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Updated May 31, 2022 at 10:16 AM ET
After weeks of intense negotiations, European Union leaders have agreed to ban most oil imports from Russia. The move is part of the bloc's newest sanctions package on Moscow, which had been held up by a few member states like Hungary that are heavily reliant on Russian oil.
The EU says it will ban "most" imports of Russian oil to the bloc, but what does that mean?
EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Tuesday morning that this embargo would apply to around 90% of oil imports from Russia to the EU by the end of this year. About two-thirds of imports would be blocked in the near term, Charles Michel of the European Council said.
When this round of sanctions was announced a month ago, Von der Leyen said the EU would ban all Russian oil. EU member states about the details since then, with one member particularly staunch in opposing the harshest measures.
Putin's ally inside the European Union
Viktor Orbán, prime minister of Hungary and a friend of Vladimir Putin, was largely responsible for the delay in and changes to this latest round of sanctions. He threatened to tank the entire package, a scenario that would have been a big embarrassment for the EU.
Orbán is concerned about an EU-wide oil embargo on Russia because Hungary receives more than 60% of its oil from Russia via a pipeline, but Carnegie Europe's Judy Dempsey says that Orbán has many reasons to block the EU's actions on Russia — including weakening the EU itself from within.
"You just wonder how so many of the member states tolerate this maverick politician who is very devious and who has intentions to weaken the EU, which suits Russia" says Dempsey.
In the end, Orbán forced the EU to weaken what was intended to be a complete ban on Russian oil into a ban solely on sea shipments of that oil. Pipeline deliveries from Russia, which benefit Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic, will continue to flow.
Europe will have to replace the seas shipments of oil from other countries, which doesn't appear to be a complicated problem. A tougher task will be for Europe to wean itself off of Russian natural gas.
The EU depends on Russia for around 40% of its natural gas and will need to continue importing that gas in the short-term because its economy depends on it. Individual countries like Germany are working hard to wean themselves off this gas supply, but that could take years.
Other sanctions in the latest package
This sixth round of EU sanctions also includes an asset freeze and travel ban on individuals close to the Kremlin. It also removed Russia's biggest bank — Sberbank — from SWIFT, the global financial transfer system. Three big Russian state-owned broadcasters will also be prevented from distributing their content within the EU.
The bloc also agreed on providing Ukraine with nearly $10 billion in assistance to help rebuild the country's economy.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2022-05-31T22:41:18+00:00 | mtpr.org | https://www.mtpr.org/2022-05-30/the-eu-will-block-most-russian-oil-imports-as-hungarys-orban-fights-off-a-total-ban |
LSU is making its way back to the women’s basketball Final Four for the first time in 15 years after beating Miami, 54-42, and Tigers merchandise is available online. LSU and second-year coach Kim Mulkey will play the Virginia Tech Hokies in the national semifinal on March 31 in Dallas.
TICKETS: Fans who want to attend the game can buy tickets at Vivid Seats, StubHub or SeatGeek.
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The official LSU Final Four hat is on sale for $39.99. Get a grey LSU Tigers Fanatics 2023 NCAA Women’s Final Four tee for $34.99.
Here are index pages to LSU Final Four gear and more: | 2023-03-28T20:47:49+00:00 | cleveland.com | https://www.cleveland.com/sports/college/2023/03/lsu-final-four-gear-how-to-get-tigers-march-madness-2023-hats-shirts-more-after-win-over-miami.html |
DENVER, Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Mother Teresa of Calcutta is one of the most widely revered saints in the world, and one of the greatest spiritual giants of the 20th century. She is a powerful witness of authentic Christian charity and a guidepost for all who seek hope in our turbulent times. "Mother Teresa: No Greater Love" is a unique film that reveals not just who Mother Teresa was, but how her singular vision to serve Christ through the poor is realized to this day, through the religious order she founded, the Missionaries of Charity.
Twenty-five years after Mother Teresa's death, Fathom Events will present an exclusive two-day only event, "Mother Teresa: No Greater Love," in theaters Monday, Oct. 3 and Tuesday, Oct. 4. The film is part of Fathom Events' "Saint Series," a curated collection of films chronicling the lives of Catholic saints.
"Mother Teresa taught us that there are no expendable people," Knights of Columbus Supreme Knight Patrick E. Kelly said. "Everyone we encounter is made in the image of God. So, when she was feeding the hungry or holding the hands of someone as they lay dying, she was treating them as she would the most important person in her life, Jesus Christ himself. And, in all of this, she was teaching us to have a heart that sees, and if we can learn to see as she did, the world would be a radically different and, I would say, better place."
Produced by the Knights of Columbus, filmed on five continents and featuring unprecedented access to both institutional archives and the apostolates of the Missionaries of Charity, "Mother Teresa: No Greater Love" chronicles the life of Mother Teresa and the profound spiritual and physical impact she and the Missionaries of Charity have had — and continue to have — on Catholics and non-Catholics alike throughout the world. The documentary also addresses Mother Teresa's admitted periods of spiritual darkness while serving the poorest of the poor, and her friendship with another revered saint, Pope John Paul II.
"Mother Teresa's incredible acts of kindness changed the world," said Ray Nutt, CEO of Fathom Events. "We are proud to partner with the Knights of Columbus to bring this film to theaters nationwide and hope that it can not only shine a light on this saint of our times but to change lives in the process."
Watch the "Mother Teresa: No Greater Love" trailer: https://youtu.be/kcIr9pOXtv8.
"Mother Teresa: No Greater Love" is produced by David Naglieri of the Knights of Columbus and features commentary from prominent Catholics, such as Patrick E. Kelly, Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus; Bishop Robert Barron of the Diocese of Winona-Rochester and founder of the Catholic ministerial organization Word on Fire; Jim Wahlberg, filmmaker and humanitarian; Fr. Donald Haggerty, a priest of the Archdiocese of New York; Jim Towey, a trusted advisor and personal friend of Mother Teresa of Calcutta, and author of "To Love and Be Loved: A Personal Portrait of Mother Teresa"; and Fr. Brian Kolodiejchuk, postulator of Mother Teresa's cause of canonization and author of three books on Mother Teresa.
Tickets for "Mother Teresa: No Greater Love" can be purchased online by visiting Fathom Events or at participating theater box offices. For a complete list of theater locations, visit the Fathom Events website (theaters and participants are subject to change). Groups of 25 or more can reserve tickets, including entire showtimes in select cities, here.
For artwork/photos related to "Mother Teresa: No Greater Love," please visit www.motherteresamovie.com.
About Fathom Events
Fathom is a recognized leader in the entertainment industry as one of the top distributors of content to movie theaters in North America. Owned by AMC Entertainment Inc. (NYSE: AMC); Cinemark Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CNK); and Regal, a subsidiary of the Cineworld Group (LSE: CINE.L). Fathom operates the largest cinema distribution network, delivering a wide variety of programming and experiences to cinema audiences in all of the top U.S. markets and to more than 45 countries. For more information, visit www.FathomEvents.com.
About The Knights of Columbus
In 1882, Blessed Michael McGivney, a young parish priest in New Haven, Conn., founded the Knights of Columbus to serve the needs of a largely immigrant Catholic community. What began as a small fraternal benefit society has since grown into one of the world's leading international charitable organizations, with 2 million members in more than 16,000 local councils. From July 2021 to June 2022, Knights around the world donated nearly 48 million service hours and nearly $154 million for worthy causes in their communities. The Knights of Columbus also offers extensive life insurance products to members and their families. Knights of Columbus Insurance currently has more than $119 billion of life insurance policies in force and was named by Forbes as one of America's Best Insurance Companies 2022. In addition, the Knights provides investment services in accord with Catholic social teaching through Knights of Columbus Asset Advisors, which holds total assets of more than $28 billion in assets under management. Based on the founding principles of charity, unity and fraternity, the Order remains committed to strengthening Catholic families and parishes and to practicing faith in action through service to all in need. To learn more or to join the Knights of Columbus, please visit kofc.org/join.
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The integration enables contractors to find building products and materials easily, expedite the procurement process, and centrally manage materials inventory for their projects.
ATLANTA, May 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- SATT ANALYTICS, a leading provider of data and insights-driven marketing solutions for the construction industry, announced an integration of its Construction Marketplace platform with Autodesk Construction Cloud®, a portfolio of software and services that combines advanced technology, a builders network and predictive insights for construction teams.
The construction industry is undergoing a major transformation related to building products and materials with the introduction of new, innovative, environmentally friendly, and sustainable products. However, finding available building products and materials has become challenging and time-consuming, causing costly delays in construction projects.
Now, project owners, managers, contractors, designers, and architects can embed Construction Marketplace directly within their Autodesk® Build Insights or BIM 360® Project Home dashboards, making it easier to find available building products, materials, and equipment. The integration centralizes material inventory management for construction projects, maximizing the efficiency of tasks associated with material procurement such as sourcing, requests for quotes, and approvals.
"Without a streamlined procurement process, projects can easily miss key deadlines and quickly run over budget," said James Cook, director, partner integrations, Autodesk Construction Solutions. "Embedding the SATT ANALYTICS Partner Card in Autodesk Construction Cloud simplifies the procurement process by allowing teams to find and evaluate materials in the same place where they manage RFIs, submittals, budgets, contracts, and more."
Mutual customers can utilize the integration immediately by adding the SATT ANALYTICS Partner Card to their Autodesk Build Insight or BIM 360 Project Home dashboard.
About SATT
SATT ANALYTICS is a leading provider of analytics services for the construction industry. We build platforms and solutions driven by data and insights to streamline construction finance, lending, and marketing services. To learn more, visit https://sattanalytics.com
Autodesk, the Autodesk logo, Autodesk Construction Cloud, Autodesk Build, and BIM 360 are registered trademarks or trademarks of Autodesk, Inc., and/or its subsidiaries and/or affiliates in the USA and/or other countries.
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STOCKHOLM, Oct. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Swedish Orphan Biovitrum AB (publ) (Sobi®) today announced its report for the third quarter of 2022
July - September 2022
- Total revenue SEK 3,999 M (3,761), +6 per cent, -6 per cent at constant exchange rates (CER)1
- Haematology revenue SEK 2,619 M (2,291), +3 per cent at CER of which Elocta® SEK 1,041 M (1,035), -5 per cent at CER; Alprolix® SEK 464 M (430), +2 per cent at CER; Doptelet® SEK 543 M (400), +12 per cent at CER and Aspaveli®/Empaveli™ SEK 49 M (-)
- Immunology revenue SEK 1,070 M (1,144), -22 per cent at CER of which Kineret® SEK 542 M (516), -10 per cent at CER; Synagis® SEK 327 M (374), -30 per cent at CER and Gamifant® SEK 202 M (255), -36 per cent at CER
- EBITA1 SEK 1,241 M (1,166); EBITA margin1 31 per cent (31). EBIT SEK 699 M (708)
- Earnings per share (EPS) before dilution SEK 1.52 (1.60). Cash flow from operating activities SEK 780 M (257)
January - September 2022
- Total revenue SEK 12,800 M (10,633), +20 per cent, +9 per cent at CER
- Haematology revenue SEK 7,806 M (6,294), +14 per cent at CER of which Elocta SEK 3,173 M (2,896), +5 per cent at CER; Alprolix SEK 1,351 M (1,281), stable at CER; Doptelet SEK 1,754 M (810), +85 per cent at CER and Aspaveli/Empaveli SEK 91 M (-)
- Immunology revenue SEK 4,036 M (3,450), +3 per cent at CER of which Kineret SEK 1,731 M (1,608), -4 per cent at CER; Synagis SEK 1,652 M (1,286), +12 per cent at CER and Gamifant SEK 653 M (556), stable at CER
- EBITA SEK 3,475 M (3,572); EBITA margin 27 per cent (34) including items affecting comparability (IAC)2 of SEK -675 M. Excluding IAC EBITA adjusted1 was SEK 4,150 M corresponding to an EBITA margin adjusted1 of 32 per cent (34). EBIT SEK 1,897 M (2,208); EBIT adjusted1 SEK 2,572 M (2,208)
- EPS before dilution SEK 4.24 (4.87), EPS adjusted1 before dilution SEK 6.08 (4.87). Cash flow from operating activities SEK 2,767 M (3,349)
2022 outlook unchanged
Financial summary
Investors, analysts and media are invited to participate in a conference call which will include a presentation of the results and a Q&A session at 13:00 CEST.
The presentation can be followed live here or afterwards on sobi.com. The slides will be made available on sobi.com prior to the conference call.
To participate in the conference call, please call:
Sweden: +46 8 505 583 73
UK: +44 3333 009 262
US: +1 646 722 4957
Sobi®
Sobi is a specialised international biopharmaceutical company transforming the lives of people with rare diseases. Providing sustainable access to innovative medicines in the areas of haematology, immunology and specialty care, Sobi has approximately 1,600 employees across Europe, North America, the Middle East and Asia. In 2021, revenue amounted to SEK 15.5 billion. Sobi's share (STO:SOBI) is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm. More about Sobi at sobi.com, LinkedIn and YouTube.
Contacts
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Head of Communication and Investor Relations
thomas.kudsklarsen@sobi.com
+44 7443 191 773
For details on how to contact the Sobi Investor Relations Team, please click here. For Sobi Media contacts, click here.
This information is information that Sobi is obliged to make public pursuant to the EU Market Abuse Regulation. The information was submitted for publication, through the agency of the contact person set out below, at 08:00 CEST on 27 October 2022.
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SOURCE Swedish Orphan Biovitrum AB | 2022-10-27T08:18:52+00:00 | witn.com | https://www.witn.com/prnewswire/2022/10/27/sobi-publishes-q3-2022-report/ |
HSINCHU, Aug. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AP Memory, the global leading design company that provides customized memory solution, has announced today its PSRAM solution up to 512Mb density is supported by Renesas RZ/A3UL MPUs.
The Renesas RZ/A3UL is a new product in the RZ/A series with significant enhancements in performance and specifications including the highest operating frequency of up to 1 GHz. Despite its high operating frequency, the RZ/A3UL is also an entry-class 64-bit MPU that provides a cost-effective solution, while providing the performance customers need. The RZ/A3UL provides an Octal-SPI memory interface that facilitates simpler and more compact board designs for industrial equipment, home appliances and office automation equipment with liquid crystal displays or control panels, as well as audio equipment and POS terminals. More information about the RZ/A3UL MPUs and the evaluation board kit is available on the Renesas website. (https://www.renesas.com/rza3ul & https://www.renesas.com/rza3ul-evaluation-board-kit)
APM's Octal-SPI PSRAM (Octal Serial Interface Pseudo Static Rando Access Memory) product family, as an alternative solution to standard parallel interface PSRAM (ADMUX or Cellular RAM), or legacy Low-Power SDR/DDR DRAM and SDRAM, supports high bandwidth with low-pin-count solution. Take 256Mb PSRAM for instance, it offers data transfer rate up to 400MBps (3.2Gbps) utilizing only 11 signal pins, equipped with HalfsleepTM mode, the ultra-low power standby mode, which is suitable for battery base IOT application. The latest Octal-SPI PSRAM product up to 512Mb was validated by the Renesas RZ/A3UL MPU, and is available on the RZ/A3UL reference board (EVK). For more information on Octal-SPI PSRAM or other PSRAM products, please refer to the following product link or contact APM directly.
About AP Memory Technology Corporation
AP Memory is a fabless DRAM and IP product company. As a world leader in Pseudo-SRAM, AP Memory delivers reliable solutions of low-pin-count ultra-low-power IoT RAM and high-performance derivative products. AP Memory is also the world-leading company in AI memory solutions, particularly for 3D IC. The headquarters is based in Hsinchu, Taiwan, with R&D centers in the US, Mainland China, Taiwan, and sales offices worldwide. For more information, please visit www.apmemory.com
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ARCHERS POST, Kenya (AP) — In Kenya’s sweltering northern Samburu county, a destructive drought exacerbated by climate change is wreaking havoc on people and wildlife.
After four consecutive years of failed rains causing some of the worst conditions in 40 years, wild animals have become commonplace in the county’s villages as they search for food. Many don’t survive, providing herders an unfortunate lifeline as they cut chunks of meat from their carcasses.
“I have suffered from hunger for a long time,” said 37-year-old Samburu resident Frank Aule. “If I run into such a carcass I would not think twice about eating it as I have to eat to survive.”
Kenyan authorities count that the drought has killed over 200 elephants, nearly 400 common zebras and more than 500 wildebeests among several other species in the past nine months. Many of those that survive are starving, weak and frequently coming into contact with people.
How to better protect fragile ecosystems from a warming climate, including Kenya’s savannah grasslands, will form part of discussions at this week’s United Nations biodiversity conference — known as COP15 — in Montreal in Canada. Governments are working to come up with a framework of how the world should protect nature and aim to set goals for the next decade. Conservation groups say current programs aren’t working.
The Kenyan government has provided some relief supplies like water, forage, hay and salt licks for wildlife in the region, but animals are still forced to travel further into residential areas in their search for food and water.
“Elephants tend to be attracted to the trees that I planted in my homestead,” David Lepeenoi, a 54-year-old resident of Samburu, told The Associated Press. “The trees and water points are the main source of conflict between elephants and the community.”
Climate change and poor conservation practices have degraded protected rangelands, reserves, and national parks in recent years.
“Where we have reported cases of wildlife dying, it is not actually within the parks,” said Jim Nyamu, who helps run the Elephant Neighbors Center. “That tells you they were actually looking for where they used to forage: the corridors, migratory routes that have been blocked by the human interface.”
Records from conservation charity BirdLife Africa show that dozens of birds are also dying in northern Kenya, most likely from starvation.
“Carcasses of migratory birds, such the European Roller, could be seen in the expansive dry landscapes,” said the charity’s Alex Ngari. Over 300 bird species on the continent are already classed as globally threatened or critically endangered.
The drought has also devastated communities and is leading to the loss of livelihoods, livestock deaths and failed crops. Farmers are instead felling dried trees to produce and sell charcoal to make ends meet leading to even more biodiversity loss in the region, said Paul Gacheru from the conservation group Nature Kenya.
“A concerted call toward supporting local communities to cope with the impacts of climate change is needed,” said Gacheru, adding that local people need less destructive ways to adapt to the warmer, drier climate.
Communities across the continent are facing similar losses. The Okavango Basin in southern Africa, which provides water for one million people and half the world’s elephant population, has suffered as climate change, urban development and deforestation depletes its resources.
“Putting important ecosystems and wildlife at risk is negatively impacting people’s lives and livelihoods,” said Vladimir Russo, an advisor for National Geographic’s Okavango Wilderness Project. He said that poorly preserved ecosystems cause more human-wildlife conflict and can lead to rise in poaching.
But “local community members and policymakers are now engaging in discussions to safeguard this ecosystem,” said Bogolo Kenewendo, a U.N. high-level climate champion.
More of that participation is needed at the summit in Montreal, policy and nature experts say, to preserve the continent’s biodiversity.
Protection of nature needs to “make it onto the policy agendas of heads of state as has increasingly become the norm with climate,” said Linda Kreuger, who heads biodiversity policy at The Nature Conservancy.
In Samburu, conservation charities say they are doing what they can as natural resources dry up. At one elephant sanctuary in Samburu, staff say about 30 of 40 calves were rescued because of the prolonged lack of rain.
As well as the risk of starvation, drought “is a form of stress that makes the animals’ immunity to be lowered and this contributes to infections,” said vet Isaiah Alolo, who works at the Reteti Elephant Sanctuary. “In most cases, you find that the animal will die,” leading to many orphaned animals that need rescue.
“That brings a lot of pressure” for those working to conserve species, he said.
Staff at the Reteti sanctuary bring food and supplements from some 50 kilometers (30 miles) away from grasslands around Mount Kenya, said sanctuary caregiver Dorothy Lowakutuk. Those grasslands are also at risk of degrading if the drought continues.
“At least we ensure our elephants are recovering what they don’t get in their natural habitat,” said Lowakutuk.
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Associated Press climate and environmental coverage receives support from several private foundations. See more about AP’s climate initiative here. The AP is solely responsible for all content. | 2022-12-08T19:45:31+00:00 | kxnet.com | https://www.kxnet.com/news/top-stories/ap-top-headlines/ap-officials-talk-biodiversity-as-drought-stunts-kenya-wildlife/ |
Classic cartoon fans remember the date of Dec. 7, 1962.
That’s when the famed “High School Fred” episode of The Flintstones aired during prime-time via the ABC television network.
The storyline featured Fred Flintstone returning to high school and competing against teenagers in football.
While The Flintstones series was canceled in 1966, a similar show continues to run in NASCAR.
On Friday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, two-time NASCAR Cup champion Kyle Busch earned his 63rd win in the Truck Series. Busch led 84 of the 134 laps in a mundane race that included the usual assortment of underfunded teams and young drivers.
Busch holds the record for victories in both the Xfinity (102) and Truck series. Counting his triumph at Auto Club Speedway in California on Feb. 26, Busch has 61 career Cup wins and 226 victories across all three NASCAR national series.
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The debate regarding Busch competing in lower divisions has long raged. Busch did drive for three different teams during the weekend at Auto Club, but he’s still playing an unfair game against drivers and car owners trying to make their name.
Kyle Busch fans surely enjoy the headlines and history, but this version of “High School Fred” grew stale long ago.
Pit Stops: The regional motocross season begins March 19 at Blountville’s Muddy Creek Raceway with the AMA Thor Mega Series…Dirt Late Model fans are buzzing for the $100,000-to-win XR Series/Valvoline Iron-Man Series “Spring Thaw” on March 23-25 at Volunteer Speedway in Bulls Gap. The program will include a pair of $5,000-to-win Super Late Model qualifiers on March 24 along with a $1,500-to-win program for the Iron-Man Open Wheel Modified Series on March 24…The season opener for Wythe Raceway in Rural Retreat is set for April 1, with action in Super Street, Pro Mini, UCAR, KCAR and Modifieds...The Pace-0-Matic Smart Modified tour headlines the March 18 season debut at Coeburn’s Lonesome Pine Motorsports Park. There will also be action in the Twin Sportsman, Pure 4 and Super Street divisions. The new track owners have also added programs for the Southeast Super Truck Series on April 22 and Sept. 9, along with a diverse event called the “Great American Smash” on July 1.
In yet another warning sign for grassroots racing, historic Greeneville-Pickens Speedway in Easley, South Carolina, was recently listed for sale to be used as an industrial park. From the Deep South to California, short track owners are under increasing pressure from land developers as vital pieces of motorsports history are being paved over.
agregory@bristolnews.com — Twitter: @Greg_BHCSports <&dateline> (276) 645-2544 | 2023-03-09T06:53:03+00:00 | heraldcourier.com | https://heraldcourier.com/sports/gregory-column-unfair-advantage-for-kyle-busch-continues/article_12871ce8-be04-11ed-9d15-57ea8cdc0601.html |
Upon entry, a two-story stone fireplace is framed by the two-story foyer and is the centerpiece to the main level of this two-story home located within the Somerset neighborhood of Washington Twp.
Listed for $459,900 by Tami Holmes Realty, the brick-and-frame home at 600 Byrd Court has about 3,655 square feet of living space. The corner property has a two-car garage and a paver-brick patio with plant bench. Located within the Somerset neighborhood, the homeowners’ association includes lawn mowing service, snow removal, trash, a putting green, walking trails and common areas.
Formal entry opens from the covered front door into a two-story foyer with an open staircase that ascends to a catwalk. Spindled accented oak railing accents the staircase and wraps around the catwalk. Ceramic-tile flooring fills the foyer and continues down the entry hallway to the great room. Framed by the walkway to the great room and staircase is a two-story stone fireplace that is the centerpiece to the great room. The dual-sided gas fireplace has a wood mantel and is flanked by two thresholds into a sunroom. Nine windows and a glass door fill the room with natural light and the other side of the fireplace has a dentil wood mantel and ceramic-tile surround.
Open to the great room and separate by a two-level peninsula counter, the kitchen and breakfast room has wood-laminate flooring. The upper counter extends to allow for breakfast bar seating while the lower counter has a corner double sink. Cherry cabinetry surrounds stainless-steel appliances. There is a double-door pantry closet. Counter space offers a coffee station and buffet space near the breakfast room. Sliding patio doors open from the breakfast room out to the paver-brick patio, which is also accessible from the sunroom. A formal dining room is conveniently located off the kitchen and has wood laminate flooring. The dining room could be flexible space.
Off the great room is the first-floor primary bedroom suite. A door opens into a hallway, which branches into the bedroom that has a tray ceiling with paddle fan and crown molding. Light hardwood flooring fills the bedroom. Double doors open to a divided full bathroom. The bath has a double-sink vanity and a corner whirlpool tub below a stained-glass window. A pocket door opens into the other half that includes a walk-in, ceramic-tile shower with glass doors. There is a walk-in closet behind another pocket door.
A mudroom has a wall of built-ins — including a pantry cabinet, a desk or planning area and a wash sink. Access to the two-car garage is through the mudroom and there are hook-ups for a possible first-floor laundry.
Three bedrooms, a full bathroom and a loft office nook are located on the second floor. All three bedrooms have large closets and ceiling paddle fans. The guest bath has a tub/shower with sliding doors and a single-sink vanity. The office nook provides access to two bedrooms and has an arched window. The third bedroom and full bathroom are across the catwalk that has a spindle-accented cutout that looks down into the great room.
Accessible from a hidden staircase off the great room, the lower level has been finished into a media room, a family room, a bonus flexible room, a full bathroom and a laundry room. The staircase ends within the family room area with a wall of built-in display cases with electric. A pocket door opens into a large storage room.
The family room wraps around to the media room, which has an egress window. A theater system includes a screen, projector and surround-sound speakers. Tucked off one wall is a wet bar area with a sink, appliance nook, cabinetry, microwave shelf and counter space.
French doors open into a bonus room, which has vinyl flooring to allow for flexible living space. A glass window allows for some of the egress window natural light to filter into the room, which could be a hobby area, exercise room or game space.
A hallway leads down to a full bathroom with shower and single-sink vanity and ends within the laundry room with hanging cabinets and wash sink. There is access to the utility closet from the laundry room and a second access that has unfinished storage options.
WASHINGTON TWP.
Price: $459,900
No Open House
Directions: Sheehan Road to Sawtry Lane (Somerset subdivision) to right on Byrd Court, corner property
Highlights: About 3,655 sq. ft., 4 bedrooms, 3 full baths, 1 half bath, dual-sided gas fireplace, volume ceilings, wood-laminate flooring, loft study, first-floor primary bedroom, great room, sunroom, finished lower level, egress window, media room, projection system, recreation room, 2-car garage, courtyard paver-patio, irrigation system, corner lot, homeowners’ association
For more information:
Tami Holmes
Tami Holmes Realty
937-620-5979
Website: https://www.tami-holmes.com
About the Author | 2023-07-08T12:25:46+00:00 | daytondailynews.com | https://www.daytondailynews.com/homes/two-story-foyer-fireplace-stand-out-in-home/K6L6A5YVX5HVLDNKIBBNFUMAN4/ |
dPCR Testing and Rapid NGS Services for Wastewater
FORT COLLINS, Colo., July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- GT Molecular, a company providing ultrasensitive PCR assays for wastewater-based epidemiology, cancer and pathogen panels has implemented a highly sensitive, wastewater-based test for hMPXV. This test features robust quality control metrics, including an internal process control and fecal indicator.
1. Testing Service and PCR kits for hMPXV (Human Monkeypox Virus) & SARS-CoV-2 Variants
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COLOGNE, Germany, Oct. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- infodas, leading provider of Cross Domain Solutions (CDS), announces that its SDoT Security Gateway has officially received the (National IT Evaluation Scheme) NITES certification from the prestigious Cyber Security Agengy of Singapore. This top-tier certification once again ensures that the SDoT Secrity Gateway can be deployed in highly sensitive environments in accordance with national and international standards, with one of the most demanding security evaluations conducted by independent testing laboratories.
The SDoT Security Gateway is engineered and produced in Germany in accordance with security design principles by security vetted staff. It meets the most stringent specifications from the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI), EU and NATO. The Security Gateway has been in use for over 10 years in the toughest and most sensitive environments worldwide, providing secure information exchange between networks with different protection needs. With the SDoT Security Gateway, INFODAS GmbH provides a flexible solution for data exchange between differently classified network domains and has had the general approval of the BSI up to VS-GEHEIM for many years. The SDoT Security Gateway is listed in the NATO Information Assurance Product Catalogue (www.ia.nato.int/NIAPC) and, as a Cross Domain Solution, provides solutions for a wide range of network segmentation challenges for public authorities, the military and critical infrastructure companies.
"infodas has many years of experience in the field of information security and digitization of highly sensitive data. The SDoT Security Gateway was independently tested and awarded NITES certification. The accreditation process was possible due to an intensive collaboration between our certification and project teams at the Cyber Security Agency (CSA) from Singapore. This has once again demonstrated our commitment to maintaining the highest security standards and we are delighted that this high-level certification ensures infodas' high standards for product quality and security as well as meeting the requirements of Asian partners and customers," Marc Akkermann, Director Sales at infodas. " As a result, our customers have a high-performing and secure product at their disposal. In doing so, we want to be a constant and reliable factor in information security for our customers. This was just the first step. The next milestone will be the addition of the Singapore Common Criteria Scheme (SCCS) certification to the Common Criteria EAL4+ certification already achieved and listed with the CCRA and the European SOG-IS agreement. Together with our partners, we want to make the digital world a little more secure."
For more information, visit: https://www.commoncriteriaportal.org/ and https://www.sogis.eu/
About the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore
The Cyber Security Agency (CSA) is a government agency under the Prime Minister's Office, and is managed by the Singapore Government's Ministry of Communications and Information. It provides centralized oversight of national cybersecurity functions and works with leading sectors to protect Singapore's critical information infrastructure (CII), such as the energy and banking sectors. Established on April 1, 2015, the agency also works with various industries and stakeholders to raise cybersecurity awareness and ensure the development of cybersecurity in Singapore.
For more information, visit: https://www.csa.gov.sg/
About infodas
INFODAS GmbH was founded in 1974 and is one of the leading software and consulting companies for information security in Germany. The mid-sized company provides services to companies, public authorities and the military in the conception and implementation of comprehensive approaches to information security and the protection of IT infrastructures. In addition, the company develops high-security products for domain transitions (Cross Domain Solutions) and the protection of critical infrastructures. Several products of infodas' SDoT product family are approved for SECRET as well as EU and NATO SECRET classification. In addition to its headquarters in Cologne, the company has offices in Berlin, Bonn, Hamburg and Munich. INFODAS GmbH has been certified by the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) as an IT security service provider in the areas of IS auditing, consulting and IS penetration tests UP-Bund and is one of the first system houses to have BSI-certified IT-Grundschutz consultants. It has IT security experts who are allowed to support KRITIS operators with their test procedure expertise in implementation in accordance with Section 8a (1) of the BSI Act (BSIG), as well as BSI auditors who check KRITIS operators to ensure that they have achieved this goal and meet the current legal requirements. Find out more at www.infodas.de
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Medora dances past Lighthouse Christian 64-53
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Repeat Sangamo champs: Here are the top 3 takeaways from Plains’ big win over PORTA
PLEASANT PLAINS — Pleasant Plains coach TJ Fraase wanted Jaycee Smith to shoot more last year.
She has turned into a blistering sharpshooter this season.
The senior guard drained four 3s for a game-high 12 points and Plains upended Class 2A No. 2 Petersburg PORTA/A-C Central 48-27 for its second straight Sangamo Conference girls basketball title outright in a regular-season finale for both teams on Wednesday.
It also handed the Bluejays (26-1 overall, 7-1 Sangamo) their first loss of the season.
“For some reason she didn’t like to shoot a whole lot last year,” Fraase said. “I told her last year I would let her know if she was shooting too much. But she’s done really well. She has stepped up and been that 3-point shooter for us this year.”
Here are some top takeaways from the marquee conference showdown.
Smith soars behind the perimeter
Smith knows how to deliver in big games.
She previously hit four 3s for a total of 15 points in a 44-20 victory over Athens to help reclaim the Sangamon County Tournament title in January.
She once again came through with title implications on the line.
“Every single year we have a goal,” Smith said. “First it’s county, second is conference and obviously we’re moving into regionals.”
Smith opened the game with a 3 in the corner and the Cardinals never trailed. Smith shot 3 of 4 from long range in the first half and finished 4 of 6.
Senior forward Megan Derrick contributed 11 points and seven rebounds while junior point guard Adi Fraase had 10 points. Senior forward Sienna Hadley chipped in six points and five rebounds.
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“When Jaycee hits one, you see everybody else go, ‘All right, we’re good,’” coach Fraase said.
Her confidence has exponentially grown from last season.
“Definitely my goal every single game is to score early whether it be a layup, a 3 or a little jumper, it doesn’t matter,” Smith said. “If I can score early then I can get my confidence boosted for the rest of the game.”
Plains makes comebacks almost impossible
PORTA came as close as two points twice early in the second quarter until a 14-0 Plains run led to a 28-15 hole at halftime.
A margin that wide is virtually insurmountable against Plains. The Cardinals later led 38-21 by the end of the third quarter.
“You don’t want to get behind because they’re very patient in their offense and disciplined, and my girls knew that,” PORTA coach Eric Kesler said. “We just couldn’t get it done tonight.”
Plains also wields that trademark stingy defense.
PORTA shot 12 of 34 (35.3%) from the field and 1 of 10 (10%) from 3-point land.
Junior guard Jace Privia led the Bluejays with 10 points while sophomore forward/center Carson Arthalony had seven points. Junior guard/forward Karlie Hoke had four points and 11 rebounds.
“I think their physicality of coming at us defensively kind of got us back on our heels,” Kesler said. “We weren’t attacking like we normally do. We normally get a lot of offensive rebounds, we get a lot of points in transition.
“We missed multiple layups when we had chances in the transition, so those opportunities we’ve got to take advantage of the next time if we get one with them.”
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Fraase’s teams pride themselves on defense.
“We always have, probably because when I was a player I wasn’t much offensively but I played hard-nosed defense,” Fraase said. “These girls buy into it. They were physical tonight, walled up when we had to and fortunately their shots didn’t fall.”
A potential postseason rematch could be looming
Both teams are slated for a loaded 2A PORTA Regional.
Plains, the No. 5 seed, begins with the regional quarterfinals against No. 11 Riverton at home on 1 p.m., Saturday. The winner advances to the semifinals against No. 3 Camp Point Central/Southeastern at 7:30 p.m., Monday.
The Panthers, ranked No. 5 by The Associated Press in 2A, present a formidable challenge with a 27-3 overall record.
PORTA, the No. 2 seed, awaits Saturday’s winner between No. 7 Athens and No. 8 Williamsville at 6 p.m., Monday. The regional championship game is Thursday at 7 p.m.
“We talked about this isn’t the end of the world, it’s one game,” Kesler said. “It’s obviously not how we wanted it to go, but we’ve got to get our head up and we’ve got to get better come tomorrow for next week. We played 27 games to prepare ourselves for next week, hopefully, we can get something done.”
Contact Bill Welt: 788-1545, bill.welt@sj-r.com, Twitter.com/BillWelt | 2023-02-09T15:31:47+00:00 | sj-r.com | https://www.sj-r.com/story/sports/high-school/basketball/2023/02/09/ihsa-girls-basketball-plains-tops-unbeaten-porta-for-sangamo-title/69881952007/ |
By now, most people know all too well about COVID-19. And many have read the headlines about monkeypox.
But doctors and researchers around the country are trying to puzzle out another outbreak: More than 180 kids, most of them toddlers, are becoming infected with hepatitis, which is rare among children and even less common among kids without pre-existing conditions. At least 6 kids have died in the U.S. and several others have required organ transplants.
Here & Now‘s Robin Young talks to Dr. William Balistreri, medical director of the Pediatric Liver Care Center at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
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Cenero's best-in-class AV collaboration offerings bolster Ricoh's outsourced digital workplace services capabilities to improve digital dexterity and business agility for customers across the globe
EXTON, Pa., Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ricoh USA, Inc. today announced the acquisition of Cenero, LLC, a service-focused audio visual technology, unified communications, and IT solutions provider.
Headquartered in Malvern, Pa., Cenero offers a range of flexible solutions that improve communication, drive productivity, and empower collaboration. Their suite of solutions includes systems design and delivery, as well as managed services that complement Ricoh's portfolio of remote and hybrid business services.
"This strategic investment in Cenero will create new value for our customers, expanding our global integrated digital services portfolio with hybrid workplace solutions that enable secure, effective, and collaborative meeting experiences for on-premises and remote employees alike," said Carsten Bruhn, President and CEO, Ricoh North America. "Cenero has redefined the unified communications experience, and their industry-leading audio visual services will contribute to Ricoh's on-going quest to solve the next great challenge for business leaders: delivering valuable results from high-performing hybrid teams who work in fluid workspaces."
"Our suite of unified communications and Constant Connect managed services fits in perfectly with Ricoh's portfolio of digital workplace solutions," said Chris Henry, CEO, Cenero. "We have the opportunity to reimagine workspaces with consideration to wellbeing, productivity, and performance and bring forward integrated offerings aligned to the needs of our customers spanning industries not limited to key focus areas in healthcare, financial services, and insurance. We are looking forward to combining forces to bring businesses the strategic collaboration solutions they need in today's ever-changing environments."
Bruhn continued, "Hybrid work is the new standard for global enterprises. We recognize organizations need flexible options and effective technology to build an engaging digital workplace that fosters business agility and innovation aligned with their business strategies. Together with Cenero, we remain focused on meeting customers' needs easily and securely while also maintaining flexibility to ensure we meet new, changing requirements driven by the market."
This acquisition will help Ricoh support its customers with their growing number of offices, meeting rooms, and learning spaces that are quickly being modified to support hybrid working and learning models. According to recent reports, the number of video conferencing devices, including room-based endpoints, USB room devices, and personal video communication devices, will grow 500% by 2025.
Cenero will operate as Cenero, a Ricoh Company, with the current management team and employees reporting to Ricoh North America.
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Ricoh is empowering digital workplaces using innovative technologies and services, thus enabling individuals to work smarter.
With cultivated knowledge and organizational capabilities nurtured over its 85-years history, Ricoh is a leading provider of document management solutions, IT services, communications services, commercial and industrial printing, digital cameras, and industrial systems.
Headquartered in Tokyo, Ricoh Group has major operations throughout the world and its products and services now reach customers in approximately 200 countries and regions. In the financial year ended March 2021, Ricoh Group had worldwide sales of 1,682 billion yen (approx. 15.1 billion USD).
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DALLAS (AP) — A man who evaded arrest for more than 12 years after being accused of fatally shooting his two teenage daughters in a taxi parked near a Dallas-area hotel was going on trial this week.
Jury selection was set to begin Monday in the capital murder trial of Yaser Said, 65. Said, who is accused of killing 18-year-old Amina Said and 17-year-old Sarah Said on New Year’s Day in 2008, faces an automatic life sentence if convicted. Testimony was scheduled to start Tuesday.
The sisters were shot multiple times in the Dallas suburb of Irving. Sarah Said managed to call 911 using a cellphone, telling the operator that her father shot her and that she was dying.
Yaser Said, sought on a capital murder warrant since the slayings, was placed on the FBI's most-wanted list. Said, who had worked as a taxi driver, was finally arrested in August 2020 in Justin, about 35 miles (58 kilometers) northwest of Dallas.
His son, Islam Said, and his brother, Yassim Said, have since been convicted of helping him evade arrest.
In a letter written to the judge overseeing the case, Yaser Said denied killing his daughters.
According to a police report, a family member told investigators that Said had threatened “bodily harm” against one of his daughters for dating a non-Muslim. Police documents also show that before the teens were killed, their mother had fled with them to Oklahoma because they feared Said. | 2022-08-01T20:01:57+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Man-going-on-trial-in-Texas-in-2008-slaying-of-2-17343426.php |
SALEM, Va. – National Vascular Physicians held the grand opening of its newest state-of-the-art facility in Salem.
A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held Thursday at 2 p.m., to mark the official start of operations at the new location.
“We are thrilled to announce the grand opening of our Roanoke office, which represents a significant step forward in expanding access to specialized vascular care in the region,” Dr. Adam Guyer, Medical Director of National Vascular Physicians said. “Our dedicated team of highly skilled physicians and staff are excited to bring our expertise and innovative treatment options to the community, helping patients improve their vascular health and quality of life.”
The ceremony featured speeches from distinguished guests including Dr. Guyer.
“We are committed to making a positive impact on the vascular health of individuals in this region,” Dr. Guyer said.
The National Vascular Physicians Roanoke-Salem office is located at 2860 Keagy Road.
More information regarding services can be found here. | 2023-06-09T15:57:04+00:00 | wsls.com | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2023/06/08/national-vascular-physicians-to-host-grand-opening-of-new-facility-in-salem/ |
Which organic mouthwash is best?
Everyone wants to keep their mouth healthy, but relying on a traditional mouthwash may not be the best way to go. Traditional mouthwashes contain harsh ingredients and even chemicals that could potentially be more harmful than beneficial. Instead, you may want to consider an organic mouthwash.
There are many options to choose from when it comes to organic mouthwashes. Some of these, such as the Essential Oxygen BR Organic Brushing Rinse, can also help you get that pearly white smile.
What to know before you buy organic mouthwash
Ingredients
Unlike traditional mouthwashes, which use artificial flavors, chemicals and harsh ingredients to freshen your breath, organic options are made with natural ingredients such as essential oils and hydrogen peroxide. Despite that, they are no less effective at whitening, reducing plaque or freshening your breath.
It should be noted that there is a difference between natural mouthwashes and organic mouthwashes, so pay close attention to these two terms when purchasing one. “Organic” is a regulated word, meaning companies are not allowed to put it on their labels unless their products are made with all organic ingredients. Conversely, “natural” is not a regulated term, and companies can place it on their label even if their product contains synthetic or genetically modified ingredients.
Taste
If you have never used an organic mouthwash, you may find the taste a bit of a surprise. Although traditional, nonorganic mouthwashes have names like spearmint and peppermint, most of their flavorings are artificial, as is how they taste. Organic mouthwashes tend to have a more herbaceous flavor that many may not be used to. Their flavor also tends not to be as strong as traditional mouthwashes.
Sensation
Not all organic mouthwashes create the same sensation in the mouth. Some have an intense burn similar to traditional mouthwashes and leave your mouth feeling bright and fresh. Others are gentler and barely burn at all. Depending on the ingredients and their potency, these may or may not leave behind that fresh feeling in the mouth, but that doesn’t mean they are any less effective.
If you prefer a gentle mouthwash that doesn’t create much of a burning sensation, it is best to choose options free of alcohol, menthol or a strong concentration of hydrogen peroxide. You can find both organic and nonorganic alcohol-free mouthwashes.
What to look for in a quality organic mouthwash
Bottle size
Make sure to pay attention to the bottle size when purchasing an organic mouthwash. One product may appear cheaper than the other at first glance, but it may turn out to be just a 10- or 12-ounce bottle versus a 16-ounce one, so the per-ounce price is actually higher. There are also some twin packs and 32-ounce bottles you can buy, which generally offer better value.
Whitening formula
Some mouthwashes do more than just freshen your breath. They also contain ingredients designed to lift stains and help whiten your teeth. The most notable and effective of these is hydrogen peroxide, which is the same ingredient most dentists use to whiten teeth.
Plaque control
Organic mouthwashes can also help reduce plaque through the use of antiseptic ingredients. These will usually contain essential oils and hydrogen peroxide in higher concentrations than formulas not specifically designed for plaque control.
How much you can expect to spend on organic mouthwash
Most organic mouthwashes cost between 50 cents and $1.50 per ounce. This translates to $8-$24 for a 16-ounce bottle.
Organic mouthwash FAQ
How long do you need to swish organic mouthwash?
A. Organic mouthwash should be swished for the same amount of time as traditional options, which is between 30 and 60 seconds. Doing it for any longer than that doesn’t offer any additional benefits.
Is it OK to swallow organic mouthwash?
A. Although organic mouthwashes are made from natural ingredients, you still want to avoid swallowing them. Many of the ingredients have the potential to cause gastrointestinal distress or make you sick.
Is organic mouthwash safe for kids?
A. Organic mouthwash is safer for kids than traditional options; however, you still need to teach them how to use it properly. This means it is best to supervise their use until you are confident that your kids know not to swallow any. That said, experts recommend not to let any child under the age of 6 use a mouthwash, organic or otherwise.
What’s the best organic mouthwash to buy?
Top organic mouthwash
Essential Oxygen BR Organic Brushing Rinse
What you need to know: This is one of the few USDA-certified organic mouthwashes on the market, and it both whitens teeth and freshens breath.
What you’ll love: It is available in three popular flavors, including wintergreen and cinnamon, and it is sugar- and alcohol-free.
What you should consider: Some find the aftertaste unpleasant.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top organic mouthwash for the money
Lucky Teeth Organic Peroxide Mouthwash
What you need to know: This whitening mouthwash gets the job done without relying on fillers, binding agents or artificial flavors.
What you’ll love: It also helps treat gum disease and inflammation, and it is reasonably effective at removing stains.
What you should consider: It doesn’t create that burning sensation many people look for in a mouthwash.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
What you need to know: This certified organic product works as a mouth rinse or for oil pulling.
What you’ll love: It’s available in mint or cinnamon flavors. It’s completely plant-based and cruelty-free.
What you should consider: Some users report not liking the taste.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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The Chicago Cubs have played in worse-looking conditions at Wrigley Field than Tuesday night’s game against the Philadelphia Phillies.
Few can forget the Cubs game against the Atlanta Braves in April 2018 when the wild chill was 25 degrees and players were drenched from the howling rain and a hawk wind in their face the entire afternoon. The Braves blew an eight-run, eighth-inning lead, and cried about the conditions afterward.
“If we all don’t come out of here with pneumonia I think we’ll be alright,” Braves reliever Luke Jackson said.
But sometimes looks are deceiving. The air quality in Chicago on Tuesday was at a level deemed “very unhealthy” by the Illinois EPA due to smoke from the wildfires in Canada. Commissioner Rob Manfred’s office and the MLB Players Association convened during the day to determine whether to postpone the game, but opted to play on.
The collective bargaining agreement dictated the decision on such a cancellation would be in the hands of MLB and the union, not the teams involved.
Otherwise, it was business as usual around Wrigley Field.
Earlier in the day, dozens of children gathered in Gallagher Way outside the park to watch the computer-animated movie “Wall-E,” a film that includes a message about the hazards of environmental neglect. The smoky haze from the fire was widespread but did not obscure the video board secured on the Cubs’ office building, and none of the parents seemed too concerned about the air pollution.
There have been fouler smells emanating from Wrigley in years past, but usually it was due to the play of the Cubs. The smell during Tuesday’s game was more like a campout at Wrigley.
A couple of hours before game time, Cubs manager David Ross said he didn’t have enough knowledge of the situation to say whether he was concerned about playing in the unhealthy air conditions.
“I was out walking around earlier in the day,” he said. “It was not ideal. There’s probably smarter people making decisions on that than me.”
Some players did what they had to do. Trey Mancini was out on the field early to take grounders and extra infield practice after making some egregious fielding errors on the road trip in Pittsburgh and London. Most Cubs took batting practice.
Cubs second baseman Nico Hoerner noted it “definitely smells pretty smoky outside, (so) we’ll do pretty limited stuff outside pregame, and then see what we’ve got.”
Asked if the players had any concerns about playing under such conditions, Hoerner said: “I think we’re all kind of just learning what that really means, the air quality numbers and things like that I’m not really familiar with. Hopefully we’ll be all right.”
Hoerner then let out an awkward laugh.
Of course, most of the players are in good shape and relatively healthy. More at risk were older fans and those with heart or lung disease.
MLB canceled games in New York and Philadelphia on June 7 due to the hazardous air pollution from the Canadian wildfires. White Sox manager Pedro Grifol said that night at Yankee Stadium: “A couple of guys, myself, my throat started hurting a little bit. Maybe it’s mental, maybe it’s not. Still, they did the right thing.”
The Cubs organization conceded to the poor air quality by allowing the Chicago media to vote on whether to keep the press box windows closed for the game. Typically the Cubs keep it open if it’s over 50degrees, whether the writers agree or not. The writers on Tuesday voted unanimously to keep the windows closed.
The surreal atmosphere took a little of the focus away from the Cubs’ recent hot streak. They returned home from a 4-1 road trip and stood three games behind the National League Central-leading Milwaukee Brewers, in spite of being two games under .500. The Cubs play four games in Milwaukee next week.
“If you’re in contention, the record doesn’t matter, right?” Ross said. “You’re either in it (or not). We’re three games back and I don’t care if we’re 20 games over .500 or you’re 20 games below .500. If you’re three games back from the people leading your division, you’re three games back. That’s the way I look at it.”
Fortunately for Ross, the Cubs weren’t 20 games below .500 or else he’d be hearing it from fans, no matter where they stood in the race. The Cubs have been playing well the last three weeks, riding their starting pitching and improved hitting in clutch situations.
“We went through a stretch there where hitters were doing really well and then a stretch where the pitchers were doing really well, and we couldn’t put it all together,” left fielder Ian Happ said. “But we put it together.
“The lineup shakeup with (Mike Tauchman) at the top has been really good, and Dansby (Swanson) hitting four or five, and getting (Cody Bellinger) back, all those things put together (have helped).”
The Cubs made a couple of roster moves beforehand, selecting the contract of first baseman Jared Young from Triple-A Iowa and optioning Miles Mastrobuoni to Iowa. Young was designated for assignment after last season, but re-signed and finally made his way back to the Cubs.
Jameson Taillon started Tuesday, and Ross slotted Drew Smyly and Kyle Hendricks in the final two games of the Phillies series. Ross said the blister on Marcus Stroman’s right index finger had improved, and he expected his ace to make his next start Saturday against the Cleveland Guardians.
Stroman told reporters in London he could use some rest during the All-Star break, which might mean the Cubs’ top starter would be unavailable to pitch in Seattle. That would be OK with Ross.
“He knows his body really well,” Ross said. “He’s really in tune with his body. If he feels like he needs a break I’m sure he’ll take that break. That’s between him and Major League Baseball. Hopefully he gets selected for the All-Star Game.
“I think he deserves that as I’m sure (the media does). After that, that’s a personal preference.”
() | 2023-06-28T03:25:42+00:00 | twincities.com | https://www.twincities.com/2023/06/27/chicago-cubs-and-philadelphia-phillies-play-on-at-wrigley-field-in-spite-of-very-unhealthy-air-alert/ |
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romania’s Foreign Ministry said Sunday that a tourist from the country was killed in a shark attack while vacationing in Egypt, making it the second shark attack death there in recent days.
A 68-year-old Austrian woman died on Friday after losing an arm and a leg in another attack by a Moka shark while swimming in the Red Sea near the resort town of Hurghada. Egyptian local media widely reported on the death of a second woman from a shark attack on Sunday.
The Romanian Foreign Ministry said it was working to identify the victim, notify the family and see the body repatriated.
On Saturday, Egyptian authorities closed off a stretch of the country’s Red Sea coastline after the Austrian woman died. They banned water activities including diving, snorkeling, wind surfing and kite sailing. Fishing boats were also banned from the waters off Hurghada.
A video circulated online purported to show the attack that killed the Austrian woman, relatively close to the shore, as seen from a nearby pier. In the video, the water around the swimmer turns red from blood as bystanders on the pier throw a flotation device toward her. It remained unclear how she was able to get to the shore.
Shark attacks have been relatively rare in Egypt’s Red Sea coastal region in recent years. In 2020, a young Ukrainian boy lost an arm and an Egyptian tour guide lost a leg in a shark attack. In 2010, a spate of shark attacks killed one European tourist and maimed several others off Sharm el-Sheikh on the Sinai Peninsula, across the Red Sea from Hurghada.
Egypt’s Red Sea resorts, including Hurghada and Sharm el-Sheikh, are some of the country’s major beach destinations and are popular with European tourists. Divers are drawn by the steep drop-offs of coral reefs just offshore that offer a rich and colorful sea life.
A spokeswoman for Egypt’s Ministry of Environment declined to comment when asked about the second death.
Authorities have in recent years sought to revive the vital tourism sector, battered by years of instability and, more recently, the coronavirus pandemic and the war in Ukraine. | 2022-07-04T18:57:33+00:00 | wwlp.com | https://www.wwlp.com/news/ap-international-news/romanian-woman-killed-in-2nd-egypt-shark-attack-in-days/ |
ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday afternoon's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Play4 Day" game were:
6-3-4-5, WB:
(six, three, four, five; WB: zero)
ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday afternoon's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Play4 Day" game were:
6-3-4-5, WB:
(six, three, four, five; WB: zero) | 2022-07-27T19:49:47+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Play4-Day-game-17332778.php |
It's been 20 years since the beginning of American Idol.
Since the show debuted in 2002, judges and formats have come and gone. After a hiatus, it moved from Fox to ABC in 2018, where it has been mostly ignored ever since. (On May 22, the show, now judged by Lionel Richie, Katy Perry and Luke Bryan — along with all the people who still vote — crowned Noah Thompson, a country singer from Kentucky, as its 20th winner.)
But there was a time when you couldn't get away from it — and it made people stars.
NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast asked listeners to vote for the top American Idol contestants ever. Here are the top 15.
15. Elliott Yamin
3rd place, Season 5, 2006
Yamin was not somebody who slid into an easy category the way a country singer or a pop diva might. His strong vocals were beautiful and heartfelt, a little bit retro, a little bit soulful. It wasn't obvious exactly what kind of star he might be. But he remains a guy whose Idol performances are a pleasure to watch again. If you could only watch one of the many moments when bloated Idol finales united singers with people they admired to perform duets, you could do a lot worse than Elliott's appearance with Mary J. Blige, which he quite understandably treated as the most exciting thing happening in the world at that moment.
14. Kris Allen
Winner, Season 8, 2009
You know the feeling you have when you go into a coffee shop, and it's familiar, and you know you're not going to get anything particularly exciting, but you're probably going to get what you want and it will probably be solid and you'll feel a little bit better and then you'll leave and in 15 minutes you'll forget the name of the coffee place even though you'll feel willing to recommend it to somebody who asks if there's a coffee place nearby? Kris Allen is that feeling, but a person.
13. Melinda Doolittle
Third place, Season 6, 2007
One of the wonderful things about Idol fandom is that there are people who have remained in the hearts of a lot of their original voters, even if their time in the sun hasn't been as consistent or as lasting as, say, Carrie Underwood's. Melinda Doolittle is, and always was, a very talented vocalist who came in third in the sixth season behind Jordin Sparks and the "beatboxing"(-ish) Blake Lewis. She's kept working, and although she didn't go on to have a string of hits like some, she's got a beautiful voice that has every reason to be remembered years later.
12. Jordin Sparks
Winner, Season 6, 2007
After winning Idol, Jordin Sparks has had some big successes, including the single "No Air," which she performed with Chris Brown. (Sigh.) She's also done some acting, both on Broadway and in films including Sparkle. A great talent and just 17 when she took the crown, Sparks was Idol's youngest winner ever. It's a credit to her and the people around her that she's done so well having gotten into such a pressure cooker so young. She returned to Idol recently to duet with Season 2 winner Ruben Studdard to perform "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)," and you know what? They were terrific.
11. Katharine McPhee
Runner-up, Season 5, 2006
McPhee was the runner-up in Season 5, losing to dad-rocker Taylor Hicks. She flourished nonetheless, acting in The Bunny House before co-starring in the TV cult hit Smash, in which she played an up-and-coming Broadway star. In real life, she also ended up on Broadway for a while, in Waitress. Now married to super-producer David Foster, it's safe to say Kat has done pretty well, win or no win.
10. David Archuleta
Runner-up, Season 7, 2008
Archuleta was a pretty powerful singer who lost to David Cook in the finals after spending most of the season being marketed to viewers as a very sweet little bunny rabbit. He went on to have a recording career including the single "Crush," and he's part of the honorable society of people who came in second in their seasons and made that supposed loss into a decent career nonetheless.
9. Haley Reinhart
Third place, Season 10, 2011
Here's an interesting statistic: Haley, who comes from Season 10, is the most recent contestant to make our top 15. And once you've heard her slightly gravelly voice, you don't have to know that she actually sang "Rolling in the Deep" to guess that she was hot on Idol around the same time Adele was gaining prominence and becoming a star. Her bluesy rasp didn't quite get her to the top, but she continues to appear on lists of people's favorite Idol performers and performances.
8. Chris Daughtry
Fourth place, Season 5, 2006
Idol didn't always know what to do with rock dudes. Even when they were good at it, like Daughtry was, they rarely got the kind of air under their wings with voters that accrued to country or acoustic pop artists like Kris Allen or Scotty McCreery. But it was a salable kind of music in the early aughts, this post-Creed kinda-grungy thing, and Daughtry has been quite a survivor for a guy who finished fourth. How much of a survivor? In 2019, he came in second on The Masked Singer, where he appeared as Rottweiler.
7. David Cook
Winner, Season 7, 2008
Cook was the first of the five consecutive "white guy with guitar" winners, but he leaned toward the rocker side rather than the folk/pop side. Gentle enough not to frighten the horses, but edgy enough to seem more interesting than some of his rivals, Cook beat out the very sweet stylings of young David Archuleta. He then went on to put out records and — as is the case with many of his fellow contestants — appear on Broadway, in his case playing the lead in Kinky Boots.
6. Clay Aiken
Runner-up, Season 2, 2003
A skilled vocalist whose following remains devoted to this day, Aiken released a bunch of albums, including a holiday record that did very well. On top of that, since his days bickering with Simon Cowell, he's done everything from Spamalot on Broadway to The Celebrity Apprentice to politics (he ran for Congress twice!). There are a good number of Idol contestants who finished second but made fine careers for themselves, and he's one of their leaders. Ruben Studdard beat Clay in the finals, but Clay is still out there singing his heart out now and then.
5. Fantasia Barrino
Winner, Season 3, 2004
Undoubtedly one of Idol's most technically gifted winners, Fantasia has gone on to success on Broadway. She wrote a memoir and then starred in its screen adaptation! She may not have gotten the respect she deserved from the audience in some weeks — she was part of the shameful moment in Barry Manilow week (!!) when they revealed that America's votes created an indefensible bottom three consisting of Fantasia, LaToya London and a woman you may have heard of named Jennifer Freaking Hudson. (Hudson was eliminated.) But she's had plenty of chances to get sweet revenge on any doubters, and she's reportedly set to reprise her Broadway role of Celie in the movie adaptation of the musical The Color Purple.
4. Carrie Underwood
Winner, Season 4, 2005
A powerhouse singer whose only drawback seemed to be that she was maybe a little too polished, Carrie Underwood won the fourth season and has since grown into a country music superstar. She now has plenty of fans who likely don't even know she came from Idol. With hits like "Before He Cheats," she's made a place for herself on top of the charts in a tough sector for women, and she's still going strong.
3. Jennifer Hudson
Seventh place, Season 3, 2004
Idol can point to some successes. But it also has made some embarrassing mistakes, including the seventh-place finish of future Oscar- and Grammy- (and Daytime Emmy-) winning artist Jennifer Hudson. It's a whiff up there with the famous comment about Fred Astaire: "Can't act, can't sing, can dance a little."
Now that J.Hud has her Tony and is an EGOT, her victory over Simon Cowell and his catty comments about her appearance — and her smiting of everyone who didn't vote for her — is complete.
2. Adam Lambert
Runner-up, Season 8, 2009
Lambert was an acrobatic vocalist and a throwback to glam rock. After finishing second to Kris Allen — who was part of the string of winners who were so-called "white guys with guitars" — he wound up performing with Queen, a remarkable endorsement of his style from some of the guys who inspired it. Maybe he wasn't everybody's cup of tea, but he's had genuine industry success and has clearly impressed a lot of the people who mattered to him the most. What's not to like about that?
1. Kelly Clarkson
Winner, Season 1, 2002
The original winner and our champ, Clarkson beat out Justin Guarini to win Idol's first season. Sure, there were bumps like the movie From Justin To Kelly, but after the show, she turned out legitimately terrific pop hits like "Since U Been Gone" and "Behind These Hazel Eyes."
Now, she's a daytime talk show host with a devoted following and a place she can still sing whenever she wants. She is what Idol originally said it would find: a pop star.
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13-year-old dies from suspected fentanyl overdose, police say
WICHITA FALLS, Texas (KAUZ/Gray News) – A 13-year-old died of a suspected fentanyl overdose in Texas over the weekend, according to police.
The Wichita Falls Police Department said they responded to three separate fentanyl-related overdose deaths this weekend, with the youngest victim being the 13-year-old.
Police were called to an apartment building late Sunday morning and found the teen dead.
The other two deaths at separate residences included a 19-year-old woman and a 21-year-old man.
Wichita Falls Police Department Sgt. Charlie Eipper said evidence in all three investigations points to fentanyl overdoses. The bodies have been sent for autopsies, and all cases remain under investigation.
Eipper said the biggest concern with these overdose deaths is that fentanyl pills are made to look like Percocet, a common prescription pain medication.
There have now been 18 fentanyl-related deaths this year in Wichita Falls, according to the police department.
Copyright 2022 KAUZ via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2022-09-19T20:29:00+00:00 | waff.com | https://www.waff.com/2022/09/19/13-year-old-dies-suspected-fentanyl-overdose-police-say/ |
Highly decorated Marine officer nominated to be next commandant
By LOLITA C. BALDOR
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has nominated a highly decorated Marine officer who’s been involved in the transformation of the force to be the next commandant of the Marine Corps. Gen. Eric Smith is now the assistant commandant and his nomination had been widely expected, The current top Marine is Gen. David Berger, and he’s wrapping up his four-year term. Smith is a career infantry officer who’s commanded at every level and served multiple tours in Afghanistan and Iraq. He worked on a sweeping campaign to transform the Marine Corps to better be able to fight amphibious wars in the Pacific after years of battling terrorist groups in the Middle East. | 2023-05-31T16:19:39+00:00 | kyma.com | https://kyma.com/news/2023/05/31/highly-decorated-marine-officer-nominated-to-be-next-commandant/ |
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AIRPORT CITY, Israel, Dec. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MySize, Inc. (NASDAQ: MYSZ) (TASE: MYSZ.TA) ("MySize" or the "Company"), an omnichannel e-commerce platform and provider of AI-driven measurement solutions to drive revenue growth and reduce costs for its business clients, announced today the Company's Founder and CEO, Ronen Luzon, was interviewed by Newsy's Morning Rush Co-anchor Alex Livingston on December 27, 2022.
View the segment titled "Reducing Holiday Returns with AI with MySize CEO Ronen Luzon" here: LINK
About Newsy Morning Rush
"Morning Rush" helps viewers navigate the news of the day from the heavy traffic in Washington DC to the breezy backroads of Anytown USA. Context is the watchword of the day – every day. With interviews featuring newsmakers such as Labor Secretary Marty Walsh or former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottleib, "Morning Rush" drives through the halls of power to tell you how the issues of the day will impact the lives of everyone. Newsy is part of The E.W. Scripps Company.
About MySize Inc.
MySize, Inc. (NASDAQ: MYSZ) (TASE: MYSZ.TA) is an omnichannel e-commerce platform and provider of AI-driven measurement solutions including MySizeID and recently acquired Naiz Fit to drive revenue growth and reduce costs for its business clients. Orgad, its online retailer platform, has expertise in e-commerce, supply chain, and technology operating as a third-party seller on Amazon.com and other sites. MySize recently launched FirstLook Smart Mirror, a mirror-like touch display that provides in-store customers an enhanced shopping experience and contactless checkout. FirstLook Smart Mirror extends MySize's reach into physical stores and is expected to contribute to revenues through unit sales and recurring service fees.
MySize has developed a unique measurement technology based on sophisticated algorithms and cutting-edge technology with broad applications, including the apparel, e-commerce, DIY, shipping, and parcel delivery industries. This proprietary measurement technology is driven by several algorithms that are able to calculate and record measurements in a variety of novel ways. To learn more about MySize, please visit our website: www.mysizeid.com.
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SAN ANTONIO – A driver swerved to avoid a collision with another vehicle before losing control and crashing into a home on the South Side, according to San Antonio police.
The crash happened in the 3800 block of Skyridge Avenue.
A driver was heading northbound on Skyridge when another driver heading west on Glover ran a stop sign, SAPD said.
The northbound driver tried to miss the other vehicle to avoid a crash, lost control and crashed into a home.
Police said the driver who crashed was uninjured, and the other driver sped away from the scene.
No one was inside the home at the time of the crash.
No injuries were reported, but there is significant property damage, according to police.
The vehicle that sped away from the scene is described as a white sedan, but the make and model are unknown.
Authorities said two females were possibly in the vehicle, but further details are limited.
We’ll bring more updates as they become available. | 2023-04-15T04:01:24+00:00 | ksat.com | https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2023/04/15/sapd-driver-loses-control-crashes-into-south-side-home-after-trying-to-avoid-collision/ |
Former national security adviser John Bolton said Monday that he’ll “seriously consider” challenging former President Trump for the GOP’s presidential nomination in 2024 if other potential candidates don’t step in to decry his former boss and stop him from taking office again.
“We’ve got perhaps a dozen or more potential presidential candidates looking to 2024. I think every one of them, before they declare their candidacy, should say, ‘Donald Trump was wrong. We repudiate him. He doesn’t belong in the Republican Party,'” Bolton said on NBC’s “Meet the Press NOW.”
“And, honestly, if they don’t, there’s one thing that would get me to get into the presidential race, which I looked at in previous elections. It would be to make it clear to the people of this country that Donald Trump is unacceptable as the Republican nominee,” he added.
Bolton, who served in the Trump White House from 2018 to 2019 after previously serving as United Nations ambassador under former President George W. Bush, knocked Trump over his recent calls for the “termination” of the Constitution to restore him to power and said he wants to see “Shermanesque statements” from all the potential candidates denouncing Trump and his comments.
“If I don’t see that, I’m going to seriously consider getting in,” Bolton said.
Trump on Friday argued in a Truth Social post that the fraud he claims occurred during the 2020 presidential election “allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution.”
The former president tried to walk back his comments after they were met with backlash but said that “if an election is irrefutably fraudulent, it should go to the rightful winner or, at a minimum, be redone. Where open and blatant fraud is involved, there should be no time limit for change!”
The White House on Monday called on congressional Republicans to reaffirm their commitment to the Constitution and reject the comments from the former commander in chief.
“I think the voters, the Republican voters, people who choose the Republican nominee, nearly 95 percent disagree that Donald Trump is more important than the Constitution. I’m afraid there’s some that would stick with Trump on this. What does a candidate have to lose by appealing to 95 percent of the base of the Republican Party?” Bolton said on Monday.
“I actually think most Republican elected officials in Washington disagree with Trump on this, but they’re intimidated,” he added. | 2022-12-06T00:19:03+00:00 | localsyr.com | https://www.localsyr.com/hill-politics/john-bolton-going-to-seriously-consider-challenging-trump/ |
EYEWITNESS NEWS (WBRE/WYOU) — State Police are advising Pennsylvania residents of the rise of recent crimes committed by Romanians claiming to be in need of money and stealing from various locations.
According to Pennsylvania State Police, these criminals are described as Middle Eastern or Hispanic, posing as Romomas willing to exchange gold jewelry marked at “18k” for money. Police say the jewelry is fake and these scammers may also try and steal jewelry off the victim
Investigators state these suspects approach customers in parking lots and inside casinos trying to gain sympathy from the victims to give them money.
According to police, the Romanian scammers commit a variety of crimes, including:
- Counterfeit jewelry scams
- Quick-change schemes at retail locations
- Cell phone thefts
- Gym locker thefts
- Jewelry store distraction theft
- Placing skimming devices on ATM’s and self checkout registers
PSP wants to remind PA residents to be mindful of their surroundings and consider if something does not seem right to report the suspicious activity to local law enforcement. | 2022-09-07T17:20:43+00:00 | pahomepage.com | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/crime-courts/psp-issue-warning-of-romanian-scammers/ |
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Multiple women were rescued and a couple is behind bars in “one of the worst trafficking cases” seen in Hillsborough County, authorities said Monday.
Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister announced eight women— who all appear to be Cuban nationals between the ages of 18 and 24—were rescued, and the suspected traffickers, Amet Ramon Maqueira De La Cal, 35, and Rosalia Leonard Garcia, 29, were detained.
Chronister said his agency received a tip about a Cuban woman who was smuggled into the U.S. through Mexico, and threatened into sex work to pay off a $60,000 “travel debt.”
The tipster said several other women were in the same situation.
The sheriff’s office later got a tip about two people, Maqueira De La Cal and Leonard Garcia, confiscating the women’s documents and cell phones.
“Our detectives quickly acted on this lead by setting up a surveillance operation, which confirmed these disgusting allegations,” Chronister said.
Through the course of the investigation, detectives learned the suspects used a firearm to threaten the victims and their families. The women were forced to work as strippers and prostitutes at various nightclubs in Hillsborough and Pinellas counties, and some of their services were advertised online, according to the sheriff’s office.
They had to pay for rent and food, and also paid for gas to so their traffickers could get them from one location to the next, Chronister said.
On Wednesday, detectives surveilling one of the apartments saw three victims get into Maqueira De La Cal’s vehicle. They were driven to a gentlemen’s club, then to a gambling establishment.
The next day, detectives conducted surveillance on Leonard Garcia’s SUV and saw her drop off seven women at Tampa’s International Plaza mall, authorities said.
“At this time, detectives used a form of deception to separate a victim they had previously recognized in an online advertisement. While doing so, the victim corroborated the tips and information learned throughout the entirety of the investigation thus far. She also advised all the women traveling in the vehicle, excluding the suspect, were human trafficking victims,” the sheriff’s office said in a press release.
After obtaining a warrant, detectives searched the two properties and found the eighth victim, cash, condoms, a stolen firearm, and different forms of identification, authorities said.
Chronister said Maqueira De La Cal and Leonard Garcia were both arrested and charged with 47 counts in total, including human trafficking, human smuggling, false imprisonment and Racketeering Influencing Corrupt Organization Act (RICO).
Maqueira De La Cal also faces a charge of grand theft with a firearm.
Authorities said the victims are receiving counseling and other resources through Selah Freedom.
“This is one of the worst trafficking cases that I have seen,” Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody said. “In this case, I am extraordinarily proud of the brave, courageous women who lived through hell for months, not knowing if they would be able to get out of that situation.” | 2022-10-24T20:04:01+00:00 | cbs42.com | https://www.cbs42.com/news/crime/women-rescued-from-sex-traffickers-at-international-plaza-lived-through-hell-for-months-officials/ |
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7 Days | 2022-08-17T23:07:34+00:00 | krgv.com | https://www.krgv.com/gallery-videos/hechos-8-17-22 |
ZUG, Switzerland, Oct. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sensorium, the leading tech company behind the Sensorium Galaxy metaverse, is unveiling its latest groundbreaking project dedicated to exploring the wide potentialities of metaverse real estate as an emerging asset class - UNDER.
The upcoming UNDER virtual land platform features NFT parcels with built-in game mechanics and an extensive upgrade system tied to original play-to-earn games. UNDER PLAY, the project's gaming library, is set to include a vast range of casual P2E titles, which will be regularly updated to include latest releases.
The web3 initiative is centered around the virtual land of UNDER – a mystic planet in the Sensorium Galaxy metaverse along with the PRISM world, where the world-renowned stars, from David Guetta to Steve Aoki will perform exclusive shows.
The UNDER planet is an attraction to metaverse miners given the unique presence of SENSO Aura (SAr), a valuable resource that can be used across the Sensorium Galaxy metaverse or exchanged for fiat money.
Sensorium plans to release a total of 100,000 parcels for players. Each plot will feature in-built games enabling the mining of valuable resources. The UNDER experience offers three pathways for users to obtain these resources and get revenue: landless players can rent parcels from Sensorium or other players, while land owners can play themselves or stake / lend their parcels to other users for the revenue share. The more parcels owners stake, the more likely they are to obtain profit through other players' winnings. The land owners can also upgrade their parcels with new games from UNDER PLAY gaming catalog, thereby making their parcels significantly more attractive to other users.
"We recognized a market niche and identified consumer demand for virtual land projects that aim higher than simply offering static land parcels for collecting or re-selling purposes. The fact is that metaverse users are fast becoming savvy and demanding customers. And as we step into the next generation of digital experiences in a web3 world, we understand that virtual land parcels must have compelling utility, including incredible game mechanics and a sustainable play-to-earn model to support the overall ecosystem. UNDER is Sensorium's high-up Web 3.0. We are very excited about the project coming to life in the coming months", explains Alex Kim, Sensorium's Chief Monetization Officer.
UNDER will be leveraging Sensorium's ecosystem currency SENSO, simplifying the management of land sales, fueling P2E mechanics, and adding further utility to Sensorium's metaverse currency.
With the goal of making UNDER an experience for everyone, Sensorium will be focussing on a roll-out that has an equal appeal to the crypto community and beyond, as the company continues its efforts in helping internet users transition from traditional web2 gaming platforms into web3 experiences.
Furthermore, UNDER will allow our vast community and fans to start contributing and interacting with the metaverse following its public release.
For more information regarding UNDER land and pre-sale opportunities, please contact alexander.kim@sensoriumxr.com
About Sensorium
Founded in 2018, Sensorium is a leading metaverse developer that leverages the latest AI and XR solutions to deliver immersive high-end events and experiences. In the Sensorium Galaxy metaverse, users can explore vast worlds filled with activities, ranging from games to mediation practices, socialize with other users, creators, and virtual beings.
The Sensorium Galaxy metaverse is built in partnership with the world's leading entertainment powerhouses, including Jay-Z's Roc Nation and Yann Pissenem's The Night League. The metaverse will host exclusive performances developed in collaboration with chart-topping artists – David Guetta, Armin van Buuren, and Steve Aoki, among others.
The platform will be accessible through the most widely available interfaces. Users can tune in using VR headsets to get a sense of true immersion, use a PC to access an augmented reality experience, or download the mobile application to watch streams, build unique NPCs, and communicate with them.
For media inquiries:
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Head of Content, Sensorium
+79032939191
matias.lapuschin@sensoriumxr.com
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SOURCE Sensorium Corporation | 2022-10-12T11:28:03+00:00 | kmvt.com | https://www.kmvt.com/prnewswire/2022/10/12/sensorium-announces-development-under-pioneering-p2e-metaland-platform/ |
MASON, Ohio (AP) — The second stop on Serena Williams’ farewell tour was a short one.
The 40-year-old Williams fell to 0-2 in matches since announcing “the countdown has begun” on her career, losing 6-4, 6-0 to U.S. Open champion Emma Raducanu in the Western & Southern Open on Tuesday night.
Williams said last week in a Vogue magazine essay and an Instagram post that her career was winding down, although she did not explicitly say the U.S. Open, which begins Aug. 29 in New York, would be her last tournament.
The Cincinnati event was the second U.S. Open tuneup for Williams, and the next time she takes the court will be at Flushing Meadows. She lost to Belinda Bencic in straight sets last week in Toronto. A day before the announcement, Williams beat Nuria Parrizas-Diaz for her first match win since the 2021 French Open.
Williams is a 23-time Grand Slam champion, most recently in 2017 at the Australian Open, when she was pregnant with daughter Olympia. She said wanting to expand her family was a big reason she plans to step away.
Raducanu, ranked No. 19 in the world, was sharp as she dispatched Williams — and quieted the vocally pro-Williams crowd — in 1 hour, 5 minutes.
“I can’t believe I just played Serena Williams,” the 19-year-old Raducanu said. “It’s something that I think I’m really fortunate to have been able to do, and for our careers to have crossed when there’s such a big (age) gap and watching her growing up, it was an amazing experience to just play her.”
Williams did not speak to reporters after the match.
Fans cheered heartily when Williams was introduced, and again when she won her first point on a Raducanu error in the second game. Williams yelled in frustration when she double-faulted and screamed even louder and pumped her fist when she won the third game of the first set.
“I just knew how important every single point was because you let up a little bit, yeah, she’s going to be all over you,” Raducanu said. “She’s just such a legend.”
Down 2-0 in the first set, she fought back within 4-3 and then 5-4, but Raducanu closed out the set at love. Raducanu rolled from there, with Williams looking frustrated and even resigned near the end.
Williams was sidelined for a year by a torn hamstring suffered last year at Wimbledon, and her late-career injuries have contributed to inconsistency on the court.
The players thrilled the crowd with an exciting rally in the fifth game of the second set, won by Williams with a forehand volley. But she double-faulted on the next point on the way to being broken.
She briskly left the court after the match, waving to the crowd as she exited.
“I think that the crowd was pretty electric,” Raducanu said. “The stadium was really packed, and even if they were cheering for Serena … I was prepared for that.”
Raducanu, who faces veteran Victoria Azarenka in Wednesday’s second round, has not won a title since her out-of-nowhere triumph at the U.S. Open last year.
In the men’s draw, top-ranked Daniil Medvedev of Russia advanced to the third round, beating 24th-ranked Botic van de Zandschlup 6-4, 7-5.
Medvedev, banned by Wimbledon for his country’s invasion of Ukraine, was coming off a second-round loss to Wimbledon finalist Nick Kyrgios last week in Canada.
Kyrgios beat Alejandro Davidovich Fokina 7-5, 6-4 on Tuesday.
Also Tuesday, four-time Grand Slam champion Naomi Osaka was eliminated by Shuai Zhang, 6-4, 7-5.
The tournament lost another big name, Coco Gauff, when she retired from her match against qualifier Marie Bouzkova with a left ankle injury. Gauff had her ankle taped after the first set and dropped out after the first game of the second set.
Karolina Pliskova advanced with a 7-5, 6-1 win over Williams’ older sister, Venus. Bencic fell to Sorana Cirstea, 6-2, 6-7 (3), 6-4.
Rafael Nadal, sidelined since withdrawing from Wimbledon with an abdominal tear, practiced before a large crowd. The 22-time Grand Slam champion is scheduled to play Borna Corcic on Wednesday.
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More AP sports: https://apnews.com/hub/apf-sports and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2022-08-17T21:05:58+00:00 | myfox8.com | https://myfox8.com/sports/ap-sports/osaka-loses-to-zhang-gauff-quits-with-injury-at-cincinnati/ |
Groundbreaking movie star to be first Asian American featured on US currency
Updated: 8:53 AM MDT Oct 19, 2022
Early movie star Anna May Wong, who broke into Hollywood during the silent film era, will become the first Asian American to appear on U.S. currency, a century after she landed her first leading role.Wong's image, with her trademark blunt bangs and pencil-thin eyebrows, will feature on the back of new quarters from Monday.The design is the fifth to emerge from the American Women Quarters Program, which highlights pioneering women in their respective fields. The other four quarters, all put into production this year, feature poet and activist Maya Angelou; the first American woman in space, Sally Ride; Cherokee Nation leader Wilma Mankiller; and suffragist Nina Otero-Warren. The latter two were, along with Wong, selected with input from the public."These inspiring coin designs tell the stories of five extraordinary women whose contributions are indelibly etched in American culture," the U.S. Mint's acting director, Alison Doone, said in a statement to CNN last year, when the list was revealed.Considered the movie industry's first Chinese American star, Wong overcame widespread discrimination to carve out a four-decade career in film, theater and radio. She acted alongside icons including Marlene Dietrich, Joan Crawford and Laurence Olivier and appeared on stage in London and New York.Born in Los Angeles, she began acting at 14 and took a lead role in "The Toll of the Sea" three years later, in 1922. She went on to appear in dozens of movies but faced deeply entrenched racism in Hollywood, where she struggled to break from stereotypical roles.She moved to Europe in the 1920s, but later returned to the U.S. to make hits including "Shanghai Express," the 1932 adventure-romance movie that gave Wong one of her best-known roles — it starred Dietrich as a notorious courtesan who takes a three-day rail journey through China during the Chinese Civil War and is held hostage on board, with Wong playing a fellow first-class passenger.Throughout her life, Wong advocated for greater representation of Asian American actors in Hollywood. She received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960, the year before she died aged 56.Her keen sense of style also made her a fashion icon, with Wong often mixing traditional Chinese gowns and flapper-era styles with eccentric touches. A biopic of the actor's life, which will see her portrayed by "Crazy Rich Asians" star Gemma Chan, is currently in production."Many prominent actors from the 1920s and 1930s saw their name framed by lightbulbs on movie theater marquees, so I thought it made sense to feature Anna May Wong in this way," said the coin's designer, Emily Damstra, in a press release."Along with the hard work, determination, and skill Anna May Wong brought to the profession of acting, I think it was her face and expressive gestures that really captivated movie audiences, so I included these elements next to her name."The American Women Quarters program will choose five different women each year to be featured on the coin's reverse side through 2025. Next year's confirmed designs will spotlight pilot Bessie Coleman, composer Edith Kanakaʻole, former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt, journalist and activist Jovita Idar and ballerina Maria Tallchief.
Early movie star Anna May Wong, who broke into Hollywood during the silent film era, will become the first Asian American to appear on U.S. currency, a century after she landed her first leading role.
Wong's image, with her trademark blunt bangs and pencil-thin eyebrows, will feature on the back of new quarters from Monday.
The design is the fifth to emerge from the American Women Quarters Program, which highlights pioneering women in their respective fields. The other four quarters, all put into production this year, feature poet and activist Maya Angelou; the first American woman in space, Sally Ride; Cherokee Nation leader Wilma Mankiller; and suffragist Nina Otero-Warren. The latter two were, along with Wong, selected with input from the public.
"These inspiring coin designs tell the stories of five extraordinary women whose contributions are indelibly etched in American culture," the U.S. Mint's acting director, Alison Doone, said in a statement to CNN last year, when the list was revealed.
Considered the movie industry's first Chinese American star, Wong overcame widespread discrimination to carve out a four-decade career in film, theater and radio. She acted alongside icons including Marlene Dietrich, Joan Crawford and Laurence Olivier and appeared on stage in London and New York.
Born in Los Angeles, she began acting at 14 and took a lead role in "The Toll of the Sea" three years later, in 1922. She went on to appear in dozens of movies but faced deeply entrenched racism in Hollywood, where she struggled to break from stereotypical roles.
Burwell Photography/usmint.gov
The Anna May Wong Quarter is the fifth coin in the American Women Quarters™ Program.
She moved to Europe in the 1920s, but later returned to the U.S. to make hits including "Shanghai Express," the 1932 adventure-romance movie that gave Wong one of her best-known roles — it starred Dietrich as a notorious courtesan who takes a three-day rail journey through China during the Chinese Civil War and is held hostage on board, with Wong playing a fellow first-class passenger.
Throughout her life, Wong advocated for greater representation of Asian American actors in Hollywood. She received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960, the year before she died aged 56.
Her keen sense of style also made her a fashion icon, with Wong often mixing traditional Chinese gowns and flapper-era styles with eccentric touches. A biopic of the actor's life, which will see her portrayed by "Crazy Rich Asians" star Gemma Chan, is currently in production.
"Many prominent actors from the 1920s and 1930s saw their name framed by lightbulbs on movie theater marquees, so I thought it made sense to feature Anna May Wong in this way," said the coin's designer, Emily Damstra, in a press release.
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American film star, Anna May Wong (1905 - 1961) poses with a cut rose.
"Along with the hard work, determination, and skill Anna May Wong brought to the profession of acting, I think it was her face and expressive gestures that really captivated movie audiences, so I included these elements next to her name."
The American Women Quarters program will choose five different women each year to be featured on the coin's reverse side through 2025. Next year's confirmed designs will spotlight pilot Bessie Coleman, composer Edith Kanakaʻole, former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt, journalist and activist Jovita Idar and ballerina Maria Tallchief. | 2022-10-19T16:00:20+00:00 | koat.com | https://www.koat.com/article/anna-may-wong-asian-american-us-quarter/41710712 |
Eight days before a tough primary, U.S. Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler found herself standing on top of a wastewater treatment plant in Washougal, a small town in her district in southwest Washington state.
Her opponents had spent the weekend staging town halls and glad-handing, but the congresswoman said she's focused on her job. That focus brought her to the plant, where Washougal staff thanked her for securing $1 million in federal funds to buy and install something called an anoxic selector.
"That's how you say it?" she said with a laugh. "I'm not going to lie, I can read it. I'm like, 'Let's support that. It looks important.' "
Herrera Beutler was one of just 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach then-President Donald Trump in the wake of the Capitol insurrection. And she is one of three who are on the ballot Tuesday — in Washington state and in Michigan — aiming to fend off primary opponents.
In Washington, to the east of Herrera Beutler's 3rd Congressional District, Rep. Dan Newhouse in the 4th District faces a Trump-backed challenger. As does Rep. Peter Meijer in Michigan.
In her race, Herrera Beutler — who stands by her impeachment vote but has not made it a focus of her reelection bid — faces multiple well-funded challengers from her own party, presenting for the first time the real possibility she may not make it past the primary.
Those challengers include Trump-endorsed former Green Beret Joe Kent and Christian podcaster and homeschool advocate Heidi St. John, who cater to the district's most conservative voters.
The six-term congresswoman, who was first elected in 2010, acknowledged that being flanked from the right is an entirely new experience.
"I've never been in this position, in this way," she told NPR. "I have no metrics — no experience to say, 'This is how everything is going to work. And this is how I should be running this race.' "
So, she said, she's taking a business-as-usual approach.
"This isn't going to make a lot of social media feeds," she said of her wastewater treatment plant tour. "Whereas I've always felt like if you do the work of the hometown congressperson, elections take care of themselves. And that has proven true now several times."
"Jungle primary"
That may be true of how and when she makes public appearances, but the congresswoman is also deploying a different tactic: appealing to moderates, independents and even Democrats.
It's a strategy made possible by Washington state's top-two primary system. The so-called "jungle primary" puts all candidates on one ballot and advances the top two vote-getters to the general election, regardless of party. Because voters aren't required to declare a party affiliation, they can more easily cross the aisle if they choose.
That is seen as likely to benefit Herrera Beutler, who will no longer have the district's dedicated conservatives behind her. While Washington's 3rd District overlaps with the Portland metro area, its rural voters have regularly sailed her to reelection.
Her campaign ads are rife with rhetoric of unity, and mailers bill her as an "independent" candidate.
"Yes, I'm a Republican," Herrera Beutler said in the interview. "But I'm also very independent in my approach. And that's what people want to see here. So I'm betting that's going to continue to be the thing that's most important to voters."
It works in her favor that Democrats — who waged tough challenges in the last two cycles — have largely no-showed this year. One Democratic candidate, Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, joined the race late and has raised far less money than the Republican challengers.
Feuding conservatives
It also helps Herrera Beutler that Kent and St. John aren't just attacking her, but each other, too.
Thanks to a spending spree by outside groups, mailers and television ads supporting St. John have poured into the district decrying Kent as a secret Democrat and a "Bernie Bro." (Kent acknowledges that he voted for Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders in Oregon's 2020 presidential primary when he lived there, but he says his aim was to give Trump a weaker opponent.)
Kent frequently vents that St. John is splitting the district's conservative voting bloc and indirectly supporting Herrera Beutler.
"I would not do the establishment ... the favor of being the person who is being manipulated to snuff out the voice of the people," Kent told a crowd of about 30 outside Vancouver, Wash., last month.
Federal campaign filings show Kent has been heavily targeted by outside spending. The Women for Winning Action Fund, which has spent $518,000 on Herrera Beutler's behalf, has also spent $1.7 million against Kent. And a newly created and largely anonymous super PAC called Conservatives for a Stronger America has poured in money on St. John's behalf and spent $520,000 against Kent.
After the town hall, Kent expressed frustration about the spending. He described it as "death by a thousand cuts."
Bad blood between St. John and Kent dates back to March 2021, when they both vowed at a public forum to withdraw and support whomever received Trump's endorsement to unseat Herrera Beutler. The former president endorsed Kent six months later, but St. John remained in the race.
St. John has maintained that she made that agreement before learning more about Kent. She derides him as "Portland Joe," as Kent, a Portland native, was a registered Democrat in Oregon until he moved to the 3rd District.
Voters split
The rift is creating a tough choice for the district's more conservative voters.
Melinda Lucas, a 72-year-old Ridgefield resident, said St. John initially intrigued her, but she gravitated to Kent's policies. Kent supports strict borders, ending foreign wars and an audit of the 2020 election, which he falsely claims was stolen from Trump.
"Election fraud was a big one," Lucas said. "And I will say, my husband said, 'He's a Green Beret. I trust him.' "
Still, other Republicans worry about Kent's ties to extremism. He was a keynote speaker at the so-called "Justice for J6" rally in Washington, D.C., last September, where he called for clemency for people facing criminal charges for the riot.
In March, Kent had to distance himself from white nationalist Nick Fuentes after he publicly claimed Kent's campaign sought to work with him. Kent confirmed he had a phone call with Fuentes, but declined knowing anything about Fuentes and said the relationship never advanced.
Kent's chief consultant, Matt Braynard, told Oregon Public Broadcasting in March that he set up a booth at Fuentes' "America First" convention. Braynard said attendees "didn't seem too interested in us."
And last week, the Associated Press reported that Kent's campaign paid more than $11,000 to a person identified by law enforcement as a member of the far-right Proud Boys. The Kent campaign told a reporter that the man had no "current affiliation" with "outside organizations," the Associated Press reported.
Mark Jager, a 64-year-old Vancouver resident, described St. John and Kent both as "fringe" Republicans but nonetheless said he considered them valid candidates.
"It's a part of the party that I don't identify with but they have absolutely the right to have their views and to be running in this race," Jager said.
Jager said he would support Herrera Beutler in the primary. But Jager said that if Herrera Beutler fell short in the primary, he'd face a tough choice in November.
Jager said he might even consider voting for the Democrat Perez.
"I will look at all candidates, you know, including the Democrat, and vote my conscience on that issue," he said. "I will factor in all candidates in my decision, and may move to the other side of the aisle if I feel so moved."
Copyright 2022 Oregon Public Broadcasting | 2022-08-01T10:38:02+00:00 | iowapublicradio.org | https://www.iowapublicradio.org/news-from-npr/2022-08-01/she-voted-to-impeach-trump-now-rep-herrera-beutler-tries-to-navigate-a-tough-primary |
CLEVELAND, Ohio (WEWS) — A Cleveland family is celebrating their baby boy's life after he was saved thanks to a rare heart procedure.
The timing holds an even stronger sense of purpose and meaning to them, as February marks American Heart Month.
DJ's family says he wouldn’t be here today without the power of prayer and the health systems available in Northeast Ohio.
“They always say you are looking for the light at the end of the tunnel and in the beginning, I didn’t see a light," said DJ's mother, Danielle Edmonds.
DJ was born in January 2021, three months premature. His twin sibling passed away in utero.
By every definition of the word, DJ is a gift. Edmonds calls him her "miracle baby."
“It’s been a roller coaster from the beginning. From the beginning, I knew he was my miracle cause he survived," Edmonds said.
DJ was born with an extremely rare and life-threatening congenital heart defect.
It prevented blood from the heart’s two lower chambers to flow to the lungs and other parts of the body.
“I didn’t know if I would ever bring my baby home. From one hospital to the next," Edmonds said.
After getting a second opinion, she arrived at the Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital where doctors determined exactly what was wrong and worked to save him.
"The two arteries, instead of arising, each one of them from a different ventricle, they both arose from the same ventricle. So, the right ventricle has two outlets and left ventricle has no outlet," Dr. Hani Najm, chair of Pediatric and Adult Heart Surgery at the Cleveland Clinic said.
Edmonds says at that moment she let go and let God. She prayed with her son’s physician.
“I asked him to pray on his hands before he took my son. I said can I pray on your hands? And he didn’t think about it or not even knowing his religious beliefs—He just gave me his hands," Edmonds said.
Those hands and a coveted healing stone protected and helped DJ overcome, Edmonds said.
DJ became the youngest patient ever to receive “the ventricular switch”. The rare procedure switches the right ventricle and left ventricle. The left now pumps to the lungs and the right to the body.
"This has never been done in that age group, which was three months for DJ, at that time when he was in failure. But we felt that would be the best thing to do this procedure for him," Najm said.
The procedure was a life-altering success. DJ looked healthier and happier almost instantly.
Najm says DJ is thriving, growing, and getting better each day.
This story was originally reported by Mike Holden on newscleveland5.com. | 2023-02-15T21:12:44+00:00 | fox17online.com | https://www.fox17online.com/news/national/moms-miracle-baby-saved-thanks-to-life-altering-heart-procedure |
ROXANA, Ill. (AP) — A contractor died after a crane overturned at a refinery in an Illinois suburb of St. Louis, a coroner said Tuesday.
Chad L. Crabtree, 47, of Owensboro, Kentucky, was pronounced dead at the scene of the incident Tuesday afternoon at the Philips 66 Refinery in Roxana, 17 miles (27.4 kilometers) northeast of St. Louis, Madison County Coroner Stephen Nonn said.
Crabtree was a project manager for Sterett Crane & Rigging, a subcontractor at the refinery, Nonn said.
During the operation of the crane, a mechanical malfunction occurred and caused the crane to overturn, Nonn said.
Crabtree sustained head trauma, he said. An autopsy was scheduled for Wednesday.
A second man operating the crane was also injured and transported to a hospital, Nonn said.
The incident remains under investigation by the Roxana Police Department and workplace safety investigators, Nonn said. | 2022-12-07T00:50:25+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/Worker-dies-after-crane-overturns-at-S-Illinois-17635942.php |
Saturday, Feb. 7 marks the 40th anniversary of the Beatles arrival in the United States. We celebrate on the show: TV critic David Bianculli remembers their first appearance on the Ed Sullivan show, 40 years ago.
Copyright 2004 Fresh Air
Saturday, Feb. 7 marks the 40th anniversary of the Beatles arrival in the United States. We celebrate on the show: TV critic David Bianculli remembers their first appearance on the Ed Sullivan show, 40 years ago.
Copyright 2004 Fresh Air | 2022-05-27T19:37:09+00:00 | wlrn.org | https://www.wlrn.org/2004-02-06/the-beatles-in-america |
SAN DIEGO (Border Report) — Sergio Sandoval was supposed to return home through the San Ysidro Port of Entry last week after having been deported 22 years ago, but his homecoming took an unexpected turn of events, and he ended up in a San Diego County jail.
Upon his entry into the U.S., the Marine Corps vet was notified he had an arrest warrant pending in Nevada.
So instead of crossing the border and being reunited with his family, he was sent to a detention facility while his attorney tried to rectify the arrest warrant.
It took 24 hours, but Sandoval was finally back north of the border in freedom.
“When he got out of the Marine Corps he ended up getting into trouble like many veterans do,” said Robert Vivar, executive director of the Unified U.S. Deported Veterans Resource Center.
Vivar said Sandoval had gotten a DUI, and since he was not a U.S. citizen, he got deported.
“Now come to find out that it looks like the charge he was deported for may not have been a deportable charge,” said Vivar. “Because he didn’t have legal representation during his immigration proceedings, he ended up getting deported.”
Sadly, Vivar says, there are many veterans south of the border and in many other countries who may not know about an assistance program sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security that helps deported vets reunite with their families in the U.S.
The program, which was announced last year and instituted a few months back, can help veterans with free or reduced legal help, VA benefits, and, in some cases, U.S. citizenship.
“A lot of deported veterans have not received information or it has not reached them to help their cases reviewed and the possibilities of coming back home and also receiving the right to veterans’ benefits,” Vivar said.
Vivar believes there are about 50 deported veterans now living in Tijuana alone, and many more scattered worldwide.
“We need more outreach, we really need to not only outreach, but educate our public and deported veterans on this possibility so they can take advantage of it,” he said.
As for Sandoval, he is staying in San Clemente, Calif., with his sister. | 2022-08-02T15:38:51+00:00 | mytwintiers.com | https://www.mytwintiers.com/border-report-tour/deported-veterans-might-not-know-theres-a-legal-path-for-return-to-u-s-advocate-says/ |
Supreme Court Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan wrote a searing dissent to the court's decision to end Roe v. Wade and overturn the constitutional right to an abortion.
They were responding to views set forth by Justice Samuel Alito, who wrote the majority opinion, joined by Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett.
"The Constitution does not confer a right to abortion; Roe and Casey are overruled; and the authority to regulate abortion is returned to the people and their elected representatives," the court stated in a syllabus included with its lengthy Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision.
The dissent vehemently disagrees — and it warns that other Supreme Court precedents securing "settled freedoms involving bodily integrity, familial relationships, and procreation" may now be in danger, such as rulings backing contraception rights and same-sex marriage.
Majority: Roe decision was an error
The Roe decision was "egregiously wrong and on a collision course with the Constitution from the day it was decided," the court's syllabus states.
In his opinion, Alito writes that the 1973 ruling ended a political process in which states had for years crafted their own stances on abortion. "It imposed the same highly restrictive regime on the entire Nation, and it effectively struck down the abortion laws of every single State," Alito wrote.
Justices in the majority compared the situation to the court's historic overruling of its Plessy v. Ferguson, which backed the racist "separate but equal" doctrine until it was undone by Brown v. Board of Education.
Dissent: The majority betrayed guiding principles
The dissent accuses the court of betraying its guiding principles while relegating women to second-class citizenship. It also questions the majority's reasoning, saying the Dobbs decision will place an extreme burden on low-income pregnant people.
"Whatever the exact scope of the coming laws, one result of today's decision is certain: the curtailment of women's rights, and of their status as free and equal citizens," the dissent states.
Breyer, Sotomayor and Kagan say the court's ruling discards a balance set by past abortion decisions. "It says that from the very moment of fertilization, a woman has no rights to speak of," they said.
The three liberal justices also say the precedent was struck down not because of new scientific developments or societal changes, but due to changes in the makeup of the Supreme Court itself.
Majority: Mississippi's Gestational Age Act is justified
When the Supreme Court granted Mississippi officials' request to hear the case, it limited itself to one question: "Whether all pre-viability prohibitions on elective abortions are unconstitutional."
Alito says the court looked at several issues in deciding the case, including "whether a right to obtain an abortion is part of a broader entrenched right that is supported by other precedents."
He wrote that the Roe decision "was remarkably loose in its treatment of the constitutional text. It held that the abortion right, which is not mentioned in the Constitution, is part of a right to privacy, which is also not mentioned."
A state's law regulating abortion "must be sustained if there is a rational basis on which the legislature could have thought that it would serve legitimate state interests," Alito wrote. Those interests include "respect for and preservation of prenatal life at all stages of development," he added, along with protecting "maternal health and safety" and other issues, such as preserving "the integrity of the medical profession" and the "mitigation of fetal pain."
"These legitimate interests justify Mississippi's Gestational Age Act," Alito wrote.
Dissent: 'Dobbs' ruling sees women as second-class citizens
The dissenting justices attack what they call the majority justices' "core legal postulate" — that the framers of the 14th Amendment didn't see reproductive rights as central to freedom, and therefore those rights shouldn't have constitutional protection today.
Those ratifiers were all men, the dissent notes.
"So it is perhaps not so surprising that the ratifiers were not perfectly attuned to the importance of reproductive rights for women's liberty," the dissent reads.
"When the majority says that we must read our foundational charter as viewed at the time of ratification (except that we may also check it against the Dark Ages), it consigns women to second-class citizenship," it continues.
Majority: Women can work to influence state laws
By reinvesting states with the authority to decide whether most abortions should be illegal, the opinion "allows women on both sides of the abortion issue to seek to affect the legislative process by influencing public opinion, lobbying legislators, voting, and running for office," Alito wrote.
"Women are not without electoral or political power," he said. "It is noteworthy that the percentage of women who register to vote and cast ballots is consistently higher than the percentage of men who do so."
Alito also sought to limit interpretation of the decision, stating, "we emphasize that our decision concerns the constitutional right to abortion and no other right. Nothing in this opinion should be understood to cast doubt on precedents that do not concern abortion."
Dissent: Are decisions on contraception and same-sex marriage next?
The dissent warns that a broader collapse of rights is possible, comparing the majority's extraction of a right from the constitutional edifice to pulling a stick out of a Jenga tower.
"Either the mass of the majority's opinion is hypocrisy, or additional constitutional rights are under threat. It is one or the other," the justices wrote.
The dissent warns the decision in this case could be used to challenge other cases involving individual freedoms, including the right to use contraception and the right to marry a same-sex partner.
"We fervently hope that does not happen because of today's decision. We hope that we will not join Justice Scalia in the book of prophets. But we cannot understand how anyone can be confident that today's opinion will be the last of its kind."
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A Providence Township man with a history of mental illness doused himself with a flammable liquid and set himself on fire inside a magisterial district court office Tuesday.
Stanley T. Walden, 38, was at Judge William Benner’s office in Willow Street to be arraigned on recent charges of terroristic threats and criminal mischief when he set fire to himself and ran at police, according to charging documents.
Walden is currently receiving treatment at Lehigh Valley Burn Center, President Judge David Ashworth said Wednesday. The judge said he did not know details about Walden’s injuries or whether anyone else was injured.
Police charged Walden with arson, a felony, and reckless endangerment, a misdemeanor, for Tuesday's incident.
West Lampeter Township Police declined to comment.
Ashworth declined to provide more information about the incident, citing an ongoing criminal investigation. The president judge also said he filed a report to state court officials.
During Tuesday’s arraignment, Walden had a clear plastic water bottle with him, according to a criminal complaint filed by arresting officer Steven Heinly.
“When the defendant learned he was going to be taken into custody for a probation violation, the defendant poured the contents of the water bottle on himself,” the complaint says. “As officers approached the defendant, he lit himself on fire with a disposable lighter.”
The clear liquid inside the water bottle was a flammable liquid, possibly rubbing alcohol or nail polish remover, according to the complaint.
Six law enforcement officers were in the courtroom at the time of the incident, as were Benner and Walden’s mother, the complaint said.
Attempts to reach Walden’s mother Wednesday were not successful.
Benner deferred comment to Ashworth, who oversees district judges.
Walden, who is 6'4" and weighs 300 pounds, was still on fire when he ran toward the officers and removed his “burning sweatshirt and was swinging it towards the officers in the courtroom,” the complaint said.
Court records show Walden has had run-ins with the criminal justice system before and had gone through the county’s mental health court.
Walden’s arraignment Tuesday was over a March 11 incident at a West Lampeter apartment. According to charging documents, police responded to a call about a man threatening to set fire to an apartment on the 1700 block of Lampeter Road.
The officer arrived and saw an SUV with a broken front-door window. A resident told the officer he got into an argument with Walden about gas money, according to the documents. While driving on May Post Office Road in Strasburg Township, Walden began punching the man, the complaint said.
Walden then went into the Lampeter Road apartment and yelled that “he was going to lock the doors and burn the house down” with the other man’s son inside, the documents said.
According to other court records, in October 2018, Walden was suicidal and threatened to set fire to his parents’ Providence Township home if either of them left it.
In the criminal complaint in that case, Pennsylvania State Police wrote “it should be noted that we have had several incidents involving the defendant and suicidal situations where he has been committed.”
In June 2019, he pleaded guilty in Lancaster County Mental Health Court to simple assault, terroristic threats and harassment and was sentenced to 9 to 23 months in county prison, followed by three years of probation.
Walden also pleaded guilty to DUI and related charges in July 2021 for crashing a Honda Civic into a guardrail and culvert in June 2020 while under the influence of marijuana in Martic Township. He was sentenced to six months of probation. | 2023-03-22T22:23:53+00:00 | lancasteronline.com | https://lancasteronline.com/news/local/providence-township-man-sets-himself-on-fire-in-willow-street-district-judges-courtroom/article_eb16bfd2-c8f9-11ed-8ddd-177608b4b05e.html |
SANTA ANA, Calif., Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Broadstone Atlas, developed by Alliance Residential and managed by Greystar, has applied for LEED Gold Certification for the newly completed 483-unit apartment home community which includes several green features.
"We are always looking at ways to develop projects that meet the needs of our residents while also being mindful of our environment," Jonas Bronk - Managing Director at Alliance Residential said. "We worked with Architect Orange, Hendy Interior Design and MJS landscape architects to incorporate several green features into this new community to ensure that Broadstone Atlas provides a modern, vibrant lifestyle while also being environmentally-conscious and energy-efficient."
Among Broadstone Atlas' green features include:
- A Life Source Water Filtration System that provides filtered water to every home.
- Water efficient plumbing fixtures including WaterSense certified toilets, showerheads, and lavatory faucets for indoor water savings.
- A high-efficiency irrigation system with native and/or adapted plant selections for outdoor water savings; and a cool roof that reflects heat away from the building.
- High-efficiency mechanical equipment that results in lower energy usage and higher indoor air quality.
- Building materials such as paint, flooring, adhesives, and sealants that contain low or zero VOC content.
- Onsite open space to promote a balanced lifestyle and encourage outdoor activities.
Additionally, the community is located within a half mile of community resources and transit stops to reduce the need for a car.
Broadstone Atlas has studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom units as well as penthouse floorplans. Penthouses have a driven snow color scheme and herringbone flooring. Every apartment home includes a wine fridge and Dwelo smart home connectivity, which provides keyless and fobless entry to homes and amenities.
The Kings Canyon Podcast Studio for all residents to use, meditation studio, office space for multiple people with mini-trailer coffee bar and the Channel Islands pool headlines the community amenities. Additionally, Broadstone Atlas' Joshua Tree clubroom has a 220-inch TV and a fourth-floor deck with views of Tustin and custom murals — one by Carly Ealey and the other by Sasha Seyb.
The community is located less than 10 minutes from John Wayne Airport and 20 minutes from Disneyland and Newport Beach with easy freeway access. The Tustin Legacy shopping center is minutes away with restaurants, a movie theater and other shops. Directly across from Broadstone Atlas is the Tustin Legacy Park and Mess Hall.
For more information, or to book a tour, please visit www.broadstoneatlas.com or call 949-996-0051.
Alliance Residential Company is one of the largest and most active rental residential real estate developers in the United States. Headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona with 19 regional offices, Alliance is focused on the development, construction, and acquisition of residential communities across 17 states and 33 metropolitan markets. Alliance develops high-end Broadstone multifamily communities, Holden senior housing communities, and workforce housing properties through its Prose brand. To learn more visit www.allresco.com.
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ORLANDO, Florida (AP) — The leader of the nation’s Catholic bishops weighed in on ongoing immigration issues Thursday, calling for effective border management while emphasizing the church’s need to help migrants — and questioning political leaders who are transporting them to faraway states.
“We strive to encourage those well-intentioned lawmakers who are seeking to enact effective and humane border management as part of a framework of comprehensive immigration reforms,” said Archbishop Timothy Broglio, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, in an address at the start of the bishops’ spring gathering.
He called on fellow Catholics to continue aid to immigrants. “We cannot fail to see the face of Christ in all of those who need our assistance, especially the poor and the vulnerable,” said Broglio, who heads the Archdiocese for the Military Services. “I know that this can put us at odds with certain groups or those who fear immigration. But our commitment is to the … dignity of the human person from conception to natural death.”
Broglio voiced skepticism about the trend of some governors shipping migrants elsewhere — typically from red to blue states amid a wider ideological clash over how to respond to asylum seekers and other migrants.
“If they’re transporting them to to make a statement, then that seems to me to be problematic,” Broglio said when asked about the issue at a news conference. “If they’re transporting them, because those other states might be better able to respond to the immediate needs, well then that might be a way of responding to the problem. However, I suspect that it’s more to make a statement.”
Earlier this month, El Paso Bishop Mark Seitz voiced similar criticism after Florida state workers recruited migrants outside a Catholic church for a tax-funded flight to California, with promises of jobs and housing, a Catholic official said. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican presidential candidate, has taken credit for such flights.
The bishops have a relatively light agenda for the two-day public portion of their meeting, concluding Friday, at the Omni Orlando Resort at ChampionsGate. Typically they have a heavier agenda in the fall.
Bishops are slated to vote Friday on whether to begin revisions to the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services — which guides the widespread network of Catholic hospitals and other health institutions on what they should and should not do. Although the agenda doesn’t give a reason for the revisions, the meeting comes three months after bishops issued doctrinal guidelines opposing gender transition care in Catholic hospitals.
They heard reports about the ongoing “synodal” process convened by Pope Francis — an unprecedented two-year canvassing of the lay Catholic faithful worldwide about their vision for the church and how it can better respond to the needs of Catholics today. Reports on those dialogues are being gathered for an October meeting of bishops in Rome.
Archbishop Christophe Pierre, the Vatican nuncio or ambassador to the U.S., said the process echoes Pope Francis’ goal of getting beyond ideology. “When we engage with people’s real experiences — as ‘messy’ as that reality may be — we give them hope because they realize that Christ is willing to be with them no matter where they are on their journey,” Pierre said.
The bishops also heard a progress report on plans for a nationwide gathering in Indianapolis in July 2024 focused on devotion to the Eucharist — the communion celebration at the heart of Catholic worship. Local groups have held discussions and worship activities in preparation for the event, which will be preceded by three multi-state pilgrimages converging on Indianapolis from different routes, said Bishop Andrew Cozzens of Crookston, Minnesota, who chairs the bishops’ advisory group to the gathering.
On another matter, Broglio expressed solidarity with Los Angeles Archbishop José Gomez in dismay over the Los Angeles Dodgers’ honoring the satirical group Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence for its charitable work in a Pride Night event Friday. Catholic bishops say the group, which dresses extravagantly as nuns, is blasphemous and reminiscent of past anti-Catholic bigotry.
“The disrespect for the truths and traditions of our faith, for the legendary commitment of religious women to building up society, and the tarnishing of what has so often been called the national sport harken back to the ‘know nothings’ of the 19th century,” Broglio said.
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BERLIN (AP) — It is time for China to move away from massive lockdowns and toward a more targeted approach to COVID-19, the head of the International Monetary Fund said days after widespread protests broke out, a change that would ease the impact to a world economy already struggling with high inflation, an energy crisis and disrupted food supply.
IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva urged a “recalibration” of China's tough “zero-COVID" approach aimed at isolating every case “exactly because of the impact it has on both people and on the economy.”
Georgieva made the comments in a wide-ranging interview Tuesday with The Associated Press in which she also cautioned it is too early for the U.S. Federal Reserve to back off on its interest rate increases and held out hope that an energy crisis driven by Russia's war in Ukraine will speed the push into renewables in Europe. She also called increasing hunger in developing countries “the world's most significant solvable problem.”
In China, protests erupted over the weekend in several mainland cities and Hong Kong in the biggest show of public dissent in decades. Authorities have eased some controls but have showed no sign of backing off their larger strategy that has confined millions of people to their homes for months at a time.
“We see the importance of moving away from massive lockdowns, being very targeted in restrictions,” Georgieva said Tuesday in Berlin. “So that targeting allows to contain the spread of COVID without significant economic costs."
Georgieva also urged China to look at vaccination policies and focus on vaccinating the “most vulnerable people.”
A low rate of vaccinations among the elderly is a major reason Beijing has resorted to lockdowns, while the emergence of more-contagious variants has put increasing stress on the effort to prevent any spread.
Lockdowns have slowed everything from travel to retail traffic to car sales in the world's second-largest economy. Georgieva urged it “to adjust the overall approach to how China assesses supply chain functioning with an eye on the spillover impact it has on the rest of the world.”
The Washington-based IMF expects the Chinese economy to grow only 3.2% this year, on pace with the global average for the year.
The Communist Party has taken steps in the direction Georgieva recommends, switching to isolating buildings or neighborhoods with infections instead of whole cities and made other changes it says are aimed at reducing the human and economic cost. But a spike in infections since October has prompted local authorities who are facing pressure from above to impose quarantines and other restrictions that residents say are too extreme.
Asked about criticism of a crackdown on protests, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman defended Beijing’s anti-virus strategy and said the public’s legal rights were protected by law.
The government is trying to “provide maximum protection to people’s lives and health while minimizing the COVID impact on social and economic development,” Zhao Lijian said.
China, a founding IMF member, has a prestigious single seat on the the organization's 24-member executive board, unlike most countries that must share a seat. Its 6% voting share is behind only the United States and Japan.
While China's policy ripples out worldwide, Georgieva said the greatest risk facing the global economy is high inflation that requires central banks to raise interest rates, making credit more expensive for consumers and businesses. Coupled with that is the need for governments to take care of the most vulnerable people without undermining central bank efforts with excess spending.
“Policymakers are faced with a very difficult time in the year ahead,” she said. “They have to be disciplined in the fight against inflation. Why? Because inflation undermines the foundation for growth, and it hurts the poor people the most.”
Asked if the U.S. Federal Reserve should pause interest rate increases that are strengthening the dollar and putting pressure on poorer countries, Georgieva said that “the Fed has no option but to stay the course" until inflation credibly declines.
“They owe it to the U.S. economy, they owe it to the world economy, because what happens in the United States if inflation does not get under control can have also spillover impacts for the rest of the world,” the Bulgarian IMF chief said.
Inflation data is still too high in the U.S. and Europe and “the data at this point says: too early to step back,” Georgieva said.
She warned that international tensions between the China and the West and between Russia and the West threatened to restrict trade and its beneficial effect on economic growth and prosperity. She added that while there are concerns about supply chains disrupted by the pandemic, “we have to work harder on finding a way to counter these protectionist instincts” while being honest about supply concerns.
Georgieva said the world was already seeing signs of increased hunger before Russia's invasion of Ukraine disrupted grain supplies to Africa and the Middle East. More investment in resilient agriculture and support for small farmers as well as efforts to reduce food waste would be part of the solution, she said.
“We have to admit in the wealthiest societies, in the wealthier families, that we waste food on a daily basis, even in quantities that are sufficient to feed the rest of the world," she said. “Hunger is the world’s most significant solvable problem."
Yet hunger has been increasing in recent years.
The world needs "a focus on food security in a comprehensive way that reduces waste, increases productivity and most importantly, focuses more attention on small-scale farming, where a great deal of livelihoods of people, especially in developing countries like that, would go a long way to bring this solvable problem finally to an end,” Georgieva said.
Russia's war also created an energy crisis after Moscow cut off most natural gas supplies to Europe as Western allies supported war-torn Ukraine. The resulting high energy prices have created an opportunity to “accelerate the transition to low-carbon energy supplies" through incentives for green investments.
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This story was first published on Nov. 29, 2022. It was updated on Nov. 30, 2022, to correct that the International Monetary Fund predicts China’s economy will grow at the same pace as the global economy this year, not below it. | 2022-12-01T16:47:55+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/business/article/AP-Interview-IMF-chief-urges-targeted-COVID-17617703.php |
Lev Parnas, once a right-hand man to Rudy Giuliani, asked the GOP’s top congressional investigator to abandon efforts to uncover wrongdoing by the Biden family in Ukraine, calling the matter “nothing more than a wild goose chase” that has been “debunked again and again.”
Parnas’s Tuesday letter to House Oversight Chair James Comer (R-Ky.), obtained by The Hill, notes that Parnas and Giuliani’s repeated efforts to dig up dirt on President Biden or his son Hunter yielded nothing and confused Ukrainian prosecutors.
It also recaps the efforts taken by the Trump team that resulted in the launching of the first impeachment inquiry into former President Trump. Democrats alleged he withheld aid from Ukraine in an effort to pressure officials there to provide incriminating evidence on the Bidens.
“Throughout all these months of work, the extensive campaigns and networking done by Trump allies and Giuliani associates, including the enormously thorough interviews and assignments that I undertook, there has never been any evidence that Hunter or Joe Biden committed any crimes related to Ukrainian politics,” he said.
He said Giuliani and all others involved in the matter “knew that these allegations against the Bidens were false.”
“Never, during any of my communications with Ukrainian officials or connections to Burisma, did any of them confirm or provide concrete facts linking the Bidens to illegal activities. In fact, they asked me multiple times why our team was so concerned with this idea.”
Comer dismissed the contents of Parnas’s letter.
“Now there’s somebody that Giuliani was running around with and says we should drop investigations because Giuliani and him already looked into it. I mean, I don’t think that that’s credible,” he said.
“We’re starting to see money from Ukraine coming in on some of these bank statements that we’re going to release later,” he added, a reference to his investigation into Biden family finances.
Comer has based much of his investigation on an unverified tip to the FBI from a source who heard secondhand allegations Biden accepted a bribe. The bureau was unable to corroborate the tip.
Parnas has also previously provided a transcript of a conversation he says was with Mykola Zlochevsky, the reported source of the information, denying any improper conduct by President Biden or his son Hunter, who was serving on the board of energy company Burisma, which Zlochevsky owns. That information was turned over during the impeachment inquiry.
Parnas was convicted in court of making illegal campaign contributions to Trump.
His letter comes as Comer is under increasing pressure to advance his inquiry into President Biden, who he has alleged accepted a bribe.
Even some in the GOP have criticized his investigation, with former Trump advisor Steve Bannon saying last month Comer needed to “be prepared,” adding, “You are not serious. It’s all performative.”
Comer acknowledged Monday the difficulties of explaining the financial crimes he has alleged.
“Two things I’ve learned: People don’t know what a shell company is, and they don’t know what an LLC is. They don’t know what money laundering is. We’re going to try to explain in a more simple form ‘this is what they did,’” he told reporters.
Those in Trump’s orbit have alleged President Biden sought to withhold aid from Ukraine because its top prosecutor was threatening to investigate his son. Biden, joined by the international community, actually sought to pressure Ukraine to remove the man, Viktor Shokin, over corruption charges.
Parnas’s letter spends ample time breaking down the investigative efforts of Giuliani, which included trying to get Shokin’s replacement, Yuriy Lutsenko, to retain him for $200,000.
It details the repeated dead ends they hit, and the numerous efforts to pressure Ukrainian officials.
“Giuliani’s message to the [then-Ukrainian] president [Petro Poroshenko], who was running for reelection, was that Trump would support him and help him win if he made an official announcement of an investigation against Joe Biden,” Parnas writes.
Parnas ends with a plea to Comer to halt his investigation.
“There is no evidence of Joe or Hunter Biden interfering with Ukrainian politics, and there never has been,” Parnas writes.
“With all due respect, Chairman Comer, the narrative you are seeking for this investigation has been proven false many times over, by a wide array of respected sources. There is simply no merit to investigating this matter any further. I hope my letter has provided you with additional clarity on this point.” | 2023-07-18T21:27:10+00:00 | wjhl.com | https://www.wjhl.com/hill-politics/parnas-dismisses-oversight-gop-bribery-investigation-as-a-wild-goose-chase/ |
Florida woman who fatally shot neighbor granted $154,000 bond
OCALA, Fla. (AP) — A judge granted a $154,000 bond Friday for a white Florida woman charged with fatally shooting a Black neighbor through her front door.
Susan Louise Lorincz, 58, of Ocala returned to court in Marion County a day after she pleaded not guilty to a first-degree felony charge of manslaughter with a firearm, as well as counts of culpable negligence, battery and assault.
As a condition of her bond, Circuit Court Judge Robert Hodges ordered Lorincz to wear an ankle monitor and to stay away from the family of her slain neighbor, 34-year-old Ajike Owens.
The courtroom was packed with relatives and supporters of Owens, a mother of four children. One of the family’s attorneys, Anthony Thomas, told reporters after the Friday hearing that they would continue to push for Lorincz to face a more serious charge of second-degree murder.
“We don’t believe that Susan had any sort of respect at all for human life,” Thomas said. “This wasn’t something where she was cleaning a gun and the gun went off and it goes through the wall or the door and it accidentally hurts somebody. She meant to pull that trigger. She meant to point it at the door.”
Owens was killed June 2 in Ocala, about 83 miles (133 kilometers) north of Orlando. Her funeral is scheduled for Monday.
After the shooting, Lorincz told investigators she had problems for two years with being disrespected by children in the neighborhood — including Owens’ children, who are ages 12, 9, 7 and 3.
According to an arrest report from the Marion County Sheriff’s Office, Lorincz said she had a headache the day of the shooting, and children were running and yelling outside her apartment. That night, while a few children were playing basketball, Lorincz threw a pair of roller skates at them, hitting one on the feet.
Owens then came over and knocked on her door. Lorincz told investigators that Owens threatened to kill her and banged on the door so hard she feared Owens would break it down.
Lorincz fired a single round from her .380-caliber handgun, the sheriff’s report says, which went through the closed door and fatally struck Owens.
Lorincz told investigators that she had called Owens’ children racist slurs in the months before the killing. Authorities had delayed her arrest for several days while looking into a possible “stand your ground” claim. Detectives have since said that Lorincz’s actions are not justifiable under Florida law.
Sheriff Billy Woods said that since January 2021, deputies responded to at least a half-dozen complaints between Owens and Lorincz in Ocala.
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New cameras feature built-in video intelligence for accurate and rapid detection of security incidents and 4K resolution for crystal-clear images
OTTAWA, ON, June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - March Networks®, a global video surveillance and video-based business intelligence leader, is pleased to announce the addition of the ME8 Series IP Cameras to its line of products powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Incorporating advanced system-on-chip (SoC) technology from California-based company Ambarella®, the ME8 Series IP Cameras use Deep Neural Network processing power to accurately detect both people and vehicles. This built-in intelligence is combined with next-generation security analytics and 4K ultra high-definition (HD) resolution for the most detailed video and accurate, real-time detection of events. 4K ultra HD (8MP) produces extremely sharp images, with four times the resolution of a standard 2MP camera.
"The addition of the ME8 Series cameras aligns with our plan to offer customers a fully AI-enabled product line," said Net Payne, Chief Sales & Marketing Officer, March Networks. He noted the company currently also offers 6MP AI-enabled cameras and its powerful X-Series Hybrid Recorders, which are purpose-built for tomorrow's AI applications with NVIDIA® SoC technology. The ME8 Series add to the company's complete end-to-end solution, which also includes its growing cloud services portfolio.
"Migrating customers to the cloud and AI-enabling our product line is our core focus," said Payne. "The AI-models in these cameras allow for a level of accuracy in detecting people and vehicles that can help to resolve security incidents that much quicker. Because of this accuracy, false alarms are greatly reduced."
The ME8 Series' AI-powered video analytics enable organizations to enhance security in both public and private spaces by detecting atypical activity more rapidly and consistently. Using this built-in video intelligence, customers can quickly respond to incidents such as building or zone intrusions, the abandonment of suspicious objects, and loitering and perimeter breaches by people and vehicles.
When combined with March Networks' Searchlight™ data analytics software, the cameras can also intelligently capture information on non-security related events such as curbside deliveries. Using the cameras' stopped vehicle analytic, for example, restaurants can track the number of mobile deliveries at different times throughout the day to analyze trends and improve speed of service. Big box retailers and grocers, meanwhile, can oversee all of their curbside deliveries, investigate any disputes, and uncover trends to improve service.
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NASSAU, Bahamas, Feb. 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Falling in love comes naturally in The Islands of The Bahamas, among the white sand beaches and sapphire blue cays. Throughout February, visitors can rediscover their sense of adventure, immerse themselves in cultural traditions and score seasonal savings to make the most of their winter getaway.
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The Bahamas Ministry of Tourism, Investments & Aviation Appoints New Director General — Latia Duncombe, seasoned Bahamian business professional and former Acting Director General, has been appointed Director General. She will continue overseeing efforts to drive tourism's recovery and growth, and further showcase The Bahamas as a leading Caribbean destination.
"Our Ocean, Our World" Immersive Dining Experience Opens in Miami — Hidden Worlds and The Islands of The Bahamas have partnered to host an immersive 13-day dining pop-up that merges Bahamian art, entertainment and conservation efforts. "Our Ocean, Our World" will take place 15 Feb. to 4 March 2023, with partial proceeds benefitting Beneath the Waves, a non-profit dedicated to protecting the ocean's ecosystems.
Book Valentine's Day Dinner at Café Boulud at Rosewood Baha Mar — Chef Antoine Baillargeon at Café Boulud Rosewood Baha Mar has meticulously crafted a one-night-only Valentine's Day tasting menu for couples. The six-course culinary voyage starts at $190 per person and features oysters, caviar and truffle. Reservations are filled on a first-come, first-served basis.
Upscale Cocktail Lounge, The Dilly Club, Now Open at Atlantis Paradise Island — Atlantis Paradise Island opened The Dilly Club, a specialty coffeehouse by day and craft cocktail lounge by night. Created by the owners of the popular Bon Vivants Bar & Café in Nassau, the menu is extensive, and boasts 50 different original, classic and exotic libations.
Devour! The Beach Arrives in Green Turtle Cay — Green Turtle Club in The Abacos will host Devour! The Beach, an event coordinated by the largest food and film festival in the world, from 2 – 5 Feb. 2023. Attendees will participate in a weekend of dining, workshop and film experiences led by a team of international chefs, sommeliers and mixologists.
Aztec Airways Adds More Flights to Eleuthera — On 24 Jan. 2023, Aztec Airways increased weekly service between Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport in Florida and North Eleuthera International Airport. Travellers can now book short-haul flights every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, reaching Eleuthera in only an hour and fifteen minutes.
Grand Bahama Island To Break Ground on New International Terminal — The domestic terminal at Grand Bahama Airport reopened on 2 Jan. 2023, following a full renovation to repair the extensive damages sustained from Hurricane Dorian in 2019. Shortly after, it was announced that the international terminal will be renovated as well — United Orca Construction Company was awarded the $1.2 million contract. Work is expected to begin in Q1 2023.
PROMOTIONS AND OFFERS
For a complete list of deals and discounted packages in The Bahamas, visit www.bahamas.com/deals-packages.
Caerula Mar Club Launched Three New Add-On Packages — Luxurious Out Island escape Caerula Mar Club, located on South Andros, launched three new add-on packages that offer special events and experiences tailored to romance, wellness and adventure travellers. Packages start at $830 per couple.
The Cove Eleuthera Is the Place for Lovers — Throughout February, The Cove invites couples to celebrate their love with the Rest & Radiance Package, which includes two nights of luxury accommodations, a picnic of Champagne and strawberries to be enjoyed on a Floating Sea Lounge, a sunset cruise with canapés and Champagne, a private alfresco breakfast, and more.
Save Big on Valentine's Day in Grand Bahama Island — The Flash Sale at Grand Bahama Island's Lighthouse Pointe at Grand Lucayan offers a 50% discount, making for an affordable all-inclusive Valentine's Day escape. With the discount, room rates start at $89 per night. There are also complimentary upgrades to marina-view rooms based on availability. The booking window is now through 14 March 2023 for travel until 14 March 2023.
U.S. Travellers Can Fly to the Out Islands for Free — U.S. residents are eligible for one free airline ticket or one free Bahamas Ferries ticket to the Out Islands from Nassau when they pre-book a minimum of four nights at any resort participating in the Bahama Out Island Promotion. Those booking seven nights or more can score two free tickets. The booking window is now through 13 Feb. 2023 for travel until 31 Aug. 2023.
ABOUT THE BAHAMAS
The Bahamas has over 700 islands and cays, as well as 16 unique island destinations. Located only 50 miles off the coast of Florida, it offers a quick and easy way for travellers to escape their everyday. The island nation also boasts world-class fishing, diving, boating and thousands of miles of the Earth's most spectacular beaches for families, couples and adventurers to explore. See why It's Better in The Bahamas at www.bahamas.com or on Facebook, YouTube or Instagram.
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CARLSBAD, Calif., June 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Upper Deck, the worldwide leader in sports and entertainment games and collectibles, sues Ravensburger and a previous Upper Deck game designer for stealing and copying Upper Deck's original game which Ravensburger repackaged and marketed as Lorcana.
"We invested significant time and resources to develop a new and novel trading card game. Our current leadership values the importance of protecting intellectual property of both Upper Deck and its licensors," said Upper Deck President Jason Masherah.
"We want gamers and fans to continue enjoying and having access to unique, innovative and immersive trading card games," added Masherah. "We encourage competition in the industry, but also strongly believe in playing by the rules to ensure the gaming community benefits from the different creative choices by each manufacturer."
Known for popular titles including LegendaryⓇ and Vs. SystemⓇ 2PCGⓇ, Upper Deck is a leading producer of trading card games, has a long history of developing original games, and is a trusted licensee of some of the largest brands in the world.
About Upper Deck:
Upper Deck is a global entertainment company creating trading cards, memorabilia, collectibles, games, and online platforms that deliver the experiences collectors crave. Upper Deck has set the unmatched industry standard for quality, authenticity, and innovation and continues to bring generations of fans closer to their favorite athletes and characters with unique and authentic sports and entertainment product offerings, as well as its digital trading ecosystem. The company prides itself on creating collectibles that produce invaluable experiences for sports and entertainment's most dedicated and loyal fans, with a goal to deliver excellence to the community across the most coveted properties as a means to develop memorable moments for collectors of all kinds.
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Liz Weston: How to take a career break
By LIZ WESTON of NerdWallet
Extended time off from work doesn’t have to wait until retirement. Your career break may be aspirational, or it may be prompted by life events. Whatever the purpose, careful planning before you take the break can help make it more successful and fulfilling. Start by reviewing your finances and getting your career break budget in order. Next, make a rough schedule for how you’ll fill your time. And if you don’t think you can swing a career break, look into alternatives such as a change in job responsibilities or hours. | 2022-11-21T17:58:01+00:00 | keyt.com | https://keyt.com/news/2022/11/21/liz-weston-how-to-take-a-career-break/ |
Yosemite National Park will be closed from Friday to at least May 3 after melting snow is expected to cause flooding in the area, the park said Tuesday.
The National Weather Service predicts temperatures will increase by 5 to 15 degrees Fahrenheit this weekend, prompting melting snow to raise the water levels in the Merced River.
This past winter, the Sierra Nevada region – which includes Yosemite Valley, Lake Tahoe and Mount Whitney – experienced snow levels at more than 300% than usual.
The closure will begin Friday at 10 p.m. More flooding is possible throughout May and June, the park said.
Visitors who booked reservations for lodging and campgrounds during a cancellation will receive a refund, and wilderness permits can be rescheduled, the park said.
During the closure, Wawona, Crane Flat area and Hetch Hetchy will be open. Mariposa Grove will be open, but only via hike. Western Yosemite Valley will be open, but no services will be available, and parking will be limited and visitors cannot park offroad, the park said.
"In Yosemite Valley, the closure will be at El Capitan crossover (the road that crosses the Merced River just east of El Capitan)" the park said.
No visitors will be allowed east of that road.
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We turn now to Egypt, where an economic crisis has made it difficult for people to afford food. Much of the country's grain comes from the Black Sea region now in turmoil with Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Then there's Egypt's own currency crash and high inflation. NPR's Aya Batrawy reports that charities are straining to help fill the gaps.
AYA BATRAWY, BYLINE: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi arrives by motorcade to Cairo's main open-air stadium. He's here for a state orchestrated ceremony broadcast on TV to honor the many local charities helping stave off hunger across Egypt.
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: (Non-English language spoken).
BATRAWY: Tens of thousands of volunteers from these charities have packed the stands. Patriotic songs are playing as the volunteers cheer and wave Egypt's red, white and black flag. The government uses the moment to roll out a new initiative called el-kitf fil-kitf (ph) or Shoulder to Shoulder.
(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC)
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #2: (Singing in non-English language).
BATRAWY: The slogan has an upbeat song the crowd is swaying to. At its core, though, this initiative is a call for help. Egypt's currency has lost half its value compared to the dollar in just the past year. That's made it harder for the government to import affordable wheat from Russia and Ukraine, where the war has also driven up prices. Bread from that wheat forms the backbone of Egyptian diets. The country's been pushed deep into debt. Critics blame years of poor planning in Egypt and overspending on superfluous projects that benefited military-owned businesses. The president tells volunteers global economics are to blame.
PRESIDENT ABDEL FATTAH EL-SISSI: (Through interpreter) Everyone is playing an incredible role at this difficult time. I had to come and thank you for all you do and all you will do in helping to make this major crisis faced by the world and by Egypt a little easier.
BATRAWY: The government is increasing food subsidies by more than 40% this year, but Sissi's message is clear. Egypt's challenges are not for the government alone to shoulder. Everyone is responsible. His government is under pressure as food prices in Egypt climb by more than 60%. Young couples in Cairo are delaying marriage because they can't afford a wedding or home. Middle-class families struggle to buy eggs and chicken.
FATMA HASSAN: (Non-English language spoken).
BATRAWY: Tens of millions of families stay afloat with help from charities, like this one in the poor Cairo suburb of Kattameya. It's where I meet Fatma Hassan.
HASSAN: (Non-English language spoken).
BATRAWY: She says her grandkids want chicken and meat, but it's too expensive.
HASSAN: (Laughter, non-English language spoken).
BATRAWY: Hassan laughs as she tells me how she and her daughter often end up cooking a dish of stuffed vegetables with rice called mahshi.
HASSAN: (Non-English language spoken).
BATRAWY: She can't afford lentils these days, either, and tells me, who needs that anyway? And what are we going to do? We aren't going to steal.
The government gives her some cash aid every month, and donors help her buy the medicine she needs. Every little bit helps. Hassan comes to this charity office twice a year for a box of food that lasts her household a little over a week. Inside are what's become little luxuries that help create a balanced diet - dates, rice, cooking oil, lentils, pasta, tomato sauce, sugar and tea. The food was packed by the Egyptian food bank, one of the largest nongovernmental charities in the country helping tackle food insecurity. At their headquarters in Cairo, conveyor belts sealed bags of fava beans grown locally, as well as imported products like macaroni.
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #3: And then the workers, they fill the other boxes.
BATRAWY: It's supported mostly by private donations and a network of 5,000 community-based organizations across the country. They have a massive database of families in need, but even its operations have been strained. Egypt Food Bank CEO Mohsen Sarhan says donations are up by 20%. Still, it's not enough to keep up with inflation.
MOHSEN SARHAN: The future is very hard to predict, and whatever scenarios you put, it tends to break down the next day. We're playing it by the ear somehow. We're operating on a very flexible budget, and we adjust it, sometimes weekly.
BATRAWY: It's up to charities in Egypt to try and plug gaps in the government's stretched safety net. But Sarhan says they can't eradicate hunger.
SARHAN: I think it was three years ago that we realized that this is never going to happen.
BATRAWY: What they can do, he says, is to try and make people's lives a little better. And the government is now signaling that everyone is going to have to shoulder more of that work. Aya Batrawy, NPR News, Cairo. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR. | 2023-05-14T16:09:11+00:00 | kcbx.org | https://www.kcbx.org/2023-05-13/people-struggle-with-higher-food-prices-in-egypts-economic-crisis |
(The Hill) – The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is opening the way for more cancer drugs from China as the U.S. continues to deal with an ongoing shortage in key chemotherapy treatments.
A spokesperson for the FDA confirmed on Monday that the agency is permitting 10 additional lots of the common cancer drug cisplatin to be distributed by the Chinese company Qilu Pharmaceutical.
Cisplatin is currently under shortage along with another common cancer drug carboplatin. These two drugs, oftentimes prescribed together, are used to treat a wide variety of cancers such as those of the breast, lung and prostate.
The latest move was first reported by Bloomberg.
The FDA last month issued a letter allowing the “Temporary Importation of CISplatin Injection with non-U.S. Labeling” in order to address the shortage of chemotherapy medications. At the time, four lots were allowed to be distributed.
While cisplatin is a commonly used drug in the U.S., the cisplatin product being imported by Qilu — manufactured and marketed in China — is not FDA-approved.
Much of the current shortage is tied to the temporary closure of a manufacturing facility in India owned by Intas Pharmaceuticals. The closure occurred after the FDA discovered “failures” in the plant’s quality control. The company is working with the FDA to restart production.
Last month, the agency issued an import alert on the facility in India which would deny entry for all products made at that location except 24 drugs that are in short supply, including cisplatin.
The current shortage has brought heightened attention on the tenuous nature of drug supply lines for medicines in the U.S.
The shortage is also partly due to drug manufacturers lacking an incentive to invest in generic drugs, which have smaller profit margins. This has lead to a limited number of generic facilities operating at near-capacity. | 2023-07-11T13:18:50+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/health/fda-to-import-more-chinese-cancer-drugs-amid-shortage/ |
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday afternoon's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Win 4 Midday" game were:
6-4-1-6
(six, four, one, six)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday afternoon's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Win 4 Midday" game were:
6-4-1-6
(six, four, one, six) | 2022-09-26T20:09:17+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Win-4-Midday-game-17467914.php |
DUBAI, UAE, June 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Yalla Group Limited ("Yalla" or the "Company") (NYSE: YALA), the largest Middle East and North Africa (MENA)-based online social networking and gaming company, today announced it showcased its new hard-core game, Merge Kingdoms, at the Dubai Esports and Games Festival (DEF) 2023, MENA's premier esports and gaming event. Offering an exceptional gaming experience steeped in local custom, Merge Kingdoms gained great popularity among players during the 5-day event.
Officially launched in June 2023, Merge Kingdoms is Yalla's second hard-core game, following the success of the Company's debut hard-core game, Age of Legends. Merge Kingdoms is a strategy game that takes players on a captivating journey through an Arabian-themed environment, bringing the world of Arabian folklore to life with stunning visuals, rich landscapes, and enchanting Middle Eastern music. The integration of Yalla's unique voice chat engine enhances the game's real-time strategy element, allowing players to coordinate during battles without using third-party tools. Merge Kingdoms' interactive social features, intriguing storyline and vibrant community attracted broad player attention at the Festival.
"We are encouraged by the warm reception our new game, Merge Kingdoms, received from players at DEF 2023," said Mr. Yang Tao, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Yalla. "Its strong showing reflects our local expertise and strengthens our brand awareness across the region. With the fast development of MENA's gaming and esports industry, we view mid- and hard-core games as a crucial growth driver for our diversified product portfolio. As always, we will continue to develop digital products tailored to the needs of local users, seizing growth opportunities in the region and contributing to the development of the local digital economy."
About Yalla Group Limited
Yalla Group Limited is the largest MENA-based online social networking and gaming company, in terms of revenue in 2022. The Company operates two flagship mobile applications, Yalla, a voice-centric group chat platform, and Yalla Ludo, a casual gaming application featuring online versions of board games, popular in MENA, with in-game voice chat and localized Majlis functionality. Building on the success of Yalla and Yalla Ludo, the Company continues to add engaging new content, creating a regionally-focused, integrated ecosystem dedicated to fulfilling MENA users' evolving online social networking and gaming needs. Through its holding subsidiary, Yalla Game Limited, the Company has expanded its capabilities in mid-core and hard-core games in the MENA region, leveraging its local expertise to bring innovative gaming content to its users. In addition, the growing Yalla ecosystem includes YallaChat, an IM product tailored for Arabic users; Waha, a social networking product featuring 3-D avatars; and casual games such as Yalla Baloot and 101 Okey Yalla, developed to sustain vibrant local gaming communities in MENA. Yalla is also actively exploring outside of MENA with Yalla Parchis, a Ludo game designed for the South American markets. Yalla's mobile applications deliver a seamless experience that fosters a sense of loyalty and belonging, establishing highly devoted and engaged user communities through close attention to detail and localized appeal that profoundly resonates with users.
For more information, please visit: https://ir.yalla.com.
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By DAVID CRARY and HOLLY MEYER
Associated Press
U.S. faith leaders have squeezed in some final messages about the midterm elections during their weekend worship services. Some passionately took stands on divisive issues such as immigration and abortion. Others pleaded for an easing of the political polarization fracturing their communities and nation. Among those voicing such sentiments is David Wolpe, a rabbi with a politically diverse congregation in Los Angeles. Wolpe says there’s not just one side that God favors; he’d like people in his congregation and beyond to perceive that no single political party holds all the right answers.
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Glenda Jackson, a two-time Academy Award-winning performer who had a second career in politics as a British lawmaker, has died at 87.
Jackson's agent Lionel Larner said she died Thursday at her home in London after a short illness. He said she had recently completed filming “‘The Great Escaper,” in which co-starred with Michael Caine.
Jackson was one of the biggest British stars of the 1960s and 70s, and won two Academy Awards, for “Women in Love” in 1970 and “A Touch of Class" in 1973.
She then went into politics, winning election to Parliament in 1992. She spent 23 years as a Labour Party lawmaker, serving as a minister for transport in Prime Minister Tony Blair’s first government in 1997.
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She came to be at odds with Blair over the 2003 invasion of Iraq. She said Blair's decision to enter the U.S.-led war without United Nations' authorization left her “deeply, deeply ashamed.”
“The victims will be as they always are, women, children, the elderly,” she told The Associated Press before the invasion.
Jackson returned to acting after leaving Parliament in 2015 and had some of her most acclaimed roles, including the title character in Shakespeare's “King Lear.” | 2023-06-16T05:11:36+00:00 | nbcchicago.com | https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/glenda-jackson-two-time-oscar-winner-who-mixed-acting-with-politics-dies-at-87/3162032/ |
KINGSHILL, U.S. Virgin Islands (AP) — President Joe Biden on Thursday signed a $1.7 trillion spending bill that will keep the federal government operating through the end of the federal budget year in September 2023, and provide tens of billions of dollars in new aid to Ukraine for its fight against the Russian military.
Biden had until late Friday to sign the bill to avoid a partial government shutdown.
The Democratic-controlled House passed the bill 225-201, mostly along party lines, just before Christmas. The House vote came a day after the Senate, also led by Democrats, voted 68-29 to pass the bill with significantly more Republican support.
Biden had said passage was proof that Republicans and Democrats can work together.
Rep. Kevin McCarthy, the House Republican leader who hopes to become speaker when a new session Congress opens on Jan. 3, argued during floor debate that the bill spends too much and does too little to curb illegal immigration and the flow of fentanyl into the U.S. from Mexico.
“This is a monstrosity that is one of the most shameful acts I’ve ever seen in this body,” McCarthy said of the legislation.
McCarthy is appealing for support from staunch conservatives in the GOP caucus, who have largely blasted the bill for its size and scope. Republicans will have a narrow House majority come Jan. 3 and several conservative members have vowed not to vote for McCarthy to become speaker.
The funding bill includes a roughly 6% increase in spending for domestic initiatives, to $772.5 billion. Spending on defense programs will increase by about 10%, to $858 billion.
Passage was achieved hours before financing for federal agencies was set to expire. Lawmakers had approved two short-term spending measures to keep the government operating, and a third, funding the government through Dec. 30, passed last Friday. Biden signed it to ensure services would continue until Congress sent him the full-year measure, called an omnibus bill.
The massive bill, which topped out at more than 4,000 pages, wraps together 12 appropriations bills, aid to Ukraine and disaster relief for communities recovering from natural disasters. It also contains scores of policy changes that lawmakers worked to include in the final major bill considered by that session of Congress.
Lawmakers provided roughly $45 billion for Ukraine and NATO allies, more than even Biden had requested, an acknowledgment that future rounds of funding are not guaranteed when Republicans take control of the House next week following the party’s gains in the midterm elections.
Though support for Ukraine aid has largely been bipartisan, some House Republicans have opposed the spending and argued that the money would be better spent on priorities in the United States.
McCarthy has warned that Republicans will not write a “blank check” for Ukraine in the future.
The bill also includes about $40 billion in emergency spending, mostly to help communities across the U.S. as they recover from drought, hurricanes and other natural disasters.
The White House said it received the bill from Congress late Wednesday afternoon. It was delivered to Biden for his signature by White House staff on a regularly scheduled commercial flight.
Biden signed the bill Thursday in the U.S. Virgin Islands, where he is spending time with his wife, Jill, and other family members on the island of St. Croix. The Bidens are staying at the home of friends Bill and Connie Neville, the White House said. Bill Neville owns US Viking, maker of ENPS, a news production software system that is sold by The Associated Press.
Also in the bill are scores of policy changes that are largely unrelated to spending, but lawmakers worked furiously behind the scenes to get the added to the bill, which was the final piece of legislation that came out of that session of Congress. Otherwise, lawmakers sponsoring these changes would have had to start from scratch next year in a politically divided Congress in which Republicans will return to the majority in the House and Democrats will continue to control the Senate.
One of the most notable examples was a historic revision to federal election law to prevent a future president or presidential candidate from trying to overturn an election.
The bipartisan overhaul of the Electoral Count Act is a direct response to-then President Donald Trump’s efforts to persuade Republican lawmakers and then-Vice President Mike Pence to object to the certification of Biden’s victory on Jan. 6, 2021, the day of the Trump-inspired insurrection at the Capitol.
Among the spending increases Democrats emphasized: a $500 increase in the maximum size of Pell grants for low-income college students, a $100 million increase in block grants to states for substance abuse prevention and treatment programs, a 22% increase in spending on veterans’ medical care and $3.7 billion in emergency relief to farmers and ranchers hit by natural disasters.
The bill also provides roughly $15.3 billion for more than 7,200 projects that lawmakers sought for their home states and districts. Under revamped rules for community project funding, also referred to as earmarks, lawmakers must post their requests online and attest they have no financial interest in the projects. Still, many fiscal conservatives criticize the earmarking as leading to unnecessary spending.
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Associated Press writer Kevin Freking in Washington contributed to this report. | 2022-12-30T20:57:49+00:00 | myfox8.com | https://myfox8.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-biden-signs-1-7-trillion-bill-funding-government-operations/ |
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Two former Black Democratic lawmakers who were expelled by Republican colleagues in Tennessee say they want to be reappointed, then elected back to their seats, following their ouster for a protest on the House floor urging passage of gun-control measures in the wake of a deadly school shooting.
Nashville’s metro council is likely to reappoint Justin Jones to the seat during a specially called Monday meeting. The Shelby County Commission plans to announce soon when it will meet to fill the vacancy left by Justin Pearson’s expulsion. Likewise, commissioners can reinstall Pearson, who is from Memphis.
Both former lawmakers told NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday that they want to return to their positions as lawmakers. Special elections for the seats, which have yet to be set, will follow in the coming months.
The expulsions have made Tennessee a new front in the battle for the future of American democracy. The former lawmakers have quickly drawn prominent supporters. President Joe Biden spoke with them and Vice President Kamala Harris visited them in Nashville.
“You know, we will continue to fight for our constituents,” Jones said. “And one thing I just want to say … is that this attack against us is hurting all people in our state. You know, even though it is disproportionately impacting Black and Brown communities, this is hurting poor white people. Their attack on democracy hurts all of us.”
In separate votes on Thursday, the GOP supermajority expelled Jones and Pearson, a move leaving about 140,000 voters in primarily Black districts in Nashville and Memphis with no representation in the House.
Pearson and Jones were expelled in retaliation for their role in the protest the week before, which unfolded in the aftermath of a school shooting in Nashville that killed six people, including three young students and three adults working at the school. The shooter was killed by police.
A third Democrat, Rep. Gloria Johnson of Knoxville, was spared expulsion by a one-vote margin. Johnson is white, spurring outcry at the differing outcomes for the two young, Black lawmakers. Republican lawmakers who split their votes have cited Johnson’s points on the floor that her role in the protest was lesser — she didn’t speak into the megaphone, for example.
Johnson has also suggested race was likely a factor on why Jones and Pearson were ousted but not her, telling reporters it “might have to do with the color of our skin.”
Republican House Speaker Cameron Sexton said that’s a “false narrative.”
“It’s unfortunate, she’s trying to put political racism in this, which there was nothing on this,” Sexton told Fox News on Friday.
GOP leaders said the expulsion actions — used only a handful times since the Civil War — were necessary to avoid setting a precedent that lawmakers’ disruptions of House proceedings through protest would be tolerated.
Pearson said the statehouse has been a “toxic work environment.” He noted the scrutiny he received for wearing a black dashiki — a tunic-like garment that originated in west Africa — for session, rather than a suit and tie.
“It’s about us not belonging in the institution because they are afraid of the changes that are happening in our society, and the voices that are being elevated,” Pearson said on Meet the Press. | 2023-04-09T18:24:12+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/expelled-tennessee-lawmakers-both-seeking-seats-again/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world |
CHARDON, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio woman who dumped the body of her newborn son in woods after giving birth in 1993 was sentenced on Tuesday to life in prison with the possibility of parole in 15 years.
A jury convicted Gail Eastwood Ritchey, 51, of murder in early April in northeast Ohio's Geauga County. Ritchey's attorney argued at trial the baby was stillborn while a prosecutor said an autopsy showed the child had drawn breaths.
Ritchey, 51, appeared at Tuesday's hearing via a remote link from the Geauga County Jail at defense attorney Steven Bradley's request because of COVID-19 concerns. Bradley said Ritchey would not speak before sentencing because of a planned appeal of her conviction.
“She has lived an exemplary life in the last 30 years,” Bradley told Judge David Ondrey, noting the numerous letters of support from friends and family submitted to the court.
Ondrey told Ritchey before sentencing that her newborn “didn't deserve what happened to him” and that she “took the easy way out” by putting the boy in a garbage bag and tossing it into a wooded area where his body was mutilated by animals and dragged onto a rural road.
Newspaper carriers found the corpse in March 1993. County residents paid for the burial of the boy they named “Geauga's Child.”
Ondrey said he struggled with Ritchey's explanation that she was young, afraid and fearful of telling her strict father she was pregnant. He noted that Ritchey told detectives at the time of her arrest in July 2019 that she had disposed the body of another newborn in a field in Cuyahoga County in 1990 or 1991.
“I think you knew what to do because you had done it before,” Ondrey said. “Calling you a monster who deserves life imprisonment is not an exaggeration.”
Jurors did not hear her confession about the first newborn death because Ondrey said it would prejudice the jury, WJW-TV previously reported.
Ritchey was identified as the child’s mother after a Geauga County sheriff’s detective submitted DNA to a public genealogical website, created a family tree of 1,400 relatives and finally narrowed the search to Ritchey, who told investigators it was her baby. She was arrested in June 2019.
Bradley said at trial that Ritchey put the newborn in a garbage bag after delivering the child at a home where she worked as a nanny. She put the bag in the trunk of her car. Days later, she drove a group of girls from the church where she was a youth leader to a weekend retreat, snuck away, and left the bag in a wooded area.
Ritchey never told anyone she was pregnant, Bradley said, and did not realize when she sat down on a toilet at her employers’ home that she was about to give birth.
Ritchey later married the newborn’s father. They have three adult children. | 2022-05-24T20:50:24+00:00 | daytondailynews.com | https://www.daytondailynews.com/news/ohio/ohio-woman-sentenced-to-life-in-1993-death-of-newborn/547UBCEHHJD5VI2CRAIBJEVJWU/ |
DUBAI, UAE, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Webb Fontaine, a leading provider of advanced and innovative trade and Customs services, has announced it's Customs Webb solution has been chosen by Benin as their new Customs system, in replacement of ASYCUDA World.
The project strengthens Webb Fontaine's long-standing partnership with Benin Government, who has ambitions to expand and develop into one of the region's most technologically advanced trade environments.
The project continues towards a fully integrated approach to trade, interconnecting all major trade platforms such as the Single Window, the Port Community System, the e-Tracking solution and now through Customs Webb the Customs System. As a central and critical part of the trade environment, it is crucial and urgent for Governments to operate modern and efficient Customs Systems.
"Customs Webb, Webb Fontaine's Customs system, based on artificial intelligence, was chosen by Benin to continue the modernization of customs and optimize the trade environment.
Webb Fontaine's ability to provide cutting-edge technology and digital solutions is a guarantee of success. With this new system, the objective of the public authorities to make Benin an exemplary platform in the simplification and transparency of Customs clearance procedures has taken a major step forward.
All economic players are supported by Customs as part of a successful partnership with the entire industrial, commercial and logistics community."
Alain HINKATI, Director General of Customs, Benin
"We are honoured to have been selected by Benin Customs for such an important project. The longevity of our partnership is a true testament to Benin's commitment to trade digitalization. Customs Webb is a powerful system that uses AI technology to fully digitise the entire clearance process. To implement Customs Webb will be a huge step forward in their mission and the impacts of such will be felt by the entire trade community."
Samy Zayani, Chief Commercial Officer Webb Fontaine
For Webb Fontaine, a successful track record demonstrates its ability to use AI to facilitate trade, secure revenue and reduce clearance times and costly congestion while greatly improving trade governance.
About Webb Fontaine
Webb Fontaine is an AI company re-shaping the future of trade through technology. Trusted by governments globally, Webb Fontaine provides industry wide solutions to accelerate trade development and modernization. The company uses unique technology including Artificial Intelligence to enable countries to emerge as leaders in the future of trade.
Knowledge transfer is at the core of Webb Fontaine; comprising a team of experts who work across the world, empowering local communities and governments.
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Contract award opens federal contracting opportunities for IT company
FAIR LAKES, Va., June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Azoole, a joint venture between Chainbridge Solutions Inc. and CGI Federal Inc., is a proud recipient of the 8(a) Streamlined Technology Acquisition Resource for Services (STARS) III Government-wide Acquisition Contract (GWAC), contract. This multi-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract is run by GSA and serves all federal agencies. Azoole's new IDIQ contract includes a 5-year Base Period with one 3-year Option Period and the opportunity to compete for task orders up to the $50 billion ordering ceiling.
"Azoole is incredibly proud to have been awarded the GSA 8(a) STARS III contract," stated Aarti Smith, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Chainbridge Solutions. "The Azoole joint venture is an ideal partnership of unparalleled innovation and agility in IT that enables Chainbridge Solutions and CGI Federal to extend their reach to more federal customers and better serve their important missions."
STARS III opens the door to hundreds of opportunities for Azoole to deliver quality IT solutions to customers across the federal government. The contract enables Azoole the opportunity to support federal agencies with full-scope application services and modernization, including agile, DevSecOps, cloud, and low code/no code.
"Azoole represents the best of Chainbridge Solutions and CGI Federal, who share a goal of bringing technology that secures the people, assets and systems of the federal government," stated Stephanie Mango, President of CGI Federal. "With this strategic contract vehicle win, Azoole will be enabled to bring its IT security expertise to support the delivery of innovative solutions to solve some of the federal government's most complex challenges."
People are at the core of everything Azoole does –the American citizen, the federal government employee, the contractor. Through innovative designs and agile delivery, Azoole provides business process services and implements technology-based solutions that make lives safer. For more information visit azoole.com.
About Chainbridge Solutions Inc.
Chainbridge Solutions Inc. an SBA-certified 8(a), Woman-Owned Small Business (WOSB), has been entrusted since 2010 to deliver modern, secure solutions to federal agencies and organizations. Chainbridge Solutions specializes in legacy application modernization through an agile methodology focused on human-centric design, strong customer engagement and rapid delivery through an iterative approach. Chainbridge Solutions brings strong expertise in Human Capital, Personnel Security and Investigative Case Management. Leveraging Machine Learning and robotic process automation, Chainbridge Solutions delivers smart, innovative solutions that offer workflow efficiencies, cost savings, and a user-centric experience to their customers. Learn more at chainbridgesolutions.com
About CGI Federal
CGI Federal Inc., a wholly-owned U.S. operating subsidiary of CGI Inc., is dedicated to partnering with federal agencies to provide solutions for defense, civilian, healthcare and intelligence missions. Founded in 1976, CGI is among the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world. With 82,000 consultants and other professionals across the globe, CGI delivers an end-to-end portfolio of capabilities, from strategic IT and business consulting to systems integration, managed IT and business process services and intellectual property solutions. CGI works with clients through a local relationship model complemented by a global delivery network that helps clients digitally transform their organizations and accelerate results. With Fiscal 2021 reported revenue of C$12.13 billion, CGI shares are listed on the TSX (GIB.A) and the NYSE (GIB). Learn more at cgi.com.
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Yuma Police Department advises public to be warry of phone scam
YUMA, Ariz. (KYMA, KECY) - The Yuma Police Department (YPD) sent out a warning regarding a certain phone scam to locals.
The scam involves the caller impersonating a YPD officer and asking for a payment to resolve a fake legal issue.
YPD is reminding the community to double-check their information and call the department for any verification.
The Yuma Police Department does not make any phone calls for money collection, they don't request credit card information or give warrant information over the phone. | 2022-08-24T00:55:50+00:00 | kyma.com | https://kyma.com/news/2022/08/23/yuma-police-department-advises-public-to-be-warry-of-phone-scam/ |
ORLANDO, Fla., Oct. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Altitude Trampoline Park is rallying its teams and local Florida communities to come together to help the victims of Hurricane Ian. Starting Friday, October 7, 2022, Altitude will collect monetary donations to support the Florida chapter of the American Red Cross and non-perishable items to support local chapters of the Salvation Army. Altitude will also offer Free Jump Passes for those impacted by the recent storm. Participating Altitude locations include Jacksonville Beach, Kissimmee, Sanford and Tallahassee.
"Hurricane Ian was such a devastating storm, and we understand that a number of communities will have to rebuild from the ground up," said Amy Phillips, President of Altitude Trampoline Park. "Our hearts go out to these families, and we want to show our support through our relief efforts. Collecting monetary donations is certainly part of it, but most importantly we want to see kids and families take a short break from it all and jump it out with us. It's important in these times to focus on the things we can control and having some active family fun is one of them. Collectively, we can make a difference."
The Altitude Support Center will be collecting monetary donations through a dedicated website starting October 7 through October 31. The Support Center will also be matching all donations (up to $10,000). Donations may be made at https://www.altitudehub.com/jump-in-help-out/. All proceeds will support the Florida chapter of the American Red Cross.
For those who would like to help with non-perishable items, participating Altitude locations will be collecting items at their parks. All donated items will be directed to the local chapters of the Salvation Army.
The following items may be dropped off at participating parks during normal operating hours.
- Diapers
- Wipes
- Toilet Paper
- Paper Towels
- Baby food
- Dried Fruits
- Canned Fruits & Vegetables
- Boxed Pasta
- Nuts & Seeds
To help hurricane victims relieve some stress, Altitude is hosting Jump It Out sessions. Those impacted by the recent storm may download a Free Jump Pass and enjoy one hour of free jumps anytime between Monday through Friday from open to close. The Free Jump Pass must be printed or presented at time of entry. Offer is valid through October 31, 2022, and good for one free hour per guest per day.
To learn more about how you can help with the Altitude Hurricane Ian relief efforts, visit https://www.altitudehub.com/jump-in-help-out/.
Altitude Trampoline Park is a premier indoor adventure attraction that offers exciting activities, games, programs, and events for all ages. Altitude also offers various package options for birthday parties and other special occasions.
To learn more, including park locations, visit www.altitudetrampolinepark.com.
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ATLANTA (AP) — The Atlanta Hawks on Tuesday fired coach Nate McMillan, who was unable to follow up on the success of leading the team to the 2021 Eastern Conference finals.
Atlanta general manager Landry Fields announcing the firing. The Hawks are 29-30 and in eighth place in the East this season.
Assistant coach Joe Prunty will serve as interim coach. Prunty joined the Hawks in July 2021 as lead assistant.
The 58-year-old McMillan went 99-80 as Atlanta’s coach, including a 27-11 record as interim in the second half of the 2020-21 season. His success that season earned him the full-time position.
McMillan was frustrated in his attempts to improve Atlanta’s defense, a consistent weakness that weighed down a team led by high-scoring guard Trae Young.
McMillan denied reports early this season that he considered resigning.
Overall in 19 seasons, McMillan has a 760-668 record with the Seattle SuperSonics, Portland Trail Blazers, Indiana Pacers and Hawks.
“I would like to thank Nate for his leadership and professionalism during his time with the Hawks,” Fields said in a statement. “He is truly a class act, and we appreciate the graciousness and work ethic he brought with him every day.”
The Hawks finished 43-39 in the 2021-22 season and, after escaping the play-in tournament, lost to the Miami Heat 4-1 in the first round of the Eastern Conference playoffs.
Atlanta then added more emphasis to a win-now approach by trading Danilo Gallinari and three first-round picks to the San Antonio Spurs for All-Star guard Dejounte Murray.
The trade formed a backcourt pairing of All-Star guards in Murray and Young and placed more heat on McMillan to guide the Hawks back to the top of the conference.
Instead, the Hawks have struggled near .500 most of the season. They lost four of six games before the All-Star break and are only one game ahead of 10th-place Toronto in the East. The slide left Atlanta closer to falling out of the play-in tournament than moving into the No. 6 spot for a guaranteed playoff position. The New York Knicks are sixth, 3 1/2 games ahead of Atlanta.
“Decisions like these, especially in-season, are always extremely difficult, but we believe it’s in the best interest of our team to move forward with another voice leading the way,” Fields said.
McMillan dealt with persistent rumors he had disagreements with Young. Fields’ desire to seek “another voice” could be a sign McMillan’s message had worn thin with Young and other players.
This has been a season of turnover for Hawks’ leadership. Travis Schlenk stepped down as team president on Dec. 21 as Fields assumed control of daily operations. Kyle Korver was named assistant general manager on Jan. 16 as the team continued to remodel its front office.
Fields and Korver are working with principal owner Tony Ressler’s son, Nick Ressler, the director of basketball and business operations, in the new management team.
McMillan’s 760 wins rank 18th all-time. In 11 trips to the postseason, his teams have a 28-48 record, including a 11-12 record with Atlanta.
This is not Prunty’s first experience as an interim coach. He posted a 21-16 record as Milwaukee’s interim coach over the final 37 games of the 2017-18 season. He was an assistant with Milwaukee from 2014-18.
Prunty also served as an assistant with the Phoenix Suns (2018-19), Brooklyn Nets (2013-14), Cleveland Cavaliers (2010-13), Portland Trail Blazers (2008-10), Dallas Mavericks (2005-08) and San Antonio Spurs (2000-05), where he won three NBA championships.
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WATCH LIVE: State leaders to announce new investments in Hinds Co. criminal justice system
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JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - State leaders are expected to announce new investments to improve public safety and criminal justice systems in Hinds County.
A press conference is slated for 2 p.m. at the Mississippi State Capitol.
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LISTEN TO THE FIRST EP FEATURING "DRY – DEMO", "MISSED – DEMO" AND "SOMEBODY'S DOWN, SOMEBODY'S NAME" NOW
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LOS ANGELES, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On November 4th PJ Harvey's final reissue from her back catalog is released on vinyl with B-SIDES, DEMOS AND RARITIES (UMe/Island), a 59-track collection spanning decades, with most of the songs previously unavailable physically or digitally, and 14 tracks either previously unreleased or in previously unreleased versions.
Available as a 6 LP/ 3 CD/ Digital boxset, it also features previously unseen archive photography by Maria Mochnacz, with mastering and vinyl cutting by Jason Mitchell at Loud Mastering under the guidance of long time PJ Harvey producer John Parish. You can now listen to the first EP released from the project, which includes a previously unreleased demo version of "Dry," an unreleased demo of "Missed," and "Somebody's Down, Somebody's Name," available digitally for the first time.
B-SIDES, DEMOS AND RARITIES will be available on vinyl, CD and digital on November 4. Pre order here – https://pjharvey.lnk.to/Rarities
59-track collection of single B-sides, Demos and Rarities from the PJ Harvey catalog, spanning three decades. Most of the songs are currently unavailable physically or digitally, 14 tracks are previously unreleased/previously unreleased versions. Mastering and vinyl cutting by Jason Mitchell at Loud Mastering, under the guidance of long time PJ Harvey producer John Parish. Artwork is overseen by Maria Mochnacz with Rob Crane and features previously unseen archive photography.
3CD Set Info
- 4 pocket digipack sleeve
- 3 CDs housed in individual inner sleeves
- 12-page booklet with label copy and credits
- Artwork includes previously unseen photos
LP Box Set Info
- Double-walled outer slipcase
- 6LPs pressed on 180g black vinyl
- Each LP has a full color sleeve with disc label copy and credits
- Artwork includes previously unseen photos
Disc 1
- DRY – DEMO (previously unreleased demo)
- MAN-SIZE – DEMO (previously unreleased demo)
- MISSED – DEMO (previously unreleased demo)
- HIGHWAY 61 REVISITED – DEMO (previously unreleased demo)
- ME-JANE – DEMO (previously unreleased demo)
- DADDY
- LYING IN THE SUN
- SOMEBODY'S DOWN, SOMEBODY'S NAME
- DARLING BE THERE
- MANIAC
- ONE TIME TOO MANY
- HARDER
- NAKED COUSIN
- LOSING GROUND
- WHO WILL LOVE ME NOW
- WHY D'YA GO TO CLEVELAND (previously unreleased)
Disc 2
- INSTRUMENTAL #1
- THE NORTHWOOD
- THE BAY
- SWEETER THAN ANYTHING
- INSTRUMENTAL #3
- THE FASTER I BREATHE THE FURTHER I GO (4 TRACK VERSION)
- NINA IN ECSTASY 2
- REBECCA
- INSTRUMENTAL #2
- THIS WICKED TONGUE
- MEMPHIS
- 30
- 66 PROMISES
- AS CLOSE AS THIS
- MY OWN PRIVATE REVOLUTION
- KICK IT TO THE GROUND (4 TRACK)
- THE FALLING
- THE PHONE SONG
- BOWS & ARROWS
- ANGEL
- STONE
Disc 3
- 97°
- DANCE
- CAT ON THE WALL – DEMO (previously unreleased demo)
- YOU COME THROUGH – DEMO (previously unreleased demo)
- UH HUH HER – DEMO (previously unreleased demo)
- EVOL – DEMO (previously unreleased demo)
- WAIT
- HEAVEN
- LIVERPOOL TIDE
- THE BIG GUNS CALLED ME BACK AGAIN
- THE NIGHTINGALE
- SHAKER AAMER
- GUILTY – DEMO (previously unreleased demo)
- I'LL BE WAITING – DEMO (previously unreleased demo)
- HOMO SAPPY BLUES – DEMO (previously unreleased)
- THE AGE OF THE DOLLAR – DEMO (previously unreleased)
- THE CAMP
- AN ACRE OF LAND
- THE CROWDED CELL
- THE SANDMAN - DEMO
- THE MOTH - DEMO
- RED RIGHT HAND
LP1 - Side A
- DRY – DEMO (previously unreleased demo)
- MAN-SIZE – DEMO (previously unreleased demo)
- MISSED – DEMO (previously unreleased demo)
LP1 - Side B
- HIGHWAY 61 REVISITED – DEMO (previously unreleased demo)
- ME-JANE – DEMO (previously unreleased demo)
- DADDY
LP2 - Side A
- LYING IN THE SUN
- SOMEBODY'S DOWN, SOMEBODY'S NAME
- DARLING BE THERE
- MANIAC
LP2 - Side B
- HARDER
- NAKED COUSIN
- LOSING GROUND
- WHO WILL LOVE ME NOW
- WHY D'YA GO TO CLEVELAND (previously unreleased)
LP3 - Side A
- INSTRUMENTAL #1
- THE NORTHWOOD
- THE BAY
- SWEETER THAN ANYTHING
- INSTRUMENTAL #3
- THE FASTER I BREATHE THE FURTHER I GO (4 TRACK VERSION)
- NINA IN ECSTASY 2
LP3 - Side B
- REBECCA
- INSTRUMENTAL #2
- THIS WICKED TONGUE
- MEMPHIS
- 30
LP4 - Side A
- 66 PROMISES
- AS CLOSE AS THIS
- MY OWN PRIVATE REVOLUTION
- KICK IT TO THE GROUND (4 TRACK)
LP4 - Side B
- THE FALLING
- THE PHONE SONG
- BOWS & ARROWS
- ANGEL
- STONE
LP5 - Side A
- 97°
- DANCE
- CAT ON THE WALL – DEMO (previously unreleased demo)
- YOU COME THROUGH – DEMO (previously unreleased demo)
- UH HUH HER – DEMO (previously unreleased demo)
- EVOL – DEMO (previously unreleased demo)
LP5 - Side B
- WAIT
- HEAVEN
- LIVERPOOL TIDE
- THE BIG GUNS CALLED ME BACK AGAIN
- THE NIGHTINGALE
- SHAKER AAMER
LP6 - Side A
- GUILTY – DEMO (previously unreleased demo)
- I'LL BE WAITING – DEMO (previously unreleased demo)
- HOMO SAPPY BLUES – DEMO (previously unreleased)
- THE AGE OF THE DOLLAR – DEMO (previously unreleased)
- THE CAMP
LP6 - Side B
- AN ACRE OF LAND
- THE CROWDED CELL
- THE SANDMAN - DEMO
- THE MOTH - DEMO
- RED RIGHT HAND
UMe/Island have announced a comprehensive reissue campaign which will see PJ Harvey's back catalogue, plus her two albums in collaboration with John Parish, released on vinyl from 2020 to 2022. For the first time, each of PJ Harvey's accompanying album demos will be available as a stand-alone album on CD, vinyl and digital
This catalog project will celebrate every aspect of Harvey's recording career and provide a comprehensive look at the evolution of a singular and extraordinary artist.
THE HOPE SIX DEMOLITION PROJECT is repressed on vinyl. Out 11 March 2022 on UMe/Island. Order here
THE HOPE SIX DEMOLITION PROJECT – DEMOS is available on digital, CD and vinyl on 11 March 2022 on UMe/Island. Order here
LET ENGLAND SHAKE is repressed on vinyl. Out 28 January 2022 on UMe/Island. Order here
LET ENGLAND SHAKE – DEMOS is available on digital, CD, and vinyl on 28 January 2022 on UMe/Island. Order here
A WOMAN A MAN WALKED BY is repressed on vinyl. Out 23 July 2021 UMe/Island. Order here
WHITE CHALK is repressed on vinyl. Out 25 June 2021 on UMe/Island. Order here
WHITE CHALK – DEMOS is available on digital, CD, and vinyl on 25 June 2021 on UMe/Island. Order here
THE PEEL SESSIONS 1991-2004 is repressed on vinyl. Out 28 May 2021 on UMe/Island. Order here
UH HUH HER is repressed on vinyl. Out 30 April 2021 on UMe/Island. Order here
UH HUH HER – DEMOS is available on digital, CD and vinyl on 30 April 2021 on UMe/Island. Order here
STORIES FROM THE CITY, STORIES FROM THE SEA is repressed on vinyl. Out 26 February 2021 on UMe/Island. Order here.
STORIES FROM THE CITY, STORIES FROM THE SEA – DEMOS is available on digital, CD and vinyl on 26 February 2021 on UMe/Island. Order here.
IS THIS DESIRE? is repressed on vinyl. Out 29 January 2021 on UMe/Island. Order here
IS THIS DESIRE? - DEMOS is available on digital, CD and vinyl on 29 January on UMe/Island. Order here
DANCE HALL AT LOUSE POINT is repressed on vinyl. Out 13 November on UMe/Island. Order here
TO BRING YOU MY LOVE is repressed on vinyl. Out 11 September on UMe/Island. Order here
TO BRING YOU MY LOVE – DEMOS is available on digital, CD and vinyl on 11 September on UMe/Island. Order here
RID OF ME is repressed on vinyl for the first time since its original release in 1993. Out 21 August on UMe/Island. Order here.
4-TRACK DEMOS is also reissued on stand alone vinyl from 21 August on UMe/Island. Order here.
DRY - DEMOS is available on digital, CD and vinyl on 24 July on UMe/Island Records. Order here.
DRY (studio album) is available on Too Pure/Beggars Archive on vinyl on 24 July. Order here.
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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Poker Lotto" game were:
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Turbulence remains a major cause of injuries to flight passengers and crew, even as U.S. airlines have made steady improvements in their overall accident rate in recent years.
A Lufthansa flight from Texas to Germany is the latest example. The Airbus A330 reported severe turbulence over Tennessee on Wednesday and was diverted to Virginia’s Washington Dulles International Airport. Seven people were taken to hospitals with injuries believed to be minor.
Climate change is expected to make turbulence worse in the coming decades, experts say, though improvements in weather forecasting will help.
Turbulence accounted for 37.6% of all accidents on larger commercial airlines between 2009 and 2018, according to a 2021 report from the National Transportation Safety Board. The Federal Aviation Administration released data last year showing 146 serious injuries resulted from turbulence from 2009 to 2021.
Last year, over the span of two days in December, a flight to Honolulu and a flight to Houston hurt a total of 41 people. In July, severe turbulence led to at least eight minor injuries on a flight to Nashville, Tennessee, that had to be diverted to Alabama. Also, three separate flights to Detroit, Miami and Columbus, Ohio, resulted in series injures to three crew members, according to NTSB data.
The NSTB has said more can be done — both within the industry and among passengers — to limit injuries from turbulence. And everyone agrees that simply wearing a seatbelt during the entire flight will significantly reduce one’s risk of getting hurt.
WHAT IS TURBULENCE?
Turbulence is essentially unstable air that moves in a non-predictable fashion. Most people associate it with heavy storms. But the most dangerous type is clear-air turbulence, which often occurs with no visible warning in the sky ahead.
Clear-air turbulence happens most often in or near the high-altitude rivers of air called jet streams. The culprit is wind shear, which is when two huge air masses close to each other move at different speeds. If the difference in speed is big enough, the atmosphere can’t handle the strain, and it breaks into turbulent patterns like eddies in water.
“When those eddies are on the same scale as the aircraft, it causes one side of the aircraft to go up and one side to go down or causes the airplane to lose and gain altitude very quickly,” said Thomas Guinn, a meteorology professor at the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida.
If pilots experience moderate turbulence, they can generally avoid it by flying to a higher altitude, Guinn said. But severe turbulence needs to be avoided all together.
“We can give kind of broad areas of where the turbulence is,” Guinn said. “If the indicators are for severe, then we generally expect pilots to to avoid those regions.”
WHAT ROLE DOES CLIMATE CHANGE PLAY?
Paul D. Williams, a professor of atmospheric science at the University of Reading in England, says global warming is changing temperature patterns in the upper atmosphere. That is causing more instability in the jet streams.
“More specifically, at flight-cruising altitudes, the tropics are warming more rapidly than the poles … leading to stronger north-south temperature differences across the jet stream, and it is those temperature differences that drive the wind shear,” Williams wrote in an email.
But the implications for air travelers are still not fully known, he cautioned.
“One could argue that pilots should be getting better at avoiding turbulence over time, because the specialized forecasts that are used to seek out smooth routes are gradually improving,” Williams wrote. “So more turbulence in the atmosphere will not necessarily translate into more injuries.”
HOW COMMON ARE TURBULENCE-RELATED INJURIES?
The NTSB’s 2021 report showed that 111 turbulence-related accidents occurred between 2009 and 2018 that resulted in at least one serious injury. That figure applies to commercial carrier planes with more than nine passenger seats.
“Most passengers seriously injured … are either out of their seats or seated with their seat belts unfastened,” the report said.
Flight attendants — who are often up and moving — were most commonly hurt, accounting for 78.9% of those seriously injured.
Numbers released by the FAA in December showed a similar breakdown between 2009 and 2021: 116 of the 146 serious turbulence injuries — or 79% — were among crew.
Accident reports filed with the NTSB provide examples. For instance, turbulence on a flight from Dallas-Fort Worth to Miami in July 2021 resulted in a flight attendant “striking the floor hard” in the aft galley and being diagnosed with “a fractured compressed vertebra.”
On another flight from San Antonio to Chicago in August 2021, a flight attendant “had fallen to her knees because of the turbulence” and “was diagnosed with a fractured kneecap.” And on a flight from Baltimore to Atlanta in October 2021, a flight attendant fell and broke her ankle during drink service when the plane “unexpectedly entered a cloud and experienced moderate to borderline severe turbulence.”
“When turbulence occurs, it can be severe and lead to significant, very serious injuries: everything from broken bones to spinal issues to neck issues,” NTSB Chair Jennifer L. Homendy said in a December interview.
WHAT CAN BE DONE?
The NTSB’s 2021 report offered a long list of recommendations. They included more information-sharing among pilots, carriers and air traffic controllers regarding the weather and turbulence incidents.
“We want to make sure that the best suite of technologies is used … to provide the best information to pilots and flight attendants and passengers,” Homendy told The Associated Press.
The agency also urged revisions to safety recommendations regarding when flight attendants should be secured in their seats, including additional portions of descent, which would “reduce the rate of flight attendant injuries.”
The report also cited parents who have been unable to hold infants securely on their laps during turbulence. The NTSB stated that it’s safest for children under the age of 2 to be in their own seat and using an appropriate child restraint system.
Michael Canders, director of the Aviation Center at Farmingdale State College in New York, said many in the industry are already sharing information with each other regarding turbulence, while forecasting has improved over the years.
But he’s unconvinced that it will ever be perfect.
“There’s this argument or debate about, ‘Will technology save us or do we need to back off and take better care of the earth?’” said Canders, who is also an associate professor of aviation. “I think we have to do both.”
Canders added that preventing injuries from turbulence is “best addressed by sitting in your seat and seat-belting in.” | 2023-03-03T17:43:46+00:00 | wdtn.com | https://www.wdtn.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-lufthansa-flight-shows-turbulence-still-causing-injuries/ |
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This has been one of the biggest years for video games in recent memory. NPR's Leila Fadel talks to gaming editor James Mastromarino about some of the blockbuster releases.
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This has been one of the biggest years for video games in recent memory. NPR's Leila Fadel talks to gaming editor James Mastromarino about some of the blockbuster releases.
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NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Kimberly and Felix Rubio, who lost their daughter, Lexi, in the Robb Elementary shooting in Uvalde, Texas, about how they are coping with the loss.
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NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Kimberly and Felix Rubio, who lost their daughter, Lexi, in the Robb Elementary shooting in Uvalde, Texas, about how they are coping with the loss.
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Happy Thursday, everyone. I'm sorry that I was out yesterday, but if you could see how silky smooth my back is right now, you'd understand. F.Y.I. my waxer started a GoFundMe to cover her therapy bills. Get well soon, Tatiana. But it's a good day to mark your calendar because we may have found an honest politician. Jeff Jackson, a North Carolina Democrat and freshman Rep., I'm sorry a fresh-person Rep., looked into a camera and said something we've all suspected but couldn't prove, that his colleagues are a bunch of phonies who don't believe a word of their own ----. Well, it was nice knowing you, Jeff. Say hello to Hillary before you're Jeffrey Epstein'd.
REP. JEFF JACKSON, D-N.C.: I'm still brand new to Congress. I've only been there 100 days, and I don't know if I'm not supposed to say this out loud, but it's true and important and if you don't know this, you need to. It's really clear from working there for just a few months that most of the really angry voices in Congress are totally faking it. These people who have built their brands around being perpetually outraged. It's an act.
Really, Jeff? Wow. You must be the next Columbo. Thanks for connecting the dots for us. All this time I thought politicians were as legit as John Fetterman's recovery, the congressman continued.
GREG GUTFELD: LORI LIGHTFOOT'S LOSS IS A LESSON FOR EVERYONE ELSE IN POLITICS
REP. JEFF JACKSON, D-N.C.: I've been in committee meetings that are open to the press and committee meetings that are closed. The same people who act like maniacs during the open meetings are suddenly calm and rational during the closed ones. Why? Because there aren't any cameras in the closed meetings, so their incentives are different. What I've seen is that members of Congress are surrounded by negative incentives. There are rewards for bad behavior.
Amazing, that's, I've got to say, that's as a refreshing as sitting on a frozen peppermint patty. It's great for hemorrhoids.
PANELIST: Why do you keep looking at me?
I don't know. I haven't seen you in a year and a half. But yes, that's called performance art, Jeff. And it comes courtesy of the I-word that he used incentives. The more you act up, the more you end up on TV. I wonder if we can find any examples of this.
REP. JAMAAL BOWMAN, D-N.Y.: Look at the data. You're not looking at any data. You're carrying the water for the gun lobby. Look at the data, more guns equal more deaths... have you ever worked in the store? You did not answer my question, do not stop and talk to me...
And the Oscar goes to? It looks like that workshop with Jussie Smollett really paid off. And of course, if there were no cameras, there would be no drama, and Bowman wouldn't be vying for that Oscar. Which is why I think cameras should only be banned except in certain places, like the changing rooms at H&M and Bill Hemmer's bedroom. But this crap happens all the time. Remember these performance artists?
REP. MAXINE WATERS, D-CA: You get out, and you create a crowd. And you push back on them, and you tell them they're not welcomed.
LAWMAKER: That is not right. That is not fair and that is what we are fighting as well.
SEN. CHUCK SCHUMER, D-N.Y.: Kavanaugh you have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price.
REP. ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ, D-N.Y.: Don't tell me this is about consistency. Don't tell me that this is about a condemnation of anti-Semitic remarks... Don't tell me because I didn't get a single apology when my life was threatened. Thank you.
Talk about drama. If you hammed it up anymore, Brian Stelter might put you in a hoagie. Of course, you can't forget the patron saint of fake outrage. Take it away, sis.
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She's amazing, and I'm always wondering, I bet you are, too, where is she now?
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Wow, she's still screaming. Of course, it's not just the Dems, right, Adam?
GREG GUTFELD: MAYOR PETE CHASED A NON-PROBLEM AT THE EXPENSE OF REAL ONES
REP. ADAM KINZINGER, R-Ill.: I never expected the day to be quite as emotional for me as it has been... But you guys won. You guys held. You know, democracies are not defined by our bad days.
You know, he looks like he's choking on a hamster, but on both ends. Hmm. They're disgusted, I know. But it's like the observer effect in quantum physics, observing a system has an effect on that system. For example, I know you're watching me right now, which is the only reason I bathed, but at least for me, it's a hygiene matter. For these idiots, it's only about amplifying anger to keep us divided.
REP. JEFF JACKSON, D-N.C.: The big thing that modern media and modern politicians have learned is that if they can keep you angry, they'll hold your attention. And they both want your attention. So if you're a politician, and you show certain media outlets that you can help them keep their audience angry, they'll give you their audience. And because so many politicians are willing to play that game, now they're in competition with each other to see how fake angry they can be.
They should have awards for this. Call them the golden globalists. Uh. All right. Yeah. Yeah. Shut up. No, but it works. Take Justin Pearson, and who could forget his amazing transition from 2016 to now? Here are two clips of the same guy before and after discovering the joy of fakery.
JUSTIN PEARSON 2016: I'm Justin J. Pearson, and I'm running for president of BSG. I want to bring together different voices, dissenting voices, voices that may be more liberal or more conservative in order that we can reach a point of sort of the radical middle.
PHOTOS: FETTERMAN RETURNS TO SENATE IN SWEATSHIRT, SHORTS AFTER MONTHS-LONG HOSPITAL STAY
JUSTIN PEARSON 2023: Fighting for the LGBTQ community, fighting for those who are single mothers, fighting for those who are ostracized, fighting for those... My savior, my black Jesus.
They should investigate who put Rogaine in the Memphis water supply. That transition would make Caitlyn Jenner switch doctors. Why did he do that? Well, it's incentivized. This week it was announced that President Biden, instead of meeting victims' families of the Nashville shooting, will meet with the state representatives who protested inside the Tennessee Capitol. The lesson, if only those families had hired acting coaches.
Of course, it's easy to blame politicians for this behavior. Which is why I do blame this on them. But we share some of the responsibility, too, as well. We, meaning the people who are paid to react to the news and the people who consume the news. We claim we want more people like Jeff Jackson, but we also cheer when someone from our team dunks on someone from their team, which isn't often because most Republicans are white. I mean, it's not like we don't mind when politics starts looking like the WWE, but I don't really want to see Adam Schiff wearing a singlet. Maybe I do.
Fact is, the left are the experts at this crap, and they don't stop. They incentivize infantile outbursts in college by rewarding activists with descriptions of bravery, just like what San Francisco State did to the mob who attacked Riley Gaines. They were lauded instead of lampooned, and Republicans can barely keep up with the drama because they're so often the target. So what's the ultimate consequence here? Well, this mob violence, mob rule, but now it's sanctioned as protest, and it's courtesy of amplified phony outrage.
After years of saying the country is racist, white people are racist, cops are racist, roads are racist, you end up with mob violence redefined as mostly peaceful protest, and businesses are now racist for not wanting to get looted. So because nothing is good, everything bad is permitted.
And now we're seeing it's paralyzed a country, one that's unable to respond to its own implosion. So congrats to Jeff Jackson, who has pulled back the curtain on this political theater. But I guess we always knew it. Just today, we're paying the price. | 2023-04-21T05:56:27+00:00 | foxbangor.com | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/greg-gutfeld-a-democrat-exposes-the-fake-outrage-on-capitol-hill/article_4182dd72-f447-58a1-91fd-ef03ef26e093.html |
Teen confessed to girl’s murder over Instagram, police say
BENSALEM, Pa. (Gray News) - Police in Pennsylvania say a 16-year-old boy has been charged as an adult in relation to the fatal shooting of a 13-year-old girl.
Bensalem Police received a call Friday about a possible homicide, according to a police news release. The caller told them her daughter had gotten an Instagram video chat from a 16-year-old acquaintance, later identified as Joshua Cooper.
During the chat, Cooper allegedly said he had just killed someone and showed a person’s legs and feet covered in blood. He then asked for help disposing of the body, the 911 caller said.
Officers went to Cooper’s home, where they found a juvenile female dead on the bathroom floor with an apparent gunshot wound. The victim was reportedly 13 years old, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Police say there were also “substantial steps” taken to clean up the crime scene.
Cooper allegedly fled the scene when officers arrived, but after a short search, he was taken into custody.
The 16-year-old faces charges of criminal homicide, possessing instruments of crime and tampering with or fabricating physical evidence. He was denied bail and sent to the Edison Juvenile Detention Center.
A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Dec. 7, the Inquirer reports.
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CLEVELAND, Ohio — Guardians right-hander Triston McKenzie has cleared another hurdle in his progress toward returning to the mound, the club announced Monday. In addition, lefty Sam Hentges is on schedule for the next step in his injury rehab.
McKenzie, sidelined since leaving his final spring training start March 26 with a teres major strain in his right shoulder, was re-checked Sunday by Dr. Jason Genin and is progressing well, the team said. | 2023-04-10T14:44:06+00:00 | cleveland.com | https://www.cleveland.com/guardians/2023/04/guardians-share-positive-reports-on-triston-mckenzie-sam-hentges-injury-progress.html |
The St. Louis Blues are winners of two straight but they take on a red-hot Avalanche team in Colorado on Monday night, Nov. 14.
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The puck drops at 9 p.m. ET.
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St. Louis Blues (4-8-0, eighth in the Central Division) vs. Colorado Avalanche (7-4-1, first in the Central Division)
Denver; Monday, 9 p.m. EST
BOTTOM LINE: The Colorado Avalanche host the St. Louis Blues after Cale Makar’s two-goal game against the Carolina Hurricanes in the Avalanche’s 4-1 win.
Colorado is 7-4-1 overall with a 3-0-1 record in Central Division play. The Avalanche have a +10 scoring differential, with 44 total goals scored and 34 allowed.
St. Louis has a 4-8-0 record overall and a 0-2-0 record in Central Division games. The Blues are 4-1-0 in games they score three or more goals.
The matchup Monday is the sixth time these teams square off this season. The Avalanche won 3-2 in the previous matchup. Makar led the Avalanche with two goals.
TOP PERFORMERS: Makar has one goal and 13 assists for the Avalanche. Mikko Rantanen has nine goals and eight assists over the past 10 games.
Vladimir Tarasenko has four goals and six assists for the Blues. Justin Faulk has seven assists over the last 10 games.
LAST 10 GAMES: Avalanche: 6-3-1, averaging 3.4 goals, 6.2 assists, 3.9 penalties and 8.6 penalty minutes while giving up 2.4 goals per game.
Blues: 2-8-0, averaging two goals, 3.6 assists, 2.6 penalties and 6.1 penalty minutes while giving up 3.8 goals per game.
INJURIES: Avalanche: Valeri Nichushkin: out (ankle), Kurtis MacDermid: day to day (lower-body), Darren Helm: out (undisclosed), Gabriel Landeskog: out (knee), Bowen Byram: out (undisclosed), Shane Bowers: out (upper-body).
Blues: Marco Scandella: out (hip), Logan Brown: out (upper-body), Scott Perunovich: out (shoulder), Robert Bortuzzo: out (upper-body). | 2022-11-15T02:24:26+00:00 | masslive.com | https://www.masslive.com/sports/2022/11/how-to-watch-st-louis-blues-vs-colorado-avalanche-on-monday-night.html |
Ducks general manager Pat Verbeek provided a simple answer regarding his decision to select defenseman Pavel Mintyukov 10th in the NHL draft amid increasing concerns over Russian-born prospects’ availability to play in North America because of issues stemming from the war in Ukraine.
“The talent is undeniable,” Verbeek said shortly after making the selection on Thursday night. “We’re looking to get our franchise going in the right direction, towards winning the Stanley Cup, and we think this player is really going to help us get there.”
Verbeek wasn’t alone in his thinking on a night three Russians were selected among the 32 picks, with the final six rounds of the draft in Montreal being held on Friday.
Following Mintyukov’s selection, the Washington Capitals choose forward Ivan Miroshnichenko 20th, followed by the Minnesota Wild taking right wing Danila Yurov four picks later.
All three attended the draft and were projected to go in the first round, though questions were raised as to whether their draft stock might fall because of travel restrictions in and out of Russia and Belarus and the lack of a transfer agreement between the NHL and Russian-based Kontinental Hockey League.
NHL Central Scouting director Dan Marr went so far as to say a mock draft conducted by his staff finished with Russians being shut out of the first round for the first time since 2005.
Fears were heightened further last week, when Philadelphia Flyers goalie prospect Ivan Fedotov was suddenly assigned to a remote military base in northern Russia, according to the player’s agent, J.P. Barry. Selected in the seventh round of the 2015 draft, Fedotov signed with the Flyers in May after completing his contract with CSKA Moscow in the KHL.
Miroshnichenko’s situation is more complicated because his junior season in Russia was cut short after being diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma in March. He has since been cleared to resume playing.
“Just a tremendous feeling. Such a great organization,” he said through an interpreter.
Capitals general manager Brian MacLellan said he and his staff were “somewhat comfortable” in selecting Miroshnichenko based on having team doctors review the player’s medical report.
“Our guys thought the upside was worth taking the risk involved. He’s a really good player,” MacLellan said. “Hopefully, it works out and we’ve got a really good player on our hands.”
While there has always been a risk of Russian players electing to stay home, Mintyukov’s desire to play North America was more clear after he spent last season with Saginaw of the Ontario Hockey League.
Though Miroshnichenko and Yurov have only played in Russia, they were selected by teams with a history of drafting and developing Russians.
The war in Ukraine and status of Russian players in North America have become sensitive subjects around the league. Several agents who represent Russian players have declined comment, while NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman chose his words carefully when addressing the matter on Thursday.
He reiterated the NHL has issued no directives to teams over whether or not they can draft Russian players. He then sidestepped a question regarding the league having concerns of players being barred to leave upon traveling to Russia.
“I think it’s probably not a good idea for us or clubs to get involved in the politics of what’s going on in Russia,” Bettman said.
“I don’t want to say anything that could be misconstrued or cause an inflammation of a sensitive situation,” he added. “The Russian players who still reside in Russia need to make sure that they’re making the best possible decisions for themselves and their families.”
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AP Hockey Writer Stephen Whyno contributed to this story.
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(NEXSTAR) – Denny’s, the diner chain that introduced America to Grand Slams and Moons Over My Hammy, began its life as something else entirely.
Danny’s. It was actually called Danny’s.
In 1953, Denny’s founders Harold Butler and Richard Jezak opened up a coffee-and-doughnut shop in Lakewood, California, called Danny’s — Danny’s Donuts, specifically — and worked to open multiple locations over the next several years.
The name “Danny,” meanwhile, held no real significance for either Butler or Jezak. They picked it simply because it was popular, and neither founder had any relatives or acquaintances in mind when they chose it, Butler told the Los Angeles Times in 1985.
But a few years after opening their first location, Jezak left the rapidly expanding business to remain closer to family, and Butler decided to rebrand his shops with an entirely new name.
Nope, not Denny’s. At least not yet.
Starting with his eighth location, Butler began calling his restaurants by a new name: Danny’s Coffee Shop. “Danny’s Donuts,” he said, was no longer indicative of the menu items he began serving in response to a sales slump at the second location, which prompted him to begin offering burgers alongside his jam-filled doughnuts.
After all, a restaurant called “Danny’s Coffee Shop” could offer just about anything — sandwiches, burgers, breakfast, doughnuts. There was only one problem: Los Angeles already had a chain called Coffee Dan’s, and Butler didn’t want his customers to conflate the two, according to the official Denny’s website. (An early investor in Danny’s Donuts who spoke with Los Angeles Magazine in 2012 claimed that Coffee Dan’s actually sent a cease-and-desist letter to Butler and other execs.)
Butler’s solution was to rename the restaurants once again in 1959 — this time to Denny’s Coffee Shops, using another name he chose because it sounded close enough to “Danny.” (Menus from 1960 even featured both names, Jezak’s daughter once showed to L.A. Mag.) By 1961, Butler dropped “Coffee Shops” from the name entirely, settling simply on Denny’s.
“And the rest is history,” claims the official Denny’s site.
We’ll never know if Butler had plans to rename Denny’s for a fourth or fifth time. In 1971, he attempted to buy the then-parent company of Caesars Palace, but was accused by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission of offering a better deal to certain shareholders of the company, The Washington Post once reported. The deal was off, and Denny’s stock prices took a dive. Butler stepped down as chairman and sold his stake in Denny’s soon afterward.
Butler didn’t immediately retire entirely from the restaurant industry altogether. Just as he had done with Denny’s — and Winchell’s Donut House, which Denny’s purchased in 1968 — Butler attempted to grow several restaurant chains over the following decades. In 1979, he purchased and expanded Naugles, a Mexican-inspired fast-food chain that was ultimately absorbed by Del Taco. And in the mid-‘1980s, he attempted to popularize a delicatessen chain called Hershel’s.
Right up until his departure from the restaurant industry, however, he always held a special place in his heart for Denny’s. Or Danny’s. Or whatever he liked to call it.
“If we had bought Caesars, I’d still be with Denny’s,” he told the LA Times in 1985. | 2022-10-23T13:51:04+00:00 | ourquadcities.com | https://www.ourquadcities.com/news/national-news/you-wont-believe-what-dennys-was-originally-called/ |
PITTSBURGH, Nov. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I needed a better way to clean and remove dirt from my face and eye area on a daily basis," said an inventor, from McKinney, Texas, "so I invented the CLEAR ALL. My design would offer an improved alternative to using traditional face wipes."
The patent-pending invention provides an effective way to remove makeup and dirt from the face and body. In doing so, it eliminates the need to waste multiple towelettes or makeup wipes. As a result, it saves time and effort and it could simplify the skincare routine. The invention features a neat and compact design that is easy to use so it is ideal for the general population, individuals who wear makeup, etc. Additionally, it is producible in design variations.
The original design was submitted to the Dallas sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 21-DAL-232, 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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Arizona State vs. Eastern Michigan college football game live updates, analysis, score
The Arizona State football team hosts Eastern Michigan on Saturday in a Week 3 college football game at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Arizona.
Follow our updates on the game, which can be seen at 8 p.m. on Pac-12 Networks.
More:How to watch ASU vs. EMU game | Odds, picks, predictions for game
How to watch ASU vs. Eastern Michigan
The game can be seen at 8 p.m. MST time on Pac-12 Networks.
JB Long and Bob Davie will be on the call.
Pac-12 Networks is available via Sling TV, Cox, Dish, FuboTV, Vidgo, Dish, and other providers.
Eastern Michigan vs. ASU odds
The Sun Devils are a 20.5-point favorite in the game.
ASU is -1200 on the money line in the game, which will be played at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe.
Eastern Michigan is +750.
The over/under for the game is set at 56.5 points.
Arizona State vs. Eastern Michigan picks, predictions
Most sites are predicting an ASU victory and are taking the Sun Devils to cover the point spread.
One site gives Arizona State a 94.2% chance to win the game.
Interestingly, one site's formula predicts a very close game, with ASU winning 27.1-23.7.
The Arizona Republic's Michelle Gardner previewed and predicted the outcome of the game in her ASU vs. Eastern Michigan scouting report.
Eastern Michigan football vs. Arizona State series history
This will be the first ever meeting between the two teams.
ASU is 1-1 against MAC schools all-time after beating Kent State in 2019. Eastern Michigan has recorded a non-conference road victory in every eligible campaign since the 2015 season - its longest streak in program history.
The Eagles have not given up a first quarter score this season.
ASU, Eastern Michigan records this season
The Sun Devils are 1-1 on the season, coming off a 34-17 loss at Oklahoma State.
They defeated NAU in their first game of the season, 40-3.
Eastern Michigan is also 1-1, coming off a 49-21 loss to Louisiana.
The Eagles defeated Eastern Kentucky in their season opener, 42-34.
Pregame reading for ASU vs. EMU college football game
- ASU's Kyle Soelle looking to build off early success vs. Eastern Michigan
- Walk-on to starting wide receiver: Giovanni Sanders moving up with ASU
- Arizona State football dealing with penalties on defensive side of the ball
- ASU football never recovered against Oklahoma State. The reasons why
- 5 takeaways from Arizona State football's road loss at Oklahoma State
- Sun Devils' insistence on running the ball gave them no chance for upset
- Badger emerging as much needed receiver in ASU's offensive arsenal
- Arizona State football falls to Oklahoma State in college football game
Reach Jeremy Cluff at jeremy.cluff@arizonarepublic.com. Follow him on Twitter @Jeremy_Cluff.
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DAKAR – Prosecutors in Senegal who had sought two years in prison for opposition leader Ousmane Sonko have filed an appeal after he was given a much lighter, two-month suspended sentence for his conviction on libel charges in a case his supporters say was politically motivated.
The outcome of Thursday's verdict allows Sonko to run for president next year though he still faces unrelated criminal charges in a pending rape case that would disqualify him if he is convicted. Sonko is widely viewed as the top opposition candidate in Senegal's elections next year.
Sonko has not yet decided whether to appeal the sentence in the libel case, his lawyer Bamba Cisse told The Associated Press.
Sonko was also ordered to pay about $330,000 to Tourism Minister Mame Mbaye Niang, who accused the politician of defamation and public insults.
Neither Sonko nor his lawyers were present on Thursday when the verdict and sentence were delivered.
Each of Sonko's previous court appearances led to protests in the streets of Dakar, the capital, and Sonko himself was forcibly removed from his vehicle by police on two occasions. Demonstrations have taken place not only in Dakar but in cities throughout the country.
Sonko’s supporters see the charges against him as the latest attempt to cut short his political career. Sonko finished third in Senegal’s 2019 presidential election and has called on President Macky Sall to declare publicly that he won’t seek a third term.
The ruling party says Sall should be allowed to run after a constitutional change in 2016 — made while Sall was president — which changed presidential terms to five years.
Sonko also faces rape charges based on accusations from a female employee of a massage salon who said she was assaulted by him. If convicted, he faces up to 10 years in prison and would be barred from running for president. No date has been set yet for the that trial. | 2023-03-31T15:02:04+00:00 | ksat.com | https://www.ksat.com/news/world/2023/03/31/prosecutors-in-senegal-appeal-opposition-leaders-sentence/ |
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Centerstone, a nonprofit health organization that provides mental health, addiction recovery, residential care, therapeutic foster care, counseling, and crisis services across the country, has learned of a data security incident that may have involved personal and protected health information belonging to certain current and former Centerstone clients. Centerstone has sent notification of this incident to potentially impacted individuals and is providing resources to assist them.
On February 14, 2022, Centerstone detected unusual activity involving its email environment. Upon discovering this activity, Centerstone took immediate steps to secure its email environment and launched a thorough investigation to determine the scope of the issue. The investigation determined that an unknown actor gained access to and may have obtained a limited amount of data from an employee email account on January 8, 2022.
As a result, Centerstone undertook a comprehensive review of the full contents of the email account to identify whether any individual information was contained therein. Centerstone's review concluded on July 12, 2022, at which time Centerstone learned that the email account contained certain personal and protected health information. In response, Centerstone immediately initiated a diligent search to identify current contact information needed to notify potentially impacted individuals.
Centerstone currently has no evidence of the misuse of any information potentially involved in this incident. However, on September 12, 2022, Centerstone notified potentially affected individuals directly via letter. In so doing, Centerstone provided information about the incident and about steps that potentially impacted individuals can take to protect their information.
The following personal and protected health information may have been involved in the incident: name, address, Social Security number, date of birth, client ID, medical diagnosis / treatment information, and/or health insurance and claims information. However, not all data elements were present for every individual.
The privacy and protection of personal and protected health information is a top priority for Centerstone, which deeply regrets any inconvenience or concern this incident may cause. Centerstone is working to implement additional safeguards to help ensure the security of its email environment and to reduce the risk of a similar incident from occurring in the future. Centerstone has also established a toll-free call center to answer questions about the incident. Call center representatives are available Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m. Central Time, excluding holidays and can be reached at 1-833-764-0234.
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PHOTO: Fisherman sets new state record by catching 67-pound catfish
Published: May. 20, 2022 at 6:27 PM EDT|Updated: 55 minutes ago
UNION COUNTY, S.D. (Dakota News Now/Gray News) - A fisherman in South Dakota has set a new state record with his latest catch.
According to the South Dakota Department of Game, Fish and Parks, Ethan Evink caught a massive flathead catfish in the Missouri River in Union City. The fish was so giant it set a new record in South Dakota.
The state agency said Evink’s record-setting catfish was 51.5 inches long and weighed 67 pounds, 8 ounces, as reported by Dakota News Now.
Evink said he made the catch early in the morning using cut bait, a popular catfish bait.
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NEW YORK — Dorothy Pitman Hughes, a pioneering Black feminist, child welfare advocate and lifelong community activist who toured the country speaking with Gloria Steinem in the 1970s and appears with her in one of the most iconic photos of the second-wave feminist movement, has died. She was 84.
Hughes died Dec. 1 in Tampa, Florida, at the home of her daughter and son-in-law, said Maurice Sconiers of the Sconiers Funeral Home in Columbus, Georgia. Her daughter, Delethia Ridley Malmsten, said the cause was old age.
Though they came to feminism from different places — Hughes from community activism and Steinem from journalism — the two forged a powerful speaking partnership in the early 1970s, touring the country at a time when feminism was seen as predominantly white and middle class, a divide dating back to the origins of the American women's movement. Steinem credited Hughes with helping her become comfortable speaking in public.
In one of the most famous images of the era, taken in October 1971, the two raised their right arms in the Black Power salute. The photo is now in the National Portrait Gallery.
Hughes, her work always rooted in community activism, organized the first shelter for battered women in New York City and co-founded the New York City Agency for Child Development to broaden childcare services in the city. But she was perhaps best known for her work helping countless families through the community center she established on Manhattan's West Side, offering day care, job training, advocacy training and more.
"She took families off the street and gave them jobs," Malmsten, her daughter, told The Associated Press on Sunday, reflecting on what she felt was her mother's most important work.
Steinem, too, paid tribute to Hughes' community work. "My friend Dorothy Pitman Hughes ran a pioneering neighborhood childcare center on the west side of Manhattan," Steinem said in an email. "We met in the seventies when I wrote about that childcare center, and we became speaking partners and lifetime friends. She will be missed, but if we keep telling her story, she will keep inspiring us all."
Laura L. Lovett, whose biography of Hughes, "With Her Fist Raised," came out last year, said in Ms. Magazine (of which Pitman was a co-founder along with Steinem) that Hughes "defined herself as a feminist, but rooted her feminism in her experience and in more fundamental needs for safety, food, shelter and child care."
Born Dorothy Jean Ridley on Oct. 2, 1938, in Lumpkin, Georgia, Hughes committed herself to activism at an early age, according to an obituary written by her family. When she was 10, it said, her father was nearly beaten to death and left on the family's doorstep. The family believed he was attacked by the Ku Klux Klan, and Hughes decided to dedicate herself to helping others through activism.
She moved to New York City in the late 1950s when she was nearly 20 and worked as a salesperson, nightclub singer and house cleaner. By the 1960s she had become involved in the civil rights movement and other causes, working with Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and others.
In the late 1960s, she set up her West 80th St. community center, providing care for children and also support for their parents.
"She realized that child-care challenges were deeply entangled with issues of racial discrimination, poverty, drug use, substandard housing, welfare hotels, job training and even the Vietnam War," Lovett wrote last year. Hughes "recognized that the strongest anchor for local community action centered on children and worked to fix the roots of inequality in her community."
It was at the center that she met Steinem, then a journalist writing a story for New York Magazine. They became friends and, from 1969 to 1973, spoke across the country at college campuses, community centers and other venues on gender and race issues.
"Dorothy's style was to call out the racism she saw in the white women's movement," Lovett said in Ms. "She frequently took to the stage to articulate the way in which white women's privilege oppressed Black women but also offered her friendship with Gloria as proof this obstacle could be overcome."
By the 1980s, Hughes was becoming an entrepreneur. She had moved to Harlem and opened an office supply business, Harlem Office Supply, the rare stationery store at the time that was run by a Black woman. But she was forced to sell the store when a Staples opened nearby, part of President Bill Clinton's Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone program.
She would remember some of her experiences in the 2000 book, "Wake Up and Smell the Dollars! Whose Inner-City Is This Anyway!: One Woman's Struggle Against Sexism, Classism, Racism, Gentrification, and the Empowerment Zone."
Hughes was portrayed in "The Glorias," the 2020 film about Steinem, by actor Janelle Monaé.
She is survived by three daughters: Malmsten, Patrice Quinn and Angela Hughes.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2022-12-11T11:07:33+00:00 | klcc.org | https://www.klcc.org/npr-obituaries/npr-obituaries/2022-12-11/the-pioneering-black-feminist-dorothy-pitman-hughes-has-died-at-aged-84 |
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — The playbook is the same for Malaysia’s grand old party.
Eyeing a strong comeback in a crowded election race on Nov. 19, the United Malays National Organization touted “stability and prosperity” in a manifesto laden with populist measures from tax cuts and cash aids to some reforms.
Once an omnipotent force credited with developing and modernizing Malaysia, anger over government corruption led to its unimaginable defeat in 2018 polls. It bounced back in 2020 as part of a new government, but ties with its allies soured and UMNO is seeking to regain its mandate.
In its favor is a fractured opposition and an electorate fed up with political turmoil, rising inflation and a slowing economy. On the flip side, UMNO faces a trust deficit after its top leaders were charged with corruption. It has failed to shed its patronage and rent-seeking culture, and internal bickering presents a challenge. There is also a potential public backlash for calling an early election despite risks of floods from monsoon rains.
The reform drive within the party has taken a backseat after it reclaimed the government just 22 months following its electoral defeat, said Amir Fareed Rahim, director of strategy at public affairs and political risk consultancy KRA Group.
“The (UMNO) faces at the top are more or less still the same, which means there are still negative perception issues and trust deficit with the public,” he said.
UMNO Ieads the Barisan Nasional, or the National Front coalition, that has ruled since Malaysia’s independence from Britain until 2018. It was the country’s de facto ruler, with UMNO president holding the post of prime minister.
The watershed 2018 polls sparked hopes of reforms as once-powerful UMNO leaders were jailed or hauled to court for graft. Former Prime Minister Najib Razak became the first Malaysian leader imprisoned, over a case linked to the massive looting of the 1Malaysia Development Berhad state investment fund that led to his party’s ouster. Najib’s wife is also battling a 10-year sentence on separate graft charges.
But just as astounding as its defeat was UMNO’s swift return to power in early 2020 after defections led the reformist ruling alliance to crumble.
UMNO’s frenemy pact with two Malay parties that all vie for support of ethnic Malay voters saw continuous turmoil. In all, Malaysia had three prime ministers since 2018. In the end, Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob caved in to pressure from UMNO and dissolved Parliament last month for snap polls.
Ismail, a lower-ranked official, was the first prime minister who wasn’t an UMNO leader, creating factions within the party. This was because UMNO President Ahmad Zahid Hamidi is battling dozens of corruption charges and the party No. 2 wasn’t a federal lawmaker.
Opposition leaders have warned voters that Zahid, who led the push for early polls, is counting on his coalition’s win to get off the hook in his graft trial and take over as prime minister. Zahid has portrayed himself and Najib, who faces several more trials over the 1MDB saga, as victims of political persecution.
Although UMNO says Ismail will remain prime minister if it wins, Zahid has consolidated his power by dropping eight party strongmen aligned to Ismail from the polls. Even if Ismail stays on, critics say he will be a lame duck premier.
“The ambiguity over the premiership despite clarifications from UMNO leaders is definitely an ammunition that is being used rather effectively by the opposition and may adversely impact BN’s electoral fortunes,” said Amir of KRA Group.
Zahid, 69, has dismissed the allegations as rivals’ desperate ploy. On Monday night, he unveiled his coalition’s manifesto as “pro-people, pro-reform, pro-development and prioritizing inclusion.”
Zahid promised absolute poverty will become a thing of the past because his government will give cash to poor households to ensure they have a basic monthly income of 2,208 ringgit ($466). The manifesto offers some political reform for more accountability, an overhaul of the education system and incentives to embrace diversity at school and workplace.
Malays form two-thirds of Malaysia’s 33 million people, and get privileges in jobs, contracts and education under a decades-old affirmative action program that has long alienated large Chinese and Indian minorities. Critics say the system has been abused by UMNO elites to enrich themselves, with large contracts often given directly to cronies.
“If UMNO still wins in 2022, it portrays the pervasiveness of UMNO’s patronage network,” said Ahmad Fauzi Abdul Hamid, a political analyst with the Science University of Malaysia. “What UMNO needs is a new generation of leaders whose conscience is not tied to the interests of UMNO’s self-perpetuating warlords.”
Some recent surveys have shown that UMNO hasn’t gained ground with Malays in several recent by-elections, and won in large part due to a low turnout of opposition voters.
While the opposition is a divided, UMNO also faces a split in its traditional Malay support base and some 6 million young new voters remain a wildcard.
Firebrand opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, also a Malay, is the main challenger. He was serving time on a sodomy charge he said was politically motivated when his Alliance of Hope won the 2018 polls, led by former premier Mahathir Mohamad.
Mahathir became the world’s oldest leader at 92 after the victory, and Anwar was pardoned by the nation’s king shortly after. He was due to succeed Mahathir before their government collapsed. Anwar’s bloc is promising a reset in government policies to focus on merits and needs, rather than race, and good governance to plug billions of dollars it said was lost to corruption.
In addition, UMNO is also challenged by a Malay-based coalition headed by its previous allies in the government. Mahathir, 97, is running with his own motley Malay alliance to oust a corruption-tainted UMNO.
Political analyst Ahmad Fauzi and some others predicted a hung parliament that could see new alliances formed after the election.
“It is competitive and difficult to predict given the large fence-sitters. But it is UMNO’s to lose given it had all the upper hand in terms of timing to call the elections,” said Amir, the KRA analyst. | 2022-11-10T16:59:56+00:00 | kron4.com | https://www.kron4.com/news/world/ap-international/ap-unfazed-by-scandals-malaysias-old-party-seeks-win-in-polls/ |
Jamie Spears must sit for a deposition: TMZ By FOX6 News Digital Team Published July 14, 2022 9:07AM Interviews FOX6 News Milwaukee Facebook Twitter Print Email Jamie Spears must sit for a deposition: TMZ Michael Babcock with TMZ joins FOX6 WakeUp with the scoop. Amber Heard was denied a retrial. Plus, Jamie Spears must sit for a deposition. Michael Babcock with TMZ joins FOX6 WakeUp with the scoop. | 2022-07-14T15:22:22+00:00 | fox6now.com | https://www.fox6now.com/news/jamie-spears-must-sit-for-a-deposition-tmz |
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka is sending two government ministers to Russia to negotiate for fuel — one of the necessities nearly exhausted amid the Indian Ocean island nation’s economic collapse.
The development comes as Washington and its allies aim to cut off energy imports from Russia in line with sanctions over its war on Ukraine. Since the invasion in late February, global oil prices have skyrocketed, sparking a number of countries to seek out Russian crude, which is being offered at a steep discount.
Power and Energy Minister Kanchana Wijesekera said two ministers are scheduled to leave for Russia on Monday to continue talks that Sri Lanka has been having with Russian authorities to directly purchase fuel, among other related issues.
He urged people Saturday not to line up for fuel, saying only limited stock will be distributed to limited stations throughout next week. He said until the next shipments arrive, “public transport, power generators and industries will be given a priority.”
Residents have had to queue for hours and sometimes days to get fuel, sometimes resorting to burning charcoal or palm fronds for cooking.
Wijesekera’s comments come while a high-level U.S. delegation is visiting Sri Lanka, seeking ways to help the island nation cope with an unprecedented economic crisis and severe shortages of essential supplies.
Like some other South Asian nations, Sri Lanka has remained neutral on the war in Europe.
However, Wijesekera said the foreign ministry and the Sri Lankan ambassador in Russia have been making arrangements for a fuel sale.
“There is an advantage for us if we could buy oil directly from the Russian government or the Russian firms. There are talks going on,” he told reporters Sunday.
The shortages have led to protests against the government, recently to demand fuel. The government has deployed armed troops in addition to police at every fuel station.
Sri Lanka says it’s unable to repay $7 billion in foreign debt due this year, pending the outcome of negotiations with the International Monetary Fund on a rescue package. It must pay $5 billion on average annually until 2026. Authorities have asked the IMF to lead a conference to unite Sri Lanka’s lenders.
Last month, the country bought a 90,000-metric-ton (99,000-ton) shipment of Russian crude to restart its only refinery, Wijesekera said.
In an interview with The Associated Press in mid-June, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said Sri Lanka would be compelled to buy oil from Russia and was trying to get oil and coal from traditional suppliers in the Middle East.
“If we can get from any other sources, we will get from there. Otherwise (we) may have to go to Russia again,” he said.
Wickremesinghe also said last week that the state-run Ceylon Petroleum Corporation was $700 million in debt and as a result, no country or organization was willing to provide fuel.
On Sunday, the corporation hiked prices of petrol by 22% to 550 Sri Lankan Rupees per liter (about $5.80 per gallon), and diesel by 15% to LKR 470 per liter (about $4.95 per gallon). Wijeserekara said the hike was meant to be par with the global fuel prices.
Protesters have occupied the entrance to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s office for more than two months demanding his resignation, saying the primary responsibility for the crisis rests with him and his family, whom they accuse of corruption and mismanagement.
The U.S. delegation led by Robert Kaproth, deputy assistant secretary of the Treasury for Asia, and Kelly Keiderling, deputy assistant secretary of state for South and Central Asia, began its visit Sunday and is scheduled to meet top Sri Lankan officials during their stay until Wednesday. | 2022-06-27T18:04:31+00:00 | everythinglubbock.com | https://www.everythinglubbock.com/news/international/sri-lanka-sends-2-ministers-to-russia-for-oil-amid-crisis/ |
GENEVA, Fla. (AP) — Residents in central Florida donned fishing waders, boots and bug spray and canoed or kayaked to their homes on streets where floodwaters continued rising Sunday despite it being four days since Hurricane Ian tore through the state.
The waters flooded homes and streets that had been passable just a day or two earlier.
Ben Bertat found 4 inches (10 centimeters) of water in his house by Lake Harney off North Jungle Street in a rural part of Seminole County, north of Orlando, after kayaking to it Sunday morning. Only a day earlier, there had been no water.
“I think it’s going to get worse because all of this water has to get to the lake” said Bertat, pointing to the water flooding the road. “With ground saturation, all this swamp is full and it just can’t take any more water. It doesn’t look like it’s getting any lower.”
Gabriel Madlang kayaked through 3 feet (1 meter) of water on his street, delivering sandbags to stave off water that was 2 inches (5 centimeters) from entering his home.
“My home is close to underwater,” Madlang said Sunday morning before paddling to his house. “Right now, I’m just going to sandbag as much as I can and hope and pray.”
Two hours later, his house still was not flooded, and he was retrieving more sandbags to cover the back side of the house.
“We will see what happens,” he said.
Madlang’s street was in a flood zone and most of the residents with mortgages on the street of about 30 houses had flood insurance, but several of the residents who had lived there for decades didn’t, Madling said.
Seminole County officials warned residents this weekend that flooding could continue for several days, particularly in areas near the St. Johns River and its tributaries, and said 1,200 residents have been affected by the flooding or other damage from Ian.
“Even as the rain has stopped, we still have the opportunity for more flooding,” Alan Harris, director of Seminole’s office for emergency management, said at a news briefing.
Tara Casel has never seen flooding on her street near Lake Harney like she did Sunday morning, despite living through multiple hurricanes. She and her husband used a canoe to get to their house and feared it would have water.
“We were here last night and it was pretty bad,” she said. “But this morning looks worse.”
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This story has been updated to correct the spelling of a resident’s last name to Madlang, not Madling.
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Follow Mike Schneider on Twitter at https://twitter.com/MikeSchneiderAP. | 2022-10-03T14:18:08+00:00 | fox44news.com | https://www.fox44news.com/news/national-world-news/ap-ian-is-long-gone-but-water-keeps-rising-in-central-florida/ |
BEIJING (AP) — China’s foreign minister told the U.S. ambassador on Monday that Washington is responsible for the downturn in relations between the two countries and must “reflect deeply” before ties can return to a healthy track, an official said.
Qin Gang’s comments follow a suspension of serious dialogue on a range of issues between the world’s largest economies, increasingly at odds over tariffs, attempts by Washington to deprive China of cutting-edge technology, and China’s claims to self-governing Taiwan and large parts of the South and East China Seas.
China's Foreign Ministry quoted Qin as telling Ambassador Nicolas Burns that a “series of erroneous words and deeds by the U.S." since a meeting in November between U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping "have undermined the hard-won positive momentum of Sino-U.S. relations.”
“The U.S. side should reflect deeply, meet China halfway, and propel China-U.S. relations out of the difficulties and back on the right track,” Qin was quoted as saying.
The United States should “correct its understanding of China and return to rationality,” Qin said, repeating his earlier accusation that the U.S. is attempting to suppress and contain China. Beijing routinely cites U.S. political and military support of Taiwan as infringing on its sovereignty.
Qin said ties had “grown icy” and the priority was to stabilize them "and avoid a downward spiral and unanticipated events.”
The U.S. should stop “undermining China’s sovereignty, security, and development interests,” particularly through support of Taiwan's independent identity, Qin said.
China says Taiwan must come under its rule, by force if necessary, while the U.S. says the relationship between the sides must be resolved peaceably. U.S. law requires it to treat threats to Taiwan, including a military blockade, as a matter of “grave concern,” though it remains ambiguous under what conditions U.S. forces could be dispatched to defend the island.
Despite the lack of formal diplomatic relations, the U.S. is Taiwan's largest supplier of military hardware and diplomatic support, even while it continues to maintain relations with Beijing. Biden has been seen as going a step further by repeatedly saying that the U.S. would back Taiwan militarily, and America has been upgrading basing arrangements with the Philippines, located just south of Taiwan.
U.S.-China military contacts have been on hold for years, and China's top staff refused to answer a call from Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin after then-Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan last year. China retaliated for the visit by staging a naval and air force blockade of Taiwan and cutting off channels of communication with the U.S. on issues from environmental protection to maritime security.
At a daily briefing Monday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning described the meeting between Qin and Burns as ”a normal diplomatic arrangement."
In a tweet, Burns said he met with Qin and “discussed challenges in the U.S.-China relationship and the necessity of stabilizing ties and expanding high-level communication.”
Contacts between the sides have been fraught for months since U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken abruptly canceled a Beijing trip aimed at easing U.S.-China tensions in February. That came after a large high-altitude Chinese balloon was shot down after it sailed across the U.S., drawing Pentagon accusations of spying on sensitive military sites despite firm Chinese denials. | 2023-05-08T10:26:32+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/politics/article/china-tells-us-to-reflect-deeply-over-downturn-18085281.php |
Chicago Lane Tech got no credit and no consideration from Chicago Simeon, which slammed the door 49-6 in Illinois high school football on October 22.
The Wolverines fought to a 28-6 halftime margin at the Indians' expense.
Both teams were shutout in the first and third quarters.
The Wolverines held on with a 21-0 scoring edge in the fourth quarter.
In recent action on October 8, Chicago Simeon faced off against Chicago Kenwood and Chicago Lane Tech took on Chicago Phillips on October 7 at Chicago Lane Technical High School. For a full recap, click here.
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A year ago, West Feliciana was a Class 3A power. But after sweeping the District 6-4A track titles, the Saints may be ready to take their best shot at the Class 4A track elite.
West Feliciana was a picture of consistency while sweeping the boys and girls titles in the school's 4A district debut Wednesday night. The Saints scored 185 points in the girls division and 180 on the boys side.
“We scored points in a lot of places today, and the biggest surprise for us was how focused they were,” West Feliciana boys coach Preston King said. “It’s been a great day. They got off the bus ready.”
Some things about the meet held at Brusly High were familiar. Like the Saints, the host Panthers moved from 3A to the 4A ranks. And their competition continued. The Brusly girls placed second at 144. Plaquemine was second in the boys team race with 107 points, just ahead of St. Michael (106).
The top-four finishers in each event advance to a regional meet at Cecilia next Thursday.
“We have a lot of new girls this year and some of them were nervous,” West Feliciana girls coach Hatem Bachar said. “We told them to put that energy into their events, and I thought they did admirably well. I asked them to be consistent and they did it.”
Names of the top performers were familiar, too. Tristen Harris was the meet’s top overall girls performer with wins in the 100, 200 and long jump. She also was part of a winning 4x100 relay but was most pleased by running a season-best 24.95 seconds to win the 200.
UL-Monroe signee Imani Coleman returned from a knee injury to win the 200, 400 and anchor a winning relay for the Saints boys team. The times for Coleman were not season bests, but he was pleased not only with his effort but also that of his teammates.
“I just wanted to be out here to help my teammates win … that was the most important thing,” Coleman said. “They did so good.”
For Harris, it was about the PRs and competition.
“I thought our first two relays were so good,” Harris said. “I watched the 4x200 and they started us off. We ran our best time in the 4x100 this year. It was a good day." | 2023-04-20T03:27:06+00:00 | theadvocate.com | https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/sports/high_schools/west-feliciana-runs-away-with-6-4a-track-title-titles/article_11c21a10-dee3-11ed-8fa2-e71635a14afd.html |
INDIANAPOLIS – Indiana lawmakers want high school students to learn financial literacy.
Under Senate Bill 35, it would become a graduation requirement for students in public and charter high schools.
State Sen. Mike Gaskill (R-Pendleton), the bill’s author, works in financial services outside his role in the Indiana General Assembly. He has encountered many young people who don’t know much about how to manage their money, he said.
“It makes it much harder for them become homeowners,” Gaskill said. “It makes people in a position where they end up having to live check to check. They don’t understand the consequences of how to properly use credit.”
The curriculum would cover several skills.
“It would cover banking, insurance, simple contracts, state and federal income tax preparation,” Gaskill said.
But Gaskill and others raised concerns about an amendment approved by the House education committee Wednesday that made several changes to the bill. Among them: private schools would be excluded from the financial literacy requirement. The bill previously required all Hoosier high school students to take a course on the subject.
“We need to fix this problem, and then we’re going to say we’re going to carve out 70,000 students, it’s not a problem for them,” said Chris Lagoni, executive director of the Indiana Small and Rural Schools Association.
State Rep. Bob Behning (R-Indianapolis), who chairs the House education committee, said the amendment was meant to match the legislation in another bill the House passed earlier this session.
“Trying to continue to add more regulations to nonpublic schools was something the committee chose not to do, and that’s why the language is drafted the way it is,” Behning said.
The amendment also allows schools to teach financial literacy classes within another subject instead of requiring a standalone course.
Gaskill said he’s hoping to get those changes removed as the session progresses.
The bill passed in the Senate on a 47-2 vote. After receiving unanimous approval by the House education committee, it heads to the House floor. | 2023-03-30T00:48:14+00:00 | cbs4indy.com | https://cbs4indy.com/in-focus-indiana-politics/bill-would-require-hoosier-high-school-students-to-learn-financial-literacy/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — Democrats displayed a newfound sense of optimism about the election-year political climate Wednesday after voters in traditionally conservative Kansas overwhelmingly backed a measure protecting abortion rights.
At the White House, President Joe Biden hailed the vote in Kansas as the direct result of outrage at the Supreme Court’s decision in June to repeal a woman’s constitutional right to obtain an abortion.
Republicans and the high court “don’t have a clue about the power of American women,” Biden said. “Last night in Kansas, they found out.”
On Capitol Hill, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., boasted of the political winds “blowing at Democrats.”
“Last night in the American heartland, the people of Kansas sent an unmistakable message to the Republican extremists,” he said. “If it’s going to happen in Kansas, it’s going to happen in a whole lot of states.”
With three months until the November election, the optimism may be premature. But it represents a much-needed break for a party that has spent the better part of the past year reeling from crisis to crisis, including the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan and rising prices for gasoline and other goods. Those developments have contributed to Biden’s low approval ratings, leaving Democrats without a unifying leader in a position to rally voters before the election, with control of Congress at stake.
The Kansas vote, however, suggests that threats to abortion rights may energize Democrats in a way few political leaders can. And it comes at a moment when the party is gaining momentum on other fronts, including a legislative package to reduce prescription drug prices, combat climate change and raise taxes on corporations.
The challenge for Democrats will be to maintain the energy for several more months and defy trends that typically trip up the party in power.
In recent history, the party controlling the White House almost always suffers deep losses in the first midterm election of a new presidency. Also, an overwhelming majority of voters believe the country is headed in the wrong direction amid inflation and other economic concerns.
Even with abortion-related momentum, many Democratic strategists privately expect to lose the House majority and believe the Senate is essentially a coin flip.
The day after the Kansas vote, Democratic strategists on the front lines of key midterm contests described a complicated political reality on abortion.
Abortion rights supporters surged to the polls in Kansas, where abortion was quite literally on the ballot. By a roughly 20-percentage point margin, they rejected a measure that would have changed the state constitution to allow state lawmakers to impose restrictions on abortion — or even a ban. The early August primary turnout was on par with a governor’s general election contest.
But few elections this fall will feature such clear stakes for abortion rights. Just four states — California, Michigan, Vermont and Kentucky — are expected to feature a Kansas-style abortion referendum on the November ballot, according to the pro-Democratic group EMILY’s List.
In the majority of states, Democrats must convince voters they can protect abortion access only by defeating anti-abortion Republican candidates at the state and federal level. While that is true in most cases, it’s much more complicated to run against a candidate than a single-issue ballot measure, according to Democratic pollster Molly Murphy.
“The optimist would say, when voters know that abortion is on the ballot, they are motivated to turn out,” Murphy said. “That’s the messaging challenge that we are going to face. Will voters believe that a legal right to abortion is at stake here in this country in their vote for Congress, Senate, governor, state house — all of those things — and be as motivated to show up to vote?”
“Republicans are going to do everything they can to deflect and not engage on this,” she added, noting the GOP’s heavy focus on inflation, gas prices and immigration.
Indeed, as Democrats celebrated on Wednesday, the Republican reaction to the abortion vote was decidedly muted.
The Kansas vote was “a huge disappointment for pro-life Kansans and Americans nationwide,” said Mallory Carroll, of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America.
Republican strategist Christine Matthews warned that the Kansas vote could have “an energizing effect for abortion rights supporters.”
“Success breeds success,” she said. “It will encourage the belief that turning out and activating can make a difference and that is particularly important with younger voters and those less inclined to participate. It’s a momentum-shifter.”
Democrats have long tried without much success to energize supporters by focusing on abortion. But the Supreme Court’s decision clarified the stakes as never before. Absent a new federal law, abortion rights now fall to the states, and in 12 states led by Republicans, abortion has already been banned or heavily restricted. Many more are expected to follow.
Republican strategists acknowledge that swing state candidates will have to tread carefully on the issue.
In Georgia, GOP Senate nominee Herschel Walker, for example, worried some Washington Republicans by quickly declaring his opposition to abortion rights even in cases of rape, incest and the life of the mother. Such a position, thought to be extreme in past years, is somewhat common among Republican candidates in 2022.
Republicans in other states have largely sought to avoid clarifying their position.
The Senate Democrats campaign arm recently established a website, GOPOnAbortion.com, to highlight Republican candidates’ outspoken opposition to abortion rights. While Democratic candidates from New York to Washington state are already running ads on abortion, the issue is expected to play a bigger role in some races than others.
Michigan Sen. Gary Peters, who leads the group dedicated to protecting the Senate’s Democratic majority, predicted that abortion would likely matter most as a political issue in Senate races in Nevada, New Hampshire and Arizona — all states in which polling suggests strong support for abortion rights. Suburban women and younger voters are most likely to be motivated by the issue.
“There’s a great deal of anger,” Peters said of the backlash against the Roe reversal. “There’s an energy I haven’t seen before.”
The Kansas vote suggests that such energy could extend well beyond a handful of states.
Polling shows that relatively few Americans wanted to see Roe overturned.
More Americans disapprove than approve of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, 53% to 30%, according to an Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll from July conducted about three weeks after the ruling. Just over half of those surveyed said they felt angry or sad about the ruling, the poll found.
In Wisconsin, the leading Democratic Senate candidate, Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes, noted that the day the Supreme Court overturned Roe was the biggest fundraising day of his entire campaign.
“People are motivated and energetic in ways that I’ve never seen before,” he said in an interview. “I can only assume that that intensity will increase all the way to November.”
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Associated Press writers Lisa Mascaro and Chris Megerian in Washington and Thomas Beaumont in Des Moines, Iowa, contributed to this report.
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Follow AP for full coverage of the midterms at https://apnews.com/hub/2022-midterm-elections and on Twitter at https://twitter.com/ap_politics | 2022-08-04T05:55:05+00:00 | wate.com | https://www.wate.com/health/ap-health/abortion-vote-in-kansas-sparks-new-hope-for-dems-in-midterms/ |
In a poignant video, Celine Dion tells fans she’s suffering from “rare neurological condition”
Posted/updated on: December 8, 2022 at 7:49 amCeline Dion has been diagnosed with a neurological disease and will again postpone her planned tour.
Celine took to Instagram Thursday, saying she's "finally ready" to reveal she has been battling a serious, "rare" neurological condition called Stiff-Person Syndrome.
"I'm sorry it's taken so long for me to reach out to you," the superstar said in the emotional address. "I've been dealing with problems with my health for a long time, and it's been really difficult for me to face these challenges and to talk about everything that I've been going through."
Dion noted the condition, which affects "something like one in a million people," has been, "causing all of the spasms that have been having. Unfortunately, these spasms affect every aspect of my daily life, sometimes causing difficulties when I walk and not allowing me to use my vocal cords to sing the way I'm used to," she admitted, at times her emotions forcing her to pause.
"It hurts me to tell you," she expressed, noting, "I'm working hard with my sports medicine therapist every day to build back my strength and my ability to perform again..."
As a result, Celine won't be back on stage for her Courage tour in Europe in February as scheduled.
Celine called off her previous Resorts World Las Vegas residency in November 2021 due to "severe and persistent muscle spasms." She later announced in a video statement that she had to postpone her 2022 European tour until 2023. Earlier this month, there was a report that she was eyeing a May start to her Vegas residency.
Copyright © 2022, ABC Audio. All rights reserved. | 2022-12-08T14:14:30+00:00 | ktbb.com | https://ktbb.com/post/?p=1185437 |
The 29-year-old Kaneohe Marine, accused of stabbing his 27-year-old ex-wife to death on the side of the H-3 freeway, pleaded not guilty this morning to the charge of second-degree murder.
U.S. Marine Sgt. Bryant Tejeda-Castillo was indicted July 27 in the death of Dana Alotaibi, who was found July 20 on the side of the H-3 westbound lanes near the Kamehameha Highway off-ramp.
Tejeda-Castillo appeared by video teleconferencing, at his arraignment this morning before Circuit Judge Christine Kuriyama.
He pleaded guilty and asked for a jury trial.
Trial is set for Oct. 3 before Judge Catherine Remigio.
Alotaibi described herself as a musician, artist and adult content creator. She had a substantial presence on social media, with over 169,000 followers on her social media accounts.
The judge denied his request for a reduction in bail, and he remains in custody at the Oahu Community Correctional Center, unable to post $1 million bail.
A witness traveling near the scene saw a man, later identified as Tejeda-Castillo, slit a woman’s neck with a knife while standing over the victim, then stabbed her numerous times in the face, neck and head, according to police in court documents.
Another witness said she saw a man and woman apparently fighting outside a vehicle, then saw the man stab her with a knife. The woman, who was identified as Alotaibi, was taken to the hospital where she was pronounced dead.
Witnesses saw Tejeda-Castillo stab himself in the neck and run into the bushes.
Tejeda-Castillo was treated at the hospital for his apparent self-inflicted wounds.
He is assigned to the 3rd Littoral Combat Team at Marine Corps Base Hawaii.
MCBH officials said they received complaints of domestic disputes and tried to help the couple with law enforcement intervention and counseling.
Alotaibi alleged in social media posts Tejeda-Castillo cheated on her while deployed in Japan.
Public social media posts and and private messages by her and her friends say his chain of command ignored her reports of domestic violence and that he threatened to kill her. | 2022-08-05T05:03:59+00:00 | staradvertiser.com | https://www.staradvertiser.com/2022/08/04/breaking-news/kaneohe-marine-pleads-not-guilty-to-murder-in-h-3-stabbing-death-of-ex-wife/ |
MERCER ISLAND, Wash. — It's the end of the summer and many people are soaking up the last opportunities to get in the water. However, there is a darker side to swimming that's disproportionately affecting low-income families and communities of color.
Water is something that connects us.
"Water is amazing; it's something you can do until you're 90, 100 years old. You can get in that water and feel all the weightlessness and beauty and life that it provides," said Chezik Tsunoda, the founder and CEO of No More Under.
However, a dark shadow can cover that brightness in a matter of moments. Chezik Tsunoda knows that feeling well, as she lost her son four years ago.
"It's kind of crazy because I only have so many pictures of Yori with the other boys," Tsunoda said.
Tsunoda takes us through some memories of her son Yori, who drowned when he was 3 years old. A year after her loss, she started No More Under, a nonprofit in the Seattle metro dedicated to saving lives through water safety education, legislation and increasing equitable access to lessons and tools.
With many people out there who still look at swimming as a luxury and not as a safety tool, Tsunoda is trying to reach communities of color and low-income families.
"I had no idea what the statistics were. When I got into my research, the first thing that occurred to me was, 'Oh my gosh. It's the number one reason children 1 to 4 die," Tsunoda. "Black and brown children are 50% more likely to drown than their white counterparts, and even honestly, Native American children are even beyond that. Autistic children eight times."
Sixty-four percent of Black children and 45% of Hispanic children have no or low swimming ability compared to 40% of white children. About 4 in 5 children in families with a household income of less than $50,000 have no or low swimming ability.
"Kids are drowning in bathtubs. Kids are drowning in toilets. Kids are drowning in pools and open water, so it's not like you can click it and most likely you'll be safe," Tsunoda said.
No More Under is tapping into communities that don't have the access or financial ability to learn to swim, trying to break barriers.
"The swim program has just started this year, and I think we've gotten 150 kids through swim this year by working with mostly Bellwether Housing but also an organization called Treehouse that supports foster children," Tsunoda said.
It's boots-on-the-ground organizations like this one that are working to change the statistics one person at a time, so no other child loses their life like Yori.
"If you are a parent and you don't know how to swim, there's only a 13% chance that your child Is going to get swim lessons. For every one child that dies from drowning, another eight have emergency room visits and often lifelong challenges," Tsunoda said. "The goal is to slowly start expanding across the US and other areas that need support as well." | 2022-09-09T14:35:55+00:00 | kgun9.com | https://www.kgun9.com/news/national/while-drownings-disproportionately-affect-minorities-nonprofits-are-working-to-change-that |
RICHMOND, Va., Dec. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Hilb Group announced today that it has acquired Georgia-based Gillman Insurance Problem Solvers, expanding the company's Southeast presence and deepening its property and casualty expertise. The acquisition became effective December 1, 2022.
Based in Alpharetta, Georgia, Gillman Insurance – and its affiliates APA Insurance Services and 3G Truckin Insurance – specializes in taking a problem-solving approach to meet the needs of its clients through a broad suite of both personal and commercial offerings. The agency has served the metropolitan Atlanta area since 1993, and APA Insurance Services and 3G Truckin Insurance have customers in 40 states. Additionally, for seven consecutive years, Gillman Insurance Problem Solvers has earned the prestigious "Best Practices" honor bestowed upon by the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America, as a recognition of performance, growth, and operational excellence. Ed Gillman and his team of insurance professionals will become part of Hilb Group's Southeast regional operations.
"Joining the Hilb Group allows us to build further upon our long-standing, dedicated focus on our customers," Ed Gillman stated. "We are keeping the same commitment to our local community and continuing to serve our customers nationwide, while expanding our resources to build on our 'Best Practices' foundation."
With the addition of Gillman Insurance, the Hilb Group now has locations in 23 states, including a broad presence throughout the southeastern United States, as well as service to all 50 states.
"We are excited to welcome Gillman Insurance to the Hilb Group family and to grow our operations in Georgia," Hilb Group CEO Ricky Spiro said. "The addition of Ed and his team represent the perfect entry into the state, as we join with a growing agency that has deep community ties, a tremendous reputation, and an unparalleled commitment to those who depend upon us."
About Hilb Group: The Hilb Group is a leading property and casualty and employee benefits insurance brokerage and advisory firm headquartered in Richmond, Virginia. Hilb Group is a portfolio company of The Carlyle Group, a global investment firm. Hilb Group seeks to grow through strategic acquisitions and by leveraging its resources and expertise to drive organic growth in its acquired agencies. The company has completed more than 145 acquisitions with over 100 offices in 23 states. Hilb Group is rated as one of the Fastest Growing Brokers by Business Insurance, a Top P/C Agency by Insurance Journal, and one of America's Fastest Growing Private Companies in the Inc. 5000. For more information on Hilb Group's growth as well as career opportunities, please visit our website at http://hilbgroup.com.
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Eastern Conference
Central Division
East Division
Western Conference
B.C. Division
U.S. Division
Note: Two points for a team winning in overtime or shootout; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns.
Wednesday's results
Kelowna 5 Swift Current 2
Regina 4 Spokane 3 (SO)
Medicine Hat 3 Prince Albert 2
Lethbridge 4 Edmonton 1
Vancouver 5 Victoria 3
Everett 5 Tri-City 3
Friday's results
Winnipeg at Brandon, 7 p.m.
Saskatoon 8 Spokane 5
Moose Jaw 6 Regina 2
Red Deer 6 Medicine Hat 4
Kelowna 6 Lethbridge 0
Swift Current 8 Edmonton 4
Kamloops 6 Prince George 5 (OT)
Victoria 7 Tri-City 6 (SO)
Seattle 4 Everett 1
Portland 2 Vancouver 1
Saturday's results
Saskatoon 6 Regina 1
Prince Albert 5 Spokane 3
Winnipeg 4 Brandon 3 (OT)
Swift Current 4 Red Deer 1
Kamloops 4 Prince George 3 (OT)
Portland 5 Vancouver 4 (OT)
Medicine Hat 4 Kelowna 1
Calgary 7 Lethbridge 2
Seattle 5 Everett 1
Victoria 6 Tri-City 5
Sunday's results
Edmonton at Calgary, 2 p.m. | 2022-12-18T08:15:24+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/HKO-WHL-Standings-17662024.php |
The Ohio Chamber of Commerce is surveying its membership to identify crime issues affecting businesses to determine ways to improve public safety across the state.
“The safety of our communities remains fundamental to our state’s ability to attract and retain businesses and that makes it a priority for the Ohio Chamber,” said Ohio Chamber CEO Steve Stivers in a release issued Tuesday.
The public safety survey is a direct result of a CBS News report earlier this year that identified five Ohio cities among the nation’s deadliest. Dayton was ranked 5 and Cincinnati 19 on the list that also included Cleveland (10); Akron (49); and Toledo (57).
Dayton experienced a 30% increase in the number of homicides from 2018 to 2019, the year of the Aug. 4 Oregon District mass shooting when a Bellbrook man shot and killed nine people and wounded 27 others before he was gunned down by police.
A table below shows the five ranked Ohio cities and the number of homicides for 2018 and 2019:
Murder rates were compared in 65 major U.S. cities — those with more than 100,000 residents — using the FBI’s 2019 Crime in the United States data, which is the latest available, along with data culled from city police and the U.S. Census Bureau, the February report stated.
“The state of Ohio has made it clear that the issue of public safety is a priority, making over $100 million in grants available to local law enforcement; however, there is still more to be done.
“This survey will help to identify day-to-day issues Ohio’s businesses face when it comes to public safety and continue the conversation on how best to improve safety across the state,” Stivers said.
The Ohio Chamber represents thousands of companies that do business in Ohio.
About the Author | 2022-09-14T00:39:48+00:00 | springfieldnewssun.com | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/local/chamber-to-conduct-crime-study-5-ohio-cities-among-deadliest-in-us/XOLGWRDUMNHHJAP7AT7M4L4XAI/ |
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