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Avoiding common dental emergencies during the holiday season
MILWAUKEE - An unplanned trip to the dentist is probably not on your holiday to-do list! Dr. Miranda Peter joins us with tips on how to avoid, and deal with, common dental emergencies during the holiday season. | 2022-12-19T19:05:14+00:00 | fox6now.com | https://www.fox6now.com/real-milwaukee/avoiding-common-dental-emergencies-during-the-holiday-season |
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints issues statement on SEC settlement
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its investment arm have been fined $5 million for using shell companies to obscure the size of the portfolio under church control, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced Tuesday.
The Church released the following statement on Tuesday, February 21, 2023.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its affiliated investment manager, Ensign Peak Advisors, Inc., have settled a matter with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
Investment managers who oversee a portfolio of public equities above a certain threshold are required to file Forms 13F with the SEC quarterly. These forms publicly disclose the names of the securities and their values.
Since 2000, Ensign Peak received and relied upon legal counsel regarding how to comply with its reporting obligations while attempting to maintain the privacy of the portfolio. As a result, Ensign Peak established separate companies (LLCs) that each filed Forms 13F instead of a single aggregated filing. Ensign Peak and the Church believe that all securities required to be reported were included in the filings by the separate companies.
In June 2019, the SEC first expressed concern about Ensign Peak’s reporting approach. Ensign Peak adjusted its approach and began filing a single aggregated report. Since that time, 13 quarterly reports have been filed in full accordance with SEC requirements.
This settlement relates to how the forms were filed previously. Ensign Peak and the Church have cooperated with the government over a period of time as we sought resolution.
We affirm our commitment to comply with the law, regret mistakes made, and now consider this matter closed.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Q: Who is Ensign Peak Advisors?
A: It is the affiliated investment manager for the Church.
Q: Who is the SEC?
A: The Securities and Exchange Commission regulates the United States securities markets. It has broad jurisdiction.
Q: What are Forms 13F?
A: Investment managers who oversee a portfolio of public equities above a certain threshold are required to file Forms 13F with the SEC quarterly. These forms publicly disclose the names of the securities and their values.
Q: Did the Church know about the practices at Ensign Peak described in the order?
A: The Church’s senior leadership received and relied upon legal counsel when it approved of the use of the external companies to make the filings. Ensign Peak handled the mechanics of the filing process. The Church’s senior leadership never prepared or filed the specific reports at issue.
Q: Has the reporting practice that prompted the SEC cease and desist order now stopped?
A: Yes. In June 2019, the SEC first expressed concern about Ensign Peak’s reporting approach. Ensign Peak adjusted its approach and began filing a single aggregated report. Since that time, 13 quarterly reports have been filed in full accordance with SEC requirements.
Q: Did Ensign Peak fail to comply with SEC regulations?
A: We reached resolution with the SEC. We affirm our commitment to comply with the law, regret mistakes made, and now consider this matter closed.
Q: When will the penalties be paid?
A: The penalties will be paid shortly to the U.S. Treasury.
Q: Where does the $5 million come from to satisfy the settlement?
A: The investment returns of the Church will be used to pay the settlement.
Q: How are the Church’s reserves invested?
A: Following the principle of preparing for the future, both near- and long-term, the Church maintains diversified reserves, including stocks, bonds, commercial and residential real estate, and agricultural properties. All funds are invested solely to support the Church’s mission.
Q: Why did this settlement take place now?
A: We have worked with the SEC for years to come to this settlement. We reached resolution and chose not to prolong the matter.
Q: Will this settlement impact Ensign Peak’s ability to continue to make investments?
A: No. With the announcement of the order, the matter is closed.
“We allege that the LDS Church’s investment manager, with the Church’s knowledge, went to great lengths to avoid disclosing the Church’s investments, depriving the Commission and the investing public of accurate market information,” Gurbir S. Grewal, the agency's enforcement director, said in a statement.
The church maintains billions of dollars of investments in stocks, bonds, real estate and agriculture. Much of its portfolio is controlled by Ensign Peak Advisers, a nonprofit investment manager overseen by ecclesiastical leaders known as its presiding bishopric.
The church has agreed to pay $1 million and Ensign Peak will pay $4 million in penalties based on the violation.
Federal investigators said for 22 years, the firm hadn’t filed required paperwork to disclose the value of some assets in violation of the Securities Exchange Act and agency rules.
Instead, they said, with the church’s knowledge, Ensign Peak filed the forms through 13 shell companies they created, even as they maintained decision-making power. They also had “business managers,” most employed by the church, sign the required shell company filings.
“The Church was concerned that disclosure of its portfolio, which by 2018 grew to approximately $32 billion, would lead to negative consequences,” the agency said in a statement announcing the charges. | 2023-02-21T20:37:38+00:00 | localnews8.com | https://localnews8.com/news/utah/2023/02/21/church-of-jesus-christ-of-latter-day-saints-issues-statement-on-sec-settlement/ |
RAPID CITY, S.D. (KELO) — Rapid City authorities say drugs are suspected in the death of a man whose body was pulled from a creek on April 30.
The Pennington County Sheriff’s Office says the body of 52-year-old James Stethem was found in Rapid Creek Saturday afternoon.
On April 11, Stethem was reported missing by the Pennington County Sheriff’s Office. He was last seen on March 31.
An autopsy has been completed, but officials say they are waiting for toxicology results to determine the cause of death. No foul play is suspected. | 2022-05-04T12:49:16+00:00 | keloland.com | https://www.keloland.com/news/local-news/foul-play-not-suspected-in-missing-mans-death-officials-say/ |
Trump allies launch new super PAC to bolster GOP candidates in midterms as former President eyes 2024 campaign
By Gabby Orr, Dan Merica and Fredreka Schouten, CNN
Several top allies of Donald Trump will launch a new super PAC to buoy Republican candidates who have earned the former President’s support in the midterm elections, CNN has learned, following months of minimal spending by Trump-aligned groups that has frustrated party strategists left to fill the void.
Called MAGA, Inc., the new group will meld with an existing Trump-sanctioned super PAC that has been mostly overseen by former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi and former US Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell. As of last month, that group had spent slightly more than $2 million to boost Trump-backed Senate and House candidates in their primary races earlier this year.
“President Trump is committed to saving America, and Make America Great Again, Inc. will ensure that is achieved at the ballot box in November and beyond,” Trump spokesman Taylor Budowich said in a statement Friday.
Budowich has been charged with running the new super PAC, along with former Trump campaign aide Steven Cheung, who will serve as its communications director; longtime Trump pollster Tony Fabrizio; veteran GOP operative Chris LaCivita, who will become the group’s chief strategist; and Sergio Gor, whose conservative publishing outfit released Trump’s first post-presidential book last year (a collection of White House and campaign trail photographs) and will serve as a senior adviser to MAGA, Inc. Alex Pfeiffer, a former producer for Fox News’ Tucker Carlson, will also join the operation.
The newest Trump fundraising vehicle was first reported by Politico.
With the November elections fast approaching, Trump has been under pressure to dip into his own mountain of cash to support candidates who he helped prevail in competitive primaries but who are now trailing or running close to their Democratic opponents. The former President, who has complained to allies in recent weeks about the Senate contests in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Arizona, had around $103 million in his coffers at the end of August, according to campaign finance reports from his leadership PAC, Save America, and the Bondi-run group.
People familiar with the matter said most of those funds will be transferred to MAGA, Inc., which is expected to start spending as soon as next week in key midterm races.
“He’s very concerned about Pennsylvania,” said a person who spoke to Trump recently and requested anonymity for fear of retribution. “We were talking about Pennsylvania and [GOP Senate hopeful Mehmet] Oz had been quoted as saying he would have voted to certify the 2020 election and the President is saying, ‘Now, why would he have done that?’ “
This same person said Trump has also expressed concern about Senate candidate J.D. Vance, who is facing an unexpectedly competitive challenge from Democratic Rep. Tim Ryan in Ohio. “He really likes J.D. but Ohio is a little too close for comfort.”
Until now, Trump has refused to open the spigots much to help his handpicked candidates in their general election contests. While Save America gave $1 million to a pro-Oz PAC just before the Pennsylvania primary, the former President has not contributed financially to the Republican Senate hopeful since then. In Ohio, Save America wrote a $5,000 check to the Vance campaign in June.
Trump aides have long insisted that his spending is supplemented by the campaign rallies and fundraisers he has held to benefit various Republicans — including recent rallies in both Pennsylvania and Ohio — along with his coveted endorsement, which helped many of his chosen candidates prevail in contested primaries earlier this year. But others say the lack of financial assistance from the former President shouldn’t be discounted.
“Trump never went out of his way to help candidates — unless he sees a way that it helps him. His camp says, ‘Well, he’s helping them by doing these events,’ which I would say aren’t actually that helpful because you never know whether Trump is going to insult the candidate,” said Doug Heye, a GOP strategist and former communications director for the Republican National Committee. At his recent rally in Ohio, Trump told the crowd that Vance “is kissing my ass” to maintain his support.
Overall, federal records show that Trump’s main fundraising vehicle, Save America, has contributed more than $8.4 million to candidates and committees at the federal, state and local level since January 2021 — a significant sum, but virtually nothing compared to what other major Republican groups have committed and only about $1.4 million more than what the former President has spent on legal fees this cycle (nearly $7 million). The pro-GOP Senate Leadership Fund is spending about $205 million on advertisements in Senate races this cycle, per a CNN analysis, which includes what the group has already spent and its ad reservations over the next month. Meanwhile, the Congressional Leadership Fund, which is aligned with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, is planning to spend $141 million this fall on ads alone.
A person familiar with the new Trump group said it will spend “heavily” in key Senate, congressional and gubernatorial races this fall. Trump is likely to give preferential treatment to candidates he’s previously endorsed, and the group will focus most of its spending on TV advertising and get-out-the-vote efforts, said a person close to Trump.
The group had been in the planning stages for several months and could become part of his campaign apparatus if he launches a third presidential bid, as is widely expected.
”I don’t think anyone’s expecting Trump to spend every single penny he has but there will be a significant investment moving forward,” said the person close to Trump.
After months of eyeing a pre-midterm launch date for a 2024 campaign, Trump is now waiting to see how Republicans perform in November — hoping to avoid blame if the party’s overall gains prove disappointing.
“He’s been convinced there’s no upside to doing it before the midterms and plenty of potential downsides. Right now, the goal is Q1 of next year but, of course, once the election has passed, he could really do it at any time,” a Trump adviser said.
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The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has certified the design for what will be the United States’ first small modular nuclear reactor.
The rule that certifies the design was published Thursday in the Federal Register. It means that companies seeking to build and operate a nuclear power plant can pick the design for a 50-megawatt, advanced light-water small modular nuclear reactor by Oregon-based NuScale Power and apply to the NRC for a license.
It’s the final determination that the design is acceptable for use, so it can’t be legally challenged during the licensing process when someone applies to build and operate a nuclear power plant, NRC spokesperson Scott Burnell said Friday. The rule becomes effective in late February.
The U.S. Energy Department said the newly approved design “equips the nation with a new clean power source to help drive down” planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions.
It’s the seventh nuclear reactor design cleared for use in the United States. The rest are for traditional, large, light-water reactors.
Diane Hughes, NuScale’s vice president of marketing and communications, said the design certification is a historic step forward toward a clean energy future and makes the company’s VOYGR power plant a near-term deployable solution for customers. The first small modular reactor design application package included over 2 million pages of supporting materials, Hughes added.
However, David Schlissel at the Ohio-based Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis expressed concerns about the costs. Schlissel, who has studied the history of the nuclear power industry and the finances of the NuScale project, expects they will continue to go up, which could limit how many NuScale reactors are built. He said he thinks they’re not competitive in price with renewables and battery storage.
Hughes said from wind and solar to hydrogen and nuclear, energy projects have seen cost increases due to changing financial market dynamics, interest rate hikes and inflationary pressures on the sector’s supply chain that have not been seen in decades. NuScale’s VOYGR power plant remains a cost competitive source of reliable, affordable and carbon-free energy, she added.
For many, nuclear power is emerging as an answer as states and countries transition away from coal, oil and natural gas to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and stave off the worst effects of a warming planet.
Roughly 40 serious concepts are in development for the next generation of advanced nuclear reactors worldwide. China was the first to connect a next-generation reactor to its grid to produce about 200 megawatts of electricity. A high-temperature, gas-cooled reactor began operating in 2021.
The U.S. Energy Department said it provided more than $600 million since 2014 to support the design, licensing and siting of NuScale’s VOYGR small modular reactor power plant and other domestic small reactor concepts. The department is working with Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems to demonstrate a six-module NuScale VOYGR plant at the Idaho National Laboratory. The first module is expected to be operational by 2029.
NuScale has signed 19 agreements in the U.S. and internationally to deploy its small reactor technology. Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy Kathryn Huff said small modular reactors are no longer an abstract concept.
“They are real and they are ready for deployment thanks to the hard work of NuScale, the university community, our national labs, industry partners, and the NRC,” Huff said in a statement. “This is innovation at its finest and we are just getting started here in the U.S.”
NuScale has also applied to the NRC for approval of a larger design, at 77 megawatts per module, and the agency is checking the application for completeness before starting a full review, Burnell said. | 2023-01-21T13:48:10+00:00 | pix11.com | https://pix11.com/business/ap-business/ap-1st-small-modular-nuclear-reactor-certified-for-use-in-us/ |
Transaction marks HGI's eighth acquisition in Miami-Dade County
MIAMI, Dec. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Affiliates of Harbor Group International, LLC ("HGI"), a privately owned international real estate investment and management firm, today announced the acquisition of Oak Enclave Miami, a newly developed, 420-unit, mid-rise multifamily community in Miami Gardens, Fla. The community adds to HGI's growing Miami portfolio, marking the eighth property under HGI's ownership in Miami-Dade County, comprising nearly 2,000 units. HGI will assume the in-place loan for the property.
Completed in June 2022, HGI will work to finish the lease-up and stabilize operations of the community upon assuming ownership and management.
"Through our deep knowledge of the Miami multifamily market, we were able to coordinate with the seller to acquire this asset at an attractive basis and close on a fast timeline," said Richard Litton, President, HGI. "As the Miami MSA continues to experience strong in-migration, both outside of and within Florida, we see opportunity in submarkets such as Miami Gardens as residents seek well-located housing at an affordable price point."
HGI has continued to be an active investor in commercial and multifamily real estate amid ongoing market volatility. During the second half of 2022, the firm acquired 10 multifamily properties throughout the U.S., totaling over 4,000 units, inclusive of Oak Enclave Miami. In 2022, HGI completed a total of $6.7 billion in transactions, spanning acquisitions and dispositions.
Oak Enclave Miami offers residents a commuter-centric location with direct access to the area's employment centers. The community is near several transportation options, including the Palmetto Expressway, Interstate-95 and the Florida Turnpike, offering access to approximately 820,000 jobs within a 25-minute drive. The community is also in proximity the Golden Glades Tri-Rail Station, connecting residents to the Miami Health District, Miami International Airport, Aventura, Hollywood and Fort Lauderdale, with a planned expansion to downtown Miami.
Oak Enclave Miami's amenities include a 24-hour fitness center, multi-purpose clubhouse, playground, swimming pool and 24-hour monitored gate access. The community sits across 14 acres, with more than a third of the property designated as outdoor space. Units feature a private balcony or patio, 10-foot ceilings, stainless steel appliances and modern finishes.
Robert Given and Troy Ballard of Cushman & Wakefield brokered the sale.
About Harbor Group International
Harbor Group International, LLC, and its affiliates control an investment portfolio of approximately $20 billion, including 59,000 apartment units in the United States and 5.0 million square feet of commercial space throughout the United States and the United Kingdom. In addition to its corporate headquarters in Norfolk, Virginia, HGI maintains offices in New York, Baltimore, Los Angeles, and Tel Aviv.
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Tina Turner was a true icon in every sense of the word. Often referred to as the “Queen of Rock ‘n Roll,” Turner leaves behind an incredible musical legacy, having paved the way for so many artists after her. Beyond her phenomenal vocal skills, her relationship with her dedicated fans is notable.
Here & Now‘s Scottt Tong speaks with one superfan, Donovan Marcelle, who once had the opportunity of a lifetime performing with her on stage during her reunion tour in 2000.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North and South Korea exchanged warning shots Monday along their disputed western sea boundary — a scene of past bloodshed and naval battles — in a development that raises worry of possible clashes after North Korea’s recent barrage of weapons tests.
South Korea’s navy broadcast warnings and fired warning shots to repel a North Korean merchant ship that violated the sea boundary at 3:42 a.m., the Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement.
North Korea’s military said its coastal defense units responded by firing 10 rounds of artillery warning shots toward its territorial waters, where “naval enemy movement was detected.” It accused a South Korean naval ship of intruding into North Korean waters on the pretext of cracking down on an unidentified ship.
There were no reports of fighting, but the sea boundary off the Korean Peninsula’s west coast is a source of long-running animosities. The American-led U.N. command drew a boundary at the end of the 1950-53 Korean War, but North Korea insists upon a boundary that encroaches deeply into waters controlled by the South. Among the deadly events that have happened in the area are the North’s shelling of a South Korean island and its alleged torpedoing of a South Korean navy ship, both in 2010. The two attacks killed 50 South Koreans.
Analyst Cheong Seong-Chang at the private Sejong Institute in South Korea said North Korea had likely intentionally plotted its ship incursion because it would be “unimaginable” for a North Korean merchant ship to cross the boundary that early in a day without the permission of the North’s military.
Cheong said North Korea is increasingly emboldened by its recent missile tests in which North Korea said it simulated the use of tactical nuclear weapons to attack South Korean and U.S. targets. He noted Pyongyang would also know Washington’s strained relationships with Russia and China make it more difficult for the U.S. to draw cooperation from the two regional powers on the North Korean issue.
“The South Korean military needs to make thorough preparations to prevent fresh skirmishes from happening on the West Sea and prevent them from causing the worst case scenario like the North Korean military’s artillery bombardments” on a South Korean border island, Cheong said.
South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the North Korean artillery firings Monday breached a 2018 inter-Korean accord on reducing military animosities and undermines stability on the Korean Peninsula. It said the North Korean shells didn’t land in South Korean waters but South Korea is boosting its military readiness.
The General Staff of the North’s Korean People’s Army accused South Korea of provoking animosities near their land border as well as with its own artillery tests and propaganda loudspeaker broadcasts. South Korea has already confirmed it performed artillery firings last week as part of its regular military exercises, but denied that it resumed the loudspeaker broadcasts that both Koreas halted under the 2018 agreement.
“The KPA General Staff once again sends a grave warning to the enemies who made even naval intrusion in the wake of such provocations as the recent artillery firing and loudspeaker broadcasting on the ground front,” the North’s statement said.
North Korea has said its recent weapons tests involving nuclear-capable missiles and artillery shells were a response to joint South Korean-U.S. military drills that it views as an invasion rehearsal.
Some observers say North Korea could extend its spate of testing, conduct its first nuclear test in five years or launch other provocations near the western sea border or elsewhere as South Korean and U.S. militaries continue their combined military exercises.
“Pyongyang’s politics of blaming external threats and projecting confidence in military capabilities can motivate greater risk taking,” said Leif-Eric Easley, a professor at Ewha University in Seoul. “North Korean probing of South Korean perimeter defenses could lead to a serious exchange of fire and unintended escalation.”
The South Korean military is currently conducting its annual field exercises, which involve U.S. troops this year. As part of the drills, the South Korean and U.S. militaries began large-scale, four-day firing exercises off the peninsula’s west coast on Monday. The drills would mobilize South Korean destroyers and fighter jets and U.S. helicopters and aircraft, the South Korean navy said in a statement.
Washington and Seoul had scaled back or canceled their regular drills in recent years to support their now-dormant nuclear diplomacy with North Korea or guard against the COVID-19 pandemic. But the allies have been reviving or expanding those trainings since the May inauguration of conservative South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, who vows a tougher stance on North Korean provocation.
Next week, South Korea and the United States are to hold joint air force drills involving some 240 warplanes, including F-35 fighters operated by both nations. The drills are aimed at inspecting the two countries’ joint operation capabilities and improving combat readiness, according to the South Korean military.
Some experts say the North Korean tests also suggest its leader Kim Jong Un has no intentions of resuming stalled nuclear diplomacy with Washington anytime soon as he would want to focus on further modernizing his nuclear arsenal to boost his leverage in future negotiations with the United States. | 2022-10-24T20:19:27+00:00 | kdvr.com | https://kdvr.com/news/nationalworld-news/ap-international/ap-koreas-exchange-warning-shots-along-sea-border-amid-tensions/ |
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HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — A Zimbabwean court on Tuesday convicted a journalist on charges of breaking the country’s immigration laws by allegedly arranging fake accreditation papers for two correspondents for the New York Times.
The Bulawayo magistrates court fined Jeffrey Moyo 200,000 Zimbabwe dollars (about $650 U.S. dollars) and also imposed a suspended two-year sentence, according to a statement by media freedom advocacy group, the Media Institute of Southern Africa.
Police arrested Moyo in May last year and accused him of facilitating fraudulent accreditation for two foreign journalists from the New York newspaper who were in Zimbabwe on a reporting trip. The two foreign journalists were deported, while Moyo spent about three weeks in detention before being released on bail.
Zimbabwe has a history of harassing journalists who don’t work for the state media and many foreign correspondents were banned during the rule of the late President Robert Mugabe. President Emmerson Mnangagwa promised to open up media space as part of democratic reforms when he took power in 2017. However, government critics accuse him of failing to live up to that promise.
The Committee to Protect Journalists criticized the court’s decision, saying it is evidence of continued repression of the press in Zimbabwe.
“Today’s conviction of journalist Jeffrey Moyo is a monumental travesty of justice and shows how far press freedom has deteriorated in Zimbabwe under President Emmerson Mnangagwa,” Angela Quintal, CPJ’s Africa program coordinator, said in a statement. | 2022-06-15T01:13:08+00:00 | cenlanow.com | https://www.cenlanow.com/international/ap-international/zimbabwe-reporter-fined-on-accreditation-for-new-york-times/ |
SYDNEY (AP) — Without Brittney Griner’s 6-foot-8 presence to dominate around the basket, the U.S. women needed to figure out how to overcome her absence.
So far, so good.
The Americans have rolled through the World Cup, beating opponents by average of 44 points per game without Griner and one of the best frontcourts ever assembled in women’s basketball.
Griner was sentenced to nine years in prison last month in Russia on a drug charge. President Joe Biden called the verdict in the politically charged case “unacceptable,” and U.S. diplomats have been working to secure her release.
While Griner’s circumstances have weighed on the team emotionally, her absence is one of many changes to the U.S. lineup. The Americans are also without 6-5 Sylvia Fowles and 6-4 Tina Charles, who retired from the team after winning several gold medals — including at the Tokyo Olympics last year.
However, 6-4 Breanna Stewart and 6-5 A’ja Wilson have been able to fill the void. They are different types of post players. Both are versatile with the ability to play inside and out, and defend all types of players.
“A’ja and I can bring them to the block or outside and that keeps the defense guessing and we have a lot of different options,” Stewart said. “We know we can give them a lot of different looks.”
Stewart, 28, and Wilson, 26, should give the U.S. a formidable 1-2 punch for a long time — though they hope Griner will be rejoining them soon.
Wilson, who arrived Friday after celebrating the Las Vegas Aces’ first WNBA championship, scored 20 points in Saturday’s 77-63 win over China. She hit 15-foot jumpers and also scored in the paint against China’s much taller lineup that featured 6-10 Han Xu. Stewart and Wilson also helped hold China about 40 points under what the country was averaging in the tournament.
“Stewie and I can switch defensively, which is great,” Wilson said. “Don’t get me wrong, BG and Syl are missed. I look around and am like, ‘Where is everybody?’ It’s me and Stewie now. We’ve done this before. But yeah we’re definitely different than some of the past players.”
Even without Griner, the U.S. has dominated its competition in the paint, outscoring its group opponents by an average of 36 points. The Americans are averaging 60.8 points inside the lane, including an eye-popping 94 against South Korea.
“It’s insane,” forward Alyssa Thomas said. “I’ve never seen any numbers like that. It’s what we are trying to do by getting the ball inside.”
The U.S. didn’t have as much success inside in the 88-55 quarterfinal win over Serbia, which clogged the paint and outscored the Americans 28-26 inside.
“It’s one of those things you got to live with,” Wilson said. “Hopefully these next couple of games we can get back to owning the paint. Serbia did a great job of locking it down.”
As well as Stewart and Wilson have played, the U.S. would love to have Griner in the lineup. The Americans decided to honor her by not having anyone wear her No. 15 jersey at the World Cup. Brionna Jones is wearing No. 16 instead.
“We’d rather have Brittney in there for sure,” U.S. coach Cheryl Reeve said. “We want to put it inside as that’s the strength of USA Basketball. We will continue to have the ball inside.”
It’s not a new strategy. The U.S. has dominated inside during World Cup play dating to the days of Lisa Leslie and Tina Thompson.
It’s not just Wilson and Stewart who are contributing to the U.S. run in Sydney.
Shakira Austin had 19 points, 10 rebounds and three blocks in the win over Puerto Rico, and Brionna Jones added 15 points.
At 22, Austin is the youngest player on the team and is playing with the U.S. for the first time.
“She has such great length,” Reeve said. “She’s great in the paint.”
Familiar praise coming from a coach about an American post player.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is sending additional fighter jets and a warship to the Strait of Hormuz and Gulf of Oman to increase security in the wake of Iranian attempts to seize commercial ships there.
The Pentagon said Monday that the USS Thomas Hudner, a destroyer, and a number of F-35 fighter jets will be heading to the area. The Hudner had been in the Red Sea.
Defense officials last week announced the deployment of F-16s to the area over the past weekend, and there have been A-10 attack aircraft there for nearly two weeks in response to the Iranian activity.
The latest deployments come after Iran tried to seize two oil tankers near the strait early this month, opening fire on one of them. The aircraft are intended to give air cover for the commercial ships moving through the waterway and increase the military’s visibility in the area, as a deterrent to Iran.
The U.S. Navy said in both instances the Iranian naval vessels backed off when the USS McFaul, a guided-missile destroyer, arrived on the scene. The Navy said the McFaul remains in the Gulf region to continue protection of the shipping lanes.
Sabrina Singh, a Pentagon spokeswoman, said it is not clear how long the ship and the aircraft will remain in the region.
“In light of this continued threat and in coordination with our partners and allies, the department is increasing our presence and ability to monitor the strait and surrounding waters,” Singh told Pentagon reporters during a briefing.
The U.S. Navy says Iran has seized at least five commercial vessels in the last two years and has harassed more than a dozen others. Many of the incidents have occurred in and around the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf through which 20% of all crude oil passes. | 2023-07-17T19:57:57+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/us-sending-fighter-jets-warship-to-gulf-region-to-protect-ships-from-iranian-seizures/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world |
President Biden on Wednesday told reporters that he intends to visit the southern border while he’s in Mexico next week.
The president said that arrangements to visit the border are being worked out but that the visit could take place before he goes to Mexico City for the North American Leaders’ Summit. The summit with Mexican and Canadian leaders is set to start on Jan. 9.
“That’s my intention. We’re working out the details now,” Biden said about visiting the border.
He will deliver a speech on Thursday on border security, Biden announced later on Wednesday, which will include more details on the trip.
When asked what he wants to see when he goes to the border, Biden responded, “Peace and Security. No. I’m going to see what is going on.”
The visit to the southern border would be Biden’s first since taking office. The president has faced criticism for months because he has not visited the border amid the migrant crisis.
The Supreme Court last month ordered that the Title 42 border policy must remain in place, reversing an order from a federal judge in Washington, D.C., who ruled that the Trump-era border policy must end.
Biden, who has been under pressure from Republicans to reinstate Title 42, last week said that the end to the policy is “overdue” but that it has to be enforced in the wake of the court’s decision. Title 42, implemented at the start of the pandemic, allows for migrants to be quickly expelled at the border without asylum processing.
The president has also recently renewed calls for Congress pass comprehensive immigration reform measures and for Republicans to “move past political finger-pointing” and join Democrats to solve the challenge at the border.
The White House, which has tried to declare that the southern border is not open even if Title 42 ends, is asking Congress for $3.5 billion in funding to help with the situation at the southern border.
Updated 5:13 p.m. | 2023-01-04T22:38:47+00:00 | wearegreenbay.com | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/hill-politics/biden-says-he-intends-to-visit-southern-border-on-mexico-trip/ |
MIAMI (AP) — On this first day of the Atlantic hurricane season, federal officials are launching a new initiative to modernize building codes so that communities can be more resilient to hurricanes, flooding, wildfires, and other extreme weather events that are intensifying due to climate change.
Deanne Criswell, the administrator for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and Ali Zaidi, the deputy national climate adviser to President Joe Biden, discussed the initiative Wednesday during a briefing at the National Hurricane Center in Miami, where recovering from a hit similar to Hurricane Andrew could cost hundreds of billions today.
Updated building codes provide a range of smart design and construction methods “that save lives, reduce property damage, and lower utility bills,” according to a news release announcing the National Initiative to Advance Building Codes. It applies to new construction and to homes and buildings that are rebuilt due to damage.
“The adoption of hazard-resistant building codes saves communities $11 per every $1 invested,” Criswell said, citing a finding by the National Institute of Building Sciences.
The initiative, approved by the National Climate Task Force earlier this year, comes amid signs that coastal communities should brace themselves for more intense storms. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicted 14 to 21 named storms in the Atlantic this season, with six to 10 becoming hurricanes and three to six turbo-charging into major hurricanes with winds greater than 110 mph (177 kph).
It’s already begun with Agatha, a storm that battered Mexico over the past few days and may re-form in the Gulf of Mexico and possibly threaten parts of Florida by this weekend, the hurricane center said.
“This initiative is proof that acting on climate change delivers countless benefits to all Americans, especially in our most vulnerable communities,” said Gina McCarthy, the president’s national climate adviser.
The program is designed to help buildings withstand damage caused by all natural disasters, including wildfires, tornadoes and floods.
The codes ensure, for example, that roofs can withstand hurricane-force winds, that construction materials are resistant to flood damage and that insulation helps reduce heating and cooling costs, officials said.
It’s a “no-brainer” to make new houses and buildings more energy efficient as a means of reducing climate change impacts, said Wendell Porter, professor emeritus of building professions at the University of Florida. But location is what really matters, he said.
“You don’t want to rain on anybody’s parade,” Porter said. “A big announcement that they’re going to build better houses, that’s always good news. But until you decide to not build in certain locations, it’s a waste of time.”
Take coastal communities, for example.
“It’s really hard to build a structure to actually withstand flooding,” Porter said, “There’s only two real good methods and that’s either build it up, or retreat. Stilts or away.”
After Miami-Dade County was hit by Hurricane Andrew, stringent building code enforcement followed. But so did population growth, coastal development and climate change. Andrew was the most expensive natural disaster in U.S. history at the time, causing more than $26 billion of damage in Florida’s most populous areas.
Likewise, officials said, education will be a key element of the modernized building codes. A FEMA analysis found that only 35% of cities, counties and towns across the country have updated hazard-resistant building codes. Cost is a factor: Construction and renovation designed for disaster resiliency can be more expensive. But the estimated savings for typical households in utility bills alone could be about $162 per year, officials projected.
And on a larger scale, communities that have adopted modern building codes are already saving an estimated $1.6 billion a year in avoided damage from major disasters, officials said. That equates to a cumulative $132 billion through 2040 that won’t have to be spent on disaster recovery.
Federal agencies will use $225 million in infrastructure funding already approved for the U.S. Department of Energy to support energy code adoption, enforcement, training and technical assistance at the state and local level.
They also predict that newer codes could deliver $138 billion in energy cost savings and prevent carbon emissions equivalent to what 195 million gasoline-powered cars emit in a year.
The agencies said they plan to lead by example, implementing the new codes in federal buildings. | 2022-06-01T22:39:15+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/news/national/heres-how-the-government-wants-to-disaster-proof-your-home/ |
NPR's Michel Martin talks to international affairs professor Nina Khrushcheva of The New School in New York City, about why the Kremlin shared details of Putin's meeting with the Wagner Group chief.
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NPR's Michel Martin talks to international affairs professor Nina Khrushcheva of The New School in New York City, about why the Kremlin shared details of Putin's meeting with the Wagner Group chief.
Copyright 2023 NPR | 2023-07-11T10:28:03+00:00 | wbfo.org | https://www.wbfo.org/2023-07-11/putin-prigozhin-meeting-raises-more-questions-about-aborted-revolt-in-russia |
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A man is facing federal charges after he attacked a courthouse security officer, who shot him, federal prosecutors in Oregon said.
Jett Avery Thomas, 39, has been charged with assaulting a federal employee with a dangerous weapon and causing bodily injury, the U.S. District Attorney’s Office for the District of Oregon said Wednesday in a news release.
Thomas attacked the Pioneer Courthouse security officer early Monday morning, according to a criminal complaint written by FBI agent Joseph Youngblood.
Thomas charged up the courthouse steps, forced his way inside and punched the officer multiple times in the head, the complaint said. Thomas then forced the officer outside, where he continued to punch him, placed him in a chokehold and hit him in the head with the officer’s handheld radio, according to the complaint.
When Thomas was distracted by a bystander who was yelling at him to stop, the security officer reached for his gun and fired two shots into Thomas’s torso, the complaint said.
Thomas was taken to a hospital for surgery, according to the news release from the U.S. District Attorney’s Office in Oregon. The officer was also transported to a hospital, where he was treated for his injuries before being released.
The officer had reason to fear death or serious injury when Thomas choked him and struck him with the radio, which “constituted an assault with a dangerous weapon,” Youngblood said in the complaint.
It remained unclear if Thomas had a defense attorney assigned to his case.
Thomas will make his first appearance in federal court at a later date, the release said. If convicted, he could face up to 20 years in federal prison. | 2023-07-05T23:11:48+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/northwest/portland-security-officer-shoots-man-after-being-attacked-outside-courthouse-complaint-says/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_seattle-news |
COLORADO SPRINGS — Tickets to the Super Bowl have been given to the man many have called a hero for his quick and selfless actions to save lives at Club Q. Richard Fierro, the army veteran, who helped take down the suspected will join his wife Jessica at the big game.
It was made possible thanks to his favorite football team, the Los Angeles Chargers. For many football fans like him, going to the Super Bowl is on the bucket list.
“This is one of those moments that me and her can hopefully share, just forget about everything for a little while, and spend time watching a sport we love, doing something we never thought in our lives we'd ever do,” said Fierro.
The Chargers found out about Fierro's love of football and heroic actions on the night of November 19. A story that was written about him, included a photo of him and a Charger flag in the background.
On December 30, the organization invited him and his family to the Chargers practice facility. Each player lined up on the field after practice to shake Fierro's hand, and thank him for his service and bravery.
“It was cool to see that kind of camaraderie and for five seconds there, it felt like I was part of the team. So it was really exciting,” said Fierro.
Fierro’s daughter, Cassie, lost her boyfriend, Raymond Vance on the night of the shooting. The day his family was invited to practice, was a turning point.
“My daughter, I looked back after I went through the line and her smile, I felt like that was the one moment in a long time now that I’ve seen her not be in a bad place, but just be somewhere happy,” said Fierro.
On January 1, the Chargers also invited Fierro and his family to the last home game of the season. They went on the field before the game, and met Ladainian Tomlinson, a former Chargers running back. Tomlinson handed Fierro a wrapped gift, and inside, were supersized tickets to this year's Super Bowl.
For Fierro and his wife Jessica, a night that changed their lives forever, led them to a day, they’ll remember forever. Fierro also talked about how sports, especially football, has brought so many people together, in the past week.
“It was a big deal for me to play in high school, and I fell in love with it,” said Fierro. “And when I was deployed, I always took my little helmet. Wherever you are, sports brings you back home. It’s always been something that has brought people together.”
In a FaceBook post, Fierro also said anytime the Chargers are in Colorado Springs, beer is on his tab at Atrevida Beer Company.
The Super Bowl is schedules for February 12 in Glendale, Arizona.
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WASHINGTON – Two Haitian politicians are facing U.S. sanctions over allegations they abused their positions to traffic drugs in collaboration with gang networks and directed others to engage in violence.
The Treasury Department said Friday it was imposing sanctions on Haitian Senate President Joseph Lambert and former Sen. Youri Latortue. The two are accused of using their official roles to engage in the drug trade for decades. Lambert was also designated by the State Department for diplomatic sanctions and visa restrictions.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement that “there is credible information of Lambert’s involvement in a gross violation of human rights, namely an extrajudicial killing, during his government tenure.”
He said the State Department is also designating Lambert’s spouse, Jesula Lambert Domond.
The sanctions mean their U.S. property is blocked and American people and companies that do business with them could face penalties as well.
Spokespeople for Lambert and Latortue did not immediately return WhatsApp messages seeking comment on Friday.
The sanctions against Lambert and Latortue come as Haiti is embroiled in political violence and economic crisis.
Last month, Eric Jean Baptiste, a former presidential candidate and leader of a political party in Haiti, was shot to death in the capital, Port-au-Prince, along with his bodyguard. Baptiste's death stunned many in the destabilized island nation.
Brian Nelson, Treasury's under secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, said Lambert and Latortue “abused their official positions to traffic drugs and collaborated with criminal and gang networks to undermine the rule of law in Haiti.”
“The United States and our international partners," Nelson said, “will continue to take action against those who facilitate drug trafficking, enable corruption and seek to profit from instability in Haiti.”
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Associated Press writer Danica Coto in San Juan, Puerto Rico, contributed to this story.
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Follow the AP's coverage of Haiti at https://apnews.com/hub/haiti. | 2022-11-04T18:47:14+00:00 | local10.com | https://www.local10.com/news/politics/2022/11/04/us-sanctions-haitian-politicians-on-drug-trafficking-claims/ |
Editor's note: This story includes descriptions of violence.
NOVYI BYKIV, Ukraine — She is fair, and she is stubborn. Those are the words Viktoria Andrusha's mother and sister use to describe her. Russian soldiers took the 25-year-old Ukrainian teacher away in late March.
Andrusha and her three older sisters grew up in the village of Novyi Bykiv, about 60 miles east of Kyiv. After graduating college, she taught middle school math in Brovary, a suburb closer to the capital.
Bombs started falling in Brovary almost as soon as the war began. So she went to stay with her parents back in Novyi Bykiv, thinking it would be safer. But no.
On Feb. 27, Russian soldiers invaded the village. They came to Andrusha's home a month later. Based on some pictures and messages they found on her phone, they accused Andrusha of informing the Ukrainian army about Russian troop movements. And they took her away. She is still missing.
United Nations human rights workers documented over 200 cases of enforced disappearances of civilians between February, when the Russians launched their invasion, and late May. Mainly the perpetrators are Russian military or affiliated armed groups.
NPR spoke to five Ukrainian civilians who had been detained by Russian soldiers, transported across the Russian border and held in the same two facilities for several weeks in March, April and/or May. The first facility was a tent camp in Glushkovo, Russia. The second was a jail in Kursk, 250 miles from the Ukrainian border.
Now back home, the interviewees shared parallel stories of violence and humiliation.
They came forward to speak to the media, despite fear of retaliation, because they wanted to help Andrusha's family. She was seen in both places. And those who didn't see her heard rumors about the brave teacher from Brovary.
"On the day they left, she just came up to me, kissed me, and she asked for warm socks," says her mother, Kateryna Andrusha, with tears in her eyes. "And then she asked the soldiers' permission to say goodbye to her father."
The soldiers came back a few days later and arrested Kateryna, who is a local official. They kept her in the basement of a private home nearby, blindfolded, for three days.
Later the family found out that Viktoria was also briefly held in an abandoned building, just a short walk away from Kateryna's office in the village council.
"The Russians didn't let me go, they just ran away," says Kateryna. Because on March 31, the Ukrainian army reclaimed the town of Novy Bykiv.
As the citizens of the town picked up the pieces of their lives, the Andrusha family started to hear from people who had seen Viktoria in captivity. What they heard scared them.
He went from a pit, to a tent, to a jail
"You feel like you're half alive and half dead," Misha, a 27-year-old Ukrainian taxi driver and video blogger, says about his experience being held incommunicado by Russian soldiers.
He says the Russians arrested him on March 7, after he had been helping the Ukrainian army, including by driving a Russian prisoner of war to a checkpoint in his taxi. The Russians held him captive for 35 days. He doesn't want his last name used because he fears further retaliation.
Misha spent the first two days of his captivity outdoors, in a pit in the ground lined with cardboard, in freezing weather. He was wearing only a T-shirt at first, which was ripped while the soldiers were examining his many tattoos to see what they might reveal about his loyalties.
At some point, they gave him a jacket that was taken off a Ukrainian soldier. This gesture made Misha think that they didn't want him dead, at least not right away.
Then Misha rode in an armored personnel carrier across the border to a tent camp in Glushkovo, Russia, that at the time held, he estimated, about 150 people. As all the interviewees reported, the tents were surrounded by barbed wire, guarded by German shepherds and snipers. Detainees were allowed to leave the tents only in a group, holding hands with prisoners on either side and moving at a run. They were allowed only a few minutes at a time to use the bathroom or cram food into their mouths — endless rounds of kasha and cabbage soup, Misha complains. The guards would hit them with batons for moving too slowly.
Volodymr and Tetiana, a married couple in their 50s, who also don't want to use their last names to protect them from Russian retaliation, tell NPR they first met Viktoria in the tent camp. Tetiana and Viktoria shared a tent. They were among very few women in captivity, especially civilian women. Tetiana says the guards didn't hit the women as much as the men.
All five also say Glushkovo was nowhere near as bad as the second facility they were taken to, in Kursk. "The tent camp was nothing special," says Volodymyr. "The detention center was hell."
Viktoria stood up to the guards
"On the first day [in Kursk], they beat us for six hours," says Misha. "They used boxing gloves and stun guns. They wanted to show us who was in charge." The stun gun gives an electric shock that leaves you shaking, he says. And they used it on the back and legs — he thinks that was so as not to make marks that were easy to see.
The jail smelled of fresh paint, Misha says. Once a week, someone would visit the prisoners, introducing himself as a civilian Russian prosecutor. This is the person, United Nations human rights experts say, who in the Russian legal system would be tasked with both overseeing the prisoners' welfare as well as prosecuting the case against them. He asked after their well-being.
But Misha and another former captive, Serhei, both say the people running the prison reminded them of their beating on the first day, and warned them to tell the prosecutor that everything was fine, that they were being treated well.
Serhei and Misha don't know each other. Serhei, 28, works in Ukraine's Infrastructure Ministry. He says Russian troops arrested him outside Kyiv in late February for having a navigation device in his car. The Russians stabbed his hands. He suffered severe frostbite in his feet after being held captive outdoors. When he got to the tent camp, he saw a Russian doctor, who amputated parts of his feet.
In Kursk, he was beaten anyway. His surgery wounds got infected and he lost a lot of blood. Only then, much weakened, was he allowed to lie down during the day.
Serhei didn't see Viktoria himself, because women and men were held separately. But he heard about the young math teacher. She had a reputation for defiance.
Viktoria's eldest sister, Iryna, says of the people who have come forward in response to her social media posts about her missing relative, "All of them told me that in captivity, Russians made Ukrainians learn Russian songs and the Russian national anthem. And they said that Viktoria refused to do it."
Iryna continues, "We don't know the truth, exactly. But I know I was told that she spoke Ukrainian, only Ukrainian, and even when Russian soldiers yelled at her, they tried to make her speak Russian, but she refused and spoke only Ukrainian."
This is the Viktoria that Iryna and Kateryna know well. Stubborn. Fair.
In enforced disappearances, the families are also victims
Matilda Bogner, head of the U.N. Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine, says there are four categories of international human rights violations and potential war crimes evident in the stories told to NPR, as well as in dozens of similar cases she has documented.
The first is the detention of civilians who don't pose any immediate security risk.
The second is forcible deportation across borders.
The third is enforced disappearance, which means holding people without allowing communication with the outside world or telling anyone where they are. In these situations, says Bogner, "The families are considered victims as well, because they go through hell trying to find their family member."
Holding people secretly, without any form of due process, also sets the stage for other potential violations — torture, even murder. And those constitute the fourth category of violation: the beatings NPR heard about, the punishing cold, insufficient food, denial of medical care, and humiliation.
It's unclear where, when, or whether these victims will have a day in court. Ukraine's government sentenced three captured Russian soldiers last month and officials say they've documented 14,000 other possible war crimes and counting. The International Criminal Court could step in, and Bogner says there's also talk of setting up a special tribunal.
But first, people in detention have to try to get home alive. The people NPR talked to say they were all released in exchange for Russian soldiers who were held captive by the Ukrainians.
In Misha's case, his followers on YouTube and the social media app Telegram spotted a story about his arrest that ran in the Russian media. This gave his wife and mother-in-law the clues they needed to pressure Ukrainian officials to set up a trade.
Prisoners were being swapped frequently, says Misha, and before they left, there was what he called a "goodbye ceremony."
In Misha's telling, the jailers formed two lines on either side of a corridor. They put sacks on the ground to make it slippery. They forced the prisoners who were being released to run down the corridor, singing Russian songs. As they did, they hit them again with the stun guns.
Misha thinks he recognizes the person he was swapped with on April 10. He says he was "a skinny, dark-haired Russian guy" — the same man, he thinks, that he drove to the checkpoint in his taxi not long before he was first arrested. The Russians set fire to that taxi, a brand-new Mercedes that Misha had just bought for $25,000.
Meanwhile Viktoria Andrusha's family doesn't know for sure if she's still in Kursk. They are contacting everyone they can think of, trying to arrange an exchange for her release.
"I hope every day, and I wait for her," says her mother Kateryna.
They're not the only ones waiting for her. Her big sister Iryna says, "All of her students' families are sending us messages, saying how is Viktoria? Where is Viktoria?"
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The dominant weather pattern across the state this week has been dry westerly/southwesterly winds bringing gusty and dusty conditions. There has been periods of moisture in the upper levels, with cloud coverage streaming in, but surface areas have remained mostly dry this week. Dry air will continue to finish off the work week.
A storm will push across the northern United States tomorrow, increasing cloud coverage across the state. This will also decrease winds along with temperatures into Thursday afternoon. Drier air and more sunshine will return Friday as high pressure dominates the south. However, that sunshine will be short-lived as another storm pushes a little further south and brings the potential for precipitation this weekend.
Late Friday and into Saturday, a storm system will approach the Desert Southwest. The bulk of the storm will be to the north, with a cold front dipping down across the Northern Mountains. This will allow for a bit of light Northern Mountain snow and surround valley rain.
The biggest impact from Saturday’s storm, however, will be gusty to potentially damaging winds across the state. The central/northern portions of the state from east to west could see gusts of 50-60+ mph. Even more active weather will arrive by the middle to later parts of next week. If you’re a summer lover, enjoy the above-average and dry conditions while they last. | 2023-03-09T06:53:12+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/weather/video-forecast/feeling-like-spring-all-week-long/ |
The South has something to say and Amazon’s live radio app, AMP is helping emerging talent use their voice by announcing their new program, ‘The Come Up’, driven by lifestyle specialist and veteran industry executive Kenny Burns.
Launching this week, ‘The Come Up’ is helping shine a light on the talented artists in Atlanta, while helping to bring communities together to discover, celebrate, and break rising artists. Hosted by Kenny Burns, Big Bank, Su Solo, Paige Shari, and DJ Kash, creators, and listeners using Amp can help identify today’s hottest rising hip-hop artists coming out of the A.
“There is an awakening happening in music and the arts, and Amp creates a place that is for that emerging audience and movement—real people, real voices, no gimmicks, and no algorithms speaking for the people,” Kenny Burns said in a statement. “Community is the most authentic partnership an artist can have, and I’m looking forward to highlighting the best of the best to communities on Amp!”
Kicking off on June 15, the enlisted hosts will launch their individual shows on Amp to play songs from their favorite emerging Atlanta-based hip-hop artists, calling for fans in the community to gather for debate and discussion live–via the chat and call-in features to debate who they think is next up. Adding an even more amazing opportunity for artists, at the end of the month, the tastemaker hosts and Amp will select three featured Atlanta artists from across ‘The Come Up’ shows to receive promotional support across Amazon Music and Amp including being featured in a docuseries developed and directed by Cam Kirk; opportunities to be interviewed on the popular Amp shows, ‘The Daily Cannon with Nick Cannon’, ‘Rotation Radio with Gabe P and Nyla Symone’; along with inclusion on “The Come Up” playlist on Amazon Music.
Amp, who has seen an increase in popularity due to their current programs including artists Nicki Minaj, Halsey, NBA YoungBoy, and Joe Budden; NBA star Draymond Green; multi-hyphenate Nick Cannon; and artist, producer, and TV personality Kandi Burruss– is also giving everyone the chance to have their voices heard.
To find out more about ‘The Come Up’ or to download the AMP app, click here.
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PITTSBURGH, Dec. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I have been boxing for 57 years and consider myself a power punch specialist when watching fighters prepare for combat," said an inventor, from Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. "I watch many fighters make the repetitive mistake of not using all the muscles in their legs in the same way they would when they are in an actual fight. As a result, I created this fun and challenging way of using a punching bag."
The BOXING DOME provides a motorized movable stand for a heavy punching bag. The unit can be programmed and reprogrammed to simulate an advancing and retreating opponent. It also could enhance a training session by giving the advantage of conceiving a close vision of a real fight.
The invention features a versatile design that is easy to use. Thus, it is ideal for competitive fighters such as boxers, martial arts enthusiasts, kick boxers, etc. Additionally, it is producible in design variations.
The original design was submitted to the Ft. Lauderdale sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 21-FJK-210, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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CAPS Medical is conducting revolutionary endoscopic treatment of tumors using non-thermal plasma, suitable for a variety of cancer types
NETANYA, Israel, June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CAPS Medical, developer of a highly selective and minimally invasive non-thermal plasma (NTAP™) device for cancer treatment, announced today the enrollment of the first patients in a multi-center study to assess the safety and technical performance of their NTAP™ system in the treatment of Non Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer (NMIBC). The cancer patients in the study have been treated at Sheba Medical Center's Urology Department. This is the first ever worldwide study for minimally invasive treatment of Bladder Cancer using Non Thermal Plasma.
Non-Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer (NMIBC) impacts 500,000 people in the U.S. alone with over 80,000 new cases added annually. NMIBC is characterized by a high recurrence rate of up to 80%, which means that in the majority of cases NMIBC is not cured. It is treated and retreated –using a Transurethral Resection of Bladder Tumor (TURBT) procedure, which can cause scarring and damage to the bladder. This is followed by a series of intravesical instillations, which cause life-altering side effects. "We hope that CAPS Medical's NTAP™ solution will help reduce the cancer recurrence rate by replacing the existing TURBT procedure while also avoiding the typical side effects, damage to the bladder and complications associated with the treatment options available today," said Prof. Zohar Dotan, Chairman of the Department of Urology and the principal investigator of the trial at the Sheba Medical Center. Sheba has been ranked by Newsweek magazine, for the fourth consecutive year, as one of the 10 top hospitals in the world
Non-thermal Atmospheric Plasmas are streams of low ionized gas at room temperature. Their efficacy in selectively destroying cancer cells while preserving surrounding healthy tissue and their ability to trigger an immunological effect and encourage the body to heal itself are well-known and have been demonstrated. To date, however, the high energy required for existing non-thermal plasma applications necessitated the use of large-sized devices. This made using non-thermal plasma to treat cancerous tumors in minimally invasive procedures unfeasible.
Overcoming these limitations, CAPS Medical is a pioneer in creating a device for NTAP delivery through a working channel of standard minimally invasive tools, making it possible to avoid surgery. "This multi-center study should demonstrate how NTAP could be painlessly and safely used to treat tumors inside the body, while preserving healthy tissue. CAPS Medical intends to continue working to improve patients' lives through the use of this revolutionary technology which can be tailored to a variety of additional cancer types," said Ilan Uchitel, CEO and Co-Founder of CAPS Medical.
"With its NTAP system, CAPS Medical is overcoming a real barrier within the cancer treatment ecosystem. The NTAP procedure selectively targets cancer cells with greater precision-which should lead to fewer side effects than many current treatment options. We look forward to seeing the company progress through its clinical trials," said Harel Gadot, Executive Chairman of CAPS Medical and Company Group Chairman of MEDX Ventures Group.
About CAPS Medical
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OGDEN, Utah (ABC4) — A Utah neurosurgeon has been arrested and accused of sexual battery after reportedly groping an unconscious patient during surgery.
Charging documents by a Weber County Sheriff state that on Oct. 11, 2021, an adult woman went under surgery at the Ogden Regional Medical Center in Ogden, Utah.
Members of the team assisting in the operation state that the neurosurgeon performing the surgery, 65-year-old Dr. Bryson Smith, sexually assaulted the patient during this time.
Smith was reportedly performing an anterior cervical decompression fusion (ACDF) surgery on the patient when he began making statements about his sexuality and “swinging”, according to a team member.
Smith then allegedly placed his hand on the unconscious patient’s breast, which was covered by a thin surgical sheet, and “squeezed for approximately 1 to 1.5 seconds.”
One witness stated that when this happened, no one in the room said anything, which he reportedly believed was due to the shock of witnessing Smith squeezing the unconscious victim’s breasts.
The probable cause affidavit shows that Smith also asked his team not to report him after the incident, making a statement along the lines of “Uh, no one report me for that,” and “Please don’t report me to HR.”
Smith reportedly also made a comment about the victim’s breasts, saying “It’s a good thing she has these nice pads here that I can rest my hands on.” Other details of the sexual assault were described by one of the witnesses as well.
On July 28, Smith was taken to the Weber County Jail on two counts of sexual battery. | 2022-07-30T21:23:04+00:00 | wivb.com | https://www.wivb.com/news/national/utah-neurosurgeon-reportedly-groped-unconscious-patient-during-surgery/ |
EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – The governor of New Mexico has signed a bill strengthening the rights of migrant children going through difficult situations in the state.
HR 15 establishes a special immigrant juvenile classification for abused, neglected and abandoned foreign migrants. This is meant to facilitate their applications to stay in the United States.
The bill approved by the majority-Democratic state legislature and signed by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Wednesday mirrors existing federal statutes with some key differences. It extends the designation not just to abused, neglected or abandoned minors, but also to those who fear returning to their home country, according to the state’s Legislative Finance Committee report.
“This bill becoming law means that children who come to our state cannot be forced back into harm’s way. We are committed to making New Mexico a safe place for kids to grow up, no matter where they come from,” said lead bill sponsor state Rep. Andrea Romero, D-Santa Fe.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) states it has sole jurisdiction to determine petitions for special immigrant juvenile classifications that may lead to legal permanent residence status. However, the state analysis of the bill concludes that federal law empowers courts engaged in determining custody and care of juveniles to make those special immigrant juvenile determinations.
USCIS also requires that reunification with one or both of the migrant’s minor’s parents is not viable.
Advocacy groups in New Mexico celebrated the state’s commitment to migrant children in need of help.
“A huge win for immigrant youth,” tweeted the New Mexico Dream Team. “We are so happy to have worked with (New Mexico Immigrant Law Center) on this impactful bill. This law will create positive generational change, educational opportunities, and eventually citizenship.”
The state law is effective immediately and can be applied retroactively in state courts. | 2023-04-07T22:32:40+00:00 | everythinglubbock.com | https://www.everythinglubbock.com/border-report/new-mexico-governor-signs-bill-strengthening-rights-of-migrant-children/ |
Pipeline operator agrees to guilty plea in California spill
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A pipeline operator and two subsidiaries agreed Friday to plead guilty to negligently discharging oil off the Southern California coast in connection with a pipeline break that covered beaches with blobs of crude.
The U.S. attorney’s office in Los Angeles said in a statement that Houston-based Amplify Energy and two subsidiaries agreed to plead guilty to a misdemeanor and pay a $7 million fine and nearly $6 million in expenses incurred by government entities, including the U.S. Coast Guard. The companies would also install a new leak detection system for pipeline and train employees to identify and respond to potential leaks, the statement said.
“Our nation’s environmental laws are designed to protect our communities and oceans from hazardous pollutants, including oil,” said Scot Adair, special agent in charge of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s criminal investigation division in California. “Amplify Energy’s agreement to plead guilty today demonstrates that companies that negligently violate those laws will be held responsible for their crimes.”
The plea agreements still need to be approved by U.S. District Judge David Carter.
Amplify Energy, which owns the pipeline that ruptured, said the company has been cooperating with the investigation into the spill and is committed to operating safely.
“We believe this resolution, which is subject to court review and approval, reflects the commitments we made immediately following the incident to impacted parties,” Martyn Willsher, Amplify’s president, said in a statement.
The October 2021 leak in a pipeline that ferried crude oil from offshore platforms to the Southern California coast spilled about 25,000 gallons (94,600 liters) of oil into the Pacific Ocean.
While less severe than initially feared, the spill about 4 miles (6.4 kilometers) offshore shuttered beaches in surf-friendly Huntington Beach and nearby communities for a week and fisheries for more than a month, oiled birds and threatened wetlands the region has been striving to restore.
“The Orange County oil spill was devastating for our environment, our community and our local businesses,” said state Assemblywoman Cottie Petrie-Norris, who represents the area, in a statement.
U.S. prosecutors charged the companies late last year with the illegal discharge of oil and failure to respond to eight leak detection alarms over a 13-hour period that should have alerted them to the spill. The leak detection system alarm first sounded late in the afternoon on Oct. 1, but workers believed it was triggered by a change in the concentration of produced water in the pipeline earlier in the day, according to a copy of the plea agreement.
The alarm sounded repeatedly throughout the night and workers shut down the pipeline to investigate, then restarted it again. Before dawn on Oct. 2, a boat went out and traveled along the course of the undersea pipeline with flashlights but didn’t see signs of a leak, according to the agreement.
It wasn’t until a boat went out after daybreak that the spill was identified, the papers said.
In the plea agreement, Amplify contends that two ships dragged their anchors across the pipeline and damaged it during a January 2021 storm, but they weren’t notified until after the October 2021 spill. Without this damage, Amplify, which has filed a civil claim against the ships, has argued that the spill would not have happened.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2022-08-27T04:56:53+00:00 | kwch.com | https://www.kwch.com/2022/08/27/pipeline-operator-agrees-guilty-plea-california-spill/ |
HOUSTON (AP) _ Baker Hughes Co. (BKR) on Monday reported fourth-quarter earnings of $182 million.
The Houston-based company said it had net income of 18 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, came to 38 cents per share.
The results fell short of Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of nine analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 41 cents per share.
The oilfield services company posted revenue of $5.91 billion in the period, which also missed Street forecasts. Seven analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $6.06 billion.
For the year, the company reported that its loss widened to $601 million, or 61 cents per share. Revenue was reported as $21.16 billion.
Baker Hughes shares have risen 5% since the beginning of the year. The stock has risen 14% in the last 12 months.
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With spring practice over, Michigan football enters the heart of the offseason with plenty going for it.
The Wolverines have more momentum than ever before, riding high after back-to-back Big Ten titles, wins over arch-rival Ohio State and College Football Playoff appearances, and their goal — to win a national title — is more pronounced than ever.
They also have reason to believe it can happen. Stars are back on both sides of the ball, experience is there and the tenets that have made Michigan dominant in recent years — a big, strong, committed offensive line — are still in place.
In fact, one could make the case Sherrone Moore and the Michigan offense has its deepest offensive line yet, a group that is easily two deep in experience and ability. To help illustrate that, consider this: The Wolverines brought in three linemen via the transfer portal this offseason, all with starting experience at the FBS level, and there’s a chance not all of them will start Week 1.
“It’s a competition,” Moore told reporters a weeks ago. “I mean, even when Olu (Oluwatimi) came in here, he wasn’t first on the depth chart. He had to earn it. At every position, it’s earned.”
Now, Moore followed with a caveat to that statement — saying returning full-time starters Trevor Keegan and Zak Zinter, both guards, “just won’t let you take their spot,” and even tossed returning tackle Karsen Barnhart in there, too. All three entered spring as the frontrunners for their respective spots, and there’s been no indication that anything has changed there.
But there’s been a lot of moving parts in spring with the transfers, two of which (Myles Hinton, Drake Nugent; both from Stanford) were limited while recovering from injury, and a third, LaDarius Henderson (Arizona State), who delayed his enrollment at Michigan to the summer.
More: Under Sherrone Moore, Michigan’s offense aims to win by any means necessary
Nugent is expected to push Raheem Anderson and Greg Crippen for the starting center job, while Henderson is a frontrunner to push returner Trente Jones at tackle.
“We have the depth (and) they know that you just can’t go about your business in a way that’s nonchalant,” Moore said. “You’ve got to be ready to attack. We’re striving for big things.”
A national title for one, but the offensive line has made no bones about keeping the Joe Moore Award around, handed out to the nation’s best offensive line. Michigan has won it two years in a row now, thanks to its success up front and offensive identity built around the running game.
“That’s our expectation now,” Barnhart, a fifth-year graduate student, said recently. “None of us want to see that (trophy) leave. Every day we walk into the weight room, we want to see it right there.”
To win it again, however, Michigan is going to need to find the right combination of linemen. They had it early on last fall before injuries prompted changes to the rotation. Still, whoever they inserted into games, from Giovanni El-Hadi to Jeffrey Persi, handled their business.
But with so many linemen sitting out or not present for spring ball, it’s going to make for an important fall camp in trying to put the puzzle together.
“A lot of that chemistry people talk about, when you know you jell — you don’t really know until you get, like, halfway through training camp and you really hit that first game,” Moore said. “The chemistry is starting to be built now, and it’ll be built in the summertime when they’re working together, working out together, and then we’ll figure it out in the fall.”
Moore describes the current crop of Michigan offensive linemen as a “crazy group” — “I try to stay away from ‘em … they’re nuts,” he jokes — but one that already has a bond formed. Keegan and Zinter know each other well, obviously, as does Barnhart and Jones.
The key, of course, will be inserting the new guys into the lineup and finding out where they fit best and how quickly they can pick up the Michigan way of doing things. There are no guarantees, and the best will play, but a strong nucleus has already formed.
“They’re bringing it. You can tell they’re trying to three-peat for that Joe Moore Award,” linebacker Junior Colson said. “They’ve let down. You can just tell. They’ve been great, and competing against them every day just makes us as a defense better.”
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U-M gives OC Sherrone Moore, DC Jesse Minter new contracts, pay raises | 2023-04-10T17:53:35+00:00 | mlive.com | https://www.mlive.com/wolverines/2023/04/clarity-chemistry-along-michigan-offensive-line-to-spill-into-fall-camp.html |
PHOENIX — A Valley ICU nurse who’s helped thousands in her career now needs help herself. She’s dealing with memory loss after suffering a ruptured brain aneurysm. It’s not the first time her co-workers have had to rally around one of their own.
Over 15 years, "She was my cup of sunshine every day. She was always helping me through my issues. She was helping other friends,” said Nicole Goodstein.
Goodstein and Kari Dhaemers worked the night shift. Both are nurses at Phoenix Children's Hospital.
Since May 2, Kari has spent nights in an ICU bed, but at another hospital as a patient.
"Her brain aneurysm did rupture, and as the doctors have told us, she is one of the lucky ones,” added Goodstein.
The spunk Kari has, Nicole says, is what people need day to day. But, right now, Kari needs her friends.
"When she came back from surgery and seeing her there helpless, that hit hard, because she is not the same and we want to get her there,” added Goodstein.
For the second time in two months, nurses at Phoenix Children's are finding themselves helping another one of their own after a major health scare.
In April, ABC15 shared the story of nurse Erika Page who suffered a stroke.
"When we heard that at work, it took us back, because we were like oh my gosh, that's one of ours,” added Goodstein.
Erika is recovering at home. She and Kari work in the same department and both have helped so many Arizonans during the COVID pandemic.
As for Kari, her friends say she is able to eat, talk and walk with assistance. But, she does have short-term memory loss.
"We all froze. I mean, we are still like in that pattern of woah, this happened again,” added Goodstein.
And as Kari's recovery moves ahead, her friend Nicole has set up an online fundraiser to help. | 2022-05-18T05:53:12+00:00 | abc15.com | https://www.abc15.com/news/local-news/icu-nurse-from-phoenix-childrens-now-hospitalized-with-ruptured-brain-aneurysm |
A fact-finding commission of the Episcopal Church will research the history of the denomination’s role in operating boarding schools for Native American children — part of a system the church now acknowledges was rooted in white supremacy and caused generations of trauma.
The denomination’s General Convention, meeting in Baltimore, approved the commission’s formation by acclamation in votes Friday and Saturday in its two legislative houses.
The votes followed a series of emotionally potent comments from Indigenous and other church members at the convention.
Bishop Carol Gallagher, regional canon for the Central Region of the Diocese of Massachusetts, spoke in favor of the measure and was encouraged by the vote. Gallagher, who is Cherokee, told the convention that her grandfather had attended a boarding school and her family witnessed how the schools had badly damaged Native children’s ties to their families and tribes.
The reckoning with the boarding school legacy is “going to take a long time, because we’re going to have to listen to a lot of people,” Gallagher said in an interview. “My hope is people won’t draw back from listening. It may be painful to hear, but it also can be life-giving.”
The Episcopal Church and other denominations operated many of the boarding schools established in the 19th and 20th centuries under a U.S. policy that sought to sever Native children from their families, languages and cultures and to assimilate them into the mainstream Christian society.
While students’ experiences at the schools varied, with some reporting positive experiences and others horrific abuse, the overall system was designed for the forced assimilation of Native children.
The multi-point Episcopal resolution establishes a fact-finding commission to look through church, government and other archives about the boarding schools and to share its results. It encourages individual dioceses to do similar research and listen to the stories of school survivors.
The resolution acknowledges the boarding schools’ roots in “systems of white supremacy that have oppressed Indigenous peoples.” It also calls for investments in Indigenous-led healing centers to address the traumas caused by the boarding schools that have spanned generations.
“Our church has some history in the colonization of our peoples,” Ron Braman of Idaho told fellow members of the General Convention’s House of Deputies before it approved the resolution. “You see the pain that our people are still enduring.”
He said several members of his family went to boarding schools.
The investigation is “a brave thing for us to do, but I believe it’s something that we need to do,” said Braman, who is affiliated with the Eastern Band of Shoshone.
It’s the latest in a series of reckonings by religious groups over the legacy of such schools in North America. Later this month, Pope Francis is scheduled to visit Canada, where he is expected to apologize for the Catholic Church’s role in operating residential schools there for Indigenous children. He made a similar apology to a visiting Indigenous delegation at the Vatican in April.
The U.S. Department of Interior in May issued a report that acknowledged the “traumatic and violent” means that were used in the system. It identified more than 500 student deaths but said further investigation would likely show thousands of deaths due to disease and other causes. The reported discoveries of hundreds of graves near former residential schools in Canada since 2021 has prompted an unprecedented reckoning with the system’s legacy in North America.
In all, more than 400 boarding schools operated in the United States from the 19th to mid-20th centuries before the system ended, according to the Interior report. While a majority were government-run, the report noted that many others were church-run, and church and state collaborated closely in the project.
The Episcopal Church operated at least nine boarding schools, according to a database compiled by the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition.
“Over and above that, many parishes donated to support these schools,” Gallagher said. They may have thought they were helping, she said, but didn’t realize “the impact of removing children from their families and their way of life, and destroying identities.”
Ruth Johnson, a member of the House of Deputies from the Navajoland Area Mission in the Southwest, told the convention that she still bears the traumas of attending boarding schools, including one where she was beaten.
“I could have easily been one of those that didn’t make it home,” said Johnson, who is Navajo. “To this day, I still have a hard time talking about it.”
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Apple store employees in a Baltimore suburb voted to unionize by a nearly 2-to-1 margin on Saturday. Here’s a look at other unionization drives of the past several months:
STARBUCKS
In December, a Starbucks store in Buffalo became the first to unionize at one of the coffee retailer’s company-owned U.S. stores. At least 150 of Starbucks’ 9,000 company-run U.S. stores have voted to unionize since then, according to the National Labor Relations Board, and at least 10 stores have rejected the union.
AMAZON
Amazon workers in Staten Island, New York, voted to unionize in April, marking the first successful U.S. organizing effort in the retail giant’s history. But a second Staten Island warehouse rejected a union bid about a month later.
ALPHABET
In January, a group of Google engineers and other workers announced they had formed a union, a rare foothold for the labor movement in the tech industry. The group formed the Alphabet Workers Union last year, which represents around 800 Google employees and is run by five people who are under 35. Alphabet is Google’s parent company.
REI
Workers at a New York City outpost of outdoor clothing and equipment seller REI voted overwhelmingly in March to join a union, the first REI store to do so. Seattle-based REI has more than 170 locations across 41 states and Washington, D.C.
ACTIVISION BLIZZARD
Video game workers at a division of game publisher Activision Blizzard voted to unionize in May, creating the first labor union at a large U.S. video game company after a vote affecting a small group of Wisconsin-based quality assurance testers. Call of Duty developer Raven Software, which is a subsidiary of Activision Blizzard, formed a union with 19 “yes” votes. | 2022-06-19T19:24:17+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/news/top-stories/ap-top-headlines/maryland-apple-store-union-vote-marks-latest-in-labor-drives/ |
Officials: Search for migrants after boat sinks off Keys
KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) — Four Cuban migrants swam to shore in the Florida Keys and three others were rescued from the ocean after their boat sank Wednesday, shortly before Hurricane Ian made landfall in southwestern Florida. But 20 more people might be missing, officials said.
The four Cubans reached Stock Island, just east of Key West, and reported their vessel sank because of inclement weather, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Chief Patrol Agent Walter N. Slosar said in a post on Twitter.
The U.S. Coast Guard initiated a search for 23 people and managed to find three survivors about two miles (three kilometers) south of the island chain, officials said.
The survivors were taken to a local hospital for symptoms of exhaustion and dehydration.
Air crews continued to search for the remaining migrants.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2022-09-28T23:51:30+00:00 | witn.com | https://www.witn.com/2022/09/28/officials-search-migrants-after-boat-sinks-off-keys/ |
FARGO, N.D., Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pedigree Technologies announces the addition of two new Tracking Tags to its OneView platform. By attaching to outdoor tools, equipment, and remote assets, these Bluetooth® tags offer customers increased visibility at a fraction of the cost of GPS devices. The tracking tags will connect and sync with truck and trailer GPS devices, Pedigree applications on handsets and tablets, Pedigree's Cab-Mate ELD, and yard-based receivers.
Businesses can only make money if they deploy their equipment and tools efficiently. Pedigree's Tracking Tags are one tool that solves the dilemma of "Where's my stuff". These tags are far less expensive than GPS trackers, so monitoring your lower-valued assets becomes affordable. Bluetooth tags are small, weatherproof, long battery-life devices that are quickly installed on most anything including tools, ladders, light equipment, bins, and iron attachments.
Using Bluetooth wireless signals, the tags repeatedly transmit messages with an asset's unique identifier. These signals are picked up and displayed on the OneView platform along with other vehicle- and asset-based GPS devices that are being monitored. The OneView platform can also display common industrial tool tags from leading manufacturers.
The Tags are purpose-built for the harsh environments found in the industries Pedigree serves: transportation, construction, oil and gas, and heavy equipment. The PT TAG 20 and PT TAG 5 each have a signal range of up to 200 meters. Both models are designed for a long-life of consistent operation with batteries that last 20 and 5 years, respectively. Installation of these small, compact devices is quick and simple.
Pedigree Technologies is challenging the telematics status quo. Traditional solutions overlook the complex operating environments of Heartland industries such as transportation, oil & gas, and heavy equipment. These enterprises require a 360-degree view into all service and supply chain assets, not just fleets. Using telematics as a foundation, we integrate and layer smart technologies to offer a more expansive view into assets, inventory, and business-critical systems. The power of Pedigree is to connect the unconnected, all through a single pane of glass.
Key solutions include ELDs, asset tracking, fleet management, maintenance, dispatching, IoT sensors, and more. Pedigree provides 24x7x365 domestic customer service and employs more than 90 professionals across the country. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in Fargo, North Dakota. For more information about Pedigree Technologies visit PedigreeTechnologies.com or to learn more about Bluetooth Tags read, "Where's My Stuff?" – Listen to Your Bluetooth® Tags. For more information about this release or Pedigree Technologies, please contact Deidra Schwindt at Deidra.Schwindt@PedigreeTechnologies.com.
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Europe’s top human rights court ruled Wednesday that it can adjudicate on cases brought by the Netherlands and Ukraine against Russia for alleged rights violations in eastern Ukraine in 2014, including the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17.
The ruling by the Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights marks significant progress in efforts by the Netherlands and Ukraine to hold Russia legally accountable for its actions in Ukraine and could pave the way for compensation orders. The court said a judgment on the merits of the cases will follow at a later date.
The cases were filed before Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine nearly a year ago.
“Very good news: the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights is another important step in finding the truth and justice for the victims and their relatives of flight #MH17,” Dutch Justice Minister Dilan Yesilgöz-Zegerius said in a tweet.
Foreign Minister Wopke Hoekstra also welcomed the ruling as a significant milestone in the search for accountability.
“We will continue to do everything in our power to achieve justice for all 298 victims of flight #MH17 and their loved ones,” he tweeted.
The court said evidence presented at a hearing last year established that from May 11, 2014, areas in eastern Ukraine controlled by separatist rebels were “under the jurisdiction of the Russian Federation” and that Moscow “had a significant influence on the separatists’ military strategy” including providing weapons, carrying out artillery attacks requested by the rebels and giving them political and economic support.
The court said there was enough evidence to establish the admissibility of most of Ukraine’s claims of rights violations and a linked case about the downing of MH17 filed by the Netherlands. It said a small number of allegations were not admissible.
The Strasbourg court is an important part of the Council of Europe, which is the continent’s foremost human rights institution. Russia was expelled from the council last year in an unprecedented move over Moscow’s invasion and war in Ukraine. However, the court can still deal with cases against Russia dating from before its expulsion.
The cases in Strasbourg are separate from a criminal prosecution in the Netherlands in which two Russians and a Ukrainian rebel were convicted in absentia in November of multiple murders for their roles in the downing of flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine on July 17, 2014. All 298 passengers and crew were killed when the Boeing 777 flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur was shot down over eastern Ukraine.
In its case at the human rights court, the Netherlands argues that Moscow played a key role in the downing of flight MH17 and argues that Russia’s failure to investigate and lack of cooperation with Dutch prosecutors, along with its denials of involvement, have compounded the suffering of friends and relatives of those killed.
Dutch prosecutors say the missile system that downed MH17 was trucked into Ukraine from a military base in Russia and returned there after the shootdown.
Ukraine filed cases against Moscow alleging numerous violations of the European Convention on Human Rights, including “unlawful military attacks against civilians which caused many fatalities, including the shooting down of flight MH17, and the summary execution and beating to death of civilians” and soldiers no longer taking part in hostilities. It also accused Russia of abducting 85 Ukrainian children. | 2023-01-25T20:10:37+00:00 | wjhl.com | https://www.wjhl.com/news/international/ap-european-court-rules-ukraine-cases-against-russia-admissible/ |
X-NAND Gen2 that enables 3D NAND flash memory with 20X faster write performance received top honors at Flash Memory Summit 2022
SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Flash Memory Summit – After officially announcing its ground-breaking technology, X-NAND Gen2, NEO Semiconductor captured the top prize at Flash Memory Summit 2022, winning the "Best of Show" award for the Most Innovative Memory Technology. This category addresses innovations that will change the way flash memory is used in products and raise the bar to new levels of performance, availability, endurance, scalability, and energy efficiencies.
"Whether it is QLC, TLC, or Storage Class Memory, semiconductor manufacturers are faced with the challenge of advancing memory technology to new levels of performance, while reducing the cost of these solutions," said Jay Kramer, Chairman of the Awards Program and President of Network Storage Advisors Inc. "We are proud to recognize NEO Semiconductor's X-NAND architecture for offering an excellent high-performance and low-cost memory technology that can not only meet the objectives of semiconductor companies but can also deliver compelling value for business and consumer storage solutions."
"We are honored and thankful to accept this prestigious award, and I applaud the entire NEO Semiconductor team for the hard work and dedication it has taken to make this ground-breaking technology a reality," said Andy Hsu, Founder and CEO of NEO Semiconductor. "This award recognizes our efforts to introduce to the NAND market a truly innovative technology with a wide array of capabilities that address the growing performance bottlenecks in IT systems and consumer products. X-NAND Gen-2, which doubles throughput over X-NAND Gen1, enables the customer to achieve SLC-like performance with larger capacity and lower cost QLC memory. X-NAND Gen2 incorporates zero-impact architectural and design changes that do not increase manufacturing costs while offering extraordinary throughput and latency improvements."
NEO is the company behind the world's fastest 3D NAND flash and lowest power DRAM memory architectures. Visit NEO Semiconductor's booth #211 @ Flash Memory Summit 2022, Santa Clara, CA.
About NEO Semiconductor
NEO Semiconductor is a high-tech company focused on advancing 3D NAND flash and DRAM memory technologies. The company was founded in 2012 by Andy Hsu and a team in San Jose, California, and owns more than 20 U.S. patents. In 2020, the company made a breakthrough in 3D NAND architecture named X-NAND that can achieve SLC performance at TLC and QLC densities to provide high-speed, low-cost solutions for many applications, including 5G and AI. The company presented the X-NAND architecture at Flash Memory Summit 2020 conference and won the Best of Show Award for the Most Innovative Flash Memory Startup.
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Stocks on Wall Street rallied again Thursday, extending the market’s winning streak to a fourth day and placing the major indexes on pace for weekly gains.
The S&P 500 rose 1.5%. It’s latest gain marks the longest winning streak for the benchmark index since March. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 1.1%, while the Nasdaq closed 2.3% higher.
Small-company stocks outpaced the broader market, a signal that some investors remain confident of economic growth. The Russell 2000 rose 2.4%.
Most of the market climbed, and energy-producing companies led the way after oil prices recovered a chunk of their sharp losses from earlier in the week. The bond market is still showing signs of worry about a possible recession, though.
A report on Thursday showed more workers filed for unemployment benefits last week than expected. A report on Friday will show more broadly how the jobs market is doing.
“We still see a host of macro headwinds that suggest a cautious approach is appropriate here,” said Bill Merz, head of capital markets research at U.S. Bank Wealth Management.
The S&P 500 rose 57.54 points to 3,902.62, as roughly three-fourths of the stocks in the index rose. The Dow rose 346.87 points to 31,384 and the Nasdaq rose 259.49 points to 11,621.35. The Russell 2000 gained 42.06 points to 1,769.60.
Companies that benefit the most from a healthy economy led the gains, with technology stocks doing much of the heavy lifting. Apple rose 2.4%.
The energy sector also rose as U.S. crude oil prices climbed 4.3% after falling the last few days. Exxon Mobil rose 3.2%.
“Energy prices have been coming down on fears of a recession, along with a host of other industrial commodities,” said Quincy Krosby, chief equity strategist for LPL Financial. “Obviously, there’s still concern about the economy, there’s still concern about where we’re headed and whether the economic backdrop is going to weaken.”
The major indexes are on pace for weekly gains in what has been turbulent trading over the last several months. The volatility reflects growing worries among investors that the economy is slowing under the weight of surging inflation and sharply higher interest rates, pressures that could tip the economy into a recession.
Despite this week’s rally in the stock market, bond investors continue to signal anxiety over a potential recession. New data Thursday showed that the number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits topped the 230,000 mark for the fifth consecutive week. While claims remain low, last week was the highest level of claims in almost six months.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury rose to 3% from 2.91% late Wednesday. The yield on the two-year Treasury is above the 10-year yield, a relatively rare thing seen by some investors as an ominous sign.
The job market in the U.S. has been a key focus for investors this week as they look for any clues on how inflation is impacting the economy. On Wednesday, the U.S. government reported that employers advertised fewer jobs in May amid signs that the economy is weakening and there are already signs that retailers have pulled back on hiring.
A weakening of the broader job market, which has remained strong through the pandemic recovery, could signal that inflation is cooling off. Investors will get a clearer picture on Friday when the more detailed June jobs report is released.
“That’s what the Federal Reserve wants it to do, they’re actually thinking that their policies are working because they are increasing slack in the labor markets,” said Zachary Hill, head of portfolio management at Horizon Investments. “As we look to tomorrow and think about how markets should be reading the report, seeing a deceleration in the pace of job growth is a positive in a sense.”
Investors are trying to determine whether a recession is on the horizon as the Fed aggressively raises interest rates to temper pervasive inflation.
Businesses are getting squeezed by higher costs because of supply chain problems and have raised prices on everything from food to clothing.
Consumers have been pulling back on spending as inflation puts a tighter squeeze on budgets. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February sent energy prices surging in 2022, resulting in record gasoline prices in the U.S. Pain at the pump has only worsened the broader impact from inflation, though there are signs that gasoline prices have begun to recede.
The key concern is that the Fed’s interest rate hikes could go too far in slowing economic growth and actually bring on a recession. After last month’s meeting, the Fed raised its rate by three-quarters of a point to a range of 1.5% to 1.75% — the biggest single increase in nearly three decades — and signaled that further large hikes would likely be needed.
The recession concerns have been weighing heavily on markets. Every major index is in a slump for the year and the benchmark S&P 500 is in a bear market, or down at 20% from its most recent high. The market is not likely going to regain ground until Wall Street gets clearer signals that inflation is cooling.
Markets in Europe ticked higher on a day that British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that he was resigning amid a flood of resignations from his Conservative Party’s members. | 2022-07-07T23:39:17+00:00 | wate.com | https://www.wate.com/news/business/ap-business/asian-stocks-higher-after-fed-says-rate-hikes-may-be-needed/ |
GREEN BAY, Wis. (WFRV) – A Green Bay man was taken into custody on Tuesday morning after he was suspected of being in possession of several handguns and narcotics.
According to the Green Bay Police Department (GBPD), around 7:30 a.m., an officer out on a routine patrol noticed a suspicious situation on the 1100 block of Smith Street.
As the officer approached a small group gathering in an alley near the reported nuisance property, two people fled, and one remained behind.
As the officer questioned the man, he was found to have an outstanding warrant. The officer then took 46-year-old Troy Soldier into custody, where he was subsequently searched.
After finding bullets, a K9 unit was called to the scene and indicated there was a suspicion of narcotics in the vehicle that was believed to be operated by Soldier.
The officer then searched the vehicle, where three firearms, three extended pistol magazines, 65 grams of methamphetamine, 54 fentanyl pills, and a small amount of cocaine, THC, amphetamine, and Vyvanse were found.
GBPD is still working to identify the two people who fled the scene. No further information was provided.
Anyone with details regarding this case is being asked to contact the Green Bay Police Department at (920) 448-3200 and reference case number 22-260045. | 2022-11-02T21:16:37+00:00 | wearegreenbay.com | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/local-news/green-bay-man-arrested-after-officer-finds-several-handguns-narcotics-in-vehicle/ |
Urumqi: cultural relics, sweat-blooded horses, international grand bazaar
KASHGAR, China, Aug. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Urumqi is located in the central part of Xinjiang, the hinterland of Eurasia. The city has Xinjiang ethnic characteristics and regional culture, as well as high-rise buildings and convenient transportation. It is currently one of the most popular tourist destinations in Xinjiang.
Xinjiang Museum, located on Northwest Road within Urumqi, is the largest collection museum of cultural relics and specimens in Xinjiang, focusing on as many as 1,570 pieces (groups) of precious cultural relics from various periods from the pre-Qin Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty. The museum uses holographic projection technology to integrate artefacts into living scenes, and also offers immersive heritage theatre productions.
Xinjiang International Bazaar Pedestrian Street, known as the "Window of Xinjiang", is a special bazaar with Islamic-style architecture, ethnic commerce and Xinjiang cuisine, where you can buy a variety of inexpensive small goods with Xinjiang's regional characteristics.
The Wild Horse Ancient Ecological Park in Urumqi covers an area of 200 acres and protects substantial ancient ecological resources, such as nearly 300 silicified woods, black iron meteorites, Przewalski's wild horses and sweat-blooded horses.
The Xinjiang Art Theatre Mukam Art Troupe provides performances of the world intangible cultural heritage item "Uyghur Twelve Mukams".
Kashgar: A Vibrant Millennium City
The Etigar Mosque, located on the west side of Etigar Square in downtown Kashgar, covers an area of 16,800 square meters and is the largest Muslim "gathering place" in Xinjiang, with 2-3,000 people worshipping here every day and 6-7,000 male Muslims worshipping on Friday afternoons.
In the village of Tovankwu Cusak, known as the village of ethnic musical instruments, Ethnic music and the making of ethnic musical instruments are passed down. More than 50 types of musical instruments in 27 categories are produced by hand here. Nearly 300 local families make and produce musical instruments by hand, covering almost all types of traditional Uyghur instruments. The village once built the world's largest Dutar, which is 4.97 meters long and took 45 days. The great instrument maker Elkhen Timur once built a 3.75-meter-long Hotwarp and a 5.7-meter-long Sattar. This village was thus selected as one of the first national demonstration bases for the productive protection of intangible cultural heritage, to promote the production of ethnic musical instruments and the transmission of ethnic music.
Other recommended monuments
Kizil Grottoes, Kizil Gaha Beacon, and Subash Buddhist Temple Site in Aksu
The Kizil Grottoes, located in Aksu, Xinjiang, were dug roughly in the 3rd century AD. Currently, there are still 81 grottoes with exquisite murals, which are the cultural relics of the ancient State of Qiuci. The ancient Buddhist grottoes were just visited by foreign students from Zhejiang Normal University last month.
The Kizil Gaha Beacon is the earliest and best-preserved beacon site on the northern route of the ancient Silk Road, and is located in a prime location on the northern route of the Silk Road.
Subash Buddhist Temple, which has a history of more than 1,700 years, is a relatively well-preserved site with a pagoda as the center, surrounded by temples, caves, halls, monastery rooms and other buildings. The site was the center of Buddhist culture in Guzi and even in the western regions (Xiyu) during the period from Wei-Jin periods to Tang Dynasty.
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MIDDLEBURG HEIGHTS, Ohio — Now that summer is officially underway, many of us are looking forward to seasonal activities including picnics, thrill rides, and concerts. Middleburg Heights’ “Summer in the City” festival, 5-11 p.m. June 16 and 17, and 12-11 p.m. June 18, at Southland Shopping Center, promises all that and more.
For 2022, the event will feature more concerts from top entertainers, more rides and events, and special attractions rarely found at other community events in Northeast Oho.
The midway for the festival will stretch along a 1,000-foot section of Smith Road within the Shopping Center, and the event will include a June 17th parade with more than 100 participants.
There will be rides and games for the entire family to enjoy, live entertainment and music throughout the three-day event, contests, educational displays, safety demonstrations, community activities, and a fireworks display by the world-renowned Zambelli Internationale. All concerts are free.
McGinnis Amusements, Inc., a full-service carnival company, will provide amusement rides, food, and game concessions.
“Having maintained a sterling record for over 30 years, McGinnis’ longevity speaks to their success and Middleburg Heights is delighted to feature them at the 2022 festival,” said city spokesman Charles Bichara. “McGinnis rides are modern, safe, and well maintained.”
For a full schedule of festival events, visit Summer in the City online.
Food banks benefit: The Empty Bowl fundraiser, sponsored in April by Berea Kiwanis, netted a $7,705 profit — all of which has been donated to Berea food banks, including People’s Community Church, Berea Community Outreach, and SCAN (Southwest Community Action Network).
“In the near future, Second Mile Outreach will attend a meeting to receive their check,” a Kiwanis spokesperson said.
Focus on safe driving: The Polaris Career Center Satellite Marketing & Entrepreneurship and Broadcasting & Video Production programs, located at Berea-Midpark High School, placed third in the Impact Teen Drivers “Just Drive” Social Media Campaign. This national program is intended to eliminate reckless and distracted driving, the number one killer of young people in America.
The following students created the project, under the direction of Polaris instructors Melissa Burchett and Katie Street:
Omar Alhalabi, freshman, Broadcasting & Video Production; Malakai Crespo, freshman, Broadcasting & Video Production; Shawn Elias-Eville, freshman, Broadcasting & Video Production: Kristian McDevitt, freshman, Broadcasting & Video Production; Mason Sheets, junior, Broadcasting & Video Production;
Madison Rodgers, senior, Broadcasting & Video Production; Elizabeth Dorner, senior (student helper – not enrolled in either program); Collin Pannunzio, senior, Marketing & Entrepreneurship; Cameron Cupach, senior, Marketing & Entrepreneurship; Halle Dacek, senior, Marketing & Entrepreneurship; Alexis Rump, senior, Marketing & Entrepreneurship, and Samantha Schwab, senior, Marketing & Entrepreneurship.
The students’ entry, “You Can’t Rewind Your Life,” was recognized for its concept and creativity, execution, and effectiveness of the message.
The students worked hard to create a week-long campaign highlighting the dangers of distracted driving, and they developed the concept, plan, infographics, social media posts, PSA videos, and posters.
The winning campaign was implemented in April. As the third-place winners, the programs were awarded a $2,500 educational grant.
Dean’s List: Hiram College is pleased to announce that Lauren Brewer of Berea, has been named to the spring 2022 Dean’s List.
Dean’s List recognition is awarded each semester to students who, during the semester, complete 12 or more hours of graded coursework at Hiram College, with a semester grade point average of 3.6 or better.
New graduate: Ryan McClain of Middleburg Heights, has graduated from the Mansfield University of Pennsylvania with a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology. The commencement ceremony was on May 14th.
Mansfield University, founded in 1857, is one of 14 institutions that comprise Pennsylvania’s State System of Education. For more information, visit mansfield.edu.
New eatery: Taco Bell has announced that it will build a new restaurant at 1298 West Bagley Road, near the Powerhouse Gym, in Berea.
The City’s Planning Commission approved several variances, and the site plan for the project, on April 21.
Ben Marshall, agent for Taco Bell, said the actual dining area will be small and not always open, but the restaurant is planning on drive-through service with room for nine vehicles at the drive-up window.
City planners also approved modifications to parking space requirements, lot width, lot split, conditional use, elimination of a second story, windows, and landscaping.
Elk ‘Citizen’ named: Berea Elks Lodge, 1815, 626 North Rocky River Drive, has named Nancy Doutt its Citizen of the Year.
Doutt is active with American Legion Post 91 Auxiliary and St. Mary Catholic Church, among many other activities.
She received Berea’s Grindstone Award and its Spirit of the Community Award, in 2012.
He’s Elk of the Year: Berea Police Sgt. Patrick Greenhill was named Elk of the Year. Greenhill is a member of the Elks Lodge and was one of the founding members of Berea’s drug interdiction program.
SCAN Hunger Center Pantry: 39 W. Bagley Road, Williamsport Plaza. 440-260-7226. Open 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the second Friday of the month and 4 to 7 p.m. on the fourth Friday.
Street Ministries pantry: 1480 Bagley Road, 440-239-0549. Open noon to 2 p.m. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
Rise in Love: Free hot meal from 2 to 4 p.m. on the third Sunday of the month at St. Adalbert Catholic Church, Keller Center, 66 Adalbert St. Eat-in or Carry Out. The next meal is on June 19th.
Free Community Meal: St. Paul Lutheran Church, 276 E. Bagley Road, served from 5 to 6 p.m. on the second and last Wednesdays of the month. Drive-up only. The next meal is June 8th.
People’s Community Church pantry: 628 Wesley Drive, 440-234-0609. Open 10 a.m. to noon on the third Saturday of the month. The next open pantry will be on June 18th.
Pet Food Pantry: Animal Rescue Friends, 10015 E. River Road, Columbia Station, 10 a.m. to noon every Sunday. Contact 440-234-2034 or arfpet-pantry@gmail.com for more information.
Mini pantries: There are two Little Free Pantries located near People’s Community Church, 628 Wesley Drive, and Cuyahoga County Library’s Berea branch, at 7 Berea Commons. The Prospect Pantry is at the corner of Prospect Street and Jacqueline Drive.
Senior luncheons: Monthly Seniors Luncheon at St. Paul Lutheran Church, 276 E. Bagley Road in Berea. Lunches are $5 and are served at noon on the second Tuesday of every month. The next luncheon is June 14th.
For more information, call Michelle Skutt at 440-234-6080.
Read more from the News Sun. | 2022-06-03T15:49:38+00:00 | cleveland.com | https://www.cleveland.com/berea/2022/06/middleburg-heights-hosts-summer-in-the-city-2022-around-the-town.html |
GENEVA (AP) — The United States and several Western allies presented a proposal on Monday for the U.N.'s main human rights body to hold a special debate over reported rights abuses and violations against Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in China's western Xinjiang region.
A core group of countries including Britain, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden were behind a draft resolution at the Human Rights Council that would call for a debate on Xinjiang at the council's next session in early 2023, diplomats said.
It amounts to the latest geopolitical salvo between the West and Beijing in the wake of recent tensions over issues like the future of Taiwan. If approved, the resolution would mark the first time that human rights concerns in China have been formally put on the council’s agenda.
Diplomats in Geneva, where the 47-nation council is based, have been on the lookout for whether Western countries might be able to muster enough political capital to present and push through a resolution on Xinjiang before the council's current session ends on Oct. 7.
The draft resolution would only convene a debate in the council — which debates issues all the time — and stops short of calling for stronger tools in the council's arsenal to monitor rights abuses, such as convening independent experts to scrutinize countries' activities.
While less intrusive than it might have been, the draft proposal is likely to rankle China, which has pushed back on attempts to single it out and hold it to account over the Xinjiang rights issue. It would also set a formal date for the council to consider Xinjiang.
Some Western countries have sought to build pressure — or at least maintain it — on China after the office of former U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet issued a long-delayed report last month that suggested “crimes against humanity" and other wrongs took place against Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities as part of China's campaign against violent extremism in Xinjiang in recent years.
The draft resolution sets the stage for back-channel haggling and a diplomatic showdown for support among countries: China has ripped into Bachelet’s report, vowed not to work with the U.N. rights office, and staged an intense public relations push to defend its policies in Xinjiang.
The council currently counts both China and the United States as members. The draft resolution comes two days before the expiry of the deadline for such drafts to be presented, so that diplomats can discuss, fine-tune and possibly vote on them before the session’s end.
Some Western diplomats have expressed concern that putting forward a tough resolution could alienate or pressure some countries who have strong political and economic ties to China, and they have worried that the political gamble of presenting a resolution could backfire — by giving Beijing a chance to show just how much support it can muster internationally.
Human rights groups have accused China of sweeping a million or more people from the minority groups into detention camps where many have said they were tortured, sexually assaulted and forced to abandon their language and religion.
China has defended the camps — which it says have been largely closed — as vocational and training centers aimed at giving economic opportunities and skills for populations that have been on the margins of China’s booming economy in recent years. | 2022-09-26T12:05:16+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/US-allies-push-for-UN-rights-body-debate-on-17466775.php |
4.9 magnitude quake strikes southern Haiti; 3 dead, several injured
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.9 struck southern Haiti early Tuesday, killing at least three people and injuring several others, authorities said.
The quake struck before dawn near the southern coastal city of Jeremie at a depth of six miles (10 kilometers), according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
“I thought the whole house was going to fall on top of me,” Eric Mpitabakana, a World Food Program official in Jeremie, told The Associated Press by phone.
The three people who died were found under a collapsed house where rescuers were searching for more people, Frankel Maginaire with Haiti’s Civil Protection Agency in Jeremie told the AP.
He said that several children were hospitalized with injuries they received after they panicked and ran.
Mpitabakana said things fell around his house and that he and other colleagues are contemplating sleeping outdoors if there are strong aftershocks.
“There were so many people out on the street, and a lot of panic,” he recalled of the moments after the quake struck.
Claude Prepetit, a geologist and engineer with Haiti’s Bureau of Mines and Energy, told Radio Caraibes that smaller earthquakes that occurred earlier this year in southern Haiti led to the bigger one that struck Tuesday.
The earthquake struck almost two years after a 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck southern Haiti and killed more than 2,200 people, with Les Cayes sustaining the most damage. Some people who lost their homes last August are still living in camps.
“We had two years to prepare,” Prepetit said.
In 2010, a magnitude 7 quake near the densely populated capital, Port-au-Prince, killed at least 200,000 people and caused widespread devastation to buildings.
Tuesday’s earthquake comes as Haiti struggles to recover from heavy floods over the weekend that killed at least 45 people, injured 85 and flooded more than 13,600 homes. Prime Minister Ariel Henry has requested international assistance.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2023-06-06T13:30:06+00:00 | kcrg.com | https://www.kcrg.com/2023/06/06/49-magnitude-quake-strikes-southern-haiti-3-dead-several-injured/ |
Johnny Lujack, 1947 Heisman winner who led Notre Dame to 3 national titles, dies at 98
SOUTH BEND, Ind. - Johnny Lujack, the Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback who led Notre Dame to three national championships in the 1940s, died in Florida on Tuesday following a brief illness. He was 98.
Lujack’s death was confirmed by his granddaughter, Amy Schiller, who said he had entered hospice care recently after having been in good health until a couple of weeks ago.
"He was not only a legend in Notre Dame football and the sports world," Schiller said, "he was a legend as a father and grandfather and great grandfather."
Lujack is considered one of the greatest Notre Dame players of all time, having won the Heisman in 1947 and leading the Irish to national titles in 1943, 1946 and 1947.
Lujack posted a 20-1-1 record as starting quarterback for coach Frank Leahy. He played for the Irish in 1942 and ‘43, served two years in the Navy during World War II, and returned to Notre Dame for the 1946 and ’47 seasons.
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He was The Associated Press athlete of the year in 1947, when he was a first-round draft pick of the Chicago Bears. He played four seasons for the Bears, leading the team in scoring each year before retiring at age 26.
While Lujack had plenty of offensive highlights at Notre Dame, he is best remembered for a play he made as a defensive back in an era when players stayed on the field for nearly every play.
A standing-room-only crowd of about 75,000 packed Yankee Stadium in 1946 to see No. 1 Army — the two-time defending national champions — face then-rival Notre Dame, which was ranked No. 2. Lujack made the game-saving tackle against Doc Blanchard in a 0-0 tie. That contest is frequently referred to as the game of the century.
Lujack, in a 1996 interview with the AP, said that was the game he was asked about most often. He downplayed the tackle of Blanchard, who won the Heisman in 1945.
"You were back there," Lujack said. "You were supposed to make the tackle."
Lujack finished third in Heisman voting in 1946 before he won the award as the college game’s outstanding player the next year, when he completed 61 of 109 passes for 777 yards with nine touchdowns in leading the Irish to a 9-0 record and their second straight title.
He took over as the starting quarterback for the top-ranked Irish in 1943, after Angelo Bertelli left after six games to join the Marines. Among the other Irish greats he played with were Creighton Miller, Terry Brennan, Emil Sitko, George Connor, Bill Fischer and 1949 Heisman winner Leon Hart.
"We always felt that a game was kind of an easy scrimmage because the scrimmages we had against each other were mean and rough," Lujack once said.
The one loss in his college football career came in the final game of his sophomore season against Great Lakes Naval Training Station, a military base team that had some college players serving in the military, including some Notre Dame players.
Lujack intercepted eight passes as a rookie with the Bears and in 1949 he threw for 468 yards and six touchdowns in a 52-21 win over the Chicago Cardinals. He played in the Pro Bowl his final two seasons before retiring.
He served as an assistant coach at Notre Dame in Leahy’s final two seasons. He then moved to Davenport, Iowa, where he owned an auto dealership until 1988. | 2023-07-25T20:24:53+00:00 | fox6now.com | https://www.fox6now.com/sports/johnny-lujack-1947-heisman-winner-who-led-notre-dame-to-3-national-titles-dies-at-98 |
WASHINGTON – Conservative mega-donor Harlan Crow purchased three properties belonging to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his family, in a transaction worth more than $100,000 that Thomas never reported, according to the non-profit investigative journalism organization ProPublica.
The 2014 real estate deal shines a new light on Thomas's decades old relationship with Crow, a real estate magnate and longtime financier for conservative causes. That relationship and the material benefits received by Thomas have fueled calls for an official ethics investigation.
ProPublica previously revealed that Thomas and his wife Ginni were gifted with hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of annual vacations and trips by Crow for decades — including international cruises on his mega-yacht, private jet flights and stays at Crow's invitation-only resort in the Adirondacks. But the 2014 real estate deal is the first public evidence of a direct financial transaction between the pair.
Citing state tax documents and property deeds, ProPublica reported that one of Crow's companies paid $133,363 for the home in Savannah, Georgia where Thomas' mother was living, along with two nearby vacant lots that belonged to Thomas' family members. Thomas mother remained living in the home, which soon underwent tens of thousands of dollars in renovations.
Federal officials, including Supreme Court justices, are required to disclose the details of most real estate transactions with a value of over $1,000. Thomas would not be required to report the purchase if the property was his or his spouse's primary personal residence, but this stipulation does not apply to this purchase, which Thomas did not report.
Both Thomas and Crow have released statements downplaying the significance of the gifts, with Thomas maintaining that he was not required to disclose the trips. Crow responded to the latest disclosure with a statement to ProPublica saying that he approached Thomas about the purchase with an eye on honoring his legacy.
“My intention is to one day create a public museum at the Thomas home dedicated to telling the story of our nation’s second black Supreme Court Justice," the statement said. “Justice Thomas’s story represents the best of America.”
Thomas' office did not respond to an Associated Press request for comment.
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Associated Press reporter Mark Sherman contributed to this report. | 2023-04-14T00:51:47+00:00 | wsls.com | https://www.wsls.com/news/politics/2023/04/14/report-thomas-sold-real-estate-to-donor-didnt-report-deal/ |
When President Joe Biden signed a proclamation Tuesday establishing a national monument honoring Emmett Till and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, it marked the fulfillment of a promise Till’s relatives made after his death 68 years ago.
The Black teenager from Chicago, whose abduction, torture and killing in Mississippi in 1955 helped propel the Civil Rights Movement, is now an American story, not just a civil rights story, said Till’s cousin the Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr.
“It has been quite a journey for me from the darkness to the light,” Parker said during a proclamation signing ceremony at the White House attended by dozens, including other family members, members of Congress and civil rights leaders.
“Back then in the darkness, I could never imagine the moment like this, standing in the light of wisdom, grace and deliverance,” he said.
With the stroke of Biden’s pen, the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument, located across three sites in two states, became federally-protected places. Before signing the proclamation, the president said he marvels at the courage of the Till family to “find faith and purpose in pain.”
“Today, on what would have been Emmett’s 82nd birthday, we add another chapter in the story of remembrance and healing,” Biden said.
It’s the fourth such designation by the Democratic president’s administration, reflecting its broader civil rights agenda, the White House said. The move comes as conservative leaders, mostly at the state and local levels, push legislation that limits the teaching of slavery and Black history in public schools.
“At a time when there are those who seek to ban books (and) bury history, we’re making clear, crystal clear,” Biden said. “We can’t just choose to learn what we want to know. We should know everything — the good, the bad, the truth of who we are as a nation. That’s what great nations do.”
On Tuesday, reaction poured in from other elected officials and from the civil rights organizing community. The Rev. Al Sharpton said the Till national monument designation tells him “that out of pain comes power.”
House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jefferies said the monument “places the life and legacy of Emmett Till among our nation’s most treasured memorials.”
“Black history is American history,” he said in a written statement.
Till’s family members, along with a national organization seeking to preserve Black cultural heritage sites, say their work protecting the Till legacy continues. They hope to raise money to restore the sites and develop educational programming to support their inclusion in the National Park System.
Brent Leggs, executive director of the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund, a program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, said the federal designation is a milestone in a yearslong effort to preserve and protect places tied to events that have shaped the nation and that symbolize national wounds.
“We believe that not until Black history matters will Black lives and Black bodies matter,” he said. “Through reckoning with America’s racist past, we have the opportunity to heal.”
The African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund has provided $750,000 in grant funding since 2017 to help rescue sites important to the Till legacy. With its partners, the Andrew Mellon Foundation and the Lilly Endowment Inc., Leggs said an additional $5 million in funding has been secured for specialized preservation of the sites.
Biden’s proclamation protects places that are central to the story of Emmett Till’s life and death at age 14, the acquittal of his white killers by an all-white jury and his late mother’s activism.
In the summer of 1955, Mamie Till-Mobley put her son Emmett on a train to her native Mississippi, where he was to spend time with his uncle and his cousins. In the overnight hours of Aug. 28, 1955, Emmett was taken from his uncle’s home at gunpoint by two vengeful white men.
Emmett’s alleged crime? Flirting with the wife of one of his kidnappers.
Three days later, a fisherman on the Tallahatchie River discovered the teenager’s bloated corpse — one of his eyes was detached, an ear was missing, his head was shot and bashed in.
Till-Mobley demanded that Emmett’s mutilated remains be taken back to Chicago for a public, open casket funeral that was attended by tens of thousands of people. Graphic images taken of Emmett’s remains, sanctioned by his mother, were published by Jet magazine and fueled the Civil Rights Movement.
At the trial of his killers in Mississippi, Till-Mobley bravely took the witness stand to counter the perverse image of her son that defense attorneys had painted for jurors and trial watchers.
Altogether, the Till national monument will include 5.7 acres (2.3 hectares) of land and two historic buildings. The Mississippi sites are Graball Landing, the spot where Emmett’s body was pulled from the Tallahatchie River just outside of Glendora, Mississippi, and the Tallahatchie County Second District Courthouse in Sumner, Mississippi, where Emmett’s killers were tried.
There is already the Emmett Till Interpretive Center in Sumner, which received philanthropic funding to expand programming and pay staff who interface with visitors.
At Graball Landing, a memorial sign installed in 2008 had been repeatedly stolen and was riddled with bullets. An inch-thick bulletproof sign was erected at the site in October 2019.
The Illinois site is Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ in Chicago, where Emmett’s funeral was held in September 1955.
Mississippi state Sen. David Jordan, 90, was a freshman at Mississippi Valley College in 1955 when he attended part of the trial of the two men charged with killing Till. As a state senator for the past 30 years, Jordan, who is Black, led an effort to get money for a statue of Till that was dedicated last year in Greenwood, Mississippi, a few miles from where the teenager was abducted.
On Tuesday, Jordan praised Biden for creating the Till national monument.
“It’s one of the greatest honors that a president could pay to a person, 14, who lost his life in Mississippi that’s created a movement that changed America,” Jordan told the AP.
The Till national monument will join dozens of federally recognized landmarks, buildings and other places in the Deep South, in the north and out west that represent historical events and tragedies from the Civil Rights Movement. For example, in Atlanta, sites representing the life and legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., including his birth home and Ebenezer Baptist Church, are all part of the National Park Service.
The designation often requires public and private entities to work together on developing interpretation centers at each of the sites, so that anyone who visits can understand the site’s significance. The hiring of park rangers is supported through partnerships with the National Park Foundation, the park service’s official nonprofit, and the National Parks Conservation Association.
Increasingly, the park service includes sites “that are part of the arc of justice in this country, both telling where we’ve come from, how far we’ve come, and frankly, how far we have to still go,” said Will Shafroth, the president and CEO of the National Park Foundation. His organization made a $3 million investment in preservation of the Mississippi sites, along with the Fund II Foundation and the Mellon Foundation.
For Parker, who was 16 years old when he witnessed Emmett’s abduction, the Till monument proclamation begins to lift the weight of trauma that he has carried for most of his life. In an interview with the AP ahead of Tuesday’s White House event, Parker reflected on the decades-long fight to portray Emmett and his story in a proper light.
“I’ve been suffering for all these years of how they’ve portrayed him — I still deal with that,” Parker, 84, said of his cousin Emmett.
“The truth should carry itself, but it doesn’t have wings. You have to put some wings on it.”
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Associated Press writers Emily Wagster Pettus in Jackson, Mississippi, and Darlene Superville in Washington contributed to this report.
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CA Medford, OR Zone Forecast for Wednesday, June 15, 2022
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Zone Forecast Product for Southern Oregon and Northern California
National Weather Service Medford, OR
311 AM PDT Thu Jun 16 2022
CAZ080-162300-
Western Siskiyou County-
Including the cities of Somes Bar, Happy Camp, Callahan, Etna,
Fort Jones, Greenview, and Scott Bar
311 AM PDT Thu Jun 16 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. A 10 percent chance of showers this
morning. Highs in the mid 50s to mid 60s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A 30 percent chance of showers after
midnight. Snow level 6000 feet. Lows in the lower to mid 40s.
West winds 10 to 15 mph decreasing to around 5 mph after
midnight.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Rain and snow showers likely in the
morning, then rain showers, snow showers likely and slight chance
of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Snow level 5500 feet. Little
or no snow accumulation. Highs in the mid 40s to mid 50s. West
winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation 60 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain showers and slight
chance of thunderstorms in the evening, then slight chance of
rain and snow showers after midnight. Snow level 5500 feet. Lows
in the mid 30s to lower 40s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph shifting
to the north well after midnight. Chance of precipitation
40 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Slight chance of rain and snow showers
in the morning, then chance of rain showers and slight chance of
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Snow level 5500 feet rising to
6000 feet in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 50s to lower 60s.
North winds around 5 mph shifting to the northwest in the
afternoon. Chance of precipitation 30 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 40s.
.JUNETEENTH...Sunny, warmer. Highs in the lower 60s to lower 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower to mid 40s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s to mid 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 40s to lower 50s.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs in the lower 70s
to lower 80s. Lows in the mid 40s to mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s to mid 80s.
$$
CAZ081-162300-
Central Siskiyou County-
Including the cities of Hilt, Klamath River, and Yreka
311 AM PDT Thu Jun 16 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s to lower 70s.
Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers after
midnight. Snow level 7000 feet after midnight. Lows in the lower
to mid 40s. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph decreasing to around
5 mph after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain showers in the morning,
then rain showers likely and slight chance of thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Snow level 6000 feet. Highs in the lower 50s to
lower 60s. West winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation
70 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain showers and slight
chance of thunderstorms in the evening, then chance of rain
showers after midnight. Snow level 6500 feet lowering to
6000 feet after midnight. Lows in the lower to mid 40s. Northwest
winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation 30 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Chance of showers in the morning, then
chance of showers and slight chance of thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Snow level 6000 feet. Highs in the mid 50s to mid 60s.
Light winds becoming northwest 5 to 10 mph in the late morning
and afternoon. Chance of precipitation 30 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers
in the evening, then mostly clear after midnight. Lows in the
lower to mid 40s.
.JUNETEENTH...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny.
Warmer. Highs in the mid 60s to mid 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs in the lower 70s
to lower 80s. Lows in the mid 40s to lower 50s.
.TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the mid 70s
to mid 80s. Lows in the mid 40s to lower 50s.
$$
CAZ082-162300-
South Central Siskiyou County-
Including the cities of Mount Shasta, Dunsmuir, and McCloud
311 AM PDT Thu Jun 16 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s to lower 70s.
Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph shifting to the southwest in the late
morning and afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A 10 percent chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the lower to mid 40s. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph shifting to the northwest late in the evening and
overnight.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain showers in the morning,
then chance of rain showers and slight chance of thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Snow level 6000 feet. Highs in the lower 50s to
lower 60s. South winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation
40 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain showers and slight
chance of thunderstorms in the evening, then chance of rain
showers after midnight. Snow level 6500 feet lowering to
6000 feet after midnight. Lows in the mid 30s to lower 40s. West
winds 5 to 10 mph shifting to the northwest after midnight.
Chance of precipitation 30 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain and snow showers in the
morning, then rain showers likely and slight chance of
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Snow level 6000 feet rising to
6500 feet in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 50s to mid 60s.
Light winds becoming west around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance
of precipitation 60 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain
showers in the evening, then mostly clear after midnight. Lows in
the mid 30s to lower 40s.
.JUNETEENTH...Sunny. Highs in the lower 60s to lower 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 30s to lower 40s.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs in the lower 70s
to lower 80s. Lows in the lower 40s to lower 50s.
.TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the mid 70s
to mid 80s. Lows in the mid 40s to lower 50s.
$$
CAZ083-162300-
North Central and Southeast Siskiyou County-
Including the cities of Pondosa, Bray, and Tennant
311 AM PDT Thu Jun 16 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s to lower 70s.
Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A 10 percent chance of showers after
midnight. Lows in the lower to mid 40s. West winds 5 to 10 mph
shifting to the southwest.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain showers in the morning,
then chance of rain showers, snow showers and slight chance of
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Snow level 6000 feet. Highs in
the lower 50s to lower 60s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance
of precipitation 30 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain showers and
slight chance of thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy
with a slight chance of rain and snow showers after midnight.
Snow level 6500 feet lowering to 6000 feet after midnight. Lows
in the mid 30s to lower 40s. West winds 10 to 15 mph decreasing
to around 5 mph after midnight. Chance of precipitation
50 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain and snow showers in the
morning, then rain showers likely and slight chance of
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Snow level 6000 feet rising to
6500 feet in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 50s to lower 60s.
West winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation 60 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain
showers in the evening, then mostly clear after midnight. Lows in
the mid 30s to lower 40s.
.JUNETEENTH...Sunny. Highs in the mid 50s to mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 30s to lower 40s.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs in the mid 60s to
mid 70s. Lows in the mid 30s to mid 40s.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs in the lower 70s
to lower 80s. Lows in the lower 40s to lower 50s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s to mid 80s.
$$
CAZ084-162300-
Northeast Siskiyou and Northwest Modoc Counties-
Including the cities of Newell, Tulelake, Dorris, and Macdoel
311 AM PDT Thu Jun 16 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s to lower 70s. West
winds around 5 mph increasing to southwest 10 to 20 mph this
afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower to mid 40s. West
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Slight chance of rain showers in the
morning, then chance of rain showers and slight chance of
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 50s to lower
60s. Southwest winds around 5 mph increasing to 10 to 20 mph in
the afternoon. Chance of precipitation 30 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain showers and
slight chance of thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy
with a slight chance of rain showers after midnight. Snow level
6000 feet after midnight. Lows in the mid 30s to lower 40s. West
winds 10 to 20 mph decreasing to 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
Chance of precipitation 40 percent.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain showers in the morning,
then chance of rain showers and slight chance of thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Snow level 6000 feet in the morning. Highs in the
mid 50s to lower 60s. West winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of
precipitation 30 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of
thunderstorms in the evening, then mostly clear after midnight.
Lows in the mid 30s.
.JUNETEENTH...Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming sunny.
Highs in the lower to mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 30s to lower 40s.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the lower 70s to
lower 80s. Lows in the mid 30s to mid 40s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s.
Highs in the mid 70s to lower 80s.
$$
CAZ085-162300-
Modoc County-
Including the cities of Day, Lookout, Adin, Alturas, Canby,
Davis Creek, and Likely
311 AM PDT Thu Jun 16 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 70s. Southwest winds
15 to 20 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s. Southwest winds
around 15 mph shifting to the west 5 to 10 mph late in the
evening and overnight.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then partly cloudy with a
10 percent chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs in the mid
50s to mid 60s. South winds 5 to 10 mph increasing to southwest
15 to 20 mph in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain
showers. Snow level 6500 feet lowering to 6000 feet after
midnight. Lows in the mid 30s. Southwest winds 10 to 20 mph
shifting to the west 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow showers
in the morning, then mostly cloudy with a chance of rain showers
and slight chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Snow level
6000 feet rising to 6500 feet in the afternoon. Highs in the mid
50s to lower 60s. West winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation
50 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Slight chance of thunderstorms
in the evening. Lows in the mid 30s to lower 40s.
.JUNETEENTH...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers in
the morning, then sunny in the afternoon. Highs in the lower to
mid 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s to
lower 40s. Highs in the mid 60s to mid 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the
mid 40s to lower 50s. Highs in the lower 70s to lower 80s.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 80s.
$$
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Power outage blacks out terminals at Los Angeles airport
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Power was briefly knocked out at Los Angeles International Airport on Wednesday, leaving many passengers at one of the world’s busiest airports in the dark and halting security checks, authorities said.
The airport tweeted at around 2:30 p.m. PT that some terminals, along with traffic lights and other systems, may have lost power, although it said the airfield was operating normally.
The Transportation Security Administration stopped screening passengers in most terminals, the airport said, and it urged people to allow extra time for security checks.
The airport later tweeted that most terminals had lost electricity and added that some departing flights may have been affected because the jet bridges used to board passengers weren’t working.
The airport said most power was restored shortly after 3 p.m.
“Our crews were able to make switches in the field to reroute power to LAX and restore service,” the city Department of Water and Power tweeted.
It wasn’t immediately clear how many flights were affected but the LAX website showed that at least three dozen departing flights scheduled to take off during the outage period were delayed.
The cause of the outage wasn’t immediately clear.
According to Los Angeles World Airports, which operates LAX, it is the fourth-busiest airport in the world and second-busiest in the United States, based on number of passengers.
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ARLINGTON, Va., Feb. 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today the National Security Space Association's Moorman Center for Space Studies announced the launch of its new Occasional Paper series with the publication of a scholarly paper by Marc Berkowitz entitled "Redesigning Space Forces for Deterrence and Warfighting".
According to Chair of the Moorman Center Chris Williams, "This insightful paper places necessary emphasis on 'getting force design right'. Force design analyses are used to justify major national security space system acquisition, programmatic and budgetary decisions. Therefore, it behooves U.S. leaders to ensure that proper metrics are used to judge various force design options – and Marc's paper shows the way. This is required reading for those interested in assuring America's national security space dominance in the face of rapidly growing space threats."
Berkowitz argues that future space forces must be structured and postured to complicate an adversary's risk calculus, present a difficult targeting challenge, and enable forces to evade, operate through, degrade gracefully, and prevent attack to enable deterrence by both denial and punishment as well as warfighting across the conflict spectrum. His recommendations for redesigning space forces include:
(1) Implementing a hybrid design approach that proliferates the number of assets in constellations and overall mission capabilities; diversifies the mix of dedicated national security and contributing commercial and international assets, orbital regimes, spacecraft sizes, passive and active countermeasures, and communications paths; and distributes mission value across orbits, spectrum, hosts, and geography.
(2) Integrating combinations of passive and active countermeasures into a layered, dynamic, defense-in-depth that will limit damage, delay, or disrupt an attack or compel the adversary to expend a disproportionate amount of scarce resources executing the attack.
(3) Fielding a mix of sufficiently resilient, protected, defended, and lethal capabilities that can maintain working control over key orbits and lines of communication during conflict.
(4) Acknowledging the existence of most space force assets for shaping, pre-war deterrence, and reassurance while concealing the existence of selected capabilities until necessary to reveal them for intra-war deterrence, surprise, escalation control, or operational advantage.
(5) Rapidly adopting new concepts and tactics enabled by emerging technologies including artificial intelligence, quantum computing, in-space servicing, assembly, and manufacturing, and directed energy.
This timely and informative paper – and the establishment of the Occasional Series – reflects the Moorman Center's continuing commitment to timely and insightful analysis of national security space topics. Below is the link to the paper.
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84,000 children’s bicycles recalled for possible fall hazard
(Gray News) - The company woom recalled approximately 84,000 of its Original Bicycles for a risk of handlebars detaching, posing a fall hazard for riders.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said in a news release that the recall includes all of the 2018-2021 model bikes, which were designed for riders from age 18 months to 14 years old. There have been 77 reports of the handlebar stem detaching or loosening, resulting in 19 injuries involving bruising, cuts or abrasions.
They were sold at woom.com, amazon.com and bicycle stores nationwide from September 2018 through March 2022 for between $200 and $530.
The bicycles were sold in six versions: balance bikes woom 1 and woom 1 Plus, as well as pedal bikes woom 2-6. They come in several colors, with “woom” on the front and sides.
The CPSC said people should stop using the recalled bicycles and contact woom Bikes USA for a free repair kit. The company said it is contacting all known purchasers directly.
Visit https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls to learn more about this and other recalls.
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NEW YORK, June 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, announces an investigation of potential securities claims on behalf of shareholders of TriplePoint Venture Growth BDC Corp. (NYSE: TPVG) resulting from allegations that TriplePoint may have issued materially misleading business information to the investing public.
SO WHAT: If you purchased TriplePoint securities you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement. The Rosen Law Firm is preparing a class action seeking recovery of investor losses.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the prospective class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=15759 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.
WHAT IS THIS ABOUT: On May 2, 2023, the Bear Cave released a report highlighting issues at TriplePoint Venture Growth BDC Corp. alleging that "TriplePoint is encumbered by high fees, weak management, and a weaker loan book saddled by portfolio company bankruptcies and upside-down startups," and stateD that "the Bear Cave believes TriplePoint's equity may be severely impaired, if it has any value at all."
On this news, TriplePoint's stock fell $0.95 per share, or over 7.9%, to close at $ 10.97 per share on May 2, 2023.
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. 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.
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The 2023 3M Open Odds & Preview: Justin Thomas
Justin Thomas will be in the 2023 3M Open in Blaine, Minnesota at TPC Twin Cities from July 27-30.
Looking to wager on Thomas at the 3M Open this week? Read on for the betting odds and stats you need to know before you make your picks.
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Justin Thomas Insights
- Over his last 14 rounds, Thomas has finished better than par seven times, while also carding seven rounds with a better-than-average score.
- He has carded a top-five score in one of his last 14 rounds, while ranking among the top 10 scores of the day twice.
- Thomas has posted a score within three shots of the day's best in two of his last 14 rounds, while finishing within five strokes of the top score of the day three times.
- Thomas has finished in the top 10 in one of his past five appearances.
- Looking at the past five tournaments he has entered, he made the cut twice.
- In his past five tournaments, Thomas has finished in the top 10 once.
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3M Open Insights and Stats
- The Tour has played courses with an average length of 7,017 yards in the past year, while TPC Twin Cities is set for a longer 7,431 yards.
- TPC Twin Cities has seen an average tournament score of -8 recently, which is lower than the Tour scoring average of -5 on all courses in the past year.
- The average course Thomas has played in the past year has been 44 yards shorter than the 7,431 yards TPC Twin Cities will be at for this event.
- Events he has played in the past year have seen players average a score of -3. That is higher than this course, which has a scoring average of -8.
Thomas' Last Time Out
- Thomas finished in the first percentile on the eight par-3 holes at The Open Championship, with an average of 3.5 strokes.
- His 4.23-stroke average on the 22 par-4 holes at The Open Championship placed him in the 41st percentile.
- Thomas shot better than only 7% of the golfers at The Open Championship on the tournament's six par-5 holes, averaging 5.33 strokes per hole compared to the field average, which was 4.78.
- Thomas failed to record a birdie on any of the eight par-3s at The Open Championship (the other golfers averaged 1.3).
- On the eight par-3s at The Open Championship, Thomas carded four bogeys or worse (the field averaged 2.3).
- Thomas' two birdies or better on par-4s at The Open Championship were less than the field average of 3.4.
- At that last tournament, Thomas' par-4 showing (on 22 holes) included a bogey or worse five times (better than the field's average, 8.1).
- Thomas finished The Open Championship with a birdie or better on three of six par-5s, worse than the field's average, 3.4.
- On the six par-5s at The Open Championship, Thomas carded more bogeys or worse (two) than the field average (1.2).
3M Open Time and Date Info
- Date: July 27-30, 2023
- Course: TPC Twin Cities
- Location: Blaine, Minnesota
- Par: 71 / 7,431 yards
- Thomas Odds to Win: +2500 (Bet now with BetMGM!)
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Officials alarmed after rap video is recorded in prison
LENOX TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A rap video titled “In Dis Cell” appears to be too authentic: It was made inside a Michigan prison, despite a ban on wireless phones.
Two prisoners in the video have been placed in segregation at the Macomb prison in suburban Detroit, Corrections Department spokesman Chris Gautz said Tuesday.
The video, posted on YouTube, shows the men, the inside of their cell and prison staff in a corridor. The men appear to have two phones.
Gautz told the Detroit Free Press it’s “incredibly dangerous” to have wireless phones inside a prison “especially with the capability of getting onto the internet.” He said they could be used to arrange escapes or harass crime witnesses.
Smuggling phones, cameras or drugs into prison is a crime.
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Oil Kings 2, Hitmen 1
First Period
1. Edmonton, Finnie 8 (Finley, Kovacevic) 12:45 (pp).
Penalties — Whynott Cgy (high sticking) 7:43; Moore Cgy (roughing) 11:41; Wright Edm (roughing) 18:32.
Second Period
2. Calgary, Tschigerl 27 (unassisted) 9:11 (sh).
Penalties — Moore Cgy (major-boarding major, misconduct) 6:08.
Third Period
3. Edmonton, Daigle 9 (Boyko, Pederson) 19:33.
Penalties — None.
Shots on goal by
Goal — Edmonton: Cunningham (W, ). Calgary: Buenaventura (L, ).
Power plays (goals-chances) — Edmonton: 1-3; Calgary: 0-1.
Referees — Mike Campbell, Chris Crich. Linesmen — Cody Huseby, Michael Roberts.
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CLEVELAND, Ohio – Cuyahoga County took another step to make it easier for people to bond out of jail.
The Cuyahoga County Clerk of Courts office now offers 24-hour payments through a new online system on the clerk’s website.
Users can search the website by case number or name and then scroll to the bottom of the page for bond information. Users can then choose how they would like to post bond and will be directed through the payment process.
A credit card processing fee of 3% of the bond amount, payable to the credit card vendor, is required if the bond is paid in person or online. The state mandated reparation fee is also required. Once paid, the sheriff department’s Release Desk is notified for processing.
The goal is to make the bond posting process more accessible and to further accelerate criminal justice reform, the county said in a news release. Bonds previously could only be paid by phone or in person.
“Thanks to the forward-thinking of the clerk’s team, payments can be made quickly in the comfort of home with little fuss,” County Executive Armond Budish said in a news release about the change. “This new option is available 24/7, 365 (days), not just during standard workday hours.”
The Clerk of Courts Office manages the collection of property bonds, 10% bonds, personal bonds and cash bonds. The office processes approximately 155 bond payments of all types on a weekly basis, the county said.
Budish and Cuyahoga County Council also recently pledged $225,000 in American Rescue Plan Act funding to The Bail Project, which pays bail for poor residents accused of low-level crimes, when the only thing keeping them locked up is a cash bond. The money is expected to be formally approved at the Dec. 6 council meeting. | 2022-11-29T22:31:57+00:00 | cleveland.com | https://www.cleveland.com/news/2022/11/cuyahoga-county-inmates-can-now-post-bond-anytime-through-new-online-system.html |
Lucid on Tuesday revealed a few more details regarding its upcoming Gravity electric SUV—and it’s promising to shake up the world of electric SUVs much in the same way it has with its range- and efficiency-topping Air sedan.
The Gravity will be built on the same platform and underpinnings of the Air, and even though it will follow a taller form, Lucid says that the SUV will offer “more range than any other EV on the market—other than its stablemate, Lucid Air.”
At present, Lucid Air driving range spans up to 516 EPA miles in its Grand Touring guise, while even the base Pure and mid-range Touring versions detailed today reach 425 miles and 410 miles, respectively, in dual-motor form.
In 2020, Lucid teased Project Gravity (above), a drivable concept vehicle that previewed the design direction of the SUV. At that time Lucid design VP Derek Jenkins told Green Car Reports that the design was still very much a work in progress as the team aimed to find the right balance between a raised driving position, cargo space, and capability, while keeping it aerodynamically optimized at speed.
Based on the set of somewhat obscured images released with this announcement, it’s clear that the roofline and profile of the vehicle have changed significantly since then
Lucid promises that the Gravity will offer next-generation Glass Cockpit displays, a new generation of its interface, and “a previously unattainable combination of supercar performance and seating for up to seven adults.”
“It is both a supercar in disguise and an SUV with flexible passenger and cargo space that seems impossibly big relative to the exterior size of the vehicle,” stated Jenkins in a press release.
The Gravity will be offered in two- or three-row configurations, with seating for five, six, or seven. Based on the size of the Air, the Gravity is expected to compare very closely with the Tesla Model X. The Model X is also offered in five-, six-, or seven-passenger configurations, and it starts at $122,190 in its standard dual-motor form, with a 351-mile range and claimed 3.8-second 0-60 mph time. The tri-motor Model X Plaid has a 333-mile range rating and claimed 2.5-second 0-60 mph time, at a price of $140,190.
Reservations are set to open in early 2023 for the U.S. and Canada, and the announcement confirms that a reveal of the final design will happen then. Meanwhile, the company says that it’s currently “finalizing the vehicle design and specifications.”
Lucid says that the Gravity is due for production in 2024 at its Arizona factory.
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- Bill seeks delay of EV tax credit American sourcing rules | 2022-11-16T18:40:41+00:00 | wearegreenbay.com | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/automotive/internet-brands/lucid-suggests-gravity-will-be-the-electric-suv-range-king/ |
CLEVELAND (AP) — Gunnar Henderson quickly turned his major league debut into a success.
Henderson, called up by the Baltimore Orioles earlier in the day, homered in the fourth inning Wednesday night against the Cleveland Guardians. The 21-year-old hit a 2-2 pitch from Cleveland’s Triston McKenzie an estimated 429 feet to right-center field for his first big league hit.
Henderson’s helmet fell off as he rounded the bases. He looked to the sky after crossing home plate and was greeted at the top step of the dugout by teammates, who placed the Orioles’ home run chain around his neck.
Henderson, the game’s No. 1 prospect according to Baseball America, joins a Baltimore team that entered Wednesday three games out of the final wild card in the American League. A year after losing 110 games, the Orioles have been ahead of schedule in their rebuild, thanks in part to another top prospect, catcher Adley Rutschman.
Rutschman, the top pick in the 2019 draft, arrived in the majors earlier this season. Henderson was a second-round draft pick that same year. His stock has risen significantly this season. The 21-year-old shortstop hit 11 home runs in 65 games at Triple-A Norfolk.
Henderson said he called his parents and his girlfriend when he got the news so they could be in attendance along with other family members for Wednesday night’s game against the Guardians.
“My goal was to make it to the big leagues and send my girlfriend a text before the end of the year telling her I made it,” Henderson said. “She has the text. That was pretty cool to accomplish that, but the road is just now starting.”
The Orioles could use a boost offensively after being held to one hit in a loss to the Guardians on Tuesday night. Shortstop Jorge Mateo has 12 homers this year and has made some sparkling plays with the glove, but Henderson spent at least some time at every infield position while with Norfolk.
Henderson got the start at third base against Cleveland, batting sixth. He fouled out in his first at-bat.
“I’ll play him at multiple spots in the infield,” manager Brandon Hyde said. “It’s something he’s been preparing for in Norfolk. Getting some reps at second base, shortstop, third base. We’re excited to have him.”
The 21-year-old Henderson tried to not get caught up in the hype that goes with being considered a top prospect as he progressed through the minor leagues.
“Just growing up my family really instilled, don’t let the outside noise get to you,” he said. “All throughout pro ball I felt like I had done a good job tuning that out.”
In addition to selecting Henderson’s contract, the Orioles also signed first baseman Jesús Aguilar to a minor league contract and added him to the major league taxi squad. The 32-year-old Aguilar was designated for assignment last week by the Miami Marlins. He hit .236 with 15 home runs for them this year.
Baltimore also optioned infielder Tyler Nevin to Norfolk, designated right-hander Denyi Reyes for assignment and assigned right-hander Travis Lakins to Norfolk after he cleared outright waivers.
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BOSTON (AP) — Republicans hoping to hold on to the Massachusetts governor’s office are choosing between a Donald Trump-backed candidate and a more moderate businessman in Tuesday’s primary election.
Massachusetts is just the latest blue state to feature a top-of-the-ticket contest between a conservative candidate endorsed by Trump and a more centrist opponent. In recent primaries in Maryland and Connecticut, GOP voters have opted for the Trump loyalists, potentially worsening their chances of winning a general election.
The winner of Tuesday’s Massachusetts primary will take on Democratic Attorney General Maura Healey in November. If elected, she would be the state’s first openly gay governor and the first woman elected governor of Massachusetts. Republican Jane Swift served as acting governor after Gov. Paul Cellucci stepped down in 2001 to become U.S. ambassador to Canada.
The governor’s office is open this year because popular GOP Gov. Charlie Baker opted against running for a third term.
What to watch:
Former state Rep. Geoff Diehl, who has Trump’s endorsement, is going up against businessman Chris Doughty, a political newcomer, in the Republican primary for governor.
Diehl, who launched a failed campaign for U.S. Senate against Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren in 2018, is popular among Republican activists. He won the party’s endorsement with 71% of delegates at the state party convention in May, but he could face a tougher climb in a general election in a state in which Trump won only 32% of votes in 2020.
Diehl has opposed COVID-19 mandates, falsely claimed the 2020 presidential race was rigged, fought against the extension of mail-in voting and said he supports the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade.
Trump — a critic of Baker, who publicly refused to vote for Trump in 2016 and 2020 — endorsed Diehl last October, saying in a statement that he is “strong on Crime, Election Integrity, our now under siege Southern Border, loves our Military, and has a big focus on taking care of our Vets.”
Doughty described himself as moderate when he entered the race but has since embraced the label of conservative as he tries to appeal to Republican primary voters. Doughty has said his experience running a manufacturing company gives him the know-how to be a successful chief executive.
He has said he wants to make Massachusetts more affordable for residents and businesses. He has described himself as “pro-life,” but acknowledges the state’s highest court has recognized a right to abortion and said he doesn’t have an interest in changing that.
Baker hasn’t endorsed either candidate.
Healey, who’s won two statewide races for attorney general, is running virtually unopposed, with her sole rival dropping out of the race in June, though she remains on the ballot. Healey is hoping to break a political “curse” in Massachusetts, referring to a string of unsuccessful campaigns by attorneys general for governor.
Despite being considered a Democratic stronghold, Massachusetts has a history of electing Republican governors as a check on a Legislature in which Democrats hold overwhelming majorities. Those Republican governors, including Mitt Romney, have typically been fiscally conservative but more socially moderate.
Baker said in December that he opted not to seek reelection so he could focus on helping the state emerge from the pandemic. He credited his administration’s focus on issues over personality as a big reason for his success with voters, which he said stands “apart from a lot of the bipartisan noise that’s created in politics generally these days.”
The election also features several statewide contested Democratic primaries, including for attorney general and secretary of the commonwealth.
Two Democrats are jockeying for the top law enforcement office: former Boston city councilor Andrea Campbell and workers’ rights attorney Shannon Liss-Riordan. A week before the election, a former assistant attorney general, Quentin Palfrey, announced he was suspending his campaign and endorsed Campbell.
The winner will face Republican Jay McMahon, a trial attorney who previously ran against Healey and lost, in November.
If elected, Campbell would be the first Black woman to hold the office in Massachusetts. She’s won the endorsement of several high-profile elected officials, including Healey, Sen. Edward Markey and half the state’s congressional delegation.
Liss-Riordan has the backing of Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu and former acting Boston Mayor Kim Janey.
In the race for secretary of the commonwealth, Democratic incumbent William Galvin is hoping to win an eighth term in office. He’s fielding a primary challenge from fellow Democrat Tanisha Sullivan, a lawyer and president of the Boston branch of the NAACP. Sullivan would be the first Black person to serve in the post in the state.
There are also contested races in the Democratic primary for auditor and for the Democratic and Republican races for lieutenant governor.
None of the state’s nine incumbent Democratic U.S. House members is facing primary challengers. There are two contested Republican primaries, in the 8th and 9th congressional districts.
The Massachusetts primary lands on the day after Labor Day, raising concerns about a potentially low turnout, although early voting began on Aug. 27.
A new state law makes “no excuse” mail-in ballots and early voting permanent fixtures in Massachusetts elections. Many of the voting options included in the new law were implemented during the height of the coronavirus pandemic and proved popular.
The law also increases ballot access for voters with disabilities, service members overseas and incarcerated individuals.
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Follow AP for full coverage of the midterms at https://apnews.com/hub/2022-midterm-elections and on Twitter, https://twitter.com/ap_politics. | 2022-09-05T19:27:10+00:00 | localsyr.com | https://www.localsyr.com/news/politics/ap-what-to-watch-in-massachusetts-primary-election/ |
In the latest edition to “The Real Housewives” series, Bravo has gone international for the first time to the United Arab Emirates and the glittering city of Dubai to follow six housewives and their interactions with one another, continuing with its second episode this Wednesday, June 8 at 9 p.m. EST.
“A glamorous group of lavish women prove everything is more extravagant in the ‘City of Gold.’ But when new group dynamics threaten long-standing friendships, tensions reach a boiling point. The women quickly learn that if you can’t handle the heat... get out of Dubai,” Bravo said in a first look preview of the series.
The series also follow the women as they run business empires and expertly navigate a highly exclusive and fantastically wealthy social scene, according to a video promotion for the new series.
The series’ housewives include Nina Ali, Chanel Ayan, Caroline Brooks, Sara Al Madani, Lesa Mila and Caroline Stanbury.
What channel is Bravo on?
Find your local channel here: Verizon Fios, AT&T TV, Comcast Xfinity, Spectrum/Charter, Optimum/Altice, Cox, DIRECTV, Dish, New Visions
How can I watch ‘The Real Housewives of Dubai’ without cable?
You can watch the series’ second episode the following day, starting June 9, on Peacock, or on DirectTV Stream. | 2022-06-08T22:22:15+00:00 | masslive.com | https://www.masslive.com/tv/2022/06/how-to-watch-bravos-the-real-housewives-of-dubai-new-episode-on-wednesday-june-8-watch-online-find-local-channel.html |
CALGARY, Alberta (AP) _ Advantage Energy Ltd. (AAVVF) on Thursday reported first-quarter net income of $15.5 million, after reporting a loss in the same period a year earlier.
On a per-share basis, the Calgary, Alberta-based company said it had net income of 8 cents.
The oil and gas company posted revenue of $83.8 million in the period.
Advantage Energy shares have increased 44% since the beginning of the year. The stock has more than tripled in the last 12 months.
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WATCH: Mother saves pet goose from eagle attack while simultaneously nursing her baby
VANCOUVER (CTV NETWORK) – Parents generally have to get good at multi-tasking. And a mother in Canada proved it recently when she saved her pet goose from an eagle attack while simultaneously nursing her baby.
“It was 6:30 p.m., so I was inside getting changed and feeding Willow for bedtime,” Cait Oakley explained.
Her pet goose, Frankie, was outside patrolling the property when an eagle swooped in and grabbed her by the neck.
You can see the eagle dragging Frankie up the driveway in video captured on Oakley’s front door camera.
That’s when Oakley – wearing just boxers and nursing her baby – charges the predator, scaring the eagle away.
“Drop it. Let go! Give me my goose back,” she yelled to the bird.
Oakley’s baby latched on for a ride and Frankie escaped without a scratch.
Video of the heroic mom moment was posted online, and the world is devouring the clip. It has over a million views on TikTok with a million more likely to come.
Copyright 2022 CTV Network via CNN Newsource. All rights reserved. | 2022-05-25T14:27:13+00:00 | kwtx.com | https://www.kwtx.com/2022/05/25/watch-mother-saves-pet-goose-eagle-attack-while-simultaneously-nursing-her-baby/ |
BANGKOK – Wall Street capped a choppy week of trading with a broad stock market rally Friday, as the S&P 500 notched its fourth consecutive weekly gain.
The benchmark index closed 1.7% higher, for a 3.3% weekly gain. The S&P 500 hadn't posted such a good stretch since November.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 1.3%, while the Nasdaq and Russell 2000 index of smaller companies both closed 2.1% higher. Each index also posted a solid weekly gain.
Technology stocks drove much the rally. Crude oil prices fell and bond yields were mixed.
Trading was choppy much of the week, but major indexes got a big bump on Wednesday after a report showed that inflation cooled more than expected last month. Another report on Thursday showed inflation at the wholesale level also slowed more than expected.
The cooler-than-expected inflation readings have bolstered hopes among investors that inflation may be close to a peak and that the Federal Reserve could less aggressively hike interest rates, its main tool for fighting inflation.
“The data that we’ve gotten this week has all been consistent with the idea that we’re in the midst of peak inflation rates on a month-to-month basis," said Scott Ladner, chief investment officer at Horizon Investments. "And that’s something that we’ve been waiting to see for months now. And it looks like, if that’s the case, then we’ve probably also seen peak Fed hawkishness.”
The S&P 500 rose 72.88 points to 4,280.15, while the Dow gained 424.38 points to 33,761.05. The Nasdaq added 267.27 points to 13,047.19.
Small-company stocks also made strong gains in a sign that investors are confident about the economy. The Russell 2000 rose 41.36 points to 2,016.62.
Around 95% of the stocks in the S&P 500 rose, with technology companies driving much of the rally. Chipmaker Nvidia rose 4.3%.
The central bank has been raising interest rates in the hopes of slowing the economy and cooling the hottest inflation in four decades, but investors are worried that it could hit the brakes too aggressively and steer the economy into a recession.
On Friday, a survey by the University of Michigan showed that consumer sentiment is stronger than economists expected. Still, inflation remains painfully high. That means the Fed is likely to remain on course with its rate hikes until it is certain that prices have peaked and are easing.
The Fed's last two increases were by 0.75 percentage points. Traders now see about a 60% chance that the central bank will raise overnight interest rates by half a percentage point at its next meeting.
“The market’s strength is based on the assumption that inflation peaked and the Fed can relax, but that may be a bit too complacent,” said Liz Ann Sonders, chief investment strategist at Charles Schwab.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury fell to 2.84% from 2.88% late Thursday. It remains below the two-year yield. That's an unusual inversion of the expectation that borrowing money for a longer period should cost more than a shorter period. When investors demand a higher return for a short term like the 2-year than a longer one like 10 years, it's viewed by some investors as a reliable signal of a pending recession. The economy has already contracted for two consecutive quarters.
Next week the Commerce Department releases its retail sales report for July and retail giant Walmart reports its latest financial results.
Investors can also assess the health of the housing market when they get a report on home sales for July and the latest earnings from Home Depot. | 2022-08-13T04:20:42+00:00 | ksat.com | https://www.ksat.com/business/2022/08/12/world-shares-mostly-higher-after-new-signs-inflation-cooling/ |
Left-leaning Hollywood stars are relishing the ongoing showdown among House Republicans as the lawmakers in the 188th Congress struggle to elect a Speaker.
The drama to choose a Speaker played out for the third day in a row on Thursday, as Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), for the seventh time, fell short in reaching the 218 votes needed to secure the gavel.
“This Kevin McCarthy mess is giving me all the feels!” comedian Chelsea Handler wrote to her more than 7 million Twitter followers on Thursday. “So much fun to watch!”
“Are you guys watching the Speakership fest?” comedian Kathy Griffin, a vocal critic of former President Trump, said in a video posted on Tik Tok. “I know it’s bad for the country, but it’s good for us.”
In an Instagram Story post, Julia Louis-Dreyfus compared the scene on the House floor to her former HBO political satire series, “Veep.”
“If we don’t win an Emmy for this episode of [‘Veep,’] I’m leaving the TV Academy,” the actor and Democratic supporter wrote, alongside a photo of McCarthy.
Bette Midler, a frequent critic of Republicans, shared a screenshot of a Vanity Fair headline: “The worst people you know are having a fight,” with an image of GOP Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (Ga.), Lauren Bobert (Colo.) and Matt Gaetz (Fla.). Once allies, the conservative firebrands have traded barbs over McCarthy’s pursuit of the Speakership.
“A Few Good Men” director Rob Reiner targeted McCarthy in a tweet that some criticized as homophobic.
“I hear that in order to get the votes he needs to become Speaker, Kevin McCarthy has made some concessions to members of the ‘Freedom Caucus,’” Reiner wrote. “Don’t know exactly what they are, but I hear one of them involves dropping his pants and bending over on demand.”
And former “Scandal” star Kerry Washington retweeted a message from “The View’s” Ana Navarro to McCarthy, which repeated the famed adage: “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.” | 2023-01-05T19:20:55+00:00 | kron4.com | https://www.kron4.com/hill-politics/hollywood-liberals-make-hay-of-gops-house-speaker-fight/ |
Alex Jones ordered to pay $473M more to Sandy Hook families
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Infowars host Alex Jones and his company were ordered by a judge Thursday to pay an extra $473 million for promoting false conspiracy theories about the Sandy Hook school massacre, bringing the total judgment against him in a lawsuit filed by the victims’ families to a staggering $1.44 billion.
Connecticut Judge Barabara Bellis imposed the punitive damages on the Infowars host and Free Speech Systems. Jones repeatedly told his millions of followers the massacre that killed 20 first graders and six educators was staged by “crisis actors” to enact more gun control.
“The record clearly supports the plaintiffs’ argument that the defendants’ conduct was intentional and malicious, and certain to cause harm by virtue of their infrastructure, ability to spread content, and massive audience including the ïnfowarriors,” the judge wrote in a 45-page ruling.
The punitive damages include $150 million for violations of Connecticut’s Unfair Trade Practices Act, which bans deceptive business practices and unfair competition, and about $323 million for the plaintiffs’ attorney fees and costs.
Eight victims’ relatives and the FBI agent testified during a monthlong trial about being threatened and harassed for years by people who deny the shooting happened. Strangers showed up at some of their homes and confronted some of them in public. People hurled abusive comments at them on social media and in emails. And some received death and rape threats.
Six jurors ordered Jones to pay $965 million to compensate the 15 plaintiffs for defamation, infliction of emotional distress and violations of the unfair trade act.
Jones has bashed the trial as unfair and an assault on free speech rights. He says he will appeal the verdicts. He also says he doesn’t have the money to pay such huge verdicts, because he has less than $2 million to his name — which contradicted testimony at a similar trial in Texas. Free Speech Systems, meanwhile, is seeking bankruptcy protection.
Bellis found Jones and Infowars’ parent company liable for damages without a trial last year, as a consequence for what she called his repeated failures to turn over many financial documents and other records to the plaintiffs. After the unusual “default” ruling, the jury was tasked only with deciding on the amount of compensatory damages and whether punitive damages were warranted.
Jones says he turned over thousands of documents and the default ruling deprived him of his right to present a defense against the lawsuit.
Christopher Mattei, a lawyer for the Sandy Hook families, said he hoped the punitive damages awarded Thursday send a message to conspiracy theorists who profit from lies.
“The Court recognized the ‘intentional, malicious ... and heinous’ conduct of Mr. Jones and his business entities,” Mattei said in a statement.
A message seeking comment was left for Jones’ lawyer, Norm Pattis.
In Connecticut, punitive damages for defamation and infliction of emotional distress are generally limited to plaintiffs’ legal fees. The Sandy Hook plaintiffs’ lawyers are to get one-third of the $965 million in compensatory damages under a retainer agreement — putting their legal fees at $322 million.
But there is no cap on punitive damages for violations of the Unfair Trade Practices Act. The plaintiffs had not asked for a specific amount of punitive damages, but under one hypothetical calculation they said such damages could be around $2.75 trillion under the unfair trade law.
In a similar trial in Texas in August, Jones was ordered to pay nearly $50 million to the parents of another child killed in the Sandy Hook shooting for calling the massacre a hoax. A forensic economist testified during that trial that Jones and Free Speech Systems have a combined net worth as high as $270 million.
A third and final trial over Jones’ hoax claims is expected to begin around the end of the year in Texas. As in Connecticut, Jones was found liable for damages without trials in both Texas cases because he failed to turned over many records to the plaintiffs.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2022-11-10T19:48:19+00:00 | ksla.com | https://www.ksla.com/2022/11/10/alex-jones-ordered-pay-473m-more-sandy-hook-families/ |
Live call and webcast will occur on May 9 at 9:00 a.m. ET
SANTA MONICA, Calif., April 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- TrueCar, Inc., (NASDAQ: TRUE) will report financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2023 on Monday, May 8, 2023 after market close, in a stockholder letter that will be accessible from the company's Investor Relations website at ir.truecar.com.
Mike Darrow, President and Chief Executive Officer, Jantoon Reigersman, Chief Operating Officer, and Teresa Luong, Chief Financial Officer will host a call on Tuesday, May 9 at 9:00 a.m. Eastern Time to discuss the results. A live webcast of the call will also be accessible through TrueCar's Investor Relations website.
TrueCar First Quarter 2023 Live Call and Webcast Details:
An archived version of the call will be available upon completion on the Investor Relations section of TrueCar's website at ir.truecar.com.
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The darnedest things
WARNING! Cute kid story ahead, from RUSTY of St. Paul: “My daughter’s friend’s mother-in-law died recently. There was an open-casket wake for her.
“This was her friend’s 8-year-old son’s first encounter with a deceased person. He viewed his grandmother’s body in the casket, turned to his mother and said: ‘Mom! You said Grandma was GONE! She’s right here!’
“Of course there were surrounding snickers.”
Our theater of seasons
GRANDMA PAULA: “Subject: Fall colors.
“I went on a short drive around Osceola, Wisconsin, on October 3. The colors were stunning.”
Keeping your eyes open
Mounds View Swede: “During a random drive down a street in Mounds View I had never driven on before, I came across the most elaborate Halloween displays I have ever seen.
“I was amazed at the creativity that went into making such a scene and all the things that must be saved and stored if used from year to year.
“The play on words was fun!
“This scene is more my speed as I age.”
Dept. of Neat Stuff … St. Paul Tchotchkes Division
Dept. of Neat Stuff specialist GREGORY J. of Dayton’s Bluff: “I’m not a big fan of knickknacks, doodads, gewgaws, baubles and other similar items that serve no useful purpose. They just sit around on shelves and collect dust. However, I do make an exception for such items that are somehow related to St. Paul and fit into my totally random definition of Neat Stuff. I call them tchotchkes, which is just another name for the same sort of items, because I like the sound of the word.
“This particular tchotchke appears to be Atlas, or maybe some other random strong guy, carrying the world on his back. It looks impressive in photos, but looks are deceiving. It is actually only 3 inches tall and weighs 1.5 ounces, so it wouldn’t even make a decent paperweight. As usual, I found it on eBay, where it proved to be slightly less than priceless, costing me only $6.50 after waiting seven days for the end of an auction where there were no other bidders. As is often true for the treasures I purchase online, shipping cost more than the item itself.
“Of course what makes it Neat Stuff is that printed on the globe are the words ‘St. Paul Book & Stationery Co., St. Paul, Minn,’ a company which had a long history in St. Paul dating back to 1851. I assume this was a promotional item, because the globe was probably never a good educational tool even when it was current. The base of the tchotchke is made of metal, and the thin metal globe is glued onto the poor guy’s back. It was made in Germany. That’s all I know about it.
“However, I can take a guess at when it was made by looking at the globe and noting some of the countries it includes, such as: the British Dominion of Canada, the Turkish Empire, Persia, Arabia, Siberia and the separate Russian Empire. My guess is that it was manufactured prior to World War I, when America was still doing business with Germany.
“Here is a bonus J of J: I have a postal scale that I bought decades ago. When I got it out to weigh this tchotchke, I noticed the box had a price sticker from, you guessed it, St. Paul Book & Stationery. Not surprisingly, the scale cost more than the tchotchke being weighed.”
This ’n’ that
KATHY S. of St. Paul: (1) “For folks who dread winter, a sign that spring is coming someday: I recently got an invitation to join a family group marching in the St. Pat’s Day parade next spring. Yay!”
(2) “Hearing about the resumption of Veterans’ Honor Flights to D.C. reminds me of one of my favorite vets, who was a security guard when I worked at Guy World. He survived two or three wars, and had to switch from one branch of service to another to get into back in after he had been captured. But what I remember is his stories — especially about a small setup in a shopping strip mall, where I think airmen due to fly over Vietnam were taught how to survive POW camps. As I remember it, he was a trainer for pilots going into danger and enjoyed toughening them up.
“The funniest story concerned the ‘captives,’ who would get a reward if they escaped the fake prison, got to a phone and called a certain phone number. But the rules changed the day one man got loose and entered the beauty shop that was also in the strip mall — because the colonel’s wife happened to be in the beauty shop when one very unclothed man charged in and grabbed the phone to report his escape. I forget if the ‘captives’ were then given clothing, or if they didn’t need to actually reach a phone anymore, but the story still makes me laugh — even though I have never been a fan of war.”
The highfalutin pleasures
OTD FROM NSP: “I am a reader — prefer to read a book over watching TV.
“As a senior, I have reached the point where it is difficult to read a mass-market paperback or many other printed books without magnification. I use my laptop for online books — library and Kindle (can adjust font size and background).
“When using the library system, there is normally a waiting list. Could be a few weeks; I have had up to 34 weeks.
“Today is Thursday. So far this week, I have gotten nine books to download for up to 21 days. There is an option to not take the book now and go to the head of line again. (Have done this — wait time could be a few days to several months for the book to come up again.) In the previous two weeks, I had gotten two books to download. Either feast or famine. For several of the books available this week, I have been on the list for several months.
“Appreciate the library having this service; I have been able to read many books I would not buy. I realize a lot of people use this service, and I need to take my turn. Expense of buying books is also a factor. I am registered with five metro library systems using my home-county card (need to go in person to register), and I pay $25 per year to register with Hudson so I have access to Wisconsin Digital Library. Some county/city systems give you the ability to put a book on hold (through their website) and read in your browser. A librarian with the Hennepin County system told me about this bypass.
“There are many options to find discounted online books through email. I have Kindle Daily Deals (books on the library wait list have been $1.99 after they have been out for X months) to let me know daily (more like weekly) specials. Check out BookBub: You can list what books you want to buy, and they will notify you when on special. Early Bird Books, BingeBooks, Book Raider, Simon & Schuster, Penguin — many more options for getting online books for a few dollars or free, and many have newsletters. Check your favorite authors’ websites: Sign up for their newsletter, and they will let you know when a book goes on special.
“Excuse me. I have to start reading one of the books I downloaded in the last two days.”
Joy of Juxtaposition … Leading to: Hmmmmmmmm
SEMI-LEGEND reports: “Subject: Tightrope-walking Emilys JofJ.
“I recently read Emily St. John Mandel’s debut novel, ‘Last Night in Montreal’ (2009, republished 2015). It features rootless, relentlessly observant people who can’t get started in life. No one connects with anyone else, except offstage, toward the end. As one reviewer wrote, ‘the characters are so mired in Deep Thoughts and Big Ideas and angst.’ One character is a tightrope walker, daughter of former members of a traveling circus.
“I’m currently reading Emily Henry’s ‘Beach Read’ (2020, 26th printing). A romance writer with writer’s block makes a bet with her beach-house neighbor, a writer of literary fiction who’s fed up with bleakitude, but what else is there? The bet: He’ll write a happy ending, even if it kills him. She’ll write bleak fiction, but at least she’ll have a ’script to submit.
“We pick up at pp. 134-5 as she works: ‘I did surgery on my book. I ripped it up and stored pieces in separate files. Ellie became Eleanor. She went from being a down-on-her-luck real estate agent to a down-on-her-luck tightrope walker with a port-wine stain the shape of a butterfly on her cheek, because Absurdly Specific Details. Her father became a sword swallower, her mother a bearded lady.
“‘They moved from twenty-first century to the early twentieth, They were part of a traveling circus.’
“Tribute from one Emily to another? Mockery? Is there a tightrope-walker trope in literary fiction? Well, there’s always a circus somewhere.”
Maroon and Gold(en) Domers?
JOHN IN HIGHLAND: “Subject: Gophers Versus the Irish? Not bloody likely!
“I chuckle each year as football prognosticators come up with likely participants in bowl games. Apparently Sporting News and Bleacher Report have our Gophers picked to face Notre Dame in the Pinstripe Bowl at Yankee Stadium. This might be a good way to get these two teams together after having not played each other for 84 years. Some say the absence is the result of a long-standing grudge.
“My dad, Ed, always had ties to Notre Dame. He was on the freshman football team, Class of 1933. He quickly decided that he could not play football and also tend to his studies. One of the friends he made was future Athletic Director ‘Moose’ Kraus, who saw to it that Ed could always buy football tickets. We would go down to South Bend for the weekend,and Ed would lead a tour of the campus. One day we were going through one of the old administration buildings, and Ed pointed out a small office that was not much bigger than a broom closet. ‘That was Rockne’s office,’ he said.
“In the 1930s, Minnesota and Notre Dame would schedule each other on a ‘home-and-home’ basis. In 1937, Notre Dame beat Minnesota 7-6 in a hard-fought game at Memorial Stadium. Ed was in the stadium the next year when Notre Dame beat the Gophers 19-0 in South Bend. According to Notre Dame faithful, Bernie Bierman was so mad that he ran his team off the field and snubbed coach Elmer Layden, not shaking his hand.
“I give credit to P.J. Fleck, who has said: ‘I always shake the other coach’s hand!'”
Band Name of the Day: The Random Strong Guys
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A month after a convicted felon with 37 prior arrests and citations was arrested after bringing a so-called ghost gun and drug paraphernalia to Circuit Court
in Honolulu, the state Department of the Attorney General has not filed charges.
The Attorney General’s office previously declined to comment about why Jordan Mineshima Jr., 33, was
released pending investigation after he was arrested April 11 on suspicion of weapons and ammunition violations, including having no permit to a carry weapon, being a convicted felon in possession of a weapon,
and third-degree promoting
a dangerous drug.
“To protect the integrity of the investigative process, the Department of the Attorney General does not make statements regarding the existence or status of criminal investigations,” David Day, an attorney and spokesperson for the Attorney General’s
office, told the Honolulu Star-Advertiser.
Mineshima’s 37 prior arrests and citations include felony arrests for robbery, car theft, criminal property damage, drugs and domestic violence.
Mineshima was arrested at about 9 a.m. April 11 by sheriff’s deputies after he walked into the Kaahumanu Hale courthouse on Punchbowl Street and told the Allied Universal Security officer that he had a gun in his bag.
The guard told sheriff’s deputies and Mineshima gave them permission to search his bag. Deputies allegedly found
a firearm without a serial number, or “ghost gun,” and ammunition. Mineshima does not have any firearm permits and the gun was not registered.
Deputies also allegedly found drugs and drug paraphernalia on Mineshima at the time of his arrest.
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20-Year Leader in Product Development Joins eHealth's Senior Leadership Team
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Jan. 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today eHealth, Inc. (Nasdaq: EHTH) (eHealth.com), a leading private online health insurance marketplace, announced the appointment of Ketan Babaria as SVP, Chief Digital Officer.
"eHealth's leadership team contains extraordinary talent aligned with each facet of the business," said eHealth CEO Fran Soistman. "The growth and fusion of this team shapes the future of our business, and the addition of Ketan Babaria advances our corporate objectives. Ketan is a proven business executive with expertise in customer-focused product management and leadership at both Fortune 500 and start-up organizations, and I'm pleased to welcome him to eHealth."
"eHealth's history of innovation in the online marketplace since its inception directly reflects the company's mission to guide customers through one of the most important decisions in their lives," said Mr. Babaria. "I'm excited to join an esteemed and established team of leaders, thinkers, and innovators."
Mr. Babaria joins eHealth from M1 Finance where he served as Chief Product Officer, responsible for defining the company's product vision, strategy, and roadmap to drive growth and profitability. Prior to M1 Finance, Mr. Babaria served as Chief Product Officer at Roofstock, Head of Product at LifeLock, and Sr. Director and Head of Product, D3 Incubation Unit at Capital One.
For more than 25 years, eHealth, Inc. (Nasdaq: EHTH) has served American consumers with innovative technology and licensed agent support to help them find health insurance solutions that fit their personal needs. Through its proprietary health insurance marketplace at eHealth.com and eHealthMedicare.com, eHealth has connected more than eight million members with quality, affordable coverage. eHealth offers Medicare Advantage, Medicare Supplement, Medicare Part D, individual, family, small business, and ancillary plans from approximately 200 health insurance companies nationwide.
Media inquiries, please contact: pr@ehealth.com
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Damian Lillard and the Portland Trail Blazers have agreed on a $122 million, two-year extension that puts the Olympic gold medalist under contract through the 2026-27 season, a person with knowledge of the negotiations said Friday.
Lillard will make about $59 million in 2025-26, then about $63 million the next year, said the person who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity on Friday because the extension has not been announced.
He’ll make about $137 million over the next three seasons, before the extension begins.
Lillard is a six-time All-Star who has spent all 10 of his NBA seasons in Portland. He was limited to 29 games this past season because of a core injury that required surgery, and told ESPN in a televised interview early Friday that the time off — while frustrating — should help him long-term.
“My body is stronger than it was before in certain areas,” Lillard said while watching games at the NBA Summer League in Las Vegas.
Lillard, who turns 32 on July 15, also said the mental break was helpful, along with the physical rest.
He has averaged 24.6 points in his career, is a six-time All-NBA player and was selected as a member of the league’s top 75 players as part of the NBA’s 75th anniversary celebration this past season.
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More AP NBA: https://apnews.com/hub/nba and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2022-07-09T00:36:42+00:00 | texomashomepage.com | https://www.texomashomepage.com/sports/ap-source-blazers-lillard-agree-to-122-million-extension/ |
One of the longest-running video game publications, GameRevolution, has been relaunched and refreshed with an all-new look, logo, and user experience.
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Evolve Media LLC, a passion-based publisher of some of the most significant internet brands since 1996, has announced the debut of the all-new GameRevolution.com.
The GameRevolution relaunch is a significant milestone for Evolve Media LLC. Evolve Media LLC has leveraged web engineering firm XWP to develop a new content management system.
The all-new GameRevolution features a fully-customizable front end with a vastly improved user interface, and a backend powered by WordPress VIP. The entire experience has been heavily optimized for mobile devices.
"The launch of GameRevolution for Evolve Media LLC is the start of something much bigger" explained Anthony Severino, VP of Content & Operations at Evolve Media LLC. "This is the next major evolution in Evolve publishing power and will impact more than a dozen owned and operated websites."
"We have invested substantially in our core website infrastructure" Aaron Broder, Founder and CEO of Evolve Media LLC, added. "Evolve is working to future-proof and strengthen our brands across all categories."
The all-new GameRevolution redesign includes a brand new logo representing the brand's long-term upward trajectory. The most popular trending content and in-depth guides are given considerable homepage real estate. Users can easily customize and filter the main content feed, or check out upcoming releases and reviews in the updated sidebar.
GameRevolution now also features an updated Games Database with a vast history of video game information accessible from anywhere in the world. An all-new native video player will also highlight video game trailers, walkthrough videos, and much more.
"As one of the longest-running games media websites, GameRevolution has gone from strength to strength throughout its 25+ year history," Paul Tamburro, Executive Editor of GameRevolution, added. "I'm incredibly excited to introduce a completely overhauled and modernized site that reflects our team's lofty ambitions, and to propel GR into a new era both for the site and Evolve Media."
Evolve Media LLC is a passion-based publisher established in 1996. As a pioneer in web-publishing, Evolve Media owned and operated websites represent the largest and longest-standing communities in the world. Beyond publishing, Evolve Media LLC partnership services have led to award-winning experiences built for globally recognized brands.
Worth pausing for since 1996, GameRevolution is one of the longest-running games media publishers, providing multi-platform coverage from the days of the SNES through to the current generation, and growing up with its audience to become the broad multimedia website it is today.
- Website: https://www.gamerevolution.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GameRev/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/Game_Revolution
- Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/game_revolution
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/GameRevolutionGR
- Discord: https://discord.gg/3yZgDgw
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Dear Amy: I’m almost 50. I’ve been with my husband for 20 years.
We are stable and very much in love. We have chosen to be polyamorous for the past five years.
We didn’t tell my parents (and definitely not the in-laws!), but one Thanksgiving just before the pandemic I was going to have my partner of one year with me (“Steve”), and so I told my parents.
Mom hasn’t taken it well. Steve and I have been together for three years now. He feels as permanent to me as my husband does. (By the way, Steve has no family himself to visit on the holidays.)
The pandemic solved the “holiday dilemma” for a couple of years, but that won’t fly this year.
Mom refuses to accept Steve.
I refuse to leave him alone on a major holiday.
I’ve invited them to our home for Thanksgiving this year (where I get to decide who sits at the table), but what about Christmas? That’s Mom’s favorite holiday and she loves to decorate and host. I don’t really do any of that.
How do I handle this? We’re not making out in front of her (we don’t even hold hands or flirt). We’re just existing, but she refuses to have him in her home.
I’ve thought about staying at Mom’s while my husband and partner get a hotel room nearby. Hubs doesn’t like staying at my parents and would jump at the chance, but Mom’s feelings would be hurt and at the end of the day Steve would still be alone while we’re at my mom’s.
I want to spend the holidays with my mom. She may not have many of them left, but I don’t want to leave someone I love alone on the holiday.
I’ve tried to talk to her about it, but she shuts down.
I don’t know what to do. Can you offer any guidance?
– Two Directions
Dear Two Directions: The good thing about Christmas is that it really envelops a season, with at least two good opportunities to gather: Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
Many families split things down the middle during the holidays, and so if you want to be with your mom for Christmas dinner, then go there and enjoy yourself. “Steve” can either hang with your husband during the event, and – my preference – go to the movies.
If your husband chooses to hang behind with Steve and your mother doesn’t like it, that is a consequence of all of the choices all of you are making: Your choice to bring a partner into your marriage, your mother’s choice to reject him, and your husband’s choice to skip your mother’s dinner because he is aligning with Steve.
You can tell her, “My husband would have come, but we didn’t want to leave Steve alone on Christmas.”
Dear Amy: The pandemic interrupted and changed lots of businesses, especially restaurants.
Now that things seem to be returning to normal (more or less), I’m wondering how to respond when I’m at a restaurant and the service is slow, the food is cold, and the reason (excuse) is “staff shortages.”
Given these circumstances, am I still expected to tip?
– Wondering Diner
Dear Wondering: Yes, you are still expected to tip your server.
Your server doesn’t run the restaurant, cook the food or hire the staff.
And after all, please keep in mind that your server is someone who showed up to work. This person should not be penalized.
Dear Amy: I receive many phone calls from people claiming to be from Publishers Clearing House telling me that I have won millions of dollars.
I hang up, but then the other day I received a letter telling me I had won $250 million!
Many instructions and phone numbers were included.
I wondered where I could verify this without calling any of the phone numbers.
Then I read your column, where there was a letter from a man wondering whether he was involved in a scam. You advised him that he was and gave him ways to check.
I called AARP’s Fraud hotline (877) 908-3360 (also AARP.org).
They were wonderful! A real person answered. I explained my concern and she transferred me to the proper department where I spoke to another real person.
She explained that PCH NEVER calls or writes before appearing at a person’s door to announce the win.
Thank you for publishing this information!
– Relieved in Hagerstown, MD
Dear Relieved: Thank you to the AARP, for providing this invaluable service.
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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said Sunday that he’ll spearhead a House select committee on China if he’s elected Speaker when the new Congress convenes next year.
“They never once in this majority had a hearing [on] where COVID originated from … They have never stood up to China,” McCarthy said of Democrats in an interview with Maria Bartiromo on Fox News’s “Sunday Morning Futures.”
“When I become Speaker, I’m going to have a select committee on China,” McCarthy said, confirming long-expected plans.
Republicans are readying for majority power after winning the House by a slim margin in this month’s midterms, with plans to investigate the U.S.-Mexico border, allegations against President Biden’s son Hunter Biden and the origins of COVID-19.
“China is the No. 1 country when it comes to intellectual property theft. All the other nations combined, China steals more than them. We will put a stop to this and no longer allow the administration to sit back and let China do what they are doing to America,” McCarthy said Sunday.
He has long tried to get investigations into China off the ground, kick-starting a GOP-led task force, led by Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), at the start of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, to probe China’s information disclosure during the outbreak.
The minority leader won the House GOP nomination to be Speaker in a secret-ballot vote last week — and now faces a public vote on the floor on the first day of the next Congress to secure the top leadership spot via a majority of all House members.
Among McCarthy’s plans for his possible Speakership, he has promised to remove Democratic Reps. Eric Swalwell (Calif.), Adam Schiff (Calif.) and Ilhan Omar (Minn.) from their committee posts. | 2022-11-21T21:44:29+00:00 | wcia.com | https://www.wcia.com/hill-politics/mccarthy-planning-select-committee-on-china-if-elected-speaker/ |
GM recalls 340K big SUVs; daytime running lights can stay on
Published: Nov. 10, 2022 at 7:56 AM CST|Updated: 39 minutes ago
DETROIT (AP) — General Motors is recalling nearly 340,000 big SUVs in the U.S. because their daytime running lights may not shut off when the regular headlights are on.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says in documents Thursday that having both lights on at the same time could cause glare, increasing the risk of a crash.
The recall covers certain 2021 Chevrolet Tahoes and Suburbans, as well as some GMC Yukons and Cadillac Escalades.
Dealers will update software that controls the lights.
Owners will be notified by mail starting Dec. 19.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2022-11-10T14:37:55+00:00 | kxii.com | https://www.kxii.com/2022/11/10/gm-recalls-340k-big-suvs-daytime-running-lights-can-stay/ |
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday afternoon's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
6-4-3-1
(six, four, three, one)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday afternoon's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
6-4-3-1
(six, four, three, one) | 2022-08-08T20:16:05+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-4-Midday-game-17359607.php |
It’s almost time to resume student loan payments. Not doing so could cost you
NEW YORK (AP) — After three years, the pandemic-era freeze on federal student loan payments will end this fall.
It might seem tempting to just keep not making payments, but the consequences can be severe, including a hit to your credit score and exclusion from future aid and benefits.
More than 40 million Americans will have to start making payments again under the terms of a debt ceiling deal approved by Congress, though many could see their balances reduced or erased if the Supreme Court allows President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan to go ahead. A decision is expected this week, though the court appeared ready to reject the plan.
Student loan interest will start accruing on September 1 and payments will restart in October. That means tough decisions for many borrowers, especially those in already-difficult financial situations.
Experts say that delinquency and bankruptcy should be options of last resort, and that deferment and forbearance — which pause payments, though interest may continue to accrue — are often better in the short term.
WHAT HAPPENS IF I DON’T MAKE STUDENT LOAN PAYMENTS?
Once the moratorium ends, borrowers who can’t or don’t pay risk delinquency and eventually default. That can badly hurt your credit rating and make you ineligible for additional aid and government benefits.
If you’re struggling to pay, advisers first encourage you to check if you qualify for an income-driven repayment plan, which determines your payments by looking at your expenses. You can determine this by visiting the Federal Student Aid website. If you’ve worked for a government agency or a non-profit organization, you could also be eligible for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program, which forgives student debt after 10 years.
Carolina Rodriguez, Director of the Education Debt Consumer Assistance Program at the Community Service Society of New York, emphasizes that anyone temporarily unemployed should be able to qualify for a $0 payment plan. And many others qualify based on income and family size.
“The repercussions of falling into delinquency can be pretty severe,” Rodriguez said. “The federal government can administratively intercept tax refunds and garnish wages. And it can affect Social Security, retirement, and disability benefits. Does it make financial sense at that point? Probably not.”
Rodriguez says her organization always advises against deferment or forbearance except once a borrower has exhausted all other options. In the long term, those financial choices offer little benefit, as some loans will continue to accrue interest while deferred.
Abby Shafroth, senior attorney and director of the Student Loan Borrower Assistance Project at the National Consumer Law Center, said that, of the two, deferment is generally a better option.
That’s because interest generally does not accrue on Direct Subsidized Loans, the subsidized portion of Direct Consolidation Loans, Subsidized Federal Stafford Loans, the subsidized portion of FFEL Consolidation Loans, and Federal Perkins Loans. All other federal student loans that are deferred will continue to accrue interest.
“Forbearance allows you to postpone payments without it being held against you, but interest does accrue. So you’re going to see your balance increase every month.”
WHAT ABOUT DECLARING BANKRUPTCY?
For most student loan borrowers, it’s still very difficult to have your loans discharged, or canceled, through bankruptcy. Borrowers must prove a very hard standard of financial circumstances, called “undue hardship.”
“That doesn’t mean people shouldn’t look into it,” Rodriguez said. “But they may not be successful at discharging their loans.”
For borrowers who show that level of financial strain, chances are they have other options, Rodriguez said.
She advises that borrowers make sure they are speaking to a bankruptcy attorney who understands student loan bankruptcy, which requires a different proceeding than other types of bankruptcy.
Shafroth, of the NCLC, says that new guidance on student loan bankruptcy has been coming out in recent years.
“Though it is difficult to get your loans discharged through the bankruptcy process, an increasing number of borrowers are eligible to get their loans discharged that way,” she said. “A lot of people write that off as ‘there’s no way,’ it’s impossible.’ But it’s increasingly possible.”
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A LOAN GOES INTO DEFAULT?
When you fall behind on a loan by 270 days — roughly 9 months — the loan appears on your credit report as being in default.
“At that point, it’s not just behind, it’s in collections,” Shafroth said. “That’s when you become ineligible to take out new federal student aid. A lot of people go into default because they weren’t able to complete their degree the first time. This prevents them from going back to school.”
Once a loan is in default, it’s subject to the collection processes mentioned above. That means the government can garnish wages (without a court order) to go towards paying back the loan, intercept tax refunds, and seize portions of Social Security checks and other benefit payments.
WHAT ARE OTHER OPTIONS IF I CAN’T MAKE PAYMENTS?
Shafroth said that many borrowers may still be eligible to have loans canceled via a patchwork of programs outside of the Biden administration’s proposed debt relief program.
“If your school closed before you could complete your program, you’re eligible for relief. If your school lied to you or misrepresented the outcome of what your enrolling would be, you can file a borrower defense application, and request your loan be canceled on that basis,” she said. “If you have a disability, you can sometimes have your loans canceled on that basis.”
Shafroth encourages borrowers to look at the Student Aid website to see what their options might be before missing payments.
WHAT IF MY LOANS WERE IN DEFAULT BEFORE MARCH 2020?
Under the Biden administration’s Fresh Start program, borrowers with federal student loans who were in default before the pause have a chance to become current.
Borrowers who were in default will not be subject to collection processes or have wages garnished through about August 2024, or roughly one year after the payment freeze ends. These borrowers have also been granted permission to apply for federal student loans again, to complete degrees. Lastly, these defaulted loans are now being reported to credit bureaus as current.
That said, borrowers must take action if they want to stay out of default after this year-long leniency period ends.
To eliminate your record of default, you should contact the Education Department’s Default Resolution Group online, by phone, or by mail, and ask the group to take the loans out of default via the Fresh Start policy. In four to six weeks, any record of default will be removed from your credit report, and the loans will be placed with a loan servicer. This will also give you access to income-driven repayment plans and Public Service Loan Forgiveness, if applicable.
WHAT IF I WAS BEHIND ON PAYMENTS OR DELINQUENT BEFORE MARCH 2020?
The Fresh Start program also applies to borrowers who were delinquent prior to the payment pause. Those accounts will be considered current, and borrowers will have the option to enroll in income-driven repayment plans that can lower bills to as little as $0, or to apply for deferment, forbearance or bankruptcy.
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The scrunchie is everywhere. And although its acceptance in pop culture and fashion has ebbed and flowed since its invention in 1986, the scrunchie has refused to go away.
It's been hailed by some as a genius product that's both functional and fashionable, while derided by others as an accessory that screams "suburbs." Regardless, the former singer and pianist widely credited with inventing the fabric-wrapped elastic, Rommy Hunt Revson, left her mark on fashion history. She died on September 7 at the age of 78.
In a 2016 interview with Talk Business & Politics, Revson said she invented the scrunchie as an alternative to plastic and metal hair ties. At the time, she was house sitting in the Hamptons. Although once married to heir of the Revlon cosmetics empire John Revson, she said she had no claim to any of the fortune, so had to make money where she could.
"I went to South Hampton and bought some fabric and found a $50 used sewing machine," she told Talk Business & Politics. "That was a pretty big purchase for me on a house sitter budget, but I bought it and took it home."
Within weeks, she had taught herself how to sew and had a working prototype. Inspired by the design of the elastic waistband on her sweatpants and named after her dog, the "scunchie" (pronounced SKOON-chee) was born. It would only later become known as the scrunchie.
Revson patented the design, and once she got the product into retail stores, it took off. While some accounts credit Philips Meyers for designing a similar product in 1963, it was Revson's version that we're all familiar with.
The rise and fall (and rise) of the scrunchie
Sara Radin, a self-described scrunchie enthusiast and briefly the internet's unofficial scrunchie historian, wrote in a 2019 Teen Vogue article the design solved a problem for women in the 1980s.
"In a time when big hair was in, the scrunchie offered women a way to pull it back without damaging it, unlike standard rubber bands, while taking basic hair ties to the next level," wrote Radin. "On top of that, it was just another way to accessorize their already over-the-top looks."
In years to come, pop culture and entertainment icons – from Madonna to Paula Abdul to Full House's Michell Tanner – elevated the scrunchie to universal stardom. NASA astronaut Pamela Melroy wore a blue scrunchie to space, which is memorialized in the Smithsonian even today.
But like all trends, the scrunchie era came to an end.
"Trends tend to go away when they become super en masse, and become associated with a singular type of person," said Patrick Michael Hughes, a fashion and decorative arts historian at Parsons School of Design.
In one particularly iconic turning point in the scrunchie saga, Sex and the City's Carrie Bradshaw delivered an emphatic condemnation of the accessory.
Bradshaw, who is dating writer Jack Berger, tells Berger it's unrealistic that a woman character in his book would wear a scrunchie in public. "No woman who works at W Magazine and lives on Perry Street would be caught dead at a hip downtown restaurant wearing a scrrrruunchie!"
"It was very humorous because it was very true," Hughes said about the scene. "New York [in the '90s] was kind of glamorous and things were really surging in the city in terms of nightlife, and going out and being dressed up and playful ... And there was a definite look for the New York woman. And a scrunchie was not part of it."
A scrunchie was a sure sign of a suburban transplant in the city, Hughes said. "Kind of like UGG boots."
So the accessory fell out of favor, its glory days in the fashion mainstream lost to the early 2000s.
But fast forward two decades, and the early 2000s look was back. And riding this wave of nostalgic revival right back to its former glory: the scrunchie.
"There's [been this] revival of sort of Y2K fashion, and it has been coming through the pipeline for a number of years," Hughes said. "We start to see celebrities on the red carpet wearing a scrunchie, but not necessarily in their hair, sometimes on their wrist or something like that. It becomes sort of cool again."
Scrunchies are back on TV too, making an appearance in Stranger Things, for example. At the same time, the rise of athleisure solidified the scrunchie's place in many people's everyday wear, Radin said.
Hughes is skeptical the scrunchie is back to stay. And Google search data show interest in scrunchies spiked in 2019, but has remained at a higher average than pre-2019 levels.
Still, Revson leaves behind a lasting impact on fashion.
"I think it holds a very significant place in the sense that is truly a trend," Hughes reflected. "It is something that popped up in popular taste and in popular culture, just like skinny jeans, and had a really strong moment."
"She was a genius who came up with an invention that really changed how women dress," Radin said.
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LOS ANGELES, Aug. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- For over 40 years Barkev's has been a leading designer of unique engagement and wedding rings, and though the company's program that gives you the ability to see sample rings at home was launched years ago it has since transformed the jewelry industry and customer experiences.
The world is an interesting place today where online shopping has taken over and in 2020 e-commerce sales skyrocketed by 43% ($244.2B) according to the 2020 ARTS study by the U.S. Census Bureau, though Barkev's predicted that shift early on and focused on bridging the gap between online shopping and giving customers a new way to touch and feel what they're getting before making the final purchase – a revolution in the jewelry industry.
Today, Barkev's offers a unique experience where you can browse the company's website to see their custom designs then choose what stands out and request a sample that will arrive at your doorstep a couple of days later for you to explore in the comfort and privacy of your home.
"When I launched Barkev's 40 years ago I could have never imagined the power of e-commerce today, though we are continuing to evolve with the times and deliver the best customer experiences possible," stated Barkev Meserlian, Founder of Barkev's.
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Which Captain America toys are best?
Captain America is one of Marvel’s best-known superheroes. Kids love the character from the “Captain America” and “Avengers” movies, while kids at heart have grown up with the character through the comic books.
With decades of history, there are dozens of Captain America toys to choose from. No matter what kind of toy your child enjoys most, there’s a Captain America toy that’ll give them the opportunity to engage with their favorite hero. One of the top Captain America toys to pick among the pack is the Avengers Mech Strike Captain America NERF Shield.
What to know before you buy a Captain America toy
Multiple versions
Captain America has appeared in countless Marvel comics and a majority of the Marvel Cinematic Universe franchise movies. Because of that popularity, there are several versions of the character on the toy market — more than almost any other Marvel superhero. Each of the “Captain America” films has its own toy series.
There are also Captain America toys from the “Avengers” movies and based on the comics. Many of them look alike, so check product descriptions to confirm which Captain America toy you’re looking at.
Age appropriateness
Captain America is a character appropriate for all ages, but not every Captain America toy is suggested for young children. Some action figures contain small detachable parts like the shield or other accessories that a smaller child can choke on. Role-playing toys may come with smaller parts that are easily lost. If you’re purchasing for a younger fan, be aware of these potential hazards.
Similar listings
Since there are so many Captain America toys available, there are some product listings that are very similar. This could happen because there are duplicate listings for the same toy or because there are two toys that are part of the same brand or product line. Fans should look closely at the product name and description to ensure they don’t purchase the same toy twice.
What to look for in a quality Captain America toy
Durability
Toys are meant to be played with, which means they are very likely to get damaged, whether being dropped, thrown, spilled on or knocked over. Children also want a Captain America toy they can play with for years to come. The way to achieve the latter without the former is to find a durable toy. Most Captain America toys are made of plastic that can withstand a lot of wear and tear. Be wary of toys that appear thin or have lots of tiny parts, as they are more likely to break easily.
The shield
Captain America’s signature accessory is the shield. A Captain America toy without the shield is missing the biggest piece of the character’s costume. The most common question asked about Captain America toys is whether the shield is detachable or usable. Captain America throws the shield to stop villains, so the best Captain America toy will have a shield that moves or that’s removable.
Color and design
Captain America’s red, white and blue costume is iconic, so any Captain America toy needs to stay true to this style. Look for a Captain America toy where the colors are correct and bright to catch your child’s eye. Make sure the paint job doesn’t appear sloppy or incomplete. If you’re looking at a figure, pay attention to the face to ensure it looks like the character and isn’t generic.
How much you can expect to spend on a Captain America toy
Fans will spend anywhere from $10-$30 on a Captain America toy.
Captain America toy FAQ
Is there a Captain America toy for girls?
A. Yes. There are Captain America toys that depict female versions of the character, like the Captain Carter version seen in Marvel’s “What If… ?” series and the Sharon Rogers version seen in the Marvel Future Fight mobile game. Girls and boys alike can enjoy any of the regular Captain America toys on the market.
Are there Captain America movie toys?
A. Yes. With the popularity of the Marvel Cinematic Universe franchise, most of the current Captain America toys are based on the movie version of the character. Product descriptions will say if a Captain America toy is based on the movies and if so, they usually mention which film the toy design comes from.
What are the best Captain America toys to buy?
Top Captain America toy
Avengers Hasbro Marvel Mech Strike Captain America NERF Shield
What you need to know: This is a fun role-playing toy that lets kids of all ages become Captain America with excellent replay value.
What you’ll love: The toy set encourages active play by letting children wear Captain America’s shield. The shield expands with an easy pull handle. It also shoots soft foam darts for additional interactivity. The shield is made of durable plastic.
What you should consider: This set only comes with three darts. Since the darts are foam they can be easily damaged or destroyed.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top Captain America toy for the money
Hasbro Avengers Titan Hero Series Blast Gear Captain America Figure
What you need to know: The Captain America action figure comes with interactive accessories.
What you’ll love: This Captain America toy is twice the size of a regular action figure. It’s one of the rare Captain America figures that lets fans throw the shield by pushing a button on the included launcher. The launcher and backpack are both detachable.
What you should consider: Some people report losing the shield and it can’t be replaced. The figure’s knees and elbows don’t bend.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Funko POP! Deluxe Avengers Assemble Captain America
What you need to know: This Funko version of Captain America from the first “Avengers” film is a fun addition to any Captain America toy collection.
What you’ll love: Both the figure and the base feature bright colors. The toy is easy to display because the base is large and flat. Neat details include the intricate design of Captain America’s shield and flames on the street behind the character.
What you should consider: This figure is one part of a six-part set that fits together to create a whole scene. The figure doesn’t move.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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PROVIDENCE — Speaker K. Joseph Shekarchi unveiled a long-awaited housing legislation package Thursday, which focuses on streamlining the production process and providing some relief to tenants, as Rhode Islanders continue to be priced out of places to live amid a shortage of housing stock.
Here’s what Rhode Island renters — and landlords — should know about some of the housing proposals the Assembly could consider this session.
1. Landlords wouldn’t be able to charge renters an application fee anymore.
Apartment application fees can run from $11 to $100, or more. In December, the Boston Globe published a story that documented the life of the Strong family, a hard-working, middle-class family of six who spiraled into homelessness and spent more than $5,000 in apartment application fees while they searched for a new place to live. Despite the overwhelming number of apartment applications they filled out — and fees they paid — the Strongs have yet to secure an apartment.
Shekarchi told the Globe Monday that it was that story that made some lawmakers want to end apartment application fees for good starting Jan. 1, 2024.
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“There’s people who are homeless who can’t afford to spend the money on these fees. It’s a barrier,” said Shekarchi in an exclusive interview with the Globe.
Several other states have prohibited or limited rental application fees. In New England, Massachusetts and Vermont both prohibit a fee to submit an application.
Other legislators that have taken up the issue, too. On Wednesday, Senator Melissa A. Murray and Representative David Morales introduced a similar bill, that would also prohibit landlords from charging prospective applicants a fee for for a credit check, background check, screening or administrative services. A violation, under the proposed bill, would be considered an “unfair business practice,” and punishable as a misdemeanor with a fine of up to $500.
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“It is often lower-income families and people of color who are most harmed by these unnecessary fees, as they are the ones who are typically paying higher fees and are more likely paying a series of fees for multiple apartments while searching for a new place to live,” said Morales, who pointed out how Section 8 subsidizes rent, but it does not subsidize application fees. “Clearly, rental application fees are a roadblock and could even be used to discourage some people from applying for a rental opportunity at all.”
The bill is scheduled for a hearing before the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday. Members of the Strong family will testify at the hearing.
2. Using accessory dwelling units as short-term rentals – or Airbnbs – might not be allowed.
As part of Shekarchi’s housing legislation package, Representative June Speakman, a Warren Democrat, has introduced legislation that would allow for more accessory dwelling units, also known as ADUs, to be constructed by right within the existing footprint of properties of more than 20,000 square feet, or a half acre. The ADUs would be limited to 900 square feet and can be constructed on top of garages, in basements, or elsewhere.
The proposal would ban ADUs from being used for short-term rentals or Airbnbs. Lynne Urbani, the director of policy in Shekarchi’s office, explained to the Globe that the ban would apply to short-term rentals of 30 days or less. But if this bill becomes law, ADUs will be allowed to rent for several months.
“This is to help people who have parents or grown children that need a place to go,” said Shekarchi. “A family can stay together. Grandma doesn’t have to go to a nursing home. Adult children don’t have to move out and get an apartment. They can live at home.”
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3. Landlords may have to provide notice of rent increases four to five months ahead of time — depending on a tenant’s age.
Representative Jennifer A. Stewart, a Pawtucket progressive, has introduced a bill that would require landlords to give tenants a 120-day notice — in writing — of a rent increase. If a tenant is over the age of 62, landlords would have to provide notice in writing at least 150 days ahead of a rent increase.
At this point, landlords only have to provide a 30-day notice to tenants who are 62 and younger, and 60-day notice to renters who are over age 62. A violation of the proposed law could result in a $500 fine.
4. Tenants might not have to face more than one rent increase each year.
A proposed bill would prohibit landlords from increasing the rent for a residential property more than once per year. Violation of the bill, if it becomes law, would be deemed a deceptive trade practice.
5. Landlords could be banned from using certain criminal records and credit history reports against prospective tenants in housing applications. They might not be allowed to ask about immigration status, either.
Speakman has also introduced a bill that would limit the use of certain criminal records and credit history reports in denying housing to prospective applicants. The proposed bill also prohibits drug and alcohol testing unless it is required under federal law or as a condition of staying in a residential treatment facility.
Landlords are allowed to request information or documentation to determine the financial qualifications of a prospective tenant or verify their identity. But a new bill would prohibit landlords from asking about their immigration status.
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6. If you’re a victim of domestic abuse, sexual assault, or stalking, you might be able to terminate your lease.
Representative Barbara Ann Fenton-Fung, a Cranston Republican, has introduced legislation that would allow tenants or household members who are victims of domestic abuse, sexual assault, or stalking to terminate their lease without being liable for future rent or early termination penalties or fees.
In her proposed bill, the tenant would have to provide a written notice requesting release from a rental or lease agreement. But that tenant would also have to work with the landlord on a “mutually agreed upon release date within” 30 days from the date of the written notice, with a copy of a valid order of protection and/or other court documents, which are listed in the bill.
7. The Secretary of State’s office might create a ‘landlord registry.’
A new bill would require landlords to register each of their properties with the Secretary of State’s office. Landlords will have to provide their name, address, and contact information; corporations will have to register under their business name, address of their headquarters, and include a registered agent. If the bill becomes law, the information would be made available to the public and posted on the website of the secretary of state.
Alexa Gagosz can be reached at alexa.gagosz@globe.com. Follow her on Twitter @alexagagosz and on Instagram @AlexaGagosz. | 2023-03-02T20:56:25+00:00 | bostonglobe.com | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/03/02/metro/7-things-ri-renters-should-know-about-newly-proposed-housing-legislation/ |
DALLAS (AP) — When Tina Turner died at age 83, I found myself drifting back to the fourth grade, to the day I truly discovered her voice.
I was on Thanksgiving break — bored — when I decided to rummage through my parents’ old cassette tapes in search of entertainment.
What I found was astonishing: an album called “Private Dancer.”
“I look up to the stars with my perfect memory. I look through it all and my future’s no shock to me.”
“Who was this magnificent woman?” I thought as the lyrics of the song “I Might Have Been Queen (Soul Survivor),” flowed through the headphones of my Walkman. “What had she been through?”
I quickly consulted an expert on the matter: my mom, who as a teenager in the ’60s, had been listening to Tina since she first made hits with her then-husband Ike.
Mom, like Tina, didn’t sugarcoat the superstar’s history: Off-stage, Ike was beating her. It was something she herself — and most others — didn’t know when she and Dad first went to see her live in the ’70s.
It was shocking and sickening to hear. But Mom also shared Tina’s triumphs, how she continued to mesmerize and dazzle fans despite the hell she endured. She recalled seeing Tina and her backing vocalists and dancers, the Ikettes, go so hard onstage that the ribbon ties of Tina’s sandals, starting out near her calves, ended up around her ankles. The concert was wild. Rapturous.
I wanted to experience this. Five years later, I did.
In 1997, Mom and Dad loaded my siblings and me into our 1987 Chevy Suburban and made the five-hour drive from our home in Doyline, Louisiana, to The Woodlands, Texas, to catch Tina on her “Wildest Dreams” world tour.
I was hypnotized. The burst of sparkling, silver sequins onstage. The voice that could go from the deepest growl to a tender coo. The infectious smile and air kisses to the audience that made it seem like she really was happy we were all there. The kicks. The shimmies. The staccato steps as she worked the entire stage. As my uncle who had waited in line for hours to buy the tickets for our lawn seats would say after the show: “Kids, tonight you’ve been in the presence of greatness.”
That night was also a moment of personal awakening. It wasn’t just an incredible performance from a Grammy winner and member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame; it was the crowd of thousands of fans of all ages, bigger and more diverse than any a young teen from a small, Southern town had ever seen. The fans were Black, white and even hapa (mixed-race) Hawaiians like us. Some were gay. Some were straight. I bet there were also both Republicans and Democrats, singing and twirling together in harmony to “Proud Mary.”
The experience, I realized years later, was part of my parents’ design to broaden my worldview. Tina helped them to do that.
In 2008, I was able to repay my parents for the gift they had given me: I got us tickets to a San Jose, California, stop on Tina’s farewell tour. Tina was nearing 70 at that point, but she still had the moves and the energy. Earlier this year, I took Mom and Dad to see “Tina: The Musical” in New Orleans during its post-Broadway run across the U.S.
As a mega-fan enamored by Tina the artist, I have also had to come to grips with the jolting reality of Tina the woman — a real flesh and blood person who had a violent upbringing in a home with fighting parents and later endured the physical abuse of her own husband.
I was awed by the story of this woman who was brave enough to talk, with grace, about domestic violence long before the rest of society did. How she snuck out of a Dallas hotel room one night in the late ’70s while Ike Turner was sleeping, hurried across a nearby highway and checked herself into a Ramada Inn with a Mobil credit card. She had 36 cents to her name.
Watching the 2021 documentary that Tina called her goodbye to the public, I also understood how she was retraumatized over the decades by interviewers who asked her to describe, again and again, how she got away from Ike, while overlooking greater career accomplishments that were disconnected from her ex-husband. And that was on top of the racism and sexism she faced in the music industry.
As Angela Bassett, who played the “Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll” in an Oscar-nominated turn in “What’s Love Got to Do With It” said in the documentary, “It’s hard when the worst parts of your life have been an inspiration.”
Bassett is right, and that’s complicated.
I live in Dallas. So, it felt not only right, but necessary, after I heard about Tina’s death, to make my way to the old Ramada Inn where she famously and heroically reclaimed her life.
I strolled into the lobby of what is now the boutique Lorenzo Hotel, said hi to a handful of other fans who were passing through, and approached the giant, arresting photo of Tina that hangs there, exuding all the confidence and attitude she’s earned: fishnet stockings, big hair and a look that says, “Don’t test me.”
I reflected on the many moments of my life when Tina had inspired me, including this year when I ran a marathon and cranked up “Proud Mary” on my phone as my energy was draining during the last 2 miles.
In my hand was an orange-and-yellow rose — the shade that one of Queen Elizabeth II’s rose growers had famously named after Tina — that I had plucked from a bouquet a thoughtful friend bought me when Tina died.
I smiled and tucked the bloom into a cleft in the portrait’s ornate frame.
At 40, I had finally answered the burning question my 10-year-old self had asked and that Mom had tried to answer: I knew who that magnificent woman was, and what she had been through. And I knew that the lyrics to “I Might Have Been Queen” not only spoke to her ability to endure, but her belief in reincarnation.
Beautiful, Tina. For me, you will always live on.
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Follow Adam Kealoha Causey on Twitter: @akcausey. | 2023-05-27T13:43:57+00:00 | cenlanow.com | https://www.cenlanow.com/entertainment-news/ap-essay-a-mega-fans-appreciation-for-tina-turners-limitless-energy-and-lessons-of-survival/ |
What’s up guys, it’s Sussan Mourad here with Clevver Music, and by now you’ve probably heard the rumor that Harry Styles has found romance with his director and co-star Olivia Wilde. So we’re breaking down the timeline of their rumored relationship. Harry and Olivia were first seen together on the set of the film, Don’t Worry Darling, which both of them star in! Olivia is also the director and producer for the film. Olivia went through a breakup with her fiancé Jason Sudeikis in early 2020. The two had been together since 2011 and also share two children. According to People Magazine, Olivia and Jason have been quote, “amicable and they’ve transitioned into a great co-parenting routine. The children are the priority and the heart of the family’s relationship.” And it seems as though post-breakup and after working together with Harry Styles, Olivia may have found love in an unlikely place, if the rumors are in fact true. Earlier this month, Harry and Olivia were spotted holding hands at Harry’s friend and manager’s wedding. And yes, we acknowledge that friends can also hold hands, and that Harry and Olivia could just be friends, but based on multiple outlet reports, there is still a possibility that they're an item. The wedding took place in Montecito, California, and only included 16 people, according to TMZ. The wedding was limited in order to adhere to the current rules as a result of the ongoing global pandemic.
Olivia Wilde shared her "special salad dressing" recipe on Instagram. Here's why
Updated: 6:56 PM EDT Oct 19, 2022
Olivia Wilde is giving the people what they want: Her salad dressing recipe. This week, after the internet spent days spiraling over her "special" dressing, Wilde hopped on Instagram Stories and, without saying a word, simply dropped a photo that appeared to be from a page in Nora Ephron's 1983 autobiographical novel, "Heartburn.""Mix 2 tablespoons Grey Poupon mustard with 2 tablespoons good red wine vinegar," the passage outlined by Wilde reads. "Then whisking constantly with a fork, slowly add 6 tablespoons olive oil, until the vinaigrette is thick and creamy; this makes a very strong vinaigrette that's perfect for salad greens like arugula and watercress and endive."This recipe drop comes amid Wilde and Jason Sudeikis's former nanny telling the Daily Mail that Sudeikis got upset when Wilde made Harry Styles her "special salad dressing," to the point where he allegedly "lay under" Olivia's car to stop her from leaving after discovering she’d made the dressing for Styles.And while Wilde seemingly just confirmed that she does, in fact, have a special salad dressing, she and Sudeikis called their nanny's claims false and "scurrilous."“As parents, it is incredibly upsetting to learn that a former nanny of our two young children would choose to make such false and scurrilous accusations about us publicly," they said in a joint statement to Page Six. "Her now 18-month-long campaign of harassing us, as well as loved ones, close friends, and colleagues, has reached its unfortunate apex. We will continue to focus on raising and protecting our children with the sincere hope that she will now choose to leave our family alone.”Wilde also hit back against speculation that she cheated on Sudeikis with Styles during her October Vanity Fair cover story, saying, “The complete idea that I left Jason for Harry is completely inaccurate. Our relationship was over long before I met Harry. Like any relationship that ends, it doesn’t end overnight.”CNN contributed to this report.
Olivia Wilde is giving the people what they want: Her salad dressing recipe.
This week, after the internet spent days spiraling over her "special" dressing, Wilde hopped on Instagram Stories and, without saying a word, simply dropped a photo that appeared to be from a page in Nora Ephron's 1983 autobiographical novel, "Heartburn."
"Mix 2 tablespoons Grey Poupon mustard with 2 tablespoons good red wine vinegar," the passage outlined by Wilde reads. "Then whisking constantly with a fork, slowly add 6 tablespoons olive oil, until the vinaigrette is thick and creamy; this makes a very strong vinaigrette that's perfect for salad greens like arugula and watercress and endive."
This recipe drop comes amid Wilde and Jason Sudeikis's former nanny telling the Daily Mail that Sudeikis got upset when Wilde made Harry Styles her "special salad dressing," to the point where he allegedly "lay under" Olivia's car to stop her from leaving after discovering she’d made the dressing for Styles.
And while Wilde seemingly just confirmed that she does, in fact, have a special salad dressing, she and Sudeikis called their nanny's claims false and "scurrilous."
“As parents, it is incredibly upsetting to learn that a former nanny of our two young children would choose to make such false and scurrilous accusations about us publicly," they said in a joint statement to Page Six. "Her now 18-month-long campaign of harassing us, as well as loved ones, close friends, and colleagues, has reached its unfortunate apex. We will continue to focus on raising and protecting our children with the sincere hope that she will now choose to leave our family alone.”
Wilde also hit back against speculation that she cheated on Sudeikis with Styles during her October Vanity Fair cover story, saying, “The complete [expletive] idea that I left Jason for Harry is completely inaccurate. Our relationship was over long before I met Harry. Like any relationship that ends, it doesn’t end overnight.”
CNN contributed to this report. | 2022-10-20T00:38:32+00:00 | wesh.com | https://www.wesh.com/article/olivia-wilde-salad-dressing-recipe/41715777 |
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, Oct. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Perfect Game Softball, a division of Perfect Game, the world's largest youth baseball and softball organization, today announced the creation of an annual ranking of the nation's top young fastpitch softball players with the debut of the Top 50 Prospects from the high school class of 2024. [Watch here.]
Leading the Class of '24, as ranked by a team of Perfect Game scouts attending more than 20 major softball tournaments between November 2021 and August 2022 is Addisen Fisher, a righthanded pitcher from Bend, OR, who recently committed to attend UCLA in the Fall of 2024. Fisher, a standout with NW Bullets Campos, is a two-time Oregon Gatorade Player of the Year. A junior at Bend High School, the Player of the Year for Oregon Sports maintains a four-plus pitch repertoire with a velocity in the 64-67 mph range. Prior to committing to UCLA, Fisher was heavily recruited by many of the Top 25 NCAA women's softball programs.
"Perfect Game Softball is excited to be able to elevate the visibility of young athletes around the country with the creation of our new Top 50 Prospects lists," said Perfect Game Director of Softball Operations, Destinee Martinez. "Perfect Game has long been committed to providing opportunities – playing and non-playing – for young athletes to pursue their dreams and maximize their true athletic potential; and we're confident this effort will help advance the careers of the athletes, in particular, and the women's fastpitch softball movement, in general."
Perfect Game National Director of Softball Scouting, Jessica Shults, added, "Since its formal launch in 2021, Perfect Game Softball has been hard at work developing the most comprehensive, inclusive and objective player ranking system available. We believe we have achieved that goal by having Perfect Game's own scouts travel across the country to personally watch the athletes compete on a regular basis. We believe this is going to be a win-win situation for young athletes and collegiate programs, and result in a system that provides the girls with options that may not have previously been available."
Perfect Game Softball is leading with the top 50 prospects from the class of 2024 because members of this group will be entering their junior seasons, which for many high school students is the time when they begin to consider their post-high school academic and athletic opportunities. Perfect Game Softball will be releasing its Top 50 Prospects list from the Classes of '23 and '25 at later dates.
The complete list of Perfect Game Softball's debut Top 50 Prospects can be found here. Below is the Top 10 from the Class of '24.
- Addisen Fisher – Pitcher (Bend, OR)
- Sa'mya Jones – Infielder (Pearland, TX)
- Gabi Comia – Utility Player (Cedar Lake, IN)
- Jayden Heavener – Pitcher/Utility Player (Pace, FL)
- Layla Lamar – Infielder (Cary, NC)
- Audrey Lowry – Pitcher (Lizton, IN)
- Jordan Lynch – Infielder/Utility Player (North East, MD)
- Taylor Troutman – Utility Player (Henderson, KY)
- Sophi Mazzola -- Infielder (Eureka, MO)
- Cassie Johnson – Catcher (Ankeny, IA)
[NOTE: The Perfect Game Softball Top 50 Prospects lists' objective is to highlight each position evenly using a consistent set of offensive, defensive and pitching analytics. To help ensure fair representation for all positions, the Perfect Game Softball Top 50 Prospects lists are comprised of five (5) groups of 10 players each, with each group of 10 made up of three (3) pitchers; four (4) infielders; two (2) utility players and one (1) catcher.]
For more information, please visit Perfect Game Softball on the web.
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For Perfect Game – Greg Bouris, power x communications, gbouris@powerxcommunications.net
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If Tiger Woods were to record four scores of 62 and win by 20 shots, it wouldn’t be as improbable as the circumstances that resulted in Tulsa hosting this week’s PGA Championship.
As hotels, restaurants and businesses attempt to recover from the cruel effects of the pandemic, the city of Tulsa won the lottery.
The PGA Championship’s estimated impact on the city’s economy amounts to more than $140 million — or more than double the impact of the 2007 PGA played here.
If not for the shocking Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by Donald Trump supporters, you know what would have occurred this weekend at Southern Hills? A wedding or two and maybe a member-guest type of golf tournament.
If a Trump-owned property hadn’t been stripped of the PGA Championship, the most high-profile of this week’s Oklahoma golf events would have been the Toby Keith & Friends Classic, played at Norman’s Belmar Country Club and benefiting the OK Kids Korral organization.
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Instead, Tulsa is the site of its eighth major championship: the Tiger Woods & Friends Classic, officially known as the 104th PGA Championship.
Southern Hills was on the PGA of America schedule for the 2021 Senior PGA Championship and the 2030 PGA Championship, but the Jan. 6, 2021, incident at the U.S. Capitol had consequences that extended beyond politics and prosecution.
Four days after the incident, PGA of America President Jim Richerson released a statement: “The PGA of America Board of Directions voted tonight to exercise the right to terminate the agreement to play the 2022 PGA Championship at Trump Bedminster.”
The PGA of America had no choice. If its signature tournament had been played at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, the PGA Championship might have been overwhelmed by protests and nonsense — or worse.
“We find ourselves in a political situation not of our making,” PGA of America Chairman Seth Waugh said at the time. “We’re fiduciaries for our members, for the game, for our mission and for our brand. And how do we best protect that?
“Our feeling was, given the tragic events (at the Capitol), that we could no longer hold it (at a Trump-owned club). The damage could have been irreparable. The only real course of action was to leave.”
After the 2022 PGA Championship became an available, lucrative commodity, the PGA leadership was forced to hustle in its process to identify a replacement site.
Two days after Trump lost the 2022 PGA, I wrote this for the Tulsa World: There has to be an urgency with which PGA officials make a decision, and there is an easy solution. Tulsa is that solution. ... The most natural of all possible moves is to adjust Tulsa’s position in the PGA Championship order.
Southern Hills officials will not comment on the potential that their club might be considered for the 2022 PGA, but this is far beyond a “1% chance” type of possibility.
These majors are massive in scope. Trump Bedminster had been awarded the 2022 championship in 2014. That level of preparation time isn’t a luxury; it’s a necessity.
The chosen club and city for 2022 would have less than a year and a half to prepare for a giant production, and that’s why it made sense for Tulsa to get this championship.
PGA of America personnel and Southern Hills officials already were partnered in January 2021, working daily in advance of the Senior PGA that would be conducted that May.
As Southern Hills had hosted seven major championships (most recently in 2007), club executives and members knew the drill. They knew what would be required to execute another major, and everything fell together absolutely and improbably perfectly for Tulsa.
Several prominent venues expressed an interest in hosting the 2022 PGA, but on Jan. 26, 2021, there was this headline on tulsaworld.com: A major score for Tulsa — Southern Hills gets the 2022 PGA Championship.
On ESPN Plus, ESPN and CBS, beginning with John Daly’s first tee-ball strike at 7 a.m. Thursday, there will over the course of four days be 46 hours of live-streaming and televised coverage.
There will be countless references to Southern Hills and Tulsa. In effect, 46 hours of international marketing for the club and the city.
Late Wednesday afternoon, 33-year-old golf superstar Rory McIlroy was in the Southern Hills media center, making small talk with several people while holding his 21-month-old daughter.
We weren’t supposed to have another one of these championships until 2030, when McIlroy would have competed as a 41-year-old.
Here we are, though, so improbably and so fortunately on the brink of another blockbuster golf tournament and a $140 million gift. | 2022-05-19T01:19:55+00:00 | tulsaworld.com | https://tulsaworld.com/sports/golf/bill-haisten-u-s-capitol-incident-resulted-in-an-improbable-blessing-tulsa-s-eighth-major/article_c65bc7a0-d6e2-11ec-8d92-13521cbd28ed.html |
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A court on Friday sentenced Belarus’ top human rights advocate and one of the winners of the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize to 10 years in prison, the latest move in a yearslong crackdown on dissent that has engulfed the ex-Soviet nation since 2020.
The harsh punishment of Ales Bialiatski and three of his colleagues was delivered in response to massive protests over a 2020 election that gave authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko a new term in office.
Lukashenko, a longtime ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin who backed Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, has ruled the ex-Soviet country with an iron fist since 1994. More than 35,000 people were arrested, and thousands were beaten by police amid the protests, the largest ever held in the country.
Belarus is an outlier in its support of the year-old Russian invasion, with other countries in the region not backing Moscow publicly.
Bialiatski and his colleagues at the human rights center he founded were convicted of financing actions violating public order and smuggling, the center reported Friday.
Valiantsin Stefanovich was given a nine-year sentence; Uladzimir Labkovicz seven years; and Dzmitry Salauyou was sentenced in absentia to eight years in prison.
During the trial, which took place behind closed doors, the 60-year-old Bialiatski and his colleagues were held in a caged enclosure in the courtroom. They have spent a year and nine months behind bars since their arrest.
In the photos from the courtroom released Friday by Belarus’ state news agency Belta, Bialiatksi, clad in black clothes, looked wan, but calm.
All four activists have maintained their innocence, the Human Rights Center Viasna said after the verdict. Viasna is Belarusian for “spring.”
In his final address to the court, Bialiatski urged the authorities to “stop the civil war in Belarus.” He said it became obvious to him from the case files that “the investigators were fulfilling the task they were given: to deprive Viasna human rights advocates of freedom at any cost, destroy Viasna and stop our work.”
Exiled Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya called the verdict “appalling.”
“We must do everything to fight against this shameful injustice (and) free them,” Tsikhanouskaya tweeted Friday.
Memorial, the prominent Russian human rights group that shared the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize with Bialiatski and the Ukrainian Center for Civil Liberties, in an online statement denounced the verdict as “an undisguised lawless reprisal for their human rights activities as part of a campaign of terror against civil society and the entire people of Belarus.”
Oleg Orlov, co-chair of Memorial, attempted to fly to Minsk to support Bialiatski on Friday, but was prevented from boarding the flight, with airline representatives telling him Belarus had barred him from entering the country. “Crimes are better committed without witnesses,” Orlov remarked.
Volodymyr Yavorsky from the Center for Civil Liberties told The Associated Press that Ukrainian human rights advocates express solidarity with Bialiatski and demand his release.
“This verdict shows that the highest level of repression in Europe is in Belarus,” Yavorsky said. “Ukraine is currently resisting the very totalitarian model that the Kremlin tries to impose on the entire former Soviet space.”
The punishment also elicited outrage in the West.
The Norwegian Helsinki Committee, a nongovernmental human rights organization, said that it was “shocked by the cynicism behind the sentences.”
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock labeled the trial and sentencing “a farce.”
“This is just as much a daily disgrace as Lukashenko’s support for Putin’s war,” Baerbock tweeted Friday. “We call for the end of political persecution and freedom for the more than 1,400 political prisoners.”
Condemnations of the verdict also came from the Council of Europe rights watchdog and the U.N. Human Rights spokesperson.
Bialiatski is the fourth person in the 121-year history of the Nobel Prizes to receive the award while in prison or detention.
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Associated Press writers Jan M. Olsen in Copenhagen, Denmark; Geir Moulson in Berlin; Lorne Cook in Brussels and Jamey Keaten in Geneva contributed to this report. | 2023-03-03T19:45:41+00:00 | keloland.com | https://www.keloland.com/news/national-world-news/ap-nobel-laureate-bialiatski-sentenced-to-10-years-in-belarus/ |
WFO NEW YORK CITY Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, August 26, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service New York NY
239 PM EDT Fri Aug 26 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of Fairfield and
central Westchester Counties through 330 PM EDT...
At 239 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
New Canaan, moving northeast at 30 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph and pea size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Bridgeport, Stamford, Norwalk, Danbury, Milford, Shelton, New Canaan,
Newtown, Fairfield, Greenwich, Stratford, Trumbull, Westport,
Ridgefield and Darien.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.
This storm may intensify, so be certain to monitor local radio
stations and available television stations for additional information
and possible warnings from the National Weather Service.
A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until 800 PM EDT for
southern Connecticut...and southeastern New York.
LAT...LON 4127 7309 4125 7309 4122 7311 4102 7346
4099 7355 4107 7371 4145 7334
TIME...MOT...LOC 1839Z 226DEG 27KT 4115 7351
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of southeastern
Clinton, northeastern Essex, southwestern Grand Isle and west central
Chittenden Counties through 330 PM EDT...
At 241 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Peasleeville, moving east at 20 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph and half inch hail.
Plattsburgh International Airport, South Burlington, Peru, Schuyler
Falls, Peasleeville, Keeseville, Port Kent, South Hero, Colchester,
Black Brook, Brown Point, South Plattsburgh, Valcour Island, Spoon
Bay, Providence Island, Stave Island, Sunset Island, Ausable Point,
Day Point and Hatch Point.
This includes Interstate 87 between mile markers 135 and 149.
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
If on or near Lake Champlain, get out of the water and move indoors
or inside a vehicle. Remember, lightning can strike out to 10 miles
from the parent thunderstorm. If you can hear thunder, you are close
enough to be struck by lightning. Move to safe shelter now! Do not
be caught on the water in a thunderstorm.
LAT...LON 4445 7377 4468 7368 4462 7325 4443 7332
TIME...MOT...LOC 1841Z 286DEG 16KT 4458 7362
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.50 IN
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MIAMI (WFLA) — A passenger died on a cruise ship departing Miami Sunday after falling off a balcony, according to reports.
The incident happened shortly after Virgin Voyages’ Valiant Lady left Miami en route to Roatan, Honduras on Sunday, a spokesperson told Insider.
In a statement, the company spokesperson said the passenger fell from their balcony and landed on another person on the lower deck.
According to Virgin Voyages, the first passenger died of their injuries but the second one was not seriously hurt.
“We are deeply saddened by this loss of life and our hearts and thoughts are with this person’s loved ones,” the cruise line’s statement said.
Additional details about the incident weren’t immediately available.
The ship returned to Miami Monday after the deadly incident but resumed its voyage, according to NBC News. | 2023-04-05T01:29:43+00:00 | keloland.com | https://www.keloland.com/news/national-world-news/cruise-passenger-falls-off-balcony-dies-after-ship-leaves-florida/ |
Bachelor Nation's Kelley Flanagan reveals how finally receiving a tick-borne disease diagnosis through IGeneX Lab changed her life for the better
MILPITAS, Calif., June 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Like hundreds of thousands of Americans, Kelley Flanagan developed mysterious health symptoms with, seemingly, no answers, that began in fourth grade but increased after her season of The Bachelor. After a diagnosis of Lyme Disease in 2021 via IGeneX Lab, she joined the over 300,000 (Bay Area Lyme Foundation) new patients each year that contract Lyme Disease, and began to discover just how deeply tick-borne disease can affect each facet of your life. Further, without effective diagnosis and treatment, symptoms can often worsen and progress into severe and even life-threatening health issues.
"[My brother] started doing so much evidence-based research, whether it was reading books, podcasts, documentaries… anything he could find that pertained to Lyme disease. That's when he figured out that [he] most likely had Lyme disease. [My brother] was the one to say, 'I think you have Lyme.' After I came back from the show, I just knew something was wrong. It was around 4th grade when I noticed something was wrong- my digestion was off. It actually took my brother, Tom, to figure out that he had Lyme… because he goes hunting and got bit by a tick," Flanagan told IGeneX recently.
Speaking with IGeneX in May of 2022 during Lyme Disease Awareness Month, Flanagan opened up about why she chose to be tested for Lyme with IGeneX: "The test that I found was the most accurate when I was doing all my research was, IGeneX. When it came to me getting tested, there were essentially no other options. I knew what was out there… IGeneX is the best on the market."
IGeneX prides itself on testing for not only more relevant strains of tick-borne pathogens than any other lab, but even for pathogens that exhibit Lyme-like symptoms but arise from a different tick-borne disease. These often require different treatment paths- like common co-infections Babesiosis, Bartonella and Relapsing Fever. Fortunately, IGeneX's ImmunoBlot boasts a sensitivity rate that is nearly double that of the standard two-tier testing protocol.
Flanagan has been on the up and up since her initial diagnosis in 2021. Flanagan recently told IGeneX that mindset is key in her health journey: "I knew I was in a space where my body wasn't doing well. I know that it gets a little bit hectic to talk about it [Lyme Disease] constantly and that is something that I struggle with. Mindset is a huge thing for me and I want to focus on being a little bit more healthy instead of focusing on the downfalls."
"Without accurate, multi-species tests that detect infection at all stages of disease, patients are unable to receive a correct diagnosis and cannot begin to get better. I speak for the entire IGeneX team when I say that we are grateful for Kelley's continued advocacy around accurate tick-borne illness testing," said Dr. Jyotsna Shah, PhD, President and Laboratory Director of IGeneX.
Founded in 1991, IGeneX is at the forefront of Lyme and tick-borne disease research. The two-tier ELISA/Western Blot testing recommended by the CDC uses outdated result criteria developed in 1994, leading to many missed infections and preventable suffering. In contrast, the IGeneX ImmunoBlot, which detects eight strains of Borrelia, produces a higher sensitivity, and remains the most comprehensive testing for Lyme disease antibodies.
Press contact: Alex moresco alex@amorescopr.com
For more information on how to order IGeneX Lyme and tick-borne disease testing, please contact IGeneX today at 1-800-832-3200 or visit igenex.com.
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Feb. 10, 1923: Dawson, N.M., Feb. 10 — (By the Associated Press) — Covered with a thick blanket of snow, which began falling at midnight, Dawson this morning continued to search for her dead in the town recesses of Mine No. 1, owned by the Phelps-Dodge Corporation, wrecked Thursday by an explosion. With the recovery shortly after 6 o'clock this morning of five more bodies in the shattered passage-ways, the total number of known dead has reached 41.
According to figures given out by the corporation's officials, there were 122 men in the mine when the explosion occurred. Of this number, two emerged yesterday morning, unharmed. Seventy-nine still remain in the mine.
Feb. 10, 1948: The newest exchange of courtesies between Governor Mabry and Don Rodriguez, the deposed public service commissioner, produced an interesting insight of the attitude at the state capitol about the law.
On one hand we have Rodriguez defending his record of 41 days work in nine months, in a position that legally requires "whole time."
And we have the governor's reply in which he publicly states that he h ad agreed to compromise the law.
Feb. 10, 1998: In the latest twist in one of New Mexico's longest-running legislative fights, the movement to close drive-up liquor store windows has new life.
A bill that would allow voters across the state to close the drive-up liquor windows — given up for dead after it was tabled in a House committee last week — may be resuscitated today. | 2023-02-10T04:58:37+00:00 | santafenewmexican.com | https://www.santafenewmexican.com/opinion/past_100_years/the-past-100-years-feb-10-2023/article_d6d67e46-a73d-11ed-b63e-4bffcd7bbea0.html |
Shops in Iran, including Grand Bazaar, close over protests
By JON GAMBRELL
Associated Press
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iranian shops in Tehran’s historic Grand Bazaar and elsewhere across the country have closed their doors amid protests gripping the nation. Two prominent soccer stars also announced they would not be attending the upcoming World Cup over the demonstrations. The shop closures Tuesday came amid calls for a three-day national strike to mark earlier protests in 2019 against Iran’s theocracy that ended in a violent crackdown by authorities. However, this round of demonstrations after the September death of a 22-year-old woman earlier detained by the country’s morality police have continued despite activists recording at least 344 deaths and 15,820 arrests so far. | 2022-11-15T18:07:51+00:00 | keyt.com | https://keyt.com/news/2022/11/15/shops-in-iran-including-grand-bazaar-close-over-protests/ |
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The show must go on, even when its Ukrainian director is drafted by the army weeks before opening night.
“Silence, Silence, Silence, Please,” a play that tackles Russia’s war in Ukraine had its world debut in Portugal last week, but it’s chief creator was conspicuously missing from among the packed audience.
Pavlo Yurov had meant to be there. Weeks before the opening, he had gone to get special documentation that would permit him to make a trip out of Ukraine. Men of fighting age are barred from leaving, but there are exceptions and Yurov, 43, expected to be given a pass to attend his own show.
Instead he was drafted by Ukraine’s National Guard and is now a press officer attached to a brigade preparing to participate in a much anticipated counteroffensive.
So Yurov had no choice but to stay, while his actors took to the stage in the Portuguese city of Coimbra and performed, and his name flashed in neon lights outside the theater halls.
The play is art imitating life. Drawn from real-life experiences of Ukrainians living under constant shelling and enduring Russian occupation, it touches on the lives of soldiers and paramedics working on the front lines of the war, and volunteers delivering humanitarian aid to the population.
But Yurov wanted the play to touch the audience in a deep and immersive way. The show forces the audience to confront the psychological toll of being exposed to constant artillery fire and of inhabiting life in survival mode.
“My goal is kind of to make it possible for the audience to feel the conditions and mental and physical states of the people who are experiencing this,” Yurov told The Associated Press in Kyiv.
The play was originally staged in 2020. When Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Yurov decided to rewrite it to reflect recent, real-life developments.
“I hope many people in the audience, for the … duration of this play, feel what it’s like to be inside this situation,” he said.
For the actors, performing in the play was both surreal — the themes were so close to home — and therapeutic.
“I’m playing a woman who has to leave the territory which is under the threat of being occupied, and then it is actually occupied.” said 37-year old Ukrainian actress Oksana Leuta. “I can tell you that for me it’s special, because I chose not to leave the country and I have different, mixed, feelings about those who left.”
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Alves reported from Coimbra, Portugal.
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Follow the AP’s coverage of the war at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine | 2023-05-19T03:50:36+00:00 | nwahomepage.com | https://www.nwahomepage.com/news/entertainment-news/ap-show-must-go-on-for-a-ukrainian-director-drafted-for-war-ahead-of-opening-night/ |
Skydiver slams into home after parachute fails to deploy
OCEANSIDE, Calif. - A skydiver is recovering after crashing on top of a home when his parachute failed to fully deploy.
The Oceanside Fire Department in California said the accident happened Friday at 5:06 p.m. local time.
Officials said a skydiver from GoJump Oceanside struck the roof of a 2-story home on Toopal Drive before landing on the ground. The incident happened near Oceanside Airport. First responders arrived less than 10 minutes later.
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The victim, described to be in his 30s to 40s, suffered non-life-threatening injuries. He was eventually airlifted to a hospital.
Firefighters said because the parachute partially opened, it prevented a complete freefall, although the landing was uncontrolled and at an accelerated pace.
"Skydivers regularly jump from the Oceanside Airport, and while accidents of this nature do occur, they are infrequent," the fire department said in a statement to FOX Television Stations.
FOX Television Stations has reached out to GoJump America for comment.
This story was reported from Los Angeles. | 2023-01-30T21:45:44+00:00 | fox10phoenix.com | https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/skydiver-slams-into-home-after-parachute-fails-to-deploy |
NEW YORK (AP) — The Federal Reserve launched a new instant payment service Thursday. FedNow allows banks and credit unions to sign up to send real-time payments so they can offer customers a quicker way to send money between banks.
FedNow, which was first announced in 2019, published a list of banks and credit unions that are already signed up to the service. However, it might take longer for customers to be able to use the service with their bank.
Here’s what you need to know about FedNow.
HOW DOES FEDNOW WORK?
FedNow offers instant payment services for banks and credit unions to transfer money for their customers. Unlike other private money-transferring services like PayPal or Venmo, FedNow services are not offered to customers directly through a third-party app or website. The services will only be available through banks or credit unions. However, once banks have adopted FedNow, they’re expected to make it available on their websites and apps.
Once a bank offers the FedNow services, customers will be able to send money instantly. The service is also available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Among the banks that will offer the FedNow services soon are Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase.
WHY DID THE FED CREATE FEDNOW?
By creating FedNow, the Fed is making it quicker and more accessible for people to send and receive online payments. The Fed is also catching up with other countries that already have real-time payment systems like FedNow, including England, China, Sweden and India.
FedNow will also equip banks with tools to identify and combat fraud attempts. These tools include the ability for banks to flag suspicious accounts and limit the amount and frequency of payments by those accounts.
WHO CAN USE FEDNOW?
Customers, including individuals and businesses, whose banks or credit unions offer FedNow services will be able to send and receive money in real-time. If, for example, a customer wants to send money to a friend, both people have to bank with institutions that offer FedNow services.
WHAT ARE SOME SCENARIOS WHERE I CAN USE FEDNOW?
Given the speed of transactions, this service can be beneficial for customers in many ways.
Here are some examples:
— If your employer sends your paycheck through FedNow, the paycheck will be able to clear in seconds rather than days.
— If you forgot to pay your rent until the last minute, you will be able to send the money late at night without waiting to have it cleared the next business day.
WHEN WILL FEDNOW BE AVAILABLE TO ME?
FedNow is now live but it might take months or years for customers to be able to use this service, it all depends on when your bank makes it available.
WILL MY PRIVACY BE PROTECTED WITH FEDNOW?
The Federal Reserve and the FedNow service cannot access people’s bank accounts and it doesn’t have the authority for additional surveillance, according to Fed officials.
WILL FEDNOW REPLACE VENMO, PAYPAY OR OTHER SERVICES?
There are key differences between the FedNow service and apps such as Venmo and PayPal. FedNow is a service offered directly to banks and not to customers, which means FedNow does not have an app or website where customers will be able to send money to each other.
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN FEDNOW AND ZELLE?
While both FedNow and Zelle allow customers to make online transactions, there are some key differences. Zelle is a private app that works with some financial institutions while FedNow is backed by the Federal Reserve and is envisioned to be adopted by the majority of banks in the country.
Zelle lets you send and receive money instantly but the money might not be available for customers until days after the transaction. With FedNow, the Fed says the money will be available within seconds. Zelle has a customer-facing platform that allows customers to send money through their app while FedNow will not directly interact with customers but rather offer the services to banks.
WILL FEDNOW REPLACE CASH?
Fed officials have stressed FedNow is unrelated to the notion of a government-run digital currency, which social media users also falsely claim would lead to the elimination of cash.
“The Federal Reserve has made no decision on issuing a central bank digital currency (CBDC) & would not do so without clear support from Congress and executive branch, ideally in the form of a specific authorizing law,” the agency wrote in a series of tweets in April “A CBDC would not replace cash or other payment options.” | 2023-07-21T14:50:45+00:00 | texomashomepage.com | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/national-news/your-paycheck-may-clear-faster-now-with-launch-of-fednow-instant-payment-service-for-banks/ |
RAMSEY, N.J. (AP) — RAMSEY, N.J. (AP) — Adma Biologics Inc. (ADMA) on Wednesday reported a loss of $6.8 million in its first quarter.
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St. Peter’s plans Healing Mass
KENOSHA — St. Peter’s Catholic Church, 2224 30th Ave., Kenosha, will have a Healing Mass on Thursday, June 22, at 6:30 p.m.
The Mass asks for God’s Blessings for special intentions, whether it is physical, mental, or emotional and includes the Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick.
Meijer effort aids church food pantry
KENOSHA — Kenosha Meijer customers can help stock the shelves of Westosha Lakes Church Food Pantry by purchasing a $10 Simply Give donation card upon checkout at their local Meijer now through July 1.
Meijer customers shopping online using Meijer pickup or home delivery can also purchase Simply Give donation cards as an add-on to their orders.
At the end of the campaign, the donation cards are then converted into food-only gift cards and given to Westosha Lakes Church Food Pantry to serve those facing food insecurity.
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Sharing Center needs assistance
TREVOR — Supported by 29 churches in Kenosha County and beyond, the Sharing Center, which serving the rural crisis needs of Kenosha County families, is requesting assistance.
Regularly serving 3300 residents, the Center’s greatest needs are: gym Shoes, new or gently used; heavyweight/cold weather sleeping bags; sheets, towels, and blankets, new or gently used; perishable and non-perishable food donations; laundry detergent & dish soap; cat & dog food.
Donations can be delivered during business hours to 25700 Wilmot Road, Trevor. Learn more at www.thesharingcenter.net or call 262-298-5535.
Carts needed at food pantry
KENOSHA — Each Tuesday from 4-5:30 p.m. Grace Lutheran Church serves on average 130 families pantry services.
Not only does Grace serve those who don’t have cars to drive up, but because of donations over the years (each cart costs between $45-$55) Grace Welcome Center Pantry has been able to provide 34 households with carts to make it easier to get their food home.
Grace Welcome Center needs carts to help those who walk up and is hoping more support will come in from the community. They have had a strict rule that each household can only get one cart. Carts can be dropped off at Grace Welcome Center, 2006 60th St., Tuesday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. or can you can write a check to cover the cost of a cart by sending a it to the church. | 2023-06-17T12:28:18+00:00 | kenoshanews.com | https://kenoshanews.com/living/faith/faith-briefs-for-saturday-june-17/article_035f46b0-0bce-11ee-9b46-9f049f11dbed.html |
Tiger Woods turned down an offer that Greg Norman says was "somewhere in that neighborhood" of $700 million to $800 million to take part in the Saudi-funded LIV Golf series.
During an appearance on Fox News with Tucker Carlson that aired Monday night, Norman confirmed what he told the Washington Post in a story two months ago. Norman told the Post in June the offer was "mind-blowingly enormous; we're talking about high nine digits."
Woods has been opposed to LIV Golf since late last year, and he delivered his strongest comments at the British Open when he said players who took the money funded by the Saudi Arabian sovereign wealth fund had "turned their back" on the PGA Tour that made them famous.
When an offer was made to Woods was not clear.
"That number was out there before I became CEO. So that number has been out there, yes," Norman said in the Fox News interview, which took place Sunday at Trump National in Bedminster, New Jersey, where the third LIV Golf Invitational was held.
"And, look, Tiger is a needle-mover and of course you have to look at the best of the best," Norman said. "So they had originally approached Tiger before I became CEO. So, yes, that number was somewhere in that neighborhood."
Various reports out of the United Kingdom have said Phil Mickelson received a $200 million signing bonus, while Dustin Johnson received $150 million. The 48-man fields, which play 54 holes with no cut, offer $25 million in prize money at each event. Norman announced a 14-tournament schedule for next year.
LIV Golf currently has only one player — Johnson at No. 18 — from the top 20 in the world.
The source of the funding has led to sharp criticism of the series and the players who have enlisted because it is viewed as an attempt to distract attention from its human rights record and links to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Asked why his rival tour has caused such an uproar among American golf fans, Norman responded plainly, "I don't know."
"I really don't care," Norman said. "I just love the game so much and I want to grow the game of golf and we at LIV see that opportunity not just for the men but for the women."
The LIV Golf Invitational is off for a month during the FedEx Cup playoffs on the PGA Tour, returning over Labor Day weekend about an hour west of Boston, and then two weeks later plays in the Chicago suburbs.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2022-08-02T16:00:10+00:00 | wksu.org | https://www.wksu.org/npr-news/2022-08-02/greg-norman-says-tiger-woods-turned-down-a-700-800m-saudi-offer-to-play-liv-golf |
LivAway Suites Set to Break Ground on New Concept in Early 2023
SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- LivAway Suites, a new economy extended stay concept boasting a developer-centric platform, has arranged $85 Million in debt financing through Keystone National Group for its first locations nationally.
Following two years of market research and brand development planning, LivAway Suites has assembled numerous sites in top extended stay markets across the United States that will break ground in 2023.
"The economy extended stay segment performed incredibly well during the pandemic, yet most of the segment is run down and dated. We believe our guest deserves better," said Kevin Dailey, Chief Operating Officer at LivAway Suites. "LivAway Suites brings a fresh take to economy extended stay by offering a durable, modern hotel inspired by Scandinavian design paired with performance-improving technology to enhance the guest experience. Simply put, it's better."
A brand that touts being "for developers, by developers" LivAway Suites seems intent on disrupting the traditional hotel franchise structure through a transparent model designed to maximize return on investment. "We have decades of experience in the extended stay space and have developed multiple hotels for other brands, so we know what makes developers successful. At LivAway Suites we are laser-focused on our developer partners' return on investment," said Dailey.
The Keystone facility will allow LivAway Suites to proliferate locations across the U.S. more swiftly over the coming months, according to Dailey.
To learn more about LivAway Suites, visit www.livawaysuites.com
ABOUT LIVAWAY SUITES
Based in Salt Lake City, UT, LivAway Suites is a new economy extended stay hotel with a developer-centric business model and hotel design that helps our guests feel more at home while away. Our brand is built on understanding the importance of offering guests everything they need and nothing they don't with straightforward services and pragmatic amenities to offer livability and comfort at an affordable rate. Built on a foundation of "by developers, for developers," LivAway Suites is poised to disrupt the traditional hotel franchise model through transparent pricing and an improved ROI.
For more information, visit www.livawaysuites.com.
ABOUT KEYSTONE NATIONAL GROUP
Keystone National Group, LLC is a private markets investment firm focused on debt investments in private credit, real estate, and other yield-generating assets. Founded in 2006, the firm has over $1.7 billion in AUM and has invested over $4.3 billion in capital across 550 transactions. Keystone seeks opportunities to invest in debt capital for businesses with unique capital needs. Our ability to adapt to the dynamic capital requirements of companies is a key component of our partners' and Keystone's success.
For more information on Keystone, please visit: keystonenational.com
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Pedro Grifol, White Sox aim for two straight vs. Astros originally appeared on NBC Sports Chicago
Pedro Grifol, first-year manager for the Chicago White Sox, earned his first career victory on Thursday, stewarding his club through a tense 3-2 victory over the reigning World Series champion Houston Astros by resisting the urge to do too much when decision-making moments arose.
Grifol utilized one pinch-hitter by summoning rookie outfielder Oscar Colas with one out in the top of the seventh inning -- Colas responded with his first career hit -- and made three pitching changes after right-hander Dylan Cease pitched brilliantly into the seventh inning. Relievers Aaron Blummer, Kendall Graveman and Reynaldo Lopez weren't perfect, but they were effective enough.
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The White Sox finished 1-for-10 with runners in scoring position and stranded 11 baserunners. But they delivered late. Yasmani Grandal tied it with a solo home run with two outs in the eighth inning and Andrew Vaughn hit a two-run double with one out in the ninth.
By letting the game play out and avoiding unnecessary personnel changes, Grifol tasted victory.
"These guys are good hitters," Grifol said. "We're facing some pretty damn good pitching. They're world champions out there. So the last thing I want to do is overmanage. That's the last thing I want to do.
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"These guys have got to go out and play the game like they do. They're going to make adjustments. That's what we have coaches for, that's the reason why we have iPads and communication in the dugout. The last thing I want to do there is start overmanaging and give away outs."
Veteran right-hander Lance Lynn has the starting assignment for the White Sox on Friday. After missing the first two months of 2022 with a right knee injury sustained during spring training, he finished 8-7 with a 3.99 ERA over 21 starts, recording 124 strikeouts in 121 2/3 innings.
Lynn will make his 15th career appearance (14th start) against the Astros and 10th at Minute Maid Park. He is 0-5 with an 8.80 ERA over his last five starts against Houston.
Right-hander Cristian Javier is the scheduled starter for Houston. He finished 11-9 with a 2.54 ERA over 30 appearances (25 starts) in a breakout 2022 season.
Javier recorded 194 strikeouts, tied for seventh in the American League, despite logging 148 2/3 innings. He also was the starting pitcher in a pair of combined no-hitters, including Game 4 of the World Series against the Philadelphia Phillies.
Javier has faced the White Sox once previously, allowing one run on two hits and four walks with five strikeouts over five innings in a 4-3 win on June 19, 2022.
With All-Star second baseman Jose Altuve sidelined for two months following surgery on his fractured right thumb, Houston sorely missed his bat Thursday. The bottom four hitters in the order finished 1-for-13 with five strikeouts. Rookie designated hitter Yainer Diaz struck out twice, including to end the game, and stranded four baserunners.
"I'd rather have him overeager than under-eager and taking pitches," Astros manager Dusty Baker said of Diaz. "But that's how he is, and he'll learn from it because ... we believe that he can hit. He's hit everywhere he's been, and this is the first game.
"It is a learning experience. It's game No. 1. We're going to try to mix and match and try to find out the best matchups for who we're facing. We faced a pretty good pitcher. We just lost." | 2023-03-31T14:19:56+00:00 | nbcchicago.com | https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/pedro-grifol-white-sox-aim-for-two-straight-vs-astros/3108686/ |
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FRANKLIN FURNACE, Ohio (WCMH) – A jailbreak at an Ohio correctional facility saw five prisoners escape, and the Scioto County Sheriff’s Office said one of them remains at large.
The sheriff’s office got a heads up Saturday from the STAR Community Justice Center in Franklin Furnace that staff had witnessed several inmates escape by climbing the fence at the facility. Sheriff’s deputies and the Ohio State Patrol then began searching for the escapees.
Staff at the prison told the sheriff’s office that they saw a woman near the fence before the escape happened. There, investigators found Allie Angelo, 32, who matched the woman’s description. When asked if she witnessed anything to do with the escape, she told them no. The deputies detained her.
The sheriff’s office said it later found out that Angelo had come to the prison with Matthew Sladen, her ex-husband, to help her new fiancé, Jeffrey Randle Fields, escape.
Before the end of the day, authorities found two of the five escaped inmates. A deputy found Fields, 37, on Junior Furnace Road — about an hour’s walk from the correctional facility — and arrested him. OSHP troopers found another inmate, Clifford Tyler Morris, 33, on the same road and also took him into custody.
Sladen, 31, was found at a local Walmart and detained.
As of Saturday night, three inmates were still missing. The next morning, deputies went to Wheelersburg — about a three-hour walk from the STAR Community Justice Center — after getting a report of two suspicious people there.
When they got there, they found two men heading for the highway. The pair ran from the deputies, and Portsmouth police were called out to help, authorities said.
One of the escapees, Aaron Brigeman, 43, had been hiding in the woods and came out to walk on railroad property. The sheriff’s office said that’s where a deputy found him and detained him.
Brigeman gave up the location of the other inmate, the sheriff’s office said, telling the deputy to look near a mobile home. Authorities found the fourth inmate, Walker Pence, 22, hiding in the woods near the home.
The last inmate to escape — Thomas Charles Comberger, 46, of Wilmington — remains at large as of Monday.
Angelo and Sladen have been charged with crimes for allegedly aiding in the jailbreak.
All of the inmates who broke out were low level, non-violent drug offenders, according to the sheriff’s office. They will now all face new charges for the escape. | 2022-06-06T22:46:42+00:00 | cbs42.com | https://www.cbs42.com/news/national/woman-breaks-fiance-4-others-out-of-ohio-prison-sheriff-says/ |
Girls Inc. youth summit participants, from left, Rebecca Calhoun, Ana Corado, Valeria Torres and Adriana Senz sign a group agreement Saturday on how to conduct a discussion on affirmative consent. House Bill 43, which cleared the House Judiciary Committee on Monday and is headed to the House floor, would require New Mexico middle and high schools to teach affirmative consent during sexual education.
Jess Clark with the New Mexico Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs scrambles to catch names during an icebreaker introductory game Saturday at Girls Inc. before a discussion on affirmative consent.
Girls Inc. youth summit participants, from left, Ana Corado, Alexa Bojorquez and Adriana Senz listen during a discussion Saturday on affirmative consent.
Girls Inc. youth summit participants, from left, Rebecca Calhoun, Ana Corado, Valeria Torres and Adriana Senz sign a group agreement Saturday on how to conduct a discussion on affirmative consent. House Bill 43, which cleared the House Judiciary Committee on Monday and is headed to the House floor, would require New Mexico middle and high schools to teach affirmative consent during sexual education.
Jess Clark with the New Mexico Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs scrambles to catch names during an icebreaker introductory game Saturday at Girls Inc. before a discussion on affirmative consent.
Girls Inc. youth summit participants, from left, Ana Corado, Alexa Bojorquez and Adriana Senz listen during a discussion Saturday on affirmative consent.
When Alena Schaim teaches eighth graders about affirmative consent during Santa Fe Public Schools' Sexual Health Education Week, she discusses why "no" can be a difficult word to hear.
She explains how body language can communicate a state of mind, such as enthusiasm or sobriety, and brainstorms with students why some people might feel pressured to say yes in a sexual situation, even if they'd rather say no.
Schaim, executive director of the local violence-prevention organization Resolve, said the goal of affirmative consent education is to ensure students who find themselves in sexual situations are empowered to communicate their own feelings and won't ever assume consent of another.
"Prevention is rooted in people knowing better. Affirmative consent helps people understand what is actually required in order to know for sure that someone wants to have sex or do a sexual act," said Schaim, whose organization has been teaching at local schools for eight years.
A bill being considered by the state Legislature would require this type of education in New Mexico schools. In addition to directing schools and universities to adopt policies and procedures to address sexual assault, intimate partner violence, harassment and stalking, House Bill 43 would set affirmative consent to engage in sexual activity — defined as "affirmative, conscious and voluntary agreement" — as the standard in secondary-level health classes across the state.
The measure has cleared two committees, with unanimous support Monday in the House Judiciary Committee, and is headed to the House floor.
Republican Sens. Brian Baca of Los Lunas and Candy Spence Ezzell of Roswell, both members of House Education Committee, voted against the bill last week. Baca spoke of concerns about a provision calling for trauma-informed responses and investigations following assault and harassment allegations at state-funded colleges and universities, arguing such duties should fall to law enforcement rather than institutions. Spence Ezzell did not comment during the hearing.
Neither could be reached to comment on their reasons for opposing the measure.
If HB 43 becomes law, advocates say, it could be a game-changer in sexual violence prevention.
"Programs are already teaching some affirmative consent across New Mexico. The problem right now is that … access to that education shouldn't be dependent on where you live," said Jess Clark, director of sexual violence prevention at the New Mexico Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs and a former affirmative consent educator.
Rep. Elizabeth "Liz" Thomson, D-Albuquerque, introduced HB 43. She pushed for a similar bill during the regular 30-day legislative session in 2022, but it didn't get a committee hearing.
Thomson said she hopes to see a different result in this year's 60-day session, when a broader range of bills can be considered. The first step to decreasing sexual assault and intimate partner violence, she said, is ensuring both members of a couple understand what consent means and how it's supposed to work.
When sexual violence occurs, Clark added, a survivor is more likely to identify an incident as an assault and seek services if he or she has a clear definition of consent.
While the bill is geared toward middle school and high school sexual health classes, Thomson said she'd like to see grade level-based lessons on bodily autonomy — such as teaching students not to touch each other without permission or that it's OK to say no to a hug or kiss — from prekindergarten onward.
"I'm hoping that affirmative consent [education], at the age-appropriate level will be started whenever kids start school," she said.
Organizations advocating for the rights of women and the LGBTQ community, as well as survivors of sexual violence, spoke in favor of HB 43 during the House Education Committee hearing.
"I'm a survivor of college rape, and we have a wonderful coalition of people that have been working on this year-round for five years," Thomson said. "… Everyone sees the need for it."
Specifically, the bill would address the need for expanded affirmative consent education in some New Mexico communities, particularly rural counties in the southern part of the state, Clark and Schaim agreed.
If the bill is signed into law, affirmative consent education programs would not be subject to change with the departure of any school staff members, Schaim said.
Rather, Clark added, such programs would be required in all public schools, and districts — even those hesitant to provide affirmative consent education — would see incentives to partner with organizations already providing this type of education in New Mexico.
"It’s not just when there’s a certain teacher or a certain administrator that programs like Resolve’s get access to being able to teach this with students. It is understood as a public health need," Schaim said.
Clark cited other needs in the state when it comes to responding to and preventing sexual violence, saying organizations serving survivors are underfunded across the U.S. and can't reach everyone in New Mexico.
Still, the bill is a strong start, Schaim said.
"I wish I had this in middle school," she said. "Even an hour would have been life-changing. I wish my peers had this. I wish the people I went on to date had this when they were in middle school. It could have changed a lot."
Schaim is hopeful the next generation of New Mexico youth will benefit from affirmative consent programs.
"I just know that my daughter will have this and that her peers will have this. She’s 5 now, so I feel very confident it’ll pass by the time she’s a teenager," Schaim said. | 2023-02-01T03:43:05+00:00 | santafenewmexican.com | https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/advocates-say-bill-to-teach-affirmative-consent-in-schools-would-decrease-sexual-violence/article_f271fa86-95cc-11ed-bb04-076ba5ec6d63.html |
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