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DENVER -- The latest sanctions, if any, that the NBA plans to levy against Memphis guard Ja Morant for his second instance of displaying a gun on social media will be announced shortly after the finals, Commissioner Adam Silver said Thursday.
Silver did not say what the penalties were, not even saying if Morant would be available at the start of next season. Morant was suspended for eight games by the NBA in March for an incident where he broadcast himself on Instagram displaying a gun in a suburban Denver club, and was suspended by the Grizzlies last month after another video showed Morant displaying what appeared to be a gun yet again.
Silver said the league has discovered more information during its current investigation, but the decision was made to not have the next round of Morant news overshadow the NBA Finals.
"We probably could have brought it to a head now, but we made the decision - and I believe the players' association agrees with us - that it would be unfair to these players and these teams, in the middle of this series, to announce the results of that investigation," Silver said.
The first suspension cost Morant about $669,000 in salary. The second incident was streamed on the Instagram account of Morant associate Davonte Pack. The video shows Morant in the passenger seat of a vehicle, briefly appearing to display a handgun. At the very brief moment - maybe less than a second - when Morant is shown holding what appears to be a weapon, the livestream had 111 viewers.
"In assessing what discipline is appropriate, if that's the case, we look at both the history of prior acts but then we look at the individual player's history as well and the seriousness, of course, of the conduct," Silver said. "Those are all things that get factored. It's not an exact science. It comes down to judgment at the end of the day on the part of me and my colleagues in the league office."
This will be at least the third known NBA investigation surrounding Morant and the possible involvement of firearms so far in 2023.
Morant's actions were investigated after a Jan. 29 incident in Memphis that he said led to Pack - someone Morant calls "my brother" - banned from Grizzlies home games for a year.
That incident followed a game against the Indiana Pacers; citing unnamed sources, The Indianapolis Star and USA Today reported that multiple members of the Pacers saw a red dot pointed at them while they were near the loading dock where their bus was located, and The Athletic reported that a Pacers security guard believed the laser was attached to a gun.
The NBA confirmed that unnamed individuals were banned from the arena but said its investigation found no evidence that anyone was threatened with a weapon.
Silver said he's hoping this episode sparks change for Morant.
"He seems to be a fine young man, in terms of my dealings with him," Silver said. "He's clearly made some mistakes. But he's young and I'm hoping now, once we conclude at the end of our process, what the appropriate discipline is, that it's not just about the discipline. It's about now what we, the players' association, his team, he and the people around him around him are going to do to create better circumstances going forward. That's ultimately what's most important." | 2023-06-02T15:37:12+00:00 | abc30.com | https://abc30.com/ja-morant-nba-suspension-gun-videos-social-media-adam-silver/13333332/ |
The 2023 Barbasol Championship Odds & Preview: Akshay Bhatia
Akshay Bhatia will be among those at the 2023 Barbasol Championship in Nicholasville, Kentucky at Keene Trace Golf Club (Champions Course) from July 13-16.
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Akshay Bhatia Insights
- Bhatia has finished below par on eight occasions, completed his day without a bogey once and finished eight rounds with a better-than-average score over his last 16 rounds played.
- He has recorded one of the 10 best scores of the day in one of his last 16 rounds.
- Over his last 16 rounds, Bhatia has finished within three strokes of the best score of the round twice, and within five strokes of the top score of the day on four occasions.
- In his past five tournaments, Bhatia's average finish has been 53rd.
- The past five times he has played a tournament, he's made the cut three times.
- Bhatia has not been in contention in any recent tournaments, since he hasn't posted a score better than the field average or finished within five shots of the leader in any of his past five events.
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Barbasol Championship Insights and Stats
- Keene Trace Golf Club (Champions Course) will play at 7,328 yards for this event. In the past year on the Tour, the average tournament has been hosted on a shorter course, with an average distance of 7,014.
- The average course on the Tour in the past year has played to 69.5 strokes per round and a score of -5. At Keene Trace Golf Club (Champions Course), the scoring average is lower at -12 per tournament.
- Keene Trace Golf Club (Champions Course) checks in at 7,328 yards, nine yards longer than the average course Bhatia has played in the past year (7,319 yards).
- The tournaments he has played in the past year have seen an average score of -6. That's higher than this course's recent scoring average of -12.
Bhatia's Last Time Out
- Bhatia shot below average over the 16 par-3 holes at the John Deere Classic, with an average of 3.13 strokes to finish in the 18th percentile of the field.
- His 3.82-stroke average on the 44 par-4 holes at the John Deere Classic was strong, putting him in the 89th percentile of the field.
- Bhatia shot better than 35% of the golfers at the John Deere Classic on par-5 holes, averaging 4.67 strokes per hole compared to the field average of 4.6.
- Bhatia recorded a birdie or better on one of 16 par-3s at the John Deere Classic (the field averaged 1.9).
- On the 16 par-3s at the John Deere Classic, Bhatia recorded more bogeys or worse (three) than the field average (1.6).
- Bhatia's 14 birdies or better on par-4s at the John Deere Classic were more than the tournament average of 6.4.
- In that most recent outing, Bhatia's par-4 performance (on 44 holes) included a bogey or worse five times (worse than the field average, 4.8).
- Bhatia ended the John Deere Classic with a birdie or better on four of the 12 par-5s, more than the field average of 3.8.
- The field at the John Deere Classic averaged 0.6 bogeys or worse on the 12 par-5s, but Bhatia finished without one.
Barbasol Championship Time and Date Info
- Date: July 13-16, 2023
- Course: Keene Trace Golf Club (Champions Course)
- Location: Nicholasville, Kentucky
- Par: 72 / 7,328 yards
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The reading subscription service will provide free books to children in need across the Bay Area
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Reading subscription service Scribd today announced the launch of its CSR program, Scribd Gives, to support its mission to build the largest and most accessible library connecting storytellers with their audience. The company, which offers access to one of the world's largest digital libraries of ebooks, audiobooks, and more, is committed to inspiring curiosity, giving back, and highlighting diverse perspectives within the literary community. To kick off Scribd Gives, the brand has announced its inaugural partner, First Book, an organization that supports educational equity by providing millions of books and resources to its member network of over 550,000 educators from programs and schools serving children from low-income communities.
"Reading is crucial to childhood development, and we look forward to working with First Book to bring to life our shared values of educational equality and encouraging cultural understanding, diversity, and inclusion through reading," said Trip Adler, Scribd Founder and Chief Executive Officer. "Our partnership with First Book is the latest step in continuing our mission to build the largest and most accessible library connecting storytellers with their audience by providing books to children with limited access to them."
According to the U.S. Department of Education, up to 61% of low-income families do not have any books for their children at home. Together with First Book, Scribd will put books into the classrooms that serve children in under-resourced communities to help support their educational growth, comprehension, and awareness of diverse perspectives.
"First Book is excited to refresh classroom libraries in schools in low-income, Bay-Area communities alongside Scribd," said Dana Bond, Senior Vice President of Corporate Strategic Alliances. "It's clear our missions are aligned - to provide young people with the books they need to continue to grow, learn, and develop empathy, as well as a greater understanding of the world around them. We are grateful to Scribd's help to support not only our mission but educators in under-resourced communities and the kids we serve."
To kick off the program, and just in time for the start of the new school year, Scribd has given First Book a $50,000 grant, which will support the donation of books for classroom libraries at Berkley Maynard Academy, a charter school in a low-income community in the Bay Area. The donation will consist of books that offer diverse topics and perspectives, encouraging cultural understanding and inclusion. To celebrate the classroom library refreshes, Scribd and First Book teamed up with authors Bonnie Tsui and Angela Dalton, who will participate in a live reading with Berkley Maynard Academy students. Scribd has also given funds to 100 additional Bay Area schools to purchase books for their classrooms or libraries.
"At Berkley Maynard Academy, we want students to be able to read books that expose them to the beauty, history, and cultures of other people in their school, community, and the greater world. This inclusion goes beyond race: we want our students to read books that normalize gender inclusivity, reflect various family structures, and celebrate and affirm the LGBTQIA+ community," said Jason Stack Principal of Berkley Maynard Academy. "These new classroom libraries from Scribd and First Book will provide a fresh infusion of books to help center people and students that are often marginalized and not represented in mainstream culture."
For more details about Scribd's offerings and partnership with First Book please visit: https://www.scribd.com/.
Scribd is the reading subscription service that's building one of the largest and most accessible libraries connecting storytellers with their audience. For $11.99 a month, Scribd offers access to some of the best ebooks, audiobooks, documents, magazine articles, podcasts, and presentations. Scribd works directly with publishers to constantly add new content to the platform and provide its subscribers with high-quality and personalized reading recommendations. Scribd's goal is to inspire curiosity and learning through its diverse range of content, which amplifies important topics and underrepresented authors. The app is available on iOS and Android devices, as well as web browsers and Apple Watch.
Founded in Washington, D.C., in 1992 as a 501(c)3 nonprofit social enterprise, First Book is a leader in the educational equity field. Over its 30-year history, First Book has distributed more than 225 million books and educational resources, with a retail value of more than $2 billion. First Book believes education offers children in need the best path out of poverty. First Book breaks down barriers to quality education by providing its Network of more than 550,000 registered teachers, librarians, after school program leaders, and others serving children in need with millions of free and affordable new, high-quality books, educational resources, and basic needs items through the award-winning First Book Marketplace nonprofit eCommerce site. The First Book Network comprises the largest and fastest-growing community of formal and informal educators serving children in need.
First Book also expands the breadth and depth of the education field through a family of social enterprises, including First Book Research & Insights, its proprietary research initiative, and the First Book Accelerator, which brings best-in-class research-based strategies to the classroom via relevant, usable educator resources. First Book Impact Funds target support to areas of need, such as rural communities or increasing diversity in children's books. For more information about First Book, please visit www.firstbook.org.
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HOUSTON (AP) — A federal judge has issued a temporary order telling Texas prison officials that they can carry out next week’s scheduled execution of a death row inmate only if they grant all of his religious accommodations, including allowing his spiritual adviser to hold his hand when he receives a lethal injection.
Ramiro Gonzales is scheduled to be executed July 13 for fatally shooting 18-year-old Bridget Townsend, a southwest Texas woman whose remains were found nearly two years after she vanished in 2001.
Gonzales, 39, has asked that when he is executed, his spiritual adviser be allowed in the death chamber so she can pray aloud, hold his hand and place her other hand on his chest.
“Receiving God’s touch is a sacred concept in the Bible and even the lepers were touched by God. The specific physical contact I have requested is vitally important to me as I am making my spiritual transition into the paradise of God,” Gonzales said in court documents filed last month.
Texas Department of Criminal Justice officials granted all of Gonzales’ requests except for allowing his spiritual adviser to hold his hand. The officials have argued allowing the hand holding could be a security risk as the adviser would be too close to the IV lines that deliver the lethal injection and the adviser would be in a location that would block the view of authorities and witnesses.
The preliminary injunction issued on Tuesday by U.S. District Judge Charles Eskridge in Houston that orders Texas prison officials to grant all of Gonzales’ religious accommodations follows a civil complaint the death row inmate had filed accusing the Texas prison system of violating his religious freedom.
Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokeswoman Amanda Hernandez said Wednesday her agency “is still evaluating the court’s decision.”
A spokesman for the Texas Attorney General’s Office did not immediately return an email seeking comment.
In court documents, the Texas Attorney General’s Office argued the prison system has not placed a “substantial burden on Gonzales’s religious exercise.”
“Not only will his spiritual advisor be physically present in the chamber thereby fulfilling Gonzales’s assertion of spiritual significance, she will also be intimately close in proximity to Gonzales and maintain physical contact on his chest over his heart,” the attorney general’s office wrote in court documents filed last month.
Various executions in Texas were delayed last year amid legal questions over Texas’ refusal to allow spiritual advisers to touch inmates and pray aloud as condemned individuals are put to death. In April 2021, the Texas prison system reversed a two-year ban on spiritual advisers in the death chamber but limited what they can do.
In March, the Supreme Court ruled states must accommodate the requests of death row inmates who want to have their spiritual advisers pray aloud and touch them during their executions.
In the high court’s opinion, Chief Justice John Roberts urged states to adopt clear rules in advance in order to avoid last-minute appeals to federal courts.
But the Texas prison system declined to formally update its rules, opting instead to review such requests on a case-by-case basis. Some defense attorneys worried that not outlining specific rules would result in more court challenges, like the one filed by Gonzales.
Gonzales’ was condemned for the killing of Townsend, who was the girlfriend of his drug dealer. Gonzales kidnapped Townsend from her Bandera County home in January 2001 after stealing drugs and money.
In a confession to police, Gonzales said he took her to his family's ranch in neighboring Medina County, where he sexually assaulted her before fatally shooting her.
Townsend wasn't found until October 2002, when Gonzales led authorities to her remains after receiving two life sentences for kidnapping and raping another woman.
Gonzales’ attorneys on Tuesday also asked the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals to stay his execution. Last week, they made a separate request to Republican Gov. Greg Abbott to grant a 30-day reprieve so Gonzales can make a kidney donation.
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Follow Juan A. Lozano on Twitter: https://twitter.com/juanlozano70 | 2022-07-06T21:19:07+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Judge-Execution-can-t-proceed-without-religious-17288444.php |
BISMARCK, N.D. (KXNET) — The effort to combat the spread and introduction of invasive zebra mussels in North Dakota waters is going to the dogs.
According to the North Dakota Game and Fish Department, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has partnered with Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife wardens who will employ their professionally trained K-9 companions to detect the presence of zebra and quagga mussels as well as other Aquatic Nuisance Species (ANS) on boats being launched in the North Dakota Governor’s Walleye Cup tournament, which is being held July 15-16.
The corps will host a mussel K-9 demonstration open to the public on July 14 at 10 a.m. at Ft. Stevenson State Park south of Garrison. The K-9s and handlers will inspect each boat for invasive species during angler registration and launching.
Joyce Pfliger, Governor’s Walleye Cup chairwoman, applauds the addition of ANS-sniffing dogs to the long-running tournament on the big lake.
“The opportunity to have these ANS sniffing dogs take part in the Governor’s Walleye Cup and to assist with keeping our lake free of ANS is fantastic,” she said. “Hopefully, with bringing these dogs to North Dakota, it will open up the possibility of having ANS dogs here permanently. This would be one positive, additional step in the fight against ANS.” | 2022-07-05T17:59:15+00:00 | kxnet.com | https://www.kxnet.com/news/local-news/mussel-sniffing-dogs-to-attend-nd-governors-walleye-cup/ |
OSLO, Norway (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday the “time is now” for Turkey to drop its objections to Sweden joining NATO but said the Biden administration also believed that Turkey should be provided with upgraded F-16 fighters “as soon as possible.”
Blinken maintained that the administration had not linked the two issues but acknowledged that some U.S. lawmakers had. President Joe Biden implicitly linked the two issues in a phone call to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday.
“I spoke to Erdogan and he still wants to work on something on the F-16s. I told him we wanted a deal with Sweden. So let’s get that done,” Biden said.
Still, Blinken insisted the two issues were distinct. However, he stressed that the completion of both would dramatically strengthen European security.
“Both of these are vital, in our judgement, to European security,” Blinken told reporters at a joint news conference in the northern Swedish city of Lulea with Sweden’s Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson. “We believe that both should go forward as quickly as possible; that is to say Sweden’s accession and moving forward on the F-16 package more broadly.”
“We believe the time is now,” Blinken said. He declined to predict when Turkey and Hungary, the only other NATO member not yet to have ratified Sweden’s membership, would grant their approval.
But, he said, “we have no doubt that it can be, it should be, and we expect it to be” completed by the time alliance leaders meet in Vilnius, Lithuania in July at an annual summit.
Fresh from a strong re-election victory over the weekend, Erdogan may be willing to ease his objections to Sweden’s membership. Erdogan accuses Sweden of being too soft on groups Ankara considers to be terrorists, and a series of Quran-burning protests in Stockholm angered his religious support base — making his tough stance even more popular.
Kristersson said the two sides had been in contact since Sunday’s vote and voiced no hesitancy in speaking about the benefits Sweden would bring to NATO “when we join the alliance.”
Blinken is in Sweden attending a meeting of the U.S.-EU Trade and Technology Council and will travel to Oslo, Norway on Wednesday for a gathering of NATO foreign ministers, before going on to newly admitted alliance member Finland on Friday.
Speaking in Oslo ahead of the foreign ministers’ meeting, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said the goal was to have Sweden inside the grouping before the leaders’ summit in July.
“There are no guarantees, but it’s absolutely possible to reach a solution and enable the decision on full membership for Sweden by the Vilnius summit,” Stoltenberg said. | 2023-05-31T10:23:30+00:00 | upmatters.com | https://www.upmatters.com/news/international/ap-international/ap-us-says-the-time-is-now-for-sweden-to-join-nato-and-for-turkey-to-get-new-f-16s/ |
CLEVELAND, April 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Corvus Janitorial Systems is proud to be ranked #10 in Entrepreneur Magazine's highly sought after list "Top Franchises for Less than $50,000". This achievement highlights the phenomenal value Corvus conveys to its franchisees, and follows another ranking in Entrepreneur's March/April issue as the #6 Fastest Growing Franchise.
"We're thrilled that Entrepreneur Magazine has acknowledged us as a top ten Franchisor in the United States for opportunities that require less than $50,000.00 in capital. Since 2004, our team has been committed to helping our franchisee-partners achieve their business goals but also making the opportunity accessible, since business ownership should be accessible," remarked Justin Douglas, Corvus Founder and Co-CEO.
In 2023 alone, Corvus Janitorial Systems climbed over a hundred spots in Entrepreneur's Franchise 500 list, doing so as a result of its success in franchisee growth, franchisee satisfaction surveys, financial strength, brand recognition, and attractive fee structure.
According to Corvus Franchisee Chad Weaver, "It's a terrific validation of what I've always known… and that's precisely the reason I became a franchisee back in 2005, and will continue to expand my operation in Kentucky moving forward."
Recognized as a leader in franchising media and publications, Entrepreneur magazine and Entrepreneur.com provide solutions, information, inspiration and education read by millions of entrepreneurs and business owners worldwide.
ABOUT CORVUS JANITORIAL SYSTEMS:
Corvus Janitorial Systems is a franchisor of commercial and office cleaning systems which delivers customized janitorial and office cleaning services to a range of industries and organizations by its national network of locally owned owner-operated franchisees. The company has 21 regional support offices across the United States with more than 1,000 franchisees. Corvus has been recognized in Entrepreneur Magazine's 2023 lists: Franchise 500, Top Ten Franchises for under $50,000, and Fastest Growing Franchises. Other recognition includes Top Disinfection and Sanitization Company by HR magazine and Most Trusted Disinfection and Sanitization Companies by The Enterprise World. Existing ownership and management has been in place since 2004.
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WFO SAN DIEGO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, November 9, 2022
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WINTER STORM WATCH
URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service San Diego CA
145 AM PST Mon Nov 7 2022
...WINTER STORM WATCH NOW IN EFFECT FROM LATE TUESDAY MORNING
THROUGH WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON ABOVE 6000 FEET...
* WHAT...Heavy snow possible along with strong winds. Total
snowfall accumulations of 2 to 4 inches between 6000 and 7000
feet, 5 to 10 inches between 7000 and 8000 feet, and 1 to 3 feet
above 8000 feet. Strong south to southwest winds of 40 to 50
mph with gusts to 70 mph.
* WHERE...Elevations in the San Bernardino County Mountains and
Riverside County Mountains generally above 6000 feet. Snow
levels will be near 8000 feet through Tuesday but will fall to
around 6000 feet by Wednesday morning. The strongest winds will
occur near ridge tops and along desert slopes.
* WHEN...From Tuesday morning through Wednesday afternoon.
* IMPACTS...Travel could be very difficult to impossible by late
Tuesday due to snow, blowing snow, and dense fog. The hazardous
conditions could impact the morning or evening commute. Very
strong winds could cause extensive tree damage.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Monitor the latest forecasts for updates on this situation.
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LONDON (AP) — Prince William and his wife, Kate, will relocate their family from central London to more rural dwellings in Windsor, and all three of their children will attend the same private school near their new home, palace officials said Monday.
William and Kate will move from Kensington Palace in west London to Adelaide Cottage, about a 10-minute walk from Windsor Castle, palace officials said in a statement.
The move means that the family will be much closer to Queen Elizabeth II, who has lived in Windsor Castle since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic. The queen’s official residence is Buckingham Palace in London, but some British media reports have said the monarch, 96, may now permanently reside in Windsor.
Prince George, 9, Princess Charlotte, 7, and Prince Louis, 4, will all start at the private Lambrook School in nearby Ascot in September. George and Charlotte had been attending a school in south London, and Louis is just starting his formal full-time schooling.
Adelaide Cottage, built in 1831 for Queen Adelaide, the wife of King William IV, is a four-bedroom home of relatively modest size for the royals. But William and Kate will retain their apartment in Kensington Palace as their official working base, as well as their 10-bedroom country mansion in Norfolk and a holiday cottage in Scotland. | 2022-08-23T11:29:38+00:00 | everythinglubbock.com | https://www.everythinglubbock.com/news/international/prince-william-kate-relocate-from-london-to-windsor-cottage/ |
AmericanGreetings.com research uncovers Americans' preferences and habits with regards to sending and receiving holiday greeting cards
CLEVELAND, Nov. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- One of the most classic, timeless holiday traditions is the holiday greeting card. Households receive them every year from friends, family and coworkers alike. However, they've come a long way from the holiday greetings originated in the 1840s with Queen Victoria…and the landscape continues to change. As a leader in the Celebrations market, AmericanGreetings.com conducted a survey to uncover these changes in Americans' preferences and habits with regards to receiving and sending holiday cards.
Nearly everyone loves holiday cards! In fact, 89% of Americans say that receiving them brings them joy*. The good news: for the 2021 holiday season, 73% of Americans reported sending holiday cards and 60% say they send holiday cards every year.
Let's Get Digital
In addition to the number of people sending cards, the way of sending them has changed as well. With the pandemic creating shifts to more remote, online interactions—digital greeting cards are too becoming more popular. The research showed a nearly 50/50 split between people preferring to receive holiday cards in the mail versus digital (email, text or social media). And if given the option, 80% of respondents would like a card that could be created and sent digitally – but also printed.
"The findings indicate the tradition of sending holiday cards continues to be an important part of the season, but many are looking for a simpler, more personalized way of carrying out this holiday tradition," said Rob Matousek, Executive Director-Direct to Consumer Business at American Greetings. "At American Greetings.com, we're taking this beloved tradition and adding a modern twist. This allows people to continue building on those meaningful connections, while delivering products that provide flexibility and customization to ease the stress that comes with holiday planning."
Products like Creatacard™ from American Greetings offer an easy-to-create, custom virtual greeting card that replicates the most-loved features of paper cards—but without the hassle of printing, addressing and postage. In a few easy steps, you can create, personalize (with names, messages and photos), and even sign your favorite digital cards. Then send in an email, text, messaging app or social post. You can even include a gift card. Plus, if needed, you can print your card from home. And with 74% of respondents preferring holiday greetings with personal photos and 87% enjoying personal messages and stories, Creatacard provides the opportunity to create a personalized holiday card that your loved ones will truly enjoy.
Plan Ahead or Procrastinate?
The holidays involve a lot of preparation. When it comes to cards, 1/3 begin their planning two to three months ahead with only 9% procrastinating until the week of. Despite all the planning, most Americans (40%) send holiday cards two to three weeks before the holidays and those few (2%) last-minute types even send after the holiday is over. Better late than never, right?
"We know the holiday season can be stressful and busier than other times of the year," adds Matousek. "Our goal is to help ease that stress and bring the creative side of holiday cards back into the home. With our digital product offering, busy families can create and send fun and personalized holiday cards with ease."
In addition to Creatacard virtual greetings, for one price American Greetings digital subscribers have the ability to send an unlimited number of all American Greetings ecards, including SmashUps video greetings, Pics & Wishes and more. American Greetings digital subscriptions are available at $6.99 per month, $29.99 per year or $39.99 for two years.
For more information, visit americangreetings.com.
ABOUT AMERICAN GREETINGS:
American Greetings is a global leader in the large and enduring Celebrations marketplace. The company helps people celebrate holidays, each other, and all of life's special moments, in-person and online, guided by a mission to "make the world a more thoughtful and caring place every single day." American Greetings offers products wherever and however people wish to purchase them – online, in-store, or curbside pickup. Celebrations happen throughout the year, driven by traditional holidays, key milestone moments such as weddings, baby showers and graduations, as well as recurring everyday events such as birthdays and anniversaries. The company's brands include American Greetings, Papyrus, Recycled Paper Greetings, Paper Rebel, Carlton Cards, Today and Always, DesignWare party goods, and Plus Mark gift wrap and boxed cards. Its digital business unit, AG Interactive, is a leading provider of digital greetings and premium celebrations content through proprietary technology platforms and apps. Our popular digital brands include American Greetings, Blue Mountain, SmashUps™, justWink™, and Creatacard™.
*Survey Methodology:
This random survey of 1,000 Americans was commissioned by AmericanGreetings.com in October 2022. It was conducted by market research company Pollfish.
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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with New York Sen. Andrea Stewart-Cousins, a Democrat, about the Supreme Court's decision to strike down the state's gun law.
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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with New York Sen. Andrea Stewart-Cousins, a Democrat, about the Supreme Court's decision to strike down the state's gun law.
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2 charged in Florida mass shooting that left 11 wounded
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Two men have been charged with gun-related crimes in connection to a central Florida drive-by shooting that left 11 people wounded last month.
Nicholas Quinton Hanson, 32, was arrested Friday and charged with possessing ammunition as a convicted felon, and Marcus Dewonn Mobley Jr., 22, was arrested Monday and charged with possessing a firearm and ammunition as a convicted felon, according to court records. If convicted, they each could spend up to 15 years in federal prison.
According to a criminal complaint, Hanson, Mobley and others fired guns at a gathering of people from a blue Nissan Altima on Jan. 30 while traveling through a neighborhood near downtown Lakeland, about 30 miles east of Tampa. The victims all survived. Officials haven’t released specifics about a motive for the shooting but have previously called it a “targeted attack.”
The vehicle sped away after the shooting but was recovered by police the next day following a tip from the public. Police said DNA collected from shell casings and the recovered car led them to Hanson and Mobley. Officers later seized a loaded, 9 mm handgun from Hanson’s home, officials said.
A third man connected to the shooting, 21-year-old Alex Greene, was shot by police in Winter Haven, just east of Lakeland, on Feb. 6 following a long chase and a carjacking, authorities said. Greene had 10 previous felony charges dating back to 2013 and an outstanding warrant for burglary and conspiracy to commit burglary, authorities said. During a search of Greene’s vehicle, officers reported finding cocaine, marijuana, a handgun and thousands of dollars in cash.
An attorney for Hanson didn’t immediately respond to a message requesting comment from The Associated Press, and Mobley’s defense attorney said he didn’t immediately have a comment on the case.
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No state in the eastern U.S. has grown faster in recent years than Florida, which has added nearly 3 million residents since 2010.
Now, the state is yet again in the path of a major hurricane, with Hurricane Ian expected to make landfall on Florida's western coast Wednesday. It is now classified as a Category 4 storm, according to the National Hurricane Center.
Tampa, Fort Myers and Sarasota — all among the state's fastest growing metropolitan areas — are within the range of predicted paths, the NHC said. Ian may bring a "life threatening storm surge, catastrophic winds and flooding in the Florida peninsula," the hurricane center said in its 5 a.m. ET update.
More people — and more buildings to house them, often in coastal areas — mean that a major hurricane could become more costly and destructive.
The population boom in hurricane-prone Florida is an example of the "expanding bullseye effect," said Stephen Strader, a professor at Villanova University who studies how human environments are vulnerable to natural disasters.
Imagine an archer taking aim at a target, he explained. If the bullseye is very small, the odds of the archer hitting it are low. But as the target grows, the archer's odds improve.
"Instead of an arrow, we have hazard events like hurricanes and tornadoes. Instead of having targets, we are the targets — our cities, our developed areas. And nowhere is that more readily seen than along our coastlines," Strader said.
Florida's population boom
At a time when population growth has slowed to a crawl in most of the U.S., Florida has bucked the trend.
Of the country's major metropolitan areas, only Austin and Raleigh have grown faster than Orlando since 2010. Jacksonville and Tampa are #10 and #12, respectively.
The state's smaller cities are bursting, too. Since 2010, no eastern U.S. city with at least 50,000 residents has grown faster than Fort Myers, the seat of the largest metropolitan area between Tampa and the Everglades, which added nearly 40% more residents in that time. Other areas like Port St. Lucie, Lakeland and the Villages have grown quickly, too.
Most of the state's recent population growth has come from domestic migration. In the year ending July 2021, nearly 221,000 Americans moved to Florida – an average of more than 600 people each day, more than any other state.
People move to Florida for all kinds of reasons: year-round warm weather, comparatively cheap housing, no individual income tax, and large communities of other retirees or immigrants, for example.
"People are able to look past the long-term risk and think about, 'Where do I want to be for the next 10 years of my life?'" Strader said. "But there's also a gambling aspect to that, and unfortunately, a lot of people are still willing to sit at the table."
More population means more damage
Officials have warned that Hurricane Ian could bring a storm surge of 10 feet or higher, along with 6 to 18 inches of rain. The geography of the Tampa-St. Petersburg area makes it especially susceptible to a storm surge, experts said, and heavy rain could cause flooding even in inland areas.
With so many more people living in the areas that could be affected, damage estimates are huge. Hurricanes are already the costliest natural disasters, and billion-dollar storms are happening more frequently than ever.
More than one million homes lay within potential reach of Hurricane Ian, according to one estimate released this week by CoreLogic, a property analytics firm. In the worst case scenario, the estimate found, the reconstruction value could total more than $258 billion.
The actual number is likely to be lower. And ever since 1992's Hurricane Andrew, Florida's building code has required new homes to be more resilient to storms.
Still, a Category 3 storm in such a populated area could cause more than $100 billion in damage, enough to place it among the four most costly storms in U.S. history.
"Hurricanes set the stage for disasters, but the severity and impact is going to be determined by societal elements – things like poverty and exposure, like how many people and how many homes are exposed, like construction quality," Strader said.
Newcomers mean officials must communicate effectively
Newcomers need to learn that hurricanes are "a part of living in Florida," said St. Petersburg Mayor Ken Welch.
"Folks who come to our state need to understand that when a storm like this comes, and you're in an evac area, you need to have a plan and you need to move when asked to," Welch said in an interview with NPR.
The influx of newcomers means public communication about evacuation and shelters is vitally important, said Eren Erman Ozguven, the director of the Resilient Infrastructure and Disaster Response Center at Florida State University and Florida A&M University.
"There are Floridians that have seen so many hurricanes over the last decades and who have muscle memory, and there are those that moved to Florida in the last decade. Many of them haven't seen a hurricane," he said.
Adding to the challenge is that many of the newcomers are retirees. "They may or may not have a smartphone, and they may still rely on traditional communication such as radio or TV," Ozguven said.
The last major hurricane to hit western Florida was in 2017, when Hurricane Irma thrashed the eastern part of the Fort Myers-Cape Coral metro area; tens of thousands of people have moved to the area since then. In Tampa, no hurricane has hit the city directly in decades.
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FOSTER CITY, Calif., May 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Arcellx, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACLX), a biotechnology company reimagining cell therapy through the development of innovative immunotherapies for patients with cancer and other incurable diseases, today announced the appointment of Michelle Gilson as Chief Financial Officer. Ms. Gilson joins Arcellx from Canaccord Genuity, where most recently she served as Managing Director and Senior Equity Research Analyst covering biotechnology companies. Ms. Gilson will oversee the company's finance function and will play a key role in overall corporate strategy.
"Michelle's vision, leadership, and experience as a research analyst, which included covering companies in the oncology space, will be an invaluable addition to the existing breadth of talent on our management team," said Rami Elghandour, Arcellx's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. "Michelle brings a depth of knowledge in capital markets and biotechnology and represents the values we look for in our leaders that made her an ideal fit for Arcellx. On behalf of our organization and Board of Directors, we welcome Michelle to our team. I look forward to the impactful role I know she will play as we continue towards our mission of bringing our cell therapy to market to help as many patients as possible."
Most recently, Ms. Gilson served as a Managing Director and Senior Equity Research Analyst at Canaccord Genuity, covering biotechnology companies. Prior to joining Canaccord, Ms. Gilson held biotechnology equity research roles at Jefferies, LLC; Instinet, LLC (Nomura Securities); Oppenheimer & Co. Inc.; and Goldman Sachs. Ms. Gilson earned her B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Southern California.
About Arcellx, Inc.
Arcellx, Inc. is a clinical-stage biotechnology company reimagining cell therapy by engineering innovative immunotherapies for patients with cancer and other incurable diseases. Arcellx believes that cell therapies are one of the forward pillars of medicine and Arcellx's mission is to advance humanity by developing cell therapies that are safer, more effective, and more broadly accessible. Arcellx's lead product candidate, CART-ddBCMA, is being developed for the treatment of relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma (r/r MM) in an ongoing Phase 1 study. CART-ddBCMA has been granted Fast Track, Orphan Drug, and Regenerative Medicine Advanced Therapy designations by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Arcellx is also advancing its dosable and controllable CAR-T therapy, ARC-SparX, through two programs: a Phase 1 study of ACLX-001 for r/r MM, initiated in the second quarter of 2022; and ACLX-002 in relapsed or refractory acute myeloid leukemia and high-risk myelodysplastic syndrome, expected to enter the clinic in the second half of 2022.
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Wall Street closed out a miserable September Friday with the S&P 500's worst monthly skid since March 2020, when the coronavirus pandemic crashed global markets.
The benchmark index ended the month with a 9.3% loss and posted its third straight losing quarter. It’s now at its lowest level since November 2020 and is down by more than a quarter since the start of the year.
The main reason financial markets continue to struggle is fear about a possible recession, as interest rates soar in hopes of beating down the high inflation that's swept the world.
“Quite frankly, if it’s a deep recession you’re going to have to see more of a sell-off," said Quincy Krosby, chief equity strategist for LPL Financial. “This is what the market is trying to navigate now."
The Federal Reserve has been at the forefront of the global campaign to slow economic growth and hurt job markets just enough to undercut inflation but not so much that it causes a recession. More data arrived Friday to suggest the Fed will keep its foot firmly on the brakes on the economy, raising the risk of its going too far and causing a downturn.
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The Fed’s preferred measure of inflation showed it was worse last month than economists expected. That should keep the Fed on track to keep raising rates and hold them at high levels a while, as it's loudly and repeatedly promised to do.
Vice Chair Lael Brainard was the latest Fed official on Friday to insist it won't pull back on rates prematurely. That helped to keep snuffed out hopes on Wall Street for a “pivot” toward easier rates as the economy slows.
“At this point, it’s not a matter of if we’ll have a recession, but what type of recession it will be,” said Sean Sun, portfolio manager at Thornburg Investment Management.
All told, the S&P 500 fell 54.85 points, or 1.5%, to close at 3,585.62 Friday, after flipping between small losses and gains through much of the day. It has now posted a weekly loss in six out of the last seven weeks.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 500.10 points, or 1.7%, to 28,725.51, and the Nasdaq composite slid 161.89 points, or 1.5%, to 10,575.62.
Higher interest rates knock down one of the main levers that set prices for stocks. The other lever also looks to be under threat as the slowing economy, high interest rates and other factors weigh on corporate profits.
Cruise ship operator Carnival dropped 23.3% for the biggest decline among S&P 500 stocks after it reported a bigger loss for its latest quarter than analysts expected and revenue that fell short of expectations. Rivals Norwegian Cruise Line and Royal Caribbean Group slid 18% and 13.2%, respectively.
Nike slumped 12.8%, its worst day in more than 20 years, after it said its profitability weakened during the summer because of discounts needed to clear suddenly overstuffed warehouses. The amount of shoes and gear in Nike’s inventories swelled by 44% from a year earlier.
This year's powerful surge for the U.S. dollar against other currencies also hurt Nike. Its worldwide revenue rose only 4%, instead of the 10% it would have if currency values had remained the same.
Nike isn't the only company to see its inventories balloon. So have several big-name retailers, and such bad news for businesses could actually mean some relief for shoppers if it leads to more discounts. It echoed some glimmers of encouragement buried within Friday's report on the Fed's preferred gauge of inflation. That showed some slowing of inflation for goods, even as price gains kept accelerating for services.
Another report on Friday also offered a glimmer of hope. A measure of consumer sentiment showed U.S. expectations for future inflation came down in September. That's crucial for the Fed because tightly held expectations for higher inflation can create a debilitating, self-reinforcing cycle that worsens it.
Treasury yields initially eased a bit on Friday, letting off some of the pressure that's built on markets, but then turned higher by late afternoon.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury rose to 3.81% from 3.79% late Thursday. The two-year yield, which more closely tracks expectations for Fed action, rose to 4.23% from 4.19%.
Still, a long list of other worries continues to hang over global markets, including increasing tensions between much of Europe and Russia following the invasion of Ukraine. A controversial plan to cut taxes by the U.K. government also sent bond markets spinning recently on fears it could make inflation even worse. Bond markets calmed a bit only after the Bank of England pledged mid-week to buy however many U.K. government bonds are needed to bring yields back down.
The stunning and swift rise of the U.S. dollar against other currencies, meanwhile, raises the risk of creating so much stress that something cracks somewhere in global markets.
Stocks around the world were mixed after a report showed that inflation in the 19 countries that use Europe's euro currency spiked to a record and data from China said that factory activity weakened there.
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If you haven’t noticed the floral section at your local Trader Joe’s, you might want to take a look next time you head out for a shopping trip.
Not only does the grocery chain have a variety of bouquets, but they are offered much cheaper than you’ll find at some other retailers, and definitely cheaper than a flower shop.
The store lists a handful of floral arrangements on its website, ranging from daffodils to fresh eucalyptus. Prices range from just $1.99 for 10 daffodil stems to $12.99 for a seasonal bouquet that Trader Joe’s says will have at least 18 stems.
The 10 daffodil stems are only available for four to five weeks in the spring, so you’ll want to get there soon while they’re still in stock. The low price makes them just 19 cents each, and 10 stems are more than enough to fill a vase for a pretty burst of color in your home.
The 18-stem seasonal bouquet’s price of $12.99 makes each stem just $1.38, which is far cheaper than bouquets you may find elsewhere. A similar bouquet is priced at $44.99 from 1-800-Flowers, while Sam’s Club has one that includes a vase for the same price.
Trader Joe’s says their bouquets are “artfully designed from flowers and greens of the season,” so you will likely find multiple arrangements with various flowers and colors.
Some people have taken to TikTok to share their flower finds, like user @lindsay_brown__, who posted a video showing peony tulips that she says cost less than $10.
@lindsay_brown__ These flowers were less than $10 from Trader Joes and I am one happy girl.
Trader Joe’s website lists them for $8.99, calling them a “customer and crew favorite,” saying their buyer “travels far and wide to wrangle enough peonies to fill our stores every spring.”
While their name suggests the flower is a cross between a peony and a tulip — two different flowers — Better Homes & Gardens says they’re actually just a type of double-flowered tulip, which means they have more petals than regular tulips and therefore look more like peonies.
Have you ever purchased flowers at Trader Joe’s?
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X marks the spot: Yellen tells Congress US could run out of money to pay all its bills by June 5
By FATIMA HUSSEIN
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has told Congress that the U.S. could default on its debt obligations by June 5 if lawmakers do not act in time to raise the federal debt ceiling. That’s four days later than previously estimated. Yellen’s letter Friday to legislators comes as Congress breaks for the three-day Memorial Day weekend, and as tensions build over whether a deal between the White House and Republicans in Congress will be struck in time. The so-called “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 has been employing since January to stretch existing funds. | 2023-05-27T02:44:26+00:00 | krdo.com | https://krdo.com/news/ap-national-news/2023/05/26/x-marks-the-spot-yellen-tells-congress-us-could-run-out-of-money-to-pay-all-its-bills-by-june-5/ |
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ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - One of the world’s most celebrated and influential speeches was delivered 60 years ago.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., made his now-famous “I Have a Dream” speech on August 28, 1963, capping the “March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom” event.
Below is the full text of his speech that has since inspired millions around the world.
“Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.
“But 100 years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself in exile in his own land. And so we’ve come here today to dramatize a shameful condition. In a sense we’ve come to our nation’s capital to cash a check.
“When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men — yes, Black men as well as white men — would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
“It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked insufficient funds.
“But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt.
“We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so we’ve come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.
“We have also come to his hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.
“Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quick sands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God’s children.
“It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro’s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. 1963 is not an end, but a beginning. Those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual.
“There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.
“But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
“We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force. The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny.
“And they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back.
“There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, when will you be satisfied? We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities.
“We cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro’s basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their selfhood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating: for whites only.
“We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote.
“No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream.
“I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive. Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our Northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed.
“Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends.
“So even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.
“I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
“I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today.
“I have a dream that one day down in Alabama with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, one day right down in Alabama little Black boys and Black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers. I have a dream today.
“I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.
“This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to the South with. With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.
“This will be the day when all of God’s children will be able to sing with new meaning: My country, ‘tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrims’ pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring.
“And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true. And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania. Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado. Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California. But not only that, let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia. Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee. Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring.
“And when this happens, and when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, Black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: Free at last. Free at last. Thank God almighty, we are free at last.”
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ATLANTA (AP) — Dozens of well-wishers made the pilgrimage Sunday to The Carter Center in Atlanta, as prayers and memories of former President Jimmy Carter’s legacy were offered up at his small Baptist church in Plains, Georgia, a day after he entered hospice care.
Among those paying homage was his niece, who noted the 39th president’s years of service in an emotional address at Maranatha Baptist Church, where Carter taught Sunday school for decades.
“I just want to read one of Uncle Jimmy’s quotes,” Kim Fuller said during the Sunday school morning service, adding: “Oh, this is going to be really hard.”
She referenced this quote from Carter: “I have one life and one chance to make it count for something. I’m free to choose that something. … My faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I can, whenever I can, for as long as I can.”
“Maybe if we think about it, maybe it’s time to pass the baton,” Fuller said before leading those gathered in prayer. “Who picks it up, I have no clue. I don’t know. Because this baton’s going to be a really big one.”
Carter, at age 98 the longest-lived American president, had a recent series of short hospital stays. The Carter Center said in a statement Saturday that the 39th president has now “decided to spend his remaining time at home with his family and receive hospice care instead of additional medical intervention.”
In Atlanta, people, some traveling many miles, made the trip to The Carter Center to reflect on the life of the former president on a spring-like Sunday under a sunny sky.
“I brought my sons down here today to pay respect for President Carter and teach them a little bit about how great a humanitarian he was, especially in the later stages of his life,” said James Culbertson, who drove an hour to Atlanta from Calhoun, Georgia.
The presidential library itself was closed in honor of President’s Day weekend, but people were still showing up to walk past the fountains and through the gardens.
David Brummett of Frederick County, Maryland, said he changed his Sunday morning plans when he heard news that Carter was in hospice care.
Brummett paused near a large statue of Carter, where someone had placed a potted plant of purple chrysanthemums at the base.
“Great man, great president, probably under-appreciated by those who didn’t know much about him,” Brummett said. “People should come here to appreciate the life, and the contributions he made both during his presidency and after.”
Following Fuller’s Sunday school service at Maranatha Baptist Church, Pastor Hugh Deloach offered prayers for the Carter family, particularly for Rosalynn Carter, the wife of the former president.
The Carters have been married for more than 75 years, making American history as the longest-married presidential couple.
“Lord, especially Mrs. Carter, and God look back on times and years that they’ve been together and Lord just strengthen her in the power of your might as well,” the pastor said.
Others took to social media to remember Carter, who served one term after defeating President Gerald Ford in 1976.
“Across life’s seasons, President Jimmy Carter, a man of great faith, has walked with God. In this tender time of transitioning, God is surely walking with him,” U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock, a Georgia Democrat, said in a tweet.
“May he, Rosalynn & the entire Carter family be comforted with that peace and surrounded by our love & prayers.”
The Carters volunteered for decades with Habitat for Humanity, beginning in 1984 and continuing until 2020.
“All of us at Habitat for Humanity are lifting up President and Mrs. Carter in prayer as he enters hospice care,” Habitat for Humanity International CEO Jonathan Reckford said in a statement.
“We pray for his comfort and for their peace, and that the Carter family experiences the joy of their relationships with each other and with God in this time,” Reckford said.
Nicholas Kristof, a New York Times columnist, tweeted: “Prize winners and truly impressive people. Few are as truly good as Jimmy Carter, who at age 98 is now entering hospice. He leaves this planet so much better than he found it. A great, great, great man.”
Carter was a little-known Georgia governor when he began his bid for the presidency ahead of the 1976 election. He went on to defeat Ford, capitalizing as a Washington outsider in the wake of the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal that drove Richard Nixon from office in 1974.
Carter served a single, tumultuous term and was defeated by Republican Ronald Reagan in 1980, a landslide loss that ultimately paved the way for his decades of global advocacy for democracy, public health and human rights via The Carter Center.
The former president and his wife, Rosalynn, 95, opened the center in 1982. His work there garnered a Nobel Peace Prize in 2002. | 2023-02-19T22:27:45+00:00 | fox59.com | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/fond-remembrances-for-jimmy-carter-after-entering-hospice/ |
The community-based health and wellness company rebrands as Lindywell, a Pilates and balanced living brand by Robin Long
SANTA BARBARA, Calif., July 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today The Balanced Life, founded in 2009 by Robin Long, announced the relaunch of its brand as Lindywell. Centered around a "Grace over Guilt" approach, Lindywell provides programs, tools and coaching to help a global community of millions of women in over 169 countries shift their approach to mental and physical health. Through intentional and effective Pilates workouts and self-care resources, Lindywell helps its community members overcome negative habitual thinking, while revitalizing their overall strength and health.
The inspiration for Lindywell, Pilates and Balanced Living with Robin Long, comes directly from three women Robin regards as strong, powerful and resilient: her mom, Linda, her aunt, Judy, and her grandmother, Lindy — which are characteristics Lindywell strives to cultivate in its community. Lindywell was born from Robin's complicated relationship with exercise and body image as a competitive dancer and athlete due to the rigidity, the unhealthy messaging and the decision fatigue that accompanied it. Instead, Lindywell embodies balance and fulfillment, intentionally designed to help to redefine the way women approach fitness, nourishment and health by cueing the brain to create new pathways and disrupt dysfunctional habits.
"With the power of Pilates at our core, we embrace positivity, authenticity and small changes that lead to real results. We don't buy the lie that we have to do more and eat less to live a healthy life," said Robin Long, founder, CEO and lead instructor of Lindywell. "For our community, this isn't a fad or something new, for more than 12 years we have been redefining the idea of progress. And, we're just getting started … there's much to do."
Lindywell blends intuitive Pilates instruction with realistic healthy eating that will help women build consistency for balanced living, founded on three core values: accessible Pilates, attainable nourishment, and a thriving mindset. "Grace over guilt" encourages consistency, enjoyable experiences and sustainable results to help every woman live life to the fullest.
Coinciding with the rebrand, Lindywell relaunches its on-demand fitness and wellness app, available for iOS and Android devices. At the time of launch, the community-driven Lindywell program provides access to 250+ on-demand Pilates workout videos that can be accessed via phone, tablet, computer or cast to a television, plus exclusive monthly workout calendars and curated recipes by Lindywell registered dietitians — all rooted in a community of positivity and support. Plans range from monthly ($27), six-month ($24/month) or twelve-month ($19/month) options.
The Lindywell rebrand can be experienced through its website, fitness app, podcast, newsletter, social media channels (@wearelindywell) and merchandise. Visit www.lindywell.com to start a free 14-day trial and discover balanced living through Pilates, nourishment and mindset together.
Lindywell, formerly The Balanced Life, was started by Robin Long in 2009 as a way to change her relationship with exercise. The unhealthy messaging, decision fatigue and overall rigidity she found in the world of wellness and physical fitness felt exhausting rather than invigorating — the opposite of the balanced and supportive approach she craved. Over the years, Robin has built a welcoming community of strong, courageous and resilient women embracing grace over guilt. With Pilates as its core practice, Lindywell provides tools, resources and tips to help busy women improve their health through realistic and effective workouts and self-care resources. Learn more, visit www.lindywell.com.
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MILWAUKEE, Aug. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The following is being released by A.B. Data, Ltd., the Court-appointed Notice Administrator for the Class Action in In re Flint Water Cases, Case No. 5:16-cv-10444-JEL-EAS, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
NOTICE OF PENDENCY OF CLASS ACTION
This Notice explains the pendency of a class action in the Flint Water Cases. This Notice relates solely to claims against two engineering firms, VNA and LAN, that Plaintiffs allege are liable for injuries suffered as a result of the Flint Water Crisis. The Court certified two issues classes to address nine questions— called Certified Issues— that are necessary for resolution of Plaintiffs' claims. There is no settlement or claims process at this time related to the claims that are the subject of this Notice.
Who is Included?
The issues classes certified by the Court (the "Issues Classes" or "Class") include the following persons and entities:
Multi-Defendant Issues Class (Rule 23(c)(4)): All persons and entities who, for any period of time between February 10, 2015, and October 16, 2015, were exposed to or purchased drinking water supplied by the City of Flint, owned real property in the City of Flint, or owned or operated a business in the City of Flint.
LAN Issues Class (Rule 23(c)(4)): All persons and entities who, for any period of time between April 25, 2014, and October 16, 2015, were exposed to or purchased drinking water supplied by the City of Flint, owned real property in the City of Flint, or owned or operated a business in the City of Flint.
Any person or entity included in either or both of the Issues Classes is referred to here as a "Class member." Some persons or entities may meet this definition but be excluded for other reasons — please read the Long-Form Notice, available to download at www.FlintWaterIssueClass.com or contact your lawyer if you have one to determine if you qualify.
This is only a summary. The Court has not decided whether either VNA or LAN breached the standard of care for water engineering companies. The Court will address nine Certified Issues as part of the class action. If Plaintiffs succeed on Certified Issues 1-6 and 8-9, then Class members will have the option to file individual lawsuits in which they will have to prove that VNA and/or LAN caused their injuries and they also must prove the nature and amount of their damages before they can receive any award of damages. However, your legal rights are affected, and you have a choice to make now. For additional details, please read the Long-Form Notice available to download at www.FlintWaterIssueClass.com.
Your Rights and Options
DO NOTHING: Stay in this lawsuit. Await the outcome. Give up certain rights. This option means that you remain part of the Class. You will be bound by the resolution of the nine Certified Issues.
EXCLUDE YOURSELF FROM THE CLASS: Get out of the lawsuit. Get no benefits from it. Keep rights. This option allows you to exclude yourself from the Class lawsuit and retain the right to file a separate lawsuit against VNA and/or LAN asserting the claims relating to the allegations in this case within a specified time period. The deadline to exclude yourself from the Class is October 17, 2022. Specific instructions on how to request exclusion are included in the Long-Form Notice available to download at www.FlintWaterIssueClass.com.
Current Status of the Lawsuit
The lawsuit is currently pending in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan before United States District Judge Judith E. Levy. The Class Action is part of the cases referred to as In re Flint Water Cases, under the civil action number 5:16-cv- 10444-JEL-EAS. The Court has not yet determined whether a trial is required in this case. Class Plaintiffs will have to put on evidence at trial regarding the nine Certified Issues. With the exception of Issue 7, Class Plaintiffs need to prevail on every Certified Issue in order for you to have a chance to collect damages. If Class Plaintiffs obtain a favorable verdict on all eight of those Certified Issues, then individual Class members will be entitled to use the jury's verdict to pursue their individual claims in subsequent lawsuits, if they so choose. These subsequent lawsuits would be brought by the individual Class members, and in those lawsuits the individual Class members must prove the remaining elements of their claims against VNA and LAN and also must prove the nature and amount of their damages.
There is also a settlement pending involving the State of Michigan, City of Flint, and other Government Defendants. This Notice does not relate to or affect that settlement.
Want More Information?
You can view a copy of relevant pleadings and Court orders and read a list of Frequently Asked Questions and Answers at www.FlintWaterIssueClass.com. You may also write with questions to the Notice Administrator, c/o A.B. Data, Ltd., P.O. Box 173136, Milwaukee, WI 53217, call toll-free (866) 963-9973 or send an email to info@FlintWaterIssueClass.com.
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Europe’s interest rates to stay high as long as needed to defeat inflation, central bank chief says
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde warned Tuesday that inflation is holding its grip on the economy and underlined that the bank intends to raise rates high enough to “break this persistence.”
Lagarde acknowledged that inflation has fallen from all-time highs last year as energy prices plunged and the bank rolled out a rapid series of rate increases, which are meant to fight price spikes by making it more expensive for consumers and businesses to borrow and spend.
“We are seeing a decline in the inflation rate as the shocks that originally drove up inflation wane and our monetary policy actions are transmitted to the economy,” she said in a speech opening the ECB’s annual policy conference in Sintra, Portugal.
“But the pass-through of those shocks is still ongoing, making the decline in inflation slower and the inflation process more persistent,” Lagarde added.
Businesses initially passed on their rising costs by charging customers higher prices, a phase that is starting to wane. Now, with unemployment at record lows, workers are demanding higher wages to make up for lost purchasing power — threatening to keep pushing up inflation in a wage-price spiral that the bank must prevent.
Workers, Lagarde said, “have so far lost out from the inflation shock, seeing large real wage declines, which is triggering a sustained wage catch-up process as they try to recover their losses. This is pushing up other measures of underlying inflation.”
She said the ECB needs “to address this dynamic decisively” by raising rates as far as needed. The bank would discourage “expectations of a too-rapid policy reversal” and keep rates high for as long as needed, Lagarde said.
Inflation in the 20 countries that use the euro currency came in at 6.1% in May, heading down from a peak of 10.6% in October after declines in energy prices that surged after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
But inflation is well above the bank’s target of 2% considered best for the economy. And core inflation — which excludes volatile food and fuel prices — is stubbornly high at 5.3%. New inflation figures are to be published Friday, with analysts at Deutsche Bank foreseeing another decline in overall inflation to 5.8%.
Higher interest rates can weaken the economy and raise the risk of recession. Europe’s economy already contracted slightly in the last months of 2022 and the first three months of this year, with two straight quarters of falling output being one definition of recession.
Even so, the bank is expected to raise interest rates again by a quarter-percentage point next month.
Lagarde all but promised such a hike at the bank’s meeting this month, repeating in her speech Tuesday that “barring a material change to the outlook, we will continue to increase rates in July.”
Central banks around the world have rapidly increased borrowing costs to combat inflation stemming from the global rebound from the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia’s war in Ukraine.
The U.S. Federal Reserve paused rate rises at its meeting this month, but Chair Jerome Powell, who will speak on a panel Wednesday with Lagarde and other major economies’ central bank chiefs, has said Fed officials expect to raise interest rates further this year.
The Bank of England surprised with a large half-point hike last week.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Students who used federal loans to attend ITT Technical Institute as far back as 2005 will automatically get that debt canceled after authorities found “widespread and pervasive misrepresentations” at the defunct for-profit college chain, the Biden administration announced Tuesday.
The action will cancel $3.9 billion in federal student debt for 208,000 borrowers, the Education Department said. The debt is being forgiven using a federal rule known as borrower defense, which is meant to protect students from colleges that make false advertising claims or otherwise commit fraud.
“The evidence shows that for years, ITT’s leaders intentionally misled students about the quality of their programs in order to profit off federal student loan programs, with no regard for the hardship this would cause,” Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said.
It adds to the administration’s growing list of piecemeal student debt cancellations — a similar action in June promised to erase $5.8 billion in debt related to Corinthian Colleges — but it provided no answers on broader student debt cancellation.
President Joe Biden supported debt cancellation as a presidential candidate and for months has been considering erasing up to $10,000 per borrower. He recently promised a decision by the end of August, but Tuesday’s announcement cast no new light on his thinking.
Through targeted cancellation for specific groups of borrowers, the administration says it has now approved nearly $32 billion in student debt for 1.6 million borrowers.
The new policy will automatically cancel any remaining federal student debt that was used to attend ITT Tech from Jan. 1, 2005, through its closure in 2016.
At its height, ITT was among the largest for-profit college chains in the nation, with 130 campuses across 38 states. The company abruptly shut down after facing heavy sanctions from the Education Department amid accusations that the company pushed students into risky loans and misled them about the quality of academic programs.
The Education Department has previously approved the cancellation of $1.9 billion in debt held by former ITT Tech students, largely for students who applied for relief saying they were misled by the company. The new policy will not require borrowers to apply for relief.
Federal officials based the decision on findings from many state attorneys general, along with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the nonprofit Veterans Education Success.
Investigators found widespread evidence that ITT Tech made false claims about the ability of its students to find jobs after graduating, the agency said. They also found that the chain misled students about their ability to get credits transferred to other schools, and about the accreditation of the chain’s nursing program.
“ITT defrauded hundreds of thousands of students,” said Richard Cordray, chief of Federal Student Aid, the federal office that oversees student loans. “By delivering the loan relief students deserve, we are giving them the opportunity to resume their educational journey without the unfair burden of student debt they are carrying from a dishonest institution.”
The decision drew applause from groups that represent students.
“This is a life-changing announcement for thousands of people who only wanted to improve their lives and trusted the wrong people to help them do it,” said Libby Webster, senior counsel of the nonprofit Student Defense.
Tasha Berkhalter enrolled at ITT Tech in 2006 to pursue a career in criminal justice after being honorably discharged from the Army. Recruiters promised she would easily find a job after graduating. But after earning her bachelor’s, no one would hire her.
“It was all for a degree that no one takes seriously. Whenever I told employers where I attended college, I was shown the door,” said Berkhalter, of Lima, Ohio.
Berkhalter previously got much of her nearly $100,000 in debt erased through the borrower defense rule, and said she expects more to be canceled soon.
“The cloud has been removed from over my head,” she said. “I know there are hundreds of thousands of former students like myself who are finally getting the relief they deserve.”
In a separate action, the Education Department began a process to recoup $24 million from DeVry University to make up for loan cancellations approved by the federal government because of alleged fraud.
In February, the Biden administration approved $70 million in relief for 1,800 former DeVry students after the Education Department concluded that the school lied about the success of its graduates in order to get new students to enroll. It was the first time the agency approved such claims for an institution that’s still in operation.
DeVry will now get the chance to submit arguments explaining why it should not be held liable. DeVry officials are reviewing the department’s notice, spokesperson Hessy Fernandez said. She emphasized that the school has changed ownership and leadership since the time of the allegations.
“We continue to believe the department mischaracterizes DeVry’s calculation and disclosure of graduate outcomes in certain advertising, and we do not agree with the conclusions they have reached,” Fernandez said.
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NEW YORK, May 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: New York, N.Y., May 1, 2023. Rosen Law Firm reminds purchasers of the securities of Marathon Digital Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: MARA) between May 10, 2021 and February 28, 2023, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important May 30, 2023 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Marathon securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Marathon class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=3108 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than May 30, 2023. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually handle securities class actions, but are merely middlemen that refer clients or partner with law firms that actually litigate the cases. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: The complaint alleges that throughout the Class Period, defendants made materially false and misleading statements regarding Marathon's business, operations, and prospects. Specifically, defendants made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Marathon overstated the efficacy of its disclosure controls and procedures and internal control over financial reporting; (2) as a result, Marathon's revenues and cost of revenue were materially misstated during the Class Period; (3) the foregoing, once revealed, was reasonably likely to have a material negative impact on Marathon's financial condition; and (4) as a result, Marathon's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
To join the Marathon class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=3108 mailto:or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action.
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Nuggets vs. Heat: Odds, spread, over/under and other Vegas lines - NBA Finals Game 5
Published: Jun. 12, 2023 at 1:49 PM CDT|Updated: 48 minutes ago
In Game 5 of the NBA Finals, the Denver Nuggets will be looking for a win against Miami Heat.
In this article, you can find odds and spreads for the Nuggets vs. Heat matchup across multiple sportsbooks.
Nuggets vs. Heat Game Info
- Date: Monday, June 12, 2023
- Time: 8:30 PM ET
- How to Watch on TV: ABC
- Location: Denver, Colorado
- Venue: Ball Arena
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Nuggets vs. Heat Betting Trends
- The Nuggets are outscoring opponents by 3.3 points per game with a +273 scoring differential overall. They put up 115.8 points per game (12th in the NBA) and give up 112.5 per contest (eighth in the league).
- The Heat put up 109.5 points per game (30th in league) while allowing 109.8 per contest (second in NBA). They have a -26 scoring differential.
- The teams combine to score 225.3 points per game, 14.8 more points than this matchup's total.
- These teams surrender a combined 222.3 points per game, 11.8 more points than this contest's total.
- Denver has covered 45 times in 82 matchups with a spread this season.
- Miami has compiled a 30-52-0 ATS record so far this season.
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RICHMOND, Va. — Seven people were shot, two fatally, when gunfire rang out Tuesday outside a downtown theater in Richmond, Virginia, where a high school graduation ceremony had just ended, causing hundreds of attendees to flee in panic, weep and clutch their children, authorities and witnesses said.
A 19-year-old suspect tried to escape on foot but was arrested and will be charged with two counts of second-degree murder, Interim Richmond Police Chief Rick Edwards said during a nighttime news conference at which he confirmed the two fatalities.
Five others were wounded by the gunfire outside the state capital's city-owned Altria Theater, which is across the street from a large, grassy park and in the middle of the Virginia Commonwealth University campus. At least 12 others were injured or treated for anxiety due to the mayhem, according to police.
“As they heard the gunfire, it was obviously chaos," Edwards said. "We had hundreds of people in Monroe Park, so people scattered. It was very chaotic at the scene.”
Edwards said one of the people who was killed was an 18-year-old male student who had just graduated, while the other was a 36-year-old man who was there for the graduation. Their names were not released, but police believe the suspect, who was not immediately identified, knew at least one of the victims.
“This should have been a safe space. People should have felt safe at a graduation,” Edwards said.
“It’s just incredibly tragic that someone decided to bring a gun to this incident and rain terror on our community.”
Six people were brought to VCU Medical Center and their conditions ranged from serious to critical late Tuesday, VCU Health System spokesperson Mary Kate Brogan said.
Multiple handguns were recovered. Police initially said two suspects were detained, but Edwards said later that they determined one of them was not involved.
Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney vowed to ensure anyone responsible faces justice.
"This should not be happening anywhere,” Stoney said.
Officers inside the theater, where the graduation ceremony for Huguenot High School had been taking place, heard gunfire around 5:15 p.m. and radioed to police stationed outside, who found multiple victims, Edwards said.
School board member Jonathan Young told Richmond TV station WWBT that graduates and other attendees were leaving the building when they heard about 20 gunshots in rapid succession.
“That prompted, as you would expect, hundreds of persons in an effort to flee the gunfire to return to the building,” Young said.
“It materialized in a stampede,” he said.
Two people were treated for falls; one juvenile was struck by a car and sustained injuries that were not life-threatening; and nine people were treated at the scene for minor injuries or anxiety, according to police spokeswoman Tracy Walker.
Richmond Public Schools Superintendent Jason Kamras said the new graduates were outside taking photos with families and friends when the shooting broke out.
“I don’t have any more words on this,” Kamras said. “I’m just tired of seeing people get shot, our kids get shot. And I beg of the entire community to stop, to just stop.”
As he heard the gunshots and then sirens, neighbor John Willard, 69, stepped onto the balcony of his 18th-floor apartment. Below, he saw students fleeing in their graduation outfits and parents hugging children.
“There was one poor woman in front of the apartment block next to ours who was wailing and crying,” Willard said, adding that the scene left him deeply saddened.
Edythe Payne was helping her daughter sell flowers outside the theater to students as they left the ceremony. She told the Richmond Times-Dispatch that the shooting caused a panic on nearby Main Street, which was packed with people at the time.
“I felt bad because some elderly people were at the graduation and they got knocked down to the ground,” Payne said.
The school district said a different graduation scheduled for later Tuesday had been canceled “out of an abundance of caution" and schools would be closed Wednesday.
The mass shooting, the latest in a nation increasingly accustomed to them, prompted calls for reform.
“The gun violence epidemic is a public health crisis that we must address,” U.S. Rep. Jennifer McClellan, a Democrat whose district includes Richmond, said in a statement. “We cannot continue to live in fear. We must address the root causes of gun violence and pass common sense gun safety policies that protect our communities.”
Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears, an ardent gun-rights advocate, said in remarks to news outlets near the scene that the problem lies not with guns but with criminals.
“We have to figure out what’s going on in our communities,” she said.
___ Associated Press journalists Jonathan Drew in Raleigh, North Carolina, and Beatrice Dupuy in New York contributed to this report. | 2023-06-07T14:08:49+00:00 | ktvb.com | https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/nation-world/2-dead-after-high-school-graduation-shooting/507-c72162c9-bf0e-4f68-bb7e-d999647b31f9 |
BALTIMORE — House Democrats are gathering in Baltimore for their annual issues conference this week to chart a path back to the majority in 2024.
It’s an operation they say can be achieved by capitalizing on the legislative achievements they secured in the first two years of President Biden’s term, when they had the upper hand in the lower chamber. But success is far from certain as Republicans hammer Democrats on issues including rising costs and the southern border, and several high-profile and high-stakes battles loom this year.
The retreat — taking place at a hotel in Charm City’s Inner Harbor — comes roughly four months after House Democrats exceeded expectations in November’s midterm elections, holding Republicans to a slim, five-seat majority.
Party leaders say that with the right messaging, they can build on that.
“All of us share the same goal,” House Democratic Caucus Chairman Pete Aguilar (D-Calif.) said during Wednesday’s opening press conference, “and that is to safeguard the progress that we have made for the last two years, and to make sure that Democrats take the House again in 2024.”
“We had unexpected results last November because we put people over politics and explained time and time again exactly what we were doing,” Assistant Democratic Leader James Clyburn (S.C.) added. “We’re gonna further that.”
Democrats’ dominance on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue in the last Congress — controlling each chamber and the White House — propelled the caucus toward a number of legislative accomplishments that Biden signed into law.
The party claimed victory with the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 rescue package and a $740 billion tax, climate and health bill — both of which were passed along party lines — in addition to the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill, $280 billion CHIPS and Science Act and gun safety bill.
Party leaders are hopeful that implementing and communicating those wins to the American public will help them usher in a Democratic majority next November.
That game plan will be a prime focus of the caucus’s annual retreat this week, which will feature remarks from President Biden, Vice President Harris and a number of Cabinet officials.
“Over the last Congress, we were able to deliver significant victories for the American people,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said, listing off their five main achievements.
“That’s an agenda that puts people over politics,” he added, referring to the retreat’s theme. “It’s an agenda that we will stand behind, continue to bring to life as we move it forward this year and throughout the balance of this Congress.”
Recent polls, however, suggest that Biden’s legislative agenda is not resonating with the American public, highlighting the work Democrats will have to do between now and November to reach their ultimate goal.
In a survey conducted by The Washington Post and ABC News between Jan. 27 and Feb. 1, 62 percent of Americans said Biden has accomplished “not very much” or “little or nothing” during the first two years of his presidency. Only 36 percent said he has gotten done “a great deal” or “a good amount.”
The numbers varied by party. Seventy-seven percent of Democrats said Biden has accomplished “a great deal” or “a good amount” in that time frame, while 32 percent of Independents and 7 percent of Republicans said the same.
The president is unlikely to see many — if any — of his legislative initiatives cross the finish line in the final two years of his term amid a divided Congress, underscoring the importance of touting Democratic wins from the previous session.
Democrats have to flip at least five seats next November to retake control of the chamber, an undertaking that the caucus is already gaming out. Rep. Suzan DelBene (D-Wash.), the chairwoman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, said on Wednesday that there are 18 Republican-held seats in districts that Biden won in 2020, calling the map “incredible opportunity.”
“We’re recruiting great candidates across the country, we’re gonna defend our incredible members and take back the majority so that we have Speaker Hakeem Jeffries,” she said.
The retreat comes roughly three months into House Democrats’ time in the minority, which has been dominated by votes on Republican messaging bills and hearings on hot-button issues like the situation at the southern border and social media censorship.
For their first legislative effort of the session, House Republicans passed a bill to rescind the bulk of an IRS funding boost that President Biden signed into law last year as part of the Democrats’ Inflation Reduction Act. And earlier this month, the GOP-led House Oversight and Accountability Committee held a hearing focused on Twitter’s decision to limit the spread of a New York Post story about a laptop belonging to the president’s son, Hunter Biden.
Part of their strategy for taking back the majority, Democratic lawmakers said, is creating a contrast with the group they have consistently dubbed as “extreme MAGA Republicans.”
“We are working hard to continue to make sure our message is heard by the American people, and that we hold Republicans accountable for their extreme agenda,” DelBene said.
“We want to make sure that people see what Republicans are, what their message is, which is extreme. It is not focused on the needs of the American people,” she added. “So we’re gonna hold them accountable.”
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.), the vice chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, said the party will “be making sure we can come together on an agenda that can continue moving the American family forward, and to stop stupid stuff from Republicans,” pointing to a national abortion ban and a threat to not raise the debt ceiling.
Another question hanging over the heads of House Democrats this week is the fate of the White House in 2024. Biden, who is the oldest person to hold the presidency at age 81, is widely expected to run for a second term, but when that announcement will come remains unknown.
The 2024 Republican presidential primary is already underway, with former President Trump and former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley having thrown their hats in the ring. And Democrat Marianne Williamson, who ran for president in 2020, confirmed that he will formally announce a 2024 campaign this weekend, setting up Biden’s first primary challenger.
Asked Wednesday, hours before Biden was set to address the caucus, if the president should announce his reelection campaign sooner rather than later, Aguilar said the decision rests squarely with Biden and his team.
“I trust that the president and his team are going to have those conversations with the American public in the proper timeline, under a timeline that he and his family are comfortable with,” he said.
“We look forward to the president affirming that we are partners in this progress that we have made. We look forward to him talking about his economic agenda, how we’ve been able to create jobs, how inflation is cooling, and how more people are back at work,” he added. | 2023-03-02T01:29:17+00:00 | kron4.com | https://www.kron4.com/hill-politics/house-democrats-gather-to-chart-path-toward-2024-majority-with-wins-from-last-congress/ |
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Caitlin Williams, owner-operator of Red Dog Ranch, is a Karen Pryor Clicker Training and Animal Behavior College Certified Dog Trainer. She uses positive reinforcement methods to communicate with dogs in a rewarding manner.
The ranch offers private training sessions with owner and dog, dog boarding, and doggy daycare services.
For information, go to reddogflorence.com.
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Caitlin Williams, owner of Red Dog Ranch in Florence, has years of experience caring for an training dogs — and their people. Like bringing home a baby, she said most folks are surprised by all they did not know when they bring home a new dog.
She has some advice for those considering getting a dog
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Selecting a dog
Williams said you first must determine how a dog will fit into your life. That means considering things such as your work schedule, vacations and living arrangements.
“What you need to know is really dependent on your lifestyle and on the type of dog you are getting,” she said.
People should evaluate whether or not they work long shifts, or travel frequently. A long workshift or frequent travel could mean an added cost for a dog walking service, or for kennel care while you are away.
She said her dogs traveled with her and she went to pet-friendly hotels.
"Now, I have a camper and we go to campgrounds," Williams said. "It better suits my life and how I want to live with my dogs."
She added that before folks choose to bring a dog into their lives, it is important to understand the commitment you are making.
“If you are lucky, it is a 15- to 20-year commitment with another living being,” she said. “Your life should change when you add a dog to your family — it should change and include that dog rather than treating it as a part-time accessory.”
There is a time and a money commitment to having a dog, Williams said. You will need to spend time with it for socializing, exercising, training and playing with the dog, as well as giving it potty breaks, vet and grooming visits.
And, she said, you must consider the cost for a high quality dog food, annual vet examinations and preventative medicine, in addition to unexpected injuries and illness, as well as boarding and grooming.
Williams also cautioned folks to be careful when choosing a dog and not rely heavily on Hollywood portrayals of certain breeds. Those theatrical depictions often skew dog owners’ expectations.
“Certain dogs have certain limitations and abilities,” Williams said. “Just because we saw that breed do something on a screen does not mean every dog like it will do it in real life.”
And be wary of comparing a former pet to a new one. While certain breeds might have certain capabilities, each animal has its own personality.
“All dogs are a little bit different,” she said. “All trainers will tell you that not all dogs meet breed standards. Just like people, they have their individual personalities and quirks.”
Also, you must consider your physical capabilities. For instance, if you are more of a couch potato, you probably don't want a dog that is going to require vigorous exercise.
If you have a boat or like to spend a lot of time on the water, you probably would do better with a dog that likes water, such as Labrador retrievers.
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When you get a dog
When it comes to owning your own pup, Williams said there are a few things that all dog owners should know.
First, the family must decide the rules they want the dog to live by — and stick to them.
For example, Williams said families should decide whether the dog will be allowed on furniture, and whether you will allow it to sleep with you.
"If Dad lets the dog on the couch, and Mom doesn't, it's confusing to the dog," Williams said.
She said dogs thrive with structure, so giving them clear guidelines is key.
And don't say, "just this one time," Williams said.
"Consistency is the easiest thing to be lax on," she said. But it is important that you maintain the rules you set up so your dog knows what is expected.
"You want to teach your dog what you want them to do instead of always harping on the things you don't want them to do," Williams said.
Williams also believes that crate training is important for your pet.
"It might be an unpopular opinion, but it's a great tool to keep your dog safe and comfortable," she said. "What if your dog has to spend some time at the vet’s office for treatment? Or what if they get injured and are put on 'kennel rest' to heal? These are scenarios that proper crate training would assist with your dog staying calm and comfortable."
Finally, Williams said you must be prepared to be the advocate for your pet.
"You should know your dog better than anyone else," Williams said. "So, when something doesn’t seem right, when they’re not quite acting themselves, when you’ve got a gut feeling that something needs attention, you can be the one to speak up for your pup since they can't use words to tell us."
She has personal experience with this through her dog, Tony.
"Something wasn’t right," she said. "He wasn’t just getting older. He was getting enough exercise. His diet was monitored. But something was just off with him. Multiple vet visits and different tests were run until we figured it out. Tony wasn’t just old, lazy, or overweight — he has hypothyroidism. As soon as we got on a medicinal regimen, he trimmed up and got back to his happy, more energetic self."
"If I had just written it off as “he’s getting older, slower, more tired, chunkier, etc., then we wouldn’t have known to look for the problem. | 2022-07-04T07:26:29+00:00 | timesdaily.com | https://www.timesdaily.com/things-dog-owners-should-know/article_c506f8c4-a747-53f5-b5b6-4678b657f372.html |
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Dear Amy: My boyfriend, “Steve,” and I have been together for over two years. He is extremely kind and generous to me. I can see a long-term future with him. Steve is divorced with three children, ages 5 (a son “A”), 7 (a daughter, “B”), and 9 (a son, “C”).
The issue is this: Steve openly favors the youngest, “A,” and is openly disdainful of the middle child, “B.” I have spoken to him repeatedly of the obvious favoritism and the mistreatment of his daughter, but he then accuses me of favoring her. When we get into arguments about the kids, he will blame the kids for my being upset and will punish them.
B recently confided in me that their mother threatened to take him to court if he didn’t change his behavior toward them. B has told both me and her mother about this favoritism, but Steve will staunchly deny it, even though multiple people have brought it to his attention.
I am worried that if he doesn’t start acknowledging the deeper issues and rectifying his relationship with his daughter, his ex will take him to court (rightfully so). I am also torn, wondering if I should stay with someone who refuses to accept any responsibility in conflict, particularly when it comes to his children.
— Conflicted Girlfriend in Tennessee
Conflicted: No you should not stay with someone who refuses to accept any responsibility regarding conflicts, and who blames and punishes his children if you become upset.
Both of these parents seem quite flawed — for instance, using a 9-year-old to convey a message regarding pulling her father into court shows poor judgment on the mother’s part. You are someone outside these family units who nonetheless has an inside view and a valid point of view regarding these children.
When pondering your life in the longer term with this man, I’d like you to imagine the next 10 years with three children growing into challenging adolescent and teen years, with you trying to mediate on the kids’ behalf between two warring parents, with at least one of these parents unwilling even to consider altering his behavior, even when it threatens to harm his relationship with his family.
You should be with someone who is willing to co-parent through conflict, because when it comes to stepparenting, if you don’t work as a team, you don’t work.
Dear Amy: My husband was recently diagnosed with cancer (for the second time). While we have been assured that this is not a death sentence, we have an unpredictable journey ahead of us with tests, treatments, lifestyle changes and so on. Would you please ask your readers not to dismiss news like this?
One person said to me, “Oh, that cancer is nothing!” Maybe it would be nothing to her, but it is certainly something to us. And I know that people mean well when they say, “I know several people who have had cancer and they’re fine.”
More people are surviving cancer today, but we are in the early stages and uncertain about everything. What is even worse is one friend telling us about all of the people he knew with that cancer who subsequently died. Really, folks, comments like these don’t help, and they create more anxiety for the patient and family. Thank you for letting me vent.
— Retired English Professor
Professor: I am running your comment as yet another in a series of “public service announcements” regarding how people sometimes respond to troubling health news. I once watched someone dismiss a friend’s obvious concern regarding a cancer diagnosis with the familiar: “I had a friend with that, and it’s no big deal.”
This might seem helpful or reassuring to the person saying it, but what they are doing is telling a very worried person that their current feelings are not legitimate.
Dear Amy: Like “Old Worrier,” I met a woman and knew immediately that she was “the one.” I gave her a ring and she gave me the news that she was pregnant by a one-night stand. I knew that she was a human — just like me. I also knew that if she was divorced or a widow with a child, I would still marry her.
Well into our senior years now, we know this was the best choice we ever made.
— Anonymous
Anonymous: Beautiful!
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Here & Now‘s Jane Clayson speaks with Michelle Krebs, an executive analyst at Cox Automotive, about California’s move to ban the sale of new cars that run only on gas by 2035.
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WFO LUBBOCK Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, August 4, 2022
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735 PM CDT Thu Aug 4 2022
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CDT
FOR SOUTHWESTERN CHILDRESS AND SOUTHEASTERN HALL COUNTIES...
At 735 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Childress,
moving west at 10 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
Locations impacted include...
Childress, Tell and Estelline.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
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FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — The federal government is spending more money on improvements at Dallas-Fort Worth International and other airports that officials say will increase safety by reducing the number of times that planes on the ground must taxi across active runways.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg stood before a bulldozer and mountain of dirt Thursday as he announced that DFW, the nation's second busiest airport behind Atlanta, will get $29 million more for a new “end-around taxiway.”
DFW officials say that when work is completed in 2025, it will eliminate the need for planes to taxi across two of the airport's main runways.
“Every time a plane has to cross an active runway to get to where it's going, that's a source of risk,” Buttigieg told reporters.
Buttigieg said the most serious runway incursions — when planes or ground vehicles are too close together — are happening twice a month now instead of once a month.
“We want to get that to zero, and so there is also a paradigm shift of treating the close calls with the same level of seriousness that we treat actual incidents," he said — declining to even utter the word “accidents.”
Plans for the new taxiway were in the works before the recent spate of close calls between planes at airports around the country. And it won't prevent incidents like the one in January at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, when an American Airlines crew took two wrong turns and crossed a runway in front of a departing Delta Air Lines jet.
But Buttigieg and the Federal Aviation Administration are eager to show the public they are responding to increasing concern about air safety.
The FAA's acting administrator, Billy Nolen, held a “safety summit” of airline-industry groups two weeks ago and called for more data about the recent close calls. Nolen followed that with an alert to pilots and everyone else in aviation — in effect, telling them to pay more attention to safety procedures.
At DFW Airport, the FAA has promised to provide $180 million for a recently completed taxiway on the north side of the terminals and the new one on the south side. Officials say they will reduce the amount of time passengers must spend in planes taxiing between gates and runways.
DFW is one of four airports Buttigieg is touring this week to tout infrastructure projects supported by the Biden administration. The others are Charlotte, North Carolina, where a similar end-around taxiway is being built; Little Rock, Arkansas; and Oklahoma City. | 2023-03-30T18:52:13+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/politics/article/buttigieg-touts-airport-projects-to-boost-safety-17869365.php |
SOUTH EUCLID, Ohio -- The subject of South Euclid Municipal Court played a big part in Monday’s (Dec. 12) City Council meeting.
First, it was stated that Timothy Sterkel will become SEMC Judge when he officially takes the bench of Dec. 16. Second, council passed a resolution pertaining to what Law Director Michael Lograsso termed the “long-awaited and overdue settlement agreement with the South Euclid Municipal Court.”
In 2019, former SEMC judge Gayle Williams-Byers filed a lawsuit against the city and City Council, claiming that the city took money without her permission from the judge’s discretionary funds, and used that money to pay court employees’ benefits and salaries in 2018, and in years prior. The city, and Lograsso, had denied misappropriating funds.
Williams-Byers, who resigned from the bench in July of this year, had also sued the city in 2019 for not meeting her annual budget request amount for that year of $920,000. City Council, instead, opted to give the court $728,000, citing the fact that the city was battling a financial deficit. The $920,000 amount would have been an increase of $211,000 above the $708,000 the city gave the court in 2018. The city prevailed in this case.
The settlement was reached without the matter going to court. It will have the city pay SEMC $85,000 so that three court funds that now have negative balances can be replenished.
Under state law, even though Williams-Byers has left the bench, the case continued. Judge Harry Field has been serving as SEMC judge since Williams-Byers left the position and he will sign settlement documents on behalf of the court.
Judge Field, last week, as part of the settlement, dismissed a contempt of court charge Williams-Byers had leveled against South Euclid Police Chief Joe Mays. In August, 2021, Williams-Byers attempted to jail Mays for handing out cards at the police station informing people how to deal with unanswered calls and emails to SEMC. An appeals court stopped that attempt.
“The formality that’s left to handle here is to get council, the mayor (Georgine Welo), and finance director (Amy Himmelein) all to sign this agreement and we can make the transfer (of the $85,000) and put this to bed,” Lograsso told pleased council members.
“I’m happy that we came to a resolution for the city,” said Council President Ruth Gray. “It’s been a long time coming. And now, I look forward to 2023 being a different year now that we’ve got all of this behind us. And, we’ve got a new interim judge coming on (Sterkel will fill the remainder of Williams-Byers’ unexpired term, through Dec. 31, 2023).”
For a complete look at the settlement, look under Resolution 76-22 by visiting here.
Gray said that the city will, going forward and in accordance with a recommendation from the office of Ohio Auditor of State Keith Faber’s office, hold quarterly meetings with the SEMC to ensure that financial records are properly kept. The auditor had determined that the SEMC under Williams-Byers, was not reconciling (the process of comparing transactions and activity to supporting documentation) their financial books, going back to at least 2018.
Because court finances are tied to city finances, the state auditor had declared more than once over the past three years that South Euclid’s books are unauditable. If officially declared unauditable, the city’s credit rating would be adversely affected.
Sterkel was elected the SEMC judge in November, but there was a question if Gov. Mike DeWine, as per the Ohio Constitution, should have appointed the next SEMC judge, rather than have the next judge determined via election. DeWine recently settled the matter by appointing Sterkel judge. Because of this appointment, Sterkel can begin serving on the bench a couple of weeks earlier than the Jan. 1 start date that would have been in effect had he been elected.
Budget completed early
Gray called it “history” that council and the administration completed a budget this month, rather than what has been the norm in past years -- completion just before the March 31 deadline.
The budget for 2023, although it can be adjusted in the future, stands at $24,860,188. That figure, Ward 2 Councilman and Finance Committee Chair Joseph Frank said, is $752,111 less than the 2022 budget, a proposed decrease in spending of nearly 3 percent.
Properties transferred
The city conveyed to its nonprofit community development corporation One South Euclid three foreclosed-upon properties. Those properties, where homes have already been demolished and cleared, are located at 833 King George Blvd., and 1768 Beaconwood Road. The third property is narrow and cannot accommodate a home, but could perhaps be purchased by a neighbor on either side. It has no address and is located on Warrensville Center Road.
The King George and Beaconwood properties are suitable for construction of a new home or purchase by a neighbor to expand their property or add a home addition.
See more Sun Messenger news here. | 2022-12-13T15:06:03+00:00 | cleveland.com | https://www.cleveland.com/community/2022/12/south-euclid-reaches-settlement-in-2019-lawsuit-brought-by-former-judge-williams-byers.html |
The pre-sale for Drake upcoming “It’s All a Blur“ tour doesn’t start until March 15 but tickets are already showing up on the secondary market.
Stubhub and Ticketmaster already have seats for sale for the Detroit performance July 8 at Little Caesars Arena while Vividseats has tickets for other locations including Chicago and New Orleans.
This is the first time Drake is hitting the road since 2018 when he went on the Aubrey & the Three Migos Tour. Since then, he has released four albums, including his most recent album, “Her Loss,” with 21 Savage.
Drake has won 5 Grammy awards and was named artist of the decade by the Billboard Music Awards.
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Drake and 21 Savage
Detroit -- July 8 at Little Caesars Arena
Chicago -- July 5 at United Center
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Apr 1 Sat • 12:30pm Dreamville Festival - 2 Day Pass (4/1 - 4/2) (Usher, J Cole and Drake, Burna Boy) Dorothea Dix Park Raleigh, NC
June 16 • 7:00pm Smoothie King Center New Orleans, LA
June 19 • 7:00pm Drake Bridgestone Arena Nashville, TN
June 21 • 7:00pm Toyota Center - TX Houston, TX
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June 28 • 7:00pm Miami-Dade Arena Miami, FL
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July11 • 7:00pm TD Garden Boston, MA
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July 14 • 7:00pm Drake Bell Centre Montreal, QC, CA
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July 25 • 7:00pm Madison Square Garden New York, NY
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July 28 • 7:00pm Capital One Arena Washington DC, DC
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Aug. 12 • 7:00pm Kia Forum Inglewood, CA
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Aug. 28 • 7:00pm Rogers Arena Vancouver, BC, CA
Sept. 1 • 7:00pm T-Mobile Arena Las Vegas, NV
Sept. 5 • 7:00pm Desert Diamond Arena Glendale, AZ | 2023-03-14T18:44:35+00:00 | mlive.com | https://www.mlive.com/business/2023/03/how-to-find-drake-and-21-savage-tickets-for-us-tour-that-includes-detroit-and-chicago-stops.html |
Lakers vs. Grizzlies Prediction & Picks: Line, Spread, Over/Under - NBA Playoffs Game 3
Published: Apr. 22, 2023 at 3:54 PM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
The Los Angeles Lakers are 5-point favorites heading into Game 3 of the opening round of the NBA Playoffs against the Memphis Grizzlies at Crypto.com Arena on Saturday, starting at 10:00 PM ET on ESPN, SportsNet LA, and BSSE. The series is tied 1-1.
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Lakers vs. Grizzlies Game Info & Odds
- Date: Saturday, April 22, 2023
- Time: 10:00 PM ET
- How to Watch on TV: ESPN, SportsNet LA, and BSSE
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- Location: Los Angeles, California
- Venue: Crypto.com Arena
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Lakers vs. Grizzlies Score Prediction
- Prediction: Lakers 116 - Grizzlies 115
Spread & Total Prediction for Lakers vs. Grizzlies
- Pick ATS: Grizzlies (+ 5)
- Pick OU:
Over (220.5)
- The Lakers (40-39-3 ATS) have covered the spread 48.8% of the time, 3.7% more often than the Grizzlies (37-41-4) this season.
- As a 5-point underdog or more in 2022-23, Memphis is 1-5 against the spread compared to the 9-4-1 ATS record Los Angeles racks up as a 5-point favorite.
- Los Angeles and its opponents have eclipsed the over/under 52.4% of the time this season (43 out of 82). That's more often than Memphis and its opponents have (37 out of 82).
- The Lakers have a .645 winning percentage as a moneyline favorite (20-11) this season, higher than the .158 winning percentage for the Grizzlies as a moneyline underdog (3-16).
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Lakers Performance Insights
- Los Angeles is putting up 117.2 points per game (sixth-ranked in NBA) this season, while allowing 116.6 points per contest (20th-ranked).
- The Lakers are dishing out 25.3 dimes per game, which ranks them 15th in the NBA in 2022-23.
- The Lakers rank 24th in the NBA with 10.8 treys per game so far this year. Meanwhile, they rank 24th with a 34.6% shooting percentage from downtown.
- Los Angeles has taken 64.9% two-pointers and 35.1% from three-point land this season. Of the team's baskets, 74.8% are two-pointers and 25.2% are three-pointers.
Grizzlies Performance Insights
- Memphis scores 116.9 points per game and give up 113, ranking them eighth in the NBA on offense and 11th on defense.
- At 26 assists per game, the Grizzlies are ninth in the NBA.
- The Grizzlies are 16th in the league in 3-pointers made (12 per game) and 22nd in 3-point percentage (35.1%).
- Memphis takes 37.2% percent of its shots from beyond the arc, and 27.5% of its made shots are from there. Inside the 3-point line, it takes 62.8% of its shots, with 72.5% of its makes coming from there.
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SONDERBORG, Denmark (AP) — Dutchman Dylan Groenewegen overtook Wout van Aert and Peter Sagan at the line to win the third stage of the Tour de France in a photo finish while Van Aert extended his overall lead on Sunday.
Groenewegen got behind record seven-time Tour sprint champion Sagan’s wheel when he was battling with Van Aert, and found a gap to squeeze through and nudge his wheel over the line to win for the BikeExchange–Jayco team.
“I took a lot of wind and my legs were tired but I still had enough to sprint to the line,” Groenewegen said. “Wout van Aert always jokes, saying that if you are not sure of having won, you still claim the victory and you celebrate. That’s what I did (and) I understood I won from the sport directors screaming in the car.”
Groenewegen’s fifth Tour stage win came a day after Fabio Jakobsen’s first. Two years ago, Groenewegen was blamed for a heavy crash at the Tour of Poland that sent Jakobsen flying through roadside crash barriers. Jakobsen was put in an induced coma and needed five hours of surgery on his skull and face.
Although Groenewegen was remorseful over the incident, he was banned from cycling for nine months by cycling’s governing body UCI.
“My family supported me greatly after what happened,” he said. “My new team has put a lot of faith in me and a great train to lead me out. Every victory at the Tour de France is special.”
Three years after his last Tour stage win, the 29-year-old Groenewegen was open-mouthed and emotional as he put his hands over his head. The win was even more special since he crashed nine kilometers out and had to catch the peloton up.
Sagan was cross with Van Aert, meanwhile, muttering angrily and wagging his finger at him after they crossed the line because he found himself boxed to the right and close to the barriers. But there was no contact and Sagan even appeared to lean on Van Aert.
Van Aert picked up a six-second bonus and is now seven seconds ahead of Yves Lampaert and 14 ahead of two-time defending champion Tadej Pogacar in the standings. Pogacar’s rival Primoz Roglic, the 2020 Tour runner-up, is seventh overall and stayed nine seconds behind Pogacar.
The stage started in Vejle on the Jutland Peninsula and ended in Sonderborg in southern Denmark after 182 kilometers (113 miles) of flat racing. Groenewegen’s winning time was 4 hours, 11 minutes, 33 seconds. Pogacar and Roglic were nestled in the main pack with finishing positions irrelevant since they all got the same time.
“It’s been quiet for me today, even though flat stages are always nervous and can be dangerous,” Pogacar said. “I wasn’t affected by the crash in the finale. The first three days have gone well.”
Van Aert wore the leader’s yellow jersey for the Jumbo–Visma team after taking it for the first time on Saturday. He also extended his lead in the green jersey contest for best sprinter.
Huge crowds packed the roadsides in sparkling sunshine as the Danish supporters wearing red and white turned out in force. Proudly wearing the best climber’s polka-dot jersey he claimed on Saturday, Danish rider Magnus Cort, who was in the early breakway group on Saturday, pulled away to take a solo lead for 130 kilometers before being caught with about 50 kilometers left.
“I was a little bit surprised to find myself alone in the lead, but it was nice anyway,” Cort said. “I got a big lead as soon as I broke away, but it was hard to keep the peloton at bay.”
Cort wasn’t upset about being caught, after a weekend he’ll never forget.
“I spent an amazing day out there, enjoying the crowds. I knew what to expect after what we experienced yesterday, but it turned out to be even better because I was in the polka dot jersey,” he said. “It was a perfect day. Life-changing? For sure. The Tour de France is such a big race that it goes well beyond the cycling scene. Everything that happens here transcends the general public.”
Cort picked up more points over the three minor climbs — including the Hejlsminde Strand, the lowest of these at 40 meters above sea level — to keep the jersey until Tuesday. He held up three fingers to celebrate with his home fans and then waved to them after the pack swallowed him up.
“These days have been a dream for me,” Cort said. “Huge, unbelievable. I never imagined them this way.”
Several riders fell on a cobblestone section with about 10 kilometers left but got back up to continue.
After a travel day, the riders will tackle five small climbs in the fourth stage on the route from the coastal city of Dunkerque to Calais.
The race ends on July 24 in Paris.
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TAMPA, Fla., June 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- According to a recent comprehensive guide to auto insurance discounts, AutoInsurance.org discovered that Progressive offers more discounts than anyone else. Farmers comes in at a close second.
There's more to discounts than the number of available options, though. The discount percentage and the ability to stack discounts are factors that matter just as much or more, depending on a person's situation.
Auto Insurance Providers Ranked by Available Discounts
Customers may benefit from more discount options. Here are six major companies ranked from most to least discount options:
- Progressive – 36
- Farmers – 34
- Geico – 32
- Allstate – 29
- 21st Century – 22
- State Farm – 20
Insurance companies offer many discounts in common, but some providers offer unique discounts. AutoInsurance.org has published an exhaustive list of discounts available by company.
Auto insurance discounts can be broken down into three categories.
Vehicle discounts are mostly safety feature-related. Not every company will offer a discount for each individual safety feature. Still, chances are high that a newer vehicle with excellent safety features will qualify for several safety discounts, including the following:
- Automatic braking
- Blindspot warning
- Forward collision warning
Providers may also offer discounts for new cars, hybrid or electric vehicles, and farm vehicles.
Melanie Musson, a nationally recognized insurance expert with AutoInsurance.org, says, "Vehicle-related safety discounts can help offset the higher cost to insure newer cars."
A customer's driving history has a significant impact on rates, and a good driver discount can provide substantial savings. Most insurers offer a discount for bundling home and auto insurance and insuring multiple vehicles.
One driver-related discount that many are surprised to learn of is the good credit discount. Both Progressive and State Farm offer this way to save.
People in some lines of work are eligible for a discount. For example, nurses and other healthcare workers are qualified for savings with some insurance policies. Another popular discount that most insurers offer is for military service.
Other personal discounts include good student, further education, and recent graduate.
Check out AutoInsurance.org's complete analysis of auto insurance discounts here: Auto Insurance Discounts (2023).
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At least 1 officer dead after Kentucky barricade situation, authorities say
FLOYD COUNTY, Ky. (WYMT/Gray News) - An arrest citation from Kentucky State Police said eight people were shot in the Allen community Thursday night.
A man faces several charges after a standoff apparently resulted in deaths.
The Pike County Detention Center’s website identified the suspected shooter as Lance Storz, 49, from Allen.
Police said Storz used a rifle to fire many rounds at multiple police officers.
Among those shot, two police officers died at the scene. A police dog was killed during the incident. It is unknown if the police dog is listed as the second officer killed at the scene.
Five other police officers and the emergency management director were injured.
Jail records show Kentucky State Police took him into custody. Storz was booked into the jail just before 5 a.m. Friday.
Storz is scheduled to appear in court at 9 a.m. Friday.
Kentucky State Police are continuing to investigate a deadly shooting in the town of Allen in Floyd County.
Floyd County Sheriff John Hunt said the suspect was in custody as of 10 p.m. Thursday and posted on Facebook early Friday morning that the shooting resulted in at least one death.
Hunt also confirmed that deputies were attempting to serve a court-issued warrant in a domestic violence situation when the incident started earlier in the evening.
The suspect opened fire when officers responded. Hunt added that several officers have been taken to different hospitals around the region.
“Kentucky State Police Post 9 in Pikeville received a call for an officer assist for a shots-fired complaint,” said Matt Gayheart with Kentucky State Police. “They responded out here. That situation turned into an active shooter.”
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COLUMBUS, Ohio — An Ohio inmate has been sentenced on federal charges to nine more years in prison after he sent threatening letters with powder inside to multiple state officials, including Mike DeWine and a Painesville city official.
Sean Heisa, 39, sent at least 15 letters between July 2017 and July 2018, claiming the powder inside was anthrax or fentanyl, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Ohio. He also threatened to use explosives.
Heisa wrote the letters while serving a 37-year sentence in a prison near Columbus, Ohio, after being convicted of multiple charges, including aggravated robbery, robbery, intimidation, inducing panic, and use of a hoax weapon of mass destruction, according to records from the Ohio Department of Correction & Rehabiliation.
In August 2017, he mailed a letter to the city manager of Painesville and claimed powder inside the envelope was anthrax, prosecutors say. In the letter, Heisa told the official: “#1 – You are going to have trouble breathing; #2- You are going to die; #3 – You are going to become a martyr for a cause and an organization far bigger than yourself.”
Prosecutors say he mailed a second letter that month to a magistrate judge in Whitehall, again claiming powder inside the envelope was anthrax. He also used letters to threaten officials within the Coshocton Municipal Courthouse, Franklin County Common Pleas Court and then-Ohio Attorney General DeWine.
Other letters were sent to the former Ohio prisons director, the Columbus Dispatch, the Circleville Herald and The Ohio State University, prosecutors say.
Heisa reportedly sent a letter to a Fairfield County Common Pleas Court judge who had presided over several hearings involving Heisa. In the letter, he wrote: “This is enough Fentanyl to kill you and multiple coworker [sic]. You deserve a more painful death but this will do.”
Authorities say Heisa had access in prison to what he believed was fentanyl. Although he believed he could send enough of the drug to kill someone, he chose to use it himself, prosecutors say.
Heisa was charged federally in December 2018 and pleaded guilty in October 2019 to making false information or hoaxes and mailing threatening communications.
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Man charged in shooting death of woman in Maple Heights, police say | 2022-05-09T03:43:38+00:00 | cleveland.com | https://www.cleveland.com/court-justice/2022/05/ohio-inmate-gets-more-prison-time-after-sending-threatening-letters-with-powder-to-mike-dewine-other-officials.html |
WASHINGTON – Amid peak summer travel, thousands of air travelers faced flight cancellations and delays this weekend as thunderstorms rolled in across the U.S. East Coast and Midwest.
In addition to bad weather, a technology failing also contributed to to airline disruptions. The Federal Avaiation Adminstration briefly paused operations at Washington, D.C.-area airports Sunday evening due to a problem with the communications system at a major air traffic control facility. Departures resumed after repairs were completed.
Beyond D.C., a chain of flights were also delayed or halted at other major travel hubs — including New York, Chicago and Atlanta — as thunderstorms moved across the country.
Nearly 2,000 U.S. flights were canceled on Saturday and Sunday combined, according to flight tracking service FlightAware, and more than 850 U.S. flights had been canceled as of 11:15 a.m. ET Monday. Thousands of additional travelers experienced delays.
Staying calm — and knowing your rights — can go a long way if your flight is canceled, experts say. Here’s some of their advice for dealing with a flight cancellation:
MY FLIGHT WAS CANCELED. WHAT NEXT?
If you still want to get to your destination, most airlines will rebook you for free on the next available flight as long as it has seats, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation.
If you want to cancel the trip, you are entitled to a full refund, even if you bought non-refundable tickets. You’re also entitled to a refund of any bag fees, seat upgrades or other extras.
Kurt Ebenhoch, a consumer travel advocate and former airline executive, has stressed that travelers are eligible for a refund, not just vouchers for future travel. If you do take a voucher, make sure you inquire about blackout dates and other restrictions on its use.
CAN I ASK TO BE BOOKED ON ANOTHER AIRLINE’S FLIGHT?
Yes. Airlines aren’t required to put you on another airline’s flight, but they can, and sometimes do, according to the DOT. Jeff Klee, CEO of CheapAir.com, previously recommended researching alternate flights while you’re waiting to talk to an agent. Agents are typically under a lot of pressure when a flight is canceled, so giving them some options helps.
Ebenhoch also suggested looking for alternative airports that are close to your original destination.
IS THE AIRLINE REQUIRED TO GIVE ME A HOTEL ROOM, OR OTHER COMPENSATION?
No. As announced last month, the Biden adminstration is seeking to require that airlines compensate travelers and cover their meals and hotel rooms if they are stranded for reasons within the carrier's control — but, as of now, each airline still has its own policies about providing for customers whose flights are canceled, according to the DOT.
Many airlines do offer accommodations, so you should check with their staff. The DOT also has an online dashboard that allows travelers to compare cancelation and delay policies of major carriers.
I’M FACING A LONG WAIT TO REBOOK. WHAT SHOULD I DO?
If someone in your traveling party is at a higher level in a frequent flier program, use the number reserved for that level to call the airline, Ebenhoch said. You can also try calling an international help desk for the airline, since those agents have the ability to make changes.
HOW CAN I AVOID THIS IN THE FUTURE?
Ebenhoch said nonstop flights and morning flights are generally the most reliable if you can book them. If you’re worried about making it to the airport in time for a morning flight, he said, consider staying at a hotel connected to the airport the night before. And consider flying outside of busy dates.
Klee recommended comparing airlines’ policies on the DOT’s service dashboard. He also suggests reserving multiple flights and then canceling the ones you don’t use, as long as the airline will refund your money or convert it into a credit for a future flight.
ARE FLIGHT CANCELATIONS TRENDING LOWER IN 2023?
Flight cancellations trended lower throughout the spring of 2023 than last year, according to data from the FAA.
Industry officials argue that carriers have fixed problems that contributed to a surge in flight cancellations and delays last summer, when 52,000 flights were nixed from June through August. Airlines have hired about 30,000 workers since then, including thousands of pilots, and they are using bigger planes to reduce flights but not the number of seats.
Still, officials warn of lingering staffing shortages, notably among key air traffic controllers. The FAA is training about 3,000 more controllers, but they won’t be ready for this summer's travel. The agency resorted to nudging airlines to reduce flights in the New York City area this summer, and it opened 169 new flight paths over the East Coast to reduce bottlenecks.
In a government audit published last week, the Transportation Department's Office of Inspector General found that the FAA has made “limited efforts" to have adequate staffing at critical air traffic control facilities, noting that the agency “continues to face staffing challenges and lacks a plan to address them, which in turn poses a risk to the continuity of air traffic operations.” | 2023-06-26T15:44:16+00:00 | ksat.com | https://www.ksat.com/business/2023/06/26/flight-canceled-amid-bad-weather-what-you-need-to-know-about-rebooking-refunds-and-more/ |
By KIM TONG-HYUNG
Associated Press
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea condemned on Friday the decision by the United States to supply Ukraine with advanced battle tanks to help fight off Russia’s invasion, saying Washington is escalating a sinister “proxy war” aimed at destroying Moscow.
The comments by the influential sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un underscored the country’s deepening alignment with Russia over the war in Ukraine as it confronts the United States and its Asian allies over its own growing nuclear weapons and missiles program.
North Korea has blamed the United States for the crisis in Ukraine, insisting that the West’s “hegemonic policy” forced Russia to take military action to protect its security interests.
It has also used the distraction created by the war to accelerate its own weapons development, test-firing more than 70 missiles in 2022 alone, including potentially nuclear-capable weapons believed able to target South Korea and the U.S. mainland.
The United States has accused North Korea of sending large supplies of artillery shells and other ammunition to Russia to support its offensive in Ukraine, although the North has repeatedly denied the claim.
Kim Yo Jong’s comments, carried by the official Korean Central News Agency, came after U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday said the United States will send 31 M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine, reversing months of arguments by Washington that they were too difficult for Ukrainian troops to operate and maintain. The U.S. decision followed Germany’s agreement to send 14 Leopard 2 A6 tanks from its own stocks.
Kim said the Biden administration was “further crossing the red line” by sending its main tanks to Ukraine and that the decision reflects a “sinister intention to realize its hegemonic aim by further expanding the proxy war for destroying Russia.”
“The U.S. is the arch criminal which poses serious threat and challenge to the strategic security of Russia and pushes the regional situation to the present grave phase,” she said.
“I do not doubt that any military hardware the U.S. and the West boast of will be burnt into pieces in the face of the indomitable fighting spirit and might of the heroic Russian army and people,” she said, adding that North Korea will always “stand in the same trench” with Russia.
North Korea is the only nation other than Russia and Syria to recognize the independence of Donetsk and Luhansk, two Russian-backed separatist regions in eastern Ukraine, and has also hinted at plans to send workers there to help with rebuilding efforts.
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Survey commissioned by Foundation for Chiropractic Progress also finds Americans living in the Northeast are affected at higher rates
SAN JOSE, Calif., July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Nearly half of U.S. adults (44%) report that they have experienced physical pain that they believe was worsened due to mental or emotional pain, according to a Harris Poll conducted on behalf of the Foundation for Chiropractic Progress (F4CP), a nonprofit dedicated to informing and educating the general public about the value of chiropractic care.
Mental health was thrust into the spotlight during the COVID-19 pandemic as people, faced with a new virus, became isolated in their homes away from friends, family, and support networks, leading to a 25% growth in the prevalence of anxiety and depression, according to the World Health Organization. During the 2020 peak of the pandemic, mental health visits represented 40% of telehealth visits, according to KHN (Kaiser Health News). That same year, the Journal of Psychiatric Research reported that from 1990 to 2017, worldwide cases of depression grew from 172 million to 258 million, representing an increase of 50%.
Even before the pandemic, though, the U.S. faced another nationwide health crisis of physical pain. A study released in 2021 showed that pain prevalence had grown 10% from 2002 through 2018 across adults ages 25 to 84. Chronic pain has a strong association with opioid and substance use disorder – another public health crisis that worsened during the COVID-19 pandemic.
"The link between mental health and physical pain is well established in the healthcare community, but COVID-19 broadened the public's understanding of this association and how managing one condition without treating the other is counterproductive," said Sherry McAllister, DC, president of F4CP. "Doctors of chiropractic (DCs) have always recognized this connection and strive to manage every neuromusculoskeletal condition effectively. If they determine a patient needs care outside their scope, DCs are happy to refer and collaborate with other healthcare providers to help their patients achieve all of their physical and mental health goals."
Age, Sex and Geographical Differences
Concerningly, this link between worsened physical pain and mental health is more common among younger poll participants. For example, the Harris Poll shows that more than half of 18-to-34-year-old (53%) and 35-to-44-year-old participants (61%) report they have experienced physical pain they believe was worsened by mental or emotional pain. Only 23% of participants 65 years old and older report that mental or emotional pain worsened their physical pain.
"Younger adults consume much more technology, both during work and personal time," said Dr. McAllister. "Scientific correlations are linking the mass use of technology in the last 30 years with the upsurge of anxiety and depression that we are seeing across the globe. In the chiropractic profession, we have long recognized the role of thoughts, trauma and toxins, which we refer to as 'the 3T's' in the realm of health and disease. Technology in this sense has become a toxin that also affects our thoughts and drives behaviors."
Another disparity between participants is that 48% of women report worse physical pain due to mental or emotional pain compared to only 39% of men. Women ages 35 to 44 most often reported the link (69%) while men ages 65 and older least often reported greater physical pain due to mental or emotional pain (17%).
Clinical research has demonstrated differences between men and women in pain sensitivity and response to pain management, across acute and chronic pain. Research has also found women experience greater clinical pain, suffer greater pain-related distress and show heightened sensitivity to experimentally induced pain compared with men, which may also account for the variation in poll responses.
Geography appears to play a role, too, with 49% of poll participants in the northeast region of the U.S. reporting greater physical pain due to emotional or mental pain compared to 40% of poll participants in the western region of the country. A number of factors could play a role in the geographic disparity, Dr. McAllister says, including weather, with some research showing more sunlight being associated with lower depression. Paradoxically, since the northeast U.S. has some of the highest access to mental and behavioral health professionals, it could be greater awareness of mental health challenges that influenced the survey results.
"Everyone suffers from pain at some point in their life and it is up to the entire healthcare community to not just treat symptoms, but rather identify and manage all of the root causes of these conditions whether they be in the bones, nervous system, muscles or mind," Dr. McAllister said. "The results of this Harris Poll will hopefully remind and inspire healthcare professionals to approach every patient holistically to help them achieve optimal outcomes."
To learn more about the mental-physical health connection, download the F4CP eBook:
Depression, Dopamine and Drug-Free Interventions: How Chiropractic Care is Supporting Mental Health here.
Survey Method
This survey was conducted online within the United States by The Harris Poll on behalf of the Foundation for Chiropractic Progress between June 14-16, 2022 among 2,039 U.S. adults ages 18+. The sampling precision of Harris online polls is measured by using a Bayesian credible interval. For this study, the sample data is accurate to within + 2.8 percentage points using a 95% confidence level. For complete survey methodology, including weighting variables and subgroup sample sizes, please contact paige@f4cp.com.
About the Foundation for Chiropractic Progress
A not-for-profit organization with nearly 32,000 members, the Foundation for Chiropractic Progress (F4CP) informs and educates the general public about the value of chiropractic care delivered by doctors of chiropractic (DC) and its role in drug-free pain management. Visit www.f4cp.org/findadoc; call 866-901-F4CP (3427).
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It's the Year of the Tiger, and a new population assessment offers some hope for the endangered species.
An estimated 3,726 to 5,578 tigers currently live in the wild worldwide — up 40% from 2015, according to a new tiger assessment from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
But much of the increase is because of improvements in monitoring the animals.
"A fairly significant chunk of that 40% increase is explained by the fact that we're better at counting them, that many governments in particular have really sort of moved heaven and earth to do massive scale surveys," Luke Hunter, executive director of the Wildlife Conservation Society's (WCS) big cat program, told NPR.
The WCS is a nonprofit that has worked in roughly 60 countries across the world to save wildlife and wild places.
Beside better counting methods, Hunter also attributes the higher tiger numbers to an increase in conservation efforts by governments in the countries where they live.
Tigers are still considered endangered and remain on the IUCN's Red List, which assesses endangered species.
Tigers continue to decline in many parts of the world and have lost an enormous amount of their range because of poaching, habitat loss and other human-driven factors.
Tigers are considered highly valuable within the illegal wildlife trade, which has become a massive, global industry, according to Hunter.
Although tigers represent just one of many endangered species, efforts to conserve them can benefit the areas and people within these communities, he says.
"When you succeed in saving tigers or conserving tigers, you are conserving very large wilderness landscapes, with a huge host of biodiversity but also a whole bunch of benefits to the human communities that live in and around those landscapes," he said.
Hunter said he believes these types of assessments show that conservation interventions can work and tigers can start to recover.
"Expanding and connecting protected areas, ensuring they are effectively managed, and working with local communities living in and around tiger habitats, are critical to protect the species," the IUCN said in a statement.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2022-07-23T19:32:47+00:00 | mtpr.org | https://www.mtpr.org/2022-07-23/there-are-40-more-tigers-in-the-world-than-previously-estimated |
ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Play3 Day" game were:
7-6-6, WB: 5
(seven, six, six; WB: five)
ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Play3 Day" game were:
7-6-6, WB: 5
(seven, six, six; WB: five) | 2022-09-02T19:51:21+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Play3-Day-game-17415757.php |
CLEVELAND — The Greater Cleveland Film Commission reports over the past 13 years filmmakers producing movies in Northeast Ohio have generated more $1.2 billion in economic output, but some local film leaders say more can be done.
Bill Garvey, Greater Cleveland Film Commission President, told News 5 that movies being made locally have generated some 6,000 jobs since 2009, and said Ohio brought in $160 million in film production revenue last year alone.
But Garvey said Ohio's $40 million dollar tax incentive cap has caused the Buckeye State to lose million in film production dollars to other cities and states who have a bigger tax incentive cap or no cap at all.
“We have a 40 million dollar cap that has attracted a lot business, but once that cap is used up also pushes away some business," Garvey said. “The last year for instance over $160-million dollars on production has been spent here in Ohio, but $224.5 million in production that’s applied to shoot here has been turned away. Those jobs go to places like Pittsburgh, Boston and Atlanta.”
Johnny Wu is a Cleveland filmmaker, producing 13 feature length films locally over the past 22 years. Wu told News 5 northeast Ohio has the talent and resources to continue growth in major motion pictures being shot greater Cleveland. But Wu believes greater Cleveland is lacking one major component in attracting even more filmmaking jobs and revenue.
“It's a wonderful place," Wu said. ”We got great weather, we have talented performers and actors, we have great crew here. I think the only thing we are missing here in Cleveland is a larger studio environment, where we can have a big warehouse for production in house here.”
Meanwhile, Marvel Studios will shoot the Cleveland portion of its Blade superhero movie from Nov. 14 through Nov. 22. Producer of the movie announced an open casting call for auditions, with costume fittings to start in mid-October.
Garvey believes northeast Ohio is poised for even more filmmaking revenue and jobs in the coming years.
“So these jobs are real, they are high paying, they are jobs with pensions and healthcare paid for by the industry," Garvey said. “And it’s an industry that’s growing, there are so many industries that are not these days. This is one that can come and compliment existing infrastructure, existing business.” | 2022-09-26T03:59:51+00:00 | news5cleveland.com | https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/local-news/cleveland-metro/northeast-ohios-filmmaking-future-looks-bright-but-more-can-be-done |
The Florida Gators took Charles Schwab Field Wednesday afternoon to face off with TCU in the Men’s College World Series semifinals. The Orange & Blue came away with a 3-2 victory over TCU, securing a sweep of their side of the bracket. The Gators will now advance to the College World Series best-of-three Championship series on Saturday. Meanwhile, TCU has been eliminated.
THE GATORS ARE UNDEFEATED IN OMAHA AND WILL PLAY FOR THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP! @GatorsBB pic.twitter.com/bwGXkeLHIQ
— SEC Network (@SECNetwork) June 21, 2023
In the Spotlight
Gator two-way star Jac Caglianone got the nod for Florida. In his first College World Series start, Caglianone tossed 4.1 innings on 85 pitches and 44 strikes. He allowed three hits and one earned run, walking three and striking out four. Then, Florida reliever Ryan Slater took over.
Throughout the first five innings, TCU managed to load the bases twice. Slater would enter the game and immediately get out of a bases-loaded, one-out jam by striking out Tre Richardson and retiring Kurtis Byrne on a pop out to close out the frame.
Freshman Cade Fisher would work a scoreless seventh, before Florida closer Brandon Neely would finish it out.
Gators head coach Kevin O’Sullivan credited Caglianone for his resilience on the mound.
“Jac was really good,” O’Sullivan said. “He made pitches when he needed to. At the end of the day, he bent but he didn’t break.”
Also in the spotlight was Gators shortstop Josh Rivera, who broke open the scoring in the top of the first. Rivera smashed a two-run homer, giving Florida a 2-0 lead. The Gators would remain out in front until TCU tied the game with an Anthony Silva double to left in the bottom of the eighth.
Play of the Game
Tyler Shelnut would lead off the ninth with a stand-up double, his thirteenth of the season.
Double #️⃣1️⃣3️⃣ for Tyler Shelnut!
He leads off the ninth with a stand-up double. Michael Robertson will pinch run for him.
T9 | #Gators 2-2 #TCU pic.twitter.com/OPrHZq8srk
— Ellie Shreve (@ellie_shreve) June 21, 2023
Then came the first play of the game, a two-out infield Cade Kurland single in the ninth. Kurland’s single scored Michael Robertson, bringing Florida back out in front 3-2.
The next highlight came with Robertson’s unreal game-clinching catch to seal the Gators’ victory. In the bottom of the ninth, TCU’s Brayden Taylor went deep to center, where Robertson made a leaping catch against the center field wall.
Michael Robertson makes an incredible catch against the center field wall to seal a 3-2 victory for the #Gators. Florida sweeps its side of the bracket and will play in the #2023CollegeWorldSeries Final. #MCWS #GoGators #FLOmaha pic.twitter.com/lWG6xGsSDW
— Ellie Shreve (@ellie_shreve) June 21, 2023
Championship Bound
The Gators will now advance to the College World Series Championship finals for a best-of-three battle with the winner of Wake Forest-LSU. First pitch is Saturday at 7 p.m. ET
“It’s not easy to get to this point,” #Gators head coach Kevin O’Sullivan said as Florida is #CWS final bound. “We just played three one-run games and they were all nail-biters till the end. I’m excited for our guys and the staff. It takes a lot of people to get to this point. A… pic.twitter.com/zOMQhhpdOt
— Ellie Shreve (@ellie_shreve) June 21, 2023 | 2023-06-22T03:07:42+00:00 | wruf.com | https://www.wruf.com/headlines/2023/06/21/gators-baseball-advances-to-college-world-series-finals/ |
RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — More than a year after the General Assembly passed a law instructing local school divisions to grant protections to transgender students, many counties and cities still haven’t moved to adopt the required policies.
On Thursday, Equality Virginia, an organization advocating for LGBTQ students across the commonwealth, released a database tracking the status of the Virginia Department of Education’s (VDOE) ‘model policy,’ which sets the standard local school divisions must meet.
“Almost half of Virginia’s K-12 students attend schools in divisions that have fully adopted VDOE’s model policies for the treatment of transgender students,” said Narissa S. Rahaman, Executive Director of Equality Virginia.
Using Equality Virginia’s data and modifying their findings where research uncovered policy details, 8News composited the map below, showing which Central Virginia localities have adopted the model policies on transgender students.
Dark blue localities are those that adopted the full VDOE model policy.
Light blue shows localities that adopted their own policies, or those of organizations like the Virginia School Board Association, which meet the standards of the model policies.
The localities shown in red are those which either rejected the VDOE’s model policy altogether, or adopted their own policies that provide inadequate protections for trans students.
In places like Hanover, the debate over the division’s treatment of trans students was long and divisive. Hanover initially voted to reject the model policy in 2021, and only adopted its own policy on transgender students in August.
That policy, which was drafted with the help of the Alliance Defending Freedom, a Christian legal group that opposes gay rights, allows the board the final decision on whether trans students can use the bathroom aligning with their gender identity.
School divisions will also have to weigh the result of the Gavin Grimm case, in which a Gloucester County student fought his school division’s refusal to let him use the boy’s bathroom. In a final ruling in September 2020, a federal circuit court held that the school’s policy was unconstitutional.
“These policies, developed in accordance with evidence-based best practices, give teachers and administrators critical tools to create safe, inclusive learning environments for all students,” Rahaman said. “School boards in every corner of our Commonwealth have a unique and urgent opportunity to protect transgender students by adopting the model policies.” | 2022-09-16T11:54:40+00:00 | wric.com | https://www.wric.com/news/virginia-news/where-virginia-school-divisions-stand-on-transgender-student-policies/ |
Prosecutors in California announced Monday that the man accused of kidnapping and killing four family members, including an 8-month-old baby, has been charged.
The Merced County District Attorney’s Office announced Monday that Jesus Salgado was charged with four counts of first-degree murder with special circumstances, the Associated Press reported.
Prosecutors allege that Salgado kidnapped Aroohi Dheri; her 27-year-old mother, Jasleen Kaur; her 36-year-old father, Jasdeep Singh; and her 39-year-old uncle Amandeep Singh at gunpoint from their trucking business on Oct. 3, the news outlet reported.
Two days later, a farm worker found their bodies in Dos Palos, California, USA Today.
Authorities say Salgado was a former employee that had a longstanding feud with them that "got pretty nasty," the news outlet reported.
The Merced County Sheriff's Office said the investigation into the family's disappearance began when Amandeep Singh’s truck was found on fire in Winton, California.
When other family members could not get ahold of them, they were reported missing, the sheriff's office said.
Merced County Sheriff's Office said that during a search of the family's business, they found surveillance footage that captured a suspect abducting the family at gunpoint and leading them away in Amandeep Singh’s truck.
Through the investigation, the sheriff's office named Jesus Salgado a person of interest after he used a victim's ATM card.
Authorities said Salgado attempted suicide when deputies found him, so he was held in the hospital for two days before being booked into jail.
Jesus Salgado's brother, Alberto Salgado, was arrested last week on suspicion of criminal conspiracy, accessory, and destroying evidence. | 2022-10-10T23:40:06+00:00 | wkbw.com | https://www.wkbw.com/news/national/prosecutors-charge-man-in-california-familys-kidnapping-slaying |
- Hyundai Motor and PT Adaro Minerals Indonesia, Tbk. (AMI) to also establish a comprehensive cooperative system regarding the production and supply of aluminum
- Based on cooperation in the production of cars, battery cells, and aluminum in Indonesia, Hyundai Motor Company will continue to discover areas of cooperation to secure future leadership of eco-friendly automobiles in Indonesia
SEOUL, South Korea, Nov. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hyundai Motor Company and PT Adaro Minerals Indonesia, Tbk. (AMI) today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to secure a stable aluminum supply amid the growing demand for aluminum for automobile manufacturing. This cooperation is also to establish a comprehensive cooperative system regarding the production and supply of aluminum by AMI through its subsidiary PT Kalimantan Aluminium Industry (KAI).
The MoU signing ceremony took place during the B20 Summit at Bali Nusa Dua Convention Center in Indonesia, with Jaehoon Chang, President and CEO of Hyundai Motor Company and Garibaldi Thohir, President Commissioner of PT Adaro Minerals Indonesia, Tbk., participating.
Aluminum in Indonesia, which is rich in natural resources and energy, is considered to have future competitiveness. Indonesia's green aluminum is classified as low-carbon aluminum using hydroelectric power generation, which is an eco-friendly power source and is expected to supply aluminum that meets HMC's carbon neutralization policy amid the growing demand for aluminum in global automakers. In addition, supply and demand became unstable due to unpredictable situational variables which led to an increase in energy prices for aluminum production.
"Hyundai Motor Company has started operating a manufacturing plant in Indonesia and is also actively cooperating with Indonesia in various areas, where it can exert synergy in the future automobile industry, such as investing in battery cell manufacturing joint ventures," said Youngtack Lee, Senior Vice President and Head of Hyundai Motor Asia Pacific Headquarter. "This cooperation with the aluminum smelter is also expected to strengthen the relationship between Hyundai Motor Company and Indonesia with stronger synergy."
Items of cooperation in this MoU include the production and supply of aluminum produced by KAI, Hyundai Motor's right to purchase aluminum produced by KAI at an early stage, and then the first negotiation right to purchase low-carbon aluminum produced by KAI in the future (with undetermined offtake volume in the range of 50,000-100,000 TPA).
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Kenosha County Board Still Has “Some Work To Do” On Bonding For Infrastructure Projects
November 4, 2022 6:24AM CDT
KENOSHA, WI (WLIP)–The Kenosha County Board has more work to do when it comes to funding infrastructure projects next year.
The county board approved next year’s budget at Wednesday’s meeting.
However a bonding measure to fund roadwork and other projects failed to receive the needed three fourths majority for approval.
That has left those projects in limbo, but that is thought to be temporary.
Kenosha County Executive Samantha Kerkman said in a statement that “We still have some work to do on the bonding measure, and I look forward to productive conversations to remedy this situation in the coming days.”
No explanation was forthcoming at the meeting, which was quickly adjourned following the final vote. | 2022-11-04T19:04:04+00:00 | wlip.com | https://www.wlip.com/kenosha-county-board-still-has-some-work-to-do-on-bonding-for-infrastructure-projects/ |
WFO DALLAS / FT. WORTH Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, July 28, 2022
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HEAT ADVISORY
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Fort Worth TX
558 PM CDT Wed Jul 27 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT THURSDAY...
* WHAT...Heat index values up to 107.
* WHERE...Portions of north central and northeast Texas.
* WHEN...Until 9 PM CDT Thursday.
* IMPACTS...Hot temperatures and high humidity will increase the
risk for heat-related illnesses to occur, particularly for
those working or participating in outdoor activities.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Drink plenty of fluids, stay in an air-conditioned room, stay out
of the sun, and check up on relatives and neighbors. Young
children and pets should never be left unattended in vehicles
under any circumstances.
Take extra precautions if you work or spend time outside. When
possible reschedule strenuous activities to early morning or
evening. Know the signs and symptoms of heat exhaustion and heat
stroke. Wear lightweight and loose fitting clothing when
possible. To reduce risk during outdoor work, the Occupational
Safety and Health Administration recommends scheduling frequent
rest breaks in shaded or air conditioned environments. Anyone
overcome by heat should be moved to a cool and shaded location.
Heat stroke is an emergency! Call 9 1 1.
...A strong thunderstorm moving from far northwest Harris County
into Waller County is producing briefly heavy rain, and is capable
of gusty winds and possibly even very small hail...
At 558 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm
near Hockley, moving northwest at 20 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 30 mph and possibly a small amount of
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...
Hempstead, Prairie View, Hockley, Waller and Pine Island.
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
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3009 9579 3001 9569 2986 9585 3000 9609
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MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...30 MPH
...FLOOD ADVISORY HAS EXPIRED...
The Flood Advisory has expired for a portion of southwest Texas,
including the following county, Brewster.
Flood waters have receded. The heavy rain has ended. Arroyo and
small stream flooding is no longer expected to pose a threat. Please
continue to heed remaining road closures.
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Copyright 2022 AccuWeather | 2022-07-28T00:27:24+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/weather/article/TX-WFO-DALLAS-FT-WORTH-Warnings-Watches-and-17333675.php |
Ruling clears Biden’s 2021 pause on new oil, gas leases
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A judge’s order that forced the Biden administration to resume sales of oil and gas leases on federal land and waters was vacated Wednesday by a federal appeals court in New Orleans.
It was at least a temporary victory for President Joe Biden but the immediate effect was unclear.
The much-heralded climate bill that Biden signed into law Tuesday provides for new drilling opportunities, in a compromise among Democrats, and mandates that several lease sales be held over the next year in the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska.
Biden had signed an executive order that suspended new lease sales soon after taking office in 2021. The following March, U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty in Monroe, Louisiana, blocked the policy, siding with more than a dozen Republican-leaning states opposed to Biden’s move.
The appeals court in New Orleans on Wednesday said the judge’s reasons were unclear and sent the case back to him.
“We cannot reach the merits of the Government’s challenge when we cannot ascertain from the record what conduct — an unwritten agency policy, a written policy outside of the Executive Order, or the Executive Order itself — is enjoined,” Judge Patrick Higginbotham wrote for a panel that also included judges James Dennis and James Graves.
Department of the Interior officials were reviewing the decision, spokesperson Melissa Schwartz said. She declined to say whether the climate law made the issue moot.
The practical impacts of the ruling could be minor because of the fossil fuel leasing mandates in the climate law, said Erik Milito, president of the National Ocean Industries Association, which represents oil and gas companies.
The law requires the government to reinstate $192 million in leases in the Gulf of Mexico that were blocked by another court ruling last year. And it requires two more sales in the Gulf and one in Alaska before October 2023. Those sales had been canceled under Biden. The provision reviving them was inserted into the law at the insistence of West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin, an advocate for fossil fuels.
Going forward the law says Interior will hold periodic oil and gas lease sales and offer at least 60 million acres (24 million hectares) of offshore parcels and 2 million acres (810,000 hectares) onshore during the prior year before it can approve any renewable energy leases.
“Offshore oil and gas leasing has been protected and will proceed,” said Milito.
Environmentalists remained hopeful that the ruling would prompt the administration to move forward with other changes to the oil and gas leasing program, such as limits on future development including where leasing occurs.
“They may not be able to deliver a full moratorium on leasing, but at least they can exercise more restraint than they could with the injunction in place,” said Jeremy Nichols with the environmental group WildEarth Guardians. “All eyes are going to be on the Interior Department to see what their next move might be.”
Following last year’s injunction from Doughty that forced lease sales to resume, the Biden administration auctioned off more than 2,700 square miles (6,950 square kilometers) of leases in the Gulf of Mexico in November. The sale was later overturned by a federal judge in Washington D.C., who said the government had failed to adequately consider climate change impacts from burning oil and gas from the Gulf.
In June, the administration sold leases on about 110 square miles (285 square kilometers) of federal land, mostly in Wyoming, despite concluding that future emissions from the parcels offered could cause billions of dollars in damages due to climate change impacts. Legal challenges of those sales by environmentalists are pending.
Doughty was appointed to the federal bench by former President Donald Trump. Higginbotham was appointed to the appeals court by former President Ronald Reagan; Dennis, by former President Bill Clinton; Graves, by former President Barack Obama.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2022-08-18T00:33:35+00:00 | newschannel10.com | https://www.newschannel10.com/2022/08/17/ruling-clears-bidens-2021-pause-new-oil-gas-leases/ |
The Supreme Court must get its ethics act together, and Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. needs to take the lead. After a string of embarrassments, the justices should finally subject themselves to the kind of rules that govern other federal judges and establish a standard for when to step aside from cases — one that is more stringent than simply leaving it up to the individual justice to decide.
Recent episodes are alarming and underscore the need for quick action to help restore confidence in the institution.
Last week, the Supreme Court wisely rebuffed an effort by Arizona GOP chair Kelli Ward to prevent the House Jan. 6 committee — the party in this case — from obtaining her phone records. The court’s brief order noted that Justice Clarence Thomas, along with Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., would have sided with Ward.
Thomas’s involvement, though it didn’t affect the outcome of the dispute, is nothing short of outrageous. Federal law already requires judges, including Supreme Court justices, to step aside from involvement in any case in which their impartiality “might reasonably be questioned.”
Perhaps back in January, when he was the only justice to disagree when the court refused to grant former president Donald Trump’s bid to stop his records from being turned over to the Jan. 6 committee, Thomas didn’t realize the extent of his wife’s involvement with disputing the election results. (I’m being kind here: Ginni Thomas had signed a letter the previous month calling on House Republicans to expel Reps. Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois from the House Republican Conference for participating in an “overtly partisan political persecution.”)
But here’s what we know now, and Justice Thomas does, too: The Jan 6. committee has subpoenaed and interviewed his wife. We — and he — know that she contacted 29 Arizona lawmakers, urging them to “fight back against fraud” and choose a “clean slate of electors” after the 2020 election.
Some recusal questions are close. Not this one. Did the chief justice urge Thomas to recuse? He should have. This will sound unthinkable, but if Roberts asked and Thomas refused, maybe it’s time the chief, or other justices, to publicly note their disagreement.
More than a decade ago, in his 2011 year-end report on the state of the judiciary, Roberts declared his “complete confidence in the capability of my colleagues to determine when recusal is warranted.” If he still thinks that, he is deluding himself.
Thomas’s poor ethical antennae are not the chief justice’s only headache. Roberts was still dealing with the aftermath of the unprecedented leak of a draft opinion in last term’s abortion ruling when the New York Times reported on Saturday that the former head of a conservative lobbying group warned Roberts in a July letter that he had obtained advance information about the outcome of the court’s 2014 ruling in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, about religious employers and contraceptive coverage.
The letter writer, Rev. Rob Schenck, who headed a D.C.-based nonprofit called Faith and Action, described having been informed weeks in advance that Hobby Lobby would win the case and that Alito was writing the opinion. He said he had been tipped off by an Ohio woman he had recruited to the cause, Gayle Wright, who had dinner with the justice and his wife, Martha-Ann, at their Virginia home.
Alito said any suggestion that he or his wife had leaked the information was “completely false,” and Wright denied the account as well. But contemporaneous evidence, including an email from Wright, lent credence to Schenck’s account. “Rob, if you want some interesting news please call. No emails,” she wrote Schenck the day after the dinner.
Politico and Rolling Stone had previously reported on Schenck’s “Operation Higher Court.” The Times added smarmy details about the operatives’ astonishing level of access to the justices, while making six-figure donations to the Supreme Court Historical Society, were chilling. “Lunch with CT on Monday, Sam on Wednesday, dinner at court on Monday, Dinner with Maureen on Wednesday,” Wright wrote in a 2016 email, apparently referring to Thomas, Alito, and Justice Antonin Scalia’s widow, Maureen.
Roberts didn’t deign to acknowledge Schenck’s letter, but this episode can’t be ignored; Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) are right to press for answers, not just about the leak, but to how the nominally independent historical society may have been used in a pay-to-schmooze influence scheme.
Justices get to have social lives but justices also need to be mindful about their behavior — on and off the bench — and the signals that, especially when they accept travel and entertainment from those with an interest in the court’s work. Some disclosure is already required, but it’s spotty.
One obvious step is to follow the ethics rules that apply to other federal judges, perhaps adapting them to the particular needs of the high court. That would send an important — and overdue — message that the justices are not a law unto themselves. It’s symbolic, but symbolism matters.
The longer the court delays acting, the more likely it is that Congress will impose rules on them.
Three years ago, Justice Elena Kagan testified before the House that the justices were “studying the question of whether to have a code of judicial conduct that’s applicable only to the United States Supreme Court,” calling it, “something that’s being thought very seriously about.” That’s the last we’ve heard from the court on this topic.
Roberts has had a rough 2022. Tackling his court’s ethics problem would be a smart way to finish a bad year on a good note. | 2022-11-22T15:12:11+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/22/supreme-court-ethics-alito-ginni-thomas/ |
Newberry deputies investigate I-26 crash that sent multiple people to hospital
NEWBERRY COUNTY, S.C. (WIS) - The Newberry Sheriff’s Office (NSC) investigates a crash on Interstate 26 that sent multiple people to the hospital on Saturday.
NCSO said a 7-year-old boy, his two grandparents and a service dog were among those involved.
The crash happened at mile marker 72 east.
Two medevac aircrafts were called to land on the interstate.
NCSO said the crash is being investigated as a possible criminal act and as a traffic accident.
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Copyright 2023 WIS. All rights reserved. | 2023-04-25T13:19:28+00:00 | foxcarolina.com | https://www.foxcarolina.com/2023/04/24/newberry-deputies-investigate-i-26-crash-that-sent-multiple-people-hospital/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — The man accused of attacking House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband carried zip ties with him when he broke into the couple’s San Francisco home, according to a person briefed on the investigation, in what is the latest parallel to the Capitol riot of Jan. 6, 2021.
The person was not authorized to publicly discuss the Pelosi case and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity Sunday.
The attack on the Democratic leader’s 82-year-old husband, Paul Pelosi, less than two weeks before the Nov. 8 election that will determine control of Congress as well as key statewide and local offices, was an unsettling reminder of the nation’s toxic political climate. With threats to public officials at an all-time high, members of Congress were being urged to reach out for additional security resources, including increased police patrols of their neighborhoods.
U.S. Capitol Police Chief J. Thomas Manger said in a weekend memo to lawmakers that the attack “is a somber reminder of the threats elected officials and families face in 2022.”
Police in San Francisco said the assault of Paul Pelosi was intentional. Authorities said the suspect, identified as David DePape, 42, confronted Paul Pelosi in the family’s Pacific Heights home early Friday and, the AP has reported, demanded to know, “Where is Nancy?”
The two men struggled over a hammer before officers responding to a 911 call to the home saw DePape strike Paul Pelosi at least once, police said. DePape was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, elder abuse and burglary. Prosecutors plan to file charges on Monday and expect his arraignment on Tuesday.
Eerie echoes of the Jan. 6 riot were apparent in the incident at the Pelosi home.
Rioters who swarmed the Capitol trying to overturn Joe Biden’s election victory over Donald Trump roamed the halls and shouted menacingly, demanding “Where’s Nancy?” Some in the siege were seen inside the Capitol carrying zip ties. The presence of the zip ties on the suspect in Paul Pelosi’s assault was first reported by CNN.
Nancy Pelosi was in Washington when her husband was attacked at home. She soon returned to San Francisco, where her husband was hospitalized. He had surgery for a skull fracture, and suffered other injuries to his arms and hands, her office said.
“Our children, our grandchildren and I are heartbroken and traumatized by the life-threatening attack on our Pop,” she said in a letter late Saturday to colleagues. “We are grateful for the quick response of law enforcement and emergency services, and for the life-saving medical care he is receiving.”
Paul Pelosi remains hospitalized and “continues to improve,” she told colleagues.
With Election Day nearing and Trump relentlessly promoting claims he did not lose to Biden in 2020, federal agencies warned on Friday that domestic extremists fueled by election falsehoods “pose a heightened threat” to the midterms. The Department of Homeland Security and other federal agencies said the greatest danger was “posed by lone offenders who leverage election-related issues to justify violence.”
Biden and other officials, Democrats and Republicans, condemned the attack on Paul Pelosi and said violence has no home in American politics.
“Enough is enough is enough,” Biden said while campaigning in Pennsylvania on Friday night.
Trump, in an interview taped Friday with Americano Media, a conservative Spanish-language network, called the attack on Paul Pelosi a “terrible thing,” but the former president also tried to link it to crime in U.S. cities.
For years, Republicans have tried to make Pelosi a campaign boogeyman, using the 82-year-old’s image as a recurring caricature in countless ads against Democrats, including many now airing in races nationwide during a hostile election season.
The head of the Republican National Committee, Ronna McDaniel, said Sunday it was “unfair” to blame the GOP for creating a political climate that could have laid the ground for such an attack.
“You can’t say people saying, ‘Let’s fire Pelosi’ or ‘Let’s take back the House” is saying go do violence,” she told “Fox News Sunday.”
The House GOP’s campaign chief, Minnesota Rep. Tom Emmer, was asked during a Sunday interview about a tweet promoting his own video, which shows him shooting a gun at an indoor target.
“Enjoyed exercising my Second Amendment rights,” Emmer tweeted, mentioning he was with two House GOP candidates. The video includes the imagery and sounds of the rifle being fired. The tweet was posted Wednesday, before Paul Pelosi was assaulted, and said: “13 days to make history. Let’s #FirePelosi.”
Emmer said on CBS’ “Face the Nation” that he was just “exercising our Second Amendment rights, having fun.”
Both McDaniel and House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy of California said Paul Pelosi’s assailant was “deranged.”
McCarthy said on Fox News Channel’s “Sunday Morning Futures” that violence or the threat of violence “has no place in our society.”
Five years ago, a left-wing activist opened fire on Republicans as they practiced for an annual charity baseball game. Rep. Steve Scalise of Louisiana was critically wounded. In 2011, then-Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., was shot in the head at an event outside a Tucson grocery store.
Elon Musk jumped into the debate Sunday tweeting, then deleting, a link to a fringe website with an unfounded rumor about the attack on Speaker Pelosi’s husband. Sent to his millions of followers, Musk’s tweet came just days after his purchase of Twitter fueled concerns that the social media platform would no longer seek to limit misinformation and hate speech.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar, who leads the Senate committee overseeing security at the Capitol, said lawmakers are considering new measures, including taking their private information off the internet.
Klobuchar, D-Minn., noted, however that Nancy Pelosi “has been villainized for years and, big surprise, it’s gone viral, and it went violent.”
“I think it is really important that people realize that it is not just this moment of this horrific attack, but that we have seen violence perpetrated throughout our political system,” Klobuchar told NBC’s “Meet the Press.” | 2022-10-31T12:52:50+00:00 | kron4.com | https://www.kron4.com/news/paul-pelosi-attacker-carried-zip-ties-ap-source/ |
Jamie Foxx remains hospitalized after suffering ‘medical emergency’ last month
ATLANTA (CNN) - Actor Jamie Foxx is thanking fans for their support as he recovers from an undisclosed medical condition.
Foxx had been in Atlanta filming the Netflix movie “Back in Action” with Cameron Diaz when he experienced the medical emergency that sent him to the hospital on April 11. He has remained hospitalized since.
On Wednesday, Foxx thanked all his followers for their support.
“Appreciate all the love!!! Feeling blessed,” Foxx wrote in an Instagram post.
It’s the first time Foxx has spoken out since his daughter Corinne Foxx released a statement last month revealing that the actor was hospitalized due to a “medical complication.”
As he recovers, Nick Cannon will be filling in as guest host on “Beat Shazam,” a music-related game show that Jamie Foxx hosts with his daughter Corinne Foxx.
Copyright 2023 CNN Newsource. All rights reserved. | 2023-05-04T16:34:21+00:00 | kttc.com | https://www.kttc.com/2023/05/04/jamie-foxx-remains-hospitalized-after-suffering-medical-emergency-last-month/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Wholesale prices in the United States rose 6.2% in December from a year earlier, a sixth straight monthly slowdown and a hopeful sign that inflation pressures will continue to cool.
The latest year-over-year figure was down from 7.3% in November and from a recent peak of 11.7% in March. On a monthly basis, the government said Wednesday that its producer price index, which measures costs before they reach consumers, dropped 0.5% from November to December.
The producer price data can provide an early sign of where consumer inflation might be headed. The data reflects the prices that are charged by manufacturers, farmers and wholesalers, and it flows into an inflation gauge that the Federal Reserve closely tracks: The personal consumption expenditures price index.
Rising evidence has suggested that inflation across the economy is easing after having reached a four-decade peak last summer. At the consumer level, inflation also cooled in December for a sixth straight month to 6.5% compared with a year earlier, from 7.1% in November.
An acceleration in workers’ wages has been slowing, too, which could further help control inflation. In December, average wage growth in the United States was up 4.6% from 12 months earlier, compared with a recent peak of 5.6% in March.
Over the past year, the Fed has rapidly raised its key interest rate in an aggressive drive to cool borrowing and spending and tame inflation, which began surging more than a year and a half ago.
The Fed’s rate hikes have, in turn, led to higher borrowing costs for consumers and businesses. The average mortgage rate is still nearly twice its level a year ago, though it has dipped in recent weeks. Loan costs for auto purchases, credit cards and a range of business borrowing are up sharply, too.
Even as overall inflation gradually slows, costs continue to surge in some pockets of the economy. Particularly in the vast service sector — everything from restaurants and hotels to airlines and entertainment venues — fast-growing wages are contributing to broader inflation pressures.
But many other trends have joined to slow inflation and could eventually lead the Fed to suspend its series of rate hikes. Gas prices, for instance, have steadily dropped after hitting $5 a gallon in June. Nationally, they averaged $3.36 a gallon Wednesday, according to AAA, barely above their average a year ago. | 2023-01-18T14:17:00+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/wholesale-inflation-in-us-slowed-further-in-december-to-6-2/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world |
RUSH TOWNSHIP, NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — State police arrested a woman Wednesday after they say she vandalized a car multiple ways including pouring oil inside it.
According to Pennsylvania State Police, around 8:00 a.m. Wednesday troopers were called to an incident.
Through an investigation it was found that a 26-year-old woman damaged a man’s car by smashing a taillight, pouring oil inside of the car, and ripping out interior wires, PSP states.
Authorities say charges at this time are pending. | 2022-09-16T19:11:43+00:00 | pahomepage.com | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/crime-courts/woman-accused-of-vandalizing-car-by-pouring-oil-inside/ |
UPDATED: 'Multiple K9s' conducting sweep of Urbana High School following phone calls detailing possible shooting, bomb threats
URBANA — "Everyone is safe," Urbana school officials alerted families Monday morning following a report of a possible shooting at the high school.
"Thank you for your quick response and cooperation," Superintendent Jennifer Ivory-Tatum informed families in an email just before 9 a.m. "All students and staff are safe and off campus. The high school is closed for the day while officers search the building to rule out any actual or potential threats.
"This morning before school started, we received multiple phone calls detailing a possible school shooting and bomb threats. UHS was immediately put on lockdown, and students, staff, and buses en route were redirected to our reunification site."
More than a dozen law enforcement vehicles remain parked outside the school, which is being swept by bomb-sniffing police dogs.
“We have multiple K-9s from multiple jurisdictions conducting sweeps, and if anything is found, we have at least two (explosive ordnance disposal) teams on standby, so multiple officers are there securing the school now," Urbana police Lt. Michael Cervantes told The News-Gazette's Anthony Zilis.
Cervantes confirmed what Ivory-Tatum said in her most recent update to district families, telling The News-Gazette:
“There is nobody hurt. Everybody is safe,” Cervantes said. “The students have been evacuated for precautionary reasons, and the Urbana Police Department is working cooperatively with the FBI, the Secretary of State Police, the U of I Police Department and the Champaign County Sheriff’s Department to investigate the issue further.”
Earlier Monday morning, Urbana Middle School also called off classes for Monday, telling families: "MTD and First Student are canceling bus routes and we are stopping parents from dropping off students. No direct threat was made to UMS or to our students. We are canceling school to ensure the safety of our students and staff."
The day started with a harrowing alert from Ivory-Tatum informing families of a "possible shooting" and lockdown at the high school.
"This is not a DRILL," Ivory-Tatum wrote earlier Monday morning. "We have received a message regarding a possible shooting at UHS. We are currently rerouting buses to Lincoln Square. Car riders, drivers, and walkers should NOT come to school until you receive an all clear from the District.
"I repeat, this is not a Drill. UHS is under lockdown do NOT come to the school at this time." | 2022-11-07T16:43:36+00:00 | news-gazette.com | https://www.news-gazette.com/news/updated-multiple-k9s-conducting-sweep-of-urbana-high-school-following-phone-calls-detailing-possible-shooting/article_cea4c7a0-10d7-5632-8b85-22a2a9c1c26e.html |
With a number of returning starters, Denmark-Olar’s football team is expected to be one of the top teams in Class A this season.
Vikings head football coach Jarvis Littlejohn said the team worked hard during the spring despite other athletic responsibilities.
“We had some kids playing multiple sports in the winter and spring, but they always made time to get in the weight room at least three times a week,” Littleton said. “Our focus was on sharpening our skills and learning the new play concepts for the upcoming season.”
Keithan Washington returns at quarterback after being named All-State a year ago. He was the Class A Region III Player of the Year after rushing for 1,826 yards and 34 touchdowns while throwing for 1,686 yards and 16 touchdowns.
“I’m so proud of the way Keithan has worked this offseason,” Littlejohn said. “He’s gotten bigger, stronger, faster and his throwing ability continues to improve. He’s already a great runner, but if we can get him to throw the ball consistently, we could be very good.”
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The Vikings also return all-region athletes Jaquari Williams, Chris Sanders and Brushaurd Young.
Williams and Young combined to catch 45 passes last season for nearly 900 yards and 10 touchdowns. Sanders rushed for 420 yards and nine touchdowns while returning two kickoffs for touchdowns.
Littlejohn said he expects underclassmen Da’quez Dowling (receiver) and Jacques Donaldson (running back) to add even more fire power to the lineup.
Even with the athleticism, Denmark-Olar may struggle along the offensive line after losing three seniors from last year’s team. Littlejohn said he spent the spring trying to build up depth at the position. The Vikings line will be anchored by returning starter Reggie Youmans who played guard and defensive tackle last year.
With a majority of the team playing both offense and defense, the Vikings found themselves in a number of shootouts last season. The offense averaged nearly 40 points per game, but the defense was giving up nearly 32.
Littlejohn said the Vikings should be better on defense with the addition of former Orangeburg-Wilkinson head coach Kevin Crosby as the new defensive coordinator.
“We were able to spend the spring installing a defense,” Littlejohn said. “We are light years ahead of where we were in terms of knowing concepts, and a lot of that is thanks to (Coach) Crosby.”
Last year, Denmark-Olar finished second in Region III despite defeating region champion Calhoun County. The Vikings lost two region games by a combined seven points. Littlejohn said his team learned that they can’t be complacent.
“Preparation is the key to success, and I think we learned that last year,” Littlejohn said. “We had a good season playing in a tough region. This year, we’ve challenged ourselves in non-region to better prepare us for region and playoffs.”
The Vikings are scheduled to open the season Aug. 19 on the road at First Baptist. | 2022-06-07T23:51:59+00:00 | thetandd.com | https://thetandd.com/sports/spring-football-vikings-should-have-high-expectations/article_8ce4554b-2dae-5437-8113-9e53f42d7014.html |
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Sept. 3, 1950 - July 12, 2022
BLOOMINGTON — Bryan Moonen, 71, of Bloomington, passed away Tuesday, July 12, 2022, at Heritage Health, El Paso, after a lengthy battle with CADASIL.
A memorial service will be held at 1:00 p.m. Tuesday, July 19, 2022, at St. John's Lutheran Church, Bloomington, where visitation will be from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Carmody-Flynn Funeral Home, Bloomington, is in charge of arrangements.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be directed to ISU Athletics.
He was born September 3, 1950, in Chicago, a son of Donald and Pearl Thorson Moonen. He married Barbara Mann on August 18, 2001, and she survives in Normal.
Also surviving are a step-daughter, Jenni (TJ) Potts; four grandchildren: Brody, Joslyn, Benjamin, and Sullivan; three brothers: Don (Cheryl) Moonen, Brett (Betty) Moonen and Eric Moonen; two sisters-in-law: Vi (Jim) Rusch and Phyllis (John) Raper; and many beloved nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his parents; a brother, Jeff Moonen; and his best friend, Joe O'Rourke.
Bryan served in the U.S. Army and was a graduate of Illinois State University. His professional career encompassed many years at the Pantagraph and the U.S. Postal Service in Peoria. One of Bryan's greatest enjoyments was the time he spent writing for the Redbird Express which provided him with the opportunity to profile ISU's student athletes. Bryan was an avid sports fan, but especially enjoyed being an ISU Redbirds basketball season-ticket holder. He often left people in awe of his ability to remember sports stats and movie trivia. In addition to playing golf, Bryan also enjoyed harmonizing with his brother, Brett, watching movies, and spending time with his family.
To express condolences online, please visit www.carmodyflynn.com. | 2022-07-14T18:19:20+00:00 | pantagraph.com | https://pantagraph.com/obituaries/bryan-moonen/article_ef579303-2fa8-5992-bbc7-7d9488bc0e58.html |
Schools are reporting more disruptions and violent behavior. It has provoked fears, frustration and a reevaluation of whether police should be stationed inside schools.
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Schools are reporting more disruptions and violent behavior. It has provoked fears, frustration and a reevaluation of whether police should be stationed inside schools.
Copyright 2023 NPR | 2023-05-23T10:05:41+00:00 | kunm.org | https://www.kunm.org/npr-news/npr-news/2023-05-23/schools-feel-pressure-to-reassess-disciplinary-policies-including-a-role-for-police |
Sit down with the attorney general to ask him about his priorities, as NPR did earlier this year, and he'll talk about voting rights and national security. But if you listen a bit longer, Eric Holder gets to this: "I think there are too many people in jail for too long, and for not necessarily good reasons."
This is the nation's top law enforcement officer calling for a sea change in the criminal justice system. And he's not alone.
Over the past few weeks, lawmakers have introduced bipartisan measures that would give judges more power to shorten prison sentences for nonviolent criminals and even get rid of some mandatory minimum terms altogether.
"The war on drugs is now 30, 40 years old," Holder said. "There have been a lot of unintended consequences. There's been a decimation of certain communities, in particular communities of color."
That's one reason why the Justice Department has had a group of lawyers working behind the scenes for months on proposals the attorney general could present as early as next week in a speech to the American Bar Association in San Francisco.
Some of the items are changes Holder can make on his own, such as directing U.S. attorneys not to prosecute certain kinds of low-level drug crimes, or spending money to send more defendants into treatment instead of prison. Almost half of the 219,000 people currently in federal prison are serving time on drug charges.
"Well, we can certainly change our enforcement priorities, and so we have some control in that way," Holder said. "How we deploy our agents, what we tell our prosecutors to charge, but I think this would be best done if the executive branch and the legislative branch work together to look at this whole issue and come up with changes that are acceptable to both."
Late last week, two senators — Illinois Democrat Dick Durbin and Utah Republican Mike Lee — moved in that direction. Their bill, called the Smarter Sentencing Act of 2013, would give judges more discretion to sentence nonviolent criminals below the so-called mandatory minimums. It would also lower mandatory minimums for several drug crimes to lower costs and cut down on crowding in a prison system that's estimated to be operating at 40 percent over capacity.
The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Vermont Democrat Patrick Leahy, says he'll hold a hearing on mandatory minimums next month.
"They all sound like a great stop-crime idea when they were passed," Leahy said on the C-SPAN Newsmakers program Sunday. "Most of them sound better on paper than in practice."
His partner in that effort is Republican Rand Paul, a Tea Party favorite from Kentucky. They've introduced their own legislation, the Justice Safety Valve Act of 2013, to give judges more power to impose lower sentences — and not just in drug crimes.
"Doing away with mandatory minimums, giving more discretion to judges, that shouldn't be Republican or Democrat," Leahy added. "It just makes good sense."
The idea has already taken off in nearly two dozen states including Arkansas, Kentucky and Texas, where it won support from prominent conservatives including Grover Norquist, part of a coalition known as Right on Crime.
"It's easier to say, 'Let's spend a few dollars a day managing you at your home where you can spend time with your family, where you can work, instead of hundreds of dollars a day, keeping you in a cell,' " Norquist said in a video on the group's website.
And the Justice Department explicitly pointed to state reform efforts in a letter to the U.S. Sentencing Commission in July. The old system, wrote official Jonathan Wroblewski, is being replaced with the idea that budgets are "finite," prison is a power that should be "exercised sparingly and only as necessary," and that "reducing reoffending and promoting effective reentry are core goals."
Wroblewski wrote that authorities want to overhaul the system to make sentencing simpler, to spend more money on programs for people returning to life outside of prison, to target drug traffickers with severe penalties, and to offer alternatives or shorter sentences to nonviolent offenders. The Justice Department also wants to give those nonviolent offenders already serving prison time a way out early, for good behavior.
Ohio State University law professor Douglas Berman has been following the criminal justice system for years. With violent crime near record lows, and federal prisons eating up a quarter of the Justice Department's 2014 budget, Berman says now may be time for change.
"There's the opportunity for action, not only on [Capitol Hill] but maybe in the Obama administration particularly, when we're a little bit away from the midterm elections and a long time away from the next presidential election cycle," Berman says.
It would be the first major sentencing reform since the crack epidemic of the 1980s, he says.
"It's not just a story of new politicians in Washington having a new willingness to speak about these issues, because of lower crime rates and the budget crisis, but I think also the discovery that across the political spectrum across the country, states have been successful in modifying ... sentencing laws to go from what's often talked about as being tough to being smarter on crime," Berman adds.
Some prosecutors, even some inside the Justice Department, may have a hard time making that pivot, as they debate how lengthy prison terms may have helped lower the crime rate.
But Berman says it's worth asking these questions: "Are we using the prison system too broadly, too widely? Are we getting a poor return on our investment with criminal justice dollars when we're constantly growing the federal prison population and especially in a time of sequester that comes with cuts to prosecutors, cuts to police forces, cuts to defender services?"
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2023-04-04T01:00:42+00:00 | wqcs.org | https://www.wqcs.org/2013-08-07/with-holder-in-the-lead-sentencing-reform-gains-momentum |
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Night" game were:
6-7-7-3, FIREBALL: 3
(six, seven, seven, three; FIREBALL: three)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Night" game were:
6-7-7-3, FIREBALL: 3
(six, seven, seven, three; FIREBALL: three) | 2022-08-11T05:17:31+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-4-Night-game-17365998.php |
By SEUNG MIN KIM, AAMER MADHANI and ELLEN KNICKMEYER (Associated Press)
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden declared Monday that the United States and NATO played no part in the Wagner mercenary group’s short-lived insurrection in Russia, calling the uprising and the longer-term challenges it poses for President Vladimir Putin’s authority “a struggle within the Russian system.”
Biden and U.S. allies supporting Ukraine in its fight against Russia’s invasion emphasized their intent to be seen as staying out of the mercenaries’ stunning insurgency, the biggest threat to Putin in his two decades leading Russia. They are concerned that Putin could use accusations of Western involvement to rally Russians to his defense.
Biden and administration officials declined an immediate assessment of what the 22-hour uprising by the Wagner Group might mean for Russia’s war in Ukraine, for mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin or for Russia itself.
“We’re going to keep assessing the fallout of this weekend’s events and the implications from Russia and Ukraine,” Biden said. “But it’s still too early to reach a definitive conclusion about where this is going.”
Putin, in his first public comments since the rebellion, said “Russia’s enemies” had hoped the mutiny would succeed in dividing and weakening Russia, “but they miscalculated.” He identified the enemies as “the neo-Nazis in Kyiv, their Western patrons and other national traitors.”
And Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said the special services were already investigating whether Western intelligence services were involved in Prigozhin’s rebellion.
Over the course of a tumultuous weekend in Russia, U.S. diplomats were in contact with their counterparts in Moscow to underscore that the American government regarded the matter as a domestic affair for Russia, with the U.S. only a bystander, State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said.
American diplomats also stressed to Moscow that they expected Russia to ensure the safety of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow and Americans detained in Russia, Miller said.
In a video call between Biden and leaders of U.S.-allied countries over the weekend, all were determined to give Putin “no excuse to blame this on the West,” Biden told reporters at the White House.
“We made clear that we were not involved. We had nothing to do with it,” Biden said. “This was part of a struggle within the Russian system.”
Michael McFaul, a former U.S. ambassador to Russia, said Putin in the past has alleged clandestine U.S. involvement in events — including democratic uprisings in former Soviet countries, and campaigns by democracy activists inside and outside Russia — as a way to diminish public support among Russians for those challenges to the Russian system.
The U.S. and NATO “don’t want to be blamed for the appearance of trying to destabilize Putin,” McFaul said.
A feud between Prigozhin and Russia’s military brass that has festered throughout the war erupted into the mutiny that saw the mercenaries leave Ukraine to seize a military headquarters in a southern Russian city. They rolled for hundreds of kilometers toward Moscow, before turning around on Saturday, in a deal whose terms remain uncertain.
Biden’s national security team briefed him hourly as Prigozhin’s forces were on the move, the president said. He had directed them to “prepare for a range of scenarios” as Russia’s crisis unfolded, he said.
Biden did not elaborate on the scenarios. But national security spokesman John Kirby addressed one concern raised frequently by the public, news media and others as the world watched the cracks opening in Putin’s hold on power — worries that the Russian leader might take extreme action to reassert his command.
Putin and the Kremlin have made repeated references to Russia’s nuclear weapons since invading Ukraine 16 months ago, aiming to discourage NATO countries from ratcheting up their support to Ukraine.
“One thing that we have always talked about, unabashedly so, is that it’s in nobody’s interest for this war to escalate beyond the level of violence that is already visited upon the Ukrainian people,” Kirby said at a White House news briefing. “It’s not good for, certainly, Ukraine and not good for our allies and partners in Europe. Quite frankly, it’s not good for the Russian people.”
In the aftermath of the mutiny, both Prigozhin and Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu made public comments Monday aiming to play down the crisis.
In an 11-minute audio statement, Prigozhin said he acted “to prevent the destruction of the Wagner private military company” and in particular in response to an attack on a Wagner camp that killed some 30 of his fighters.
Biden spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy over the weekend, telling him, ”’No matter what happened in Russia, let me say again, no matter what happened in Russia, we in the United States would continue to support Ukraine’s defense and sovereignty and its territorial integrity.” Biden said. He said he intended to speak with Zelenskyy again late Monday or early Tuesday.
The Pentagon is expected to announce Tuesday that it is sending up to $500 million in additional military aid to Ukraine, including more than 50 heavily armored vehicles and an infusion of missiles for air defense systems, U.S. officials said Monday. They spoke on condition of anonymity because the aid has not yet been publicly announced.
Biden, in the first weeks after Putin sent tens of thousands of Russian forces into Ukraine in February 2022, had issued a passionate statement against the Russian leader’s continuing in command. “For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power,” he said then, as reports emerged of Russian atrocities against civilians in Ukraine.
On Monday, U.S. officials were careful not to be seen as backing either Putin or his former longtime protege, Prigozhin, in public comments.
“We believe it’s up to the Russian people to determine who their leadership is,” Kirby said.
White House officials were also trying to understand how Beijing was digesting the Wagner revolt and what it might mean for the China-Russia relationship going forward. China and Russia are each other’s closest major partner. The White House says Beijing has considered — but not followed through on — sending Russia weaponry for use in Ukraine.
“I think it’d be fair to say that recent developments in Russia had been unsettling to the Chinese leadership,” said Kurt Campbell, coordinator for the Indo-Pacific at the White House National Security Council, speaking at a forum hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. “I think I’ll just leave it at that.”
China values Russia as a friend in part to keep from standing alone against the U.S. and its allies in disputes. With Russia’s invasion and resulting international sanctions sapping Russian resources and now sparking a rebellion, McFaul said, Ukraine and its allies could make the case: “‘Xi Jinping, you know, if you want your buddy to stay in power, maybe this is the time to put some pressure on him to wrap up this war.”‘
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AP Diplomatic Writer Matthew Lee contributed to this report. | 2023-06-27T17:23:16+00:00 | sun-sentinel.com | https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2023/06/26/biden-calls-mutiny-a-struggle-within-the-russian-system-and-says-us-and-nato-played-no-part/ |
The deadline for Microsoft’s $69 billion acquisition of video game company Activision Blizzard has been extended as the companies seek to close a deal that has been challenged by regulators in the U.S., as well as by the U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority.
Microsoft believes that pushing back the deadline to Oct. 18 will provide enough time to work through the remaining regulatory issues, said Brad Smith, the company’s president.
“We are confident about our prospects for getting this deal across the finish line,” Smith said.
The extension comes with a bigger termination fee, should the deal be called off, and a number of other new agreements.
Tuesday marked an important deadline for the deal announced 18 months earlier. Both Microsoft and Activision had agreed that either party could walk away from the planned merger if it hadn’t closed by then, triggering Microsoft to potentially have to pay a $3 billion breakup fee unless both sides decided to renegotiate.
That termination fee has been increased to $3.5 billion with the extension. If the deal does not close by Sept. 15, it will increase to $4.5 billion.
“I am happy to share that based on our continued confidence in closing our deal, the Activision Blizzard and Microsoft boards have mutually agreed not to terminate the deal until after October 18,” Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick said in a note to employees.
He emphasized that it’s already been granted approval in 40 countries, which includes those in the European Union, and he was confident the U.K. concerns would be resolved.
Microsoft spent this month working to resolve longstanding legal challenges from antitrust enforcers in the U.S. and U.K. who argued the merger would harm competition.
The deal was effectively clear to go in the U.S. this week, especially after the Supreme Court decided against hearing a last-ditch effort to block the takeover from gamers who have described themselves as fans of popular Activision titles Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, Overwatch and Diablo.
Justice Elena Kagan rejected the emergency appeal without comment on Tuesday. Kagan handles emergency matters from California and other western states.
But the U.K. remained an obstacle, though one that’s likely to be surmounted.
The Competition and Markets Authority initially rejected the deal, but later pushed back its final decision so it can consider Microsoft’s argument that new developments mean its acquisition can go through.
A judge on Monday conditionally approved a joint request from Microsoft and the British regulator to delay upcoming proceedings, enabling both sides to further negotiate.
Daniel Beard, an attorney representing Microsoft in the U.K. case, told the judge Monday he was grateful the process is moving quickly because “the U.K. is the only impediment to closing and speed is of the essence.”
Among the additional information sought by the judge was Microsoft’s Sunday announcement of a deal addressing concerns from top rival Sony, maker of the PlayStation console that’s a competitor to Microsoft’s Xbox. Microsoft said it signed a deal with Sony to keep Call of Duty on PlayStation for at least 10 years.
Such a deal would also appear to address at least one of the concerns about loss of competition brought by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, which sued in December to stop the deal.
The FTC hasn’t said if it will continue to fight the takeover after a federal judge and a federal appeals court both denied its attempt to stop the deal from closing. The FTC could still continue a case set for the agency’s in-house judge in August, but that wouldn’t preclude the two companies from completing the merger beforehand.
Phil Spencer, head of Microsoft’s Xbox division, said in an email to employees: “While we can technically close in the United States due to recent legal developments, this extension gives us additional time to resolve the remaining regulatory concerns in the UK.” | 2023-07-20T12:10:07+00:00 | wwlp.com | https://www.wwlp.com/business/ap-business/ap-microsoft-and-activision-extend-deadline-to-close-69-billion-deal-under-close-regulatory-scrutiny/ |
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma prison officials said Wednesday that they will allow an anti-death penalty minister with a history of protest-related arrests inside the execution chamber for Thursday’s lethal injection of death row inmate Scott Eizember.
Department of Corrections Director Steven Harpe said he reversed his earlier decision not to allow the Rev. Jeffrey Hood into the chamber after consulting with the family members of Eizember’s victims. They were concerned that a lawsuit Eizember had filed over the matter could further delay the execution, he said.
“The family members of the victims in this case are ready for closure, and they understand that the lawsuit challenging the decision to deny chamber access to the activist could lead to Thursday’s execution being stayed,” Harpe said in a statement. “Far too often, it is the victim and the victim’s family who are overlooked in these cases. We want to make sure their concerns are heard instead of everything being solely about the inmate.”
The Corrections Department had said Tuesday that it would not allow the Arkansas minister inside the death chamber, saying Hood could pose a security risk because of his history of anti-death penalty activism, including several arrests. Prison officials say Hood has agreed to follow strict guidelines on his actions inside the execution chamber.
As a result of the department’s reversal, Hood said he was withdrawing his federal lawsuit that sought to halt the execution until he was allowed inside the chamber.
“I count it a great honor to have fought for and secured the religious liberty of Scott Eizember and myself,” Hood said in a statement.
Eizember was convicted of killing A.J. Cantrell, 76, and his wife, Patsy Cantrell, 70, in 2003, after prosecutors say the couple returned their home to find Eizember inside keeping watch over his ex-girlfriend’s house across the street. Prosecutors say he went on to commit a series of other crimes across several other states, leading to one of Oklahoma’s largest manhunts before he was ultimately captured in Texas more than a month after the killings. | 2023-01-12T02:56:13+00:00 | nwahomepage.com | https://www.nwahomepage.com/news/national/ap-oklahoma-prisons-chief-minister-okd-inside-death-chamber/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell suffered a concussion after a fall at a local hotel and remains hospitalized “for a few days of observation and treatment,” a spokesman said Thursday.
The Kentucky senator, 81, was at a Wednesday evening dinner for the Senate Leadership Fund, a campaign committee aligned with him, when he tripped and fell. The dinner was at the Waldorf Astoria Washington DC, formerly the Trump International Hotel.
Spokesman David Popp said McConnell is being treated for a concussion and “is grateful to the medical professionals for their care and to his colleagues for their warm wishes.” McConnell’s office did not provide additional detail on his condition or how long he may be absent from the Senate.
Senators leaving a Republican conference lunch on Thursday said that that McConnell’s staff had given them an update during the meeting. Utah Sen. Mitt Romney said they were told that “he’s doing well, feels fine, but had a concussion.”
President Joe Biden tweeted that he wishes McConnell a “speedy recovery” and looks forward to seeing him back on the Senate floor.
Romney predicted that McConnell would stay in the hospital over the weekend and return to the Senate next week.
But concussions can be serious injuries and take time for recovery. Many professional sporting associations have focused on the dangers of repetitive head injuries. Even a single incident of concussion can limit a person’s abilities as they recover.
In 2019, the GOP leader tripped and fell at his home in Kentucky, suffering a shoulder fracture that required surgery. The Senate had just started a summer recess, and he worked from home for some weeks as he recovered.
First elected in 1984, McConnell in January became the longest-serving Senate leader when the new Congress convened, breaking the previous record of 16 years.
The taciturn McConnell is often reluctant to discuss his private life. But at the start of the COVID-19 crisis he opened up about his early childhood experience fighting polio. He described how his mother insisted that he stay off his feet as a toddler and worked with him through a determined physical therapy regime. He has acknowledged some difficulty in adulthood climbing stairs.
South Dakota Sen. John Thune, the No. 2 Republican, said he was at the dinner Wednesday evening and that McConnell had delivered remarks “as usual.”
“Evidently it happened later in the evening,” said Thune, who had moved on to another reception underway at the hotel and did not see McConnell fall.
“We just need to make sure that the leader does what he’s told,” said Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski.
None of the senators had talked to McConnell, though several said they had reached out to wish him well. Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley said he had sent a note but that it was his understanding that the leader was not taking calls.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said on the Senate floor Thursday morning that he had called McConnell but spoke with his staff “to extend my prayers and well wishes.”
The Senate, where the average age is 65, has been without several members recently due to illness.
Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., 53, who suffered a stroke during his campaign last year, was expected to remain out for some weeks as he received care for clinical depression. And Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., 89, said last week that she had been hospitalized to be treated for shingles.
The Democratic absences have proven a challenge for Schumer, who is already navigating a narrow 51-49 majority.
The Republicans, as the minority party, have had an easier time with intermittent absences.
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This story has been corrected to show that Sen. Dianne Feinstein is 89, not 90. | 2023-03-09T20:31:42+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/news/national/spokesman-gop-leader-mcconnell-hospitalized-after-fall/ |
WIMBLEDON, England — From the red clay of the French Open to the green grass of Wimbledon, the wins keep coming for Iga Swiatek.
“It’s my first match on grass this season, so I knew it’s going to be tricky,” Swiatek said on court. “I’m just figuring out how to play here and trying to implement all the stuff that we were practicing on.”
Even with seven-time champion Serena Williams in the draw at the All England Club, Swiatek is the woman to beat. She won five tournaments before heading to Paris in May, earning consecutive titles in Doha, Indian Wells, Miami, Stuttgart and Rome.
Swiatek, again wearing a pin with the colors of Ukraine on her hat, started out like she left off in her last match at the French Open. But she went down 3-1 in the second set before recovering.
“The second set, at the beginning I lost my focus a little bit and she used that pretty well,” Swiatek said.
Barbora Krejcikova, who won the French Open in 2021 to split Swiatek’s two titles there, also advanced to the second round. The 13th-seeded Czech defeated Maryna Zanevska of Belgium 7-6 (4), 6-3.
No. 4 Paula Badosa, No. 5 Maria Sakkari, No. 12 Jelena Ostapenko and No. 33 Shuai Zhang of China also advanced.
Among the seeded player to lose was Olympic champion Belinda Bencic. The 14th-seeded Swiss player lost to Qiang Wang of China 6-4, 5-7, 6-2.
No. 18 Jil Teichmann of Switzerland, No. 20 Amanda Anisimova of the United States and No. 27 Yulia Putintseva of Kazakhstan also lost.
In the men’s draw, No. 18 Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria retired from his match with an apparent injury. He was leading Steve Johnson of the United States 6-4, 2-5 when he stopped.
No. 15 Reilly Opelka of the United States, No. 19 Alex De Minaur of Australia, No. 29 Jenson Brooksby of the United States and No. 31 Sebastian Baez of Argentina also won.
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Yellow Breeches EMS leaders said Tuesday the company’s station chief Douglas Shields was placed on administrative leave earlier this month, as soon as the ambulance company learned he was a suspect in a sex crimes investigation.
Greg Lunde, chairman of the ambulance company’s board of directors, said the board moved swiftly on Shields’ status after Pennsylvania State Police conducted a search at the service’s 233 Mill Street station.
In a case that only came to light Tuesday morning, Shields was arraigned last week on separate counts of statutory sexual assault, aggravated indecent assault, corruption of minors and more after allegations from a high-school age “ride-along” member that he had sexually assaulted her.
Because the girl was 15 at the time the alleged acts started in 2021, she is considered too young by state law to be capable of giving consent to have sex.
Shields will stay on suspension until the case against him is adjudicated, Lunde said.
It was not immediately clear Tuesday why the police investigation, which was launched last May, only resulted in charges now, and case investigators were not able to be reached for comment.
Shields was one of the company’s full-time employees, and Lunde said news of his involvement in this case came as a “complete shock.”
In its statement, put out under Lunde’s name, the company noted all of Yellow Breeches employees and volunteers are subject to state and federal criminal history checks, and receive background checks for any history of child abuse before they are permitted to serve.
Shields, 53, presumably passed all of those checks.
“We have faith in the integrity of the legal process and reiterate that Mr. Shields, like all criminal defendants, is innocent until proven guilty. Nevertheless, the highest priority of the Yellow Breeches EMS has always been, and continues to be, the safety, health and welfare of the public we serve,” the statement said.
“In light of the nature and severity of the charges filed against him, Mr. Shields has been suspended indefinitely from his position and employment with Yellow Breeches EMS pending the outcome of the criminal case.” | 2023-02-01T00:01:29+00:00 | pennlive.com | https://www.pennlive.com/crime/2023/01/ambulance-company-chief-suspended-in-wake-of-arrest-on-sex-charges.html |
This November, tea-focused cocktail bar Tell Camellia and Mandarin Oriental’s Japanese izakaya The Aubrey will join forces to present a series of events that highlight tea and shochu. From 8pm to 12am on November 2 and 3, The Aubrey’s assistant general manager, Devender Seghal, will join Tell Camelia’s co-founder, Gagan Gurung, behind Tell Camellia’s bar for a collaborative guest shift where they’ll serve four creative tea and shochu cocktails all night long.
For those who would like to learn more about tea and shochu, the two mixologists will also host a masterclass from 3pm to 5pm on November 3. Participants will start the session off with a welcome drink, before Devender introduces the world of Japanese shochu to guests as they savour three varieties of shochu. Shortly after, Gagan will showcase three varieties of tea for guests to sip on while explaining their origins and flavour profiles.
Tickets to the cocktail masterclass cost $550 and are available by contacting Tell Camellia at 9821 5501 or by sending them a message through their Instagram.
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President Joe Biden has reached a deal with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on raising the debt ceiling. Now, it's up to the Senate and House to approve the deal.
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A property purchased by Bristol, Tennessee, last month for $1.4 million was sold in 2020 for $250,000, county records show.
City Council unanimously approved the purchase of the Tri-Cities Sportsplex property at 515 Melrose St. in a called meeting last month in order to provide a place for recreation programming, tournament play and gym space. The 33,000+ square foot facility, which was renovated in 2013, houses two basketball courts upstairs and a batting cage downstairs.
In 2021, the property located just off Volunteer Parkway was given a total market appraisal of $257,600.
The main justification for buying the property well above its previous sale price and most recent appraisal was comparative building costs, Terry Napier, the city’s director of parks and recreation, said Tuesday.
“If you look at the square footage of that building, it would be easy to make the argument that it is worth what the city paid for it and more, based on what it costs to build,” Napier said. “Right now, it is much cheaper to purchase and renovate an old building than it is to build a new building. Building costs are substantially up right now. The decision was made by five council members to purchase the building at the price that it was offered.”
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According to Napier, the city contracted a firm for plans to build a community center from the ground up, but that contract is being modified for renovation plans for the Melrose Street property, which came with all of the facility’s personal property in the sale.
The renovations could cost the city $2 million, Napier said during August’s called meeting; however, he added that the project’s cost is much less than having to spend $12 million to $18 million on a completely new building. Napier also said the recently acquired structure checks almost all of the boxes that were wanted in such a facility, including its location and proximity to city schools.
City Council member Margaret Feierabend said Tuesday that it can sometimes be difficult for cities to purchase real estate as sellers may raise their price when the city comes knocking. Overall, she thinks the acquisition and renovation is a step in the right direction that will enable the city to move on to other projects in the future.
“It certainly is cheaper than what we were looking at and provides more opportunities to spend money on some other things that we have in our wish list and hope list for planning for the future,” Feierabend said. | 2022-09-21T03:17:34+00:00 | heraldcourier.com | https://heraldcourier.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/records-show-city-paid-premium-price-for-rec-building/article_0add369a-3947-11ed-9590-47edc67f80f0.html |
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Tulsa Police said they recovered fentanyl and drug money after a traffic stop and arrest.
Officers say the investigation started Thursday when they stopped a car near 61st and Memorial for several traffic violations.
They say a K-9 unit alerted officers to drugs in they car and they found 184 grams of fentanyl, packaged for sale, along with $2,200 from drug sales.
Police arrested a suspect for drug trafficking but have not released the suspect's identity as they continue investigating.
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California gets more rain and snow, but dry days are ahead
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — More rain and snow fell during the weekend in storm-battered California, making travel dangerous and prompting new evacuation orders over flooding concerns along a swollen river near Sacramento.
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Bands of thunderstorms with gusty winds started Saturday in the north and spread south, with yet another atmospheric river storm following close behind Sunday, the National Weather Service said.
Up to two inches (5 cm) of rain was predicted for the saturated Sacramento Valley, where residents of semi-rural Wilton, home to about 5,000 people, were ordered to evacuate as the Cosumnes River continued to rise.
Another two feet (61 cm) of snow and gusty winds were expected in the Sierra Nevada. Interstate 80, a key highway from the San Francisco Bay Area to Lake Tahoe ski resorts, reopened after being closed most of Saturday because of slick roads, snow and whiteout conditions.
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The University of California Berkeley Central Sierra Snow Lab tweeted Sunday morning that it received 21.5 inches (54 centimeters) of snow in 24 hours. Its snowpack of about 10 feet (3 meters) was expected to grow several more feet by Monday.
A backcountry avalanche warning was issued for the central Sierra, including the greater Lake Tahoe area, through Monday.
The California Highway Patrol rescued three people whose car slid off a rain-slicked road and ended up teetering at the edge of a cliff in the Santa Cruz Mountains on Friday. The occupants of the car “were scared for their lives and were in disbelief” when they were pulled safely from the car as the vehicle's front end hung precariously over the cliff's edge, the highway patrol said in a statement.
“We cannot stress this enough. Please ONLY drive if it’s necessary,” the statement said.
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Just to the south in Santa Cruz County, the tiny community of Felton Grove along the San Lorenzo River was under an evacuation warning.
The swollen Salinas River swamped farmland in Monterey County. To the east, flood warnings were in effect for Merced County in the agricultural Central Valley, where Gov. Gavin Newsom visited Saturday to take stock of problems and warn of still more possible danger.
“We're not done,” Newsom said. He urged people to be vigilant about safety for a few more days, when the last of a parade of nine atmospheric rivers was expected to move through.
The series of storms has dumped rain and snow on California since late December, cutting power to thousands, swamping roads, unleashing debris flows, and triggering landslides.
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President Joe Biden declared a major disaster in the state and ordered federal aid to supplement local recovery efforts in affected areas.
At least 19 storm-related deaths have occurred, and a 5-year-old boy remained missing after being swept out of his mother’s car by floodwaters in San Luis Obispo County.
Dry days are in this week’s forecast for California starting on Tuesday. | 2023-01-15T20:12:32+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/California-gets-more-rain-and-snow-but-dry-days-17719685.php |
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – Across the United States, norovirus cases are slightly higher than last year but what does that mean for us locally?
While we did see a spike a few weeks ago, norovirus cases in Massachusetts is actually down. Norovirus is a stomach flu with symptoms like diarrhea, vomiting and nausea. It can be fairly contagious because it only takes a few particles. It can go from person to person and live on surfaces or food.
Doctor Armando Paez is the Division Chief of Infectious Diseases at Baystate Medical Center. He said prevention can be challenging with norovirus in the household or congregate settings but if you get it, there are steps you can take to prevent it from giving it to others.
“Wash your hands and cook your food well. Those are the important preventative measures,” said Dr. Paez.
Norovirus is fairly common for this time of year. On average in the United States, there are 20 million cases per year and 900 deaths, most of those are people 65 and older. | 2023-03-07T21:32:26+00:00 | wwlp.com | https://www.wwlp.com/news/health/norovirus-cases-in-massachusetts-lower-than-rest-of-country/ |
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Supporters of Malaysian ex-Prime Minister Najib Razak rallied Wednesday outside the national palace to seek royal pardon just a day after he began a 12-year jail term, while opponents launched an online petition urging the monarch not to.
Najib, 69, was jailed Tuesday after losing the final appeal in a graft case linked to the massive looting of the 1Malaysia Development Berhad state fund. His incarceration comes four years after his election ouster over the scandal and was celebrated by many citizens as justice served.
But Najib's supporters, echoing his words before he was whisked off to prison, say he wasn't fairly treated because the top court threw out his bid for a retrial on allegations of judicial bias, and repeatedly refused to delay the hearing to give his lawyers time to prepare.
Some 300 of Najib's supporters, mostly dressed in black, rallied briefly outside the national palace Wednesday under police watch. Several representatives later handed a memorandum seeking pardon for Najib to the palace.
Parliament House Speaker Azhar Azizan Harun reportedly said Wednesday that Najib must apply for a royal pardon within 14 days or lose his seat in Parliament. There was no word from Najib’s camp if he will seek a royal pardon.
Group representative Syed Mohammad Imran Syed Abdul Aziz also urged Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob, who is from Najib's United Malays National Organization, to push for a pardon.
Syed Mohamad said he was told by a palace official that King Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah was concerned about the case as the monarch hails from Najib’s home state of Pahang and knows the politician well.
“If there is evidence of conflict of interest, then Najib should be freed immediately," Syed said.
Najib’s supporters were countered by an online petition launched Wednesday by electoral watchdog Bersih urging the king to let Najib serve his sentence as he has been given due process of a fair trial. More than 30,000 people have signed the petition so far, saying Najib “brought shame” to the country and should be an example to any leaders who think they can abuse their power.
Najib sought a retrial last week alleging the high court judge who convicted him in 2020 may have a conflict of interest due to his previous role at a bank that provided financial services to 1MDB but the top court rejected the request.
The Federal Court upheld Najib’s conviction and sentence, saying the appeal was without merit as the defense was “inherently inconsistent and incredible" and ordered him to begin his sentence immediately. Najib has been freed on bail pending his appeals before this.
1MDB was a development fund that Najib set up shortly after taking power in 2009. Investigators allege more than $4.5 billion was stolen from the fund and laundered by Najib’s associates. Najib was found guilty in 2020 of seven charges of corruption for illegally receiving $9.4 million from SRC International, a former unit of 1MDB.
A scion of one of Malaysia's most prominent political families, Najib's prison term cemented his stunning fall from grace. But his woes are far from over as he faces another four graft trials linked to the 1MDB debacle that also sparked investigations in the U.S. and several other countries.
Najib will be brought to court in handcuffs Thursday for the hearing of an ongoing trial on four charges of using his position to obtain 2.3 billion ringgit ($513 million) from 1MDB funds and 21 charges of money laundering involving the same amount.
His incarceration came despite the rebound of his UMNO party, which returned to power after defections caused the collapse of the reformist government that won 2018 general elections. He cannot run in general elections due in September 2023, unless he gets a royal pardon.
UMNO party president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, formerly Najib's deputy and himself on trial for graft, vowed in a Facebook post Wednesday that the party will stand behind the former prime minister and “ensure he gets real justice and without any political intimidation."
UMNO has been split after the 2018 polls and Prime Minister Ismail, who is from an opposing camp, told local media before the verdict that he would not interfere in the court process.
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PHOENIX (AP) — Reports: Brooklyn Nets to trade NBA star Kevin Durant to Phoenix Suns.
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- Fabuloso multi-purpose cleaner recalled, potential health risk | 2023-02-09T09:21:05+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/sports/article/alert-reports-brooklyn-nets-to-trade-nba-star-17773349.php |
Police say someone busted into the altar at a New York City church, stole a $2 million gold tabernacle and removed the head from a statue of an angel at some point late last week.
The incident happened between 6:30 p.m. Thursday and 4 p.m. Saturday at St. Augustine's Roman Catholic Church, known as the "Notre Dame" of Brooklyn's Park Slope neighborhood.
The church was closed for construction at the time. Camera recordings from the church's security system were also stolen, the church's pastor said.
The Diocese of Brooklyn called it "a brazen crime of disrespect and hate."
The diocese said the thief or thieves cut through a metal protective casing and made off with a tabernacle dating to the church's opening in the 1890s.
The tabernacle, a box containing Holy Communion items, was made of 18-carat gold and decorated with jewels, police and the diocese said. It's valued at $2 million.
The diocese said it is irreplaceable because of its historical and artistic value.
According to a guidebook posted on the church's website, the tabernacle was built in 1895 and restored in 1952 and 2000.
It's described as a "masterpiece and one of the most expensive tabernacles in the country, guarded by its own security system," which involves an "electronically operated burglar-proof safe" and one-inch thick steel plates that "completely enclose the tabernacle.
Angel statues flanking the tabernacle were decapitated and destroyed, the diocese said. A safe in the sacristy, where priests prepare for Mass, was also cut open but nothing was inside.
Holy Eucharist, bread consecrated as the body of Christ, was taken from the tabernacle and thrown on the altar.
"This is devastating, as the Tabernacle is the central focus of our church outside of worship, holding the Body of Christ, the Eucharist, which is delivered to the sick and homebound," Rev. Frank Tumino, the pastor of St. Augustine said in a statement issued by the diocese.
"To know that a burglar entered the most sacred space of our beautiful Church and took great pains to cut into a security system is a heinous act of disrespect," Tumino said.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio, Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Mix in a little bit of football, the annual color change of leaves, and a whole lot of White Castle and you have the makings of a pleasant autumn. The iconic hamburger chain has some craveable deals lined up for September, October and November including free food, discounted prices, and buy one, get one free (BOGO) offers that are sure to make fall even more enjoyable for those who crave White Castle.
"We're all treats and no tricks when it comes to making sure our Cravers are getting the best dining experience possible," said Jamie Richardson, vice president at White Castle. "One of our top priorities remains providing families a variety of high-quality menu items at a great price point that will leave Cravers satisfied."
White Castle is making sure you get your fair share of cheese this fall. Cravers can grab the Cheesy 10 Sack for only $8.99 ($9.99 in NJ/NY), a special offer that runs now through the end of November.
Some of the offers are available only to members of the Craver Nation customer loyalty program in the White Castle app. Craver Nation is free and simple to join. More information can be found at whitecastle.com/download-app.
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ROME (AP) — Pope Francis canceled one audience and skipped speeches he was set to deliver Thursday because of a bad cold, the Vatican said.
Francis, 86, did meet with young Orthodox priests and monks and members of the Max Planck Society, the German research organization that is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year. But because of a “bad cold,” Francis merely had printed copies of his remarks handed out and didn’t read them aloud, the Vatican said in a note.
He later canceled a planned audience with members of an Italian YMCA group, the Holy See said in its daily bulletin.
On Wednesday, Francis coughed repeatedly during Ash Wednesday services that he presided over at a Roman church, and opted not to participate in the traditional procession that inaugurates the church’s Lenten season.
This time of year in 2020, just as the coronavirus pandemic was starting to hit Italy, Francis also suffered a bad cold that forced him to cancel several days of official audiences and his participation in the Vatican’s annual spiritual retreat. The Vatican had already scrubbed the retreat for this year in favor of personal spiritual exercises.
The Argentine pope had part of one lung removed as a young man because of a respiratory infection, and in 2021 had a chunk of his colon removed because of an intestinal inflammation. He has been using a wheelchair and cane since last year because of strained knee ligaments and a small knee fracture that have made walking and standing difficult. | 2023-02-23T16:05:31+00:00 | kron4.com | https://www.kron4.com/news/world/ap-international/ap-pope-suffering-bad-cold-but-keeps-appointments-vatican-says/ |
FORT PAYNE, Ala. (WHNT) — A DeKalb County man now has a treasured item back that was lost for nearly 35 years – and social media helped him find it.
David Barnes graduated from Fort Payne High School in 1981. He says he spent three years in the service and got out in 1985. Shortly after that, he lost his class ring.
“It was like a part of me was missing like a void, because that’s something my mom bought me,” Barnes told News 19. “It’s something I carried through the military with me. [I] got to go to Germany and I made it back with it. It wasn’t long after that that it was lost, but it broke my heart for a long time.”
Barnes says he first noticed it was missing after a day at Little River Canyon.
He said he grabbed a flashlight and went to Little Falls at night, walked around the areas he was at, but could not find it.
After nearly 35 years, a spark of hope appeared.
Barnes said he attended his 40th year class reunion and was browsing a Facebook group and noticed an older post from 2018.
“I see a picture of a ring and it says somebody is missing this,” Barnes said of the social media post. “I told my wife, I said, ‘I think that’s my ring.’ I contacted the lady that posted that.”
After chasing down multiple people connected on social media, he found the man who found his ring in the water years before.
He said it was found while the man was cleaning off his mask, and went underwater to see if it was clear when he saw a sparkle. That’s how he found the ring. The man kept the ring safe, waiting for the rightful owner.
“So for about 20 to 25 years, it’s been locked up in his safe, but it stayed about 15 years in the water out there at the canyon,” Barnes noted.
He said it’s weird to have his treasure back.
“It doesn’t fit my ring finger [anymore],” Barnes said. “It has to go on the pinky. But just to have that ring back on my finger after 36, possibly 37 years.”
Barnes said he’s grateful for the glimmer of hope this story shows. | 2022-08-02T15:38:07+00:00 | cbs42.com | https://www.cbs42.com/alabama-news/north-alabama-man-finds-class-ring-35-years-after-losing-it/ |
FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- An investigation is underway after an armed robbery at a business in central Fresno on Tuesday night.
The robbery happened around 10 pm at a smoke shop on Blackstone and Belmont avenues.
Fresno police say a man pulled out a handgun and took off with an unknown amount of cash.
No injuries have been reported.
Stay with Action News for updates on this developing story. | 2023-04-12T06:45:28+00:00 | abc30.com | https://abc30.com/smoke-shop-armed-robbery-suspect-wanted-cash-stolen/13116031/ |
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- A special committee of independent directors of TransAlta Renewables Inc., who conducted an independent and comprehensive review process, supported by the receipt of two fairness opinions, unanimously recommends that the shareholders of TransAlta Renewables Inc. vote in favour of the transaction
CALGARY, AB, July 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - TransAlta Corporation (TSX: TA) (NYSE: TAC) ("TransAlta") and TransAlta Renewables Inc. (TSX: RNW) ("RNW") today announced that they have entered into a definitive arrangement agreement (the "Agreement") under which TransAlta will acquire all of the outstanding common shares of RNW (each, a "RNW Share") not already owned, directly or indirectly, by TransAlta and certain of its affiliates, subject to the approval of RNW shareholders.
"With the execution of our Clean Electricity Growth Plan well underway, it is clear that the strategies of both TransAlta and RNW have converged. Now is the right time to bring these two companies together to create a single clean electricity leader. The combined company's greater scale and enhanced positioning will drive benefits and unlock value for all of our shareholders. The combination of the two companies will be underpinned by a single strategy that provides greater clarity to investors and will support future growth," said Mr. John Kousinioris, President and Chief Executive Officer of TransAlta.
"We are pleased to announce that this transaction provides RNW shareholders with an immediate premium and greater growth and cash flow certainty going forward. It resolves significant risks associated with maintaining RNW's current dividend level given challenges with RNW's cash available for distribution due to near-term contract expiries, significant increases to cash taxes and other factors," said Mr. David Drinkwater, Chair of the Board of Directors of RNW. "A special committee of independent directors of RNW undertook a comprehensive process with its own independent advisors to negotiate the Agreement to ensure fair value for RNW, and we are pleased to recommend this Agreement to our shareholders."
Under the terms of the Agreement, each RNW Share will be exchanged for, at the election of each holder of RNW Shares ("RNW Shareholders"):
- 1.0337 common shares of TransAlta (each, a "TransAlta Share"), or
- $13.00 in cash.
The consideration payable to RNW Shareholders is subject to pro-rationing based on a maximum aggregate number of TransAlta Shares that may be issued to RNW Shareholders of 46,441,779 and a maximum aggregate amount of cash of $800 million. The transaction will be effected by way of an arrangement under the Canada Business Corporations Act (the "Arrangement").
The consideration payable to RNW Shareholders represents an 18.3% premium based on the closing price of RNW Shares on the Toronto Stock Exchange ("TSX") as of July 10, 2023. The total consideration paid to RNW Shareholders is valued at $1,384,051,812 on July 10, 2023, of which $800 million will be paid in cash. The combined company will operate as TransAlta and remain listed on the TSX and the New York Stock Exchange ("NYSE"), under the symbols "TA" and "TAC", respectively.
The Arrangement provides shareholders of the combined company with a single strategy and a clear and compelling opportunity for long-term growth:
- Alignment and Execution of a Single Strategy: The combined company will share a common strategic path to achieve its clean electricity growth objectives and be more competitive as a single, streamlined, publicly-listed entity. It will align, clarify and enhance management's strategic focus and efforts in the marketing, development, construction, operation and maintenance of generation assets to serve customers with clean and reliable electricity.
- Accretive Transaction and Attractive Dividend, while Supporting Future Growth: Following the transaction, shareholders of the combined company will benefit from an accretive transaction and receive a sustainable quarterly dividend while ensuring the combined company retains sufficient cash flow for reinvestment in future growth projects.
- Direct Ownership in One of Canada's Largest Independent Power Producers: The combined company will have unified and direct ownership interests in a diversified portfolio of wind, hydro, solar, storage and natural gas generation assets, all backed by an aligned strategy that allows shareholders of the combined company to benefit from future growth.
- Increased Scale, Public Float and Liquidity: The combined company will have a larger market capitalization and will provide stronger access to capital markets while providing increased trading liquidity. The reduced corporate complexity will provide greater transparency and understanding of the combined company's business, which is expected to enable investment in TransAlta's growing clean electricity portfolio.
- Synergies: The combined company will benefit from greater efficiencies and corporate synergies under a single entity. The combined company will create opportunities for further capital efficiencies by funding growth in a single simplified entity, providing a higher retention of cash flows, and resulting in lower corporate and administration costs.
The transaction offers RNW Shareholders a compelling investment proposition and is expected to provide the following benefits:
- Fair Offer Reflecting Attractive Premium: The terms of the offer represent an 18.3% premium based on the closing price of RNW Shares on the TSX as of July 10, 2023, and a 13.6% premium relative to RNW's 20-day volume-weighted average price per share as of July 10, 2023.
- Clear and Sustainable Path Going Forward: The combined company will provide resilience and mitigate near-term risks associated with maintaining RNW's current dividend level given its challenges with contract expiries and increased cash taxes. This combined company will provide stronger dividend sustainability and payout coverage, and it will be better positioned to realize growth as compared to RNW as a standalone entity.
- Expanded Pool of Assets: The combined company will offer an expanded pool of assets and business capabilities. RNW Shareholders who elect to receive TransAlta shares as consideration will become owners of TransAlta's high-quality Alberta assets, which total 3.3 GW in the combined company. It will also provide exposure to TransAlta's energy marketing division that delivers industry-leading trading capability and market insights to generate strong cash flows driving further portfolio diversification.
- Simplified Structure and Synergies: The simplified structure provides clarity of ownership and enhanced transparency, including through the elimination of tracking shares, which will enhance the investment analysis and decision-making process for investors. The combined company will also optimize the use of capital to fund growth more efficiently as compared to RNW as a standalone entity.
- Immediate Exposure to Alberta Electricity Market: RNW Shareholders will benefit from upside due to the current strong power price environment in Alberta and TransAlta's position in the Alberta market to generate significant cash flows through the capabilities and expertise of TransAlta's leading asset optimization team, while continuing to benefit from a strong underlying base of contracted cashflows.
- Enhanced Growth Opportunities: RNW Shareholders who elect to receive TransAlta Shares as consideration will be able to directly participate in the benefits of the combination including a consolidated development pipeline of 4.3 GW of clean electricity projects and early-stage investments in new technologies, along with access to business development expertise and innovation capabilities to enhance growth potential that will support capital appreciation.
The Arrangement is strategically and economically attractive to holders of TransAlta Shares ("TransAlta Shareholders") and provides the following benefits:
- Enhanced Strategic Position: The combined company will leverage scale, assets and capabilities in all markets, while retaining greater exposure to the growth in clean electricity opportunities. The Arrangement will provide economic contribution from an incremental 1,187 MW of generating capacity, being 39.9% of the generating capacity at RNW not currently owned by TransAlta (directly or indirectly). The Arrangement also increases the proportion of TransAlta's contractedness and diversifies the impact of TransAlta's merchant market exposure.
- Sustainable, Attractive Transaction Metrics: The Arrangement is accretive to free cash flow and provides greater financial flexibility by increasing the retention of cash, which will support the combined company's growth plan.
- Execution of a Single Strategy: The Arrangement provides clarity and will result in the execution of a single strategy. All future growth will be pursued in the combined company and funded with greater capital efficiency, while the combined company retains access to future growth in contracted opportunities.
- Increased Liquidity and Synergies: The combined company will have an increased public float and trading liquidity, and have access to more efficient capital, along with corporate synergies.
- Maintains Financial Strength: The simplified structure and funding of the Arrangement is expected to have a neutral impact to the credit rating of TransAlta.
The Arrangement is subject to the approval by: (i) 66 2/3% of the votes cast by RNW Shareholders present in person or by proxy at a special meeting of RNW Shareholders (the "RNW Meeting") called to consider the Arrangement; and (ii) a majority of the votes cast by RNW Shareholders present in person or by proxy at the RNW Meeting after excluding the votes attached to RNW Shares that, to the knowledge of RNW and its directors and senior officers, after reasonable inquiry, are beneficially owned or over which control or direction is exercised by TransAlta, the directors and senior officers of TransAlta, any TransAlta Shareholder holding more than 10% of the issued and outstanding TransAlta Shares and any other person who is an "interested party" or a "related party" of an "interested party" in relation to RNW with respect to the Arrangement within the meaning of Canadian securities laws.
The exchange of RNW Shares for TransAlta Shares will generally be tax deferred, while the exchange of RNW Shares for cash will generally be a taxable disposition, in each case, for Canadian income tax purposes. Any RNW Shareholder who receives a combination of TransAlta Shares and cash for its RNW Shares will be able to file a joint tax election that may, depending on the RNW Shareholders' own circumstances, allow for the exchange of its RNW Shares to occur on a fully tax-deferred basis for Canadian income tax purposes.
The Agreement provides for, among other things, a non-solicitation covenant of RNW, subject to a customary "fiduciary out" provision that entitles RNW to consider and accept a superior proposal if TransAlta does not match the superior proposal within a five-business day period. If the Agreement is terminated in certain circumstances, including if RNW enters into an agreement with respect to a superior proposal, TransAlta is entitled to a termination payment of $95.4 million.
In addition to the required approvals of RNW Shareholders, closing of the Arrangement is also subject to obtaining the approval of the Court of King's Bench of Alberta, required regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions.
Further details regarding the Arrangement will be contained in a management information circular (the "Circular") for the RNW Meeting to be sent to RNW Shareholders in connection with the RNW Meeting. The Circular is expected to be mailed on or about August 25, 2023, and the RNW Meeting is expected to be held on or about September 26, 2023.
If all approvals are received and other closing conditions satisfied, the Arrangement is expected to be completed early in the fourth quarter of 2023.
Copies of the Agreement will be filed by TransAlta with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the Canadian securities regulators and will be available for viewing at www.sec.gov and www.sedar.com. The Circular, as well as other filings containing information about the Arrangement including the Agreement, will also be available for viewing under RNW's profile on www.sedar.com. All RNW Shareholders are urged to read the Circular once available as it will contain additional important information concerning the Arrangement.
The Arrangement is the result of an independent and comprehensive review process. The Board of Directors of RNW (the "RNW Board") delegated to a special committee consisting solely of independent directors of RNW (the "RNW Special Committee") the authority to, among other things, review, evaluate and negotiate the Arrangement on behalf of RNW.
National Bank Financial Inc. ("NBF") and TD Securities Inc. ("TD"), acting as independent financial advisors to the RNW Special Committee, have each provided their verbal opinions to the RNW Special Committee (subject to certain assumptions and qualifications) that the Arrangement is fair from a financial point of view to the RNW Shareholders (the "RNW Opinions") without consideration to TransAlta and any affiliate thereof. NBF has also prepared a formal valuation of the RNW Shares (the "Formal Valuation"), and based upon their analysis and subject to the various assumptions, qualifications, and limitations to be set forth in its written valuation report, in addition to other factors that it considered relevant, the fair market value of a RNW Share as of July 10, 2023 was in the range of $12.25 and $13.60. The RNW Special Committee, after considering the terms of the Arrangement, the RNW Opinions, the Formal Valuation, advice of its independent financial and legal advisors and other relevant matters, recommended to the RNW Board that it determine that the Arrangement is in the best interests of RNW and fair to RNW Shareholders (without consideration to TransAlta and any affiliate thereof), approve the execution and delivery of the Agreement and recommend that RNW Shareholders vote in favour of the Arrangement.
After considering, among other things, the recommendation of the RNW Special Committee and its receipt of the RNW Opinions and the Formal Valuation, the RNW Board (with four directors who are not independent abstaining) unanimously determined that the Arrangement is in the best interests of RNW and is fair to the RNW shareholders (without consideration to TransAlta and any affiliate thereof), approved the execution and delivery of the Agreement and unanimously recommends that RNW Shareholders vote in favour of the Arrangement.
RBC Dominion Securities Inc. ("RBC Capital Markets"), acting as financial advisor to TransAlta, provided a verbal opinion, as of July 10, 2023, to the Board of Directors of TransAlta (subject to assumptions and qualifications) that the consideration to be paid by TransAlta pursuant to the Arrangement is fair from a financial point of view to TransAlta (the "TransAlta Fairness Opinion"). After considering, among other things, the TransAlta Fairness Opinion, the TransAlta Board determined that the Arrangement is in the best interests of TransAlta and approved the execution and delivery of the Agreement.
All of the directors of RNW have entered into support agreements with TransAlta pursuant to which they have agreed to vote their respective RNW Shares in favour of the Arrangement at the RNW Meeting. Additionally, TransAlta, holding approximately 60.1% of the RNW Shares, intends to vote its RNW Shares in favour of the Arrangement at the RNW Meeting.
A conference call with the investment community will take place on July 11 at 9:00 a.m. MST (11:00 a.m. EST). The call will begin with a short address by John Kousinioris, President and Chief Executive Officer, and Todd Stack, President of TransAlta Renewables and Executive Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer of TransAlta, followed by a question-and-answer period for analysts and media.
Dial-in number – TransAlta Corporation Acquires TransAlta Renewables Conference Call
Toll-free North American participants call: 1-888-664-6392
A link to the live webcast will be available on the Investor Centre section of TransAlta's website at https://transalta.com/investors/presentations-and-events/ and on the Investors section of TransAlta Renewables' website at https://transaltarenewables.com/investors/presentations-and-events/. If you are unable to participate in the call, the instant replay is accessible at 1-888-390-0541 (Canada and USA toll free) with TransAlta pass code 181225 followed by the # sign. A transcript of the broadcast will be posted on TransAlta's and RNW's website once it becomes available.
TransAlta's website includes details of the transaction at www.transalta.com/RNWacquisition. Details of the transaction may also be accessed through the Investor Centre section of TransAlta's website at https://transalta.com/investors/presentations-and-events/.
RBC Capital Markets is acting as financial advisor to TransAlta. Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP is acting as legal advisor to TransAlta.
NBF and TD are acting as financial advisors to the RNW Special Committee. Stikeman Elliott LLP is acting as legal advisor to the RNW Special Committee.
TransAlta owns, operates and develops a diverse fleet of electrical power generation assets in Canada, the United States and Australia with a focus on long-term shareholder value. TransAlta provides municipalities, medium and large industries, businesses and utility customers with clean, affordable, energy efficient and reliable power. Today, TransAlta is one of Canada's largest producers of wind power and Alberta's largest producer of hydro-electric power. For over 111 years, TransAlta has been a responsible operator and a proud community member where its employees work and live. TransAlta aligns its corporate goals with the UN Sustainable Development Goals and its climate change strategy with CDP (formerly Climate Disclosure Project) and the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) recommendations. TransAlta has achieved a 68 per cent reduction in GHG emissions or 22 million tonnes since 2015 and has received scores of A- from CDP and A from MSCI.
For more information about TransAlta, visit our website at transalta.com.
TransAlta Renewables Inc. is among the largest of any publicly traded renewable independent power producers ("IPP") in Canada. TransAlta Renewables' asset platform and economic interests are diversified in terms of geography, generation and counterparties and consist of interests in 26 wind facilities, 11 hydroelectric facilities, eight natural gas generation facilities, two solar facilities, one natural gas pipeline, and one battery storage project, representing an ownership interest of 2,965 megawatts of owned generating capacity, located in the provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, Québec, New Brunswick, the States of Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Wyoming, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Washington, North Carolina, and the State of Western Australia.
For more information about RNW, visit its website at transaltarenewables.com.
This press release does not constitute an offer to buy or sell or the solicitation of an offer to sell or buy any securities. Any offers, solicitations or offers to buy, or any sales of securities will be made in accordance with registration and other requirements under applicable law.
This news release contains "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities laws, and "forward-looking statements", within the meaning of applicable United States securities laws, including the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (collectively referred to herein as "forward-looking statements"). Forward-looking statements are predictive in nature, depend upon or refer to future events or conditions, or include words such as "expects", "plans", "estimates", "intends", "targets", "result", "future" or negative versions thereof and other similar expressions or future or conditional verbs such as "may", "can", "will", and "would". These statements may include, without limitation, statements regarding: expectations with respect to the business, financial prospects and future opportunities for the combined company, including its broader platform with enhanced diversification and simplified governance structure; the combined company's stronger access to capital markets; the complementary nature of the combined company's asset base and that the combined company will share a common strategic path; increased competitiveness of the combined company; enhancement of management's efforts in serving customers with low-cost clean electricity; increased trading liquidity of the combined company's shares and that such shares will remain listed on the TSX and the NYSE; the combined company's enhanced access to operational, tax and corporate synergies; the combined company's dividend plans following closing of the Arrangement; the expected benefits of the Arrangement to the RNW Shareholders, including stronger dividend sustainability, directly participating in the upside of TransAlta's development pipeline of renewable energy projects and other corporate synergies; the expected benefits of the Arrangement to TransAlta Shareholders, including that the combined company will leverage scale, assets and capabilities in all markets, that the transaction is expected to be accretive to free cash flow, all future growth will be pursued in the combined company and funded with greater capital efficiency, and greater access to contracted cash flows through the acquisition of the remaining 39.9% interest of RNW; the expectation that the transaction will have a neutral impact to TransAlta's credit rating; the tax implications of the Arrangement and the ability of a RNW Shareholder to file a joint tax election; the anticipated date of the RNW Meeting, the Circular sent in connection therewith and the expected mailing date thereof; the anticipated closing conditions and regulatory approvals pursuant to the Agreement; and the anticipated timing and completion of the Arrangement, including the expected closing date of the Arrangement.
Forward-looking statements are based upon, among other things, factors, expectations and assumptions that TransAlta and RNW have made as at the date of this news release regarding, among other things: the satisfaction of the conditions to closing of the Arrangement in a timely manner, if at all, including the receipt of all necessary approvals; the combined company's ability to successfully integrate the businesses of TransAlta and RNW; TransAlta's ability to issue TransAlta Shares pursuant to the Arrangement; sources of funding that each of TransAlta and RNW have relied upon in the past continue to be available to the combined company on terms favourable to the combined company; the combined company will have access to sufficient capital to pursue future development plans; there will be increases to the combined company's share price and market capitalization over the long term; and that the combined company will have the ability to return capital to its shareholders.
Forward-looking statements involve significant known and unknown risk and uncertainties, should not be read as guarantees of future performance or results, and will not necessarily be accurate indications of whether such results will be achieved. These risks include, but are not limited to: the completion and timing of the Arrangement; the ability of TransAlta and RNW to receive, in a timely manner, the necessary regulatory, court, shareholder, stock exchange and other third-party approvals and to satisfy the other conditions to closing of the Arrangement; the ability of the parties to complete the Arrangement on the terms contemplated by TransAlta and RNW or at all; the ability of the combined company to realize the anticipated benefits of, and synergies and savings from, the Arrangement; consequences of not completing the Arrangement, including the volatility of the share prices of TransAlta and RNW, negative reactions from the investment community, and the required payment of certain costs related to the termination of the Arrangement; the accuracy of the pro forma financial information of the combined company; and the focus of management's time and attention on the Arrangement and other disruptions arising from the Arrangement. Additional risk factors relating to TransAlta and RNW are described in further detail in TransAlta's management's discussion and analysis and annual information form for the year ended December 31, 2022, and in RNW management's discussion and analysis and annual information form for the year ended December 31, 2022, and in TransAlta's management's discussion and analysis and RNW's management discussion analysis, each for the three months ended March 31, 2023, which are available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which reflect TransAlta and RNW's expectations only as of the date of this news release, as a number of factors could cause actual results to differ materially from the results discussed in these forward-looking statements. TransAlta and RNW disclaim any intention or obligation to update or revise these forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.
The TSX and NYSE have not reviewed and do not accept responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release. No stock exchange, securities commission or other regulatory authority has approved or disapproved the information contained herein.
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Conservative radio host and author Larry Elder said he’s considering a run for president in 2024 — even if former President Trump announces another bid.
Elder, a former California gubernatorial candidate, told Iowa’s Des Moines Register that if he chooses to seek the Republican nomination in 2024, he doesn’t “feel” like he’d be running against Trump, who has repeatedly floated a White House comeback.
“I’m running for president. And I’m not running against anybody on the Republican side,” Elder told the newspaper. “I’m running against Joe Biden if he runs, or Kamala Harris if she runs.”
Elder, 70, left his conservative radio program “The Larry Elder Show” in April after hosting the syndicate talk show on several stations since the early ’90s.
Last year, he sought to replace California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) when the governor faced a recall election. Elder shot to the top of the field and was a front-runner in the recall effort, but Newsom ultimately prevailed against the vote.
In January, Elder launched a new PAC to support Republican candidates in federal and local races and has said he is working on another book about the California race.
The radio host told the Des Moines Register he is currently “kicking the tires” in Iowa.
But Elder gave a speech last Saturday at the Iowa Faith & Freedom Coalition, a Christian nonprofit. The event was also attended by Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds (R) and North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson (R).
In an interview with In Depth last month, Elder said he was flying around the country to boost GOP candidates and help the Republican party take back control of Congress.
“I’m busier than ever before,” Elder said. | 2022-09-19T19:04:03+00:00 | texomashomepage.com | https://www.texomashomepage.com/hill-politics/gop-radio-host-larry-elder-weighing-white-house-bid-even-if-trump-runs/ |
LONDON (AP) — The chief executive of NatWest, one of Britain’s biggest banks, left her job on Wednesday after discussing personal details of a client — the populist politician Nigel Farage — with a journalist amid a furor over financial institutions’ power to refuse customers for their political views.
The bank said Alison Rose was leaving “by mutual consent.” The surprise early-morning statement came just hours after NatWest had expressed full confidence in the CEO, who was the first woman to head one of Britain’s four big banks.
“It is a sad moment,” said the bank’s chairman, Howard Davies. NatWest shares fell more than 3% in trading Wednesday on the London Stock Exchange.
Rose’s departure came after days of news stories sparked when Farage complained that his bank account had been shut down because the banking group didn’t agree with his political views.
Farage, a right-wing talk show presenter and former leader of the pro-Brexit U.K. Independence Party, said his account with the private bank Coutts, owned by NatWest Group, had been shut down unfairly.
The BBC ran a story, based on an anonymous source at the bank, saying the account was closed because Farage did not meet Coutts’ 1 million pound ($1.3 million) borrowing requirement.
Farage then published documents he had obtained from the bank showing that officials discussed his financial affairs, but also the “reputational damage” associated with keeping him as a customer. The documents said Farage was “seen as xenophobic and racist” and “considered by many to be a disingenuous grifter.”
Farage, a skilled seeker of attention and generator of outrage, accused the bank of stomping on his freedom of speech, and some members of the Conservative government echoed his concerns.
Farage repeatedly failed to get elected to Parliament during his political career but played an outsized role in taking Britain out of the European Union, in large part by stoking concerns about immigration. Voters narrowly backed Brexit in a 2016 referendum, and the U.K. left the bloc in 2020.
On Tuesday evening, Rose apologized to Farage and acknowledged that she was the anonymous source of the inaccurate BBC report that claimed the decision to close Farage’s account was purely commercial. She said speaking to a reporter had been “a serious error of judgment.”
Coutts, which has been headquartered on The Strand in central London for more than 300 years, advertises that its customers — who include Britain’s royal family — are part of “an exclusive network.”
NatWest was bailed out by the government during the 2008 global financial crisis and remains almost 40% owned by British taxpayers.
Andrew Griffith, the banking minister, met executives from Britain’s largest banks on Wednesday morning to address concerns related to customers’ “lawful freedom of expression.”
He said he told participants that “it’s not the job of banks to tell us what to think or what political party we should support.”
“In a democracy that relies upon freedom of expression, freedom of thought, that isn’t a legitimate thing for a bank to remove someone’s access to a bank account, a really important building block of society today,” he said.
Britain’s Treasury announced last week that U.K. banks will be subject to stricter rules over closing customers’ accounts. Under the new rules, they will have to explain why they are shutting down someone’s account and give 90 days’ notice for such account closures. They previously have not had to provide a rationale for doing so.
The changes are intended to boost transparency for customers but will not remove a banking firm’s right to close accounts of people deemed to be a reputational or political risk.
Farage welcomed Rose’s departure but said he wanted to see “a fundamental change of the banking laws” and the ouster of more members of the NatWest board.
“We bailed these people out and in return they close our branches, they close our personal and business accounts on a huge scale,” he said. “We need real change here and I am going to go on pushing for it.”
British law requires banks to conduct extra scrutiny on “politically exposed persons” such as politicians and diplomats as protection against money-laundering, and many U.K. lawmakers say they have been turned down for bank accounts.
Policing Minister Chris Philp said the rules were designed to stop money-laundering by “members of foreign governments who had obtained their money dishonestly.” But he said they had been applied “overzealously.”
“I think the Nigel Farage case is an extreme one, but I’m afraid it’s not unique,” he said. | 2023-07-26T23:38:01+00:00 | valleycentral.com | https://www.valleycentral.com/news/international/ap-international/ap-natwest-bank-ceo-ousted-after-furor-over-politician-nigel-farages-bank-account/ |
DENVER (AP) — Nikola Jokic and the Denver Nuggets were facing some questions going into their first NBA Finals, and their answers came in resounding fashion.
No, a week and a half off didn’t hurt them.
And no, the NBA’s biggest stage isn’t too big, either.
Jokic got a triple-double in his finals debut, Jamal Murray scored 26 points and the Nuggets had little trouble with the cold-shooting Miami Heat on the way to a 104-93 win in Game 1 on Thursday night.
“I think that’s what the beauty of this team is,” Murray said. “We have so many different weapons and so many different looks. You’ve got to guard everybody. … Free-flowing, and it’s a lot of fun.”
The Heat had been 3-0 in openers so far in these playoffs, all on the road, but Denver is still unbeaten at home. Game 1 winners in the finals go on to win the title nearly 70% of the time.
Advantage, Nuggets.
“That was one of my last messages to the group before our game,” Nuggets coach Michael Malone said. “I reminded our group, if they didn’t know, that Miami went into Milwaukee and won Game 1. They went into the Garden in New York City and won Game 1. They won Game 1 up in Boston. So, we did not want them coming in here taking control of the series on our court.”
Jokic was the one in control. The two-time NBA MVP finished with 27 points, 14 assists and 10 rebounds for the Nuggets, who waited 47 years to make the finals and didn’t disappoint.
“The most important thing is to win a game,” Jokic said after his ninth triple-double of this year’s playoffs — his sixth in his last seven games. “I’m trying to win a game in any possible way.”
Aaron Gordon added 16 points and Michael Porter Jr. scored 14 for Denver, which trailed for all of 34 seconds and eventually led by as many as 24.
Bam Adebayo finished with 26 points and 13 rebounds for Miami, which shot 41% for the game — 33% from 3-point range. Gabe Vincent scored 19, Haywood Highsmith had 18 and Jimmy Butler added 13 for the Heat.
Miami was 2 for 2 from the foul line — a night like none other in NBA playoff history.
It tied the fewest free throws ever made in a playoff game, broke the record for fewest attempts from the line in a playoff game — the previous record was three — and set NBA Finals records for fewest free throws made and attempted. The Los Angeles Lakers had the previous marks there, going 3 for 5 from the line against Philadelphia on May 26, 1983.
“We’ve got to attack the rim a lot more, myself included,” Butler said.
Added Adebayo, tongue firmly in cheek: “We made history”
Game 2 is in Denver on Sunday night.
Miami opened the fourth quarter on an 11-0 run, cutting an 84-63 deficit to start the final period down to 84-74. The Heat actually got within nine on a 3-pointer by Highsmith with 2:34 left, but no closer and there wasn’t any doubt, either.
“It’s a long series,” Vincent said. “First to four wins. Adjustments will be made. And we will learn from this loss.”
Malone gave his team a pop quiz in shootaround Thursday morning, peppering them with questions about the game plan and what had to be done in the most important game to date in franchise history.
They had all the answers then. Had them all at game time, too. They were the team with minimal NBA Finals experience, only two players having been to the title round before, and yet they looked right at home before the home crowd in Game 1.
“We were ready,” Denver guard Bruce Brown said.
Jokic became the second player in the last 25 years — LeBron James was the other, in 2017 — to have 10 assists by halftime of a finals game. He had 10 points and 10 assists by the break, and Denver was up 59-42 after the first two quarters — with Jokic taking only three shots.
“I don’t need to shoot and I know I don’t need to score to affect the game,” Jokic said.
Meanwhile, the Heat just couldn’t shoot. At all. Or at least, not until Denver was too far ahead to catch.
Caleb Martin, who narrowly missed out on winning the MVP award of the Eastern Conference finals, was 1 for 7. And Max Strus was 0 for 10, 0 for 9 on 3-pointers, and became just the second player in the last 45 years to take that many shots without a make in a finals game.
The other, somewhat surprisingly: Ray Allen, a past Heat finals hero who was 0 for 13 for Boston against the Los Angeles Lakers in 2010.
“I didn’t even look at the box score yet, but like I said, I think the disposition, the efforts were more appropriate in the second half,” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. “But that’s not enough. It has to be for a full game, and you also have to make some plays when you’re beat.”
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Heat: Miami fell to 1-6 all-time in Game 1s of the NBA Finals. The Heat lost the series opener in each of their title years — 2006, 2012 and 2013 — and the only win came in 2011, a series they eventually lost to Dallas. … Adebayo’s 25 shots were a career high. He became the third player to score at least 24 points for Miami in a Game 1 of a finals. James did it three times for the Heat and Dwyane Wade did it in 2006.
Nuggets: Jokic became the eighth player to have a triple-double in Game 1 of a finals. None of the others were accompanied by 27 points; Dave Cowens had a 25-point triple-double to open the 1976 finals. … Brown, who played his college ball at Miami, scored 10. … Denver got to the foul line 20 times.
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Among those in the sellout crowd: Grammy winner H.E.R., former Denver quarterback Peyton Manning, current Denver quarterback Russell Wilson, Broncos coach Sean Payton and actor-comedian Ken Jeong.
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SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) _ Roper Technologies Inc. (ROP) on Wednesday reported third-quarter earnings of $327 million.
The Sarasota, Florida-based company said it had profit of $3.06 per share. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, were $3.67 per share.
The results beat Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of six analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $3.44 per share.
The industrial equipment maker posted revenue of $1.35 billion in the period, also exceeding Street forecasts. Five analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $1.33 billion.
For the current quarter ending in December, Roper Technologies expects its per-share earnings to range from $3.72 to $3.76. Analysts surveyed by Zacks had forecast adjusted earnings per share of $3.44.
The company expects full-year earnings in the range of $14.09 to $14.13 per share.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Lisa Wrightsman was a former college soccer player whose life was derailed by drug addiction before she eventually made her way back to the sport through a tournament for players from around the globe who have experienced homelessness.
Wrightsman qualified for the Homeless World Cup in Brazil. It was a competition that would forever change her life. When she returned to Sacramento, friends at the sober living facility where Wrightsman lived told her they wanted “to feel the way you look right now.”
“I actually started to feel value,” she said. “The whole tournament kind of instills you with that.”
Wrightsman is now a coach for the U.S. women's team in the Homeless World Cup. The tournament made its U.S. debut July 8 in the capital of California, a state home to the largest homeless population in the country. It runs through Saturday.
The tournament is being held after a three-year hiatus due to the pandemic, when homeless populations surged in many U.S. cities. In Sacramento alone, it increased 68% between 2020 and 2022.
Thirty countries are competing in the games with teams that include people who have lived on the streets to refugees to foster children.
They include Yuli Pineda, who moved to California from Honduras and was living with a foster family when she joined. Pineda said she's found a sense of community playing for the U.S. team.
“Every single player comes from different backgrounds,” Pineda, 18, said. “It’s amazing that in a short amount of time we have connected that fast.”
One of the special parts about soccer is that it is so popular across the globe, said Lawrence Cann, founder of Street Soccer USA, which organizes the U.S. men's and women's teams.
“Imagine if you’re isolated, you feel some level of shame with everything that comes along with being homeless,” Cann said. “This gives you a natural way to connect to the largest community in the world, which is the soccer community.”
Mel Young, who co-founded the organization running the tournament, said the aim is to build players’ confidence to achieve their goals beyond the games. Some of the athletes have gone on to play professionally, but that's not the point, Young said.
“The events are fantastic. I urge anyone to come and watch," Young said. “But it’s about moving on. It’s about impact. It’s about people changing their lives.”
Young said he has witnessed the transformation. Years ago, Young said he got on a bus in his native Scotland and was surprised to find out the driver was a former player who competed in the tournament. He told Young he got his bus driving license after the games, was living in an apartment and engaged to be married.
Wrightsman grew up in a Sacramento suburb and was a striker for California State University, Sacramento, also known as Sac State. She struggled with drug addiction and ended up in a sober living facility, which made her eligible to qualify for the Homeless World Cup. At the tournament in 2010, she remembered how much she loved playing, and it built her confidence knowing she could share her knowledge with players who were less experienced.
This year, players are battling dry, hot weather in Sacramento, with temperatures set to surpass 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 degrees Celsius) by Friday. Some of the games were scheduled for later to avoid the most intense heat of the day.
The games are much shorter than traditional soccer matches, lasting only seven minutes each half, so anyone can participate. Each country can bring a men’s and women’s team. Women can compete on the men’s team if the country is not bringing a women’s team.
On a recent day at Sac State's Hornet Stadium, players tried to cool down by sitting in the shade under bleachers and tents or by placing wet towels around their necks.
In the stands, spectators waved flags and sported jerseys and caps to show support for their country's team. Supporters of the Mexican women's team chanted “Si, se puede!” or “Yes, you can!” during a group stage match Tuesday as the reigning champions fought to win their eighth title.
For Sienna Jackson, a 24-year-old Sacramento native on the U.S. women's team, playing soccer offered a welcome escape from stress growing up.
“It was something to get my mind off of my life and kind of calm me down,” said Jackson, who experienced homelessness for four years starting at the age of 19.
Jackson now lives in an apartment, works with a pediatric dentist and is studying dental assisting at Carrington College, a career-training school in Sacramento.
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Associated Press journalist Haven Daley contributed.
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Are rowing machines or ellipticals best?
Exercising at home saves you the trouble of dealing with traffic or a packed gym. If you’re buying just one home workout machine, it can be tough to choose between a rowing machine and an elliptical.
Rowing machines offer a slightly better overall workout with more of a focus on the core, while elliptical trainers are easier to use without any kind of instruction. Both, however, are excellent workouts.
Rowing machines
Rowing machines are pieces of exercise equipment that require users to pull back on a bar while pushing out with their legs. The motion is similar to rowing a boat. Although they aren’t tricky to use once you’ve got the hang of it, you generally need one session with instruction to get the stroke motion down to ensure that you’re exercising effectively.
Using a rowing machine is an excellent form of cardiovascular exercise, which also works some key muscle groups to build strength. You can adjust the resistance on a rowing machine to tailor your workout. Average rowing machines cost around $200-$500, while high-end options can cost anywhere between $1,000-$2,000.
Rowing machine pros
- You work a greater number of muscles on a rowing machine compared to on an elliptical, including your core muscles, which elliptical trainers don’t do as much for.
- Using a rowing machine is a low-impact form of exercise, so it’s easy on your knees and other joints.
- The design and mechanics of a rowing machine are simpler than that of an elliptical, so rowing machines are cheaper than ellipticals of comparable quality.
- With a similar degree of exertion, you’ll burn more calories per hour on a rowing machine compared to an elliptical machine. However, this shouldn’t be a major consideration when comparing different forms of exercise.
Rowing machine cons
- Rowing machines require full extension of the arms and legs, so they have a fairly large footprint and take up a sizable chunk of space compared to ellipticals.
- You don’t work the chest and triceps when you use a rowing machine. Because it isn’t a weight-bearing exercise, using a rowing machine won’t slow mineral loss in the bones the way that ellipticals do.
Best rowing machines
NordicTrack RW900 Rowing Machine
One of the best rowing machines on the market, this is a commercial-grade fitness machine for home use. It’s extremely quiet with 26 resistance levels and a large built-in screen on which you can join live workouts or follow recorded ones.
Sold by Amazon
Concept2 Model D Indoor Rowing Machine
This high-quality rowing machine is easy to use and features air resistance that automatically adjusts to give you more resistance the faster you row. It lets you track your fitness progress with reliable real-time data.
Sold by Amazon
Sunny Health & Fitness Magnetic Rowing Machine
This affordable rowing machine might not have fancy high-end features, like air resistance or a large screen, but it does the job well at a low price. It offers eight levels of mechanical resistance and nonslip pedals and handlebars that feel comfortable to use.
Sold by Amazon
Ellipticals
Ellipticals — or cross trainers — are somewhere between treadmills and step machines. You stand on large pedals and hold onto the handles, moving your arms and legs in an elliptical motion. You can choose your pace to adjust the difficulty of your workout, so it can provide gentle, moderate or intense exercise.
These machines are popular due to their ease of use, even for complete newcomers to exercise equipment. They’re fairly mechanically complex, so average models cost around $400-$800, while high-end models cost $2,000-$3,000
Elliptical pros
- Elliptical machines are low-impact, so you can move at a pace similar to a run but without putting pressure on your knees and other joints.
- Unlike rowing machines, elliptical machines offer light weight-bearing activity. They’re great for slowing down mineral loss in the bones.
- Ellipticals work out your upper and lower body relatively equally, while rowing machines work some parts of the body significantly more than others.
- With an elliptical trainer, you can choose to reverse the direction in which you move, which works a different set of muscles.
Elliptical cons
- A certain degree of impact can help joints grow stronger, so you may need to mix in some higher-impact activities unless an injury or medical condition prevents it.
- Although you can find some cheap ellipticals, decent models usually cost significantly more than rowing machines of similar quality.
Best ellipticals
An excellent home elliptical with an interactive display that allows you to choose from 29 existing programs that you can tailor to meet your needs. It’s easy to link with popular apps to track your progress.
Sold by Amazon
Schwinn 430 Elliptical Machine
With a reasonable price tag, this is a great all-around choice for anyone who doesn’t want to break the bank. It includes 22 preset programs for workouts, or you can go at your own pace.
Sold by Amazon
Should you get a rowing machine or an elliptical?
The choice between a rowing machine and an elliptical is a tough one. Both offer a combination of cardio and strength workouts and provide similar results. Rowing machines offer slightly more of a workout for your muscles while ellipticals are easy to use. For many buyers, either would suit them just as well, so choose whichever you find more enjoyable to use.
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NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to ex-federal prosecutor Elie Honig about cases against Trump and his allies — including a court hearing that will consider unsealing the affidavit in the Mar-a-Lago search.
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Which waterproof mascaras are best?
Mascara is an essential component in even minimal makeup routines, but it can also be the most high-maintenance part of your look. Rain, humidity and sweat can result in under-eye smudging, and a day at the beach or the pool will turn standard mascara into a streaky disaster.
Luckily, waterproof mascara can prevent running makeup, thanks to additional ingredients that shield pigment from moisture and help it grip lashes.
What to look for in waterproof mascara
Waterproof mascara ingredients
Mascara is made waterproof thanks to the addition of ingredients, such as waxes and polymers, that help the mascara bond to eyelashes while creating a barrier against moisture.
- Waxes: Beeswax is a popular choice for making mascara waterproof, but other botanical waxes, such as carnauba, may also be used.
- Polymers: Dimethicone copolyol, a silicone commonly found in cosmetics and hair care products, is the most popular choice for waterproofing mascaras.
To get a feel for just how waterproof your mascara formula is, look at the ingredients list and see where “water” is. The further down the list it is, the more waterproof your mascara will be.
Mascara brush
Waterproof mascaras come with brushes of all sizes, shapes and materials, and they all offer different benefits. For example, classic bristle brushes are good at delivering length and volume, but silicone bristles are better at preventing clumping.
When it comes to brush shape, curved or fan-shaped mascara brushes can help give your lashes some curl, but they tend to require more trial-and-error than the classic cylinder shape. If you’re looking for tons of volume from your mascara, try an hourglass-shaped brush.
Is waterproof mascara safe?
The main disadvantage of waterproof mascaras is their drier formula. Waterproof mascara dries quickly on your lashes, and frequent wear can lead to dried-out and damaged eyelashes or even shedding. Plus, since waterproof mascara is formulated to stay on so well, it must be removed with care so as not to damage your lashes or the delicate skin around your eyes.
However, as long as you don’t reach for your waterproof mascara every day, it’s not considered bad for your eyes.
How to safely remove waterproof mascara
Long-wearing and waterproof mascaras are tougher to remove than their nonwaterproof counterparts, which can be bad news for the delicate eye area. To avoid stinging eyes, irritated skin and lost eyelashes, it’s important to use an eye makeup remover that’s gentle but effective enough to wash away makeup without scrubbing.
An oil-based makeup remover will work best on waterproof mascara, but cold cream or mild hypoallergenic face lotion can also work.
- Apply the makeup remover generously to a cotton pad, and gently press it against your lashes for at least 30 seconds.
- Lightly massage the area as needed to loosen makeup, then swipe the pad in a downward motion to wipe away mascara.
- Clean your eye area with a second pad that’s been moistened with water, or rinse with warm water.
Natural makeup remover
If all else fails, it’s possible to remove waterproof mascara with something found in your pantry: olive oil. Apply a couple of drops of quality olive oil to a makeup pad or cotton ball, then apply it to lashes as you would a makeup remover to let the oil loosen the mascara. Rinse it away with warm water.
Best waterproof mascara
Maybelline Great Lash Waterproof Mascara
This pink-and-green tube has been a makeup stash essential for decades. The tried-and-true formula applies evenly with a classic cylindrical bristle brush, thickening and lengthening lashes while keeping a natural look. Plus, it’s hypoallergenic and safe for contact lens wearers.
Sold by Ulta Beauty and Amazon
Tarte Lights Camera Splashes Waterproof Mascara
This four-in-one formula can condition lashes as well as lengthen, curl and volumize them. Its cylindrical brush features long, thin classic bristles. It’s cruelty-free and formulated without parabens, phthalates, sulfates, synthetic dyes and synthetic fragrance.
Sold by Sephora, Ulta Beauty and Amazon
Covergirl LashBlast Volume Waterproof Mascara
With its oversized, tapered silicone brush and volumizing formula, this mascara gives lashes dramatic body with up to 10 times more volume. This mascara is hypoallergenic and Leaping Bunny-certified cruelty-free.
Sold by Amazon and Ulta Beauty
Clinique High Impact Waterproof Mascara
This ophthalmologist-tested formula is a good pick for contact lens wearers and those with sensitive eyes. It helps lengthen, volumize and define lashes while keeping your look from smudging through a workout or a day at the beach. It is available in black and black-brown and features a slightly tapered cylindrical brush.
Sold by Sephora, Macy’s and Ulta Beauty
L’Oreal Paris Voluminous Lash Paradise Waterproof Mascara
The soft, hourglass-shaped bristle brush in this mascara gives lashes impressive length and volume. Its formula lasts up to 36 hours and includes flower oils to help condition lashes.
Sold by Amazon and Ulta Beauty
Lancome Monsieur Big Waterproof Mascara
This long-wearing mascara can give lashes up to 12 times more volume. The soft, spaced-out bristles in the oversized cylindrical brush smoothly coat lashes for up to 24 hours of flake-free wear. The formula is free from phthalates and parabens.
Neutrogena Healthy Volume Waterproof Mascara
Waterproof mascaras formulated to avoid drying out your lashes can also result in the dreaded raccoon-eyes look. This formula contains olive oil to nourish and condition lashes without flaking or smudging. Promising 400% fuller eyelashes, it’s a great pick if you have thin eyelashes. It’s also dermatologist- and ophthalmologist-tested.
Sold by Amazon
Dior Diorshow Waterproof Mascara
For runway-worthy volume and length, try this long-lasting, clump-free waterproof mascara. It features a classic tapering brush with long bristles to help fully coat lashes. Along with black and brown, this mascara comes in a bright cobalt blue.
Sold by Sephora
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Airbnb CEO on the tech downturn: ‘It’s like we’re all in a nightclub and the lights just came on’
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By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business
After years of seemingly unstoppable growth, the tech industry is now facing the “ultimate reality check” as it confronts broader economic uncertainty and waves of layoffs, Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky told CNN on Thursday.
“It’s like we’re all in a nightclub and the lights just came on,” Chesky said in an interview on “CNN This Morning.” After a period of “exuberance and euphoria,” he added, “now we all have to, like, take a hard look at things.”
His remarks come at a difficult moment for the tech industry. Facebook-parent Meta said last week it was cutting 11,000 jobs after nearly doubling its staff during the pandemic. Amazon confirmed this week that lay offs had begun in its corporate workforce, with reports saying it plans to cut 10,000 positions. And Twitter recently cut approximately 50% of its staff as new owner Elon Musk races to bolster its bottom line.
Airbnb may be an exception. Chesky said the company is not undergoing layoffs at this time, and in fact is hiring. But that is due in large part to the company cutting 25% of its staff at the start of the pandemic as the travel industry was clobbered, and losing more employees by attrition after.
“Two-and-a-half years ago, we lost 80% of our business in eight weeks,” Chesky said. “People were predicting we were going to go out of business.”
“We just hunkered down,” he added. “We rebuilt the company from the ground up, and we stayed really lean.” Now, Chesky said, “we’re stepping on the gas, we’re not putting on the brakes.”
While the reckoning hitting much of Silicon Valley is painful, Chesky appeared to suggest that a more sober reassessment of the industry could also provide an opportunity for the tech sector to rethink its place in society, after years of criticism for the impact its products can have on people.
“I think Silicon Valley has done so many amazing things for the world, but we have to be careful having a fetishization of new technology, as if the new technology is going to solve all the problems that the last technology created,” Chesky said. “We need more diversity in Silicon Valley, but that diversity should not just be demographic diversity. We need artists, humanists in this industry.”
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(NewsNation) — Russia may have given “oligarchs” a bad name, but other countries have them, too. They’re private citizens who are unbelievably rich, unbelievably powerful and seemingly unavailable to their fellow citizens.
This week NewsNation’s “Banfield” did a deep dive into the oligarchy of America, which has more of these people than any other country on earth. NewsNation’s Brian Entin spoke with former employees of the oligarchs, journalists and technology experts about these mysterious billionaires.
Elon Musk: $221.4 billion net worth
“Banfield” started with the world’s richest individual, Elon Musk.
“Elon sleeps in the factory in his sleeping bag,” Joe Justice, a former Tesla employee, said. “Elon is accessible. If you’re also working on the most important thing, then Elon is there. You can always email, or chat, or message Elon. Or walk over.”
The Tesla and SpaceX owner is also trying to buy Twitter in a $44 billion deal.
Twitter’s board has recommended unanimously that shareholders approve the proposed $44 billion sale of the company to billionaire and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, according to a regulatory filing last week.
“I think it is way too much power,” Dr. Nolan Hidgon, the author of “The Anatomy of Fake News,” said. “Historically, wealthy individuals have bought media platforms to manufacture consent from the public, for their economic and political interests.”
Jeff Bezos: $135.3 billion net worth
The founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, was the first human to reach a net worth of $100 billion and $200 billion. From 1990 to 1994, Bezos worked for one of the most successful hedge funds on Wall Street for D.E. Shaw & Co., New York.
Its founder, David Shaw, tasked Bezos with figuring out what could be sold on the internet for the highest profit. Bezos pitched the idea of books, which is how Amazon began.
“Bezos built this empire on the strength of starting with books, but he understood early on that he was aiming to be the so-called ‘Everything Store.’ Eventually, he could become this sort of middle merchant between the factories of the world and the households of the world,” New York Times Global Economics Correspondent Peter S. Goodman said on “Banfield.”
Bezos stepped down as CEO in July 2021, handing over the reins as the company navigated the challenges of a world fighting to emerge from the coronavirus pandemic.
“He’s one of the wealthiest men to ever live in the entire world. He’s doing that, it seems, by cutting costs when it comes to average entry-level employees. There were all these reports about Amazon employees trying to unionize, just to get some basic rights. To get breaks,” New York Post Business Reporter Lydia Moynihan said. “He seems like he’s the kind of person who’s willing to do whatever it takes to maintain his empire.”
“There’s no question that Bezos has very unapologetically set up a pressure cooker environment where he’s extraordinarily demanding,” Goodman added.
Bill Gates: $124.1 billion net worth
Bill Gates, the billionaire whose squeaky clean image has taken a beating, is now buying a lot of farmland.
He’s purchased 270,00 acres so far in the United States, and his latest purchase was 2,000 acres in North Dakota. Apparently the neighbors there are furious.
The college dropout and software pioneer was the richest man in the world, from 1995-2009.
“I think the fact that he is the largest owner of farmland illustrates that it’s not a baseless conspiracy, or slippery slope, to say that unless stopped, oligarchs will continue to accumulate as much wealth and resources as possible. Until, theoretically, there’s nothing left for everybody else,” Dr. Nolan Higdon said on “Banfield.”
Similar to management under Bezos, Gates has also been described as an angry and difficult boss in his early Microsoft days.
“He was very combative. He didn’t even really want to talk to anybody but senior management. He would say things like, ‘That’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard.’ These guys don’t get to the top by being like Mr. Rogers. You can’t get to the top by being a nice guy,” Dana Kennedy, the national writer for The New York Post, said.
In 2021, Bill and Melinda Gates announced their divorce, however, they said they would continue their foundation. The Gates Foundation said the ex-couple would continue to work as co-chairs for a two-year trial period and after that time, if the arrangement unravels, Melinda would step down.
“I think they do give money to causes that a lot of people would advocate for, but the reality is a lot of that money goes to policy papers, lobbying and ways of him influencing lawmakers,” Higdon said. “The proof really needs to be in the outcome. What are the outcomes of this funding? It’s just a way for Gates to expand his influence and to improve his public image.”
Mark Zuckerberg: $55.5 billion net worth
Mark Zuckerberg was a billionaire by the age of 23, and the computer program that he and his Harvard roommates launched in 2004, Facebook, has 2.9 billion active monthly users. Facebook, now known as Meta, owns 94 companies, including Instagram, Whatsapp and Oculus VR.
Facebook is among the several social media apps that may be subject to lawsuits in California if children become addicted to their apps.
“The way that Facebook, and other social media platforms, make money is by keeping us addicted, right? The more time that we all spend on these platforms, the more money they can make from advertisers. It’s just that simple,” Associate Professor at Hofstra University Kara Alaimo said.
US Sun reporter Charlotte Edward said there’s a lot we don’t know about Zuckerberg. He spends $27 million a year just on security to keep him and his family safe.
“This is a man that has big plans for the world. He’s investing billions right now in the metaverse and he’s creating this new virtual reality that he thinks we’re going to live in in the next 10 years,” Edwards said.
“I think the real problem is these tech guys are very clever on a certain kind of mathematical level, a certain abstract level, but they have no feeling about how human beings actually are,” social trends expert Joel Kotkin said.
Kotkin says that Zuckerberg believes that the future of humanity is the metaverse.
“It’s a really serious issue. And I think one that people have to pay attention to is this the vision we want, and think about the fact that he and his offspring, and people around them, are going to have enough money to fund nonprofits for the next 100 years, which will shake public perceptions and policies to their desire,” Kotkin added.
Larry Ellison: $49.3 billion net worth
Larry Ellison is the co-founder of Oracle Corporation, which has major customers including Netflix, eBay, and LinkedIn.
Oracle is the third-largest software company in the world, but not a lot of Americans are aware.
“He’s trying to be noncontroversial, and intentionally so. He wants to stay off the radar. Oracle is not known among average Americans. It’s not as flashy as Amazon or Tesla or SpaceX,” New York Post reporter Mary Jacob said.
Ellison got his start by building databases for the CIA.
“The actual origin of Oracle came from a research paper that he founded at IBM. He took the risk,” said Build Your Wealth Quotient Author David Friedman.
“Structurally, Oracle is a B2B company. It serves businesses, not consumers. I think he just cares about winning. I don’t know if he cares about whether people know it or not,” Friedman added.
Baylor University Assistant Professor Luke Winslow also weighed in on the conversation and said that oligarchy is about bridging economic and political power.
“I think what oligarchs are primarily concerned with is if the processes, by which they bridge economic and political power, are well-known. That’s the most important thing for maximizing their wealth,” Winslow said. | 2022-07-03T20:15:47+00:00 | upmatters.com | https://www.upmatters.com/news/national/american-oligarchs-inside-the-minds-of-the-countrys-wealthiest-people/ |
DALLAS (AP) — The man charged in the taking of two emperor tamarin monkeys from the Dallas Zoo has also been charged in two other recent incidents there involving holes that were cut in animal enclosure fences, authorities said Friday.
Davion Irvin, 24, has been charged with two counts of burglary to a building in connection with the cutting of the enclosure fences for a clouded leopard and langur monkeys, police spokeswoman Kristin Lowman said during a news conference. The langur monkeys didn’t escape and weren’t harmed. The leopard did but was later found safe near its pen.
Lowman said police were still investigating whether there’s any connection to the suspicious death of an endangered vulture at the zoo.
“The last month has been an emotional rollercoaster for the team here at Dallas Zoo,” Harrison Edell, the zoo’s executive vice president for animal care and conservation, said at the news conference.
Irvin was arrested Thursday on six counts of animal cruelty — three each for the two emperor tamarin monkeys that were taken, police said. His bail was set at $25,000 and jail records didn’t list an attorney for him.
The tamarin monkeys went missing Monday and a cut was found in their enclosure’s fencing.
After getting a tip, police found the small monkeys named Bella and Finn on Tuesday in the closet of a vacant home south of the zoo.
Earlier this week, police released a photo and a video taken from the zoo of a man they said they wanted to speak with about the missing monkeys.
Police said Friday that they arrested Irvin after receiving a tip that he had been seen near the animal exhibits at The Dallas World Aquarium. Responding officers saw him boarding the city’s light rail and later spotted him a few blocks away, police said. He was then taken to police headquarters for questioning.
Waylon Tate, an aquarium spokesperson, said Irvin had stopped an employee to ask questions about one the aquarium’s animals, and the employee recognized him from the coverage of the missing monkeys.
“We do believe that (Irvin) was looking to commit another crime,” Lowman said at the news conference.
The missing monkeys were the latest in a string of unusual events at the zoo over the past few weeks, including other enclosure fences that were cut and the death of the vulture.
The mysterious events at the zoo began on Jan. 13, when arriving workers found that the clouded leopard named Nova was missing from her cage, and police said that a cutting tool had been used to make an opening in her enclosure. The zoo closed as a search for her got underway, and she was found later that day near her habitat.
Zoo workers had also found a similar gash in an enclosure for langur monkeys, though none got out or appeared harmed, police said.
On Jan. 21, workers arriving at the zoo found an endangered lappet-faced vulture named Pin dead. Gregg Hudson, the zoo’s president and CEO, called the death “very suspicious” and said the vulture had “a wound,” but he declined to give further details. | 2023-02-04T01:14:13+00:00 | ktalnews.com | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/u-s-world/man-accused-of-taking-dallas-zoo-monkeys-suspected-in-other-incidents/ |
Several members of a production crew with for "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert" were detained Thursday night in a congressional office building near the U.S. Capitol, CBS said Friday. The group was filming a comedy segment when they were taken into custody, the company said.
U.S. Capitol Police told CBS News that officers responded to a "call for a disturbance" at 8:30 p.m. at the Longworth House Office Building, where they detained seven people who were "unescorted and without Congressional ID" in a sixth-floor hallway.
After determining the group were not Congressional employees — and had been asked to leave the building earlier in the day — they were charged with unlawful entry. Police said a criminal investigation is ongoing and could lead to more charges.
Capitol Police did not release any names and would not say if the suspects were with "The Late Show," which, like CBS News, is a part of Paramount Global. But CBS said Friday that the suspects were part of a production team which was recording a "Triumph the Insult Comic Dog" comedy segment on Capitol Hill on Wednesday and Thursday.
The production team had conducted interviews earlier in the day that "were authorized and pre-arranged through congressional aides of the members interviewed," CBS said in a statement. After leaving members' offices, the team stayed to film "stand-ups and other comedy elements" before they were detained, the company said.
Photos posted Thursday showed comedian Robert Smigel, who voices the character of Triumph, in the halls outside the Jan. 6 House select committee hearings.
The incident came several hours after the committee had wrapped up its third day of public hearings. The hearings are taking place in the Cannon House Office Building, another congressional building located directly across the street from the Longworth building. | 2022-06-18T18:29:02+00:00 | ktvh.com | https://www.ktvh.com/news/national-news/production-crew-for-stephen-colberts-late-show-detained-in-congressional-building-near-u-s-capitol |
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