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MALDEN, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts charter school where an 8th grade student was written up for a uniform infraction for wearing a hijab says it understands its “handling of the situation came across as insensitive.”
A family member of the Mystic Valley Regional Charter School student posted on social media a picture of the “School Uniform Compliance Form” the student received from a teacher for the hijab on Thursday. In the description of the infraction, the headscarf worn by Muslim women was misspelled as “jihab.”
The school said in an emailed statement that it allows students to wear religious attire “as an expression of their sincerely held beliefs,” but asks students to provide a letter “expressing this desire from a member of their clergy.”
School Superintendent Alex Dan said there were no consequences given to the student and that the form sent home was meant to start the conversation with the family about obtaining a religious accommodation. But Dan acknowledged that the situation was mishandled.
“While we would like to reiterate that the well-respected staff member overseeing the process should bear no responsibility for what has transpired, we understand how our handling of the situation came across as insensitive and look forward to using this moment as a learning opportunity to improve our policies and procedures,” the school’s statement said.
The Massachusetts chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations says its lawyers are representing the student’s family and are investigating the situation. The student is now wearing a hijab at school, the group said.
CAIR-Massachusetts Executive Director Tahirah Amatul-Wadud said wearing a hijab or other religious attire shouldn’t require families to seek an accommodation.
“I would like never for that student have to justify what she is wearing,” she said Sunday. “I don’t want them to ever have to justify that this requires an accommodation.”
The Mystic Valley Regional Charter School also came under fire in 2017 for a policy of banning hair braid extensions. The parents of then-15-year-olds said their twin daughters, who are Black, were punished for wearing extensions while white students hadn’t been punished for violations of hairstyle regulations.
After intense criticism, including from Democratic Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey, the school abandoned the policy.
In July, Republican Gov. Charlie Baker signed a law prompted by that incident to ban discrimination based on natural and protective hairstyles — such as Afros, cornrows or tightly coiled twists — in workplaces, school districts and school-related organizations in the state. | 2022-08-21T22:36:41+00:00 | myfox8.com | https://myfox8.com/news/massachusetts-student-receives-uniform-violation-for-hijab/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Looking ahead to a likely spring offensive, the U.S. and Germany are sending Ukraine an array of armored vehicles, including 50 tank-killing Bradleys, to expand its ability to move troops to the front lines and beef up its forces against Russia as the war nears its first anniversary.
The vehicles don’t fulfill Ukraine’s request for combat tanks. But they provide a strategic war-fighting capability as the season change brings muddy terrain and Ukraine launches an aggressive campaign to recoup territory taken by Russia, particularly in the east.
A look at the Bradley and other armored carriers, and what they bring to the fight:
WHAT ARE THEY AND HOW WILL THEY HELP?
No, they are not tanks.
The Bradleys and the 40 German Marders are among a wide variety of armored personnel carriers used by Western nations. They are designed to fit into what advanced militaries call a combined arms maneuver fight — the ability to use a wide range of ground, air and other weapons and fighting units in seamless coordination to win a battle.
The M2A2 Bradley is a medium-armored combat vehicle that has tracks rather than wheels, but is lighter and more agile than a tank. It can carry a crew of three and an additional five or six troops, and is seen as a critical way to move infantry squads safely into battle.
It is generally armed with a 25 mm gun mounted on the top, a machine gun and an anti-tank TOW missile launcher that can be used when the Bradley is stopped. “TOW” stands for “tube-launched, optically tracked, wire-guided,” which means the missile is fired only at targets that troops can actually see on the battlefield, so it’s very effective in open spaces such as deserts and large fields.
The Marder is similar, and can carry largely equivalent weapons.
In a combined arms fight, for example, Ukrainian forces could fire rounds of artillery and airstrikes into a Russian stronghold, and then quickly move infantry troops in armored vehicles to the front for a ground assault to take advantage of Russia’s weakened state.
“It creates a dilemma for adversaries,” said Bradley Bowman, senior director of the Center on Military and Political Power at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, adding that using the Bradleys will allow Ukraine’s forces to exploit soft spots created by the artillery barrages. “It’s a powerful combination.”
Both Russia and Ukraine have suffered heavy losses of tanks and other armored vehicles in the last 10 months, so sending the Bradleys and Marders will help offset those losses.
WHY NOW?
The decision to send the Bradleys reflects a steady progression in the complexity and lethality of the weapons systems the U.S. and its allies have provided over the course of the war.
Many condemn the pace as too slow, arguing that Ukraine needs everything it can get to repel the Russians and that some territory losses could have been prevented if the U.S. and its allies had moved faster.
Others counter that the types of weapons provided have shifted based on the changing nature of the war since it began last February, and the growing ability of Ukrainian troops to travel out of the country to get the training they need to operate and maintain the more complicated and high-tech systems.
White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters Friday that the Bradley will be helpful as the fight escalates in the eastern Donbas region, where there is “a lot of farmland, a lot of open ground.” The decision, he said, reflects Ukraine’s current military needs, but is “also taking a look at what the fight is likely to be going forward.”
At the Pentagon, Laura Cooper, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for Russia and Ukraine, said this is the right time to provide Bradleys. “The Ukrainians have demonstrated a lot of growing proficiency in maintenance and sustainment,” she said. She added that the U.S.-led training set to begin later this month will enable troops to operate, maintain and repair the weapons.
The U.S. and other allies are also using the winter months to send large amounts of weapons and equipment that Ukraine will need when fighting heats up in the spring.
THANKS BUT NO TANKS
Ukraine has persistently asked for tanks, but the U.S. and other allies have resisted sending the heavier, more powerful and complex armored vehicles.
America’s M1 Abrams tank, for example, carries a far more powerful gun and is more heavily armored, but weighs a lot more and uses jet fuel, rather than diesel. All of that makes it more difficult to maintain and sustain as troops are on the march.
“We absolutely agree that Ukraine does need tanks,” said Cooper. “But we have to be cognizant of maintenance and sustainment considerations with tanks. And certainly we know that the Abrams tank, in addition to being a gas guzzler, is quite challenging to maintain.”
She said that’s why the U.S. partnered with the Netherlands to refurbish T-72 Soviet-era tanks that Ukrainian troops would already know how to use.
The U.S. and other Western nations have trained and practiced for decades on how to move troops in combat so that critical food, fuel and supplies keep pace with the forces. Russia’s inability to do that was on display early in the war when its long troop convoy heading toward Kyiv stalled, because troops were without food and fuel due to a total logistical breakdown.
WHEN WILL THE VEHICLES ARRIVE?
U.S. and German officials would not provide precise timelines for when the training would finish and how quickly the armored vehicles could arrive in Ukraine.
The Pentagon has said expanded combat training of Ukrainian forces will begin this month, and Cooper said the Bradley instruction will be built into that. “It will take a couple of months, basically, to get this capability fielded, to get the Ukrainians trained,” she said.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz had long been wary of pressure to supply the vehicles to Ukraine and insisted Germany wouldn’t go it alone with such deliveries. That led to the tandem announcement with the U.S. commitment this week.
Scholz’s spokesman, Steffen Hebestreit, told reporters in Berlin that the German vehicles should be ready to go to Ukraine in the first quarter of this year. Germany plans to train Ukrainian forces to use the vehicles, and Hebestreit said experts expect that process to take around eight weeks.
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Associated Press Writer Geir Moulson in Berlin contributed to this report. | 2023-01-07T21:46:34+00:00 | wcia.com | https://www.wcia.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-explainer-how-armored-vehicles-aid-ukraine-at-critical-time/ |
Anti-war Russians who fled to Turkey react to the failed mutiny By Fatma Tanis Published June 26, 2023 04:25 AM Facebook Twitter Listen • 3:41 Russians react to the mutiny by Wagner mercenaries and express their opinions on what it says about Putin's grip on power and the future of the country. Copyright 2023 NPR | 2023-06-26T13:05:50+00:00 | kpcc.org | https://www.kpcc.org/2023-06-26/anti-war-russians-who-fled-to-turkey-react-to-the-failed-mutiny |
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DETROIT – A man accused of making antisemitic threats at a Jewish preschool is now facing federal charges for allegedly lying during an attempt to purchase three firearms later the same day, authorities announced.
On Dec. 2, Hassan Chokr, 35, of Dearborn, allegedly threatened children, parents and security guards at Temple Beth El in Bloomfield Township. Later that day, he allegedly lied on a federal firearms form to purchase a shotgun, a rifle and a semi-automatic pistol at a gun shop in Dearborn.
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In seeking to make the purchases, Chokr filled out a federal firearms form and allegedly falsely claimed that he had not been previously convicted of a felony and that there were no felony charges pending against him.
However, he was convicted in 2017 of felony financial transaction device – stealing/retaining without consent. In addition, he has a pending charge of assault with a dangerous weapon (felonious assault).
After Chokr submitted the form, his purchase was denied by the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), and the firearms were not sold to him.
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The weapons that Chokr sought to purchase were as follows: a Landor Arms, 12-gauge shotgun; a Del-ton, 5.56mm rifle; and a Glock, 9mm semi-automatic pistol.
U.S. Attorney Dawn N. Ison announced the federal charges on Thursday, Dec. 15. If convicted, Chokr faces up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
Chokr is charged with two counts of ethnic intimidation, a two-year felony, related to the incident at the synagogue.
RELATED: Michigan man accused of antisemitic, racist threats at preschool | 2022-12-15T19:24:19+00:00 | mlive.com | https://www.mlive.com/news/2022/12/man-accused-of-antisemitic-threats-at-preschool-charged-with-lying-to-purchase-firearms.html |
MISSOULA — MISSOULA - A St. Regis man was honored with the Bronze Star for his bravery during the Vietnam War in Missoula's Rose Park on Tuesday.
October 7, 1967, is a day that Ed Fontaine will remember for the rest of his life.
“When that fire opened up… ha… I said ‘oh suicide,’ we just got told to go up on a hill,” Fontaine recalled.
It was a hill that exposed him and his unit to the enemies of the Vietnam War. At 18 years old, the machine gunner in the US Army’s 101st Airborne Division, was faced with a choice.
“And he knew what I was saying," said Fontaine. "He says,’ I'll go if you go.’ We both know that meant, ‘I'll die if you die.’”
As he was 20 meters away from the enemy, he shot and all went quiet on the front, buying his unit valuable time to go on fighting the war.
It was Fontaine's bravery over 50 years ago that awarded him six military honors, including a Purple Heart — and now the Bronze Star.
The Bronze Star is given to those who show heroic service in a combat zone.
But Fontaine says he couldn’t have done it without the grace of God, describing his actions that day, as a miracle.
“Specialists Fontaine said to me that ‘this metal is important to me because it documents a miracle,’” said Father Griego, who accepted the medal on behalf of Fontaine.
Montana Congressman Matt Rosendale awarded the Bronze Star to Fontaine.
“Giving honor to a gentleman who risked his life against all odds to make sure that other people were saved is really an incredible honor," Rosendale told MTN News.
The woman who has stood by Fontaine's side for 50 years says she is overcome with pride by her husband’s actions and constant selflessness.
“So proud of him," said Fontaine's wife, Debbie Fontaine. "I know you're not supposed to be prideful, but I'm just overjoyed that this has happened…the Miracle got recognized.”
Once he left the US Army, Fontaine continued to serve his community as an educator for at-risk students.
A man who beams humility and bravery. | 2022-05-31T23:42:07+00:00 | ktvq.com | https://www.ktvq.com/news/positively-montana/st-regis-veteran-honored-with-bronze-star-by-rep-matt-rosendale |
TX Corpus Christi TX Zone Forecast for Monday, October 24, 2022
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Zone Forecast Product for South Texas
National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX
327 AM CDT Tue Oct 25 2022
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Including the cities of Corpus Christi and Flour Bluff
327 AM CDT Tue Oct 25 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, cooler with highs in the upper 70s. Northwest
winds 15 to 20 mph, becoming north 10 to 15 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 60. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph, increasing to east 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s. East winds
5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 80s. Southeast
winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the upper 60s. Chance of
rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then sunny in the afternoon. Highs
around 80. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Cooler with lows in the upper 50s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 60s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
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Nueces Islands-
Including the city of Port Aransas
327 AM CDT Tue Oct 25 2022
...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM CDT THIS MORNING...
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. North winds 15 to 20 mph
with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 60s. Northeast winds
10 to 15 mph, diminishing to 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Northeast winds 10 to
15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. East
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 70s. Southeast
winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then partly cloudy in the
afternoon. Highs in the upper 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 60s.
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Including the cities of Robstown, Tuloso, and Bishop
327 AM CDT Tue Oct 25 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, cooler with highs in the upper 70s. Northwest
winds 15 to 20 mph, becoming north 10 to 15 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s. East winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming west after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs around 80. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph,
increasing to east 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 60s. East winds 5 to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny in the morning, then mostly cloudy with a
slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon.
Highs in the mid 80s. East winds 5 to 10 mph, increasing to
southeast 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the upper 60s. Chance of
rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then sunny in the afternoon. Highs
in the lower 80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear, cooler with lows in the mid 50s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
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Victoria-
Including the cities of Victoria and Bloomington
327 AM CDT Tue Oct 25 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, cooler with highs in the mid 70s. North winds
15 to 20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows around 50. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming north after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming east in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 50s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming east after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny in the morning, then becoming partly cloudy.
Highs in the lower 80s. East winds 5 to 10 mph, increasing to
southeast 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the lower 60s. Chance of
rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then sunny in the afternoon. Highs
in the upper 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear, cooler with lows in the lower 50s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs around 80.
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Webb-
Including the cities of Laredo, Bruni, and Orvil
327 AM CDT Tue Oct 25 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Much cooler with highs in the upper 70s.
Northwest winds 15 to 20 mph, becoming north 10 to 15 mph this
afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. Southeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 60s. Southeast winds
10 to 15 mph, diminishing to 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny in the morning, then becoming partly cloudy.
More humid with highs in the mid 80s. Southeast winds 5 to
10 mph, increasing to 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Breezy
with highs in the upper 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear, cooler with lows in the mid 50s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs around 80.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
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TXZ242-252115-
Inland Kleberg-
Including the cities of Kingsville, Loyola Beach, Ricardo,
and Riviera
327 AM CDT Tue Oct 25 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, cooler with highs in the upper 70s. Northwest
winds 15 to 20 mph, becoming north 10 to 15 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s. East winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming west after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph, increasing to east 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows around 60. East winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny in the morning, then mostly cloudy with a
slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon.
Highs in the mid 80s. East winds 5 to 10 mph, increasing to
southeast 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then sunny in the afternoon. Highs
in the lower 80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear, cooler with lows in the mid 50s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs around 80.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
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TXZ342-252115-
Coastal Kleberg-
327 AM CDT Tue Oct 25 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Northwest winds 15 to
20 mph, becoming north 10 to 15 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s. Northeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph, increasing to east 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s. East winds
5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then mostly cloudy with
a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon.
Highs in the lower 80s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the upper 60s. Chance of
rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then sunny in the afternoon. Highs
in the lower 80s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear, cooler with lows in the mid 50s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows around 60.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
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Kleberg Islands-
327 AM CDT Tue Oct 25 2022
...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM CDT THIS MORNING...
.TODAY...Partly cloudy this morning, then becoming sunny. Highs
in the mid 70s. North winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s. Northeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Northeast winds 10 to
15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 70. East winds 10 to
15 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 70s. Southeast
winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the morning. Highs in the upper 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Cooler with lows in the lower 60s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 60s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 60s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
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Coastal San Patricio-
Including the cities of Portland and Ingleside
327 AM CDT Tue Oct 25 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. North winds 15 to 20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s. Northeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph, increasing to east 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s. East winds
5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 80s. Southeast
winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the upper 60s. Chance of
rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then sunny in the afternoon. Highs
around 80. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Cooler with lows in the mid 50s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
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TXZ244-252115-
Inland San Patricio-
Including the cities of Sinton, Mathis, Taft, and Odem
327 AM CDT Tue Oct 25 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, cooler with highs in the upper 70s. Northwest
winds 15 to 20 mph, becoming north 10 to 15 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s. East winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming northeast after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph, increasing to east in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 50s. East winds 5 to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny in the morning, then partly cloudy with a
slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon.
Highs in the lower 80s. East winds 5 to 10 mph, increasing to
southeast 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly
cloudy with a chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight.
Lows in the mid 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then sunny in the afternoon. Highs
around 80. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear, cooler with lows in the lower 50s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
$$
TXZ245-252115-
Coastal Aransas-
Including the cities of Rockport and Fulton
327 AM CDT Tue Oct 25 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. North winds 15 to 20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s. Northeast winds
5 to 10 mph, diminishing to around 5 mph after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph, increasing to east 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 60s. East winds 5 to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny in the morning, then partly cloudy with a
slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon.
Highs in the lower 80s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the
mid 60s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then sunny in the afternoon. Highs
in the lower 80s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Cooler with lows in the mid 50s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
$$
TXZ345-252115-
Aransas Islands-
327 AM CDT Tue Oct 25 2022
...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM CDT THIS MORNING...
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. North winds 15 to 20 mph
with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s. North winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming northeast 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Northeast winds 10 to
15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 60s. East
winds 10 to 15 mph, becoming southeast 5 to 10 mph after
midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny in the morning, then partly cloudy with a
slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon.
Highs in the upper 70s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 60s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then partly cloudy in the
afternoon. Highs in the upper 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Cooler with lows in the upper 50s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 60s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 60s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
$$
TXZ346-252115-
Coastal Refugio-
Including the cities of Bayside and Austwell
327 AM CDT Tue Oct 25 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. North winds 15 to 20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s. Northeast winds
5 to 10 mph, diminishing to around 5 mph after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph, increasing to east in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 50s. East winds 5 to
10 mph, diminishing to around 5 mph after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny in the morning, then partly cloudy with a
slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon.
Highs around 80. East winds 5 to 10 mph, increasing to southeast
10 to 15 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the
lower 60s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then sunny in the afternoon. Highs
around 80. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Cooler with lows in the lower 50s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows around 50.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
$$
TXZ246-252115-
Inland Refugio-
Including the cities of Refugio and Woodsboro
327 AM CDT Tue Oct 25 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, cooler with highs in the mid 70s. Northwest winds
15 to 20 mph, becoming north 10 to 15 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s. Northeast winds
5 to 10 mph, diminishing to around 5 mph after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming east in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 50s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming east after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny in the morning, then becoming partly cloudy.
Highs in the lower 80s. East winds 5 to 10 mph, increasing to
southeast 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly
cloudy with a chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight.
Lows in the lower 60s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then sunny in the afternoon. Highs
in the upper 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear, cooler with lows in the lower 50s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
$$
TXZ247-252115-
Inland Calhoun-
Including the city of Long Mott
327 AM CDT Tue Oct 25 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. North winds 15 to 20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s. North winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming east in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 50s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming east after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny in the morning, then becoming partly cloudy.
Highs around 80. East winds 10 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 60s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then sunny in the afternoon. Highs
in the upper 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear, cooler with lows in the lower 50s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
$$
TXZ347-252115-
Coastal Calhoun-
Including the cities of Seadrift, Port Lavaca, and Port O Connor
327 AM CDT Tue Oct 25 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Northwest winds 15 to
20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s. North winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming northeast around 5 mph after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph, increasing to east in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 60s. East winds 5 to
10 mph, diminishing to around 5 mph after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny in the morning, then becoming partly cloudy.
Highs in the upper 70s. East winds 10 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the
mid 60s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then partly cloudy in the
afternoon. Highs in the upper 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear, cooler with lows in the mid 50s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
$$
TXZ447-252115-
Calhoun Islands-
327 AM CDT Tue Oct 25 2022
...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM CDT THIS MORNING...
.TODAY...Sunny, breezy with highs in the mid 70s. Northwest winds
15 to 25 mph, becoming north 15 to 20 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s. North winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming northeast 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Northeast winds 10 to
15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 60s. East winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming southeast 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny in the morning, then partly cloudy with a
slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon.
Highs in the upper 70s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts
up to 25 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the
upper 60s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then partly cloudy in the
afternoon. Highs in the upper 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Cooler with lows in the upper 50s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 50s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 60s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
$$
TXZ233-252115-
Goliad-
Including the city of Goliad
327 AM CDT Tue Oct 25 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, cooler with highs in the mid 70s. North winds
10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 50s. Northeast winds around
5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. East winds around
5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 50s. East winds around
5 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny in the morning, then becoming partly cloudy.
Highs in the lower 80s. East winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the lower 60s. Chance of
rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then sunny in the afternoon. Highs
in the upper 70s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear, cooler with lows in the lower 50s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows around 50.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs around 80.
$$
TXZ232-252115-
Bee-
Including the cities of Beeville, Skidmore, Pettus, and Pawnee
327 AM CDT Tue Oct 25 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, cooler with highs in the mid 70s. North winds
10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s. East winds around
5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. East winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 50s. East winds 5 to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny in the morning, then becoming partly cloudy.
More humid with highs in the lower 80s. Southeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the lower 60s. Chance of
rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then sunny in the afternoon. Highs
in the upper 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear, cooler with lows in the lower 50s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs around 80.
$$
TXZ241-252115-
Jim Wells-
Including the cities of Alice, Orange Grove, and Premont
327 AM CDT Tue Oct 25 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, cooler with highs in the upper 70s. Northwest
winds 15 to 20 mph, becoming north 10 to 15 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s. East winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming southwest after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph, increasing to east in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 50s. East winds 5 to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny in the morning, then becoming partly cloudy.
Highs in the mid 80s. East winds 5 to 10 mph, increasing to
southeast 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly
cloudy with a chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight.
Lows in the mid 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then sunny in the afternoon. Highs
around 80. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear, cooler with lows in the lower 50s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
$$
TXZ231-252115-
Live Oak-
Including the cities of George West and Three Rivers
327 AM CDT Tue Oct 25 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, cooler with highs in the upper 70s. North winds
10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s. Southeast winds
around 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. East winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 50s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming east after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny in the morning, then becoming partly cloudy.
More humid with highs in the lower 80s. East winds 5 to 10 mph,
increasing to southeast 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening, then partly
cloudy with a chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight.
Lows in the lower 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Highs
around 80.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear, cooler with lows in the lower 50s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
$$
TXZ240-252115-
Duval-
Including the cities of Freer, Benavides, and San Diego
327 AM CDT Tue Oct 25 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Much cooler with highs in the upper 70s. North
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s. East winds around
5 mph, becoming south after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. East winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 50s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny in the morning, then becoming partly cloudy.
Highs in the mid 80s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph, increasing to
10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Highs in
the upper 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear, cooler with lows in the lower 50s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
$$
TXZ229-252115-
La Salle-
Including the cities of Cotulla and Encinal
327 AM CDT Tue Oct 25 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, cooler with highs in the upper 70s. Northwest
winds 10 to 15 mph, diminishing to 5 to 10 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s. Southwest winds
around 5 mph, becoming southeast after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. Southeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 50s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny in the morning, then becoming partly cloudy.
More humid with highs in the mid 80s. Southeast winds 5 to
10 mph, increasing to 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the lower 60s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Highs
around 80.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear, cooler with lows in the lower 50s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs around 80.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
$$
TXZ230-252115-
McMullen-
Including the cities of Calliham, Cross, Loma Alta, and Tilden
327 AM CDT Tue Oct 25 2022
.TODAY...Sunny, cooler with highs in the upper 70s. Northwest
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s. Southwest winds
around 5 mph, becoming southeast after midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. East winds 5 to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 50s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph, diminishing to around 5 mph after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny in the morning, then becoming partly cloudy.
More humid with highs in the mid 80s. East winds 5 to 10 mph,
increasing to southeast 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the lower 60s. Chance of
rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy in the morning, then clearing. Highs
around 80.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear, cooler with lows in the lower 50s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 40s.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs around 80.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
$$
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(The Hill) – Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen on Wednesday predicted New York Attorney General Letitia James’ (D) newly announced fraud investigation into former President Trump’s business will culminate in the Trump Organization’s downfall.
“It’s gonna put an end to the entire company,” Cohen said during an appearance on MSNBC’s “All in with Chris Hayes” on Wednesday evening.
“You think that?” Hayes followed up.
“I believe so,” Cohen responded.
James earlier on Wednesday announced the civil fraud suit, the culmination of her three-year investigation into the Trump family and their business practices.
The state attorney general alleges the Trump Organization at times inflated and deflated property values to misleadingly attract investors and gain tax and loan benefits, also exaggerating the former president’s net worth.
James during Wednesday’s announcement said her investigation began after Cohen testified before Congress about the Trump Organization.
“When she mentioned my name, I was obviously quite elated, to be honest, because I’m finally getting the recognition for what I’ve been sitting on the mountain tops yelling for three-and-a-half, four years, which is that the Trump Organization is a criminal enterprise, and that I got thrown under the bus by dear old Donald,” Cohen said on MSNBC.
Among James’ requests to the court are $250 million in penalties and a permanent barring of the former president and three of his adult children from serving as an officer or director in any New York-based corporation.
Cohen told Hayes he expects that figure to rise to roughly $750 million once they realize the full extent of the issues.
Trump and his two adult sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, have blasted the investigation as a witch hunt, noting James’s past promises to pursue an investigation into the family and her upcoming reelection contest in November.
James also on Wednesday indicated she referred alleged federal law violations, including conspiracy to falsify business records and commit insurance fraud, to the IRS and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. | 2022-09-23T01:43:32+00:00 | qcnews.com | https://www.qcnews.com/news/politics/michael-cohen-fraud-lawsuit-will-put-an-end-to-trump-organization/ |
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PODGORICA, Montenegro (AP) — A crushing defeat of Montenegro’s long-time leader Milo Djukanovic in a weekend presidential election heralds his final departure from the small Balkan state’s political scene after more than 30 years in power, analysts said Monday.
Economy expert and political novice Jakov Milatovic won the presidential runoff election on Sunday, defeating Djukanaovic who led Montenegro to independence from much larger Serbia in 2006 and to NATO membership in 2017, despite strong opposition from former Slavic ally Russia.
Milatovic won around 60% of the vote, according to the reliable independent pollsters. Djukanovic has conceded defeat. First official results are expected later Monday.
Milatovic’s victory is believed to reflect voter fatigue with Djukanovic - who has served as president twice and prime minister seven times - as well as disillusionment with established politicians. Although the presidency is largely a ceremonial position in Montenegro, it influences the political trends in the country.
“Djukanovic is one of the longest-ruling leaders in Europe and in the world,” said political analyst Ana Nenezic, “He has ruled for more than Belarus leader (Aleksander) Lukashenko which is strange in any democratic society … 32 years is too much for a country.”
Montenegrin political analyst Fedja Pavlovic said Djukanovic was "sent to political retirement, this time irrevocably.”
This was Djukanovic’s first loss in an election since he first entered politics in the former Yugoslav republic in the early 1990s. During his decades in power, the 61-year-old switched from a pro-Serbian communist to a pro-Western politician.
Milatovic, 36, first entered politics in 2020 after finishing his education in Britain and the United States.
The outcome of Sunday’s election is likely to reflect on an early parliamentary vote set for June 11. That vote was scheduled because of a months-long government deadlock that stalled Montenegro’s pending European Union membership and alarmed the West as war rages in Ukraine.
Though Milatovic’s Europe Now group isn't formally part of the country's ruling coalition, his presidential candidacy won backing from the shaky alliance that includes parties advocating closer ties with neighboring Serbia and Russia.
Milatovic has denied Djukanovic’s allegations that the governing coalition was pushing Montenegro back under Serbian and Russian influence.
The country of some 620,000 people is deeply split between those who consider Montenegro a sovereign nation and about 30% of the population who consider themselves Serbs.
Relations between Serbia and Montenegro have deteriorated since Djukanovic took the country out of the union with Serbia and later into NATO. During the election campaign, Djukanovic said voters were choosing between membership in the EU, or joining the “Serbian World,” – a copy of the “Russian World.”
Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vucic congratulated Milatovic on his victory, saying “In Serbia, you will always have a reliable partner.”
During his tenure, Djukanovic and his party officials have often been accused of corruption and of pressuring the judiciary to ignore numerous cases involving graft. He has often denied accumulating a large fortune for himself and his family.
“End of an era: Milatovic is the president,” read newspaper headlines a day after the vote.
“There is no doubt that this was a historic date and a historic event, the end of a political epoch, our political epoch under the leadership of Mr. Milo Djukanovic and his Democratic Party of Socialists,” Milena Perovic, a Podgorica resident said. | 2023-04-03T14:36:47+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/politics/article/political-novice-ousts-veteran-in-montenegro-vote-17875350.php |
KSS becomes exclusive distributor of California's #1 flower brand
SANTA BARBARA, Calif., June 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pacific Stone, the #1 flower brand in California by units sold in the state, announces its exclusive partnership with Kiva Sales and Service (KSS). KSS, the industry-leading sales and distribution platform offering dispensaries a complete suite of curated best in class brands, will distribute Pacific Stone products across The Golden State.
KSS' extensive distribution network will continue growing Pacific Stone's product portfolio to over 900 retailers in the largest adult-use market in the country. Led by sixth-generation Dutch greenhouse growers, Pacific Stone offers premium greenhouse flower, two-count pre-rolls, 14-count pre-roll packs, Smooth Rips™ cured resin sauce, Ready Rips™ all-in-one vaporizers, Roll Your Own Sugar Shakes and diamond-infused pre-roll packs.
Earlier this year, Pacific Stone launched a new smalls brand, Time Machine, through the KSS platform. This narrative and character-driven brand features interactive, graphic-novel-themed packaging and offers a selection of packaged small buds and pre-rolls that have been well-received by both retailers and consumers in the marketplace.
As a result of Time Machine's success, Pacific Stone moved towards consolidating its brands to the KSS platform as they continued to expand their reach throughout California and beyond. Pacific Stone will continue to launch exciting new cannabis strains and products that specifically address consumer demand, as part of its continued commitment to being a leading retail partner.
"KSS has done an exceptional job launching Time Machine and during this process, it was clear that the organizational cultures were aligned and the path for brand consolidation to a single distribution platform became clear," said Skip Motsenbocker, CEO of the Pacific Stone's family of brands. He added, "we're excited to work with the KSS team to bring new products to market, while continuing to serve the needs of consumers and retailers alike, delivering best in class quality, consistency and value".
"Our portfolio goal at KSS has always been one of curation and balance," said Brooks Jorgensen, President of Kiva Sales and Service. "We look for the right brand with the right strategy supported by thoughtful and professional leadership and Pacific Stone checked all of those boxes. Their commitment to quality, dedication to innovation and brand architecture align with the core values of all the brands we represent. KSS and Pacific Stone believe that strength lies with strong distribution on quality brands that sell for a fair price. Those shared guiding principles are what makes Pacific Stone a natural fit for us."
For more information about Pacific Stone's product offerings and retailers, please visit https://pacificstonebrand.com/.
Pacific Stone was founded in 2015 as a labor of love by friends and family from the 805 who were passionate about growing clean, consistent and affordable cannabis for California. They are cannabis cultivators and sixth-generation Dutch greenhouse growers who built the coastal indoor greenhouses they cultivate in. They only sell what their team grows, cures and packs to bring you farm-direct cannabis at the best price, year-round: Single Source. Family owned and operated. Indoor-greenhouse cannabis. California's best-selling flower.. Learn more: https://pacificstonebrand.com/.
In 2010, we at Kiva made a commitment to never release a product to our customers until it was perfect. We used that same philosophy as our driving mission at Kiva Sales & Service to make sure we provide the best customer service of any distributor in the market. Our goal is to build the leading distributor for premium California cannabis brands with a strong focus on service, brand building, and relationships that will accelerate growth for all our partners. With our commitment to dispensary service and a curated portfolio of industry-leading cannabis brands, we can be stronger together.
Time Machine is a narrative-driven cannabis brand offering the biggest smalls in the galaxy. Sourced from Pacific Stone's family of farms (805 Enterprises, LLC) located on California's central coast, Time Machine's premium, Dutch greenhouse-grown hydroponic flower features eight consistent strains to help travelers fully experience the ends of space and time. To enter the machine, please visit https://timemachinebrand.com/ and find us on Instagram and LinkedIn.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis is poised to position himself on Tuesday as a champion of conservative causes during a State of the State address that will likely be as much about his national ambitions as it is an assessment of Florida’s status in the wake of a pandemic and a series of crippling storms.
The address comes at the outset of a 60-day legislative session that has added significance this year because it will likely be used to launch DeSantis into a highly anticipated presidential campaign.
The Republican-dominated Legislature, eager to promote DeSantis’ political prospects, is expected to sign off on virtually all of the governor’s agenda, which is packed with issues ranging from race to immigration to gender that could prove popular in a GOP presidential primary.
Instead of focusing on rising rents and cost of living, a property insurance market that’s in distress and preparing for rising sea levels in the state that’s most vulnerable to climate change, DeSantis will kick off a session where the GOP will push issues like telling teachers what pronouns they can use for students, making guns more available to Floridians, keeping immigrants that are in the country illegally out of the state and criminalizing some drag shows, as Tennessee recently did.
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Though DeSantis is unlikely to formally announce a presidential campaign until the Legislature wraps its work in May, he’s already making big moves toward a White House bid. He participated in a high profile donor retreat last week in Florida before traveling to California, where he delivered a broadside against what he argued were excesses of liberalism. Later this week, he’ll travel for the first time this year to Iowa, which will host the nation’s first presidential caucuses in 2024.
Even without an official campaign in place, DeSantis is emerging as a leading alternative to former President Donald Trump, a fellow Floridian who has already announced his third White House bid. DeSantis’ strength is fueled in part by commanding a nearly 20-point reelection victory last year in a state that’s often infamous for close elections.
He’s done so by limiting how issues like race and sexuality can be taught in schools, banning transgender girls and women from school sports, rewriting the state’s political maps to favor Republicans and dismantle a congressional district that favored Black voters, attacking private businesses that disagree with his ideology and cracking down on Black Lives Matter protests.
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DeSantis acknowledges that his decisions as governor are based on what he thinks is right and not necessarily what's popular in the mainstream. He said that's why he was able to turn a 32,000-vote, recount-confirmed victory in 2018 into a 1.5 million vote victory last year — the largest margin a Republican governor has ever won in the state.
“We beat the left day after day after day,” DeSantis said Sunday at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California. “Don't worry about the polls, don't worry about the daily news cycle, and for Pete's sake don't worry about the media, what they say. Do what is right and the voters will reward you.”
He’s also been an almost nightly subject of jokes on late night shows like “Saturday Night Live” and “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert," but the more critics mock DeSantis, especially those he calls the “liberal elite,” the more he galvanizes support among his base.
When he shuns mainstream media in favor of friendly conservative outlets, the more mainstream media covers him. And he has the luxury of not having to make a presidential run “official” at this point.
While most candidates who jump into a presidential race two years out spend early campaigning days raising money, traveling the country building support and boosting their name recognition, DeSantis still has $70 million in a political committee just four months after his re-election.
And he’s already a star de jour at GOP events nationally. Almost as soon as he finishes his State of the State speech, he's heading to Iowa.
“You don’t see the flag of Florida standing behind him anymore. They’re all American flags," said Democratic state Sen. Jason Pizzo.
DeSantis' State of the State is sure to include some of the same “anti-woke, pro-freedom” messages he's taken around the country. While critics argue that he has taken freedom from marginalized groups, it's become a catch word for the governor.
The book he released last week is titled, “The Courage to be Free,” and its subtitle foreshadows his 2024 plans: “Florida's Blueprint for America's Revival.” Instead of the Trump slogan of “Make America Great Again,” DeSantis is building the case to make the nation look more like Florida and less like states such as California and New York.
“These liberal states have gotten it wrong,” DeSantis said. “It all goes back to ideology. I think it goes back to the woke mind virus that's infected the left and all these other institutions.”
But Democrats see it as intolerance and misdirected priorities. They point to efforts to build off a new law that critics call “Don't Say Gay” that limits discussion of gender and sexuality in schools. A new GOP proposal would limit how schools can use gender pronouns, while another would criminalize some drag shows.
“The number one cause of death amongst children in our country is gun violence, but again, they’re concerned about who goes to what kind of drag show,” said Democratic Senate Leader Lauren Book. "You’ve got ‘Don’t Say Gay.’ Now 2.0, ‘Don’t Say They.’ Let's make sure that people can pay for their light bill and can put food on their table and pay for prescriptions and put gas in the car.” | 2023-03-07T10:58:05+00:00 | nbcmiami.com | https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/florida-gov-desantis-to-argue-us-should-be-like-sunshine-state-ahead-of-likely-2024-presidential-bid/2987353/ |
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s reconciliation efforts with Israel will in no way diminish Ankara’s support for the cause of the Palestinians, the Turkish leader said Tuesday.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan made the comments during a visit by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. The Palestinian leader arrived in Ankara just one week after Turkey and Israel announced their decision to restore full diplomatic relations and reappoint ambassadors for the first time since 2018.
“The steps taken in our relations with Israel will in no way reduce our support for the Palestinian cause,” Erdogan said. “On the contrary, our Palestinian brothers also express that these steps will contribute to a solution to the Palestinian issue and improve the situation of the Palestinian people.”
Abbas didn’t comment directly on the rapprochement between Turkey and Israel, but thanked Turkey for its “unwavering” support to the Palestinians.
“We are aware of their support for their legitimate rights, freedom and independence,” Abbas said. “We know that Turkey and its institutions stand by the Palestinian people and the Palestinian state in every field, and support them in the international arena.”
Last week, Israel and Turkey announced they were restoring full diplomatic relations in the latest step in months of reconciliation between the two countries.
Turkey and Israel were once close regional allies, but the relationship disintegrated under Erdogan, who has been an outspoken critic of Israel’s policies toward the Palestinians. Israel, in turn, has objected to Turkey’s embrace of the Palestinian militant group Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip.
The two countries withdrew their respective ambassadors in 2010, after Israeli forces stormed a Gaza-bound flotilla carrying humanitarian aid for Palestinians that broke an Israeli blockade. The incident resulted in the deaths of nine Turkish activists.
Following an attempt at mending ties, Turkey recalled its ambassador again in 2018 after the United States moved its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.
Earlier on Tuesday, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Palestinians didn’t object to the improvement of relations between Turkey and Israel.
“The dialogue (with Israel) will allow us to better defend the Palestinians,” Cavusoglu told Haber Global television in an interview. “They say this themselves. “
“The steps that we are taking does not mean that Turkey will make concessions,” he said.
Cavusoglu said a new ambassador would be named soon. | 2022-08-24T15:08:07+00:00 | kdvr.com | https://kdvr.com/news/nationalworld-news/ap-international/turkeys-erdogan-vows-continued-support-for-palestinians/ |
‘What’s the code for this?’: Moose wanders into Alaska hospital
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU/Gray News) - Moose have been popping up in unexpected places lately in parts of Southcentral Alaska, from a living room and now to the lobby of a hospital facility on Thursday.
According to staff, the moose walked in the front door of the lobby at Providence Health Park in Anchorage’s U-Med District after sighting decorative potted plants through the panels of glass on the front of the building.
Patients, health care staff and security officers then watched as the moose, believed to be about a year old, walked straight up to what appeared to be a type of umbrella tree and sampled a few of the stems.
Even though most Alaskans are used to seeing the monstrous mammals, the presence of one in the hospital’s lobby was a surprise for those inside.
“There’s a moose in our hospital, guys,” one person could be heard saying on a video posted to social media. “It’s just chillin’. Hungry.”
Another witness in the video comments, “This is the best. Like, what’s the code for this?”
Security officers pushed large pieces of furniture toward the moose to urge the ungulate towards the building’s exit.
Some bystanders even grabbed now-broken branches off the lobby floor to tempt the moose with a treat, eventually leading it towards the door and back outside.
The encounter with the moose is a good reminder that although they’re adorably awkward and look friendly, moose can be very dangerous to humans.
Despite being seen without its mother, it is likely that the moose that infiltrated the hospital campus is not in danger.
According to the state’s Department of Fish and Game, more people are injured by moose than bears in Alaska each year.
Copyright 2023 KTUU via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2023-04-07T09:15:15+00:00 | kalb.com | https://www.kalb.com/2023/04/07/whats-code-this-moose-wanders-into-alaska-hospital/ |
Australia’s Thunder From Down Under receives key to Las Vegas Strip
LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) - On Tuesday, Clark County leaders recognized ‘Australia’s Thunder From Down Under’ for its two decades on the Las Vegas Strip.
Clark County Commissioner, Michael Naft, presented a key to the Las Vegas Strip to the group at the Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign. Tuesday marked 21 years since Thunder From Down Under opened at the New Frontier in 2001. The group’s show is believed to be the longest-running male revue show in the world.
The co-owner of Thunder From Down Under, Adam Steck, spoke about the group’s influence in Las Vegas.
“One of the reasons why we brought this show here 21 years ago, was because we noticed there was nothing for ladies. Vegas was predominantly for men. You know, there was topless shows and showgirls. We saw Thunder From Down Under, and we were like, this is the perfect counterpoint for women,” said Steck.
As part of the milestone, July 5th has been proclaimed ‘Thunder From Down Under Day’ in Las Vegas.
Copyright 2022 KVVU. All rights reserved. | 2022-07-06T04:23:32+00:00 | fox5vegas.com | https://www.fox5vegas.com/2022/07/06/australias-thunder-down-under-receives-key-las-vegas-strip/ |
Streaming TV viewers may start to see something they never expected on Netflix: commercials. But, it looks like desperate economic times have called for desperate measures the company has resisted for years.
The shift in attitude toward ads on Netflix comes as the company released subscriber numbers in its April 19 shareholder letter, which highlighted a net loss of 2 million subscribers during the first quarter. For reference, Netflix hasn’t had a net subscriber loss in more than 10 years, according to CNBC.
After years of resisting the idea of showing advertisements on its streaming platform, Netflix addressed the idea directly during its 2022 Q1 earnings call. During the video call, Netflix Co-CEO Reed Hastings said the company is “open” to the concept of offering lower-priced tiers including ads for customers in the next year or two.
“Those who have followed Netflix know that I have been against the complexity of advertising and a big fan of the simplicity of subscription,” Hastings said. “But as much as I am a fan of that, I am a bigger fan of consumer choice, and allowing consumers who would like to have a lower price and are advertising-tolerant to get what they want makes a lot of sense.”
Streaming services with advertising isn’t a new concept. Hulu has offered an ad-supported subscription tier for a while and Amazon’s Freevee (formerly IMDb TV) is a similar option. In the summer of 2021, HBO Max launched an ad-included subscription tier for $9.99 per month. In March 2022, Disney+ announced it would start offering an ad-supported subscription tier in late 2022.
This means that Netflix was essentially the last holdout among the major streaming services. After seeing the kind of money competitors have been making with that plan, the company appears to be giving in.
Hastings told investors the financial numbers don’t lie when it comes to the success other streamers have had with ad-based subscriptions.
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“It’s pretty clear that it’s working for Hulu. Disney’s doing it. HBO did it,” Hastings said. “I don’t think we have a lot of doubt that it works. All those companies have figured it out. I’m sure we’ll just get in and figure it out as opposed to just test it and maybe do it or not do it.”
When can customers expect to see ads pop up in the middle of “Bridgerton” or other favorite series? Not any time in the near future, it seems. Netflix gave no specifics on a timeline for the introduction of the new ad-inclusive subscription plan.
This story originally appeared on Don't Waste Your Money. Checkout Don't Waste Your Money for product reviews and other great ideas to save and make money. | 2022-04-20T19:41:33+00:00 | news5cleveland.com | https://www.news5cleveland.com/netflix-eyeing-cheaper-subscription-package-ads |
CHICAGO, Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- HUB International Limited (Hub), a leading full-service global insurance brokerage and financial services firm, announced today that it has hired financial advisor Bill McClain, President of WT McClain & Associates, Ltd., and acquired his book of business.
Based in Wilmette, Illinois, Bill McClain has been involved in the financial services industry for nearly 30 years assisting a variety of clients on understanding their investment objectives and risk management. McClain's expertise ranges from employee education and investment due diligence/asset allocation to vendor reviews/cost management and investment fiduciary liability management.
This move continues to expand Hub RPW with the addition of talent and resources to develop more comprehensive strategies for clients. Hub RPW works to help plan sponsors create an offering that aligns with their business strategy, navigates fiduciary risk and helps employees pursue their financial goals. The several registered investment advisory affiliates in Hub RPW provide investment advisory services to clients whose total assets are approximately $142 billion.
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Hub Retirement and Private Wealth ("RPW") offers institutional and retirement services to for-profit and not-for-profit organizations and customized private wealth management services to individuals and families. Employees of Hub offer securities through partner Broker Dealers not affiliated with Hub. Employees of Hub provide advisory services through both affiliated and unaffiliated Registered Investment Advisors (RIA). Global Retirement Partners, LLC, Millennium Advisory Services, Inc, TCG Advisory Services, LLC, Hub Investment Advisors, LLC, Hub International Investment Advisory Services, Inc., and Sheridan Road Advisors, LLC are wholly owned subsidiaries of Hub. Learn more about Hub Retirement and Private Wealth.
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Russian missile strike hits crowded shopping mall in Ukraine
KREMENCHUK, Ukraine (AP) - Rescuers searched through the charred rubble of a shopping mall Tuesday looking for more victims of a Russian missile strike that killed at least 18 and wounded scores in what Ukraine’s president called “one of the most daring terrorist attacks in European history.”
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said more than 1,000 afternoon shoppers and workers were inside the mall in the city of Kremenchuk. Giant plumes of black smoke, dust and orange flames billowed from the wreckage as emergency crews combed through broken metal and concrete for victims. Drones whirred above, clouds of dark smoke still emanating from the ruins several hours after the fire was extinguished.
Casualty figures rose as rescuers sifted through the smoldering rubble. The regional governor, Dmytro Lunin, said at least 18 people were killed and 59 others sought medical assistance, of whom 25 were hospitalized. The region declared a day of mourning Tuesday for the victims of the attack.
“We are working to dismantle the construction so that it is possible to get machinery in there since the metal elements are very heavy and big, and disassembling them by hand is impossible,” said Volodymyr Hychkan, an emergency services official.
Ukraine’s Prosecutor General, Iryna Venediktova, who is leading investigations into possible war crimes, said the missile attack was one of Russia’s “crimes against humanity,” noting that the Russian military has been “systematically shelling civilian infrastructure with the aim to scare people, to kill people, to bring terror to our cities and villages.”
Venediktova emphasized the need for Ukrainians across the entire country to remain alert, adding that they should expect a similar strike “every minute.”
Wayne Jordash, a British barrister who is working with Venediktova’s office to investigate possible war crimes, rejected claims that a factory located near the shopping mall was a military object.
“The first indications are that the factory that got hit is a road construction factory, not a military target,” Jordash said. “We need to investigate whether there’s military targets nearby, and the first indications as I say is that there aren’t any military targets nearby.”
At Ukraine’s request, the U.N. Security Council scheduled an emergency meeting in New York on Tuesday to discuss the attack.
In the first Russian government comment on the missile strike, the country’s first deputy permanent representative to the United Nations, Dmitry Polyansky, alleged multiple inconsistencies that he didn’t specify, claiming on Twitter that the incident was a provocation by Ukraine. Russia has repeatedly denied it targets civilian infrastructure, even though Russian attacks have hit other shopping malls, theaters, hospitals, kindergartens and apartment buildings in the four-month war.
On Tuesday, Russian forces struck the Black Sea city of Ochakiv in the Mykolaiv region, damaging apartment buildings and killing two, including a 6-year-old child. A further six people, four of them children, were wounded. One of them, a 3-month-old baby, is in a coma, according to local officials.
The missile strike on Kremenchuk occurred as Western leaders pledged continued support for Ukraine and the world’s major economies prepared new sanctions against Russia, including a price cap on oil and higher tariffs on goods.
Group of Seven leaders condemned the attack in a statement late Monday saying “indiscriminate attacks on innocent civilians constitute a war crime,” noting that “Russian President Putin and those responsible will be held to account.”
The Russian strike echoed earlier attacks that caused large numbers of civilian casualties — such as one in March on a Mariupol theater where many civilians had holed up, killing an estimated 600, and another in April on a train station in eastern Kramatorsk that killed at least 59 people.
Zelenskyy said the mall presented “no threat to the Russian army” and had “no strategic value.” He accused Russia of sabotaging “people’s attempts to live a normal life, which make the occupiers so angry.”
In his nightly address, he said that Russian forces had intentionally targeted the shopping center in “one of the most daring terrorist attacks in European history,” denouncing Russia as “the largest terrorist organization in the world.”
Russia has increasingly used long-range bombers in the war. Ukrainian officials said Russian Tu-22M3 long-range bombers flying over Russia’s western Kursk region fired the missiles, one of which hit the shopping center and another that struck a sports arena in Kremenchuk.
The U.S. appeared ready to respond to Zelenskyy’s call for more air defense systems, and NATO planned to increase the size of its rapid-reaction forces nearly eightfold — to 300,000 troops.
The attack on Kremenchuk coincided with Russia’s all-out assault on the last Ukrainian stronghold in eastern Ukraine’s Luhansk province, “pouring fire” on the city of Lysychansk from the ground and air, according to the local governor. At least eight people were killed and more than 20 wounded in Lysychansk when Russian rockets hit an area where a crowd gathered to obtain water from a tank, Luhansk Gov. Serhiy Haidai said.
The barrage was part of Russian forces’ intensified offensive aimed at wresting the eastern Donbas region from Ukraine. Over the weekend, the Russian military and their local separatist allies forced Ukrainian government troops out of Lysychansk’s neighboring city, Sievierodonetsk.
To the west of Lysychansk on Monday, the mayor of the city of Sloviansk — potentially the next major battleground — said Russian forces fired cluster munitions, including one that hit a residential neighborhood. Authorities said the number of victims had yet to be confirmed. The Associated Press saw one fatality: A man’s body lay hunched over a car door frame, his blood pooling onto the ground from chest and head wounds. The blast blew out most windows in the surrounding apartment blocks and the cars parked below, littering the ground with broken glass.
“Everything is now destroyed,” said resident Valentina Vitkovska, in tears as she spoke about the blast. “We are the only people left living in this part of the building. There is no power. I can’t even call to tell others what had happened to us.”
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Karmanau reported from Lviv, Ukraine. Oleksandr Stashevskyi in Kyiv, Ukraine, contributed to this report.
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Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2022-06-28T10:40:21+00:00 | kwtx.com | https://www.kwtx.com/2022/06/28/russian-missile-strike-hits-crowded-shopping-mall-ukraine/ |
The penalty for Meta’s repeated and intentional violations of Washington’s campaign finance laws swelled by an additional $10.5 million Friday, as a judge ordered the Facebook parent company to pay the state’s legal fees.
Added to the nearly $25 million fine assessed earlier this week, that brings the total penalty in the case pursued by Attorney General Bob Ferguson to more than $35 million.
King County Superior Court Judge Douglass North issued the legal-fee order requiring Meta to pay the state’s legal costs, and tripling the amount due to the intentional nature of the violations.
North ordered the company to pay by wire transfer, or by check or money order, within 30 days. The money will go to the state Public Disclosure Commission, which enforces campaign finance laws.
After a lengthy legal battle, North earlier this week slapped the social media giant with the maximum fine allowed under state law, finding the company had intentionally violated Washington’s political disclosure law 822 times between 2019 and 2021.
The Washington law, created by voters in a 1972 initiative, requires sellers of political ads to disclose names and addresses of ad buyers, as well as the targets of the ads and number of views for each ad. The information must be made available to anyone who asks for it.
Other sellers of political ads, including television stations and newspapers, have had to abide by the Washington requirements for decades. But Meta has repeatedly sold such ads while failing to abide by the requirements.
Ferguson earlier sued Facebook and Google in 2018 for violations of the law. The companies agreed to pay fines of $200,000 and said they would stop selling political ads in Washington.
But Facebook continued to sell political ads here, without making available the required information, leading Ferguson to sue the company again in 2020.
Meta did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The company had tried to have the case thrown out, arguing Washington’s transparency law is unconstitutional and “virtually impossible to fully comply with.” But North rejected those arguments.
Ferguson this week — even prior to the legal-fee ruling — said the penalty in the Meta case is believed to be the largest ever issued in a campaign-finance case in the country.
Ferguson on Wednesday called the tech giant’s conduct in Washington arrogant.
“It intentionally disregarded Washington’s election transparency laws. But that wasn’t enough. Facebook argued in court that those laws should be declared unconstitutional. That’s breathtaking. Where’s the corporate responsibility?” he said.
Meta, one of the world’s highest-valued companies, reported revenue Wednesday of nearly $28 billion in the third quarter of this year, and a quarterly profit of $4.39 billion.
Material from the Seattle Times archives was included in this report. | 2022-10-29T01:16:23+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/meta-must-pay-10-5m-to-cover-wa-legal-fees-in-campaign-violation-case/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_business |
NORFOLK, Va., Nov. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PRA Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: PRAA), a global leader in acquiring and collecting nonperforming loans, announced today that on November 23, 2022, it completed the refinancing of its $750 million European revolving credit facility.
The refinancing includes a €730 million revolving credit facility and an uncommitted accordion feature for up to €500 million, subject to a borrowing base and certain conditions.
"We are always looking to improve our balance sheet and capital position, especially as we prepare for more portfolio supply to build. This refinancing provides us with additional flexibility and decreases overall borrowing costs. We are grateful for the continued trust and support from our long-time banking partners. Ultimately, this refinancing provides us continued ability to invest in markets across Europe where we anticipate there will be increasing supply of portfolios available at attractive returns," said Pete Graham, executive vice president and chief financial officer for PRA Group, Inc.
As a global leader in acquiring and collecting nonperforming loans, PRA Group, Inc. returns capital to banks and other creditors to help expand financial services for consumers in the Americas, Europe and Australia. With thousands of employees worldwide, PRA Group, Inc. companies collaborate with customers to help them resolve their debt. For more information, please visit www.pragroup.com.
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PHOENIX (AP) _ ON Semiconductor Corp. (ON) on Monday reported first-quarter profit of $530.2 million.
On a per-share basis, the Phoenix-based company said it had profit of $1.18. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, came to $1.22 per share.
The results exceeded Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of 12 analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $1.05 per share.
The semiconductor components maker posted revenue of $1.95 billion in the period, which also beat Street forecasts. Nine analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $1.91 billion.
For the current quarter ending in July, ON Semiconductor Corp. expects its per-share earnings to range from $1.20 to $1.32.
The company said it expects revenue in the range of $1.97 billion to $2.07 billion for the fiscal second quarter.
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A rarely revived Lorraine Hansberry play comes to Broadway By Jeff Lunden Published April 30, 2023 at 7:56 AM EDT Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 5:27 Playwright Lorraine Hansberry's show, "The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window," opened last week on Broadway, almost 59 years ago since it first opened. Copyright 2023 NPR | 2023-04-30T13:16:43+00:00 | wlrn.org | https://www.wlrn.org/2023-04-30/a-rarely-revived-lorraine-hansberry-play-comes-to-broadway |
COLLEGEVILLE, Pa. (AP) — Two of five bomb technicians injured in the detonation of an explosive device during a training exercise in Pennsylvania remained hospitalized a day after the accident, authorities said.
The FBI said three sheriff's deputies from Montgomery County, a state trooper and an FBI special agent were injured in the accident at the SCI Phoenix prison in Skippack Township. The detonation occurred shortly before 10 a.m. Thursday. Some had “significant" injuries but there appeared to be no life-threatening injuries, officials said.
The FBI bomb technician was treated and released, federal authorities said, while the Montgomery County sheriff's office said two of its deputies had also been treated and released. The third county sheriff's deputy remained hospitalized Friday, and state police said the trooper also remained hospitalized.
The training session was being conducted by the FBI’s Philadelphia field office and those in attendance included representatives from several state, county and local law enforcement agencies. The cause of the accident remains under investigation. The FBI and the Pennsylvania state police are leading the investigation. | 2022-09-17T18:21:51+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/2-of-5-bomb-technicians-hospitalized-after-17448709.php |
Police said a man was in the women’s bathroom recording a 13-year-old girl at Sawgrass Mills Mall in Sunrise.
The suspect, Fernando Barbosa, is accused of recording hundreds of women inside the mall.
“He’s been doing this since 2018, capturing hundreds of videos over that time using same restroom, on every single occasion,” said a prosecutor. “The frequency of this has gone up two times a week.”
The 30-year-old offender appeared in court Tuesday.
According to prosecutors, on May 2, a victim under the age of 16 years old was in the restroom. On the arrest report, she looked up and noticed a black iPhone over her stall either filming her or taking pictures of her.
The girl told her grandmother, who was with her.
Police said Barbosa heard them and decided to change his shoes from black and white high-tops converse to women’s beige ballet-style flats to disguise himself.
The pair watched him walk out of the stall and were shocked, telling Barbosa, “You are a man. What are you doing in the girls bathroom?”
They grabbed the 30-year-old as he tried to run.
“But it’s certainly aggravating how often he has been doing this. He doesn’t appear to have any control,” said a prosecutor.
7News went to Barbosa’s apartment Friday afternoon, Barbosa opened the door to look out but closed it when asked about the voyeurism allegations.
Police said the defendant admitted to “having a fetish, which is out of control and also admitting to recording females in the ladies restroom since 2018, capturing hundred of videos.”
Barbosa posted $60,000 bond.
He cannot come back to the mall, have no contact with the victim or any minors and, according to the judge, he cannot possess anything that can have access to the internet or record videos. | 2022-05-06T21:44:08+00:00 | wsvn.com | https://wsvn.com/news/man-arrested-for-video-voyeurism-of-girl-inside-sawgrass-mills-mall-bathroom/ |
The overall No. 1 seed for March Madness is No. 1 in the final AP Top 25, too.
Alabama, fresh off an SEC Tournament title to go with its regular-season crown, ascended to the top spot Monday, earning 48 of 61 first-place votes to jump Houston, which lost in the American Athletic Conference final without star guard Marcus Sasser. Alabama also spent a week at No. 1 last month.
“We set goals over the summer: regular season, (league) tournament, obviously a national championship,” Crimson Tide guard Jahvon Quinerly said. “I’m going to make sure our guys are ready to go no matter who we match up with.”
That will be Texas A&M-Corpus Christi or Southeast Missouri State, who meet in a First Four game Tuesday night. The winner will play the Crimson Tide on Thursday in Birmingham, an hour down the road from their Tuscaloosa campus.
The top seed in the South Region, Alabama would face West Virginia or Maryland for a spot in the Sweet 16 with a win.
And how sweet that would be for a team that's gone through the ringer: former teammate Darius Miles and another man have been indicted on capital murder charges for a January shooting, an investigator has testified star freshman Brandon Miller was asked by Miles to bring the gun that night and police have also said Jaden Bradley was at the scene.
“To beat the teams we had to beat to get here was not easy,” Alabama coach Nate Oats said last week. “So proud of the guys, proud of their effort, proud they were able to get really focused. Got a lot of mental toughness.”
Houston still received nine first-place votes and was No. 2 after losing to Memphis in the final of the AAC tourney, where Sasser hurt his groin in the semifinal round. He did not play in the championship and his status will be watched closely leading up to the Cougars' NCAA opener against Northern Kentucky.
Purdue, seeded first in the East Region, earned three first-place votes and was third in the AP poll after the regular-season Big Ten champion won its conference tournament, too. Kansas, which expects to have Bill Self back for the NCAA tourney after a medical scare, was fourth after receiving the No. 1 seed in the West.
Texas routed the Jayhawks in the finals of the Big 12 Tournament and rounded out the top five.
Marquette remained at No. 6 after its Big East tourney title. UCLA earned one first-place vote and was seventh after losing in the Pac-12 Tournament final to Arizona, which was No. 8. Gonzaga and UConn rounded out the top 10.
"We have a special team. We're not going to do what our past teams have done, which was to maybe get caught up in the wallow of losing," said Huskies coach Dan Hurley, whose team fell to the Golden Eagles in the Big East tourney semifinals. "We're going to get our minds right very quickly and get ready to make a run next week."
RISING AND FALLING
Duke made the biggest jump in the final poll after beating Virginia for the ACC Tournament title, climbing nine spots to No. 12 — the highest the Blue Devils have been since the third week of the season. First-year coach Jon Scheyer has them seeded fifth in the East in the NCAA Tournament.
UCLA, seeded second in the West, fell five spots to No. 7 in the final poll.
IN AND OUT
Memphis was hardly receiving votes last week, but rolling to the AAC tourney title put Penny Hardaway's crew into the poll for the first time this season at No. 24. Florida Atlantic, the Conference USA regular-season and tourney champ, returned at No. 25 after spending the first four weeks in the poll in school history in January and February.
The Tigers and Owls made the AP poll at the expense of Creighton, which was routed by Xavier in the Big East semifinals, and Kentucky, which fell to Vanderbilt in the SEC Tournament quarterfinal round.
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Widely considered the toughest league in the nation, the Big 12 had two teams in the top five and five in the Top 25. The league has seven schools heading to the NCAA Tournament after Oklahoma State was left on the bubble.
The SEC, which tied the Big Ten for the most NCAA bids with eight, had four teams in the final Top 25. The Big East and ACC had three apiece, though the Big East had two in the top 10 and the leading ACC team was Duke at No. 12.
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Patient-Focused Health Network, VIPcare, Joins Forces with Local Provider for Better Health to the Medicare Advantage Community
TAMPA, Fla., May 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- VIPcare, a patient-focused primary care network based in Florida, is excited to be teaming up with Dr. Margaret Yee for Better Health with the opening of VIPcare's new local clinic in Davenport.
Dr. Yee, previously of MDY Primary Care Medicine, will be the primary care physician at VIPcare's newest location. She is board-certified in family medicine and brings extensive clinical experience in providing care to the residents of Davenport.
VIPcare is excited to be partnering with Dr. Yee, and together they look forward to transforming primary care and offering quality healthcare to Medicare beneficiaries.
With the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on community health resulting in a national epidemic of delayed health screenings and worsened chronic conditions, VIPcare has adapted to the risks and has remained committed to delivering the first line of care in communities. In addition, they have successfully and safely maintained continuity of care to their patients with both preventive and routine care.
"I'm excited to be joining VIPcare and being part of a team that shares my mission to provide 5-star care," Dr. Yee of VIPcare Davenport said. "It's been rewarding serving the Davenport community for the last 23 years and I look forward to continuing to help the Medicare Advantage population in our area to obtain better health with the support of VIPcare."
VIPcare uses a model that puts quality time spent between a doctor and patient at the forefront. By spending more time with the physician, VIPcare believes patients will get more thorough diagnoses and treatments, leading to a better quality of life and less time spent in the hospital.
Unlike other healthcare providers, VIPcare encourages patients to see their physicians often where highly specialized care is created just for them and their specific needs.
In efforts to guide patients to Better Health, VIPcare helps to eliminate potential health care burdens by offering services including same-day appointments, transportation assistance to and from clinics, and virtual visits when needed. VIPcare physicians are dedicated to always doing what needs to be done to provide a better experience and the highest quality of care to their patients. They believe in quality, not quantity.
VIPcare primary care physicians walk side-by-side with their patients, providing them with access to comprehensive health care services, which allows them to take a proactive role in their health care journey.
The new VIPcare clinic, located at 102 Park Place Blvd, Davenport, is now accepting patients who receive Medicare Advantage plan benefits. Those interested can call the office at 863-216-1912 or visit www.getvipcare.com to learn more.
About VIPcare
Serving communities for more than 15 years, VIPcare operates over 40 clinics throughout Florida. With 65+ providers, VIPcare cares for more than 23,000 Medicare Advantage beneficiaries utilizing a high-touch population health management approach that prioritizes spending quality time with the physician. By focusing on a senior care model and increasing access to high-quality care, VIPcare's model is at the forefront of the future of healthcare, as opposed to the current system the healthcare organization refers to as "sick care." VIPcare patients are encouraged to see the doctor often instead of only when they are sick, contributing to their success towards patient outcomes.
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An American attorney found dead in Mexico was 'the victim of a brutal crime,' his family claims
An American public defender who died this month while celebrating his first wedding anniversary in Mexico "was the victim of a brutal crime," his family said, noting a coroner's liaison told them the case was sent to a local prosecutor "to conduct a possible homicide investigation."
Elliot Blair, 33, a deputy public defender in Orange County, California, died from "severe head trauma," the liaison said, citing an autopsy, according to a family statement provided by their attorney, David Scarsone.
Blair was found dead Saturday at the Las Rocas Resort in Rosarito Beach -- a 45-mile drive south of San Diego -- where he and his wife Kim were staying.
The Baja California Attorney General's Office said the death appeared to be the "result of an unfortunate accident from a fall by the now deceased from a third-story floor," according to its statement to the Orange County Register.
The agency did not immediately respond to CNN's request for comment. Rosarito Beach police did not immediately return CNN's calls.
Blair's family has not had contact with Mexican law enforcement about his death, they said.
"The family, which has extensive legal training in criminal law, wholeheartedly believes based on their initial investigation, that Elliot was the victim of a brutal crime," its statement reads.
Husband was not intoxicated, family says
While Blair's relatives do not offer any specific evidence of a crime, they dispute his death occurred off the couple's resort room balcony and say it happened outside the room's front door in an open-air walkway, according to the statement.
"Elliot was not intoxicated at the time of this incident," the family said, adding they told the coroner's liaison they'll hire a private firm to conduct an independent investigation, including toxicology. The liaison had told them a toxicology report had not been completed, they said.
The family opposes cremation of Blair's body, they said, noting that in conversations with a funeral home they have been told several times that authorities have recommended that process.
A fundraiser in honor of Blair's memory has been organized by a colleague to help Blair's wife with the "cumbersome process involved in transporting Elliot's body from Mexico to the USA and dealing with all the red tape," reads the donation page set up by Annie Rodriguez, to whom CNN has reached out.
"We wish we could provide everyone with more information, but very limited information has been disclosed by authorities in Mexico," it reads.
Elliot and Kim had been in the public defender's office in Orange County since 2017, the page states.
"Elliot was known for a smile on his face and a clever mind," the site reads. "There are not enough words to express the level of love he had for Kim. Kim was his life. They just started building a life together in their first year of marriage."
Orange County Public Defender Martin Schwarz referred CNN to Scarsone. | 2023-01-19T02:26:48+00:00 | kcci.com | https://www.kcci.com/article/american-attorney-found-dead-in-mexico/42560779 |
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SCHAUMBURG, Ill. (AP) _ Atlas Financial Holdings Inc. (AFHIQ) on Monday reported a loss of $4.2 million in its first quarter.
The Schaumburg, Illinois-based company said it had a loss of 28 cents per share.
The insurance underwriter posted revenue of $1.6 million in the period.
In the final minutes of trading on Monday, the company's shares hit 31 cents. A year ago, they were trading at 51 cents.
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TALLINN, Estonia — A celebrated Ukrainian medic whose footage was smuggled out of the besieged city of Mariupol by an Associated Press team was freed by Russian forces on Friday, three months after she was taken captive on the streets of the city.
She transferred the clips to an Associated Press team, the last international journalists in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, one of whom fled with it embedded in a tampon on March 15. Taira and a colleague were taken prisoner by Russian forces on March 16, the same day a Russian airstrike hit a theater in the city center, killing around 600 people, according to an Associated Press investigation.
“It was such a great sense of relief. Those sound like such ordinary words, and I don’t even know what to say,” her husband, Vadim Puzanov, told The Associated Press late Friday, breathing deeply to contain his emotion. Puzanov said he spoke by phone with Taira, who was en route to a Kyiv hospital, and feared for her health.
Initially the family had kept quiet, hoping negotiations would take their course. But The Associated Press spoke with him before releasing the smuggled videos, which ultimately had millions of viewers around the world, including on some of the biggest networks in Europe and the United States. Puzanov expressed gratitude for the coverage, which showed Taira was trying to save Russian soldiers as well as Ukrainian civilians.
Ukrainian President Volodymir Zelenskyy announced Taira’s release in a national address.
“I’m grateful to everyone who worked for this result. Taira is already home. We will keep working to free everyone,” he said.
Hundreds of prominent Ukrainians have been kidnapped or captured, including local officials, journalists, activists and human rights defenders.
Russia portrayed Taira as working for the nationalist Azov Battalion, in line with Moscow’s narrative that it is attempting to “denazify” Ukraine. But the AP found no such evidence, and friends and colleagues said she had no links to Azov, which made a last stand in a Mariupol steel plant before hundreds of its fighters were captured or killed.
The footage itself is a visceral testament to her efforts to save the wounded on both sides.
A clip recorded on March 10 shows two Russian soldiers taken roughly out of an ambulance by a Ukrainian soldier. One is in a wheelchair. The other is on his knees, hands bound behind his back, with an obvious leg injury. Their eyes are covered by winter hats, and they wear white armbands.
A Ukrainian soldier curses at one of them. “Calm down, calm down,” Taira tells him.
A woman asks her, “Are you going to treat the Russians?”
“They will not be as kind to us,” she replies. “But I couldn’t do otherwise. They are prisoners of war.”
Taira was a member of the Ukraine Invictus Games for military veterans, where she was set to compete in archery and swimming. Invictus said she was a military medic from 2018 to 2020 but had since been demobilized.
She received the body camera in 2021 to film for a Netflix documentary series on inspirational figures being produced by Britain’s Prince Harry, who founded the Invictus Games. But when Russian forces invaded, she used it to shoot scenes of injured civilians and soldiers instead. | 2022-06-17T22:03:16+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/russia-frees-captive-medic-who-filmed-mariupols-horror/2022/06/17/f4116ee6-ee86-11ec-9f90-79df1fb28296_story.html |
JERICHO, N.Y., Oct. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Esquire Financial Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: ESQ) (the "Company"), the holding company for Esquire Bank, National Association ("Esquire Bank"), today announced its regular quarterly cash dividend of $0.10 per share of common stock, payable on December 1, 2022, to each stockholder of record on November 15, 2022.
Esquire Financial Holdings, Inc. is a financial holding company headquartered in Jericho, New York, with one branch office in Jericho, New York and an administrative office in Boca Raton, Florida. Its wholly-owned subsidiary, Esquire Bank, National Association, is a full service commercial bank dedicated to serving the financial needs of the legal industry and small businesses nationally, as well as commercial and retail customers in the New York metropolitan area. The bank offers tailored products and solutions to the legal community and their clients as well as dynamic and flexible payment processing solutions to small business owners. For more information, visit www.esquirebank.com.
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Downey Jr. invests in Aura, joins Board of Directors and will embark on a multi-year journey as a brand advocate and strategist
BOSTON, March 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Aura, the leader in intelligent safety for consumers, today announced a multi-year partnership with Robert Downey Jr. Through the partnership, Downey Jr. joins Aura's Board of Directors, invests in the company and commits to working with Aura as a strategist and brand advocate, supporting consumer education. Ahead of a highly-anticipated featured session at Austin's South by Southwest® (SXSW®) conference on March 11, Aura and Downey Jr. premiered a video titled "Role of a Lifetime," which articulates the goals of the partnership.
"Honestly, the exponential growth of online crime, just in the last several years, is truly terrifying," said Robert Downey Jr. "It requires an innovative solution to protect our families, which is why I'm joining Hari and his team at Aura to tackle the crisis head-on."
As technology grows more complex, the rate of digital crime has rapidly increased. According to the FBI, American families lost $6.9 Billion to online crime in 2021, a 50% increase in losses from the year prior. Online criminals are targeting the entire family. Nearly one million children had their identities stolen last year alone. Powered by AI, Aura's easy-to-use online safety app proactively protects individuals and families from scams, fraud, hacks, identity theft and more.
"Online criminals are getting smarter and the only way to stay a step ahead of attackers is to use intelligent safety technologies," said Hari Ravichandran, founder & CEO of Aura. "Traditionally, digital security has required a lot of attention and maintenance. But, I strongly believe that these tools should reduce the burden of defense for users. With Aura, we've baked AI into the protection we deliver so that we can prevent attacks, enabling families to fight back against digital crime for the first time."
Aura additionally announced the launch of a new family-focused user experience, which includes new protections designed to prevent scams, hacks, fraud and other digital security threats. New features include:
- Smart Vault - Add information to monitor for fraud or data theft, securely store your most important digital files and passwords to keep them secure, and easily share files and passwords with family members.
- Family Alert Sharing - Share fraud and identity alerts among account members, so you can gauge your whole family's protection, take action fast, and resolve threats quickly.
On Saturday, March 11 at SXSW® in Austin, Texas, Downey Jr. will moderate a discussion between Aura's CEO Hari Ravichandran; former FBI counterintelligence operative, cybersecurity consultant, and SPYEX.com speaker Eric O'Neill; and New York Times bestselling author Maria Konnikova. The session convenes three of security's brightest minds to discuss the true scope of the online crime problem Americans are facing. See more detail about the session, "Online Crime: An American Crisis" here.
To check out Robert Downey Jr.'s audition in "Role of a Lifetime," learn more about your online security risk and how Aura can protect your family online, visit aura.com/rdj.
About Aura
Aura, the leader in intelligent safety solutions, provides all-in-one digital protection for consumers. We understand that the online safety needs of each individual are unique and require a personalized solution. By bringing together security, privacy and parental controls on an intelligent platform, Aura makes adaptive and proactive digital safety accessible to everyone. Visit www.aura.com.
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Last week, millions of Americans lost a portion of the benefits they receive through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. The temporary boost to the program expired on March 1 for 32 states and the District of Columbia. It had already expired in the other 18 states. Food banks say they were already struggling to keep up with demand. And for many families, this has turned a tough challenge - getting enough good food as prices rise into an emergency. We wanted to hear more about this from someone who's seeing it up close. So we called Linda Jones. We first spoke with her in January of 2022. She's the co-founder of Alabama Childhood Food Solutions. That's a nonprofit based in Sylacauga, Ala., that distributes food to people who need it. And she's with us once again. Linda Jones, thanks so much for joining us once again.
LINDA JONES: Well, thank you for having me. I've been looking forward to you calling.
MARTIN: So when we talked with you just over a year ago, you told us that your group was providing food on the regular - on a regular basis to about 160 families once a week. What about now?
JONES: Well, now we are doing right at 800 families once a month. It just keeps continuing to grow. The SNAP program being cut, that's going to cut people about $281 per person. And so we know that we're going to start getting more and more people calling for us. It's a great, big hardship on our clients that come through to see us. They're just already down and out. You know, they don't have very much to begin with. And then when you take something else from them and then with the prices going up, it's just extra hard on them.
One of our clients, who is elderly, she lives by herself, and she's not in great health. She's a widow, and she lost her driver's license. And she said, I just can't afford $46 to go get another license. She says, it's not - it's just an ID 'cause I can't drive anymore. And she said, I can't afford $46. She said, my rent went up $50, the light bill went up $61 and my water bill went up 20. She said, and I just don't have any more money.
MARTIN: When we last talked, you were telling us about some of the big price increases that you were noticing, even just for your own shopping, like things like the foil and things like that. Are there some things that you've really noticed that have just stood out to you over the course of the year?
JONES: Well, eggs, you know, bread, even. Bread is almost three and $4. And then eggs, they're six and $8 a dozen now here, and that's just unreal. Milk has gone up. Everything has gone up so much.
MARTIN: Is there something you think that you would like people to know about what those benefits have meant to people? What are some of the other things that you're hearing from people you work with?
JONES: Most of them just complain about everything going up. They can't afford their cars. They can't afford the gas. And so many of them will come, like, three and four in a vehicle just to be able to get there.
MARTIN: I'm just wondering, though, if it's hard for you to hear these stories. I mean, you're doing the best you can, but I'm just wondering if it's hard for you to hear this.
JONES: It's very hard to hear the stories. I do believe in Jesus. So I come home every afternoon when I - we have our distribution, and I pray and pray and pray for the ones that have come through. And I'll call them by name because some of them I know their names, and some of them I don't. I just say, Lord, you know who they are. I don't. And I'll pray for their situations 'cause some of them got cancer. Some of them have heart problems. Some of them have lost limbs. And it really - it hurts your heart to see these kind of people come through. But we're so thankful that we're there and we can give them the food that they need, and we love on them. We give them the love and compassion that they need at that time.
MARTIN: Well, that's Linda Jones. We first spoke with her in January of 2022. She's telling us about how things are where she is now that the SNAP, or Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, the expanded benefits, are now being ended. She's the co-founder of Alabama Childhood Food Solutions. Linda Jones, thanks so much for talking with us once again, and you hang in there.
JONES: I will. Thank you very much for having us. And I pray that this will - people will listen and help people that are not - are less fortunate than they are. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR. | 2023-03-06T19:00:12+00:00 | nepm.org | https://www.nepm.org/national-world-news/national-world-news/2023-03-05/as-pandemic-benefits-end-an-alabama-food-bank-feels-the-effects |
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel on Sunday deported a Palestinian lawyer and activist to France after claiming he has ties to a banned militant group, drawing a rare condemnation from the French government.
The expulsion of Salah Hammouri underscored the fragile status of Palestinians in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem, where most hold revocable residency rights but are not Israeli citizens. It also worsened a brewing diplomatic spat with France, which had repeatedly appealed to Israel not to carry out the expulsion.
“I’m happy to announce that justice was served today and the terrorist Salah Hammouri was deported from Israel,” Israel’s interior minister, Ayelet Shaked, announced in a videotaped statement early Sunday. The expulsion capped months of legal wrangling.
Hammouri, who was born in Jerusalem but holds French citizenship, landed in Paris just before 10 a.m. local time. Wearing a black track suit and black and white keffiyeh, or Palestinian headscarf, around his neck, he was greeted by his wife and a group of supporters.
Some hugged him, and others clapped in support.
Speaking to reporters, Hammouri accused Israel of “ethnic cleansing” and said his deportation was meant “to show the generations that nobody can resist Israel.” He vowed to fight the order.
“I will continue my right to resist against this occupation until I have the right to go back to my country,” he said.
Israel says Hammouri is an activist in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a group that it has labeled a terrorist organization. He has worked as a lawyer for Adameer, a rights group that assists Palestinian prisoners that Israel has banned for alleged ties to the PFLP.
He spent seven years in prison after being convicted in an alleged plot to kill a prominent rabbi but was released in a 2011 prisoner swap with the Hamas militant group. He was not charged or convicted in the latest proceedings against him.
Israel, however, claimed he continued his activities with the banned group, stripped him of residency, and placed him last March in administrative detention — a status that allows Israel to hold suspected militants for months at a time without charging them or putting them on trial.
Shaked ordered the deportation when his detention order expired. Israel’s Supreme Court had rejected an appeal against the decision to revoke Hammouri’s residency status. His lawyers have complained that the decision was based on secret evidence they were not allowed to see.
France’s Foreign Ministry condemned Israel’s deportation of Hammouri after he landed in Paris, saying it has “taken full action, including at the highest level of the state, to ensure that Mr. Salah Hamouri’s rights are respected, that he benefits from all legal remedies and that he can lead a normal life in Jerusalem, where he was born, resides and wishes to live.”
It was not clear what, if any, steps the French government might take.
The Israeli human rights group HaMoked, which had defended Hammouri, condemned Sunday’s expulsion. A Jan. 1 hearing on the matter had been scheduled, and it was not immediately clear how Israel was able to push ahead with the deportation.
“Deporting a Palestinian from their homeland for breach of allegiance to the state of Israel is a dangerous precedent and a gross violation of basic rights,” said the group’s director, Jessica Montell. “HaMoked will continue to fight against this unconstitutional law.”
Last year, Hammouri was among six human rights activists whose mobile phones were found by independent security researchers to have been infected with spyware made by the Israeli company NSO Group.
It was not known who placed the spyware on the phones. Israel said there’s no connection between the terror designation of Adameer and five other Palestinian rights groups and any alleged use of NSO spyware. Israel has provided little evidence publicly to support the terrorism designation, which Palestinian groups say is meant to muzzle them and dry up their sources of funding.
Shaked, a member of a small nationalist party, failed to win re-election to parliament in elections last month.
Aryeh Deri, who is expected to to assume the post in the new government, said Hammouri’s deportation was “the end of a long but just legal process” and congratulated Shaked for carrying it out.
The new government is still being formed by designated Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. It will have to pass special legislation to allow Deri to serve as a minister because of his recent conviction on tax offenses.
Israel captured east Jerusalem, home to the city’s most important religious sites, in the 1967 Mideast war and annexed the area in a move that is not internationally recognized. It considers the entire city to be its capital, while the Palestinians claim east Jerusalem as the capital of a future state.
While Jews in the city are entitled to automatic citizenship, Palestinians are granted residency status. This allows them freedom of movement, the ability to work and access to Israeli social services, but they are not allowed to vote in national elections. Residency rights can be stripped if a Palestinian is found to live outside the city for an extended period or in certain security cases.
Palestinians can apply for citizenship. But few do, not wanting to be seen as accepting what they see as an occupation. Those who do apply, however, face a lengthy and bureaucratic process.
The Haaretz daily reported this year that fewer than 20,000 Palestinians in Jerusalem, some 5% of the population, hold Israeli citizenship, and that just 34% of applications are approved. It cited information from the Interior Ministry delivered by Shaked to a parliamentary inquiry. | 2022-12-18T16:01:14+00:00 | qcnews.com | https://www.qcnews.com/news/world-news/ap-israel-deports-palestinian-activist-to-france/ |
Cybersecurity Pioneer Leads Industry in Promoting Women to Top Positions
WESTMINSTER, Colo., Sept. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Coalfire, the largest global cybersecurity firm, recently appointed Merri Chandler as chief financial officer, and Aparna Dasai Williams as general counsel.
Ms. Chandler joins the company after serving over 26 years in corporate finance, having held key leadership positions at premier professional service and technology companies, most recently as CFO with The Chartis Group, the nation's leading healthcare advisory firm. With her track record in strategic transactions, high-growth consulting, and as a trusted partner in the private equity space, Ms. Chandler augments the company's scalability and growth trajectory.
Ms. Williams brings extensive corporate legal experience to the team after 20 years in cybersecurity at AXENT Technologies, Symantec, and Imperva. She comes to Coalfire from her most recent position building the legal function from the ground up at e-commerce shipping platform, Shippo.
"With the shift to the cloud and rise in remote working, cybersecurity is a boardroom priority, and world-class risk management is now driven with military precision and by human intuition," said CEO Tom McAndrew. "The mission of cybersecurity is to keep the world safe, and we're accomplishing this by attracting top talent, like Merri and Aparna, and through Coalfire's dynamic growth plans with our private equity partner Apax."
"I'm proud to become part of Coalfire; I'm inspired by Tom's leadership style and his naval service and am excited to work at the top tier of private equity excellence with Apax Partners," said Ms. Chandler. "This company and its investors are at the top of their game, and it's an honor to serve with one of the industry's most diverse and effective leadership teams."
Ms. Chandler earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Accountancy from the Gies College of Business at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and Ms. Williams received her Juris Doctor degree from the University of North Carolina School of Law.
"I'm pleased to get back to my cybersecurity roots with Coalfire, and to reinforce the company's legal foundation for future growth organically and by acquisition," said Williams. "This is an exciting time for change in our industry, and I'm looking forward to changing the game with Tom and the executive team."
The world's leading organizations – the top-five cloud service providers, eight of the top-ten SaaS businesses, and three of the top-five in financial services, healthcare, and e-commerce – rely on Coalfire to strengthen their security postures and secure their digital transformations. As the largest global firm dedicated to cybersecurity, Coalfire delivers a full lifecycle of solutions through professional services, technology platforms, and managed services to help organizations solve their toughest cyber challenges. With more than 20 years of proven cybersecurity leadership, Coalfire combines extensive cloud expertise, advanced technology, and innovative approaches that fuel success. For more information, visit Coalfire.com.
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MILWAUKEE, Jan. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Wisconsin Electric board of directors today declared a quarterly cash dividend of 90 cents per share on the company's Preferred Stock, 3.60% Series, payable March 1, 2023, to stockholders of record on Feb. 14, 2023. The board also declared a quarterly cash dividend of $1.50 per share on the company's Six Per Cent Preferred Stock, payable April 30, 2023, to stockholders of record on April 14, 2023.
Wisconsin Electric Power Co., doing business as We Energies, is a subsidiary of WEC Energy Group (NYSE: WEC). The company serves more than 1.1 million electric customers and more than 490,000 natural gas customers in Wisconsin. Visit the We Energies website at we-energies.com.
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Freddie Mac Continues Financing Support for Workforce Housing in Historic Rental Community
LOS ANGELES, June 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Newmark1 Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: NMRK) ("Newmark" or "the Company"), a leading adviser and service provider to large institutional investors, global corporations, and other owners and occupiers of commercial real estate announces it has secured a $947 million loan for Los Angeles' historic Park La Brea, the largest apartment community on the West Coast. Newmark sourced financing on behalf of repeat borrower Prime Residential ("Prime") to retire existing debt. Freddie Mac expects to securitize the loan through its K-Deal program.
Newmark Executive Vice Chairman Mitch Clarfield, Vice Chairman Ramsey Daya, Executive Managing Director Chris Moritz and Vice President Alec Newman led the financing.
The 4,249-unit property is rent-controlled and includes 18 high-rise towers and 175 garden-style buildings spread over 144 acres. Approximately 10,000 residents live in the community, which resembles a small city with 24-hour security patrol, landscaped courtyards, fitness trails, a Wi-Fi café, movie theater, dry cleaner, electric car charging and fitness centers.
"Park La Brea, the largest housing community west of the Mississippi, is an iconic Los Angeles asset. This was a historic financing that contains a variety of custom features, including the flexibility to construct a significant number of Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs) on the property, which will contribute towards addressing the state's housing and affordability crisis" Clarfield stated. "We received interest from many different capital sources on extremely competitive terms. Ultimately, the surety of close and the history of collaboration between Prime, Freddie Mac and Newmark gave Prime the comfort to proceed in turbulent times and get the 10-year fixed rate loan across the finish line."
"By continuing to support financing for Park La Brea, we are ensuring that many Los Angeles families have a safe, affordable place to live in this historic community," said Steve Lineberger, Vice President Freddie Mac Multifamily Production and Sales. "Working with two great partners in both Newmark and Prime Residential, we are pleased to continue to help support workforce housing via this vital multifamily community that has been home to so many since the 1940s. We look forward to continuing to support liquidity, stability and affordability to the multifamily market through these types of transactions across the country."
"With the GSEs laser focus on high quality affordable housing, we were honored to have worked with Prime and to partner with Freddie Mac to close this landmark transaction," said Sharon Karrafa, Vice Chairman, Co-Head of Production of Newmark's Multifamily Capital Markets division.
Park La Brea was originally developed by MetLife between 1941 and 1950 and has been owned and managed by Prime Residential since 1995. The 95.5-percent-occupied complex is located at 6200 West Third Street, about seven miles west of downtown Los Angeles near the Miracle Mile district.
Overall, debt originations continued to decelerate in the first quarter of 2023 according to Newmark's 1Q23 U.S. Multifamily Capital Markets Report. Newmark Research cites that government-sponsored enterprises provide a buffer against the cyclical lending conditions. Given the tightening lending standards by banks and other lender types, GSEs play a crucial role in providing liquidity, especially for mission-rich and affordable housing.
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Prime Residential is a private owner of high-quality, multifamily rental communities in the western United States. It is part of Prime Group, a diversified real estate equity, debt, investment, and operating platform. Prime Group's platforms – Prime Finance and Prime Residential – provide innovative solutions and resources to meet the diverse needs of its investors, residents, and other constituents. With over 500 employees, Prime Group has over $18 billion of assets under management and has offices in San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago.
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Newmark Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: NMRK), together with its subsidiaries ("Newmark"), is a world leader in commercial real estate, seamlessly powering every phase of the property life cycle. Newmark's comprehensive suite of services and products is uniquely tailored to each client, from owners to occupiers, investors to founders, and startups to blue-chip companies. Combining the platform's global reach with market intelligence in both established and emerging property markets, Newmark provides superior service to clients across the industry spectrum. For the year ending December 31, 2022, Newmark generated revenues of approximately $2.7 billion. As of March 31, 2023, Newmark's company-owned offices, together with its business partners, operate from over 170 offices with approximately 7,300 professionals around the world. To learn more, visit nmrk.com or follow @newmark.
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ALBANY, N.Y. (WTEN) — New York Attorney General Letitia James released her annual “Pennies for Charity: Fundraising by Professional Fundraisers” report on Monday, which found that charities that hired professional fundraisers received 73% of donations in 2021, in line with the year prior and a small increase from 2019. Professional fundraisers were given the rest—earning more than $460 million.
“When New Yorkers make the generous choice to give to a charity, they trust that their money will be used responsibly,” said Attorney General James. “In advance of the holiday season and Giving Tuesday tomorrow, New Yorkers can rest assured that my office is working every day to protect their wallets and deliver the transparency they so rightly deserve. I encourage anyone planning to donate this season to consult our tips for charitable giving to ensure their thoughtful gift goes to the right place.”
New York is home to many diverse charitable organizations and institutions, which faced many challenges during the coronavirus pandemic. Despite the pandemic’s continuing economic impact and limitations on in-person events, donations rose to over $1.7 billion in 2021—an increase of almost $250 million from 2020 and over $400 million from 2019 pre-pandemic contributions.
Other report findings include:
- In 276 campaigns—42%—of charities received less than 50% of the funds raised, with professional fundraisers retaining the rest.
- In 96 campaigns—15%—of expenses exceeded revenue and cost charities over $10 million. This is fewer cases than last year for both findings, AG James said.
This year’s “Pennies for Charity” report includes information from reports filed with the Office of the Attorney General’s (OAG) Charities Bureau by professional fundraisers for charity campaigns conducted in 2021. Professional fundraisers must register with OAG and their financial reports must break down the campaign’s earnings and expenses. The report and the searchable Pennies for Charity database containing the findings of those reports are posted on the Charities Bureau website.
The report also lays out tips for donors to follow before donating over the phone, through mail, or online to ensure that their contributions reach the causes they intend to support.
Important tips to keep in mind:
- If you are contacted by a telemarketer, ask questions to make an informed decision.
- If you receive a direct mail charitable appeal, verify the soliciting organization.
- If you are donating online, do your research first.
The report was authored by Director of Registration and Fundraising Sections Hanna Rubin and Fundraising Supervisor Siobhan Blank of the Charities Bureau. Data analysis was completed by Data Analyst Anushua Choudhury of the Research and Analytics Department, under the supervision of Deputy Director Megan Thorsfeldt and Director Jonathan Werberg. The Charities Bureau is led by Bureau Chief James Sheehan and Deputy Bureau Chief Karin Kunstler Goldman. The Charities Bureau is a part of the Division for Social Justice, which is led by Chief Deputy Attorney General Meghan Faux and is overseen by First Deputy Attorney General Jennifer Levy. | 2022-11-28T19:05:38+00:00 | localsyr.com | https://www.localsyr.com/news/local-news/ag-james-releases-annual-pennies-for-charity-report/ |
A rematch of the 2021 Division 3 state final between the Watertown and Sandwich saw a similar result to the previous year, with the Raiders taking a 2–0 victory.
This was the 52nd consecutive victory for Watertown, as the perennial powerhouse defeated teams across all divisions throughout the season.
“Very proud of the girls,” Watertown coach Eileen Donahue said. “It was a hard-fought game. We played a lot of strong teams from the pre-season to this point and congratulations to Sandwich for being in the finals as well.”
The first quarter featured no scoring from either side, but Raiders held the majority of chances. Molly Driscoll and Adrianna Williams led the charge for Watertown, while Quinn Jordan and Sadie Clarkin stood out for Sandwich, in addition to the stellar play of goalkeeper Ava Murray.
The Raiders broke through early in the second quarter after Maggie Driscoll fired the ball toward the net and Allie Fijux buried it. This would be the remainder of the scoring in the half, but Murray’s play was clearly a reason for this. Watertown dominated possession and had four corner plays. Sandwich had two at the end of the half but could not capitalize.
“We’ve had different people step up for us throughout the tournament,” Donahue said. “A lot of people did different things for us today they may not have but in another game they may have. Whoever was on gets it.”
The third quarter saw back-and-forth action until Caroline Andrade ripped a shot from a tough angle and beat Murray, extending the Raider lead to 2–0. This would be followed by Watertown dominance for the remainder of the quarter.
“I was really excited,” Andrade said. “We were really focused on defense and not letting them come down our end.”
The Blue Knights pressed in the final quarter, but the Raider defense was constantly up for the task. The unit would grind away any opportunity the Blue Knights had and would take this lead to the horn and clinch a second consecutive championship and the program’s 52nd win in a row.
“It’s all about preparing so that when you step on the field for a game you know what you are doing,” Watertown captain Elizabeth Loftus said. “We always stay in the present, whatever is happening now is what we focus on.”
The win marked the end of 10 Raider high school careers, including Loftus.
“I’m so proud of everyone,” Loftus said. “It was a good way to finish up my time here and all of our time’s here.”
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By JAKE BLEIBERG and ERIC TUCKER
Associated Press
DALLAS (AP) — Justice Department officials in Washington have taken over the corruption investigation into Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, removing the case from the hands of the federal prosecutors in Texas who’d long been leading the probe.
The move was disclosed in a statement by state prosecutors handling their own case against Paxton. It’s the latest development in the federal investigation into the attorney general, who came under FBI scrutiny in 2020 after his own top deputies accused him of bribery and abusing his office to help one of his campaign contributors, who also employed a woman with whom Paxton acknowledged having had an extramarital affair.
The investigation of the three-term Republican is now being led by the Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section, which prosecutes allegations of official misconduct against elected leaders at the local, state and federal level. The U.S. attorney’s office in Texas was recently recused from the complex case after working on it for years — an abrupt change that came within days of Paxton agreeing to apologize and pay $3.3 million in taxpayer money to four of the former staffers who reported him to the FBI.
State prosecutors working on a separate securities fraud case against Paxton — Brian Wice and Kent Schaffer — said in a statement to The Associated Press on Thursday that they were notified of the move. They referred all questions to the Department of Justice, which declined to comment.
It’s not known whether Paxton will face charges, although federal investigators in Texas who had worked the case believed there was sufficient evidence for an indictment, according to two people familiar with the matter who spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the ongoing probe.
It was not immediately clear what prompted top Justice Department officials to recuse the federal prosecutors in West Texas but the move was pushed for by Paxton’s attorneys. One of his defense lawyers, Dan Cogdell, said Thursday he’d previously appealed to agency officials to take the case out of the hands of the local U.S. attorney’s office because prosecutors there had “an obvious conflict.”
“It was the right thing to do,” said Cogdell. He said federal officials had not informed him of the move and declined to comment further.
Eight of Paxton’s senior staff accused him of crimes in 2020 after the attorney general hired an outside lawyer to look into an Austin real-estate developer’s claims of wrongdoing by FBI agents and federal prosecutors who were separately investigating the developer. Those agents and lawyers are part of the same federal prosecutorial district as the ones who came to investigate Paxton.
The overlap was known to officials within the Justice Department and publicly reported on by the AP within weeks of Paxton’s staff going to the FBI. Nonetheless, the agency left the investigation to be led by a career federal prosecutor based in San Antonio, who was previously best known for winning a money laundering and fraud case against a Democratic state senator.
The federal investigation of Paxton expanded in the years since his former staff told the FBI he was committing crimes to help the developer, Nate Paul. It came to look at renovations made to Paxton’s million-dollar home, but was also drawn out as leadership of the U.S. attorney’s office for West Texas has repeatedly changed.
Paxton and Paul have broadly denied wrongdoing.
Over those years, Paxton has seen little political cost from the the federal investigation and the separate 2015 securities fraud indictment for which he has yet to face trial. He easily defeated challenger George P. Bush in a contested GOP primary last spring, went on to decisively beat his Democratic opponent and secure a third term in November and has filed a steady stream of legal challenges to the administration of Democratic President Joe Biden. The Public Integrity Section has brought a series of high-profile prosecutions in the last decades. One of its former chiefs, Jack Smith, is now serving as the Justice Department special counsel overseeing investigations of former President Donald Trump’s retention of classified documents as well as efforts by Trump and his allies to undo the results of the 2020 election.
Although the unit has secured major convictions, it has also endured notable setbacks.
The section was involved in prosecuting former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, a Republican, but the case was later overturned by the Supreme Court. The section also prosecuted former Democratic vice presidential nominee John Edwards, but a jury acquitted him on one count and deadlocked on others. The Justice Department declined to try him again. A jury also deadlocked in the case of New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez, prompting a judge to declare a mistrial.
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HOUSTON – Cristian Javier pitched another gem, striking out a career-best 14 while allowing just one hit in seven innings to lead the Houston Astros to an 8-1 win over the Los Angeles Angels on Friday night.
The 25-year-old was brilliant in his first start since striking out 13 in seven innings of a combined no-hitter against the Yankees on Saturday. Shohei Ohtani was the only Angels baserunner Javier permitted, hitting a homer with two outs in the first.
Javier (6-3) sailed through the rest of his outing, retiring the next 19 batters before leaving to a standing ovation after seven innings. He got an assist from his defense when Chas McCormick made a leaping catch just in front of the wall in left field for the first out of the sixth to rob Andrew Velazquez of a hit.
A pair of relievers completed the combined two-hitter, and Houston pitchers struck out a total of 16.
Yuli Gurriel, Jake Meyers and McCormick all homered for the Astros as they jumped on Angels starter Michael Lorenzen (6-6) for eight runs in just three innings and cruised to their fourth straight victory.
Ohtani gave the Angels an early lead with his home run before the Astros got going.
They evened the score when Gurriel homered to left-center to start the Houston second. There was one out in the inning when Meyers hit his first home run this season into the seats in right field to put Houston up 2-1.
Houston scored six times in the third. Jeremy Peña led off the third by reaching on third baseman Tyler Wade's error, Kyle Tucker followed with a single and Alex Bregman hit a sacrifice fly to make it 3-1.
Gurriel walked, J.J. Matijevic doubled, Meyers followed with an RBI single and McCormick homered to extend the lead to 8-1.
Peña returned after missing Thursday’s game following a nasty outfield collision with Yordan Alvarez on Wednesday, but Alvarez remained out.
Lorenzen allowed eight hits in his third straight loss.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Astros: Houston manager Dusty Baker said Alvarez was feeling better Friday but wasn’t ready to return and listed his status as day-to-day. ... C Jason Castro was placed on the 10-day injured list with left knee discomfort Friday and Houston’s No. 2 prospect C Korey Lee was called up from Triple-A Sugar Land to take his spot on the roster. Lee made his major league debut as a pinch-hitter in the eighth inning and was retired on a pop fly.
SUSPENSION MENTIONS
Angels catching coach Bill Haselman will be the team’s acting interim manager on Sunday and Tuesday while acting interim manager Ray Montgomery and interim manager Phil Nevin serve their suspensions for last week’s bench-clearing brawl with the Mariners. RHP Ryan Tepera appealed his suspension from the altercation and had it reduced from three games to two and began serving it Friday night.
UP NEXT
Houston’s José Urquidy (6-3, 4.36 ERA) opposes left-hander Patrick Sandoval (3-2, 2.63) when the series continues Saturday.
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WASHINGTON — Young adults ages 25 to 34 are more likely than ever to be living in with their parents, grandparents or older siblings, according to new research from the Pew Research Center.
The survey, conducted in October 2021, found that 1 in 4 young adults within the age range lived in multigenerational homes, meaning a household with two or more adult generations.
A large contributor to the spike is financial pressures amid rising student debt and housing costs. The growth in young adults living in multigenerational arrangements is especially prevalent among those without a college degree, who tend to earn less than those with at least a bachelor's degree.
The second biggest contributor was caregiving, the survey found.
Research finds there might be a financial benefit in multigenerational living arrangements as it appears to buffer the brunt of poverty. Americans living with parents or extended family are less likely to be poor than those in other households.
According to the survey, young adults contributed 22% of their income in multigenerational homes in 2021. In contrast, young adults who were living with a spouse or were the head of the household contributed an about 37% of their earnings.
Living with your parents is the most common housing arrangement for young adults, according to the new data. In 2021, 68% of those young adults were living in a home with one or both parents. Another 14% were living with family members other than parents, like a grandparent or sibling.
Hispanic, Asian and Black Americans were also more likely than White Americans to live with parents or extended families, according to Pew's research.
The survey of about 10,000 U.S adults showed numbers nearly tripled since 1971, where 9% of young adults lived in these arrangements, according to the new research data. | 2022-07-26T17:39:54+00:00 | wcnc.com | https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/nation-world/a-quarter-of-young-adults-live-in-multigenerational-homes-research-finds/507-089b95fe-4635-4ee2-89d3-6ba618ae000e |
Tallon Griekspoor vs. Hubert Hurkacz: Prediction and Match Betting Odds | French Open
In the French Open Round of 64 on Wednesday, we have a matchup of No. 14-ranked Hubert Hurkacz versus No. 39 Tallon Griekspoor.
Hurkacz has -250 odds to earn a spot in the round of 32 against Griekspoor (+190).
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Tallon Griekspoor vs. Hubert Hurkacz Match Information
- Tournament: The French Open
- Round: Round of 64
- Date: Wednesday, May 31
- TV Channel: Tennis Channel
- Venue: Stade Roland Garros
- Location: Paris, France
- Court Surface: Clay
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Tallon Griekspoor vs. Hubert Hurkacz Prediction and Odds
Based on the moneyline in this match, Hubert Hurkacz has a 71.4% chance to win.
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Tallon Griekspoor vs. Hubert Hurkacz Trends and Insights
- In the Round of 128 on Sunday, Griekspoor defeated Pedro Martinez 6-4, 2-6, 0-6, 7-5, 3-6.
- Hurkacz is coming off a 6-3, 5-7, 6-4, 2-6, 4-6 victory over No. 111-ranked David Goffin in the Round of 128 on Sunday.
- In his 50 matches over the past 12 months across all court surfaces, Griekspoor has played an average of 24.4 games.
- In his nine matches on clay over the past 12 months, Griekspoor has played an average of 21.1 games.
- Hurkacz has played 54 matches in the past year across all court types, averaging 29.6 games per match and winning 51.7% of those games.
- On clay surfaces, Hurkacz has played eight matches and averaged 30.5 games per match and 10.6 games per set.
- Griekspoor and Hurkacz have not competed against each other since 2015.
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22-Year Company Veteran to Lead Marketing and Continue to Strengthen Planet Fitness' Position as the Affordable Leader in Health & Fitness
HAMPTON, N.H., Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Planet Fitness, Inc. (NYSE: PLNT) (the "Company"), today announced that Jamie Medeiros, Vice President of National Marketing, has been promoted to Chief Brand Officer. Ms. Medeiros, a 22-year Company veteran, will lead the brand strategy and work collaboratively with agencies and across the organization to ensure the brand vision comes to life through national and local marketing strategy, creative, brand marketing sponsorships and activations, and social media. She will report directly to Chris Rondeau, Chief Executive Officer.
"Jamie has played a pivotal role in developing and leading the breakthrough national marketing campaigns that have built our brand over the past two decades, including iconic advertising campaigns like 'Lift Things' and 'No Gymtimidation,' along with pillar marketing sponsorships like our New Year's Eve celebration in Times Square," said Chris Rondeau, Chief Executive Officer. "She brings tremendous brand marketing leadership experience and institutional knowledge to this role, in addition to her strong ability to collaborate internally, with franchisees, and agency partners. I am confident that Jamie will continue to drive impactful results and strengthen our position as a leader in health and fitness."
Ms. Medeiros joined Planet Fitness in 2000, where she worked at the front desk in the Company's third location before transitioning to the Planet Fitness corporate marketing team. Throughout her tenure, she has held roles of increasing responsibility, with her most recent position being Vice President of National Marketing. Ms. Medeiros has been instrumental in developing and refining Planet Fitness' marketing strategy and differentiated 'Judgement Free' positioning in the fitness industry, which has helped grow the brand and increase membership to 16.5 million members and 2,324 stores today.
"It's been an honor to help build the Planet Fitness brand, and I'm thrilled to have the opportunity to lead marketing in this new role," said Ms. Medeiros. "I truly believe the best is yet to come and look forward to motivating and inspiring people to get moving and to make their health and wellness a priority, through our differentiated positioning and approach to affordable fitness."
Founded in 1992 in Dover, NH, Planet Fitness is one of the largest and fastest-growing franchisors and operators of fitness centers in the United States by number of members and locations. As of June 30, 2022, Planet Fitness had 16.5 million members and 2,324 stores in 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Canada, Panama, Mexico and Australia. The Company's mission is to enhance people's lives by providing a high-quality fitness experience in a welcoming, non-intimidating environment, which we call the Judgement Free Zone®. More than 90% of Planet Fitness stores are owned and operated by independent business men and women.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Credit unions have been dipping their toes into cryptocurrency over the past year. The timing largely coincided with the “crypto winter” that saw digital coins plunge in value and numerous exchanges and lenders collapse.
But at the height of the crypto craze in late 2021, many credit unions saw their members buying cryptocurrency in significant numbers. In December 2021, the National Credit Union Administration, the federal agency that regulates credit unions, released guidance clarifying that federally insured credit unions can partner with third-party providers to allow their members to buy, sell and hold cryptocurrencies.
Lone Star Credit Union, a small Dallas credit union with $163 million in assets, refers members interested in buying cryptocurrency to BankSocial, a non-custodial wallet provider, which gives buyers control over access to their assets.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Lone Star Credit Union CEO Becky Reed discusses the partnership and why she is optimistic about crypto’s future.
Q: What was behind Lone Star’s decision to enter the crypto market?
A: It was in late 2021 and early 2022 that we noticed that our members were buying crypto. At that point in time, we really thought that our members weren’t. If you asked our executive team and our board they would say, ‘Well, our members don’t care about cryptocurrencies.’ Well, the data showed otherwise.
Q: What did the data show?
A: There is a popular notion that wealthy people are buying a bunch of crypto and holding it and selling it and making a lot of money. But the truth is what we saw was people buying it similar to what they would buy with stocks like on E-Trade or something. Every time they got a paycheck, they would buy $100.
Q: Has that trend changed with the downturn of cryptocurrencies?
A: Now it has dramatically decreased. Now it’s like the die-hard people. Maybe 10% of the people who were buying it are still buying it. So we’ve seen it greatly reduced in both volume and how often.
Q: So where do you see cryptocurrency going?
A: A lot of the hype that was happening in the early part of 2022 in particular, caused a lot of fear of missing out, FOMO. And so I think that people potentially got into the space because of that without really understanding what it is that they were getting into. And I think that there certainly was a misunderstanding of custodianship. You know, who actually owns the crypto in your wallet … But now that some of the negative things have happened in this space, a lot of that fear of missing out went away. And now the real use cases and the real builders in this space kind of have a runway to do things in a regulated and compliant way. I believe that distributed ledger technology, which includes cryptocurrency but is not limited to cryptocurrency, is the future of finance.
Q: What was the advantage of partnering with a non-custodial wallet provider?
A: When you really look at the reason crypto was created, it was created for self-custody …. Our members were buying it anyway and in some cases were buying it from unscrupulous exchanges that were some place that wasn’t very regulated, highly regulated. So, BankSocial follows the regulations here in the United States. It’s self-custody. Self-custody was something that was important and we figured, well, let’s refer it.
Q: Does Lone Star offer any kind of financial advice about crypto?
A: In no way are we recommending that people go out and buy crypto. If you choose to do that, we recommend BankSocial, but it’s really around, you know, this is not an investment product, it’s not insured, and it has a high amount of volatility and risk. And we at Lone Star are not giving you any advice as to what you should buy. | 2023-02-06T15:17:08+00:00 | ktalnews.com | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/business/ap-insider-qa-lone-star-credit-union-ceo-on-cryptocurrencies/ |
PARIS (AP) — The trial of Moroccan singer Saad Lamjarred, who is accused of aggravated rape and assault, started in Paris on Monday.
The 37-year-old Lamjarred, who is famous on the Arab pop music scene, allegedly raped a French woman at a luxury hotel on the Champs-Elysees in October 2016 while he was under the influence of alcohol and cocaine.
He has denied the allegations. If convicted, he faces up to 20 years in prison. A verdict is expected on Friday.
The woman, who was 20 years old at the time, said that she met Lamjarred at a Paris nightclub and accompanied him to his hotel, according to the document summarizing the conclusions of the investigation that was read out by the presiding magistrate at the court.
She said that he struck her several times as she was trying to push him back before he raped her, the document said. She managed to leave the room, and hotel staff reported seeing her crying and in distress.
Lamjarred is one of the Arab world's most popular artists. His music video “Lm3allem” has more than 1 billion views on his YouTube channel, where he has more than 14 million subscribers.
King Mohammed VI awarded him Morocco’s highest national honor in 2015.
Lamjarred has also been charged with the aggravated rape of another woman in August 2018 at a nightclub in Saint-Tropez on the French Riviera. A trial date hasn't been set for that case. | 2023-02-20T13:11:24+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/entertainment/article/rape-trial-of-moroccan-singer-saad-lamjarred-17794653.php |
WFO DALLAS / FT. WORTH Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, July 3, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Fort Worth TX
342 PM CDT Sun Jul 3 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of northeastern Wise
County through 415 PM CDT...
At 341 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
New Fairview, or near Decatur, moving north at 15 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects.
Locations impacted include...
New Fairview.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Heavy rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
LAT...LON 3339 9738 3317 9739 3311 9740 3312 9763
3340 9749
TIME...MOT...LOC 2041Z 200DEG 11KT 3317 9751
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of southeastern Young
and southwestern Jack Counties through 415 PM CDT...
At 344 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Bryson, or 11 miles east of Graham, moving north at 15 mph.
Bryson.
LAT...LON 3332 9852 3333 9833 3301 9825 3301 9843
3300 9843 3299 9855
TIME...MOT...LOC 2044Z 175DEG 12KT 3308 9839
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Man shot on Brook Street in Hartford
Published: Jun. 2, 2023 at 6:27 AM EDT|Updated: 49 minutes ago
HARTFORD, CT (WFSB) - A man was shot on Brook Street in Hartford late Thursday night.
According to police, they responded to Hartford Hospital for a report of a gunshot victim.
They said they later learned that the man had been shot on Brook Street and was taken to the hospital.
They only identified the victim as a man in his 30s. He’s expected to be ok.
No other details were released.
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VANCOUVER, BC, June 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - Sandstorm Gold Ltd. ("Sandstorm" or the "Company") (NYSE: SAND) (TSX: SSL) is pleased to report that further to the Company's press release earlier today, the ICE Data Indices, LLC has issued a rebalancing update for the NYSE Arca Gold Miners Index (the "GDM" or the "Index") effective for the rebalancing period ending June 20, 2023. According to the update, due to a reassessment of the Company's revenue exposures, Sandstorm will not be deleted from the Index.
For more information about Sandstorm Gold Royalties, please visit our website at www.sandstormgold.com or email us at info@sandstormgold.com.
Sandstorm is a precious metals-focused royalty company that provides upfront financing to mining companies and receives the right to a percentage of production from a mine, for the life of the mine. Sandstorm holds a portfolio of 250 royalties, of which 40 of the underlying mines are producing. Sandstorm plans to grow and diversify its low cost production profile through the acquisition of additional gold royalties. For more information visit: www.sandstormgold.com.
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SPRINGFIELD — And to think that they stole it on Mulberry Street.
A brass plaque bolted to a stone at 51 Mulberry St. has disappeared, pried off by apparent thieves interested in the meager price it would fetch at a scrap metal dealer, city officials confirmed this week.
The plaque honoring Theodor “Dr. Seuss” Geisel’s first children’s book, “And to Think That I Saw it on Mulberry Street,” disappeared over the past several weeks from the site of a historic home razed in the early 1990s.
Now, the large rock that once held the plaque sits bereft on a narrow stretch of grass, showing only bolt holes.
The plaque read: “This was the site of one of Mulberry Street’s oldest houses, circa 1830. Mulberry Street was memorialized in “AND TO THINK THAT I SAW IT ON MULBERRY STREET,” the first book authored by Springfield native Theodore (sic) Geisel, known as Dr. Seuss.”
Mayor Domenic Sarno vowed to attempt to track down the thieves or work with city park and Springfield Museums officials to replace the plate, which marked the former home steeped in Seussian legend.
“Let’s see first if we can catch the despicable individual who did this. Little things mean a lot and this is part of Springfield’s historic lore,” Sarno said. “We’re going to check cameras in the area and check in with local pawnshops because they are supposed to have protocols and procedures about specific items that may have been stolen.”
Sarno said neighbors estimate the plaque has been missing for up to two months. Don Treeger, a staff photographer for The Republican, noticed the plaque was missing while out on assignment this week.
City officials confirmed it wasn’t just out for repairs. Geisel, who died in 1991, was a Springfield native and among the most celebrated children’s authors in American history, with dozens of titles to his name. His legacy is commemorated most notably in this city by a sculpture garden and The Amazing World of Dr. Seuss Museum at the Springfield Museums at the Quadrangle.
Kay Simpson, president of the museums, said the Mulberry Street title launched Geisel’s career. It is a whimsical tale of a boy’s imaginary parade, witnessed on an unassuming street in his neighborhood. The story captured the imaginations of millions after its publication in 1937.
But Simpson said it was a hard-won start for Geisel. The book was rejected by 27 publishers before it made it to print.
“He was filled with despair and walking down a street in New York and ran into a Dartmouth [College] classmate. The classmate said: ‘What do you have there? What are you carrying?’” Simpson said. “He said: ‘This is a book that no one wants to publish; I’m going to go home and burn it.’”
Its original title pitch was “This is a Story That No One Can Beat,” a reference to the first line of the book, and it flopped.
The classmate, who happened to work for a publishing house, offered to take a look. The rest, as the saying goes, is history. He went on to publish more than 60 children’s books under the Dr. Seuss pseudonym.
If you don’t know some of those titles, you must live under a rock. Pun intended.
“The Cat in the Hat,” “The Grinch Who Stole Christmas” and “Horton Hears a Who” are among them.
Simpson said the Mulberry Street address is widely, and incorrectly, believed to be Geisel’s homestead. He actually grew up on Fairfield Street in the city’s Forest Park neighborhood. The ties to Mulberry Street are a bit mistier.
Geisel attended high school near the tree-lined street, Simpson said. His father and a relative founded a brewery located on upper State Street. Beer wagons often trolled up and down Mulberry Street. His father was believed to have attended kindergarten at 51 Mulberry St.
Dr. Phillip Stone, a retired plastic surgeon, bought the Mulberry Street building and razed it without city approval in the early 90s, drawing fines and ire from local history buffs.
“It was considered to be a huge loss from a preservation standpoint,” Simpson said.
She believes the local neighborhood council put the plaque up after the house was demolished, a nod to what stood there.
This is not the first Seussian swipe. In 2012, a bronze statue of Seuss character “The Lorax” was stolen from Geisel’s widow’s home in La Jolla, California.
The two-foot bronze statue was recovered about a year later in a nearby canyon, according to published reports. It was hardly worse for wear. | 2023-05-18T11:39:53+00:00 | masslive.com | https://www.masslive.com/news/2023/05/bronze-plaque-honoring-dr-seuss-stolen-from-mulberry-street-site-of-the-springfield-authors-first-book.html |
One day last July, Mike Button settled into his home office, ready to start catching up on the backlog of things that had accumulated over his latest prolonged stretch away from work.
In April, his mom had died following a prolonged illness. Around the same time, he was diagnosed with congestive heart failure and began taking medication to strengthen his heart. He'd recently gotten back from his mother's memorial service in Detroit. Then came a bout of COVID-19 and, while recovering, one of his dogs died right in front of him.
Back at the desk of his home in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, he felt a little tired. Everything else seemed normal.
His wife, Stephanie, was recovering from her own case of COVID-19. She was healthy enough to return to her office, but she stayed home a few more days at the request of a co-worker with a newborn.
That afternoon, Stephanie walked into Mike's office to ask him a question.
He looked up and said, "I feel dizzy."
He then saw a blue static line, the kind seen on old televisions when they were being turned off.
The next instant, he slumped over in his chair.
"Mike! Mike!" Stephanie yelled, shaking him.
He wasn't moving or breathing. He was in cardiac arrest.
Stephanie called 911.
"Do you know CPR?" the dispatcher asked.
She'd been trained several times. But in her panic, she couldn't remember a thing.
"No," she said.
Stephanie turned on speakerphone and the dispatcher talked her through it.
First, she had to get Mike on the ground. She grabbed his office chair by one of the arms, pulling it over sideways until he tumbled to the floor.
Next, she was told to give her husband chest compressions until help arrived. They were there in just under five minutes.
The EMTs connected Mike to an automated external defibrillator, or AED. The portable device can help restart a heart that's stopped beating. After each of the first two shocks, Mike received CPR from a mechanical CPR device designed to deliver continuous chest compressions. The third shock from the AED triggered a sustainable rhythm.
Mike spent two days in a medically induced coma, a gentle environment that allowed his brain and body to heal. Stephanie was by his side, working on her laptop and talking to him.
When she arrived on the third day, he was already awake. A breathing tube was removed. Mike looked at her said, "What happened to me? Why am I here?"
The coherent thoughts were a huge relief to Stephanie. It indicated that he didn't have brain damage caused by however long he went without oxygen.
Cardiac arrest is a glitch in the heart's electrical system. Doctors were never able to trace why it happened to Mike. However, they said it could be related to his recent diagnosis of congestive heart failure.
After the cardiac arrest, Mike underwent cardiac resynchronization therapy. A half-dollar-sized pacemaker was implanted in his chest and connected to his heart. Should his heart rhythm get out of whack, the device can correct it – thus the term "resynchronization."
Two weeks later, Mike was back at work. It took about another month to recover from everything else he went through.
"The pain is simply a reminder that you're not dead yet," Mike said. "It was well worth it."
During his recovery, Mike felt overwhelmed with gratitude and awe that his life was spared.
"I'd start thinking about it and get emotional," he said. "It's hard to imagine that maybe I wouldn't have been around to watch our grandson grow up."
Stephanie calls the cardiac arrest "definitely the worst day of my life and best day of my life."
"It clearly was not his time," she said. "It was a miracle that I was standing in front of him when it happened."
Mike calls Stephanie his hero.
"Of course, the paramedics are also my heroes, but without Stephanie's quick actions they wouldn't have had much to work with," he said.
In October, the couple was able to meet Mike's other lifesavers at an awards and appreciation ceremony held by the city of Palm Beach Gardens.
"They had paramedics, firefighters, nurses and doctors, and they all got awards," Stephanie said. "It was amazing for Mike and me to be able to thank them in person."
Stephanie also received a "Citizen Life Saving Award" from the city.
She and Mike now spread the word about CPR, including taking refresher courses organized by Stephanie's women's group at their church.
"I tell everybody that CPR is the most important thing you can know," Mike said.
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WELDON, SK – Canadian police hunted for the remaining suspect in the stabbing deaths of 10 people in an Indigenous community and nearby town in the province of Saskatchewan after finding the body of his brother amid a massive manhunt for the pair.
Damien Sanderson, 31, was found dead Monday near the stabbing sites and authorities believe his brother and fellow suspect, Myles Sanderson, 30, is injured, on the run and likely in the provincial capital of Regina, said police chief Evan Bray. The series of stabbing also wounded 18 people.
RCMP Commanding Officer Assistant Commissioner Rhonda Blackmore said authorities are not sure of the cause of death yet but the injuries were not self-inflicted.
Damien Sanderson’s “body was located outdoors in a heavily grassed area in proximity to a house that was being examined. We can confirm he has visible injuries,” said Blackmore. Asked if Myles Sanderson was responsible for his brother’s death, Blackmore said police are investigating that possibility, but “we can’t say that definitively at this point in time.″
Leaders of the James Smith Cree Nation, where most of the stabbing attacks took place, blamed the killings on the drug and alcohol abuse plaguing the community, which they said was a legacy of the colonization of Indigenous people.
James Smith Cree Nation resident Darryl Burns and his brother, Ivor Wayne Burns, said their sister, Gloria Lydia Burns, was a first responder who was killed while trying responding to a call. Burns said his 62-year-old sister was on a crisis response team.
“She went on a call to a house and she got caught up in the violence,” he said. “She was there to help. She was a hero.”
He blamed drugs and pointed to colonization for the rampant drug and alcohol use on reserves.
“We had a murder suicide here three years ago. My granddaughter and her boyfriend. Last year we had a double homicide. Now this year we have 10 more that have passed away and all because of drugs and alcohol,” Darryl Burns said.
Ivor Wayne Burns also blamed drugs for his sister’s death and said the suspect brothers should not be hated.
“We have to forgive them boys,” he said. “When you are doing hard drugs, when you are doing coke, and when you are doing heroin and crystal meth and those things, you are incapable of feeling. You stab somebody and you think it’s funny. You stab them again and you laugh.”
Blackmore said police were still determining the motive, but the chief of the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations echoes suggestions the stabbings could be drug-related.
“This is the destruction we face when harmful illegal drugs invade our communities, and we demand all authorities to take direction from the chiefs and councils and their membership to create safer and healthier communities for our people,” said Chief Bobby Cameron.
Blackmore said the criminal record of Myles Sanderson dates back years and includes violence. . Last May, Saskatchewan Crime Stoppers issued a wanted list that included him writing that he was “unlawfully at large.”
While authorities believe Myles Sanderson is in Regina, about 335 kilometers (210 miles) south of where the stabbings happened, they have issued alerts in Canada’s three vast prairie provinces — which also include Manitoba and Alberta — and contacted U.S. border officials. The manhunt entered its third day Tuesday.
Before Damien's body was found, arrest warrants were issued for the suspects and both men faced at least one count each of murder and attempted murder.
The stabbing attack was among the deadliest mass killings in Canada, where such crimes are less common than in the United States. The deadliest gun rampage in Canadian history happened in 2020, when a man disguised as a police officer shot people in their homes and set fires across the province of Nova Scotia, killing 22 people. In 2019, a man used a van to kill 10 pedestrians in Toronto.
Deadly mass stabbings are rarer than mass shootings, but have happened around the world. In 2014, 29 people were slashed and stabbed to death at a train station in China’s southwestern city of Kunming. In 2016, a mass stabbing at a facility for the mentally disabled in Sagamihara, Japan, left 19 people dead. A year later, three men killed eight people in a vehicle and stabbing attack at London Bridge.
Police in Saskatchewan got their first call about a stabbing at 5:40 a.m. on Sunday, and within minutes heard about several more. In all, dead or wounded people were found at 13 different locations on the sparsely populated reserve and in the town, Blackmore said. James Smith Cree Nation is about 30 kilometers (20 miles) from Weldon.
Among the 10 killed was Lana Head, who is the former partner of Michael Brett Burns and the mother of their two daughters.
“It’s sick how jail time, drugs and alcohol can destroy many lives,” Burns told the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network. “I’m hurt for all this loss.”
Weldon residents have identified one of the dead as Wes Petterson, a retired widower who made he coffee every morning at the senior center. He loved gardening, picking berries, canning, and making jam and cakes, recalled William Works, 47, and his mother, Sharon Works, 64.
“He would give you the shirt off his back if he could,” William Works said, describing his neighbor as a “gentle old fellow” and “community first.”
Sharon Works was baffled: “I don’t understand why they would target someone like him anyway, because he was just a poor, helpless little man, 100 pounds soaking wet. And he could hardly breathe because he had asthma and emphysema and everybody cared about him because that’s the way he was. He cared about everybody else. And they cared about him.”
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Gillies reported from Toronto. | 2022-09-06T04:56:29+00:00 | local10.com | https://www.local10.com/news/world/2022/09/06/canada-police-hunt-remaining-suspect-in-stabbing-attacks/ |
Teen remembered as a hero after he drowned trying to save a friend
POINSETT, Ark. (WMC/Gray News) – Family and friends are grieving the death of a 17-year-old from Arkansas who drowned in a river trying to save the life of a friend.
Aaron Dexter died Thursday while he and his friends were out swimming in a river near Rivervale in Poinsett County.
His father, Officer John Dexter, said his son’s friend jumped off a bridge and got caught in an underwater current.
Aaron Dexter jumped off the bridge to save her and bring her back to the riverbank.
They both grabbed a tree branch for safety, but the teen’s dad said the branch snapped and pulled him away.
“We wanted to make it clear that Aaron sacrificed his life to save her life, and he deserves to be held as a hero and his bravery and his selflessness. It’s not something that everybody or anybody would’ve done,” John Dexter said.
The Poinsett County Sheriff’s Office said several rescue and first responder crews searched for the 17-year-old for over five hours before finding his body far downriver from where he went in.
According to his obituary, Aaron was a senior at Marked Tree High School and loved fashion, shoes, clothes, Valentino cologne and his hair. He also dreamed of starting his own online clothing store.
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Festive new holiday candy from Hershey’s, M&Ms and more
Posted/updated on: November 30, 2022 at 5:53 am(NEW YORK) -- As the holiday season gets underway, confectioners are busily unveiling new festive sweets.
Hershey's recently shared a peek at some brand new holiday candy, including its first-ever hot chocolate bombs, which are available with marshmallows or cinnamon chips. The chocolate balls will be available for a limited time and melt into a cup of hot cocoa with the addition of warm milk poured directly over top.
"These hot chocolate bombs are the perfect cozy companion to sip on as you wrap holiday gifts and a great stocking stuffer to boot," The Hershey Company stated in a press release.
Another new confection this year is a Hershey's Milk Chocolate Holiday bar, which is dressed up for the holidays from the inside out with 24 varieties of seasonal imprinted images such as stars, wreaths, trees, stockings and more.
Dr. Seuss's The Grinch and The Hershey Company have also partnered once again to make Grinch-themed Hershey's Kisses. In addition to the 9.5-ounce and 7.4-ounce bags, there is a new tree-shaped decorative gift box filled with the assorted Grinch foil wrapped Kisses.
"The holidays are a special time where we can take a moment to relish in the traditions and enjoy seasonal treats that make the season so cherished," Katie Behrman, associate brand manager of seasons at The Hershey Company, said in a statement.
For fans of candy coated chocolate M&Ms, the company released a new array of personalized gift jars and dispensers that are perfect for Christmas, Hanukkah or Kwanzaa, priced from $29.99 to $49.99.
The limited time holiday boxes are an easy, ready-to-go gift, and are filled with the iconic candy.
Another item hitting shelves in time for seasonal celebrations are the new espresso and dark chocolate M&M's, the latest flavor innovation with a bold burst of coffee flavor.
The new candy bowl must-have ranges from $3.75 to $4.49 per pack.
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Rising Phoenix Resources mineral funds have posted annual cash on cash returns averaging 20% since 2021
DALLAS, Oct. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Rising Phoenix Resources (RPR), a privately held asset management company, invites accredited investors to join its Capitol Peak Fund. Participation is open now through December 31st, 2022.
Since 2017, RPR investment Funds, comprised of nationwide oil and gas basin mineral royalty assets, have posted annual cash on cash returns exceeding a 20% average. Fund participation starts at $50K minimum and is open to accredited investors.
"Investing in RPR Funds is a great way to safely and prudently diversify your portfolio into an alternative asset class like oil and gas," notes Jace Graham, CEO & Founder, Rising Phoenix Resources. "The assets are producing, meaning the pump jacks are going up and down 24/7, 365 day a year, and we're generating consistent income streams pulling from hundreds of wells throughout the United States."
"Investors benefit from long term cash flows with distributions starting 60-90 days after your initial Fund purchase…true mailbox money!," continues Graham.
RPR Fund investors are paid quarterly, based on the royalty payments collected for each Fund. The Fund's holding period is typically 2-3 years with a sale, however, RPR investors receive quarterly distributions with returns that typically outperform the stock and real estate markets.
Contact Investor Relations, at 214-949-1856 or email at invest@rising-phoenix.com for Fund information or participation. Request the RPR Fund Investor Presentation.
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SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Anixa Biosciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: ANIX) ("Anixa") a biotechnology company focused on the treatment and prevention of cancer and infectious diseases, today announced that, in conjunction with its partner Moffitt Cancer Center, it has commenced treatment of the first patient in the clinical trial of its novel chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) therapy for ovarian cancer.
The study is a dose-escalation Phase 1 trial to determine safety and the maximum tolerated dose of follicle stimulating hormone receptor T-cells and to preliminarily assess efficacy. The study is being conducted at Moffitt Cancer Center and will consist of up to 48 patients.
The CAR-T approach used for Anixa's therapy is known as chimeric endocrine receptor T-cell (CER-T) since the target of the engineered T-cells is an endocrine receptor. While CAR-T therapy has shown efficacy in some hematological tumors, reproducing the same results with solid tumors, such as ovarian cancer, has proven challenging. One of the reasons for this difficulty is that effective CAR-T therapy needs a specific antigen to recognize that is only present on target cancer cells in order to avoid negatively affecting healthy cells. The CER-T therapy being evaluated in Anixa's Phase 1 study differs from traditional CAR-T in that it targets the follicle stimulating hormone receptor (FSHR), which research indicates is exclusively expressed on ovarian cells in healthy adult females.
"We are pleased that the first patient has been treated in our ovarian cancer CAR-T clinical study," stated Amit Kumar, Ph.D., Chairman and CEO of Anixa Biosciences. "This is truly an exciting time for Anixa, as we have now begun treating patients in our second clinical trial. With our CAR-T study, we hope to determine whether our unique targeting approach will work in solid tumors—a difficult challenge for traditional CAR-T therapies."
Robert Wenham, M.D., MS, FACOG, FACS, the trial's lead investigator and Chair of the Department of Gynecologic Oncology at Moffitt Cancer Center, added, "With limited treatment options for recurrent, chemo-resistant ovarian cancer, I am hopeful that this program can provide a unique opportunity to make a meaningful impact on patients of this devastating disease."
Jose R. Conejo-Garcia, M.D., Ph.D., Chair of the Department of Immunology at Moffitt Cancer Center and co-inventor of the CER-T technology, added, "It is exciting to see our novel FSHR-mediated CAR-T technology reaching patients, and if our unique CAR-T approach is successful, it could serve as a model for future targeted CAR-T therapies in other cancer types."
Dr. Conejo-Garcia and his research team developed the FSHR-mediated CAR-T technology when he was at the Wistar Institute where he contributed to report for the first time on the role of T-cell responses in the outcome of ovarian cancer patients. The clinical trial being conducted today is based on this pre-clinical work, originally published in Clinical Cancer Research. Anixa has an exclusive, world-wide license to this technology.
Anixa's chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) technology approach is an autologous cell therapy comprised of engineered T-cells that target the follicle stimulating hormone receptor (FSHR). FSHR is found at immunologically relevant levels exclusively on the granulosa cells of the ovaries. Since the target is a hormone (chimeric endocrine) receptor, and the target-binding domain is derived from its natural ligand, this technology is known as CER-T (chimeric endocrine receptor T-cell) therapy, a new type of CAR-T.
Anixa is a clinical-stage biotechnology company with a number of programs addressing cancer and infectious disease. Anixa's portfolio of therapeutics includes a cancer immunotherapy program being developed in collaboration with Moffitt Cancer Center, which uses a novel type of CAR-T, known as chimeric endocrine receptor T-cell (CER-T) technology, and, with partner MolGenie GmbH, a COVID-19 program focused on compounds targeting the Mpro enzyme of SARS-CoV-2, which is largely conserved across all recently identified variants. The company's vaccine portfolio includes a novel vaccine being developed in collaboration with Cleveland Clinic to prevent breast cancer – specifically triple negative breast cancer (TNBC), the most lethal form of the disease – as well as a vaccine to prevent ovarian cancer. These vaccine technologies focus on immunizing against "retired" proteins that have been found to be expressed in certain forms of cancer. Anixa's unique business model of partnering with world-renowned research institutions on clinical development allows the company to continually examine emerging technologies in complementary fields for further development and commercialization. To learn more, visit www.anixa.com or follow Anixa on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Jalen Wilson and Dajuan Harris Jr. provided a calm, steadying influence for No. 6 Kansas on Tuesday night. Jayhawks freshman Gradey Dick provided the late splash.
Together they extended the nation’s longest active winning streak.
Wilson scored a career-high 25 points, Harris dished out a career-best 10 assists and Dick made three crucial baskets in the final 2 1/2 minutes to help the defending national champs rally past No. 7 Duke 69-64.
“We didn’t know where he was at times; we sent out a missing person’s report in the second half,” interim coach Norm Roberts joked, referring to Dick. “But this is his first real big-boy game he’s played in and I thought he really responded.”
Kansas is 3-0 with Roberts filling in for suspended coach Bill Self, who will sit out the first four games because of a 2017 infractions scandal. But the results remain unchanged as the Jayhawks ran their winning streak to 14.
Wilson also grabbed 11 rebounds on a night when shooting was at a premium.
Duke (2-1) was led by Kyle Filipowski, who scored a season-high 17 points and had 14 rebounds to become the first player in school history to register double-doubles in each of his first three games. Marvin Bagley III was the only other player to do it in his first two games.
Jeremy Roach had 16 points as new coach Jon Scheyer lost for the first time.
The young Blue Devils pushed Kansas to the brink in a game that went back and forth most of the second half. Duke just couldn’t finish it off.
“Before the game, we said that whoever handles the adversity better wins and I thought they did that late,” Scheyer said.
Still, the Blue Devils were in prime position when Filipowski’s putback with 4:39 left gave Duke a 59-54 lead.
But Kansas scored seven straight points to take a 61-59 lead on Dick’s 3-pointer with 2:21 to go. Roach answered with a 3 for Duke and then Dick scored on alley-oop play with 1:40 left to give Kansas a 63-62 edge.
The Jayhawks never trailed again, ending the game on a 15-5 run.
“ Those two guys, they never gave in,” Roberts said. “There was never any panic and that’s all led by Jalen and Dajuan.”
BIG PICTURE
Duke: These Blue Devils don’t appear to be content taking a backseat to anybody. Despite a slow start and a poor finish, they traded jabs all night with a more experienced team. At times, they even looked more physical than Kansas — all promising signs for improvement.
Kansas: They’ve survived without Self — this time just barely. But the gritty Jayhawks played hard and fast and never got rattled, even when the execution wasn’t great or the shots didn’t fall. Even Roberts acknowledged sometimes winning ugly is what it takes.
POLL IMPLICATIONS
Duke: The Blue Devils may slide a bit, but not much. Certainly not after this sort of performance just three games into a season with a first-year coach and three freshman starters.
Kansas: With No. 4 Kentucky losing earlier Tuesday and the Wildcats visiting No. 2 Gonzaga this weekend, the Jayhawks could move up a spot or two — depending on the results.
NEW EXPERIENCE
In a game of firsts, Scheyer thought his team played relatively well. It marked the first time Scheyer coached or Duke’s talented freshmen class played outside Cameron Indoor Stadium. It also was their first experience against a ranked team and their first close contest. And the double-overtime game between Michigan State and Kentucky in the opener Tuesday didn’t help much.
“We went out there three times to warm up,” Scheyer said. “It was the first time for a lot of different things.”
UP NEXT
Duke: Heads home to face Delaware on Friday.
Kansas: Will host Southern Utah on Friday.
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Police in a Florida park fatally shot an armed woman who “ambushed” them as they were searching for a drug investigation suspect, officials said.
The shooting happened at Tom Brown Park in Tallahassee about 10:30 p.m. Thursday. Police responded to the park after receiving a report that the person they were looking for, a man, was seen there, according to a department news release Friday.
Officers and a deputy with the Leon County Sheriff's Office were in the park when the woman “ambushed law enforcement and opened fire on them,” the department said. The officers and deputy returned fire and she was struck. She was taken to a hospital, where she died.
No police officers were injured and there is no threat to public safety, the news release said.
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A police department spokesperson said the drug investigation suspect was taken into custody at the park, the Tallahassee Democrat reported. It wasn't immediately clear if there was a connection between the man and the woman. | 2023-05-26T12:34:56+00:00 | nbcmiami.com | https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/police-fatally-shoot-armed-woman-who-ambushed-them-in-tallahassee-park-deputies/3042038/ |
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
1-4-5-4
(one, four, five, four)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
1-4-5-4
(one, four, five, four) | 2022-12-31T20:15:37+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-4-Midday-game-17687337.php |
Dawn Marie Besse Joins Aktion's Supply Chain Division
MAUMEE, Ohio, Sept. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Aktion Associates, Inc., national software reseller and IT infrastructure provider focused on the Architectural Engineering & Construction, Distribution and Manufacturing industries, announced today the appointment of Dawn Marie Besse to the position of Practice Manager, Infor SX.e and CloudSuite Distribution, in the Supply Chain Division. Dawn has extensive experience as a leader specializing in business operations, consulting, ERP implementations and project management. Dawn will report to Supply Chain Division Vice President, Patrick Brennan. The appointment was made in response to Aktion's increasing Infor SX.e and CloudSuite Distribution customer base.
"Under Pat's leadership, the Supply Chain Division is growing and acquiring new customers while continuing to deliver support to existing accounts," said Aktion CEO Scott Irwin. "The addition of Dawn as Practice Manager overseeing implementations strengthens our commitment to ensuring successful go lives and long-term customer engagements. She has deep industry and Infor ERP knowledge. I'm confident our customers and service team will benefit from Dawn's guidance," Irwin added.
Dawn is responsible for managing Application Consultants, Project Managers and Software Engineers in the Supply Chain Division. Additional responsibilities include executing customer account management; building/maintaining relationships with suppliers; ensuring quality and consistency in service delivery as well as introducing best practice processes; service employee skillset development and alignment; achieving service utilization; and assisting the division Sales Manager in customer implementations.
"Dawn is a great addition to the team," said Brennan. "She brings a high level of business acumen and team leadership, as well as Infor ERP consulting experience. It's the perfect skill set for our team and Infor customers," Brennan added.
In her previous position as Senior Business Consultant at Infor, Dawn was responsible for leading project teams, configuring client solutions, providing implementation consultancy and application best practice advice. Prior to Infor, Dawn was Business Systems Manager Supply Chain for Kaman Industrial Technologies.
Aktion Associates delivers industry-specific and market leader application solutions to the Architecture & Engineering, Construction, Wholesale Distribution and Manufacturing industries. We couple these application solutions with proven business process transformation skills that deliver the best Net Promoter Scores in the ERP industry for small and medium size businesses. Our investment in our company-owned cloud and managed service platform is what further allows us to deliver the total solution with award-winning speed and cost-effectiveness. With a customer base of 6500 strong and a workforce of 230 employees, we have the scope and scale to manage an ERP cloud migration. Visit www.aktion.com.
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At the height of the pandemic, countless communities across the country turned to hotels and motels to shelter the housing insecure. Three years later, many communities are looking for funding to buy or lease motels to permanently turn them into homeless shelters.
It's an idea that Theresa Nicholson believes could change the trajectory of those experiencing chronic homelessness.
"We are a hand up, we aren't a handout," she said.
Nicholson serves as the director of homelessness services for the Center for Human Development. A few years ago, the organization started partnering with the city of Holyoke, Massachusetts, to lease a Motel 6 just off Interstate 91.
"It almost couldn't be a better spot. Everything you need is here," Nicholson said as she walked around the property on a recent Thursday morning.
Now, those experiencing homelessness can find safety from the streets. And not only do the housing insecure have a warm place to stay, they also have their own rooms. The hotel-based shelter can house 38 people. All of them have their own private bathrooms, beds and even microwaves.
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"We have folks who came in here that were on the street for 30 years. Because they can have their own space and get wrap-around support, they're willing to come in," Nicholson said.
This motel first started housing the homeless during COVID. Those who come to the motel can receive everything from social services to hot meals and access to weekly Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.
"You come here and you can close your door, but when you want to have support it's right down the hallway," Nicholson said.
Jason Noles, 29, has spent the last few years on the streets after falling out with family members. He's been in and out of plenty of shelters.
"It's that alone feeling — I have nobody, I have no home. What am I?" Noles said about being homeless.
Unlike traditional group shelters that Noles has stayed in, though, he says having his own room has changed his trajectory.
"It's given me that break into independence that I need," he added.
SEE MORE: Donated furniture is helping break the cycle of homelessness
At the height of the pandemic, dozens of cities talked about buying hotels to turn into homeless shelters. California alone placed 6,000 people in 4,000 rooms across 37 hotels.
"The services come to them, which for vulnerable and disabled people makes the difference," said Gerry McCafferty, who oversees Continuing Care for Hampden County, Massachusetts, where Holyoke is located.
McCafferty says that when the nationwide COVID emergency ended, many communities lost funding for hotel-based homeless shelters. They're now looking for alternative ways to keep the programs running, especially seeing how successful the model has been for the chronically homeless.
"Some of the people who went into the hotel have been on our list for years. This cracked the nut of how to reach those folks," she added.
As for Jason Nole, he is one of the program's success stories. After living in the Motel 6 shelter for a year, social workers helped him secure his own apartment that he moved into at the end of May.
"I can work on being independent while having the support I need," Nole said.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Twitter has labeled National Public Radio as “state-affiliated media” on the social media site, a move some worried Wednesday could undermine public confidence in the news organization.
NPR said it was disturbed to see the description added to all of the tweets that it sends out, with John Lansing, its president and CEO, calling it “unacceptable for Twitter to label us this way.”
It was unclear why Twitter made the move. Twitter's owner, Elon Musk, quoted a definition of state-affiliated media in the company's guidelines as “outlets where the state exercises control over editorial content through financial resources, direct or indirect political pressures, and/or control over production and distribution.”
“Seems accurate,” Musk tweeted in a reply to NPR.
NPR does receive U.S. government funding through grants from federal agencies and departments, along with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The company said it accounts for less than 1% of NPR’s annual operating budget. But until Wednesday, the same Twitter guidelines said that “state-financed media organizations with editorial independence, like the BBC in the UK or NPR in the United States, are not defined as state-affiliated media for the purposes of this policy.”
NPR has now been removed from that sentence on Twitter's website.
Asked for comment, Twitter’s press office responded with an automated poop emoji.
The move came just days after Twitter stripped The New York Times of its verification check mark.
“NPR and our member stations are supported by millions of listeners who depend on us for the independent, fact-based journalism we provide,” Lansing said. “NPR stands for freedom of speech and holding the powerful accountable.”
The literary organization PEN America, in calling for Twitter to reverse the move, underlined that NPR “assiduously maintains editorial independence.”
Liz Woolery, PEN America’s digital policy leader, said Twitter's decision was “a dangerous move that could further undermine public confidence in reliable news sources.” | 2023-04-05T21:30:58+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/entertainment/article/npr-protests-as-twitter-calls-it-17880990.php |
The World Series is over. That means baseball’s offseason business is about to begin. For the Red Sox, this winter should be one of the busiest in recent memory as the team tries to rebuild on the fly after a disastrous 2022 season. The futures of key players like Xander Bogaerts, Rafael Devers, J.D. Martinez, Michael Wacha and Nathan Eovaldi hang in the balance.
For Chaim Bloom and the rest of Boston’s front office, the work will start immediately. The coming days and weeks will bring plenty of action as the Red Sox begin to shape their 2023 roster. Here’s a primer on some key dates ahead:
Sun. Nov. 5 -- Free agency opens
Free agency officially opens Sunday, but that doesn’t mean a flurry of NBA or NFL-like action is coming. Teams, including the Red Sox, will then have five days of exclusive negotiating rights with their free agents before players can sign elsewhere. Usually, nothing happens during this time. The process is more of a formality than anything else.
The Red Sox have 10 potential free agents, including those with options. Five -- Eovaldi, Rich Hill, Martinez, Matt Strahm and Wacha -- will become unrestricted free agents Sunday.
Tue. Nov. 8 -- Thu. Nov. 10 -- GM Meetings, Las Vegas
Bloom and a small contingent of Red Sox officials will depart Monday for Las Vegas, where the annual GM Meetings are being held. Once there, the group will participate in formal league meetings and begin checking in with other teams and player agents about possible offseason moves. Not much action happens at the GM Meetings compared to the Winter Meetings, which are held in December. But the Red Sox have some pressing this year that will force them to make decisions while in Vegas.
Also, Bloom and general manager Brian O’Halloran will hold formal media availabilities for the first time since the day after the regular season. MassLive will be on site to provide updates.
Tue. Nov. 8 -- Opt-out decision deadline
The Red Sox technically have three players -- Bogaerts, Eric Hosmer and Chris Sale -- who can opt out of their contracts and become free agents within three days of the World Series (Tuesday). But Sale has already committed to opting in to the remainder of his contract (two years, $55 million) and Hosmer is sure to do the same (three years, $39 million). Bogaerts, on the other hand, is a lock to opt out of the three years and $60 million remaining on his contract. He would be due a big raise on the open market.
By Tuesday, those three players must officially make their decisions. In the case of Bogaerts, doing so will mean he is a true free agent for the first time in his career.
Thu. Nov. 10 -- Club options / Qualifying offers deadline
Thursday will be an exceedingly busy day for the Red Sox as they depart Las Vegas. Decisions on club options and qualifying offers are due.
Two Red Sox players have unique options that needed to be decided upon before Thursday. The club holds a two-year, $26 million club option over James Paxton that turns into a $4 million player option if it’s declined. That call could go either way, as outlined here. Outfielder Tommy Pham’s deal includes a $12 million mutual option for 2023 that is likely to be declined by the Red Sox. In all likelihood, Pham will become a free agent.
How the Red Sox proceed with qualifying offers will determine much of the rest of their winter. Four players -- Bogaerts, Eovaldi, Martinez and Wacha -- are realistic candidates to receive the QO, which is a one-year, $19.65 million contract for 2023 that ensures draft pick compensation if the player signs elsewhere. Bogaerts will get one (and decline). Martinez almost certainly won’t. That leaves difficult decisions on both Eovaldi and Wacha, which you can read more about here.
Tue. Nov. 15 -- Rule 5 protection deadline
Free agency will open plenty of spots on Boston’s 40-man roster, which has already undergone some changes since the end of the season. But more roster turnover is on the horizon with the deadline to add Rule 5-eligible minor leaguers approaching.
The rules are complicated but boil down to this: if the Red Sox don’t add a few of their minor leaguers to their 40-man roster before Nov. 15, those players will be eligible to be taken by other teams in the December Rule 5 draft. That means the Sox need to protect some of their players by adding them to the 40-man roster in a couple weeks.
Our Chris Smith broke down those decisions recently here. Ceddanne Rafaela is a lock to be added along with Enmanuel Valdez, who will likely be added not too long after the World Series so that he can be protected from minor league free agency. Chris Murphy, David Hamilton, Brandon Walter, Thaddeus Ward, Wilyer Abreu and A.J. Politi are among the other candidates to be added.
Fri. Nov. 18 -- Non-tender deadline
The non-tender deadline is earlier than in previous years, taking place about two weeks after the end of the World Series. It’s when teams must decide whether or not to tender contracts to every arbitration and pre-arbitration eligible player on their roster. If a player is tendered, he remains on the roster. If he is non-tendered, he becomes a free agent.
The Red Sox will have some interesting calls to make then. Relievers Ryan Brasier (projected to earn $2.3 million) and Josh Taylor ($1.1 million) could be cut loose if the Sox don’t see them as part of the 2023 plans. Utility man Yu Chang looks like another non-tender candidate. Outfielder/first baseman Franchy Cordero ($1.5 million) is a possibility, too. And it would not be a surprise to see someone like Darwinzon Hernandez or another loose end of the Red Sox roster get cut, either.
Among the players who will be tendered contracts are Rafael Devers, Nick Pivetta, Alex Verdugo, Rob Refsnyder, Christian Arroyo and Reese McGuire.
Sun. Nov. 20 -- Deadline to accept or reject qualifying offers
Ten days after the Red Sox issue qualifying offers, the players who receive them must decide whether to accept or reject. During this time, it’s possible for players to work out a multi-year deal with any team, including their former club. As stated above, Bogaerts will reject the QO because he’ll get much more on the open market. But Eovaldi and Wacha would both be candidates to accept it if offered.
Mon. Dec. 5 -- Wed. Dec. 7 -- Winter Meetings, San Diego
For the first time in three years, the Winter Meetings -- the crown jewel of baseball’s winter -- will be held. They are back in San Diego, where they were in 2019, the last time they were held. This is a time for action, whether in the forms of trades or big-time free agent signings. The Red Sox should be busy. | 2022-11-06T04:40:15+00:00 | masslive.com | https://www.masslive.com/redsox/2022/11/red-sox-offseason-begins-xander-bogaerts-james-paxton-nate-eovaldi-decisions-due-soon.html |
Wander Franco Player Prop Bets: Rays vs. Royals - July 16
Published: Jul. 16, 2023 at 4:24 AM EDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
The Tampa Bay Rays, including Wander Franco (.216 batting average in his past 10 games), take on starter Jordan Lyles and the Kansas City Royals at Kauffman Stadium, Sunday at 2:10 PM ET.
In his most recent game, he went 1-for-3 with a double against the Royals.
Wander Franco Game Info & Props vs. the Royals
- Game Day: Sunday, July 16, 2023
- Game Time: 2:10 PM ET
- Stadium: Kauffman Stadium
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Royals Starter: Jordan Lyles
- TV Channel: BSKC
- Hits Prop: Over/under 1.5 hits (Over odds: +160)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +675)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +170)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: -105)
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Wander Franco At The Plate
- Franco leads Tampa Bay in slugging percentage (.458) thanks to 37 extra-base hits.
- Among qualified batters in MLB, his batting average ranks 32nd, his on-base percentage ranks 51st, and he is 54th in the league in slugging.
- Franco has had a hit in 61 of 88 games this season (69.3%), including multiple hits 28 times (31.8%).
- He has hit a long ball in 12.5% of his games in 2023 (11 of 88), and 2.8% of his trips to the plate.
- In 35.2% of his games this year, Franco has had at least one RBI. He's picked up more than one in 12.5% and driven in three or more of his team's runs in three contests.
- He has scored in 39 of 88 games this year, and more than once 11 times.
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Wander Franco Home/Away Batting Splits
Royals Pitching Rankings
- The pitching staff for the Royals has a collective 8.3 K/9, which ranks 23rd in MLB.
- The Royals have a 5.22 team ERA that ranks 28th across all league pitching staffs.
- Royals pitchers combine to surrender 109 total home runs at a clip of 1.2 per game (to rank 20th in baseball).
- Lyles gets the start for the Royals, his 18th of the season. He is 1-11 with a 6.33 ERA and 69 strikeouts in 96 2/3 innings pitched.
- His most recent time out was on Thursday, July 6 against the Cleveland Guardians, when the right-hander went five innings, surrendering one earned run while allowing six hits.
- The 32-year-old ranks 64th in ERA (6.33), 44th in WHIP (1.283), and 59th in K/9 (6.4) among qualifying pitchers in MLB play this season.
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Polk sheriff: Disney, Publix employees among those accused of wanting to 'sexually abuse, groom' kids
WINTER HAVEN, Fla. - A total of 13 men were arrested in the latest Polk County undercover operation targeting suspects who made attempts to "sexually abuse, groom, and corrupt" children, said Sheriff Grady Judd.
In addition to the agency's team, Chris Hansen from ‘To Catch a Predator’ worked alongside investigators.
Sheriff Judd said three suspects believed they were speaking to the guardian or parent of a child who wanted to teach their kid to have sex or arrange for the suspect to meet the minor, officials said. Others either traveled to have sex with children, had sexually-explicit conversations, or sent "harmful material." It turned out the person on the end of those conversations was an undercover detective.
Among those arrested were people who worked at Disney, Publix, and Amazon, along with a man who installs internet safety programs in schools — the very same firewall blocking systems means to protect children from sexual predators.
"We will continue to conduct proactive operations like this to search out these evil predators before they get to our children," Sheriff Judd said. "Thanks to the hard work of our detectives and the detectives in our partnering agencies, these 13 predators have been arrested. We are going hold them criminally accountable for their attempts to sexually abuse, groom, and corrupt our children."
According to the sheriff's office, six of the suspects confessed to investigators:
33-year-old Matthew Silva of Melbourne
Polk County detectives said Silva began speaking to an undercover detective who was posing as a 14-year-old girl.
The detective told Silva "she was only 14," officials said.
"Knowing this, Sanders described the sex acts he wanted to perform on the child," according to a news release from the sheriff's office.
Investigators arrested Silva at a Publix in Melbourne, where he works as a bagger. He later confessed to detectives.
31-year-old Neri Banda of Lakeland
Detectives said Banda worked at an Amazon warehouse in Auburndale. They said he began speaking to an undercover detective who was posing as a 14-year-old boy.
"He told the ‘boy’ he had ‘a thing for younger guys.’ Banda continued communicating with the 'boy' on the Kik application asking the 'boy' when they were going to have "their make-out session." The undercover detective reminded Banda that he was only 14; Banda said he didn't mind," according to the sheriff's office.
Banda confessed to investigators after his arrest.
28-year-old Michael Hojewski III of Lakeland
Detectives said Hojewski began speaking to an undercover detective who was posing as a 14-year-old girl. When the detective said he was speaking to a 14-year-old, he said, "It's fine" and sent naked images of himself to the detective.
Over the next few days, he "continued the conversation and explicitly described the sex acts he wanted to perform on the child," officials said.
Upon his arrest, Hojewski admitted to having sexually explicit conversations and sending nude photos to a person who he believed to be an underage girl, according to the sheriff's office.
30-year-old Luis Velazquez of Haines City
Velazquez said he was going to meet up with the 15-year-old girl he thought he was speaking to. Once again, it turned out to be an undercover detective, officials said. However, he did not show up at the planned meeting spot.
Detectives said he "contacted the 'girl' saying he got ‘scared.’ He then sent the ‘girl’ two nude photos of himself."
Investigators obtained a warrant and arrested Velasquez, who then confessed.
27-year-old Nicholas Jenkins of Winter Garden
According to detectives, Jenkins believed he was speaking to a 15-year-old girl and told her in an online conversation that he didn't care about her age. They said he described the sexual acts he wanted to perform and arranged a meeting.
When he arrived, he was arrested.
42-year-old Kevin Sanders of Winter Garden
Sanders began chatting on a social networking site with an undercover detective posing as a 13-year-old girl, investigators said. The sheriff's office said Sanders described the sex acts he wanted to perform on the child, telling the "girl" they would "have to be careful" because of her age.
Investigators said Sanders has engaged online with undercover detectives he believed to be children for several years, but always ended his communication before actually traveling to meet up. During this latest investigation, the sheriff's office said they were able to identify Sanders and obtained a warrant for his arrest.
Polk detectives, FDLE agents and the Orange County Sheriff's Office arrested Sanders at Disney, where he has worked for 16 years, Sheriff Grady Judd said.
Sanders admitted to having sexually explicit conversations with a minor upon his arrest, telling detectives he had been doing it or years and that communicating online with underage children was his "addiction."
He told detectives he works as a roving IT support specialist at Disney, and previously was a member of Disney's Youth Education Series program which offers accredited educational opportunities for students ages 5 to 18.
Sanders also told investigators he is married with two young children. | 2022-09-15T17:18:16+00:00 | fox29.com | https://www.fox29.com/news/polk-county-sex-predator-undercover-operation |
Class-action status sought for Oxford lawsuit stemming from 2021 shooting
A federal lawsuit against Oxford Community Schools to make changes in the school system in the wake of last year's deadly shooting at Oxford High School may be expanded to include all of the district's students.
Lawyers for a parents group called Change4Oxford said Tuesday they have filed a motion to amend their suit into a class-action complaint against the district and include every child in the 5,700-student district. The group originally filed the suit in June on behalf of 19 students, the attorneys said.
"Oxford Schools shockingly failed to meet the basic expectation of a safe learning environment on Nov. 30, 2021, and since then they have continued to leave students and parents completely unsure if they will encounter violence at school despite the massive wakeup call this tragedy provided," Scott Weidenfeller, an attorney with Grewal Law PLLC, who represents the parent's group.
The suit does not seek monetary damages but is asking for a federal order to require Oxford Community Schools to enforce and update its safety procedures and protocols. The group's attorneys said their request to turn the case into a class-action lawsuit is based upon "the constitutionally protected right of children to receive a public education, which includes the right to a safe learning environment."
Ethan Crumbley, 16, is accused of killing four classmates and injuring a teacher and six other students at Oxford High School in the Nov. 30 shooting. Crumbley pleaded guilty on Oct. 24 to terrorism causing death, four counts of first-degree murder, seven counts of attempted murder, and 12 counts of felony firearm. Ethan killed Oxford students Madisyn Baldwin, Tate Myre, Hana St. Juliana, and Justin Shilling.
Ethan's parents, James and Jennifer Crumbley, are charged with four counts each of involuntary manslaughter. Prosecutors accused them of "gross negligence" leading up to the murders. They face up to 15 years in prison.
On Monday, two former Oxford Community Schools board members alleged the district failed to follow its own threat assessment policies to prevent school violence before the Nov. 30 mass shooting at the high school.
"With new accusations this week by former school authorities that virtually no effective safety efforts had been implemented by the district, we are even more confident that our lawsuit seeking court-ordered violence prevention plans is vital to the future protection of every student in the district," Weidenfeller said.
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SCHAFFHAUSEN, Switzerland, July 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- In recognition of its global culture designed to empower teams to advance important technological trends, TE Connectivity, a world leader in connectors and sensors, has earned a top-ten ranking among the 2023 Fast Company Best Workplaces for Innovators.
Developed in collaboration with Accenture, the Best Workplaces for Innovators celebrates company cultures that demonstrate an inspiring commitment to encourage and develop innovation at all levels. TE placed eighth on the list, which ranks 100 winners from around the world working in a wide variety of industries.
"The innovation that we do alongside our customers is helping to impact our world in important ways," said TE Connectivity CEO Terrence Curtin. "Our products are enabling electrification and renewable energy to reduce the consumption of fossil fuels. We're also supporting faster, more stable connections to advance autonomous technology and artificial intelligence. To achieve these goals, it is vital that we create a work environment that supports our 8,000 engineers to ensure we continue to create a safer, sustainable, productive and connected future."
One of the keys to TE's innovative success is the ability of its global engineering teams to collaborate with each other and with customers to respond to changing market demands. In this work environment, TE's innovators regularly show their ability to predict upcoming industry needs. For example, while some experts questioned the potential of electrifying commercial transportation, TE invested in the development of PowerTube, one of the first connection systems tailored to industry requirements and able to reliably and efficiently deliver high-voltage power from the battery to the rest of the vehicle. The newly launched product is already being integrated into the designs of major manufacturers and is expected to help advance the electrification of commercial vehicles.
To learn more about the innovation culture at TE and to explore open job opportunities, visit te.com/innovators. Visit Fast Company to see the full list of recipients.
ABOUT TE CONNECTIVITY
TE Connectivity is a global industrial technology leader creating a safer, sustainable, productive and connected future. Our broad range of connectivity and sensor solutions, proven in the harshest environments, enable advancements in transportation, industrial applications, medical technology, energy, data communications and the home. With more than 85,000 employees, including over 8,000 engineers, working alongside customers in approximately 140 countries, TE ensures that EVERY CONNECTION COUNTS. Learn more at www.te.com and on LinkedIn, Facebook, WeChat and Twitter.
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AVON, Conn. (WTNH) — A Connecticut man’s home security camera caught his fearless dog frightening and chasing a black bear in his backyard Thursday morning.
Crimson, a 7-year-old rescue from Alabama, was not happy about the visitor. The video shows the Goldendoodle chasing the bear, then standing by the edge of the Avon property to make sure the bear didn’t come back.
Avon is among the Connecticut towns with the highest number of bear sightings, with around 260 reported in 2023, according to a map maintained by the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP).
According to DEEP, many residences are located in or near bear habitats.
“The bear population is healthy and increasing in Connecticut and sightings have become more common,” the department said.
A sighting in Avon also made national headlines last month. On May 24, employees at the Taste by Spellbound bakery were loading cupcakes into a van to make deliveries when they were surprised by a bear, which ended up helping itself to 60 cupcakes.
Maureen Williams, an employee at the Avon bakery, said another baker eventually scared the animal away.
“We made lots of noise to try and get him to go away,” Williams told Nexstar’s WTHN. “One of our bakers got in their car and drove around the back and found him sitting there eating all of our stuff. [They] honked on the horn quite a bit to get him to go away, and finally he went away.”
DEEP recommends doing what it appears Crimson and the bakers did — make lots of noise to scare the bear and “reinforce its natural fear of people.” Instead of barking like Crimson, though, residents are advised to use such tactics as banging pots and pans, shouting or blowing a whistle or air horn. (Other tactics and advice can be found at the official DEEP website.)
Residents should also report a black bear sighting by using an online form.
In 2022, bears were reported in 158 of the state’s 169 towns and cities, according to DEEP. | 2023-06-09T18:49:43+00:00 | wnct.com | https://www.wnct.com/news/caught-on-camera-goldendoodle-chases-black-bear-off-connecticut-property/ |
Las Vegas Sands Reports Third Quarter 2022 Results
Published: Oct. 19, 2022 at 3:05 PM CDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
For the quarter ended September 30, 2022 (Compared to the quarter ended September 30, 2021)
– Travel Restrictions and Reduced Visitation Continue to Impact Financial Results
– The Ongoing Recovery in Singapore Continued with Marina Bay Sands Generating Adjusted Property EBITDA of $343 Million
– Investments in Property Portfolio Position the Company for Future Growth
– Support for Local Communities Remains Central to Our Efforts
LAS VEGAS, Oct. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Las Vegas Sands Corp. (NYSE: LVS), the world's leading developer and operator of convention-based Integrated Resorts, today reported financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2022.
"While travel restrictions continued to impact our financial results this quarter, we were pleased to see further progress in Singapore's recovery, with Marina Bay Sands reaching $343 million in adjusted property EBITDA. We remain enthusiastic about the opportunity to welcome more guests back to our properties as greater volumes of visitors are able to travel to both Singapore and Macao," said Robert G. Goldstein, chairman and chief executive officer.
"We remain confident in the recovery of travel and tourism spending across our markets. Demand from customers who have been able to visit remains robust.
"Our investments in our team members, our communities and our industry-leading Integrated Resort property portfolio position us exceedingly well to deliver future growth as travel restrictions subside and the recovery in travel and tourism progresses. We are fortunate that our financial strength supports our investment and capital expenditure programs in both Macao and Singapore, as well as our pursuit of growth opportunities in new markets."
Net revenue was $1.01 billion, compared to $857 million in the prior year quarter. Operating loss was $177 million, compared to $316 million in the prior year quarter. Net loss from continuing operations in the third quarter of 2022 was $380 million, compared to $594 million in the third quarter of 2021.
Consolidated adjusted property EBITDA was $191 million, compared to $47 million in the prior year quarter.
Sands China Ltd. Consolidated Financial Results On a GAAP basis, total net revenues for SCL decreased to $251 million, compared to $611 million in the third quarter of 2021. Net loss for SCL was $472 million, compared to $423 million in the third quarter of 2021.
Other Factors Affecting Earnings Interest expense, net of amounts capitalized, was $183 million for the third quarter of 2022, compared to $157 million in the prior year quarter. Our weighted average borrowing cost in the third quarter of 2022 was 4.8% compared to 4.4% during the third quarter of 2021, while our weighted average debt balance increased compared to the prior year quarter due to borrowings of $951 million under the SCL Credit Facility in the last year.
Our income tax expense for the third quarter of 2022 was $60 million, compared to income tax benefit of $27 million in the prior year quarter. The income tax expense for the third quarter of 2022 was primarily driven by a 17% statutory rate on the increased profits of our Singapore operations.
Balance Sheet Items Unrestricted cash balances as of September 30, 2022 were $5.84 billion.
The company has access to $2.95 billion available for borrowing under our U.S., SCL and Singapore revolving credit facilities, net of outstanding letters of credit.
As of September 30, 2022, total debt outstanding, excluding finance leases and financed purchases, was $15.27 billion.
Capital Expenditures Capital expenditures during the third quarter totaled $169 million, including construction, development and maintenance activities of $108 million at Marina Bay Sands, $48 million in Macao and $13 million in Corporate and Other.
Conference Call Information The company will host a conference call to discuss the company's results on Wednesday, October 19, 2022 at 1:30 p.m. Pacific Time. Interested parties may listen to the conference call through a webcast available on the company's website at www.sands.com.
About Sands (NYSE: LVS) Sands is the world's preeminent developer and operator of world-class Integrated Resorts.
Our iconic properties drive valuable leisure and business tourism and deliver significant economic benefits, sustained job creation, financial opportunities for local businesses and community investment to help make our host regions ideal places to live, work and visit.
Sands is dedicated to being a leader in corporate responsibility, anchored by our core tenets of serving people, planet and communities. Our ESG leadership has led to inclusion on the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices for World and North America and recognition as one of Fortune's World's Most Admired Companies. To learn more, visit www.sands.com.
Forward-Looking Statements This press release contains forward-looking statements made pursuant to the Safe Harbor Provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements include the discussions of our business strategies and expectations concerning future operations, margins, profitability, liquidity and capital resources. In addition, in certain portions included in this press release, the words "anticipates," "believes," "estimates," "seeks," "expects," "plans," "intends" and similar expressions, as they relate to our company or management, are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Although we believe these forward-looking statements are reasonable, we cannot assure you any forward-looking statements will prove to be correct. Forward-looking statements involve a number of risks, uncertainties or other factors beyond the company's control, which may cause material differences in actual results, performance or other expectations. These factors include, but are not limited to: the uncertainty of the extent, duration and effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the response of governments and other third parties, including government-mandated property closures, vaccine mandates, regular testing requirements, other increased operational regulatory requirements or travel restrictions, on our business, results of operations, cash flows, liquidity and development prospects; risks relating to our gaming license and subconcession, including the extension of our subconcession in Macao that expires on December 31, 2022, the grant of any new concession in Macao and amendments to Macao's gaming laws; general economic conditions; disruptions or reductions in travel and our operations due to natural or man-made disasters, pandemics, epidemics, or outbreaks of infectious or contagious diseases; our ability to invest in future growth opportunities, execute our previously announced capital expenditure programs in Singapore, and produce future returns; new development, construction and ventures; government regulation; the extent to which the laws and regulations of mainland China become applicable to our operations in Macao and Hong Kong; the possibility that economic, political and legal developments in Macao adversely affect our Macao operations, or that there is a change in the manner in which regulatory oversight is conducted in Macao; our subsidiaries' ability to make distribution payments to us; substantial leverage and debt service; benchmark interest rate transitions for some of our debt instruments; fluctuations in currency exchange rates and interest rates; our ability to collect gaming receivables; win rates for our gaming operations; risk of fraud and cheating; competition; tax law changes; political instability, civil unrest, terrorist acts or war; legalization of gaming; insurance; the collectability of our outstanding loans receivable; limitations on the transfers of cash to and from our subsidiaries; limitations of the pataca exchange markets; restrictions on the export of the renminbi; legal proceedings, judgments or settlements that may be instituted in connection with the sale of our Las Vegas real property and operations; our ability to continue to have our securities traded in the U.S. securities market; and other factors detailed in the reports filed by Las Vegas Sands Corp. with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date thereof. Las Vegas Sands Corp. assumes no obligation to update such statements and information.
Las Vegas Sands Corp. Third Quarter 2022 Results Non-GAAP Measures
Within the company's third quarter 2022 press release, the company makes reference to certain non-GAAP financial measures that supplement the company's consolidated financial information prepared in accordance with GAAP including "adjusted net income (loss)," "adjusted earnings (loss) per diluted share," and "consolidated adjusted property EBITDA," which have directly comparable GAAP financial measures along with "adjusted property EBITDA margin," "hold-normalized adjusted property EBITDA," "hold-normalized adjusted property EBITDA margin," "hold-normalized adjusted net income (loss)," and "hold-normalized adjusted earnings (loss) per diluted share." The company believes these measures represent important internal measures of financial performance. Set forth in the financial schedules accompanying this release and presentations included on the company's website are reconciliations of the non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures. The non-GAAP financial measure disclosure by the company has limitations and should not be considered a substitute for, or superior to, the financial measures prepared in accordance with GAAP. The definitions of our non-GAAP financial measures and the specific reasons why the company's management believes the presentation of the non-GAAP financial measures provides useful information to investors regarding the company's financial condition, results of operations and cash flows are presented below.
The following non-GAAP financial measures are used by management, as well as industry analysts, to evaluate the company's operations and operating performance. These non-GAAP financial measures are presented so investors have the same financial data management uses in evaluating financial performance with the belief it will assist the investment community in properly assessing the underlying financial performance of the company on a year-over-year and a quarter sequential basis.
Adjusted net income (loss), which is a non-GAAP financial measure, is net income (loss) attributable to Las Vegas Sands excluding certain nonrecurring corporate expenses, pre-opening expense, development expense, gain or loss on disposal or impairment of assets, loss on modification or early retirement of debt, other income or expense and income (loss) from discontinued operations, net of income tax. Adjusted net income (loss) and adjusted earnings (loss) per diluted share are presented as supplemental disclosures as management believes they are (1) each widely used measures of performance by industry analysts and investors and (2) a principal basis for valuation of Integrated Resort companies, as these non-GAAP measures are considered by many as alternative measures on which to base expectations for future results. These measures also form the basis of certain internal management performance expectations.
Consolidated adjusted property EBITDA, which is a non-GAAP financial measure, is net income (loss) from continuing operations before stock-based compensation expense, corporate expense, pre-opening expense, development expense, depreciation and amortization, amortization of leasehold interests in land, gain or loss on disposal or impairment of assets, interest, other income or expense, gain or loss on modification or early retirement of debt and income taxes. Management utilizes consolidated adjusted property EBITDA to compare the operating profitability of its operations with those of its competitors, as well as a basis for determining certain incentive compensation. Integrated Resort companies have historically reported adjusted property EBITDA as a supplemental performance measure to GAAP financial measures. In order to view the operations of their casinos on a more stand-alone basis, Integrated Resort companies, including Las Vegas Sands, have historically excluded certain expenses that do not relate to the management of specific properties, such as pre-opening expense, development expense and corporate expense, from their adjusted property EBITDA calculations. Consolidated adjusted property EBITDA should not be interpreted as an alternative to income (loss) from operations (as an indicator of operating performance) or to cash flows from operations (as a measure of liquidity), in each case, as determined in accordance with GAAP. The company has significant uses of cash flow, including capital expenditures, dividend payments, interest payments, debt principal payments and income tax payments, which are not reflected in consolidated adjusted property EBITDA. Not all companies calculate adjusted property EBITDA in the same manner. As a result, consolidated adjusted property EBITDA as presented by Las Vegas Sands may not be directly comparable to similarly titled measures presented by other companies.
Hold-normalized adjusted property EBITDA, a supplemental non-GAAP financial measure, that, in addition to the aforementioned reasons for the presentation of consolidated adjusted property EBITDA, is presented to adjust for the impact of certain variances in table games' win percentages, which can vary from period to period. Hold-normalized adjusted property EBITDA is based on applying a Rolling Chip win percentage of 3.30% to the Rolling Chip volume for the quarter if the actual win percentage is outside the expected range of 3.15% to 3.45% for our Macao and Singapore properties. We do not present adjustments for Non-Rolling Chip drop for our table games play or for slots at our Macao and Singapore properties. Hold-normalized adjusted property EBITDA is also adjusted for the estimated gaming taxes, commissions paid, bad debt expense, discounts and other incentives that would have been incurred when applying the win percentages noted above to the respective gaming volumes. The hold-normalized adjusted property EBITDA measure presents a consistent measure for evaluating the operating performance of our properties from period to period.
Hold-normalized adjusted net income (loss) and hold-normalized adjusted earnings (loss) per diluted share are additional supplemental non-GAAP financial measures that, in addition to the aforementioned reasons for the presentation of adjusted net income (loss) and adjusted earnings (loss) per diluted share, are presented to adjust for the impact of certain variances in table games' win percentages, which can vary from period to period.
The company may also present the above items on a constant currency basis. This information is a non-GAAP financial measure that is calculated by translating current quarter local currency amounts to U.S. dollars based on prior period exchange rates. These amounts are compared to the prior period to derive non-GAAP constant-currency growth/decline. Management considers non-GAAP constant-currency growth/decline to be a useful metric to investors and management as it allows a more direct comparison of current performance to historical performance.
The company also makes reference to adjusted property EBITDA margin and hold-normalized adjusted property EBITDA margin, which are calculated using the aforementioned non-GAAP financial measures.
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Mohamed Ibrahim rushed for 178 yards and three touchdowns and Minnesota’s defense continued its dominance on Saturday as the Golden Gophers defeated Northwestern 31-3.
Ibrahim, who carried the ball 36 times, extended his streak of consecutive 100-yard rushing games to 18, the longest in FBS since 2000. He also became the seventh player in Big Ten history with 50 career rushing touchdowns.
The Gophers didn’t ask freshman quarterback Athan Kaliakmanis, making his first home start in place of the injured Tanner Morgan, to do much. He was 7-for-13 passing for 64 yards and rushed four times for 28 yards.
Kaliakmanis relieved Morgan at halftime of Minnesota’s game at Nebraska on Nov. 5, rallying the Gophers from a 10-0 deficit to a 20-13 win.
The Gophers (7-3, 4-3 Big Ten) entered the game with the No. 4-scoring defense in the country, allowing just 14.2 points per game. That average dipped further after they kept the Wildcats (1-9, 1-6) out of the end zone for the first time all season.
On the second play of the second half, Gophers defensive back Tyler Nubin intercepted a pass from backup quarterback Ryan Hilinski. Minnesota turned that into a 41-yard field goal by Matthew Trickett and a 17-3 lead.
Ibrahim’s 1-yard plunge on the first play of the fourth quarter made it 24-3. It was Ibrahim’s 18th rushing touchdown of the season, tying the school record set by Gary Russell in 2005.
The Wildcats crossed the 50-yard line just twice in the first half. Midway through the first, they advanced to the Gophers 16 before Jordan Howden and Terrell Smith teamed to stuff Evan Hull on fourth and 1.
Later, the Gophers appeared poised to head into the locker room with a 14-0 halftime lead, as a punt pinned Northwestern at its own 7-yard line with 2:08 to play. But two passes later, the Wildcats were in field goal position.
First, starter Brendan Sullivan hit Malik Washington for 27 yards. Sullivan was injured on the play, but Hilinski followed with a 49-yard hookup with Washington to give Northwestern the ball at the Minnesota 17.
The Gophers defense then forced three straight incompletions, leading to Adam Stage’s 35-yard field goal to get Northwestern on the board.
Northwestern turned it over on downs again midway through the third quarter, as Hilinski threw a swing pass just out of Hull’s reach on fourth and 1 at Minnesota’s 41.
THE TAKEAWAY
Northwestern: One week after giving No. 2 Ohio State all it could handle in a 21-7 loss; the Wildcats couldn’t generate enough offense to make it a game.
Minnesota: The Gophers’ path to the Big Ten West title got a boost with Illinois’ loss to Purdue. If Minnesota wins its last two games – vs. Iowa and at Wisconsin – one more loss by the Illini would put the Gophers in the Big Ten Championship Game.
UP NEXT
Northwestern: Visits Purdue on Nov. 19.
Minnesota: Hosts Iowa on Nov. 19 in its final home game of the season.
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The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot releases its full report Thursday, after releasing a summary on Monday and 34 transcripts Wednesday night.
Here & Now‘s Scott Tong speaks with former U.S. attorney and University of Michigan law professor Barbara McQuade about what’s of interest to her so far in what’s been released.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2022-12-22T18:57:22+00:00 | wyomingpublicmedia.org | https://www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/2022-12-22/assessing-the-jan-6-final-report-so-far |
Former NFL coach Britt Reid gets 3 years in prison after drunken driving crash that injured child
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV/Gray News) - Former Kansas City Chiefs assistant coach Britt Reid was sentenced Tuesday afternoon to three years in prison for an alcohol-related crash last year.
KCTV reports it was a long afternoon in court for the little girl, Ariel Young, who suffered traumatic brain injuries from the February 2021 crash.
Young fell asleep in the courtroom. But in the end, Reid was sentenced to three years in prison.
The sentencing was scheduled for 1:30 p.m. Tuesday but was delayed for hours while the judge reviewed the case.
The court also heard a victim impact statement from Ariel’s mother, Felicia Miller, read by the prosecutor. In it, she explained how Ariel’s life was forever changed by that night. She now wears glasses, may need leg braces, and is in special education classes because she takes longer to process information.
“On the cold night of Feb. 4, 2021 – one of us was on the side of the road, broken down, trying to get to a minimum-wage job while Britt Reid was at work, preparing to go to the Super Bowl,” wrote Miller. “This is not a game. This is not a Chief’s game. This is our life.”
In announcing his decision, the judge cited that Reid has caused “much harm to Ariel and her family.”
The former assistant coach pleaded guilty on Sept. 12 to driving while intoxicated and causing serious injury. Ariel suffered critical brain injuries in the incident, and a four-year-old suffered non-life-threatening injuries.
Tom Porto, the attorney for Ariel’s family, released the following statement:
“The victims of this crime are outraged that the defendant was not sentenced to the maximum sentence allowable by law. No amount of prison time will ever be enough to punish the defendant for the pain and suffering he caused this family and the ongoing difficulties Ariel will continue to endure for the rest of her life. She will endure. She will strive, and she will thrive. She is Ariel strong.”
Authorities said a Chevrolet Impala ran out of gas near Interstate 435 and Stadium Drive the night of the crash. The driver called a relative, who pulled up to the scene to help. That’s when a Ram pickup driven by Reid struck both vehicles while traveling at more than 80 mph, injuring the two young children.
Following the crash, an officer reported that Reid smelled of alcohol and his eyes were bloodshot. When asked if he had been drinking, the officer said Reid told him he had two to three drinks and that he was on Adderall.
According to court records, the officer conducted several sobriety tests, and Reid showed signs of impairment.
Reid’s defense attorneys, in their sentencing memorandum, described the former Chiefs coach as a husband, father of three, and continues to have a close relationship with his parents. It continued by saying Reid has a “commitment to family, willingness to help others, and sincere remorse for his conduct and the resulting tragedy that affected the lives of many, but particularly [Ariel Young].”
Reid’s defense team petitioned for a probation sentence to keep him out of jail.
Prosecutors argued that while Reid may not have driven that February night with the intent of injuring someone, he chose to ignore the potential consequences of his actions.
Copyright 2022 KCTV via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2022-11-04T01:38:23+00:00 | wcjb.com | https://www.wcjb.com/2022/11/02/former-nfl-coach-britt-reid-gets-3-years-prison-after-drunken-driving-crash-injuries-child/ |
Summer has come to Springfield and students are already forgetting about homework, rushing to get outside, attend camps, go on vacation and play with friends. Parents are counting down the days to September.
And summer learning loss may have already begun. For many kids, the dangers of falling behind are very real. Studies show the average student loses 17-34% of their school-year knowledge during the summer months.
Fun and free time take precedence, of course, but helping kids maintain and grow during the summer months also must be a priority. Doing so will ensure their hard work does not fade.
Inevitably, lots of kids will be spending time online and in front of devices this summer. There’s no getting around it. But technology does not have to be the enemy and, in fact, provides an opportunity to stop summer learning loss.
Many online resources help keep kids engaged, such as The Achievery, a free digital education platform that pairs movies and cartoons with learning activities. Summer is also a good opportunity to help kids develop healthy digital habits. By steering some of their time online towards quality content and encouraging creativity, kids can preserve and hone their skills in safe, fun and interactive ways.
Unfortunately, summer learning loss is amplified by the digital divide, as many students return school-issued devices and lose access to the classroom. Data shows nearly 150,000 students in Massachusetts remain unconnected, almost 9,000 of which are in Springfield.
At the Springfield Boys & Girls Club, we recognize these critical technology obstacles and provide programming and resources to keep kids connected. But closing the digital divide is a community effort.
Private industry has a great interest in supporting summer learning programs and digital divide initiatives in the region. These kids represent their future workforce; this is the talent pipeline that fuels and grows Springfield. Strengthening them strengthens our economy.
Last year, corporate partner AT&T provided 200 Chromebooks to kids at the Springfield Boys & Girls Club, including many to teens in the Job Ready program. The computers helped the teens search for jobs, write resumes and raise their school grades. With summer now here, these devices will fill the technology gap and allow students to continue learning, creating and innovating outside the classroom.
When it comes to helping close the digital divide, private support goes hand in hand with public and government initiatives.
The federal government’s Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) provides a monthly benefit for internet service. Since its inception, the program has helped bring vital connected technology to Massachusetts families. Residents can check their eligibility at getinternet.gov or by calling 877-384-2575.
To amplify this vital program, the White House announced its ACP Week of Action on June 14, with over 300 ISPs, local and federal agencies and community organizations committed to raising awareness about the program.
Families in Springfield have also greatly benefited from U.S. Rep. Richard Neal’s continued advocacy for the ACP. However, the ACP’s funding is running out and could be gone as soon as next winter. While it’s hard to think of cold weather in June, failing to reup the ACP will freeze connectivity for countless Americans. We strongly urge Congress to reauthorize and fully fund the ACP.
With so much to look forward to over the summer, it can be hard to remember that learning does not stop just because classes have. Summer learning loss is a slippery slope, made worse by challenges like the digital divide. But with the right mix of technology, responsibility and community, Springfield kids will already be rising come September.
Vincent Borello is the executive director of the Boys and Girls Club of Springfield. | 2023-06-30T13:40:45+00:00 | masslive.com | https://www.masslive.com/opinion/2023/06/vincent-borello-tips-on-preventing-summer-learning-loss-by-young-scholars-commentary.html |
Lilt Provides Dual Method Instant and Verified Translation in Craft, Zendesk, and Figma Connectors
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lilt, the leading global experience platform, today announced the launch of the Craft Content Management System (CMS) Connector. This adds to Lilt's dual method Connector portfolio, which also includes Zendesk and Figma Connectors. Dual method Connectors support both Instant and Verified Translation, allowing Lilt to immediately return a localized version of customer content while simultaneously sending that same content to Lilt's in-house translators for localization with a quality guarantee.
Dual method Connectors provide a differentiated customer solution by offering both Instant and Verified Translation optionality, increasing the versatility of Lilt's offerings. Instant Translation provides bespoke, custom-trained machine translation for localization projects when translations are needed immediately, while Verified Translation ensures quality through Lilt's human-in-the-loop approach. Offering these two modes of translation through a Connector allows Lilt customers to send a wider variety of content for localization within their existing business systems and workflows, empowering customers to access translations more quickly and ultimately go to market in less time.
Nearly 90% of documents translated by Lilt this year have been received through Connectors. Rather than being emailed to Lilt, content is pulled for translation directly from the customer's CMS, TMS, or other business system of choice via Lilt Connectors. Connectors highlight the importance of streamlined, efficient access to high-quality translation on demand, enabling quicker turnaround times, higher cost savings, and reduced opportunity for manual errors.
With dual method Connectors, the Lilt platform can generate a machine-translated localized version of customer content within seconds, known as Instant Translation. Instant Translation is beneficial not only for increased speed of translation but also for rapid design, prototyping, and content iteration. With 100+ supported languages, Instant Translation is the perfect way to securely and instantaneously localize content while ensuring your organization's unique stylistic preferences, terminology, and tone are incorporated into the machine translation's training and output. This method is powered by a continuously learning, customer-specific Lilt Engine, which allows each customer to scale application of their linguistic data across their business systems.
"The Lilt Connector for Figma has significantly improved the design process for my team," said Jamie Denke, Senior Product Designer for Neato Robotics. "Using Instant Translation, Lilt imports the translations directly into my design project in seconds. That means no longer waiting weeks for translations and then having to manually cut and paste translated text once it arrives."
The demand for high-quality translation services and best-in-class global experiences go hand in hand. With the Verified Translation method of the Craft CMS Connector, Lilt human linguists translate content, empowered by the Lilt platform's adaptive Neural Machine Translation (NMT) technology. Verified Translation delivers localized content three to five times faster than other providers without compromising on industry-leading quality standards, as validated by Lilt's ISO certifications.
"The flexibility of these two translation methods, available directly within the CMS, allow for both velocity and scale of website content localization," said Brittney Benchoff, Director of Product. "This empowers organizations to create a memorable global experience for their prospective customers regardless of what language they speak."
Lilt's Craft CMS Connector and other dual method Connectors are available today for all customers. For more information about Lilt and its solutions, please reach out to contact@lilt.com.
Headquartered in San Francisco, Lilt is the leading global experience platform, enabling organizations to build and deliver multilingual experiences at scale across every step of the global customer journey through its translation technology and services. The Lilt Platform uses AI and automation to make the localization process faster, better, and simpler, bringing human-powered, technology-assisted translations to global enterprises. Lilt gives industry-leading organizations like Intel, ASICS, Emerson, UiPath, and Canva everything they need to scale their global experience programs and go-to-market faster. Lilt has additional global offices across North America, Europe, and Asia. Visit us online at www.lilt.com or contact us at contact@lilt.com.
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With Roe vs. Wade unlikely to stand, New York officials aim to protect the rights of both providers and patients — including patients who come to New York for services their home states have banned.
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With Roe vs. Wade unlikely to stand, New York officials aim to protect the rights of both providers and patients — including patients who come to New York for services their home states have banned.
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Rep. Glenn Thompson of Pennsylvania attended his gay son's wedding despite voting against a bill days earlier that would have codified same-sex marriages into federal law.
In a statement to NBC News, a spokesperson for Thompson said, “Congressman and Mrs. Thompson were thrilled to attend and celebrate their son’s marriage on Friday night as he began this new chapter in his life."
The statement also said they were happy to welcome their new son-in-law into the family.
Thompson was one of 157 House Republicans to vote against the same-sex marriage bill.
In a statement to the Centre Daily Times, a Thompson spokesperson called the Respect for Marriage Act an "election-year messaging stunt for Democrats in Congress."
Democrats introduced the bill following the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. In a concurring opinion, Justice Clarence Thomas said the court should reconsider other "substantive due process precedents," including the Obergefell decision, which made same-sex marriage legal nationwide. | 2022-07-26T17:34:14+00:00 | ksby.com | https://www.ksby.com/news/national/gop-lawmaker-attends-gay-sons-wedding-days-after-voting-against-same-sex-marriages |
DALLAS, Sept. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Nanoscope Therapeutics Inc., a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing gene therapies for retinal degenerative diseases, today announced that management will present at Chardan's 6th Annual Genetic Medicines Conference on Monday, October 3, 2022, in New York.
Chief Executive Officer, Sulagna Bhattacharya, and Chief Medical Officer, Aaron Osborne will present a company update on Nanoscope clinical and corporate activities on Monday, October 3, at 5:00 PM Eastern Time in the Embassy room. Nanoscope leadership will be available for in-person meetings at the event on both Monday, October 3, and Tuesday, October 4.
Nanoscope Therapeutics is developing gene-agnostic, sight restoring optogenetic therapies for the millions of patients blinded by retinal degenerative diseases, for which no cure exists. The company's lead asset, MCO-010, is presently in Phase 2b multicenter, randomized, double-masked, sham-controlled clinical trials in the U.S. for retinitis pigmentosa (NCT04945772) with top line data expected H1 2023. The company has also fully enrolled a Phase 2 trial of MCO-010 therapy in Stargardt patients (NCT05417126). MCO-010 has received FDA orphan drug designations for RP and Stargardt. Preclinical assets include non-viral laser delivered MCO-020 gene therapy for geographic atrophy.
Investor Contact:
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212-600-1902
Nanoscope@argotpartners.com
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DALLAS, Sept. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ENTACT, LLC ("ENTACT"), a leading provider of environmental remediation and geotechnical services and a portfolio company of investment affiliates of J.F. Lehman & Company ("JFLCO"), announced today that it has completed the acquisition of USA Environment, LP and its affiliates ("USA Environment"). The acquisition enhances ENTACT's capabilities and service solutions, while significantly expanding its customer base and presence throughout North America.
USA Environment is a specialized environmental remediation and industrial services provider with best-in-class safety performance and a long track-record of successfully executing a broad array of services, often in high-hazard environments with complex logistics. The Company's suite of specialized capabilities also includes unique solutions for radiological and naturally occurring radioactive materials ("RAD/NORM"), and the Company enables its blue-chip customer base to satisfy their critical environmental remediation needs across a variety of end markets including public infrastructure, specialty chemical, manufacturing, energy, mining, and brownfield redevelopment. Headquartered in Deer Park, TX with strategically-located facilities throughout the United States, USA Environment employs over 200 highly-skilled environmental remediation professionals.
Dean Pisani, Chief Executive Officer of ENTACT, commented, "We are delighted to welcome USA Environment into the ENTACT family. We have known the USA team for many years and have tremendous respect for their high-level performance across the environmental industry. USA Environment enhances our robust suite of services, adds an exceptional team of people, and will further enable us to deliver best-in-class environmental remediation services to our customers."
"With limited overlap in customers and complementary service offerings, the combination of ENTACT and USA Environment will allow us to realize strategic benefits and increase opportunities for growth," added Bob Weber, Chairman and President of USA Environment. "Most importantly, ENTACT delivers high-quality, safe work for its customers, characteristics that align well with our core values at USA Environment."
"The acquisition of USA Environment is a critical milestone in our strategy to create the nation's leading provider of specialized environmental remediation services for a highly discerning customer base," said Glenn Shor, Chairman of ENTACT and Partner at JFLCO. "ENTACT is experiencing robust demand for its services. This acquisition represents a highly strategic addition of talented and like-minded remediation professionals that will enable ENTACT to continue to grow and satisfy its customers," added Will Hanenberg, Director of ENTACT and Managing Director at JFLCO.
Jones Day provided legal counsel to ENTACT and JFLCO. D.A. Davidson served as exclusive financial advisor and Haynes Boone, LLP provided legal counsel to USA Environment.
Founded in 1992, J.F. Lehman & Company focuses exclusively on investing in the aerospace, defense, maritime, government and environmental industries. The firm has offices in New York and Washington, D.C.
www.jflpartners.com
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Dress codes have caused no end of controversy for restaurants; they’ve been variously slammed for being outdated, elitist, confusing and discriminatory.
Later, she suggested that she might have been singled out for the enforcement of the code. Someone replied to her first tweet by noting the restaurant’s website outlines its policy. It reads, “Polite Notice — For the comfort of all guests and to better deliver on our promise of a refined atmosphere, proper dress is required. Thank you for not wearing: gym attire, sweatpants, tank tops, hats, clothing with offensive language or images, exposed undergarments.”
Bottoms, though, indicated that another woman apparently dressed similarly to her might have been permitted to dine there. “Odd that a restaurant in a mall parking lot turns away customers in ‘mall’ attire,” she responded. “Asked if I could sit in the bar area and was told, ‘No.’”
She added: “Rules are the rules, just wonder if the woman who came in immediately after me, who I did not see come back out, was also denied service.”
Odd that a restaurant in a mall parking lot turns away customers in “mall” attire. Asked if I could sit in the bar area and was told, “No.”. Rules are the rules, just wonder if the woman who came in immediately after me, who I did not see come back out, was also denied service. https://t.co/4GRq97cwGP
— Keisha Lance Bottoms (@KeishaBottoms) April 15, 2022
People responded to her post with photos and messages describing diners they claimed to have spotted at the Capital Grille wearing leggings, jogger-style pants, jeans, T-shirts, tank tops and hats.
Attempts to reach Bottoms were unsuccessful. The people answering the phone at the Perimeter Mall restaurant referred The Washington Post to a representative for the corporate office who did not return a phone call, and emails and phone calls to media contacts for parent company Darden Restaurants were not returned.
Dress codes have landed other restaurants in trouble. In Baltimore, the owners of the Ouzo Bay restaurant apologized to a Black woman and her son after the woman posted a video showing a White manager informing her that her son’s outfit violated the ban on athletic wear — while a White boy dressed similarly was dining with his parents nearby. Another restaurant operated by the same owners had previously been accused of targeting diners of color by banning items such as pants worn below the waist, hats worn backward or sideways, and construction boots.
Critics say that dress codes can be problematic by being too specific, such as banning clothing items that are associated with particular cultures. But vaguely worded rules can also create problems, particularly leading to accusations that the codes are enforced unevenly. Reuben May, then a sociology professor at Texas A&M University who has studied discrimination in nightlife and public accommodations, told The Post in 2019 that giving restaurant staffers wide discretion can lead to unequal treatment. “It says, ‘We can pick and choose who comes in,’” May said. | 2022-04-18T20:50:32+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2022/04/18/keisha-lance-bottoms-capital-grille/ |
NEW HYDE PARK, N.Y., Jan. 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- On January 3, 2023, the Board of Directors of Innovative Rocket Technologies Inc. (iRocket) has appointed Kelyn Brannon as a director.
Kelyn is a finance executive with experience leading three successful IPOs as CFO on both the NYSE and NASDAQ. Her 35 years of experience spans across corporate finance, investor relations, audit, and finance consulting experience for the "Big 4" in the US and the UK. Kelyn began her career at Ernst and Young in the US and UK focusing on Audit and corporate finance. She was the first chief accounting officer, Vice President of Finance, and International CFO at Amazon.com. Kelyn is a member of The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
Before joining iRocket, Kelyn was the Chief Financial Officer of Astra Space, Inc. Before that, she served as Chief Financial Officer of Asure Software, Inc. between 2017 and 2020. Kelyn served as Chief Financial Officer of Arista Networks, Inc. between 2013 and 2015, and Chief Financial Officer of Calix, Inc. between 2008 and 2011. Kelyn served as CEO of Creative planet between 2000 and 2003 which was acquired by Brookfield Communications.
Throughout her career, Kelyn served as a CEO and CFO of a variety of national and international companies. Adept at directing Finance, Tax, Accounting, Investor Relations Legal, Human Resources, IT, and Facilities divisions.
Kelyn has excellent interpersonal, and communications skills leveraged to manage change, collaborate with peers, and interact with investors. A results-oriented professional with a high degree of integrity capable of analyzing problems and driving sound solutions in a timely, professional, and regulatory-compliant manner.
"Kelyn is a strategic thinker with a track record of developing financial growth and capital raise strategies, driving company expansion, reducing infrastructure spending, and minimizing tax liability, and brings value to iRocket's board from previously serving in the space sector" said iRocket Chairman and CEO Asad Malik.
Founded in 2018, Innovative Rocket Technologies Inc. (iRocket), is proud to be the first fully autonomous, Reusable Small Launch vehicle manufacturer, utilizing 3D printing and additive manufacturing. With an innovative design, our focus is on reliability and rapid low-cost access to space. We are ready to pave the way for innovations in the space industry by addressing the various inefficiencies that currently exist. With our proprietary reusable engine technology, iRocket is well-equipped to be the small launch service provider of choice. We hope you'll join our journey in revolutionizing rocketry into the 21st century.
For more about iRocket, visit us at www.irocketusa.com and follow us on LinkedIn @iRocket Twitter at @iRocketUSA.
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No. 6 Oregon finds rhythm after stumble, reels off 8 in row
By PAT GRAHAM
AP Sports Writer
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — The sixth-ranked Oregon Ducks were all but written off two months ago. It was understandable given their 49-3 loss to now No. 1 Georgia in the season opener. They’re back and playing just like everyone thought they would. Behind quarterback Bo Nix, the Ducks have reeled off eight straight wins and averaged more than 40 points in the process. It doesn’t get any easier from here. Oregon hosts No. 24 Washington this weekend, before games with No. 13 Utah and rival Oregon State. Take care of all that and a fourth straight appearance in the Pac-12 title game will be in store. | 2022-11-09T00:35:51+00:00 | localnews8.com | https://localnews8.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/11/08/no-6-oregon-finds-rhythm-after-stumble-reels-off-8-in-row/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s administration has stopped U.S. military bases from hosting drag shows after criticism from some Republicans, amid a broader push in conservative-led states targeting LGBTQ+ celebrations.
Hosting drag shows is “inconsistent with regulations regarding the use of (Defense Department) resources,” said Pentagon spokeswoman Sabrina Singh in a statement Thursday.
At least one show was canceled as a result. Organizers of an event at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada canceled a drag show timed to Pride Month, which began Thursday, according to a Facebook post quoted by Fox News.
In her statement, Singh did not directly address LGBTQ+ rights but said the Defense Department was “proud to serve alongside any and every young American who takes the oath that puts their life on the line in defense of our country.”
Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., who sharply criticized top Pentagon leaders earlier this year and questioned them about drag shows, tweeted that the cancellation was a “HUGE VICTORY!”
“Drag shows should not be taking place on military installations with taxpayer dollars PERIOD!” he added.
Drag shows feature entertainers who dress and act as a different gender. They are often part of Pride events and can include colorfully clad drag queens reading books to children. Supporters say they celebrate people of different sexual orientations and promote acceptance.
Opponents accuse organizers of drag shows of trying to “sexualize” children. Drag shows sometimes draw protesters and a bevy of Republican-led legislatures have passed bills in recent months trying to ban or restrict them.
Nellis Air Force Base has previously hosted drag performers. About 180 people attended a similar show in 2021, according to Task and Purpose, a publication covering the military.
The Pentagon’s move to cancel the show this week led the Human Rights Campaign, which advocates for LGBTQ+ civil rights, to directly criticize Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.
“Before today, Secretary Austin has been unwavering in his support for LGBTQ+ Americans who proudly serve in uniform,” the group said in a statement. “However, instead of truly standing up for our community on the first day of Pride, he chose to side with the politics of fear and discrimination peddled by extreme members of Congress.” | 2023-06-02T18:46:10+00:00 | wnct.com | https://www.wnct.com/news/politics/drag-shows-on-us-military-bases-canceled-by-pentagon-after-republican-criticism/ |
NORTHBOROUGH, Mass., July 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Aspen Aerogels, Inc. (NYSE: ASPN) ("Aspen" or the "Company"), a technology leader in sustainability and electrification solutions, today announced that the Company is scheduled to participate in the following investor events in August: (i) the 12th Annual Needham Virtual Industrial Tech, Robotics & Clean Tech 1x1 Conference, and (ii) the 26th Annual Oppenheimer Technology, Internet & Communications Conference. The presentation materials utilized during the conferences will be available on the Investor Relations section of Aspen's website at www.aerogel.com.
12th Annual Needham Virtual Industrial Tech, Robotics & Clean Tech 1x1 Conference / August 7, 2023 (Virtual Event)
Donald R. Young, President & CEO, and Ricardo C. Rodriguez, CFO & Treasurer, will be hosting one-on-one meetings with investors at the 12th Annual Needham Virtual Industrial Tech, Robotics & Clean Tech 1x1 Conference, to be held online on Monday, August 7, 2023.
For those interested in arranging a one-on-one meeting with Aspen management, please contact your Needham representative.
26th Annual Oppenheimer Technology, Internet & Communications Conference / August 9, 2023 (Virtual Event)
Donald R. Young, President & CEO, and Ricardo C. Rodriguez, CFO & Treasurer, will be hosting one-on-one meetings with investors at the 26th Annual Oppenheimer Technology, Internet & Communications Conference, to be held online on Wednesday, August 9, 2023.
In addition, the conference will feature a Fireside Chat with Messrs. Young and Rodriguez, moderated by Colin Rusch, Managing Director, Oppenheimer's Senior Research Analyst, Sustainable Growth & Resource Optimization. The Fireside Chat is scheduled for 11:35 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Eastern Time on Wednesday, August 9, 2023. A live webcast of the Fireside Chat will be available at: https://wsw.com/webcast/oppenheimer30/aspn/2781614. A replay will be available for 90 days.
For those interested in arranging a one-on-one meeting with Aspen management or attending the Fireside Chat, please contact your Oppenheimer representative.
About Aspen Aerogels, Inc.
Aspen is a technology leader in sustainability and electrification solutions. The Company's aerogel technology enables its customers and partners to achieve their own objectives around the global megatrends of resource efficiency, e-mobility and clean energy. Aspen's PyroThin® products enable solutions to thermal runaway challenges within the electric vehicle ("EV") market. Aspen Battery Materials, the Company's carbon aerogel initiative, seeks to increase the performance of lithium-ion battery cells to enable EV manufacturers to extend the driving range and reduce the cost of EVs. Aspen's Spaceloft® products provide building owners with industry-leading energy efficiency and fire safety. The Company's Cryogel® and Pyrogel® products are valued by the world's largest energy infrastructure companies. Aspen's strategy is to partner with world-class industry leaders to leverage its Aerogel Technology Platform® into additional high-value markets. Headquartered in Northborough, Mass., Aspen manufactures its products at its East Providence, R.I. facilities. For more information, please visit www.aerogel.com.
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DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — A veteran Russian diplomat to the U.N. Office at Geneva says he handed in his resignation before sending out a scathing letter to foreign colleagues inveighing against the “aggressive war unleashed” by Russian President Vladimir Putin in Ukraine.
Boris Bondarev, 41, confirmed his resignation in a letter delivered Monday morning after a diplomatic official passed on his English-language statement to The Associated Press.
“For twenty years of my diplomatic career I have seen different turns of our foreign policy, but never have I been so ashamed of my country as on Feb. 24 of this year,” he wrote, alluding to the date of Russia’s invasion.
The resignation amounts to a rare — if not unprecedented — public admission of disgruntlement about Russia’s war in Ukraine among the Russian diplomatic corps. It comes at a time when Putin’s government has sought to crack down on dissent over the invasion and quell narratives that conflict with the Russian government’s line about how the “special military operation” — as it’s officially known in Russia — is proceeding.
“The aggressive war unleashed by Putin against Ukraine, and in fact against the entire Western world, is not only a crime against the Ukrainian people, but also, perhaps, the most serious crime against the people of Russia, with a bold letter Z crossing out all hopes and prospects for a prosperous and free society in our country,” Bondarev wrote, referring to the widespread use of the letter “Z” as a symbol of support for Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Reached by phone, Bondarev — a diplomatic counselor who has focused on Russia’s role in the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva after postings in places like Cambodia and Mongolia — confirmed he handed in his resignation in a letter addressed to Ambassador Gennady Gatilov.
A spokesman for the mission didn’t immediately respond to AP requests seeking comment.
“It is intolerable what my government is doing now,” Bondarev told the AP. “As a civil servant, I have to carry a share of responsibility for that. And I don’t want to do that.”
Bondarev said he had not received any reaction yet from Russian officials, but added: “Am I concerned about the possible reaction from Moscow? I have to be concerned about it.”
He told the AP that he had no plans to leave Geneva. Previously, he said he had expressed disapproval of the war to Russian colleagues.
“Some said, ‘Everybody disagrees, but we have to keep working’ while others replied ‘Shut up and stop spreading this bad influence– especially among younger diplomats,'” he recalled.
Asked if some colleagues felt the same, Bondarev said: “Not all Russian diplomats are warmongering. They are reasonable, but they have to keep their mouths shut.”
He suggested his case could become an example.
“If my case is prosecuted, then if other people want to follow, they would not,” Bondarev said.
Asked if he planned to defect, he chuckled and said, “I didn’t think so far” ahead.
In his English-language statement, which he said he emailed to about 40 diplomats and others, Bondarev said those who conceived the war “want only one thing — to remain in power forever, live in pompous tasteless palaces, sail on yachts comparable in tonnage and cost to the entire Russian Navy, enjoying unlimited power and complete impunity.”
He railed against the growing “lies and unprofessionalism” at Russia’s Foreign Ministry and took particular aim at Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
“In 18 years, he (Lavrov) went from a professional and educated intellectual … to a person who constantly broadcasts conflicting statements and threatens the world with nuclear weapons!” he wrote. “Today, the (Russian) Ministry of Foreign Affairs is not about diplomacy. It is all about warmongering, lies and hatred.”
Hiller Neuer, executive director of the advocacy group U.N. Watch, tweeted a copy of Bondarev’s letter and said simply: “Boris Bondarev is a hero.”
“Bondarev should be invited to speak in Davos this week,” he added, referring to the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland. “The U.S., the U.K. and the (European Union) should lead the free world in creating a program to encourage more Russian diplomats to follow and defect, by providing protection, financial security and resettlement for diplomats and their families.”
In his email, Bondarev wrote that he should have resigned earlier, but didn’t because of “some unfinished family business” and because he needed to “gather my resolve.”
“It’s been already three months since my government launched a bloody assault on Ukraine and it’s been very hard to keep my mind more or less sane when all about were losing theirs,” he wrote.
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Follow the AP’s coverage of the war at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine | 2022-05-23T17:20:56+00:00 | cenlanow.com | https://www.cenlanow.com/international/ap-international/russian-diplomat-to-un-in-geneva-resigns-over-war-in-ukraine/ |
Researchers with the U.S. Geological Survey are collecting data on hyperpigmentation, also known as Blotchy Bass Syndrome, in freshwater bass species associated with a virus.
The virus has never been identified in humans or common domestic pets. As long as the fish are in good condition, they're safe to handle and eat if cooked properly.
Angler reports of both non-blotchy and blotchy fish are needed for the study.
South Dakota Game, Fish & Parks asks anglers to please report catches of any bass via the 2023 Blotchy Bass Bonanza in the Angler’s Atlas MyCatch app. The app and registration for the event is free.
Whenever anglers go out, they can open the app and click the “start trip” button. Then, using the app, take photos of every bass caught, blotchy or not. Game, Fish & Parks would prefer the fish be laying on a measuring board or next to a measuring device, but that is not a requirement. All photos are appreciated.
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All the photos and location information are uploaded to the anglers in the app once the “end trip” button is pushed. The app then shares the angler's name, watershed information and photos with the app development team. Specific locations are not shared.
Each recorded trip is an entry for a $100 gift card drawing. Anglers can go back into the app to save photos to their phone’s photo library.
For more information about the blotchy bass research visit: www.usgs.gov/centers/eesc/science/investigating-blotchy-bass-syndrome-black-basses?fbclid=IwAR0UXrQP8UcjANBX2ZrQ0zqMhvAjNRVZGOJN_70srZp5FLNFz4BkbNTLFuY | 2023-05-16T22:37:22+00:00 | rapidcityjournal.com | https://rapidcityjournal.com/gf-p-asking-anglers-to-report-blotchy-bass-for-research-study/article_b2af6fc2-f2cf-11ed-869f-03e72f0a83db.html |
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Both Nigel and Zach had suffered the pain of loss and loneliness. They both also had unique life experiences that they knew the world would benefit from hearing. Yet, for years, they both struggled to communicate that pain and experience to others without making them cringe or or their eyes glaze over. Even when we would try our very best to express our messages powerfully into other people’s minds and hearts, it always seemed like our meaning would get lost along the way. They learned the ancient craft of storytelling and it’s modern superpower to transform socially isolating pain into connective communal power.
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Monday, November 28th 2022, 2:43 pm
The Oklahoma Highway Patrol responded to a plane crash at an airport in Ellis County on Monday morning.
The crash happened at Gage Airport just after 8 a.m. Troopers said they received a call regarding the crash just after 8:30 a.m.
According to the Ellis County Sheriff's Office and OHP, two people have died as a result of the plane crash.
The victims have been identified as James 'Wade' Bruce of Shattuck, Oklahoma, and David Dodd Jr. of Austin, Texas.
Troopers said the crash involved a Cessna 170 plane.
Authorities said the Federal Aviation Administration will investigate what led to the deadly crash.
This is a developing story.
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For all the metrics, equations, and calculations the Chaim Bloom-led Red Sox employ to build a better baseball mouse trap, the Sox can’t solve a simple division problem — how to win games in it. In the never-ending search for efficiency, the folks in baseball ops at Fenway somehow constructed a team that can’t conquer its American League East counterparts.
Oops.
With Wednesday night’s fundamentally unsound 4-1 loss to the Tampa Bay Rays, the Red Sox dropped to 11-23 in the division. They’re 0-9-1 in series against divisional brethren, including the overrated and over-celebrated split with the New York Yankees at Fenway last weekend. If they don’t take two of three from the Yankees in the Bronx starting Friday, the Sox will go into the All-Star break without a single win in a divisional series. Unthinkable and unacceptable, regardless of their playoff position, and unsustainable if they want to play October baseball because 41 of their final 72 games, starting with the Yankees, are versus AL East foes.
Something doesn’t add up with these Sox, and it equals division futility. The Sox look like a team in transition, stuck between their current expectations and payroll obligations, and a desire to usher in a different approach. They lack organizational depth, a clear team identity, and the conviction necessary for real contention. In Bridge Year 2.0 they’re trying to construct a shaky suspension bridge between now and a more efficient future.
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The direction of and vision for the team is amorphous and nebulous. Who or what are they trying to be? They’re loaded with All-Star-caliber sluggers such as Rafael Devers, Xander Bogaerts, J.D. Martinez, and Trevor Story. Yet they seem content to trot out the likes of Franchy Cordero, Bobby Dalbec, and Christian Arroyo to fill out the lineup.
They built their bargain basement bullpen, which entered Thursday tied for second in the majors in blown saves (18), without a clear-cut closer and sufficient righthanded options. The rotation is populated with injury-prone pitchers, reclamation projects, and prospects.
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My view? The Sox are creating the patina of contention while they wait to clear payroll (so long Bogaerts, Martinez, Nate Eovaldi, et al) this offseason and wait for their prized prospects to be major league-ready.
The current team is a Fenway front while behind the scenes Bloom works feverishly to build a sustainable future and the Next Great Red Sox Team.
The Sox are content to be “in the mix,” a description owner John Henry (you know what else he owns) offered when asked to gauge the title contention ability of his team by the Globe’s Alex Speier.
These guys taking the field now are placeholders, the Potemkin village of playoff teams. It shows in divisional play. There’s nothing more telling about the conflicted state of the Sox than how they stack up with their AL East competition.
In the NFL, the first rule of team-building is Know Thy Neighbor. Football teams are fastened together specifically to combat division competition, to expose rivals’ weaknesses, or negate strengths. Winning starts with measuring up to divisional foes.
There are simply too many areas where the Sox have invested too little to keep up with their rivals.
The Sox are a team without a calling card, clear team strength, or playing identity, which helps explain their futility in the toughest division in baseball where even the traditionally inept Baltimore Orioles are playoff contenders.
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Despite a lineup that entered Thursday ranked second in the American League in runs, tops in the majors in hits, and tied for second in MLB in games with five or more runs (45), they’re not hard-core mashers. They lack the deep lineups of the Yankees or Blue Jays, who just fired their manager for not harnessing the division’s most talented team on paper.
The Sox lineup features soft spots and black holes. Entering Thursday, they ranked dead last in right field OPS (.568) and second from the bottom in first base OPS (.608). The only outfield position the Sox boasted league-average OPS output in is left; they sat at .724, exactly the MLB average.
The Fenway Nine aren’t beating you with pitching, small ball, organizational depth, and fundamentals like the Rays. That’s obvious.
It feels like the plan for the Sox this year is to try to out-Ray the Rays, to fill any holes with Bloom enacting the best practices of his former employer, the gold standard for fungible, interchangeable players. Thursday at Tropicana Field marked the eighth time in 12 games the Sox started a rookie pitcher.
Beating the Rays at their game is a fool’s errand. Before you trot out the injury excuse for the Sox, take a look at Tampa Bay’s injured list. No team has used more pitchers this season than the redoubtable Rays. No one gets more bang for their buck in baseball than Tampa Bay.
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That’s ultimately the characteristic of the Rays the Red Sox most hope to emulate — cost efficiency.
The stat that matters most to the Sox isn’t wins. It’s wins per dollar spent. In 2019, Dave Dombrowski’s final year atop baseball ops, the Sox had the highest dollars spent per win mark in the majors ($2.73 million), the MLB average was $1.71 million.
As they are wont to do sometimes, the Sox have over-course-corrected. While they will exceed the luxury tax this season, it doesn’t always feel like Bloom and Co. are dedicated to using the full force of the Red Sox’ considerable resources. The ethos feels closer to Tampa Bay than what Bloom’s former boss, Andrew Friedman, has built in Los Angeles with the Dodgers.
The expanded playoff field provides a safety net for the Sox, and the return of Chris Sale, Eovaldi, and other starters on the horizon could be the boost Boston needs to slip into the playoffs.
But that’s not going to happen without improved performance in the division. You don’t need the Pythagorean theorem to know that.
It’s the biggest design flaw in a roster that’s underinvested in some spots by design.
Christopher L. Gasper is a Globe columnist. He can be reached at christopher.gasper@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter @cgasper. | 2022-07-14T18:56:35+00:00 | bostonglobe.com | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/07/14/sports/why-havent-red-sox-been-able-figure-out-their-division-problem/ |
Breakfast: It really is the most important meal of the day.
When Kayzen Hunter, age 8, visits his local Waffle House in Little Rock, Arkansas, he’s greeted with high-fives from his favorite waiter, Devonte Gardner. Kayzen and his family often ask to sit in Gardner’s section so they can chat while Kayzen enjoys his cheesy hash browns.
As they got to know Gardner, though, they learned he’d hit a rough patch. Black mold and a rat infestation in his previous apartment forced Gardner, his wife and two young daughters to leave their home and most of their belongings.
The family moved into a motel and were barely scraping by on Gardner’s Waffle House tips.
“Even when you can work double shifts, it’s hard to get ahead,” Gardner told The Washington Post. “I’m thankful to have a job that I enjoy, but it’s hard to save enough to improve my family’s situation.”
Kayzen was moved by Gardner’s story — coincidentally, his own family left a rental in 2019 because of mold problems.
“Our water heater leaked, and mold grew in the wall and blew out everywhere through the air conditioner return,” Kayzen’s dad, Korey Hunter, told the Post. “Everything in the house was ruined.”
Black mold flourishes in damp spots that never dry. Spores from the mold travel easily through the air and are hard to eliminate. Prolonged exposure to mold can lead to people developing symptoms of respiratory illnesses, infections and rashes.
Gardner mentioned that he’d been walking to work every day because he needed a car. Kayzen sprang into action, needling his mom, Vittoria, to set up a GoFundMe for Gardner.
The GoFundMe went live on Feb. 18, asking for $5,000 to set Gardner up with new wheels. Word spread around town, the goal was met — and then the money just kept coming.
At last check, the total haul was at more than $100,000. A joyous March 5 GoFundMe update from Vittoria Hunter shared that Gardner and his family have already found an apartment and would be paying the full year’s rent so they don’t have to worry about a monthly expense. Next up: A new car and some money in the savings account.
“I’m really touched deeply by it all,” Gardner told the Post. “And as far as my little buddy goes, he’s my best friend for life.”
Kayzen described his experience succinctly to Little Rock TV station THV11: “It just feels good to help someone else.”
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – From the death penalty to gender identity to abortion, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has cemented himself as a conservative standard bearer as he prepares to launch a presidential campaign sometime after the legislative session ends this week.
With the help of GOP supermajorities in the statehouse, the Republican has been able to push through an aggressive agenda during the legislative session that's expected to form the base of his White House run.
Here's a look at some of the policies:
ABORTION
DeSantis has signed a bill banning abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, but it won't take effect unless the state’s current 15-week ban is upheld in an ongoing legal challenge that is before the state Supreme Court, which is controlled by conservatives.
A six-week ban in Florida would strike a devastating blow to abortion access in the South, since the nearby states of Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi have banned the procedure at all stages of pregnancy. Georgia forbids it after cardiac activity can be detected, which is around six weeks.
Critics, including some Republicans, have slammed the six week law as extreme, given that most women do not even realize they are pregnant in that timeframe.
“DON'T SAY GAY”
The DeSantis administration has expanded the controversial law critics call “Don't Say Gay" to cover all grades, banning classroom instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in schools.
The move came after DeSantis signed a bill last year that prohibited such lessons through the third grade, a policy he has championed as a means to protect children from sexualization.
But this year the DeSantis administration quietly put forward a proposal before the state Board of Education to expand the policy to grades 4-12, unless required by existing state standards or as part of reproductive health instruction that students can choose not to take. The board, which is appointed by DeSantis, approved the proposal and its set to go into effect in the coming weeks.
DeSantis' education officials have said the policy is intended to make clear that teachers should adhere to state education curriculum.
PRONOUNS
DeSantis is expected to soon sign a bill that prevents school staffers or students from being required to refer to people by pronouns that don’t correspond to the person’s sex.
The bill, which passed this week, also bars school employees from asking students what pronoun they use and bans staffers from sharing their pronouns with students if the pronoun does not correspond with the staffer's sex.
Additionally, the proposal would make it the policy of every public school that "a person’s sex is an immutable biological trait and that it is false to ascribe to a person a pronoun that does not correspond to such person’s sex."
DEATH PENALTY
DeSantis has signed two major death penalty bills this year.
The first ends a unanimous jury requirement in death penalty sentencing, allowing capital punishment with jury recommendation of at least 8-4 in favor of execution. Only three states out of the 27 that impose the death penalty do not require unanimity. Alabama allows a 10-2 decision, and Missouri and Indiana let a judge decide when there is a divided jury.
The change came in response to a verdict that spared the life of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooter, who killed 17 people in 2018.
The other death penalty bill DeSantis signed allows the death penalty in child rape convictions, despite a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that banned capital punishment in such cases.
The law intended to get the conservative-controlled U.S. Supreme Court to reconsider a 2008 ruling that found it unconstitutional to use capital punishment in child sexual battery cases.
Florida is among a handful of states with existing laws that allow for capital punishment on child rape convictions but has not used the punishment given the high court ruling. The Florida Supreme Court has also ruled against the use of capital punishment in sexual battery convictions.
DeSantis said he believed the Supreme Court’s decision was “wrong."
GUNS
Floridians will be able to carry concealed guns without a permit under a bill DeSantis signed this session.
The new law will allow anyone who can legally own a gun in Florida to carry one without a permit. It means training and a background check will not be required to carry concealed guns in public. It takes effect July 1.
Nearly 3 million Floridians have a concealed weapons permit. While a background check and three-day waiting period will still be required to purchase a gun from a licensed dealer, they are not required for private transactions or exchanges of weapons.
DeSantis has said he thinks Florida should go even further and allow people to openly carry guns. While some lawmakers have pushed for open carry, it doesn’t appear the Legislature will pass such legislation this session.
Still, the governor has boosted the law, releasing a statement that read “Constitutional Carry is in the books” after he signed it into law.
DIVERSTIY
Another bill that awaits the governor's signature is one that bans colleges from using state or federal funding for diversity, equity and inclusion programs, a consistent target of DeSantis.
Such initiatives, sometimes referred to as DEI, have come under increasing criticism from Republicans who argue the programs are racially divisive.
The proposal comes a year after he signed legislation dubbed the Stop WOKE Act, which restricts certain race-based conversations and analysis in schools and businesses. The law bars instruction that says members of one race are inherently racist or should feel guilt for past actions committed by others of the same race, among other things.
DISNEY
DeSantis also continued his long-running feud with Disney this year.
The company came into his crosshairs for criticizing the so-called “Don't Say Gay” law last year.
As punishment, DeSantis dissolved Disney World’s self-governing district and appointed a new board of supervisors that would oversee municipal services in the sprawling theme parks. But before the new board came in, the company pushed though an 11th-hour agreement that stripped the new supervisors of much of their authority.
Disney sued DeSantis in federal court in a case that said the governor waged a “targeted campaign of government retaliation” after the company opposed the sexual orientation and gender identity law.
Now, DeSantis is poised to sign bills to enhance state oversight of the resort’s monorail as well as undo agreements made by the Disney board before the state took it over. | 2023-05-04T19:24:27+00:00 | local10.com | https://www.local10.com/news/politics/2023/05/04/desantis-stacks-conservative-agenda-presidential-run-looms/ |
OnSolve white paper provides customizable message templates to aid in emergency and routine communications
ALPHARETTA, Ga., Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- OnSolve, a leading critical event management provider that helps organizations mitigate physical threats and remain agile when a crisis strikes, today announced a new white paper, Your Alert Arsenal for Customizing and Distributing Alerts During Critical Events.
Critical events of all kinds are increasing in both frequency and severity. This year is expected to see an above average hurricane season. Nearly four million acres of land have burned due to wildfires during the first half of 2022, the second highest number in the past 23 years.
Non-weather events have also been on the rise. There have already been more than 300 active assailant events that qualify as mass shootings.
The OnSolve Platform for Critical Event Management helps organizations identify and respond to all types of critical events, so organizations can protect their people, places and property. But a successful response also requires proactive planning. Part of that planning involves carefully crafted alerts. Once a critical event is occurring, it can be difficult to write a clear, concise message, making preparation a key to successful outcomes.
This new white paper from OnSolve provides a comprehensive list of message templates organizations can use to respond to a broad range of routine and emergency situations. With automatic, customizable message templates, organizations can prepare in advance, making it easier to deliver detailed, informative alerts for all situations.
In this white paper, organizations will have access to:
- Best practices guidelines for how to create and send alerts
- Guidance on how to use the templates
- Easy-to-use message templates for over 50 different scenarios, including
OnSolve is committed to helping organizations mitigate risk and respond to critical events more effectively. With messages created in advance, organizations can eliminate confusion during stressful emergency situations and ensure recipients only receive the information relevant to them.
This guide makes it easy to customize targeted, effective messages for all types of events, across multiple modalities. Now organizations can build an arsenal of alerts to deliver the right information to the right people at the right time.
For more information, read the white paper.
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OnSolve is a leading critical event management provider that proactively mitigates physical threats, allowing organizations to remain agile when a crisis strikes. Using the most trusted expertise and reliable AI-powered risk intelligence, critical communications and incident management technology, the OnSolve Platform enables enterprises, SMB organizations and all levels of government to detect, anticipate and mitigate physical threats that impact their people, places and property.
With billions of alerts sent annually and proven support for both the public and private sectors, OnSolve is used by thousands of entities to save lives, protect communities, safeguard critical infrastructure and enable agility for the organizations that power our economy. For more information, please visit www.onsolve.com.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Golden State forward Draymond Green has been suspended for one game without pay for stepping on the chest of Sacramento’s Domantas Sabonis and will miss Game 3 of the Warriors’ first-round playoff series Thursday night.
The NBA made the announcement late Tuesday, two days before the series shifts to the defending champions’ home court at Chase Center. The NBA made the announcement of a decision by executive vice president and head of basketball operations Joe Dumars.
“The suspension was based in part on Green’s history of unsportsmanlike acts,” the release said.
Golden State trailed the best-of-seven series 2-0, the first time during the Stephen Curry era the Warriors have been down by two games in their last 28 playoff series.
In the fourth quarter of the Kings’ 114-106 Game 2 win Monday night, Green stomped on the chest of Sabonis after Curry grabbed a defensive rebound.
With the Warriors pushing the ball up court and Sabonis on the ground, Green took a hard step on Sabonis, who stayed down for several minutes as officials reviewed the play.
Sabonis was called for a technical foul for grabbing Green’s leg and Green was given a flagrant-2 foul that led to an automatic ejection.
“My leg got grabbed,” said Green, referring to a play in Game 1 with Malik Monk. “Second time in two nights. Referees just watch it. I have to land my foot somewhere. I’m not the most flexible person, so it’s not stretching that far.”
The Kings said Sabonis underwent tests that determined he had a bruised sternum and is questionable for Game 3.
Credited as the Warriors’ emotional leader, Green has long walked a fine line of pushing the limits with officials — and has even expressed he now feels they’re out to get him.
The 33-year-old Green has been called for six flagrant fouls and 27 technical fouls in 147 career playoff games. He was ejected from a playoff game against Memphis last season.
In 2016, Green was suspended for a crucial Game 5 loss to LeBron James and the Cavaliers in the NBA Finals after accumulating too many flagrant fouls in the playoffs that season. The Warriors wound up losing in seven.
Coach Steve Kerr and general manager Bob Myers have long supported Green’s fiery nature that leads to technical fouls. Myers even sat with Green next door to Oracle Arena at the Oakland Coliseum when Green was suspended for that 2016 game.
In November 2018, Green was suspended by the Warriors for conduct detrimental to the team. Green had secured a rebound in an overtime loss to the Clippers and with Kevin Durant calling for the ball Green instead dribbled the length of the court into traffic and lost control as the Warriors failed to get a shot off. Durant was shown on camera visibly upset. The two got into it afterward, according to reporters on the scene.
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AP NBA: https://apnews.com/NBA and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2023-04-19T19:37:58+00:00 | localsyr.com | https://www.localsyr.com/sports-news/warriors-green-suspended-for-stepping-on-kings-sabonis/ |
Which Britax booster seats are best?
Kids grow fast, and during those early years, it seems like you’re constantly having to buy new accessories and equipment. One of those pieces of equipment that can creep up on you is a booster seat, which you’ll need to purchase when your child outgrows their car seat.
Safety is a priority, and you’ll want a product you can trust. Britax is a brand known for making quality products, and they have a line of booster seats that can fit your needs. The best booster seat for you will be determined by the age, height and weight of your child. However, an all-around top pick is the Britax Grow with You ClickTight Plus Harness-2 Booster.
What to know before you buy a Britax booster seat
When to switch to a booster seat
Every child is different, but you want to keep your child in a traditional, forward-facing car seat with a harness until they surpass the height and weight limit. That’s when they should graduate to a booster seat.
Laws vary per state, but some require a child to be seated in a booster seat until 8 years old. Also, keep in mind that most car seat belts won’t properly fit passengers any shorter than 4 foot 9 inches, so a booster seat is necessary until your child meets the height requirements.
Placement
You always want to put your booster seat in the back. In some states, it’s illegal for a child to sit in a booster seat in the front. If the center rear seat has a three-point seat belt, that is the safest place in the car for a booster seat. However, if it only has a lap belt, it’s best to opt for either the left or right rear seat.
What to look for in a Britax booster seat
Types of booster seat
- High back booster seat: This is similar to a forward-facing child seat, and sometimes, they are one in the same. Some have a three-point harness, others a five-point harness and some can be used with the seat belt.
- Backless booster seat: This is exactly what it sounds like: a booster seat that doesn’t offer back support. It’s the next step up when your child outgrows a high-back booster. These are ideal for older kids, and they are less expensive.
Machine washable cover
Kids make a mess, and that includes when they’re in the car. Luckily, you can at least keep the booster seat clean because most Britax models come with a detachable cover that is machine washable.
How much you can expect to spend on a Britax booster seat
A Britax booster seat is on a mid- to high-level price point for booster seats. Depending on the features, benefits and size of the booster seat, it can cost you between $75-$350.
Britax booster seat FAQ
Can my booster seat be passed down to my other children?
A. Yes! But safety standards change, and booster seats have an expiration date of about 6 years. You should always check the sticker on the side of the booster seat to verify the exact date it expires. If you are under the 6-year mark, the seat has never been in an accident and it is in good shape, it is safe to pass down to your other children.
Should I purchase a used booster seat?
A. Maybe. A used booster seat should only be purchased if you are very familiar with the previous owners and absolutely positive the seat was not involved in any accidents. If you cannot verify that information, we do not recommend you purchase a used booster seat. It’s not worth the risk.
What are the best Britax booster seats to buy?
Top Britax booster seat
Britax Grow with You ClickTight Plus Harness-2 Booster
What you need to know: This top-of-the-line booster seat is loaded with safety features, including a five-point harness and additional cushions that help protect your child’s neck, head and torso.
What you’ll love: This booster easily transitions from toddler to big kid with the ability to sit in both front-facing harness mode and belt-positioning mode. The ClickTight attachment systems can give you confidence that your child is buckled in correctly. It has just three simple steps: open, thread and buckle and close.
What you should consider: Some users have noted that the straps can be difficult to tighten.
Where to buy: Buy Buy Baby
Top Britax booster seat for the money
Britax Skyline 2-Stage Belt-Positioning Booster Seat
What you need to know: This budget-friendly model offers comfort and safety for children 40-120 pounds.
What you’ll love: This dual-use booster seat can convert from high-back to backless, depending on your child’s size. This easy-to-remove fabric cover is machine washable for easy laundering, while the cupholders are dishwasher safe.
What you should consider: Customers have noted that the headrest is not as durable and stable as other models.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Buy Buy Baby
Worth checking out
Britax Highpoint 2-Stage Belt-Positioning Booster Seat
What you need to know: This mid-range booster seat is loaded with top-notch comfort features for children of all sizes.
What you’ll love: You’ll love that your child is completely safe with the three layers of side impact protection from the foam-lined headrest, impact-absorbing shell and external cushioning. This model easily converts from a high-back position to a backless booster, depending on your little one’s age and size.
What you should consider: This booster seat is not compatible with cars with a protruding headrest. Verify the booster seat correctly fits in any car that the seat will be used before purchasing.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Buy Buy Baby
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BROOMFIELD, Colo., March 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Ball Aerospace successfully powered and launched a prototype payload on January 3, 2023, on Loft Orbital's (Loft) YAM-5 mission aboard a SpaceX rocket. The payload is functioning as planned and is equipped with Ball Aerospace-built Linux-based software, which features containerized applications that can be changed on-orbit, as well as real-time data processing functions.
"This rideshare payload is an informative rapid development opportunity allowing us to pioneer best practices and processes that will enable the reduction of non-recurring engineering on future missions," said Mike Gazarik, Vice President of Engineering, Ball Aerospace. "Loft's simple turnkey solution has enabled Ball Aerospace to respond to our customers' desire for faster technology refresh and more affordable solutions."
The edge processing demonstration payload was built in just eight months, showcasing small, flexible, affordable and resilient low-Earth orbit (LEO) solutions. The software payload is comprised of containerized software, including a prototype version of Microsoft's Azure Orbital Space SDK platform, to increase reuse and decrease costs and scheduling times. Algorithms hosted on-board are able to remove clouds from the imagery that are obstructing data or prioritize downlink of data based on image content. The payload was integrated onto Loft's modular payload interface and is currently using Loft's mission-agnostic satellite operations platform, Cockpit.
"The rideshare project with Ball Aerospace using the Azure Orbital Space SDK shows customers how to optimize their space data in-orbit and create faster pathways to insights providing a strong foundation for future pursuits," said Steve Kitay, senior director, Microsoft Azure Space. "This first phase of our on-orbit compute partnership is a step forward in bringing our mutual customers a standardized platform for application development in space."
Ball Aerospace has a deep heritage of designing and building high-performance space vehicles, instruments and mission applications for defense and civil customers. With this demonstration payload, the modular technology combines proven expertise with advanced tools and processes, allowing for accelerated development timelines and future mission operations.
Powered by endlessly curious people with an unwavering mission focus, Ball Aerospace pioneers discoveries that enable our customers to perform beyond expectation and protect what matters most. We create innovative space solutions, enable more accurate weather forecasts, drive insightful observations of our planet, deliver actionable data and intelligence, and ensure those who defend our freedom go forward bravely and return home safely. Go Beyond with Ball. ® For more information, visit www.ball.com/aerospace or connect with us on Facebook or Twitter.
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Ball Corporation (NYSE: BALL) supplies innovative, sustainable aluminum packaging solutions for beverage, personal care and household products customers, as well as aerospace and other technologies and services primarily for the U.S. government. Ball Corporation and its subsidiaries employ 21,000 people worldwide and reported 2022 net sales of $15.35 billion. For more information, visit www.ball.com, or connect with us on Facebook or Twitter.
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The big winter storm across much of the U.S. is especially challenging in West Coast cities not accustomed to snow and such low temperatures. It's particularly hard for people without housing.
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The big winter storm across much of the U.S. is especially challenging in West Coast cities not accustomed to snow and such low temperatures. It's particularly hard for people without housing.
Copyright 2023 NPR | 2023-02-25T01:54:43+00:00 | nepm.org | https://www.nepm.org/national-world-news/national-world-news/2023-02-24/the-storm-is-extra-challenging-for-people-without-housing-in-cities-unused-to-snow |
BUFFALO, N.Y. — While national prices for gasoline are dropping over the last week, prices in Western New York have remained steady.
According to AAA Western and Central New York, a gallon of gas costs $3.70 on average in Buffalo. That marks a one cent increase over the previous week. In Batavia, the average price dropped by a penny to $3.74.
Here is how much the average cost per gallon of gas is across New York state:
- Batavia - $3.74 (down 1 cent from last week)
- Buffalo - $3.70 (up 1 cent from last week)
- Elmira - $3.53 (up 5 cents from last week)
- Ithaca - $3.73 (no change from last week)
- Rochester - $3.70 (up 1 cent from last week)
- Rome - $3.75 (up 2 cents from last week)
- Syracuse - $3.59 (up 1 cent from last week)
- Watertown - $3.71 (down 1 cent from last week)
The national average dropped three cents over the past seven days, but still sits well above the WNY average. The average of $3.89 is due in part to high prices on the west coast. In total, six states enter the new week with an average price above $5.00 per gallon. California has the highest prices in the country with an average price of $6.06.
The changes come as prices for crude oil continue to fall due to global recession concerns. According to AAA, the price range for a barrel of crude oil is now $86 to $92. An economic recession would likely lower the demand for crude, and subsequently drive prices even lower. | 2022-10-17T13:51:43+00:00 | wgrz.com | https://www.wgrz.com/article/traffic/gas-prices/wny-gas-prices-below-national-average/71-ab4ebfd0-eeac-4a2c-a92e-dc5813abc035 |
An unidentified suspect fired a gun into a crowd of hundreds in a Kentucky park, leaving two people dead and four wounded Saturday night, police said.
Police were called around 9 p.m. to Chickasaw Park in Louisville, authorities said.
"Hundreds of people were in the park at the time of the shooting, when someone started shooting into the crowd, hitting at least six people," Louisville Metro Police Department Deputy Chief Paul Humphrey said.
There were no suspects in custody immediately after the shooting and police asked anyone with information to contact investigators.
"As of right now we have no witnesses," Humphrey said.
"This has been an unspeakable week of tragedy for our city," Mayor Craig Greenberg said at the scene Saturday night, referring to a shooting on Monday in which a gunman killed five Louisville bank employees while livestreaming the attack on Instagram.
"On Monday, we lost five of our fellow citizens to a horrific act of workplace gun violence," Greenberg said. "And now, five days later, we're at another scene of a reckless act of gun violence."
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2023-04-16T08:51:36+00:00 | nepm.org | https://www.nepm.org/national-world-news/2023-04-16/2-people-have-died-after-a-shooter-in-louisville-opened-fire-in-a-crowded-park |
IDAHO — The Idaho Attorney General’s office and Idaho State Tax Commission are warning Idahoans about a new scam targeting Idaho homeowners.
If you received a flyer asking you to call an 800-number for free help, it’s a scam and Idaho officials are warning you not to fall for it and to protect your personal information.
“It does look relatively official so it does seem like it's coming from a legitimate government agency and in this case, it is not so we really encourage you to not call the number," Idaho State Tax Commission Program Specialist Pam Waters said.
The fake flyer circulating around states you could reduce your property taxes by $15,000 if you call the number, but it’s fake, according to the Idaho State Tax Commission and Attorney General’s office.
“The flyer is an attempt to get personal information from Idahoans. It contains inaccurate details about the state’s property tax reduction program,” said Attorney General Lawrence Wasden.
“It has a phone number for them to call to get a property tax rebate and telling them a filing deadline for a program we do have but doesn’t meet that kind of criteria," Waters said. "We have a regular property tax reduction program more commonly known as a circuit breaker for those who have been on it for a long time. It's an income-based program for people over the age of 65 or disabled so there is an income component to that and we do get proprietary information from that program which is why this is so alarming.”
If you do get a flyer like this, call your county assessor’s office to confirm or shred it. | 2022-07-01T00:16:10+00:00 | kivitv.com | https://www.kivitv.com/news/property-tax-scam-targeting-idaho-homeowners |
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