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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the Louisiana Lottery's "Pick 3" game were:
5-7-5
(five, seven, five)
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the Louisiana Lottery's "Pick 3" game were:
5-7-5
(five, seven, five) | 2022-06-28T05:07:37+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-3-game-17270133.php |
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WFO AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, September 1, 2022
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FLOOD WARNING
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Flood Warning
National Weather Service Austin/San Antonio TX
1038 AM CDT Wed Aug 31 2022
...Forecast flooding changed from Minor to Major severity for the
following rivers in Texas...
Pecos River Near Langtry affecting Val Verde County.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Even 6 inches of fast-moving flood water can knock you off your feet
and a depth of 2 feet will float your car. Never try to walk, swim,
or drive through such swift water. If you come upon flood waters,
stop, turn around and go another way.
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Additional information is available at www.weather.gov.
The next statement will be issued late tonight at 100 AM CDT.
...FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT
TONIGHT...
* WHAT...Moderate flooding is occurring and major flooding is
forecast.
* WHERE...Pecos River Near Langtry.
* WHEN...Until just after midnight tonight.
* IMPACTS...At 20.0 feet, (6.1 meters), Major flooding covers the
bottom of the canyon in most places and is very turbulent and
dangerous to canoeists and kayakers below Pandale to Amistad
Reservoir.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 10:15 AM CDT Wednesday the stage was 18.0 feet.
- Recent Activity...The maximum river stage in the 24 hours
ending at 10:15 AM CDT Wednesday was 18.0 feet.
- Forecast...The river is expected to rise to a crest of 20.2
feet this afternoon. It will then fall below flood stage late
this afternoon.
- Flood stage is 10.0 feet.
- Flood History...This crest compares to a previous crest of
19.2 feet on 07/26/2004.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
Fld Observed Forecasts (1 pm CDT)
Location Stg Stg Day/Time Thu Fri Sat
Pecos River
Langtry 10.0 18.0 Wed 10 am CD 3.1 2.4 2.1
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Summer products you didn’t know you needed
Admittedly, TikTok recommendations can be as trustworthy as an As Seen On TV commercial, but we found a few that just might be worth the hype. And if you know how to use hashtags, you can find some incredible products you may never have discovered otherwise. Searches like #TikTokmademebuyit and #summerproducts2023 will surface all sorts of goods to make your summer even better.
Why more and more people are turning to TikTok this summer
TikTok is a way to reach a lot of people very quickly. It’s also very good at targeting niche demographics. Whether you’re looking for a better bubble gun or a portable misting fan for the beach this summer, TikTok can help.
You can find interesting items on TikTok that you never knew existed. Many of these products may simply spark curiosity and are little more than a novelty. However, a rare few can genuinely make your summer better.
Best TikTok products of 2023
EJ1 Slushy Cup
Icy beverages are a refreshing treat. Especially in the summer. This TikTok favorite is a flexible cup that you can chill and then add your favorite beverage and squeeze to create a frozen treat in seconds. It comes with a two-in-one reusable straw/spoon so you can thoroughly enjoy your slushie.
Sold by Amazon
Bubble Machine Gun
This bubble gun has 69 holes, so you can quickly create a wall of fun. It’s easy to use and suitable for kids ages 3 and up. For an additional thrill, the lighted feature lets you blast a torrent of colored bubbles after dark.
Sold by Amazon
Reusable Water Balloons
Let’s face it, water balloons are sometimes more trouble than they’re worth. They’re hard to fill and tie, and they leave behind a mess. But these reusable models split in half and can be filled in an instant. Once used, simply refill them for endless fun and no waste.
Sold by Amazon
Giantex Beach Chaise Lounge
Next time you go to the beach, make it a luxury experience with this chaise lounge. It’s lightweight and folds up for portability. When open, you get a removable pillow so you can comfortably lay on your back or stomach. The reclining feature lets you position the top at your preferred angle.
Sold by Amazon
Quik Shade Max Shade Chair
The problem with reading or using your phone outside is sun glare. Even the best anti-glare screens aren’t perfect. This comfortable chair features a canopy that keeps the sun from diminishing your fun as it shields you from some of those harmful ultraviolet rays that damage skin.
Sold by Amazon
Solar Buddies Refillable Roll On
This clever product can be filled with your favorite sunscreen so you can apply it as a roll-on. It’s kid-friendly, has a replaceable head and keeps the sunscreen out of your eyes. The compact size also makes it easy to carry with you wherever you go.
Sold by Amazon
O2Cool Handheld Water Misting Fan
This summer, you can count on the temperatures going up. To stay comfortable, this portable, battery-powered fan not only provides a cool breeze, but you can also squirt yourself down with a quick cooling mist. If that doesn’t cool you down enough, you can always add ice cubes to the mix.
Sold by Amazon
BuzzPatch Mosquito Patch Stickers
Genius. Sometimes that’s the best word for a product like this. These fun stickers can go on clothing or skin to keep away pests. They’re effective for 6 hours and have a 6-month shelf life.
Sold by Amazon
Other products worth checking out
- Use this popular hair curling set to style your hair so you can take those dazzling beach selfies.
- If you want to tidy up for swimwear season, this complete waxing kit is what you need.
- One of the downsides to summer is dry, cracked heels. This TikTok favorite heel repair can soften and hydrate your heels back to health.
- If you have a summer heat headache, TikTok users claim this cold-therapy mask can provide the needed relief.
- Effortlessly mix up those refreshing summer beverages with this handheld blender.
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Sign up here to receive the BestReviews weekly newsletter for useful advice on new products and noteworthy deals.
Allen Foster writes for BestReviews. BestReviews has helped millions of consumers simplify their purchasing decisions, saving them time and money.
Copyright 2023 BestReviews, a Nexstar company. All rights reserved. | 2023-06-13T10:09:55+00:00 | kdvr.com | https://kdvr.com/reviews/br/toys-games-br/outdoor-toys-br/viral-tiktok-summer-products-that-are-actually-worth-the-hype/ |
GEORGETOWN, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky sheriff’s deputy was shot and killed during a traffic stop by someone who fled before being taken into custody, officials said.
Scott County Sheriff’s Deputy Caleb Conley was shot Monday evening during a traffic stop on Interstate 75 near Georgetown just before 5 p.m., and the shooter fled, Sheriff Tony Hampton said at a news conference.
Someone called in to report that a deputy had been shot, and responders arrived relatively quickly, Hampton said. The suspect was in custody, but Hampton said he didn’t know anything about the suspect. He did not know why the vehicle was pulled over.
Conley was taken to a hospital, where he later died, Kentucky State Police said in a news release. A state police team is investigating the shooting at the request of the sheriff’s office, officials said.
“This hero made the ultimate sacrifice, and we will be forever grateful,” Gov. Andy Beshear said in a statement.
Conley, who had been with the sheriff’s office for four years and served in the U.S. Army for eight years before that, took his job seriously, Hampton said. Survivors include his wife and small children.
“He was just a go-getter and he loved his job, and it’s a shame that it got cut short because he loved this job so much and he was so good at it,” Hampton said. | 2023-05-23T14:34:56+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/kentucky-sheriffs-deputy-fatally-shot-during-traffic-stop/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world |
‘Rave baby’: Woman goes into labor at Electric Daisy Carnival
Maybe it was all that bass that was rumbling her belly.
After all, it’s Saturday night/Sunday morning at the Electric Daisy Carnival’s KineticField, where the sound booming from the massive stage is so all-encompassing, so powerful, your body feels like a recently struck tuning fork standing before it, such are the vibrations sent pulsing through your limbs.
EDM superstar Zedd’s up, his set starting shortly before 2 a.m.
He’s one of her favorites.
But then, Cristina Celis feels something — something a little off.
“I was just there vibing to the music, off to the side,” the 29-year-old native of Santa Clarita, California recalls. “And then I just felt that something’s going on. I sat there for a minute just trying to figure out what was going on.”
Did we mention she was over seven months pregnant?
Her baby wasn’t due for another four to six weeks, though.
It couldn’t be that, right?
Still, Celis went to a first aid tent just to be safe, where she was then transferred to the main first aid tent towards the front of the venue.
“Their doctors assessed me and asked me a bunch of questions,” Celis says. “They’re like, ‘Do you think it could be labor pains?’ And I was like, ‘I don’t think so, because I still have another two months.’ They came back and they’re like, ‘Because of how far along you are, we do prefer you go to the hospital,’ so they transported me to the hospital. All of this was within like 40 minutes.”
Ten to 15 minutes after arriving at University Medical Center, Celis delivered her first child with her boyfriend, Jonny Landon, by her side.
They named their baby girl Izzabella Daisy Garcia, her middle name taken from the event where the process of her birth began.
“We were having a little trouble figuring out a middle name — we were going back and forth,” Celis says. “And then, because of this situation, we actually did like the ring of ‘Daisy.’ It fit perfectly.”
They added another ‘Z’ to her first name in honor of Zedd.
Speaking of which, upon hearing reports that a baby had been born during his performance, Zedd asked for details of the birth in a Twitter post.
When Celis responded, Zedd replied in kind.
“CONGRATS!!!!! So happy you’re both healthy and that I had the honor to be the soundtrack,” he tweeted.
“We were speechless,” Celis says of Zedd’s response. ” We didn’t know what to think. We’re just like, ‘This is crazy.’ We didn’t think it would get this big.”
Celis and Landon will remain in Vegas for the next four to six weeks until it’s safe for them to travel home with their daughter.
“She’s doing really well they say, but just as a precaution, we had to make arrangements to stay here in Vegas until then,” Celis explains.
Five years ago, EDC was the first festival that Celis ever attended.
She’s made the trek to the mammoth electronic dance music event annually ever since.
Perhaps it’s fitting, then, that her family grew among her family at EDC.
“I love the rave community,” she says. “It’s always so welcoming, and makes me feel comfortable. It’s just crazy that this happened in one of my comfort places.”
Contact Jason Bracelin at jbracelin@reviewjournal.com or 702-383-0476. Follow @jbracelin76 on Instagram. | 2023-05-25T20:22:42+00:00 | reviewjournal.com | https://www.reviewjournal.com/entertainment/music/rave-baby-woman-goes-into-labor-at-electric-daisy-carnival-2783516/ |
1/6 takeaways: Record for history and ‘roadmap to justice’
By LISA MASCARO
AP Congressional Correspondent
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Jan. 6 committee set out to compile a public record for history of the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. But after 18 months and more than 1,000 interviews, its final report has become so much more — a “roadmap to justice,” Chairman Bennie Thompson said. The panel unanimously made four criminal referrals Monday against Donald Trump for his role in the “multi-part conspiracy,” sending its recommendations to the Justice Department, which is already conducting its own probe. It comes as Americans come to terms with Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. | 2022-12-19T21:17:23+00:00 | localnews8.com | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national/2022/12/19/1-6-takeaways-record-for-history-and-roadmap-to-justice/ |
US and Russia agree hold to talks on nuclear treaty for first time since Ukraine war began
By Kylie Atwood and Michael Conte, CNN
The US and Russia have agreed to hold talks on the single existing nuclear treaty between the two countries in the near future, State Department spokesperson Ned Price said on Tuesday.
The New START treaty limits all deployed intercontinental-range nuclear weapons by Russia and the US.
The treaty — the only one left regulating the two largest nuclear arsenals in the world — was extended by five years in February 2021 during the first weeks of Joe Biden’s presidency.
It requires both countries to allow on-site inspections of its nuclear weapons-related facilities by the other. Those inspections were paused in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A resumption of the inspections is expected to be a topic of discussion at the upcoming meetings, US officials said.
Diplomatic relations between Russia and the US are in the doldrums following Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine with no end to the war in sight but US officials have viewed it as a positive development that Moscow has continued to express interest in the treaty, despite Putin’s alarming nuclear threats as the conflict rages on.
Russia has expressed a willingness to discuss extending the treaty and the US has said that negotiations would only happen once the on-site inspections resume.
Complications arose earlier this year after the US attempted to resume the inspections, but Russia rebuffed the efforts, citing alleged efforts by the US to “deprive the Russian Federation of the right to conduct inspections on American territory.” Price said at the time that the “US sanctions and restrictive measures imposed as a result of Russia’s war against Ukraine are fully compatible” with the New START treaty.
The treaty’s meetings occur under the title of the bilateral consultative commission, the BCC.
“We have agreed that the BCC will meet in the near future under the terms of the New START treaty. The work of the BCC is confidential but we do hope for a constructive session,” Price said.
The last time a BCC was convened was more than a year ago in October 2021.
The treaty limits both nations to deploying 1,550 nuclear warheads on delivery systems, including intercontinental ballistic missiles, submarine-launched ballistic missiles, and bombers.
Last week CNN reported Russian military officials have discussed how and under what conditions Russia would use a tactical nuclear weapon on the battlefield in Ukraine, according to a US intelligence assessment described to CNN by multiple sources who have read it.
The assessment, drafted by the National Intelligence Council, is not a high confidence product and is not raw intelligence but rather analysis, multiple people who have read it told CNN. For that reason, some officials believe the conversations reflected in the document may have been taken out of context, and do not necessarily indicate that Russia is preparing to use a nuclear weapon.
The US has still not seen any signs that Putin has decided to take the drastic step of using one, officials said, and Putin is not believed to have been involved in the discussions described in the intelligence assessment.
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By JOHN WAWROW and STEPHEN WHYNO
AP Hockey Writers
Scotty Bowman has left the Chicago Blackhawks after what the Hall of Famer said was a difficult year.
Bowman announced Tuesday he no longer works for the organization as of July 1, saying he decided it was time to move on after 14 years as the Blackhawks’ senior hockey operations adviser.
Bowman’s son Stan stepped down as general manager in October after an independent investigation into the team’s mishandling of sexual assault allegations in 2010 revealed he knew about the situation.
“It was a pretty uncomfortable year because of Stan’s thing, getting let go, and I stayed on for the year and tried to keep going as much as I could, which I think I did,” Bowman told The Associated Press in a phone interview. “It’s been a good ride. I mean, you don’t get the chance to work with your son all the time. Naturally you have your differences of opinion, but I got to know the personnel on the team, and it was a good ride to be able to see this team develop and everything else.”
Bowman, who turns 89 in September, said he left the organization on good terms. He’s not closing the door on another job in the NHL but isn’t looking for work immediately. He plans to continue his routine of splitting time between his homes in suburban Buffalo, New York, and Sarasota, Florida, which allows him to make appearances in the press box at Tampa Bay Lightning games.
“You have to keep busy,” he said. “The game has changed so much, you know? It’s so fast. The line changes, the players change so quick now they probably change twice as fast as in my day, so it’s a different game, but it’s still in my blood.”
Inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame 31 years ago, Bowman won the Stanley Cup a record nine times as a coach, leading the Montreal Canadiens to the championship in 1973, ’76, ’77, ’78 and ’79, the Pittsburgh Penguins in 1992 and the Detroit Red Wings in 1997, ’98 and 2002. Counting his four titles as a member of a front office, including three with Chicago in 2010, ’13 and ’15, his 14 are second-most in league history behind Habs great Jean Beliveau’s 17.
Another championship seems far away for the Blackhawks.
Kyle Davidson replaced Stan Bowman on an interim basis in the fall and was given the full-time GM job after a lengthy search. Davidson is now in charge of a major teardown of the roster, which has already included trading young forwards Alex DeBrincat and Kirby Dach and letting Dylan Strome and Dominik Kubalik leave rather than tendering them qualifying offers to retain their rights.
The big question now concerns the future of franchise cornerstones Patrick Kane and Jonathan Toews, who have a year left on their respective contracts.
“It’s a discussion that we’re going to have to have,” Davidson said last week at the NHL draft. “We’re honest and told them what could happen. And we’re going to have to potentially make some changes. So there wasn’t any deception in that. But it’s real now. There’s a discussion that’s going to have to happen. They’re aware of what we expect of them and why we want them around.”
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Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission. | 2022-07-13T03:48:50+00:00 | wtmj.com | https://wtmj.com/sports/2022/07/12/scotty-bowman-moves-on-from-job-as-blackhawks-adviser-3/ |
WHL
All Times Local
Eastern Conference
Central Division
East Division
Western Conference
B.C. Division
U.S. Division
Note: x - clinched playoff berth; Two points for a team winning in overtime or shootout; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns.
Tuesday's results
Saskatoon 4 Edmonton 0
Red Deer 5 Portland 4 (SO)
Prince George 5 Kelowna 1
Wednesday's results
Moose Jaw 6 Edmonton 3
Winnipeg 8 Calgary 2
Prince George 7 Kelowna 2
Thursday's results
Winnipeg 7 Calgary 6
Friday's results
Swift Current 4 Prince Albert 0
Brandon 4 Edmonton 1
Lethbridge 3 Medicine Hat 0
Kamloops 5 Saskatoon 2
Everett 2 Spokane 1
Seattle 6 Red Deer 1
Prince George 9 Kelowna 2
Vancouver 2 Victoria 1 (OT)
Portland 6 Tri-City 3
Saturday's results
Moose Jaw at Regina, 7 p.m.
Swift Current at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.
Calgary at Brandon, 7 p.m.
Seattle at Portland, 6 p.m.
Lethbridge at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.
Edmonton at Winnipeg, 8:05 p.m.
Red Deer at Tri-City, 6:05 p.m.
Spokane at Everett, 6:05 p.m.
Victoria at Vancouver, 7 p.m.
Prince George at Kamloops, 7 p.m.
Saskatoon at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.
Tuesday's games
Swift Current at Brandon, 7 p.m.
Saskatoon at Prince George, 7 p.m.
Tri-City at Seattle, 7:05 p.m.
Wednesday's games
Swift Current at Winnipeg, 7:05 p.m.
Calgary at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Portland at Spokane, 7:05 p.m.
Everett at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m. | 2023-02-11T08:54:05+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/hko-whl-standings-17778224.php |
Senate negotiations on gun safety reform stall over outstanding challenges
Posted/updated on: June 16, 2022 at 5:53 am(WASHINGTON) -- Top negotiators on a bipartisan gun safety framework huddled behind closed doors for several hours Wednesday evening to try to solve remaining differences on the package, but the group's effort to expedite passage of an agreement is stalled, at least for the moment.
Since a group of 10 Democrats and 10 Republicans announced an agreement on a framework of proposals aimed at curbing gun violence in the wake of mass shootings in Uvalde, Texas, and Buffalo, New York, on Sunday, a bipartisan group of senators has been working to speedily turn the list of ideas into a bill ready for consideration on the Senate floor next week. But two provisions, one focused on incentivizing states to implement violence prevention programs, and another dealing with closing the so-called "boyfriend loophole," are now plaguing negotiations, chief Republican negotiator John Cornyn, R-Texas, said Wednesday.
"If we can settle these two issues, I think we're on our way, but I am concerned now given the time it takes and the need to complete our work really by tomorrow that we've got to settle these issues," Cornyn told reporters Wednesday morning.
When negotiators emerged from their meeting Wednesday evening, they noted some progress, but said discussions on these two major issues will need to continue Thursday.
"We did make progress," Cornyn said. "But we're not there yet."
"We are continuing to make progress," Sen. Chris Murphy, the top Democratic negotiator, said after Cornyn's departure. "This is a very tight timeline to land some very serious issues."
Senators are feeling the time crunch as they try to meet an ambitious deadline to turn their announced framework into law. If senators wish to see a vote on their package before the Senate departs for a two-week recess on June 27, they need to turn their framework agreement into bill text that other Senators can review and vote on.
Challenges over how to create a program to support or incentivize state violence prevention programs -- including red flag laws designed to temporarily seize weapons from those deemed by a court to be a danger to themselves or others -- have been bubbling up in the Republican conference since the proposed framework was announced.
According to Cornyn, negotiators are struggling over whether funds made available to states to support red flag programs should also be available to states with other types of violence prevention programs, like veterans' courts, mental health courts and assisted outpatient treatment programs.
Some Republicans have long struggled with red flag programs out of concern that these provisions violate the due process rights of those accused of being a threat. During a closed-door Republican conference meeting on Tuesday, several Republican lawmakers outside of the negotiating group told ABC News they had concerns about provisions supporting red flag laws.
Cornyn, according to numerous participants, repeatedly assured his colleagues that there would be no federal mandate to implement the laws. He also echoed an earlier speech in which he said their impending legislation would ensure that any state that does take federal funding would be required to ensure the due process rights of anyone potentially falling under a red flag order, also called an “extreme risk protection order.”
“Most of the discussion was around the red flag issue, and that is my greatest concern as well that we do it right,” said Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-ND, on Tuesday. “I think we’re more interested in the red wave than we are in red flags, quite honestly, as Republicans and we have a pretty good opportunity to do that,” seemingly a reference to the possibility of Republicans taking control of Congress this fall.
Still, Democrats are optimistic there's a solution on the red flag issue. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-CT., who has been leading the group's efforts on red flag laws, said Wednesday that negotiators have already been in discussion on a "very doable" solution.
"We need to support every possible way to intervene in crisis before they produce violence. And red flag laws need investment of hundreds of millions of dollars for them as an incentive but also to implement them and at the same time we can have a variety of other crisis intervention mode that help save lives," Blumenthal said.
There's also been issues over efforts to modify law to close "boyfriend loophole." Under current law, unmarried partners who commit domestic violence are not barred from purchasing a firearm, though spouses who perpetrate domestic violence are.
Negotiators are struggling with how to appropriately define a "boyfriend" or partner in this language to include those who are unmarried.
Democrats earlier Wednesday sought to downplay Cornyn's concern about the two outstanding issues.
Democratic negotiator Sen. Chris Coons, D-DE, chalked both the boyfriend loophole issue and the red-flag law snag up to "modest negotiation challenges," noting that issues always arise when frameworks are being turned to legislative bill text.
"All we have to do is write text that is true to the framework," Murphy said. "You know, we all made a commitment to each other that we were supportive of the framework and then we're going to write that into law. I have continued confidence that we can write that framework into text and we can have that for our colleagues next week."
While negotiators continue to work on legislative text, there is a growing contingent of Republicans who have signaled willingness to supportive the framework.
Republican Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday said he is "comfortable" with the bipartisan gun safety reform framework and will be "supportive" of the bill "if the legislation ends up reflecting what the framework indicates."
"My view of the framework if it leads to a piece of legislation I intend to support it I think it is progress for the country and I think the bipartisan group has done the best they can to get total support and the background check enhancement for that age group I think is a step in the right direction," McConnell said.
And other members in his conference are also signaling willingness to support the proposal.
"I just need to see the text…want to see the details. The framework I think looks good, but it’s going to be what the details are,” said Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-WV, on Tuesday.
Getting text to members before the weekend will be key, Cornyn said. And he's still hopeful it can be done.
"We need to tie a nice thick ribbon around everything," Cornyn told reporters. "Because we have to have an end to this to write the text in order to be able to share it with colleagues and provide it to the majority leader to put it on the floor."
Copyright © 2022, ABC Audio. All rights reserved. | 2022-06-16T14:53:01+00:00 | ktbb.com | https://ktbb.com/post/?p=1135988 |
Khloe Kardashian is putting her heart back on the market! A source tells ET that The Kardashians star is dating a private equity investor and that she was introduced to the mystery man during a dinner party by her sister, Kim Kardashian.
According to the source, 37-year-old Khloe and her mystery man hit it off at a dinner party several months ago.
"Khloe has been dating a private equity investor," the source says. "Kim introduced the two of them at a dinner party several months ago and they clicked and hit it off. Khloe is in a good head space and things are going well for her."
Meanwhile, a source told People, who was the first to report the news, that Khloe and her new man are in the early stages of their relationship. The Good American founder’s new romance is her first since officially ending things with Tristan Thompson, the father of her 4-year-old daughter, True.
Over the weekend, Khloe put the rumors to rest that she was dating another NBA star. Khloe responded to a Kardashian fan account on Instagram that shared a tip given to the popular celebrity gossip site DeuxMoi that claimed "she was seeing another NBA player."
The Kardashian fan account wondered in its post, "Who knows if this is true and I know she doesn't need anyone but I CANNOT WAIT for her to have someone like Kravis and Kete one day because I know she will," suggesting that they can’t wait for the mother of one to be in a relationship like her sister’s Kourtney and Kim.
Khloe quickly shut down the speculation but thanked the site for the support. "Definitely NOT True !!!" she commented on the post. "I love you! Thank you for the nice wishes but I am not seeing a soul. I am happy focusing on my daughter and myself for awhile."
The buzz surrounding Khloe’s love life comes shortly after the season finale of The Kardashians on Hulu gave fans an inside look on the events that transpired in December 2021, when it was revealed that Tristan fathered a child with Maralee Nichols during his relationship with Khloe.
"I find out what Tristan is doing with the rest of the world. A courtesy would be not doing it, but fine, if you do it, you’re not even going to give me a f**king heads up before the rest of the world? It’s just an additional slap in my face," Khloe told the cameras during the episode. "It’s humiliating. I’m embarrassed."
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday to make it more difficult to convict a person of making a violent threat, including against the president or other elected officials.
The Biden administration had warned that the internet and social media have expanded the number and kinds of threats in recent years, including online harassment, intimidation and stalking. And they warned the case could affect the ability to prosecute threats against public officials, which have increased in recent years.
The high court was ruling in a case that involves a man who was sentenced to more than four years in prison in Colorado for sending threatening Facebook messages. The man’s lawyers had argued that he suffers from mental illness and never intended his messages to be threatening.
The question for the court was whether prosecutors must show that a person being prosecuted for making a threat knew their behavior was threatening or whether prosecutors just have to prove that a reasonable person would see it as threatening.
Justice Elena Kagan wrote for a majority of the court that prosecutors have to show that “the defendant had some subjective understanding of the threatening nature of his statements.”
“The State must show that the defendant consciously disregarded a substantial risk that his communications would be viewed as threatening violence,” she said.
Seven justices agreed with the outcome. Two conservative justices, Clarence Thomas and Amy Coney Barrett, dissented.
The Biden administration had been among those arguing for the lower “reasonable person” standard.
“Threats of violence against public officials in particular have proliferated in recent years, including threats against Members of Congress, judges, local officials, and election workers,” the Biden administration had noted, saying the case could affect prosecutions in those cases.
Speech of all kinds is generally protected by the free speech clause in the Constitution’s First Amendment but so-called “true threats” are an exception.
The specific case before the justices involved Billy Counterman. He contacted a musician through Facebook in 2010 to ask her if she would perform in a benefit concert he said he was organizing. The woman, Coles Whalen, responded but nothing ever came of it.
Whalen forgot about the exchange, but four years later, Counterman began sending her Facebook messages again. He ultimately sent hundreds of messages including ones that were rambling and delusional and others that were quotes and memes. Whalen never responded and blocked Counterman several times, but he would just create a new account and continue sending messages.
Counterman believed Whalen was responding through other websites and Facebook pages. Whalen became concerned after Counterman’s messages — including “You’re not being good for human relations. Die. Don’t need you.” and “Was that you in the white Jeep?” — suggested he was following her in person. Eventually, the messages were reported to law enforcement and Counterman was arrested. He was convicted and lost an appeal.
The justices’ ruling is a victory for Counterman and sends his case back to lower courts for another look. In a statement, his attorney John Elwood said that they are “gratified that the Supreme Court agreed with Billy Counterman that the First Amendment requires proof of mental state before it can imprison a person for statements that are perceived as threatening.”
Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser, whose office prosecuted Counterman, said in a statement that the decision will make it “more difficult to stop stalkers from tormenting their victims.”
The case is Counterman v. Colorado, 22-138. | 2023-06-28T10:13:29+00:00 | wboy.com | https://www.wboy.com/news/politics/supreme-court-makes-it-more-difficult-to-convict-someone-of-making-a-threat/ |
SAN DIEGO (AP)Trent Grisham stood at the plate for a moment watching his fly ball sail into the right field corner of Petco Park, not knowing if it would come down fair or foul.
It clanged off the foul pole for a two-run walkoff home run to lead off the 10th inning, sending the San Diego Padres to a 4-2 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates and a sellout crowd into a frenzy on Sunday.
The Padres needed something to go their way after Saturday night’s brutal 4-2 loss when they stranded 16 baserunners, including leaving the bases loaded three times.
And on Sunday, they got two pivotal plays in the 10th, with Grisham’s being the biggest.
He drove a 2-0 pitch from Chris Stratton (2-2) for his second career walkoff homer, which brought in automatic runner Jorge Alfaro.
”I just figured it was foul the way it was hooking,” Grisham said. ”The majority of the time those balls going down into the corner are foul so I was just sitting there waiting.”
Grisham came into the game hitting just .161 with only one homer, one of the many Padres who are struggling at the plate. Grisham intended to bunt until the count went in his favor.
”It feels good but I want to do more of it, is about it,” Grisham said.
”He has the ability to do that,” Padres manager Bob Melvin said. ”Hopefully this is a springboard for him. I’d love to get him up in the lineup doing what he normally does. That does a lot for your confidence when you’re in a big situation like that. Typically a bunt situation for him; he swings away and hits a homer.”
Alfaro, the catcher, made a huge play to end the top of the 10th. Pirates automatic runner Hoy Park, called up earlier in the day from Triple-A, broke for home on a wild pitch by Luis Garcia (4-2) to the backstop, but Alfaro played the carom perfectly and dove to tag out Park.
”The only thing that I can remember is just catch the ball, look at the runner, I have time, try to block home plate,” Alfaro said. ”I was trying to slide headfirst and block home plate. I wasn’t thinking that much, just trying to make the out.”
Said Garcia: ”That was the best play of the day. That saved the day.”
Padres rookie lefty MacKenzie Gore was impressive in pitching seven scoreless innings before the Pirates broke through against Nabil Crismatt to tie it at 2-2 in the eighth.
Crismatt’s 11-inning scoreless streak ended when Ke’Bryan Hayes doubled to left with one out to bring in former Padres player Tucupita Marcano, who was aboard on a leadoff single. Josh VanMeter singled in Hayes with two outs.
Hayes hit a three-run homer in the ninth inning of Saturday night’s 4-2 win, when the Padres stranded 16 baserunners. It looked like it might be that kind of game again when the Padres loaded the bases with two outs against starter Roansy Contreras in the second before rookie Jose Azocar hit into a forceout.
San Diego’s Jurickson Profar lined a two-run homer off Contreras to right field with two outs in the fifth, his sixth HR. It brought in Alfaro, who hit a leadoff single and advanced on a wild pitch and a groundout.
Azocar popped up a bunt to the catcher before Profar homered. Jurickson stopped before rounding first and looked at the Padres’ dugout, and then raised both arms as he approached the plate.
Gore held the Pirates to two singles in seven scoreless innings – his longest outing – while striking out nine and walking three. He allowed only three baserunners to get into scoring position.
”He’s pitching with a lot of confidence,” Melvin said. ”Early in the year it was five (innings), got him to six the last time, got him to seven this time, and told him after the seventh that you’ll see some nines at some point in time if you pitch economical like this. It was just a little bit to push him to ask for the eighth.
”I don’t know that there’s a better rookie pitcher in baseball right now.”
Gore said the goal ”is just try to get a little better each outing. It was nice to be able to go seven today and be pretty efficient. Just keep building off of this.”
Contreras allowed two runs and five hits in five innings, struck out three and walked one.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Pirates: Placed OF Ben Gamel on the 10-day injured list with a strained left hamstring.
Padres: Slugger Manny Machado, who leads the NL with a .357 average, missed his second straight game with tennis elbow. Melvin said Machado will be back in the lineup on Monday.
UP NEXT
Pirates: RHP Zach Thompson (2-4, 5.50 ERA) is scheduled to start Monday night in the opener of a three-game series at the Los Angeles Dodgers, who will counter with RHP Walker Buehler (6-1, 2.91).
Padres: RHP Nick Martinez (2-2, 3.86) is scheduled to start Monday in the opener of a three-game series at St. Louis. The Cardinals will put LHP Packy Naughton (0-1, 2.89) on the mound.
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RAWLINS, Wyo. (AP) — Portrait photographer Anne Brande shoots graduation and wedding engagement photos at scenic spots throughout southeastern Wyoming's granite mountains and sprawling sagebrush valleys, but worries what those views will look like in a few years. Wind energy is booming here.
“Dandelions in my yard, you know, when there's four or five, it's OK,” Brande said. “When my whole yard is dandelions, I'm just not too excited.”
In a state where being able to hunt, fish and camp in gorgeous and untrammeled nature is a way of life, worries about spoiled views, killed eagles and disturbed big-game animals such as elk and mule deer have grown with the spread of wind turbines.
On Tuesday, state and federal officials will break ground on TransWest Express, a transmission line that will move electricity from the $5 billion, 3,000-megawatt, 600-turbine Chokecherry and Sierra Madre wind farm to southern California, a place legally mandated to switch to clean energy. The wind farm will be the country's biggest yet.
Federal regulators gave the go-ahead to TransWest in April. The International Energy Agency and other experts say wind power is crucial to attaining a carbon-neutral world by 2050. Developers here estimate they'll prevent between 7 and 11 million tons of carbon dioxide a year and provide enough carbon-free electricity to power 1 million homes.
But in Wyoming, despite extensive wildlife studies and lengthy federal environmental reviews, there's more skepticism about wind power than when the projects were first proposed 17 years ago.
“I think it’s just as simple as too much of a good thing,” Brande said.
As elsewhere, opposition to wind farms in Wyoming correlates with proximity to homes and cabins: Chokecherry and Sierra Madre is massive but isolated, and has generated less opposition than some others. But Brande and rural property owners opposed a 500-megawatt, 120-turbine wind farm soon to be built near the Colorado state line. They lost, but the matter reached the Wyoming Supreme Court.
The contentious county approval process included a five-hour public hearing in a packed courtroom in Laramie in 2021. Residents expressed a range of concerns, from turbine blades killing birds to construction blasting damaging home foundations.
In neighboring Carbon County, the county commission on June 6 held off permitting for a 280-megawatt, 79-turbine project called Two Rivers, after hearing from people with concerns. Commissioners told the developers to get federal approval first.
The local opposition to a wind farm is a recent development in an area that previously welcomed the economic benefits with few questions, Carbon County Commission Vice Chairman Sue Jones said. Named for its coal reserves that once fueled steam engines, Carbon County adopted an official seal in 2021 that features a wind turbine.
Yet county officials recently required wind farms to turn off their red warning lights except when aircraft approach, responding to public complaints.
The regulation wasn't retroactive. But PacifiCorp, which serves customers in Wyoming, Utah and the Pacific Northwest, retrofitted its wind turbines in the area with the on-and-off pilot warning system anyway, Jones said.
“The companies do try to be good neighbors," Jones said. "But it is starting to show and it is reaching a point where maybe it’s too much. It’s affecting wildlife habitat. It’s affecting the birds and the bats.”
In just four years, wind generation capacity in Wyoming has doubled, adding about 600 turbines — the bulk of them in the southeast — since 2020, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
Chokecherry and Sierra Madre alone will double that amount again — and at least five more wind farms are planned, according to a 2022 University of Wyoming report.
If they all stay on schedule, Wyoming could soon vault from 14th to among the top five states for wind energy, though wind energy is booming elsewhere, too.
Almost 60% of electricity generated in Wyoming, wind power included, isn't used here but goes to other states, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
Increasingly the state's wind energy is coveted by utilities in California, Arizona and the Pacific Northwest.
TransWest Express will move the Chokecherry and Sierra Madre electricity 732 miles (1,178 kilometers) from south-central Wyoming to just outside Las Vegas. Along the way, it will cross northwestern Colorado and Utah, with conversion from direct to alternating current in central Utah.
The wind farm and transmission lines, both projects of The Anschutz Corporation owned by Denver oil and gas billionaire Phil Anschutz, are scheduled to come online around the same time, starting in late 2027.
The transmission line's direct-current section allows efficient, long-distance electricity transfer with no tie-ins to other power lines, while the alternating current segment is less efficient but connects to the rest of the grid.
Wyoming wind averages almost 13 mph (21 kph) day and night, year-round, matching well with daytime solar generated elsewhere. But so far there aren't a lot of ways to get wind power from Wyoming onto the western U.S. power grid, said Roxane Perruso, TransWest Express executive vice president and chief operating officer.
“So we’re going to enhance the ability to move renewables and other power, carbon-free power in the future, around the grid," Perruso said.
Paralleling TransWest Express in places, Pacificorp's Gateway South transmission lines connecting Wyoming wind farms to southern Utah are scheduled for completion next year. Pacificorp's Gateway West lines, already partly built across southern Wyoming, will stretch all the way to the Pacific Northwest sometime after 2030.
While wind power benefits the climate, environmentalists are split over its costs to wildlife. In Wyoming, wind farms pose a risk to golden eagles and sage grouse, a chicken-sized, ground-dwelling bird that tends to avoid high structures that can provide perching spots for predatory birds, said Erik Molvar, of Laramie, executive director of the Western Watersheds Project.
"The real answer is to incentivize the siting of solar panels in urban areas where the electricity’s actually going to get used," Molvar said.
Power Company of Wyoming, the Aschutz subsidiary building Chokecherry and Sierra Madre, spent years working with federal regulators on ways to minimize harm to sage grouse and golden eagles, such as tweaking turbine locations to reduce bird collisions. But eagle deaths at wind farms are a common problem, one that often goes unprosecuted.
Wyoming's position as the country's top coal-producer and a major source of oil and gas, meanwhile, has meant an uneasy relationship with wind at times. Wyoming is the only state that taxes wind energy, a $1 per megawatt-hour charge lawmakers have discussed raising to $4 or more.
And local resistance could grow. People often don’t appreciate what a wind farm with its turbines, lights, roads, power lines and substations will look like, said Jones, the Carbon County commissioner.
“You really have no idea what that’s like until it’s there. And then you go, wow. It’s an industrial area. A different kind of industry, but an industrial area,” Jones said. | 2023-06-20T13:10:54+00:00 | springfieldnewssun.com | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/nation-world/build-begins-on-wyoming-to-california-power-line-amid-growing-wind-power-concern/BZQQ2KDRGRGOZOORU4SFK5MDVI/ |
LONDON, May 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Sparta Capital takes note of Apollo's decision to not pursue its fifth and final bid for Wood Group on the 15th of May.
As we made clear in our letter to the company's board in December, we believe Wood Group is a great company with outstanding long-term prospects. Wood is a leading engineering consultant and a net zero enabler over diversified end markets with a $230bn opportunity* and is held with a high degree of trust by some of the largest and most sophisticated organisations in the world.
We thank the board and executive management, as well as all involved at Wood Group, for their commitment and engagement as they explored Apollo's approach to its fullest conclusion. We know that these processes can be a distraction, but we note the business has continued to perform very well and has reported full year 2022 and Q1 2023 results ahead of expectations and maintained full year guidance for the year 2023. We also note Wood's statement that this positive trading momentum has continued into Q2 2023. This is a mark of the team's professionalism and of the very high quality of the business.
It is our understanding that Apollo's decision to withdraw was not related to any information revealed by the due diligence phase of the approach. This does not come as a surprise to us, given Apollo will have already analysed the extensive financial information published recently by Wood Group, including its financial statements for the year to December 2022 which were published alongside the full year results presentation on the 28th of March 2023.
In our December 2022 letter to Wood, we highlighted that, given the material undervaluation of the shares, the company was vulnerable to an opportunistic takeover approach; subsequent events have clearly vindicated this view. Given that the business prospects have continued to improve, but the share price is the same, we can only conclude that this vulnerability is even greater today.
Overall, the conclusions we drew at that time of our letter, remain apposite today, and the ensuing 6 months have validated the case we set out in December. Now, as then, we urge the board to deploy all the tools it has to hand in addressing the undervaluation. The most effective of these, in our view, remains the share buyback we previously proposed. With Wood's organic investment needs already prioritised, the continued strong performance of the business, the strong underlying cash-flow generation and the manifest undervaluation of the shares, allocating capital to a substantial buy-back programme is, we believe, an entirely logical decision. This would be highly accretive to the business, and we can see no obstacle to the board in taking this important step, as soon as possible.
We will continue to engage constructively with the company and endeavour to create value for all stakeholders.
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*The $230bn addressable opportunity statistic is sourced from Wood Group's Capital Markets Day, held on 29th November 2022.
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KENT COUNTY, MI – An 11-year-old is facing an assault-and-battery charge for allegedly assaulting a 5-year-old student on a Northview Public Schools bus, police said.
A prosecutor assigned to juvenile cases issued the charge against the older student, Kent County sheriff’s Sgt. Eric Brunner said Wednesday, March 29. | 2023-03-29T19:35:29+00:00 | mlive.com | https://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/2023/03/11-year-old-accused-of-assaulting-boy-5-on-school-bus.html |
MARTINSVILLE, Ind., Jan. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Top 7 Reasons to Start Planning an Unforgettable Summer
It's January, which means it's time to start thinking about summer camp.
Why? Registration is opening at summer camps across the country right now!
Summer camps provide children and youth with a variety of benefits and opportunities for personal growth.
"The camp experience is essential to child and youth development," said Tom Rosenberg, president/CEO of the American Camp Association (ACA). "Camp provides children with a safe environment in which they can take risks, try new things, and find community."
Research shows that the social-emotional skills learned and practiced at camp support kids year-round. As kids build friendships and social connections, they form key skills that bolster academic performance and are at the core of college and career readiness.
The benefits of summer camp are endless, but here are seven key reasons why summer camp provides a unique and delightful experience:
1. Socialization and friendship building: Summer camp is a great place for children to build new friendships and learn how to interact and communicate in a group setting.
2. Physical activity and outdoor fun: Many summer camps offer a range of outdoor activities, such as swimming, hiking, and sports, which can help kids stay active and healthy.
3. Personal development and independence: Spending time away from home at summer camp can help children learn how to be more independent, resilient, and self-sufficient.
4. Education and exploration: Many summer camps offer educational programs or workshops focused on topics such as science, technology, art, or music, that support children's overall development and broaden their interests.
5. New experiences: Summer camp can be a chance for children to try new things, build resilience, and learn skills that they might not have access to at home.
6. Time away from technology: Most summer camps provide the opportunity to completely unplug and explore opportunities to be fully present.
7. Healthy identity building: Summer camp uniquely provides kids with opportunities to develop social-emotional learning to support success in the classroom when kids go back to school.
Overall, summer camp can be a valuable and enjoyable experience for children. Both day and overnight camps help them to grow and develop in a fun and supportive environment.
What about the cost of camp? Camps vary in cost, and some are completely free! Look into organizations, local places of worship, or parks and recreation offices. For other camps, ask camp directors and owners about scholarship opportunities or financial aid. Around 93 percent of ACA-accredited camps offer financial assistance.
When considering camps, be sure to look for ACA Accreditation. For parents and families, this means that your camp undergoes a thorough peer review of its operations — from staff qualifications and training to emergency management. ACA collaborates with experts from the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Red Cross, and other youth-serving agencies to ensure that current practices at your child's camp reflect the most up-to-date, research-based standards in camp operation. All of this means growth and fun in an environment committed to safety.
Start your summer camp search! Find an ACA-accredited camp at find.ACAcamps.org today.
The American Camp Association® (ACA) is a national organization serving the more than 15,000 year-round and summer camps in the US who annually serve 26 million campers. ACA is committed to collaborating with those who believe in quality camp and outdoor experiences for children, youth, and adults. ACA provides advocacy, evidence-based education, and professional development, and is the only independent national accrediting body for the organized camp experience. ACA accreditation provides public evidence of a camp's voluntary commitment to the health, safety, risk management, and overall well-being of campers and staff. For more information, visit ACAcamps.org or call 800-428-2267.
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WARSAW, Ind. (Inside INdiana Business) — Warsaw-based OrthoPediatrics Corp. (Nasdaq: KIDS) says it has entered an agreement to acquire Pega Medical, a Canadian orthopedics device manufacturer, in a mostly-cash deal valued at $33 million. Under the terms of the deal, the Kosciusko County company says it will pay an upfront cash payment of $31 million and $2 million in stock.
OrthoPediatrics says Pega focuses primarily on skeletal deformities found in pediatric populations.
“Similar to OrthoPediatrics, the Pega organization has been focused exclusively on addressing unmet needs for children whose lives have been impacted by musculoskeletal disorders and diseases,” said OrthoPediatrics Chief Executive Officer David Bailey.
As part of the deal, OrthoPediatrics is acquiring Pega’s Fassier-Duval Telescopic Intramedullary System, an implant designed to treat bony deformities in children with osteogenesis imperfecta.
“Their product offerings include novel technologies to treat some of the most unique conditions in pediatric orthopedics,” said Bailey.
OrthoPediatrics also reports it is increasing its full year 2022 revenue guidance range to $125 million to $128 million, representing growth of 27% to 31%. | 2022-06-14T18:46:03+00:00 | wishtv.com | https://www.wishtv.com/news/inside-indiana-business/orthopediatrics-to-acquire-canadian-firm/ |
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SAN CLEMENTE, Calif., March 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Crossover Health, a leader in delivering value-based hybrid care, will share key findings and insights from new industry research during the ATA23 Annual Conference and Expo, held March 4-6 in San Antonio, Texas. Crossover Health Medical Group leaders will unveil research results pertaining to areas experiencing limited study: comparing virtual care to in-person care and the value of hybrid care for population health management.
"With a care model built on a foundation of well-being and trusted, proactive care teams, industry leading outcomes materialize when providers are able to deliver care virtually or through hybrid solutions," explained Stephen Ezeji-Okoye, Chief Medical Officer, Crossover Health. "We expect ongoing research to further demonstrate that the hybrid model optimizes care delivery and offers a more rewarding member experience while achieving better outcomes."
- "Virtual vs. In-Person Physical Therapy: Outcomes, Attrition, and Therapeutic Alliance," will be presented by Matt DeBole, DPT, Physical Medicine Program Manager, Crossover Health. The study examines traditional, in-person physical therapy (PT) and a virtual PT program that included video visits with frequent asynchronous messaging check-ins, education, and prescription for home exercise programming between visits. Using the Patient-Specific Functional Scale (PSFS) outcome measure for musculoskeletal-associated outcomes and Goodness of Fit (GoF) to measure therapeutic alliance, results demonstrated improvements in patient attrition rates and therapeutic alliance when compared to traditional in-person PT.
"We now have the data to back what we've learned through clinical experience: that virtual physical therapy is at least equivalent to–and in some cases better than–traditional, in-person physical therapy," said DeBole. "When you build in convenient touch points like asynchronous follow-up and digital education, you can optimally engage the member to achieve equivalent or better results."
- "The Value of Integrating In-person and Virtual Care for Population Health Management in Employer-Sponsored Primary Care Settings," will be presented by Yvonne Robinson-Hawkins, MD, National Virtual Care Team Physician at Crossover Health. It assesses the impact of hybrid care—defined by a combination of in-person and virtual interventions—in management of population health screening and care management among approximately 120,000 employees. The effectiveness of hybrid care used in this manner within commercially-insured employer populations had not been previously studied. Results found that outcomes improved under a hybrid care model, which offers flexibility and choice in addressing population health needs. Initial data suggest that following establishment of care in the in-person setting, members were comfortable transitioning to virtual care for subsequent encounters and follow-ups.
"When you engage members with a trusted care team, and empower them with the choice of how they seek care, population health outreach efforts can be much more effective, " Robinson-Hawkins reported. "Based on our data, employer-sponsored health models benefit from hybrid care approaches that use both virtual visits and asynchronous communication to increase member engagement and accelerate care gap closures," she added.
Crossover Health has been an industry leader in the delivery of both virtual and onsite care through its unique and highly effective hybrid care approach. With a team-based model that focuses on achieving optimal wellbeing, Crossover delivers a comprehensive and integrated care experience across multiple care settings and technology touchpoints. The results of both studies reveal important insights about the effectiveness of hybrid care delivery models in both individual services lines as well as population health outreach efforts.
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Crossover Health is a leader in delivering value-based hybrid care. The company's national medical group delivers - at scale - Primary Health, a proven care model driven by an interdisciplinary team inclusive of primary care, physical medicine, mental health, health coaching and care navigation. With a focus on wellbeing and prevention that extends beyond traditional sick care, Crossover builds trusted relationships with its members and flexibly surrounds them with care— in-person, online, and anytime— based on the member preference. Combining a sophisticated approach to data analytics that incorporates social determinants of health, Crossover delivers concrete results and measurable value for employers, payers, and most importantly, members. Together we are building health as it should be and engaging a community of members to live their best health. To learn more, visit crossoverhealth.com.
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DENVER — Nikola Jokic scored 37 points and fed Will Barton for a 3-pointer from the left corner with 8.3 seconds left, helping the Denver Nuggets avoid a series sweep with a 126-121 victory over the Golden State Warriors on Sunday.
Morris finished with 24 points. He hit five 3-pointers in the third quarter, the most in a quarter by any player in these NBA playoffs.
Steph Curry led the Warriors with 33 points. Klay Thompson scored 22 of his 32 points after picking up his fourth foul in the final second of the first half. Jordan Poole had 11 after averaging 27.8 in the first three games of the series.
The series shifts back to San Francisco for Game 5 on Wednesday night.
The Nuggets took a 98-89 lead into the fourth quarter, but fell behind 121-119 on Curry’s jumper with just over a minute left.
Denver rookie Bones Hyland hit three consecutive 3-pointers, the last from 33 feet that capped a 14-2 run to open the second quarter with Jokic catching his breath on the bench after assisting on 20 of Denver’s first 23 points.
That gave the Nuggets a 40-23 lead and command for the first time in the series that began with two blowouts on the road before a competitive Game 3 at Ball Arena that gave them hope of avoiding a second straight sweep in the playoffs.
Last year, they were shut out by Phoenix in the second round.
The Nuggets took a 63-52 halftime lead after a move by Warriors coach Steve Kerr backfired with less than a second left in the second quarter.
Kerr sent Thompson back into the game with six-tenths of a second remaining and Thompson executed the play to perfection, coming off the screen for the layup — only, he pushed Rivers on his way to the rim, so the basket was waved off and Thompson was whistled for his fourth foul.
Nuggets coach Michael Malone was confident his team would come out and give it their all to force the series back to San Francisco after the way they played in Game 3 in taking the Warriors into the final minute before succumbing 108-103.
“Really confident,” Malone said before tip-off. “Just knowing our group. I have to remind myself, when you think about our team, the last four years no one has won more games in the West than this team, and there’s a reason for that. So, I would be shocked and disappointed if we didn’t go out there and play our brand of basketball like we did in Game 3.
“I have the utmost confidence in our group that that will be our mindset, that will be our approach, and we will go out there and leave everything we have on that floor.”
EARLY TO PRIZE
Warriors coach Steve Kerr wasn’t concerned about the early start.
“No. Both teams obviously have to deal with that. The main thing is to keep our edge. Being up 3-0, there can be a tendency to let your guard down a little bit. You get comfortable and you can’t get comfortable,” Kerr said before tip-off. “You have to be loose but disciplined. You have to stay locked in with the game plan. You can’t just come out here thinking, ‘We’ve got this.′ That’s a ticket to a poor performance. We’ve just got to bring an edge.”
TIP-INS
Warriors: Curry was cold, sinking just 2 of 8 shots in the first quarter, when he missed his first four 3-pointers. ... Golden State was just 8 of 26 in the opening quarter.
Nuggets: Draymond Green picked up his first foul 40 seconds into the game when he elbowed Jokic in the face. In the ensuing tussle, Gordon and Thompson were assessed a double technical. ... Jamal Murray (ACL) and Michael Porter Jr. (back) were inactive again.
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The 2023 3M Open Odds & Preview: Austin Eckroat
Austin Eckroat is set for the 2023 3M Open at TPC Twin Cities (par-71) in Blaine, Minnesota from July 27-30. The purse is $7,800,000.00.
Looking to place a wager on Eckroat at the 3M Open this week? Read on for the betting trends you need to know before you make your picks.
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Austin Eckroat Insights
- Over his last 18 rounds, Eckroat has finished better than par nine times, while also posting 11 rounds with a better-than-average score.
- He has recorded a top-five score twice in his last 18 rounds.
- Over his last 18 rounds, Eckroat has finished within three strokes of the best score of the round four times, and within five strokes of the top score of the day on six occasions.
- Eckroat has finished in the top 10 in one of his past five appearances.
- He has made the cut in four of his past five tournaments.
- In his past five tournaments, Eckroat has posted a score better than average in three of them.
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3M Open Insights and Stats
- This event will take place on a par 71 that registers at 7,431 yards, 414 yards longer than the average for Tour stops in the past year.
- The average course on the Tour in the past year has played to 69.25 strokes per round and a score of -5. At TPC Twin Cities, the scoring average is lower at -8 per tournament.
- Eckroat will take to the 7,431-yard course this week at TPC Twin Cities after having played courses with an average length of 7,298 yards in the past year.
- The tournaments he has played in the past year have seen an average score of -6. That's higher than this course's recent scoring average of -8.
Eckroat's Last Time Out
- Eckroat was in the 52nd percentile on par 3s at the Genesis Scottish Open, with an average of par on the 20 par-3 holes.
- He averaged 4.1 strokes on par-4 holes (of which there were 40) at the Genesis Scottish Open, which placed him in the 28th percentile among all competitors.
- Eckroat was better than 39% of the golfers at the Genesis Scottish Open on par-5 holes, averaging 4.67 strokes per hole in comparison to the field average of 4.64.
- Eckroat shot better on par 3s than most players his last time out, recording a birdie or better on four of 20 par-3s at the Genesis Scottish Open (the other competitors averaged 1.8).
- On the 20 par-3s at the Genesis Scottish Open, Eckroat carded four bogeys or worse (more than the field average of 2.4).
- Eckroat's six birdies or better on par-4s at the Genesis Scottish Open were more than the field average of 4.9.
- In that last tournament, Eckroat's performance on the 40 par-4s included a bogey or worse nine times (compared to the field's better average, 5.6).
- Eckroat finished the Genesis Scottish Open bettering the tournament average of birdies or better on par-5s (3.6) with five on the 12 par-5 holes.
- On the 12 par-5s at the Genesis Scottish Open, Eckroat fell short compared to the tournament average of 0.6 bogeys or worse on those holes by carding two.
3M Open Time and Date Info
- Date: July 27-30, 2023
- Course: TPC Twin Cities
- Location: Blaine, Minnesota
- Par: 71 / 7,431 yards
- Eckroat Odds to Win: +5500 (Bet now with BetMGM!)
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Which Captain America poster is best?
Captain America has been one of the most popular Marvel superheroes for decades. His first appearance was in “Captain America Comics” No. 1 in 1941 fighting the Axis powers of World War II. That issue sold over 1 million copies, making Captain America an instant hit. Today, with his portrayal by Chris Evans in a string of blockbuster Marvel movies, audiences have continued to thrill to the adventures of Cap as he fights for the safety of all people on Earth.
If you’re a comic book or superhero fan, one of the best ways to showcase your love of a character is by hanging a poster on your wall. The best Captain America poster is from his first solo film, “The First Avenger.” This poster depicts Cap looking solemnly down at his shield as he prepares for yet another battle.
What to know before you buy a Captain America poster
Captain America origin story
Captain America was created by writer Joe Simon and artist Jack Kirby in 1940, a year before the United States entered World War II. In the first Captain America comic, frail Steve Rogers is subjected to an experimental serum that grants him increased strength, speed and agility, transforming him into the shield-slinging Captain America.
Marvel Studios
Marvel’s comic books are the foundation of all their superhero stories. When the company wanted to expand into TV and film, they created Marvel Films, which eventually turned into the Marvel Studios that we know today. This massive entertainment operation is known for all the films we see from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, or MCU. They produce all of the Captain America movies and create the cinema artwork as well.
Chris Evans
Actor Chris Evans played Steve Rogers/Captain America starting with 2011’s “The First Avenger.” He continued in the role through two sequels as well as four Avengers movies and cameos in several other Marvel films. “Avengers: Endgame” gave Steve Rogers the happy ending fans had yearned for, and Cap ally Sam Wilson, played by Anthony Mackie, took on the Captain America mantle in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
What to look for in a quality Captain America poster
Characters
While Captain America will always be the center of attention on these posters, other characters are sometimes represented, as well. In each film, Cap is surrounded by teams of Marvel characters that work alongside him. Therefore, it’s only right they appear in the poster artwork. Black Widow, for example, was featured heavily in “The Winter Soldier” and also appears alongside him on the movie poster. In “Civil War,” Captain America feuded with Tony Stark, aka Iron Man, and on that movie’s poster you can see the two heroes facing off.
Comic book posters
For Captain America fans who’d like a poster that reflects his look in the comic books, there are several options. One poster reproduces the cover of issue #1 from March 1941. You can also find an issue #100 poster, reproducing the cover from that anniversary issue. There are several other posters that maintain the nostalgia and drawing style of early Captain America comics.
Film representation
As far as the Captain America movie posters go, the more closely they represent the actual film, the better their overall quality will be. In the “Civil War” poster, Captain America is shown facing off against his rival Iron Man. The poster depicts the two superheroes side by side along with all their respective teammates. This artwork perfectly represents the plot of the film. Also, be sure you’re shopping for an officially licensed poster, which will feature the film’s title at the bottom along with the cast, crew, director and producer.
How much you can expect to spend on a Captain America poster
Expect to spend $17-$20 for a Captain America poster and an additional $20 or $30 for a framed version.
Captain America poster FAQ
What’s the best size for Captain America posters?
A. The standard poster size is 24-by-36 inches, while theatrical-size movie posters — the ones displayed at your local multiplex — typically measure 27-by-40 inches.
What other types of Captain Marvel wall art are there?
A. If you’re looking for something similar to a poster, you can find other options for all art that features Captain America. This can include metal posters, canvas art, wall stickers and fabric posters.
What’s the best Captain America poster to buy?
Top Captain America poster
Captain America: The First Avenger Poster
What you need to know: This glossy print poster comes from the first Captain America movie from Marvel Studios.
What you’ll love: The 22-by-34-inch print is offered with a variety of frame options. The image features a solemn Chris Evans as Captain America with his head bowed, clutching the character’s iconic shield.
What you should consider: The frame costs extra and is not included in the poster cost.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top Captain America poster for the money
Captain America: The Winter Soldier Poster
What you need to know: This poster comes in a high-quality print and features Captain America walking to battle holding his shield.
What you’ll love: Marvel characters Nick Fury and Black Widow walk behind Captain America as a battle breaks out behind them. Robert Redford also appears on the poster as Alexander Pierce. The poster comes in standard size and in a 16-by-24-inch version.
What you should consider: This poster does not come with a frame.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Captain America Issue #1 Poster
What you need to know: This poster is perfect for the Captain America fan who appreciates the origins of this beloved comic book character.
What you’ll love: The very first appearance of Captain America is shown in full display. You can see the details of the cover, including the “10 cents” price tag and the March release month.
What you should consider: This poster is brightly colored, which might not suit those who prefer the character’s MCU look.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Visitors to Shanghai Disney locked in park for COVID-19 testing
BEIJING - Visitors to Shanghai Disneyland were temporarily blocked from leaving as part of virus testing that extended to more than 400,000 people, the city government announced Tuesday.
The park closed Monday for testing of staff and visitors, Walt Disney Co. and the government said in separate statements. The city health bureau said guests all tested negative and were allowed to leave by 8:30 p.m.
No details of a possible outbreak were released, but 1.3 million residents of the downtown Yangpu district were ordered Friday to stay at home for virus testing.
President Xi Jinping's government is sticking to a severe "Zero COVID" strategy that has shut down Shanghai and other cities this year to isolate every case while other countries are easing anti-virus controls.
Also Tuesday, authorities in the southern territory of Macao were carrying out virus tests on all of its 700,000 residents after one case was found last week.
"Zero COVID" has kept infection rates relatively low but at a high cost as businesses struggle with repeated shutdowns.
Hong Kong’s main stock market index surged 5.2% on Tuesday after a comment circulated on Chinese social media that said the ruling Communist Party might set up a "reopening committee" to look at ways to wind down anti-virus controls.
A foreign ministry spokesman, Zhao Lijian, told reporters he was "not aware of what you just mentioned" when asked about the rumor.
Outbreaks in Shanghai in March led to a shutdown that confined most of its 25 million people to their homes for two months.
The city government appealed to anyone who had visited the Shanghai Disney Resort since Thursday to undergo three days of nucleic acid testing and avoid gathering in groups.
Disney said Monday parts of the resort closed due to anti-virus regulations but gave no indication visitors were kept inside. It said Shanghai Disneyland, Disneytown and Wishing Star Park were closed while two hotels were operating normally.
Some rides and other amusements kept operating Monday while visitors were tested, according to social media posts.
"Please return and take a tour in the park," a video on the popular Sina Weibo platform showed an employee in a mask saying to guests. "The park’s gates are all closed temporarily, and you cannot leave now."
Another video on Sina Weibo showed technicians in white protective suits who appeared to be taking throat swabs from guests after dark while police watched and a fireworks display lit up the sky behind them.
"The most beautiful nucleic acid detection point," the account user wrote.
In the central city of Zhengzhou, thousands of employees who assemble Apple Inc.'s new iPhone 14 walked away from a factory operated by Taiwan's Foxconn following outbreaks and complaints about unsafe working conditions.
Foxconn said it has implemented "closed loop management," the official term for employees living at their workplace and having no outside contact.
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AP video producer Liu Zheng contributed. | 2022-11-01T15:54:59+00:00 | fox29.com | https://www.fox29.com/news/visitors-shanghai-disney-locked-inside-covid-19-testing |
Zoe will use BridgeFT's WealthTech-as-a-Service offering to remedy the complex, disjointed tech stacks that plague many high-performing advisors.
CHICAGO, May 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- BridgeFT, a cloud-native, API-first wealth infrastructure software company that enables financial institutions, fintech innovators, and registered investment advisors to deliver better, data-driven outcomes for their clients, announced today that Zoe Financial, a wealth platform that connects individuals seeking service, stewardship, and solutions with the most qualified advisors in the country, has selected BridgeFT's WealthTech API to power its data connectivity and infrastructure.
Based in New York and backed by institutional investor Softbank, Zoe Financial is a one-of-a-kind, wealth platform where consumers come to find, hire and work with top independent financial advisors. As the Zoe team worked to launch their new product suite, they sought key partners to bolster their system's capabilities while also improving development cycles and accelerating time to market. BridgeFT's WealthTech-as-a-Service provided Zoe with modern technology to bring together critical client data from multiple custodians, core application services, such as Client Performance Reporting and Fee Billing, with embedded business logic to develop their own unique tools for greater differentiation, and flexibility to innovate across their client and advisor experiences --- all while saving them time and money and eliminating the need to build these functions in-house.
"Zoe Financial shares our mission of modernizing and simplifying the most archaic parts of the wealth management industry," said Joe Stensland, BridgeFT's Chief Executive Officer. "We were honored the Zoe Financial team chose BridgeFT's WealthTech API to power the innovations they are bringing to market to help match clients with their ideal fiduciaries, financial advisors, and financial planners."
For Zoe Financial, a core goal is to remedy the complex, disjointed tech stacks that plague many high-performing advisors. That means offering seamless fee billing and client reporting powered by accurate, on-time custodial data was mission-critical. Like many wealth management platforms, Zoe Financial faced the classic build-versus-buy decision as the team planned the expansion of their modern platform. Zoe Financial could either spend internal development resources and time building critical data connectivity, or it could find a trusted partner with the expertise and modern technology that not only ensured its data needs were met, but could also provide a framework and infrastructure to scale its platform.
"BridgeFT's WealthTech API was precisely the accelerator we needed to normalize and process client account data directly to make the implementation process frictionless and easy," said Rajesh Gaur, Head of Investments at Zoe Financial. "What's more, we feel we have partnered with a team instead of a vendor. BridgeFT is an extension of our own internal team, just like how our advisors think of us as an extension of their team."
BridgeFT's WealthTech API is the industry's first WealthTech-as-a-Service platform, offering a single, open API to trade-ready, multi-custodial data, analytics, and applications. WealthTech API removes the need for individual data feeds from a range of custodians and back-office providers, allowing wealth management firms and FinTech companies to create differentiated, next-generation wealth management applications.
About BridgeFT
BridgeFT is a cloud-native, API-first Wealth Infrastructure software company that enables financial institutions, FinTech innovators, TAMPs, and registered investment advisors to deliver better, data-driven outcomes for their clients. Leading financial services firms and technology companies trust BridgeFT to power their digital wealth management ecosystems and automate critical back-office operations—seamlessly aligning essential wealth data, proactive client insights and reporting, and portfolio management automation to deliver a truly personalized client experience. From an integrated advisor solution to the industry's only WealthTech-as-a-Service platform offering open APIs, BridgeFT delivers the infrastructure needed to power next generation wealth management applications. For more information, visit bridgeft.com.
About Zoe Financial
Zoe was founded with one mission: to accelerate wealth creation through exceptional client experience and innovative technology. The company's human experts, alongside powerful technology, remove the friction from the process of finding and hiring a financial advisor. Through Zoe's Platform, you will connect with trusted Financial Advisors across the United States based on your unique financial situation and objectives. Zoe's thoughtfully curated Network of interest-aligned financial advisors includes only the top RIAs in the country. For more information, visit zoefin.com.
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CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago White Sox manager Tony La Russa is out indefinitely because of an unspecified health issue.
The 77-year-old La Russa missed Tuesday night’s 9-7 loss to Kansas City on the recommendation of his doctors. The team said he is scheduled to undergo additional testing in Arizona with his personal physicians “over the coming days.”
Bench coach Miguel Cairo will continue to serve as acting manager while La Russa is out.
“It’s unbelievably tough,” outfielder Andrew Vaughn said. “We really don’t have much information on what’s going on.”
La Russa’s absence on Tuesday was announced about one hour before the first pitch. The Hall of Famer showed no signs of health issues during his pregame session with reporters and while talking to general manager Rick Hahn and former Oakland Athletics pitching great Dave Stewart before the game.
La Russa is in the second season of his second managerial stint with Chicago. The team began the year with championship aspirations, but it has been one of baseball’s biggest disappointments.
Heading into the second game of their series against the Royals, the White Sox had dropped five in a row to fall to 63-66. Chants of “Fire Tony! Fire Tony!” have been heard at Guaranteed Rate Field.
La Russa, who is close friends with White Sox chairman Jerry Reinsdorf, was a surprise hire in October 2020, and he directed to the team to the AL Central title last year.
He started his managing career with the White Sox during the 1979 season. He won the World Series with Oakland in 1989 and St. Louis in 2006 and 2011.
La Russa and Sparky Anderson are the only managers to win the World Series in the American and National leagues.
La Russa was enshrined in Cooperstown in 2014. He got his first major league managing job at age 34 when the White Sox promoted him from Triple-A to replace the fired Don Kessinger. He took over that August and led them to a 522-510 record over parts of eight seasons.
Chicago also made four moves before Wednesday night’s matchup with Kansas City. Right-hander Lance Lynn was reinstated from the bereavement list, and catcher Yasmani Grandal was activated from the 10-day injured list. Left-hander Tanner Banks and catcher Carlos Pérez were optioned to Triple-A Charlotte.
Grandal, 33, had been sidelined by a left knee strain. The switch hitter is batting .203 with three homers and 21 RBIs in 74 games this season.
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WESTFIELD, N.J., Nov. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Alpha Fit Club, New Jersey's Premier Strength and Conditioning Circuit Training Fitness Experience announces its rapid expansion.
Alpha Fit Club is a circuit-style group fitness experience featuring a blend of total body strength training & high-intensity cardio. Their fitness pillars center around capacity, tenacity and intensity, with short bouts of maximum effort cardio stints paired with lower rep range to enhance explosive power. Together, these pillars help members build a strong engine and muscular (and mental) endurance.
The time at Alpha Fit Club is spent rotating around the room in "accountability packs" of four people, challenging themselves at constantly varying stations that can be scaled to any fitness level, leaning on one another to push the pace and finish what you started...together.
Alpha members are built, not born, and the leader of the pack, Sam Tooley knows that best. An athlete, coach, gym owner and entrepreneur, Sam Tooley puts 24/7 365 into Alpha Fit Club and the community he and his team are building.
"I signed the lease to my first location and my world got turned upside down," Sam notes. He lost his little brother Jake tragically within the first month of business. "My first clients, those people, became family really quick. The mentality that was ingrained in me during my cross country running days, where if you show up day in and day out, you're relentless, and you surround yourself with the right people, good things are going to happen… that kept me going," he adds.
The next sucker punch? Pandemic. Alpha Fit Club's first location, in Westfield NJ, opened in 2019 right before COVID.
"The biggest feedback we got from people during that time was that we had something special in that room and they were craving that. So people drove from all over and kept showing up. We adjusted where we could, taking classes outdoors and getting creative to keep the pack together. Not only did we survive, we thrived."
This prompted Sam and team to open their next two locations Verona and Red Bank and build them out while the world was shut down. Franchise sales in New Jersey are closing out, with locations slated to open now through Q1 2023, while sales in New York are underway (Staten Island is secured).
For more information regarding Alpha Fit Club and Franchise Opportunities, visit https://alphafitclub.com/franchise/
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President Biden is presenting the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, in a ceremony that provides a feel-good moment for a White House grappling with polls indicating an overwhelming majority of Americans think the country is on the wrong track and low approval ratings for Biden.
The 17 honorees range from 25-year-old Simone Biles, the most decorated American gymnast in history who has become an advocate for victims of sexual assault, to 91-year-old Fred Gray, who Biden called one of the "most important civil rights lawyers our history."
"Today, [Biles] adds to her medal count of 32 - I don't know if you're gonna find room," Biden chuckled as he delivered remarks in the East Room at the White House. He praised Biles for her courage "to turn personal pain into a greater purpose, to stand up and speak for those who cannot speak for themselves," and noted she's the youngest person ever to receive the Medal of Freedom.
Biden also acknowledged soccer star Megan Rapinoe's "remarkable career" and her campaign for equal pay for women.
"Beyond the World Cup titles to Olympic medals, Megan is a champion for an essential American truth: that everyone, everyone is entitled to be treated with dignity and respect."
The recipients of the Medal of Freedom often reflect the sitting president. Former President Donald Trump presented the award to some of his staunchest political allies, like Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan and radio host Rush Limbaugh, along with athletes from one his favorite sports — golf.
Biden's honorees Thursday include Republicans and Democrats alike and feature giants in the labor and civil rights movements, two groups that have been central to his long political career.
Recipients include Diane Nash, who worked closely with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and organized major civil rights campaigns, and the late Richard Trumka, former president of the AFL-CIO and United Mine Workers.
Receiving a posthumous award is the late Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., a decorated Vietnam War veteran who died in 2018 of brain cancer. McCain and Biden served alongside each other in the Senate and found themselves on opposite sides of the presidential race in 2008 when McCain was the Republican nominee and Biden was then-Sen. Barack Obama's running mate. McCain's widow, Cindy McCain, endorsed Biden in 2020.
Sister Simone Campbell will receive the honor for her work as an advocate for health care policy, economic justice and immigration reform.
Former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, D-Ariz., will also be honored. Giffords was the youngest woman ever elected to the Arizona state Senate and went on to serve in the U.S. Congress. She was shot in the head and severely wounded in 2011 during a constituent event. Her husband, Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona, is up for reelection this November.
Biden himself received this honor in 2017, when then-President Obama surprised his outgoing vice president with the medal. Obama called Biden, a "lion of American history."
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DENVER (AP)Tyler Anderson and two relievers – including infielder Hanser Alberto – combined on a seven-hitter, and the Los Angeles Dodgers used another quick start to rout the sloppy Colorado Rockies 13-0 on Thursday night.
Trea Turner had three hits for Los Angeles, including a three-run double. Gavin Lux also had three hits, and Will Smith finished with two hits and three RBIs.
A day after racing to a 6-0 first-inning lead against Washington while snapping a two-game skid, the MLB-leading Dodgers scored two runs in the first and four in the second against Jose Urena (1-3). LA’s 10th win in 12 games extended its NL West lead to a season-high 12 games over San Diego.
Anderson (11-1) allowed four hits and struck out four against his former team, the only club he has lost to this season. About the only trouble the All-Star had in lowering his ERA to 2.61 was when plate umpire Andy Fletcher forced him to wipe a light-colored substance off the bill of his cap before he threw a pitch.
”I usually wipe my hand with rosin and then I’ll either wipe it on my pants or hat afterward, so there’s some residue,” Anderson said. ”People have asked about it before, but it’s just rosin. He just said to wipe it off. No big deal.”
Jake Reed pitched the eighth and Alberto, making his third pitching appearance of the season, worked around two hits in the ninth in the opener of a four-game series. It was Los Angeles’ seventh shutout of the season.
”He works fast and throws strikes,” a smiling Lux said of Alberto.
Turner extended his hitting streak to 15 games with a first-inning single. He advanced on Freddie Freeman’s walk, stole third and scored on catcher Elias Diaz’s throwing error.
First baseman Connor Joe’s throwing error on a potential double-play grounder in the second extended the inning for Turner, who sent a bases-clearing liner down the left-field line to give him 72 RBIs.
Urena’s wild pitch scored another run and he made a throwing error in LA’s five-run fourth. Turner singled in the big inning and made a nifty slide at home to avoid the tag on Smith’s two-run single for his 59th run.
”Since the middle of May, he’s really amplified his level of play on both sides of the baseball,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said of Turner. ”He’s a hit collector, loves to play. On the margins, he’s become an even better player than he already was.”
Smith added an RBI double and Cody Bellinger and Freeman each had two-run doubles for the Dodgers, who have beaten last-place Colorado five straight times after a 1-4 start.
Urena got nine outs and was charged with 10 runs – seven earned – and eight hits in the Rockies’ sixth loss in eight games.
”Behind in the count. Not too many first-pitch strikes” Rockies manager Bud Black said. ”Battling 2-1, 3-1 counts a lot, and against this lineup that’s tough.”
Catcher Brian Serven pitched a hitless ninth for Colorado.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Dodgers: 3B Justin Turner didn’t play, a day after his return from an abdominal injury. ”I wanted to slow-play him back into the lineup, so we don’t give him consecutive days,” Roberts said. … Edwin Rios (hamstring) was hit by a pitch, walked and struck out while playing five innings at third for Triple-A Oklahoma City. … RHP Dustin May (elbow) allowed two hits and struck out six with no walks in three scoreless innings for Oklahoma City. … RHP Blake Treinen (shoulder) will throw live batting practice Friday in LA to several hitters, including OF Chris Taylor (foot). … RHP Walker Buehler (elbow) has started playing catch.
Rockies: RHP Antonio Senzatela’s left shin swelling had subsided a day after being hit by a comebacker. Senzatela played catch and said he should make his next start. … Joe returned after a three-game absence he said was due to back and neck stiffness. … LF Kris Bryant (plantar fasciitis) doubled and made a sliding catch in his first game in the field since Sunday. ”This is something he has to manage,” Black said. ”But he feels very capable of playing defense.” … OF Charlie Blackmon was out of the lineup to rest.
BARD’S FUTURE
Closer Daniel Bard confirmed there has been informal discussion with Colorado about a contract extension.
”I just know there’s been some interest,” Bard said.
The impending free agent has been mentioned as a trade candidate ahead of Tuesday’s deadline.
UP NEXT
Rockies RHP Chad Kuhl (6-5, 4.48 ERA) faces LHP Julio Urias (9-6, 2.72 ERA) on Friday night.
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ROME (AP) — The Italian Coast Guard on Friday rescued more than 100 migrants and recovered two bodies after a sailboat ran aground near a jetty in southern Italy.
A pair of rescue divers had to coax one survivor, who was clinging to a metal pylon jutting up from the water, to jump into the sea so they could bring him to safety. He was taken by motorboat to Siderno, a town on the west coast of Calabria, the region that forms the “toe” of the Italian boot-shaped peninsula.
One diver shouted, “Jump, jump!” and “Bravo!” to try to boost the man’s courage. Eventually, he leaned down to grab a diver’s outstretched hand.
In all, 108 migrants had been aboard the double-masted sailboat, which had beached and overturned on a sandy shore adjacent to the jetty, the coast guard said.
Sailboats and yachts usually carry far fewer migrants than traffickers’ unseaworthy fishing boats, which often attempt to sail from Libya to the Italian island of Sicily. In that way, the sailboats often avoid detection by appearing to be pleasure boats as they aim for remote stretches of Italy’s long Calabrian coast.
A police helicopter and an Italian coast guard helicopter searched the waters near the jetty in case there were any other survivors or victims, but the coast guard said no one appeared to be missing.
Italian state TV said most of the migrants were from Afghanistan.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The year was 2010 and the Justice Department’s prestigious public integrity section was still recovering from a costly debacle over the withholding of exculpatory evidence in a case against Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens.
The crisis had caused then-Attorney General Eric Holder, in a remarkable move, to ask a judge to throw out all convictions against the Republican lawmaker.
In search of a new leader for the unit, the Justice Department turned to a war crimes prosecutor in The Hague who’d cut his teeth in New York prosecuting state and federal crimes, including the brutal beating of a Haitian immigrant by police. Jack Smith told The Associated Press in an interview that year that he’d read about the Stevens case and couldn’t resist the chance to step in and run the section.
“I had a dream job and I had no desire to leave it, but opportunities like this don’t come up very often,” Smith said. “I left the dream job for a better one.”
Now, Smith has a new position that, if not necessarily a dream job, nonetheless places him at the center of two of the most significant Justice Department investigations in years. As a newly named special counsel, Smith will be tasked with overseeing probes into the retention of classified documents at former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate, Mar-a-Lago, as well as aspects of an investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election won by Democrat Joe Biden.
The investigations carry obvious political implications because they concern a former president and current White House hopeful — indeed, Attorney General Merrick Garland cited Trump’s entry into the race this week, along with Biden’s stated intention to run again, as reasons he acted now in appointing Smith on Friday.
Smith will presumably have to move swiftly to ensure his work concludes before the home stretch of the 2024 presidential election, given the Justice Department’s historic interest in avoiding action that could be seen as interfering in the outcome of a race.
Colleagues who have worked with Smith describe him as hard-charging, fast-working and passionate, a prosecutor who operates free of political persuasion and who is relentless about his cases. He displays a similar style outside court, where he is a competitive athlete who has participated in triathlons all over the world.
“He’s an exquisite lawyer and an exquisite prosecutor,” said Lanny Breuer, who led the Justice Department’s criminal division, which includes the public integrity section, at the time Smith was hired for the job. “He’s not political at all. He’s straight down the middle.”
The Harvard-educated Smith spent his formative years in New York, where his cases included the prosecution of police officers involved in the broomstick sodomy of Haitian immigrant Abner Louima. While in New York, he once spent a weekend sleeping in the hallway of an apartment building so he could intercept a victim who was afraid to testify in a domestic violence case. The woman wound up taking the stand after what Smith said was a “long, long talk.”
After a stint as a war crimes prosecutor, he rejoined the Justice Department to lead the public integrity section. During his tenure, the section pressed ahead with significant, but challenging, prosecutions against prominent public figures from both political parties.
Prosecutors scored a public corruption conviction against 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 and the Justice Department declined to try him again.
Although those two cases ultimately came up short, the section brought successful cases against a number of state officials charged with defrauding taxpayers as well as service members who defrauded the military. There were high-profile victories for the section, too.
Smith, for instance, led the unit when Arizona congressman Rick Renzi was convicted of corruption, a verdict that was left in place by the Supreme Court — though Trump pardoned the Republican before he left office. Former New York state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was indicted in 2015 on corruption charges, and was later sent to prison.
As chief, he also showed a willingness to walk away from cases when the evidence was insufficient, closing out some long-running investigations into political figures without charges. He told the AP in the same 2010 interview that “you have to be able to admit that if it’s not there, it’s not there.”
In 2015, Smith became a federal prosecutor in Nashville and later served as acting chief of that office before heading to private practice and, more recently, as chief prosecutor for the special court in The Hague tasked with investigating war crimes in Kosovo.
Alan Tieger, a fellow war crimes prosecutor who has worked with Smith, described him as “both a guy imbued with old-fashioned ideals but who’s relentless and driven and brilliant.” He said Smith “brings that entire skill set to bear.”
“You never see Jack dragging through a day,” Tieger said. “He’s full-on every day.”
Yet even in a career of high-profile cases, the Trump investigations are likely to be closely watched, his actions dissected by the public not just through a legal lens but also for their political impact.
He will be responsible for assessing whether Trump or anyone else should be prosecuted. His decisions are to be given such great deference that, under the regulations, should the Justice Department reject any major investigative step or move that Smith wants to take, it would have to notify Congress at the end of the investigation.
In a statement Friday, Smith pledged to conduct the investigations “independently and in the best traditions of the Department of Justice.”
“The pace of the investigations will not pause or flag under my watch,” he said. “I will exercise independent judgement and will move the investigations forward expeditiously and thoroughly to whatever outcome the facts and the law dictate.”
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council called Friday for a halt to fighting in Sudan and the protection of civilians.
The brief press statement followed closed consultations by the U.N.’s most powerful body.
The council also called for the scaling up of humanitarian assistance to Sudan and neighboring countries, support for humanitarian workers, and respect for international humanitarian law.
Sudan descended into conflict in mid-April after months of worsening tensions exploded into open fighting between rival generals seeking to control the African nation. The war pits the military, led by Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, against the Rapid Support Forces, a paramilitary force commanded by Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo.
A three-day cease-fire brokered by the United States and Saudi Arabia expired Wednesday morning and a protest group and residents said clashes resumed between the army and the paramilitary force in and around the capital, Khartoum.
The conflict has been centered largely in the capital and western Sudan’s Darfur region, which have seen ethnically motivated attacks on non-Arab communities by the Rapid Support Forces and allied militias, according to U.N. officials.
The fighting has killed thousands of people and forced more than 2.5 million people to flee their homes to safer areas in Sudan and neighboring countries, according the U.N. migration agency.
The U.N. said Thursday that in the two months after the conflict began, some 85 humanitarian groups reached 2.8 million people across Sudan with vital assistance, including food, water, health services, education, sanitation, hygiene, non-food supplies and protection services.
“Partners are delivering medical supplies and providing support to health facilities that are still operating. Between 15 April and 15 June, 19 organizations reached more than 470,000 people,” U.N. deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said. | 2023-06-24T10:26:05+00:00 | wboy.com | https://www.wboy.com/top-stories/ap-top-headlines/un-security-council-calls-for-halt-to-fighting-in-sudan-and-protection-of-civilians/ |
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There’s no better way to end a Fourth of July cookout feast of burgers and hot dogs than with a slice of pie. OK, maybe two, because who doesn’t go back for a second serving of lemon meringue, chocolate icebox or the all-American classic, apple pie?
And what we think of as pie is truly part of the backbone of American cuisine, evolving during the days of wagon trails from pielike pastries that date back to at least 5th century Greece. Settlers relied on pies as an affordable, portable and tasty source of nourishment. Because pies require less flour than bread, they could be cooked over a fire with a wide range of ingredients foraged as the seasons allowed.
With pie baked into our collective history, it’s no surprise we celebrate the Fourth with a slice.
San Antonio baker Jenn Riesman is swamped with holiday orders for the elaborate and enormous pies she bakes through her online bakery Rooster Crow Baking Co., roostercrowbakingco.com, to deliver to backyard bashes across the city.
For Riesman, pies are a way to celebrate both seasonality and sentimentality. She typically only bakes with fresh ingredients when they’re at peak ripeness for maximum flavor. In the spring, that means you’ll see strawberries all over the Instagram feed for her business. Right now, it’s plump blueberries at the center stage. Soon, the warm fall flavors of pumpkin and spice will take over.
Regardless of season, Riesman pours her heart into the flaky crusts of those pies, and hopes her customers can taste the love.
“Pies are a way to take your best ingredients and best intentions and wrap them in dough,” Riesman said. “Pie is the tastiest way to express love and affection for one another.”
And she’s certainly not the only pie game in town. Whether you’re picking up a whole pie to bring to a cookout or you just want to settle into the booth of a comfortable diner for a slice along with a cup of coffee, here are seven places for great pie in San Antonio.
Bird Bakery
The pies are literally personal at this Alamo Heights bakery owned by television personality Elizabeth Chambers — they’re all baked in individual 4-inch serving size tins. And they’re a big hit with Bird’s customers, so get there early in the day if you hope to find them in stock.
Bird’s chocolate pecan pie was the best pecan pie sampled for this story, with the deep and indulgent flavor of toasted nuts amplified by dark chocolate chips. The apple pie featured tangy fruit that retained a nice texture and a top crust doused with a heavy cloak of gooey caramel. Both pies had light and flaky crusts baked to a pale blond hue.
Bird Bakery, 5912 Broadway, 210-804-2473, birdbakery.com, Facebook: Bird Bakery (San Antonio)
Bobbie’s Cafe & Pie Bar
It’s right there in the name. This South Side institution, which is celebrating 50 years in business this summer, takes its pie seriously. The selection wasn’t huge — only two types of pie were available on a recent Friday morning — but each bite delivered pie perfection.
The lily-white slice of Key lime pie was bracingly tart with just enough sugar and crumbly graham cracker crust to tame its potent acidity. If you’re a fan of all things sour, this was by far the most lively of the Key lime pies I sampled. The peach pie arrived looking a bit disheveled, having suffered some cracks on its way from the baking tin to the plate, but appearance hardly mattered in this slice packed with vibrant fruit encased in a flaky crust baked to a deep and aromatic brown.
Bobbie’s Cafe & Pie Bar, 6728 S. Flores St., 210-923-1158, bobbiescafe.com, Facebook: @BobbiesCafe
The Bread Box
Owner Tina Kent brings both whimsy and technical excellence to the pies served at this bakery in The Alley on Bitters shopping complex on Bitters in Hill Country Village, and she typically has several varieties available including, multiple cool and refreshing icebox pies. Tap into childhood nostalgia with a slice of the Orange Creamsicle icebox pie. The colorful fluff studded with marshmallows over this pie’s dense graham cracker crust tastes remarkably like the ice pops many of us enjoyed as kids.
A slice of apple pie heavily loaded with slices of Granny Smith apples that had the perfect balance of tender and chewy textures shows off this bakery’s mastery of the craft. The Key lime pie is a best-seller here, and with good reason thanks to its dense filling that sings with the acidic tartness of fresh citrus.
The Bread Box, 555 W. Bitters Road, Suite 115, 210-277-8612, thebreadboxsa.com, Facebook: @thebreadboxsa
De Wese’s Tip Top Cafe
If mile-high billowing sails of meringue make your day, this venerable diner on Fredericksburg near San Antonio’s Deco District is the place to be. The pie selection varies daily here, but you’ll nearly always find at least one variety capped with comically tall meringue.
A slice of chocolate meringue pie sported a peaked dome of fluffy egg whites and sugar towering nearly a foot above its base of silken chocolate custard and a fine, flaky crust. Other slices sampled included a coconut pie with flakes of sweet coconut suspended in a smooth, eggy custard perfectly baked with a bronzed surface that added a bit of crunchy texture to each bite. The blueberry pie tasted of plump fresh fruit with a whiff of cinnamon and other warm spices.
De Wese’s Tip Top Cafe, 2814 Fredericksburg Road, 210-732-0191, Facebook: @tiptopcafesanantonio
Earl Abel’s
There may be no more beloved institution for pie in San Antonio than this Pearl-area eatery. You’ll find a half-dozen or more options in the pastry case at any given time, and picking a favorite won’t be an easy task. Most of the pies here sport pale, just-cooked crusts that flake into buttery crumbles with little more than a hungry glance.
The black-bottom chocolate cream pie is a good place to start, with a base layer of soulful chocolate custard set to an almost ganachelike thickness topped with bouncy vanilla pudding and a thick layer of peaky whipped cream. The maple pecan pie is another standout here, with a creamy maple-flavored filling laced with toasted pecans under a layer of whipped cream — like the sweetest stack of pancakes you’ve ever had.
Earl Abel’s, 1639 Broadway, 210-444-9424, earlabelssa.com, Facebook: Earl Abel’s Restaurant
Radicke’s Bluebonnet Grill
The best thing you can bring, besides an appetite, of course, to this East Side diner near the intersection of Interstate 10 and W.W. White Road is the knowledge that the pie is going to sell out. Before you even get seated or look at the menu, check out the pie case by the front door. Your server will gladly place a fork on the plate of the slice you select to make sure your claim is staked.
The buttermilk pie was the headlining star here. It’s not a common find in San Antonio restaurants, and Radicke’s is exceptional. The simple buttermilk filling remained supple and smooth in its razor-thin crust, and the surface of the pie was baked to a craggy brown shade with oodles of texture from deeply caramelized sugar. The coconut cream pie had a good balance of chewy grated coconut and bouncy custard under a raft of whipped cream.
Radicke’s Bluebonnet Grill, 237 N. WW White Road, 210-337-4007, Facebook: Radickes Bluebonnet Grill
Rooster Crow Baking Co.
The first thing you’ll notice about Rooster Crow’s pies is just how much pie is in every pan. Owner Jenn Riesman, who made her mark on San Antonio’s culinary scene preparing desserts for the Silo family of restaurants before hanging her own shingle, packs 5 pounds or more of goodness into these hefty things. Forget kettlebells. Carrying these pies around is exercise enough.
Rooster Crow’s blueberry cornbread pie is a centerpiece affair, although the name might be a bit confusing. This pie starts with a deeply browned and crisp crust packed with literal pounds of fresh, ripe blueberries. On top of the fruit, Riesman bakes a thin layer of moist cornbread. The whole thing gets capped with a thick layer of cream intensely flavored with molasses. And don’t miss the strawberry lemon pie, either. It boasts a thick layer of fresh fruit under a punchy lemon curd and a cloud of fluffy strawberry cream.
Rooster Crow Baking Co., 2015 NE Loop 410 at Los Patios, 512-689-5969, roostercrowbakingco.com, Facebook: @roostercrowbakingco
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For one night, the accesso ShoWare Center, the Kent arena where the team plays, was covered in rainbows. The Jumbotron displayed the Thunderbirds logo against a rainbow background. Fans wore handmade Pride shirts and waved Pride flags.
The fan-organized Pride Night came as National Hockey League (NHL) officials are pondering the future of Pride Nights, which started a few years ago as part of the league’s “Hockey is for Everyone” initiative to promote inclusivity among players and fans.
After several years of team Pride Nights with little fanfare, a few players have opted out for this season's events, citing everything from religious beliefs to politics. A few NHL teams decided not to hold a Pride Night at all.
But while the vocal opposition from a few players has generated much news coverage, the response to Pride Night during the Seattle Thunderbirds game last month shows there is much more support — at least in the Pacific Northwest — for such events.
Rebecca Bower, a social media manager in Seattle and a Thunderbirds fan who co-organized the Pride Night, said that other than a single snide comment on Facebook, the response was overwhelmingly positive.
“We had no idea it would get this big,” she said.
And the Seattle Thunderbirds Pride Night came about a week after the Seattle Kraken held its second annual Pride Night. During the March 13 event, team members wore a special Pride jersey designed by local LGBTQ+ artist Simson Chantha.
From fan discussions to reality
The Seattle Thunderbirds are part of the Western Hockey League (WHL), a junior ice hockey league consisting of teams from cities throughout Western Canada, Washington and Oregon. The league is part of the larger Canadian Hockey League, though teams from four U.S. states take part. The teams comprise of players ages 16 to 20, with a limited number of 15-year-old players. Many of them go on to play in the NHL.
At the start of the current season, Prokop was traded to the Seattle Thunderbirds.
Prokop is a Canadian who previously played in the WHL for the Edmonton Oil Kings and Calgary Hitmen. He was drafted by the Nashville Predators, his favorite NHL team, in 2020. As he was under the age of 20, he continued playing in the WHL rather than the NHL's development leagues.
When he came out as gay in 2021, he became the first player under an NHL contract to do so. And he’s been vocal about the resistance to Pride Nights among NHL players and teams.
“Pride nights and pride jerseys play an important role in promoting respect and inclusion for the LGBTQIA+ community, and it’s disheartening to see some teams no longer wearing them or not fully embracing their significance,” Prokop wrote in a statement he posted on Twitter March 20.
Jarred Shelton, a longtime fan who runs TBird Tidbits, a Twitter fan account and fan site, expected the Thunderbirds to organize a Pride Night this season, especially with Prokop on the roster.
Other WHL teams, including the Spokane Chiefs and Portland Winterhawks, held Pride Nights. But by January, with no word from the Thunderbirds about whether it would hold a Pride Night, Shelton took note.
That month, in response to a tweet, Shelton wrote, “While I would hesitate to do something just because other teams are doing it … this is a pretty big omission.”
That got Shelton thinking about whether fans should take the initiative and organize a Pride Night. A month later, Shelton tweeted a graphic for a TBirds Fan Pride Night during the March 21 game.
Bower saw the graphic and contacted Shelton about teaming up. Bower had been working on organizing something as well. She had been in contact with Prokop’s agent and staff from the team where she had worked as an intern several years ago.
Prokop’s agent and the team supported the event, allowing Bower to design a rainbow version of the Thunderbirds logo and print shirts that fans could wear during the event.
The collaboration was ideal, Shelton said. Shelton picked the date but was happy to let Bower take care of the details. Both had access to many fans — Shelton had a Twitter following, and Bower ran several Facebook fan groups.
After several weeks of rapid organization, Shelton and Bower experienced more than one kind of win on March 21: The Thunderbirds defeated the Kamloops Blazers. And the success of the Pride Night made Shelton and Bower feel like winners long before the game ended.
“It felt like a very different atmosphere, a real positive one,” Shelton said. “It was a normal game, but it was the environment of seeing people just being comfortable.”
The event generated buzz on social media, with several fans posting photos of themselves in rainbow gear and Pride flags. Several fans thanked Shelton and Bower for organizing the event.
“Seeing these young men support their teammate [Prokop] so wholeheartedly did my soul so much good,” said Michaela Gray, a hockey fan and romance author, on Twitter. “I thought it might make y’all happy, too, considering what’s been going on in the NHL lately.”
Gray’s initial tweet about the event went viral, generating more than 14,000 likes and more than 2,100 retweets.
Bower, who had met Prokop several times, said she and fans also made a gift bag, which consisted of a handmade Thunderbirds Pride shirt, for Prokop. She noticed Prokop taking in the visible symbols of support around the arena while warming up.
“You can tell he appreciated the fan support,” she said.
Prokop was not available to comment on this story. Phoebe Balshin, senior account manager for Dulcedo Sports & Entertainment, provided a written statement: “He was so grateful to the fans for organizing that night and appreciated all the additional support from his teammates in wearing pride tape and promoting the important message.”
Growing organically
A spokeswoman for the Seattle Thunderbirds did not respond to several e-mails and calls requesting comment.
Bower, who has talked to the team about the event, said the staff was glad to back the fan event after it could not organize one.
But Bower hopes the success of the fan-organized event may spur the team to be more involved in the future. She’s hoping to talk to the team in the off-season, so there’s plenty of time to plan.
“They want to have more discussion,” she said. “[The fan event] gave them a good idea of how the event can go.”
The annual Pride Night for the Spokane Chiefs also started from the initiative of a single person, in this case a former player. Before a game in 2017, Jaret Anderson-Dolan wrapped his hockey stick in rainbow tape to show support for his mothers and other members of the LGBTQ+ community. His teammates joined in.
Anderson-Dolan said in a 2017 Spokesman-Review article that some people told him before the WHL draft that teams would not draft him because of his two mothers. He said was glad to be drafted by the Chiefs, which fully supported him and his family.
Anderson-Dolan now plays in the NHL with the Los Angeles Kings, but that spirit of inclusivity has remained in the Spokane Chiefs, which has held a Pride Night annually for several years.
Now fans can pre-order a Pride-themed T-shirt to wear during the event. And during its Pride Night games, the team provides tables for groups and organizations that support the LGBTQ+ community, including Spokane Pride, the Spokane AIDS Network and PFLAG Spokane.
Pride Night is one of the most popular events among fans, said Jay Stewart, the team’s vice president of business operations.
“We want to be inclusive to some groups that aren’t necessarily involved in hockey as they would like to be or can be,” he said.
Speaking out for inclusion
It’s not surprising to see young fans and players support Pride Nights, said Mark Alan Smith, a political science professor at the University of Washington.
“Gen Z, they’re more supportive of LGBTQ+,” he said. “They’ve grown up in a social media age. They’re used to constantly saying and doing things to signal allegiance to a cause. Older generations of athletes are much more like, ‘I just want to play hockey or basketball.’”
Shelton, who is in his early 40s, said fans his age and older must reject the notion that sports are an escape from social issues.
When “people say they don’t want to see politics in sports, it’s that they don’t want to hear voices apart from their own in sports,” Shelton said. “They don’t want to be confronted with something they’re uncomfortable with.”
Shelton said that hockey’s reach has been broadening. Hockey players are not just from the cold regions of Canada and the U.S. The fan base and players are diversifying beyond straight white men. Promoting inclusion, he feels, is vital in growing participation and fan engagement.
“It’s just about people wanting to feel they belong somewhere and comfortable with who they are,” he said.
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TAMPA, Fla., June 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- According to a recent comprehensive guide to auto insurance discounts, AutoInsurance.org discovered that Progressive offers more discounts than anyone else. Farmers comes in at a close second.
There's more to discounts than the number of available options, though. The discount percentage and the ability to stack discounts are factors that matter just as much or more, depending on a person's situation.
Auto Insurance Providers Ranked by Available Discounts
Customers may benefit from more discount options. Here are six major companies ranked from most to least discount options:
- Progressive – 36
- Farmers – 34
- Geico – 32
- Allstate – 29
- 21st Century – 22
- State Farm – 20
Insurance companies offer many discounts in common, but some providers offer unique discounts. AutoInsurance.org has published an exhaustive list of discounts available by company.
Auto insurance discounts can be broken down into three categories.
Vehicle discounts are mostly safety feature-related. Not every company will offer a discount for each individual safety feature. Still, chances are high that a newer vehicle with excellent safety features will qualify for several safety discounts, including the following:
- Automatic braking
- Blindspot warning
- Forward collision warning
Providers may also offer discounts for new cars, hybrid or electric vehicles, and farm vehicles.
Melanie Musson, a nationally recognized insurance expert with AutoInsurance.org, says, "Vehicle-related safety discounts can help offset the higher cost to insure newer cars."
A customer's driving history has a significant impact on rates, and a good driver discount can provide substantial savings. Most insurers offer a discount for bundling home and auto insurance and insuring multiple vehicles.
One driver-related discount that many are surprised to learn of is the good credit discount. Both Progressive and State Farm offer this way to save.
People in some lines of work are eligible for a discount. For example, nurses and other healthcare workers are qualified for savings with some insurance policies. Another popular discount that most insurers offer is for military service.
Other personal discounts include good student, further education, and recent graduate.
Check out AutoInsurance.org's complete analysis of auto insurance discounts here: Auto Insurance Discounts (2023).
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MIAMI (AP) — Former President Donald Trump improperly shared a Pentagon “plan of attack” and a classified map related to a military operation, according to a sweeping 37-count felony indictment related to the mishandling of classified documents that was unsealed Friday and that could instantly reshape the 2024 presidential race.
The indictment paints an unmistakably damning portrait of Trump’s treatment of sensitive information, accusing him of willfully defying Justice Department demands to return documents he had taken from the White House to Mar-a-Lago, enlisting aides in his efforts to hide the records and even telling his lawyers that he wanted to defy a subpoena for the materials stored in his estate.
“I don’t want anybody looking through my boxes,” one of Trump’s lawyers described the former president saying, according to the indictment. He also asked if it would be better “if we just told them we don’t have anything here," the indictment says.
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Making his first public statements, Jack Smith, the Justice Department special counsel who filed the case, said: “Our laws that protect national defense information are critical to the safety and security of the United States and they must be enforced. Violations of those laws put our country at risk."
He added, "We have one set of laws in this country and they apply to everyone.”
The indictment arrives at a time when Trump is continuing to dominate the Republican presidential primary and one day before a scheduled campaign trip to North Carolina. Though other candidates have largely attacked the Justice Department, rather than Trump, for the investigation, the indictment's breadth of allegations and startling scope will be harder for Republicans to rail against than an earlier New York criminal case that many legal analysts had derided as weak.
The 49-page charging document, alleging that Trump not only intentionally possessed classified documents but also cavalierly and boastfully showed them off to visitors, is startling in scope and in the breadth of allegations. The indictment is built on Trump's own words and actions as recounted to prosecutors by lawyers, close aides and other witnesses, with prosecutors even using against Trump his own words as a candidate and president professing to respect and know procedures related to the handling of classified information.
The indictment includes 37 counts — 31 of which pertain to the willful retention of national defense information, with the balance relating to alleged conspiracy, obstruction and false statements —that taken together could result in a yearslong prison sentence.
Trump is due to make his first court appearance Tuesday in federal court in Miami. He was charged alongside Walt Nauta, an aide and close adviser to Trump who prosecutors say brought boxes from a storage room to Trump's residence for him to review and later lied to investigators about the movement. A photograph included in the indictment shows several dozen file boxes stacked in a storage area.
Noting the “tens of thousands of members and guests” who visited the “active social club” of Mar-a-Lago between the end of Trump’s presidency in January 2021 through the August 2022 search, prosecutors argued that Trump had “nevertheless” stored the documents there, “including in a ballroom, a bathroom and shower, and office space, his bedroom, and a storage room.”
The case adds to deepening legal jeopardy for Trump, who has already been indicted in New York and faces additional investigations in Washington and Atlanta that also could lead to criminal charges. But among the various investigations he has faced, legal experts — as well as Trump's own aides — had long seen the Mar-a-Lago probe as the most perilous threat and the one most ripe for prosecution. Campaign aides had been bracing for the fallout since Trump’s attorneys were notified that he was the target of the investigation, assuming it was not a matter of if charges would be brought, but when.
Enumerating the defense and foreign intelligence-related information included in the documents, prosecutors wrote that their “unauthorized disclosure ... could put at risk the national security of the United States, foreign relations, the safety of the United States military, and human sources and the continued viability of sensitive intelligence collection methods.”
Associated Press writers Bill Barrow in Atlanta, Michael R. Sisak in New York, Jill Colvin and Meg Kinnard in Greensboro, North Carolina, and Gary Fields and Zeke Miller in Washington contributed to this report.
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Officers are asking for the public's help to find a missing Oakland Park woman who may be in need of medication.
Broward Sheriff's Office officials said 38-year-old Jessica Cohen was last seen Thursday around 8:30 a.m. in the area of 5757 North Dixie Highway.
Cohen is 5'9" tall and weighs around 150 pounds. BSO said she deals with mental illnesses that requires medication.
Anyone with information is asked to call BSO at 954-764-HELP.
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General Daily Insight for June 24, 2023
Wounded egos and pushed buttons are difficult to avoid on a day like this. The Moon is moving through analytical Virgo, which can push us to inspect everything that much more critically. This critical view gets turned on our own perceived failings, however, when the Moon makes an uncomfortable quincunx to wounded warrior Chiron at 10:13 pm EDT, stirring up old hurts and baggage. It's important to avoid spiraling and turning molehills into mountains, because what looks awful today shouldn't be nearly so bad tomorrow.
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Aries
March 21-April 19
It's one of those days when you can't help feeling off. There is an awkward alignment between the Moon in your 6th House of Health and Chiron in your own sign, so it wouldn't be one bit shocking if your energy levels are lower than usual. Normal tasks may feel excessively daunting or demanding, or your mind is simply out of capacity to handle every upcoming responsibility. There's nothing wrong with having an unproductive day every so often -- don't let this get you down.
Taurus
April 20-May 20
A negative voice in your head could derail your more expressive urges. You're allowed to seek out the spotlight as the Moon steps through your 5th House of Creativity, but that urge gets checked when she connects to sensitive Chiron in your 12th House of the Subconscious. Be careful how you speak to yourself, because this aspect can make it far too easy for you to condemn your efforts. Keep in mind that no one else is likely to be so judgmental. Treat yourself kindly.
Gemini
May 21-June 20
There's nothing wrong with feeling more sensitive than normal, but that doesn't mean other people will automatically be aware of your current state. You're prone to being a little thin-skinned while the Moon moves through your 4th House of Emotions, but her awkward angle to Chiron in your 11th House of Social Groups could have other people thinking you're just being dramatic. Avoid leaning on others for sympathy, since you probably won't get it. That said, people should understand you need space to feel.
Cancer
June 21-July 22
A cavalier attitude could come back to bite you at any moment. You're a bit all over the place as the Moon tours your busy 3rd house, but you risk neglecting the essentials when she makes an uncomfortable quincunx to Chiron in your professional 10th house. Make sure you're keeping up a competent face, because a supervisor may notice you in a second of scatter-brained behavior, and remember it for longer than you'd like. Save any silliness for your own time.
Leo
July 23-August 22
Fulfilling your basic needs may come at the expense of more exciting ideas. You're keenly focused on material security as the Moon explores your 2nd House of Wealth, but you might wind up asking yourself what's the point of it all when the Moon fusses over Chiron in your high-minded 9th house. Contemplating greener pastures is simple, but today, you need to focus on the pasture you're already in, even if it doesn't seem very appealing. You can move beyond it another day.
Virgo
August 23-September 22
An important conversation could feel like an intrusion today. It's natural to be dealing with your personal business as the Moon visits your sign, but you might have to face more serious matters when the Moon makes an uncomfortable quincunx to Chiron in your 8th House of Shared Resources. You may have to parse out some financial matters, or perhaps have a serious talk about boundaries, when you'd rather just chill. Accept that your agenda isn't the only one happening right now.
Libra
September 23-October 22
Someone may hit on a flaw in an otherwise brilliant of yours. You are prone to being a little bit out of it as the Moon drifts through your imaginative 12th house, and another person will plausibly be all too aware of that as the precise Moon connects to Chiron in your partnership sector. Try not to take it too personally, even if they deliver their thoughts in a personal manner -- chances are, they don't truly understand how their words make you feel.
Scorpio
October 23-November 21
Responsibilities are probably standing in the way of more exciting things at this time. Partying with your favorite group would be extra fun while the Moon spins through your 11th House of Social Delights, but work may demand your presence once the Moon makes a gruff quincunx to Chiron in your 6th House of Daily Work. It's possible that you forgot about an assignment, or some last-minute chore could pop up. Make a point of efficiently handling your tasks before returning to relaxation.
Sagittarius
November 22-December 21
Your inner child could feel rather neglected at the moment. The Moon in your ambitious 10th house is urging you upward and onward, even when her stressful angle to Chiron in your fun-loving 5th house may make it seem like you've forgotten why you started in the first place. If you feel like you've lost touch with the person you used to be, then sit down and consider how to pacify your inner self. After that, you can get back to making power moves uninhibited.
Capricorn
December 22-January 19
One minute you want to spread your wings, the next you don't want to leave the couch. The world is welcoming you out to play, thanks to the Moon shimmying through your 9th House of Travel, but you may suddenly feel overwhelmed by the possibilities when the Moon quincunxes Chiron in your 4th House of Emotions. It's alright if you want to explore the world from the comfort of an armchair for the time being -- you can still plan future adventures for yourself.
Aquarius
January 20-February 18
Getting on the same page as everyone else may prove to be a headache. You're in a rather serious mood as the Moon rolls through your all-or-nothing 8th house, but everyone else could seemingly refuse to settle down while the Moon syncs up with Chiron in your chatty 3rd house. It may be easier on your emotions to avoid casual conversations until another day. Talking about things isn't likely to provide a cathartic solution, so stay focused on your internal concerns.
Pisces
February 19-March 20
Basic matters could stand in the way of quality time with someone special. Your most important relationships are highlighted as the Moon journeys through your 7th House of Partnerships, but they may need to be set aside when the Moon aligns with Chiron in your 2nd House of Income, bringing work and money matters to the front. Try not to let concerns over your own status impact someone else, but be honest if you can't be as attentive as you originally planned to be. | 2023-06-24T06:35:31+00:00 | chicagotribune.com | https://www.chicagotribune.com/horoscopes/sns-daily-horoscopes-06242023-20230624-p27opjuvezejzmv2gtx4tpbfk4-story.html |
NEW YORK (AP)Minnesota Wild forward Mason Shaw was suspended by the NHL for two games on Friday for kneeing San Jose Sharks forward Evgeny Svechnikov.
The 24-year-old Shaw will miss games on Tuesday night at Winnipeg and Thursday night at home against Dallas. Based on his average annual salary, Shaw also will forfeit $8,108.10 that will go to the Players’ Emergency Assistance Fund.
The play with Shaw occurred during the second period of Minnesota’s 5-2 loss at San Jose on Thursday’s night. Shaw was assessed a major penalty for kneeing and game misconduct.
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Dozens of survivors are coming forward with rape and sexual assault accusations against a man some call the Harvey Weinstein of the fashion industry. A group of former models have been in Paris this week talking to French investigators. But as Rebecca Rosman reports, the statute of limitations in France means criminal charges are unlikely. And we want to warn our listeners that this story discusses sexual abuse.
CARRE SUTTON: First of all, thank you all for coming. It is really surreal to be back in Paris.
REBECCA ROSMAN, BYLINE: In the late '80s, Carre Sutton, who then went by Carre Otis, moved to Paris with a promise that she was being given the modeling opportunity of a lifetime. Speaking to a room of journalists earlier this week, Sutton displays a magazine with her face on the cover.
SUTTON: It is roughly 30 years ago that this photo was taken of me. This was my first French Elle cover. I was 17 years old, and I remember it vividly. And at the same time the photo was taken, Gerald Marie had started to sexually assault me.
ROSMAN: At the time, Marie was the European head of Elite Model Management, one of the world's top agencies. Sutton was sent to live in a spare room at the Paris apartment Marie shared with his then-wife, supermodel Linda Evangelista. While Evangelista was away on assignment, Sutton says Marie repeatedly raped and sexually assaulted her.
SUTTON: And it was made very, very clear that if I protested his advances and the relationship that he wanted that it would impact my career. And that's exactly what happened. As soon as I did push back, I didn't work in France again.
ROSMAN: Sutton and the other former models allege they were trafficked into Marie's hands by their agents. Marie, who now lives on the Spanish island of Ibiza, insists he's innocent. Sara Ziff is the founder of the Model Alliance, a New York-based nonprofit that works with abuse survivors in the fashion industry. She says while Marie's widespread abuse was an open secret in the industry, he's evaded punishment.
SARA ZIFF: That changes today. Sexual abuse is pervasive in the modeling industry - in an industry that routinely normalizes abuse and puts pressure on survivors to remain silent so as not to risk their careers.
ROSMAN: Although these accusations fall outside the 20-year statute of limitations in France, they're hoping their testimonies will inspire more recent victims of sexual abuse to come forward. Anne-Claire Le Jeune, the lawyer representing the women, says there should be no time limit in bringing these cases to court.
ANNE-CLAIRE LE JEUNE: We really need to take in considerations that victim needs time before coming forward. Twenty or 30 years, it's a lot, but for victim of abuse sometimes is nothing. That's why I think it will be great that for crimes on minor, there is no statute.
ROSMAN: Carre Sutton has also filed another claim against Marie and her then-agent in New York, which recently temporarily lifted the statute of limitations in cases involving a minor. But Sutton, who was only 17 when she says Marie abused her, says neither the French or the American case is really about putting someone in jail.
SUTTON: I'm really in this to see change within this industry. There's been decades of allegations and cries and decades of reporting on these abuses, and still we stand here today. There's not enough change.
ROSMAN: Sutton says accountability is important, and she has yet to receive an apology from anyone at Elite Model Management.
For NPR News, I'm Rebecca Rosman in Paris.
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PITTSBURGH (AP) _ Kennametal Inc. (KMT) on Monday reported fiscal fourth-quarter net income of $41.7 million.
On a per-share basis, the Pittsburgh-based company said it had net income of 50 cents. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, were 53 cents per share.
The results surpassed Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of five analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 47 cents per share.
The engineered products maker posted revenue of $530 million in the period, also topping Street forecasts. Four analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $521.8 million.
For the year, the company reported profit of $144.6 million, or $1.72 per share. Revenue was reported as $2.01 billion.
For the current quarter ending in October, Kennametal said it expects revenue in the range of $480 million to $500 million.
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The Biden administration is hosting a summit this week that brings together leaders of 49 African countries, as well as heads of the African Union, to collaborate on key policy across climate change, security and trade.
Vice President Harris opened the three-day summit on Tuesday at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, where she discussed the African diaspora and young African leaders.
President Biden is expected to join the summit on Wednesday and deliver remarks on the U.S.-Africa Business Forum.
While a significant majority of African nations joined the summit this week, five were not invited.
A senior White House official this week said four of those countries — Guinea, Sudan, Mali and Burkina Faso — have changed their governments unconstitutionally and were suspended from the African Union.
Here are the five African nations that weren’t invited to Biden’s summit:
Guinea
The ruling government in Guinea was seized by a military junta in September 2021 and is now led by Col. Mamady Doumbouya.
The military junta overthrew President Alpha Condé, who had won a controversial third term for office despite term limits, which he claimed did not apply to him.
Doumbouya agreed in October to hold new elections in about two years.
Sudan
Sudanese Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan toppled the government in October 2021, taking power during the northeast African nation’s transition to a democracy after three decades of authoritarian rule.
Sudan’s military leadership announced this month the first phase of an agreement to transition to a democracy, but some political groups have rejected the framework, and discussions are ongoing.
Millions of people in Sudan are in dire need of humanitarian assistance, a crisis that grew worse after the coup. Civilian demonstrators also frequently clash with security forces.
Mali
Col. Assimi Goïta seized power in Mali two years ago after leading a coup against the government.
He failed to transition the West African country into new democratic elections and has become a pariah to the international world.
Mali also recently rejected help from French humanitarian groups, affecting hundreds of thousands of Malians who are in need of emergency food and medical assistance.
Earlier this year, France, which had fought Islamic terrorist groups for nine years in Mali, completed a withdrawal of troops from the country.
Russian mercenaries in Mali have also been accused of murdering civilians in a growing concern for world leaders.
Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso, located in West Africa, is in a dire humanitarian situation after suffering from two coups in less than nine months.
Troops in September ousted the ruling military leader, Lt. Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, who had won control of the country through a January coup.
A militia leader appointed to replace him said Damiba had not done enough to control violence in Burkina Faso.
More than 3,200 people have died in the African country from January to September, and nearly 5 million are in need of emergency assistance.
Some women and children have been eating leaves and salt for weeks, the United Nations said in October.
Eritrea
The U.S. does not have formal ties with Eritrea, a country located in the Horn of Africa in the eastern region of the continent, so the nation’s leaders were not invited.
Eritrea has also been providing military support to neighboring Ethiopia, which is in the midst of a civil war against an opposing political faction in the region of Tigray.
Eritrean troops are accused of the kidnapping, looting and murder of civilians in Tigray, and the U.S. has called for the Eritrean soldiers to withdraw from the conflict.
The Associated Press contributed to this report. | 2022-12-14T01:04:06+00:00 | siouxlandproud.com | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/hill-politics/these-five-african-countries-were-not-invited-to-bidens-summit/ |
Ronaldo a solitary figure after being benched at World Cup
LUSAIL, Qatar (AP) — Cristiano Ronaldo was a solitary figure as he walked off the field following a World Cup match in which he was not the center of attention.
He’d come off the bench in a 6-1 victory over Switzerland on Tuesday that moved Portugal into the quarterfinals. Ronaldo’s 21-year-old replacement scored a hat trick in the win — a performance sure to raise questions over Ronaldo’s future with his national team.
Ronaldo congratulated Gonçalo Ramos at midfield at the end of the game, then walked toward the Portugal section of fans and briefly clapped in their direction.
But as the rest of the squad made had their moment of fan appreciation, Ronaldo left his teammates behind and walked off alone through the tunnel.
Ronaldo breezed through the post-match interview area with a huge grin on his face, only responding to one question: Was he happy?
“Of course, of course,” the superstar grinned. “Portugal won.”
Really?
Fernando Santos expressed frustration with his 37-year-old star the day before he dropped Ronaldo from the starting lineup.
Santos said the decision was tactical and not disciplinary, but he’d acknowledged Monday he was bothered by Ronaldo’s poor attitude after he pulled him late in a 2-1 loss to South Korea in the final game of group play.
“I think those issues have been solved. I said that in my last press conference and I repeat myself: This is something which is finished, solved,” Santos said. “I have a very close relationship with (Ronaldo). I have known him since he was 19 years old in Sporting.
“I think Ronaldo and I never misinterpret the human and personal aspect with that of manager and player, and what we need to do during the match,” the coach added. “That is what we will do. I will always consider he is a very important player to have in the team.”
Santos instead started Ramos, a little-known forward who made his international debut three weeks ago. Ramos’ first career start for his national team came as Ronaldo’s replacement and he scored on just his fourth touch of the game in the 17th minute to give Portugal a 1-0 lead.
Santos added goals in the 51st — a goal Ronaldo celebrated as he warmed up on the sidelines with the rest of the substitutes — and again in the 67th.
Bruno Fernandes, who also played with Ronaldo at Manchester United, was the only member of the Portugal squad to indicate Ronaldo wasn’t pleased with being benched. Fernandes seemed prepared for the controversy surrounding Ronaldo and stood firm in defending him as a Portugal team representative tried multiple times to pull Fernandes away.
“We won the first two games with Cristiano in the first 11, and it could be that if Cristiano played, he could score three goals and no one would be speaking about Cristiano being on the bench,” Fernandes said. “Cristiano is doing his job, he’s doing his part, he’s happy with the result because the goal for everyone is to go as far as possible.
“I don’t think people should be talking about Cristiano and why he’s not playing, because when Cristiano plays and the team wins, no one talks about that,” Fernandes continued. “When Cristiano plays and the team loses, everyone talks.”
Fernandes called Ronaldo “the most famous player in the world. No one is more famous than Cristiano in sports, not in football, in sports.” But when Fernandes was asked about Ramos’ reaction to getting the start, he defensively turned the question toward Ronaldo.
“Do you think anyone likes to be on the bench?” Fernandes said. “I don’t think Cristiano would be happy. If the manager put me on the bench in the next game, I would be angry.”
The match marked the first time Ronaldo didn’t lead his teammates onto the field as the captain in Qatar, with Pepe taking the armband. The 39-year-old defender then scored Portugal’s second goal, with Ronaldo running off the bench to hug the veteran near one of the corners.
By the time Portugal had taken a 4-1 lead, the crowd at Lusail Stadium was loudly chanting “Ronaldo! Ronaldo!” for the star to enter the game. The cheers then turned to boos directed at Santos for ignoring the pleas.
Ronaldo, wearing a yellow substitute bib in the dugout, was expressionless as the crowd called for him. When he was finally sent onto the field in the 72nd, the crowd erupted. Pepe wrapped the captain’s armband on Ronaldo’s bicep before Ronaldo jogged onto the field.
This is expected to be Ronaldo’s final World Cup.
Ramos, who has 21 goals this season for Portuguese club Benfica, made his debut for Portugal last month in a warmup game against Nigeria and scored his first international goal. He replaced Ronaldo late in the opening World Cup match against Ghana, and again against Uruguay.
Ronaldo opened the tournament with a goal against Ghana to become the first player to score in five different World Cups. But he was ineffective in Portugal’s final two games of group play and has been shadowed by distractions since arriving in Qatar.
Ronaldo cut ties with Manchester United before Portugal’s first game, and he’s reportedly being wooed by a Saudi Arabian team with the promise of an exorbitant paycheck. And, a poll in Portugal showed that fans in his home country wanted the superstar dropped from the lineup.
It’s not unprecedented for Ronaldo to get less playing time, because the aging superstar has faded of late. He barely played in the Premier League for United through the first half of the season, and Santos dropped him from the Portugal lineup for a Nations League game against Spain in March.
With Ronaldo, Portugal has advanced to the round of 16 of the World Cup in four of his five tournaments, but he’s never played in a final at the tournament. Portugal in 2006 lost to France in the semifinals — the deepest Ronaldo has ever reached at the World Cup.
Although he’s scored in five tournaments, he has only eight goals in 20 World Cup matches. His 118 goals in international play is a world record for men, but Ronaldo has never scored in the knockout stage of the World Cup.
Lionel Messi, Ronaldo’s greatest rival over the years, has scored three goals so far in this World Cup and helped Argentina reach the quarterfinals. Messi has nine career World Cup goals, and like Ronaldo, has never won the tournament.
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SAN DIEGO (KSWB) — Mikey Williams, a high school basketball star with a massive social media following, was arrested Thursday in San Diego, the county sheriff’s department confirmed.
Jail records show 18-year-old Michael Anthony Williams, born June 26, 2004, was taken into custody in the Jamul area of San Diego around 3:30 p.m. He was arrested on suspicion of five counts of assault with a deadly weapon, SDSO Sgt. Gavin Lanning confirmed to Nexstar’s KSWB.
Officials said Williams had one firearm in his possession at the time of his arrest.
Williams was booked into the San Diego Central Jail with a bail set at $50,000. He has since posted bond and is no longer in police custody.
Williams, who played basketball for San Ysidro High School, has amassed millions of followers online and had committed to play for the University of Memphis basketball team next season. In a statement, representatives from the university’s athletics department said they are “aware of the situation and are gathering more information.”
As of Friday morning, Williams had deactivated his Instagram account, which had nearly 4 million followers.
The circumstances that led to Williams’ arrest are not yet known. Authorities did not immediately confirm the status of any possible victims related to the arrest.
Williams, who reportedly signed an endorsement deal with Puma in 2021, is currently ranked by ESPN as the 34th best high school basketball prospect in the country for the Class of 2023.
KSWB has reached out to the Sweetwater Union High School District, San Ysidro High School and the University of Memphis for a statement regarding the arrest.
This is a developing story. | 2023-04-14T19:34:18+00:00 | pahomepage.com | https://www.pahomepage.com/uncategorized/prep-basketball-star-mikey-williams-arrested-on-suspicion-of-assault-with-deadly-weapon/ |
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. — National Park Service officials say a Colorado man was injured earlier this week after being gored by a bison.
In a news release, agency officials said the man and his family were walking on a boardwalk near Giant Geyser at Old Faithful on Monday when a bison charged them.
A video of the incident appeared to show the man behind the animal as he tried to protect his family when a child is seen running away and the bison chasing after the child, the Associated Press reported.
The news outlet reported that the video shows the victim grabbing the child when he was thrown by the bison while still holding onto the child.
Park officials said the man injured his arm and was taken to a nearby hospital.
The incident is being investigated, the agency said.
According to NPS, this marks the second incident this year involving a park visitor getting gored by a bison.
"Bison are unpredictable and can run three times faster than humans," the agency said in the news release. | 2022-06-29T18:38:11+00:00 | wrtv.com | https://www.wrtv.com/news/national/colorado-man-injured-after-bison-gores-him-at-yellowstone |
To improve student retention, some colleges consider 'ungrading' By Ki Sung Published June 17, 2023 05:01 AM Facebook Twitter Listen • 5:04 Some colleges are trying something surprising to make sure their freshman students make it back to campus for sophomore year: ditching letter grades. Copyright 2023 KQED | 2023-06-17T13:32:03+00:00 | kpcc.org | https://www.kpcc.org/2023-06-17/to-improve-student-retention-some-colleges-consider-ungrading |
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Transgender activists in Pakistan said they plan to appeal to the highest court in the land an Islamic court’s ruling that guts a law aimed at protecting their rights.
The Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act was passed by Parliament in 2018 to secure the fundamental rights of transgender Pakistanis. It ensures their access to legal gender recognition, among other rights.
Many Pakistanis have entrenched beliefs on gender and sexuality and transgender people are often considered outcasts. Some are forced into begging, dancing and even prostitution to earn money. They also live in fear of attacks.
The Federal Shariat Court on Friday struck down several provisions of the landmark law, terming them “un-Islamic.”
It ruled that a person cannot change their gender on the basis of “innermost feeling” or “self-perceived identity” and must conform to the biological sex assigned to them at the time of birth.
The Shariah court has the constitutional mandate of examining and determining whether laws passed by Pakistan’s parliament comply with Islamic doctrine.
Around a dozen activists protested in the southern port city of Karachi on Saturday against the ruling.
Lawyer Sara Malkani, who was speaking at an event organized by the Gender Interactive Alliance, denied the legislation was un-Islamic. She said the existence of two genders did not limit the concept of gender identity and that Islamic texts, including the Quran, did not associate specific behavior to specific genders.
“We absolutely intend to appeal the court’s findings to the Supreme Court, and we will prevail,” said Nayyab Ali, executive director of Transgender Rights Consultants Pakistan, at a news conference Friday.
Ali said the transgender community was “mourning the decimation” of Pakistan’s first transgender rights protection legislation in response to the Islamic court’s finding.
However, clerics and representatives from religious parties say the law has the potential to promote homosexuality in this conservative country with a Muslim majority. They want the Islamic court to annul the law.
The Shariah court ruled that the term “transgender” as it is used in the law creates confusion. It covers several biological variations, including intersex, transgender men, transgender women and Khawaja Sira, a Pakistani term commonly used for those who were born male but identify as female.
It also rejected a clause in the law in which the country’s national database and registration authority permits the change of a person’s biological gender from the one they were assigned at birth in identification documents including drivers licenses and passports.
It said permitting any person to change their gender in accordance with his or her inner feeling or self-perceived identity will create “serious religious, legal and social problems.”
For example it will allow a transgender woman — a person who is biologically male — to access social and religious gatherings of females or women-only public places, and vice versa, it said.
“This law will pave the way for criminals in society to easily commit crimes like sexual molestation, sexual assault and even rape against females in the disguise of a transgender woman,” the court ruled.
However, the court said Islamic law recognizes the existence of intersex people and eunuchs and said they should be entitled to all the fundamental rights provided to Pakistanis in the constitution.
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan expressed dismay over the “regressive ruling” and said the denial of transgender people’s rights to self-perceived gender identity seeks the “erasure of an entire demographic and its fundamental rights.” It said rolling back the transgender bill will lead to further marginalization and abuse of an already vulnerable community in Pakistan.
Amnesty International called on the government to stop any attempts to prevent transgender people from obtaining official documents reflecting their gender identity without complying with abusive and invasive requirements.
“This verdict is a blow to the rights of the already beleaguered group of transgender and gender-diverse people in Pakistan,” said Rehab Mahamoor, research assistant at Amnesty International, in a statement.
She said any steps to deny transgender and gender-diverse people the right to determine their own gender identity would violate international human rights law.
Sana, 40, a eunuch in Rawalpindi who asked to be identified by one name, told The Associated Press on Saturday that she favored the court’s ruling because a large number of gay men were being included in her “original and by-birth” eunuch community.
She alleged that those who become transgender men through surgical castration are “denying the rights” of her community by affecting their access to employment opportunities under the government’s job quota reserved for their community. | 2023-05-21T06:45:04+00:00 | wate.com | https://www.wate.com/news/national/ap-international/ap-pakistani-transgender-activists-to-appeal-shariah-court-ruling-against-law-aimed-at-protecting-them/ |
North Dakota has filed a second lawsuit against the federal government over the Biden administration's halting of oil and gas lease sales on federal lands.
The suit filed Jan. 5 in U.S. District Court in Bismarck states that the Interior Department has “unlawfully canceled all but one of the eight quarterly federal oil and gas lease sales” in North Dakota in the past two years that were required under the federal Mineral Leasing Act.
The Attorney General's Office argues that this is “causing irreparable harm to North Dakota” because the state is losing hundreds of millions of dollars in royalties. North Dakota is asking a federal judge to compel Interior to hold previously canceled sales and prohibit the federal government from halting future sales.
Interior officials declined comment to the Tribune on the lawsuit. The government had not filed a formal response in federal court as of midday Thursday.
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President Joe Biden issued an executive order shortly after taking office in January 2021 to pause the federal leasing program as part of efforts to address climate change. He announced a review of the program "to restore balance on America's public land and waters to benefit current and future generations."
An affidavit filed by state Mineral Resources Director Lynn Helms maintains that the failure to conduct lease sales will result in delaying the development of more than 53,000 federal, state and private mineral acres.
“The 292 wells that are prevented from being drilled represent 584 full-time long-term upstream industry jobs based upon the most recent study of the economic impacts of North Dakota's oil and gas industry and confirmed by the job losses that occurred during the COVID pandemic. This excludes the short-term jobs for drilling and completion of the wells,” Helms stated.
The lawsuit claims the "unlawful interference with North Dakota’s sovereign rights" could cost the state about $1 billion in revenue over the next decade.
Those dollars help support education, water projects, health and human services, as well as counties, cities and statewide infrastructure, Special Assistant Attorney General Paul Seby said in the complaint.
North Dakota first sued over the matter in July 2021, and that case is on hold. The judge in that lawsuit ruled last October that the state could not challenge quarterly lease sale cancellations that occurred after the filing of the lawsuit, leading to the new suit.
Conservation groups including the Dakota Resource Council and the Sierra Club have intervened in the first case. They seek to protect public lands from oil development.
The federal moratorium on oil and gas leasing also is the subject of a multistate lawsuit filed in Louisiana. A judge in that case last fall issued a permanent injunction against the Biden administration. But the blocking of Biden's order applies only in the 13 states that sued, and North Dakota was not among them. The state didn't join in large part because the Louisiana suit was primarily related to offshore leasing, state officials said. | 2023-01-11T19:43:29+00:00 | bismarcktribune.com | https://bismarcktribune.com/news/national/govt-and-politics/north-dakota-sues-again-over-federal-oil-leasing-lawsuit-claims-state-is-losing-millions-in/article_c1801f5c-9130-11ed-80d1-efb804269089.html |
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — The Cancer Challenge Summer Social returns on June 23 in Elm Springs.
The event will be emceed by KNWA’s Chelsea Helms. Olalekan Ajayi, CEO of Highlands Oncology, will be the featured speaker at the event, and Macy Dyson, Miss Heartland Preteen-Princess of America, will be the special guest.
The Cancer Challenge website says the event will feature food, drinks, dueling pianos, axe throwing, corn hole, NWA Rolling Video Games, and a silent and live auction by Kim Daniels.
Attire for the event is summer casual wear for indoor and outdoor activities. Register to attend by emailing faith@cancerchallenge.com.
More information on the event can be found here. | 2023-06-21T22:19:01+00:00 | nwahomepage.com | https://www.nwahomepage.com/news/cancer-challenge-summer-social-returns-to-nwa/ |
ORLANDO, Fla., Dec. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Foxboro Tiffany Running Down A Dream, an English Springer Spaniel known as "Earl" triumphed over 1,617 dogs ages six months to 18 months to become the AKC/Royal Canin National All-Breed Junior of the Year, held today in Orlando, FL in conjunction with the AKC National Championship Presented by Royal Canin. "Earl," owned by Susan Still of Howell, MI and bred by Susan Still and Melissa Thorson, was crowned "Junior of the Year" by an esteemed panel of judges, consisting of Mr. Desmond Murphy, Mr. Carl Gene Liepmann, and Mr. Dominic Palleschi Carota, after quality canine competition.
Coverage of the AKC Royal Canin National All-Breed Puppy and Junior Stakes is available for replay at AKC.tv.
The winners:
Group Winners
After winning Best of Breed competitions, the following top dogs went on to win in their respective groups and compete for Puppy/Junior of the Year:
Sporting: Foxboro Tiffany Running Down A Dream, an English Springer Spaniel known as "Earl," owned by Susan Still of Howell, MI and bred by Susan Still and Melissa Thorson.
Hound: Flessner's Udder Perfection, a Bloodhound known as "Sterling," owned by J & T Chrisopoulos, Heather Buehner, B Flessner of Macomb, MI and bred by Bryan Flessner, Chris Flessner and Heather Buehner
Working: CH Molyn's Cosmpolitan At Poconos, a Boxer known as "Cosmo," owned by Donna Simpson, Monique and Linda Mastrapasqua of Newfoundland, PA and bred by Monique Mastrapasqua and Linda Mastrapasqua.
Terrier: Chyscott's The Dark Horse, a Scottish Terrier known as "Stetson," owned by Whitney Shafer, Larae Shafer & Kristen Simmons of Cheyenne, WY and bred by Kristen Simmons, Larae Shafer, Whitney Jean Shafer.
Toy: Kimmilove Tarzan, a Pomeranian known as "Tarzan," owned and bred by Miae Kim of Seoul, South Korea.
Non-Sporting: Dawin Hot Commodity, a Standard Poodle known as "Carly," owned by Linda C Campbell & Sarah Perchick of Toronto, Ontario and bred by Linda C Campbell and Sarah Perchick.
Herding: CH Daimler's Geographically Courageous O'Images CGC TKN, a Belgian Sheepdog known as "Helen," owned by Terry & Diane Benz of Lake Zurich, IL and bred by Diane Benz, Terry Benz, Renee Croft.
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BOZEMAN — As the calendar turns to fall, the long-awaited return of Bobcat football is finally here.
Montana State took the field Thursday morning to kick off fall camp, which also marked 30 days away from their home opener against McNeese State.
“First day in the books, and I know for us - like I said yesterday - this is such an incredibly exciting day because there are things you don’t know about your team you start finding out today," Bobcats head football coach Brent Vigen said. "We’ll take a look at the film obviously, but it felt like some of the guys that I’m putting eyes on for the first time - in a team setting I guess - I like what I saw out of them.”
Two of those players Vigen singled out Thursday were running backs: Grad transfer Kaegun Williams, and true freshman Jared White.
Creating depth at running back was a big priority this offseason, but with news that All-American Isaiah Ifanse will be missing fall camp and is still considered month-to-month in his recovery, the Bobcats are looking for someone to take over that workload come Sept. 3.
“I think we have a ton of running backs that have a lot of expectations that they’re going to be stepping up and competing for us splitting between Keagun [Williams], Elijah [Elliot], Jared [White], Lane [Sumner], and whoever else can get in that rotation," sophomore quarterback Tommy Mellott stated. "I think we have a lot of guys that are competing for it and just getting to see them out here today was great.”
Williams transferred to Montana State this summer after graduating from San Diego State University, which is an FBS program known for producing running backs. While Williams played more of a backup role for the Aztecs, Vigen had high praise for him heading into Thursday's camp
"I think at San Diego State whenever given the opportunity he really excelled whether that was reps at running back, carrying it, catching it on the backfield, playing special teams," Vigen listed. "That was one of the things that really jumped out."
However, another running back that could play in an integral role in Ifanse's absence is Elijah Elliot. As a freshman, he finished third in rushing (319 yards) behind Mellott (716 yards) and feels confident heading into the fall with a year under his belt.
“I think I’m ready," Elliot shared. "I think I’m ready for it and just whatever the team needs, like I said I’m ready to do what I need to do for the team. I worked hard this summer, I gained weight, I’m faster and stronger, so mentally I’m ready and physically I’m ready.” | 2022-08-05T05:54:24+00:00 | ktvh.com | https://www.ktvh.com/sports/big-sky-conference/montana-state-bobcats/questions-surround-montana-state-running-back-committee |
US ends probe into Tesla allowing video games while vehicles are moving, says feature was disabled
U.S. highway safety regulators have closed an investigation into Tesla allowing video games to be played on center touch screens while vehicles are moving
DETROIT (AP) — U.S. highway safety regulators have closed an investigation into Tesla allowing video games to be played on center touch screens while vehicles are moving.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says in documents posted Tuesday that Tesla disabled the feature called "passenger play" with an online software update in December of 2021, under pressure from the agency.
The agency said in documents that removing “passenger play” resolved its concerns about distracted driving that could be caused by the feature.
The software update covered more than 580,000 vehicles from the 2017 through 2022 model years.
One month after software update went out, Tesla reported that 97% of the vehicles had received it.
The agency said it opened the investigation in December of 2021 after getting a complaint from a Tesla owner that games could be played by the driver while the vehicles are moving. The investigation was opened to assess the driver distraction potential.
It says in documents that introducing graphic content into the driver's line of sight that is unrelated to driving “poses the potential to add to driver visual and cognitive distraction.”
Tesla had responded that the feature was designed for passenger use only, and that the design didn't create an unreasonable driver distraction risk. The company said no collisions had been reported while the feature was in use for a year.
NHTSA wrote in documents that data received from Tesla showed that during the year “passenger play” was operating, it was active during a small number of vehicle trips. The agency didn’t say how many trips, but wrote that in about a third of those trips, the feature was used while the vehicles were moving with no one in the passenger seat. | 2023-05-30T13:10:36+00:00 | wnem.com | https://www.wnem.com/2023/05/30/us-ends-probe-into-tesla-allowing-video-games-while-vehicles-are-moving-says-feature-was-disabled/ |
Ayesha Rascoe is a White House correspondent for NPR. She is currently covering her third presidential administration. Rascoe's White House coverage has included a number of high profile foreign trips, including President Trump's 2019 summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Hanoi, Vietnam, and President Obama's final NATO summit in Warsaw, Poland in 2016. As a part of the White House team, she's also a regular on the NPR Politics Podcast. | 2023-05-10T08:29:15+00:00 | lakeshorepublicmedia.org | https://www.lakeshorepublicmedia.org/2023-05-07/the-perfect-storm-that-led-to-caroline-roses-the-art-of-forgetting |
Research demonstrates employers need to be more creative and innovative in their talent strategy approach
MILWAUKEE, June 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- While IT skills needs are evolving faster than ever, and specialized technology talent is at a premium, critical soft skills, aka 'power skills' are being neglected in the recruitment and resourcing process. Despite continued talk of the crucial nature of upskilling and reskilling, latent potential remains untapped among workers in the middle of the tech talent pyramid. 'The New Age of Tech Talent,' a report from Experis, a global leader in IT professional resourcing and managed services and part of ManpowerGroup (NYSE: MAN), finds that employers need to be more creative and agile in their talent strategy – both inside and outside their organizations. The research suggests that HR leaders should be guided by workforce data, a clear talent philosophy and a willingness to experiment.
"The IT sector is growing quickly," said Jonas Prising, Chairman and CEO of ManpowerGroup. "While there is an acute demand for highly technical candidates, great potential lies within adaptable generalists' candidates that is frequently untapped. This can be detrimental as the soft skills these individuals possess are often the most challenging to find. Companies can look within to fully explore workforce potential and reskill employees to fill gaps and meet their talent needs."
When asked why they were having difficulty filling tech roles, 34% of hiring managers said candidates did not have the right technical skills, 32% said they didn't have the right relevant experience, and 27% said they didn't have the right soft skills. The research also cites that 22% of hiring managers have the greatest difficulty finding IT project managers, followed by cybersecurity analysts, software developers, and AI/machine learning specialists (all 20%). The top soft skills employers report are in demand for tech roles include Critical Thinking & Analysis, Creativity & Originality, Reasoning & Problem-Solving, Reliability & Self Discipline, and Resilience & Adaptability.*
Ger Doyle, Head of Experis, Digital & Business Innovation adds, "Regardless of sector, the conversation about the technology skills gap often focuses on the most senior and junior roles and ignores existing talent who have strong technical skills and an intuitive sense of the business but may lack exposure to emerging technologies and a roadmap for their future career development."
With so many organizations competing to recruit IT workers from the same talent pool, there is a golden opportunity for employers to look further afield. Often, candidates are overlooked because they lack traditional qualifications. Further, recruiting strategies that embrace greater gender and ethnic diversity are also significant in the search for the right IT talent.
Findings published in 'The New Age of Tech Talent' are based on a survey of 40,000 employers in 40 countries and reveal organizations are accelerating investment in technology and prioritizing Cyber Security (46%), Internet of Things (IoT), (44%) E-Commerce platforms (43%) and Cloud Computing (41%).*
The report underscores four ways organizations can bring new thinking to life:
- Open the Middle: One in five organizations globally is having trouble finding skilled tech talent, and IT/data skills are the most difficult to find for 30% of organizations. Companies need to increasingly look inward to fill the roles they need, taping workforce potential and reskilling employees to fill gaps and meet the challenges ahead.
- Find the Hidden Talent: The reality of the technology sector is that employers need to be more adaptable, unlocking new sources of talent, and recruit based on potential, not necessarily past experience. Traditional approaches focused on filtering candidates according to qualifications. and experiences may not identify those recruits who have raw qualities that employers require.
- Trust the Data Strategy: To get better results from recruitment, retention and HR strategies companies can leverage data-analytics tools to make better decisions and reduce attrition. As one in three organizations globally plan to invest more in AI technology including machine learning, over the next year, aptitude and personality assessment tools will enable more effective hiring decisions.
- Lead with Confidence: Companies guided by culture and values will be those that best adapt to the new workforce reality and win the war on talent. Significantly, 7 in 10 workers say having leaders that they can trust, and follow is important to them, and 2 in 3 want to work for organizations that share their values.
As part of ManpowerGroup's commitment to be a creator of talent at scale and improving employability and prosperity for all, Experis Academy helps companies to preskill, upskill, and reskill in-demand tech workers and many others at speed and scale – matching them to meaningful, sustainable jobs while helping them grow their skillsets for the future.
'The New Age of Tech Talent' study and methodology from Experis can be found here.
ManpowerGroup® (NYSE: MAN), the leading global workforce solutions company, helps organizations transform in a fast-changing world of work by sourcing, assessing, developing, and managing the talent that enables them to win. We develop innovative solutions for hundreds of thousands of organizations every year, providing them with skilled talent while finding meaningful, sustainable employment for millions of people across a wide range of industries and skills. Our expert family of brands – Manpower, Experis, and Talent Solutions – creates substantially more value for candidates and clients across more than 75 countries and territories and has done so for over 70 years. We are recognized consistently for our diversity – as a best place to work for Women, Inclusion, Equality, and Disability, and in 2022 ManpowerGroup was named one of the World's Most Ethical Companies for the 13th year – all confirming our position as the brand of choice for in-demand talent.
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PORTLAND, Maine — The first thing to know about Jen Pawol — and listen closely, because this is important — is that she would rather no one know much about her at all. Professional umpires are professionally inconspicuous, and women in baseball have always known the key to a life in baseball is the ability to blend.
The second thing to know about Jen Pawol — and this is important, too — is that she may someday become the first woman to umpire a Major League Baseball game. Pawol, 45, would never say that herself. From her perspective, she and the other members of her three-person Class AA umpiring crew are all in the same position, two steps from the majors, on the cusp of living their thankless dreams.
But people like her crewmates Tanner Moore and Kellen Martin have made the journey to the majors before. No woman ever has. So she is not in the same position as they are, even though she says everyone is doing a remarkable job of treating her like she is.
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Fifty years after the passage of Title IX, many women are finding their way into baseball roles no one like them has had before. Kim Ng is the general manager of the Miami Marlins. Eve Rosenbaum was just named assistant general manager of the rising Baltimore Orioles. Kelsie Whitmore is playing in the Atlantic League. Alyssa Nakken is a coach for the San Francisco Giants. Rachel Balkovec is managing a New York Yankees minor league affiliate. That list is hardly all-inclusive.
But only nine women have ever umpired in the minor leagues, according to MLB. Two, Pawol and Isabella Robb, are currently umpiring in the minor leagues. Numerically, she is an outlier. On the field, she is far less so.
As she umpired games between the Portland Sea Dogs and Hartford Yard Goats last week — one at first base, one behind the plate — the only thing that distinguished her from her colleagues was the ponytail that spilled out from under her black hat. Her punchout motion was by the book, neither demonstrative nor tentative.
Catchers thanked her by name when she handed them clean baseballs so often that she almost tired of it. When she lined up at first base instead of behind the plate, coaches fist-bumped her to say hello, and newly promoted first basemen introduced themselves — just like they do for the male umpires they hope will give them the benefit of the doubt. But players still winced and shook their heads when she called a close pitch strike three. A few expressed their displeasure with a pointed question or two, just like they usually would.
“Everyone is so professional,” said Pawol, who admitted she heard the heckler telling her to “go back to Little League school” after one call. She usually gets “go back to softball.” She said she doesn’t care one bit.
“They do it to everyone,” she said with a smile, and indeed, that heckler was particularly indiscriminate in his proclamations. But even for a former teacher who never exactly lacked a backbone, other parts of being a female umpire in the minor leagues do require some extra adjustment.
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“I’ve had to shed tremendous amounts of preconditioned responses,” Pawol said. “I listen to the Harvard women’s business podcast all the time. I’ve done a tremendous amount of reading on all these potholes women tend to fall into: Apologizing. Not taking the lead with male counterparts. Letting them do it first. The great thing about sports is once you know the ground rules, you just play the game.”
And everything about the professional umpiring experience is subject to well-honed rules. Even on-field conflicts, Pawol said, are more calculated than they may seem from the outside. Managers and players know where the lines are and what will happen when they cross them. And over seven years of navigating disagreements in that way, Pawol went from fairly sure she could be the on-field authority figure she needed to be to downright certain.
“I want to be ready to take care of my business. If someone else is handling my ejections, I don’t belong out there. I don’t have the backbone to do the job,” Pawol said. “I can stand up for myself. I can be out there as the authority figure. I can umpire the game and run the ship.
“One of our supervisors always says, ‘Rough seas make great sea captains.’ I always think that. If everything is always easy, if you don’t go over waves or through storms, you won’t be ready for whatever happens at the big league level.”
‘You can be comfortable in your own skin’
Last weekend, during an otherwise baseball-heavy conversation about the realities of her position, Pawol asked a question few umpires had probably ever asked of reporters before: “Are you familiar with the waves of feminism?”
Pawol is, but she wasn’t asking for the sake of historical analysis. Her point was that her ability to pursue her goal of umpiring in the majors is possible because women before her did what she calls the “heavy lifting to push for equality.” And Pawol would know.
Like so many women ascending in baseball these days, she has talked to the ones who found the boulders blocking their way too heavy to dislodge completely, the ones who shoved them far enough off the path that future generations could finish the job. She can rattle off the dates in which women before her served and at what level. If there is an advantage to being a woman in a job like hers, it is that the list of those who came before is short.
So she knows that only one other woman has made it further than she has now, to Class AAA. She knows that woman, Pam Postema, ended up out of baseball working as a welder just a few years after being considered for a job in the National League.
Heck, she even read Postema’s memoir, the one in which Postema detailed the sexism and verbal abuse she received during those years, the one which rued newspaper articles (like this one) because they ruined her plan to keep a low profile long enough that she could reach the majors before small-minded men tried to intervene. Postema was the last woman that headlines posited as the first female major league umpire. Those headlines ran in the 1980s.
Pawol would rather not be in the headlines, either. But other than that, her experience could not be more different than the women who came before her, the ones who shortened names from Christine to Chris on umpire school applications, the ones that were excluded from those schools because they didn’t have separate facilities to accommodate women.
“There’s clearly still work to do, but I receive equal pay. I have the same contract. There’s no gender gap. I get equal union representation. I get equal health benefits. I got equal training. I wasn’t given more test questions or easier or harder test questions at umpire school. I get the same supervision. The same number of looks,” Pawol said. “To be in that framework, it’s very relaxing. You can be comfortable in your own skin.”
Pawol had been umpiring for years before she learned affiliated baseball was even an option for women. She grew sick of umpiring local baseball games in Upstate New York and handling Division I softball games in New York and New England. She wanted something bigger.
“Amateur and high school baseball, you pay your $70 to join the umpires, and you get to work those leagues,” Pawol said. “I was really sick of doing that. I wanted a salary. I wanted a contract. I wanted to be in a union. I wanted a career.”
Each year, the New York high school baseball association held an annual clinic with major league umpires. The head of one of her local umpiring associations called her one Friday afternoon in 2015 and asked her if she was enrolled in the clinic, which was scheduled to begin the next day. She wasn’t. By Saturday morning, she was.
At that clinic, she met longtime MLB umpire Ted Barrett and bought a ticket to his clinic in Georgia the next year. At that camp, Barrett asked her if she wanted to be a professional. He told her about the umpire camps. She enrolled.
Pawol paid for her own ticket to one of those minor league umpire feeder clinics, then earned a scholarship to umpiring school. For years, the road to professional umpiring ran through private umpiring schools like the one founded by Harry Wendelstedt (father of current big league umpire Hunter) in 1977 or the one run by Jim Evans until Minor League Baseball stopped accepting its students in light of a racist incident in 2012. Under the old system, interested umpires would have to pay thousands to attend those private schools.
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But now, as part of MLB’s push to diversify its umpiring ranks, it is overhauling the system. The league hosted five open clinics this year, including one in Brooklyn’s Maimonides Park in August. This year, MLB announced that top performers will earn the chance to participate in an umpire development camp in January at no cost to them.
“If he had never said anything, I would have never known,” Pawol said. “Now, today, if you go to the website, you can see it. I wouldn’t have had to wait 10 years to get into professional baseball.”
Pawol made it, but she might have made it sooner, which is why a woman who has dedicated her career to blending in was willing to talk about all this. When she left Hofstra University as a decorated softball star in 1998, she didn’t know there were paths to the majors in umpiring, or even in the coaching ranks, where she watches women breaking through now. She wants others to see them.
“I could be a hitting coach now,” Pawol speculates, wondering what might have been if the same paths had been open and obvious then. She has coached catching for Milliken University’s baseball team near her home in Illinois. She coaches hitting for baseball and softball players alike. She wants others to know just how much things have changed since Postema found herself a step from the big leagues but light-years away from feeling welcome there.
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“When Pam came through, you could still smoke on airplanes. The culture, it was just a different mind-set,” she said. In those days, the idea of a woman ejecting a man from a professional baseball game was a strange one, an uncomfortable recasting of long-standing gender dynamics that still held firm to the professional baseball consciousness. Now, her crew spends road trips splitting up the driving evenly, rotating who pays for gas instead of penalizing the youngest, debating whether they should even refer to themselves as “a three-man crew” anymore or if they really should be saying “three-umpire crew” instead.
Pawol never asked them to change anything on her behalf. She says she didn’t have to. She is one of them, as purposely inconspicuous as a trailblazer can be. | 2022-09-02T12:21:00+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2022/09/02/female-umpire-minor-league-baseball/ |
Another season of fantasy football, another group of start-or-sit scenarios to answer.
It’s not just enough to draft the right team and make the right moves off the waiver wire. We all know that. We also have to make sure that we are starting the correct players each week.
Of course, we have our studs, anchors, and the players we’re starting virtually no matter what. We don’t need anyone to tell us to start Justin Jefferson.
But, the further down the lineup we go, the more those questions trickle in.
Then again, no player is a ”must-sit” in every scenario, and perhaps the WR3 you’ve been plugging in each week may have a better alternative.
To answer the question, ”Should I sit Player X,” depends on the answer to the question, ”Who can you start instead?”
That’s why I like to switch up the typical start-or-sit column format. I’m going to be listing out all relevant fantasy football players each week and bucketing them into tiers.
Take some of the guesswork out of setting our lineups weekly, I’ll be leveraging thousands of slate simulations that are based on numberFire’s player projections with dynamic measures for variance, such as quarterback rushing, running back receiving, and receiver target depth.
The results will boil down to three tiers: players we should be confident about starting, players we can consider starting whenever we don’t have better alternatives but who aren’t must-plays, and players we should try to bench whenever we do have better alternatives (i.e. players listed above them on the list).
These players are listed in order of frequency of hitting the stated threshold (i.e. QB12, RB24, WR24, and TE12 performances), and higher on the list means more able to start.
The groupings reflect a 12-team, single-quarterback league with the following hypothetical in mind: if I had other viable options on my bench or the waiver wire, should I start this player this week?
Players not listed should be presumed sit-worthy in a shallow or standard-sized league, and all fantasy points references and rankings reflect half-PPR scoring.
QUARTERBACKS
Start with confidence:
– Lamar Jackson vs. CAR (77%)
– Jalen Hurts at IND (76%)
– Patrick Mahomes at LAC (76%)
– Josh Allen vs. CLE (72%)
– Justin Fields at ATL (60%)
– Joe Burrow at PIT (55%)
– Marcus Mariota vs. CHI (54%)
– Justin Herbert vs. KC (50%)
– Dak Prescott at MIN (50%)
– Kyler Murray vs. SF (50% at full; 10% at half)
Consider if needed:
– Russell Wilson vs. LV (49%)
– Daniel Jones vs. DET (49%)
– Aaron Rodgers vs. TEN (48%)
– Kirk Cousins vs. DAL (48%)
– Jimmy Garoppolo at ARI (44%)
– Jared Goff at NYG (39%)
– Kenny Pickett vs. CIN (37%)
Bench if possible:
Taylor Heinicke at HOU (34%); Matthew Stafford at NO (33% if healthy); Davis Mills vs. WSH (32%); Mac Jones vs. NYJ (32%); Zach Wilson at NE (30%); Derek Carr at DEN (28%); Andy Dalton vs. LA (27%); Matt Ryan vs. PHI (27%); Jacoby Brissett at BUF (25%); Ryan Tannehill at GB (25%); Baker Mayfield at BAL (23%); Colt McCoy vs. SF (21% if no Murray); John Wolford at NO (19% if no Stafford).
Both Kyler Murray and Matthew Stafford are question marks entering the week. Murray would be a low-end Tier 1 play if he starts; Stafford is a priority sit even if he plays.
We are projecting Taylor Heinicke to start again for the Washington Commanders.
Daniel Jones steps into one of the best possible fantasy matchups for opposing quarterbacks this week against the Detroit Lions. Detroit ranks 30th in composite quarterback stats and is 31st in adjusted pass defense, according to numberFire’s metrics. Jones has played three matchups against teams in the bottom eight in adjusted pass defense, but hasn’t dominated them with his arm (156.7 passing yards and 1.0 touchdowns per game). He does, though, average 66.3 rushing yards and a rushing touchdown in them. Although he’s one of the better streaming options of the week, he still doesn’t rate as a can’t-miss option even in a dominant matchup.
Jimmy Garoppolo has had a pretty high floor on a game-to-game basis this season. He has generated at least 15.9 fantasy points in five straight games, but hasn’t reached 19.0 yet this season. This week, he’ll face the Arizona Cardinals, a team ranked 14th in adjusted pass defense. Garoppolo, against teams ranked between 11th and 20th this season, has averaged 265.3 yards and 1.3 touchdowns for 17.7 fantasy points. He’s unlikely to win you your week, yet he’s probably not going to lose it for you, either.
Jared Goff remains on the cusp of start-able territory. The New York Giants pass defense does rank 18th in yards per game allowed, but is only 24th in adjusted passing efficiency based on the underlying data, so that helps a good bit. Goff has made the most of three matchups against pass defenses ranked 23rd or worse. In those starts, Goff has averaged 311.7 yards and 2.0 touchdowns per game for 0.45 Passing Net Expected Points (NEP) per drop-back – 0.33 points per play better than what those defenses allow outright. He’s averaged just 223.7 yards in games against tougher competition, so this is a good week to deploy him if you need him.
RUNNING BACKS
Start with confidence:
– Austin Ekeler vs. KC (86%)
– Derrick Henry at GB (85%)
– Josh Jacobs at DEN (83%)
– Christian McCaffrey at ARI (83%)
– Saquon Barkley vs. DET (81%)
– Joe Mixon at PIT (78%)
– Alvin Kamara vs. LA (77%)
– Jonathan Taylor vs. PHI (75%)
– Rhamondre Stevenson vs. NYJ (72%)
– Dameon Pierce vs. WSH (72%)
– Nick Chubb at BUF (72%)
– Dalvin Cook vs. DAL (69%)
– Aaron Jones vs. TEN (63%)
– David Montgomery at ATL (61%)
– James Conner vs. SF (61%)
Consider if needed:
– Miles Sanders at IND (59%)
– D’Andre Swift at NYG (57%)
– Brian Robinson at HOU (55%)
– Cordarrelle Patterson vs. CHI (52%)
– Najee Harris vs. CIN (49%)
– Tony Pollard at MIN (48%)
– Antonio Gibson at HOU (46%)
– Devin Singletary vs. CLE (46%)
– Michael Carter at NE (45%)
– Melvin Gordon vs. LV (44%)
– Ezekiel Elliott at MIN (43%)
– A.J. Dillon vs. TEN (43%)
– Jerick McKinnon at LAC (43%)
– Jamaal Williams at NYG (37%)
– D’Onta Foreman at BAL (37%)
– Gus Edwards vs. CAR (35%)
– Kenyan Drake vs. CAR (35%)
– Elijah Mitchell at ARI (35%)
Bench if possible:
James Robinson at NE (34%); Darrell Henderson at NO (34%); Latavius Murray vs. LV (33%); Isiah Pacheco at LAC (32%); Kareem Hunt at BUF (27%); Chuba Hubbard at BAL (27%); Jaylen Warren vs. CIN (26%); Chase Edmonds vs. LV (22%); Cam Akers at NO (19%); Rex Burkhead vs. WSH (17%); Tyler Allgeier vs. CHI (17%).
The Ravens backfield is projected as a split between Gus Edwards and Kenyan Drake.
Ezekiel Elliott is projected to play after getting in limited practices all of last week.
Can we go back to trusting Najee Harris after a 20-carry game? I don’t think it’s quite that easy. The Pittsburgh Steelers played from ahead last week, and even though the workload was there, the production was somewhat still muted. Harris put up 99 yards (16.4 over expected, according to NextGenStats) and didn’t catch his lone target. Harris split 26 routes evenly with Jaylen Warren (36.1% apiece). This week, the Steelers are underdogs again against a mid-range rush defense. Although you can play Harris over a lot of other options, the scaled-back snap rate (59.5%) keeps him well out of Tier 1 conversation despite the volume from a week ago.
Further, Harris is dealing with knee discomfort that isn’t expected to change his workload – but also implies he won’t see unlimited work, either.
Can Devin Singletary take advantage of an elite rushing matchup? The Cleveland Browns rank 32nd in Rushing NEP per carry and adjusted fantasy points per carry allowed to backs, and he’s coming off a two-touchdown game. The issue, though, is that Singletary had only 47 rushing yards on 13 carries and just two targets on 27 routes last week.
He’s on the field, his offense is great, and the matchup is elite – yet he’s just barely a mid-range Tier 2 play. Don’t bench someone with a better workload for Singletary.
In Week 10, we saw Brian Robinson and Antonio Gibson each score on the ground while splitting snaps 51.9% to 48.1%, respectively. Robinson turned 26 carries into 86 yards; Gibson had 14 carries and three targets (with a 59.4% route rate) for 58 scrimmage yards. The team’s offensive volume was very concentrated toward each in Week 10, but if we open up the sample to the past two weeks without J.D. McKissic out, neither is averaging more than 62.0 scrimmage yards. You can do worse -just don’t chase the production from last week, either.
I usually gloss over the Tier 1 options completely because they aren’t priority sits unless your league is small or your roster is flawless, but I will check in on Christian McCaffrey in terms of how it pertains to Elijah Mitchell.
Last week, with Mitchell back in the lineup, McCaffrey played on 64.3% of the San Francisco 49ers’ snaps. He’s a start no matter what. But there was a lot of room left over for Mitchell, too. Mitchell played only a 35.7% snap rate, but had an otherworldly 80.0% opportunity-per-snap rate. Basically, when he was on the field, Mitchell got the ball. That included a 53.8% red zone share (seven carries), while McCaffrey had four red zone carries (30.8%). Plus, Mitchell closed out the game. In San Francisco’s offense, Mitchell can be a low-end flex option as a player who has a claim to one of the best touch-per-snap rates in the NFL.
WIDE RECEIVERS
Start with confidence:
– A.J. Brown at IND (75%)
– Stefon Diggs vs. CLE (74%)
– Justin Jefferson vs. DAL (74%)
– Davante Adams at DEN (73%)
– CeeDee Lamb at MIN (73%)
– Deebo Samuel at ARI (67%)
– Amon-Ra St. Brown at NYG (64%)
– DeAndre Hopkins vs. SF (64%)
– Tee Higgins at PIT (61%)
– DeVonta Smith at IND (58%)
– Allen Lazard vs. TEN (55%)
– Tyler Boyd at PIT (52%)
– Courtland Sutton vs. LV (52%)
– Diontae Johnson vs. CIN (51%)
– Gabe Davis vs. CLE (50%)
– D.J. Moore at BAL (50%)
Consider if needed:
– Michael Pittman Jr. vs. PHI (49%)
– Mike Williams vs. KC (49% if full)
– Josh Palmer vs. KC (45% without Williams and Allen; 28% with them)
– Amari Cooper at BUF (44%)
– Brandin Cooks vs. WSH (43%)
– Jakobi Meyers vs. NYJ (43%)
– Chris Olave vs. LA (43%)
– Keenan Allen vs. KC (42% if full)
– Drake London vs. CHI (41%)
– Garrett Wilson at NE (40%)
– Terry McLaurin at HOU (40%)
– Jerry Jeudy vs. LV (40% if healthy)
– Brandon Aiyuk at ARI (40%)
– Curtis Samuel at HOU (37%)
– George Pickens vs. CIN (37%)
– Christian Watson vs. TEN (34%)
– Rondale Moore vs. SF (33%)
– Darnell Mooney at ATL (33%)
– Adam Thielen vs. DAL (31%)
– Mecole Hardman at LAC (30% if healthy)
Bench if possible:
Allen Robinson at NO (29%); Kadarius Toney at LAC (29%); Marquez Valdes-Scantling at LAC (29%); Michael Gallup at MIN (29%); K.J. Osborn vs. DAL (29%); Donovan Peoples-Jones at BUF (26%); Van Jefferson at NO (25%); Nico Collins vs. WSH (24%); Parris Campbell vs. PHI (23%); Mack Hollins at DEN (23%); Darius Slayton vs. DET (21%); Robert Woods at GB (21%); Ben Skowronek at NO (18%).
Jerry Jeudy and Mecole Hardman have half projections initially. Keep an eye on their statuses throughout the week.
Keenan Allen and Mike Williams will practice this week, though that does not mean they’ll play. If either plays, they’re high-end Tier 2 options.
Things were better for Michael Pittman in Week 10 than in recent weeks. That’s relevant because of the Indianapolis Colts’ coaching and quarterback changes. Pittman had nine targets in Week 10, but generated only 53 yards on them with a below-position-average depth of target of 7.6 yards. It’s not easy to write off a 33.3% target share, though. That’s especially true when he enters a game in which the Colts are projected to trail. That said, in starts by Matt Ryan, Pittman’s 10.0 targets (a 24.9% share) have led to only 75.4 yards and a single touchdown.
Though that’s a very start-able stat line, the ceiling seems capped with how this passing offense is playing.
The fantasy breakout by Justin Fields has not necessarily transferred over to Darnell Mooney’s production. Mooney, since Week 5 while Fields has finished as QB13 or better in each game, has averaged only 6.7 targets and 57.2 yards for 9.1 half-PPR points. Mooney, on the full season, has just one week inside the top 20 in fantasy scoring at the position. The matchup is ripe for Mooney, at least.
The Atlanta Falcons are 26th in adjusted fantasy points per target allowed to the position and allow a catch rate over expectation of +4.4% to receivers this season.
Rondale Moore’s usage has been great in recent games. His target share has been at least 30.3% in consecutive games (and was 37.1% last week). Now, Zach Ertz is out, so Moore’s volume should be quite secure. Moore faces a solid San Francisco 49ers defense, but they’re actually only 23rd in adjusted fantasy points per target allowed to the position. His low average depth of target (5.3 yards) gets him some easy looks. The floor is there from the volume, and a ceiling can come from that much volume, too.
What can we do with the Los Angeles Rams receivers without Cooper Kupp? Well, after Kupp left the game in Week 10, the target distribution favored tight end Tyler Higbee (four), Van Jefferson and running back Kyren Williams (three), and Ben Skworonek (two) on passes from John Wolford. Wolford, in his start last week, played 0.24 Net Expected Points per play worse than expected, based on his matchup. He was OK from a success rate standpoint (48.7%), but we likely can’t plug in any receivers even when we remove Kupp’s massive 31.0% target share from the equation – even if Stafford plays.
TIGHT END
Start with confidence:
– Travis Kelce at LAC (90%)
– Mark Andrews vs. CAR (77%)
– Kyle Pitts vs. CHI (63%)
– George Kittle at ARI (56%)
– Tyler Higbee at NO (51%)
Consider if needed:
– Pat Freiermuth vs. CIN (47%)
– T.J. Hockenson vs. DAL (47%)
– Dalton Schultz at MIN (43%)
– Greg Dulcich vs. LV (41%)
– Hayden Hurst at PIT (39%)
– Taysom Hill vs. LA (39%)
– David Njoku at BUF (38%)
– Isaiah Likely vs. CAR (33%)
– Dawson Knox vs. CLE (32%)
– Gerald Everett vs. KC (31%)
– Tyler Conklin at NE (31%)
– Robert Tonyan vs. TEN (30%)
– Cole Kmet at ATL (30%)
Bench if possible:
Hunter Henry vs. NYJ (29%); Foster Moreau at DEN (26%); Juwan Johnson vs. LA (24%); Trey McBride vs. SF (19%); Austin Hooper at GB (18%); Mo Alie-Cox vs. PHI (18%); Logan Thomas at HOU (18%); Tommy Tremble at BAL (18%); Kylen Granson vs. PHI (15%); Jack Stoll at IND (15%).
Mark Andrews and David Njoku are projected to return.
The injury to Jerry Jeudy didn’t directly benefit Greg Dulcich last week (four targets for 11 yards – a 15.4% target share). However, Jeudy’s injury (even if he plays this week) has to benefit Dulcich long term. Dulcich, in his active games, has a 15.6% target share, but a 20.4% air yards share and a 25.0% red zone target share. The Denver Broncos face a Las Vegas Raiders team that is last in adjusted fantasy points per target allowed to tight ends.
Cole Kmet is really hard to evaluate right now. If you look solely at his fantasy production, then he’s the overall TE1 since Week 8 despite seeing only 15 targets in that span.
He’s scored five times in three games with an average of 42.0 yards per game, which explains the production. He’s got a 22.1% target share in a rush-first offense and is wildly overperforming. The Falcons are 10th in adjusted fantasy points allowed to tight ends, so just be aware of the bust potential from someone being carried solely by touchdowns.
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https://www.numberfire.com | 2022-11-17T20:43:30+00:00 | valleycentral.com | https://www.valleycentral.com/nfl/nfl-dallas/fantasy-plays-players-to-start-and-sit-for-nfl-week-11-3/ |
More than 1.1 million Americans died from the coronavirus pandemic, including nearly 16,000 in Washington. A total 6.9 million died worldwide. It’s a butcher’s bill that will be studied and debated for decades, on the order of the 1918 influenza.
Now, as COVID-19 pulls back and normality tries to reassert itself, we’re gaining fresh insights into the effects of the pandemic on cities, including emptied offices, rising homelessness and a spike in crime, especially violent crime.
This, in turn, caused businesses dependent on office workers to close, while transit systems suffered. Sound Transit is already behind on key projects, and downtown light-rail stations have continuing problems with elevators and escalators, including those wrecked by vandalism.
Among the most recent reports is one from the Brookings Institution. As part of the Metro Monitor series, Joseph Parilla and Glencora Haskins examined the results of the crisis on inclusive growth in 192 U.S. metropolitan areas.
The study used 12 measures to reach its conclusions, including real GDP, average wages, jobs, median earnings, employment at young firms and several metrics of racial inclusion. Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue was very hard hit between 2019 and 2021 compared with its soaring performance in the 10 years beginning in 2009.
“Two findings stood out about Seattle,” Parilla told me this week by email. “Over the long-term, 2011-2021, the Seattle metro area experienced strong economic performance across most of our categories, with one exception …’Geographic Inclusion,’ where the region ranked 54
Parilla said that even though the economy expanded, middle-class incomes grew, and racial disparities were reduced, some low-income neighborhoods were left out.
“The second finding is about the last two years,” he said. “In a composite measure of ‘Inclusive Growth,’ Seattle ranked 3rd out of 192 metro areas … during the pre-pandemic period (2011-2019) but ranked 97th on that same metric during the pandemic period (2019-2021). This suggests that the pandemic hit the region harder economically than other metro areas.”
Remember, this covers the entire metropolitan area, including historically poorer-performing Pierce County, but a walk down Third Avenue in Seattle shows the damage was widespread.
Other Western cities that were downshifted during the worst of the pandemic were San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Portland.
The Brookings report separated the metros into four performance areas: resilient, emergent, tested and stagnant. Seattle was “tested.”
I would have used the word “wounded,” but Parilla explained, “Our sense was that this category of metro areas, which had strong performance in the decade between the Great Recession and the pandemic, was tested by the pandemic.”
The tested metros had the winds at their backs in most of the 2010s, “but then many of the impacts of the pandemic came to ground to create a unique test for them (remote work, downtown challenges, high cost of living, etc.).”
Some of the test scores are daunting.
Opportunity Insights, an analysis group based at Harvard and with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, found that in Seattle, as of Feb. 6, the number of small businesses open decreased by 6% compared with January 2020.
As of March 10 of this year, total job postings decreased by 41.4% compared to January 2020.
The most shocking news came from a New York Times story on homelessness elsewhere. But in passing, it asserted that 2,300 businesses had left downtown Seattle since early 2020.
This apparently came (uncredited) from another story in the Puget Sound Business Journal, which tracked change-of-address information from the U.S. Postal Service. It showed a net loss of 2,395 businesses, at least by this measure.
The limitation of the data is that it might include a business that moved down the street. But the story showed a net loss of 5,834 businesses in Seattle. Downtown Tacoma and Bellevue also posted net losses.
By contrast, the Downtown Seattle Association estimated that since March 2020, the central core saw 500 street-level businesses close while more than 300 opened (the survey was done on foot).
The association’s annual report showed the city center’s importance, with 89% of hotel rooms, 82% of office space and 52% of jobs in Seattle (although many continue to work remotely or are hybrid — 47% of workers are back in the office compared with early 2000). The residential population, at more than 104,000, is a 71% increase since 2010.
Every former superstar city is wrestling with the problems assessed in the Brookings report. On top of those, layoffs at tech companies pose an additional hurdle to recovery.
Mayor Karen Bass of Los Angeles told The New Yorker: “My responsibility and the responsibility of other elected officials is to restore people’s hope, address their despair and their fear, then I think people can see a light at the end of the tunnel.
“So I consider that my responsibility, but I paint L.A. in the exact opposite way. I think this is a city with tremendous resources, unbelievable knowledge and skills. And my job is to marshal all of that together. We can conquer all of these problems.”
It might as well have been Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell talking.
But recovery won’t be easy or fast.
“No one has a crystal ball on that question (including me),” Parilla told me, “but it’s likely to be determined by how Seattle’s large corporates evolve on hybrid work policies and how the region’s business, civic, and government leaders can rally around shared challenges like housing affordability and issues in downtown Seattle.” | 2023-03-24T13:37:50+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/the-pandemic-tested-seattle-but-the-report-cards-still-out/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_business |
Ordaōs creates novel mini-proteins that help pharma and biotechs around the world deliver safer and more effective life-saving treatments in a fraction of the time of traditional discovery methods.
NEW YORK, Aug. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ordaōs, a biotechnology company designing novel mini-proteins to help drug hunters deliver life-saving treatments, today announced the completion of $5M in seed financing to aid in new product development and expand partner acquisition efforts. The oversubscribed round was led by Middleland Capital's VTC Ventures with additional investments from Route 66 Ventures, Banyan Pacific Capital, IAG Capital Partners, and Citta Capital. Ordaōs is a human-enabled, machine-driven drug design company that leverages proprietary multitask meta-learning and reinforcement learning to create mini-proteins that enable targeted therapies to reduce patient suffering, improve health, and extend life.
"Ordaōs' class of mini-proteins, - Ordaōs miniPRO™ - transforms the role of proteins in drug discovery by providing the power and performance of antibodies, while being more stable, configurable and easier to manufacture," said David Longo, CEO of Ordaōs. "This investment will enable us to maximize drug candidate delivery speed, novelty, and probability of clinical success that provides drug hunters what they have been dreaming of."
Scott Horner, PhD, managing director at Middleland Capital said, "We have been studying the AI drug discovery sector for some time and were blown away at how effective the Ordaōs platform is in generating high-affinity hits, across several difficult to access drug targets. This team has built something really special here, and we are excited to partner with the company to realize the full potential of their novel mini-protein creation platform."
Ordaōs uses The Ordaōs Design Engine, to deliver true protein property design - leveraging continuous learning loops and proprietary data sets to translate human-targeted product criteria into machine-designed mini-proteins. Starting with amino acids, the Design Engine generates, appraises, and ranks billions of protein sequences and hundreds of thousands of protein structures and properties to create customized miniPRO™ proteins. These proteins are then rapidly evaluated in vitro to provide intelligent feedback on multiple design objectives including protein structure, binding specificity and affinity, solubility, stability, immunogenicity, and developability. This iterative process delivers optimized mini-proteins to meet the client's specific molecular target product profile (mTPP). They are also less likely to cause adverse side effects and are easier and less expensive to test, develop, and manufacture than traditional proteins. Using this approach, the Ordaōs Design Engine creates more ideal, unseen protein leads than others and can accelerate drug candidate development, increasing the probability of more therapeutically effective candidates. All of this provides clients with a high level of confidence in their investigational new drug (IND) applications.
To learn more, visit: www.ordaos.bio.
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About Ordaōs
Ordaōs is a human-enabled, machine-driven drug design company that helps birth novel therapies to reduce patient suffering, improve health, and extend life. Our flagship solution, miniPRO™ mini-proteins, enable drug hunters to deliver safer and more effective treatments in a fraction of the time of traditional discovery methods.
About VTC Ventures
Managed by Middleland Capital, VTC Ventures is a private investment fund focused on early-stage life science and technology opportunities across the Commonwealth of Virginia and opportunities outside Virginia with a connection to Virginia Tech or Carilion Clinic. VTC Ventures aims to partner with exceptional management teams to commercialize innovative technologies, accelerate growth, and build long-term value. For more information, please visit www.vtcventures.com.
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On May 3, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) announced a recall of nearly 130,000 Tesla cars because of an overheating issue in some cars’ central information display screens.
The news reignited discussion about the automotive company’s history with recalls, including claims that anywhere between a quarter and a half of the cars Tesla has ever sold have been recalled. This year alone, people have made the claim in tweets with more than 60,000 likes at least three separate times.
THE QUESTION
Has Tesla recalled at least a quarter of the cars it has sold?
THE SOURCES
THE ANSWER
Yes, Tesla has recalled at least a quarter of the cars it has sold. Recalls can be for both major and minor issues, and many of Tesla’s recalls have been for minor issues fixed with automatic software updates.
WHAT WE FOUND
Get ready for some math.
According to Tesla’s press releases, the company has sold and delivered 2,280,552 cars between the start of 2016 and the end of March 2022, when the first quarter of 2022 ended. Tesla’s website doesn’t include press releases with car sales for every quarter prior to 2016, but the company sold cars at a much smaller scale than it does today. It launched its first car in 2008.
VERIFY reached out to Tesla to confirm the total number of cars it’s sold since the company started, but didn’t get a response by the time of publishing. Instead, we used publicly available statements and data to estimate the maximum number of cars the company has sold.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted in March 2020 that the company had produced its millionth car, which means it couldn’t have sold more than a million cars before the start of that year. From 2020 to the first quarter of 2022, company press releases show it sold under 1.75 million cars, which means it has sold no more than 2.75 million cars over the company’s lifetime.
Then, VERIFY looked at the total number of recalls the company has reported.
The company recalled 817,143 potentially affected cars in Feb. 2022 for an issue with some cars’ seat belt chimes, according to a National Highway Safety Traffic Administration (NHSTA) report. That’s more than a quarter of the company’s lifetime car sales as of the first quarter of 2022.
Kelley Blue Book, a car buying guide, said Tesla responded to the issue by fixing it with a software update. That means it could be fixed at a car owner’s home without requiring any physical repairs. In the NHSTA report, Tesla said it was not aware of any injuries or fatalities related to the issue.
The next largest single recall of Tesla cars after the Feb. 2022 recall was an April 2022 recall of 594,717 cars for a feature that potentially obscured sounds meant to give nearby pedestrians advance warning of the car’s passing. The recall had some overlap in the models subject to the seat belt chime recall, and the number of cars that were affected by both recalls is unknown. That recall was similarly fixed with a software update.
Not every recall has been fixable via software update. In Jan. 2017, Tesla recalled 68,673 cars — although only 1% of those cars were estimated to have the defect — for an airbag that could explode. These airbags were also in other automakers’ cars. NHTSA estimated 67 million cars across all manufacturers were affected and had caused injury and death before they were recalled.
Tesla’s recalls have applied to more than 817,143 cars it issued the seat belt chime recall for. Many of its other recalls have included cars that were not subject to the seat belt chime recall, and a few of the smaller recalls exclusively include cars that were not a part of the seat belt chime recall. The exact number of cars Tesla has issued recalls for is unknown.
According to NHSTA data, Tesla has issued recalls for 3,218,870 cars since the company launched its first car in 2008 — 2,257,537 of which occurred in 2022 alone. But this number doesn’t refer to individual cars, only total recalls, and many cars have been subjected to more than one recall.
NHTSA data shows Tesla has issued the second most amount of recalls among automakers this year, trailing only Ford’s 3.1 million cars subject to recall. In 2021, recalls potentially affected 646,886 Tesla cars; in comparison, more than 7 million GM cars and 5 million Ford cars were subject to recall in 2021.
Anyone can check to see if their car has been subject to a recall by using the NHTSA’s safety issues and recalls page to search for their vehicle by its unique, 17-character VIN. This works for cars from any automaker. | 2022-05-13T21:04:20+00:00 | 11alive.com | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/verify/business-verify/tesla-has-recalled-at-least-quarter-of-cars-sold/536-eac87b54-4706-40a8-a2f1-3a6144cc100a |
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration says it will expand flights to Cuba, take steps to loosen restrictions on U.S. travelers to the island, and lift Trump-era restrictions on remittances that immigrants can send to people on the island.
The State Department said in a statement Monday that it will remove the current $1,000-per-quarter limit on family remittances and will allow non-family remittance, which will support independent Cuban entrepreneurs. The U.S. will also allow scheduled and charter flights to locations beyond Havana, according to the State Department.
The administration said it will also move to reinstate the Cuban Family Reunification Parole Program, which has a backlog of more than 20,000 applications, and increase consular services and visa processing.
“With these actions, we aim to support Cubans’ aspirations for freedom and for greater economic opportunities so that they can lead successful lives at home,” State Department spokesman Ned Price added. “We continue to call on the Cuban government to immediately release political prisoners, to respect the Cuban people’s fundamental freedoms and to allow the Cuban people to determine their own futures.”
The policy changes come after a review that began soon after a series of widespread protests on the island last July.
Former President Donald Trump had increased sanctions against Cuba, including the cancellation of permits to send remittances and the punishment of oil tankers bound for the island.
These measures and the pandemic contributed to an economic crisis in Cuba, where people suffer from shortages of basic products, power outages and rationing.
The economic situation led thousands of people to the streets across Cuba on July 11, 2021 — the largest such protests in decades on the island. Many people were frustrated with shortages and low salaries, as well with the socialist government. Nongovernmental organizations have reported more than 1,400 arrests and 500 people sentenced to up to 20 years in prison for vandalism or sedition.
In recent weeks, both the U.S. and the Cuban governments have started some conversations, amid a surge of Cubans trying to emigrate illegally to the U.S.
The first week of April, the U.S. Embassy in Havana resumed processing visas for Cubans, though on a limited basis, more than four years after stopping consular services on the island amid a hardening of relations.
Sen. Robert Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat who heads the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said the moves send the “wrong message” to Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel's government. Menendez was particularly critical of the administration decision to reinstate travel by groups for educational and cultural exchanges as well as some travel for professional meetings and professional research on the island.
“I am dismayed to learn the Biden administration will begin authorizing group travel to Cuba through visits akin to tourism,” Menendez said. “To be clear, those who still believe that increasing travel will breed democracy in Cuba are simply in a state of denial.”
Two senior administration officials, who briefed reporters on the condition of anonymity, noted that the Treasury Department has the authority to audit groups that are organizing travel and will ensure that travel is purposeful and in accordance with U.S. law. The U.S. is restricting American tourism on the island and won’t allow individuals to travel there for educational purposes, officials said.
One official defending the move noted that the president has underscored his belief that “Americans are the best ambassadors for democratic values.”
Biden said as a presidential candidate that he would revert to Obama-era policies that loosened decades of embargo restrictions on Havana. Meanwhile, Republicans accused him of not being supportive enough of Cuban dissidents.
President Barack Obama's rapprochement was reversed by Trump, who sharply curtailed remittances that Cuban Americans were allowed to send to relatives on the island, barred financial and commercial transactions with most Cuban companies affiliated with the government or military and, in his final days in office, redesignated Cuba a “state sponsor of terrorism,” in part for its support of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., said he would put a hold on all relevant Biden nominees requiring Senate confirmation until the decision is reversed.
“Biden can frame this however he wants, but this is the truth: this is nothing but an idiotic attempt to return to Obama’s failed appeasement policies and clear sign of support for the evil regime,” Scott said.
Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez said on his Twitter account called the Biden administration move "a limited step in the right direction”. He added that the decision doesn’t change the embargo nor most of Trump measures against the island.
“To know the real scope of this announcement, we must wait for the publication of the regulation that will determine its application,” he said.
In Havana, news of the Biden moves was spreading slowly, first among people with access to the internet.
“Beyond the human significance, because families will reunite and there will be a cultural exchange, there will be a blossom of these entrepreneurs little by little,” said Erich Garcia, a programmer and local cryptocurrency expert, referring to the small businesses that opened on the island after some internal political and economic changes, and that got a boost after the historic thaw of relations with Cuba under the Obama administration.
In 2010, then-President Raúl Castro promoted an unprecedented, albeit limited opening to the private sector, allowing hundreds of small businesses to open. Some of them targeted tourists who came in significant numbers at the end of 2014 when Obama announced the new era with the island.
When Trump announced the new restrictions to Cuba, this private sector suffered as tourism declined.
White House officials said the U.S. would also increase its diplomatic presence, which was dramatically scaled back in 2017 in response to a spate of unexplained brain injuries suffered by American diplomats, spies and other government employees posted to the island.
The CIA earlier this year determined that it is unlikely that Russia or another foreign adversary has used microwaves or other forms of directed energy to attack the hundreds of American officials in postings around the globe who have attributed symptoms associated with brain injuries to what’s come to be known as “Havana syndrome.”
An administration official said it did not yet have a conclusion about the mysterious health incidents. Officials did not offer a timeline for ramping up the U.S. diplomatic presence in Cuba.
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Rodriguez reported from Havana. | 2022-05-17T05:06:31+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/White-House-moves-to-loosen-remittance-flight-17177757.php |
Tulsa Police are investigating an apparent shooting Tuesday morning.
Police responded to the Virginia Lee Apartments near I-44 and Memorial.
Officers are still searching for the shooter.
No word on any injuries.
This is a developing story. | 2022-06-15T01:06:31+00:00 | newson6.com | https://www.newson6.com/story/62a8c438160bdb070f96faae/police-searching-for-suspect-after-shooting-at-tulsa-apartment-homes |
KISSIMMEE, Fla. (WSVN) — A Florida woman is going the distance with some major milestones.
Forty-one-year-old Megan Cassidy earned a Guinness World Record for running 23 ultra marathons in 23 days.
The Kissimmee resident from Kissimmee beat the previous record of 22 days.
To put it in perspective, ultra marathons are more than 31 miles.
This real life superwoman said she could have done more than 23 days, but had to make time for work.
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Arizona secretary of state’s office subpoenaed in special counsel probe into 2020 election interference
By Zachary Cohen and Sara Dramer
Washington (CNN) — Special counsel Jack Smith issued a subpoena to the Arizona secretary of state’s office in May as part of the ongoing criminal probe related to efforts to overturn the 2020 election, CNN has confirmed.
Adrian Fontes’ office has complied with the subpoena, which was received through outside counsel, a spokesperson for the secretary of state said Thursday.
The subpoena, first reported earlier this week by the Arizona Republic, adds to what’s known about the special counsel’s probe as investigators have recently zeroed in on the efforts to put forward alternate slates of electors in seven states Donald Trump lost, including Arizona. Trump and his allies also waged legal battles claiming election fraud in the state.
The news comes as a former top Republican official in Arizona, who rejected pressure from Trump and his allies following the former president’s 2020 election defeat, told CNN Wednesday night that he has spoken with the FBI as part of the same ongoing criminal investigation.
Former Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers revealed the interview with investigators lasted four hours and took place a few months ago.
“I am hesitant to talk about any subpoenas, et cetera. But I have been interviewed by the FBI,” Bowers told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins, when asked whether he had been subpoenaed.
In recent weeks, federal investigators have focused on Trump’s efforts, as well as those of his top lawyers as they organized fake electors to submit votes to Congress on his behalf and as they sought to sway then-Vice President Mike Pence into blocking the election result.
CNN previously reported investigators secured evidence and testimony from fake electors in Nevada, Georgia’s secretary of state and various election offices in battleground states – indicating the breadth of Smith’s work to date.
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Police video obtained by CNN shows Bryan Kohberger -- now charged in the November killings of four University of Idaho students -- talking with an officer during a traffic stop in Washington state a month before the slayings.
The traffic stop by an officer at Washington State University -- which Kohberger attended and is near the Idaho college -- was cited in a probable cause affidavit for Kohberger's December arrest, as WSU authorities' knowledge of his vehicle would play a role in his identification as a suspect.
CNN obtained the video from WSU through a public records request.
In the WSU officer's body camera video from October 14, 2022, the officer tells Kohberger -- who is seated in his vehicle -- that she pulled him over because he ran a red light after having improperly stopped at an intersection.
Kohberger discusses the details of his turn through the intersection with the officer and shares his license and registration, according to the video. The officer tells him what the best course of action would be in the future.
Kohberger tells the officer that the area of Pennsylvania he's from -- which he later describes as rural -- doesn't have crosswalks, and that he's not used to worrying about blocking them, footage shows.
The officer returns to her patrol car to check information about Kohberger and his vehicle, and then returns and shares specifics about the law, the video shows. She tells him she isn't writing a ticket for the incident, and he said he apologizes if she took him conversing about differences between Washington and Pennsylvania law as disagreement.
"I do apologize if I was asking you too many questions about the law. I wasn't trying to, like, disagree with you," Kohberger says. The officer says she understands his questions, and they part ways.
Kohberger, 28, is charged with first-degree murder in the November stabbings of Kaylee Goncalves, 21; Madison Mogen, 21; Xana Kernodle, 20; and Ethan Chapin, 20, at a home just outside the University of Idaho's main campus in Moscow.
The discovery of the bloody crime scene on November 13 shattered the Idaho college town and frayed the nerves of students and residents as the search for a suspect ensued.
Kohberger has yet to enter a plea and is being held without bail in the Latah County Jail in Idaho. A court order prohibits all parties from commenting beyond referencing the public records of the case.
Pullman, home to WSU, is less than 10 miles west of the University of Idaho.
After the Idaho killings were discovered, investigators focused on a white Hyundai Elantra seen on surveillance footage near the crime scene, according to a probable cause affidavit released in January.
By November 25, area law enforcement had been notified to be on the lookout for such an Elantra, the affidavit said. Days later, WSU police identified a white Elantra and found it was registered to Kohberger, the affidavit reads.
When investigators searched for his driver's license information, they found it consistent with the description of a man dressed in black provided by a surviving roommate of the victims, the affidavit says, specifically noting his height, weight and bushy eyebrows.
Investigators then linked Kohberger to the crime scene after DNA on a tan leather knife sheath found lying next to one of the victims was linked to DNA on trash recovered from Kohberger's family home, according to the affidavit.
Kohberger has been charged with four counts of first-degree murder. If found guilty, he could face the death penalty. | 2023-05-05T08:46:30+00:00 | albanyherald.com | https://www.albanyherald.com/news/police-video-shows-bryan-kohberger-in-traffic-stop-a-month-before-idaho-students-killings/article_74ee9358-c7b6-50cf-85a9-9dec487cade9.html |
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SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — The U.S. Embassy in Sarajevo on Thursday described claims by the Bosnian Serb leader that his security services are eavesdropping on the American ambassador to Sarajevo as “blustering" and added that his separatist policies are “gambling” with the future of the Serb entity in the Balkan state.
Milorad Dodik, a member of Bosnia’s tripartite presidency, claimed at a pre-election rally Wednesday that the Bosnian Serb spying agency is now capable of listening to the conversations by U.S. Ambassador Michael Murphy and his staff.
“We also listening in on to them now, it’s not only them listening in on us,” Dodik told his supporters. “I know what they are talking about.”
He said this was not possible to do this just a few years ago.
“What we say in private is the same as what we say in public -- the United States remains committed to Bosnia and Herzegovina’s sovereignty, territorial integrity, and multiethnic character and we will respond to any destabilizing, anti-Dayton activity,” the U.S. Embassy tweeted, referring to a 1995 peace deal reached in Dayton, Ohio, between Bosniaks, Serbs and Croats that ended a war that left at least 100,000 people dead and millions homeless.
Although the peace deal ended the bloodshed, it left Bosnia deeply divided between the Bosniak-Croat federation and the Serb entity called Republika Srpska. Dodik has openly been striving to split the Serb entity from Bosnia and join it with neighboring Serbia.
“All of Mr. Dodik’s blustering cannot change the fundamental fact that the RS is not a state. It is one of BiH’s two entities,” the embassy tweet said. “His pursuit of an “Independent Srpska in BIH” isn’t protecting the RS or its residents, it is gambling with their future.”
Dodik, known for his staunchly pro-Russian stance, has been under U.S. financial and travel sanctions since January after the Biden administration accused him of “corrupt activities” that threaten to destabilize the region.
Media in Bosnia say Dodik is among politicians in more than two dozen countries who since 2014 were paid by Russia in exchange for exerting pro-Kremlin influence. According to a newly declassified review by U.S. intelligence agencies Russia has spent at least $300 million to sway both politics and policy in those states.
There are fears in the West that Russia is — through the Bosnian Serbs and its Balkan ally Serbia — working on destabilizing Bosnia to shift at least part of world attention from its war on Ukraine. | 2022-09-15T12:59:06+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/US-scoffs-as-Bosnian-Serb-leader-claims-he-can-17443388.php |
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — It’s Wednesday, June 21. Start your day with KELOLAND On The Go with everything you need to know in news and weather.
The woman who set a deadly apartment fire last July will spend the next 35 years behind bars.
An apartment in southern Sioux Falls was damaged when a car crashed into it early Sunday morning.
A Las Vegas man is accused of driving drunk and hitting a person crossing Minnesota Avenue on Saturday night, leaving the victim unconscious.
According to police, the SFPD investigated 1,361 reports of stolen cars in 2022. That averages out to more than 3 a day, and it’s a 79% increase when compared to 2019’s figure of 759.
Sioux Falls city council members approved several multi-million dollar Downtown Sioux Falls park projects Tuesday night.
Over the last year and a half, Remedy Brewing has raised thousands of dollars for the Banquet with their weekly Queen Bee Fundraiser.
Traffic is picking up in the communities of Pickstown, Lake Andes and Wagner this week.
Our dry spell should start to improve as wetter conditions develop west of Sioux Falls in the coming days. Much of the central and eastern corn belt will stay dry in the short-term forecast.
Download the KELOLAND News app to find the latest headlines while on the go. | 2023-06-21T13:51:32+00:00 | keloland.com | https://www.keloland.com/on-the-go/arsonist-sentenced-to-35-years-car-crashes-into-sf-apartment-arrest-made-after-hit-and-run/ |
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A new law that bans citizens of China and some other countries from purchasing property in large swaths of Florida violates federal housing discrimination laws, a lawyer representing Chinese nationals living and working in the state told a federal judge Tuesday.
While other states have laws that prevent foreigners from buying agricultural land, American Civil Liberties Union lawyer Ashley Gorski said Florida’s law is extreme and amounts to blanket discrimination against Chinese citizens by equating them to the Chinese Communist Party. She said there is no evidence that Chinese nationals pose a security threat.
The ACLU is seeking an injunction to block enforcement of the measure, which went into effect July 1.
“This is a highly unusual law,” she told Judge Allen Winsor. “Florida’s law is truly extraordinary.”
The law applies to properties within 10 miles (16 kilometers) of military installations and other “critical infrastructure” and also affects citizens of Cuba, Venezuela, Syria, Iran, Russia and North Korea. But Chinese citizens and those selling property to them face the harshest penalties. The prohibition also applies to agricultural land.
The state argued that the law isn’t discriminatory because it addresses security issues posed by those nations.
Winsor said it is a complicated issue and he would take his time ruling on the request.
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SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — Justin Roiland, who created the animated series “Rick and Morty” and provides the voices of the two title characters, is awaiting trial on charges of felony domestic violence against a former girlfriend.
A criminal complaint obtained Thursday from The Associated Press from prosecutors in Orange County, California, charged Roiland, 42, with corporal injury and false imprisonment by menace, fraud, violence or deceit against the woman, who he was living with at the time. The woman was not identified in court documents.
Roiland has pleaded not guilty.
The incident occurred in January of 2020 and Roiland was charged in May of that year, but the charges apparently went unnoticed by media outlets until NBC News reported them Thursday, when a pre-trial hearing was held in the case.
Emails seeking comment from Roiland’s attorney and representatives for Cartoon Network, which airs “Rick and Morty,” were not immediately returned. Roiland is set to return to court in April. A trial date has not been set.
Roiland and Dan Harmon created the animated sci-fi sitcom about a mad scientist and his grandson, both voiced by Roiland. It has aired for six seasons on Cartoon Network as part of its Adult Swim nighttime programming block, and has been renewed for a seventh. | 2023-01-13T13:07:38+00:00 | everythinglubbock.com | https://www.everythinglubbock.com/news/national/rick-and-morty-creator-awaiting-trial-for-domestic-violence/ |
(NEXSTAR) – Barbie is releasing its first-ever doll with hearing aids in June as part of toymaker Mattel’s push to make its lineup more diverse and inclusive.
The latest additions to the company’s Fashionista line will also feature a Barbie with a prosthetic leg and dolls in a variety of body types “including smaller bust, curvy and original,” according to an email from a Mattel spokesperson.
A Ken doll with vitiligo is new this year, two years after the release of the Barbie with vitiligo, which was one of the top five best-selling Fashionista dolls in its first year, according to Mattel.
To make sure that the hearing aids were portrayed accurately, Mattel consulted with an audiology expert, Dr. Jen Richardson.
“As an educational audiologist with over 18 years of experience working in hearing loss advocacy, it’s inspiring to see those who experience hearing loss reflected in a doll,” Richardson said. “I’m beyond thrilled for my young patients to see and play with a doll who looks like them.”
The company’s Global Head of Barbie and Dolls, Lisa McKnight, said it’s important for children to see themselves in the toys they play with, as well as to play with dolls that don’t look like them to help foster a sense of inclusion.
“Barbie wholeheartedly believes in the power of representation, and as the most diverse doll line on the market, we are committed to continuing to introduce dolls featuring a range of skin tones, body types and disabilities to reflect the diversity kids see in the world around them,” McKnight said.
The latest Barbie Fashionistas will retail at $9.99 from retailers nationwide. | 2022-05-13T02:46:16+00:00 | keloland.com | https://www.keloland.com/news/national-world-news/mattel-unveils-first-ever-barbie-doll-with-hearing-aids/ |
NEW YORK, Nov. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of Polished.com Inc. f/k/a 1847 Goedeker Inc. (NYSE American: POL, GOED): (i) pursuant and/or traceable to the registration statement and related prospectus issued in connection with the Company's 2020 initial public offering (the "IPO" or "Offering"); and/or (ii) between July 27, 2020 and August 25, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important December 30, 2022 lead plaintiff deadline in the securities class action first filed by the firm.
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BEIJING, Oct. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) comes as China is striding forward on a new journey to build a modern socialist country in all respects.
The CPC on Saturday unveiled the key agenda of its 20th National Congress, saying all preparations had been completed for the congress, which will open at 10 a.m. (local time) on Sunday in Beijing.
The congress will envision the two stages toward building a great modern socialist country in all respects and set out strategic tasks and major measures for the next five years, Sun Yeli, spokesperson for the congress, told a news conference on Saturday afternoon.
According to the two-step strategic plan, socialist modernization will be basically realized from 2020 to 2035. From 2035 to the mid-21st century, China will become a great modern socialist country, prosperous, strong, democratic, culturally advanced, harmonious and beautiful.
"No matter how the world changes, China will be unswerving in its determination and resolve to open itself up," said Sun, adding that the country will steadfastly implement a wider, broader and deeper opening-up to the outside world.
Representing more than 96 million CPC members and over 4.9 million primary-level Party organizations, a total of 2,296 delegates, whose qualifications had been confirmed as valid, will attend the week-long congress.
Among the delegates, 771 are working on the frontline, accounting for 33.6 percent of the total. There are 619 female delegates, or 27 percent of the total, an increase of 2.8 percentage points compared with the figure of the 19th CPC National Congress five years ago.
Agenda set
The agenda of the 20th CPC National Congress was approved at a preparatory meeting presided over by Xi Jinping on Saturday afternoon.
Delegates are expected to hear and review a report of the 19th CPC Central Committee, examine a work report of the 19th CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI), deliberate and adopt an amendment to the CPC Constitution, and elect the 20th CPC Central Committee and the 20th CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, according to the agenda.
During the preparatory meeting, participants also approved a list of 243 members of the presidium of the congress, and that Wang Huning will serve as secretary-general of the congress.
Reviewing report by 19th CPC Central Committee
According to Sun, one of the most important items on the agenda will be the hearing and reviewing of the report submitted by the 19th CPC Central Committee.
Opinions of more than 4,700 people were collected on the draft report, he said.
Xi, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, also held five symposiums to hear the opinions and suggestions of people from various sectors, including non-CPC personages, on the draft report, said the spokesperson.
The report, along with a CCDI work report and an amendment to the Party Constitution, will be submitted for deliberation at the upcoming congress.
Amending Party Constitution
The amendment to the CPC Constitution at the upcoming congress will incorporate the major theoretical views and strategic thinking to be established in the report of the 19th CPC Central Committee to the 20th CPC National Congress, said Sun.
The amendment will fully embody the latest achievements in adapting Marxism to the Chinese context and to the needs of the times, said the spokesperson.
It will also enshrine the new ideas, thoughts and strategies on national governance that the CPC Central Committee has set forth since the 19th CPC National Congress, while reflecting the latest experience in the Party's development and work, he said.
The amendment will meet new requirements for advancing the Party's development and work in the face of new circumstances and new tasks, Sun added.
Electing new CPC leadership
Following the conclusion of the 20th CPC National Congress, a new central leadership will be elected at the first plenary session of the 20th CPC Central Committee.
After the plenary session, members of the new Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the 20th CPC Central Committee will meet the press, said Sun.
The spokesperson also took questions from domestic and foreign reporters on some of the major issues up for discussion at the upcoming congress, ranging from China's economy and COVID-19 response to the Taiwan question and China-U.S. relations.
When speaking about China's economic growth over the past decade, Sun said the country had lifted all of its 98.99 million impoverished rural residents out of poverty by the end of 2020, a miracle in the human history.
"We have the confidence, resolve and capability to meet new goals and create greater miracles on the way forward," he said.
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A New York parking garage appearing to be packed with vehicles partially collapsed in lower Manhattan on Tuesday.
Images taken from other buildings in the area showed cars that had fallen through multiple floors, with some teetering precariously as emergency crews rushed to the scene.
At around 5 p.m. ET New York police said they were responding to the scene around the Ann Street, between Nassau Street and William Street.
Police asked the public to avoid the area.
Pace University, a school nearby, issued an alert sayingthere was a partial collapse of a building near its campus.
Firefighters had to be pulled from the rescue operation because of increased concerns over the stability of the structure. New York Mayor Eric Adams said a robotic dog unit and drones were used to go inside the structure to assess damage.
Multiple people were taken to local hospitals, and at least one person refused medical treatment. At least one death was confirmed.
New York Subway authorities said trains had to be run at a slower speed around the area as crews responded to the collapse.
ABC 7 reported, citing New York City Department of Building records, there was at least one open hazardous violation, but Mayor Adams said at a press conference there were no open violations on the structure.
Trending stories at Scrippsnews.com | 2023-04-18T23:44:31+00:00 | wrtv.com | https://www.wrtv.com/parking-structure-collapses-in-new-york-injuries-reported |
New York (AP) — Looking for a new job is a balancing act: Some people change roles for a shorter commute or better salary, others want health insurance or flexible schedules, and still others are looking to work in a new or different industry.
Hiring is booming in the U.S. — the economy added 528,000 jobs in July, up from 398,000 in June, according to the latest job report by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. But in many cases, wages aren’t rising as fast as prices, leading workers to look elsewhere.
Compensation, job location and work environment are among the most important factors you should consider when looking for a new role, according to Jill Gonzalez, a financial analyst from WalletHub.
Here are five key things to think about if you’re looking for a job (or wondering whether you should):
THE CURRENT JOB MARKET
As of July, there were 1.7 jobs for every unemployed person, meaning employers are competing for workers in many industries.
While not all employers can afford to offer cost-of-living wage increases, some are increasingly open to providing other benefits, such as more remote work options, subsidized child care, or coverage of commuting expenses, according to Johnny C. Taylor Jr., chief executive officer of the Society for Human Resource Management.
“With inflation, employees that are otherwise happy at work are forced to look for another job. It’s a retention problem,” he said. “You might have an employee who loves their workplace, but they’ll say, ‘I have to go across the street for the job that will pay me 20% more.’”
Some companies are also better prepared to withstand an economic downturn than others, which is worth considering amid fears that the U.S. could be headed for a recession.
“The companies that are recession-resistant are typically those that sell consumer essentials, provide critical repair services, or manufacture or sell proprietary or specialized products,” said Gonzalez.
Demand for these goods and services typically stays more or less the same regardless of consumers’ budgets. The food industry, grocery stores, power plants, waste management, pharmaceutical, and healthcare companies also weather economic instability well, she said.
SALARY
How much you’ll be paid is key, and how you look at your income depends in part on your industry.
For Justin Taylor, a restaurant worker based in Minneapolis, it isn’t only a question of how much he can make per hour, but also how much he can get in tips.
Taylor increased his salary from $15 per hour to approximately $20 per hour when he changed jobs from Chipotle to a local restaurant. His previous job didn’t include meaningful tips from customers while his current job does, significantly raising his take-home pay.
Conversations around pay are rarely transparent. If you’re not sure what the average salary in your industry might be, the the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides a list of average wages and salaries in most sectors.
COMMUTE
If you find a job that pays more per hour but requires a longer commute, it might not work out to be much of a pay raise, after factoring in gas or the cost of public transit.
“I wanted to be close to my home, I was just trying to save money on transportation,” said Taylor.
Before his new job, Taylor used to commute 30 minutes each way on public transport; he now travels on his electric scooter for less than 10 minutes.
With gas prices higher than a year ago, Taylor also decided to sell his truck and start using more affordable alternatives. Survey data shows that 64 percent of U.S. adults have changed their driving habits or lifestyle since March of this year, according to the American Automobile Association.
If you can take public transportation to your job or you pay for parking, check with your potential new employer about whether the company offers pre-tax benefits.
BENEFITS
For some, good benefits might include health insurance or retirement contributions. For others, working from home a few days a week or having on-the-job training are great bonuses.
“The work-life balance is equally important. (Workers) should inquire about vacation and sick day policies, as well as work-from-home flexibility,” Gonzalez said.
That was the case for Taylor, who approached his job search with the goal of having more flexibility.
“I’m a person, I have a life outside of work and wanted to have more control. That was really important, too. So I went in letting them know ’Hey, I will need this day off,’” said Taylor, who is also a member of Restaurant Opportunities Centers United, a non-profit organization that advocates for workers’ rights.
Eugene Natali, a financial literacy expert and CEO of Troutwood, a financial planning app, said growing your skills is especially important when there might be a recession looming.
Auto mechanics, for example, should take every on-the-job training and get every certification offered, he said, to make themselves more valuable to their workplace and more attractive to potential employers if they should need to change jobs.
WORK ENVIRONMENT
Blair Heitmann, a career expert for hiring platform LinkedIn, encourages job seekers to think about company culture when looking to change roles.
Reaching out to current and former employees, researching press and social media and even reading earnings reports are some of her recommendations.
Websites such as Indeed and Glassdoor have user-generated reviews of workplaces and some offer pay ranges for certain companies.
This research can also help give you insight into what makes a business run, which can give you a leg up in an interview, she said.
Stephanie Stathas, a licensed therapist with Thriveworks, which provides in-person and online therapy, says that identifying healthy workplaces can help reduce job stress.
“If a work environment doesn’t have good management or doesn’t find that time to appreciate the individual for what they do, a lot of people can tend to feel down about themselves,” she said.
But it’s more nuanced than just appreciating workers, she added, as employees also need the ability to set boundaries with their workloads.
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The Associated Press receives support from Charles Schwab Foundation for educational and explanatory reporting to improve financial literacy. The independent foundation is separate from Charles Schwab and Co. Inc. The AP is solely responsible for its journalism. | 2022-08-06T09:01:53+00:00 | kfor.com | https://kfor.com/business/ap-business/5-things-to-consider-when-looking-for-a-new-job/ |
Q. My son is 8 and his father and I have been separated for nine months. Yesterday I had a student-teacher conference and the teacher suggested we get him tested for ADHD. This is all new to me. I never saw signs of distraction before, but as he gets older, he is definitely more disorganized. Am I just imagining it or could it be a reaction to his dad moving out? What’s good ex-etiquette?
A. You and dad must seriously take a look at how you are approaching your parenting plan, exchanges and problem-solving.
The symptoms of depression look very much like the symptoms of ADHD. Disorganization, being distracted, an inability to focus or complete tasks, and mood swings are apparent in both disorders. And if no one in your extended family has ever been diagnosed with something like this, the answer may lie in your approach to your breakup. If you are disorganized, distracted, display an inability to focus or complete tasks, and have mood swings, why would it be a surprise your child also displays these behaviors? You are modeling distraction and disorganization.
Kids thrive with a schedule on which they can depend, especially if their world has been turned upside down by their parents’ breakup. Do you have a set time for dinner, homework, possibly recreation? Granted, many are working parents, and the variables of coming home late or being exhausted certainly play into an inability to stay on schedule — but not all the time — and that’s what a child who feels disorganized needs.
What does that look like? Let your child see there is a plan for his mornings before and his evenings after school. Have a place to do homework — at BOTH parents’ homes. If one parent is organized and the other is not, that can confuse a child as well.
Co-parents have different approaches and may not parent exactly the same way, but do your best to be on the same page as your co-parent so your child knows what to expect.
That’s good ex-etiquette.
Dr. Jann Blackstone is the author of “Ex-etiquette for Parents: Good Behavior After Divorce or Separation,” and the founder of Bonus Families, bonusfamilies.com./Tribune News Service | 2023-02-12T05:46:26+00:00 | bostonherald.com | https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/02/12/work-together-to-help-child-stay-calm/ |
Patrick Coyne resigned his Strongsville City Council at-large seat on May 6, days before an FBI affidavit filed in U.S. District Court in Cleveland stated he accepted $20,000 in bribes in 2008.
Council now has 30 days from their May 16 meeting to appoint a replacement to the post Coyne held for more than 20 years.
Who do you feel is the best choice, and why? | 2022-05-21T11:57:52+00:00 | cleveland.com | https://www.cleveland.com/strongsville/2011/05/talking_strongsville_who_is_th.html |
Joshua Mitchell set out on a mission to make tea fun and accessible.
The result was Rare Brew, a unique local tea shop bursting with all types of flavors.
Joshua Mitchell set out on a mission to make tea fun and accessible.
The result was Rare Brew, a unique local tea shop bursting with all types of flavors. | 2022-08-19T16:09:28+00:00 | fox59.com | https://fox59.com/indy-now/rare-brew-aims-to-make-tea-fun-accessible/ |
Former President Trump sued his former fixer Michael Cohen on Wednesday over breach of contract and other claims, hitting back at his former personal attorney who has since turned against the 45th president.
The 32-page complaint takes aim at Cohen’s book, podcast and many media appearances, alleging he maliciously worked to acquire attention and wealth at Trump’s expense. The suit asks for damages in an amount to be determined at trial, although the complaint says the amount is “expected to substantially exceed” $500 million.
“Defendant breached the contractual terms of the confidentiality agreement he signed as a condition of employment with Plaintiff by both revealing Plaintiff’s confidences, and spreading falsehoods about Plaintiff with malicious intent and to wholly self-serving ends,” the complaint states.
Fox News was the first to report the lawsuit being filed.
Cohen is expected to serve as a key witness in the Manhattan District Attorney’s criminal prosecution of Trump over hush money payments prosecutors say Cohen made on Trump’s behalf to hide an affair. The lawsuit does not mention Trump’s recent indictment directly, but the claims include Cohen’s statements about the hush payment arrangement at the center of Trump’s case.
The suit, which was filed in federal court in the Southern District of Florida, alleges Cohen has regularly revealed information that was deemed confidential by the nature of their attorney-client relationship, with Trump further claiming that significant portions of Cohen’s claims are false.
In particular, the lawsuit revolves around the contents of Cohen’s 2020 book, “Disloyal,” and a podcast he launched the same year, called “Mea Culpa.”
“Despite being advertised as a factual memoir, Disloyal is replete with mischaracterizations, falsehoods, and flat-out misrepresentations about Plaintiff,” the suit states.
The Hill has reached out to Cohen’s attorney for comment.
Trump last week was arraigned on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in New York, becoming the first former president to face criminal charges.
The case centers on a $130,000 hush payment that Cohen made to adult film star Stormy Daniels shortly before the 2016 election.
Manhattan prosecutors plan to largely rest on campaign laws to prosecute the former president for obscuring his reimbursement of the payment to Cohen. Cohen testified before the grand jury that voted to indict Trump and is expected to be a key witness in the prosecution.
The suit mentions four times that Cohen hosted Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, on his podcast, claiming the episodes delved “into the details of her allegations against Plaintiff and revealing purported client confidences about Defendant’s role in that matter, but failing to make plain that Plaintiff relied on Defendant’s legal advice, and Plaintiff acted out of a desire to protect his family from the malicious and false claims made by Clifford.”
Trump further sued Cohen for an additional $74,000 over a reimbursement the former president argues Cohen wasn’t entitled to. Cohen has said he “loaded up” on the reimbursement to “sneakily” increase his compensation.
Despite being a small amount compared to the broader lawsuit, the payment is reportedly the same as one mentioned in Cohen’s 2018 guilty plea in federal court.
That would also mean the reimbursement in question was included as part of the 11 monthly checks Trump wrote to Cohen, each of which now correspond to a felony charge in Trump’s criminal case.
Updated 5:01 p.m. | 2023-04-12T21:10:08+00:00 | pahomepage.com | https://www.pahomepage.com/hill-politics/trump-hits-former-fixer-michael-cohen-with-500m-lawsuit/ |
Stocks rallied on Wall Street after the head of the Federal Reserve said the central bank could soon ease up on its aggressive pace of interest rate hikes aimed at taming inflation.
While citing some signs that inflation is cooling, Fed Chair Jerome Powell stressed Wednesday that the Fed will push rates higher than previously expected and keep them there for an extended period.
Major indexes ended November with their second straight month of gains.
On Wednesday:
The S&P 500 rose 122.48 points, or 3.1%, to 4,080.11.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 737.24 points, or 2.2%, to 34,589.77.
The Nasdaq rose 484.22 points, or 4.4%, to 11,468.
The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies rose 50.03 points, or 2.7%, to 1,886.58.
For the week:
The S&P 500 is up 53.99 points, or 1.3%.
The Dow is up 242.74 points, or 0.7%.
The Nasdaq is up 241.64 points, or 2.2%.
The Russell 2000 is up 17.39 points, or 0.9%.
For the year:
The S&P 500 is down 686.07 points, or 14.4%.
The Dow is down 1,748.53 points, or 4.8%.
The Nasdaq is down 4,176.97 points, or 26.7%.
The Russell 2000 is down 358.74 points, or 16%. | 2022-11-30T22:22:05+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/How-major-US-stock-indexes-fared-Wednesday-17621937.php |
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Reactions from some of the nominees for the 95th Academy Awards:
“I'm literally sitting here holding my head, and holding my heart. It's coming in waves. I'm excited, I'm grateful, I'm nervous. I'm going to have to start journaling (laughs). Queen Ramonda to me is reflective of what mothers have been doing forever, and also a representation of what Black mothers have been doing — holding families together. holding memories, holding wisdom... That's what she is attempting to do in spite of the trauma she has experienced herself... I'm always thinking of Chadwick and his legacy with this film and how he led us in the first ”Panther." I'm always thinking of him, he is always present. It's a continuation of his legacy — Angela Bassett, nominated for best supporting actress in “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever," in an interview. ( Chadwick Boseman, who starred in the first "Black Panther," died in 2020.)
“The peaks are so high, the valleys have been so low. I'm just trying to stay as present as I can. A moment like today is bittersweet because I wish Lisa Marie were here with us to celebrate. And at times amid intense grief and shattering loss it feels sort of bizarre to celebrate. I also know how much this film meant to Lisa Marie and how much her father's legacy meant to her, so I feel so proud and so humbled to be a part of that story. — Austin Butler, nominated for best actor for “Elvis,” in an interview. ( Lisa Marie Presley, Elvis’ daughter, died Jan. 12.)
“Even just to be nominated means validation, love, from your peers. What it means for the rest of the Asians around the world, not just in America but globally, is to say we have a seat at the table. We finally have a seat at the table. We are being recognized and being seen." — Michelle Yeoh, nominated for best actress for “Everything Everywhere All at Once," in an interview.
“It just seemed so far-fetched. Especially when I had to step away from acting for so many years, that dream seemed like it was dead. My whole thing was: I just wanted a job.” — Ke Huy Quan, nominated for best supporting actor for “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” in an interview.
“It’s interesting when you see the kind of prestige the Oscars have. In Sweden, it’s more prestigious than the Nobel prize actually. I have seen all the films from this year, and it’s just a really prominent group.” — Ruben Östlund, nominated for best director and best original screenplay for “Triangle of Sadness," in an interview.
“I’m absolutely overjoyed and deeply grateful to the Academy for this recognition and for recognizing Hong Chau’s beautiful performance and Adrien Morot’s incredible makeup. I wouldn’t have this nomination without Darren Aronofsky, Samuel D. Hunter, A24 and the extraordinary cast and crew who gave me the gift of Charlie. A gift I certainly didn’t see coming, but it’s one that has profoundly changed my life. — Brendan Fraser, nominated for best actor for “The Whale,” in a statement.
“On behalf of Tom, all the filmmakers, cast, Paramount and everyone who worked on ‘Top Gun: Maverick,’ we are so honored by this recognition from the Academy. This being my first ever Oscar nomination makes it that much more special." — Producer Jerry Bruckheimer, nominate for best picture for “Top Gun: Maverick,” in a statement.
"You never know. Everybody tries to do their best work. But to be recognized by this body in this community in this manner — words are poor things. We all know what that means. It’s not something you ever allow yourself to even hope for because it’s so fanciful. Hopefully, it affords the opportunity for more people to see the thing that you’ve all be working on. That’s the main thing.” — Todd Field, writer-director of “Tár,” in an interview. “Tar” is his first film in 16 years.
“l am overjoyed by this morning’s news. Being a part of this film was an unforgettable experience, and I share this nomination with the creative and talented people alongside whom I worked on this project.” — Hong Chau, nominated for best supporting actress for “The Whale,” in a statement.
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For more on this year’s Oscars, visit: http://www.apnews.com/academy-awards | 2023-01-24T19:03:59+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/entertainment/article/Bassett-Butler-Yeoh-Fraser-others-react-to-17738816.php |
CANNES, France (AP) — One of the most memorable lines — and Rob Reiner’s personal favorite — of “This Is Spinal Tap” goes: “There’s a fine line between stupid and clever.”
You could say the same thing about the classic 1984 mockumentary. It could have so easily not panned out. No one in Hollywood thought it was a good idea. It was saved by Norman Lear who, after Reiner made his pitch and departed, is said to have turned to the executives in the room and announced: “Who’s going to tell him he can’t do it?”
Now, Reiner and company want to get the band back together for a sequel. Reiner was at the Cannes Film Festival this week for an anniversary screening on the beach of “This Is Spinal Tap” and to drum up excitement for the just-announced sequel that will also see Michael McKean, Harry Shearer, and Christopher Guest reprise their roles as band members David St. Hubbins, Derek Smalls and Nigel Tufnel.
“The bar is high. There’s no question about it,” Reiner said in an interview by the beach. “And we wrestled with that forever, whether or not we should even bother to do it. But we had an idea. Over the years, people have come up and said, ‘Oh, you should do a sequel.’ We’ve always said, ‘No, no, no.’ But as time went by, we finally had something we think can work. And we’ll find out!”
The 1984 movie had no script, just a four-page outline. It was almost entirely improvised. Reiner’s first cut of the film was seven hours long. Even the jokes they did have planned — like the infamous “these amps goes to 11” scene — were filmed off-the-cuff.
“Quick!” Reiner recalls shouting. “Make an amp with an extra number on it!”
But what teetered so close to never panning out in the first place, has of course become one of the most beloved comedies of the ’80s and a massive influence to countless mockumentaries that have followed. It is even in the Library of Congress.
Reiner assures that this time, too, there will be no screenplay. He will depend on the still sharp improvisational talents of his cast, who have carried on Spinal Tap — a fictional band turned into a semi-real one — in occasional concerts in the intervening decades. Reiner’s character, the director Marti DeBergi (styled after Martin Scorsese in The Band concert documentary “The Last Waltz”), will naturally return.
“Here we are 40 years later and Marti DeBergi — who has not been the greatest filmmaker, let’s put it that way. The man made ‘Kramer vs. Kramer vs. Godzilla.’ And I think he did ‘Attack of the 52-Foot Woman,’” says Reiner. “Because he said there’s going to be this reunion, we wanted to make this film, and we’ve given him free reign.”
When “This Is Spinal Tap” was first released, many thought Spinal Tap was a real band. Reiner, who studied rock documentaries like “The Kids Are Alright” and “The Song Remains the Same” for preparation, enlisted a cinematographer, Peter Smokler, with a documentary background. What was real and what was parody was almost indistinguishable. Sting, Reiner says, has since told him he watched it countless times but didn’t know if he should laugh or cry.
And some bits were taken straight from rock ‘n’ roll lore. The band getting lost on their way to the stage came from an experience by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, who may have been enjoying the pre-show backstage atmosphere too much.
Asked if Scorsese ever spoke to him about Reiner’s riff on him, Reiner responds: “Initially, Marty got mad. But over the years, he’s come to love it. We did ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ a few years ago and we talked about it. He said, ‘Ah, I love it. I love that you did that.’”
“The Last Waltz” will again be a major touchstone for the sequel which Reiner is developing for his re-launched production company Castle Rock. Reiner’s plan entails Spinal Tap reconvening for one last show.
Many of Reiner’s most beloved films are seemingly sequel-proof. Recapturing the tone of “The Princess Bride”? Inconceivable. (Writer William Goldman did try, though.) And it’s just as hard to imagine the magic of “Stand by Me” or “When Harry Met Sally” being captured a second time. But “Spinal Tap,” Reiner thinks, isn’t done rocking.
“If you have an idea,” he says, “then you say, ‘OK.’”
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For more Cannes Film Festival coverage, visit: https://apnews.com/hub/cannes-film-festival | 2022-05-20T08:05:00+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/entertainment-news/with-sequel-plans-rob-reiner-turns-spinal-tap-up-to-11/ |
- APONVIE is the first and only intravenous (IV) formulation of a substance P/neurokinin-1 (NK1) receptor antagonist indicated
for PONV -
- Delivered via a single 30-second IV injection, APONVIE has demonstrated rapid achievement of therapeutic drug levels ideally suited for the surgical setting -
SAN DIEGO, Sept. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Heron Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: HRTX), a commercial-stage biotechnology company focused on improving the lives of patients by developing best-in-class treatments to address some of the most important unmet patient needs, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved APONVIE (aprepitant) injectable emulsion, for intravenous use for the prevention of postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) in adults.
APONVIE is the first and only IV formulation of aprepitant for PONV prevention. Administered via a single 30-second IV injection, APONVIE reaches drug levels associated with ≥97% receptor occupancy in the brain within five minutes and maintains therapeutic plasma concentrations for at least 48 hours. APONVIE is provided in a single-dose vial that delivers the full 32 mg dose approved for PONV. This ready-to-use, easy to administer, innovative IV formulation ensures rapid and consistent exposure in patients undergoing surgery.
An important component of the FDA approval of APONVIE were results from two multicenter, randomized, double-blind clinical studies comparing oral aprepitant to current standard of care, IV ondansetron, for the prevention of PONV in patients during the 48 hours following open abdominal surgery demonstrating that aprepitant was more effective than ondansetron in preventing vomiting. Treatment with aprepitant resulted in approximately 50% fewer patients vomiting in the first 24 and 48 hours compared to ondansetron. In clinical studies, APONVIE was well-tolerated and presented a safety profile comparable to oral aprepitant.
In a 2020 Cochrane meta-analysis, aprepitant was ranked as the most effective drug approved for PONV prophylaxis, being the most effective for the prevention of vomiting in the first 24 hours post-surgery and the drug with the fewest adverse events.
"With the approval of APONVIE our acute care portfolio now addresses the two most common concerns of patients and clinicians after surgery, postoperative pain and postoperative nausea and vomiting. This marks an important milestone for our expanding acute care portfolio and is a testament to our ongoing commitment to developing innovative solutions to help improve the overall patient experience after surgery," said Barry Quart, Pharm.D., Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Heron. "With approximately 36 million procedures in the U.S. each year in patients with high to moderate risk for PONV, the approval of APONVIE provides an easy to use, highly effective option for these patients that fits seamlessly into our acute care franchise."
PONV are common adverse effects of anesthesia and surgery, with an estimated 30 percent of patients receiving general anesthesia and up to 80 percent of high-risk patients experiencing these symptoms, necessitating more effective preventative agents. PONV is a major cause of patient dissatisfaction after surgery, with patients frequently ranking vomiting as the most undesirable outcome of anesthesia. Additionally, PONV presents a significant risk in outpatient surgeries as patients are often discharged within hours after surgery and no longer have access to highly effective antiemetics.
"PONV is commonly experienced after surgery and may result in increased hospital stays, prolonged recovery time, and decreased patient satisfaction" said Ashraf Habib, MBBCh, MSc, MHSc, FRCA, Chief, Division of Women's Anesthesia at Duke University Hospital. "Oral aprepitant has been used to prevent postoperative nausea and vomiting for more than 16 years and it is exciting to see that, with the approval of APONVIE, physicians can now offer patients a more convenient IV injection that delivers the same effective treatment, with a 48-hour duration of effect, in a rapid, consistent and reliable way, ensuring a better experience for patients postoperatively."
Heron will host a conference call and webcast on September 19, 2022 at 8:30 a.m. ET. The conference call can be accessed by dialing 646-307-1963 for domestic callers and 800-715-9871 for international callers. Please provide the operator with the passcode 4538096 to join the conference call. The conference call will also be available via webcast under the Investor Relations section of Heron's website at www.herontx.com. An archive of the teleconference and webcast will also be made available on Heron's website for 60 days following the call.
APONVIE should not be used:
- if you are allergic to aprepitant or any of the ingredients in APONVIE
- if you are taking pimozide
APONVIE may cause serious side effects. Tell your doctor or nurse right away if you have any of these signs or symptoms of an allergic reaction:
- trouble breathing or swallowing, shortness of breath or wheezing
- swelling of your eyes, face, tongue, or throat
- flushing or redness of your face or skin
- hives, rash, or itching
- dizziness, a rapid or weak heartbeat, or you feel faint
APONVIE may affect how other medicines work. Other medicines may affect how APONVIE works. Tell your doctor about all the medicines you take, including prescription and over-the-counter medicines, vitamins, or herbal supplements. If you take the blood-thinner medicine warfarin, your doctor may do blood tests after you receive APONVIE to check your blood clotting.
Women who use birth control medicines containing hormones to prevent pregnancy (birth control pills, skin patches, implants, and certain IUDs) should also use back-up methods of birth control (such as condoms and spermicides) for 1 month after receiving APONVIE.
Before you receive APONVIE, tell your doctor if you are pregnant or plan to become pregnant. APONVIE contains alcohol and may harm your unborn baby.
Before you receive APONVIE, tell your doctor if you are breast-feeding or plan to breastfeed because it is likely APONVIE passes into your milk, and it is not known if it can harm your baby. You and your doctor should decide if you will receive APONVIE, if breast-feeding.
The most common side effects of APONVIE are constipation, low blood pressure, tiredness, and headache.
Talk to your healthcare provider for medical advice about side effects. Report side effects to Heron at 1-844-437-6611 or to FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088 or www.fda.gov/medwatch.
The information provided here is not comprehensive. Please see full Prescribing Information.
APONVIE (aprepitant) injectable emulsion is a substance P/neurokinin-1 (NK1) receptor antagonist, indicated for the prevention of postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) in adults. Delivered via a 30-second intravenous (IV) injection, APONVIE 32 mg was demonstrated to be bioequivalent to oral aprepitant 40 mg with rapid achievement of therapeutic drug levels. APONVIE is the same formulation as Heron's approved CINVANTI® (aprepitant) injectable emulsion formulation for prevention of chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV). APONVIE is supplied in a single-dose vial that delivers the full 32 mg dose for PONV. APONVIE was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in September 2022.
Heron Therapeutics, Inc. is a commercial-stage biotechnology company focused on improving the lives of patients by developing best-in-class treatments to address some of the most important unmet patient needs. Our advanced science, patented technologies, and innovative approach to drug discovery and development have allowed us to create and commercialize a portfolio of products that aim to advance the standard-of-care for acute care and oncology patients. For more information, visit www.herontx.com.
This news release contains "forward-looking statements" as defined by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Heron cautions readers that forward-looking statements are based on management's expectations and assumptions as of the date of this news release and are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially, including, but not limited to, the timing of the commercial launch of APONVIE; the potential market opportunity for APONVIE; the extent of the impact of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic on our business; and other risks and uncertainties identified in the Company's filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Forward-looking statements reflect our analysis only on their stated date, and Heron takes no obligation to update or revise these statements except as may be required by law.
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In the wake of Damar Hamlin’s frightening on-field collapse after suffering from cardiac arrest and having his heartbeat restored on the field by medical staff, the National Football League gave a stadium tour of its health and safety protocols at the site of this weekend’s Super Bowl in Arizona.
The NFL’s Chief Medical Officer Allen Sills said, as horrible as it was to watch the Buffalo Bills’ safety’s injury, he knew the medical staff was well trained and could handle the situation.
During the media tour inside State Farm Stadium, Sills also showed off the league’s state-of-the-art concussion detention protocols, where medical staff can pull players from games due to possible head injury.
The NFL also showed off the various areas in the stadium where anyone injured would be taken, including a pop-up tent where doctors can examine players without the distraction of the crowd | 2023-02-11T02:15:26+00:00 | fox59.com | https://fox59.com/sports/the-big-game/nfl-showcases-safety-protocols-after-hamlin-injury/ |
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The new blockbuster movie “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” was abruptly removed from cinema listings in more than a dozen Muslim-majority countries without explanation, apparently over the inclusion of a blink-and-you-miss-it transgender poster in the background of one frame.
Empire Entertainment, the Middle East distributor for the computer-animated Sony Pictures film, did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
No explicit bans of the film were announced, but there were indications that it will not reach screens.
For example, there is no expectation that “Across the Spider-Verse” will be shown in the United Arab Emirates, said a source close to the film who was not authorized to speak publicly. The source cited rigorous censorship of movies for children and younger viewers.
On the official Saudi Cinema twitter page, a statement with a poster of the film attached said the organization will not approve any film that contradicts the nation’s media content regulations and whose “production companies do not commit to implementing the required amendments.”
The superhero film featuring the Marvel Comics character Miles Morales as Spider-Man debuted in U.S. cinemas at the beginning of June, tripling the domestic opening weekend revenue of its Oscar-winning prequel.
Initially, it was scheduled to open in the Mideast on June 22, ahead of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha. The film was listed in cinema programs as recently as last week in countries such as Kuwait, the UAE, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, Lebanon, and Egypt, but was abruptly and quietly pulled.
No reasons were given, but the brief transgender reference might have caused offense in Arab countries where Muslim majorities, guided by Islamic law, or Sharia, often consider homosexuality and transgender identity as sinful and contrary to their religious beliefs and societal norms.
The film includes a scene where a transgender flag printed with the words “Protect Trans Kids” is hanging in the room of Gwen Stacy, a spider superhero and character voiced by actress Hailee Steinfeld.
The UAE, home to the futuristic city of Dubai and the world’s tallest skyscraper, has not officially banned the movie. The federation of seven sheikhdoms once reported an end to its censorship of cinematic releases in an effort to boost its brand as a liberal hub attractive to foreigners, but it has continued to pull some movies from its theatres.
Emaar Entertainment, a state-owned entity and parent company of major UAE cinema company Reel Cinemas, confirmed to The Associated Press that it won’t be screening “Across the Spider-Verse”. The company attributed the decision to Empire Entertainment, the exclusive theatrical distributor for Sony Pictures movies in the Middle East.
Empire Entertainment, the UAE Ministry of Youth and Culture and the Saudi Ministry of Communications and Information Technology could not be reached for comment.
In a similar incident last year, Disney’s “Lightyear” was banned in 13 Muslim-majority nations for featuring a scene with a lesbian kiss. The moment had been earlier cut from the film but was restored after Pixar employees protested Disney’s response to Florida legislation that opponents dubbed as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill.
“Into the Spider-Verse,” the prequel to “Across the Spider-Verse,” had a successful run in the region when it premiered in 2018. Children in Lebanon sport backpacks featuring Miles Morales, the main character of the franchise and the first Black Spider-Man, while malls across the UAE sell action figures of the movie’s superheroes.
“Across the Spider-Verse” is part two in a trilogy that will conclude with a third chapter scheduled to hit regional cinemas next year.
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Associated Press film writer Lindsey Bahr contributed to this report. | 2023-06-16T20:15:08+00:00 | everythinglubbock.com | https://www.everythinglubbock.com/entertainment-news/new-spider-man-film-pulled-from-cinema-programs-in-arab-world-possibly-over-transgender-flag/ |
Climate protesters threw soup over Vincent van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” in London’s National Gallery on Friday to protest fossil fuel extraction.
The group Just Stop Oil, which wants the British government to halt new oil and gas projects, said activists dumped two cans of Heinz tomato soup over the oil painting, one of the Dutch artist’s most iconic works.
Witnesses inside the museum's gallery can be heard gasping, with one person yelling "Oh my gosh!," as two women poured the liquid over the painting. The protesters then glued themselves to the wall below the artwork.
London’s Metropolitan Police said officers arrested two people on suspicion of criminal damage and aggravated trespass.
The group has drawn attention, and criticism, for targeting artworks in museums. In July, Just Stop Oil activists glued themselves to the frame of Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper” at London’s Royal Academy of Arts, and to John Constable’s “The Hay Wain” in the National Gallery.
Activists have also blocked bridges and intersections across London during two weeks of protests.
The wave of demonstrations comes as the British government opens a new licensing round for North Sea oil and gas exploration, despite criticism from environmentalists and scientists who say the move undermines the country’s commitment to fighting climate change. | 2022-10-14T17:29:59+00:00 | nbcchicago.com | https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/climate-protesters-throw-soup-on-van-goghs-sunflowers-painting/2967738/ |
Peoria Rivermen roar past Roanoke, 5-3, in Game 2 of the SPHL semifinals to stay alive
PEORIA — The Lucky Armadillo blessed the Peoria Rivermen on Friday and kept them from becoming road kill in the SPHL best-of-3 semifinals.
The Rivermen, facing elimination after losing Game 1 at Roanoke, bounced back with a 5-3 victory with two power play goals and a rare own-goal during a delayed penalty before 2,576 at Carver Arena.
A decisive Game 3 is Sunday at 4:15 p.m. at Carver Arena.
Fans posted a sign along the boards in what was Roanoke's zone in the second period, which read "The Lucky Armadillo has come to bless you!"
It was a reference to Rivermen winger Jordan Ernst chasing around an armadillo in a parking lot while the team was stranded in Tennessee in the first round.
With a delayed penalty call on Peoria, Roanoke goaltender Austyn Roudebush came off the ice for an extra attacker.
Play continued, and Roanoke defenseman Matt O'Dea, along the boards outside his own blueline, accidently sent a pass into his own zone and inside the right post for a goal, which was credited to … Jordan Ernst.
The Rivermen jolted Roanoke with two goals 31 seconds apart in the first period to race to a 2-0 lead.
Game 1:Peoria Rivermen face elimination after loss in opening game of SPHL semifinals
Peoria captain Alec Hagaman set up the first one with a pass across the doorstep for a dunk from the right post by winger Mitch McPherson at 7:18.
Then winger Mike Gelatt tried a bad-angle shot from the endline to the right of the Roanoke net, gathered in his own rebound and circled the back of the cage to tuck in a wraparound at the post.
The jacked up crowd was willing the Rivermen for more when they went right to a power play after that, but Roanoke struck instead, netting a shorthanded goal off a two-on-one break from Nick DeVito at 8:43 to cut Peoria's lead in half.
Marcel Godbout notched his second goal in four playoff periods since returning from IR, burying a one-timer from the bottom of the left circle for a 3-1 lead with 68 seconds left.
Roanoke settled in and pressed over the next 10 minutes, but the Rivermen hit them again with a momentum-turning goal at the end of the period.
The Rivermen skated off to intermission with a standing ovation from the crowd.
The Rivermen jumped to 4-1 at 3:30 of the second period when center Alec Baer's drive from between the circles beat Roudebush high.
Again Roanoke answered immediately, getting another goal from DeVito off a turnover from Ernst.
The Roanoke own-goal, credited to Ernst, followed a few minutes later.
Roanoke came out 17 seconds into the third period and cut Peoria's lead to 5-3 when DeVito completed a hat trick.
River Readings
The Rivermen are 17-1-0 all-time against Roanoke in Carver Arena. Only loss was 3-1 decision on April 7 in the 2017-18 reg season finale. Peoria has won 13 straight vs Roanoke at Carver Arena since then. The Dawgs beat the Rivermen one other time in Peoria --2019 playoffs at Owens Center. … Rivermen lines for Game 2 were JM Piotrowski centering Alec Hagaman and Austin Wisely, Joe Widmar centering Jordan Ernst and Cayden Cahill, and Alec Baer centering Mitch McPherson and Marcel Godbout. ...There is a new SPHL playoff travel saga. The Rivermen 40-hour drama returning from Pensacola in the first round set the tone for the series. On Thursday, it was Roanoke's turn. The Rail Yard Dawgs' flights went through delay, re-routing, and part of the team had to drive in to Peoria, arriving late on Friday.
This story will be updated.
Dave Eminian is the Journal Star sports columnist, and covers Bradley men's basketball, the Rivermen and Chiefs. He writes the Cleve In The Eve sports column for pjstar.com. He can be reached at 686-3206 or deminian@pjstar.com. Follow him on Twitter @icetimecleve. | 2023-04-22T04:08:05+00:00 | pjstar.com | https://www.pjstar.com/story/sports/nhl/rivermen/2023/04/21/sphl-hockey-peoria-rivermen-force-a-decisive-game-3-with-win-over-roanoke/70124881007/ |
TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Recent moves by President Joe Biden to pressure TikTok over its Chinese ownership and approve oil drilling in an untapped area of Alaska are testing the loyalty of young voters, a group that’s largely been in his corner.
Youth turnout surged in the three elections since Donald Trump was elected president in 2016, helping Biden eke out victories in swing states in 2020, pick up a Democratic Senate seat in the 2022 election and stem potential losses in the House.
But the 80-year-old president has never been the favorite candidate of young liberals itching for a new generation of American leadership. As Biden gears up for an expected reelection campaign, a potential TikTok ban and the Alaska drilling could weigh him down.
Meanwhile, his plan to wipe out billions of dollars in student loan debt is in jeopardy at the Supreme Court. The effort, announced shortly before last year’s midterms, was an attempt by Biden to keep a promise he made after defeating progressive Sen. Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primary campaign in 2020.
The risk for Biden is less that young left-of-center voters will vote Republican and more that they would sit out an uninspiring election altogether.
“I’m a Democrat, but I’m not voting for Biden,” said Mark Buehlmann, a 20-year-old Arizona State University student who said he likely would abstain if Biden is the Democratic nominee, as expected. “He’s maybe capable of doing a good job, but he’s not capable of gathering the troops, rallying the people. Especially the Democratic voter base. I don’t think he’s a strong candidate.”
TikTok allows users, 150 million of whom are in the United States, to post short, creative videos for friends and strangers. Its algorithm has an uncanny ability to figure out what interests its users and serve up videos they’ll enjoy. It’s become a supremely popular — some say addictive — place for young people to find entertainment and community.
Western governments are growing increasingly worried that TikTok’s owner, Beijing-based ByteDance, might give browsing history or other data about users to China’s government or promote propaganda and disinformation. The U.S. and other nations have banned TikTok from government-owned devices, as have several states.
The U.S. Committee on Foreign Investment, part of Biden’s Treasury Department, has threatened to ban TikTok if ByteDance doesn’t sell its stake in the app, according to a Wall Street Journal report this month.
Trump tried to ban TikTok in 2020, but the move was blocked in court and later rescinded when Biden took office and ordered an in-depth study of the issue.
ByteDance says it’s working to address security concerns and has plans to route traffic through servers owned by Oracle, a Silicon Valley-based tech company.
Biden administration officials insist that political concerns aren’t weighing into the national security review underway, but they’re also not blind to it.
Both political parties have reoriented around staking out tougher economic and security positions on China’s rise, and Biden has come under increasing pressure from GOP lawmakers to take action against TikTok.
In a recent interview with Bloomberg, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo offered hyperbolically, “The politician in me thinks you’re going to literally lose every voter under 35, forever.”
But it’s clear that the Biden White House and his likely reelection campaign are keenly aware of the app’s massive domestic reach and demographic skew toward Democratic-leaning younger voters.
Highlighting Biden’s balancing act, Rep. Jamaal Bowman, a progressive New York Democrat popular on the left, held a news conference this past week with TikTok creators who have built popular and profitable channels on the social network “in support of free expression.”
Lawmakers grilled TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew for nearly six hours Thursday over data security and harmful content. They responded skeptically during a tense House committee hearing to his assurances that the app prioritizes user safety and should not be banned due to its Chinese connections.
“Let me state this unequivocally: ByteDance is not an agent of China or any other country,” Chew said.
In interviews at Arizona State, one of the largest college campuses in the U.S. and a contributor to Biden’s narrow 10,000-vote win in the swing state, young people described a TikTok ban as somewhere between an annoyance and an inevitability — but not something that would change their views of the president.
“Most people don’t really think about those kinds of things,” Lucas Vittor, a 19-year-old business administration student from Houston, said of a TikTok ban. “I think that they’ll probably just see it as, ‘He’s an oppressive leader, an old dude, he doesn’t know about social media.’”
If TikTok disappears, another app will emerge to capture the attention of young people, Vittor predicted. Other social media platforms, including YouTube and Instagram, have incorporated similar algorithm-driven video features, though some find them clunky compared with TikTok.
“It’s not really Biden’s issue,” said Ginny Xu, a 20-year-old chemical engineering student from Goodyear, Arizona. “It’s more of a bipartisan thing — ‘safety’ from China.”
Losing access to TikTok would be disappointing, Xu said, but it wouldn’t dissuade her from voting for Biden if there’s no better Democratic choice.
Her friend, 20-year-old chemical engineering student Maddie Bruce, agreed.
“I just am not a big Joe Biden fan,” Bruce said. She would prefer to see another Democrat run, but she would still vote for Biden, she said.
Forcing TikTok’s Chinese parent to sell its stake in the U.S. company could provide a convenient middle ground: minimizing the national security threat while avoiding having access to the app cut off for tens of millions of users.
The young have never voted at the same rates as their parents and grandparents, but their participation has ticked up markedly since the start of the Trump presidency.
The 2018 and 2020 midterms brought the highest levels of youth turnout of the past three decades, according to the Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning and Engagement at Tufts University, which studies young voters.
And when they do vote, young people vote overwhelmingly for Democrats.
Biden won 63% of voters age 18 to 24, compared with 34% for Trump, according to AP VoteCast, an expansive survey of the electorate. Republican House candidates did better with young voters in last year’s midterms, but Democrats still had a 14-percentage point advantage, winning voters 24 and younger 54% to 40%.
“If Democrats are looking for their secret weapon, young voters are it,” said Jack Lobel, spokesperson for Voters of Tomorrow, which organizes young voters online and in person. “For Democrats especially, who already have young voters basically on their side, we are the untapped potential that campaigns are looking for.”
A TikTok ban might irritate a lot of young voters, but Biden can point to a strong record of standing up for young people’s interests, Lobel said.
Biden has tried to offer relief from student loan debt and has advocated for abortion rights. He signed a massive climate spending bill along with the most sweeping gun violence bill in decades.
Marisol Ortega, a 21-year-old journalism student from Glendale, Arizona, said many of her peers are looking for someone younger and more exciting, even if they’ll likely hold their nose and vote for him.
“Joe Biden has been a name in American politics for a very, very long time,” Ortega said. “I think people are just kind of ready for something new.”
Still, the Biden administration irked environmentalists and young people by approving the huge Willow oil drilling project on Alaska’s North Slope.
Young activists have been particularly active in pushing to drastically reduce oil drilling and move away from reliance fossil fuels. Before the president’s decision, a #StopWillow campaign garnered millions of views on TikTok urging Biden to block the project.
“He has delivered a lot for young people, and that’s why our advice to the administration was, ‘This is not the right direction to head on this issue,’” said Cristina Tzintzún Ramirez, president of NextGen America, a youth organizing group.
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AP White House Correspondent Zeke Miller in Washington contributed to this report. | 2023-03-25T17:45:33+00:00 | fox44news.com | https://www.fox44news.com/news/business-news/bidens-tiktok-oil-moves-test-the-loyalty-of-young-voters/ |
BROOKLINE, Mass. (AP) — The U.S. Open isn’t the only American major that has felt like an afterthought, lost among chatter and innuendo about topics unrelated to birdies and bogeys.
Golf was no longer the primary concern going into the 1990 PGA Championship at Shoal Creek in Alabama. The club founder had said Shoal Creek would not be pressured into accepting a Black member. Corporate sponsors began to withdraw TV advertising, protests were planned and Shoal Creek extended membership to a Black insurance executive a week before the PGA.
Until the first tee shot, most of the stories were on the controversy and its ripple effect in golf, not whether Nick Faldo could win his third major of the year.
Battle lines were drawn at the 2003 Masters between activist Martha Burk and her demands that Augusta National have a female member, and club chairman Hootie Johnson who stubbornly said that day may come, but “not at the point of a bayonet.”
Tiger Woods was going for an unprecedented third straight Masters, and he got 10 questions from the media about social issues and the chaos at Augusta. And then when Thursday arrived, rain washed out the opening round.
The difference is the U.S. Open has been overshadowed by a development not of its own doing.
Just its luck, a return to The Country Club for the 122nd Open and its century-old heritage came one week after the Saudi-funded LIV Golf rebel series began outside London.
Phil Mickelson and Dustin Johnson, the two biggest defectors, are among 14 players suspended by the PGA Tour for signing up and who are now playing the U.S. Open. Rumors have rampant all week that more players could be signing up for the Saudi money next week.
Mickelson defended his decision. Rory McIlroy said players who signed up for the 54-hole events with no cut and guaranteed money are “taking the easy way out.”
Golf, anyone?
“We’re praying that changes tomorrow,” USGA chief Mike Whan said Wednesday. “Even I can say that you don’t have to ask how we feel about it. Ask 156 players that are grinding it out to get to tomorrow. They’re trying to focus on the same thing we’re trying to focus on.
“I think — hopefully — as soon as we tee this up tomorrow, we’ll have something else to talk about, at least for the next four days.”
It starts with a local flavor. Michael Thorbjornsen of Stanford, who grew up in the Boston area and won a U.S. Junior Amateur, hits the opening tee shot from No. 1. Fran Quinn, who is 57 and lives about 40 minutes away from Brookline, will start on No. 10.
Mickelson has received only cheers and support — not quite as raucous as in other years — during his practice rounds. He can expect a few renditions of “Happy Birthday” during his opening round because he turns 52 on Thursday.
What they face is an old-styled course, dense rough around most of the tiny greens, fescue framing fairways that are not the narrowest for a U.S. Open and still an important part of keeping big numbers off the card.
The par-3 11th hole is 131 yards by the card and likely will play under 100 yards at some point. The fifth hole is short enough that players can drive the green.
The U.S. Open typically is about precision over power, with patience key for anyone. Recent history, however, leans toward big hitters — Jon Rahm last year, Bryson DeChambeau at Winged Foot, Gary Woodland at Pebble Beach, Brooks Koepka back-to-back and Johnson at Oakmont.
“You should probably have an advantage if you’re a little bit longer,” said John Bodenhamer, the USGA’s chief championships officer who sets up the course. “How it plays here, I don’t know. We’re going to find out. It’s been 34 years since we’ve been here.”
That was in 1988, when Curtis Strange beat Nick Faldo in a playoff. Both were known for precision iron play and avoiding big mistakes.
“This will be a good old-fashioned U.S. Open with rough, and we’ll see how they navigate that and what they use off the tee,” Bodehamer said. “I am telling you, with these small greens and the firmness, they’re going to need to be in the fairway.”
As for the prize money, the U.S. Open has fallen in line with other majors, if not a step up. The PGA Tour set the tone by jacking up the purse of The Players Championship to $20 million with hopes the majors might tag along.
The Masters and PGA Championship bumped their purses to $15 million (both at least a $3 million increase), while the U.S. Open has gone up $5 million to $17.5 million.
That doesn’t compare with the $25 million in prize money the LIV Golf series is offering for its 54-hole events that last week only had four of the top 50 players in the world.
This is about history, a trophy that dates to 1895, making it the second-oldest championship in golf. That should be enough to get anyone’s attention over four days.
“We’re here at major championship, and we’re here to win the U.S. Open, and we’re here to play and beat everyone else in this field, in this great field,” two-time major champion Collin Morikawa said. “That’s what it’s about.”
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While some have celebrated justices' decision striking down Roe v. Wade as a win for religious freedom, some religious Jews say prohibitions on abortion violate their religious beliefs.
Interpretations vary across Judaism, but some religious Jews believe that a fetus is part of the parent's body and that a baby is only considered a person once it takes its first breath.
According to the Women's Rabbinic Network, some of the religion's most sacred texts — the Torah, the Mishnah and the Talmud — view a fetus as a soul only once it's born.
"Therefore, forcing someone to carry a pregnancy that they do not want or that endangers their life is a violation of Jewish law because it prioritizes a fetus over the living adult who is pregnant," the group said in a statement.
"This must be understood as a violation of the United States Constitution which guarantees our freedom to practice our religion and also our freedom from the dictates of other religions," it added.
A number of Jewish organizations blasted the opinion, arguing that it would lead to religious violations against Jews.
"Jewish tradition prioritizes the safety of women carrying a child," the American Jewish Committee said in a statement. "Overturning abortion access, as numerous states already have, denies individuals health care options consistent with their religious beliefs, including many in the Jewish community, thereby presenting issues of religious freedom and privacy."
At least one Jewish group has sued to block new restrictions on abortion citing religious objections. The Congregation L'Dor Va-Dor of Boynton Beach sued Florida over its ban on abortions after 15 weeks, arguing that it imposes "the laws of other religions upon Jews."
But some more conservative factions in Judaism, such as the Orthodox group Agudath Israel of America, welcomed the Supreme Court's opinion: "We pray that today's ruling will inspire all Americans to appreciate the moral magnitude of the abortion issue, and to embrace a culture that celebrates life."
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NEW YORK (AP) — Bed Bath & Beyond — one of the original big box retailers known for its seemingly endless offerings of sheets, towels and kitchen gadgets — filed for bankruptcy protection, following years of dismal sales and losses and numerous failed turnaround plans.
The beleaguered home goods chain made the filing Sunday in U.S. District Court in New Jersey and said it will start an orderly wind down of its operations, while seeking a buyer for all or some of its businesses. In the bankruptcy filing, the retailer said it anticipates closing all of its stores by June 30.
For now, the company’s 360 Bed Bath & Beyond stores and its 120 Buy Buy Baby sites as well as its websites will remain open to serve customers.
It listed estimated assets and liabilities in the range of $1 billion to $10 billion. The move comes after the company failed to secure funds to stay afloat.
In a statement, the company, based in Union, New Jersey, said it voluntarily made the filing “to implement an orderly wind down of its businesses while conducting a limited marketing process to solicit interest in one or more sales of some or all of its assets.”
The store closings will put thousands of jobs at risk. The company employed 14,000 workers, according to the court filing. That’s drastically down from the 32,000 as of February 2022.
Bed Bath & Beyond said it secured a commitment of roughly $240 million in financing from Sixth Street Specialty Lending, Inc. to allow it to keep operating during the bankruptcy process.
“It’s the death of an icon. A lot of people have grown up with it, ” said Neil Saunders, managing director of GlobalData Retail. “It’s an institution in retailing, but unfortunately being an institution doesn’t protect you from financial woes.”
Founded in 1971, Bed Bath & Beyond had for years enjoyed its status as a big box retailer that offered a vast selection of sheets, towels and gadgets unmatched by department store rivals. It was among the first to introduce shoppers to many of today’s household items like the air fryer or single-serve coffee maker, and its 15% to 20% coupons were ubiquitous.
But for the last decade or so, Bed Bath & Beyond struggled with weak sales, largely because of its messy assortments and lagging online strategy that made it hard to compete with the likes of Target and Walmart, both of which have spruced up their home departments with higher quality sheets and beddings. Meanwhile, online players like Wayfair have lured customers with affordable and trendy furniture and home décor.
In late 2019, Bed Bath & Beyond tapped Target executive Mark Tritton to take the helm and turn around sales. Tritton quickly reduced coupons and started to introduce store label brands at the expense of national labels, a strategy that proved disastrous for the retailer.
And the pandemic, which happened shortly after his arrival, forced the retailer to temporarily close its stores. It was never able to use the health crisis to pivot to a successful online strategy as others had, analysts said. And while many retailers were grappling with supply chain issues a year ago, Bed Bath was among the most vulnerable, missing many of its 200 best-selling items including kitchen appliances and personal electronics, during the holiday 2021 season.
The retailer ousted Tritton in June 2022 after two back-to-back quarters of disastrous sales. In recent months, the company, under the stewardship of recently appointed president and CEO Sue Grove, went back to its original strategy of focusing on national brands, instead of pushing its own store labels. But the company has had a hard time having suppliers commit to delivering merchandise because of the retailer’s financial woes.
This past holiday season, the stores were missing many key items, and it lost many customers, a problem that continued to plague the retailer through the winter and spring seasons.
The bankruptcy filing comes as the company’s shares have tumbled even more as speculation of an impending bankruptcy filing increased. Its financial performance has also deteriorated. In late March, it noted that preliminary results showed anywhere from a 40% to 50% decline in sales at stores opened at least a year for the quarter ended Feb. 25.
The company also said in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing in late March that it planned to sell $300 million worth of shares to avoid bankruptcy filing.
The home goods retailer had been issuing several warnings about a potential bankruptcy filing since early this year. In late January, it noted in a government filing it was in default of its loans and didn’t have the funds to repay what it owes. The company had said the default is forcing the company to look at various alternatives including restructuring its debt in bankruptcy court.
Bed Bath & Beyond joins a growing list of retailers that have filed for bankruptcy so far this year including party supplies chain Party City and David’s Bridal. The bankruptcy could offer a window of what’s to come in the retail industry, given the changing landscape and the increasing challenges in the U.S. economy.
During the depths of the pandemic, a number of retailers filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy including Neiman Marcus and J.C. Penney. But in 2022, there was a respite in retail bankruptcy filings as shoppers, flush with government stimulus money and a pile of savings, spent with abandon, helping to lift all types of retailers. But as credit tightens and inflation remains stubborn, shoppers have been tightening their purse strings in recent months, leaving struggling retailers like Bed Bath & Beyond more vulnerable.
Bed Bath & Beyond had been trying to turn around its business and slash costs after the previous management’s new strategies worsened a sales slump. The company announced last August it would close about 150 of its namesake stores and slash its workforce by 20%. It also lined up more than $500 million of new financing.
Bed Bath & Beyond’s shares, which were trading at distressed levels, have also been on a turbulent run. It made a monstrous run from $5.77 to $23.08 in a little more than two weeks in August. The trading was reminiscent of last year’s meme-stock craze, when out-of-favor companies suddenly became darlings of smaller-pocketed investors.
But the stock fell back to Earth after Ryan Cohen, the billionaire co-founder of online pet-products retailer Chewy Inc. who purchased a nearly 10% stake in Bed Bath & Beyond last March, sold off all his shares.
Shares were hovering close to 30 cents in the past few days. A year ago, shares were trading at around $17.
Bed Bath & Beyond said it expects to process returns and exchanges in accordance with its usual policies until May 24 for items purchased prior to Sunday. It also anticipates gift cards, gift certificates and loyalty certificates will be accepted through May 8.It will stop accepting coupons on Wednesday.
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AP Writer Bruce Shipkowski in Toms River, New Jersey contributed to this report.
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(NEXSTAR) — Depression can affect anyone in any place, though new data shows some areas of the U.S. have more incidences of the anxiety disorder.
Researchers at nursing information and education outlet CEUfast reviewed data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to find the cities with the highest numbers of residents who have been been told they have any form of depression.
Top 15 most depressed cities/metros in the U.S., according to CEUfast are:
You can find the full 50-city list here and in the interactive map of the U.S. Cities with the Highest Rates of Depression below.
Based on the data, the U.S. city with the most depression is Billings, Montana. CEUFast says about 31% of residents out of a population of 181,000 have been told they’re depressed by a professional. Meanwhile, Kingsport, Tennessee, ranks second, with 30.6% of residents told they have depression.
Depression in the U.S.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates about 4.7% of adults (ages 18 and older) deal with depression. There were about 45,979 deaths by suicide in 2020, CDC says.
If you’re experiencing symptoms or think you may be experiencing symptoms of depression, you should seek help from a medical professional. If you’re experiencing suicidal thoughts or emotional distress, you can call or visit the National Suicide and Crisis Lifeline 24 hours a day/seven days a week. | 2022-09-05T19:42:26+00:00 | valleycentral.com | https://www.valleycentral.com/news/national-news/these-are-americas-most-depressed-cities-data-shows/ |
CHAMPAIGN-URBANA, Ill. (WCIA) — As COVID-19 cases increase in several areas of Illinois, including Champaign County, Carle is offering pop-up vaccine booster clinics to help people become better-protected.
The clinics will take place over the next two weekends at Carle Champaign on Curtis and Carle Urbana on Windsor. People wanting to get a booster shot can schedule an appointment on May 7, 14 or 15 by calling the Carle COVID-19 hotline at 217-902-6100.
“We understand there is a lot of information out there about the right time to get a booster, and our clinical recommendation is to get one as soon as you qualify,” said Robert Healy, MD, associate chief medical officer, Quality, Patient Safety and Experience. “A patient’s personal health history, age and the community level of transmission are also important factors when scheduling an appointment.”
The CDC recommends that everyone aged 12 and older receive a booster shot. People are eligible for a booster shot five months after they complete their initial two-shot COVID-19 vaccination series. Second booster shots can be administered to people who are aged 50 or older, aged 12 and older with compromised immune systems. People who meet these age requirements must be four months removed from their initial booster shot.
“While many have been eligible for at least one booster for a while, we understand not everyone has gotten around to making an appointment,” said Lesly Whitlow, Vice President of Primary Care at Carle. “These additional clinics offer more streamlined availability to quickly and safely get your booster, get in and get on with your day.”
Carle said the best way to keep the community’s COVID-19 transmission level low is by having as many people as possible be up to date on vaccination. Five counties in the State of Illinois, including Champaign County, are listed by the CDC as having a medium community transmission level. The rest of the state is listed as having a low level of transmission. | 2022-05-05T01:29:01+00:00 | wcia.com | https://www.wcia.com/news/local-news/carle-hosting-pop-up-covid-booster-clinics/ |
Rising costs can make accomplishing your tasks challenging this holiday season. Chef Kasim Hardaway joined Inside South Florida to share how to inexpensively make the traditional holiday meal with Aldi.
“Aldi is introducing the Thanksgiving Price Rewind. It is offering 2019 prices on over 50 favorites, including sides, appetizers, beverages and desserts” says Hardaway. “Shoppers can look for select products marked with a Thanksgiving Press Rewind icon in their local ad and throughout the store for extra savings.”
The store is help you tantalize your guests’ appetites with the traditional table fixings this year.
“Whether visiting us online or in-store, Aldi has everything you need to pick up, including brie, prosciutto, cornbread stuffing, fresh brown and serve rolls, and apple pie,” says Hardaway.“Now through Thanksgiving, you can save up to 30% off items. That's what I call an amazing deal.”
For more information, visit Aldi.us
This Inside South Florida segment is paid for by Aldi. | 2022-11-14T21:12:58+00:00 | wsfltv.com | https://www.wsfltv.com/inside-south-florida/how-to-make-a-delicious-holiday-meal-on-a-budget |
WASHINGTON, Nov. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Finseca is unveiling its main stage lineup for its can't-miss Advanced Markets event early next year in Washington, D.C. Jim Hebets, Eric Naison-Phillips, Keith Wagner, and former Speaker of the House Paul Ryan will serve as keynote speakers for the premier gathering of the most sophisticated holistic financial planners and life insurance advisors in the profession. Specifically, the Advanced Markets event will take place March 20-22, 2023, at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in Washington, D.C.
"This is a meeting of the minds for the elite advisors in the advanced markets space and those who want to learn from them," said Marc Cadin, CEO of Finseca. "We are thrilled to bring the most impressive advisors from across the profession – Jim being the nation's foremost expert in loan regime split dollar; Eric, the nation's expert on how to utilize life insurance for high net worth individuals and families; and Keith the all-time leading producer at Northwestern Mutual -- to our nation's capital to share their insights. Couple this technical expertise and knowledge sharing with the political insights we'll hear from former Speaker of the House Paul Ryan – and the opportunity to advocate for financial security for all on Capitol Hill, this event will be the one and only gathering the best in the profession can't miss in 2023!"
In addition to the keynote speakers, Finseca's Advanced Markets event will feature cutting-edge breakout sessions, networking events, additional opportunities to hear from and engage with key policymakers and public policy experts, and exclusive access to lawmakers and their staff during our Capitol Hill Day.
Full event programming and registration can be found here: www.finsecaadvancedmarkets.org
At Finseca, we know that financial security improves people's lives and protects their livelihoods and future wellbeing. We are rising to the challenge of increasing financial security for all. Finseca represents the men and women of the financial security profession who dedicate themselves to delivering financial security to their clients every day.
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SOURCE Finseca | 2022-11-01T16:30:08+00:00 | newschannel10.com | https://www.newschannel10.com/prnewswire/2022/11/01/finseca-announces-full-main-stage-lineup-advanced-markets-event-washington-dc/ |
An audio recording of former President Donald Trump discussing classified documents at his New Jersey residence in 2021 was leaked on Monday. The recording was aired Monday evening by CNN.
While a portion of the audio tape included a conversation transcribed in a 37-count indictment against Trump, other details in the recording surfaced.
The indictment included 37 criminal charges against Trump. The most serious of the charges allege that Trump mishandled classified documents after leaving office.
This audio recording became a key piece of evidence in the indictment against Trump.
According to the indictment, Trump gave an interview to a writer and publisher about an upcoming book. The special counsel's indictment said the conversation was recorded with Trump's consent.
The recording confirms that Trump was discussing attack plans for Iran developed by Mark Milley, Trump's chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The recording also gave some insight into a section of the conversation omitted by prosecutors in the indictment.
SEE MORE: Who could serve on Trump jury when trial is held in Florida?
This was the conversation, as transcribed by the special counsel's office:
TRUMP: Well, with [the Senior Military Official]-uh, let me see that, I'll show you an example. He said that I wanted to attack [Country A]. Isn't it amazing? I have a big pile of papers, this thing just came up. Look. This was him. They presented me this—this is off the record, but they presented me this. This was him. This was the Defense Department and him.
Wow.
We looked at some. This was him. This wasn't done by me, this was him. All sorts of stuff-pages long, look.
STAFFER: Mm.
TRUMP: Wait a minute, let's see here.
STAFFER: [Laughter] Yeah.
TRUMP: I just found, isn't that amazing? This totally wins my case, you know.
STAFFER: Mm-hm
TRUMP: Except it is like, highly confidential.
STAFFER: YEAH [Laughter]
TRUMP: Secret. This is secret information. Look, look at this. You attack, and -
…
TRUMP: By the way. Isn't that incredible?
STAFFER: Yeah.
TRUMP: I was just thinking, because we were talking about it. And you know, he said, "he wanted to attack [Country A], and what . . ."
STAFFER: You did.
TRUMP: This was done by the military and given to me. Uh, I think we can probably, right?
STAFFER: I don't know, we'll, we'll have to see. Yeah, we'll have to try to-
TRUMP: Declassify it.
STAFFER: -figure out a-yeah.
TRUMP: See as president I could have declassified it.
STAFFER: Yeah. [Laughter]
TRUMP: Now I can't, you know, but this is still a secret.
STAFFER: Yeah. [Laughter] Now we have a problem.
TRUMP: Isn't that interesting?
SEE MORE: Trump and Biden had classified docs. Why is only Trump being charged?
The ellipses contained in the middle of the transcription included a brief conversation about Hillary Clinton and Anthony Weiner.
"Hillary would print that out all the time," the staffer said.
"And send it to Anthony Weiner, the pervert," Trump retorted.
The last seconds of the recording also included details not included in the indictment.
“It’s so cool. I mean, it’s so, look, her and I, and you probably almost didn’t believe me, but now you believe me," Trump said.
Trump responded to the revealed recording on his Truth Social media account Monday evening, claiming it was leaked by Special Counsel Jack Smith.
"The Deranged Special Prosecutor, Jack Smith, working in conjunction with the DOJ & FBI, illegally leaked and "spun" a tape and transcript of me which is actually an exoneration, rather than what they would have you believe," Trump wrote.
Trending stories at Scrippsnews.com | 2023-06-27T14:27:18+00:00 | kivitv.com | https://www.kivitv.com/tape-of-trump-s-classified-documents-discussion-leaked-he-blames-doj |
All the Energy, No Sugar, Same Great Taste
CORONA, Calif., Jan. 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Twenty-one years after Monster Energy first ripped onto the scene and changed the beverage industry forever — it's finally here: Monster Energy Zero Sugar.
Experience the full interactive Multichannel News Release here: https://www.multivu.com/players/English/9059153-monster-energy-zero-sugar
With a full launch in Q1 of 2023, consumers can finally enjoy the amazing taste of the flagship original Monster Energy Green… but without sugar.
"Consumers have been asking for years when we would release a sugar-free version of the OG Monster," said Dan McHugh, Monster Energy CMO. "But we didn't want to do it until we had the formula just right — and we believe we have nailed it."
With a re-tooled energy blend, an innovative new sweetener system and years of trial and error, Monster's team of mad scientists finally perfected a concoction that is 100% Monster and 0% sugar. Primed with 160mg of caffeine — like its predecessor — Monster Energy Zero Sugar helps fight fatigue, improve mental performance and focus, and motivates you to work (and play) harder.
"We are very proud of our existing sugar-free Monster Energy Ultra line, and all of its incredible innovative flavors," continued McHugh. "But we were long-overdue a zero-sugar version of our flagship flavor. The time of Monster Energy Zero Sugar is now."
To learn more about Monster Energy Zero Sugar, visit https://www.monsterenergy.com/
Based in Corona, California, Monster Energy is the leading marketer of energy drinks and alternative beverages. Refusing to acknowledge the traditional, Monster Energy supports the scene and sport. Whether motocross, off-road, NASCAR, MMA, BMX, surf, snowboard, ski, skateboard, eSports or the rock and roll lifestyle, Monster Energy is a brand that believes in authenticity and the core of what its sports, athletes, gamers and musicians represent. More than a drink, it's the way of life lived by athletes, sports, bands, believers and fans. See more about Monster Energy including all of its drinks at www.monsterenergy.com
Contact: info@monsterenergy.com
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SOURCE Monster Energy | 2023-01-09T13:01:27+00:00 | mysuncoast.com | https://www.mysuncoast.com/prnewswire/2023/01/09/monster-energy-launches-monster-energy-zero-sugar/ |
California interior to experience high heat
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Forecasters warned Tuesday that a large swath of California’s interior will experience dangerously high temperatures.
The heat spell will largely impact the Central Valley but will also extend out to interior portions of the north and east San Francisco Bay regions and to the coast south of Monterey Bay, the National Weather Service said.
High temperatures were predicted to range from 104 to 108 degrees (40-42 Celsius) in the San Joaquin Valley.
The heat will be caused by a ridge of high pressure centered over Nevada that is building westward toward the coast.
“Extreme heat will significantly increase the potential for heat related illnesses, particularly for those working or participating in outdoor activities,” forecasters wrote.
A heat advisory was also issued for valleys in Southern California’s inland region. | 2022-08-16T17:40:56+00:00 | kyma.com | https://kyma.com/news/2022/08/16/california-interior-to-experience-high-heat/ |
BALTIMORE (AP) — Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson was ruled out for the rest of a game Sunday against Denver with a knee injury after being sacked on the final play of the first quarter.
Shortly after exiting, the Baltimore star emerged from the sideline tent and went down the tunnel, leaving the offense in backup Tyler Huntley’s hands. Jackson appeared to be walking OK, if not all that fast. Cameras showed him struggling to climb up stairs near the locker room.
The Ravens announced at the start of the second half that Jackson would not return.
Baltimore’s season fell apart last year when Jackson went down with an ankle injury in December. He hasn’t missed a game this season for Baltimore, which is tied with the Cincinnati Bengals atop the AFC North at 7-4.
Huntley completed his first six passes, but the Ravens trailed 6-3 at halftime.
Jackson’s injury would obviously be major news if it keeps him out for an extended period of time. It also comes after contract talks between him and the team broke down before the season. Jackson does not have a long-term deal.
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AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/nfl and https://twitter.com/AP_NFL | 2022-12-04T21:18:34+00:00 | wboy.com | https://www.wboy.com/sports/ap-sports/ap-lamar-jackson-leaves-game-with-knee-injury-after-sack/ |
STAMFORD, Conn., Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Charter Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: CHTR) (along with its subsidiaries, "Charter") today announced that its subsidiaries, CCO Holdings, LLC and CCO Holdings Capital Corp. (collectively, the "Issuers"), intend to offer senior unsecured notes (the "Notes").
The Issuers intend to use the net proceeds from the sale of the Notes for general corporate purposes, including to fund potential buybacks of Class A common stock of Charter and common units of Charter Communications Holdings, LLC, to repay certain indebtedness and to pay related fees and expenses.
The Notes will be sold to qualified institutional buyers in reliance on Rule 144A and outside the United States to non-U.S. persons in reliance on Regulation S. The Notes have not been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), or any state securities laws and, unless so registered, may not be offered or sold in the United States except pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act and applicable state securities laws. The offering is subject to, among other things, market conditions.
This news release is neither an offer to sell nor a solicitation of an offer to buy the Notes and shall not constitute an offer, solicitation or sale in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation, or sale is unlawful.
About Charter
Charter Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: CHTR) is a leading broadband connectivity company and cable operator serving more than 31 million customers in 41 states through its Spectrum brand. Over an advanced communications network, the company offers a full range of state-of-the-art residential and business services including Spectrum Internet®, TV, Mobile and Voice.
For small and medium-sized companies, Spectrum Business® delivers the same suite of broadband products and services coupled with special features and applications to enhance productivity, while for larger businesses and government entities, Spectrum Enterprise provides highly customized, fiber-based solutions. Spectrum Reach® delivers tailored advertising and production for the modern media landscape. The company also distributes award-winning news coverage, sports and high-quality original programming to its customers through Spectrum Networks and Spectrum Originals. More information about Charter can be found at corporate.charter.com.
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SOURCE Charter Communications, Inc. | 2022-08-04T13:37:59+00:00 | uppermichiganssource.com | https://www.uppermichiganssource.com/prnewswire/2022/08/04/charter-offers-senior-unsecured-notes/ |
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