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VECTORED: Very Good Artists Open Gallery in Wichita Falls, TX
There's a really cool art exhibit going on right now at 9th Street studios which features the work of a group of artists out of Abilene called Very Good Artists.
This exhibit is called Vectored, and it features paintings and sculptures. There's even an interactive multimedia multi-screen experience in that you sit on the couch and take it in and it's really really cool. Before the gallery officially opened, Artists Larla Morales, Alex Russell, and Vic Thibault gave an artist talk where they shared insights about their collective, their processes, and their artwork.
Check out some of the views, then go take a look at the exhibit in person.
Is that something hatching from an egg?
Look at all this neat stuff! I wanted to touch all of it.
Some rooms had a theme. You'll have to go see for yourself what the theme of this room is.
Paintings are of course for sale.
This is the elevator you take to get up to the exhibit. It's worth the trip for this part alone.
The multi-media section was really cool.
How 'bout those colors!
This idiot (me) tried to get an artsy photo with this sculpture to look like he had a halo. | 2023-01-26T22:03:39+00:00 | newstalk1290.com | https://newstalk1290.com/vectored-opening-gallery-wichita-falls/ |
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Robert Clary, a French-born survivor of Nazi concentration camps during World War II who played a feisty prisoner of war in the improbable 1960s sitcom “Hogan’s Heroes,” has died. He was 96.
Clary died during the night Wednesday of natural causes at his home in Beverly Hills, niece Brenda Hancock said Thursday.
“He never let those horrors defeat him,” Hancock said of Clary’s wartime experiences as a youth. “He never let them take the joy out of his life. He tried to spread that joy to others through his singing and his dancing and his painting.”
When he recounted his life to students, he told them, “Don’t ever hate,” Hancock said. “He didn’t let hate overcome the beauty in this world.”
“Hogan’s Heroes,” in which Allied soldiers in a POW camp bested their clownish German army captors with espionage schemes, played the war strictly for laughs during its 1965-71 run. The 5-foot-1 Clary sported a beret and a sardonic smile as Cpl. Louis LeBeau.
Clary was the last surviving original star of the sitcom that included Bob Crane, Richard Dawson, Larry Hovis and Ivan Dixon as the prisoners. Werner Klemperer and John Banner, who played their captors, both were European Jews who fled Nazi persecution before the war.
Clary began his career as a nightclub singer and appeared on stage in musicals including “Irma La Douce” and “Cabaret.” After “Hogan’s Heroes,” Clary’s TV work included the soap operas “The Young and the Restless,” “Days of Our Lives” and “The Bold and the Beautiful.”
He considered musical theater the highlight of his career. “I loved to go to the theater at quarter of eight, put the stage makeup on and entertain,” he said in a 2014 interview.
He remained publicly silent about his wartime experience until 1980 when, Clary said, he was provoked to speak out by those who denied or diminished the orchestrated effort by Nazi Germany to exterminate Jews.
A documentary about Clary’s childhood and years of horror at Nazi hands, “Robert Clary, A5714: A Memoir of Liberation,” was released in 1985. The forearms of concentration camp prisoners were tattooed with identification numbers, with A5714 to be Clary’s lifelong mark.
“They write books and articles in magazines denying the Holocaust, making a mockery of the 6 million Jews — including a million and a half children — who died in the gas chambers and ovens,” he told The Associated Press in a 1985 interview.
Twelve of his immediate family members, his parents and 10 siblings, were killed under the Nazis, Clary wrote in a biography posted on his website.
In 1997, he was among dozens of Holocaust survivors whose portraits and stories were included in “The Triumphant Spirit,” a book by photographer Nick Del Calzo.
“I beg the next generation not to do what people have done for centuries — hate others because of their skin, shape of their eyes, or religious preference,” Clary said in an interview at the time.
Retired from acting, Clary remained in good health and busy with his family, friends and his painting.
The actor, born Robert Widerman in Paris in March 1926, was the youngest of 14 children. He was 16 when he and most of his family were taken by the Nazis.
In the documentary, Clary recalled a happy childhood until he and his family was forced from their Paris apartment and put into a crowded cattle car that carried them to concentration camps.
“Nobody knew where we were going,” Clary said. “We were not human beings anymore.”
After 31 months in captivity in several concentration camps, he was liberated from the Buchenwald death camp by American troops. His youth and ability to work kept him alive, Clary said.
Returning to Paris, where he was reunited with two older sisters who had avoided the death camps, Clary worked as a singer and recorded songs that became popular in America.
After coming to the United States in 1949, he moved from club dates and recording to Broadway musicals, including “New Faces of 1952,” and then to movies. He appeared in films including 1952’s “Thief of Damascus,” “A New Kind of Love” in 1963 and “The Hindenburg” in 1975.
He didn’t feel uneasy about the comedy on “Hogan’s Heroes” despite the tragedy of his family’s devastating war experience.
“It was completely different. I know they (POWs) had a terrible life, but compared to concentration camps and gas chambers it was like a holiday.”
Clary married Natalie Cantor, the daughter of singer-actor Eddie Cantor, in 1965. She died in 1997. | 2022-11-17T19:40:13+00:00 | wjhl.com | https://www.wjhl.com/news/national/robert-clary-the-last-of-the-hogans-heroes-stars-dies-at-96/ |
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Joe Cunningham has chosen Tally Parham Casey, a civil litigator who flew fighter jets during three combat tours over Iraq, to be his running mate in his quest to become South Carolina’s first Democratic governor in 20 years.
“She’s one of the most impressive people that I’ve ever met,” said Cunningham, who previewed his lieutenant governor pick for The Associated Press ahead of a formal announcement Monday. “She’s fought for our freedoms abroad, and she wants to continue fighting for those freedoms, so that’s why I put her on the ticket, and she’s agreed to do it.”
Cunningham, 40, planned to introduce Casey, 52, at an event in Greenville, her hometown.
“I have long admired Joe’s bipartisan approach to governing and believe he is exactly what South Carolina needs as governor,” Casey said in a statement provided by the campaign, calling her selection “an incredible honor and privilege.”
“Joe is a regular guy who has the guts to say what we’re all thinking,” she also said in the statement.
This is the second gubernatorial election cycle in which contenders for South Carolina’s top two executive offices run on the same ticket. In years past, governors and their lieutenant governors were elected separately, meaning that sometimes the politicians clashed ideologically or were from different parties.
Last week, Gov. Henry McMaster and Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette, 54, became South Carolina’s first gubernatorial ticket to file for reelection, with McMaster calling the payroll company founder “fully conversant with the trials, tribulations and challenges of business.” That skillset, the governor has said, complements his decades in law and politics.
Since her election in 2018, Evette has spent many months traveling the state, meeting with businesses and promoting their relationships with South Carolina’s technical training schools. Both she and the governor say keeping them strong is key to the state’s manufacturing economy.
Cunningham also points to the diverse experiences of his running mate. Casey’s military service, legal savvy and the fact that she’s a woman make her the right fit for where he’d like to take the state, he said.
“Tally is the best person for the job, period,” Cunningham told AP. “And the fact that she’s a woman brings that perspective to the ticket, especially in light of everything that’s gone on with Gov. McMaster’s attack on our freedoms and his assault on women’s rights. It makes it that much more personal for Tally.”
The Republican-dominated Legislature is on track to make abortions even harder to get in South Carolina after the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to reverse its nearly 50-year-old Roe v. Wade ruling affirming a constitutional right to the procedure.
While abortion-rights groups challenge the state’s current law, which bans abortions after six weeks of pregnancy but includes some exceptions, a special legislative committee advanced a proposal last week to ban almost all abortions, except when the mother’s life is at risk.
McMaster, who has said he would “immediately” work with those lawmakers, said last week that the six-week ban includes “good exceptions” and is “quite reasonable.”
“If there are other steps, if there are other things that they believe should be done after thorough examination, then I’d like to hear about it,” McMaster said.
Cunningham has called for legislators to hold off on debating the measure this fall until after the November election.
Casey was South Carolina’s first female fighter pilot, enlisting with the state’s Air National Guard’s 157th Fighter Squadron in 1996 and attaining the rank of lieutenant colonel. She has nearly 1,500 hours in the F-16, more than 100 of them in combat, and has received numerous service-related awards.
Casey also has been an attorney for more than two decades, most of that at Wyche P.A. in Columbia, where she was elected chair in 2017 and focuses on commercial litigation, products liability, insurance and aerospace law. The graduate of Princeton University and the University of Virginia School of Law has also been a federal law clerk.
On Monday, McMaster’s campaign said in a statement that Casey’s selection “will have far less of an impact on the campaign than his record as left-wing, Joe-Biden Democrat who has spent more time chasing Tik-Tok followers than working to improve the lives of South Carolinians.”
Like Cunningham, Casey is significantly younger than McMaster, who at 75 is the state’s oldest governor, and whose age the Democrat has said is too advanced to adequately represent South Carolinians.
“He’s been in politics literally longer than I’ve been alive, and you look at where that’s gotten us,” Cunningham said. “What Tally offers is much-needed change, and it’ll be a refreshing take on politics.”
Cunningham has proposed an age cap of 72 for South Carolina officeholders — a shift that would require voters to approve a constitutional change. He’s signaled openness to a similar federal age limit, which would apply to 82-year-old House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn of South Carolina and 79-year-old President Joe Biden.
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Meg Kinnard can be reached at http://twitter.com/MegKinnardAP. | 2022-08-01T17:14:02+00:00 | valleycentral.com | https://www.valleycentral.com/news/politics/ap-politics/cunningham-picks-former-fighter-pilot-as-sc-gov-running-mate/ |
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NEW YORK (AP) — Without a TV show, starry red carpet, host, press or even a livestream, the Golden Globe Awards were in chaos last year after scandal broke over lack of diversity, accusations of sexism, and ethical and financial lapses among members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
Once known as Hollywood’s biggest, booziest party that regularly drew 18 million television viewers, the doling out of statues was reduced to a 90-minute private event with no celebrities present at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
Winners were announced on Twitter, often without specifying what project a person had actually won for.
What a difference a year can make.
After dumping the telecast in the aftermath of a damaging expose by the Los Angeles Times, NBC will put the battered 80-year-old Globes back on the air Tuesday under a one-year deal, as opposed to multi-year contracts of the past worth tens of millions of dollars.
A wave of celebrities plan to attend, along with star presenters and funnyman host Jerrod Carmichael after the embattled controllers of the Globes dug deep into the work of implementing top-down reforms.
There’s now a strict code of conduct, refreshed bylaws, a ban on gifts and new rules on accepting travel and other perks from the industry. Contentious news conferences were dumped, and the pool of awards voters was expanded beyond the 87 Los Angeles-based foreign journalists who once ruled the organization.
But are the powerful publicists, studios and other stakeholders who boycotted in protest satisfied with the changes? And are those changes the beginning — or closer to the end?
“It's, by far, not over,” said German journalist Helen Hoehne, who took over as president of the HFPA a year and a half ago. “We always said when we started this journey that it would be ongoing and that it would take some time.”
Kelly Bush Novak, CEO and founder of the A-list public relations firm ID, said more must be done, but she supports steps taken so far.
“We came together ... to ensure the future of the Globes, in step with our culture and our shared values as an industry, and we see commendable and seismic progress,” she said. "I’m optimistic that the work will continue.”
Still, Novak acknowledged not all stakeholders are on board ahead of Tuesday's broadcast, despite sweeping changes aimed at restoring the luster of the Globes.
Last year, publicists like Novak banded together to battle the HFPA, and studios that included Netflix and WarnerMedia cut ties with the organization after the LA Times raised questions about corruption and a range of bias issues over race and sexual orientation.
None of the 87 Hollywood Foreign Press Association members was Black and the group had not had a Black member since at least 2002.
Now, after an effort to increase and diversify its ranks, 199 people decide who gets a Globe, a mix of 96 HFPA members and outsiders from other countries brought in to dilute the power of the old guard. Membership eligibility was expanded from Los Angeles to anywhere in the United States.
Heading into the telecast, Globes voters stand at 52% female, and 51.8% racially and ethnically diverse, including 19.6% Latino, 12.1% Asian, 10.1% Black and 10.1% Middle Eastern. Voters also include those who are LGBTQIA+. In all, 62 countries are represented.
The governing board was expanded from nine to 15 and includes three Black members, two of whom vote on rules and other matters but not awards. Overall, the organization now has six Black HFPA members and 14 Black international Globes voters who aren't members.
Perhaps the most significant change: The Globes were purchased by billionaire Todd Boehly, who also owns the Beverly Hilton, Globes producer dick clark productions and the Chelsea soccer team. He's shifting the voting body from its founding nonprofit status to a for-profit model, pending approval by the California attorney general. He plans to preserve the HFPA's charitable work with a separate nonprofit entity.
A hotline managed by two independent law firms was opened, with complaints investigated by outsiders. A chief diversity officer was hired, and mandatory racial, sexual harassment and sexual orientation sensitivity training was put in place, required for any HFPA member casting Globe votes.
Michelle Williams, nominated for her turn in “The Fabelmans,” is among dozens of stars panning to attend Tuesday.
“It feels to me like the community as a whole has decided that this organization has really done a lot of work to reform themselves and that we can support change, like we can hold people accountable and then we can support them as they continue to journey in their path towards being a better organization,” she said.
Added Judd Hirsch, nominated for the same film: “We'll be there. We'll give them another chance.”
Dumping news conferences at the center of insensitive questions posed to talent who felt obligated to show up helped cool off some critics, but not all.
“I can’t speak for everyone. There may be some reluctance to participate," Novak said. “We must acknowledge the past and will never forget the damage done. Manifesting a new future requires it.”
Brendan Fraser, nominated for his performance in “The Whale,” will not be there Tuesday. In 2018, Fraser said he was groped by Philip Berk, a former HFPA president who is from South Africa.
Berk was expelled in 2021 after calling Black Lives Matter “a racist hate movement.”
“I just hope that we can regain his trust over time,” Hoehne said of Fraser.
The same, Hoehne said, goes for Tom Cruise. Last year, he returned his three Golden Globes in protest. With a best picture nod for his long-awaited sequel “Top Gun: Maverick,” he was snubbed for best actor this year.
Under Boehly's leadership, HFPA members will earn $75,000 a year as his employees, as opposed to current stipends closer to $5,000. They'll vote on nominations and winners among films and television series submitted for awards consideration. They'll write for the organization's website, and organize other projects, the LA Times said, citing a confidential employee memo it reviewed.
The 103 new voting non-members recruited with the help of the National Association of Black Journalists, Asian-American Journalists Association and LGBTQIA+ organizations will not be paid, setting up a two-tier structure aimed at eliminating the taint of financial compensation as more new recruits come on board.
Outraged industry stakeholders had called for the overall Globes voting body to be closer to 300. Other reforms are aimed at battling the perception of influence peddling.
As eventual paid employees, members will be subject to firing without cause. They're now required to sign a code of conduct every year covering job performance, decorum and ethical behavior.
The 80-year-old group had been stuck in its ways, Hoehne acknowledged.
“We needed to question a lot of things. We needed to look at these bylaws and say, OK, how can we make them better? How can we modernize the association? We had never really done it and not addressed it,” she said.
Although the new pay structure has not yet been implemented, over the past year the HFPA has pushed out several members it accused of violating its standards.
One was accused of forging signatures on Internal Revenue Service documents, another case related to sexual harassment and a third involved fabricating interviews that never occurred, according to an HFPA spokesperson.
Boehly himself acknowledged the future is uncertain.
“I have nightmares where it doesn’t work too, you know? I get it, you can’t convince all of the people all of the time of anything,” he told the LA Times. “We know we have to add value and we know that we have to be part of the solution.”
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Associated Press Writer Krysta Fauria contributed to this report.
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Follow Leanne Italie on Twitter at http://twitter.com/litalie | 2023-01-07T16:51:18+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Golden-Globes-are-back-on-TV-but-are-reform-17701506.php |
ATLANTA — Red Sox first baseman Franchy Cordero drew a career-high three walks in Boston’s 9-4 victory over the Braves on Tuesday.
Two was his previous career high for walks in a game, which he has done eight times.
The sample small obviously is minimal so far. He has recorded just 18 at-bats (23 plate appearances) in the big leagues this season. But manager Alex Cora likes what he has seen combined between Cordero’s latest major league stint and spring training.
“A lot different than last year,” Cora said here at Truist Park on Wednesday. “With two strikes, he’s not doing that toe-tap thing just to try to put the ball in play early in the count. He’s looking for certain pitches. He’s letting his A-swing go. Either he makes contact or not. Sometimes in those situations last year, he would try to make contact and it was a weak groundball back to the pitcher or a rollover to the second baseman, first baseman. Right now, he’s controlling the zone. Yesterday, they went upstairs. They did that last year. He’s more disciplined with those pitches. So far, so good.”
The sample size, again, is small but he has more walks (4) than strikeouts (2). He was batting .296 with a .378 on-base percentage, .535 slugging percentage, .913 OPS, three homers and eight doubles in 19 games (82 plate appearances) for Triple-A Worcester at the time of his promotion. He was striking out 28% of the time there.
Cora mentioned last season he thought Cordero might have been trading some intensity in his swing just to try to make contact. That led to weak contact. The power-hitter homered just once for Boston.
The power still is lacking in the majors but Cordero is swinging aggressively.
“I was working to try to get that balance between contact and power,” Cordero told MassLive.com back in spring training. “That’s one of the things I think I have improved during the offseason and winter ball that I’m now making contact without lowering the intensity of the swing. I think I’m getting better with that.”
Cordero is relatively new to the first base position. He began playing there last year.
But the Red Sox need offense out of first base more than anything. Boston ranks 30th in the majors in batting average (.131), slugging percentage (.202) and OPS .430. It ranks 29th in on-base percentage (.228).
“I know it hasn’t been perfect (defensively) but we’re looking for offense in that position,” Cora said. “It’s either him or Bobby (Dalbec). Yesterday was a great day. We love the 3-for-5 with two homers and a lot of RBIs. But when you control the zone for three straight at-bats, that’s a good sign.”
Cora called Cordero’s defense is a work in progress. Cordero certainly is athletic enough to play first base. He was a shortstop when he signed his first pro contract as a teenager.
Cora said the coaching is trying to put him in an athletic position to make plays
“Playing first at this level, it’s not that easy,” Cora said. “You saw that rocket (Matt) Olson hit yesterday.”
Related Content | 2022-05-11T23:27:56+00:00 | masslive.com | https://www.masslive.com/redsox/2022/05/boston-red-soxs-franchy-cordero-looks-a-lot-different-than-last-year-offensively-alex-cora-says.html |
LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — A jury acquitted a man of neglect charges Thursday after he was accused with his ex-wife of abandoning an adopted daughter.
The Tippecanoe Superior Court panel deliberated about two hours before finding Michael Barnett not guilty of three neglect charges and conspiracy to commit neglect of a dependent.
The daughter, Ukrainian immigrant Natalia Barnett, said her adoptive parents, before moving to Canada, abandoned her in a second-story Lafayette apartment in which she was unable to navigate the stairs and was without a walker or wheelchair or any knowledge of the city.
Natalia Barnett testified on Wednesday she learned nearly everything about life, including how to read, write and wash her hair, from a Lafayette family that took her in.
Prosecutors argued she was “entirely dependent” on Barnett and his ex-wife, Kristine, and there was “no one she knew she could turn to for help.”
However, defense attorneys argued “she wanted nothing to do with the Barnetts. She had moved on.”
The defense showed jurors videos of Natalia Barnett running across a street, walking through a grocery store and clinging to the edge of a pool. They argued she was an able-bodied adult who was no longer interested in being a part of the family.
Michael Barnett and his ex-wife have said Natalia was an adult pretending to be a child.
Michael Barnett and his attorneys declined to comment after the verdict. A judge imposed a gag order in the case three years ago.
Natalia came to the U.S. from Ukraine in 2010. Two years later, Marion County Probate Court established Natalia’s age at 22.
Neglect charges remain pending against Kristine Barnett. | 2022-10-28T19:20:59+00:00 | ksn.com | https://www.ksn.com/news/national-world/ap-us-news/ap-jury-acquits-indiana-man-of-abandoning-adult-daughter/ |
(AP) — Authorities say a man was arraigned Tuesday on charges that he crashed his SUV through the front window of an Apple store in Massachusetts. Monday’s crash in Hingham, southeast of Boston, killed one person and injured many others. Bradley Rein, 53, was arraigned Tuesday morning. Rein told police his right foot became stuck on the accelerator. The court entered not guilty pleas on his behalf to charges of motor vehicle homicide by reckless operation and reckless operation of a motor vehicle. The person who died has been identified as 65-year-old Kevin Bradley, of New Jersey. Apple says he was supporting recent construction at the store. | 2022-11-22T23:25:45+00:00 | kurv.com | https://www.kurv.com/driver-faces-charges-in-connection-with-apple-store-crash/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=driver-faces-charges-in-connection-with-apple-store-crash |
BOSTON, Aug. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Goldcast, the purpose-built platform for B2B field and event marketers to host interactive virtual and hybrid events, today announced the closing of a $28 million Series A funding round led by WestBridge Capital with participation from Unusual Ventures. Sumir Chadha, Co-founder of WestBridge will join the board. Following a $10 million seed funding round led by Unusual Ventures earlier this year, this brings the company's total funding raised to $40 million. This latest fundraise will be used to continue developing product use cases, make key hires to expand the company's leadership team, and invest in marketing community initiatives.
Events are an important channel for marketers, accounting for an average of 25 to 40 percent of B2B technology companies' budgets every year, but only Goldcast's solution is purpose-built to bring transparency to the "black box" of events (both virtual and hybrid). Goldcast's platform allows marketers to host events from small webinars to large scale user conferences that are as engaging as a Netflix show, while providing account-based insights that help growth-focused teams optimize and measure ROI.
Goldcast has solved for everything a B2B marketer needs for successful events, allowing for integration with existing marketing automation and CRMs to track all attendee activity and monitor pipeline contribution. That's why hundreds of marketing teams from leading B2B tech companies including Amplitude, Autodesk, Coherent, Drift, HootSuite, Intuit, Lattice, Microsoft GitHub and Zuora use Goldcast to host events and turn them into proven revenue.
"The shift to virtual and hybrid events post-pandemic is going to be a permanent change for B2B marketers, largely as a result of the sheer increase in reach that marketers achieve when they incorporate a virtual function. We've found that B2B marketers see a lot of importance in a strong digital event strategy," said Palash Soni, CEO and co-founder of Goldcast. "As this focus continues to evolve, so will the needs of marketers to keep track of who attends and engages with their brand. The value of events has been historically difficult to quantify from a sales pipeline perspective, and we've built a proven solution for marketers that gets them closer to their bottom line. We're thrilled to continue iterating on our existing offerings to serve larger marketing teams that want to know exactly how their event budgets are impacting their pipeline."
Goldcast has seen 10x growth in revenue and made 60 new hires since their last funding round in February. The company has added 150 additional customers over the last year.
"As digital and hybrid events become the norm, there is a strong market opportunity here for actionable insights directly related to revenue, and Goldcast is leading the pack," said Sumir Chadha, Co-founder and Managing Partner of Westbridge Capital. "We're thrilled to partner with them as they continue their impressive growth and can't wait to see what the future holds for the company."
Field or event marketers who want to start transforming their events into revenue can request a free demo here. Goldcast is also hosting an event on Tuesday, August 30 featuring leading B2B marketing experts on why brands should start thinking like a media company and how a successful digital event strategy supports that. Anyone can register for the event here.
Goldcast is used by B2B marketers to create engaging digital and hybrid events that are more like Netflix show experiences and drive revenue by providing rich post-event insights. It's becoming the de facto platform for growth-stage tech companies, with customers like Drift, Microsoft Github, Intuit, Hootsuite, Salesloft, Toast, ThoughtSpot, Lattice, and Autodesk using Goldcast as an essential part of their event marketing strategy. Unlike other tools, Goldcast's platform not only provides a great experience for attendees and for event organizers, but also captures unique data for marketers to collaborate with sales and customer success teams to engage with prospects and customers post event. For more information, visit www.goldcast.io
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NEW ORLEANS (AP)New Orleans forward Zion Williamson sat out the Pelicans’ game Tuesday night against the Memphis Grizzlies because of a right foot contusion.
Pelicans coach Willie Green said Williamson was ”day-to-day” and that there was ”definitely some hope” he could play Wednesday night at home against Chicago.
Green said Williams, who is averaging 23.5 points, 6.4 rebounds and 3.9 assists, hurt his foot Saturday early in the fourth quarter of a 119-106 victory over Houston. Williamson finished the game with no apparent problems and led the Pelicans with 26 points.
”We’ll see how he feels after tonight,” Green said. ”It was soreness. Everything checked out fine. It’s a contusion, and we’ll play it day-by-day and see where he is tomorrow. It was something that happened in that game.”
Williamson missed all of last season after undergoing surgery to repair his right fifth metatarsal. In 2020-21, he shot 61.1% from the floor and averaged 27.0 points.
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AP NBA: https://apnews.com/hub/nba and https://twitter.com/AP-Sports | 2022-11-16T17:57:35+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/sports/nba-basketball/zion-williamson-sits-out-pelicans-game-against-grizzlies/ |
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It may seem a cruel thing to ask whether the government gives too much money away in the name of helping the poor, especially at this time of year, when reminders to help the less fortunate are omnipresent. It is nonetheless necessary to pose the question.
Most of us agree there is dignity in work. We see self-reliance and the ability to stand on one’s own feet as being worthwhile. And we recognize there is and ought to be a profound difference between charity and subsidy.
Unfortunately, poll-obsessed policymakers and their advisers, their vision distorted by stories about the misfortune experienced by those living life in the lowest economic quintile, may have lost sight of these things.
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As well-intentioned as they might be, the elite class advocates who want to spend more and more tax dollars on behalf of the needy are seeking outcomes that do more harm than good to everyone.
This may seem an outrageous proposition, but after reading the recently released Committee to Unleash Prosperity’s “Paying People Not to Work,” it’s hard to conclude otherwise. The trio of economists who conducted the study – Casey Mulligan, Erwin Antoni, and Stephen Moore – found regulations as currently written make families earning half a million dollars a year eligible for ObamaCare subsidies. They also found that in nearly half the states, unemployment benefits and ObamaCare subsidies together for a family of four where no one worked can bring in the annualized equivalent of the national median household income.
In three states, Massachusetts, Washington, and New Jersey, unemployment and health insurance benefits can equal the earnings of a job paying $100,000 annually. To most people, that probably seems excessive. It should also turn what we think now about public assistance programs on its head. The social safety net should be a temporary source of support in times of personal or national economic crisis, not a source of semi-permanent succor and sustaining income.
The problems associated with paying people not to work reached their extremes during the pandemic. Congress allocated trillions in new spending to support those forced out of work by lockdowns that closed the marketplace. Most of that aid has run its course, yet, the study suggests, it is still possible in roughly half the states for an unemployed couple receiving unemployment and health insurance subsidies to earn more than a firefighter, a construction worker, a retail clerk, or a machinist working a 40-hour week. That’s not fair.
“We all believe in a reliable safety net for when Americans lose a job or can’t work,” study co-author Stephen Moore wrote, “but it isn’t fair to the hard-working Americans who put 40 hours a week on the job, that neighbors who aren’t working a single hour can receive a higher income from not working and collecting benefits.”
The authors further argue the payment of these significant benefits is a major reason the labor force participation rate remains close to its all-time low and there are at least three million fewer Americans working today than before COVID. The ability to obtain generous financial assistance without the type of work requirements that were part of the landmark 1996 welfare reform act makes it harder for employers to find people willing to take jobs.
There are nearly 10 million jobs today in America that go unfilled, the federal government says. The excessive generosity of unemployment benefits in many states has created perverse incentives for workers to remain at home, rather than immediately going back to work and helping take down some of the ubiquitous "help wanted" signs that are restraining economic recovery.
What then are we to do? Reforms are needed, for the economic and spiritual good of the country. Unemployment insurance and Obamacare health insurance subsidies need to be re-examined carefully. The links between work and reward must be re-established by ensuring that combined government benefits do not exceed wages. Other changes are also probably necessary, as a matter of fairness to those who are working.
It is not right to pay people who will not work as much or more than those who will.
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- Jean-Pascal Tricoire, Chairman & CEO, Schneider Electric, delivered a keynote on how software technologies are making the digital, electric world a reality across homes, buildings, data centers, industry, and infrastructure
- Aamir Paul, President, Schneider Electric North America, followed with a conversation with decarbonization leaders on motivations and partnerships fueling progress.
LAS VEGAS, Oct. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Schneider Electric, the leader in the digital transformation of energy management and automation, today kicked off its Innovation Summit Las Vegas with a passionate call to address the triple crisis – energy, economic and climate – facing governments, businesses and consumers around the globe, and outlining its approach and solutions to achieve this.
"In a time of global crisis, we must have complete clarity on our journey and destination. The current energy crisis is only the tip of the iceberg," said Jean-Pascal Tricoire, Chairman and CEO of Schneider Electric. "With energy demand globally anticipated to grow three-fold in the next 30 years, it's vital that we deploy all the technologies that are already available now to accelerate electrification, digitization, and sustainability."
Tricoire addressed Innovation Summit Las Vegas attendees as part of a joint keynote with Aamir Paul, President, Schneider Electric North America. They highlighted the urgent need for action as this is a pivotal moment when sustainable commitments can become a reality now that technology has aligned with intention.
Key topics discussed by Tricoire and Paul included:
- Using digitization to unlock the full capacity of efficiency: The future of sustainability depends on interoperability and breaking down siloes across value chain partners. Through digital twin interfaces, online exchanges and marketplaces and other digital tools, Schneider's customers can optimize the entire lifecycle of a commercial building, as an example, throughout the Design, Build, Operate, and Maintain phases, with the potential to realize a 30% efficiency impact.
- Electricity is the most efficient form of energy and the best vector for decarbonization: As it is cleaner than burning fossil fuels, it has advantages for electrifying homes, buildings, and transportation. Together, electrification and digitization are key to doing more with less energy and with fewer resources.
- Today's available technology can reduce carbon emissions: The pair also discussed recent findings from Schneider Electric's Research Institute which issued a first-of-its-kind quantitative study demonstrating the potential of available technologies, which, if combined and deployed at scale has the potential to lower carbon emissions by two-thirds by 2030, while generating massive savings on energy spend for building dwellers (up to 70%).
To further support customers in their sustainability goals, Schneider Electric also debuted seven new product, software, and service offerings that address the pressing environmental and social issues arising from the energy crisis and climate change.
The company also announced a $46M investment to modernize manufacturing plants in Kentucky and Nebraska to increase circuit breaker and related electrical products for customers in the U.S. and Canada. This follows the more than $100 million investment in 2021 to expedite the reshoring of its manufacturing capability in the North American region which saw organic growth of +12.6% in fiscal year 2021.
"Ours is the first generation to understand the reality of our climate challenges, and the last one that can do something about it. We're at a pivotal moment to lead in the journey to net zero and the key to reaching our sustainability goals is embracing a digital and electric-first future," said Aamir Paul, President, Schneider Electric North America. "In today's competitive business environment, creating a more sustainable world involves going all-in on digitization, and the time to act on this movement is now. We're looking forward to discussing with leaders and executives across industries at our Innovation Summit this week to move beyond strategy and to act on ideas."
Following the keynote address, Paul hosted a panel discussion with executives who've implemented sustainability practices to address the reality of climate challenges, featuring Deborah Donovan, Senior Vice President, Environment, Health and Safety at Moderna; and Paul Gordon, Senior Vice President at EQ Office. The leaders discussed how they navigated short and long-term priorities, personal and business responsibilities, fears, surprises, and partnerships to create a net-zero future.
Schneider Electric has long advocated for urgent, concerted action to reduce energy waste, invest in renewables, electrify and digitalize energy ecosystems, and ensure that all this is done with economic and people welfare in mind. The company is widely recognized as a leader on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues, and its products, services and other activities help customers, suppliers, business partners and communities further their own progress on those fronts.
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NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) – A Louisiana mother is demanding answers after her daughter was attacked at pre-school. She says the incident happened a week ago at Angel’s Haven Daycare in New Orleans’ Hollygrove neighborhood.
“To relive it is just a horror,” Cymande Ford said.
Ford is talking about the moment she was reunited with her daughter, 19-month-old Harley, at Angel’s Haven Daycare Feb. 9.
Minutes earlier, she received a call from the school’s director, asking her to come to the school.
“I see [Harley’s] face, and it looks like she’s been mauled by a cat, so I start screaming, I’m crying, I dropped my purse, and I ask what happened,” Ford explained. “I took Harley, and I’m just asking [the school’s director] what happened.”
Ford says she was told Harley was involved in a “tussle” with a 1-year-old at the school.
The school’s director and daughter, who works there, reportedly went with Ford to the emergency room to get Harley examined.
“Seven bites up one arm. She has a couple bites up the other arm. She has pants on, but [the 1-year-old] has bitten through her pants on both legs,” Ford said. “You can see the teeth marks. They’re clear and visible.”
While at the hospital, Ford says the nurse started to ask questions to find out what happened.
“So, [the nurse] says, ‘What time did this happen?’ I say, ‘11 o’clock’ because that’s the time they called me,” Ford said. “[My daughter] says, ‘Oh no, it happened a little bit before 8 [a.m.]’”
Ford says she wasn’t given an explanation as to why it took them so long to call.
WGNO called Angel’s Haven Daycare to see if they would like to share their side of the story. The director said “No,” and hung up.
“It was hard enough for me to send my child to daycare because I’m a business owner. This is just crazy for this to be happening on her third day after something that I already fought myself with so much,” Ford said.
A report was filed with the New Orleans Police Department, and the Department of Children and Family Services is investigating the incident. | 2023-02-18T03:26:11+00:00 | upmatters.com | https://www.upmatters.com/news/national/new-orleans-mother-wants-answers-after-baby-is-attacked-at-daycare/ |
Which lip plumper device is best?
If you want full, plump lips, fillers aren’t your only option. In fact, with a lip plumper device, you can get a luscious, photo-ready pout without any injections or other invasive procedures.
Lip plumpers are usually compact devices you can use at home to help your lips swell for a fuller look. While most models use suction to plump your lips, some models are battery-powered and others require manual operation. If you’re looking for a manual lip plumper that includes both round and oval mouthpieces, the Maitys Cherry-Shaped Lip Plumper is the top choice.
What to know before you buy a lip plumper device
Electric vs. manual
Electric lip plumper devices run on batteries. Most models use replaceable batteries, but some feature a rechargeable battery. The device usually comes with a mouthpiece that has lip pads and a small storage pouch. Some high-end models feature variable suction levels, ranging from gentle to firm.
When using an electric lip plumper device, you should always check that the lip pads and mouthpiece are securely attached and the battery is fully charged. You then place the device on your lips and turn it on. Through electric-powered suction, the blood flow increases to your lips, causing them to swell. You generally shouldn’t use an electric lip plumper for more than 60 seconds at a time to avoid bruising. Some models turn off automatically after the recommended time, but you may need to manually shut some off some devices.
Manual lip plumpers work on a similar principle, relying on suction to plump the lips. You can choose from a couple of different types of manual devices.
Some models are made of plastic or rubber and resemble a pacifier. You place the opening over your lips and inhale for 15-30 seconds. When you remove the device, your lips should be noticeably plumper.
Other manual lip plumpers have a shape similar to electric devices. There’s a long handle section that connects to the mouthpiece, which features a small pump. When you press to activate the pump, it draws air into the mouthpiece to create suction and plump your lips.
Manual lip plumper devices obviously require more effort, but they’re much more affordable than electric models.
Masks
Lip masks are similar to face masks because they contain anti-aging ingredients like hyaluronic acid, collagen and aloe vera. They’re formulated to help soften fine lines and wrinkles, so they don’t provide the most obvious lip plumping effect. However, your lips are usually softer and more hydrated after using a mask, which can give them a fuller look.
What to look for in a quality lip plumper device
Design
While a lip plumper device’s effectiveness is its most important feature, some models are more attractive than others. You can find quite a few lip plumper devices in fun shapes like a small fruit or lips designs. Electric models typically have a sleeker, more simplified design, but they often have two colors to make them more attractive. All lip plumpers are handheld devices, so they can fit easily in most purses or bags.
Mouthpiece shape
The best lip plumper devices include multiple mouthpieces, so they can work for different mouth shapes. The majority of lip plumpers feature an oval mouthpiece, which fits most mouths. If you have a round face, a round or circular mouthpiece is often a better option. However, not all lip plumpers come with a round mouthpiece, so if that’s an important feature for you, check the product specifications for any model you’re considering.
How much you can expect to spend on a lip plumper device
Lip plumper devices cost $10-$40. Models that cost less than $10 are typically simple manual devices. For $10-$20, you can find high-quality manual plumpers, as well as some simple electric models. Those that range from $20-$40 are often electric models with more than one mouthpiece and variable suction power settings.
Lip plumper device FAQ
Are lip plumper devices safe to use?
A. If you follow the instructions from a lip plumper’s manufacturer for its usage, it’s usually perfectly safe to use. Using a plumper too frequently may cause irritation and bruising, however.
How often can I use a lip plumper device?
A. Most lip plumper devices should be used no more than two times per day, though some models can be used up to three times daily.
How long will my lips be plump after using a lip plumper device?
A. Because they’re not invasive like filler injections, the results from a lip plumper device don’t last as long. Most devices leave you with plumper lips for 2-4 hours, but results can vary. Some people find their lips stay full for up to 10 hours.
What’s the best lip plumper device to buy?
Top lip plumper device
Maitys Cherry-Shaped Lip Plumper
What you need to know: This manual lip plumper features a soft, comfortable silicone plumping cup and an adorable cherry design, but it really stands out from the competition for the long-lasting results it provides.
What you’ll love: The device boasts a cute, effective design. It comes with both a round and oval mouthpiece. The oval mouthpiece works especially well because it covers the mouth without touching the skin around it. The effects last for more than 2 hours.
What you should consider: The device can lose suction and fall off somewhat easily.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top lip plumper device for the money
What you need to know: With a fun fish-shaped design, this silicone lip plumper offers a comfortable design and results within seconds.
What you’ll love: It only takes one use to get fuller lips for hours. It can provide long-term results with consistent usage. The silicone is soft and flexible, so the device is easy and comfortable to use.
What you should consider: Using the device too often in one day can cause bruising.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
What you need to know: A high-quality, durable model, this silicone lip plumper offers two styles for plumping your lips and only requires seconds to work.
What you’ll love: It’s made of food-grade silicone and is scented with a mild fragrance. It features a flexible, easy-to-use design. It allows you to choose from single-lobed or double-lobed plumping. It takes just 5-10 seconds to provide results.
What you should consider: It can cause bruising if used too long. The results aren’t that long-lasting, either.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball made what was termed a “final offer” for an international draft, increasing proposed money for the first year in 2024 by $10 million on Sunday to $191 million.
The move came one day after the players’ association made a proposal that remained at $260 million and left the sides far apart heading into a Monday night midnight EDT deadline for a deal.
Because an international draft was tied in the March lockout settlement to dropping direct draft-pick compensation for qualified free agents, these negotiations will start to determine the market for a free agent group that includes Anthony Rizzo, J.D. Martinez, Chris Sale and Charlie Morton.
While the loss of draft picks hasn’t inhibited teams from chasing top free agents since the current system began in 2012 — this year’s group includes Aaron Judge, Jacob deGrom and Trea Turner — a slightly lesser level has been impacted. Craig Kimbrel and Dallas Keuchel delayed signing in 2019 until June, after the draft pick compensation no longer was attached.
“We want to do whatever it takes for those guys to make sure they get good deals and get good contracts,” New York Mets shortstop Francisco Lindor, part of the union’s eight-man executive subcommittee, said Sunday. “But also we want to make sure that the guys that are entering the game, as well, are taken care of, are are put in a good situation in a good spot.”
The negotiating moves were disclosed to The Associated Press by two people familiar with the talks who spoke on the condition of anonymity because public comments were not authorized.
MLB proposed last July 28 that a 2024 international draft include spending of $181 million for the top 600 players and $190 million in total, up from $166 million in the 2021 signing period. MLB’s proposal contained hard slots, which for 2024 would assign $5,512,500 for the top pick to $2,625,000 for the 10th overall.
Players waited until early this July to make a counteroffer. They proposed a draft be allocated $260 million for the 2024 signing period, with teams having to guarantee slot values while having the flexibility to exceed them within bonus pools, the people said.
The union estimates spending on the amateur draft will be over $300 million by 2024. Players also proposed a deal include a guaranteed number of jobs and signings for international amateurs.
“Players have been willing to have a conversation, despite the fact that there are players on each side of the equation,” union head Tony Clark said before the All-Star Game. “But everyone can agree that the system that would need to be considered here, particularly in a draft world, needs to be much better than what is otherwise been contemplated to this point.”
An amateur draft was established for residents of the United States and Canada in 1965 and extended to residents of U.S. territories such as Puerto Rico in 1990. The players’ association agreed to a structure of signing bonus pools with penalties that started in 2012, and international amateurs have been subject to a similar though different bonus pool system.
MLB pushed for an international draft in bargaining, arguing it would reduce corruption, especially in the Dominican Republic. MLB hopes a draft would eliminate players reaching agreements in advance of their eligibility to sign — either 16 or 15 if the player turns 16 later in the signing period.
“Our concern and I think this has been well documented over time is situations where clubs make commitments to players before they’re technically age eligible to sign, that there are individuals involved in those negotiations that take a piece of the really significant piece of the compensation that really should be going to the player off the top,” baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred said.
The Atlanta Braves lost 13 prospects and former general manager John Coppolella was banned for life by Major League Baseball in 2017.
“You have two ways to deal with rules violations,” Manfred said. “You can investigate and try to find out what happened in each individual situation. We’ve tried that for a number of years — hasn’t worked very well. It’s just a lot of dealings that you have to chase down. The other way is through transparency, and that’s why we like the draft idea. If you don’t know which club is going to get the rights to the player, there’s no point in making an early deal, right?”
Union officials have said corruption is partially caused by teams willing to pay money in violation of the rules.
“It’s easy to say that it’s the people that cut the check, that they’re engaged in corruption,” Manfred said. “But somebody’s taking the check, right?”
If an international draft is not agreed to, a team signing a qualified free agent still would forfeit one or more picks in the next amateur draft and have its international signing bonus pool reduced.
No matter what, a team losing a free agent could gain an additional draft pick, depending on several conditions.
Some older players could find their markets limited if they refuse qualifying offers — last year’s figure was $18.4 million, the average of the top 125 contracts by average annual value.
A resolution is not expected until just ahead of the deadline.
“At least from my point of view, we’re still not there,” Lindor said.
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Defense 1st, then offense at top of NFL draft, no early QBs
By BARRY WILNER
AP Pro Football Writer
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Defense was the focus to start the NFL draft Thursday night, with the first five selections coming on that side of the ball, including edge rushers Travon Walker of national champion Georgia to Jacksonville and Aidan Hutchinson of Michigan to Detroit at Nos. 1 and 2. It’s the first time in 31 years that no player on offense went in the opening five picks. So, naturally, the next five choices were on offense. And those kept coming: right through No. 12. But no quarterbacks, hardly a surprise in a draft rich with linemen, receivers and defensive backs. | 2022-04-29T05:10:32+00:00 | keyt.com | https://keyt.com/news/2022/04/28/defense-1st-then-offense-at-top-of-nfl-draft-no-early-qbs/ |
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – As the Buffalo Bills prepare to host the Miami Dolphins on Saturday, they do so knowing they will clinch a playoff spot with a victory.
Clinching their third straight AFC East title remains at least another week away, however.
Here’s a look at the Bills’ clinching scenarios heading into Week 15, via the NFL.
How the Bills can clinch a playoff spot
Bills (10-3) vs Dolphins (8-5), 8:15 p.m. Saturday, NFL Network
Buffalo clinches a playoff berth with:
1) BUF win
2) BUF tie + LAC loss
3) BUF tie + NYJ loss + NE loss
4) BUF tie + NYJ loss + NE tie + LAC tie
Of the four ways the Bills can lock up a playoff spot, beating Miami is the simplest. This would mark the third time in franchise history that the team made the playoffs four consecutive seasons (1988-93 and 1963-66).
How the Bills can clinch the AFC East title
This is not on the table this week, but the Bills are close to locking up their third consecutive division title.
The simplest path to clinching is for the Bills to beat the Dolphins and then win one of their last three games. If they get to 12 wins while beating Miami this week, they can’t be passed in the AFC East.
Many more scenarios will develop following this week’s action.
How the Bills can clinch the AFC’s #1 seed and home-field advantage
The Bills currently hold the AFC’s #1 seed. They have the same record as the Chiefs, but won the head-to-head matchup earlier this season.
At this point, the only way for the Bills to mathematically clinch a first-round bye is to win all the rest of their games. If the Chiefs happen to lose one of their final four games (at Houston, vs. Seattle, vs. Denver, at Las Vegas), the Bills’ clinching scenario could change. | 2022-12-14T17:55:49+00:00 | mytwintiers.com | https://www.mytwintiers.com/shared-sports/bills-roundup/bills-playoff-clinching-scenarios-week-15/ |
TO’HAJIILEE, N.M. (AP) — A school tucked into the sandstone cliffs and juniper-dotted mesas of central New Mexico is fortified on one side by a wall of sandbags and an earthen berm. On the other side, melting snow puddles along the edges of classrooms.
Inside, caulking, paint and metal plates hide the cracks that have formed over decades in the block walls. With each rainstorm, the nearly century-old To’Hajiilee Community School on the fringes of the Navajo Nation sinks further into the ground.
The layers of bandages won’t have to hold much longer. Residents of the small community off Interstate 40 recently learned that after years of raising flags about the school that lies in a floodplain, the latest federal budget included $90 million for a new campus.
“It’s just unbelievable that we would ever have anything that great happen,” said Paulene Abeyta, a mother and vice president of the school board.
To’Hajiilee Community School is just one of about 80 schools funded by the U.S. Bureau of Indian Education that are in desperate need of repair or replacement. The agency’s priorities stretch across the country with schools in Maine, Wisconsin, North Dakota, New Mexico, Arizona and Washington.
The price tag tops $6.2 billion, and the wait is long.
To’Hajiilee would not have been moved up the priority list last year if not for a community campaign driven by stories of flooded classrooms and playgrounds, relentless calls to Washington, D.C., and invitations for decision-makers to see it in person. Otherwise, another decade would have passed and another generation of students would have walked the same halls.
“When you see the kids here today and the talent and just the excitement, you think about how limitless the opportunities are for kids if they can just focus on becoming the people that they were meant to be and not have to deal with crumbling classrooms,” said U.S. Rep. Melanie Stansbury of New Mexico.
Stansbury joined school officials, students and parents earlier this month to celebrate the funding. While it puts only a small dent in the bureau’s backlog, she said it will mark a new era for the Navajo community.
Officials hope to break ground in about a year. Already, Abeyta charged the students with dreaming big.
That means softball fields free of prickly weeds, and ant piles, water bottle filling stations, a gym with long bleachers and a big scoreboard, toilets that flush, motion-sensing sinks, well-equipped classrooms for art and woodworking, a music room filled with instruments and a culinary program with big ovens.
School administrator Willinda Castillo said community input will be vital to ensuring success.
“The school is, I think, the heart of this community,” she said.
Generations of To’Hajiilee students have learned Navajo history and language in the school. Plaques outside classroom doors display the grade and subjects taught in Navajo, or Diné. Murals adorn hallways and posters remind students and teachers to integrate Diné as often as possible.
Many of the students at the recent celebration wore traditional clothing while members of the senior class danced and performed a blessing way song.
Students erupted with cheers and stomped their feet on the wooden bleachers when school board members talked about the possibilities ahead.
Abeyta and others shared stories of teachers fleeing to their vehicles to avoid being stranded as floodwaters washed over the school grounds. Other times, classes were canceled as moats formed around portable buildings and parking lots were submerged. Flooding even washed out the bridge leading to the school.
Castillo checks the forecast daily and adjusts evacuation plans if needed.
With the backlog of deferred maintenance across the bureau’s system ballooning, To’Hajiilee knew pleading from afar wouldn’t be enough — they invited former U.S. Rep. Deb Haaland who now heads the Interior Department, members of Congress and top officials from the Bureau of Indian Education to see the school for themselves.
“You know, there’s a lot of times when our voices are not heard, and in order for our voices to be heard we just had to take it upon ourselves,” Castillo said. “I think that’s what made the difference.”
Stansbury and her staff followed a visit last year with countless emails, regular phone calls and conversations with as many congressional leaders as possible. They had a singular plea as Congress finalized the budget in December — funding for To’Hajiilee. Videos of raging flood waters, damaged foundations and cracked walls helped make the case that students and staff weren’t safe.
The To’Hajiilee campus dates to the 1930s, when the first rock-walled classrooms were erected as part of the federal Works Progress Administration. Those buildings are long gone, having been replaced in the 1950s with buildings that were then overhauled in the 1980s.
Larry Holman, To’Hajiilee’s administrative services specialist, picked up a section of broken bathroom piping that was sitting on a shelf in his office. It was thick with corrosion and had a crack running down one side — more evidence of the condition of plumbing throughout the school.
The water gets tested every other week, but it’s not potable. The school doles out water bottles daily, creating another expense.
Along with the new school, the community will be tying into the water supply for Albuquerque, which is New Mexico’s largest city about 30 miles (48 kilometers) to the east.
“It’s not only about building a new place for this community for kids to go to school, but it will be the place where future generations grow up and become who they are. And, you know, a school can literally transform lives,” Stansbury said.
The congresswoman, who worked in the Office of Management and Budget during the Obama administration, rallied lawmakers last year to increase the bureau budget for school construction and repairs. Still, the 2023 budget is a fraction of what advocates say is needed to address deficiencies in a school system that serves more than 45,000 Native students in nearly two dozen states.
The To’Hajiilee Community School has roots as a federal boarding school. The community itself was settled during the Long Walk when thousands of Navajos endured cold, disease and starvation as the U.S. attempted to relocate them to eastern New Mexico. Some residents say the initial inhabitants of this stretch of high desert were a renegade band of sorts that refused to go farther. They called the spot To’Hajiilee, which translates roughly to “drawing water from a well.”
While the $90 million cost for a new school was unfathomable to second-graders in Adrianne Keene’s class who were learning about money, it’s not out of line with construction costs for modern education facilities.
Keene handed out bags of play coins for the class to count. When asked if they wanted to count to $90 million, the students gasped but didn’t hesitate to share their ideas about what they wanted at their new school.
“Will we get a new playground?” one girl asked.
“A rollercoaster!” a boy said. | 2023-02-25T06:56:36+00:00 | myfox8.com | https://myfox8.com/news/national/ap-us-news/ap-navajo-community-wins-fight-to-replace-crumbling-campus/ |
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A county commissioner in far southeast Oklahoma who was identified by a local newspaper as one of several officials caught on tape discussing killing reporters and lynching Black people has resigned from office, Gov. Kevin Stitt’s office confirmed Wednesday.
Stitt spokesperson Carly Atchison said the office received a handwritten resignation letter from McCurtain County Commissioner Mark Jennings. In it, Jennings says he is resigning immediately and that he plans to release a formal statement “in the near future regarding the recent events in our county.”
The threatening comments by Jennings and officials with the McCurtain County Sheriff’s Office were obtained following a March 6 meeting and reported by the McCurtain Gazette-News earlier this week in its weekend edition. They have sparked outrage and protests in the city of Idabel, the county seat.
In a post on the sheriff’s office Facebook page on Tuesday, officials did not address the recorded discussion but claimed the recording was illegally obtained.
Also on Wednesday, the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation confirmed it has launched an investigation into the matter at the request of the governor.
The recorded conversation included Sheriff Kevin Clardy, sheriff’s Capt. Alicia Manning, Jennings and Jail Administrator Larry Hendrix. During that conversation, Clardy, Manning and Jennings appear to discuss Bruce Willingham — the longtime publisher of the Gazette-News — and his son Chris Willingham, a reporter.
Jennings tells Clardy and Manning “I know where two deep holes are dug if you ever need them,” and the sheriff responds, “I’ve got an excavator.”
Jennings also says he’s known “two or three hit men” in Louisiana, adding “they’re very quiet guys.”
In the recording, Jennings also appears to complain about not being able to hang Black people, saying: “They got more rights than we got.”
The Associated Press is working to verify the authenticity of the recording. None of the four officials returned telephone calls or emails from The Associated Press seeking comment.
Bruce Willingham told the AP the recording was made when he left a voice-activated recorder inside the room after a county commissioner’s meeting because he suspected the group was continuing to conduct county business after the meeting had ended, in violation of the state’s Open Meeting Act.
Willingham said he twice spoke with his attorneys to be sure he was doing nothing illegal.
Joey Senat, a journalism professor at Oklahoma State University, said under Oklahoma law, the recording would be legal if it were obtained in a place where the officials being recorded did not have a reasonable expectation of privacy.
Bruce Willingham said he believes the local officials were upset about “stories we’ve run that cast the sheriff’s office in an unfavorable light,” including the death of Bobby Barrick — a Broken Bow, Oklahoma, man who died at a hospital in March 2022 after McCurtain County deputies shot him with a stun gun. The newspaper has filed a lawsuit against the sheriff’s office seeking body camera footage and other records connected to Barrick’s death.
Separately, Chris Willingham has filed a federal lawsuit against the sheriff’s office, Clardy, Manning and the Board of County Commissioners alleging Manning slandered him after he wrote an eight-part series of articles detailing problems inside the sheriff’s office. The lawsuit claims after the first few articles were published, Clardy and Manning began investigating which office employees were speaking to the newspaper and were attempting to get a search warrant for Willingham’s phone.
The lawsuit, which was filed on the same day the recording was made, alleges that after the series was published, Manning told a third party during a teleconference that Chris Willingham exchanged marijuana for sexually explicit images of children from a man who had been arrested on child sex abuse image charges.
“Manning made these (and other) false statements about Willingham in retaliation for articles he wrote about the (sheriff’s office) as a reporter for the McCurtain Gazette and to destroy his credibility as a reporter and journalist,” the lawsuit states.
More than 100 people gathered outside the McCurtain County Courthouse in Idabel earlier this week, with many of them calling for the sheriff and other county officials to resign.
On Tuesday, the Oklahoma Sheriff’s Association, a voluntary membership organization and not a regulatory agency, held an emergency meeting of its board. It voted unanimously to suspend Clardy, Manning and Hendrix from the association. | 2023-04-19T23:05:50+00:00 | wate.com | https://www.wate.com/news/national/ap-us-news/oklahoma-official-who-discussed-killing-reporters-resigns/ |
MIAMI, Oct. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In continued assessment of the impact from Hurricane Ian, BurgerFi International Inc. (Nasdaq: BFI, BFIIW) ("BurgerFi" or the "Company") is working with its team members, guests, and regional partners in the coming days to help support with recovery efforts in the community.
"Our thoughts are with those impacted by Hurricane lan, and we are grateful for the first responders who are doing heroic work to help those in need," said Ophir Sternberg, Executive Chairman at BurgerFi International, Inc.
"We are thankful for our team members, and their safety and wellbeing are our top priority," said Patrick Renna, President of BurgerFi.
Currently, 174 of the 178 BurgerFi and Anthony's Coal Fired Pizza & Wings locations are fully operational and serving our local communities. None of our locations sustained significant damage, and we expect the two franchised and two corporate-owned BurgerFi locations that are temporarily out of power to open shortly after it is restored.
To learn more about BurgerFi International, Inc. or to find a full list of locations, please visit www.burgerfi.com and www.acfp.com.
Established in 2011, BurgerFi is a leading multi-brand restaurant company that develops, markets, and acquires fast-casual and premium-casual dining restaurant concepts around the world, including corporate-owned stores and franchises. BurgerFi is among the nation's fastest-growing better burger concepts with 122 BurgerFi restaurants (97 franchised and 25 corporate-owned). As of June 30, 2022, BurgerFi is the owner and franchisor of the two following brands with a combined 183 locations.
BurgerFi.BurgerFi is chef-founded and committed to serving fresh, all-natural and quality food at all locations, online and via first-party and third-party deliveries. BurgerFi uses 100% American Angus Beef with no steroids, antibiotics, growth hormones, chemicals or additives. BurgerFi's menu also includes high quality wagyu beef, antibiotic and cage-free chicken offerings, fresh, hand-cut sides, and custard shakes and concretes. BurgerFi was named "Best Fast Casual Restaurant" in USA Today's 10Best 2022 Readers Choice Awards for the second consecutive year, QSR Magazine's Breakout Brand of 2020, Fast Casual's 2021 #1 Brand of the Year and included in Inc. Magazine's Fastest Growing Private Companies List. In 2021, Consumer Report's Chain Reaction Report praised BurgerFi for serving "no antibiotic beef" across all its restaurants, and Consumer Reports awarded BurgerFi an "A-Grade Angus Beef" rating for the third consecutive year. To learn more about BurgerFi or to find a full list of locations, please visit www.burgerfi.com. Download the BurgerFi App on iOS or Android devices for rewards and 'Like' or follow @BurgerFi on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. BurgerFi® is a Registered Trademark of BurgerFi IP, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of BurgerFi.
Anthony's.Anthony's was acquired by BurgerFi on November 3, 2021 and is a premium pizza and wing brand that operates 61 corporate-owned casual restaurant locations, as of June 30, 2022. Known for serving fresh, never frozen and quality ingredients, Anthony's is centered around a 900-degree coal fired oven with menu offerings including "well-done" pizza, coal fired chicken wings, homemade meatballs, and a variety of handcrafted sandwiches and salads. Anthony's was named "The Best Pizza Chain in America" by USA Today's Great American Bites and "Top 3 Best Major Pizza Chain" by Mashed in 2021. To learn more about Anthony's, please visit www.acfp.com.
Contact: burgerfi@rbbcommunications.com
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WASHINGTON, March 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Consumer Healthcare Products Association's (CHPA) Educational Foundation today announced the launch of HealthInHand.org, its rebranded online destination and go-to resource for information on self-care products. Formerly called KnowYourOTCs.org, the newly rebuilt and renamed website provides additional content beyond just over-the-counter (OTC) medicines, covering both dietary supplements and consumer medical devices for a more wholistic focus on consumer healthcare.
The self-care landscape is ever-changing and continually presenting people with an increasing number of options and choices – which can sometimes feel overwhelming. Health In Hand aims to ease confusion through improved tools and curated resources that will help visitors take charge of their self-care decisions quickly and confidently.
Health In Hand visitors will benefit from a modern, user-friendly design, which includes robust search functionality, intuitive navigation, and an extensive library of self-care resources written by healthcare professionals and industry experts. The site also features a simplified symptom relief section, a catalogue of common self-care products, and an active ingredient glossary.
"This redesign is more than just a fresh coat of paint," said Anita Brikman, Executive Director of CHPA's Educational Foundation. "Health In Hand is the result of many months of hard work, thoughtful design, targeted testing, and innovative development. We're decoding dosing, explaining ingredients, simplifying safety, and helping visitors choose the types of products they need to make the most of their health. Health In Hand is tested, trusted, and clear – a genuine reflection of our Foundation's mission to continually help people understand how to safely choose and use self-care products."
The site's two brand new sections include "My Self-Care", which tailors content to different life stages and age-specific categories, and "Healthy Living", which focuses on health maintenance routines and daily self-care needs, including vitamins and supplements, staying safe in the sun, or maintaining healthy sleep habits. Specific to dietary supplements, Health In Hand provides curated content to deliver the facts people need to safely choose and use these products. The site also breaks down this information for certain groups of people who may need higher levels of specific nutrients based on their diet or stage of life.
"No decisions are more personal than those we make about our health," said Mary Leonard, Vice President of CHPA's Educational Foundation. "As more people embrace the evolving self-care landscape, the ways in which they are seeking health information is also changing. To ensure our Foundation's resources remain a trusted source for consumers, we must consistently meet them wherever they are, and that's exactly what Health In Hand is designed to do. We're simplifying self-care. Our newly updated mobile-friendly website means people will always have expert advice and dynamic content right at their fingertips, so they feel empowered to take self-care decisions into their own hands whether in the pharmacy aisle, on-the-go, or at their child's bedside."
"Given the proliferation of products in the self-care industry, including dietary supplements, people have more choices to support their health and wellness than ever before," said Kyle Stenzel, CHPA Educational Foundation Chair and Senior Vice President of Sales & Global Supply Chain for Combe, Inc. "Health In Hand cuts through the confusion and inspires confidence for people to make safe and effective self-care decisions, which is at the heart of the Foundation's mission."
The Consumer Healthcare Products Association (CHPA) Educational Foundation is a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization that empowers consumers to make smart self-care decisions by providing information and guidance on how to safely use, store, and dispose of OTC medicines and dietary supplements. Its mission is to serve as the trusted source of information on the responsible use of consumer healthcare products. Visit chpa.org/Foundation or HealthInHand.org for more information.
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TX Shreveport LA Zone Forecast for Monday, June 6, 2022
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National Weather Service Shreveport LA
336 AM CDT Tue Jun 7 2022
TXZ096-080000-
Red River-
Including the cities of Clarksville and Bogata
336 AM CDT Tue Jun 7 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Hot with highs around 90. South winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to
20 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then partly cloudy in the
afternoon. Hot with highs around 90. South winds 5 to 10 mph with
gusts up to 20 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot with highs in the lower 90s. East
winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming south in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Hot. Lows
in the lower 70s. Highs in the lower 90s.
.SUNDAY THROUGH MONDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Highs in the mid 90s.
Lows in the mid 70s.
$$
TXZ108>111-080000-
Franklin-Titus-Camp-Morris-
Including the cities of Mount Vernon, Mount Pleasant, Pittsburg,
Daingerfield, Lone Star, Naples, and Omaha
336 AM CDT Tue Jun 7 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy this morning, then becoming partly cloudy.
A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Hot with highs in
the lower 90s. South winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming south with gusts up to 20 mph after
midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
cloudy. Hot with highs in the lower 90s. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. East
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot with highs in the lower 90s.
Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming south in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot. Lows in
the mid 70s. Highs in the mid 90s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Lows in the
lower 70s. Highs in the upper 90s.
$$
TXZ112-080000-
Cass-
Including the cities of Atlanta, Linden, Hughes Springs,
and Queen City
336 AM CDT Tue Jun 7 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy this morning, then becoming partly cloudy.
A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Hot with highs in
the lower 90s. South winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
cloudy. Hot with highs in the lower 90s. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. East
winds around 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot with highs in the lower 90s. East
winds around 5 mph, becoming south around 5 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot. Lows in the mid
70s. Highs in the mid 90s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
cloudy. Hot with highs in the lower 90s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Lows in the
lower 70s. Highs in the upper 90s.
$$
TXZ124-080000-
Wood-
Including the cities of Mineola, Winnsboro, Quitman, and Hawkins
336 AM CDT Tue Jun 7 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy this morning, then becoming partly cloudy.
Hot with highs in the mid 90s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
cloudy. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. South winds 5 to 10 mph
with gusts up to 20 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast
winds around 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. South
winds around 5 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot. Lows in
the mid 70s. Highs in the mid 90s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Lows in the
mid 70s. Highs in the upper 90s. Heat index values up to 105.
$$
TXZ125-080000-
Upshur-
Including the cities of Gilmer and Big Sandy
336 AM CDT Tue Jun 7 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy this morning, then becoming partly cloudy.
Hot with highs in the lower 90s. South winds 5 to 10 mph with
gusts up to 20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
cloudy. Hot with highs in the lower 90s. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast
winds around 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. South
winds around 5 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot. Lows in
the mid 70s. Highs in the mid 90s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Lows in the
lower 70s. Highs in the upper 90s.
$$
TXZ136-080000-
Smith-
Including the city of Tyler
336 AM CDT Tue Jun 7 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy this morning, then becoming partly cloudy.
Hot with highs in the mid 90s. South winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts
up to 20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
cloudy. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. South winds 5 to 10 mph
with gusts up to 20 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot with highs in the mid 90s.
Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Hot. Highs in the
upper 90s. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY THROUGH MONDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Highs in the upper
90s. Lows in the mid 70s. Heat index values up to 105.
$$
TXZ137-080000-
Gregg-
Including the city of Longview
336 AM CDT Tue Jun 7 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy this morning, then becoming partly cloudy.
Hot with highs in the mid 90s. South winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts
up to 20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
cloudy. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast
winds around 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot with highs in the mid 90s.
Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot. Lows in
the mid 70s. Highs in the upper 90s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Lows in the
mid 70s. Highs in the upper 90s. Heat index values up to 105.
$$
TXZ126-138-080000-
Marion-Harrison-
Including the cities of Jefferson and Marshall
336 AM CDT Tue Jun 7 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy this morning, then becoming partly cloudy.
Hot with highs in the mid 90s. South winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts
up to 20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds around
5 mph. Gusts up to 20 mph after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
cloudy. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast
winds around 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot with highs in the mid 90s.
Southwest winds around 5 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot. Lows in
the mid 70s. Highs in the mid 90s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Lows in the
lower 70s. Highs in the upper 90s. Heat index values up to 105.
$$
TXZ151-080000-
Panola-
Including the city of Carthage
336 AM CDT Tue Jun 7 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy this morning, then becoming partly cloudy.
Hot with highs in the mid 90s. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
cloudy. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot with highs in the mid 90s.
Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Hot. Lows
in the mid 70s. Highs in the upper 90s.
.SUNDAY THROUGH MONDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Highs in the upper
90s. Lows in the mid 70s. Heat index values up to 105.
$$
TXZ150-080000-
Rusk-
Including the city of Henderson
336 AM CDT Tue Jun 7 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy this morning, then becoming partly cloudy.
Hot with highs in the mid 90s. South winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts
up to 20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
cloudy. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot with highs in the mid 90s.
Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Hot. Highs in the
upper 90s. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY THROUGH MONDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Highs in the upper
90s. Lows in the mid 70s. Heat index values up to 105.
$$
TXZ149-080000-
Cherokee-
Including the cities of Jacksonville and Rusk
336 AM CDT Tue Jun 7 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy this morning, then becoming partly cloudy.
Hot with highs in the mid 90s. South winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts
up to 20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
cloudy. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the mid 90s.
Southwest winds around 5 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Hot. Highs in the
upper 90s. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY THROUGH MONDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Highs in the upper
90s. Lows in the mid 70s. Heat index values up to 105.
$$
TXZ153-080000-
Shelby-
Including the city of Center
336 AM CDT Tue Jun 7 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy this morning, then becoming partly cloudy.
Hot with highs in the mid 90s. South winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts
up to 20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. South
winds around 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot with highs in the mid 90s.
Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot. Lows in the
mid 70s. Highs in the mid 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Lows in the mid
70s. Highs in the upper 90s. Heat index values up to 105.
$$
TXZ152-080000-
Nacogdoches-
Including the city of Nacogdoches
336 AM CDT Tue Jun 7 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy this morning, then becoming partly cloudy.
Hot with highs in the mid 90s. South winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts
up to 20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
cloudy. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. South
winds around 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot with highs in the mid 90s.
Southwest winds around 5 mph. Heat index values up to 104.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot. Highs in the mid
90s. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Lows in the mid
70s. Highs in the upper 90s. Heat index values up to 105.
$$
TXZ165-080000-
Angelina-
Including the city of Lufkin
336 AM CDT Tue Jun 7 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy this morning, then becoming partly cloudy.
Hot with highs in the mid 90s. South winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts
up to 20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds
around 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
Southwest winds around 5 mph. Heat index values up to 104.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Hot. Highs in the
upper 90s. Lows in the mid 70s. Heat index values up to 105.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny. Hot with highs in the upper 90s. Heat
index values up to 105.
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TXZ166-167-080000-
San Augustine-Sabine-
Including the cities of San Augustine, Hemphill, and Pineland
336 AM CDT Tue Jun 7 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. South
winds around 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. South
winds around 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot with highs in the upper 90s.
Southwest winds around 5 mph. Heat index values up to 105 in the
afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Hot. Highs in the upper
90s. Lows in the mid 70s.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. Chance of rain
30 percent. Heat index values up to 105.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot. Lows in the
lower 70s. Highs in the mid 90s. Heat index values up to 105.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Lows in the lower
70s. Highs in the upper 90s. Heat index values up to 105.
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Sabine-Natchitoches-
Including the cities of Many, Zwolle, Pleasant Hill,
and Natchitoches
336 AM CDT Tue Jun 7 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot with highs in the mid 90s.
Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. South
winds around 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot with highs in the mid 90s.
Southwest winds around 5 mph. Heat index values up to 105.
.THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Hot. Lows
in the mid 70s. Highs in the mid 90s.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms
in the afternoon. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot. Lows in the
lower 70s. Highs in the mid 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Lows in the mid
70s. Highs in the upper 90s. Heat index values up to 105.
$$
LAZ010-011-080000-
De Soto-Red River-
Including the cities of Mansfield, Stonewall, Logansport,
Coushatta, and Martin
336 AM CDT Tue Jun 7 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy this morning, then becoming partly cloudy.
Hot with highs in the mid 90s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
cloudy. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. South
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot with highs in the mid 90s.
Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Heat index values up to 104.
.THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot. Lows in the
mid 70s. Highs in the mid 90s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Lows in the mid
70s. Highs in the upper 90s. Heat index values up to 105.
$$
LAZ001-002-080000-
Caddo-Bossier-
Including the cities of Shreveport and Bossier City
336 AM CDT Tue Jun 7 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy this morning, then becoming partly cloudy.
Hot with highs in the mid 90s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
cloudy. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast
winds around 5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot with highs in the mid 90s. West
winds around 5 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Hot. Lows in the mid
70s. Highs in the upper 90s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the mid 70s. Chance of rain
30 percent.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Hot. Highs in the
mid 90s. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SUNDAY THROUGH MONDAY...Mostly clear. Hot. Highs in the upper
90s. Lows in the mid 70s. Heat index values up to 105.
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The 2023 KPMG Women’s PGA Championship Odds & Preview: Rose Zhang
The KPMG Women’s PGA Championship is underway, and Rose Zhang is currently in 12th place with a score of -1.
Looking to place a wager on Rose Zhang at the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship this week? Read on for the statistics you need to know before you make your picks.
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Rose Zhang Insights
- Over her last 17 rounds, Zhang has shot below par on eight occasions, while also shooting two bogey-free rounds and 12 rounds with a better-than-average score.
- She has posted a top-five score in one of her last 17 rounds, while ranking among the top 10 scores of the day twice.
- Over her last 17 rounds, Zhang has finished within three strokes of the best score of the round once, and within five strokes of the top score of the day on seven occasions.
- Zhang has won one of her past five tournaments.
- Zhang has finished within three shots of the leader in one of her past five events. In that span, she finished within five shots of the winner two times and with a better-than-average score three times.
- Zhang has made the cut four times in a row, and hopes to continue that run this week.
Over the last year
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KPMG Women’s PGA Championship Insights and Stats
- Zhang finished 12th on the leaderboard in her previous appearance at this event, in 2023.
- Baltusrol GC measures 6,621 yards for this tournament, 394 below the average course on the Tour in the past year (7,015).
- The average course Zhang has played in the past year has been 6,621 yards, the exact distance Baltusrol GC will measure at for this event.
Zhang's Last Time Out
- Zhang was in the 64th percentile on par 3s at the Mizuho Americas Open , with an average of par on the 16 par-3 holes.
- She finished in the 85th percentile on par 4s at the Mizuho Americas Open , averaging 3.95 strokes on those 41 holes.
- On the 16 par-5 holes at the Mizuho Americas Open , Zhang was better than 95% of the competitors (averaging 4.56 strokes).
- Zhang carded a birdie or better on three of 16 par-3s at the Mizuho Americas Open , better than the field average of 1.4.
- On the 16 par-3s at the Mizuho Americas Open , Zhang had three bogeys or worse (more than the field average of 2.3).
- Zhang carded more birdies or better (six) than the field average of 4.8 on the 41 par-4s at the Mizuho Americas Open .
- At that most recent outing, Zhang's performance on the 41 par-4s included a bogey or worse four times (the field's average was worse, at 6.9).
- Zhang finished the Mizuho Americas Open registering a birdie or better on six par-5 holes, while the field averaged 3.4 on the 16 par-5s.
- The field at the Mizuho Americas Open averaged 1.9 bogeys or worse on the 16 par-5s, but Zhang finished without one.
KPMG Women’s PGA Championship Time and Date Info
- Date: June 22-25, 2023
- Course: Baltusrol GC
- Location: Springfield, New Jersey
- Par: 71 / 6,621 yards
- Zhang Odds to Win: +1600 (Bet now with BetMGM!)
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Attorneys for former President Trump, his aide Walt Nauta <
> and the federal government were in court in Florida on Tuesday for the first pretrial hearing in the classified documents case.
As NPR's Miami correspondent, Greg Allen reports on the diverse issues and developments tied to the Southeast. He covers everything from breaking news to economic and political stories to arts and environmental stories. He moved into this role in 2006, after four years as NPR's Midwest correspondent. | 2023-07-19T09:47:35+00:00 | wbfo.org | https://www.wbfo.org/2023-07-19/attorneys-for-trump-attend-first-pretrial-hearing-in-classified-documents-case |
BERLIN (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI leaves his homeland with a complicated legacy: pride in a German pontiff but a church deeply divided over the need for reforms in the wake of a sexual abuse scandal in which his own actions of decades ago were faulted.
Benedict has long drawn mixed reviews in Germany, a country where Christians are roughly evenly split between Catholics and Protestants and where many struggled with his conservative stance.
The day after the then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was elected as the first German pope for centuries in 2005, best-selling newspaper Bild’s front page screamed “We are the Pope!” The left-leaning Tageszeitung countered with the headline “Oh, my God!”
Chancellor Olaf Scholz said that “as the ‘German’ pope, Benedict XVI was a special church leader for many, not just in this country.” He paid tribute to the late pontiff as “a formative figure of the Catholic Church, a combative personality and a wise theologian.”
“As the church in Germany, we think with gratitude of Pope Benedict XVI: He was born in our country, his homeland was here, and he helped shape church life here as a theological teacher and bishop,” said the head of the German Bishops’ Conference, Limburg Bishop Georg Baetzing.
Still, a decade after his resignation, deep divisions are apparent in the German church between traditionalists in Benedict’s mold and relative liberals.
“The German pope filled many with pride, but above all with hope,” said Irme Stetter-Karp, the head of an influential lay organization, the Central Committee of German Catholics, or ZdK. “For some, this hope was richly fulfilled. For others, there remained an unfulfilled longing to find a way … for their Christianity to succeed in the 21st century.”
Since 2019, German Catholic bishops and representatives from the ZdK have been engaged in a potentially trailblazing reform process — the “Synodal Path” — that is addressing calls to allow blessings for same-sex couples, married priests and the ordination of women as deacons.
German church leaders insist that the process won’t lead to a schism and vow to see it through, even as they face pressure from suspicious Vatican officials.
Illustrating both the pressure for reform and the divisions it faces, a Synodal Path assembly in September failed to approve a text calling for a liberalization of sexual teaching because, while it won 82% backing overall, it failed to get the required support of two-thirds of German bishops.
The retired pope himself stayed out of the fray though his longtime secretary, Archbishop Georg Gaenswein, has signaled his own strong skepticism about the Synodal Path.
The process was launched in response to the abuse scandal that has rocked the church in Germany and elsewhere in recent years, something that has contributed to large numbers of Germans formally leaving the church.
In 2018, a church-commissioned report concluded that at least 3,677 people were abused by clergy in Germany between 1946 and 2014. More than half of the victims were 13 or younger, and nearly a third served as altar boys.
Various dioceses tasked law firms or others to put together reports on their own past. That has led to massive and unresolved tensions in the Cologne diocese, where the archbishop, Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki, drew widespread criticism for his handling of a report he commissioned. His offer of resignation has been pending with Pope Francis for months.
An independent report in the Munich and Freising archdiocese, where Benedict served as archbishop from 1977 to 1982, turned the spotlight on the retired pope himself last January. Its examination of decades of abuse cases faulted their handling by a string of church officials past and present, including the then-Cardinal Ratzinger in four cases.
Benedict asked forgiveness for any “grievous faults” in his handling of clergy sex abuse cases, but denied any personal or specific wrongdoing. Reform advocates and victim support groups criticized what they saw as a tone-deaf response.
The bishops’ conference head, Baetzing, said Saturday that “he asked for forgiveness from those who were affected; still, questions remained open.” But he stressed Benedict’s role in turning around the church’s approach to clergy sexual abuse as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and later as pope.
The pro-reform group We are Church said that Benedict’s response to the abuse report did serious damage to his reputation and was generally critical of him as an “implacable reactionary.”
As pontiff, Benedict — who left his homeland for the Vatican in 1982 — made three visits to Germany, including a trip to his native Bavaria in 2006 and a 2011 trip in which he became the first pope to address the German parliament.
His only known trip outside Italy since his retirement also took him to Germany. He returned to Bavaria for a few days in June 2020 to see his elder brother, the Rev. Georg Ratzinger, shortly before the latter’s death.
The governor of Bavaria, Markus Soeder, said that “he always carried his homeland in his heart” and that many there “will remember him gratefully not just as Pope Benedict XVI, but also as a humble pastor.”
“He gave many people strength and orientation,” Soeder said. “But at the same time, he also had to face responsibility for difficult phases in his work.”
In his “spiritual will,” released by the Vatican Saturday, Benedict wrote: “I pray for our country to remain a country of faith and urge you, dear compatriots: do not let yourselves be deterred from the faith.”
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7th child in US tests positive for monkeypox
Posted/updated on: August 15, 2022 at 7:27 pm(NEW YORK) -- A child in Martin County, Florida, has tested positive for monkeypox, state health data shows.
Across the U.S., at least seven children have now tested positive for monkeypox. The child in Florida is between the ages of 0 and 4 years old, according to the state health data.
The additional pediatric case comes after health officials in Maine announced Friday that they, too, had confirmed a positive monkeypox case in a child.
In Maine, no further information about the case has been released due to concerns over patient privacy, officials said.
"Maine CDC [Center for Disease Control and Prevention] is working to identify any others who may have been exposed and make vaccination available to close contacts," officials wrote in a press release.
In addition to the cases in children reported in Maine and Florida, two cases have been confirmed in California, as well another two in Indiana, and a case in a non-U.S. resident reported in Washington, D.C.
The majority of cases in the current monkeypox outbreak have been detected in gay, bisexual or other men who have sex with men. However, health officials have repeatedly stressed that anyone can contract the virus.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has previously warned that there has been some preliminary evidence to suggest that children younger than 8 years old are at risk of developing more severe illness if infected, alongside pregnant people and those who are immunocompromised.
However, last week, in an effort to protect the youngest Americans, the Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency use authorization that allows health care for children under 18 who are at high risk of monkeypox to be vaccinated.
MORE: 6th child tests positive for monkeypox in US: What parents should know
Across the globe, nearly 32,000 cases of monkeypox have now been reported, including more than 11,000 cases in the U.S. -- the most of any country, according to the CDC. All but one U.S. state -- Wyoming -- have now confirmed at least one positive monkeypox case.
Monkeypox primarily spreads through prolonged skin-to-skin contact with infected people's lesions or bodily fluids, according to the CDC. In addition to lesions, which can appear like pimples or blisters, the most common symptoms associated with monkeypox are swollen lymph nodes, fever, headache, fatigue and muscle aches.
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RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — A driver crashed in Raleigh after a 150 mile per hour chase on Interstate 40 out of Durham County late Monday night, officials said.
The incident began around 11 p.m. on eastbound Interstate 40 near mile marker 283, which is at the Interstate 540 interchange in Durham County, according to the North Carolina State Highway Patrol.
The driver of a silver 2014 Lexus was first clocked going 103 mph, officials said.
The chase continued into Wake County and then into Raleigh during which speeds topped 150 mph, troopers said.
In south Raleigh, the chase ended around 11:10 p.m. with a crash just past mile marker 289, which is Hammond Road, officials said.
The driver lost control of the Lexus, overcorrected, struck a concrete barrier and came to rest in the middle of the road.
Latrell Johnathan Goring, 20, was then taken to WakeMed by EMS crews, according to troopers. He was not wearing a seatbelt and suffered non-life-threatening injuries, officials said.
He was charged with felony flee to elude. Goring was held on a $5,000 secured bond. | 2022-10-19T14:19:44+00:00 | myfox8.com | https://myfox8.com/news/north-carolina/driver-crashes-after-i-40-chase-topping-150-mph-north-carolina-troopers-say/ |
The Latest Indoor Adventure Park will Bring the Action to Short Pump, VA on June 15
SHORT PUMP, Va., May 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- DEFY Extreme Air Sports, the leading developer of indoor adventure and recreation parks and a subsidiary of CircusTrix, today announced it is opening its newest location at 205 Towne Center W Blvd Richmond, VA 23233 in Short Pump, Virginia on Wednesday, June 15. Boasting a variety of extreme adventure attractions for children and adults, DEFY Short Pump encourages active play through its collection of massive trampolines and a variety of other activities. The new location is replacing Boomerang Air Sports, and true to its virtues, DEFY is making extensive improvements to modernize and bring the fun back to the Short Pump community. This is the fourth DEFY location in Virginia, just in time for summer break.
The state-of-the-art DEFY in Short Pump brings fun for the whole family, and now offers an exciting membership program called, "Flight Club." This program offers unlimited jump time every day and access to member-only events and perks. DEFY Short Pump also offers engaging programs and epic birthday parties for kids to create memories and make parents' lives easier.
"This latest park in Short Pump is coming just in time for summer adventures," said Bradford Smith, VP of Franchise Development at DEFY. "Between our fun and active summer programs, to our membership opportunities, our suite of awesome attractions—and powerful air conditioning—we're confident this new DEFY is going to meet and exceed your family's needs. We can't wait to serve the community and look forward to seeing you there!"
DEFY Short Pump is open Sunday through Thursday from 9 am – 9 pm, and Friday and Saturday from 9 am – 11 pm. The location is adjacent to the Short Pump Town Center and can be reached online at www.defy.com or by email at info@defy.com.
DEFY is the Nation's #1 destination for family fun, featuring a variety of attractions perfect for all ages that encourages individualism and freedom. Founded in 2017 and franchising since 2018, DEFY offers an alternative to screen time with the purpose of pushing individual limits in a fun, active environment. For more information on the company and franchising opportunities, please visit www.defy.com.
CircusTrix is the largest developer, operator and franchisor of trampoline parks in the world as a conglomerate made up of DEFY, Rockin' Jump and Sky Zone. CircusTrix serves over 40 million visitors and members annually. CircusTrix is constantly creating new facilities and attractions that provide active physical fun, facilitate shareable social media posts and bring thrill and delight to its worldwide fan base. For more information on the company and franchising opportunities, please visit www.circustrixcom.
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See how simple and tasty celebrations start in the Freezer and Dairy Aisles
HARRISBURG, Pa. , Dec. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The countdown to the holidays is on. While kids are busy writing their wish lists, adults are crafting their holiday menus. And with a little planning and creativity, those meal plans won't turn your holiday spirit into holiday stress.
Experience the full interactive Multichannel News Release here: https://www.multivu.com/players/English/9001153-nfra-holiday-meals-2022
The National Frozen & Refrigerated Foods Association (NFRA) wants to make this year your easiest and most delicious holiday season yet. With tasty recipes, time-saving tips and a host of cool, creative shortcuts from the Freezer and Dairy aisles, your holiday celebrations will be less stressful and more flavorful.
HOLIDAY STRESS-SAVERS
- Be Prepared: Stock your fridge and freezer with snacks, treats and more. From frozen fruit to pizza rolls and cheeses to yogurt, there's a variety of grab-and-go and heat-and-eat items that are perfect to have ready for hungry family and friends any time of the day.
- Keep It Easy: Cut out the prep with pre-cut frozen veggies! The Freezer and Dairy aisles are full of ready-to-use foods to ease your cooking stress. Plus, you'll waste less by using only what you need and putting the rest back in the freezer for the next time.
- Skip From-Scratch: Using frozen appetizers and desserts saves time and the hassle of cooking and baking everything yourself. Add a splash of fresh herbs, a savory sauce, a drizzle of chocolate or more, and they'll look (and taste) just like they're homemade.
- Find Inspo: Visit EasyHomeMeals.com or follow Easy Home Meals on Instagram for more creative, inspiring holiday meal, appetizer and dessert ideas.
FESTIVE SHORTCUTS
- Kick off your celebration with crowd-pleasing frozen appetizers and hors d'oeuvres – just add a festive sauce or dip
- Plain yogurt makes the perfect base to a number of holiday dips
- Frozen veggies and sides like riced cauliflower and broccoli are pre-washed and ready to steam in the bag – it doesn't get easier
- Kids will love using festive cookie cutters on ready-to-bake cookie dough
- Whipped cream on just about any dessert is the perfect way to end a delicious holiday meal
- Picky eaters might prefer frozen finger foods or heat-and-eat dishes like frozen chicken tenders and mac and cheese – look for veggie options for additional nutrients
The Freezer and Dairy aisles have you covered this holiday season. Head to your local grocery store and find all the simple, creative and delicious ways the cool aisles can make your next celebration less hectic and more fun. And don't miss a chance to win a gift for yourself in our Holiday Helpers Gift Card Giveaway – ending December 19th.
Visit EasyHomeMeals.com for more inspiration.
About National Frozen & Refrigerated Foods Association (NFRA)
NFRA is a non-profit trade association representing all segments of the frozen and refrigerated foods industry. NFRA sponsors national promotions March Frozen Food Month, June Dairy Month and June/July Ice Cream & Novelties; and provides consumer information such as food safety guidelines, meal preparation tips, recipes and sweepstakes opportunities through its Easy Home Meals consumer website and social media properties.
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EAU CLAIRE (WQOW) - The Eau Claire County Treasure is sending out a reminder for property owners in the county — the second half of your real estate taxes are due at the end of the month.
The county treasurer says taxes can be paid four different ways. You can pay in person to the county treasurers office, located in the courthouse building on Oxford Avenue.
You can pay by mail, with checks payable to “Eau Claire County Treasurer” and addressed to 721 Oxford Ave. Suite 1250, Eau Claire, WI 54703.
There is also a black drop box just outside the main doors of the courthouse. You can drop payment there in an envelope clearly marked for the treasurer's office.
You can also pay online by clicking here. | 2022-07-27T22:07:31+00:00 | wqow.com | https://www.wqow.com/eye_on_eau_claire/how-to-pay-the-second-half-of-your-eau-claire-county-property-taxes/article_a83b2f94-0de8-11ed-a436-2b5b5ae67d7b.html |
Engineering leaders to share how CodeLogic adopted a Neo4j graph database to improve visualization and analysis of complex codebases
SAN FRANCISCO, June 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CodeLogic,(https://codelogic.com/) the continuous Software Intelligence company, today announced it will lead a full-length session at Neo4j's GraphConnect 2022 titled, "From Relational to Graph: How Going Graph Revealed the Unknown." During the session, CodeLogic principal software development engineers, Jason Schatz and Rob Vrooman will discuss key outcomes of migrating from a relational database to a graph database - including CodeLogic's unique use case for graph data modeling.
Event Details:
GraphConnect 2022
The Fairmont, Austin, Tex.
June 6-8, 2022
Hosted by Neo4j, GraphConnect 2022 is the largest in-person gathering of graph data experts in the world.
Session Description:
From Relational to Graph: How Going Graph Revealed the Unknown
Wednesday, June 8 at 3:15 p.m. CDT
In this session, attendees will learn how CodeLogic utilizes Neo4j and CypherQL to capture and analyze data achieved through application profiling, and how their data model visually mimics the source code itself. Jason Schatz (Principal Software Development Engineer, CodeLogic) and Rob Vrooman (Principal Software Development Engineer, CodeLogic), team up to discuss how moving from a relational database to a Neo4j graph database gave them the ability to visualize and distill complex codebases quickly. Attendees will learn a rare use case for graph and see how the CodeLogic back-end models data into simplified maps that can be easily analyzed to identify cross-application dependencies, navigate code change impact, and ultimately reveal the bigger picture.
About CodeLogic
CodeLogic is the first and only real-time, continuous software intelligence solution. We empower development teams with a full and accurate picture of their application structure, from API to method to database, allowing them to better-inform everyday development decisions and code fearlessly.
For more information visit: www.codelogic.com
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NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Dennis Blair, former director of national intelligence, after a suspected Chinese spy balloon was shot down over the Atlantic Ocean.
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NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Dennis Blair, former director of national intelligence, after a suspected Chinese spy balloon was shot down over the Atlantic Ocean.
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WFO LUBBOCK Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, October 24, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Lubbock TX
404 AM CDT Mon Oct 24 2022
...Spotty light freeze early Tuesday morning...
In the wake of a storm system with widespread rainfall today
and tonight, temperatures will tumble through the 30s overnight
on blustery northwest winds. Toward daybreak on Tuesday, lighter
winds and clear skies will help set the stage for a spotty light
freeze over portions of the far southwest Texas Panhandle and
northwest South Plains.
Residents should cover or move sensitive plants indoors in
preparation for these colder temperatures. A Freeze Watch or
Freeze Warning may be issued in later forecasts if it appears a
widespread freeze is more likely.
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MINOT, N.D. (KXNET) — The North Dakota Cowboy Hall of Fame made their way to the northern part of our state today to host their 28th annual banquet.
This weekend in Minot, nominees in multiple different categories will be voted on by the board of directors as well as trustees. Those selected will then be inducted into the North Dakota Cowboy Hall of Fame.
Before casting their vote, voters will hear the stories of each and every nominee. The president of the North Dakota Cowboy Hall of Fame says these nominees extend far beyond ranching and rodeos.
“One of the most important functions that we get to be a part of, is to recognize these individuals,” said North Dakota Cowboy Hall of Fame President Gerald Stokka. “Whether they’re men, or they’re women, or Native American, it doesn’t matter. Do they fit the category? Do they fit the standards of getting into the North Dakota Cowboy Hall of Fame? That’s what we’re determining right now.”
The North Dakota Cowboy Hall of Fame is based in Medora. For more information on this Hall of Fame, visit their website. | 2023-02-20T00:15:06+00:00 | kxnet.com | https://www.kxnet.com/news/2-19-cowboy-hall-of-fame-to-vote-on-future-inductees/ |
(WSYR-TV) — The 44th Annual Skaneateles Antique and Classic Boat Show will launch on July 29 to 31 at the Clift Park in Skaneateles. The show hours are 3 p.m. to dusk on Friday, 9 a.m. to dusk on Saturday, and 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Sunday.
The show will allow visitors to meet owners and see boats varying from 90 runabouts, launches, sailboats, canoes, rowing crafts, and race boats — many restored from their original condition.
“The show offers non-stop splendor, set against the backdrop of Skaneateles’ fine boutiques, galleries and restaurants,” says Hilary Fenner, Executive Director of the Skaneateles Area Chamber of Commerce. “We can’t wait to welcome you!”
A few highlights of the weekend include:
- A boat parade and fly-by, led by the Skaneateles Fire Department, starting at 3:15 p.m. Saturday.
- Performances by the Skaneateles Community Band starting at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, the Diana Jacobs Band at noon on Saturday, and the Soda Ash Six starting at noon on Sunday.
- A display of model antique boats 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, by the Syracuse Model Boat Club.
- A youth judging contest to “spark kids’ passion for wooden boats,” 10:30 a.m. Saturday, sponsored by Hagerty Classic Marine Insurance.
- Raffle drawings, 1:30 p.m. Sunday.
- And much more!
Throughout the weekend, visitors can cast their vote on the boat to win the People’s Choice Award, sponsored by Doug’s Fish Fry, which will be presented at 1:45 p.m. Sunday. All boats will be judged in 35 different categories on Saturday morning.
For more information, call the Skaneateles Area Chamber of Commerce at 315-685-0552 or click here. | 2022-07-23T19:27:45+00:00 | localsyr.com | https://www.localsyr.com/news/local-news/44th-skaneateles-antique-classic-boat-show-launches-july-29/ |
China’s Covid cases hit record as dissent grows over tough restrictions
By CNN’s Beijing Bureau and Kathleen Magramo
China on Thursday reported a record number of daily Covid infections, as a nationwide surge in cases heaps pressure on the country’s increasingly unpopular zero-tolerance approach to the virus.
The National Health Commission (NHC) recorded 31,444 locally transmitted cases on Wednesday — surpassing the previous peak of 29,317 recorded April 13 during Shanghai’s months-long lockdown.
The surge is being fueled by outbreaks in multiple cities and comes despite a refusal by authorities to end tight infection controls even in the face of an increasing — and unprecedented — backlash against their hardline approach of incessant lockdowns, quarantines and mass testing mandates.
Meanwhile, a trickle of Covid-related fatalities has added further pressure to the mix. Beijing on Wednesday recorded its fourth Covid-related death since last weekend, alongside 1,648 local infections — its third consecutive day of more than 1,000 local cases.
On Thursday, city officials said they were converting a major exhibition center into a makeshift hospital for the quarantine and treatment of Covid patients.
That was just the latest sign of the capital ratcheting up Covid controls. Earlier this week, schools in several districts moved classes online while Chaoyang — epicenter of the city’s outbreak and home to many international businesses and embassies — urged residents to stay at home and shuttered restaurants, gyms and beauty salons.
Growing dissent
China, the world’s last major economy still enforcing strict zero-Covid measures, announced a limited easing of the policy earlier this month in what some observers saw as a sign of the government acknowledging its shortfalls.
It discouraged unnecessary mass testing and overly zealous classification of restricted “high risk” areas, scrapped quarantine requirements for secondary close contacts, and reduced quarantine for close contacts and international arrivals.
Following the announcement, several Chinese cities canceled mass Covid tests, but there remains a dizzying array of restrictions for residents to navigate — especially when outbreaks occur.
Signs that people have had enough are becoming increasingly dramatic and rare protests have broken out in a country where authorities traditionally clamp down on any signs of dissent.
Protests erupted this week at the world’s biggest iPhone assembly factory, in the city of Zhengzhou. Videos on social media showed workers confronting riot police after authorities attempted to lock down the facility following an outbreak. It comes a week after some residents in the southern manufacturing hub of Guangzhou revolted against an extended lockdown by tearing down barriers and marching down streets.
Fueling the anger of citizens trapped in lockdowns are recurring issues like being unable to access prompt medical care or secure enough food and supplies, or losing work and income.
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Two people are dead and five are injured after a shooting at a gathering in Yuma, Arizona.
In a Facebook post, The Yuma Police Department said it responded to reports of shots fired just before 11 p.m. Saturday in the 3800 block of S. J Edward Drive.
Upon arrival, police discovered several victims with gunshot wounds.
A 19-year-old male had been transported to Yuma Regional Medical Center before officers arrived at the scene and was pronounced dead shortly after. Police said a second victim, a 20-year-old male, was transported to the hospital by the Yuma Fire Department and also succumbed to his injuries.
Police said a 16-year-old male who was also transported to Yuma Regional Medical Center was later flown to Pheonix with life-threatening injuries.
The other victims, ages 15, 16, 18, and 19 had non-life-threatening injuries. Seven total victims were treated at Yuma Regional Medical Center. Police said that several off-duty officers assisted in the incident.
Police do not yet have any suspects in custody and an investigation is ongoing.
Police are asking anyone with information to please call the Yuma Police Department at (928) 373-4700 or 78-Crime at (928) 782-7463 to anonymously report any helpful details.
Anyone reporting information leading to an arrest could receive up to a $1,000 cash reward, according to Yuma Police.
This is a breaking news story. Please check back for updates.
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Create the perfect jack-o’-lantern this Halloween with items you already have around the house
Pumpkins always make excellent fall decorations, but you can take your Halloween display to the next level by carving your pumpkins into intricate designs. And you don’t even need to be an artist to carve the perfect pumpkin. You just need the right tools on hand to carve effectively.
The good news is you don’t need to buy any special pumpkin-carving tools. Instead, you can carve truly impressive designs in your pumpkins with tools you already have in your kitchen.
If you’re eager to create an eye-catching jack-o’-lantern this Halloween, check out these tips for carving pumpkins with kitchen tools you have on hand.
In this article: Shun Classic 6-Inch Serrated Utility Knife, Wusthof Classic Paring Knife and Norpro Stainless-Steel Canning Ladle
Prepare your work area
While carving a pumpkin is usually fun, it’s also pretty messy. Before you start, you want to ensure you won’t get your home too dirty.
Ideally, you should carve a pumpkin outdoors, where you won’t have to worry as much about the pulp and fibrous strands from inside the pumpkin getting everywhere.
But whether working on a surface outside or indoors, you should always line your work area with a protective covering you can throw away later. Old newspaper is a go-to option, but parchment paper, butcher paper or cut-up paper grocery bags also work well. Then, once you’re done carving, you can wrap up the pumpkin’s pulp and other debris in the covering and toss everything into the trash.
Pick the right tools
You should also check that you have all the essential tools before carving. You can find pumpkin carving kits at many stores, but a quick look through your kitchen drawers usually provides all you need for successful carving.
A knife is the most crucial tool, and any serrated utility knife in your kitchen will work well. However, for more detailed work like your jack-o’-lantern’s mouth, a paring knife is a better option for getting into small spaces.
You’ll also need a tool for scooping out the pumpkin’s interior. A stainless steel soup ladle is extremely effective for removing all the fibrous strands and pulp, but you can also use an ice cream scoop to clean out your pumpkin.
Plan your design
While you may be tempted to pick up your knife and just start carving away, it helps to plan and draw your design before cutting. You can use a pen or marker to create the pattern on the pumpkin’s exterior. Some people like to freehand a design, while others use stencils for a foolproof spooky design.
Cut out the lid
When you’re ready to cut, start with the top or lid. Use a serrated knife to carefully cut out the circle you’ve drawn around the pumpkin’s stem. Hold the knife at a 45-degree inward angle to create a lid that can sit in place on top without falling inside once you’ve cut it free.
Scoop the interior
After you’ve cut out the lid, remove all of the pumpkin’s insides. Many people like to collect and clean the seeds so they can roast them in the oven later. Use your ladle or ice cream scoop to remove all of the pulp and stringy pieces inside the pumpkin. You may need to scrape your tool against the sides of the pumpkins to get out all the stringy bits.
Discard all the pumpkin’s insides in the trash. Once the pumpkin is scooped out, wipe down the exterior of the pumpkin to remove any moisture or pulp. That makes it easier to cut out your design.
Cut out the design
When the pumpkin is completely cleaned out, use your serrated knife to cut out the design you’ve drawn or traced on the exterior. Make straight cuts for the cleanest look.
If you’re cutting teeth or other intricate details, switch to a paring knife for more precise cuts. Remove the pieces you cut out, and put them aside with the rest of the trash to be thrown away.
Light the pumpkin
Once you’ve carved your pumpkin, lighting it gives it a truly spooky effect. You can go for a classic look by using a small tea light or votive candle, placing it inside the pumpkin and lighting it. If you’re concerned about having an open flame on your porch or inside your home, you can use battery-operated candles instead.
Best kitchen tools for carving a pumpkin
This set of sturdy, well-performing kitchen knives contains a serrated utility knife and a paring knife, so you have all the knives you need to carve a pumpkin. The knives feature single-piece, stamped blades made of durable stainless steel. The included block makes them easy to store, too.
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Shun Classic 6-Inch Serrated Utility Knife
This versatile, multipurpose utility knife is ideal for carving pumpkins because it has scalloped serrations that easily cut through most foods. It’s made of durable Japanese steel and has a water-resistant pakkawood handle. It’s dishwasher-safe, too.
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This super-sharp paring knife provides excellent precision when cutting the fine details in your pumpkin’s design. It features a triple-riveted full tang design to allow for greater control and a blade made of high-carbon stainless steel for improved durability.
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Norpro Stainless-Steel Canning Ladle
This durable stainless-steel ladle is excellent for scooping out all the fiber threads and pulp from inside the pumpkin because it has a sharper edge than other ladles. Its long handle also makes it easy to get the bottom of a pumpkin, while its 7-ounce bowl can remove large quantities of pumpkin pulp at once.
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KitchenAid Gourmet Ice Cream Scoop
This high-quality ice cream scoop is made of cast zinc, so it’s strong enough to scoop out any pumpkin. It has an ergonomically designed handle, which makes it easy to get a comfortable grip on it. It’s also dishwasher-safe.
Hello To Halloween Press Pumpkin Carving Stencils
If you don’t want to freehand your pumpkin’s design, these stencils make it much easier to create the perfect jack-o-lantern. Each set includes 30 stencils you can use for carving or painting pumpkins.
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Air Products to Host Investor Call on its Latest Sustainability Commitments today, Monday, July 25, at 10:30 a.m. USET. See details below.
LEHIGH VALLEY, Pa., July 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Air Products (NYSE: APD) today announced an additional set of commitments that further demonstrate its sustainability strategy in action. The company is creating a new "Third by '30" carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions intensity (kg CO2/MM BTU) goal for Scope 3 emissions, in addition to its existing Scope 1 and 2 goal and pledging to reach net-zero carbon emissions from its operations by 2050. Air Products will also spend or commit at least $4 billion in additional new capital for the transition to clean energy over the next five years, bringing its total commitment to first-mover projects to $15 billion through 2027.
Air Products' Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer Seifi Ghasemi said, "These commitments complement and reinforce our growth strategy of building our business to deliver climate benefits and work alongside our customers on their sustainability journey."
"Air Products is uniquely positioned to bring together its portfolio of technologies and legacy of experience to ensure the future climate benefits generated by our first-mover projects come online at a crucial moment in the energy transition. We continue to see significant opportunities for hydrogen and carbon capture technologies, and our industry-leading $15 billion capital commitment is further demonstration of sustainability being at the heart of our business and growth," he continued.
To help reach net zero from its operations by 2050, in step with society's progress towards achieving net zero, Air Products has identified tangible transition plans for new investments and modifications of existing company assets, including low- and zero-carbon hydrogen. Air Products will also continually increase its use of renewable energy, convert its fleet of about 2,000 trucks to hydrogen fuel cell zero-emission vehicles, and implement additional actions. Achieving this net zero goal will also require strong policy and regulatory support that promotes the adoption of key technologies to address the pace and scale required to support a net-zero future.
Consistent with its net-zero commitment, Air Products is engaging with the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi), a leader in mobilizing the private sector on climate action. Since SBTi does not currently have a methodology for the chemicals sector, Air Products will participate in the SBTi Expert Advisory Group to help support development of the sectoral framework that will shape the methodology for the chemicals sector. Participating in these ongoing discussions with SBTi and defining a clear methodology for sector guidance are crucial prerequisites to any potential commitment to a science-based target.
Air Products is also committed to addressing climate impacts throughout its upstream and downstream value chain, also known as Scope 3 emissions. The company's additional "Third by '30" goal is to reduce the intensity of Air Products' Scope 3 emissions by one-third by 2030, using 2015 as the baseline year. This ensures transparency, accountability, and uniformity with the previously announced goal for Scope 1 and 2 emissions.
Air Products has already committed over $11 billion to real zero- and low-carbon hydrogen projects driving the Energy Transition. The future climate benefits from these announced hydrogen projects in execution, if all used for the heavy-duty truck market, will eliminate more than 20 million tonnes of CO2 per year. Over their lifetime, the projects are expected to avoid more than 500 million tonnes of CO2e, which is the equivalent to the emissions from about 50 billion gallons or over 220 billion liters of diesel used in heavy-duty trucks. These benefits are in addition to the avoided emissions for Air Products' customers, enabled by the company's current products and technologies.
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Seifi Ghasemi, and Air Products' Vice President of Investor Relations, Corporate Relations and Sustainability, Simon Moore, will discuss these new sustainability commitments on Monday, July 25, 2022 at 10:30 a.m. USET. The teleconference will be open to the public and the media in listen-only mode by telephone and Internet broadcast.
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Air Products (NYSE:APD) is a world-leading industrial gases company in operation for over 80 years. Focused on serving energy, environment and emerging markets, the Company provides essential industrial gases, related equipment and applications expertise to customers in dozens of industries, including refining, chemical, metals, electronics, manufacturing, and food and beverage. Air Products is also the global leader in the supply of liquefied natural gas process technology and equipment. The Company develops, engineers, builds, owns and operates some of the world's largest industrial gas projects, including: gasification projects that sustainably convert abundant natural resources into syngas for the production of high-value power, fuels and chemicals; carbon capture projects; and world-scale low- and zero-carbon hydrogen projects supporting global transportation and the energy transition.
The Company had fiscal 2021 sales of $10.3 billion from operations in over 50 countries and has a current market capitalization of about $55 billion. More than 20,000 passionate, talented and committed employees from diverse backgrounds are driven by Air Products' higher purpose to create innovative solutions that benefit the environment, enhance sustainability and address the challenges facing customers, communities, and the world. For more information, visit www.airproducts.com or follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook or Instagram.
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LOS ANGELES (KTLA) – A suspected car thief tried to surrender to the authorities after a chase through Los Angeles on Thursday, but ended up waiting for 20 minutes — and then walking away — because police had given up chasing him.
The pursuit began after Los Angeles Police Department spotted a suspected stolen vehicle, a white Kia, in downtown Los Angeles just before 10 p.m., according to an officer with the LAPD.
The California Highway Patrol then picked up the pursuit, which traveled to the San Fernando Valley, then back toward downtown Los Angeles on the 5 Freeway before exiting onto the 110 Freeway.
The Kia exited near the University of Southern California campus and began to run red lights, prompting the CHP to end its pursuit. The LAPD tracked the car for a bit, then pulled off as well.
By 11 p.m., the driver seemed to be going in circles in a residential area of Jefferson Park, with no police vehicles nearby. A passenger ran from the vehicle at one point while the driver continued on.
About a half-hour later, the driver stopped his car in the parking lot of a Ralphs supermarket, got out and put his hands above his head, despite the lack of law enforcement officers near him.
He then laid on the ground for around 20 minutes in an apparent attempt to surrender, though no one was trying to take him into custody. Video obtained by KTLA shows a woman instructing the man to get up off the ground, at which point he walks off into the parking lot.
An officer with the LAPD told Nexstar on Saturday that officers called off the chase because the “risk of the pursuit … didn’t outweigh the risk to the public” once the driver left the freeway.
He added that the suspect has likely been identified, but could not confirm whether the driver had been apprehended as of Saturday morning. | 2022-08-06T19:28:03+00:00 | nwahomepage.com | https://www.nwahomepage.com/news/national/suspected-car-thief-attempts-to-surrender-after-chase-but-no-one-is-waiting-to-arrest-him/ |
ATLANTA, May 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Atlanta Business Chronicle announced that Invisors, a Workday Services Partner, made the 2023 Pacesetters list. The list represents the fastest-growing privately held companies in the metro Atlanta area.
To make the list companies must be headquartered in Atlanta, with 2022 revenue between $1 million and $300 million and two-year growth in sales of more than 50%. The list consists of 11 categories of companies, ranging from business services to catering. Invisors ranked #49, with a 2-year growth of 80.36%, highlighting its rapid growth in revenue and employees.
"Invisors' growth is a testament to our team's dedication and commitment to customer satisfaction and success," shares Will Hardy, Partner at Invisors. "Each day, our consultants work hand in hand with our customers to help them achieve success with their Workday systems. We're grateful to receive this honor for the second consecutive year as we expand into new industry segments, grow our European business, and extend our existing service offerings."
Over the past year, Invisors has also been recognized for its growth by securing a spot on the Inc. 5000 list, the most prestigious ranking of the nation's fastest-growing private companies, and on the Gator100, the world's fastest-growing Gator businesses.
About Invisors
As a certified Workday Services Partner, Invisors helps customers utilize their organizational data to make better-informed business decisions through the deployment of Workday. We believe the most important measure of our team's success is our client's ability to achieve their big-picture vision. From initial deployments to ongoing projects, we are focused on elevating perspectives + transforming results. Learn more by visiting invisors.com.
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Honda and LG Energy Solution on Tuesday confirmed details of a joint-venture Ohio battery plant that will produce battery modules for North American-market Honda EVs beginning in 2025.
Announced in 2022, the joint-venture plant will be located in Fayette County, about 40 miles southwest of Columbus, and aims for 40 gigawatt-hours of annual production capacity, Honda confirmed in a press release.
Honda and LG Energy Solution will commit $4.4 billion to the joint venture, with $3.5 billion going to the plant itself. Construction is scheduled to start in 2023, with completion scheduled for 2024 in order to start mass producing pouch-type lithium-ion batteries by 2025, according to Honda.
That timeline aligns with Honda’s plan to begin producing and selling EVs in North America in 2026, based on its in-house design, dubbed “e:Architecture.” Honda already has a significant U.S. manufacturing footprint, as well as R&D facilities that could aid in future EV development. It also announced a companion $700 million investment to revamp several existing Ohio plants for EV production.
However, Honda’s first mass-market EV for the U.S. will be the Prologue SUV, based on General Motors’ Ultium battery tech. It’s scheduled to debut in 2024, and is expected to be built alongside the Chevrolet Blazer EV in Mexico. Honda’s Acura luxury brand will also get the Ultium-derived ZDX SUV in 2024, with production expected to take place at GM’s Spring Hill, Tennessee, factory alongside the Cadillac Lyriq.
In 2027, Honda and GM plan to begin selling co-developed affordable EVs in North America. This is from both the Ultium-based Prologue/ZDX deal and Honda’s own designs.
While the announcement only mentions conventional lithium-ion battery chemistry, Honda is also researching solid-state batteries, although they likely won’t be ready for use in production EVs until later this decade, at the earliest.
These various efforts will contribute to Honda’s goal of eliminating all combustion engines from its global lineup by 2040, leaving both battery-electric and hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles.
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Teenager killed in homicide at northeast Las Vegas mobile home
Updated April 29, 2022 - 11:10 am
An 18-year-old was fatally shot with a shotgun Friday morning in northeast Las Vegas.
Officers were called by multiple neighbors at 8:08 a.m. after a report of a shooting at the BlueBird Mobile Home Park, 3920 Las Vegas Boulevard North, according to Metropolitan Police Department Lt. David Valenta.
A shotgun was fired twice, Valenta said, and the teen was found inside the trailer dead from at least one gunshot wound.
One person was detained and a witness was speaking to police, but Valenta would not disclose the relationship between the dead teen and the person detained.
Police believe the 18-year-old lived in the trailer he died in. He will be identified by the Clark County coroner’s office after his family is notified of his death.
Contact Sabrina Schnur at sschnur@reviewjournal.com or 702-383-0278. Follow @sabrina_schnur on Twitter. | 2022-04-29T18:17:33+00:00 | reviewjournal.com | https://www.reviewjournal.com/crime/homicides/teenager-killed-in-homicide-at-northeast-las-vegas-mobile-home-2568841/ |
The Georgia Supreme Court on Wednesday said it cannot decide yet whether to remove a state Court of Appeals judge accused of ethical misconduct and asked a judicial discipline panel to review the case further.
The three-member panel of the Judicial Qualifications Commission in January recommended that the state high court permanently remove suspended Court of Appeals Judge Christian Coomer. The panel's report said he violated ethics rules on how a lawyer should treat a client and improperly used campaign funds for personal expenses.
The Supreme Court found that the panel made "at least two critical legal errors that prevent us from resolving the matter on this record." For that reason, it decided to send the case back to the panel "to make new findings in the light of the law as it actually exists, and to do so quickly."
The Supreme Court said the panel made "two critical legal errors."
FAMILY OF GEORGIA MAN WHO KILLED HIMSELF IN POLICE INTERVIEW ROOM SUES CITY OF SAVANNAH
First, it was wrong in its determination that the Judicial Qualifications Commission could pursue discipline for conduct occurring before a person becomes a judge or a judicial candidate, the opinion says.
Second, the high court justices wrote, the panel "failed to understand the circumstances in which the Constitution and our case law permits judicial discipline." The opinion says that actions taken outside of a judicial capacity "warrant discipline only when taken in bad faith." None of the counts against Coomer have to do with actions taken in a judicial capacity, and the panel's report "was ambiguous as to whether it found the Judge Coomer acted with bad faith," the opinion says.
"Intent was a matter of enormous dispute in this matter, and this Court is not well positioned to resolve the factual questions of intent that are crucial to determining whether discipline is constitutionally permitted," the opinion says.
For that reason, the high court wrote, it is sending the case back to the panel to resolve several questions. The justices instructed the panel to file a new report with the Supreme Court within 60 days. | 2023-03-16T02:26:13+00:00 | foxbangor.com | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/georgia-supreme-court-undecided-on-fate-of-appeals-judge-accused-of-ethical-misconduct/article_7c29916b-d0f4-5a8d-974c-0680f2fc3deb.html |
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday afternoon's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
0-0-0-8
(zero, zero, zero, eight)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday afternoon's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
0-0-0-8
(zero, zero, zero, eight) | 2022-04-28T19:03:14+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-4-Midday-game-17134078.php |
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CHICAGO (AP) — Federal prosecutors Thursday asked a judge to give singer R. Kelly 25 more years in prison for his child pornography and enticement convictions last year in Chicago, which would add to 30 years he recently began serving in a New York case.
The 56-year-old wouldn't be eligible for release until he was around 100 if the judge agrees both to the 25-year sentence and another government request that Kelly begin serving his Chicago sentence only after the 30-year New York sentence is fully served.
In their sentencing recommendation filed before midnight Thursday in U.S. District Court in Chicago, prosecutors described Kelly's behavior as “sadistic,” calling him “a serial sexual predator” with no remorse and who "poses a serious danger to society."
“The only way to ensure Kelly does not reoffend is to impose a sentence that will keep him in prison for the rest of his life,” the 37-page government filing says.
Kelly's sentencing in Chicago is set for Thursday next week.
Kelly's lawyer, Jennifer Bonjean, wrote in a filing last week that even with his existing 30-year New York sentence, “Kelly would have to defy all statistical odds to make it out of prison alive.” She cited data that the average life expectancy of inmates is 64.
She recommended a sentence of around 10 years, at the low end of the sentencing guidelines range, which she said could be served simultaneously with the New York sentence.
In arguing for the lesser sentence, Bonjean alleged Kelly, who is Black, was singled out for behavior that she said white rock stars have gotten away with for decades.
“None have been prosecuted and none will die in prison,” she wrote.
Prosecutors acknowledged that a 25-year sentence in the Chicago case would be more time than even sentencing guidelines recommend. But they argued imposing a long sentence and instructing it be served only after the New York sentence was appropriate.
“A consecutive sentence is eminently reasonable given the egregiousness of Kelly’s conduct,” the filing argued. “Kelly’s sexual abuse of minors was intentional and prolific.”
At the trial in Chicago last year, jurors convicted the Grammy Award winning singer on six of 13 counts. But the government lost the marquee count that Kelly and his then-business manager successfully rigged his state child pornography trial in 2008.
Both of Kelly's co-defendants, including longtime business manager Derrel McDavid, were acquitted of all charges.
Kelly, born Robert Sylvester Kelly, rose from poverty in Chicago to superstardom, becoming known for smash hit “I Believe I Can Fly” and sex-infused songs such as “Bump n’ Grind.”
While the Grammy Award-winner went to trial in 2008, it wasn’t until after the airing of Lifetime’s 2019 docu-series, “Surviving R. Kelly” — featuring testimonials by his accusers — that criminal investigations were kicked into high-gear, ending with federal and new state charges.
In January, an Illinois judge dismissed state sex-abuse charges prior to a trial on the recommendation of Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx. Foxx said she was comfortable dropping the case because Kelly would spend decades in prison for his federal convictions.
Prosecutors at Kelly's federal trial in Chicago portrayed him as a master manipulator who used his fame and wealth to reel in star-struck fans to sexually abuse, in some cases to video record them, and then discard them.
After deliberating over two days, jurors convicted Kelly of three counts each of producing child pornography and enticement of minors for sex, while acquitting him of obstruction of justice, one count of production of child porn and three counts of receiving child porn.
The Chicago verdict came months after a federal judge in New York sentenced Kelly to 30 years in prison for racketeering and sex trafficking. Based on that sentence alone, he wouldn't eligible for release until he is around 80.
Even if granted time off for good behavior, Kelly would be only be eligible for release if he serves 25 years after the New York sentence in the year 2066, the government's Thursday filing said.
It will be up to Judge Harry Leinenweber in Chicago to decide the crucial question of whether Kelly serves whatever sentence he imposes concurrently, simultaneously, with the New York sentence or consecutively.
Kelly's legal team is appealing his New York and Chicago convictions. Prosecutors sometimes press for long sentences for defendants sentenced at earlier trials in a bid to ensure that, if some convictions are later tossed, they will still do some time behind bars.
Bonjean argued that traumas throughout Kelly's life, including abuse as a child and illiteracy throughout adulthood, justified leniency in sentencing the singer.
Kelly “is not an evil monster but a complex (unquestionably troubled) human-being who faced overwhelming challenges in childhood that shaped his adult life,” she said.
That the conduct for which he was convicted occurred decades ago should also be factored in, she said.
“While Kelly was not a child in the late 1990s, he also was not the middle-aged man he was at the time of his 2019 indictment,” she argued. “Kelly was a damaged man in his late 20s.”
She added that Kelly has already paid a heavy price from his legal troubles, including a financial one. She said his worth once approached $1 billion but that he “is now destitute.”
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Follow Michael Tarm on Twitter at https://twitter.com/mtarm | 2023-02-17T07:27:18+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/us-prosecutors-ask-for-25-more-years-in-prison-17790175.php |
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., March 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Located in a serene suburb in West Palm Beach, Florida, Beachway Treatment Center specializes in helping patients who are struggling with mental health and substance abuse disorders regain their independence. The Joint Commission-accredited facility provides a cozy, supportive environment where individuals can receive individualized care and medication management to achieve sustained recovery from drug or alcohol abuse.
Beachway offers tailored treatment paths using evidence-based rehab therapy programs to address underlying emotional issues that lead to drug addiction. The facility's dedicated team of counselors and therapists are experts in long-term rehabilitation. Addiction-focused experts utilize a holistic approach designed with long-term recovery in mind to empower patients to overcome conditions that trigger a relapse.
Individuals can benefit from personalized recovery programs and therapeutic interventions, including dual diagnosis, drug and alcohol rehab, holistic treatment, and faith-based rehab. Licensed therapists at Beachway use trauma-focused healing, art therapy, and various recreational activities to heal the mind, body, and spirit.
The rehabilitation center recently renovated its community housing units for intensive outpatient or partial care patients. The luxurious accommodations are within walking distance of shopping, eateries, and other local amenities. The apartment complex is near walking trails and parks, allowing residents to experience the tropical Florida lifestyle during recovery.
Community Housing for Outpatient Treatment
A report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows millions of Americans are battling depression, a complex mental health disorder that can drive addiction.
Clients attending Beachway's outpatient rehab programs can benefit from a full spectrum of traditional and holistic therapies that help them overcome substance abuse, break away from destructive behavior, and regain control of their lives.
The outpatient drug rehab program at Beachway incorporates three levels of care: partial hospitalization (PHP), intensive outpatient (IOP), and outpatient (OP). Each approach offers a different level of care and clinical support, empowering patients to balance recovery with day-to-day living.
Beachway's counselors understand the need for continued therapy and support following inpatient rehabilitation. Patients entering the outpatient program receive specialized after-care services designed to empower them to re-enter everyday life and achieve success in the journey to lifelong sobriety.
Beachway recently finalized the renovations on a 12-unit apartment to accommodate clients requiring outpatient treatment or partial care services to overcome substance abuse. The newly renovated apartments feature spacious floor plans, walk-in closets, air conditioning, Internet access, and other convenient amenities.
Residents can go to the resort-style swimming pool, enjoy morning coffee in the breakfast bars, and get some fresh air in the community playground. They can access outdoor social areas to interact with groups that offer positive peer influence or engage in family therapy sessions.
Outpatient clients can take in stunning oceanfront or intracoastal waterway views from their balcony or stroll in the lush gardens around campus. They can also enjoy art and music therapy in the facility's recreation room and exercise in the fitness center with a yoga studio, strength training, and cardio equipment. Management at Beachway Therapy provides 24-hour emergency maintenance.
About Community Housing Units at Beachway Therapy
As a leader in mental health and substance abuse treatment, Beachway Therapy Center provides state-of-the-art accommodations for clients. The apartments offer a comfortable space where patients seeking Beachway's outpatient rehab solution can recover.
Here are some FAQs about the rehabilitation center's newly-refurbished community housing.
Are the apartments for inpatient stays, sober living, or both?
The apartments will house outpatient and partial care patients seeking rehab care at Beachway. They are called community housing and are intended for patients who have completed their initial 30-day therapy.
How many bedrooms are in each unit?
The housing units are either studio or one-bedroom.
How many patients reside in each unit/room?
The 12-unit apartment complex is designed for patients who prefer a private room. However, shared one-bedroom units are available.
How do the apartments differ from other living quarters at Beachway?
Located adjacent to Beachway's main campus, the newly renovated apartments offer all the amenities available for other living options. However, residents in rehab must stay on campus and follow the facility's program rules and guidelines. Patients can be afforded more independence as they become more independent and require lower levels of care.
What are the patients responsible for?
Beachway provides laundry, housekeeping, and meal preparation services to allow patients to focus only on recovery. Residents aren't responsible for anything but their own health, but they have a full kitchen and appliances should they wish to cook for themselves.
What amenities do the apartments include?
Each apartment is fully furnished and features a full kitchen, new appliances, and cable TV.
What is the square footage of the apartments?
The units are approximately 500 sq. ft.
Learn More About Outpatient Treatment Housing Options at Beachway
Beachway provides innovative, individualized treatment plans based on each patient's unique personality and history. Patients seeking treatment for substance abuse and mental health issues can access diverse therapy programs and clinical services that empower them to heal and thrive.
For individuals struggling with addiction or mental health, the experts at Beachway can create customized treatment plans. Contact us today to explore our treatment options and start the journey to long-term recovery.
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BARCELONA, Spain, Feb. 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- At the Mobile World Congress (MWC) Barcelona 2023, Huawei unveiled a full series of One 5G solutions, capable of driving all bands to 5G. Cao Ming, President of Huawei Wireless Product Line, said: "The rapid development of 5G will stimulate the evolution of all bands to 5G. To help operators maximize the value of each band and continuously improve network capabilities in multiple dimensions, Huawei's One 5G solutions not only deliver industry-leading performance, but also feature simplified O&M and deployment, as well as unrivaled energy efficiency and evolution ability."
One 5G solutions can unleash the full power of all bands at a single site based on TDD, FDD, and indoor digitalization. Additionally, intelligentRAN enables in-depth, network-wide collaboration across all scenarios, helping operators build the most cost-effective 5G networks.
ELAA for optimal TDD coverage and experience and MetaAAU for all scenarios
Combinations of advanced software and hardware, such as extremely large antenna array (ELAA) and the AHR algorithm, can result in optimal TDD coverage and the ultimate experience. New "0 bit, 0 watt" MetaAAU offers excellent coverage, while maintaining optimal energy efficiency, in all scenarios, as well as ensuring ultra-low power consumption when under a light load.
In terms of discrete spectrum scenarios, the 800 MHz MetaAAU, featuring the industry's largest bandwidth, can cover full C-band. For scenarios with limited antenna installation space, Huawei launches Meta BladeAAU, which innovatively integrates Meta and Blade technologies. The Meta BladeAAU allows all sub-6 GHz bands to be deployed on a single pole.
Through continuous innovation in M-MIMO system engineering, Huawei's new 32T32R M-MIMO module for macro base stations weighs only 12 kg. Not only is it high performing, it also features the industry's lightest design, meaning it can be installed with only one person and carried with one hand. This helps increase operators' network construction efficiency.
Further breakthroughs in ultra-wideband, multi-antenna technologies, accelerating the evolution of all bands towards 5G
Incorporating the latest hardware and algorithms, ultra-wideband 4T4R RRU simplifies the deployment of all FDD bands and RATs while slashing energy consumption by 20%. Furthermore, the built-in PIM cancellation technology eliminates interference, and SingleCell improves user-perceived rate at the cell edge by 20%.
Owing to the 5G NR high-precision beamforming technology, ultra-wideband 8T8R RRU can simultaneously improve network capacity and coverage, increasing user experience by 40%.
The newly launched FDD BladeAAU is a combination of FDD M-MIMO and advanced transparent antenna technology. It achieves optimal sub-3 GHz coverage and ultimate capacity while supporting single-pole deployment.
Expand premium indoor 5G experience, and ensure 5G coverage extends from urban to rural areas
Indoor scenarios currently carry 70% of all wireless network traffic. The Huawei LampSite 5.0 solution integrates 3G, 4G, and 5G, and this design reduces its weight and volume by 25%, and site power consumption by 40%. Supported by distributed M-MIMO, it is also able to translate interference into gains and bring a 4-fold increase to network capacity, achieving ubiquitous gigabit experience. LampSite 5.0 has become the top choice in many indoor scenarios such as airports, railway stations, and shopping malls.
In remote rural areas, Huawei's RuralLink solution provides three-sector coverage with just a single RRU and one antenna. It uses microwave fronthaul to simplify deployment, eliminating the need for BBUs and extending the coverage range of remote sites to 20 km. Featuring a simplified design and low power consumption, RuralLink supports remote O&M and requires just six solar panels to power a single site.
SDIF leads sustainable development in the antenna industry: 20% higher energy efficiency across all bands
Signal direct injection feeding (SDIF) is Huawei's unique advanced antenna technology. It saves a large number of feeders and cables, and improves amplitude and phase precision while significantly reducing impedance loss, boosting overall antenna RF efficiency. Huawei's SDIF technology is designed for all antenna scenarios and series to meet band- and region-specific configuration requirements, bringing about a 20% increase in the energy efficiency of all bands.
Ultra-wideband multi-channel mode is critical for next-gen MAGICSwave
The new 2T products that support conventional bands (with 800 MHz bandwidth) allow more carriers to be aggregated. The new 2T products supporting E-band provide 25 Gbps capacity. And thanks to higher transmission power and intelligent beam tracking antennas, their transmission distance is 50% longer than the industry's best.
IntelligentRAN signals a new path for RAN intelligence
Huawei IntelligentRAN brings intelligence to the RAN and provides three major functions: iPowerstar, iHashband, and iFaultcare. The live network test results show that the iPowerstar doubles the energy saving effect compared with conventional solutions, while the iHashband improves user experience by 30%, and the iFaultcare improves troubleshooting efficiency by 40%. IntelligentRAN will bring various intelligent applications to more scenarios and enable in-depth collaboration between all bands and all scenarios.
"Huawei will help operators evolve all bands to 5G through a number of unique innovations, and provide users with the ultimate mobile network experience. Looking ahead, Huawei will continue to innovate alongside global customers to achieve a win-win future for 5G." said Mr. Cao.
MWC Barcelona 2023 runs from February 27 to March 2 in Barcelona, Spain. Huawei showcases its products and solutions at stand 1H50 in Fira Gran Via Hall 1. Together with global operators, industry professionals, and opinion leaders, we dive into topics such as 5G business success, 5.5G opportunities, green development, digital transformation, and our vision of using the GUIDE business blueprint to lay the foundation for 5.5G and build on the success of 5G for even greater prosperity. For more information, please visit: https://carrier.huawei.com/en/events/mwc2023.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Jan. 6 committee held a surprise hearing Tuesday delivering alarming new testimony about Donald Trump’s angry, defiant and vulgar actions as he ignored repeated warnings against summoning the mob to the Capitol and then refused to intervene to stop the deadly violence as rioters laid siege.
Witness Cassidy Hutchinson, a lesser-known White House aide, rebuffed Trump's team warnings against testifying and provided first-hand knowledge of what she saw and heard in the run-up to the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection, a proximity to power that gives stunning new details in the panel’s year-long investigation.
With calm, detailed recollections, Hutchinson testified about a defiant Trump who knew there were guns and other weapons in the rally crowd at the White House, sent his supporters to the Capitol anyway and tried unsuccessfully to physically pry the steering wheel from his presidential limousine driver so he could join them.
Before joining the White House, Hutchinson had worked in some of the most conservative Republican offices on Capitol Hill. She was hired as special assistant to the president and promoted up to Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows.
Here are highlights from the sixth hearing.
ANGRY, DEFIANT, VULGAR TRUMP
Trump was angry and defiant on the morning of Jan. 6, as he assessed the size of the crowd for his rally in front of the White House, upset that not everyone who had answered his summons to come to Washington could get in to see him because of the security lines.
Told that guns, knives and other weapons were being confiscated from the security screenings, Trump didn’t care. “They’re not here to hurt me,” the president said. He wanted to take away the magnetometer stations to allow more people inside the grounds, regardless of their weaponry.
“Take the effing mags away,” an agitated Trump barked at security moments before taking the stage, Hutchinson recalled.
WHITE HOUSE LAWYERS WORRY OF CRIMES
Trump’s lawyers at the White House were trying to tamp down the president’s speech to the crowd he had summoned for his “Stop the Steal” rally on Jan. 6, and they were trying to stop his plans to go to the Capitol that day when Congress would be certifying the election results for Joe Biden's victory.
Hutchinson testified that lawyer Eric Herschmann said it “would be foolish” to include some of the language the defeated president wanted to add to his speech — comments like fighting for Trump, or him telling the crowd “I’ll be there with you.” Herschmann warned such language shouldn’t be included for legal concerns and because of the optics it would portray.
That language ultimately stayed in the script as Trump rallied the crowd to “fight like hell” and promised he would join them at the Capitol.
Days before Jan. 6, White House counsel Pat Cipollone suggested there were “serious legal concerns” if Trump went to the Capitol with the crowd, Hutchinson recalled.
“We need to make sure this doesn’t happen,” she recalled Cipollone saying in the run-up to the rally.
The morning of Jan. 6, Cipollone restated his concerns that if Trump did go to the Capitol to intervene in the certification of the election, “We’re going to get charged with every crime imaginable.”
Hutchinson then described what happened after the rally as Trump climbed into the presidential limousine, the “beast," as it is called, as relayed to her later by Trump's deputy chief of staff for operations.
Trump, inside the vehicle, tried to pry the steering wheel away from the driver, demanding to be taken to the Capitol.
PROXIMITY TO POWER, AND KETCHUP
The hearing opened with a calm, even-spoken Hutchinson explaining her job responsibilities advising Meadows, often handling his cell phones, as the committee showed an architectural rendering of the layout of the West Wing.
Hutchinson's office was situated between the Oval Office on one side and Meadow’s office on the other. Hers was also next to that of the vice president’s staff.
She had an upfront view of conversations across the offices and beyond.
Hutchinson described fielding a desperate phone call as she stood backstage at Trump's rally that day from House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy, who was upset that Trump had sent the crowd to the Capitol when she had promised they would not go.
She also told of helping the White House staff mop up ketchup off the walls of the Oval Office dining room after Trump, learning that his attorney general, William Barr, told The Associated Press there was no fraud on a scale to tip the presidential election, apparently hurled a plate of food at the wall.
In one gripping scene Hutchinson recalled walking Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani out of the White House when he asked if she was "excited about the 6th.”
“We’re going to the Capitol, it’s going to be great, the president’s going to be there, he’s going to look powerful,” she recalled Giuliani saying.
When she returned inside and told Meadows of that conversation, he told her a lot was going on.
“Things might get real, real bad,” Meadows told her, she recalled.
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Associated Press writers Farnoush Amiri, Mike Balsamo, Eric Tucker and Nomaan Merchant contributed to this report. | 2022-06-28T22:00:38+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/1-6-Takeaways-Angry-Trump-dire-legal-warnings-17272252.php |
Children's Museum of Illinois Director of Creative and Cheer Jayson Albright counts down one of multiple races during the museum's annual Duck Derby event.
DECATUR — The Children’s Museum of Illinois is back on track.
That is, back to its normal events schedule after lots of pandemic-era changes. That means the return of a springtimeDuck Derby, one of the museum’s core fundraising events.
For the derby — which races thousands of rubber ducks down a 40-foot-long water track in various heats until a grand prize duck is selected at the end of the day — attendance and sales numbers are continuing to improve after COVID slumps.
“We have sold 2,000-plus ducks, which is up quite a bit from last year,” Children’s Museum of IllinoisExecutive Director Rikki Parker said on Saturday morning. “We're really excited about it. And it's a wonderful opportunity to show off some of the things that we have in the works at the Children's Museum.”
Those include a pollinator garden andkid-madedesigns for the museum’s outdoor ADA-accessible space, as well as two new exhibits coming later this year.
The museum also decided to up the derby fun this year by partnering with the local Boy Scouts for its 2023 Central Illinois Pinewood Derby, making this a “double-derby day,” Parker said.
Building pinewood race cars requires equal parts engineering and creativity, according to Boy Scouts District Executive Shiowa Karsten.
“It teaches them some problem solving. It teaches them some creative thinking,” Karsten said. “So they get an opportunity to do that and just (spend) time with their friends and their family. Most of the time, their family is helping them make this. Dad is cutting it out, or mom is, and then you get to sit down and paint it together. And that's a great opportunity to bond with your family.”
Pinewood racing is, in fact, a favored bonding activity for father-and-son duo Chris and Jacob Monroe of Boy Scouts Troop 43 in Mount Zion.
The two raced each other during Saturday’s derby, but the younger Monroe came out on top.
“It’s fun,” said Jacob Monroe, 13. “You’ve got to put in a lot of time, though, to get the polishing done and smooth out the axles.”
Eric Richardson, 10, of Dalton City, won first place in his division. Richardson said it also took him some time to get his car just right, but the time was well worth it in the end.
“I just love doing it for winning and racing and having fun,” Richardson said.
For the kids who didn’t participate in the pinewood car races, there were plenty of duck races to follow. Some kid observers, including siblings Emma and Owen Sowa, stood as close to the race track as possible to get splashed by the incoming ducks and to spray each other with water guns.
Owen Sowa, 9, said the derby day was fun and a good chance to spend time with his family.
“It’s very nice,” he said.
Emma, 6, agreed. Sort of.
“Except for the soaked part,” she added.
1992: Diane Mitchell reads the story "Over in the Meadow" during the Wednesday's Child program at the Children's Museum of Illinois. Listening intently are Jourdan Nicole, 4, and Daniel Finney, 4.
Nine-year-old Brooklyn Watson visited the Children’s Museum of Illinois with her family and was tempted to look inside a giant, seven-foot tall eyeball placed in the center of the second floor.
The new Z.O. & O. Express Train route takes riders past the Children's Museum of Illinois. Visitors can enjoy the longer track experience starting Friday.
“The key is for the people to understand eye conditions,” said Dr. John Lee, shown inside the new exhibit at the Children's Museum of Illinois. “If they find diseases early, they eye can be treated or saved.” Lee designed the large eye and its educational focus.
Jack Joggerst, 5, has fun on Tuesday in the Super Service Center at one of the interactive sections on the first floor at the Children's Museum of Illinois. Jack was there with his sister, Claire Joggerst. Both are from Missouri but visiting family in Decatur.
Bryant Wallace, 4, gets excited after creating a big bubble on Saturday at The Children’s Museum of Illinois for the 28th annual Duck Derby. More photos and a video at www.herald-review.com.
Ava Wetzel, 3, collects some ducks after one of the heats on Saturday at the Children’s Museum of Illinois for the 28th annual Duck Derby. Wetzel is from Decatur. More photos and a video at herald-review.com.
Lea Sullivan, 4, dances with Jasmine during the Fairy Tale Ball on Friday at the Children's Museum of Illinois in Decatur. The event featured live animals, games, food and drink, princesses including Tinker Bell, Elsa, Jasmine, Saturday will feature Tinker Bell, Ariel, Moana. Saturday's hours are from 6pm-8pm. More photos at www.herald-review.com
Herald & Review, Jim Bowling Vivian Reising,4, dances with her mother Paige Reising in the museum dance area during “Happy Noon Year” event Tuesday at the Children’s Museum of Illinois.
Herald & Review, Jim Bowling Top to bottom, twin sisters Maddie Smith, 8, Mia Smith, 8, and younger sister Isabella Smith,4, of San Marcos, California, play in confetti during the “Happy Noon Year” event Tuesday at the Children’s Museum of Illinois. The sisters were attending the event while visiting with family in the area.
Top to bottom, twin sisters Maddie Smith, 8, Mia Smith, 8, and younger sister Isabella Smith,4, of San Marcos, Calif., play in confetti during the Happy Noon Year event at the Children’s Museum of Illinois. The sisters were attending the event while visiting with family in the area.
PHOTOS: 18 photos of the Children's Museum of Illinois
1992: Diane Mitchell reads the story "Over in the Meadow" during the Wednesday's Child program at the Children's Museum of Illinois. Listening intently are Jourdan Nicole, 4, and Daniel Finney, 4.
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Nine-year-old Brooklyn Watson visited the Children’s Museum of Illinois with her family and was tempted to look inside a giant, seven-foot tall eyeball placed in the center of the second floor.
CLAY JACKSON, HERALD & REVIEW
The new Z.O. & O. Express Train route takes riders past the Children's Museum of Illinois. Visitors can enjoy the longer track experience starting Friday.
CLAY JACKSON, HERALD & REVIEW
"Peek Inside," the newest exhibit at the Children's Museum of Illinois, is expected to open in the next few days on the museum's second floor.
“The key is for the people to understand eye conditions,” said Dr. John Lee, shown inside the new exhibit at the Children's Museum of Illinois. “If they find diseases early, they eye can be treated or saved.” Lee designed the large eye and its educational focus.
Jack Joggerst, 5, has fun on Tuesday in the Super Service Center at one of the interactive sections on the first floor at the Children's Museum of Illinois. Jack was there with his sister, Claire Joggerst. Both are from Missouri but visiting family in Decatur.
CLAY JACKSON, HERALD & REVIEW
Bryant Wallace, 4, gets excited after creating a big bubble on Saturday at The Children’s Museum of Illinois for the 28th annual Duck Derby. More photos and a video at www.herald-review.com.
CLAY JACKSON, HERALD & REVIEW
Progress of the Scovill Zoo train expansion project is shown near The Children’s Museum of Illinois Thursday.
Ava Wetzel, 3, collects some ducks after one of the heats on Saturday at the Children’s Museum of Illinois for the 28th annual Duck Derby. Wetzel is from Decatur. More photos and a video at herald-review.com.
CLAY JACKSON PHOTOS, HERALD & REVIEW
Lea Sullivan, 4, dances with Jasmine during the Fairy Tale Ball on Friday at the Children's Museum of Illinois in Decatur. The event featured live animals, games, food and drink, princesses including Tinker Bell, Elsa, Jasmine, Saturday will feature Tinker Bell, Ariel, Moana. Saturday's hours are from 6pm-8pm. More photos at www.herald-review.com
CLAY JACKSON, HERALD & REVIEW
Herald & Review/Lisa Morrison Eilley Hughes gets a little help creating her magic wand during craft time at the Children's Museum of Illinois.
Herald & Review, Jim Bowling the Happy Noon Year event at the Children’s Museum of Illinois Tuesday December 31, 2013
Herald & Review, Jim Bowling the Happy Noon Year event at the Children’s Museum of Illinois Tuesday December 31, 2013
Herald & Review, Jim Bowling the Happy Noon Year event at the Children’s Museum of Illinois Tuesday December 31, 2013
Herald & Review, Jim Bowling Vivian Reising,4, dances with her mother Paige Reising in the museum dance area during “Happy Noon Year” event Tuesday at the Children’s Museum of Illinois.
Herald & Review, Jim Bowling the Happy Noon Year event at the Children’s Museum of Illinois Tuesday December 31, 2013
Herald & Review, Jim Bowling Top to bottom, twin sisters Maddie Smith, 8, Mia Smith, 8, and younger sister Isabella Smith,4, of San Marcos, California, play in confetti during the “Happy Noon Year” event Tuesday at the Children’s Museum of Illinois. The sisters were attending the event while visiting with family in the area.
Top to bottom, twin sisters Maddie Smith, 8, Mia Smith, 8, and younger sister Isabella Smith,4, of San Marcos, Calif., play in confetti during the Happy Noon Year event at the Children’s Museum of Illinois. The sisters were attending the event while visiting with family in the area.
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Boy Scouts Troop 43 member Jacob Monroe, 13, gets ready to kick off one of the races on Saturday during the Boy Scouts' 2023 Central Illinois Pinewood Derby event, which was combined this year with the Children's Museum of Illinois' annual Duck Derby.
Friends Margo White, Charlee McLeod and Josie Kreke, all 7-year-olds from Decatur, decide between their favorite pinewood derby cars on Saturday during the combined Children's Museum of Illinois Duck Derby and Boy Scouts Central Illinois Pinewood Derby event.
A Children's Museum of Illinois volunteer loads up hundreds of rubber ducks after one of the duck races on Saturday during the museum's annual Duck Derby event.
A lineup of some handmade pinewood cars competing in the 2023 Central Illinois Pinewood Derby, which was combined with the Children's Museum of Illinois' annual Duck Derby event this year. | 2023-05-20T22:42:36+00:00 | herald-review.com | https://herald-review.com/news/local/recreation/childrens-museum-boy-scouts-team-up-for-double-derby-fun-in-decatur/article_4d927730-f723-11ed-841f-6bb37ba76ca8.html |
According to official figures from the National Survey on Sexual and Gender Diversity (ENDISEG), 28.7% of the LGBTQ population in Mexico has thought about or attempted suicide in their lifetime
This marks the first time that The Trevor Project will offer its life-saving suicide prevention crisis services beyond the U.S.
MEXICO CITY, Oct. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, on National Coming Out Day in the U.S. and Mexico, The Trevor Project announced the official launch of its free, confidential, 24/7 digital crisis services for LGBTQ young people in Mexico. This milestone is part of The Trevor Project's expansion of its services to more countries around the world and marks the first time in its nearly 25-year history that it is offering crisis services to young people outside of the U.S. The crisis intervention services for LGBTQ youth will be offered in Spanish across TrevorChat and TrevorText, including SMS text messaging, WhatsApp, and online chat.
As is the case in the U.S., suicide is the second leading cause of death among young people in Mexico. Overall, 28.7 percent of the LGBTQ population has thought about or attempted suicide at some point in their lives. While The Trevor Project estimates that more than 1.8 million LGBTQ youth in the U.S. seriously consider suicide each year, that number is more than 40 million globally.
"It's incredibly inspiring to see our vision of providing life-affirming crisis services to LGBTQ young people beyond the U.S. being realized today with our launch in Mexico. This is a major milestone in our goal to end the global public health crisis of LGBTQ youth suicide," said Amit Paley (he/him pronouns), CEO & Executive Director of The Trevor Project. "The Trevor Project is committed to building a world where every single LGBTQ young person has access to resources that affirm who they are, and we couldn't be more optimistic about the impact we'll have on this journey to support more LGBTQ young people around the world."
"Today we celebrate the activation of our services in Mexico, kicking off what we hope will be a global social movement around suicide prevention," said Edurne Balmori (she/her pronouns), Executive Director of The Trevor Project Mexico. "For many LGBTQ youth in the country, expressing themselves and simply being who they are can put their physical safety and mental wellness at risk. At The Trevor Project Mexico, we will strive to end the stigma around the issue of mental health, provide LGBTQ youth with a safe and trusted space, and ultimately save lives."
The Trevor Project announced its plans to expand its best-in-class crisis services outside of the United States in March 2022. To make this expansion possible, the organization built a team of talented and experienced individuals on the ground in Mexico, led by Executive Director Edurne Balmori. As the organization does in the U.S., The Trevor Project Mexico will rely on a volunteer-based model in which counselors will undergo extensive training and implement an evidence-based crisis support model.
The Trevor Project is leveraging its relationships with several of its existing corporate and technology partners to enable and support this international work. Of note, Google.org yesterday announced a renewed grant of $2 million, designed specifically to help scale The Trevor Project's life-saving work to new international geographies. This grant will make Google.org a lead funder of the organization's international work. In addition, The Trevor Project was able to build and customize its crisis services platform for Mexico using Twilio Flex.
As described in The Trevor Project's initial international announcement, launching 24/7 digital crisis services for LGBTQ young people in Mexico is part of The Trevor Project's commitment to expand its services to countries around the world, with a belief that every LGBTQ young person — regardless of where they live — deserves to know that they are not alone.
For U.S. Crisis Services: If you or someone you know needs help or support, The Trevor Project's trained crisis counselors are available 24/7 at 1-866-488-7386, via chat at TheTrevorProject.org/Get-Help, or by texting START to 678678.
For Mexico Crisis Services: If you or someone you know needs help or support, The Trevor Project's trained crisis counselors in Mexico are available 24/7 via chat at TheTrevorProject.MX/Ayuda, via SMS by texting "Comenzar" to 67676, or via WhatsApp by texting 55 9225 3337.
About The Trevor Project Mexico
The Trevor Project is the world's largest suicide prevention and mental health organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer & questioning (LGBTQ) young people. The Trevor Project Mexico offers 24/7 crisis intervention programs through TrevorText and TrevorChat. LGBTQ youth in Mexico and around the world can also access TrevorSpace, the world's largest safe space social networking site for LGBTQ youth.
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Sacramento Kings win first playoff game in 17 years with defeat of Golden State Warriors in Game 1
By Aimee Lewis and Jacob Lev, CNN
The Sacramento Kings could not have enjoyed a better start to their return to the playoffs for the first time in 17 years.
Kings guard De’Aaron Fox finished with 38 points, five assists and three steals in a dramatic 126-123 Game 1 win over the Golden State Warriors in the Western Conference first-round series.
“Sacramento showed out tonight,” Fox said, according to ESPN. “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.”
After a close first half, the Warriors had taken a double-digit lead in the third quarter only for the Kings to come back into the game.
Malik Monk, who scored 28 fourth-quarter points, hit a pair of free throws with 2.9 seconds left and a Steph Curry heave at the buzzer fell flat.
Curry finished with 30 points for Golden State, while Klay Thompson had 21 points and five assists.
Elsewhere, New York Knicks defeated Cleveland Cavaliers 101-97. Julius Randle, returning from a sprained ankle, finished with 19 points and 10 rebounds. Guard Jalen Brunson added a team-high 27 points.
Boston Celtics overcame Atlanta Hawks 112-99, and a passing masterclass from James Harden, combined with electric three-point shooting from his Sixers teammates, proved enough for the Philadelphia 76ers to down the Brooklyn Nets 121-101 at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia.
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NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge on Friday dismissed Donald Trump’s lawsuit against New York Attorney General Letitia James, rejecting the former president’s claim that she targeted him out of political animus and allowing her civil investigation into his business practices to continue.
In a 43-page ruling, U.S. District Judge Brenda Sannes wrote that case law bars federal judges from interfering in state-level investigations, with limited exceptions, and that there wasn’t evidence to support the Republican’s contention that James, a Democrat, was proceeding in bad faith because of their differing political views.
Sannes, who was appointed in 2014 by former President Barack Obama, a Democrat, said James had a legitimate basis for investigating Trump and his company, the Trump Organization, and that Trump failed to show that recent court proceedings seeking to enforce subpoenas on him were “commenced for the purpose of retaliation.”
James’ public statements about Trump “make clear that she disagrees vehemently with Mr. Trump’s political views,” Sannes wrote, but Trump and his lawyers failed to demonstrate any connection between her opinions and how the investigation has played out.
“The fact that (James’) public statements reflect personal and/or political animus toward (Trump) is not, in and of itself, sufficient,” Sannes wrote.
James heralded Friday’s ruling as a “big victory” over a “frivolous” lawsuit. Sannes’ decision came a day after a New York appeals court ruled that Trump must answer questions under oath in James’ probe, upholding a lower-court ruling requiring him to sit for a deposition.
“Time and time again, the courts have made clear that Donald J. Trump’s baseless legal challenges cannot stop our lawful investigation into his and the Trump Organization’s financial dealings,” James said in a written statement. “No one in this country can pick and choose how the law applies to them, and Donald Trump is no exception. As we have said all along, we will continue this investigation undeterred.”
Trump’s lawyer, Alina Habba, questioned Sannes’ justification for dismissing the lawsuit — singling out, by name, the legal precedent at issue — and said they would take the matter to the 2nd U.S. Court of Appeals.
“There is no question that we will be appealing this decision,” Habba said. “If Ms. James’s egregious conduct and harassing investigation does not meet the bad faith exception to the Younger abstention doctrine, then I cannot imagine a scenario that would.”
Trump sued James in December, resorting to a familiar but seldom successful strategy of litigation in an attempt to end the three-year investigation, which James has said uncovered evidence Trump’s company misstated the value of assets like skyscrapers and golf courses on financial statements for more than a decade.
Trump filed the lawsuit just after James issued subpoenas for him and his two eldest children, Ivanka and Donald Jr., to give deposition testimony in James’ probe.
Trump sought an injunction barring James from investigating him and preventing her from being involved in any “civil or criminal” investigations of him and his company, such as a parallel criminal probe being led by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. Although the civil investigation is separate, James’ office has been involved in both. Trump also wanted a judge to declare that James violated his free speech and due process rights.
“We are sitting with our hands tied. We are simply dodging subpoenas at this point,” Habba said at a May 13 hearing.
Trump has long contended that the New York investigations are part of a politically motivated “witch hunt.” In the lawsuit, his lawyers alleged that James had violated his constitutional rights in a “thinly-veiled effort to publicly malign Trump and his associates.”
The lawsuit described James as having “personal disdain” for Trump, pointing to numerous statements she’s made about him, including her boast that her office sued his administration 76 times and tweets during her 2018 campaign that she had her “eyes on Trump Tower” and that Trump was “running out of time.”
James’ office responded that the lawsuit was a “collateral attack” on her investigation and a “complete about-face” after Trump previously agreed to turn over his 2014-2019 income tax returns to her office and his company provided more than 900,000 documents and testimony from more than a dozen current and former employees.
Trump and his company never challenged the underlying legal basis for the investigation or the attorney general’s office’s legal authority to conduct it until her office issued a subpoena for his testimony, James’ office said.
James’ office started investigating Trump in 2019 after his former personal lawyer Michael Cohen told Congress that Trump had a history of misrepresenting the value of assets to gain favorable loan terms and tax benefits.
At a May 13 hearing that precipitated Sannes’ ruling Friday, a lawyer for James’ office said the probe is winding down and that evidence from it could support legal action against the former president, his company, or both.
The lawyer, Andrew Amer, said “there’s clearly been a substantial amount of evidence amassed that could support the filing of an enforcement proceeding,” although a final determination on filing such an action has not been made.
All of that, Amer said, “really shuts the door on any argument” by Trump’s lawyers that the James’ office was proceeding in bad faith.
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The international money-transfer service partners with Dash Solutions to bring a low cost card option for users
PALO ALTO, Calif., April 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Higlobe, Inc., a US-based fintech start-up focused on providing low cost cross-border money transfers to global workers, announces the launch of a prepaid card in cooperation with Dash Solutions, formerly Prepaid Technologies. The card will allow users to make purchases in the United States.
Higlobe's new payment card is a reloadable Visa card issued by Dash Solutions that allows users to load funds directly from their Higlobe account onto their own unique card and to make purchases in the United States. The card will be available to Higlobe customers in Mexico and Brazil, and represents a significant expansion of the value proposition of the Higlobe payment service.
Dash Solutions, a leading provider of enterprise payments and engagement solutions, joins Higlobe to bring this new payment possibility to the Higlobe customer base. "We are ecstatic to expand Higlobe's offering to our clients in Mexico and Brazil," CEO and co-founder Teymour H. Farman-Farmaian said. "We've found that many of our existing customers want an easy way to directly spend the dollars that they earn. This reloadable virtual card will allow them to do that."
Higlobe is the first zero transaction fee, subscription-based payment service that offers customers the ability to make unlimited transfers each month for one flat rate. Users can easily sign up at higlobe.com and receive payments from US business clients.
About Higlobe, Inc.
Higlobe, Inc. is a financial technology company revolutionizing the world of cross-border payments. Founded in 2020 by Teymour H. Farman-Farmaian and Jeff Bolton, they used their global experience to build an international payment transfer solution with no transaction fees. Higlobe's investors include Battery Ventures, TTV Capital, FjLabs, Reciprocal Ventures, Raptor Group, Gokul Rajaram.
About Dash Solutions, Inc.
Founded and based in Birmingham, Ala., Dash Solutions, formerly Prepaid Technologies, is a fintech platform that provides digital payments and engagement program management to thousands of customers. Dash Solutions offers innovative strategies and a proprietary technology stack, including payroll, expense, gift, reward, and incentive card products to employers, financial institutions, and government agencies. Learn more at www.dashsolutions.com.
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BetMGM March Madness Promo Code: Xavier vs. Kennesaw State - March 17
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- Date: Friday, March 17, 2023
- Time: 12:40 PM ET
- TV: truTV
- Where: Greensboro, North Carolina
- Venue: Greensboro Coliseum
- Line: Xavier -12.5
- Point Total: 154.5
- Moneyline (To Win): Xavier -750, Kennesaw State +525
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ROME (AP) — The archbishop of Vienna, a longtime friend and former student of Pope Benedict XVI, has confirmed that it was he who wrote a letter to his former teacher urging him to accept election as pontiff in 2005 if the votes went his way.
Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn issued a statement Wednesday confirming a revelation in a new book by Benedict’s personal secretary, Archbishop Georg Gaenswein, that was published soon after Benedict died Dec. 31 at age 95.
The book, “Nothing But the Truth: My Life Beside Pope Benedict XVI,” already has generated controversy, because it revealed confidential communications and exposed the tensions that simmered during the decade in which Benedict lived as an emeritus pope alongside Pope Francis.
Schoenborn said the publication of the book was an “unseemly indiscretion” and distanced himself from it. The statement on the archdiocesan website quoted him as saying: “I don’t think it’s right that such confidential things are published, especially by the personal secretary.”
But Schoenborn nevertheless confirmed one of the less controversial chapters in the book, surrounding the election of the former Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger as pope in 2005, following the death of St. John Paul II. Soon after he was elected, Benedict told a group of German pilgrims that as the votes started to go his way during the conclave, he felt dizzy and that a “guillotine” was falling on him.
But he said then that he was heartened by a letter he had received from an unnamed cardinal “confrere” in the days before the conclave began, urging him to follow whatever God had in store for him.
In the book, Gaenswein revealed that it was Schoenborn who penned the letter, noting that he was one of the few people who addressed Benedict with the informal “you” — something not even Benedict’s closest Vatican collaborators ever did. Schoenborn and Ratzinger had known each other since 1972, when the young Dominican priest took a course Ratzinger gave in Regensburg, Germany, and “remained in the tight circle of his former students,” Gaenswein wrote.
In the statement, Schoenborn confirmed “That was the case.” But in another indication of his disagreement that such information had been made public, and so soon after Benedict’s death, he added: “I have deliberately kept silent about it until now.”
Schoenborn, who turns 78 on Sunday, is by many counts eminently “papabile,” or having the characteristics of a future pope. Descended from nobility and the son of divorced parents, he shares a strong affinity with Benedict and his conservative allies, but has remained on good terms with Francis. Most significantly, he defended Francis’ outreach to divorced and civilly remarried couples as a natural “development” in church doctrine, after Francis came under attack by conservatives. | 2023-01-19T18:44:07+00:00 | wivb.com | https://www.wivb.com/news/world/ap-cardinal-says-book-by-benedict-xvis-secretary-unseemly/ |
Optical retailer will donate $5 for every pair of SU2C glasses sold July 18-Aug. 27
DALLAS, July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A whopping 1 in 3 people in the United States will develop cancer during their lifetime, according to the American Cancer Society. At Eyemart Express, local communities can support Stand Up To Cancer's (SU2C) research efforts by purchasing new glasses. The nonprofit organization aims to make all cancer patients long-term survivors. For every pair of SU2C glasses purchased from July 18 through Aug. 27 at the optical retailer, $5 will be donated to the important cause.
Participating in the fundraiser is easy. Shoppers can visit any Eyemart Express store and have SU2C frames, exclusively made in collaboration with SU2C and Visual Eyes Eyewear, made into prescription glasses or sunglasses. The unisex collection accommodates a variety of personal styles, with an assortment of 22 frames ranging from bold, color-block designs to more traditional looking tortoise and metal frames. Preview the full collection, starting at $69.95, here.
"Cancer impacts so many families and communities," says Katy Hanson, Eyemart Express CMO. "Our fundraiser is an easy way to honor a loved one and contribute to the life-saving research that Stand Up To Cancer does while keeping your eyes healthy."
Eyemart Express has pledged a $25,000 donation to the organization in honor of its seventh year hosting the in-store fundraiser. Over the years, the retailer has raised more than $689,000 with this dedicated collection for SU2C in partnership with Visual Eyes Eyewear.
Find a local Eyemart Express to shop the exclusive frame collection and support Stand Up To Cancer at eyemartexpress.com/get-glasses. Get more information about Stand Up To Cancer at standuptocancer.org.
About Eyemart Express
Eyemart Express (EyemartExpress.com) is a national optical retailer known for providing high-quality prescription eyewear with a focus on affordability and convenience. Eyemart Express ranks among the top optical retailers in the country with its family of brands: Vision 4 Less, Visionmart Express, and Eyewear Express. The company is based in Farmers Branch, Texas, and has 236 stores in 42 states. Eyemart Express offers a robust frame selection for the whole family with more than 2,000 frames from brands such as Ray-Ban, Coach, Nike, and Disney. On-site lens labs and skilled lab technicians can deliver high-quality glasses in as little as 30 minutes.
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Kevin McCarthy faces growing pressure to end the impasse over his imperiled speakership bid after two consecutive days of failed votes. Even after proposing major concessions to his hardline conservative opponents late Wednesday, it remains unclear if the California Republican will be able to lock in the 218 votes he needs to win the gavel.
The House on Thursday reconvened and will hold a seventh vote for speaker with some Republicans, including McCarthy, trying to downplay the significance of this latest vote.
"Well, I think what you'll see today is the same until we finish everything out," McCarthy said. "Whenever you negotiate different things, nothing's agreed to until everything's agreed to. I wouldn't read anything into votes today."
"We're banking on getting there," McCarthy said when asked if about GOP holdouts voting present.
As the fight drags on, patience is wearing thin among lawmakers. Moderates have also grown increasingly frustrated over the concessions, which many believe may make it harder for the new GOP majority to effectively govern, though they will likely still swallow them.
The House is set to reconvene on Thursday at 12 p.m. ET. It's unclear if a seventh vote on McCarthy's speakership will happen then or if Republicans will move to adjourn. McCarthy is leery of having additional votes that show 20 members are opposed to him and he wants to demonstrate some forward momentum, a source familiar with the matter tells CNN.
McCarthy has been meeting with his allies on Capitol Hill and his opponents have been meeting off campus Thursday morning as House Republicans continue to try to chart a path forward.
"I think things are moving in the right direction," Rep. Dusty Johnson of South Dakota said as he left the McCarthy meeting. "Nothing's going to come together quickly, but I think we're clearly making progress."
The longer the fight drags out, the more dire it becomes for McCarthy's future, however, as it risks further defections and a loss of confidence in the GOP leader.
Rep. Ken Buck of Colorado, who has supported McCarthy through six ballots, warned of the potential for additional defections on Thursday.
Asked by CNN if he would be with McCarthy on the seventh ballot, Buck said: "If there's a deal and you know, 10 of the 20 move, I think that people stay with him. If there's no deal and we have another vote of 20, I think people are going to start (defecting)." Buck added: "Including me."
"There is a point in time that Kevin is going to lose credibility because he can't make this deal," Buck said.
McCarthy agrees to additional concessions
There are some indications that negotiations have made some headway as McCarthy and his allies attempt to chip away at opposition from a bloc of conservatives.
In a series of new concessions first reported by CNN Wednesday night, McCarthy agreed to propose a rules change that would allow just one member to call for a vote to oust a sitting speaker, according to two sources familiar with the matter. McCarthy had initially proposed a five-member threshold, down from current conference rules that require half of the GOP to call for such a vote.
He also agreed to allow for more members of the Freedom Caucus to serve on the powerful House Rules Committee, which dictates how and whether bills come to the floor, and to vote on a handful of bills that are priorities for the holdouts, including proposing term limits on members and a border security plan.
Republican sources say that even if McCarthy's offers are accepted, it would still not get him the 218 votes he needs to be speaker. While these concessions could attract some new support, other opponents have raised different concerns that have yet to be fully addressed.
McCarthy said Wednesday evening that there was no deal yet to end the stalemate, but that there has been progress. "I think it's probably best that people work through some more," McCarthy said after the House had adjourned.
McCarthy has already made a number of concessions to his opponents, though so far his efforts have not been enough.
But sources said the talks Wednesday between McCarthy allies and holdouts have been the most productive and serious ones to date. And in one sign of a breakthrough, a McCarthy-aligned super PAC agreed to not play in open Republican primaries in safe seats -- one of the big demands that conservatives had asked for but that McCarthy had resisted until this point.
Texas Rep. Chip Roy, one of the conservatives who has voted against McCarthy's speakership bid, told GOP leaders that he thinks he can get 10 holdouts to come along if ongoing negotiations pan out, according to GOP sources familiar with the internal discussions, and that there are additional detractors who may be willing to vote "present."
Still, even if these negotiations prove successful and 10 lawmakers do flip to McCarthy's column -- which is far from certain -- that won't get McCarthy to the 218 votes needed to win the speakership, so he would still have more work to do.
McCarthy also met separately Wednesday with the freshmen members-elect who voted against him, sources told CNN.
During the meeting, McCarthy reiterated some of the things he has already promised and went into greater detail about those concessions.
McCathy's direct outreach to the freshmen-elect offers another window into his strategy for winning over the holdouts.
Incoming House Majority Whip Tom Emmer commented that the negotiations have been "very, very constructive."
"There were a whole bunch of members that were involved in this, and there are some folks now that are sitting down and talking about that discussion to see where they want to go with it next," the Minnesota Republican said.
One moderate Republican told CNN Thursday morning that they aren't happy about the concessions, though they are willing to have "discussions" about them.
The fear is that lowering the threshold for a vote to oust the speaker to one member will make governing on items like the debt limit and funding almost impossible.
"I don't like the rules but am willing to hear discussions. I think they're a mistake for the conference. These handful of folks want a weak speaker with a four-vote majority. The public will not like what they see of the GOP, I fear," the member said.
House in chaos over speaker fight
The fight over the speakership, which began Tuesday on the first day of the 118th Congress, has thrown the new House GOP majority into chaos and undercut the party's agenda.
McCarthy has so far come up short in six rounds of voting. The final GOP tally for the sixth vote, which took place on Wednesday, was 201 for McCarthy, 20 for Florida Rep. Byron Donalds of Florida and one "present" vote.
The House will remain paralyzed until this standoff is resolved. This is the first time an election for speaker has gone to multiple ballots since 1923.
To be elected speaker, a candidate needs to win a majority of members who vote for a specific person on the House floor. That amounts to 218 votes if no member skips the vote or votes "present."
House Republicans won 222 seats in the new Congress, so for McCarthy to reach 218, he can only afford to lose four GOP votes.
This story and headline have been updated with additional developments.
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IREDELL COUNTY, N.C. (WJZY) – NASCAR driver Cody Shane Ware has been suspended indefinitely after he was arrested on assault and strangulation charges this month in North Carolina, according to NASCAR officials and the Iredell County Sheriff’s Office.
The alleged aggravated assault was reported at 10:39 p.m. on Monday, April 3, at a residence in Mooresville, the incident report states.
Authorities say the crime occurred on April 3, however, online records show Ware wasn’t booked into jail on charges until one week later, on April 10.
The charges listed were assault by strangulation – inflicting serious injury and assault on a female. The total bond was listed at $3,000. Additional details have yet to be released.
Records show that the 27-year-old was booked into the Iredell County Detention Center on Monday, and had a court appearance. Ware missed this past weekend’s dirt race in Bristol citing personal reasons, according to NASCAR. Matt Crafton was his replacement.
“Cody Ware will step away from racing this weekend at Bristol Motor Speedway to focus on a personal matter. Matt Crafton will drive the No. 51 Ford Mustang for Rick Ware Racing.” Rick Ware Racing tweeted, in part.
Ware was the driver of the No. 51 Ford Mustang car and raced full-time in the NASCAR Cup Series. He drove for his father’s team, Rick Ware Racing. His social media accounts listed him as being out of Mooresville. On Monday, April 10, NASCAR issued an indefinite suspension, listing ‘behavioral, sections 4.4.D’ as the cause.
This isn’t the first time a member of the Ware family has faced similar charges. In October 2021, Carson Reed Ware was charged with assault on a female, simple assault, and injury to personal property. NASCAR suspended him following the 2021 arrest. In June 2022, NASCAR lifted Ware’s suspension.
It is unclear at this time when Cody Ware is expected to return to racing. | 2023-04-11T01:22:16+00:00 | cbs42.com | https://www.cbs42.com/news/national/nascars-cody-ware-charged-with-assault-suspended-from-racing/ |
NEW YORK, July 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of HUMBL, LLC (OTC: HMBL) and/or the Company's unregistered digital asset (sold as BLOCKS Exchange Traded Index ("ETXs") on various cryptocurrency exchanges) between November 1, 2020 and May 19, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period") of the important July 19, 2022 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Humbl securities and/or the Company's ETXs during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Humbl class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=6398 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than July 19, 2022. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually handle securities class actions, but are merely middlemen that refer clients or partner with law firms that actually litigate the cases. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, defendants violated provisions of the Exchange Act by making false and misleading statements concerning the Company's growth prospects, technological advancements, international partnerships, and financial benefits for Humbl common stock and digital asset investors, as well as using selectively timed announcements to keep Humbl stock price high so that Company insiders could sell off their holdings into artificially created volume. The complaint also alleges that defendants violated provisions of the Securities Act by selling its unregistered securities (BLOCK ETX digital assets) to investors.
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MIAMI, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Royal Caribbean Group (NYSE: RCL) has scheduled a conference call for 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time, Thursday, July 28, 2022, to provide a business update and discuss second quarter financial results. The call will be simultaneously webcast on the company's investor relations website, www.rclinvestor.com. A replay of the webcast will remain available at the same website for 30 days following the call.
About Royal Caribbean Group
Royal Caribbean Group (NYSE: RCL) is one of the leading cruise companies in the world with a global fleet of 63 ships traveling to more than 1,000 destinations around the world. Royal Caribbean Group is the owner and operator of three award-winning cruise brands: Royal Caribbean International, Celebrity Cruises, and Silversea Cruises, and it is also a 50% owner of a joint venture that operates TUI Cruises and Hapag-Lloyd Cruises. Together, the brands have an additional 10 ships on order as of June 30, 2022. Learn more at www.royalcaribbeangroup.com or www.rclinvestor.com.
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BERLIN (AP) — The German government sought Wednesday to reassure homeowners that plans to phase out gas or oil heating systems will provide generous transition periods and take into account hardship cases.
Almost a third of the energy consumed in Germany goes toward heating and warm water, prompting the government to draft a bill that would require all new heating systems installed from next year to use at least 65% renewable energy. From 2045, all fossil fuel heatings would be banned as part of Germany’s target to become “climate neutral” by then.
The proposal has drawn criticism from opposition parties who claim it will cost homeowners too much, but Housing Minister Klara Geywitz said the bill won’t force anyone to sell their home because they can’t afford the requirements.
If approved by lawmakers, the bill would provide significant subsidies for those switching to greener heating systems — such as electric heat pumps — and the savings for homeowners who don’t have to buy oil or gas anymore will allow them to more than recoup their investments over time, she said.
Germany’s finance minister, who leads the small pro-business Free Democratic Party, expressed concerns about the cost of the plans and suggested that parliament might need to make last-minute tweaks. | 2023-04-20T05:37:10+00:00 | ktalnews.com | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/u-s-world/germany-tries-to-reassure-homeowners-on-heating-overhaul/ |
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Mark R. O'Brian, University at Buffalo
(THE CONVERSATION) Mediaoutlets have reported the encouraging findings of clinical trials for a new experimental vaccine developed by the biotech company Moderna to treat an aggressive type of skin cancer called melanoma.
Although this is potentially very good news, it occurred to me that the headlines may be unintentionally misleading. The vaccines most people are familiar with prevent disease, whereas this experimental new skin cancer vaccine treats only patients who are already sick. Why is it called a vaccine if it does not prevent cancer?
I am a biochemist and molecular biologist studying the roles that microbes play in health and disease. I also teach cancer genetics to medical students and am interested in how the public understands science. While preventive and therapeutic vaccines are administered for different health care goals, they both train the immune system to recognize and fight off a specific disease agent that causes illness.
How do preventive vaccines work?
Most vaccines are administered to healthy people before they get sick to prevent illnesses caused by viruses or bacteria. These include vaccines that prevent polio, measles, COVID-19 and many other diseases. Researchers have also developed vaccines to prevent some types of cancers that are caused by such viruses as the human papillomaviruses and Epstein-Barr virus.
Your immune system recognizes objects such as certain microbes and allergens that do not belong in your body and initiates a series of cellular events to attack and destroy them. Thus, a virus or bacterium that enters the body is recognized as something foreign and triggers an immune response to fight off the microbial invader. This results in a cellular memory that will elicit an even faster immune response the next time the same microbe intrudes.
The problem is that sometimes the initial infection causes serious illness before the immune system can mount a response against it. While you may be better protected against a second infection, you have suffered the potentially damaging consequences of the first one.
This is where preventive vaccines come in. By introducing a harmless version or a portion of the microbe to the immune system, the body can learn to mount an effective response against it without causing the disease.
For example, the Gardasil-9 vaccine protects against the human papillomavirus, or HPV, which causes cervical cancer. It contains protein components found in the virus that cannot cause disease but do elicit an immune response that protects against future HPV infection, thereby preventing cervical cancer.
How does the Moderna cancer vaccine work?
Unlike cervical cancer, skin melanoma isn’t caused by a viral infection, according the latest evidence. Nor does Moderna’s experimental vaccine prevent cancer as Gardasil-9 does.
The Moderna vaccine trains the immune system to fight off an invader in the same way preventive vaccines most people are familiar with do. However, in this case the invader is a tumor, a rogue version of normal cells that harbors abnormal proteins that the immune system can recognize as foreign and attack.
What are these abnormal proteins and where do they come from?
All cells are made up of proteins and other biological molecules such as carbohydrates, lipids and nucleic acids. Cancer is caused by mutations in regions of genetic material, or DNA, that encode instructions on what proteins to make. Mutated genes result in abnormal proteins called neoantigens that the body recognizes as foreign. That can trigger an immune response to fight off a nascent tumor. However, sometimes the immune response fails to subdue the cancer cells, either because the immune system is unable to mount a strong enough response or the cancer cells have found a way to circumvent the immune system’s defenses.
Moderna’s experimental melanoma vaccine contains genetic information that encodes for portions of the neoantigens in the tumor. This genetic information is in the form of mRNA, which is the same form used in the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNtech COVID-19 vaccines. Importantly, the vaccine cannot cause cancer, because it encodes for only small, nonfunctional parts of the protein. When the genetic information is translated into those protein pieces in the body, they trigger the immune system to mount an attack against the tumor. Ideally, this immune response will cause the tumor to shrink and disappear.
Notably, the Moderna melanoma vaccine is tailor-made for each patient. Each tumor is unique, and so the vaccine needs to be unique as well. To customize vaccines, researchers first biopsy the patient’s tumor to determine what neoantigens are present. The vaccine manufacturer then designs specific mRNA molecules that encode those neoantigens. When this custom mRNA vaccine is administered, the body translates the genetic material into proteins specific to the patient’s tumor, resulting in an immune response against the tumor.
Combining vaccination with immunotherapy
Vaccines are a form of immunotherapy, because they treat diseases by harnessing the immune system. However, other immunotherapy cancer drugs are not vaccines because, while they also stimulate the immune system, they do not target specific neoantigens.
In fact, the Moderna vaccine is co-administered with the immunotherapy drug pembrolizumab, which is marketed as Keytruda. Why are two drugs needed?
Certain immune cells called T-cells have molecular accelerator and brake components that serve as checkpoints to ensure they are revved up only in the presence of a foreign invader such as a tumor. However, sometimes tumor cells find a way to keep the T-cell brakes on and suppress the immune response. In these cases, the Moderna vaccine correctly identifies the tumor, but T-cells cannot respond to it.
Pembrolizumab, however, can bind directly to a brake component on the T-cell, inactivating the brake system and allowing the immune cells to attack the tumor.
Not a preventive cancer vaccine
So why can’t the Moderna vaccine be administered to healthy people to prevent melanoma before it arises?
Cancers are highly variable from person to person. Each melanoma harbors a different neoantigen profile that cannot be predicted in advance. Therefore, a vaccine cannot be developed in advance of the illness.
The experimental mRNA melanoma vaccine, currently still in early-phase clinical trials, is an example of the new frontier of personalized medicine. By understanding the molecular basis of diseases, researchers can explore how their underlying causes vary among people, and offer personalized therapeutic options against those diseases.
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here: https://theconversation.com/modernas-experimental-cancer-vaccine-treats-but-doesnt-prevent-melanoma-a-biochemist-explains-how-it-works-197003. | 2023-01-17T15:03:19+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/Moderna-s-experimental-cancer-vaccine-treats-but-17722490.php |
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NEW YORK (AP) — Throngs of spectators lined the streets of New York on Thursday as colorful, high-flying balloons helped usher in the holiday season during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
The annual tradition, which dates back nearly a century, packed streets as a procession of giant inflatables and floats streamed for more than 40 blocks from Central Park to Herald Square.
Children balanced atop metal barricades and hung from scaffolding to watch the balloons amid mostly sunny skies and a slight breeze.
“Blue, Blue. There's Blue,” yelled Divyam Kumar, 6, as his father helped balance him and his 4-year-old brother Aanu Aryan on a metal rail.
The youngster was referring to the star of the animated show “Blue's Clues" — not to be confused with the international cartoon sensation Bluey, an Australian cattle pup making her parade debut.
Bluey's balloon towered as tall as a four-story building and stretched as wide as seven taxi cabs.
Stuart, the one-eyed Minion, was also there to thrill the crowd.
But it was Snoopy that especially caught the eye of Brenner Chenenko, 8, even more so than the more contemporary pups.
“It's one of the classics,” said the youngster from Rochester, New York, who lined the parade route with his father Nate and grandfather John Wopperer.
It was the first time the father and son had seen the parade in person. Wopperer last saw a parade live three years ago, before the pandemic sidelined the event for a year.
Snoopy, dressed as an astronaut, was followed by another old-time favorite, Papa Smurf.
This year's parade featured 16 giant balloons, 28 floats, 40 novelty and heritage inflatables, 12 marching bands, 10 performance groups, 700 clowns and one Santa Claus.
The procession of characters were joined by singer Paula Abdul, in her first parade appearance; indie pop band Fitz and the Tantrums; boy band Big Time Rush; “Blue’s Clues & You!” host Josh Dela Cruz; singer Gloria Estefan; gospel singer Kirk Franklin; actor Mario Lopez; reggae star Ziggy Marley; and Miss America 2022 Emma Broyles.
Singers Joss Stone, Jordin Sparks and Betty Who were also part of the festivities, as were the stars of Peacock’s “Pitch Perfect: Bumper in Berlin” — Adam Devine, Sarah Hyland and Flula Borg. Jimmy Fallon & The Roots were on a float celebrating Central Park.
President Biden and Jill Biden called into the parade, as he did last year. Biden thanked firefighters, police officers and first responders, saying, “They never take a break.”
They thanked the troops and Biden said he would be reaching out to speak to some today.
Asked about their plans for the day in Nantucket, Massachusetts, the Bidens said it would involve family, and some time spent locally, thanking first responders.
In Plymouth, Massachusetts, the English settlement founded by the Pilgrims who arrived on the Mayflower, two annual events were being held to embrace “all aspects” of the holiday, town officials said.
Costumed participants were re-enacting their annual Thanksgiving Day “Pilgrim Progress” procession, representing the 51 survivors of that first brutal winter of 1621 — although Thursday’s crew had better conditions, with sunny skies and temperatures in the 40s.
There also was a “National Day of Mourning” honoring indigenous ancestors and protesting against racism and oppression. “We are not vanquishing, We are not conquered, We are as strong as ever,” a sign behind the speakers read.
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Associated Press reporters Deepti Hajela and Kathy McCormack contributed to this story. | 2022-11-24T18:45:05+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/entertainment/article/High-flying-balloon-characters-star-in-17608564.php |
The United States is poised to remove five extremist groups, all believed to be defunct, from its list of foreign terrorist organizations, including several that once posed significant threats, killing hundreds if not thousands of people across Asia, Europe and the Middle East.
Although the groups are inactive, the decision is politically sensitive for the Biden administration and the countries in which the organizations operated, and could draw criticism from victims and their families still dealing with the losses of loved ones.
The organizations are the Basque separatist group ETA , the Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo, the radical Jewish group Kahane Kach and two Islamic groups that have been active in Israel, the Palestinian territories and Egypt.
The U.S. State Department notified Congress on Friday of the moves, which come at the same time as an increasingly divisive but unrelated debate in Washington and elsewhere about whether Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard should or can be legally removed from the U.S. list as part of efforts to salvage the languishing Iran nuclear deal.
That designation, which was imposed by the Trump administration, was not mentioned in Friday’s notifications.
In separate notices to lawmakers, the State Department said the terrorism designations for the five groups will be formally removed when the determinations are published in the Federal Register, which is expected this coming week.
Copies of the notifications, all of which were signed by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday, were obtained by The Associated Press.
The general reason for the removals is identical in each of the cases: Blinken asserting that they were based on an administrative review of the designations, which by law is required every five years.
“Revoking FTO designations ensures our terrorism sanctions remain current and credible and does not reflect any change in policy towards the past activities of any of these the organizations,” the State Department said on Sunday.
The reviews take into account whether designated groups are still active, whether they have committed terrorist acts within the previous five years and whether removal from or retention of the list would be in U.S. national security interests. Under the law that created the list, the secretary of state can remove groups that he or she deems no longer to fit the criteria.
“Based on a review of the Administrative Record assembled in this matter and in consultation with the Attorney General and the Secretary of the Treasury, I determine that the circumstances that were the basis for the designation ... have changed in such a manner to warrant revocation of the designation,” Blinken wrote in each notice.
Removing the groups from the list has the immediate effect of rescinding a range of sanctions that the designations had entailed. Those include asset freezes and travel bans as well as a prohibition on any Americans providing the groups or their members with any material support. In the past the material support provision has been broadly defined to encompass money or in-kind assistance, in some cases even medical care.
All but one of the five groups was first designated a foreign terrorist organization in 1997 and have remained on the list for the past 25 years.
U.S. officials familiar with the matter said the decisions were made only after consulting lawmakers several months ago about whether the latest five-year reviews should proceed. Before now, only 15 groups have been removed from the list.
The specific reasons for each the removals are included only in classified sections that accompanied the notifications, which are not classified on their own. These sections are labeled “SECRET/NOFORN,” which means their contents can only be shared among U.S. officials with proper clearances and not with foreign governments.
The groups to be removed are:
— Aum Shinrikyo (AUM), the Japanese “Supreme Truth” cult that carried out the deadly sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway in 1995 that killed 13 people and sickened hundreds more. The group has been considered largely defunct since the executions of its top echelons, including leader Shoko Asahara, in 2018. It was designated a foreign terrorist organization in 1997.
— Basque Fatherland and Liberty, or ETA, which ran a separatist campaign of bombings and assassinations in northern Spain and elsewhere for decades that killed more than 800 people and wounded thousands more, until declaring a cease-fire in 2010 and disbanding after the arrests and trials of its last leaders in 2018. It was designated a foreign terrorist organization in 1997.
— Kahane Chai, or Kach. The radical Orthodox Jewish group was founded by ultranationalist Israeli Rabbi Meir Kahane in 1971. He led the group until his assassination in 1990. Members of the group have killed, attacked or otherwise threatened or harassed Arabs, Palestinians and Israeli government officials, but the organization has been dormant since 2005. The group was first designated in 1997.
— The Mujahidin Shura Council in the Environs of Jerusalem, an umbrella group of several jihadist organizations based in Gaza that has claimed responsibility for numerous rocket and other attacks on Israel since its founding in 2012. The council was first designated in 2014.
— Gama’a al-Islamiyya, or Islamic Group–IG, an Egyptian Sunni Islamist movement that fought to topple Egypt’s government during the 1990s. It conducted hundreds of deadly attacks against the police and security forces as well as tourists. The group was first designated in 1997.
The State Department said on Sunday that Blinken was required by law to revoke the designations if the groups no longer met the legal criteria.
Speaking of the Kahane Chai group, the department said it had not been linked to a terrorist attack since 2005. It also said the Mujahidin Shura Council has not claimed an attack since 2013.
“Neither currently meet the statutory definition of a foreign organization,” the department said.
It added that both groups would remain on the U.S. list of Specially Designated Global Terrorist entities that will keep in place sanctions against their property and assets in American jurisdictions. | 2022-05-16T16:30:59+00:00 | news9.com | https://www.news9.com/story/62822194b89f3d07221cc7c3/us-set-to-remove-5-groups-from-foreign-terrorism-blacklist |
By The Associated Press
Katie Meyer’s parents have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Stanford, saying the 21-year-old goalie was distressed about facing discipline over an incident from August 2021.
Meyer took her own life in late February. The civil lawsuit was filed Wednesday in Santa Clara County Superior Court. USA Today obtained the lawsuit.
The lawsuit says Meyer spilled coffee on a Stanford football player who allegedly had sexually assaulted a soccer teammate. It also said that Meyer received a formal written notice on the evening of Feb. 28 — the same night she died — that charged her with a “Violation of the Fundamental Standard.”
The violation put her diploma on hold a few months before she was supposed to graduate, USA Today reported.
Her parents argue in the lawsuit that the notice came “after-hours” while Meyer was “alone in her room without any support or resources.” The lawsuit says that Meyer responded to the email “expressing how ‘shocked and distraught’ she was over being charged and threatened with removal from the university” and received a follow-up email that scheduled a meeting three days later.
Her parents said in the lawsuit that Meyer had “an acute stress reaction that impulsively led her” to take her life. The lawsuit also says that Meyer had told Stanford employees in November 2021 that she had “been scared for months that my clumsiness will ruin my chances of leaving Stanford on a good note.”
Stanford’s assistant vice president of external communications, Dee Mostofi, told USA Today on Wednesday that the school “strongly disagreed” with the lawsuit’s claim that Stanford was responsible in Meyer’s death and hadn’t seen the complaint.
Meyer was a part of the 2019 national champion women’s soccer team. She stopped two penalty shots in Stanford’s 5-4 shootout victory over North Carolina after a scoreless draw.
If you or someone you know is struggling with feelings of depression or suicidal thoughts, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline offers free, round-the-clock support, information and resources for help. Reach the lifeline at 988 or 800-273-8255, or see the 988lifeline.org website. | 2022-11-24T21:18:29+00:00 | santacruzsentinel.com | https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2022/11/24/family-of-katie-meyer-files-wrongful-death-suit-vs-stanford-2/ |
In Celebration of the Recent 20-Year Anniversary of Snapple's Real Facts®, Snapple is Putting its Fact Writing into Fans' Hands
FRISCO, Texas, Feb. 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Snapple®, the iconic beverage brand that delivers fun and flavorful teas and juice drinks, is proud to announce the launch of the Snapple fAIct Generator, an AI-powered tool that makes it easy to create facts about any topic. Celebrating 20-years of Snapple Real Facts®, facts found under every Snapple bottle cap, the Snapple fAIct Generator puts fact-creation in the hands of the brand's fans. To help share the news of this new tool, Snapple used ChatGPT to write this press release, with some light edits to make it more Snapple-y.
The Snapple fAIct Generator, powered by technology from ChatGPT creator OpenAI, allows users to create and share facts via social media. Whether looking for a fact about a Snapple flavor, doughnuts, music, or our favorite furry friend, ChatGPT has got you covered. The Snapple fAIct Generator will create a database of all newly created facts and some may appear under caps in 2024.
Since the start of Snapple Real Facts, there have been 1,677 facts. For inspiration, here are a few of the original Snapple Real Facts:
- Beavers can hold their breath for 45 minutes.
- Slugs have two noses.
- You can't hum while plugging your nose (go ahead, give it a try).
"Snapple's fans have come to expect the unexpected from the brand, which is beloved for its variety, flavor, and most of all, fun. Over the past 20 years, a central part of the fun Snapple experience has been the Snapple Real Facts under the cap," said Kelli Freeman, Senior Vice President of Marketing, Keurig Dr Pepper. "The Snapple fAIct Generator makes it easy for a new generation of Snapple fans to experience the fun of facts in a tech-forward, and interactive way."
Visit SnapplefAIcts.com, or scan the QR code on any Snapple Bottle, to use the Snapple fAIct Generator to create custom facts (Snapple fAIcts are generated with AI, so they can be wrong, skewed, or even inappropriate). Go ahead, give it a try! You never know what Snapple-licious fact you might learn.
About Snapple
Snapple, a brand of Keurig Dr Pepper (KDP), is a leader in great-tasting premium beverages. Founded in 1972 by three childhood friends, Snapple got its start in New York and is now available throughout the United States. Snapple prides itself on developing, producing, and marketing a wide variety of premium beverages, including ready-to-drink teas, juice drinks, and 100% juices. For more information, visit Snapple.com or KeurigDrPepper.com. For the brand's latest news and updates, follow Snapple at Facebook.com/Snapple, Instagram.com/Snapple, or Twitter.com/Snapple.
About Keurig Dr Pepper
Keurig Dr Pepper (KDP) is a leading beverage company in North America, with annual revenue in excess of $12 billion and approximately 27,000 employees. KDP holds leadership positions in soft drinks, specialty coffee and tea, water, juice and juice drinks and mixers, and markets the #1 single serve coffee brewing system in the U.S. and Canada. The Company's portfolio of more than 125 owned, licensed and partner brands is designed to satisfy virtually any consumer need, any time, and includes Keurig®, Dr Pepper®, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters®, Canada Dry®, Snapple®, Bai®, Mott's®, CORE® and The Original Donut Shop®. Through its powerful sales and distribution network, KDP can deliver its portfolio of hot and cold beverages to nearly every point of purchase for consumers. The Company is committed to sourcing, producing, and distributing its beverages responsibly through its Drink Well. Do Good. corporate responsibility platform, including efforts around circular packaging, efficient natural resource use and supply chain sustainability. For more information, visit www.keurigdrpepper.com.
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WASHINGTON — More Americans applied for jobless benefits last week as the number of unemployed continues to rise modestly, though the labor market remains one of the strongest parts of the U.S. economy.
Applications for jobless aid for the week ending July 30 rose by 6,000 to 260,000 from the previous week’s 254,000, the Labor Department reported Thursday. First-time applications generally reflect layoffs.
The four-week average for claims, which evens out the weekly ups and downs, also rose from the previous week, to 254,750.
The total number of Americans collecting jobless benefits for the week ending July 23 rose by 48,000 from the previous week, to 1,416,000. That figure has been near 50-year lows for months.
On Tuesday, the Labor Department reported that American employers posted fewer job openings in June as the economy contends with persistently high inflation and rising interest rates.
Job openings fell to a still-high 10.7 million in June from 11.3 million in May. Job openings, which never exceeded 8 million in a month before last year, had topped 11 million every month from December through May before dipping in June.
The Labor Department’s jobs report for July, due out Friday, is expected to show that employers tacked on another 250,000 jobs last month, which would be a healthy number in normal times but would be the lowest since December 2020, when the global economy was being ravaged by the pandemic.
Economists expect the unemployment rate to hold at 3.6% for the fifth straight month.
Though the labor market is still considered strong, there have been some high-profile layoffs announced recently by Tesla, Netflix, Carvana, Redfin and Coinbase. A host of other companies, particularly in the tech sector, have announced hiring freezes.
Other indicators point to some weakness in the U.S. economy. The government said last week that the U.S. economy shrank 0.9% in the second quarter, the second straight quarterly contraction.
Consumer prices are still soaring, up 9.1% in June compared with a year earlier, the biggest yearly increase in four decades. In response, the Federal Reserve raised its main borrowing rate by another three-quarters of a point last week. That follows June’s three-quarter point hike and another half-point increase in May.
Higher rates have already sent home sales tumbling, made the prospect of buying a new car more burdensome and pushed credit card rates up.
All of those factors paint a divergent and confusing picture of the post-pandemic economy: Inflation is hammering household budgets, forcing consumers to pull back on spending, and growth is weakening, heightening fears the economy could fall into recession. | 2022-08-04T16:33:16+00:00 | abqjournal.com | https://www.abqjournal.com/2521891/applications-for-us-jobless-claims-up-again-last-week.html |
Bennett, Hagestad reach quarterfinals of US Amateur
PARAMUS, N.J. (AP) — Texas A&M senior Sam Bennett and U.S. Mid-Am champion Stewart Hagestad are among players in the quarterfinals of the U.S. Amateur. Bennett is the No. 3 player in the world amateur rankings. He defeated David Puig of Spain. Puig plays at Arizona State and is best known lately for being among amateurs competing in the Saudi-funded LIV Golf series. Next up for Bennett is the 31-year-old Hagestad in a match of top-10 players in the amateur ranking. Also advancing was Dylan Menante at No. 8. Four players from the top 10 were eliminated in the first round at Ridgewood. | 2022-08-19T03:17:53+00:00 | kyma.com | https://kyma.com/news/ap-business/2022/08/18/bennett-hagestad-reach-quarterfinals-of-us-amateur-2/ |
Caffeine is officially America’s favorite drug. 62% of Americans drink coffee every day, and to be honest if I could snort my morning cup of joe, I would.
A Keurig coffee maker is the next best thing. Keurig machines are no fuss, no muss, and can brew coffee in as fast as one minute, making them one of the easiest, most convenient coffee makers on the market.
And this coming Prime Day there are oodles of Keurig-based deals, with their single-servers being up to 54% off! Now that is convenient.
Keurig K-Elite Coffee Maker, Single Serve K-Cup Pod Coffee Brewer, With Iced Coffee Capability – $99.99
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Nonfiction 1. Spare by Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex, narrated by the author (Random House Audio) 2. Atomic Habits by James Clear, narrated by the author (Penguin Audio) 3. Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss, narrated by Michael Kramer (HarperAudio) 4. The Courage to Be Free by Ron DeSantis, narrated by the author and John Pruden (HarperAudio) 5. Never Finished by David Goggins, narrated by the author, Adam Skolnick and Jacqueline Gardner (Lioncrest Publishing) 6. The 6 Habits of Growth by Brendon Burchard, narrated by the author (Audible Originals) 7. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson, narrated by Roger Wayne (HarperAudio) 8. I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy, narrated by the author (Simon & Schuster Audio) 9. 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene, narrated by Richard Poe (HighBridge, a Division of Recorded Books) 10. All My Knotted-Up Life by Beth Moore, narrated by the author (One Audiobooks)
Fiction 1. Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus, narrated by Miranda Raison, Bonnie Garmus and Pandora Sykes (Random House Audio) 2. Hell Divers X: Fallout by Nicholas Sansbury Smith, narrated by R. C. Bray (Blackstone Publishing) 3. The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien, narrated by Andy Serkis (Recorded Books) 4. Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid, narrated by Jennifer Beals, Benjamin Bratt, Judy Greer and Pablo Schreiber (Random House Audio) 5. The House at the End of the World by Dean Koontz, narrated by Natalie Naudus (Brilliance Audio) 6. Storm Watch by C. J. Box, narrated by David Chandler (Recorded Books) 7. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, Book 1 by J.K. Rowling, narrated by Jim Dale (Pottermore Publishing) 8. It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover, narrated by Olivia Song (Simon & Schuster Audio) 9. Reminders of Him by Colleen Hoover, narrated by Brittany Pressley and Ryan West (Brilliance Audio) 10. Someone Else’s Shoes by Jojo Moyes, narrated by Daisy Ridley (Penguin Audio) | 2023-03-07T23:16:00+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/entertainment/article/the-top-10-audiobooks-on-audible-com-17825532.php |
INVERNESS, Fla. – A woman who once claimed to be a former Miami-Dade police officer was arrested in another part of the state on some disturbing charges.
The Citrus County Sheriff’s Office says 33-year-old Diana Elizabeth Guevara molested several teenagers.
Police said she committed the acts inside of her home in Inverness over the past several months.
Detectives say the parents of one of the alleged victims called deputies after overhearing a conversation involving their son’s interactions with the officer.
In a statement, the sheriff’s office said, “Guevara manipulated the young victims in this case, and then took advantage of them. She was able to foster a relationship with one victim and identify the next victims through them, showing a pattern of predatory behavior. This conduct will not be tolerated.”
Guevara is facing several charges, including transmitting harmful materials to minors and unlawful sexual activity with minors.
On Saturday, the MDPD said Guevara had never been an officer with the department, according to the Miami Herald.
Her bond was set at $47,000. | 2022-07-24T15:22:26+00:00 | local10.com | https://www.local10.com/news/local/2022/07/24/former-miami-dade-officer-arrested-in-central-florida-accused-of-molesting-teenagers/ |
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The conductor of a San Francisco train that in 2021 dragged to death a woman was cleared of wrongdoing by federal investigators, according to a report made public Tuesday.
Amy Adams, 41, had boarded a Bay Area Rapid Transit train at the Powell Station with her dog tethered to her waist by a leash. As the doors were closing, she stepped out, but the dog stayed on the train. The train took off, and Adams was dragged and pulled onto the tracks and killed on Sept. 13, 2021. The dog was not injured, BART officials said.
Adams appeared to be waving at someone moments before the train started moving, they said. A witness told KGO-TV that he saw the woman being dragged and a man who was hysterical on the platform who told him the woman killed was his girlfriend.
The National Transportation Safety Board said the train conductor followed BART’s procedures that required him to look for passengers before departing a station but did not see Adams, who was more than 600 feet (180 meters) away from him, or the dog leash trapped between the doors.
The NTSB said dim lighting at the station “likely made it difficult for the train operator to reliably monitor and evaluate passengers exiting and entering the rear of the train.”
BART has since completed lighting and painting improvements at the Powell Street Station and other nearby stations to improve visibility for its train conductors, the agency said.
Toxicology tests on the train conductor didn’t identify any illicit substances, it said.
Adams tested positive for methamphetamine, cocaine and fentanyl in an autopsy conducted by San Francisco authorities, the agency said.
“It is likely that the passenger was experiencing at least some impairing effects of substance use at the time of the accident,” the NTSB said, adding that investigators found no clear evidence that impairment played a role in the accident. | 2023-03-14T22:49:41+00:00 | wivb.com | https://www.wivb.com/news/u-s-headlines/conductor-of-train-that-killed-woman-cleared-of-wrongdoing/ |
BEIJING, May 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Cloopen Group Holding Limited (NYSE: RAAS) ("Cloopen" or the "Company") today announced that it received a notice from the New York Stock Exchange ("NYSE") regarding the commencement of delisting proceedings of the Company's American depositary shares (the "ADSs") on the basis that the ADSs are not suitable for listing due to the Company's failure to file with the Securities and Exchange Commission its annual reports on Form 20-F for the years ended December 31, 2021 and December 31, 2022 and current report on Form 6-K for the half year ended June 30, 2022 (collectively, the "Delayed Filings") by May 17, 2023, which is the maximum time allowed under Section 802.01E of the NYSE's Listed Company Manual. The NYSE suspended the trading in the ADSs on May 17, 2023. The Company has until June 1, 2023 to submit a written request to appeal the NYSE Regulation staff's delisting decision.
The Company intends to appeal and will continue to dedicate significant efforts and resources towards filing the Delayed Filings as soon as possible, and resume trading of the Company's ADSs on the NYSE.
Following the trading suspension, the Company understands that the ADSs will become eligible for trading on the over-the-counter market in the United States.
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DENVER — We hear about fentanyl overdoses every day. Now law enforcement officers working to prevent them from happening are trying to figure out what they need to do differently, and they're listening to families for advice.
On Thursday, that started with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) hearing from the families of people who’ve died from fentanyl overdoses.
"I want people to know that this is a problem," said Samuel Kelley, whose nephew Josiah Velasquez, 15, died after taking a fentanyl-laced pill in May.
The DEA said more than 107,000 people died from drug overdoses last year around the country, and 66% of those were because of fentanyl. For the first time, events like the DEA's Family Summit put the families of the victims in the same room as the people fighting the problem.
"The more that we can speak and give voices to the people who no longer have those voices because it was taken from them through the actions that they did unknowingly, that’s where the change happens," Kelley said.
The DEA hosts summits across the country with the goal of hearing from people about what they need to be doing differently in the war against fentanyl. They cover things like what resources families need for someone struggling with addiction and what can they do to help after an overdose.
Cole Finegan is the U.S. Attorney for the District of Colorado. As Colorado makes state laws stricter in prosecuting drug dealers, Finegan said it’s a constant ongoing battle to take fentanyl off the street. Thursday, he told the families of those who have died that his focus is on the dealers.
"We’re focused on the people at the top of the chain," Finegan said. "We’re trying to find the people who are making it and the people who are distributing it. That is where we are focused in the United States Attorney’s Office."
One meeting won’t stop the overdoses. But inside this room, there’s hope that change will make fewer families go through the same pain of losing someone to an overdose.
"He no longer has that voice. He can’t speak up," Kelley said. "He can’t tell you that he just tried this one time. There isn’t a second time."
SUGGESTED VIDEOS: Latest from 9NEWS | 2022-12-16T06:35:29+00:00 | 9news.com | https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/families-dea-summit-fentanyl-deaths/73-3a0afeaa-6926-46e4-87a8-a2793a2adc4b |
PHOENIX — Legal abortions that restarted in Arizona this week after a court blocked enforcement of a pre-statehood ban will be able to continue for at least five weeks while an appeals court considers the case.
A schedule set Tuesday for Planned Parenthood and the Arizona attorney general’s office lawyers to file their legal briefs in the case means the Arizona Court of Appeals can’t decide the case until at least Nov. 17. The appeals court blocked enforcement of the Civil War-era law on Friday, reversing at least for now a Sept. 23 ruling from a judge in Tucson.
Clinics across the state ceased all abortion after that ruling. It was the second time since the U.S. Supreme Court overruled Roe. v. Wade in June and allowed states to ban abortions that clinics stopped serving women. They had ceased care after Roe was overturned, then restarted in mid-summer after a federal judge blocked a “personhood” law that clinics feared could be used to prosecute providers.
At least two of the state’s major abortion providers restarted operations this week, and a third served walk-ins for consultations for the abortion pill on Tuesday but has not set a full schedule for future appointments. But abortions can only be provided now through 15 weeks of pregnancy under a law passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature and signed by Republican Gov. Doug Ducey in March. The previous limit under now-overruled Supreme Court precedent was about 24 weeks.
Planned Parenthood of Arizona had operated clinics for surgical abortions in Tucson and Phoenix and provided abortion pills in those cities and in Flagstaff before the high court’s decision. It is only serving Tucson now, but hopes to resume serving Phoenix patients once it has staff in place.
A second major provider, Camelback Family Planning in Phoenix, began providing a full range of abortion services on Monday.
Arizona women seeking abortions have been whipsawed by the state’s competing laws since the high court’s decision. The new 15-week ban specifically said it did not repeal the pre-statehood law that bans abortions unless the life of the mother is at risk.
The pre-statehood abortion ban law has been blocked since Roe was decided in 1973, but Republican Attorney General Mark Brnovich asked a court in Tucson to allow it to be enforced this summer. The law dating to 1864 carries a prison sentence of two to five years.
Brnovich said the only reason the law was blocked was because of the Roe decision.
A Tucson judge agreed, rejecting arguments from Planned Parenthood and its Arizona affiliate that a host of abortion law enacted since that case was decided should take precedence over the old law and lifted the injunction barring enforcement,
But a three-judge panel of the court of appeals reversed that order, at least for now.
Presiding Judge Peter Eckerstrom wrote Friday that a stay is appropriate “given the acute need of healthcare providers, prosecuting agencies, and the public for legal clarity as to the application of our criminal laws. Notably, in the underlying litigation both parties sought some form of such clarification from the court.” | 2022-10-12T18:26:11+00:00 | abqjournal.com | https://www.abqjournal.com/2539709/arizona-abortions-wont-stop-for-a-month-while-case-proceeds.html |
Police searching landfill for missing toddler’s body
CHATHAM COUNTY, Ga. (WTOC/Gray News) - Law enforcement said they are searching a Chatham County landfill for missing toddler Quinton Simon.
During a news conference on Tuesday, the Chatham County Police Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation said evidence gathered has led to the landfill search, WTOC reported.
Chatham County Police Chief Jeff Hadley said the department believes Simon’s body was thrown in a trash receptacle and unknowingly disposed of at the landfill.
The specific landfill is the one off Little Neck Road near L. Scott Stell Park.
Quinton, 20 months old, was last seen on Oct. 5 when he was reported missing from his home. Since then, county police and the FBI confirmed they believe Quinton is dead.
They have named his mother, Leilani Simon, as the prime suspect in his disappearance and death.
No one has been charged yet in this case.
Both and Will Clarke with the FBI emphasized that this search process for Quinton is going to be grueling and isn’t something that’s going to be wrapped up in a few days.
Clarke described how physically involved the search will be, saying that a team of people will have to move a pile of debris at the landfill onto what he called a “search deck.” They’ll then have to go through that pile and determine if any of Quinton’s remains are in it. If not, they’ll move that pile of debris and search another one.
It’s an intensive process that could take a long time.
As hard as it’s going to be for those searching, they know that getting Quinton to a proper resting place is the most important thing right now.
“We know this is going to be a physically, mentally and emotionally grueling task for our investigators and team. Yesterday, our team posted this picture of Quinton here on this wall of this operation center as a reminder of who we are searching for and why we continue to work so terribly hard,” Hadley said.
Hadley said they wouldn’t quit searching until they have a reason not to.
Copyright 2022 WTOC via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2022-10-18T16:56:59+00:00 | ktiv.com | https://www.ktiv.com/2022/10/18/police-searching-landfill-missing-toddlers-body/ |
New York City Mayor Eric Adams is pushing a new measure to deal with people with mental health issues on the streets of New York.
The plan would empower law enforcement and emergency workers to involuntarily hospitalize people deemed not able to care for themselves. Mental health advocacy groups say this will only worsen the problem of mental health.
Here & Now‘s Robin Young speaks with Crain’s New York reporter Maya Kaufman.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
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ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Germany returned 20 historic bronze sculptures to Nigeria as part of efforts to address its “dark colonial past,” the German foreign minister said Tuesday.
Annalena Baerbock, Germany’s foreign minister returned the prized cultural artifacts to Nigerian officials in a ceremony in the capital Abuja. The sculptures, known as Benin bronzes, were looted from the West African country when it was under colonial rule.
“It was wrong to steal these bronzes. It was wrong to keep these bronzes and it is long overdue to return these bronzes to their home,” she said at the event.
Cast in brass and bronze with ancient designs, the sculptures were used in rituals to honor the Benin people’s ancestors and rulers.
More than 5,000 ancient artifacts are estimated to have been stolen from Nigeria by England, when it was the country’s colonizer, said Nigerian authorities.
Most of the treasures were stolen from the royal palace of the Kingdom of Benin — now part of southern Nigeria — and some ended up in the custody of other foreign governments including Germany.
Nigerian authorities have in recent years intensified efforts to get the looted artifacts to be returned. Earlier this year Germany pledged to repatriate more than 1,000 of them in the coming years.
Nigeria is Germany’s second-largest trade partner in Africa and by returning the items it hopes to start a new chapter for future bilateral relations, said Baerbock.
“We see this as a first step. Many bronzes have been looted and stolen, so many will come back,” said Baerbock.
“This step is also important for us because we are dealing with our dark colonial past,” she said.
Nigeria’s Foreign Affairs Minister Geoffrey Onyeama said the nation felt “deep gratitude” to Germany for returning the artifacts. Beyond their aesthetic value they have cultural and spiritual importance to the Nigerian people, he said. He called on England and other countries in possession of other artifacts to return them on moral grounds.
Activists say there needs to be more accountability that goes beyond the return of the items, such as compensation for the losses incurred by African countries throughout years of looting.
“We are only focusing on the physical objects. What about the digital properties of these works? Who owns those properties? And what is coming with these works?” said Victor Ehikhamenor a Nigerian artist and advocate for reparation efforts.
“What other restitution and payments do they have to make for holding these works for a long time and making money from it?” he said. | 2022-12-20T20:37:50+00:00 | wwlp.com | https://www.wwlp.com/news/ap-international-news/ap-germany-returns-nigerian-bronzes-notes-its-dark-past/ |
ROME (AP) — A judge in Italy on Monday ordered an Italian man to remain in jail as an investigation continues into the death of a Nigerian street vendor whose brutal beating at the hands of the suspect shocked many in Italy and prompted strong condemnation from the Nigerian government.
Police took Filippo Claudio Giuseppe Ferlazzo, 32, into custody on July 29, minutes after the vendor was beaten and left for dead on a busy shopping street in the beach town of Civitanova Marche as bystanders watched, including at least two who filmed the attack.
An autopsy this week will determine the exact cause of death for Alika Ogorchukwu, 39. Widely circulated videos showed the suspect on top of Ogorchukwu, pummeling him with his bare hands after first striking him with the victim’s own crutch.
Judge Claudio Bonifazi presided over a hearing for Ferlazzo at a jail near the Adriatic coastal city of Ancona.
Ferlazzo “gave his version of the facts and said he was sorry,” defense lawyer Roberta Bizzarri told reporters. She added that Ferlazzo, who is white, said “there was no racial element” involved.
Pressed if Ferlazzo was saying he was sorry to the victim’s family, the lawyer replied, ‘’yes, to the family.”
Ferlazzo could face charges of murder and robbery because Ogorchukwu’s cell phone was taken.
“Ferlazzo’s ‘sorrys’ aren’t enough, now only justice is needed and not vendetta,” Orgochukwu’s family said in a statement issued through their lawyer. “It’s difficult to understand what happened.”
The family’s lawyer, Francesco Mantella, added in a phone call that the widow, Charity Oriachi, wants to see the suspect “face to face” to try to understand why he killed her husband.
Meanwhile, the Nigerian government demanded Italy swiftly “bring the perpetrator of the heinous act” to justice.
A Nigerian foreign ministry statement released Sunday said the government “strongly condemns the gruesome murder of a Nigerian” and calls on all Nigerians “to exercise restraint as the Law takes its course.” The country’s embassy in Rome has been instructed to “work speedily, together with the relevant Italian authorities, to ensure that justice is served, in order to forestall a repeat of the unfortunate incident.”
Some members of the Nigerian immigrant community in the Marche region that includes the area where Orgochukwu lived and worked protested the slaying on Saturday. Another protest is expected later this week.
Police investigator Matteo Luconi has told reporters that suspect attacked the vendor after Ogorchukwu’s “insistent” requests to him and his female companion for pocket change.
The slain man’s lawyer said he was attacked after complimenting the woman’s beauty. The companion, identified only as Elena D., was quoted by Corriere della Sera daily as saying Orgochukwu had touched her arm, but that didn’t particularly bother her. The woman said she was in a clothing store when the attack occurred shortly after.
The attack comes during campaigning for Sept. 25 elections in Italy. The anti-migrant head of the League party, Matteo Salvini, has made immigration as well as protecting citizens from violent crime top issues.
Orgochukwu was using a crutch after being struck by a car while riding a bicycle. Mantella had been engaged to obtain accident compensation to help the family, including an 8-year-old son, who, the lawyer said, hasn’t been yet told what happened to his father.
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Chinedu Asadu contributed from Nigeria. | 2022-08-02T14:24:57+00:00 | kfor.com | https://kfor.com/news/international/ap-international/italy-judge-upholds-italians-jailing-in-immigrants-death/ |
Efforts spotlight slave who inspired Massachusetts beach name, local tale
Beverly, Mass. – An enslaved Black man, the tall tale he inspired and the beach that now bears his name are the focus of new efforts to recognize the role of slavery along Massachusetts’ picturesque North Shore.
As the story goes, Robin Mingo was promised freedom by his white master if the tide ever receded enough for him to walk out onto a rocky outcropping off what is now known as Mingo Beach. Depending on the telling, Mingo either completed the challenge and was emancipated, drowned tragically or lived out his days in bondage without ever seeing the rare tidal event.
“It shows how much power slave owners had over their slaves,” said Katerina Pintone, a 19-year-old rising sophomore at Endicott College, where Mingo Beach is located. “That one man could have this much control over another man’s life.”
This past semester, Pintone and other Endicott students researched the local legend as part of a public history course and suggested ways to memorialize Mingo and his namesake beach. Their ideas ranged from a heritage trail to a smartphone app and even a boat tour highlighting Mingo’s story and the popular tourist region’s slave ties.
Professor Elizabeth Matelski, who taught the course, is also doing research for a book on Mingo and working with other historians on a project mapping North Shore locations like Mingo Beach that are historically significant to people of color. Meanwhile Endicott, a private coed school, says it’s in discussions with city officials to formally register the beach as a historic landmark.
Matelski hopes the efforts spark broader discussions about the often overlooked role of slavery in New England.
“Most people who walk by that particular stretch of beach have absolutely no idea about this history,” she said.
Abby Battis, an associate director at Historic Beverly, the city’s historical society, agreed. Battis said she never heard Mingo’s story growing up in the seaside city, which is often overshadowed by its more famous neighbors – Salem, site of the infamous witch trials, and Gloucester, the historic fishing port.
“We need to stop telling the old, dead white guy stories,” she said. “There’s so much more to Beverly’s history.”
The historical society is doing its part to create a fuller picture of the city’s role in slavery, Battis added. The organization launched a virtual exhibit in 2019 featuring the stories of those enslaved in Beverly, a coastal city about 25 miles (40 kilometers) north of Boston that dates to the 1600s.
Mingo is not among those highlighted in “ Set at Liberty,” but the society has identified at least 100 enslaved people and more than 200 local ships involved in the slave trade as part of its ongoing work.
It’s a “common myth” that slavery either never existed or was inherently different in New England than other places, says Beth Bower, a local historian on the board of Historic Beverly.
Historical records show New Englanders clearly imported enslaved Africans for all the tasks that made the young colony possible, from farming and fishing to building ships, she said.
And while history credits Massachusetts with being among the first states to abolish slavery in 1783, there is growing evidence that slavery persisted in the state into the early 1800s before gradually disappearing, Bower said.
President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, but it took more than two years for Black slaves in Galveston, Texas to receive word of their freedom. That day, June 19, 1865, is now known as Juneteenth, which is being celebrated as an official federal holiday for the first time Sunday.
Matelski said she first heard of Mingo’s tale in the summer of 2020, during the height of the protests that followed the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
A Michigan native, she said she was immediately struck by the story’s potential to speak to the present as the nation reckons with its racist past.
Mingo’s tale is all the more significant considering he was married to a free Indigenous woman, and his enslaver descended from the original founders of Beverly, Matelski said.
“It’s so deeply rooted in Beverly history and in the New England experience,” she said. “There’s just a lot of different threads happening there.”
Part of Matelski’s focus going forward will be separating myth from fact.
In the most popular telling, for example, Mingo achieves his feat and earns his emancipation, only to die later that year.
But local records suggest the real-life Mingo lived into his 80s, was baptized, raised a daughter and even acquired land in town before dying in 1748.
Matelski believes the Mingo legend has its roots in the stories abolitionists popularized in order to underscore the “casual cruelty” of the slave industry they fiercely opposed.
Such slave narratives typically centered on the harsh reality of southern plantation life and the extraordinary perils some slaves endured to escape to freedom, making Mingo’s tale a uniquely New England take on the genre, she said.
“What we know right now is a puzzle piece,” Matelski said. “As a historian, you’re like a cold case detective, trying to create as complete a picture as you can of this really important story that hasn’t been told.” | 2022-06-18T17:14:42+00:00 | detroitnews.com | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/nation/2022/06/18/slave-beach-tale-mingo-massachusetts/50388605/ |
Biden administration asks Congress for additional funding for Ukraine, Covid, and disaster recovery
By Betsy Klein, CNN
The Biden administration is calling on Congress to include additional funding in the must-pass government package for what it said are three “critical funding needs”: Continued support for the people of Ukraine, Covid-19 response and natural disaster recovery.
Congress returned for a lame duck session on Monday and has a short work period in which to pass a critical bill to fund the government by December 16.
Office of Management and Budget Director Shalanda Young sent a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi detailing a $37.7 billion request for Ukraine aid, $10 billion for Covid-19 and an unspecified amount for disaster relief with an estimated expected “as soon as possible.”
The $37.7 billion Ukraine request is spread across four US government departments, according to a fact sheet shared with CNN. Young wrote to Pelosi that the request would “ensure Ukraine has the funding, weapons, and support it needs to defend itself, and that vulnerable people continue to receive lifesaving aid. The request also addresses the critical global food and energy shortages caused by Russia’s invasion.”
It includes $21.7 for the Department of Defense that will be spent on “equipment for Ukraine, replenishment of Department of Defense stocks, and for continued military, intelligence and other defense support,” $14.5 billion for the State Department for “direct budget support to Ukraine, critical war time investments, security assistance, to strengthen global food security, and for humanitarian assistance,” $626 million for the Department of Energy “for nuclear security support to Ukraine and for modernizing the Strategic Petroleum Reserve,” and $900 million for the Department of Health and Human Services “to provide standard assistance health care and support services to Ukrainian parolees,” per the fact sheet.
A senior administration official told reporters that previous aid for Ukraine “was always intended to last only through the end of this calendar year,” with Young writing to Pelosi that “roughly three-quarters of the funds previously provided by the Congress have been disbursed or committed, with even more expected by the end of the year.”
The request comes as President Joe Biden is gathering with world leaders at the G20 Summit in Bali, Indonesia, where most of the world leaders in attendance are expected to sign on to a statement condemning Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine. It also comes as Ukraine has made key gains in Kherson, where Ukrainian residents had been living under brutal Russian occupation for eight months until Friday, when Ukrainian forces swept into the city and Russian troops retreated to the east.
The request, the senior official said, is “intended to last through the end of this fiscal year,” which ends September 30.
Covid funding
The Biden administration’s $10 billion request for funding for Covid-19 response reflects a paring down from an original $22.5 billion request submitted earlier this year that has gone unfulfilled.
Young said that the need for funding is “urgent” and it comes as the White House is renewing its push to get Americans vaccinated heading into the holiday season.
“While Covid-19 is no longer the disruptive force it was when the President took office; we face the emergence of new subvariants in the United States and around the world that have the potential to cause a surge of infections, hospitalizations, and deaths. We know how to manage this moment, but as the Administration has long made clear… we need additional resources to ensure that we have the necessary services and supplies to keep the American people safe,” she wrote, warning that a failure to fund this request “would lead to needless infections and deaths across the Nation and around the world.”
The $10 billion request includes $2.5 million “to ensure continued access to vaccines and therapeutics (including for the uninsured) as we transition to commercialization of vaccines and therapeutics, and for Strategic National Stockpile maintenance costs,” $5 billion for “development of next-generation vaccines and therapeutics,” $750 million for Long Covid research and treatment, and $1 billion in funding for the State Department to “provide support to prevent, detect, and respond to Covid-19 and other infectious diseases, including through vaccines, tests, and treatments, and through efforts to close gaps in routine immunizations.”
That request also includes $400 million “to restore smallpox vaccines used for monkeypox response,” and $350 million “to begin the procurement and distribution of treatment for hepatitis C and pre-exposure prophylaxis to help prevent HIV,” with a senior official telling reporters that “this is an opportune moment for us to step up our efforts to combat other preventable and treatable diseases.”
Previous efforts toward passing Covid-19 funding for vaccines, testing, and treatments this spring and summer have failed. The White House requested $22.5 billion in funding for the administration’s Covid-19 response earlier this year, and sent an updated $22.4 billion request in September.
Officials have repeatedly warned of the consequences of not passing this funding as it takes steps toward moving the Covid-19 response to the commercial market, highlighting “unacceptable tradeoffs” in US response.
Natural disaster response
The administration is also asking for a to-be-announced sum of money to help with disaster recovery efforts in the aftermath of storms like Hurricane Ian in Florida and Hurricane Fiona in Puerto Rico.
“We must fund critical disaster response and rebuilding efforts in Florida, Puerto Rico, and other communities across America that have faced severe flooding, wildfires, drought, and extreme heat over the past year,” Young wrote to Pelosi.
Officials sought to make the case that Tuesday’s request should be approved on a bipartisan basis, although it’s still unclear whether these priorities will be able to garner the Republican support needed to pass in the Senate.
“We hope and expect this funding request will earn bipartisan support. There’s nothing partisan about protecting the American people from Covid, supporting Ukraine, or standing with communities recovering from natural disasters. These are shared responsibilities that can bring both parties together. And over the next few weeks, we’re committed to working with Congress to secure a bipartisan agreement to fund the government and meet these urgent needs on behalf of the American people,” the senior official said.
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TAIPEI, Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- GIGABYTE, the world's leading computer brand, wowed the creator community with its completely re-designed AERO series laptops since their launch earlier this year. Above all, the AERO 16 creator laptop is particularly designed with graphic designers, video editors, and photographers in mind, delivering X-Rite™ certified and Pantone® validated (Delta E<1) color accuracy. Combined with the Super Narrow Bezel 4K+ OLED display and VESA-certified DisplayHDR™ 500 True Black, the AERO 16 laptop brings true-to-life colors that make creators' inspirations come alive.
To share such a creative edge, GIGABYTE is inviting the whole community to join AERO 16 Relay Challenge and pass on the joy of color and creation on social platforms. The campaign is led off with the Color Relay Challenge. Starting from August 10, participants are invited to apply the AERO 16-themed Instagram AR filter and complete the tasks for a chance to win awesome prizes.
The campaign will be later succeeded by the Creativity Relay Challenge. GIGABYTE will be teaming up with several world-renowned content creators, including Asia Ladowska, Carles Dalmau, Elenamics, Elliot Ulm and Li Cambon. These creative talents will be split into two, as each team will create a piece of art in a relay format based on the subjects of realness and freedom. Each talent will be using the AERO 16 laptop and let their creativity fly thanks to its powerful performance and perfect color accuracy. Starting from August 23, everyone can visit Official Facebook Page and vote for their favorite artwork for a chance to win a custom AERO 16 laptop featuring the winning design.
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GENEVA (AP) — The United Nations' cultural and satellite agencies have joined forces to more systematically track the impact of Russia’s invasion on Ukraine’s architecture, art, historic buildings and other cultural heritage, and have compiled an initial list of more than 200 sites that have been damaged or destroyed.
Geneva-based UNOSAT and UNESCO, the Paris-based educational, scientific and cultural agency, announced Wednesday that they are finalizing a database of cultural sites that compares “before and after” images bought from private-sector satellite companies. These will be used to inform experts in a first phase and eventually the wider public about the devastation wreaked on Ukraine's patrimony.
“It’s important for us to document the damage, but also to make sure we have the information available before the recovery,” said Krista Pikkat, who heads the culture and emergencies department at UNESCO.
She said early work began months ago. “We actually realized that, this wealth of information, we needed to put it on a platform for our experts so that we can monitor the situation.”
While, as of Wednesday, some 205 sites were listed, none of Ukraine's seven UNESCO “World Heritage Sites” — a listing of some of the world's greatest cultural artifacts and heritage — had been affected.
Building on systems already used in places like Syria, whose war ravaged historic sites, monuments and artifacts, UNESCO said it first tracks Ukrainian culture ministry alerts about damage to cultural sites. Then, it cross-checks those findings with social media and other sources, and then — if warranted — calls on UNOSAT to try to get relevant satellite pictures.
Weather, namely cloud cover, can hamper the effort.
The sites with verified damage are plotted on a digital map — with virtual red pins to mark the impact spots — and included in a searchable database to help experts trace the devastation. Ultimately, cultural experts from UNESCO and their associates strive to visit the sites to get a first-hand look — often a tough if not impossible task in a war zone.
Areas like Mariupol in the south, the region around the capital Kyiv, and the eastern Donetsk region were littered with red dots in a demonstration of the database on Wednesday.
UNESCO experts have had no access to areas held by Russian forces or Russian-backed separatists, such as in Mariupol — whose battered remains fell into Russian control after a desperate holdout by Ukrainian forces earlier this year.
The joint effort amounts to the latest step in the painstaking process by many U.N. and other national and international organizations to keep tabs on the fallout since President Vladimir Putin ordered Russian forces to invade on Feb. 24.
The hunt for the impact on culture adds to efforts by prosecutors, human rights experts, refugee agencies and others to document the devastation from the conflict on lives and livelihoods.
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Follow AP’s coverage of the war in Ukraine at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine | 2022-10-26T17:29:10+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/entertainment/article/UN-steps-up-satellite-tracking-of-damage-to-17535974.php |
ROME (AP) — Just in time to celebrate his 86th birthday, former Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi is making his return to Italy’s parliament, winning a seat in the Senate nearly a decade after being banned from holding public office over a tax fraud conviction.
Berlusconi, who has made personal comebacks a hallmark of Italian politics for three decades, was re-elected to Italy’s upper house with more than 50% of the votes Sunday in the northern city of Monza, where he also owns a soccer team that was recently promoted to Italy’s top division.
While overall his party lost ground compared with the 2018 general elections, it fared better than expected and Berlusconi’s victory was particularly heartfelt.
“Regaining a seat in the Senate was a sort of personal revenge for Berlusconi, after all the judicial problems he went through,” said Massimiliano Panarari, political analyst at Rome’s Mercatorum University.
In 2013, the Senate expelled Berlusconi because of a tax fraud conviction stemming from his media business, and he was banned from holding public office for six years. After he served a sentence of community service, a court ruled he could once again hold public office and he won a seat in the European Parliament in 2019.
His third and last premiership had ended abruptly in 2011, when financial markets lost confidence that the billionaire media magnate could manage Italy’s finances during Europe’s sovereign debt crisis.
Berlusconi’s Forza Italia center-right party — which pioneered populist politics in Italy in the 1990s — gained just over 8% in Sunday’s vote, which dominated by his ally Giorgia Meloni. She is now poised to lead the country’s first far-right government since World War II.
It was a better-than-expected result for Forza Italia, even though it still amounted to a significant loss of support compared with the 14% of the votes it nailed in 2018 elections. The party has grown weaker in recent years, hit by Berlusconi’s judicial woes and his recurring health problems, but it has remained relevant enough.
Beating expectations, Forza Italia finished right behind its other ally, the anti-immigrant League of Matteo Salvini, which won only about 9% of the vote, down from 17% in 2018.
Berlusconi has pledged to exercise a moderating influence over the other two more radical parties in the center-right coalition.
“In the competition with the League, Forza Italia did pretty well and, thanks to this, Berlusconi will be pivotal again in the new governing coalition. He can say he’s a winner in these elections,” Panarari said.
The media mogul, whose birthday is Thursday, did just that after the votes came in.
“Forza Italia proved decisive for the success of the center-right and the formation of the next government,” Berlusconi enthused in a tweet. “Once again I put myself at the service of Italy, of the country I love.”
Analysts noted that, despite some “grotesque” performances on TikTok, which Berlusconi used in the electoral campaign to reach young voters with anecdotes and jokes, the three-term premier succeeded in gaining a new space on Italy’s political stage.
His TikTok videos, where he often dressed in classic suits and ties, seemed to clash with the language and style of the teen audience, but often went viral.
“I’ve still got it,” he said in one viral video clip, after he successfully nailed a fly that had landed on his forehead during a television interview.
He raised eyebrows late in the campaign when he seemed to justify Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, saying he was forced into it by pro-Moscow separatists in Donbas.
“The troops were supposed to enter, reach Kyiv within a week, replace Zelensky’s government with decent people and then leave,” Berlusconi told his favorite late-night talk show host. Later he backtracked, saying his words had been “oversimplified.”
But Berlusconi has a long, friendly history with Putin: He has entertained the Russian leader at his Sardinian villa and even visited Crimea with Putin in 2014 after the Russian leader annexed the peninsula from Ukraine.
While Berlusconi has secured another political life for himself, the survival of his party long-term remains uncertain given it seems indissolubly linked to Berlusconi’s active presence on the scene.
“As long as Silvio Berlusconi lives, Forza Italia lives. But the party never had its autonomy,” said Sofia Ventura, a political science professor at the University of Bologna.
And yet Berlusconi wasn’t the only winner in the household.
His 32-year-old girlfriend, Marta Fascina, also took a seat in the lower house of parliament, after winning the vote in the Sicilian constituency of Marsala, despite never showing up in the southern island during the campaign.
In an interview with an Italian newspaper, Fascina said she used to go to Sicily with her father on vacation when she was a child.
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Frances D’Emilio contributed. | 2022-09-27T22:37:44+00:00 | cbs4indy.com | https://cbs4indy.com/news/national-world/ap-international/ap-hes-back-italys-berlusconi-wins-senate-seat-after-tax-ban/ |
(KTLA) — Taylor Swift fans flocked to Ticketmaster on Tuesday morning to purchase presale tickets for the artist’s upcoming Eras Tour. But many were met with errors on the website.
“We are aware fans may be experiencing intermittent issues with the site and are urgently working to resolve,” Ticketmaster’s fan support account tweeted around 8 a.m. PST.
When KTLA attempted to log on to the website, there was a message that read, “Something went wrong on our end and we need to start over. Broken things are a drag – our team is on it so it doesn’t happen again.”
The outage came as Swift fans — also known as “Swifties” — were advised to log in early to save their spot in line.
“If you received a code to the TaylorSwiftTix Presale, please log in and access the queue through the link you received via text rather than entering through the Ticketmaster homepage. This will ensure an optimal shopping experience,” Ticketmaster tweeted.
However, fans have not been pleased with how the ticketing site has handled the large demand.
“No excuse for Ticketmaster,” one angry Swiftie tweeted. “They have chosen to become this ridiculous monopoly & had months to prepare. Every time I try to sign in, I get told I’m a bot.”
“Ticketmaster literally chose how many presale links to send out…they knew the number of people coming to their website…there’s no reason for them to be unprepared for the traffic,” tweeted another.
Presale tickets for the Eras Tour went on sale Tuesday at 10 a.m. local time. The general public can purchase tickets starting on Nov. 18 at 10 a.m. local time.
Swift’s tour kicks off on March 17 in Glendale, Arizona. | 2022-11-15T20:17:08+00:00 | fox44news.com | https://www.fox44news.com/news/national-world-news/taylor-swift-fans-crash-ticketmaster-attempting-to-get-eras-tour-tickets/ |
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — The first double above-the-knee amputee to climb Mount Everest returned from the mountain on Tuesday pledging to dedicate the rest of his life to helping people with disabilities.
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Hari Budha Magar, a former Gurkha soldier who lives in Britain, reached the peak of the world's highest mountain last week.
“My main aim for the rest of my lifetime is going to be working to bring awareness about disability,” Magar said on his return to Kathmandu, Nepal's capital.
As a soldier in a Gurkha regiment in the British army, Magar lost both his legs in Afghanistan when he accidently stepped on an improvised explosive device in 2010.
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Hundreds of supporters and officials, including Nepal's tourism minister, greeted him at Kathmandu's airport and offered him garlands.
He was taken from the airport in an open truck decorated with flowers and waved at people along the way.
“We all have our own weaknesses and disabilities, but instead of the weaknesses we should be focusing on our strength, and only then we can all lead a better and meaningful life,” he said.
He said the climb up the 8,849-meter (29,032-foot) mountain was not easy and he thought several times about quitting because of his family.
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“I had made the promise that I will have to return for the sake of my son,” he said.
On the way to the summit he ran out of oxygen in the tank he was carrying.
"This was the first time I experienced what it is to be deprived of oxygen. I had the tingling sensation, my hands and feet were cold and I was gasping for breath," he said.
He was able to get more oxygen from his climbing partners, but then battled with bad weather as he approached the summit, which he reached late in the afternoon because of his slow pace. Most climbers try to reach the top in the morning because conditions become dangerous later in the day.
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He said he saw rescuers pulling the bodies of two dead climbers along the way.
After his successful climb, “I hugged all the Sherpas and cried like a baby, I was so happy,” Magar said in a video released by his press office. "My lifetime goal is to change the perceptions people have of disability. My life changed in a blink of an eye. But whatever happens, you can still lead a fulfilling life.”
“If a double above-knee amputee can climb Everest, you can climb whatever mountain you face, as long as you are disciplined, work hard and put everything into it,” he said.
Magar was born in a remote mountain village in Nepal and later was recruited by the British army as a Gurkha. He now lives with his family in Canterbury, England.
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Hundreds of Nepalese youths are recruited every year to work as Gurkha soldiers, who are known for their fighting skills and bravery.
In addition to dealing with his own disabilities, Magar also had to battle with legal issues because Nepal's government had banned disabled people from climbing high mountains. A case was filed in the Supreme Court, which overturned the ban, allowing Magar to continue his plan to climb Everest.
During the coronavirus pandemic, the government halted mountaineering, further delaying Magar's plan. | 2023-05-23T12:55:59+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/sports/article/double-amputee-everest-climber-pledges-to-work-18114080.php |
It's the relationship in D C. Nobody seems to understand. Now, Kellyanne Conway, in *** new memoir says her and her husband George Conway's differences over President Trump got in the way of their marriage. According to People Magazine. In the book, here's the deal. The former Trump advisor writes while her husband was in New York for long periods of time, quote, the frequency and ferocity of his tweets accelerated clearly, he was cheating by tweeting. I was having *** hard time competing with his new fling. Conway would frequently use his Twitter account to criticize Trump while the president would respond, saying he's just jealous of his wife, Kellyanne writing. I had already said publicly what I'd said privately to George that his daily day huge of insults by tweet against my boss or as he put it, sometimes the people in the White House violated our marriage vows to love honor and cherish each other. She writes that Ivanka Trump had *** similar issue with her husband Jared and suggested to Kellyanne that they try couples therapy. They never went
Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway and husband are divorcing
Updated: 2:13 PM PST Mar 5, 2023
Related video above: Kellyanne Conway claims her husband was ‘cheating by tweeting’ about TrumpKellyanne Conway, a senior presidential adviser in the Trump White House, and her husband, attorney George Conway, a prominent critic of the former president, say they are divorcing.The Conways posted a joint statement on their Twitter accounts Saturday, which said in part that "we are in the final stages of an amicable divorce." The two said their marriage more than 20 years ago included "many happy years" and "four incredible children."Washington observers questioned the state of their union after George Conway began criticizing Donald Trump with a fervor that often matched his wife's support of the president. While Kellyanne Conway defended Trump at every turn, her husband wrote tweets and articles and appeared on news shows to condemn his actions. He helped found the Lincoln Project, which sought Trump's defeat in 2020.In their statement, the couple asked that their privacy be respected and said they appreciated those who "know us, care for us, and support us."
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Kellyanne Conway, a senior presidential adviser in the Trump White House, and her husband, attorney George Conway, a prominent critic of the former president, say they are divorcing.
The Conways posted a joint statement on their Twitter accounts Saturday, which said in part that "we are in the final stages of an amicable divorce." The two said their marriage more than 20 years ago included "many happy years" and "four incredible children."
Washington observers questioned the state of their union after George Conway began criticizing Donald Trump with a fervor that often matched his wife's support of the president. While Kellyanne Conway defended Trump at every turn, her husband wrote tweets and articles and appeared on news shows to condemn his actions. He helped found the Lincoln Project, which sought Trump's defeat in 2020.
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In their statement, the couple asked that their privacy be respected and said they appreciated those who "know us, care for us, and support us." | 2023-03-05T22:59:00+00:00 | kcra.com | https://www.kcra.com/article/kellyanne-conway-and-husband-are-divorcing/43201725 |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Documents with classified markings from President Joe Biden's time as vice president were found at his home in Wilmington, Delaware, the White House said Thursday, days after it was disclosed that sensitive documents were also found at the office of his former Washington institute.
Richard Sauber, a special counsel to the president, said after the initial documents were found by Biden's personal lawyers, they examined other locations where records might have been shipped after Biden left the vice presidency in 2017.
Sauber said a “small number” of documents with classified markings were found in a storage space in Biden's garage in Wilmington, with one document being located in an adjacent room.
Sauber said the Department of Justice was “immediately notified” after the documents were found and that department lawyers took custody of the records. | 2023-01-12T15:47:17+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/White-House-Classified-documents-found-at-17713277.php |
PITTSBURGH, Aug. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "This is a new device for campers, farmers, homeowners, etc. It would allow an individual to access ground or well water in a quick and easy manner, which would enhance convenience" said inventor from Portland, OR "I wanted to make a device for a single person to use, that could give water to them from the ground or a well so I came up with Bucket 2 O."
Innovative new product that would allow an individual to quickly and easily bore into the ground to locate and access well/ground water. Ideal for use among individuals who have homesteads in rural areas, as well as among campers, farmers, etc. This could also be used by humanitarian and relief agencies in parts of the world where fresh drinking water is not readily available or difficult to access.
The original design was submitted to the Portland sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-PTA-115, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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Birthday wishes go out to Tom Hardy, Prince Harry and all the other celebrities with birthdays today. Check out our slideshow below to see photos of famous people turning a year older on September 15th and learn an interesting fact about each of them.
Top celebrity birthdays on September 15, 2022
Actor Tommy Lee Jones turns 76
Fun fact: Made is feature film debut in 1970 in ‘Love Story’
Director Oliver Stone turns 76
Fun fact: Once appeared as a contestant on ‘Jeopardy!’
Actor Josh Charles turns 51
Fun fact: His middle name is Aaron
Actor Tom Hardy turns 45
Fun fact: Had a small cameo in ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’
Britain’s Prince Harry turns 38
Fun fact: Is currently 6th in line to the British throne
Check out Who is next in line for the British Throne?
Actress Heidi Montag turns 36
Fun fact: Once appeared in an episode of ‘How I Met Your Mother’
More celebrities with birthdays today
Drummer Kelly Keagy of Night Ranger is 70. Actor Barry Shabaka Henley (“Bob Hearts Abishola”) is 68. Drummer Mitch Dorge of Crash Test Dummies is 62. Actor Danny Nucci (“The Fosters”) is 54. DJ Kay Gee (Naughty by Nature) is 53. Actor Marisa Ramirez (“Blue Bloods”) is 45. Guitarist Zach Filkins of OneRepublic is 44. Actor Dave Annable (“Brothers and Sisters”) is 43. Actor Amy Davidson (“8 Simple Rules”) is 43. Actor Kate Mansi (“Days of Our Lives”) is 35.
Other popular or historical birthdays on September 15th
Marco Polo, explorer
James Fenimore Cooper, novelist
William Howard Taft, 27th U.S. president
Frank E. Gannett, newspaper publisher
Agatha Christie, crime novelist
Fay Wray, actress
Nipsey Russell, comedian and actor
Gaylord Perry, HoF pitcher (84)
Dan Marino, NFL quarterback (61)
Earnest Byner, former Browns running back (60)
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Celebrity fun facts
Tom Cruise | Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson | Emilia Clarke
Robert Downey Jr. | Chris Hemsworth | Seth MacFarlane
Gal Gadot | Jason Momoa | Natalie Portman | Kat Dennings
Jenna Fischer | Miley Cyrus | Emma Stone | Reese Witherspoon
Emma Watson | Sarah Michelle Gellar | Tiffani Amber Thiessen
Scarlett Johansson | Jennifer Aniston | David Hasselhoff
Sophie Turner | Jennifer Lawrence & Mila Kunis | Alan Alda
Lindsay Lohan | George Clooney | Amanda Seyfried | Kate Mara
Betty White | Dave Matthews | Danica McKellar | Taylor Swift
Britney Spears | Bill Nye | Alyson Hannigan | Alec Baldwin
Rachel McAdams | Demi Moore | Julia Roberts | Mark Hamill
Danielle Fishel and the ‘Boy Meets World’ cast
Movie and TV fun facts & more
In memoriam: Celebrities who died in 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018
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88 celebrities who were born in Canada
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‘The Office’ fun facts | 30 guest stars on ‘The Office’
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25 fun facts about ‘Friends’ | 25 celebs who appeared on ‘Friends’
25 actors you didn’t know were on ‘Game of Thrones’
25 actors you didn’t know appeared in ‘Boy Meets World’
More movie fun facts: ‘Love Actually’ | ‘Napoleon Dynamite’ | ‘Dirty Dancing’ | ‘Scream’ | ‘Romeo + Juliet’ | ‘The Big Lebowski’ | ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ | ‘The Phantom Menace’
Relive your childhood with these 120 Hanna-Barbera cartoons
Want to see more celebrity birthdays as well as additional fun facts posts? Follow me on Facebook for the latest by clicking the “like” button below. | 2022-09-15T11:02:57+00:00 | cleveland.com | https://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/2022/09/todays-famous-birthdays-list-for-september-15-2022-includes-celebrities-tom-hardy-prince-harry.html |
Columbia Coalition for School Excellence co-founder Luke Neal ran unsuccessfully for Columbia’s school board in 2021. He says few citizens attend Columbia school board meetings, outside of reporters, those receiving honors/awards and teacher’s union representatives. Mr. Neal joined 939 the Eagle’s Fred Parry in-studio for the hour Saturday on the “CEO Round Table” to discuss what Parry describes as apathy. Mr. Neal also outlined his group’s effort to raise $10,000 for Alpha Hart Lewis elementary school, which is near Brown Station road. Neal says most of that money will be used to directly support teachers, including providing food at meetings: | 2022-10-17T18:48:22+00:00 | kwos.com | https://kwos.com/2022/10/audio-columbia-coalition-for-school-excellence-co-founder-luke-neal-appears-on-939-the-eagles-ceo-round-table/ |
BETHESDA, Md., Nov. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Centrus Energy Corp. (NYSE American: LEU) will broadcast its quarterly conference call with shareholders and the financial community over the Internet on Wednesday, November 9, 2022, at 8:30 a.m. ET. The Company will release its third quarter earnings report for 2022, which ended September 30, 2022, after the close of markets on Tuesday, November 8.
The conference call will be open to listeners who log in through the Company's website, www.centrusenergy.com. A link to the call will be located in the Investor Relations section of the website, and a webcast replay will be available through November 19, 2022.
Centrus Energy is a trusted supplier of nuclear fuel and services for the nuclear power industry. Centrus provides value to its utility customers through the reliability and diversity of its supply sources – helping them meet the growing need for clean, affordable, carbon-free electricity. Since 1998, the Company has provided its utility customers with more than 1,750 reactor years of fuel, which is equivalent to 7 billion tons of coal. With world-class technical and engineering capabilities, Centrus is also advancing the next generation of centrifuge technologies so that America can restore its domestic uranium enrichment capability in the future. Find out more at www.centrusenergy.com.
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BANGKOK — Marijuana cultivation and possession in Thailand was decriminalized Thursday, like a dream come true for an aging generation of pot smokers who recall the kick the legendary Thai Stick variety delivered.
But for the time being, would-be marijuana tourists will be disappointed. Thailand has become the first nation in Asia to decriminalize marijuana — also known as cannabis, or ganja in the local lingo — but it is not following the examples of Uruguay and Canada, the only two countries so far that have legalized recreational marijuana on a national basis.
The government has said it is promoting cannabis for medical use only, warning those eager to light up for fun that smoking in public could still considered to be a nuisance subject to a potential 3-month sentence and 25,000 Thai baht ($780) fine. And extracted content remains illegal if it contains more than 0.2% of tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, the chemical that makes people high.
That’s roughly the same amount that might be found in hemp, a cannabis variety mostly grown for fibers that are used for industrial purposes.
Thailand is seeking to make a splash in the market for medical marijuana, whose benefits are generally derived from other cannabinol chemicals the plant contains. Thailand already has a well developed medical tourism industry, and its climate is ideal for growing cannabis.
“We should know how to use cannabis,” Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul, the country’s biggest marijuana booster, said recently. “If we have the right awareness, cannabis is like gold, something valuable, and should be promoted.”
But he added, “We will have additional Ministry of Health Notifications, by the Department of Health. If it causes nuisances, we can use that law (to stop people from smoking).”
He said the government prefers to “build an awareness” that would be better than patrolling to check on people and using the law to punish them.
“Everything should be on the middle path,” Anutin said during a news conference ahead of the decriminalization Thursday. | 2022-06-09T03:44:00+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/thailand-decriminalizes-marijuana-but-not-the-strong-stuff/2022/06/08/0460edd8-e79f-11ec-a422-11bbb91db30b_story.html |
School bus driver accused of stalking 8-year-old boy
GREENLAND, N.H. (WBZ) - A school bus driver in New Hampshire is accused of stalking an 8-year-old boy and his family. Federal prosecutors say the suspect also gave the boy gifts, letters and cell phones.
Michael Chick, a former school bus driver at Greenland Central School, is accused of harassing an 8-year-old student on his route, secretly visiting the boy’s home at night and putting GPS tracking on his parents’ vehicles.
“As law enforcement officers, it is paramount that we protect our most vulnerable, and in this case, the vulnerable is a child,” said Jane Young, U.S. Attorney for New Hampshire.
The details in the 20-page affidavit are disturbing.
Chick, 39, allegedly admitted he gave the victim three prepaid phones. In the man’s bedroom, investigators found handwritten notes instructing the boy to change out of his sleeping shorts, take selfies and return the phone by dropping it out his window.
Prosecutors say Chick told the 8-year-old a team of as many as 800 people was threatening to kidnap and torture him if he didn’t follow the instructions.
Investigators found a note that they say he showed the boy on the bus.
“You had too many chances. This is not working. We are done (expletive) around. Make this happen now or the kid disappears,” the note read.
Chick was arrested after investigators raided his home in Eliot, Maine. He is charged with interstate stalking and is in custody, pending a hearing.
“This investigation is in the infancy stages. We will follow whatever evidence develops. As far as we can, we will pursue every avenue that is available to us,” Young said.
Chick’s brother says he doesn’t believe he would be involved with anything like what he is accused of and has never seen that kind of behavior from him.
Authorities aren’t sure if this is an isolated incident, so they are asking other parents to come forward if their children had inappropriate contact with Chick.
Copyright 2022 WBZ via CNN Newsource. All rights reserved. | 2022-08-10T08:49:08+00:00 | wagmtv.com | https://www.wagmtv.com/2022/08/10/school-bus-driver-accused-stalking-8-year-old-boy/ |
CHINO HILLS, Calif., Nov. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On November 15th, California Regional MLS (CRMLS) will welcome their latest executive appointment, Katie Smithson in the role of Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). Smithson is a long-time veteran in the real estate industry with a history of MLS relation management and product innovation. Smithson has been in the real estate industry for 14 years, most recently as Director of MLS Relations for Bridge Interactive with Zillow.
In her new role Smithson will be directing revenue operations, ensuring proper communication and collaboration between all the revenue-generating departments at CRMLS. She will be charged with improving customer satisfaction, product strategy, and sales performance.
"We're looking forward to welcoming Katie to the CRMLS Executive Team," says CRMLS CEO Art Carter. "Her experience is invaluable, and I am confident that she will be a great addition to the company as the MLS industry evolves and CRMLS moves forward as a company. "
"I am excited to join the extremely talented team at CRMLS," says Smithson. "I've worked with them for years and always admired the caliber of leadership, so when this opportunity came along, it only made sense to say yes. I am inspired by the vision CRMLS has and can't wait to help shape the future of our industry."
As a vendor in the MLS Industry Smithson has an extensive track record of success in building B2B relationships, increasing returns, and developing product offerings. She has also served as a NAR REACH mentor, board member for the Council of MLS with a CMLX 1 certification, and RESO Board Secretary.
California Regional MLS is the nation's largest and most recognized subscriber-based MLS, dedicated to servicing more than 110,000 real estate professionals from 41 Associations, Boards, and MLS organizations. CRMLS is the industry powerhouse and thrives on providing the most relevant products and services to its subscribers. For more information on CRMLS, visit www.crmls.org.
Contact: Art Carter, art@crmls.org
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Joyce succeeds Rusty Gage, who will return to his lab following a transformative leadership tenure
LA JOLLA, Calif., Feb. 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Salk Institute has named Gerald Joyce as its next president, following an extensive, six-month search process. Having served as the Institute's senior vice president and chief science officer since July, Joyce will succeed Rusty Gage, who will return to his lab full-time following a transformative leadership tenure that strengthened the Institute scientifically, culturally and organizationally.
"As we consider the legacy of Rusty's presidency, perhaps the most indelible mark will be his remarkable success in fostering a much more unified, collaborative and inclusive community within our campus—having established Salk's first Office of Equity and Inclusion, facilitated greater partnership and trust between faculty and administration, and, of course, helped to deftly steer the Institute through the unprecedented challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic," said Marna C. Whittington, chair of Salk's Board of Trustees. "Salk is now exceptionally well-positioned to engage in a seamless leadership transition and advance its life-changing mission at a time when the need for the breakthrough discoveries for which the Institute is internationally renowned is as urgent as ever.
"Among a large and diverse pool of extraordinary candidates, Jerry's unique combination of scientific, administrative and leadership experience, which he leveraged to swift impact as CSO, along with his inspiring vision for a future built on forward-looking scientific opportunity, a strengthened financial foundation and deep commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion, made him an outstanding choice to lead Salk into its next chapter," she added.
"It has been an honor and privilege to be part of a journey of tremendous growth, evolution and progress at Salk, as we've worked to be faithful stewards of a mission focused on bringing out the best in science and each other," said Gage. "I want to thank our Board, faculty, administration and staff, and the Salk community at-large for the trust and faith you've placed in me to lead the Institute during this critical time. As I pass the baton, I have every confidence that our momentum will continue and, indeed, build under the extremely capable leadership of Jerry Joyce, whose multitude of professional accomplishments are only eclipsed by the magnitude of his personal character."
"Through a robust and thoughtful process, the search committee was fortunate to have the opportunity to consider an array of highly qualified scientific luminaries to serve as our next president," said Tanya Sharpee, faculty leader of Salk's Academic Council. "Beyond his remarkable professional and scientific accomplishments, and what he already has accomplished during his tenure as chief science officer, Jerry passionately embraces a 'one-Salk' mindset. With a boundless energy about the enormous possibility ahead, he understands the greater our connectivity and collaboration, the greater impact we will have—together."
Over the course of his distinguished career, Joyce has served as the Dean of the Faculty at The Scripps Research Institute and Director of the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation (GNF), in addition to maintaining a lab at Salk since 2017. The recipient of numerous prestigious awards, he is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the U.S. National Academy of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
"I am deeply honored to take on this role at what is an auspicious time for the Institute," said Joyce. "With our incredibly talented team of scientists and administrators, we will continue to be a world leader in making high-impact scientific discoveries and forging new pathways for innovation across the biological sciences."
Joyce graduated with a BA from the University of Chicago in 1978 and both an MD and PhD from the University of California San Diego in 1984. He completed his postgraduate medical training at Mercy Hospital in San Diego and postdoctoral research training at the Salk Institute before launching his independent research program in 1989.
About the Salk Institute for Biological Studies:
The Salk Institute embodies founder Jonas Salk's mission to dare to make dreams into reality. Its internationally renowned and award-winning scientists explore the very foundations of life, seeking new understandings in neuroscience, cancer, aging, immunobiology, plant biology, computational biology, and more. The Institute is an independent nonprofit organization and architectural landmark: small by choice, intimate by nature, and fearless in the face of any challenge. Learn more at: http://salk.edu.
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
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La Jolla, California 92037
PH (858) 453-4100
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SOURCE Salk Institute for Biological Studies | 2023-02-17T01:48:49+00:00 | wlbt.com | https://www.wlbt.com/prnewswire/2023/02/16/gerald-joyce-become-next-president-salk-institute/ |
Top Lakers vs. Warriors Players to Watch - Western Conference Semifinals Game 4
Crypto.com Arena is where the Los Angeles Lakers (43-39) and Golden State Warriors (44-38) will clash on Monday at 10:00 PM ET. Anthony Davis and Jordan Poole are players to watch for the Lakers and Warriors, 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 on TNT.
How to Watch Lakers vs. Warriors
- Game Day: Monday, May 8
- Game Time: 10:00 PM ET
- Arena: Crypto.com Arena
- Location: Los Angeles, California
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Lakers' Last Game
On Saturday, the Lakers defeated the Warriors 127-97, led by Davis with 25 points. Curry was the high scorer for the losing team with 23 points.
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Warriors' Last Game
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Lakers Players to Watch
- Davis is tops on the Lakers at 12.5 rebounds per contest, while also posting 2.6 assists and 25.9 points.
- LeBron James posts 28.9 points and 6.8 assists per game -- both team highs. He is also putting up 8.3 rebounds, shooting 50% from the floor and 32.1% from downtown with 2.2 made 3-pointers per contest.
- D'Angelo Russell leads the Lakers at 6.2 assists per contest, while also putting up 3 rebounds and 17.8 points.
- Jarred Vanderbilt is putting up 7.9 points, 2.4 assists and 7.4 rebounds per contest.
- Malik Beasley is putting up 12.7 points, 1.5 assists and 3.5 rebounds per game.
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Warriors Players to Watch
- Curry gets the Warriors 29.4 points, 6.1 rebounds and 6.3 assists per game. He also averages 0.9 steals and 0.4 blocked shots.
- Poole is averaging a team-leading 20.4 points per contest. And he is producing 2.7 rebounds and 4.5 assists, making 43% of his shots from the field and 33.6% from 3-point range, with 2.6 treys per contest.
- The Warriors receive 21.9 points, 4.1 rebounds and 2.4 assists per game from Klay Thompson.
- Draymond Green is averaging a team-leading 6.8 assists per game. And he is producing 8.5 points and 7.2 rebounds, making 52.7% of his shots from the field.
- Kevon Looney is averaging a team-high 9.3 rebounds per contest. And he is contributing 7 points and 2.5 assists, making 63% of his shots from the field.
Top Performers (Last 10 Games)
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© 2023 Data Skrive. All rights reserved. | 2023-05-08T20:57:00+00:00 | ktiv.com | https://www.ktiv.com/sports/betting/2023/05/08/lakers-vs-warriors-players-to-watch-western-conference-semifinals/ |
CARTOONS: He was afraid of missing out
May 18, 2022 - 9:00 pm
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Take a look at some editorial cartoons from across the U.S. and world.
Take a look at some editorial cartoons from across the U.S. and world. | 2022-05-19T05:34:14+00:00 | reviewjournal.com | https://www.reviewjournal.com/opinion/drawing-board/cartoons-he-was-afraid-of-missing-out-2578904/ |
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