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Baby, it’s cold outside: Parents deliver daughter in subzero temperatures
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV/Gray News) – Nicole Namba and Wyatt Gray weren’t expecting to welcome their daughter to the world until Jan. 7, but their baby had other plans.
Namba knew on Dec. 22 it was time to go to the hospital.
The temperature in Colorado Springs was below 0 degrees Fahrenheit that morning, accompanied by snow and ice.
The inclement conditions made the trip to the hospital 15 minutes longer than normal.
Gray said about eight minutes from the hospital, Namba told him she had to push.
“At that point, I was asking her you know, ‘Is it OK if you wait? Can we wait? We’re only eight minutes away,’” Gray told KKTV. “And of course, she knew better than I did that you cannot hold that up.”
After calling 911, Gray pulled over and walked around to Namba in the passenger seat as the dispatcher talked him through the delivery of his daughter.
“Once I pulled that door open, I saw my baby’s head, and I about dropped to the floor. I’m on my knees, in the snow, in negative 14-degree weather,” Gray said.
Namba and Gray complimented each other on the process, with Gray saying that Namba seemed so confident, it was like she’d done it 100 times before.
“By the time he came around the car and opened the door, she was already coming out,” Namba said. “He ended up being Dr. Daddy, and catching her, and doing such an amazing job.”
After their daughter, Lilly, was born in the passenger seat of the car, Gray drove the rest of the way to the hospital, where the couple said nurses flocked them with jackets, hand warmers, and a wheelchair for Namba as soon as they heard what had happened.
“We ran through the whole hospital, and we got upstairs and we finished doing, like, checking on her, making sure everything was good,” Namba said, adding that everything has gone smoothly since.
Namba said Lilly is meeting all her milestones, eating great and is healthy.
The parents were in the hospital with Lilly for two days before they were able to bring her home to her two older brothers on Christmas Eve.
“The best present is to have her right before Christmas and actually get to be home on Christmas Day,” Namba said.
The parents said that the hospital gave them the option of listing the intersection Lilly was born at on her birth certificate, and according to them, she’ll be the first person with the cross street of Family Place listed on the document.
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GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization will convene an emergency committee of experts to determine if the expanding monkeypox outbreak that has mysteriously spread outside Africa should be considered a global health emergency.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Tuesday he decided to convene the emergency committee on June 23 because the virus has shown “unusual” recent behavior by spreading in countries well beyond parts of Africa where it is endemic.
“We believe that it needs also some coordinated response because of the geographic spread,” he told reporters.
Declaring monkeypox to be an international health emergency would give it the same designation as the COVID-19 pandemic and mean that WHO considers the normally rare disease a continuing threat to countries globally.
The U.K. said Monday it had 470 cases of monkeypox across the country, with the vast majority in gay or bisexual men. British scientists said last week they could not tell if the spread of the disease in the U.K. had peaked.
The meeting of outside experts could also help improve understanding and knowledge about the virus, Tedros said, as WHO released new guidelines about vaccinating against monkeypox.
Dr. Ibrahima Soce Fall, WHO’s emergencies director for Africa, said case counts were growing every day and health officials face “many gaps in terms of knowledge of the dynamics of the transmission” — both in Africa and beyond.
“With the advice from the emergency committee, we can be in a better position to control the situation. But it doesn’t mean that we are going straight to a public health emergency of international concern,” he said, referring to WHO’s highest level of alert for viral outbreaks. “We don’t want to wait until the situation is out of control to start calling the emergency committee.”
The U.N. health agency does not recommend mass vaccination, but advises the “judicious” use of vaccines. It said controlling the disease relies primarily on measures like surveillance, tracking cases and isolating patients.
Last month, a leading adviser to WHO said the outbreak in Europe and beyond was likely spread by sex at two recent rave parties in Spain and Belgium.
Scientists warn that anyone, regardless of sexual orientation, is susceptible to catching monkeypox if they are in close, physical contact with an infected person or their clothing or bed sheets.
WHO has been working with partner countries to create a mechanism by which some vaccines for smallpox — a related disease — might be made available to countries that are affected, as research continues into their effectiveness against the new outbreak.
Tedros said more than 1,600 cases and nearly 1,500 suspected cases have been reported this year in 39 countries, including seven where monkeypox has been reported for years. A total of 72 deaths have been reported but none in the newly affected countries, which include Britain, Canada, Italy, Poland, Spain and the United States.
The ongoing outbreak of monkeypox in Europe and elsewhere marks the first time the disease has been known to spread among people who have no travel links to Africa. | 2022-06-14T17:33:27+00:00 | mytwintiers.com | https://www.mytwintiers.com/news-cat/world-news/ap-international/who-convenes-experts-to-decide-if-monkeypox-is-an-emergency/ |
When we first looked at our old farmhouse in Maine, I was excited to find fireplaces that worked and old wooden beams. There was a thick hedge of lilacs outside the front door. But it was when I roamed around the edge of the property and discovered row upon row of raspberry and blueberry bushes that I knew I had found a home.
Every summer I anticipate the arrival of these berries with the glee of a kid in a candy shop. Early July mornings, I head outside with a coffee cup in one hand and an empty yogurt container in the other. Raspberries require patience as they hide and can grow at eye level (easy) or ankle level (hard) at the bottom of the canes. Picking berries requires you to slow down just enough to see. Oh look, there’s a cluster of ripe ones. And over there. And as I sip my coffee, and search for perfectly red ripe berries, I find myself listening to the birds and feeling the sun pick up strength. It’s a morning berry meditation.
Once the yogurt container is full (five berries for the bucket and one for me), it’s time to head indoors and sprinkle them over yogurt and granola and think about the season’s first berry tart or muffins or cake. Even a salad. The possibilities of what you can do with summer’s tart, sweet, bursting-with-juice berries is endless.
Look for just-picked, very local berries at a nearby pick-your-own farm or farmer’s market. If you shop for berries at the supermarket check the bottom of the pint to see if they are fresh — make sure they are still holding their shape and not moldy or clumped together and rotting. Remember that berries are quite perishable. Raspberries, golden raspberries, blackberries and huckleberries will barely last three days. Strawberries and blueberries are heartier and will last several days. But, in general, berries aren’t meant to sit around. Your best bet is to use them ASAP. Do not wash the berries until just before you’re ready to use them. Moisture is the enemy here and will cause the berries to break down even further.
Yes, you can freeze fresh summer berries. The best method is to place a baking or cookie sheet in the freezer and place the berries on it in a single layer. Freeze for about an hour, or until they are frozen enough to keep their shape and not clump together. When that happens you can place them in an airtight container or freezer bag for several months.
Roasted beet, raspberry and feta salad
I’m not a big fan of berries in savory food. I don’t love berry soup or berry-flavored salad dressings. I don’t really want a strawberry near my roast chicken. But I woke up early one morning this month and thought about how beautiful it might be to pair sweet, earthy roasted beets with fresh raspberries.
I’m also not a fan of precious food. This salad might appear to be a precious, “chefy-type” dish. And although it’s stunning, it’s really about the balance of color, flavor, texture and shape. Golden yellow beets (or red beets) are roasted until tender and sweet, thinly sliced, topped with crumbled salty feta cheese and then topped with raspberries (or blackberries), fresh herbs and edible flowers. All you need to pair with it is a warm, crusty loaf of bread or buttery biscuits or whole grain crackers. This salad makes a light summer lunch or first course.
Serves 2 to 4.
Ingredients
- 1 pound golden or red beets, or a combination (about 2 large or 4 medium-small beets)
- 3 ounces feta cheese, crumbled, about ½ cup
- 1 cup fresh raspberries, blackberries or your favorite berry
- 2 tablespoons minced chives
- Freshly ground black pepper
- 1 ½ tablespoon olive oil
- 1 tablespoon balsamic or white wine vinegar
- Edible flowers like nasturtium or calendula
Instructions
- Roast the beets: Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.
- Wrap the beets into two aluminum foil packets tightly and roast on the middle shelf for about 1 hour and 10 minutes, or until a knife inserted in the center of the beets yields a soft (not mushy) texture.
- Remove the packets and let cool slightly.
- Using your hands or a small, sharp knife remove the beet skins. (Beets can stain! If you have rubber gloves or disposable gloves they are great to use, or you can use a paper towel to pull the skin off the beet. If you wash your hands ASAP with soap in warm water, the beet color will wash away.)
- Thinly slice the beets and place on a serving plate.
- Sprinkle the feta on top and then gently scatter on the raspberries.
- Sprinkle with the chives and any edible flowers.
- Just before serving, spoon the oil on top of the salad, followed by the vinegar.
Blueberry-lemon tea cake
Made in a bread loaf pan, this simple cake bursts with the fresh flavors of summer. A cake batter is flavored with lemon zest and lemon juice and mixed with fresh blueberries (yes, you can substitute any berry here) and when the cake is baked and cooled, a simple glaze of lemon juice and confectioners sugar is poured over the top. When it’s done, you grate lemon zest on top and surround the cake with even more fresh summer berries. Ideal for breakfast, snack, or dessert, serve the cake with iced or hot tea, coffee or wine.
Serves 6 to 8.
Ingredients
The cake
- Butter and flour for greasing the pan
- 1 ½ cups sugar
- 2 teaspoons lemon zest, from 1 large or 2 small lemons
- 2 cups flour, plus 1 tablespoon for dusting the berries
- ¼ teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon baking powder
- ⅛ teaspoon fine salt
- 1 stick unsalted butter, room temperature
- 2 eggs
- ½ cup heavy cream
- ¼ cup milk
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice from the zested lemons
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 cups blueberries (1 pint)
The glaze and garnishes
- 1 ½ cups confectioners’ sugar
- 3 tablespoons milk
- 1 ½ teaspoon grated lemon zest, from 1 large lemon
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice from the zested lemon
- Pinch fine salt
- About 1 to 1 ½ cup blueberries
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
- Grease a 9 x 5-inch loaf pan with the butter and lightly coat with flour; tip the cake pan over the sink and tap to make sure the flour doesn’t clump up. Set aside.
- Make the cake: Add the sugar to a small bowl. Using your fingers, rub the lemon zest into the sugar. Set aside.
- In a bowl mix together the 2 cups of flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt.
- In a stand mixer or beater whisk the butter until light. Add the lemon sugar and beat over medium for 3 minutes, until light. Add the eggs, one at a time, and beat well until fully incorporated. Add half the flour mixture and beat for a minute. Add the cream, milk, lemon juice, and vanilla and beat until smooth. Add the remaining flour mixture and beat until smooth. Remove from the machine.
- Toss the remaining 1 tablespoon of flour with the berries (this will help them from sinking to the bottom of the cake) and then gently stir the flour-coated berries into the cake batter.
- Scoop the batter into the prepared pan and smooth the top with a soft spatula.
- Bake on the middle shelf for about 1 hour 10 minutes, or until a toothpick or cake tester comes out clean when inserted into the middle of the cake. Remove and let cool in the pan for 20 minutes. Using a flat kitchen knife, work your way around the loaf pan loosening the cake. Unmold the cake onto a wire cooling rack and then carefully flip it over, domed side up. Let cool for one hour.
- Meanwhile, prepare the glaze: Whisk together the sugar, milk, lemon juice and salt in a small bowl until smooth.
- Place a plate under the cooled cake while it’s still on the cooling rack. Pour the glaze on top of the cake, letting it drip over onto the sides. Place on a serving plate and scatter the lemon zest on top of the glaze. Surround the cake with the berries.
Raspberry tart with vanilla pastry cream
This is the summer dessert you want for a special dinner or get-together. You need to make the pastry and the pastry cream a day ahead of time, so plan your time accordingly. But once you bake off the crust, it’s a matter of spooning raspberry jam on the bottom, then the pastry cream and topping it with a gorgeous crown of fresh summer berries. Although there are a few steps involved, this tart is quite straightforward.
Serves 4 to 6.
The pastry cream
- 2 cups milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Pinch salt
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- ¼ cup cornstarch
- 2 eggs
- 4 tablespoons room temperature unsalted butter
The pastry
- 1 ½ cups flour
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- Pinch salt
- 1 stick unsalted butter, chilled and cut into small pieces
- About ⅓ cup ice cold water
- 3 tablespoons raspberry or berry jam, at room temperature
- About 2 ½ cups raspberries or a combination of your favorite berries
Instructions
- Make the pastry cream: In a medium saucepan heat the milk, vanilla, and salt and place over medium-high heat. Bring to a simmer.
- In a medium bowl whisk together the sugar, cornstarch and eggs until smooth. Ladle 1/2 cup of the simmering milk into the sugar and egg mixture. Then slowly whisk the sugar/egg mixture into the pot with the simmering milk.
- Cook over medium-low heat, whisking, until thickened, about 3 minutes. When the pastry cream is thick, remove from the heat and add the butter, whisking until smooth.
- Place a sheet of plastic or plastic alternative wrap directly onto the surface of the pastry cream to keep it from forming a crust. Refrigerate for at least 2 hours, or overnight.
- Make the pastry: In a food processor whirl the flour, sugar and salt together. Add the butter and pulse about 15 times, or until the butter looks like peas. Add the water, a tablespoon or two at a time, until the dough begins to come together and pull away from the sides of the processor bowl. Alternatively, you can mix flour, sugar and salt in a bowl. Add butter and work with your hands or a pastry cutter until the butter is the size of peas. Add enough water so the dough comes together. Place the dough in a piece of parchment paper and chill for at least 2 hours or overnight.
- Lightly butter the bottom and sides of an 8-inch tart pan with a removable bottom.
- Working on a lightly floured surface, roll out the dough and fit into the tart pan, trimming the sides. Chill for at least 1 hour.
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Place a sheet of parchment paper inside the tart pan and fill with beans or rice or pie weights. Bake on the middle shelf for 30 minutes. Carefully remove the parchment and pie weights and bake for another 10 to 15 minutes or until the crust is golden brown. Remove and cool.
- Using a soft spatula, spread the bottom of the crust with the jam. Spoon the pastry cream on top (there may be some leftover; it’s delicious served with berries). Arrange the berries on top and chill for about an hour or two before serving.
Simple raspberry jam with lemon (and no pectin)
All you need to make this jam is a few cups of ripe berries, some sugar and lemon juice. No pectin is needed. The lemon juice adds flavor but it also helps the jam “set” or “gel” into a thick jam-like consistency. I don’t add a ton of sugar which yields a slightly sweet, tart and very fruity jam.
Makes 3-pint size jars or 6 half-pint jars.
Ingredients
- 6 cups raspberries, blackberries or your favorite berry
- About 2 cups sugar
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
Instructions
- Place a small plate in the freezer.
- Place the berries and sugar in a medium-large stainless steel saucepan. Using a potato masher, mash the berries and sugar together and then add the lemon juice. Place over medium-high heat and bring to a boil, mashing a few more times until the mixture is well blended. Once the mixture comes to a boil, cook for about 20 minutes, skimming off foam as it forms on top. The jam should look syrupy and thickened, with no watery consistency.
- To test, add a small spoonful to the plate in the freezer. You should be able to run your finger through the jam streak and have the impression your finger made be visible, rather than running together again. If the mixture is too thin it will not hold the streak you made; continue to cook another 4 to 5 minutes until thickened.
- Let the jam cool and place into 3 clean, sterilized pint size jars or 6 half pint size jars. The jam will keep in the refrigerator for up to 3 to 4 weeks or can be canned and kept in a cool, dark spot for up to a year.
- To preserve the jam: Sterilize the jelly jars and lids. Dry on a clean tea towel. Bring a large pot of water to a boil and, once boiling, using tongs, add the jars carefully to the boiling water. Cover and let process for 12 minutes. Remove carefully with tongs and let cool on a tea towel.
More berry and canning resources
- For more information about safe canning techniques, click here.
- For some of my other summer berry recipes, click here.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
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- Fourth Quarter 2022 Operating Revenues: $458.7 million, 1.9% decrease
- Fourth Quarter 2022 Operating Income: $48.2 million, 102.6% increase
- Fourth Quarter 2022 Earnings Per Share: $1.27 per share, 111.7% increase
- Declares Quarterly Dividend: $0.105 per share
WARREN, Mich., Feb. 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Universal Logistics Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: ULH) today reported consolidated fourth quarter 2022 net income of $33.4 million, or $1.27 per basic and diluted share, on total operating revenues of $458.7 million. This compares to net income of $16.2 million, or $0.60 per basic and diluted share, during fourth quarter 2021 on total operating revenues of $467.4 million. Universal's fourth quarter 2022 operating income and earnings per share represent the best fourth quarter results in company history. For the full year 2022, Universal reported $6.37 per basic and diluted share, on total operating revenues of $2.02 billion, both all-time records in company history. This compares to $2.74 per basic and diluted share, on total operating revenues of $1.75 billion for the full year 2021.
In the fourth quarter 2022, Universal's operating income increased $24.4 million to $48.2 million, compared to $23.8 million in the fourth quarter one year earlier. Included in fourth quarter 2021 operating results were $11.0 million of pre-tax charges related to previously disclosed items. As a percentage of operating revenue, operating margin for the fourth quarter 2022 was 10.5%, compared to 5.1% during the same period last year. EBITDA, a non-GAAP measure, increased $28.3 million during the fourth quarter 2022 to $68.0 million, compared to $39.7 million one year earlier. As a percentage of operating revenue, EBITDA margin for the fourth quarter 2022 was 14.8%, compared to 8.5% during the same period last year. The previously disclosed pre-tax charges recorded in the fourth quarter 2021 adversely impacted Universal's operating margin and EBITDA margin in that period by 230 basis points.
"2022 was a year of record setting financial performance for the company," stated Universal's CEO Tim Phillips. "And we closed out the year with yet another, reporting our best ever fourth quarter earnings in company history. In fact, for the full year 2022, Universal more than doubled its net income and reported top-line revenues in excess of $2.0 billion, a milestone we have worked so diligently to achieve."
"As we transition into a new year," Phillips continued, "we are navigating a much different transportation environment. Excess retail inventories, a slow-down in industrial production and loosening capacity have all put downward pressures on our trucking, company-managed brokerage and intermodal segments. While we expect near-term headwinds in transportation, stability in our contract logistics segment, supported by strong North American auto production, will provide a solid foundation for the year to come. Universal remains a results-oriented organization, and I believe the diversification of our service offerings and the talented teams we have assembled keep us well positioned for continued success."
Segment Information:
Contract Logistics
- Fourth Quarter 2022 Operating Revenues: $205.5 million, 27.9% increase
- Fourth Quarter 2022 Operating Income: $30.1 million, 14.7% operating margin
In the contract logistics segment, which includes our value-added and dedicated services, fourth quarter 2022 operating revenues increased 27.9% to $205.5 million, compared to $160.7 million for the same period last year. We grew our fourth quarter 2022 dedicated transportation load volumes by 5.3% compared to the same period last year, and we managed 63 value-added programs at the end of both fourth quarters 2022 and 2021. Included in contract logistics segment revenues were $10.6 million in separately identified fuel surcharges from dedicated transportation services, compared to $5.9 million during the same period last year. Fourth quarter 2022 income from operations increased $24.0 million to $30.1 million, compared to $6.1 million during the same period last year. Included in fourth quarter 2021 results were $5.0 million of losses incurred in connection with a previously announced program launch. As a percentage of revenue, operating margin in the contract logistics segment for the fourth quarter 2022 was 14.7%, compared to 3.8% during the same period last year. Previously disclosed pre-tax launch losses recorded in the fourth quarter 2021 adversely impacted this segment's operating margin by 310 basis points.
Intermodal
- Fourth Quarter 2022 Operating Revenues: $123.1 million, 13.2% decrease
- Fourth Quarter 2022 Operating Income: $11.1 million, 9.0% operating margin
Operating revenues in the intermodal segment decreased 13.2% to $123.1 million in the fourth quarter 2022, compared to $141.7 million for the same period last year. Included in intermodal segment revenues for the recently completed quarter were $22.4 million in separately identified fuel surcharges, compared to $16.1 million during the same period last year. Intermodal segment revenues also include other accessorial charges such as detention, demurrage and storage which totaled $22.5 million during the fourth quarter 2022, compared to $35.7 million one year earlier. The average operating revenue per load, excluding fuel surcharges, increased 15.1%; however, load volumes decreased 25.7% year-over-year. Fourth quarter 2022 income from operations decreased $2.7 million to $11.1 million, compared to $13.8 million during the same period last year. As a percentage of revenue, operating margin in the intermodal segment for the fourth quarter 2022 was 9.0%, compared to 9.7% one year earlier.
Trucking
- Fourth Quarter 2022 Operating Revenues: $89.0 million, 12.3% decrease
- Fourth Quarter 2022 Operating Income: $5.7 million, 6.5% operating margin
In the trucking segment, fourth quarter 2022 operating revenues decreased 12.3% to $89.0 million, compared to $101.5 million for the same period last year. Fourth quarter 2022 trucking segment revenues included $36.5 million of brokerage services, compared to $38.1 million during the same period last year. Also included in our trucking segment revenues were $8.1 million in separately identified fuel surcharges during the fourth quarter 2022, compared to $6.8 million in fuel surcharges during the same period last year. On a year-over-year basis, the average operating revenue per load, excluding fuel surcharges, increased 24.1%; however, load volumes declined 32.9% as we rationalized certain underperforming operations in this segment. Income from operations in the fourth quarter 2022 increased $4.6 million to $5.7 million compared to $1.1 million during the same period last year. Fourth quarter 2021 trucking segment results included an additional $6.0 million in previously disclosed pre-tax charges. As a percentage of revenue, operating margin in the trucking segment for the fourth quarter 2022 was 6.5% compared to 1.1% during the same period last year. The additional previously disclosed pre-tax charges recorded in the fourth quarter 2021 adversely impacted the trucking segment's operating margin by 590 basis points.
Company-managed Brokerage
- Fourth Quarter 2022 Operating Revenues: $39.6 million, 36.2% decrease
- Fourth Quarter 2022 Operating Income: $0.9 million, 2.3% operating margin
Fourth quarter 2022 operating revenues in the company-managed brokerage segment decreased 36.2% to $39.6 million compared to $62.0 million for the same period last year. Company-managed brokerage segment average operating revenue per load, excluding fuel surcharges, decreased 14.8% and load volumes declined 19.9% on a year-over-year basis. Fourth quarter 2022 income from operations in the company-managed brokerage segment was $0.9 million which compares to $2.5 million one year earlier. As a percentage of revenue, operating margin for the fourth quarter 2022 was 2.3% compared to 4.0% during the same period last year.
Cash Dividend
Universal Logistics Holdings, Inc. also announced today that its Board of Directors has declared a cash dividend of $0.105 per share of common stock. The dividend is payable to shareholders of record at the close of business on March 6, 2023 and is expected to be paid on April 3, 2023.
Other Matters
As of December 31, 2022, Universal held cash and cash equivalents totaling $47.2 million, and $10.0 million in marketable securities. Outstanding debt at the end of the fourth quarter 2022 was $382.9 million and capital expenditures totaled $31.3 million.
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LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Las Vegas Aces player Riquna Williams has been charged after police say she hit, kicked, and strangled her wife in a domestic violence incident that lasted an hour, according to police documents.
Williams, a member of last year’s championship team, is facing five felony charges, including counts of domestic battery, domestic battery by strangulation, assault with the use of a deadly weapon, and coercion of domestic violence with force or threat to force, court records show.
According to an arrest report from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, officers were called to Williams’ home on Tuesday around noon after her wife called 911.
Williams and her wife have been together for four years and were married in September.
Speaking with police, Williams’ wife said the veteran WNBA player had been standoffish and would not spend any time with her for the past couple of days. The victim said she texted Williams on Monday night, saying the two needed to take a break from each other. She added she would go back to Florida, where the couple lives in the off-season, to spend time with her son. Williams replied “OK” but did not join the victim in bed, police said.
Early Tuesday morning, the victim said she began packing when Williams allegedly came into the room and told her “not to take anything she did not pay for.” Williams then threw clothes that had been packed in a suitcase onto the floor.
According to the report, Williams asked the victim where she was going, to which the victim replied, “We agreed you would let me leave?”
Williams’ wife also accused her of taking her cellphone, iPad, credit and debit cards, and ID, so “[the victim] could not leave her.”
Williams allegedly accused the victim of cheating on her and getting in her face, yelling at her. The victim told police Williams grabbed her by the shirt and threw her to the ground before choking her “until she could not breathe.” Williams reportedly choked her wife multiple times during the incident.
“I’ll kill you here and walk to the jail myself!” Williams reportedly told the victim.
Williams has also been accused of grabbing her wife at one point and punching her. The victim told police that because Williams is a professional athlete and works out every day, there was no way she could overpower Williams.
Her wife also accused her of blocking her in the bedroom and swinging items at her head. At one point, after choking the victim, Williams allegedly began hitting her in the face again.
According to the report, the victim told police that the incident lasted about an hour.
The victim also told police that Williams said she was going to stay at a hotel and when she got back, the victim needed to be gone. When the victim asked Williams where she could go without her ID and credit cards, Williams told the victim that “she did not care, she just wanted [the victim] gone.”
Williams left for part of the morning, returning to argue with the victim about things she had found on her phone, the victim told officers. That’s when Williams allegedly began hitting and kicking the victim.
The victim told police that Williams then took a shower and left. According to the report, the victim waited a few hours to build courage before going to a neighbor’s house to call a family member and then the police.
The neighbor told police he overheard the victim telling a family member that Williams was planning on killing [the victim] and then herself, and said “she did it again,” in reference to being hit by her wife.
Detectives took Williams into custody outside of a gym. She reportedly asked detectives why she was being detained, telling police she was the victim and had been beaten up. The report stated she had asked police if she was the suspect “because [the victim] had called first.”
The WNBA player allegedly accused her wife of being the aggressor but did not provide any specific details and kept changing her story, police said. Officers also noted that Williams said she had “a busted lip” and two black eyes, however, medical staff at an area hospital told police that she “did not have injuries consistent to what she was alleging.”
Williams was arrested and taken to the Clark County Detention Center. She was released on Wednesday without having to pay bail and was ordered to stay away from the victim.
“The court does have concerns regarding the extremely violent nature of the allegations in this case, that they alleged to have occurred over an extended period of time, and that you came back as a high-risk lethality on the domestic violence report. The court does balance that, however, with your lack of any criminal history at age 33,” Las Vegas Judge Rebecca Saxe said in court.
Court records obtained by the Associated Press show that Williams was arrested in 2019 for domestic battery charges when she played for the Los Angeles Sparks. The WNBA suspended Williams for 10 games following that arrested. Those charges were dismissed in 2020.
The Las Vegas Aces released this statement:
“The Las Vegas Aces were made aware of domestic violence charges against a member of our team, Riquna Williams. As an organization, we condemn domestic violence of any kind. At this time, Riquna Williams will be precluded from participating in team activities. Our thoughts are with the parties involved in this situation. We are currently gathering more information, and as such we will not have any further comments at this time.”
In a statement shared with ESPN Wednesday, the WNBA said it is “aware of the alleged incident” and is “in the process of gathering more information.”
Williams’ next court appearance is scheduled for August 2. | 2023-07-27T01:13:17+00:00 | wearegreenbay.com | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/national/wnba-player-charged-for-allegedly-strangling-hitting-wife-police/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Planned Parenthood, the nation’s leading reproductive health care provider and abortion rights advocacy organization, plans to spend a record $50 million ahead of November’s midterm elections, pouring money into contests where access to abortion will be on the ballot.
The effort, which breaks the group’s previous $45 million spending record set in 2020, comes about two months after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 case that created a constitutional right to have an abortion. It will be waged by the organization’s political and advocacy arms and will focus on governor’s offices, U.S. Senate seats and legislative races in nine states where abortion rights could be restricted or expanded depending on the outcome at the ballot.
The historic proportions of the midterm campaign, when less money is usually spent, were made possible by a torrent of money raised after the decision by the high court’s new conservative majority, touching off a tectonic shift in the politics of abortion. Now, for the first time, Republicans who have long campaigned against abortion and Roe v. Wade will face voters on an issue that is no longer hypothetical and carries real life consequences.
Planned Parenthood says its spending will help remind voters in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin what’s at stake in a bid to drive turnout by Democratic and independent voters.
“Who wins in these midterm elections will determine whether a state has access to abortion and potentially determine whether we will face a national abortion ban,” said Jenny Lawson, the executive director of Planned Parenthood Votes. “We will be clear about who is on which side.”
A recent poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found a majority of Americans think Congress should pass a law guaranteeing access to legal abortion nationwide. More than half of the respondents said they feel at least somewhat “sad” or “angry” about the Supreme Court’s decision.
Earlier this month in red-state Kansas, voters rejected by nearly 20 percentage points a constitutional amendment that would have allowed the legislature to advance a ban on abortion.
Whether it truly is a galvanizing issue will become clear after Election Day, Nov. 8.
“We say this every cycle: ‘This is the important election,’” said Amy Kennedy, a spokesperson for Planned Parenthood Votes in Georgia. “For us, this really is the most important election cycle of our life.”
Planned Parenthood says it intends to contact 6 million voters through door knocking, phone calls, digital advertising, mailers and radio ads. It has already run some TV ads in Wisconsin, where Republicans control the statehouse and where Democratic Gov. Tony Evers and Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson are up for reelection.
It also is launching a website, takecontrol2022.com.
While the Supreme Court’s ruling in June effectively left setting abortion policy to the states, Planned Parenthood says it is also investing in U.S. Senate races because Republicans have expressed an interest in pursuing a national abortion ban, though such a measure would almost certainly be vetoed by President Joe Biden.
Democrats and their allies have long tried, without much success, to energize supporters by focusing on abortion. But the Supreme Court’s decision clarified the stakes as never before. In roughly a dozen states led by Republicans, abortion has already been banned or heavily restricted. Many more are expected to follow.
“When people go to vote this November, nearly half of the folks voting could be living in a state that either has already banned abortion or is quickly moving to ban abortion. These are entirely new circumstances,” Lawson said. “There are a lot of issues people care about, certainly, but the state of abortion access is absolutely one of the defining issues this November.”
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Follow AP’s coverage of the midterm elections at https://apnews.com/hub/2022-midterm-elections. | 2022-08-17T16:34:01+00:00 | wdtn.com | https://www.wdtn.com/news/politics/ap-politics/planned-parenthood-to-spend-record-50m-in-midterm-elections/ |
CEO/Author Shares 3 Steps to Help Others, 4 Steps for Self
SALT LAKE CITY, Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- To strengthen self-esteem, the National Day of Encouragement on Sept. 12 is the perfect time to encourage others to reach higher. That's the advice from a bestselling author on harmony and CEO of a global health company.
"For National Day of Encouragement, lift another higher by giving a word of encouragement and letting them know you believe in them," said Kevin Guest, chairman and CEO of USANA Health Sciences (NYSE: USNA), and a global advocate for living life at the highest success levels. "Sometimes all a person needs is to know life matters and they can make a difference. Having people who believe in you and your ability to live a successful life is key to that."
Author of All the Right Reasons: 12 Timeless Principles for Living a Life in Harmony, Guest says relationships with others is paramount, and he provides three steps to encourage others, along with four steps to bolster one's own self-esteem.
"As human beings, we need each other. We need encouragement, empathy, and connections. We need smiles, kind words, good advice, and trusted friends," Guest wrote in All the Right Reasons. "We need mentors, teachers and people who make us feel uncomfortable in our comfort zones. Sometimes we even need a kick in the seat of the pants."
Agreeing with author John Maxwell who wrote in "Leadership Gold," people quit people, not companies, Guest advocates that giving genuine encouragement can help employees feel better about themselves, their bosses and their coworkers, which can result in satisfied employment.
"We have to speak up because no matter how meager we think our abilities, we all have specific talents or experiences we can use to bless someone else," Guest said.
First, the global leader suggests we show up and listen.
"Having interacted with thousands of people during my career, I realize the most authentic relationship-building experiences happen when I'm sitting kneecap to kneecap with someone, looking them in the eye and sincerely wanting to understand," he said. "Face-to-face meetings lead to solid business partnerships and long-term relationships that help grow a business.
"They foster trust, build bridges, and help us manage conflict from a position of mutual understanding. Simply put, technology can't replace the power of face-to-face communication, so we need to show up."
Next, Guest says to praise others genuinely.
"Tell colleagues you believe in them, and you know they can accomplish their goals," he said. "Share something they've accomplished, and urge them onward with encouragement such as, 'you're talented' and 'keep up the good work!'
"To emphasize the power of praise, my mother told me over and over that I was smart and could do anything I put my mind to. Right or wrong, I believed her, and those simple words have carried me through my life to lead a successful company internationally," Guest said. "Imagine the influence you can have by sharing genuine words of encouragement with others."
Third, Guest urges everyone to start something new, a challenge he gave tens of thousands of associates around the world in his company's global convention in August 2022.
"Today is the day to start something positive with others," he said. "Commit to focus outside of yourself on National Day of Encouragement and boost another up. Imagine the positive effect you will have."
That's just half the equation, Guest said. Helping others succeed means taking care of your own reservoir of strength.
"Four things to stay strong yourself are to be kind to yourself, challenge negative thinking about yourself, remind yourself of your accomplishments, and graciously accept compliments.
"I've learned that to implement those four points, I surround myself with positive people, I celebrate small successes, I'm highly aware of my thought patterns and fill my mind with positive thoughts, and I accept compliments with a verbal thank you."
According to the bestselling author, when you help others achieve career success, you give them a priceless gift.
"Most of the successful people I've met got there because they were told they had value and others encouraged them," Guest said. "Sometimes all a person needs is to know that her life matters and that she can make a difference. Having people who believe in you and your ability to succeed is very important."
To help people reach their fullest potential, 100% of Guest's book sales are directed to the USANA Foundation, a non-profit organization that provides food and nutrition to food-insecure children.
A sought-after international speaker, Guest shares more insight in his book, which is available on Amazon. For more information, visit www.kevinguest.com.
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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A bombing at a mosque in the Afghan capital of Kabul during evening prayers killed at least 21 people, including a prominent cleric, and wounded at least 33 others, eyewitnesses and police said Thursday.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack Wednesday night, the latest to strike the country in the year since the Taliban seized power. Several children were reported to be among the wounded.
The Islamic State group’s local affiliate has stepped up attacks targeting the Taliban and civilians since the former insurgents’ takeover last August as U.S. and NATO troops were in the final stages of their withdrawal from the country. Last week, the extremists claimed responsibility for killing a prominent Taliban cleric at his religious center in Kabul.
Khalid Zadran, the spokesman for Kabul’s Taliban police chief, gave the figures to The Associated Press for the bombing at the Siddiquiya mosque in the city’s Kher Khanna neighborhood. An eyewitness told the AP the explosion was carried out by a suicide bomber.
The slain cleric was Mullah Amir Mohammad Kabuli, the eyewitness said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media.
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid condemned the explosion and vowed that the “perpetrators of such crimes will soon be brought to justice and will be punished.”
There were fears the casualty numbers could rise further. On Thursday morning, one witness to the blast who gave his name as Qyaamuddin told the AP he believed as many as 25 people may have been killed in the blast.
“It was evening prayer time, and I was attending the prayer with others, when the explosion happened,” Qyaamuddin said. Some Afghans go by a single name.
AP journalists could see the blue-roofed, Sunni mosque from a nearby hillside. The Taliban parked police trucks and other vehicles at the mosque, while several men carried out one casket for a victim of the attack.
A U.S.-led invasion toppled the previous Taliban government, which had hosted al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan, following the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States.
Since regaining power, the former insurgents have faced a crippling economic crisis as the international community, which does not recognize the Taliban government, froze funding to the country. On Thursday, the Taliban hosted a gathering of 3,000 tribal elders, religious scholars and others in Kandahar, their state-run Bakhtar News Agency reported. It wasn’t immediately clear what topics they planned to discuss.
Separately, the Taliban confirmed on Wednesday that they had captured and killed Mehdi Mujahid in western Herat province as he was trying to cross the border into Iran.
Mujahid was a former Taliban commander in the district of Balkhab in northern Sar-e-Pul province, and the only member of the minority Shiite Hazara community among the Taliban ranks.
Mujahid had turned against the Taliban over the past year, after opposing decisions made by Taliban leaders in Kabul.
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Faiez reported from Islamabad. | 2022-08-19T04:06:46+00:00 | wnct.com | https://www.wnct.com/news/international/police-death-toll-in-afghan-capital-mosque-bombing-now-21/ |
NEW YORK, June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Gross Law Firm issues the following notice to shareholders of Lilium N.V. f/k/a Qell Acquisition Corp..
Shareholders who purchased shares of LILM during the class period listed are encouraged to contact the firm regarding possible lead plaintiff appointment. Appointment as lead plaintiff is not required to partake in any recovery.
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CLASS PERIOD: March 30, 2021 to March 14, 2022
ALLEGATIONS: The complaint alleges that during the class period, Defendants issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Lilium materially overstates the design and capabilities of the Lilium Jet, an electric vertical take-off-and-landing aircraft for use in a new type of high-speed air transport system for people and goods; (2) Lilium materially overstates the likelihood for the Lilium Jet's timely certification; (3) Lilium misrepresents its ability to obtain or create the necessary batteries for the Lilium Jet; (4) the special purpose acquisition company merger would not and did not generate enough cash to commercially launch the Lilium Jet; (5) Qell Acquisition Corp. did not engage in proper due diligence regarding its merger with Lilium GmbH; and (6) as a result, Defendants' public statements and statements to journalists were materially false and/or misleading at all relevant times.
DEADLINE: June 17, 2022 Shareholders should not delay in registering for this class action. Register your information here: https://securitiesclasslaw.com/securities/lilium-n-v-f-k-a-qell-acquisition-corp-loss-submission-form/?id=27901&from=4
NEXT STEPS FOR SHAREHOLDERS: Once you register as a shareholder who purchased shares of LILM during the timeframe listed above, you will be enrolled in a portfolio monitoring software to provide you with status updates throughout the lifecycle of the case. The deadline to seek to be a lead plaintiff is June 17, 2022. There is no cost or obligation to you to participate in this case.
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Wood County joins growing list of Wisconsin counties to utilize DATAMARK VEP, the only cloud-native solution built for public safety GIS
SANTA ANA, Calif., May 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- DATAMARK, the public safety geographic information systems (GIS) team of Michael Baker International, announced today that Wood County, Wisconsin, has selected the firm to provide DATAMARK VEP to support GIS data management. DATAMARK VEP is the only cloud-native solution built for public safety GIS.
"We're honored to advance our relationship with Wood County to achieve Next Generation 9-1-1 (NG9-1-1) GIS," said Greg Brooks, Regional Business Development Manager at DATAMARK. "In support of the state's NG9-1-1 plan, Wood County is working to enhance its GIS data quality and our VEP solution provides a scalable program that meets the county's needs and supports any Next Generation Core Services (NGCS) vendor requirements."
DATAMARK VEP provides Wood County with a simpler and more cost-effective way to update and manage critical GIS data on an ongoing basis and the enables the county to have unlimited and on-demand standards-based validations to support a transition to NG9-1-1. This data may also be leveraged by other mission critical public safety systems such as call-handling-systems, computer-aided dispatch and automatic vehicle location system.
Through this contract, Wood County is expanding its relationship with DATAMARK after completing an Address Comparison and Evaluation (ACE) service in 2021. The ACE service focused on identifying missing address points and subaddress information to the county's master address database.
"We take pride in building excellent relations with county personnel and have earned the trust and confidence of our clients. Wisconsin is an example of how education, advocacy and innovation lead to longstanding relationships," said Robert Murphy, ENP RPL, DATAMARK's Associate Vice President of Business Development. "In addition to our Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), DATAMARK has been providing thought-leadership, training and active participation in state associations like the Wisconsin National Emergency Number Association (NENA) and the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO), as well as serving as a platinum sponsor with the Wisconsin Land Information Association."
DATAMARK VEP provides a highly configurable, user-friendly interface to perform location data validations, make edits and implement quality control in alignment with NENA NG9-1-1 data standards and GIS industry best practices. DATAMARK VEP supports data from local and regional GIS data providers and neighboring 9-1-1 authorities, ensuring seamless and accurate data across borders.
About DATAMARK
As trusted advisors in public safety, DATAMARK brings comprehensive, real-world expertise in police, fire, EMS and 9-1-1 leadership roles to Next Generation 9-1-1 transitions. The DATAMARK team leads the industry by shaping rules and legislation, and by building a suite of products and services that ensure accurate emergency response location data in life-critical situations. DATAMARK empowers its team and stakeholder partners to foster trusted relationships and cultivate data integrity for informed decision making. DATAMARK, the public safety GIS team of Michael Baker International, has decades of proven experience in mission-critical government addressing projects. The team works with clients to solve their complex needs, from data quality checks and addressing to workflow analysis and more. Learn more about the company at www.datamarkgis.com and follow DATAMARK on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.
About Michael Baker International
Michael Baker International is a leading provider of engineering and consulting services. The firm's Practices encompass all facets of infrastructure, including design, civil engineering, planning, architecture, environmental, construction and program management. For more than 80 years, the company has been a trusted partner, providing comprehensive services and solutions to commercial clients and all branches of the military, as well as federal, state and municipal governments. Embracing emerging technologies and the latest innovations – like intelligent transportation and design-build project delivery – Michael Baker is an industry leader that delivers expertise and quality. The firm's more than 3,000 employees across nearly 100 locations are committed to Making a Difference for clients and communities through a culture of innovation, collaboration and technological advancement while Reimagining Michael Baker to become a full-service engineering and consulting firm over the next five years. To learn more, visit https://mbakerintl.com/.
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COOLIDGE, AZ — Procter & Gamble Co. (NYSE: PG) recently closed on a 430-acre site and is moving forward with its two million square-foot manufacturing plant south of Phoenix.
The consumer goods company purchased the property at the Inland Port Arizona industrial park in Coolidge for $53.4 million in all cash in January, according to Pinal County records.
It acquired the site from Pinal Land Holdings LLC, an entity connected to the master developer of the park, Saint Holdings, for about $125,134 per acre.
The new $500 million factory will be developed at the 2,700-acre industrial park adjacent to Nikola Corp.'s auto campus and manufacture products for P&G's fabric care brands such as Tide PODS, Downy Unstopables and Bounce Dryer Sheets.
A P&G spokesperson said in an email that the company is on schedule to break ground on the factory in 2023 with startup slated for late 2025. The company also said it's still in the process of site design and selection of partners such as general contractors. | 2023-01-20T16:24:53+00:00 | abc15.com | https://www.abc15.com/news/business/procter-gamble-closes-on-430-acre-site-in-coolidge-near-nikola-corp |
Why filing taxes on your own can be challenging
Filing your taxes seems like it should be easy — a percentage of what you earn goes to cover government expenses. However, with credits, deductions, different tax brackets and a host of other things, determining what your taxable income actually is can be tricky. To make things even harder, the tax laws that you use to calculate what you owe constantly change. This year, as the economy continues to emerge from the pandemic, there are several significant changes. Having the right tax software to navigate these new laws will give you what you need to file with confidence.
What are the main tax changes this year?
According to the Internal Revenue Service, some of the key changes to be aware of this year are:
- Life changes, such as divorce and number of dependents, may affect your filing status.
- Tax credits are returning to 2019 levels. This means if you have been receiving a refund, it may be significantly smaller or nonexistent this year.
- Charitable contributions must be itemized.
- Child Tax Credit, Earned Income Tax Credit and Child and Dependent Care Credit revert to pre-COVID levels.
- A greater number of people may qualify for the Premium Tax Credit.
- The rules for claiming a Clean Vehicle Credit have changed.
- There were no stimulus payments.
Benefits of using tax software
While everyone will have different reasons for switching to tax software, some of the biggest benefits are:
- It can save you money.
- The best tax software is user-friendly. It asks you questions and is interactive so you feel confident making choices.
- Filing yourself teaches you about tax law, so it is no longer a mystery.
- Preparing your own taxes lets you know what to expect, so you can be organized throughout the year.
- Taking full control of your taxes can reduce stress and anxiety.
- You can file in your own home at your convenience.
- Filing online is environmentally friendly.
- Filing online usually means you get your refund faster.
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How to Watch the Alabama vs. Baylor Game: Women's Basketball Streaming & TV Channel Info for the NCAA Tournament First Round
Published: Mar. 18, 2023 at 11:11 AM CDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
An opening-round NCAA Tournament matchup will see the 7-seed Baylor Bears (19-12) take the court against the No. 10 seed Alabama Crimson Tide (20-10) on Saturday at Harry A. Gampel Pavilion. The contest tips off at 5:30 PM.
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Alabama Women's Basketball Game Live Stream & TV Channel Info
- When: Saturday, March 18, 2023 at 5:30 PM ET
- Where: Harry A. Gampel Pavilion in Storrs, Connecticut
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Alabama vs. Baylor Scoring Comparison
- The Crimson Tide's 69.9 points per game are 7.2 more points than the 62.7 the Bears give up.
- Alabama has put together a 14-4 record in games it scores more than 62.7 points.
- Baylor has a 15-2 record when its opponents score fewer than 69.9 points.
- The Bears score 12.2 more points per game (72.0) than the Crimson Tide allow (59.8).
- Baylor has an 18-7 record when scoring more than 59.8 points.
- Alabama is 20-5 when allowing fewer than 72.0 points.
- The Bears are making 43.0% of their shots from the field, 3.3% lower than the Crimson Tide concede to opponents (46.3%).
- The Crimson Tide's 40.6 shooting percentage from the field is 2.6 higher than the Bears have conceded.
Alabama Schedule
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NEW YORK and LONDON , July 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- OpenCorporates, the world's largest source of open legal-entity data, is proud to announce the launch of the Legal-Entity Data Principles to address a company-data trust and quality gap that risks undermining prosperity, sustainability and fairness in society.
The pace, complexity and automation of the corporate world has exposed a significant and growing gap in company-data quality between legacy company data and what's required in today's world to provide the insight and trust that business, governments and society need. This is especially important in a world where AI and the data used to train it, play an ever more central role.
"Legal entities are the fundamental atomic elements behind the entire business world. Yet legal-entity data is still largely built on obfuscation, proprietary identifiers, opaque data models, hidden bias and restrictive access. The Legal-Entity Data Principles provide a rigorous, well-thought out set of principles that redress this." said OpenCorporates' CEO and Co-Founder Chris Taggart.
With the introduction of the Legal-Entity Data Principles, OpenCorporates aims to set new standards in data integrity and trust, and is releasing the Principles under an open licence so they can be adopted by anyone using, producing or regulating legal entity data.
Taggart added: "We believe the Principles provide a framework of verifiable trust and create new benchmarks for foundational data in this domain. Users and regulators now have a tool by which they can judge what good looks like, and data producers have a standard to which they can work towards.."
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JACKSON, MI – While a trip to the grocery store may be an easy task for some in Jackson, it’s a struggle for those living on the southside.
Residents in other parts of the city have access to Aldi, Meijer, Kroger or Walmart, all within a short drive, or even walking distance. But those on the southside aren’t as lucky, Jackson resident LaWanna Brown, 69, said.
“You should have a grocery store close by,” Brown said. “For a city with a population for 30,000 people, how many of those people live in this area that don’t have a grocery store?”
The food desert on Jackson’s southside is an issue that needs to be addressed to improve the quality of life of those living there, both residents and city officials say. Stepping up efforts to bring a grocery store to the area is one of the goals mentioned in Mayor Daniel Mahoney’s state of the city address.
But everyone knows it’s going to take work.
For many southside residents, the closest grocer is Kroger on Argyle Street, Polly’s Country Market in Spring Arbor or Meijer on E. Michigan Avenue. All are a within a 15-minute drive from the neighborhood.
The lack of closer access to a grocery store is a huge inconvenience, said Brown, who grew up on the southside of the city and moved back in 2014. She does most of her shopping at Walmart on W. Michigan Avenue, which is a 15-minute drive each way, which is huge trip just to grab groceries, she said.
And that’s just for those, like herself, who have access to a car, Brown said.
“I would be so lost if I didn’t drive. I have a car, I can get to those places,” Brown said. “You’ve got so many people who can’t drive, too many people who have to ride the bus. And when they ride the bus, they can only carry so many groceries.”
Tanoi Jackson, 53, who’s lived on the city’s southside for 22 years, also sees the struggle. She does most of her shopping at Kroger which, depending on traffic, could also take about 30 minutes there and back.
And, like other residents, the lack of a close store also forces her to sometimes shop at dollar stores on Martin Luther King Drive or Prospect Street, Jackson said. While they carry grocery items the supply sometimes can be scarce, and it no longer becomes a quick trip to the store, she said.
“If I’m in a bind and I need to get something really quick, there is no such thing as something near me,” Jackson said.
But it’s not just the drive that’s a struggle for southside residents. It’s also the lack of access to fresh produce, Martin Luther King Jr. Recreation Center Director Antonio Parker, said.
Last summer, outside the center at 1107 Adrian St., Grow Jackson hosted a community garden to offer fresh produce to southside residents. That was a huge benefit, but a grocery store is needed to provide produce year round, Parker said.
Related: Farm stand filled with bountiful harvest from Grow Jackson community garden now open
“It plays into the health factor of the community,” Parker said. “I could have a long day of work, and have to travel across town to go get fresh fruit and vegetables for my dinner, so I’m probably just going to find the most convenient thing to cook that day because I’m tired and ready to eat and I don’t want to travel across town.”
It wasn’t always this way on Jackson’s southside, however, Ward 1 City Councilwoman Arlene Robinson said. The area used to have three grocery stores, the last one being Shop & Save on Prospect Street, which closed around 20 years ago, she said.
Residents want to see the end of their food desert, Robinson said.
“We want a full grocer, one that would have meat, milk, vegetables and the whole grocery line – I mean, we’ve been a food desert for about 20 years,” Robinson said. “We don’t have anyone committed yet, but steps are being made to get someone to establish a grocer here. It’s a priority.”
The creation of the southside’s food desert has its roots in “redlining” practices that began in the 1930s, when federal programs were created to make loans and mortgages more affordable to encourage home ownership and suburban development, Mahoney said.
Except, neighborhoods that were mixed-race or predominantly Black didn’t benefit from these programs because they were redlined on maps and called high risk.
“This was intentional divestment of the southside,” Mahoney said. “Right now, what we are looking forward to is an intentional reinvestment in Jackson’s southside. So, we have to put those building blocks back in place, like grocery stores.”
In his state of the city Address, Mahoney said the city has goals for the southside in 2022, including bringing in new businesses, and helping existing ones grow. But most importantly, trying to bring in a grocery store, he said.
Related: Jackson is in the midst of a ‘renaissance,’ mayor says in State of the City Address
Attracting a grocer is a top priority for the Martin Luther King Corridor Improvement Authority, Mahoney said. The group will investigate spaces where a grocery store could fit, have community conversations and talk to potential grocers, Mahoney said.
“Everybody deserves to have a grocery store (close to home,” he said. “I don’t think it’s too farfetched with all of the incoming housing in the downtown area for a regular grocery store to be supported on the southside.”
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CLEVELAND, Ohio — Cuyahoga County remained classified yellow for medium COVID-19 concern, but four Greater Cleveland counties were classified green for low COVID-19 spread on the latest U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention map.
Lorain County, which was previously designated yellow, for moderate COVID-19 spread, joined Medina, Portage and Summit counties in the green classification this week.
Ashtabula, Cuyahoga, Geauga and Lake counties were classified as yellow this week.
Nearby Erie and Huron counties were classified green, and nearby Mahoning and Trumbull counties were designated yellow.
People who live in yellow-designated counties, and are at risk for severe COVID-19, should ask their healthcare provider whether they should wear masks or take other precautions, according to the CDC.
The CDC map was updated late Thursday.
Across Ohio, Lawrence County at the southern tip of the state was the only Ohio county classified red. It was the second week in a row that Lawrence County was Ohio’s only red county.
In addition, 20 Ohio counties were designated yellow and 67 were designated green for low COVID-19 spread. It was the highest number of Ohio counties designated green that the state has seen since mid-October.
Last week, the state-wide tally was one county classified red, 33 counties designated yellow and 54 green.
People in red counties with high transmission are advised by the CDC to wear masks indoors. Counties are considered to have high transmission levels when community coronavirus circulation could overwhelm local hospitals.
Counties are classified as low (green), medium (yellow) or high (red) under the CDC’s system for estimating the risk of COVID-19 infection.
The CDC color-coded designations were introduced on Feb. 25. In early March 2022, all of Ohio’s counties were green or yellow; none were red. In late August, a majority of Ohio’s counties were red.
Jan. 26 Northern Ohio county designations
Ashtabula County: Yellow (medium transmission)
Cuyahoga County: Yellow (medium transmission)
Geauga County: Yellow (medium transmission)
Lake County: Yellow (medium transmission)
Lorain County: Green (low transmission)
Medina County: Green (low transmission)
Portage County: Green (low transmission)
Summit County: Green (low transmission)
Jan. 19 Northern Ohio county designations
Ashtabula County: Yellow (medium transmission)
Cuyahoga County: Yellow (medium transmission)
Geauga County: Yellow (medium transmission)
Lake County: Yellow (medium transmission)
Lorain County: Red (high transmission)
Medina County: Green (low transmission)
Portage County: Green (low transmission)
Summit County: Green (low transmission)
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SOUTHERN PINES, N.C. (AP) — Women’s golf is on the rise, a momentum swing not lost on fans and sponsors.
With an abundance of emerging stars gaining notoriety, the sport is drawing more attention — and sponsorships — in the post-Covid era. Tickets sales for this week’s U.S. Women’s Open are up more than 50% over the three-year, pre-COVID average, according to the USGA. The LPGA said its broadcast numbers are up 20% over that span.
South Korea’s Jin Young Ko and America’s Nelly Korda are not yet household names, but are leading the charge. They combined to win nine LPGA Tour tournaments last year. Ranked 1-2 in the world, both landed on Forbes’ 2022 list of top 10 highest-paid female athletes in the world.
Ko collected $4 million from endorsements deals with LG Electronics, Jeju SamDaSoo mineral water, Korean Air and Rejuran skincare products. Korda, who returned to action this week after surgery to repair a blood clot in her arm, earned $3.5 million in endorsements with more than 10 sponsors, per Forbes. She has more than 504,000 followers on Instagram.
Lexi Thompson remains one of the biggest draws in women’s golf with her powerful swing along with former NCAA champion and August National Women’s Amateur winner Jennifer Kupcho, who is coming off her first major championship.
Then there’s 19-year-old Rose Zhang, who in the next few years might become the biggest crossover player on the LPGA Tour since Michelle Wie West, who received immense media attention when she turned pro a week before her 16th birthday in 2005.
Zhang won the 2020 U.S. Women’s Amateur and has been the top-ranked amateur in the world since. She won the NCAA championship last month as a freshman at Stanford and helped the Cardinal to a national title while amassing an NCAA record 69.68 scoring average.
The youth parade also includes 16-year-old Anna Davis. She turned heads after winning the August Women’s Amateur and twice receiving a sponsor’s exemption to play on the LPGA Tour — making the cut both times. Like the other players this week at the U.S. Women’s Open, Davis was gifted with a new rental car to use to get around Southern Pines.
Only problem is she doesn’t have a driver’s license.
“Yeah, it’s all right,” she said with a shrug. “It’s a pretty car, though, so I’m OK just sitting in it.”
In all, there are 22 players under the age of 20 competing at the U.S. Women’s Open this week and 29 amateurs. The three U.S. major winners last year were 19, 21 and 23 years old.
“Look at all the amateurs that continue to either be exempt or qualify into this championship,” said Shannon Rouillard, a senior director with the UGSA. “We’ve averaged somewhere in the vicinity of 30 amateurs in this championship over a number of years. I think right there that just speaks to the future of the women’s game moving forward.”
While tomorrow looks promising for the women’s game, it’s not doing too bad today — especially overseas, where it is incredibly popular.
There are about 30 credentialed international media members on site at Pine Needles this week and approximately 200 more in the USGA’s virtual media hub.
Of the top 10 players in the women’s world ranking, eight are international players. It’s been that way for years, as the LPGA Tour was well ahead of the PGA Tour in attracting the best players from every corner of the globe.
On Thursday, Sweden’s Ingrid Lindblad recorded the lowest round by an amateur in the 77-year history of the U.S. Women’s Open, a 6-under 65 that left her one shot behind first-round leader Mina Harigae.
Lydia Ko, who was born in South Korea and raised in New Zealand, won her first LPGA event as an amateur when she was 15. She reached No. 1 in the world for the first time at age 17 and now has 17 LPGA Tour victories.
Yuka Saso, with dual citizenship in The Philippines and Japan, won the U.S. Women’s Open last year at age 19.
And corporations are taking notice.
New Jersey-based technology firm Cognizant invested in golf by becoming a global partner for the Presidents Cup, but not without investing in the LPGA Tour as title sponsor of the Founders Cup. It raised the purse to $3 million, the largest among regular LPGA events.
Aon, the London-based financial risk insurance company, created the “Aon Risk-Reward Challenge” bonus for men and women, awarding a $1 million prize to the winner of each tour. KPMG and Chevron initially entered the men’s golf market. Both are now title sponsors for women’s majors and have raised prize money to record levels.
Total prize money this season has crested $90 million, a big leap from $67 million two years ago. That still pales in comparison to the men, which has a deeper heritage and has leaned on the powerful appeal of Tiger Woods. Purses top $425 million on the PGA Tour.
The increased purses are a step in the right direction for women.
USGA chief executive Mike Whan, the former LPGA commissioner, recently added ProMedica, a health care company, to sponsor the U.S. Open. The purse nearly doubled from $5.5 million to $10 million in one year. The winner gets $1.8 million, the largest payout ever in women’s golf.
Annika Sorenstam, who returned to play in the U.S. Open this week after a 13-year hiatus, was the biggest name in women’s golf for years, amassing 72 wins and 10 majors on the LPGA Tour while winning more than $22 million during her career.
But at 51, her playing career is essentially over.
She’s primarily competing in the U.S. Open this week to spend time with her family and celebrate her prestigious career.
But Sorenstam, who spent years helping to grow the women’s game through her Annika Academy in Florida, is excited to see where the game is headed with the up-and-coming stars.
“It’s so neat so see that women’s golf is in good hands,” she said.
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Porsche will build its electric Cayenne at a plant in Bratislava, Slovakia, the automaker announced last week.
The plant is one of the biggest of parent company Volkswagen Group, and among the vehicles it builds is the current gas-powered Cayenne and the related Volkswagen Touareg, Audi Q7, and Audi Q8.
The plant was also responsible for the body shells of the two previous Cayenne generations (final assembly was handled at Porsche’s own plant in Leipzig, Germany), and later this year it will start production of an updated version of the current Cayenne that will reach showrooms in the second half of the year as a 2024 model.
The electric Cayenne will represent the fourth iteration of the nameplate. It’s due around 2026, and Porsche is expected to continue selling the current third-generation model alongside it for some time. The automaker will do the same with the current gas-powered Macan after its electric successor arrives early next year.
“The plant in Bratislava has done outstanding work in recent years and has received several awards,” Albrecht Reimold, Porsche’s head of production and logistics, said in a statement. “The future Cayenne will be the first all-electric SUV to be manufactured there.”
Porsche plans for most of its lineup to be electric by the end of the decade. It means the automaker’s model lines will transition to electric power as they’re redesigned. After the electric Macan arrives in 2024, Porsche will launch an electric 718 around 2025. The electric Cayenne will arrive next, followed by a new electric flagship SUV around 2027.
Porsche has confirmed the flagship SUV will ride on a new SSP Sport platform being developed in-house, and be built at the automaker’s Leipzig plant. The electric Cayenne is expected to use the Audi and Porsche-developed PPE platform that will underpin the electric Macan.
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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — LSU has had plenty of talent come through its receiver room in recent years: Odell Beckham Jr. and Jarvis Landry. Ja’Marr Chase and Justin Jefferson. For most of this season it was Kayshon Boutte.
Malik Nabers made a bid to join those names on Monday, when he threw for a touchdown, caught one and had 163 yards receiving in the No. 16 Tigers' 63-7 rout of Purdue in the Citrus Bowl.
“That's kind of the mantle of LSU wide receivers,” Tigers coach Brian Kelly said of Nabers, who was the game's MVP. “It's his opportunity now, and you can see that he wanted to make sure that he made a statement out there today.”
LSU never trailed, recording 594 yards of offense and concluding the scoring with Quad Wilson's 99-yard interception return for a touchdown.
The Tigers (10-4) finished with at least 10 wins for the first time since the 2019 season, when Joe Burrow, Chase and Jefferson led undefeated LSU to a national title.
The Boilermakers (8-6) were led by interim coach Brian Brohm after his brother, Jeff, left at the end of the regular season to take Louisville’s head coaching job. Ryan Walters, formerly the defensive coordinator at Illinois, will now take over as Purdue's coach.
Purdue had an up-and-down year, starting 1-2 before rallying to win the Big Ten West and reach the conference title game, where it lost 43-22 to Michigan. The Boilermakers were playing in their first Citrus Bowl.
“I feel like the program is in a good spot,” Brian Brohm said. “Coach Walters is gonna inherit a program of guys that are tough, want to play hard and want to win. I hope that he's able to keep it going and take it to the next level.”
LSU, after a year in which it beat Alabama and reached the Southeastern Conference title game, controlled the game from the start. And nothing changed when starting quarterback Jayden Daniels was relieved by backup Garrett Nussmeier. After punting on their first drive, the Tigers scored touchdowns on seven of their next eight possessions to take a 49-0 lead.
Daniels led four scoring drives, going 12 of 17 for 139 yards and a touchdown. He also had 67 yards rushing and caught the TD pass from Nabers.
Nussmeier finished 11 of 15 for 173 yards and two TDs. He threw a second-half interception, but LSU was already leading 42-0 at the time and the Tigers' defense followed by forcing a three-and-out.
Nabers, LSU's leading receiver this season, had season highs in yards and catches (nine), and his TD toss wasn't even his most impressive pass of the day. After running wide on a jet sweep, he threw an on-target deep ball to Kyren Lacy for a 45-yard completion that set up a touchdown in the first half.
After the game, he first lamented three passes he felt he should have caught. Still, he has high hopes for next season.
“This performance shows that I'm able to come out here and perform at a high level with anybody,” Nabers said.
John Emery Jr. had a 1-yard TD rush, Derrick Davis Jr. had a 12-yard rushing score and Noah Cain had two rushing TDs, which gave the Tigers a school-record 39 rushing TDs for the year.
Austin Burton made his third career start at quarterback for the Boilermakers in place of Aidan O’Connell, who opted out to prepare for the NFL draft. Burton completed 12 of 24 passes for 74 yards with an interception.
Michael Alaimo relieved Burton in the second half and threw a 16-yard TD pass to T.J. Sheffield. Alaimo finished 4 of 11 for 31 yards with an interception.
Purdue crossed midfield four times. The first was on a drive set up by a fake punt, but that ended when Burton threw a pick. The other three ended in a touchdown, interception and turnover on downs. Purdue’s first nine possessions resulted in six punts and three turnovers.
SCARY INJURY
Purdue receiver Deion Burks took a scary hit and had his head stabilized as he was loaded onto a stretcher, carted off the field and taken to Orlando Regional Medical Center. Burks flashed a thumbs-up on his way off the field, and Purdue officials told ABC reporters that he had movement in his extremities.
THE TAKEAWAY
LSU: The Tigers were without several players, including Boutte, who recently declared for the NFL draft, but their success demonstrated the program's depth. LSU had 27 first downs and was 6 of 7 in the red zone.
Purdue: The Boilermakers were outmatched with a roster depleted by opt-outs. Purdue had just 17 first downs.
UP NEXT
LSU: Plays Florida State in Orlando on Sept. 3 to start the 2023 season.
Purdue: Hosts Fresno State on Sept. 2.
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Shapiro announces charges in child sex assault investigation
A Butler County man took his own life after he was about to be arrested on charges of sexual assault and exploitation of children. That's according to Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro.
The Pennsylvania Attorney General's office said all victims were minors and members of Jehovah's Witness congregations.
"My office will not stop until these defendants are held accountable for their crimes against innocent children and until justice is achieved for these courageous survivors,” Shapiro said.
Charges have been filed against Jose Serrano, Jesse Hill and Robert Ostrander.
Law enforcement also went to arrest Eric Eleam, of Butler County, who was alleged to have sexually abused a girl as a form of discipline.
When agents from the AG's office and police from Butler County attempted to take him into custody, Eleam retreated into his bathroom and killed himself behind closed doors, officials said.
All three other suspects are facing multiple charges. | 2022-10-27T21:06:34+00:00 | wtae.com | https://www.wtae.com/article/pennsylvania-child-sex-assault-investigation/41790907 |
WFO MEDFORD Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, November 25, 2022
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AIR STAGNATION ADVISORY
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Medford OR
258 AM PST Tue Nov 22 2022
...AIR STAGNATION ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM PST
FRIDAY...
* WHAT...Stagnant air is expected, which may lead to
deteriorating air quality.
* WHERE...In California, the valleys of Western Siskiyou County,
Central Siskiyou County, North Central and Southeast Siskiyou
County, Northeast Siskiyou and Northwest Modoc Counties and
Modoc County.
In Oregon, the valleys of Klamath Basin, Northern and Eastern
Klamath County and Western Lake County, and Central and Eastern
Lake County.
* WHEN...Until 10 PM PST Friday.
* IMPACTS...Air stagnation is likely to result in diminishing
air quality with time, especially in and near areas with
significant sources of air pollution. Diminished air quality
is likely to cause health issues for people with respiratory
problems if precautions are not taken.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...In the wake of a front that will move
through today, mixing heights will only exceed the 1000 ft.
threshold for stagnating air by a few hundred feet and transport
winds will remain weak. Only slight improvement will occur as a
result. With stagnant conditions expected to return Wednesday,
and with coordination from DEQ, the advisory remains in effect
through Friday evening.
* View the hazard area in detail at
https://www.wrh.noaa.gov/map/?wfo=mfr
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
People with respiratory illness should follow their physician's
advice for dealing with diminished air quality. N95 masks are
effective at filtering out the majority of harmful air
particulates.
State air quality agencies highly recommend that no outdoor
burning occur and that residential wood burning devices be
limited as much as possible. According to state air quality
agencies, prolonged periods of stagnant air can hold pollutants
close to the ground where people live and breathe. Check with
your local burn agency for any current restrictions in your area.
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Cale Makar led the Colorado Avalanche in scoring on the way to winning the Stanley Cup. It was no surprise the dynamic defenseman was the unanimous choice for the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP.
“It’s surreal to me,” Makar said. “You grow up, you see that as a kid, you have pictures on your wall. All I could think about was everybody that got me here.”
No one played or produced more for Colorado during this Cup run than Makar, who also won the Norris Trophy as the NHL’s top defenseman during the regular season. The 23-year-old skated 27 minutes a game and led the Avalanche with 29 points in 20 games — more than anyone except Edmonton stars Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl.
Asked after the Cup-clinching victory how other teams could emulate Colorado, captain Gabriel Landeskog thought for a second and said with a grin, “Get a Cale Makar somewhere.”
He showed during this run why he’s one of a kind. Makar’s free-wheeling play led to eight goals to his credit and many more he helped create along the way.
Makar is the second defenseman to win the award over the past three years. He follows Victor Hedman of the Tampa Bay Lightning, the back-to-back defending champions eliminated by Colorado in the Stanley Cup Final on Sunday night.
“We’ve seen him play this way from Day 1 of the season,” coach Jared Bednar said. “This guy is elite, and with him, the job he does for us offensively and defensively, watching him play, how dynamic he is, he’s just the best defenseman in the game right now.”
And the best player in the playoffs, bringing a wildly creative flair on offense to the speedy, force-the-turnover defense the Avs need to make things go — even if often reluctant to take credit.
“I don’t think anything goes to his head,” general manager Joe Sakic said. “Cale is a hard-working, humble guy. He does not pay attention to any outside noise. He deserves everything he’s getting. Such an unbelievable hockey player, and he plays both ways.”
Makar’s evolution into one of hockey’s top stars has taken time since playing junior hockey in Canada’s province of Alberta and getting picked by the Avalanche fourth in the 2017 draft. He helped Canada win world junior gold in 2018 and declined an invitation to represent his country at the Olympics without NHL talent to continue honing his game at UMass-Amherst.
“For my development, I just didn’t think it was the right thing to do,” Makar told The Associated Press in September. “I needed more time to develop my defensive aspect of the game. I just felt like at the Olympics I wouldn’t get that same experience, that they’d maybe just use me for my strengths rather than allowing me to work on my weaknesses.”
Makar cared so much about shoring up those weaknesses that he went back to college for a second season before making his NHL debut for Colorado in the 2019 playoffs. He felt like he wanted to be “overripe” for playing in the pros and thought facing older competition helped gear him up for that.
“For young defenseman that can be a little bit of a struggle, and once you start getting on it early and working on it, then your game starts to take a turn,” Makar said before the final. “But it’s still something that I try to improve on. It’s not something I feel like is a staple of my game, so you have to be better at it every day.”
Makar went into the Lightning series as the Conn Smythe front-runner and then didn’t get a shot on goal in Game 1, which the Avalanche won in overtime. After watching Tampa Bay players block so many attempts, Bednar recalled adjustments Makar made earlier in the playoffs and never lost faith in the young defenseman’s ability to make a difference.
“I’m never going to tell him not to shoot,” Bednar said. “I trust him and his instincts. … If he sees something he likes at the net, I want him to send it there.”
Makar began putting his stamp on the series with two goals in Colorado’s 7-0 rout of Tampa Bay in Game 2 to take a 2-0 series lead. He was drawing rave reviews from opponents well before the final.
“He’s an amazing player,” Edmonton defenseman Tyson Barrie said in the middle of the Avalanche sweeping the Oilers in the Western Conference final. “Since he’s been in the league, he’s been exceptional and it’s amazing the way he’s creating offense and still playing defense. He’s as good as they come on the back end and the way he skates and moves the puck and retrieves the puck, he’s got every tool.”
Makar used those tools to help this core group hoist the Stanley Cup for the first time.
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NASA is once again counting down the hours to the first flight test of its new 32-story-tall Artemis rocket, the one the agency hopes will carry astronauts back to the moon in just a few years.
The space agency has been struggling to get the multi-billion-dollar rocket off the ground so that it can send a capsule — without a crew on board — around the moon and back, allowing managers to perform critical tests of its systems. Lift-off is now targeted for a two-hour window that opens at 1:04 am EST, Wednesday, Nov. 16, and weather at the launch site in Florida looks promising.
Jeremy Parsons, deputy program manager for Exploration Ground Systems at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, told reporters on Monday evening that "countdown so far is proceeding very well and we are on schedule."
A successful launch would be a key milestone for NASA's Artemis program, which aims to put the first woman and first person of color on the lunar surface. The agency has not launched a space vehicle designed to send astronauts to the moon since 1972.
The Artemis rocket's initial launch attempt, in August, got called off because of a faulty engine sensor. After that, leaks of hydrogen fuel required the agency to make repairs. Next, Hurricane Ian rolled in and forced the rocket to roll back to its hangar, which Parsons called "a bit of a let-down."
And once the massive rocket returned to its launch pad on the Florida coast, it got blasted by Hurricane Nicole, which proved to be a stronger storm than officials had expected.
Mission managers have spent much time discussing hurricane damage to a thin strip of caulking material that fills in a small gap at the top of the rocket, up where the Orion crew capsule sits. Some of this material has torn away, and it's too high up to be repaired.
One concern was that more bits might get dislodged during lift-off and strike other parts of the rocket. But NASA's Mike Sarafin, the Artemis I mission manager, says engineers have analyzed the situation extensively and feel it's OK to fly.
"We went through that today and we closed that action item," Sarafin told reporters during a conference call on Monday. "I asked if there were any dissenting opinions, there were none, and we accepted that flight rationale."
He says because the Artemis team has persevered through all of these recent setbacks, "that gives me comfort that we're going to be ready when it's our time to fly."
"Our time is coming. And we hope that that is on Wednesday," Sarafin says. "But if Wednesday is not the right day, we will take that next hurdle, that next trial, and persevere through that."
Some spaceflight experts have criticized NASA's new rocket, saying it's far too expensive to be sustainable — the first three flights are expected to cost more than $4 billion each.
And this rocket won't fly all that often. The next flight, to send astronauts around the moon, won't happen for another couple of years. A lunar landing won't happen until at 2025 at the earliest.
But building this big rocket has been a major focus of NASA's human spaceflight program since it stopped flying the space shuttles in 2011.
To focus on the moon and deep space, the agency off-loaded routine trips to the International Space Station to commercial providers. Space capsules operated by the private company SpaceX, founded by wealthy entrepreneur Elon Musk, have been carrying up cargo and operating as space taxis for astronauts.
NASA selected SpaceX to build the lunar lander that will take astronauts from a capsule in orbit around the moon down to the surface. And SpaceX also has a large rocket in development called Starship, which is designed to be reusable and less expensive than NASA's Artemis rocket.
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Since more people spent time with their pets during the pandemic, animal behavior experts say they've noticed a shift in how people are caring for their companion animals.
Fear Free-certified veterinarian Dr. Robin Downing says there's been a greater focus on fear free care. Downing runs the Windsor Veterinary Clinic in Northern Colorado and she’s the hospital director of the Downing Center for Animal Pain Management.
"It turns out dogs really like reggae," Downing said. “And so we have this soft beat of reggae in the background."
Downing is a self-proclaimed pioneer in fear free and palliative care. She says she's worked alongside Dr. Marty Becker who leads the fear free movement.
"Fear free veterinary practice is all about taking the pet out of petrified and putting the treat into treatment," Downing said. "And what it means fundamentally is seeing the veterinary visit through the eyes of the patient, through the eyes of the pet."
Downing runs Colorado's first and only comprehensive pain prevention and management practice for companion animals. She was also the first in the state to become Fear Free Certified.
"I have one exam room, for instance, that's dedicated only to cats," Downing said. "No dogs allowed. And in that cat exam room, we don't use fluorescent lights that are very bright. One of the reasons we don't is that when cats are stressed, their pupils will be a little bit dilated."
SEE MORE: At-home veterinary care aims to lower stress for pets, veterinarians
She says she implements a lot into her practice to make sure the animals feel at ease. That includes special lighting, warm blankets, specific music backed by audiology research, and even diffusers that release pheromones. She has a pheromone diffuser for the cats, and a separate one for the dogs.
"It's a synthetic reproduction of the pheromones around the mammary gland of the mother dog," Downing said. "So what it does is to take these dogs back to being puppies with their mamas."
From womb to tomb, Downing sees patients their entire life. She says palliative care is a subset of a fear free practice and refers to helping an animal have a great quality of life in its later years.
"We shift our focus from a cure-based treatment to a comfort-based treatment," Downing continued.
Downing says fear free practices are moving into animal shelters, and even people's homes. She says the pandemic spurred a shift in many people's mindset when it comes to caring for their companion animals.
"They've gone from the kennel to the couch and from the couch to sleeping on the end to the bed and sometimes sleeping under the covers," Downing said.
SEE MORE: 'Pets For Life' Working To Address 'Veterinary Deserts' Across America
In 2021, Edwards Nunes from TD Bank Healthcare Practice Solutions says vet clinics noticed a 10% to 12% increase in revenue. Nunes says the fear free vet approach comes into consideration when he evaluates business plans of loan applicants.
"Usually I consider this a competitive advantage for most practices, and it is catching on," Nunes said. "So fear free certification itself is an actual certification that you can get on an individualized basis for a team member or veterinarian or for the whole practice."
From 2021 to 2022, PNC Bank says it experienced a 23% increase in new business loan dollars provided specifically to Veterinarian business clients.
Nunes says lending requests are directly related to industry changes and he says more people than ever have pets right now. He says he doesn't steer away from offering a loan to a practice that isn't fear free certified, but he says it's a strong benefit as he's noticed an increase in profit at fear free practices.
At it for several decades now, Downing says she's happy to see more pet owners coveting the precious relationship they share with their companion animals.
To dive deeper into the fear free practice, you can visit www.fearfreepets.com. | 2023-03-23T20:23:44+00:00 | denver7.com | https://www.denver7.com/news/national/pandemic-spurs-fear-free-veterinary-movement-to-put-pets-at-ease |
Rafael Devers Player Prop Bets: Red Sox vs. Blue Jays - July 2
Published: Jul. 2, 2023 at 12:31 AM EDT|Updated: 37 minutes ago
Rafael Devers -- with a slugging percentage of .622 in his past 10 games, including three home runs -- will be in action for the Boston Red Sox against the Toronto Blue Jays, with Kevin Gausman on the mound, on July 2 at 1:37 PM ET.
He collected three RBI (going 3-for-5 with a double and a home run) in his most recent game against the Blue Jays.
Rafael Devers Game Info & Props vs. the Blue Jays
- Game Day: Sunday, July 2, 2023
- Game Time: 1:37 PM ET
- Stadium: Rogers Centre
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Blue Jays Starter: Kevin Gausman
- TV Channel: MLB Network
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -200)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +375)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +160)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +130)
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Rafael Devers At The Plate
- Devers leads Boston with 77 hits, batting .248 this season with 38 extra-base hits.
- Among the qualified hitters, he ranks 97th in batting average, while his on-base percentage ranks 105th and he is 23rd in slugging.
- Devers has gotten at least one hit in 61.3% of his games this year (49 of 80), with at least two hits 24 times (30.0%).
- He has hit a home run in 21.3% of his games in 2023 (17 of 80), and 5.8% of his trips to the dish.
- Devers has driven in a run in 37 games this season (46.3%), including 15 games with more than one RBI (18.8%). He has also driven in three or more of his team's runs in seven contests.
- In 35 of 80 games this season, he has scored, and 11 of those games included multiple runs.
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Rafael Devers Home/Away Batting Splits
Blue Jays Pitching Rankings
- The Blue Jays pitching staff ranks second in the league with a collective 9.6 strikeouts per nine innings.
- The Blue Jays' 3.94 team ERA ranks 10th across all MLB pitching staffs.
- Blue Jays pitchers combine to surrender 113 total home runs at a rate of 1.3 per game (fourth-most in the league).
- The Blue Jays will send Gausman (7-4) to the mound to make his 18th start of the season. He is 7-4 with a 3.01 ERA and 139 strikeouts in 104 2/3 innings pitched.
- In his most recent time out on Tuesday, the righty threw six innings against the San Francisco Giants, allowing one earned run while surrendering three hits.
- The 32-year-old's 3.01 ERA ranks 12th, 1.127 WHIP ranks 21st, and 12 K/9 ranks second among qualifying pitchers this season.
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BRUSSELS (AP) — With frost biting outside European Union headquarters, energy ministers again sought to overcome deep differences Tuesday on a natural gas price cap that many hope would make utility bills cheaper so people can stay a little warmer during harsh winter days — if not this year, then later.
EU energy ministers have been forced into five emergency meetings because they cannot come to agreement on a maximum ceiling to pay for gas because of fear that global suppliers will simply bypass Europe when others offer more money.
Despite the time pressure two days ahead of an EU leaders summit, Tuesday’s meeting “will not be easy also because member states do have very different views and very different concerns,” EU Energy Commissioner Kadri Simson said. “Everybody has to show some flexibility, and everybody has to be able to propose some compromises.”
The 27 nations have stuck together through eight rounds of sanctions against Russia over the war in Ukraine and energy-saving measures to avoid shortages of the fuel used to generate electricity, heat homes and power factories. But they cannot come close to agreement on setting a complicated price cap that had been promised in October as a way to reduce energy bills that have soared because of Russia’s invasion.
“So far, we were able to show the unity and the solidarity, and I believe we are strongly asked to continue with this approach,” said Jozef Sikela, the Czech industry minister chairing Tuesday’s meeting. If not, he said, “there is a reputation risk, there is a lot of risk around.”
One side is demanding a cap to push down gas prices for households — including Greece, Spain, Belgium, France and Poland — while nations like Germany and the Netherlands are insisting supplies are at risk if a cap stops EU countries from buying gas above a certain price. They have failed to agree on issues including what the price ceiling would have to be, how many days it should take for it to kick in, and when and how it should be deactivated.
The scare of exorbitant prices came in the heat of summer when a massive August spike stunned consumers and politicians, forcing the bloc to look for a cap to contain volatile prices that are fueling inflation. Months later, diplomats say a deal is still out of reach.
Simson last month proposed a “safety price ceiling” to kick in if natural gas exceeds 275 euros ($290) per megawatt hour for two weeks and if it is 58 euros higher than the price of liquefied natural gas on world markets. Such a system might not have averted hikes as high as in August — when prices hit nearly 350 euros per megawatt hour on Europe’s TTF benchmark but fell below 275 euros within days — and was met with derision. Gas is now trading at 140.55 euros per megawatt hour.
The inability to find a compromise on the price cap also has held up plans for joint gas purchases and a solidarity mechanism to help the neediest countries because the measures would be agreed on as a package.
On Monday, the heads of the International Energy Agency and the European Commission said the bloc is expected to weather an energy crisis this winter but needs to speed renewables to the market and take other steps to avoid a potential natural gas shortage next year.
Natural gas and electricity prices have soared as Moscow slashed gas supplies to Europe, whose officials have accused Russia of energy warfare to punish EU countries for supporting Ukraine.
As a result of trade disruptions tied to the war in Ukraine, EU nations have reduced the overall share of Russian natural gas imports to the EU from 40% before the invasion to around 7%. And gas storage is as good as full, far exceeding targets.
The EU has relied on increased imports of liquefied natural gas, or LNG, from places like the United States to help address the fall in Russian supplies.
If talks fail Tuesday, the issue could end up in the lap of EU leaders Thursday. Barring a deal in principle there, energy ministers still have a meeting next Monday to kick off the Christmas week. | 2022-12-13T11:39:26+00:00 | cbs4indy.com | https://cbs4indy.com/news/national-world/ap-international/ap-eu-again-seeks-elusive-gas-price-cap-to-contain-energy-costs/ |
PRINCETON, N.J., July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The multi-stage venture capital firm SOSV announced today the launch of Orbit Startups, a new brand unifying the established SOSV programs dedicated to startups with vast growth potential in emerging and frontier markets. Orbit encompasses SOSV's MOX and Chinaccelerator programs, and reflects SOSV's shift in recent years to the geographies of Southeast and South Asia, the Middle East, Africa and the Americas.
"Many of our recent successes," said William Bao Bean, SOSV general partner and managing director of Orbit, "have resulted from applying the aggressive growth strategies we learned in more mature - markets, notably China, to emerging markets elsewhere around the world. Orbit Startups expresses this new, exciting phase of growth for SOSV."
At the same time, SOSV announced the promotion of Chinaccelerator program director Oscar Ramos to SOSV general partner and managing director of Orbit. A native of Spain, Ramos is a telecommunications engineer by training and has worked in China for 14 years as both an entrepreneur and venture capitalist.
In 2021, the Orbit team invested in more than 40 new startups operating in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and the Americas and helped portfolio companies raise US$286 million in follow-on funding. In the past year, a string of Orbit Startup portfolio companies have closed major series of rounds, including $25 million at Phable (remote healthcare in India), $46 million at VideoVerse (AI-based real-time video editing), $40 million at Marketforce (ecommerce in Africa), and $37 million at Dastgyr (ecommerce in Pakistan).
Orbit Startups' development program is open for applications. The program welcomes early stage (up to series A) applicants to work virtually or in-person with Orbit's growth experts and to participate in an investor-focused demo day. SOSV provides $150,000 in capital and introductions to raise follow-on rounds.
"SOSV started our startup development programs in China 12 years ago by launching Chinaccelerator," said Sean O'Sullivan, founding general partner at SOSV, "and that was China's first accelerator. It's gratifying that in 2022, we're continuing in areas like healthcare and commerce. The rise of disruptive startups will make life better for billions of people."
The Chinaccelerator Shanghai office will also continue the robust legacy program to connect program's founders with multinational corporations, such as AB InBev, Siemens, Visa and Pfizer. The Taipei MOX office will continue as the center for the development of Orbit's free mobile promotion network, which helps SOSV founders scale audiences quickly in emerging and frontier markets.
SOSV is a global, multi-stage venture capital firm with $1.3 billion in assets under management. Headquartered in Princeton, NJ, SOSV operates early stage startup development programs including HAX (hard tech) and IndieBio (human and planetary health) and Orbit Startups (emerging markets) programs.
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Homeless man sentenced to 16 years for violently attacking a woman near Ventura Pier
VENTURA, Calif. – A transient man was sentenced to 16 years in state prison after he pleaded guilty to violently attacking a woman who was walking near the Ventura Pier in August 2021, the Ventura County District Attorney's Office announced on Friday.
Ernesto Estrada, 61, attacked a 62-year-old woman with a metal pole while she was walking with a friend near the pier on Aug. 25, 2021, striking her in the face and the head, according to Joey Buttitta, spokeswoman for the District Attorney's Office.
The victim is still recovering from her injuries and appears to have permanent nerve damage, Buttitta added.
“This was a violent, vicious, and unprovoked attack on an innocent community member,” said Senior Deputy District Attorney Theresa Pollara. “His actions require substantial punishment and accountability.”
Estrada pleaded guilty to assault with a deadly weapon causing great bodily harm and admitted multiple special allegations, including having two previous violent felony convictions.
He was sentenced to 16 years in state prison, but the District Attorney's Office asked the court to impose 35 years to life in prison. | 2022-10-15T00:19:47+00:00 | keyt.com | https://keyt.com/news/ventura-county/2022/10/14/homeless-man-sentenced-to-16-years-for-violently-attacking-a-woman-near-ventura-pier/ |
Pedestrian struck by car and other reports
Published 8:48 am Thursday, March 30, 2023
A pedestrian was reportedly struck by a vehicle at 8:44 p.m. Wednesday near the intersection of West Front Street and Jefferson Avenue.
Police stated Riiet Lony, 24, was walking eastbound on Front Street on the south side of the road when a vehicle driving east turned onto Jefferson Avenue and struck him in an unmarked crosswalk. The vehicle left the scene prior to an officer’s arrival.
Lony was taken to the hospital for injuries deemed not life-threatening. Police stated he was unsure what the vehicle looked like and if it stopped after hitting him.
A witness stated the vehicle was believed to be a red or maroon-colored SUV.
Police have not been able to locate the vehicle.
Attempted theft by fraud reported
Police received a report at 10:28 a.m. Tuesday that someone had attempted to open a credit card in another person’s name on Massee Street in Albert Lea.
Assault, theft reported
Police received a report that a family member had attacked the caller and stole her wallet at 4:16 p.m. Tuesday at 710 Jefferson Ave.
Pop machines broken into
Two pop machines were reported broken into and money taken at 7:20 a.m. Wednesday at 222 Main St. in Emmons.
Break-ins reported
The Freeborn County Sheriff’s Office received a report at 7:46 a.m. Wednesday that someone had broken into a semi and attempted to break into a delivery van at 52 School St. in Conger.
School bus stop arm violation reported
Police received a report of a school bus stop arm violation at 12:45 p.m. Wednesday. The incident reportedly happened near the intersection of Bridge Avenue and Troy Road the day before.
Man arrested on federal warrant
Police arrested Thomas Lee Miller, 56, on a federal drug warrant at 3:41 p.m. Wednesday near the intersection of Janson Street and South First Avenue. | 2023-03-30T14:52:32+00:00 | albertleatribune.com | https://www.albertleatribune.com/2023/03/pedestrian-struck-by-car-and-other-reports-3/ |
Bruins vs. Panthers Prediction & Picks: Line, Spread, Over/Under - NHL Playoffs First Round Game 7
The final game of the NHL Playoffs First Round will see the Boston Bruins and Florida Panthers play on Sunday, April 30, beginning at 6:30 PM ET on TNT, CBC, TVAS, NESN, and BSFL. The series is tied 3-3. The Bruins are listed with -225 odds on the moneyline against the Panthers (+190).
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Ahead of watching this matchup, here is our pick for which club will bring home the win in Sunday's NHL Playoffs First Round action.
Bruins vs. Panthers Predictions for Sunday
Our projections model for this contest calls for a final score of Bruins 5, Panthers 2.
- Moneyline Pick: Bruins (-225)
- Computer Predicted Total: 6.5
- Computer Predicted Spread: Bruins (-2.6)
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Bruins Splits and Trends
- The Bruins have a 65-12-5 record overall, with an 11-6-17 record in games that have required overtime.
- Boston has 41 points (19-6-3) in the 28 games it has played that were decided by one goal.
- In the five games this season the Bruins recorded only one goal, they've finished 1-4-0 (two points).
- Boston has finished 6-3-2 in the 11 games this season when it scored exactly two goals (registering 14 points).
- The Bruins are 61-6-4 in the 71 games when they have scored at least three goals (to record 126 points).
- In the 39 games when Boston has scored a single power-play goal, it registered 69 points after finishing 33-3-3.
- In the 55 games this season in which it has outshot its opponent, Boston is 38-11-6 (82 points).
- The Bruins have been outshot by opponents 32 times, and went 29-3-0 (58 points).
Panthers Splits and Trends
- The Panthers have a 42-32-8 record this season and are 7-8-15 in matchups that have required overtime.
- Florida has earned 33 points (13-5-7) in its 25 games decided by one goal.
- This season the Panthers scored only one goal in nine games and have gone 1-7-1 (three points).
- Florida has earned five points (2-14-1 record) this season when scoring exactly two goals .
- The Panthers have earned 90 points in their 61 games with at least three goals scored.
- Florida has scored a lone power-play goal in 35 games this season and has registered 44 points from those matchups.
- When it outshoots its opponent this season, Florida has posted a record of 28-24-3 (59 points).
- The Panthers have been outshot by opponents in 30 games, going 16-11-3 to record 35 points.
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Bruins vs. Panthers Game Time and TV Channel
- When: Sunday, April 30, 2023 at 6:30 PM ET
- TV Channel: TNT, CBC, TVAS, NESN, and BSFL
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Where: TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts
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Note: Two points for a team winning in overtime or shootout; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns.
Sunday's results
Calgary at Saskatoon, 4 p.m.
Lethbridge at Regina, 4 p.m.
Spokane at Everett, 4:05 p.m.
Tuesday's results
Kamloops 5 Brandon 2
Winnipeg 3 Victoria 2
Wednesday's results
Calgary at Red Deer, 7 p.m.
Saskatoon at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Winnipeg at Vancouver, 7 p.m.
Brandon at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.
Thursday's games
Regina at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.
Friday's games
Red Deer at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.
Brandon at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Prince Albert at Edmonton, 7 p.m.
Saskatoon at Calgary, 7 p.m.
Winnipeg at Kamloops, 7 p.m.
Everett at Tri-City, 7:05 p.m.
Prince George at Vancouver, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday's games
Lethbridge at Swift Current, 7 p.m.
Prince Albert at Red Deer, 7 p.m.
Brandon at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.
Portland at Tri-City, 6:05 p.m.
Vancouver at Victoria, 6:05 p.m.
Spokane at Seattle, 6:05 p.m.
Prince George at Kamloops, 7 p.m.
Winnipeg at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.
Sunday's games
Prince Albert at Calgary, 4 p.m.
Moose Jaw at Regina, 4 p.m.
Saskatoon at Edmonton, 4 p.m.
Kamloops at Vancouver, 4 p.m. | 2022-10-20T04:18:01+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/HKO-WHL-Standings-17521249.php |
New Mexico wildfire advances in Rocky Mountains foothills
(AP) - The largest wildfire burning in the United States was heading toward mountain resort towns in northern New Mexico on Wednesday, prompting officials to issue another set of warnings for more people to prepare to evacuate as the fast-moving fire picks up momentum.
Fire officials said the blaze was racing up slopes and along exposed ridge lines while tossing embers into the air that were carried ahead of the fire by gusting winds. After growing more than 50 square miles in a single day, the fire has now charred more than 370 square miles of tinder-dry forest since it started last month.
Two more days of windy and dangerously bone-dry conditions are predicted before the winds are expected to ease on Friday. The winds have often made it too dangerous for aircraft to dump water on the fire and lay retardant to slow its advance through extremely dry Ponderosa pine forests in the Rocky Mountains foothills.
“This is tough firefighting business right here,” fire Incident Commander Dave Bales said in a briefing. “This is not easy, especially in the fuel types were in, in the Ponderosa pine, mixed conifer, even down into the grass. When we can’t fly aircraft, when we can’t get people on the direct edge of the fire, when it’s spotting over us, that’s a huge concern for us.”
Crews were mostly concerned about the potential for the massive fire to spread farther north toward small villages in the Rincon Mountains and rural towns that include the skiing and outdoor resort communities of Angel Fire and Taos.
Firefighters were working to protect buildings overnight around the towns of Mora and Holman, where Highway 518 north to Taos was closed because of smoke and fire danger. Authorities stressed there was no immediate threat to communities near Taos but new alerts for evacuations were issued for some locations.
“Coming up toward Taos, Black Lake, Angel Fire, there is the possibility with the models we are running that those areas are going to see fire,” Todd Abel, a fire operations chief, said Tuesday evening.
Crews have been trying to direct flames around homes on the northern and southern ends of the fire — bulldozing firebreaks, putting up sprinklers, clearing trees and raking pine needles. More than 1,800 firefighters and support personnel are assigned to the blaze.
A federal disaster already has been declared because of the blaze, which is partly the result of a preventative fire that escaped containment after it was set in early April to clear brush and small trees so they could not serve as wildfire fuel. That fire merged with another wildfire several weeks later.
Crews also were battling smaller fires elsewhere in New Mexico and Arizona.
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Associated Press writer Scott Sonner contributed to this report from Reno, Nevada.
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Top political figures are swirling the possibility that President Biden could use the powers of a clause in the 14th Amendment as a last-ditch effort to ward off the looming threat that the U.S. could default on its debt as soon as next month.
When asked about possibility of invoking the amendment, President Biden as recently as Friday appeared to leave such an option on the table when he told MSNBC in an interview he had “not gotten there yet.”
But Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Sunday sounded the alarm, calling it a “constitutional crisis” should the president rely on the 14th Amendment, which obscurely addresses the nation’s debt in a way that legal scholars believe allows the president to continue issuing debts without lifting or suspending the ceiling.
“There is no way to protect our financial system in our economy, other than Congress doing its job and raising the debt ceiling and enabling us to pay our bills and we should not get to the point where we need to consider whether the President can go on issuing debt. This would be a constitutional crisis,” Yellen said on ABC’s “This Week.”
The Treasury Secretary said she doesn’t want to “consider emergency options” and warned that, if Congress doesn’t act to solve the issue, “we will have an economic and financial catastrophe that will be of our own making, and there is no action that President Biden and the U.S. Treasury can take to prevent that catastrophe.”
But Biden technically can take action, and White House aides have reportedly looked at the possibility in order to avoid a default.
Lawmakers have insisted a deal to avoid default can only be reached between Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), who are meeting on Tuesday for the first time since February in an attempt to hash out a deal.
Biden and his administration have spent the past few months insisting they won’t negotiate and want a “clean” debt limit increase but Republicans won’t budget on the stance that an increase has to come with a promise of spending cuts, though the GOP has been short on details on just where they want to see the federal budget be slashed.
The impasse has Washington bracing for what Yellen called a potential “catastrophe.” The nation has never defaulted on its debt in history.
The amendment chiefly extended the Bill of Rights liberties to formerly enslaved people, but also includes a section saying “the validity of the public debt of the United States … shall not be questioned.”
Even some Republicans acknowledge invoking the 14th Amendment isn’t an alternative.
Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.), appearing after Yellen on “This Week,” said invoking the amendment is “certainly not a good option.”
“She rightfully said it would be a constitutional crisis because the Constitution is very clear that spending — all those details around spending and money actually has to come through Congress,” Lankford said.
At a press briefing last week, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the administration won’t “entertain scenarios” when asked if the 14th Amendment option was one being considered by Biden or one that was even brought to his desk yet.
Jean-Pierre stressed that Congress needs to act — a sentiment the White House stresses almost daily on the matter and repeated by OMB Director Shalanda Young when she was asked about the possibility of the move during a separate briefing.
“Oh, well, let me be very clear: Congress needs to do its job. Tomorrow, they could put a bill on the floor to make sure we don’t default. This is of people’s own making. … This is made up drama,” Young said. When pressed on whether the move was on the table, she repeated that it’s “Congress’s duty to do.”
Meanwhile, another option lawmakers and the White House aren’t ruling out is agreeing on a short-term fix.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on NBC’s “Meet the Press” didn’t rule out agreeing to correlating a debt limit increase with the deadline for when federal government spending will run out.
“Is the obvious solution here a short term punt?” host Chuck Todd asked. “And it looks like this: you essentially raise the debt ceiling through September 30 and make the debt ceiling and the budget deadlines converge.”
“I don’t think the responsible thing is to kick the can down the road,” Jeffries said.
“But we, of course, are open to having a discussion about what type of investments, what type of spending, what type of revenues are appropriate in order to protect the health and safety and economic well-being of the American people. That’s a process that is available to us right now,” he said.
Pressed on whether he was ruling out the short-term move, Jeffries said, “Well, we have to avoid default, period, full stop.” | 2023-05-08T00:12:27+00:00 | pix11.com | https://pix11.com/hill-politics/14th-amendment-emerges-as-last-ditch-fix-to-ward-off-default/ |
Steve Bannon expects to face new criminal charge in NY
NEW YORK (AP) - Steve Bannon, a longtime ally of former President Donald Trump, said Tuesday that he expects to be charged soon in a state criminal case in New York City.
Bannon, 68, plans to turn himself in on Thursday, according to a person familiar with the matter. The person insisted on anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation.
The Washington Post, citing anonymous sources, reported that the state criminal case would resemble an earlier attempted federal prosecution, in which Bannon was accused of duping donors who gave money to fund a wall on the U.S. southern border.
That federal case ended abruptly, before trial, when Trump pardoned Bannon.
The Manhattan district attorney’s office declined comment late Tuesday.
In a statement, Bannon said District Attorney Alvin Bragg “has now decided to pursue phony charges against me 60 days before the midterm election,” accusing the Democratic prosecutor of targeting him because he and his radio show are popular among Trump’s Republican supporters.
“The SDNY did the exact same thing in August 2020 to try to take me out of the election,” Bannon said, referring to his arrest months before Trump’s re-election loss.
Federal agents pulled Bannon from a luxury yacht off the Connecticut coast and arrested him on charges he pocketed more than $1 million in wall donations.
“It didn’t work then, it certainly won’t work now,” the former White House strategist said. “This is nothing more than a partisan political weaponization of the criminal justice system.”
Bannon, who had pleaded not guilty, was dropped from the federal case when Trump pardoned him on his last day in office in January 2021.
Two other men involved in the “We Build the Wall” project pleaded guilty in April. They had been scheduled to be sentenced this week, but that was recently postponed to December. A third defendant’s trial ended in a mistrial in June after jurors said they could not reach a unanimous verdict.
A president can only pardon federal crimes, not state offenses, but that doesn’t mean state-level prosecutors have carte blanche to try similar cases.
In 2019, then-Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. brought state mortgage fraud charges against Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort in what was widely seen as an attempt to hedge against a possible pardon.
But a judge threw the case out on double jeopardy grounds, finding that it was too similar to a federal case that resulted in Manafort’s conviction. (Manafort was later pardoned by Trump).
While Manafort’s New York case was pending, New York eased its double jeopardy protections, ensuring that state-level prosecutors could pursue charges against anyone granted a presidential pardon for similar federal crimes.
Bannon’s case differs because he was dropped from the federal case in its early stages. In most cases, double jeopardy is only a factor when a person has been convicted or acquitted of a crime.
In another case not covered by Trump’s pardon, Bannon was convicted in July on contempt charges for defying a congressional subpoena from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. He is scheduled to be sentenced in October and faces up to two years in federal prison.
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VERNON, Conn. (AP) — A construction company owner and an employee were charged with manslaughter Friday in connection with a trench collapse in Connecticut last year that killed a 56-year-old worker.
Vernon police said they arrested Dennis Botticello, 67, owner of Manchester-based Botticello Inc., and equipment operator Glen Locke, 65. Both were charged with first-degree manslaughter and reckless endangerment charges, and were detained on $50,000 bail pending court hearings on Monday.
No trench collapse safety devices were being used July 22 when a section of the 8-feet deep (2.4 meters deep) trench collapsed onto Botticello Inc. worker Dennis Slater, police and workplace safety officials said. Slater, of East Windsor, died from his injuries.
The trench had collapsed two previous times the same day as it was being dug to install piping for a housing development in Vernon, officials said. Although the company had “trench boxes” for preventing collapses, it did not use them on July 22 and did not have a ladder leading out of the trench within 25 feet of workers as required, police and safety officials said.
In January, the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration recommended $375,000 in penalties for safety violations connected to the collapse. The agency said federal safety standards require protective systems for trenches deeper than 5 feet (1.5 meters), amid other requirements.
OSHA also had cited Botticello Inc. for four serious trenching violations in 2015, in another town.
“This deadly cave-in and the worker’s death should never have happened,” OSHA Area Director Dale Varney said in a statement in January.
It was not immediately clear if Botticello and Locke had lawyers who could respond to the allegations. Phone messages were left at Botticello Inc. and a number for Locke on Friday. | 2023-03-03T21:12:55+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/2-charged-with-manslaughter-in-fatal-trench-17818581.php |
NEW YORK, Oct. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Attention Medtronic plc ("Medtronic") (NYSE: MDT) shareholders:
The Law Offices of Vincent Wong announce that a class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of investors. This lawsuit is on behalf of persons and entities who purchased or otherwise acquired Medtronic common stock between June 8, 2019, and May 25, 2022, inclusive.
If you suffered a loss on your investment in Medtronic, contact us about potential recovery by using the link below. There is no cost or obligation to you.
https://www.wongesq.com/pslra-1/medtronic-lawsuit-loss-submission-form?prid=32833&wire=4
ABOUT THE ACTION: The class action against Medtronic includes allegations that the Company made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Medtronic's product quality control systems were inadequate; (2) Medtronic had failed to comply with numerous regulations regarding risk assessment, corrective and preventive action, complaint handling, device recalls, and reporting of adverse events; (3) these failures increased the risk of regulatory investigation and action; (4) as a result of the Company's misconduct, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration would delay the approval of additional Medtronic MiniMed devices, including the MiniMed 780G; (5) these delays in product approvals, as well as the Company's need to improve its quality control systems, would negatively affect the Company's financial performance and cause Medtronic to fall further behind its competitors; and (6) as a result of the foregoing, defendants' statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects lacked a reasonable basis.
DEADLINE: November 7, 2022
Aggrieved Medtronic investors only have until November 7, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. You are not required to act as a lead plaintiff in order to share in any recovery.
Vincent Wong, Esq. is an experienced attorney who has represented investors in securities litigations involving financial fraud and violations of shareholder rights. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
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Integrating Redefine's DeFirewall into Safe{Wallet} Elevates Transaction Security
NEW YORK, June 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Redefine, a leading innovator in blockchain security, together with Safe, the most trusted digital asset management platform, are excited to announce their strategic partnership. By integrating Redefine's groundbreaking DeFirewall, a pre-transaction risk assessment tool, into Safe's user interface, the collaboration aims to help users transact with more confidence by diligently checking each transaction.
Safe{Wallet}, the robust smart account wallet with enhanced security for on-chain treasury management, has become the default wallet of choice for Web3 native projects and individual asset holders.
With over $54 billion worth of assets under self-custody, Safe's mission is to bring Web2-level user experiences to Web3, setting the standard for security and accessibility on the platform. Safe{Wallet}users include Vitalik Buterin, AAVE, and other major protocols and DAOs. The integration of Redefine's DeFirewall into Safe{Wallet} elevates the level of protection over assets while guaranteeing greater transaction security which will pave the way for greater adoption of digital assets.
DeFirewall, an established and proven product developed by Redefine, revolutionizes risk assessment in blockchain transactions. By meticulously scrutinizing each transaction before execution, it generates detailed risk reports and actionable insights. This innovative tool not only strengthens the security of institutions' assets but also acts as a powerful deterrent against the unauthorized use of funds.
"Improving the user interfaces of Web3 platforms is one of the greatest tools we have in order to combat bad actors and exploits in this industry," said Richard Meissner, Co-Founder and Technical Lead at Safe. "The issue of blind signing, where users may sign off on transactions they are not fully informed about, is an area of concern as we look to make self-custody accessible to a wider range of users and organizations. By partnering with Redefine and integrating DeFirewall, Safe is offering greater transparency and assurance in their everyday transactions, enabling sustainable growth on the platform."
"Safe is an unrivaled and trusted platform that financial institutions and other users depend on for managing their digital assets securely," said Shira Brezis, CEO and Co-Founder of Redefine. "This integration combines two crucial elements for users—enhanced risk visibility and trusted security. We look forward to ushering in a new era of security with this collaboration between Safe and Redefine."
This partnership reaffirms Redefine's commitment to improving security standards for institutions deploying capital and its dedication to enhancing security in every transaction. It aligns with the company's broader strategy of offering resilient risk management solutions tailored to the specific needs of different financial entities across regions.
As the industry eagerly anticipates the impact of this collaboration, Redefine and Safe will continue to release more details about how this partnership will shape the future of transaction security on-chain. Stay tuned for updates on this exciting development.
About Redefine:
Redefine provides a comprehensive security solution for institutions and other partners to responsibly interact with Web3. Redefine's suite of tools combines cybersecurity and blockchain analytics expertise to provide critical risk insights for informed decision-making to prevent fund loss, save time, and streamline transaction execution processes.
The security technology offers peace of mind for Web3 investors looking to transact responsibly and defend their assets proactively. To learn more about how Redefine can redefine your investment journey, visit www.redefine.net.
About Safe:
Safe is the leading self-custody platform and infrastructure provider, currently securing approximately ~$54 billion in assets. By leveraging account abstraction, Safe's mission is to unlock digital ownership by bringing security and usability of digital assets, data and identity.
Safe{Wallet} has become the default wallet of choice for Web3 native projects such as AAVE, as well as enterprises like Shopify, delivering security and usability without compromising on self-custody. Many of the largest individual asset holders like Punk6529 and Vitalkin Buterin also choose Safe{Wallet} to secure their personal assets. With the launch of Safe{Core}, developers have access to a modular and open-source stack enabling account abstraction, providing the foundation to build user-friendly and secure Web3 platforms.
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The Supreme Court's decision about abortion is now decided by each individual state. But that's of little comfort to the 700,000 residents of Washington, D.C.
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The Supreme Court's decision about abortion is now decided by each individual state. But that's of little comfort to the 700,000 residents of Washington, D.C.
Copyright 2022 WAMU 88.5 | 2022-06-29T12:00:02+00:00 | kunm.org | https://www.kunm.org/npr-news/npr-news/2022-06-29/abortion-access-in-d-c-may-be-up-to-the-gop-majority-on-capitol-hill |
Sure's debut on the Forbes Fintech 50 follows a year of remarkable growth and product innovation
LOS ANGELES, June 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Sure, the insurance technology leader that unlocks the potential of digital insurance, today announced that it has been named to the 2023 Forbes Fintech 50 list. Now in its eighth year, the Fintech 50 list honors the top private companies that are transforming finance through technology.
To compile the list, Forbes reporters and editors selected fintech organizations that are making a tangible impact on consumers in innovative ways. This includes factors like regularly releasing new products, scaling more quickly than the competition, and making strategic improvements in a legacy space that is primed for disruption.
"It's a huge honor to be recognized alongside so many impactful companies that are transforming the lives of consumers for the better," said Wayne Slavin, co-founder and CEO of Sure. "Sure is leading the way in making insurance more accessible to consumers through modern digital experiences, and this recognition is another testament to the hard work of our team as we continue to scale and build innovative products that move insurance into the digital age."
This recognition comes after a period of steady growth for Sure and the introduction of new insurance technology innovations. In March, the company announced the launch of Retrace, its first e-commerce solution that enables online merchants to offer customers embedded one-click insurance and protection, starting first with return shipping protection and plans to add travel insurance and product warranty protection.
About Sure
Sure is the global insurance technology leader that unlocks the potential of digital insurance. Global brands and market-leading insurance carriers from the Fortune 500 build and launch sophisticated embedded insurance products on Sure's SaaS infrastructure to distribute, service, and scale digital insurance. Sure's insurance expertise combined with its technology increases revenue streams and accelerates market growth while revolutionizing the customer experience. Visit sureapp.com and follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.
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President Biden on Wednesday went after former President Trump and other Republicans who continue to tout 2020 election lies, warning democracy is on the ballot just six days before the midterms and following the violent attack on Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) husband.
“American democracy is under attack because the defeated former president of the United States refused to accept the results of the 2020 election,” Biden said. “He refuses to accept the will of the people, he refuses to accept the fact that he lost. He has abused his power and put the loyalty to himself before loyalty to the Constitution. And he’s made a big lie an article of faith of the MAGA Republican Party, the minority of that party.”
The president, speaking at a Democratic National Committee event at Union Station near the Capitol, warned the public that the country faced a crossroads in next week’s election that could upend democracy.
The speech came less than a week after an alleged assailant broke into the speaker’s home and attacked her husband, Paul Pelosi, with a hammer. Biden focused briefly on the attack at the start of the speech, but his broader message was for Americans to reject political violence, voter intimidation and election denialism as hundreds of GOP candidates are on the ballot next week for various offices who have refused to say if they will accept the results should they lose.
“There’s a lot at stake in these midterm elections … but there’s something else at stake: democracy itself,” Biden said.
The speech carried echoes of Biden’s address in early September in Philadelphia, when he said Trump and his allies, so-called MAGA Republicans, posed a threat to American democracy.
The president on Wednesday argued Americans should be able to agree on three things: That the right to vote is sacred, that political violence should be condemned, and that they believe in democracy.
“We don’t settle our differences in America with a riot, a mob, or a bullet or a hammer. We settle them peacefully at the ballot box,” Biden said, alluding to the Pelosi attack.
The speech comes six days before an election that will determine who controls Congress and after millions of Americans have already cast their ballots. Biden has repeatedly stressed that the midterms should not be viewed as a referendum on his job performance, but as a choice between two distinctly different visions for the country.
While some in the Democratic Party believe the focus should be on kitchen table issues like bringing down the cost of gas, groceries and energy, Biden has been clear that the differences between the two parties extend to the fate of democracy itself.
Biden argued Republicans aligned with Trump would look to “succeed where they failed in 2020” by trying to “suppress the right of voters and subvert the electoral system itself.”
Biden acknowledged that the outcome of the midterm elections might not be decided for a few days after Election Day, calling on Americans to be patient.
“It’s always been important for citizens in a democracy to be informed and engaged. Now it’s important for citizens to be patient as well. That’s how it’s supposed to work,” he said.
He said that there’s been no election in U.S. history other than the 2020 election that Americans can be more certain of the results because legal challenges and recounts were brought up, which all proved the results were accurate.
“It was an enraged mob that had been whipped up into a frenzy by a president repeating over and over again the big lie that the election of 2020 had been stolen. It’s a lie that fueled the dangerous rise in political violence and voter intimidation over the past two years,” he said.
“Silence is complicity,” he said, saying there is an “alarming rise” of people in the U.S. who condone political violence.
When he opened his remarks detailing the attack on Paul Pelosi, he noted that the attacker said “where’s Nancy,” which echoes words shouted by the mob on Jan. 6, some of whom stormed and ransacked the Speaker’s office.
Paul Pelosi was attacked early Friday morning in the couple’s San Francisco home and underwent surgery for a skull fracture and serious injuries to his right arm and hands.
Biden decided to deliver Wednesday’s remarks because of the “alarming number” of Republican officials who have said they won’t accept the results of the midterm elections, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said earlier on Wednesday. The attack on Paul Pelosi also factored into the president’s decision to make the speech, according to Jean-Pierre. | 2022-11-03T01:06:47+00:00 | fox44news.com | https://www.fox44news.com/hill-politics/biden-goes-after-trump-lies-in-democracy-speech-after-pelosi-attack/ |
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers believes he can still produce at an MVP level in the right situation if he opts to play next season.
Rodgers discussed the uncertainty of his future plans Tuesday during his weekly appearance on “The Pat McAfee Show” on SiriusXM and YouTube. The four-time MVP hasn’t decided whether to return to the Packers, retire or request a trade.
“Do I still think I can play?” Rodgers said. “Of course. Of course. Can I play at a high level? Yeah. The highest. I think I can win MVP again, in the right situation. The right situation — is that Green Bay or is that somewhere else? I’m not sure.”
Rodgers posted his lowest passer rating as a starter and threw 12 interceptions — his highest single-season total since 2008 during his first season as a starter — as the Packers went 8-9 and missed the playoffs this season. He played much of the season with a broken right thumb and also dealt with injured ribs.
The 39-year-old Rodgers spoke with Packers officials last week after Green Bay’s season ended with a 20-16 home loss to the Detroit Lions. A victory in that game would have given the Packers their fourth straight playoff appearance.
“We had all the conversations I think we wanted to have about football for now,” Rodgers said. “They’re not pressing for any type of specific answer, and I’m not mentally or physically at that point to give one.”
He has acknowledged a decision to return isn’t solely his to make and that the Packers could decide they want to move on. The Packers used their 2020 first-round draft pick on Utah State quarterback Jordan Love, who has backed up Rodgers the past three seasons.
Rodgers said that if he returns to Green Bay, he doesn’t want to be part of a rebuild. Rodgers named several veteran players he hoped would remain with the Packers if he returns for a 19th season.
“A guy like Marcedes Lewis is an important cog in the wheel of the locker room and the momentum of a team,” Rodgers said. “That’s a guy I want to finish my career with. If I’m playing, I want that guy next to me. I want the Randall Cobbs of the world, if he wants to be playing, in my locker room. Guys you can win with. Allen Lazard, Bobby Tonyan, Dave Bakhtiari.”
All those players other than Bakhtiari are pending free agents. Bakhtiari has a projected 2023 cap hit of about $29 million according to Spotrac, though general manager Brian Gutekunst said Friday he’s hopeful the veteran left tackle will be back in Green Bay next season.
“If they want to go younger and think Jordan’s ready to go, then that might be the way they want to go,” Rodgers said. “And if that’s the case and I still want to play, then there’s only one option, right, and that’s to play somewhere else. If it’s not and they’re like, ‘No, no, we still want you to play,’ and this and that, then it would have to be the right situation with a roster that looks like we can win it all because there’s no point in coming back if you don’t think you can win it all.”
Gutekunst said Friday he believes Rodgers can still perform at a high level. Gutekunst also said that “I really like the way he led us.”
“We made a really big commitment to (Rodgers) last offseason, so I think as we did that, it wasn’t certainly for just this year,” Gutekunst said. “Like I said, he’s going to take his time, and the communication will be pretty constant as we move forward.”
As he comes off one of his worst statistical seasons, Rodgers compared his situation to what he faced after 2019. Rodgers wasn’t as productive as usual that year during coach Matt LaFleur’s debut season, but the defense led the Packers to a 13-3 record and NFC championship game appearance.
“A lot of people said I was washed, couldn’t really play anymore, wasn’t the same,” Rodgers said. “And then I won two MVPs in a row without really doing anything different. I’m sure there’s a lot of the same sentiment this year.”
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AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/nfl and https://twitter.com/AP_NFL | 2023-01-18T20:01:07+00:00 | pix11.com | https://pix11.com/sports/ap-sports/ap-rodgers-says-he-can-play-at-mvp-level-in-right-situation/ |
The nonpartisan election handicapper Cook Political Report announced on Friday that it is shifting its rating of a competitive Ohio House district in Democrats’ favor following reporting on the Republican candidate’s military credentials.
Cook Political Report House editor Dave Wasserman wrote that the election watcher is changing its rating of Ohio’s 9th Congressional District, which features a match-up between Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D) and Republican candidate J.R. Majewski, from “toss up” to “lean Democrat.”
Wasserman noted that the ratings change came in light of recent reporting from The Associated Press, which found that while Majewski touted on the campaign trail that he had served in Afghanistan following the 9/11 attacks, records obtained from the wire service found he had actually been deployed for six months in Qatar at an air base where he loaded planes.
Majewski has contested those reports, saying that his deployments were classified and claiming that the story was aimed at trying to defame him.
“Prior to the story, Democrats had been casting Majewski as an unhinged QAnon enthusiast who took part in a mob that attacked police. But it was far from clear those attacks would disqualify him in a GOP-redrawn seat that voted for Donald Trump by three points in 2020,” Wasserman wrote.
“Allegations of stolen valor, however, are another story — they’re likelier to turn off independent voters who have moved on from January 6.”
The Cook Political Report editor noted that factors including the House Republicans’ campaign arm canceling ad expenditures for the race and Kaptur’s strength as a Democrat who’s been able to notch government spending in her state for decades added to their reasoning to shift their rating toward Democrats.
“In 2020, she ran 11 points ahead of Joe Biden’s margin in the three counties that carried over to the new 9th CD. The same type of overperformance would allow her to win comfortably in the new, Trump +3 seat,” Wasserman wrote.
Democrats are broadly expected to lose the House but have a competitive shot at retaining the Senate in November. Some Republicans have lowered their expectations of the kind of red wave that was initially hoped for before the midterm season, though Democrats are still facing several headwinds, including the president’s lagging approval ratings and decades-high inflation. | 2022-09-30T15:29:35+00:00 | pahomepage.com | https://www.pahomepage.com/hill-politics/cook-report-shifts-ohio-house-race-toward-democrats-amid-scrutiny-over-gop-candidate/ |
You might know him fromthe televisionprogram “Downtown Abbey” Orthe film adaptation of the beloved children’s story Paddington. Or maybe from the time he played Robert DeNiro’s leg.
Well, however you knowHugh Bonneville, chances are you’re a fan.
He’s had a long and successful career as an actor. And now, he’s sharing memories from life in a new book titled “Playing Under the Piano: From Downtown to Darkest Peru.”
Copyright 2022 WAMU 88.5 | 2022-11-17T22:23:03+00:00 | delawarepublic.org | https://www.delawarepublic.org/2022-11-17/hugh-bonneville-on-his-career-downton-abbey-and-playing-robert-deniros-leg |
Al Roker back in hospital with complications from blood clot
Published: Dec. 1, 2022 at 11:25 AM EST|Updated: 18 minutes ago
(CNN) – Al Roker is back in the hospital dealing with complications from a blood clot.
His “Today Show” colleague Hoda Kotb addressed his condition on air Thursday. She said he’s in good care and is grateful for all the support and well wishes he’s received.
Roker missed the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade last week due to the blood clot, which had traveled from his leg to his lungs.
It was the first time he’s missed the event in 27 years.
Roker posted on social media that thankfully he was released from the hospital in time to have Thanksgiving dinner with his family.
Copyright 2022 CNN Newsource. All rights reserved. | 2022-12-01T16:47:02+00:00 | foxcarolina.com | https://www.foxcarolina.com/2022/12/01/al-roker-back-hospital-with-complications-blood-clot/ |
Course Spotlight: Get to know Oakdale Golf and Country Club
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This week is a major championship-esque for those north of the border in Canada. For two weeks in a row, a national champion will be crowned. Although the RBC Canadian Open has been a fixture on the PGA TOUR for many years, it is different than most TOUR events. Just like our national open, the venue changes.
Oakdale Golf and Country Club is the 37th host in the 119-year, storied history of Canada’s Open. Established in 1926, this Stanley Thompson original design is in suburban Toronto. Originally just 18-holes, the facility now boasts 27 holes and will host 11 of the top 25 players in the OWGR. The 156-player field will be competing for $9 million dollars and a first-place check of $1.62 million.
The first step in figuring out who will win at Oakdale is determining what holes they will be using for the tournament course. Pay attention, make sure the research you follow this week understands the composite routing. Oakdale has three nines: Thompson, Knudson, and Homenuik.
The front nine for the RBC will consist of four holes from the Thompson nine (1, 3, 8, 9) and five holes from the Homenuik nine (1, 2, 4, 8, 9). They will be played in the order I have them listed. The back nine will be the Knudson nine played in order (1-9).
The course becomes a par 72 scorecard measuring 7,264 yards. The card contains 12 par 4s, three par 3s, and three par 5s. A unique layout to say the least, this parkland style design will test the patience of the players more than physical strength.
There have been three architects who have worked on Oakdale: Stanley Thompson, Robbie Robinson, and Ian Andrew. Andrew’s work wrapped up in 2018. I reached out to Ian Andrew to gain his perspective on the skills needed to contend. Starting from the tee, he believes players will need accuracy over power. The fairways will be narrower than TOUR width and sit at funny angles. The rough will be lush. I believe the course will play much like the rotation at Pebble Beach or Harbour Town.
He stressed accuracy not only off the tee, but on approach as well. The scorecard shows us seven of the 12 par 4s are under 440 yards. Players will have wedge in hand attacking the green. For you approach trackers, the 100-150 zone is the target for a majority of the iron shots in. Players won’t miss from this range and therefore proximity to the hole is better consideration than simply GIR%.
One analytic I love is called opportunities gained. This measures a player’s ability to hit the ball inside 15 feet on approach. The five best in this field are: Ben Martin (+12500 at BetMGM Sportsbook), Cam Young (+1500), Rory McIlroy (+450), Ryan Gerard (+30000), and Kevin Roy (+50000). That looks like a great list of possible placement bets!
Andrew also renovated St. George’s Golf and Country Club (host venue in 2022). A course he says is a good comp for Oakdale. Does that mean McIlroy can win three Canadian Opens in a row? To do so, he’ll need to make a bunch of putts inside 15 feet. I know the venue moves, but much like our U.S. Open the same tournament committee runs their national championship. Those tendencies have led to an average winning score of 17 under par over the last decade.
Making birdies comes down to converting putts. Those who lead this field in birdies gained are: Scott Piercy (+15000), Sahith Theegala (+2800), Dylan Wu (+10000), Sam Burns (+1400), Ben Martin (+12500), and Justin Rose (+1600).
Piercy won the Canadian Open in 2012! With so many short par 4s and three par 5s, birdie or better percentage is a critical factor as well. As Andrew also remarked, the greens have great little subtleties. Don’t be surprised if a guy in contention misses a short one on Sunday. In his estimation, the best short iron player, who is patient off the tee and possesses an opportunistic putter will win. Sounds like a solid blueprint for success.
Oakdale is a fantastic venue. Although some may believe it doesn’t compare to Los Angeles Country Club, they better respect it. This is a national championship, and the field has not seen this course before. Much like the players, we all need to give it our full attention if we plan to win this weekend.
Keith Stewart is a five-time award winning PGA Professional who covers the PGA TOUR and LPGA from a betting perspective. Founder of Read The Line, he is also published by Sports Illustrated and The Sporting News. Follow Keith Stewart on Twitter. | 2023-06-09T03:23:09+00:00 | pgatour.com | https://www.pgatour.com/article/news/betting-dfs/2023/06/07/golfbet-course-spotlight-rbc-canadian-open-oakdale-country-club |
SINGAPORE, Nov. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- XT.COM, the world's first socially infused trading platform, is thrilled to announce the listing of FON on its platform in the Main Zone (Web3.0) and the FON/USDT trading pair will be open for trading from 2022-11-10 07:00 (UTC).
- Users can deposit FON for trading at 2022-11-09 07:00(UTC)
- Withdrawals for FON will open at 2022-11-11 07:00 (UTC)
About FON Token
FON is the native token issued on the INOFi platform. The total supply value of the FON token is 10,000,000,000 (ten billion).
Miners can acquire FON tokens by depositing ETH, USDT AND FON on the INOFi staking platform. Investors can use FON tokens to purchase NFTs on BSC, Ethereum, Klaytn, and Polygon.
About INOFi platform
INOFi is an NFT platform where traders can collect NFTs and wrapped NFTs (NFTs that can be used on non-native blockchains). INOFi's user-friendly interface simplifies NFT issuance even for those without in-depth knowledge of NFTs.
All NFTs issued on mainnets such as BSC, Ethereum, Klaytn, and Polygon can be freely traded on the INOFi platform. NFTs can be purchased using ETH/BNB/KLAY/MATIC and FON tokens. Sellers can issue NFTs in the form of music, real estate, entertainment and other digital assets. They can fractionalize and equitize it using the INOFi platform.
XT.com will continue to further strengthen its battle-hardened crypto listing strategies to improve the trading options for all of its users. Deposit, trading, and withdrawal options will be available live and colored for both FON and XT holders. Everyone is encouraged to indulge in FON trading seamlessly anytime, anywhere without any limitations. As promised, XT.COM will continue welcoming projects for crypto listings and achieve parallel growth with them.
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Founded in 2018, XT.COM now serves more than 6 million registered users, over 500,000+ monthly active users and 40+ million users in the ecosystem. Covering a rich variety of trading categories together with an NFT aggregated marketplace, our platform strives to cater to its large user base by providing a secure, trusted and intuitive trading experience.
As the world's first social-infused digital assets trading platform, XT.COM also supports social networking platform based transactions to make our crypto services more accessible to users all over the world. Furthermore, to ensure optimal data integrity and security, we see user security as our top priority at XT.COM.
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday heard arguments on the District of Columbia's law essentially banning handgun ownership in the city. It's the first time since 1939 that the court has examined the nature of the Second Amendment and the extent of the right to bear arms.
For most of the past century, the courts have interpreted the constitutional right to bear arms as a collective right, linked to military service and state militias.
But Tuesday, a majority of Supreme Court justices indicated that they believe the right to bear arms is an individual right, like the right of free speech or the right to be free from unreasonable searches.
That intellectual distinction might have very practical effects in a city that tried to attack its high murder rate.
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2023-07-22T13:02:07+00:00 | kclu.org | https://www.kclu.org/national-and-global/2008-03-19/individuals-rights-key-in-landmark-d-c-gun-case |
Weather Authority: Dry, quiet, chilly Wednesday night and Thursday ahead of brutal cold blast
PHILADELPHIA - After the first measurable snow of the season, to accompany the first day of February, the sun did shine brightly Wednesday afternoon for a dry and quiet lead into the evening.
Overnight, temperatures will dip into the mid-20s, under partly cloudy skies.
A cold blast is set to descend on the Delaware Valley for Friday and Saturday. Thursday will see seasonable temps in the lower 40s, under a mix of clouds and sun.
Friday’s high will only reach the upper 20s and the day will be windy, making it feel it’s in the teens.
Lows Friday night into Saturday will drop like a rocket into the teens and Saturday should see highs only in the mid to upper 20s.
A rebound is set to take place Sunday and, looking into next week, highs will moderate back into the 50s.
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SEVEN-DAY FORECAST
WEDNESDAY NIGHT: Partly cloudy. Low: 25
THURSDAY: Groundhog Day. High: 42, Low: 28
FRIDAY: Cold, windy. High: 29, Low: 10
SATURDAY: Bitter cold. High: 28, Low: 26
SUNDAY: Quick rebound. High: 48, Low: 35
MONDAY: Sunny, mild. High: 50, Low: 28
TUESDAY: Stays mild. High: 54, Low: 42 | 2023-02-02T01:11:57+00:00 | fox29.com | https://www.fox29.com/weather/weather-authority-dry-quiet-chilly-wednesday-night-and-thursday-ahead-of-brutal-cold-blast |
Officers, community gather to honor fallen trooper
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Indiana State Police officers and community members will gather Saturday morning for the funeral service held for Master Trooper James Bailey.
Superintendent Doug. G Carter will share words of condolences, along with Rob Bell, Lesley Knafel, Rob Smith, and Marr Lazoff.
Bailey was killed after being struck by a suspect’s vehicle Friday during a pursuit on I-69 in DeKalb County.
Funeral arrangements are as follows:
- Visitation: 2-8 p.m. Friday, County Line Church of God, 7716 N. County Line Road East, Auburn
- Funeral: 11 a.m. Saturday, Garrett High School, 801 E. Houston St., Garrett.
- Burial: immediately following procession Saturday, Calvary Cemetery, 600 S. Hamsher St., Garrett.
Donations can also be made on Venmo by sending to @Indiana-Fallen-Heroes. | 2023-03-11T14:42:20+00:00 | wishtv.com | https://www.wishtv.com/news/local-news/officers-community-gather-to-honor-fallen-trooper/ |
PA live! (WBRE) — Friday on PA live!, Chris spoke with Jaime from Weis Markets about how to have a happy and healthy Valentine’s Day.
Weis is offering some special snacks for V-Day, including their famous freshly dipped chocolate-covered strawberries.
Weis is also selling roses that are guaranteed to say fresh for seven days.
Weis also has plans for American Heart Month this February, providing heart healthy options for customers. Jamie explains why the American Heart Association is so important to Weis.
For more information, visit Weis’s website. | 2023-02-10T22:53:24+00:00 | pahomepage.com | https://www.pahomepage.com/pa-live/sponsored-content/your-one-stop-valentines-shop-for-food-youll-love/ |
The school year is underway- and schedule changes are in place so districts can deal with a shortage of school bus drivers. The newer lower threshold is in place that allows farm workers to get overtime after 40 hours instead of the current 60, and a statewide poll shows support for Pres. Biden's student loan foregiveness effort.
In Ontario, there are predictions of yet another large COVID wave coming as children return to school. And the debate over whipped cream chargers- and even the whipped cream canisters in the grocery stores - and whether you need to be 21 in order to buy one. Also Jay Moran with the creators of the movie "Chicken Strips: The Trials and Tribulations of Becoming a Garage Band"
A look back at last week's Republican party primary election, and whether Carl Paladino's loss indicates a step back from his racist comments in the past. Also, how the state's newest gun laws are playing out with long lines for permits at clerks' offices statewide, and some new proposed health recommendations that say Canadians should have no more than two drinks per week, a limit that was previously just for one day. And an update on where farm food scraps go... and how many pounds of them there are in the entire state.
If it's Friday, it's Theater Talk- today a recap of openings and closings at Chautauqua, Shawfest and Kavinoky- and the management changes at Shea's. Also, there's pressure to have Canadian border officials ditch their online vaccination verification app for travelers. And Jay Moran goes behind the scenes at Artpark where 13 red dresses hang from trees, representing missing and murdered indigenous women that traditionally get little attention.
The state's teachers' unions are calling for more work to be done to prevent mass shootings and violence. Meanwhile, The Buffalo School District is being sued by someone who says they knew about the impending shooting and stabbing incident at McKinley High School last February. And join jay Moran as he goes behind the scenes with preparations for next month's Borderlands Music Festival at Knox Farm State Park in East Aurora.
Albany correspondent Karen DeWitt reports that nearly one third of the state's school board members chose not to run for re-election this past year, bringing in a new crop of newcomers for this school year. Also, a ruling from the NYS taxation department says that student loan forgiveness will not be assessed as income . And Crisis Services says it has received a $7,000 surge in donations, as people react to the gang rape allegations against for Buffalo Bills punter Matt Araiza and want to help groups that work with rape victims.
Criticism of Republican gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin, after a weekend fundraiser with likely GOP presidential aspirant Ron DeSantis of Florida. Also a look inside Austin Air, a Buffalo area manufacturer benefiting from federal COVID funding. And 400 impaired drivers have been arrested this year in Erie County, and a weekend crackdown has started to try and boost that number higher.
If it's Friday, It's Theater Talk- today with Anthony and Peter talking about the managment changes at Shea's Buffalo Theater in light of several resignations and accusations of a toxic workplace. Also, hear Thomas O'Neil_White report on how in advance of the school year, and with an eye on what people need to do since 5/14, Black barbers in he University District are hosting an event to stress community. And Karen DeWitt lookks at the state's first round of retail cannabis licenses - being sent to those who were harmed by prosecution for marijuana offenses.
Screenwriter Keah Brown speaks about inclusion and the message of her children's book "Sam's Super Seats", about a girl with cerebral palsy. Also, one year after Kathy Hochul became governor, correspondent Karen DeWitt looks at her first year, and rhe camapign she faces in the next few months. And Carl Paladino has conceded his loss in the 23rd congressional district Republican primary.
Today we have primary election results and a look at what they mean. The state Board of Elections has a result in the 23rd Congressional district's GOP primary, and even though it says Nick Langworthy is the winner, Carl Paladino is challenging the result. Hear from Langworthy this morning, and also analysis from UB Political Science Professor Jacob Nieheisel. Also this morning, expansion of the Colored Musicians Club in Buffalo, and a strike vote at Kaleida. | 2022-09-15T14:41:33+00:00 | wbfo.org | https://www.wbfo.org/2022/2022-09-15/wbfo-brief-thursday-september-15-2022 |
Which center channel speaker is best?
The heart of any home sound system is the center channel speaker. It delivers more than half the soundtrack of all films because the action is mostly in the middle of the picture. A good center channel speaker gives you clear dialogue and the subtle sounds most speakers miss.
The best audio setups elevate watching movies to a level that rivals an in-theater experience. If you are looking for a lifelike front-row listening experience, the Klipsch RP-404C Center Channel Speaker produces outstanding audio in a high-end cabinet.
What to know before you buy a center channel speaker
The idea behind center channel speakers is to deliver high-quality music and dialogue when paired with external speakers that are placed to your left and right but always in front of you.
What are the main audio components of a home theater system?
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Center channel speaker: This is the audio heart of your home theater system because it delivers the actors’ dialogue and so needs to be crisp and clear. Most sit in or on a cabinet and some are made to be mounted on the wall directly above or below your TV.
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Left and right speakers: These are sold in pairs and are responsible for delivering the details that sync with the center channel speaker.
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Surround speakers: These speakers create a sense of immersion by producing sounds from all around, including such things as chirping birds, crowd noise and car engine sounds.
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Subwoofers: These speakers require more power than regular speakers because they are made to deliver even deeper bass tones and the low-frequency rumbling sounds of things like thunder and explosions that are felt as well as heard.
What’s inside a center channel speaker?
Two-way center channel speakers have one woofer and one tweeter while three-way setups have single tweeters placed between two woofers. High-end center channel speakers have four woofers.
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Woofers: These are round speakers made to handle lower ranges of sound frequencies and are characterized by bass sounds.
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Tweeters: These speakers get their name from the high-pitched tweeting sounds made by small birds. The sound is directional, meaning tweeters need to be aimed directly at you for the best effect.
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Midrange speakers: These produce sounds from the middle range of the audio spectrum, the place where the human voice and most musical instruments are.
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Drivers: In the audio world, drivers are the round sound-producing domes that most people call speakers.
What to look for in a quality center channel speaker
Compatibility
For the best audio results, your center channel speaker needs to work in harmony with your other speakers. A good way to do this is by buying a center channel and peripheral speakers from the same manufacturer. An even better way is to buy a complete matched home theater sound system.
Placement
To get the best results, your center channel speaker should be placed directly above or below your television screen. Look for a center channel speaker that allows you to mount it on the wall or place it in or on a cabinet.
Size
Bigger is not always better, but if you have the space, larger center channel speakers deliver more immersive sound experiences than smaller ones.
Bi-wire capability
Look for high-end center channel speakers that have two sets of connectors so they can produce better definition in the bass ranges.
How much you can expect to spend on a center channel speaker
You can find some center channel speakers for less than $100, but you’ll need to pay $200 to $500 for a good one and as much as $8,000 for a great one.
Center channel speaker FAQ
Why do I need a center channel speaker?
A. When stereo sound replaced monaural sound, it became the standard for watching movies and listening to music. When stereo sound moved from analog to digital, center channel speakers were invented to emphasize speech and music that exist in the middle ranges.
Are sound bars the same thing as center channel speakers?
A. No. Sound bars are made to deliver all frequency ranges in one package and will never have the depth and richness of multiple speakers that are in separate locations. Center channel speakers focus on the middle frequencies where most audio occurs and work best when paired with external left and right stereo speakers.
What’s the best center channel speaker to buy?
Top center channel speaker
Klipsch RP-404C Center Channel Speaker
What you need to know: The sound quality of this 26-inch-wide speaker takes your movies and music to whole new levels with a lifelike front-row listening experience.
What you’ll love: You get four 4-inch spun copper cerametallic woofers and a 1-inch vented titanium tweeter. The copper trim rings, cast aluminum feet, satin baffles and furniture-grade cabinet give this speaker a high-end look that matches its sound quality.
What you should consider: This speaker may ship in a different color than indicated.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top center channel speaker for the money
Polk Audio CS10 Center Channel Speaker
What you need to know: The reversible design means you can aim the speaker up or down, depending upon if you mount it above or below your TV.
What you’ll love: The two 5.25-inch dynamic drivers are damped for excellent bass, higher efficiency and lower distortion. The 1-inch tweeter reproduces vocals with a clear and detailed high-frequency response. The case is made of dense particleboard with thick baffles that inhibit unwanted resonation and deliver clearer, cleaner and more lifelike sound quality.
What you should consider: Some audiophiles say the sound booms a little too much.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Definitive Technology Procenter 1000 Compact Center Speaker
What you need to know: This 10.5-inch-wide speaker is a great choice for those with limited shelf space.
What you’ll love: The tweeter is a 1-inch pure aluminum dome and the two 4.5-inch basket drivers are coupled to two pressure-driven low-frequency planar radiators that increase the bass output. The full-frequency high-definition speakers are encased in a high-gloss black cabinet.
What you should consider: Some buyers say they wished the high-frequency sounds were cleaner.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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(NEXSTAR) – A driver in Washington state fled the scene of an accident after getting an expensive McLaren 600LT sports car wedged underneath a guard rail earlier this week.
Trooper Robert Reyer of the Washington State Patrol shared news of the collision early on Tuesday morning on Twitter, confirming an investigation into a “hit and run” involving the 2020 luxury vehicle.
Included with Reyer’s tweet were several photos of the car, which appeared to have gotten stuck directly under a guard rail on State Road 512, near Tacoma. The car also looked to be totaled.
When asked if there were any known injuries, Trooper John Dattilo said Friday morning that the WSP could not confirm one way or the other.
“We aren’t sure on injuries since we haven’t spoken to the driver,” Trooper Dattilo told Nexstar.
WSP officials did not say whether they believed the McLaren was the only vehicle involved in the accident.
Speaking with The Oregonian earlier this week, Dattilo said these kinds of accidents — where drivers abandoned their cars because they don’t want to “get in trouble” — are very common.
“But it’s not necessarily common for it to be a $200,000 McLaren, though,” Dattilo told the outlet.
Police added that the car had dealer plates and was registered to a resident of Washington state. It was not reported stolen.
Dattilo told Nexstar that officials had yet to make contact with the driver of the McLaren as of Friday and were still working to contact the owner.
A McLaren 600LT sold for upwards of $259,000 during its 2020 model year, according to Car & Driver. McLaren, a British auto manufacturer, describes its 600LT models as “not [cars] for the faint-hearted” on its official website.
“This is a track animal let loose on the road. Our new sportscar benchmark. The fastest, most powerful and most extreme – yet road legal – Sports Series. Ever.” | 2022-06-24T19:25:06+00:00 | cenlanow.com | https://www.cenlanow.com/national/driver-abandoned-250000-mclaren-sports-car-on-side-of-road-after-accident-police-say/ |
What you need to know:
What
A&T vs. N.C. Central, Duke's Mayo Classic football game
Where
Bank of America Stadium, Charlotte
When
7:30 p.m. Saturday
How to watch
ESPN3 (recorded, 10:30 p.m., ESPNU)
Tickets
Beginning at $100.83, with fees, at Ticketmaster.com; nearly 33,000 have been distributed and a limited supply remains
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Bevinars Finds Consumers Curtailing Wine Consumption
NEW YORK, June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Wine prices have started to surge across the US as inflation and supply-chain issues impact the liquor and wine market.
A new survey of more than 500 wine enthusiasts found that two-thirds of consumers are feeling the pinch and are making changes to save money. Almost half said they had reduced their wine consumption at home or dining out, and others were opting for cheaper bottles or boxed wine.
"This July 4th, we are pivoting to boxed wine," said one respondent of the survey conducted by Bevinars, a leading company for virtual wine classes.
"I hate that our favorite $15 wine is now $20."
Says Bevinars founder Mark Oldman: "While the price of wine had been relatively stable compared to surging cost of fuel and groceries, we are now seeing wine in the crosshairs of massive inflationary pressures."
He says some of the largest price hikes were at restaurants.
"Restaurants have been much more aggressive in their price hikes, with increases of up to 20% at some high-end restaurants," Oldman said.
"To cut costs, I've started going to restaurants with attractive BYOB policies," said one respondent.
But consumers of luxury wines were accepting the higher costs, albeit with exasperation. "In our post-pandemic world, I'm not going to stop drinking my favorite labels," said one respondent.
The higher cost of glass, gas, and labor is fueling the increases, explains Oldman.
Aware that consumers are feeling the pinch, Oldman is set to host a Bevinars event for wine consumers titled "Inflation-Busting Summer Wines" in July.
"Hidden on many wine lists and on store shelves are what I call 'underpriced saviors,'" notes Oldman. "My goal is to empower consumers about what they are and how to find them."
"There are tricks and insider secrets consumers can employ to counteract ballooning prices."
ABOUT BEVINARS
Founded by one of the county's leading wine experts, Bevinars brings an unrivaled blend of knowledge and entertainment to the stuffy world of wine. The same "wine speak without the geek" (Bon Appétit), "five-star" (Food & Wine), "fresh, funny" (People) approach that imbues Mark Oldman's award-winning books and sold-out live events are now animating Bevinars virtual wine classes.
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Ava Peirano’s overtime goal lifted Park Ridge past Saddle Brook 1-0 for a season-opening victory in Park Ridge.
Yanci Zea made 16 saves for Saddle Brook but it was not enough as Allie Shenloogian recorded the assist that won the game.
Mackenzie Brattlof came away with one save for Park Ridge.
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Craig Epstein may be reached at cepstein@njadvancemedia.com. Follow him on Twitter @CraigEpstein18. | 2022-09-09T04:41:49+00:00 | nj.com | https://www.nj.com/highschoolsports/2022/09/ava-peirano-wins-game-for-park-ridge-against-saddle-brook-in-ot-girls-soccer-recap.html |
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia toddler who was reported missing by his mother last week is believed to be dead, and she is a suspect in his death, according to police.
The Chatham County Police Department tweeted late Wednesday, “We are saddened to report that CCPD and the FBI have notified Quinton Simon’s family that we believe he is deceased. We have named his mother, Leilani Simon, as the prime suspect in his disappearance and death.”
No arrests have been made and no charges have been filed, police said. It wasn’t immediately known Thursday if Leilani Simon had a lawyer who could speak on her behalf.
The police chief planned to discuss the case during a news conference later Thursday.
Simon called police Oct. 5 to report that her 20-month-old son had been in his playpen before she discovered he was missing. Police searched the family’s neighborhood just outside of Savannah for the toddler, who was described as last seen wearing a Sesame Street T-shirt and black pants.
In the week that followed, police obtained a warrant and searched the family’s home with the FBI’s assistance. Investigators drained a pool in the backyard and used dogs to search nearby woods.
Police reports and court documents show there was turmoil in recent weeks between the child’s mother and grandmother, Billie Jo Howell, who had legal custody of him and an older sibling. Quinton, his mother and his mother’s boyfriend lived with Howell.
Simon called police on Sept. 7 following an argument with her mother over laundry in which she said Howell had shoved her against a wall, according to a police report. No one was charged and an officer found no injuries other than Simon’s reddened elbow.
The following day, Quinton’s grandmother filed papers in Chatham County Magistrate Court to have Simon and her boyfriend evicted from her home, WTOC-TV reported.
“Just want them to move out as quick as possible. … They have damaged my property and at this point no one is living in peace,” the Sept. 8 court document read.
A few weeks later, on Sept. 28, a Superior Court judge ordered Leilani Simon to pay $150 per month in child support.
Quinton’s mother reported him missing a week later.
The police chief previously said officers had contacted the boy’s biological father and did not believe he was involved. Police never issued an Amber Alert for Quinton because they didn’t have evidence the child had been abducted, he said. | 2022-10-14T12:27:08+00:00 | mytwintiers.com | https://www.mytwintiers.com/news-cat/national/ap-police-missing-georgia-toddler-believed-dead-mom-a-suspect/ |
Moon Alert: Avoid shopping or important decisions from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. EST today (6 a.m. to 7 a.m. PST). After that, the Moon moves from Virgo into Libra.
Happy Birthday for Wednesday, March 8, 2023:
You appear friendly and easygoing; however, you have strong convictions, and you hold to them. You value your independence. This year is the last year of a nine-year cycle, which means it’s time to let go of anyone and anything that is holding you back.
ARIES
(March 21-April 19)
★★★
Once a month, the Moon is opposite your sign for a couple of days, and when this occurs, you have to be accommodating. It’s best to go along to get along. This is why today it’s in your best interests to cooperate with others, especially partners and close friends. Tonight: Enjoy solitude.
TAURUS
(April 20-May 20)
★★★
You might be more focused on your health today. Meanwhile, at work you will want the help of others and, at the same time, you might have to give your assistance to help someone else. Yes, it’s a two-way street. A pet might require your attention today. Tonight: Be friendly.
GEMINI
(May 21-June 20)
★★★★
This is a playful day! Make a point of setting aside time for enjoyment and pleasure — anything from a long lunch, to a coffee break with a friend, to a few laughs at happy hour, or time with your favorite TV show. Give yourself a treat. Fun activities with kids will appeal to you. Tonight: Take a bow.
CANCER
(June 21-July 22)
★★★
Despite your desire to travel, explore and learn new things at this time, today you are happy to cocoon at home. Maneuver things so you can relax where you live among familiar surroundings and take it easy. Deep contemplation might be thought-provoking. Tonight: Explore!
LEO
(July 23-Aug. 22)
★★★★
Today you want others to hear what you have to say, because you really do want to enlighten someone. This is why you will be irritated or impatient with people who just want to chat about meaningless trivia. Life is short! Let’s get down to it. Tonight: Check your finances.
VIRGO
(Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
★★★
Today you might feel a bit possessive about something that you own, which is why you don’t want to lend it to someone. Or you might be fussy about taking care of it. That’s OK, we all feel this way at times. (“My precious!”) Sort out banking details. Tonight: A meaningful conversation.
LIBRA
(Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
★★★★
Because the Moon is in your sign today and tomorrow, your feelings will be heightened. If you have a bigger reaction to something that goes on around you, no biggie. The good news is that your luck will improve slightly, which gives you an edge over all the other signs. Tonight: Work.
SCORPIO
(Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
★★★
Solitude in pleasant surroundings will appeal to you today. This is a playful time, which is why you might be socializing, attending sports events or enjoying fun activities with kids, as well as romantic diversions. Take time out today to catch your breath. Tonight: Play!
SAGITTARIUS
(Nov. 22-Dec. 21)
★★★★
A heart-to-heart talk might be meaningful for you today. You will welcome even a slight suggestion that there is a bond between you. It’s good to have bonds with others. We like to feel needed, loved and appreciated. Tonight: Cocoon.
CAPRICORN
(Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
★★★
Today and tomorrow, for some reason, you will be high-viz. This means people will notice you more than usual. In fact, they might know personal details about your private life. (Whaaat?) Do be aware of this in case you have to do some damage control. Tonight: Moneymaking ideas.
AQUARIUS
(Jan. 20-Feb. 18)
★★★★
This is a playful time for you. And today in particular, you will love to travel or do something different. You want to learn new things and have a bit of adventure! Therefore, do something different. Explore your neighborhood. Tonight: Assess your values.
PISCES
(Feb. 19-March 20)
★★★
This is a good day to tie up loose ends about banking details, inheritances and anything that you own jointly with others. This also might include issues related to inheritances and shared property. Tonight: Be confident.
BORN TODAY
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Audin Rhodes found it difficult to testify for the first time in front of a North Dakota legislative panel on Tuesday.
Rhodes, who identifies as trans-nonbinary, opposed a bill restricting schools' transgender student accommodations such as for restrooms, one of roughly a dozen bills in the Republican-run Legislature opponents say would restrict transgender people in society.
"I felt like I was very vulnerable and like I was exposed, and I just feel so desperate to try and make these people understand that trans people are people, trans girls are girls, trans boys are boys, nonbinary people exist. We're here," said Rhodes, who uses the pronouns they and them.
Rhodes, 28, grew up in Velva, with little access to a "visible queer community" before attending college in Wisconsin, when "I was able to see myself reflected in others" and joined a gay/straight alliance and met other trans people "living loud and proud."
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Rhodes was one of many people who participated Tuesday in an LGBTQ lobby day at the state Capitol, where lawmakers this session have dealt with a slew of transgender-related bills that supporters say would protect youth and females in such realms as restrooms, school sports, and other places and activities.
The bills this session -- which include ones criminalizing gender-affirming health care for minors, restricting trans people in school athletics, and limiting vital statistics data collection -- made Rhodes feel "a lot of anger and anxiety and fear," which led them to testify, to "do something productive."
Rhodes, of Minot, hopes lawmakers "see that trans and nonbinary people are here, and it's our home, too."
Percy Araujo, of Dickinson, who identifies as trans-masculine/nonbinary, said the bills are "stuff I feel I should show up for," despite being new to the legislative process in Bismarck.
"It's easy to talk about people when they're not in the room," Araujo said. "It's easy to just put a wall between you and the people that are actually affected, I suppose. It's a lot harder to talk about things that negatively affect someone when they are there."
Araujo, who uses the pronouns he and they, grew up in a strict household, but found the ability at Dickinson State University to "express myself and go into different aspects and think of who I am as a person." Araujo said he has "extremely low contact" with his parents, who "are not supportive whatsoever" of his identity.
Araujo, 21, said he has been fortunate in not being "severely harassed" over his gender identity, "which I am extremely thankful for, and I hope that continues, but I know that has not been the case for a lot of people."
American Civil Liberties Union of North Dakota Advocacy Director Cody Schuler called the lobby effort Tuesday a "day of visibility."
About 25 people met at the state Heritage Center and walked over to the Capitol to attend bill hearings, tour the building, meet with lawmakers and attend floor sessions -- an important opportunity for lawmakers, lobbyists and other people to interact with LGBTQ people, Schuler said.
"LGBTQ+ folks are citizens as well, and we want everyone to have a clear message that this is their home, this is their state," he said. "We oftentimes hear about folks maybe saying that they want to leave, but this is where their friends and their family are, and when it feels like the government is hostile toward your existence, it's time to speak up."
Hypocrisy?
Most of the bills originated in the state House of Representatives, with all but a few passed on to the Senate, where committees have been handling the proposals in recent days.
Supporters have portrayed the bills as protections, such as ensuring safety and privacy in female restrooms, protecting children's innocence, and ensuring fairness in female sports.
Schuler sees hypocrisy in a number of bills that seek to empower parental rights, while others would ban drag shows, certain books and gender-affirming care, all based around protecting minors.
"These bills are in conflict in the sense that on one hand we have legislators who want to govern morality, they want to say what parents can and can't do, and on the other side, they want to strengthen parents' rights, and it feels like they want that particularly around what children are learning in school ... but then when it comes to a drag show or books in libraries, then we want to tell folks what to do," he said.
Schuler said he finds hypocrisy more prevalent than ever before in today's politics, "and it also goes completely ignored and unchecked, and it is something that I, as someone who works for the ACLU, feel very strongly that we need to hold people accountable to being consistent but also that people's rights under the law are protected and advanced, period, full stop."
Senate Majority Leader David Hogue, R-Minot, said he doesn't have strong views on the bills, but plans to listen to committee recommendations and floor debates, which he expects to be rigorous.
He said he intends to support the athletic restrictions, which he called reasonable, and a bill to restrict amendments of sex designation on birth records, what he called "the idea of altering a record that was accurate at the time it was recorded."
Hogue said he doesn't have an on opinion on whether the bills are harmful or discriminatory, as opponents have called them, "because I don't know enough about this area." He said he'd like to know how many transgender people are in North Dakota.
A Pew Research Center survey last year found that 1.6% of U.S. adults are transgender or nonbinary, or their gender is different than their sex assigned at birth.
Hogue said "mutual respect" is key in the bills' public discourse.
"These bills arouse passions from both sides of the argument," he said.
'Not alone'
Dakota OutRight Outreach Coordinator Caedmon Marx has testified throughout the session, representing the Bismarck-area LGBTQ advocacy group in testimony against bills opponents have called harmful and discriminatory toward trans people.
Many lawmakers might be "afraid of something that they don't know," not knowing a trans person, or not having been to a drag show, Marx said.
Religious views also appear to be a factor in proposing and passing the bills, said Marx, who uses the pronouns they and them.
Marx, who works with queer youth, said restrictions on trans kids' expression, such as restroom usage, "does not accept who you are," which he said affects suicide statistics -- as high as 36% for suicide attempts and 51% for thoughts about suicide among queer people in North Dakota in the last year. The percentages he cited were derived from statistics from groups such as the Trevor Project and National Suicide Center, according to Marx.
The issues are personal for Marx, who lost their housing and connection with their parents "for a long time" after coming out as gay.
"I want to be someone there who knows that there is a connection, there is a community there," Marx said. "You're not alone. Here in North Dakota, you feel like you're alone half the time, and it's important for people to know that they are not alone. They are not closed off. They're not the only gay person in their neighborhood."
Marx said LGBTQ advocates have found unexpected allies in some Republican lawmakers who have spoken against bills such as the proposed ban on gender-affirming health care for minors.
Araujo said he hopes lawmakers "see us as actual people."
Testimony in support of the restroom bill Tuesday morning felt "dehumanizing" and "extremely villainizing toward trans women," he said. The bills before lawmakers "definitely don't make it easier on any of us," he said.
"I just hope they kinda get that, that we're just trying to exist," Araujo said. "Most of us are just trying to get through life." | 2023-03-21T23:28:11+00:00 | bismarcktribune.com | https://bismarcktribune.com/news/state-and-regional/govt-and-politics/day-of-visibility-brings-lgbtq-advocates-to-north-dakota-capitol/article_0f4b4698-c7f6-11ed-9b4f-03da691f1098.html |
Every year, change is made at all levels of government to protect and improve the lives of people across the country. However, for the one in 10 Americans living with rare disease, these policies overlook some of the biggest obstacles in their lives. Based on this statistic, approximately 670,000 Hoosiers, enough to fill roughly 10 Lucas Oil Stadiums, still face many uphill battles in their care that could be addressed by pertinent legislation.
Our stories as two patients living with rare disease highlight the urgent need to attend to the barriers faced by the rare disease community — a need that establishing a Rare Disease Advisory Council in Indiana would help address.
I (Amelia) am 22 years old and have been diagnosed with three different rare diseases stemming from a genetic mutation affecting my collagen. It took me several years after the onset of my symptoms to get diagnosed, following a lengthy and expensive process of incorrect diagnoses and prescriptions for syndromes I didn’t have. Throughout this time, I was told the healthcare system was doing all it could for me, yet I spent my days lethargic, in pain and malnourished. I was lucky to get a diagnosis as soon as I did. Unfortunately, with very limited treatment options, the diagnosis itself was not life changing. For the first time, during Rare Disease Week in 2022, I began advocating for myself and other patients like me. Little did I know rare disease was about to take another form in my life. That’s where my sister’s story comes in.
On Feb. 4, 2022, at 21 years old, I (Anneliese) laid in the ICU with machines keeping me alive. Overnight, Guillain-Barré Syndrome, a rare autoimmune condition in which the body attacks the nerves causing ascending paralysis, took me from an active Purdue student to a quadriplegic. The lack of awareness for my condition led to a critical misdiagnosis of growing pains that delayed treatment and allowed my illness to progress, while access barriers forced me to travel across state lines to receive the specialty care that I needed. This is a luxury that many patients cannot afford due to insurance policies. Since my diagnosis, I have become an advocate and realize that while my fellow rare disease patient advocates each have their unique stories and diagnoses, we have all faced similar challenges.
Our personal experiences with rare diseases have taught us a lot — and shown us the importance of sharing our stories and making our voices heard on important issues impacting the rare disease community. This is precisely why we’re supporting House Bill 1201, sponsored by Rep. Cindy Ledbetter, which would establish a Rare Disease Advisory Council in Indiana.
Rare Disease Advisory Councils are a collaborative tool for states to identify and address the most pressing barriers that prevent individuals living with rare diseases from obtaining proper treatment and care. If passed, House Bill 1201 would amplify the voices of rare disease patients, family members, researchers, medical providers and other stakeholders in our state.
24 states, including our neighbors in Kentucky, Ohio and Illinois, have already established Rare Disease Advisory Councils. It’s time for Indiana to give rare disease patients a seat at the table.
By working together, we can solve some of the biggest challenges among rare disease patients today. For example, like our stories illustrate, people living with rare diseases often face long, complicated diagnostic journeys that can leave them with more questions than answers. On average, rare disease patients spend 6.3 years between symptom onset and official diagnosis.
Once diagnosed, things unfortunately don’t always get easier. Instead, individuals are often left without sufficient treatment options or struggle to get coverage for the care that is available to them. In fact, less than 10% of all rare diseases have an FDA-approved treatment, and in 2019, 61% of patients seeking FDA-approved treatments for rare disease experienced denials or delays from their health plans.
As individuals who have been diagnosed with, and now manage, rare diseases, we are all too familiar with these struggles. We’re eager to work with other stakeholders to develop solutions for Indiana’s rare disease community, and we encourage our legislators to be a part of these efforts.
We also know there are many people living with rare diseases who are physically unable to advocate, and we feel passionate about using our stories to give them a voice. For all those affected by rare disease, from the caregiver to the patient, passing House Bill 1201 and establishing a Rare Disease Advisory Council in our state is a critical next step. | 2023-03-27T20:57:53+00:00 | kokomotribune.com | https://www.kokomotribune.com/opinion/anneliese-and-amelia-williams-help-to-amplify-patients-voices/article_e329aae4-ccd9-11ed-809e-abb0758a01c5.html |
Fourth of July grilling ideas
The Fourth of July is synonymous with two things: fireworks and grilling. Backyards, patios and parks across America fill with friends and family for the celebration of U.S. independence with million of grills firing up.
For many experienced backyard chefs, it’s just another day in the sun, but both new and experienced barbecuers can benefit from a few tips and tricks. Here are some ideas to make this Fourth of July memorable and tasty.
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Fourth of July grilling tips
Find the right grill for your menu and space
You can’t have a fantastic grilling experience without a high-quality grill. Whether you prefer charcoal or gas, there are some high-quality options to choose from, no matter your budget. For smaller events, charcoal kettle grills deliver classic flavor for about a dozen guests. If you’re planning a larger celebration, a larger gas grill provides more cooking space for more people.
Grill tools and accessories
To be a top backyard chef, you need the proper tools and accessories. There are plenty of grill toolsets available which offer the convenience of having all the essentials at your command. For DIY grillmasters who prefer their tools a la carte, make sure to include tongs, a grill brush and a spatula.
Before you fire up the grill, there are some more accessories that might make your barbecue better. If you’re cooking meat, you need a safe and accurate way to track the temperature, with either a wireless probe or an instant-read meat thermometer. It also doesn’t hurt to have a pair of grilling gloves on hand when the grill is blazing.
Thaw and season your meat
For the carnivores, nothing ruins a barbecue like raw, poorly seasoned or overcooked meat. First of all, never put cold meat on the grill — give your steaks, ribs and burgers time to reach room temperature first. Secondly, go easy on the seasoning. While chicken benefits from some complex seasoning blends and ribs do well with a rub, steaks and burgers need little more than salt and pepper.
Add salt to your meats while they come to room temperature and cover both sides in a moderate amount of freshly ground pepper. Be sure to get your grill preheated before throwing the meat onto the grates to ensure evenly cooked food.
Finally, make good use of your tools and keep your meat from overcooking. Don’t turn your meat over too many times or you risk losing the flavorful juices they create. Keep an eye on the temperature and remove your meat before it has fully cooked — your steak or burger will finish cooking perfectly while resting.
Don’t forget the veggies
There are two ways to cook vegetables on your grill: directly on the grates or in a roasting pan. Some vegetables are made to be cooked on the grates, like whole ears of corn. You can also make baked potatoes on the grill — just add oil and salt and loosely wrap them in foil.
For other vegetable dishes, a stainless steel roasting pan is the choice. Prepare a vegetable medley with some oil and seasonings and roast them in the same smoky space as the rest of your food. Another good option is cooking veggies on skewers. Bell peppers, okra, mushrooms and zucchini are all well-suited for veggie kebabs.
Get creative with hot dogs
Hot dogs are one of the most popular Fourth of July foods across America, but there’s no reason they should be boring. Different places across the United States have regional specialty hot dogs with unusual and delicious topping variations. Consider choosing a regional staple to serve at your barbecue — Chicago, Detroit and Atlanta all have popular and unique varieties that are easy to make.
Another idea is to combine your dog with another favorite sandwich. One tasty hybrid is the BLT dog: a bacon-wrapped frank topped with fresh lettuce and tomato and dressed with mayo. Use a cast iron griddle to saute onions and peppers on one side of the grill while cooking sausage on the other. Throw it all on a bun, dress with mustard and enjoy.
Don’t skip dessert
Make your Fourth of July one to remember with grilled desserts. It might sound strange, but some sweets are great on the grill. Grilled pineapple is delicious on its own; just slice one into rings and cook it directly on the grill. If you like strawberries, skewer a few in between wedges of pineapple and create delicious fruit kebabs. If you don’t have stainless steel skewers, make sure to soak wooden skewers in water for 30 minutes.
Another idea involves grilling sliced pound cake on the grates, once they’re clean. Add a bit of butter and toast slices on each side until you have grill marks and serve with your choice of fruits or ice cream.
Stay hydrated and refreshed
Keep everyone refreshed and hydrated while they enjoy your grilled feast. Make sure you have a high-quality cooler that’s big enough to hold your cans and bottles, plus enough ice to keep them cool. Try some interesting new canned drinks, like sparkling water or cold brew coffee.
Consider a fresh summer punch, which your guests can spike with their own spirits. Try mixing ginger beer with chilled pineapple and orange juices before serving it in a punch bowl full of strawberries, orange wedges, pineapple chunks and ice.
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Lorenzo Musetti 2023 Nordea Open Odds
Lorenzo Musetti's run in the Nordea Open in Båstad, Sweden has advanced to the quarterfinals, where he will meet Filip Misolic. Musetti has the fourth-best odds (+500) to be crowned champion at Bastad Tennis Stadium.
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Musetti at the 2023 Nordea Open
- Next Round: Quarterfinals
- Tournament Dates: July 15-23
- Venue: Bastad Tennis Stadium
- Location: Båstad, Sweden
- Court Surface: Clay
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Musetti's Next Match
On Friday, July 21 at 5:00 AM ET, Musetti will meet Misolic in the quarterfinals, after beating Matteo Arnaldi 6-3, 4-6, 7-6 in the previous round.
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Musetti Stats
- Musetti defeated No. 75-ranked Arnaldi 6-3, 4-6, 7-6 on Wednesday to make the .
- Musetti is 39-24 over the past 12 months, with two tournament titles.
- Musetti has won one tournament over the past year on clay, with a record of 18-10 on that surface.
- Over the past year (across all court surfaces), Musetti has played 63 matches and 23.8 games per match.
- On clay, Musetti has played 28 matches over the past year, and he has totaled 21.7 games per match while winning 54.9% of games.
- As far as serve/return winning percentages over the past 12 months, Musetti has won 78.6% of his games on serve, and 28.8% on return.
- Musetti has been victorious in 74.8% of his service games on clay over the past year and 35.5% of his return games.
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Attendees can find the gaming giant on the show floor at booth #3721 or at the Stern Pop-Up Arcade at the Marriott Marquis
SAN DIEGO, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Stern Pinball, Inc., is back at San Diego International Comic-Con (SDCC) and announced its schedule of activities for attendees to look forward to. Get ready for your chance to meet Ozzy Osbourne, scope out show exclusives, and play the iconic and outrageously fun game of pinball!
Ozzy Osbourne will make his SDCC debut on Friday, July 22 at the Stern Pinball & Rebellion Republic booth (#3721). Osbourne and iconic artist Todd McFarlane will be unveiling artwork for the limited-edition McFarlane-designed comic book that will be part of Osbourne's highly anticipated album Patient Number 9. Osbourne and McFarlane will be doing signings at the Stern Pinball booth on Friday, July 22 at 12:00 PM.
The king of Lucha Libre is in the house! The biggest name in Mexican wrestling returns to Comic-Con for two days of signings. Son of the iconic Lucha Libre legend, El Santo, El Hijo del Santo is celebrating 40 years as a professional luchador. Come to the Stern Pinball and Rebellion Republic booth on July 21 and July 22 at noon for your chance to meet El Hijo Del Santo. Come for an autograph, stay for the Flying Planchas!
- EXCLUSIVE PRE-ORDER: Ozzy Osbourne, Patient Number 9 convention exclusive blue smoke 2-LP vinyl x McFarlane cover variant + foil cover comic book by Todd McFarlane—$75 (shipping included)
- Ozzy Osbourne, Patient Number 9 San Diego "Sold Out" exclusive T-shirt—$35
- Stern Pinball, Glow in the dark exclusive Japanese print T-shirt (limited to 50 pieces)—$30
- Santo, San Diego 2022 exclusive foil print T-shirt—$40
- Hijo Del Santo, 40 year anniversary lithograph (limited to 100 pieces)—$60
In their triumphant return to San Diego Comic-Con, Nerdist is ready to take you inside the latest and greatest in pop culture. With live tapings of Nerdist News, interviews with celebrity guests, and a few other surprises, Nerdist will be reporting live from the Stern Pinball Pop-Up Arcade all weekend long!
Located in Stern's Pop-Up Arcade will be the biggest (literally) star of film, Toho's Godzilla! The iconic film studio from Japan is bringing the King of the Monsters to Comic-Con with a special photo-op area where fans can take their picture with Godzilla and brag about meeting a celebrity at the show. Toho also has an official panel scheduled for Thursday, July 21 at 2:30 PM in room 29CD. Hosted by Toho's Creative Manager, Chris Mowry, the panelists (including Stern's Senior Director of Licensing and New Business Development, Jody Dankberg) will discuss the creation of some of their greatest licensed Godzilla products including the award-winning pinball machine from Stern Pinball. After the panel (and during the show), guests can test their skills with a daily, free-to-play tournament on the Godzilla pinball machines.
Attendees will have their chance to play the hottest titles from Stern Pinball at Comic-Con International's official Pop-Up Arcade located directly next door to the Convention Center at the Marriott Marquis Pacific Ballroom 14-17. Come with friends for the free play games and stay for the daily high-score tournaments with prizes! Earn a special SDCC Insider Connected badge by logging in to any Stern Pinball machine at this year's Con!
Registration for Insider Connected is available at insider.sternpinball.com/. Players can register at a connected game by scanning a QR code or at the Stern Pinball website. Once a player registers, they are issued a unique QR Code that can be used to identify that player at any connected Stern pinball machine anywhere in the world. When a player logs into the machine, they can track progress, earn new game specific achievements, engage with the player community, and participate in promotions and Challenge Quests.
Casual players are encouraged to stop by the Pinball Lounge between 10:00 AM and 7:00 PM on Thursday through Saturday, or between 10:00 AM and 2:00 PM on Sunday for free play. The Pinball Lounge is a great place to hang out, relax, and regroup while getting to play arcade-quality pinball with friends.
For more serious players, Stern will be doing daily giveaways at the Pop-up Arcade for the top players who place on selected games' Leaderboards. Launched last month, Stern's new Leaderboards feature is part of its award-winning Insider Connected platform that enables players to compete against each other across connected Stern Pinball machines. Winners will be announced at the end of each day of the Con. Play for your chance to win some exclusive Stern Pinball merch!
Stern will be giving away additional prizes to anyone who stops by the Pop-up Arcade and signs up for Insider Connected, as well as awarding daily prizes to kids under 12!
Twitch pinball superstar, Jack Danger (AKA Dead Flip), will be live streaming all week from the Pinball Lounge. Come down to cheer him on or tune in from home.
Come find Stern Pinball on the show floor at booth #3721 or stop by the Pop-Up Arcade at the Marriott Marquis.
Stern Pinball, Inc. is a global lifestyle brand based on the iconic and outrageously fun modern American game of pinball. Headquartered minutes from Chicago's O'Hare International Airport in the heart of North America, the company creates, designs, engineers, manufactures, markets, and distributes a full line of technologically advanced terrestrial and digital pinball games, parts, accessories, and merchandise. Stern Pinball serves digital, consumer, commercial, and corporate markets around the globe.
Recent Stern Pinball titles include Rush, Godzilla, The Mandalorian, Led Zeppelin, Avengers: Infinity Quest, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Stranger Things, Elvira's House of Horrors, Jurassic Park, Black Knight: Sword of Rage, The Munsters, The Beatles, Deadpool, Iron Maiden, Guardians of the Galaxy, Star Wars, Aerosmith, Ghostbusters, KISS, Metallica, Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead, Star Trek, AC/DC, Batman, and Spider-Man. A broad range of players enjoy Stern Pinball's games from professional pinball players who compete in high-stakes competitions around the globe to novice players who are discovering the allure of the silver ball for the first time. To join the fun and learn more, please visit www.sternpinball.com.
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A massive fire near a port in southeastern Bangladesh has killed more than 49 people and injured 200 others. The fire broke out at an import-export container depot.
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A massive fire near a port in southeastern Bangladesh has killed more than 49 people and injured 200 others. The fire broke out at an import-export container depot.
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The Touchstone Securitized Income ETF is Sub-advised by Fort Washington Investment Advisors
CINCINNATI, July 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Touchstone Investments, known for its Distinctively Active® mutual funds and exchange traded funds (ETFs), announced today the launch of the Touchstone Securitized Income ETF (TSEC: NYSE Arca), an actively-managed, fully-transparent ETF that seeks to invest in a diversified portfolio of fixed-income securities, which begins trading on July 19, 2023.
The Touchstone Securitized Income ETF, in seeking to achieve its investment objective of capital appreciation, is designed to offer investors a comprehensive framework of investments in well-positioned securitized fixed-income securities, including residential mortgage-backed securities; commercial mortgage-backed securities; asset-backed securities; and collateralized loan obligations, which may include U.S. Treasury securities; U.S. government agency securities; securities of government-sponsored enterprises; municipal bonds and cash equivalents.
Touchstone's commitment to being Distinctively Active means executing a fully integrated and rigorous process for identifying and collaborating with best-in-breed asset managers to sub-advise its funds. The Touchstone Securitized Income ETF (TSEC), like Touchstone's existing ETF offerings, offers potential for a more tax-efficient, cost competitive and transparent way to access Touchstone's investment strategies with no investment minimum.
"The launch of the Touchstone Securitized Income ETF marks the natural expansion of our Distinctively Active investment philosophy, offering more investment options positioned to provide excess returns and complement many investment portfolios," said Blake Moore, president and chief executive officer of Touchstone Investments. "We look forward to continuing our partnership with Fort Washington, which shares our unwavering commitment to investors' best interests."
"We believe specialization is required to generate returns in today's increasingly complex marketplace," added Maribeth S. Rahe, president and chief executive officer of Fort Washington. "We are honored to expand our partnership with Touchstone through the launch of TSEC, and we look forward to creating opportunities for investors seeking compelling risk-adjusted returns from securitized products."
For more information about the Touchstone Securitized Income ETF and the full suite of Touchstone ETF offerings, please visit https://www.westernsouthern.com/touchstone/etfs
About Touchstone Investments
Touchstone's commitment to being Distinctively Active has purposeful intent. Recognizing that not all fund companies are created equal, we actively apply an integrated and rigorous approach for identifying and partnering with highly-skilled asset managers who act in a sub-advisory capacity. Their expertise, disciplined investment processes and employment of active management provide the differentiation required for robust portfolio construction. Touchstone offers a full breadth of investment options across styles and asset classes, including U.S. equity, international equity, income and multi-asset funds. The Touchstone Funds are advised by Touchstone Advisors, Inc., a registered investment adviser, and are distributed nationally through intermediaries including broker-dealers, registered investment advisers, institutions and others by Touchstone Securities, Inc., a registered broker-dealer and member FINRA/SIPC. Touchstone, Touchstone Funds and Touchstone Investments are federal service mark registrations and applications owned by IFS Financial Services, Inc. Touchstone Securities, Inc., Touchstone Advisors, Inc., and IFS Financial Services, Inc., are members of Western & Southern Financial Group. For more information, please visit TouchstoneInvestments.com.
About Fort Washington Investment Advisors
Fort Washington Investment Advisors, Inc. (Fort Washington) is a diversified asset management firm offering a wide range of investment solutions to a diverse set of clients and valued partners, including insurance companies, endowments, foundations, religious orders, not-for-profits, public employee retirement systems, Taft-Hartley entities, corporations operating in numerous industries, as well as individuals and families. The firm applies well-defined investment values across the diverse lineup of strategies that we offer covering asset classes and solutions within both public and private equity, cash and short duration fixed income, investment grade fixed income, asset-liability management, leveraged credit, multi-sector fixed income, private placements, private debt, midstream energy, securitized credit, and others. For more information, please visit FortWashington.com.
A Word About Risk
The Fund invests in fixed-income securities which can experience reduced liquidity during certain market events, lose their value as interest rates rise and are subject to credit risk which is the risk of deterioration in the financial condition of an issuer and/or general economic conditions that can cause the issuer to not make timely payments of principal and interest also causing the securities to decline in value and an investor can lose principal. When interest rates rise, the price of debt securities generally falls.
The Fund may experience higher portfolio turnover which may lead to increased fund expenses, lower investment returns and higher short-term capital gains taxable to shareholders.
Touchstone exchange traded funds (ETFs) are actively managed and do not seek to replicate a specific index. ETFs are bought and sold through an exchange at the then current market price, not net asset value (NAV), and are not individually redeemed from the fund. Shares may trade at a premium or discount to their NAV when traded on an exchange.
Please consider the investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses of the Fund carefully before investing. The prospectus and the summary prospectus contain this and other information about the Fund. To obtain a prospectus or a summary prospectus, contact your financial professional or download and/or request one at TouchstoneInvestments.com/resources or call Touchstone at 833.368.7383. Please read the prospectus and/or summary prospectus carefully before investing.
Touchstone ETFs are distributed by Foreside Fund Services, Inc.
A registered broker-dealer and member of FINRA.
Not FDIC Insured | No Bank Guarantee | May Lose Value
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McMAKEN, Theresa Lynn
May 31, 1948 April 14, 2022
Theresa Lynn McMaken unexpectedly passed away April 14, 2022, in San Antonio, Texas, at the age of 73. She was born in Dayton, Ohio, to the late William Slivinski and Mary (Brown) Slivinski.
Terri was a graduate of Wilbur Wright High School. She was preceded in passing by her parents and brother, William Slivinski.
Terri is survived by daughter, Jennifer (Bob) Gisewite; son, John McMaken; sisters, Iris Adams, Sandy Mitchell; granddaughters, Stephanie Stewart, Aymee Carvalho, Lauren
Rushing; and 3 great-granddaughters.
She was a loving mother, sister, and grandmother and will be greatly missed.
Fond memories and expressions of sympathy may be shared at www.sunsetfuneralhomesa.com for the McMaken Family. | 2022-04-24T05:32:52+00:00 | springfieldnewssun.com | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/obituaries/mcmaken-theresa/NTE3IJUA2VBSLLKKJ7IDGBKSYE/ |
Which cologne is best for summer?
Cologne is an easy way to smell fantastic throughout the day. Still, different scents are better for different times of the year. Colder seasons tend to be better for warm, heavy scents like musk and cedar, whereas summer colognes have lighter scents. If you’re looking for a great summer scent, it’s important to consider which scents are best for the season.
What is cologne?
The term cologne typically describes fragrances marketed toward men. All colognes and perfumes are a mixture of alcohol or other carriers and fragrant oils that give them their smell. Fragrances are divided into numerous categories depending on their aromatic oil content.
- Parfum: These contain 20%-40% aromatic oils.
- Eau de parfum: These contain 15%-20% aromatic oils.
- Eau de toilette: These contain 10%-15% aromatic oils.
- Eau de cologne: These contain 3%-8% aromatic oils.
What makes a cologne a summer cologne?
Scents designed for use in winter may overwhelm people when used during hotter months. Summertime is associated with light aromas, such as floral, herbal or citrus. Summer scents tend to reflect the outdoors, beach scents and a sense of adventure.
Additionally, summer colognes are designed to stay on your skin longer in hot weather. Cologne evaporates in response to your body heat, and hotter weather will lead to certain scents fading faster than others.
What to consider before buying cologne
Fragrance profiles
- Citrus: Many colognes feature citrus oils, such as orange, grapefruit, lemon and mandarin. Citrus fragrances have a fresh scent that isn’t overwhelming, making them ideal for summer.
- Water: Many water-themed oils are synthetic and are reminiscent of an ocean breeze. Water-themed colognes are light and fit the summer theme.
- Floral: Floral scents often incorporate rose, gardenia, jasmine and other flowers. Floral aromas are usually more common in perfume than cologne, but they also make an excellent addition to summer colognes.
Your style
Although a specific type of scent works best for warmer months, don’t abandon your style. A floral-scented cologne will likely match your style better than citrus tones if you often wear floral prints. On the other hand, water-themed oils will likely add to your style if you have a clean aesthetic.
Ingredients
Many summer colognes feature natural ingredients. Still, if you don’t want to spend too much, natural ingredients may not be ideal. Some brands grow their own flowers, ensuring they retain the floral quality. However, some fragrance profiles are almost guaranteed to feature synthetic ingredients, such as those with water-themed scents.
Summer cologne FAQ
Where do you apply cologne?
A. Applying cologne directly to your chest is ideal because it is a pulse point that isn’t overwhelming since your shirt covers it. You can also apply cologne to your wrists, neck or inner elbows, although you shouldn’t spritz it on too many spots at once.
How long does cologne last?
A. Expiration dates can vary, but most last three to five years.
How many sprays of cologne should I use?
A. This depends on your preference, although most people agree you shouldn’t use more than three sprays.
Best summer colognes
Top floral summer colognes
Gucci Guilty Parfum Pour Homme
What you need to know: This features a floral scent profile that is stronger than most but not overwhelming.
What you’ll love: It has an attractive amber scent that lasts throughout the day. One spray goes pretty far, so you don’t have to apply very much.
What you should consider: It is relatively expensive.
Where to buy: Sold by Ulta Beauty, Macy’s and Sephora
Jo Malone London Wild Bluebell Cologne
What you need to know: This features hints of bluebell, persimmon and lily of the valley.
What you’ll love: It is a very light floral scent that many men and women love. This fragrance is ideal for daytime or nighttime use.
What you should consider: The scent doesn’t last as long as other colognes.
Where to buy: Sold by Macy’s
Top water-themed summer colognes
Armani Acqua Di Gio Eau De Toilette
What you need to know: This features a mix of marine and citrus scents that smell great together.
What you’ll love: Many agree this is one of the best-smelling colognes. The smell isn’t overwhelming but lasts throughout the day.
What you should consider: Although the scent lasts, some felt it wasn’t strong enough.
Where to buy: Sold by Ulta Beauty and Macy’s
Prada Luna Rossa Ocean Eau De Toilette
What you need to know: This strong fragrance features numerous herbs and an ocean-themed style.
What you’ll love: You only need one spray for the scent to last throughout the day. Many describe it as clean and fresh.
What you should consider: Some might find the smell overpowering.
Where to buy: Sold by Ulta Beauty, Sephora and Macy’s
Dolce & Gabbana Light Blue Pour Homme Eau De Toilette Spray
What you need to know: This features ocean-themed scents with hints of mandarin, juniper and grapefruit.
What you’ll love: This is a fresh, clean-smelling scent. It comes in a velvet box. The smell lasts but it isn’t overpowering. It features citrus and floral notes.
What you should consider: Some people didn’t like the scent.
Where to buy: Sold by Macy’s
Top citrus summer colognes
What you need to know: This has a citrus profile with hints of vanilla.
What you’ll love: This lasts through most of the day. You don’t need to use much. The combination of scents smells excellent.
What you should consider: It’s pretty expensive.
Where to buy: Sold by Ulta Beauty and Sephora
Yves Saint Laurent Y Eau De Parfum
What you need to know: This features hints of bergamot, ginger and sage.
What you’ll love: Many people felt they received more compliments when wearing this than with other colognes. The smell lasts a while.
What you should consider: Some felt the smell was overpowering.
Where to buy: Sold by Ulta Beauty, Sephora and Macy’s
Hugo Boss Hugo Man Eau De Toilette
What you need to know: The scent profile features green apple, grapefruit, basil, sage and more.
What you’ll love: It has woodsy notes that you can smell through the citrus. It smells good but is not overpowering. It is pretty affordable compared to most colognes.
What you should consider: The smell doesn’t last through the entire day.
Where to buy: Sold by Ulta Beauty
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St. Marys, OH (WLIO) - What a way to take advantage of some great fall weather on Sunday than go for a hike and that is what hundreds of people did for the annual Walk with Nature Fall Festival. The event showcases Miami Erie Canal Towpath in St. Marys and encourages people to take a walk to visit the many different activities along the way. There was pumpkin painting, a car show, medieval battle re-enactments, and many vendors selling craft items. Plus returning favorite the Girty’s Town Rendezvous, which recreates small settlement that was along the St. Marys River back in the 1700’s. Thanks to organizations like the St. Marys Kiwanis Club the event has been a community staple for 53 years.
“It is very important to us,” says Angela Karen, the President of the St Marys Kiwanis Club. “We are all about service and helping our community and getting people out and doing things. I really hope that they enjoy it and all of the festivities and have fun before winter starts. It gets cold and people want to hibernate.”
The event also gets people outside and enjoying nature, which is something the Heritage Trails Park District likes to see.
“You do not have to leave Auglaize County to see some really wonderful examples of nature,” says Terry McDonald, Administrator of the Heritage Trials Park District. “You can be right here on the Miami Erie Canal Towpath Trial and see wonderful autumn colors and do a little bit of birding and do a little bit of family photos. Just unplug from your electronics for an afternoon and spend some quality family time outdoors.”
The Walk with Nature Fall Festival is the 3rd Sunday of October and takes about six months to put together.
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Judge says laws propping up Montana coal plant are illegal
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A U.S. magistrate judge has declared unconstitutional two Montana laws that sought to prevent the closure of a coal-fired power plant by subjecting its out-of-state owners to steep fines if they wouldn’t pay long-term maintenance and operating costs.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Kathleen DeSoto said the state measures violated free commerce provisions in the U.S. Constitution and federal laws intended to keep states from interfering in private agreements, The Billings Gazette reported.
Puget Sound Energy, Avista Corp., Portland General Electric and PacificCorp are majority owners of the Colstrip Power Plant in southeastern Montana. Their home states of Washington and Oregon are phasing out the use of coal-generated power over climate concerns — Washington in late 2025 and Oregon in early 2030.
The utilities have previously objected to paying for repairs to extend Colstrip’s life beyond when they can sell the power.
Talen Montana and NorthWestern Energy, which do not face coal-power bans, own the rest of the plant and want it to remain open.
The disputed laws were passed by the Republican-controlled Montana Legislature and signed into law by Gov. Greg Gianforte in 2021.
One law said if a co-owner refuses to share in the operating costs or takes actions that bring about the closure of an electrical generation facility without the consent of all the co-owners, it would be considered an “unfair or deceptive trade practice.” As such, Montana’s attorney general could issue fines of up to $100,000 per day.
The other law required any disagreements over the operation of the plant to be arbitrated in Montana.
Most of Colstrip’s power is used in Washington state. | 2022-10-09T23:03:04+00:00 | localnews8.com | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-idaho/2022/10/09/judge-says-laws-propping-up-montana-coal-plant-are-illegal/ |
After publicly feuding for a year, PGA Tour and LIV Golf merge Published June 6, 2023 at 1:41 PM PDT Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 4:01 NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with journalist Brendan Porath about the surprise merger between the PGA Tour and Saudi-backed LIV Golf. Copyright 2023 NPR | 2023-06-06T20:53:36+00:00 | klcc.org | https://www.klcc.org/2023-06-06/after-publicly-feuding-for-a-year-pga-tour-and-liv-golf-merge |
Asmongold, Emiru, and Sodapoppin Serve as Expert Game Panelists Showcasing 30 Must-Know Indie Games and More
AUSTIN, Texas, June 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Award-winning, creator-owned media company One True King (OTK) will stream their second annual OTK Games Expo on Saturday, June 10, at 11 a.m. PT/ 1 p.m. CT live on Twitch.tv/Asmongold from the WePlay Studios in Los Angeles, California.
Hosted by leading games content creators and OTK streamers Asmongold, Emiru, Esfand, Nmplol, and Sodapoppin, the OTK Games Expo will spotlight more than 30 gaming titles spanning a dozen genres from the hottest new indie game developers. The developer's conference provides rising titles the opportunity to interface with OTK's distinct gaming and technology communities spanning 38M social media followers while offering unique perspectives and commentary from top gaming influencers.
Audiences can expect to see:
- Thirty new and unique indie game titles spanning several genres like Platformers, Simulators, and Party Games
- OTK Creator and Fan-supported votes to award "Best in Show" titles and part of a $50,000 prize pool, supporting the future development of the winning game.
- Exciting announcements from OTK, Starforge Systems, and Mythic Talent
"OTK takes immense pride in our passionate fan base and we are thrilled to shed light on exceptional games that may not receive the spotlight they deserve," stated Tips Out, CEO at OTK. "The meticulous process of hand-picking the showcased titles wasn't easy, but we believe in the incredible potential of these developers and eagerly await our viewers' feedback. With a diverse range of genres, these titles are the perfect match for our creators, amplifying their creativity and expanding our collective gaming horizons."
In addition to the main broadcast feed on Asmongold's Twitch channel, fans can tune into the Games Expo on June 10 through:
- OTK's official Twitch channel: Twitch.tv/OTKNetwork
- Co-Streams - Fans and streamers can co-stream the main broadcast to provide additional language options.
"We are thrilled this year's expo will be more inclusive as we introduce a wide range of accessibility options for our valued fans. We firmly believe that gaming should be enjoyed by everyone, and our commitment to inclusivity drives us to continually expand and enhance the gaming experience for our diverse community of followers," said Zach Diaz, CSO at OTK.
This is the second year OTK is hosting their Games Expo, with last year's show having more than 924k Unique Views and a peak audience of over 309k viewers over the three-hour broadcast. Developer RDBK Studios took home the top prize last year with their game Renown, including a $30,000 Developmental Grant.
Tune in to the 2023 OTK Games Expo on Saturday, June 10 at 11 a.m. PT / 1 p.m. CT on Twitch.tv/Asmongold.
ABOUT ONE TRUE KING
One True King (OTK) is an award-winning media company owned by globally renowned gaming streamers Asmongold, Esfand, Tips Out, Sodapoppin, Emiru, Mizkif, and NMPLOL. Outside of daily gaming content & streaming, One True King focuses on pushing the boundaries of live streaming. OTK produces industry-leading live game shows, tournaments, in-real-life (IRL) streams, and podcasts, all tailored to millennial & Gen Z internet natives. OTK has quickly become the top most-watched organization on Twitch, reaching over 38 million followers across social platforms globally and amassing tens of millions of hours watched every month.
For more information, visit www.otknetwork.com or follow OTK on Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok.
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FOX5 finds solution for woman who uses scooter to get around, but kept getting stuck during construction
LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) - An NDOT construction project happening on Nellis Boulevard has led to torn-up sidewalks causing safety concerns for one elderly woman when trying to cross the street in her mobility scooter.
“I am trying to cross the street and it was stuck and someone, thank god, a kind motorist and came and helped me get out of the hole and blocked traffic so I could get across the street,” said Las Vegas resident Lona Harris.
75-year-old Lona Harris just moved to the area near Nellis and Sahara
She said she moved to this area because she is disabled and wanted to have easy access to all the stores nearby, but this hasn’t been the case.
“Independence is something that you hold onto with both hands because nobody wants to be hopeless and that is what I felt yesterday when I couldn’t get across the street,” said Harris. “Hopeless and powerless.”
NDOT is currently working on its Nellis rehabilitation project. It starts from Craig Road and goes all the way to Tropicana.
The project will remove and replace the existing pavement and will fix the pedestrian crosswalks to be ADA compliant and have better lighting and signals.
when FOX5 told NDOT the construction was causing trouble for Harris, they acted immediately.
“After we were alerted to the fact that there were some gaps, our contractor was very quick and proactive and came out here and patched it,” said Public Information Officer for NDOT Justin Hopkins.
“I am happy with what they have done,” said Harris. “It is a good temporary solution. Just temporary.”
NDOT said the Nellis rehabilitation project is slated to be finished by the fall of this year.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI recovered "top secret" and even more sensitive documents from former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, according to court papers released Friday after a federal judge unsealed the warrant that authorized the sudden, unprecedented search this week.
A property receipt unsealed by the court shows FBI agents took 11 sets of classified records from the estate during a search on Monday.
The seized records include some marked not only top secret but also “sensitive compartmented information,” a special category meant to protect the nation's most important secrets that if revealed publicly could cause “exceptionally grave” damage to U.S. interests. The court records did not provide specific details about information the documents might contain.
The warrant says federal agents were investigating potential violations of three different federal laws, including one that governs gathering, transmitting or losing defense information under the Espionage Act. The other statutes address the concealment, mutilation or removal of records and the destruction, alteration or falsification of records in federal investigations.
The property receipt also shows federal agents collected other potential presidential records, including the order pardoning Trump ally Roger Stone, a “leatherbound box of documents,” and information about the “President of France.” A binder of photos, a handwritten note, “miscellaneous secret documents” and “miscellaneous confidential documents” were also seized in the search.
Trump’s attorney, Christina Bobb, who was present at Mar-a-Lago when the agents conducted the search, signed two property receipts — one that was two pages long and another that is a single page.
In a statement earlier Friday, Trump claimed that the documents seized by agents were “all declassified,” and argued that he would have turned them over if the Justice Department had asked.
While incumbent presidents generally have the power to declassify information, that authority lapses as soon as they leave office and it was not clear if the documents in question have ever been declassified. And even an incumbent's powers to declassify may be limited regarding secrets dealing with nuclear weapons programs, covert operations and operatives, and some data shared with allies.
Trump kept possession of the documents despite multiple requests from agencies, including the National Archives, to turn over presidential records in accordance with federal law.
The Mar-a-Lago search warrant served Monday was part of an ongoing Justice Department investigation into the discovery of classified White House records recovered from Trump’s home earlier this year. The Archives had asked the department to investigate after saying 15 boxes of records it retrieved from the estate included classified records.
It remains unclear whether the Justice Department moved forward with the warrant simply as a means to retrieve the records or as part of a wider criminal investigation or attempt to prosecute the former president. Multiple federal laws govern the handling of classified information, with both criminal and civil penalties, as well as presidential records.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart, the same judge who signed off on the search warrant, unsealed the warrant and property receipt Friday at the request of the Justice Department after Attorney General Merrick Garland declared there was “substantial public interest in this matter,” and Trump said he backed the warrant’s “immediate” release. The Justice Department told the judge Friday afternoon that Trump’s lawyers did not object to the proposal to make it public.
In messages posted on his Truth Social platform, Trump wrote, “Not only will I not oppose the release of documents ... I am going a step further by ENCOURAGING the immediate release of those documents.”
The Justice Department's request was striking because such warrants traditionally remain sealed during a pending investigation. But the department appeared to recognize that its silence since the search had created a vacuum for bitter verbal attacks by Trump and his allies, and felt that the public was entitled to the FBI’s side about what prompted Monday’s action at the former president’s home.
“The public’s clear and powerful interest in understanding what occurred under these circumstances weighs heavily in favor of unsealing,” said a motion filed in federal court in Florida on Thursday.
The information was released as( Trump prepares for another run for the White House. During his 2016 campaign, he pointed frequently to an FBI investigation into his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, over whether she mishandled classified information.
To obtain a search warrant, federal authorities must prove to a judge that probable cause exists to believe that a crime was committed. Garland said he personally approved the warrant, a decision he said the department did not take lightly given that standard practice where possible is to select less intrusive tactics than a search of one's home.
In this case, according to a person familiar with the matter, there was substantial engagement with Trump and his representatives prior to the search warrant, including a subpoena for records and a visit to Mar-a-Lago a couple of months ago by FBI and Justice Department officials to assess how the documents were stored. The person was not authorized to discuss the matter by name and spoke on condition of anonymity.
FBI and Justice Department policy cautions against discussing ongoing investigations, both to protect the integrity of the inquiries and to avoid unfairly maligning someone who is being scrutinized but winds up ultimately not being charged. That’s especially true in the case of search warrants, where supporting court papers are routinely kept secret as the investigation proceeds.
In this case, though, Garland cited the fact that Trump himself had provided the first public confirmation of the FBI search, “as is his right." The Justice Department, in its new filing, also said that disclosing information about it now would not harm the court's functions.
The Justice Department under Garland has been leery of public statements about politically charged investigations, or of confirming to what extent it might be investigating Trump as part of a broader probe into the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol and efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
The department has tried to avoid being seen as injecting itself into presidential politics, as happened in 2016 when then-FBI Director James Comey made an unusual public statement announcing that the FBI would not be recommending criminal charges against Clinton regarding her handling of email — and when he spoke up again just over a week before the election to notify Congress that the probe was being effectively reopened because of the discovery of new emails.
The attorney general also condemned verbal attacks on FBI and Justice Department personnel over the search. Some Republican allies of Trump have called for the FBI to be defunded. Large numbers of Trump supporters have called for the warrant to be released hoping they it will show that Trump was unfairly targeted.
“I will not stand by silently when their integrity is unfairly attacked,” Garland said of federal law enforcement agents, calling them “dedicated, patriotic public servants.”
Earlier Thursday, an armed man wearing body armor tried to breach a security screening area at an FBI field office in Ohio, then fled and was later killed after a standoff with law enforcement. A law enforcement official briefed on the matter identified the man as Ricky Shiffer and said he is believed to have been in Washington in the days leading up to the attack on the Capitol and may have been there on the day it took place.
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The brother of Hae Min Lee — whose murder was the focus of the first season of the hit podcast “Serial” — plans to appeal a Baltimore judge’s recent decision to overturn the conviction of Adnan Syed.
Young Lee filed a notice of appeal on Wednesday, just over a week after Maryland Circuit Court Judge Melissa Phinn vacated Syed’s conviction.
Lee’s lawyer Steve Kelly said in a statement to The Baltimore Sun that Lee is appealing over “violations of his family’s right to meaningfully participate” in the hearing that led to Syed’s conviction being vacated.
Syed was convicted in 2000 of killing Hae Min Lee, his ex-girlfriend, and burying her body in Baltimore’s Leakin Park. However, Syed has long maintained his innocence and repeatedly pushed for a retrial.
The popular “Serial” podcast brought the case to the public’s attention with its first season in 2014, calling into question whether Syed had received a fair trial.
A Maryland judge vacated Syed’s conviction in 2016, and a special appeals court granted him a new trial in 2018. However, the Maryland Supreme Court denied the trial request upon appeal.
After agreeing to conduct new DNA testing in March of this year, prosecutors asked the court earlier this month to throw out Syed’s conviction. Phinn vacated the conviction last week, noting that evidence was improperly withheld in Syed’s case and that prosecutors had discovered new evidence. | 2022-09-29T19:06:25+00:00 | wjhl.com | https://www.wjhl.com/hill-politics/brother-of-victim-in-serial-case-will-appeal-overturning-of-adnan-syed-conviction/ |
There will be a Super Bowl party and cornhole tournament all-in-one in Redmond this year and it will raise money for a firefighter’s mission to help fund research to fight leukemia and lymphoma.
But there’s another part to this story — and it’s about 300 miles north of here in Seattle.
“There’s pictures of people who have lost loved ones on every floor. So you’re climbing 69 floors and every time you get to a landing, you’ll see somebody’s loved one who has passed away from leukemia and lymphoma and it really hit me hard,” said Washington-based firefighter Anthony Slagle.
He plans to partake in the firefighter stair climbing challenge in Seattle next month. Participants climb 69 floors of stairs while wearing full fire fighter gear weighing 75 pounds.
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Slagle first took the stair climb as a physical event that would challenge him to stay healthy, workout throughout the year, and earn camaraderie among his fellow firefighters. It soon became just a part of his personal mission to raise awareness.
“My second year doing it, I lost my aunt to lymphoma. It became more of a dedication to her and other people who have the same disease,” Slagle said.
While Slagle prepares year-around for the challenge, he also raises fund through donations for his own fundraiser dedicated to cancer, leukemia and lymphoma awareness and research. He has a lofty goal of reaching $100,000 before he retires. This year, he’ll have some local help.
“This year it’s going to be Super Bowl and cornhole for a cause. That cause is going to be for the firefighter stair climb challenge,” Oregon State Trooper and Slagle’s soon to be brother-in-law Travis Ring said.
He, along with the Central Oregon Cornhole Club, are hosting a cornhole tournament on Super Bowl Sunday at the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Redmond. All proceeds will go to leukemia research.
“It’s a $10 buy-in for the tournament. There is an entry fee donation that is greatly appreciated. All the proceeds of that entry fee will be going to my brother-in-law Anthony Slagle and all that money will go to his fundraising for leukemia,” Ring said.
Slagle has raised $20,000 out of his $100,000 goal. He says any donations help in his mission. You can donate here. | 2023-02-02T09:25:04+00:00 | centraloregondaily.com | https://centraloregondaily.com/remond-super-bowl-cornhole-cancer-fundraiser/ |
Report provides recognition and proof point of Schneider Electric as a leader of expert capabilities, highlighting flexible, on-site, smart energy generation and storage in microgrid offers.
BOSTON, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Schneider Electric, the leader in the digital transformation of energy management and automation, has been recognized by Verdantix as a leader in microgrid technology to enable advancement in the grid-interactive ecosystem for decarbonization and sustainability in the "Schneider Electric Leads The Charge On The Democratization Of Energy" report.
Increasing the grid interactivity of facilities is becoming a key enabler for decarbonization as more renewables are onboarded, stemming from the grid, on-site generation, and as uptake of electric vehicles becomes more widespread. Verdantix recommends that customers required to adapt to a rapidly changing energy landscape and looking to implement on-site renewable generation and storage as part of wider corporate decarbonization goals should consider Schneider Electric's microgrid offerings.
"Schneider Electric offers a comprehensive suite of hardware, software and services for energy management and automation in infrastructure to enable sustainable, reliable and efficient operations," said Verdantix Analyst Ben Hext. "We think that they are well positioned to provide microgrid offerings that meet a variety of needs, including resilience, on-site renewable energy and energy savings."
"Microgrids are a key enabler in the pursuit of a decarbonized environment and a more sustainable energy future, which is why Schneider Electric has built one of the best microgrid portfolios in the market," said Bala Vinayagam, SVP, Microgrid Line of Business at Schneider Electric. "Rising energy prices, the increasing frequency of grid outages, and the requirement to decarbonize have made energy challenges relevant and universal to all. As one of the most reputable global sustainability companies, Schneider has made it so that the benefits of microgrids can transform the energy profiles of a diverse set of infrastructure."
Schneider Electric helps its customers succeed with its microgrids offerings:
- Flexible energy consumption to reduce power costs: Firms must mitigate exposure to fluctuating energy prices by exploring on-site generation and storage. For example, Citycon, a real estate owner and developer, is developing a microgrid-enabled city center in Espoo, Finland in partnership with Schneider Electric. Schneider Electric and Citycon project the program will save $352,000 in energy costs per year with an ROI of 5 years in conjunction with investment aid for new technologies.
- Increased resilience against grid failures: EcoStruxure Microgrid Advisor uses predictive analytics to carefully balance electricity consumption and generation for resilience. The platform can ingest historical data, weather forecasts, energy market pricing and scheduled operations to optimize energy flows in case of grid outages. For example, the US Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego installed a microgrid from Schneider Electric to ensure continued power access during sustained grid outages of up to 14 days.
- On-site renewable generation and storage for corporate decarbonization goals: Many businesses are pursuing net zero goals to align with governmental targets, such as the Paris Agreement. Lidl Finland installed a microgrid from Schneider Electric at a 60,000m2 distribution center. Projections estimate that the facility will reduce energy consumption by 50% and enable 100% renewable energy consumption through on-site generation and clean energy purchase agreements.
- Smarter use of renewable energy and EV charging to decarbonize operations: Governments worldwide are introducing a shift from fossil fuel vehicles toward EVs. Montgomery County is deploying a microgrid for EV charging at the Brookville Smart Energy Bus Depot through an EaaS agreement with Schneider Electric's AlphaStruxure. The microgrid integration will deliver reliable charging to a fleet of 44 electric buses, cutting carbon emissions by 62% and enabling the county to maintain bus services during power outages.
Having installed over 300 microgrids to date, Schneider Electric provides monitoring and predictive controls, comprehensive building automation, and de-risks the investment into microgrids with Energy as a Service joint ventures GreenStruxure and AlphaStruxure.
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New Restaurant Franchise Specializing in Chicken Salad Coming to Tyler, Texas
Ooohh, a new restaurant franchise based in Auburn, Alabama is heading soon to Tyler, Texas.
Granted, we already have so many incredible restaurants in East Texas, but honestly, we're pretty excited about this new option.
OK, here's the scoop on the new restaurant franchise coming to 4712 South Broadway in what was once called Macy's Plaza in Tyler:
Chicken Salad Chick is a franchise that was started in Auburn, Alabama by Stacy and Kevin Brown in 2008.
If you head over to their website and take a look at what will be on offer, we think you'll be pretty excited, too. Chicken Salad is a much-loved culinary staple in the South. And while we have other great places to get it here in East Texas, the varieties they'll be serving look so good.
In addition to their signature recipes like Classic Carol and Olivia's Old South, they also offer spicy options like the Jalapeno Holly, Buffalo Barclay, and the Kickin' Kay Lynn which they describe on their website as "a combination of buffalo sauce, ranch, bacon, shredded cheddar cheese, jalapeños, & Sriracha!" YUM.
They also offer several other "savory" chicken salad options, too.
What other menu offerings besides Chicken Salad will be served at their soon-to-be Tyler, Texas location?
They'll also serve pimento cheese, signature sandwiches, soups, salads, and sweet treats. Speaking of those sweet treats, these seasonal cheesecakes they offer are driving us crazy just reading about them.
Plus, their general philosophy will so resonate with the East Texas spirit. Here's what they have to say on their website (link above):
"Welcome to Chicken Salad Chick, where we offer delicious, scratch-made, Southern-style, craveable favorites served from the heart. We don’t believe in strangers, just friends we haven’t met yet—so come in and enjoy! You’ll find fresh, healthy fare and gracious hospitality at our chicken salad restaurant."
The new restaurant will be in the former Gaudy Me location in Tyler.
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NEW YORK (AP) — When Daniella Malave started working for Chipotle at 17, the main benefit she was seeking was free food. As it turned out, she also got a free college education.
While working full time for the chain, Malave completed two years of community college with annual stipends of $5,250 from Chipotle. After that, she enrolled in the company’s free online college program, through which she earned a bachelor’s degree in business management from Wilmington University in 2020.
“I didn’t have to pay for my education,” said Malave, 24, who now works as a recruiting analyst for Chipotle in New Jersey. “Every time I say it out loud, I’m like, ‘Is this real?’”
Chipotle is one of more than a dozen companies that have launched free or almost-free college programs for their front-line workers over the last decade. Since 2021 alone, Walmart, Amazon, Target, Macy’s, Citi and Lowe’s have made free college available to more than 3 million U.S. workers.
Companies see the programs as a way to recruit and retain workers in a tight labor market or train them for management positions. For hourly employees, the programs remove the financial barriers of obtaining a degree.
Thousands of people are now taking advantage of the benefits. Starbucks, which operates an online college program through Arizona State University, says 22,000 workers are currently enrolled in its program. Guild Education, which administers programs for Walmart, Hilton, Disney and others and offers online programs at more than 140 schools, says it worked with 130,000 students over the last year.
But some critics question whether the programs are papering over deeper problems, like pay so low that workers can’t afford college without them or hours so erratic that it’s too hard to go to school in person.
“I do think they are providing these programs to skirt around the issue of just paying people more, giving people more certainty, improving their quality of life,” said Stephanie Hall, a senior fellow at The Century Foundation, a nonpartisan think tank.
Hall said a lack of data also makes it difficult to judge the programs’ effectiveness. Chipotle, Walmart, Amazon and Starbucks, for example, don’t share graduation rates, in part because they’re hard to calculate because students often take a semester off or take more than four years to earn a degree. Rachel Carlson, CEO for Guild Education, which also doesn’t reveal graduation rates, says the more relevant data is whether college classes help employees get promotions or wage increases.
Others question the quality of the online programs and whether students’ degrees will be marketable or help them pursue other careers, especially since many companies limit what employees can study. Discover only fully funds 18 bachelor’s degrees at eight universities through Guild, for example.
“My sense is that most of these programs are hoping that employees would stay with the company,” said Katharine Meyer, a fellow in the governance studies program for the Brown Center on Education Policy at the Brookings Institution.
Amazon for its part touts college programs that offer opportunities outside the company, like nursing. But Walmart pared down the number of programs it offers to 60 from 100 because it wanted to focus on skills that would align with careers at the company.
More than 89,000 workers have participated in Walmart’s college program and more than 15,000 have graduated, said Lorraine Stomski, Walmart’s senior vice president of associate learning and leadership.
Tanner Humphreys is one of them. He started working at Walmart in 2016, bouncing around hourly jobs as he tried to accommodate his in-person class schedule at Idaho State University. But under the company’s online program, which it launched with Guild in 2018, he transferred his credits to Southern New Hampshire University and graduated in February with a bachelor’s degree in computer science. At 27, he now works at Walmart’s headquarters for its cybersecurity team as a salaried employee.
“I was working paycheck to paycheck, living with a whole bunch of friends to pay my rent and stuff,” he said. “The change from an hourly to salary is truly life changing.”
Companies paying for college or graduate school isn’t new. But for decades, the benefit was mostly offered to salaried professionals. In many cases, workers were required to spend thousands of dollars for tuition up front and then get reimbursed by their company.
Starbucks’ program, which launched in 2014, was initially a tuition-reimbursement program, but in 2021, it began covering tuition costs upfront. Now, 85% of the company’s stores have at least one employee in the program, which will celebrate its 10,000th graduate in December.
Carlson said companies see an average return of $2 to $3 for every dollar they put into education because it saves recruitment and retention costs. Walmart said participants leave the company at a rate four times lower than non-participants and are twice as likely to be promoted.
“If I know it’s going to cost me $7,000 to have my cashier not show up tomorrow, I would rather spend our average of our partners today — $3,000 to $5000 — paying for her to go to college,” Carlson said.
Companies say the programs also give opportunities to minorities. Macy’s, which started its program with Guild earlier this year, said that half of the women enrolling are women of color.
Some companies, like Chipotle and JPMorgan Chase, offer online programs through Guild as well as stipends students can put toward in-person learning at local institutions. Amazon’s college programs offer a mixture of online and in-person learning at local community colleges or universities.
Hall said she would like to see more companies offer that kind of flexibility, since online learning isn’t ideal for everyone.
Zachary Hecker, 26, a Starbucks employee in New Braunfels, Texas, began working toward his bachelor’s in electrical engineering last summer through the company’s college program.
Hecker appreciates the free tuition, but he often wishes he could attend classes in person or have more choices beyond Arizona State. His classes are challenging, he said, and professors aren’t always able to meet and offer guidance.
But Carlson said online classes are ideal for the average Guild enrollee, who is a 33-year-old woman with children. Carlson said students in its programs often lack consistent access to a car and need to be able to study anytime, like after kids are in bed.
The chance to earn a free degree can be life-changing. Angela Batista was 16 and homeless when she started working for a Starbucks in New York.
“College was never in my dream,” Batista said, now 38. “I didn’t even have the audacity to fantasize about it.”
This December, she will graduate from Arizona State University with a degree in organizational leadership paid for by Starbucks. And now her son, who also works at Starbucks, is starting work toward his own degree.
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Voting starts in occupied regions of Ukraine on referendums to join Russia in balloting labeled a sham by the West.
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(WHTM) — Haason Reddick has emerged as a star for the Philadelphia Eagles this season, and his journey to Glendale, Arizona for the Super Bowl is a remarkable ride that began at Haddon Heights High School in New Jersey.
“We were standing in the middle of the field with the team just running some sprints and this kid ran by us that was like six foot tall, 190 and was flying,” Haddon Heights head coach Chris Lina said. “He was moving fast. That was our first introduction to like this kid is going to be special.”
He had to wait until college to prove it. A fractured growth plate junior year and torn meniscus senior year left Reddick unrecruited, but he was offered a preferred walk on spot at Temple due to his athleticism
“The only thing that was on my mind at the time was having the chance and opportunity to play football again,” Reddick said. “I wasn’t worried about the NFL. I was trying to get on the field any way I can at any position just to play the game again.”
He was moved around plenty. After arriving on Temple’s campus as a defensive back, Reddick moved to linebacker, then defensive end, where he thrived.
“To project a kid from wide receiver, free safety or corner to outside linebacker at a division one school… I’d be lying if I said I could see that coming,” Lina said.
Reddick drew buzz with nine and a half sacks his senior year, but his dazzling NFL combine performance vaulted him up to the 13th overall pick to the Arizona Cardinals.
It was far from a made it moment for Reddick, who had to shake off a bust label after a few disappointing years playing out of position in Arizona.
“If you’re talking about a kid that used to play cornerback and he’s playing inside backer, that’s just… that’s one of the tougher positions to play in the NFL,” Lina said. “He was just out of position. It was tough.”
Reuniting with his college coach Matt Rhule in Carolina allowed an NFL staff to unlock Reddick’s talents as a pass rusher, where he tallied 11 sacks in 2021. The homecoming to Philly was just a matter of time.
“You talk about a team I watched growing up on Sundays, went to a couple games growing up,” Reddick said. “When I put that pen to paper I had fulfilled a childhood dream of mine.”
Finally back home, Reddick enjoyed a career year with the Eagles, ranking second in the NFL in sacks and first in forced fumbles, including a signature performance in Philly’s 31-7 NFC Championship win over San Francisco.
“He won that game in the first quarter for them,” Lina said.
Even through NFL success and a multimillion dollar contract, Reddick has stayed grounded, paying visits to Haddon Heights where it all started to continue supporting his alma mater.
“He wants to give back to his communities, he wants to be around, help out, no matter what he makes or who he is.” | 2023-02-10T16:30:36+00:00 | wcia.com | https://www.wcia.com/sports/the-big-game/hometown-hero-haason-reddicks-journey-to-the-super-bowl/ |
PLEASANTON, Calif., Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Movano Inc. (NASDAQ: MOVE), a purpose-driven healthcare solutions company at the intersection of medtech and consumer devices, today announced the development of a beta testing program with Stanford Health Applied Sports Science Department. The beta test, which is expected to commence in the fourth quarter of 2022, will utilize the Movano Ring, Movano's first commercial product designed to track and analyze medical grade data and deliver insights to consumers across a wide spectrum of healthcare needs, and prepare the Company for its commercial launch in the first half of 2023.
"Stanford University and our Applied Sports Science department are continually looking to apply the latest technology, like the Movano Ring, to drive innovation that facilitates the ethical enhancement of athletic performance and improve the quality of life of the Stanford athlete," said Tyler Friedrich, Director of Olympic Sports Performance and Applied Sport Science at Stanford University.
"People today are increasingly seeking connected solutions that give a more holistic picture of their overall health. The Movano Ring is being designed to sit at the intersection of the medical and consumer device market, providing medical-grade diagnostics in addition to lifestyle fitness stats to help people gain greater control over their health," said John Mastrototaro, CEO of Movano Inc. "The opportunity to test our technology with a group of Stanford's most elite athletes, who rely on health data to optimize their performance and feel their best, will be crucial in testing and improving the effectiveness of our solution."
About Movano
Founded in 2018, Movano Inc. (NASDAQ:MOVE) is developing a suite of purpose-driven healthcare solutions to bring medical-grade, high-quality data to the forefront of consumer health devices. Featuring modern form factors, Movano's wearables capture a comprehensive picture of a person's vital health information and uniquely translate the data into personalized and intelligent insights that empower consumers to live healthier and more balanced lives. Movano's end-to-end solutions will soon enable a world where consumers, caretakers and healthcare professionals can utilize daily health data as a tool to proactively monitor and manage their health. For more information, visit www.movano.com.
Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements concerning our expectations, anticipations, intentions, beliefs or strategies regarding the future. These forward-looking statements are based on assumptions that we have made as of the date hereof and are subject to known and unknown risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results, conditions and events to differ materially from those anticipated. Therefore, you should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. Examples of forward-looking statements include, among others, statements we make regarding expected future operating results; product development efforts and product releases; clinical trial and regulatory initiatives; commercial partner activities; as well as our strategies, positioning and expectations for future events or performance. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements are set forth in our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and any subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, and in our other reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including under the caption "Risk Factors." Any forward-looking statement in this release speaks only as of the date of this release. We undertake no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statement, whether written or oral, that may be made from time to time, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise.
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Lease agreement finalized for future San Diego museum to open mid-next year
ATLANTA, Sept. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Museum of Illusions®, a global leader in "edutainment" and the biggest chain of private museums worldwide, announced today the global brand's plans to open a new museum in San Diego, California, in Q3 2023.
The finalized lease agreement is bringing an almost 10,000-square-foot museum to San Diego's bustling Gaslamp Quarter. The brand new museum will feature mentally-stimulating optical illusions, 3D holograms, brain-puzzling exhibits and interactive illusion rooms designed for visitors of all ages to enjoy.
"San Diego is renowned for its rich history, culture, diversity and world-class family attractions, and we could not be more excited to add the truly one-of-a-kind Museum of Illusions experience to this exciting market," said Jonathan Benjamin, CEO of Museum of Illusions. "Each new location we're opening through the continued global expansion of the Museum of Illusions brand stands out as unforgettable in its own unique ways, so I can't wait for people to see what we have in store for San Diego."
The museum coming to San Diego promises to add a unique new excitement for both locals and tourists alike in the renowned city that already features popular attractions including U.S. naval bases, largest Comic-Con convention in the nation, San Diego Zoo, USS Midway and more. People travel from all over the world to enjoy the wide variety of non-traditional shopping, dining and entertainment experiences that the Gaslamp Quarter offers, making it the perfect destination for the Museum of Illusions experiential retail concept.
The new Museum of Illusions coming to San Diego will contribute to the brand's plans of having 100 museums open around the world by the close of 2026. As the brand continues to grow with nearly 40 museums open and operating around the world, Museum of Illusions is well on its way to achieving its network growth goals, introducing new style and design concepts along the way to take each museum to the next level. The brand's aggressive expansion across the globe has U.S. locations slated to open new Museum of Illusions in the near future in Washington, DC; Scottsdale, Arizona; Charlotte, North Carolina; Atlanta, Georgia, Austin, Texas; Mall of America and more.
For more information about the Museum of Illusions and its franchise opportunities, visit www.museumofillusions.com or email at info@museumofillusions.com.
About RP Illusions Corp.
RP Illusions Corp. is a U.S.-based corporation that develops and franchises museums across the world. The company's primary goal is to provide memorable and exciting educational opportunities while evolving its approach to creativity, art, and entertainment. The Museum of Illusions is a global leader in "edutainment", with 37 locations in 25 countries worldwide. The company plans to continue expanding by providing unique educational, visual, and entertaining experiences with high-quality service. For more information about the Museum of Illusions visit www.museumofillusions.com or email at info@museumofillusions.com.
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HURON, Ohio (WJW) – A suspected bank burglar was busted when he gave new meaning to the term “direct deposit.”
Police in Huron, Ohio watched as the suspected bank thief dropped from the ceiling over the drive-thru, right in front of their eyes.
Police body camera video obtained by the WJW shows the incident. Officers can be heard ordering the suspect on the ground, and then helping get him out of the recycling can. The suspect was not injured.
“In my 35-plus years in law enforcement, this is the first time I ever saw a suspect fall into a garbage can,” said Huron Police Chief Terry Graham.
Graham said around 2:12 a.m. Wednesday, police received an alarm from the VacationLand Federal Credit Union located on University Drive East.
While checking the building, officers could hear noises coming from inside the roof area over the drive-thru.
They also noticed the recycling can positioned in the middle of the drive-thru lane, directly under a roof access door. The officers heard noises coming from inside the bank and patiently waited.
“I am most impressed with our officers’ patience in a very difficult situation,” the chief said. “The tactics they used, I think, substantially contributed to no one being injured and the suspect being taken into custody.”
Tristan Heidl, 27, was arrested and charged with breaking and entering, possession of criminal tools and safecracking.
Police say Heidl had a backpack full of construction tools.
“He did get inside the bank and attempt to open numerous areas in the bank that contain money,” the chief said.
Police say Heidl was unable to get inside the safe and crash-landed with empty pockets.
“He didn’t get a dime,” Graham said.
Heidl is being held in the Erie County Jail on a $50,000 bond. He is due back in court soon. | 2023-07-29T03:24:04+00:00 | qcnews.com | https://www.qcnews.com/nexstar-media-wire/watch-ohio-bank-burglary-suspect-falls-from-ceiling-lands-in-recycling-can-near-officers/ |
The Andersons, Inc. Reports Strong Fourth Quarter Results; Record Full Year Earnings
Published: Feb. 14, 2023 at 4:05 PM EST|Updated: 7 hours ago
MAUMEE, Ohio, Feb. 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Andersons, Inc. (Nasdaq: ANDE) announces financial results for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2022.
Fourth Quarter Highlights:
Company reported net income from continuing operations attributable to The Andersons of $15 million, or $0.44 per diluted share, and adjusted net income from continuing operations of $34 million, or $0.98 per diluted share
EBITDA from continuing operations was $79 million for the quarter, and adjusted EBITDA from continuing operations was $104 million
Trade reported pretax income of $27 million and record adjusted pretax income of $52 million, driven by strong elevation margins and merchandising
Renewables reported pretax income of $19 million and pretax income attributable to the company of $13 million on solid plant performance and good merchandising
"We finished the year with strong fourth quarter results, particularly in our Trade segment. Our merchandising teams and grain assets had outstanding results from improving basis after harvest, sales into destinations experiencing crop deficits, storage income and rising propane values. With another record quarter, our Trade business is positioned to execute well in these favorable markets with continuing strong ag fundamentals," said President and CEO Pat Bowe.
"We enjoyed very good results in renewable fuels on solid renewable feedstock values but didn't experience the outsized ethanol margins that occurred in the fourth quarter of 2021 due to supply chain disruptions. The ethanol crush margin outlook is currently challenged but we expect this to improve with seasonal maintenance shutdowns and increased driving demand," added Bowe. "Our Plant Nutrient segment had mixed results with good fall applications and farmer engagement on specialty liquids but more limited early orders of granular fertilizer as buyers are waiting for declining prices to stabilize. With strong farm income, this sets us up well for a higher volume spring planting season although likely at more normalized margins. Our growth project pipeline remains robust, and we expect to close several transactions and continue making growth investments in 2023."
Cash, Liquidity and Long-Term Debt Management
"Strong operating cash flows continued into the fourth quarter, and we have significantly reduced short term borrowings as much of our grain acquired during harvest include extended payments to producers," said Executive Vice President and CFO Brian Valentine. "We repurchased $5 million in common shares in the quarter. With a strong balance sheet and a long-term debt to EBITDA ratio well below our target of 2.5 times, we are well-positioned to fund good growth projects with appropriate returns."
The company generated $440 million and used $170 million in cash from operating activities for the fourth quarters of 2022 and 2021, respectively, and generated $90 million and $84 million in cash from operations before working capital changes for the same periods, respectively.
Fourth Quarter Segment Overview
Trade Posts Record Fourth Quarter Driven by Grain Assets and Merchandising Performance
Trade recorded pretax income of $27 million and adjusted pretax income of $52 million for the quarter, 50% more than pretax income of $18 million and nearly double adjusted pretax income of $27 million in the fourth quarter of the prior year.
Strong elevation margins in core grain assets and merchandising drove the significant improvement. The quarter over quarter increase reflects rising basis values, storage income, and healthy margins on shipments into grain deficit destinations. Our international merchandising business also continued to perform well in the fourth quarter.
Ag supply chain opportunities are expected to remain very strong in 2023. Continued worldwide demand coupled with supply uncertainty due to the ongoing war in Ukraine and potential weather impacts in global grain production regions, continues to keep commodity prices relatively high and provide ongoing merchandising opportunities.
An adjustment was made for an asset impairment charge of $9 million due to a reorganization of western US grain assets. Earnings were also adjusted for a $16 million charge for insured inventory that was damaged in a late December fire.
Trade's fourth quarter adjusted EBITDA was $72 million, which is 71% higher than fourth quarter 2021 adjusted EBITDA of $42 million. Full year adjusted EBITDA increased from $151 million in 2021 to a record $199 million in 2022, primarily as a result of improved elevation margins and outstanding merchandising results.
Renewables Posts Another Good Quarter
The Renewables segment reported pretax income of $19 million and pretax income attributable to the company of $13 million in the fourth quarter compared to record pretax income of $59 million and pretax income attributable to the company of $27 million in the same period of the prior year. Ethanol board crush margins for the 2022 fourth quarter were down over $0.90/gallon from the very strong fourth quarter of 2021. Renewable diesel feedstock merchandising results improved with the volume merchandised more than double the fourth quarter of 2021.
Sales volumes for ethanol, corn oil, and feed ingredients were up, driven by higher production and additional third-party sales from the merchandising business. Spot ethanol crush margins have declined into 2023 and are expected to seasonally move upward with driving demand. Corn oil demand is expected to remain high and merchandising of low-carbon-intensive renewable feedstocks should remain strong as additional renewable diesel facilities begin operations driving significant growth.
Renewables recorded EBITDA of $36 million in the fourth quarter of 2022, compared to 2021 fourth quarter EBITDA of $78 million. For the full year, Renewables recorded EBITDA of $180 million in 2022, an increase of $14 million from 2021.
Plant Nutrient Declines from Record Prior Year on Lower Demand and Falling Prices
Plant Nutrient recorded pretax income of $2 million in the fourth quarter compared to record pretax income of $16 million in the same period of 2021. Falling fertilizer prices have likely shifted some demand from the fourth quarter of 2022 into 2023 as buyers wait for prices to moderate. Strong farmer income and lower prices are expected to drive higher volumes of agricultural fertilizers in the spring season, albeit at more normalized margins.
Plant Nutrient's current quarter EBITDA was $11 million compared to 2021 fourth quarter EBITDA of $24 million. For the full year, Plant Nutrient recorded EBITDA of $73 million in 2022, comparable to the prior year.
Conference Call
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The Andersons, Inc., having been named one of America's Greatest Workplaces for Diversity 2023 by Newsweek®, is a diversified company rooted in agriculture that conducts business in the commodity merchandising, renewables, and plant nutrient sectors. Guided by its Statement of Principles, The Andersons is committed to providing extraordinary service to its customers, helping its employees improve, supporting its communities, and increasing the value of the company. For more information, please visit www.andersonsinc.com.
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VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican Museums are home to some of the most magnificent artworks in the world, from Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel to ancient Egyptian antiquities and a pavilion full of papal chariots. But one of the museum’s least-visited collections is becoming its most contested before Pope Francis’ trip to Canada.
The Vatican’s Anima Mundi Ethnological Museum, located near the food court and right before the main exit, houses tens of thousands of artifacts and art made by Indigenous peoples from around the world, much of it sent to Rome by Catholic missionaries for a 1925 exhibition in the Vatican gardens.
The Vatican says the feathered headdresses, carved walrus tusks, masks and embroidered animal skins were gifts to Pope Pius XI, who wanted to celebrate the Church’s global reach, its missionaries and the lives of the Indigenous peoples they evangelized.
But Indigenous groups from Canada, who were shown a few items in the collection when they traveled to the Vatican last spring to meet with Francis, question how some of the works were actually acquired and wonder what else may be in storage after decades of not being on public display.
Some say they want them back.
“These pieces that belong to us should come home,” said Cassidy Caron, president of the Metis National Council, who headed the Metis delegation that asked Francis to return the items.
Restitution of Indigenous and colonial-era artifacts, a pressing debate for museums and national collections across Europe, is one of the many agenda items awaiting Francis on his trip to Canada, which begins Sunday.
The trip is aimed primarily at allowing the pope to apologize in person, on Canadian soil, for abuses Indigenous people and their ancestors suffered at the hands of Catholic missionaries in notorious residential schools.
Caron said returning the missionary collection items would help heal the intergenerational trauma and enable Indigenous peoples to tell their own story.
“For so long we had to hide who we were. We had to hide our culture and hide our traditions to keep our people safe,” she said. “Right now, in this time when we can publicly be proud to be Metis, we are reclaiming who we are. And these pieces, these historic pieces, they tell stories of who we were.”
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More than 150,000 Native children in Canada were forced to attend state-funded Christian schools from the 19th century until the 1970s in an effort to isolate them from the influence of their homes and culture. The aim was to Christianize and assimilate them into mainstream society, which previous Canadian governments considered superior.
Official Canadian policy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries also aimed to suppress Indigenous spiritual and cultural traditions at home, including the 1885 Potlatch Ban that prohibited the integral First Nations ceremony.
Government agents confiscated items used in the ceremony and other rituals, and some of them ended up in museums in Canada, the U.S. and Europe, as well as private collections. The Vatican’s catalogue of its Americas collection, for example, features a wooden painted mask from the Haida Gwaii islands of British Columbia that “is related to the Potlatch ceremony.”
During the spring visit, Natan Obed, who headed the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami delegation, raised the issue of an Inuit kayak in the collection that was featured in a 2021 report in The Globe and Mail newspaper. Obed was quoted by the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. as saying the museum head, the Rev. Nicola Mapelli, was open to discussing its return.
Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni didn’t rule out that Francis might repatriate some items during the coming trip, telling reporters: “We’ll see what happens in the coming days.”
There are international standards guiding the issue of returning Indigenous cultural property, as well as individual museum policies. The 2007 U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, for example, asserts that nations should provide redress, including through restitution, of cultural, religious and spiritual property taken “without their free, prior and informed consent or in violation of their laws, traditions and customs.”
It is possible Indigenous peoples gave their handiworks to Catholic missionaries for the 1925 expo or that the missionaries bought them. But historians question whether the items could have been offered freely given the power imbalances at play in Catholic missions and the government’s policy of eliminating Indigenous traditions, which Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission has called “cultural genocide.”
“By the power structure of what was going on at that time, it would be very hard for me to accept that there wasn’t some coercion going on in those communities to get these objects,” said Michael Galban, a Washoe and Mono Lake Paiute who is director and curator of the Seneca Art & Culture Center in upstate New York.
Gloria Bell, a fellow at the American Academy in Rome and assistant professor in McGill University’s department of art history and communication studies, agreed.
“Using the term ‘gift’ just covers up the whole history,” said Bell, who is of Metis ancestry and is completing a book about the 1925 expo. “We really need to question the context of how these cultural belongings got to the Vatican, and then also their relation to Indigenous communities today.”
The Holy See’s Indigenous collection began centuries ago, with some pre-Columbian items sent to Pope Innocent XII in 1692, and has been amplified over the years by gifts to popes, especially on foreign trips. Of the 100,000 items originally sent for the 1925 exhibit, the Vatican says it has kept 40,000.
It has repatriated some items. In 2021, Vatican News reported that the Anima Mundi had recently returned to Ecuador a shrunken head used in rituals by the Jivaroan peoples of the Amazon.
Katsitsionni Fox, a Mohawk filmmaker who served as spiritual adviser to the spring First Nations delegation, said she saw items that belong to her people and need to be “rematriated,” or brought back home to the motherland.
“You can sense that that’s not where they belong and that’s not where they want to be,” she said of the wampum belts, war clubs and other items she documented with her phone camera.
The Vatican Museums declined repeated requests for an interview or comment.
But in its 2015 catalogue of its Americas holdings, the museum said they demonstrated the church’s great esteem for world cultures and its commitment to preserving their arts and artifacts, as evidenced by the excellent condition of the pieces.
The catalogue also said the museum welcomes dialogue with Indigenous peoples, and the museum has held up its collaboration with Aboriginal communities in Australia before a 2010 exhibit. The collection’s director, Mapelli, a missionary priest and an associate visited those communities, took video testimonies and traveled the world seeking more information about the museum’s holdings.
Opening the revamped Anima Mundi gallery space in 2019 with artifacts from Oceania as well as a temporary Amazon exhibit, Francis said the items were cared for “with the same passion reserved for the masterpieces of the Renaissance or the immortal Greek and Roman statues.”
He noted that some items had recently been loaned to China and said the collection “invites us to live human fraternity, contrasting the culture of rancor, racism and nationalism.”
Francis also praised the museum’s stated commitment to transparency, noting the glass partitions showing the storage facilities upstairs and the restorers’ workstations on the main floor: “Transparency is an important value, above all in an ecclesiastic institution.”
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You might miss the Anima Mundi if you were to spend the day in the Vatican Museums. Official tours don’t include it and the audio guide, which features descriptions of two dozen museums and galleries, ignores it entirely. Private guides say they rarely take visitors there, because there is no explanatory signage on display cases or wall text panels.
Margo Neale, who helped curate the Vatican’s 2010 Aboriginal exhibition as head of the Centre for Indigenous Knowledges at the Australian National Museum, said it is unacceptable for Indigenous collections today to lack informational labels.
“They are not being given the respect they deserve by being named in any way,” said Neale, a member of the Kulin and Gumbaingirr nations. “They are beautifully displayed but are culturally diminished by the lack of acknowledgement of anything other than their ‘exotic otherness.’”
It wasn’t clear if the current exhibition was a work in progress with labels eventually to be added; at the gallery entrance, a text panel asks for donations to fund the collection.
Museums and governments around Europe — in places like Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium — are grappling with the question of their colonial and postcolonial collections, and leading the discussion of legally transferring property back, experts say. With some exceptions, the trend is increasingly toward repatriation — recently agreements were announced in Germany and France to return pieces of the famed Benin Bronzes to Nigeria.
“There is a certain willingness growing in a number of European countries to return objects and archives and ancestral remains,” said Jos van Beurden, who runs a group email list and a Facebook group, Restitution Matters, that tracks developments in the field.
In Canada, the Royal British Columbia Museum has gone so far as to create a handbook empowering Indigenous communities to reclaim their cultural heritage.
In Victoria, the city where the museum is located, Gregory Scofield has amassed a community collection of about 100 items of Metis beadwork, embroidery and other workmanship dating from 1840 to 1910, tracked down and acquired via online auctions and through travel and made available to Metis scholars and artists.
Scofield, a Metis poet and author of the forthcoming book “Our Grandmother’s Hands: Repatriating Metis Material Art,” said any discussion with the Vatican Museums should focus on granting Indigenous scholars full access to the collection and, ultimately, bringing items home.
“These pieces hold our stories,” he said. “These pieces hold our history. These pieces hold the energy of those ancestral grandmothers.”
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COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The Ohio State football program has only landed two five-star offensive linemen that didn’t have strong in-state ties since 2018.
The first Nicholas Petit-Frere in 2018, and even that one came with a caveat. Frere came from Berkeley Prep in Florida, the same high school that former OSU defensive coordinator Greg Schiano’s son was attending. It gave the Buckeyes a way in during that recruitment and resulted in a victory easing the blow of losing out on in-state five-star Jackson Carman to Clemson.
The other came in the following cycle in the former of Harry Miller out of Georgia thanks to Ryan Day, who was still the offensive coordinator at the time of his commitment.
Since then, things haven’t gone so well.
Paris Johnson Jr. was the top tackle in the 2020 class, but he’s also from Cincinnati. That’s only a big deal if the Buckeyes don’t win the recruiting battle, and even that took them having to double down after Day replaced Urban Meyer. The next cycle brought in Donovan Jackson as the nation’s top guard. He went to high school in Texas, but he’s originally from Ohio, making this another easy sell.
They make up the left side of OSU’s starting offensive line this fall, and as long as their healthy, things will be fine. The problem is that right now, there’s no depth either in the present or the future, putting a ton of pressure on new offensive line coach Justin Frye to deliver in the 2023 recruiting class. His best chance of doing so is with Samson Okunloala, who’s cut down his options to nine.
Ohio State joins Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Miami, Michigan State, Oklahoma, Oregon and Penn State as the finalist to land the nation’s No. 31 player and No. 3 offensive tackle.
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Okunlola hasn’t set any official visits yet, but the Buckeyes must get one. They didn’t get a chance to host him on an unofficial this spring, and he’s yet to come to Columbus since earning an offer last year. The only schools he’s been to this year are Michigan — who didn’t make the cut — and Michigan State, while the Wolverines also sent offensive line coach Sherrone Moore to see him.
Frye spent his first six months on the job accomplishing part one of using this cycle to replenish the offensive line room. He arrived with Josh Padilla already in the class, then quickly added Luke Montgomery and Austin Sierveld giving OSU the top three in-state offensive linemen for the first time since 2009. That left plenty of time to focus on the remaining national targets, especially at offensive tackle, where the need is more apparent.
He lost out on Kadyn Proctor before he ever could establish a relationship. Chase Bisontis was once an OSU lean but has since eliminated the program from consideration. A late offer to Francis Mauigoa hasn’t proven to be fruitful.
Those losses don’t leave Frye with many top-tier options left. Okunlolala headlines that group Ohio State continues to fight for. As we head into a month filled with official visits, it still has a chance of ending its drought of five-star national offensive tackles.
The first step was making sure OSU was still in the running. The next will be securing one of the five official visits prospects are allowed to take.
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Chicago's top doctor noted what could be the start of a shift in COVID variants heading into fall and winter, but how concerning is it?
Here's what you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic across Illinois today:
Chicago's Top Doctor Points to Signs of Change in COVID Variants Heading Into Fall
Chicago's top doctor pointed to what could be the start of a change in COVID variants circulating in the U.S. and Midwest this week.
"We are starting to see a little bit of a change here," Chicago Department of Public Health Commissioner Dr. Allison Arwady said during a Facebook Live Tuesday, pointing specifically to changes in the BA.2.75 and a new BF.7 variant.
Read more here.
Here Are the COVID-19 Variants Being Tracked by the CDC, Including New BF.7
A new COVID-19 variant growing in numbers as the BA.5 omicron subvariant begins to decline is one of several variants currently being tracked by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention heading into fall and winter, as experts watch for a mutation that could cause yet another surge in the pandemic.
While the omicron subvariant BA.5 has been the dominant strain of COVID in the United States for several months, there are at least four other subvariants starting to gain ground in recent weeks.
Read more here.
How Soon After Having COVID Can You Get the New COVID Vaccine Booster Shots?
If you recently had COVID-19, when is the best time to get the new omicron-specific booster shot?
According to federal officials, there are no restrictions for getting the booster around a recent COVID infection. Anyone who has received a primary COVID vaccine is eligible two months from their last dose of either the original vaccines or the previous booster shots.
But Chicago's top doctor, who recently recovered from COVID herself, said while there is no requirement to wait, some people might consider postponing their latest dose if they've been recently infected.
Read more here.
Is The COVID Pandemic ‘Over,' as Biden Says? Chicago Experts Weigh In
After making headlines with comments that the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. is over, President Joe Biden is being taken to task by doctors who say that such language could paint an overly-rosy picture of the situation as the fall and winter months approach.
“The pandemic is over,” Biden said during an appearance on “60 Minutes” over the weekend. “We still have a problem with COVID, and we’re still doing a lot of work on it, but the pandemic is over.”
Read more here.
Do Omicron COVID Vaccine Booster Shots Protect Against Infection? Top Doc Explains
How well will the new bivalent COVID booster shots protect against infection from the newest variants and mutations, including the now-dominant omicron subvariant BA.5?
While health officials have said vaccines continue to show effective protection, particularly when it comes to severe outcomes of the virus, experts hope the newest shots could go even further.
Read more here.
New COVID Variants Gain Ground as BA.5 Cases Slow, CDC Says
While the omicron subvariant BA.5 has been the dominant strain of COVID in the United States for several months, there are at least four other subvariants starting to gain ground in recent weeks.
According to the latest estimates released by the CDC on Tuesday, the BA.5 subvariant is still responsible for 84.8% of COVID cases in the United States.
That subvariant, which has been the dominant strain of COVID in the U.S. since early July, peaked at nearly 90% of cases at one point, but has slowly begun to decline as at least four other types of omicron begin to circulate in the population.
Read more here.
Not Sure If Your Symptoms Are Long COVID or Something Else? Here's What to Know
As respiratory infections rise, cold and flu season begins, allergy season persists and the BA.5 omicron subvariant continues its dominance, it can be hard to differentiate what exactly is behind your COVID symptoms -- especially as some linger longer than others.
The Chicago area has reported a sharp rise in child hospitalizations in recent weeks due to a variety of respiratory infections. Meanwhile, nearly two dozen Illinois counties remain at a high community level for COVID and allergy season continues to take its toll.
Read more here.
What to Expect With Possible Side Effects of the Bivalent COVID Vaccine Booster Shots
With the arrival of the long-awaited COVID-19 booster shots geared to target BA.4 and BA.5 omicron subvariants, many may be curious about its possible side effects as they prepare for another vaccination.
Turns out, the new boosters may not be much different from your last dose.
Read more here.
Coronavirus in Illinois: Nearly 18K New Cases, 74 Deaths Reported in Last Week
Illinois health officials reported 17,584 new COVID-19 cases over the past week, along with 74 additional deaths, marking a decrease in cases from a week prior, as 20 counties within the state remain at a "high" community level for COVID-19.
The previous week, Illinois reported 19,933 new cases and 64 deaths. The week before that, 26,127 new cases and 70 deaths were reported.
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Illinois Reports Highest Vaccine Numbers in Months Following Strong Demand for New COVID Booster Shots
More than 188,000 Illinois residents have been given a dose of the newly-updated bivalent COVID-19 booster shots, which health officials assert will likely be key to curbing an anticipated coronavirus surge in the coming months.
The modified boosters, which contain half the original COVID-19 vaccine recipe and half protection against the newest omicron subvariants, were authorized by federal health regulators at the beginning of September and started being given out days later.
Read more here.
Gov. Pritzker Announces Change to COVID-19 Requirements in Illinois
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s administration on Thursday announced a change to the state’s COVID mitigation strategies.
Among the new guidelines was an update to testing requirements for school and childcare employees. Unvaccinated employees in those settings will no longer be required to test twice weekly.
The change goes into effect Friday, according to the governor's office.
Read more here.
Will COVID Symptoms Shift Heading Into Fall and Winter? What Experts Say to Expect
As COVID symptoms have shifted since the start of the pandemic, many are wondering what to expect next as the variant is expected to continue mutating heading into fall and winter. What are experts watching for?
With the pandemic heading into its third winter, Chicago health experts noted on Tuesday that newer variants can bring changes in symptoms - in fact, they already have.
Read more here.
Which Respiratory Illnesses Are Behind the Recent Surge in Child Hospitalizations in Chicago Area?
A recent spike in child hospitalizations due to respiratory illnesses across the Chicago area has caught the attention of health experts, with colder weather likely to make respiratory illnesses even more prevalent.
As COVID-19 remains a health concern, other common respiratory viruses that often present themselves in common cold symptoms are behind a surge that is occurring significantly earlier than a typical spike in illnesses occurs each year that coincides with colder weather.
Read more here.
What Are the Possible Side Effects of the Omicron-Specific COVID-19 Booster Shots?
With the arrival of the long-awaited COVID-19 booster shots geared to target BA.4 and BA.5 omicron subvariants, many may be curious about its possible side effects.
Well, the new boosters actually may not be as different from what previous renditions of the vaccines entailed in terms of side effects.
Read more here.
Respiratory Illnesses Leading to Early Surge in Child Hospitalizations. Here's What to Know
Fall and winter are usually the times respiratory illnesses spike, but a recent surge in child hospitalizations in the Chicago area has some health officials concerned.
"Right now we're seeing a lot of RSV, we're seeing some other respiratory viruses, you know, lot of kids right now being hospitalized broadly with some respiratory viruses - more traditional ones," Chicago Department of Public Health Commissioner Dr. Allison Arwady said during a Facebook Live Tuesday.
Health experts across the area are reporting a rise in hospitalizations due to respiratory illnesses in children. And some say the COVID pandemic could have an impact on this surge.
Read more here.
Are You Still Contagious With COVID After 5 Days? Here's What We Know
As COVID's incubation period changes, what does that mean for isolation time and how long you are contagious?
During a Facebook Live last month, Chicago Department of Public Health Commissioner Dr. Allison Arwady reported that recent studies have shown the incubation period for COVID has dropped to three days with recent variants.
Read more here.
How Long Are You Contagious With COVID? The Incubation Period Has Changed, Top Doc Says
COVID's incubation period has changed with the extra-contagious BA.4 and BA.5 omicron subvariants, Chicago's top doctor said, but what does that mean for how long you are contagious?
During a Facebook Live last month, Chicago Department of Public Health Commissioner Dr. Allison Arwady reported that recent studies have shown the incubation period for COVID has dropped to three days with recent variants.
Read more here.
Can You Mix and Match Your COVID Booster Shot?
For those who are planning to get a COVID booster shot, will they need to get the same vaccine as their primary series or can they mix and match?
The answer depends.
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If You've Already Had a Booster Shot, Can You Get the New COVID Vaccine?
The new COVID vaccines designed to specifically target the omicron variant and its highly contagious subvariants come with plenty of questions, including some from those wondering if they can still get the updated booster even if they already had a booster vaccine?
The answer is yes, as long as your last booster dose was at least two months ago.
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PALM BEACH, Fla., Aug. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Florida Association of the American Institute of Architects (AIA Florida) celebrated inspiring work at the annual AIA Florida Design & Honor Awards on July 30 at The Breakers in Palm Beach.
The Design Awards were selected by a jury of experts based in Barcelona, Spain, continuing a tradition of AIA Florida architects competing on a global stage. The Design Awards encourage excellence in architecture, elevate public consciousness of good design, and recognize those architects whose work enriches our built environment. The Honor Awards recognize the work of members who embody the ideals of the American Institute of Architects both professionally and in their community.
"Once again, architects from AIA Florida, AIA Puerto Rico and AIA Virgin Islands have shown the high caliber of work that we do here," said AIA Florida President Lourdes Solera, FAIA. "We hope the examples of work and the architects we featured will empower and inspire other members to achieve even more."
The winners, selected from more than 300 entries, are:
KoDA and Joeb Moore & Parnters, Honor Award for Unbuilt Work, Lake House, Sunset Islands, Florida.
Perkins&Will, Honor Award for Unbuilt Work, Core Wynwood, Miami.
Contin Architecture and Design, Merit Award for Unbuilt Work, Micro Loft/Sky Garden, Lake Worth Beach, Florida.
HKS Architects, ODA, MD Studio, EDSA; Citation Award for Unbuilt Work; Shipyards Mixed-Use Development, Jacksonville.
Chandler & Associates Architecture P.A., Citation Award for Unbuilt Work, The Roads Townhouses, Miami.
Daniela Perez and Richard Salinas, Florida International University, Honor Award for Theoretical & Research, Student, for "Living Structures: An Exploration into the Applications of Mutualism in the Built Environment."
Studio Zeren, Citation Award in Theoretical & Research, Student, for the Gainesville Center for Civic Arts, Gainesville, Florida.
Gregory Rendon Jr., Citation Award in Theoretical & Research, Student, Florida International University, The Langston Hughes Literary Center, New York City.
Omayra Rivera-Crespo, Assoc. AIA, Ph.D. and Yara M. Colón Rodriguez, taller Creando Sin Encargos and CITHAD-PR, Honor Award in Theoretical & Research, Professional, for "Casas Resilientes: Resisting Disaster by Redefining Housing."
Trevor Boyle, AIA, Merit Award in Theoretical & Research, Professional, for Breezeway Mobile House.
John Sandell, Assoc. AIA, and Dr. Shermeen Yousif, Florida Atlantic University, Citation Award in Theoretical & Research, Professional, for "Airflow Simulation for Informing Environment Design: Apartment Housing in Tropical Climates."
Jonathan Kirk, AIA, Merit Award in Masonry, sponsored by the Florida Concrete Products Association and the Masonry Association of Florida, for the Lake Crago Outdoor Recreation Complex, Lakeland, Florida.
Perkins&Will, Merit Award of Excellence for Interiors, Global Audio Streaming Service Provider, Miami.
Halflants+Pichette, Citation Award of Excellence for Interiors, Architecture Studio, Sarasota, Florida.
Wannemacher Jensen Architects and W Architecture & Landscape Architecture LLC, Merit Award of Excellence for Sustainability, St. Petersburg Pier Approach and Park, St. Petersburg.
SOLSTICE Planning and Architecture, city of Sarasota, John F. Swift/Haskell, Kimley-Horn and Associates Inc.; Citation Award of Excellence for Sustainability; St. Armands Parking Garage; Sarasota, Florida.
Seibert Architects P.A., Honor Award of Excellence for Renovations & Additions, Lido House, Lido Key, Florida.
Silva Architects LLC and AECOM, Merit Award of Excellence for Renovations & Additions, city of Coral Gables Fire Station 2 and Trolley Maintenance Facility, Coral Gables, Florida.
Birse/thomas, Citation Award of Excellence for Renovations & Additions, Discovery Learning Hub, West Palm Beach, Florida.
Brillhart Architecture, Honor Award of Excellence for New Work, 125th Street Residence, Pinecrest, Florida.
Adjaye Associates, design architect and HuntonBrady Architects, architects of record; Honor Award of Excellence for New Work; Winter Park Library and Events Center; Winter Park, Florida.
MATEU Architecture, Merit Award of Excellence for New Work, CASA 34°58'N 83°20'W, Sky Valley, Georgia.
Fentress Architecture, architect of record and Arquitectonica, design architect; Merit Award of Excellence for New Work; Miami Beach Convention Center Redevelopment, Expansion and Renovation; Miami Beach, Florida.
Halflants+Pichette, Merit Award of Excellence for New Work, Risdon on 5th, Sarasota, Florida.
Arquitectonica, Merit Award of Excellence for New Work, University of Miami Lakeside Village Student Housing, Coral Gables, Florida.
Victor J Latavish Architect, Citation Award of Excellence for New Work, Ave Maria Law School Sports Complex, Naples, Florida.
Traction Architecture, Citation Award of Excellence for New Work, Five Twelve House, Tampa.
Gensler, Citation Award of Excellence for New Work, 545wyn, Miami.
[STRANG] Design, Honor Award for Historic Preservation and Restoration, The Gene Leedy House, Winter Haven, Florida.
Dasher Hurst Architects, design/preservation architect, and KBJ Architects Inc, architect of record; Honor Award for Historic Preservation and Restoration; The Barnett National Bank Building; Jacksonville.
Charles Rose, FAIA, Honor Award for Test of Time, Leeper Studio Complex at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, Florida.
Carl Abbott, FAIA, Architect/Planner, Citation Award for Test of Time, Triangle House, A Florida Key.
Jeffrey Huber, FAIA, Brooks+Scarpa Architects, Object Award, Var.Densa.
Jeffrey Huber, FAIA, Florida Atlantic University, William G. McMinn, FAIA, Award for Outstanding Architectural Education Contributions.
AIA Florida Northwest, The Anthony "Tony" Pullara Chapter Award. Glenn Hettinger, AIA, Photographer of the Year.
Nautilus Homes, Sarasota, Builder of the Year.
Glenn Remler, Sherwin Williams, Allied Member of the Year.
Arthur Sheffield, Assoc. AIA, Associate Member of the Year.
Peacock+Lewis Architects and Planners, Firm of the Year.
Dan Kirby, FAIA, AIA Florida Honor Award for Social Advancement of the Profession.
J. Michael Huey, Hon. AIA, Vicki Long Lifetime Service to the Profession Award.
Joyce Owens, FAIA, RIBA, the Gold Medal.
The Florida Association of the American Institute of Architects, headquartered in Tallahassee, represents the interests of more than 3,900 members in Florida. Members adhere to a code of ethics and professional conduct that assures the client, the public and colleagues of an AIA-member architect's dedication to the highest standards in professional practice.
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LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Alex Gilady, an International Olympic Committee member from Israel who also previously served as a senior vice president of NBC Sports, has died. He was 79.
The IOC announced Gilady's death on Thursday. IOC member John Coates of Australia said Gilady died Wednesday in London.
No cause of death was given.
Gilady worked in television for much of his career after playing soccer and basketball. He was appointed to the radio and television commission in 1984 and he became an IOC member 10 years later, according to the Olympic body.
“With the passing of Alex Gilady we are losing a pioneer of the modern Olympic movement, particularly in regard to broadcasting, but also far beyond that,” IOC President Thomas Bach said. “He has always stood up for the Olympic values, often when sometimes the situation was not easy for him.”
The IOC said the Olympic flag will be flown at half-staff at the Olympic House in Lausanne for three days to honor Gilady.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — As wildfires rage across California each year, exhausted firefighters call for reinforcements from wherever they can get them — even as far as Australia.
Yet one homegrown resource is rarely used: thousands of experienced firefighters who earned their chops in prison. Two state programs designed to get more former inmate firefighters hired professionally have barely made a dent, according to an Associated Press review, with one $30 million effort netting jobs for just over 100 firefighters, little more than one-third of the inmates enrolled.
Clad in distinctive orange uniforms, inmate crews protect multimillion-dollar homes for a few dollars a day by cutting brush and trees with chainsaws and scraping the earth to create barriers they hope will stop flames.
Once freed from prison, however, the former inmates have trouble getting hired professionally because of their criminal records, despite a first-in-the-nation, 18-month-old law designed to ease their way and a 4-year-old training program that cost taxpayers at least $180,000 per graduate.
“It’s absolutely an untapped pool of talent,” said Genevieve Rimer, who works with former inmates trying to clear their records. “Thousands of people are coming back from California’s fire camps annually. They have already been trained. They have a desire to go and put their lives on the line in order to ensure public safety.”
California is hardly alone in needing seasoned smoke eaters, but the nation’s most populous state faces different challenges than other more sparsely settled Western regions. A wildfire that nearly leveled the Sierra Nevada foothills town of Paradise nearly four years ago, for instance, was the nation’s deadliest wildfire in nearly a century, killing 85 people.
The U.S. Forest Service is short about 1,200 firefighters, 500 of them in California, and the Interior Department is down about 450 firefighters, 150 of them in California, said two of the state’s top elected officials, U.S. Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Alex Padilla, in a recent letter to Biden administration officials.
Other Western states are grappling with the issue. Nevada is considering a program like Arizona’s “Phoenix Crew,” which started in 2017 and provides mostly former inmate firefighters a pipeline to firefighting jobs.
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the California legislation in 2020, allowing former inmates to seek to withdraw guilty pleas or overturn convictions. A judge can then dismiss the charges. Former inmates convicted of murder, kidnapping, arson, escape and sex offenses are excluded.
Since the law took effect, the nonprofit Forestry & Fire Recruitment Program, started by two former inmate firefighters, has worked with the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles to help former inmates clear their records and get hired.
Yet they have only been able to file 34 petitions, and just 12 had records expunged during what the program warns “can be a long and drawn out process.”
Ashleigh Dennis is one of at least three attorneys filing expungement petitions through the Oakland-based advocacy group Root & Rebound. She has similarly been able to file just 23 requests, with 14 granted.
Among other hurdles, applicants must show a judge evidence they have been rehabilitated, and the expungement only applies to crimes they were incarcerated for while working in firefighting crews. Many people have unrelated convictions that must be separately expunged.
It’s been a learning curve to educate judges about the law and get the corrections department to speed up certifying to the court that inmates have served as firefighters, said Dennis and one of her clients, Phi Le. He petitioned the court in October and his record was expunged in January.
Da’Ton Harris Jr.’s record was finally cleared in August, about 18 months after starting the process.
“I’m out here, a public servant, risking my life every day to try and better my community,” said Harris. “I don’t think it was a smooth transaction at all.”
Despite his record, Harris obtained firefighting jobs with the U.S. Forest Service, the state’s firefighting agency Cal Fire, and the Forestry & Fire Recruitment Program.
But like Le, his advancement was limited because his criminal record made him ineligible for an Emergency Medical Technician certification, an obstacle that disappeared with the expungement. Outside of temporary federal and state firefighting agency jobs, most fire departments require applicants to be licensed EMTs — a certification the state bans certain felons from obtaining because the job comes with access to narcotics and sharp objects.
Rimer, the Forestry & Fire Recruitment Program’s director of supportive services, said California should automatically expunge records of eligible former inmates, much as it does for those convicted of antiquated marijuana crimes. And it should include their entire criminal record, she said.
“I think it spearheaded opportunity for people, but I don’t think it’s good enough,” she said of the expungement law.
The law’s author, Assembly Majority Leader Eloise Reyes, a Democrat from San Bernardino, has been struggling ever since to learn how many former inmates it has helped. She said many former inmates have contacted her office to praise “the life-changing impact of the legislation.”
The corrections department informs eligible inmates about the law but doesn’t track expungements, said department spokeswoman Tessa Outhyse. Cal Fire, the court system and the state Department of Justice also couldn’t say how many have had their records expunged.
In another effort, California in 2018 created a training program to help former inmates get hired professionally.
The 18-month program is run by Cal Fire, the California Conservation Corps, the state corrections department and the nonprofit Anti-Recidivism Coalition at the Ventura Training Center northwest of Los Angeles. Conservation corps members also are eligible. Former inmates convicted of arson or sex offenses are excluded.
Participants spend six months on life skills and firefighter training and the next year fighting or preventing fires and doing other community service, for which they are paid $1,905 a month. The center has four fire crews with 60 participants.
In four years the program has cost over $29.5 million but has just 106 graduates.
Nearly all found a professional job: 98 are with Cal Fire and three are with other agencies including the Orange County Fire Authority and the U.S. Forest Service, according to corrections officials. Cal Fire provided slightly different figures.
But they’re the fortunate ones among the 277 who have participated since the program’s inception. Another 111 participants, or 40%, left before completing the program, said Outhyse.
Climate change is making wildfires more frequent and destructive, so the shortage comes at a time when demand for wildfire crews is going up.
And the state is turning more to professional wildland firefighters, largely because inmate crews are less available after voters shortened criminal sentences and officials released thousands of lower-level inmates early to prevent coronavirus infections.
This August about 1,670 inmates are in fire camps, including staff like cooks and laundry workers, down about 40% from August 2019. The corrections department was budgeted for 152 crews this year, but fielded just 51, each with about 15-18 firefighters.
With fewer inmate crews, California is turning more to other agencies. The conservation corps is responsible for filling 30 crews, Cal Fire 26 and the California National Guard 14.
The state also is creating what officials called the first all-hazards fire engine strike team operated by a state National Guard. The fire engines can respond both to wildfires and urban blazes.
“We’ve recognized for a few years now that due to early release, due to COVID, a number of other reasons, we have to do something,” said Battalion Chief Issac Sanchez, a Cal Fire spokesman.
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Gabe Stern contributed to this story from Reno, Nevada. Stern is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues. Follow Stern on Twitter @gabestern326. | 2022-08-22T07:10:09+00:00 | localsyr.com | https://www.localsyr.com/news/national/western-fires-outpace-california-effort-to-fill-inmate-crews/ |
(WJET/WFXP/YourErie.com) — The Erie Police Department is announcing a recent drug bust from search warrants.
The EPD found pounds of suspected fentanyl, thousands in cash and two firearms.
On April 20, the Erie Police Drug/Vice unit served the warrants on 1055 Rankine Ave and 2020 A3 E. 10th St.
In the searches, the police found 2.6 pounds of suspected fentanyl, more than $18,500 in cash, a .22- and a 9mm-caliber handgun, an EPD news release said. A hand-held press and hydraulic press, a money counter, a vacuum-seal machine, six cellphones and two digital scales also were found.
According to the DEA, one kilogram (2.2 pounds) of fentanyl contains 500,000 lethal doses.
EPD announced that Dejean Williams is being charged with possession with intent to deliver, possession, person not to possess a firearm and drug paraphernalia, and Sharhea Mathis is being charged with possession with intent to deliver, possession and drug paraphernalia. | 2022-06-20T19:35:58+00:00 | mytwintiers.com | https://www.mytwintiers.com/news-cat/pennsylvania-news/erie-police-raid-uncovers-2-6-pounds-of-fentanyl-cash-guns/ |
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Diplomatic tensions soared Sunday between Balkan rivals Serbia and Croatia after Croatia refused to allow a private visit by Serbia's populist president to the site of a World War II concentration camp where tens of thousands of Serbs were killed by pro-Nazi authorities in Croatia.
Croatia's authorities said they learned about the planned visit to the Jasenovac camp by Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic through “unofficial channels.” Foreign Minister Gordan Grlic Radman told reporters that the fact that the Croatian government had not been formally notified of the visit was “unacceptable.”
“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs would like to stress that in the planning of any visit by foreign officials the time, nature and program of the visit should be subject of official communication and agreement by both sides,” said Grlic Radman. “This was not a trip to the seaside. The president of a country is a protected individual.”
Croatia's decision sparked outrage in neighboring Serbia, where officials described it as “scandalous." Serbia's hardline Interior Minister Aleksandar Vulin said all Croatian officials from now on would have to announce any transit or visit to Serbia, and would be placed under “special regime of control.” He did not elaborate.
“This was an anti-European and anti-civilization decision and brutal violation of the freedom of movement," Serbian Prime Minister Ana Branabic told the pro-government Pink television. “I don't know what our relations will look like in the future ... This is sending a frightening message.”
Relations between Serbia and Croatia have remained tense since the breakup of the former Yugoslavia and the 1991-95 war in Croatia that erupted when its Serb minority, backed by Serbia, rebelled against Croatia's independence. More than 10,000 people were killed in the war.
Although the two nations have pledged to work to resolve remaining problems from the conflict — such as finding those still missing — occasional diplomatic spats have marred the postwar efforts. Serbia's populist authorities have insisted that Croatia's government has not done enough to acknowledge its World War II past, while Zagreb accuses Serbia of using the issue for internal politics and refusing to deal with own role in the 1990s' war.
“We see this as a provocation," Grlic Radman said. He added “such a visit is not sincere, it is not about honoring the victims" of the Jasenovac camp, where tens of thousands of Croatia's Serbs, Jews and Roma perished in brutal executions during the WWII rule of the pro-Nazi authorities.
Vucic, a former ultranationalist who supported the Serb rebellion in Croatia in the 1990s, has scheduled a press conference for Monday. He responded Sunday in an Instagram post featuring a photo of the Jasenovac monument.
“You (Croatia) just do your job! The Serbian people will live and never forget!” said Vucic. | 2022-07-17T14:21:43+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/Diplomatic-spat-erupts-between-Balkan-rivals-17310432.php |
Which microwaveable rice cookers are best?
Cooking rice isn’t particularly difficult, but it can be finicky, and improperly cooked rice can impact your entire meal. A quality rice cooker streamlines this process, ensuring you get the right amount of rice properly cooked.
While there are plenty of electric rice cookers on the market, you can save money and counter space by opting for a microwaveable rice cooker. You can pop these pot-like cookers in the microwave to cook your rice, then store them with the rest of your cookware when not in use. There are a lot of microwaveable rice cookers on the market. For a well-designed and versatile cooker, check out Joseph Joseph’s microwave rice cooker.
What to know before you buy a microwaveable rice cooker
When it comes to microwaveable rice cookers, there aren’t as many considerations to look out for as with electric rice cookers, which makes for a less complicated purchasing experience. Even so, there are a few things to be aware of when picking out your rice cooker.
Capacity
You’ll need your cooker to be able to handle the amount of rice you typically cook, so capacity is important. Microwaveable rice cookers typically range in capacity from 4-8 cups, although there are larger models available. If you only need to serve a couple of people, don’t rush to get the biggest one, as larger cookers have a harder time fitting in many medium and small microwaves. If you cook for multiple people, an 8-cup cooker is a safe choice.
Ease of use
Microwave cookers tend to be pretty straightforward, but some are easier to use than others. There are some that just cook rice and don’t require much learning or getting used to, so you can get started right away. If you want a cooker that can properly cook more than just rice, however, you may need to carefully read through some instructions before use, as these units have more pieces and complex venting systems.
Material
The majority of microwaveable rice cookers are made entirely out of plastic because it is one of the only materials that can safely cook rice in the microwave. If avoiding plastic at all costs is your goal, you may want to consider other rice cooking methods. However, there are products on the market aiming to alleviate this problem. By mixing a small amount of plastic with more eco-friendly materials, companies can produce rice cookers that can still safely go in the microwave while minimizing the plastic content.
What to look for in a quality microwaveable rice cooker
Versatility
Most microwaveable cookers can handle most grains in addition to rice, while some can handle pasta as well. There are other rice cookers on the market that have added pieces and technical features or accessories that allow for thorough cooking of vegetables and even meat. If you have limited kitchen storage, a multi-functional rice cooker is a great way to reduce the number of gadgets you need; however, they cost more than simple models, and the pieces and techniques can take some getting used to.
How much you can expect to spend on a microwaveable rice cooker
On average, expect to spend $15-$45 on a microwaveable rice cooker, although most consumers can look for models in the $20-$30 range. Price typically is determined by how cheap the plastic is and how many accessories or features are included with the cooker.
Microwaveable rice cooker FAQ
Can you use a dish you already have to cook rice?
A. Similar to pressure cookers, microwaveable rice cookers are specifically designed to move heat around in just the right way, making for a more even cook than other methods. Microwave cookers take half as much time to make perfect rice than the stovetop method, and they are easier to maneuver.
Can you cook something other than rice in your cooker?
A. Most rice cookers can handle other grains, such as quinoa, but if you want to cook pasta, vegetables, or meat in your microwaveable rice cooker, you need to check the manufacturer’s recommendations, as there typically are additional features designed to help cook these foods properly.
What are the best microwaveable rice cookers to buy?
Top microwaveable rice cooker
Joseph Joseph 45002 M-Cuisine Microwave Rice Cooker
What you need to know: This large 2-liter rice cooker is stylish and functional, perfect for evenly cooking rice for the whole household.
What you’ll love: Designed with pieces that fit together both for storage and for cooking, this dishwasher-safe rice cooker is large and multifunctional. The strainer doubles as the bucket, and the steamer lid sits on top of the bucket and locks into place with the spoon, creating a carrying handle. It is made from BPA-free plastic and is available in three colors.
What you should consider: The white hull stains easily.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top microwaveable rice cooker for the money
Handy Gourmet Eco-Friendly Microwave Pressure Cooker
What you need to know: This all-around pressure cooker does it all with 40% less plastic than other models at an affordable price.
What you’ll love: Made from a combination of earth-friendly wheat fiber and BPA-free plastic, this pressure cooker has a unique aesthetic. Dishwasher safe and easy to store, this 2.5-liter pressure cooker is ideal for individuals who know their way around a kitchen.
What you should consider: This cooker may be confusing for those unfamiliar with pressure cookers, and it may be too large for small microwaves.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Lékué Microwave Rice, Grain and Quinoa Cooker
What you need to know: Beautifully crafted, this rice cooker is simple and effective, and easy to use for both newbies and experienced cooks.
What you’ll love: Made with two molded walls and an air gap in between, this rice cooker maintains safe temperatures externally even when the internal contents are boiling hot. Utilizing a silicone lid with high walls to prevent leakage, this smaller rice cooker will produce the perfect amount of rice or quinoa for a couple of servings.
What you should consider: The lid does not lock on and may be too small for some households.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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HERSHEY, Pa., May 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Hershey Company (NYSE: HSY) announced today the pricing of its offering of $350,000,000 of 4.250% notes due 2028 and $400,000,000 of 4.500% notes due 2033 (the "Notes Offering") in a public offering. The Hershey Company intends to use the net proceeds of the Notes Offering to repay all of its outstanding 2.625% Senior Notes due 2023 and 3.375% Senior Notes due 2023, plus in each case, accrued and unpaid interest thereon, pay fees and expenses related to the offering and for general corporate purposes.
A registration statement relating to the Notes Offering has been filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and is effective. This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or an offer to buy any securities and shall not constitute an offer, solicitation or sale in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful. The Notes Offering may be made only by means of a prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus.
Copies of the prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus for the Notes Offering may be obtained by contacting BofA Securities, Inc., NC1-004-03-43, 200 North College Street, 3rd floor, Charlotte NC 28255-0001, attention: Prospectus Department, email: dg.prospectus_requests@bofa.com, toll-free: 1-800-294-1322; Citigroup Global Markets Inc., c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, NY 11717, toll-free: 1-800-831-9146, email: prospectus@citi.com; J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions, Attn: Prospectus Department, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, NY 11717, or by telephone: 1-866-803-9204; and RBC Capital Markets, LLC, Brookfield Place, 200 Vesey Street, 8th Floor, New York, NY 10281 toll-free: (866) 375-6829, fax: (212) 428-6308, email: rbcnyfixedincomeprospectus@rbccm.com.
About The Hershey Company
The Hershey Company is headquartered in Hershey, Pa., and is an industry-leading snacks company known for bringing goodness to the world through its iconic brands, remarkable people and enduring commitment to help children succeed. Hershey has approximately 19,000 employees who work every day to deliver delicious, quality products. The company has more than 100 brand names in approximately 80 countries around the world that drive more than $10 billion in annual revenues, including such iconic brand names as Hershey's, Reese's, Kit Kat®, Jolly Rancher and Ice Breakers, and fast-growing salty snacks including SkinnyPop, Pirate's Booty and Dot's Homestyle Pretzels.
For more than 125 years, Hershey has been committed to operating fairly, ethically and sustainably. Hershey founder, Milton Hershey, created the Milton Hershey School in 1909 and since then the company has focused on helping children succeed.
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Modelo tops Bud Light in sales again
Published: Jul. 10, 2023 at 1:26 PM CDT|Updated: 59 minutes ago
(CNN) – Modelo beer has topped sales of Bud Light for the second month in a row.
For the four weeks ending July 1, Modelo Especial took 8.7% of overall beer sales, compared to Bud Light’s 7% share, according to NIQ data.
Bud Light held the top spot for nearly two decades, but sales dropped off after a backlash from conservatives over a social media promotion with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney.
Bud Light has since rolled out a new marketing campaign in an effort to turn sales back around. It focuses on country music and NFL players.
Bud Light continues to be the top-selling beer in the United States year to date, but Modelo appears to be slowly closing the gap.
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Court backs teacher firing over transgender students’ names
By Kathleen Foody – The Associated Press
CHICAGO (AP) — An Indiana school district did not violate a former music teacher’s rights by pushing him to resign after the man refused to use transgender students’ names and gender pronouns, a federal appeals court said in an order released Friday.
The decision from the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a prior ruling in the case by a federal judge.
According to court records, John Kluge was hired in 2014 as the music and orchestra teacher for Brownsburg High School about 20 miles (32 kilometers) northwest of Indianapolis. In 2017, district officials began requiring the high school’s teachers to use the names and pronouns listed in the school’s official student database, where changes were permitted with letters from a student’s parent and a doctor.
Kluge told the school’s principal, Bret Daghe, on the first day of classes for the 2017 school year that he had a religious objection to using transgender students’ names and pronouns. District officials agreed that Kluge could call students by their last name and would not be responsible for handing out orchestra clothing.
But at least two transgender students reported that Kluge’s refusal to use their first names singled them out in front of peers and was hurtful. Other students, teachers and counselors also told officials that the issue made Kluge’s classroom uncomfortable for many.
In January, the district told teachers that everyone would be required to use the names and pronouns listed for students in the database. In response to Kluge questioning whether the rule would also apply to him, officials told him he could abide by it, resign or be fired.
Kluge resigned and then sued the school for religious discrimination.
An Indiana federal judge ruled that Kluge’s refusal to use transgender students’ names and pronouns created an undue hardship on the district, which is responsible for educating all of its students.
The appeals court agreed, writing that district officials tried to accommodate Kluge’s religious objection but realized that letting the music teacher use last names “resulted in students feeling disrespected, targeted, and dehumanized, and in disruptions to the learning environment.”
“Brownsburg has demonstrated as a matter of law that the requested accommodation worked an undue burden on the school’s educational mission by harming transgender students and negatively impacting the learning environment for transgender students, for other students in Kluge’s classes and in the school generally, and for faculty,” the opinion read.
Rory Gray, an attorney with the conservative legal group Alliance Defending Freedom, is representing Kluge and said they are considering next steps.
“Congress passed Title VII to prevent employers from forcing workers to abandon their beliefs to keep their jobs,” Gray said in a statement. “In this case, Mr. Kluge went out of his way to accommodate his students and treat them all with respect. The school district even permitted this accommodation before unlawfully punishing Mr. Kluge for his religious beliefs.”
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s debt-laden economy has “collapsed” after months of shortages of food, fuel and electricity, its prime minister told lawmakers Wednesday, in comments underscoring the country’s dire situation as it seeks help from international lenders.
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe told Parliament the South Asian country is “facing a far more serious situation beyond the mere shortages of fuel, gas, electricity and food. Our economy has completely collapsed.”
While Sri Lanka’s crisis is considered its worst in recent memory, Wickremesinghe’s assertion that the economy has collapsed did not cite any specific new developments. It appeared intended to emphasize to his critics and opposition lawmakers that he has inherited a difficult task that can’t be fixed quickly, as the economy founders under the weight of heavy debts, lost tourism revenue and other impacts from the pandemic, as well as surging costs for commodities.
Lawmakers of the country’s two main opposition parties are boycotting Parliament this week to protest against Wickremesinghe, who became prime minister just over a month ago and is also finance minister, for not having delivered on his pledges to turn the economy around.
Wickremesinghe said Sri Lanka is unable to purchase imported fuel, even for cash, due to heavy debt owed by its petroleum corporation.
“Currently, the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation is $700 million in debt,” he told lawmakers. “As a result, no country or organization in the world is willing to provide fuel to us. They are even reluctant to provide fuel for cash.”
Wickremesinghe took office after days of violent protests over the country’s economic crisis forced his predecessor to step down. In his comments Wednesday, he blamed the previous government for failing to act in time as Sri Lanka’s foreign reserves dwindled.
The foreign currency crisis has crimped imports, creating severe shortages of food, fuel, electricity and other essentials such as medicines, forcing people to stand in long lines to obtain basic needs.
“If steps had at least been taken to slow down the collapse of the economy at the beginning, we would not be facing this difficult situation today. But we lost out on this opportunity. We are now seeing signs of a possible fall to rock bottom,” he said.
So far, Sri Lanka has been muddling through, mainly supported by $4 billion in credit lines from neighboring India. But Wickremesinghe said India would not be able to keep Sri Lanka afloat for long.
It also has received pledges of $300 million-$600 million from the World Bank to buy medicine and other essential items.
Sri Lanka has already announced that it is suspending repayment of $7 billion in foreign debt due this year, pending the outcome of negotiations with the International Monetary Fund on a rescue package. It must pay $5 billion on average annually until 2026.
Wickremesinghe said IMF assistance seems to be the country’s only option now. Officials from the agency are visiting Sri Lanka to discuss a rescue package. A staff-level agreement is likely to be reached by the end of July.
“We have concluded the initial discussions and we have exchanged ideas on various sectors such as public finance, finance, debt sustainability, stability of the banking sector and the social security network,” Wickremesighe said.
Representatives of financial and legal advisers to the government on debt restructuring, Lazard and Clifford Chance, are also visiting the island and a team from the U.S. Treasury will arrive next week, he said. | 2022-06-22T15:39:11+00:00 | siouxlandproud.com | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/international/sri-lanka-pm-says-economy-has-collapsed-unable-to-buy-oil/ |
ROME (AP) — Italian police on Wednesday arrested 29 suspected smugglers as they smashed a transnational operation that for years brought migrants illegally into Italy by sea and then moved them overland into northern Europe, authorities said.
The nearly four-year-long investigation was spearheaded by prosecutors in Calabria, the “toe” of the Italian peninsula, where many of these migrants arrive from Turkey or Greece, often on well-outfitted sailboats that elude detection by police or military personnel.
In Calabria, Catanzaro Chief Prosecutor Nicola Gratteri described the investigation as groundbreaking in terms of understanding how a series of smuggling gangs work together, from point of origin to point of destination for the migrants, as well as in following the trail of the laundered revenues — profits off people’s misery and desperation.
“For the first time we succeeded in demonstrating all the passages, all the steps, of the migrant, depending on the passenger’s origin and desired destination,” Gratteri told reporters. “For example, departing from Syria and going to Oslo (Norway), or wherever they wanted to go.”
Depending on how much the migrants could pay — investigators said some paid as much as 15,000 euros ($16,500) apiece just for the sea leg of the voyage, although the going rate appeared to be 10,000 euros — the passengers on the land routes to northern Europe either took trucks, trains or taxis across Italy’s northern land borders. Transit points included Ventimiglia, an Italian city near its border with France and Trieste, in eastern Italy near Slovenia.
Police said colleagues in Turkey, Greece, Belgium, Germany, Sweden, Britain and Morocco collaborated in the investigation that led to the arrests. The operation began at dawn Wednesday in Italy when some 200 officers fanned out in various cities, including other major points on the smugglers’ land routes, the cities of Milan and Turin.
From the moment the migrants set foot in southern Italy — either in Calabria or in Puglia, an adjacent region forming the “heel” of the peninsula — the smugglers looked after the travelers until they could be moved into northern Europe, according to written statements by the Italian police.
“In effect, a real and true system of illegal welcome, organized both abroad and in various Italian cities, that included food and lodging in the various stops, was created, and to which the migrants entrusted themselves completely,” Francesco Messina, a top Italian police official, said in a statement.
All that came at a price. After reaching Italy, migrants would be charged as much as 600 euros ($660) to reach northern cities like Milan, before the next stage taking them overland into countries north of Italian borders.
Elaborating at a news conference, Messina said that besides smuggler “cells” in Greece and in Turkey, the investigation found seven more operating in Italy.
“Essentially, the passage of the migrant from one cell to another had a sort of geographic connotation,” the police official said.
One of those cells, based in Trieste, also served as the money-processing hub, investigators said. The smugglers used complicit figureheads to transfer money weekly abroad, in sums low enough to avoid triggering suspicion.
Another key point in the operations was Thessaloniki, Greece, investigators said. From that gathering point, migrants were moved to Athens, then to Patras, where they waited until they could set sail in smugglers’ sailboats. Still, others directly set sail for Italy’s southern coastline from Izmir, a Turkish port, Italian police said.
The smugglers exploited a sea route plying the eastern Mediterranean and used sailboats — less likely to appear to be a migrant vessel than the frequently used overcrowded rubber dinghies or decrepit wooden fishing boats, according to the Italian authorities.
Those arrested risk being charged with aiding illegal immigration and money laundering in connection with about 30 sea voyages, police said. Many of the crew were from Ukraine or other former Soviet Union countries, while the ringleaders were mainly from Iraqi Kurdish areas, according to the Italian authorities.
Most of the passengers were of Asian or Middle Eastern origin, the police said.
It was an aging wooden boat, and not a sailboat, that capsized and splintered after smashing into a sandbank just off a Calabrian beach on Feb. 6, killing 92 migrants. Authorities said the smugglers aboard deliberately kept the boat for hours longer at sea, despite very high waves, in hopes of eluding detection by police ashore.
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Follow AP’s coverage of global migration at https://apnews.com/hub/migration | 2023-05-10T23:58:55+00:00 | pahomepage.com | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/international/italy-smashes-cross-border-migrant-smuggling-ring/ |
Sassuolo visits last-place Sampdoria, which has already been relegated, in Serie A. Sassuolo is 13th and already assured of an 11th consecutive season in the top flight. Sassuolo is based in the Emilia-Romagna region that has been hit by deadly floods lately.
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