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PHILADELPHIA (AP)Nick Sirianni whipped off his visor, stood on a bench and shouted in pumped-up excitement toward a small group of Eagles fans that had come to root for their team in yet another victory.
The Eagles coach was just getting started in letting his emotions spill as he left the sideline. Sirianni was red-faced as he walked to the locker room and wiped away tears after a short embrace with general manager Howie Roseman. Then, following a 17-16 win Sunday over the Indianapolis Colts, Sirianni didn’t give away the game ball to the star of the game. For this win, Jalen Hurts, who rushed for the winning TD late in the fourth, tossed one to his coach.
”I know as he walked off the field he got a little bit emotional,” Hurts said. ”I guess I didn’t help when I tossed him the ball. Coach doesn’t get enough credit for what he’s done and what he’s been for us.”
What he’s done is help put the Eagles on a historically promising path.
Philadelphia is 9-1 for the sixth time in franchise history, joining the 1949, 1960, 1980, 2004 and 2017 seasons. If some of those years sound familiar to Eagles fans, it’s with good reason — each one reached a championship game. The 1949 and 1960 teams won NFL championships and the 2017 team won the franchise’s first Super Bowl.
The Eagles lost the Super Bowl in the 1980 and 2004 seasons.
The win over Indy came with flair, as the Eagles trailed 13-3 headed into the fourth quarter and rallied to win. The Eagles won after trailing by 10-plus points in the fourth for the first time since Dec. 20, 2010 against the New York Giants.
Sirianni was fired up for another win, yes, but also because he got to stick it to the Colts after they fired his mentor, coach Frank Reich. Reich was the one who hired Sirianni in 2018 for the start of a three-year stint as the Colts offensive coordinator.
”You don’t want to know what I think if he should be here or not,” Sirianni said. ”You guys can probably imagine what I really think. I love him and so I got a little bit emotional about that and it was good to see the guys that I really cared about.”
WHAT’S WORKING
Roseman’s latest in-season pickups paid immediate dividends. Linval Joseph and Ndamukong Suh helped shut down Jonathan Taylor after a solid opening drive. Taylor’s 1-yard run was Indy’s first TD on its first possession since last Dec. 25. After that? Taylor was held to 35 total yards rushing on 15 carries. Haason Reddick and Brandon Graham each had sacks.
”Man, them boys looked like they were ready to go, like they’ve been here for a while,” Graham said of the two newcomers. ”I am thankful for them because they kept us up all throughout the game. They had a great attitude throughout the game. It was cool to play with Suh and LJ.”
WHAT NEEDS HELP
The Eagles were sloppy in spurts and finished with seven penalties (including five on offense) for 55 yards. They also had two turnovers.
STOCK UP
WR Quez Watkins. Watkins’ diving 50-yard reception against Washington turned into a disaster when he fumbled the ball on the run and spoiled a terrific shot at keeping the undefeated season alive. Eagles coaches and Hurts kept faith in the speedy wideout, and this time he delivered in the clutch. Hurts hit Watkins for a 22-yard TD with 13:31 left in the game.
STOCK DOWN
Yes, a slew of talented receivers means not everyone will always get the ball, but star wideout A.J. Brown had only five catches for 60 yards and has only 10 catches for 126 yards and one touchdown in the last three games. That followed 156 yards receiving and three touchdowns in a late October win against Pittsburgh.
INJURIES
The Eagles may not get back second-year defensive tackle Marlon Tuipulotu (knee) this season, but they remain hopeful tight end Dallas Goedert (shoulder) will return in time for the playoffs.
KEY NUMBER
169. Center Jason Kelce played his 169th career game, which tied him for most by an offensive lineman (Chuck Bednarik, 1949-62) in team history. He’s tied for sixth overall in games played. Kelce also made his 132nd consecutive regular-season start, which is the longest active streak among NFL centers.
NEXT STEPS
The Eagles can pad their record with consecutive home games starting Sunday night against Green Bay and the following week against Tennessee.
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2022-11-22T20:12:14+00:00
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JANE LEW, W.Va. (WBOY) — A Jane Lew home sustained heavy damage to its garage in a fire Wednesday night.
The call came in at around 10:30 p.m. The home is on Whisper Lane, just off of Route 19.
The damage is mostly centered around the home’s garage, which was destroyed. A burned-out car was in front of the garage Thursday morning when 12 News crews arrived on the scene, as well as the undercarriage, parts and wheels of a car, that didn’t appear to have anything left of its body or interior.
Some damage does appear to extend slightly into the home, as well as onto the roof.
According to Harrison County 911 records, Harrison County EMS and the Jane Lew, Lost Creek, Nutter Fort and West Milford fire departments all responded.
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2022-08-11T19:06:12+00:00
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KENOSHA—Lynda Helen Lester, 68 years old, lifelong resident of Kenosha, WI passed away Friday, May 27, 2022, at her residence.
Memorial visitation will be held from 1:00 pm. – 3:00 p.m. on Monday, June 6, 2022, at Proko Funeral Home.
In lieu of flowers, those desiring may make contributions to Safe Harbor Humane Society, at 7811 60th Avenue, Kenosha, WI 53142, or at www.safeharborhumanesociety.org in her memory.
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2022-06-05T05:37:18+00:00
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Doorbell camera catches moose losing its antlers
ANCHORAGE, Ak. (KTUU/Gray News) – A couple in Alaska said their doorbell camera recorded a moose leaving behind a surprise Christmas gift.
Tyra Bogert and her husband watched the doorbell’s live stream when they got an alert that something was moving in front of their house.
While it’s not unusual for a doorbell camera to spot a moose in Anchorage, this time was different.
The couple watched as the moose started shaking and then both its antlers fell off.
“He shook like a dog, and they just plopped off and fell on the ground,” Chance Bogert said. “Looked to me like he was pretty scared.”
They said the moose looked shocked at what happened, and it took off running.
“For it to come in my yard and to drop them in the middle of my yard - I think that’s just a one-in-a-million chance,” Chance Bogert said.
The antlers left behind are so big that the Bogerts’ 3-month-old son actually fits inside the palm.
According to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, moose, like any male animal in the deer family, usually shed their antlers in the winter for two reasons.
Firstly, it is the end of their breeding season.
Secondly, antlers are heavy and can become a burden for animals to carry around when they are trying to eat enough to survive in the cold.
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2022-12-23T15:46:13+00:00
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RICHARDSON, Texas, March 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- NuZee, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUZE) NuZee Inc., a leading coffee co-packing company, announces its first private label agreement with Wakefern Food Corp., the largest retailer-owned cooperative in the United States.
Under ShopRite's private label brand Bowl & Basket, NuZee packed and shipped three single serve coffee brew-bag items: Breakfast Blend, French Roast and Colombian.
The Bowl & Basket single-serve coffees launched recently at ShopRite stores. The product will be available in approximately 250 ShopRite locations.
"Wakefern is excited to work with NuZee to bring sustainably-packaged, quality products to its Own Brands line of Bowl & Basket single-serve coffees. We look forward to working with NuZee to expand and enhance packaging for our popular private label coffees," said Pam Ofri, Wakefern's Director of Product Development and Operations, Own Brands.
"We are grateful to our private label customers for making our products available at a larger scale and to Wakefern for expanding single-serve coffee availability through the largest retailer-owned supermarket cooperative in America," said Travis Gorney, NuZee's Chief Innovation Officer.
Founded in 1946, Wakefern has been supporting family-owned businesses for more than 75 years and has hundreds of stores throughout New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island. Visit Wakefern Food Corp to find out more.
To learn more about NuZee and its innovative initiatives, visit mynuzee.com.
About Wakefern
From a small, local cooperative that began with eight grocery store owners, Wakefern Food Corp. has grown into the largest retailer-owned cooperative in the United States. Founded in 1946, the cooperative comprises nearly 50 member families who today independently own and operate hundreds of supermarkets under the ShopRite, Price Rite Marketplace, The Fresh Grocer, Dearborn Market, Gourmet Garage, and Fairway Market banners in New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Rhode Island. For more information, please visit www.wakefern.com.
About NuZee Coffee
NuZee, Inc., (NASDAQ: NUZE), is a leading co-packing company for single serve coffee formats that partners with companies of all sizes to help them develop within the single serve and private label coffee category. Providing innovative and eco-conscious solutions with the flexibility and capacity for both small roasters and large global brands, NuZee is revolutionizing the way single serve coffee is enjoyed in the United States. Through the brand's unique process, NuZee fulfills every aspect of co-packing needs, from roasting and blending, to packing and packaging.
Forward-looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements that are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. NuZee cautions you that such statements are simply predictions and actual events or results may differ materially. These statements reflect NuZee's current expectations and NuZee does not undertake to update or revise these forward-looking statements, even if experience or future changes make it clear that any projected results expressed or implied in this or other NuZee statements will not be realized. Further, these statements involve risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond NuZee's control, which could cause actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond our control, include: NuZee's plan to obtain funding for its operations, including funding necessary to develop, manufacture and commercialize its products; the impact to NuZee's business from COVID 19 global crisis; general market acceptance of and demand for NuZee's products; and NuZee's commercialization, marketing and manufacturing capabilities and strategy; for description of additional factors that may cause NUZee's actual results, performance or expectations to differ from any forward looking statements, please review the information set forth in the 'Risk Factors' and " Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" sections of the NuZee's public reports and NuZee's other filings made with the SEC.
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ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Shohei Ohtani hit a 493-foot home run Friday night — the longest of his major league career — to become the ninth player to reach 30 homers in a season by July 1.
The Los Angeles Angels’ two-way superstar drove a slider from Arizona Diamondbacks left-hander Tommy Henry to right field in the sixth inning to get the Angels within 5-1. It was the longest home run in the majors this year.
Ohtani became the first player since Baltimore’s Chris Davis in 2013 to hit 30 homers by the end of June. Davis had 31.
Babe Ruth, Ken Griffey Jr. and Sammy Sosa each did it twice. The others are Mark McGwire, Barry Bonds, Luis Gonzalez and Albert Pujols. Bonds had 39 by July 1 in 2001 en route to setting the single-season record with 73.
Ohtani has hit 15 home runs in June. Besides being an Angels record for the most in any month, he tied Babe Ruth (1930 Yankees), Bob Johnson (1934 A’s) and Roger Maris (1961 Yankees) for the AL mark in June.
Ohtani’s three longest homers have come at Angel Stadium. His previous best was a 470-foot drive off Kansas City’s Kris Bubic in 2021. It was also Ohtani’s fifth long ball this week.
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2023-07-01T05:23:15+00:00
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Biden: G-7 to ban Russian gold in response to Ukraine war
ELMAU, Germany (AP) - President Joe Biden said Sunday that the United States and other Group of Seven leading economies will ban imports of gold from Russia, the latest in a series of sanctions that the club of democracies hopes will further isolate Russia economically over its invasion of Ukraine.
A formal announcement was expected Tuesday as the leaders hold their annual summit.
Biden and his counterparts will huddle on the summit’s opening day Sunday to discuss how to secure energy supplies and tackle inflation, aiming to keep the fallout from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine from splintering the global coalition working to punish Moscow.
Hours before the summit was to formally open, Russia launched missile strikes against the Ukrainian capital Sunday, striking at least two residential buildings, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said. They were the first such strikes by Russia in three weeks.
Senior Biden administration officials said gold is Moscow’s second largest export after energy, and that banning imports would make it more difficult for Russia to participate in global markets. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss details before the announcement.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the ban on Russian gold will “directly hit Russian oligarchs and strike at the heart of Putin’s war machine,” a reference to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“Putin is squandering his dwindling resources on this pointless and barbaric war. He is bankrolling his ego at the expense of both the Ukrainian and Russian people,” Johnson said. “We need to starve the Putin regime of its funding.”
In recent years, gold has been the top Russian export after energy — reaching almost $19 billion or about 5% of global gold exports, in 2020, according to the White House.
Of Russian gold exports, 90% was consigned to G-7 countries. Of these Russian exports, over 90%, or nearly $17 billion, was exported to the UK. The United States imported less than $200 million in gold from Russia in 2019, and under $1 million in 2020 and 2021.
Biden arrived in Germany’s picturesque Bavarian alps early Sunday to join his counterparts for the annual meeting of the world’s leading democratic economies. Reverberations from the brutal war in Ukraine will be front and center of their discussions. Biden and the allies aim to present a united front in support of Ukraine as the conflict enters its fourth month.
Unity was the message Biden took into a pre-summit sit-down with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who holds the G-7′s rotating presidency and is hosting the gathering.
“We’ve got to make sure we have us all staying together. You know, we’re gonna continue working on economic challenges that we face but I think we get through all this,” Biden said.
Scholz replied that the “good message” is that “we all made it to stay united, which Putin never expected,” a reference to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“We have to stay together, because Putin has been counting on, from the beginning, that somehow NATO and the G7 would splinter, but we haven’t and we’re not going to,” Biden said. “We can’t let this aggression take the form it has and get away with it.”
Biden and the leaders of Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Japan, plus the European Union, were spending Sunday in both formal and informal settings, including working sessions on dealing with the war’s effects on the global economy, including inflation, and on infrastructure.
Among the issues to be discussed are price caps on energy, which are meant to limit Russian oil and gas profits that Moscow can put to use in its war effort. The idea has been championed by U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen.
A senior German official, speaking on condition of anonymity consistent with department rules, said the U.S. idea of price caps was being discussed intensely, in terms of how it would work and how it would fit with the U.S., EU, British, Canadian and Japanese sanctions regimes.
Officials were also set to discuss how to maintain commitments to addressing climate change while also solving critical energy supply needs as a result of the war.
“There’s no watering down of climate commitments,” John Kirby, a spokesman for Biden’s National Security Council, said Saturday as the president flew to Germany.
Biden is also set Sunday to formally launch a global infrastructure partnership designed to counter China’s influence in the developing world. He had named it “Build Back Better World” and introduced the program at last year’s G-7 summit.
Kirby said Biden and other leaders would announce the first projects to benefit from what the U.S. sees as an “alternative to infrastructure models that sell debt traps to low- and middle-income partner countries, and advance U.S. economic competitiveness and our national security.”
After the G-7 wraps up on Tuesday, Biden will travel to Madrid for a summit of the leaders of the 30 members of NATO to align strategy on the war in Ukraine.
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Superville reported from Telfs, Austria. Associated Press writers Jill Lawless in London contributed to this report.
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2022-06-26T10:11:17+00:00
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https://www.wymt.com/2022/06/26/biden-g-7-ban-russian-gold-response-ukraine-war/
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Dementia affects an estimated 6.7 million people in the U.S., according to a 2023 report published by the Alzheimer’s Association. Doctors and scientists have spent years researching the disease’s origins and ways to slow its progress.
Back in 2019, Johns Hopkins launched a study to examine the link between dementia and hearing loss, a connection doctors have noticed in many of their patients who suffer from both conditions, and whether hearing aids could help these patients slow the cognitive decline. This randomized study involved more than 3,000 people, who were either assigned to a control group that received counseling in chronic disease prevention, or a group that received hearing aids and treatment from an audiologist. They studied the groups every six months, then gave them a neuro-cognitive test at the end of three years.
The results of this study, published this week in The Lancet medical journal, show a possible link between using hearing aids and reducing cognitive decline for patients with the highest risk for it. Overall, the researchers didn’t find a difference for the group that received the hearing intervention as a whole. However, in the oldest subgroup, which had lower baseline cognitive scores and was at the highest risk, hearing aids slowed the rate of cognitive deterioration by 48%.
MORE: Amazon Prime Video’s new feature makes it easier to hear dialogue
But how are dementia and hearing loss connected?
During an interview with CNN, Dr. Frank Lin, the study’s primary author and a professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Bloomberg School of Public Health, discussed hearing loss’s possible physical and mental impacts on the brain.
First, he said that when someone has difficulty hearing, the brain must work harder and may have to to redistribute its “power” to understand what is being said. This overcompensation may lead to a diminished overall ability to function well. Lin said more study needs to be done on the possible physical impact of hearing loss on the brain, including possible decay and shrinking.
However, Lin also believes hearing loss often leads to isolation as patients avoid socializing, which causes complications for people at risk of dementia.
“For many, many years now, we’ve understood that social isolation and loneliness likely directly affects our risk of cognitive decline dementia, mainly through loss of cognitively stimulating activities but also just a loss of engagement with the world around us as we become … more pigeonholed at home sometimes,” Lin told NPR in an August 2022 interview.
Withover-the-counter hearing aids available in the U.S. since October 2022 and hopefully more studies on the way, Lin and other scientific peers hope easier access to devices and more studies will open a clear path to helping people at high risk for dementia to slow the progression of the disease.
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2023-07-19T15:30:45+00:00
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https://www.wkbw.com/hearing-aids-may-lessen-dementia-risk-new-study-finds
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HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) — President Joe Biden tried to reassure world leaders on Saturday that the United States would not default as he consulted with the heads of Australia, Japan and India in a meeting of the so-called Quad partnership that had been hastily rescheduled because of the debt limit standoff back in Washington.
Hoping to avert an outcome that would rattle the global economy and prove to be a boon to Beijing, Biden opened his third day in Japan at the annual Group of Seven meeting of the world’s most powerful democracies with a briefing from his staff on the latest fits and starts in talks over how to raise the federal debt limit.
The president also squeezed in meetings aimed at challenging China’s buildout across the Indo-Pacific. The Quad members originally had planned to meet in Sydney next week, but got together instead on the sidelines of the G7 so Biden could return to Washington earlier on Sunday in hopes of finalizing a deal to increase the U.S. borrowing limit before the government runs out of cash to pay its bills.
Biden said he felt there was headway in the talks with GOP lawmakers.
“The first meetings weren’t all that progressive, the second ones were, the third one was,” he said before a meeting with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. “And then, what happens is the carriers go back to the principals and say, ‘This is what we’re thinking about.’ And then people put down new claims. I still believe we’ll be able to avoid a default and we’ll get something decent done.”
The shortened trip has reinforced a fundamental tension shaping Biden’s presidency: As he has worked to signal to the world that the U.S. is reclaiming the mantle of global leadership, at key moments, domestic dramas keep getting in the way.
Until Saturday, Biden had largely stayed out of the public eye at the summit, forgoing big public statements and leaving Friday’s leader dinner early. He has been spending time instead by a video monitor in a room next to his hotel suite, where aides in Washington have been keeping him apprised of the back-and-forth of debt limit talks.
National security adviser Jake Sullivan acknowledged that world leaders have pressed Biden about the standoff in Washington. But press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said that, while there was intense interest in how the president would resolve a domestic showdown that has geopolitical ramifications, there was no panic — at least not yet.
“It’s not a hair-on-fire type of situation,” she said.
On the margins of the summit, Biden held talks with Albanese in lieu of the now-scrapped visit to Australia. U.S. officials said the trip would be rescheduled, and Biden has invited Albanese to Washington for a state visit.
Biden apologized for skipping Australia. Albanese said he understood the circumstances.
“I would have done exactly the same thing,” he told Biden, adding, “I'm very much looking forward to the state visit.”
The leaders signed a compact pledging to deepen their partnership on developing the raw materials used in clean energy technologies — as they each seek to move supply away from reliance on China. They also issued a joint statement outlining new areas of cooperation in space, trade and defense.
G7 leaders also sat down to discuss their investments in infrastructure in less advanced economies, a key counterbalance to the loans and construction that China has been providing. Biden said the U.S. has mobilized more than $30 billion in investments to date “and we’re just getting started.”
During a full meeting in the evening with all of the Quad leaders, Biden repeated his apologies about needing to move their gathering to Japan.
The president is sending U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken to fill his spot at a summit of Pacific Island nations in Papua New Guinea on Monday. That presidential stop, too, was scrapped in order to get Biden back to Washington more quickly.
Biden’s visit would have been the first by an American president to the country. Those countries are being aggressively courted by the U.S. and China as the two powers compete for influence in parts of the world where shipping lanes are vital.
In Hiroshima, Biden and other world leaders agreed on a shared framework for improving their own economic resilience — a recognition that high levels of trade with China have become more of a risk than an opportunity for mature economies.
Sullivan said G7 leaders were acknowledging that “we do seek to cooperate with China on matters of mutual interest. And also that we will work to address our significant concerns that we have with China in a range of areas.” He repeated a phrase often used by G7 leaders that the group is looking to “de-risk, not decouple from China."
Biden and first lady Jill Biden attended a dinner Saturday for G7 leaders and other officials who participated in the summit.
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2023-05-20T14:23:26+00:00
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Man who survived Kyle Rittenhouse shooting seeks name change
Gaige Grosskreutz has filed a secret petition to change his legal name because of what he now says was continued harassment related to the case.
Gaige Grosskreutz has filed a secret petition to change his legal name because of what he now says was continued harassment related to the case.
Gaige Grosskreutz has filed a secret petition to change his legal name because of what he now says was continued harassment related to the case.
The man who survived a shooting by Kyle Rittenhouse that left two others dead during a Wisconsin protest in 2020 has filed a secret petition to change his legal name because of what he now says was continued harassment related to the case.
Gaige Grosskreutz has called for an investigation by the Milwaukee County Clerk of Circuit Court on how the sealed petition was leaked to a conservative news outlet this week.
Grosskreutz, 29, of West Allis, issued a statement after the petition became public. It said he has received death threats in the two years since he was shot in the arm during a protest in Kenosha and that he was seeking the name change to protect him and his family.
``But the real story here isn't that I am seeking to change my name, but that a process that is supposed to protect and shield those in danger was undermined and sealed information was released to the right wing media within hours of my filing,`` the statement said.
Grosskreutz's attorney, Kimberley Motley, has requested records of who had access to the petition on Tuesday, the day it was filed with the clerk.
Clerk of Courts George Christenson said he has begun looking into the matter, the Journal Sentinel reported.
Grosskreutz was shot by Rittenhouse on Aug. 25, 2020, minutes after Rittenhouse fatally shot two other men with an AR-15-style rifle during a violent protest that followed the police shooting of Jacob Blake Jr.
The jury acquitted Rittenhouse of all charges after he claimed he shot all three men in self-defense.
The confidential name change petition was first reported by the Kenosha County Eye, whose editor, Kevin Mathewson, was himself a figure in the protest. Mathewson is a former Kenosha alderman who called for armed people to come and defend the city in a post to a Facebook account called The Kenosha Guard.
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2022-09-30T17:36:23+00:00
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wisn.com
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https://www.wisn.com/article/man-who-survived-kyle-rittenhouse-shooting-seeks-name-change/41465154
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Why AC/DC’s Transitional ‘Powerage’ LP has Grown in Stature
Australian rockers AC/DC were teetering on the brink of worldwide stardom when they released Powerage on May 25, 1978. This album didn't quite get them there, but it marked an important period of transition for the band. It also remains a favorite of many fans who feel it is an underrated classic.
Their previous studio project, Let There Be Rock, helped AC/DC finally break into the all-important U.S. market, and with Powerage they were poised to bring their raucous brand of heavy-blues rock 'n' roll to audiences all across America. But in retrospect, it doesn't have a standout single, and though there are many strong songs and performances, it remains frustratingly uneven.
Powerage marked the studio debut of bassist Cliff Williams, who replaced Mark Evans, though Evans later said that some of his performances are on the album. It's the last studio album of the classic Bon Scott era to be produced by Harry Vanda and George Young, and it features the unusually treble-heavy sound that marked much of that period of AC/DC's career.
The album is bookended by a pair of classic tracks, kicking off with "Rock 'n' Roll Damnation" and closing with the fist-upside-the-head fury of "Kicked in the Teeth." Both of these tracks – along with other standouts like "Down Payment Blues," "Riff Raff," "Sin City" and "Up to My Neck in You" – feature the signature marriage of straight-ahead Angus Young guitar riffing and Bon Scott vocal pyrotechnics that made the band's early work so compelling.
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Other songs like "Gimme a Bullet," "What's Next to the Moon" or "Gone Shootin'" don't quite reach those heights, but there's nothing on the album that's anything short of well-played and well-sung.
The album's first pressing featured very different mixes of some tracks and the addition of "Cold Hearted Man," which would eventually see wider circulation through a series of vinyl re-releases and via the Backtracks boxed set in 2009. The tour for the album was captured for 1978's live album If You Want Blood You've Got It, and in 1979 AC/DC broke worldwide with Highway to Hell, the defining album of the Bon Scott era and the last before his tragic death.
Powerage is a much-overlooked album in the AC/DC canon, perhaps most significant historically as the transitional record between Let There Be Rock and Highway to Hell. But its legend has grown over time, with rockers from Keith Richards to Eddie Van Halen praising it as one of their favorite AC/DC outings, and with artists including Guns N' Roses, Twisted Sister, Great White and Bruce Dickinson covering its songs either live or on record.
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2022-05-28T04:10:15+00:00
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1019therock.com
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https://1019therock.com/acdc-powerage/
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The tiny South Dakota town of Rosholt isn't all that far from the North Dakota state line and is a place where allegiances are split between the Jackrabbits and Bison year-round — and never more pronounced than this week.
The South Dakota State Jackrabbits from Brookings and North Dakota State Bison from Fargo will play for the Football Championship Subdivision title in Frisco, Texas, on Sunday. It's a matchup fans have been hoping for since the schools, separated by 189 miles, began their moves to Division I together in 2004.
Friends Lisa Braun and JoAnn Foltz sat at the same table during happy hour at the Corner Bar in Rosholt this week. Braun is Team Jackrabbit. Foltz is Team Bison.
Braun's son went to SDSU, and the recently retired physician's assistant used to drive across the state line to her job in Wahpeton.
“I was one of three SDSU fans at the clinic there having to put up with all the Bison fans for about 15 years,” she said. Braun considers it a respectful rivalry but, speaking for fellow Jacks fans, said: “We're tired of the Bison always winning.”
SDSU is a proud program that produced, among others, Pro Football Hall of Fame center Jim Langer and 24-year NFL kicker and career scoring leader Adam Vinatieri.
Still, the Jacks have been overshadowed for decades by the Bison, who were voted Division II national champions three times in the 1960s, won five Division II playoff titles from 1983-90 and will be playing for their 10th FCS crown in 12 years.
Jason Mork of Sioux Falls, who attended SDSU and has gone to Jacks games for 50 years, said something just feels right about playing NDSU in the final.
“There would be nobody more satisfying to beat,” he said. "At the same time, there probably is nobody more horrible to lose to.”
The game will mark the 114th time the teams have squared off since 1903, when the school then known as the North Dakota Agricultural College won 85-0. The Bison have won the three previous FCS playoff meetings and hold a 63-45-5 lead in the series.
The gap has narrowed recently. SDSU has won the last three meetings, including a 23-21 come-from-behind victory in Fargo on Oct. 15.
NDSU (12-2), however, continues to be the standard bearer in the second tier of Division I football. The Bison beat Montana State last season for their latest championship, and their record is a gaudy 179-32 since they became full-fledged Division I members in 2008.
South Dakota State (13-1) made its only previous title game appearance in May 2021, losing to Sam Houston State in the COVID-19 season pushed back to spring. The Jacks are an impressive 124-56 in their FCS era but remain the little brother in the dynamic with their neighbor to the north.
Watch parties will be held across the Dakotas, and the most ardent fans will make the long drive down Interstates 29 and 35 to see the game in person.
Bison backers are expected to outnumber Jacks fans at Toyota Stadium. Each school received 4,500 tickets to sell, and those were gone within hours. Many NDSU fans expect the Bison to reach the championship game every year and buy their tickets well in advance. The bottom price for a ticket on the secondary market was $143 at midweek.
Adam Timmerman, a two-time Division II All-America offensive lineman for the Jacks in the early 1990s before his 12-year NFL career, said the matchup is especially meaningful to players of yesteryear.
The rivalry was born in the days of the North Central Conference. SDSU and NDSU joined as charter members in 1922, and the NCC grew into one of the most powerful Division II leagues before schools began leaving for Division I in the 2000s.
Timmerman said he was skeptical when SDSU announced it would go along with NDSU to Division I. The Jacks had been a middling Division II team in the years immediately before the transition, so there was concern about how they would fare against better competition.
Timmerman credits former school president Peggy Miller, former athletic director Fred Oien and coach John Stiegelmeier for having foresight and the perseverance to overcome opposition on several fronts.
Stiegelmeier has bridged the Division II and I eras. He was a defensive assistant under two head coaches from 1988-96 before landing the top job in 1997. Stiegelmeier recently recalled how a former player once asked him why the Jacks even got on the bus for games at NDSU when, to the player, losing was a foregone conclusion.
“I thought, ‘We’re going to change that mentality,'” Stiegelmeier said, “and, ideally, we have.”
Timmerman, who played on the 1993 SDSU team that ended a 16-game losing streak in the series, said the confidence Stiegelmeier has instilled in his players and the fan base is palpable.
“We have aspired to be what North Dakota State has been," Timmerman said, "for a long time.”
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2023-01-04T23:04:31+00:00
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sfgate.com
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https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/FCS-title-tilt-is-battle-of-Dakotas-Tired-of-17694954.php
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The November election has come and gone but several races in Austin were left undecided. No single candidate in the race for mayor and three seats on the City Council garnered a majority of votes, so they were sent to a runoff election.
Here’s what to know to vote in the runoffs this December.
Who’s on the ballot?
The races for Austin mayor and City Council districts 3, 5 and 9 are on the ballot. These are the candidates:
- Austin Mayor: Celia Israel and Kirk Watson
- Austin City Council District 3: José Velásquez and Daniela Silva
- Austin City Council District 5: Ryan Alter and Stephanie Bazan
- Austin City Council District 9: Zohaib "Zo" Qadri and Linda Guerrero
Can I vote?
If you are an Austin resident and are registered to vote in the county where you live, you can vote in the election. You’ll vote on the Austin mayor’s race, and if you live in either district 3, 5 or 9, you’ll have a council race on your ballot as well.
To see if you’re registered to vote, go here. The deadline to register in this election has already passed.
To see what City Council district you live in, go here. Click “I Want To …" and "Find My Council District” and type in your address.
When can I vote?
Early voting starts Thursday and lasts through Dec. 9. Election Day is Tuesday, Dec. 13.
Where can I vote?
Below is a map of early voting locations in Travis County. You can find wait times at each location here.
Polling locations are open Monday through Saturday from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Sunday from noon to 6 p.m.
On Election Day, you can vote at one of the locations below between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m.
Some parts of Austin fall outside of Travis County. If you live in one of those areas, here’s where to find voting locations:
Don't forget your ID
Make sure to bring a photo ID. The ID should be up to date or can be expired up to four years. Voters 70 or older can bring a photo ID that has been expired for any length of time.
If you had trouble getting an ID and don’t have one, here are some alternatives:
- government document showing your name and an address, such as your voter registration certificate
- current utility bill
- bank statement
- government check
- paycheck
- birth certificate
If you use one of these, you'll have to sign a form that says you had a reasonable impediment to getting an ID.Want to vote by mail?
If you’re a registered voter in Texas, you can vote by mail if you:
- will be away from your county on Election Day and during early voting;
- are sick or disabled;
- are 65 or older on Election Day;
- are confined in jail, but eligible to vote; or
- are expecting to give birth within three weeks before or after Election Day.
The deadline to apply for a mail-in ballot is Dec. 2. The League of Women Voters has put together a detailed guide to voting by mail for Central Texas voters here.
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2022-12-01T14:01:22+00:00
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kut.org
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https://www.kut.org/politics/2022-12-01/austin-runoff-election-2022-mayor-city-council
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Jason Dietrich named as Executive Vice President and Chief Revenue Officer, and Júlio Tesser named as Vice President, Latin America
ATLANTA, June 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- KORE Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:KORE, KORE WS), the global pure-play Internet of Things ("IoT") hyperscaler and provider of IoT Connectivity, Solutions and Analytics, announced today the appointment of two new leaders to help drive KORE's next phase of growth. Jason Dietrich joins the Company as Executive Vice President and Chief Revenue Officer, responsible for leading KORE's global sales and marketing teams. Mr. Dietrich joins KORE, effective immediately, and reports to President and Chief Executive Officer Romil Bahl. Júlio Tesser joins KORE as Vice President, Latin America, and will lead KORE's efforts to expand its presence in this key market.
"Jason brings to KORE nearly 25 years of sales leadership experience across a wide range of IoT use cases and services, including deep expertise in the industrial IoT space, which is set to see explosive growth," said Bahl. "I am excited for Jason to join KORE because he is a leader who will bring out the best in our sales teams. He has an exceptional focus on the needs of our customers, and we expect Jason to help KORE make the most of the 'Decade of IoT.'"
"With a powerful portfolio of IoT services, as well as many marquee, industry-leading customers already taking advantage of their 'one-stop shop' value proposition, KORE is incredibly well positioned for the future. I am excited to put my experience to work alongside a world-class team to help KORE take advantage of the great opportunity before us," said Dietrich.
Bahl continued, "KORE has long been an IoT leader in Brazil, and it was our fastest growing geography when Julio was our head of sales for Brazil, back when I joined KORE. With Júlio's leadership and extensive IoT experience, KORE's ability to maximize market opportunities and further help our customers navigate the IoT landscape will be greatly enhanced."
"I am excited to head KORE's business in Brazil, because I believe KORE's opportunity to lead the Brazilian market has never been better. Also, with an ever-growing number of enterprises and IoT solution providers looking for simplified global connectivity including the challenges particular to Brazil, KORE is highly differentiated in its capability due to the long-term presence of an in-country operation and world-class team," added Tesser.
Disclosure of Inducement Grants
KORE also announced today that, as approved by the Compensation Committee of KORE's Board of Directors, KORE has made certain equity awards to Mr. Dietrich. The awards were made as a material inducement to his joining KORE as Executive Vice President and Chief Revenue Officer.
The awards made to Mr. Dietrich are as follows: (i) an award of Restricted Stock Units ("RSUs") in respect of 325,732 shares of KORE common stock, which will vest 50% on the second anniversary of the grant date and 25% on each of third and fourth anniversaries of the grant date and (ii) an award of 228,013 RSUs covering an aggregate of up to 285,016 shares of KORE common stock, one-half of which RSUs vest in three equal installments on the following three anniversaries of the grant date, and one-half of which RSUs are performance-based and which will be earned or forfeited based upon the Company's performance relative to adjusted EBITDA and revenue performance goals for the period of fiscal years 2023 through 2025.
The RSUs were all granted outside of KORE's 2021 Long-Term Stock Incentive Plan, but generally have terms and conditions consistent with those set forth in that plan. The award of RSUs to Mr. Dietrich is being made in reliance on the employment inducement exemption under the NYSE's Listed Company Manual Rule 303A.08. KORE is announcing the grant of the equity awards in this press release to comply with Rule 303A.08 and intends to file a Registration Statement on Form S-8 covering this award of RSUs.
About KORE
KORE is a pioneer, leader, and trusted advisor delivering mission critical IoT solutions and services. We empower organizations of all sizes to improve operational and business results by simplifying the complexity of IoT. Our deep IoT knowledge and experience, global reach, purpose-built solutions, and deployment agility accelerate and materially impact our customers' business outcomes. For more information, visit korewireless.com.
KORE Investors Contact:
Charley Brady
Vice President, Investor Relations
investors@korewireless.com
+1-678-392-2335
KORE Media Contact:
Alisa Moloney
Senior Director of Marketing
Email: amoloney@korewireless.com
+1-770-365-8382
Cautionary Note on Forward-Looking Statements
This press release includes certain statements that are not historical facts but are forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor provisions under the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements generally are accompanied by words such as "believe," "may," "will," "estimate," "continue," "anticipate," "intend," "expect," "should," "would," "plan," "predict," "potential," "seem," "seek," "future," "outlook," and similar expressions that predict or indicate future events or trends or that are not statements of historical matters. In particular, statements relating to KORE's business outlook, objectives, development, plans, growth strategies and other strategic priorities; KORE's estimated position and strengths in the IoT business; estimations of addressable markets; and statements relating to KORE's future growth, business, prospects and opportunities, as well as other statements that are not historical facts, constitute forward-looking statements. These statements are based on various assumptions and on the current expectations of KORE's management. These forward-looking statements are provided for illustrative purposes only and are not intended to serve as and must not be relied on by any investor or other person as, a guarantee, an assurance, a prediction or a definitive statement of fact or probability. Actual events and circumstances are difficult or impossible to predict and will differ from assumptions. Many actual events and circumstances are beyond the control of KORE. These forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, including general economic, financial, legal, political and business conditions and changes in domestic and foreign markets; the potential effects of COVID-19; risks related to the rollout of KORE's business and the timing of expected business milestones; risks related to the loss, non-renewal, termination or negotiation of the relationship with customers of the IoT business acquired from Twilio; risks relating to the integration of KORE's acquired businesses, including the IoT business acquired from Twilio, changes in the assumptions underlying KORE's expectations regarding its future business; the effects of competition on KORE's future business; and the outcome of judicial proceedings to which KORE is, or may become a party. If the risks materialize or assumptions prove incorrect, actual results could differ materially from the results implied by these forward-looking statements. There may be additional risks that KORE presently does not know or that KORE currently believes are immaterial that could also cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking statements. In addition, forward-looking statements reflect KORE's expectations, plans or forecasts of future events and views as of the date of this press release. KORE anticipates that subsequent events and developments will cause these assessments to change. However, while KORE may elect to update these forward-looking statements at some point in the future, KORE specifically disclaims any obligation to do so. These forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing KORE's assessments as of any date subsequent to the date of this press release. Accordingly, undue reliance should not be placed upon the forward-looking statements.
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2023-06-12T16:24:31+00:00
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wcjb.com
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https://www.wcjb.com/prnewswire/2023/06/12/kore-names-new-sales-leaders-continue-growth-expansion/
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HAIKOU, China, July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- China Pharma Holdings, Inc. (NYSE American: CPHI) ("China Pharma," the "Company" or "We"), a specialty pharmaceutical company, today announced that on July 15, 2022, the Company submitted a plan of compliance to NYSE American LLC ("NYSE American" or the "Exchange") to address the deficiency in the Company's stockholders' equity as pointed out in the letter from the Exchange dated June 15, 2022 (the "Letter").
As previously released in a press release dated June 22, 2022, according to the Letter, in order to maintain its listing, the Company must submit a plan of compliance by July 15, 2022 addressing how it intends to regain compliance with Section 1003(a)(iii) of the Company Guide by December 15, 2023.
Ms. Zhilin Li, China Pharma's Chairman and CEO, commented, "The staff of the NYSE American indicated that they could accept the plan of compliance. During the next 18 months grace period or by December 15, 2023, we will actively supply additional information as required by the Exchange, implement the plan and strive to regain compliance on stockholders' equity as required by the Exchange listing requirement under as soon as possible."
About China Pharma Holdings, Inc.
China Pharma Holdings, Inc. (NYSE American: CPHI) is a specialty pharmaceutical company that develops, manufactures and markets a diversified portfolio of products, focusing on conditions with high incidence and high mortality rates in China, including cardiovascular, CNS, infectious, and digestive diseases. The Company's cost-effective business model is driven by market demand and supported by new GMP-certified product lines covering the major dosage forms. In addition, the Company has a broad and expanding nationwide distribution network across all major cities and provinces in China. The Company's wholly-owned subsidiary, Hainan Helpson Medical & Biotechnology Co., Ltd., is located in Haikou City, Hainan Province. For more information about China Pharma Holdings, Inc., please visit www.chinapharmaholdings.com. The Company routinely posts important information on its website.
Safe Harbor Statement
Certain statements in this press release constitute forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor provisions under The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Any statements set forth above that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. Such risks and uncertainties may include, but are not limited to: the achievability of financial guidance; success of new product development; unanticipated changes in product demand; increased competition; downturns in the Chinese economy; uncompetitive levels of research and development; and other information detailed from time to time in the Company's filings and future filings with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. The forward-looking statements made herein speak only as of the date of this press release and the Company undertakes no duty to update any forward-looking statement to conform the statement to actual results or changes in the Company's expectations, except as required by applicable law or regulation.
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2022-07-18T13:03:24+00:00
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wsfa.com
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https://www.wsfa.com/prnewswire/2022/07/18/china-pharma-announced-submission-plan-compliance-nyse-american/
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PARIS (AP) — France's national rail operator is recommending that passengers stay home Tuesday to avoid strikes over pensions that are expected to cause major transport woes but largely spare high-speed links to Britain, Belgium and the Netherlands.
Labor unions that mobilized massive street protests in an initial salvo of nationwide strikes earlier this month are hoping for similar success Tuesday to maintain pressure on government plans to raise France's retirement age.
Positions are hardening on both sides as lawmakers begin debating the planned change. France's prime minister, Elisabeth Borne, insisted this weekend that her government's intention to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64 is "no longer negotiable." Opponents in parliament and labor leaders are determined to prove her wrong.
Rail operator SNCF warned that major network disruptions were expected from Monday night to Wednesday morning, recommending that passengers cancel or postpone trips and work remotely if possible.
Rail services in the Paris region and regional trains across the country are expected to be severely affected, setting up a potential nightmare day for commuters.
Severe disruptions also are expected on France's flagship network of high-speed trains serving cities and major towns, including the Lyria service that links France and Switzerland, the SNCF said.
But it said high-speed Eurostar links with Britain and the Thalys services between France, Belgium and the Netherlands should run largely as normal.
Raising the pension age is one part of a broad bill that is the flagship measure of President Emmanuel Macron’s second term. The bill is meeting widespread popular resistance — more than 1 million people marched in protests against it earlier this month.
Lawmaker Manuel Bompard, whose France Unbowed party is leading the parliamentary push against Macron's plans, called for “the biggest possible” turnout Tuesday in strikes and protests.
The government says its proposals are necessary to keep the pension system solvent as France’s life expectancy has grown and birth rates have declined.
Unions and left-wing parties want big companies or wealthier households to pitch in more to balance the pension budget instead.
The bill was going to a parliamentary commission Monday ahead of full debate in the National Assembly on Feb. 6. Opponents have submitted 7,000 proposed amendments that will further complicate the bill's legislative passage.
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2023-01-30T10:14:33+00:00
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daytondailynews.com
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https://www.daytondailynews.com/nation-world/france-braces-for-major-transport-woes-from-pension-strikes/34VAWFRIIREVLCAHLYFWAEABZQ/
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Upstate sheriff's office implements program to support students
The Greenville County Sheriff's Office announced the launch of the 'Handle with Care' program, which will notify schools if a child experiences a traumatic event.
The Greenville County Sheriff's Office announced the launch of the 'Handle with Care' program, which will notify schools if a child experiences a traumatic event.
The Greenville County Sheriff's Office announced the launch of the 'Handle with Care' program, which will notify schools if a child experiences a traumatic event.
The Greenville County Sheriff's Office is implementing the 'Handle with Care' program to support students who experience traumatic events outside of school.
According to the sheriff's office, the program is designed to notify schools, school districts, and day cares after a child is involved in or witnesses a traumatic event.
Officials say, this way, school officials can be better prepared if a child experiences emotional or behavioral issues at school.
“These administrators and the teachers, they’re just not privy to this information," Lt. Ryan Flood, with the Greenville County Sheriff's Office, said. "They don’t know that something occurred to [the child] the week before or the day before. This way, now they’re at least aware, and they can monitor that child and watch them carefully.”
Flood says GCSO will work in partnership with Greenville County Schools, and with private schools and day cares in the Greenville County area.
"We want to make sure that every single child is going to be included and that those resources are going to be given to them no matter where they attend school," said Flood.
George Ward, Ph.D., Associate Superintendent of Operations at Greenville County Schools, says the program will help provide students with the support they need to be able to focus on learning.
"When you’re coming to school and you’ve had a tough situation at home, it's hard for students to concentrate that next day. So, we need to make sure we take care of their mental wellness before we get to the point of educating them," he said.
Ward says resources at the school include guidance counselors, mental health professionals, and even just trusted adults.
He says, ultimately, the support provided will depend on the child and their specific needs.
“If we notice some off-task behavior from the student, [the program] would give the administrators and teachers kind of a 'heads up' to know that this is not a normal day for this student, and we need to deal with that appropriately and get them the support they need at school," Ward said.
Flood says the child does not have to be a victim or involved in the incident for law enforcement to pass along their information through the new program.
"They could’ve just witnessed it or have been exposed to that incident in some way, shape or form. We’re going to go ahead and get out in front of that so the appropriate resources can be allocated to them," Flood said.
According to the sheriff's office, the chain of command works like this: If the deputy responds to a call where a traumatic event has occurred, deputies will complete the 'Handle with Care' form, indicating that a child has been involved or has likely been exposed to the event. That form will then be forwarded to School Enforcement Investigators, who will pass the information along to the child's school or day care.
"This is a way we can communicate that information, so [the schools] are aware of this," said Flood. "So, they can intervene if necessary by appropriately facilitating resources, such as mental health professionals, or counselors, or at least at a minimum, monitor that child’s behavior to see if there are any changes."
The sheriff's office emphasizes that the school "will not be privileged to the details of the student's involvement, other than they were exposed to a traumatic event in some way, shape or form and advised to please handle the child with care and monitor any possible behavior changes."
The 'Handle with Care' program went live with the Greenville County Sheriff's Office on March 7, 2023.
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2023-03-10T23:32:23+00:00
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wyff4.com
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https://www.wyff4.com/article/south-carolina-sheriffs-office-implements-program-to-support-students/43275688
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UPS drivers to get air conditioned trucks for 1st time under union agreement
UPS has reached an agreement with the Teamsters union to equip its iconic brown delivery trucks with air conditioning for the first time.
The agreement, announced by UPS on Tuesday, comes as the delivery giant and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters negotiate the terms of a new contract for more than 330,000 U.S. employees.
Last summer, concerns over sweltering heat prompted rallies and demands for more to be done to keep UPS drivers safe. In one instance, a home security camera caught a UPS employee collapse while trying to make a delivery in mid-July in Scottsdale, Arizona.
"We have agreed to equip all newly purchased U.S. small package delivery vehicles with air conditioning starting January 1, 2024," UPS said in a statement. "Where possible, new vehicles will be allocated to the hottest parts of the country first."
The new contract language means UPS would equip in-cab air conditioning systems in all larger delivery vehicles, smaller sprinter vans, and all of UPS’ most recognizable brown package cars purchased after Jan. 1, 2024, according to the union.
The regular package cars make up approximately 95% of its U.S. package delivery fleet, UPS said.
UPS will also work to make sure all current package cars have a cab fan within 30 days of the new contract ratification date, and said it will install a second fan in vehicles without air conditioning by June 1, 2024.
Additionally, UPS has agreed to install exhaust heat shields, which reduce temperatures on the truck floor, and air induction systems to increase airflow in the cargo areas, in new package cars and retrofitted into existing package cars.
"Air conditioning is coming to UPS, and Teamster members in these vehicles will get the relief and protection they’ve been fighting for," Teamsters General President Sean M. O’Brien said in a statement on Tuesday after a day of negotiations.
UPS’ ground fleet serves all business and residential zip codes in the contiguous United States. In 2022, it delivered an average of 24.3 million packages per day, totaling 6.2 billion packages throughout the year.
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2023-06-15T15:01:21+00:00
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fox10phoenix.com
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https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/ups-drivers-air-conditioned-trucks-teamsters-union-agreement
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Tropical Storm Fiona continues on path across the Atlantic: Will it impact Florida?
ORLANDO, Fla. - Tropical Storm Fiona is continuing to trek across the Atlantic – but is it headed toward Florida?
The National Hurricane Center says Fiona is located east of the Leeward Islands with maximum sustained winds of 50 mph.
Fiona is expected to produce total rainfall accumulationsof 3 to 6 inches with isolated higher amounts across the northernLeeward Islands, the British and U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Ricoand eastern Hispaniola. These rains may produce flash and urbanflooding, along with isolated mudslides in areas of higher terrain.
"On the forecast track, the center of Fiona is forecast to move through the Leeward Islands late Friday and Friday night, and move near the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico this weekend," the NHC said. "Little change in strength is forecast during the next few days."
A Tropical Storm Watch is in effect for:
- Saba and St. Eustatius
- St. Maarten
- Antigua, Barbuda, St. Kitts, Nevis, Montserrat, and Anguilla
FOX 35 Storm Team Chief Meteorologist Jayme King says Fiona is expected to strengthen over the next few days. Current models show Fiona turning north going out into the open Atlantic, but a threat to Florida cannot be ruled out. Ocean swells could be a concern at area beaches.
"But we don't want to let our guard down until it is north of our latitude here in Central Florida," King said.
The FOX 35 Storm Team will be tracking Fiona every step of the way.
Fiona is the sixth named storm to form during the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season with less than three months left. Hurricane season ends Nov. 30.
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2022-09-15T13:07:24+00:00
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fox35orlando.com
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LendingTree Survey Finds Working Parents with Kids Under 18 Benefit the Most
CHARLOTTE, N.C., Dec. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Amid the Great Resignation, millions of Americans left their jobs in search of greater satisfaction at work. For those that stayed, another movement, quiet quitting, took hold. A new LendingTree survey finds that setting these professional boundaries may actually be beneficial for both employees and the companies they work for.
Key findings:
- Of the 30% of workers who are quiet quitting, 57% say that their work-life balance has improved. This figure jumps to 65% for working parents with kids under 18.
- Approximately 59% of quiet quitters said they were already doing so before they learned about the term, but 26% said they started checking out after learning about the movement.
- Setting boundaries with work has proved beneficial for some workers as 40% of quiet quitters say they are more engaged at work than in the past.
Described as a trend in the workplace where employees refuse to go above and beyond without additional pay, 59% of quiet quitters say they were doing so before the term was coined. The movement is primarily driven by younger workers with 40% of Gen Zers and 33% of Millennials admitting to quiet quitting.
"The last thing anyone wants is to feel taken advantage of in their job, and laying down some guardrails when it comes to your job responsibilities can help you make sure that doesn't happen," Matt Schulz, LendingTree Chief Credit Analyst, says. "That doesn't mean that you should never put in extra hours or that you can't ever help out with things that are a little out of your job description every once in a while. It just means you're willing to speak up when you feel something is out of bounds."
Layoffs hitting the headlines are also of concern as some workers fear that disengaging at work may come back to haunt them. Over a quarter of quiet quitters don't feel secure in their role, compared to just 10% of non-quiet quitters. This unease has some quiet quitters hesitant to cut back on their work as 36% say they work more than their required hours and 42% don't use all their PTO.
Of the 2,000 surveyed by LendingTree, 36% of workers say they're actively searching for a new role compared to 56% of quiet quitters. "If you can't resolve your issues with your employer, it may make sense to find another job that you might find more engaging or motivating." Schulz says, "However, you can't know if a problem is fixable if it's never really openly addressed in the first place."
Tips To Setting Professional Work Boundaries:
- Communicate, communicate, communicate. "Your co-workers may have no idea that there is a problem unless you speak up," Schulz says. "Plus, honest, open discussions with your supervisor and co-workers can help you craft realistic boundaries that will work for your team while also helping you achieve your work-life balance goals. And once those boundaries are established, make sure to let someone know if they've overstepped them."
- Know that compromise will be necessary. "It's important to set firm boundaries, but they also need to be ones that are realistic and respect those you work with," Schulz says. "For example, don't be surprised if you get pushback on a boundary if it means a much bigger workload for a co-worker. That doesn't mean you have to throw out that boundary altogether. It just means that you may need to sit down with the person in question and work out something that could work for both of you."
- If all else fails, don't be afraid to leave. "The grass certainly isn't always greener on the other side, but if your current company isn't willing to work with you sufficiently on giving you more work-life balance, it may be time for you to go," Schulz says.
Full Report: https://www.lendingtree.com/debt-consolidation/quiet-quitting-survey/.
About LendingTree, Inc.
LendingTree® is one of the nation's largest, most experienced online marketplaces, created to give power to consumers so more people can win financially. LendingTree strives to provide consumers with easy access to the best offers on home loans, personal loans, insurance, credit cards, student loans, business loans, home equity loans/lines of credit, auto loans and more, through its network of over 500 partners. Founded in 1996 and launched nationally in 1998, LendingTree has helped over 111 million consumers obtain financing, save money, and improve their financial and credit health with transparency, education, and support throughout their financial journey.
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2022-12-12T20:12:40+00:00
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The Social Security program is expected to run short of cash to pay promised benefits in about ten years, while a key trust fund for Medicare will run out of funds by 2031, according to new forecasts issued Friday by trustees of both programs.
The projections serve as an annual reminder that the popular programs rest on shaky financial footings. While any effort to patch them is sure to face stiff political opposition, doing nothing is likely to be worse.
Social Security benefits for retirees and others are primarily paid for through payroll taxes on current workers, and are supplemented by a trust fund.
Benefits paid out by the program have exceeded money coming in since 2021, and the trust fund is now expected to be depleted by 2033. That's a year earlier than forecast last year, thanks in part to slower economic growth.
Unless changes are made before then to shore up the program, 66 million Social Security recipients would see their benefits cut by 23-25%.
Meanwhile, the Medicare trust fund, which supplements payments to hospitals and nursing homes, is also running out of cash. That could result in an 11% pay cut to health care providers unless changes are made by 2031. That deadline is three years later than had been forecast last year.
Trustees anticipate some cost savings for Medicare, thanks to a switch to less-expensive outpatient treatments and because some people who would have required the most costly care died prematurely during the pandemic.
Millions depend on Social Security, Medicare
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, who leads the trustees, stressed the importance of propping up both trust funds to avoid draconian cuts in benefits and provider payments.
"Social Security and Medicare are two bedrock programs that older Americans rely upon for their retirement security," Yellen said in a statement. "The Biden-Harris Administration is committed to ensuring the long-term viability of these critical programs so that retirees can receive the hard-earned benefits they're owed."
As part of its budget, the Biden administration proposed extending the life of the Medicare trust fund by 25 years, largely through higher taxes on wealthy individuals. The administration has not proposed similar fixes for Social Security.
The primary challenge for Social Security is demographic. As aging baby boomers retire, there are fewer workers paying into the program to support the rising cost of benefits. As of last year, there were just 2.7 workers paying into the system for each person drawing Social Security benefits.
Additionally, a smaller fraction of income is now subject to the payroll taxes that support Social Security.
Patching the program will require higher taxes, lower benefits or some combination of the two.
"The only responsible thing to do is admit that we've got to make changes and we disagree about how to do it but let's sit down and try to figure those out," said Maya Macguineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. "If we wait until the last minute, they'll be much, much harder."
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2023-03-31T18:04:52+00:00
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delawarepublic.org
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(iSeeCars) — The minivan is the consummate family vehicle. Although the rise of the SUV has stolen some of its thunder, the convenience and utility of a minivan for family hauling remains unmatched.
Some may resist buying a minivan because it’s unhip, but those who choose to embrace minivan ownership are often passionate and enthusiastic about their vehicle choice. For those who choose comfort and convenience over style, we salute you! However, becoming a minivan owner is only half the battle. Since your minivan is going to handle your most precious cargo, not to mention all the accessories that go with it, you should make sure you choose a reliable model.
To help buyers narrow down the most reliable minivans, iSeeCars has compiled a list of the best minivans for long-term reliability. These minivans are proven to be among the longest-lasting cars on the road as determined by an analysis of 1.8 million vehicles to see which models are most likely to exceed 200,000 miles. A reliability rating was then calculated and assigned to each vehicle. Here are the most reliable new and used minivans:
Most Reliable New Minivans
- Honda Odyssey
iSeeCars Reliability Score: 8.7 (of 10)
Average New Car Price: $40,155
Average 3-Year-Old Used Car Price: $39,999
The most reliable minivan is the Honda Odyssey. The Odyssey has above-average cargo capacity for its class with 32.8 cubic feet of space behind the third row and 88.8 cubic feet of space behind the second-row seats when the third-row seats are folded down. If both rows of rear seats are folded down, the Odyssey has a total of 144.9 cubic feet of cargo space. The Odyssey’s base trim seats seven, with captain chairs in the second-row and a third-row bench seat. Higher trim levels seat up to eight with three seats in the second row that use Honda’s Magic Slide system, allowing you to easily slide seats into several different configurations to meet your passenger and cargo needs. It has one of the best interior designs in the segment and offers available family-friendly features including a rear-seat reminder, a camera that shows the rear passengers on the infotainment screen, and an intercom system for projecting the front seat passengers’ voice to the rear seats. The Odyssey comes standard with advanced safety features, including forward collision warning, pedestrian detection, automatic emergency braking, traffic sign recognition, lane departure warning, and lane keep assist.
- Toyota Sienna
iSeeCars Reliability Score: 8.7
Average New Car Price: $39,565
Average 3-Year-Old Used Car Price: $38,915
The Toyota Sienna ranks second. Redesigned for 2021, the new Sienna features sharper interior and exterior styling to give it a more upscale appearance. Perhaps the most significant change is its hybrid powertrain that returns a combined 36 mpg, nearly double that of its competitors. The new hybrid four-cylinder engine replaces a V6 engine. An all-wheel drive system is also available and offers similar fuel efficiency at 35 mpg in the city and 36 mpg on the highway. The Sienna comes standard with infotainment features including Apple CarPlay, Android Auto, Amazon Alexa, and a Wi-Fi hot spot. The Sienna comes standard with a suite of safety features, including blind spot monitoring, rear cross traffic alert, pedestrian detection, lane departure warning, automatic high-beam headlights, and road sign recognition. Available advanced safety features include hands-free park assist and a surround-view parking system.
- Kia Sedona
iSeeCars Reliability Score: 8.1
Average New Car Price: N/A
Average 3-Year-Old Used Car Price: $32,025
The Kia Sedona ranks third. The Sedona has an upscale interior with premium materials as well as three rows of comfortable seats. The Sedona also earns praise for its comfortable ride quality and responsive handling. The Sedona minivan comes standard with a 7-inch touch screen infotainment system with Apple CarPlay, Android Auto, and Bluetooth connectivity. Available infotainment features include a rear-seat entertainment system that features two 10.1-inch display screens to keep rear passengers happy. The Sedona comes with a five-year/60,000-mile basic warranty and a 10-year/100,000-mile powertrain warranty, which is the best in its class. The Kia Sedona was discontinued after the 2021 model year and replaced with the Kia Carnival.
- Dodge Grand Caravan
iSeeCars Reliability Score: 8.0
Average New Car Price: N/A
Average 3-Year-Old Used Car Price: $26,941
The Dodge Grand Caravan ranks fourth. The Grand Caravan was discontinued after the 2020 model year, but new versions can still be found at dealerships for a limited time and often with steep discounts. The Grand Caravan has the lowest starting MSRP of all minivans at $27,530, making it an appealing choice for drivers who want an affordable family vehicle. It also boasts a powerful 283-horsepower 3.6-liter V6 engine that is one of the strongest in its class. While the no-frills Dodge Grand Caravan lacks some of the fancy convenience features of its competitors, it has its hallmark Stow ‘n Go seating, allowing the second-row seats to be stowed within the cabin’s floor to create maximum cargo space. It also has a maximum towing capacity of 3,600 pounds, among the best in its class.
- Chrysler Pacifica
iSeeCars Reliability Score: 6.1
Average New Car Price: $46,548
Average 3-Year-Old Used Car Price: $36,103
The Chrysler Pacifica’s long-term reliability score is low because it was recently introduced as a new model in 2017. As such, it hasn’t had the opportunity to prove its longevity. However, in other family-friendly considerations, it is among the highest-rated in the minivan segment. The Pacifica has a long list of standard features, including a 10.1-inch touchscreen infotainment system, Android Auto, Apple CarPlay, a power liftgate, power sliding doors, and Stow ‘n Go seating. Available features include heated front seats and a heated steering wheel, a rear-seat entertainment system, and a panoramic sunroof. It also earns an EPA-estimated 19 mpg in the city and 28 on the highway for its front-wheel drive model. All-wheel drive is also available and gets 17 mpg in the city and 25 mpg on the highway. The Pacifica is the only minivan that is also available as a plug-in hybrid. The Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid earns excellent fuel economy with a combined city/highway estimate of 82 mpg. It also has an all-electric range of 32 miles.
- Kia Carnival
Average New Car Price: $39,100
Average 3-Year-Old Used Car Price: N/A
The Kia Carnival was introduced for the 2022 model year, so it has not yet been rated for reliability. The Carnival set out to redefine the minivan segment with its SUV-like exterior styling and upscale interior. It also has a long list of family-friendly features, many of which come standard on the base LX trim and has class-leading 40.2 cubic feet of space behind its third row seats. Between its massive cargo hold, powerful V6 engine, extensive list of safety technology, and standard infotainment features, the Carnival is among the most compelling models in this category.
Best Used Minivans for Reliability
Along with used versions of the minivans mentioned above, there are minivan models that have long been discontinued and are reliable options for used car shoppers.
Chrysler Town and Country
iSeeCars Reliability Score: 8.2
The Chrysler Town and Country was discontinued after the 2016 model year to make way for the Chrysler Pacifica. The Town and Country provides a smooth ride with excellent handling for a minivan. It also comes with an array of standard features including a rearview camera, a 6.5-inch touchscreen display, and Bluetooth connectivity. A second- and third-row dual-screen entertainment system is also available.
Nissan Quest
The Nissan Quest was also discontinued after the 2016 model year, but Nissan’s only minivan offering wasn’t replaced by another model. The Nissan Quest has an attractive interior that rivals what can be found in some luxury vehicles. It offers a smooth ride and is one of the most efficient vehicles in its class at 20 mpg in the city and 27 mpg on the highway. It doesn’t have many standard features, but 5- and 8-inch infotainment screens and a flip-down DVD player are available.
Mazda 5
The Mazda 5 was discontinued after the 2015 model year, but used versions can still be found. The Mazda 5 was praised for its low ownership costs and affordable price tag. It also offered a comfortable ride and was fun to drive. While it doesn’t offer the modern features that current minivans offer like an infotainment system, power sliding doors, or a power liftgate, it is a comfortable people-mover for drivers who don’t need a lot of bells and whistles.
Bottom Line:
If you’re looking for a new car for family hauling, the practicality and utility of a minivan can’t be beat. While many drivers would prefer a more stylish midsize crossover, those who fully embrace minivan ownership can enjoy many convenience features that make family hauling easier and more enjoyable. And if you want the most convenient and comfortable ride for your family, you probably want to make sure your minivan is reliable as well. The above models will help protect your most precious cargo, and you’ll likely want to keep them even after a minivan isn’t necessary. For more information on minivans, be sure to check out our list of the Best Minivans.
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If you’re in the market for a new or used car you can search over 4 million used and new minivans, trucks, cars, and SUVs with iSeeCars’ award-winning car search engine that helps shoppers find the best car deals by providing key insights and valuable resources, like the iSeeCars free VIN check report. Filter by vehicle type, front or all-wheel drive, and other parameters in order to narrow down your car search.
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2022-12-25T17:43:57+00:00
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texomashomepage.com
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CHEYENNE – The Cheyenne East girls set out to be more aggressive on offense this season.
They are well on their way to accomplishing that goal, if their first two matches are any indication.
CHEYENNE – The Cheyenne East girls set out to be more aggressive on offense this season.
They are well on their way to accomplishing that goal, if their first two matches are any indication.
One day after winning their first match by double digits, the Lady Thunderbirds beat visiting Scottsbluff, Nebraska, 4-1 on Saturday afternoon at Okie Blanchard Stadium.
“We are doing a really good job of using what we’ve been practicing,” East coach Rebecca Valdez said. “We’re trying to be more aggressive when we have the ball this year, and the girls have done a really good job of that so far.”
East opened the season with a 10-0 win at Gering, Nebraska, on Friday night. That match was stopped in the 58th minute due to Nebraska’s 10-goal mercy rule.
Sophomore Brooklyn Paskett gave East (2-0) the lead when she scored in the second minute off an assist from junior Jordan Griess. The T-Birds took a 2-0 lead into the halftime locker room after Zoey Woods ran onto a pass from Adelynne Schilling, took a couple of dribbles and hit a shot to the left of Scottsbluff goalkeeper Jessica Schaff in the 18th.
Junior Haley Pearson got in on the action in the 59th minute when she sent a Paskett pass past Schaff.
“We were pressuring really well,” Pearson said. “We had to go against the wind in the first half, and we were worried about that. We did a good job of staying up on them, pressuring them and making sure they couldn’t use the wind to their advantage.”
The Bearcats got onto the scoreboard in the 67th when Ella Foote ran onto the rebound of a direct kick and scored past goalkeeper junior Aryana Booth to trim East’s lead to 3-1.
Sophomore Rylie Vasquez put the T-Birds back up three goals when she scored on a breakaway in the 76th.
East took 24 shots, putting 16 of them on goal. It limited the Bearcats to just seven shots (four on goal).
“We’re using our defense to push up in the attack, and our outside backs helped us score two goals in this game,” Pearson said. “They got the ball and pushed it up, and that really helped us get on the attack.”
EAST 4, SCOTTSBLUFF 1
Halftime: East 2-0.
Goals: East, Paskett (J. Griess), 2. East, Woods (Schilling), 18. East, Pearson (Paskett), 59. Scottsbluff, Foote (unassisted), 67. East, Vasquez (unassisted), 76.
Shots: East 24, Scottsbluff 7. Shots on goal: East 16, Scottsbluff 4. Saves: East 3 (Booth); Scottsbluff 12 (Schaff).
Corner kicks: East 3, Scottsbluff 1. Offsides: East 3, Scottsbluff 1. Fouls: East 4, Scottsbluff 5. Yellow cards: East 1 (Paskett, 53).
Jeremiah Johnke is the WyoSports editor. He can be reached at jjohnke@wyosports.net or 307-633-3137. Follow him on Twitter at @jjohnke.
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2023-03-19T07:10:09+00:00
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PARIS (AP) — Chloe — the house that invented ready-to-wear — got almost ready-to-dance at Thursday’s installment of Paris Fashion Week as designer Gabriela Hearst developed disco fever, cracking open strobe lighting, colored 1970s disc motifs and grungy hair.
And this season Rick Owens, the indefatigable U.S. designer, brought a softer touch to his display of creature-couture.
Here are some highlights of the spring-summer 2023 collections in Paris:
CHLOE’S PARED DOWN DISCO
Katie Holmes and other VIP guests fumbled to their block seating amid the house’s dim atmospheric lights, strewn with champagne coupes and disco décor.
The scene ushered in a collection that while not exactly disco, was a very Hearst-for-Chloe version of it: Pared-down and minimalist with occasional whooshes of the dance floor.
The disc motif was used throughout. It appeared as cutouts on the side of a white sporty sheath dress, as eyelets, or as blue, orange, white and black inserts on gowns worn by models with long gelled hair as if they’d been dancing.
Oversized white tuxedos added a welcome menswear touch to the sporty aesthetic. But at times, despite the concept, the pared-down styles seemed to lack a little in energy.
But there were still plenty of standout looks: Supermodel Gigi Hadid stole the show in a boho silver chain-mail gown that looked part “Game of Thrones,” part “Saturday Night Fever.”
RICK OWENS GETS SOFT
At his Paris show, there were of course all of Rick Owens’ usual ethereal monsters — elongated with peaked shoulders, draping, and sinews in fabric resembling flesh. But this season Owens, the indefatigable U.S. designer, brought a softer touch.
On Thursday, diaphanous white fur poked out of brace boots on the outdoor runway while voluminous 3-D sleeves were fashioned in tactile pearly white.
The first look was a showstopper. A sheer toga gown that might have been worn to the Oscars in Ancient Rome, if there had been such a thing. The model’s hair was androgynously slicked back and her pastel thigh-high boots harked from outer space.
It was a rare treat from a fashion master.
SHANG XIA’S PASTEL MINIMALISM
Shang Xia debuted at Paris Fashion Week a year ago to curiosity and growing anticipation as new designer Yang Li swept in with a popping minimalist aesthetic that garnered warm reviews.
The brand, created in 2010 by Hermes International with the grand ambition to be their first luxury brand rooted in Chinese culture, was originally well known for expensive tea sets and lacquered boxes.
The razor-sharp silhouettes displayed in Thursday’s show continued the minimalism and the successful formula. The spring collection was delivered in pastel colors and accessorized with chunky platform wedges. The decor’s stratified scenes of clouds and sky-scraping cityscapes provided a further fashion-forward, futuristic edge.
Plays on form and shapes — like colored circular discs — gave the brand’s 40 fashion looks a contemplative mood which softened the effect that pure minimalism can sometimes produce.
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2022-09-29T21:15:19+00:00
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myfox8.com
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https://myfox8.com/news/entertainment/ap-entertainment/ap-chloe-goes-for-pared-down-1970s-riffing-on-disco-in-paris/
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Awarded work ranges across gold, silver and bronze levels, multiple client categories and areas of production expertise
NEW YORK, June 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Shutterstock Studios, a division of Shutterstock, Inc. (NYSE: SSTK) offering end-to-end solutions for global production, including photography, video, animation, virtual production and 3D needs, announced today it has won 15 awards across Gold, Silver and Bronze levels in the 44th Annual Telly Awards. In a highly competitive year for the Telly Awards, Shutterstock Studios' winning work with big brands like Allergan, Lenovo, Carvana, Bayer, and more, illustrates the breadth, depth, and impact of its global production and creative services across branded and unbranded projects and documentary storytelling. In the past year, Shutterstock Studios shot at high-volume and broad scale across approximately 500 shoot days, in 40 countries worldwide, and ultimately delivering an estimated 50,000 unique productions for global brand, agency and media partners.
The Telly Awards honors excellence in video and television across all screens and is judged by leaders from video platforms, television, streaming networks and production companies including BBC World Service, Netflix, Nickelodeon, National Geographic Society, ESPN Films and more. This was a record breaking year with nearly 13,000 entries from across the globe, culminating in a year-long celebration of creators and talent who truly stand out and spotlight diverse voices, who are building a more sustainable industry, and who break through the static with their creativity.
"I could not be prouder of our incredible team at Shutterstock Studios and our wonderful brand partners as we are recognized by the Tellys," said Aiden Darné, VP and Head of Global Production at Shutterstock Studios. "Our awarded work spans multiple clients and industries, showcasing the diversity of our content and the creativity of our team. I am excited to partner with more brands around the world and serve as their complete production partner to develop cutting-edge, authentic work that has a lasting impact."
"The caliber of the work this season coming from creators such as Shutterstock Studios truly has reflected the theme of breaking out and standing out," said Tellys Executive Director Sabrina Dridje. "Industry leaders like Shutterstock Studios are experimenting with new technologies like never before, crafting truly compelling stories to draw attention to some of the world's most pressing issues, and companies big and small are turning to more sustainable practices to break the cycle of past production processes."
A full list of awards received is below.
- Forces of Beauty (Allergan)
- Tech@Heart Episode 1: FC Internazionale Milano (Lenovo)
- Tech@Heart Episode 2: Blue Sky Innovations (Lenovo)
- Reinventing The Wheel (Carvana)
- The EYE-SIGHT Project (Bayer)
The Telly Awards is the premier award honoring video and television across all screens. Established in 1979, The Telly Awards receives over 12,000 entries from all 50 states and 5 continents. The full list of the 44th Annual Telly Awards winners can be found at www.tellyawards.com/winners.
About Shutterstock, Inc.
Shutterstock, Inc. (NYSE: SSTK) is a premier partner for transformative brands, digital media and marketing companies, empowering the world to create with confidence. Fueled by millions of creators around the world, a growing data engine and a fearless approach to product innovation, Shutterstock is the leading global platform for licensing from the most extensive and diverse collection of high-quality 3D models, videos, music, photographs, vectors and illustrations. From the world's largest content marketplace, to breaking news and A-list entertainment editorial access, to all-in-one content editing platform and studio production service—all using the latest in innovative technology—Shutterstock offers the most comprehensive selection of resources to bring storytelling to life.
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2023-06-13T18:12:46+00:00
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wagmtv.com
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Woman fatally shot while riding in Uber in Atlanta
ATLANTA (WANF/Gray News) - Police in Atlanta say they believe a woman who was fatally shot while riding in an Uber was targeted.
Officials identified the woman killed as 31-year-old Teisha Brewley. She was riding in the back of an Uber at around 4:30 a.m. Tuesday in Atlanta’s Buckhead neighborhood when someone shot into the black Cadillac SUV, according to investigators.
In a 911 call, a man, who is believed to the rideshare driver, can be heard saying “somebody shot in my car.” He then frantically gives dispatch his location of Lindbergh Drive and Adina Drive, WANF reports.
“I’m scared. Somebody shot, somebody killed in my car,” he said.
A second call was made to Atlanta 911′s non-emergency number from a security company on behalf of the person who ordered the rideshare for Brewley.
“He stated he ordered an Uber for a friend who hasn’t arrived to his location yet, and the driver’s location is showing to be in one spot for a long period of time,” the caller said. “He said she was supposed to have arrived at his location by 4:31 a.m., and she had not.”
Police believe Brewley was targeted, according to WANF.
Deputy Police Chief Charles Hampton Jr. said more than one gun was fired, but they are not sure if there was an exchange of gunfire. More than one vehicle was involved, and one is described as possibly a light-colored sedan. No arrests have been made at this time.
Investigators are also working to determine whether this shooting is connected to another shooting nearby at Buford Highway and Lenox Road.
An Uber spokesperson released a statement on the incident:
We are horrified by the news of this chilling attack. We have been in touch with the driver to check on his well-being, and our thoughts are with the victim’s family during this heartbreaking time. We are standing by to assist police with their investigation.
If you have any information regarding this incident, please contact the Atlanta Police Department or Crime Stoppers.
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2023-06-01T11:00:46+00:00
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NEA Jazz Master & GRAMMY® Award-Winning Jazz Trombonist, Composer and Bandleader DELFEAYO MARSALIS returns with THE UPTOWN JAZZ ORCHESTRA following their Sold Out shows at Jimmy's in 2022. Tickets for Delfeayo Marsalis & The Uptown Jazz Orchestra at Jimmy's Jazz & Blues Club in Portsmouth, NH on Sunday July 30 at 6:30 & 9 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., July 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Jimmy's Jazz & Blues Club Features NEA Jazz Master and GRAMMY® Award-Winning Jazz Trombonist, Composer and Bandleader DELFEAYO MARSALIS & THE UPTOWN JAZZ ORCHESTRA on Sunday July 30 at 6:30 and 9 P.M. Delfeayo Marsalis & The Uptown Jazz Orchestra are one of the best large jazz ensembles in the world, and their mission is to promote a greater appreciation for jazz and its New Orleans' rooted traditions through world-class performance, artistic excellence, education and community.
"It's not hard to pinpoint why Delfeayo Marsalis' New Orleans-based Uptown Jazz Orchestra's recent release, 'Jazz Party', and its 2016 predecessor—both on Troubadour Jass, and both consisting primarily of his compositions and arrangements—rank among the strongest big band discs of the past 10 years….One attribute is a percolating rhythmic palette—relentless funk and gospel grooves, ebullient second-line syncopations, Afro-Caribbean-flavored street beats, undulating old-school press rolls, the distinctive flow of nouveau swing. Then there's the breathe-as-one synchronicity of the woodwind and brass sections honed during more than a decade of Wednesday gigs…"
— DOWNBEAT MAGAZINE (2020 Album Review of 'Jazz Party')
"Hearing Delfeayo deliver wonderfully woozy lyrical lines, full-bore solos, and the occasional artful gliss is pure joy."
— ALL ABOUT JAZZ
"American music of the kind offered by trombonist Delfeayo Marsalis and his Uptown Jazz Orchestra remains richly textured and expertly performed, effectively drawing from vintage and modern jazz styles..."
— JAZZ TIMES
NEA Jazz Master & GRAMMY® Award-Winning Jazz Trombonist, Composer & Bandleader DELFEAYO MARSALIS, along with the Marsalis family of musicians including his father Ellis, was destined to a life in music. Delfeayo is brother to Wynton Marsalis (Trumpeter), Brandford Marsalis (Saxophonist), and Jason Marsalis (Drummer).
Delfeayo Marsalis has toured internationally with jazz legends such as Ray Charles, Art Blakey, Max Roach, Elvin Jones and Slide Hampton, as well as leading his own groups. At the age of 17, Delfeayo Marsalis began his career as a producer and has to date produced over 120 recordings garnering one GRAMMY® Award and several GRAMMY® Award Nominations.
In 2008, Delfeayo formed the Uptown Jazz Orchestra, a highly entertaining ensemble that focuses on maintaining important jazz traditions such as riff playing, New Orleans polyphony and spontaneous arrangements. The 15-piece band delivers fun, exciting and joyful live performances.
NEA Jazz Master Delfeayo Marsalis has a dual bachelor's degree in music performance and production from Berklee College of Music in Boston, and a Masters in Jazz Performance from the University of Louisville.
DELFEAYO MARSALIS Tickets & Current Schedule of Shows
Jimmy's Jazz & Blues Club's 2023 Schedule of Shows now includes 9 NEA Jazz Masters, 47 GRAMMY® Award-Winning Artists, 40 Blues Music Award-Winners, and a comprehensive list of talented musicians with 435+ GRAMMY® Award Nominations amongst them. Tickets for DELFEAYO MARSALIS & THE UPTOWN JAZZ ORCHESTRA at Jimmy's Jazz & Blues Club on Sunday July 30 at 6:30 and 9 P.M., as well as the current list of 2023 shows, can be found on Ticketmaster and Jimmy's Online Event Calendar at: http://www.jimmysoncongress.com/events.
ABOUT JIMMY'S JAZZ & BLUES CLUB
The mission of Jimmy's Jazz & Blues Club is to provide guests with a one-of-a-kind, world-class experience featuring serious jazz and blues music served with exceptional cuisine. Jimmy's Jazz & Blues Club features a spectacular and visually breathtaking environment engineered to deliver the highest quality acoustics while utilizing state-of-the-art production, sound and lighting technologies. Jimmy's Jazz & Blues Club is located within a beautifully restored 1905 building at 135 Congress Street in the heart of historic downtown Portsmouth, New Hampshire. For more information visit www.jimmysoncongress.com or follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/JimmysJazzBlues and on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/jimmysjazzblues/. Sign-up for Jimmy's Email Newsletter to stay informed on Upcoming Shows, New Artist Announcements, Promotional Offers, Ticket On-Sale Dates, Special Performances, and Jimmy's Sunday Jazz Brunch. In June 2023, Jimmy's Jazz & Blues Club was given the Wine Spectator Award of Excellence for its' outstanding Wine List.
PRIVATE EVENTS AT JIMMY'S
An architecturally breathtaking center of arts and culture in the heart of historic Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Jimmy's Jazz & Blues Club offers a rare and spectacular venue to host important corporate functions, weddings, intimate or large-scale social gatherings, private parties, and memorable celebrations. The team at Jimmy's Jazz & Blues Club put heart and soul into creating a stunning full-service event space with new state-of-the-art production, sound and lighting technologies delivered with outstanding next-level culinary experiences. Our high-touch approach, provided by professional and experienced event staff, ensures that everything is tailored to exceed your expectations. To start a conversation about hosting your event at Jimmy's Jazz and Blues Club, please call us at 888-603-5299, or fill out Jimmy's Private Event Request Form.
JOIN THE TEAM AT THE LABRIE GROUP FAMILY OF RESTAURANTS
Motivated by a commitment to culinary and hospitality excellence, founders Michael and Peter Labrie and their leadership team understand it is essential to seek out talented team members for each of The Labrie Group family of restaurants — Jimmy's Jazz & Blues Club, The Atlantic Grill, The River House, and Rio Tequila Cantina — all in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Career opportunities and current job openings can be found at www.TheLabrieGroup.com.
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2023-07-18T03:41:52+00:00
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BEIJING, Feb. 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Chindata Group Holdings Limited, ("Chindata" or "the Group") (Nasdaq: CD), a leading provider of carrier-neutral hyperscale data center solutions in Asia-Pacific emerging markets, announced today that the Chindata Shanxi Lingqiu 220kV power transmission and transformation project officially went into operation on February 13, 2023, setting a new record in the data center industry by completing the project within six months.
The substation provides a 360MW power supply capacity for Chindata's Taihang Mountain Energy and Information Technology Industrial Campus, which is the largest of its kind in Asia Pacific. The substation's modular design, factory prefabrication, and patented self-developed high-impedance split-winding transformer technology greatly have shortened construction time and reduced costs, making the agile delivery of substations possible.
The new Chindata Shanxi Lingqiu 220kV power transmission and transformation project cancels the previous 110kV voltage level and reduces one voltage conversion, enabling large-capacity power to be directly stepped down from 220kV to 10kV load power supply using the first backbone network patent in the data center industry. The technology reduces the floor area by about 60 percent, lowers construction costs, and improves power conversion efficiency and economic benefits, making it applicable for various large-scale data center substation projects.
"We successfully overcame several challenges in the project, such as foundation treatment in the collapsible loess area, foundation pit excavation during the rainy season, and winter construction in the permafrost area, to deliver the project within six months," said Zhang Binghua, Chief Technology Officer of Chindata. "The successful commissioning of the 220kV substation has set a new benchmark and improved the stability and reliability of data center power supply in China and the Asia-Pacific region as a whole. Our team worked closely with all parties involved in the construction to ensure the project's success, and we are immensely proud of the results."
The Chindata Taihang Mountain Energy and Information Technology Industrial Campus supports the demand for digital computing power in the Shanxi and Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei regions. The campus efficiently transforms Shanxi's energy advantages into computing power advantages, enabling the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region to integrate into China's big data centre network.
The data center industry is growing at an unprecedented rate, driven by the increasing demand for digital transformation and the adoption of emerging technologies such as cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and the Internet of Things. As a leading player in the industry, Chindata is well-positioned to support the growth and transformation of the digital economy in Asia Pacific, providing highly efficient, reliable, and sustainable data center solutions to its customers.
About Chindata Group
Chindata is a leading carrier-neutral hyperscale data center solution provider in Asia-Pacific emerging markets and a first mover in building next-generation hyperscale data centers in China, India and Southeast Asia markets, focusing on the whole life cycle of facility planning, investment, design, construction and operation of ecosystem infrastructure in the IT industry. Chindata provides its clients with business solutions in major countries and regions in Asia-Pacific emerging markets, including asset-heavy ecosystem chain services such as industrial bases, data centers and network services.
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2023-02-23T13:33:28+00:00
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https://www.wymt.com/prnewswire/2023/02/23/chindata-group-sets-new-record-data-centre-industry-with-new-220kv-substation-china/
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If you want a thrill this weekend but don’t want to shell out the bucks to see “Magic Mike Live?” (Shame on you. They’re worth every penny.)
What Shireen is trying to say is, after getting your fill of naked hunks, recover with one of the movies in this week’s Showtime.
Jacqueline Byers (as Sister Ann): “I believe the demon that is tormenting Natalie and the demon that possessed my mother are one and the same.”
It’s time to exorcise … but it’s not your usual cross-training in “Prey for the Devil.”
The Catholic Church is training clergy to perform exorcisms — including a nun who’s gearing up for the fight from hell.
Ella Balinska (as Cherie): “One drink?”
Talk about a terrible first date, in “Run Sweetheart Run.”
Single mom Cherie, played by Ella Balinska, jumps back into the world of dating. She should have looked where she was jumping, because her psycho blind date is hunting her like an animal.
Geoffrey Cantor (as Dr. Falk): “We can ask the board for permission to perform an emergency termination.”
Bruce MacVittie (as Director Richardson): “Is there a chance that she could survive the pregnancy?”
Geoffrey Cantor (as Dr. Falk): Maybe 50%.”
John Rothman (as Director McDonald): “Resulting in the birth of a healthy child?”
Elizabeth Banks (as Joy): “I’m here. I’m right here.”
A 1960’s housewife named Joy, played by Elizabeth Banks, is over the moon with her pregnancy, until she learns that the pregnancy could kill her.
After getting help from a group of women to get an abortion, she decides to join them and help fight for women’s rights in “Call Jane.”
Nnamdi Asomugha (as Danny Baldwin): “Mind taking a look at this?”
Jessica Chastain (as Amy Loughren): “Huh. The insulin in her system, it’s a double medication error, which is really rare.”
Nnamdi Asomugha (as Danny Baldwin): “We understand that you work with a Charlie Cullen. Could he be involved with this?”
No one’s on the road to recovery in “The Good Nurse.” A trail of murders are leading to Eddie Redmayne’s hospital. (A hospital? What’s that? It’s a big building with patients, but that’s not important now.)
Lyric Ross (as Kat Elliot, voice): “Who are you and what are you doing in my dreams?”
Jordan Peele (as Wild, voice): “We are Wendell and Wild.”
Lyric Ross (as Kat Elliot, voice): “Who?”
“Wendell & Wild” is the story of two demon brothers who want to get to the land of the living. In order to do that, they need the help of a 13-year-old girl named Kat.
The stop motion Netflix film reunites comedy duo stars Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele as the demons,
Keegan-Michael Key (as Wendell, voice): “I’m coming for you.”
Lyric Ross (as Kat Elliot, voice): “Everyone has demons. My demons have names.”
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2022-10-28T00:47:03+00:00
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https://wsvn.com/entertainment/showtime-311/
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A Consumer Product Goods Veteran Of Over Twenty Years,
Garbowski Plans To Accelerate The Brand's Next Stage of Growth
CHICAGO, Dec. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Carbone Fine Food has appointed consumer product goods industry veteran, Tracy Garbowski, as the brand's Executive Vice President of Marketing. Garbowski brings over twenty years of experience to the company, having helped build and grow a wide range of brands, including Dannon Light & Fit®, Kool-Aid®, Banana Boat®, Schick Hydro®, and Playtex®. Her most recent work with Cholula® and That's How We Roll (creators of ParmCrisps® and Thinsters®) resulted in lucrative private equity sales, each occurring during her time at the company. McCormick & Co. purchased Cholula® for $800 million in 2020 and Hain Celestial Group acquired That's How We Roll for approximately $259 million in 2021.
"We are excited to have Tracy join the Carbone family," said Carbone Fine Food CEO, Eric Skae. "Her wealth of CPG knowledge and proven success will be invaluable in ushering in new growth for the brand - we are looking forward to a very exciting 2023."
Launching in early 2021, Carbone Fine Food has quickly become the fastest growing center store brand within the Food Channel*, with distribution in more than 12,000 stores nationally, including retailers like Stop & Shop, ShopRite, Whole Foods, Publix, and Albertsons. In addition to their core flavor offerings of Marinara, Tomato Basil, Arrabbiata and Roasted Garlic, Carbone Fine Food continues to grow and innovate with the recent addition of three new products to their portfolio: Mushroom, Roasted Garlic, and Marinara Delicato.
"Carbone is an incredible brand with an absolutely delicious product that is unmatched in the category," said Garbowski. "I'm thrilled to have the opportunity to further develop their unique brand story and make Carbone the only sauce choice among at-home chefs."
*(Source: Spins, YTD Ending 6/21/22, Conventional Food Channel, Brands >$3.5MM YTD and >$100K YTD YA)
Carbone Fine Food sauces feature the same fresh, quality ingredients found in the brand's iconic restaurants, including the world's best-tasting tomatoes, grown in volcanic ash and handpicked in Italy. Using a traditional technique, the sauces are slow cooked in small batches. Chefs Mario Carbone and Rich Torrisi oversee the entire sauce process from start to finish, from choosing the farms that the ingredients are sourced from to testing hundreds of batches to ensure that the quality of the jarred sauce is second to none. Learn more at www.carbonefinefood.com or follow along on Instagram or TikTok at @carbonefinefood.
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2022-12-06T14:09:35+00:00
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Parents warn others after 17-year-old son’s fentanyl death
(CNN) - The parents of a 17-year-old boy who died after taking a fentanyl-laced pill are working to sound the alarm for other families, as overdose deaths from synthetic opioids continue to rise.
Chris and Laura Didier experienced every parent’s worst nightmare when their son, 17-year-old Zach Didier, was found unresponsive in his room two days after Christmas 2020.
“I found Zach asleep at his desk. His head was laying down on his arm. I could feel before I even touched him that something was horribly wrong,” Chris Didier said.
Medics arrived and began resuscitation efforts, but it was too late.
“I started resuming CPR, and they just stood there. I got mad at them and said, ‘Guys, help me save my boy.’ When they didn’t, I started trying to talk to Zach and begged him, ‘Don’t go. Come back. Please come back. Do not go,” Chris Didier said.
Zach Didier’s sudden death was initially a mystery to investigators, but the Placer County Coroner had two theories on the day of his death: either an undetected medical issue or fentanyl.
“And that further spiraled us into debilitating confusion. Like, why would you say that word? We had no red flags of Zach having struggles with any kind of drug use or addiction or depression,” Chris Didier said.
In 2021, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says more than 71,000 people in the United States died due to overdosing on synthetic opioids, mostly fentanyl. It was a 23% jump from the previous year.
Dr. Scott Hadland is the head of adolescent and young adult medicine at Boston’s Massachusetts General for Children Hospital.
“Nine out of every 10 overdose deaths in teenagers involves opioids and, most commonly, involves fentanyl,” he said. “Fentanyl is so potent that teens, particularly teens who have never used an opioid before and have no tolerance to them, can die really quickly. We’re talking within seconds to minutes.”
New CDC data indicate the most common place for teens to overdose is at home, and experts say there are various reasons they turn to pills.
“About two out of every five teens who overdose has a history of struggling with depression, anxiety or other mental health problems, and in many cases, these problems have gone unaddressed,” Hadland said.
In Los Angeles County alone, health officials recently announced accidental fentanyl overdoses skyrocketed over 1,200% from 2016 through 2021.
A Los Angeles Police narcotics detective, who wanted to remain anonymous, says many teens are obtaining fentanyl through social media sites, such as Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat.
“If you’re buying it on a social media account or you’re buying it from somebody on the street or a friend, then most likely it’s going to be counterfeit,” the detective said. “The dealer’s main objective is to get you hooked, and if you don’t die from it, then you’re a customer for as long as you live.”
In Zach Didier’s case, his parents say he met a drug dealer on Snapchat who sold him a deadly fentanyl pill that the teenager thought was the pain reliever Percocet.
“Zach’s case was really the first for our county dealing with whether or not to hold someone who provides drugs to someone else, who ultimately dies, whether or not to hold them responsible for their death and if so, how much? The message to dealers is that we are fed up. We are tired of seeing young people dying in our communities,” said Placer County District Attorney Morgan Gire, who has advocated for aggressive charges against dealers.
The dealer in Zach Didier’s case was sentenced to 17 years in prison.
But Gire says prosecution alone won’t solve the fentanyl crisis.
“The solution will be education and awareness and talking to parents, talking to teachers,” he said.
Warning families about the dangers of fentanyl has become a life mission for Zach Didier’s parents. They spend countless hours going into schools, telling their shattering story.
“As hard as it is to talk about it and as hard as it is to share the story, I feel him with me when I do it. I feel him helping me find the words even,” Laura Didier said. “I hope we reach them. I see their faces. I just scan the room, and they’re listening and absorbing it. And I just think: ‘God, please let us reach them.’”
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2022-12-28T09:56:53+00:00
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https://www.wymt.com/2022/12/28/parents-warn-others-after-17-year-old-sons-fentanyl-death/
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MANCHESTER, New Hampshire — It is with great pleasure that Southern New Hampshire University congratulates the following students on being named to the fall 2022 dean’s list. The fall terms run from September to December:
Brandon Dantzler of Orland and Cassandra George of Orrington.
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2023-01-16T16:42:11+00:00
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bangordailynews.com
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https://www.bangordailynews.com/2023/01/16/bdn-maine/southern-new-hampshire-university-announces-fall-2022-deans-list/
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Celebrated radio broadcaster to be honored for his efforts to end stigmas surrounding mental health
HARLEM, N.Y., Oct. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Radio Hall of Fame Inductee, television personality and best-selling author, Charlamagne Tha God, will receive the distinguished Emma L. Bowen Humanitarian Medal, during a gala in his honor in New York City, on Friday, November 18th, 2022.
"The Humanitarian Medal recognizes individuals who have made significant contributions to individuals and communities with the same passion and zeal as our late founder," said Patricia C. Jordan, Board Chair for the Emma L. Bowen Community Service Center. "We are delighted to be honoring Charlamagne, who like Mrs. Bowen, has dedicated himself to helping individuals, especially those in the Black community, face the stigma surrounding mental health illness so they can effectively and productively overcome their challenges."
Charlamagne has been extremely candid about his mental health struggles and has used his various multimedia platforms to help thousands of individuals, especially those in Black communities. His efforts include hosting an annual, free Mental Health Expo in New York City, in recognition of World Mental Health Day. This year's event will take place at the Marriott Marquis in Times Square on Saturday, October 8, 2022.
Named in honor of Mrs. Bowen, a lifelong advocate for community mental health care as well as rights for minorities in the media, the Humanitarian Medal is bestowed upon individuals whose selfless efforts on behalf of others epitomize her legacy. Previous honorees include Cynthia Bissett Germanotta, who co-founded the Born This Way Foundation with her daughter Lady Gaga, Tony Award Winner and Kennedy Center Honoree Bill T. Jones, prominent Civil Rights activist The Rev. Al Sharpton, NBC New York Meteorologist Janice Huff, and former cosmetics executive Mark Goldsmith and founder of Getting Out and Staying Out.
Opened in 1986, the Bowen Center provides accessible mental health, addiction treatment, and supportive services to the Harlem community and beyond from one convenient location. Services include a therapeutic preschool for children with behavioral and developmental issues; outpatient mental health services for children and adolescents; programs for adults & seniors dealing with mental health and addiction challenges; care management advocacy and services for home-bound individuals; a 20-bed residential addiction recovery facility, and food pantry program that serves over 80,400 packages of food annually.
For additional information on the Humanitarian Medal gala please visit www.bowencsc.org/gala.
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2022-10-07T15:57:33+00:00
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ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — It was almost 15 years ago when five young men from northern Virginia left the U.S. to pursue dreams of jihad in Afghanistan, only to find themselves under arrest in Pakistan when their farewell video prompted family members to contact the FBI.
Now, after the five served a decade in a Pakistani prison, U.S. prosecutors are moving forward with plans to put them on trial again for terrorism charges.
At a status hearing Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, however, a judge gave strong indications that she plans to toss out charges against one of the men on grounds that torture and solitary confinement he allegedly endured in Pakistan have rendered him mentally incompetent.
In fact, U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema has questioned the utility of bringing charges against any of the five, given the fact that they were convicted and punished already in Pakistan.
“If these men have been prosecuted in Pakistan and served significant periods of incarceration in a Pakistani prison, and now the United States government is trying to charge them for essentially the same conduct in this country, you’ve got to think about whether that makes sense,” Brinkema said during a December status hearing on the case.
The five men — Waqar Khan, Ahmed Minni, Ramy Zamzam, Aman Yemer, and Umar Farooq — originally came to the FBI's attention only after family reported them missing.
In late 2009, the five left the U.S. for Pakistan, leaving behind an 11-minute video espousing the need to engage in holy war to defend Muslim lands under attack. Family members sought to stop them from making the trip once they learned of the plans, reaching out to a Muslim civil rights group, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, and eventually to lawyer Nina Ginsberg and the FBI.
But the five had already made it to Pakistan and began looking for people who could help them get to Afghanistan. They were frequently turned away by those they sought out, according to a recently unsealed FBI affidavit, although one man suggested he could help if one of the five's extended family in Pakistan could vouch for them.
They were arrested in Sargodha, a city in the eastern province of Punjab, on Dec. 9, 2009, about nine days after the FBI learned they left the U.S., according to the affidavit.
Several members of the group admitted to FBI agents that their goal was to fight against American troops if they got to Afghanistan.
The five were charged in Pakistan, where they say they were tortured during their detention — allegations denied by Pakistani authorities. All five were convicted and received 10-year terms.
After serving their sentences, the U.S. government has sought to bring them to the U.S. to face charges here. So far, though, only three of the defendants — Zamzam, Yemer and Minni — have been deported back to the U.S. A fourth remains in Pakistani custody, and a fifth is at large there.
Yemer, who was just 18 when he was arrested and is the youngest of the five, faces serious mental health problems. Ginsberg, his lawyer, said in court that Yemer's faculties eroded after mistreatment and solitary confinement in Pakistan. As she described it, Yemer sits in a chair all day, nonresponsive. He only eats if he is fed, and he only goes to the bathroom if someone takes him to a toilet.
Months in a hospital, including electroshock treatment, were largely unsuccessful, she said.
“They just totally incapacitated him,” Ginsberg said after Tuesday's hearing, in which her client appeared dressed in a gray tracksuit, his face blank.
Ginsberg said during the hearing that she was hopeful the U.S. would drop the charges against her client. Brinkema gave clear indication she will dismiss the charges against Yemer as soon as Ginsberg files a motion seeking dismissal regardless of whether the Justice Department agrees.
As for the other defendants, prosecutor John Gibbs expressed optimism that a plea deal will be reached and circumvent the need for a trial. Lawyers for Zamzam and Minni have said that if a deal can't be reached, they plan to seek dismissal on grounds that their clients were denied the right to a speedy trial, among other potential issues.
At a hearing in December, Brinkema raised the question of whether a U.S. trial would amount to double jeopardy, although it was not immediately clear whether the trial in Pakistan would allow the defendants to claim double jeopardy protection in the U.S.
Ginsberg, for her part, said she doesn't believe the men deserve any further incarceration in the U.S.
“Ten years in a Pakistani prison is like 30 years in the U.S.,” she said. “They've had enough.”
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2023-02-14T21:22:04+00:00
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ourmidland.com
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https://www.ourmidland.com/news/politics/article/virginians-face-terrorism-charges-years-after-17784173.php
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Lawsuit: Testing evidence from 1,000 homes destroyed by the government
HONOLULU, Nov. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- More than 100 injured U.S. military family members and civilians filed new federal-court claims against the Navy today over the catastrophic contamination of the water supply near the Red Hill fuel storage facility in Hawai'i in 2021, according to their attorneys at Just Well Law, PLLC and the Hosoda Law Group.
Filed in Honolulu federal court, the amended lawsuit accuses the Navy of releasing thousands of gallons of jet fuel and other contaminants directly into the military and civilian families' drinking water at least twice in 2021. The new complaint also accuses the Navy of destroying more than 1,000 water samples collected from the homes of the affected families.
According to the complaint, "[N]ews reports have revealed that the government destroyed water sample vials collected from over one thousand family homes — every sample taken. Water samples that could have revealed the chemicals present in these family's waters — for health and for accountability — were trashed instead. This destruction of the evidence has robbed plaintiffs of the opportunity to know what was in their water."
The injured families reported seizures, gastrointestinal disorders, neurological issues, burns, rashes, lesions, thyroid abnormalities, migraines, neurobehavioral challenges, and other maladies, the lawsuit asserts. The families were evacuated from their contaminated homes in Hawai'i. They were forced to move back into those homes, only to get sick again, and now reside elsewhere, according to the complaint.
"While these families suffer," the lawsuit alleges, "Navy officials continue to claim that families are not sick from their exposure to jet fuel, with medical gaslighting at the highest levels. Up to now, military officials have denied ongoing medical harm to service members, their families, or civilians."
On Tuesday, a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and State of Hawaii survey revealed health problems reported by families "impacted by the Red Hill Water crisis." The survey of hundreds of affected households found that 80 percent had exposure symptoms – with 41 percent of respondents reporting existing condition that worsened, with 31 percent reporting new diagnoses, and 25 percent reporting new diagnoses with no pre-existing conditions.
On August 31, the first four injured families filed suit alleging that the Navy still has not fully disclosed the scope of the contamination, recognized that affected families are still sick, or provided appropriate medical care.
The families are represented by Kristina S. Baehr and James Baehr, of Just Well Law, PLLC, of Austin, Texas, and Lyle S. Hosoda, Kourtney H. Wong, Spencer J. Lau, and Thurston A. Kino, of the Hosoda Law Group, of Honolulu. The law firms also represent hundreds more plaintiffs who have filed pre-litigation SF-95 administrative claim forms with the government under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) and who will be added to the suit.
Kristina S. Baehr said, "Our legal team is working hard to hold the Navy accountable for its conduct before, during and after the Red Hill contamination. Our case has gained momentum and our investigation continues." The federal court recently set a trial date of Jan. 29, 2024.
The lawsuit, which previously alleged negligence, nuisance, medical negligence, failure to treat, delayed care, and infliction of emotional distress by the government, adds new claims of negligent undertaking and negligent spoliation of evidence. The lawsuit was filed after the plaintiffs exhausted administrative remedies under the FTCA.
The case is Patrick Feindt, Jr., et al., v. The United States of America, Case No. 1:22-cv-0039, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Hawai'i.
Contact: Erin Powers, Powers MediaWorks LLC, for Just Well Law and the Hosoda Law Group, info@powersmediaworks.com, 281.703.6000.
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2022-11-10T15:56:16+00:00
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https://www.wagmtv.com/prnewswire/2022/11/10/just-well-law-navy-faces-more-claims-by-families-sickened-by-toxic-red-hill-water/
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LONDON -- Critics are accusing the British publisher of Roald Dahl's classic children's books of censorship after it removed colorful language from works such as "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" and "Matilda" to make them more acceptable to modern readers.
A review of new editions of Dahl's books now available in bookstores shows that some passages relating to weight, mental health, gender and race were altered. The changes made by Puffin Books, a division of Penguin Random House, first were reported by Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper.
Augustus Gloop, Charlie's gluttonous antagonist in "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," which originally was published in 1964, is no longer "enormously fat," just "enormous." In the new edition of "Witches," a supernatural female posing as an ordinary woman may be working as a "top scientist or running a business" instead of as a "cashier in a supermarket or typing letters for a businessman."
The word "black" was removed from the description of the terrible tractors in 1970s "The Fabulous Mr. Fox." The machines are now simply "murderous, brutal-looking monsters."
Booker Prize-winning author Salman Rushdie was among those who reacted angrily to the rewriting of Dahl's words. Rushdie lived in hiding for years after Iran's Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1989 issued a fatwa calling for his death because of the alleged blasphemy in his novel "The Satanic Verses." He was attacked and seriously injured last year at an event in New York state.
"Roald Dahl was no angel but this is absurd censorship,'' Rushdie wrote on Twitter. "Puffin Books and the Dahl estate should be ashamed.''
The changes to Dahl's books mark the latest skirmish in a debate over cultural sensitivity as campaigners seek to protect young people from cultural, ethnic and gender stereotypes in literature and other media. Critics complain revisions to suit 21st century sensibilities risks undermining the genius of great artists and preventing readers from confronting the world as it is.
The Roald Dahl Story Company, which controls the rights to the books, said it worked with Puffin to review the texts because it wanted to ensure that "Dahl's wonderful stories and characters continue to be enjoyed by all children today."
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The language was reviewed in partnership with Inclusive Minds, a collective which is working to make children's literature more inclusive and accessible. Any changes were "small and carefully considered," the company said.
It said the analysis started in 2020, before Netflix bought the Roald Dahl Story Company and embarked on plans to produce a new generation of films based on the author's books.
"When publishing new print runs of books written years ago, it's not unusual to review the language used alongside updating other details, including a book's cover and page layout,'' the company said. "Our guiding principle throughout has been to maintain the storylines, characters, and the irreverence and sharp-edged spirit of the original text."
Puffin didn't immediately respond to requests for comment.
Dahl died in 1990 at the age of 74. His books, which have sold more than 300 million copies, have been translated into 68 languages and continue to be read by children around the world.
But he is also a controversial figure because of antisemitic comments made throughout his life.
The Dahl family apologized in 2020, saying it recognized the "lasting and understandable hurt caused by Roald Dahl's antisemitic statements."
Regardless of his personal failings, fans of Dahl's books celebrate his use of sometimes dark language that taps into the fears of children, as well as their sense of fun.
PEN America, a community of some 7,500 writers that advocates for freedom of expression, said it was "alarmed" by reports of the changes to Dahl's books.
"If we start down the path of trying to correct for perceived slights instead of allowing readers to receive and react to books as written, we risk distorting the work of great authors and clouding the essential lens that literature offers on society," tweeted Suzanne Nossel, chief executive of PEN America.
Laura Hackett, a childhood Dahl fan who is now deputy literary editor of London's Sunday Times newspaper, had a more personal reaction to the news.
"The editors at Puffin should be ashamed of the botched surgery they've carried out on some of the finest children's literature in Britain," she wrote. "As for me, I'll be carefully stowing away my old, original copies of Dahl's stories, so that one day my children can enjoy them in their full, nasty, colorful glory."
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2023-02-20T20:26:26+00:00
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abc30.com
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https://abc30.com/roald-dahl-books-book-changes-matilda/12848908/
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BEIJING (AP) — China sent warships and dozens of fighter jets toward Taiwan on Saturday, the Taiwanese government said, in retaliation for a meeting between the U.S. House of Representatives speaker and the president of the self-ruled island democracy claimed by Beijing as part of its territory.
The Chinese military announced the start of three-day “combat readiness patrols” as a warning to Taiwanese who want to make the island’s de facto independence permanent. The People’s Liberation Army gave no indication whether they might include a repeat of previous exercises with missiles fired into the sea, which disrupted shipping and airline flights.
Speaker Kevin McCarthy held talks with President Tsai Ing-wen on Thursday in California, adding to a series of foreign lawmakers who have met Tsai to show support in the face of Chinese intimidation. Beijing responded Friday by imposing a travel ban and financial sanctions against American groups and individuals associated with Tsai’s U.S. visit.
On Saturday, eight warships and 71 planes were detected near Taiwan, 45 of which flew across the middle line of the strait that separates it from the mainland, the island’s Ministry of Defense said. It said they included Chengdu J-10, Shenyang J-11 and Shenyang J-16 jet fighters.
Also Saturday, the navy planned to hold “live fire training” in Luoyuan Bay in Fujian province opposite Taiwan, the local Maritime Authority announced. Ships were banned during the firing, which also was due to take place on five dates over the next two weeks.
Taiwan split with China in 1949 after a civil war. The ruling Communist Party says the island is obliged to rejoin the mainland, by force if necessary. Beijing says contact with foreign officials encourages Taiwanese who want formal independence, a step the ruling party says would lead to war.
“This is a serious warning against the collusion and provocation between the ‘Taiwan independence’ separatist forces and external forces,” said a PLA statement. The “Joint Sword” exercises “defend national sovereignty and territorial integrity.”
Plans also called for the exercise to include a destroyer, missile boats, ballistic missiles and land-based anti-ship missiles as well as early warning, electronic warfare and tanker aircraft, according to the The Global Times, a newspaper published by the Communist Party.
The Taiwanese military said missile defense systems were activated and air and sea patrols sent to track the Chinese aircraft.
“We condemn such an irrational act that has jeopardized regional security and stability,” a Ministry of Defense statement said.
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s government has stepped up efforts to intimidate the island by flying fighter jets and bombers nearby and firing missiles into the sea.
The United States has no official relations with Taiwan, a center for high-tech industry and one of the biggest global traders, but maintains extensive informal and commercial ties. Washington is required by federal law to ensure the island of 22 million people has the means to defend itself if China attacks.
Military analysts suggest a possible Chinese strategy in the event of an attack is to try to pressure Taiwan to surrender by blocking sea and air traffic, preventing the United States, Japan or other allies from intervening or sending supplies.
On Saturday, the PLA was testing its ability to dominate the sea, air and information and to “create a situation of deterrence and suppression,” the mainland newspaper The China Daily said.
Taiwan and the mainland have multibillion-dollar trade and investment ties but no official relations.
“We will never leave room for ‘Taiwan independence’ separatist activities in any form and will definitely take resolute measures to defeat any foreign interference,” said a spokesperson for the Cabinet’s Taiwan Affairs Office, Zhu Fenglian, according to the official Xinhua News Agency.
“Complete reunification of our country must be realized, and it can, without doubt, be realized,” Zhu was quoted as saying Friday.
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2023-04-09T02:06:22+00:00
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mytwintiers.com
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https://www.mytwintiers.com/news-cat/world-news/ap-international/china-announces-combat-readiness-patrols-around-taiwan/
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Celine Naef 2023 Libema Open Odds
Celine Naef will face Veronika Kudermetova next in the Libema Open quarterfinals. Naef is +1800 to win at Autotron Rosmalen.
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Naef at the 2023 Libema Open
- Next Round: Quarterfinals
- Tournament Dates: June 9-18
- Venue: Autotron Rosmalen
- Location: Rosmalen, Netherlands
- Court Surface: Grass
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2023-06-16T03:35:40+00:00
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kttc.com
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https://www.kttc.com/sports/betting/2023/06/09/celine-naef-libema-open-betting-odds/
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CHICAGO, Nov. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- To reduce the cost of development of the approval of biosimilars, the FDA is encouraging the introduction of novel analytical methods to establish biosimilarity, reducing more expensive and time-consuming testing. Professors Schwendenman of the University of Michigan and Niazi of the University of Illinois have received a $2 Million competitive grant from the FDA to introduce validated novel technologies that focus on understanding how post-translational modifications like glycosylation differences impact efficacy, safety, and immunogenicity; the development of alternative methods of using stressing to assess potential structural differences or to assure biosimilarity. The grant title is: "Systematic Analytical Characterization of Innovator and Biosimilar Products with the Focus on Post-translational Modifications."
Professor Schwendenman is an expert in biopharmaceuticals, nanomedicine, analytical development, and complex generics and has conducted several analytical similarity studies submitted for regulatory approvals. She is a recipient of several FDA and NIH grants.
Professor Niazi is a biosimilar pioneer, having created the term, holds 100+ US patents in biotechnology and dozens of books; he has secured multiple biosimilar approvals from the FDA. Professor Niazi has argued that animal3 and clinical efficacy tastings of biosimilars4 are redundant, slowing down the adoption of biosimilars.5 He convinced the US Senate to consider removing the interchangeable status of biosimilars.6
Together, they are working to streamline the testing of biosimilars, which will reduce the time and cost to market. Other upcoming research of Professors Schwendeman and Niazi includes room-temperature-stable biologics, nano-delivery of complex and combination biologics, mRNA therapeutics, and AI-driven drug discovery and biosimilarity prediction.
Professors Schwendeman and Niazi invite their scientific colleagues and other stakeholders to present their views that can assist in lowering the cost of biosimilars.
For more information, please contact Niazi at sniazi3@uic.edu and Schwendenman at annaschw@med.umich.edu
Professor Schwendenman is a member of the College of Pharmacy, University of Michigan faculty. Professor Niazi is a member of the College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois faculty and founder of Novel351k, Inc. (351k.com)
Novel351k, Inc released this news.
1 https://pharmacy.umich.edu/people/annaschw
2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarfaraz_K._Niazi
3 Niazi SK. End animal testing for biosimilar approval. Science. 2022 Jul 8;377(6602):162-163. doi: 10.1126/science.add4664. Epub 2022 Jul 7. PMID: 35857557.
4 Niazi S. Scientific Rationale for Waiving Clinical Efficacy Testing of Biosimilars. Drug Des Devel Ther. 2022 Aug 24;16:2803-2815. doi: 10.2147/DDDT.S378813. PMID: 36043044; PMCID: PMC9420434.
5 Niazi SK. No two classes of biosimilars: Urgent advice to the US Congress and the FDA. J Clin Pharm Ther. 2022 Sep;47(9):1352-1361. doi: 10.1111/jcpt.13743. Epub 2022 Jul 22. PMID: 35869625.
6 Professor Sarfaraz Niazi Convinces the US Senate. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/professor-sarfaraz-niazi-convinces-us-140000797.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall
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2022-11-22T15:18:31+00:00
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kxii.com
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https://www.kxii.com/prnewswire/2022/11/22/professors-anna-schwedenman-sarfaraz-niazi-awarded-2-million-fda-grant-create-novel-analytical-methods-reduce-cost-developing-biosimilars/
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Summer arrives today, on the summer solstice, the longest day of the year.
The seasons officially changed from spring to summer at 5:13 a.m., but the whole day is the first day of summer.
The season can begin on June 20, 21 or 22, based on when the Sun reaches its northernmost point from the equator.
The summer solstice occurs when the North Pole is at its maximum tilt toward the Sun, about 23.5 degrees. The Sun will appear to be at its highest point in the sky.
The summer solstice varies partly because of the differences between the Gregorian calendar system, which normally runs 365 days, and the tropical year, which sees the Earth orbiting the Sun every 365.242199 days. To compensate for that difference, the Gregorian calendar adds a leap day about every four years, which moves the first day of summer backward.
Those following the meteorological seasons, which quarter the year based on calendar months and temperature cycle, have already seen the first day of summer. That system places the first day of summer on June 1.
Regardless of that difference, today is the longest day of the year, the day with the longest period of daylight and the shortest period of night. The see the sunrise and sunset time for your city, check here.
After today, the daylight period will begin to grow shorter until the winter solstice on December 21, the shortest day of the year.
Within days of the summer solstice, on June 24, we will arrive at Midsummer Day, which is not the middle of summer but historically has been the midpoint of the growing season, the point halfway between planting and harvest.
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2022-06-21T12:37:20+00:00
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mlive.com
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https://www.mlive.com/life/2022/06/summer-solstice-what-to-know-about-the-longest-day-of-the-year.html
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Take a look at the status of wildfires in the Gila National Forest this year
GILA NATIONAL FOREST – Over 80,000 acres of Gila National Forest land has burned so far this year due to wildfires. Take a look at the status of the wilderness area so far this summer.
Prescribed burns
Forest service personnel started 2023 by hand thinning areas of the forest as well as conducting prescribed burns. These two actions are methods used to clear dry brush, grasses, downed logs and other materials that fuels wildfires when managed effectively.
As of July 21, 20,066 acres of forest land have been burned through a prescribed fire, according to Punky Moore, public information officer for the Gila National Forest.
The Pass Fire
The largest wildfire of 2023 in the Gila National Forest started with a lightning strike on May 18. The Pass Fire has burned a 59,833 acres as of July 14, according to Moore, and is located northwest of Winston, New Mexico.
“We are applying a confine and contain strategy on this fire and allowing it to play its natural role in this fire-adapted ecosystem,” said Agency Administrator Elizabeth Toney in a May 22 news release. “We’re seeing really excellent fire effects, burning surface fuels in pine understory, consuming dead grass and dead and down logs.”
According to the USNF, the wildfire ignited within the perimeter of the 2005 Bull Fire and east of the 2012 Whitewater Baldy Fire scar. The 2021 Johnson Fire scar and the 2022 Black Fire scars are south and east of the current blaze.
As of July 14, containment of the fire’s perimeter is at 91%.
“We’re seeing some really good fire effects, consuming dead grass and pine litter, with heavy dead and down fuels burning down to ash,” said Incident Commander Pete Valenzuela on May 27.
The wildfire remains under observation by forest personnel.
Lightning starts
Thunderstorms that moved into the southern New Mexico area in mid-July brought with them lightning. The Gila National Forest reported over one dozen new wildfire starts between July 12 and July 17, all caused by lightning.
Several fires were quickly extinguished or contained while a handful continue to burn.
“Recent rains are increasing relative humidity, greening up surface vegetation, and resulting in low intensity fire behavior,” said Reserve District Ranger Amanda Gehrt on July 17. “Each of these incidents is consuming dead and down wood and lifting the forest canopy by scorching lower branches.”
Lightning activity over the July 22 weekend resulted in 10 more wildfires in the Gila National Forest. According to an update on the forest’s Facebook page, most of the starts were “single-tree lightning strikes that extinguished on their own. Others were immediately suppressed and contained by fire crews.”
What is currently burning?
Pasture Fire
- Ignited July 23 by lightning
- East of the South Fork Negrito Creek (Reserve Ranger District)
- 2,416 acres
- 0% contained
Divide Fire
- Ignited July 13 by lightning
- Near Elk Mountain/T Bar Canyon (Reserve Ranger District)
- 11,684 acres
- 0% contained
Dark Fire
- Ignited July 12 by lightning
- Near Corner Mountain (Reserve Ranger District)
- 1,501 acres
- 0% contained
Davis Fire
- Ignited July 15 by lightning
- North of Collins Park (Reserve Ranger District)
- 6,073 acres
- 0% contained
Noonday Fire
- Ignited July 22 by lightning
- Northeast of San Lorenzo (Wilderness Ranger District)
- 400 acres
- 0% contained
Turkey Fire
- Ignited July 22 by lightning
- Northeast of Cliff (Wilderness Ranger District)
- 150 acres
- Unknown containment
Tub Fire
- Ignited July 16 by lightning
- West of Socorro (Quemado Ranger District)
- 305 acres
- 30% contained
Farm Fire
- Ignited July
- North of Tadpole Ridge (Silver City Ranger District)
- 5.5 acres
- Unknown containment
Skates Fire
- Ignited July 22
- North of Allie Canyon (Silver City Ranger District)
- One acre
Goat Fire
- Ignited July 24
- Southeast of Reading Mountain (Silver City Ranger District)
- One acre
Recovery from the 2022 Black Fire
By this time last year, New Mexico experienced the two largest fires in state history – the Black Fire which burned over 320,000 acres in the Gila National Forest and the Calf Canyon/ Hermits Peak Fire that burned over 340,000 acres in the Santa Fe National Forest.
USNF reported that the Black Fire was human-caused, but investigators are still looking into what specifically ignited the blaze.
Meanwhile, forest service personnel are continuing recovery work within the wilderness. The forest recently announced a partnership with Bat Conservation International to launch an aerial seeding project.
According to a news release, the conservation organization will oversee the seeding of 7,617 acres of land burned in the wildfire at high severity which included 19 watersheds largely along the west side of the Continental Divide.
Seeding will help regrow surface vegetation and reduce further watershed erosion in the Diamond Creek, South Diamond Creek and East Mimbres Creek watersheds.
“We have an enormous amount of work to accomplish, in terms of recovering from the Black Fire, along with implementing projects that reduce risk of future catastrophic wildfire to communities and critical infrastructure, and restoring forest and watershed structure,” said Camille Howes, Gila National Forest supervisor, in a news release.
Seeding is set to begin July 28 lasting up to 10 days.
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Leah Romero is the trending reporter at the Las Cruces Sun-News and can be reached at 575-418-3442, LRomero@lcsun-news.com or @rromero_leah on Twitter.
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2023-07-30T11:37:35+00:00
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lcsun-news.com
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https://www.lcsun-news.com/story/news/2023/07/30/take-a-look-at-the-status-of-wildfires-in-the-gila-national-forest-this-year-nm-us-forest-service/70428057007/
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Queen Elizabeth II was laid to rest at Windsor Castle after a state funeral in London. Some very old rituals for death of a monarch took place in full public view on television for the first time.
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Queen Elizabeth II was laid to rest at Windsor Castle after a state funeral in London. Some very old rituals for death of a monarch took place in full public view on television for the first time.
Copyright 2022 NPR
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2022-09-19T22:09:29+00:00
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kpcc.org
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https://www.kpcc.org/2022-09-19/from-windsor-a-view-of-queen-elizabeth-iis-funeral
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NORTH DAKOTA (KXNET) — For our June 26th KX Conversation, Alysia Huck spoke with Shawnda Ereth, the executive director.
During the conversation, Ereth discussed what it is, why it was created, what the costs are, and what the kickoff event is.
NORTH DAKOTA (KXNET) — For our June 26th KX Conversation, Alysia Huck spoke with Shawnda Ereth, the executive director.
During the conversation, Ereth discussed what it is, why it was created, what the costs are, and what the kickoff event is.
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2023-06-27T02:56:08+00:00
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kxnet.com
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is nominating Julie Su, the current deputy and former California official, as his next labor secretary, replacing the departing incumbent, former Boston Mayor Marty Walsh.
Su, a civil rights attorney and former head of California’s labor department, was central to negotiations between labor and freight rail companies late last year, working to avert an economically debilitating strike. She also has worked to broaden employee training programs and crack down on wage theft. If confirmed by the Senate, Su would also be the first Asian-American in the Biden administration to serve in the Cabinet at the secretary level.
Biden, in a statement on Tuesday, called her a “champion for workers.”
“Julie is a tested and experienced leader, who will continue to build a stronger, more resilient, and more inclusive economy that provides Americans a fair return for their work and an equal chance to get ahead,” he said. “She helped avert a national rail shutdown, improved access to good jobs free from discrimination through my Good Jobs Initiative, and is ensuring that the jobs we create in critical sectors like semiconductor manufacturing, broadband and healthcare are good-paying, stable and accessible jobs for all.”
Su was considered to lead the department when Biden won the White House but instead became the department’s deputy. Walsh announced his intention to leave the administration earlier this month to lead the National Hockey League Players’ Association. Su will serve as the acting secretary until the Senate acts on her nomination.
Biden had been under pressure from the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus and other Asian American and Pacific Islander advocates to select Su to head the department. This administration was the first in more than two decades to not have a Cabinet secretary of AAPI descent, despite its regular declarations that it was the most diverse in history. Vice President Kamala Harris and U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai are of AAPI descent but don’t lead a Cabinet department.
Su, if confirmed, would also expand the majority of women serving in the president’s Cabinet. She was confirmed by the Senate to her current role in 2021 by a 50–47 vote.
Su’s nomination drew swift support from Democrats on Capitol Hill, with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer saying she would be “phenomenal” in the job.
“The president couldn’t have picked a better nominee,” he told reporters. “I’m really excited about her, and we’re going to move to consider her nomination very, very quickly.”
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., who will preside over Su’s confirmation hearing as chair of the Senate health, education, labor and pensions committee, praised the selection. Sanders had urged consideration of Sara Nelson, the president of the flight attendants union, but made clear Su had his strong support.
“I’m confident Julie Su will be an excellent Secretary of Labor,” he tweeted. “I look forward to working with her to protect workers’ rights and build the trade union movement in this country.”
In a tweet, Rep. Judy Chu, D-Calif., who chairs the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, praised the selection and thanked Biden for “nominating your first AAPI Cabinet Secretary!”
“I am elated that President Biden is nominating Julie Su to be our nation’s next Labor Secretary,” Chu wrote. “She’s eminently qualified to lead the Department and will successfully deliver results for our workers on Day 1.”
Her nomination also comes at a key moment for labor unions, which have been facing a decline in membership for decades. Unions gained some momentum as workers at major employers such as Amazon and Starbucks pushed to unionize. But Biden — an avowed pro-union president — had to work with Congress to impose a contract on rail workers last year to avoid a possible strike.
The Labor Department said just 10.1% of workers last year were union members. That figure has been cut nearly in half since 1983 and could fall further, as younger workers are less likely to belong to unions.
“There’s no one more dedicated and qualified to defend the fundamental rights of working people than Julie Su,” said AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler. “It’s her life’s work.”
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Associated Press writers Josh Boak, Mary Clare Jalonick and Hope Yen in Washington contributed to this report.
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2023-03-01T14:24:05+00:00
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pahomepage.com
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https://www.pahomepage.com/news/politics/ap-biden-to-nominate-julie-su-as-next-us-labor-secretary/
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TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Two teens were arrested Thursday after authorities said they took turns shooting at each other while wearing a body-armored vest.
Police in Florida responded to reports of a shooting on Sunday, April 3, at a home in Belleview. When they arrived, officers said they found 16-year-old Christopher Leroy Broad with a gunshot wound.
Broad was sent to the hospital where he ultimately died as a result of his injuries.
Over the course of several days, detectives discovered that two other boys, Joshua Vining and Colton Whitler, both 17, were taking turns shooting at each other while wearing a vest that contained a form of body armor.
Officers said Vining shot and struck Broad while he was wearing the vest. Whitler was initially interviewed as a witness to the shooting but misled officials with inaccurate information about what took place and who shot Broad, according to a news release issued by the Belleview Police Department.
Vining was arrested Thursday and charged with aggravated manslaughter of a child with a firearm. Whitler was also arrested in connection with the shooting for providing false information to law enforcement.
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2022-04-09T18:48:17+00:00
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texomashomepage.com
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https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/national/boy-dies-after-teens-take-turns-shooting-at-each-other-wearing-armored-vest-police-say/
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WCIA) — Lanphier High School graduate and Golden State Warriors forward Andre Iguodala is making history with his this trip to the NBA Finals.
This will be his 7th trip to the Finals in eight years. He is the only other active player to achieve that milestone besides LeBron James.
Linda Shanklin has watched her son, Iguodala, on the basketball court for decades. In all that time it isn’t his athleticism or his jumper that she likes watching the most.
“I actually get excited here lately with him not playing,” Shanklin said. “I’m like, you know what my husband like he’s coaching and look at him.”
Because of an injury, Iguodala hasn’t played since the first round of this year’s playoffs. Instead, he has stepped into a player coach role, helping his teammates that are now in the spotlight.
“It started back at Lanphier when he was doing all of this,” Shanklin said.
The Lanphier Lions legend lead his team to the state finals in 2002. Current coach Blake Turner points to the portrait of Iguodala on the wall of his gym as an example and a role model for his players.
“At some point, that’s like, man, you know, that could be me,” Turner said. “And I think that the way that he carries himself makes you proud to want to be him.”
Iguodala will occasionally hook the lions up with some new shoes or other gear.
But his support goes much further.
“There are definitely kids that have talked to him reached out to him,” Turner said. “You know, there’s some group chats that he’s a part of with some of the kids.”
Throughout the years, iguodala has talked with many of turner’s players, helping them through tough times and helping them find their way.
“He’s one of those guys that hasn’t forgotten where he’s come from,” Turner said. “If you ask him about Lanphier, you know, he’ll tell us a Lanphier Lion through and through.”
Whether its the greatest players in the world, or some high school kids with a dream, Iguodala is constantly having those conversations and helping them figure out the game.
“I’m most proud of that, just the man that my he’s still my baby who my baby has become,” Shanklin said.
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2022-06-02T06:25:37+00:00
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wcia.com
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https://www.wcia.com/news/iguodala-doesnt-need-the-ball-to-make-an-impact-on-the-court/
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MOORESVILLE, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) – A car stopped in a Mooresville intersection turned into a man’s arrest for drugs and a firearm.
Mooresville Police said they got a 7:17 a.m. call Wednesday morning about a car at the intersection of Oak Street and Statesville Avenue.
When authorities arrived at the car, they found a man unresponsive and armed with a handgun. After a brief standoff, police took 26-year-old Zachary Dominic LaForce out of his vehicle and arrested him.
Police recovered a handgun, cocaine, other narcotics, and cash in the arrest.
LaForce faces several charges, including
- (F) Possession of a Firearm by a Convicted Felon
- (F) Possession with the Intent to Sell or Deliver Cocaine
- (F) Possession of a Controlled Substance within 1,000 feet of a school
- (F) Maintaining a Vehicle for the use or sale of controlled substance
- (M) Possession of a Schedule IV Controlled Substance
- (M) Possession of Drug Paraphernalia
- (M) Resist, Delay, or Obstruct an officer
Authorities took LaForce to the Iredell County Detention Center under a $25,000 secured bond.
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2023-02-15T23:39:53+00:00
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qcnews.com
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https://www.qcnews.com/crime-and-public-safety/mooresville-man-passed-out-in-intersection-charged-with-drugs-firearm-wednesday/
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NEW YORK, July 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of DouYu International Holdings Limited (NASDAQ: DOYU) between April 30, 2021 and May 9, 2023, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period") of the important August 8, 2023 lead plaintiff deadline in the securities class action first filed by the Firm.
SO WHAT: If you purchased DouYu securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the DouYu class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=15999 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than August 8, 2023. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources, or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually litigate securities class actions, but are merely middlemen that refer clients or partner with law firms that actually litigate the cases. Many of these firms do not actually litigate securities class actions. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, throughout the Class Period, defendants made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose, among other things, that: (1) The Chinese government, due to concerns about issues such as video game and computer addiction, as well as content challenging its authority, could become increasingly aggressive towards DouYu regardless of how effective or sincere its attempts to comply with Chinese law were; (2) this increasingly aggressive posture subjected DouYu to a heightened risk of an investigation and subsequent government enforcement action and ultimately resulted in enforcement action; and (3) as a result, defendants' statements about its business, operations, and prospects, were materially false and misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
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2023-07-10T02:43:19+00:00
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MOVIE REVIEW
‘THE GOOD HOUSE’
Rated R. At AMC Boston Common and suburban theaters.
Grade C+
A showcase for Massachusetts’ North Shore and the bravura of three-time Academy Award nominee Sigourney Weaver, “The Good House” labors under the burden of a flawed and mediocre screenplay, a problem that is impossible for either Weaver or the scenery to overcome. Weaver plays 60-ish Hildy Good, a present-day North Shore real estate agent and the perhaps telepathic, direct descendant of the hanged Salem witch Sarah Good. Hildy, whose mother was an alcoholic, has a drinking problem of her own, two grown-up daughters, Emily (Molly Brown) and Tess (Rebecca Henderson), who rely on her for money, and an ex-husband named Scott (David Rasche), who is now married to a man.
Hildy’s former protege Wendy Heatherton (Kathryn Erbe) is now her chief competitor. They are each angling to list the lavish home of psychiatrist Peter Newbold (Rob Delaney), whose new partner is (scandalously) his vivacious former patient Rebecca McAllister (Morena Baccarin). Hildy still has a thing for ex-flame Frank Getchell (Kevin Kline), a grizzled contractor whom the typically class-conscious locals call “the garbageman” because he also runs a lucrative, local sanitation business.
As one can see, “The Good House” has no shortage of characters or acting talent. Directors Maya Forbes (“The Polka King”) of Cambridge and the Brahmin Forbes clan and Wallace Wolodarsky (“Seeing Other People”) are writing partners (“The Rocker”) and married partners, too. The screenplay by Forbes, Wolodarsky and Thomas Bezucha (“Let Him Go”) is based on a 2013 novel by Ann Leary (wife of Denis Leary) and combines scenes in which Weaver addresses the camera directly, a distracting and tiresome device, with small, prosperous-town cliches, including the high cost of coffee.
The film’s setting is the fictional seaside town of Wendover, a stand in for Marblehead, from which author Leary hails. Tooling around in her leased Range Rover, Hildy tell us she doesn’t “think things through.” She worked herself through UMass and sorely needs “a good year.” Hildy has three dogs and keeps a box of wine in the shed in the back, which she moves to the basement when it gets cold. Her family stages an intervention before we really know that Hildy is an addict. But Hildy soon relapses. Someone mentions the “witches of Wendover,” a reference to former Beverly resident John Updike’s much better Long Island-set 1984 novel “The Witches of Eastwick.” We hear that Peter’s father was very hard on him as a boy, but we typically don’t hear enough about it. At a Thanksgiving dinner, Hildy sneaks vodka into her supposedly non-alcoholic Bloody Marys. Perhaps even worse, she sings a Gordon Lightfoot song with Scott, singing and accompanying on guitar.
Did I mention that these people are not a lot of fun to be around? Tess is a classic Millennial scold. Hildy is a disaster and a DUI waiting to happen, again. The others are just narcissists. The beige-and-green color scheme does not help. In terms of films about alcoholism, “The Good House” pales beside “The Lost Weekend,” “Leaving Las Vegas” and the recent “Another Round.” This may be because “The Good House” is a comedy of manners. Beverly D’Angelo shows up as another, hard-drinking local. Paul Guilfoyle serves as some sort of Wendover Greek Chorus sitting outside an expensive coffee shop. Weaver and Kline are fun together. But they don’t have a lot of chemistry. If “The Good House,” which was shot in Canada, was designed to get Weaver another Oscar nod, I’m afraid it won’t. But using Joan Armatrading’s monumental “Down to Zero” over the end credits is a nice touch.
“The Good House” contains alcohol abuse, a sexually suggestive scene and profanity.
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2022-09-30T05:07:02+00:00
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bostonherald.com
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https://www.bostonherald.com/2022/09/30/sigourney-weaver-cast-cant-prop-up-the-good-house/
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CHARLES TOWN, W.Va., June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- American Public University System (APUS) today announced that U.S. Marine Corps Lieutenant General Lori E. Reynolds (retired) has been appointed to its Board of Trustees. An experienced strategic leader with a demonstrated history of leading organizational change, Reynolds was the most senior woman in the Marine Corps for over eight years; she now serves as CEO of LEReynolds Group, a consulting firm founded in September 2021, and Chair of the Board Emeritus at Sea Services Leadership Association.
"We're excited to welcome Lieutenant General Reynolds to the APUS Board. Her extensive experience will help us continue to strengthen our ability to deliver accessible and affordable online higher education to adult learners of all backgrounds, including military and veteran students," said Frank Ball, APUS Board of Trustee Chairman.
As Deputy Commandant of the Marine Corps for Information and Commander of Marine Corps Forces Strategic command, Reynolds developed, led and managed the Marine Corps' $12 billion global information portfolio spanning intelligence, IT, networking, cybersecurity, and space. During her 35-year career, Reynolds led Marines at every level of command, and served in Iraq and Afghanistan.
"I am honored to join APUS at such an exciting time when the University is playing a significantly increased role enabling service-minded students to become tomorrow's leaders," said Reynolds. "I'm excited to help future APUS students achieve their educational goals."
Reynolds – only the third woman to earn the rank of Lieutenant General in the Marine Corps –has significant experience in strategic planning, process improvement, leading transformation, solving complex strategic problems and challenging organizations to maximize outcomes through diversity, equity and inclusion. A Baltimore native, she has served in numerous high-impact positions globally over the past three decades.
From 2011 to 2014, Reynolds commanded all Marine Corps recruiting and recruit training operations for the eastern half of the United States when she was Commanding General at Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island, S.C. In that role, she was responsible for recruiting and training 20,000 new Marines annually.
Four years later, she assumed command of Marine Corps Cyberspace Command at Fort Meade, Maryland. Three years afterward, she was promoted to lieutenant general, and served at that rank until summer 2021.
Reynolds holds two master's degrees in National Security Policy Studies, from the U.S. Naval War College, and the U.S. Army War College. Reynolds earned her commission and a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science from the U.S. Naval Academy.
About American Public University System
American Public University System (APUS) delivers accessible and affordable online higher education to adult learners of all backgrounds. APUS, a five-time recipient of Online Learning Consortium's (OLC) Effective Practice Award, offers more than 200 online degree and certificate programs through American Public University as well as American Military University, the #1 provider of higher education to the U.S. military and veterans*. With over 116,000 alumni worldwide, APUS is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission (HLC). It is a wholly owned subsidiary of American Public Education, Inc. (Nasdaq: APEI). For more information, visit www.apus.edu.
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2022-06-29T18:08:33+00:00
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ksla.com
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https://www.ksla.com/prnewswire/2022/06/29/american-public-university-system-appoints-us-marine-corps-lieutenant-general-lori-reynolds-retired-board-trustees/
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As the powerful tread carefully in East Palestine, Ohio, those who needed the most help were miles away asking for it.
"Missed work, work called and said we’re letting you go. So I lost my job because of this," said Franklin O’Neil, an East Palestine resident.
Franklin and Courtney O’Neil have three young children. They live in the disaster zone close to the train wreck that sent toxic smoke above the village and material seeping into the groundwater.
"It’s hard, my throat’s been burning, I’ve been coughing a lot," O'Neil said.
They and dozens of others in the area came to a church where Norfolk Southern, the rail company that owns the line, offered cash assistance. Some of those in line waited up to four hours for $1,000 checks per family member.
"It really ain’t much considering what we’ve had to go through," O'Neil said.
Locals complained the company cut checks with legal strings attached.
"We’ve made it very clear that that is just plain wrong, that nobody should sign away their legal rights to get a check from Norfolk Southern," said Sen. Sherrod Brown.
Both of Ohio’s U.S. senators toured the town, vowing accountability for the rail company.
"We need to give this community long-term confidence that their health is protected," said Sen. J.D. Vance.
The Environmental Protection Agency’s Administrator was checking on Norfolk Southern’s clean-up efforts. In addition, the EPA is monitoring the water and the air.
Scripps News attended a press conference and asked Michael Regan, the EPA Administrator, how to build trust in a community that doesn’t seem to trust anybody.
"You build trust by transparency. We have to engage with the community. We have to be on the ground. We have to be present. That’s what we’re pledging to do," he said.
Trust is what is lacking for many in East Palestine, especially when it comes to Norfolk Southern, which caught heat for not showing up for a town meeting this week — saying they feared for the safety of their employees.
"They definitely should be giving us money, because they’re to blame," said Emily Mahon, an East Palestine resident.
Mahon and her family are also frustrated by what they find to be vague responses about environmental safety.
"I think there’s something more going on and they’re not being honest about it," Mahon said.
In some cases, even the government is raising suspicions about Norfolk Southern. The governor of Pennsylvania this week wrote the company gave inaccurate information about a controlled release of chemicals and distanced themselves from first responders after the crash.
About two weeks after the crash, locals still complain about headaches and irritated eyes, and find their cars and lawns covered in soot.
"They’re getting conflicting stories. Especially social media," said Scott McAleer, an East Palestine resident.
McAleer lives doors away from the derailment. He shared a video showing the flames and smoke from February 3.
Norfolk Southern says it’s creating a $1 million fund to help the ongoing clean up. CEO Alan Shaw vowed in a letter "we will not let you down."
But for many in the community, the rail line can’t pay enough to buy goodwill.
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2023-02-17T14:07:49+00:00
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koaa.com
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https://www.koaa.com/news/national/ohio-community-calls-for-support-accountability-after-derailment
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Kremlin-orchestrated referendum got underway Friday in occupied regions of Ukraine that sought to make them part of Russia, with some officials carrying ballots to apartment blocks accompanied by gun-toting police. Kyiv and the West condemned it as a rigged election whose result was preordained by Moscow.
Meanwhile, in a grim reminder of the brutality of the 7-month-old invasion, U.N. experts and Ukrainian officials pointed to new evidence of Russian war crimes. Kharkiv region officials said a mass burial site in the eastern city of Izium held hundreds of bodies, including at least 30 displaying signs of torture.
The referendums in the Luhansk, Kherson and partly Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk regions were widely seen as a prelude to Moscow annexing the regions. The voting, which was overseen by authorities installed by Russia, is scheduled to run through Tuesday and is almost certain to go the Kremlin’s way.
Authorities in the Kherson region said residents of a small Moscow-controlled area of the neighboring Mykolaiv province also will be able to vote, and that small area was “incorporated” into Kherson until all of Mykolaiv is taken over by Russian forces.
Ukraine and the West said the vote was an illegitimate attempt by Moscow to slice away a large part of the country, stretching from the Russian border to the Crimean Peninsula. A similar referendum took place in Crimea in 2014 before Moscow annexed it, a move that most of the world considered illegal.
Citing safety reasons, election officials carried ballots to homes and set up mobile polling stations for the four-day voting period. Russian state TV showed one such election team accompanied by a masked police officer carrying an assault rifle.
Ivan Fedorov, the Ukrainian mayor of Melitopol in the Zaporizhzhia region, told The Associated Press that Russians and residents of Crimea were brought into his city to urge people to vote.
“The Russians see an overwhelming reluctance and fear to attend the referendum and are forced to bring people… to create an image and an illusion of the vote,” he said. “Groups of collaborators and Russians along with armed soldiers are doing a door-to-door poll, but few people open the doors to them.”
Voting also occurred in Russia, where refugees and other residents from those regions cast ballots.
Denis Pushilin, the Moscow-backed separatist leader in the Donetsk region, called the referendum “a historical milestone.”
Lawmaker Vyacheslav Volodin, the speaker of Russia’s State Duma, said in an online statement to the regions: “If you decide to become part of the Russian Federation, we will support you.”
Thousands attended pro-Kremlin rallies across Russia in support the referendums, news agencies reported. “Long live the one, great, united Russian people!” one speaker told the large crowd at a central Moscow rally and concert titled, “We Don’t Abandon Our Own.”
Luhansk Gov. Serhii Haidai accused officials of taking down the names of people who voted against joining Russia. In online posts, Haidai also alleged that Russian officials threatened to kick down the doors of anyone who didn’t want to vote.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged Ukrainians in occupied regions to undermine the referendums and to share information about the people conducting “this farce.” He also urged Ukrainians to avoid being called up in the Russian mobilization announced Wednesday.
“But if you do end up in the Russian army, then sabotage any enemy activity, interfere with any Russian operations, give us all important information about the occupiers. … And at the first opportunity, switch to our positions,” he said in his nightly address.
President Vladimir Putin’s partial mobilization of reservists could add about 300,000 troops, his defense minister said. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov dismissed as false media reports of plans to muster up to 1.2 million troops.
Across the vast country, men hugged their weeping family members before departing as part of the call-up, which has raised fears that a wider draft might follow. Anti-war activists planned more protests Saturday.
Other Russian men tried desperately to leave the country, buying up scarce plane tickets and creating traffic jams hours or even days long at some borders. The lines of cars were so long at the border with Kazakhstan that some people abandoned their vehicles and walked — just as some Ukrainians did after Russia invaded their country Feb. 24.
Russian authorities sought to calm public fears over the call-up. Lawmakers introduced a bill Friday to suspend or reduce loan payments for those called to duty, and media emphasized that they would be paid the same as professional soldiers and that their civilian jobs would be held for them.
The Defense Ministry said many of those working in high tech, communications or finance will be exempt, the Tass news agency reported.
Amid the mobilization and referendums, the horrors of the conflict persisted.
Kharkiv regional Gov. Oleh Synyehubov and regional police chief Volodymyr Tymoshko said at least 30 of the 436 bodies exhumed so far in Izium bore signs of torture. Among them were the bodies of 21 Ukrainian soldiers, some found with their hands bound behind their backs, they said.
Russian forces occupied Izium for six months before being pushed out by a Ukrainian counteroffensive this month. The exhumations, which began a week ago, are nearing an end, as investigators work on identifying victims and how they died. A mobile DNA lab was parked at the edge of the burial site.
“Each body has its own story,” Synyehubov said.
Experts commissioned by the U.N. Human Rights Council also presented evidence of potential war crimes, including beatings, electric shocks and forced nudity in Russian detention facilities, and expressed grave concerns about extrajudicial killings the team was working to document in Kharkiv and the regions of Kyiv, Chernihiv and Sumy.
With world opinion pushing Moscow deeper into isolation over the war, Russia lashed out against the West. Its U.S. ambassador, Anataly Antonov, said at a Moscow conference Friday about the 1962 Cuban missile crisis that Washington is trying to bring Russia “to its knees” and divide it into “several fiefdoms” while stripping it of its nuclear weapons and its permanent seat at the U.N. Security Council.
In new reports of fighting, Ukraine’s presidential office said 10 civilians were killed and 39 others wounded by Russian shelling in nine regions. Battles continued in the southern Kherson province during the vote, it said, while Ukrainian forces meted out 280 attacks on Russian command posts, munitions depots and weapons.
Heavy fighting also continued in the Donetsk area, where Russian attacks targeted Toretsk, Sloviansk and several smaller towns. Russian shelling in Nikopol and Marhanets on the western bank of the Dnieper River killed two people and wounded nine.
In other developments, Kyiv expelled Iran’s ambassador and reduced staff at the Iranian Embassy in response to Tehran’s “supply of weapons to Russia for war on Ukrainian territory,” said Oleh Nikolenko, a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry. Ukraine reported shooting down an Iranian-made Mohajer-6 drone that can be used for surveillance or to carry precision-guided weapons, adding that it destroyed four other Iranian-made Shahed-136 drones.
Earlier Friday, Ukrainian officials said Russia had attacked the port city of Odesa with Iranian-made drones, killing one person.
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Associated Press writer Lori Hinnant in Izium contributed.
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2022-09-23T23:00:37+00:00
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fox44news.com
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https://www.fox44news.com/news/ap-moscow-held-regions-of-ukraine-vote-whether-to-join-russia/
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Three reporters from a Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper in West Virginia say they have been fired after publicly criticizing an interview conducted by their company president with a former coal executive who was convicted of a safety violation in connection with the worst U.S. mine disaster in decades.
Charleston Gazette-Mail reporters Caity Coyne, Lacie Pierson and Ryan Quinn said Tuesday that they were fired due to their comments on Twitter about the video interview, now removed from the paper’s website, with former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship.
Quinn said no specific policy was cited. “The person who fired me said it was because I had publicly hurt the company on social media,” he said.
Pierson said she was told “it was insubordination that we committed on social media” and “that was something they couldn’t accept.”
In separate interviews, the three reporters said they did not receive invitations to a staff meeting with other reporters and editors Monday, several days after the interview was posted. Instead, they said they were diverted to an upstairs conference room, where they were fired one-by-one behind closed doors.
HD Media President Doug Skaff, who hosted the interview with Blankenship, did not return a telephone message or an email seeking comment Tuesday.
The “Outside The Echo Chamber” feature is posted regularly on the Gazette-Mail’s website and hosted by Skaff, who also is a Democratic member of the state House of Delegates and the chamber’s minority leader.
Last week the newspaper posted the interview with Blankenship, whose former company owned the Upper Big Branch mine where a 2010 explosion killed 29 men in southern West Virginia. Blankenship was convicted in 2015 of a misdemeanor for conspiring to violate mine safety laws and was sentenced to one year in federal prison.
In 2018, Blankenship ran for the U.S. Senate seat held by Democrat Joe Manchin, portraying himself during the campaign as “Trumpier than Trump.” Blankenship lost in the Republican primary, and Manchin eventually won re-election.
In the interview, Skaff is joined by a former television reporter in asking Blankenship about the Republican-dominated legislature, the coal industry, the mine explosion and the 2018 and 2024 elections.
In response to a question about the dwindling coal industry, Blankenship calls climate change “an absolute hoax.” The comment goes unrebutted, even though scientists say their confidence in the fact that global temperatures are rising and that the increase is caused by human activity is equivalent to the scientific certainty that cigarette smoking is deadly.
Blankenship also is asked to promote his 2020 book about the mine disaster, in which he repeats his claims of innocence and blames the administration of then-President Barack Obama.
Investigations found that worn and broken cutting equipment created a spark that ignited accumulations of coal dust and methane gas. Broken and clogged water sprayers allowed what should have been a minor flare-up to become an inferno.
In concluding the interview, Skaff tells Blankenship: “Thanks for what you did for the community down there. I know your heart’s in the right place. And you want to see southern West Virginia built back to the best that they can.”
It’s unclear why the interview was removed from the website.
Quinn first fired out a series of tweets Dec. 8 that Pierson and Coyne supported in protest of giving Blankenship a podium without the chance for journalists to ask follow-up questions.
“Today I’m announcing my candidacy for any job in the world,” Pierson, the newspaper’s Statehouse and politics reporter, wrote on Twitter after her firing. “I’m joining Caity and Ryan as having spoken our principles and living to tell the tale after being fired for our tweets.”
“We understand the need to draw eyes to the website on the business end of news,” Pierson also wrote, “but stunts like this erode the integrity and credibility of the whole Gazette-Mail.
“This choice mostly hurts staff writers, who had no say in this decision, or a lot of decisions for that matter.”
In April 2017, then-Gazette-Mail reporter Eric Eyre won a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting on the opioid crisis. HD Media bought the paper at a bankruptcy auction in 2018, and Eyre no longer works there.
In addition to the opioid crisis, the Gazette-Mail extensively covered the mine explosion, its aftermath and the federal government’s prosecution of Blankenship.
“I don’t have the words for how screwed up this is,” Coyne, the paper’s now-former health reporter, said of the interview. “I’ve met families whose loved ones died in UBB. I’ve watched them cry as they remember their relatives and their fight for answers after the disaster. Who cares where Blankenship’s heart lies. What a slap in the face to them.”
Coyne had previously announced she was leaving the paper for a new job in January.
Quinn, who was the newspaper’s education reporter, had told management last month that he was planning to leave. Instead, he said, he was offered a raise to be an investigative reporter.
Then the Blankenship interview happened.
“I’m all for giving everyone a say etc. but there was no news value to this,” Quinn wrote. “Embarrassing.”
Kayla Young, another Democrat in the state House of Delegates, said Tuesday on Twitter that she doesn’t support giving Blankenship a chance to air his opinions. She also said there’s a conflict of interest for Skaff hosting a news media show and that she has spoken to him about her feelings.
“Something’s got to give,” Young said. “We as a community are worse off to lose reporters who sincerely care about their work and we will be less informed as a result.”
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2022-12-14T15:58:00+00:00
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ktalnews.com
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https://www.ktalnews.com/news/business/ap-3-wva-reporters-who-condemned-interview-of-ex-coal-ceo-fired/
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OKOLONA, MISSISSIPPI — Clarence E. McGee, 85, died July 18, 2023. A Memorial Service will be held on Saturday at 11 a.m. at Williams Funeral Home of Florence. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service. Burial will be in Antioch Freewill Baptist Church Cemetery.
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2023-07-21T07:38:19+00:00
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ARI SHAPIRO, HOST:
Once a week, public school teachers across the country still abide by a shared tradition.
SARAH POMEROY: To this day, we push teachers to wear #RedforEd on Wednesdays.
SHAPIRO: It's a reminder of the #RedforEd movement that began five years ago. Teachers and public school staff were fed up with low wages, shrinking benefits and what many describe as a lack of respect from their legislators. So in spring of 2018, educators took to the streets.
(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)
UNIDENTIFIED CROWD #1: (Chanting, inaudible).
SHAPIRO: NPR's Jonaki Mehta talked to teachers in four different states to see what has and hasn't changed since then.
JONAKI MEHTA, BYLINE: Teaching is in Sherri Shumate's blood.
SHERRI SHUMATE: My mother was a teacher. In fact, she taught in a one-room schoolhouse in Thurman, W.Va. - multitudes of teachers in our family.
MEHTA: Shumate's been teaching for more than 40 years in Beckley, W.Va., and she plans to stick with it. But she never intended to pass down the family tradition to her own children.
SHUMATE: I have two daughters. I would never have paid for an education for them to become a teacher. They're both attorneys (laughter).
MEHTA: Shumate has had a second job for most of her working life. It's been necessary in a state that ranks in the bottom three when it comes to average teacher salaries. Low funding was at the heart of why record numbers of teachers walked out of their public schools in 2018 from West Virginia...
(SOUNDBITE OF CAR HORNS HONKING)
MEHTA: ...To Kentucky...
UNIDENTIFIED CROWD #2: (Chanting, inaudible).
MEHTA: ...To Arizona...
UNIDENTIFIED CROWD #3: (Chanting, inaudible).
MEHTA: ...And beyond.
RODRIGO PALACIOS: Really, at the center of it was this realization that our state legislature had neglected public education for so long.
MEHTA: That's veteran Arizona high school teacher, Rodrigo Palacios. Five years since the #RedforEd movement began, we wanted to know if things had gotten any better for teachers and school staff. The answer was mixed. Here are teachers Christina Trosper of Kentucky, Valerie Lovato of Colorado and Palacios in Arizona.
CHRISTINA TROSPER: The legislatures are still killing us.
VALERIE LOVATO: I'm actually really happy with what we've gotten.
PALACIOS: It's made a little bit of a difference, sure. But I think in these last five years, those raises have come with conditions.
MEHTA: One example of those conditions - in Arizona, teachers won a 20% salary increase over the course of three years.
PALACIOS: But the devil is always in the detail.
MEHTA: That's Palacios again, who's now the president of his local union chapter in Tempe. He's talking about the fact that the funding for that 20% raise, it left out a lot of essential school employees who are not classroom teachers.
PALACIOS: There was no way that we're going to be able to sit here comfortably and say, we got ours. Custodial staff, administrative assistants, support staff, you're going to have to do your own work to fight for this stuff.
MEHTA: West Virginia teachers also got a pay raise, and theirs was 5%. But it hasn't been enough to keep up with their insurance premiums, which just went up again this year.
SHUMATE: And I can remember thinking, OK, I'm losing money on this pay raise.
MEHTA: That's Sherri Shumate again. Over in Colorado, Sarah Pomeroy wouldn't say she lost money on the 6% raise that came out of her district's walkouts.
POMEROY: That was a good amount of money. But then, I mean, the reality is I'm still living in a van.
MEHTA: Pomeroy is an elementary school teacher in Summit County. She's been living out of that van for nearly two years now. It's the only way she could afford to live without roommates in the mountain town she calls home.
POMEROY: I think at this point, I could not do another winter. It's cold (laughter).
MEHTA: Pomeroy doesn't want to move. She loves the friends and community she's built, that she gets to ski, rock climb and teach. And in order to keep teaching, she said she's had to take her blinders off about the profession. She stayed involved in her union. In fact, like Palacios, she's now her chapter's president. She says that might not have happened without the #RedforEd movement.
POMEROY: I think it rose awareness around the injustices that exist in public education, and I also think it gave teachers a space to raise their voice.
LOVATO: Knowing that we have a voice and it's OK for us to speak up, just that camaraderie.
MEHTA: That's Valerie Lovato, also in Colorado. She teaches in Denver School District, which agreed to an average pay raise of almost 12% for both teachers and support staff. Unlike the other educators I spoke to, Lovato says she was happy with what Denver teachers won.
LOVATO: It felt like I could upgrade my house and, you know, get a new car. I felt comfortable doing that because I knew how much I was going to be making.
MEHTA: But Lovato says she's locked into teaching in Denver or else she'd risk a pay cut. In Kentucky, Nema Brewer was part of her district's support staff when the #RedforEd movement took off. She says the walkout left many school employees like her eager to do more, so she helped form a statewide union for teachers and public employees.
NEMA BREWER: Everybody rode this wave - and it's really high - of activism and solidarity and then kind of wondered what to do next. And so what we did next was we got rid of our governor.
MEHTA: In 2018, Kentucky's Republican governor was an outspoken critic of public school teachers. The next year, those same teachers successfully organized to get him out and get Democrat Andy Beshear in.
BREWER: We did the heavy lifting of moving Republican educators to either not vote or to vote for Andy. And that was a beautiful thing. Like, I'll be honest with you, I cried for the first time in probably two years when that happened.
MEHTA: She says that feeling of agency, the ability to make change through organizing an action, that stuck around. And it can go a long way in making educators feel like they matter.
BREWER: It's not easy, but we're going to keep going. And I would hope that our #RedforEd brothers and sisters would keep going. Like, yes, it sucks, and it's hard. But you have got to keep going because if not us, who else?
MEHTA: That's a good question. At a time when fewer people have been going to college to become teachers and many schools are struggling to staff classrooms. Jonaki Mehta, NPR News.
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2023-07-06T11:27:09+00:00
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knkx.org
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- GoodFirms, the internationally renowned research, ratings, and reviews platform, recently unveiled a new list of Top Digital Marketing Agencies from different states worldwide like California, Illinois, New Jersey, New York, and Texas. These top online marketing agencies are experts in providing dynamic and versatile marketing solutions to clients worldwide.
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2022-12-30T14:34:49+00:00
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kfyrtv.com
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — China urged the U.N. Security Council on Thursday to try to cut off the supply of small arms, light weapons and ammunition to gangs in Haiti, which has been unable to stem an upsurge in criminal violence and kidnappings.
Beijing also called for the council to demand an immediate halt to gang violence, criminal activities, roadblocks and the occupation of any public institution.
It also wants the council to express its readiness to impose additional sanctions, including travel bans and asset freezes, on people who support gang violence or criminal activities, abuse human rights or undermine Haiti’s peace, stability and security.
With the mandate for the U.N. political mission in Haiti ending Friday, the 15 council members were trying to reach agreement on a new resolution to extend the mission. The resolution initially was drafted by the United States and Mexico, and China was proposing revisions supported by its ally Russia.
The revised draft, obtained Thursday by The Associated Press, includes another major proposal by China.
It asks U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to consult Haitian authorities, relevant regional countries and regional organizations “on deploying a multinational police unit" to Haiti. It would operate in close coordination with the U.N. political mission “to support the Haitian police’s efforts in combating gang violence in order to establish and maintain public safety and law and order and to promote and protect human rights.”
The original draft called for beefing up the U.N. mission to include up to 42 police and corrections department advisers, led by a U.N. police commissioner, and staff to ensure that sexual and gender-based violence are addressed.
When the current resolution extending the U.N. mission was adopted in October, Haiti had been contending with the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse last July, a magnitude 7.2 earthquake that killed over 2,200 people in August, and escalating gang-related killings, kidnappings and turf wars.
A year after Moïse's assassination, gang violence is even worse, and Haiti has gone into a freefall that has seen the economy tumble and many Haitians flee the country to escape the turmoil. At the same time, attempts to form a coalition government have faltered, and efforts to hold general elections have stalled.
This week, officials in Haiti’s capital reported that dozens of people had died as a result of days of fighting between rival gangs in the violent Cite Soleil neighborhood. Doctors Without Borders said thousands of people were trapped in the district without drinking water, food and medical care.
A spokesperson for China’s U.N. Mission said an embargo on weapons for criminal gangs is “the minimum” the council should do in response to the appalling situation in Haiti.
“Anything falls short of that will not only disappoint the Haitian people, but also means a lost opportunity for the Security Council,” said the spokesperson, who commented only on condition of anonymity.
Other council members said an arms embargo would be unenforceable.
The draft resolution revised by China would urge “all Haitian stakeholders,” including the U.N. mission and the regional organization CARICOM, to reach an agreement within six months on a Haitian-led political for holding “inclusive, peaceful, free, fair, and transparent legislative and presidential elections as soon as security conditions and logistical preparations permit.”
Russia supported China’s call for revisions to the U.S.-Mexico draft resolution. A spokesman for Russia’s U.N. Mission said that “taking into account the situation in Haiti, we believe we need to have an opportunity to make changes to the mandate of the mission.”
The United Nations has been involved in Haiti on and off since 1990, and the last U.N. peacekeeping mission was in the country from 2004 until October 2017. The political mission now there advises Haiti’s government on “promoting and strengthening political stability and good governance,” including the implementing the rule of law, inclusive national dialogue and protecting and protection of human rights.
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2022-07-14T23:15:35+00:00
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expressnews.com
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https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/China-urges-UN-to-ban-small-arms-to-criminal-17306088.php
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OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR)- Authorities are investigation a single motorcycle fatality that took place at NE 122nd St and Broadway Extension early Sunday morning.
According to OKCPD PIO, the crash resulted in a fatality at a high rate of speed.
Investigators are currently working on identifying the victim of the crash.
Traffic has been diverted southbound from NE 122nd St and northbound from Hefner.
KFOR will update as more information arrives.
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2023-03-05T14:24:48+00:00
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kfor.com
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https://kfor.com/news/one-killed-in-ne-oklahoma-city-motorcycle-crash/
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Woman dies after driving car over downed power lines, authorities say
HENDERSON, Ky. (WFIE/Gray News) - Authorities in Kentucky said a person has died, and another was sent to the hospital after the car they were in got tangled in downed power lines on Thursday.
The Henderson County Sheriff’s Office reports that 23-year-old Aureah Grimes was driving on Larue Road when she hit a utility pole that was leaning over from a storm.
Brice Easley, 23, Jayla Barre, 22, and Alysiana Langley, 18, were also in the car with Grimes, as reported by WFIE.
After the crash, Langley got out of the vehicle while Barre and Easley remained inside. Grimes then tried to back the vehicle up and drove over the live power lines, according to the sheriff’s office.
Authorities said Barre was injured and taken to the hospital. Easley was shocked but uninjured, while Grimes died at the scene.
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2022-06-02T20:37:49+00:00
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live5news.com
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https://www.live5news.com/2022/06/02/woman-dies-after-driving-car-over-downed-power-lines-authorities-say/
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The investment will enable CraniUS to scale its product development to facilitate chronic and direct medicine delivery to help effectively treat brain diseases
BALTIMORE, Md., Sept. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CraniUS LLC, an R&D company focused on building groundbreaking treatments for patients with chronic brain disease, today announced the closing of a $19.4 million Series A fundraising round.
The Series A round, funded entirely by private investors, will drive the development of CraniUS' flagship device as it moves towards FDA approval for a first-in-human clinical study. The forthcoming phase will build off successful pre-clinical studies in which the device will validate safety and efficacy in delivering medicine directly to the brain, bypassing the blood-brain barrier.
CraniUS (https://www.craniusmed.com/) is led by CEO Michael Maglin, a veteran Fortune 1000 executive who spent the last decade at Under Armour. His extensive leadership experience includes implantable technology development, which he now leverages in spearheading CraniUS' research and development efforts.
"CraniUS' device has been built from the ground up over the last 5+ years specifically focused on long-term medicine delivery directly to the brain," according to Maglin. "This investment round will enable our team to continue its mission to invent, engineer, and manufacture our device towards FDA approval for a first-in-human clinical study."
CraniUS' stated mission is to invent and engineer world-class technology to define the future of diagnostics and treatments for patients with chronic brain disease. Its flagship device is being specifically developed to bypass the challenges presented by the blood-brain barrier, which has rendered traditional therapeutic treatments of brain disease ineffective. CraniUS utilizes novel pump and wireless charging technology to enable long-term and direct medicine administration via CED (convection-enhanced delivery), a promising method of medicine delivery first introduced by the National Institute of Health (NIH). CraniUS was co-founded in May 2021 in Baltimore, MD, by Dr. Chad Gordon, the pioneer behind the emerging field known as "Neuroplastic and Reconstructive Surgery," and CraniUS Chief Technology Officer, Deborah Weidman.
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2022-09-27T13:02:14+00:00
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https://www.witn.com/prnewswire/2022/09/27/cranius-closes-20-million-series-funding-round/
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EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Hundreds of Venezuelan migrants have set up a tent camp near the Rio Grande, hopeful the U.S. will do an about-face on a new policy that subjects them to Title 42 expulsions.
More than 20,000 Venezuelans crossed the border in the El Paso Sector between September and early October to seek asylum. Many were released pending court dates and flew or rode buses out of town. But many of those crossing the border after Oct. 12 are now being expelled to Juarez.
The tents — some made of canvas, some fashioned out of blankets — went up on Sunday, just as temperatures in the El Paso-Juarez region went down again and light rain pelted the camp.
“We are short on tarps. We are asking the community to help us. When the rain comes, the children have no means to protect themselves,” said Mario Villanueva, a Venezuelan at the camp near the Paso del Norte International Bridge.
The migrants said they had no money to go back to Venezuela so they will stay in Juarez. Some said they need to somehow get across and find work. “We did not come here with a dream. We came here with a goal. We sold everything over there, including our homes. Going back would be difficult,” said Jorge Montilla, another Venezuelan stuck in Juarez.
Mexican government officials have agreed to receive up to 24,000 Venezuelan migrants expelled from the United States. Officials told Border Report to expect an announcement Tuesday regarding a new, emergency policy to assist expelled Venezuelan nationals.
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2022-10-25T01:02:18+00:00
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everythinglubbock.com
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https://www.everythinglubbock.com/border-report/venezuelans-set-up-tent-camp-in-juarez/
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BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Yellowstone National Park area’s weather forecast the morning of June 12 seemed fairly tame: warmer temperatures and rain showers would accelerate mountain snow melt and could produce “minor flooding.” A National Weather Service bulletin recommended moving livestock from low-lying areas but made no mention of danger to people.
By nightfall, after several inches of rain fell on a deep spring snowpack, there were record-shattering floods.
Torrents of water poured off the mountains. Swollen rivers carrying boulders and trees smashed through Montana towns over the next several days. The flooding swept away houses, wiped out bridges and forced the evacuation of more than 10,000 tourists, park employees and residents near the park.
As a cleanup expected to last months grinds on, climate experts and meteorologists say the gap between the destruction and what was forecast underscores a troublesome aspect of climate change: Models used to predict storm impacts do not always keep up with increasingly devastating rainstorms, hurricanes, heat waves and other events.
“Those rivers had never reached those levels. We literally were flying blind not even knowing what the impacts would be,” said Arin Peters, a senior hydrologist with the National Weather Service.
Hydrologic models used to predict flooding are based on long-term, historical records. But they do not reflect changes to the climate that emerged over the past decade, said meteorologist and Weather Underground founder Jeff Masters.
“Those models are going to be inadequate to deal with a new climate,” Masters said.
Another extreme weather event where the models came up short was Hurricane Ida, which slammed Louisiana last summer and then stalled over the Eastern Seaboard — deluging parts of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York with unprecedented rainfall that caused massive flooding.
The weather service had warned of a “serious situation” that could turn “catastrophic,” but the predicted of 3 to 6 inches (8 to 15 centimeters) of rain for New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania was far short of the 9 to 10 inches (23 to 25 centimeters) that fell.
The deadly June 2021 heat wave that scorched the Pacific Northwest offered another example. Warmer weather had been expected, but not temperatures of up to 116 degrees (47C degrees) that toppled previous records and killed an estimated 600 or more people in Oregon, Washington state and western Canada.
The surprise Yellowstone floods prompted a nighttime scramble to close off roads and bridges getting swept away by the water, plus rushed evacuations that missed some people. No one died, somewhat miraculously, as more than 400 homes were damaged or destroyed.
As rock slides caused by the rainfall started happening in Yellowstone, park rangers closed a heavily-used road between the town of Gardiner and the park headquarters in Mammoth Hot Springs, Wyoming. It later washed out in numerous places.
The rain and snowmelt was “too much too fast and you just try to stay out of the way,” Yellowstone Deputy Chief Ranger Tim Townsend said.
If the road hadn’t been closed “we probably would have had fatalities, unquestionably,” park Superintendent Cam Sholly said.
“The road looks totally fine and then it’s like an 80-foot drop right into the river,” Sholly said. “No way if someone was driving in the rain at night that they would have seen that and could have stopped.”
Rock Creek, which runs through the city of Red Lodge and normally is placid and sometimes just ankle deep, became a raging river. When the weather service issued a flood warning for the creek, the water already had surged over its banks and begun to knock down bridges.
By the time the warning was went, “we already knew it was too late,” said Scott Williams, a commissioner for Carbon County, Montana, which borders Yellowstone.
Red Lodge resident Pam Smith was alerted to the floods by something knocking around in her basement before dawn. It was her clothes dryer, floating in water pouring through the windows.
In a scramble to save keepsakes, Smith slipped on the wet kitchen floor and fell, shattering a bone in her arm. She recalled holding back tears as she trudged through floodwaters with her partner and 15-year-old granddaughter to reach their pickup truck and drive to safety.
“I went blank,” Smith said. “I was angry and like, ‘Why didn’t anybody warn us? Why was there no knock on the door? Why didn’t the police come around and say there’s flooding, you need to get out?’”
Local authorities say sheriff’s deputies and others knocked on doors in Red Lodge and a second community that flooded. But they acknowledged not everyone was reached as numerous rivers and streams overflowed, swamping areas never known previously to flood.
While no single weather event can be conclusively tied to climate change, scientists said the Yellowstone flooding was consistent with changes already documented around the park as temperatures warm.
Those changes include less snowfall in mid-winter and more spring precipitation — setting the stage for flash floods when rains fall on the snow, said Montana State University climate scientist Cathy Whitlock.
Warming trends mean spring floods will increase in frequency — even as the region suffers from long-term drought that keeps much of the rest of the year dry, she said.
Masters and other experts noted that computer modelling of storms has become more sophisticated and is generally more accurate than ever. But extreme weather by its nature is hard to predict, and as such events happen more frequently there will be many more chances for forecasters to get it wrong.
The rate of the most extreme rainstorms has increased by a factor of five, Masters said. So an event with a 1% chance of happening in any given year — commonly referred to as a “one in 100-year” event — now has a 5% chance of happening, he said.
“We are literally re-writing our weather history book,” said University of Oklahoma Meteorology Professor Jason Furtado.
That has widespread implications for local authorities and emergency officials who rely on weather bulletins to guide their disaster response approaches. If they’re not warned, they can’t act.
But the National Weather Service also strives to avoid undue alarm and maintain public trust. So if the service’s models show a only a slim chance of disaster, that information is likely left out of the forecast.
Weather service officials said the agency’s actions with the Yellowstone flooding will be analyzed to determine if changes are needed. They said early warnings that river levels were rising did help officials prepare and prevent loss of life, even if their advisories failed to predict the severity.
Computer-based forecasting models are regularly updated to account for new meteorological trends due to climate change, Peters said. Even with those refinements, events like the Yellowstone flooding still are considered low-probability and so often won’t make it into forecasts based on what the models say is most likely to occur.
“It’s really difficult to balance that feeling that you’ve got that this could get really bad, but the likelihood of it getting really bad is so small,” Peters said. He added that the dramatic swing from drought to flood was hard even for meteorologists to reconcile and called it “weather whiplash.”
To better communicate the potential for extreme weather, some experts say the weather service needs to change its forecasts to inform the public about low probability hazardous events. That could be accomplished through more detailed daily forecasts or some kind of color-coded system for alerts.
“We’ve been slow to provide that information,” North Carolina State University atmospheric scientist Gary Lackmann said. “You put it on people’s radars and they could think about that and it could save lives.”
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Hanson reported from Helena, Montana.
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2022-07-07T13:58:38+00:00
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kron4.com
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https://www.kron4.com/technology/ap-technology/yellowstone-flooding-reveals-forecast-flaws-as-climate-warms/
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Even procrastinators can save with these last-minute deals
The deadline has arrived: It’s the day before Christmas Eve. This is when procrastinators reveal how resourceful they are. It’s when they thrive. Whether you’re getting a gift card or something you order online and pick up in a store, such as a toy or a power tool, it’s time. And, believe it or not, even in this eleventh hour, you can still get some great deals.
The best last-minute deals you can still get today
Amazon Echo Dot (3rd Gen) Bundle: 71% off
If you’ve been thinking about upgrading to a smart home, this bundle comes with an Amazon Echo Dot (3rd Generation) and a free smart color bulb. It lets you see what it’s like to control something with your voice. Sold by Amazon
Lifetime 50-Inch All Star Portable Basketball Hoop: 40% off
Just add sand to the base and you have a rugged home basketball court that you can place wherever you like. It can be adjusted in 6-inch increments and comes with a five-year warranty. Sold by Dick’s Sporting Goods
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Perfect meals are just a device away. This cooker circulates water at a precise temperature so your food is never overcooked or undercooked. Sold by Amazon
Apple AirPods Pro (2nd Generation): 20% off
If you want the best earbuds, Apple’s offering has features such as spatial audio and adaptive transparency mode that make them stand out from other brands.
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You don’t just get the camera with this affordable bundle. You also get two rechargeable batteries, mounts, a cable, a mini tripod, a camera case and more. Sold by Amazon
Husky Mechanics Tool Set (94-Piece): 44% off
All season long, Husky has been offering great deals. This might be your last chance to get a comprehensive, 94-piece mechanic’s tool set at this low price. Sold by Home Depot
Amazon Basics Kids Ear Protection Safety Noise Earmuffs: 79% off
Permanent hearing loss is irreversible. Protect your kid’s ears early and often. This model is designed for sporting events, concerts, fireworks and other loud outings.
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Ring 1080p Wireless Video Doorbell: 40% off
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2022-12-24T14:06:21+00:00
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Former NFL running back off ventilator after saving kids from drowning
(KCTV/WOIO/Gray News) – Former NFL running back Peyton Hillis was hospitalized last week after saving his kids from drowning, according to prior reports.
Hillis, 36, was hospitalized in critical condition after the swimming incident in Pensacola, Florida on Jan. 5.
Family members announced on Facebook Thursday that Hillis was improving and had been taken off a ventilator, KCTV reported.
“Peyton is off the ventilator and is doing great!!” his sister Hayley Davis wrote in the post.
Hillis grew up in Conway, Arkansas. He played for the Arkansas Razorbacks from 2004 to 2007.
The Denver Broncos drafted him in the seventh Round of the 2008 NFL Draft.
He played eight seasons in the NFL with several teams, including the Cleveland Browns, Kansas City Chiefs and New York Giants.
Most notably, Hillis rushed for nearly 1,200 yards with the Cleveland Browns in 2010 and was the cover athlete for the Madden NFL video game series “Madden NFL 12.”
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2023-01-13T16:41:01+00:00
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wymt.com
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https://www.wymt.com/2023/01/13/former-nfl-running-back-off-ventilator-after-saving-kids-drowning/
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7th grader with cerebral palsy inspires middle school wrestling teammates
Since first stepping on the mat this season, Scott Murphy has been pinning down all obstacles
Since first stepping on the mat this season, Scott Murphy has been pinning down all obstacles
Since first stepping on the mat this season, Scott Murphy has been pinning down all obstacles
Amid the chaos at wrestling practice, Scott Murphy doesn't want to be anywhere else.
Murphy is the heart of the Timberlane Middle School program in Plaistow, New Hampshire.
"You come in and you see his smile, and no matter what's going on in your day, you see Scott having a great time and out there, and it's OK," said Tyler Fitzpatrick, the Timberlane Middle School wrestling coach.
Murphy has cerebral palsy, which impacts the ability to move and maintain balance.
Since first stepping on the mat this season, Murphy has been pinning down all obstacles and inspiring his teammates.
“They were like, 'You can do this, you can do this,'” Murphy said. “They would keep saying that every day of the practice. They would cheer me on and everything.”
Don't get it twisted, though; the seventh grader is here to win.
“First meet that we had, I won,” Murphy said.
"He’s had a couple wins. A couple loses, so he's working hard, fighting through some positions," Fitzpatrick said. "You’ve got to fight through some stuff and learn. It's hard your first year wrestling."
When walking inside the gym, you can't help but notice Murphy’s smile. That's because when on the mat surrounded by all his teammates, he's found a safe space to be a part of a team and enjoy a sport that he loves.
“When I have my match, all my teammates come over the mat that I’m wrestling on,” Murphy said. “You can choose not to come on that mat, but they all do. I don't ask them to. They just come.”
“Just his positivity. Pushing through different challenges and different things," Fitzpatrick said. “Showing us and reminding us that no matter what you're dealt with in life, you can always persevere and push through.”
Murphy wants to compete in high school, too. With his mentality in life and on the mat, there's no doubt he can make it happen.
“He's loved it so far, so hopefully, we'll keep him around and keep training,” Fitzpatrick said.
“Some people, when they lose, they get angry or have an emotion. I don't. I just take it. It is what it is,” Murphy said. “Just push through. Just push through it.”
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2023-02-23T16:32:13+00:00
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4029tv.com
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https://www.4029tv.com/article/timberlane-middle-school-wrestler-cerebral-palsy-nh/43041596
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North Korea fires artillery again over South’s drills
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea on Tuesday fired a barrage of artillery rounds into waters near rival South Korea for the second consecutive day in a tit-for-tat for ongoing U.S.-South Korea live-fire drills in an inland border region.
South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said it detected North Korea firing around 90 artillery rounds from the eastern coastal town of Kosong around 10 a.m. and another 10 rounds from the nearby town of Kumkang around 6 p.m.
It said the shells landed in the northern side of a maritime buffer zone the Koreas established in 2018 to reduce border tensions. The South said it communicated verbal warnings to North Korea and urged it to abide by the military agreement.
The South Korean assessments were slightly different from details announced by North Korea’s military, which said it fired 82 shells from multiple rocket launchers.
An unidentified spokesperson of the North Korean People’s Army’s General Staff said the firings were meant as a warning against “enemy side” artillery exercises in a region near the inter-Korean land border. The spokesperson said South Korea was being hypocritical in criticizing North Korea for breaching the 2018 agreement, saying the South’s unspecified past actions in violation of the agreement must be “calculated first.”
“The (Korean People’s Army) seriously warns the enemy side once again to stop at once the irritating military actions in the area close to the front,” the spokesperson said. “Our military counteraction against the continued provocative actions of the enemies will be more offensive as the days go by.”
North Korea also on Monday fired around 130 artillery rounds into waters inside the maritime buffer zones with South Korea, while accusing the South of raising unnecessary tension in front-line areas.
The latest North Korean military action has worsened animosity between the rivals, whose relations have sharply declined amid a prolonged pause in nuclear negotiations between Washington and Pyongyang.
The South Korean army had earlier issued a public notice about live-fire exercises involving multiple rocket launch systems and howitzers in two separate testing grounds in the Cheorwon region this week. South Korea’s Defense Ministry on Tuesday confirmed that the exercises, which began on Monday and continue through Wednesday, are part of combined training with U.S. troops.
The ministry said that the exercises did not run against the 2018 inter-Korean military agreement, because they are being conducted outside the ground buffer zone set within 5 kilometers (3 miles) of the military demarcation line separating the Koreas.
“We sternly warn that North Korea will be solely responsible for any outcome produced by the North’s unilateral and consistent violations” of the 2018 agreement, the ministry said in a statement.
North Korea’s military said it ordered Monday’s artillery fire after detecting dozens of South Korean projectiles flying southeast from the Cheorwon region. That was the first time North Korea has fired weapons into the maritime buffer zones since Nov. 3, when around 80 shells landed within North Korea’s side of the zone off its eastern coast.
North Korea has fired dozens of missiles as it increased its weapons demonstrations to a record pace this year, including multiple tests of an intercontinental ballistic missile system with a potential of reaching deep into the U.S. mainland, and an intermediate-range missile over Japan.
North Korea has also conducted a series of short-range launches it described as simulated nuclear attacks on South Korean and U.S. targets in an angry reaction to an expansion of joint U.S.-South Korea military exercises that North Korea views as rehearsals for a potential invasion.
Experts say North Korea hopes to negotiate economic and security concessions from a position of strength and force the United States to accept it as a nuclear power. South Korean officials have said North Korea might up the ante soon by conducting its first nuclear test since 2017.
The inter-Korean military agreement is one of the few tangible remnants of the countries’ short-lived diplomacy of 2018. Former South Korean President Moon Jae-in met North Korean leader Kim Jong Un three times that year while also helping to set up Kim’s first summit with former U.S. President Donald Trump.
But the inter-Korean relations declined sharply after the collapse of the second Kim-Trump meeting in February 2019, when the Americans rejected North Korean demands for a major easing of U.S.-led sanctions in exchange for a partial surrender of the North’s nuclear capabilities.
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2022-12-06T13:04:47+00:00
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wfsb.com
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https://www.wfsb.com/2022/12/06/north-korea-fires-artillery-again-over-souths-drills/
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GUANGZHOU, China, Nov. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MINISO Group Holding Limited (NYSE: MNSO; HKEX: 9896) ("MINISO", "MINISO Group" or the "Company"), a global value retailer offering a variety of design-led lifestyle products, today announced its unaudited financial results for the first quarter of fiscal year 2023 ended September 30, 2022.
Financial Highlights for the First Quarter of Fiscal Year 2023 ended September 30, 2022
- Revenue was RMB2,772.4 million (US$389.7 million), representing an increase of 4.5% year over year and 19.6% quarter over quarter.
- Gross profit was RMB988.6 million (US$139.0 million), representing an increase of 35.7% year over year and 28.1% quarter over quarter.
- Gross margin was 35.7%, compared to 27.4% in the same period of 2021 and 33.3% in the previous quarter.
- Operating profit was RMB509.5 million (US$71.6 million), representing an increase of 138.6% year over year and 87.3% quarter over quarter.
- Profit for the period was RMB404.1 million (US$56.8 million), representing an increase of 161.5% year over year and 93.9% quarter over quarter.
- Adjusted net profit(1) was RMB417.4 million (US$58.7 million), representing an increase of 126.6% year over year and 87.3% quarter over quarter.
- Adjusted net margin(1)was 15.1%, compared to 6.9% in the same period of 2021 and 9.6% in the previous quarter.
Operational Highlights for the First Quarter of Fiscal Year 2023 ended September 30, 2022
- Number of MINISO stores was 5,296 as of September 30, 2022, increasing by 425 stores year over year and 97 stores quarter over quarter, respectively.
- Number of MINISO stores in China was 3,269 as of September 30, 2022, increasing by 234 stores year over year and 43 stores quarter over quarter, respectively.
- Number of MINISO stores in overseas markets was 2,027 as of September 30, 2022, increasing by 191 stores year over year and 54 stores quarter over quarter, respectively.
- Number of TOP TOY stores was 109 as of September 30, 2022, increasing by 37 stores year over year and 12 stores quarter over quarter, respectively.
The following table provides a breakdown of the number of MINISO and TOP TOY stores as well as their year-over-year and quarter-over-quarter changes as of the relevant dates:
Mr. Guofu Ye, Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer of MINISO, commented, "We kicked off fiscal year 2023 with an encouraging set of results headlined by strong margin performance. In spite of the short-term headwinds brought on by the pandemic in China, we remained focused on our long-term strategic goals: delivering on our globalization strategy, bolstering the strength of our product offerings and optimizing our store network. These efforts are yielding positive results, and we continued to see our overseas operations move further along the path of recovery. I am especially pleased to report that our margin profile continued to beat expectations, with adjusted net profit increasing by 127% year-on-year to RMB417 million in the September quarter, and adjusted net margin reaching its highest ever level at 15.1%."
"On November 11, China's National Health Commission released a new set of refined pandemic prevention and control policies which are more scientific and more precise. I believe that under the guidance of these new policies, the offline retail industry will see new opportunities for recovery and growth. We remain optimistic about our revenue and profit growth potential. Our positive outlook is based on our long-term confidence in China's economic development, our steadfast commitment to our vision for the offline retail business, and our determination to achieve a truly global reach." Mr. Ye continued.
Mr. Saiyin Zhang, Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President of MINISO, commented, "Gross margin for the September quarter reached 35.7%, a record high for MINISO Group and an increase of more than 800 basis points from 27.4% in the same quarter of last year, thanks to our solid execution of MINISO's brand upgrade, our strong bargaining power and the steady recovery of overseas markets."
"Looking forward into the December quarter, we expect our overseas markets will continue to grow strongly. Meanwhile, our margin profile will improve on a year-on-year basis as we successfully execute our brand upgrade, see steady recovery in the overseas market, and break even on our directly-operated overseas business. Our financial strategy will remain disciplined in terms of budgeting, cost controls, and allocation of capital, as we focus on the consistent delivery of solid financial performances." Mr. Zhang concluded.
Recent Developments
Impact of COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic continued to impact the Company's operations and results in the quarter ended September 30, 2022, mainly in China.
Pandemic prevention and control measures remained in effect across China throughout the quarter. During the peak summer sales season of July and August, when the pandemic situation was relatively stable, our GMV recovered to about 95% of the levels from the same period of last year. In September, pandemic outbreaks in major cities such as Shenzhen and Chengdu negatively impacted our GMV, which reached about 80% of the level from September of last year. During the quarter, an average of 2%, 5% and 7% of stores were unable to operate due to the pandemic in July, August and September, respectively. Excluding the affected stores, we estimate that average GMV per store from July to September were about 85%, 90% and 80% of the levels from the same periods last year, respectively. Going into the quarter ending December 31, 2022, the COVID situation remains uncertain, with regional outbreaks continuing to impact our operations. To cope with this uncertainty, the Company will rely on contingency planning to remain nimble and ready to pivot with changing market conditions.
GMV of MINISO stores in overseas markets in the September quarter increased by 41% year over year, and have recovered to more than 95% of the level in the same quarter of 2019. With more and more overseas markets having lifted their pandemic control measures, the Company currently expects the sales recovery in overseas markets to continue.
Unaudited Financial Results for the First Quarter of Fiscal Year 2023 ended September 30, 2022
Revenue was RMB2,772.4 million (US$389.7 million), representing an increase of 4.5% year over year, primarily driven by a 47.6% year-over-year growth of revenue from overseas markets, partially offset by a 8.8% year-over-year decrease of revenue from China.
Revenue from China was RMB1,852.3 million (US$260.4 million), compared to RMB2,030.8 million in the same period of 2021. The year-over-year decrease was (i) primarily driven by a decrease in revenue from the MINISO brand from RMB1,866.5 million to RMB1,700.4 million (US$239.0 million), as a result of the resurgence of COVID-19 in China in the September quarter, and (ii) partially offset by a year-over-year increase of 13.3% in revenue from the TOP TOY brand. For more information on the composition and year-over-year change of revenue, please refer to the "Unaudited additional information" in this press release.
Revenue from overseas markets was RMB920.2 million (US$129.4 million), accounting for 33.2% of our total revenue and representing an increase of 47.6% year-over-year. The increase was primarily due to a year-over-year increase of 9.7% in average store count and a year-over-year growth of 34.6% in average revenue per MINISO store in overseas markets.
Cost of sales was RMB1,783.9 million (US$250.8 million), representing a decrease of 7.4% year over year, mainly attributable to the savings measures we adopted to reduce the cost of certain products.
Gross profit was RMB988.6 million (US$139.0 million), representing an increase of 35.7% year over year.
Gross margin was 35.7%, compared to 27.4% in the same period of 2021. The year-over-year increase was primarily attributable to (i) the increase in revenue contribution from international operations, which typically have higher gross margin than domestic operations, from 23.5% in the same period of 2021 to 33.2% in this quarter, (ii) higher gross margin contributed by newly launched products in relation to our execution of strategic brand upgrade of MINISO in China, and (iii) the savings measures we adopted to reduce the cost of certain products.
Other income was RMB6.4 million (US$0.9 million), compared to RMB16.1 million in the same period of 2021.
Selling and distribution expenses were RMB381.3 million (US$53.6 million), representing an increase of 11.9% year over year. Excluding share-based compensation expenses, selling and distribution expenses were RMB372.6 million (US$52.4 million), representing an increase of 15.5% year over year. The year-over-year increase was primarily attributable to (i) increased rental and related expenses, (ii) increased personnel-related expenses, and (iii) increased licensing expenses in relation to our enlarged IP product offerings, partially offset by reduced promotion and advertising expenses due to our deferred marketing activities in China to tackle the resurgence of COVID-19.
General and administrative expenses were RMB167.6 million (US$23.6 million), representing a decrease of 20.7% year over year. Excluding share-based compensation expenses, general and administrative expenses were RMB163.2 million (US$22.9 million), representing a decrease of 18.4% year over year. The year-over-year decrease was primarily due to decreased personnel-related expenses.
Other net income was RMB64.0 million (US$9.0 million), compared to RMB33.6 million in the same period of 2021. Other net income mainly consists of net foreign exchange gain, investment income from wealth management products and others. The year-over-year increase was mainly attributable to a net foreign exchange gain of RMB52.3 million in this quarter, compared to RMB4.3 million in the same period of 2021, which was partially offset by a decrease in investment income from wealth management products as a result of reduced principal of such products.
Operating profit was RMB509.5 million (US$71.6 million), representing an increase of 138.6% year over year.
Profit for the period was RMB404.1 million (US$56.8 million), representing an increase of 161.5% year over year.
Adjusted net profit(1), which represents profit for the period excluding equity-settled share-based payment expenses, was RMB417.4 million (US$58.7 million), representing an increase of 126.6% year over year.
Adjusted net margin(1) was 15.1%, compared to 6.9% in the same period of 2021.
Basic and diluted earnings per American Depositary Share ("ADS") were RMB1.32 (US$0.19) in this quarter, compared to basic and diluted earnings per ADS of RMB0.50 in the same period of 2021. Each ADS represents four of the Company's ordinary shares.
Adjusted basic and diluted net earnings per ADS(1) were both RMB1.36 (US$0.19) in this quarter, compared to RMB0.60 in the same period of 2021.
As of September 30, 2022, the combined balance of the Company's cash, cash equivalents, restricted cash, term deposits, and other investments amounted to RMB6,007.2 million (US$844.5 million).
Conference Call
The Company's management will hold an earnings conference call at 7:00 A.M. Eastern Time on Monday, November 14, 2022 (8:00 P.M. Beijing Time on the same day) to discuss the financial results. The conference call can be accessed via the following zoom link or by dialing the following numbers:
Access 1
Zoom link: https://dooyle.zoom.us/j/88478292986?pwd=RTVoazJkQytrWnl5R1FkOTBFdlkyUT09
Meeting Number: 884 7829 2986
Meeting Passcode: 9896
Access 2
Listeners may access the call by dialing the following numbers with the same meeting number and passcode with Access 1.
Access 3
Listeners can also access the meeting through the Company's investor relations website at http://ir.miniso.com/.
A replay will be available approximately two hours after the conclusion of the live event at the Company's investor relations website at http://ir.miniso.com/.
About MINISO Group
MINISO Group is a global value retailer offering a variety of design-led lifestyle products. The Company serves consumers primarily through its large network of MINISO stores, and promotes a relaxing, treasure-hunting and engaging shopping experience full of delightful surprises that appeals to all demographics. Aesthetically pleasing design, quality and affordability are at the core of every product in MINISO's wide product portfolio, and the Company continually and frequently rolls out products with these qualities. Since the opening of its first store in China in 2013, the Company has built its flagship brand "MINISO" as a globally recognized retail brand and established a massive store network worldwide. For more information, please visit https://ir.miniso.com/.
Exchange Rate
The U.S. dollar (US$) amounts disclosed in this press release, except for those transaction amounts that were actually settled in U.S. dollars, are presented solely for the convenience of the readers. The conversion of Renminbi (RMB) into US$ in this press release is based on the exchange rate set forth in the H.10 statistical release of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System as of September 30, 2022, which was RMB7.1135 to US$1.0000. The percentages stated in this press release are calculated based on the RMB amounts.
Non-IFRS Financial Measures
In evaluating the business, MINISO considers and uses adjusted net profit, adjusted net margin, adjusted basic and diluted net earnings per share and adjusted basic and diluted net earnings per ADS as supplemental measures to review and assess its operating performance. The presentation of these non-IFRS financial measures is not intended to be considered in isolation or as a substitute for the financial information prepared and presented in accordance with IFRS. MINISO defines adjusted net profit as profit for the period excluding equity-settled share-based payment expenses. MINISO calculates adjusted net margin by dividing adjusted net profit by revenue for the same period. MINISO computes adjusted basic and diluted net earnings per ADS by dividing the adjusted net profit attributable to the equity shareholders of the Company by the number of ADSs represented by the number of ordinary shares used in the basic and diluted earnings per share calculation on an IFRS basis. MINISO computes adjusted basic and diluted net earnings per share in the same way it calculates adjusted basic and diluted net earnings per ADS, except that it uses the number of ordinary shares used in the basic and diluted earnings per share calculation on an IFRS basis as the denominator instead of the number of ADSs represented by these ordinary shares.
MINISO presents these non-IFRS financial measures because they are used by the management to evaluate its operating performance and formulate business plans. These non-IFRS financial measures enable the management to assess its operating results without considering the impacts of the aforementioned non-cash and other adjustment items that MINISO does not consider to be indicative of its operating performance in the future. Accordingly, MINISO believes that the use of these non-IFRS financial measures provides useful information to investors and others in understanding and evaluating its operating results in the same manner as the management and board of directors.
These non-IFRS financial measures are not defined under IFRS and are not presented in accordance with IFRS. These non-IFRS financial measures have limitations as analytical tools. One of the key limitations of using these non-IFRS financial measures is that they do not reflect all items of income and expense that affect MINISO's operations. Further, these non-IFRS financial measures may differ from the non-IFRS information used by other companies, including peer companies, and therefore their comparability may be limited.
These non-IFRS financial measures should not be considered in isolation or construed as alternatives to profit, net profit margin, basic and diluted earnings per share and basic and diluted earnings per ADS, as applicable, or any other measures of performance or as indicators of MINISO's operating performance. Investors are encouraged to review MINISO's historical non-IFRS financial measures in light of the most directly comparable IFRS measures, as shown below. The non-IFRS financial measures presented here may not be comparable to similarly titled measures presented by other companies. Other companies may calculate similarly titled measures differently, limiting the usefulness of such measures when analyzing MINISO's data comparatively. MINISO encourages you to review its financial information in its entirety and not rely on a single financial measure.
For more information on the non-IFRS financial measures, please see the table captioned "Reconciliation of Non-IFRS Financial Measures" set forth at the end of this press release.
Safe Harbor Statement
This announcement contains forward-looking statements. These statements are made under the "safe harbor" provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements can be identified by words or phrases such as "may," "will," "expect," "anticipate," "aim," "estimate," "intend," "plan," "believe," "is/are likely to," "potential," "continue" or other similar expressions. Among other things, the quotations from management in this announcement, as well as MINISO's strategic and operational plans, contain forward-looking statements. MINISO may also make written or oral forward-looking statements in its periodic reports to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (the "HKEX"), in its annual report to shareholders, in press releases and other written materials and in oral statements made by its officers, directors or employees to third parties. Statements that are not historical facts, including statements about MINISO's beliefs and expectations, are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve inherent risks and uncertainties. A number of factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statement, including but not limited to the following: MINISO's mission, goals and strategies; future business development, financial conditions and results of operations; the expected growth of the retail market and the market of branded variety retail of lifestyle products in China and globally; expectations regarding demand for and market acceptance of MINISO's products; expectations regarding MINISO's relationships with consumers, suppliers, MINISO Retail Partners, local distributors, and other business partners; competition in the industry; proposed use of proceeds; and relevant government policies and regulations relating to MINISO's business and the industry. Further information regarding these and other risks is included in MINISO's filings with the SEC and the HKEX. All information provided in this press release and in the attachments is as of the date of this press release, and MINISO undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statement, except as required under applicable law.
Investor Relations Contact:
Raine Hu
MINISO Group Holding Limited
Email: ir@miniso.com
Phone: +86 (20) 36228788 Ext.8039
Eric Yuan
Christensen Advisory
Email: miniso@christensencomms.com
Phone: +86 1380 111 0739
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2022-11-14T05:18:05+00:00
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mysuncoast.com
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https://www.mysuncoast.com/prnewswire/2022/11/14/miniso-group-announces-september-quarter-2022-financial-results/
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MERIDIAN, Idaho — It's tough to be a school bus driver right now in the Treasure Valley. There have been a lot of complaints recently about late pick-ups and drop-offs, and it hasn't been easy to find qualified drivers for our local school bus companies. Meridian mom Cyndee Waynonyi has noticed the backlash.
"I feel like there's a lot of negativity over bus drivers over the last few years, we've had a really hard time finding bus drivers who are reliable or who even want to do the job," Waynonyi said.
But, in the West Ada School District, there is a Cascade Student Transportation bus driver who really shines. His name is Eric Jimenez, and parents like Cyndee are noticing. Her 8-year-old daughter Selah rides his bus every morning.
"He's usually on time," said Selah.
Something special happened at the start of this school year, something that really impressed Cyndee. Jimenez sent a letter home for the kids who ride his bus. Here is what it said:
Cyndee was really touched by the positive and uplifting letter, and she wanted to recognize Jimenez. She sent the letter and some photos to us at KTVB! We put the letter and the pictures on Facebook, and that appreciation post was liked and shared by hundreds! Jimenez could not believe it when he found out that he was being honored.
"The morning it went viral, I walked into the bus barn after my route and my coworkers were like hey check it out! I was completely humbled and honored to be mentioned, it was just a complete surprise," said Jimenez.
Jimenez says this is nothing new, he has been sending home a letter for years now.
"Just creating that positivity in a space where I don't know where these kids are coming from or what home life is like, if I can be that adult to create that safe space for these kids. These are the expectations. This is who I am. This is what the kind of culture I want to cultivate on the bus," said Jimenez.
He says he takes this job, and his responsibility very seriously. He wants to help shape kind and positive kids, and he says one way to do that is to get to know each one, and recognize their struggles and strengths. He wants to create a safe place for them on his bus.
"I feel like I am tasked with taking care of all these beautiful children," said Jimenez. "My goal is to try to eliminate bullying one step at a time. Everyone has a story, even the bully has a story. What's causing you to feel the way you are feeling and acting? There's a story behind that."
Selah says he takes care of all of the students, and makes sure they are good to each other. If there is a problem, they will talk it out.
"If someone's being mean to anyone he will always fix it," said Selah.
That means a lot to her mom, and all the other families who have kids who ride Jimenez's bus.
"The insight to see into what our kids need is special," said Cyndee. "For him to take the time out and actually write this note, it shows a lot of incentive, and honestly it shows joy for his work. We get in the routine of work not realizing the impact we have on other people, and he knows it and I think that's really cool."
Jimenez says he plans to drive the bus as long as he feels he is making an impact on his students.
"I've always had this heart for teaching kids, being around kids, I'm helping to build the leaders of tomorrow."
He is doing that one bus ride at a time.
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2022-11-14T21:55:43+00:00
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wfmynews2.com
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https://www.wfmynews2.com/article/features/7s-hero-west-ada-bus-driver-sends-inspiring-letters-home-with-students-riding-his-bus/277-b736e19d-cda4-4596-872d-075c04c4a100
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Jazzy ‘Charlie Brown Christmas’ swings on after 57 years
NEW YORK (AP) — The Mendelson family would love to find the envelope where their father, Lee, scribbled some lyrics to jazz musician Vince Guaraldi’s composition “Christmas Time is Here” for an animated TV special featuring the “Peanuts” gang in 1965.
The producer always said it had taken less than half an hour to write, and he likely tossed the scrap of paper away. He was in a rush. Everything was rushed. No one even knew, once the special aired, whether it would ever be seen again.
Instead, “A Charlie Brown Christmas” became an indelible holiday tradition and so, too, has Guaraldi’s music — perhaps even more so.
“Christmas just doesn’t feel like Christmas without hearing that album in the background,” said Derrick Bang, author of the biography “Vince Guaraldi at the Piano.”
The special itself was a bit of an oddity: a cartoon story of the meaning of Christmas soundtracked by a sophisticated, mostly instrumental jazz trio of piano, bass and drum.
Yet it worked. Guaraldi’s cascading piano evokes both motion and lightly falling snow on “Skating.” The driving melody of “Linus and Lucy” is the eternal backdrop to a swinging party. “O Tannenbaum” shifts from the traditional carol to a bass-driven groove. A children’s choir adds charm to “Christmas Time is Here.”
The soundtrack has sold more than five million copies. Its nostalgia-fueled popularity has only grown, getting a crucial boost in 1998 when Starbucks began selling it in stores, and fed steadily by new products.
The latest, a box set of outtakes released this year, came when Jason Mendelson, one of the late producer’s four children, discovered tapes of Guaraldi’s recording sessions in a Los Angeles warehouse while looking for something else.
“A Charlie Brown Christmas” has aired every year since 1965, although that tradition is about to change.
The special’s run on broadcast television ends this year. Apple TV+ bought the rights, and will stream it exclusively starting next year. While a recognition of television’s new direction, will that reduce the chances of new generations of children happening upon the story and music?
“I just remember, back in the days of three channels and scheduled programming, that was one of those things we were excited about because we knew it was coming on and we were familiar with it,” said Harry Connick Jr., who covered “Christmas Time is Here” for his own holiday disc just out.
“It was actually an amazing opportunity for music like that to be heard by a lot of people,” added Connick, a jazz devotee even as a youngster. “It was not necessarily the kind of music that would be played on regular radio.”
That’s even less likely now, as jazz recedes into the history books or the background of dinner parties, said Nathaniel Sloan, musicologist at the University of Southern California and co-host of the “Switched on Pop” podcast.
During the 1960s, jazz was closer to the mainstream and more likely to be played alongside pop music, he said.
The music Guaraldi created for the soundtrack is ambiguous and more complex than most holiday music, Sloan said. Tied to warm feelings for illustrator Charles M. Schulz’s classic comic page characters, time has made it traditional holiday music.
The list of people who have recorded “Christmas Time is Here” is long and varied. They include John Legend, Alicia Keys, Gloria Estefan, Mariah Carey, Mel Tormé, Dave Brubeck, Sarah McLachlan, Stone Temple Pilots, Chicago, and Toni Braxton.
Similarly, the unexpected places where the melody to “Linus and Lucy” have appeared testifies to how ingrained it is in American life. Michelle Obama played it on the piano when returning to her childhood home in the “Becoming” documentary. Foo Fighters included it in a rocking “Saturday Night Live” holiday medley. Prince banged it out during his last concert.
It all started in the San Francisco area, home base for Guaraldi, as it was for Mendelson and Schulz. Mendelson’s popular documentary on Willie Mays — Schulz’s favorite baseball player — convinced the reclusive cartoonist to participate in a “day in the life” film about his work. One of Mendelson’s favorite songs was Guaraldi’s breezy hit, “Cast Your Fate to the Wind,” so the jazzman was recruited for a soundtrack.
In the days before cable and streaming, Mendelson couldn’t sell the documentary, so it went unseen.
After the popularity of “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” in 1964, a sponsor asked Mendelson if he’d considered making a “Peanuts” Christmas special. He lied that he had. Schulz agreed to outline a story, and Guaraldi came aboard, too, recycling “Linus and Lucy” from the documentary.
Animation is time-consuming, so the team had a tight deadline to make it onto television. It was Mendelson who decided that “Christmas Time is Here” was missing something without lyrics. He asked several songwriters to take on the task, but the deadline was too daunting.
So Mendelson sat in his office and did it himself: “Christmas time is here, happiness and cheer...”
“I’ve always loved the music and the melody, but I really didn’t understand how beautiful the lyrics were until I recorded it,” said Norah Jones, who included her take on the song on a disc released last year.
“The version with the children singing is so special,” she told The Associated Press. “There’s something very unique and heartwarming about children singing.”
The St. Paul’s Church Choir from San Rafael, California, was hired to sing “Christmas Time is Here” and “Hark, the Herald Angels Sing.” Producers infuriated the choir director by choosing a slightly out-of-tune version of the carol; they thought it captured an innocence they were seeking, said Bang, who wrote liner notes for the box set.
Some at CBS were nervous before the special aired. Executives wondered if viewers would accept their favorite comic strip characters come to “life” with voices and movement. Schulz’s insistence that the show quote from the Bible gave it a religious focus that television entertainment typically steered clear of.
But it was a hit, winning Peabody and Emmy awards, and never went away.
Guaraldi never had the chance to see his music age into standards. He died of a heart attack in 1976, only 47 years old.
“He’s the best-known jazz musician whose name you don’t know, because the music from the Christmas special has become so ubiquitous,” Bang said.
Lee Mendelson died at 86 in 2019 — on Christmas Day. Jason is reluctant to say how much money his father earned from his few minutes of writing the “Christmas Time is Here” lyrics. Here’s one hint: The song makes enough money, every year, to pay for all of the extended family’s holiday shopping.
And he never tires of hearing Guaraldi’s music, frequently attending concerts where the holiday songs are recreated live.
“I’ve never seen a bad one,” he said.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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2022-12-05T15:41:21+00:00
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kwtx.com
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https://www.kwtx.com/2022/12/05/jazzy-charlie-brown-christmas-swings-after-55-years/
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SAVANNAH, Ga. — Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker on Friday denied his previous support for an outright national ban on abortion, making the shift in his lone debate against Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock.
Walker, a staunch anti-abortion politician recently accused by a former girlfriend of encouraging and paying for her 2009 abortion, accused Warnock of misstating his position by saying Walker had supported a national ban on abortion, without exceptions.
Walker insisted his position is the same as Georgia's state law, the so-called heartbeat bill that bans abortion at six weeks, before many women know they're pregnant.
But Walker had insisted at various points throughout the campaign that he supported a national abortion ban, without exceptions. “That’s a problem” that there is no national ban, he said at a campaign stop in July.
But on the debate stage, Walker tried to shift the question to Warnock. Walker blasted Warnock for being a Baptist pastor who supports abortion rights.
“On abortion, you know, I’m a Christian. I believe in life. ... I’ll be a senator that protects life,” Walker said, later suggesting that Warnock doesn't care about abortions in the Black community. Both men are Black.
“Instead of aborting those babies, why aren't you baptizing those babies?” Walker asked.
Warnock insisted he can support abortion rights as a Christian and as a pastor. “God gave us a choice and I respect the right of women to make a decision. These are medical decisions, they are deeply personal,” Warnock said, adding that Walker “wants to arrogate more power to politicians than God has."
The debate in Georgia's marquee Senate contest was held just days before in-person early voting begins Monday. The outcome will help determine which party controls the Senate for the next two years of President Joe Biden's term.
The matchup is forcing both men to answer attacks — personal and political — that have flooded voters’ television screens and social media feeds for months.
Warnock and fellow Georgia Democrat Jon Ossoff won their Senate seats in a January 2021 special election two months after Biden won Georgia by fewer than 12,000 votes out of 5 million cast. That was the first time in two decades Democrats won federal elections in the historically conservative state, raising questions about whether Warnock can replicate his victory in a midterm election, especially with Biden’s popularity down among Georgia voters.
Walker has seized on that landscape, caricaturing Warnock as a rubber-stamp for the administration. Warnock’s answer has been to emphasize legislative accomplishments in Washington, with a focus on provisions he sponsored capping insulin and other health care costs for Medicare recipients, Democrats’ extension of the child tax credit and infrastructure provisions that Warnock shepherded with Republican colleagues.
A major variable in the debate is how aggressively Warnock chooses to directly attack Walker on various allegations and disclosures that have surfaced throughout the campaign. The senator typically has defaulted to his broad assertion that Walker is ill-prepared for office. But debate moderators brought the men into direct conflict on everything from their economic policies to their relationships with their children and families.
Recent reporting by The Daily Beast disclosed records of an abortion receipt and a subsequent personal check from Walker to a woman who said the celebrity football icon paid for her abortion when they were dating. Walker continues to deny the reports, even after the woman identified herself as the mother of one of his four children.
Other reports, including from The Associated Press, have detailed how Walker has exaggerated his academic achievements, business success and philanthropic activities, as well as accusations that he threatened the life of his ex-wife that go beyond details Walker himself acknowledged in a 2008 memoir and subsequent media interviews. Walker also acknowledged three of his children publicly for the first time only after earlier Daily Beast reporting. Before his Senate bid, he’d spoken publicly only of Christian Walker, his adult son by his first wife.
Walker, as is typical of challengers battling incumbents, has proved much more eager to go after Warnock directly even before the debate. Citing Warnock’s Senate financial disclosures, Walker blasts Warnock as using the Senate to get rich. Warnock reported income from a book deal after his Senate election. He also reported a monthly housing allowance from Ebenezer Baptist Church in excess of $7,000 — an arrangement that allows Warnock to continue receiving a considerable annual sum from the church for his role as senior pastor without violating federal ethics rules capping senators’ outside income.
National Republicans, meanwhile, have recently aired ads highlighting Warnock’s personal life. One ad references a March 2020 incident in which Warnock’s then-wife, Oulèye Ndoye, told police he ran over her foot with his vehicle. Police records state that officers found no evidence that Warnock did so. The couple divorced before Warnock’s election to the Senate; they share two young children.
Walker himself has avoided attacks on Warnock's family life, though he campaigned earlier this week with Sen. Rick Scott of Florida, who chairs the Senate GOP’s campaign arm that paid for some of those ads.
The Savannah debate was the two rivals' only meeting because Walker declined to accept the three fall debates typical in Georgia campaigns. Warnock accepted that slate of proposed debates in June, only to have Walker balk and counter with Friday's debate. The Friday debate did not include Libertarian Chase Oliver, who did not meet organizers' polling threshold.
Just one of those original three debates is still scheduled: Warnock will meet Oliver in a Sunday session sponsored by the Atlanta Press Club. In that debate, Walker will be represented by an empty podium because he declined the invitation.
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2022-10-15T01:31:56+00:00
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11alive.com
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https://www.11alive.com/article/news/politics/herschel-walker-abortion-ban-comments-debate-georgia/85-c0dea244-d508-4bbf-966f-febf8fa5a0f3
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ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan's Supreme Court on Monday ordered the release of a man on completion of his jail term in connection with the 2003 assassination attempt on the country's former President Pervez Musharraf, a defense lawyer said.
Rana Tanveer had been sentenced to 14 years in 2005 by a military court that convicted him of playing a role in the attack on Musharraf in 2003. Musharraf narrowly escaped two back-to-back bomb and gun attacks on his convoy in the garrison city of Rawalpindi.
Tanveer's lawyer, Hashmat Habib, said his client has not been released despite completing his jail term.
He said he hoped that Tanveer will be freed under Monday's order from the Supreme Court.
Musharraf seized power in 1999 when he ousted the government of former premier Nawaz Sharif in a military coup. He resigned in 2008 and has been living in exile in Dubai since 2016, when he left Pakistan to receive medical treatment.
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2022-11-21T11:09:57+00:00
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expressnews.com
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https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Pakistani-court-orders-release-of-man-who-17600508.php
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — It’s during the commercial breaks that the audience inside the Dolby Theatre really comes to life on Oscar night.
The stars will gladly play for the cameras posted in their face during the global broadcast – they are actors after all – but a lot of the time it seems like most would rather just talk to their fellow artists in the room.
The breaks may go on for an eternity for people watching the Oscars at home but in the Dolby, they’re never long enough as stars on the main floor abruptly end conversations and rush to take their seats again.
The beginning of the show is always a scramble as security, organizers and a booming voice of god all try to coax attendees to their seats in time for the live broadcast start. Some barely made it in, like “The Last of Us” and “The Mandalorian” star Pedro Pascal, whose handler pleaded to let him in because of his appearance in host Jimmy Kimmel’s monologue, while others, like Elizabeth Banks, seem to have been shut out of the opening moments. She was led in the room during the first break, walking past supporting actor nominee Brian Tyree Henry, who had made his way up to Cate Blanchett a few rows ahead.
A few minutes later, Henry was one of the first to jump to his feet to cheer for Ke Huy Quan, who won in their category, as Quan’s co-star Michelle Yeoh wiped a tear away from the front row. One person even stood for the end of Quan’s speech: Harry Shum Jr.
After his loss, Henry was in good spirits in the lobby. He made his way over to Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Martin McDonagh. He asked for a photo with Waller-Bridge, which McDonagh then dutifully snapped.
Back in the room, as Jamie Lee Curtis took the stage to accept her supporting actress prize, Cate Blanchett put her hands over her mouth and made prayer hands toward the newly anointed Oscar winner.
Audience members were briefly concerned as what appeared to be smoke billowed up in front of Curtis during her speech. But all breathed a sigh of relief to realize that it was merely a part of the next act, a performance from Sofia Carson.
During the next break, Blanchett beelined over to fellow Australian Nicole Kidman to give her a big hug, and Kidman did the same later with Austin Butler.
Outside of the theater in the lobby Miles Teller hung by the bar with his wife, while Bill Nighy took a quick bathroom break. And in another part of the room, filmmaker Rian Johnson shared a laugh with Hugh Grant, who made a cameo in his nominated movie “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.”
The lobby was quite chilly, but at least a few came prepared with layers: Rooney Mara had a red coat to put over her dress and Andrea Riseborough put a black leather jacket over her pale pink gown, which she wore through the end of the ceremony.
At the bar, best actor nominee Paul Mescal made some new friends for a few moments. As they debated whether or not they should order tequila, a fan approached Mescal in line to ask for a photo.
“Is a selfie ok?” Mescal asked, snapping the pic himself.
A few feet away, Mescal’s “Aftersun” director Charlotte Wells spent most of the ceremony in the lobby, sipping on a beer
In another corner, Rooney Mara chatted with her “Women Talking” co-star Jessie Buckley. And over on a hard-to-come-by couch, 84-year-old “EO” director Jerzy Skolimowski sat by himself snacking on the popcorn and trail mix available for guests.
In the ladies’ room, Yeoh and Sandra Oh were walking arm and arm to exit, while Florence Pugh was a bit delayed. She needed a little help drying her hands in her voluminous dress.
“I’m dripping, I’m dripping,” she said with a laugh, her arms extended as far as they could go out in front of her.
Moments later at the bar, Pugh sidled up next to Cara Delevingne, both with trains that extended feet behind them, as they whispered to one another. The act of turning around to leave was not as straightforward as they may have anticipated.
“To follow each other it takes like ten minutes,” Pugh said.
As the night wears on, the lobby gets a bit shinier as more and more winners come out with more and more Oscars in hand, but it also gets a bit less starry as the bigger names of the night make their way back into the room for the final categories.
Some, hungry from the long show, took advantage of the “snack boxes” under every seat with a pretzel, a bottle of water and various types of movie theater candy, from Junior Mints to Raisinets.
During one of the last breaks, Kerry Condon hugged “Everything Everywhere All At Once” directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert as they came back to the room, best original screenplay Oscars in hand, as Michelle Williams stretched her legs a few feet away.
Michelle Yeoh was one who didn’t have time to make it back to her seat between winning the best actress award and when Harrison Ford announced that “Everything Everywhere All At Once” had won best picture. So, she emerged from the wings of the stage to join her cast and crew at the microphone for the last award of the night.
Many choose to linger in the Dolby Theatre for a bit, but others were eager to move on to the Governors Ball, Vanity Fair and various other gatherings where press and photographers are not invited. For stars on Oscar night, the show is often just the first stop.
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For more coverage of this year’s Academy Awards, visit: https://apnews.com/hub/academy-awards.
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2023-03-13T16:19:39+00:00
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wwlp.com
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https://www.wwlp.com/news/entertainment/ap-entertainment/inside-the-dolby-what-you-didnt-see-on-tv-on-oscars-night/
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BRANDON GUSTAFSON
Seattle Kraken Playoff Primer: Schedule, matchup, key players to watch
Apr 15, 2023, 9:52 AM
(Steph Chambers/Getty Images)
For the first time in franchise history, the Seattle Kraken are playoff bound.
The Kraken earned the No. 1 Wild Card spot in the Western Conference and will begin their Stanley Cup Playoff journey next week against the reigning champs, the Colorado Avalanche, who won the Central Division this season.
Colorado won eight of its last 10 games, and the Avalanche finished with the second-best point percentage in the conference and sixth-best in the NHL.
With the playoff action starting in just a few days, let’s dive into the schedule and matchup.
Kraken playoff schedule
As with many playoff series across different sports, this opening round is a best-of-seven, meaning a team needs four wins to advance to the next round. And with the Avalanche the higher seed, they will have home-ice advantage for four games if the series requires the maximum of seven.
Here’s the full schedule:
Game 1: Tuesday, April 18 at 7 p.m. Pacific in Colorado – Watch on Root Sports NW and ESPN
Game 2: Thursday, April 20 at 6:30 p.m. Pacific in Colorado – Watch on Root Sports NW and ESPN
Game 3: Saturday, April 22 at 7 p.m. Pacific in Seattle – Watch on Root Sports NW and TBS
Game 4: Monday, April 24 at 7 p.m. Pacific in Seattle – Watch on Root Sports NW and TBS
Game 5 (if necessary): Wednesday, April 26 in Colorado – time and broadcast schedule TBD
Game 6 (if necessary): Friday, April 28 in Seattle – time and broadcast schedule TBD
Game 7 (if necessary): Sunday, April 30 in Colorado – time and broadcast schedule TBD
The matchup
The Kraken and Avalanche enter this postseason in very different ways as it’s the first playoff appearance in Seattle’s two-year history while Colorado won its third Stanley Cup championship last season.
The two teams faced of three times this year, and Seattle had the edge in the matchup, winning two of those games and falling in a shootout in the other.
The games have all been close, with the the Kraken winning in Colorado 3-2 in their sixth game of the year, falling 2-1 in a shootout on Jan. 21 in Seattle and winning 3-2 in overtime on March 5 in Colorado. All in all, Seattle has 7 goals to Colorado’s 6 in the three games.
The Kraken emerged as one of the league’s best scoring teams, ranking sixth in goals and were middle of the pack (15th) in goals against. All in all, Seattle was 10th in the NHL in goal differential at +33.
The Avalanche, meanwhile, were a bit more balanced, finishing ninth in goals scored and goals against. Colorado was +54 in goal differential, good for seventh in the league.
Another interesting element of this matchup is neither team was particularly great at home this year, but both were excellent on the road.
The Avalanche had the 17th-best home record in the NHL at 22-13-6 while the Kraken were 21st at 20-17-4.
On the road, however, Colorado was fourth-best in hockey, going 29-11-1. Seattle finished with the NHL’s sixth-best road record at 26-11-4.
Players to watch: Colorado Avalanche
Let’s take a closer look at a few players on each team to keep a close eye on during this matchup.
With Colorado, the Avalanche have a fairly star-studded roster.
Offensively, center Nathan McKinnon finished with 111 points, fifth-most in the NHL and with the ninth-most goals in the league. He also had a +29 plus/minus rating. The Kraken held McKinnon in check in their three matchups, though, as he had just one goal and no assists.
Defensively, we’ll look at Colorado’s top defense pairing in Cale Makar and Devin Toews.
Makar is a young superstar who was the NHL’s top defenseman last season. He’s been injured, but is expected back for the start of the playoffs.
Toews, meanwhile, finished with the sixth-best plus/minus in hockey at +39 and tallied 50 points this year.
That duo makes up arguably the league’s top defensemen pairing, and will surely be looking to make life tough for the Kraken.
And last but not least, goalie Alexandar Georgiev had the sixth-best save percentage in hockey at .918 in 62 games, and he allowed just 2.53 goals per game.
Players to watch: Seattle Kraken
The Seattle Kraken have a deep roster that’s carried them to this playoff appearance, but let’s just look at three guys here.
First, let’s start in goal with Phillip Grubauer.
Grubauer isn’t just an interesting player to watch as he’s a former Avalanche player, but he’s played very well against his former team this year.
In three games (two starts), Grubauer allowed 1.7 goals per game and has a .928 save percentage against Colorado, allowing five goals on 69 shot attempts.
Playoff hockey is often about a hot goalie, so Seattle could have a chance to get rolling early if Grubauer gets going against his old team.
Next up, Jared McCann.
The 26-year-old winger had a career year for the Kraken, tallying 40 goals and 30 assists on the team’s top line with Matty Beniers and Jordan Eberle.
The Avalanche are a well-balanced team with elite defensemen while McCann was a top-15 scorer this year. It will be a fun matchup, for sure.
And lastly, defenseman Vince Dunn.
Like McCann, Dunn had a career year for Seattle with 14 goals and 50 assists, finishing 10th in the NHL in defenseman scoring.
Dunn also finished with a +28 plus/minus, showing he’s one of the top two-way defenseman in the league.
Rookie Matty Beniers grows into leader for playoff-bound Seattle Kraken
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2023-04-15T18:14:03+00:00
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sports.mynorthwest.com
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https://sports.mynorthwest.com/1753772/seattle-kraken-playoff-primer-schedule-matchup-key-players-to-watch/
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More are participating in the lottery as the Powerball and Mega Millions jackpots soar
AMBLER, Pa. (AP) — Brenda Sepulveda stopped Thursday at a suburban Philadelphia convenience store to buy lottery tickets as the Powerball and Mega Millions jackpots soared to some of their heftiest in the history of the games.
“I think that people are drawn to this kind of lottery because we all hope and pray that we might be the lucky one, that maybe we weren’t born into wealth, but you never know,” she said, as she dreamed of paying off student loans, and her and her mother’s cars.
The Mega Millions jackpot for Friday night’s drawing has grown to $560 million, with a cash option of $281.1 million. That’s the seventh-highest it has ever been.
Meanwhile, the Powerball jackpot for Saturday’s drawing has grown to an estimated $875 million — the third-highest. Ticket buyers have a chance at either $875 million paid out in yearly increments or a $441.9 million one-time lump sum before taxes.
Yet the games have raised concerns among some experts. Their abysmal odds — 1 in 292.2 million for Powerball — are designed to build big prizes that draw more players.
The largest Powerball jackpot was $2.04 billion Powerball last November.
But the last time someone won the Powerball jackpot was April 19 for a $252.6 million prize. And there hasn’t been a Mega Millions jackpot winner since April 18.
Lia Nower, a professor and the director of the Center for Gambling Studies at Rutgers University, said the lottery has historically acted as a regressive tax on the poor, meaning the people that can least afford to lose their money buy the most tickets.
She said her “concern with lottery is really more people who are buying it every day or two or three times a week” as opposed to those who purchase one ticket as the jackpot nears $1 billion.
And those frequent buyers were pouring into a store in Crystal, Minnesota, said clerk Elias Harv.
“Like, it’s never been before like this,” Harv said. “They come two to three times a day.”
“Everybody has his own dream,” he added.
Back at the convenience store in the Philadelphia suburb of Ambler, Barbara Green had no illusions she would nab the top prize. But still she couldn’t resist the possibility.
“Everybody has hope, so if I get a little bit, I’m satisfied,” she said, laughing. “I’m not getting the big thing, I know that, but I like to get a little bit of it. Everybody does.”
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Hollingsworth reported from Mission, Kansas. Mark Vancleave contributed to this report from Crystal, Minnesota.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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2023-07-14T20:29:24+00:00
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wfsb.com
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https://www.wfsb.com/2023/07/14/more-are-participating-lottery-powerball-mega-millions-jackpots-soar/
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The number of pedestrians hit by vehicles in Bangor is trending just below last year’s rate, but topping 2021’s pedestrian and vehicle crash numbers.
Thursday’s crash that left a 35-year-old man with serious injuries was the fifth pedestrian-vehicle crash in Bangor so far this year. Those five pedestrians make up just a fraction of the 71 who have been involved in vehicle crashes across Maine so far this year, two of which were fatal, according to Shannon Moss, a spokesperson for the Maine Department of Public Safety.
The pedestrian was struck as he crossed Union Street by a vehicle turning left from Main Street onto Union Street in downtown Bangor, according to police. The driver allegedly didn’t see the pedestrian in the crosswalk.
One of Bangor’s five pedestrian-vehicle crashes happened on a private road, and another happened in a parking lot, according to Lauren Steward, director of the Maine Bureau of Highway Safety.
Bangor’s five pedestrians struck by vehicles falls below the six pedestrians involved in vehicle crashes between Jan. 1 and June 1 last year, Moss said. In 2021, however, only three Bangor pedestrians were hit by vehicles within the same timeframe.
None of the city’s pedestrian-vehicle crashes so far this year have been fatal — an improvement over the three the city saw last year, Stewart said.
By the end of 2022, 21 people had been hit by vehicles in Bangor, three of which were fatal, according to Moss. Most of those crashes, however, occurred in the last four months of the year.
Last year marked an uptick in pedestrian and vehicle crashes compared with 2021, when Bangor saw 11 such crashes, only one of which was fatal.
By early December last year, Maine had seen 20 fatal pedestrian crashes, tying the number of pedestrian fatalities in 2021 and 2017. Those years set the record for deadliest years for Maine pedestrians.
The number of Maine pedestrians killed in crashes has generally been rising since 2015, when 19 died, according to the Maine Department of Transportation.
With the upward trend in traffic and pedestrian fatalities state and nationwide, Bangor included improving mobility safety as a priority in the city’s new 2022 comprehensive plan.
Bangor’s 2022 comprehensive plan is a list of goals the city wants to achieve or efforts to continue in the coming years. The document, which got its first update since 2012, is meant to guide city leaders when they make or alter policies and approve future development.
Of the 50 goals listed in the updated comprehensive plan, at least two specifically mention the need to improve infrastructure to ensure people are safe while walking through Bangor. That infrastructure can range from improved crosswalks, signage and traffic calming measures for vehicles in high-crash areas.
Other goals in the plan address the city’s desire to improve the safety and convenience of any alternative mode of transportation, including walking, bicycling and using the Community Connector, the region’s bus system.
After the state’s 20th fatal pedestrian crash last December, Bangor City Engineer John Theriault said engineers previously designed roads and intersections with only large vehicles and trucks in mind. This created large intersections with long crosswalks pedestrians now have to cross.
To combat this trend, Theriault said the city hopes to create 5-foot-wide road shoulders to accommodate bikes and 5- to 6-foot-wide sidewalks that comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act in future road projects, when possible.
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2023-06-05T07:39:44+00:00
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bangordailynews.com
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https://www.bangordailynews.com/2023/06/05/news/bangor/pedestrians-car-crashes-trend-joam40zk0w/
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Learning center to feature a Schwalm simulator and experienced robot instructors for immersive tap cutting training using the Schwalm robotic system
HOUSTON, July 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Recognizing an industry-wide need for experienced sewer line tap cutters, the Vortex Companies (Vortex) announced today the launch of the Vortex Tap Cutting Institute. Located at the Vortex Products facility in Greenville, South Carolina, the Tap Cutting Institute features a fully functional robotics simulator to teach individuals how to cut taps without the risk of damaging pipe or liners. "Proper lateral reinstatement is a critical part of the sewer rehab process," said Mike Vellano, CEO of the Vortex Companies. "The bottom line is that there simply aren't enough experienced tap cutters in our industry, and we are in a great position to provide training to anyone who wants to learn."
"Through the Tap Cutting Institute, we've made the training affordable to individuals who want to expand their capabilities and learn the tap cutting trade, or for contractors who want to send their technicians here to hone their skills." stated Kenny Cochrane, VP, Schwalm Products at Vortex. Although tap-cutting is only small part of a Schwalm robot's capabilities, it represents the bulk of its workload.
About the Vortex Companies
The Vortex Companies is a leading provider of advanced trenchless water and sewer technologies. Through its products and services divisions, Vortex delivers a comprehensive suite of rehabilitation products, equipment, services, and field support to the municipal, industrial, and commercial marketplaces. This includes pipe and manhole lining systems; sewer robotics; mortars; epoxies and resin materials; installation equipment; contracting services, training, and field support.
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2023-07-24T12:17:37+00:00
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2022-12-11T06:01:18+00:00
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Arizona woman looking for pit bulls that mauled her puppy
4-month-old Ruby is recovering from a shattered jaw
SCOTTSDALE, AZ (3TV/CBS 5) - A Scottsdale woman said two pit bulls on the loose mauled her puppy while they were walking along a canal.
The attack happened on Feb. 17, near 66th Place and Oak Street. Rebecca Potter said she tried to pick up her two small dogs, but the other dogs grabbed her 4-month-old puppy Ruby and pinned her to the ground. “I just couldn’t believe that my perfect little puppy was being mauled by someone’s loose dogs,” she said.
Potter’s other dog then took off, and the pit bulls chased after it. That’s when two bystanders intervened and scared the dogs away. Ruby was left with a shattered jaw. “There was blood everywhere. I was covered in her blood,” Potter said.
Ruby was rushed to the animal hospital and needed surgery to fix her jaw. Now, Potter is trying to track down the owners of the pit bulls to prevent this from happening again to someone else. “I just really want these owners to know that their family pets are not safe if they are outside the house. They need to have some type of containment, need to work with someone to not react to small dogs,” she said.
Scottsdale Police Department officials say they are investigating. If you see the pit bills in the area of 66th Place and Oak Street, officers ask that you contact the department.
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2023-03-01T17:26:04+00:00
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VANCOUVER, BC, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Thinkific Labs Inc. ("Thinkific" or "the Company") (TSX: THNC), a leading cloud-based software platform that enables entrepreneurs and established businesses of all sizes to create, market, and sell online learning products, will report its financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2022 after market close on Thursday, August 4, 2022.
Management will host a conference call and webcast to discuss the Company's financial and operational results at 2:30pm PT (5:30pm ET) on Thursday, August 4, 2022.
Second Quarter 2022 Financial Results Conference Call and Webcast
When: Thursday, August 4, 2022
Time: 2:30 pm PT (5:30 pm ET)
Dial In: 1.888.664.6383 (US/Canada Toll-Free) or 1.416.764.8650 (International/Toronto)
The conference call will be available via webcast on the investor relations section of Thinkific's website at investors.thinkific.com/events-and-presentations
A replay will be available commencing at 4:30 pm PT (7:30 pm ET) on August 4, 2022 by dialing 1.888.390.0541 (US/Canada Toll-Free) or 1.416.764.8677 (International/Toronto), and can be accessed using the following passcode: 593677#. The replay will expire at 8:59 pm PT (11:59 pm ET) on August 11, 2022.
Thinkific (TSX: THNC) makes it simple for entrepreneurs and established businesses of any size to scale and generate revenue by teaching what they know. Our platform gives businesses everything they need to build, market, and sell online courses and other learning products, and to run their business seamlessly under their own brand, on their own site. Thinkific's 50,000 active creators earn hundreds of millions of dollars in direct course sales while teaching tens of millions of students. Thinkific is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, with a distributed team.
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2022-07-21T14:50:45+00:00
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ksla.com
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BALTIMORE — Decades after losing her older brother to gun violence, Michelle Hines tried everything to keep her teenage son safe: checking in regularly with his teachers, coordinating extracurricular activities, and most importantly, trying to prevent him from growing up too fast.
His death added to an alarming trend: more children and teens getting shot, even as gun violence overall trends downward in Baltimore. After several recent shootings of Baltimore high schoolers, including three teens killed within blocks of their schools, local leaders are ramping up efforts to reduce youth violence and increase student safety.
Last week, officials announced an arrest in Izaiah’s case. Police provided few details about how they solved the killing, saying a motive hasn’t been identified.
Hines said the arrest brings her some relief, but she wants to know more about how the shooting unfolded.
“This has been one of my biggest fears. That’s why I put so many parameters in place to protect him,” she said in a phone interview Wednesday, the day after her son’s funeral. “It’s so messed up because I never thought I would be one of these stories on the news.”
Hines said she was in close touch with many of Izaiah’s teachers at Patterson High School in east Baltimore. On March 6, the day he was killed, a teacher texted her saying he missed last period. A short time later, Hines received a call from the principal who told her about the shooting.
“We talk about the prevalence of guns in our community and the ease of access. We talk about the willingness to use those guns — and now, yet again, we’re talking about young people using guns against other young people,” Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison said at the scene. “It has to stop.”
The suspected shooter, Roger Alexander Alvarado-Mendoza, 23, was arrested in Texas while trying to flee the country, according to police. Officials said he was not a student at Patterson.
During Izaiah’s funeral service, several friends and loved ones — including fellow cadets in his Junior ROTC class — spoke about their loss. They described his quirky smile, goofy personality and caring demeanor. At the downtown restaurant where he recently started working, Izaiah was known for drinking Shirley Temples and keeping his coworkers laughing.
Hines takes comfort in hearing how her son had a positive influence on other people’s lives.
“But as I’m going through these stages of grief and my feelings are fluctuating, I keep getting stuck in the anger,” she said.
She’s angry about the lack of gun control in a country where shootings frequently claim the lives of young Black men. She’s angry at local elected officials for allowing massive systemic inequities to persist for generations in Baltimore, a deeply segregated city where violence remains heavily concentrated in majority-Black neighborhoods. And she’s angry that her family is suffering because of forces beyond her control.
“There has to be real change,” she said.
She also wonders whether Baltimore schools officials could have done more to protect Izaiah and other students. Hines said she’s considering moving to the suburbs, hoping to remove Izaiah’s younger brother and sister from the dangers of growing up in Baltimore.
A school district spokesperson didn’t respond to a recent request for comment, but Baltimore schools CEO Sonja Santelises previously said Patterson High has effective security protocols in place.
“This shooting did not occur inside of the school building,” she told reporters at the homicide scene. “When young people want to find a way out, we cannot have our eyes everywhere at the same time.”
City leaders say change is happening, but not overnight.
During a news conference Monday, Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott said the city is working hard to address youth violence. He often touts Baltimore’s “dual approach” to public safety, which combines law enforcement action with social programs and other resources aimed at steering people toward alternatives to crime.
“We did not wait until now to do that deep work,” Scott said, describing ongoing efforts to bolster violence intervention resources within Baltimore public schools. He said officials have also discussed creating “safe passages” for students going to and from school.
Other cities have seen similar increases in youth violence since the pandemic began as shootings and homicides soared nationwide.
Scott said it’s disturbing to see more young people solving conflicts with gunfire — even as Baltimore shootings and homicides have each decreased about 25% overall compared to this time last year, according to police.
Since the start of 2023, five children under 18 have been fatally shot and another 21 injured in gunfire, according to Baltimore police. Three were killed within blocks of their public high schools.
The year began with a Jan. 4 shooting that unfolded around lunchtime outside a Popeyes restaurant across the street from Edmondson-Westside High School in west Baltimore. One student died and four others were wounded. A child’s backpack was visible at the scene, surrounded by shell casings and evidence markers, with schoolwork peeking out from its unzipped pocket.
Police made an arrest last month in that case — a teen whose name hasn’t been released because he’s underage.
Hines said Izaiah was killed during a pivotal time in his life: caught between childhood and adulthood, his future still an open book.
After getting pregnant in high school, Hines pushed herself to graduate, finish college and launch a career in mental health — accomplishments she was proud to share with Izaiah and his two younger siblings. She hoped Izaiah would pursue military service after high school.
“I kept telling him, ‘You are not going to become a statistic. You are not just another Black boy in Baltimore city,’” she said. “But the gun violence, it’s so pervasive.”
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2023-03-28T10:43:03+00:00
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washingtonpost.com
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2023/03/28/baltimore-youth-violence-guns-izaiah/b7247b38-cd4f-11ed-8907-156f0390d081_story.html
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TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida was heading to Kyiv early Tuesday for talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Japan’s public television NHK showed Kishida riding a train from Poland heading to Kyiv. Kishida’s surprise trip to Ukraine comes just hours after he met with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi.
Kishida, who is to chair the Group of Seven summit in May, is the only G-7 leader who hasn’t visited Ukraine and was under pressure to do so at home.
Due to limitations of Japan’s pacifist constitution, his trip was carefully arranged secretly. Kishida is Japan’s first postwar leader to enter a war zone. Kishida, asked before his trip to India about a rumor of his possible trip at the end of March, denied it and said nothing concrete has been decided.
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Japan has joined the United States and European nations in sanctioning Russia over its invasion and providing humanitarian and economic support for Ukraine.
Japan was quick to react because it fears the possible impact of a war in East Asia, where China’s military has grown increasingly assertive and has escalated tensions around self-ruled Taiwan, which Beijing claims as its territory.
Kishida is expected to offer continuing support for Ukraine when he meets with Zelenskyy.
Television footage on NHK showed Kishida getting on a train from the Polish station of Przemysl near the border with Ukraine, with a number of officials.
Due to its pacifist principles, Japan’s support for Ukraine has also been limited to non-combative military equipment such as helmets, bulletproof vests and drones, and humanitarian supplies including generators.
Japan has contributed to Ukraine more than $7 billion, and accepted more than 2,000 displaced Ukrainians and helped them with housing assistance and support for jobs and education — a rare move for a country that is known for its strict immigration policy.
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2023-03-21T03:41:15+00:00
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BENGALURU, India — Spiraling energy costs caused by various economic factors and the Ukraine war could be a turning point toward cleaner energy, the International Energy Agency said in a report Thursday. It found the global demand for fossil fuels, including coal, oil, and natural gas, is set to peak or plateau in the next few decades.
The report looked at scenarios based on current policies and said that coal use will fall back within the next few years, natural gas demand will reach a plateau by the end of the decade and rising sales of electric vehicles mean that the need for oil will level off in the mid-2030s before ebbing slightly by mid-century. Total emissions are currently going up each year, but slowly.
“Energy markets and policies have changed as a result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, not just for the time being, but for decades to come,” said the IEA’s executive director Fatih Birol. A surge in demand following COVID-19 pandemic restrictions lifting and bottlenecks in supply chains have also contributed to soaring energy prices.
“The energy world is shifting dramatically before our eyes. Government responses around the world promise to make this a historic and definitive turning point toward a cleaner, more affordable and more secure energy system,” Birol said.
The role of natural gas as a “transition fuel” that will bridge the gap between a fossil-fuel based energy system to a renewable one has also taken a dent, the report said. Although it’s a fossil fuel, natural gas is considered cleaner than coal and oil, as burning it produces less carbon dioxide.
But despite the largely positive outlook, the report adds that the share of fossil fuels in the global energy mix puts the world on track to a warming of 2.5 degrees Celsius (4.5 degrees Fahrenheit) by the end of the century, a whole degree (1.8 Fahrenheit) more than the target set in the Paris climate deal.
That’s in line with a U.N. report released Wednesday that said current climate pledges are “nowhere near” where they need to be to meet the ambitious target. Top climate scientists say that to keep warming in line with the 1.5 C goal, emissions need to be slashed by 45% by 2030.
Energy policy analysts say that while there are promising steps in the right direction, the move toward clean energy needs to be much faster.
“Clean energy investment is delivering. It is the reason why the world is on track to peak CO2 emissions. But that’s only the first step. We need big emissions cuts, not a plateau,” said Dave Jones, an energy analyst at London-based environmental think-tank, Ember.
The report estimated that clean energy investment will be above $2 trillion by 2030 but added it would need to double to keep the transition in line with climate goals.
“The energy crisis has detracted from the climate crisis, but fortunately the answer is the same to both: a gigantic step up in clean energy investment,” Jones said.
“This report makes a very strong economic case for renewable energy which is not only more cost-competitive and affordable than fossil fuel alternatives but also is proving to be much more resilient to economic and geopolitical shocks,” said Maria Pastukhova a senior policy advisor in E3G, a climate change think-tank.
She added that leaders and negotiators at the U.N. climate conference in Egypt next month will need to “double down” on reducing the demand for energy and unlock finance for developing countries to help fund their transition to renewables which would speed up emissions cuts.
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2022-10-27T05:29:25+00:00
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TIGARD, Ore. (AP) _ Great Ajax Corp. (AJX) on Thursday reported a second-quarter loss of $4.8 million, after reporting a profit in the same period a year earlier.
On a per-share basis, the Tigard, Oregon-based company said it had a loss of 40 cents. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs, were 25 cents per share.
The results fell short of Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of three analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 30 cents per share.
The real estate investment trust posted revenue of $8.8 million in the period. Its adjusted revenue was $11.7 million, which also did not meet Street forecasts. Three analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $13.9 million.
Great Ajax shares have decreased 18% since the beginning of the year. In the final minutes of trading on Thursday, shares hit $10.81, a decline of 15% in the last 12 months.
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2022-08-04T22:49:47+00:00
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seattlepi.com
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — HBO dominated Wednesday morning’s Emmy nominations, with the elite trio of “ Succession,” “The White Lotus” and “The Last of Us” combining for a whopping 74, but the dominant theme darkening the scene is the ongoing writers strike and the looming possibility that actors may join them in as little as a day.
“Succession” and its deeply dysfunctional dynasty of one-percenters led all Emmy nominees in its fourth and final season with 27, including best drama, which it has won two of the past three years. It got three nominations for best actor in a drama, with Brian Cox, Jeremy Strong and Kieran Culkin all getting nods for playing men of the Roy clan, and Sarah Snook getting a best actress nomination. It also got four nominations for best supporting actor in a drama.
The cursed vacationers at a Sicilian resort from the second season of “The White Lotus” truly dominated the supporting categories, however, landing five nominations for best supporting actress in a drama — including nods for Jennifer Coolidge and Aubrey Plaza — and four more for best supporting actor.
Bella Ramsey and Pedro Pascal, the duo on a fungus-filled quest in “ The Last of Us,” each got lead acting nominations. The show, based on a popular Playstation video game, was second behind “Succession” with 24 nominations. “The White Lotus” had 23.
“ Ted Lasso ” was tops among comedies with 21 nominations, including best comedy series and best actor for Jason Sudeikis. The Apple TV+ series won both awards for each of its first two seasons, but its threepeat prospects depend on whether Emmy voters favor other contenders like “The Bear” or “Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.”
The nominations suggested that HBO — which got the most overall nominations by far with 127 — can still dominate even as streaming-only outlets have taken over so much of elite TV. The distinction is increasingly blurred, however, with a huge segment of viewers watching “Succession” and the cable channel’s other offerings on the streaming service now known as Max.
Cox, 77, got his best actor in a drama nod despite appearing in fewer than half of this season’s “Succession” episodes, though as the Roy family patriarch he loomed just as large over the episodes he didn’t appear in. A win would be his first for the role, though he won an Emmy for best supporting actor in a TV movie in 2001.
Strong won in 2020 for playing “eldest boy” Kendall Roy. Culkin got his first nomination for best actor after two previous nominations in the supporting category.
Actors joining movie and television writers on strike would further shut down the industry and be the first time since 1960 that two Hollywood unions were simultaneously striking. While show and film releases will continue, work on upcoming projects will cease — as would actors’ interviews and appearances to promote the projects.
The possibility of an industry debilitated by strikes could dampen any joy for the new nominees, and could put the damper on the ceremony scheduled for Sept. 18 on the Fox network.
Sheryl Lee Ralph, who provided the emotional high point of last year’s ceremony with her half-sung victory speech for her best supporting actor Emmy in “Abbott Elementary,” said she is a “puddle of emotions” after getting nominated again amid the strife.
“Change is hard. Change is difficult. And in the midst of once again of a great moment in my life, I am surrounded by a difficult moment,” Ralph told The Associated Press. “This is a fight for artistry, this is not a fight to make people rich.”
The nominations were announced by “Community” star Yvette Nicole Brown and Television Academy CEO Frank Scherma, who referenced the labor disputes before at the top of Wednesday’s livestream.
“We hope the ongoing guild negotiations can come to an equitable and swift resolution,” Scherma said.
But the announcements, while low-key, proceeded as though a show will go on in the fall.
It was not a strong year for Emmy diversity, with the lead categories dominated by shows with largely white ensembles. Pascal, the first Latino nominated as lead actor in a drama in more than two decades, was the only minority nominee in any of the drama series categories.
Representation was stronger in the comedy categories, where Jenna Ortega of Netflix’s “Wednesday” was nominated for best actress. The Black actors of ABC’s “Abbott Elementary” were again a high point for Emmy diversity, and for the otherwise largely absent broadcast networks. Creator Quinta Brunson was nominated for best actress, while Ralph and Janelle James were nominated for best supporting actress, as was Ayo Edebiri for “The Bear.”
That FX series showed some of the Emmys’ quirks with its 13 nominations. It appeared in the comedy categories despite its half-hour episodes having more drama than some of the drama nominees. And the awards’ eligibility calendar means it got the nominations for its first season, even after many viewers have seen – and largely loved – its second, bringing buzz that probably helped it.
Speaking of quirks, the genre-defying “Jury Duty” rode its cult status to four nominations for streamer Amazon Freevee. A faux reality show for most of its cast and a reality show for one man, it was nominated for best comedy series and best supporting actor in a comedy for James Marsden.
Netflix led streamers with 103 nominations, but its showing was meager in many of the top categories. “The Crown” received its nearly annual deference for best drama and, along with Ortega, Christina Applegate was nominated for best supporting actress in a comedy for the third and final season of Netflix’s “Dead to Me.” Applegate, who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2021, has said the role may be her last.
Netflix fared better in the limited series category, where “Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story” and “Beef” managed 13 nominations apiece.
More than a year after his death, Ray Liotta, was nominated for best supporting actor in a limited series or TV movie for “Black Bird” on Apple TV+.
The “Star Wars” galaxy made a surprisingly forceful showing for Disney+, with three television adaptations — “Andor,” “The Mandalorian” and “Obi-Wan Kenobi” — earning a combined 22 nominations. “The Mandalorian” received the most recognition with nine nominations in craft categories like stunt performance and costumes, but the series based on Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi’s exile years will compete for best limited series and “Andor” is among the drama series nominees.
The most famous “Star Wars” alum was among those snubbed, however, as Harrison Ford failed to get his first Emmy nomination. Some had expected his name to be called for his acting on the “Yellowstone” prequel “1923” or the Apple TV+ comedy “Shrinking.”
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AP National Writer Jocelyn Noveck contributed to this report.
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2023-07-13T02:31:49+00:00
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texomashomepage.com
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HANOVER COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — One of only three Department of Defense–sanctioned aerial demonstration teams, the United States Army Parachute Team — better known by its nickname, the Golden Knights — is a demonstration and competition team made up of around 95 U.S. Army men and women, and on Thursday morning, I got to skydive with them.
The team was born in 1959, after 19 Airborne Soldiers from various military units formed the Strategic Army Command Parachute Team, with the intent of competing in skydiving, a relatively new sport at the time. Two years later, it officially became known as The United States Army Parachute Team.
The Golden Knights consist of several separate divisions, including four parachute units, an aviation unit and a headquarters.
WASHINGTON, DC – JULY 04: Members of the U.S. Army Golden Knights Parachute Team land on the Ellipse near the White House on July 4, 2020 in Washington, DC. President Trump is hosting a “Salute To America” celebration that includes flyovers by military aircraft and a large fireworks display. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) ELIZABETHTOWN, KY – SEPTEMBER 14: A member of the U.S. Army Golden Knights parachute team sets up a banner during an event on September 14, 2021 at Addington Field in Elizabethtown, Kentucky. The Golden Knights performed tandem parachute jumps throughout the morning with civilians who had been nominated for the honor by members of their local communities. (Photo by Luke Sharrett/Getty Images) ELIZABETHTOWN, KY – SEPTEMBER 14: A member of the U.S. Army Golden Knights parachute team comes in for a landing during an event on September 14, 2021 at Addington Field in Elizabethtown, Kentucky. The Golden Knights performed tandem parachute jumps throughout the morning with civilians who had been nominated for the honor by members of their local communities. (Photo by Luke Sharrett/Getty Images)
One of the parachute units, the tandem team, is known for taking celebrities, elected officials and high-profile VIPs on jumps. Today, one of those VIPs happened to include me, 8News Digital Content Producer, Kassidy Hammond.
The United States Army Parachute Team held a Tandem Camp from May 17-19 at Hanover County Municipal Airport in Ashland for 15 lucky civilians to take part in what the Golden Knights are experts at – jumping out of planes.
Our day began at 8 a.m. with a member of the Golden Knights providing instructional training, advising safety precautions and helping to familiarize us jumpers with the equipment they would be using — a harness and parachute that would protect our lives during our 12,500-foot drop back down to Earth.
We were also advised on proper form for the jump. For example, the “happy banana” is a full-body arched position with the head tilted up towards the sky and feet reaching up in the same direction, with the naval pointing straight down towards the Earth — a view of which one of the jumpers said he was most looking forward to.
“Oh, God. Seeing all of the Central Virginia beauty from the sky on a beautiful day like today,” the guest said as he was suiting up for the jump.
We were all given a snazzy yellow jumpsuit to wear — coinciding with that happy banana pose — which was then covered in a harness stretching from our thighs to our shoulders. The harness is said to have a holding capacity of 15,000 lbs, just in case an emergency arose and everyone in the plane had to make it out on one parachute. Thankfully, my jump today went off without a hitch, no doubt due to the hard work and years the Golden Knights put into their craft.
Sergeant First Class Ryan Reis said some of his favorite things about being a part of the Golden Knights are that he gets to travel the world, talk to people about the Army and that he was able to take up skydiving, which he has been doing for more than ten years now.
“I have been skydiving on my own for about 12 years now. I’ve been on the team for six years. And this is my third year doing tandems for the Golden Knights,” Reis said when we were chatting about the Knights.
Once seated on the plane, everyone was safely buckled. Then, the wait was on, as the plane rose to the hook-up altitude of around 7,000 to 8,000 feet. This was the point when the Golden Knights re-checked all harnesses and snapped into a tandem position — with us, their less-experienced guests attached to the front.
Reis told me that the Golden Knights do anywhere from 400 to 600 jumps on average per year, so their aerial routine is pretty solid, to say the least.
The next few minutes were a whirlwind of adrenaline. The plane side door was shuttered open — not unlike a garage door. I heard last-minute reminders of “happy banana” and “we fall on three” throughout the cabin, alongside confident shouts of, “remember to have fun,” by the instructors.
The first tandem duo to jump, my instructor, Staff Sergeant Dustin Gebhardt, and I were then told to line our feet up “at the black line,” the mark separating the safety of solid ground from free release into the atmosphere.
The countdown was made, and my instructor took the lead, quickly pitching us over the edge of no return.
The 35- to 40-second free-fall period was breathtaking, literally. With 125-mph winds, it was a little tricky to catch my breath at first. After the parachute was pulled, we were quickly pulled from falling rapidly, to gliding at a comfortable cruising speed.
Dawn Legere, a jumper with the Knights Thursday, told me she liked the freefall because of the surprise, but enjoyed every part of the daring jump.
“Every fall was amazing because you sort of feel weightless. You’re just kind of hanging up there, looking around and everything,” Legere explained.
During the drop, Gebhardt handed me the reins, and let me take control of maneuvering the parachute. While slightly terrifying, I was then able to enjoy – for around a minute – gliding the parachute to the left, right and in circles to my preference, before gently landing in a field to the cheer of onlookers.
“In the parachute, it was cool because you’re just sort of floating, and you can look around and take in everything. And then you get a couple of spins, which cool because it adds in the rollercoaster element,” Legere told me after our jump.
The Golden Knights have held more than 16,000 shows across 50 states and 48 countries, and perform at more than 100 events per year, including the Washington Nationals Baseball Stadium, the Miami Beach – Hyundai Air and Sea Show, as well as the Joint Base Andrews Air and Space Expo. For a complete list of all 2022 appearances, click here.
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2022-05-20T02:59:38+00:00
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wric.com
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https://www.wric.com/community/positively-richmond/8news-skydives-with-u-s-army-golden-knights-in-hanover-county/
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The beauty brand will take over the streets of Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn to celebrate Black moms and their village, as part of their 'Love Delivered' initiative
NEW YORK, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bump Day was created to raise awareness and support around the need for equitable care for every mom, everywhere. Since maternal mortality rates continue to disproportionately impact the Black community, Brooklyn's own, Carol's Daughter is hosting a community block party as part of its Love Delivered initiative to celebrate Black mothers and birthing people while generating awareness around Black Maternal Health. "The Bump Day Block Party" will take place on Thursday, July 21st from 5-8pm on 372 Tompkins Avenue in Brooklyn. This event is family-friendly, free, and open to everyone, please register (here).
The block party will include local Black-owned vendors, many with a focus on motherhood and children and feature live entertainment from DJ and music producer DJ Fulano and the dynamic Brooklyn United Marching Band. Registered attendees will be entered into a raffle and be eligible to receive additional prizes, free products, and access to maternal health and wellness resources on-site. Additionally, beauty pioneer and Carol's Daughter founder, Lisa Price will deliver remarks, alongside the Mama Glow Foundation's founder, world-renowned doula, Latham Thomas.
In honor of Bump Day, Carol's Daughter is also committing additional funds to the Mama Glow Foundation for doula grants. The grants will continue to help Black families by funding doula services. The next cycle of applications is now open through August 1st. Individuals and families in need of Birth or Postpartum Doula Support, located in New York (Metro Area), Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Miami, and Los Angeles can apply online here. You can also learn more at the Mama Glow Foundation's tent on-site at the block party.
Love Delivered is the Black Maternal Health initiative by Carol's Daughter and its founder, Lisa Price, in partnership with the Mama Glow Foundation and its founder, Latham Thomas. It was created to empower, support, and equip Black women and birthing people and the greater community to advocate for their health and wellness by providing expanded access to doula services, trainings for doulas, and resources for families, birth workers, partners, and allies to be well-informed in supporting positive birthing experiences.
To join Carol's Daughter in the fight for Black Maternal Health, head to www.carolsdaughter.com/lovedelivered. Also, follow @CarolsDaughter and @MamaGlow on Instagram for program announcements and information.
In 1993, encouraged by my mother, Carol, I began creating high-quality products made with love in my Brooklyn kitchen. As family and friends experienced how these products transformed their hair and skin, I knew that I was onto something good. I needed a name for my company, so I made a list of everything I was and everything I wanted to be, and I realized that the most special thing that I am is Lisa, Carol's Daughter.
- Lisa Price, Carol's Daughter Founder
Mama Glow Foundation is a 501c3 non-profit organization committed to advancing reproductive justice and birth equity through Education, Advocacy and The Arts. The Mama Glow Foundation was founded by the dynamic world-renowned doula and Oprah Super Soul 100 member, Latham Thomas. www.mamaglowfoundation.org
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Tips to help save for summer fun
Consider setting up a separate savings account for a dream purchase
(InvestigateTV) — The most popular budgeting plans all encourage people to set aside some money for fun and entertainment.
Buying a boat, pool, or jet ski is possible, provided you properly budget.
Michael Joyce with the financial firm Agili said budgeting where each dollar goes is especially true when planning a vacation.
“Put a little bit aside from every paycheck and really factor in where you’re going to go on vacation, how much it’s going to cost and figure that there’s going to be some things that come up, that are going to be more expensive than you thought they’d be,” Joyce advised.
Joyce said to consider having that amount automatically withdrawn each month.
He said you can set up a separate savings account solely for that special purchase you want to make.
NerdWallet has recommendations for banks that facilitate setting up multiple savings accounts.
Joyce said if you feel you’ve missed the savings window this year, you can always start saving now for your special treat next summer.
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2023-06-20T21:17:46+00:00
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wnem.com
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https://www.wnem.com/2023/06/20/tips-help-save-summer-fun/
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Students at state universities in Kansas to see significant tuition hike
WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - The Kansas Board of Regents (KBOR) on Wednesday, June 14, approved tuition hikes for each of the state’s six public universities (Kansas, Kansas State, Wichita State, Emporia State, Pittsburg State and Fort Hays State). The approved hikes are in a range from 5-7%. Previous tuition jumps in the past five fiscal years ranged from from 1.1% (at Kansas State for fiscal year 2019) to 3.8% (at Fort Hays State in fiscal year 2021).
Last month, a KBOR report showed 5% increases planned for KU, K-State, Emporia State and Pittsburg State, a 5.9% increase for Wichita State and a 7% hike for Fort Hays State. That’s what the board approved Wednesday with costs for students to attend the six universities and their affiliated campuses in upcoming school year (2023-24).
“Even with this increase we’re still way under the cumulative inflation,” said KBOR Chair Jon Rolph.
The pre-COVID-19 tuition hikes (FY 2019) ranged from 1.1% to 2.8%. The state universities cited inflation as the main reason for the much steeper hikes for the next fiscal year, 2024.
The 5.9% hike at Wichita State would means a full-time student would see a nearly $200 increase in tuition per semester. Last month, the university said it would generate $5.5 million in tuition revenue which would be used to help cover costs of employee salaries, benefits and student scholarships.
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2023-06-14T23:24:58+00:00
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kwch.com
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https://www.kwch.com/2023/06/14/students-state-universities-kansas-see-significant-tuition-hike/
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HOUSTON, Dec. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today bp (NYSE: BP) completed its purchase of Archaea Energy Inc., (NYSE: LFG) a leading provider of renewable natural gas (RNG), marking a milestone in the growth of bp's strategic bioenergy business.
"We see enormous opportunity to grow our bioenergy business by bringing Archaea fully into bp," said Dave Lawler, chairman and president bp America. "The talent, expertise and passion of their team has let them achieve incredible growth so far, and we're excited to support the next chapter in line with our strategy."
In October, bp announced it had agreed to acquire Archaea, subject to regulatory and Archaea shareholder approval. Having received those approvals and with the transaction complete, Archaea expands bp's presence in the US biogas industry, enhancing its ability to support customers' decarbonization goals and progressing its aim to reduce the average lifecycle carbon intensity of the energy products it sells.
Bioenergy is one of five strategic transition growth engines that bp intends to grow rapidly through this decade. bp expects investment into its transition growth businesses to reach more than 40% of its total annual capital expenditure by 2025, aiming to grow this to around 50% by 2030.
With the close of the agreement, Archaea common shares will cease to be listed on the NYSE.
Additional information on the acquisition can be found in the agreement announcement.
In order to utilize the 'safe harbor' provisions of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (the 'PSLRA') and the general doctrine of cautionary statements, bp is providing the following cautionary statement.
This document contains certain forecasts, projections and forward-looking statements – that is, statements related to future, not past events and circumstances – with respect to the financial condition, results of operations and businesses of bp and certain of the plans and objectives of bp with respect to these items. These statements are generally, but not always, identified by the use of words such as 'will', 'expects', 'is expected to', 'targets', 'aims', 'should', 'may', 'objective', 'is likely to', 'intends', 'believes', 'anticipates', 'plans', 'we see' or similar expressions. By their nature, forward-looking statements involve risk and uncertainty because they relate to events and depend on circumstances that will or may occur in the future and are outside the control of bp. Actual results or outcomes, may differ materially from those expressed in such statements, depending on a variety of factors, including the risk factors discussed under "Risk factors" in bp's Annual Report and Form 20-F 2021 as filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission and in any of our more recent public reports.
Our most recent Annual Report and Form 20-F and other period filings are available on our website at www.bp.com or can be obtained from the SEC by calling 1-800-SEC-0330 or on its website at www.sec.gov.
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2022-12-28T15:07:29+00:00
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WAIANAE, Hawaii (AP) — Tedorian Gallano would like to buy a house for his wife and three youngest children in Hawaii, but real estate prices soared so high eight years ago he moved his family back to his childhood home outside Honolulu — and last year, his older brother followed suit.
Now, eight members from three generations of Gallano’s extended family share one bathroom in a house that’s so packed they’ve jerry-rigged an extra bedroom in the garage. Buying a home is “pretty much unattainable for the average working family” in Hawaii, the 49-year-old carpenter said.
“We always seem to have these hot markets that drive the prices up, and then it’s the hardworking local families that cannot buy houses who are kind of left out,” said Gallano, who’s a member of the carpenters’ union that’s been active on the issue.
Gallano’s situation is emblematic of the acute affordable housing crisis afflicting Hawaii, a problem so deep that there’s now widespread concern that many of Hawaii’s children won’t be able to afford to live there as adults. Many residents are fearful their entire state — a diverse and culturally vibrant society with unique values and a complex identity — is being gentrified before their eyes as home prices soar.
The median price of a single-family home topped $1 million in most areas of Hawaii during the coronavirus pandemic and has declined only modestly since. The state has the fourth-highest per capita rate of homelessness in the nation after California, Vermont and Oregon. On Thursday, new data showed the islands experienced net population loss five of the last six years. In 2022, U.S. census data showed more Native Hawaiians live outside Hawaii than within.
Now, amid growing urgency, both the governor and Hawaii’s legislative leaders are making housing a top priority.
In one of his first moves after taking office in January, Democratic Gov. Josh Green created a new housing czar to oversee the effort. One thing Chief Housing Officer Nani Medeiros is focused on is identifying roadblocks and redundant permitting at local and state levels that can hold up construction. The administration also wants to pour $1 billion into housing programs, including $450 million to subsidize the construction of affordable dwellings.
Lawmakers have sponsored bills to trim bureaucracy, fund public housing renovations and encourage construction of dense housing on state land next to Honolulu’s planned rail line.
Determined to find solutions, a college student taking a break during COVID-19 and a recent college graduate co-founded a nonprofit advocacy organization called Housing Hawaii’s Future to lobby on the issue. Nearly 1,500 people have signed their pledge to back more housing.
“It really bothers me that we are saying to the young people of Hawaii, ‘It’s great that you might have been born and raised and educated here, but now that you’ve become an adult, you have to leave and you cannot come back,’” said state Sen. Stanley Chang, a Democrat who chairs the Senate housing committee.
The departure of so many Native Hawaiians could dissipate Hawaiian values, like caring for the land, kuleana (sense of responsibility) and lokahi (working together), said Williamson Chang, a University of Hawaii law professor who is Native Hawaiian and not related to the senator.
“There’s not a great effort to preserve Hawaiian values if you don’t have Hawaiians. In other words, who’s going to transmit these values? Who is going to teach these values?” he said.
Some moves to shore up affordable housing by easing development regulations are being met with trepidation by conservationists, who warn that going too far in that direction could endanger the islands’ world-famous ecosystems and farmland.
Wayne Tanaka, the director of the Hawaii chapter of the environmental and social justice nonprofit the Sierra Club, said efficiencies could expedite needed housing development, but the “devil is in the details.” He said the community must also consider the environment, water sources, food security and climate change threats, like severe drought and powerful hurricanes.
“We don’t want to just build, build, build and then all of a sudden we don’t know how we’re going to feed ourselves when the climate crisis shuts down our harbors or dries up the places where we import our food from,” Tanaka said.
Currently, housing construction is not keeping up with demand. Only 1,000 to 2,000 new housing units are being built in Hawaii each year. Those numbers are dwarfed by the 50,000 new units a 2019 state-commissioned study estimated would be needed by 2025.
In contrast, in 1973, Honolulu approved permits for some 13,700 housing units, and the state’s three other main counties approved more than 4,000, said Paul Brewbaker, an economics consultant with TZ Economics.
In extreme cases, developers face backlogs of years, or even decades.
Kauai County officials labored more than a decade obtaining state and county permits before they could break ground to build affordable homes on former sugar cane land.
Everett Dowling, the president of Maui developer Dowling Companies, said a developer can’t begin work on other housing when its money is tied up in a project awaiting permits. Engineers, architects and lawyers also can’t move on. And costs escalate.
“The longer you hold a piece of property, the more you spend on it, the less affordable the housing becomes,” Dowling said.
Housing director Medeiros said even with the new urgency, some of the reforms might not happen fast enough for her to be able to afford a home. But she hopes her 20-year-old daughter will be able to do so when she’s 40 and “my grandchildren hopefully, definitely will,” she said.
Housing Hawaii’s Future, the youth advocacy group, is also helping to get housing built now.
Evan Kamakana Gates, a Native Hawaiian who is attending Harvard University in Massachusetts, is one of the group’s co-founders. He’s worried Hawaii might be unrecognizable when he returns home because the people who make it home may not be there.
“That’s a real fear,” he said. “Being in Hawaii but losing it, in a sense.”
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2023-04-04T12:17:00+00:00
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wnct.com
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https://www.wnct.com/news/national/spiraling-housing-prices-spark-worry-about-hawaiis-future/
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Free filtered water available at the Natural Grocers store located in Billings, Montana through June 30, 2022
LAKEWOOD, Colo., June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Natural Grocers® offers members of Montana communities impacted by this week's significant flooding free filtered water from its store in Billings, Montana. Free water will be available starting today through Thursday, June 30, 2022.
The unprecedented recent flooding in the Yellowstone area has triggered power outages and damaged hundreds of homes in the nearby communities. The flooding has also impacted water treatment plants, leaving multiple cities in Montana without water or with boil water orders (the requirement to boil water before consumption: including eating, drinking, washing hands and faces, and brushing teeth).
Natural Grocers is offering free water from the Billings, Montana store's reverse osmosis water filtration machines for those in need. The ultraviolet sterilization process used in Natural Grocers' water dispensers disinfects the water with UV light, designed to provide safe, high-quality water that does not need to be boiled before consumption. Additionally, via multiple filtration steps, the reverse osmosis process is intended to filter out suspended particles, chlorine and a wide range of chemicals, salts, lead, impurities, and more.
Due to capacity limitations of the store's water filtration system, which can only pump 75 gallons of water every other hour, each person is limited to two free gallons of water. To fill up on free water from the organic and natural grocery retailer, customers should bring their filled receptacle to the register, along with any items they are purchasing. Customers are urged to bring their own containers to fill, though the store will have a limited assortment for purchase.
"We are here to support our community as we navigate this disaster together. Please spread the word to friends and neighbors. We are thankful for your business and hope this can help you and your family during these hard times," said Mat Topham, Regional Manager for Natural Grocers.
- For location and hours of the Natural Grocers store in Billings, Montana, click here.
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ABOUT NATURAL GROCERS BY VITAMIN COTTAGE
Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage, Inc. (NYSE: NGVC) is an expanding specialty retailer of natural and organic groceries, body care products, and dietary supplements. The products sold by Natural Grocers must meet strict quality guidelines and may not contain artificial colors, flavors, preservatives or sweeteners, or partially hydrogenated or hydrogenated oils. The Company sells only USDA-certified organic produce and exclusively pasture-raised, non-confinement dairy products, and free-range eggs. Natural Grocers' flexible smaller-store format allows it to offer affordable prices in a shopper-friendly, clean, and convenient retail environment. The Company also provides extensive free science-based Nutrition Education programs to help customers make informed health and nutrition choices. The Company, founded in 1955, has 162 stores in 20 states. Visit www.NaturalGrocers.com for more information and store locations.
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2022-06-16T23:02:15+00:00
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The Detroit Tigers have finalized their 2023 coaching staff, adding Tim Federowicz as a catching coach.
Federowicz, 35, played in 163 big-league games for six teams over parts of eight seasons. The journeyman backup spent most of his career at Triple-A, logging over 2,000 plate appearances in 10 seasons at the level.
He served as manager at Triple-A Tacoma in the Seattle system last season, getting hired just days after formally retiring as a player.
Federowicz was born in Erie, Pa., but grew up and still lives in North Carolina.
Of manager A.J. Hinch’s 10 assistants, six will be new in 2023: assistant pitching coach Robin Lund; hitting coaches Michael Brdar, Keith Beauregard and James Rowson; first base coach Alfredo Amezaga; and Federowicz.
The four holdovers are bench coach George Lombard; pitching coach Chris Fetter; assistant pitching coach Juan Nieves; and Gary Jones, who will move from first base coach to third base coach in 2023.
Longtime Tigers player and coach Ramon Santiago, who served as third base coach in 2022, remains in the organization as a roving instructor. Mike Hessman, who served as an assistant hitting coach on the big-league staff last year, will be hitting coach at Triple-A Toledo. Hitting coach Scott Coolbaugh and quality control coach Josh Paul are no longer in the organization.
The Tigers will have no coach with Paul’s title in 2023, although Federowicz is likely to take on many of the same roles.
TIGERS’ 2023 COACHING STAFF
Manager: A.J. Hinch
Bench coach: George Lombard
Pitching coach: Chris Fetter
Assistant pitching coach/bullpen: Juan Nieves
Assistant pitching coach: Robin Lund
Hitting coach: Michael Brdar
Assistant hitting coach: Keith Beauregard
Assistant hitting coach: James Rowson
First base coach: Alfredo Amezaga
Third base coach: Gary Jones
Catching coach: Tim Federowicz
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2023-01-19T18:11:21+00:00
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mlive.com
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https://www.mlive.com/tigers/2023/01/tigers-finalize-2023-coaching-staff-by-adding-catching-coach.html
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UVALDE, Texas – Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin said Tuesday that teachers at Robb Elementary should be commended for helping evacuate hundreds of students despite a gunman going on the deadly rampage two weeks ago at the school.
McLaughlin said 500 people were evacuated from classrooms by some very brave teachers.
“Let me tell you, every Uvalde teacher who was in those classrooms, would not leave their classrooms till their students were out, including the teacher who was shot. He wouldn’t leave his classroom till his students were out,” he said in an interview with a reporter following an emergency City Council meeting Tuesday.
McLaughlin also said that it’s his understanding that the school will be torn down.
“I heard it’s (decision) been made. I haven’t been consulted because I’m not on the school board. My understanding is that school will be demolished. I believe it should be. You should never ask a child to go back in any of those classrooms, ever,” he said.
The mayor said that he hasn’t heard any 911 calls from that fateful day and that he feels like he’s in the dark regarding the investigation, but he has “to trust law enforcement.”
“I’m not a law enforcement officer. I was at Robb that day. I wasn’t directing law enforcement officers, I was there for support. Concerned for citizens and these children and teachers. Like I said, I’m as frustrated as anybody about not having answers, but again I’m not on the law enforcement side,” McLaughlin said.
He added that he will be “little more forceful in asking for more answers” after the children and teachers are laid to rest.
“Whether we get them (answers) or not, I don’t know. But I’ll be very vocal about it. I think if you ask anybody from here, I’m not bashful about being vocal,” he said.
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2022-06-07T22:37:15+00:00
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ksat.com
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https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2022/06/07/uvalde-mayor-says-robb-elementary-teachers-wouldnt-leave-classrooms-until-all-their-students-were-evacuated/
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NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — It took 88 big bites from King Cakes across New Orleans for author Matt Haines to put pen to paper on The Big Book of King Cake. But now, this NOLA author is going even bigger by going smaller.
Highlighting the bakers behind NOLA’ sweetest Carnival tradition, The Little Book of King Cake tells the story of a little girl named Miley who, like many of us, found the baby in her slice of king cake. The story follows Miley as she follows the New Orleans tradition of bringing the next king cake to her third-grade class.
From Haydel’s to Dong Phuong to Tartine, TLBKC looks to answer the timeless question of who has the best king cake in the Big Easy, and more importantly, the people you share it with.
When writing the story, Haines says he was left with an open book on his diet of inspiration. Remember, it’s research! Sweet, delicious research.
Get your copy of The Little Book of King Cake here.
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2023-02-21T02:33:32+00:00
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cenlanow.com
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https://www.cenlanow.com/state-news/after-trying-88-kinds-of-king-cake-this-new-orleans-author-lets-the-story-write-itself/
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In 2018 just after he announced his retirement, Justice Anthony Kennedy, who sat at the ideological center of the court for much of his 30-year tenure, met with a groups of reporters. Was he worried that some of the precedents he helped establish--the right to abortion and LGBT rights, for instance--might now be in jeopardy? No, he replied. He was confident that constitutional rights, once established would remain in place.
It took just four years, and the addition of one more Trump appointee to the Supreme Court, to prove him wrong.
There is simply no way to overstate what the Supreme Court did this term. No journalist or scholar alive can remember a term with so many earthquakes in the law.
The data tell the story. The court produced more conservative decisions this term than at any time since 1931, according to statistics compiled by professors Lee Epstein of Washington University in St. Louis and Keven Quinn of the University of Michigan.
In an astounding 62% of the decisions, conservatives prevailed, and more importantly, often prevailed in dramatic ways.
The sweeping nature of the court's decisions, and the sheer number of them amounted to a dream fulfilled for hard-line conservatives and a nightmare for liberals and moderates.
In overturning Roe v. Wade, the court erased a half century of court precedents and eliminated the constitutional right to abortion. Just weeks after the shootings in Uvalde, Texas, the court issued a broadly worded opinion making it more difficult to regulate guns. In a major environmental case, the court curbed the EPA's ability to deal with climate change, and in so doing signaled that other government assertions of regulatory power in the name of health and safety could be on the chopping block. In two religion cases, the court barely mentioned the concept of separation between church and state; rather, it expanded public funding options for religious schools and ruled in favor of a high school football coach who wanted to pray on the 50-yard line, a significant expansion of teachers' rights to public, even ostentatious, religious expression while on the job.
A court without a center
One of the many things that distinguishes this court from any other court of the last 90-plus years is that the current court has no center. Chief Justice John Roberts very occasionally takes a more incremental approach than fellow conservatives, as he did in the abortion case. But the other five conservatives can and did in that case prevail without him. At the same time, Justice Brett Kavanaugh's voting pattern this term moved 20% to the right. So instead of this now being "the Roberts Court," or a court dominated by any one justice, professor Epstein says, it is "the Trump court," because half of the 6-to-3 conservative majority was appointed by the former president.
As for the liberals, says Epstein, they have become "bit players," drowned out by a conservative symphony.
Some of the effects of the court's work were immediate, with the doors of abortion clinics closing in large swaths of the country. Other effects are already in the works, cases challenging a government regulatory structure that since the New Deal has enabled Congress to give agencies broad power to deal with major health and safety problems--from regulations that protect that air and water, to those aimed at protecting pharmaceuticals, food, car safety, and even the stock market, to name just a few.
Even the government's attempt to mandate a vaccine-or-test regime for large private employers was shot down by the court this term, the exception being vaccine mandates for health care workers and the military. And those exceptions were by a divided vote, 5-to-4 to uphold the mandate for health care workers, 6-to-3 for the military.
Conservative and liberal scholars alike describe the current court as unusually aggressive. The "YOLO court"--You Only Live Once-- said University of Michigan professor Leah Litman. "A court in a very big hurry," said Case Western Reserve professor Jonathan Adler. Some Supreme Court advocates are even more pointed. "Heedless, " said the ACLU's legal director David Cole.
While most of the public usually pays only occasional attention to what the court does, it seems to have noticed this time. The court's public approval ratings have plunged, to a new low of as little as 25% in a recent Gallup Poll.
Even more on the chopping block next term
The new conservative juggernaut has hardly finished. It has already agreed to review more hot-button issues next term. Perhaps the most important of these is a case that could radically reshape the rules for federal elections, giving state legislatures almost unfettered control over voting rules, and over the drawing of congressional districts. If the theory prevails, state legislatures could be free to execute all manner of partisan mischief, freed from oversight by state courts, state constitutional provisions, governors, and potentially allowing legislatures, to name electoral college electors in presidential elections.
The court also looks headed to reverse another major precedent on the books for nearly a half century. Since 1978 the court has allowed colleges and universities to use race as one of many factors considered in admissions decisions. In the upcoming term, the court will revisit the issue in cases from Harvard University and the University of North Carolina.
Yet another hot-button social issue that the court has accepted for review is framed as a free-speech case, but is also a test of the right to discriminate against LGBTQ members of the public in commercial services. At issue is whether a woman who designs websites for weddings can refuse to work for for same-sex couples.
If this term's past is prologue, there are seemingly endless questions about where the court might go next. The majority opinion in the abortion case, written by Justice Samuel Alito, is based on reasoning also included in the court's precedents on same-sex marriage, the rights of couples to use and have access to contraception, and even the rights of interracial couples to marry. And while Alito sought to rebut any notion that those decisions are in jeopardy, he mocked a previous abortion decision that used was based in part on some of those decisions.
Unanswered questions
Then too, this term's abortion decision left many questions unanswered. For instance, can a state ban a person from receiving abortion pills, approved by the FDA, and sent through the U.S. postal system? Can states ban telemedicine appointments with doctors out of state? In states where abortion is outlawed, can states ban advertisements and other information about how to obtain an abortion?
Nor is it clear how far the court is prepared to go in its religion jurisprudence. In upholding a football coach's right to pray on the 50-yard line, surrounded by willing players, the conservative majority discarded one precedent, and seemed to leave room for more precedents to be shattered--among them the court's repeated decisions since 1962 barring teacher-led prayer in the classroom. University of Virginia law professor Douglas Laycock, a strong supporter of the free exercise of religion clause in the First Amendment, wonders how school officials, or lower court judges, are going to differentiate between prayer on the football field and prayer in the classroom.
The court's decision in the prayer case is among many in recent years in which the court has dismantled prior rules that sought to draw a clear line separating church and state. Among them: The court has ruled that the constitution bars federal anti-discrimination laws, including those requiring accommodations for sick or disabled employees, from applying to lay teachers at religious schools; it ruled that a Catholic social services agency could refuse to abide by its contract with Philadelphia, a contract which required it to work with same-sex couples applying to take in foster children; it ruled that closely held for-profit corporations could refuse, on religious grounds, to abide by a federal law requiring insurance to cover contraception for their employees; it ruled that city councils and other public boards are free to open their meetings with explicitly Christian prayers. It ruled that a 4o-foot cross honoring soldiers who died in World War I could remain on state property at a busy intersection in suburban Maryland.
This is far from a complete list, but it is an indication of more such decisions to come, and because religious overtones reach so many aspects of American life--from abortion to gay rights to what we want children to read or know--these decisions will have implications for millions of people. The current court is the most pro-religion of any court in nearly 70 years, according to statistics compiled for an upcoming article in The Supreme Court Review, written by professor Epstein and professor Eric Posner of the University of Chicago. While the number of pro-religion outcomes edged up to 58% overall when William Rehnquist was chief justice (1986-2005), the rate has skyrocketed to over 86% in the years since then with John Roberts as chief justice and the court's composition growing steadily more conservative.
Whatever one thinks of the court's decisions in these and other cases, it quite clearly is not a court that shrinks from controversy or contention. And the subjects it is likely to take on often pit the young against the old, rural against urban, and even black against white--in other words the most polarizing subjects of our times. Abortion, the right to vote, affirmative action in school admission and in employment, the rights of LGBTQ people, the content of history taught in public schools, and even book banning in public libraries--all of that will eventually, in all likelihood, end up in the lap of a very conservative Supreme Court.
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2022-07-05T14:58:27+00:00
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kgou.org
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https://www.kgou.org/politics-and-government/politics-and-government/2022-07-05/the-supreme-court-is-the-most-conservative-in-90-years
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TORONTO, Nov. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Hydro One Limited (TSX: H), announced that its Board of Directors has declared a quarterly cash dividend to common shareholders of $0.2796 per share to be paid on December 30, 2022 to shareholders of record on December 14, 2022.
Unless indicated otherwise, all common share dividends paid by Hydro One Limited to shareholders are designated as "eligible" dividends for the purpose of the Income Tax Act (Canada) and any similar provincial legislation. Such quarterly dividends, unless and until changed, are only payable as and when declared by Hydro One Limited's Board of Directors and there is no entitlement to any dividend prior thereto.
Hydro One Limited (TSX: H)
Hydro One Limited, through its wholly-owned subsidiaries, is Ontario's largest electricity transmission and distribution provider with approximately 1.5 million valued customers, approximately $30.4 billion in assets as at December 31, 2021, and annual revenues in 2021 of approximately $7.2 billion.
Our team of approximately 9,300 skilled and dedicated employees proudly build and maintain a safe and reliable electricity system which is essential to supporting strong and successful communities. In 2021, Hydro One invested approximately $2.1 billion in its transmission and distribution networks, and supported the economy through buying approximately $1.7 billion of goods and services.
We are committed to the communities where we live and work through community investment, sustainability and diversity initiatives. We are designated as a Sustainable Electricity Company by the Canadian Electricity Association.
Hydro One Limited's common shares are listed on the TSX and certain of Hydro One Inc.'s medium term notes are listed on the NYSE. Additional information can be accessed at www.hydroone.com, www.sedar.com or www.sec.gov.
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For more information about everything Hydro One, please visit www.HydroOne.com where you can find additional information including links to securities filings, historical financial reports, and information about the Company's governance practices, corporate social responsibility, customer solutions, and further information about its business.
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2022-11-11T13:39:05+00:00
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waff.com
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https://www.waff.com/prnewswire/2022/11/11/hydro-one-limited-declares-quarterly-common-share-dividend/
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NEW YORK, Feb. 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of Spectrum Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: SPPI) between December 6, 2021 and September 22, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important February 3, 2023 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Spectrum securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Spectrum class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=9455 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than February 3, 2023. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually handle securities class actions, but are merely middlemen that refer clients or partner with law firms that actually litigate the cases. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: The complaint alleges that, throughout the Class Period, defendants made numerous materially false and misleading statements and/or omissions concerning its drug candidate poziotinib, or "pozi". Defendants were conducting a Phase 2 clinical trial called ZENITH20. The ZENITH20 trial was an ongoing, multicenter, multi-cohort, open-label, activity estimating study evaluating the anti-tumor effects, safety, and tolerability of pozi in patients with locally advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer that were previously treated. Additionally, the complaint alleges that during the Class Period, Defendants represented that the safety and efficacy data from the ZENITH20 trial were positive and, based on those positive results, had initiated a required confirmatory phase 3 study. This, however, was not true. When the truth entered the market over several days, the lawsuit alleges that investors suffered serious losses.
To join the Spectrum class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=9455 mailto:or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action.
No Class Has Been Certified. Until a class is certified, you are not represented by counsel unless you retain one. You may select counsel of your choice. You may also remain an absent class member and do nothing at this point. An investor's ability to share in any potential future recovery is not dependent upon serving as lead plaintiff.
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2023-02-02T05:39:19+00:00
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kwch.com
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https://www.kwch.com/prnewswire/2023/02/01/sppi-final-deadline-alert-rosen-recognized-investor-counsel-encourages-spectrum-pharmaceuticals-inc-investors-secure-counsel-before-important-friday-deadline-securities-class-action-sppi/
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SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – Decisions were made while others were postponed at Tuesday’s Shreveport City Council meeting.
Mayor Tom Arceneaux‘s big plan to upgrade streets throughout the city hit a roadblock. Arceneaux proposed using $9.5 million from the General Fund and $2.5 million from the Streets Fund Revenue to complete a series of roadway and litter abatement projects.
Councilman Dr. Alan Jackson of District E made a motion to postpone, which passed in a five to two vote. Jackson said many of the streets were approved for upgrades in 2020, but there is an overlap in funding for certain roads.
“There was some discrepancies on which streets should be included and which streets should not be included as it relates to that funding. So we wanted to make sure the right amount of money was allocated for those streets,” Jackson said.
Also on the agenda, Mayor Arceneaux’s administration requested to make Interim Chief Administrative Officer Tom Dark the permanent CAO. But with a significant raise. From the base salary of $168,000 to $225,000.
“We just got the news yesterday. I don’t have a take on it yet. I just got that information and will take a look at it and make my decision,” Jackson said.
The council voted to postpone the CAO appointment for now. Councilmembers will meet with Dark about his qualifications for the job.
Meanwhile, the council found consensus when it comes to water rescues.
After Chief Clarence Reese told the council, the fire department desperately needed a dive boat. The request was approved using $110,000 from the General Fund for the chief to purchase a dive boat for rescues. Chief Reese said now that the money is approved, he will go out for bids for the dive boat.
The streets legislation will be introduced again in two weeks.
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2023-04-12T13:42:20+00:00
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ktalnews.com
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https://www.ktalnews.com/news/local-news/council-stalls-arceneauxs-streets-project-cao-appointment-with-pay-increase/
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ISLAMABAD — (AP) — A Norwegian woman mountain climber and her Nepali Sherpa guide have set a new record by scaling the world’s 14 highest peaks in 92 days, a Pakistani mountaineering official said.
On Thursday, Kristin Harila and Tenjen Sherpa summitted K2 on the Chinese-Pakistani border in the Karakorum Range — considered to be among the most dangerous peaks for mountaineers.
All the peaks the two summitted are above 8,000 meters (about 26,000 feet), said Karrar Haidri, the secretary at the Pakistan Alpine Club.
The previous record-holder, Nirmal Purja, a Nepali-born British citizen, had scaled the 14 peaks in 189 days in 2019.
“A big congratulations to Kristin Harila and Tenjen Sherpa on this remarkable achievement," said Haidri. “They successfully and safely completed the scaling of all of the 14 highest peaks in the shortest time. They did it in 92 days.”
Also Thursday, Nepali Sherpa Nima Rinji at the age of 17 became the world's youngest climber to summit K2. His summit was separate from Harila's and Tenjen's but the three were all part of a 20-member group that scaled K2 at different times on Thursday.
The 20 were now on their way back to base camp, where a festive welcome awaits them all, Haidri said.
K2 has one of the deadliest records for mountaineers, with most climbers dying on the descent, where the slightest mistake can trigger an avalanche and become fatal. Only a few hundred climbers have successfully reached its summit.
Considered extremely difficult to climb, K2 is not only the second-highest mountain after Mount Everest, its ascent and descent are considered to be much more challenging. Pakistan's military often launches rescue operations to find stranded mountaineers who travel to this South Asian country from all over the world for the sport.
Harila and Tenjen scaled Mount Everest in May and on Sunday, the two scaled Broad Peak, the world's twelfth highest mountain, located in northern Pakistan, before starting their expedition to K2.
Earlier in July, Polish climber Pawel Tomasz Kope died after scaling Pakistan’s Nanga Parbat, known as “killer mountain” for its dangerous conditions. He was descending the mountain in bad weather conditions when he collapsed.
Harila, 37, first attempted to break the record and climb all 14 top peaks in 2022 but summitted only 12 of them after Chinese authorities restricted access to foreign climbers during the coronavirus pandemic.
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2023-07-27T14:04:09+00:00
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wsbtv.com
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https://www.wsbtv.com/sports/norwegian-woman-her/M2UDHQFMEVPZXDUJRCP4LQR45A/
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