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Which blinds are best?
Keeping your home feeling calm and cool, especially in the summer heat, doesn’t have to come at a high cost. Blinds are an economical, aesthetically pleasing way to maintain a stable temperature in your home and block out any unwanted light. For simple, chic blinds that will help keep your space cool and shady, the GoDear Extendable Four-Rail Track Vertical Blind is the best.
What to know before you buy blinds
Cost-effective temperature control
Unlike paying for the electricity and upkeep of fans or air conditioning, blinds are a one-time purchase that, with the proper care, can last you a lifetime of light and temperature protection without any maintenance or usage costs. Simply hang a blind in front of a window and you’ll instantly notice a shift in temperature. Similarly, curtains are an effective long-term investment to block out light and add pizzazz to your space.
Light control
Besides providing temperature maintenance, blinds help block out unwanted light, helping you sleep in during the morning or avoid distracting light pollution at night. The level of light protection depends on the type of material used and the thickness of the blind.
Roller blinds vs. hanging sheet blinds
Blinds come in two main styles. Depending on your space or preference, one may work better for you than the other.
- Roller blinds can be adjusted up or down with a cord.
- Hanging sheet blinds close horizontally.
What to look for in quality blinds
Material
Some of the most common materials used for blinds are woven fabric, bamboo, polyester and metal.
- Bamboo and other reed materials are a great bet for an earthy look and homeowners find them easy to keep clean.
- Woven fabrics offer a light, summery look and are easier to clean, but fall on the expensive side of the price scale.
- Polyester blinds, on the other hand tend, to be more affordable and offer a clean modern look. They’re lightweight and typically easy to install.
- Metal blinds (usually aluminum) offer sturdy, durable sun protection. They require little maintenance, though it’s best you limit their contact with moisture and humidity to prevent rust. They can be noisy when they shake or collide with other objects in the room.
Day and night mode
Some blinds can be shifted from day mode (allowing light to pass through) to night mode (closed so that light is kept out). Typically, these are designed with roller mechanics, so hanging woven fabric blinds don’t offer this feature.
Measurements
Having the proper measurements on hand for your space is the trickiest part of installing blinds, since you’ll want them to be as close to your desired dimensions as possible. That said, some are adjustable or trimmable, meaning even if you can’t find a blind with your exact measurements, you may be able to mend it to your needs.
How much you can expect to spend on blinds
Depending on the construction, material and maker, blinds cost about $20-$200. Typically, polyester and plastic constructions cost less ($20-$50), whereas wood, metal or fabric cost more ($60-$200).
Blinds FAQ
I accidentally bought blinds that are too long for my room. What should I do?
A. Although most vendors will let you return your blinds if they don’t work for your space, some blinds are trimmable — that is, the manufacturers have designed them so you can easily cut and fix the length of your blind to fit your room. However, if your blind isn’t long enough, there isn’t much you can do besides return it.
I like to keep my windows open. Can I keep them open with blinds?
A. Of course! Doing so allows fresh air into your home, which is always nice. Just remember that blinds are not designed to keep out rain or insects. And some blinds cannot withstand much wind — they may be damaged if exposed to the elements.
Will my blinds help with noise prevention?
Having blinds up in front of a window may help dampen outdoor sounds — anything is better than nothing. But they are typically too thin to give you the sort of soundproofing you might need in a loud area.
What are the best blinds to buy?
Top blinds
GoDear Extendable Four-Rail Track Vertical Blind
What you need to know: With its sleek sliding mechanism and breezy woven texture, this stylish cordless blind makes a foolproof fit for any home as either a window mount or a room divider.
What you’ll love: This multipurpose blind works just as well to partition rooms as it does to cover your windows. It fits many shapes of windows and doors with its extendable design and offers reliable shade and temperature moderation. It’s trimmable to adjust to any space. There are six colors and patterns, letting you customize your room.
What you should consider: Trying to layer multiple panels leaves them looking asymmetrical.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Wayfair
Top blinds for the money
Radiance Cord-Free Roll-Up Reed Shade
What you need to know: Simple to install and devilishly sleek, this bamboo reed shade is a steal for its price.
What you’ll love: The mounted roll-up structure helps hold your blind in place while giving you the flexibility to lower and raise it with ease. Bamboo resists stains and blocks ultraviolet rays. It comes in three sizes and two colors.
What you should consider: This blind can’t handle exposure to powerful winds, so keep that in mind if you plan to leave your windows open often.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
ShadesU Dual Layer Zebra Roller Sheer Shades
What you need to know: With multiple shade settings and color options, this versatile blind provides you with as much or as little light protection as you need.
What you’ll love: You can alternate this polyester blind between day or night mode, toggling the amount of light you’d like at any given moment. Its chic modern style is appealing and comes in four colors, so you can pick the best shade for your room’s palette.
What you should consider: The pull strings are made from a cheap-feeling plastic that may be off-putting to some buyers. It would not be the best option for those looking for a natural feel.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz warned Beijing on Thursday against using force to change the status quo with Taiwan and expressed concern about the human rights situation in China, days after holding bilateral talks with the new Chinese premier.
Scholz told German lawmakers that Berlin wants constructive relations with China because the country plays a key role in solving global problems such as food security, climate change and poverty.
“At the same time we clearly urged China to stick to international rules,” he said of a recent declaration by the Group of Seven major economies. “No country is another’s backyard — that is true for Europe as much as anywhere else in the world.”
“We strongly reject all attempts to change the status quo in the East and South China Sea by force or coercion,” said Scholz. “That is especially true for Taiwan.”
Beijing considers the self-governed island to be part of China and has been expanding its military presence in the region.
“We also view with concern the human rights situation and the rule of law in China,” he added. “I underlined these messages the day before yesterday during the German-China government consultations.”
Scholz’s comments to parliament were significantly stronger than his public remarks at a joint statement Tuesday with Chinese Premier Li Qiang, who was on his first foreign trip since taking charge of the world’s second-largest economy as premier in March. The chancellor didn’t mention Taiwan explicitly as he spoke alongside Li.
Journalists were not permitted to ask questions at that event, a decision that Scholz’s office attributed to the wishes of the Chinese delegation. | 2023-06-23T09:55:24+00:00 | qcnews.com | https://www.qcnews.com/news/world-news/germany-warns-china-over-taiwan-voices-human-rights-concerns-days-after-talks-with-chinese-premier/ |
Parlays — propositions that combine multiple wagers, or “legs,” into one more extensive bet in hopes of turning a little money into a lot — have always been popular with the public. Regulated sportsbooks in the United States often promote such wagers, because oddsmakers know the advantage resides heavily with the house. (If even one individual leg doesn’t come through, the entire bet is a loser.)
According to the University of Nevada’s Center for Gaming Research, the state’s sportsbooks earned, on average, 5.7 cents on every dollar wagered on football in 2021. They earned 5.5 cents on every dollar wagered on basketball and 4.8 cents on every dollar wagered on baseball.
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Parlays, however, resulted in a windfall of 32.1 cents per dollar, illustrating why so much of the advertising, promotional odds boosts and other marketing incentives from sportsbooks now revolve around parlays. DraftKings CEO Jason Robins told attendees at the Goldman Sachs Travel and Leisure Conference in June that his organization’s focus on parlays would further intensify.
48.2% (!) of Louisiana sports betting revenue came from parlays in May: https://t.co/W8VdGXhttk
“What we are doing is trying to get smart at eliminating the sharp action or limiting [it] at least … and then also making sure that we have a high parlay mix because people do like that,” Robins said.
Sportsbooks do so well on parlays because each of the individual bets need to win to cash the parlay. Lose one, and the whole wager is graded as a loss. How likely the parlay is to cash depends on the likelihood of each wager included. If you have two wagers that are each +100 — bet $100 to win $100 — then the parlay has roughly a 25 percent chance of winning. If those wagers are each -110 (bet $110 to win $100) the chances improve to 27 percent, but the payoff will also be slightly lower to reflect those odds.
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Where many bettors get in trouble is chasing big scores with multiple-legged parlays that often feel like a sure thing. A six-leg parlay in which each leg has odds of -233 — implying a 70 percent chance of winning each leg — may feel like a relatively safe bet. In reality, it has only about a 12 percent chance of winning.
And in single-game parlays — an increasingly popular option in which bettors must select multiple bets from within the same game — you could get penalized for choosing wagers that are correlated, meaning there is a positive relationship between the bets that makes them more likely to be successful.
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Here’s an example from this baseball season. Let’s pretend we wanted to create a single-game parlay on FanDuel for a June game between the New York Mets and Milwaukee Brewers. We want to take over eight total runs, offered at -110 odds. We also want to add a Pete Alonso home run at +310 odds, giving us a single-game parlay with two wagers that will pay +485.
But those two events are correlated. More home runs typically mean more runs scored. If we instead switch the run total bet to under eight runs, also at -110, but keep the Alonso home run prop — giving us two uncorrelated events in the same game — the potential return is bumped up to +980 despite the odds for each wager being exactly the same (+310 and -110). The fair value for this parlay, taking into consideration the prices of the two bets, is around +680. In other words, the correlated parlay is vastly underpaying bettors, while the uncorrelated parlay is overpaying. Not all sportsbooks penalize you in this way, so make sure you compare prices at different outlets.
Single-game parlays could also have different rules, even for the same bet. On DraftKings, for example, if you place a straight wager on a player getting a hit in an MLB game, he has to start and record at least one plate appearance for the bet to be live. If that same wager is part of a single-game parlay, the player only needs a plate appearance. In other words, he could pinch hit later in the game for one at-bat and the bet would be considered live, an obvious disadvantage to the bettor.
There are also situations in which the prices themselves are different for the same bet, depending on if it is used in a single-game parlay or not. Here is the exact same game offered on DraftKings both as straight wagers (top) and as part of a single-game parlay (bottom). There are different prices for the money line, run line and over/under totals, despite them being the same wagers. (Not all the differences are in a disadvantageous direction for bettors.)
Then there are the odds “boosts” sportsbooks offer, many of which come via two- or three-leg parlays. Caesars this season offered to “boost” a two-leg parlay — which required Bryce Harper and Jorge Soler to each hit a home run in a game — to +1200, a juicy-sounding number. That same wager, however, could be had at +1846 odds at FanDuel using a single-game parlay without a boost. Sportsbooks, in other words, are selling a product — so don’t assume their enthusiasm around special parlay offers necessarily means they have any value for bettors.
Finally, be wary of any promoted parlays. These typically involve a few favorites strung together to give the illusion of a short cut to a winning bet; clearly, that is far from the case. DraftKings promoted a parlay during the baseball season that included the Houston Astros winning (-180), the Atlanta Braves winning (-280) and no run being scored in the first inning of a Colorado Rockies-Arizona Diamondbacks game (-125). The promoted parlay offered +280 odds, but the fair-value price — based on the Pinnacle sportsbook, once you removed the vig — was +320. On paper, three bets at minus odds — which each should be favored to win — looks like a promising 3-0 ticket, but the math (and reality) is very different. Even if you had three overwhelming favorites at -250 odds each — implying a 71 percent win rate per leg — you would still only have a 36 percent chance of going 3-0.
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Are parlays a big winner for the house? Absolutely. Does this mean you should avoid them altogether? No. Just like any bet, if you believe you have an edge, you should bet accordingly. If you believe you have an edge in multiple games, then it makes sense to parlay those together for an increased payoff.
But by impulsively betting parlays at every turn, you will be enriching the house more often than your own bankroll. | 2022-08-31T12:53:20+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2022/08/31/sports-betting-parlay-odds/ |
16-year-old charged with murder of teen found in St. Paul alley
ST. PAUL, Minn. (FOX 9) - A 16-year-old boy is facing felony charges in connection to the fatal shooting of another teenager in a St. Paul alley.
The 16-year-old boy was charged in juvenile court Friday with two counts of second-degree murder. Prosecutors have filed a motion to have the teen be certified as an adult for the crime.
The statement of probable cause says on Oct. 10, St. Paul police officers went to the 1000 block of York Avenue around 12:25 p.m. for a report of a man lying in an alley, not breathing and showing signs of trauma.
Officers located the 16-year-old, identified as Antwan Watson, with multiple gunshot wounds to the chest.
Police said video surveillance from a nearby home captured three distinct gunshots around 12:12 p.m. A witness told police he captured video of three males walking into the alley about three minutes before the shots were heard, according to court documents.
During the investigation, police said two people came forward and said someone known as "JB" was the shooter, and he was a high school student in St. Paul. Later the same day, officers found surveillance video from the school, which appeared to show the teen "re-enacting the shooting," the document reads.
Later in the evening, police talked with another teen who may have been present at the time of the shooting. The teen told police he was with Watson and the 16-year-old suspect in an alley looking for a car a friend had given them a key to.
The teen said he was walking in front of the other two, and Wilson called out to him. When he turned around, he told police he saw the 16-year-old suspect shoot Watson, according to court documents.
Police said they also interviewed the person who gave the trio the car key. He told police he knew all three had guns because two of them had "showed them to him earlier in the day" at school, the document reads.
He also claimed that on one occasion, he saw all three of them rob two students on the way to school.
On Oct. 11, police located the 16-year-old suspect and recovered a loaded handgun from his waistband. The teen changed his story several times during interviews with investigators, according to court documents.
The teenager allegedly told police he had shot Watson because he heard the pair were "planning to rob him," the document reads.
The 16-year-old suspect made his first court appearance Friday afternoon at the Juvenile and Ramsey County Family Justice Center. | 2022-10-16T17:08:05+00:00 | fox9.com | https://www.fox9.com/news/16-year-old-charged-with-murder-of-teen-found-in-st-paul-alley |
Former Obion County Sheriff Presented Service Weapon
The efforts of Obion County Sheriff Karl Jackson has resulted in a special presentation to former longtime Sheriff Jerry Vastbinder.
Sheriff Jackson petitioned the Obion County Commission, to pass legislation allowing the presentation of the former Sheriff’s service weapon.
At the latest Commission meeting, Budget Committee Chairman Sam Sinclair Jr. presented the proposal.(AUDIO)
On Wednesday, Sheriff Jackson presented Vastbinder with his .40-caliber Smith and Wesson service weapon, which was placed into a special hand carved, inscribed box.
Sheriff Vastbinder served Obion County as the elected Sheriff from 2002 until his retirement in 2016.
Photos have been placed on our website at thunderboltradio.com. | 2023-03-03T01:51:07+00:00 | thunderboltradio.com | https://www.thunderboltradio.com/former-obion-county-sheriff-presented-service-weapon/ |
(WHNT) — Jeff Cook, a founding member of the country group Alabama, died on Monday, November 7. He was 73.
According to the band’s publicity firm, Cook passed away at his beach home in Destin, Florida. “with his family and close friends by his side.”
Cook was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2012. He made the diagnosis public in 2017, telling Nexstar’s WHNT, “I’m not calling it quits, but sometimes our bodies dictate what we have to do, and mine is telling me it’s time to take a break and heal. I do believe in prayer and I appreciate all the continued prayers throughout this difficult time.”
Since then, Cook’s presence on Alabama’s tours became less frequent. He stopped touring with the band altogether in 2018, according to a news release.
Cook helped co-found the Alabama band alongside his cousins Randy Owen and Teddy Gentry more than 50 years ago. While starting from humble beginnings, the band changed the face of country music, selling more than 80 million albums and charting more than 40 No. 1 hits.
In addition to performing, Cook established “Cook Sound Studios, Inc.” in Fort Payne. He was inducted into the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum in 2019.
He is survived by his wife of 27 years, Lisa Cook, his mother, Betty Cook, brother David Cook, father-in-law Jerrial Williams, brother-in-law Randy Williams, many nieces and nephews, and beloved dogs Blazer and Blakely.
Arrangements for Cook’s “Celebration of Life” service will be announced later. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made to the Jeff & Lisa Cook Foundation.
Alabama is scheduled to make tour stops in Oklahoma later this month, according to the group’s website. It’s unclear if Cook’s death will affect those shows.
This is a developing story. | 2022-11-09T01:26:06+00:00 | siouxlandproud.com | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/national-news/jeff-cook-member-of-country-group-alabama-dies-at-73/ |
Buttigieg awards grant to tear down divisive Detroit highway
WASHINGTON (AP) — A long-delayed plan to dismantle Interstate 375, a 1-mile (1.6-kilometer) depressed freeway in Detroit that was built by demolishing Black neighborhoods 60 years ago, was a big winner of federal money Thursday, the first Biden administration grant awarded to tear down a racially divisive roadway.
The $104.6 million is among $1.5 billion in transportation grants handed out to 26 projects nationwide thanks to increased funding from the 2021 bipartisan infrastructure law.
It allows Michigan to move forward on its $270 million effort to transform the stretch in Detroit into a street-level boulevard, reconnecting surrounding neighborhoods and adding amenities, such as bike lanes. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has said he would make racial justice a priority in his department’s funding awards, pledging wide-ranging help to communities. Black Bottom and Paradise Valley, two of the city’s predominantly African American neighborhoods, were razed as part of the 1950s creation of an interstate highway system, displacing 100,000 Black residents and erecting a decades-long barrier between the downtown and communities to the east.
Hailed by city and state leaders as helping rectify a past racial wrong, the federal money represents a key first step that advocacy groups say will inspire dozens of citizen-led efforts underway in other cities to dismantle highways.
Still, advocates cautioned that Michigan’s plan to build a six-lane city boulevard risks simply replacing one busy roadway with another. Some long-time Black residents, meanwhile, worry they could be priced out of the city by new business development and shiny condo buildings that promise direct links to downtown.
After years of planning dating back to 2013, the highway removal is now estimated to begin as soon as 2025, two years earlier than expected, with construction finished by 2028.
“This stretch of I-375 cuts like a gash through the neighborhood, one of many examples I have seen in communities across the country where a piece of infrastructure has become a barrier,” Buttigieg told The Associated Press. He joined Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan later Thursday in Detroit along with several Black residents to highlight the grant.
“With these funds, we’re now partnering with the state and the community to transform it into a road that will connect rather than divide,” Buttigieg said.
Other winners Thursday of the Infrastructure for Rebuilding America, or INFRA, grants include $32.5 million for Flagstaff, Arizona, to build pedestrian underpasses to reconnect lower-income neighborhoods isolated by a 1-mile segment of railroad to downtown; $100 million to Clear Creek County, Colorado, for upgrades to 8 miles of the I-70 Mountain Corridor, including electric vehicle charging stations; $110 million to New York to expand refrigerated warehouse space at its Hunts Point food distribution center; and $70 million to improve rail track in Chicago.
Detroit’s project would create a slower-speed boulevard that aims to improve safety by removing a steep curve and adding LED lighting, while removing 15 old bridges and two stormwater runoff pump stations and building out wider sidewalks, protected bike lanes and pedestrian crossings.
Whitmer had originally sought as much as $180 million in federal money for the project. Because that would have been a tall order under the Biden administration’s Reconnecting Communities pilot program, which was funded by Congress at just $1 billion over five years, Buttigieg’s Department of Transportation opted to award $104 million to Michigan under the federal INFRA discretionary grant program, which has a bigger total pot of $8 billion over five years.
Christopher Coes, assistant secretary for transportation policy, said the Detroit grant reflected Buttigieg’s pledge to make Reconnecting Communities a broad “principle” of his department — not just a single program — with many efforts underway. Money under that specific $1 billion pilot will be awarded late this year or early next.
Ben Crowther, advocacy manager for America Walks and coordinator for the Freeway Fighters Network, praised the new federal grant. While there are over 50 grassroots efforts around the country aimed at removing or repurposing highways, only three cities — Detroit, Syracuse, New York and Somerville, Massachusetts — have demolition plans that are shovel-ready, making them prime candidates for federal funding.
“The fact the Detroit project is now moving forward really speaks to the priorities that U.S. DOT has set for reconnecting communities that are trickling down to the state level,” Crowther said. While community debate will likely continue over the best design and whether a six-lane boulevard is a good approach, he said, the new federal focus on equity is “a lot of inspiration for local groups for that reason alone.”
Still, some Black residents worry the new boulevard could only create more problems.
Sam Riddle, political director of the Michigan National Action Network and a longtime resident of the area, says to truly address racial inequity, city officials need to take a more holistic approach to improving Black livelihood, such as building affordable housing.
“They’re not going to right a historical wrong where Black businesses were wiped out,” Riddle said. “What they’re going to do is repeat the same mistake that prices out majority-Black Detroit.”
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission. | 2022-09-15T22:44:43+00:00 | kob.com | https://www.kob.com/news/business-money/buttigieg-awards-grant-to-tear-down-divisive-detroit-highway/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — New York prosecutors have asked a judge to bar Donald Trump from using evidence from his criminal case to attack witnesses, citing what they say is the former president’s history of making “harassing, embarrassing, and threatening statements” about people he’s tangled with in legal disputes.
The Manhattan district attorney’s office filed court papers Monday asking Judge Juan Manuel Merchan for a protective order that would put strict guardrails around Trump’s access to and use of evidence turned over by prosecutors prior to trial. That kind of evidence sharing, called discovery, is routine in criminal cases, and is intended to help ensure a fair trial.
Prosecutors want to block Trump from posting evidence to social media or providing it to third parties. They also want to restrict how he views certain sensitive material, asking that he do so only in the presence of his lawyers — and that he not be able to copy, photograph or transcribe those records.
Trump “has a longstanding and perhaps singular history of attacking witnesses, investigators, prosecutors, trial jurors, grand jurors, judges, and others involved in legal proceedings against him,” Assistant District Attorney Catherine McCaw wrote.
That behavior, she said, has put “those individuals and their families at considerable safety risk.”
Merchan did not immediately rule on the prosecution’s request. McCaw, in her filing, asked him to schedule a hearing on the matter next week.
Email messages seeking comment were left with Trump’s lawyers.
Prosecutors first raised concerns about Trump potentially weaponizing the discovery process at his April 4 arraignment on charges that he falsified records at his company as part of a broader 2016 scheme to make secret hush-money payments to bury allegations of extramarital sexual encounters. Trump has denied wrongdoing — or having extramarital affairs — and pleaded not guilty.
With Trump sitting at the defense table just feet away from her, McCaw told Merchan that a protective order was needed to “ensure the sanctity of the proceedings as well as the sanctity of the discovery materials.”
At the time, McCaw said prosecutors and Trump’s lawyers were close to a joint agreement with many of the restrictions prosecutors are now asking Merchan to impose. Negotiations later broke down, leading prosecutors to seek the judge’s intervention. | 2023-04-26T14:51:07+00:00 | kfor.com | https://kfor.com/news/national/ap-us-news/trump-might-use-trial-docs-to-scorch-witnesses-da-says/ |
Embattled actor Spacey to receive achievement award in Italy
ROME (AP) — Two weeks after a New York jury sided with Kevin Spacey in a sexual abuse lawsuit, an Italian film museum announced Thursday that the actor would receive a lifetime achievement award and teach a master class there early next year.
Enzo Ghigo, president of the National Museum of Cinema in the northern city of Turin, said the class and the award honoring Spacey’s contribution to the growth of cinema would take place on Jan. 16, 2023. The event also is set to include a screening of a Spacey film, though Ghigo didn’t say which.
“We are honored that such a prestigious guest as Kevin Spacey chose Turin and our museum for this long-awaited return to an event with an audience,” he said.
Previous winners of the Stella della Mole Award include actors Isabella Rossellini and Monica Bellucci, and director Dario Argento.
On Oct. 21, a federal jury in a New York civil case found that Spacey, 63, did not sexually abuse Anthony Rapp when both were relatively unknown Broadway actors in 1986 and Rapp was 14 years old. The jurors deliberated a little more than an hour before deciding that Rapp, now 50, hadn’t proven his allegations.
Rapp’s #MeToo-era allegations, and those of others, derailed Spacey’s soaring career. The two-time Academy Award winning actor lost his starring role on the Netflix series “House of Cards” and saw other opportunities dry up.
Rapp is a regular on TV’s “Star Trek: Discovery” and was part of the original Broadway cast of “Rent.”
Spacey previously faced charges in Massachusetts that he groped a man at a bar — allegations that were later dropped by prosecutors. Three months ago, he pleaded not guilty in London to charges he sexually assaulted three men between 2004 and 2015 when he was the artistic director at the Old Vic theater in London.
A judge in Los Angeles this summer approved an arbitrator’s decision to order Spacey to pay $30.9 million to the makers of “House of Cards” for violating his contract by sexually harassing crew members.
Spacey filmed his most recent movie, director Franco Nero’s “The Man Who Drew God,” in Turin.
“Now, among all of the cities of the world, he chose Turin for a master class. He couldn’t give us a better present than this,” Domenico De Gaetano, the director of the National Museum of Cinema, was quoted as saying in the news release.
Gaeteno plans to interview Spacey about his career at the January event.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission. | 2022-11-03T17:05:02+00:00 | kob.com | https://www.kob.com/news/us-and-world-news/embattled-actor-spacey-to-receive-achievement-award-in-italy/ |
PHOENIX — A new owner, new coach, new quarterback and possibly a new stadium. Could it soon be time for the Broncos to update their helmet?
Denver Broncos president Damani Leech said last week the team is conducting surveys with fan groups on a potential new uniform design.
At the NFL owners meetings in Phoenix, Leech said a change to the uniforms could take time. Such a change would not happen this season.
However, this season the Broncos could wear an alternative second helmet for a game or two, according to 9NEWS Broncos Insider Mike Klis.
“It’s something we’re definitely exploring,’’ Leech said. “And we do have the possibility of doing it this year, and we’re exploring that as well.”
The Broncos teased a new white helmet on social media Monday with the words "coming soon."
The Denver Nuggets, Colorado Rapids, Colorado Rockies and Rocky Mountain Vibes have all recently unveiled new jerseys.
The Broncos last gave their uniforms a complete overhaul in 1997. The team unveiled a new logo, new navy blue jerseys and lots of new striping. The team switched to an orange jersey full-time in 2012.
Many in Broncos Country are wondering whether a new jersey could be on the horizon under new team ownership. Others are hoping for a return to the "D" logo the Broncos used from 1968 to 1996.
Here are some intriguing uniform and helmet concepts created by fans:
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Denver Broncos defensive end Eyioma Uwazurike was suspended indefinitely for betting on NFL games during the 2022 season, the league announced Monday.
This marks the tenth NFL player suspended for violating the league’s policy on gambling this year.
The NFL said in a statement that Uwazurike, a fourth-round draft pick from Iowa State, would miss the upcoming season for betting on games during his rookie season and will not be eligible for reinstatement until next July.
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"Our organization fully cooperated with this investigation and takes matters pertaining to the integrity of the game very seriously," the Broncos said in a statement.
"The Denver Broncos will continue to provide all members of our organization with the necessary education, resources and support to ensure compliance with the NFL’s gambling policy."
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Uwazurike becomes the tenth NFL player suspended this offseason because gambling violations.
Indianapolis Colts players Isaiah Rodgers and Rashod Berry, along with free agent Demetrius Taylor, were all hit with indefinite suspensions last month. The league said the suspensions stemmed from bets placed on NFL games during the 2022 season.
Tennessee Titans offensive tackle Nicholas Petit-Frere was also suspended six games on Thursday for betting on "non-NFL sports at the club facility."
"The gambling policy, which is annually reviewed with all NFL personnel, including players, prohibits anyone in the NFL from engaging in any form of gambling in any club or league facility or venue, including the practice facility," the league said at the time.
They are permitted to place non-sports wagers at legally operated casinos and horse or dog racing tracks on their personal time, including during the season, according to The Associated Press.
Five other players were suspended in April. | 2023-07-25T01:33:31+00:00 | foxbangor.com | https://www.foxbangor.com/sports/national-sports/broncos-eyioma-uwazurike-suspended-indefinitely-for-betting-on-nfl-games/article_694facfe-e7ef-58d6-9a12-91c1703413df.html |
COLUMBUS, Ga., June 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Aspirion, a leading technology-enabled healthcare revenue cycle management ("RCM") provider for complex claims and revenue integrity, announced today that Tammi Smith has been appointed to the position of Chief Transformation Officer, effective immediately. Smith will be responsible for driving optimum performance, scale, best practices, and transformation to enable greater effectiveness in serving Aspirion's clients and operating at the highest levels.
"Aspirion's commitment to continual improvement and transformation is clear with Tammi at the helm of our Enterprise Transformation Organization," said Amy Amick, Aspirion CEO. "Tammi's extensive experience in strategic transformation, integration of acquisitions, and propagation of best practices make her a vital addition to our executive leadership team. Client excellence is a key pillar of our company and we have set a bar that we will always be the most impactful partner to the clients that we serve. This material investment in excellence and innovation is core to our company's DNA. Tammi's leadership will be instrumental in our ability to consistently deliver on this lofty commitment."
Smith will spearhead the scaling of Aspirion's business with targeted outcomes which include ensuring the highest yield and the fastest acceleration of cash flow for its clients. Smith joins Aspirion with extensive expertise, including most recently her time at Enverus where she served as the Senior Vice President of Revenue Operations. Prior to Enverus, she held various leadership roles at nThrive/MedAssets including Senior Vice President of Commercial Operations & Enablement, Senior Vice President of Enterprise Technology Operations, Vice President for Strategic Operations, and Chief of Staff. Earlier in her career, she held leadership roles at M*Modal, Allscripts, and TriZetto where she cultivated her expertise in revenue cycle management and change management.
"I am excited and energized to join this forward-looking organization and to take on the role of Chief Transformation Officer," said Tammi Smith. "Everything Aspirion does is focused on being the trusted partner for the healthcare organizations it serves—and to stay true to that mission it is critical that we continue to innovate, grow, and transform as a company for the benefit of our teammates and clients. I look forward to building on that foundation over the coming months and into the future."
About Aspirion
Aspirion, headquartered in Columbus, Ga., helps hospitals and physicians recover otherwise lost claims revenue including motor vehicle accident, workers' compensation, Veterans Affairs and TRICARE, and out-of-state Medicaid as well as denials, underpayments, and aged AR. Aspirion's experienced team of healthcare, legal, and technical professionals combined with industry-leading technology platforms help ensure providers receive their Complex RCM revenue so that they can focus on patient care. The Company serves clients across the United States, including half of the ten largest health systems in the country.
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GREEN BAY, Wis. -- This game still has Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers, but the quarterbacks of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Green Bay Packers won't have anything close to their full complement of receivers on Sunday.
The Packers for sure won't have Sammy Watkins, their leading receiver through two games, because of a hamstring injury. Two of their other top receivers, rookie second-round pick Christian Watson (hamstring) and veteran Randall Cobb (illness), were listed as questionable on Friday.
The only one of the Packers' top four receivers who has been cleared to play and taken off the injury report is Allen Lazard, who has been limited in practice this week because of the ankle injury that kept him out of the season opener. Lazard returned for last week's game against the Chicago Bears and is the only receiver on the roster to have caught a touchdown this season.
Packers coach Matt LaFleur said Friday that rookie receiver Romeo Doubs is "probably going to have to take more of a [work] load this week."
The Buccaneers already knew earlier in the week that they would be without leading receiver Mike Evans because of his one-game suspension for last Sunday's altercation in their game against the New Orleans Saints. Tampa Bay also won't have receiver Chris Godwin, who was ruled out Friday because of a hamstring injury. Meanwhile, Julio Jones (knee) was listed as questionable.
The Packers also could be without one of their top tight ends, Marcedes Lewis (questionable with a groin injury). Left tackle David Bakhtiari, who has yet to play in the 2022 season, also was listed as questionable as he tries to return from multiple knee surgeries. | 2022-09-23T20:56:49+00:00 | espn.com | https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/34651537/green-bay-packers-wr-sammy-watkins-hamstring-week-3-game-tampa-bay-buccaneers |
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Two Los Angeles City Council members held out Thursday against overwhelming calls to resign for joining in bare-knuckles banter during a private meeting where a colleague was recorded making crude and racist remarks.
Pressure mounted on Gil Cedillo and Kevin de Leon to follow the lead of former council President Nury Martinez, who stepped down Wednesday for comparing another colleague’s Black son to a monkey, belittling Mexicans from the state of Oaxaca and making crass comments about Armenians and Jews.
The council’s Friday meeting was canceled after acting council President Mitch O’Farrell said members couldn’t conduct business until the two step down. Raucous protesters shut down a meeting Wednesday.
“There’s too much pain, there’s too much deep injury to the soul, to the spirit of this city,” O’Farrell said.
Martinez, who in 2019 became the first Latina to hold the office of council president, announced her decision in a news release that didn’t refer to the leaked recording or offer an apology for what she said.
Martinez described herself on her website as “a glass-ceiling shattering leader who brings profound life experience as the proud daughter of working-class immigrants.” She is the daughter of Mexican immigrants and was born and raised in the San Fernando Valley.
Cedillo, de Leon and Martinez were part of a discussion last year with a powerful Latino labor leader, who has since resigned, centered on protecting Latino political power while redrawing council district boundaries. The once-a-decade redistricting process can pit one group against another to gain political advantage in elections.
Other council members weren’t informed of the meeting, O’Farrell said.
In the recorded conversation, Martinez called council member Mike Bonin a “little bitch.” She described the behavior of his Black son on a parade float when he was 2 as “parece changuito,” or “like a monkey,” the Los Angeles Times reported Sunday.
At another point in the hourlong recording, Martinez called Indigenous immigrants from the Mexican state of Oaxaca ugly, and made crass remarks about Jews and Armenians.
The revelation of the recordings this week sparked outrage and calls for the resignations of all three council members by their fellow Democrats, all the way up to President Joe Biden, who arrived in Los Angeles on Wednesday as part of a West Coast campaign visit.
In her resignation statement, Martinez didn’t apologize for her comments, though in words directed at her daughter she said she had fallen short of expectations recently and added: “I vow to you that I will strive to be a better woman to make you proud.”
The panel can only request Cedillo and de Leon voluntarily step aside. It cannot expel members, only suspend them when criminal charges are pending. Members can be censured, but that doesn’t result in suspension or removal from office.
O’Farrell said he had spoken to Cedillo, and “I sense that he is making some progress toward that decision.” O’Farrell said he and others haven’t been able to reach de Leon.
Cedillo lost his reelection bid this year and was already due to leave the council in December. De Leon is up for reelection in 2024.
The furor over the recording has thrown City Council into turmoil.
On Wednesday, a crowd of about 50 protesters drowned out the acting president by chanting “no meeting without resignation” and other slogans.
A minimum of 10 out of 15 members necessary for a quorum had assembled. But the meeting was adjourned when Councilmember Marqueece Harris-Dawson walked out because it was out of control, a spokesperson said. None of the three embattled council members showed up.
“Who shut you down? We shut you down!” the raucous crowd cheered as the lights were being turned down.
Also Wednesday, California Attorney General Rob Bonta, another Democrat, said he will investigate Los Angeles’ redistricting process, which could lead to civil liability or criminal charges, depending on what is found.
“It’s clear an investigation is sorely needed to help restore confidence in the redistricting process for the people of LA,” he said.
Jessica Levinson, a Loyola Law School professor who previously was a member of the Los Angeles City Ethics Commission, said she did not see evidence in the recording that would prompt criminal charges.
However, she said a probe could force redrawing council districts even though the current maps are being used to choose new council members next month.
“It is so rare to have audio where … it gives the impression that they’re explicitly drawing lines on the basis of race,” Levinson said. “If in the end we determine these lines were illegally drawn, there needs to be a remedy for that, even though practically … it’s a disaster.”
Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer has called for creating an independent commission to draw redistricting maps.
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Associated Press writers Don Thompson in Sacramento, John Antczak in Los Angeles and Julie Watson in San Diego contributed to this report. | 2022-10-13T23:14:41+00:00 | cenlanow.com | https://www.cenlanow.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-los-angeles-councilmen-resist-resignation-in-racism-scandal/ |
A spin-off of the iconic Stanton Social, a past NYC Lower East Side staple, Stanton Social Prime will join high-profile list of celebrity chef-led restaurants at the Las Vegas Strip Resort
LAS VEGAS, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Caesars Entertainment and Tao Group Hospitality will introduce a new dining concept at Caesars Palace Las Vegas, Stanton Social Prime, from Chef Chris Santos. Stanton Social Prime is set to open this winter and will be located adjacent to OMNIA Nightclub, Tao Group's mega club at the resort. Stanton Social Prime is hiring for management positions, and candidates may apply online at caesars.com/careers.
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"Chef Chris Santos continues to redefine the dining scene with his creative cuisine and innovative dishes," said Sean McBurney, Regional President of Caesars Entertainment. "We are eager to continue our partnership with Tao Group Hospitality and welcome Stanton Social Prime to our culinary empire at Caesars Palace."
This new concept will feature iconic menu items from the original Stanton Social restaurant in New York's Lower East Side, which marked Santos' first restaurant project and was known for its spectacular sharable dishes featuring prime meats.
"We are thrilled to build on our existing relationship with Caesars Entertainment while delivering another Tao Hospitality Group dining destination from Chef Chris Santos to Las Vegas," said Jason Strauss, Co-CEO of Tao Group Hospitality.
"Caesars Palace boasts incredible restaurant offerings, and we are looking forward to adding Stanton Social Prime to its culinary collection," said Ralph Scamardella, Chief Culinary Officer of Tao Group Hospitality.
Stanton Social Prime joins several impressive epicurean destinations at Caesars Palace including Amalfi by Bobby Flay, Gordon Ramsay HELL'S KITCHEN, Nobu Restaurant & Lounge, Restaurant Guy Savoy and more.
Tao Group Hospitality delivers distinctive culinary and premium entertainment experiences through its portfolio of restaurants, nightclubs, lounges, and daylife venues. Tao Group Hospitality acquired Hakkasan Group in April 2021. The combined company operates more than 60 entertainment dining and nightlife venues in over 20 markets across five continents and features a collection of widely recognized hospitality brands. These include TAO, Hakkasan, OMNIA, Marquee, LAVO, Beauty & Essex, Yauatcha, Cathédrale, Ling Ling, Wet Republic, Little Sister, The Highlight Room, Jewel, and more. Tao Group Hospitality is part of Madison Square Garden Entertainment Corp. (MSG Entertainment) (NYSE: MSGE), a leader in live experiences.
World-renowned Las Vegas resort and a Top 10 "Best U.S. Casino" by USA TODAY 10BEST Readers' Choice, Caesars Palace features 3,980 hotel guest rooms and suites, including the renovated Palace Tower featuring 10 luxury villas, the newly redesigned 182-room Nobu Hotel Caesars Palace and Forbes Star Award-winning The Laurel Collection by Caesars Palace. The 85-acre resort offers diverse dining options from the award-winning Bacchanal Buffet to celebrity chef-branded restaurants, including Gordon Ramsay HELL'S KITCHEN, Pronto by Giada, Amalfi by Bobby Flay, Vanderpump Cocktail Garden by restauranteur and television star Lisa Vanderpump, one of Nobu Matsuhisa's largest Nobu Restaurant and Lounge, Restaurant Guy Savoy, Old Homestead Steakhouse, MR CHOW, award-winning pastry chef Dominique Ansel's first Las Vegas bakery (set to open in 2022), legendary New York Steak House Peter Luger (set to open in 2022), Stanton Social Prime (set to open in 2023) and more. For the best in cocktails, destination lounges include Montecristo Cigar Bar, Alto Bar, VISTA Cocktail Lounge and Stadia Bar. The resort also features nearly 130,000 square feet of casino space, the Caesars Race & Sportsbook at Caesars Palace with a 143-foot HD LED screen and state-of-the-art sound, a five-acre Garden of the Gods Pool Oasis, the luxurious Qua Baths & Spa, Hairdreams by Michael Boychuck, five wedding chapels and gardens, and the 75,000-square-foot OMNIA Nightclub with the top DJs such as Steve Aoki. The 4,300-seat Colosseum, Billboard Magazine's "Venue of the Decade: 2000 – 2009" and the top venue of its size 2010 - 2019," spotlights world-class entertainers including Sting, Keith Urban, Rod Stewart and Jerry Seinfeld. The Forum Shops at Caesars Palace showcases more than 160 boutiques and restaurants. Caesars Palace is operated by a subsidiary of Caesars Entertainment, Inc. (NASDAQ: CZR). For more information, please visit caesarspalace.com or the Caesars Entertainment Las Vegas media room. Find Caesars Palace on Facebook and follow on Twitter and Instagram. Know When To Stop Before You Start.® If you or someone you know has a gambling problem, crisis counseling and referral services can be accessed by calling 1-800-522-4700 ©2021, Caesars License Company, LLC.
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MANILA, Philippines, July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Globe Capital Venture Holdings, Inc. (917Ventures), the corporate venture builder of top Philippine digital solutions platform Globe Telecom, has partnered with AC Ventures, a subsidiary of Filipino conglomerate Ayala Corp. (Ayala), to explore business opportunities and grow its ecosystem.
AC Ventures is the conglomerate's platform for its investments in adjacent businesses that are complementary to its existing portfolio as well as in emerging trends and innovative businesses.
Under the arrangement, AC Ventures will participate in funding the research, development, and launch of 917Ventures' new business ventures.
"We are very excited to work with AC Ventures. We can leverage the ecosystem and network advantage that they provide to solve the pain points of consumers and businesses. Through digital solutions, we can help pave the way and deliver indelible value to the Philippines and the Asia-Pacific region," said Vince Yamat, Managing Director of 917Ventures.
"The accelerated growth of digital adoption has become ingrained in many Filipinos who have quickly transitioned how they work, study, play, and access basic services. Ayala intends to participate in this multi-decade transformation by contributing to the research and development and incubation of disruptive solutions across different consumer touchpoints in our portfolio. With its strong track record of developing startups to achieve scale and profitability, we believe that 917Ventures is the natural vehicle for Ayala's digital ventures," said Alberto de Larrazabal, Ayala's Chief Finance Officer and AC Ventures' President and CEO.
917Ventures has successfully spun-off 9 new companies since its inception in 2019, including HealthNow and PureGo to name a few. This is attributed to the fact that Globe Telecom has unlocked its unique advantages of data and customer base, distribution points, enterprise partners, marketing and execution capability, and capital.
The partnership with AC Ventures hopes to further accelerate both the quantity and quality of its future companies as the unique advantages now encompass the broader Ayala group, including real estate, banking, power, healthcare, and logistics.
917Ventures, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Globe Telecom, is a corporate venture builder that "ideates, launches, accelerates, and scales new business ideas". Some of the companies under its portfolio are telehealth service platform KonsultaMD, digital and mobile advertising agency AdSpark, and Mynt, the Philippines' #1 digital financial solutions provider and the company behind the popular GCash payment services app.
To know more about 917Ventures, visit https://917ventures.com/.
About 917Ventures
917Ventures is the Philippines' largest corporate venture builder that ideates, launches, accelerates, and scales new businesses that have the potential to grow. Delivering indelible value to the Philippines and beyond, 917Ventures leverages the rich asset base of the Globe Group and Ayala Corporation. 917Ventures' portfolio companies include some of the country's distinguished tech solutions, including double unicorn GCash, telehealth provider KonsultaMD, and digital health platform HealthNow.
About AC Ventures
AC Ventures is Ayala's platform for strategic investments in digital ventures and other emerging trends.Through AC Ventures, Ayala intends to embrace disruptive business models and technologies that enable Ayala's existing business units or lead to promising new business verticals.
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If you are headed into Harrisburg on Saturday morning, be aware that parts of three streets will temporarily close for the high school homecoming parade.
Part of Walnut, 17th and Market streets will be closed from 8:30 a.m. until 11:30 a.m., according to city officials. | 2022-10-07T12:45:12+00:00 | pennlive.com | https://www.pennlive.com/life/2022/10/three-streets-will-close-for-a-few-hours-saturday-for-harrisburg-homecoming-parade.html |
LONDON — Officials in charge of the park outside Buckingham Palace have told people to stop leaving marmalade sandwiches as a tribute to Queen Elizabeth II because of the “negative impact on the park’s wildlife.”
Some mourners have left the snacks alongside floral tributes at Buckingham Palace and neighboring Green Park. The sandwiches are a reference to a comedy sketch featuring the queen and an animated Paddington Bear filmed for the late monarch’s Platinum Jubilee earlier this year.
In the video, the queen said that like Paddington Bear she also favors marmalade sandwiches and hides them in her purse “for later.”
The Royal Parks organization said Monday people should not leave the snacks but could leave teddy bears and other items if they wished.
Meanwhile, St. Giles’ Cathedral in Edinburgh has opened to members of the public who wish to pay their last respects to Queen Elizabeth II, whose coffin is lying at rest inside.
The Scottish government is warning that the line, and waiting times, are expected to be long, with perhaps hours of standing. Visitors can leave the line to use toilet facilities.
Authorities have introduced airport-style security, banning people from taking inside the cathedral any large bags, sharp items, or food or liquids.
Similar crowds are expected in London, where the coffin can be visited from Wednesday. | 2022-09-12T19:43:26+00:00 | localsyr.com | https://www.localsyr.com/news/national/no-more-marmalade-sandwiches-as-queen-tribute/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — A run of strong economic data and signs that inflation remains stubbornly high could lead the Federal Reserve to raise its benchmark rate higher in the coming months than it has previously forecast, several Fed officials say.
On Thursday, Christopher Waller, a member of the Fed’s influential Board of Governors, said that if the economy continued to show strength and inflation remained elevated, the central bank would have to lift its key rate above 5.4%. That would be higher than Fed officials had signaled in December, when they projected it would peak at roughly 5.1% this year.
“Recent data suggest that consumer spending isn’t slowing that much, that the labor market continues to run unsustainably hot and that inflation is not coming down as fast as I had thought,” Waller said in prepared remarks for a business conference in Los Angeles.
His suggestion was in contrast to a speech he gave in January, titled “A Case for Cautious Optimism,” that captured a prevailing sentiment at the time that inflation had peaked and was steadily declining.
Even if data to be released later this month were to show hiring and inflation cooling again, Waller said, he would still favor raising the Fed’s rate to a range between 5% to 5.5%, up from about 4.6% now. And if the economic figures were to “continue to come in too hot,” he said, the Fed’s key rate “will have to be raised this year even more to ensure that we do not lose the momentum that was in place” before the robust January economic reports.
Over the past year, the Fed has raised short-term rates at the fastest pace in four decades to try to curb the worst inflation since the early 1980s. Those hikes have led to higher rates across the economy: Mortgage rates have nearly double d, to 6.7%, and auto loans, credit card borrowing and business loans have become more expensive.
The Fed’s goal is to cool the economy by raising the cost of borrowing and slowing business and consumer spending. More modest growth would likely help slow inflation to the Fed’s 2% target. Fed officials next meet March 21-22, when they are expected to raise their key rate by a quarter-point to about 4.9%.
In recent weeks, several reports suggested that the economy was stronger and inflation more persistent than previous data had indicated. The economy gained an enormous total of more than half a million jobs in January, and the unemployment rate reached a 53-year low of 3.4%.
Inflation data was also revised higher and came in hotter than expected in January. Waller noted that for the final three months of last year, core inflation — which excludes the volatile food and energy categories — was revised up from an annual rate of 3.1% to 4.3%. It then rose to 4.6% in January.
“Although inflation has been coming down since the middle of last year,” Waller said, “the recent data indicate that we haven’t made as much progress as we thought.”
Other Fed officials have also expressed unease about the reports showing higher inflation and hotter growth. On Wednesday, Neel Kashkari, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, said, “I lean towards continuing to raise further.”
“These are concerning data points, suggesting that we’re not making progress as quickly as we would like,” Kashkari said.
And on Thursday, Raphael Bostic, president of the Atlanta Fed, said he supports pushing rates to about 5.1% in the coming months, the same as projected in December. He added that the Fed’s rate hikes may not start to bite until this summer, so the Fed needs to be cautious about tightening credit too far and causing a recession.
Yet Bostic also added, “There is a case to be made that we need to go higher.”
“Jobs have come in stronger than we expected,” Bostic said. “Inflation is remaining stubborn at elevated levels. Consumer spending is strong. Labor markets remain quite tight.”
And last Friday, Loretta Mester, president of the Cleveland Fed, told Bloomberg News that the Fed “needs to do a little more” to raise rates and to keep them elevated for an extended period. | 2023-03-02T23:00:11+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/federal-reserve-officials-sound-warnings-about-higher-rates/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_business |
HOUSTON (AP) — An appeals court on Monday ordered the release of the leaders of a Texas-based group that promotes election conspiracy theories after they had been jailed last week for not complying with a court order to provide information in a defamation lawsuit over some of their claims.
Catherine Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips, who run True the Vote, had been detained since Oct. 31 after being held in contempt by U.S. District Judge Kenneth Hoyt in Houston.
Engelbrecht, Phillips and their nonprofit organization are being sued by Michigan-based election software provider Konnech Inc. over True the Vote’s claims of a Chinese-related conspiracy involving U.S. poll workers’ information.
The lawsuit alleges Houston-based True the Vote’s leaders illegally downloaded from Konnech’s server the personal data of 1.8 million U.S. poll workers. They were jailed by Hoyt after declining to reveal the names of everyone who helped them access the data.
In a one-page ruling, the 5th U.S. Circuit of Appeals granted a request by lawyers for Engelbrecht and Phillips to free them while they appeal Hoyt’s order to detain them.
It was not immediately known when Engelbrecht and Phillips would be released. Michael Wynne, an attorney for the two, did not immediately return an email seeking comment.
Konnech, which provides election software used to recruit and train poll workers, has been accused on social media by Engelbrecht and Phillips of storing the personal information of U.S. election workers in an unsecured server in China. Konnech says all of its U.S. customer data is secured and stored on “protected computers within the United States.”
Engelbrecht and Phillips have pointed out that Los Angeles County prosecutors recently charged Konnech’s CEO and founder, Eugene Yu, 65, with grand theft by embezzlement and conspiracy to commit a crime.
Prosecutors allege Konnech violated its contract with Los Angeles County by sending election workers’ information to a China-based subcontractor who helped fix Konnech software.
Gary S. Lincenberg, one of Yu’s attorneys, has denied the allegations.
Cellphone data analysis done by True the Vote was used by conservative filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza in his film “2000 Mules” to try to show that Democratic operatives were paid to illegally collect and drop off ballots in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
Independent fact-checkers, including at The Associated Press, found that True the Vote did not prove its claims. Election security experts say it is based on faulty assumptions, anonymous accounts and improper analysis of cellphone location data. Georgia election officials also have said the claims are false.
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Follow Juan A. Lozano on Twitter: https://twitter.com/juanlozano70 | 2022-11-08T17:25:54+00:00 | kdvr.com | https://kdvr.com/news/nationalworld-news/ap-us-news/ap-election-conspiracy-theorists-ordered-freed-in-texas-lawsuit/ |
Dolly Parton, Eminem and Duran Duran among 2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Class
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CLEVELAND — The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame has revealed its 2022 Induction Class Wednesday.
The 2022 inductees are:
Performer (honoring bands and solo artists who, in their careers, have created music whose originality, impact and influence has changed the course of rock & roll.)
Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo
Duran Duran
Eminem
Eurythmics
Dolly Parton
Lionel Richie
Carly Simon
Musical Excellence (given to artists, musicians, songwriters and producers whose originality and influence creating music have had a dramatic impact on music.)
Judas Priest
Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis
Early Influence Award (given to a performing artist or group whose music and performance style have directly influenced and helped inspire and evolve rock & roll and music that has impacted youth culture.)
Harry Belafonte
Elizabeth Cotten
Ahmet Ertegun Award (given to non-performing industry professionals who, through their dedicated belief and support of artists and their music have had a major influence on the creative development and growth of rock & roll and music that has impacted youth culture.) | 2022-05-04T14:14:20+00:00 | wkbw.com | https://www.wkbw.com/entertainment/dolly-parton-eminem-and-duran-duran-among-2022-rock-roll-hall-of-fame-induction-class |
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OCEAN CITY, N.J. (AP) — It's just one cable meant to bring electricity from an offshore wind farm to a former coal-burning power plant in southern New Jersey, but it symbolizes a big challenge facing the renewable energy industry.
The cable has been fought over for nearly three years, with no end in sight in a state whose officials are eager to get offshore wind power up and running.
Thousands of wind turbines have been proposed for areas along the U.S. coastline as the nation tries to meet an ambitious goal of deploying enough of them offshore by 2030 to power 10 million homes.
So far, just one project is up and running, in Rhode Island, while another is under construction off Virginia, where two of an expected 176 turbines are operating.
But obstacles like the single contentious cable in New Jersey show the challenge the offshore wind energy industry must overcome — quickly — if it is to come anywhere close to meeting its goals.
Josh Kaplowitz, a vice president with American Clean Power, a federation of renewable energy companies, said offshore wind is crucial to addressing climate change, generating electricity and creating new jobs. But before any of that can happen, the energy needs to reach land.
“The fact is, realizing these benefits requires the construction of onshore infrastructure that allows the power to come ashore and feed into the electrical grid,” he said.
Plenty of people in Ocean City, a popular beach community south of Atlantic City, are dead-set against a project proposed by Orsted and PSEG that still needs state approval to bring a power line onshore.
“We don't want this here in any way, shape or form,” said resident Suzanne Hornick, a leader of local opposition to the plan.
She cites concerns about damage to the environment, the possibility of higher rates being charged to consumers, and the general lack of certainty about what is a brand new industry in this country.
The U.S. has 27 wind farm projects in development, with an additional five locations up for auction in California next month, according to the Business Network for Offshore Wind, a nonprofit dedicated to helping develop the offshore wind industry.
If even a small portion of them were to face protracted legal or regulatory challenges, it could pose a serious obstacle to the industry.
Sam Salustro, a vice president with network, said the industry needs to use as few cable landings as possible if it wants to meet its ambitious goals.
“Cable landings have become a focal point of opposition to offshore wind’s progress,” he said. “Avoiding these conflicts in the first place should be a top industry priority.”
That can be done through long-term planning of transmission projects, and the federal government should encourage cooperation among states and transmission authorities, he added.
Anticipating such opposition, New Jersey changed its law to effectively wrest control of offshore wind projects from local governments, empowering its state Board of Public Utilities to approve them when the locals balk.
Nine Jersey Shore towns are challenging the cable plan, which would come ashore under a popular beach and then run underground along a highway to connect to the electrical grid at the site of a former fossil fuel-burning power plant that has been shut down.
Maryland has similar language in its offshore wind law exempting underground power cables coming ashore from a prohibition on construction work on beaches in a certain zone.
In August 2021, a group of citizens filed a lawsuit opposing wind development off the coast of Massachussetts over concerns it would reduce endangered whale species. Fishing groups are suing over proposed projects in Massachusetts and New York.
David Stevenson, a former DuPont executive who served on the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency transition team, has been fighting offshore wind projects off the Delaware coast. He said local opposition prevented a power line from coming ashore in a state park.
Stevenson formed a multistate group last year called the American Coalition for Ocean Protection that wants a permanent exclusion zone on any wind projects closer than 33 miles (53 kilometers) to shore along the country's entire East Coast. Many of the proposed wind farms would be located between 10 and 15 miles (16 and 24 kilometers) offshore, which would make them visible from the beach on clear days.
“I and many others assume both state and federal agencies will ignore us,” Stevenson said. “So we make public comments and created the Ocean Environment Legal Defense Fund, assuming we will win in the end suing over violations of a list of protective federal acts and regulations.”
Offshore wind companies are throwing money at the shoreline; some of the payments are required by law but others are voluntary. Orsted and PSEG say they'll pay $205,000 for the impact on just over a half-acre of public land in Ocean City that is preserved for open space and recreational use — 13 times the appraised value of the land.
On Tuesday, oil companies Equinor and bp created a $5 million community grant fund in New York.
The Offshore Wind Ecosystem Fund will provide grants for job education and training, provide historically marginalized communities access to workforce and small business opportunities, and assist minority and women-owned business enterprises in New York City to foster innovation that contributes to the growth of the offshore wind industry.
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NEW YORK (AP) — JPMorgan Chase defended itself on Tuesday against a lawsuit by the U.S. Virgin Islands accusing it of empowering Jeffrey Epstein to abuse teenage girls by arguing in court papers that it was the islands, not the bank, that enabled the financier to commit his crimes.
Lawyers for the bank said in the Manhattan federal court filing that the government of the Virgin Islands was complicit, letting high ranking officials be bought off by Epstein and actively working with him while “reaping the benefits of his wealth.”
“He gave them money, advice, influence, and favors. In exchange, they shielded and even rewarded him,” providing lucrative tax breaks worth millions of dollars, they wrote.
Most troubling, they said, was that officials from the islands “protected Epstein, fostering the perfect conditions for Epstein’s criminal conduct to continue undetected.”
The lawyers added: “For two decades, and for long after JPMC exited Epstein as a client, the entity that most directly failed to protect public safety and most actively facilitated and benefited from Epstein’s continued criminal activity was the plaintiff in this case — the USVI government itself.”
The Virgin Islands, where Epstein had an estate, sued JPMorgan last year, saying its investigation revealed that the financial services giant enabled Epstein’s recruiters to pay victims and was “indispensable to the operation and concealment of the Epstein trafficking enterprise.”
“JPMorgan Chase facilitated Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse, and should be held accountable for violating the law,” a spokesperson from the U.S. Virgin Islands attorney general’s office said in an email Tuesday. “This is an obvious attempt to shift blame away from JPMorgan Chase, which had a legal responsibility to report the evidence in its possession of Epstein’s human trafficking, and failed to do so.”
In their filing Tuesday, the bank’s lawyers said Virgin Islands officials looked the other way when Epstein went through its airports with girls and young women as he donated generously to political campaigns. The lawyers said officials were lenient with requirements that he register as a sex offender, doing inspections of his residence that were “cursory at best.”
“In sum, in exchange for Epstein’s cash and gifts, USVI made life easy for him,” the lawyers said. “The government mitigated any burdens from his sex offender status. And it made sure that no one asked too many questions about his transport and keeping of young girls on his island.”
Portions of the filing were heavily redacted. It asked Judge Jed Rakoff to reject the islands’ attempts to prevent the bank from using defenses at trial that would expose the islands’ role in Epstein’s dealings.
The lawyers wrote that “alleged damages must be balanced against the considerable benefits that USVI reaped from its facilitation of Epstein’s crimes.”
Epstein was 66 when he took his life in August 2019 in a Manhattan federal jail where he was awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. He had pleaded not guilty to charges of sexually abusing dozens of girls, some as young as 14 years old. | 2023-05-24T04:57:59+00:00 | ourquadcities.com | https://www.ourquadcities.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-jpmorgan-chase-defends-lawsuit-by-blaming-us-virgin-islands-for-jeffrey-epsteins-sex-crimes/ |
Giannis Antetokounmpo, Top Bucks Players to Watch vs. the Raptors - March 19
Fiserv Forum is where the Milwaukee Bucks (50-20) and Toronto Raptors (35-36) will match up on Sunday at 8:00 PM ET. Giannis Antetokounmpo and Pascal Siakam are players to watch for the Bucks and Raptors, respectively.
In the article below, we'll give you all the info you need to know about who to look out for in this matchup, which you can watch on NBA TV with a seven-day free trial to fuboTV!
How to Watch Bucks vs. Raptors
- Game Day: Sunday, March 19
- Game Time: 8:00 PM ET
- Arena: Fiserv Forum
- Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Live Stream: Watch on fuboTV!
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Bucks' Last Game
The Bucks dropped their previous game to the Pacers, 139-123, on Thursday. Antetokounmpo led the way with 25 points, and also had nine rebounds and five assists.
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Bucks Players to Watch
- Antetokounmpo is tops on his team in both points (31.4) and rebounds (11.9) per game, and also posts 5.5 assists. At the other end, he delivers 0.7 steals and 0.8 blocked shots.
- Jrue Holiday paces his squad in assists per contest (7.3), and also averages 19.4 points and 5.2 rebounds. At the other end, he posts 1.2 steals and 0.4 blocked shots.
- Brook Lopez posts 15.5 points, 6.7 rebounds and 1.3 assists per contest. At the other end, he averages 0.5 steals and 2.5 blocked shots (second in NBA).
- Bobby Portis averages 13.8 points, 9.6 rebounds and 1.6 assists per contest, shooting 50.2% from the floor and 34.3% from beyond the arc with 1.2 made 3-pointers per game.
- Grayson Allen is posting 10.7 points, 2.3 assists and 3.3 rebounds per contest.
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CHICAGO (AP) — Paul Goldschmidt came in on a tear, then helped set the Cardinals on course toward a lopsided victory. He had plenty of help, too.
Goldschmidt homered to extend his hitting streak to 25 games, Corey Dickerson went deep twice and the St. Louis Cardinals routed the Chicago Cubs 14-5 on Friday.
Nolan Gorman and Lars Nootbaar also connected as the Cardinals rolled to their fourth win in five games.
Goldschmidt hit a three-run drive in the third for his 12th home run. The six-time All-Star closed in on his career-high 26-game hitting streak with Arizona in 2013 and extended a personal best by reaching base in his 39th consecutive game.
Goldschmidt has 10 homers and 36 RBIs in his last 22 games, a stretch that began May 11,. He has a National League-leading .349 average and 47 RBIs, tied for the NL lead with the Mets’ Pete Alonso.
“It’s fun because of the way he prepares,” manager Oliver Marmol said. “You get rewarded when you’re preparing the way he is — everything that goes into the video work and just his cage routine and just keeping his body fresh.”
Dickerson, batting .183 coming in, sparked a five-run fourth against Marcus Stroman (2-5) when he lined a tiebreaking solo shot to right for his first homer. He combined with Nootbaar for back-to-back solo homers in the against Frank Schwindel, who took the mound in the ninth after starting as the designated hitter.
Gorman launched a long three-run drive in the fourth to make it 9-4. Called up from Triple-A Memphis on May 20, he has three homers and a .361 average through his first 11 major league games.
Tommy Edman singled three times and scored three runs. Harrison Bader and Nolan Arenado each had two hits. Bader — celebrating his 28th birthday — also scored twice.
Miles Mikolas (4-3) allowed four runs and eight hits in five innings. Zack Thompson held the Cubs to one run and three hits the rest of the way, and picked up the save in his major league debut. The 24-year-old left-hander grew up about 65 miles northeast of Indianapolis in Selma, Indiana. He said when he envisioned as a kid getting the final out in the World Series, it was at Wrigley Field. And he got to make his debut at the famed ballpark with his parents on hand.
“I dreamed of this day my whole life and to do it here at Wrigley means a ton,” he said.
STROMAN STRUGGLES
Stroman, coming off a string of strong starts, got pounded for a career-high nine runs and 10 hits in four innings. The right-hander had a 1.80 ERA in his previous five outings.
“Command was a little off, but I think they were on today,” Stroman said. “They just took really good swings and I don’t think I had a good game, so just those two combinations.”
Patrick Wisdom hit a three-run homer in the first and RBI single in the seventh. Rookie Christopher Morel extended a club record by reaching base in his first 17 games, when he singled and scored in the third. But the Cubs had their three-game win streak snapped.
TRANSACTIONS
The Cardinals shuffled their bullpen, recalling right-hander Johan Oviedo and selecting Thompson’s contract from Triple-A Memphis. They optioned lefty Matthew Liberatore and righty Kodi Whitley to the minor league club.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Cardinals: 2B Gorman was back in the lineup as the designated hitter after missing the previous three games because of lower back tightness. … OFs Tyler O’Neill (right shoulder impingement) and Dylan Carlson (strained left hamstring) were to begin rehab assignments — O’Neill with Triple-A Memphis and Carlson with Double-A Springfield.
Cubs: C Willson Contreras was out of the lineup after being hit in the left ankle by a pitch Thursday, though he was available off the bench. … RHP Adbert Alzolay (strained right shoulder) was to resume playing catch in Arizona. He is on the 60-day IL.
UP NEXT
The five-game, four-day series continues with a split doubleheader. The Cubs plan to have RHP Matt Swarmer (0-0, 1.50) start the first game and righty Caleb Kilian — acquired from San Francisco last season in the deal that sent former MVP Kris Bryant to the Giants — make his debut in the nightcap. The Cardinals will have right-handers Andre Pallante (1-0 1.07) and Johan Oviedo start, though the order was to be determined. Oviedo has not pitched in the majors this season.
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Skilled Marketer Rejoins Massage, Skincare & Wellness Franchise to Build on Brand Rejuvenation
SAN ANTONIO, Feb. 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- As Massage Heights experiences record-breaking revenues, peak company Average Unit Volume (AUV) and introduces innovative new services, the flourishing brand's marketing efforts will now be led by Ashley Schuetz, who was recently named as Chief Marketing Officer.
Schuetz formerly served with Massage Heights from 2012 to 2020 in the roles of Field Marketing Manager, Director of Marketing and Vice President of Marketing. While at Massage Heights, Schuetz also led the business development of The Gents Place, a membership-based men's grooming and lifestyle club. Schuetz makes her comeback to Massage Heights following two years of honing her marketing skills as the VP of Marketing at the private-equity owned healthcare company BlueSprig, where she worked to make a positive impact on children with autism.
Marketers are Brand Leaders
Massage Heights President & CEO Susan Boresow said Schuetz's deep understanding and appreciation of the franchising model, her empathy for franchisees and team members, and her acumen around modern, innovative marketing approaches made her the ideal fit to lead Massage Height's marketing strategies.
"As someone who has spent the majority of my career in franchising and many marketing roles, I'm a firm believer some of the best brand leaders sit in the marketing seats," Boresow said. "That's because they have a deep understanding and appreciation of the customer journey. That is Ashley to a tee. With her obvious familiarity of our brand and appreciation of our Culture of Care, we've already seen her jump right in to helping our brand story be shared across various mediums with a new focused energy."
Back & Better than Ever
Schuetz noted some of her broader initial goals are to help maintain consistent record-breaking revenue increases, uphold the highest of brand standards across the system and promote Massage Height's best-in-class member and guest experiences. She's also excited to build local and national awareness of new service rollouts, including a new facial offering in Q2.
"I've never stopped admiring the brand and the impact it has in the lives of our franchisees, members, guests, and massage and skin care therapists," Schuetz said. "There's been a significant amount of innovation and energy devoted to the refreshed company vision, culture and added resources from the expanded leadership team. It's an exciting time to rejoin Massage Heights, with development ramping up and a rejuvenated brand story and experience."
One of the first initiatives Schuetz is building up is the marketing department team, which will be focused on supporting franchisees on their local efforts to further drive brand awareness in each of their communities. "As we maintain a strong brand position on the national level, we know that same positioning has a powerful impact when tailored for our small business owners," added Schuetz.
About Massage Heights
The massage franchise started in 2004 and has grown to more than 115 Retreats throughout North America by providing personalized wellness treatment options through therapeutic massage and skincare services. The Massage Heights franchise is dedicated to elevating the lives of others by providing Members and Guests with professional, affordable and resort-quality massage, skincare and wellness services. For more information about Massage Heights and its franchise opportunities, please visit MassageHeightsFranchise.com.
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EXPLAINER: What happened to Damar Hamlin?
Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin suffered a cardiac arrest after making a tackle during Monday night’s game, causing the NFL to suspend a pivotal game against the Cincinnati Bengals that quickly lost significance in the aftermath of a scary scene that unfolded in front of a national television audience.
“Damar Hamlin suffered a cardiac arrest following a hit in our game versus the Bengals. His heartbeat was restored on the field and he was transferred to the UC Medical Center for further testing and treatment,” the Bills said in a statement released early Tuesday. “He is currently sedated and listed in critical condition.”
The 24-year-old Hamlin was administered CPR on the field, ESPN reported during the broadcast. Teammates surrounded Hamlin, shielding him from public view. Many were weeping and praying while Hamlin was treated on the field by team and independent medical personnel and local paramedics. He was taken by ambulance to University of Cincinnati Medical Center. Teammate Stefon Diggs later went to visit Hamlin at the hospital while fans of both teams gathered outside, holding lit candles and praying.
WHAT HAPPENED TO HAMLIN?
Hamlin was hurt while tackling Bengals receiver Tee Higgins on a seemingly routine play that didn’t appear unusually violent.
Higgins was running with the ball on a 13-yard pass from Joe Burrow when he led with his right shoulder, hitting Hamlin in the chest. Hamlin then wrapped his arms around Higgins’ shoulders and helmet to drag him down. Hamlin quickly got to his feet, appeared to adjust his face mask with his right hand, and then fell backward about three seconds later and lay motionless.
Hamlin was down for 19 minutes while receiving medical attention. WXIX-TV in Cincinnati reported that Hamlin required an automated external defibrillator (AED) in addition to CPR on the field.
WHAT TOOK SO LONG TO POSTPONE THE GAME?
It took the NFL about one hour after Hamlin collapsed to officially suspend the game because league executives were gathering information and communicating with referee Shawn Smith, coaches from both teams and the NFL Players Association.
Troy Vincent, the league’s executive vice president of football operations, said that the NFL’s Emergency Action Plan was activated. Vincent communicated with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and NFL Players Association executive director DeMaurice Smith. Dawn Aponte, the league’s chief football administrative officer, was at the game and communicated with Bills coach Sean McDermott and Bengals coach Zac Taylor and the referee.
“It was fluid and things were changing by the minute,” Vincent said. “It was obvious on the phone that the emotions were extremely high. It was a very volatile situation.”
Vincent refuted ESPN’s broadcast report that both teams were given a five-minute warmup period to resume playing.
“I’m not sure where that came from,” Vincent said. “It never crossed our mind to talk about warming up to resume play. That’s ridiculous. That’s insensitive. That’s not a place we should ever be in.”
WHO IS HAMLIN?
Hamlin spent five years of college at Pittsburgh — his hometown — and appeared in 48 games for the Panthers over that span. He was a second-team All-ACC performer as a senior, was voted a team captain and was picked to play in the Senior Bowl.
Drafted in the sixth round by the Bills in 2021, Hamlin played in 14 games as a rookie and then became a starter this season after Micah Hyde was injured.
In 2020, Hamlin began organizing an annual Christmas toy drive in his hometown of McKees Rocks, Pa. By early Tuesday, a community toy drive organized by Hamlin had surged to more than $3.1 million in donations. His stated goal was $2,500.
Bills offensive lineman Rodger Saffold, in a post on Twitter, described Hamlin as a “kind, caring, extremely hard worker.” Saffold wrote that Hamlin is “loyal, honest and can always put a smile on your face. He is more than an athlete, he is a son and brother.”
WHAT’S NEXT FOR THE NFL?
The Bills-Bengals game has major playoff implications. Both teams are battling for the AFC’s No. 1 seed. The Bills (12-3) entered the game in the top spot while the Bengals (11-4) had a chance to clinch the AFC North with a victory and also were in the mix for the No. 1 seed along with Kansas City (13-3).
The Bengals led 7-3 in the first quarter when the game was stopped.
Jeff Miller, the NFL’s executive vice president of communications, public affairs and policy, said during a conference call shortly after midnight that a time frame for resuming the game was not being considered at the time.
“Our concern is for the player and his well-being. At the appropriate time, I’m sure that we’ll have a conversation around the next steps regarding the game,” Miller said.
The NFL is entering the final week of the regular season and the playoffs are scheduled to begin Jan. 14.
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SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily 4" game were:
6-5-3-2
(six, five, three, two)
¶ Ticket-holders with all four winning numbers in the order given win the top prize. Lesser amounts are also awarded to ticket-holders with other varying combinations of the winning numbers. | 2022-09-11T03:41:40+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-4-game-17433215.php |
HAMILTON, Bermuda, Jan. 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Borr Drilling Limited (the "Company") (NYSE: BORR) (OSE: BORR) is pleased to announce updates to its preliminary Revenue and EBITDA guidance for 2022 and 2023.
For 2022, Borr Drilling expects to record revenues of $435-$450 million and adjusted EBITDA of $152-$162 million* (previous guidance was revenue between $375-$400 million and Adjusted EBITDA of $115-140 million). This implies estimated Q4 2022 Revenues between $140-$155 million, and Q4 2022 Adjusted EBITDA of between $50-$60 million.
For 2023, based on current contracts and projections for new contracts, the Company expects to generate revenues of $740-$780 million and Adjusted EBITDA of $360-$400 million (previous guidance was adjusted EBITDA of $290-330 million).
The cash and cash equivalents balance at year end 2022 is estimated to be ~$105 million.
"Borr Drilling has been through a transformational journey the last years, activating and putting 21 rigs successfully to work and significantly strengthening the Company's balance sheet. The outlook for the industry and our Company is continuing to improve, which is likely to lead to further increased utilisation and higher day-rates," says CEO Patrick Schorn
It is important to note that the financial preliminary guidance for Q4 and 2022 is based on estimates, and the financial results are not finalised. The results are also subject to audit, and as such are subject to change.
Forward looking statements
This press release includes forward looking statements, which do not reflect historical facts and may be identified by words such as "expect", "will" and similar expressions and include statements relating to letter of awards including the duration of such contracts and backlog, and other non-historical statements. These forward-looking statements reflect the Company's beliefs, intentions and current expectations concerning, among other things, the Company's results of operations, financial condition, preliminary and expected financial results, including revenue and adjusted EBITDA, cash and cash equivalents, industry outlook, further increased utilization and higher day rates and other non-historical statements. Such forward-looking statements are subject to risks, uncertainties, contingencies and other factors could cause actual events to differ materially from the expectations expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements included herein, and other risks and uncertainties described in the section entitled "Risk Factors" in our most recent annual report on Form 20-F and other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Such risks, uncertainties, contingencies and other factors could cause actual events to differ materially from the expectations expressed or implied by the forward -looking statements included herein. These forward-looking statements are made only as of the date of this release. We do not undertake to update or revise the forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
* The Company provides guidance on expected adjusted EBITDA, which is a financial measure calculated on a basis other than in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States (US GAAP). Adjusted EBITDA represents our periodic net loss adjusted for: depreciation and impairment of non-current assets, other non-operating income; (income)/loss from equity method investments, total financial (income) expense net, income tax expense, amortization of deferred mobilization costs and revenue. The Company provides guidance on Adjusted EBITDA because it believes this measure provides useful information regarding the Company's expected operational performance. Due to the forward-looking nature of Adjusted EBITDA, management cannot reliably predict certain of the necessary components of the most directly comparable forward-looking GAAP measure. Accordingly the Company is unable to present a quantitative reconciliation of such forward looking non-GAAP financial measure to the most directly comparable forward-looking GAAP financial measure without unreasonable effort.
Questions should be directed to: Magnus Vaaler, CFO, +44 1224 289208
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Teen dies from injuries after jumping from moving vehicle
SOUTHGATE, Mich. (WTVG/Gray News) – Angelina Jones, 14, died three days after jumping from a moving vehicle in Michigan on April 17, WTVG reports.
Southgate Police said Jones and her mother got into an argument before the teen jumped out of the vehicle and sustained serious injuries.
Jones was taken to the hospital in critical condition and died from her injuries three days later.
“I don’t even know how to describe it, how hard it is to realize that she’s gone,” said Dawn Pease, Angeline Jones’ great-aunt.
Jones’ mother had recently picked her up from her father’s house when the two got into an argument, according to Pease.
“For whatever reason, she jumped out the car,” Pease said.
Pease said Jones’ mother stopped immediately and went to her daughter in the middle of the road.
“She was afraid [her daughter] was going to get hit by a car,” Pease said. “Thankfully, nobody hit her.”
During the investigation, police arrested Jones’ mother for suspicion of operating under the influence. She was released pending toxicology results.
“This is just a horrible thing, and nobody intended this,” Pease said. “My niece loved her daughter more than life itself. She would have jumped out of the car if she could have.”
Investigators with Southgate Police said they are still waiting on results from the toxicology report and no charges have been filed.
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SPRINGDALE, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — Tyson Foods has announced that the company is planning to close two of its plants, which together employ a total of nearly 1,700 people.
Tyson said its plants in Van Buren, Arkansas, and Glen Allen, Virginia, will be closing in May.
“After careful consideration, we’ve made the difficult decision to close our Van Buren, Arkansas plant effective May 12, 2023, and shift demand to other Tyson Foods facilities,” said Tyson in its announcement concerning the Arkansas plant. “While the decision was not easy, it reflects our broader strategy to strengthen our poultry business by optimizing operations and utilizing the full available capacity at each plant.”
A statement issued on the closing of the Virginia plant suggested its closure was due to “inability to economically improve operations.”
Tyson said there are plans to work with employees affected by the closures to help them relocate to other Tyson facilities. The company also said it would coordinate with state and local agencies to provide resources and assistance to its employees that do not relocate.
Impacted Tyson team members responded to the news on Tuesday. The two who spoke with Nexstar’s KNWA were shocked to hear the news. Now, they’re trying to figure out what’s next.
Evelee Hamilton has worked at the Van Buren plant for two years. She said a lot of people have accumulated vacation time, and have put a lot of time into their job at the factory. Now, these people are having to start over.
Hamilton is going to try to apply to jobs in the area, but said leaving Van Buren isn’t an option. This is where she’s grown up and spent her entire life.
“What do you do? What do you do when you find out your financial stability is cut?” Hamilton said.
Adam Boehler, another team member at the Tyson plant in Van Buren, said his family lives in the area and he isn’t going to leave. But he knows that finding a job when hundreds of people are having to do the same thing will be a challenge.
“It happens. It’s part of life. Do I wish something could be done about it? Yes,” Boehler said.
The president of a union representing workers in Glen Allen, meanwhile, criticized Tyson for providing no warning to the group.
“It has been our honor and privilege to represent the workers at this plant for decades, and we were appalled by today’s news and the terrible impact it will have on close to 700 of our union members,” said Mark Federici, President of UFCW 400, in a statement obtained by Nexstar’s WRIC.
Federici also called out Tyson for closing Virginia’s Glen Allen plant while investing hundreds of millions in a new plant halfway across the state in Pittsylvania County, the station reported.
The Van Buren Chamber of Commerce said over 900 employees in the area would be affected by the closure; local outlet KLRT reported that the Arkansas plant employed 969, specifically. The Glen Allen plant, meanwhile, employed 692, WRIC reported.
WRIC’s Jakob Cordes contributed to this report. | 2023-03-15T16:58:52+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/news/national/tyson-foods-closing-2-plants-impacting-nearly-1700-workers/ |
BEDFORD-STUYVESANT, Brooklyn (PIX11) — New surveillance video released Wednesday shows a Brooklyn attack that left a 61-year-old man dead.
Victor Vega was walking on Lexington Avenue near his home on May 25 when two others approached. A masked attacker hit Vega, knocking him into a parked vehicle.
Video shows the victim on the ground as the suspect appears to take something from Vega and hand it to a hooded individual. Vega was found on the ground and rushed to the hospital with trauma to the head. He died on May 30. His death was deemed a homicide.
No arrests have been made. Police have asked for help identifying the individuals caught on video in the attack.
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Fox Racing Employees to Receive Bonus Upon Finalization of Sale to Vista Outdoor
PALO ALTO, Calif., Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- After eight years of partnership with Fox Racing, Altamont Capital Partners (Altamont) has exited its investment with a sale of the company to Vista Outdoor. As part of that transaction, Altamont and Fox Racing announced a broad-based employee bonus program providing payments to Fox Racing employees upon the completion of the company's sale. Qualifying employees will receive bonuses in recognition of their role in building the company into one of the world's leading outdoor brands.
"The success of Altamont's partnership with Fox Racing is a testament to the hard work of their leadership and employees in building a strong business and an iconic brand," said Altamont Capital Partners Co-Founder and Managing Director Keoni Schwartz. "Fox Racing employees are a significant reason why the company is not only in a strong position today but poised for future growth. Altamont is proud to partner with Fox Racing to support a broad-based bonus program that rewards employees for their role in making the company a success story."
Altamont Capital Partners originally invested in Fox Racing via majority recapitalization in 2014. Fox Racing grew net sales by a compound annual growth rate of approximately 20 percent from calendar year 2019 to 2021 and is expected to exceed that number this year. Through its partnership with Altamont, Fox Racing's projected revenue will reach approximately $350 million in calendar year 2022.
"We believe in sharing success because at its core, Fox is a family business," said Fox Racing CEO Jeff McGuane. "Our team has tirelessly built, shaped, and preserved the legacy of Fox Racing and put us in a great position for the future. We're grateful for all our employees have done to make Fox Racing a success and we're proud to partner with Altamont to ensure they're rewarded for all their hard work."
Altamont is a founding partner of Ownership Works, a nonprofit dedicated to developing broad-based employee ownership programs to create better work environments and financial opportunities for employees, and to help businesses improve their performance by attracting and retaining engaged employees who are invested in their company's success. As part of its partnership with Ownership Works, Altamont will continue working with its partner companies to build upon existing efforts and implement shared ownership more broadly in its portfolio.
About Altamont Capital Partners
Altamont Capital Partners is a private investment firm based in the San Francisco Bay Area with more than $4.5 billion of assets under management. Altamont is focused on investing in middle-market businesses where it can partner with leading management teams to reach their full potential. The firm's principals have significant experience building business success stories across a range of industries, including financial services, healthcare, business services, consumer/retail, and industrials.
About Fox Racing
Since 1974, when Geoff Fox first introduced the world to our iconic logo, Fox Racing has been all about family. Not just in name—a legacy that continues to this day—but the idea of celebrating and sharing the passion of life on two wheels with the world. This is what drives us, inspires us, and keeps us close. Because "skulk" is more than just a word for a family of foxes—it's the adventure, the fidelity of friends, and everything that happens along the way.
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Judge blocks Missouri rule limiting transgender health care
CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri judge on Wednesday temporarily blocked a first-of-its-kind rule restricting access to gender-affirming health care for transgender kids and adults, just hours before it was set to take effect.
St. Louis County Circuit Judge Ellen Ribaudo ruled against Republican Attorney General Andrew Bailey’s emergency rule on transgender health care, putting it on hold until at least Monday. Bailey has touted the rule as a way to shield minors from what he describes as experimental medical treatments.
Transgender Missourians and health care providers sued to stop it from taking effect as scheduled Thursday. They argued that Bailey sidestepped the GOP-led Legislature and acted beyond his authority in attempting to regulate gender-affirming health care under the state’s consumer-protection laws.
The rule would “essentially outlaw, on less than two weeks’ notice, virtually all medically-necessary treatment for gender dysphoria in Missouri, treatment that is supported by every major medical association in the United States,” attorneys for the plaintiffs wrote in court filings.
The rule would have required people to have experienced an “intense pattern” of documented gender dysphoria for three years and to have received at least 15 hourly sessions with a therapist over at least 18 months before receiving puberty blockers, hormones, surgery or other treatment.
Patients also would first have to be screened for autism and “social media addiction,” and any psychiatric symptoms from mental health issues would have to be treated and resolved.
The rule allowed for some individuals to maintain their prescriptions while they promptly received required assessments.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below.
CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — A judge was weighing Wednesday whether to allow a first-of-its-kind rule placing strict regulations on gender-affirming care in Missouri to kick in the next day.
St. Louis County Circuit Judge Ellen Ribaudo did not indicate how soon she would rule after a hearing where attorneys for transgender Missourians and health care providers argued with the Republican attorney general’s office over whether the office’s restrictions should be allowed to take effect.
Transgender Missourians and health care providers are seeking a delay of up to 30 days to allow the judge to consider the case. Their attorney, Tony Rothert with the American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri, told Ribaudo that the regulations “will cause immediate, severe and potentially irreparable harm” for people who could lose access to medications that include puberty blockers and sex hormones.
He and other attorneys said that transgender people who can’t get gender-affirming care are at risk of suicide.
Republican Attorney General Andrew Bailey has touted his emergency regulation as a way to shield minors from what he describes as experimental medical treatments, though puberty blockers and sex hormones have been prescribed for decades. The restrictions also apply to health care for adults.
Assistant Attorney General Joshua Divine argued that Bailey’s order does not ban gender-affirming care.
The rule will require people to have experienced an “intense pattern” of documented gender dysphoria for three years and to have received at least 15 hourly sessions with a therapist over at least 18 months before receiving puberty blockers, hormones, surgery or other treatment. Patients also must first be screened for autism and “social media addiction,” and any psychiatric symptoms from mental health issues would have to be treated and resolved.
Some people would be able to maintain their prescriptions while undergoing required assessments.
Divine said the rule provides “basic procedural guardrails.” He cited studies showing that a high percentage of kids seeking to transition are dealing with mental health issues. He said that rather than transition they should undergo “talk therapy.”
Those suing argue Bailey sidestepped the GOP-led Legislature and acted beyond his authority in attempting to regulate gender-affirming health care under the state’s consumer-protection laws.
“We don’t allow attorneys general to legislate, and we don’t allow them to play doctor,” Rothert said.
Bailey issued the restrictions following an investigation he launched in February into the Washington University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children’s Hospital. The investigation was prompted by a former employee who alleged the center was providing children with gender-affirming care without informed consent, not enough individualized case review and wraparound mental health services. An internal review by the university found no misconduct and determined that the former employee’s claims were unsubstantiated.
Bailey’s efforts to crack down on gender-affirming health care come as Republican lawmakers across the country have proposed hundreds of laws aimed at transgender people. At least 13 states have enacted laws restricting or banning gender-affirming care for minors.
The Food and Drug Administration approved puberty blockers 30 years ago to treat children with precocious puberty — a condition that causes sexual development to begin much earlier than usual. Sex hormones — synthetic forms of estrogen and testosterone — were approved decades ago to treat hormone disorders or as birth control pills.
The FDA has not approved the medications specifically to treat gender-questioning youth. But they have been used for many years for that purpose “off label,” a common and accepted practice for many medical conditions. Doctors who treat transgender patients say those decades of use mean the treatments are not experimental.
Critics have raised concerns about children changing their minds. Yet the evidence suggests detransitioning is not as common as opponents of transgender medical treatment for youth contend, though few studies exist.
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Ballentine reported from Jefferson City, Missouri.
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Tuesday, May 2
Baseball
Normal Community at Peoria Notre Dame, 4:30 p.m.
Peoria Central at Normal West, 4 p.m.
Bloomington at Danville, 6 p.m.
Central Catholic at El Paso-Gridley, 4:30 p.m.
Springfield Sacred Heart-Griffin at University High, 4:30 p.m.
Boys Lacrosse
Bloomington at Central Catholic, 5:30 p.m.
Softball
Normal West at Normal Community, 4:30 p.m.
Bloomington at Champaign Centennial, 4:30 p.m.
El Paso-Gridley at Central Catholic, 4:30 p.m.
Springfield Sacred Heart-Griffin at University High, 4:30 p.m.
Girls Soccer
Normal Community at Champaign Centennial, 4:30 p.m.
Central Catholic at Champaign St. Thomas More, 4:30 p.m.
Peoria Christian at Cornerstone Christian, 4:30 p.m.
Boys Tennis
Limestone at Normal West, 4 p.m.
Champaign Centennial at Bloomington, 4 p.m.
Track & Field
Central Catholic at Illini Prairie Conference Meet (Paxton-Buckley-Loda), noon
College
Illinois State Baseball at Iowa, 6 p.m.
Heartland Golf at NJCAA Regionals (Bloomington, Ind.)
Heartland Baseball vs Lake Land, 11 a.m.
Wednesday, May 3
Baseball
Lincoln-Way Central at Normal Community, 5 p.m.
Bloomington at East Moline United Township, 4 p.m.
University High at Springfield Sacred Heart-Griffin, 4:30 p.m.
Cornerstone Christian at Lexington, 4:30 p.m.
Boys Lacrosse
Central Catholic at Normal Community, 5:30 p.m.
Softball
Central Catholic at Heyworth, 4:30 p.m.
University High at Springfield Sacred Heart-Griffin, 4:30 p.m.
Girls Soccer
Peoria Manual at Bloomington, 4:30 p.m.
University High at Springfield Southeast, 4:30 p.m.
Boys Tennis
Normal Community at Peoria Richwoods, 4 p.m.
Normal West at Champaign Central, 4 p.m.
Bloomington at Mount Zion, 4 p.m.
Central Catholic at Morton, 4 p.m.
Rochester at University High, 4:30 p.m.
College
Illinois Wesleyan Softball at DePauw (DH), 4:15 p.m.
Illinois Wesleyan Women's Lacrosse vs. Chicago at CCIW Tournament (Chicago), 6 p.m.
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David Ortiz arrived at Red Sox spring training on Friday and told reporters, including MLB’s Ian Browne, that he plans to be more involved with Rafael Devers going forward.
“I’m planning to get a little bit more involved with him, based on my experience, based on him being a Dominican fella,” Ortiz said.
Ortiz retired after the 2016 season, right before Devers made his midseason debut the following summer, but the Hall of Fame slugger used to watch a teenage Devers work at the Red Sox’ Dominican Academy, and has been singing his praises for many years.
The bridge between the two was Xander Bogaerts, who debuted as a 20-year-old in August 2013, and was one of several young stars Ortiz mentored.
In turn, Bogaerts became a big brother-like mentor and close friend to Devers, who debuted at the same age, and was also immediately thrust into a postseason run, albeit a much shorter one than in Bogaerts’ rookie year.
With Bogaerts on the Padres now and Devers signed to the longest, richest contract in franchise history, eyes are on the third baseman to lead.
But for a variety of reasons, he’s expressed hesitance about taking up the mantle.
Talk of leading the team makes him feel old, Devers explained at Winter Weekend, adding that he needs to show respect to more veteran players, as is customary. At 26 years old, he is on the younger end of a roster full of guys in the mid-to-late 30s. At the same time, being “Carita” (his nickname, which means Baby Face) only goes so far when he’s entering his seventh year in the majors.
Devers is keenly aware of the unique position he’s in now that he’s signed the extension, but says the money won’t change him. When spring training began, he said he still hasn’t really splurged on anything yet, leading Cora to joke that the young superstar is still cheap.
The contract changes things, though. Whether he spends his windfall or not, he’s the biggest investment the Red Sox have ever made, and you can bet there are strings attached. Ortiz understands that, despite his biggest contract being the four-year, $52 million extension he signed in April 2006.
“You start adding things to his [plate] and sometimes players don’t feel comfortable dealing with it. In this case, it’s gotta be different because he’s the face of the organization, the face of the franchise,” Ortiz told Browne. “So at some point you need to start learning how to get there. And that’s why the organization is just making sure that happens.”
Bogaerts was the unofficial captain of the team, and though he could be vocal at times, he mostly led by example. Evoking his mentor at Winter Weekend, Devers said he, too, prefers to lead by example.
Ortiz, the team’s undisputed leader in later years and now a “special assistant,” is famously vocal. From his “This is our [expletive] city” speech in April 2013, to the impassioned dugout address that rallied his teammates during that fall’s World Series, which former bench coach Torey Lovullo described as “yelling and screaming,” he’s not afraid to get loud and say how he feels.
The results, a trio of World Series trophies, not to mention his countless personal achievements, speak for themselves.
But when Ortiz joined the NESN booth during Saturday’s game and explained why the Red Sox have asked him to “get a little bit more involved” with Devers, he made it clear that he’s not trying to turn the slugger into his clone.
“The one thing that people need to know about Raffy, he is shy! You know, he’s like a big kid,” Ortiz said. “He don’t have the personality that I have, and I’m never gonna ask him to have it. It is not fair to ask anyone to be exactly the same way.”
“He is the face of this franchise right now,” Ortiz said. “We are going to try to build this franchise around him.”
In January 2018, Ortiz came to Winter Weekend and announced that he saw something of himself in the young slugger.
Who better to help Devers speak and slug his way to greatness? | 2023-03-04T21:57:14+00:00 | bostonherald.com | https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/03/04/red-sox-david-ortiz-rafael-devers-xander-bogaerts-spring-training/ |
How long can trapped people survive in the rubble of an earthquake?
Up to a week or more, experts say, but it depends on their injuries, how they are trapped and weather conditions.
Search teams from around the world have joined local emergency personnel in Turkey and Syria to look for victims from this week’s devastating earthquake that has killed thousands.
Most rescues occur in the first 24 hours after a disaster. After that, survival chances drop as each day passes, experts say. Many victims are badly injured or buried by falling stones or other debris.
Access to water and air to breathe are crucial factors, along with weather. Wintry conditions in Syria and Turkey have hampered rescue efforts and temperatures have dipped well below freezing.
“Typically, it is rare to find survivors after the fifth to seventh days, and most search and rescue teams will consider stopping by then,” said Dr. Jarone Lee, an emergency and disaster medicine expert at Massachusetts General Hospital. ”But, there are many stories of people surviving well past the seven-day mark. Unfortunately, these are usually rare and extraordinary cases.”
People with traumatic injuries, including crush injuries and limb amputations, face the most critical survival window, said Dr. George Chiampas, an emergency medicine specialist at Northwestern University’s Feinberg medical school.
“If you don’t pull them out in one hour, in that golden hour, there’s really a very low chance of survival,’’ he said.
Those with other illnesses, whose health depends on medications, also face grim chances, Chiampas said.
Age, physical and mental condition are all critical.
“You see a lot of different scenarios where we’ve had some some really miraculous saves and people have survived under horrible conditions.,” said Dr. Christopher Colwell, an emergency medicine specialists at the University of California, San Francisco. “They tend to be younger people and and have been fortunate enough to find either a pocket in the rubble or some way to access needed elements like air and water.”
After the 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami, a teenager and his 80-year-old grandmother were found alive after nine days trapped in their flattened home. The year before, a 16-year-old Haitian girl was rescued from earthquake rubble in Port-Au-Prince after 15 days.
Mental state can also affect survival. People trapped next to bodies, who have no contact with other survivors or rescuers, may give up hope, Chiampas noted.
“If you have someone who is alive, you’re leaning on each other to keep fighting,’’ he said.
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A federal appeals court has ruled that a pair of lawsuits that seek to hold oil companies accountable for the effects of climate change should be heard in state courts, striking down efforts by the fossil fuel industry to get the cases in front of federal judges.
While climate change "is an important problem with national and global implications," cases cannot be transferred to federal courts "just because they are important," the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia said August 17.
Lawyers representing the state of Delaware and the city of Hoboken, N.J., sued more than a dozen oil companies and an industry trade group in 2020 for allegedly misleading the public about the role that fossil fuels play in causing climate change. The Delaware and Hoboken lawsuits are among more than 20 similar cases filed across the United States in the last several years.
Fossil fuel companies have largely unsuccessfully pushed to have the lawsuits tried in federal court, rather than state courts, arguing that the issues under litigation are of national significance. The ruling issued on August 17 marked the fifth time that a federal appeals court has blocked the oil industry from moving such cases out of state courts, says Karen Sokol, a professor at the Loyola University New Orleans College of Law.
"The first cases were filed in the summer of 2017, and the [fossil fuel] industry has kept this fight up in jurisdictional battles now for five years," Sokol says. "It's saying in its public messaging that these cases are baseless, but it's doing everything it can to keep them out of discovery and trial in state court."
Delaware and Hoboken have accused oil companies and the American Petroleum Institute (API) of violating various state statutes, including laws against consumer fraud. Consumer protection cases, including lawsuits involving alleged corporate misinformation campaigns by tobacco companies, have historically been tried in state court.
"Oil companies ask us to hear two sweeping climate-change suits. But the plaintiffs filed those suits in state court based only on state tort law," Judge Stephanos Bibas wrote for the Court of Appeals in Philadelphia.
Delaware has said sea level rise caused by climate change will threaten more than $1 billion in property value, with flooding expected to hit areas with high poverty rates especially hard. Hoboken said it is seeking hundreds of millions of dollars to cover current and future costs associated with climate change adaptation, remediation and economic loss.
A spokesperson for Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings said her office agreed with the ruling from the appeals court.
Chevron spokesperson Bill Turenne said the cases belong in federal court "due to their sweeping implications for national energy policy, national security, foreign policy, and other uniquely federal interests.
"Climate change is a global phenomenon requiring a coordinated federal policy response, not a patchwork of state lawsuits," Turenne said in an emailed statement. "As the Court noted, [the] ruling was on a jurisdictional question; we look forward to prevailing on the overall merits of these cases."
Ryan Meyers, general counsel at API, called the lawsuits "an enormous waste of taxpayer resources." Climate change policy is ultimately "an issue for Congress to debate, not the court system," he added.
An Exxon Mobil spokesperson said the company is "reviewing the ruling and evaluating next steps." Other oil companies named in the lawsuits filed by Delaware and Hoboken either declined to comment or did not respond to messages seeking comment.
Climate advocates welcomed the appeals court decision. "The polluters that spent decades lying about their products' role in fueling the climate crisis are terrified of having to face consequences for their actions, and have tried desperately to avoid state court," Richard Wiles, president of the Center for Climate Integrity, said in a statement. "But once again, appeals courts have batted down Big Oil's attempts to escape accountability."
In addition to fighting lawsuits on jurisdictional grounds, the fossil fuel industry is pushing for states to pass laws that would block municipalities from suing companies for damages related to climate change, according to the Center for Climate Integrity, a watchdog group.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Institute for Legal Reform has advocated for such measures. "Armed with novel theories of liability and supported by throngs of private contingency fee counsel, municipal plaintiffs remain an ongoing and disruptive threat to business," the group said in a 2021 report.
Since 2019, municipal litigation preemption bills have been introduced in Arizona, Florida, Ohio and Kansas, and one has passed in Texas, according to the Center for Climate Integrity.
"These are multiple fronts to ensure that [cases] never get to the merits," says Sokol, adding that the fossil fuel industry is looking for "blanket immunity" from corporate accountability.
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PARIS – France’s lower house of parliament on Tuesday elected Yaël Braun-Pivet of President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist alliance as its new speaker, the first woman to hold the post.
The National Assembly opened its first session Tuesday since legislative elections this month shook up France’s political landscape, depriving Macron’s party of its majority. Macron’s alliance still has the most seats but no longer enough to comfortably adopt laws.
The leftist Nupes coalition is the biggest opposition force, and hopes to challenge Macron’s plans to cut taxes and raise the retirement age.
The far-right party of three-time presidential candidate Marine Le Pen won a record number of seats, and is expected to press for anti-immigration policies.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below.
PARIS (AP) — France’s lower house of parliament on Tuesday opened its first session since President Emmanuel Macron's party lost its majority, and is expected to elect a woman as speaker for the first time.
Legislative elections earlier this month shook up France’s political landscape. Macron’s centrist alliance Ensemble (Together) still has the most seats but no longer enough to comfortably adopt laws.
The leftist Nupes coalition is the biggest opposition force, and its legislators made a grand joint entrance Tuesday, including a diverse cross-section of lawmakers including many young people in office for the first time. Nupes hopes to challenge Macron’s plans to cut taxes and raise the retirement age from 62 to 65.
The far-right party of three-time presidential candidate Marine Le Pen, the National Rally, won a record number of seats, and is expected to press anti-immigration policies.
All three top parties plan competing measures aimed at boosting working-class households cope with high inflation, fueled by Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Among the first issues the new Assembly is expected to face is a proposal by Macron’s party to inscribe the right to abortion in the French constitution. The measure was prompted by the U.S. Supreme Court decision last week to strip women's constitutional protections for abortion.
“I think what happened in the United States is a warning to our democracies, and the French should be at the forefront of the rights and liberties for women,” said Benjamin Haddad, legislator from Macron’s party.
The centrist alliance chose Yael Braun-Pivet, a former Socialist who joined Macron's party in 2016, as its candidate for the job of speaker, and she is considered the front-runner. The speaker is being chosen by secret ballot Tuesday.
The National Assembly, the most powerful house in France’s parliament, is taking on a more important role now than it has had in 20 years.
Macron’s supporters worry that the new legislature will cause political gridlock and block his efforts to make France’s economy more business-friendly and pass climate legislation. His critics say it is more representative of France.
National Rally legislator Sebastien Chenu said his far-right party would push for debate on “Islamism” and immigration.
“We will oppose without any concessions Emmanuel Macron’s reforms, like the pension reform in particular,” he said.
Amid high inflation, Nupes legislator Louis Boyrad said, “We must revive the economy through consumption. By raising the minimum wage to 1,500 euros. By freezing prices. We have plenty of proposals."
Haddad struck a conciliatory tone.
“We are going to work with other parties. The French have decided, they gave us the majority but the relative majority, so they want us to work with other groups, other MPs, build coalitions project by project, text by text, find compromise and negotiate."
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Masha Macpherson in Paris contributed to this report. | 2022-06-28T17:06:41+00:00 | ksat.com | https://www.ksat.com/business/2022/06/28/french-parliament-opens-new-era-after-macron-lost-majority/ |
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — De’Aaron Fox finished off a dazzling playoff debut that was years in the making and had one more task to do.
With the home crowd counting down following an exhilarating return to the postseason, Fox pressed the button and lit the ceremonial beam, letting out 17 seasons of frustration for Sacramento.
“Sacramento showed out tonight,” Fox said. “But doing this for the fans, just knowing the way that they support this team through thick and thin — really thin. It’s just a testament to the way they are.”
Fox was the biggest reason why, scoring 38 points to tie for the second highest playoff debut in NBA history to lead the Kings to a 126-123 victory over the defending-champion Golden State Warriors on Saturday night.
Fox scored 29 points in the second half after taking time to adjust to the playoff physicality and hit the 3-pointer that gave Sacramento the lead for good late in the fourth quarter.
Fox took until his sixth season to reach the postseason stage but announced himself as a star as only Luka Doncic scored more points in a playoff debut with 42 against Dallas three years ago.
“You need guys like that on your side because they know everything that we’re throwing at them,” coach Mike Brown said. “There’s no secrets. You have to have guys on your team that can go make plays and Foxy went and made plays tonight.”
The first playoff meeting between the Northern California neighbors lived up to the hype and delighted the raucous crowd that had been waiting for a playoff game since 2006.
The inexperienced Kings closed the game strong against a Warriors team that won four titles in the previous eight seasons.
After Stephen Curry hit a corner 3-pointer to give Golden State a 114-112 lead with about four minutes left, the Kings responded with seven in a row starting with a 3-pointer from Fox.
The Warriors didn’t go away and cut the deficit to one on a layup by Curry in the final minute. But Andrew Wiggins missed a corner 3 for the lead in the closing seconds of his first game in more than two months.
“That last one felt amazing,” Wiggins said of the last shot. “Only up from here. … I’m here to compete and I believe in myself.”
Malik Monk made two free throws to make it 126-123 with 2.9 seconds left. Curry missed a runner from 3 at the buzzer, giving the Kings their first playoff win since April 30, 2006, against San Antonio.
“That first game is kind of a feeling out process,” Curry said. “We responded. That’s what we are capable of doing. It was a high energy game from start to finish.”
Monk finished with 32 points off the bench and Domantas Sabonis had 12 points and 16 rebounds.
Curry led the Warriors with 30 points, Klay Thompson added 21 and Wiggins and Poole scored 18 apiece.
It was a festive environment in success-starved Sacramento where fans gathered outside the arena hours before the start of the Kings first playoff game following an NBA record 16-year drought.
The arena was deafening starting in pregame warmups with some fans even bringing back the cow bells that were so common during their playoff runs two decades ago.
“It was incredible all night,” forward Harrison Barnes said. “When guys ran out for layup lines with how loud it got in there and I think everyone got chills.”
The excitement appeared to take a toll on the inexperienced Kings, who struggled shooting the ball early. Sacramento shot just 39.2% in the first half and trailed Golden State 61-55 at the half.
The Warriors built the lead to 10 points in the third quarter before Sacramento ended the quarter on a 15-4 run fueled by 10 points from Trey Lyles to take a 91-90 lead into the fourth.
WIGGINS’ RETURN
Wiggins showed few signs of rust in his first game in more than two months after leaving the team to deal with an undisclosed family matter.
Wiggins came off the bench after starting his first 657 games in the NBA and made an immediate impact. He had his first shot attempt blocked but hustled back for a block of his own on the defensive end.
The only thing missing from his game was the outside shot as he was 1 for 8 from 3.
TIP-INS
Warriors: Golden State opened a series on the road for the fourth time in 25 playoff series under Steve Kerr. The Warriors won Game 1 and the series in the 2018 Western Conference Finals against Houston and the second round against Memphis last season. Golden State lost the opener of the 2019 Finals and the series to Toronto.
Kings: Sacramento starters missed their first 15 attempts from 3-point range before Fox hit one late in the third quarter,
UP NEXT
Game 2 is Monday night in Sacramento. The Warriors haven’t fallen behind 2-0 in a playoff series since the second round against Utah in 2007.
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Win 4 Evening" game were:
0-4-3-4
(zero, four, three, four)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Win 4 Evening" game were:
0-4-3-4
(zero, four, three, four) | 2022-06-26T03:15:48+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Win-4-Evening-game-17266103.php |
WESTFIELD — Superintendent Stefan Czaporowski said the School Department will present its first look at the budget at 6:30 p.m. Monday, April 3, in the council chambers, Room 207 in City Hall, followed by a regular meeting of the School Committee at 7 p.m.
The School Committee will vote on the budget at the next scheduled meeting, Czaporowski said, to give members time to review it.
“It’s going to be a challenging budget year. Inflation is affecting the entire country, including cities and towns,” Czaporowski said. | 2023-03-31T23:13:02+00:00 | masslive.com | https://www.masslive.com/westfieldnews/2023/03/this-years-budget-is-challenging-says-westfield-school-superintendent.html |
HORRY COUNTY, S.C. (WBTW) – The daughter of a retired professional soccer player is dead following a boating accident in South Carolina, her family has confirmed.
Olivia Knighton, 11, of Massachusetts was among nine people thrown overboard when their 23-foot boat was hit by a large wake from another boat on the Intracoastal Waterway Wednesday, according to the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources. There were 12 people on the boat at the time, and no one else was hurt.
Knighton was hit by the propeller after being thrown overboard, the DNR said. She died at a local hospital after the incident, according to Horry County Fire Rescue.
“We are in the process of a detailed inquiry that includes collecting witness statements, examining the boat and working to develop a complete picture of what happened,” the DNR said. “Our thoughts are with the child’s family and loved ones.”
Brad Knighton, a former goalie for the MLS’s New England Revolution, posted on Twitter early Thursday afternoon that “there are no words to express the depth of our profound grief and sorrow in this moment.”
“Our family is still in shock at the sudden and tragic loss of our beautiful and brilliant daughter, Olivia, to an unfortunate boating accident yesterday. We are all still in disbelief that her bright and pure light was taken away from us so suddenly. Somehow we will get through this as a family.”
Knighton also posted about his daughter on his Instagram account, which has several photos of the family.
Brad Knighton spent most of his professional career, which began in 2007, with the Revolution, according to Nexstar’s WWLP. He also made appearances for the Philadelphia Union and the Vancouver Whitecaps FC. After retiring from the MLS in January, Knighton became head coach with the New England Revolution Academy. | 2023-07-20T23:06:21+00:00 | pix11.com | https://pix11.com/news/us-world-news/daughter-of-retired-mls-player-dead-after-being-thrown-from-boat/ |
UK court to hold hearing for US woman in teen’s road death
LONDON (AP) — A court case against an American citizen who left Britain after being involved in a crash that killed a teenage motorcyclist more than three years ago will be heard this week, U.K. prosecutors said Monday.
The Crown Prosecution Service said there will be a hearing in the case against Anne Sacoolas at London’s Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Thursday — an apparent breakthrough in the long-deadlocked case.
British prosecutors previously set a January 2022 date for the hearing, but canceled it days beforehand to allow for discussions with Sacoolas’ lawyers. At the time, the law firm representing Sacoolas denied that she had agreed to appear in a British court.
Sacoolas is expected to appear virtually at Thursday’s procedural hearing.
Sacoolas, 45, has been charged with causing death by dangerous driving in the death of 19-year-old Harry Dunn, who was killed in a collision with a car outside RAF Croughton, an air base in eastern England used by U.S. forces, in August 2019.
Sacoolas returned to the U.S. days later and the American government invoked diplomatic immunity on her behalf, prompting an outcry in Britain.
Dunn’s family have pressed politicians in Britain and the United States to get Sacoolas to face British justice, but an extradition request was refused by U.S. authorities.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2022-09-26T20:36:54+00:00 | kwtx.com | https://www.kwtx.com/2022/09/26/uk-court-hold-hearing-us-woman-teens-road-death/ |
BOSTON, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Boston Hemp Inc. is pleased to announce the addition of new strains of hemp to its already popular line of products. Boston Hemp Inc. has added Purple Urkle, Sour Dog and Gogi OG to its line-up of available hemp flower. The new strains are available as smalls. Smalls are from the same harvest as larger buds but are smaller in size. There is no difference in the levels of CBD that can be found in this smaller sized bud of these new strains. The new strains are available to be infused with additional cannabinoids such as Delta-8 THC, HHC or THC-O.
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JPMorgan Chase, the largest bank in America, has joined a host of companies that have said they will cover the cost for employees who need to travel out of state for abortions.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday officially reversed Roe v. Wade, declaring that the constitutional right to abortion upheld for nearly a half century, no longer exists.
The decision triggered internal memos to employees and statements from several companies. They include:
JP Morgan told employees in a memo that if they live in states where abortion is outlawed, the company will cover the cost of travel to a state where it's legal, beginning in July. The banking giant is one of many companies that have said they will cover such travel costs.
These companies join a previous wave of corporations that had made similar announcements after a Supreme Court opinion leaked in early May suggesting this outcome.
Those companies include:
"Access to reproductive health care, including abortion, has been a critical factor to the workplace gains and contributions women have made over the past 50 years," a May 4 statement from Levi's said.
Media company Condé Nast will also pay for travel and lodging costs if employees need to travel out of their state for an abortion, according to an internal memo from CEO Roger Lynch to employees of the publisher of Vogue, New Yorker and Vanity Fair, among others.
"It is a crushing blow to reproductive rights that have been protected for nearly half a century," Lynch said in the memo obtained by NPR.
Condé Nast said the company has made enhancements to its U.S. health benefits to help employees and their dependents get access to reproductive care regardless of where they reside.
Lynch went further in his email to exhort his employees to use their journalism to respond in this moment.
"The most powerful way for us to respond to what's happening right now is through our brands and the distinctive editorial lenses with which they're covering today's news and the effect it will have on society," he said. "Our values are clear in the content and journalism we produce."
Without federal protection, states are now responsible for codifying their own laws surrounding abortion. Some have already passed laws banning nearly all abortions.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2022-06-24T21:21:55+00:00 | wyomingpublicmedia.org | https://www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/2022-06-24/jp-morgan-disney-join-wave-of-companies-thatll-cover-employee-abortion-travel-costs |
Gas prices drop 70 days in a row in the second-longest streak since 2005
Drivers have something to smile about: A historic drop in gasoline prices.
The national average for a gallon of regular gas has dropped every single day since soaring to a record high of $5.02 a gallon on June 14, according to AAA.
This 70-day streak of falling prices at the pump is the second longest on record going back to 2005, Bespoke Investment Group noted in a report titled "The Great American Summer of Falling Gas Prices."
The national average for regular gas dipped on Tuesday to $3.89 a gallon, down from $4.38 a month ago.
Although prices are 73 cents higher than a year ago, the recent drop is significant, especially given the inflation alarm bells set off by the surge above $5 just two months ago.
The only longer streak since 2005 lasted 117 days and ended in January 2015, according to Bespoke. Moreover, the percentage decline in gas prices so far this month is the steepest at this point in August on record, the report found.
There are a number of factors behind this summer's tumble in gas prices, and not all of them are positive.
First, $5 proved to be a breaking point for many drivers, with some choosing to drive less. That loss in demand helped balance the market.
At the same time, U.S. recession fears and worries about China's economy drove oil prices sharply lower, taking gas prices along for the ride.
On the supply side, the Biden administration's unprecedented release of emergency oil from the national stockpile helped take pressure off energy prices.
At the peak in mid-June, the national average for regular gas was up by a staggering 50% on the year. But following the summer plunge, gas prices are now up less than 19% on the year. That is just one percentage point more than the average year-to-date change for all years since 2005, according to Bespoke.
"Who would have thought back in the spring that by late summer we'd be looking at nothing more than an average year in terms of the [year-to-date] change in gas prices," Bespoke analysts wrote in the note.
The streak of falling gas prices could end if oil prices continue to rise.
After dropping to a nearly eight-month low of $86.53 a barrel last week, U.S. crude jumped 3% Tuesday and climbed back above $93 on signs that OPEC and its allies could take action.
Saudi Arabia's energy minister told Bloomberg News that OPEC+ may be forced to cut production, adding that "extreme" volatility and a lack of liquidity mean the futures market is increasingly "disconnected" from fundamentals.
A supply cut from OPEC+ would mark a significant shift from the influential producer group and could lift oil prices. | 2022-08-23T16:09:02+00:00 | wxii12.com | https://www.wxii12.com/article/gas-prices-drop-70-days-in-a-row/40967906 |
Now that the pandemic is pretty much over, I am driving around a lot more than I have in the past three years. What I have been seeing are what I call tree deserts. I will find whole streets empty of trees. On my street, there’s an intersection where they took down three giant maples, and never replaced them with another tree. I think every tree lawn should have a tree.
I have two big trees on my tree lawn. And guess where everybody parks their cars in the summer? That goes to show you how important these trees are for cooling, for clean air and for raising the value of your property.
If you take down a tree, you should replace it. With climate change, we need them.
Thon Alicia-Burlingame,
Cleveland Heights | 2022-05-03T17:14:35+00:00 | cleveland.com | https://www.cleveland.com/letters/2022/05/dont-contribute-to-tree-deserts-plant-trees-to-replace-those-you-cut-down.html |
WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — On a day filled with far more rain drops than drop shots at Wimbledon — light, but persistent, showers prevented the completion, or even start, of dozens of matches — Roger Federer and Andy Murray provided the highlights.
The retired Federer, who won a men’s-record eight of his 20 Grand Slam titles at the All England Club, was in the front row of the Royal Box, where he sat next to Kate, the Princess of Wales. Federer was saluted with a 1 1/2-minute standing ovation during a pre-match tribute to his career at Centre Court on Tuesday.
Hours later, Murray was down below, competing.
Murray won two of his three Grand Slam titles and one of his two Olympic gold medals on that rather famous patch of grass and — even if those triumphs were long ago; even if he is now 36 with an artificial hip — the locals fondly remember those good times, especially his 2013 championship that made him the first British man in 77 years to win the event. They hope for an attention-grabbing show this fortnight, so Murray got most of the full-throated support that reverberated under the closed roof of the main stadium during a 6-3, 6-0, 6-1 victory over wild-card entry Ryan Peniston in an all-Brit first-round match.
“It was amazing to have some royalty here, but also some tennis royalty, as well,” Murray said during his on-court interview, as Kate and Federer looked on.
“It’s amazing to have Roger here, supporting the event,” Murray said. “Last time I was on this court, and he was watching, was during the (2012) Olympics, and he sat in (Swiss countryman) Stan Wawrinka’s box and was supporting against me. So it was nice to see a couple of claps today after some good shots.”
When the interviewer looked toward the guest of honor to ask, “Roger, you approve of today’s performance?” Federer responded with a thumbs-up.
Peniston’s assessment of Murray: “He was just relentless on every point.”
Murray sounded pleased as well after claiming all 11 of his service games, breaking four times and going 17-for-17 at the net.
“I played some good stuff as the match went on. There were some good signs there,” he said. “It’s been a long time since I’ve felt sort of physically this good coming into Wimbledon. The last few years have been very challenging. I’m hoping I’m fit and ready for a good run.”
At his age and with his two hip operations plus other assorted setbacks, Murray is not considered among the leading favorites. That is a short list that leads with two names and does not include many more: Novak Djokovic, who has won seven of his 23 major titles at Wimbledon, and Carlos Alcaraz, who is ranked No. 1.
The 20-year-old Alcaraz put on his usual display of variety and athleticism — he hit one shot by wrapping his racket around his body and swinging from behind his back while on the run, making contact but sending the ball long — while beating the about-to-retire Jeremy Chardy 6-0, 6-2, 7-5.
Like Murray, Alcaraz was never truly troubled by his opponent.
Unlike Murray, Alcaraz played at No. 1 Court, so he did not get to perform for Federer.
And, boy, was Alcaraz bitter about that.
“After the match, I was (on) the phone checking everything … all the stories, all the posts. I saw that Roger Federer was here. I was a little bit jealous,” he said with a smile, wearing a white hoodie and bucket hat at his news conference. “Honestly, I want Roger Federer to watch one of my matches, obviously. I (want) to talk a little bit with him. For me, (that) would be amazing.”
Because of the wet weather, the only courts where play was allowed after the rain began on Day 2 were the two with retractable roofs, Centre and No. 1. By the end of the day, only eight of 77 scheduled matches had been completed.
Three leading women — defending champion Elena Rybakina, 2022 runner-up Ons Jabeur and Australian Open champion Aryna Sabalenka, who is seeded No. 2 — all won, as did the highest-seeded male British player, No. 12 Cam Norrie. But another seeded man from the host country, No. 27 Dan Evans, lost to Quentin Halys of France 6-2, 6-3, 6-7 (5), 6-4. In the last of the matches that concluded — one that commenced at Court 11 on Monday and wrapped up shortly before 10 p.m. at No. 1 Court on Tuesday — No. 29 Tomás Martin Etcheverry finished off a comeback from a two-set deficit to get past Bernabé Zapata Miralles 6-7 (5), 5-7, 6-3, 6-4, 7-5.
Rybakina dropped the opening set against American Shelby Rogers before coming back for a 4-6, 6-1, 6-2 win; Jabeur defeated Magdalena Frech 6-3, 6-3; and Sabalenka eliminated Panna Udvardy 6-3, 6-1 in her return after being banned from Wimbledon a year ago along with other players from her country, Belarus, and Russia over the war in Ukraine.
“I didn’t realize how much I missed this place,” Sabalenka said, “until this match.”
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AP tennis: https://apnews.com/hub/tennis and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2023-07-05T04:31:58+00:00 | cbs42.com | https://www.cbs42.com/sports/ap-princess-kate-visits-wimbledon-rain-interrupts-play-for-the-2nd-straight-day/ |
WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve's preferred inflation gauge rose last month at its fastest pace since June, an alarming sign that price pressures remain entrenched in the U.S. economy and could lead the Fed to keep raising interest rates well into this year.
Friday’s report from the Commerce Department showed that consumer prices rose 0.6% from December to January, up sharply from a 0.2% increase from November to December. On a year-over-year basis, prices rose 5.4%, up from a 5.3% annual increase in December.
Excluding volatile food and energy prices, so-called core inflation rose 0.6% from December, up from a 0.4% rise the previous month. And compared with a year earlier, core inflation was up 4.7% in January, versus a 4.6% year-over-year uptick in December.
The report also showed that consumer spending rose 1.8% last month from December after falling the previous month.
January's price data exceeded forecasters' expectations, confounding hopes that inflation was steadily decelerating and that the Fed could relent on its campaign of rate hikes. It follows other recent data that also suggested that the economy remains gripped by inflation despite the Fed's strenuous efforts to tame it.
Last week, the government issued a separate inflation measure — the consumer price index — which showed that prices surged 0.5% from December to January, much more than the previous month's 0.1% rise. Measured year over year, consumer prices climbed 6.4% in January. That was well below a recent peak of 9.1% in June but still far above the Fed’s 2% inflation target.
Since March of last year, the Fed has attacked inflation by raising its key interest rate eight times. Yet despite the resulting higher borrowing costs for individuals and businesses, the job market remains surprisingly robust. That is actually a worrisome sign for the Fed because strong demand for workers tends to fuel wage growth and overall inflation. Employers added a sizzling 517,000 jobs in January, and the unemployment rate fell to 3.4%, its lowest point since 1969.
“Reaccelerating price pressures, coupled with a still-strong labor market that is restoring incomes and is supporting demand, will keep the Fed on track to hike rates further over coming meetings,’’ said Rubeela Farooqi, chief U.S. economist at High Frequency Economics.
The Fed is thought to monitor the inflation gauge that was issued Friday — the personal consumption expenditures price index — even more closely than it does the government’s better-known CPI.
Typically, the PCE index shows a lower inflation level than CPI. In part, that’s because rents, which have soared, carry twice the weight in the CPI that they do in the PCE.
The PCE price index also seeks to account for changes in how people shop when inflation jumps. As a result, it can capture emerging trends — when, for example, consumers shift away from pricey national brands in favor of less expensive store brands.
The consumer price index showed a worrisome rise from December to January: It jumped 0.5% — five times the November-to-December increase.
Likewise, the government’s measure of wholesale inflation, which shows price increases before they hit consumers, accelerated 0.7% from December to January after having dropped 0.2% from November to December. | 2023-02-24T15:33:44+00:00 | wcnc.com | https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/nation-world/us-inflation-report-surges-in-january/507-5539a941-2db3-4126-bcc0-43ecd30de12e |
Scott Simon is one of America's most admired writers and broadcasters. He is the host of Weekend Edition Saturday and is one of the hosts of NPR's morning news podcast Up First. He has reported from all fifty states, five continents, and ten wars, from El Salvador to Sarajevo to Afghanistan and Iraq. His books have chronicled character and characters, in war and peace, sports and art, tragedy and comedy. | 2023-07-08T12:47:41+00:00 | kclu.org | https://www.kclu.org/arts-culture/arts-culture/2023-07-08/jake-tapper-on-his-1970s-thriller-all-the-demons-are-here |
LONDON (AP) — London’s top police officer defended the department Friday from complaints of a heavy-handed response to protesters during the coronation of King Charles III, saying his officers intervened to prevent “serious disruption and criminality.”
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Mark Rowley said officers responded to “rapidly developing intelligence” suggesting protests could affect the safety and security of the coronation events last Saturday.
Prompting the concerns were indications that demonstrators planned to use high-volume sound devices that could have panicked horses and to block the procession between Buckingham Palace and Westminster Abbey by locking onto things along the route, Rowley said in a letter responding to questions from Mayor Sadiq Khan.
‘’Had our officers not acted on the reasonable grounds based on the evidence in front of them in the moment and the potential risk to the event, there would now be much more serious questions to answer about the event,’’ Rowley wrote. “Serious and reliable intelligence told us that the risks were very real.”
Rowley’s assessment came after it emerged that a supporter of the monarchy who was waiting along the parade route in hopes of seeing the new king was arrested and detained for 13 hours simply because she was standing close to protesters in central London on Saturday. Alice Chambers has called on the police department to put new processes in place to prevent a repeat of the incident.
Anti-monarchy groups, environmental campaigners and civil liberties organizations have accused the police, and Britain’s Conservative government, of stifling the right to protest by using recently enacted police powers to clamp down on peaceful but disruptive demonstrations on coronation day.
Republic, a group that is campaigning to replace the king with an elected head of state, has pledged to take legal action.
The U.K.’s recently passed Public Order Act, introduced in response to recent environmental protests that disrupted transportation around the country, allows police to search demonstrators for items such as locks and glue. It allows penalties of up to 12 months in prison for protesters who block roads or interfere with “national infrastructure.”
The new rules came into effect three days before the coronation.
Rowley said peaceful demonstrations were allowed to continue, including a large group of anti-monarchist protesters along the parade route at Trafalgar Square.
“Protest was not banned,” he said. “While we said that our tolerance for disruption of the coronation celebrations was low, it was not zero.” | 2023-05-13T07:43:56+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/entertainment-news/london-police-chief-rejects-complaints-of-heavy-handed-response-to-coronation-protesters/ |
It was perhaps the unthinkable: President Obama meeting with his successor at the White House in the first step to carry out the peaceful transition of power in the American republic — and that successor is Donald Trump.
But that's exactly what happened Thursday morning in what amounts to one of the more surreal moments in American political history.
President-elect Trump, who rose to political fame by falsely questioning the birthplace of the sitting president, said he had "great respect" for Obama, called him a "very good man" and said he would seek his "counsel" in the future. Trump, who noted that the two had never met before, said they were slated to speak for maybe 10 to 15 minutes, but the meeting, which lasted more than an hour and a half, could have gone on even longer. Trump said they talked about "difficulties" around the world but also about accomplishments.
"I very much look forward to dealing with the president in the future, including counsel," Trump said. "He's — he explained some of the difficulties, some of the high-flying assets, and some of the really great things that have been achieved."
Obama described it as an "excellent conversation" and "wide-ranging" — from how to organizationally set up a White House to foreign and domestic policy.
"I believe that it is important for all of us, regardless of party and regardless of political preferences, to now come together, work together to deal with the many challenges that we face," Obama said, adding that he wanted Trump and his wife, Melania, the incoming first lady, to feel "welcome" as they make the transition.
"And most of all," Obama continued, "I want to emphasize to you, Mr. President-elect, that we now are going to want to do everything we can to help you succeed, because if you succeed, then the country succeeds."
The tone and grace of the meeting stood in stark contrast with the contentious campaign and the history between these two. President Obama openly mocked Trump at a White House Correspondents' Dinner. Less than a year ago, last December, when Trump was ascendant in the polls, this reporter wrote:
"[Obama] joked in 2011 that Trump, who was hot on the trail of Obama's birth certificate, was a conspiracy theorist waiting to reveal the fake moon landing, then roasted him for making the hard decisions — like firing Gary Busey instead of Lil' Jon or Meatloaf on Celebrity Apprentice.
"Just eight months ago, Obama joked that Trump was 'here. Still.' That got big laughs.
"But it's Trump's supporters who are laughing now."
Trump has been a thorn in Obama's side. He rose to political fame using the birther movement to translate his pop-culture notoriety as a reality-TV star into an improbable winning presidential campaign. That birther movement questioned the president's place of birth and thereby the legitimacy of the first African-American president. The president, of course, was born in Hawaii. Trump finally later acknowledged that during this campaign but made no apology for his crusade.
Trump used the issue to stir up a base of antipathy toward this president. It wasn't even so much that the largely rural, white, populist voters who eventually propelled Trump into the White House really believed the accusations and innuendo to be true. But they liked that Trump spoke to them when they felt ignored — by the professional class, the Washington establishment and the media elites — and was willing to annoy and disrupt them all.
What Trump accomplished is nothing short of a populist, white working-class revolt — even as he lost the national popular vote to Democrat Hillary Clinton. Trump was able to win giant margins in white, rural counties, especially in the Industrial North and Midwest, like Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin. It was enough to offset Clinton's margins in the cities and suburbs, upending decades of the fundamentals of political thought and analysis.
Also at the White House on Thursday, first lady Michelle Obama and Melania Trump met. White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough was spotted by the White House pool taking a walk on the White House grounds with Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner. Kushner is married to Trump's daughter Ivanka. Kushner played a key role in Trump's campaign.
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus has been rumored to potentially serve as Trump's chief of staff, though he told NBC he has had "no conversations" about that. Kushner also appears poised to play a key role as an adviser in President Trump's inner circle; it would be remarkable, though, if he were tapped as chief of staff, given he's a member of the family. He's also the publisher of the New York Observer.
Trump also met with Republican leaders on Capitol Hill this afternoon.
After meeting with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Trump spoke briefly saying his "really great" priorities will be immigration, "big league jobs" and health care. As NPR's Ailsa Chang reports, when asked if he's going to ask Congress to pass a Muslim ban, he declined to answer the question and walked on.
Trump also met with House Speaker Paul Ryan in the speaker's office, saying after the meeting: "I think we are going to absolutely spectacular things for the American people and I look forward to starting --- quite frankly we can't get started fast enough."
Ryan praised Trump's victory as "one of the most impressive" ever seen and also conveyed a sense of urgency saying the two talked about "how we are going to hit the ground running to get this country turned around and make America great again." The two also said they looked forward to working together on health care, immigration, lowering taxes and other issues.
According to a pool report from Politico's Edward-Isaac Dovere, Trump said he had a "great meeting" with Ryan and then the speaker led him out onto his balcony.
Ryan pointed to various sites in the city and as well as Trump's new hotel in downtown D.C. saying "that's it right there, that's the Old Post Office Building."
Trump called the view "absolutely beautiful."
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2023-04-04T10:49:04+00:00 | wqcs.org | https://www.wqcs.org/2016-11-10/in-meeting-at-white-house-president-elect-trump-calls-obama-very-good-man |
The PGA Tour’s sixth event of the wraparound calendar, the Butterfield Bermuda Championship, officially gets underway from Port Royal Golf Club tomorrow.
Although the field is comparably weaker than last week’s CJ Cup, with Denny McCarthy your consensus betting favorite at +1600, there are still ample opportunities for golf bettors. Here, we’ll focus on a single subset: the head-to-head matchup markets.
Using both my statistical modeling and course history, I’ve landed on two markets that provide good prices to bettors.
Odds come courtesy of BetMGM and are reflective at time of writing.
Bermuda Championship Best Matchup Bet No. 1
Thomas Detry (-105) over Mark Hubbard
Just based on my statistical modeling, Detry has no business being priced as an underdog in this head-to-head matchup.
Across his past 24 rounds, Detry ranks fourth overall in the field while Hubbard is a distant 40th in the same projection. Expand the sample to the last 50 rounds and Detry carries an ever-so-slight advantage as he’s third in the model vs. fourth for Hubbard.
But, in terms of the former projection, Detry is better in virtually every meaningful metric. Hubbard does have the advantage in the ball-striking metrics. Detry is 46th and 37th, respectively, in good drives gained and SG: Approach while Hubbard is ninth and second, respectively, but Detry is far superior on the greens.
Over his past 24 rounds, Detry is sixth and 82nd, respectively, in birdies or better gained and three-putt avoidance while Hubbard is 74th and 97th, respectively, in those same metrics. Detry also carries a 23-spot advantage in Par 4 Efficiency and a 70-spot advantage in Par 5 Efficiency.
Finally, Detry ranks fourth in the field in eagle rate while Hubbard is 51st in the same metric. To me, that says Detry, who has two top-12 finishes in three starts this season, has a higher ceiling than Hubbard.
For those reasons, I’ll bet Detry to -115 in this matchup.
Bermuda Championship Best Matchup Bet No. 1
Garrick Higgo (+125) over Chad Ramey & Ryan Brehm
Maybe this will prove too good to be true, but I have Higgo as far and away the best player of this trio.
Over the past 24 rounds, Higgo sits 28th overall in my statistical projection. Meanwhile, Brehm is 91st overall while Ramey is 99th overall. Even if you shrink the sample down to 12 rounds, Higgo still carries a 45-spot advantage over Ramey and a 73-spot advantage over Brehm.
In terms of the first projection, Higgo leads the trio in virtually every major statistic. Although he falls behind Ramey in good drives gained, he wins the three-way matchup in four of my five remaining key statistics. Here’s how the Higgo, Ramey and Brehm line up in those five stats, respectively:
- Strokes-Gained: Approach — 38th, 96th, 91st
- Birdies or Better Gained — 12th, 112th, 37th
- Three-Putt Avoidance — 13th, 41st, 123rd
- Par 4 Efficiency — 87th, 108th, 64th
- Par 5 Efficiency — 14th, 68th, 86th
To me, the key in this three-ball matchup is that Higgo is far and away the best player when it comes to Par 5 Efficiency. Given how easy those holes play at Port Royal GC — those three rank as the three easiest holes on the course — I expect he’ll use that advantage to create a gap between him and his opponents.
As a result, I would have Higgo projected as a much bigger favorite and will play him to +100 in this market. | 2022-10-26T22:11:16+00:00 | chicagotribune.com | https://www.chicagotribune.com/betting/ct-butterfield-bermuda-championship-best-head-to-head-bets-20221026-mxajueafqbbszdq22lvfds2s2m-story.html |
CLEVELAND, March 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Kevin Clayton, Senior Vice President, Head of Social Impact and Equity for the Rock Entertainment Group, which includes the Cleveland Cavaliers and Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse has been selected as Board Chair of the Urban League of Greater Cleveland (ULGC).
Clayton said he is both honored and humbled to be elected as the Chair of the Urban League. "I recognize that I have an important responsibility to carry the torch of dedicated, servant leadership from the men and women who came before me," said Clayton.
Clayton added that his approach to diversity, equity & inclusion is grounded in a belief that everyone is part of the DEI landscape. ULGC President & CEO Marsha A. Mockabee couldn't agree more. She is thrilled to see Clayton utilize his leadership and in-depth experience to take the Urban League even further.
"Kevin has been such a major contributor since joining the ULGC Board," added Mockabee. "We have seen him up close as he has used his wealth of knowledge, sphere of influence, and relentless commitment to fight for equity, diversity, and inclusion both locally, and nationally."
As Senior VP for the Rock Entertainment Group, Clayton's duties also include overseeing the Cavalier's philanthropic efforts and working with the Cleveland Charge G League, and the Cleveland Monsters Hockey Team.
In addition to serving as the League's Board Chair, Clayton is currently an active board member at Creating Healthier Communities, United Way of Greater Cleveland, Black Sports Professionals, and the City Club of Cleveland. Clayton also serves on the advisory boards for the Greater Cleveland Partnership and the Sports Business Journal.
"I am excited about the future of the Urban League, as we are well-positioned to continue impactful work and service for the Northeast Ohio communities that need our support and voice," said Clayton.
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WASHINGTON — If the Supreme Court rules the way the leaked draft document published by Politico indicates, could Congress or President Biden do anything to still protect abortion access nationwide? In short, the answer is yes.
Democrats in Congress could try and pass a law to codify the right to abortion into federal law. That would start an entirely new legal fight.
However, it's doubtful Democrats have the necessary votes to do that right now. The Senate is split 50-50.
Conversations have also started to try and change Senate rules so that abortion rights could pass in the Senate with fewer than 60 votes.
For the moment though, that appears to lack the necessary votes too.
Meanwhile, President Biden has already indicated he might try to do something on his own when the actual opinion comes down.
The president has directed his Gender Policy Council and the White House Counsel's Office "to prepare options for an Administration response."
Biden released a statement on Monday saying: "We will be ready when any ruling is issued."
WHEN MIGHT AN OPINION COME?
As supporters on both sides of the issue continue to rally on the steps of the Supreme Court, there is no indication of when the Supreme Court will actually announce its official opinion.
While Chief Justice John Roberts has confirmed the leaked document is real, he also said it does not represent a final ruling.
Of course, it has long been speculated that justices on the supreme court are prepared to overturn Roe, which simply gives the authority to regulate abortion back to state governments.
Conservative-learning states will likely pass more restrictions while liberal-leaning states are expected to expand abortion rights.
WHAT IS NEXT?
"The pro-life movement is not going to stop," Carol Tobias, the president of the National Right to Life, told our Joe St. George recently.
National Right to Life is of the largest anti-abortion groups in the country. Recently Tobias said that even if Roe gets struck down her work won't be over. New legal fights will emerge and those will likely involve the White House.
For instance, there is a growing push by women's rights groups to promote abortion pills. Those pills could be delivered, discreetly, in the mail.
Stopping that, Tobias admits, will be tough.
"It will be hard to catch," Tobias said.
As for the time being, expect abortion to be a major focus of this year's midterm elections. Abortion rights supporters predicted Tuesday outside the Supreme Court this will mobilize some voters.
"We really hope this draft decision leak really mobilizes people to take action," Shannon Russell, with Catholics for Choice, said. | 2022-05-03T22:52:13+00:00 | wkbw.com | https://www.wkbw.com/news/national-politics/could-congress-or-president-biden-act-if-the-supreme-court-overturns-roe-v-wade |
Updated June 9, 2023 at 4:29 PM ET
Author Jorge Gaviria considers masa – dough made from stone-ground corn – to be one of the greatest human achievements, up there with taming fire and inventing the wheel. His enthusiasm for the humble ingredient has led to his team winning a top culinary prize.
On Jun. 3, Gaviria and his colleagues won a 2023 James Beard award for their YouTube documentary series celebrating masa and the communities who cook with it.
Masienda Presents shows how ranchers, home cooks and professional chefs from around the world all use this ancient staple.
Masa is at the foundation of many Latin American cuisines. It takes on many different shapes and textures, allowing it to be used for the flat disks of tortillas, the thick cases of tamales, and many other foods.
"What I loved about the series was that everything really did hit on a different facet of identity," Gaviria said. "Mexican-American identity, Mexican identity, Latin identity at large."
Masa and identity
In the first episode, Arturo Enciso talks about Gusto Bread, the artisanal bakery he owns with Ana Belén Salatino in Long Beach, California. They're known for using masa in bread and pastries.
"Having baked all these European-style breads, I still felt like 'OK well that doesn't translate to like my other identity, my true identity," Enciso says.
Another episode follows Tony Ortiz on their grandparents' Northern California ranch as they cook lamb birria in an outdoor oven.
"When I'm in the kitchen with my grandmother, things that I am making, for me, they feel more soft," Ortiz says. "Then when I'm cooking with my grandfather it's a little bit more intense...I've had to learn how to, like, exist in those two spaces — feminine and masculine — as a queer person."
After hours of cooking, the Ortiz family come together and serve the birria on fresh, warm tortillas.
Why masa? Why now?
According to Gaviria, tortillas sell more, pound for pound, than hamburger buns.
He founded his company Masienda in 2014, supplying cooks with masa ingredients and kitchen tools. In addition to Masienda Presents, its YouTube channel has cooking tutorials and stories about the craftspeople behind Masienda's products.
Gaviria previously worked at farms and high-end restaurants, including Blue Hill at Stone Barns.
"And as I started to really kind of dive deeper into the foods that I loved, I realized that they lacked the same kind of representation that, you know, French and new American food had in the culinary canon," Gaviria said. "I wanted to see, you know, rice and beans elevated in a way, and celebrated for just the deliciousness and, you know, the comfort that they provide."
For a taste of that deliciousness, he has some advice.
"If you have a taco," Gaviria said, "consider maybe making that tortilla from scratch."
And a great tortilla, he says, starts with masa.
The digital version of this story was edited by Lisa Lambert. The broadcast version was edited by Reena Advani.
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2023-06-10T13:46:18+00:00 | mtpr.org | https://www.mtpr.org/2023-06-07/masa-the-key-to-tortillas-and-tamales-inspires-an-award-winning-documentary-series |
NEW YORK, June 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of Oscar Health, Inc. (NYSE: OSCR) pursuant and/or traceable to the registration statement and prospectus (collectively, the "Registration Statement") issued in connection with the Company's March 2021 initial public offering ("IPO" or the "Offering"), of the important July 11, 2022 lead plaintiff deadline.
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ISTANBUL (AP) — A 5.0 magnitude earthquake shook Van province in eastern Turkey late Sunday.
Turkey’s AFAD emergency and disaster authority said the quake struck 18.6 kilometers (11.5 miles) deep at 9:35 p.m.(1835 GMT) near the Tusba district of Van. The province borders Iran.
Van governor Ozan Balci told the official Anadolu news agency there were no “negative” reports yet but that emergency teams were working to identify any possible damage. Turkey’s health minister tweeted there were no reports of deaths or injuries.
A 7.2 magnitude quake hit Van in 2011, killing more than 600 people and injuring thousands. In 2020, an earthquake centered in the Iranian city of Khoy with a 5.7 magnitude killed nine people in Van.
Turkey sits on top of major fault lines and earthquakes are frequent. | 2022-06-13T16:13:12+00:00 | valleycentral.com | https://www.valleycentral.com/news/international/ap-international/5-0-magnitude-earthquake-shakes-eastern-turkey/ |
SEATTLE (AP) — The shooting deaths of two Connecticut officers and wounding of a third punctuated an especially violent week for police across the U.S. and fit into a grim pattern: Even as more officers left their jobs in the past two years, the number targeted and killed rose.
According to organizations that track violence against police, 56 officers have been killed by gunfire this year — 14% more than this time last year and about 45% ahead of 2020’s pace. The country is on track for the deadliest year since 67 officers were killed in 2016.
While the figures include a few officers killed by accidental gunfire, the number of ambushes in which police were injured or killed in surprise attacks with little chance to defend themselves has soared since 2020 and accounts for nearly half the officers killed this year.
Such an attack apparently struck Wednesday in Bristol, Connecticut, where the state police said Bristol Police Sgt. Dustin Demonte and Officer Alex Hamzy were killed and Officer Alec Iurato was wounded when they responded to a 911 call that appears to have been “a deliberate act to lure law enforcement to the scene.”
At least 11 police officers were shot around the country this week, including one fatally in Greenville, Mississippi, and another in Las Vegas.
“Those are really scary numbers for law enforcement, not just for individual officers, but for the organizations they work for, which have to be taking this into account as they’re hiring, retaining and training officers,” said Bill Alexander, executive director of the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial, which tracks officer deaths in the line of duty.
“It’s not lost on the officers that the job they signed up for has become more dangerous,” he said. “That has to be taking a significant mental toll on the agencies at large and the individual officers doing the work.”
An off-duty officer was among five people killed in a shooting rampage by a 15-year-old boy in Raleigh, North Carolina, on Thursday evening, but it wasn’t clear if the officer was targeted. In late June, a man in the Appalachian foothills of eastern Kentucky opened fire on officers serving a warrant in a domestic violence case, killing three and wounding five others — a scene that deputies called “pure hell.”
The Fraternal Order of Police reported that through Sept. 30 of this year, there had been 63 ambush-style attacks in which officers were wounded, with 93 officers shot, 24 fatally. That’s a lower number of such attacks than the first nine months of 2021, when there were 75 ambushes of officers, with 93 shot and 21 killed. The total number of ambushes in which police were hurt last year more than doubled from 2020.
The increase in ambushes and killings of police comes at a time when many departments around the country face staffing shortages, with some agencies down hundreds of officers and struggling to fill vacancies.
COVID-19 has been the biggest killer of police officers in the past few years, with 280 deaths in 2020, 467 in 2021 and 64 so far this year, the Officer Down Memorial Page reports. But many officers have retired early or resigned out of frustration with what they see as sagging public support amid “defund police” efforts prompted by the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis officer and the deaths of other Black people at the hands of law enforcement.
The number of officers nationally fell from roughly 719,000 in 2020 to 688,000 in 2021, according to data reported to the FBI. Hiring of officers has rebounded some this year, but resignations and retirements continue to prove a challenge for departments around the country, the Washington, D.C.-based Police Executive Research Forum found in a survey early this year.
Mike Zaro is the police chief in Lakewood, Washington, a city of about 60,000 people where four officers were assassinated at a coffee shop in 2009. He was the assistant chief at the time, and he said the department continues to see officers retiring early due to anxiety and stress that can be traced back to the attack.
“I started back in the early ’90s, and back then and for a long time you just sucked it up and moved on whenever you dealt with any trauma related to the job, whether it was someone else’s or your own,” Zaro said. “After 2009, something of that magnitude, we recognized we had to try and do something different. We worked on the fly to develop methods of encouraging people to seek help. … Eventually it became ingrained in what we do. Today it’s called officer wellness.”
Zaro recalls how crucial the support of the community was in helping the department get through the aftermath of the killings. Such support, he said, is instrumental in helping officers accept the risks they face.
Many law enforcement supporters worry about whether departments still have such backing, given the tenor of the national discourse around policing. They stress that questionable or illegal uses of force by officers are the rare exception, not the rule, but police have lost trust from many people outraged at repeatedly seeing cellphone or body-camera videos online of officers abusing their power.
“It would be infinitely harder to accept those risks and deal with the loss if the community is either suggesting the officers deserved it or making excuses for the person who committed the crime or just not supporting them,” Zaro said. “It’s more imperative now to make that part of the conversation, given the lashing out at police we’ve seen nationwide over the last couple of years.” | 2022-10-15T21:43:28+00:00 | cbs4indy.com | https://cbs4indy.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-violent-week-a-grim-sign-as-targeted-killings-of-police-rise/ |
Orangeburg Department of Public Safety
Two men and a woman were shot at a motel early Sunday morning. Their injuries are not believed to be life-threatening.
The shooting took place just after 4 a.m. outside of one of the rooms at the American Inn, located at 610 John C. Calhoun Drive.
A man told officers that he was washing clothes in his room when he heard gunfire erupt outside.
He saw where a man and woman had been shot. The man drove them to the Regional Medical Center and then returned to the hotel.
Officers weren’t aware of the shooting until RMC staff notified them that someone brought two patients with gunshot injuries to the emergency room.
Officers found the third injured person when they arrived at the motel. He had two gunshot wounds to his back.
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Officers were able to review the hotel’s surveillance video, which showed the shooting.
Orangeburg County Sheriff’s Office
Someone opened fire on a Harvard Lane home in Santee on Sunday night.
A man and woman were in the home when they heard gunfire just after 9:30 p.m. Bullets struck the exterior of the home.
One of the occupants told deputies a man was pointing a handgun at the home just before shots were fired.
The people in the home weren’t physically injured.
In other reports:
• Someone stole a disabled 1999 green BMW that was parked at Star of Hope Apostolic Church, located at 2485 Russell Street, in Orangeburg.
The theft was reported on Friday.
The owner of the BMW left it parked there on July 8. When she checked on it on Thursday, the car wasn’t there.
The BMW is valued at $5,000.
• A Vance man reported that his 9 mm Hi-Point pistol was missing from a dresser at a Nimbus Road home in Holly Hill.
The man said on Friday that he last saw his pistol there on Dec. 10, 2021.
The value of the gun is $200. | 2022-07-18T21:39:41+00:00 | thetandd.com | https://thetandd.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/3-shot-at-orangeburg-motel/article_18be2147-b575-5eff-ae4a-60007a55c5c8.html |
NAPLES, Fla., May 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pro Music Rights ("PMR"), one of the world's largest music licensing companies, is pleased to announce that it has granted the well-known video service TikTok a license that will allow its users to create videos which include music from Pro Music Rights' extensive repertoire. The agreement will enable TikTok to offer PMR's more than 2,500,000 works to its users. Jake P. Noch, CEO of Pro Music Rights, said that he is very pleased to enter into the relationship with TikTok. "I think that TikTok is a wonderful platform and will be an outstanding online venue to expand the audience for our music, since it is routinely used by millions all over the world," said Mr. Noch.
About Pro Music Rights, Inc. (ProMusicRights.com)
Pro Music Rights is the 5th ever formed public performance rights organization (PRO) in the United States. Its licensees include such notable companies as TikTok, iHeart Media, Triller, Napster, 7Digital, Vevo, & hundreds of others. Pro Music Rights controls an estimated market share of 7.4% in the United States and that represents over 2,500,000 works that feature notable artists such as A$AP Rocky, Wiz Khalifa, Pharrell, Young Jeezy, Juelz Santana, Lil Yachty, MoneyBaggYo, Larry June, Trae Pound, Sause Walka, Trae Tha Truth, Sosamann, Soulja Boy, Lex Luger, Lud Foe, SlowBucks, Gunplay, OG Maco, Rich The Kid, Fat Trel, Young Scooter, Nipsey Hussle, Famous Dex, Boosie Badazz, Shy Glizzy, 2 Chainz, Migos, Gucci Mane, Rich The Kid, Young Dolph, Trinidad James, Fall Out Boy, & countless others. For more information, please visit promusicrights.com.
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Why is it fair for a boy naturally smaller than his peers to only play sports with other boys bigger and stronger than him because of his genitals?
It seems to me that it would be more fair for young people to compete against each other based on ability, rather than gender. This is why we have females wrestling and playing football. This is why women are breaking the glass ceiling on coaching pro sports. This is why we have fought so long for equality in sports.
Again, please tell me, what is a male or female sport? Chess, horseshoes or bowling? Because I can tell you that volleyball, basketball, swimming and track can all be co-ed. Children who can explore all sports at their athletic ability instead of gender will learn to love athletics.
There are athletic school divisions for competition based on potential athletic ability. Depending on where they live, some athletes have advantages that other athletes do not, including more tax dollars to build better facilities. For example, Olympic swimming pools, more extensive training equipment and physical therapists. Competitions are based on ability, not gender. Let's be honest; some of Wyoming's small towns need everyone to try out to have a team.
We need to make it OK for children to be children, for Joey to dress up as a nurse, and for Mary to dress up as a firefighter and encourage exploration. It is essential to increase children's imagination on what's possible, what they can be, and that it's OK for Susan to be a truck driver and Mark to be a stay-at-home dad and not demand limitations based on some superficial construct.
Megan Degenfelder's re-election campaign may be funded by the Freedom Caucus, but her ability to do her job rests on her ability to see the children of Wyoming, and that includes transgenderness.
As for the frivolous lawsuit of the UW sorority sisters, there is a thing known as toxic femininity, and these women demonstrate it. As a woman, I nurture, offer grace and see humanity as a creation. | 2023-05-25T10:45:06+00:00 | wyomingnews.com | https://www.wyomingnews.com/opinion/letters_to_editor/its-time-to-stop-gender-based-segregation-in-childhood-athletics/article_90f96ccc-fa6b-11ed-a184-77ecddc7db36.html |
Plane-bus collide at LA airport, sending 4 to the hospital
Published: Feb. 11, 2023 at 8:16 AM CST|Updated: 42 minutes ago
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A jet being towed on a taxiway collided with a bus at Los Angeles International Airport late Friday, injuring five people. There was no interruption to airport operations.
LAX Airport said on Twitter that the jet was being towed from a gate to a parking area when it “made contact” with a shuttle bus.
The Los Angeles Fire Department said four people were hospitalized in the “low-speed collision.” Another person was treated at the scene.
There was only one person on the plane, a worker, when the collision occurred, LAFD said.
A large skid mark from the jet’s tire was visible, and the windshield of the bus had extensive damage, according to ABC7.com.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2023-02-11T14:58:40+00:00 | wlox.com | https://www.wlox.com/2023/02/11/plane-bus-collide-la-airport-sending-4-hospital/ |
Ukraine war weighs on pope’s Good Friday Colosseum ritual
ROME (AP) — The war in Ukraine loomed over the traditional Good Friday Colosseum procession in Rome, after the Vatican’s choice of a Russian woman to be among the cross-bearers angered Ukrainians.
For the first time since before the pandemic, the solemn torchlit procession at the ancient arena in Rome was to resume on Friday night. Thousands of pilgrims and tourists flocked to the site hours earlier, in hope of catching a glimpse of Pope Francis, who presides over the service from an elevated point near the Roman Forum.
Earlier this week, Ukraine’s ambassador to the Holy See and the archbishop of Kyiv denounced the Vatican’s plan to have a Ukrainian woman and a Russian woman carry the cross together during the procession. They objected to projecting what they saw as the idea of reconciliation while Ukraine is ravaged by war unleashed by Russia.
The Vatican didn’t respond to the protests or announce any program changes.
While Francis has denounced the Feb. 24 invasion and attacks on Ukraine as a “sacrilege,’’ he has refrained from naming Russia as the aggressor, although his references to Russian Vladimir Putin have been clear. The pope is pressing for negotiations to cease the fighting and bring peace, and has offered to go to Ukraine if his presence could further the cause of peace.
But other faithful in the world applauded the decision to pair the two women, who work together at a Rome hospital and are friends, to carry the cross during part of the procession, which recalls Jesus’ suffering as he was being brought to his crucifixion and death.
In Paris, hundreds of Catholics gathered for Good Friday prayers on the forecourt of Notre Dame cathedral, and followed its rector on a procession around the island on the Seine River that houses the medieval landmark.
“Well, you know today the pope has a woman from Ukraine and a woman from Russia holding the cross together at one of the Stations of the Cross,” Jennifer Kilgore-Caradec told The AP at Notre Dame. She called that a “very moving and meaningful symbol.” She added: “I think that real people in the real world are concerned about peace. We want peace, we don’t want war,” which brings suffering and pain. That is “not the message of the Christ on the cross.”
The faithful were not allowed inside the Paris cathedral, since it is still under reconstruction after a 2019 blaze collapsed its spire and destroyed its roof. French President Emmanuel Macron was visiting the cathedral Friday to mark the third anniversary of the fire.
In St. Peter’s Basilica, hours ahead of the Colosseum event, Pope Francis, wearing red vestments to symbolize the blood of Jesus, limped up the central aisle to take his place for an early evening prayer service. Francis, 85, has been suffering from a knee ligament problem.
Usually at the Good Friday basilica service at the Vatican, the pontiff would prostrate himself in prayer. But this time Francis, hobbled by pain for weeks, didn’t do so.
Francis dispatched his official almsgiver, Polish Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, to Kyiv to lead a Good Friday procession in the capital city of war-ravaged Ukraine. Italian Rai state TV said Krajewski on Friday visited two of Ukraine’s hardest-hit locations, Bucha and Borodyanka, both in ruins. At one point, Krajewski prayed over some of the bodies and leaned over to touch one, partially covered, body.
Throughout his papacy, Francis has repeatedly denounced armaments accumulated by nations as unjustified. In an interview broadcast on Italian state TV on Friday, the pope elaborated on his view.
“I understand those governments that buy arms, I understand them. I do not justify them, but I understand them, because we have to defend ourselves,” Francis said. But, he added: “If there were a pattern of peace, this would not be necessary. But we live with this diabolical pattern of killing one another out of the desire for power, the desire for security, the desire for many things.”
Good Friday is one of the main days for Christians during Holy Week, which culminates in Easter, on Sunday.
In Jerusalem, where tens of thousands of faithful traditionally converge on the Israeli city’s Old City to visit sacred sites during Holy Week, Palestinians on Friday clashed with Israeli police at the Al-Aqsa mosque. The site is sacred to Jews and Muslims. This year, Ramadan coincides with Passover, as well as Holy Week.
Medics in Jerusalem said that more than 150 Palestinians were injured, in the most serious violence at the site in nearly a year.
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John Leicester and Oleg Cetinic contributed from Paris.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2022-04-15T18:07:10+00:00 | live5news.com | https://www.live5news.com/2022/04/15/ukraine-war-weighs-popes-good-friday-colosseum-ritual/ |
Ron Galella, one of the country’s most renowned photographers, who helped shape the modern cult of celebrity with his candid, unposed images of such figures as Elizabeth Taylor, Mick Jagger and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, with whom he had a decade-long legal fight, died April 30 at his home in Montville, N.J. He was 91.
The cause was congestive heart failure, said Geoffrey Croft, a photographer and editor who had worked with Mr. Galella on exhibitions and book projects.
For most of his life, Mr. Galella was never without a camera in his hands, as as he sought to capture the intimate, unguarded moments of famous people. He didn’t work from a studio, instead choosing the sidewalk as his canvas and becoming perhaps the country’s most notorious celebrity photographer, almost as well known as some of his subjects.
He thrived on the element of surprise, wearing disguises, bribing waiters and befriending limousine drivers who might tip him off to celebrity sightings. He once sneaked into actress Brigitte Bardot’s backyard in France to photograph her in a bikini.
“You have to be sneaky, you gotta hide,” he told Britain’s Telegraph newspaper in 2008. “As soon as you see the celeb, you jump, try to beat the cops and, soon as they pull you away, it’s too late, you’ve got the picture already!”
Besides racing along sidewalks and crouching behind bushes, Mr. Galella ran into unexpected dangers. In 1973, actor Marlon Brando punched him on a New York street, breaking his jaw and knocking out four teeth.
Mr. Galella received a $40,000 out-of-court settlement and a certain psychic revenge when Brando was hospitalized for several days because of infected cuts on his hand from the encounter. A year later, when Mr. Galella sought to photograph Brando again, he wore a football helmet with a face mask.
To many people, Mr. Galella’s livelihood was a morally dubious exercise in celebrity stalking. To others, including a growing number of curators and collectors, he was creating a form of spontaneous, pavement-level art that portrayed the human side of public figures.
“He is a viper, a parasite, a stalker, a vermin,” critic Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times in 2010. “He is also, I have decided, a national treasure.”
In a career of more than 60 years, Mr. Galella photographed everyone from Elvis Presley to Lady Gaga. He never asked any of them for permission.
The two people he photographed more than any others were Taylor, a glamorous movie star at the height of her fame in the 1950s and ’60s, and Onassis, the widow of President John F. Kennedy. Mr. Galella’s efforts to get close to them landed him, at different times, in a Mexican jail and a New York courtroom.
While Taylor and her then-husband, actor Richard Burton, were filming on location in Mexico in the 1960s, Burton sent his bodyguards after Mr. Galella to rough him up and confiscate his film.
“They gave me a broken tooth and a black eye,” Mr. Galella told New Jersey’s Bergen Record in 2019. He spent part of a day in jail.
“But to me the worst was, not only was I beaten up,” he added, “but they destroyed 15 rolls of my art.”
Mr. Galella first photographed Onassis in 1967, shortly before the former first lady’s marriage to Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis. She lived in Manhattan, and Mr. Galella often followed her on outings to Central Park with her children.
One day in 1971, he saw Onassis leave her apartment building alone and walk up Madison Avenue. She was dressed casually, carrying her sunglasses in her hand as the wind blew through her hair. Instead of following her on foot, Mr. Galella hailed a taxicab.
He snapped a few photos of her, “and then luck played a part,” he told the Record. “The driver was interested in Jackie, and he blew his horn. Without my even asking him. She turned, and that was the decisive moment when I got Jackie with the Mona Lisa smile.”
“Windblown Jackie” became Mr. Galella’s most celebrated photograph.
“Much of what we came to love about Jackie O we discovered through Galella’s candid images,” fashion designer Tom Ford wrote in the Telegraph in 2002. “Thirty years later, they continue to have a mystique that no formal studio portrait can match.”
Mr. Galella described his photographic pursuit of Jacqueline Onassis as an “obsession” that ultimately ended up in court. In 1969, her Secret Service detail had him arrested — charges were dropped — and Onassis once instructed an agent to “smash his camera,” which she later denied.
Mr. Galella sued Onassis for $1.3 million, alleging that she was interfering with his right to make a living. The case was dismissed, but Onassis countersued, calling Mr. Galella a menace to her and her children.
“I am an absolute prisoner in my apartment,” she said in 1971. “I live in dread fear that the absolute moment I step onto the sidewalk, that man will assault me again.”
After a 26-day trial in 1972, a judge ruled that Mr. Galella had to stay at least 50 yards away from Onassis at all times. (A later ruling reduced the distance to 25 feet.)
During the next few years, he continued to photograph Onassis and admitted that he sometimes violated the 25-foot order. She sued him again in 1982. Under the threat of a fine and a seven-year prison sentence, Mr. Galella agreed not to take pictures of her or her children again.
“I never felt guilty photographing Jackie,” he said. “It’s true that I pushed the First Amendment to the limits, perhaps. But that’s what it takes.”
He already had thousands of images of Onassis, some of which he published in books and exhibited in art galleries.
“Why did I have an obsession with Jackie?” Mr. Galella mused in “Smash His Camera,” a 2010 documentary by filmmaker Leon Gast. “I’ve analyzed it. I had no girlfriend. She was my girlfriend in a way.”
Ronald Edward Galella was born Jan. 10, 1931, in the Bronx. His Italian-born father was a cabinetmaker who built pianos and coffins. His mother was a dressmaker who, like her son, was infatuated with show business.
During the Korean War, Mr. Galella served in the Air Force as a photographer. He used the G.I. Bill to study photojournalism at the ArtCenter College of Design in Los Angeles. (It later moved to Pasadena, Calif.). After graduating in 1958, he worked as a commercial photographer for stores and began to take pictures of celebrities at movie openings.
In 1960, Italian director Federico Fellini made the film “La Dolce Vita,” which included a pesky scooter-riding photographer named Paparazzo. (The word loosely means “buzzing insect” in Italian.)
Mr. Galella eagerly took to the role as one of America’s first paparazzi. He was based in New York but traveled often to Hollywood and Europe, photographing a wide range of stars, including Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, Duke Ellington, Greta Garbo, Frank Sinatra, Princess Diana, Muhammad Ali and Donald Trump.
Despite his run-ins with Onassis, Brando and actor Sean Penn — who once spat on him — Mr. Galella maintained that he had cordial relations with most of his subjects. At a White House gathering in 1979, he sneaked under a rope, in true paparazzi style, and wandered the halls until he saw actress Lauren Bacall, who said, “What are you doing here, Ron?”
His wife of 37 years, journalist Betty Lou Burke, died in 2017. Survivors include a brother.
In later years, Mr. Galella cut back on photography and criticized the intrusiveness of younger generations of celebrity photographers. His archives contain between 3 million and 4 million images, which he mined for more than 15 books, including “100 Iconic Photographs,” published last year. His work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Tate Modern in London and other museums. In the days before his death, he was preparing an exhibit of his photography at New York’s Pierre Hotel.
Original prints of his photographs sell for thousands of dollars and are collected by many celebrities, including some who once scorned him.
“We were all in it together,” Mr. Galella told Canada’s Canwest News Service in 2010. “It’s a biosphere where everyone has their place. Without me taking their picture, they wouldn’t feel like the celebrities they are.” | 2022-05-05T13:06:18+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2022/05/05/celebrity-photographer-ron-galella-dies/ |
United Auto Workers union members who went on strike Saturday at a Stellantis casting plant in Indiana are returning to work after ratifying a deal with the company.
Stellantis said that operations at the plant in Kokomo will resume late Monday after UAW Local 1166 workers voted to ratify the agreement. The two sides had announced a tentative agreement earlier in the day pending the ratification vote.
The strike was related to health and safety issues, including the company’s alleged refusal to repair and replace the plant’s air conditioning and heating systems.
The 35-acre plant in Kokomo makes parts used in the power trains of Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep and RAM vehicles. The 1,200-worker plant, Kokomo Casting, is the world’s largest die cast facility, according to Stellantis.
In May, Stellantis announced a $2.5 billion joint venture with Samsung to build an electric vehicle battery factory in Kokomo that is to employ 1,400 workers.
Stellantis, created last year through the merger of Fiat Chrysler and France’s PSA Peugeot, had said it would build two electric vehicle battery factories in North America. The other is slated for Windsor, Ontario. | 2022-09-13T03:08:55+00:00 | wboy.com | https://www.wboy.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-uaw-workers-in-indiana-stellantis-reach-tentative-deal/ |
CLEVELAND COUNTY, Okla. (KFOR) – An Oklahoma veterinarian is facing new trouble after 168 animals, some of which are exotic, were seized from his farm.
Norman Animal Welfare took the animals from Aaron Stachmus’ farm about a month ago. New court documents revealed that among the animals seized were draft horses, emus, ostriches, tortoises and dogs.
The documents also detail that “both horses had one eye missing” and “appeared to be in need of immediate veterinary care.”
The Norman Police Department said the animals weren’t provided adequate access to water, food and appropriate shelter.
“We all work closely together to make sure animals whether they’re native or non-native, everybody’s following the rules and those animals will be treated fairly,” said Micah Holmes, a spokesperson for the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife.
Last year Stachmus found himself in a similar situation, when Norman Police took more than 350 animals off of this same property. In that case from July of 2021, the veterinarian is facing charges of animal abuse and animal cruelty.
The animals are now in the care of various animal rescue groups.
Nexstar’s KFOR reached out to Stachmus at his clinic and was told he wasn’t available for comment.
The Oklahoma Veterinary Board says he still has his license, but they’re waiting to see how his court case pans out. For now, he’s facing 10 years of probation. | 2022-05-16T02:10:52+00:00 | cbs4indy.com | https://cbs4indy.com/news/national-world/168-animals-some-missing-eyes-seized-from-veterinarians-farm/ |
INDIANAPOLIS — Cyberbullying affects one in four children.
That's according to Dr. Samantha Franklin who says there are ways you can prevent your child from becoming a part of that statistic.
“Install those parental controls, give boundaries, set limits. After your child is responsible and can follow those rules, then you take away some of those parameters. It’s so much easier to loosen than to tighten," Dr. Franklin said.
There were just over 5,100 reported cases of bullying in schools in the state of Indiana last year.
The majority of those cases are verbal bullying, which includes teasing, name-calling, inappropriate sexual comments, taunting, or threatening to cause harm.
Dr. Franklin spent years working as a middle school counselor in both Washington and Pike Townships, and saw firsthand the affects bullying has on a student.
“Depression, anxiety, apprehension of going to school. You have kids who have a hard time making friends because they’ve been betrayed by supposed friends," she said.
On Tuesday, community leaders on Indy’s west side held a town hall to address these concerns.
This comes just one week after a 13-year-old Covington boy took his own life, after suffering relentless bullying at his middle school.
“Life is valuable. You need to be valuable to each other and begin to make a difference in each other’s life," Pastor Wayne Moore said.
Pastor Moore says it’s going to take the whole community’s effort to stop hatred from spreading and encourages parents to take action.
“Parents are having a problem connecting with wrap around services. That’s what we intend to do tonight. Take names, addresses, telephone numbers. Create a list for wrap around services that Indianapolis and Marion County offers," he said.
Right now, there are efforts in the statehouse to help victims of bullying.
House Bill 1483 would require schools notify the parents of both the bully and the victim about an incident. It would also require schools to prioritize the safety of victims.
The bill has already passed by the house and is being considered by the senate. | 2023-03-22T04:10:06+00:00 | wrtv.com | https://www.wrtv.com/news/local-news/community-leaders-on-indys-west-side-address-bullying-cyberbullying-in-schools |
HONG KONG (AP) — Alibaba founder Jack Ma has resurfaced in China after months of overseas travel, visiting a school Monday in the city where his company is headquartered and discussed topics such as artificial intelligence.
Ma founded e-commerce firm Alibaba in the 1990s and was once China’s richest man. He has kept a low profile with few public appearances since Nov. 2020, when he had publicly criticized China’s regulators and financial systems during a speech in Shanghai.
Shortly afterward, authorities put the brakes on the initial public offering of Alibaba’s financial affiliate Ant Group, which had been set to raise $34.5 billion in what would have been the world’s largest share offering at the time. Alibaba was later investigated and fined $2.8 billion for breaching antitrust rules as Chinese authorities cracked down on the once-freewheeling technology industry.
In the past year, Ma has been travelling, with reports of sightings in Europe, Japan, Thailand and Hong Kong. His itinerary has been closely watched as a barometer of Beijing’s attitude towards private businesses.
On Monday, Ma visited the Yungu School in Hangzhou, in eastern China, that was established by Ma and other partners of Alibaba, according to a WeChat post by the school. Ma discussed technologies such as the artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT, and spoke of his passion for learning.
Alibaba did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Chinese government has been seeking to raise confidence in the private sector after regulatory crackdowns, on technology, education, online gaming and financial companies, and harsh COVID-19 restrictions slowed the economy.
Earlier this month, China’s newly-appointed premier, Li Qiang, sought to reassure entrepreneurs and investors by saying the government would provide “unswerving” support for the private sector. The commitment to this was “unequivocal and steadfast,” he said.
Ma stepped down as Alibaba chairman in 2019, saying he hoped to focus on philanthropy. In January, he ceded control of Ant, the financial technology firm, amid a revamp of its shareholding structure.
The same month, a top Chinese central bank official said that the c rackdown on the internet industry was “basically” over. | 2023-03-28T00:33:14+00:00 | kxnet.com | https://www.kxnet.com/technology/ap-technology/alibabas-jack-ma-returns-to-mainland-china/ |
A bankruptcy judge on Thursday approved a $2.46 billion reorganization plan proposed by the Boy Scouts of America, which would allow it to keep operating while compensating tens of thousands of men who say they were sexually abused as children while involved in Scouting.
Though legal hurdles remain, the ruling by Judge Laurie Selber Silverstein in Delaware marked an important milestone for the BSA, which sought bankruptcy protection more than two years ago to stave off a flood of lawsuits alleging child sexual abuse by Scout leaders and volunteers.
Lawyers for some of the victims said the amount an individual survivor may receive from the bankruptcy plan depends on multiple factors relating to the alleged abuse. The plan calls for the BSA and its local councils, along with settling insurance companies and troop sponsoring organizations, including Catholic institutions and parishes, to contribute to a fund for survivors. In return, those groups would be shielded from future lawsuits over Scout-related abuse allegations.
More than 80,000 men have filed claims saying they were abused as children by troop leaders around the country.
“Credit to the courageous survivors that this breakthrough in child and scouting safety has been achieved,” said attorney Jeff Anderson, whose firm represented more than 800 Boy Scout abuse survivors.
Anderson said most of the $2.46 billion is to be paid to survivors, but some funds would be set aside in a trust to continue litigation against entities that have not settled, mainly insurance companies.
It will likely take months for any of the abuse claimants to receive compensation.
Anderson said the settlement has drawn mixed reactions from his clients. Many are proud they stood up and demanded a cleanup of the Irving, Texas-based Boy Scouts, while others feel like they were dismissed because the organization “hid behind the statute of limitations” in some states.
The Boy Scouts of America said it is pleased the court has approved its reorganization plan.
“We continue to be enormously grateful to the survivor community, whose bravery, patience, and willingness to share their experiences has been instrumental in the formation of this Plan,” the organization said in a statement.
The Boy Scouts said the perspectives and priorities of the survivors ”will be ingrained in the BSA’s programming moving forward.”
The BSA also said that because certain parties have said they plan to appeal the order, the organization will next begin an appeal process in order to emerge from Chapter 11, “which will allow survivors to be equitably compensated and preserve the mission of Scouting for future generations.”
A federal district judge must sign off on Silberstein’s ruling.
When it filed for bankruptcy, the BSA faced about 275 filed lawsuits and was aware of numerous other potential cases. More than 80,000 abuse claims were eventually filed as part of the bankruptcy.
Attorneys for BSA insurers argued early on that the sheer volume of claims was an indication of fraud and the result of aggressive client solicitation by attorneys and for-profit claims aggregators. While some of those insurers later negotiated settlements, other insurers continued to oppose the plan. They argued that the procedures for distributing funds from the compensation trust would violate their contractual rights to contest claims and set a dangerous precedent for mass litigation.
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Associated Press writer Sarah Rankin in Richmond, Virginia, contributed to this report. | 2022-09-09T17:04:23+00:00 | cenlanow.com | https://www.cenlanow.com/national/ap-judge-approves-2-46-billion-boy-scouts-reorganization-plan/ |
Greg Piefer, founder and CEO of SHINE Technologies in Janesville, will be the featured speaker at the second Cap Times Executive Breakfast on Thursday, Feb. 16, at The Edgewater Hotel.
Piefer created and leads a nuclear fusion energy company that produces essential medical isotopes. He holds a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering and has degrees in physics as well as electrical and computer engineering.
His career passion, according to SHINE’s website, is to create technology companies that are able to commercialize advances in science, and, in SHINE’s case, improve health care. SHINE does that in part by producing mass quantities of the isotope molybdenum-99, which is used in millions of medical procedures each year in the United States.
Piefer will be the second speaker in a quarterly series created last year by the Cap Times that features one-on-one conversations with top Wisconsin CEOs.
The first speaker in the series, which is sponsored by UBS, was Aaron Jagdfeld, CEO and president of Generac Power Systems, the nation’s leading provider of consumer emergency generators.
The moderator for the speaker series is Mark Richardson, president of Unfinished Business Consulting and CEO of GigBlender. Richardson has helped professionals transition in their careers and organizations attract and acquire talent of color for the past 10 years.
The Feb. 16 event featuring Piefer will be in the Grand Ballroom at The Edgewater Hotel.
Doors will open at 7 a.m. to allow time for coffee and networking. The conversation itself will run one hour and will start at 8. Tickets are on sale.
Admission is $35 for a single ticket, which includes a full breakfast, or $250 for a table for eight. Cap Times members can get individual discounted tickets for $20. | 2023-01-23T21:28:21+00:00 | captimes.com | https://captimes.com/events/shine-technologies-ceo-greg-piefer-will-speak-at-cap-times-breakfast/article_94e2f048-20b2-5dbd-9a9e-64730fc470be.html |
TOKYO — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is having sinus surgery at a Tokyo hospital on Saturday to treat chronic sinusitis that has caused him to have a stuffy nose since last year.
He has had nasal congestion since last year and was diagnosed as having chronic sinusitis with polyps, he told reporters Friday. He has since been treated with medicine but decided to undergo surgery “in order to be in perfect health,” Kishida said.
His stuffy nose while speaking at meetings, parliamentary sessions and news conferences has been cited by local media, including some that speculated it was an aftereffect of COVID-19, which he contracted last summer.
Kishida will have surgery under general anesthesia and during that time Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno will temporarily assume a leadership role as stipulated under Japanese Cabinet Law.
Kishida is expected to go home later Saturday and return to work on Monday, though he will need to visit the hospital a few times for post-surgery checkups and treatment, Matsuno said.
Kishida has suffered plunging public support over his handling of a religious controversy involving his governing party and over resignations of ministers and top aides following a political funding scandal, gaffes and discriminatory remarks against sexual minorities.
Kishida took office in October 2021 and has implemented drastic changes to Japan’s security and energy policies. In December, his government adopted a new security and defense strategy to bolster Japan’s strike-back capability in a break with its postwar self-defense-only principle.
On Friday, Kishida’s Cabinet approved a policy to maximize the use of nuclear power as green energy, reversing the country’s post-Fukushima nuclear phaseout plan. | 2023-02-11T06:29:32+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/japans-pm-kishida-undergoes-sinus-surgery/2023/02/11/f9cf97fa-a9c9-11ed-b2a3-edb05ee0e313_story.html |
Stewart brings significant global underwriting expertise across industries
TORONTO , June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NFP, a leading property and casualty broker, benefits consultant, wealth manager and retirement advisor, today announced the hiring of John Stewart to serve as senior vice president, surety leader, in Canada. In this role Stewart will leverage his underwriting expertise with multinational companies to lead strategic surety business development in Canada and build a national surety team to service clients' contract and commercial bonding needs. He will report to Guy Jolicoeur, managing director, Technical Risk Construction Surety Natural Resources, NFP in Canada.
"John is an excellent addition to NFP and a highly motivated and results oriented leader," said Jolicoeur. "His strong background analyzing financial statements, legal documents and qualitative reports to provide surety bond underwriting insights and recommendations will provide an exceptional resource for our clients and surety team."
Stewart joins NFP from Allianz Trade in North America where he served as senior underwriter. Prior to this, he worked in a variety of underwriting and leadership roles for Liberty International Underwriting/Liberty Mutual Insurance Company and Ally Financial Inc. In addition to a bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan, Stewart holds an Associate in Fidelity and Surety Bonding designation from the American Institute for Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters.
"I'm looking forward to working with this diverse, experienced and knowledgeable team," said Stewart. "NFP is poised to continue expanding in the Canadian surety marketplace and I will be an enthusiastic leader and contributor as we provide unparalleled expertise and service to clients."
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BERLIN (AP) — Germany won’t achieve its targets for phasing out fossil fuels and ramping up renewable energy by 2030 with the measures currently in place, according to a think tank report released Wednesday.
The respected German Institute for Economic Research, or DIW, examined the goals that Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s government set itself since coming to power last year following an election campaign in which combating climate change was one of the biggest issues.
Their economists calculated that the current roll-out of electric vehicles, solar and wind energy won’t be fast enough to reach those targets.
The government’s goal of putting 15 million electric cars on the road by 2030 would require 130,000 such vehicles to be registered every month — up from 30,000 at present. The speed at which solar panels are installed would need to triple compared with the rate seen in the past year, while the erection of wind turbines needs to quadruple, the report found.
“If the government doesn’t want to fall behind on achieving its goals then it needs to implement concrete and far-reaching steps soon,” said Wolf-Peter Schill, an energy economist at the Berlin-based DIW. | 2022-07-06T10:31:32+00:00 | wdtn.com | https://www.wdtn.com/news/business/ap-business/economists-current-measures-wont-meet-german-energy-goals/ |
BALASORE, India (AP) — Rescuers found no more survivors in the overturned and mangled wreckage of two passenger trains that derailed in eastern India, killing more than 280 people and injuring hundreds in one of the country’s deadliest rail crashes in decades, officials said Saturday.
Chaotic scenes erupted after the derailment on Friday night about 220 kilometers (137 miles) southwest of Kolkata, as rescuers climbed atop the wrecked trains to break open doors and windows using cutting torches.
The death toll rose steadily throughout the night. Scores of bodies, covered by white sheets, lay on the ground near the tracks while locals and rescuers raced to free the hundreds of people trapped in the rail cars under the twisted metal and broken glass. Army soldiers and air force helicopters joined the effort.
An Associated Press photographer saw bodies still entangled in a badly mangled coach, as rescuers struggled to retrieve them working under the oppressive heat with temperatures reaching up to 35 degree Celsius (96 degrees Fahrenheit).
“By 10 p.m. (on Friday) we were able to rescue the survivors. After that it was about picking up dead bodies,” Sudhanshu Sarangi, director of Odisha state’s fire and emergency department, told The Associated Press. “This is very, very tragic. I have never seen anything like this in my career.”
At least 280 bodies were recovered overnight and into Saturday morning, he said. About 900 people were injured and the cause was under investigation.
The accident occurred at a time when Prime Minister Narendra Modi is focusing on the modernization of the British colonial-era railroad network in India, which has become the world’s most populous country with 1.42 billion. Despite government efforts to improve rail safety, several hundred accidents occur every year on India’s railways, the largest train network under one management in the world.
Modi flew to the crash site and spent half an hour examining the relief effort and talking to rescue officials. He was seen giving instructions on the phone to officials in New Delhi.
He later visited a hospital where he walked around inquiring from doctors about the treatment being given to the injured, and spoke to some of them, moving from bed to bed in a ward.
Modi told reporters that it was a sad moment and he was feeling the pain of those who have suffered in the accident. He said the government would do its utmost to help them and strictly punish those found responsible.
Modi on Saturday was supposed to inaugurate a high-speed train connecting Goa and Mumbai that is equipped with a collision avoidance system. The event was canceled after Friday’s accident. The trains that derailed did not have that system.
Amitabh Sharma, a Railroad Ministry spokesperson, said the rescue work was near completion. Rail authorities will start removing the wreckage to repair the track and resume train operations, he said.
About 200 of the severely injured people were transferred to specialty hospitals in other cities in Odisha, said P.K. Jena, the state’s top administrative official. Another 200 were discharged after receiving medical care and the rest were being treated in local hospitals, he added. Scores of people also showed up to donate blood.
“The challenge now is identifying the bodies. Wherever the relatives are able to provide evidence, the bodies are handed over after autopsies. If not identified, maybe we have to go for a DNA test and other protocols,” he said.
Ten to 12 coaches of one train derailed, and debris from some of the mangled coaches fell onto a nearby track, according to Sharma. The debris was hit by another passenger train coming from the opposite direction, causing up to three coaches of the second train to also derail, he added.
A third train carrying freight was also involved, the Press Trust of India reported, but there was no immediate confirmation of that from railroad authorities. PTI said some of the derailed passenger coaches hit cars from the freight train.
The rescue operation was slowed because two train cars were pressed together by the impact of the accident, Jena said.
Officials said 1,200 rescuers worked with 115 ambulances, 50 buses and 45 mobile health units through the night. Saturday was declared as a day of mourning in Odisha.
Villagers said they rushed to the site to evacuate people after hearing a loud sound created by the train coaches going off the tracks.
“The local people really went out on a limb to help us. They not only helped in pulling out people, but retrieved our luggage and got us water,” PTI cited Rupam Banerjee, a survivor, as saying.
Passenger Vandana Kaleda said that people were falling on each other as her coach shook violently and veered off the tracks.
“As I stepped out of the washroom, suddenly the train tilted. I lost my balance. … Everything went topsy-turvy. People started falling on each other and I was shocked and could not understand what happened. My mind stopped working,” she said.
Another survivor who did not give his name said he was sleeping when the impact woke him up. He said he saw other passengers with broken limbs and disfigured faces.
Officials said the collision involved two trains: the Coromandel Express traveling from Howrah in West Bengal state to Chennai in Tamil Nadu state, and the Howrah Superfast Express traveling from Bengaluru in Karnataka to Howrah. It was not immediately clear which derailed first.
Ashwini Vaishnaw, India’s railway minister, said a high-level probe would be carried out. The political opposition criticized the government and called for Vaishnaw to resign.
In August 1995, two trains collided near New Delhi, killing 358 people in one of the worst train accidents in India.
In 2016, a passenger train slid off the tracks between the cities of Indore and Patna, killing 146 people.
Most train accidents are blamed on human error or outdated signaling equipment.
More than 12 million people ride 14,000 trains across India every day, traveling on 64,000 kilometers (40,000 miles) of track.
Sharma and Pathi reported from New Delhi. Associated Press journalist Chonchui Ngashangva in New Delhi contributed to this report. | 2023-06-03T18:14:29+00:00 | pahomepage.com | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/international/hundreds-dead-in-india-train-crash-the-nations-worst-rail-disaster-in-decades/ |
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The 155 mm howitzer round is one of the most requested artillery munitions of the war in Ukraine. Already the U.S. has shipped more than 1.5 million rounds to Ukraine, but Kyiv is still seeking more.
A look at why this particular munition is so commonly used, and why it’s been so critical to the war in Ukraine.
WHAT IS THE 155 MM?
Essentially, the 155 mm round is a very big bullet, made up of four parts: the detonating fuse, projectile, propellant and primer.
Each round is about 2 feet (60 centimeters) long, weighs about 100 pounds (45 kilograms), and is 155 mm, or 6.1 inches, in diameter. They are used in howitzer systems, which are towed large guns that are identified by the range of the angle of fire that their barrels can be set to.
The 155 mm shells can be configured in many ways: They can be packed with highly explosive material, use precision guided systems, pierce armor or produce high fragmentation.
Past variants have included smoke rounds to obscure troop movement and illumination rounds to expose an enemy’s position.
“The 155 mm round and the similar Soviet-era 152 mm rounds are so popular because they provide a good balance between range and warhead size,” said Ryan Brobst, a research analyst at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. “If you have too small a shell, it won’t do enough damage and go as far. If you have a larger shell, you can’t necessarily fire it as far. This is the most common middle ground, and that’s why it’s so widely used.”
155 MM HISTORY
The French first developed the 155 mm round to respond to World War I’s extensive trench warfare, and early versions included gas shells, Keri Pleasant, historian for the Army’s Joint Munitions Command, said in a statement to The Associated Press.
As World War I continued, the 155 mm gun became the most common artillery piece used by the Allies, Pleasant said, and the U.S. Army later adopted it as its standard field heavy artillery piece.
The U.S. military fielded its own version, the M1, for World War II. After the war, the new NATO alliance adopted the 155 mm as its artillery standard.
By the Korean War, the round had been modified again, with a cluster munition variant. “The round contained 88 submunitions, which were dispersed over a wide area to destroy vehicles, equipment, and personnel,” Pleasant said.
ITS USE IN UKRAINE
Howitzer fires can strike targets up to 15 to 20 miles (24 to 32 kilometers) away, depending on what type of round and firing system is used, which makes them highly valued by ground forces to take out enemy targets from a protected distance.
“Adversaries don’t have much warning of it coming. And it’s harder to hide from incoming rounds that are arcing in from the top, which makes it highly lethal,” Brobst said.
In Ukraine, 155 mm rounds are being fired at a rate of 6,000 to 8,000 a day, said Ukrainian parliamentary member Oleksandra Ustinova, who serves on Ukraine’s wartime oversight committee. They are eclipsed by the estimated 40,000 Russian variant howitzer rounds fired at them, she told reporters at a recent Washington event sponsored by the German Marshall Fund.
The Pentagon previously had said how many rounds it was providing in each of the security assistance packages being sent about every two weeks to keep weapons and ammunition flowing into Ukraine. But it stopped specifying the number of 155 mm rounds shipped in each package in February, citing operational security.
However, in its overall count of assistance provided to Ukraine since Russia invaded in February 2022, the Pentagon says it has sent more than 160 155 mm howitzers, more than 1.5 million 155 mm rounds, more than 6,500 precision-guided 155 mm rounds and more than 14,000 155 mm Remote Anti-Armor Mine (RAAM) Systems — essentially a 155 mm shell packed with four mines that scatter on the ground and can take out a Russian tank if it drives over them.
Other countries have also provided howitzers, but Kyiv has continually asked for more. As of last year Ukrainian officials were requesting as many as 1,000 howitzer systems to push Russian forces back.
SPRING OFFENSIVE
As Ukraine prepares for an intense counteroffensive this spring, it will likely need to fire 7,000 to 9,000 155 mm shells a day, said Yehor Cherniev, a member of Ukraine’s parliament who spoke to reporters at the German Marshall Fund event.
In recent months, the Biden administration has been using presidential drawdown authority to send ammunition directly from U.S. military stockpiles to Ukraine, instead of having to wait and buy rounds from defense firms, so they can get there in time for the anticipated Ukrainian counteroffensive.
The U.S. has also been training Ukrainian troops in Germany on how to better use the 155 mm rounds in combined arms tactics — coordinating strikes with targeting information provided by forward-based troops and other armored systems to maximize damage and reduce the number of rounds needed to take out a target.
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Associated Press writer Nomaan Merchant contributed to this story. | 2023-04-23T14:48:12+00:00 | kfor.com | https://kfor.com/business/ap-business/why-the-155-mm-round-is-so-critical-to-the-war-in-ukraine/ |
CHICAGO (NewsNation) — Amid months of mass flight cancellations and delays, the number of Americans traveling for Labor Day is expected to rebound to pre-pandemic levels.
An estimated 137 million Americans are expected to hit the highways, byways and airways this weekend, according to AAA.
Domestic travel is up 20% compared to 2019, according to Hopper, but headaches that hit travelers earlier in the summer are still lingering.
“Get in that line — while you’re in the line, get on the phone, get that airline representative on the phone or travel agent on the phone to help you simultaneously. You never know who you’re gonna get first, the faster you’ll get a seat on the next flight out,” said Abby Estevez, a travel advisor.
But help for vacationers may be on the way this travel-heavy weekend. The Department of Transportation has launched a customer service dashboard on Thursday.
The dashboard is part of an extended pressure campaign from Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who has publicly challenged the major carriers to improve service and transparency after a summer marred by cancellations and flight delays. As summer travel returned to nearly pre-coronavirus pandemic levels, airlines struggled to keep pace, with mass cancellations being blamed on staffing shortages, particularly among pilots.
The dashboard compares all the major domestic airlines’ policies on issues such as which offer meals for delays of more than three hours and which offer to rebook flights on the same or different airlines at no additional charge. It focuses on what it calls “controllable” cancellations or delays, meaning those caused by mechanical issues, staffing shortages or delays in cleaning, fueling or baggage handling. Delays or cancellations caused by weather or security concerns don’t count.
Buttigieg asked airlines, at a minimum, to provide meal vouchers for delays of three hours or more, and lodging for anyone who has to wait overnight because of a delay within the airlines’ control.
The Department of Transportation is hoping that the dashboard will encourage competition among airlines to offer the most transparency and the best protections for customers.
So far this year, airlines have canceled about 146,000 flights, or 2.6% of all flights, and nearly 1.3 million flights have been delayed, according to tracking service FlightAware. The rate of cancellations is up about one-third from the same period in 2019, before the pandemic, and the rate of delays is up nearly one-fourth.
Federal officials have blamed many of the disruptions on understaffing at airlines, which encouraged employees to quit after the pandemic started. The airlines have countered by blaming staffing problems at the Federal Aviation Administration, which employs air traffic controllers.
Meanwhile, if you plan to hit the road, expect to pay less at the pump. Gas buddy reports that the average price of gas is $3.89 per gallon, and it will continue to drop. You can save by shopping around using such resources as the Gas Buddy app. | 2022-09-02T15:02:51+00:00 | myfox8.com | https://myfox8.com/news/labor-day-travel-expected-to-near-pre-pandemic-levels/ |
Mother’s Day Fast Facts
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Mother’s Day is observed on the second Sunday in May in the United States. It is also celebrated in many other countries.
May 8, 2022 – Mother’s Day.
Facts
In 2020, 27.1 was the average age in the United States for first-time mothers, according to the CDC.
In its early days, people observed Mother’s Day by going to church, and by writing letters to their mothers. Eventually, sending cards and giving gifts and flowers were added to the tradition.
More people purchase fresh flowers and plants for Mother’s Day than for any other holiday except Valentine’s Day and Christmas/Hanukkah.
In 2022, the National Retail Federation (NRF) estimates that US consumers will spend $31.7 billion celebrating Mother’s Day. Shoppers will spend an average of $245.76 on mom.
Most consumers will give cards (75%) or flowers (72%) to their mothers in 2022. Special outings are also a popular gift (57%), according to the NRF.
According to the Insure.com 2021 Mother’s Day Index, the various tasks moms perform at home would be worth $116,022 a year in the professional world. That’s a 23% increase from $93,920 in 2020.
Anna Jarvis started the tradition of wearing a carnation on Mother’s Day. A colored carnation means that a person’s mother is living. A white carnation indicates that a person’s mother is deceased.
While many countries celebrate Mother’s Day on the second Sunday in May, a tradition which began in the US, it’s celebrated annually on May 10 in Mexico. Similar celebrations of mothers are held on various days of the year in other countries, often following ancient or religious traditions.
In Britain and some parts of Europe, the fourth Sunday of Lent was often celebrated as Mothering Day, but that has been replaced by Mother’s Day, for the most part.
Timeline
1872 – Julia Ward Howe, a pacifist, suffragette, and writer of the “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” first suggests Mother’s Day in the United States. She suggests the day as a day mothers could rally for peace and for several years, she holds an annual Mother’s Day meeting in Boston.
1908 – Anna Jarvis begins a campaign for a nationwide observance of Mother’s Day in honor of her late mother, a community health advocate. Anna Jarvis was deeply dismayed over the commercialization of Mother’s Day. Before she died in 1948, she admitted that she regretted ever starting the holiday.
May 9, 1914 – President Woodrow Wilson signs a bill recognizing Mother’s Day as a national holiday.
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(ABC4) – Comedy fans, it’s a very special day as McLovin, the iconic “Superbad” character turns 41 today!
If you’re a bit confused, McLovin refers to the character played by Christopher Mintz-Plasse in the 2007 American comedy “Superbad.”
Since the film’s debut, June 3 has become known as “McLovin Day” for the film’s stalwart fans.
The iconic Judd Apatow romp stars Jonah Hill and Michael Cera and was co-written by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. The crude humored coming-of-age film became an instant box office and critical success upon its 2007 premiere.
But don’t get it twisted — it’s Mintz-Plasse’s character, Fogell (famously known by the nickname McLovin) who’s celebrating their birthday today.
Ironically, that birthday is also probably not real because it refers to the date stamped on his infamous fake ID card.
In the film, the teenage McLovin hilariously presents his fake Hawaii ID showing a birth date of June 3, 1981, making the teenager the unconvincing ripe age of 25 in the film.
The famous rainbow-adored ID is a bestseller on Amazon and has even gotten one underage Iowa man into trouble when he was caught using the ID to enter a bar.
In the past, celebrity fans and film’s cast and crews have honored McLovin’s big day every year with celebratory social media posts every year.
Big birthday cheers for McLovin, who’s now finally old enough to enter a bar with his real ID. The comedy “Superbad” is also celebrating 15 years since its 2007 debut. | 2022-06-03T22:03:40+00:00 | wnct.com | https://www.wnct.com/entertainment-news/feel-old-yet-iconic-superbad-character-mclovin-turns-41-friday/ |
Amber Alert issued for baby taken from California
(Gray News) - Police in California have issued an Amber Alert for a 2-month-old baby girl.
Itzel Sanchez was taken from Lancaster, California, on Sunday at 11:45 a.m. She’s described as a Hispanic girl with brown eyes and brown hair.
Authorities said the suspect in her disappearance is Efrain Sanchez-Jimenez, 25, who is considered armed and dangerous. He is 5-foot-8, 130 pounds, last seen wearing a white tank top and silver shorts and driving a 2007 silver Buick Lucerne with Colorado plates AUI-X94.
Police said Sanchez-Jimenez is accompanied by 31-year-old Sabrina Sanchez, described as 5-foot-2 and 135 pounds. She was last seen wearing a red and black dress, pink shorts and a black puma shirt.
Anyone with information on this disappearance is asked to call 911 or the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Office at 213-229-1700.
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Buffalo mass shooting: Accused gunman charged with federal hate crimes
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - The white gunman who killed 10 Black people in a racist attack at a Buffalo supermarket has been charged with federal hate crimes, according to a criminal complaint filed Wednesday.
Payton Gendron had already faced a mandatory life sentence without parole if convicted on previously filed state charges in the May 14 rampage which also left three survivors — one Black, two white — with gunshot wounds.
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland was in Buffalo on Wednesday to visit with the families of 10 Black people killed in a white gunman's racist attack on a supermarket.
Gendron is already facing up to life in prison if convicted on state charges in the May 14 rampage, which also left three survivors — one Black, two white — with gunshot wounds.
Gendron's radical, racist worldview and extensive preparation for the Tops Friendly Market attack are laid out in documents he apparently authored and posted online shortly before the attack.
The documents embrace a baseless conspiracy theory about a plot to diminish white Americans' power and "replace" them with people of color, through immigration and other means.
The posts detail months of reconnaissance, demographic research and shooting practice for a bloodbath aimed at scaring everyone who isn't white and Christian into leaving the country.
Gendron drove more than 200 miles (320 kilometers) from his home in a nearly all-white town near the New York-Pennsylvania border to a predominantly Black part of Buffalo. There, authorities say, he mowed down shoppers and workers using an AR-15-style rifle, wearing body armor to protect himself and livestreaming the carnage from a helmet-mounted camera.
The 18-year-old surrendered to police as he exited the supermarket.
He has pleaded not guilty to a state domestic terrorism charge, including hate-motivated domestic terrorism and murder.
According to the online documents attributed to Gendron, he had scouted out the supermarket in March, drawing maps and even counting up the number of Black people he saw there.
Federal authorities had said they were considering hate crime charges in the killings, which compounded the unabating toll of gun violence in the United States.
Ten days after the attack in Buffalo, another 18-year-old with a semi-automatic rifle opened fire at a Uvalde, Texas elementary school, killing 19 children and two teachers.
Soon after, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed 10 public safety-related bills, including one prohibiting New Yorkers under age 21 from buying semi-automatic rifles and another that revised the state's "red flag" law, which allows courts to temporarily take away guns from people who might be a threat to themselves or others.
The U.S. Senate followed on June 12 with a bipartisan agreement on more modest federal gun curbs and stepped-up efforts to improve school safety and mental health programs. | 2022-06-15T17:54:09+00:00 | fox35orlando.com | https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/buffalo-mass-shooting-federal-hate-crimes-charges |
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell spoke about the economy and job market Wednesday. The Fed has been raising interest rates to fight inflation, but critics say this could push some out of work.
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Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell spoke about the economy and job market Wednesday. The Fed has been raising interest rates to fight inflation, but critics say this could push some out of work.
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CHICAGO (AP) — Doug Knight’s family has owned Springfield amusement park Knight’s Action Park since 1930, himself for 43 of those years.
The pandemic was a bear — Knight fought to keep his doors open, and when they closed for COVID-19, he pushed to reopen as soon as possible. Inflation, too, has been an obstacle. From inflatable inner tubes to chlorine for the pools, prices have risen for “everything we buy,” and now a new Illinois law represents “another bump on the road” for business owners, he says.
On Monday, Illinois became one of three U.S. states to mandate paid time off “for any reason,” up to 40 hours per year for full-time employees. Small business owners in Illinois say they know the importance of taking care of their workers, but some view the paid leave requirement as a government-imposed burden.
“When you hit the big bump and go off the cliff, what does that do for ya?” Knight said.
The legislation takes effect on Jan. 1, 2024. Employees will accrue one hour of paid leave for every 40 hours worked up to 40 hours total, and can start using the time once they’ve worked for 90 days.
Knight and his brother, a co-owner, mainly employ seasonal employees not covered by the measure, but they will have to provide paid leave for 10 year-round workers. The veteran business owner said he isn’t worried and will juggle whatever comes next, though consumers will ultimately pay the difference.
But proponents argue the policy supports both business owners and workers, and that guaranteeing paid leave will foster a healthier, more productive workforce.
“When folks have the kind of paid time off they need, they’re able to stay home when they’re sick,” said Molly Weston Williamson, who tracks paid leave policy at the research and advocacy group Center for American Progress.
For business owners concerned that the law will cause added strain amid difficult economic conditions, Williamson pointed out that Chicago and Cook County have had similar ordinances in place since 2017, and fears of devastating economic consequences never panned out.
In fact, “our economy can’t afford not to provide these benefits,” Williamson said. “We can’t afford to pay for folks who are losing their job. We can’t afford to pay for folks who are getting sicker because they’re not getting the care they need. We can’t afford the impacts on our health care system.”
Rep. Jehan Gordon-Booth, a Peoria Democrat who sponsored the legislation, said at Monday’s bill signing that the law in particular will help low-wage workers, who are those less likely to have paid time off and who are disproportionately Black, Latino, and women.
“Thanks to this measure, workers have the peace of mind that they can take care of themselves today without worrying about the consequences tomorrow,” Gordon-Booth said.
Christell Frausto, a co-owner of TequilaRia Wine and Spirits in Peoria, said she sees paid leave as “an investment” and hopes other business owners will too.
Frausto, 38, said she already accommodates employees needing flexibility for emergencies, illness or personal events. She opened the boutique-style store focused on specialty products including women-owned brands and organic, gluten-free or low-calorie options two years ago.
The pandemic was a clear sign that prioritizing workers is a necessary strategy for business owners, said Frausto, who hopes the lead-up to the law taking effect will give them time to budget and prepare.
“They’re part of my team,” she said of her employees. “My interest is to take care of them just as much as my customers. I have to make sure they have a balance in life and work.”
For Sandy and Dave Schoenborn, a couple who own the Lincoln Theatre in Belleville, Illinois, the state mandate is a major concern. “I’m pretty worried,” Sandy Schoeborn said. “Unless business gets better, it’s gonna be a strain.”
Paid leave is something employees should earn, not be entitled to, she said. “I can’t say no. If if I have a big event coming up and everybody decides to take off, I’m in a world of hurt.”
Knight, the Springfield amusement park owner, said he does his best to take care of his employees. “If they have a reason, they can take off a day” without pay, he said.
“Car broke down, mom’s sick, gotta take the dog to the vet… they’re all important to the staff. But you can’t close your business because everybody wants to take off cause there’s a concert,” he said.
The pandemic, inflation, utility prices — “it just all seems to be piling up,” and mandatory paid leave is now another hurdle for business owners.
“It just drives the cost up, drives the prices up, and the consumer pays the bill,” Knight said. ____
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the New Mexico Lottery's "Pick 3 Day" game were:
3-3-2
(three, three, two)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the New Mexico Lottery's "Pick 3 Day" game were:
3-3-2
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LOS ANGELES, Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Equinox Strategy Partners' Managing Director Lana Manganiello has been named to Consulting magazine's 2022 'Women Leaders in Consulting' list. The award recognizes top women executives who are making a profound difference for their firms, clients, and future leaders. Manganiello is recognized in the Diversity Champion category for her work with clients and in the community to improve equity, inclusion and belonging.
"One of Lana's key motivations is to provide our clients with the resources and training necessary to ensure women and diverse attorneys feel supported, connected and prepared to be successful in the legal profession," said Equinox Strategy Partners' Managing Partner Jonathan R. Fitzgarrald. "Her work directly impacts our clients' ability to attract and retain diverse attorneys."
Trained and certified through Cornell University in Diversity and Inclusion, Manganiello is committed to working with law firm clients to attract, retain and develop diverse professionals and ultimately improve diversity in leadership within the legal profession. Manganiello and her team developed the Associate Advancement Accelerator to realize a professional's full potential early on in their career and thwart the root causes of burnout. She found that career satisfaction and retention increase when firms invest in training and development programs that facilitate meaningful relationships internally and further the skills and techniques required to develop and expand a book of business.
"We've seen how investing in the success of all professionals early on, coaching them on the skills necessary to thrive at a firm and in the profession, is a key component to a successful Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiative," said Manganiello. "As we settle into a shifting hybrid work environment, these facilitated opportunities to connect and learn are even more significant."
Recently recognized as an 'Inspirational Woman' by Los Angeles Times and as a 'DE&I Community Impact Award' honoree by the Los Angeles Business Journal, Manganiello volunteers her time with several nonprofit organizations throughout Southern California. She is committed to improving equity and access to justice and legal services for all in her community and for the last three years, has served as Vice President on the Board of Directors and Chair of the Marketing Committee for Counsel for Justice (CFJ), the Los Angeles County Bar Association's pro-bono arm providing equal access to legal services in the community. She also serves on the Board of Directors for the San Diego County Bar Foundation and is the Membership Chair of the Legal Marketing Association's Los Angeles Steering Committee. She is Co-Chair of the DEI and Professional Development Sections for the National Association for Law Placement (NALP).
Equinox Strategy Partners, headquartered in Los Angeles with additional offices in New York and San Diego, concentrates on training and coaching service professionals and firms. Manganiello and the team at Equinox Strategy Partners facilitate 12-month, business development coaching and training programs that instill the client development and service skills required to sustain a growing practice. Clients report that participation in the programs have increased revenue by an average of 21 percent annually.
EQUINOX STRATEGY PARTNERS provides service professionals in law, accounting and business management firms with strategies for growth. With offices in Los Angeles and in New York, their professionals provide firms nationwide with strategies for driving revenue and boosting market visibility.
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(The Hill) — British rock legend Rod Stewart said he turned down a $1 million offer to perform at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar because of the country’s human rights record.
Stewart, 77, told British newspaper The Times that he was offered to play there 15 months ago but decided against the offer because “it’s not right to go.”
Qatar, a small nation in the Middle East on the Arabian Peninsula, has come under scrutiny for its treatment of migrant workers and its anti-LGBTQ stance.
English pop singer Dua Lipa also denied reports that she would perform at the 2022 World Cup, saying she would only do so if the country improves its record on human rights.
The Australian men’s soccer team released a video last month condemning Qatar for its treatment of migrant workers and LGBTQ people.
Jung Kook, a worldwide pop star in the South Korean group BTS, is slated to perform at the World Cup in Qatar. | 2022-11-15T17:10:47+00:00 | wboy.com | https://www.wboy.com/news/national/rod-stewart-says-he-turned-down-1m-to-perform-at-world-cup-in-qatar/ |
TOKYO (AP) — Japan manager Kideki Kuriyama still gets a special tingle watching Shohei Ohtani. It’s been that way since Kuriyama managed the two-way star with the Hokkaido Ham-Fighters.
“When we see Shohei playing, not only the players but also the Japanese baseball fans, all the nation is feeling something extra,” Kuriyama said through a translator after Ohtani led Japan over Italy 9-3 on Thursday night to put the Samurai Warriors in their fifth straight World Baseball Classis semifinal.
Ohtani pitched shutout ball into the fifth inning and sparked a four-run third with a bunt single.
“These kind of moments, this is how I feel the sense of Ohtani,” Kuriyama said. “This is Shohei. This is Shohei. When he plays a must-win game like tonight, we see who Shohei is.”
Boston’s Masataka Yoshida homered and drove in the go-ahead run with a grounder, giving him a tournament-leading 10 RBIs. Kazuma Okamoto hit a three-run homer for Japan, which has outscored opponents 47-11 in five games and is batting .313.
Japan travels to Miami for a semifinal on Monday against Puerto Rico or Mexico. Cuba plays the other semifinal against the United States or Venezuela.
Pitching before an adoring crowd of 41,723 at the Tokyo Dome, Ohtani threw his fastest pitch since he joined the Los Angeles Angels in 2018, strlking out Vinnie Pasquantino on a 102 mph fastball in the second. That topped a 101.4 mph pitch that struck out Houston’s Kyle Tucker last Sept. 10.
Ohtani (2-0) allowed two runs and four hits in 4 2/3 innings with five strikeouts and a walk and went 1 for 4 with a walk at the plate. He is hitting .438 (7 for 16) with a home run, three doubles and eight RBIs along with a 2.08 ERA, 10 strikeouts and one walk on the mound. Ohtani would be available on four days’ rest to pitch in a possible final on Tuesday — 4 1/2 days, counting the time difference.
Ohtani stretched his tournament scoreless streak to 8 2/3 innings before the fifth, when Dominic Fletcher hit a soft bases-loaded single into right with two outs on Ohtani’s 71st and final pitch — nine short of the limit. Ohtani had hit Ben DeLuzio with a pitch with one out, allowed a single to David Fletcher, retired Sal Frelick on a flyout and hit Nicky Lopez with a pitch.
“In the fourth and fifth innings I struggled a bit, but until then I had good rhythm and I pitched well, I think,” Ohtani said.
Hiromi Itoh relieved and retired Miles Mastrobuoni on a flyout as Yoshida slammed into the left field wall while making the catch.
Japan is the only nation to reach the semifinals of all five WBCs, winning the first two tournaments in 2006 and 2009. The Samurai Warriors were knocked out by Puerto Rico in 2013 and the U.S. in 2017.
Italy, managed by Mike Piazza, advanced past the first round for the first time since 2013. Dominic Fletcher, an Arizona prospect, drove in all three of Italy’s runs and had the team’s first home run of the tournament, a solo shot in the eighth off Yu Darvish.
“Against a very good team, you have to be exceptional,” Piazza said. “And obviously tonight we weren’t, We didn’t throw the ball well tonight. We needed our pitchers to have a very good game.”
Italy pitchers walked eight.
“You’re not going to beat at team like Japan with eight walks,” Piazza said.
Japan went ahead in a four-run third.
Kensue Kondoh walked with one out against Tampa Bay minor leaguer Joe LaSorsa (0-1), and Ohtani bunted down the third base line for a single as LaSorsa threw wildly for an error that left runners at the corners. Yoshida’s groundout put Japan ahead, Munetaka Murakami walked and Okamoto homered.
Murakami, a two-time Central League MVP, hit an RBI double in the fifth and Kazuma Okamoto followed with a two-run double off Vinny Nittoli that opened a 7-2 lead.
Yoshida homered in the seventh against San Francisco prospect Joey Marciano and Sosuke Genda added an RBI single. ___
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Grizzly Flats family living in tents after Caldor Fire gifted an RV
A family who lost everything in the Caldor Fire has been given a new RV.
The RV came on Monday, fully furnished to Grizzly Flats.
A Colfax man said he saw KCRA 3’s story on the family living in tents on their properties after the fire and wanted to donate the trailer to them anonymously.
KCRA 3 spoke to the family and their neighbors who say that for them Grizzly Flats is their home and they would not want to live anywhere else.
“After the fire, I had to leave home,” said Jessica Carillo, who received the RV. “I had to be away from everything that I knew. To be able to accept something like this for me and my family it’s beyond words.”
| Video Below | Family living in a tent since the Caldor Fire destroyed their home, surprised with an RV
Neighbor Brent Richardson said that people have a misconception that people had second homes there.
“This isn’t Tahoe where are vacation homes and stuff like that,” he said. “This is our home.”
The man who donated the trailer needed someone to haul it from Colfax to Grizzly Flats. Boehman’s Trucking donated their time and labor to do that.
| Related | Tiny homes proposed for some Caldor Fire victims unable to rebuild | 2022-08-25T03:40:13+00:00 | kcra.com | https://www.kcra.com/article/grizzly-flats-family-living-tents-caldor-fire-gifted-rv/40984327 |
BEIJING, June 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- First High-School Education Group Co., Ltd. ("First High-School Education Group" or the "Company") (NYSE: FHS), an education service provider primarily focusing on high schools in Western China, today announced that it has received a letter (the "Letter") from the New York Stock Exchange (the "NYSE") dated June 21, 2022, notifying the Company that it is below compliance standards due to the trading price of the Company's American depositary shares (the "ADSs") and that the applicable cure period for the Company to regain compliance expires on December 21, 2022.
Pursuant to applicable NYSE continued listing standards, a company would be considered "below criteria" by the NYSE if the average closing price of a security as reported on the consolidated tape is less than $1.00 over a consecutive 30 trading-day period. Once notified, the company must bring its ADS trading price and average ADS trading price back above $1.00 within the applicable cure period following receipt of the notification. The company can regain compliance at any time during the cure period if on the last trading day of any calendar month during the cure period the company has an ADS closing price of at least $1.00 and an average ADS closing price of at least $1.00 over the 30 trading-day period ending on the last trading day of that month. In the event that at the expiration of the cure period, both a $1.00 ADS closing price on the last trading day of the cure period and a $1.00 average ADS closing price over the 30 trading-day period ending on the last trading day of the cure period are not attained, the NYSE will commence suspension and delisting procedures.
To address this issue, the Company intends to monitor the market conditions of its listed securities and is still considering its options.
About First High-School Education Group
First High-School Education Group is an education service provider primarily focusing on high schools in Western China. The Company aspires to become a leader and innovator of private high school education in China, with the focuses on a comprehensive education management integrating education information consulting, education research project development, education talent management, education technology management, education service management, and general vocational integration development services. For more information, please visit https://ir.diyi.top/.
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SOURCE First High-School Education Group Co., Ltd | 2022-06-24T13:17:00+00:00 | mysuncoast.com | https://www.mysuncoast.com/prnewswire/2022/06/24/first-high-school-education-group-announces-receipt-nyse-non-compliance-letter-regarding-ads-trading-price/ |
A red wave in New York House races helped tip the balance of power in Congress. But a new class of moderate Republicans could struggle if GOP leadership takes up a far-right agenda.
Copyright 2022 NPR
A red wave in New York House races helped tip the balance of power in Congress. But a new class of moderate Republicans could struggle if GOP leadership takes up a far-right agenda.
Copyright 2022 NPR | 2022-12-02T22:24:26+00:00 | wksu.org | https://www.wksu.org/2022-12-02/new-york-moderate-republicans-could-struggle-if-the-gop-takes-up-the-far-right-agenda |
(WHTM) — Have you noticed your gas mileage has gotten a little less efficient recently? There are several reasons why your car’s fuel economy may have worsened since winter started.
One of those reasons has to do with aerodynamics or the way the air moves around a vehicle. Cold air is much denser than warmer air, which causes drag on a vehicle. According to energy.gov, this drag increases at highway speeds. Cold air also has an effect on tire pressure. Because of this, the rolling resistance on a vehicle is increased. More drag and more resistance mean your car gets fewer miles to the gallon.
Another factor has to do with the gasoline itself. Energy.gov states that winter blends of gasoline have less energy per gallon when compared to summer blends.
The difference in these blends has to do with something called the Reid Vapor Pressure, or RVP. This is the measure of how easily the fuel evaporates at increased temperatures.
Winter fuel requires an increase in this RVP. If the fuel doesn’t evaporate readily in cold temperatures, the engine will start hard and run roughly when it is cold outside, according to The Inside Track.
Other reasons gas mileage drops in the winter include idling your car for too long, and how the engine and transmission friction increases in cold weather due to the cold engine oil and other drive-line fluids.
So, what can you do to maximize your mileage in cold weather? Energy.gov provides some tips:
- Minimize idling to warm up the car. Most manufacturers recommend driving off gently after about 30 seconds. The engine will warm up faster being driven, which will allow the heat to turn on sooner, decreasing fuel costs, and reducing emissions.
- Don’t use seat warmers or defrosters more than necessary.
- Check tire pressure regularly.
- Use the type of oil recommended for cold weather driving by the vehicle manufacturer.
- Remove accessories that increase wind resistance, like roof racks, when not in use. | 2023-01-02T21:54:45+00:00 | wdtn.com | https://www.wdtn.com/nexstar-media-wire/why-does-fuel-economy-in-vehicles-go-down-in-winter/ |
MIAMI – Miami-Dade County Animal Control personnel seized two American bulldogs after an attack on Tuesday in Miami.
Surveillance video shows a woman attempting to stop the two American bulldogs from attacking another woman who was delivering an eviction notice as a Miami-Dade County court support specialist in Little Havana.
Miami Fire Rescue personnel found the victim, who suffered injuries to her ear and back, at Southwest Ninth Avenue and Second Street and took her to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center, where she was in stable condition.
Animal Control personnel was executing a 10-day quarantine during an investigation into the attack.
Detectives were asking anyone with information about the case to call Miami-Dade County Crime Stoppers at 305-471-8477. | 2023-06-28T17:24:12+00:00 | local10.com | https://www.local10.com/news/local/2023/06/28/american-bulldogs-under-quarantine-after-attacking-court-support-specialist-in-miami/ |
BENSALEM, Pa., Dec. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Law Offices of Howard G. Smith announces that investors with substantial losses have opportunity to lead the securities fraud class action lawsuit against F45 Training Holdings Inc. ("F45" or the "Company") (NYSE: FXLV).
Class Period: July 2021 IPO
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: February 6, 2023
Investors suffering losses on their F45 investments are encouraged to contact the Law Offices of Howard G. Smith to discuss their legal rights in this class action at 888-638-4847 or by email to howardsmith@howardsmithlaw.com.
The complaint filed alleges that, throughout the Class Period, Defendants failed to disclose to investors that F45's rapid growth strategy was unsustainable, reliant on, inter alia, franchisees opening multiple locations in a short period of time and/or dependent on franchisees who required near 100% financing of their operations in order to open for business, a model that was unsustainable.
To be a member of the class action you need not take any action at this time; you may retain counsel of your choice or take no action and remain an absent member of the class action. If you wish to learn more about this class action, or if you have any questions concerning this announcement or your rights or interests with respect to the pending class action lawsuit, please contact Howard G. Smith, Esquire, of Law Offices of Howard G. Smith, 3070 Bristol Pike, Suite 112, Bensalem, Pennsylvania 19020, by telephone at (215) 638-4847, toll-free at (888) 638-4847, or by email to howardsmith@howardsmithlaw.com, or visit our website at www.howardsmithlaw.com.
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SOURCE Law Offices of Howard G. Smith | 2022-12-19T17:55:27+00:00 | kwch.com | https://www.kwch.com/prnewswire/2022/12/19/fxlv-investors-have-opportunity-lead-f45-training-holdings-inc-securities-fraud-lawsuit/ |
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — Having a Christmas tree can add a lovely ambiance to a home during the holiday season, but for those who find their tree doesn’t last long enough, these tips can help.
The most important things to remember with a Christmas tree are the safety rules. A beautifully decorated tree is not worth the risk if it poses fire hazards. The U.S. Fire Administration suggests the following measures to keep your tree, and home, safe:
- Keep candles at least one foot away from anything that burns, including the tree.
- Water your tree every day, as dry trees can catch on fire easily.
- Read the manufacturer’s instructions for the number of light strands to connect.
- Keep the tree at least three feet away from heat sources, like fireplaces, radiators, space heaters, or heat vents. Also, don’t block exits with the tree.
- Once the tree is dry, get rid of it.
The Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance also adds when placing a tree, be sure to cut two inches from the base of the trunk, not to leave a live tree up for longer than two weeks, and to turn off decorative lights before leaving the home or going to bed.
With the proper information to keep a tree safe, here are the tips to keep it alive longer.
Use LED Lights
According to a report in Smithsonian Magazine, researchers found that using LED Christmas lights, specifically red or white LED bulbs, was beneficial for needle retention because it helps the tree continue photosynthesis.
This process may help keep trees looking greener, since, during photosynthesis, plants absorb blue and red light waves to process light into sugar while reflecting the green light waves, according to an explanation from National Geographic.
Keep the tree hydrated
The secret to keeping a tree alive seems to be making sure that it stays hydrated, according to one blog. Their suggestions include keeping the tree in a cool area, cutting off two inches right across the bottom of the tree, and putting it into water right away.
A fresh tree may use up to a quart of water for each inch of diameter on its cut end per day, according to Michigan State University. By this measurement, a tree that is 2.5 inches across its widest point at the cut could drink up to two and a half quarts of water every day, which is why it’s important to keep it watered every day and make sure that the stand does not dry out. MSU also added that plain tap water works well and does not need anything added, like sugar, bleach, or aspirin.
Lower temperatures
In addition to avoiding a fire hazard, keeping the tree in a cooler space may help it live longer, according to an author writing for Martha Stewart. Essentially, they explain that the warmer the tree gets, the more water it will use. In addition to keeping the tree away from vents, radiators and fireplaces, it may also be helpful to consider decoration options that are cooler as well.
Some might opt for a minimal style for their tree that foregoes lights altogether or LED lights can also provide that dazzling look without less heat created by the lights, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. | 2022-12-12T00:48:27+00:00 | valleycentral.com | https://www.valleycentral.com/news/national-news/how-to-keep-your-christmas-tree-fresh-for-longer/ |
Hawkins leads unbeaten No. 8 UConn past Okla St 74-64
By WILLIAM S. PAXTON
Associated Press
STORRS, Conn. (AP) — Jordan Hawkins scored a career-high 26 points to lead unbeaten No. 8 UConn past Oklahoma State 74-64 in the Big East-Big 12 Battle. Adama Sanogo added 20 points and Andre Jackson scored 11 for the Huskies. It was the smallest margin of victory for UConn so far this season. The Huskies’ next closest was an 82-67 win over then-No. 18 Alabama last Friday at the Phil Knight Invitational in Portland, Oregon. Kalib Boone scored 15 points to lead the Cowboys and Avery Anderson III added 14. UConn is off to its best start since 2013-14. | 2022-12-02T04:17:41+00:00 | localnews8.com | https://localnews8.com/news/2022/12/01/hawkins-leads-unbeaten-no-8-uconn-past-okla-st-74-64/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — When Alvin Bragg became Manhattan’s first Black district attorney last year, one of his first big decisions was to tap the brakes on an investigation that had been speeding toward a likely criminal case against former President Donald Trump.
The move won him few friends. Exasperated liberals dreaming of Trump in handcuffs threw up their hands. Conservatives gloated that the Democrat’s hesitation to bring a charge was proof Trump had been investigated for political reasons.
A year later, Bragg is shaking up that first impression.
Fresh from winning a conviction against Trump’s family company for tax fraud, Bragg convened a new grand jury last week in a reinvigorated investigation that could lead to the first ever criminal charges against a former U.S. president.
The probe, lately focused on hush money payments made to two women in 2016, is one of several legal challenges Trump faces as he seeks a return to the White House. It is putting Bragg back in the spotlight after a grueling first year in office.
“We’re going to follow the facts and continue to do our job,” Bragg said, speaking broadly about the investigation in a recent interview with The Associated Press.
Asked if charging Trump was a real possibility, or if the former president could rest easy, Bragg replied: “I’m not going to tell anyone how to rest.”
Bragg came into office 13 months ago amid what he calls a “perfect storm” of rising crime and political pressure. A Harvard-educated former federal prosecutor, chief deputy state attorney general and civil rights lawyer, he came equipped with legal and management credentials, but not much experience navigating New York City politics.
He campaigned as a progressive reformer, but one with a strong record as a prosecutor, and won an eight-way party primary before soaring to victory with 83% of the vote in deep-blue Manhattan.
Yet he got off to a rocky start. Shortly after taking office, he wrote a “Day One” memo for his staff that outlined his philosophy on prosecuting — or not prosecuting — certain crimes. Among other things, it said the district attorney would no longer prosecute some low-level misdemeanor crimes, including subway fare evasion and marijuana possession.
Republicans, and some centrist Democrats, pounced.
Bragg, they said, was soft on crime. New York’s police commissioner said Bragg’s intention not to prosecute some people accused of resisting arrest would invite violence against police officers.
U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin, a Republican running for governor, campaigned partly on a promise to remove the independently elected Bragg from office. He also featured Bragg in a campaign ad, even though Bragg wasn’t even on the ballot.
The vitriol became so rancid — and sometimes racist — Bragg said his friends worried for his safety.
But Bragg, an old-school lawyer, was hesitant to push back publicly, something he now regrets.
“I’ve learned that the work doesn’t always speak for itself,” said Bragg, who’s been appearing more on TV and giving interviews to outlets as varied as Teen Vogue and Manhattan’s West Side Rag.
He likened Zeldin’s TV attack ad to an infamous “Willie Horton” commercial that aired in the 1980s in support of George H.W. Bush’s presidential campaign. That ad featured a Black prison inmate who committed violent crimes while on a weekend leave as part of a program authorized by Bush’s Democratic rival, former Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis.
“If someone wants to have substantive discussion, we can have that,” Bragg told the AP. “But if someone wants to put a Black face in an ad and have Willie Horton-type fears raised, we don’t have time for that.”
While some types of crime increased in Manhattan during Bragg’s first year in office, the number of homicides and shootings actually dropped.
Inside the district attorney’s office, Bragg faced dissent over the direction of the Trump investigation — grievances that are being aired anew in a book by a former prosecutor.
In 2021, Bragg’s predecessor, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., had authorized top deputies to seek an indictment on charges that Trump had exaggerated the worth of his assets in financial statements he gave to lenders. A grand jury had been collecting evidence. Vance retired before the case was finished, leaving the decision about whether to go forward to Bragg.
Bragg decided not to proceed immediately, citing concerns about the strength of the case.
The delay prompted two prosecutors leading the investigation to resign.
One of them, Mark Pomerantz, has written about his disagreement with Bragg in a new book, “People vs. Donald Trump: An Inside Account.” In it, Pomerantz outlines his case for charging Trump and laments Bragg’s decision not to pursue an indictment.
Bragg countered in a statement that, in his assessment, “Pomerantz’s plane wasn’t ready for takeoff.”
Bragg also took issue with Pomerantz’s criticism of his prosecution team. “It is appalling that he insulted the skill and professionalism of our prosecutors,” he said at an event this week. “We have the most outstanding lawyers in the country working every day in the Manhattan DA’s office to keep our city safe from the streets to the suites.”
Lately, those lawyers have again been turning up the heat on Trump.
On Dec. 6 they won a conviction against the Trump Organization for helping the company’s former chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, and other executives avoid paying personal income taxes. The company got a $1.6 million fine. Weisselberg pleaded guilty and got jail time. He qualifies for release in April.
And a new grand jury is hearing evidence related to payments made in 2016 to two women who alleged they had sexual encounters with Trump.
Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, has already served prison time in connection with those payments after pleading guilty to campaign finance crimes. He has said the Trump Organization reimbursed him for one of the payouts and rewarded him with extra pay disguised as reimbursement for legal services.
Bragg declined to discuss the investigation in detail, but said prosecutors had paused certain aspects of the probe until the Trump Organization trial was finished. The verdict was a green light to get back to work.
“The trial is sort of a strong demarcation line for us,” Bragg said.
With that, the Manhattan investigation is suddenly back on the list of potential legal perils for Trump.
In Fulton County, Georgia, the district attorney is investigating Trump’s alleged interference in that state during the 2020 election. The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating Trump’s storage of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago club and residence in Florida and the former president’s role in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol.
Trump has lashed out at Bragg and Pomerantz on social media, calling the district attorney’s investigation “fake,” “weak,” and “fatally flawed.”
“THE BIGGEST PROBLEM THEY HAD WITH THE “CASE” IS THAT I DID NOTHING WRONG!” he said in one recent post.
But now, a year later, Bragg and his team might have other thoughts.
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Follow Michael Sisak on Twitter at twitter.com/mikesisak and send confidential tips by visiting https://www.ap.org/tips/. | 2023-02-10T17:47:27+00:00 | kdvr.com | https://kdvr.com/news/nationalworld-news/ap-us-news/ap-revived-trump-probe-puts-manhattan-da-back-in-spotlight/ |
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