives.
Headquartered in Carrollton, Texas, Aventiv Technologies serves more than 3,450 public safety, law enforcement and corrections agencies and over 1,100,000 incarcerated individuals across North America, Aventiv is committed to serve and connect by providing emergency response, incident management, public information, investigation, biometric analysis, communication, information management, incarcerated self-service, and monitoring products and services in order to make our world a safer place to live. For more information, please visit www.Aventiv.com. Aventiv is a portfolio company of Platinum Equity. Founded in 1995 by Tom Gores, Platinum Equity is a global investment firm with a portfolio of approximately 40 operating companies that serve customers around the world.
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NEW YORK (AP) — A hearing officer for a federal labor board has rebuffed Amazon’s attempt to scrap a historic union win at a warehouse on Staten Island, New York, handing victory to organizers in what could be a very long battle for recognition.
Thursday’s win is a relief for the Amazon Labor Union, the grassroots group of former and current workers whose unexpected victory in April followed weeks of aggressive campaigning from both sides.
“Today is a great day for Labor,” Chris Smalls, a fired Amazon worker who now heads the union, wrote in Tweet celebrating the decision.
Shortly after the spring vote, Amazon filed more than two dozen objections with the National Labor Relations Board, claiming it was tainted by organizers and Region 29, the agency’s regional office in Brooklyn that oversaw the election. The case was then transferred to another regional office, based in Phoenix, Arizona, at Amazon’s request.
The 24-day long hearing, which Amazon had unsuccessfully sought to close to the public, was marked by tense exchanges between attorneys for both sides on what documents could be submitted for evidence and which witnesses could testify.
On Thursday, Lisa Dunn, the agency officer who handled the company’s case, concluded Amazon’s objections should be entirely overruled and the union be certified as a bargaining representative for the warehouse, a spokesperson for the NLRB wrote in an email.
“Employer has not met its burden of establishing that Region 29, the Petitioner, or any third parties have engaged in objectionable conduct affecting the results of the election,” the spokesperson said, offering a summary of Dunn’s recommendation.
Amazon Spokesperson Kelly Nantel said the company plans to appeal.
“While we’re still reviewing the decision, we strongly disagree with the conclusion and intend to appeal,” Nantel said in a statement. “As we showed throughout the hearing with dozens of witnesses and hundreds of pages of documents, both the NLRB and the ALU improperly influenced the outcome of the election and we don’t believe it represents what the majority of our team wants.”
Amazon, the union and the agency’s office in Brooklyn have until September 16 to file any exceptions to the report, which would send the case to the regional director, who will issue an order to certify the election results or order a rerun vote. The company could still appeal that order to the five-person labor board, whose Democratic majority is expected to be sympathetic to the union.
Even when the agency upholds a union victory, experts say companies who don’t want a unionized workforce often refuse to negotiate. That move can trigger protracted legal battles in federal court, which some companies could use as a backdoor attempt to thwart labor victories.
In May, the nascent union lost a separate election at a neighboring warehouse, which dampened enthusiasm elsewhere. At the same time, it was devoting more time and resources to defend its initial win from the e-commerce giant.
Other campaigns have kicked off at Amazon warehouses in North Carolina, Kentucky and elsewhere, as workers attempt to gather enough signatures to qualify for a union election. Amazon workers at a warehouse near Albany, New York are slated to vote in their own election in the coming months. | 2022-09-01T23:47:09+00:00 | cbs4indy.com | https://cbs4indy.com/business/ap-business/ap-amazon-bid-to-scrap-historic-union-win-blocked/ |
May has been a very busy month. We have formed a settlement agreement group who will work towards accomplishing the directives set out with the U.S. Department of Justice.
I have promoted two captains; congratulations to Lts. Reggie Miller and Brian Beliveau on becoming captains. Newly appointed Captain Beliveau will be our lead in managing both the settlement agreement and also changes and directives to conform with the state Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) Commission. Captain Beliveau will assist Capt. Jeff Martucci in making sure we do not miss any time lines set out in the agreement.
As these two large projects take place we are also committed to special patrols in our parks, directive patrols as crime spikes occur and maintaining a presence at all of our places of worship to ensure the safety of all religions to worship in peace and safety.
The academy is close to graduation in mid-June. A few more officers have resigned from the department for different careers. It continues to be a challenge for us to recruit and retain officers. We are hoping for another academy after this one graduates as soon as we are able to do so.
National Police Week, being observed this week, is always important to recognize those who gave the ultimate sacrifice while serving in our profession. May 11 was the regional remembrance at Springfield Technical Community College, and we held our memorial service in front of headquarters at 130 Pearl St. yesterday.
We have had officers who have been seriously injured while performing their duties, a few who had to retire because of their injuries. But, we have been fortunate in that our last line-of-duty death was officer Kevin Ambrose who gave his life for a mother and child 10 years ago this June.
Within the past 10 years the department has had a large turnover. More than two-thirds of our department officers were not employed here when Kevin lost his life. It is more important now than ever that the younger officers observe and realize what a sacrifice and life-changing event a line-of-duty death is. They will see it in those of us who were here for Kevin’s tragic death and services that followed and for the family and friends who come every year to let us know his life and service is not and will not be forgotten. I was also serving as a police officer when Michael Schiavina and Alain Beauregard were shot and killed while serving the city as officers.
In 2021, the number of police officers shot in our country reached a historic level: 346. Sixty-three of them were killed. Today, more than in years past, police are challenged more, disrespected more and more likely to be assaulted than before. We continue to be under the microscope, and we continue to adapt to new rules and laws while trying to protect our own and still getting the mission of law enforcement accomplished. This is a challenging time for all police leaders for sure.
Our C-3 policing program had some nice accomplishments in the past couple weeks. I attended a C-3 review at Harvard, where the the past 10 years were examined by a talented, accomplished group of Harvard researchers and students. They looked at several measuring sticks and reported back to us regarding the North End C-3 group under the guidance and leadership of Lt. Julio Toledo. Their results will be published and released to the public.
I also attended a Mason Square C-3 awards ceremony at the Raymond Jordan Senior Center, where the officers along with several members of the community were given awards for their service. Thank you Councilor Tracye Whitfield for the invitation. The ceremony was topped by a presentation from U.S. Attorney Rachel Rollins. Forest Park C-3 also continues with many activities including a large part in the Cops and Bobbers event at Forest Park that drew a large crowd.
I continue to work with the police commissioners as they have held personnel reviews and community meetings. I will keep them updated with settlement achievements, reform bill activities, crime trends, patterns and quality arrests made by the women and men of the department.
We have continued to put resources into the dirt bike, off-road vehicle enforcement. Capt. David Martin, Lt. Mel Kwatowski, and Lt. Toledo have done a great job making our city undesirable for that type of activity. Numerous arrests, citations and seizures have taken place, and we will continue.
I’m so proud of officers Christopher Charles and Luis Rodriguez for their heroic actions on May 10, saving a baby from choking while they were working a road detail. Their professionalism and demeanor were exemplified on the “Dan Abrams Live” show May 12.
Thank you to attorney Ed Pikula for his work on the settlement agreement. Thank you also to everyone who continues to support us, compliment when a good job is done and, most of all, understand that it is a difficult profession and we are trying to meet all standards and be the best police department we can possibly be.
Cheryl C. Clapprood is superintendent of the Springfield Police Department. Her column will appear monthly.
(Editor’s note: Information on the Springfield Police Department’s community calendar is available on the department’s website, springfieldmapolice.com, and Facebook page, Facebook.com/SpringfieldPoliceDeptMA . | 2022-05-19T09:34:22+00:00 | masslive.com | https://www.masslive.com/opinion/2022/05/national-police-week-is-a-time-remember-honor-viewpoint.html |
HAVANA (AP) — The United States Embassy in Cuba is reopening visa and consular services Wednesday, the first time it has done so since a spate of unexplained health incidents among diplomatic staff in 2017 slashed the American presence in Havana.
The Embassy confirmed this week it will begin processing immigrant visas, with a priority placed on permits to reunite Cubans with family in the U.S., and others like the diversity visa lottery.
The resumption comes amid the greatest migratory flight from Cuba in decades, which has placed pressure on the Biden administration to open more legal pathways to Cubans and start a dialogue with the Cuban government, despite a historically tense relationship.
They are anticipated to give out at least 20,000 visas a year, though it’s just a drop in the bucket of the migratory tide, which is fueled by intensifying economic and political crises on the island.
In late December, U.S. authorities reported stopping Cubans 34,675 times along the Mexico border in November, up 21% from 28,848 times in October.
Month-to-month, that number has gradually risen. Cubans are now the second-largest nationality after Mexicans appearing on the border, U.S. Customs and Border Protection data shows.
The growing migration is due to a complex array of factors, including economic, energy and political crises, as well deep discontent among Cubans.
While the vast majority of Cuban migrants head to the U.S. via flights to Nicaragua and cross by land at the U.S. border with Mexico, thousands more have also taken a dangerous voyage by sea. They travel 90 miles to the Florida coast, often arriving in rickety, precariously constructed boats packed with migrants.
The exodus from Cuba is also compounded by rising migration to the U.S. from other countries like Haiti and Venezuela, forcing the U.S. government to grapple with a growingly complex situation on its southern border.
The renewal of visa work at the embassy comes after a series of migration talks and visits by U.S. officials to Havana in recent months, and may also be the sign of a slow thawing between the two governments.
“Engaging in these talks underscores our commitment to pursuing constructive discussions with the government of Cuba where appropriate to advance U.S. interests,” the U.S. Embassy said in a statement in November following an American delegation’s visit to Cuba.
The small steps are far cry from relations under President Barack Obama, who eased many American Cold War-era sanctions during his time in office and made a historic visit to the island in 2016.
Visa and consular services were closed on the island in 2017 after embassy staff were affflicted in a series of health incidents, alleged sonic attacks that remain largely unexplained.
As a result, many Cubans who wanted to legally migrate to the U.S. have had to fly to places like Guyana to do so before migrating or reuniting with family.
While relations have always been tense between Cuba and the U.S., they were heightened following the embassy closure and the Trump administration’s tightening of sanctions on Cuba.
Under President Joe Biden, the U.S. has eased some restrictions on things like remittances and family travel from Miami to Cuba, but has fallen short of hopes by many in Cuba that a Biden presidency would return the island to its “Obama era.”
Restrictions on tourist travel to Cuba, and imports and exports of many goods, remain in place.
Also kindling tensions has been the Cuban government’s harsh treatment of participants in the island’s 2021 protests, including hefty prison sentences doled out to minors, a constant point of criticism by the Biden administration.
Cuban officials have repeatedly expressed optimism about talks with the U.S. and steps to reopen visa services. Cuban Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Carlos Cossio said in November that ensuring migration through safe and legal pathways is a “mutual objective” by both countries.
But Cossio also blamed the flight of tens of thousands from the island on U.S. sanctions, saying that “there’s no doubt that a policy meant to depress the living standards of a population is a direct driver of migration.” | 2023-01-04T05:43:53+00:00 | wivb.com | https://www.wivb.com/news/ap-us-reopening-visa-and-consular-services-at-embassy-in-cuba/ |
June 13, 1939 - February 26, 2023 South Beloit, IL - Laurray H. Coots, 83, of South Beloit, IL, died on Sunday, February 26, 2023 at Beloit Memorial Hospital.
She was born on June 13, 1939 in Augusta, WI, the daughter of Arthur and Ruby (Loman) Kuehl. Laurray married John Coots on September 16, 1961 in Faith Lutheran Church, South Beloit, IL.
Laurray was formerly employed as a waitress for several restaurants in the area including the old Holiday Inn, Buffa's Supper Club, the Wagon Wheel, and Saladino's. She was an active member of Faith Lutheran Church, a big collector of Watts Pottery and Monarch Tins. She also loved antique furniture, going to craft shows such as Fall Diddley, and Beloit Auctions. Laurray was a loving wife, mother, grandmother, sister, and aunt.
Survivors include her husband, John Coots; son, Craig (Laura) Coots; grandsons, Jeremy and
Christopher Coots; brother, Jon (Pat) Kuehl; many nieces and nephews.
She was predeceased by her parents, brother, Mike and sister, Sharon.
A Memorial Service will be at 11:00 a.m. on Friday, March 3, 2023 in Faith Lutheran Church, 1305 Blackhawk Blvd., South Beloit, IL, with Pastor JoAnna Patterson officiating. A visitation of remembrance will be from 9:00 a.m. until the time of service Friday in the church. Daley Murphy Wisch & Associates Funeral Home and Crematorium, 2355 Cranston Rd., Beloit, WI, assisted the family with arrangements. | 2023-03-01T01:49:08+00:00 | beloitdailynews.com | https://www.beloitdailynews.com/records/obituaries/laurray-h-coots/article_a0905d1d-56c0-57d7-bb31-b6a9de76a102.html |
Wisconsin man celebrates 50 years of eating Big Macs every day
MILWAUKEE (Spectrum News Milwaukee) - Don Gorske’s Big Mac streak started on May 17, 1972.
“I’ve only missed eight days in 50 years, which is phenomenal. And like I say, I count every Big Mac. I’ve counted every Big Mac I’ve eaten my whole life,” Gorske said.
Gorske eats two Big Macs a day.
“All through life here, a lot of people said, ‘You’ll be dead before you reach 50 years of eating Big Macs.’ I guess I proved them wrong,” he said.
His son is not surprised at his father’s persistence.
“We always went to McDonald’s with my dad and had happy meals. I always loved my chicken nuggets, and my brother always loved his hamburgers. It’s how we grew up. It’s just an everyday life kind of thing for us,” he said.
Gorske’s son has more of a varied diet.
“I used to eat chicken nuggets every day. I used to eat cheeseburgers every day, but eventually you just get sick of it. I don’t know how he does it, but he certainly does,” he said.
Gorske says he will continue eating Big Macs with a Coca-Cola on the side until he dies.
“A lot of times people will say, ‘You look like I’m eating a Big Mac for the first time,’” Gorske said. “I guess that’s how I feel sometimes. They’re that good to me, and there’s really nothing else I’d rather eat,” he said.
Copyright 2022 Spectrum News Milwaukee via CNN Newsource. All rights reserved. | 2022-05-18T14:13:45+00:00 | kalb.com | https://www.kalb.com/2022/05/18/wisconsin-man-celebrates-50-years-eating-big-macs-every-day/ |
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — The Tennessee House GOP sent a message to a freshman Democratic state representative on Friday: Follow the rules or explore options outside of the General Assembly.
“If you don’t like rules, perhaps you should explore a different career opportunity that’s main purpose is not creating them,” wrote the Tennessee House GOP on Twitter.
The tweet was a reply to Rep. Justin J. Pearson (D-Shelby County), writing, “We literally just got on the State House floor and already a white supremacist has attacked my wearing of my Dashiki.”
A dashiki is a traditional West African loose-fitted shirt. On Thursday, Pearson wore a black one in the chamber.
“Wearing my African attire, particularly in Black History Month is paying homage to the people who allowed me to be here,” Pearson said. “Especially in a place like the Tennessee Statehouse.”
In the chamber that day, a lawmaker made a statement on the importance of dress code without naming Pearson but saying wearing a tie and jacket honors the legacy of late Speaker Pro Tempore Lois DeBerry.
DeBerry was the second African-American woman to serve in the Tennessee General Assembly and the first woman to serve as speaker pro tempore.
“We honor Lois’ memory in how we look, how we treat each other, and how we give the respect we hope to get back,” said Rep. David Hawk (R-Greeneville). “And part of that respect is how you look and how you appear. I showed up one night on two wheels trying to get in here, and I did not have a tie on and she reminded me, ‘Representative Hawk, if you don’t have a tie on, you can’t walk through that door.'”
But not all lawmakers agreed with Hawk’s depiction of how DeBerry would’ve acted.
“She wouldn’t embarrass a new member. She would say let’s educate the new member, let’s fold them in appropriately,” said Rep. Karen Camper (D-Memphis).
While not finding any specific language in the Tennessee House Rules about what lawmakers have to wear on the floor, Pearson was told by the House Clerk that the House Speaker sets the decorum.
“The speaker will have the authority to set other guidelines for decorum,” states the rules.
In a statement, a spokesperson for Speaker Cameron Sexton (R-Crossville) said they are following in DeBerry’s footsteps.
“During her historic tenure in the General Assembly, the late Lois DeBerry established a precedent for attire that remains in place today; men must wear a coat and a tie if they wish to be recognized in committee or on the House floor. Ms. DeBerry would frequently address members violating this precedent and remind them of the requirement. The speaker will continue to follow the precedent and the path established by Ms. DeBerry to honor her and her incredible legacy within our legislative body.”
Pearson says using DeBerry’s name like this is not an appropriate use of her legacy.
“To try and attack the African attire of a young, Black member of the House body is wrong and immoral and a misuse of her legacy. If they actually care about Lois DeBerry’s legacy, let’s see them put forward legislation for justice,” he said.
Pearson also said the pushback on his attire is another example of how the Republican party is legislating.
“Whether that be folks who want to wear drag or people who have different abilities or people who want to read certain books, taking power over people’s agency is a theme of this body,” he said.
He said he plans on wearing the dashiki again and will wear a tie and jacket over it if he needs to. | 2023-02-13T23:04:39+00:00 | myfox8.com | https://myfox8.com/news/after-wearing-traditional-garment-on-the-tennessee-house-floor-lawmaker-told-to-look-for-a-new-career/ |
The Jeep Wrangler is a no-holds-barred off-road machine that aims to go around, over, or through whatever’s in front of it, regardless of terrain. The plug-in hybrid variant? Same deal.
With EPA ratings of 22 miles of electric driving range and 20 mpg combined on gasoline after you run through a charge, the 2023 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon 4xe makes plugging in worthwhile.
I’ve gone off-roading with the 4xe’s powertrain in a Jeep Grand Cherokee 4xe, but what’s it like to live with in the Wrangler in the real paved world on a day-to-day basis in the winter? A snowy week in Minnesota with the plug-in off-roader proved that the 4xe’s efficiency tech comes at no expense of capability.
Electric mode unavailable
The four-door plug-in Jeep pulled into my driveway with a fully charged 17.3-kwh battery pack. The gauge cluster indicated 24 miles of electric driving range and the powertrain was in e-Save mode, which preserves the battery’s charge for electric driving later running the Jeep solely off the 2.0-liter turbo-4, with 270 hp and 295 lb-ft of torque on its own.
It was blizzarding, with white-out conditions. Naturally I pulled the stubby four-wheel-drive selector into 4Hi (there’s also 4Lo with 4.0:1 crawl ratio) and pushed the Electric mode button to try and run the Jeep solely on electricity. An error popped up on the driver information screen essentially saying, “I can’t do that, Dave.”
Despite the battery pack having a full charge, the Jeep knew it couldn’t run in all-electric mode in the current conditions without compromising one of the vehicle’s systems.
The 25-degree white-out conditions called for the climate control system to work hard, with the front defroster on blast, the rear defroster on, the climate control set to 70 to keep the rest of the glass warm, and both the heated steering wheel and seat warmers on to warm me after standing outside shooting photos. The battery pack simply didn’t have enough power for all the auxiliary systems plus propulsion given the situation, according to the error presented to me.
Once the blizzard subsided we were just left with about seven inches of white fluffy stuff on the ground, and the plug-in Jeep really came into its own with its 33-inch BFGoodrich K02 All-Terrain tires. It seemed unstoppable.
With the vehicle systems not set on blast the 4xe had zero issues driving around town on electricity alone, even in four-wheel drive. I ran through a full charge multiple times during my winter week with the Wrangler in just my day-to-day driving shuffling kids to activities and running errands. The box on wheels seemed to average about 20 miles before the electricity ran out and the gas engine would fire, despite ambient temps hovering in the single digits and teens at night and low to mid-20s during the days.
Over the course of 310 miles of mixed driving the Wrangler’s plug-in powertrain used the gasoline engine for 218 miles, with real-world mileage when driving the 4xe only as a hybrid somewhere south of 20 mpg.
Electric with a moderately light foot
As with the Grand Cherokee 4xe, if the accelerator is put to the floor, the 134 hp and 198 lb-ft of torque electric motor that’s sandwiched in the 8-speed automatic transmission will be hastily joined by the gasoline engine, even if the 4xe’s in Electric-only mode. Total system output is 375 hp and 470 lb-ft of torque.
The week with the Wrangler Rubicon 4xe was our first experience with Jeep’s plug-in powertrain in cold weather. The transitions from electric to hybrid mode are noticeably rougher and more pronounced in the cold than in warmer temperatures we’ve experienced before in the Wrangler 4xe. While running on electric power the delivery is smooth and easy to modulate, and in hybrid mode the systems mesh well together outside of an occasional lumpy 1-2 or 2-3 upshift in the cold. But it’s the power handoff when the gas engine kicks in from being asleep that always seems to be especially gruff in the chilly weather.
Protecting the plug
Most PHEVs put the charging port on the front lower fender by the wheel well or on either side of the rear quarter panels mimicking a fuel filler door. The Wrangler goes down its own path with a charge port at the base of the driver-side A-pillar. The port’s tucked up and away from anything that might cause it damage while off-roading.
On 240-volt AC, as will be provided by the solar-powered chargers Jeep plans to build new off-road trails, it says a full charge will take 2 to 3 hours. On a 120-volt outlet it will need about 12 to 13 hours. These estimates jibed with my real-world experience.
Jeep slots the 17.3-kwh battery pack under the rear seats, which means the Wrangler’s packaging is essentially the same as a gas-powered model. For real change we’ll have to wait for Jeep to put an electric Wrangler into production based off the Magneto concept.
Good, but not perfect
The Wrangler’s trademark foibles are here despite the plug-in powertrain. Its steering is still vague and sloppy, its ride can be choppy over broken pavement, and it’s loud. The last part is what happens when a vehicle is the shape of a brick and both the roof and doors can come off.
What launched as a $49,490 proposition has turned even more expensive over the last year. A 2023 Jeep Wrangler 4xe now costs $56,530, which includes a ridiculous $1,795 destination charge that was $200 less just months ago. My Rubicon tester cost $69,385, but now lists for $71,975. That’s expensive, but capability doesn’t come cheap.
For reference sake, a comparably equipped gas-only four-door Rubicon cost $63,535, which is $8,440 less than a comparably equipped 4xe. That’s a lot of gas, though the Wrangler 4xe does currently qualify for the $7,500 federal tax credit. Surely the price difference isn’t a coincidence.
A larger battery delivering 50 miles of electric driving and a more powerful electric motor would really cement the Jeep Wrangler 4xe’s place as the efficiency king of the doors-off adventure-ready world. But since there’s no Ford Bronco with a plug, the Wrangler is your plug-in hybrid off-road king, for now.
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Her death has shocked the entertainment world. Just Tuesday Lisa Marie Presley was attending the Golden Globe Awards, celebrating *** biopic of her legendary father Elvis. But Thursday the 54 year old was rushed from her home in los Angeles California to *** hospital. Her mother, Priscilla confirmed her death. It is with *** heavy heart that I must share the devastating news that my Beautiful daughter, Lisa Marie has left us. She was rock and roll royalty from the moment she was born in 1968, Lisa Marie was an only child and beloved by her father. He passed away when she was just nine years old, but his influence and music were *** constant presence. I've been there all my life, so it's not something that I now listen to it, it's different, although, you know, I might listen closer or um but I I I've remained consistent on the fact that I've always been an admirer has always influenced me. *** singer songwriter in her own right Lisa Marie's music career never reached the level of her father's, but she did release several successful albums. She was also *** constant celebrity fixture, aided by her headline, making marriages to Michael Jackson and actor Nicolas Cage. Her life was marked by tragedy early and continued to be plagued by struggles. She was open about her battle with addiction and she lost her only son, Benjamin to suicide when he was 27 Lisa Marie. Presley survived by her mother, Priscilla and her three daughters
Mourners at Graceland to bid farewell to Lisa Marie Presley
Updated: 12:04 PM MST Jan 22, 2023
Hundreds of people gathered on the front lawn of Graceland on a gray, chilly Sunday morning in Memphis to mourn the death and remember the life of Lisa Marie Presley, who died earlier this month.Some mourners held flowers as they waited for the service to begin under the tall trees on the lawn of Graceland, the home where Lisa Marie lived as a child with her father, Elvis Presley. The mansion, which Lisa Marie Presley owned, has been turned into a museum and tourist attraction that hundreds of thousands of fans visit each year to celebrate the life and music of Elvis, who died in 1977.The property in south Memphis was a place of sadness and somber memories on Sunday. Presley, a 54-year-old singer-songwriter dedicated to her father's legacy, died Jan. 12, hours after being hospitalized for a medical emergency.The service began with the singing of "Amazing Grace" by Jason Clark & The Tennessee Mass Choir."We would like to express our heartfelt gratitude for the love, compassion and support you have shown our family during this difficult time," said a message from the Presley family written on the program for the service. "We will always be grateful."Among those expected to speak or sing during the service were Lisa Marie Presley's mother, actress Priscilla Presley; her daughter, actress Riley Keough; Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York; and singers Billy Corgan, Alanis Morissette and Axl Rose.After the service, mourners will make a procession through Graceland's Meditation Garden, where she is being laid to rest.Video below: Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson pay tribute to Lisa Marie Presley
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Hundreds of people gathered on the front lawn of Graceland on a gray, chilly Sunday morning in Memphis to mourn the death and remember the life of Lisa Marie Presley, who died earlier this month.
Some mourners held flowers as they waited for the service to begin under the tall trees on the lawn of Graceland, the home where Lisa Marie lived as a child with her father, Elvis Presley. The mansion, which Lisa Marie Presley owned, has been turned into a museum and tourist attraction that hundreds of thousands of fans visit each year to celebrate the life and music of Elvis, who died in 1977.
The property in south Memphis was a place of sadness and somber memories on Sunday. Presley, a 54-year-old singer-songwriter dedicated to her father's legacy, died Jan. 12, hours after being hospitalized for a medical emergency.
The service began with the singing of "Amazing Grace" by Jason Clark & The Tennessee Mass Choir.
"We would like to express our heartfelt gratitude for the love, compassion and support you have shown our family during this difficult time," said a message from the Presley family written on the program for the service. "We will always be grateful."
Among those expected to speak or sing during the service were Lisa Marie Presley's mother, actress Priscilla Presley; her daughter, actress Riley Keough; Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York; and singers Billy Corgan, Alanis Morissette and Axl Rose.
After the service, mourners will make a procession through Graceland's Meditation Garden, where she is being laid to rest.
Video below: Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson pay tribute to Lisa Marie Presley | 2023-01-22T20:53:54+00:00 | koat.com | https://www.koat.com/article/lisa-marie-presley-graceland-mourners-bid-farewell/42611193 |
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Walmart will pay half a million dollars to settle allegations from California's Department of Justice that it was selling brass knuckles on its website, state Attorney General Rob Bonta said Tuesday.
Brass knuckles are classified as deadly and illegal weapons in a number of states, including California, which punishes their sale with up to a year in prison.
The investigation into the retail giant first started in 2018, when the Merced County district attorney found Walmart was selling and allowing third-party vendors to sell brass knuckles on its website, officials said at a news conference. The Department of Justice conducted the yearslong investigation and negotiation in partnership with the district attorney’s offices of Merced, Ventura, and Yolo Counties.
Brass knuckles, typically made of metal or hard plastic, could be used to break bones, cut people or cause even fatal injuries, Bonta said, calling the settlement “a tremendous win” for consumers in California.
“We’re making it clear that we won’t sit idly by while a company, no matter how large ... allows Californians to be armed with illegal weapons," Bonta said. “This is a critical push back on an e-commerce giant that stands to have an important impact on the industry.”
Walmart said in a statement that it didn't violate any California laws and admits “no liability of wrongdoing,” but settled because “we believe this agreement is in the best interest of all parties.”
As part of the settlement, Walmart will pay the Department of Justice and district attorneys' offices $125,000 each in civil penalties. The nation’s largest retailer will also be required to stop selling and allowing any sales of brass knuckles on its website.
Investigators found roughly 250 products that could be classified as brass knuckles on Walmart's website, 60% of which were offered directly by the retailer and 40% of which were available from third-party sellers, authorities said.
The settlement also requires Walmart to notify customers who have purchased brass knuckles that the weapon is illegal.
Authorities said they are investigating others for illegal weapons sales but didn't name the alleged offenders.
“While Walmart was particularly cooperative in this case and has done their best to remove the illegal weapons from their websites, there are others who have not done so, and they need to know we’re coming for them,” Ventura County Deputy District Attorney Karen Wold said Tuesday.
Walmart is a major seller of weapons in the United States, but has taken steps to curb the sale of firearms and ammunition since 2015.
The giant retailer stopped selling ammunition for semi-automatic rifles and handguns after 23 people were killed at one of its stores in El Paso, Texas, in 2019. The company stopped selling semi-automatic weapons such as the AR-15 style rifle in 2015 and raised the minimum age to buy firearms from 18 to 21 in 2018. | 2023-05-23T23:01:27+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/business/article/walmart-to-pay-california-500-000-in-settlement-18115560.php |
Reaction to the death of Hall of Fame quarterback and broadcaster Len Dawson:
"With wife Linda at his side, it is with much sadness that we inform you of the passing of our beloved Len Dawson. He was a wonderful husband, father, brother and friend. Len was always grateful and many times overwhelmed by the countless bonds he made during his football and broadcast careers. He loved Kansas City and no matter where his travels took him, he could not wait to return home.” — Dawson family statement.
“My family and I are heartbroken. Len Dawson is synonymous with the Kansas City Chiefs. Len embraced and came to embody Kansas City and the people that call it home. You would be hard-pressed to find a player who had a bigger impact in shaping the organization as we know it today than Len Dawson did. I admired Len my entire life — first as a Hall of Fame player on the field, and later as he transitioned into a successful broadcasting career. Throughout his remarkable career, Len made it a priority to give back to the community that he loved. The franchise has lost a true legend. Our thoughts and prayers go out to Linda and his family.” — Chiefs owner Clark Hunt.
“RIP to the legend Len Dawson. The legacy and impact you made on Kansas City will live on forever. Prayers to his family.” — Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes.
“Len grew up only a few miles from where the Pro Football Hall of Fame later was built, and fans in the area have always taken a special pride in seeing one of the greats from this region enshrined in Canton. Fans connected with Len’s story of perseverance, appreciating how he gave the game one more try after five nondescript seasons when many others would have quit. The American Football League, and Hall of Fame coach Hank Stram, gave Len a true opportunity, and he made the most of it, building the Chiefs into a Super Bowl contender, and eventually a world champion. Our thoughts and prayers extend to his wife, Linda, and to all of Len’s family and friends in Kansas City and in Alliance, Ohio. The flag at the Pro Football Hall of Fame will be flown at half-staff in his honor.” — Hall of Fame president Jim Porter.
“Len Dawson is an American legend, a Super Bowl champion, a world class broadcaster, and will forever be among the most important and beloved figures in our city’s history. The Royals send sympathy and support to the Chiefs and the Dawson family.” — Statement from the Kansas City Royals, whose stadium sits adjacent to Arrowhead Stadium.
“Rest in peace, Len Dawson. One of Kansas City’s greatest on the field, in broadcasting and in our community. My thoughts are with his wife, Linda, his family, and the many friends he made over a tremendous lifetime.” — Kansas City, Missouri mayor Quinton Lucas.
“My thoughts & prayers go out to the family and loved ones of legendary QB Len Dawson. Everyone that has ever been a part of Chiefs Kingdom knows his impact on the field and in the community. I’m thankful for the great memories I had with him during my time in KC. He’ll be missed.” — Former Chiefs quarterback Matt Cassel.
“We lost a true legend and wonderful human being Chiefs nation with the passing of Len Dawson. HOF QB, broadcaster and all-around great guy. RIP brother!” — Former NFL quarterback and TV analyst Rich Gannon.
“So sad to hear of the passing of Len Dawson. Lenny was a fantastic QB! Also had a tremendous career as a broadcaster. Was a class act. Rest In Peace my friend.” — Former NFL quarterback and broadcaster Ron Jaworski.
“Kansas City lost a legend in Len Dawson. Whether it was on the football field, in broadcasting or in our communities, his impact on our city will be remembered forever. My prayers are with his family, friends, and colleagues during this difficult time. May he rest in peace.” — U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver.
“RIP Len Dawson. An amazing person who also was a HOF quarterback and a HOF broadcaster. Love and prayers to his family and friends.” — Former Chiefs quarterback and CBS analyst Trent Green.
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4-year-old dead after finding loaded gun in car’s backseat, police say
Published: Aug. 8, 2022 at 11:38 AM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. (WGCL/Gray News) – A 4-year-old girl is dead after Georgia police said she found a loaded gun in the backseat of a car and accidentally shot herself.
The child’s mother, 26-year-old Kealin Lewis, has been charged with second-degree cruelty to children and remains at the DeKalb County Jail.
According to a DeKalb Police Department spokesperson, officers responded to Interstate 85 at 7:38 p.m. Sunday and found 4-year-old Kendal Lewis dead in the backseat of a car.
Investigators said it appears the child found a gun in the backseat and fired it, hitting herself.
The investigation is ongoing.
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Of all the things you’ve thought to mix with Pepsi — grenadine, or perhaps some rum? — milk has probably not crossed your mind. But the soda company is looking to change that this holiday season, inviting Pepsi fans to create “pilk” — a mixture of Pepsi and milk. Pepsi says the drink pairs well with cookies and even suggests leaving it out for Santa. You know, to give him a bit of a caffeine boost for a long night of gift-giving!
Those that haven’t heard of mixing Pepsi with milk may be surprised to learn that it’s actually been around since the 1970s — Penny Marshall’s Laverne even drank Pepsi and milk on “Laverne & Shirley.” Also known as a dirty soda, the combo has recently found new fame on TikTok under a new name: pilk.
Pepsi partnered Santa with actor Lindsay Lohan, whose new film “Falling for Christmas” is now on Netflix, to announce a sweepstakes for those who want to join the “naughty list” and get some extra cash for all those holiday presents.
Now through Christmas Day, 25 fans will have a chance to win a $1,000 pre-paid debit card by entering the Pilk and Cookies Holiday Challenge. To enter, follow @Pepsi on Instagram, Twitter or TikTok and share a photo or video of what the company calls your “dirty, delicious” pilk and cookies treat with hashtags #PilkandCookies #Sweepstakes.
The sweepstakes is open to U.S. residents age 18 or older. While there is technically no purchase necessary to enter, you will have to buy Pepsi in order to make the drink for your photo or video.
If you don’t want to simply mix Pepsi and milk for your contest entry, the brand has created a few recipes that help you get the perfect ratio of Pepsi to milk, along with some extra mix-ins, like flavored creamers, turn these into fun, non-alcoholic party drinks. They’ve even made a list of the best cookies to pair with each recipe. The Nutty Cracker, for example, combines almond milk, coconut creamer and Nitro Pepsi Vanilla and is recommended for drinking with a peanut butter cookie.
You can find more recipes in a press release from Pepsi.
By Kaitlin Gates, for Newsy.
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Former President Donald Trump says he's testifying Wednesday in NY investigation
Video above: No 'heads up' about the FBI's Mar-a-Lago search, White House says
Former President Donald Trump will be questioned under oath Wednesday in the New York attorney general’s long-running civil investigation into his dealings as a real estate mogul, he confirmed in a post on his Truth Social account.
Trump’s testimony comes amid a flurry of legal activity surrounding him, taking place just days after FBI agents searched his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida as part of an unrelated federal probe into whether he took classified records when he left the White House.
The New York civil investigation, led by Attorney General Letitia James, involves allegations that Trump’s company, the Trump Organization, misstated the value of prized assets like golf courses and skyscrapers, misleading lenders and tax authorities.
“In New York City tonight. Seeing racist N.Y.S. Attorney General tomorrow, for a continuation of the greatest Witch Hunt in U.S. history!” Trump wrote on Truth Social, invoking his oft-repeated claims about James, who is Black, and the investigation.
“My great company, and myself, are being attacked from all sides," Trump added. "Banana Republic!”
Messages seeking comment were left with James’ office and with Trump’s lawyer.
Trump’s testimony is happening at a critical point in James’ investigation, midway through a pivotal week in his post-presidency.
In May, James' office said that it was nearing the end of its probe and that investigators had amassed substantial evidence that could support legal action, such as a lawsuit, against Trump, his company or both.
The Republican billionaire’s deposition — a legal term for sworn testimony that’s not given in court — is one of the few remaining missing pieces, the attorney general’s office said.
Two of Trump’s adult children, Donald Jr. and Ivanka, testified in the investigation in recent days, two people familiar with the matter said. The people were not authorized to speak publicly and did so on condition of anonymity.
The Trumps’ testimony had initially been planned for last month but was delayed after the July 14 death of the former president’s ex-wife, Ivana Trump, the mother of Ivanka, Donald Jr. and another son, Eric Trump, who sat for a deposition in James’ investigation in 2020.
On Friday, the Trump Organization and its longtime finance chief, Allen Weisselberg, will be in court seeking dismissal of tax fraud charges brought against them last year in the Manhattan district attorney’s parallel criminal probe.
James, a Democrat, has said in court filings that her office has uncovered “significant” evidence that Trump’s company “used fraudulent or misleading asset valuations to obtain a host of economic benefits, including loans, insurance coverage, and tax deductions.”
James alleges the Trump Organization exaggerated the value of its holdings to impress lenders or misstated what land was worth to slash its tax burden, pointing to annual financial statements given to banks to secure favorable loan terms and to financial magazines to justify Trump’s place among the world’s billionaires.
The company even exaggerated the size of Trump’s Manhattan penthouse, saying it was nearly three times its actual size — a difference in value of about $200 million, James’ office said.
Trump has denied the allegations, explaining that seeking the best valuations is a common practice in the real estate industry. He says James’ investigation is part of a politically motivated “witch hunt” and that her office is “doing everything within their corrupt discretion to interfere with my business relationships, and with the political process.”
“THERE IS NO CASE!” Trump said in a February statement, after Manhattan Judge Arthur Engoron ruled that James’ office had “the clear right” to question Trump and other principals in his company.
While James has explored suing Trump or his company, the Manhattan district attorney’s office has long pursued a parallel criminal investigation.
That probe had appeared to be progressing toward a possible criminal indictment, but slowed after a new district attorney, Alvin Bragg, took office in January.
A grand jury that had been hearing evidence disbanded. The top prosecutor who had been handling the probe resigned after Bragg raised questions internally about the viability of the case.
Bragg has said his investigation is continuing, which means that Trump could invoke his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination and decline to answer questions from James’ investigators.
According to the subpoena issued by James’ office, Trump was to appear in person at the attorney general’s office, located in a Manhattan office tower that has doubled as the fictional conglomerate Waystar Royco’s headquarters on HBO’s “Succession.”
As vociferous as Trump has been in defending himself in written statements and on the rally stage, legal experts say the same strategy could backfire in a deposition setting because anything he says could potentially be used against him or his company in the criminal investigation. No former president has even been charged with a crime.
In fighting to block the subpoenas, lawyers for the Trumps argued New York authorities were using the civil investigation to get information for the criminal probe and that the depositions were a ploy to avoid calling them before a criminal grand jury, where state law requires they be given immunity.
Last summer, spurred by evidence uncovered by James’ office, Manhattan prosecutors filed charges against Weisselberg and the Trump Organization. Prosecutors said Weisselberg collected more than $1.7 million in off-the-books compensation.
Weisselberg and the company have pleaded not guilty.
Weisselberg and Eric Trump each invoked the Fifth Amendment more than 500 times when questioned by James’ lawyers during separate depositions in 2020, according to court papers.
The former president could choose to do the same, but it’s likely “he’ll claim lack of knowledge on many questions,” New York University law professor Stephen Gillers said.
That could be a successful strategy, since Trump is known as more of a “big-picture guy” Gillers said. “So he’ll answer the big-picture questions and those answers will be general enough to keep him out of trouble, or so his lawyers will hope.”
“On the other hand, his impetuosity makes him a lawyer’s nightmare and his overconfidence may lead him astray. Whoever questions him will encourage that,” the professor added.
Once her investigation wraps up, James could decide to bring a lawsuit and seek financial penalties against Trump or his company, or even a ban on them being involved in certain types of businesses.
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Associated Press writer Jill Colvin in New York contributed to this report. | 2022-08-10T10:26:54+00:00 | wtae.com | https://www.wtae.com/article/trump-testify-ny-investigation/40853923 |
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Doctors in California who mail abortion pills to people in other states would be protected from prosecution under a new bill to be unveiled Friday in the state Legislature.
The bill would not let California extradite doctors who are facing charges in another state for providing abortion medication. It would also shield doctors from having to pay fines. And it would let California doctors sue anyone who tries to stop them from providing abortions.
The bill would only protect doctors who are in California. If a doctor left California to provide an abortion to someone in another state, that doctor would not be protected. It also would not protect patients in other states who receive the medication.
State Sen. Nancy Skinner, a Democrat from Berkeley and the author of the bill, said her intent is to make sure California residents who are traveling in other states or living there temporarily — like college students — can still have access to medication that’s legal in their home state. But she acknowledged the bill would also apply to California doctors who treat patients who live in other states.
“This is essential health care,” Skinner said. “Our health care practitioners should be protected for treating their patients regardless of where their patients are geographically.”
Massachusetts, New York, Connecticut, Maryland and Vermont have proposed or passed similar laws, according to Skinner’s office. Connecticut’s law, among other things, blocks criminal summonses from other states related to reproductive health care services that are legal in Connecticut while also blocking extradition — unless the person fled from a state requesting them.
“Obviously, if a provider is engaging in telehealth services with someone, even if they do inquire about where they are, they kind of have to take it on faith,” said Connecticut state Rep. Matt Blumenthal, a Democrat and co-chair of the General Assembly’s Reproductive Rights Caucus. “We don’t want to make providers their police for their patients. And we don’t want to make them have to do an investigation every time they perform telehealth.”
Other states have tried to block the distribution of the abortion pill, known as mifepristone. Attorneys general in 20 states, mostly with Republican governors, have warned some of the nation’s largest pharmacy companies they could face legal consequences if they distribute the pill within their states.
Most abortions are outlawed in Idaho, including medication abortions. Blaine Conzatti, president of the Idaho Family Policy Center — a group that opposes abortion rights — said California has a responsibility to extradite physicians who break Idaho laws.
“The arrogance of such a proposal is astounding,” Conzatti said of Skinner’s bill. “It flaunts the traditional relationship between states and would upend our federal system altogether.”
Skinner’s bill goes beyond abortions. It would also protect doctors for mailing contraceptives and transgender-related medications.
California already has laws that prevents courts from enforcing out-of-state judgments on abortion providers and volunteers. That law was aimed at protecting doctors who provide abortions to people who travel to California from other states. Abortion opponents say laws like that are illegal because they violate a clause in the U.S. Constitution that says states must give “full faith and credit” to the laws of other states.
Federal courts have recognized an exception to that clause, including laws in one state that violate the “public policy” of another state. Skinner’s law declares it is the public policy of California that doctors should not be charged for providing abortion medication.
“We’re very careful,” Skinner said.
Abortion pills have been legal in the U.S. for more than two decades and can be used up to the 10th week of pregnancy. It’s now the most common abortion method in the U.S. A federal judge in Texas is weighing whether to revoke or suspend the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the drug, a decision that would apply to all states and not just the ones who have outlawed abortions.
Skinner’s bill is one of 17 pieces of legislation Democrats have introduced in California this year to protect abortion rights, including proposals to improve access to contraceptives and protect patients’ privacy.
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Associated Press reporter Susan Haigh in Hartford, Connecticut, contributed to this report. | 2023-03-17T16:53:53+00:00 | wate.com | https://www.wate.com/health/ap-health/california-bill-to-protect-doctors-who-mail-abortion-pills/ |
For the first time in 100 years, the contest for Speaker was not decided on the first ballot.
Now, the chamber faces an uncertain path forward, and a congressional battle from years ago — all the way back in 1856 — lends insight into how long the tug-of-war over the Speaker’s gavel may last.
Just as Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) was unable to secure the 218 votes needed to become Speaker, former Rep. Nathaniel Banks of Massachusetts was unable to round up enough support in the 1856 contest to lead the chamber. It ended up taking two months and 133 rounds of voting to determine that contest.
McCarthy faced 19 Republican detractors in the first round of voting on Tuesday, with GOP lawmakers casting votes for Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), among others.
Just as in 1856, when Banks ultimately prevailed, the House is now slated to hold votes continually until a Speaker is elected.
But that doesn’t mean the House will continue late into the night on Tuesday. It is possible the chamber will adjourn, giving lawmakers time to negotiate.
Until a Speaker is picked, business in the House cannot continue. It must first choose a Speaker before voting on a House rules package.
The fight in 1856 raged on because Banks, an anti-slavery Congressman, was opposed by a number of lawmakers who wanted to expand slavery.
Banks eventually won by a vote of 103 to 100 over former South Carolina Rep. William Aiken.
This time, the schism in the Republican Party is due in part to a group of hard-line conservatives who have sought key concessions from McCarthy and other Republican leaders. Those concessions include a lower threshold for a “motion to vacate,” an action that allows lawmakers to remove a Speaker.
But there was a prevailing question for those opposing McCarthy in the contest: Who is the alternative to McCarthy? One lawmaker teased this week that the group had a candidate waiting in the wings, but that claim was met with skepticism by other Republicans.
A Speaker’s contest has gone to a second ballot only 14 times. It last happened in December 1923, when former Rep. Frederick Gillett of Massachusetts reached an agreement with opposing lawmakers after nine ballots. | 2023-01-03T21:16:02+00:00 | wric.com | https://www.wric.com/hill-politics/how-long-could-speaker-battle-drag-on-1856-offers-a-stark-example/ |
CA San Francisco Bay Area Zone Forecast for Wednesday, February 1, 2023
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345 FPUS56 KMTR 021101
ZFPMTR
San Francisco Bay Area/Central California Zone Forecast
National Weather Service San Francisco Bay Area
300 AM PST Thu Feb 2 2023
This is an automatically generated product that provides average
values for large geographic areas. For a more site specific
forecast...please visit weather.gov/sanfrancisco
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You can refine your selection by clicking on the map displayed on
the resulting page.
CAZ505-030200-
Coastal North Bay...Including Point Reyes National Seashore-
301 AM PST Thu Feb 2 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s. East
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s. Southeast
winds 10 to 20 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Rain. Lows in the upper 40s. Southeast winds
10 to 20 mph.
.FRIDAY...Rain likely in the morning. Highs in the upper 50s.
Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Cloudy. A slight chance of rain. Highs in the mid
50s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Rain. Lows in the upper 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain. Highs in the mid 50s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
Highs in the upper 50s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
.TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper
50s. Lows in the mid 40s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Point Reyes 36 56 48 57 / 80 50
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CAZ503-030200-
Sonoma Coastal Range-
301 AM PST Thu Feb 2 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 40. Southeast winds
around 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s. Southeast
winds 10 to 20 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Rain. Lows in the mid 40s. Southeast winds
10 to 20 mph.
.FRIDAY...Patchy fog in the morning. Rain likely in the morning.
Highs in the mid 50s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain
60 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Cloudy. A chance of rain. Highs in the mid 50s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Rain. Lows in the mid 40s.
.SUNDAY...Rain likely. Highs in the lower 50s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the
lower 40s. Highs around 60.
$$
CAZ502-030200-
Marin Coastal Range-
301 AM PST Thu Feb 2 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s.
Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 50s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph increasing to 10 to 20 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Rain in the evening, then rain likely after
midnight. Lows in the mid 40s. South winds 10 to 20 mph.
.FRIDAY...Rain likely in the morning. Highs in the lower 50s.
Southwest winds 5 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s. Southwest
winds around 5 mph...becoming southeast after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Cloudy. A slight chance of rain. Highs in the lower
50s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Rain. Lows in the upper 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain. Highs in the lower
50s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the mid 50s.
Lows in the lower 40s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower
40s. Highs in the mid 50s.
$$
CAZ506-030200-
North Bay Interior Valleys-
301 AM PST Thu Feb 2 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Areas of frost. Lows in the 30s
to lower 40s. East winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs
in the 50s to lower 60s. East winds 5 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Rain in the evening, then rain likely after
midnight. Lows in the 40s to lower 50s. Southeast winds 10 to
20 mph with gusts to around 35 mph.
.FRIDAY...Rain likely in the morning. Highs in the 50s. Southeast
winds 10 to 20 mph...becoming 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Chance of rain 70 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the 40s. East winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Cloudy. A slight chance of rain. Highs in the 50s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Rain. Lows in the 40s to lower 50s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain. Highs in the 50s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the 30s to mid 40s.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the 50s to mid
60s. Lows in the 30s to mid 40s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the 30s to
mid 40s. Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Santa Rosa 28 61 43 59 / 80 60
San Rafael 37 56 48 57 / 70 60
Napa 34 57 46 55 / 70 70
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CAZ504-030200-
North Bay Interior Mountains-
301 AM PST Thu Feb 2 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s.
Southeast winds 5 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 40s to mid 50s.
Southeast winds 10 to 20 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Rain likely. Lows in the mid 40s. Southeast
winds 10 to 20 mph.
.FRIDAY...Rain likely in the morning. Highs in the upper 40s to
mid 50s. Southwest winds 10 to 20 mph...becoming south 5 to
10 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Cloudy. A slight chance of rain. Highs in the lower
to mid 50s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Rain. Lows in the mid 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain. Highs in the upper 40s
to mid 50s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 40.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the 50s to lower
60s. Lows in the lower 40s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower
40s. Highs in the mid 50s to lower 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Lake Berryessa 37 55 46 54 / 70 70
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CAZ006-030200-
San Francisco-
301 AM PST Thu Feb 2 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 40s.
East winds up to 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s. East winds
5 to 10 mph...becoming south 10 to 20 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Rain likely. Lows in the lower 50s. South winds
10 to 20 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain in the morning. Highs
in the upper 50s. Southwest winds 10 to 20 mph decreasing to
around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows near 50. Southwest winds
around 5 mph...becoming southeast after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Rain. Lows in the lower 50s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain. Highs in the mid 50s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
Highs in the upper 50s.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
Highs in the upper 50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the 40s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming partly
cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
San Francisco 40 59 49 57 / 60 50
Ocean Beach 40 60 50 57 / 60 50
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CAZ509-030200-
San Francisco Peninsula Coast-
301 AM PST Thu Feb 2 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s to mid
40s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s. Southeast
winds 10 to 20 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Rain likely. Lows in the upper 40s. South winds
10 to 20 mph with gusts to around 35 mph.
.FRIDAY...Rain likely in the morning. Highs in the upper 50s.
Southwest winds 10 to 20 mph...becoming south 5 to 10 mph in the
afternoon. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Rain. Lows in the upper 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain. Highs in the mid 50s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.
Highs in the upper 50s.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
Highs in the upper 50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid
40s. Highs in the upper 50s.
$$
CAZ508-030200-
San Francisco Bay Shoreline-
301 AM PST Thu Feb 2 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows near 40. Southeast winds
around 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s. Southeast
winds 5 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. A chance of rain. Lows around 50.
Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph increasing to 10 to 20 mph after
midnight.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain in the morning. Highs
in the upper 50s. Southeast winds 10 to 20 mph decreasing to
around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s. East winds
around 5 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Rain. Lows in the upper 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain. Highs in the upper
50s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower to
mid 40s. Highs in the upper 50s.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the
upper 30s to mid 40s. Highs in the lower 60s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming partly
cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
SFO Airport 40 61 51 59 / 50 50
Oakland 36 61 48 58 / 50 50
Fremont 34 65 48 59 / 60 60
Redwood City 36 64 48 59 / 50 50
Mountain View 33 63 49 59 / 50 50
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CAZ510-030200-
East Bay Interior Valleys-
301 AM PST Thu Feb 2 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Areas of frost. Lows in the mid
30s. Northeast winds around 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs
around 60. East winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. A chance of rain. Lows in the mid 40s.
Southeast winds 5 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain in the morning. Highs
in the upper 50s. South winds 5 to 15 mph. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s. Northeast
winds around 5 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Rain. Lows in the upper 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain. Highs in the upper
50s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s.
Highs in the upper 50s.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the
upper 30s. Highs in the lower 60s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming partly
cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Concord 32 58 46 57 / 60 60
Livermore 31 61 45 58 / 50 50
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CAZ513-030200-
Santa Clara Valley...including San Jose-
301 AM PST Thu Feb 2 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s.
Southeast winds around 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s. Southeast winds
5 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. A slight chance of rain in the evening.
A chance of rain after midnight. Lows in the upper 40s. Southeast
winds 10 to 20 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain in the morning. Highs
in the upper 50s. Southeast winds 5 to 15 mph. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s. East winds
around 5 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain.
Lows in the upper 40s. Highs in the mid 50s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows around 40.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny. Highs
in the upper 50s.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s.
Highs in the lower 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower
40s. Highs in the mid 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
San Jose 29 65 48 60 / 50 50
Morgan Hill 32 64 46 57 / 50 50
$$
CAZ512-030200-
Santa Cruz Mountains-
301 AM PST Thu Feb 2 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s.
Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the 50s. South winds 10 to
20 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...A chance of rain in the evening, then rain
likely after midnight. Lows in the lower to mid 40s. South winds
15 to 20 mph.
.FRIDAY...Rain likely in the morning, then a slight chance of
rain in the afternoon. Highs in the 40s to mid 50s. South winds
10 to 20 mph...becoming 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon. Chance of
rain 70 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the 50s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Rain. Lows in the mid 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain. Highs in the mid 40s
to lower 50s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows around 40. Highs
in the upper 40s to mid 50s.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s to
lower 40s. Highs in the 50s to lower 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows around 40.
Highs in the 50s to lower 60s.
$$
CAZ515-030200-
East Bay Hills-
301 AM PST Thu Feb 2 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s. Southeast
winds around 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...A chance of rain in the evening, then rain
likely after midnight. Lows in the mid 40s. South winds 10 to
20 mph.
.FRIDAY...Rain likely in the morning. Highs in the lower 50s.
South winds 15 to 20 mph...becoming southwest 5 to 15 mph in the
afternoon. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s. Southwest winds around 5 mph in
the evening...becoming light.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Rain. Lows in the mid 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain. Highs in the lower
50s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s.
Highs in the mid 50s.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the
upper 30s. Highs in the mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming partly
cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s.
$$
CAZ514-030200-
Eastern Santa Clara Hills-
301 AM PST Thu Feb 2 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the 30s to lower 40s.
South winds around 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s. South winds
10 to 20 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Rain likely after midnight. Lows near 40. South
winds 10 to 20 mph.
.FRIDAY...Rain likely in the morning. Highs in the upper 40s.
South winds 15 to 20 mph decreasing to 5 to 10 mph in the
afternoon. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows near 40. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 50s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Rain. Lows around 40.
.SUNDAY...Rain likely. Highs in the mid 40s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain. Lows in
the mid 30s.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 40s.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the
30s. Highs in the lower 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 50s.
$$
CAZ529-030200-
Northern Monterey Bay-
301 AM PST Thu Feb 2 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s.
Northeast winds around 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s. East winds
around 5 mph...becoming southwest in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain. Lows in the
mid 40s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph...becoming southeast after
midnight.
.FRIDAY...Cloudy. A chance of rain in the morning. A slight
chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 50s.
Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s. North winds
around 5 mph in the evening...becoming light.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs around 60.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain.
Lows in the mid 40s. Highs in the mid 50s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows around 40. Highs
in the upper 50s.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s.
Highs in the lower 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows around 40.
Highs in the lower 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Santa Cruz 34 61 44 57 / 50 50
$$
CAZ530-030200-
Southern Monterey Bay and Big Sur Coast-
301 AM PST Thu Feb 2 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
Southeast winds around 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph increasing to 10 to 20 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain in the
evening. A chance of rain after midnight. Lows in the upper 40s.
Southeast winds 10 to 20 mph.
.FRIDAY...Cloudy. A chance of rain. Highs in the upper 50s.
Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph...becoming northeast around 5 mph in
the afternoon. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain.
Lows in the upper 40s. Highs in the upper 50s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
Highs in the upper 50s.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s.
Highs in the lower 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid
40s. Highs in the lower 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Monterey 37 62 47 59 / 40 40
Big Sur 42 60 48 56 / 50 50
$$
CAZ528-030200-
Northern Salinas Valley...Hollister Valley...and Carmel Valley-
301 AM PST Thu Feb 2 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s.
Southeast winds around 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s. Southeast winds
10 to 20 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain after midnight.
Lows in the upper 40s. Southeast winds 10 to 20 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain in the morning. Highs
in the upper 50s. Southeast winds 10 to 20 mph...becoming
southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s. Southeast
winds around 5 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain.
Lows in the upper 40s. Highs in the mid 50s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows around 40.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny. Highs
in the upper 50s.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s.
Highs in the lower 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows around 40.
Highs in the lower 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Salinas 34 64 47 59 / 40 40
Carmel Valley 40 64 48 59 / 50 50
Hollister 32 64 47 58 / 40 40
$$
CAZ516-030200-
Southern Salinas Valley...Arroyo Seco...and Lake San Antonio-
301 AM PST Thu Feb 2 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Areas of frost. Lows in the mid
30s. Southeast winds around 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. Areas of frost in the morning. Highs
in the mid 60s. Southeast winds 5 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs around 60. Southeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s. East winds
around 5 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Rain likely. Lows in the mid 40s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming partly
cloudy. A chance of rain. Highs in the upper 50s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s.
Highs in the upper 50s.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s.
Highs in the lower 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper
30s. Highs in the mid 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
King City 31 64 43 60 / 10 10
$$
CAZ517-030200-
Santa Lucia Mountains and Los Padres National Forest-
301 AM PST Thu Feb 2 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. Breezy. Highs in the upper 40s to
lower 60s. South winds 10 to 20 mph increasing to 20 to 30 mph in
the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Breezy. A chance of rain after
midnight. Snow level 4000 feet. Lows in the upper 30s to mid 40s.
South winds 20 to 30 mph decreasing to 10 to 20 mph after
midnight.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain in the morning. A
slight chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs in the 40s to 50s.
South winds 10 to 20 mph decreasing to up to 5 mph in the
afternoon. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s to mid 40s.
South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 40s to lower 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Breezy. A chance of
rain. Lows in the upper 30s to mid 40s. Highs in the lower 40s to
mid 50s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the 30s. Highs
in the lower 40s to mid 50s.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid to
upper 30s. Highs in the upper 40s to lower 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s
to lower 40s. Highs in the 50s to lower 60s.
$$
CAZ518-030200-
Mountains of San Benito and Interior Monterey County including
Pinnacles National Park-
301 AM PST Thu Feb 2 2023
.REST OF TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s to lower
40s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the 50s to lower 60s. South
winds 10 to 20 mph. Gusts up to 35 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Cloudy. A slight chance of rain after midnight.
Lows in the 30s to upper 40s. South winds 10 to 20 mph with gusts
to around 35 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain in the morning.
Highs in the upper 40s to lower 60s. South winds 10 to 20 mph...
becoming 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s to mid 40s.
Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming mostly
cloudy. Highs in the 50s to lower 60s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain.
Lows in the 30s to upper 40s. Highs in the mid 40s to upper 50s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the 30s to
lower 40s. Highs in the lower 40s to mid 50s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Areas of frost. Lows in the 30s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 40s to lower 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the 30s to
lower 40s. Highs in the 50s to lower 60s.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
Pinnacles NP 31 62 43 59 / 20 20
$$
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TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A teenager was killed and another was wounded in a shooting at a high school homecoming football game in Oklahoma Friday night, police said.
The victims, both 17, were shot during the event at McLain High School for Science and Technology shortly before 10 p.m., according to a statement by the Tulsa Police Department posted on Twitter and Facebook.
“When Officers arrived, we found two victims amongst the crowd of hundreds. One 17-year-old male was pronounced dead at the scene,” the post said.
The surviving victim was taken to a hospital in critical condition but has improved to stable condition, the statement said.
Several officers and a K-9 unit searched nearby neighborhoods but were not immediately able to find the suspected shooter, who fled the scene on foot, police said.
The school on N. Peoria Avenue has an enrollment of 666 students, according to the McLain High School website. | 2022-10-01T12:41:40+00:00 | texomashomepage.com | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/national/ap-1-teen-killed-1-wounded-in-tulsa-homecoming-game-shooting/ |
Father’s Day is a few weeks away, but New Era is already celebrating.
The headwear company has released Father’s Day themed caps for each MLB team, all of which are available for sale on Fanatics. Fans of each team, including the Yankees, Mets and Phillies, can look through the catalog here. The MLB will donate its licensed royalties from sales on these hats to the Prostate Cancer Foundation.
BUY MLB FATHER’S DAY HATS HERE: YANKEES, METS, PHILLIES
Here is the product description of the Yankees’ cap, via Fanatics:
Celebrate the special day with the New York Yankees by grabbing this 2022 Father’s Day On-Field 59FIFTY Fitted Hat. Its blue underbill and classic New York Yankees graphics make it a standout addition to your fan gear collection. This unique New Era cap ensures your fandom is on full display so you’ll be ready to cheer on the New York Yankees at the next game. Major League Baseball and MLB Charities have been long-time supporters of the Prostate Cancer Foundation, and will continue to support the organization in its pursuit of research funds toward a cure. Please visit MLB.com/community for more information
Teams will wear the caps on Father’s Day, which is on June 19, 2022 (6/19/2022).
More MLB news, courtesy of the Associated Press:
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Swapping out their manager didn’t change the Los Angeles Angels’ fortunes Tuesday night.
The Halos matched a franchise record with their 13th straight defeat hours after firing manager Joe Maddon, falling 6-5 to the streaking Boston Red Sox on Christian Vázquez’s go-ahead single in the 10th inning.
Interim boss Phil Nevin lost his managerial debut and Angels star Mike Trout exited with left groin tightness as Los Angeles tied the franchise mark for its longest skid set from 1988-89. The Angels dropped the final 12 games on the 1988 schedule — their worst stretch in a single season before this one — and then their 1989 opener.
“I’m not worried about morale at all,” Nevin said. “You saw the effort from everyone. We had good at-bats. I thought there was a lot of great things. It was just a game where we ended up on the wrong side.”
Boston won its sixth straight with a 15-hit effort, including two from Vázquez. Bobby Dalbec had two RBIs.
Trout homered in the first inning and gingerly ran out a double in the third before leaving with the groin issue. He said he felt a little sore but isn’t overly alarmed. There was no scan or MRI done after Trout left the game.
“Coming out of the box, I didn’t feel it and then I felt like a little cramp. Then I got to second base and a little achy and tried to be smart about it. I’ll see how I feel tomorrow,” Trout said. “At least it isn’t nothing crazy.”
With Trevor Story as the automatic runner in the 10th, Vázquez had a one-out base hit through the hole at second base off Jaime Barria (1-1) to drive in the go-ahead run.
“That was a big hole at second base,” Vázquez said “I love those clutch situations. Somebody needs to do it so why not me?”
Jo Adell had an RBI double and scored a tiebreaking run, but Los Angeles blew a lead in the seventh inning or later for the sixth time during this skid.
After Dalbec’s RBI single cut Boston’s deficit to 5-4 in the sixth, Rafael Devers scored the tying run in the seventh when a grounder up the middle by Story deflected off pitcher Ryan Tepera’s glove.
Tanner Houck (4-3) got the win and Matt Strahm retired the side in the bottom of the 10th for his second save.
Strahm retired Kurt Suzuki to end the game on a grounder to shortstop Enrique Hernandez, who began in center field and slid to short after Xander Bogaerts was lifted for a pinch-hitter in the ninth due to left shoulder tightness.
Boston’s bullpen allowed only one run on two hits and struck out nine in six innings.
“The bullpen did an amazing job. We went to them quick,” manager Alex Cora said. “It was a weird game because we put pressure on them the whole game and we were kind of coming up empty. Christian had a great at-bat in the end.”
Nevin, who played 12 major league seasons for six teams, including the Angels in 1998, returned to the franchise this season as third-base coach after four seasons in the same capacity with the New York Yankees.
Angels GM Perry Minasian said Nevin will be the manager for the rest of the season. This is the first time Nevin has managed in the majors. He has seven years of managerial experience in the minors.
Shohei Ohtani got aboard in the first with a double off the wall in left-center. Trout — who came into the game with one hit in his last 29 at-bats — then drove Garrett Whitlock’s sinker over the wall in center field for his 14th home run of the season and a 2-0 advantage.
Boston took the lead with three runs in the second. The Red Sox had four hits and a walk in the frame, including RBI base hits from Dalbec and Enrique Hernandez.
The Angels tied it in the home half of the frame when Juan Lagares scored after first baseman Dalbec booted a slow ground ball hit by Andrew Velazquez. Los Angeles grabbed a 4-3 advantage in the third on Max Stassi’s RBI ground-rule double down the right-field line and extended it in the fifth when Adell drove in Luis Rengifo with a double.
Both teams had runners in scoring position in the ninth inning, but were unable to score.
FOR STARTERS
Whitlock went four innings and allowed four runs on six hits with five strikeouts. It was the first time in seven games a Boston starter has given up two or more runs.
José Suarez made his first start since April 30 and went a season-high five innings. The lefty allowed three runs and seven hits with two walks and three strikeouts.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Red Sox: Chris Sale (right rib stress fracture) did not throw his scheduled bullpen due to a stomach bug. The lefty was originally slated to throw to hitters on Friday before the illness.
Angels: RHP Chase Silseth, who went 1-2 in four starts, was optioned to Double-A Rocket City to make way for Suarez.
UP NEXT
Red Sox: RHP Nathan Eovaldi (3-2, 3.41 ERA) is 2-2 with a 5.02 ERA in 10 career games against the Angels.
Angels: LHP Reid Detmers (2-2, 4.20 ERA) has allowed four home runs and has a 0-1 record in three starts since throwing a no-hitter on May 10 against Tampa Bay.
(The Associated Press contributed to this report.)
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Ryan Novozinsky may be reached at rnovozinsky@njadvancemedia.com. | 2022-06-08T15:30:50+00:00 | nj.com | https://www.nj.com/yankees/2022/06/mlb-celebrates-fathers-day-with-blue-themed-caps-how-to-buy-a-yankees-mets-phillies-fathers-day-hat.html |
PARIS (AP) — The lone survivor of a 2009 plane crash in the Indian Ocean took the stand Monday in a Paris courtroom, recounting her ordeal as a 12-year-old girl hearing screams, clinging to floating debris and desperately hoping that her mother was still alive.
Bahia Bakari’s mother was among 152 people who died on the flight operated by Yemen Airways, which is now known as Yemenia.
Composed throughout her testimony, Bakari cried as she mourned her mother’s loss. Others in the courtroom broke down crying too.
Bakari, dressed all in white and praised for her bravery by judges and lawyers, delivered powerful testimony in a room heavy with emotion.
“We were landing, I started to feel some turbulence but people didn’t seem worried about it. Then I felt an electrical shock and I woke up in the water. I don’t remember what happened between sitting in the plane and being in the water. I have a black hole,” Bakari said.
Yemen’s national carrier is charged with manslaughter and unintentional injuries over the crash, which occurred at 11:53 p.m., causing the deaths of 141 passengers and 11 crew members. Sixty-five of the dead were French citizens.
Now 25, Bakari was 12 when she took the plane with her mother to go to Comoros off Africa’s eastern coast to attend a wedding. The plane departed from Paris, made a stopover in the southern French city of Marseille and then landed in Sanaa. Bakari described switching to a smaller plane to go from the Yemeni capital to Moroni in the Comoros. It was a night flight and Bakari remembered that “everyone was exhausted.”
After the plane plunged into the ocean, she grasped a floating part of the destroyed plane and stayed in the water for 11 hours before being saved by fishermen.
Bakari remembered hearing “female voices which screamed for help in Comorian” at first. She then fell asleep and woke up alone: “It was so long. I almost gave up. I almost lost hope. Thinking about my mom helped me to hold up. I convinced myself that everyone except me made it home safe.”
As the hours passed, she said, “I lost track of time when I was in the water.”
After her rescue, Bakari was taken to the Moroni hospital then repatriated to France. Bakari suffered a broken collarbone, a broken hip, burns and other injuries.
Today, “I don’t suffer any physical effects, but my mother is gone. I was very close to her,” she said, in tears.
The young woman, who now works in real estate, has two younger siblings and relied mostly on her father who helped her deal with the trauma. She didn’t seek therapy after leaving the hospital.
“I didn’t feel comfortable talking to a stranger. I was close with my family,” she said.
Bakari said she is “doing much better now,” and resumed flying two years after the crash. She said she doesn’t suffer traumatic flashbacks, but she isn’t at ease in the water.
Bakari couldn’t attend her mother’s funeral because she was still in the hospital, but said she considered herself lucky because her mother’s body was identified, and she had a proper grave.
Bakari, who describes herself as “a proud Comorian,” stood with the more than 250 plaintiffs, who mostly come from Comoros, in a packed courtroom. The trial was broadcast live in a courtroom in Marseille, where many victims came from.
She co-wrote a book “Bahia, the Miracle Girl,” and told the court she did it for the victim’s’ relatives, to “leave them something to hold on to.”
Despite the pain of reliving the memories, she said she felt relieved to have a trial, even so many years later.
In 2015, the airline was ordered in civil proceedings by two French courts to pay more than 30 million euros ($31.6 million) to the victims’ families, who deplored the slowness of the procedure between France and Comoros, a former colony that became independent in 1975.
In 2018, a confidential agreement was signed between the airline and 835 beneficiaries, who had to wait several more years to receive compensation.
No representatives of the company attended the Paris trial. Bakari deplored the absence and said she wishes the company would apologize.
The trial ends on June 2. The airline faces a fine of up to 225,000 euros ($237,000). | 2022-05-23T19:12:12+00:00 | ourquadcities.com | https://www.ourquadcities.com/news/business/ap-business/lone-survivor-of-2009-plane-crash-testifies-in-paris-court/ |
Refinance Lending Drops 36 Percent Quarterly, Outweighing Rise in Other Lending Activity;
Total Loans Down Another 13 Percent, Continuing Year-Long Decline;
Purchase Mortgages Up 8 Percent While Home-Equity Deals Increase 35 Percent
IRVINE, Calif., Aug. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ATTOM, a leading curator of real estate data nationwide for land and property data, today released its second-quarter 2022 U.S. Residential Property Mortgage Origination Report, which shows that 2.39 million mortgages secured by residential property (1 to 4 units) were originated in the second quarter of 2022 in the United States. That figure was down 13 percent from the first quarter of 2022 – the fifth quarterly decrease in a row – and down 40 percent from the second quarter of 2021 – the biggest annual drop since 2014.
The decline resulted from another double-digit downturn in refinance activity that more than outweighed increases in home-purchase and home-equity lending.
Overall, lenders issued $807.8 billion worth of mortgages in the second quarter of 2022. That was down quarterly by 11 percent and annually by 35 percent. As with the number of loans, the annual decrease in the dollar volume of loans marked the largest in eight years.
"Mortgage rates that have virtually doubled over the past year have decimated the refinance market and are starting to take a toll on purchase lending as well," said Rick Sharga, executive vice president of market intelligence at ATTOM. "The combination of much higher mortgage rates and rising home prices has made the notion of homebuying simply unaffordable for many prospective buyers, which threatens to drive loan volume down even further as we exit the spring and summer months."
The downturn in total activity resulted from just 941,000 residential loans getting rolled over into new mortgages during the second quarter of 2022 - a figure that was down 36 percent from the first quarter of 2022 and down 60 percent from a year earlier. Amid another rise in mortgage interest rates, refinance lending decreased for the fifth straight quarter, hitting a point that was just one-third of what it was in early 2021. The dollar volume of refinance loans was down 35 percent from the prior quarter and 56 percent annually, to $310.1 billion.
For the first time since early 2019, refinance activity in the second quarter did not represent the largest chunk of mortgages, dropping to 39 percent of all loans. That was off from 53 percent in the first quarter and from a recent peak of 66 percent in early 2021.
Purchase-loan activity, meanwhile, increased modestly as the 2022 Spring home-buying season kicked into gear. Despite ongoing home-price spikes, the number of purchase loans rose 8 percent quarterly, to 1.1 million, representing 46 percent of all borrowing. Still, that gain was unusually small for the months running from April through June and left the number of purchase mortgages down 21 percent annually. The dollar volume of loans taken out to buy residential properties rose to $431.4 billion, up 15 percent from the first quarter of this year, but still down 12 percent from the second quarter of last year.
The best-performing category by far in the second quarter was again home-equity lending. Home Equity Lines of Credit shot up 35 percent quarterly and 44 percent annually, to 341,704.
"Borrowers looking to tap into their equity should know that HELOC activity has been particularly strong among credit unions and community banks, along with a small but growing number of depository banks," Sharga noted. "While non-bank mortgage lenders may begin to more aggressively originate home equity loans, it's not likely they'll be active participants in the HELOC market."
The latest loan trends reflected a housing market in flux, pushed by competing forces, and continued a sharp break from a period when lending activity nearly tripled from early 2019 through early 2021.
Banks and other lenders issued 2,385,051 residential mortgages in the second quarter of 2022. That was down 13.2 percent from 2,747,324 in the first quarter of 2022 and down 40 percent from 3,976,656 in the second quarter of 2021. The annual decline marked the largest since the first quarter of 2014. The $807.8 billion dollar volume of loans in the second quarter was down 10.6 percent from $903.7 billion in the prior quarter and was 35 percent less than the $1.24 trillion lent in the second quarter of 2021.
Overall lending activity decreased from the first quarter to the second quarter of 2022 in 173, or 80 percent, of the 215 metropolitan statistical areas around the U.S. with a population of more than 200,000 and at least 1,000 total residential mortgages issued in the second quarter of 2022. Total lending activity was down at least 10 percent in 97 metros (45 percent). The largest quarterly decreases were in Knoxville, TN (down 59.9 percent); Roanoke, VA (down 52.7 percent); Charleston, SC (down 37 percent); St. Louis, MO (down 28.7 percent) and Philadelphia, PA (down 27.3 percent).
Aside from St. Louis and Philadelphia, metro areas with a population of least 1 million that had the biggest decreases in total loans from the first quarter to the second quarter of 2022 were New York, NY (down 25.9 percent); Detroit, MI (down 25.6 percent) and San Jose, CA (down 24.7 percent).
The biggest increases in the total number of mortgages from the first quarter to the second quarter of 2022 were in Atlantic City, NJ (up 32.5 percent); Erie, PA (up 18.8 percent); Peoria, IL (up 17.4 percent); Topeka, KS (up 15.6 percent) and Utica, NY (up 14.6 percent).
The only metro areas with a population of at least 1 million where total loan originations increased from the first to the second quarter were Honolulu, HI (up 9.9 percent); Kansas City, MO (up 3.4 percent) and Rochester, NY (up 3.2 percent).
Lenders issued 941,111 residential refinance mortgages in the second quarter of 2022 – the smallest count since the second quarter of 2019.
The latest number was down 35.9 percent from 1,469,237 in first quarter of 2022 and 59.7 percent from 2,335,808 in the second quarter of 2021. The $310.1 billion dollar volume of refinance loans in the second quarter of 2022 was down 35.1 percent from $477.5 billion in the prior quarter and down 56.1 percent from $706.2 billion in the second quarter of 2021.
Refinancing activity decreased from the first quarter to the second quarter of 2022 in 213, or 99 percent, of the 215 metropolitan statistical areas around the country with enough data to analyze. Activity dropped quarterly by at least 25 percent in 162 metro areas (75 percent) and at least 35 percent in 94 metros (44 percent). The largest quarterly decreases were in Roanoke, VA (down 65.8 percent); Knoxville, TN (down 64.4 percent); San Jose, CA (down 58.5 percent); Oxnard, CA (down 56.3 percent) and Charleston, SC (down 55.3 percent).
Aside from San Jose, metro areas with a population of least 1 million that had the biggest decreases in refinance activity from the first quarter to the second quarter of this year were Portland, OR (down 53.2 percent); San Francisco, CA (down 52.9 percent); Sacramento, CA (down 51.8 percent) and Chicago, IL (down 49.8 percent).
The only metro areas where refinance lending increased from the first quarter to the second quarter were Atlantic, City, NJ (up 23.7 percent) and Utica, NY (up 8.5 percent).
Lenders originated 1,102,236 purchase mortgages in the second quarter of 2022. That was up 7.6 percent from 1,024,109 in the first quarter. But the increase was the smallest second-quarter gain since at least 2000. As a result, purchase lending remained down 21.5 percent from 1,403,287 in the second quarter of 2021. The $431.4 billion dollar volume of purchase loans in the second quarter of 2022 was up 15.1 percent from $374.9 billion in the prior quarter, but down 11.8 percent from $489.2 billion a year earlier.
Residential purchase-mortgage originations increased from the first quarter of 2022 to the second quarter of 2022 in 173 of the 215 metro areas in the report (80 percent), but were still down annually in 194 metro areas (90 percent).
The largest quarterly increases were in Madison, WI (up 60.8 percent); Honolulu, HI (up 55.8 percent); Lafayette, IN (up 55.5 percent); Champaign, IL (up 52.6 percent) and Jackson, MS (up 49.3 percent).
Aside from Honolulu, metro areas with a population of at least 1 million that saw the biggest quarterly increases in purchase originations in the second quarter of 2022 were Boston, MA (up 41.7 percent); Seattle, WA (up 33.6 percent); Richmond, VA (up 31.9 percent) and Birmingham, AL (up 29.9 percent).
Residential purchase-mortgage lending decreased most from the first quarter to the second quarter of 2022 in Knoxville, TN (down 52 percent); Roanoke, VA (down 37.3 percent); Salinas, CA (down 18.1 percent); Ogden, UT (down 16.9 percent) and Boise, ID (down 13.6 percent).
Metro areas with a population of at least 1 million where purchase originations decreased most from the first to the second quarter of 2022 were New York, NY (down 12 percent); Los Angeles, CA (down 11 percent); St. Louis, MO (down 10.7 percent); Philadelphia, PA (down 10.7 percent) and Detroit, MI (down 9.5 percent).
A total of 341,704 home-equity lines of credit (HELOCs) were originated on residential properties in the second quarter of 2022, up 34.5 percent from 253,978 during the prior quarter and up 43.8 percent from 237,561 in the second quarter of 2021. HELOC activity increased for the fourth time in five quarters after decreasing in each of the prior six quarters. The $66.3 billion second-quarter 2022 volume of HELOC loans was up 29.4 percent from $51.2 billion in the first quarter of 2022 and 39.8 percent from $47.4 billion in the second quarter of last year, hitting the highest point in almost three years.
HELOCs comprised 14.3 percent of all second-quarter 2022 loans, more than double the 6 percent level from a year earlier.
HELOC mortgage originations increased from the first quarter to the second quarter of 2022 in 94 percent of the metro areas analyzed. The largest increases in metro areas with a population of at least 1 million were in Fresno, CA (up 82.9 percent); Riverside, CA (up 80.9 percent); Buffalo, NY (up 53.2 percent); San Diego, CA (up 52 percent) and Los Angeles, CA (up 51.5 percent).
The only quarterly decrease in HELOCs among metro areas with a population of at least 1 million was in St. Louis, MO (down 11.7 percent).
Mortgages backed by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) rose as a portion of all lending for the third straight quarter, accounting for 255,544, or 10.7 percent, of all residential property loans originated in the second quarter of 2022. That was up from 10.4 percent in the first quarter of 2022 and 9.6 percent in the second quarter of 2021.
Residential loans backed by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) accounted for 122,483, or 5.1 percent, of all residential property loans originated in the second quarter of 2022, down from 5.6 percent in the previous quarter and 6.8 percent a year earlier. VA lending as a portion of all loans dropped for the seventh straight quarter.
The national median down payment on homes purchased with financing increased during the second quarter of 2022 after declining in the prior two quarters, while the typical amount borrowed rose to another new high. At the same time, the ratio of median down payments to home prices went up.
The median down payment on single-family homes and condos purchased with financing in the second quarter of 2022 increased to $35,000, up 34.7 percent from $25,980 in the previous quarter and up 34.6 percent from $26,000 in the second quarter of 2021. Among homes purchased with financing in the second quarter of 2022, the median loan amount was $320,000. That was up 8.1 percent from the prior quarter and up 12.3 percent from the same period in 2021.
The typical down payment in the second quarter of this year represented 9.1 percent of the purchase price, up from 7.4 percent in the prior quarter and 7.5 percent a year earlier.
ATTOM analyzed recorded mortgage and deed of trust data for single-family homes, condos, town homes and multi-family properties of two to four units for this report. Each recorded mortgage or deed of trust was counted as a separate loan origination. Dollar volume was calculated by multiplying the total number of loan originations by the average loan amount for those loan originations.
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BOSTON HEIGHTS, Ohio, Aug. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Arhaus, Inc. (NASDAQ: ARHS; "Arhaus" or the "Company"), a rapidly growing lifestyle brand and omni-channel retailer of premium artisan-crafted home furnishings, announced today that Tim Kuckelman will join the Company in the new role of Chief Operating Officer at the end of September. He will report directly to John Reed, Arhaus Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer.
Kuckelman, who has over three decades of leadership experience in retail operations and logistics, will be responsible for enhancing Arhaus' operational capabilities across the business, overseeing Sourcing, Planning, Logistics, Customer Experience, Manufacturing and Information Technology.
"We are delighted to welcome Tim to Arhaus," said Reed. "His proven expertise leading high growth retail with complex operations and logistics will be of immense value as we optimize our processes and continue scaling our operational capacity in our next chapter of growth."
Kuckelman comes to Arhaus after spending the past two years at Fashionphile Group as COO, where he was responsible for establishing operational processes and controls for logistics, inventory sourcing and management, customer service and retail operations in a high growth environment. Prior to Fashionphile, Kuckelman spent over ten years at Kohl's Department Stores in various leadership roles, most recently as Vice President, Logistics and Transportation. In that role, he optimized domestic and international transportation and logistics while achieving a best-in-class cost model.
Prior to Kohl's, Kuckelman held roles of increasing responsibility in distribution, customer service, operations, and industrial engineering across companies such as Best Buy Co. and Gap, Inc. He holds an Industrial Engineering degree from Kansas State University and a J.D. from San Joaquin College of Law.
Founded in 1986, Arhaus is a rapidly growing lifestyle brand and omni-channel retailer of premium home furnishings. Through a differentiated proprietary model that directly designs and sources products from leading manufacturers and artisans around the world, Arhaus offers an exclusive assortment of heirloom quality products that are sustainably sourced, lovingly made, and built to last. With 80 showroom and design center locations across the United States, a team of interior designers providing complimentary in-home design services, and robust online and eCommerce capabilities, Arhaus is known for innovative design, responsible sourcing, and customer service.
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VANCOUVER, BC, Dec. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Sandstorm Gold Ltd. ("Sandstorm Gold Royalties", "Sandstorm" or the "Company") (NYSE: SAND) (TSX: SSL) is pleased to announce that its Board of Directors has declared the Company's first quarterly cash dividend for 2023 in the amount of C$0.02 per common share to shareholders of record as of the close of business on January 17, 2023. The dividend will be paid on January 27, 2023. The dividend qualifies as an "eligible dividend" as defined in the Income Tax Act (Canada).
The declaration, timing, amount, and payment of future dividends will be subject to the discretion and approval of the Board of Directors. The Company will review the dividend program on an ongoing basis and may amend it at any time depending on the Company's then current financial position, capital allocation framework, profitability, cash flow, debt covenant compliance, legal requirements and other factors considered relevant. As such, no assurances can be made that any future dividends will be declared and/or paid. Dividends paid to shareholders outside Canada (non-resident investors) will be subject to Canadian non-resident withholding taxes.
For more information about Sandstorm Gold Royalties, please visit our website at www.sandstormgold.com or email us at info@sandstormgold.com.
Sandstorm is a gold royalty company that provides upfront financing to gold mining companies that are looking for capital and in return, receives the right to a percentage of the gold produced from a mine, for the life of the mine. Sandstorm holds a portfolio of 250 royalties, of which 39 of the underlying mines are producing. Sandstorm plans to grow and diversify its low cost production profile through the acquisition of additional gold royalties. For more information visit: www.sandstormgold.com.
The financial information included or incorporated by reference in this press release or the documents referenced herein has been prepared in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards as issued by the International Accounting Standards Board, which differs from US generally accepted accounting principles ("US GAAP") in certain material respects, and thus are not directly comparable to financial statements prepared in accordance with US GAAP.
This press release and the documents incorporated by reference herein, as applicable, have been prepared in accordance with Canadian standards for the reporting of mineral resource and mineral reserve estimates, which differ from the previous and current standards of the United States securities laws. In particular, and without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the terms "mineral reserve", "proven mineral reserve", "probable mineral reserve", "inferred mineral resources,", "indicated mineral resources," "measured mineral resources" and "mineral resources" used or referenced herein and the documents incorporated by reference herein, as applicable, are Canadian mineral disclosure terms as defined in accordance with Canadian National Instrument 43-101 — Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects ("NI 43-101") and the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (the "CIM") — CIM Definition Standards on Mineral Resources and Mineral Reserves, adopted by the CIM Council, as amended (the "CIM Definition Standards").
For United States reporting purposes, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") has adopted amendments to its disclosure rules (the "SEC Modernization Rules") to modernize the mining property disclosure requirements for issuers whose securities are registered with the SEC under the Exchange Act, which became effective February 25, 2019. The SEC Modernization Rules more closely align the SEC's disclosure requirements and policies for mining properties with current industry and global regulatory practices and standards, including NI 43-101, and replace the historical property disclosure requirements for mining registrants that were included in SEC Industry Guide 7. Issuers were required to comply with the SEC Modernization Rules in their first fiscal year beginning on or after January 1, 2021. As a foreign private issuer that is eligible to file reports with the SEC pursuant to the multi-jurisdictional disclosure system, the Corporation is not required to provide disclosure on its mineral properties under the SEC Modernization Rules and will continue to provide disclosure under NI 43-101 and the CIM Definition Standards. Accordingly, mineral reserve and mineral resource information contained or incorporated by reference herein may not be comparable to similar information disclosed by United States companies subject to the United States federal securities laws and the rules and regulations thereunder.
As a result of the adoption of the SEC Modernization Rules, the SEC now recognizes estimates of "measured mineral resources", "indicated mineral resources" and "inferred mineral resources." In addition, the SEC has amended its definitions of "proven mineral reserves" and "probable mineral reserves" to be "substantially similar" to the corresponding CIM Definition Standards that are required under NI 43-101. While the SEC will now recognize "measured mineral resources", "indicated mineral resources" and "inferred mineral resources", U.S. investors should not assume that all or any part of the mineralization in these categories will be converted into a higher category of mineral resources or into mineral reserves without further work and analysis. Mineralization described using these terms has a greater amount of uncertainty as to its existence and feasibility than mineralization that has been characterized as reserves. Accordingly, U.S. investors are cautioned not to assume that all or any measured mineral resources, indicated mineral resources, or inferred mineral resources that the Company reports are or will be economically or legally mineable without further work and analysis. Further, "inferred mineral resources" have a greater amount of uncertainty and as to whether they can be mined legally or economically. Therefore, U.S. investors are also cautioned not to assume that all or any part of inferred mineral resources will be upgraded to a higher category without further work and analysis. Under Canadian securities laws, estimates of "inferred mineral resources" may not form the basis of feasibility or pre-feasibility studies, except in rare cases. While the above terms are "substantially similar" to CIM Definitions, there are differences in the definitions under the SEC Modernization Rules and the CIM Definition Standards. Accordingly, there is no assurance any mineral reserves or mineral resources that the Company may report as "proven mineral reserves", "probable mineral reserves", "measured mineral resources", "indicated mineral resources" and "inferred mineral resources" under NI 43-101 would be the same had the Company prepared the reserve or resource estimates under the standards adopted under the SEC Modernization Rules or under the prior standards of SEC Industry Guide 7.
This press release contains "forward-looking statements", within the meaning of the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities legislation, concerning the business, operations and financial performance and condition of Sandstorm Gold Royalties. Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to the payment of the dividend and declaration of future dividends, including the timing and amount thereof, the future price of gold, silver, copper, iron ore and other metals, the estimation of mineral reserves and resources, realization of mineral reserve estimates, the timing and amount of estimated future production. Forward-looking statements can generally be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "may", "will", "expect", "intend", "estimate", "anticipate", "believe", "continue", "plans", or similar terminology.
Forward-looking statements are made based upon certain assumptions and other important factors that, if untrue, could cause the actual results, performances or achievements of Sandstorm Gold Royalties to be materially different from future results, performances or achievements expressed or implied by such statements. Such statements and information are based on numerous assumptions regarding present and future business strategies and the environment in which Sandstorm Gold Royalties will operate in the future, including the receipt of all required approvals, the price of gold and copper and anticipated costs. Certain important factors that could cause actual results, performances or achievements to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements include, amongst others, failure to receive necessary approvals, changes in business plans and strategies, market conditions, share price, best use of available cash, gold and other commodity price volatility, discrepancies between actual and estimated production, mineral reserves and resources and metallurgical recoveries, mining operational and development risks relating to the parties which produce the gold or other commodity the Company will purchase, regulatory restrictions, activities by governmental authorities (including changes in taxation), currency fluctuations, the global economic climate, dilution, share price volatility and competition.
Forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other important factors that may cause the actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements of the Company to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements, including but not limited to: the impact of general business and economic conditions, the absence of control over mining operations from which the Company will purchase gold, other commodities or receive royalties from, and risks related to those mining operations, including risks related to international operations, government and environmental regulation, actual results of current exploration activities, conclusions of economic evaluations and changes in project parameters as plans continue to be refined, risks in the marketability of minerals, fluctuations in the price of gold and other commodities, fluctuation in foreign exchange rates and interest rates, stock market volatility, as well as those factors discussed in the section entitled "Risks to Sandstorm" in the Company's annual report for the financial year ended December 31, 2021 and the section entitled "Risk Factors" contained in the Company's annual information form dated March 31, 2022 available at www.sedar.com. Although the Company has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in forward-looking statements, there may be other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. There can be no assurance that such statements will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. The Company does not undertake to update any forward-looking statements that are contained or incorporated by reference, except in accordance with applicable securities laws.
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PICKENS, S.C. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump on Saturday marked a return to the large-scale rallies of his previous presidential campaigns, speaking to thousands gathered in the streets of a small South Carolina city on a blazing day ahead of the July 4 holiday.
“There’s nowhere else I’d rather be to kick off the Fourth of July weekend than right here on Main St., with thousands of hardworking South Carolina patriots who believe in God, family and country,” Trump said to a roaring crowd standing on asphalt as temperatures climbed into the 90s.
It wasn’t immediately clear how many people had gathered in the streets of downtown Pickens, a small city in South Carolina’s conservative Upstate of around 3,400 residents. Law enforcement officials told some media outlets that around 15,000 people had gathered by 11 a.m., two hours before Trump’s remarks.
The heavily Republican area is a popular one for GOP hopefuls as they aim to attract support for South Carolina’s first-in-the-South presidential primary. In recent months, other candidates including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former Vice President Mike Pence and biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy have all held events in the Upstate, as well as the two South Carolinians in the race: former Gov. Nikki Haley and Sen. Tim Scott.
But none drew a crowd like Trump, whose appearance effectively shuttered Pickens’ quintessential southern downtown.
Contrasted with his 2016 and 2020 campaigns, which drew thousands to rallies in states across the country, Trump’s 2024 effort has been markedly different. Earlier this year, instead of addressing voters in a gymnasium or airplane hangar, Trump held his first South Carolina campaign event inside the Statehouse in Columbia, rolling out his state leadership team at an invitation-only gathering in an ornate lobby between the House and Senate chambers.
In other states, the former president has focused his efforts on smaller events, including a series of speeches before state party organizations, as he works to bolster his standing with delegates and local officials.
This was only Trump’s second large rally of the 2024 campaign. In March, he rallied in Waco, Texas, disparaging the prosecutors then investigating him on hush-money charges — on which he was later indicted — and predicting his vindication. A planned outdoor rally in Iowa in May was canceled due to tornado warnings.
The rallies are also expensive to put on, although Trump has continued to bring in millions in fundraising, after both the New York indictment and also federal charges related to his retention of classified documents after leaving the White House. Last month, senior Trump aide Chris LaCivita told the conservative Ruthless podcast that the rallies “are half a million bucks a pop.”
Trump’s campaign has also leaned in on unannounced stops at restaurants — such as at a celebrated Philadelphia cheesesteak restaurant Friday or Versailles, a famous Cuban eatery in Miami — in a bid to showcase his strong appeal among supporters despite the multiple legal challenges.
In a broad GOP field that has continued to grow, Trump’s campaign has pointed to polls showing him with a considerable lead over his rivals, despite a campaign schedule that is far less robust than many of his rivals. He has also given frequent media interviews and appeared at many of the multi-candidate events of the primary season so far, including this past week’s Moms for Liberty gathering in Philadelphia.
Still, the chance to see the former president in person drew thousands from across the Southeast for Saturday’s rally, with attendees beginning to line up the night before, and coming from as far as Florida. Greg Pressley and his wife, Robin, said they drove more than three hours from their home in eastern Tennessee to see the candidate they’ve supported since his first run in 2016.
“Donald Trump’s the best president in history,” Greg Pressley said. “I love his policies. I love the man. I’m here to support him getting back to where he needs to be, to begin with.”
Shelley Fox of Spartanburg, who said she has supported Trump since he entered the 2016 race, said she didn’t feel it necessary to even think about any other candidates for next year’s election.
“I’d write him in,” she said, when asked what she would do if forced to consider another hopeful. “No question — I’d write him in.”
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Meg Kinnard can be reached at http://twitter.com/MegKinnardAP | 2023-07-02T17:25:27+00:00 | cbs42.com | https://www.cbs42.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-trump-returns-to-campaign-rallies-draws-thousands-to-small-south-carolina-city-ahead-of-july-4/ |
“004Daisy,” Dixson (Roc Nation)
Dixson embraces modernity and forges a sweet new R&B sound on his third album, “004Daisy.”
The Atlanta native is a seasoned producer and songwriter with a decorated catalog working with artists like Chance the Rapper, Justin Bieber, Pharrell and Yebba.
Most recently, Dixson, also known as Darius Scott, co-wrote the Oscar-nominated song “Be Alive” from the “King Richard” original soundtrack with Beyoncé. He also made two songwriting appearances on Beyoncé’s summer smash hit album “Renaissance."
His work with Beyoncé shows the sound he is cultivating for himself in “OO4Daisy" — an inventive new form of alternative R&B. It is meant to be genre-bending, purposefully challenging people to rethink that they've heard everything from the well-established and now expansive genre.
The album features another alternative R&B, singer-producer, Tinashe, in a certified groovy summer hit, “Heat," which is also exclusively produced by Dixson and co-written by Tinashe. He opens the sensual lively jam, “I heard she tryna get away for the summer/Can I take you there?”
Transitions are seamless from "Moviestar" to “La Nocturne,” which allows the multifaceted musician to show his range from the darker, intense Michael Jackson-influenced “Moviestar" to “La Nocturne,” a dreamy fantasy.
The confident album closes with two of the strongest songs showcased in the set. Standout “Cherry Sorbet,” featuring R&B songstress and co-writer Sevyn Streeter, is a cherry-charged euphemism that samples The Beatles. The song is inspired by old school R&B love songs —- perfect for a night out with a group of friends or a potential love interest.
Finally, Dixson swings big with a closer and makes it connect with “Sweeter." The closing song is co-produced by emerging artist Steve Lacy, known for his summer hit, “Bad Habit," sweeping the internet and music charts by storm.
“Sweeter” serves its purpose — heavy with a bass guitar, a chorus, beats that sound like heels clicking and people snapping and most of all Dixson's silky voice ready to comfort his listeners. He sings optimistically while closing the album, "See, I’m just a dreamer/ Looking for sweeter/And I know life ain’t always peaches and cream."
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For more AP Music reviews, go to: https://apnews.com/hub/music-reviews | 2022-09-29T19:58:37+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/entertainment/article/Review-Dixson-forges-a-sweet-R-B-sound-on-album-17476079.php |
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Four Pakistani police officers were killed and another four critically wounded Sunday when suspected militants attacked a police station in the country’s volatile northwest, police said.
The suspects used grenades and automatic weapons on the station in Lakki Marwat district before fleeing the scene overnight, said Nawaz Khan, an officer of the targeted police station.
Khan said police on duty retaliated and called for reinforcement before the attackers, their ammunition apparently exhausted, fled the scene before help arrived. Police were searching for the attackers.
No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, but previous attacks on police in the district have been claimed by Pakistani Taliban, also known as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, TTP.
Last month, militants ambushed a routine police patrol, killing all six policemen in the vehicle in the Dadewala area of the Lakki Marwat district. The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the Dadewala ambush. The militant group is separate but allied with the Afghan Taliban.
A suicide bomber blew himself up near a truck carrying police officers on their way to protect polio workers near Quetta, in southwestern Pakistan late last month, killing a police officer and three family members traveling in a car nearby. The bombing wounded 23 others, mostly police.
Both southwestern Baluchistan and northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province borders Afghanistan, where Taliban rule last year emboldened Pakistani Taliban. | 2022-12-19T05:18:06+00:00 | fox44news.com | https://www.fox44news.com/news/national-world-news/ap-militants-kill-4-in-attack-on-police-station-in-nw-pakistan/ |
Detroit Lions' Dan Campbell: Showdown vs. Minnesota Vikings 'is why you’re into coaching'
Detroit Lions coach Dan Campbell is not downplaying the magnitude of this week's game against the Minnesota Vikings.
"This is big," Campbell said at his weekly news conference Monday. "It’s big for our players, it’s big for us. Shoot, it’s a big game for them. But man, look, they’re all special, but this is one of those games, this is why you’re into coaching, this is why you’re into playing, this is why you love the game of football. It’s going to be awesome.”
The Lions have won four of their past five games to climb back into the playoff race after a 1-6 start. At 5-7, they can afford at most one more loss — and might need to win their remaining five games — if they're going to make the postseason.
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The Lions trail the Seattle Seahawks (7-5) by two games for the final NFC's final wild card spot. The Washington Commanders (7-5-1) are the first team out of playoff position in the NFC standings.
The Vikings (10-2) have the second-best record in the NFL and can clinch their first outright NFC North title since 2017 with a victory.
Minnesota has won nine of its past 10 games, all by eight points or less, including a 28-24 victory over the Lions in Week 3.
The Lions led nearly that entire game, and Campbell criticized his own late-game decision making after he tried a 54-yard field goal on fourth-and-4 with 1:14 to play that sailed wide right. The miss gave the Vikings the ball at their own 44-yard line, and they scored the game-winning touchdown three plays later with 45 seconds on the clock.
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Asked Monday if the Vikings are the same team now that they were in Week 3, Campbell said, "Yes, because they’re still winning."
"I would say it’s a better version of what they were because they’ve continued to win," Campbell said. "This is a winning team. They find ways to win, that’s what they do. And those are the hard teams because they’ve done it against multiple opponents, different ways. Special teams, offense, defense, they’re finding ways to win.”
The Lions beat the Jacksonville Jaguars, 40-14, on Sunday in their most complete game under Campbell. They scored on their first eight offensive possessions, did not punt and forced an early Jacksonville turnover.
Campbell said he expects a similar atmosphere this week at Ford Field.
"I would say this, man, all hands on deck this week," he said. "Our fans got to show up, which I know they will. This is going to be electric. It is big."
Okwara 'close'
Defensive end Romeo Okwara could make his season debut this week against the Vikings.
The Lions activated Okwara from the nonfootball injury list Saturday, the same time they moved Jameson WIlliams fron the nonfootball injury list to the 53-man roster, but made him inactive for the Sunday's win over the Jacksonville Jaguars.
NEW TO THE TEAM:Jameson Williams quiet in NFL debut, still has 'everything it takes to be that guy'
Okwara has not played since tearing his Achilles tendon last October in a loss to the Chicago Bears. Campbell said Sunday "there’s a good chance" Okwara returns against the Vikings.
"We just wanted to give him just a little bit more time," Campbell said Monday. "He’s close. But yeah, we just, we wanted to see how he was. He had a pretty good load last week, let him wake up Sunday morning, how did he feel all that and now here we go. Let’s see where he’s at Wednesday."
Okwara led the Lions with a team-high 10 sacks in 2020, but played just four games last season because of injury. The Lions rank 26th in the NFL in sack percentage, but have gotten a pass rush boost from rookie James Houston in recent weeks.
Briefly
The Lions signed Joshua Dobbs to their practice squad Monday as their third quarterback. Dobbs was waived last month by the Cleveland Browns, after Deshaun Watson returned from suspension. He spent his first four NFL seasons with the Pittsburgh Steelers and Jaguars, completing 10 of 17 passes in six games as a backup.
Contact Dave Birkett at dbirkett@freepress.com. Follow him on Twitter @davebirkett. | 2022-12-05T22:53:36+00:00 | freep.com | https://www.freep.com/story/sports/nfl/lions/2022/12/05/detroit-lions-dan-campbell-embracing-showdown-minnesota-vikings/69702868007/ |
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LTJ Bukem haedlines an all-star DJ lineup at the Iron Cow
One of the most direct lifelines to the 1990s glory days when Orlando was a global dance-music hotspot still runs through Iron Cow, and this booking is proof positive of that ongoing commitment and connection.
English DJ/producer LTJ Bukem is a drum & bass giant, a pioneer who led the vanguard of the genre’s more cerebral side from the beginning. His soulful and sophisticated work remains a touchstone of intelligent breakbeat.
Add Orlando’s own legendary junglist AK1200 and Torque residents Circle K and MC Collaborator to the mix and you’ve got a who’s who of drum & bass, a continuum that leads right back to Orlando’s music lineage.
9 p.m. Friday, April 14, Iron Cow, $25-$30.
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New York Subliners are the 2023 CDL Champs, and a look back at the season.
(Gray News) - This year’s Call of Duty League season finished on June 18th with a dominant Grand Finals performance from the New York Subliners. The CDL Champs event took place in Las Vegas and drew a prodigious audience online and in person. The tournament was full of ups and downs as fan favorites failed to live up to the hype while others proved they shouldn’t be overlooked.
OpTic Texas struggled at the start of the season when they failed to make the first Major, followed by a string of unexpected roster changes. Their predominant roster hit was losing their longtime star smg player Seth ‘Scump’ Abner. The scramble to fill the gap took until Major III when their final roster addition of the season in rookie Dan ‘Ghosty’ Rothe proved to be the way forward.
OpTic finally seemed to be the powerhouse the Greenwall expected, as they came second in Major III and IV. They were also undefeated in Major IV and V qualifiers. But their newfound momentum slowed as they were knocked out in Major V Elimination Round One, despite being the favorite to win. Having failed to win a regular season Major, fans looked to Champs to be the tournament that would officially put OpTic back on top.
Unfortunately, after a decisive Winners Round One win, OpTic had reached their limit. New York Subliners knocked them out of the Winners Bracket in round two, and a tough battle against Seattle Surge in the Elimination Round Two saw OpTic exit Champs with a disappointing sixth-place finish. All said and done; OpTic gave us a glimpse at the potential they hold and will be a team to fear in 2024 once they iron out the kinks of their newly minted roster.
Thieves was another team that failed to live up to expectations. The reigning 2022 CDL Champs couldn’t seem to get in a rhythm all season despite making it to two Grand Finals. They couldn’t convert in Major II and ended up second behind Atlanta FaZe, but in Major IV, they took down OpTic to win. Outside of that, their Major finishes were rather lackluster.
Despite this, Thieves are a team committed to their starting roster and had established that they could thrive at Champs. Unluckily, they had one of the more challenging round-one matchups against Toronto Ultra and lost. Thieves were the first team knocked out of Champs when they failed to recover against Seattle Surge in the Elimination Round One. A disappointing finish for sure, but the Thieves still have an inherently strong group of players if they decide to stick with them for 2024.
Toronto Ultra used Champs to show they belong in the discussion of top CDL teams. Ultra had a solid year overall which included a win at Major III. Like several other teams this year, they put their faith in the up-and-coming pool of rookie talent. They started the season by adding Thomas ‘Scrappy’ Ernst, who is very outspoken regarding his ability. Ultra didn’t see the expected results quickly enough, so they added Charlie ‘Hicksy’ Hicks into the mix ahead of Major III. Hicksy’s entry smg prowess matched Scrappy’s aggressive gunplay perfectly.
After their bout with Thieves in Winners Round One, Ultra took a stress-free path to Grand Finals. Most notably, they took down New York Subliners 3-0 in the Winners Finals. However, this may have been their ultimate downfall because, in Grand Finals, Ultra got swept by Subliners in what appeared to be a revenge plot. Ultra took home $660,000 and second place.
The Subliners have been an exciting team to watch all year, winning several Majors. Conversely, they also struggled for a good portion of the season. They came in hot with a win at Major I. Still, they cooled off immediately by not exceeding Elimination Round Two in Major II and Elimination Round One in Major III. A spark began to appear again in Major IV when they made it to the Elimination Round Four, but the fire reignited when they won Major V.
Subliners were the only team to enter Champs with multiple Major wins, but some remained uncertain they had what it took to win it all. Barely squeaking out a win over Minnesota RØKKR in Winners Round One and a brutal shutout loss to Ultra in the Winners Finals only added to the doubt. But unfazed by FaZe in Elimination Finals, Subliners made it to Champs Grand Finals for a shot at redemption against Ultra.
Subliners performed one of the most relentless sweeps in the history of Call of Duty esports and CDL Champs. They started Grand Finals with an emphatic Hardpoint map one win on Zarqwa Hydroelectric. Then followed it up with a near-perfect Search and Destroy map two win on Breenbergh Hotel, a map played three times in the series. In map three, they returned to Hotel for the game mode Control and eviscerated Ultra 3-0.
At this point, Ultra was gobsmacked. In map four, they showed a little bit of life, only losing the Hotel hardpoint 236-250, but clearly, the Subliners still had the upper hand. The preferred finishing game mode of Call of Duty fans, Search and Destroy, was played on Embassy for map five, and Subliners won 6-4.
The Subliners had left Ultra fans speechless in one of the fastest CDL Champs Grand Finals ever played. The final result of the series was 5-0 in favor of Subliners. Matthew ‘KiSMET’ Tinsley received the CDL Champs Finals MVP, and fittingly, Paco ‘HyDra’ Rusieweiz won the 2023 CDL MVP. New York Subliners also took home the $1,000,000 first-place winnings.
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Larry Kosilla’s Ammo NYC car-detailing shop has seen a wide variety of vehicles, but this time it’s playing host to something very rare indeed: the first Koenigsegg CC850.
Kosilla has produced a ton of videos on car detailing, and this time he’s applied his skills to the CC850 displayed at August’s 2022 Monterey Car Week. It was on its way from California to a presentation to customers in New York’s swanky Hamptons, making a quick stop at Kosilla’s shop to freshen up.
The CC850 wasn’t in need of as much attention as some of the other cars that have passed through the shop, but Kosilla gave it a thorough wash and Reflex Pro enamel coating, which should make it harder for dirt to stick to the paint.
Speaking of paint, the CC850’s 25-stage paint maxed out Kosilla’s paint depth gauge. Areas with thinner paint need to be treated more delicately, but that’s not a problem here. Koenigsegg is no stranger to elaborate paint jobs; the Jesko show car displayed at the 2019 Geneva auto show had 34 layers to its paint.
The CC850 is a re-imagination of Koenigsegg’s first production car—the CC8S. The styling borrowed heavily from that hypercar, but the CC850 is powered by Koenigsegg’s current twin-turbo 5.0-liter V-8 tuned to deliver 1,169 hp with regular pump gas or 1,366 hp with E85 fuel. The V-8 is coupled to a new version of Koenigsegg’s Light Speed Transmission that can switch between a 9-speed automatic mode and 6-speed manual mode—complete with clutch pedal.
Koenigsegg originally planned 50 build slots but they sold out in record time after the CC850’s Monterey debut, which meant some of the company’s loyal customers missed out. The automaker quickly upped production, adding 20 build slots. But even that won’t meet demand for the car, CEO Christian von Koenigsegg anticipates, maintaining the CC850’s air of exclusivity.
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DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Not since Pelé in 1958 had someone as young as Gavi scored a goal at the World Cup.
The 18-year-old midfielder led the way Wednesday as Spain pulled off the biggest World Cup victory in its history, routing Costa Rica 7-0.
“I could never have imagined it,” said Gavi, who was named the game’s most valuable player. “I know I’m the youngest in the team and I respect everyone, but on the field it’s different and I bring out my best.”
Pelé scored two goals in the 1958 final, when Brazil won its first World Cup by beating Sweden 5-2.
“I’m proud to be in that podium,” he said. “Not even in my dreams I had imagined this.”
Gavi only managed to score one goal on Wednesday, but his teammates added plenty of others.
Not long after Japan surprised Germany 2-1 in the other Group E match, Spain’s young squad avoided any chance of an upset with Dani Olmo, Marco Asensio and Ferran Torres scoring a goal each in the first half. Torres, Gavi, Carlos Soler and Álvaro Morata added to the lead in the second half.
In addition to Gavi’s mark, Olmo’s goal was the 100th at World Cups for “La Roja,” which became the sixth nation to score more than 100 times in the tournament.
It was the first time Spain scored seven goals in a World Cup match, and the first time a team completed 1,000 passes in a 90-minute game at the tournament.
“Our only goal is to control the game continuously, and to do that you need to have the ball,” Spain coach Luis Enrique said.
With Gavi and 19-year-old Pedri starting, Spain also became the first European nation with two teenagers in the starting lineup of a World Cup match in 60 years, according to statistics platform Opta.
Gavi and Pedri were among the many youngsters picked by Luis Enrique in a revamped squad in Qatar — the third-youngest team among the 32 nations, after the United States and Ghana.
The young duo helped Spain control the pace of the match from the start at Al Thumama Stadium. The 22-year-old Torres, who is dating the daughter of coach Luis Enrique, scored his first World Cup goal from the penalty spot in the 31st minute. The others came during the run of play.
“When things go your way like this, soccer becomes wonderful,” Luis Enrique said. “We played exceptionally well with and without the ball.”
Costa Rica looked overwhelmed throughout the game in its third straight World Cup campaign, failing to even get a single attempt on goal. The team came to Qatar hoping to repeat its surprise run to the quarterfinals in 2014 in Brazil, and avoid a repeat of its winless showing four years ago in Russia.
“We didn’t hold on to the possession as we should have done it,” Costa Rica coach Luis Fernando Suárez said. “We couldn’t complete three or four passes.”
Spanish players made it look easy with the ball on their feet, finishing the match with 72% of possession.
Spain, which didn’t get past the round of 16 in Russia, is trying to break through with a major title after making it to the final of the Nations League and the semifinals of last year’s European Championship. This year the team also qualified for the Final Four of the Nations League for a second straight time. Spain’s last major triumph came at Euro 2012, two years after it won its lone World Cup title in South Africa.
Only five countries have scored more goals than Spain at the World Cup — Brazil, Germany, Argentina, Italy and France.
Spain next faces four-time World Cup champion Germany on Sunday in one of the most anticipated matches of the World Cup.
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BERLIN (AP) — German business confidence has strengthened for a fourth consecutive month as managers look past current problems to take a more optimistic view of the months ahead, a closely watched survey showed Wednesday.
The Ifo institute said its monthly confidence index rose to 91.1 points in February from 90.1 last month. That was due entirely to a clear improvement in companies’ outlook for the next six months, because their assessment of the situation now worsened slightly.
The survey has shown confidence rising since November, but it is well below its level of 98.6 last February, before Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Ifo said “the German economy is gradually working its way out of a period of weakness.” Europe’s biggest economy shrank by 0.2% in last year’s fourth quarter compared with the previous three-month period, largely because of a decline in consumer spending.
The Ifo survey is based on responses from about 9,000 companies in a broad range of sectors.
The fact that the improved outlook is still based solely on forward-looking expectations reinforces the view that “Germany’s economy will only start to recover during the second quarter,” Timo Klein, principal economist at S&P Global Market Intelligence in Frankfurt, said in a research note.
“However, the broad-based nature of improving expectations across all relevant sectors reassures that economic activity will indeed pick up soon, enabled by reduced worries about energy security and prices,” he added.
Inflation has dogged Germany in recent months as it has other countries. The Federal Statistical Office said Wednesday that the annual inflation rate rebounded to 8.7% in January after dropping to 8.1% in December, stemming from the state taking on the cost of natural gas customers’ monthly bills in December as part of a massive government energy relief package.
That was meant to ease the pain of natural gas prices that surged following the invasion of Ukraine and the end of Russia’s gas supplies to Germany.
A feared shortage of gas used to heat homes, generate electricity and power industry hasn’t materialized, however. Germany’s gas storage facilities are well-stocked, and the country has opened its first liquefied natural gas terminals. | 2023-02-23T11:58:42+00:00 | upmatters.com | https://www.upmatters.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-german-business-confidence-improves-for-4th-straight-month/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — “Avatar: The Way of Water” is the box office king for a third straight week, and shows no sign of slowing down.
James Cameron’s long-awaited sequel to the first “Avatar” film brought in an estimated $63 million over the holiday weekend, roughly the same as the previous week, and now has made more than $400 million domestically and more than $1.3 billion globally. “The Way of Water” is already the 15th highest global release ever, just behind the first “Black Panther.”
Numbers released Sunday by Comscore showed “Avatar” far ahead of the runner-up, Universal’s “Shrek” spinoff “Puss in Boots: The Last Wish,” which made an estimated $16 million, and Disney’s “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” which brought in around $4.8 million.
The Sony biopic “Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody” made $4.2 million in its second week of release. “Babylon,” the epic of early Hollywood starring Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie, continued to fare badly despite its five Golden Globe nominations. The Paramount release earned just $2.7 million in its second week, a 24% drop, and averaged just $815 per location. By comparison, the new “Avatar,” a 20th Century Studios film, averaged more than $15,000.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Comscore. Final domestic figures will be released Monday.
1. “Avatar: The Way of Water,” $63 million.
2. “Puss in Boots: The Last Wish,” $16 million.
3. “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” $4.8 million.
4. “I Wanna Dance With Somebody,” $4.2 million.
5. “Babylon,” $2.7 million.
6. “Violent Night,” $2.1 million.
7. “The Whale,” $1.3 million.
8. “The Fabelmans,” $1.1 million.
9. “The Menu,” $1.1 million.
10. “Strange World,” $538,000. | 2023-01-02T12:48:37+00:00 | keloland.com | https://www.keloland.com/entertainment/ap-entertainment/ap-full-speed-ahead-avatar-sequel-again-dominates-box-office/ |
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Drew Timme and Gonzaga’s veteran team got the better of Alabama’s youngsters in the end.
Timme matched his season-high with 29 points and No. 15 Gonzaga overcame freshman Brandon Miller’s 36-point outburst to beat No. 4 Alabama 100-90 on Saturday in the C.M. Newton Classic.
Timme had 10 rebounds, four assists and made 12 of 18 shots to help the Bulldogs (9-3) cool off one of the nation’s hottest teams. The Crimson Tide (9-2) had won four straight and beat two No. 1 teams to earn their highest ranking in 15 years, including a road win over Houston for the nation’s top rebounding team.
“Obviously they’re a physical, tough bunch,” Timme said. “We all saw the Houston game. If you’re able to rebound with them, you’re classified as a pretty tough team, I would say. We knew it was going to be a battle, and that’s what we love and that’s what we want.”
Alabama outrebounded Gonzaga 37-30 but still collected 12 fewer than usual, partly because both teams shot better than 50%.
It was a familiar situation — and outcome — for Gonzaga, which is 7-1 in regular-season games against teams ranked in the top five by either the AP or the coaches’ poll since 2018-19.
Miller scored 26 points in the second half, including the team’s first 10. The nation’s top scoring freshman had just delivered a 21-point second half in a 91-88 victory over Memphis but couldn’t carry his team to the win this time.
Timme got much more scoring support against a team starting three freshmen.
The Bulldogs had six double-figure scorers. Anton Watson scored 17, Nolan Hickman had 13 and Malachi Smith 12. Rasir Bolton and Julian Strawther each scored 11.
Gonzaga made 20 of 27 second-half shots (74%).
Freshman Jaden Bradley scored 18 points for Alabama in his second start. The third freshman starter, Noah Clowney, had nine points and 13 rebounds.
Miller, who doubled his season scoring average, made 6 of 11 3-pointers to keep it close. It was the most points by a Tide player since Kira Lewis Jr. scored 37 at Georgia on Feb. 8, 2020.
Without his second-half surge, “we wouldn’t have been in the game at all,” Tide coach Nate Oats said.
“Our defense was really struggling,” Oats said. “Him being able to get some buckets in the second half kept us in the game.”
Timme scored the last four points of the first half to stake Gonzaga to a 47-42 lead, holding Alabama scoreless over the last 2:56.
Smith scored on a 3-pointer and a drive to give the Bulldogs a 79-67 lead with nine minutes left.
It turned into a scoring duel between the senior Timme and one of the nation’s top freshmen. Both delivered big performances and high praise for each other.
Timme called Miller an NBA draft “lottery-level guy.”
“He’s a hell of a player. He really stepped up when his team needed him,” the Gonzaga star said.
For his part, Miller said Timme “has probably the best footwork in the country.”
“I’ve never seen anything like that,” he said. “He’s tough to guard. He gave us trouble early and then gave us trouble at the end of the game.”
THE TAKEAWAY
Gonzaga: The Bulldogs committed just nine turnovers. They shot 40 of 70 (57.1%) from the floor to return the favor after a 91-82 loss to Alabama last season in Seattle. The Zags reached 100 points for the fourth time this season.
Alabama: Miller’s teammates weren’t as hot from 3-point range, making just 2 of 14 attempts. Alabama committed 21 turnovers. Freshmen scored the Tide’s first 16 points, including seven from Bradley and a pair of Miller 3s.
TOUGH SCHEDULE
Alabama fell short of its fourth win over a Top 25 team, but Oats is hoping the tough nonconference schedule pays dividends for his squad.
“We’ll get better,” he said. “We play these good games to figure out what we’ve got to get better on and we’ve got plenty of stuff to work on.”
UP NEXT
Gonzaga hosts Montana on Tuesday night.
Alabama hosts Jackson State on Tuesday night.
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Editor's note: As the 2022 U.N. Climate Change Summit convenes, NPR's Picture Show is featuring work by photographers that highlights the effects of climate change around the world.
As frigid wind whipped across the ship's bow, I held the railing with one hand and steadied my camera with the other. In front of me stretched the Bellingshausen Sea, off the coast of Western Antarctica. I was there — my second journey to the region around the southernmost continent — early this year on a five-week voyage as a photographic expert aboard the National Geographic Endurance. A small group of passengers and I stood on the deck together, wrapped up tightly against the below-freezing temperatures, documenting this otherworldly landscape.
Pancakes of sea ice covered the waters as far as the eye could see. A lone emperor penguin tucked its head into its chest of feathers. As we sailed past seals resting on the ice, they raised their heads and promptly slid into the water. This frozen world seemed so different and foreboding — and yet, at the same time, familiar. In a strange way, I felt connected to my subtropical birthplace thousands of miles away — in the coastal regions of southeastern Louisiana.
The diptychs in this essay portray this connection by pairing my images of Antarctica with those of Louisiana. It is a visual dance of rhythms and patterns of two places so far apart, and yet whose fates are inextricably linked. Because, for me, combining photographs from the two enhances my understanding of each one. Beyond connecting the two places, it's also an exercise of connecting our actions to consequences far into the future and across the globe.
I grew up along New Orleans' 17th Street canal, running along levees and paddling pirogues in search of turtles. My brother and I watched otters play in the brackish water of a nearby swamp. Bayous and marshes bisected and surrounded the city as well as our daily lives. Over the past 20 years, I've documented the rich culture of my hometown and the coastal wetlands of Louisiana, photographing the impact of disasters on the environment and the communities it sustains.
Hurricane Katrina — once such disaster — ravaged the Gulf Coast in 2005, killing more than 1,800 people. The storm destroyed 30 square miles of coastal wetlands and burst through New Orleans' levees, flooding 80% of the city.
Five years later, the BP oil disaster killed 11 rig workers and pumped four million barrels of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico — the largest oil spill in U.S. marine history. Hundreds of miles of fragile Louisiana coast were coated. The oil suffocated the vulnerable marsh grasses, whose roots hold the land in place. The vegetation died and the mud washed away, increasing existing coastal erosion by almost 300%, according to researchers at Louisiana State University.
Long ago, ice shaped Louisiana. As the last ice age in North America retreated more than 12,000 years ago, melting glacial runoff carved out the Mississippi River basin. For thousands of years after that, the seasonal unfettered flooding of the Mississippi deposited sediment in the low delta region and built up the southern part of the state. Starting in the late 19th century, Congress tasked the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers with building levees to control the river to improve navigation and provide for flood protection. Paradoxically, what seemed good for urban expansion and industrialization along the Mississippi River gradually starved the wetlands of the sediment needed to rebuild and counteract natural subsidence.
Antarctica and Louisiana share a history of extractive industries in search of fuel. At the same time the Corps was beginning its work on the Mississippi, Antarctic whales were being hunted for the oil extracted from their blubber. Over the following century, commercial whaling expanded to such an extent that several species were nearly killed off.
In the 20th century, the oil and gas industry carved up Louisiana's coastal marshes with thousands of exploration canals, accelerating erosion. The combination of levees, canals and natural subsidence all contributed to coastal land loss and reduced critical protection against hurricane storm surges. Presently, the state loses a football field's worth of land every 100 minutes, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
The warming climate is affecting the polar regions, especially in the Arctic. However, runoff from Antarctic ice currently makes up 20-25% of global sea level rise. And warming and expanding oceans will only accelerate the glacial ice sheets' decay. As sea levels rise, scientists predict low-lying coastal areas around the world will increasingly be overwhelmed. This is true for my home state, where wetlands are the primary defense against storm surges. And levees alone will not hold back the rising waters.
As we sailed through the Bellingshausen Sea, I marveled at the textured beauty of the frozen watery landscape. But it also felt as if a rope was running from the Antarctic ice in front of the ship to the coastal waterways of Louisiana so far away — it felt like what we've done, as humans, to accelerate climate change has pulled that rope taught. There is no slack, no lag time, between existential changes in one place on Earth and the effects those will have on another. Tug on one side, and the other will fall.
Vanessa Castillo photo edited this story.
Zach Thompson text edited this story.
Tyrone Turner is a photographer whose work has explored the relationship between humans and the environment for nearly two decades. He is currently a visual storyteller and editor with WAMU and DCist in Washington, D.C. Follow him on Instagram at @tyronefoto.
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CHICAGO, June 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Digital therapeutic leader RAE Health today announced participation and presentation at the College on Problems of Drug Dependence Scientific Meeting as part of its NIDA Phase I Small Business Innovation Research Award. Their presentation titled "A digital detection and intervention for individuals in recovery from substance use disorder" focused on the integration of an off-the-shelf wearable sensor into the RAE system for the detection of stress and craving. Fifty adult subjects in outpatient treatment for SUD were enrolled over 18-months in the study. The RAE system was successfully deployed, and the accuracy of stress and craving detection were similar using an off-the-shelf wearable sensor to that of a clinical research grade wearable. The trial was conducted through joint efforts of Dr. Stephanie Carreiro of UMass Chan Medical School and Dr. Premananda Indic of the University Texas Health System.
This conclusion builds on and furthers RAE's development of their software platform and app currently being used to detect stress and cravings with wearable sensor technology facilitating just in time interventions. "Being able to take our technology to a consumer grade wearable will further open up our platform to a significantly wider patient population" said RAE Co-founder, Megan Reinhardt, "Expanding beyond research and onto users in society will further work to break the cycle of addiction and give patients more access to supportive care".
RAE Health (www.raehealth.com) is a mental health solutions company that bridges the gap between mobile health and digital therapeutics. The platform utilizes a patented algorithm with a wearable device tied to a mobile app to detect patterns of stress and cravings in real time.
This provides individuals, patients, caregivers, providers, and our licensees a clinically objective detection and intervention tool for better mental health. Current and developing applications include substance use disorders, pain management, suicide prevention, PTSD, eating disorders, anxiety, and depression.
RAE's technology has been the subject of multiple published research studies funded in part by the National Institute of Health (NIH) and is commercially available. It is time for individuals everywhere to Realize, Analyze, and Engage.
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WASHINGTON — Have you ever found yourself sitting at the computer waiting hours for the chance to get tickets to see your favorite artist?
If you are a music fan, the answer is likely "yes." There is a good chance you were waiting on Ticketmaster's website.
After several high-profile issues involving ticket sales and long wait times, Congress will take up the issue.
RISE OF TICKETMASTER
A congressional hearing on Tuesday will dive into whether Ticketmaster has too much influence on the music business.
Senators from both sides of the aisle will question whether a monopolistic environment contributed to recent issues involving Taylor Swift's upcoming tour where many fans experienced significant service failures and delays.
"They have a lot of power," Sarona Elton, a music professor at the University of Miami, said.
"They are estimated to have about 70% of the market share," said Carolyn Stone, a music professor at the University of California Riverside.
Elton and Stone said Ticketmaster's business model, which involves more than just selling tickets, will likely be scrutinized on Tuesday.
Ticketmaster's parent company is Live Nation, a business that is involved in ticket sales, including original and on the secondary market. It also owns and operates venues. Additionally, it promotes and manages tours.
The Senate Judiciary Committee wants to understand whether all that influence is anti-competitive.
Stone says she'll be watching to see if any lack of competition resulted in a lack of investments, which ultimately contributed to the issues for Taylor Swift's fans.
"That's something we worry about in industries that are less competitive because they're not keeping up with investments because they're not pushed to do that to keep up with competitors," Stone said.
Ticketmaster's influence on pricing is also expected to be brought up during the hearing. While artists ultimately set prices, Ticketmaster influences fees and does business in the secondary market.
Elton says what Ticketmaster says could prompt a discussion on new rules regarding the reselling of tickets.
Some countries, like Ireland, in recent years, have set limits.
"I do think there is more of an opportunity for regulation of the secondary market," Elton said.
"I think transparency would go a long way perhaps," Elton added.
Both experts agree that what Ticketmaster does every day shouldn't be overlooked.
It's not easy to sell so many tickets.
One hearing is also unlikely to change much.
The experts say a separate Department of Justice investigation that is also ongoing and looking into Ticketmaster may produce more change. | 2023-01-23T10:38:53+00:00 | fox17online.com | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national-politics/congress-set-to-question-ticketmaster-in-wake-of-taylor-swift-ticket-drama |
Lawmakers warn leaky, crumbling UK Parliament at risk of ‘catastrophic’ event
By JILL LAWLESS
Associated Press
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Parliament building is an architectural masterpiece, a UNESCO World Heritage Site visited by 1 million people a year. It’s also a crumbling, leaky, asbestos-riddled building at “real and rising” risk of destruction, lawmakers said Wednesday.
In a hair-raising report, the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee said the seat of British democracy is “leaking, dropping masonry and at constant risk of fire,” as well as riddled with asbestos.
“There is a real and rising risk that a catastrophic event will destroy” the building before long-delayed restoration work is done, the committee said.
In the most urgent in a series of warnings stretching back years, the committee said renewal work had been painfully slow and mostly amounted to “patching up” the 19th-century building, at a cost of about 2 million pounds ($2.5 million) a week.
The committee slammed “years of procrastination” over the building’s future. In 2018, after years of dithering, lawmakers voted to move out by the mid-2020s to allow several years of major repairs. The decision has been questioned ever since by lawmakers who don’t want to leave; last year, the body set up to oversee the Parliament project was scrapped.
Meanwhile, the building grows more decrepit. The roof leaks, century-old steam pipes burst, and chunks of masonry occasionally come crashing down. Mechanical and electrical systems were last updated in the 1940s.
There is so much asbestos that removing it “could require an estimated 300 people working for two and a half years while the site was not being used,” the House of Commons committee said.
And there is a constant threat of fire. The committee said there have been 44 “fire incidents” in Parliament since 2016, and wardens now patrol around the clock.
Yet lawmakers have been reluctant to green light a more ambitious restoration plan. Some worry the public will resent the multi-billion price tag at a time when many people are struggling to make ends meet. Traditionalists also are reluctant to move out of the historic building with its subsidized restaurants and riverside terrace with magnificent view across the Thames.
The committee said that “the cost of renewal will be high, but further delays are hugely costly to the taxpayer – lack of action is not value for money.”
Opposition Labour Party lawmaker Meg Hillier, who chairs the committee, said there was a “real risk that the whole building will be destroyed by a catastrophic incident before the work is done, or perhaps even begun.”
The committee demanded politicians and parliamentary authorities set out “a clear indication of the cost and timeline for getting this massive job done before it becomes too late to do so.”
History holds a warning for the occupants of Parliament. The current building, designed by architect Charles Barry in a neo-Gothic style, was built after fire destroyed its predecessor in 1834. | 2023-05-17T02:42:51+00:00 | keyt.com | https://keyt.com/news/2023/05/16/lawmakers-warn-leaky-crumbling-uk-parliament-at-risk-of-catastrophic-event/ |
PLANO, Texas (AP) _ Tyler Technologies Inc. (TYL) on Wednesday reported third-quarter earnings of $53.2 million.
The Plano, Texas-based company said it had net income of $1.26 per share. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, were $2.06 per share.
The results beat Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of four analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $1.87 per share.
The information management software provider posted revenue of $473.2 million in the period, also surpassing Street forecasts. Four analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $466.5 million.
Tyler Technologies expects full-year earnings in the range of $7.51 to $7.65 per share, with revenue in the range of $1.84 billion to $1.86 billion.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A European spacecraft around Mars sent its first livestream from the red planet to Earth on Friday to mark the 20th anniversary of its launch, but rain in Spain interfered at times.
The European Space Agency broadcast the livestream with views courtesy of its Mars Express, launched by a Russian rocket from Kazakhstan in 2003.
It took nearly 17 minutes for each picture to reach Earth, nearly 200 million miles (300 million kilometers) away, and another minute to get through the ground stations.
The transmission was disrupted at times by rainy weather at the deep space-relay antenna in Spain.
Still, enough images made it through to delight the European space officials hosting the hourlong livestream. The initial views showed about one-third of Mars, which gradually grew bigger in the frames before shrinking again as the spacecraft circled the planet. White clouds could clearly be seen in some of the shots.
“If you were currently sitting on board Mars Express … this is what you would be seeing,” said Simon Wood, the mission’s spacecraft operations engineer. “We typically don’t normally get images in this way.”
Pictures and other data usually are stored aboard the spacecraft and later transmitted to Earth, according to Wood, when the spacecraft’s antenna can be pointed this way.
Near real-time footage from so far away is “rather rare,” according to ESA. The agency pointed to the live broadcasts by the Apollo moonwalkers more than a half-century ago and, more recently, live snippets from spacecraft deliberately crashing into the moon and an asteroid.
“These missions were all pretty close to home and others farther away sent perhaps an image or two in near real-time. When it comes to a lengthy livestream from deep space, this is a first,” ESA said in a statement before the event.
The rain on the plains in Spain cut into the number of pictures shown. ESA devoted only an hour to the livestream because it did not want to overload the spacecraft’s batteries.
Mars Express traveled to the red planet with a lander, dubbed Beagle-2, which lost contact with Earth as it attempted to touch down on the Martian surface.
More than a decade later, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured pictures of Beagle-2. Although it made it to the surface, the lander’s solar panels didn’t fully unfurl.
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The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Science and Educational Media Group. The AP is solely responsible for all content. | 2023-06-02T21:33:57+00:00 | wwlp.com | https://www.wwlp.com/science/ap-science/first-of-its-kind-mars-livestream-by-esa-spacecraft-interrupted-at-times-by-rain-on-earth/ |
President Biden has started using a CPAP machine at night to deal with sleep apnea
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden in recent weeks has started using a continuous positive airway pressure, or CPAP, machine at night to help with sleep apnea, the White House said Wednesday. The revelation comes after indents from the mask were visible on the president’s face as he departed the White House.
The president has disclosed since 2008 a history with sleep apnea, a potentially serious but common condition in which breathing can stop and start in the night. Biden used the machine Tuesday night, White House officials said. The imprint lines on his face were apparent when he left Wednesday morning for a speech in Chicago.
A CPAP machine is a motorized device that pumps air through a mask to open a sleeper’s airway. About 5 million Americans have tried them.
While his history with the condition has long been disclosed, it didn’t come up during his most recent physical in February. When he was vice president, doctors noted Biden had an irregular heartbeat probably linked to apnea.
The 80-year-old president is running for reelection and is the oldest person ever to hold the nation’s highest office.
Roughly 30 million people in the U.S. are thought to have the condition, though only about 6 million are diagnosed with it, according to the American Medical Association. In people with the condition, throat and tongue muscles relax and block the airway during sleep, caused by obesity, aging or facial structure.
They stop breathing, sometimes for up to a minute and hundreds of times each night, then awake with loud gasping and snoring. That prevents them from getting deep, restorative sleep. Untreated sleep apnea can lead to dangerous drowsiness and increased heart attack risk. The problem is more common in men than women.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission. | 2023-06-28T21:21:44+00:00 | kaaltv.com | https://www.kaaltv.com/news/political-news/president-biden-has-started-using-a-cpap-machine-at-night-to-deal-with-sleep-apnea/ |
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah judge on Monday granted a request from Planned Parenthood to delay implementing the state’s trigger law banning most abortions, as implications of the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade reverberate nationwide.
With the decision, abortion remains legal up to 18 weeks in Utah, which is among a group of states where abortion rights have been thrown into limbo amid the legal and political challenges shaping the post-Roe landscape with states now holding the power to restrict abortion.
“What I’m really doing is saying we have serious things to talk about,” Judge Andrew Stone said after granting an injunction delaying the trigger law.
He said the status quo should remain in effect until a challenge from the state’s Planned Parenthood affiliate can be heard fully.
Meanwhile, a Minnesota judge declared most of that state’s restrictions on abortion unconstitutional. In Michigan, a campaign turned in a record-breaking number of signatures so voters can be asked on the November ballot whether to enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution.
Federally, the Biden administration’s Department of Health and Human Services said Monday that hospitals “must” provide abortion services if the life of the mother is at risk, saying federal law on emergency treatment guidelines preempts state laws in jurisdictions that now ban the procedure without any exceptions. Currently, even states with the most stringent abortion bans allow exceptions when the health of a mother is at risk, though the threat of prosecution has created confusion for some doctors.
Last month’s Dobbs v. Jackson ruling overturned the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that found the right to abortion was protected by the U.S. Constitution. The issue reverted to the states, setting off new court battles and ballot initiatives as many states act to curtail or ban abortions.
Utah is among more than a dozen states with trigger laws designed to limit abortion upon the overturning of Roe v. Wade. The decision on Monday comes two weeks after the court put a temporary hold on the law, which bans most abortions with exceptions for rape, incest or maternal health. Stone, who was appointed by a Republican governor, blocked its enforcement for 14 days after the state’s branch of Planned Parenthood sued. His decision effectively extends the temporarily hold placed on the law and allows Planned Parenthood clinics to continue providing abortions until the case is resolved.
Attorneys for Utah argued language in the state constitution allowed for abortions to be banned and said delaying the implementation of the trigger law would amount to overruling the will of Legislature and Utah voters. Julie Murray, Planned Parenthood’s attorney, said not delaying the implementation of the law could open its staff to criminal charges and hurt roughly 200 patients with scheduled appointments in the month ahead.
Stone granted a preliminary injunction, which would let Planned Parenthood clinics continue to provide abortion care — up to 18 weeks of pregnancy under another recently passed limit — until the court rules on the constitutional questions.
The judge in Minnesota declared most of the state’s restrictions on abortion unconstitutional, including a 24-hour waiting period and a requirement that both parents be notified before a minor can get an abortion. Ramsey County District Judge Thomas Gilligan also struck down requirements that only physicians can perform abortions and that abortions after the first trimester must be performed in hospitals. His order took effect immediately, meaning the limits can’t be enforced.
Gender Justice and other abortion rights groups argued the restrictions were unconstitutional under a 1995 Minnesota Supreme Court holding that the state constitution protects abortion rights. The judge called that case “significant and historic” and said it’s unaffected by the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling.
“These abortion laws violate the right to privacy because they infringe upon the fundamental right under the Minnesota Constitution to access abortion care and do not withstand strict scrutiny,” Gilligan wrote.
The ruling is expected to benefit patients from restrictive states who could go to Minnesota for reproductive health care. Providers have been preparing for a surge in patients from neighboring upper Midwest states, and even farther away.
Opponents of abortion rights condemned the decision. Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life said the laws challenged in the case are “common sense measures that support and empower pregnant women” and striking them down blocks residents from “enacting reasonable protections for unborn children and their mothers.” A Republican attorney general candidate called on the Democratic attorney general to appeal.
In a Louisiana state court Monday, legal efforts to stave off the permanent closure of the state’s three abortion clinics were renewed. A New Orleans judge refused last week to extend a temporary restraining order blocking enforcement of the state’s abortion ban, saying the case belonged in Baton Rouge.
Attorneys for a north Louisiana clinic and an abortion rights group are now seeking a new restraining order from a Baton Rouge judge. Attorney General Jeff Landry’s office says a temporary restraining order cannot be renewed once it has expired.
In Arizona, a federal judge on Monday blocked a 2021 “personhood” law that gives all legal rights to unborn children. Abortion providers argued the law can lead to criminal charges such as assault or child abuse and say it is unconstitutionally vague. Judge Douglas Rayes agreed in his ruling.
All abortions in Arizona stopped last month, but they could restart in at least one county following the ruling.
Alongside lawsuits to challenge bans, abortion rights supporters are trying to add ballot questions to enshrine abortion rights in state constitutions.
More than 750,000 signatures were turned in by the campaign in Michigan on Monday — close to double the number needed. The Democratic governor and attorney general in the battleground state have both made abortion rights a centerpiece of their reelection campaigns.
“The number of signatures showed that here in Michigan we trust women. We trust people. We trust doctors, not politicians, to make decisions about our body, our pregnancy and parenthood,” Reproductive Freedom for All spokesperson Shanay Watson-Whittaker said during a news conference in Lansing.
The signatures still must be verified and validated. A judge has temporarily blocked a 1931 Michigan law that would make abortion a felony except when “necessary to preserve the life of such woman.”
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has said that the law is invalid under the due process and equal protection clauses of the state constitution. The injunction, which stems from a Planned Parenthood lawsuit, could be revoked at any time.
Last week, backers of a last-minute effort to enshrine abortion rights in the Arizona Constitution failed to collect enough signatures to make the November ballot. In California, voters will decide in November whether to guarantee the right to an abortion in their constitution. Democrats who control the government in California fear the state’s abortion laws could be vulnerable to legal challenges.
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McDermott reported from Providence, Rhode Island, and Karnowski reported from St. Paul, Minnesota. Associated Press writer Kevin McGill in New Orleans and Associated Press/Report for America writer Joey Cappelletti in Lansing, Michigan contributed to this report. | 2022-07-12T18:27:23+00:00 | kron4.com | https://www.kron4.com/news/national/ap-us-news/judges-rule-on-state-abortion-restrictions-shape-roe-impact/ |
KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian shelling pounded a densely populated area in Ukraine’s second-largest city Thursday, killing at least three people and injuring at least 23 others with a barrage that struck a mosque, a medical facility and a shopping area, according to officials and witnesses.
Police in the northeast city of Kharkiv said cluster bombs hit Barabashovo Market, where Associated Press journalists saw a woman crying over her dead husband’s body. Local officials said the shelling also struck a bus stop, a gym and a residential building.
The bombardment came after Russia on Wednesday reiterated its plans to seize territories beyond eastern Ukraine, where the Russian military has spent months trying to conquer Ukraine’s Donbas region, which is south of Kharkiv. It also followed Ukrainian attacks this week on a bridge the Russians have used to supply their forces in occupied areas near the country’s southern Black Sea coast.
Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov said the attacks early Thursday targeted one of the most crowded areas of the city, which had a prewar population of about 1.4 million.
“The Russian army is randomly shelling Kharkiv, peaceful residential areas, civilians are being killed,” Terekhov said.
At the market, Sabina Pogorelets’ desperate screams pierced the air as she begged Ukrainian police to let her embrace her husband, Adam, a vendor whose body was lying partly covered with cloth next to a small stall. A bloody wound could be seen on his head as policemen gently pulled his wife away so medical workers could take away his body.
“Please! I need to hold his hand!” Pogorelets cried.
Nearby, a man hugged his small daughter as he and other visitors stood in shock. Emergency teams treated at least two of the wounded in nearby ambulances.
“People started working little by little, they came out to sell things, and residents came here to buy things,” Volodymyr Tymoshko, the head of the National Police in the Kharkiv region. “And exactly this place was hit by Uragan rockets with cluster bombs to maximize the damage to people.”
The cluster bombs claim could not be independently confirmed. AP journalists at the scene saw burned-out cars and a bus pierced by shrapnel.
The Kharkiv regional governor, Oleh Syniehubov, said four people were in grave condition and a child was among those wounded in the shelling. Russian forces also shelled wheat fields, setting them on fire, he said.
Elsewhere, Russian forces shelled the southern city of Mykolaiv overnight as well as the eastern cities of Kramatorsk and Kostiantynivka, where two schools were destroyed, Ukrainian officials said. A man’s body was recovered from the rubble of the school in Kramatorsk, and emergency workers say two more people were feared trapped there.
The scattered attacks illustrate broader war aims beyond Russia’s previously declared focus on the Donbas region’s Donetsk and Luhansk provinces, which pro-Moscow separatists have partly controlled since 2014.
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told state-controlled RT television and the RIA Novosti news agency Wednesday that Russia plans to retain control over more territory, including the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions in southern Ukraine. Moscow’s current strategy also envisions making gains elsewhere, Lavrov said.
Analysts from the Institute for the Study of War, a think tank based in Washington, said the current Russian offensive in Donetsk may result in the capture of the cities of Sloviansk and Bakhmut. But they noted that “Russian troops are now struggling to move across relatively sparsely-settled and open terrain. They will encounter terrain much more conducive to the Ukrainian defenders.”
Richard Moore, the head of British foreign intelligence agency MI6, had a similar take, saying the Russians “are about to run out of steam” in Ukraine.
“They will have to pause in some way, and that will give the Ukrainians opportunities to strike back,” Moore said.
He said it is important for Ukraine to demonstrate its ability to respond militarily to Russia, both to maintain morale and as “an important reminder to the rest of Europe that this is a winnable campaign by the Ukrainians, Because we are about to go into a pretty tough winter.”
Ukraine forces on Wednesday struck a key bridge on the Dnieper River for the second time in as many days, apparently trying to loosen Russia’s grip on the southern Kherson region. Ukraine’s military reported Thursday that Russian forces attempted to storm the Vuhlehirska power station in the Donetsk region, but said “Ukrainian defenders made the enemy resort to fleeing.”
In other developments on Thursday:
— The operator of a major pipeline from Russia to Europe says natural gas has started flowing again after a 10-day shutdown for maintenance. But the gas flow was expected to fall well short of full capacity and the outlook was uncertain. The Nord Stream 1 pipeline to Germany had been closed since July 11 for annual maintenance. The pipeline is Germany’s main source of Russian gas. German officials had feared that the pipeline might not reopen at all amid growing tensions over Russia’s war in Ukraine.
— U.N. Secretary-General Antionio Guterres is flying to Istanbul “as part of his efforts to ensure full global access to Ukraine’s agricultural products and Russian food and fertilizer,” U.N. deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said. Haq was pressed on whether an agreement for unblocking Ukraine’s ports had been reached with Russia and Ukraine. “We’re hopeful,” Haq told reporters, adding later, “We’re not quite there yet.” He said: “The situation remains a little fluid so I can’t say when an agreement will be signed.” Haq said it’s possible Guterres will attend a meeting with officials from Russia, Ukraine and Turkey on Friday but he could not confirm it.
— Ukraine’s nuclear energy plant operator says Russian forces have placed explosives and weapons in parts of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant where they pose significant danger. Energoatom said Thursday the heavy weapons and explosives are in the building that houses one of the six reactors at Europe’s largest nuclear power station. “They are continuing to cynically, absolutely violate all norms and demands of fire, nuclear and radiation safety,” the statement said.
— Russia’s foreign minister says that Moscow will consider boosting natural gas supplies to Hungary following a formal request from Budapest. Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov spoke after a meeting in Moscow on Thursday with the Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó. Russian news agencies say Szijjártó sought to get an additional 700 million cubic meters of gas from Russia this year. Hungary’s populist Prime Minister Viktor Orban has joined the Western sanctions against Russia, but has insisted on being exempt from the EU’s oil embargo.
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Follow the AP’s coverage of the war at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine | 2022-07-21T18:34:23+00:00 | wdtn.com | https://www.wdtn.com/news/u-s-world/ap-international/russia-pounds-major-ukrainian-city-after-expanding-war-aims/ |
Padres second. Eric Hosmer homers to right field. Ha-Seong Kim singles to shallow center field. Jose Azocar reaches on a fielder's choice to shallow right field. Ha-Seong Kim out at second. C.J. Abrams grounds out to shallow infield, Alec Bohm to Rhys Hoskins. Jose Azocar out at third.
1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 0 left on. Padres 1, Phillies 0.
Phillies fifth. J.T. Realmuto grounds out to shortstop, Ha-Seong Kim to Eric Hosmer. Didi Gregorius singles to right field. Odubel Herrera singles to shallow center field. Didi Gregorius scores. Alec Bohm grounds out to third base. Odubel Herrera out at second.
1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 0 left on. Phillies 1, Padres 1.
Phillies sixth. Bryson Stott doubles to right field. Kyle Schwarber homers to center field. Bryson Stott scores. Rhys Hoskins pops out to first base to Eric Hosmer. Bryce Harper singles to shallow center field. Nick Castellanos singles to left field. Bryce Harper to second. J.T. Realmuto homers to right field. Nick Castellanos scores. Bryce Harper scores. Didi Gregorius grounds out to second base, Ha-Seong Kim to Eric Hosmer. Odubel Herrera grounds out to second base, Eric Hosmer to Joe Musgrove.
5 runs, 5 hits, 0 errors, 0 left on. Phillies 6, Padres 1.
Padres eighth. Trent Grisham singles to shortstop. Austin Nola doubles to shallow left field. Trent Grisham to third. Jurickson Profar flies out to shallow right field to Nick Castellanos. Jorge Alfaro grounds out to second base, Rhys Hoskins to Seranthony Dominguez. Austin Nola to third. Trent Grisham scores. Eric Hosmer strikes out swinging.
1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Phillies 6, Padres 2. | 2022-06-24T04:40:59+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/Philadelphia-San-Diego-Runs-17262522.php |
RESOLUTION NO. 1-18-23 RESOLUTION DIRECT
RESOLUTION NO. 1-18-23 RESOLUTION DIRECTING THE PUBLICATION OF AMENDMENTS TO ORDINANCE BY SUMMARY BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of Managers (the “Board”) of the Duluth/North Shore Sanitary District, St. Louis County, Minnesota (the “District”), as follows: Section 1. Recitals. a. On January 25, 2000, the MPCA issued an order approving creation of the Sanitary District (the “Order”). The Order was published in the State Register on January 31, 2000. b. On March 1, 2000, the time for appeal of the Order having expired, a certified copy of the Order was duly filed with the Minnesota Secretary of State, and creation of the Sanitary District was thereupon deemed complete under the Act. c. On December 5, 2000, the Board, by majority vote adopted Ordinance No. 1, entitled “An Ordinance Creating a Sewer Utility; Regulating the Use of Public and Private Sewers; Establishing Methods for a Sewer Service Charge System and a Septage Service Charge System; and Providing Penalties for Violations of the Regulations Herein Defined.” d. On November 2, 2004, the Board, by majority vote adopted Ordinance No. 3, entitled “An Ordinance Establishing Rates and Charges for the Duluth/North Shore Sanitary District.” e. Pursuant to Section 15.2 of the Bylaws of the District, an ordinance must be published once in the official newspaper of the District unless the Board decides that publishing its title and a summary of it clearly tells the public of its intent and effect. f. Ordinance No. 3 has been amended and the Board desires to publish the amendments by summary. Section 2. Publication of Title and Summary of Amendments to Ordinances. a. The Board hereby approves the summary of amendments to Ordinance No. 3 in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit A. b. Fryberger, Buchanan, Smith & Frederick, P.A., counsel to the Board is authorized to publish the summary and notice attached hereto as Exhibit A in the Duluth News Tribune on the earliest possible date. Section 3. Posting of Ordinances. The Secretary is hereby directed to post a copy of Ordinance No. 3 at the locations specified in Exhibit A. Section 4. Recording of Ordinances. Ordinance No. 3 must be recorded in the District’s ordinance book. The Secretary is authorized and directed to attach proof of publication to Ordinance No. 3. Adopted January 18, 2023. /s/ Kevin J. Bovee Chair ATTEST: /s/ Christine A. Penney Secretary EXHIBIT A NOTICE OF ADOPTION OF AMENDMENTS TO ORDINANCE NO. 3 BY DULUTH/NORTH SHORE SANITARY DISTRICT Notice is hereby given that the Board of Managers (the “Board”) of the Duluth/North Shore Sanitary District (the “District”) adopted amendments to Ordinance No. 3 entitled: AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING RATES AND CHARGES FOR THE DULUTH/NORTH SHORE SANITARY DISTRICT. The amendments to Ordinance No. 3 are summarized below: The ordinance was amended to reflect the rates and charges adopted by the Board for 2023, which are as follows: The Board will set a flat fee per CAF Unit payable by each User each month. The amount of the Base Charge will be set each year at the time the budget is approved by the Board and will represent each User’s share of the cost of operating and maintaining the District. The Base Charge to be imposed during calendar year 2023 shall be $90.00. Base charges are payable year-round, for all customers. Any User that pays the Base Charge by Automated Clearing House (ACH) will receive a $2 discount per month for each month paid by ACH. An excess volume charge will be payable monthly by any User with metered wastewater in excess of the volume allotted to that User based on the User’s CAF assignment. (One (1) CAF is equal to 260 gallons per day multiplied by 365 days, divided by 12 months for a total of 7909 gallons.) The excess volume charge will be equal to the Base Charge divided by 7909 gallons. For calendar year 2023, the excess volume charge will be .0107 per gallon for each gallon in excess of a User’s allocation based on the User’s CAF assignment. Meter Reading Charge. Each metered User shall pay a meter reading charge of $20.00 per month. An annual Debt Service Charge will be imposed on each User representing each User’s share of the annual debt service payments due on the District’s outstanding indebtedness. The Debt Service Charge shall be allocated in its entirety to pay the long-term debt of the District. The Board shall set the annual debt service amount each year at the time the budget is adopted. The Board shall send a separate billing once a year for the Debt Service Charge, which will be due by November 1st of each year, or such later date approved by the Board. The Debt Service Charge to be imposed during calendar year 2023 shall be $825.00. Variance Fee. The Board will charge a fee of $855.00 to consider a variance. Publication Locations: A full printed copy of Ordinance No. 3 is available for inspection at any meeting of the Board of Managers which are held on the third Tuesday of each month at the French River Lutheran Church at 7:00 a.m. Dated: (Jan. 28, 2023) 175496 | 2023-01-28T09:25:45+00:00 | duluthnewstribune.com | https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/legal-notices/resolution-no-1-18-23-resolution-direct-stratica-legals-175496 |
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