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WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden on Monday signed into law legislation nullifying the recent overhaul of the District of Columbia criminal code, but the fight between Congress and local lawmakers is continuing.
The signature merely marks the end of a raucous first chapter in a saga that has left district lawmakers bitterly nursing their political bruises, harboring fresh resentments against national Democrats and bracing to play defense against an activist Republican-controlled House for at least the next two years.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy hailed the move in a statement, calling it the end of what he labeled a “soft-on-crime criminal code rewrite that treated violent criminals like victims and discarded the views of law enforcement.”
But even before the bill was formally sent to sent to Biden, House Republicans were promising a season of direct congressional intervention in local D.C. affairs.
“This is just the beginning,” McCarthy, R-Calif., said earlier this month in a celebratory signing ceremony after the vote to cancel the new criminal code passed the Senate with significant Democratic support. “It is a message for the entire nation.”
D.C. Council members sound like they fully believe those promises.
“I’m afraid that we’re going to see more of this for the remainder of this Congress," D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson said. “Does this raise a concern that there are going to be other issues? Yes.”
When congressional passage of the measure appeared inevitable and Biden indicated he would sign it, the D.C. Council withdrew the measure. But the move did not spare Biden a politically charged decision on whether to endorse the congressional action.
Biden did not issue a statement accompanying the signing Monday. But he tweeted earlier this month that while he supported statehood for D.C., “I don’t support some of the changes D.C. Council put forward over the mayor’s objections — such as lowering penalties for carjackings.”
Under terms of Washington’s Home Rule authority, t he House Committee on Oversight and Accountability essentially vets all new D.C. laws and frequently alters or limits them through budget riders. But the criminal code rewrite is the first law to be completely overturned since 1991.
House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., has pledged that his committee "stands ready to conduct robust oversight of America’s capital city.”
That robust oversight has already begun. Even before Biden signed the bill, the Oversight Committee sent letters summoning Mendelson, D.C. Councilmember Charles Allen and D.C. Chief Financial Officer Glen Lee to testify at a March 29 hearing. The topic of that hearing, according to the letter, is the ominously vague “general oversight of the District of Columbia, including crime, safety, and city management.”
Other House Republicans have already identified areas of interest to target. Rep. Andrew Clyde of Georgia has introduced a resolution to block a police accountability law known as the Comprehensive Policing and Justice Reform Amendment Act.
Most aspects of that law were passed by the D.C. Council on an emergency basis in 2020, amid the protests against police brutality following George Floyd’s murder; it was made permanent in December 2022. It bans the use of chokeholds by police officers, makes police disciplinary files available to the public, weakens the bargaining power of the police union and limits the use of tear gas to disperse protestors.
“Now that Congress has effectively used its constitutional authority to strike down the D.C. Council’s dangerous Revised Criminal Code Act, we must now move to swiftly block this anti-police measure to ensure our nation’s capital city is safe for all Americans,” Clyde said in a statement.
Clyde is a longtime nemesis of D.C. loyalists, having publicly stated that his ultimate goal is to completely end Washington's Home Rule authority. That sentiment, once a long-shot fringe position, has edged closer to being a mainstream Republican talking point. Former President Donald Trump publicly stated earlier this month that the “federal government should take over control and management of Washington D.C.”
Meanwhile, Oversight Committee member Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., has targeted the D.C. Jail for congressional scrutiny. Greene has demanded access to the jail to visit some two dozen detainees from the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. She's also seeking a complete overview of the jail's conditions.
Other aspects of D.C. legislation remain ripe targets for activist Republicans, such as the District's strict gun control laws or the decision to essentially decriminalize most psychedelics — a move that was approved by D.C. voters in a referendum.
This congressional onslaught of oversight was widely predicted when Republicans took back control of the House in last year's midterm elections. But most local politicians and activists hoped they could count on Democratic control of both the Senate and the White House as a shield. Those hopes rapidly melted away in a storm of political dynamics that amounted to a humiliating setback for the D.C. Council and the larger hopes of Washington ever achieving statehood.
House Republicans were able to put Biden and Senate Democrats in a political bind. By defending D.C.’s right to self-governance, they would open themselves to charges of being soft on criminals at a time of rising crime both in the nation’s capital and across the U.S.
In the end, Biden signaled before the Senate vote that he would not veto the rejection of the criminal code and 33 Democratic senators voted to overturn it. The moves were regarded by statehood activists as a betrayal that they say exposed the hollowness of Democratic support for D.C. statehood.
For now, the D.C. Council maintains that the city's criminal code is dangerously obsolete and desperately in need of reform. But after seeing the initial law turned into a national political issue, there appears to be little appetite to try again in the short term.
Mendelson said that changing the aspects that drew criticism, such as the lowering of maximum penalties for crimes like carjacking, would simply lead to other objections from a Republican House that he said is openly looking for a fight.
“I don’t plan on installing a hotline to Republican leadership in the House and the Senate and calling them every week and asking them for permission to move forward,” Mendelson said. | 2023-03-21T01:36:19+00:00 | local10.com | https://www.local10.com/news/politics/2023/03/21/biden-signs-measure-nullifying-dc-criminal-code-revisions/ |
Tiger Woods calls for LIV Golf boss Greg Norman to stand down
By George Ramsay, CNN
Tiger Woods has called for Greg Norman, the CEO of the Saudi-backed LIV Golf series, to stand down amid a rift with the PGA Tour.
Speaking to reporters ahead of the start of his Hero World Challenge event in New Providence, Bahamas, Woods said Norman “has to go.”
Asked if the LIV Golf series and PGA Tour can co-exist, Woods said: “Not right now, not with their leadership, not with Greg there and his animosity towards the Tour itself. I don’t see that happening.”
Following the launch of the LIV Golf series earlier this year, the sport of golf has been divided with many of the top players from the PGA Tour moving to the rival series.
Earlier this year, LIV Golf joined an antitrust lawsuit alongside some of its players, alleging that the PGA Tour threatened to place lifetime bans on players who participate in the LIV Golf series.
The suit also alleges that the PGA Tour has threatened sponsors, vendors and agents to coerce players to abandon opportunities to play in LIV Golf events and access to their members.
The PGA Tour filed a countersuit in late September, claiming “tortious interference with the Tour’s contracts with its members.”
The LIV Golf series is backed by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) — a sovereign wealth fund chaired by Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia.
In the inaugural season of the controversial, big-money tour, former world No. 1 Dustin Johnson won the individual championship title and $18 million in prize money.
Woods — who returned to golf earlier this year following serious injuries sustained in a car accident — has previously voiced opposition to the LIV Golf series, and on Wednesday, he reaffirmed his stance.
“I think Greg has to go, first of all, and then, obviously, the litigation against us and then our countersuit against them, those would then have to be at a stay as well,” said the 15-time major champion. “Then we can talk, we can all talk freely.”
In an interview with Fox News aired in August, Norman said Woods turned down an offer worth approximately $700-$800 million to join the LIV Golf series.
Earlier this month, world No. 1 Rory McIlroy also called for Norman to stand down from his position at the top of the breakaway series.
LIV Golf declined to comment on Woods’ latest remarks when contacted by CNN.
Woods has not competed since July and announced this week that he was withdrawing from the Hero World Challenge with plantar fasciitis — pain in the base of the foot.
“It was a tough decision just because I want to play,” Woods said. “I like playing, I like competing, but unfortunately — I can hit the golf ball and hit whatever shot you want — I just can’t walk.
“I’ve had a few setbacks during the year that I still was able to somehow play through, but this one I just can’t.”
He said his goal next year is to just play the major championships and one or two other tournaments as that’s all he can handle physically.
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ANTAKYA, Turkey (AP) — When war broke out in Ukraine, Aydin Sisman’s relatives there fled to the ancient city of Antakya, in a southeastern corner of Turkey that borders Syria.
They may have escaped one disaster, but another found them in their new home.
They were staying with Sisman’s Ukrainian mother-in-law when their building collapsed last Monday as a 7.8 magnitude earthquake leveled much of Antakya and ravaged the region in what some in Turkey are calling the disaster of the century.
“We have Ukrainian guests who fled the war, and they are also lying inside. We have had no contact.” said Sisman, whose Turkish father-in-law also was trapped under the rubble of the 10-year-old apartment building.
As rescuers dig through heaps of rubble, Sisman appeared to have lost hope.
Millions of refugees, like Sisman’s relatives, have found a haven in Turkey, escaping from wars and local conflicts from countries as close as Syria to as far afield as Afghanistan.
There are at least 3.6 million Syrians who have fled their homeland’s war since 2011, arriving in trickles or en masse, sometimes overrunning the border, to seek safety from punishing bombardments, chemical attacks and starvation. Over 300,000 others have come to escape their own conflicts and hardships, according to the United Nations.
For them, the earthquake was just the latest tragedy — one that many are still too shocked to comprehend.
“This is the greatest disaster we have seen, and we have seen a lot,” said Yehia Sayed Ali, 25, a university student whose family moved to Antakya six years ago to escape Syria’s war at its peak.
His mother, two cousins and another relative all died in the earthquake. On Saturday, he sat outside his demolished two-story building waiting for rescuers to help him dig out their bodies.
“Not a single Syrian family has not lost a relative, a dear one” in this earthquake, said Ahmad Abu Shaar, who ran a shelter for Syrian refugees in Antakya that is now a pile of rubble.
Abu Shaar said people are searching for loved ones and many have refused to leave Antakya even though the quake has left the city with no inhabitable structures, no electricity, water or heating. Many are sleeping on the streets or in the shadows of broken buildings.
“The people are still living in shock. No one could have imagined this,” Abu Shaar said.
Certainly not Sisman, who flew from Qatar to Turkey with his wife to help find his in-laws and their Ukrainian relatives.
“Right now, my mother-in-law and father-in-law are inside. They’re under rubble … There were no rescue teams. I went up by myself, took a look, and walked around. I saw bodies and we pulled them out from under the rubble. Some without heads,” he said.
Construction workers sifting through the debris told Sisman that although the top of the building was solid, the garage and foundations were not as strong.
“When those collapsed, that’s when the building was flattened,” a shaken Sisman said. He appeared to have accepted his relatives were not coming out alive.
Overwhelmed by the trauma, Abdulqader Barakat stood desperately pleading for international aid to help rescue his children trapped under concrete in Antakya.
“There are four. We took two out and two are still (inside) for hours. We hear their voices and they are reacting. We need (rescue) squads,” he said.
At the Syrian shelter, Mohammed Aloolo sat in a circle surrounded by his children who escaped the building that swayed and finally folded like an accordion.
He came to Antakya in May from a refugee camp along the Turkish-Syrian border. He had survived artillery shelling and fighting in his hometown in Syria’s central Hama province, but he called his survival in the earthquake a miracle.
Other relatives were not so lucky. Two nieces and their families remain under the debris, he said, holding back tears.
“I wish this on no one. Nothing I can say that would describe this,” Aloolo said.
Scenes of despair and mourning can be found across the region that only a few days earlier was a peaceful refuge for those fleeing war and conflict.
At a cemetery in the town of Elbistan, about 200 miles (320 kilometers) north of Antakya, a Syrian family wept and prayed as it buried one of its own. Naziha Al-Ahmad, a mother of four, was pulled dead from the rubble of their new home. Two of her daughters were seriously injured, including one who lost her toes.
“My wife was good, very good. Affectionate, kind, a good wife, God bless her soul,” said Ahmad Al-Ahmad. “Neighbours died, and we died with them.”
Graves are quickly filling up.
At the Turkish and Syria border, people transferred body bags into a truck waiting to take the remains to Syria for burial in their homeland. They included the body of Khaled Qazqouz’s 5-year-old niece, Tasneem Qazqouz.
Tasneem and her father both died when the quake wracked the border town of Kirikhan.
“We took her out from under the destruction, from under the rocks. The whole building fell,” Qazqouz said. “We worked for three days to get her out.”
Qazqouz signed his niece’s name on the body bag before sending her off to the truck heading for Syria.
He prayed as he let her go.
“Say hi to your dad and give him my wishes. Say hi to your grandfather and your uncle and everyone,” he cried. “Between the destruction and the rubble, we have nothing now. Life has become so difficult.”
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TOKYO — (AP) — Hiroshima and Pearl Harbor, two symbols of World War II animosity between Japan and the United States, are now promoting peace and friendship through a sister park arrangement.
U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel and Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui signed a sister park agreement on Thursday for Hiroshima’s Peace Memorial Park and the Pearl Harbor National Memorial of Hawaii.
“Nobody can go to Pearl Harbor, and nobody can go to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial and enter the front door, walk out the exit door and be the same person,” Emanuel said at the signing ceremony at the American Embassy in Tokyo.
“I think the hope here is that we inspire people from all over the United States and all over Japan to visit Hiroshima Peace Memorial and to visit Pearl Harbor so they can learn the spirit of reconciliation,” Emanuel said.
Under the sister park arrangement, the two parks will promote exchanges and share experiences in restoring historic structures and landscapes, the use of virtual reality and digital images for preservation and education, and best practices in youth education and tourism management, the embassy said.
“The sister arrangement between the two parks related to the beginning and end of the war will be a proof that mankind, despite making the mistake of waging a war, can come to senses and reconciliate and pursue peace,” Matsui said.
Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, propelled America into World War II. The United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, killing about 140,000 people, and a second one on Nagasaki three days later, killing another 70,000. Japan surrendered on Aug. 15, ending the war and a nearly half-century of aggression across Asia.
Since the war, the two countries have built a powerful alliance.
In Hiroshima, some atomic bombing survivors raised concern about the sister park arrangement, saying it could help justify the use of nuclear weapons and should be reconsidered.
“I understand anguish and angst is an emotion but I don't think you should be trapped by that,” Emanuel said. He said reconciliation between the United States and Japan “is the example of what I think this world desperately needs right now.”
Emanuel said Pearl Harbor is a revered place in the American psyche, while Hiroshima is an equally revered place in the Japanese psyche, “which is why you want to build a sister park agreement to learn from each other."
The two parks became places of reconciliation when then-President Barack Obama paid tribute to atom bomb victims at the Hiroshima Peace Park as the first serving American leader to visit in May 2016, and then-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, in return, visited Pearl Harbor in December that year.
Those were “key steps in deepening the alliance between our two nations,” Obama said in a statement congratulating Thursday's sister park signing and calling it “another historic accomplishment.”
“By connecting our two peoples to our shared past, we can build a shared future grounded in peace and cooperation,” he said.
The sister park arrangement is the second between the U.S. and Japan, following one signed in 2016 between Gettysburg National Military Park in Pennsylvania and Gifu Sekigahara Battlefield Memorial Museum in what is now Gifu prefecture.
The Battle of Sekigahara in 1600 was an important battle in Japan's feudal history. Gettysburg in 1863 is considered a turning point in the U.S. Civil War.
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While 26 states in the U.S. are likely to ban or restrict abortion care if the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, California is positioning itself to be a sanctuary for abortion access, preparing to welcome and support people from around the country who are seeking that care.
The state's Democratic-led legislature is considering a package of 13 bills designed to ease access to abortion and reduce the costs. It includes proposals to protect people from law enforcement action if they have an abortion or help provide one. Gov. Gavin Newsom has pledged $125 million in state funds to back these efforts.
"The goal is to really enshrine and ensure that California is a reproductive freedom state for all," says state Assembly member Buffy Wicks, a Democrat who represents part of Oakland.
Back in 2019, on the 46th anniversary of Roe, Wicks became the first lawmaker to tell her abortion story on the floor of the California assembly.
"I was 26 years old, in between jobs and in between homes," she said in the 2019 speech. "Staying on a friend's couch, unemployed. And facing an unplanned pregnancy was a vulnerable time in my life."
She got help at a Planned Parenthood clinic in San Francisco in 2004. In the next few years, Wicks went on to work for Barack Obama, first on the 2008 campaign trail, then in the White House. In 2018 he endorsed her run for office and she won her seat in California's legislature. Now she's 44, married, and has two young daughters.
"For me, having an abortion was an empowering decision," she says, "one that I have never regretted."
And Wicks has continued to share personal experiences with reproductive health care, and explain how they inspire her legislative work. In December, just after the Supreme Court heard arguments in the case that could overturn Roe, she tweeted about one of those experiences. It was September and she was preparing lunch at home, chopping lettuce, carrots, and avocado at the kitchen counter, when she felt a sudden wave of severe cramping in her abdomen. Then she started bleeding – a lot. She rushed to her doctor.
"Turns out, I was pregnant and having a miscarriage," Wicks says. The physician told her, 'We need to do an emergency abortion procedure, a D and C,' referring to the medical procedure that is used both for abortion and to manage complications of miscarriage.
This was happening right after Texas passed a law banning abortions after about 6 weeks of pregnancy, and allowing any member of the public to sue physicians who performed them. Wicks asked her doctor if she would have been able to get the procedure she'd just received if she lived in Texas. The doctor told her that, legally, it would have been permitted because the pregnancy wasn't viable. But in reality, the chilling effect of the Texas law was making some doctors too frightened to perform these procedures at all.
Wicks says she asked herself what she would have done if she lived in Texas and couldn't get the D and C. Stay home and deal with the potential health complications? Get in a car and drive 10 hours to find care?
"I mean, I was doubled over in pain," Wicks says. "And so that compels me to make sure, as a legislator, that I'm doing everything I can to bring voice to the situation."
If Roe is overturned, the number of women whose nearest provider of abortion services would be California would increase almost 3,000 percent, from roughly 46,000 to 1.4 million women, according to a report from the Guttmacher Institute. Wicks is part of a coalition of lawmakers and reproductive health groups pushing for the 13-bill package that would expand services in California, in anticipation of a spike in demand.
One additional bill that's already been signed into law will eliminate insurance co-pays for abortion. Other bills moving through the legislature would set aside state money to help women who are traveling from out of state pay for their lodging, travel, and child care costs. Another bill would help reproductive health clinics offer more abortions by adding appointment slots and training more staff.
Several bills are focused on legal protections, to counteract the potential threat of laws like the one in Texas, which allows members of the public to file lawsuits against anyone who "performs or induces" an abortion after the legal cutoff, or "aids or abets" those abortions. It's unclear if those lawsuits could reach across state lines, but such lawsuits could potentially implicate medical staff or even Uber drivers who drive women to an appointment.
The bills under consideration in California would make it clear that state and local officials will refuse to help with any kind of lawsuit like that, by not complying with subpoenas from other states and by declining to turn over health data requested by other states. One bill authored by Wicks formally states that no one in California can be prosecuted or incarcerated for terminating a pregnancy or experiencing a pregnancy loss.
As these legislative efforts proceed, health clinics across California have begun privately preparing for the possibility of increased protestors or even security threats, according to Lisa Matsubara, general counsel and vice president of policy for Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California, which sponsored several of the bills.
"We're definitely worried about the change in focus for anti-abortion activists, as they have effectively eliminated access in many states," she says. In other words, protestors will migrate along with patients, targeting states like California where abortion is still legal.
Some protestors have already traveled to California. A trucker convoy from Canada came to the Bay Area on April 22: a stream of semis and pick-up trucks sporting American flags wound its way through Buffy Wicks' neighborhood in Oakland, then parked outside her house for hours to protest her support of abortion legislation.
"This is a direct assault on humanity," one man shouted through a bullhorn.
Wicks' neighbors did not welcome the convoy. A woman with long neon yellow nails gave them the double finger. Others pelted the trucks with eggs and chanted "Go home, go home, go home." Nearly 80 percent of Californians believe Roe v. Wade should not be overturned.
Police eventually closed the street to through traffic and stood guard in front of Wicks' house for the remainder of the demonstration.
Buffy Wicks was home, and she watched the protestors from a window. She says she's not intimidated and she won't change her agenda. In fact, she and her colleagues are looking for ways to speed up the legislative work of making California an abortion sanctuary for all.
"It's out of necessity that we're preparing for this, not necessarily out of desire," she says. "We want to make sure that we are a place where people can come in their biggest moments of need and get the care that they need."
This story comes from NPR's health reporting partnership with Kaiser Health News (KHN) and KQED.
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Houston is under a boil water notice after a power outage caused low water pressure across the city, according to Houston Public Works.
Power went out at a water purification plant at about 10:30 a.m Sunday. Power and water pressures have since been restored, but the boil water notice is still in effect.
"We believe the water is safe but based on regulatory requirements when pressure drops below 20 psi we are obligated to issue a boil water notice," Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner said on Twitter.
The city has to wait at least 24 hours after the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has tested water samples and deemed it safe to drink to lift the notice, Turner said.
Houston Water and Wastewater Utility serves 2.2 million customers a day.
The Houston Independent School District has canceled classes for Monday. All schools, offices and facilities will be closed.
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Rumors swirl about balloons, UFOs as officials stay mum
WASHINGTON (AP) — Maybe they came from China. Maybe from somewhere farther away. A lot farther away.
The downing of four aerial devices by U.S. warplanes has touched off rampant misinformation about the objects, their origin and their purpose, showing how complicated world events and a lack of information can quickly create the perfect conditions for unchecked conjecture and misinformation.
The presence of mysterious objects high in the sky doesn’t help.
“There will be an investigation and we will learn more, but until then this story has created a playground for people interested in speculating or stirring the pot for their own reasons,” said Jim Ludes, a former national defense analyst who now leads the Pell Center for International Relations at Salve Regina University.
“In part,” Ludes added, “because it feeds into so many narratives about government secrecy.”
President Joe Biden and other top Washington officials have said little about the repeated shootdowns, which began with a suspected Chinese spy balloon earlier this month. Three more unidentified devices have been shot down, with the latest Sunday over Lake Huron. Pentagon officials said they posed no security threats but have not disclosed their origins or purpose.
On Monday, many social media sites in the U.S. lit up with theories that Biden had deployed the aerial devices as a way to distract Americans from other, more pressing issues. Those concerns included immigration, inflation, the war in Ukraine and Republican investigations into Hunter Biden, the president’s son.
While the concentration of claims was highest on fringe sites popular with far-right Americans, the unfounded rumors and conspiracy theories popped up on bigger platforms like Twitter and Facebook, too.
One of the most popular theories suggested the White House and Pentagon are using the airborne devices to divert attention from a chemical spill earlier this month in Ohio.
That incident, caused by a train derailment, occurred several days before the most recent devices were shot down, and was covered extensively. Nonetheless, the spill remained the top subject searched on Google on Monday, showing continued public interest in the story.
Misleading claims about the airborne devices have also prompted violent threats, according to an analysis by the SITE Intelligence Group, a firm that tracks extremist rhetoric online. After the White House said earlier surveillance flights went undetected during Donald Trump’s presidency, an article circulated on far-right sites urging the execution of any Trump administration officials who may have withheld the information.
Trump administration officials have said they knew of no such surveillance craft.
Some commenters said Biden’s decision to wait until the balloon had reached the East Coast before shooting it down showed he was in league with China. Others, meanwhile, chastised Biden for shooting down foreign aircraft that they imagined could be carrying bioweapons or nuclear weapons.
Alongside the political conspiracy theories were suggestions that the aerial objects were extraterrestrial in origin. Photos of alleged UFOs were shared online and web searches for the term “UFO” soared around the world Sunday, according to information from Google Trends.
Online posts mentioning extraterrestrials increased by nearly 300% since the first balloon was identified, according to an analysis conducted for The Associated Press by Zignal Labs, a San Francisco-based media intelligence firm. Zignal’s review included millions of posts on platforms like Facebook, Twitter and Reddit.
“Don’t worry, just some of my friends of mine stopping by,” Elon Musk, the CEO of Twitter, Tesla and SpaceX, joked in a tweet Sunday.
Humor aside, while the details of the different claims vary, they have two things in common: a lack of evidence and a strong distrust of America’s elected leaders.
“Maybe Joe built the balloon & had Hunter launch it to scare we the people!” wrote one Facebook user. “How do WE know??? We don’t!”
The federal government must balance the public’s desire to know the details with the need for secrecy regarding national security and defense, Ludes said. That’s not likely to satisfy Biden’s critics, Ludes said, or prevent misleading explanations from going viral.
High-profile news stories and events often precede a spike in false and misleading claims as people turn to the internet for explanations. Conspiracy theories about Buffalo Bills player Damar Hamlin spread quickly after his dramatic on-field collapse in January. Something similar happened last year when the Nord Stream pipelines in the North Sea were damaged.
In that instance, Russia spread conspiracy theories blaming the U.S. for the sabotage. The baseless theories were quickly amplified by far-right users in the U.S. It’s not the first time America’s authoritarian adversaries have seized on global events to portray the U.S. as belligerent.
China has claimed the balloon shot down Feb. 4 was engaged in meteorological research. On Monday, China’s foreign ministry said 10 U.S. balloons had entered Chinese airspace without permission in the past year.
Beijing’s response to this latest diplomatic row seeks to portray China as the responsible actor, while sidestepping surveillance allegations made by the U.S., according to Kenton Thibault, a China expert at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, a Washington-based nonprofit that tracks foreign disinformation and propaganda.
“It’s about projecting an image of responsibility and rationality, of being the adult in the room,” Thibault said of China’s response. “It’s a clear signal to nations in the developing world that the U.S. is selfish, untrustworthy and hypocritical.”
On Monday, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre did refute one viral claim to have emerged from the balloon saga.
“I know there have been questions and concerns about this, but there is no — again no indication — of aliens or extraterrestrial activity with these recent takedowns,” Jean-Pierre told reporters. “I wanted to make sure that the American people knew that, all of you knew that and it was important for us to say that from here because we’ve been hearing a lot about it.”
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2023-02-14T15:42:13+00:00 | wnem.com | https://www.wnem.com/2023/02/14/rumors-swirl-about-balloons-ufos-officials-stay-mum/ |
MORGANTON, N.C. (AP) — It was a convincing scene. A man lay in an awkward position at the base of a 50-foot drop, Upper Creek rushed through the gorge below, whitewater lapping up the rocks just a few feet from him.
The man groaned as if he is in pain before a young man in a hardhat arrives rolling him onto his back, revealing bright red liquid smeared across his forehead.
The scene was convincing, but as the sign at the top of the hill indicated, it was all part of a weekend of wilderness training for emergency medical professionals, EMTs and medical students.
Hawk Ventures held its annual Carolina Wilderness EMS Summit recently in The Pisgah National Forest in northern Burke County. The weekend-long event was the culmination of its Wilderness EMS Externship Program which brought a resident physician and a fourth-year med student to Burke County for a month of intensive training in emergency wilderness medicine.
Run by local physician Dr. Seth Collings Hawkins, the externship is an innovative collaboration led by Hawkins’ company, Hawk Ventures, that includes UNC Health Blue Ridge, Western Piedmont Community College and Wake Forest University School of Medicine.
The program has won numerous awards in the past, including the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine’s 2018 Innovation in Medical Education Award and the Association for Experiential Education’s 2019 Karl Rohnke Creativity Award.
Last year, Hawkins expanded the program, launching a new expeditionary model to expand the training statewide.
This year, the externship has included visits to the Outer Banks where they worked with the National Park Service, U.S. Coast Guard and others. On Labor Day, they worked with Hyde County EMS as responders on Ocracoke Island.
During the program, externs also worked with multiple state parks around North Carolina. They attended a week-long technical rescue training at Pilot Mountain and received training in a caving system near Rumbling Bald with Blue Ridge Community College.
Closer to home, externs received wilderness lifeguard training at Lake James State Park and helped run a weekend-long medical training. This training was attended by more than three dozen medical students from Wake Forest, UNC-Chapel Hill and Campbell University.
This year’s externs were Emily Hillmer and Dr. Kara Hatlevoll.
Hillmer is a fourth-year medical student from Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland. She said she was drawn to the program through the testimonial of a good friend who was one of last year’s externs.
“She came to me and told me this was her best month of medical school,” Hillmer said.
Rather than pursuing emergency medicine, Hillmer’s goal is to become a trauma surgeon. Still, she is looking for ways to incorporate her passion for wilderness, rock climbing and technical rescue systems into her career.
Hatlevoll is a third-year resident emergency physician from Norman Regional Emergency Medicine Residency in Norman, Oklahoma. Hatlevoll said she is working to incorporate wilderness medicine into her career going forward.
“It’s an opportunity for me to expand my learning and exposure to EMS in a wilderness medical setting,” she said. “Seeing how Dr. Hawkins and this incredible team has incorporated it into their careers is a good way to learn about how I can successfully do that.”
She also said recent transitions in the program from a local mountain training to one that spans various settings from across the state was a big draw.
Hawkins said both externs exceeded his expectations throughout the course of the program.
“We are committed to training the next generation of wilderness EMS physician leaders,” said Hawkins. “Kara and Emily match that description for sure.”
As the culmination of the program, the summit opens the experience up to the wider medical community. This year’s event drew medical providers, EMTs and medical students from across the country and as far away as Ireland for three days of intensive training.
One of Hawkins’ favorite aspects of the summit is inviting past externs back to lead various aspects of the training.
“An unexpected benefit to the program has been how much graduates continue to contribute,” he said. “When we have had people training these two externs, frequently it’s the previous externs who are now advancing their careers that we turn to for the training.”
Hawkins also said the Pisgah National Forest and the Linville Gorge Wilderness are a perfect location for this kind of training because the area has a little bit of everything.
“It’s so proximal to I-40 that it’s very easy to access and much more rugged than people sometimes expect,” he said. “Statistically, it has one of the highest rates of searches and rescues in North Carolina every year, and that’s why this is such a great training environment — to train in the spaces where you would actually be operating.” | 2022-10-02T05:44:48+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Medical-professionals-prepare-with-wilderness-17481056.php |
PRAGUE (AP) — A Chinese pangolin has been born in the Prague zoo, the first birth of the critically endangered animal in captivity in Europe, and is doing well after initial troubles, the park said on Thursday.
For the first few days after the baby female was born on Feb. 2, park keepers were worried because it was losing weight.
The reason was found to be that the mother, Run Hou Tang, didn’t have enough milk. Following consultations with experts from Taiwan, a program of artificial feeding with milk from a cat was introduced and the mother was stimulated to produce more of her own.
That turned things around, with the zoo now expressing cautious optimism about the pup, which still has no name but has been nicknamed “Little Cone” because it resembles a spruce cone.
“We have only overcome the first hurdle and others are still waiting for us,” zoo director Miroslav Bobek said.
The baby’s birth weight was just 135 grams (4.76 ounces). Adults can reach up to 15 pounds.
The Chinese pangolin is native to southern China and southeastern Asia and is one of the four pangolin species living in Asia, while another four can be found in Africa.
Prague received the rare animal from Taiwan last year, becoming only the second European zoo to keep the species.
Guo Bao, the male pangolin, and Run Hou Tang both came from the Taipei zoo, the leading breeder of the mammals that are hunted heavily for their scales and meat.
It’s estimated that almost 200,000 were trafficked in 2019 because of the scales that are used in traditional medicine in Asia and elsewhere.
They’re difficult to breed in captivity because they require a special feed that includes drone larvae and need a particular humidity and temperature in their enclosure.
The pangolins’ arrival in Prague came after the city decided to revoke a sister-city agreement with Beijing and signed a similar deal in 2020 with the Taiwanese capital, Taipei. That agreement, which has caused tensions with China, also included cooperation between the zoos of the two cities.
Taiwan split from mainland China amid a civil war in 1949, but Beijing considers the self-ruled island part of its territory.
The Czech government recognizes the one-China principle but Prague officials said they wanted to focus on cultural and other cooperation, not on politics. | 2023-02-23T16:40:59+00:00 | wwlp.com | https://www.wwlp.com/news/ap-international-news/ap-1st-baby-pangolin-in-europe-born-in-prague-zoo-doing-well/ |
Best educational games for Math Playground fans
Math Playground came out in 2002, and has since provided kids of all ages an excellent way to learn new math concepts using fun games. However, some parents may not want their kids to look at a computer screen all day. Luckily, there are tons of fun math games out there that make learning just as fun as the games on the Math Playground website. If you’re in the market for a new math game for your child, it’s a good idea to compare some of the most popular games for the best fit.
Best math games
Learning Resources Sum Swamp Game
This exciting board game asks learners to travel through a swamp, where they solve math problems and meet wacky creatures along the way. Learning Resources designed Sum Swamp for kids five and older, and up to four players can join in on the fun. Rather than using regular dice, the game has a third six-sided-die with three subtraction signs and three addition signs. The players must solve the equation to determine how many spaces they can move forward during their turn. This game offers a fun way to improve addition and subtraction skills.
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Educational Insights 1-2-3 Froggies Game
This math game is perfect for younger children learning how to count. In the 1-2-3 Froggies game, children roll dice and then count the number of flies showing. The first player to find a card with the matching number of frogs wins that round. This easy-to-understand game is an excellent way for children ages 3 and older to learn how to count quickly.
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Proof! – The Fast-Paced Game of Mental Math Magic
In this math game, players race to find equations amongst the nine cards laid out on the table. When a player finds an equation, they shout the answer, show their work and then add the solved card to their hand. The player with the most cards in their hand by the end wins the game. This fast-paced math game is a great way to teach kids to add, subtract, multiply and divide.
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Educational Insights MathShark Electronic Math Game
This electronic game has eight skill levels, making it perfect for kids of all ages. The MathShark displays mathematical equations to your child and gives them the ability to punch in the answer to move to the next round. This fun device helps children learn addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, decimals, fractions and even percentages. Some parents felt that the screen was too dark, while others liked the dimmer screen.
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School Zone Math War Multiplication Game
This reimagined version of the classic card game War gives kids a chance to practice multiplying numbers while trying to beat their opponent. The cards are relatively large, making them easy to see and hold. If you as a parent or caretaker are familiar with the rules of War, this is an excellent game to play with a child.
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If your child is a fan of the famous “PJ Masks” series, they’ll love this interactive phone. This device provides several educational games, including math. Kids play by either using the buttons on the phone or voice commands. The VTech PJ Masks Phone also includes a photo gallery and allows children to learn more about the various characters in the show.
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Learning Resources Math Mat Challenge Game
The Math Mat Challenge Game is perfect for when you want your kid to get up and exercise their mind and body. In this game, the device says an equation out loud. Players then have to find and step on the correct answer on the mat. If your kid needs to hear the question again, they can step on the question mark to repeat it.
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This stylish math game is great for kids that love a challenge. In Prime Climb, players each have two pawns they use to try to get to the number 101 at the center of the board. Players begin each turn by rolling two 12-sided-dice. They then choose how they want to apply the numbers on the dice to the number to move their piece on the game board. For example, suppose a player rolls a two and a five, and their game piece is currently on the number seven spot. In that case, they could add two to seven and move to the number nine spot on the board. They could also add a five to the seven, multiply the seven by two or five or even subtract or divide. However, because players can’t go past 101, the game really challenges players to develop unexpected ways to get to the center of the board.
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Melissa & Doug K’s Kids Fish & Count Game
This unique math toy offers multiple ways for your child to play and learn. One side of the board has numbers, and the other side has shapes, making it perfect for young children learning how to count or match shapes. The end of the fishing line has hook-and-loop tape that attaches to the fish in the pool — once a player catches a fish, they should count to the number noted on the fish, then place it in the correct spot. Some parents felt that the hook-and-loop tape didn’t stick to the fish as well as it should have.
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Educational Insights Math Whiz Electronic Math Game
The Math Whiz Electronic Math Game features three different modes of play and eight different skill levels. Kids can take it slow with simple math equations. If they want to step it up, they can use timed rounds or play the exciting “drill mode,” which becomes more difficult with each round.
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Fostering Local Connections and Celebrating Community
SEATTLE, July 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Bite of Seattle 2023 came to a thrilling conclusion yesterday after three days of culinary delights, live music, and community engagement. This year's event shattered previous attendance records, attracting diverse attendees. Hosted at the iconic Seattle Center, the festival was a testament to the city's vibrant spirit, culinary diversity, and cultural richness.
Bite of Seattle 2023 lived up to its reputation as a community-driven event that fosters connections. The festival provided a platform for local businesses, artisans, and vendors to showcase their unique offerings, connecting them to a new crop of attendees who can visit their local locations post-Bite.
"As we reignited this beloved event, we've been honored to highlight the extraordinary food and music that make Seattle shine," said Thomas Lapham, CEO of CHEQ. "Bite of Seattle came back with a bang, and we are looking forward to many more years to come."
One of the primary objectives of Bite of Seattle 2023 was to shine a spotlight on the diverse brick-and-mortar establishments that form the backbone of Seattle's culinary scene. From cozy cafes to upscale restaurants, these local gems offered visitors an authentic taste of the city's culinary identity.
An all-new innovation introduced this year was mobile payment through the CHEQ app, enabling festivalgoers to easily locate vendors even after the event concluded. CHEQ, the proud owner of Bite of Seattle, allows attendees to continue their culinary journey and support local businesses through social gifting.
Bite of Seattle would like to extend its heartfelt gratitude to our sponsors for making Bite of Seattle 2023 a resounding success including Pepsi, William Grant & Sons (Drambuie), Gesa Credit Union, Chateau Ste. Michelle, NW Beverages, Seattle Mariners, Seattle Center, OL Reign, Seattle Sounders FC, and SeattleFWC26.
Celebrating the Best Bites of 2023
Bite of Seattle 2023 also featured the highly anticipated Best Bites contest, where participants competed in various categories to win the hearts and taste buds of the festivalgoers. The winners in each category were:
- Small Bite 2023: Theary Cambodian Foods
- Best Big Bite 2023: KP LAO
- Best Specialty Beverage 2023: Pink Bokay
- Best Dessert 2023: Pielicious
- Best Artisan Food 2023: The Na Sommelier
- Best Artisan Craft 2023: The Hungry Sloth
The Bite of Seattle team would like to thank all the participants, sponsors, vendors, musicians, and, most importantly, the incredible attendees for their unwavering support in making this event a true celebration of Seattle's unique culture and culinary delights. Until next year, let's continue to explore and cherish the vibrant flavors and talents that define our beloved city.
For more information and updates on future events, please visit www.biteofseattle.com.
About Bite of Seattle
Seattle's premier foodie festival, The Bite of Seattle, returns July 21, 22, and 23 at Seattle Center and celebrates its 38th year! Featuring 200 vendors, 50+ musical performances, beer gardens, and more, Bite of Seattle is fun for all ages. Festival goers will enjoy bites from local restaurants using the CHEQ app to place mobile orders. For additional information about The Bite of Seattle, please visit www.biteofseattle.com or follow us on Instagram, @BiteOfSeattle.
About CHEQ
CHEQ is the first mobile payments platform for the restaurant and hospitality industry to enable social purchasing and gifting, allowing users to pay for and send drinks to one another for on-premises consumption. CHEQ allows friends to send food and drinks to each other in real time from anywhere in the world. It connects consumers and businesses to create frictionless, amazing in-person experiences. CHEQ's universal ordering and payment app can be used by any restaurant, café, bar, or stadium to make transactions fun, easy, and worry-free. To learn more about CHEQ visit www.cheqplease.com or follow us on Instagram, @CheqPlease.
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Search underway for armed suspects in Ohatchee area
OHATCHEE, Ala. (WBRC) - Multiple agencies are searching for three armed suspects in the Greensport Rd. area of North Ohatchee.
According to police, three men have burglarized gun stores in the Southside area and are believed to be armed. Police pursued the suspects and they fled on foot into the woods.
Ohatchee High School and Ohatchee Elementary School have been placed on Secure Perimeter, according to Randy Reaves, Director of Safety for Calhoun County Schools. The school is not in the search area.
People are being asked to avoid the South Southside/North Ohatchee area, keep doors locked, and make sure vehicles are secured.
A WBRC FOX6 News crew is headed to the scene. We will update this story as we get more information.
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JACKSON, Robert E. "Bob"
Of Springfield, died on Saturday, August 6, 2022. He was born on June 8, 1925, in Raymond, Ohio, the son of Daniel T. Jackson and Mabel (Hillard) Jackson Gardner. After serving in the United States Navy during World War II, South Pacific area, he received an Honorable Medical Discharge for wartime injuries. He graduated from Springfield High School and Wittenberg University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in June, 1951. Bob had a career of 37 1/2 years at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, and his skills as an artist and a managing director helped garner many outstanding performance awards and letters of commendation. He retired as Director of Visual Communications Department, at that time, the largest art department in the Air Force. He enjoyed art, golf, baseball, cars, architecture and design. He was a past member of First Lutheran Church in Springfield, Alpha Tau Omega fraternity at Wittenberg University, was a long-standing member of the Masonic Temple Anthony Lodge No. 455, and a lifetime member of the Disabled American Veterans. He was preceded in death by his first wife of 36 years, Edith; a daughter, Sheli (Patrick) Smedley; and a step-daughter, Karoun Miller. He is survived by his loving wife of 38 years, Anne; daughter, Kyle (Lane) Berg; step-daughter, Mariam (Eric) Ferguson; grandchildren: Matthew (Jennifer) Grabner, Christopher (Nicole) Grabner, Ethan Smedley, and Conner Smedley; step-grandchildren: Irene Miller, Bridget Miller, Jonathan Moore, Andrew Moore; great-grandchildren: Siena, A.J., Kaia and Cole Grabner as well as great-great grandchildren, Ellie Rae Wetzel and Skylar Graham. A visitation will be held on Thursday, August 11, 2022 at Jackson Lytle & Lewis Life Celebration Center from 4:00-6:00 p.m. with his funeral following on Friday, August 12 beginning at 1:00 p.m. Bob will be laid to rest at Grape Grove Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to The American Lung Association of Ohio or to a favorite charity. You may express condolences to the family at
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Jackson, Lytle & Lewis Life Celebration Center | 2022-08-10T06:05:27+00:00 | daytondailynews.com | https://www.daytondailynews.com/obituaries/jackson-robert/SLQHY6FJTREZBL4AVQEBD7RVUM/ |
New Products Scheduled to Launch in November 2022
LYONS, Colo., July 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading all-natural body care company, Sierra Sage Herbs, makers of Green Goo®, Good Goo®, and Southern Butter® brands, announced today that it has secured a non-exclusive, private-label agreement with Health E-Commerce, parent brand to FSA Store, HSA Store, Well Deserved Health, and Caring Mill™ to produce its inaugural plant-based first-aid collection. As per the terms of the agreement, Sierra Sage Herbs will oversee and manage product development, supply chain, and production, while Health-E Commerce will make the collection available to the millions of consumers who are enrolled in tax-advantage health accounts.
The initial product offerings, which will be available in 1.82 oz. recyclable travel tins, include Burn Repair, First Aid, Pain Relief, Poison Ivy, and Tattoo Aftercare salves. The full, plant-based collection, which is also cruelty-free, will be offered as part of the Caring Mill product line. Health-E Commerce donates a portion of the proceeds from every Caring Mill purchase to Children's Health Fund.
More than 70 million Americans are enrolled in flexible spending accounts (FSAs) and health savings accounts (HSAs), which allow them to set aside pre-tax income to pay for qualified healthcare expenses, including products for everyday health and wellbeing. Health-E Commerce is the only family of online marketplaces that caters to this audience with exclusively eligible products, the industry's most comprehensive eligibility list, and educational tools and content.
"We're so proud to partner with the incredible team at Health-E Commerce to bring our plant-based first-aid collection to their customers," said Sierra Sage Herbs CEO and co-founder Jodi Scott. "As the leading online marketplace for FSA- and HSA-eligible products, Health-E Commerce is such an invaluable resource for individuals and families, and we couldn't be more excited to offer our all-natural first-aid solutions on their sites."
"Not only are FSA and HSA users invested in their health and wellbeing, but they have demonstrated a preference for all-natural products and for using their tax-free health funds to buy portable health products like first-aid treatments," said Susan Elliott-Bocassi, senior vice president of operations, Health-E Commerce. "We're excited to partner with a female-led company like Sierra Sage Herbs to bring consumers the best of both product categories with their all natural first-aid line."
The FSA Store plant-based first-aid collection is scheduled to launch in November 2022.
Committed to making the best all-natural, plant-based skincare products, Sierra Sage Herbs, now part of Creso Pharma, is on a mission to spread goodness, empower change, and redefine natural body care. Founded in 2008 by sisters Jodi and Jen Scott and their mother, Kathy Scott, the company's natural products brands, which are cruelty free and made in the USA, include Green Goo, Good Goo, and Southern Butter. These brands are sold across more than 100,000 points of distribution around the US, including Whole Foods, Walmart, Amazon, Target.com, CVS, Walgreen's, Rite Aid, Albertsons, and Kroger, among many others. A certified B Corp, Sierra Sage Herbs aligns and partners with charities, aid organizations, and causes both in the United States and around the world. To learn more, visit: www.sierrasageherbs.com.
Health-E Commerce is the parent brand to FSA Store, HSA Store, and WellDeservedHealth, a family of online marketplaces that serve the 70+ million consumers enrolled in pre-tax health and wellness accounts. The company also created Caring Mill, a popular private-label line of health products that benefits Children's Health Fund and enables customers to make a donation with each purchase. Since 2010, the Health-E Commerce brands have led the direct-to-consumer e-commerce market for exclusively pre-tax health and wellness benefits. Health-E Commerce plays an essential role in expanding product eligibility for important new categories within the list of eligible medical expenses.
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Thirsty mountain lion takes sip out of family’s backyard pool
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (KPNX) – A mountain lion was caught on camera taking a drink from a family’s pool in Arizona on Tuesday evening.
Kathy Binke says it was exciting to see such a big cat in her backyard, but she hopes it’s the last.
Her neighbor Kimberly Weeldreyer said they’ve seen wildlife in their neck of the woods, but nothing like this. She’s now concerned about the safety of her pets and the whereabouts of the cougar.
“If I’m going to enjoy my pool, I’m going to have to be one eye open, one eye closed,” Weeldreyer said.
Wildlife experts are also shocked by the big cat’s brazenness.
Kristy Hayden, president of Wildlife World Zoo in the west valley, said she was blown away by the video.
“Typically, when you see mountain lions, they’re such an elusive species, even reclusive from humans,” Hayden said.
What makes this video even more unique is that mountain lions typically hunt at night to get a paw up on their prey and avoid the hot sun.
“They’re going to hunker down when it’s really hot,” Hayden said.
It’s very rare to see a cougar out in the open, but with housing developments popping up all over, it’s becoming more and more common.
Hayden recommends that if you encounter a mountain lion, contact game and fish authorities.
Copyright 2023 KPNX via CNN Newsource. All rights reserved. | 2023-06-23T17:00:43+00:00 | wfsb.com | https://www.wfsb.com/2023/06/23/thirsty-mountain-lion-takes-sip-out-familys-backyard-pool/ |
LONDON (AP) — England midfielder Jill Scott announced her retirement from soccer on Tuesday, the second member of the Euro 2022-winning team to do so in two days.
The 35-year-old Scott’s decision comes after Ellen White, the team's record scorer, said Monday she was retiring. Both Scott and White played in the final of the Women’s European Championship on July 31, when England beat Germany 2-1 after extra time.
Scott made her England debut in 2006 and had a total of 161 international appearances — second only to Fara Williams with 172 — and scored 27 goals for the national side.
She had been without a club after leaving Manchester City at the end of last season.
“I may be saying my goodbyes to football, but we’re going to make this a celebration. No sad faces!! We’ve had too much fun for any tears," Scott wrote on The Players’ Tribune website. “Maybe it’s because I’m from Sunderland, but two things have always been true about me: I’ve always been stubborn and I’ve always loved football.
“It’s been in my blood ever since I was five years old. I saw a load of boys playing in the school yard and I walked straight up to them and said the four magic words ... ‘Can I play too?’. Imagine, if you would have told me then that I’d go on to play for England for 16 years?
“If you would have told me that I’d live to see 90,000 people packed into Wembley Stadium for a women’s European final? And that I’d be playing in it? Impossible.”
Scott began her career with hometown Sunderland before spending seven years at Everton and then joining City in 2013. She later had loan spells back at Everton and Aston Villa. She won every domestic honor during her time in the game, including the Women’s Super League title with City in 2017.
Other career highlights for Scott include scoring England’s winner against the Netherlands in the Euro 2009 semifinals and also netting in City’s 2017 Women’s FA Cup final victory over Birmingham. She also represented Great Britain at the 2012 and delayed 2020 Olympics.
She made four substitute appearances in England’s triumphant Euro 2022 campaign, including the final against Germany.
Prince William congratulated Scott on her career but joked he would not miss her “slide tackles.”
William, who is president of the Football Association, wrote in a personal tweet: “A pioneer of Women’s football and a great team player. @JillScottJS8 congratulations on a wonderful career, it’s been a pleasure to get to know you.
“Tiny bit pleased there won’t be any more slide tackles during ‘friendly’ kickabouts... W.”
William presented members of the winning England team with their medals after the Euro 2022 final.
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By LISA MASCARO, MARY CLARE JALONICK and FARNOUSH AMIRI
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Jan. 6 committee is focused Thursday on “surprising” details including evidence from Donald Trump’s Secret Service about the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol in what is likely to be its last public hearing before the November midterm elections.
The 10th public session, which convened shortly after 1 p.m., is expected to delve into Trump’s “state of mind” and the central role the defeated president played in the multipart effort to overturn the election, according to a committee aide who discussed the plans on condition of anonymity.
The committee is starting to sum up its findings: Trump, after losing the 2020 presidential election, launched an unprecedented attempt to stop Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s victory. The result was the deadly mob siege of the Capitol.
“The mob was led by some extremist groups — they plotted in advance what they were going to do,” Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., a committee member, told CNN. “And those individuals were known to people in the Trump orbit.”
Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., gaveled in Thursday’s session at an otherwise empty Capitol complex, with most lawmakers at home campaigning for reelection. Several people who were among the thousands around the Capitol on Jan. 6 are now running for congressional office, some with Trump’s backing. Police officers who fought the mob filled the hearing room’s front row.
The session will serve as a closing argument by the panel’s two Republican lawmakers, Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, who have essentially been shunned by Trump and their party and will not be returning in the new Congress. Cheney lost her primary election and Kinzinger decided not to run.
Another committee member, Rep. Elaine Luria, D-Va., a retired Naval commander, is in a tough reelection bid against state Sen. Jen Kiggans, a former Navy helicopter pilot.
Unlike past hearings, this one is not expected to feature live witnesses, though the panel is expected to share information from its recent interviews — including testimony from Ginni Thomas, the conservative activist and wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. She was in contact with the White House during the run-up to Jan. 6.
Fresh information about the movements of then-Vice President Mike Pence, who was presiding over the joint session of Congress on Jan. 6 and was rushed to safety, is also expected, according to a person familiar with the committee’s planning who was not authorized to discuss it publicly and requested anonymity.
For weeks the panel has been in talks with the U.S. Secret Service after issuing a subpoena to produce missing text messages from that day. Former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson described being told by a White House aide about Trump angrily lunging at the driver of his presidential SUV and demanding to be taken from his rally to the Capitol as the mob formed on Jan. 6.
Some in the Secret Service have disputed Hutchinson’s account of the events, but it is unclear if the missing texts that the agency has said were deleted during a technology upgrade will ever be recovered. The hearing is expected to reveal fresh details from a massive trove of documents and other evidence provided by the Secret Service.
The committee plans to show new video footage it received from the Secret Service of the rally on the White House Ellipse. Trump spoke there before encouraging his armed supporters to march to the Capitol and “fight like hell.”
The hearing also will include new documentary footage captured from the day of the attack.
The Secret Service has turned over 1.5 million pages of documents and surveillance video to the committee, according to agency spokesman Anthony Guglielmi.
Lofgren said that as she learned the information being presented Thursday she found it “pretty surprising.”
The committee, having conducted more than 1,500 interviews and obtained countless documents, has produced a sweeping probe of Trump’s activities from his defeat in the November election to the Capitol attack.
“He has used this big lie to destabilize our democracy,” said Lofgren, who was a young House staff member during the Richard Nixon impeachment inquiry in 1974. “When did that idea occur to him and what did he know while he was doing that?”
This week’s hearing is expected to be the final investigative presentation from lawmakers before the midterm elections. But staff members say the investigation continues.
The Jan. 6 committee has been meeting for more than a year, set up by the House after Republican senators blocked the formation of an outside panel similar to the 9/11 commission set up after the 2001 terrorist attacks. Even after the launch of its high-profile public hearings last summer, the Jan. 6 committee continued to gather evidence and interviews.
Under committee rules, the Jan. 6 panel is expected to produce a report of its findings, due after the election, likely in December. The committee will dissolve 30 days after publication of that report, and with the new Congress in January.
House Republicans are expected to drop the Jan. 6 probe and turn to other investigations if they win control after midterm elections, primarily focusing on Biden, his family and his administration.
At least five people died in the Jan. 6 attack and its aftermath, including a Trump supporter shot and killed by Capitol Police.
Police engaged in often bloody, hand-to-hand combat, as Trump’s supporters pushed past barricades, stormed the Capitol and roamed the halls, sending lawmakers fleeing for safety and temporarily disrupting the joint session of Congress certifying Biden’s election.
More than 850 people have been charged by the Justice Department in the Capitol attack, some receiving lengthy prison sentences for their roles. Several leaders and associates of the extremist Oath Keepers and Proud Boys have been charged with sedition.
Trump faces various state and federal investigations over his actions in the election and its aftermath.
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GRAMMY® Award-Winning Trumpeter Keyon Harrold won wide acclaim for his trumpet performances in Don Cheadle's Miles Davis biopic "Miles Ahead". The NEW YORK TIMES calls Harrold "a scorching trumpeter" while ALL ABOUT JAZZ describes him as "a serious player among equals." Tickets for KEYON HARROLD and his Acclaimed Quintet at Jimmy's Jazz & Blues Club on Friday June 9 at 7:30 P.M., as well as the current list of 2023 shows, can be found on Ticketmaster.com and Jimmy's Online Event Calendar at: http://www.jimmysoncongress.com/events.
PORTSMOUTH, N.H., May 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Jimmy's Jazz & Blues Club Features GRAMMY® Award-Winning Trumpeter and Composer KEYON HARROLD and his Acclaimed Quintet at Jimmy's Jazz & Blues Club on Friday June 9 at 7:30 P.M. Keyon Harrold has received wide critical acclaim for his skill as a trumpeter and composer, while Wynton Marsalis calls him "the future of the trumpet."
"The Mugician (Sony Legacy) is a collection of thoughtful and wide-ranging compositions… "
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"Just as Davis broke down musical boundaries throughout his career, Harrold works to bridge genre gaps here, crafting expansive, often cinematic soundscapes…"
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KEYON HARROLD's most recent critically acclaimed album The Mugician is sweeping and cinematic, drawing on elements of Jazz, Classical, Rock, Blues & Hip Hop to create something uniquely modern, unmistakably American. Guests, including Pharoahe Monch, Gary Clark Jr., Big K.R.I.T., Georgia Anne Muldrow and Robert Glasper, add to the record's eclectic nature, but it ultimately triumphs as a unified, cohesive whole because of Harrold's virtuosic skill as a trumpeter and songwriter.
Keyon Harrold grew up one of 16 children in a family that prioritized music and community across generations. Culture shock hit Harrold hard at 18, when he left Ferguson for New York City to enroll in The New School. In New York, he landed his first major gig with Common, an experience which he says broadened his musical horizons beyond Jazz to include Funk, Afrobeat, R&B, and Hip Hop. Soon he was performing with stars like Snoop Dogg, Jay Z, Beyonce, Rihanna, Eminem, Maxwell, and Anthony Hamilton.
Keyon Harrold has also performed, recorded or toured with Dr. Lonnie Smith, David Sanborn, Joss Stone, Gregory Porter, Billy Harper (The Cookers), Terrace Martin, Herbie Hancock, Maurice Brown, Eric Krasno, Karl Denson and many others.
The Keyon Harrold Quintet includes Acclaimed Jazz Guitarist NIR FELDER who GLIDE MAGAZINE calls the "Next Big Jazz Guitarist"; Bassist BURNISS TRAVIS whose credits include performing and recording with Robert Glasper and Esperanza Spalding; Renowned Drummer CHARLES HAYNES who MODERN DRUMMER calls "A true drumming multi-talent" and who has toured the globe performing with Kanye West, Lady Gaga, Ed Sheeran, and Queen Latifah; and Prolific Pianist JAHARI STAMPLEY who has toured with Legendary Bassist Stanley Clarke.
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BOULDER, Colo. — Black artists across the country are fighting for more jobs in the art industry, saying they are underrepresented in numbers and influence.
Many involved with getting more eyes on Black artists say it’s not just about paychecks, but also a way to preserve culture and inspire others.
“Art from where I come from, art is incorporated in everything we do,’ said SaToro Tafura, an artist based in Boulder, Colorado.
“If you want to go back, all of our cultural story was told through art from an ancient time,” said Adderly Grant-Lord, an artist and curator based in Boulder.
Grant-Lord is an African American artist dedicated to abstract painting, but she’s also at the forefront of fostering African American artists.
“I go to all the museums, I go to all the shows, but the one thing that was not there for inspiration was that there were no African American artists for me to talk to,” she said. “There was nobody here for me to say, ‘I can do that too.’”
The online recruitment service Zippia says there are 10,600 artists currently employed artists in the United States.
While Black Americans make up around 14% of the country, they are only 4.3% of working, paid artists.
The industry news site Artnet reports that Black artists made up only about 6% of major museum exhibitions between 2008 and 2021. Museums buying art by Black artists was even worse— at only about 2% of their acquisitions in that timespan.
“I think the industry has to open up and be more welcoming to more backgrounds,” Tafura said. “It’s about privilege to... who can do art and who is afforded that opportunity to do that.”
“We did not believe the world at large will give you a space for you to be able to take care of your family in this career,” Grant-Lord said. “I think a lot of us do not go into this career. When my parents go to a museum, they do not see artists from Black or African Americans hanging in the museum.”
To help bring more Black Americans into the industry, some are using tactics like renting out exhibit space to promote Black artists, hoping to inspire the next generation.
“I am teaching kids five to 12,” Tafura said. “When you have someone like me, that relates to something that you don’t know, then it opens you up to other cultures.”
One positive development Artnet reported is the number of Black staff in art museum leadership positions doubled between 2015 and 2022. It increases the hope that artists like Grant-Lord and others will find a higher profile in the art world— beyond Black History Month. | 2023-03-01T23:33:13+00:00 | abc15.com | https://www.abc15.com/news/national/black-artists-hope-to-inspire-more-in-the-industry |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Future sanctions over President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine must focus on depriving Putin of what he needs to fund and fight the war: revenue from Russia’s oil and gas sales and access to global supply networks to replenish his military, two architects of the Biden administration’s sanctions campaign told lawmakers on Wednesday.
While calling for stronger action against Russia, the State and Treasury department officials appearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee faced complaints from both Democrats and Republicans that the first rounds of sanctions did not hit Moscow as hard or fast as the administration had forecast.
“What we were told was these were going to be the toughest sanctions ever on a country. That they were going to have certain impacts,” said Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, a New Hampshire Democrat, recounting early predictions from administration officials that the sanctions would plunge the country into recession, send the value of the ruble plunging, and trigger unrest among Russians. “And we have not seen the full impact that was described to us.
“The frustration is we know that while we’re playing the long game, Ukrainians are dying,” Shaheen added.
Putin has vowed to press his offensive in Ukraine despite battlefield losses to motivated and NATO-supplied Ukrainian forces. Within the past week, Russia has started calling up hundreds of thousands of civilian men to replenish its depleted forces in Ukraine and held sham referendums in Russian-occupied territory, as an expected prelude to claiming those lands for Russia.
In response to those referendums, the U.S. and its allies are preparing new sanctions that White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Wednesday would impose a “severe economic cost on Russia when they move forward with annexation.”
Senators and the two Biden administration officials — Elizabeth Rosenberg, an assistant Treasury secretary, and James O’Brien, head of the State Department’s sanction coordination office — focused Wednesday on additional penalties aimed at making it impossible for Russia to keep prosecuting the war.
Adroit financial management by Russian officials and, above all, billions of dollars of windfall profits from oil and gas exports have buffered the impact of the sanctions imposed by the United States and about 30 other nations. Sanctions so far have targeted Russia’s financial institutions, businesses, military and high-tech industries, and thousands of officials and other members of the Russian elite.
Rosenberg told lawmakers that Russia should be in fiscal deficit by the end of the year. But Russia’s currency is managing far better than the U.S. projected, and its inflation and stock market troubles aren’t out of line with other countries’, in a rough year overall for the world’s economy, Sen. Mitt Romney, a Utah Republican, pointed out.
“It wasn’t as crippling as we thought on Russia,” Romney said of the international sanctions, which, with arms supplies for Ukraine, form the core of the West’s support for Ukraine. That might serve as a cautionary lesson when the U.S. considers sanctions in the future, Romney argued.
Rosenberg stressed that the U.S. should be “laser-focused” on starving Russia of the energy profits that are keeping the war and its economy going. Russia is a leading global exporter of oil and natural gas.
U.S. and European officials are rushing to complete plans for a system of price caps on Russian maritime oil exports. The system would be designed to keep Russian oil on the world market, to avoid driving up prices even higher, while forcing down the price that Russia gets for its exports.
Next in importance, the sanctions officials said, was doubling down on the global arms procurement networks Russia is using to replenish its weapons and technology for the war in Ukraine. Already, Russia is fielding older and older equipment on the battlefield, turning to Iran for drones, and, reportedly, cannibalizing commercial high-tech to keep military hardware running, O’Brien said.
Lawmakers and the sanctions officials also talked of better coordinating existing U.S. and European Union sanctions to close loopholes, of unspecified future measures against Russia’s “soft power,” and of sanctions on human rights abusers in the Russian military.
“We appreciate what you do,” Sen. James Risch, an Idaho Republican and ranking member of the committee, told the sanctions organizers. “We want you to double your efforts in this regard. Because you’re the ones that can really help bring this thing to an end.” | 2022-09-29T13:38:19+00:00 | kron4.com | https://www.kron4.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-us-focus-new-russia-sanctions-on-oil-revenue-arms-supplies/ |
- Mr. Syho brings a wealth of finance, technology and public company experience to the Board of INEO.
SURREY, BC, Dec. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - INEO Tech Corp. (TSXV: INEO); (OTCQB: INEOF) (the "Company" or "INEO"), the innovative developer and operator of the INEO Media Network, a digital advertising and analytics solution for retailers, is pleased to announce the appointment of Eugene Syho to the Company's board of directors ("Board") as an independent director and member of the Audit Committee effective December 29, 2022.
Mr. Syho is a seasoned finance executive with over 25 years of proven financial management experience across many diverse industries. He was the Chief Financial Officer ("CFO") of multiple businesses ranging from publicly traded technology companies listed on the TSX to privately owned industrial manufacturing companies. Most recently, Mr. Syho was the CFO of Army and Navy Group, a privately owned retail and real estate company, Syscon Justice Systems Ltd., a private equity owned technology company, and Norsat International Inc., a TSX listed technology company that was sold to private interests in 2017. With a professional background in finance and accounting, Mr. Syho is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) and has an Executive Master's degree in Business Administration from Simon Fraser University.
"We are very excited to welcome Eugene to INEO's Board of Directors," said Greg Watkin, Chairman and President of INEO. "Eugene's career as an executive overseeing Finance, Human Resource, Supply Chain, and IT functions, gives him a wealth of experience and perspective in multiple aspects of the business. We are extremely happy to be adding Eugene to our team as he brings a new set of skills and a wide range of experience to INEO, which will be a tremendous benefit to the Company as we continue to grow larger and expand globally."
Mr. Syho commented, "I am pleased to join the INEO Board at such an exciting time when the Company is entering its next phase of rapid expansion. INEO represents a unique opportunity being at the forefront of the retail media space, and I look forward to working with the INEO team to continue to grow the business."
In conjunction with adding Eugene, the Company has accepted the resignation of Serge Gattesco from the INEO Board and wish to thank Serge for his service and commitment in helping guide the Company since August of 2020.
Additionally, further to its press release dated November 17, 2022, the Company wishes to clarify that, in connection with its public offering of 12,025,000 units (the "Units") of the Company at a price of $0.12 per Unit for aggregate gross proceeds of 1,443,000 (the "Offering"), the Company paid the agents under the Offering, being Beacon Securities Limited, Echelon Wealth Partners Inc., PI Financial Corp., Haywood Securities Inc., and Paradigm Capital Inc. (collectively, the "Agents") an aggregate cash commission of $110,846.4, being 8.0% of the gross proceeds of the Offering, subject to a reduced cash commission of 4.0% in the case of certain subscribers identified by the Company. No finder's fees or commissions were paid on the concurrent non-brokered private placement of 2,500,000 Units. Each Unit issued in the non-brokered private placement had the same terms and conditions as the Units issued in the Offering and consisted of one common share of the Company (a "Common Share") and one-half of one common share purchase warrant (each whole warrant, a "Warrant"), with each Warrant being exercisable to acquire one Common Share (a "Warrant Share") for a period of 36 months following the closing of the Offering (the "Closing") at an exercise price of $0.19 per Warrant Share.
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INEO Tech Corp., through its wholly owned subsidiary, INEO Solutions Inc., operates the INEO Media Network, a digital advertising and analytics solution for retailers. INEO's patented technology integrates and monetizes digital screens with theft detection sensor gates at the entrance of retail stores. The Company's cloud-based platform uses IoT (Internet of Things) and AI (Artificial Intelligence) technology to deliver customized digital advertising to each retail location based on the demographic mix, such as age and gender, of customer traffic at each location. The Company also deploys the INEO Welcoming Network technology through a SaaS-based solution to larger retail chains. INEO is headquartered in Surrey, Canada and publicly traded on the TSX-Venture Exchange under the symbol "INEO" and on the OTCQB-Venture Market under the symbol "INEOF".
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This news release contains forward-looking information, which involves known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual events to differ materially from current expectations. Important factors – including the availability of funds, acceptance of the Company's products, competition, and general market conditions – that could cause actual results to differ materially from the Company's expectations are disclosed in the Company's documents filed on SEDAR, including the Annual Information Form for the year ended June 30, 2022 filed on SEDAR on November 4, 2022. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this press release. The Company disclaims any intention or obligation, except to the extent required by law, to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
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SEATTLE, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Washington Poison Center (WAPC) is pleased to announce the hiring of Dr. Sasha Kaiser, MD as its Associate Medical Director. In this role, Dr. Kaiser will provide medical oversight to WAPC's call center specialists in poison information, ensuring the WAPC continues its provision of high-quality poisoning treatment advice and consultations. Dr. Kaiser will also support clinical education and outreach at the local, state, and national level for healthcare providers, as well as the WAPC's toxicology training programs for emergency medicine physicians, pharmacists, nurses, and EMTs.
"The Washington Poison Center is happy to welcome Dr. Kaiser after her extensive training," comments Dr. Scott Phillips, Medical Director of the WAPC. "Dr. Kaiser's addition to the Center allows us to provide greater outreach and support to the medical community."
With this position, Dr. Kaiser is returning to her Washington roots. After growing up on Camano Island, Dr. Kaiser moved to Spokane to work as a pharmacy technician and attend nursing school. She then moved to Florida to pursue a career as a physician, attending the Florida State University College of Medicine. Dr. Kaiser completed her Emergency Medicine Residency in 2020 at Denver Health, and is board certified in Emergency Medicine. She now returns to Washington following the completion of her medical toxicology fellowship at Rocky Mountain Poison and Drug Safety. Dr. Kaiser began her role at the WAPC on July 18, 2022.
Dr. Kaiser has authored numerous manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals and has lectured on topics in medical toxicology and emergency medicine to pharmacists, medical students, residents, and hospital organizations. Her research includes acetaminophen poisoning, focusing on genetic and patient susceptibility factors. Dr. Kaiser additionally completed the American College of Medical Toxicology Fellows in Industry Rotation, which focused on product development and regulation for safety.
Meet Dr. Kaiser on August 5 at 12:00pm in a livestream on the WAPC's YouTube channel and Facebook page.
About the WAPC: The Washington Poison Center is a 501(c)3 nonprofit mandated by Washington State to deliver poison and drug exposure-related medical advice and education to community members, first responders, and healthcare providers. WAPC provides medical advice through a 24/7/365 free telephone line staffed by specially trained pharmacists, nurses, and physician medical toxicologists. WAPC also provides free programs to educate local communities on poison safety, prevention, and harm reduction.
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'Come on guys ... and girl': What Scouts BSA looks like 3 years after becoming coed
Rain crashed down and thunder roared for hours on a recent Saturday morning, but that didn't stop Scout Troop 1402.
Of course, their meticulously drawn-out plan for the day had to be tossed aside in favor of hiding in a musty cabin near their campsite at the D Bar A Scout Ranch, but they rolled with the punches.
And when the clouds parted, they returned to their tents and started lunch. One patrol group made "hobo pies," a campout classic made up of bottled marinara and shredded mozzarella, sandwiched inside two slices of white bread, toasted over the fire.
The other patrol group went in a different direction, opting for teriyaki chicken lettuce wraps.
They cleaned up and then trekked down a muddy path to play capture the flag.
It's like any other Boy Scouts of America camping trip — but this time, there are girls.
Some girls in the program haven't thought twice about how their gender is the minority in the organization. Others feel like they faced more barriers to getting their Eagle Scout rank.
"In the beginning, I wasn't (nervous) because I wasn't so aware of all the stigma (around allowing girls)," said Waincey Chan, one of the first girls in Michigan to get her Eagle Scout. "I just never realized that was such a problem ... after I'd been in there for a little bit, probably a few days, I realized that there were a lot of people who weren't happy with girls joining Scouts."
Girls are in
In 2019, BSA announced girls were allowed to join. The organization changed its name from Boy Scouts to Scouts BSA.
There were a few vocal unhappy campers — including the Girl Scouts president, who accused BSA of welcoming girls to help its diminished enrollment numbers, CNN reported. Others complained the organization only changed it to be "politically correct."
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The 2019 decision was just the latest attempt from BSA to toss aside its exclusive policies. In 2013, the organization lifted the ban on openly gay scouts and in 2015, it ended the prohibition on gay leaders.
And, although the name changed to Scouts BSA, "boy" is still in it.
"There are females in there now too, so to just label it as boys makes it seem like the females in the same program are not seen as equals compared to the boys," Chan said.
A few rules still limit the interactions between boys and girls. For example, boys' and girls' tents have to be separated.
Similarly, when potential scouts search for troops in their area, there are two options: "Boys Troop" and "Girls Troop."
It is unclear how transgender, nonbinary or queer people fit in.
A lower Michigan BSA representative did not provide a comment.
'Come on guys ... and girl'
For Troop 1402, primarily based in Fraser, adding girls was a no-brainer, said Lisa Ludwig, mom to a daughter in the troop and a son who just got his Eagle.
"We started with three girls who were siblings of our current boys," Ludwig, the troop's committee chair, said. "There was a lot of like, 'how is this going to work? How is this going to function?' ... But once we got in and physically started dealing with it, for the most part, it just works. And sure, sometimes there are conflicts about them being boys and girls and things that occur, but there are sometimes conflicts between two boys, right? They’re teenagers.”
For the most part, Ludwig said, she doesn't see much of a distinction between the boys and girls.
Scout troops still aren't coed, Ludwig said. There are two groups, one for boys and another for girls, they just function as one large troop.
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She estimated there are only four troops in southern Macomb County that include girls.
Her daughter, Uma, is a 14-year-old senior patrol leader.
For Uma, planning the menu and remembering to buy all the ingredients for a camping trip is significantly more stressful than being one of three girls on the 15-person trip.
"(Being one of the only girls) was never an issue, my issue was being scared I was going to be behind everyone," she said. "I love when people are like, 'come on guys....and girl.' "
Before lunch, Uma and Andrew Tiza, 17, patiently showed Violet and Simon Osantowske how to clean and prepare the camping griddles.
The Osantowske twins, both 11, were on their first-ever camping trip as scouts. Violet, like Uma, was treated like any other member of the group and was too preoccupied with trying to help a wounded frog to consider much else.
Uma is one of a few people who have been in both Girl Scouts and Scouts BSA, giving her a unique perspective. She said she has learned valuable things from both, but the two organizations are completely different.
"I've done Girl Scouts since I was in kindergarten, and it still was never the same as when my brother did Cub Scouts," she said. "Girl Scouts is more about girl empowerment. And saying, 'you can do it because you're a girl,' but Boy Scouts is more about (learning) skills because they're just skills that everyone needs in life, like I need first aid as much as the next person does."
Trailblazer
Chan had always wanted to join the Scouts — she grew up watching her brother go through the program, tagging along when she could.
"I remember asking my mom when I was younger 'can I do this too?' She was like, 'well, you won't get the badge for it.' and I was like, 'why not? I'm still doing it.' And it was because I'm not a male and I remember thinking ‘that’s dumb.’ ”
Chan, now 18 and done with her freshman year of college, was part of the inaugural class of girls who could become Eagle Scouts. The only catch was, she only had two and a half years to finish all the requirements.
Along the way, she observed that her work was scrutinized more than her male counterparts.
"The parents talk and so I'd overhear their comments sometimes and there have been men who have treated me a little more unfairly," Chan said. "The process of me going Eagle was a little harder and more watched, like everything was more strict."
She said some boys would keep inconsistent records of what they had been doing, and throw them away once they had gotten each merit badge. For Chan, it was different. She said she had to meticulously track all of her paperwork, even after a task had been completed and approved
"I had to keep track of all my paperwork packets, all my merit badge packets, all my cards, I had to remember where everything was because they would come back and question me about it," she said.
At first, Chan didn't think anything of joining. She just wanted to learn the skills and have fun. She soon realized she had to be a leader, a trailblazer.
"The scouts claim they're such a welcoming program with the girls, and then feeling all of this backlash and like judgmentalness was definitely not welcoming," she said. "And so I realized I had to be the trailblazer, I have to lay this down, so they know it can be done, girls can do it."
And sure enough, she did it.
Despite the obstacles she had to overcome, she wishes more girls would take the leap and sign up.
"I was just able to learn so much and do things that I normally would never be able to do otherwise, and the relationships I made, those are going to be things that I'm going to be keeping for the rest of my life," Chan said. "I just want to tell girls that they can work for anything they want and they can do it, they can do it better than the boys can."
Contact Emma Stein: estein@freepress.com and follow her on Twitter @_emmastein. | 2022-06-06T12:41:32+00:00 | freep.com | https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2022/06/06/coed-girl-boy-scouts-of-america-michigan/9894220002/ |
Michael Harris II Player Prop Bets: Braves vs. Mets - May 1
Published: May. 1, 2023 at 10:23 AM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
After going 0-for-2 in his last game, Michael Harris II and the Atlanta Braves take on the New York Mets (who will hand the ball to Tylor Megill) at 4:40 PM ET on Monday.
He had a hitless showing in his last game (0-for-2) against the Mets.
Michael Harris II Game Info & Props vs. the Mets
- Game Day: Monday, May 1, 2023
- Game Time: 4:40 PM ET
- Stadium: Citi Field
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Mets Starter: Tylor Megill
- TV Channel: SNY
- Hits Prop: Over/under 1.5 hits (Over odds: +200)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +450)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +160)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +105)
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Michael Harris II At The Plate
- Harris II is batting .200 with a double and two walks.
- Harris II has gotten a hit in five of eight games this year, but he has no multi-hit games.
- In eight games played this year, he has not hit a home run.
- Harris II has an RBI in one game this year.
- In three of eight games this year, he has scored, including multiple runs once.
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Michael Harris II Home/Away Batting Splits
Mets Pitching Rankings
- The pitching staff for the Mets has a collective 8.9 K/9, which ranks 13th in the league.
- The Mets have the 17th-ranked team ERA among all league pitching staffs (4.36).
- Mets pitchers combine to rank 22nd in baseball in home runs surrendered (38 total, 1.4 per game).
- Megill (3-1 with a 3.96 ERA and 19 strikeouts in 25 2/3 innings pitched) makes the start for the Mets, his sixth of the season.
- The righty's most recent time out came on Sunday, April 23 against the San Francisco Giants, when he threw four innings, surrendering four earned runs while giving up six hits.
- The 27-year-old has amassed a 3.96 ERA and 6.8 strikeouts per nine innings across five games this season, while giving up a batting average of .258 to opposing hitters.
© 2023 Data Skrive. All rights reserved. | 2023-05-01T16:45:16+00:00 | wbrc.com | https://www.wbrc.com/sports/betting/2023/05/01/michael-harris-ii-mlb-player-prop-bets/ |
Illinois State Police say multiple deaths are reported from numerous crashes south of Springfield on Interstate 55 today. The accidents happened around 10:55 a.m.
As many as 40-60 passenger vehicles and about 20 commercial vehicles were involved near Milepost 76, north of Farmersville. Accidents occurred in both directions.
At least two commercial vehicles caught fire. Approximately 30 people have been taken to hospitals.
State Police Major Ryan Starrick says gusty winds, blowing dust from recently plowed fields, resulted in zero visibility.
The highway remains closed in both directions, between Divernon and Farmersville, and will likely be shut down until tomorrow. Traffic is being re-routed. According to the Illinois Department of Transportation, I-55 traffic is being detoured via Illinois 104 and Illinois 48 through Taylorville.
More details are expected later this afternoon. | 2023-05-01T21:16:45+00:00 | nprillinois.org | https://www.nprillinois.org/illinois/2023-05-01/numerous-fatalities-reported-from-massive-pileup-on-i-55 |
It was a warm Saturday evening and a group of journalists had gathered at a Paris restaurant to enjoy the last weekend of summer. At sometime past midnight, phones around the table began to ring — seemingly all at once — as news desks contacted reporters and photographers to alert them that Princess Diana’s car had crashed in the Pont de l’Alma tunnel.
Here’s how the news of Diana's death unfolded in the early hours of Aug. 31, 1997, and the days that followed as told by journalists who covered the story for The Associated Press.
Jocelyn Noveck, then Associated Press news editor in Paris:
“We were paying the bill and all of a sudden there was this cacophony of mobile phones going off. The first one that went off was a British reporter's, a British cameraman, and he just got up and started running. And the rest of us called out, `What happened?’ And he just said, `The Princess of Wales! Crash!’ And then kept running."
“The first thought there was oh, maybe one of the boats that go up and down the Seine, the Bateaux Mouches, maybe one of them is called the Princess of Wales and it crashed into the banks of the river. That sounded like a digestible story to imagine. But, of course, soon we realized that Diana had been in a car, in a limousine … the Mercedes had crashed.”
Stuart McAlister, former Associated Press cameraman in Paris:
“I got down to the tunnel and it was chaos, absolute chaos. There were late-night revelers and tourists who, of course, were walking at that time of night to go back to their hotels. They were on top of the Pont de l’Alma looking down. They couldn’t see anything because they were on the top of the bridge. … The police were doing what they could to keep people back. Of course, having a press pass, I just jumped into the road, ran into the center of the road … I could very clearly see emergency vehicles and the Mercedes down in the tunnel. So I stood on this intersection and started filming what I could.”
Jerome Delay, AP photographer:
“I parked my motorcycle, and as I parked it, I saw a police van pull out and with windows you could see through. And I saw some colleagues in that police van. My first thought was, ‘Well, if there is a picture to be made, they were there before — they have it. I’m just going to be here to pick up the pieces.’ Well, it turned out they made some pictures, that the rest of their film had been seized and everything. And I started to shoot from afar what was pretty much a car accident, of all things. … I don’t like to call it luck because this was not a very pleasant situation. People got hurt. People died. But they brought a tow truck and a crane to remove the vehicle, at which point I just moved. It was very easy. I mean, there was no real police blockade or anything like that stopping me from doing my work. I guess I was very discreet because I was not carrying 20 cameras around my neck and screaming to the world, ‘Let me go through, I’m a journalist, I have rights, blah, blah, blah.’ I was just making my way slowly to where I was supposed to be to be able to see. And I shot some pictures from the overhead as the car was pulled out of the tunnel on that flatbed truck. And it turns out, I think, over my 30 years at The Associated Press, that might be the worst picture I ever shot, but also the most published picture I ever shot, because, I guess, its historical value.”
Chris Burns, former AP reporter:
“I went to the hospital, Salpetriere, where Diana was taken. And there we were watching as the flowers and the mourners were gathering outside and were waiting for news, waiting to hear something from the hospital, and it seemed like hours and it was hours. And finally they called a press conference before sunrise. And there the anesthesiologist was describing all the medical procedures that they went through to try to revive her. It was sort of painstaking. It took a while. We thought, ‘OK, well, well, is she alive? Is she dead?’ And then finally, after this long description, he said, ‘We were unable to revive her. We declared her deceased at …' I think it was 4 a.m. And there was this moment of silence, this sort of pause. The way I felt was: Princesses don’t die this way anyway, do they? … And then everybody was scrambling for their phones. But that sort of moment of denial was quite moving, actually. Moving.”
Yves Dam Van, former AP cameraman in Paris:
“My first memory is that it felt like the sky had fallen on us. As a journalist, you kind of think of all the events that could happen. Diana was not on the list because she was an icon for everybody, and icons don’t die. When the phone rang after midnight and I was told the news, I remained bewildered. I thought: ‘It’s not possible, it cannot happen. It’s impossible, someone is playing a joke on me.’"
After Diana’s death, the story shifted to London, where members of the public gathered outside her home to mourn the loss of a young woman they had watched grow from a shy teenager into a glamorous princess who championed causes ranging from AIDS treatment to land mine removal.
Ted Anthony, AP reporter who traveled from New York to help cover the story:
“I remember walking through Kensington Gardens and seeing all these flowers and drawings. I remember one vividly from Moomina from the Maldives that stuck out to me, and they were all just talking about how important Diana was in their life and in the way that they saw the world in her work on AIDS, her work with charities, and simply her status as a woman who had persevered and endured. … The thing I remember the most was that people who wouldn’t normally have been affected by this type of thing told me that they were deeply affected. And the whole people’s princess notion and (former Prime Minister) Tony Blair speaking about her and all of that, it all came together to form this — the word surreal is overused — but I think that it was a surreal few days where you felt like you were sort of caught up in something and carried along on a wave. And your job was to watch and chronicle and try to understand. But you knew that it was bigger than any one person around you.”
Maureen Johnson, former AP London reporter:
“I do remember being out on the streets around Westminster and a bit further away and just the sheer numbers of people that had come. There seemed to be very little traffic and just people of all colors and backgrounds … and carrying these heaps and heaps of flowers. And it was almost unreal. There was a sort of silence in the center of London. And it went on for a number of days.”
Myron Belkind, former London bureau chief
“It just shows you the impact that one person could have and she did it from 1981 until 1997. Hard to imagine she died at age 36. And I think also going back to Westminster Abbey, how could we ever forget Elton John playing and singing "Goodbye, English Rose"? It was a moment that I think united the country and the world. Here I am at age 82. I think it’s hard to imagine that could have happened with anyone else (other) than Princess Diana … It’s a lesson for us to watch in the future. There are others who will come to the fore of the public and it will have impact, but hard to imagine it will rise to the level of the life of Princess Diana.” | 2022-08-31T18:39:31+00:00 | nbcchicago.com | https://www.nbcchicago.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/a-moment-in-time-ap-journalists-remember-dianas-death/2928319/ |
BRAINTREE, Mass. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Massachusetts Lottery's "MassCash" game were:
04-11-26-27-33
(four, eleven, twenty-six, twenty-seven, thirty-three)
BRAINTREE, Mass. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Massachusetts Lottery's "MassCash" game were:
04-11-26-27-33
(four, eleven, twenty-six, twenty-seven, thirty-three) | 2022-10-27T02:51:59+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-MassCash-game-17537302.php |
We've got any number of devices we can strap to our bodies to track our footsteps, heart rate, and sleep patterns. Next up, possibly — sweat monitoring for precision rehydration and worker safety.
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We've got any number of devices we can strap to our bodies to track our footsteps, heart rate, and sleep patterns. Next up, possibly — sweat monitoring for precision rehydration and worker safety.
Copyright 2022 NPR | 2022-08-30T10:22:09+00:00 | kpcc.org | https://www.kpcc.org/2022-08-30/this-massachusetts-startup-wants-to-track-your-sweat |
The Boulder County Coroner’s Office has identified the woman killed in an attempted carjacking over the weekend as Taylor Smith, 21.
Martin Cerda, 23, and Adriana Vargas, 24, were arrested early Sunday in connection with Smith’s death and both face charges of second-degree murder, attempted aggravated robbery, and possession of a weapon by a previous offender.
Cerda also faces one count of vehicular eluding.
Both are still awaiting a formal filing of charges, and do not have any court dates set as of Tuesday, according to online court records.
According to the release, a Larimer County Sheriff’s deputy attempted to stop a vehicle that they suspected of being driver under the influence near Berthoud just after midnight Sunday.
The vehicle, which police believe was driven by Cerda with Vargas in the front passenger seat and two others in the back seat, fled the area and the deputy stopped the pursuit when they lost sight of the vehicle heading south on U.S. 287 near Colo. 56.
An arrest affidavit indicates the two other people in the vehicle said one of the car’s tire was flattened during the chase, and that Cerda and Vargas passed a gun back and forth as they decided they needed to carjack another vehicle.
A truck driven by Smith’s mother with Smith in the passenger seat drove by Cerda and Vargas near U.S. 287 and Yellowstone Road, and witnesses said Cerda and Vargas both got out of their vehicle before Cerda fired at the truck.
Smith’s mother drove away from the scene after one shot went into the truck, but then realized Smith had been hit by a gunshot in the torso. She drove Smith to Longmont United Hospital, but Smith died of her wounds.
Officials have previously said Smith was from the Denver area. The coroner’s office will also conduct an autopsy and investigation to determine the cause and manner of death.
Deputies and a K-9 team were able to track Cerda, Vargas and the other occupants of the vehicle to a property in the 10,600 block of Yellowstone Road, where they found all four hiding in a camper. They were all taken into custody without further incident.
The two passengers told deputies Cerda and Vargas, both of Greeley, had been using drugs and selling fentanyl the night before the shooting.
While one of the other two passengers was arrested on outstanding warrants, officials said at this time they are not looking at charges related to the shooting.
Both Cerda and Vargas remain in custody at the Boulder County Jail. Their booking photos have not yet been released.
According to online court records, Cerda has previously been convicted of introduction of contraband in Bent County, theft between $5,000 and $20,000 in Larimer County and two separate charges of motor vehicle theft, introduction of contraband and attempted trespassing in Weld County.
Vargas was previously convicted of possession with intent to distribute, two instances of possession of a controlled substance, leaving the scene of an accident, driving while ability impaired and criminal possession of an ID, according to online court records.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in 17 Education & Technology Group Inc. ("17EdTech" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: YQ) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of 17EdTech investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud. This lawsuit is on behalf of persons or entities who purchased or otherwise acquired publicly traded 17EdTech securities pursuant and/or traceable to the registration statement and related prospectus issued in connection with 17EdTech's December 2020 initial public offering. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
YQ investors may also contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. via email at jlevi@levikorsinsky.com or by telephone at (212) 363-7500.
CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that defendants made false statements and/or concealed that: (1) 17EdTech's K-12 Academic AST Services would end less than a year after the Company's initial public offering; (2) as part of its ongoing regulatory efforts, Chinese authorities would imminently curtail and/or end 17EdTech's core business; and (3) as a result, defendants' statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially false and misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in 17EdTech during the relevant time frame, you have until September 19, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
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Western Conference
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Eastern Conference
East Division
Central Division
Note: Two points for a team winning in overtime or shootout; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns.
Sunday's results
Saskatoon 5 Regina 2
Prince George 6 Vancouver 4
Calgary 6 Everett 3
Tuesday's results
Swift Current 4 Brandon 2
Prince Albert 2 Moose Jaw 1
Red Deer 4 Edmonton 1
Portland 4 Calgary 1
Wednesday's results
Brandon at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.
Thursday's games
Regina at Winnipeg, 7:05 p.m.
Friday's games
Medicine Hat at Saskatoon, 7 p.m.
Swift Current at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.
Red Deer at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Brandon at Edmonton, 7 p.m.
Everett at Portland, 7 p.m.
Spokane at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.
Prince George at Victoria, 7:05 p.m.
Calgary at Tri-City, 7:05 p.m.
Kamloops at Vancouver, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday's games
Moose Jaw at Swift Current, 7 p.m.
Medicine Hat at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.
Brandon at Red Deer, 7 p.m.
Kamloops at Portland, 6 p.m.
Edmonton at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Prince George at Victoria, 6:05 p.m.
Regina at Winnipeg, 8:05 p.m.
Everett at Seattle, 6:05 p.m.
Calgary at Spokane, 7:05 p.m.
Tri-City at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m. | 2022-11-16T23:17:07+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/HKO-WHL-Standings-17590264.php |
CAIRO — Rival Libyan officials on Sunday resumed talks in the Egyptian capital, the latest U.N.-led efforts to agree on constitutional amendments for elections as the North African nation again finds itself at a political impasse.
The U.N. special adviser on Libya, Stephanie Williams, said the talks aim at addressing core challenges — including the political system, eligibility criteria, and a timeline for elections. She advised the attendees that they have until May 28 to come with an agreement.
“This session constitutes your last chance to provide a credible response to the expectations of the Libyan people and make concrete progress on these issues,” she said.
The first round of the talks, also held in Cairo last month, did not achieve a breakthrough in the dispute over the election’s legal basis, which was among major challenges that caused planned national elections to fail in December.
The failure to hold the vote was a major blow to international efforts to end decade of chaos in Libya. It has opened a new chapter in its long-running political impasse, with rival governments claiming power after tentative steps toward unity in the past year.
The oil-rich country has been wrecked by conflict since the NATO-backed uprising toppled and killed longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi in 2011. The country has for years been split between rival administrations in the east and west, each supported by different militias and foreign governments.
In February, the country’s east-based House of Representatives named a new prime minister, former interior minister Fathi Bashagha, to lead a new interim government.
The lawmakers claimed the mandate of interim Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah, who is based in Tripoli, expired when the election failed to take place as planned in December.
Dbeibah, however, remined defiant against replacing his government, insisting that he will hand over power only to an elected administration.
Bashagha has yet to be seated in the capital, and calls were mounting to have his government seated in the crucial city of Sirte, which is controlled by forces of his rival-turned-ally commander Khalifa Hifter. The city serves as a link between Libya’s eastern and western regions.
The stand-off worsened in the past weeks with occasional infighting between rouge militias especially the western region, and a partial oil blockade amid a global energy crisis because of the Russian war in Ukraine.
The closure of oil facilities, including Libya’s largest oil field, in areas controlled by Hifter’s forces was likely meant to deprive Debeibah’s government from funds and embower its rivals.
Libya’s prized light crude has long featured in the country’s civil war, with rival militias and foreign powers jostling for control of Africa’s largest oil reserves.
Bashagha and his ally, the influential Parliament Speaker Aguila Saleh announced earlier this month the oil facilities would be reopened on condition that oil revenues will be temporarily frozen until rival factions agree on a mechanism to manage such oil funds.
The proposal has enjoyed the support of the U.S. embassy in Libya, saying that such a mechanism “should incorporate agreement on priority expenditures, transparency measures, and steps to ensure oversight and accountability.” | 2022-05-15T15:28:59+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/libyan-rivals-resume-un-brokered-talks-on-elections/2022/05/15/ba78e5ac-d459-11ec-be17-286164974c54_story.html |
No major problems with ballot drop boxes in 2020, AP finds
ATLANTA (AP) — The expanded use of drop boxes for mailed ballots during the 2020 election did not lead to any widespread problems, according to an Associated Press survey of state election officials across the U.S. that revealed no cases of fraud, vandalism or theft that could have affected the results.
The findings from both Republican- and Democratic-controlled states run contrary to claims made by former President Donald Trump and his allies who have intensely criticized their use and falsely claimed they were a target for fraud.
Drop boxes are considered by many election officials to be safe and secure, and have been used to varying degrees by states across the political spectrum. Yet conspiracy theories and efforts by Republicans to eliminate or restrict them since the 2020 election persist. This month, the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s conservative majority ruled that drop boxes are not allowed under state law and can no longer be widely used.
Drop boxes also are a focal point of the film “2,000 Mules,” which used a flawed analysis of cellphone location data and ballot drop box surveillance footage to cast doubt on the results of the 2020 presidential election.
In response to the legislation and conspiracy theories surrounding drop boxes, the AP sent a survey in May to the top elections office in each state seeking information about whether the boxes were tied to fraudulent votes or stolen ballots, or whether the boxes and the ballots they contained were damaged.
All but five states responded to the questions.
None of the election offices in states that allowed the use of drop boxes in 2020 reported any instances in which the boxes were connected to voter fraud or stolen ballots. Likewise, none reported incidents in which the boxes or ballots were damaged to the extent that election results would have been affected.
A previous AP investigation found far too few cases of potential voter fraud in the six battleground states where Trump disputed his loss to President Joe Biden to affect the outcome.
A number of states — including Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas — said they do not allow the use of drop boxes. Some had not allowed them before the 2020 election, when the coronavirus pandemic prompted wider use of mailed ballots. In states where they are used, secretaries of state or election commissioners may not be aware of every incident involving a drop box if it was not reported to their office by a county or other local jurisdiction.
Drop boxes have been a mainstay in states with extensive mail voting for years and had not raised any alarms. They were used widely in 2020 as election officials sought to provide alternative ways to cast ballots with the COVID-19 outbreak creating concerns about in-person voting. The boxes also gave voters a direct method for submitting their ballots, rather than sending them through the U.S. Postal Service and worrying about delivery delays.
Starting months before the 2020 presidential election, Trump and his allies have made a series of unfounded claims suggesting that drop boxes open the door to voter fraud. Republican state lawmakers, as part of their push to add new voting restrictions, have in turn placed rules around when and where the boxes could be accessed.
Arizona Assistant Secretary of State Allie Bones said drop boxes are “safe and secure” and might even be considered more secure than Postal Service mailboxes. She said bipartisan teams in the state collect ballots from the drop boxes and take them directly to secure election facilities, following so-called chain-of-custody protocols.
“Not to say that there’s anything wrong with USPS, and I think they do a great job as well, but the hysteria around ballot drop boxes I think is just a made-up thing to create doubt and fear,” Bones said.
Arizona has had robust mail-in voting for years that includes the use of drop boxes, and in the AP survey, the state reported no damage, stolen ballots or fraud associated with them in 2020. Nevertheless, Trump-aligned lawmakers in the state pushed for legislation that would ban drop boxes, but were stymied by Democrats and several Republicans who disagreed with the strategy.
Utah is a state controlled by Republicans that also has widespread use of mailed ballots and no limits on the number of drop boxes a county can deploy. The office of Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson, a Republican who is the state’s top election official, said in the AP survey that Henderson encourages counties to make secure drop boxes accessible to voters.
Of the states responding to the survey, 15 indicated that drop boxes were in use before 2020 and 22 have no limits on how many can be used in this fall’s election. At least five states take the extra step of setting a minimum number of drop boxes required.
Republican-led Florida and North Dakota and Democratic-led New York did not respond. Montana and Virginia did, but did not answer the survey questions related to the 2020 election.
Last year, five states added new restrictions to ballot drop boxes, according to research by the Voting Rights Lab. That included Georgia, where President Joe Biden won a narrow victory and where drop boxes were allowed under an emergency rule prompted by the pandemic.
Georgia Republicans say their changes have resulted in drop boxes being a permanent option for voters, requiring all counties to have at least one. But the legislation, which includes a formula of one box per 100,000 registered voters, means fewer will be available in the state’s most populous communities compared with 2020.
Iowa lawmakers last year approved legislation to limit drop boxes to one per county. Previously, state law did not say how many drop boxes counties could use. This year, Louisiana, Missouri and South Carolina have passed laws effectively prohibiting drop boxes, according to the Voting Rights Lab, which researches state election law changes.
Along with incidents recorded in news reports, the AP survey found a handful of cases in 2020 in which drop boxes were damaged.
Officials in Washington state said there were instances when drop boxes were hit by vehicles, but that no ballot tampering had been reported. Massachusetts election officials said one box was damaged by arson in October 2020 but that most of the ballots inside were still legible enough for voters to be identified, notified and sent replacements.
A drop box also was set on fire in Los Angeles County in 2020, but a local election official said the vast majority of the ballots that were damaged were able to be recovered and voters provided new ballots. Another drop box in California was temporarily closed because of a wildfire.
“The irony is they were put in place to respond to a problem with the post office and make sure people had a secure way of returning their ballots,” said Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, a Democrat. “And so there’s no actual legitimate concern except for, again, potential external threats or people who have been radicalized through misinformation to try to tamper with drop boxes to make a point.”
North Carolina provides an example of how deep-seated the misinformation has become. The state does not allow drop boxes and did not use them during the 2020 election.
“And despite that fact, people are still claiming drop box fraud must have occurred in North Carolina,” said Patrick Gannon, public information director for the State Board of Elections. “You can’t make this up. Oh wait. Yes, you can.”
In Wisconsin, Republicans had supported the use of drop boxes before Trump seized on mailed ballots as part of his unsubstantiated claim that the 2020 election was stolen from him. Some voters said they were frustrated by the recent state Supreme Court ruling, which said no one other than the voter can return their mailed ballot and that those ballots can go only to a local clerk’s office or alternate site.
Kelly O’Keefe Boettcher of Milwaukee said she cast her ballot in a drop box in 2020 because of safety concerns during the pandemic and is upset that they’ll no longer be an option for her or for voters who are less able to get to the polls.
“Drop boxes are accessible; they are egalitarian,” she said. “To watch them go, I feel, people can say it’s not voter suppression. But it is.”
Wisconsin state Rep. Tim Ramthun, a Republican candidate for governor, reintroduced a resolution this past week for the GOP-controlled Legislature to decertify Biden’s victory there, adding the state Supreme Court ruling on drop boxes as one reason to do so. Trump also renewed his calls for decertification in Wisconsin, citing the ruling.
According to the AP survey, the Wisconsin Elections Commission said it is not aware of any cases in 2020 in which drop boxes were damaged, had submitted ballots stolen or destroyed, or were used for fraudulent ballots.
“Isn’t a mailbox a secure place to put a letter?” asked Dave Wanninger, who with his wife used a ballot drop box in a Milwaukee public library in 2020. “Why would a drop box be any different?”
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Izaguirre reported from Tallahassee, Florida. Associated Press writers Scott Bauer in Madison, Wisconsin; Harm Venhuizen in Milwaukee; and Jonathan J. Cooper in Phoenix contributed to this report.
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Shell agrees to pay $10 million for air pollution at massive new Pennsylvania petrochemical plant
HARRISBURG, Pa. - Shell has agreed to pay $10 million to resolve allegations that it polluted the air around its massive new petrochemical refinery in western Pennsylvania, the administration of Gov. Josh Shapiro announced Wednesday.
Shell acknowledged that the plant, located along the Ohio River about 30 miles (48 kilometers) outside of Pittsburgh, violated air emissions limits, officials said. The multibillion-dollar facility opened in November, only to be shut down months later after the company said it identified a problem with a system that's designed to burn off unwanted gases.
Shell said it has made repairs and planned to restart the plant on Wednesday.
Under an agreement with the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, Shell Chemicals Appalachia LLC — a subsidiary of British oil and gas giant Shell plc — will pay a civil penalty of about $5 million, a portion of which will go toward environmental projects in Beaver County. The company will funnel a total of $6.2 million to the community, according to state officials.
Pennsylvania is "taking steps to hold Shell accountable and protect Pennsylvanians’ constitutional right to clean air and water while encouraging innovation and economic development in the commonwealth," Rich Negrín, the state's acting environmental secretary, said in a written statement.
The plant uses ethane from a vast shale gas reservoir underneath Pennsylvania and surrounding states to make polyethylene, a plastic used in everything from consumer and food packaging to tires. At full capacity, the plant is expected to produce 3.5 billion pounds (1.6 billion kilograms) of polyethylene annually. Shell had projected to spend $6 billion on the refinery, which took years to build.
Environmental advocacy groups had fought the plant and predicted that it would generate more plastic pollution, as well as compounds that form smog and planet-warming greenhouse gases. The Clean Air Council filed suit against Shell earlier this month.
Environmentalists likened the penalty announced Wednesday to a parking ticket that would have little impact on Shell’s bottom line.
"The overwhelming and toxic pollution residents have been exposed to has already harmed this community — there is no price tag that will allow for this to be acceptable," said Andie Grey, who lives 3 miles (4.8 kilometers) from the Shell plant and is part of the Eyes on Shell watchdog group.
Grey said "there is ample evidence Shell has no desire to protect this community."
Shell has said it is using the best available technologies to try to minimize air pollution.
"We’ve learned from previous issues and remain committed to protecting people and the environment, as well as being a responsible neighbor," Shell spokesperson Curtis Smith said Wednesday.
The plant exceeded rolling 12-month emission limits for volatile organic compounds, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides and other hazardous pollutants, according to state regulators. The state said Shell also violated limits on visible emissions from its flares, allowed foul odors to be released by its wastewater treatment plant and committed other violations.
Shell warned it would continue to exceed air emissions limits through the fall as the plant ramps up production. It will be required to pay additional civil penalties for any future violations.
Shell CEO Wael Sawan had cast the problems as expected "technical niggles."
The plant’s startup phase has "been slower than we would have hoped for," Sawan said on a conference call with analysts earlier this month. "But the team is dong a great job battling with some of the obvious technical niggles that startups typically have." | 2023-05-25T12:37:12+00:00 | fox29.com | https://www.fox29.com/news/shell-agrees-to-pay-10-million-for-air-pollution-at-massive-new-pennsylvania-petrochemical-plant |
Serial rapist sentenced to prison
FLINT, Mich. (WNEM) – A 65-year-old man accused of being a serial rapist has now been sentenced to prison for his crimes.
In April, Gilbert Conway plead no contest to 187 charges, including kidnapping, criminal sexual conduct, torture, and assault with a dangerous weapon.
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He was arrested in July 2018, and most of the charges stem from cases filed between 2018 and 2021.
Investigators believe his victims could be in the hundreds.
On Monday, June 12, Conway was sentenced for multiple charges. He was sentenced to 15 years minimum on the most serious charge with each of his charges running concurrent. He could serve a maximum of 50 years.
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SAN DIEGO, Dec. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kintara Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: KTRA) ("Kintara" or the "Company"), a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of new solid tumor cancer therapies, today announced that Robert E. Hoffman, President and CEO of Kintara, will be participating at the RHK Capital Disruptive Growth Conference in New York City.
The RHK Capital Disruptive Growth Conference will feature leading C-suite executives and senior management of up to 30 growth-oriented and disruptive companies to meet with seasoned institutional investors, accredited investors, representatives of family offices, market analysts and financial advisors, as well as broker-dealer wealth managers, and select RHK clients.
Kintara's webcast will be held on December 5, 2022 at 2:40 pm ET.
To view Kintara's webcast please access the following link:
ABOUT KINTARA
Located in San Diego, California, Kintara is dedicated to the development of novel cancer therapies for patients with unmet medical needs. Kintara is developing two late-stage, Phase 3-ready therapeutics for clear unmet medical needs with reduced risk development programs. The two programs are VAL-083 for glioblastoma (GBM) and REM-001 Therapy for cutaneous metastatic breast cancer (CMBC).
VAL-083 is a 'first-in-class', small-molecule chemotherapeutic with a novel mechanism of action that has demonstrated clinical activity against a range of cancers, including central nervous system, ovarian and other solid tumors (e.g., NSCLC, bladder cancer, head and neck) in U.S. clinical trials sponsored by the National Cancer Institute (NCI). Based on Kintara's internal research programs and these prior NCI-sponsored clinical studies, Kintara is currently advancing VAL-083 in the Global Coalition for Adaptive Research registrational Phase 2/3 clinical trial titled Glioblastoma Adaptive Global Innovative Learning Environment (GBM AGILE) Study to support the development and commercialization of VAL-083 in GBM.
Kintara also has a proprietary, late-stage photodynamic therapy platform that holds promise as a localized cutaneous, or visceral, tumor treatment as well as in other potential indications. REM-001 Therapy, which consists of the laser light source, the light delivery device, and the REM-001 drug product, has been previously studied in four Phase 2/3 clinical trials in patients with CMBC who had previously received chemotherapy and/or failed radiation therapy. In CMBC, REM-001 has a clinical efficacy to date of 80% complete responses of CMBC evaluable lesions and an existing robust safety database of approximately 1,100 patients across multiple indications. Kintara has paused the REM-001 CMBC program to conserve cash resources.
For more information, please visit www.kintara.com or follow us on Twitter at @Kintara_Thera, Facebook and LinkedIn.
SAFE HARBOR STATEMENT
Any statements contained in this press release that do not describe historical facts may constitute forward-looking statements as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements regarding the status of the Company's clinical trials and the GBM AGILE Study. Any forward-looking statements contained herein are based on current expectations but are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties. The factors that could cause actual future results to differ materially from current expectations include, but are not limited to, risks and uncertainties relating to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Company's operations and clinical trials; the Company's ability to develop, market and sell products based on its technology; the expected benefits and efficacy of the Company's products and technology; the availability of substantial additional funding for the Company to continue its operations and to conduct research and development, clinical studies and future product commercialization; and, the Company's business, research, product development, regulatory approval, marketing and distribution plans and strategies. These and other factors are identified and described in more detail in the Company's filings with the SEC, including the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended June 30, 2022, the Company's Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, and the Company's Current Reports on Form 8-K.
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The Integrated Dental Organization now owns and operates 21 locations in the western U.S.
DENVER, Feb. 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Espire Dental, a fast growing, doctor-led Integrated Dental Organization (IDO), is pleased to announce the recent acquisition of La Costa Dental Group in Encinitas, CA.
Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Denver, Colorado, Espire aims to reshape the industry with its 21 practices located throughout Colorado, California, Oklahoma and Wyoming. The company acquires practices with a clinical philosophy that focuses on the patient experience, while placing significant emphasis on elevated, quality clinical care and employee fulfillment. Adding La Costa Dental Group strengthens Espire's position in the Southern California market while expanding the quality of dental care available to patients throughout the state.
Tim Hill, CEO of Espire Dental, is thrilled about the synergy between Espire and this new practice. "We're proud to partner with a practice that has such a longstanding history of providing exceptional dental care to the community. This location is an ideal fit with our existing presence in the area, and we couldn't be more excited to work with Dr. Anisso to advance the dental care quality available to patients."
La Costa Dental Group has been providing excellent patient care to the people of Encinitas and surrounding areas since 1975. Dr. Omer Anisso, D.D.S., owner of La Costa Dental, said, "When I first met the team at Espire, I knew that they were the best fit for our practice and patients. We were searching for a business partner who would not only help our practice grow but support our team members and elevate our patient experience, too. Espire is elevating the entire dental industry, and we are proud to join the cause."
Espire Dental supports its practices with best-in-class business services including practice operations, clinical training, human resources, marketing and accounting. This allows Espire's dentists to focus on what matters most: patient care and elevating their teams' experience. For Hill, Espire sets itself apart from other group dental partners by offering the guidance practices need while delivering exceptional patient and team experiences. He said, "We're proud of our positive and unique culture and the way it effortlessly integrates with our exceptional business support systems. We're committed to raising the bar on the quality of support that integrated practices should expect from their business partner."
About Espire Dental
Espire Dental is a group of practices founded by doctors with a vision to create something extraordinary: a dental setting where excellence in dentistry meets inspired hospitality. Espire is pioneering a new practice category, operating as an Integrated Dental Organization (IDO) instead of a DSO to create a large, top quality and unique group practice operating under a single, trusted brand. With a focus on elevated quality care, multi-specialty and creating exceptional experiences for patients and employees, Espire believes that when you love what you do, work does not feel like work. Espire is a fast-growing group of 21 practices, looking to build its presence in the Western United States. Learn more at www.espiredental.com.
Contact Espire Dental
Dentists interested in joining Espire Dental may complete an inquiry form: EspireDental.com/practice-transition
CONTACT: Sophie Kelner, skelnerpr@gmail.com
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National security adviser Jake Sullivan on Thursday said that F-16 fighter jets are “not the key capability” that Ukraine currently needs to battle Russian forces, as the Biden administration faces mounting pressure from Kyiv over the jets.
“[The Ukrainians are] about to mount a significant counteroffensive,” Sullivan told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria at a town hall event on Thursday night. “From our perspective, F-16s are not the key capability for that offensive. It is the stuff that we are moving rapidly to the front lines now.”
“F-16s are not a question for the short-term fight,” he added. “F-16s are a question for the long-term defense of Ukraine, and that’s a conversation that President Biden and President Zelensky had.”
Biden met with Zelensky during a surprise visit to Kyiv on Monday, ahead of the war’s one-year anniversary on Friday.
Sullivan added on Thursday that the military and intelligence communities make recommendations to Biden based on “the needs of the Ukrainian military during the phase of the war that they are confronting at that time.”
“As we head into the spring, what Ukraine really needs is armor, infantry fighting vehicles and, yes, tanks, and we’re providing those,” he said.
However, Biden’s national security adviser noted that a “wide variety of factors” go into these decisions, pointing to the recent announcement that the U.S. plans to send dozens of American battle tanks to Ukraine.
“The president was advised by his military [that] Abrams tanks, the American tank, doesn’t make sense for this fight,” he told Zakaria. “What they really needed were Leopard tanks, German tanks, that a bunch of countries in Europe own.”
The problem, Sullivan said, was that Germany refused to provide the Leopard thanks unless the U.S. also provided its Abrams tanks.
“And President Biden said, ‘If me providing Abrams tanks, even if it’s not the most sensible military move, will help unlock German tanks to get to the front lines and also will sustain alliance unity, I will do it,’ ” Sullivan added.
Outside of Kyiv, Biden is facing increasing pressure from U.S. lawmakers to provide Ukraine with the fighter jets as well.
House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-Texas) said on Sunday that he believes “momentum is building” for the U.S. to provide Ukraine with the F-16s, while Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said there was “virtually unanimous belief” among a group of senators at the Munich Security Conference last weekend that the U.S. should be training Ukrainian pilots on the fighter jets.
“The fact is, the longer they wait, the longer this conflict will prevail,” McCaul said, adding, “We need to throw everything we can into this fight so that they can win.” | 2023-02-24T15:49:20+00:00 | fox59.com | https://fox59.com/hill-politics/sullivan-f-16s-not-the-key-capability-for-ukraine-to-battle-russian-forces/ |
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is due on Monday to greenlight a military training mission in Europe for thousands of Ukrainian troops and provide around half a billion euros (dollars) in extra funds to help buy weapons for the war-torn country.
“Morally, politically, even militarily, Russia is losing this war. So, we have to continue supporting Ukraine,” EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell told reporters in Luxembourg, where he was chairing a meeting of the 27-nation bloc’s foreign ministers.
Borrell said the EU would set up “a powerful training mission deployed out of the borders of Ukraine.”
The aim is to train some 15,000 Ukrainian troops, chiefly in Poland and Germany. It would range from standard military training to specialized instruction, based on Ukraine’s needs. It’s hoped that the mission will be up and running by mid-November.
Several EU and NATO nations are already training Ukraine’s armed forces on a bilateral basis. Asked what added value the Brussels-headquartered mission would bring, Borrell said he’s “strongly convinced that putting together the capacities of the European armies we can offer a much better product.”
NATO started training military instructors in Ukraine after Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula in 2014. The military alliance believes that training the trainers is the most effective way of helping Ukraine’s armed forces as it does not require troops needed for battle to leave the country.
At their meeting in Luxembourg, the ministers are also expected to approve a sixth tranche of money, worth around 500 million euros (dollars), from the European Peace Facility — a fund being used to reimburse member countries that provide weapons, ammunition and non-lethal military support to Ukraine.
It will bring to just over 3 billion euros the total EU sum in security support being made available for Ukraine. Individual countries are also spending more on top of that. The decisions will come almost eight months after Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine. | 2022-10-17T09:39:31+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/world/eu-set-to-greenlight-ukraine-training-mission-arms-funds/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all |
Well-known environmental and land use lawyers Thomas A. Mackie, John F. Shea, and Peter F. Durning join the firm along with their entire team
BOSTON, Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Burns & Levinson LLP today announced that the members of Mackie Shea Durning PC, the highly-regarded environmental law, land use and related litigation law firm, have joined the firm's Real Estate and Environmental Groups. The new attorneys include: John Shea and Peter Durning as Partners, Thomas Mackie as Senior Counsel, Peter Vetere as an Associate, and Gail Hire as Of Counsel. With the addition of this team, Burns & Levinson will have one of the largest environmental practices in the region.
"I have known John, Tom and Peter for over 25 years and was thrilled when the opportunity arose for this stellar team to join our firm," said David Rosenblatt, co-managing partner of Burns & Levinson and chair of the firm's Environmental Group. "We have been looking to strategically expand our real estate and environmental practices, and this group of lawyers are among the best in this industry. We are fortunate to have them onboard."
Tom Mackie represents businesses and municipalities facing complex environmental issues involving solid waste, recycling and renewable energy facility siting; hazardous waste cleanup; private and public environmental contracting; facility acquisition; environmental due diligence; host community agreements; cost recovery cases under CERCLA and M.G.L. c. 21E; and litigation of permit appeals.
John Shea focuses his environmental and land use law practice on permitting and appeals for wetlands, water (drinking, wastewater, stormwater), air emissions, and hazardous waste cleanup laws. He is recognized for his work securing approvals for complex and controversial projects, developing environmental compliance plans for pro-active and troubled companies, and successfully defending permits and enforcement actions in administrative and court appeals. He has been a Hearing Officer in over 40 solid waste site assignment proceedings.
Peter Durning represents clients in environmental litigation, enforcement defense and land use permitting and appeals, with a specific focus on water and wetlands matters. His experience includes adjudicatory hearings before the MassDEP, zoning disputes, judicial review of administrative proceedings, trials and appellate work.
"We are excited to transition our practices and team to Burns & Levinson," said Peter Durning. "We have extremely synergistic practices and are looking forward to working with our talented new colleagues and helping to grow the firm's environmental group."
Burns & Levinson shares a number of clients, including Clean Harbors, and overlapping industry expertise with Mackie Shea Durning (MSD) in scrap recycling, solid waste and hazardous waste. MSD represents a leading global metals recycler and Burns & Levinson serves as outside general counsel to the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries, which is the key trade association for metals recycling. Recently another MSD client, one of the largest solid waste disposal companies in the U.S., purchased JRM Hauling and Recycling Services, represented by Burns & Levinson.
MSD has a Tier 1 ranking in Environmental Law and Environmental Litigation in the state by U.S. News – Best Lawyers, and is ranked among the top Massachusetts Environmental Law Firms by Chambers USA. The MSD partners are also individually ranked by Best Lawyers and Chambers USA as among the best environmental attorneys and environmental litigators in Massachusetts. Shea was selected in 2013 as Environmental Lawyer of the Year by Best Lawyers. All three lawyers serve important roles in business, bar and non-profit organizations. Durning and Shea have been Chairs and Co-Chairs of the Boston Bar Association Environmental Section's Hazardous Waste, Solid Waste and Environmental Litigation Committees. Mackie was Chair of the Board of the Directors of the Environmental Business Council of New England (EBC), and in 2018 he received the prestigious Steven G. Lewis Award for Service to the Environmental Industry. In addition, they regularly speak at statewide industry and water supply conferences, and are authors of chapters in the MCLE Environmental Law treatise, and other leading publications.
"Our firm has been very successful for 45 years, but we could not resist the opportunity to bring the strength and resources of a larger firm to our clients, and to collaborate closely with David," said John Shea. "John and I have known and successfully worked with David and his team on numerous superfund and other matters over the past four decades. Burns & Levinson is such a great place for our team and clients, and we are happy to be here," added Tom Mackie.
About Burns & Levinson LLP
At Burns & Levinson, we provide high-level, client-centric and results-oriented legal services to our regional, national and international clients. We are a full-service law firm with 125 lawyers in Boston, Providence and London. Our areas of expertise include: business/finance, business litigation, divorce/family law, venture capital/emerging companies, employment, estate planning, government investigations, intellectual property, M&A/private equity, probate/trust litigation, environmental and real estate. We partner with our clients to solve their business and personal legal issues in a collaborative, creative and cost-effective way. For more information, visit Burns & Levinson at www.burnslev.com.
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EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan State University students and faculty returned to the East Lansing campus Monday as the university resumed normal operations, one week after a gunman shot and killed three students and injured five others.
The 50,000-student university’s campus remained relatively quiet on the first day back, with many professors allowing students to attend class virtually. Many students skipped class to attend an afternoon protest at the state Capitol in Lansing to call for gun control legislation.
All students at the university this semester will be given a credit/no credit option, which allows students to receive credit for all classes without it impacting their overall grade point average. University officials also asked teachers in an email Friday to “extend as much grace and flexibility as you are able with individual students, now and in the coming weeks.”
Brogan Kelley, a freshman at Michigan State, left East Lansing after last week’s shooting to return home to his family in west Michigan. But he drove back on Sunday so that he could attend class in person. He said that he felt like it was important “to go back about my life.”
“For me, not going to class felt like I would have been letting the shooter win. I didn’t want this one tragedy to define the place I call home and the university that’s giving me my education,” said Kelley said.
Kelley, who was at an off-campus house when the shooting took place, said that the majority of his professors had given students the option to attend class in person or online, with many students choosing the latter.
The shootings at Michigan State happened last Monday during evening classes at Berkey Hall and nearby at the MSU Union. Students across the vast campus were ordered to shelter in place for four hours — “run, hide, fight” if necessary — while police hunted for Anthony McRae, 43, who eventually killed himself when confronted by police not far from his home in Lansing.
Two wounded students remain in critical condition at Sparrow Hospital, university police said Monday. Two other students were in stable condition with another student in “fair condition.”
The university has been criticized by some in the community for returning too quickly. The editorial board of The State News, the student newspaper, wrote Thursday that they wouldn’t attend class next week, either in person or online. More time was needed to heal, the students wrote.
March for Our Lives founder David Hogg, a survivor of a 2018 high school shooting in Parkland, Florida, joined hundreds of students and community members at the state Capitol for a sit-down protest Monday. Hogg and other students spoke on the capitol steps, calling for state lawmakers to pass enact gun reform.
“Enough is enough. How many more students have to die until you can hear our cries?” Michigan State senior Kelsey Gruzin said outside the state Capitol.
In the days after the shooting, Michigan Democrats, who control all levels of the state government for the first time in decades, have promised to pass gun-safety measures. Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has called for gun control legislation that includes universal background checks, safe storage laws and “extreme risk protection orders.”
“It’s no secret that your governor is probably going to be running for president,” Hogg said Monday. “Are you ready to hold Gretchen Whitmer accountable?” | 2023-02-21T05:12:09+00:00 | kdvr.com | https://kdvr.com/news/nationalworld-news/ap-us-news/ap-students-faculty-return-to-michigan-state-after-shooting/ |
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WFO ALBANY Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, November 30, 2022
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WIND ADVISORY
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Albany NY
323 PM EST Tue Nov 29 2022
...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 9 AM TO 9 PM EST WEDNESDAY...
* WHAT...South winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 50 mph
expected, shifting to the west early Wednesday evening.
* WHERE...Northwestern Connecticut, the southern Adirondacks, the
Saratoga Lake George region, southeast Catskills, mid Hudson
Valley and southern Taconics of eastern New York, and southern
Vermont.
* WHEN...From 9 AM to 9 PM EST Wednesday.
* IMPACTS...Gusty winds could blow around unsecured objects.
Tree limbs could be blown down and a few power outages may
result.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...South winds will shift to the west as a
cold front moves through early Wednesday evening, with wind
gusts up to 50 mph possible.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Use extra caution when driving, especially if operating a high
profile vehicle. Secure outdoor objects.
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CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Deputy marshals are asking for help to again find fugitive Lamont Weakley.
Weakley, 40, of Cleveland, had been a U.S. Marshals' fugitive of week in January 2010 and was arrested a month later.
He was sentenced in July 2010 to nine months in prison for carrying a concealed weapon, forgery, identity fraud and tampering with records.
He was released from prison on electronic monitoring, then cut off the ankle device and left his Woodland Avenue home.
Weakley used to run an after-hours club known as Best Kept Secret near East 69th Street and Woodland, Deputy Marshal Brian Koerbel said.
His nicknames are Skillet and Skittles. He has used the names Michael Anderson, Brian Kerr, Kenneth Ford, Marty Smith and Coltis Johnson.
Weakley is 5 feet 11 and 230 pounds. He may be in the Carver Park area.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Northern Ohio Violent Fugitive Task Force at 866-4WANTED. Reward money is available. | 2022-05-20T17:18:52+00:00 | cleveland.com | https://www.cleveland.com/metro/2011/04/fugitive_cut_off_electronic_an.html |
Some Republicans believe presidential candidates not named Donald Trump are missing an opportunity to breakthrough in a crowded primary field by not confronting the former president head on.
Strategists agree that any candidate will need to win over at least some Trump supporters in order to overcome the former president in the polls, and that attacking him directly carries some risks.
But there is a belief with the first debate on the horizon that the likes of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) will need to more forcefully take on Trump if they want to shake up the race.
“We’ve seen some criticism of Trump depending on the candidate, but it’s usually been limited and it’s not been a situation where it’s taking on Trump directly,” said Doug Heye, a former spokesperson for the Republican National Committee. “If we continue to see a campaign where criticisms of Trump are either limited or mild, or candidates are quite happy to let the other person do it instead, then nothing is going to change.”
The contrasting styles were on display this week after Trump chastised Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds (R) over whether she was remaining “neutral” in the lead up to the state’s caucuses next January.
Haley and DeSantis were quick to defend Reynolds on social media, but neither one mentioned Trump. Former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R), meanwhile, defended Reynolds in a tweet and added, “America deserves better than Donald Trump.”
Several Republicans running for president have been cautious in their approach to Trump, often criticizing him indirectly.
DeSantis, who is running in second place in the vast majority of polls, has argued he will be able to finish the job in ways Trump didn’t during his first term in office, citing border wall construction and “breaking” the swamp.
DeSantis told Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo on Sunday that many voters have so far been focused on “some of these legal cases,” a reference to Trump without directly naming the former president – or acknowledging the unprecedented and historic nature of a former president facing indictment – and added he believed more voters would begin to pay attention to race during the first debate next month.
When DeSantis has attacked Trump directly, it has not always gone well. A rapid response account for his campaign last week shared a video aiming to attack Trump for his past supportive comments of the LGBTQ community. The video, which was eventually deleted, drew criticism from Democrats and even some Republicans.
Haley’s campaign has focused on calls for generational change in leadership atop the GOP, a nod to the desire among some to move on from Trump. But her attacks have frequently been directed at DeSantis, and her criticisms of Trump have typically been either indirect or come when prompted by reporters.
Scott, another South Carolinian, has centered his campaign message around his faith and his desire to push a positive conservative agenda that appeals to a broader swath of voters. But when pressed about differences between himself and Trump, the senator has typically praised the former president’s record.
Vivek Ramaswamy, an entrepreneur who has seen modest gains in recent polls, responded to each of Trump’s two indictments this year by defending the former president and suggesting he would pardon Trump if elected to the White House.
Former Vice President Mike Pence has comparatively been more aggressive in going after Trump, though he has largely focused on policy differences. Pence has argued Trump has turned his back on conservative values, pointing to his stances on abortion and entitlements. He has also hit his former running mate for his praise of dictators like Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Trump, meanwhile, has shown no reservations about attacking other candidates in the field, mocking Hutchinson as “Aida,” calling former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie a “total loser” and repeatedly hammering DeSantis on policy and personality.
“When post-mortems of the ‘24 GOP race are written: #1 will be the bad advice nearly all candidates got to not go after Trump,” Alyssa Farah Griffin, a former Trump White House communications director, tweeted. “Fear of alienating Trump voters materialized in candidates failing to stand out in any real way, while also failing to weaken their chief opponent.”
Candidates face a difficult reality that they will likely need the support of at least some Trump backers in order to secure the party’s nomination. Experts said that means they will need to find a way to criticize the former president without alienating his base entirely.
“It’s got to be something along the lines of ‘we agree with Trump’s policies and what he did as president, but it’s time to move on,” said Tim Hagle, an associate professor at the University of Iowa. “But so far what we’ve seen is every time Trump gets indicted, he goes up in the polls.”
Trump has held steady in national polls even after he was indicted on federal charges last month, while candidates like Christie and Hutchinson are polling in the low single digits despite their willingness to take on Trump directly.
Christie’s campaign has been almost entirely centered around criticizing Trump and making the case that the former president does not have the character to serve again in the White House and is conning the public.
Hutchinson has similarly been willing to call out Trump by name, urging the former president to drop out of the race after being indicted on federal charges.
Both Christie and Hutchinson have been urging supporters to donate to their campaigns in the hopes of getting on the debate stage in August in what could be the best chance for candidates to set themselves apart from Trump or make an impression by attacking the former president.
“When we have the debate, and certainly when we’re past-Labor Day when primary voters start paying attention, for there to be a change in the polls there has to be a change in the campaign,” Heye said.
Trump himself has said he is leaning toward skipping the debate, questioning why he should have to stand on stage with candidates polling in single digits who can take shots at him in the process.
Strategists argued Trump’s absence could give other candidates the opening they need to go after the former president, especially in an environment where Trump would be unable to counterpunch.
“Ultimately Luke Skywalker had to confront Darth Vader,” Heye said. “He couldn’t sit back and hope the force was going to take care of it for him. And that’s where the Republican candidates are going to have to go.” | 2023-07-13T10:46:02+00:00 | wric.com | https://www.wric.com/hill-politics/attack-or-sit-back-republican-2024-rivals-face-dilemma-over-how-to-handle-trump/ |
In January 2021, Yahya Rasa returned home with pride to Kabul, Afghanistan. A boisterous celebration and an elaborate meal of Afghan delicacies awaited him after completing his master's degree in business management in Malaysia. "Being the first person in my family to secure a master's degree from abroad, I was a role model to my siblings and even my friends," the 25-year-old says.
Over a year and half later, and nearly a year after the August 2021 Taliban takeover of Afghanistan that led to widespread unemployment and poverty, Rasa struggles to find a job and support himself and his new bride.
He's reminded of all this every time he sits to eat at his family's traditional dining rug, or dastarkhaan in Persian. Where once was a generous spread of Afghan dishes like qabli pulao, a dish of meat and rice with carrots, raisins and other dry fruits; mantus and aashak, Afghan dumplings stuffed with meat and vegetables, respectively; and fresh seasonal fruits, today "most of our meals [are] very basic, like kidney beans or potatoes or lentils," Rasa says.
"There have also been times that the only food we had was bread and tea. It feels like [the] dastarkhaan is always empty."
Rasa is one of nearly 20 million Afghans struggling to put food on the dastarkhaan, according to a May report by the International Rescue Committee. Afghanistan's economy crashed after the 2021 takeover, exacerbating steep increases in poverty that already had occurred because of COVID-19 and droughts, says Lutfi Rahimi, an economics professor at the American University of Afghanistan. Earthquakes last month killed hundreds and added to the country's suffering.
The crisis is also affecting Afghans from the middle class who are now plunged into a lower class because the jobs they relied on have evaporated, Rahimi says. Several of these former professionals told NPR that they make no money and survive because of humanitarian aid, charity or by selling possessions like furniture. "Poverty did not happen overnight, but the collapse made the already failing situation even worse," Rahimi says.
A central part of the Afghan home
The dastarkhaan holds a special significance in Afghan culture, explains Mina Sharif, an Afghan media consultant who produces radio and television programming, including two seasons of the Afghan "Sesame Street". Now based in Canada, Sharif volunteers with Aseel, an organization that helps provide food and care packages to Afghans in need. "A dastarkhaan is where Afghan families connect with each other, their community and also the guests of their country," Sharif says.
Like a family dining table, the dastarkhaan holds meals, fruits and desserts every day. It is prominent across Central Asia and the Middle East. Special dastarkhaan preparations are common during Islamic feast days and holidays, Persian new year or when hosting guests. For Afghans, the dastarkhaan is an expression of hospitality and respect to guests and ideally is colorful and overflowing with food, akin to U.S. Thanksgiving spreads. "If you've been invited to an Afghan home and sit with them on the dastarkhaan to break bread with them, you are considered one of the family," Sharif says.
Learning to live with less
Like Rasa, many people who were previously able to afford a generous dastarkhaan, or at least a satisfactory meal, have now found themselves unable to do so.
The prior Afghan government was not only a big economic contributor but also a big employer, Rahimi explains. "The military and security apparatus alone employed over half a million Afghans. All these jobs vanished overnight, and people lost their income," he said, adding that the private sector in Afghanistan is a small fraction of the economy unlike that of the West.
A female journalist, who asked to be identified only by her initials F.S. to protect her from possible Taliban persecution, says that her brother, a former civil servant, was repeatedly threatened by the Taliban and fled the country. She once paid for her own schooling and, with her brother, supported a family of five, including her parents and siblings. When the Taliban took control of her province, the majority of the women journalists were removed from their jobs, and the girls' school where she taught was closed. "Before August 2021, we were a two-income household and could afford small luxuries" like new clothes and celebratory meals, F.S. said, describing her family's once glorious dastarkhaans. In stark contrast, for the last Eid holiday in May, all the family had were some beans along with a small portion of meat shared by a neighbor. "Today, I can't even pacify my younger siblings when they cry for food," F.S. says. "It is hard for children to understand what poverty is."
Projects undertaken by Mohammad Modares's construction company in Daikundi province were halted when the Taliban took control, because banks stopped functioning and people couldn't afford construction. His business lost all its income and he let go of his staff. A small family farm barely provides enough to feed his parents, siblings, wife and daughter in his village.
"Our dastarkhaan has changed a lot in less than a year. We use potatoes and beans instead of meat. We do not eat fruits," he says. The family cannot even afford clean drinking water, he adds.
Modares used to make close to $250 every month, a middle-class income in Afghanistan. He moved to Kabul on his own four months ago, staying with friends while seeking a job to repay his debts. He has applied for over 50 positions but hasn't received a response. Hundreds, if not thousands, of people apply for every job opening, Rahimi says.
Modares, who is living on the last of his savings, survives on one small meal a day, often potato fries or bread with tea. "I have to pay for my own costs in the city, and send money to my wife and daughter," he says. "I try to eat less and only cheap things."
Also in Kabul, Rasa, the recent master's graduate, is feeling the crisis take a toll on his mental health. "Sometimes it gets so hard that I think life isn't worth living and I think about suicide," he admits. "I have applied for many jobs but even with [a] foreign degree and good grades I can't land even a small position," he laments. "What good is this education when I can't even feed my family?" Yet he keeps trying to find work, buoyed by the hope that he will once again experience a dastarkhaan laden with delights.
Zuhal Ahad is an Afghan journalist covering stories of conflict and development in Afghanistan, with a special focus on women and marginalized communities.
Ruchi Kumar is a journalist who reports on conflict, politics, development and culture in India and Afghanistan. She tweets at @RuchiKumar
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2022-07-08T16:18:39+00:00 | delawarepublic.org | https://www.delawarepublic.org/npr-headlines/npr-headlines/2022-07-08/afghanistans-depleted-dining-rugs-are-a-reminder-of-hunger-and-loss |
Woman returns to school to earn GED at 84 years old
PITT COUNTY, N.C. (Gray News) - A longtime North Carolina resident has decided to return to the classroom.
Shirley Jones is currently working toward earning her GED at Pitt Community College at the age of 84.
According to the school, Jones has lived in Greenville, North Carolina, her entire life and has two daughters and one grandchild.
School officials shared that the 84-year-old has started on her GED after the death of her husband.
Jones said that she loves the personalities of her fellow students and how nice everyone has been.
She credits believing in herself and her dreams for getting to where she is today.
This week, Jones was inducted into the National Adult Honors Society through Transitional Studies at the school.
“Let’s congratulate and motivate Ms. Jones on this incredible achievement,” the college shared.
Copyright 2023 Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2023-05-04T23:54:18+00:00 | wlox.com | https://www.wlox.com/2023/05/04/woman-returns-school-earn-ged-84-years-old/ |
By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO
AP Retail Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — America’s consumers trimmed their spending in February after a buying burst in January, underscoring the volatility of the economic environment.
The government said Wednesday that retail sales slipped 0.4% after jumping a revised 3.2 % in January, helped by an increase in auto sales. Retail sales were down in November and December, the critical holiday period.
Excluding gas and autos, retail sales were unchanged from January, according to the Commerce Department.
Sales at furniture sores fell 2.5%, while business at restaurants fell 2.2% in February from January. Sales at department stores slid 4%. But shoppers spent more online, health and beauty stores as well as food retailers, according to the report.
Shoppers’ spending is getting a boost from a strong job market. America’s employers added a solid 311,000 jobs in February, fewer than January’s huge gain. But they are grappling with still high prices on almost everything.
The government reported on Tuesday that U.S. consumer price increases eased slightly from January to February but still pointed to an elevated inflation rate that’s presenting a challenge for the Federal Reserve at a delicate moment for the financial system. Prices increased 0.4% last month, just below January’s 0.5% rise. Yet excluding volatile food and energy costs, so-called core prices rose 0.5% in February, slightly above January’s 0.4% gain.
With the collapse of two large banks since Friday fueling anxiety about other regional banks, the Fed, for now, may concentrate more on boosting confidence in the financial system than on its long-term drive to tame inflation.
The retail sales report comes as many retailers of all types including Walmart, Target, Home Depot and Macy’s issued cautious outlooks that pointed to a slowdown in consumer spending this year, particularly in clothing and other non-essential items, as shoppers contend with higher prices as well as higher interest rates that boost borrowing costs.
“While the supply chain issues have largely abated, prices are still high and there is considerable pressure on the consumer,” said Walmart’s Chief Financial Officer John David Rainey on the call last month.
“Today’s retail sales report reflects a pullback in consumer spending after a spike in January,” said Claire Tassin, retail and e-commerce analyst at Morning Consult, a survey research technology company. “The longer-term trend shows that retail growth is bolstered by inflation, and shoppers are pulling back on discretionary spending with the strongest impacts on department stores and home furnishings retailers. ….Essentials take priority in consumers’ budgets.”
The retail report released Wednesday covers only about a third of overall consumer spending and doesn’t include services such as hotel stays and plane tickets, which has rebounded as shoppers turn to services.
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AP Economics Writer Chris Rugaber in Washington contributed to this report. | 2023-03-15T19:35:15+00:00 | wtmj.com | https://wtmj.com/ap-news/2023/03/15/retail-sales-slip-0-4-in-february-after-buying-burst-in-jan/ |
BROKEN ARROW, Okla. (AP) — Eight people were found dead Thursday in a burning Tulsa-area house in what was being investigated as multiple homicides, police said.
The fire was reported about 4 p.m. Thursday in a quiet residential area of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, 13 miles (20 kilometers) southeast of Tulsa.
Broken Arrow police said that although the fire and the deaths were being investigated as homicides, they did not believe an immediate threat to the public existed.
Police spokesman Ethan Hutchins said the scene was complex “with a lot of moving parts,” so no other information was being released immediately. Witnesses told police that a family of eight had lived in the house, two adults and six children, but the bodies have not been positively identified, Hutchins said.
“Understandably, this is a shock to Broken Arrow. It’s a safe city. Broken Arrow doesn’t have this kind of situation every day,” Hutchins said.
Broken Arrow, Okla., police and fire department investigate the scene of a fire with multiple fatalities at the corner South Hickory Ave. and West Galveston St. on Thursday, Oct. 27, 2022. Eight people were found dead Thursday after a fire was extinguished at a Tulsa-area house, and police said they were investigating the deaths as homicides. (Ian Maule/Tulsa World via AP)
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People look on as Broken Arrow, Okla., police and fire department investigate the scene of a fire with multiple fatalities at the corner South Hickory Ave. and West Galveston St. on Thursday, Oct. 27, 2022. Eight people were found dead Thursday after a fire was extinguished at a Tulsa-area house, and police said they were investigating the deaths as homicides. (Ian Maule/Tulsa World via AP)
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Broken Arrow, Okla., police and fire department investigate the scene of a fire with multiple fatalities at the corner South Hickory Ave. and West Galveston St. on Thursday, Oct. 27, 2022. Eight people were found dead Thursday after a fire was extinguished at a Tulsa-area house, and police said they were investigating the deaths as homicides. (Ian Maule/Tulsa World via AP)
Photo: ASSOCIATED PRESS/Ian Maule
Broken Arrow, Okla., police and fire department investigate the scene of a fire with multiple fatalities at the corner South Hickory Ave. and West Galveston St. on Thursday, Oct. 27, 2022. Eight people were found dead Thursday after a fire was extinguished at a Tulsa-area house, and police said they were investigating the deaths as homicides. (Ian Maule/Tulsa World via AP)
Photo: ASSOCIATED PRESS/Ian Maule
Broken Arrow, Okla., police and fire department investigate the scene of a fire with multiple fatalities at the corner South Hickory Ave. and West Galveston St. on Thursday, Oct. 27, 2022. Eight people were found dead Thursday after a fire was extinguished at a Tulsa-area house, and police said they were investigating the deaths as homicides. (Ian Maule/Tulsa World via AP)
Photo: ASSOCIATED PRESS/Ian Maule
Broken Arrow, Okla., police and fire department investigate the scene of a fire with multiple fatalities at the corner South Hickory Ave. and West Galveston St. on Thursday, Oct. 27, 2022. Eight people were found dead Thursday after a fire was extinguished at a Tulsa-area house, and police said they were investigating the deaths as homicides. (Ian Maule/Tulsa World via AP)
Photo: ASSOCIATED PRESS/Ian Maule
Broken Arrow, Okla., police and fire department investigate the scene of a fire with multiple fatalities at the corner South Hickory Ave. and West Galveston St. on Thursday, Oct. 27, 2022. Eight people were found dead Thursday after a fire was extinguished at a Tulsa-area house, and police said they were investigating the deaths as homicides. (Ian Maule/Tulsa World via AP)
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PreviousNextCatelin Powers said she was driving with her children nearby when she saw a column of smoke near her house, so she drove past to investigate.
“When I got closer to the house, I saw smoke pouring out from the very top of the house, which looked like maybe the attic,” she told The Associated Press.
Two men and a woman on her phone were standing in front of the house, Powers said, when another man emerged from the front door dragging an apparently unconscious, unresponsive woman. “Her arms were flopped to her sides,” she said.
“She was in either very short shorts or underwear and a tight shirt,” Power said. She described the woman as having a tan complexion “and looked maybe to be mid-twenties.”
Suspecting the woman was dead, Powers said she drove on so her children would be spared the sight.
Broken Arrow is Tulsa’s biggest suburb, with almost 115,000 residents.
The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives was assisting in the investigation, he said.
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Elon Musk denies sexual misconduct allegation by flight attendant
NEW YORK (AP) — Tesla CEO Elon Musk has denied a claim of sexual misconduct by a flight attendant contracted by Space X who worked on his private jet in 2016.
A report by Business Insider said SpaceX paid the woman $250,000 in severance in 2018 in exchange for her agreeing not to file a lawsuit over her claim.
The Business Insider report was based on an account by the flight attendant’s friend, who said the flight attendant told her about the incident shortly after it happened. The report also said the flight attendant was required to sign a non-disclosure agreement that prohibits her from discussing the payment or anything else about Musk and SpaceX.
Emails seeking comment were sent to SpaceX, which Musk founded.
Musk, who is in the process of buying Twitter, used the platform to respond to the allegation.
“And, for the record, those wild accusations are utterly untrue,” he wrote in response to one user who tweeted in support of him.
He replied to another: “In my 30 year career, including the entire MeToo era, there’s nothing to report, but, as soon as I say I intend to restore free speech to Twitter & vote Republican, suddenly there is …”
He also made light of the accusation, quoting a tweet of his own from 2021 in which he said if there was ever a scandal about him, it should be called “Elongate.”
“Finally, we get to use Elongate as scandal name. It’s kinda perfect,” he tweeted Friday.
According to the report, the flight attendant, who had trained as a masseuse so she could give Musk massages, said Musk exposed himself to her during a massage, rubbed her leg, and offered to buy her a horse in exchange for an erotic massage.
Several hours before the Business Insider report was published, Musk tweeted that he had previously voted for Democrats but would now vote for Republicans and suggested that the left would launch a “dirty tricks campaign” against him.
Musk, who was in Brazil on Friday to meet with President Jair Bolsonaro, has offered to buy Twitter for $44 billion, but said the deal can’t go forward until the company provides information about how many accounts on the platform are spam or bots.
SpaceX has previously faced allegations of male workers sexually harassing women. One former SpaceX engineer who started as an intern wrote an online essay last year describing repeated sexual advances and other harassment she experienced. She said the company was “so rife with sexism, the only remedy is for women to leave.”
After the allegations emerged publicly in December, SpaceX’s president and chief operating officer, Gwynne Shotwell, sent an email to employees stressing the importance of “timely reporting” of harassment and discrimination and said the company will rigorously investigate them, according to reports at the time from the New York Times and other news outlets.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2022-05-20T16:12:35+00:00 | live5news.com | https://www.live5news.com/2022/05/20/elon-musk-denies-sexual-misconduct-allegation-by-flight-attendant/ |
CashCamp Provides Uncommon Service in Credit Union Industry
VANCOUVER, Wash., July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- iQ Credit Union (iQ), a member-owned, modern-day financial institution based in the Pacific Northwest, today announced the launch of CashCamp, a new educational banking app that helps educate kids ages 7-14 about good financial habits and how to manage their money.
"CashCamp provides an introduction to all aspects of finance: saving, budgeting and lending," Tim Walley, education programs supervisor, said. "The app provides easy-to-use tools to help kids make the most of their account, including easy transfers with their parents, setting up savings goals, making a budget and taking out loans from their parents. Plus, the app gamifies saving money by letting kids earn trophies for hitting their savings goals, and lets kids compete on leaderboards with their siblings to see who can save the most."
Free to members of iQ Credit Union, CashCamp provides an alternative to paid youth banking apps. It does not require an additional app but rather integrates directly into iQ's Digital Branch, the credit union's online banking system, making it easy and convenient for parents and kids. Users can use a checking account and a debit card with the app, which can be accessed through a laptop, phone or tablet.
CashCamp ties into iQ's strong legacy of supporting kids, teachers and financial literacy. At schools and community events, iQ offers financial education through interactive games, presentations and workbooks. Kids receive "educational boxes" when they open their credit union account or after completing 10 deposits. The boxes have prizes and educational games that teach kids how to manage their money.
"This new app enhances these options and provides a way for parents and kids to talk about financial literacy and make it actionable and realistic for what they'll experience when they're grown up," Walley said.
CashCamp is now available to all kids with a savings account through iQ Credit Union.
iQ Credit Union is a full-service financial institution serving the Pacific Northwest since 1940. With more than 97,000 members in Washington and Oregon, the credit union is known for its deep commitment to financial education and community engagement — and for its signature red and black buffalo plaid colors. iQ helps WAnderers and explORers reach their financial goals by offering honest and friendly advice at any of its 15 branches. More information is available at iQCU.com.
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Members of Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission moved to compel Michigan’s legislature to paying its legal bills as court cases against the group will continue well into 2023 – a move which could see commissioners suing both the House and Senate in the process.
During the ICRC’s most recent meeting on Thursday, Oct. 27, members of the body unanimously voted to grant its executive director and the group’s legal team the ability to compel the legislature to appropriate the necessary funds to help fight ongoing lawsuits the ICRC faces.
This comes as the commission faces receiving no funding from the legislature for the 2022-23 fiscal year, as detailed by ICRC Executive Director Edward Woods III, who at one point during the meeting said it was crucial the body has “the ability to defend our maps.”
Throughout the course of the late-October meeting, commissioners spoke at length of their ongoing budgetary woes as litigation to defend the currently adopted maps continues. Given there could be no funding for the 2022-23 budgetary year, the commission does run the risk of running out of money altogether without compelling the legislature to step in.
Nate Fink, local counsel to the commission and partner at the law firm Fink Bressack, noted that the ICRC does have some outstanding legal cases in the form of Banerian v. Benson (which is currently before the U.S. Supreme Court) and Agee v. Benson.
Woods, in a breakdown of the commission’s ongoing budget process, said that because the ICRC is part of the legislative branch – and not the executive branch – it does not have a schedule for reporting to subcommittees or proposing a budget.
It’s because of this that the ICRC relies on the legislature to “appropriate funds sufficient to compensate the commissioners and to enable the commission to carry out its functions, operations and activities,” as detailed in the Michigan Constitution.
Within six months after the conclusion of each fiscal year, any money not spent during that time must be returned to the state treasury.
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Should any of this not happen, Woods said the state was responsible for indemnifying commissioners for costs incurred should the legislature not appropriate sufficient funds to cover any of those costs.
He also added that the Constitution gave the ICRC the legal standing “to prosecute an action regarding the adequacy of resources provided for the operation of the commission” and that the legislature was equally compelled by law to fund the commission in defending “any action regarding an adopted plan.”
Woods said the ICRC has sent three letters – the first being on Aug. 18, followed by ones on Oct. 4 and Oct. 13 – to the House and Senate appropriations committees regarding this topic, though has only received a single response on Oct. 12.
That legislative response took issue with the fact the ICRC still had roughly $1.7 million in outstanding funds which were appropriated for the 2022 fiscal year. Yet given the constitutional requirement that unexpended funds must be returned to the state treasury six months after the conclusion of the fiscal year, Woods said those funds would not suffice for use in these court cases.
“Here, one of the concerns is, we had a proposal that passed by more than 60%. The voter intent was clear, but yet we did not have our boilerplate language – which is in the constitution – followed by the legislature as it relates to giving us funds for fiscal year ‘23,” Woods said. “We are in operations because we do have two pending lawsuits ... Our concern is the constitutional requirements are being ignored.”
Following the vote Commissioner Steve Lett, a retired attorney who also serves as the group’s liaison to the ICRC’s legal team, emphasized that while Woods was right to continue calling the group’s budget as being required under boilerplate language, “it’s also true that it’s a constitutional mandate.”
“It’s not just pure boilerplate language that a lawyer would just throw in somewhere,” he said. “The language regarding the budget and the amount of funds that are to be received obviously was put in by the drafters of the constitutional amendment because they could see, looking down the road, that if the legislature didn’t like what we were doing – or what we did – they could try and choke us ... by cutting off the funding.”
“If nothing occurs, then the discussion is to file an appropriate action to request the court to order the legislature to follow the constitution.”
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Michigan could move its presidential primary earlier in year under this Senate bill | 2022-11-03T18:36:19+00:00 | mlive.com | https://www.mlive.com/public-interest/2022/11/michigan-redistricting-commission-could-sue-legislature-over-legal-defense-funds.html |
BERLIN (AP) — Germany is working on legislation to enable the use of the much-discussed technology of underground carbon storage, a top government official said Thursday, adding that it is preferable to releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
Speaking to an industry group in Norway, Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck, who is also Germany’s economy and climate minister, pointed to the prospects of a “new market” for carbon capture and storage, particularly in the lime and cement industry.
The technology has yet to be deployed at scale. Opponents maintain that it is unproven and has been less effective than alternatives such as solar and wind at decarbonizing the energy sector.
Habeck, a member of the environmentalist Green party, said that “we are no longer in a situation (where) we can pick and choose.”
“Putting CO2 under the ground is quite simply better than releasing it into the atmosphere,” he said. “For this reason, Germany is now working on a carbon management strategy in order to create the legislation for the use of such technologies in this year, by mid-2023.”
Data published on Wednesday by a respected environmental think tank indicated that Germany likely missed its target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions again last year, despite a big effort by the new government to expand renewable energy use.
The government has acknowledged that achieving the next big climate milestone — a reduction of emissions by 65% in 2030 compared with 1990 levels — will be a major challenge. Germany, which is home to many energy-intensive industries, aims to cut its emissions to “net zero” by 2045. | 2023-01-05T14:51:30+00:00 | qcnews.com | https://www.qcnews.com/news/science/air-and-space/ap-germany-to-draw-up-legislation-to-enable-carbon-storage/ |
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CINCINNATI (AP) — DNA technology has been used to link the rape and murder of a University of Cincinnati student more than four decades ago to a now-deceased man who authorities suspect may also have been responsible for three other murders in Ohio, prosecutors said.
Hamilton County Prosecutor Joseph Deters last week announced a posthumous indictment of Ralph Howell, who died in a 1985 auto accident, on aggravated murder and rape charges in the murder of 19-year-old Cheryl Thompson.
“I have prosecuted multiple serial killers in my time as prosecutor,” Deters said in a statement. “My office firmly believes he is another."
Thompson went missing in March 1978 after leaving her home to meet her boyfriend at a bar in Oakley, prosecutors said. About two weeks later, a state natural resources officer found her body along the bank of the Little Miami River. Authorities said she had been raped and she died of asphyxia caused by strangulation.
This year, a DNA sample taken from Thompson’s body at the time of the crime was sent to a third-party genealogy company that narrowed the search to a specific family tree that included Howell, and further investigation revealed that he had been arrested in 1983 on an abduction charge.
In that incident, Howell picked a woman up on the side of the road and offered to drive her home, then put a rope around her neck and began to strangle her, prosecutors said. She was able to escape. Court records indicate that Howell pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of unlawful restraint, a misdemeanor, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported.
Family members of Howell who submitted DNA samples were excluded as suspects in Thompson’s murder, but the tests indicated that the suspect was a close family relative. Ralph Howell's body was exhumed and a DNA sample taken that proved to be a match to the DNA found on Thompson's body, prosecutors said.
Prosecutors said Howell is suspected in the deaths of three other women killed in Hamilton and Butler counties between 1976 and 1978 that display similar circumstances:
— Charmaine Stolla, 17, was last seen in February 1978 in Cincinnati. Her body was found the following month off Old Colerain Pike.
—- Nancy Ann Theobald, 18, was last seen in November 1977 leaving the Clifton restaurant where she worked. Her body was found the day after Christmas in Butler County.
— Victoria Hincher, 24, was last seen leaving her home in October 1976. Her body was found in Butler County a week and a half later.
All three women were strangled and raped, but investigators do not have DNA from any of those killings, Deters said.
Prosecutors said Howell was employed as a delivery driver for the Cincinnati Enquirer and was an over-the-road truck driver, and “his possible victims are not necessarily limited to this geographic region.” Anyone with information about Howell or a similar unsolved homicide was asked to call investigators. | 2022-11-21T20:51:50+00:00 | daytondailynews.com | https://www.daytondailynews.com/news/ohio/prosecutor-dna-links-now-dead-man-to-1978-slaying-in-ohio/GRCXPIQCKFECHAZS6RLSFIJ6MU/ |
Which Hamilton Beach stand mixer is best?
A stand mixer is essential for any aspiring baker. Instead of whisking, mixing and kneading by hand, which takes tremendous effort and time, you just plug in your machine and let it work for you.
Hamilton Beach stand mixers are among the best, with several options and pricing tiers to suit anyone’s needs and budget. The best of these is the Hamilton Beach All-Metal 12-Speed Stand Mixer, which has the capacity and power to easily make any recipe your heart and stomach desire.
What to know before you buy a Hamilton Beach stand mixer
Capacity
Capacity refers to the size of the mixing bowl included with your Hamilton Beach stand mixer. Most have capacities of 3.5-4.5 quarts, which is big enough to feed two or three people. If you need to feed larger groups, you’d be better off with a 6- or 7-quart model, but you need to look outside Hamilton Beach — they don’t offer such a size.
Wattage
Hamilton Beach stand mixer motors typically have 300- or 400-watt motors, with more watts equaling more power. These wattages should be more than enough to make most recipes, but if you intend to mix ultra-thick batters, you may want a stronger motor in an alternate brand.
That said, the mixer’s overall quality is also important when determining mixing ability. For example, a 400-watt Hamilton Beach stand mixer is better than a cheap 600-watt stand mixer from a brand no one has heard of.
Compatible attachments
Most Hamilton Beach stand mixers include a starter set of attachments: a whisk, dough hook and flat beater. These aren’t all a stand mixer is capable of using, though. In fact, there’s a shockingly long list of possible attachments, from meat mincer to pasta maker to juicer. However, most are built to match a specific brand or model — always double-check that your prospective attachment matches your mixer.
What to look for in a quality Hamilton Beach stand mixer
Speed settings
Better Hamilton Beach stand mixers have more speed settings, as more speed settings mean a higher degree of control over your recipe. The most basic of these mixers have only six settings, while the best have 12. Some also include a visual guide, printed above the speed settings, that helps you understand which recipes require which speeds.
Splash guard
Hamilton Beach stand mixers can get aggressive at their highest speeds, and that can cause thinner doughs to go everywhere. So the best models include a splash guard that attaches to the mixing bowl.
Some splash guards effectively seal the bowl off, which makes it challenging to add ingredients without turning the mixer off and removing the guard. The best guards have special slots for adding ingredients that still keep the dough from escaping.
How much you can expect to spend on a Hamilton Beach stand mixer
Hamilton Beach stand mixers typically cost $50-$250. Basic glorified hand mixers cost around $50, while average mixers cost $100-$150. The biggest and most powerful ones cost $200-$250.
Hamilton Beach stand mixer FAQ
Are Hamilton Beach attachments and bowls dishwasher-safe?
A. Most are, yes. In fact, most bowls and attachments of any brand are dishwasher-safe. That said, always double-check your user manual before tossing them in, as you could wind up ruining your brand-new gear.
Are the included attachments and the mixing bowl replaceable?
A. Yes. Hamilton Beach offers extra bowls and mixing attachments designed to fit your model. There are also plenty of third-party options — just make sure your prospective third-party mixing bowl is designed to work with Hamilton Beach stand mixers.
Is the height of the mixing head fixed?
A. That depends on your mixer. Some let you adjust the height, while others don’t. If your plan is to make nothing but small batches, consider purchasing a small-sized stand mixer and you may not need to worry about this.
What’s the best Hamilton Beach stand mixer to buy?
Top Hamilton Beach stand mixer
Hamilton Beach All-Metal 12-Speed Stand Mixer
What you need to know: This is the perfect choice for serious bakers.
What you’ll love: It comes with three mixing attachments and a 4.5-quart mixing bowl that locks into the base, plus a splatter shield for intense mixing. It has a 400-watt motor designed to last for years. Color options are black, red and white.
What you should consider: A few consumers found it difficult to work around the splatter shield. At its higher speeds, it can move and rattle a bit.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
Top Hamilton Beach stand mixer for the money
Hamilton Beach Six-Speed Stand Mixer
What you need to know: This budget mixer is great for small households or the occasional baker.
What you’ll love: It comes with a 3.5-quart mixing bowl and three mixing attachments — a whisk, beater and dough hook. It has a 300-watt motor and a mixing head that spins and rotates for a more even mix. It has an easy-to-use dial control and an illustrated speed guide printed above the dial.
What you should consider: The position of the head can make it difficult to add ingredients mid-mix.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
Worth checking out
Hamilton Beach Seven-Speed Stand Mixer
What you need to know: It’s an excellent midrange model for those who don’t need the power of larger mixers.
What you’ll love: It comes with a 4-quart mixing bowl with a splash guard that has an opening for adding ingredients mid-mix. It also includes three mixing attachments, uses a 300-watt motor and has a handle to easily move it from counter to storage. It comes in four colors.
What you should consider: This mixer requires a good amount of counter space, so those in small apartments may want to look elsewhere.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon, Home Depot and Kohl’s
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AUSTIN (KXAN) — Cody Longo, an actor who appeared on “Days of Our Lives,” has died, according to his family and talent representative. He was 34.
A family member told TMZ that Longo’s body was found Wednesday at a residence in Austin, Texas, after his wife asked police to go to the home for a wellness check. Longo’s wife was working at a dance studio at the time, and became concerned when she couldn’t reach her husband by phone, according to TMZ’s source.
Alex Gittelson, a talent manager who represented Longo, indicated that Longo died in his sleep. He also organized a GoFundMe fundraiser to help cover Longo’s funeral costs.
“Devastated beyond words at the tragic loss of my dear friend and client, Cody Longo,” wrote Gittelson on Twitter. “My heart breaks for his beautiful family. You will be missed, brother.”
In a statement provided to People, Longo’s wife Stephanie Longo mourned the loss of her husband, with whom she shared three children.
“The kids and I are shattered and beyond devastated,” she wrote, in part. “He was the best dad and best father.”
The official cause of Longo’s death has not been released.
Longo’s credits include an eight-episode arc on “Days of Our Lives” in 2011, as well as a starring role in the 2012 Nick at Night and TeenNick series “Hollywood Heights,” according to IMDb. | 2023-02-12T09:00:38+00:00 | wnct.com | https://www.wnct.com/entertainment-news/days-of-our-lives-actor-cody-longo-dead-at-34-rep-confirms/ |
(The Hill) — Former House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said on Thursday that former President Donald Trump is a “proven loser” after a string of Republican election losses in recent years.
“He’s fading fast,” Ryan told CNN’s Jake Tapper on Thursday. “He is a proven loser. He cost us the House in ’18, he cost us the White House in ’20, he cost us the Senate again and again.”
Ryan said he does not believe Trump will get the party nomination as Republicans begin to focus more on issues like fiscal responsibility and less on personalities.
“I think we are moving past Trump,” he added. “I really think that’s the case. I can’t imagine him getting the nomination, frankly.”
Trump is the only prominent Republican to officially launch a 2024 presidential campaign; however, a number of prominent GOP figures are considering White House runs.
Ryan has been a vocal critic of the former president in recent months. In October, he said Trump’s “unelectability will be palpable” by the 2024 presidential election, again predicting that Republicans would choose a different nominee.
Ryan is now vice chairman of Teneo, a public relations and CEO advisory firm, after he decided not to run for reelection in 2018.
Ryan also said the chaotic House Speakership election, despite requiring multiple ballots for the first time in decades, demonstrated that Republicans are ready to return to being the party of limited government and fiscal responsibility.
Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) made major concessions to a group of Republican holdouts, including promising to cap discretionary spending at fiscal 2022 levels.
“I want to be popular, but principled and with policies that solve problems,” Ryan said of his party. “Fiscal conservatism was a theme that you saw behind all those tactics, and that’s a good thing.” | 2023-01-13T16:49:00+00:00 | valleycentral.com | https://www.valleycentral.com/news/national-news/paul-ryan-trump-is-a-proven-loser/ |
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LONDON (AP) — Microsoft and British regulators won more time from a court Monday as the U.S. tech company uses a rare second chance to overcome opposition to its $69 billion bid for video game maker Activision Blizzard.
Judge Marcus Smith conditionally approved a joint request from Microsoft and the Competition and Markets Authority to delay the appeal that the company set in motion after the CMA initially rejected the deal. The regulator later pushed back its final decision so it can consider Microsoft’s argument that new developments mean its blockbuster purchase of the Call of Duty game maker should go through.
The deal has already won approval in the European Union and a slew of countries but has faced opposition from antitrust regulators in Britain and the United States.
The U.K. blocked the deal on concerns that it would stifle competition in the small but fast-growing cloud gaming market. It also faced stiff resistance from rival Sony, which makes the PlayStation console that is a rival to Microsoft’s Xbox game system.
But those positions appeared to be softening. Microsoft said Sunday it signed a 10-year agreement with Sony to keep the popular Call of Duty video game series on the PlayStation if the merger goes through.
Activision’s Call of Duty series of games has been a flashpoint in the merger battle fuelled by Sony’s fears it would lose access to the title.
As it tried to win over regulators around the world, Microsoft has been signing provisional agreements to license Activision titles like Call of Duty to Nintendo and some cloud gaming providers. Sony had been holding out until now.
The watchdog said last week that it’s giving itself six extra weeks to consider Microsoft’s submission outlining new developments and “special reasons” why the deal should be approved.
Smith said his ruling was conditional based on the CMA providing written explanations to address some points he raised. He said it would also help if Microsoft provided a statement “explaning the significance of the Sony transaction.”
The judge acknowledged the need to come up with a speedy decision before Tuesday, which marks an important deadline for the deal. Both Microsoft and Activision had agreed that either party could walk away from the planned merger if it hasn’t closed by then, triggering Microsoft to potentially have to pay a $3 billion breakup fee unless both sides decided to renegotiate.
“It is obviously clear that this is an urgent matter which requires an urgent if conditional outcome,” Smith said.
Both sides had asked the Competition Appeal Tribunal for the delay shortly after a court in the U.S. thwarted the Federal Trade Commission’s efforts to stop the acquisition.
Smith said he wanted to make sure that the FTC’s failure to block the deal played no part in the CMA’s reasoning for requesting a delay to give Microsoft another chance.
The CMA’s attorney, David Bailey, said it was a “coincidence in timing” at least “so far as the CMA is concerned” that the FTC lost its fight to block the deal in the U.S. He said the CMA was squarely focused on the public interest and there’s a realistic chance that a restructured transaction could resolve its concerns.
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Matt O’Brien in Providence, Rhode Island contributed to this report. | 2023-07-17T20:43:09+00:00 | kfor.com | https://kfor.com/news/technology-news/ap-technology/ap-microsoft-and-uk-regulators-want-more-time-to-work-on-69-billion-activision-deal/ |
- ATG-101 is a novel PD-L1/4-1BB bispecific antibody. It is Antengene's first in-house developed molecule with global rights.
- ATG-101 demonstrates potent in vivo efficacy in anti-PD-1/PD-L1 resistant mouse tumor models.
SHANGHAI and HONG KONG, Aug. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Antengene Corporation Limited ("Antengene" SEHK: 6996.HK), a leading innovative, commercial-stage global biopharmaceutical company dedicated to discovering, developing and commercializing first-in-class and/or best-in-class therapeutics in hematology and oncology, today announced that the first patient has been dosed in the Phase I PROBE-CN trial to evaluate ATG-101 as a monotherapy in patients with advanced/metastatic solid tumors or B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma (B-NHL) in China.
Shanghai East Hospital of Tongji University is the lead site for the study, which will be conducted at four centers across China. This open-label, multicenter Phase I study is designed to assess the safety and tolerability of intravenously administered ATG-101 monotherapy in patients with advanced/metastatic solid tumors and B-NHL. The study will be conducted in two parts (dose-escalation and a dose-expansion).
ATG-101 is a novel PD-L1/4-1BB bispecific antibody that was designed to block the binding of immunosuppressive PD-1/PD-L1 and conditionally induce 4-1BB stimulation, thus activating anti-tumor immune effectors, while delivering enhanced anti-tumor activity, with an improved safety profile. In preclinical studies, ATG-101 demonstrated significant anti-tumor activity in animal models of resistant tumors as well as those that progressed on anti-PD-1/L1 treatment. Furthermore, ATG-101 has also shown an excellent safety profile in Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) toxicology studies.
"Since many patients with advanced cancer are resistant to existing chemotherapy, targeted drugs, and monoclonal antibodies or relapse in a short time after receiving treatment, there is an urgent need for innovative therapies that can improve treatment options. Increasing evidence suggests that bispecific antibodies will become a critical component of cancer therapy. We are excited to have the opportunity to collaborate with a number of prominent investigators in China to conduct the first clinical study of ATG-101, a novel PD-L1/4-1BB bispecific antibody," said Professor Ye Guo, Deputy Director of Medical Oncology at Shanghai East Hospital of Tongji University, Director of the hospital's center for Phase I trials, and principal investigator of the study. "ATG-101 has a high affinity for PD-L1 and can achieve conditional activation of 4-1BB agonist, which is expected to bring a lower risk of systemic toxicity, particularly the hepatotoxicity that has been seen with previous agonists of 4-1BB. We hope that ATG-101 will demonstrate efficacy and safety, and bring a new treatment option to patients with resistant or relapsed cancers."
"The development of novel therapies to improve and advance the care of patients with resistant, relapsed, or advanced cancers is central to Antengene's mission. Compounds that combine the well-established efficacy of inhibition of the PD-1/PD-L1 axis with activation of 4-1BB represent a fascinating opportunity in oncology. In our view, ATG-101's ability to activate exhausted T-cells and render 'cold tumors' hot has the potential to open the door to wide applicability in resistant/relapsed diseases. These qualities,together with a robust preclinical data package, position ATG-101 to be a potentially best-in-class molecule." said Dr. Kevin Lynch, Antengene's Chief Medical Officer.
About ATG-101
ATG-101 is a novel PD-L1/4-1BB bi-specific antibody being developed for the treatment of advanced/metastatic solid tumors and B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma (B-NHL). ATG-101 was designed to activate anti-tumor immune effectors by forming a cell-antibody-cell trimer to simultaneously block the binding of PD-L1/PD-1 and induce 4-1BB stimulation. In PD-L1 over-expressing cancer cells, ATG-101 has shown potent PD-L1 crosslinking-dependent 4-1BB agonist activity, with the potential for delivery of enhanced therapeutic efficacy whilst mitigating the risk of hepatoxicity.
Data presented at the Annual Meeting of Society for Immunotherapy in Cancer (SITC) in 2021 showed that ATG-101 was active in anti-PD-L1 resistant and relapsed tumor models. ATG-101's unique safety and efficacy properties make it a promising potential therapy for solid tumors and hematological cancers. To date, ATG-101 has received regulatory clearances in Australia, U.S., and China to enter a Phase I clinical study for the treatment of advanced/metastatic solid tumors and NHL. The study has already been initiated in Australia and China and is in the process of initiation in the U.S.
About Antengene
Antengene Corporation Limited ("Antengene", SEHK: 6996.HK) is a leading commercial-stage R&D-driven global biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development, manufacturing and commercialization of innovative first-in-class/best-in-class therapeutics for the treatment of hematologic malignancies and solid tumors, in realizing its vision of "Treating Patients Beyond Borders".
Since 2017, Antengene has built a broad and expanding pipeline of 15 clinical and preclinical assets, of which 10 are global rights assets, and 5 came with rights for Asia Pacific markets including the Greater China region. To date, Antengene has obtained 24 investigational new drug (IND) approvals in the U.S. and Asia, and submitted 6 new drug applications (NDAs) in multiple Asia Pacific markets, with the NDA for XPOVIO® (selinexor) already approved in mainland China, South Korea, Singapore and Australia.
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LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) — Board members picked by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to oversee the governance of Walt Disney World said Wednesday that their Disney-controlled predecessors pulled a fast one on them by passing restrictive covenants that strip the new board of many of its powers.
The current supervisors of the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District said at a meeting that their predecessors last month signed a development agreement with the company that gave Disney maximum developmental power over the theme park resort’s 27,000 acres in central Florida.
The five supervisors were appointed by the Republican governor to the board after the Florida Legislature overhauled Disney’s government in retaliation for the entertainment giant publicly opposing so-called “Don’t Say Gay” legislation that bars instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in kindergarten through third grade, as well as lessons deemed not age-appropriate.
In taking on Disney, DeSantis furthered his reputation as a culture warrior willing to battle perceived political enemies and wield the power of state government to accomplish political goals, a strategy that is expected to continue ahead of his potential White House run.
The new supervisors replaced a board that had been controlled by Disney during the previous 55 years that the government operated as the Reedy Creek Improvement District. The new board members held their first meeting earlier this month and said they found out about the agreement after their appointments.
“We’re going to have to deal with it and correct it,” board member Brian Aungst said Wednesday. “It’s a subversion of the will of the voters and the Legislature and the governor. It completely circumvents the authority of this board to govern.”
Under the terms of the agreement, the district is prohibited from using the name “Disney” or any symbols associated with the theme park resort without the company’s permission, nor can it use the likeness of Mickey Mouse, other Disney characters or other intellectual property in any manner. The company can sue for damages for any violations, and the agreement is in effect until perpetuity, according to the declaration.
If the agreement is deemed to violate rules against perpetuity, it will be in effect until 21 years after the death of the last survivor of the descendants of England’s King Charles III, the declaration said.
In a statement, Disney said all agreements were above board and took place in public.
“All agreements signed between Disney and the District were appropriate, and were discussed and approved in open, noticed public forums in compliance with Florida’s Government in the Sunshine law,” the statement said.
Separately, Disney World service workers on Wednesday voted to accept a union contract offer that raises the starting minimum wage to $18 an hour by the end of the year.
“Our cast members have always been at the heart of the Walt Disney World experience, and we are thrilled that, with the support of the union, they have overwhelmingly approved this new five-year agreement that significantly increases wages, alongside our leading benefits program that includes affordable medical coverage and more,” Walt Disney World Resort president Jeff Vahle said in a statement. “Frontline employees also have access to 100 percent paid tuition for higher education through the Disney Aspire program.”
The agreement covers around 45,000 service workers at the Disney theme park resort, including costumed performers who perform as Mickey Mouse and other Disney characters, bus drivers, culinary workers, lifeguards, theatrical workers and hotel housekeepers.
Workers will see their hourly wages rise between $5.50 and $8.60 an hour by the end of the five-year contract, according to union leaders.
A contract approved five years ago made Disney the first major employer in central Florida to agree to a minimum hourly wage of $15, setting the trend for other workers in the region dominated by hospitality jobs. | 2023-03-30T10:53:07+00:00 | siouxlandproud.com | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/entertainment-news/desantis-board-says-disney-stripped-them-of-power/ |
WAILUKU, Hawaii (AP) — The U.S. Space Force said a power surge during a lightning storm likely caused a mechanical issue that allowed about 700 gallons (2,750 liters) of diesel fuel to spill last week at the environmentally sensitive and culturally important summit of Haleakala mountain on Hawaii’s Maui Island.
Brig. Gen. Anthony Mastalir, the commander of the U.S. Space Forces Indo-Pacific, said a team will take measurements to better understand the severity of the contamination. Mastalir said it’s impossible to know right now how far the diesel fuel seeped into the ground.
The spill occurred at the Maui Space Surveillance Complex at the summit of Haleakala, 10,023 feet (3,055 meters) above sea level. The site hosts hosts the military’s largest optical telescope, which tracks satellites.
A pump that supplies fuel to a backup generator from a storage tank failed to shut off during a lightning storm Jan. 29, Mastalir said at a news conference Monday, The Maui News reported. An alarm should have gone off to notify officials of a potential overflow, but didn’t.
The generator is still being used, but the transfer pump is being operated manually, Mastalir said.
A remediation team will initially clean 200 cubic yards (153 cubic meters) around the generator, to a depth of about 6 feet (1.83 meters). The team will decide what to do next after taking measurements to better understand the level of contamination, Malastir said.
“However, industry standard remediation processes and protocols are not sufficient for this sacred ground,” Malastir said. “We have to go above and beyond what would otherwise be deemed acceptable, and that is what we are going to do.”
On Monday, the spill site was surrounded by sheets of black tarp held down by wooden pallets and concrete blocks.
This is the latest U.S. military fuel spill that has upset many on the islands. In 2021, the Navy spilled thousands of gallons of jet fuel into a drinking water well, sickening thousands of people in and around Pearl Harbor. Honolulu’s water utility is concerned that spill from the Navy’s Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility may contaminate another drinking water well that supplies water to 400,000 people in the city.
The Air Force’s lease for land at Haleakala’s summit expires in 2031. Some Native Hawaiian groups have called for the state not to renew it. When asked to respond to that, Mastalir said: “We are going to continue to work to rebuild the trust with all Hawaiians, with these Native Hawaiians and their organizations, so that we, given the privilege to operate here, will do so safely and respectfully.”
Ki’ope Raymond, president of Kilakila ’O Haleakala, which advocates for the protection of Haleakala’s summit, said his group has disagreed in the past that the military should even be on the mountain, but while they are there, they have to increase their vigilance.
“People have pointed to Red Hill and the other types of spills that have occurred recently, and for this to continue to happen, and to happen in a sacred space, is really difficult, it’s just so difficult to take,” Raymond said.
The mountain’s summit is part of Haleakala National Park, but the space surveillance complex is part of Haleakala High Altitude Observatory and not the park. Red soil and lava rocks dominate the high-altitude landscape, which is also home to endangered and threatened species like the nene, the Hawaiian goose and the Hawaiian petrel. | 2023-02-08T22:43:23+00:00 | wnct.com | https://www.wnct.com/hooked-on-science/ap-science/ap-space-force-vows-above-and-beyond-cleanup-of-maui-spill/ |
Industry Leader Augments Health Care Firm's Medical Products Expertise
CHICAGO, July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Water Street Healthcare Partners, a strategic investor focused exclusively on the health care industry, announced today that Sharon M. Luboff has joined the firm as an executive advisor. Highly regarded for leading premier businesses at C.R. Bard and Baxter Healthcare, Ms. Luboff will work with Water Street to identify opportunities to partner with founders, executives and corporations interested in growing their medical products companies.
"I'm excited to contribute to Water Street's strategy focused on building businesses that are meaningfully contributing to the health care industry. I've worked with members of their team throughout my career. They are seasoned executives who thoughtfully collaborate with leadership teams to develop strategies designed to accelerate growth and build greater long-term value," said Ms. Luboff.
In a career spanning nearly 40 years in the medical products industry, Ms. Luboff is known for creating and implementing customer-focused strategies that drive business results. As an executive at medical technology leader C.R. Bard, Ms. Luboff expanded the company's capabilities into biosurgery, homecare and intensive care. She also championed 20+ acquisitions and a new international strategy to increase sales and revenue growth. Previously, Ms. Luboff spearheaded multiple growth strategies at Baxter Healthcare, where she was promoted to roles of increasing responsibility, culminating in a position with the company's senior management team.
"Sharon possesses deep expertise in business development and operations that has enabled her to grow a diverse range of medical products businesses consistently and successfully over the years. Her industry knowledge and strategic approach are an excellent fit with Water Street and will further our goal of building market-leading companies in key health care sectors," said Tim Dugan, managing partner, Water Street.
Water Street has completed nearly 150 investments and strategic acquisitions to build 38 market-leading healthcare companies in the past decade. The firm is actively pursuing opportunities to grow companies in three key health care sectors: health care services, medical products and diagnostics, and pharmaceuticals and life sciences.
Water Street is a strategic investor focused exclusively on health care. The firm has a strong record of building market-leading companies across key growth sectors in health care. It has worked with some of the world's leading companies on its investments, including Humana, Johnson & Johnson, Medtronic and Walgreen Co. Water Street's team is comprised of industry executives and investment professionals with decades of experience investing in and operating global health care businesses. The firm is headquartered in Chicago. For more information about Water Street, visit waterstreet.com.
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By KRISHAN FRANCIS
Associated Press
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — A visiting U.S. diplomat on Sunday urged Sri Lankan authorities to tackle corruption and introduce governance reforms alongside efforts to uplift the country’s economy as a way out of its worst crisis in recent memory.
USAID Administrator Samantha Power told reporters that such moves will increase international and local trust in the government’s intentions.
“Assistance alone would not put an end to this country’s woes,” Power said. “I stressed to the Sri Lankan president in my meeting earlier today that political reforms and political accountability must go hand in hand with economic reforms and economic accountability.”
She said that international investor confidence will increase as the government tackles corruption and proceeds with long sought governance reforms. “As citizens see the government visibly following through on the commitment to bring about meaningful change, that in turn increases societal support for the tough economic reforms ahead,” she said.
During her two-day visit, Power announced a total of $60 million in aid to Sri Lanka. After meetings with farmers’ representatives at a rice field in Ja-Ela, outside of the capital Colombo on Saturday, she announced $40 million to buy agrochemicals in time for the next cultivation season.
Agricultural yields dropped by more than half for the past two cultivation seasons because authorities had banned the imports of chemical fertilizers ostensibly to promote organic farming. She said that according to the World Food Program, more than 6 million people — nearly 30% of Sri Lanka’s population — are currently facing food insecurity and require humanitarian assistance.
On Sunday, she said an additional $20 million will be given to provide emergency humanitarian assistance to vulnerable families.
Sri Lanka has faced its worst crisis after it defaulted on foreign loans, causing shortages of essentials like fuel, medicines and some food items.
It has reached a preliminary agreement with the International Monetary Fund for a $2.9 billion package to be disbursed over four years. However, the program hinges on Sri Lanka’s international creditors giving assurances on loan restructuring. Sri Lanka’s total foreign debt is more than $51 billion of which $28 billion must be repaid by 2027.
Power said that the U.S. stands ready to assist with debt restructuring and reiterated that it is imperative that China, one of the island nation’s bigger creditors, cooperate in this endeavor.
Infrastructure like a seaport, airport and a network of highways built with Chinese funding but did not earn revenue and are partly blamed for the country’s woes.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Prosecutors in the penalty trial of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz will begin their rebuttal case Tuesday, challenging his attorneys’ contention that he murdered 17 people because his birth mother abused alcohol during pregnancy, a condition they say went untreated.
Prosecutor Mike Satz’s team is expected to call experts who will testify Cruz has antisocial personality disorder — in lay terms, he’s a sociopath — and fully responsible for his Feb. 14, 2018, attack at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
According to the National Institutes of Health, people with antisocial personality disorder commit “exploitive, delinquent and criminal behavior with no remorse.” They usually have no regard for others, don’t follow the law, can’t sustain consistent relationships or employment and use manipulation for personal gain, the NIH says.
Prosecutors will want to reemphasize Cruz “understood exactly” what he was doing during the massacre and could “formulate and carry out a plan,” said David S. Weinstein, a Miami defense attorney and former prosecutor.
Robert Jarvis, a professor at Nova Southeastern University’s law school, said prosecution experts will also likely testify that even if Cruz’s brain was damaged by his birth mother’s drinking, that’s true of thousands of other Americans and they don’t commit mass murder.
“If they did, we would be having mass murders on an unprecedented scale,” he said.
Cruz, who turned 24 on Saturday, pleaded guilty last October to murdering 14 Stoneman Douglas students and three staff members. The seven-man, five-woman jury will decide whether he is sentenced to death or life without parole, weighing aggravating factors presented by prosecutors against the defense’s mitigating circumstances. A juror could also vote for life out of mercy for Cruz. For the former Stoneman Douglas student to receive a death sentence, the jury must unanimously agree.
Satz’s team told Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer their presentation could take two weeks, but Jarvis and Weinstein question whether that’s too much for a jury that began hearing evidence in July.
Jurors may be eager to deliberate, so Satz should keep the rebuttal case focused and to the point, they said.
“Don’t get greedy,” Weinstein said.
Jarvis said lawyers too often think that if they just add more witnesses and evidence, that makes their case stronger. But in a trial like Cruz’s where the decision isn’t whether he’s guilty but what sentence he deserves, Jarvis believes that by rebuttal each juror knows his or her vote. Any reconsideration won’t come until deliberations.
“If you do a long rebuttal, that makes jurors think, ‘Maybe the defense really did score some points that I didn’t realize,’” Jarvis said.
Satz kept his main case simple, focusing on Cruz’s eight months of planning, the seven minutes he stalked the halls of a three-story classroom building, firing 140 shots with an AR-15-style semiautomatic rifle, and his escape.
He played security videos of the shooting and showed gruesome crime scene and autopsy photos.Teachers and students testified about watching others die. He took the jury to the fenced-off building, which remains blood-stained and bullet-pocked. Parents and spouses gave tearful and angry statements about their loss.
Cruz’s attorneys never questioned the horror he inflicted, but focused on their belief that his birth mother’s heavy drinking during pregnancy left him with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder. Their experts said his bizarre, troubling and sometimes violent behavior starting at age 2 was misdiagnosed as attention-deficit/ hyperactivity disorder, meaning he never got the proper treatment. That left his widowed adoptive mother overwhelmed, they said.
The defense cut their case short, calling only about 25 of the 80 witnesses they said would testify. They never brought up Cruz’s high school years or called his younger half-brother, Zachary, whom they accused of bullying.
That will limit what the prosecution can raise in rebuttal — any evidence or testimony must have some tie to what the defense presented.
Prosecutors have said they plan to show racist slurs Cruz wrote on his backpack and online and the swastikas drawn on the gun he used and the boots he wore. Although there is no contention that the attack was racially motivated, prosecutors argue the words and Nazi symbols show his lack of regard for others.
Judge Scherer rejected an attempt by Cruz’s attorneys to block the swastikas’ presentation, which they argued is unnecessarily provocative. His attorneys also complained that, despite pretrial motions they filed, Scherer did not rule they were admissible until after jury selection. That meant they couldn’t ask prospective panelists whether seeing swastikas would prejudice their verdict.
Jarvis and Weinstein said the prosecution must be careful about what rebuttal evidence they present because if they go too far they could risk an appellate court overturning a death sentence, meaning the case would have to be retried.
“As a prosecutor, there comes a point in every trial where the longer you’re up there, you’re only hurting yourself,” Jarvis said. “Have we reached that point in this trial? I think we have.” | 2022-09-26T00:07:08+00:00 | qcnews.com | https://www.qcnews.com/news/national-news/ap-prosecutors-to-begin-florida-school-shooter-trial-rebuttal/ |
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CHENNAI, India (AP) — The former computer professional — now a very specialized type of artist — locked his gaze on the deity before him.
On a recent afternoon, 33-year-old S. Goutham was perched on a ladder at the altar of the goddess Durga at the Anantha Padmanabha Swamy Temple in Chennai, India. Goutham — his hand moving steadily — was pleating a green silk sari to adorn the deity.
“You cannot get tense when you are doing this work,” he says. “You can’t do this if you are not patient. You need to become one with her.”
A computer science graduate, Goutham quit his job nearly a decade ago to pursue his calling. He has since followed in the footsteps of his ancestors as a fifth-generation decorator of temple deities.
In Hindu temples, idols are mostly made of materials such as black granite, white marble or five-metal alloys that have sacred significance. These deities are worshipped as physical, tangible representations of god (Brahman) who is believed to be infinite, omnipresent and beyond comprehension. Worship in a Hindu temple includes bathing these deities in milk, decorating them with colorful clothes, flowers, perfumes such as sandalwood, jewelry, and even weapons such as swords, clubs and tridents. Oil lamps are lit at the altar, and sacred chants and foods are offered to the gods.
Decorating the deities is a millennia-old practice that is described in the Hindu epic Ramayana, and Goutham has been learning the art since he was a toddler. He crafted his first formal decoration when he was 13 — at the very altar where he stood 20 years later on a day in November.
He has done thousands of decorations, ranging from relatively simple ones that take an hour or two to complete, to others that are more complex and take several days.
Goutham said he became interested in decorating deities as a child because of his father.
“When you are little, your father is your hero,” he said. “I wanted to be just like him.”
The first lesson Goutham got from his dad was about the weapons each god would hold. He heard stories about the power of each weapon and how gods would wield them.
“The personality of the deity and the story of the god or goddess could change depending on their weapons, the clothes they wear, the expression on their face or the position in which they are sitting or standing,” he said.
When he sets out to decorate a deity, Goutham says he has a concept of what to do, but doesn’t start out with a sketch. He goes step by step — placing the deity's hands, feet and weapons. Then, he moves on to the clothes and jewelry. Gradually, the god's form manifests.
There are rules about the types of materials that can be used on deities.
“The human body is made up of earth, water, fire, air and space, and everything you see naturally occurring on Earth is made of these elements,” Goutham said. “To show this, we decorate deities using things that occur in nature and are a representation of these elements, like copper, cloth, coconut fibers and so on.”
He says decorating a deity combines elements from art, dance and yoga, in terms of the hand gestures and postures the deities assume. Man-made materials such as plastic are prohibited. Goutham says he uses little pins to hold fabric together, but makes sure the pins don’t directly touch the idol.
He sources the deities’ arms and legs, mostly made from copper or brass, as well as the weapons and jewelry, from artisans.
He has also created an app and website for those who wish to learn more about this art and dreams of establishing an institution to train artists who can maintain the sacred tradition. While most deity decorators are men, he sees no reason why women cannot learn and practice it.
“Everyone is equal under god,” he said.
Storytelling is an important part of what he does. One of his favorite installations depicts the friendship between Lord Krishna, an incarnation of Vishnu, and Kuchela.
“It shows Krishna washing the feet of Kuchela, a poor man, conveying the message that humility is a virtue — whether you are a human being or god,” Goutham said.
The term “idol worship” may have negative connotations in some faiths. But for Hindus, deities -- which are kept in temples, homes, shops and offices -- serve as focal points “for to us channel our devotions, our actions and serve as a reminder of all the positive values that are associated with those deities,” said Suhag Shukla, executive director of the Hindu American Foundation.
Shukla says this form of worship is a way for her to connect with her ancestors.
“As a second-generation Hindu American, I didn’t grow up with all these things around me where I could absorb through osmosis,” she said. “But just knowing that I’m part of a tradition that has been passed down from generation to generation is personally powerful for me.”
In U.S. Hindu temples, community members come together to help create the costumes for the deities, and it is an act of devotion, Shukla said.
“No one has to sit there and embroider a skirt or sari for a goddess, but they do it as a display of love,” she said. “It’s humbling and empowering.”
Goutham says he doesn’t view his job as a vocation.
“You can call it service because it brings pure joy to so many and plays a role in our spiritual awakening,” he said. “But in my view, it’s much more than that. It has the power to transform people.”
Goutham has decorated deities in temples abroad as he has in tiny Indian villages and little-known temples. He remembers stopping once at a village tea shop and hearing the locals praise his decoration of their temple deity.
“It really warmed my heart,” he said.
As Goutham placed a crown and garland on the deity at the temple in Chennai, neighbor Sucharithra Surendrababu watched awestruck, snapping images of the decorated goddess on her cell phone.
“I love seeing mother Durga whether or not she is decorated,” she said. “But, when I do see her all decked up and looking gorgeous, it makes me so happy. It’s uplifting and empowering."
There are some decorations which bring tears even to the artist’s eyes.
“It’s not just something that is pretty to look at,” Goutham said. “It’s about love and faith. When you touch the deities, clothe them and decorate them, you think of them as your friends or parents. You need skill and vision to do this. But above all, it takes heart.”
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A disabled veteran is accusing freshman Republican Congressman George Santos of fraud over a fundraising effort for the vet’s sick dog. Santos has sparked controversy after he made false claims about his background, including his heritage, his education, and his professional career.
Disabled veteran Richard Osthoff says in 2016, Santos promised he could raise money for surgery to remove a tumor from Osthoff’s service dog. Osthoff says the online fundraiser Santos set up raised three-thousand dollars, but Santos disappeared with the money. Osthoff’s dog died the following year. | 2023-01-18T17:29:20+00:00 | kurv.com | https://www.kurv.com/veteran-accuses-rep-santos-of-taking-charity-funds-for-dog/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=veteran-accuses-rep-santos-of-taking-charity-funds-for-dog |
NEW YORK -- They say the sky is the limit, but for Patricia Banks-Edmiston, that's only if you're willing to fight for it.
As a pioneering Black flight attendant in the United States, Edmiston blazed a path that continues to elevate generation after generation. But being the first isn't always easy.
To hear Edmiston tell it, the following words were what sparked the match for her trailblazing path: "They don't hire Negroes."
"I was in college and I happened to look at an article in a fashion magazine about Grace Downs Air Career School, and I got this feeling, 'Gee, it would be nice to be able to fly around,'" Edmiston said to Sandra Bookman on "Here & Now."
The thought of flying around soon became a dream worth pursuing, as Edmiston later applied and was accepted at Grace Downs. But it wasn't long before she noticed that high marks would take her but so far.
"I was interviewed by Mohawk (Airlines), TWA (Trans World Airlines) and Capital Airlines - and I got no results," she said. "So one of the chief stewardesses mentioned to me one day outside, she said, 'I hate to see you go through this, but they don't hire Negroes.'"
Using the adversity as fuel, Edmiston decided it was "time to do something."
Having endured a great deal of racism in her time, Edmiston refused to let it silence her voice and seize control of her story. She spoke with a family friend, who introduced her to Adam Clayton Powell Jr., who in turn led her to filing a complaint with the New York State Commission Against Discrimination.
After filing in 1956, the court ruled in her favor in 1960 and ordered Capital Airlines to hire her within 30 days or it would go the Supreme Court. Shortly after, Edmiston received a call from the president of Capital Airlines welcoming her to the team.
But before that fateful call, Edmiston's fight had already opened doors to other women in flight: Ruth Carol Taylor was hired as the first Black flight attendant, working for Mohawk Airlines.
When asked about what it felt like to fight the fight, Edminston described it as something she needed to do.
"Having racism all of my life, in one aspect or another, I had to," she said. "This sort of put the icing on the cake that racism existed here, and the only way you find out about it, it's so hidden, is if a situation like this: you apply as a Black person for a job, and you find out you're not wanted because you're Black."
Edmiston is a special guest in this installment of "Here & Now."
"Here & Now" is a community affairs program from WABC-TV New York. | 2023-04-05T20:45:07+00:00 | abc30.com | https://abc30.com/patricia-banks-edmiston-womens-history-month-first-black-flight-stewardess-here-and-now/13030076/ |
Event to feature discussions on the planned development pathway for onvansertib in KRAS-mutated metastatic colorectal cancer and updates on other development programs
Event to take place at 4:30 PM ET on Monday, September 12, 2022
SAN DIEGO, Aug. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cardiff Oncology, Inc. (Nasdaq: CRDF), a clinical-stage biotechnology company leveraging PLK1 inhibition to develop novel therapies across a range of cancers, today announced that it will host a webcast and conference call to provide a clinical and corporate update on Monday, September 12, 2022. The event will feature discussions on the planned development pathway for onvansertib in KRAS-mutated metastatic colorectal cancer and updates on other development programs. In addition, company management will provide data updates from ongoing clinical trials.
Details on the conference call and webcast can be found below.
A replay of the webcast will be available by visiting the "Events" section of the Cardiff Oncology website after its conclusion.
Cardiff Oncology management will also participate in two upcoming investor conferences in New York.
- The Baird Global Healthcare Conference on September 13th
- The H.C. Wainwright 24th Annual Global Investment Conference on September 14th.
Conference details will be made available in the coming weeks.
Cardiff Oncology is a clinical-stage biotechnology company leveraging PLK1 inhibition to develop novel therapies across a range of cancers. Our lead asset is onvansertib, a PLK1 inhibitor we are evaluating in combination with standard-of-care (SOC) therapeutics in clinical programs targeting indications such as KRAS-mutated metastatic colorectal cancer, metastatic pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, and metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer. These programs and our broader development strategy are designed to target tumor vulnerabilities in order to overcome treatment resistance and deliver superior clinical benefit compared to the SOC. For more information, please visit https://www.cardiffoncology.com.
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858-952-7670
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212-915-2569
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NEW YORK, July 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of securities of SentinelOne, Inc. (NYSE: S) between June 1, 2022 and June 1, 2023, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important August 7, 2023 lead plaintiff deadline.
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GRAND RAPIDS, MI -- A man died after falling from a third-floor balcony at a Grand Rapids senior living center, a spokesperson for the center said.
Grand Rapids police confirmed the fatality.
Representatives for Baldwin House Senior Living, 2619 Kalamazoo Ave. SE, said a caregiver was visiting with residents in a third-floor apartment about 10 a.m. Thursday, March 2.
He fell from the balcony and died from the injuries.
After the fall, Baldwin House staff immediately called 911.
Grand Rapids police said the death is under investigation but, from a preliminary review, there is no indication of foul play.
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By RALPH D. RUSSO
AP College Football Writer
GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Max Duggan accounted for four touchdowns, TCU returned two interceptions for scores and the third-ranked Horned Frogs withstood a frenetic second-half surge by No. 2 Michigan to win the Fiesta Bowl 51-45 on Saturday night and advance to the College Football Playoff national championship.
TCU (13-1), the most unlikely team ever reach the four-team playoff in its nine-year history, has one more game left in its improbable season and it will come against either No. 1 Georgia or No. 4 Ohio State on Jan. 9 at Sofi Stadium in Inglewood, California.
Coming off a losing 2021 season and picked to finish seventh in the Big 12 in Sonny Dykes’ first year as coach, the Horned Frogs will try to win the program’s first national championship since 1938.
Duggan and the Frogs will no doubt be underdogs — again. That didn’t matter much against Michigan (13-1) as they took it to the big, bad Big Ten champions and turned the Fiesta Bowl into circa-2010, Big 12-style scorefest.
It was the highest scoring Fiesta Bowl ever and the second-highest scoring CFP game behind Georgia’s 54-48 Rose Bowl victory against Oklahoma on Jan. 1, 2018.
This one was 34-16 with 2:46 left in the third quarter and the Hypnotoads, a nickname borrowed for the animated TV show “Futurama,” and their purple-clad fans could sense their wild ride wasn’t over.
Of course, nothing has come easy for these Frogs all year. During their unbeaten regular season, they won seven straight games by 10 points or fewer.
What followed was five touchdown drives — with a TCU turnover tucked in between — each taking less than a minute.
Roman Wilson’s 18-yard touchdown run on a reverse and a 2-point conversion pulled Michigan within 41-38 with 14:13 left in the fourth quarter.
Back came the Frogs, unleashing their best weapon. Future first-round draft pick Quentin Johnston took a short crosser from Duggan and turned it up the sideline for a 76-yard score that put the Frogs up 10.
TCU finally got a stop on Michigan’s next possession and turned it into a 33-yard field goal by Griffin Kell to go up 51-38 with 10:02 left.
After the Frogs and Wolverines combined for 62 points in 20 second-half minutes, the pace was throttled back. But Michigan cut the lead to six with 3:14 left on J.J. McCarthy’s 5-yard TD pass to Wilson.
TCU couldn’t ice it and Michigan got one more shot, starting from its 25 with 52 seconds left — but couldn’t get first first down.
Before TCU could line up in victory formation, there was an officials’ review for targeting on the Frogs. What was another minute or so of drama in a season filled it for TCU?
The play was clean. Duggan, the Heisman Trophy runner-up, took one last snap and a knee and the exhausted Frogs rushed the field and celebrated under cloud of purple and white confetti.
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Kyle Farmer Player Prop Bets: Twins vs. Blue Jays - May 28
Published: May. 28, 2023 at 5:24 AM CDT|Updated: 40 minutes ago
Kyle Farmer -- batting .270 with a home run, three walks and five RBI in his past 10 games -- will be in action for the Minnesota Twins against the Toronto Blue Jays, with Jose Berrios on the mound, on May 28 at 2:10 PM ET.
He strung together two hits (going 2-for-3) in his most recent appearance against the Blue Jays.
Kyle Farmer Game Info & Props vs. the Blue Jays
- Game Day: Sunday, May 28, 2023
- Game Time: 2:10 PM ET
- Stadium: Target Field
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- Blue Jays Starter: José Berríos
- TV Channel: BSN
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -208)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +875)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +220)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +175)
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Kyle Farmer At The Plate
- Farmer is batting .275 with two doubles, three home runs and seven walks.
- Farmer has gotten at least one hit in 55.6% of his games this year (15 of 27), with multiple hits seven times (25.9%).
- He has hit a long ball in 11.1% of his games this season, and 3% of his trips to the dish.
- Farmer has an RBI in nine of 27 games this season, with multiple RBI in three of them. He has also driven home three or more of his team's runs in two contests.
- In 13 of 27 games this season, he has scored, and three of those games included multiple runs.
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- The pitching staff for the Blue Jays has a collective 9.4 K/9, the fifth-best in the league.
- The Blue Jays have a 4.07 team ERA that ranks 11th across all MLB pitching staffs.
- Blue Jays pitchers combine to allow the fifth-most home runs in baseball (72 total, 1.4 per game).
- Berrios (4-4 with a 4.22 ERA and 57 strikeouts in 59 2/3 innings pitched) makes the start for the Blue Jays, his 11th of the season.
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- Among qualifying pitchers in MLB action this season, the 29-year-old's 4.22 ERA ranks 46th, 1.223 WHIP ranks 41st, and 8.6 K/9 ranks 36th.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The liberal candidate for a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court didn’t back down from her support for abortion rights or her belief that the state’s Republican-drawn legislative maps are unfair during a debate Tuesday in which her GOP-backed opponent accused her of being “bought and paid for” by Democrats.
Janet Protasiewicz called her conservative opponent, Dan Kelly, “a true threat to our democracy” because he consulted with Republicans about their plan to seat fake electors to support Donald Trump after he lost Wisconsin in 2020.
Whoever wins the April 4 election for a seat vacated by the retirement of a conservative justice will determine majority control of the court for at least the next two years, including leading up to the 2024 presidential election. Control of the court, which came within a vote of overturning Trump’s 2020 defeat in the state, could be crucial, with abortion access, legislative redistricting, voting rights and other key issues at stake. The millions already spent have made it the most expensive state Supreme Court race in U.S. history.
Kelly repeatedly accused the Democratic-backed Protasiewicz of lying about his role in the fake elector plan, his abortion stance and other issues, telling her, “You’re willing to say anything to get what you want.”
Protasiewicz has focused her candidacy on her support for abortion rights, stopping just short of saying how she would rule on a lawsuit challenging the state’s abortion ban first passed in 1849 — a year after statehood. She reiterated Tuesday that she hadn’t made up her mind on how she would rule, but she said Kelly had.
“My personal opinion is that should be a woman’s right: to make a reproductive health decision. Period,” she said. “If my opponent is elected, I can tell you with 100% certainty that (the) 1849 abortion ban will stay on the books.”
Kelly defended his support from the state’s three largest anti-abortion groups and said he made no pledge to them to uphold the ban, as Protasiewicz has alleged.
“This seems to be a pattern for you Janet, just tell a lie,” Kelly said. “You don’t know what I’m thinking about that abortion ban. You have no idea. … I had no conversations with those organizations about how I would rule on any issue, including the abortion issue.”
Kelly, who previously did work for Wisconsin Right to Life, has not said how he would rule on the challenge to the abortion ban should it reach the court. But he did write in a blog post years ago that everyone knows that abortion “takes the life of an unborn child.”
On redistricting, Protasiewicz was asked how she could fairly hear the case given that the Democratic Party has given her campaign $2.5 million. She said she would recuse herself from any case brought by the party, but challenges to the Republican-drawn maps are expected to come from others.
“The map issue is really kind of easy, actually,” Protasiewicz said. “I don’t think anybody thinks those maps are fair. Anybody.”
Protasiewicz said she agreed with the liberal dissenting justices in a case that challenged the Republican-drawn maps.
“There you have it,” Kelly said in response. “She just told you how she would resolve the case.”
Protasiewicz accused Kelly of being unfair with his campaign ads accusing her of handing down soft sentences in numerous criminal cases she has handled as a Milwaukee County circuit court judge.
“I have spent my entire career protecting this community,” she said.
Kelly, a former state Supreme Court justice, has long ties to the Republican Party, having previously worked for Republicans. Kelly was endorsed by Trump in 2020. This year, he has the backing of Scott Presler, a Virginia native who planned several “stop the steal” rallies and was on the U.S. Capitol grounds on Jan. 6, 2021. He was in Wisconsin in March helping to raise money and support for Kelly through personal appearances on conservative talk radio.
Protasiewicz’s endorsements include Hillary Clinton, Planned Parenthood and EMILY’s List, which works nationwide to elect Democratic abortion rights supporters.
The debate at the Wisconsin Bar Association, co-sponsored by WISC-TV and WisPolitics.com, came on the same day that early, in-person voting began. Early voting runs through April 2.
Elizabeth Doe, 73, was the first person to cast a ballot in Wisconsin’s liberal capital, Madison, doing so shortly after 9 a.m. at a community center. She said she voted for Protasiewicz because of her concerns over “reproductive rights.”
“You can’t take that right away,” she said.
The contest has already broken national spending records for a Supreme Court race, with the two sides having spent at least $22 million to date. WisPolitics.com estimated that more than $30 million had been spent on the race as of last week, which would be roughly double the $15.2 million spent on a 2004 Illinois Supreme Court race that had held the mark as the most expensive. | 2023-03-21T22:16:19+00:00 | cbs42.com | https://www.cbs42.com/news/politics/ap-politics/wisconsin-supreme-court-candidates-clash-over-abortion-maps/ |
BOGALUSA, La. (AP) — Louisiana rapper JayDaYoungan was fatally shot in his hometown of Bogalusa, north of New Orleans, police said.
The musician, whose real name is Javorius Scott, was killed Wednesday just after 6 p.m. He was 24.
Police said they received a call about a shooting just before 6 p.m. Wednesday. One of the injured people was brought to Our Lady of the Angels emergency room. Another victim, still on scene, was critically wounded and was transported there by ambulance.
Police were then notified of another shooting shortly after 7 p.m., about four miles from the first shooting. Authorities said a car was hit by bullets, but the occupants were not injured, police said.
In a Facebook post, Bogalusa Police confirmed Scott’s death “as a result of his injuries.” The other victim, identified by multiple news outlets as Kenyatta Scott Sr., the rapper’s father, was said to be in stable condition. Police said the surviving victim was a “close relative” of the rapper but would not discuss their relationship.
Bogalusa Police investigators said they believe the two shootings are linked. Investigators have connected Scott to crimes involving gang rivalries in parts of rural Louisiana in recent months. They said they believe the violence is retaliatory. An investigation is continuing.
In June 2021, Scott was released from prison after serving seven months on charges of possession of a firearm while under indictment for a crime. In September that year, he was arrested on charges of obstruction of justice and accessory to a second-degree murder that occurred in Louisiana. The next month, he was arrested for multiple felonies, including the illegal use of a controlled dangerous substance in the presence of minors.
Bogalusa Mayor Wendy Perrette, in a statement, urged residents to remain calm while police investigate.
“The senseless shooting in Bogalusa (is) another tragic reminder of the pain that violent crime brings with it,” she said. “My thoughts and prayers are with the victims’ family and friends. As your Mayor and as a Mother I plead on behalf of our community and for our children, today must mean enough is finally enough. Stop the violence! See something, say something.”
Perrette also asked that Louisiana State Police assist the Bogalusa Police Department and the Washington Parish Sheriff’s Office in the investigation.
In 2016, Scott released his debut mixtape YOUNGANimal. He later signed to Atlantic Records and dropped his mixtape “Misunderstood,” featuring breakout hit “23 Island,” in 2019. His major-label debut album Baby23 arrived in 2020. Earlier this year he released two EPs, “Scarred” and “All Is Well.” In his brief career, Scott had worked with Lil Durk, Latto, Moneybagg Yo and Kevin Gates.
Scott has more than 2.5 million followers on Instagram. His most recent video, “First Day Out Pt2” had amassed 1.9 million views on YouTube. A spokesman for Atlantic Records could not immediately be reached for comment. | 2022-07-29T00:58:09+00:00 | everythinglubbock.com | https://www.everythinglubbock.com/entertainment-news/louisiana-rapper-killed-in-shooting-in-his-hometown/ |
Chicago Cubs two-way prospect Nazier Mulé’s professional baseball debut will be delayed.
Mulé is scheduled to undergo Tommy John surgery next week to repair his ulnar collateral ligament, sources told the Chicago Tribune.
The Cubs drafted Mulé, 18, in the fourth round last year and signed the right-hander to an above-slot $1 million bonus. During his senior high school season at Passaic Tech in New Jersey, Mulé was shut down from pitching midway through the spring because of arm fatigue.
Mulé is ranked by MLB.com as the Cubs’ No. 27 prospect. A roughly 14-month rehab timeline sets up Mulé for a midseason return in 2024.
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Profar can earn an additional $1 million in performance bonuses, getting the full amount for 400 plate appearances, the person said. The person spoke on the condition of anonymity because the contract was pending a physical.
The former Texas Rangers, Oakland Athletics and San Diego Padres outfielder batted .231 (3 for 13) with a solo homer and RBI for the Netherlands in the World Baseball Classic this spring training.
He hit .243 with 15 homers and 58 RBIs for San Diego last season and opted out of what would have been the final season of a $21 million, three-year contract with the Padres. | 2023-03-21T22:36:17+00:00 | kenoshanews.com | https://www.kenoshanews.com/mlb-notes-cubs-two-way-prospect-mul-to-have-tommy-john-surgery/article_d4303dde-c827-11ed-b16c-87142bc07317.html |
BROOKSVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida highway had to temporarily close Wednesday after a semitrailer carrying cases of Coors Light crashed and turned the roadway into a silver sea of beer cans.
The multi-vehicle crash occurred shortly after 6 a.m. in the southbound lanes of Interstate 75 about 30 miles (48 kilometers) north of Tampa, the Florida Highway Patrol said in a news release.
The pileup began when one semitrailer clipped another while changing lanes, officials said. That forced other semis to brake, but one failed to stop and collided with a pickup truck and another one of the stopping semis.
The semi that failed to stop was filled with cases of the Silver Bullet beer.
Minor injuries were reported by the occupants of the pickup truck, the news release said.
The inside shoulder and travel lanes were opened to traffic by 8:30 a.m., and the rest of the roadway was reopened around noon, troopers said. | 2022-09-22T13:14:40+00:00 | cbs42.com | https://www.cbs42.com/news/weird/ap-florida-highway-covered-in-coors-light-beer-after-semi-crash/ |
Police: Woman fatally shot by her boyfriend in northeast valley
Updated June 3, 2023 - 4:21 pm
A woman was fatally shot by her boyfriend in the northeast Las Vegas Valley early Saturday.
At around 1:15 a.m., police found a woman who was shot near her apartment in the 3900 block of North Nellis Boulevard, near Las Vegas Boulevard North, according to the Metropolitan Police Department.
Police said the woman was shot by her boyfriend who then fled the scene.
Anyone with information can call police at 702-828-3521 or email homicide@lvmpd.com. To remain anonymous, call 702-385-5555 or visit www.crimestoppersofnv.com.
Contact David Wilson at dwilson@reviewjournal.com. Follow @davidwilson_RJ on Twitter. | 2023-06-03T23:51:59+00:00 | reviewjournal.com | https://www.reviewjournal.com/crime/homicides/police-woman-fatally-shot-by-her-boyfriend-in-northeast-valley-2788316/ |
Through the sponsorship of the National African American Historical Society, local students from Tyler High and Tyler Legacy High School are uniting and making a difference by restoring abandoned Black cemeteries.
Larry D. Wade Sr., founder and president of the NAAHS, said the students have been a great help with the restoration and he enjoys teaching them about the history of local Black community members and veterans who are buried in the cemeteries.
Students unite each month and get on hands-on lessons of Black history, said Wade. He also mentioned that it helps bring cultural awareness among students.
“You have different races working together, children of different races coming together, don't really care who’s out there buried but they know they’re doing something good for the community. It's just the idea that, ‘there’s an American buried here, this is a human being and I’m doing something good to help my community,’” he said.
One of the abandoned Black cemeteries that the group has been working to restore has been deeded over to the NAAHS.
Ever since the restoration has been going on, not only students but local community members have helped by donating time or tools. Wade said he is proud of the student achievements and how they are willing to help and restore abandoned cemeteries, especially seeing their mindset and excitement to assist.
“It teaches them how to appreciate one another,” he said.
Wade said as students volunteer their time, they are receiving community service hours, and he hopes that others also assist. Besides bringing a light to the students' community service, he also wants the community to know donations are needed.
“We also need individuals, nonprofits, churches, businesses, groups, to partner with us for projects like helping us in the cemetery cleanups and donate equipment, tools, supplies, even money as we are trying to renovate our NAAHS Museum with repairs, updates and help sponsor field trips,” said Wade.
Anyone who wants to help NAAHS monetarily, can send donations to: NAAHS, P.O. Box 8090 in Tyler 75711, contact Wade by email at larryjoy04@yahoo.com, or call/text at 903-452-3310 for questions and more information.
Donations can also be made at the front door mail slot/locked drop box in a sealed envelope with a name and amount at the NAAHS Museum at 200 S. Glenwood Blvd. in Tyler. | 2022-11-29T12:13:21+00:00 | tylerpaper.com | https://tylerpaper.com/news/tyler-isd-students-give-back-to-community-through-restoration-of-abandoned-black-cemeteries/article_58b04f58-6f8c-11ed-b8ea-833e68b8e9dc.html |
Kayvon Thibodeaux says he has always thought outside the box.
He attributes the origin of his curiosity to his father Angelo’s creativity and unorthodox mindset in the construction business growing up in South Central Los Angeles.
“I watched him build houses, I watched him fix things, and I think for him there was an understanding that nothing is actually broken,” Thibodeaux, 22, the Giants’ pass rusher, told the Daily News on the phone Thursday. “There’s a way to fix it.”
The story of how Thibodeaux became a minority owner and equity partner in a professional, New York-based cricket team, the New York Warriors, is not about fixing something that’s off.
But Friday’s launch of Thibodeaux’s involvement in this new, six-team, USA Masters T10 cricket league is about the Giants defender gravitating towards opportunity, approaching life a bit differently than the next guy and approving of a slight fix, let’s call it, to a world-famous game:
Shortening the play time of cricket matches from five days to 90 minutes.
“It’s more home runs, more entertainment, faster and shorter games, with a new format that’s possibly being placed in the Olympics in the next two years,” said Cervando Tejeda, founder of Athletes Sports Management Inc. and a minority owner of the USA Masters T10 league.
Six seasons of popular and financial success in Abu Dhabi with this new format laid the groundwork for worldwide expansion. The U.S. league will hold its inaugural draft in the second week of July and launch its first season in mid-August. It will be televised internationally, and the plan is to add two more teams in 2024.
The first six teams will represent New York, Philadelphia, Dallas, North Carolina (Morrisville), Los Angeles and Houston. Games will be played at stadiums in Florida, North Carolina and Houston. And that’s where Thibodeaux comes in.
“We want to cover the entire USA. That’s why we want to involve USA athletes,” said Ritesh Patel, majority owner of the U.S. T10 league alongside billionaire founder Shaji Ul Mulk. “So we started discussing this with Kayvon, and we see it: He’s one of the best in the NFL but he has the best business brain, has lots of good business ideas. He can take this to a different level. So we brought him on as an equity partner.”
Thibodeaux attended a Dallas T10 launch event in early May and spoke with Patel and New York Warriors majority owner Muhammad Kamran Awan. And Patel said Thibodeaux “blew me away” with what he had envisioned, from educating people about cricket, to doing cricket commentary, to other ideas that would promote growth.
“One big part of my role is obviously the money but, two, it’s storytelling,” Thibodeaux said. “Being an athlete in this new world of media, I understand how storytelling works in the new age, I understand how to connect with people, and marketing is something I majored in. So that’s definitely how I’m going to help market my team and also the league itself.”
The Giants and NFL football are still number one for Thibodeaux, but Tejeda said it’s realistic that when he has the time, Thibodeaux will make himself more “present” around this modern cricket league and team.
“But I think what he’s doing right now coming in as an owner of a team is just setting the standard for other athletes to say look, you don’t just have to own an NFL team or soccer team or NBA team,” Tejeda said. “There’s other sports that are coming into the States that you guys can get ownership of.”
Thibodeaux has never played cricket and only has watched matches online so far. He likes the fast new format, though, and the fact it’s not difficult for the average person to pick up and try.
“It’s about opportunity,” Thibodeaux said. “The tough thing about football, for example, is it has to be orchestrated to be really played. With cricket, I love it because it creates an opportunity for a lot of people to be aware of it and start to play it. You don’t really need that much. It’s similar to baseball in a sense where you really just need a ball and a paddle.”
Thibodeaux really does seem to be one of a kind, just as he advertised himself before the Giants picked him No. 5 overall in the 2022 NFL Draft. Just this offseason, he launched a TikTok cooking series called “KT’s Finger-Lickin’ Kitchen.”
“Dinner gets expensive,” he said at Wednesday’s OTA practice. “I’m going to start eating at home, going to the grocery store.”
Thibodeaux also revealed “I want to be an analyst” just like the sportswriters who cover him in the NFL, to see and evaluate “what the next moves are for teams.” He started as a rookie by doing analysis for FOX Sports of last year’s Super Bowl between the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles.
On top of that, his social media is covered with examples of appearances, charity work, paid sponsorships and even an inaugural, free, youth football and cheer camp on June 24 in L.A.
Of course, that’s where Angelo Kayvon Thibodeaux Jr. grew up. (That’s right: his real first name is Angelo, and he is technically a junior.)
The man is full of surprises.
Some of that is about learning from his father’s approach. But a lot of it is intrinsic to Thibodeaux’s own curiosities and mindset. In his second year playing a professional sport, he is already part owner of a team in another, and it’s possible he won’t stop there.
“Ownership is the goal in anything, whether it’s sports, entertainment, business,” Thibodeaux said. “Definitely in this league and other leagues, I would love to continue that mindset of getting equity and becoming an owner.”
He believes in the “vision” of the T10 cricket format that took off in Abu Dhabi. He said there is an unmistakable “power” to the “great ambassadors” and people behind this USA initiative.
And he is attracted to pioneering this sport in the U.S., “being in the first wave of the league coming to America” with a game people know of but not about.
“Even as a kid I always thought of that next thing,” Thibodeaux said. “You start to see all these billionaires and people who have done well for themselves, and it always stemmed from thinking outside the box. I feel like we all kind of live in a simulation, and once you start to break that code of what’s normal and start to create that for yourself, you’ll be able to accomplish your dreams.”
() | 2023-06-02T19:12:23+00:00 | bostonherald.com | https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/06/02/giants-kayvon-thibodeaux-becomes-minority-owner-of-new-york-warriors-t10-pro-cricket-team-2/ |
The Free Jacks put another notch in New England’s national championship belt Saturday after going back and forth in an 80-minute showdown against the San Diego Legion.
After securing a franchise-first playoff win last weekend, the Free Jacks underscored their 16-2 season with the team’s first ever Major League Rugby Championship Shield in a 25-24 victory over the Legion in the league’s title game in Bridgeview, Ill.
Inside center Le Roux Malan scored the game-winning try with five minutes left when he took a go-ahead pass from John Poland. Fly-half Jayson Potroz, who was recognized as the Player of the Match, booted the game ball into the stands to close out the match as time expired.
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Free Jacks general manager Tom Kindley hoped the impressive win will ‘shift the needle’ to bring rugby the attention the sport and the six-year Quincy-based MLR franchise deserves.
“New England only accepts championships,” Kindley said, “so I think for us to go the whole way is massive in terms of building a bigger audience and getting heard about, and people finding out there’s another pro sports team in Quincy.”
Entering the contest as the top two teams in the league, it looked as though New England might dominate San Diego (16-2) in the early going with a scoring try from flanker and team captain Mitch Jacobson just four minutes into the game. Fly-half Jayson Potroz made the two-point conversion kick to give the Free Jacks a 7-0 lead.
San Diego flanker Christian Poidevin found a hole in the New England defense and scored the Legion’s first try just under the 10-minute mark.
Potroz dampened the opposition’s hopes with two consecutive penalty kicks. He proved a standout fly-half all season, ranking as the league’s scoring leader.
San Diego wing Nate Augspurger made it a one-point game after scoring a 30-meter try.
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Running up against the halftime clock, Will Hooley made San Diego’s lead more comfortable with a three-point kick, taking the Legion to a 17-13 lead at the half.
The evenly-matched teams ended the first half with a 50-50 split of territory and possession time.
Just five minutes into the second half, New England wing Paula Balekana scored a try off a long-range pass from scrumhalf John Poland to regain the lead, 20-17, on the heels of Potroz’s two-point conversion.,
But the Legion, with plenty left in the tank, held the line and broke through when Augspurger tallied his second try of the match in the 61st minute. It allowed the Legion to reclaim the lead, 24-20.
San Diego suffered a crucial injury when Hooley pulled up with a hamstring injury, forcing the Legion to send in replacement fly-half fullback Josh Henderson for a penalty kick. Henderson missed his mark, enabling the Free Jacks to remain within striking distance of regaining the lead.
After several minutes of consecutive phases around the 5-meter line, Malan scored the game-winning try to seal it with just five minutes left.
New England is 29-6 over the last two seasons, having lost to New York in last year’s Eastern Conference Final.
Kindley cited increased depth and stronger team leadership as factors that pushed the Free Jacks over the edge this season.
“We’re definitely really proud to represent New England and to be a New England sports team,” Kindley said. “Hopefully New England sports can sort of see that today and be like ‘Man, that’s a team I want to get behind.’”
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Inaugural Hike for Hunger to help Meals on Wheels
What:Inaugural Hike for Hunger WY, an outdoor adventure event designed to raise awareness of hunger and food insecurity in Wyoming.
When: Noon to 5 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 1; registration opens at 11 a.m.
Where: Hynds Lodge and Amphitheater, Curt Gowdy State Park, between Cheyenne and Laramie on Wyoming Highway 210 (Happy Jack Road).
Cost: $50 per hiker, $25 for younger than 12.
More information: Organized by Meals on Wheels of Cheyenne, Hike for Hunger will feature outdoor fun, food, music and more for the family. This event will include two guided hikes through the trails of the Medicine Bow National Forest on a half-mile loop trail called the Beaver Creek Trail.
Each hiker gets a commemorative Hike for Hunger T-shirt with their registration. The schedule is as follows:
Noon – Event starts/first band, The Avenues
1:15 p.m. – Ceremony starts
2 p.m. – Second band, Mr. Byrd & the Perfect Strangers
2:30 p.m. – First guided hike starts with Dana Gage
3 p.m. – Mr. Byrd & the Perfect Strangers & Jars O’ Jam perform
3:30 p.m. – Food served
4 p.m. – Second guided hike starts with Dana Gage; Jars O’ Jam performs
Snacks will be available throughout the day to keep people well nourished, and water provided by Admiral Beverage/Pepsi of Cheyenne.
Fall family photos are open all day by the aspen groves. Donations are appreciated. | 2022-09-30T14:16:18+00:00 | wyomingnews.com | https://www.wyomingnews.com/news/everyone_gives/everyone-gives-everyone-gains-9-30-22/article_fd044cc2-3f89-11ed-b3c4-bf629170d930.html |
The Deadly Truck From the Original ‘Pet Sematary’ Movie is Sitting Abandoned in a Maine Yard
If you've seen the original adaption film of Stephen King's "Pet Sematary", you don't need us to tell you that one of the more horrifying scenes from the movie involves a small child and a massive tractor trailer. For many, that scene left a lasting mark on their brain, with a speeding, bright red truck serving as a constant reminder of Gage Creed's demise. But would you believe that the very truck used in the scene still spends its days in Maine? Because it does.
Shared on Reddit by MoxieSauce, the poster states that the relic from the original 1989 film was stumbled across during a trip to a junkyard in a tiny town in eastern Maine called Princeton. The pictures shared show the old truck and the custom plate, confirming the vehicle was custom-built for the movie.
According to the Scioto Post, a timber hauling company in Princeton are the owners of the iconic piece of movie memorabilia. Murray, Laplant and Sons have housed the truck on their property for years, and in a twist for film fans, actually used the custom-built truck to haul items at one point in time. The company quickly realized Stephen King fanatics were fascinated by the vehicle, so they used it as a show truck for many years. They considered selling it, but decided to park it and leave it be. So there it sits, an iconic villain hidden away in Maine. Just the way Stephen King would want it. | 2022-10-05T23:48:54+00:00 | q961.com | https://q961.com/the-deadly-truck-from-the-original-pet-sematary-movie-is-sitting-abandoned-in-a-maine-yard/ |
(The Hill) – A top White House energy advisor on Sunday said gas prices could soon fall below $4 per gallon on average.
Amos Hochstein told CBS’ “Face the Nation” host Margaret Brennan he expects the national average of $4.53 per gallon to come down and inch closer to $4 per gallon in the coming weeks.
Hochstein, the senior adviser of energy security to the Biden administration, said many gas stations were already selling has at less than $4 per gallon.
“This is the fastest decline rate that we’ve seen against a major increase of oil prices during a war in Europe, where one of the parties in the war is the third-largest producer in the world,” said Hochstein, referring to Russia. “These are extraordinary circumstances.”
President Biden has seen his overall job approval ratings fall below 40 percent as Americans face record high gas prices and the highest overall inflation in decades.
Biden is releasing one million barrels of oil a day from a national stockpile to help ease prices and has called for Congress to suspend the federal gas tax, though the request has gained little traction.
Last week, the president traveled to Saudi Arabia, an influential member of the oil-producing alliance OPEC+, to discuss efforts to stabilize the global energy market.
While he did not secure an immediate deal to increase production, Biden said he was optimistic that negotiations in the coming weeks would be fruitful.
Hochstein said on Sunday that OPEC has room to produce more oil. | 2022-07-18T15:57:24+00:00 | fox44news.com | https://www.fox44news.com/news/national-world-news/gas-could-soon-fall-below-4-a-gallon-on-average-says-biden-energy-advisor/ |
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SYDNEY (AP) — Brittney Griner's highly publicized legal woes in Russia and the country's invasion of Ukraine has the top WNBA players opting to take their talents elsewhere this offseason.
For the past few decades, Russia has been the preferred offseason destination for WNBA players to compete because of the high salaries that can exceed $1 million and the resources and amenities teams offered them.
That all has come to an abrupt end.
“Honestly my time in Russia has been wonderful, but especially with BG still wrongfully detained there, nobody’s going to go there until she’s home,” said Breanna Stewart, a Griner teammate on the Russian team that paid the duo millions. “I think that, you know, now, people want to go overseas and if the money is not much different, they want to be in a better place,”
Griner was arrested in February, then detained and later convicted on drug possession charges amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Griner was sentenced last month to nine years in prison.
Now, Stewart and other WNBA All-Stars, including Jonquel Jones and Courtney Vandersloot — who also have made millions of dollars playing in Russia — are going elsewhere this winter. All three played for Ekaterinburg, the same Russian team as Griner. That club won five EuroLeague titles in the past eight seasons and has been dominant for nearly two decades with former greats DeLisha Milton Jones and Diana Taurasi playing there.
Nearly a dozen WNBA players competed in Russia last winter and none of them are heading back this year.
After the World Cup tournament, Stewart is going to Turkey to play for Fenerbahçe. Top players can make a few hundred thousand dollars playing in Turkey, much less than their Russian salaries. Playing in Turkey also allows Stewart to be closer to her wife's family in Spain.
“You want to have a better lifestyle, a better off-the-court experience, and just continue to appreciate other countries,” Stewart said.
Like Stewart, Vandersloot also isn't headed back to Russia, choosing to play in Hungary where she obtained citizenship in 2016.
“I am Hungarian. I thought it would be special since I haven't played there since I got the citizenship," Vandersloot said.
The 33-year-old guard said a lot would have to change before she'd ever consider going back to Russia to play even though she has many fond memories of the Russian people.
“The thing about it is, we were treated so well by our club and made such strong relationships with those people, I would never close the door on that," she said. "The whole situation with BG makes it really hard to think that it’s safe for anyone to go back there right now.”
Jones will be joining Stewart in Turkey, playing for Mersin. The 6-foot-6 Jones said she would consider going back to Russia if things change politically and Griner was back in the U.S.
The Griner situation also is weighing heavily on the minds of young WNBA players.
Rhyne Howard, the 2022 WNBA Rookie of the Year, is playing in Italy this winter — her first overseas experience. She said was careful when deciding where she wanted to play.
"Everyone’s going to be a bit cautious seeing as this situation is happening,” she said.
It's not just the American players who are no longer going to Russia. Chicago Sky forward Emma Meesseman, who stars for the Belgium national team, had played in Russia with Stewart, Jones and Vandersloot. She also is headed to Turkey this offseason.
The WNBA has also been trying to make staying home in the offseason a better option for players. Commissioner Cathy Engelbert said at the WNBA Finals that top players could make up to $700,000 this year between base salary, marketing agreements and award bonuses. While only a select few players could reach that amount, roughly a dozen have decided take league marketing agreements this offseason.
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AP Sports Writer Jay Cohen contributed to this story. | 2022-09-20T07:48:06+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/sports/article/WNBA-players-skipping-Russia-choosing-other-17453395.php |
Summer drought leaves Christmas tree tradition in danger
By Tiffany Chan
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HAVERHILL, Massachusetts (WBZ) — Now that Thanksgiving is over, many turn to celebrate Christmas. However, Christmas trees might be in short supply this year.
Getting the Christmas tree is a post-Thanksgiving tradition for many families. The Steenstrups, of Newton, skipped the outlet malls. Instead, they scoured Turkey Hill Farm in Haverhill for the perfect tree, and cut it down themselves.
“You want symmetry,” said Isabella Steenstrup. “Just go for one that’s not weird looking.
However, the trees themselves are suffering after the hot, dry summer.
There are dozens of dead trees on the farm. Butt, who has been running the family business for decades. She says that severe summer heat killed more than 2,000 Christmas trees.
“It’s kind of sickening because it’s very sad. Some of these trees… the little ones even have been here in 2-3 years and they’re dead.” Butt said.
Christmas tree farmers typically see more customers than they have trees, and with the summer drought, they’re worried about what this means for production. Not just this year but for years to come.
“In about six, seven, eight years we’re going to have low inventory unless we catch up somehow.”
Growers say they’re keeping an eye on the Christmas trees that survived the summer drought hoping to find a solution that keeps this holiday tradition going.
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WHIPPANY, N.J., Jan. 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Unicoeye, an online retailer of colored contact lenses, is entering the new year with the ambitious goal of accelerating its online expansion. The company is committed to achieving growth in 2023 and is taking the necessary steps to ensure this goal is met. This includes focusing on new strategies to help increase its online presence, such as price adjustments and product promotions. Additionally, Unicoeye has shared some advice for consumers considering colored contact lenses.
Always insisting on putting customers first, Unicoeye stood out from many competitors in just a few years, and quickly became one of the most popular colored contact lens brands with vibrant original patterns and unique color combinations. As a professional colored contact lens brand, Unicoeye provides FDA-approved colored contacts shipped straight from their US warehouse, making sure customers receive their purchases within 2–6 days. For those looking for high-quality colored contact lenses at a reasonable price, lenses from Unicoeye are an excellent choice. Not only are they affordable, but they are also completely safe to wear.
Likes and support from consumers motivate this brand to keep going and focus on delivering the best possible products and services. To achieve its planned online expansion, Unicoeye has decided to start by adjusting product prices and hosting promotions. Since January, the brand has lowered the prices of hot products on its website by up to 40%, with prices ranging from $9.99 to $16.99. It is worth mentioning that the brand is not reducing product quality to achieve this price reduction; on the contrary, they have been working hard to provide even better quality lenses. Further, multiple simultaneous promotions will allow customers to enjoy increased discounts on top of reduced prices. Anyone looking to temporarily change their eye color or enhance their makeup looks can visit the Unicoeye website for the most competitive prices.
"We hope those sales can help us build a good relationship with customers and also help spread awareness of our brand," said the Unicoeye team. "With the right approach, we are confident that we can reach our goals of online expansion and overall growth this year."
With the rise in popularity of colored contact lenses, it's becoming commonplace to see them all over social media, worn by cosplayers, makeup artists, and countless other influencers. However, Unicoeye has noted that a certain fact about colored contacts needs to be more widely discussed, understood, and taken seriously. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), a regulatory agency that creates guidelines for the protection of public health, requires colored contact lens vendors to be registered on their website due to the fact that colored contact lenses are considered medical devices. This means that those vendors must receive prior FDA authorization for their products to enter the U.S. and be commercially distributed. According to FDA regulations, compliance with registration can facilitate the supervision of a vendor's products and allow consumers to report product-related problems and complaints. Therefore, it is important for colored contact lens brands to have FDA approval.
Unfortunately, some retailers sell colored contact lenses that do not meet the strict quality requirements established by the FDA. It is illegal to sell these lenses in the United States as they aren't FDA-approved and may lead to eye infections and even cause blindness in severe cases after wearing them. Unicoeye, in addition to providing safe and FDA-approved lenses, also prioritizes its customers' vision health by raising awareness of colored contact lens safety. For example, they recently shared an easy way for consumers to quickly verify whether the colored contact lenses they've purchased are FDA-approved: check whether the lenses are being shipped from the US. If they are shipped from a non-US warehouse or take weeks to arrive, this can be a sign that they are not FDA-approved.
Colored contacts are a great way to change up or enhance one's look, but be sure to use colored contacts that the FDA approves to avoid eye injury. Unicoeye urges people interested in colored contacts to do thorough research before purchasing any lenses not directly provided by a pharmacy.
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WFO BUFFALO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, June 22, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Buffalo NY
259 PM EDT Wed Jun 22 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of northeastern Erie
and southwestern Niagara Counties through 345 PM EDT...
At 259 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Kenmore, moving east at 20 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph and pea size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Buffalo, Cheektowaga, West Seneca, North Tonawanda, Clarence,
Lackawanna, Kenmore, Depew, Tonawanda, Amherst, Lancaster, East
Aurora, Williamsville, Grand Island, Elma, Marilla, Orchard Park,
Erie Basin Marina, Small Boat Harbor and Alden.
This includes Interstate 90 between exits 56 and 49.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
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Dwight Stirling, University of Southern California
(THE CONVERSATION) Less than a month after the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol, Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin took the extraordinary step of pausing all operations for 24 hours to “address extremism in the ranks.” Pentagon officials had been shaken by service members’ prominent role in the events of Jan. 6.
Of the 884 criminal defendants charged to date with taking part in the insurrection, more than 80 were veterans. That’s almost 10% of those charged.
More remarkable, at least five of the rioters were serving in the military at the time of the assault: an active-duty Marine officer and four reservists.
Service members’ involvement in the insurrection has made the spread of extremism – particularly white nationalism – a significant issue for the U.S. military.
Solving the problem
A blue ribbon committee called the Countering Extremist Activity Working Group was quickly commissioned in April 2021 to evaluate the extent of the problem.
The group found about 100 substantiated cases of extremism in the U.S. armed forces in 2021.
The latest instance occurred in July 2022, when Francis Harker, a National Guard member with white supremacist connections, was sentenced to four years in prison for planning an anti-government attack on police. Harker, who carried a picture saying “there is no God but Hitler,” was planning to attack police officers in Virginia Beach, Virginia, with Molotov cocktails and semi-automatic rifles.
Worried, Austin has tightened the rules regarding political speech within the military. The new rules prohibit any statement that advocates for “violence to achieve goals that are political … or idealogical in nature.” The ban applies to members of the military both on and off duty.
Also, for the first time, the new rules prohibit statements on social media that “promote or otherwise endorse extremist activities.”
While the intent behind the new rules is laudable, political speech – even of an offensive or distasteful nature – goes to the core of U.S. democracy. Americans in uniform are still Americans, protected by the First Amendment and afforded the constitutional right of free speech.
In light of the stricter policy, it is useful to consider how courts apply the First Amendment in the military context.
Good order and discipline
While soldiers and sailors are certainly not excluded from the protection of the First Amendment, it is fair to say they operate under a diluted version of it.
As one federal judge observed, the “sweep of the protection is less comprehensive in the military context, given the different character of the military community and mission.”
The “right to speak out as a free American” must be balanced against “providing an effective fighting force for the defense of our Country,” a federal judge noted in a separate case.
These and other federal judges point to the military’s need for good order and discipline in justifying this approach.
While never precisely defined, good order and discipline is generally considered being obedient to orders, having respect for one’s chain of command and showing allegiance to the Constitution. Speech that “prevents the orderly accomplishment of the mission” or “promotes disloyalty and dissatisfaction” within the ranks harms good order and discipline, and can be restricted.
In 1974, for example, the Supreme Court ruled that the Army can punish an officer for encouraging subordinates to refuse to deploy.
The officer’s comments included: “The United States is wrong in being involved in the Vietnam War. I would refuse to go back to Vietnam if ordered to do so.”
In 1980, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Army could legally fire an ROTC cadet for making racist remarks during a newspaper interview.
Explaining his political philosophy, the cadet said: “What I am saying is that Blacks are obviously further behind the whites on the evolutionary scale.”
In 2012, a San Diego district court ruled that the Marine Corps can lawfully discharge a sergeant who mocked president Barack Obama while appearing on the “Chris Matthews Show.” At one point the sergeant told the host: “As an active duty Marine, I say screw Obama and I will not follow his orders.”
While each of these statements is protected by the First Amendment in civilian life, they crossed the line in military life because they were deemed harmful to morale and represented what one federal court described as more than “political discussion … at an enlisted or officers’ club.”
The military’s job is to fight, not debate
In deciding these First Amendment cases, courts often hark back to why the military exists in the first place.
“It is the primary business of armies and navies … to fight the nation’s wars should the occasion arise,” the Supreme Court said in 1955.
In a separate case, the Supreme Court declared: “An army is not a deliberate body. It is the executive arm. Its law is that of obedience.”
Quickly following orders can mark the difference between life and death in combat.
On a national level, the degree to which an army is disciplined can win or lose wars. A mindset of obedience does not come solely from classroom training but from repeated rehearsals under realistic conditions.
As a military judge observed in a 1972 decision, while service members are free to discuss political issues when off duty, the “primary function of a military organization is to execute orders, not to debate the wisdom of decisions that the Constitution entrusts” to Congress, the judiciary and the commander in chief.
New policy bans ‘liking’ extremist messages
The U.S. military’s revised approach to political speech prohibits retweeting or even “liking” messages that promote anti-government or white nationalist and other extremist groups.
Does a restriction this broad comply with legal precedent?
As a law professor who has served more than 20 years in the U.S military, I believe the broader rules will probably be upheld if challenged on First Amendment grounds.
The most comparable case is Blameuser v. Andrews, a 1980 case from the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals where an ROTC cadet espoused white supremacist political views in a newspaper interview.
Amongst other extremist remarks, the cadet told the reporter: “You see, I believe that in the final analysis, the Nazi Socialist Party will take over America and possibly the whole world.”
Finding that the statements harmed good order and discipline, the Seventh Circuit ruled that the Army did not violate the First Amendment when it subsequently removed him from the officer training program.
The cadet’s “views on race relations draw into question his ability to obey commands, especially in a situation in which he regards the military superior as socially inferior,” the Blameuser decision said.
The military has wide latitude in deciding who is deserving of the “special trust and confidence” that comes with military employment. Military officials are free to consider political and social beliefs that are “inimical to the vital mission of the agency” in making hiring and firing decisions, the Blameuser decision said.
Social media posts expressing support for violent political activities will likely be treated in the same way.
As the Seventh Circuit said in Blameuser, by liking or retweeting an extremist message, a service member’s actions are “demonstrably incompatible with the important public office” they hold.
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here: https://theconversation.com/faced-with-a-rise-of-extremism-within-its-ranks-the-us-military-has-clamped-down-on-racist-speech-including-retweets-and-likes-187760. | 2022-08-11T13:37:29+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Faced-with-a-rise-of-extremism-within-its-ranks-17366567.php |
'Chris is a hero': Family, friends mourn Temple University officer killed in the line of duty
NORTH PHILADELPHIA - Temple University’s Vice President for Public Safety released a statement Sunday, regarding the shooting death of Officer Fitzgerald, reading, in part:
"Officer Fitzgerald gave his life to selflessly serve and defend this community. The courage and bravery he displayed highlights the day-to-day sacrifice made by our Temple University police officers to keep our community safe. This loss leaves an enormous hole in all of our hearts. He was a father, a husband, a son, a colleague and a friend."
A memorial is growing at the shooting scene near 17th and Montgomery and some who knew Officer Fitzgerald best are trying to come to terms with what happened.
Family and friends of slain Temple University Officer Chris Fitzgerald overcome by their grief, came out to remember the father of four who did so much for others.
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"Chris was one of a kind. He wanted to make a difference in the community and he did that by always, always aspiring to be the best," stated Fitzgerald’s friend Joshua Perez.
"Chris would do anything…anything," said Fitzgerald’s cousin, Juan Marrero. "He would go beyond for his community. He had the chance to leave Philadelphia, but he chose to stay here."
Even strangers came to pay their respects and show gratitude. Kimberly Sawyer’s daughter goes to Temple and says she was so relieved her daughter made it home alive Saturday night.
"I owe this officer a thank you, because when I see them on campus, I know she’s in good hands. This is what they signed up to do and the least I can do is show up and say thank you for it," Sawyer explained. "He is a hero."
Temple students made their way to pay respects at the memorial and say something has to change, because they say the violence is out of control.
"President Wingard is, hopefully, gonna do something because it’s a little embarrassing," said student Zsofia Szilagyi. "There’s violence here every day. Every day."
Student Brooke Zacker added, "I feel like it’s all talk, at this point. We’ve seen no positive change since he was elected our president. If anything, it’s going backwards. It’s been going downhill and a lot of it’s hidden, too. We don’t get to hear about it. It just puts us in more danger, too."
"Temple University police do a great job, but obviously, there is a bigger issue here and I don’t know, I feel like we just need to get the community and the nation talking about it," student Stephanie Roccoberton said.
Officer Fitzgerald’s family is not surprised one bit that he did not run from danger, but jumped in to help.
"That’s just what he does. He’s a superhero. That’s what he does. Chris is a hero, he just doesn’t have his cape."
Temple University President Jason Wingard released a statement to the Temple University late Saturday night, commenting on the ongoing gun violence in the city and beyond.
"This loss comes at a time when gun violence continues its horrific impact on our city and our country. Philadelphia and the nation are dealing with an unprecedented epidemic of violence, and the tragedy that took place tonight is a gut-wrenching reminder of our police officers’ daily bravery and sacrifices to protect our students, faculty, staff and community," the statement read in part.
Wingard's message also included resources for any members of the community who may have been impacted via Tuttleman Counseling Services, located at 1700 N. Broad St. For information. Those in need can also call 215-204-7276 or visit the Tuttleman Counseling Services website.
A GoFundMe has also been created by the police association on behalf of Fitzgerald's family to gather donations.
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Click here to find resources for victims of violence in Philadelphia. | 2023-02-20T22:20:04+00:00 | fox35orlando.com | https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/chris-is-a-hero-family-friends-mourn-temple-university-officer-shot-and-killed |
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., June 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- "WORD! Celebrating 50 Years of Hip-Hop Culture" is the theme of South Florida Book Festival 2023, July 13-15 at Broward County Library's African American Research Library & Cultural Center (AARLCC), 2650 Sistrunk Boulevard, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33311.
This year's festival explores the cultural explosion generated by the hip-hop phenomenon through literature and the arts. Presenters include New York Times bestselling author Kwame Alexander; Dr. Regina Bradley (Chronicling Stankonia: The Birth of the Hip-Hop South); Rob Kenner (The Marathon Don't Stop: The Life and Times of Nipsey Hussle) and author/activist/TV personality Kevin Powell. Visit South Florida Book Festival 2023 for a full schedule of events.
"Like blues and jazz, hip-hop represents the creative expression by marginalized groups through spoken word and rhythm," says Dr. Tameka Hobbs, Library Regional Manager of AARLCC. " The festival will explore the elements of the culture, including storytelling, DJing, dance and art during the festival.
Founded in 2012, the South Florida Book Festival is one of the fastest growing events of its kind, presenting celebrity authors and respected thought leaders in contemporary culture.
Dr. Rocky Bucano, Executive Director of the Universal Hip Hop Museum in New York notes, "From the now legendary declaration that, 'The South Got Something to Say,' regional hip-hop from South Florida has been incredibly influential. Their lyrical storytelling style continues in the tradition of the African griot, telling not only their story, and also the stories of others. And with a legacy descended from the historic libraries of Timbuktu, AARCC preserves these stories from our culture for future generations to come."
The South Florida Book Festival 2023 is presented by Visit Lauderdale and sponsored by Universal Hip Hop Museum, Museum of Graffiti, Bank of America, Holman Honda and Cox Media Group. Funding was provided through a grant from Florida Humanities with funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of Florida Humanities or the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Belleview Community Center will host a storytime for kids
Published: Jul. 5, 2022 at 6:06 AM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
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BELLEVIEW, Fla. (WCJB) - A storytime for kids with Belleview Mayor Christine Dobkowski will take place on Tuesday.
The event will begin at 3 p.m. and will go until 4 p.m. It will place at the Belleview Community Center.
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This is an entertaining and educational program that aims to connect the mayor with the city’s children.
Children will get a free book to take home provided by Goodwill Bookworks.
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Police: 6 wounded in Tennessee shooting were children
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — Police say six people wounded in weekend gunfire in a downtown Chattanooga, Tennessee, business district were all children.
Chattanooga Police said in a statement on Monday that five of the victims were 15 and one was 13.
Officers were patrolling the area Saturday night when they heard gunfire and responded to find multiple people shooting weapons and numerous people fleeing the area.
The statement said some officers provided first aid while others began securing the scene.
Police say the shooting involved two groups of people that appeared to be advancing toward each other at the beginning of an altercation when two individuals in one group pulled guns and fired at the other group.
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CANTON, Ohio (AP) — A 15-year-old boy made his way through the the Pro Football Hall of Fame museum on Friday, checking out the memorabilia and bronze busts before stopping to take a picture of Jen Welter’s blue-and-pink jersey to send to his younger sister.
“She will love this,” said Zach Fleming, a Pittsburgh Steelers fan in town with his dad for the first time. “I want her to know girls can make the Hall of Fame, too.”
Welter became the first woman to coach an NFL game in 2015 when she joined the Arizona Cardinals as an assistant coaching intern for training camp and the preseason.
The shirt, pants and sneakers she wore on the sideline in all four exhibition games are on display at a new exhibit in the Pro Football Today area of the museum.
Welter’s game-worn Texas Revolution jersey, her Dallas Diamonds helmet and a commemorative helmet signed by Team Australia during her time as head coach of the national team is also displayed in a separate glass enclosure.
The “Women’s Impact on Football” exhibit debuted ahead of this week’s enshrinement festivities. It features artifacts from women who have played, coached, officiated and broadcast the game at its highest level.
“There’s a lot of women involved in pro football and we wanted to recognize their contributions and tell their stories,” said Ben Ankrum, assistant curator at the Pro Football Hall of Fame. “We’ve had other exhibits featuring women in pro football and it got to the point where we could do something larger and more permanent.”
Other items on display include:
—Callie Brownson’s game-worn jacket and a signed ball from the game in which she became the first woman to serve as a position coach for an NFL regular-season game with the Cleveland Browns on Nov. 29, 2020. Brownson filled in as the tight ends coach when Drew Petzing didn’t travel with the team after his wife gave birth to the couple’s first child.
—Katie Sowers’ 49ers polo from the 2017 season, when she became only the second woman to serve as a full-time NFL coach. San Francisco hired Sowers as an assistant for the 217 season. Kathryn Smith was the first female full-time coach with the Buffalo Bills in 2016.
—The shoes Buccaneers assistant defensive line coach Lori Locust wore when she and assistant strength and conditioning coach Maral Javadifar became the first female coaches to win a Super Bowl after Tampa Bay’s victory over Kansas City on Feb. 7, 2021.
—Maia Chaka’s referee uniform and penalty flags. Chaka became the first Black woman to officiate an NFL game in 2021.
—Six-time national champion quarterback Allison Cahill’s signed jersey from her MVP performance in the Boston Renegades’ victory in the 2021 Women’s Alliance of Professional Football National Championship Game played at Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium.
—Hannah Storm’s and Andrea Kremer’s headsets from 2018, when they became the first all-female broadcast team to call an NFL regular-season game.
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