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(NewsNation) — Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley (R) said he was “surprised” to learn how many unidentified aerial phenomena the U.S. government has come across, amid calls from lawmakers for investigations into a whistleblower’s claims of a secret UFO program.
“The number of these is apparently huge, huge. And that is something that the government has, the best I can say about it, downplayed, if not kept from the public, for a long, long time,” said Hawley.
While he acknowledged that he can’t assess the truth of David Grusch’s allegations, Hawley pointed to government reports that indicated there were UAP sightings that remain “unaccounted for.”
“I don’t have any basis to evaluate them but do some of the details that he’s alleging, do they sound plausible? Yeah, sure. They sound plausible, based on what I’ve seen this government do in other instances,” Hawley said.
Hawley said his remarks concerned the government’s response to the Chinese spy balloon spotted over the U.S. back in January.
“What we learned from the Chinese spy balloon incident is that one part of the government actively concealed it from other parts of the government,” Hawley explained. “Because that’s what they do all the time.”
A House oversight committee has vowed to hold open hearings to address the whistleblower’s allegations.
David Grusch, an Air Force veteran and former member of the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, alleged the U.S. government has recovered non-human craft for decades. He recently filed a whistleblower complaint, stating he gave what he referred to as classified “proof” to Congress and the Intelligence Community Inspector General.
Hawley said he felt that Grusch’s claims track with what he alleges to have heard in briefings.
“He’s saying that the government knows more about this than they have previously let on. That doesn’t really surprise me. Because it looks to me like the government has been tracking these UAPs for a long time now, and has not been saying much about it,” said Hawley.
Not all lawmakers are convinced, however.
“If we’d really found this stuff, there’s no way you could keep it from coming out. … My gut belief is if there’s a physical piece of a spacecraft or an intact spaceship, we would’ve known about it by now,” said South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham.
Hawley doesn’t buy that argument, saying the government is good at keeping secrets when it wants something to stay hidden.
Unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), formerly referred to as UFOs, in theory, could include alien spacecraft, but the two aren’t synonymous.
The Defense Department’s All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) considers a UAP “anything in space, in the air, on land, in the sea or under the sea that can’t be identified and might pose a threat to U.S. military installations or operations.”
In a statement to NewsNation, the Pentagon said, to date, that “AARO has not discovered any verifiable information to substantiate claims that any programs regarding the possession or reverse engineering of extraterrestrial materials have existed in the past or exist currently.”
However, Grusch is claiming very few people are aware of the alleged secret UAP program, saying even those at the Pentagon who respond to UAP reports are in the dark.
“I have plenty of senior, former intelligence officers that came to me, many of which I knew almost my whole career, that confided in me that they were part of a program,” Grusch claimed. “They provided me documents and other proof, that there was in fact a program that the UAP Task Force was not read into.”
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2023-06-22T18:36:21+00:00
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cbs42.com
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https://www.cbs42.com/news/us-has-downplayed-the-number-of-ufo-sightings-senator-hawley/
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The three white men who took part in the murder of Ahmaud Arbery are appealing their federal hate crime convictions, and for two of the convicts, attorneys appear to be arguing that just because they’re racist doesn’t mean the racism made them do it.
According to CNN, the defense lawyers for Travis and Greg McMichaels and William “Roddie” Bryan filed their appeals earlier this month. Bryan’s attorney appeared to be arguing that his client isn’t all that racist while simultaneously arguing that his racism doesn’t automatically make him guilty of a hate crime. And he had no issue with throwing Travis all the way under the white supremacist bus in making his contradictory arguments.
“The evidence against Bryan did not present a man who saw the world through a prism of racism. He was not obsessed with African Americans such as his codefendant Travis McMichael,” attorney J. Pete Theodocion wrote in his filing. “There is simply not sufficient evidence in the record to suggest Bryan would have acted any differently on the day in question had Arbery been white, Hispanic, Asian or other. Every crime committed against an African American is not a hate crime. Every crime committed against an African American by a man who has used racist language in the past is not a hate crime.”
Yeah, Theodocion definitely needed to add that last bit about “racist language” because otherwise, he would have a lot of explaining to do regarding his non-obsessed-with-Black people client and his Klan-destine text conversations.
From CNN:
In a message to a friend on MLK Day in 2020, Bryan wrote to a friend, “Happy Bootlip Day.” The message was read aloud in court.
“I worked like a n***er today,” Bryan added in the message.
Another set of messages between Bryan and a friend on February 19, 2020 – four days before Arbery’s killing – discussed Bryan discovering his daughter was dating a Black man.
‘She has her n***er now,” he wrote, according to the messages quoted in court. The relationship remained an ongoing theme in his messages, Vaughan testified.
When someone sent Bryan a picture of his daughter and her boyfriend together on April 8, 2020, he responded, “Like I said, she don’t give a f**k about herself, why should we?”
So, Bryan is willing to disown his own daughter over her connection to a Black man, but his going out of his way to join a lynching party had nothing to do with his clear and passionate (one might even say obsessive) anti-Black hatred? I mean, OK.
I think it’s hilarious how the Tree Stooges of white supremacy keep pointing the finger at each other regarding whose racism is the most evident. Last year, the elder McMichael’s lawyer filed a motion to appeal the verdict noting that while Travis and Bryan are both on record as having used racial slurs and associated Black people “with criminality,” Greg is not. (He wasn’t caught in racist text conversations like the other two, but multiple people testified in court that he used racist language when describing Black people.)
It’s like all members of the three-man klan are passing around a revolver in a game of Racist Roulette. It’s arguably the most ironic form of white-on-white crime ever.
Anyway, while Bryan and Greg’s attorneys argued prosecutors failed to prove in court that their clients profiled, chased and murdered Arbery “because of” his race, Travis’ lawyer apparently gave up on that laughable argument and instead “focused on more technical matters to do with his convictions on attempted kidnapping and weapons use charges,” CNN reported.
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2023-03-14T03:18:52+00:00
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wtlcfm.com
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https://wtlcfm.com/3470732/ahmaud-arberys-murderers-appeal-federal-hate-crime-verdict-claiming-racism-was-never-proven/
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A recent Florida law signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) bans gender-affirming care for minors, but it also sets up significant barriers for transgender adults to get needed treatment — and puts the providers who care for them at significant risk of losing their licenses.
For transgender Floridians, the law is forcing difficult decisions about where, and even whether, they will be able to get medical care.
Damon McGuire, a transgender woman and Orlando-based photographer, said Florida’s restrictions took her by surprise. She had been unprepared for the fact that the law, billed by Republicans in the state legislature as a way to protect children, would impact her ability to obtain care as a 35-year-old.
“It’s devastating,” McGuire told The Hill.
McGuire, who only began to seriously explore her gender identity during pandemic lockdowns in 2020, has not yet been able to obtain gender-affirming treatment.
She had been scheduled to speak with a Planned Parenthood provider about receiving hormone replacement therapy (HRT) on May 20, just three days after DeSantis signed the law. But the measure took effect immediately, and her appointment was canceled.
“You’re talking about potentially tens of thousands of trans people across the state who got a call two weeks ago that their health care provider would no longer be renewing their prescriptions,” said Brandon Wolf, a spokesman for Equality Florida, an LGBTQ-focused civil rights group. “It is nothing short of a health care crisis in the state of Florida for trans adults right now.”
There are an estimated 94,900 transgender adults living in Florida, the second-highest number in the country, according to the Williams Institute at the University of California-Los Angeles School of Law.
Under Florida’s Senate Bill 254, health care providers are prohibited from administering puberty blockers, HRT and surgeries to transgender minors. Those who violate the law risk being convicted of a third-degree felony crime, punishable by up to five years in prison.
Including Florida, 20 states have enacted laws or policies that heavily restrict or ban access to gender-affirming health care for transgender youths, including 17 that have done so this year.
Yet unlike bans on gender-affirming health care in other states, the Florida law mandates adults sign an informed consent form approved by a state medical board appointed by the governor. The form doesn’t exist yet.
The law also states that only physicians are allowed to provide gender-affirming health care, and the initial visit to sign the consent form has to be in person. Violating those requirements is now a criminal offense.
The physician-only provision has proven to be particularly onerous, as health centers that previously relied on nurse practitioners or were telehealth-only suddenly had to pivot.
Jerrica Kirkley, co-founder and chief medical officer of Plume, said she estimates that about 80 percent of transgender adults have been receiving care from a nurse practitioner.
“That’s a very large portion of the population who is potentially suddenly without care. I think there is a lot of fear, there’s a lot of confusion,” Kirkley said. “If they were getting care from a nurse practitioner, how can they continue their care? If they live in an area where the health centers have been traditionally staffed by nurse practitioners, for example, how are they going to start care? Can folks who have established care via telehealth continue their care?”
Plume is the world’s largest virtual clinic for transgender, nonbinary and gender non-conforming people and operates in 45 states. But in the wake of the law taking effect, Kirkley said they are opening in-person clinics in Florida for the first time since the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The law only requires the initial visit to fill out the consent form to be in person, so Kirkley noted telehealth companies such as Plume will still be able to provide follow-up care virtually.
But removing the ability of patients to have a telehealth visit throws up a significant barrier to access.
“The problem is that a lot of our patients don’t live in big cities. They live in rural cities in Florida that may take them up to two to three hours to get to a health center to seek care. So transportation’s obviously going to be a huge barrier for these patients,” said Samantha Cahen, a nurse practitioner and director of the transgender care program at Planned Parenthood of South, East and North Florida.
Planned Parenthood is one of multiple providers in Florida to temporarily suspend gender-affirming services in response to the new law, although Cahen said care is expected to resume shortly for returning adult patients.
Syvonne Carter, president and CEO of 26Health, a nonprofit health center in Orlando aimed at the LGBTQ population, said seeing the impact of the law on that community has been “heartbreaking.”
The clinic sees about 2,000 patients a year across primary care, mental health and its adoption services. Carter said the new restrictions forced the center to stop providing HRT and other gender-affirming services, which has impacted about a third of their patients.
A growing number of transgender people in the U.S. are leaving states with restrictive laws they say target the LGBTQ community. More than 40 percent of over 1,000 transgender adults surveyed in a recent Data for Progress poll said they had considered moving over anti-LGBTQ legislation in their state.
McGuire, the Orlando photographer, said she is planning to move to Ohio in September, where gender-affirming health care for transgender youths and adults is still legal.
But moving expenses and the cost of housing have skyrocketed in recent years, and for many, leaving isn’t an option.
DJ, a 34-year-old transgender and nonbinary person in Tampa, who asked that their last name be withheld over concerns for their personal safety and privacy, said they have no plans to move. They have enough of their prescribed testosterone to get them through at least the next three months, and plan to go to a Planned Parenthood Clinic after that.
In the meantime, they plan to raise awareness about the plight of transgender people in Florida.
“I feel like there’s a fight in me,” said DJ.
Gender-affirming health care for transgender youths and adults is considered medically necessary and often life-saving by most major medical organizations. For DJ, who has been receiving HRT for more than a year, it has meant being able to look at themselves in the mirror for the first time.
“I see myself fighting for it,” they said of gender-affirming health care. “I see myself happy – sustainably happy – for the first time in my life.”
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2023-06-15T10:37:55+00:00
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wboy.com
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https://www.wboy.com/hill-politics/trans-adults-scramble-for-care-under-new-florida-law/
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Yordan Alvarez Player Prop Bets: Astros vs. Rays - July 28
Published: Jul. 28, 2023 at 9:26 AM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
Yordan Alvarez -- hitting .226 with a double, three home runs, six walks and seven RBI in his past 10 games -- will be in action for the Houston Astros versus the Tampa Bay Rays, with Shane McClanahan on the mound, on July 28 at 8:10 PM ET.
He had a one-hit performance in his previous game (1-for-2) against the Rangers.
Yordan Alvarez Game Info & Props vs. the Rays
- Game Day: Friday, July 28, 2023
- Game Time: 8:10 PM ET
- Stadium: Minute Maid Park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Rays Starter: Shane McClanahan
- TV Channel: MLB Network
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -222)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +333)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +150)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +120)
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Yordan Alvarez At The Plate
- Alvarez is hitting .275 with 12 doubles, 17 home runs and 33 walks.
- Alvarez has recorded a hit in 41 of 58 games this season (70.7%), including 12 multi-hit games (20.7%).
- He has hit a home run in 25.9% of his games this year, and 6.9% of his trips to the dish.
- Alvarez has driven in a run in 28 games this season (48.3%), including 17 games with more than one RBI (29.3%). He has also driven home three or more of his team's runs in six contests.
- He has scored in 58.6% of his games this season, with two or more runs scored in 10.3%.
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Yordan Alvarez Home/Away Batting Splits
Rays Pitching Rankings
- The pitching staff for the Rays has a collective 9.2 K/9, the seventh-best in MLB.
- The Rays' 3.70 team ERA ranks first among all league pitching staffs.
- The Rays give up the third-fewest home runs in baseball (108 total, one per game).
- McClanahan (11-1 with a 2.89 ERA and 112 strikeouts in 106 2/3 innings pitched) gets the start for the Rays, his 20th of the season.
- The lefty's last appearance was on Saturday against the Baltimore Orioles, when he threw four innings, surrendering five earned runs while giving up five hits.
- Among qualifying pitchers in MLB play this season, the 26-year-old ranks fifth in ERA (2.89), 25th in WHIP (1.160), and 18th in K/9 (9.5).
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2023-07-28T15:47:52+00:00
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wafb.com
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https://www.wafb.com/sports/betting/2023/07/28/yordan-alvarez-mlb-player-prop-bets/
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Former Fidelity executive tapped to position Cetera for its next chapter as a market leader.
Expansion into new markets and adjacencies to fuel continued growth and provide more options for advisors.
LOS ANGELES, May 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Cetera Holdings, the holding company of Cetera Financial Group, the premier financial advisor Wealth Hub where financial advisors and institutions can optimize professional control and value creation, announced today that it has appointed Mike Durbin as CEO. In addition, Durbin will serve as a member of the Cetera board of directors. Adam Antoniades will continue to serve as CEO of Cetera Financial Group and as a member of the board of directors.
Durbin's appointment represents a deliberate next step in Cetera's evolution and positions Cetera for continued growth as a market leader and disruptor. He is uniquely qualified to accelerate the organization's strategy, introducing adjacent capabilities and channels and expanding Cetera's addressable market. In his most recent role at Fidelity, Durbin was Head of Fidelity Institutional, which during his tenure was the division of Fidelity Investments dedicated to serving third-party advisors and institutions with custody and clearing, third-party product and asset management services, Fidelity Asset Management product marketing and distribution, and Fidelity Capital Markets. Previously, Durbin served as head of Fidelity Institutional Investment and Technology Solutions, President of Fidelity Wealth Technologies, and President of Fidelity Institutional Wealth Services. Prior to joining Fidelity, Durbin held various leadership positions at Morgan Stanley, including Chief Operating Officer of the National Sales Division of Global Wealth Management, head of International Private Wealth Management and Chief Strategic and Risk Officer for the Global Individual Investor Group.
"We are extremely excited to welcome Mike to the team and look forward to working together to achieve long-term success for Cetera and our advisors," Antoniades said. "Mike's deep expertise and background in the RIA, Retirement and custody and clearing space, as well as his proven track record of leadership and innovation, will help Cetera further solidify its position as the ultimate destination for financial advisors and institutions."
Known for pioneering the Wealth Hub, Cetera empowers advisors to affiliate in whichever way they deem most appropriate. During the professional life cycle of their practice, the Cetera Wealth Hub helps to ensure each advisor's affiliation model ignites growth levers in a way that helps increase the value of their practice, people, and legacy. For financial professionals, financial institutions and large enterprise leaders Cetera provides growth and succession resources, a leading-edge advisor tech stack and importantly, an experience where financial professionals are an integral part of a rich and thriving ecosystem.
"I am honored to join a thriving industry leader at a pivotal time in the financial advice industry," Durbin said. "Cetera is well positioned for exponential growth by continuing to deliver new and innovative capabilities to advisors through its Wealth Hub, and truly meet the changing needs of today's top advisors. I look forward to working alongside such an extraordinary team in the service of financial professionals and institutions."
"Cetera is in a position of strength and poised to capitalize on today's opportunities, and Mike is well qualified to lead the organization to and through its next chapter of success," said Tony Salewski, managing partner at Genstar Capital. "We look forward to continued execution of our new five-year plan and achieving meaningful growth together with Mike, Adam and the entire Cetera team."
Visit www.cetera.com for more information about Cetera.
About Cetera Financial Group®
Cetera Financial Group (Cetera) is the premier financial advisor Wealth Hub where financial advisors and institutions optimize their control and value creation. Breaking away from a commoditized and homogenous IBD model, Cetera offers financial professionals and institutions the latest solutions, support, and services to grow, scale, or transition with a merger, sale, investment, or succession plan. Cetera proudly serves independent financial advisors, tax professionals, licensed administrators, large enterprises, as well as institutions, such as banks and credit unions, providing an established and repeatable blueprint for scalable growth.
Home to more than 8,000 financial professionals and their teams, Cetera oversees approximately $330 billion in assets under administration and $116 billion in assets under management, as of March 31, 2023. In a recent advisor satisfaction survey of more than 21,000 reviews, Cetera's Voice of Customer (VoC) program vigorously measures advisor experience and satisfaction 24/7. Currently, it's ranked 4.8 out of 5 stars.
Visit www.cetera.com, and follow Cetera on LinkedIn, YouTube, Twitter and Facebook.
"Cetera Financial Group" refers to the network of independent retail firms encompassing, among others, Cetera Advisors LLC, Cetera Advisor Networks LLC, Cetera Investment Services LLC (marketed as Cetera Financial Institutions or Cetera Investors), and Cetera Financial Specialists LLC. All firms are FINRA/SIPC members. Located at: 655 W. Broadway, 11th Floor, San Diego, CA 92101.
Individuals affiliated with Cetera firms are either Registered Representatives who offer only brokerage services and receive transaction-based compensation (commissions), Investment Adviser Representatives who offer only investment advisory services and receive fees based on assets, or both Registered Representatives and Investment Adviser Representatives, who can offer both types of services.
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2023-05-18T00:24:35+00:00
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newschannel10.com
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https://www.newschannel10.com/prnewswire/2023/05/17/cetera-appoints-mike-durbin-ceo-cetera-holdings/
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Man found shot dead inside car on Kensington Street Sunday morning, police say
PHILADELPHIA - A man is dead after police say he was shot to death inside in his car Sunday morning.
The victim was found when police responded to the 3100 block of Hartville Street just before 7 a.m.
Police say he was inside a car, however, any other details surrounding the shooting were not known at this time.
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The man, whose identify has not yet been released, was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police are investigating the shooting. No word on suspects, or recovered weapons.
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2022-10-30T15:03:30+00:00
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fox29.com
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https://www.fox29.com/news/man-found-shot-dead-inside-car-on-kensington-street-sunday-morning-police-say
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) _ Aegon NV (AEG) on Thursday reported a second-quarter loss of $388.9 million, after reporting a profit in the same period a year earlier.
On a per-share basis, the The Hague, Netherlands-based company said it had a loss of 20 cents.
The life insurance company posted revenue of $6.59 billion in the period.
The company's shares closed at $4.64. A year ago, they were trading at $4.47.
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2022-08-11T10:51:59+00:00
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sfgate.com
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https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Aegon-NV-Q2-Earnings-Snapshot-17366286.php
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By DELMER MARTÍNEZ, SONIA PÉREZ D. and CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN
Associated Press
LAS VEGAS, Honduras (AP) — Children set out hoping to earn enough to support their siblings and parents. Young adults who sacrificed to attend college thinking it would lead to success left their country disillusioned. A man already working in the U.S. who returned to visit his wife and children decided to take a cousin on his return to the U.S.
As families of the more than 60 people packed into a tractor-trailer and abandoned on Monday in Texas began to confirm their worst fears and talk of their relatives, a common narrative of pursuing a better life took shape from Honduras to Mexico.
Fifty-three of those migrants left in the sweltering heat on the outskirts of San Antonio had died as of Wednesday, while others remained hospitalized. The tedious process of identifications continues, but families are confirming their losses.
The dead included 27 people from Mexico, 14 from Honduras, seven from Guatemala and two from El Salvador, said Francisco Garduño, chief of Mexico’s National Immigration Institute.
Each put their lives in the hands of smugglers. News of the trailer full of bodies struck horror in cities and villages accustomed to watching their young people leave, trying to flee poverty or violence in Central America and Mexico.
In Las Vegas, Honduras, a town of 10,000 people about 50 miles south of San Pedro Sula, Alejandro Miguel Andino Caballero, 23, and Margie Tamara Paz Grajeda, 24, had believed his degree track in marketing and hers in economics would open doors to economic stability.
Already together for nearly a decade, the young couple spent recent years applying for jobs with companies. But time and again they were denied.
The pandemic hit, hurricanes devastated the northern part of the country and they grew disillusioned.
So when a relative of Andino Caballero’s living in the United States offered to help him and his younger brother, 18-year-old Fernando José Redondo Caballero, finance the trip north, they were ready.
“You think that when people have a higher level of education, they have to get more employment opportunities,” said Karen Caballero, the brothers’ mother. “Because that’s why they work, study.”
Caballero did not feel like she could hold them back anymore, including 24-year-old Paz Grajeda, who lived with Alejandro in his mother’s home and who Caballero referred to as her daughter-in-law though they had not married.
“We all planned it as a family so they could have a different life, so they could achieve goals, dreams,” Caballero said.
When they left Las Vegas on June 4, Caballero accompanied them to Guatemala. From there, the young trio were smuggled across Guatemala and then Mexico in the back of semitrailers.
“I thought things were going to go well,” she said. “Who was a little afraid was Alejandro Miguel. He said, ‘Mom, if something happens to us.’ And I told him, ‘Nothing is going to happen, nothing is going to happen. You are not the first nor will you be the last human being to travel to the United States.’”
Caballero last spoke to them Saturday morning. They told her they had crossed the Rio Grande at Roma, Texas, were headed to Laredo and on Monday expected to head north to Houston.
She had just gotten home Monday evening when someone told her to turn on the television. “I couldn’t process it,” she said of seeing the report about the trailer in San Antonio. “Then I remembered how my sons had traveled, that they had been in trucks since Guatemala and the whole stretch in Mexico.”
Caballero was able to confirm their deaths Tuesday after sending their details and photos to San Antonio.
Alejandro Miguel was creative, jovial, known for hugging everyone and being a good dancer. Fernando José was enthusiastic and noble, willing to help anyone in need. He imitated his older brother in everything from his haircut to his clothes. They were soccer fanatics, filling their mother’s home with shouts.
The deaths of her sons and Paz Grajeda, who was like a daughter, are devastating. “My children leave a void in my heart,” she said. “We’re going to miss them a lot.”
Nearly 400 miles away, the prospects for Wilmer Tulul and Pascual Melvin Guachiac, 13-year-old cousins from Tzucubal, Guatemala, had been considerably more narrow.
Tzucubal is an Indigenous Quiche community of about 1,500 people in the mountains nearly 100 miles northwest of the capital, where most live by subsistence farming.
“Mom, we’re heading out,” was the last message Wilmer sent to his mother Magdalena Tepaz in their native Quiche on Monday. They had left home June 14.
Hours after hearing that audio message, a neighbor told the family there had been an accident in San Antonio and they feared the worst, Tepaz said through a translator.
The boys had grown up friends and did everything together: playing, going out, even planning to go to the United States despite not speaking Spanish well, said Melvin’s mother, María Sipac Coj.
A single mother of two, she said Melvin “wanted to study in the United States, then work and after build my house.” She received a voice message from her son Monday saying they were leaving. She has erased it because she couldn’t stand to listen to it anymore.
Relatives who arranged and paid for the smuggler awaited the boys in Houston. Those relatives told her of their deaths, and the Guatemalan government confirmed them to her Wednesday.
Wilmer’s father, Manuel de Jesús Tulul, could not stop crying Wednesday. He said he had no idea how the boys would get to Houston, but never imagined they would be put in a trailer. His son had left school after elementary and joined his father clearing farmland for planting.
Tulul said Wilmer did not see a future for himself in a town where modest homes were built with remittances sent from the United States. He wanted to help support his three siblings and have his own house and land some day.
The smuggler charged $6,000, almost half of which they had paid. Now Tulul was only thinking about getting his son’s body back and hoping the government would cover the cost.
In Mexico, cousins Javier Flores López and Jose Luis Vásquez Guzmán left the tiny community of Cerro Verde in the southern state of Oaxaca also hoping to help their families. They were headed to Ohio, where construction jobs and other work awaited.
Flores López is now missing, his family said, while Vásquez Guzmán is hospitalized in San Antonio.
Cerro Verde is a community of about 60 people that has largely been abandoned by the young. Those who remain work earning meager livings weaving sun hats, mats, brooms and other items from palm leaves. Many live on as little as 30 pesos a day (less than $2).
It was not the first trip to the U.S.-Mexico border for Flores López, now in his mid-30s, who left Cerro Verde years ago and went to Ohio, where his father and a brother live.
He was back home to see his wife and three small children briefly, said a cousin, Francisco López Hernández. Vásquez Guzmán, 32, decided to go with his cousin for his first trip across the border and hoped to reach his oldest brother who is in Ohio as well.
While everyone knew the risks, countless people from Cerro Verde had made it safely across the U.S.-Mexico border with the help of smugglers, so it came as a shock, López Hernández said. The family believes Flores López was, too, but they are still awaiting confirmation.
Vásquez Guzmán’s mother had intended on getting a visa to visit her hospitalized son, but on Wednesday he was moved out of intensive care and she was able to speak with him by phone. She decided to stay in Mexico and await his recovery, said Aida Ruiz, director of the Oaxaca Institute for Migrant Attention.
López Hernández said most people rely on those who have made it to the U.S. to send them money for the journey, which usually costs around $9,000.
“There are a lot of risks but for those who are lucky, the fortune is there, to be able to work, earn a living” he said.
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Sherman reported from Mexico City and Pérez D. from Tzucubal, Guatemala. AP writers Fabiola Sánchez in Mexico City and Julie Watson in San Diego contributed to this report.
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2022-06-30T19:37:09+00:00
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wtmj.com
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https://wtmj.com/national/2022/06/30/migrants-in-texas-trailer-tragedy-died-seeking-better-lives-2/
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Lawmakers took a step toward addressing suicide in Wyoming on Thursday as the state continues to reel from a crisis that left more than 180 people dead in 2020 alone.
In the measure’s first full vote, the House of Representatives passed a bill Thursday that would establish a $40 million trust fund and $6 million reserve account for Wyoming’s 988 suicide and crisis hotline, providing permanent financing for the suicide prevention program amid the ups and downs of the state’s economy.
The House voted by a 34-23 margin following vigorous debate about the structure of the funding and the efficacy of the suicide and crisis lifeline. The state got its first in-state suicide hotline in 2020. Before then, calls were routed out of state.
While it marks a significant step, the future of the bill is still uncertain. Rep. Steve Harshman, R-Casper, the chairman of the House Revenue Committee, which sponsored the legislation, asked members to pass the bill and propose amendments during later readings, rather than kill it during the first vote.
The bill will now be read two more times before it goes to a final vote in the House.
Debate and questions
The chamber was somber as lawmakers held an emotional debate, with both proponents and opponents of the bills acknowledging that Wyoming is struggling to address climbing suicide rates.
For several lawmakers, the subject of suicide elicited a visceral response.
Rep. Andrew Byron, R-Jackson, told House members that as a first responder for Jackson Hole Fire/EMS, he had no mental health intervention training.
“I can’t share some of the stories because this house can’t hear them,” he said.
Visibly moved, he asked, “What is one life worth?”
Other supporters of the 988 lifeline trust fund also positioned the bill as an issue of saving money or saving lives, arguing that the lifeline can make a difference for those in crisis and help Wyoming tackle its title as the worst state for suicide in the U.S.
“Suicide not only impacts that person, but their families, their communities and their employers,” said Rep. Jon Conrad, R-Mountain View. “Although we can debate the value of the money, I encourage all of us to think about our Wyoming values.”
Permanent funding for the 988 lifeline had firm and vocal support, but more than half of those who rose to speak during the floor debate urged House members to reject the bill.
Those who objected to the measure took issue with the trust fund and questioned the efficacy of the 988 lifeline in preventing suicides.
Rather than the Legislature appropriating money, earnings from the trust fund would transfer directly to the Wyoming Department of Health to finance the annual operations of the lifeline, which would total an estimated $2 million in the 2025 fiscal year.
Roughly $700,000 per year would support the operation of the 988 lifeline call centers, while another $1.2 million would fund crisis services, including mobile crisis teams that would respond to callers.
The lifeline is currently funded for the next year and a half by $2.1 million in federal COVID-19 relief money and $400,000 in state general fund money that Gov. Mark Gordon and the Legislature appropriated during last year’s budget session.
With federal funds drying up and future financial commitments unclear, mental health advocates and some lawmakers have argued for a sustainable funding source that would be insulated from economic downturns and the whims of Wyoming’s two-year budget cycle.
But Rep. John Bear, R-Gillette, the chair of the Wyoming Freedom Caucus, insisted that the Legislature should oversee all of the state’s purse. Bear sought to convince lawmakers that voting against the bill would not defund the 988 lifeline in the state.
“We continue to move these things off budget by creating these trust funds, and they become automatically funded,” he said. “There may be very good reasons for automatically funding something, but we must remember our responsibility is to approve those funds on a regular basis. Once it’s in a trust fund, we will not see that.”
Other opponents of the bill questioned whether a hotline was the answer, and said the state needed to search for other solutions.
“It’s not that it’s not effective, but we must admit to some degree it’s a bit of an attack on a symptom,” said Rep. Tony Locke, R-Casper.
“I only throw that out from the perspective to make sure we think the problem through more broadly and keep our finger on the pulse of the effectiveness of what we do,” he said.
Rep. Lloyd Larsen, R-Lander, countered that the 988 lifeline was never intended to serve as the sole method for addressing suicide.
“Nobody is trying to suggest that a suicide hotline is the end-all solution for suicide, but it’s a very key component, as has been recognized by our mental health professionals,” he said.
Harshman noted that the Legislature has yet to find other sustainable funding streams for the 988 lifeline.
Lawmakers have previously balked at a phone tax, while pulling money from the general fund every two years would put future financing for the 988 lifeline in flux, Harshman said.
“Most of these calls go up frankly when Wyoming is hurting the worst,” he said. “When people are losing their jobs, when oil is dropped down to $20 a barrel, and when people are hurt, that’s when people get into this financial stress, [and] the calls are going to go up.”
Public support amid growing crisis
The House Revenue Committee heard lengthy testimony calling for stable and sustainable funding when it considered the 988 lifeline funding bill last week.
Roughly a dozen representatives from organizations around the state, ranging from the Wyoming Mining Association to the Wyoming chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association, addressed the committee and voiced their support.
It was the broad coalition of backers that advocates highlighted when promoting the bill.
“Today, we have a wide variety of stakeholders advocating for this [legislation], because we are seeing how the lack of mental health infrastructure is impacting their communities, their businesses and their industries,” Lindsay Simineo, the legislative advocate for the Wyoming Counseling Association, said last Thursday. “I could not recall the last time a bill has united so many different stakeholders like this.”
Those who spoke expressed concern about the growing toll of suicide in Wyoming.
“Being No. 1 in the country in suicide is not only a public health crisis, it’s a business crisis,” Cindy Delancey, the president of the Wyoming Business Alliance, told the committee. “We cannot turn our back on our most important asset, which is our people, our workforce.”
Wyoming has led the U.S. in suicide rate since 2018, and the state’s suicide rate continues to climb, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data.
In 2020, the most recent year of state-specific CDC data, Wyoming had a suicide rate of 30.5 deaths per 100,000 residents. That is more than double the state’s 2005 suicide rate of 17.3 deaths per 100,000 residents.
In 2005, 90 Wyomingites ended their lives. In 2020, the total was up to 182 people, according to CDC data.
Wyoming’s suicide crisis is especially pronounced for the state’s veterans, who are already at higher risk than the general population. Approximately 40 veterans died of suicide in Wyoming in 2020, according to statistics from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
While the state’s total is just a fraction of those suicide deaths in the West, Wyoming’s veteran suicide rate of 84.1 deaths per 100,000 people is more than double the regional average and nearly triple the national average.
Andi Summerville, executive director of the Wyoming Association of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Centers, pointed to suicide and mental health crisis hotlines as an important tool for addressing the growing problem.
“We’ll be able to build a better picture for specifically Wyoming in the future, but nationwide, everything that we’ve seen says, ‘Yes, this intervention is effective,’” Summerville said.
“From a provider point of view, we know that anybody who’s experiencing mental health symptoms that might lead to suicidality, when they have a touchpoint with a provider — whether it’s a mental health provider, a primary care provider, a crisis line — those folks are not the ones that we see completing suicide,” she said.
Those who contact the 988 suicide and crisis lifeline receive follow-up calls.
In one 2018 study, researchers found that 79.6% of those interviewed in follow-up calls reported that contacting the national suicide prevention lifeline stopped them from killing themselves. More than 90% of those interviewed reported that the lifeline kept them safe.
While the 988 lifeline will not eradicate suicide in Wyoming, it is one of the keys to addressing the crisis, Summerville said.
“988 is the gateway to all the services that we have that we need to connect people into. and that’s a critical component of this entire discussion,” Summerville said.
“988 is just not a standalone service,” she said. “It’s the front door.”
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2023-01-20T14:26:06+00:00
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wyomingnews.com
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https://www.wyomingnews.com/news/local_news/house-gives-initial-support-to-suicide-hotline-funding-bill/article_533704d8-9866-11ed-9def-43dc92e426b3.html
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ALVA, Okla. (KFOR) – Oklahoma high school juniors can get ahead with the help of a local college.
Northwestern Oklahoma State University will begin offering qualified high school juniors tuition-free enrollment up to nine credit hours.
The move will begin on Aug. 15.
As a result, officials say students will have the ability to earn concurrent college credit up to 27 hours (nine for junior year and 18 for senior year), tuition-free while in high school.
University fees, along with required textbooks or course materials, remain the responsibility of the student.
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2022-07-08T14:40:44+00:00
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kfor.com
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https://kfor.com/news/local/nwosu-high-school-juniors-to-get-9-hours-of-concurrent-enrollment-tuition-free/
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FBI: International (CBS at 9) A river cruise shooting on the Danube with no clear motive leads the squad to investigate in Vienna.
Naomi (CW at 9) Naomi’s revelation about Greg and Jen’s real identity sends her further down a rabbit hole of questioning who has been telling her the truth this whole time.
This Is Us (NBC at 9) Kevin’s personal affairs take a dramatic turn the night before Kate’s wedding.
FBI: Most Wanted (CBS at 10) When a man in witness protection winds up dead, the search for his killer leads to more questions than answers.
Frontline (PBS at 10) The second part of an investigation into Big Oil companies that have been stonewalling progressive actions on climate change.
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2022-04-26T05:27:28+00:00
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washingtonpost.com
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/tv/2022/04/26/what-watch-tuesday-judge-steve-harvey-concludes-its-first-season/
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Mequon yards destroyed, truck driver sought
MEQUON, Wis. - Mequon police are searching for a truck driver after a trail of destruction was left behind in a quiet neighborhood.
The fog Tuesday morning, May 9 added to the mystery initially.
"It was dark," said Laura Brunner. "All I could see was that it was big. Looked black at the time."
What was left behind was eventually clear as day.
"I woke up this morning and saw our stop sign was down, and our street sign was down and all the tracks of the semi going through our yard," said Brunner.
Mequon police say a truck driver destroyed Brunner's yard.
"Kinda bummed," said Brunner. "It’s spring. We are excited to get our yard up."
Police said the semi driver continued for three blocks, going through a number of yards just east of I-43 and Mequon Road around 11:30 p.m.
"The fact that it could have been during the daytime would have been bad for us, definitely, with kids," said Drew Johnson.
Police said one doorbell camera captured the truck, but the license plate and identity of the driver were hidden beneath the fog.
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"It was kind of eerie just because it wasn’t something normal," said Johnson.
Police are recommending charges that include damage to property. If you know anything, give them a call.
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2023-05-10T00:05:33+00:00
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fox6now.com
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https://www.fox6now.com/news/mequon-yards-destroyed-truck-driver-sought
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NEW YORK, Oct. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InvestorsObserver issues critical PriceWatch Alerts for XOM, PEGY, HES, PCG, and KITT.
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2022-10-05T16:47:44+00:00
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witn.com
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https://www.witn.com/prnewswire/2022/10/05/thinking-about-buying-stock-exxon-mobil-pineapple-energy-hess-corp-pgampe-corp-or-nauticus-robotics/
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NEW YORK, Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AllianceBernstein National Municipal Income Fund, Inc. [NYSE: AFB] (the "Fund") today released its monthly portfolio update as of July 31, 2022.
AllianceBernstein National Municipal Income Fund, Inc.
Top 10 Fixed-Income Holdings
Portfolio %
1) Metropolitan Transportation Authority Series 2016-2 5.25%, 11/15/35
2.50 %
2) State of Connecticut Special Tax Revenue Series 2012-A 5.00%, 01/01/29
2.23 %
3) Central Plains Energy Project Series 2017-A 5.00%, 09/01/42
1.77 %
4) Jefferson County Board of Education/AL Series 2018 5.00%, 02/01/46
1.74 %
5) Wisconsin Public Finance Authority Series 2018 5.00%, 07/01/58
1.67 %
6) Detroit Downtown Development Authority Series 2018-A 5.00%, 07/01/48
1.66 %
7) Wisconsin Public Finance Authority Series 2022 5.00%, 02/01/62
1.65 %
8) Los Angeles Department of Water & Power Power System Revenue Series 2013-B 5.00%, 07/01/30
1.63 %
9) Virginia Small Business Financing Authority Series 2022 3.00%, 01/01/41
1.58 %
10) Miami Beach Health Facilities Authority Series 2014 5.00%, 11/15/39
1.51 %
Sector/Industry Breakdown
Revenue
Health Care - Not-for-Profit
21.64 %
Toll Roads/Transit
8.14 %
Airport
7.78 %
Revenue - Miscellaneous
5.78 %
Electric Utility
5.27 %
Higher Education - Private
2.94 %
Industrial Development - Industry
2.86 %
Tobacco Securitization
2.80 %
Prepay Energy
2.60 %
Water & Sewer
Port
1.52 %
Primary/Secondary Ed. - Public
1.41 %
Industrial Development - Utility
0.49 %
Higher Education - Public
0.47 %
Senior Living
0.23 %
SUBTOTAL
66.16 %
Tax Supported
Special Tax
16.68 %
State G.O.
7.89 %
Local G.O.
1.86 %
State Lease
1.14 %
27.57 %
Prerefunded/ETM
4.35 %
Cash & Cash Equivalents
Funds and Investment Trusts
0.85 %
Asset-Backed
Housing - Multi-Family
0.62 %
Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities
0.45 %
Total
100.00 %
State Breakdown
Illinois
11.73 %
California
10.41 %
New York
8.31 %
Pennsylvania
7.69 %
New Jersey
6.14 %
Wisconsin
6.08 %
Florida
5.34 %
Connecticut
4.79 %
Texas
3.98 %
South Carolina
3.02 %
Michigan
2.95 %
Alabama
2.66 %
Virginia
2.33 %
Ohio
2.18 %
Colorado
1.83 %
Nebraska
Oklahoma
Georgia
1.69 %
North Carolina
1.56 %
Minnesota
1.47 %
Tennessee
1.43 %
Arizona
Utah
1.18 %
Maryland
1.09 %
District of Columbia
0.98 %
Iowa
Kansas
0.83 %
West Virginia
0.64 %
New Hampshire
0.59 %
Puerto Rico
0.52 %
Indiana
Hawaii
0.41 %
Arkansas
0.33 %
Louisiana
0.18 %
Washington
0.15 %
Massachusetts
0.14 %
South Dakota
0.13 %
Kentucky
0.02 %
Other
Total Investments
Credit Quality Breakdown
AAA
4.69 %
AA
27.72 %
A
35.17 %
BBB
23.26 %
BB
3.00 %
D
0.21 %
Not Rated
0.75 %
Pre-refunded Bonds
Short Term Investments
Bonds by Maturity
Less than 1 Year
1.10 %
1 To 5 Years
6.15 %
5 To 10 Years
15.14 %
10 To 20 Years
31.19 %
20 To 30 Years
36.93 %
More than 30 Years
9.49 %
0.00 %
Total Net Assets
Portfolio Statistics:
AMT Percent:
12.66 %
Average Coupon:
4.59 %
Percentage of Leverage:
Bank Borrowing:
Investment Operations:
Auction Preferred Shares (APS):
Tender Option Bonds:
VMTP Shares:
38.49 %
Total Fund Leverage:
42.84%*
Average Maturity:
7.18 Years
Effective Duration:
5.74 Years
Total Net Assets:
$377.34 Million**
Common Stock Net Asset Value:
$13.13
Total Number of Holdings:
186
Portfolio Turnover:
5.00 %
* The total percentage of leverage constitutes 4.35% through the use of tender option bonds, 38.49% in issued and outstanding VMTPs and 0.00% in investment operations, which may include the use of certain portfolio management techniques such as credit default swaps, dollar rolls, negative cash, reverse repurchase agreements andwhen-issued securities.
** The Fund also had outstanding $232,125,000 of VMTPs at liquidation value, which is not included in Total Net Assets because it is treated as a liability for financialreporting purposes.
The foregoing portfolio characteristics are as of the date indicated and can be expected to change. The Fund is a closed-end U.S.-registered management investmentcompany advised by AllianceBernstein L. P.
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2022-08-23T21:33:35+00:00
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waff.com
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https://www.waff.com/prnewswire/2022/08/23/alliancebernstein-national-municipal-income-fund-inc-releases-monthly-portfolio-update/
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SEATTLE (AP) — The Seattle Mariners reinstated All-Star center fielder Julio Rodríguez and catcher Curt Casali from the 10-day injured list on Thursday ahead of a lengthy road trip.
Rodríguez has been sidelined since getting hit on the wrist by a pitch in Houston on July 30. He was eligible to come off the injured list on Wednesday, but the Mariners opted to give Rodríguez another couple of days before returning to action.
The Mariners open a nine-game road trip on Friday in Texas.
Casali will be joining the Mariners for the first time after being acquired from San Francisco before the trade deadline. Casali was on a rehab assignment recovering from an oblique injury suffered in early July with the Giants.
To clear spots on the roster, Seattle optioned outfielder Jarred Kelenic to Triple-A Tacoma and designated for assignment catcher Luis Torrens. Kelenic struggled badly in his most recent stint with the Mariners, going 2 for 27 at the plate, but did hit a home run off Gerrit Cole in New York.
Torrens has been a disappointment at the plate this season, but did collect the game-winning hit to end Tuesday night’s 1-0 win in 13 innings over the Yankees. Torrens is batting .214 with one home run and 10 RBIs. He hit .253 with 15 homers and 47 RBIs in 108 games last season.
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2022-08-12T01:47:42+00:00
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expressnews.com
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https://www.expressnews.com/sports/article/Mariners-reinstate-All-Star-Julio-Rodr-guez-from-17368398.php
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TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — They serve less hot coffee and more iced drinks all to help their customers cool down, but that comes with a price.
“Energy bills go up,” said Nancy Elnady, manager at HeeMee Coffee + Bakery.
Their goal is to create a comfortable environment.
“I want them to be satisfied and I want them to like the place enough to actually come back again,” said Elnady.
And that means keeping the AC running during the summer months.
“We have to keep the air conditioning on to keep the place cool the whole time,” said Elnady.
With more people doing just that, TEP has invested $290 million into improving their systems to prevent any outages.
“We’re continually preforming upgrades on our equipment, replacing lines and installing new equipment at our substations,” said Joe Barrios of TEP.
And if you’re wanting to cut the cost of keeping the AC running, TEP has some tips for you.
“You essentially try to make your home cooler than you normally would so that in the heat of the day, say after 3 o’clock, your home will remain comfortable through those hotter hours,” said Barrios.
TEP offers a special pricing plan as well as a smart thermostat rebate customers can apply for, all to keep everyone cool as the triple digit heat is here to stay through the summer months.
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Faith Abercrombie is a reporter for KGUN 9. Before coming to KGUN, Faith worked as a videographer for the Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation and as a reporter and producer on the youth suicide documentary, "Life is..." on Arizona PBS.
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2023-06-21T01:41:58+00:00
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kgun9.com
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https://www.kgun9.com/news/local-news/staying-cool-comes-with-a-price-tag
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CLEVELAND — Wandy Peralta had no doubts.
Asked if he’d be able to pitch a whopping fourth day in a row for the Yankees on Monday, he answered immediately.
“Of course,” he said through the team’s Spanish interpreter. “If they need me, I’m going to be ready for it.”
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They needed him Sunday night, and he was ready, notching a scoreless ninth inning as the Yankees grabbed a 4-2 win over the Guardians in a do-or-die Game 4 at Progressive Field.
Peralta got three outs on seven pitches, extending the Yankees’ season. On Saturday, he gave them 1 2/3 innings and 27 pitches. And on Friday, he threw an inning and 16 pitches. Peralta, who also pitched 1 1/3 innings in Game 1, hasn’t allowed an earned run yet.
“Very happy,” Peralta said. “Very happy and excited about the job we all did tonight. In my mind, it’s not the amount of times I’m out there pitching. It’s about just going out there and executing and getting the job done. Extremely happy for the results we’ve gotten.”
How soon Sunday did he know he was prepared to pitch later that night?
“The moment I woke up,” he said.
It’s rare that the Yankees turn to a reliever to pitch four days straight in the playoffs, but it’s not unprecedented. Paul Quantrill did it in Games 3-6 of the 2004 ALCS, according to YES Network researcher James Smyth. Only six pitchers have done it all-time.
“We’re a wait-and-see,” manager Aaron Boone said. He added: “We’ll just see how he wakes up, see what we’re looking at when we get to the ballpark.”
Here are three more Yankees X-factors heading into Monday night’s game:
Giancarlo Stanton’s slump: Maybe going back to the Bronx will help Stanton regain his mojo. He was hitless in three at-bats with no strikeouts Saturday. For the series, he’s got one hit and two walks in 14 plate appearances. That one hit? A two-run homer in Game 2.
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How would they use Nestor Cortes — if necessary? The Yankees hoped to use Cortes on short rest in Game 5, but with Thursday’s Game 2 rained out to Friday, that went out the window. Cortes will be on two days’ rest Monday. Boone said he would consider using Cortes in a Peralta-like role but was hoping that it wouldn’t come to that. “We’ll see,” Boone said, adding, “I’ll put a limit on it.”
How long of leash will Jameson Taillon get? The Yankees have to pull out all the stops to win Game 5 or else their season will be over. That means riding Taillon as long as possible — or ditching him at the earliest sign of trouble. He threw 18 pitches in relief Friday. He should be able to give a full starter’s workload between 80-100 pitches if everything is clicking. Taillon pitched well in his only start against Cleveland this year, lasting five innings and giving up a run with five strikeouts and no walks in a win at Yankee Stadium on April 22.
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2022-10-17T11:06:24+00:00
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nj.com
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https://www.nj.com/yankees/2022/10/yankees-4-x-factors-in-crucial-alds-game-5-wandy-peralta-available-giancarlo-stanton-slump-more.html
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BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The conversations began Saturday night between Buffalo Bills general manager Brandon Beane, coach Sean McDermott, owners Kim and Terry Pegula, executive vice president of Pegula Sports and Entertainment Ron Raccuia, team captains and others in the organization.
After a racist attack at Tops Friendly Markets on Saturday that killed 10 people and injured three others, the Bills knew they wanted to help in some way beyond giving money and kind words.
As a team, the Bills met on Monday in-person to have tough conversations about what to do next.
That led to supporting the community on Wednesday.
"The Buffalo community, they think highly of the Buffalo Bills, and so it is our job and our role to be here for the community, to be out here and be reachable, to be able to have these conversations," running back and special teams captain Taiwan Jones said. "And in a moment like this the most important thing is just to show love. So, we wanted to come out here and just love on people, show people that we care, we feel for you."
Bills players, coaches, front-office members and other staff, along with members of the NHL Buffalo Sabres and National Lacrosse League Buffalo Bandits, came to the neighborhood in tour buses. They wore black T-shirts that read, "Choose Love." They left bouquets of flowers at a shrine, served chicken Alfredo for 750 people with the help of local chef Darian Bryan and World Central Kitchen, and passed out groceries.
"The only thing we care about ... I kind of compare it to one game at a time, like we're here for our community and that's it," quarterback Josh Allen said. "And if people want to look at that and find ways to be enlightened or be acted upon where they see this and they want to start acting upon in their communities, I think that can work. But right now, we're just here for our community and that's all. That's all that matters to us right now."
There were about 50 players in attendance and some, such as wide receiver Stefon Diggs, flew to Buffalo specifically to show support. Jones was one of the key organizers of the effort through a relationship with Candles In The S.U.N, a nonprofit organization.
"Buffalo is, honestly, this is my first home," tackle Dion Dawkins said. "This is the place where I first bought a house, I first started to raise a family. ... It has affected every last one of us, some more than others, but an event like this, it affected everybody at a height that really can't be explained. And once again, really just being here for the community, which is our community, is where the growth helps.
"It's going to take brick-by-brick to build it back, because we had somebody that targeted a community, a neighborhood of African American people. That's really where the hurt is. And the fact that some people have lost loved ones. And it's just unbelievable."
Players and personnel were in the team's offseason training program, and McDermott expressed pride in the number of players who were there. From Allen serving pasta to the team's rookies helping to cut up food, to the group simply speaking with the community, the impact was felt. Traffic slowed next to the site to get a glimpse of the group who brought some smiles to a devastated community.
The Bills said this is only the start.
"This is something that we all, the Bills included, the whole community, we gotta continue to rally around all the affected families," Beane said. "The national media is here for now, but there's going to be another story soon. It's up to us and we plan to lead the charge. This is not going to leave people's lives in a month or a year. This is a lasting thing, and we gotta do our part."
"... In a moment like this the most important thing is just to show love. So, we wanted to come out here and just love on people, show people that we care, we feel for you." Taiwan Jones
Jones added: "We're here to listen to what we need to do. We have an open ear to hear from the community how we can help. What we do know is we have to be here; we have to show up. So, it is easy for us to be here. The hard part is like you said, thinking of a long-term plan going forward."
In addition to the physical presence, The Buffalo Bills Foundation, combined with the NFL Foundation, announced a $400,000 donation Wednesday. The money will go toward the Buffalo Together Community Response Fund and a variety of nonprofit organizations working on emergency response efforts.
"It's hard to find the words to say, and I don't know if there's anything you can say to help somebody that's uneasy about something like that feel better, other than saying, 'I'm here for you. I hear you. I'm listening to you, and if there's any way that I can help, let me know because I'm willing to do it,'" Allen said. "Just being there for them to lean on when they need it. Again, that's a microcosm of what our community needs right now and that's why we're out here today."
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2022-05-18T22:16:35+00:00
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US nominates Ajay Banga for World Bank president
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is nominating former Mastercard CEO Ajay Banga to lead the World Bank, President Joe Biden announced on Thursday, crediting him with critical experience on global challenges including climate change.
The news comes days after Trump appointee David Malpass announced plans to step down in June from his role leading the 189-nation poverty reduction agency. His five-year term was due to expire in April 2024.
Addressing the impacts of climate change at the multilateral bank is a priority for the U.S. And leading climate figures have urged the Biden administration to use Malpass’ early departure as an opening to overhaul the powerful financial institution, which has been increasingly criticized as hostile to less-wealthy nations and efforts to address climate change.
Malpass ran into criticism last year for seeming, in comments at a conference, to cast doubt on the science that says the burning of fossil fuels causes global warming. He later apologized and said he had misspoken, noting that the bank routinely relies on climate science.
Banga, currently vice chairman at private equity firm General Atlantic, has more than 30 years of business experience, having served in various roles at Mastercard and the boards of the American Red Cross, Kraft Foods and Dow Inc. He is the first Indian-born nominee to the World Bank president role.
“Ajay is uniquely equipped to lead the World Bank at this critical moment in history,” Biden said in a statement, adding that Banga “has critical experience mobilizing public-private resources to tackle the most urgent challenges of our time, including climate change.”
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in a statement that Banga’s experience “will help him achieve the World Bank’s objectives of eliminating extreme poverty and expanding shared prosperity while pursuing the changes needed to effectively evolve the institution,” which include meeting “ambitious goals for climate adaptation and emissions reduction.”
The United States has traditionally picked the World Bank chief. The head of its sister agency, the International Monetary Fund, has traditionally come from Europe. But critics have called for an end to that arrangement and for developing countries to gain a bigger voice in the two organizations.
The World Bank has promised to conduct “an open, merit-based and transparent selection process″ and said it would accept nominations through March 29.
The bank is under intense pressure to do more to help poor countries finance projects to combat and prepare for climate change without saddling them with heavy debt burdens.
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AP Economics Writer Paul Wiseman contributed to this story.
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Follow the AP’s coverage of the World Bank at https://apnews.com/hub/world-bank.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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If you are a banker or an electrician or a farmer or a parent or someone who likes to wager on sports — whoever you are, the 2023 North Dakota Legislature likely has affected your life in some way, by a little or a lot.
In no particular order of significance, here’s a sampling of what we mean.
If you’re a parent of a child in a private school, you won’t be receiving public tuition aid. Gov. Doug Burgum vetoed House Bill 1532, which would have created an education reimbursement program.
But if you have little ones, children’s diapers will now be exempted from the state sales tax with the signing of HB 1177.
If you drive on state roads, know that with the signing of Senate Bill 2362, motorists may now be pulled over solely for not wearing a seat belt.
And watch the booze while biking. HB 1506 declares that anyone riding a bicycle (or animal) on a roadway or public area while intoxicated to a significant degree will be assessed a fee of $200.
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If you enjoy sports betting, you will need to travel to one of the state’s Indian reservations or to another state. The Senate killed House Concurrent Resolution 3002, which would have created a ballot measure allowing the voters of North Dakota to legalize sports betting.
If you’re a farmer, you may soon start a corporate operation. HB 1371, which would legalize some forms of corporate farming, passed both chambers and was signed by the governor.
If you own a child care center, you will not be receiving reimbursements from the state. The House killed SB 2301, which would have created a child care stabilization program to reimburse licensed child care facilities based on the number of children in their care.
If you’re a parent with limited income, you will not be receiving a 5-10% increase through the child care assistance program. The House killed SB 2190.
If you’re a curler, you can brag that yours is the official state sport of North Dakota.
If you’re a North Dakotan living with Type I diabetes, you may pay less for life-saving insulin. SB 2140, signed by the governor, caps the price of a 30-day supply of insulin at $25 for those covered by the North Dakota Employees Retirement Program.
If you’re a small school district superintendent, you will not have to worry about being forced to consolidate with other districts. The House killed HB 1251, which would have forced smaller school districts to jointly employ a superintendent.
If you’re a county or state mutual insurance company, you will still have to publish abstracts in your local paper. The House killed SB 2143, which would have slashed this requirement.
If you’re a tribal government, you now are eligible to participate in the Department of Water Resources' “Cost-Share” program. HB 1385 allows tribal governments to make contracts with the state water commission.
Also, if you’re an enrolled member of a tribal nation, your family may benefit from legislation aimed at clarifying rules of the federal Indian Child Welfare Act in state law.
If you’re a librarian, you may want to check what materials you have within your library. HB 1205 aims to prohibit “obscene” content from being available in children’s sections in public libraries.
Sorry speed racers: A bill to increase the interstate speed limit to 80 mph failed, the fourth session in a row.
If you like a good cigar, with the passage of HB 1229, businesses are now allowed to build indoor cigar lounges, provided that they meet certain requirements.
If you are a full-time firefighter or law enforcement officer of more than five years, the passage of HB 1279 has expanded your worker compensation to cover several cardiac events.
If you are a barefoot water skier 16 or older, you are now able to wear a wetsuit specifically designed for barefoot skiing and flotation and leave the life preserver in the boat.
If you are a hunter, the signing of HB 1233 now allows for 11, 12, and 13-year-olds to participate in the regular hunting season if accompanied by a parent, guardian, or other authorized person.
If you are a local government official worried about a busted snow removal budget, SB 2183 provides $20 million in emergency grants to help cover extraordinary snow removal costs.
If you are an active duty Guard or Reserve service member, your income tax rate is now 0%. Thank you for your service!
Concerned about your children spending time on the ever-expanding internet these days? The passage of HB 1398 now requires cybersecurity education for all K-12 students. North Dakota is the first state to adopt cybersecurity and computer science standards for all grades.
If you’re thinking of starting a business in agriculture, HB 1276 will provide support for new or expanding businesses that depend on farming, ranching, and ag processing with $25 million in grants.
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2023-05-02T18:18:12+00:00
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**Warning: The police body cam footage seen above is disturbing.**
AKRON, Ohio (WJW) — Akron city officials on Sunday released more details in the police shooting of Jayland Walker, a Black man they say was unarmed when officers shot and killed him after a chase.
Walker, 25, was shot by police just after midnight on Monday. During a press conference Sunday, the police department released two videos.
Police said Walker fired a shot from his vehicle during a pursuit. The first video in the press conference showed a possible muzzle flash of light at the same time as officers reportedly heard a shot coming from the vehicle.
Walker, who was reportedly wearing a ski mask at the time, then got out of his car from the passenger’s side while it was still running and fled from the officers.
Chief Steve Mylett admitted that in watching the police body cam shooting video, it is hard to determine what led officers to fire their weapons. He said in still photos of the footage, it appears Walker was reaching down to his waist.
“Each officer independent of each other related that they felt that Mr. Walker had turned and was motioning and moving into a firing position,” Chief Mylett said.
The medical examiner had originally said he had “multiple gunshot wounds,” but Mylett said the medical examiner has confirmed more than 60 wounds on Walker’s body. More investigation will be needed to determine exactly how many rounds the eight officers fired and how many times Walker was hit. Officers provided aid, and one can be heard saying he still had a pulse, but he was pronounced dead at the scene, Mylett said.
A gun and bullet casing were later found in the vehicle, police said.
“I know this is a somber occasion for the city,” Akron Mayor Dan Horrigan told reporters, emphasizing that everyone in the community be patient as the investigation continues and urged for peace in the city.
The shooting is being investigated independently by agents with the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation.
In a statement, the Fraternal Order of Police in Akron described the shooting as being “consistent with the use of force protocols and officers’ training.”
Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost released a statement Sunday following the press conference:
“People want and deserve answers, and they shall have them. BCI will conduct a complete, fair and expert investigation,” Yost said. “Body-worn camera footage is just one view of the whole picture – before drawing conclusions, the full review must take place.”
Walker’s family, who did not speak to the media Sunday, has continued to ask for calm and peace as more is learned about the incident.
“We want peace. This family has had enough violence. We want dignity, we want to celebrate the life of this young man in a way that brings dignity to him and to the city and we want justice, which means a fair process, reviewing all the facts and let that process play out. We do not want violence of any kind,” the family’s Attorney Bobby DiCello said earlier this week.
DiCello continued those sentiments Sunday, speaking to media following the press conference as well. He said the shooting did not seem to be warranted.
**See more body cam footage below. Warning: Graphic.**
Walker was grieving the recent death of his fiancee, but his family had no indication of concern beyond that, DiCello said.
“He was sad, but he was getting through it,” DiCello said. He said he doesn’t know whether the ring found near the gun belonged to Walker.
Protests were planned throughout the weekend.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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2022-07-04T02:38:22+00:00
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MORGAN HILL, Calif. (KRON) — Two credit card skimmers were found at a Morgan Hill bank on Thursday, according to a Facebook post from the Morgan Hill Police Department.
MHPD was dispatched to Bank of America at 200 Cochrane Plaza to investigate skimmers found on two separate ATMs. A bank employee inspected the area and found a small camera hidden above the ATM keypad. View images related to the skimming investigation below.
The skimming incident was the latest in Morgan Hill, where a total of six skimmers have been found at two Bank of America locations over the past two weeks, police said. In August, two Romanians were arrested in Morgan Hill after they were found with a skimming device.
Skimmers are often attached to credit card readers and are used to collect a person’s card information and PIN number. Police advised citizens to check for alignment issues on card readers for possible skimmers.
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No suspects have been identified in connection with Thursday’s incident. Anyone with information is asked to contact MHPD Detective Tony Reis at (669) 253-4995 or email Tony.Reis@morganhillca.gov.
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2023-02-18T05:44:22+00:00
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https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/credit-card-skimmers-found-at-morgan-hill-bank/
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The Superstition Mountain Museum is a place to discover the West.
It's now home to the Elvis Memorial Chapel, a 15-acre property that continues to grow, celebrating rich Western movie-making history. It sits four miles away from where the Apacheland Movie Ranch was destroyed by two fires.
Apacheland Movie Ranch opened in 1960 and back then, it was an 1,800-acre movie set. Then, a fire in May of 1969 destroyed most of the buildings.
The sets were rebuilt and filming resumed, but on Valentine's day of 2004, a raging consumed the property again, closing the ranch for good. Only two buildings survived — the Apacheland Movie Barn and the Elvis Memorial Chapel.
ABC15 talked with Kathleen Putek, a volunteer on the property who oversees venue rentals, who says, "Elvis was here. He was here quite frequently...He was here filming the movie Charro — it was his only non-singing role. And it was his favorite role because he wanted to be more than just a sex symbol. It was a box office flop, unfortunately. But the chapel played a prominent feature in that movie."
That was before it was moved to the Superstition Mountain Museum. Now, weddings and other events fit for a king happen here.
"We have a statue of Elvis on the altar. And people can choose to keep him there or take him away. We can store him in the back. There are western posters on the wall featuring the movies that were filmed in Apacheland."
The Apacheland Movie Barn is also loaded with Arizona movie-making history — and a 20-foot tall stamp mill, invented in the 19th century and used to help miners crush gold-bearing rock.
"We have the best-preserved stamp mill, probably in North America that's totally original. All the parts are original. And it's operated more often than any other mill in North America that we know of," volunteer David Raring said.
The Cossak Stamp Mill operates from November to April, generally on Thursdays and weekends.
For more information, check out The Superstition Mountain Historical Society online.
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2022-11-11T13:00:30+00:00
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https://www.abc15.com/news/state/hidden-gem-keeping-the-old-west-alive-at-the-base-of-the-superstition-mountains
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CHICAGO (AP) — An expected bump in violent crime this summer has mayors and police officials around the U.S. rolling out familiar strategies of making officers more visible and engaging with community groups, in some cases leaning on civilians to enforce curfews and keep the peace.
Chicago is among the U.S. cities under scrutiny following a mayoral race that focused on public safety in response to demands for change. Violence often surges during summer months, so this holiday weekend will undoubtedly ramp up pressure on Mayor Brandon Johnson’s new administration to deliver short-term improvement along with the long-term strategies that the former union organizer advocated while campaigning to lead the nation’s third-largest city.
“It’s going to take all of us, not just the police, not just city government, to ensure that our communities can live and thrive in peace and safety,” Johnson said at a lakefront press conference promoting the city’s Memorial Day weekend strategy.
Most large U.S. cities are reporting fewer homicides this year, according to data collected by the Council on Criminal Justice, which created a Crime Trends Working Group this spring in hopes of providing more real-time information on crime.
The shift is a tentative reprieve following those spikes that began in 2020 and began to come down last year. The totals remain far higher than pre-pandemic reports and are “cause for serious concern but not for panic,” said Thomas Abt, founding director of the Center for the Study and Practice of Violence Reduction at the University of Maryland.
“Where cities are seeing success, they’re generally investing in a balanced approach that includes policing but … also supports community-based approaches,” Abt said. “They have recognized the need for enforcement but also emphasize prevention and intervention.”
Officials in Cleveland; Newark, New Jersey; and Philadelphia have announced summer plans to make officers more of a visible presence in locations where violent crimes have happened, while also promoting community efforts to prevent violence and provide alternative activities.
In Baltimore, city officials — not police officers — will enforce curfews on teenagers starting Friday and continuing through Labor Day weekend. The controversial policy has long been on the books but rarely enforced.
“We are going back to the old days,” Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott said in announcing the summer enforcement, after two teens were wounded as hundreds gathered on a Sunday night in the city’s popular Inner Harbor district.
That shooting in April, which unfolded while officers were trying to break up a fight at the scene, added to a significant spike in youth violence, which has persisted even as overall shootings and homicides trend downward in Baltimore.
According to Scott’s plan, non-law enforcement staff will approach children and teens violating the curfew policy on weekend and holiday nights. First, they’ll encourage kids to go home, but if that doesn’t work, the children will be brought to a youth engagement center that provides a supervised environment where they can hang out.
In Detroit, federal prosecutors are expanding efforts to help local police this summer by taking armed carjacking cases and business robberies in high-crime areas, in addition to certain gun crimes. Federal convictions typically bring longer sentences.
“The most dangerous people will be prosecuted immediately in federal court,” U.S. Attorney Dawn Ison said Wednesday.
Following a half-dozen shootings — including one fatality — in the downtown Detroit area over one weekend in April, Police Chief James White instituted a crowd control strategy including increased police presence. Curfews for minors also will be enforced.
In Chicago, mayors face annual pressure to demonstrate a proactive approach to violent crime ahead of Memorial Day, the traditional kickoff to warm weather and summer events where crowds gather.
Johnson promised to move away from a policing-first strategy as he took office at the start of May, but he’s also distanced himself from calls to cut money for policing. He chose a retired department veteran as interim police chief.
Federal data shows that Chicago’s homicide rate remains lower than other Midwestern cities such as St. Louis and Detroit, with 211 killings reported so far this year, lower than the same period in 2022 and 2021.
Johnson’s holiday weekend strategy includes making officers a visible presence, and even having them check bags at crowded beaches, parks and events. Police rushed to Chicago’s North Avenue Beach on Friday afternoon after a report of gunshots following a large fight. The department said one juvenile was in custody but didn’t provide more information. No injuries were reported.
Philanthropic and business groups have donated to anti-violence groups organizing events aimed at young people. And the state of Illinois has authorized a team of 30 “peacekeepers” — not police — who have training and experience in deescalating conflict, to roam Chicago aiming to prevent outbreaks of violence.
Community groups with similar strategies have operated for years across Chicago, focusing on specific neighborhoods or blocks with a history of violence. State officials said their team would be mobile and able to respond anywhere, including downtown, where large gatherings of teens during a warm April weekend ended with several shootings and other violence.
Norman Livingston Kerr led a Chicago anti-violence organization before he became assistant deputy mayor for public safety under Johnson’s predecessor, Lori Lightfoot. He now consults with cities and nonprofits to develop anti-violence strategies that rely on deescalation or intervention. He’s encouraged by signs that the city and state are committing long-term resources to efforts such as the peacekeepers program.
“This violence intervention work, it can take time for people to see it work and believe in it,” Kerr said. “I’m not going to dwell on the fact it took years to happen; I’m going to say this is a new day.”
Johnson has promised to give a variety of community organizations a larger role in his administration’s public safety strategy and devoted much of Thursday’s city presentation to promoting plans for basketball tournaments, neighborhood barbecues and karaoke contests.
Tamar Manasseh, founder of Mothers/Men Against Senseless Killings, said her organization has worked to prevent crime around a South Side intersection for nearly 10 years using “positive loitering.” This weekend is no exception, with a neighborhood barbecue and other activities planned.
“We built a community center, our pop-up community center, in a vacant lot,” Manasseh said. “And since then we’ve seen crime drop astronomically. And we feel like that can happen anywhere.”
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Associated Press writers Lea Skene in Baltimore and Corey Williams and Ed White in Detroit contributed to this report.
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2023-05-27T13:17:15+00:00
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kron4.com
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Biden goes west to talk about his administration’s efforts to combat climate change
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will travel to Arizona, New Mexico and Utah next week and is expected to talk about his administration’s efforts to combat climate change as the region endures a brutally hot summer with soaring temperatures, the White House said Monday.
Biden is expected to discuss the Inflation Reduction Act, America’s most significant response to climate change, and the push toward more clean energy manufacturing. The act aims to spur clean energy on a scale that will bend the arc of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.
July has been the hottest month ever recorded. Biden last week announced new steps to protect workers in extreme heat, including measures to improve weather forecasts and make drinking water more accessible.
Members of Biden’s administration also are fanning out over the next few weeks around the anniversary of the landmark climate change and health care legislation to extol the administration’s successes as the Democratic president seeks reelection in 2024.
Vice President Kamala Harris heads to Wisconsin this week with Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo to talk about broadband infrastructure investments. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack goes to Oregon to highlight wildfire defense grants, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg will go to Illinois and Texas, and Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona heads to Maryland to talk about career and technical education programs.
The Inflation Reduction Act included roughly $375 billion over a decade to combat climate change and capped the cost of a month’s supply of insulin at $35 for older Americans and other Medicare beneficiaries. It also helps an estimated 13 million Americans pay for health care insurance by extending subsidies provided during the coronavirus pandemic.
The measure is paid for by new taxes on large companies and stepped-up IRS enforcement of wealthy individuals and entities, with additional funds going to reduce the federal deficit.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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2023-07-31T13:48:35+00:00
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https://www.wcjb.com/2023/07/31/biden-goes-west-talk-about-his-administrations-efforts-combat-climate-change/
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House said Monday it now estimates that just since December Russia has suffered 100,000 casualties, including more than 20,000 killed, as Ukraine has rebuffed a heavy assault by Russian forces in eastern Ukraine.
In what has become a grinding war of attrition, the fiercest battles have been in the eastern Donetsk region, where Russia is struggling to encircle the city of Bakhmut in the face of dogged Ukrainian defense.
White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said the U.S. estimate is based on newly declassified American intelligence. He did not detail how the intelligence community derived the number.
Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said in November that Russia had suffered well over 100,000 killed or wounded in the first eight months of the war. The new figures suggest that Russian losses have dramatically accelerated in recent months.
Troops from Russia’s Wagner mercenary group and other forces are fighting Ukrainian troops house-to-house to try to gain control of what has become known as the “road of life” — the last remaining road west still in Ukrainian hands, which makes it critical for supplies and fresh troops. Both sides have cited gains in recent days.
Kirby said nearly half those killed since December are Wagner forces, many of them convicts who were released from prison to join Russia's fight. He said the Wagner forces were “thrown into combat and without sufficient combat or combat training, combat leadership, or any sense of organizational command and control.”
Col. Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi, the head of Ukrainian ground forces, said Russia continued to exert “maximum effort” to take Bakhmut but that it so far had failed.
“In some parts of the city, the enemy was counterattacked by our units and left some positions,” he said.
Kirby declined to say how many Ukrainian troops have been killed or wounded in the fighting. Milley said in November that Ukrainian casualties were probably also about 100,000.
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Credit: AP
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2023-05-01T18:30:12+00:00
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https://www.daytondailynews.com/nation-world/us-says-20000-russians-killed-in-ukraine-war-since-december/NBGNTCENTVDP5GSQSCLVMS6G7E/
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Hackers accessed data on some American Airlines customers
Published: Sep. 20, 2022 at 10:24 AM CDT|Updated: 27 minutes ago
DALLAS (AP) — Hackers gained access to personal information of some customers and employees at American Airlines.
The airline said Tuesday that information on a “very small number” of people was compromised after a phishing attack that breached some employee email accounts.
American Airlines says there is indication that the attackers have misused any of the personal information. It won’t say how many people’s information was compromised by the attack.
American says it is putting additional safeguards in place to prevent similar breaches in the future.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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2022-09-20T15:53:51+00:00
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https://www.kcbd.com/2022/09/20/hackers-accessed-data-some-american-airlines-customers/
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On Tuesday, Kansas voters decide whether to strip abortion rights from the state constitution, which could lead to the legislature passing a statewide abortion ban.
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On Tuesday, Kansas voters decide whether to strip abortion rights from the state constitution, which could lead to the legislature passing a statewide abortion ban.
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2022-07-31T21:42:37+00:00
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https://www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/2022-07-31/kansans-are-voting-on-the-future-of-abortion-rights-in-the-state
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Two Belgian activists who targeted Johannes Vermeer’s “Girl with a Pearl Earring” painting in a climate protest last week were sentenced Wednesday to two months in prison, with prosecutors saying their action “crossed a line” of acceptable protest.
Half of the sentence was suspended by a judge in The Hague, meaning the men will serve one month. A third suspect is due in court Friday. Their identities were not released, in line with Dutch privacy rules.
One man glued his head to glass protecting the 17th-century masterpiece at the Mauritshuis museum in The Hague while another poured a can of thickened tomato soup over his head. The second man, wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the words “Just Stop Oil,” then glued his hand to the wall next to the painting. A third man filmed the protest.
The painting was not damaged, but the glass covering it had to be replaced and the protest caused other minor damage, prosecutors said. The painting was returned to its wall a day later.
In a statement, prosecutors in The Hague said that the activists’ “goal, however important you consider it, does not justify the means.”
The prosecutors had demanded four-month sentences, saying they wanted to send a message that “paintings hang in museums to be enjoyed, not exploited for activist ends. You keep your hands off them.”
Earlier this month, climate protesters threw mashed potatoes at a Claude Monet painting in a German museum and a similar protest happened in London, where protesters threw soup over Vincent van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” in the National Gallery. In both those cases, the paintings were not damaged.
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2022-11-02T18:42:19+00:00
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seattletimes.com
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https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/climate-activists-get-a-month-in-prison-for-vermeer-protest/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all
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By HILLEL ITALIE
AP National Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — Sterling Lord, the uniquely enduring literary agent who worked for years to find a publisher for Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road” and over the following decades arranged deals for everyone from true crime writer Joe McGinniss to the creators of the Berenstain Bears, has died. He had just turned 102.
Lord died Saturday in a nursing home in Ocala, Florida, according to his daughter, Rebecca Lord.
“He had a good death and died peacefully of old age,” she told The Associated Press.
Sterling Lord, who started his own agency in 1952 and later merged with rival Literistic to form Sterling Lord Literistic Inc., was a failed magazine publisher who became, almost surely, the longest-serving agent in the book business. He stayed with the company he founded until he was nearly 100 — and then decided to launch a new one.
He was well-spoken and athletic, a most able negotiator who dressed in tweed and avoided most vices. But he was alert to new trends and an early ambassador for a revolutionary cultural movement: the Beats. With rare persistence, he endured the initial unwillingness of publishers to take on Kerouac’s unorthodox narrative and was later the longtime agent for poet and playwright Amiri Baraka, novelist Ken Kesey and poet and City Lights bookstore owner Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
His full roster of clients produced works about sports, politics, murder and the travails of illustrated animals.
Thanks to his friendship with Theodore Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, Lord helped launch Stan and Jan Berenstain’s multimillion-selling books about an anthropomorphic bear family. He negotiated terms between McGinniss and accused killer Jeffrey MacDonald, later convicted, for the true crime classic “Fatal Vision.” He found a publisher for Nicholas Pileggi’s mob story “Wiseguy” and helped arrange the deal for its celebrated film adaptation, “Goodfellas.”
In the early 1960s, Viking had asked Lord to get a blurb from Kerouac for “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” Kesey’s first and most famous novel. Kerouac declined, but Lord was so impressed by the book that he ended up representing Kesey for his next work, “Sometimes a Great Notion.”
He represented former U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and Judge John Sirica of Watergate fame and worked often with Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis during her time as an editor with Doubleday and Viking. Some of the great sports books of the 20th century, from “North Dallas Forty” to “Secretariat,” were written by his clients.
“A number of things about this business have really caught me and made it a compelling interest,” Lord told the AP in 2013. “First, I’m interested in good writing. Second, I am interested in new and good ideas. And third, I’ve been able to meet some extraordinarily interesting people.”
Lord would also speak proudly of a project he declined: Lyndon Johnson’s memoir. Representatives for the former president informed Lord in the late 1960s that Johnson wanted $1 million for the book and that Lord should accept less than his usual commission for the honor of working with him. Lord turned them down, much to their surprise and anger.
Johnson’s “The Vantage Point,” ultimately published in 1971, was dismissed by critics as bland and uninformative. Lord instead found a deal for “Quotations from Chairman LBJ,” a bestselling parody.
Lord was married four times, and had one child, Rebecca.
Books and tennis were lifelong passions for Lord, born in Burlington, Iowa, in 1920. It began when his mother would read to him after dinner; he went on to edit his high school newspaper and work as a sports stringer around the same time for the Des Moines Register. He also became a tennis star at Grinnell College, and later a good enough player to compete against Don Budge, among others.
His upbringing, he would later write, was the kind of “pleasant, orderly” world “the Beats were trampling on in the fifties and sixties.”
After serving in the Army Air Force during World War II, Lord co-owned the Germany-based magazine Weekend, which soon folded. Back in the U.S., he served as an editor at True and Cosmopolitan, from which he was fired, before founding the Sterling Lord Literary Agency. Lord had met many agents during his magazine years and believed they failed to understand that the American public was becoming more urban and sophisticated. He also prided himself on his sympathy for writers who lived far more wildly than he did.
His first marriage, he would acknowledge, helped inspire him to go into business for himself.
“Frankly, I didn’t want to deal with the situation at home,” he told the Des Moines Register in 2015.
Lord had quick success by selling film rights to two popular sports books, Rocky Graziano’s “Somebody Up There Likes Me” and Jimmy Piersall’s “Fear Strikes Out.” But Lord’s “On the Road” quest would prove bumpier.
In his 2013 memoir “Lord of Publishing,” Lord remembered first meeting Kerouac in 1952. Kerouac already had completed a conventional novel, “The Town and the City,” but had no agent and surely needed one for his next book: “On the Road” was typed, as Lord was among the first to know, “on a 120-foot scroll of architectural tracing paper.”
Lord believed that Kerouac had “a fresh, distinctive voice that should be heard.” But the industry was not in the mood. Even younger editors who may have related to Kerouac’s jazzy celebration of youth and personal freedom turned him down. One editor wrote to Lord that “Kerouac does have enormous talent of a very special kind. But this is not a well-made novel, nor a saleable one nor even, I think, a good one.”
By 1955, Kerouac was ready to give up — but Lord was not. The agent eventually sold excerpts to The Paris Review and the periodical New World Writing. An editor from Viking Press contacted Lord, offering an advance of $900. Lord held out for $1,000. In 1957, the book was released, The New York Times raved and “On the Road” soon entered the American canon.
But Kerouac was a shy and fragile man, Lord wrote. Fame magnified a drinking problem that killed him by 1969. Lord even recruited a doctor who unsuccessfully attempted to get Kerouac to clean up, but the businessman eventually backed away since he was his “literary agent, not his life agent.”
Lord attended Kerouac’s funeral, sharing a limousine ride with his client Jimmy Breslin and standing by the grave alongside Allen Ginsberg, “the sunlight filtering through the trees, the leaves brown after losing their fall colors.”
Lord oversaw Kerouac’s numerous posthumous releases even as he battled the author’s family for control of the estate. After years of failed attempts, a filmed version of “On the Road” was released in 2012. But Lord had little involvement in the project, directed by Walter Salles and starring Sam Riley and Kristen Stewart. He did didn’t bother to attend a special screening it, citing mixed early reviews, and didn’t show up for a private party for the film.
“I decided to go home,” he told the AP in 2013.
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2022-09-04T23:10:30+00:00
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wtmj.com
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https://wtmj.com/entertainment/2022/09/04/sterling-lord-uniquely-enduring-literary-agent-dies-at-102-2/
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Blazers hope to remain above .500, welcome Pistons to town
The Portland Trail Blazers maintained a winning record throughout December, though they’re in danger of falling to the .500 mark if they lose at home to the Detroit Pistons on Monday.
The Blazers have dropped four of their last five games, including a 118-112 defeat to defending champion Golden State on Friday.
Portland coach Chauncey Billups was limited to an eight-man rotation due to illness and injuries. Starting center Jusuf Nurkic and reserves Keon Johnson and Greg Brown III were too sick to play, while second unit fixtures Nassir Little (hip) and Justise Winslow (ankle) were nursing ailments.
The Trail Blazers were outscored 16-2 in the last five minutes.
“I had to play these guys so many minutes, I know everybody was just exhausted, just tired,” Billups said. “I tried everything. I blew every timeout I had. Tried to get them some rest. It was just very tough at the end. They got faster and they got a little tougher because they got some stops in a row. The guys were just done. They were just drained.”
The players who started accounted for 95 of the team’s points, led by Damian Lillard with 34. Portland committed six turnovers in the fourth quarter against the Warriors, who were also missing two starters.
“Even with us being tired, we just didn’t play smart enough down the stretch,” Billups said. “Turnovers. Tough shots. Bad shots against this team is like a turnover because they can get out and score so easily on you.”
Jerami Grant, who was traded by Detroit during the offseason for draft assets, will be facing his former team for the first time since arriving in Portland. Grant is averaging 22 points, 4.4 rebounds and 2.8 assists.
The Pistons still have the league’s worst record, but they’ve won two of their last three games to reach the 10-win mark.
They captured a 116-104 road victory against Minnesota on Saturday, outscoring the Timberwolves 66-40 in the second half.
Starter Bojan Bogdanovic, as usual, led the team in scoring with 28 points.
However, the second unit proved to be the difference. A handful of reserves scored in double digits, contributing 65 points in all.
“It’s about the second unit’s character,” Pistons coach Dwane Casey said. “We have a lot of character guys in the group that hadn’t been getting a lot of run, but they came in and played with pure heart, pure mind and won the game for us.”
Marvin Bagley III led that group with 18 points. Alec Burks had 13, Hamidou Diallo tossed in 12 and Cory Joseph and Rodney McGruder added 11 apiece.
Burks, acquired from the New York Knicks in an offseason deal, has provided a big spark off the bench. He’s averaging 14 points in 21.5 minutes per game.
The 31-year-old McGruder, who has been out of the rotation most of the season, played a season-high 23 minutes against Minnesota.
Starting guard Killian Hayes will serve the final game of a three-game suspension for striking Orlando’s Moritz Wagner from behind during a skirmish on Wednesday. The Pistons are in the midst of a five-game road trip.
–Field Level Media
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2023-01-02T18:45:47+00:00
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kxnet.com
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https://www.kxnet.com/sports/blazers-hope-to-remain-above-500-welcome-pistons-to-town/
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Judge: Tennessee lawmaker can’t withdraw guilty plea on campaign finance charges
May 16, 2023, 2:46 PM
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday declined to let a former Tennessee state senator withdraw his guilty plea on federal campaign finance charges.
In the case related to his failed 2016 congressional campaign, former Republican Sen. Brian Kelsey’s attorneys had argued he should be allowed to go back on his guilty plea because he entered it in November with an “unsure heart and a confused mind” due to events in his personal life — his father had terminal pancreatic cancer, then later died in February, and he and his wife were caring for their twin sons born in September.
U.S. District Judge Waverly Crenshaw in Nashville said that those stressors are not sufficient to allow the reversal of his guilty plea. Kelsey’s sentencing was set for late July.
“A guilty plea is a grave and solemn act,” Crenshaw said, according to The Daily Memphian.
Kelsey and his mother were among those who testified at the hearing Tuesday.
Kelsey pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the Federal Election Commission as well as aiding and abetting the acceptance of excessive contributions on behalf of a federal campaign. He faces up to five years in prison for each count.
Before that, Kelsey had previously pleaded not guilty — often describing his case as a “political witch hunt” — but changed his mind shortly after his co-defendant, Nashville social club owner Joshua Smith, pleaded guilty to one count under a deal that required him to “cooperate fully and truthfully” with federal authorities. Smith’s sentencing is also scheduled for late July.
In October 2021, a federal grand jury in Nashville indicted Kelsey and Smith, who owns The Standard club, on several counts each. The indictment alleged that Kelsey, Smith and others violated campaign finance laws by illegally concealing the transfer of $91,000 — $66,000 from Kelsey’s state Senate campaign committee and $25,000 from a nonprofit that advocated about legal justice issues — to a national political organization to fund advertisements urging support of Kelsey’s congressional campaign.
Prosecutors allege that Kelsey and others caused the national political organization to make illegal and excessive campaign contributions to Kelsey by coordinating with the nonprofit on advertisements, and that they caused the organization to file false reports to the Federal Election Commission.
Kelsey’s motion to withdraw his plea, which he filed in March, also argued he was unaware of the consequences of pleading guilty because he had no prior criminal record. Those consequences have included his bank cutting off his credit card and the suspension of his law license.
Kelsey, a 44-year-old attorney from Germantown, was first elected to the General Assembly in 2004 as a state representative. He was later elected to the state Senate in 2009. He didn’t seek reelection in 2022.
Kelsey also served as the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which oversees changes to civil and criminal laws, judicial proceedings and more.
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2023-05-17T02:08:58+00:00
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mynorthwest.com
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https://mynorthwest.com/3889654/judge-tennessee-lawmaker-cant-withdraw-guilty-plea-on-campaign-finance-charges/
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- The Biden administration announced permanent changes to public service loan forgiveness to make it easier for borrowers to get relief.
- Student loan borrowers pursuing this type of forgiveness can now get credit for partial, late or lump sum payments or for payments made under a different repayment plan, as well as credit for periods in deferment and forbearance.
The Biden administration announced Tuesday it is making permanent changes to its public service loan forgiveness plan to make it easier for borrowers to have their loans forgiven.
"Our team has worked to turn public service loan forgiveness from a promise broken into a promise kept," U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona said during a press call about the changes.
The PSLF program allows those who work for the government or specific nonprofits to get their debt canceled after 10 years, or 120 payments. However, from the start, the path to forgiveness has been plagued with problems, making it hard to get relief.
The new changes will "reduce the red tape that riddled the PSLF program," according to Cardona.
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Borrowers can get credit for late, partial payments
Under these new regulations, which take effect on July 1, 2023, federal student loan borrowers can get credit for payments that previously didn't qualify. Those may include partial, late or lump sum payments, payments made under a different repayment plan and credit for periods in deferment and forbearance.
In order to qualify, you must have a direct loan. If you have either a Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) or a Federal Perkins Loan, you now have until July 2023 to consolidate your loans into direct loans with your servicer.
Check out the consolidation loan application to find out what you'll need to apply. Since the process can take a few months, borrowers should apply for consolidation by May 1, 2023, department officials said.
The plan also makes permanent some of the changes the Biden administration introduced a year ago with a limited waiver, which ends on Oct. 31.
Now, a borrower who misses the October deadline will have another chance to get their timeline recounted if they were disqualified because of their type of loan or repayment plan.
Changes bring many loans 'closer to forgiveness'
Borrowers stand to benefit as early as this fall on the new rules counting payments during deferments or forbearances. Starting in November, borrowers who reach 120 payments toward public service loan forgiveness and borrowers who have 20 years or 25 years of payments under an income-driven repayment plan will start receiving loan discharges.
These executive actions "will bring most loans managed by the department closer to forgiveness," the Education Department said.
Before any changes to public service loan forgiveness were implemented, "only 3% of borrowers who applied for loan forgiveness had received loan forgiveness," said higher education expert Mark Kantrowitz.
As of August, the share of borrowers who received forgiveness under the expanded program jumped to roughly 14.5%, he said. Kantrowitz estimates that more than 17% of applicants received loan forgiveness as of last month.
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2022-10-25T16:53:17+00:00
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nbcchicago.com
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https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/education-department-to-reduce-red-tape-on-public-service-loan-forgiveness-making-it-easier-for-borrowers-to-qualify/2976885/
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The international standard for IT service management reinstates CIGNEX's adherence to the guidelines of IT service management system delivery
LIVONIA, Mich., Aug. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CIGNEX, a leading provider of Digital Transformation through Open Source, Cloud and Automation technology solutions today announced that they have successfully completed their recertification audit for ISO 20000:2018.
The external audit for ISO 20000:2018, i.e. IT service management was conducted by the certification body ISOQAR (India) Private Limited on 27th & 28th July, 2022.
ISO 20000:2018 IT service management standards are acknowledged and accepted globally. The standard enables organizations to implement risk-based thinking structure to effectively manage their service lifecycle. The recertification reconfirms that CIGNEX has established a robust technology service management system which supports increasing complexity of risk to provide better service & enhanced customer experience.
The certification represents CIGNEX's ability to provide & manage end-to-end delivery of IT services with utmost efficiency. The audit by ISOQAR (India) Private Limited reassures CIGNEX's strong alignment with the IT service management compliance norms which enables them to bid and manage large projects.
CIGNEX has been operating according to the industry recognized best practices for quality and during the external audit, the compliance related standard requirements and controls implemented were verified.
"The recertification of CIGNEX's IT management system, quality, and shared services showcases our commitment towards our management systems. We are committed to continual improvement. With the help of our team of driven experts, we will continue to make significant progress towards our shared objective of delivering unparalleled customer satisfaction," said Srinivas Tadeparti – Global Delivery Head, CIGNEX.
CIGNEX ensures that surveillance audit is conducted on yearly basis by an external certification agency to ensure that the quality standards are corroborated.
About CIGNEX (https://www.cignex.com/)
CIGNEX is a Michigan based global consulting company offering solutions & services on Open Source, Cloud & Automation. Since 2000, CIGNEX has been delivering enterprise class solutions that enable organizations achieve unparalleled results.
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2022-08-10T16:46:59+00:00
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wymt.com
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https://www.wymt.com/prnewswire/2022/08/10/cignex-successfully-completes-recertification-audit-iso-200002018/
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Popping a pain pill: Bad for your back?
ORLANDO, Fla. (Ivanhoe Newswire) - If you’re one of the millions of Americans who struggle with back pain, you might find yourself grabbing over-the-counter pain medication- like ibuprofen, for quick relief. But can commonly used medications actually prolong your pain?
Bending, sitting, lifting. Movements you don’t think about until they cause you serious pain.
Candice Burnette, MD, Pain Management Physician, Memorial Hermann Surgical Hospital First Colony explains, “So about 80% of people in their lifetime will experience low back pain. Of those people, a good portion will experience pain that lasts for three months or longer.”
In fact, 16 million Americans have chronic back pain. Many rely on common non-steroidal anti-inflammatory medications for relief. Now, a new study suggests those pills may cause the pain to stick around longer researchers say that happens because the drugs temporarily relieve inflammation, but don’t treat the root cause of the back problem.
Plus, Cleveland Clinic says other recent studies show that daily use of an anti-inflammatory can lead to stomach problems, high blood pressure, and kidney damage.
Instead of reaching for back pain pills first, some medical guidelines suggest people start with non-drug treatments like exercise, yoga, physical therapy, heat, or massage.
Pain management specialists say if doctors don’t help patients find relief from back pain things can get worse.
Dr. Burnette says, “It’s been linked to depression, sleep problems, anxiety. So having something that can effectively treat these patients who have been suffering really does improve their quality of life.”
Some medical experts urged caution in interpreting the results, saying the study by researchers at McGill University in Canada did not rely on a large clinical trial. Still others said this study is important because it reminds patients and doctors to search out effective treatments before popping a pill to relieve pain.
Contributors to this news report include: Cyndy McGrath, Producer; Bob Walko, Editor.
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2022-09-28T12:04:17+00:00
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https://www.wafb.com/2022/09/22/popping-pain-pill-bad-your-back/
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TX Shreveport LA Zone Forecast for Friday, February 24, 2023
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218 AM CST Sat Feb 25 2023
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Red River-
Including the cities of Clarksville and Bogata
218 AM CST Sat Feb 25 2023
.TODAY...Cloudy. A chance of showers, mainly this morning. Highs
in the lower 50s. North winds around 5 mph. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.TONIGHT...Cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the evening.
Near steady temperature in the upper 40s. Southeast winds around
5 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
morning, then a chance of showers in the afternoon. Not as cool
with highs in the lower 70s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph. Gusts
up to 25 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of
thunderstorms. Showers likely, mainly in the evening. Windy with
lows in the lower 50s. South winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts up to
45 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny and windy. Highs in the lower 70s. West
winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph, diminishing to 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 20 mph in the afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Not as cool with lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers.
Highs in the lower 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in
the evening, then a chance of showers after midnight. Lows in the
mid 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers with a slight
chance of thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 60s. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers with a
slight chance of thunderstorms. Much cooler with lows in the
upper 30s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers in the
morning, then partly cloudy in the afternoon. Highs in the upper
50s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
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Franklin-Titus-Camp-Morris-
Including the cities of Mount Vernon, Mount Pleasant, Pittsburg,
Daingerfield, Lone Star, Naples, and Omaha
218 AM CST Sat Feb 25 2023
.TODAY...Cloudy. A chance of showers, mainly this morning. Highs
in the mid 50s. Northeast winds around 5 mph. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.TONIGHT...Cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s. East winds around
5 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
morning, then a chance of showers in the afternoon. Not as cool
with highs in the mid 70s. South winds 10 to 15 mph. Gusts up to
25 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. A slight
chance of thunderstorms after midnight. Windy with lows in the
lower 50s. South winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts up to 45 mph.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny and windy. Highs in the lower 70s. West
winds 15 to 20 mph. Gusts up to 30 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Not as cool with lows around 60.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of showers.
Highs in the mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the mid 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.THURSDAY...Showers likely with a slight chance of thunderstorms.
Highs in the upper 60s. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers with a
slight chance of thunderstorms. Much cooler with lows around 40.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
morning. Highs in the upper 50s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
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TXZ112-126-251615-
Cass-Marion-
Including the cities of Atlanta, Linden, Hughes Springs,
Queen City, and Jefferson
218 AM CST Sat Feb 25 2023
.TODAY...Cloudy. A chance of showers, mainly this morning. Highs
in the upper 50s. Northeast winds around 5 mph. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 50. East winds around
5 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
morning, then a chance of showers in the afternoon. Not as cool
with highs in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance
of rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers in
the evening, then mostly cloudy with a chance of showers with a
slight chance of thunderstorms after midnight. Windy with lows in
the upper 50s. South winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts up to 45 mph.
Chance of rain 50 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny and windy. Highs in the lower 70s. West
winds 15 to 20 mph. Gusts up to 30 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Cooler with lows in the upper 40s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Not as cool with lows in the lower 60s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
morning, then a chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs in the
upper 70s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in
the evening, then a chance of showers after midnight. Lows in the
mid 50s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.THURSDAY...Showers likely with a slight chance of thunderstorms.
Highs in the upper 60s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers with a
slight chance of thunderstorms. Much cooler with lows in the
lower 40s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
morning. Cooler with highs in the upper 50s. Chance of rain
20 percent.
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Wood-Upshur-
Including the cities of Mineola, Winnsboro, Quitman, Hawkins,
Gilmer, and Big Sandy
218 AM CST Sat Feb 25 2023
.TODAY...Cloudy. A chance of showers this morning. Highs in the
upper 50s. North winds around 5 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows around 50. East winds around
5 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
morning, then a chance of showers in the afternoon. Not as cool
with highs in the mid 70s. South winds 10 to 15 mph. Gusts up to
25 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. A chance of showers. A slight chance of
thunderstorms after midnight. Windy with lows in the mid 50s.
Southwest winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts up to 45 mph. Chance of
rain 50 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny and windy. Highs in the lower 70s. West
winds 15 to 20 mph. Gusts up to 30 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Not as cool with lows in the lower 60s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of showers.
Highs in the mid 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the mid 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of thunderstorms.
Showers likely, mainly in the morning. Highs in the upper 60s.
Chance of rain 60 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers with a
slight chance of thunderstorms. Much cooler with lows in the
lower 40s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
morning. Cooler with highs in the upper 50s. Chance of rain
20 percent.
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Smith-Gregg-
Including the cities of Tyler and Longview
218 AM CST Sat Feb 25 2023
.TODAY...Cloudy. A chance of showers this morning. Highs in the
mid 60s. Northeast winds around 5 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s. East winds
around 5 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
morning, then a chance of showers in the afternoon. Not as cool
with highs in the upper 70s. South winds 10 to 15 mph. Gusts up
to 25 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers in
the evening, then mostly cloudy with a chance of showers with a
slight chance of thunderstorms after midnight. Windy with lows in
the upper 50s. Southwest winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts up to
45 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny and windy. Highs in the lower 70s. West
winds 15 to 20 mph. Gusts up to 30 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 80.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Not as cool with lows in the lower 60s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of showers.
Highs in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.THURSDAY...Showers likely with a slight chance of thunderstorms.
Highs around 70. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers with a
slight chance of thunderstorms. Windy and much cooler with lows
in the lower 40s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
morning. Cooler with highs in the upper 50s. Chance of rain
20 percent.
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Harrison-Panola-
Including the cities of Marshall and Carthage
218 AM CST Sat Feb 25 2023
.TODAY...Cloudy. A chance of showers this morning. Highs in the
mid 60s. North winds around 5 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s. East winds
around 5 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers. Not
as cool with highs in the upper 70s. Southeast winds 10 to
15 mph. Gusts up to 25 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight.
Windy with lows around 60. South winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts up
to 40 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Windy and
less humid with highs in the lower 70s. West winds 15 to 20 mph.
Gusts up to 30 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Cooler with lows in the upper 40s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Not as cool with lows in the lower 60s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
morning, then a chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs in the
upper 70s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in
the evening, then a chance of showers after midnight. Lows in the
upper 50s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of thunderstorms.
A chance of showers in the morning, then showers likely in the
afternoon. Highs around 70. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers with a
slight chance of thunderstorms. Much cooler with lows in the
lower 40s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
morning. Cooler with highs around 60. Chance of rain 20 percent.
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Cherokee-Rusk-
Including the cities of Jacksonville, Rusk, and Henderson
218 AM CST Sat Feb 25 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers this morning.
Highs around 70. North winds around 5 mph. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s. Northeast winds
around 5 mph, becoming southeast around 5 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers.
Highs in the upper 70s. South winds 10 to 15 mph. Gusts up to
25 mph in the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a chance of showers with a slight chance of thunderstorms
after midnight. Windy with lows in the upper 50s. South winds
20 to 30 mph with gusts up to 45 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Windy and
less humid with highs in the lower 70s. West winds 15 to 20 mph.
Gusts up to 30 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Cooler with lows in the upper 40s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 80.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Not as cool with lows in the lower 60s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of showers.
Highs in the upper 70s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers
after midnight. Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.THURSDAY...Showers likely with a slight chance of thunderstorms.
Highs in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers with a
slight chance of thunderstorms. Windy and much cooler with lows
in the lower 40s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
morning. Cooler with highs around 60. Chance of rain 20 percent.
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Including the cities of Nacogdoches and Lufkin
218 AM CST Sat Feb 25 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers this morning.
Highs in the upper 70s. North winds around 5 mph. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s. Northeast winds
around 5 mph, becoming southeast around 5 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers.
Highs around 80. South winds 10 to 15 mph. Gusts up to 25 mph in
the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers after
midnight. Windy with lows in the lower 60s. South winds 15 to
25 mph with gusts up to 40 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Windy and
less humid with highs in the mid 70s. West winds 15 to 20 mph
with gusts up to 25 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Cooler with lows in the upper 40s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Not as cool with lows in the lower 60s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
morning, then a chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs around
80. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers
after midnight. Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers with a slight
chance of thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 70s. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers with a
slight chance of thunderstorms. Windy and much cooler with lows
in the mid 40s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
morning. Cooler with highs in the lower 60s. Chance of rain
20 percent.
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Shelby-San Augustine-Sabine-
Including the cities of Center, San Augustine, Hemphill,
and Pineland
218 AM CST Sat Feb 25 2023
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers this morning.
Highs in the mid 70s. North winds around 5 mph. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s. Northeast winds
around 5 mph, becoming southeast after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers.
Highs around 80. South winds 10 to 15 mph. Gusts up to 25 mph in
the afternoon.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers after
midnight. Windy with lows in the lower 60s. South winds 15 to
25 mph with gusts up to 40 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Windy and
less humid with highs in the mid 70s. West winds 15 to 20 mph.
Gusts up to 30 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Cooler with lows in the upper 40s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Not as cool with lows in the lower 60s.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
morning, then a chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs around
80. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers
after midnight. Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of thunderstorms.
A chance of showers in the morning, then showers likely in the
afternoon. Highs in the mid 70s. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers with a
slight chance of thunderstorms. Windy and much cooler with lows
in the mid 40s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the
morning. Cooler with highs in the lower 60s. Chance of rain
20 percent.
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2023-02-25T09:17:25+00:00
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ourmidland.com
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https://www.ourmidland.com/weather/article/tx-shreveport-la-zone-forecast-17805269.php
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BUFFALO N.Y. (WIVB) – The City of Buffalo plans to improve its approach to snow removal this winter, after crews had issues plowing streets last year.
“A snow storm has so many moving parts when you’re talking about cleaning up,” Buffalo Common Council President Darius Pridgen said. “I think this GPS is something that is positive but it’s going to be about greater communication.”
The Department of Public Works calls the tool a “snow fighting” tracking system. The technology allows people to see if their street has been plowed, and if not, when it will be plowed.
“When people can’t get out because of snow and it hasn’t been plowed, they’re still going to be frustrated, but I think at least they have the information to know if their street was plowed, if it wasn’t plowed,” Pridgen told News 4.
“I think people are going to want their streets plowed as quickly as possible and rightfully so,” said Common Council member Joseph Golombek, who’s been pushing for the city to implement this new system.
Golombek hopes this tool will help crews do a better job clearing out residential and secondary streets, which was an issue last winter. He said cars parked on the wrong side of the road also played a factor, and the GPS tracker should help limit that.
“Last year, I was actually out with the community police officers, and we’d find out who owned a car and we were knocking on doors, asking people, ‘Hey, you got to move your car,'” Golombek said. “I would much rather see it go directly to the parking violations bureau and move them as quickly as possible, so residents can get plowed out as quickly as possible.”
The city currently has 120 vehicles equipped with the GPS system, and it will eventually expand to all Department of Public Works vehicles, including sanitation.
“I think right now, people expect up-to-date technology with everything in their life, and when it comes to snow removal in the City of Buffalo, people expect it,” Buffalo Common Council member Joel Feroleto said. “I’m happy that they’re going to be utilizing it this year.”
The tracking software can be found at www.buffalony.gov/snowfleet and residents are also able to call 311 for assistance if they do not have the ability to go online and track the snow plowing services in their area.
According to the Common Council, other components of the 2022-23 Snow Removal Plan include:
- Have every street, main and residential, in the city plowed at least once within 24 hours after the end of a snow event
- DPW will have three salt spreaders with plows to be used on main streets, viaducts, and school crossings
- DPW will have two high-lifts with plows for residential side streets (three for West Side area)
- One high-lift with bucket will be used for snow removal on dead-end streets, bus stops, and at school bus stops
- The 2022-23 budget has allocated $260,000 for outside contractors to assist in snow fighting operations
- DPW wants to remind residents that the NYS Thruway, Route 33, I-198, and the Elm-Oak arterial are the responsibility of the NYSDOT and the Thruway Authority
Representatives from the Department of Public Works will address and answer questions from the Council at the next Community Development Committee meeting on Wednesday, Nov. 9 at 1 p.m. You can review the 2022-2023 City of Buffalo Snow Plan at this link.
Sarah Minkewicz is an Emmy-nominated reporter and Buffalo native who has been a part of the News 4 team since 2019. Follow Sarah on Twitter @SarahMinkewicz and click here to see more of her work.
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2022-11-02T23:41:04+00:00
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wivb.com
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https://www.wivb.com/news/city-of-buffalo-introduces-new-gps-tool-to-improve-snow-removal-efforts/
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Directors to contribute extensive expertise in end-to-end data management solutions
SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Quantum Corporation (Nasdaq: QMCO) (Quantum or the Company) announced today the appointment of Don Jaworski and Hugues Meyrath to the Board of Directors, effective November 9, 2022.
"As a fundamental part of executing on our strategic vision and generating value for shareholders, we are committed to maintaining an engaged board comprised of individuals with a deep understanding of the market trends and expanding opportunities for Quantum's solutions," stated Jamie Lerner, Chairman and CEO of Quantum. "Don and Hugues are both ideal candidates for the Board, each possessing significant expertise in software product development for data management solutions at large multi-national firms. We look forward to their future contributions as well as valuable insights as Quantum continues to expand our portfolio of end-to-end software solutions for managing customers' unstructured data."
Don Jaworski has more than 40 years of experience delivering complex systems, scaling organizations and building new businesses and currently serves as president and chief operating officer of Lacuna Technologies, Inc., a leader in delivering software to municipalities to operationalize digital infrastructure and manage transportation dynamically. Prior to joining Lacuna, Jaworski was chief executive officer of SwiftStack, Inc., an open-source cloud data management company focused on large scale data applications, which was acquired by NVIDIA. He previously served as senior vice president and general manager of the core platform business at NetApp, Inc., where his team focused on the transition to scale-out systems. Jaworski also served as the senior vice president of product and engineering at Brocade Communications, where he led the company's successful expansion into enterprise-class data solutions. Prior to Brocade, he led the enterprise security business unit at Nokia. Earlier in his career, he held management positions at Sun Microsystems and Amdahl Corporation. Jaworski received a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Bowling Green State University and a Master of Business Administration from Santa Clara University.
Hugues Meyrath most recently served as chief product officer of ServiceChannel, a market-leading facilities management software platform, which was acquired by Fortive in 2021. Previously, he was vice president at Dell Technologies Capital where he was responsible for driving venture funding and mergers and acquisitions, while also holding other advisory roles for a diverse set of portfolio companies. Prior to its acquisition by Dell Technologies, he served as vice president of product management and business development at EMC Corporation, a globally recognized provider of data backup and recovery services and business continuity products. Meyrath previously held multiple senior leadership roles at Juniper Networks, Brocade Communications and SBS. He was also an equity research analyst covering the storage industry at Credit Suisse First Boston. Meyrath holds a bachelor's degree in Engineering from the University of Louvain in Belgium and a Master of Business Administration from the University of California, Berkeley.
Quantum technology and services help customers capture, create, and share digital content – and preserve and protect it for decades. With solutions built for every stage of the data lifecycle, Quantum's platforms provide the fastest performance for high-resolution video, images, and industrial IoT. That's why the world's leading entertainment companies, sports franchises, researchers, government agencies, enterprises, and cloud providers are making the world happier, safer, and smarter on Quantum. See how at www.quantum.com.
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Statements in this press release that are not historical in nature constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 ("Exchange Act"). These forward-looking statements are largely based on our current expectations and estimates about future events and financial trends affecting our business.
These forward-looking statements may be identified by the use of terms and phrases such as "anticipates", "believes", "can", "could", "estimates", "expects", "forecasts", "intends", "may", "plans", "projects", "targets", "will", and similar expressions or variations or the negative of these terms and similar phrases. Additionally, statements concerning future matters and other statements regarding matters that are not historical are forward-looking statements, including but not limited to statements related to the anticipated benefits and contributions of Jaworski and Meyrath joining the Board and serving as directors. Investors are cautioned that these forward-looking statements relate to future events or our future performance and are subject to business, economic, and other risks and uncertainties, both known and unknown, that may cause actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from those expressed or implied by any forward-looking statements. Risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those discussed in these forward-looking statements include, without limitation, the following: risks related to the need to address the many challenges facing our business; the potential impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our business, including potential disruptions to our supply chain, employees, operations, sales and overall market conditions; the competitive pressures we face; risks associated with executing our strategy; the distribution of our products and the delivery of our services effectively; the development and transition of new products and services and the enhancement of existing products and services to meet customer needs and respond to emerging technological trends; our stock price performance and general stock market volatility; the impact of political and economic instability and geopolitical tensions, including outbreak of hostilities, wars, or other acts of aggression, such as the current conflict in Ukraine, terrorism and political unrest, boycotts, curtailment of trade, government sanctions and other business restrictions; the outcome of any claims and disputes; and other risks that are described herein, including but not limited to the items discussed in "Risk Factors" in our filings with the SEC, including our Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on June 8, 2022 and our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed on August 4, 2022. We do not intend to update or alter our forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by applicable law or regulation.
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2022-09-26T12:59:32+00:00
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wcjb.com
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https://www.wcjb.com/prnewswire/2022/09/26/quantum-announces-two-new-directors/
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DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Alou Diallo says he was drinking tea with his family one morning last month when groups of “white soldiers” invaded his village in central Mali, setting fire to houses and gunning down people suspected of being Islamic extremists. He scrambled to safety in the bush, but his son was shot and wounded while fleeing, then was finished off as he lay on the ground.
“I watched my 16-year-old son die,” Diallo told The Associated Press in Mali’s capital, Bamako, where he lives in a makeshift camp for displaced people. As he recounted that awful Saturday in his village of Bamguel, the 47-year-old former cattle breeder made no attempt to hide the anger toward the troops, which he believed to be Russian mercenaries, who turned his world upside down.
“I really want peace to return and things to go back to normal,” he said. “Here in Bamako, I live a life I didn’t choose.”
It’s been more than a year since hundreds of fighters from the Wagner Group, a shadowy Russian military contractor, began working alongside Mali’s armed forces to try to stem a decade-long insurgency by Islamic extremists in the West African country, Western officials say.
But since the mercenaries arrived, diplomats, analysts and human rights groups say indiscriminate violence against civilians has grown, the extremists linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group have only gotten stronger, and there’s concern the Russian presence will further destabilize the already-troubled region.
More than 2,000 civilians have been killed since December 2021, compared with about 500 in the previous 12 months, according to the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project, a nongovernmental organization. At least a third of those deaths recorded last year were from attacks involving the Wagner Group, according to the data compiled by ACLED.
“They are killing civilians, and by their very presence, giving Malian security forces a green light to act on their worst inclinations,” said Michael Shurkin, senior fellow at Atlantic Council and director of global programs at the consultancy group 14 North Strategies.
Military contractors from Wagner, which was founded by Yevgeny Prigozhin, a millionaire businessman with ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin, have been bolstering Moscow’s forces during its invasion of Ukraine. But experts say they also operate in a handful of African countries.
Ever since Mali’s military seized power in two coups starting in 2020, a junta led by Col. Assimi Goita has had tense relations with the international community.
France sent troops to Mali in 2013 to help its former colony drive Islamic militants from northern areas of the country but withdrew them in August as relations frayed and anti-French sentiment grew in the population. The West says Mali is increasingly looking to Moscow for security, although the junta says it has only invited in military trainers.
Alassane Maiga, head of communications for the junta, insisted that Wagner was not operating in the country. Asked about the attacks on civilians, Maiga said Mali’s government protects its citizens and their property.
“The army’s protection and security missions are carried out with respect for human rights and international humanitarian law,” he said.
The Wagner Group did not respond to requests for comment. At a U.N. Security Council debate on Tuesday, Russia’s deputy ambassador Anna Evstigneeva rejected attempts from abroad “to besmirch Russian assistance to Mali,” where Moscow has a bilateral agreement to assist the transitional government. She did not mention the Wagner Group.
Up to 1,000 mercenaries have been deployed and the Wagner Group is being paid nearly $11 million a month to provide security and training, according to a report by the U.S. Military Academy’s Combating Terrorism Center, which studies extremist violence.
The report said Wagner’s forces are struggling to make significant gains, with jihadi violence increasing. During the rainy season between June and September when fighting usually subsides, there were over 90 attacks against civilians and the military by an al-Qaida linked extremist group, compared with six in the same period a year earlier, it said, and an August assault on a barracks by an Islamic State-linked group killed at least 42 Malian soldiers.
In the bloodiest attack, Human Rights Watch said Mali’s army and foreign troops suspected to be Russian rounded up and killed an estimated 300 men in the town of Moura in March. Some were believed to be Islamic extremists but most were civilians. The investigation cited 27 people, including witnesses, traders, community leaders, diplomats and security analysts.
Mali’s Defense Ministry reported a similar incident at the time but said it had killed 203 “terrorists” and arrested 51 others.
“There are broad reports of human rights abuses across the region where they are working,” U.S. Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland said of the Wagner mercenaries. “And we worry that these forces are not interested in the safety and security of the people of Mali but, instead, are interested in enriching themselves and strip-mining the country and are making the terrorism situation worse.”
Samuel Ramani, associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, a defense and security think tank, said Russia is not very credible at counterterrorism in Africa or more broadly.
“What we’ve seen repeatedly is that Russia and the Wagner Group forces are much better at strengthening the hold of authoritarian regimes in power than actually combating rebels and terrorist groups,” Ramani said, citing their limited knowledge of the terrain, strained relationships with low-ranking officers and a rigid command and control structure.
Many Malians accuse the military and the white soldiers working with them of arbitrary arrests of civilians herding cattle, farming or going to market. Most of them are ethnic Fulani who are increasingly targeted by security forces suspecting them of supporting the Islamic militants.
Rights groups say these alleged abuses aid the extremists, who capitalize on public grievances for use as a recruiting tool.
A 29-year-old cattle herder named Hamidou said he was arrested at his home in Douentza village in central Mali with two other people in November and accused of being an Islamic militant. He was locked in a tiny room where he was bound, beaten and interrogated by “white soldiers.”
“We were severely beaten daily. We didn’t think we’d survive,” said Hamidou, who asked to be identified only by his first name for fear of reprisal, adding that most of those detained were ethnic Fulani, like him. “From the day Wagner came to Mali until today, arbitrary arrests and killings of Fulani civilians have been increasing tremendously.”
The AP was unable to verify all of his account independently but a human rights researcher who also asked not to be identified for fear of reprisal said he saw the scars on Hamidou’s back and forehead after his release.
Thousands of United Nations peacekeeping troops have been in Mali for nearly a decade to protect civilians from violence, but Mali’s government has constrained their ability to operate, and countries such as Benin, Germany, Sweden, Ivory Coast and the United Kingdom have announced troop withdrawals, according to the International Crisis Group.
Nuland, the U.S. diplomat, said the Wagner Group has encouraged the junta to deny the peacekeepers access to areas where it has a mandate to investigate abuses. Security is “becoming more difficult as Wagner forces and others take on a larger role in the country and squeeze out U.N. peacekeepers,” she said.
While many locals say they detest Wagner, they fear nothing will change until there is a new government following elections scheduled for February 2024.
“It is up to the Malians to decide what steps to follow for the return of peace in Mali,” said Seydou Diawara, head of a political opposition group. “Force and pressure by the international community on the military can only worsen the security and humanitarian situation.”
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2023-01-15T00:44:44+00:00
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wcia.com
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https://www.wcia.com/news/international/ap-violence-soars-in-mali-in-the-year-after-russians-arrive/
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Body with gunshot found in search for Tulsa massacre victims
By KEN MILLER
Associated Press
A second body of a possible victim of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre has been found to have a gunshot wound, according to the city.
“Forensic anthropologist Dr. Phoebe Stubblefield discovered that one of the three sets of remains exhumed last week contained one victim with a gunshot wound,” according to a statement late Friday from city spokesperson Carson Colvin.
In an effort to eventually confirm the remains are those of massacre victims, investigators are seeking signs of trauma, such as gunshot wounds, based on accounts at the time.
A portion of the bullet was removed the the head of the remains, according to the statement. The person’s race and whether the remains are those of a massacre victim are not yet known.
Stubblefield did not immediately return a phone call to The Associated Press on Saturday.
The remains were in a plain casket and are believed to be that of an adult male, matching information in reports from 1921, and were in the area in Oaklawn Cemetery where 18 massacre victims were reportedly buried.
The first remains with gunshot wounds were found in June 2021 and are now with Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Forensics where DNA analysis is ongoing.
The current excavation of the cemetery in the search for victims of the 1921 Race Massacre began Oct. 26 and has uncovered 26 unmarked graves. The work is expected to continue through Nov. 18.
Four sets of the newly found remains have been exhumed and taken to an on-site lab for analysis.
A search for the graves of massacre victims began in 2020 and resumed last year with nearly three dozen coffins recovered.
Fourteen sets of the previously recovered remains were sent to Intermountain Forensics for testing, and two of those have been found to have enough DNA to begin sequencing and start developing a genealogy profile.
None of the remains have been identified or confirmed as victims of the massacre, one of the worst known examples of white mob violence against Black Americans in U.S. history.
More than 1,000 homes were burned, hundreds more were looted, and a thriving business district known as Black Wall Street was destroyed in the racist violence.
Historians have estimated the death toll at between 75 and 300, with generational wealth being wiped out.
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Read more coverage of the Tulsa Race Massacre: https://apnews.com/hub/tulsa-race-massacre
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2022-11-12T17:38:23+00:00
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keyt.com
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https://keyt.com/news/2022/11/12/body-with-gunshot-found-in-search-for-tulsa-massacre-victims/
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Sharp (Webb), Tamzy Ella
May 30, 2022, age 97
Published: Jun. 1, 2022 at 4:44 PM MDT|Updated: 59 minutes ago
TWIN FALLS—Tamzy Ella Sharp (Webb), 97, of Twin Falls, Idaho, passed away Monday, May 30, 2022, at home.
Arrangements are under the care of Serenity Funeral Chapel & Cremation Services of Idaho, 502 2nd Ave. N., Twin Falls, Idaho. For tributes and condolences go to www.serenityfuneralchapel.com.
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2022-06-01T23:44:14+00:00
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kmvt.com
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https://www.kmvt.com/2022/06/01/sharp-webb-tamzy-ella/
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LAS VEGAS — The NCAA has found 175 infractions of its sports-betting policy since 2018 and there are 17 active investigations, according to a letter from the sports organization’s president that was obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press.
The NCAA does not release details of active investigations and Baker’s letter does not list any schools or athletes. The NCAA told the AP in an email that less than 0.25% of its approximately 13,000 sporting events “are flagged for suspicious betting patterns, and a much smaller percentage have specific, actionable information.”
The NCAA pays a company to look for and flag potential betting policy infractions; many college conferences do the same thing.
In Baker’s letter to Titus, he said athletes, coaches and administrators committed violations ranging from $5 wagers to “providing inside information” and that the active investigations have a similar span in severity.
There have been some notable cases that went public. Alabama baseball coach Brad Bohannon was fired in May because of suspicious betting activity involving his team, and Iowa and Iowa State announced a combined 41 athletes were suspected to have broken betting rules.
Legal betting has blossomed across the United States over the past five years, raising the likelihood of a college sports gambling scandal. NCAA rules against gambling by athletes remain strict, though they were recently adjusted to recognize “mitigating factors” when it comes to penalizing “young people who have made mistakes.”
Baker outlined several steps the NCAA is taking to ensure integrity of its events, and the organization provided the AP with much of the same information. The NCAA is emphasizing educating athletic departments about the risks involved and Baker said the safety and mental health of the organization’s more than 500,000 student-athletes were paramount.
“I appreciate Congress’ increased attention to the topic of sports betting,” Baker wrote. “I agree with you that in addition to the opportunities it creates, sports betting brings risk that could undermine the integrity of competition.”
Titus said she also wrote letters to the major professional sports leagues.
“While sports betting offers a fun way for fans to enjoy their favorite teams, it also brings risk that could undermine the integrity of the games that so many love,” Titus wrote. “When players get suspended and coaches get fired, that means the system is working. The goal, however, should be to stop these bets before they are placed.”
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AP college sports: https://apnews.com/hub/college-sports and https://twitter.com/AP_Top25
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2023-07-12T22:44:14+00:00
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washingtonpost.com
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BEREA, Ohio -- There is perhaps nothing more delightful than a child playing a ukulele -- except maybe an entire band of them.
That was the case at the May 23 Berea Board of Education meeting. The Grindstone Elementary School Ukulele Club strummed and picked and plucked a range of songs, including a Beatles classic.
Music teacher Lea Smith has led the district’s ukulele program for many years and is part of the reason the district repeatedly has been named one of the nation’s Best Communities for Music Education. Her goal continues to be instilling in her students a lifelong appreciation for music.
“We were able when Grindstone Elementary School opened (in 2011) to get a grant from The Education Foundation to get ukuleles,” Smith explained to the large board meeting crowd.
“It originally started as a way to bring a sense of community to Grindstone when we were bringing the elementary schools together. It was so successful, we started the Grindstone Ukulele Club for the fourth-graders and have had it ever since.”
She thanked The Education Foundation for its continued backing.
“They have always supported us with anything we have asked for for our ukuleles,” Smith said. “This is actually our second fleet of ukuleles that Grindstone is using. They have given us funds for strings, tuners, new cases and so many things that have made us more successful as musicians in training.
“Music will help the students in all of their academic subjects and in their social experiences,” she added. “You can join a group anywhere in the world and speak the language of music.”
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2022-05-26T18:28:27+00:00
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cleveland.com
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Hurricane Ian heads for Carolinas after pounding Florida
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A revived Hurricane Ian set its sights on South Carolina’s coast Friday and the historic city of Charleston, with forecasters predicting a storm surge and floods after the megastorm caused catastrophic damage in Florida and left people trapped in their homes.
With all of South Carolina’s coast under a hurricane warning, a steady stream of vehicles left Charleston on Thursday, many likely heeding officials’ warnings to seek higher ground. Storefronts were sandbagged to ward off high water levels in an area prone to inundation.
Along the Battery area at the southern tip of the 350-year-old city’s peninsula, locals and tourists alike took selfies against the choppy backdrop of whitecaps in Charleston Harbor as palm trees bent in gusty wind.
With winds picking up to 85 mph (140 kph) by 1 a.m. Friday, Ian was forecast to shove a storm surge of 5 feet (1.5 meters) into coastal areas of Georgia and the Carolinas. Rainfall of up to 8 inches (20 centimeters) threatened flooding from South Carolina to Virginia.
In Florida, rescue crews piloted boats and waded through riverine streets Thursday to save thousands of Floridians trapped amid flooded homes and buildings shattered by Hurricane Ian.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said at least 700 rescues, mostly by air, were conducted on Thursday involving the U.S. Coast Guard, the National Guard and urban search-and-rescue teams.
Ian had come ashore Wednesday on Florida’s Gulf Coast as a monstrous Category 4 hurricane, one of the strongest storms ever to hit the U.S. It flooded homes on both the state’s coasts, cut off the only road access to a barrier island, destroyed a historic waterfront pier and knocked out electricity to 2.6 million Florida homes and businesses — nearly a quarter of utility customers. Some 2.1 million homes remained in the dark days afterward.
Climate change added at least 10% more rain to Hurricane Ian, according to a study prepared immediately after the storm, said its co-author, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab climate scientist Michael Wehner.
At least four people was confirmed dead in Florida, while three other people were reported killed in Cuba after the hurricane struck there on Tuesday.
In the Fort Myers area, the hurricane ripped homes from their slabs and deposited them among shredded wreckage. Businesses near the beach were completely razed, leaving twisted debris. Broken docks floated at odd angles beside damaged boats. Fires smoldered on lots where houses once stood.
“I don’t know how anyone could have survived in there,” William Goodison said amid the wreckage of a mobile home park in Fort Myers Beach where he’d lived for 11 years. Goodison said he was alive only because he rode out the storm at his son’s house inland.
The hurricane tore through the park of about 60 homes, leaving many destroyed or mangled beyond repair, including Goodison’s single-wide home. Wading through waist-deep water, Goodison and his son wheeled two trash cans containing what little he could salvage — a portable air conditioner, some tools and a baseball bat.
The road into Fort Myers was littered with broken trees, boat trailers and other debris. Cars were left abandoned in the road, having stalled when the storm surge flooded their engines.
Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno said his office was scrambling to respond to thousands of 911 calls in the Fort Myers area, but many roads and bridges were impassable.
Emergency crews sawed through toppled trees to reach stranded people. Many in the hardest-hit areas were unable to call for help because of electrical and cellular outages.
A chunk of the Sanibel Causeway fell into the sea, cutting off access to the barrier island where 6,300 people live.
Hours after weakening to a tropical storm while crossing the Florida peninsula, Ian regained hurricane strength Thursday evening over the Atlantic. The National Hurricane Center predicted it would hit South Carolina as a Category 1 hurricane Friday.
National Guard troops were being positioned in South Carolina to help with the aftermath, including any water rescues. And in Washington, President Joe Biden lapproved an emergency declaration for the state, a needed step to speed federal assist for recovery once Ian passes.
The storm was on track to later hit North Carolina, forecasters said. North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper urged residents to prepare for torrents of rain, high winds and potential power outages.
Visiting the state’s emergency operations center Thursday, Cooper said that up to 7 inches (17.8 centimeters) of rain could fall in some areas, with the potential for mountain landslides and tornadoes statewide.
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Gomez Licon reported from Punta Gorda, Florida; Associated Press contributors include Terry Spencer and Tim Reynolds in Fort Myers, Florida; Cody Jackson in Tampa, Florida; Freida Frisaro in Miami; Mike Schneider in Orlando, Florida; Seth Borenstein in Washington; and Bobby Caina Calvan in New York.
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2022-09-30T06:12:32+00:00
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BENSALEM, Pa., Aug. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Law Offices of Howard G. Smith announces that investors with substantial losses have opportunity to lead the securities fraud class action lawsuit against Carvana Co. ("Carvana" or the "Company") (NYSE: CVNA).
Class Period: May 6, 2020 – June 24, 2022
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: October 3, 2022
Investors suffering losses on their Carvana investments are encouraged to contact the Law Offices of Howard G. Smith to discuss their legal rights in this class action at 888-638-4847 or by email to howardsmith@howardsmithlaw.com.
The complaint filed alleges that, throughout the Class Period, Defendants failed to disclose to investors that: (1) Carvana faced serious, ongoing issues with documentation, registration, and title with many of its vehicles; (2) as a result, Carvana was issuing unusually frequent temporary plates; (3) as a result of the foregoing, Carvana was violating laws and regulations in many existing markets; (4) as a result of the foregoing, Carvana risked its ability to continue business and/or expand its business in existing markets; (5) as a result of the foregoing, Carvana was at an increased risk of governmental investigation and action; (6) Carvana was in discussion with state and local authorities regarding the above-stated business tactics and issues; (7) Carvana was facing imminent and ongoing regulatory actions including license suspensions, business cessation, and probation in several states and counties including in Arizona, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and North Carolina; and (8) as a result, Defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.
To be a member of the class action you need not take any action at this time; you may retain counsel of your choice or take no action and remain an absent member of the class action. If you wish to learn more about this class action, or if you have any questions concerning this announcement or your rights or interests with respect to the pending class action lawsuit, please contact Howard G. Smith, Esquire, of Law Offices of Howard G. Smith, 3070 Bristol Pike, Suite 112, Bensalem, Pennsylvania 19020, by telephone at (215) 638-4847, toll-free at (888) 638-4847, or by email to howardsmith@howardsmithlaw.com, or visit our website at www.howardsmithlaw.com.
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Mid-Morning with Aundrea-06/02/22 November 5, 2022 Shane Reese, Categories: MidMorning FacebookPinterestTwitterLinkedin
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2022-11-06T02:15:38+00:00
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SAN ANTONIO — Too many of the details around the beating death of Tyre Nichols by Memphis police brim with the senselessness of wrongs that can’t ever be made right.
Nichols was headed home for dinner when he was stopped for an alleged traffic violation.
The tall, yet slight 29-year-old was a photographer and skater who had moved to Memphis during the pandemic to live with his parents.
He had just started a job with FedEx. He was Black.
Some of the police involved in the fatal beating were driving unmarked cars. One was a new vehicle that had no dashboard camera, which is why Nichols’ reckless driving — the reason police claim he was stopped — remains unproven.
Some of the officers weren’t wearing police uniforms. In police body camera footage, they looked markedly bigger than Nichols. They are Black, too, as is the Memphis police chief.
The five officers, since fired and arrested, were part of a now-disbanded unit called SCORPION for Street Crimes Operations to Restore Peace in Our Neighborhoods, which targeted high-crime areas. A sixth Memphis officer was suspended Monday.
Some news reports said they weren’t in such an area when Nichols was pulled over and physically yanked out of his car. Nichols ran, was pursued, detained, pepper sprayed and beaten with fists, boots and batons.
Police can be overheard saying Nichols was “on something.”
A New York Times video analysis of the incident is damning. It concluded officers gave Nichols contradictory, sometimes unachievable orders. In a span of about 13 minutes, he got at least 71 verbal commands.
The analysis said even when Nichols complied, officers continued to beat him.
“They shouted at him to show his hands while they were holding them. They told him to get on the ground when he was on the ground.”
They “had control of his body” but ordered him to move.
Three days after a traffic stop that shouldn’t have even involved direct contact with police, Nichols died in a hospital.
They could have mailed him a ticket and issued a fine.
But this is the United States of America, where long needed police reform is viewed as anti-police and pro-crime. That has gotten us nowhere and here.
No matter what more is uncovered about the case, it has spurred a description of his beating as “heinous, reckless and inhumane.”
And those were just the words of Memphis Police Director Cerelyn “C.J.” Davis.
Without body cameras and a surveillance street camera to capture their actions, officers who now face trials might still be on the force, successfully justifying their actions.
They can be heard saying Nichols tried to grab their guns, though that can’t be seen on video.
They face charges of second-degree murder and aggravated kidnapping, among other crimes.
The case exposed a warped internal police culture of toxic masculinity.
It was rage against a young man who maintained his innocence.
“You guys are really doing a lot right now,” Nichols can be heard saying early in the encounter.
Some observers have suggested the case may be an example of “contempt of cop,” incidents in which police perceive disrespect or disobedience from a civilian and physically attack them.
Patrick Yoes, national president of the Fraternal Order of Police, said their actions don’t “constitute legitimate police work or a traffic stop gone wrong,” but a criminal assault under the pretext of law.
Washington Post columnist Perry Bacon Jr., said the Nichols case isn’t unrelated to racism, even though the victim, officers and chief are all Black.
He credited Black Lives Matter activists for correctly assessing the problem for the last decade.
It “isn’t that individual officers hate Black people or other minorities,” he wrote, but that officers have been trained to see “everyday citizens as either threats to the officers’ safety or disruptions to an orderly society.”
That’s what keeps getting us here, back to this awful, familiar place where police savagely beat a Black man while he cries out for his mother.
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2023-01-31T00:54:28+00:00
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NEW YORK (AP) — Aaron Judge kept up his bruising pace and hit his major league-leading 54th home run, connecting for the third straight day and sending the New York Yankees over the Minnesota Twins 5-2 on Monday.
Judge has homered in five of his last seven games for the AL East leaders. He snapped a 2-2 tie in the sixth inning when he hit a 3-1 slider from Trevor Megill (3-2) into the second deck in left.
“It’s getting hard to put into words what he’s doing,” manager Aaron Boone said. “Just a special season he’s in the midst of.”
The All-Star slugger reached 54 homers in his 131st game. He is on pace to hit 65 homers, four more than Roger Maris’ AL record in 1961. Judge has continued to play down his pursuit of history.
“Just trying to do what I can every single day,” Judge said. “I show up to work, prepared ready to go and do whatever it takes to help our team what it takes to get a win today. Whether it’s moving a guy over, driving a guy in, making a play on defense, that’s what I’m focused on.”
Judge reached 54 homers in New York’s 135th game; Maris hit his 54th when he connected off Washington’s Tom Cheney in New York’s 139th game on Sept. 6, 1961.
“I’m paying close attention to it. How could you not?” Boone said, adding, “it’d be pretty amazing.”
It was the ninth time in his career Judge homered in three straight games and third time this season.
Judge also doubled. His latest homer came after Gary Sánchez hit a 473-foot, two-run drive into the left field bleachers off Jameson Taillon in the fifth that tied it at 2.
Judge ended the game 18 homers ahead of Philadelphia’s Kyle Schwarber for the major league lead. He is 23 ahead of Houston’s Yordan Alvarez in the AL.
“Right now, especially the season he’s having, he’s always been a very good player, better than that even,” Twins manager Rocco Baldelli said. “This season he’s been as good of a player as any us of have seen in a long time.”
Sánchez tied the game by hitting for his 14th homer since the Yankees traded him along with Gio Urshela to Minnesota for Josh Donaldson, Isiah Kiner-Falefa and Ben Rortvedt on March 13.
After connecting, Sánchez watched the ball soar into the stands, dropped his bat and ran around the bases as some of his teammates pounded on the dugout rail.
Marwin Gonzalez also homered for the Yankees, ending a 0-for-29 skid with his first hit since July 6. Kiner-Falefa added his second homer this year in the seventh.
“It’s hard for me to just hit one,” Kiner-Falefa said of Judge. “For him to do what he’s been doing but still have base hits and contribute in other ways with walks, especially when guys don’t want to pitch to him, I think that’s what makes it so impressive.”
Greg Weissert (2-0) pitched 1 1/3 innings.
Clay Holmes pitched a 1-2-3 ninth for his 19th save.
Judge scored in the first when he doubled and scored on Donaldson’s single off the base of the left field wall. Judge scored just before Donaldson was tagged out at second after appearing to think he had homered.
New York went up 2-0 when Gonzalez hit a slider into the right field seats in the third.
FOR STARTERS
Taillon allowed two runs and six hits in five innings. Three of those came in the fifth inning and he was aided by rookie RF Oswaldo Cabrera’s fourth career outfield assist when Miranda was thrown out trying to stretch his single in the fifth.
Taillon pitched for the first time since exiting in the second inning Tuesday against the Angels when he took a comebacker off the forearm.
Minnesota’s Chris Archer allowed two runs and four hits in five innings and is winless in his last 10 starts.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Twins: RF Max Kepler (hip tightness) was a late scratch. He struck out as a pinch-hitter in the ninth. …RHP Sonny Gray (right hamstring tightness) will throw his bullpen session Tuesday and his next start is being pushed back to Thursday’s series finale in New York
Yankees: DH Giancarlo Stanton was lifted for a pinch-hitter in the eighth after fouling a ball off his left foot in the sixth. Stanton grimaced and was unable to put any weight on his left foot. Boone said he’s not sure whether Stanton will be available for Tuesday night’s game. … LF Andrew Benintendi will have surgery on Tuesday after breaking a bone in his right wrist during a swing Friday night. Boone said Benintendi, acquired from Kansas City in late July, could play again this season. “I think the possibility of him returning is still in play,” Boone said. … 1B Anthony Rizzo (lower back) is expected to resume baseball activities Wednesday. Rizzo was originally scheduled to resume baseball activities Monday but experienced headaches as a side effect from an epidural shot. … LHP Aroldis Chapman (leg infection) may throw a bullpen session this week. … OF Harrison Bader (right foot plantar fasciitis) hit in the cage and could begin a rehab stint next week.
UP NEXT
Minnesota RHP Joe Ryan (10-7, 3.88 ERA) opposes New York RHP Gerrit Cole (10-7, 3.28) on Tuesday. Cole allowed a career-high five homers in 2 1/3 innings June 9 in Minnesota.
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2022-09-06T13:08:39+00:00
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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Novak Djokovic climbed into the Rod Laver Arena stands to celebrate his 10th Australian Open championship and record-tying 22nd Grand Slam title Sunday and, after jumping and pumping his fists with his team, he collapsed onto his back, crying.
When he returned to the playing surface, Djokovic sat on his sideline bench, buried his face in a white towel and sobbed some more.
This trip to Australia was far more successful than that of a year ago — when he was deported because he was not vaccinated against COVID-19 — although difficult in its own ways: a bad hamstring; some off-court tumult involving his father. Yet Djokovic accomplished all he could have possibly wanted in his return: He resumed his winning ways at Melbourne Park and made it back to the top of tennis, declaring: “This probably is the, I would say, biggest victory of my life.”
Only briefly challenged in the final, Djokovic was simply better at the most crucial moments and beat Stefanos Tsitsipas 6-3, 7-6 (4), 7-6 (5). As a bonus, Djokovic will vault from No. 5 to No. 1 in the ATP rankings, a spot he already has held for more weeks than any other man.
“This has been one of the most challenging tournaments I’ve ever played in my life, considering the circumstances. Not playing last year; coming back this year,” Djokovic said, wearing a zip-up white jacket with a “22” on his chest. “And I want to thank all the people that made me feel welcome, made me feel comfortable, to be in Melbourne, to be in Australia.”
The 35-year-old from Serbia stretched his unbeaten streak in Melbourne to 28 matches, the longest run there in the Open era, which dates to 1968. He adds trophy No. 10 to the seven from Wimbledon, three from the U.S. Open — where he also was absent last year because of no coronavirus shots — and two from the French Open, to match rival Rafael Nadal for the most by a man.
Only two women — Margaret Court, with 24, and Serena Williams, with 23 — are ahead of him.
This was also the 93rd ATP tour-level title for Djokovic, breaking a tie with Nadal for the fourth-most.
“I would like to thank you for pushing our sport so far,” Tsitsipas told Djokovic.
“He is the greatest,” Tsitsipas said, “that has ever held a tennis racket.”
Djokovic was participating in his 33rd major final, Tsitsipas in his second — and the 24-year-old from Greece also lost the other, at the 2021 French Open, to Djokovic.
On a cool evening under a cloud-filled sky, and with a soundtrack of chants from supporters of both men prompting repeated pleas for quiet from the chair umpire, Djokovic was superior throughout, especially so in the two tiebreakers.
He took a 4-1 lead in the first, then reeled off the last three points. He led 5-0 in the closing tiebreaker and, when it finished, he pointed to his temple before screaming, a prelude to all of the tears.
“Very emotional for us. Very emotional for him,” said Djokovic’s coach, Goran Ivanisevic. “It’s a great achievement. It was a really tough three weeks for him. He managed to overcome everything.”
Djokovic acknowledged all of the issues created strain for him.
“It took an enormous amount of mental and emotional energy,” Djokovic said, “to really keep it tight, keep my focus.”
Keep in mind: It’s not as though Tsitsipas played all that poorly, other than a rash of early miscues that seemed to be more a product of tension than anything. It’s that Djokovic was too unyielding. Too accurate with his strokes, making merely 22 unforced errors, 20 fewer than his foe. Too speedy and flexible on the run (other than when, moving to his left, Djokovic took a tumble).
“I did everything possible,” said Tsitsipas, who also would have moved to No. 1 with a victory, replacing Carlos Alcaraz, who sat out the Australian Open with a leg injury.
Perhaps. Yet Djokovic pushes and pushes and pushes some more, until it’s the opponent who is something less than perfect on one swing, either missing or providing an opening to pounce.
That’s what happened when Tsitsipas held his first break point — which was also a set point — while ahead 5-4 in the second and Djokovic serving at 30-40. Might this be a fulcrum? Might Djokovic relent? Might Tsitsipas surge?
Uh, no.
A 15-stroke point concluded with Djokovic smacking a cross-court forehand winner that felt like a statement. Two misses by Tsitsipas followed: A backhand long, a forehand wide. Those felt like capitulation. Even when Tsitsipas actually did break in the third, Djokovic broke right back.
There has been more than forehands and backhands on Djokovic’s mind over the past two weeks.
There was the not-so-small matter of last year’s legal saga — he has alternately acknowledged the whole thing served as a form of motivation but also said the other day, “I’m over it” — and curiosity about the sort of reception he would get when allowed to enter Australia because pandemic restrictions were eased.
He heard a ton of loud support, but also dealt with some persistent heckling while competing, including applause after faults Sunday.
There was the sore left hamstring that has been heavily bandaged for every match — until the final, that is, when only a single piece of beige athletic tape was visible.
And then there was the matter of his father, Srdjan, being filmed with a group waving Russian flags — one with an image of Vladimir Putin — after Djokovic’s quarterfinal. The tournament banned spectators from carrying flags of Russia or Belarus, saying they would cause disruption because of the ongoing invasion of Ukraine. Djokovic and his father said Srdjan thought he was with Serbian fans.
Still, Srdjan Djokovic did not attend his son’s semifinal or the final.
“We both agreed,” said the younger Djokovic, who did meet up with Dad for a hug after Sunday’s match, “it would probably be better that he is not there.”
No matter all of it, Djokovic excelled — as he so often does.
“It’s been a long journey,” he said, “but a very special one.”
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2023-01-30T00:34:19+00:00
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Christiaan Bezuidenhout putts well in round two of the FedEx St. Jude Championship
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August 12, 2022
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August 12, 2022
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Christiaan Bezuidenhout makes birdie on No. 16 at FedEx St. Jude Champ
In the second round of the 2022 FedEx St. Jude Championship, Christiaan Bezuidenhout makes birdie on the par-5 16th hole.
In his second round at the FedEx St. Jude Championship, Christiaan Bezuidenhout hit 10 of 14 fairways and 9 of 18 greens in regulation, and had a great day on the green leaving no misses on putts within 10 feet. Bezuidenhout finished his day tied for 27th at 5 under; J.J. Spaun is in 1st at 11 under; Sepp Straka and Troy Merritt are tied for 2nd at 10 under; and Denny McCarthy is in 4th at 9 under.
On the 401-yard par-4 second hole, Christiaan Bezuidenhout reached the green in 2 and sunk a 15-foot putt for birdie. This moved Christiaan Bezuidenhout to 1 under for the round.
On the par-4 10th, Bezuidenhout's 198 yard approach to 5 feet set himself up for the birdie on the hole. This moved Bezuidenhout to 2 under for the round.
On the 530-yard par-5 16th, Bezuidenhout had a birdie after hitting the green in 2 and two putting. This moved Bezuidenhout to 4 under for the round.
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wyomingnews.com
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2023-02-08T05:10:33+00:00
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OTTAWA, ON, May 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Today, the Royal Canadian Mint launches the Opulence Collection, exclusive numismatic masterpieces of exceptional craftsmanship featuring some of the world's rarest precious stones: pink diamonds from the famed Argyle mine. These jewels are the crowning element of pure gold and platinum coins that truly redefine rare. This new collection, headlined by the one-of-a-kind Ultimate, a one-kilo pure platinum pink diamond coin, was unveiled today at the Ottawa Art Gallery.
"The Royal Canadian Mint's reputation for crafting coins of exceptional sophistication and artistry is known to collectors around the world," Marie Lemay, President and CEO of the Royal Canadian Mint. "Celebrating the talent and imagination of our people through precious metal and fine art is our passion, as well as our trademark. We are proud that our new Opulence Collection takes our tradition of excellence to a whole new level."
To premiere this new exclusive collection, the Mint has partnered with Heffel Fine Art Auction House to sell The Ultimate, the collection's most prestigious showpiece. It will be offered at a live auction on May 31, 2022.
"Heffel is honoured to offer collectors the opportunity to acquire this rare, one-of-a-kind treasure, in partnership with the Royal Canadian Mint and Argyle mine" said David Heffel, President, Heffel Fine Art Auction House. "The Ultimate is truly a work of art, and its intricate design and mesmerizing beauty will undoubtedly capture the attention of passionate collectors and enthusiasts across the world."
Collectors interested in bidding on The Ultimate can register for the auction with Heffel.
The Opulence Collection, featuring pink diamond coins in its inaugural year, is the result of an exciting collaboration with the Royal Canadian Mint and Crossworks Manufacturing, a Canadian company and Authorized Partner of Argyle Pink Diamonds. With Rio Tinto's Argyle mine closing in 2020, the pink diamonds adorning the pure gold and platinum coins are among the rarest in the world, making the pieces truly unique.
"This limited edition collaboration is really exceptional in terms of its artistry, rarity and value, and we are very proud to be a part of this story," said Patrick Coppens, General Manager, Sales and Marketing, Rio Tinto Diamonds.
"There's a story of pride to tell here - an artisanal story of Canadian craftsmanship producing creations of extreme scarcity that will be sought after around the world," said Itay Ariel, Executive Director, Sales and Operation, Crossworks Manufacturing Ltd.
Released in very low mintages, the Pink Diamond coins consist of:
The Ultimate: One-kilo $2,500 99.95% Pure Platinum Coin - Worldwide mintage of one
Splendour: 10 oz. $1,250 99.95% Pure Platinum Coin - Worldwide mintage of five
Grandeur: 2 oz. $350 99.95% Pure Platinum Coin - Worldwide mintage of 30
Treasure: 1 oz. $200 Pure Gold Coin – Worldwide mintage of 400
The exclusive numismatic works of art from the Opulence Collection, can be directly ordered from the Mint at 1-800-267–1871 in Canada, 1-800-268–6468 in the US, or at www.mint.ca. Kunming Diamonds is the Premier Global Distributor of Opulence Collection products.
For an in-depth look at the Opulence Collection, visit www.mint.ca/opulence. Images and video of these spectacular pink diamond coins are available here.
The Royal Canadian Mint is the Crown corporation responsible for the minting and distribution of Canada's circulation coins. The Mint is one of the largest and most versatile mints in the world, offering a wide range of specialized, high quality coinage products and related services on an international scale. For more information on the Mint, its products and services, visit www.mint.ca. Follow the Mint on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
Since 1978, Heffel has connected passionate collectors across the world with outstanding works of art, with sales totaling three quarters of a billion dollars. With offices in Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal, Ottawa and Calgary, Heffel has the most experienced team of fine art specialists in Canada and provides superior client service to both sellers and buyers internationally.
Rio Tinto is a mining and metals company operating in 35 countries around the world. Our purpose is to produce the materials essential to human progress. Our four product groups bring this purpose to life: Aluminium, Copper, Minerals and Iron Ore. These are complemented by our Safety, Technical and Projects, Strategy & Development, and Commercial groups, as well as our service and support functions.
Each Treasure coin is crafted of 1 oz. of 99.99% pure gold. Inspired by architectural elements, its reverse design by Canadian artist Simon Ng features a ring of Art Deco motifs that surround a central cherry blossom, whose petals are decorated with swirls. The engraved art is adorned with five Fancy Vivid Pink diamonds with a 0.06 total carat weight (tcw). Each one has been hand set into a rose gold-plated, platinum cast jewellery piece fashioned by Beverly Hills Jewellers. The obverse features a field pattern inspired by the cherry blossom petals on the reverse, and the effigy of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II by Susanna Blunt. Limited to a mintage of 400 coins worldwide, Treasure retails for $12,999.95.
Grandeur is crafted from 2 oz. of 99.95% pure platinum, a precious metal even more rare than gold. Designed by Simon Ng, the reverse features an exquisite cherry blossom surrounded by a ring of lush flowers and filigree vines. The engraved artwork of this 42 mm coin is enhanced with 30 Fancy Vivid Pink diamonds (0.34 tcw) that have been hand set into rose gold-plated, platinum cast jewellery enhancements fashioned by Beverly Hills Jewellers. The rare diamonds radiate from the centre of the flower toward the rose gold-plated rim. The obverse features a cherry blossom field pattern and the effigy of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II by Susanna Blunt. Limited to a mintage of only 30 coins worldwide, Grandeur retails for $54,999.95.
This creation designed by Simon Ng is the Mint's first-ever 10 oz. 99.95% pure platinum coin. Its reverse features a finely engraved cherry blossom surrounded by a delicate lacework of vines and framed by intricate latticework. Set into jewellery enhancements fashioned by Beverly Hills Jewellers, 64 Fancy Vivid Pink diamonds (1.2 tcw) add sparkle to the latticework decorating this 76.25 mm coin. The obverse features a vine field pattern and the effigy of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II by Susanna Blunt. With only five of these luxury collectibles available worldwide, Splendour retails for $253,999.95.
This one-of-a-kind masterpiece is the flagship coin of the Opulence collection. It is also the Mint's first-ever one-kilo 99.95% pure platinum coin. Polished to proof perfection, The Ultimate features a reverse design by Canadian artist Derek Wicks that brings the beauty of the cherry blossom to life on a 101.6 mm canvas. A total of 462 Fancy Vivid Pink diamonds (6.5 tcw) from the Argyle mine have been hand set into rose gold-plated, platinum cast jewellery pieces fashioned by Beverly Hills Jewellers.
These precious enhancements on the coin's reverse add sparkle to the rose gold-plated rim and the petals of more than two dozen flowers, including the central bloom, where the gem-set blossoms form an exquisite clustered bouquet. The obverse features a cherry blossom field pattern and the effigy of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II by Susanna Blunt.
This singular showpiece will be exclusively available through a Heffel Fine Art Auction House auction on May 31, 2022.
The exclusive numismatic works of art from the Opulence collection can be directly ordered from the Mint at 1-800-267‑1871 in Canada, 1-800-268‑6468 in the US, or at www.mint.ca. Kunming Diamonds is the Premier Global Distributor of Opulence Collection products.
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2022-05-05T00:59:29+00:00
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kcbd.com
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https://www.kcbd.com/prnewswire/2022/05/05/royal-canadian-mint-redefines-rare-with-opulence-collection-featuring-exquisite-pink-diamonds-argyle-mine/
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Robert Morris at Cleveland St., 7 p.m.
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N. Kentucky at Wright St., 9 p.m.
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Delaware St. at Norfolk St., 7:30 p.m.
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Morgan St. at SC State, 7:30 p.m.
Hartford at South Alabama, 8 p.m.
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Texas Southern at Southern U., 9 p.m.
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West Virginia at Baylor, 9 p.m.
Georgetown at Seton Hall, 6 p.m.
Creighton at Providence, 7 p.m.
Illinois at Penn St., 7 p.m.
Loyola Chicago at UMass, 7 p.m.
NC State at Syracuse, 7 p.m.
Butler at Villanova, 8 p.m.
Nebraska at Rutgers, 8 p.m.
Boston College at Pittsburgh, 9 p.m.
Vanderbilt at South Carolina, 6:30 p.m.
Missouri at Auburn, 7 p.m.
Notre Dame at Duke, 7 p.m.
LSU at Georgia, 8:30 p.m.
Akron at E. Michigan, 7 p.m.
Buffalo at Ohio, 7 p.m.
Cent. Michigan at Bowling Green, 7 p.m.
Kent St. at W. Michigan, 7 p.m.
Miami (Ohio) at Toledo, 7 p.m.
N. Illinois at Ball St., 7 p.m.
S. Illinois at Valparaiso, 7 p.m.
Michigan at Wisconsin, 9 p.m.
St. John's at DePaul, 9 p.m.
Kansas St. at Oklahoma, 9 p.m.
Kansas at Oklahoma St., 9 p.m.
Air Force at Utah St., 9 p.m.
San Jose St. at UNLV, 10 p.m.
Wyoming at New Mexico, 10 p.m.
Army at Colgate, 7 p.m.
Boston U. at Holy Cross, 7 p.m.
George Mason at George Washington, 7 p.m.
Lafayette at Loyola (Md.), 7 p.m.
Mass.-Lowell at Bryant, 7 p.m.
NJIT at Binghamton, 7 p.m.
Navy at Lehigh, 7 p.m.
New Hampshire at Vermont, 7 p.m.
Richmond at La Salle, 7 p.m.
Saint Joseph's at Duquesne, 7 p.m.
St. Bonaventure at Fordham, 7 p.m.
UMBC at Albany (NY), 7 p.m.
VCU at Rhode Island, 7 p.m.
Mississippi at Florida, 6:30 p.m.
Alabama at Tennessee, 7 p.m.
Charleston Southern at Campbell, 7 p.m.
Chattanooga at VMI, 7 p.m.
Cincinnati at East Carolina, 7 p.m.
ETSU at W. Carolina, 7 p.m.
Florida Gulf Coast at Stetson, 7 p.m.
Florida St. at Clemson, 7 p.m.
Furman at The Citadel, 7 p.m.
High Point at Presbyterian, 7 p.m.
Longwood at SC-Upstate, 7 p.m.
Mercer at Wofford, 7 p.m.
Virginia Tech at Georgia Tech, 7 p.m.
Virginia at Louisville, 7 p.m.
Winthrop at Gardner-Webb, 7 p.m.
Evansville at Belmont, 7:30 p.m.
UNC-Greensboro at Samford, 7:30 p.m.
Kentucky at Mississippi St., 8:30 p.m.
IUPUI at Oakland, 7 p.m.
Minnesota at Michigan St., 7 p.m.
Xavier at Marquette, 7 p.m.
Indiana St. at Ill.-Chicago, 8 p.m.
Missouri St. at Bradley, 8 p.m.
Murray St. at Illinois St., 8 p.m.
Davidson at Saint Louis, 9 p.m.
Drake at N. Iowa, 9 p.m.
Indiana at Northwestern, 9 p.m.
TCU at Iowa St., 9 p.m.
Tarleton St. at Stephen F. Austin, 7:30 p.m.
Texas-Arlington at Sam Houston St., 7:30 p.m.
South Florida at Tulsa, 8 p.m.
Arkansas at Texas A&M, 9 p.m.
Abilene Christian at New Mexico St., 9 p.m.
CS Northridge at UC Davis, 9 p.m.
Texas Rio Grande Valley at Grand Canyon, 9 p.m.
Boise St. at Colorado St., 10 p.m.
CS Bakersfield at Cal Poly, 10 p.m.
Cal St.-Fullerton at UC San Diego, 10 p.m.
Long Beach St. at UC Riverside, 10 p.m.
Seattle at Cal Baptist, 10 p.m.
UC Irvine at UC Santa Barbara, 10 p.m.
Oregon at Washington, 11 p.m.
San Diego St. at Fresno St., 11 p.m.
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2023-02-08T16:36:01+00:00
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lmtonline.com
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https://www.lmtonline.com/sports/article/college-basketball-schedule-17771390.php
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(The Hill) — Most beer drinkers support brands working with transgender spokespeople, according to a new poll taken amid conservative criticism over a partnership between Bud Light and transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney.
A Morning Consult poll released Thursday found that 53% of monthly beer drinkers said they would feel favorable toward a brand working with a transgender spokesperson, while only 28% said they would feel unfavorable toward the brand. About 20% said they do not know or have no opinion.
Those who drink beer at least once a month leaned more Democratic and younger than those who said they do not drink beer at all, but 47% of all adults surveyed said they would also view a company working with a transgender spokesperson favorably. Only 28% said they would view the company unfavorably, while a quarter said they don’t know or have no opinion.
Controversy arose this month after Mulvaney shared a sponsored post on Instagram to promote Bud Light’s March Madness contest. Conservative backlash was swift, with many calling for a protest against Bud Light and Anheuser-Busch, its parent company, over the partnership with Mulvaney.
Musician Kid Rock posted a video of himself on Instagram showing him shooting a rifle at cases of Bud Light beer while criticizing the company.
Anheuser-Busch CEO Brendan Whitworth released a statement after the backlash saying that he is responsible for ensuring “every consumer feels proud of the beer we brew.”
“We have thousands of partners, millions of fans and a proud history supporting our communities, military, first responders, sports fans and hard-working Americans everywhere,” Whitworth said. “We never intended to be part of a discussion that divides people. We are in the business of bringing people together over a beer.”
Mulvaney said earlier this month that she believes she is an “easy target” for critics because she is “still new to this.”
“But I’ve always tried to love everyone, you know, even the people that make it really, really hard,” Mulvaney said in a video posted on her Instagram and TikTok this week. “And I think it’s OK to be frustrated with someone or confused. But what I’m struggling to understand is the need to dehumanize and to be cruel.”
The Morning Consult poll found that partnerships between brands and transgender influencers are more popular among younger people, with 55% of Generation Z respondents and 50% of millennial respondents saying they would view a company with such a partnership favorably.
Meanwhile, 44% of Generation X and 42% of baby boomers said the same. But at least a clear plurality of all age groups said they would view a company having a partnership with a transgender spokesperson favorably.
The poll was conducted from April 14 to 17 among 4,401 U.S. adults. The margin of error was 1 percentage point.
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2023-04-30T03:32:53+00:00
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pahomepage.com
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https://www.pahomepage.com/uncategorized/most-beer-drinkers-support-brands-working-with-transgender-spokespeople-poll/
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WFO BUFFALO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, August 16, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Buffalo NY
309 PM EDT Tue Aug 16 2022
...Strong thunderstorms will impact portions of northwestern Wyoming,
northeastern Erie and southwestern Genesee Counties through 400 PM
EDT...
At 308 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along
a line extending from near Akron to Marilla. Movement was west at 15
mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph and pea size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
West Seneca, Clarence, Depew, Lancaster, East Aurora, Darien Lakes
State Park, Elma, Marilla, Pembroke, Bennington, Akron, Alden, Wales
Center, Elma Center, Billington Heights, Corfu, Clarence Center and
Cowlesville.
This includes Interstate 90 near exit 48A.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with these storms and may lead
to localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with these storms.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.
LAT...LON 4306 7867 4275 7872 4275 7841 4304 7836
TIME...MOT...LOC 1908Z 092DEG 18KT 4297 7851 4283 7853
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
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2022-08-16T20:02:39+00:00
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expressnews.com
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https://www.expressnews.com/weather/article/NY-WFO-BUFFALO-Warnings-Watches-and-Advisories-17377479.php
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CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — The Chesterfield County Police Department has arrested a suspect in connection to the shooting of a man in a Chesterfield Walmart parking lot Sunday evening.
Police believe the suspect, identified as 27-year-old Justin O. Gay, met the victim and others to distribute illegal narcotics in the parking lot at the 12200 block of Chattanooga Plaza. During this transaction, police say Gay shot the victim.
The victim was taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries, but police say he is expected to survive.
Gay has been charged with malicious wounding, possession of marijuana with intent to distribute, and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony in relation to the incident.
An investigation is ongoing and police ask anyone with information to contact the Chesterfield County Police Department at 804-748-1251.
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2022-11-07T19:34:20+00:00
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wric.com
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https://www.wric.com/news/local-news/chesterfield-county/police-say-suspect-was-selling-drugs-when-he-shot-a-man-in-a-chesterfield-walmart-parking-lot/
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WASHINGTON (AP) — When Esmita Spudes Bidari was a young girl in Nepal, she dreamed of being in the military, but that wasn’t a real option in her country.
Last week, she raised her right hand and took the oath to join the U.S. Army Reserves, thanks in part to a recruiter in Dallas who also is Nepalese and reached out to her through an online group.
Bidari, who heads to basic training in August, is just the latest in a growing number of legal migrants enlisting in the U.S. military as it more aggressively seeks out immigrants, offering a fast track to citizenship to those who sign up.
Struggling to overcome recruiting shortfalls, the Army and the Air Force have bolstered their marketing to entice legal residents to enlist, putting out pamphlets, working social media and broadening their outreach, particularly in inner cities. One key element is the use of recruiters with similar backgrounds to these potential recruits.
“It is one thing to hear about the military from locals here, but it is something else when it’s from your fellow brother, from the country you’re from,” said Bidari, who was contacted by Army Staff Sgt. Kalden Lama, the Dallas recruiter, on a Facebook group that helps Nepalese people in America connect with one another. “That brother was in the group and he was recruiting and he told me about the military.”
The military has had success in recruiting legal immigrants, particularly among those seeking a job, education benefits and training as well as a quick route to becoming an American citizen. But they also require additional security screening and more help filling out forms, particularly those who are less proficient in English.
Both the Army and the Air Force say they will not meet their recruiting goals this year, and the Navy also expects to fall short. Pulling more from the legal immigrant population may not provide large numbers, but any small boosts will help. The Marine Corp is the only service on pace to meet its goal.
The shortfalls have led to a wide range of new recruiting programs, ad campaigns and other incentives to help the services compete with often higher-paying, less risky jobs in the private sector. Defense leaders say young people are less familiar with the military, are drawn more to corporate jobs that provide similar education and other benefits, and want to avoid the risk of injury and death that service in defense of the United States could bring. In addition, they say that little more than 20% meet the physical, mental and character requirements to join.
“We have large populations of legal U.S. residents who are exceptionally patriotic, they’re exceptionally grateful for the opportunities that this country has provided,” said Air Force Maj. Gen. Ed Thomas, head of the service’s recruiting command.
The biggest challenges have been identifying geographic pockets of immigrant populations, finding ways to reach them and helping any of those interested navigate the complex military recruiting applications and procedures.
Last October, the Army reestablished a program for legal permanent residents to apply for accelerated naturalization once they get to basic training. Recruiters began to reach out on social media, using short videos in various languages to target the top 10 countries that recruits had come from during the previous year.
The Air Force effort began this year, and the first group of 14 graduated from basic training and were sworn in as new citizens in April. They included recruits from Cameroon, Jamaica, Kenya, the Philippines, Russia and South Africa. As of mid-May there were about 100 in basic training who had begun the citizenship process and about 40 who had completed it.
Thomas said the program required changes to Air Force policy, coordination with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and a careful screening process to ensure there are no security risks.
“We have to take exceptional measures to be able to thoroughly vet and go through the security clearance investigation,” he said, adding that in many cases the immigrants are not immediately put in jobs that require top secret clearance.
Under the new program, recruits are quickly enrolled in the citizenship system and when they start basic training, an expedited process kicks off, including all required paperwork and testing. By the time Air Force recruits finish their seven weeks of training, the process is complete and they are sworn in as American citizens.
The first group of 14 included several who are seeking various medical jobs, while another wants to be an air transportation specialist. Thomas said Airman 1st Class Natalia Laziuk, 31, emigrated from Russia nine years ago, has dreamed of being a U.S. citizen since she was 11, and learned about the military by watching American movies and television.
“Talking to this young airman, she essentially said, ‘I just wanted to be useful to my country,’” he said. “And that’s a story that we see played over and over and over again. I’ve talked to a number of these folks around the country. They’re hungry to serve.”
For Bidari, who arrived in the U.S. in 2016 to attend college, the fast track to citizenship was important because it will make it easier for her to travel and bring her parents to the United States to visit. Speaking in a call from Chicago just a day after she was sworn in, she said she enlisted for six years and hopes that her future citizenship will help her become an officer.
In Chicago earlier this year, Army Secretary Christine Wormuth heard from a number of recruiters about the increased outreach to immigrant communities and how it helped them meet their numbers. In the 2022 budget year, they said, the Chicago recruiting battalion enlisted 70 legal permanent residents and already this year they have enlisted 62.
More broadly across the Army, close to 2,900 enlisted during the first half of this budget year, compared with about 2,200 during the same period the previous year. The largest numbers are from Jamaica, with 384, followed by Mexico, the Philippines and Haiti, but many are from Nepal, Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon, Colombia and the Dominican Republic.
“As a little girl, looking at the soldiers, I always had admiration for them,” said Bidari, recalling British troops in Nepal. “Yesterday, when I was able to take that oath … I don’t think I have words to really explain how I was feeling. When they said, ‘Welcome future soldier,’ I was like, ‘Oh my goodness, this is happening.’”
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2023-06-11T18:17:43+00:00
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wnct.com
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https://www.wnct.com/news/politics/join-the-military-become-a-us-citizen-uncle-sam-wants-you-and-vous-and-tu/
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Natasha Cloud scored 18 points, Ariel Atkins added 15 and the Washington Mystics made 15 3-pointers in a 92-74 victory over the Atlanta Dream on Tuesday night.
Washington was 8 of 12 from 3-point range in the first half to help build a 52-32 lead. Atkins and Cloud each made three 3-pointers in the first half, while Atlanta was just 3 of 11.
Cloud, who did not play in the fourth quarter, finished 4 of 5 from distance. Atkins was 4 of 6 as Washington shot 60% (15 of 25) from 3-point range.
Elena Delle Donne and Myisha Hines-Allen each had 11 points for Washington (13-9). Shatori Walker-Kimbrough added nine points on three 3-pointers.
AD Durr scored 13 points and rookie Naz Hillmon added a season-high 11 for Atlanta (8-11). Rookie Rhyne Howard, who was selected as a reserve for the WNBA All-Star Game, was held to five points on 2-of-14 shooting.
The WNBA record for 3s is 18 in a game, shared by the Mystics, Las Vegas and Seattle.
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More AP women’s basketball: https://apnews.com/hub/womens-basketball and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports
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2022-06-30T02:42:18+00:00
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wric.com
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https://www.wric.com/sports/sports-headlines/mystics-make-15-3-pointers-in-92-74-victory-over-dream/
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EVANSVILLE, Ind. — Malachi Poindexter had 18 points in Illinois State’s 69-61 win over Evansville on Saturday.
Marvin Coleman led the Purple Aces (4-13, 0-6) in scoring, finishing with 16 points. Kenny Strawbridge added 16 points and three steals for Evansville. Antoine Smith Jr. also had nine points.
A 10-0 run in the first half gave Illinois State a 10-point lead. The teams entered the break with Illinois State ahead 34-31, while Poindexter led his club in scoring with nine points. Burford put up nine second-half points and Illinois State secured the victory after a second half that featured 10 lead changes and was tied five times.
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.
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2023-01-07T23:13:54+00:00
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washingtonpost.com
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/colleges/poindexters-18-lead-illinois-state-over-evansville-69-61/2023/01/07/9d95c7da-8ed9-11ed-b86a-2e3a77336b8e_story.html
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Egg prices jumped nearly 50% in 2022, data shows
Published: Dec. 27, 2022 at 3:44 PM CST|Updated: 44 minutes ago
(CNN) - While several grocery store items became more expensive this past year, nothing comes close to the rise in egg prices.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics says the price of eggs jumped 49 percent in 2022 through November, not adjusted for seasonal swings.
One reason for the increase was a deadly avian flu that reduced poultry flocks, specifically turkeys and egg-laying hens.
Rising feed and energy costs for producers, as well as high demand, also factored into the price increase.
Experts think the peak has passed, but consumers should expect to pay more for eggs until the conditions improve.
Copyright 2022 CNN Newsource. All rights reserved.
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2022-12-27T22:30:33+00:00
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waff.com
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https://www.waff.com/2022/12/27/egg-prices-jumped-nearly-50-2022-data-shows/
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Hundreds of South Koreans were forced to flee a wildfire fueled by strong winds that burned parts of an eastern coastal city Tuesday, destroying dozens of homes.
More than 2,700 firefighters and 300 vehicles were dispatched to fight the blaze that started on a mountain in a central part of Gangneung at around 8 a.m., officials said.
Around 70 homes and other buildings were destroyed and more than 520 residents evacuated to facilities that included an ice-skating arena and a middle school gym. There were no immediate reports of injuries or deaths.
The Korea Forest Service said firefighters put out about 88% of the fire as of 3:30 p.m. Gangwon provincial Gov. Kim Jin-tae said the fire appeared to be slowed by rain that began in the afternoon and that firefighters were aiming to bring the flames fully under control by sunset.
Their efforts were initially slowed by powerful winds that made it difficult to fly water-dropping aircraft, but officials managed to deploy helicopters in the afternoon.
The Korea Meteorological Administration said winds in the Gangneung area were still blowing at 103 kilometers (64 miles) per hour. The strong winds also forced railroad operators to cancel at least a dozen passenger trains between Gangneung and other eastern coastal cities like Donghae and Samcheok.
The fire covered more than 379 hectares (936 acres) and firefighters were establishing barriers while focusing on preventing the flames from spreading to more populated areas of Gangneung, according to the Korea Forest Service and the Gangwon provincial government.
Photos showed firefighters spraying water toward burning homes and buildings and large, orange flames engulfing a pine forest near a seaside resort hotel. The Korea Forest Services said that the fire was likely sparked by a tree that fell over a powerline after being snapped by strong winds.
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol instructed officials to deploy “all available equipment and personnel” to swiftly extinguish the wildfire and evacuate residents to prevent the loss of life.
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2023-04-11T08:13:59+00:00
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wearegreenbay.com
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https://www.wearegreenbay.com/international/ap-international/hundreds-flee-from-wildfire-in-south-korean-seaside-city/
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Global superstars BTS said they are taking time to focus on solo projects, but the company behind the groundbreaking K-pop group said they are not taking a hiatus.
The seven-member group with hits like “Butter” and “Dynamite” talked about their future in a video posted Tuesday celebrating the nine year anniversary of their debut release. They just released a three-disc anthology album, “Proof,” last week.
Band member Suga asked the group if they should talk about why they were going into a hiatus as they sat down for a group dinner. They discussed having to deal with COVID-19 interrupting their touring plans and music releases, as well as what each one thought about their individual artistic goals.
The group spoke in Korean, and the word “hiatus” was used on English subtitles included on the video.
But a statement from Hybe, the South Korean entertainment company behind BTS, said they’ll still be working on projects as a group, as well as individually. “BTS are not taking a hiatus. Members will be focusing more on solo projects at this time,” the statement said.
No details about future BTS collaborations or the solo projects were announced Tuesday. BTS has a global fanbase that follows the group and members online and in recent years the group’s profile has rose overseas. The group recently address the UN General Assembly and went to the White House to discuss with President Joe Biden ways to curb violence against Asian Americans.
The band members — J-Hope, RM, Suga, Jungkook, V, Jin and Jimin — opened up about the struggle to develop as individual artists within the K-pop genre.
“The problem with K-pop and the whole idol system is that don’t give you time to mature,” said RM. Some of the group members appeared to be crying during the conversation.
Band member V recalled a conversation he had with J-Hope in which they discussed how working on solo projects would improve their “synergy” as a band. Suga described an interest in trying out new genres.
“We’re each going to take some time to have fun and experience a lot of things,” said Jung Kook to their fans. “We promise we will return someday even more mature than we are now.”
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2022-06-15T07:23:26+00:00
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cbs4indy.com
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https://cbs4indy.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/label-says-bts-plan-for-solo-projects-plan-is-not-a-hiatus/
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The Chicago Bulls showed the first glimpses of next season’s roster during the NBA Summer League in Las Vegas, posting a 4-1 record from July 8 through Saturday..
The tournament provided the first test for the Bulls’ youngest players, including first-round draft pick Dalen Terry and second-year center Marko Simonović. Here are four things we learned from five summer league games.
1. Dalen Terry shows promise despite an injury concern.
Testing rookies is always the focus of the summer league. For the Bulls, all eyes were on Terry.
His scoring was respectable — 11.8 points per game on 57.6% shooting — but that’s not all that the Bulls were looking for from the guard out of Arizona. Terry is a glue player, and his ability to elevate his passing and off-ball movement to an NBA level was a focus as he continues to work on his shot.
Most important, Terry’s defensive vision translated directly to the summer league court. He averaged 3.6 steals, immediately meshing with Simonović to slide for traps and provide off-ball defense. After the Bulls struggled with perimeter defense through the final stretch of last season, Terry’s performance showed promise as a defensive upgrade.
Terry’s summer league ended on a sore note: He exited the final game Saturday against the Philadelphia 76ers with a right hamstring injury after playing only 9 minutes, 49 seconds. The injury occurred when Terry attempted to make a cut after receiving a pass from teammate Justin Lewis outside the 3-point arc. Terry appeared to slip on a wet spot on the floor, catching himself with both hands on the court before straightening and calling for an immediate sub.
Although Terry appeared to grab his knee initially, the diagnosis of a hamstring injury appears less worrisome for the Bulls. The team hasn’t released any more information about Terry’s injury, but the rookie was in positive spirits later that day, congratulating the team on a strong summer league run in a tweet.
As long as Terry’s injury is short-lived, the Bulls should feel confident about the rookie’s first games against NBA-level talent in Las Vegas.
2. Consistency is still the key for Marko Simonović.
The summer league was hit or miss for Simonović, the second-year big man who focused on consistency.
Simonović opened with a bang, dropping 27 points and converting the game-winning free throw in overtime against the Dallas Mavericks. But he followed that energizing performance with a one-point afternoon against the New York Knicks.
That second outing ultimately was an outlier for Simonović, who finished summer league on a high with 26 points and eight rebounds in the finale against the 76ers. He averaged 15.6 points and 8.8 rebounds over five games, earning second-team honors for the tournament in a respectable improvement from his rookie season.
But will that improvement be enough to crack the rotation? The Bulls were content to let Simonović develop in the G League as a rookie, but they need him to grow into a more reliable backup option behind Nikola Vučević and Andre Drummond.
3. Rookies begin the battle for minutes.
Summer league is even more important for undrafted rookies such as Justin Lewis and Javon Freeman-Liberty, both of whom signed with the Bulls shortly before heading to Las Vegas.
Lewis averaged seven points and showed flashes of a mature court vision, especially connecting with Terry. Freeman-Liberty saw slightly fewer minutes but confidently ran the offense when he took over at point guard.
Both players likely will spend the majority of next season with the Windy City Bulls, similar to Simonović as a rookie. But with Zach LaVine and Lonzo Ball carrying injuries into the season, Lewis and Freeman-Liberty need to be prepared for emergency minutes.
4. Lonzo Ball’s knee injury looms large.
The Bulls’ biggest summer league news came from the sidelines rather than the court. In an interview during the team’s third game of the tournament, executive vice president of basketball operations Artūras Karnišovas said the Bulls still aren’t optimistic about the recovery of Lonzo Ball.
The starting point guard has been sidelined since January with a meniscus injury in his left knee that required arthroscopic surgery. His rehab was complicated by a deep bone bruise in the knee, which caused continuous pain and forced the Bulls to shut down his recovery plan several times.
“He’s progressing. That’s as much as I can say,” Karnišovas said July 12 during the NBA TV telecast. “He’s getting better — probably not at the speed that we would like, but he is getting better. Hopefully he’s going to be ready for training camp, (but) that’s just our hopes.”
Bulls players and coaches often cited Ball’s injury as the turning point last season after a strong first four months. While Ball isn’t a fix-all for the team’s lack of size and shooting, beginning a season without their starting point guard would be a massive concern.
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2022-07-24T16:39:23+00:00
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denverpost.com
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https://www.denverpost.com/2022/07/24/4-things-we-learned-from-the-chicago-bulls-4-1-run-in-nba-summer-league-including-dalen-terrys-promise/
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TRUCKEE, Calif. (AP) — Northern California got a bit of respite Monday after a weekend of heavy mountain snow, but forecasters said up to several more feet will pile up through midweek, followed by potential flood concerns.
A lengthy stretch of U.S. 395 on the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada remained closed. Other major Sierra highways were open, but with chain requirements.
A long stretch of the mountain range is under an avalanche warning.
Forecasters, meanwhile, said the next Pacific storm arriving late in the week will be associated with a moderately strong atmospheric river.
“An abundance of subtropical moisture will move inland over Central California along the southern periphery of this storm system Thursday night through Friday night,” the National Weather Service said.
Heavy rainfall and a mild airmass will cause rapid snowmelt in areas that have received several feet of snow recently, the service said.
In Southern California, authorities continued work to clear roads and distribute food, water, and blankets to residents stuck in the blizzard-stricken San Bernardino Mountains east of Los Angeles.
San Bernardino County said Sunday that 79% of county-maintained roadways in the area had been made passable, meaning at least one lane open. However, the county and state transportation departments are not allowed to plow private property.
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2023-03-06T20:07:08+00:00
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ksby.com
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https://www.ksby.com/news/california-news/northern-california-storm-eases-but-more-snow-expected
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Alanis Morissette is coming to American Family Insurance Amphitheater on Saturday, July 23, and you can win a pair of tickets to the show from Shepherd Express! Use the form below to enter, and a winner will be drawn on Wednesday, July 13. Winners will be notified via email. For more information and to purchase tickets to the 25 year celebration of Jagged Little Pill, check out the event information here.
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2022-07-11T02:59:04+00:00
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shepherdexpress.com
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https://shepherdexpress.com/upcoming-events/contests/win-tickets-to-alanis-morissette-at-american-family-insuranc/
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SINGAPORE, Dec. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- XT.COM, the world's first socially infused trading platform, is thrilled to announce the listing of AGN on its platform in the Main & Web3 Zones. The AGN/USDT and AGN/ETH trading pairs will be open for trading from 2022-12-26 8:00 (UTC).
About AGN token
AGN is an ERC-20 token deployed on the Ethereum blockchain with a total supply of 3,690,000,000 tokens. The tokens will be used to create an efficient supply chain within the Agrinode agricultural ecosystem. AGN tokens will provide farmers in both developed and developing countries to sell their products at fair prices directly to end consumers while expanding their own financial options without liquidity being locked up by middlemen in traditional supply chains. Consumers will also be able to purchase a monthly subscription of farm produce with AGN tokens and receive full transparency regarding the where and how the involving farm products are within the supply chain. AGN tokens will also act as agricultural crop insurance for farmers that need to be financially covered, especially those who have difficulties receiving coverage from traditional banking services due to their rural and financial state.
About Agrinode Blockchain
Agrinode is a blockchain based agricultural platform that provides supply chain and business solutions to agricultural and financial challenges found in traditional agricultural practices. The project provides farmers who don't have access to proper banking services or financial support. This removes limitations such as excess waiting periods on loan approval and eliminates intermediaries. Agrinode's Smart contract will also solve payment delay issues arising due to business intermediaries by facilitating auto-payments. Farmers would then be paid immediately upon the delivery of goods received by end consumers.
Any potential food contamination can be easily traced with minimal delays that can minimize damage to the public by implementing immediate recalls. This will ultimately help prevent food fraud, false labeling, and help manage wastage. Agrinode's transparent supply chain system easily keeps track of perishable goods using on-chain data while calibrating to spontaneous weather conditions, keeping each person within the newly revised supply chain updated in real time.
End users on the consumer side would be able to directly purchase monthly subscriptions from farms without going through business intermediaries that adds unnecessary costs to the base price.
Website: agrinode.io/
Whitepaper: agrinode.io/whitepaper.pdf
Twitter: twitter.com/agrinode_agn
Telegram: t.me/agrinode_official
XT.com will continue to further strengthen its battle-hardened crypto listing strategies to improve the trading options for all of its users. Deposit, trading, and withdrawal options will be available live and colored for both AGN and XT holders. Everyone is encouraged to indulge in AGN trading seamlessly anytime, anywhere without any limitations. As promised, XT.COM will continue welcoming projects for crypto listings and achieve parallel growth with them.
About XT.COM
Founded in 2018, XT.COM crypto exchange now serves more than 6 million registered users, over 1,000,000+ monthly active users, 40+ million users in the ecosystem, and 800+ trading pairs. Covering a rich variety of trading categories, including spot trading and futures trading, together with an NFT aggregated marketplace, our platform strives to cater to its large user base by providing a secure, trusted and intuitive trading experience.
As the world's first social-infused digital assets trading platform, XT.COM also supports social networking platform based transactions to make our crypto services more accessible to users all over the world. Furthermore, to ensure optimal data integrity and security, we see user security as our top priority at XT.COM.
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2022-12-27T06:33:36+00:00
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uppermichiganssource.com
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https://www.uppermichiganssource.com/prnewswire/2022/12/27/xtcom-lists-agn-its-main-zone/
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Cultural disputes have been weaponized by the wealthy leaders of the party formerly known as “grand.” Freedom lovers naively relied on lofty notions of “precedent” and “privacy” to protect us. Buck up buckos, it’s time to engage in these culture wars. Radicalized Christian soldiers have fired their first long-range missiles after a long series of poisonous potshots.
Their tactics have been simple and obvious. Launch voting restrictions, foxy propaganda, and policies of poverty. Demolish democracy. Infest the judiciary with activists. Arm every thug on the street. End science and history classes while pushing religiously steeped radical fascism in government-funded schools. Keep the masses ignorant, poor, and killing each other as super-wealthy oligarchs enrich themselves under our distracted noses.
Women terminating unwanted pregnancies are not murderers. However, more women will die in childbirth and self-induced or back-alley abortions without access to reproductive healthcare. Defective fetuses, forced to develop, will die without the life-support of their mother’s womb.
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Without privacy and precedent, other rights will fall prey to theocracy. First up: contraceptives, resulting in more unwanted pregnancies and forced births. Vote pro-freedom. Vote democratic. Vote like lives depend on it.
Wanda LaCroix
Missoula
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2022-07-03T13:28:29+00:00
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billingsgazette.com
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https://billingsgazette.com/opinion/letters/letter-to-the-editor-vote-like-lives-depend-on-it/article_5d99f338-f7bf-11ec-9738-cfa28d93e938.html
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BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — Charles Leclerc is back on pole. Now comes the tricky task of converting it into a win.
Leclerc won the pole for the fourth consecutive race with a blistering lap around the Baku street circuit in Azerbaijan on Saturday, but the Ferrari driver failed to convert any of his last three pole positions into victories.
Leclerc ran a lap at 1 minute, 41.359 seconds with his last run of the session to beat Sergio Pérez of Red Bull by .282 seconds. Formula One championship leader Max Verstappen qualified third in the other Red Bull, .347 off Leclerc’s pace.
Leclerc has been first or second in every qualifying session this year, but has not won a race since the Australian Grand Prix in April. Verstappen won three consecutive races and Pérez won in Monaco two weeks ago.
“All pole positions feel good but this one, I probably did not expect it,” Leclerc said. He said Red Bull’s cars seem faster “but then in the last lap everything came together.”
Leclerc started from pole the last three races but was passed by Verstappen in Miami, retired with car problems in Spain — where reigning champion Verstappen won to pass Leclerc for the standings lead — and dropped to fourth at his home race in Monaco after a botched strategy call by Ferrari. He was also on pole in Azerbaijan last year, when he finished fourth.
Pérez was the winner in Azerbaijan last year and is coming off his victory in the Monaco Grand Prix. He was upbeat about his chances in Sunday’s race, but admitted he was lucky in qualifying after tapping the wall.
“I hit it quite hard a few times but it seems to be very strong, the car, this year,” he said. “I was lucky not to crash because I was over the limit a bit too much and just trying too much.”
Pérez argued he could have been faster if not for a problem getting his car started in the pits for the final qualifying run which left him on his own on the track, without a car to slipstream behind on the straight.
Verstappen, who leads Leclerc by nine points in the standings, felt his car was “consistently a bit off” in terms of setup balance.
“We seem to lack maybe a tiny bit over one lap, but I think over the long run our car should be quite good,” he said. Like Leclerc, Verstappen has never been on the podium in Baku, and crashed from the lead last year when a tire blew.
Leclerc’s Ferrari teammate Carlos Sainz qualified fourth, while George Russell of Mercedes was fifth and teammate Lewis Hamilton, the seven-time champion, seventh. Pierre Gasly of AlphaTauri was sixth.
The stewards summoned Hamilton and Lando Norris of McLaren for “driving unnecessarily slowly” during the second of the three qualifying sessions. Footage from Norris’ onboard camera showed Hamilton driving slowly through the narrow Old City section of the track and Norris then slowing down to match him.
Hamilton said he’d acted within the rules and was trying to let other cars past to get a slipstream and make up for Mercedes’ lack of pace on the straights. The stewards took no action, ruling Hamilton’s actions weren’t dangerous and his overall lap time was fast enough.
Norris narrowly missed the cut in the second session and qualified 11th, one spot ahead of embattled McLaren teammate Daniel Ricciardo.
Lance Stroll was 19th after crashing twice in the first session. The Canadian was able to get going again after running into a barrier when braking late, but hit the wall again on his very next lap, breaking the front wing and leaving one wheel dangling.
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2022-06-12T16:23:46+00:00
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localsyr.com
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https://www.localsyr.com/sports/sports-news/leclerc-takes-pole-position-for-azerbaijan-grand-prix/
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Sometimes working out at home is the best option. You don’t have to drive to the fitness center. You don’t have to co-mingle and compete with other people for different machines. It is less expensive, and the snack bar and shower are just a few steps away when you’re done.
For under $1,000, you can set up a home gym that meets all your exercise goals. Home gyms can focus on aerobic fitness, muscle strengthening, flexibility or all three. Your priorities will determine which pieces of equipment you start with.
In this article: Nordic Track T 6.5 S Treadmill, Flybird Adjustable Utility Weight Bench and Nitrofit Limber Pro Stretch Machine.
How do you decide what equipment to start with?
The first question you should ask yourself is: What are you hoping to accomplish with your workouts? Increasing cardiovascular capacity? Treadmills, exercise bikes and rowing machines may be your priority. Building muscle? You will need to consider a utility bench, squat rack and accompanying weight plates and dumbbells. Improving your flexibility? A quality yoga mat and stretching machine may be in order. Your ultimate goals should direct your choice of equipment.
You also should decide how much weight resistance you want. Are you looking for lighter weights to tone muscles and provide multiple reps, or do you want a lot of weight to build muscle? There is a wide variety of weight resistances available.
Remember to invest in a high-quality exercise mat that protects your floor from heavy exercise equipment and provides a more comfortable workout environment.
Are home gyms worth it?
According to an analysis covered in the Wall Street Journal, the closer you live to a fitness center, the more likely you will use it. A home gym eliminates all the excuses about getting to the fitness facility.
Fitness center memberships can cost hundreds of dollars per year. A home gym under $1,000 pays for itself in just several years. You also save money on gas and child care, which can add up quickly.
Additionally, you will also save time. You can save over 100 hours per year in commuting time if your fitness center is just 20 minutes away and you work out three times a week.
How do you combat isolation in working out at home?
While some people like the privacy of home gyms, others eventually feel isolated. You can do several things to fight the loneliness of your at-home routine.
- Mount a small TV set to watch your favorite show or play your favorite music, just like the fitness centers do.
- Consider one of the exercise apps that incorporates a trainer and other participants from around the country. The larger community may provide extra incentive. Be sure to weigh the subscription costs against your goal of staying under $1,000.
- Invite your significant other, children or friends to join you regularly. Having someone in the home gym with you can be extra motivating.
Best home gym equipment for aerobic fitness
Nordic Track T 6.5 S Treadmill
This sturdy treadmill from a world-class manufacturer is Wi-Fi-connected, is equipped with 2-inch speakers and has one-touch speed control. It folds up for easy storage and comes with a two-year parts warranty and a 10-year frame warranty.
Sold by Amazon
Schwinn IC4 Indoor Cycling Bike
Using magnetic resistance, this indoor exercise bike has 100 adjustable levels and a full-color LCD console. It is compatible with third-party cycling apps or Schwinn’s JRNY app.
Sold by Amazon and Dick’s Sporting Goods
Sunny Health and Fitness Magnetic Rowing Machine
This rowing machine has eight adjustable resistance levels, a large LCD console and adjustable foot straps. It comes with built-in wheels for easy transportation around your home.
Sold by Amazon and Dick’s Sporting Goods
Best home gym equipment for muscle strengthening
Flybird Adjustable Utility Weight Bench
This heavy-duty steel bench has a 600-pound weight capacity, genuine leather and high-quality foam. It has six back positions and four seat positions.
Sold by Amazon
With up to 10 plate storage dividers and 28 height levels, this steel squat rack works for users of all heights. It has two J-hooks and two spotter arms. There are extra wide feet for support.
Sold by Dick’s Sporting Goods
BalanceFrom Everyday Essentials Bumper Plate Set
These bumper plates are made from high-density rubber and a 2-inch inner steel ring. The plates are color-coded for easy identification. They come in sets of 160 to 370 pounds.
Sold by Amazon
Fitness Gear 40-Pound Adjustable Dumbbell Set
This versatile dumbbell set comes in a resin carrying case. It has two 14-inch handles, four 5-pound weight plates and four 3-pound weight plates for different weight combinations up to 40 pounds. It also comes with a two-year warranty.
Sold by Dick’s Sporting Goods
Best home gym equipment for flexibility
This popular yoga mat protects against moisture and bacteria with a closed-cell fabric free of toxins and latex. It works on hard and soft surfaces, is slip-resistant and comes with a lifetime guarantee.
Sold by Amazon and Dick’s Sporting Goods
Nitrofit Limber Pro Stretch Machine
This stretch machine works your entire body with nine stretch exercises and an adjustable calf stretch board. It has built-in wheels for easy transportation and a removable media shelf for electronic accessories.
Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
- The Bowflex Blaze Home Gym has everything you need to perform 60 exercises with up to 210 pounds of resistance, including a utility bench and built-in resistance bands.
- Don’t overlook the WOD Nation Speed Jump Rope, which is easy to use and affordable, and it provides an excellent cardio workout.
- No matter what equipment you use, put Superjare Thick Exercise Equipment Mats underneath to protect your floor and provide extra cushion for your feet.
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2023-04-28T18:39:36+00:00
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pix11.com
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https://pix11.com/reviews/br/sports-fitness-br/fitness-equipment-br/everything-you-need-to-set-up-a-home-gym-for-less-than-1000/
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SAN FRANCISCO, July 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Dr. Antoni Ribas, an immuno-oncology pioneer, has joined Vial's Oncology Scientific Advisory Board. Dr. Ribas, along with other members of the board, will advise Vial on the launch of their upcoming Oncology CRO.
The Vial CRO's mission is to reimagine clinical trials by delivering faster and higher quality trials through a powerful technology platform and operational excellence. Vial aims to be a true partner to biotech sponsors. To ensure recruitment timelines are met, Vial has built an enrollment playbook that offers a seamless web-based site start-up, a dedicated recruitment team, and EMR filtering capabilities to deliver potential subjects to a centralized pre-screen team. In addition, Vial's experienced CRAs have the power of real-time data using eSource to drive defect-free processes and deliver high-quality data.
"I have devoted my career to the development of innovative Oncology therapies and I joined the Vial CRO advisory board to support the development of clinical trial infrastructure that enables scientists in advancing the field. I look forward to working with fellow Oncology investigators on the Vial SAB board to help Vial implement innovative approaches to Oncology clinical trials." said Dr. Ribas on joining the board.
Antoni Ribas, MD, Ph.D. serves as Professor of Medicine, Professor of Surgery, and Professor of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Director of the Tumor Immunology Program at the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center (JCCC), and the Chair of the Melanoma Committee at SWOG. Dr. Ribas is a physician-scientist who conducts laboratory and clinical research in malignant melanoma, focusing on gene-engineered adoptive cell transfer (ACT) therapies, anti-CTLA4 antibodies, anti-PD-1 antibodies, BRAF and MEK inhibitors, and nanoparticle-siRNA. Dr. Ribas started his academic career at the University of Barcelona before pursuing postdoctoral research and fellowships at UCLA.
See the full release here.
About Vial: Vial's mission is to empower scientists to cure all human diseases. Vial has executed that vision by launching a next-generation CRO (with slated launches in Ophthalmology CRO, Oncology CRO, Gastroenterology CRO, and a Neurology CRO), a site network (Dermatology Clinical Trials, Ophthalmology Clinical Trials, Gastroenterology Clinical Trials, Women's Health Clinical Trials, Neurology Clinical Trials), and technology platform (VialConnect CTMS) to accelerate research. Vial has 125+ employees and is based in San Francisco, California, and has contributed to 750+ trials from Phase I-Phase IV.
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2022-07-24T19:20:43+00:00
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wafb.com
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https://www.wafb.com/prnewswire/2022/07/24/vial-announces-dr-antoni-ribas-ucla-vial-oncology-cro-advisory-board/
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Jalen Carter, top NFL prospect, posts bond on charges in fatal crash
(AP) - Georgia defensive tackle Jalen Carter turned himself in to Athens police Wednesday night and was released 16 minutes later after posting a combined bond of $4,000 on charges of reckless driving and racing in relation to a fatal crash that killed a teammate and team staffer.
According to Athens-Clarke County jail records, Carter turned himself in at 11:33 p.m. and was released at 11:49 p.m. Carter posted bond of $2,500 on the racing charge and $1,500 on the reckless driving charge.
Carter, projected as one of the top players in next month’s NFL draft, left the NFL scouting combine in Indianapolis on Wednesday after being informed of the arrest warrant issued in conjunction with the Jan. 15 crash that killed teammate Devin Willock and a recruiting staff member.
The arrest warrant alleges Carter was racing his 2021 Jeep Trackhawk against the 2021 Ford Expedition driven by the recruiting staffer, 24-year-old Chandler LeCroy, which led to the wreck. LeCroy also was killed in the crash.
Carter issued a statement on his Twitter account on Wednesday saying he expects to be “fully exonerated.”
Carter said he intends “to make certain that the complete and accurate truth is presented. There is no question in my mind that when all of the facts are known that I will be fully exonerated of any criminal wrongdoing.”
The crash occurred just hours after the Bulldogs celebrated their second straight national championship with a parade and ceremony.
According to the allegations in the arrest warrant, LeCroy and Carter were operating their vehicles “in a manner consistent with racing” after leaving downtown Athens at about 2:30 a.m.
The warrant says evidence shows the vehicles switched lanes, drove in the center turn lane, drove in opposite lanes, overtook other motorists and drove at high rates of speed “in an apparent attempt to outdistance each other.”
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Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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2023-03-02T15:45:27+00:00
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wlox.com
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https://www.wlox.com/2023/03/02/jalen-carter-top-nfl-prospect-posts-bond-charges-fatal-crash/
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(The Hill) – Twitter announced it will relaunch its subscription service on Monday, although prices will be higher for Apple users in an apparent jab at the tech giant’s fees on in-app purchases.
The social media company said users can subscribe to Twitter Blue, which includes a blue checkmark, editing abilities, and 1080-pixel video uploads, for $8 per month if purchased through the web and $11 per month if purchased on an Apple device.
New Twitter CEO Elon Musk has taken aim at Apple’s 30 percent commission on in-app purchases, calling it a “secret 30% tax” in a tweet late last month.
“Literally 10 times higher than it should be,” Musk said of the fee in May.
Musk had also sparred with Apple in recent days over concerns that the iPhone maker had threatened to pull Twitter from its app store. The Tesla CEO said Apple had “mostly stopped advertising” on Twitter and asked if the company “hated free speech” in a tweet.
Musk met with Apple CEO Tim Cook at the company’s headquarters late last month, and Musk indicated they had resolved their “misunderstanding.”
Twitter also announced on Saturday it will begin replacing an “official” account label given to many prominent businesses with a gold checkmark, while government and multilateral accounts will receive gray checkmarks.
Musk has made the paid service one of his hallmark initiatives after taking over Twitter, taking aim at the platform’s legacy verification service that offered blue checks to notable individuals and brands.
But Twitter paused the rollout of Twitter Blue last month after accounts given blue checkmarks through the paid service impersonated prominent accounts, like pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly and the NBA’s LeBron James.
The paid service did not require users to actually verify their identities to receive a blue checkmark, and Twitter’s announcement on Sunday indicates users will now undergo a review process before receiving one, although the specifics of the review remain unclear.
Musk has made multiple major changes to Twitter since taking ownership of the company in late October.
He has laid off more than half of the company’s existing staff, reinstated former President Trump’s account and signaled a desire to shift Twitter’s revenue streams away from advertising dollars.
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2022-12-11T19:13:55+00:00
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cbs4indy.com
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https://cbs4indy.com/news/national-world/twitter-relaunching-revamped-subscription-service-prices-higher-for-apple-users/
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Biden delivers State of the Union to divided Congress, unsettled nation; set to hail US 'progress and resilience.'
- Survey: Buc-ee's is second-best gas station in U.S.
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- Esteban Solis allegedly caused crash while driving drunk
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- Andre McDonald's father charged with murder of two wives
- Student detained in shooting that spurred school lockdown
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2023-02-08T03:19:00+00:00
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expressnews.com
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https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/alert-biden-delivers-state-of-the-union-to-17770479.php
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CHICAGO (AP) — The Connecticut Sun made no secret about wanting revenge against Chicago in the teams’ WNBA Playoffs semifinal series, especially after the Sky sent them packing from the semifinals in 2021 while on the way to the title.
“We come up here every year and Chicago kicks our (butt),” Sun forward DeWanna Bonner said of the Sky, who swept all four regular-season meetings.
Jonquel Jones had 15 points and 10 rebounds and the Sun overcame an 11-point deficit in the fourth quarter, beating the Sky 72-63 on Thursday night in the decisive fifth game. The Sun scored the final 18 points to overcome a 63-54 deficit with 4:46 remaining.
All the Sun starters scored in double figures and Connecticut advanced to the Finals for the third time overall and first time since 2019.
Connecticut will face the top-seeded Las Vegas Aces for the WNBA title. The first game of the series is Sunday in Las Vegas.
“There will be a new champion in this league,” Sun coach Curt Miller said. “There will be a first-time franchise champion. There will be a new coach, once again, that will be a first-time champion.”
Chicago was attempting to become the first team to repeat as WNBA champions since the Los Angeles Sparks in 2001-02.
Jones scored inside to put the Sun ahead with two minutes left, hitting an ensuing free throw for a three-point lead. A pull-up jumper by Courtney Williams with 47.5 seconds remaining gave the Sun a five-point cushion, and DeWanna Bonner knocked down four free throws to put the game out of reach.
Connecticut outscored Chicago 25-5 in the fourth quarter, recovering from a disastrous third period in which it scored eight points and turned the ball over seven times.
“When adversity hits, sometimes we fold,” Natisha Hiedeman said. “Not no more, we’re not folding no more. As you all saw (after) the third quarter, we picked up right back up once again. Now we’re going to the championship. Job not done yet.”
Kahleah Copper led the Sky with 22 points on 8-for-19 shooting, including 3 of 5 from long distance, and added four steals.
Bonner chipped in with 15 points, Hiedeman added 14 and Williams and Alyssa Thomas each added 12 for Connecticut.
Emma Meesseman, who finished with 14 points on 6-for-14 shooting and six rebounds, gave the Sky an 11-point lead with 7:20 to play.
Chicago coach James Wade called the late collapse “one of the biggest disappointments” of his professional career.
“We haven’t had a quarter like that, and to end the season off it, (that) didn’t display what we’ve actually done,” Wade said. “I just wish I could’ve got them a bucket and I just couldn’t. It’s just a tough feeling.”
In the opening half, the Sun continued the torrid shooting they had in Game 4, when they made 56.9% of their shots. But that slowed in the third quarter, as the Sky defense tightened.
Candace Parker buried a 3-pointer and Copper followed with three-point play to give Chicago a 10-point lead entering the fourth. But Chicago’s shooting went cold and the Sky missed their last eight shots.
“Of course it was not intentional, but maybe we stopped attacking,” Courtney Vandersloot said. “(Maybe) we were scared to lose, rather than trying to win. But I feel like we got good looks, we just didn’t knock them down.”
Parker finished with seven points and nine rebounds.
DOUBTERS BEWARE
Miller called the Sun’s fourth quarter performance “historic,” but he is well aware his team will once again be considered underdogs in the final against Vegas.
“Not many people will pick us against Vegas either, and that’s OK,” Miller said. “We’re going to prepare and try to make it a Connecticut Sun style of game.”
To do so, he’ll rely on more stellar post play from Jones, Thomas and Brionna Jones.
“(Parker) is an incredible, all-time great in this league,” Miller said. “But I hope that someone writes (about how) the combination of JJ, AT and Bri Jones have knocked her out three of the last four years. I hope that post group gets credit for what they do, night in and night for us.”
PARKER’S DECISION
Parker once again finds herself with a difficult decision about retirement after the 36-year-old decided to hunt back-to-back titles this year with Chicago.
“I’m going to go back and reevaluate whether I’m able to continue to play at the level that I hold myself to,” Parker said. “And I think that’s the biggest thing, I don’t ever want to cheat the game. I won’t cheat the game.”
Just as in 2021, Parker will take her time weighing her options during the offseason.
“So when I’m not able to go out and play and be the Candace that I want to be, I won’t play,” Parker said. “And I think that comes in the offseason.”
WINDOW CLOSED?
Parker, Vandersloot and Quigley all indicated they would make decisions about their basketball futures during the offseason.
All three of their contracts are set to expire. The same goes for Belgian forward Meesseman, who joined the Sky on a one-year deal in February.
“Every single day, we are all committed, 100% invested into winning a championship and making history,” Vandersloot said. “We fell short, but it wasn’t for lack of effort. It wasn’t for lack of commitment.”
Quigley reflected on her tenure with the Sky and expressed gratitude for how she and Vandersloot, now married, came to meet in Chicago.
“I never imagined it ending up like this or having the career I had,” Quigley said. “Especially being able to do it in Chicago with my family, meet my wife, it’s unbelievable. I couldn’t ask for anything better.”
TIP-INS
Connecticut’s 18-0 scoring run to end the game is the longest scoring run any WNBA team has mounted to finish a playoff game. … Chicago averaged over 40 points in the paint throughout the season, but scored just 24 on Thursday. … Parker added nine more boards to extend her all-time WNBA playoff record to 609 rebounds. She surpassed Tamika Catchings (598) on Tuesday.
UP NEXT
Chicago will face the top-seeded Aces in Las Vegas in the opener of the WNBA Finals on Sunday afternoon.
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2022-09-09T21:59:42+00:00
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wnct.com
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https://www.wnct.com/sports/ap-sun-rally-in-4th-beat-sky-72-63-to-advance-to-wnba-finals/
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Starting Feb. 6, fried chicken fans can get their hands on two KFC Wraps for just $5
LOUISVILLE, Ky., Feb. 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Kentucky Fried Chicken® announced a new menu item that will have wrap lovers on cloud nine. Starting Feb. 6, Kentucky Fried Chicken Wraps will be available at participating restaurants nationwide for a limited time. To celebrate their release, those looking for a meal on the go or a deal can enjoy two KFC Wraps for just $5!*
After a successful test in Atlanta in 2022, the new KFC Wraps will finally be available to everyone. KFC is a brand known for listening to its fans, and they made it loud and clear that they wanted fried chicken wraps. With over 42,000 mentions on Twitter within the past two years from people craving wraps, KFC decided to give the people what they want. And who can blame them? Everything tastes better wrapped in a warm flour tortilla!
KFC is even surprising and delighting select consumers who have been tweeting about their burning desire for wraps to come back by offering to send them a giant tortilla wrap blanket and a KFC gift card to try KFC Wraps.
The new KFC Wraps are more craveable than ever before, with two new mouthwatering options:
- The Classic Chicken Wrap, a hand-breaded Extra Crispy™ Tender, crunchy pickles and creamy mayo, wrapped up in a warm tortilla
- The Spicy Slaw Chicken Wrap covers an Extra Crispy™ Tender in a flavorful mix of KFC coleslaw, spicy sauce and crispy pickles
"Wraps fans have been begging for fried chicken wraps to return, and we're answering the call with our new finger lickin' good KFC Wraps," said Nick Chavez, CMO, KFC U.S. "Two KFC Wraps for $5 is a steal. Whether you crave a Classic Chicken Wrap or are looking to turn up the heat with Spicy Slaw, we've got you covered."
Whether you're looking for a lunch that won't break the bank, a dinner on the go after a packed day or a filling midday snack, it's always a good time for KFC Wraps. Order your wraps today online at KFC.com and on the KFC mobile app or in KFC restaurants for just $5.* A KFC Wraps combo is also available for $7.99*, featuring your choice of two wraps (available in classic or spicy), a medium drink and Secret Recipe Fries.
The new KFC Wraps pair well with PepsiCo's new great-tasting STARRY™, which delivers a crisp, clear burst of lemon-lime flavor.
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2023-02-02T14:16:05+00:00
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NEW YORK – CNN said Monday that former President Donald Trump will participate in a town hall forum next week in New Hampshire.
The event will be held May 10 at St. Anselm College. Trump will take questions from New Hampshire Republicans and voters who plan to participate in the 2024 presidential primary, the network said.
“CNN This Morning” anchor Kaitlan Collins will moderate. The event will be broadcast at 9 p.m. Eastern time.
While president, Trump made CNN one of his favorite targets for criticism. Scheduling the event for CNN indicates that he's trying to reach beyond Republican voters; he's done interviews on Fox News over the past several weeks.
Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung declined to comment on the announcement.
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2023-05-01T20:54:01+00:00
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clickorlando.com
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https://www.clickorlando.com/news/politics/2023/05/01/cnn-says-trump-to-appear-in-new-hampshire-town-hall/
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Social Security boost seen as unlikely to help Dems at polls
By AMANDA SEITZ
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The news that 70 million people will see an 8.7% boost in their Social Security checks next year came just weeks before Election Day, but it is unlikely to give Democrats the edge they are desperately seeking at the polls.
In fact, the promise of bigger payments could call even more attention to the surging prices that have been inflicting pain on households — and the reason behind Thursday’s announcement of the the program’s largest cost-of-living increase in four decades.
“It’s going to bring more money to people’s pockets, but it primes people to think about high inflation,” said Marty Cohen, a James Madison University political science professor.
“This is being done because inflation is bad, and that’s the reason for the large adjustment. It’s not an issue that Democrats want on the front burner for voters.”
Voters have ranked the economy as a higher priority than Social Security, with 71% of U.S. adults telling Pew Research Center in January that strengthening the economy was a top priority for the president and Congress versus 57% saying the same about ensuring the Social Security system is financially sound.
The 8.7% boost in benefits brought a one-word response from 76-year-old retiree and genealogy hobbyist Paul Phelps: “Ouch.”
In Phelps’ mind, the increase is so large because inflation is so bad.
Rising costs will not have any bearing on how he votes in the Nov. 8 election. Neither will the boost he will see in his monthly checks beginning next year.
“No, it’s a good example of the government running as the government should,” said Phelps, of Alexandria, Virginia.
Mary Browning, a 69-year-old Social Security recipient in Minneapolis, said she credits Democrats and the Biden administration entirely for the revved up checks she will get starting in January. But that did not change how the self-described “die-hard progressive” she plans to vote.
“I don’t think that people understand how difficult it is to get these changes through. And Biden is getting them through,” Browning said.
Yet Biden and his administration played no role in the calculation of the cost-of-living adjustment. It is arrived at by a formula based on inflation.
The White House messaging on Social Security highlights how older people will save hundreds of dollars next year thanks to the 8.7% Social Security increase, a roughly $5 monthly decrease in Medicare premiums and a new law — which Republicans unanimously opposed — that that will cut some prescription drug prices for Medicare recipients.
“Seniors are gonna get ahead of inflation next year,” President Joe Biden said Thursday. “For the first time in 10 years, their Social Security checks will go up while their Medicare premiums go down.”
A new poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows that only 36% of people in the United States approve of Biden’s handling of the economy. But they are not putting all the blame for inflation on him, with 55% saying higher than usual prices are mostly because of factors outside Biden’s control and 44% saying that’s happening mostly because of Biden’s policies.
Republicans have been quick to point out other ways costs are up for older people, highlighting private retirement plan losses over the last year, high gas prices and rising costs at the grocery store.
“Seniors are having to delay their retirement, retirees on fixed incomes are struggling, retirement funds are plummeting and Biden and Democrats have only themselves to blame,” said Republican National Committee spokeswoman Emma Vaughn.
Some Democratic candidates have put Social Security at the center of campaign ads attacking their opponents. In some cases, the ads have made misleading suggestions about Republican plans for Social Security, echoing recent claims from Biden that Social Security will be “on the chopping block” under a Republican-controlled Senate.
Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., proposed plan earlier this year that would require Congress to come up with a proposal to adequately fund Social Security and Medicare or consider phasing them out.
That idea has won little public support from Republican lawmakers. It will “not be part of our agenda,” said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.
To Jaime Harrison, the Democratic National Committee chair, Republicans “want to cut Social Security and they’re openly plotting to raise prescription drug prices on millions of seniors.”
Nowhere has Social Security become more of a campaign issue than the Senate race in Wisconsin, where Democrat Mandela Barnes, the lieutenant governor, is challenging Republican incumbent Ron Johnson.
Johnson, one of a few politicians who expressed support for Scott’s plan, has repeatedly criticized Social Security over the years, calling it a “Ponzi scheme.” He has proposed moving Social Security from mandatory spending into the discretionary fund, which would mean the money spent on the program would not be automatic and require Congress to approve the funds every year.
During their debate Thursday, Johnson defended his comments on Social Security.
“I never said I wanted to cut or put Social Security on the chopping block,” Johnson said.
Barnes pushed back.
“He’s coming for your retirement,” he said.
It is unlikely that with such meager support to overhaul Social Security that anything will be done in the coming years, said Cohen, the James Madison political scientist. The program is also extremely popular, with 74% of U.S. adults saying in 2019 that the program’s benefits should not be reduced in any way.
“Saying is one thing, and getting things done is another,” Cohen said. “It’s a program that’s broadly popular, for the reason that it benefits people. It’s somewhat untouchable.”
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Associated Press writers Scott Bauer in Madison, Wisconsin, Trisha Ahmed in Minneapolis and Hannah Fingerhut contributed to this report.
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2022-10-15T20:31:40+00:00
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keyt.com
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US finds WSJ reporter in Russia is wrongfully detained
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration formally determined Monday that a Wall Street Journal reporter arrested in Russia on espionage charges has been “wrongfully detained.”
The designation elevates the case of Evan Gershkovich in the U.S. government hierarchy and means that a dedicated State Department office will take the lead on securing his release.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced the determination on Monday, saying he condemned the arrest and Russia’s repression of independent media.
“Today, Secretary Blinken made a determination that Evan Gershkovich is wrongfully detained by Russia,” the department said in a statement. “Journalism is not a crime. We condemn the Kremlin’s continued repression of independent voices in Russia, and its ongoing war against the truth.”
Russian authorities arrested Gershkovich, 31, in Yekaterinburg, Russia’s fourth-largest city, on March 29. He is the first U.S. correspondent since the Cold War to be detained for alleged spying.
The Federal Security Service specifically accused Gershkovich of trying to obtain classified information about a Russian arms factory. The Wall Street Journal has denied the accusations.
The State Department said the U.S. government will provide all appropriate support to Gershkovich and his family and again called for Russia to release him as well as another detained American citizen, Paul Whelan.
Monday’s statement from Blinken was the first public comment on the case since Russian news agencies reported on Friday that Gershkovich had been charged with espionage and had entered a formal denial.
The state news agency Tass and the Interfax news agency said a law enforcement source informed them that the Federal Security Service, known as the FSB, had officially charged the American journalist.
The news outlets didn’t say in what form Gershkovich was formally charged or when it happened, but generally suspects are presented a paper outlining the accusations.
In the Russian legal system, the filing of charges and a response from the accused represent the formal start of a criminal probe, initiating what could be a long and secretive Russian judicial process.
Tass quoted its source as saying: “The FSB investigation charged Gershkovich with espionage in the interests of his country. He categorically denied all accusations and stated that he was engaged in journalistic activities in Russia.”
The source declined further comment because the case is considered secret.
The case has caused an international uproar and last Thursday, the U.S ambassador to Russia and a top Russian diplomat met to discuss the case.
In the meeting with U.S. Ambassador Lynne T. Tracy, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov stressed “the serious nature of the charges” against Gershkovich, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
The statement repeated earlier Russian claims that the reporter “was caught red-handed while trying to obtain secret information, using his journalistic status as a cover for illegal actions.”
Gershkovich has been ordered held behind bars for two months in Russia pending an investigation. A Moscow court said it had received a defense appeal of his arrest; the appeal is scheduled to be heard on April 18, according to Russian news agencies.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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2023-04-10T21:23:13+00:00
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LOS ANGELES -- Sheryl Lee Ralph won the Emmy for outstanding supporting actress in a comedy series at the 2022 Emmys Monday night for her work on "Abbott Elementary" and brought the audience to their feet with her powerful acceptance speech.
After taking the stage, the 65-year-old actress held up her trophy and belted out the opening lyrics to "Endangered Species" by Dianne Reeves, a five-time Grammy-winning jazz singer.
"I am an endangered species / But I sing no victim's song / I am a woman, I am an artist / And I know where my voice belongs," she sang.
Ralph then thanked "Abbott Elementary" creator and star Quinta Brunson as well as her husband and kids before turning her attention to the audience and those watching at home.
"To anyone who has ever, ever had a dream and thought your dream wasn't, wouldn't, couldn't come true, I am here to tell you that this is what believing looks like," she said. "This is what striving looks like, and don't you ever, ever give up on you."
FULL LIST: 'Succession,' 'Ted Lasso',' 'White Lotus,' 'Abbott Elementary' score Emmy wins
Ralph, who plays Barbara Howard, a seasoned and pearl-clutching kindergarten teacher, on "Abbott Elementary," beat out a stacked category filled to the brim with some of the best talent on TV.
Her fellow nominees included her "Abbott Elementary" co-star Janelle James as well as Alex Borstein ("The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel"), Hannah Einbinder ("Hacks") and Kate McKinnon ("Saturday Night Live"). Sarah Niles, Juno Temple and Hannah Waddingham (all from "Ted Lasso") were also nominated for the award.
Speaking to "Good Morning America" ahead of this year's Emmys, Ralph said her first ever Emmy nomination felt like "redemption" and "vindication," adding, "It felt like I'd been seen."
This recognition comes exactly 40 years after she was nominated for a Tony for her role as Deena Jones in the Broadway musical "Dreamgirls."
"Some people get to see and connect the dots from where they've come from to where they are, and I'm one of those people," she said of the full-circle moment. "I look at my journey and I think it has been a good one."
Ralph told "GMA" that her perseverance in the entertainment industry is "the perfect example of 'don't give up.'"
Brunson also won an Emmy for outstanding writing for a comedy series.
The show returns on September 21. You can watch it right here on this ABC station at 9 p.m.
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abc30.com
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Our government requires moral, upright, knowledgeable people who will make sound decisions for the common good of our people and our society.
MaryAnne Kinney has all these qualities in great quantities. She has represented us well in the Maine Legislature for the past eight years, and would like to extend her service to Waldo County by becoming our state senator for District 11.
Along with having a college degree in agriculture and being a farmer, her decisions as a member of the Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry Committee have been made with a practical grasp of the implementation and implications of the laws. Additionally, her experiences as a small business owner gives her an enriched understanding of how laws will impact our hard-working small business owners who are the lifeblood of Maine’s economy and future.
Kinney has her priorities in line with providing for the weakest and most vulnerable among us, our youth and our seniors, and she knows how to work with other legislators to get things done.
In voting for MaryAnne Kinney, people are voting for the person who will make wise decisions with us, for us.
JoAn Petersen
Swanville
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2022-10-19T18:25:40+00:00
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NEW YORK, June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Creatd, Inc. (Nasdaq CM: CRTD) ("Creatd" or the "Company"), a creator-first holding company and the parent company of Vocal, today announced the filing of an amendment to its registration statement on Form S-1, for the Company's previously announced upcoming $40MM Rights Offering. The Form S-1/A, filed today with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), can be viewed on sec.gov.
Last week, the Company announced its upcoming Investor Day, to take place on July 21, 2022, with the goal of further educating current and future shareholders about Creatd's expansion plan and accompanying Rights Offering.
Commented Creatd's Executive Chairman Jeremy Frommer, "The step announced today brings us closer to setting a record date and officially commencing our proposed Rights Offering. As I have said before, the Rights Offering presents a unique opportunity for all of Creatd's shareholders of record to invest side-by-side with its management team and help to jumpstart the expansion plan outlined in our most recent investor presentation. We look forward to sharing further details at next month's Investor Day."
This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy these securities, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or other jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful.
About Creatd
Creatd, Inc. (Nasdaq CM: CRTD) is a creator-first technology holding company and the parent company of the Vocal platform. Our mission is to empower creators, entrepreneurs, and brands through technology and partnership. We accomplish this through Creatd's four business pillars: Creatd Labs, Creatd Partners, Creatd Ventures, and Creatd Studios.
Creatd: https://creatd.com;
Creatd IR: https://investors.creatd.com;
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Investor Relations Contact: ir@creatd.com
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2022-06-21T16:01:35+00:00
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Hurricane Ian heads for Carolinas after pounding Florida
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A revived Hurricane Ian is bearing down on South Carolina’s coast and the historic city of Charleston, with forecasters predicting a storm surge and floods. Earlier, the megastorm caused catastrophic damage in Florida, leaving people trapped in flooded homes and was blamed in growing reports of deaths in the state. With South Carolina’s coast under a hurricane warning, shopkeepers sandbagged storefronts in flood-prone areas and a steady stream of vehicles left Charleston for higher ground. In Florida, meanwhile, rescue crews piloted boats through inundated streets to save thousands from flooded homes and shattered buildings. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis says at least 700 rescues were conducted in his state already, mostly by air.
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Hurricane Ian was over southwest Florida for just a few hours. It’ll take months to clean up all the damage. Maybe longer. And local officials some of the destruction can’t be cleaned up at all. From trees getting ripped out of the ground to signs being ripped apart, traffic lights crashing onto roadways and some buildings simply being destroyed, the impact was everywhere and almost nothing was spared. The only difference between one place and the next was the severity of the problems.
Russian strike kills 25 as Kremlin to annex Ukraine regions
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia has pounded Ukrainian cities with missiles, rockets and suicide drones ahead of celebrations to mark the folding of more seized Ukrainian territory into Russia itself. Ukrainian officials said one of the strikes on Friday, in the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia, killed at least 25 people. The salvos there and elsewhere amounted to the heaviest barrage that Russia has unleashed for weeks. But even as it prepared to celebrate the incorporation into Russia of four occupied Ukrainian regions, the Kremlin faced another stinging battlefield loss. Russian and Western analysts reported the imminent Ukrainian encirclement of a city that could open the path for a push into one of the very regions that Russia is annexing.
Taliban say suicide bombing in Shiite area of Kabul kills 19
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A Taliban-appointed spokesman for the Kabul police chief says a suicide bomber has killed 19 people and wounded 27 at an education center in a Shiite area of the Afghan capital. Khalid Zadran, the spokesman, says the explosion in the Dashti Barchi neighborhood of Kabul took place on Friday morning. The area is populated mostly by members of Afghanistan’s minority Shiite community. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack. The Islamic State group — the chief rival of the Taliban since their takeover of Afghanistan in August 2021 — has in the past targeted the Hazara community.
S. Korea, US and Japan hold anti-N. Korean submarine drills
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea, U.S. and Japanese warships have launched their first anti-submarine drills in five years, after North Korea renewed ballistic missile tests this week. South Korea says Friday's one-day trilateral training off the Korean Peninsula’s east coast is meant to cope with a North Korean push to advance its ability to fire missile from submarines. North Korea has been building bigger submarines including a nuclear-powered one and testing sophisticated missiles that can be fired from them in recent years. The North’s recent five missiles launches, the first such tests in a month, also came before and after U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris visited South Korea.
Small protests appear in Havana over islandwide blackout
HAVANA (AP) — A few hundred Cubans have taken to the streets in Havana demanding the restoration of electricity, protesting more than two days after a blackout hit the entire island following the passage of Hurricane Ian. An Associated Press journalist saw a total of about 400 people gathered in at least two spots Thursday night shouting, “We want light, we want light!” It was the first public outpouring of anger after electricity problems spread from western Cuba. Ian hit Tuesday night and knocked out all of the island’s power grid, leaving its 11 million people in the dark. Authorities have not said what percentage of the population remains without electricity. But the Electric Union says only 10% of Havana’s 2 million people had power Thursday.
'Big impact': UK economic chaos, pound plunge hit businesses
LONDON (AP) — The British government’s economic stimulus plan is designed to help people and businesses by cutting taxes and growing the economy. But it's had the opposite effect as the promise of huge unfunded tax cuts sparked turmoil in financial markets and sent the British pound tumbling to a record low against the U.S. dollar this week. For many small businesses already battling soaring costs, things have gone from bad to worse. The pound’s slide hits many businesses hard because imported materials and commodities like natural gas that are priced in dollars will be more expensive. Businesses will likely be forced to pass the costs on to consumers, which would further push up inflation.
Methane blast in Baltic Sea highlights global problem
NEW YORK (AP) — As serious as the methane escaping from ruptured pipelines on the floor of the Baltic Sea may be, there are alarming incidents of massive methane releases happening around the world constantly. Climate scientists have found that methane from the oil and gas industry is far worse than what companies are reporting, despite claims by some major firms that they’ve reduced their emissions. That matters because natural gas, a fossil fuel widely used to heat homes and provide electricity, is made up of methane, a potent climate warming gas.
Stacey Abrams looks to win Black men in bid for Ga. governor
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams is trying to solidify support and boost turnout by Black men in her governor's race against incumbent Republican Brian Kemp. Abrams has long sought to turn marginal or disaffected voters into solid Democrats. That's a key task because she needs strong support from African Americans to have a chance in narrowly divided Georgia. But Black men vote at lower rates than Black women. Those who study the Black electorate say some men want more proof that candidates can directly help their lives. Abrams is trying to make that argument, saying her agenda will work for all.
Explainer: Tua Tagovailoa, fencing response and NFL protocol
Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa suffered a second frightening injury in five days when he was carted off the field Thursday, and many want to know why he was playing at all. Tagovailoa and the team claimed the first scary injury Sunday, when he struggled to walk after a big hit, was actually a concern with his back. His swift return still prompted a joint review by the NFL and NFL Players Association. He was carried off on a stretcher Thursday and hospitalized with concussion symptoms after being slammed to the turf. He fell into what seemed to be a “fencing position" after the hit, a possible indication of a traumatic brain injury.
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2022-09-30T11:58:07+00:00
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A DAY TO REMEMBER
Ron Guidry, Bernie Williams and Tino Martinez highlight the Yankees alumni set to appear at Old-Timers’ Day in the Bronx prior to a matchup with the Kansas City Royals.
There won’t be a playful reunion game this season, with New York calling off the exhibition because too many of the retired players in attendance are recovering from various operations. But there will still be a pregame ceremony on the field at Yankee Stadium, which will also include David Cone, Bucky Dent and Aaron Boone, along with Yankees spouses Joan Ford (wife of Whitey), Jill Martin (wife of Billy), Diana Munson (wife of Thurman) and Kay Murcer (wife of Bobby).
After that, Aaron Judge aims for the fences again after becoming the first big leaguer this season to reach 40 home runs Friday night. He wasn’t done, either. The star slugger launched a grand slam for No. 41 and even robbed a home run in right field as the Yankees rallied for an 11-5 victory over the Royals. He finished with six RBIs, giving him a major league-leading 89.
A free agent at the end of the season, Judge has eight homers and 19 RBIs in nine games since the All-Star break. He is on pace for 66 home runs, which would top Roger Maris’ club record of 61 in 1961.
HELLO, SAILOR
All-Star pitcher Luis Castillo is headed from Cincinnati to Seattle after the Mariners acquired perhaps the top starter on the trade market Friday night for four minor league prospects.
Seattle, which holds the second of three AL wild cards, has not been to the playoffs since 2001 — the longest postseason drought in the four major North American professional sports.
“He’s one of the best pitchers in the game. He’s really established himself as a dominant starter,” Mariners manager Scott Servais said. “We’ve got a chance to do something really big here this year. You have to step out and take a chance once in a while if you ultimately want to get the reward.”
Castillo last pitched Wednesday and figures to make his Mariners debut next week at Yankee Stadium, where Seattle plays a three-game series starting Monday.
KERSHAW AT COORS
Clayton Kershaw pitches in Colorado, his second outing since starting the All-Star Game for the National League on his home mound at Dodger Stadium.
The 34-year-old lefty, who is 8-5 with a 2.49 ERA, allowed four runs and five hits in 4 1/3 innings Sunday at home against rival San Francisco. A three-time NL Cy Young Award winner, Kershaw is 2-0 with a 1.67 ERA in his last four starts.
He is 11-7 with a 4.81 ERA at Coors Field, his highest ERA at any ballpark where he has made more than one start.
Los Angeles is 20-4 this month and 67-32 overall, both the best marks in the majors.
Kyle Freeland (5-7, 4.64) starts for the Rockies. He has a 3.57 ERA on the road but a 5.66 ERA at hitter-friendly Coors, where he has allowed eight of the 12 home runs he’s yielded.
MONEY TALKS
All-Star pitcher Joe Musgrove (8-3, 2.63 ERA) is winless in five starts going into his outing for San Diego against Minnesota. He is 0-3 with a 5.34 ERA since winning at the Chicago Cubs on June 16.
Musgrove and his hometown Padres are nearing agreement on a $100 million, five-year contract that would start next year. The deal is still a few days from being finalized.
The right-hander has an $8,625,000 salary and was on track to be eligible for free agency after the World Series.
Sonny Gray (5-3, 3.52) starts for the Twins. He will be facing San Diego for the second time, the first since a win at Cincinnati on Aug. 20, 2019, when he allowed one run and four hits in six innings.
GLORY DAYS
Rays right-hander Corey Kluber (6-6, 3.91 ERA) makes his second career start against Cleveland — the team he pitched for when he won AL Cy Young Awards in 2014 and 2017. He tossed six scoreless innings for the New York Yankees against Cleveland last Sept. 17, earning a win.
Zach Plesac (2-8, 4.09) goes for the Guardians, who are one game back of first-place Minnesota in the AL Central and 1 1/2 behind Tampa Bay for the final AL wild card.
ARM ALARM
The surging Toronto Blue Jays hope for more good news on top pitcher Alek Manoah, who left Friday night’s start against Detroit in the sixth inning after getting hit on the right elbow by Jonathan Schoop’s comebacker.
The team said Manoah had a bruise, and X-rays did not reveal a fracture. Manoah said afterward he felt good.
“It kind of got me clean on the arm,” he said. “But after that, once I realized it really wasn’t that painful or anything, I tried to fight to stay in. But I think with the pitch count and where the game was at, it was a good call to take me out.”
A first-time All-Star this season, Manoah is 11-5 with a 2.43 ERA.
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2022-07-31T05:57:48+00:00
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wwlp.com
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https://www.wwlp.com/sports/leading-off-old-timers-day-in-the-bronx-kershaw-at-coors/
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ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Arike Ogunbowale hit five 3-pointers and finished with 27 points, Marina Mabrey scored a season-high 21 points and the Dallas Wings used a third-quarter run to take control in their 92-82 win over the Los Angeles Sparks on Sunday.
Allisha Gray had 20 points, a season-high 12 rebounds, six assists and three steals for Dallas. Kayla Thornton added 15 points for Dallas (8-8). The Wings have won back-to-back games after losing four in a row and six of the last seven.
Katie Lou Samuelson hit a pull-up jumper to give the Sparks a 45-43 lead with about a minute left in the first half but Dallas score the final seven points of the half — capped by Gray's three-point play with 0.7 seconds left — to take a five-point lead into the break and the Wings never again trailed.
Los Angeles made just 1 of 10 from the field and committed five turnovers over the first 6 minutes of the third quarter while Dallas used a 16-4 run to stretch its lead to 66-49 when Marina Mabrey hit a 3-pointer midway through the period.
Nneka Ogwumike led Los Angeles (5-9) with 17 points on 6-of-7 shooting and 10 rebounds. Brittney Sykes scored 16 points, Chiney Ogwumike added 12 and Samuelson 11.
The Sparks, who had a five-game losing streak earlier this season, have lost three in a row.
Ogunbowale is averaging 26.3 points on 49% shooting from the field over the past three games. She has made 15 of 27 (55.6%) from 3-point range during that span.
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2022-06-20T00:08:53+00:00
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expressnews.com
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https://www.expressnews.com/sports/article/Ogunbowale-hits-5-3s-scores-27-as-Wings-beat-17252373.php
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Oklahoma City schools planning to re-open Thursday despite possible ice overnight
After a lull in wintry precipitation overnight Tuesday and daytime Wednesday, the third (and likely final) wave of an ongoing ice storm was expected to pass through Oklahoma Wednesday night ― although forecasters were less certain about what time and how much various counties would be affected.
Meteorologists with the National Weather Service in Norman said clouds of light freezing rain and sleet would develop Wednesday evening in southern portions of Oklahoma first, before expanding north into central Oklahoma. The agency did not expect the wintry precipitation to hit the Oklahoma City metro area until after 10 p.m.
Ice, rain and sunshine: OKC weather could lead to slick roads Wednesday
Ice accumulation in central Oklahoma is expected to reach trace amount levels, up to one tenth of an inch, the NWS said. Counties further south of Oklahoma City could see layers of ice up to a quarter of an inch.
Oklahoma Gas and Electric Co. said response personnel would continue to monitor conditions throughout eastern and southern Oklahoma, but the company did not expect the Oklahoma City metro service area's power grid to be affected Wednesday night, due to low wind.
Frigid conditions are likely to persist until early Thursday. Temperatures are expected to gradually warm as the weekend approaches.
Oklahoma City schools likely to reopen if roads deemed safe
With the onset of icy precipitation expected to be very late Wednesday, several metro school administrations announced their campuses would reopen Thursday, but only after officials had evaluated road conditions for safety early that morning.
Anna Aguilar, director of communications at Moore Public Schools, said members of the district's administrative team would drive bus routes and check school lots at 4 a.m. Thursday, after which they would determine how to conduct operations for the day by 6 a.m. If parents and students don't get an alert by that time, it would mean in-person learning has resumed, she said.
Similarly, Norman Public Schools officials also said they expected to hold in-person classes Thursday. But employees planned to check road conditions and bus routes early in the morning, with the expectation to inform families if schools needed to be closed by 5 a.m. If not, in-person classes and activities would resume, although school officials also advised that buses might run later than scheduled.
Mid-Del Public Schools officials also said their campuses planned to return to in-person classes Thursday. District employees would evaluate road conditions early that morning, they said, and would announce to parents if any changes in the schedules were needed.
By 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oklahoma City Public Schools officials had not announced Thursday plans for the district. Several other schools, colleges and universities in the Oklahoma City metro had not updated their websites or social media platforms with Thursday announcements by Wednesday evening, either.
Only one known school in the Oklahoma City area, Shawnee Public Schools, had canceled classes Thursday. Pivoting away from virtual instruction the previous day, Shawnee school officials said Thursday would be a traditional "snow day" for students.
It is recommended that families keep in contact with individual schools for what plans are being made the rest of the week.
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2023-02-02T03:12:02+00:00
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oklahoman.com
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https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/education/2023/02/02/okc-schools-plan-to-reopen-thursday-if-third-round-of-ice-storm-not-severe/69864235007/
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PHOENIX (AP) — The Republican candidates for Arizona governor and secretary of state on Wednesday appealed a federal judge’s ruling that threw out a lawsuit they filed seeking to require the hand-counting of ballots in November’s election.
Lawyers representing governor candidate Kari Lake and secretary of state hopeful Mark Finchem filed a notice saying they would ask the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to revive their lawsuit.
The pair sued in April, repeating unfounded allegations that vote-counting machines are not secure. Named in the lawsuit is Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, the state’s top election official and the Democratic candidate for governor, and the majority Republican Maricopa County board of supervisors
U.S. District Judge John Tuchi dismissed their lawsuit late last month, saying they lacked the right to to sue because they failed to show any realistic likelihood of harm. He also noted that their lawsuit must be brought in state, not federal, court and that it is too close to the election to upend the process.
“The 2022 Midterm Elections are set to take place on November 8,” Tuchi wrote in is ruling. “In the meantime, Plaintiffs request a complete overhaul of Arizona’s election procedures.”
Lake and Finchem won their GOP primaries after aggressively promoting the narrative that the 2020 election was marred by fraud or widespread irregularities.
Their lawsuit relied in part on testimony from Donald Trump supporters who led a discredited review of the election in Maricopa County, including Doug Logan, the CEO of Cyber Ninjas, who oversaw the effort described by supporters as a “forensic audit.”
Finchem did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Lake’s campaign attorney, Timothy La Sota, said the appeal was needed.
“We are appealing because it is absolutely critical that we have a vote counting process that gives the public complete confidence in the process,” La Sota said in a statement.
Federal and state election officials and Trump’s own attorney general have said there is no credible evidence the 2020 election was tainted. Trump’s allegations of fraud were also roundly rejected by courts, including by judges he appointed. A hand recount led by Cyber Ninjas in Maricopa County found no proof of a stolen election and concluded President Joe Biden’s margin of victory was larger than the official count.
Election administrators testified that hand counting dozens of races on millions of Arizona ballots would require an extraordinary amount of time, space and manpower, and would be less accurate. They said extensive reviews have confirmed that vote-counting machines in Maricopa County are accurate, not connected to the internet and haven’t been hacked.
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2022-09-15T20:02:12+00:00
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wnct.com
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https://www.wnct.com/news/politics/ap-arizona-gop-candidates-appeal-ruling-against-hand-counts/
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WASHINGTON (AP) — For all the concern over just when the government might run short of money to pay its bills, it turns out that no one, not even the U.S. treasury secretary, can be absolutely sure exactly when the country faces a potential default — what officials are calling the "X-date."
Calculating when the country is going to run out of money requires monitoring major fluctuations in cash flowing into and out of the Treasury and factoring in the timing and size of big payments coming due, among other factors.
Now, with only a few days left for the White House and congressional leaders to negotiate a deal that would allow the government to borrow more money before the U.S. hits the statutory debt ceiling, knowing the drop-dead date is crucial.
And amid all the squabbling over the debt, the X-date itself has inevitably become a subject of political rancor.
WHAT IS THE “X-DATE”?
The X-date arrives when the government no longer has enough of a financial cushion to pay all its bills, having exhausted the "extraordinary measures" it's been using since January to stretch existing funds.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen's latest calculation is that the U.S. could default as early as June 1 if there's no deal to raise the legal borrowing limit to support bill paying.
In addition to Treasury, several outside groups and companies try to independently pin down the date, including the Congressional Budget Office, Moody's Analytics and the private Bipartisan Policy Center, by poring over public data on government cash flows and changes in debt. Their estimates are all within a few days of Treasury's projections on the drop-dead date.
Shai Akabas, from the Bipartisan Policy Center, helped coin the term "X-Date" along with future Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell back in 2011.
“We defined it as the day after which the federal government would not be able to meet all of its obligations, meaning that if policymakers didn’t act by the X-date, then the default would occur the next day. And we quickly realized that that was incredibly difficult for people to understand,” Akabas said.
It was then revised, supposed to be known as the day on which the government doesn’t meet all of its obligations, he said.
HOW IS THE DATE CALCULATED?
This is where bureaucrats really wonk out. They study things like the Daily Treasury Statement, which offers a detailed accounting of the government's coffers and provides insight into the movement of money.
Treasury's Office of Fiscal Projections works with career staff from the Offices of Tax Analysis, Economic Policy and Debt Management to produce a forecast of when the government will exhaust its resources.
Just like everyday Americans who tally up their upcoming bills, the government knows a lot about its coming obligations. And it's not just about servicing its existing debts.
For instance, on June 1, Treasury will have to pay out $47 billion in Medicare payments, $12 billion in military and civil retirement benefits and $12 billion in veterans benefits, according to a BPC analysis of Daily Treasury Statements.
On the next day, the agency will have to pay out $27 billion in Social Security and Medicaid payments.
WHAT ELSE CAN AFFECT THE X-DATE?
All sorts of factors — even the weather.
This year, for example, taxpayers in areas that experienced weather disasters — including California, New York and large swaths of the South — have been granted filing extensions for the 2022 tax season.
That means delayed income tax payments coming in that can reduce cash flow.
A big infusion of quarterly tax payments is expected to come in on June 15, which could help tide the country over for weeks if the Treasury can hold out that long. But that's looking increasingly less likely.
WHO'S QUESTIONING THE X-DATE?
Some Republicans are openly questioning whether June 1 is truly the day the federal government might no longer be fully able to pay its bills.
How far are lawmakers willing to go to test that theory? Are they less willing to compromise if they don’t believe an economic calamity is right around the corner?
“Everybody’s relying on Janet Yellen to tell us this magical day. Show us. Show us the math," said Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla.
When asked if that sentiment was in the back of his mind during negotiations, Donalds replied, “I think it’s in the back of everybody’s mind.”
Rep. Dusty Johnson, R-S.D., said Yellen's June 1 projection should be treated as “realistic.” But he added that “the fact that the White House appears to have no urgency has started to make us wonder whether they’re dealing with a different deadline than we are.”
Rep. Dan Bishop, R-N.C. said “Well, it’s not like the calamity strikes on June 1. It’s something that gets to be more problematic over the course of a number of days. So I think people need to calm down a little bit.”
McCarthy, asked about the X-date by Larry Kudlow on Fox Business on Wednesday, said that “whoever is the secretary of the Treasury, I’m going to take whatever date they say.”
“If she says that’s the date, that’s the date," McCarthy said.
Another lead GOP negotiator, Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., said he, too, believes Yellen.
“She’s a straight shooter and I don’t think there’s any wiggle room for us,” McHenry said.
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Associated Press writers Kevin Freking and Seung Min Kim contributed to this report.
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2023-05-25T16:36:54+00:00
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springfieldnewssun.com
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https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/nation-world/debt-default-x-date-calculations-aim-to-figure-out-when-the-us-may-run-short-of-cash/UCZRZVOEKRH6XOY3NO66CQA4KU/
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PASAY CITY, Philippines, July 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- SM Investments Corporation through its property arm, SM Prime Holdings continues to provide a unique "malling" experience with the opening of its 83rd mall in Balanga, Bataan by integrating sustainability features in its design and operations.
The geographic location of the coastal city provides an opportunity for the company to incorporate disaster resiliency in its design in the flood-prone municipality.
Balanga experiences annual flooding based on its history of recurring disasters and so, SM has equipped the mall with two rainwater catchment tanks that can hold up to 900 cubic meters combined or equal to 3.6 million 250mL glasses of water. The catchment tanks aim to reduce soil erosion and flow of stormwater that causes urban flooding.
SM City Bataan also utilizes clerestory windows, series of large windows, for better light ventilation which lessens the electricity consumption of the facility. This could save up to approximately 2240 kWh of energy daily.
"We continue to reach more communities and provide services where we can. Where there is SM, there's also the SM Markets for the daily needs of the families, there's Watsons for medicines and hygienic needs, there's also Ace Hardware for the repairs and maintenance of the community's houses. Even the transport terminal is connected to the mall. By placing all these stores in our malls, we lessen the carbon footprint of our guests as well. They don't have to visit several places to get what they need," said Engineer Junias M. Eusebio, Senior Assistant Vice President of SM Supermalls for Mall Operations of North Luzon B.
The company remains a staunch advocate of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals to which their sustainability initiatives are anchored from. SM City Bataan uses recycled water for water closet flushing, landscape maintenance, and to supply waters to the cooling towers of the building's air conditioning system.
SM continues to integrate sustainability in its daily operations. As of 2022, the SM Group had already recycled 42.5 million cubic meters of water, enough to fill 17,000 competition-sized pools. The opening of SM City Bataan marked it as the 25th mall with rainwater catchment basin and 28th with electric vehicle charging station, further amplifying its commitment to sustainable practices.
About SM Investments Corporation
SM Investments Corporation is a leading Philippine company that is invested in market-leading businesses in retail, banking, and property. It also invests in ventures that capture high growth opportunities in the emerging Philippine economy.
SM's retail operations are the country's largest and most diversified with its food, non-food, and specialty retail stores. SM's property arm, SM Prime Holdings, Inc., is the largest integrated property developer in the Philippines with interests in malls, residences, offices, hotels, and convention centers as well as tourism-related property developments. SM's interests in banking are in BDO Unibank, Inc., the country's largest bank, and China Banking Corporation, the 5th largest bank.
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2023-07-28T06:24:10+00:00
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wsfa.com
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https://www.wsfa.com/prnewswire/2023/07/28/sm-continues-champion-sustainability-with-its-83rd-mall-sm-city-bataan/
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Maxine Hennum
Aug. 21, 1930 - Jan. 15, 2023
DULUTH, Minn. - Maxine Hennum, 92, Cloquet, Minn., died Sunday, Jan. 15, in St. Luke’s Hospital.
Visitation will be from 11 a.m. to noon, followed by a memorial service at noon, Saturday, Jan. 21, at Nelson Funeral Care in Cloquet. A luncheon will follow.
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2023-01-16T21:00:42+00:00
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duluthnewstribune.com
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https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/obituaries/obits/maxine-hennum-5d0135ff67a60618cb3bf3a9-63c5a0da625a24273f50c720
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Greenfield theft leads to police pursuit; 3 arrested
GREENFIELD, Wis. - Three people were taken into custody Sunday morning, Jan. 8, after stealing from a retail store and leading Greenfield police on a pursuit.
Greenfield police said three individuals were stealing from a retail store near 76th and Forest Home around 5 a.m. Two of the individuals fled the area, and police followed.
Officials said as the pursuit continued, a firearm was thrown out the window and recovered by police.
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Police said the chase ended around 5:30 a.m. near Forest Home and Grange when the people stopped driving.
Greenfield police arrested the two people in the car and one person who was left at the retail store.
Officials said the thieves stole less than $200.
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2023-01-08T16:23:12+00:00
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fox6now.com
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https://www.fox6now.com/news/greenfield-theft-police-pursuit-3-arrested
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Sabre is Known for their Luxury Fifth Wheel RVs that are Loaded with Amenities
LEXINGTON, N.C., Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The founders of Country Roads RV Center are proud to announce that they have been an authorized dealer for the Sabre line of RVs for 14 years.
To learn more about Country Roads RV Center, please visit https://www.crrvc.com/sabre-rv-dealer/.
As a company spokesperson noted, since Country Roads RV Center opened its doors in 2008 the company has strived to offer only the highest quality, 5th wheels, travel trailers, and toy haulers.
Now, as one of the largest dealers in the state, Country Roads RV Center has grown to offer a full service and parts department. The family-owned and operated dealership strives to give their customers the most enjoyable experience possible.
"Our mission is to provide high-quality new and used RVs to our customers. At the same time, we understand that travel trailers, 5th wheels, and motorhomes are not created equally. Because of this, we do a thorough analysis of new product lines we carry prior to making the decision to place them in our inventory," the spokesperson noted, adding that after reviewing the Sandpiper makes and models, it was an easy decision to add these outstanding RVs to their lineup of products.
The Sabre 37FLH continues to be an extremely popular plan. This is a front living with 2 sleeper sofas and theater seating in the living area. The 2 sleeper sofas accommodate the kids or another family that may be staying for the weekend.
For the growing family, the Sabre 38DBQ can accommodate you. This unit features 2 full baths, a private bunk room with a sleeper sofa in the rear with an overhead loft also. A roomy king bed slide in the front along with a full closet and washer/dryer prep.
About Country Roads RV Center:
As one of the largest dealers in the state, Country Roads RV Center carries many different lines of 5th Wheels, Travel-Trailers, and Toy Haulers, as well as a full service and parts department. Family-owned and operated, they strive to give their customers the most enjoyable experience possible. For more information, please visit https://www.crrvc.com.
Country Roads RV Center
2609 Enterprise Road
Lexington, NC 27295
(336) 775-2100
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2022-08-16T18:43:06+00:00
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waff.com
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https://www.waff.com/prnewswire/2022/08/16/country-roads-rv-center-celebrates-14-years-an-authorized-dealer-sabre-fifth-wheels/
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By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN and MARC LEVY
The Associated Press
A man firing a rifle killed shoppers at an Indiana mall’s food court. A gunfight at a Houston home killed four people.
A stand-up act by the comedian Craig Robinson in North Carolina didn’t even begin before club-goers fled from a man with a gun.
In Las Vegas, the specter of gunfire at the MGM Grand sent the crowded casino into pandemonium, with gamblers flipping over poker tables to shield themselves over a panic that started with a shattered glass door.
Gun violence has gripped America.
“I am here trembling,” said Ignacio Molina in a video posted on Twitter, after relative calm returned to the Las Vegas casino.
It was a false alarm, but the weekend’s gun violence left more than a half-dozen dead or wounded, including a 12-year-old, two 16-year-olds and an 18-year-old.
Fear of shooters has left more people on edge and the shootings — or panic over the fear of them — were just the latest to hit America in 2022 after a school, church, grocery store and a July Fourth parade in Highland Park, Illinois, all become murder scenes in recent months.
In addition, authorities released a damning report that criticized all levels of law enforcement — including inaction by hundreds of federal, state and local officers — for a chaotic and feckless response on May 24 to a gunman who killed 19 students and two teachers inside Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.
Here is a look at some of what happened this weekend:
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GREENWOOD, INDIANA
Three people died and two were injured after a man with a rifle started shooting at the Greenwood Park Mall on Sunday evening. An armed civilian shot and killed him, police said.
The shooter began firing after leaving a bathroom at the suburban Indianapolis mall shortly before it closed, Greenwood police Chief James Ison said Monday.
Witnesses described panicked mall goers fleeing.
Killed were a married couple — Pedro Pineda, 56, and Rosa Mirian Rivera de Pineda, 37 — and Victor Gomez, 30, according to coroners’ offices.
A 22-year-old who was legally carrying a firearm killed the gunman, stopping the shooter “almost as soon as he began,” Ison said.
“Many more people would have died last night if not for a responsible armed citizen,” Ison said.
The three people who died were in addition to the killer. Police identified him as 20-year-old Jonathan Sapirman, but did not yet know of a motive.
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HOUSTON
Four people died after a gunfight at an apartment complex in Houston late Saturday.
The Harris County sheriff’s office said witnesses reported seeing several people, including the victims, shooting at each other after they began arguing.
Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said those killed included two 16-year-olds, a 19-year-old and a 25-year-old.
The sheriff’s office did not identify the victims, a motive or a suspect.
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CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA
Patrons waiting for the show to start at The Comedy Zone fled on Saturday night when a man waved a gun, told everyone to leave and then fired it in the empty venue, according to police and witnesses.
No one was injured. The man, identified by police as Omar McCombs, pulled the gun before actor and comedian Craig Robinson came out to perform.
About 50 customers had been inside.
McCombs, 36, was taken into custody and faces several charges, including assault. Police did not disclose a motive.
Robinson has starred in movies such as “Hot Tub Time Machine” as well as the American version of “The Office” television show. He said he was safe in a video posted Saturday night to his Instagram account.
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LAS VEGAS
People fled and upturned poker tables in a panic over the mistaken belief that gunfire had erupted at the MGM Grand casino hotel late Saturday night.
Police found no evidence of gunfire; just a shattered glass door in the valet area.
Video posted to social media showed people scrambling across the Strip, including one video that showed officers approaching with guns drawn and lowered as several people hurried in the opposite direction.
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TULSA
An 18-year-old woman was killed after an altercation led to gunfire early Sunday morning at a downtown gathering spot called the Center of the Universe, police said.
Police said she was a passenger in a vehicle when an altercation broke out between two groups of people. Gunfire erupted, hitting the woman and a building, shattering glass doors, police according to police.
Police received a call about gunfire and kids “running everywhere” at the gathering spot, a concrete circle known for its acoustic features.
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UVALDE, TEXAS
Sunday saw the release of a long-awaited report that further laid bare the chaotic response to May 24’s mass shooting at Robb Elementary in Uvalde.
The findings of an investigative committee criticized both state and federal law enforcement, and not just local authorities for the bewildering inaction by heavily armed officers outside while a gunman fired bullets inside adjoining fourth-grade classrooms.
Nearly 400 law enforcement officials rushed to the school, but “egregiously poor decision making” resulted in more than an hour of chaos before the gunman was finally confronted and killed, according to the report written by an investigative committee from the Texas House of Representatives.
The gunman fired approximately 142 rounds inside the building — and it is “almost certain” that at least 100 shots came before any officer entered, according to the report, which laid out numerous failures.
The committee didn’t “receive medical evidence” to show that police storming the classrooms sooner would have saved lives, but it concluded that “it is plausible that some victims could have survived if they had not had to wait 73 additional minutes for rescue.”
Hours after the report was released, Uvalde officials separately released hours of body camera footage from the city’s police officers who responded to the attack.
Video from Uvalde Staff Sgt. Eduardo Canales, the head of the city’s SWAT team, showed the officer approaching the classrooms when gunfire rang out at 11:37 a.m.
A minute later, Canales said: “Dude, we’ve got to get in there. We’ve got to get in there, he just keeps shooting.”
It was 72 minutes later, at 12:50 p.m., when officers finally breached the classrooms and killed the shooter.
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Associated Press reporter Claudia Torrens in New York contributed to this report.
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2022-07-19T00:02:21+00:00
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wtmj.com
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https://wtmj.com/national/2022/07/18/gunfire-shootings-and-panic-mar-american-weekend/
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VATICAN CITY — Recalling Jesus' birth in a stable, Pope Francis rebuked those "ravenous" for wealth and power at the expense of the vulnerable, including children, in a Christmas Eve homily decrying war, poverty and greedy consumerism.
In the splendor of St. Peter's Basilica, Francis presided over the evening Mass attended by about 7,000 faithful, including tourists and pilgrims, who flocked to the church on a warm evening and took their place behind rows of white-robed pontiffs.
Francis drew lessons from the humility of Jesus' first hours of life in a manger.
"While animals feed in their stalls, men and women in our world, in their hunger for wealth and power, consume even their neighbors, their brothers and sisters," the pontiff lamented. "How many wars have we seen! And in how many places, even today, are human dignity and freedom treated with contempt!"
"As always, the principal victims of this human greed are the weak and the vulnerable,'' said Francis, who didn't cite any specific conflict or situation.
"This Christmas, too, as in the case of Jesus, a world ravenous for money, power and pleasure does not make room for the little ones, for the so many unborn, poor and forgotten children,'' the pope said, reading his homily with a voice that sounded tired and almost hoarse. "I think above all of the children devoured by war, poverty and injustice."
Still, the pontiff exhorted people to take heart.
"Do not allow yourself to be overcome by fear, resignation or discouragement." Jesus' lying in a manger shows where "the true riches in life are to be found: not in money and power, but in relationships and persons."
Remarking on the "so much consumerism that has packaged the mystery" of Christmas, Francis said there was a danger the day's meaning could be forgotten.
But, he said, Christmas focuses attention on "the problem of our humanity — the indifference produced by the greedy rush to possess and consume."
"Jesus was born poor, lived poor and died poor," Francis said. "He did not so much talk about poverty as live it, to the very end, for our sake."
Francis urged people to "not let this Christmas pass without doing something good."
When the Mass ended, the pope, pushed in a wheelchair by an aide, moved down the basilica with a life-sized statue of Baby Jesus on his lap and flanked by several children carrying bouquets. The statue then was placed in a manger in a creche scene in the basilica.
Francis, 86, has been using a wheelchair to navigate long distances due to a painful knee ligament and a cane for shorter distances.
Traditionally, Catholics mark Christmas Eve by attending Mass at midnight. But over the years, the starting time at the Vatican has crept earlier, reflecting the health or stamina of popes and then the pandemic.
Two years ago, the start of Christmas Eve Mass in St. Peter's Basilica was moved up to 7:30 p.m. to allow faithful to get home before for a nighttime curfew imposed by the Italian government as a measure to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. Although virtually all pandemic-triggered restrictions have long been lifted in Italy, the Vatican kept to the early start time.
During Saturday evening's service, a choir sang hymns. Clusters of potted red poinsettia plants near the altar contrasted with the cream-colored vestments of the pontiff.
On Sunday, tens of thousands of Romans, tourists and pilgrims were expected to crowd into St. Peter's Square to hear Pope Francis deliver an address on world issues and give his blessing. The speech, known in Latin as "Urbi et Orbi" (to the city and to the world), generally is an occasion to review crises including war, persecution and hunger, in many parts of the globe.
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2022-12-25T10:01:47+00:00
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kcbx.org
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https://www.kcbx.org/npr-top-news/2022-12-24/the-pope-condemned-the-human-hunger-for-wealth-and-power-at-a-christmas-eve-mass
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Senators turn up pressure on rail industry for paid sick leave
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - Senators Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Mike Braun (R-Ind.) are standing with railroad workers. Thursday, on Capitol Hill, they called on the rail industry to provide paid sick days.
Senator Sanders said, “that industry can and must guarantee at least seven paid sick days to every rail worker. In America, in the year 2023, that is not a whole lot to ask.”
In recent federal negotiations to avoid a nationwide rail strike, attempts to guarantee paid sick days were blocked by a group of senators.
Senator Braun, who supported last year’s attempt to guarantee paid sick leave, said, “when I heard that you didn’t have a guaranteed sick day, I wondered, how could you get by with that? In this day and age? You don’t know when you’re going to get sick.”
The senators were also joined by union leaders who said they are actively negotiating with the rail companies that are not providing the paid leave. Sen. Sanders said he is confident legislation push the companies to offer the leave can make it to the Senate floor.
Copyright 2023 Gray DC. All rights reserved.
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2023-02-09T22:00:57+00:00
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wbrc.com
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https://www.wbrc.com/2023/02/09/senators-turn-up-pressure-rail-industry-paid-sick-leave/
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CLEVELAND, Ohio — The Mega Millions lottery selected winning numbers in its Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2022, drawing for a jackpot estimated at $400 million.
The numbers are 14-22-48-58-68 Mega Ball 6 Megaplier 2x.
The Wednesday, Dec. 14 Powerball jackpot is an estimated $134 million and the Classic Lotto jackpot is $2.6 million.
Tuesday’s winning Ohio Lottery numbers are:
Pick 3 evening: 873 (midday, 768)
Pick 4 evening: 4185 (midday, 1669)
Pick 5 evening: 00095 (midday, 28760)
Rolling Cash 5: 7-16-28-31-33
Lucky for Life: 4-5-10-20-34 Lucky Ball 6
Pick 3 winners receive $500 for a $1 straight bet and the odds of winning are 1-in-1,000. Pick 4 winners receive $5,000 for a $1 straight bet and the odds of winning are 1-in-10,000.
The Rolling Cash 5 jackpot for the next drawing is $300,000 for hitting all five numbers and the odds of winning are 1-in-575,757.
Drawings for Pick 3, Pick 4 and Pick 5 are twice daily, at 12:29 p.m. and 7:29 p.m. The drawing for the Rolling Cash 5 is each night at 7:35 p.m.
Classic Lotto draws at 7:05 p.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays. The odds of winning the jackpot with a $1 ticket are 1-in-13,983,816.
Lucky for Life draws at 10:30 p.m. each night. The odds of winning the jackpot with a $2 ticket are 1 in 30,821,472.
Powerball draws on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays at 10:59 p.m. The odds of winning the jackpot with a $2 ticket are 1 in 292,201,338.
Mega Millions draws on Tuesdays and Fridays at 11 p.m. The odds of winning the jackpot with a $2 ticket are 1-in-302,575,350.
The official Ohio Lottery site offers more information on instant tickets, raffles & other lottery games.
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2022-12-14T04:41:21+00:00
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cleveland.com
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https://www.cleveland.com/metro/2022/12/mega-millions-winning-numbers-for-tuesday-dec-13-2022-jackpot-400-million.html
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Leading HR software company earns national recognition in DE&I Practices, Innovation, and Compensation & Benefits Categories
CINCINNATI, Oct. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Paycor HCM, Inc. ("Paycor") (Nasdaq: PYCR), a leading provider of human capital management (HCM) software, today announced that it has earned 2022 Top Workplaces Culture Excellence recognition for DE&I Practices, Innovation, and Compensation & Benefits. This marks the second consecutive year that the human capital management company has been honored with the DE&I Practices award. Issued by Energage, the research company with more than 16 years of experience surveying over 27 million employees at 70,000 organizations, Top Workplaces awards are based solely on employee feedback.
Top Workplaces Culture Excellence awards celebrate organizations that excel in specific areas of workplace culture. These awards honor organizations that meet the following criteria:
- DE&I Practices: The DE&I Practices award celebrates organizations who prioritize a welcoming and inclusive culture, no matter one's background.
- Innovation: The Innovation Top Workplaces award celebrates organizations who have embedded innovation into their culture and created an environment where new ideas come from all employees.
- Compensation & Benefits: The Compensation & Benefits Top Workplaces awards celebrates organizations who not only provide employees with material rewards but also with appreciation for their work.
Over the last 12 months, Paycor has made great strides in advancing the awarded sectors. Recently Paycor recently enhanced its Diversity Policy and during fiscal year 2022, increased women in leadership annually by 8% to 41%, increased ethnic diversity year over year by 13% to 25% for all associates, and held quarterly company-wide fireside chats that thrust various dimensions of diversity to the forefront including women, people of color and religion. The company also recently expanded benefit options to include domestic partner coverage. In an effort to further invest in associates, bolster associate engagement and align associates' interests with shareholders' objectives, Paycor provides a one-time, new hire equity grant to all eligible associates that vests over time.
"Recognition from Top Workplaces underscores Paycor's continued commitment to the same best practices we advocate to our clients that empower leaders and drive business performance," said Raul Villar Jr., Chief Executive Officer of Paycor. "Whether it's continued support to our employees in the virtual work environment, our growing DE&I practices, or employee rewards, we continue to have a strong focus on the needs of our associates as we build a great place to work for our teams."
Top Workplaces awards are based on a research-backed, 24-item employee engagement survey.
"Top Workplaces is a beacon of light for organizations as well as a sign of resiliency and impressive performance," said Eric Rubino, Energage CEO. "When you give your employees a voice, you come together to navigate challenges and shape your path forward. Top Workplaces draw on real-time insights into what works best for their organization, so they can make informed decisions that have a positive impact on their people and their business."
For more information on Paycor, please visit www.paycor.com.
About Paycor
Paycor's human capital management (HCM) platform modernizes every aspect of people management, from recruiting, onboarding and payroll to career development and retention, but what really sets us apart is our focus on leaders. For more than 30 years we've been listening to and partnering with leaders, so we know what they need: a unified HR platform, easy integration with third party apps, powerful analytics, talent development tools, and configurable technology that supports specific industry needs. That's why more than 29,000 customers trust Paycor to help them solve problems and achieve their goals.
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2022-10-19T17:11:34+00:00
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wlbt.com
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https://www.wlbt.com/prnewswire/2022/10/19/paycor-wins-2022-top-workplaces-culture-excellence-awards-second-consecutive-year/
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HENRICO COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — Henrico Police have arrested a second teenager in connection to the shooting death of a teenager in mid-September.
The shooting happened near Henrico’s Edgewood neighborhood near Laburnum Avenue and Conway Street.
Both teenage suspects were charged with second-degree murder after the tragic shooting that killed David “Dae Dae” Dupree on Sept. 18.
Family and friends gathered at Dupree’s school, Henrico High School, the week the shooting happened to remember Dupree, who was known for his upbeat attitude.
Henrico High’s principal, Karin Castillo-Rose, was also there to honor Dupree among the candles, signs and balloons.
After officers found Dupree that September day, he died at the hospital from his injuries.
The 16-year-old teen suspect arrested Monday was taken into custody without incident.
The second teen has also been charged with using a firearm while committing a felony and possessing a firearm as a juvenile.
Officers arrested the first teen suspect just days after the shooting happened.
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2022-11-10T13:08:40+00:00
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wric.com
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https://www.wric.com/news/local-news/henrico-county/two-teens-charged-in-connection-to-shooting-death-of-henrico-teen-known-for-his-upbeat-attitude/
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Request unsuccessful. Incapsula incident ID: 8080000380003003702-5478252790417803
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2022-06-14T12:51:43+00:00
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bizjournals.com
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https://www.bizjournals.com/tampabay/news/2022/06/14/vsg-disappointed-at-clearwater-amphitheater-vote.html
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Valley Grill, 2170 N. Third St. — (8 Critical, 7 Non-Critical) Observed open employee drink stored in fridge next to and above ready to eat items. Observed raw eggs stored above ready to eat cooked noodles. Observed several cooked and ready to eat items with no date markings. Found sanitizer in dish machine not measuring at proper concentration for disinfection. Observed built up black debris on cutting board at food prep line. Observed mouse droppings in kitchen. Observed employee medication stored on dry storage shelf. Found several refrigerated items such as ham, cooked mushrooms and diced tomatoes & cut onions being held at 56-63°F. Must be 41°F or below. (Closed)
China Garden, 1353 Wabash Ave. — (3 Critical, 3 Non-Critical) Observed raw fish stored above ready to eat cut produce. Observed several cooked items in walk-in cooler with no date markings. Observed cleaning chemicals stored next to food items.
Country Mart, 4802 U.S. Hwy 150 — (1 Critical, 3 Non-Critical) Found hamburger patties and toppings with no record of time or temperature control. Must be held within proper temperature limits or discarded after time limit.
Footers Pizza, 248 S. Seventh St. — (1 Critical, 0 Non-Critical) Observed accumulated debris on three bay sink spray nozzle.
M. Mogger’s Brewery, 908 Poplar St. — (0 Critical, 2 Non-Critical)
Establishments without violations
The Landing at Ft. Harrison, 3350 N. Fourth St.
Local Boys Eats @ Tolly’s Bar, 2341 Maple Ave.
Marine Corps League, 3006 N. 16th St.
Rodeway Inn, 400 S. Third St.
Square Donuts Inc., 2417 Ft. Harrison Rd.
St. Benedict Church Soup Kitchen, 128 S. Ninth St.
Table of the Good Shepherd, 1401 Barbour Ave.
Terre Haute German Oberlandler Club, LLC, 1616 Lafayette Ave.
Times of Refreshing Food Pantry, 1610 N. 25th St.
Tolly’s Bar & Grill, 2341 Maple Ave.
Torner Community Center, 500 S. Fruitridge Ave.
Establishments approved to open
Club Koyote (new owners), 121 E. Paris Ave.
The Kasthamandap Grill, 920 S. 3rd St.
Twisted Treats Mobile 2/Ben’s Soft Pretzels LLC, Terre Haute
Establishments approved to operate
Jeep Junkies Going Topless for PINK @ Plumbers & Steamfitters
Katton Kandy
Momma’s Fudge Co
Kountry Time Foods
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2023-05-28T13:17:08+00:00
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tribstar.com
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https://www.tribstar.com/news/local_news/vigo-county-food-inspections-may-15-20-2023/article_65fe7dda-fa31-11ed-ae31-a7b3d99be66b.html
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