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--While a small number of relatively low impact soccer headers did not have detrimental effects, teen soccer players should still be trained to head the ball safely --
PHILADELPHIA, May 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Repeatedly heading a soccer ball has been previously associated with negative long-term brain health for professional players. However, in a new study from researchers at the Minds Matter Concussion Program at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), a small number of repeated soccer headers equivalent to a throw-in did not cause immediate neurophysiological deficits for teens, suggesting that limited soccer heading exposure in youth sports may not result in irreversible harm if players are properly trained.
The findings, which represent the most comprehensive real-time study of soccer headers in adolescent athletes, were published in the Journal of Biomechanical Engineering.
For some professional athletes, repeated head loading in sports – using your head as part of the game – is associated with negative long-term brain health even when there are no initial clinical symptoms. Despite the awareness of long-term consequences, short-term neurophysiological issues after repeated head impacts like soccer heading are poorly understood in youth athletes. Some studies have identified potential issues across an entire sports season. This study examined the consequences of repeated head impacts shortly after the heading exposure with a battery of six different tests to examine a wider variety of potential clinical implications.
In 2015, the US Soccer Federation implemented limits on soccer headers for teens during practice – no more than 30 minutes of header practice time and no more than 15 to 20 headers per week. The English Premier League also passed guidelines restricting the number of high-force headers to 10 in a single practice per week. This lab-based study simulated these limits conducting 10 repeated soccer headers within a single session with experienced teenage players. Based on their findings, researchers determined that this practice did not result in acute neurophysiological issues, as assessed by a comprehensive exam. The study did not assess the safety of regular soccer headers over the course of a season or scholastic career.
"Soccer is a sport where intentionally using your head to hit the ball is an integral part of the game, and concern over its long-term effects has parents, caregivers and coaches understandably concerned," said first study author Colin Huber, PhD, a postdoctoral research fellow at Emory University who conducted this research while with the Center for Injury Research and Prevention (CIRP) at CHOP. "We wanted to simulate these effects in a controlled laboratory setting and build upon the work of prior studies to quantitatively assess the neurophysiological effects of repeated soccer heading."
In this study, 19 participants (17 male, 2 female) between 13 and 18 years old were assigned to either a frontal heading group (directing the ball back to where it came from), an oblique heading group (directing the ball to the right) or a kicking control group. These participants completed neurophysiological assessments immediately prior to, immediately after and approximately 24 hours after completing 10 headers or kicks. These assessments included multiple eye movement tracking, pupil response and balance tests.
The study ultimately found no neurophysiological issues in either group when compared with the kicking control group, even when taking the six different assessments into account. However, oblique headers resulted in higher levels of angular head motion. Angular motion is associated with concussions and other brain injuries, suggesting that players should be properly trained to head the ball in a frontal fashion to reduce the risk of injury.
"This study represents the most comprehensive examination of the acute neurophysiological effects of soccer headers on youth to date, providing us with meaningful information regarding the safety of headers on the field," said senior study author Kristy Arbogast, PhD, Co-Scientific Director at CIRP and research director of the Minds Matter Concussion Program at CHOP. "We need to be clear that there still may be long-term consequences for repeated soccer headers over the course of an athletic career, but it appears that a small number of headers in a given session does not pose an immediate risk to properly trained youth athletes."
This study was supported by the National Institute of Neurologic Disorders and Stroke of the National Institutes of Health grant R01NS097549 and internal funds from CHOP.
Huber et al, "Neurophysiological Effects of Repeated Soccer Heading in Youth." J Biomech Eng. Online May 22, 2023. DOI: 10.1115/1.4062423.
About Children's Hospital of Philadelphia: A non-profit, charitable organization, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia was founded in 1855 as the nation's first pediatric hospital. Through its long-standing commitment to providing exceptional patient care, training new generations of pediatric healthcare professionals, and pioneering major research initiatives, the 595-bed hospital has fostered many discoveries that have benefited children worldwide. Its pediatric research program is among the largest in the country. The institution has a well-established history of providing advanced pediatric care close to home through its CHOP Care Network, which includes more than 50 primary care practices, specialty care and surgical centers, urgent care centers, and community hospital alliances throughout Pennsylvania and New Jersey, as well as an inpatient hospital with a dedicated pediatric emergency department in King of Prussia. In addition, its unique family-centered care and public service programs have brought Children's Hospital of Philadelphia recognition as a leading advocate for children and adolescents. For more information, visit https://www.chop.edu.
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Israel's fifth election in under four years may give right-wing former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu his return to power - though Tuesday's vote is still being counted.
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Israel's fifth election in under four years may give right-wing former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu his return to power - though Tuesday's vote is still being counted.
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― Mobility supplier expands its support for the advancement of women in industry ―
LONG BEACH, Calif., April 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- DENSO, a leading mobility supplier, has joined Women in Auto Care as a corporate sponsor. The move builds on DENSO's longstanding support for organizations and initiatives that promote the advancement of women in industry.
"As part of our ongoing efforts to create spaces in which people of all backgrounds feel valued and heard, we are thrilled to join Women in Auto Care," said Denise Carlson, vice president of DENSO's North America Production Innovation Center and executive lead of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging. "The women of DENSO include leading engineers, designers, programmers, technology developers, logisticians and managers, and some are already individual members of Women in Auto Care. DENSO is proud to follow their lead in supporting the organization's commitment to elevating women."
Women in Auto Care is dedicated to connecting, empowering and mentoring women in the global industry that manufactures, distributes and sells vehicle parts and components, as well as services and repairs for every class of car and truck on the road today. Through conferences, networking, scholarships, education, awards and other programs, the organization provides opportunities, education and career leadership to women in the industry. The group is part of the Auto Care Association.
"Women is Auto Care is a great resource for all our employees," said Kelly Dickens, a senior national sales account manager for DENSO Products and Services Americas, Inc., the company's aftermarket unit. After less than two years as an individual member, Dickens was so impressed with the organization she led the drive for corporate sponsorship. "This reinforces the message that diversity of experience and the personal and professional growth of all the women and men of DENSO make our company stronger. It's also a huge win for the future because DENSO's sponsorship supports scholarships for women entering the automotive aftermarket industry."
The women of DENSO include award-winning leaders in their own fields of expertise. Among them is industrial engineer Hannah Pearl, who was recently named a 2023 Women MAKE Awards Emerging Leader by the Manufacturing Institute, the workforce development and education partner of the National Association of Manufacturers. Pearl is a leader in manufacturing processes and on-the-job safety at DENSO's thermal manufacturing facility in Battle Creek, Michigan. She also chairs the DENSO Women's Network, a business resource group at the site.
Formerly known as the STEP Ahead Awards, the Women MAKE Awards recognize women in science, technology, engineering and production careers who exemplify leadership within their companies. Previous DENSO recipients include Monique Radersma in 2022 and Carlson in 2021. Radersma, the former director of engineering at DENSO's thermal manufacturing facility in Guelph, Ontario, won the award shortly after she retired with more than 35 years in the automotive industry.
DENSO is also a corporate sponsor of Women in Manufacturing, which it joined in 2020. Dedicated to supporting women who work with or within the manufacturing sector, the nonprofit trade organization has more than 17,000 members representing more than 2,500 manufacturing companies across the U.S. and around the world. Its programs for helping women succeed in manufacturing include career fairs, networking groups and professional development opportunities.
For those interested in building a career at a leading automotive supplier dedicated to supporting employees of all backgrounds, visit densocareers.com.
About DENSO
DENSO is a $45.1 billion global mobility supplier that develops advanced technology and components for nearly every vehicle make and model on the road today. With manufacturing at its core, DENSO invests in its 198 facilities to produce electrification system, powertrain system, thermal system, mobility electronics, & advanced devices, to create jobs that directly change how the world moves. The company's 167,000+ employees are paving the way to a mobility future that improves lives, eliminates traffic accidents, and preserves the environment. Globally headquartered in Kariya, Japan, DENSO spent 9.0 percent of its global consolidated sales on research and development in the fiscal year ending March 31, 2022. For more information about global DENSO, visit https://www.denso.com/global/en/.
In North America, DENSO is headquartered in Southfield, Michigan, and employs 27,000+ engineers, researchers, and skilled workers across 51 sites in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. In the United States alone, DENSO employs 17,700+ employees across 14 states (and the District of Columbia) and 41 sites. In the fiscal year ending March 31, 2022, DENSO in North America generated $9.5 billion in consolidated sales. DENSO is committed to advancing diversity and inclusion inside the company and beyond – a principle that brings unique perspectives together, bolsters innovation and pushes DENSO forward. Join us, and craft not only how the world moves, but also your career: densocareers.com. For more information, go to https://www.denso.com/us-ca/en/.
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- El Anatsui, one of the most distinctive artists working today, to be the eighth Hyundai Commission artist for Tate Modern's Turbine Hall
- New site-specific work to open to public on October 10, 2023 and remain on view through April 14, 2024
SEOUL, South Korea and LONDON, Feb. 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Hyundai Motor Company and Tate Modern today announced that distinguished artist El Anatsui will create the next annual Hyundai Commission for Tate Modern's Turbine Hall. Repurposing found materials into dazzling works of abstract art, Anatsui's work explores themes that include the environment, consumption and trade.
Open to the public from October 10, 2023 to April 14, 2024, Hyundai Commission: El Anatsui will be the eighth in an annual series of site-specific works created for the Turbine Hall by renowned international artists as part of a unique partnership between Tate and Hyundai Motor.
El Anatsui (born in Anyako, Ghana in 1944) is best-known for his cascading metallic sculptures constructed of thousands of recycled bottle tops articulated with copper wire. Over a long-lasting and distinguished career as both artist and educator — serving as Professor of Sculpture and Departmental Head at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka — Anatsui has developed a highly experimental approach to sculpture, embracing a wide range of forms and materials, including wood, ceramics and found objects.
"El Anatsui's works are distinguished by his dedication to exploring the transformative potential of art and his attention to histories," said DooEun Choi, Art Director of Hyundai Motor Company. "We look forward to seeing how El Anatsui transforms the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern for the eighth Hyundai Commission."
"El Anatsui is responsible for some of the most unique and unforgettable sculptures in recent times and we are delighted that he will tackle the Turbine Hall this autumn for the annual Hyundai Commission," said Frances Morris, Director of Tate Modern. "Anatsui's much-loved Ink Splash II 2012 in Tate's collection enchants visitors wherever it's shown, and we can't wait to see how this inventive artist will approach a space like the Turbine Hall."
The annual Hyundai Commission offers artists an opportunity to create new work for the Turbine Hall, a vast space that has hosted some of the world's most memorable and acclaimed works of contemporary art since Tate Modern opened in 2000.
More information about Hyundai Motor and its products can be found at:
http://worldwide.hyundai.com or http://globalpr.hyundai.com
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One man was injured and another arrested following a Tuesday night shooting at Stewart Park in central Billings.
The shooting was reported around 7:20 p.m. after several people reported hearing shots at the park, which is home to batting cages, youth football and softball fields and a bus stop.
Police found a 32-year-old man with what was described as non-life-threatening gunshot wounds in the area, according to a tweet from Billings police.
Police found and arrested a 28-year-old suspect nearby, according to the tweet.
22-70140, Shooting, Stewart Park 1919hrs. Several people called into 911 after hearing shots fired at Stewart Park. 32 y/o male vic located with gunshot wound nearby. 28 y/o suspect located nearby as well and taken into custody. Vic's wounds were non- life threatening. - Sgt Beck
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SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Perricone MD, the brand that is globally celebrated for its relentless pursuit of science-driven skincare, announces new additions to their multi-tasking powerhouse Cold Plasma Plus+ Collection, The Essence and Lip Therapy. These new treatments utilize Perricone MD's proprietary liquid crystal delivery system for faster and deeper penetration of key ingredients into the skin's surface to deliver results you can visibly see.
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Perricone MD products feature some of the most potent ingredients on the planet that replenish the building blocks of healthy-looking skin, picking up where nature left off. The brand's award-winning proprietary sciences include: DMAE, Alpha-Lipoic Acid, Vitamin C Ester, Acyl-Glutathione, and Neuropeptides. Perricone MD products are available on PerriconeMD.com, as well as Ulta Beauty, Dillard's, Neiman Marcus, Macy's, Bloomingdales, Nordstrom, QVC, and EC Scott, and other leading specialty stores in the US. Perricone MD products are also available in 20 countries around the world in prestige retailers.
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Louisiana Lottery's "Lotto" game were:
17-22-30-37-39-42
(seventeen, twenty-two, thirty, thirty-seven, thirty-nine, forty-two)
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Louisiana Lottery's "Lotto" game were:
17-22-30-37-39-42
(seventeen, twenty-two, thirty, thirty-seven, thirty-nine, forty-two) | 2023-01-26T05:13:55+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/lottery/article/winning-numbers-drawn-in-lotto-game-17742778.php |
NEW YORK, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InvestorsObserver issues critical PriceWatch Alerts for BBBY, CEMI, GIGM, ARTL, and SNDL.
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MADRID (AP) — Spanish police took action Tuesday after the latest case of abuse against Vinícius Júnior, arresting seven people accused of racially insulting the Real Madrid player.
Spanish soccer officials also acted, fining Valencia 45,000 euros ($48,500) and closing part of the team’s stadium for the next five games.
Three people were detained in Valencia for alleged abuse against Vinícius in Sunday’s match between Valencia and Madrid. Four were arrested in Madrid for allegedly hanging an effigy of the player off a highway bridge in January.
The arrests came after an outpouring of support for Vinícius after he said he was abused in Valencia. The case prompted widespread reaction from sports figures and government officials in Spain and worldwide.
The section of Mestalla Stadium that will be closed is where the insults against Vinícius came from, behind one of the goals. It’s also where the club’s more hardcore fans usually are located.
The Spanish federation’s competition’s committee also made the unusual decision to annul the red card shown to Vinícius after an altercation with Valencia players late in Sunday’s match. The committee said video review failed to show the referee the entire altercation, including the part in which Vinícius was grabbed from behind by an opponent.
Vinícius had complained that his red card ended up being a reward to the racists who insulted him.
Spain has been criticized for its lack of action in racism cases in soccer. Brazilian government officials, including President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, had publicly expressed their concerns.
“It’s a crucial moment, a moment to take drastic measures,” Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti said Tuesday. “Now that the issue has visibility, the institutions have to take this opportunity to try to fix this problem.”
All seven were arrested on suspicion of committing a hate crime, police said. None of them were publicly identified, and police did not discuss the timing of the arrests.
Vinícius, who is Black, has been subjected to repeated racist taunts since he arrived in Spain five years ago and especially this season after he began celebrating his goals by dancing.
The 22-year-old Brazilian has heavily criticized Spanish soccer for not doing more to stop racism. He posted a message on Twitter on Tuesday saying racism existed in Spanish stadiums even before he was born, referring to images of former Real Madrid and Brazil defender Roberto Carlos being subjected to racist insults back in 1997.
“What has changed until today?” Vinícius asked.
The match against Valencia was temporarily stopped after Vinícius said a fan behind one of the goals called him a monkey and made monkey gestures toward him. Vinícius considered leaving the field but eventually continued playing.
The effigy of Vinícius was hanged by the neck on the morning of a derby match between Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid in the Copa del Rey. Along with it was a banner with the words “Madrid hates Real.”
The perpetrators used a black figure with Vinícius’ name on it, tied a rope around its neck and hanged it from an overpass while still dark in the Spanish capital.
Police said three of those arrested belonged to one of Atletico’s fan groups, and the other was a follower of the group. Some had prior bookings with police for other crimes.
The hate message on the banner is often used by Atletico’s hardcore fans, though at the time they denied being responsible for the display.
The men arrested in Madrid are between the ages of 19 and 24. Authorities said some were previously identified during matches considered at high risk of violence. Police showed images of them arriving in handcuffs and escorted by agents on Tuesday.
Spanish media said police had used security cameras to identify the perpetrators but no action had been taken until now. Valencia and authorities worked together to identify and detain the suspects in the match against Madrid. The club said it banned the suspects from its stadium for life.
The lights at the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro were turned off Monday night in a show of solidarity for Vinícius, who did not practice on Tuesday citing a minor injury.
“It’s an action of solidarity that is moving,” Vinícius said on Twitter. “But more than everything, what I want is to inspire and bring more light to our fight.”
Vinícius gave thanks for the support he has received.
“I know who you are,” he said. “Count on me, because the good ones are the majority and I’m not going to give up. I have a purpose in life, and if I have to keep suffering so that future generations won’t have to go through these types of situations, I’m ready and prepared.”
Real Madrid reported the Valencia case as a hate crime, and club president Florentino Pérez said Tuesday his club “will not tolerate any more racist incidents against its players.” He called for a restructuring of the refereeing in the country.
The Spanish league has filed nine similar criminal complaints of racial abuse against Vinícius in the last two seasons, with most of them being shelved by prosecutors.
The league said Tuesday it will seek to increase its authority to issue sanctions in cases of hate crimes during games.
Supporters have been fined and banned from stadiums for their abuse against Vinícius, but so far only a Mallorca fan may end up going on trial.
The first trial against a fan accused of racial abuse in Spanish professional soccer is expected this year; the case involved Athletic Bilbao forward Iñaki Williams, who was insulted by an Espanyol supporter in 2020.
The Spanish federation, Spanish league and the government’s top sports authorities on Tuesday launched an anti-racism campaign. It will include the messages “racists out of football” and “together against racism” on broadcasts, logos and advertising boards and players’ armbands.
“The three institutions want to unanimously show their absolute and unequivocal rejection of any racist behavior,” they said in a statement, adding the aim is “to bring together the strength of everyone: institutions, clubs, athletes and fans with the goal of eradicating racism and its agents from our football.”
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Fayoma “Fay” Jane Lawler, 89, died August 23, 2022. Visitation will be today from 10:30 to 11 a.m. at Spry Memorial Chapel. Funeral will follow at 11 a.m. in the chapel with burial in Franklin Memory Gardens.
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Midterm elections are nearly half a year away, but the primary contest to determine who will run for the House and Senate seats this fall - those have already started. Former President Trump is playing a big role by endorsing Republican candidates who pledge loyalty to him. Some of those candidates had their primaries Tuesday, and more elections next week will test the power of a Trump endorsement.
Joining us now is NPR senior political editor and correspondent Domenico Montanaro. Hello, Domenico.
DOMENICO MONTANARO, BYLINE: Hey there. Good to join you.
FENG: So catch us up on what's happened this week so far in Pennsylvania, where Trump-endorsed candidate Dr. Oz took on former hedge fund CEO David McCormick.
MONTANARO: Yeah, that's right. You know, and Mehmet Oz is only narrowly ahead at this hour by 1,100 votes out of more than 1.3 million. We aren't likely to know the winner for days, if not weeks because the margin is just so small. It's well within the 0.5 percentage points that would trigger an automatic recount. And that's bad news for Republicans because it means a delay to the general election in a key Senate race Democrats are targeting as a pickup opportunity after what's really been a bruising Republican primary.
The Democratic nominee is Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman, who dons a chin beard and tattoos. He had a stroke in the past several days and had a pacemaker installed on Election Day. He looks the part of a blue-collar trucker more than someone with a Harvard degree and the politics of Bernie Sanders, but that's true, too. This is really going to be a big test for him, for Democrats and, when we finally get to a general election, of whether a Democrat with his kind of image and tone can appeal to that populous Venn diagram of the left and some on the right.
FENG: So much drama. President Trump - how have his endorsements fared so far?
MONTANARO: They've had some mixed success. You know, this week, Oz, of course, locked in that tight race. Trump got a win in the Pennsylvania governor's race, giving a major boost to State Senator Doug Mastriano. Mastriano's pretty controversial and hard right. He was at Trump's January 6 rally, marched to the Capitol, though he says he left before the violent insurrection took place. And he's an election denier and culture warrior in a purple state saying, if elected, he's going to focus on Day 1 on things like how kids are taught about racism in schools and which bathrooms people can use.
In North Carolina this week, Trump was largely responsible for Congressman Ted Budd winning the GOP nomination for the Senate race, though he had less success with the controversial Congressman Madison Cawthorn, who lost his bid for reelection. Out West in the Idaho governor's race, his preferred candidate, who had the backing of some extremists in the state, you know, took on a sitting Republican governor and really was trounced.
But even, you know, the explicit - even though the explicit record of endorsements was mixed, the winner, you could really argue, is MAGA. You know, virtually every Republican who's run has tried to be MAGA and vie for Trump's support - not everyone, but most. And, you know, Trump has truly taken over the party's heart and soul. There is just no majority against Trumpism. The minority really is those right now opposed to it.
FENG: Well, there are more of Trump's candidates who are being tested next Tuesday. Which races are you watching closely?
MONTANARO: So much of the action really is in Georgia. You know, Trump recruited and endorsed David Perdue, the former senator, to take on incumbent Governor Brian Kemp because Trump was upset that Kemp didn't do more to overturn the results of the presidential election in the state that he lost. But right now, it looks like Kemp is winning by a lot in the polls, despite Perdue making the entire election essentially pushing Trump's lie. Perdue is running hardly any ads now, and Trumpworld (ph) behind the scenes has really abandoned Perdue. It really is shocking to watch, frankly. For someone who was the CEO of Reebok, in David Perdue, and was considered a business-establishment Republican, for him to take this turn really surprising to a lot of people who've watched his career.
Then, of course, there's the secretary of state's race there. There's no greater target for Trump than Brad Raffensperger, the incumbent secretary of state, the Republican who also refused to bow to Trump's pressure on the election. And also watching Texas, where there's a key Democratic primary between Democrat - the Democrat in Congress, Henry Cuellar, against progressive Jessica Cisneros. Cuellar's the only Democrat in Congress who considers himself against abortion rights, quite the shift in the Democratic Party, which used to have more people who consider themselves against abortion rights. And abortion we're seeing become a huge issue in this election.
FENG: Thank you. That's NPR's Domenico Montanaro.
MONTANARO: You're welcome. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR. | 2022-05-24T15:34:32+00:00 | nepm.org | https://www.nepm.org/national-world-news/national-world-news/2022-05-20/a-recap-of-this-weeks-primaries |
Bears practice with full complement of WRs again originally appeared on NBC Sports Chicago
For the first time in a long time, the Bears had a full complement of healthy wide receivers at practice. On Monday, Velus Jones Jr. and Byron Pringle each returned from their injuries. Waiver claim addition Ihmir Smith-Marsette joined the mix, too, giving Justin Fields six WRs to target. It’s an encouraging step as the offense begins to prepare for the 49ers in earnest, but Matt Eberflus said the guys returning to practice have a lot of work ahead of them to get ready for Week 1.
“I’ve said since the beginning,” Eberflus said. “It hurts when you’re not on the grass and you don’t have that timing with the others, with the quarterback and the other guys running a route with you.”
That’s not to say the three WRs joining, or re-joining, the fold won’t be ready to play on Sunday. There are many factors which will determine how much of an impact each player can make, and how much the coaches will trust the players to put them on the field. Each wide receiver will be evaluated on an individual basis, based on factors like where they’re at in their injury recovery, and how much NFL experience they have already. In some cases, however, those factors won’t matter.
“A lot of times you've got to put them out there,” Eberflus said. “You 've got to put them out there and let them play and then move from there and then get some experience that way.”
Among Pringle, Jones Jr. and Smith-Marsette, Pringle is the man with the most NFL experience. Jones Jr. is just a rookie and Smith-Marsette is a second-year player who played 86 offensive snaps last year. Pringle believes that experience will help him re-acclimate himself to the offense with fewer hiccups.
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“I figure if it was like my rookie year, yeah, I probably wouldn't be ready,” Pringle said. “I took care of things in the training room and outside the training room, just keeping my body in shape. As long as you've got the endurance and the cardio, you should be good.”
That cardio work included bicycle work on the sidelines as the healthy Bears stretched and went through individual drills at training camp. In addition, Pringle jumped a lot of rope, and boxed on his off daysー no sparring, just bag work, but exhausting work all the same.
Getting physically ready is all well and good, but getting mentally prepared is another thing entirely. As Eberflus said, developing the proper timing within the offense isn’t something one can recreate off the field. But Pringle has still tried to stay as dialed in as possible.
“I’ve been trying to just listen to coaching points, the communication on the field, like they’re giving it to the other guys. Just knowing I’m not trying to be a step behind when I get back on the field, so I’ve been paying attention in the meeting room and listening to everything Coach Getsy’s been coaching and points that Justin’s been saying to the fellas.”
Players like Equanimeous St. Brown and Dante Pettis have made the most of their extra opportunities while the other wideouts were hurt. It wouldn’t be surprising to see both players make a real impact this Sunday. We’ll see how long it takes the rest of the unit to catch up. | 2022-09-05T22:39:59+00:00 | nbcchicago.com | https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/sports/chicago-football/bears-practice-with-full-complement-of-healthy-wrs-again/2931688/ |
BOONE, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — The Boone Police Department is having some fun with a man caught on camera allegedly stealing intimate apparel.
“Dear person who stole the Elephant Trunk underwear from Night Secrets…” the department wrote in a Facebook post. “We know it’s a zoo out there, but please go ahead and turn yourself in to avoid embarrassment.
We have free peanuts.
Sincerely,
The Boone Police Department”
In a removed, more-traditional crime release, the department posted surveillance footage of the suspect. During the incident Wednesday, he was wearing a baseball cap, blue short-sleeve shirt and blue jeans. He has short hair and medium-length beard. | 2023-07-13T21:23:47+00:00 | qcnews.com | https://www.qcnews.com/news/u-s/north-carolina/watauga-county/boone/we-have-free-peanuts-man-steals-elephant-underwear-from-boone-store/ |
NEW YORK, May 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of common stock of Loyalty Ventures Inc. (NASDAQ: LYLT) (OTC: LYLTQ) between November 8, 2021 and June 7, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important June 26, 2023 lead plaintiff deadline. Loyalty Ventures was created as a result of a November 2021 spinoff from Alliance Data Systems Corporation n/k/a Bread Financial Holdings, Inc. ("ADS"), the defendant company in this case. A class action lawsuit has already been filed.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Loyalty securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Loyalty class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=6803 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than June 26, 2023. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually litigate securities class actions, but are merely middlemen that refer clients or partner with law firms that actually litigate the cases. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, the Complaint alleges that defendants misled investors and/or failed to disclose that: (1) the Air Miles program suffered from a lack of investment prior to the spinoff; (2) as a result, Sobeys had informed defendants it was considering exercising its early termination rights; (3) the threat of Sobeys' departure loomed throughout 2021 including in the timeframe leading up to the spinoff; (4) defendants expected the departure of any single large sponsor, such as Sobeys, would have "network effect" on the value of the entire Air Miles program; (5) the high leverage and debt service obligations foisted upon Loyalty Ventures, in conjunction with the "network effect" impact on the value of the Air Miles business, threatened the Company's ability to continue operations; and (6) as a result, defendants' positive statements about the Company's financial guidance, business, operations, and prospects were materially false and misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
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List of Valley cities collecting storm debris
Because of the weekend storms, Valley residents are left with the cleanup, which means there is a lot of debris to get rid of.
Several cities across the Valley are willing to take that debris off residents hands. The locations are:
Alamo
City of Alamo Public Works
803 S. Tower Road
Residents only, must bring water bill and valid ID with same address.
Hidalgo County Precinct 3
1220 El Faro Road, Sullivan City
1429 El Pinto Road, Sullivan City
38411 FM 221 (West Mile 7), Penitas
1129 Military Road, Penitas
8115 N. Los Ebanos Road, Mission
Mission
150 Abelino Farias Street (landfill)
1400 S. Conway (landfill)
For residents only, must bring proof of residency
Landfill sites are open until 6 p.m.
McAllen
Recycling center located at 4101 N. Bentsen Road
Residents only
Alton
The Development Corporation located at 416 S. Alton Blvd.
Available until Friday
Edinburg
Edinburg Regional Disposal Facility located at 8601 N. Jasman Road. | 2023-05-02T04:57:07+00:00 | krgv.com | https://www.krgv.com/news/list-of-valley-cities-collecting-storm-debris |
TX Lake Charles LA Zone Forecast for Thursday, September 29, 2022
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400 AM CDT Fri Sep 30 2022
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Tyler-
Including the cities of Town Bluff, Fred, Hillister, Ivanhoe,
Spurger, Warren, and Woodville
400 AM CDT Fri Sep 30 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 50s. Northeast winds around
5 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. North winds around
5 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 50s. Northeast winds
around 5 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the lower
90s. Lows in the lower 60s.
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Hardin-
Including the cities of Lumberton and Silsbee
400 AM CDT Fri Sep 30 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. Northeast winds around
5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 50s. Northeast winds around
5 mph in the evening, becoming light and variable.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. North winds around
5 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 50s. Northeast winds
around 5 mph in the evening, becoming light and variable.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Northeast winds around
5 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around
60. Highs in the upper 80s.
.WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY...Mostly clear. Highs around 90. Lows
in the lower 60s.
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Jefferson-
Including the cities of Beaumont, Sabine Pass,
and Sea Rim State Park
400 AM CDT Fri Sep 30 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 50s. Northeast winds around
5 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the upper 50s. Northeast winds
around 5 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in
the lower 60s. Highs in the upper 80s.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
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Orange-
Including the cities of Orange, Vidor, and Bridge City
400 AM CDT Fri Sep 30 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 50s. Northeast winds around
5 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. North winds around
5 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 50s. Northeast winds
around 5 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. North winds around 5 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 60.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the
lower 60s. Highs in the upper 80s.
.WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the upper
80s. Lows in the mid 60s.
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Northern Jasper-
Including the cities of Holly Springs, Jasper, Kirbyville,
Magnolia Springs, Mt. Union, and Roganville
400 AM CDT Fri Sep 30 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 50s. Northeast winds around
5 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 50s. Northeast winds
around 5 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 60.
.WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the upper
80s. Lows in the lower 60s.
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Northern Newton-
Including the cities of Burkeville, Farrsville, Jamestown,
Newton, Wiergate, Bleakwood, and Call
400 AM CDT Fri Sep 30 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs around 80. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 50s. Northeast winds around
5 mph.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. North winds around
5 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 50s. North winds around
5 mph.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows around 60.
.WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the upper
80s. Lows in the lower 60s.
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Southern Jasper-
Including the cities of Gist, Buna, and Evadale
400 AM CDT Fri Sep 30 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. Northeast winds around
5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 50s. Northeast winds around
5 mph in the evening, becoming light and variable.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. North winds around
5 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 50s. North winds around
5 mph in the evening, becoming light and variable.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. North winds around 5 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the
lower 60s. Highs in the upper 80s.
.WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY...Mostly clear. Highs around 90. Lows
in the lower 60s.
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Southern Newton-
Including the city of Deweyville
400 AM CDT Fri Sep 30 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. Northeast winds around
5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 50s. Light and variable winds.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. North winds around
5 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 50s. Light and variable
winds.
.SUNDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. North winds around 5 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.
.MONDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 60.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s.
.WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the upper
80s. Lows in the lower 60s.
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea has warned that the United States and South Korea will face “unprecedented” security challenges if they don’t stop their hostile military pressure campaign against the North, including joint military drills.
North Korea views any regular U.S.-South Korean military training as an invasion rehearsal even though the allies have steadfastly said they have no intention of attacking the North. The latest warning came as Washington and Seoul prepare to expand their upcoming summertime training following the North’s provocative run of missile tests this year.
“Should the U.S. and its allies opt for military confrontation with us, they would be faced with unprecedented instability security-wise,” Choe Jin, deputy director general of the Institute of Disarmament and Peace, a Foreign Ministry-run think tank, told Associated Press Television News in Pyongyang on Thursday.
Choe said that Washington and Seoul’s joint military drills this year are driving the Korean Peninsula to the brink of war. He accused U.S. and South Korean officials of plotting to discuss the deployment of U.S. nuclear strategic assets during another joint drill set to begin next month.
“The U.S. should keep in mind that it will be treated on a footing of equality when it threatens us with nukes,” Choe said. He said Washington must abandon “its anachronistic and suicidal policy of hostility” toward North Korea or it will face “an undesirable consequence.”
The regular U.S.-South Korea military drills are a major source of animosity on the Korean Peninsula, with North Korea often responding with missile tests or warlike rhetoric.
In May, U.S. President Joe Biden and new South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol said after their summit that they would consider expanded joint military exercises to deter North Korean nuclear threats. Biden also reaffirmed the American extended deterrence commitment to South Korea, a reference to a full range of U.S. defense capabilities including nuclear ones.
Their announcement reflected a change in direction from that of their predecessors. Former U.S. President Donald Trump complained about the cost of the U.S.-South Korean military drills, while former South Korean President Moon Jae-in faced criticism that his dovish engagement policy only helped North Korea buy time to perfect its weapons technology. Yoon accused Moon of tilting toward North Korea and away from the United States.
The U.S. and South Korean militaries haven’t officially announced details about their summertime drills including exactly when they would start. But South Korean defense officials said the drills would involve field training for the first time since 2018 along with the existing computer-simulated tabletop exercises.
In recent years, the South Korean and U.S. militaries have cancelled or downsized some of their regular exercises due to concerns about COVID-19 and to support now-stalled U.S.-led diplomacy aimed at convincing North Korea to give up its nuclear program in return for economic and political benefits.
The United States has called on North Korea to resume the dormant diplomacy without any preconditions, but North Korea has countered it won’t return to talks unless the United States first drops its hostile policies against it, in an apparent reference to its military drills with South Korea and the economic sanctions.
This year, North Korea has test-launched a slew of ballistic missiles including nuclear-capable ones designed to attack both the U.S. mainland and South Korea in violation of U.N. resolutions banning such tests. Observers say North Korea wants to be recognized as a nuclear state and win sanctions relief.
Choe repeated North Korea’s previous position that its missile tests are legitimate exercises of its sovereign right to defend the country. He called the recent U.S. and South Korean missile tests “double-standards.”
North Korea hasn’t yet conducted its widely expected nuclear test, which would be the first of its kind in five years. Seoul officials say an ongoing COVID-19 outbreak and opposition from China, its most important ally and biggest aid provider, are likely the reasons why North Korea hasn’t carried out the bomb test.
On Friday, Yoon told reporters that North Korea remains ready to conduct a nuclear test and that South Korea also has measures ready to cope with it. | 2022-07-22T08:18:44+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/n-korea-warns-of-security-instability-over-us-s-korea-drills/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Only 10% of U.S. adults say they have high confidence in the nation’s banks and other financial institutions, a new poll finds. That’s down from the 22% who said they had high confidence in 2020.
Following the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank this month, the poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research also finds that a majority say the government is not doing enough to regulate the industry.
The underwhelming assessment of America’s banks and bank regulation comes after a series of shocks brought back disturbing memories of the 2008-2009 financial crisis.
Silicon Valley Bank, the nation’s 16th-biggest, failed March 10 after making risky bets in the bond market. Two days later, regulators closed New York-based Signature Bank, which had gotten involved in cryptocurrencies. Across the Atlantic Ocean, long-troubled Credit Suisse was acquired by rival UBS on Sunday in a shotgun marriage designed to restore confidence in global financial institutions.
In the United States, the tumult has raised questions among policymakers about 2018 legislation that rolled back strict regulations put in place after the financial crisis.
The poll suggests the U.S. public shares that concern: 56% say the government isn’t doing enough to regulate banks and other financial institutions, while 27% say it’s doing the right amount and 15% say it’s regulating too much. The worry about under-regulation is bipartisan: 63% of Democrats say current bank regulation is insufficient, as do 51% of Republicans.
U.S. Marine Corps veteran Philip Metscher, 53, a stay-at-home father of seven in Sacramento, California, said he has little faith in bankers or the government agencies that are supposed to regulate them.
“It’s like they have free rein to do whatever they want with money,’’ said Metscher, a Republican.
The poll finds that in addition to the 10% of Americans saying that they have high confidence in the nation’s banking institutions, 57% do have some confidence; 31% have hardly any.
Though confidence in banks and financial institutions has decreased even since the last time that question was asked on an AP-NORC poll in 2020, low confidence among Americans in their public institutions is nothing new — the General Social Survey, which has tracked trends in public opinion for decades, shows that confidence in institutions ranging from the financial industry to organized religion and from the news media to Congress has declined substantially since the 1970s. The new poll shows few Americans have high confidence in any branch of the U.S. government.
There’s been little change in the already glum assessment of the U.S. economy since a month ago, before the recent banking system turmoil, the poll shows. Only a quarter say national economic conditions are good; three quarters call them poor.
But 43% of Democrats call the economy good, versus just 7% of Republicans.
About half of U.S. adults describe their personal financial situations as good, a drop from last year when about 6 in 10 said that. About 6 in 10 Democrats and about half of Republicans give positive assessments of their current finances.
With a Democrat in the White House, Republicans are more likely than Democrats (36% versus 15%) to say their finances will get worse over the next year; 38% of Democrats say they expect their finances to improve, versus 22% of Republicans.
Overall, about half of U.S. adults expect U.S. economic conditions to deteriorate over the next year. Again, there’s a political divide: About three-quarters of Republicans but only a third of Democrats expect the national economy to worsen.
American households have been hit hard by inflation, which began to pick up in the spring of 2021. Adjusted for inflation, U.S. hourly wages have fallen for 23 straight months compared to a year earlier.
“You never know what’s going on. It’s paycheck to paycheck,’’ said Metscher in Sacramento. “I’m looking at food prices, gas prices. It reminds me of being a kid growing up’’ during the high-inflation 1970s.
Tyronda Springer, 28, a mother of two in Banks, Alabama, who works in a warehouse loading trucks, is struggling with the cost of living.
“I get paid every two weeks,’’ she said. “One of my checks goes straight to daycare. The rest is what I have to use to pay the bills. It’s just ridiculous.’’ But Springer, a Democrat, blames businesses, not President Joe Biden or the government, for ratcheting prices higher. “The government can only do so much,’’ she said.
In response to surging consumer prices, the Federal Reserve has raised its benchmark interest rate nine times over the past year, including by a quarter-point on Wednesday. But the rate hikes are putting a strain on banks. In fact, Silicon Valley Bank ran into trouble as higher rates pushed down the value of its investments in bonds.
“It’s a financial house of cards,’’ said Bryan Martin, 49, of Westfield, New York, who works at a sewage treatment plant.
“The Fed is stuck,’’ said Martin, who does not identify with either political party but leans Republican. The central bank has to raise interest rates to fight inflation, but higher rates are hurting the financial system. “These banks,’’ he said, “are starting to fail.’’
Darlene Brady, 72, a retired nurse’s aide in Butler, Pennsylvania, has limited confidence in banks. Still, Brady, a Democrat, is not worried about her own bank savings, thanks to federal deposit insurance that covers up to $250,000.
“I’m way below that,’’ she said. ___
The poll of 1,081 adults was conducted Mar. 16-20 using a sample drawn from NORC’s probability-based AmeriSpeak Panel, which is designed to be representative of the U.S. population. The margin of sampling error for all respondents is plus or minus 4.0 percentage points. | 2023-03-23T15:13:05+00:00 | valleycentral.com | https://www.valleycentral.com/news/politics/ap-politics/americans-faith-in-banks-low-after-failures-ap-norc-poll/ |
A wave of festivals and gatherings including the Stearns Wharf 150th anniversary events fill the summer calendar
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - After two quieter COVID-impacted summers, the current seasonal event calendar is bursting with things to do.
Coming off the City of Santa Barbara Waterfront 4th of July show including the West Beach entertainment stage, outside activities are filling up calendar dates for weeks.
Tonight will be the monthly Stearns Wharf event known as Wharf Wednesdays.
The widely popular Spencer the Gardner Band, a longtime favorite, will put on a two hour concert starting at 6 p.m.
The event starts with the firing of the wharf cannon.
The wharf was built in 1872 and has become one of the most visited spots in Santa Barbara.
Stores and restaurants on the wharf are joining in the celebration with special deals and discounts.
A concert is held on the first Wednesday of each month. On October 8th there will be the official 150th anniversary event.
More information can be found at : www.stearnswharf.org
Thursday begins the Santa Barbara City Parks And Recreation Department Concerts in the Park. It's a free event in Chase Palm park.
The 90-minute show will take place each Thursday in July starting at 6 p.m.
The first concert will feature the 80's cover band the Molly Ringwald Project, hosted by Drew Wakefield.
Those attending should plan on sitting in their own beach-type chairs or on a blanket.
Friday, the Santa Barbara Courthouse Sunken Gardens will be the site for the UC Santa Barbara Arts and Lectures Series summer time movies.
It begins with American Graffiti. The event is free.
Those attending can lay out blankets and chairs on the lawn for their viewing.
The event will also have a special custom and classic car show on Anapamu Street to go with the movie and that will be organized by the Community Hot Rod Project.
For more information go to : UCSB Arts and Lectures Series | 2022-07-06T19:46:21+00:00 | keyt.com | https://keyt.com/lifestyle/entertainment/2022/07/06/a-wave-of-festivals-and-gatherings-including-the-stearns-wharf-150th-anniversary-events-fill-the-summer-calendar/ |
Election Day brought another tick higher for stocks, as Wall Street braces for the results from the day’s midterm elections and a big update on inflation that’s due later in the week.
The S&P 500 rose 0.6% Tuesday, its third straight gain. Trading was tentative through the day, and Wall Street’s benchmark index flipped between an even bigger gain and a modest loss during the afternoon.
Analysts say investors appear to be making bets for Republicans to gain control of at least one house of Congress, which could mean relatively little change for economic policies.
On Tuesday:
The S&P 500 rose 21.31 points, or 0.6%, to 3,828.11.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 333.83 points, or 1%, to 33,160.83.
The Nasdaq rose 51.68 points, or 0.5%, to 10,616.20.
The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies fell 0.88 points, or less than 0.1%, to 1,808.93.
For the week:
The S&P 500 is up 57.56 points, or 1.5%.
The Dow is up 757.61 points, or 2.3%.
The Nasdaq is up 140.95 points, or 1.3%.
The Russell 2000 is up 9.06 points, or 0.5%.
For the year:
The S&P 500 is down 938.07 points, or 19.7%.
The Dow is down 3,177.47 points, or 8.7%.
The Nasdaq is down 5,028.77 points, or 32.1%.
The Russell 2000 is down 436.38 points, or 19.4%. | 2022-11-08T22:16:02+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/business/article/How-major-US-stock-indexes-fared-Tuesday-11-8-2022-17568691.php |
TUCSON, Ariz., May 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon Missiles & Defense, a Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) business, was awarded a $624 million U.S. Army contract to produce 1,300 Stinger® missiles. The contract includes provisions for engineering support, as well as the test equipment and support needed to address obsolescence, modernize key components, and accelerate production.
"We're aligned with the U.S. Army on a plan that ensures we fulfill our current foreign military sale order, while replenishing Stingers provided to Ukraine and accelerating production," said Wes Kremer, president of Raytheon Missiles & Defense. "The funding will be used to enhance Stinger's producibility in an effort to meet the urgent need for replenishment."
The combat-proven Stinger missile is a lightweight, self-contained air defense system that can be rapidly deployed by ground troops. Its supersonic speed, agility and highly accurate guidance and control system give the weapon an operational edge against cruise missiles and all classes of aircraft.
The contract is being funded from the Ukraine Supplemental, which contains emergency funding to support Ukrainian defense forces. Raytheon Missiles & Defense continues to work closely with the U.S. Army and its supplier partners to rapidly support the growing demand for Stinger.
About Raytheon Technologies
Raytheon Technologies Corporation is an aerospace and defense company that provides advanced systems and services for commercial, military and government customers worldwide. With four industry-leading businesses ― Collins Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney, Raytheon Intelligence & Space and Raytheon Missiles & Defense ― the company delivers solutions that push the boundaries in avionics, cybersecurity, directed energy, electric propulsion, hypersonics, and quantum physics. The company, formed in 2020 through the combination of Raytheon Company and the United Technologies Corporation aerospace businesses, is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts.
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Teledyne LeCroy's OakGate R300 and DE200 PCIe Gen5 Test Appliances, 8-Bay Modules, and 16-Bay Enclosures are Available to be Ordered
LOOMIS, Calif., July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Teledyne LeCroy, the worldwide leader in protocol test and measurement solutions, announces availability of validation test appliances for PCIe Gen5 based Solid State Drives. The OakGate R300 3U rackmount test appliance and the OakGate DE200 desktop test appliance offer scalable validation and conformance testing of the latest generation of solid-state drives (SSDs).
To support demand for faster, more efficient SSDs, SSD manufacturers are taking advantage of the 5th generation of PCI Express (PCIe), which doubles throughput with data transfer rates of up to 32GT/s. SSD quality and reliability needs to be high, but demand is also high. So, it is also critical that the manufacturing process is not slowed unnecessarily for testing. The OakGate R300 and the OakGate DE200 test appliances provide design and test engineers the means to test the performance and specification compliance of these PCIe Gen5 quickly and efficiently based SSDs. The new modular 8-Bay system provides customers the flexibility to easily interchange all popular SSD connector types and form factors. The new 16-Bay Expansion Enclosures enables the creation of large test configurations, reducing test time.
"Western Digital is committed to SSD portfolio excellence in markets utilizing high performance systems that incorporate PCI Express 5.0 and NVM Express storage. We are confident that strategic partners like Teledyne LeCroy will continue enabling Western Digital and the high-performance storage ecosystem with test solutions that foster rapid industry adoption," said Anuj Awasthi, Senior Director, System Design & Firmware Verification Engineering at Western Digital.
OakGate's PCIe Gen5 test solutions push the boundary for performance and functionality by providing:
- Products for any size project – Systems can be configured to match your requirements.
- Next generation system performance – Operation supports even large, complex test plans.
- Double the module density – Save rack space and improve power efficiencies with a 33% increase in density of expansion enclosures.
- Larger configurations options – Test up to 48 devices with a single rackmount appliance.
- Support for all standard SSD connectors, types, and form factors - including U.2, U.3, M.2, E3.S/L, E1.S/L and CEM.
- Flexibility and simplicity – Fully swappable modules.
- New advanced power features – lowering total overall cost by removing the need for additional power Interposers.
- Single/Dual-port software switching for U.2 and EDSFF SSDs.
"In the past decade, Teledyne LeCroy has pioneered the industry's most advanced SSD validation solutions and we continue to lead with the first validation solution supporting end-to-end PCIe Gen5." said Roy Chestnut, Vice President of Test Appliance Products. "Our PCIe Gen5 test solutions are powered by the industry's most widely used software suite, SVF Pro/Enduro. The 5th generation test software is packed full of advanced power measurement and management features."
OakGate R300 rackmount test appliances and the OakGate DE200 desktop test appliances for PCIe Gen5 SSD can be ordered now. For additional information, contact Teledyne LeCroy at 1-800-5LeCroy (1-800-553-2769) or visit Teledyne LeCroy's OakGate web site at https://www.oakgatetech.com/platform/gen-5-overview
Visit Teledyne LeCroy's at the Flash Memory Summit 2022 in booth #919 from Aug 2-4 in Santa Clara, California to experience our OakGate PCIe Gen5 SSD Test Solutions!
Teledyne LeCroy is a leading manufacturer of advanced oscilloscopes, protocol analyzers, and other test instruments that verify performance, validate compliance, and debug complex electronic systems quickly and thoroughly. Since its founding in 1964, the Company has focused on incorporating powerful tools into innovative products that enhance "Time-to-Insight". Faster time to insight enables users to rapidly find and fix defects in complex electronic systems, dramatically improving time-to-market for a wide variety of applications and end markets. Teledyne LeCroy is based in Chestnut Ridge, N.Y. For more information, visit Teledyne LeCroy's website at teledynelecroy.com.
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Wild video: Ocala suspect leads police on chase through fences, yards, wooded area
Wild video: Ocala suspect leads police on chase through fences, yards, wooded area
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Wild video: Ocala suspect leads police on chase through fences, yards, wooded area
Dale Shrewsbury, 35, is facing charges of auto theft, aggravated fleeing and driving with a suspended license. On Aug. 11, Ocala police were called to Northeast 9th Street for a report of a stolen vehicle. Shortly afterwards, the vehicle was spotted heading westbound on State Route 40 and a chase ensued. As is show in the wild video above, Shrewsbury drove the stolen car through multiple fences, front and back yards, and a heavily wooded area. Eventually an officer crashed into the stolen vehicle and Shrewsbury took off on foot. He was quickly apprehended by a K9. Shrewsbury was taken to Advent Health to be treated for a K9 bite and then transported to the Marion County Jail.
OCALA, Fla. —
Dale Shrewsbury, 35, is facing charges of auto theft, aggravated fleeing and driving with a suspended license.
On Aug. 11, Ocala police were called to Northeast 9th Street for a report of a stolen vehicle.
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Shortly afterwards, the vehicle was spotted heading westbound on State Route 40 and a chase ensued.
As is show in the wild video above, Shrewsbury drove the stolen car through multiple fences, front and back yards, and a heavily wooded area.
Eventually an officer crashed into the stolen vehicle and Shrewsbury took off on foot. He was quickly apprehended by a K9.
Shrewsbury was taken to Advent Health to be treated for a K9 bite and then transported to the Marion County Jail. | 2022-08-23T16:56:04+00:00 | wesh.com | https://www.wesh.com/article/wild-video-ocala-suspect/40969170 |
NEWBURYPORT, Mass. (AP) _ UFP Technologies Inc. (UFPT) on Wednesday reported earnings of $19.5 million in its third quarter.
On a per-share basis, the Newburyport, Massachusetts-based company said it had net income of $2.56. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring gains, were 51 cents per share.
The packaging company and component manufacturer posted revenue of $97 million in the period.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Wednesday marks Day 3 in the penalty phase trial for Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz.
On Tuesday jurors watched graphic video of him killing the 17 victims as he stalked through a three-story classroom building at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 14, 2018.
The video, compiled from 13 security cameras inside the building, was not shown to the gallery, where parents of many of the victims sat. Shown later to reporters, it depicts Cruz crouching and stalking, firing at anything that moves, down the halls and into classrooms.
He shoots many of his victims at point-blank range, going back to some as they lay wounded on the floor to kill them with a second volley of shots. In one segment, athletic director Chris Hixon burst through a door to confront Cruz, but was wounded and fell. He crawled behind a pillar. Cruz kills him with a blast as he passes.
The 12 jurors and 10 alternates stared intently at their video screens as it played. Many held hands to their faces as they viewed the 15-minute recording, which has no sound.
Some squirmed. One juror looked at the screen, looked up at Cruz with his eyes wide and then returned to the video.
Cruz did not appear to watch the video, exchanging occasional whispers with one of his attorneys.
The jury will decide whether he is sentenced to death or life in prison without parole.
The trial is expected to last for about four months. | 2022-07-20T14:26:29+00:00 | local10.com | https://www.local10.com/news/local/2022/07/20/day-3-begins-in-penalty-phase-trial-of-parkland-school-shooter/ |
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — SmileDirectClub Inc. (SDC) on Tuesday reported a loss of $21.8 million in its fourth quarter.
On a per-share basis, the Nashville, Tennessee-based company said it had a loss of 18 cents.
The results surpassed Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of five analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for a loss of 21 cents per share.
The direct-to-consumer teeth-straightening company posted revenue of $86.5 million in the period, falling short of Street forecasts. Four analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $87 million.
For the year, the company reported a loss of $86.4 million, or 71 cents per share. Revenue was reported as $470.7 million.
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Plymouth County Supervisors approve pay increase
SIOUX CITY (KTIV) - Plymouth County Supervisors approved pay raises for county elected officials. But, board members voted to give themselves less money than was suggested by a compensation board. Supervisors voted 4-1 to increase the board’s pay by 4.5% and to raise the pay of all other county elected officials by 6.5%.
A compensation board originally suggested a 9% pay increase for county elected officials, and an 8% increase for supervisors
“We have a tremendous staff in our county, we’ve got great people working for us, we have, but we have very good benefits, and our utmost concern is the budget.” Said Craig Anderson, Plymouth County Supervisor
Some county board members wanted the pay increase for other county elected officials-- not supervisors-- to be 7%, which was closer to the compensation board’s recommendation. They settled on 6.5 %.
This was argued as more “fiscally responsible”.
“My thought was that 7% would be a fair number, it backs it off just a little bit, I would rather see that extra money go to our lower paid employees than to go to our higher paid employees, because the dollar amount is totally different.” Said Mike Van Otterloo, Plymouth County Supervisor
Next week, supervisors will decide pay increases for all non-elected county employees.
Copyright 2023 KTIV. All rights reserved. | 2023-01-18T00:15:40+00:00 | ktiv.com | https://www.ktiv.com/2023/01/17/plymouth-county-supervisors-approve-pay-increase/ |
NEW YORK — Lindsey Johnson became president of the Consumer Bankers Association in 2022, representing the trade and lobbying organization for the nation’s big retail banks like Bank of America, Wells Fargo, US Bank, PNC and others. Before she joined CBA, she was president of the trade association for the mortgage insurance industry.
She spoke to The Associated Press during the CBA’s annual conference in Las Vegas, the first industry-wide gathering since the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank.
The interview has been edited for length and clarity.
Q: What’s the talk among your member banks as the industry faces its biggest test since the Great Recession? A: We went in on planning this conference around the idea of “what’s next” for banking, which last year was all about the economy and what’s going to happen to interest rates. But these failures made us have to alter our agenda, no doubt about that. We’ve had more of these unique black swan events, and bankers see it as their mission to be prepared for these events when these happen.
Q: How has the failure of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank impacted how people see the broader industry?
A: I think there’s been a lot of misinformation about the industry as a whole with these two banks’ failures. These two banks had a very specific demographic of depositors that is very different from every other bank. Most banks know you need to have a very diverse deposit base and that you need to protect yourself against interest rate risk, which these banks didn’t do. The conversations I’m having are focused around making sure you have a diverse deposit base, and more importantly, how do you plan to make sure that your risks are well managed.
Q: You put out a statement after those banks failed calling what happened a Twitter bank run. What did you mean by that?
A: Other bank runs we’ve had in history, like Continental Illinois or Washington Mutual, took days, weeks for them to happen. And in those cases, it was about bad loans that hurt those banks. These banks’ failures were entirely different. It was just fear and uncertainty that spiraled out of control. And in Silicon Valley Bank’s case, you had a group of depositors who had a bit of a groupthink mentality, where if one pulled out, the rest did so as well.
Q : At this point, things seem to be stabilizing a bit. Deposits aren’t flowing out from the banks as much, the emergency facilities by the Federal Reserve are being less used. Why do you think things are calming?
A: I think regulators have done a much better job at telling the public that our nation’s banking system is strong and not every bank is the same as Silicon Valley Bank. I think our banks also did a good job at differentiating themselves from the failed banks, making sure people understood the difference. | 2023-04-17T13:40:18+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/04/17/silicon-valley-bank-lindsey-johnson-banking/fa57b50e-dd18-11ed-a78e-9a7c2418b00c_story.html |
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) — Johnson City’s metro area is again in the top 20 of the Wall Street Journal/Realtor.com quarterly emerging housing markets list, with its #14 rank marking its fifth straight appearance.
In a sign of continuing home affordability challenges, the list showed Johnson City had the third-highest median listing price among the top 20, at $413,000. That’s 10% higher than a quarter ago and 18% higher than the median asking price of $350,000 shown in last spring and summer’s rankings.
The release noted that most top 20 markets were seeing a lower share of “out of market” shopping compared to the national average, but that wasn’t the case in Johnson City, which “attract(ed) an outsized share of shoppers from elsewhere.”
The metro fell out of the top 10 for the first time in four quarters in the list, whose methodology ranks more than 300 metropolitan areas in two broad categories of real estate market and economic health/quality of life. Sub-indicators include real estate demand, real estate supply and median listing price trend for real estate.
Johnson City’s metropolitan statistical area (MSA) of Washington, Carter and Unicoi counties ranked #1 in fall 2022 and #5 in last quarter’s rankings. Last quarter also saw the Kingsport-Bristol area enter the list at #7, and while it’s dropped from the top 20, the metro remains at #24.
Wednesday’s release said the top markets “offer shoppers a lower cost of living, including for homes, and thriving local economies that are attractive, but not too crowded.”
Whether Johnson City can maintain that trend without seeing a leveling out of its home price increases remains to be seen. Continued home price appreciation could eventually price too many middle income buyers out of the market.
“It’s more difficult than then I’ve seen it before,” Northeast Tennessee Association of Realtors consultant Don Fenley said at an April 13 summit on affordable housing.
“I’d hesitate to call it a crisis, because there is affordable housing available,” Fenley said. “There is workforce housing available. It’s just not in the volumes that we would like to see.”
That $413,000 was still lower than the national average median of $424,000, but the gap (Johnson City is 2.6% lower than the national average) has narrowed considerably over the past year. Last spring, the national median was $405,000, but Johnson City’s median was $350,000, putting the metro 13.6% lower than the national average.
The WSJ/Realtor.com economic and quality of life sub indicators include:
- Unemployment
- Wages
- Regional price parities
- Share of foreign-born
- Small businesses
- Amenities (measured by per capita “everyday splurge” stores)
- Commute
- Estimated effective real estate taxes | 2023-04-26T19:14:16+00:00 | wjhl.com | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/jc-metro-again-top-20-in-national-housing-market-list-prices-continue-rise/ |
WASHINGTON-(CNN) President Joe Biden tested positive for Covid-19 again Saturday morning (July 30), per a letter from presidential physician Dr. Kevin O'Connor, in what is likely a "rebound" Covid-19 positivity that the doctor noted is "observed in a small percentage of patients treated with Paxlovid."
Biden has experienced "no reemergence of symptoms, and continues to feel quite well" and will, as a result, not resume treatment, the White House said. O'Connor said the President tested negative on Tuesday evening, Wednesday morning, Thursday morning and Friday morning before testing positive on Saturday morning.
"However, given his positive antigen test, he will reinitiate strict isolation procedures," the doctor noted. Biden ceased isolating on Wednesday after testing negative on successive antigen tests, celebrating his return in remarks from the White House Rose Garden.
Biden's physician said the President is not experiencing any symptoms but that he will isolate at the White House.
"Folks, today I tested positive for COVID again," Biden wrote on Twitter. "This happens with a small minority of folks. I've got no symptoms but I am going to isolate for the safety of everyone around me. I'm still at work, and will be back on the road soon."
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre wrote Biden is "asymptomatic, feeling fine, and working in isolation from the Residence to protect others."
A White House official said contact tracing efforts were underway Saturday after Biden's positive Covid-19 test.
The President had resumed events at the White House after testing negative this week, though he was seen wearing a mask more regularly. White House officials said they worked to ensure there was social distancing at the public events he held at the White House. | 2022-08-01T17:14:26+00:00 | wtva.com | https://www.wtva.com/president-joe-biden-tests-positive-for-covid-19-again/article_0ce450ea-1043-11ed-bad6-033d9f93bd72.html |
NFL suspends Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson for 6 games, AP sources say
(AP) - Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson was suspended for six games Monday for violating the NFL’s personal conduct policy following accusations of sexual misconduct made against him by two dozen women in Texas, two people familiar with the decision said.
The people spoke on condition of anonymity because the decision had not been publicly released. Watson, who played for four seasons with Houston before being traded to Cleveland in March, recently settled 23 of 24 lawsuits filed by massage therapists alleging sexual harassment and assault during appointments in 2020 and 2021.
After learning the ruling was imminent, the NFL Players Association issued a joint statement with Watson on Sunday night, saying they will not appeal disciplinary officer Sue L. Robinson’s ruling and urged the league to follow suit.
“Every player, owner, business partner and stakeholder deserves to know that our process is legitimate and will not be tarnished based on the whims of the League office,” the union said in a statement.
If either side appealed, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell or someone he designates will make the decision, per terms of the collective bargaining agreement. The union then could try to challenge that ruling in federal court.
As he awaited the ruling, Watson has been in training camp with the Browns. He has continued to take most of the reps with the first-team offense, which will be turned over to backup Jacoby Brissett while he’s sidelined.
The league had pushed for an indefinite suspension of at least one year and a $5 million fine for the 26-year-old Watson during a three-day hearing before Robinson in June. The NFL Players’ Association argued Watson shouldn’t be punished at all because he was not convicted of any crime.
Two grand juries in Texas declined to indict Watson on criminal complaints brought by 10 of the women.
This was the first case for Robinson, a former U.S. district judge who was jointly appointed by the NFL and the union to handle player misconduct — a role previously held by Goodell.
A three-time Pro Bowl pick with the Texans, Watson has seen his playing career stalled by the allegations that he acted inappropriately with the women during massage therapy sessions he scheduled via social media. He sat out the 2021 season.
In their lawsuits, the women accused Watson of exposing himself, touching them with his penis or kissing them against their will. One woman alleged Watson forced her to perform oral sex.
Watson has denied all wrongdoing, insisting any sexual activity with three of the women was consensual. He publicly insisted his goal was to clear his name before agreeing to confidential financial settlements with 20 of the women on June 21.
Watson’s high-profile case has renewed scrutiny of the league’s handling of player misbehavior, along with its support for women, and left the Browns wondering if they’ll ever find a franchise quarterback.
Since the trade, Watson has been on public display, with fans questioning whether the league had the authority to ban him from playing despite no criminal charges.
The league has been sensitive about its image and handing out the appropriate discipline for Watson after being criticized for its handling of previous sexual misconduct cases, involving Baltimore running back Ray Rice, Pittsburgh quarterback Ben Roethlisberger and Cleveland running back Kareem Hunt among others.
For their part, the Browns were widely condemned for signing Watson. The team has been desperate to find a long-term answer at quarterback — they’ve had a league-high 32 starters since 1999 — and many questioned why the team would take on a player with so much baggage.
During his introductory news conference after he was traded to Cleveland, Watson was adamant about his innocence.
“I have never assaulted, disrespected or harassed any woman in my life,” he said at the dais, where he was joined by Browns general manager Andrew Berry and coach Kevin Stefanski. “I was raised differently. That is not my DNA. That is not my culture. That is not me as a person.”
He repeated those comments three months later during the Browns’ minicamp, insisting his only goal was to clear his name. However, a week later he settled 20 of the civil lawsuits. Any remaining lawsuits could still go to trial, but not until 2023 after both sides agreed to wait until after the upcoming season.
On July 15, 30 women settled lawsuits against the Texans after claiming the team ignored and enabled Watson as he harassed and assaulted them during the therapy sessions. Terms of the settlements were kept confidential.
Despite Watson’s legal entanglement, the Browns — along with several other teams — pursued Watson after the first grand jury declined to indict him.
Initially, Watson turned down the Browns. But Cleveland owners Dee and Jimmy Haslam enticed him with a fully guaranteed five-year, $230 million contract.
Watson had other offers but chose the Browns and waived his no-trade clause to join a team coming off a disappointing 8-9 season. Cleveland completed the deal on March 18 by agreeing to send Houston three first-round draft picks and six selections overall for Watson.
The Haslams said any concerns they had about his character or behavior were alleviated when they flew to Houston along with Berry and Stefanski and spent time talking to Watson.
An All-American at Clemson, Watson was drafted by the Texans with the No. 12 pick in 2017. He started six games as a rookie before passing for 4,165 yards and 26 touchdowns in his second year.
Watson has developed into one of the league’s elite QBs, throwing for 4,823 yards and 33 TDs in 2020 despite playing on a Texans team that went just 4-12.
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The Most Anticipated Movies of 2023
If you’re like me, you keep two calendars: One with all your various appointments, meetings, reminders, and family obligations, and then another that’s just all the movies that are coming out soon that you can’t wait to watch.
(It’s okay if you’re not like me, I am a total weirdo. I honestly remain astonished to this day that I am married with children.)
Actually, it’s great if you’re not like me, because then I can use my total weirdness in a constructive way for all. That’s what this piece is all about: Helping boil down all the movies coming out in 2023 down to just the biggest and most interesting films that you should keep on your personal radar (even if you don’t actively write them down somewhere because, really, that is completely excessive and even now I am slightly embarrassed to admit that I do that).
And by the way: The list below contains just movies coming to theaters. There’s a whole other list to be written of movies coming to streaming in 2023. And I will definitely get there soon. But for now, let’s look ahead to these 20 can’t-miss (theatrical) titles... | 2022-12-22T23:36:29+00:00 | q961.com | https://q961.com/2023-movie-preview/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — Brooke Shields has been known as beautiful, smart and famous since she was a baby, but a new documentary reveals why it’s taken decades for her to feel confident in her talent.
With a dazzling array of archival photos and footage, and in-depth interviews with Shields, “Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields” is a firsthand examination of her success as a model, actor, author and now lifestyle entrepreneur, despite being sexualized and objectified at a young age and managing her alcoholic mother — the original “momager,” Teri Shields.
Like other recent documentaries on Britney Spears and Pamela Anderson, “Pretty Baby” includes a cringeworthy barrage of media clips where mostly older men reduce her to a pretty face and have little interest in her answers to their questions. The film, which drops in two parts on Hulu on Monday, looks back at how women were treated in the 1980’s and 1990’s — including Shields revealing she was the victim of a sexual assault by a Hollywood executive after she graduated college.
Shields spoke to The Associated Press recently about what she learned from the project, how she overcame being shamed for her personal choices and gained confidence, and how she sees her future.
Answers have been edited for length and clarity.
AP: In the series you say “I’m owning my identity fully.” What did you mean?
SHIELDS: I made myself small for so long, either to be relatable or to not be threatening or humbled, you know? Don’t be a snob. Don’t be arrogant. Have people like you. Be kind to everyone. It was like this the way I grew up, and I was rewarded for it. I’m saying that it’s okay to pat myself on the shoulder a little bit. It’s okay to say I really do have talent because I wouldn’t still be here if I didn’t. It’s not just because I’m smart or just because I look a certain way. I’ve maintained a career and kept challenging myself, and I don’t think I ever felt confident enough to say it out loud. I always just wanted other people’s approval about my talent, never thinking that I could give it to myself.
AP: The documentary details the press scrutinizing you for years, how have you felt promoting the series?
SHIELDS: What I noticed when I was a little girl was that nobody really wanted my answers. They wanted their narrative to be the soundbite that I gave them. And being very stubborn always, I, in my own way, refused to give it to them. Now, I don’t ever feel like I’m on the defensive because I’ve learned that I’m not at anybody else’s mercy. Looking back, I can see that that’s what I was doing, and I don’t need to do that anymore, which is very empowering but, you know, it took 40-something years (laughs).
AP: What was the hardest part to reveal in the documentary?
SHIELDS: I was worried about the #MeToo stuff just because I didn’t want it to be reduced to just a headline. And yet I knew that if I didn’t, I would have felt like a hypocrite or inauthentic. I haven’t been able to talk about it up until now, and then it felt like, you sort of owe it to yourself. And I just hoped that out of two hours and however many minutes, the one brief story — I mean, I knew it’s going to be clickbait — but I was worried that I would get let down again by the press.
AP: It sounds like compartmentalizing was a survival technique for you?
SHIELDS: I think that happens with a child of an alcoholic. You know, you really do learn to compartmentalize. You love a person who is very broken and has a disease that they cannot seem to get under control. But you can’t afford to have their love not be real. So you learn, when things felt …not in control…I would become very organized, and that sort of was my center, that was my meditation, you know, redoing my Filofax or refolding my socks.
AP: You recently started a company aimed at celebrating women’s lives after 40. Why is that important to you?
SHIELDS: I decided at an early age that if I was going to speak about anything, it was going to be about things that I believe that could help other people. Over the years I’ve thought, how can I not feel alone? I can share my story and I’m sure there’s someone else who can identify with it. Before COVID I was healthy and I was working out a lot and I felt good. I was feeling so easy about things. My kids are all right. I like my life. I’m proud of it.
The irony was that whenever I looked outside of myself, there wasn’t anything addressing me. You know, your agents tell you, ‘Well, you’re of a certain age…’ I’m not dead and I don’t have one foot in the grave, come on! I was shocked. You have to own how hard it is just to get to this age, and with your wits about you, and good people in your life and how much more there is.
AP: What are your dreams now?
SHIELDS: To be in another television show. I really want to find the right (one) because “Suddenly Susan” to me was such a revelation and it was the happiest time for me. And I want to feel that whole thing again because it was a very healthy, pure place for me to be. And I really, really loved it. | 2023-04-01T01:28:10+00:00 | mytwintiers.com | https://www.mytwintiers.com/news-cat/entertainment-news-news/brooke-shields-takes-charge-of-her-story-in-pretty-baby/ |
Millions of working Americans are seeing their work productivity compromised by long COVID. Now, both workers and doctors are speaking out about what COVID long-haulers need to stay in the workforce.
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Millions of working Americans are seeing their work productivity compromised by long COVID. Now, both workers and doctors are speaking out about what COVID long-haulers need to stay in the workforce.
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The Whale
At the Myrna Loy & Cinemark
(R)
Grade: B+
Darren Aronofsky is the anti-Disney director.
Instead of inviting us to slide our foot into the glass slipper and dance with the prince, Aronofsky turns off the lights, and shoves us into dark places.
“Requiem for a Dream” was an "agonizing and unflinchingly grim portrait of drug abuse."
In “The Wrestler” he introduced us to a broken, flawed aging fighter, “a proud pugilist in search of redemption.”
And in “Black Swan” we took a hallucinatory trip into the life of a ballet dancer: “part horror, part thriller, part Freudian nightmare.”
Aronofsky challenges us to embrace the goodness in struggling people.
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“The Whale” is vintage Aronofsky.
We meet Charlie, an adjunct English writing teacher. He’s teaching online on Zoom, with his camera turned off to hide from his students.
He’s a morbidly obese man, with weight above 600 and blood pressure above 200.
His loving caretaker, Liz, implores Charlie to see a doctor. He refuses, resigned to fate.
Enter 17-year-old daughter Ellie, whom Charlie abandoned almost a decade ago. Charlie ran off with another man, who committed suicide.
That death sent him spiraling into binge-eating.
Ellie is still angry at her absentee dad. She treats him vengefully, cruelly.
The story is relentlessly depressing, but the sweet performance by Brendan Fraser reels us in.
Even while being insulted by his daughter, Charlie continues to love her unconditionally.
“I don’t want you to forget what a perfect person you are,” he says through tears. “I need to know that I did something right in my life.”
“The Whale” feels “stagy,” like a filmed play – hardly surprising since its script was written by the playwright. Almost the entire claustrophobic story was shot in Charlie’s living room.
A key minor character, a young door-knocking evangelist, tries to lead Charlie to God. Those scenes are awkward, unconvincing.
But such speed bumps are easily forgiven because of four authentic performances – by Charlie, Liz, Ellie and Mary, his ex-wife. I got chills during those tender scenes, as those who loved Charlie embraced their broken friend.
I also loved the moment, late, when Charlie chose to turn on his online Zoom camera. Some students cried, some laughed, but most seemed to radiate forgiveness.
They embraced their flawed mentor for his courage to be himself.
As always, Aronofsky introduces us to a tragic person, sliding downward.
We are tempted to judge, to pity.
In the end, we are asked to accept.
We are sent home in hopes we will judge less, forgive more.
That’s a journey I’m glad I took, my considerable discomfort notwithstanding. | 2023-01-19T14:32:56+00:00 | helenair.com | https://helenair.com/entertainment/movies/film-review-the-whale/article_7fc90d17-8a26-565c-a782-cb626ee8cef0.html |
The New York grand jury weighing an indictment of former President Trump in connection with an investigation into a hush money payment is no longer scheduled to meet Wednesday, according to multiple news outlets.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D) reportedly told the panel of jurors they should still be on standby to report on Thursday.
The delay was first reported by Business Insider.
The cancellation comes after Trump predicted over the weekend that he could be arrested as soon as Tuesday in connection with the probe.
Bragg’s office declined to comment.
The grand jury last met Monday, hearing testimony from attorney Bob Costello, who appeared at the behest of the Trump team in an effort to discredit former Trump attorney and fixer Michael Cohen.
Cohen, who served jail time on campaign finance and tax fraud charges, has testified repeatedly in the probe about the $130,000 payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels, which he said he made on Trump’s behalf.
The grand jury empaneled for Bragg’s investigation typically meets Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.
Still, it’s not unusual for grand juries to shift their schedules, adjusting based on witness availability or other conflicts.
Updated at 12:44 p.m. | 2023-03-22T19:14:52+00:00 | texomashomepage.com | https://www.texomashomepage.com/hill-politics/manhattan-da-cancels-wednesday-meeting-of-grand-jury-in-hush-money-probe/ |
Current Chief Executive Officer, Chris Johnston, embarks on a new journey with Microsoft Canada.
FREDERICTON, NB, Oct. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Bulletproof, a GLI company, announced today that company founder, Steven Burns, is returning to Bulletproof as President and Chief Operating Officer (COO), with an official start date of October 14, 2022.
Steven Burns founded Bulletproof in 2000 and served as its CEO until February 2020 when he moved into the role of Chairman/Advisor. Bulletproof, a technology, security, and compliance organization, has earned numerous accolades including global recognition from Microsoft as Security Partner of the Year in 2021.
"When we dreamed up Bulletproof, some 20-plus years ago, I never imagined we would be where we are today," said Burns. "I am especially proud of the work the Bulletproof team accomplished during a global pandemic. They rose to every challenge and walked away stronger, earning multiple prestigious awards along the way," said Burns. "I am looking forward to continuing this tremendous path of growth and am grateful to everyone that has contributed to the company's success. I cannot wait to see where we are in another 20-plus years from now."
"While I am excited to begin my new role with Microsoft Canada, it is difficult to leave the amazing Bulletproof Team", said Bulletproof's Chief Executive Officer, Chris Johnston. "As I pass the torch back to Steve, I do so with full confidence that he and the team will continue to drive growth and reach new levels of success. We are working closely together to ensure that the transition is as seamless as possible for our employees and our customers."
James Maida, President and CEO of the GLI Group (GLI®), the parent company of Bulletproof said, "It's not often that a transition for such a senior role can work out this smoothly. Chris Johnston made significant contributions to the growth of Bulletproof, and we'll always be grateful for his unfaltering leadership. To have Steven return to Bulletproof as President and COO is a great scenario for us. I'm looking forward to continuing our strong relationship and expanding Bulletproof together."
Headquartered in Canada with locations across the United States and around the globe, Bulletproof has decades of technology, security, and compliance expertise, protecting its clients' most valuable assets. The company's footprint now includes users on six continents; trusting Bulletproof to secure their identities, networks, data, and devices. Named Microsoft's global Security Partner of the Year in 2021 for delivering excellence and innovative end-to-end security solutions and five Microsoft Canada Impact Award wins from 2019 to present-day. Bulletproof is proud to be a long-standing Microsoft Gold Partner with twelve gold competencies, a member of the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association (MISA), and holder of the Microsoft Threat Protection Advanced Specialization.
For more information on Bulletproof visit our website (bulletproofsi.com) and join us on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook.
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The randomized controlled multicenter study is the first-of-its kind to investigate LITT benefits in radiographically recurrent brain metastasis patients
MINNETONKA, Minn., Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Monteris Medical announced today that the first patient has been enrolled in its REMASTer (Recurrent Brain Metastases After Stereotactic Radiosurgery [SRS] Trial) clinical trial. This randomized controlled study is designed to investigate laser interstitial thermal therapy (LITT) using the NeuroBlate System as an early intervention for radiographically progressive brain metastases and to provide Level I evidence to guide treatment for this complex patient population.
Treatment of recurrent brain metastases is challenging as no standardized care currently exists within the clinical community for patients with disease progression following SRS. This is primarily attributed to the uncertainty of the underlying cause being either recurrence or radiation necrosis. In recent years, LITT has proved to be an effective tool for both causes of progression after SRS and can be performed during the same procedure as needle biopsy. Recent published studies suggest that LITT plus SRS may be superior to LITT alone or repeat SRS alone for treatment of biopsy-proven brain metastasis recurrence after SRS failure, even after controlling for variables known to predict progression. Recent literature also has revealed LITT to be effective for the treatment of radiation necrosis, with a superior time to steroid independence compared to medical management alone.
The REMASTer trial is designed to determine the superior treatment algorithm for both the recurrent tumor and radiation necrosis populations. The study will enroll 154 patients at up to 12 sites. Primary endpoints for the study include time to local intracranial progression or death and time to steroid cessation. Additional endpoints include comparison of treatment approaches with respect to overall survival, quality of life, and cognitive changes over time.
"The REMASTer trial will be vital in providing Level I evidence that establishes a critically needed standard of care in patients who have radiographically progressive metastatic disease, be it radiation necrosis or true disease recurrence," said Dr. Peter Fecci, director of the Brain Tumor Immunotherapy Program and the Center for Brain and Spine Metastasis at Duke University School of Medicine in Durham, N.C. and REMASTer principal investigator. "Rapidly establishing steroid independence in the radiation necrosis population in the era of immunotherapy is crucial, as is optimizing freedom from local progression in patients with truly recurrent brain metastatic disease. This study will help to solidify the role for LITT in both scenarios."
It is estimated that up to 300,000 patients in the United States are diagnosed annually with metastatic brain tumors. The incidence of metastatic brain tumors has risen in recent years due to patients living longer with systemic cancers as a result of treatment advances, increased imaging procedures and early detection, and improvements in imaging technology. Metastatic tumor progression and radiation necrosis are therefore increasing in prevalence as well, necessitating the need for standard of care approaches to patient treatment.
"While the data supporting the use of LITT in radiation necrosis and recurrent metastatic disease is already strong enough to warrant inclusion in National Comprehensive Cancer Network® guidelines, evidence is lacking to advise the best time for LITT in the treatment algorithm for patients with radiographic progression," said Jennifer Englund, vice president of clinical and regulatory affairs of Monteris. "We believe the study Dr. Fecci has designed is poised to deliver meaningful results that will standardize treatment for this growing population of patients."
About REMASTer
Information about the REMASTer study can be found here: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT05124912.
About Monteris and the NeuroBlate System
Monteris Medical is a privately held company that develops and markets innovative MR-guided ablation systems to perform minimally invasive, robotically controlled brain surgery, commonly referred to as laser ablation, LITT (Laser Interstitial Thermal Therapy) or SLA (Stereotactic Laser Ablation). The Monteris NeuroBlate System is the only minimally invasive system that enables a robotic interface for the precise and safe delivery of laser energy. The Monteris Medical NeuroBlate System is a neurosurgical tool and is intended for ablating intracranial soft tissue, including brain structures such as brain tumors, radiation necrosis, and epileptogenic foci (as identified by non-invasive and invasive neurodiagnostic testing, including imaging). For more information, visit monteris.com.
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The death of Queen Elizabeth II has drawn condolences from across the globe. Among those who paid tribute were Irish politicians, who praised the queen’s efforts to repair strained ties between Ireland and Britain.
Ireland gained its independence from Britain in 1922, ending eight centuries of English political and military intervention for most of the island. Northern Ireland, though, opted to remain part of the United Kingdom — and unresolved tensions between nationalists who wanted to be part of the republic and unionists loyal to the Crown led to decades of violence known as the Troubles between the late 1960s and late 1990s.
Anne Marie Quilligan, a social care worker from Ireland’s Limerick region, said on Thursday that the mixed reactions from Irish and other people whose nations suffered under the British Empire were “collective trauma."
“Unresolved trauma can become generational," she wrote on Twitter. “Colonisation is a trauma.”
Hannah Wanebo, an Irish American lawyer based in Dallas, wrote on Twitter that her Irish grandmother hated England so much that she would only travel home on flights that did not touch down on English soil.
“I’m shocked by how many people think the Potato Famine was due to crop failure and don’t know the English EXPORTED food from Ireland to England during that time - enough food to feed all the Irish who died,” Wanebo wrote, referring to the 19th-century famine in Ireland that resulted in the deaths of as many as a million Irish people and the emigration of another 2 to 3 million escaping starvation.
Elizabeth wasn’t queen during the Irish famine. But she reigned during the Troubles in Northern Ireland — and when the two sides made peace with the Good Friday Agreement in 1998.
In 2011, she made history as the first monarch to travel to Ireland since its independence. Elizabeth traveled the country and addressed the two nations’ difficult, shared past head-on.
“To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past, I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy,” she said in a speech at Dublin Castle. "With the benefit of historical hindsight, we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.”
In 2012, the queen shook hands with Martin McGuinness, a former commander of the Irish Republican Army who had become deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland. The IRA, a paramilitary group that used violent tactics in its pursuit of Irish reunification, had killed the queen’s cousin in 1979.
Michelle O’Neill, head of the nationalist Sinn Fein party that was previously associated with the IRA, shared her sympathies with the royal family Thursday.
“Throughout the peace process she led by example in building relationships with those of us who are Irish, and who share a different political allegiance and aspirations to herself and her Government,” O’Neill said in a statement.
In a statement after her death, Taoiseach Micheál Martin, head of the Republic of Ireland’s government, said that state visit “marked a crucial step in the normalisation of relations with our nearest neighbour.” Mary Lou McDonald, president of Sinn Fein, called the queen “a powerful advocate and ally of those who believe in peace and reconciliation.”
Others shared excerpts of a column last year by Patrick Freyne in the Irish Times, on the struggle between Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, and the rest of the royal family. Freyne argued that the monarchy was an archaic institution with no future.
“Having a monarchy next door is a little like having a neighbour who’s really into clowns and has daubed their house with clown murals, displays clown dolls in each window and has an insatiable desire to hear about and discuss clown-related news stories,” Freyne wrote in March 2021. “More specifically, for the Irish, it’s like having a neighbour who’s really into clowns and, also, your grandfather was murdered by a clown.”
Irish Times correspondent Naomi O’Leary pointed out that some videos and claims circulating on social media following the queen’s death were misinformation. The Associated Press debunked one claim that a video showing an Irish dance group performing a routine to the Queen song “Another One Bites the Dust” outside Buckingham Palace occurred on Thursday after the queen’s death. In fact, the group posted the video on social media months before, in January.
With some exceptions, O’Leary said, the Irish public largely sympathizes with the British people over the loss of their queen.
“The actual response in Ireland is yes, some indifference because it’s not important to everybody," she tweeted of the queen’s death. "But public expressions are overwhelmingly empathetic to our neighbours, friends and in many cases family members.”
Karla Adam in London contributed to this report.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Lyft Inc. (LYFT) on Thursday reported a loss of $187.6 million in its first quarter.
The San Francisco-based company said it had a loss of 50 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for stock option expense and restructuring costs, were 8 cents per share.
The results beat Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of eight analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for a loss of 9 cents per share.
The ride-hailing company posted revenue of $1 billion in the period, also topping Street forecasts. Twelve analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $976.9 million.
For the current quarter ending in June, Lyft said it expects revenue in the range of $1 billion to $1.02 billion.
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PickUp USA Fitness Set to Open a New Franchise Location in Colorado
LOS ANGELES, June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PickUp USA Fitness (www.pickupusafitness.com) will be opening their newest franchise location in Greenwood Village in July.
Founded in 2012 in Irwindale, California, PickUp USA is a national chain of basketball gyms that provides basketball related services for youth and adults. The company has 16 locations open or under construction with an additional 31 franchise licenses awarded.
PickUp USA gyms offer traditional weight and cardio equipment, but their focus is serving consumers seeking basketball activities. Some of their offerings include youth basketball camps, youth basketball development leagues, private basketball training, adult basketball leagues, PickUp basketball for youth and adults, as well as basketball tournaments.
PickUp USA in Greenwood Village will be the first PickUp USA location in Colorado and is one of two clubs opening in the Denver market this year for the California-based gym chain. This location will feature two full basketball courts, a 2,500sf weight room, Vertimax training, and shooting machines.
Ralph and Amber Henderson are the franchise owners of the new PickUp USA and see a major opportunity in the Denver market for their gym. "I decided to open a PickUp USA in Greenwood Village because it's something Colorado needed," says Ralph Henderson about his gym. "My love for the sport makes me wish I experienced it as a child. This place is great for adults but amazing for youth who love basketball as much as I do."
In February of 2021, the Hendersons were considering opening their own basketball gym concept when they came across PickUp USA during a Google search. They connected with PickUp USA's Franchise Development Manager, Grace Ronquillo, to discuss the opportunity further.
"From my first conversation with Ralph and Amber, I knew that they were going to be a great fit for our brand," says Ronquillo. "We had been vetting franchise partners in Colorado for a while, and I knew our search was over very shortly after connecting with the Hendersons."
A month later, the Hendersons had signed their franchise agreement and were working with PickUp USA's real estate team to secure a facility for their gym.
PickUp USA Greenwood Village is currently pre-selling memberships and is opening to the public in July.
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Lee Hodges shoots 4-over 74 in round two of the Cadence Bank Houston Open
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November 11, 2022
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November 11, 2022
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Lee Hodges sinks 8-footer for birdie at Cadence Bank
In the opening round of the 2022 Cadence Bank Houston Open, Lee Hodges makes birdie on the par-4 13th hole.
Lee Hodges hit 9 of 18 greens in regulation during his second round at the Cadence Bank Houston Open, finishing at 3 over for the tournament. Hodges finished his day tied for 88th at 3 over; Tony Finau is in 1st at 13 under; Patrick Rodgers and Alex Noren are tied for 2nd at 9 under; and Tyson Alexander is in 4th at 8 under.
On the 625-yard par-5 eighth, Hodges had a birdie after hitting the green in 2 and two putting. This moved Hodges to 1 under for the round.
On the 406-yard par-4 13th, Hodges had a bogey after hitting the green in 4 and one putting, moving Hodges to even for the round.
Hodges got a bogey on the 529-yard par-4 14th, getting on the green in 3 and two putting, moving Hodges to 1 over for the round.
On the 155-yard par-3 15th, Hodges's tee shot went 155 yards to the left side of the fairway and his chip went 9 yards to the green where he rolled a two-putt for bogey. This moved him to 2 over for the round.
On the 576-yard par-5 16th, Hodges had a birdie after hitting the green in 2 and two putting. This moved Hodges to 1 over for the round.
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CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Oury Bailo Bah was on the phone with his brother when he heard crackling, gunshots and screams in the background at the stadium where protesters had gathered in 2009.
He urged El Hadj Hassane Bah to stay on the line as he attempted to flee the gunfire from members of the presidential guard known as the red berets.
“He was running and all of a sudden, apparently, the phone dropped because I could hear the surrounding noises, but not my brother,” Oury Bailo Bah said Tuesday. “He didn’t answer anymore.”
Witnesses and victims’ relatives, including Oury Bailo Bah, began giving testimony Tuesday in the trial of 11 defendants charged with murder over the Sept. 28, 2009 massacre that left at least 157 protesters dead and dozens of women raped. As many as 400 people are expected to testify in the coming weeks.
Among those charged is former coup leader Moussa “Dadis” Camara, who testified in December that he had been asleep as the massacre unfolded.
The demonstrators at the stadium that day were protesting Camara’s plans to run for president. The junta said “uncontrolled” elements of the army carried out the rapes and killings. But a Human Rights Watch investigation found that Camara’s top aides were at the stadium and did nothing to stop the violence.
Several months later Camara survived an assassination attempt and fled to Burkina Faso where he lived in exile for more than a decade before returning to stand trial in Guinea.
During his testimony Tuesday, Oury Bailo Bah described the chaos and heartbreak that confronted victims’ families that day. After learning about the massacre on television, he went from hospital to hospital visiting morgues in hope of finding his brother’s body.
“Trucks came, three trucks full of bodies and wounded. I had never seen so much blood from a human being. Human blood was flowing as if we were at a butcher shop,” he recalled.
It would take five more days before the families would be allowed to come and collect the bodies, he said. Dozens of corpses, though, were not there.
Oury Bailo Bah says he knows his brother died that day — he held up a picture of his body in court on Tuesday that was taken in the aftermath of the violence at the stadium. But the family was never able to locate his remains.
Oury Bailo Bah said he had tried to conceal that detail from his mother, hoping to spare her further grief by saying instead that his body was too decomposed to be buried.
“She said to me: ‘Even if he is a mess, you have to put him in a bag and send him to me. I want to see it.’” he testified. “It was at that precise moment that I was forced to admit to her that the body had not been found.”
“We don’t have a grave to gather at,” he said. “What we have left of him is his memory. I would like, Mr. President, to be told where my brother’s body is.” | 2023-02-14T19:42:07+00:00 | wearegreenbay.com | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/international/ap-international/ap-witnesses-begin-testifying-in-guinea-stadium-massacre-trial/ |
RICHFIELD TWP., MI – Authorities do not believe foul play was involved in the death of a 59-year-old Flint man whose body was recovered late Monday from the waters near the Holloway Dam.
An autopsy will be conducted this week on the man, identified by officials as Tony Bigelow, but Genesee County Parks Chief Ranger David Dwyre said the investigation has pointed toward the man’s death being accidental.
Fire and police crews from several departments responded to the Holloway Reservoir on the afternoon of Monday, Jan. 30, after a park patron spotted a man’s body in the water.
Related: Rescuers working to recover person found in water at Holloway Dam
Dwyre said park rangers were assisted by EMS, the Genesee County Sheriff’s Office, as well as dive teams from the sheriff’s departments in Lapeer, Saginaw, and St. Clair counties.
A hovercraft from the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office was needed to get to Bigelow’s body.
A missing person’s report had been previously filed for Bigelow, who had been last seen on Sunday, Jan. 29.
Dwyre said it appears as though Bigelow walked across the frozen water near the dam and fell through.
The investigation remains open and ongoing.
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MSP identifies 81-year-old Clio man killed in weekend crash | 2023-01-31T20:40:59+00:00 | mlive.com | https://www.mlive.com/news/flint/2023/01/investigation-underway-after-flint-mans-body-pulled-from-icy-waters-near-holloway-dam.html |
Cuesta College's 58th graduating class will have a walk-through commencement ceremony on May 19, 2023, from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. at the San Luis Obispo campus.
The college says that 1,207 graduating students will be honored for their accomplishments. Cuesta College will be giving out a a total of 1,614 degrees, including 697 associates in arts, 233 associates in science, 292 associates in arts for transfer, and 392 associates in science for transfer.
The college offers 141 certificate programs and 84 associate degree programs, which include 36 transfer degrees that will help many students transition into the California State University system.
“I am in awe of the remarkable achievements of Cuesta College’s graduating class of 2023. The highlight of the year is celebrating the accomplishments of our graduates. I am thrilled to extend my heartfelt congratulations to each triumphant student crossing the stage," said Superintendent/President Dr. Jill Stearns, Cuesta College.
According to Cuesta College, 595 students of this year's graduating class are from San Luis Obispo County high schools.
The college states that 392 students have achieved honors or high honors, attaining a grade point average of 3.5 or higher, while 25 students have earned a perfect 4.0 GPA.
On May 18 at 1:00 p.m., the college will also honor 44 nursing graduates in a pinning ceremony at the Harold J. Miossi Cultural and Performing Arts Center, which can be streamed online.
Cuesta College is also inviting the public to watch their 58th Commencement ceremony online.
For more information about their upcoming commencement ceremony, click here. | 2023-05-16T23:05:24+00:00 | ksby.com | https://www.ksby.com/news/local-news/cuesta-college-to-celebrate-58th-commencement-with-walk-through-ceremony |
Join Efforts to Help Save Lives and Bring Hope to Those Affected by Suicide
CHICAGO, July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Registration is now open for the Out of the Darkness Chicagoland Walk, an annual event that helps prevent suicide as well as bring hope to those affected by suicide. Sponsored by the Illinois chapter of The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP), the walk will be held at Montrose Harbor from 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. on September 17, 2022.
The Chicagoland Walk is one of hundreds held in cities throughout the country. These events give people the courage to open up about their own connections to the cause, and a platform to create a culture that's smarter about mental health.
"In 2020, 54% of Americans had been affected by suicide in some way," said Angela Cummings, AFSP Illinois Area Executive Director. "The annual walk provides an outlet for the community to come together to provide support, share their stories whether they have been struggling themselves or know someone who has been affected, and work toward suicide prevention. It is a powerful day."
Participants can sign up as individuals or as a team. Every dollar raised from the Chicagoland Walk allows AFSP to invest in life-saving research, education, advocacy, and support for those impacted by suicide. Since the first walk was held in 2004, events like the Out of the Darkness Chicagoland Walk have provided a platform to create awareness about mental health issues.
Nationally, nine in ten individuals who die by suicide were living with a diagnosable mental health condition at the time of their death, with these conditions often being undiagnosed or untreated. As a leading cause of death, suicide is a public health problem, but can be prevented through education and advocacy. Research shows that there is no single cause for suicide, and suicide risk increases when several health factors and life stressors converge to create an experience of hopelessness and despair. People can learn the warning signs at afsp.org/signs.
One of this year's corporate sponsors is Compass Health Center.
"Compass is excited to partner once again with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention to support their goal of reducing suicide 20% by 2025," said Dr. Claudia Welke, MD, Child, Adolescent and Adult Psychiatrist, Chief Medical Officer, Compass Health Center. "We are grateful to be walking both virtually and in person this year with one important stride in mind: we must ALL take action to reduce the rate of suicides. The overall rate of suicide has increased by more than 30% in the last 20 years, and we know it doesn't discriminate. However, it is important to understand that it is preventable. At Compass, we are all too familiar with those struggling with suicidal thoughts and it is our mission to provide the lifesaving treatment that so many desperately need through partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient programs."
AFSP and its Illinois Chapter are dedicated to improved research, education and advocacy. Through its statewide network of volunteers, AFSP Illinois offers prevention education programs that emphasize the importance of research-proven self-care techniques as well as the value of engaging professional support.
If you or someone you know is at risk of suicide, please call the U.S. National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-8255, text TALK to 741741 or go to www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org.
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention is dedicated to saving lives and bringing hope to individuals affected by suicide. The organization creates a culture that is smart regarding mental health through educational programs, advocation for suicide prevention, and providing support for those affected by suicide. All donations go towards these efforts with the goal to greatly reduce the national suicide rate.
For more: www.afsp.org/chapter/illinois
Chicagoland Walk: chicagowalk.org
Suicide Prevention Resources: www.afsp.org/suicide-prevention-resources
Suicide Warning Signs: www.afsp.org/signs
Media: Reporting on Suicide Prevention: www.afsp.org/reporting-on-suicide-prevention
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WATCH: Worker slips while feeding 700-pound gator
MOSCA, Colo. (KKTV/Gray News) - Elvis, the 12-foot and 700-pound gator at Colorado Gator Farm, nearly made a meal out of a worker, KKTV reports.
Video shows the moments when the worker tries to toss Elvis a full turkey but slips. Suddenly, Elvis charges at the man.
Thankfully, the worker is fine.
Getting close to the animals as guests watch is their normal way of feeding them.
KKTV anchor Matt Kroschel was visiting when it happened and said the scene was “quite tense.”
While the Colorado Gator Farm is back open, it’s also still recovering from a fire earlier this year. A GoFundMe was created to help the farm with the cleanup and rebuilding process.
The Colorado Gator Farm rescues the animals in their facility.
Copyright 2023 KKTV via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2023-07-26T19:09:01+00:00 | kfyrtv.com | https://www.kfyrtv.com/2023/07/26/watch-worker-slips-while-feeding-700-pound-gator/ |
Nio on Thursday took the covers off its first wagon, a body style popular in Europe, where the electric vehicle maker is currently expanding.
The new ET5 Touring is based on Nio’s ET5 compact sedan unveiled in 2021, and starts deliveries in Nio’s home market of China later this month. Deliveries in Europe are scheduled to follow late this year. Although Nio has promised to launch vehicles in the U.S., the automaker, which is often billed as China’s Tesla, hasn’t confirmed an arrival date in this market.
In China, the ET5 Touring will initially be offered with the choice of 75- or 100-kwh batteries, priced from 298,000 renminbi (approximately $41,835) and 356,000 renminbi ($49,975) respectively. Buyers can also choose to purchase the vehicle without a battery, in which case they will need to sign up for a battery subscription plan. The price of the ET5 Touring without the battery drops to 228,000 renminbi (approximately $32,000).
The estimated range with the biggest battery is 347 miles, though as measured on the WLTP cycle which isn’t as strict as the EPA cycle. Like Nio’s other models, the ET5 Touring is capable of having its battery swapped within minutes at one of Nio’s dedicated battery swap facilities.
The sole powertrain is a dual-motor all-wheel-drive setup generating a peak 482 hp, or enough for 0-60 mph acceleration in about 4.0 seconds.
The ET5 Touring measures 188 inches long and comes with a panoramic glass roof that almost spans the length of the cabin. Thanks to rear folding seats, maximum storage measures a generous 45.9 cubic feet. That’s more space than in the other electric wagon on the market, Porsche’s Taycan Sport Turismo, which has 42.8 cubic feet.
The interior design is similar to what you find in the Tesla Model 3, with the dash largely devoid of controls as most functions are controlled by a 12.8-inch screen where the traditional center stack is found. A second screen forms a digital instrument cluster.
A suite of sensors, known as the Watchtower and incorporating lidar, is mounted to the roof. These work with additional sensors to provide information for 23 electronic driver-assist features fitted as standard to the vehicle, with more planned to be regularly added via over-the-air updates, Nio said.
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- Akio Toyoda drops first details on Toyota electric sports car | 2023-06-17T02:26:48+00:00 | localsyr.com | https://www.localsyr.com/automotive/internet-brands/nio-et5-touring-is-an-attractive-electric-wagon/ |
Used to be when toast was on the menu way back in time, they would put bread on a stick and place it over an open fire, much like when we roast marshmallows these days. It wasn’t until the early 1900s that the first electrical toaster came on the market. It was invented by General Electric and consisted of a cage-like device with a single heating element that could only toast one side at a time.
Fortunately, we’ve come a long way since then for, as with so many of our appliances, they have evolved into so much more than their originally intended purpose. So it is with this Compact Toaster Oven by Ninja Foodi.
Not only can you toast your bread evenly, on both sides no less, this 2-in-1 kitchen must-have bakes and broils. Stand it up vertically and it will toast to perfection — be it any kind of bread, bagels, or waffles. With your choice of 7 levels of darkness, you can get it to just your shade of liking. Flip it on its side, unlock the setting to oven mode and you can defrost your frozen foods, reheat last night’s dinner, or broil up a couple of individual-sized pizzas. With the capacity to cook up to 16 chicken nuggets and the fact that it cooks 35% faster than a conventional oven, this compact toaster oven is going to help make life much easier when it comes to making a quick snack, or a light dinner, leaving you with more time to spend on your hobbies, or even catch up on your z’s. And for easy cleaning, the crumb tray traps and locks crumbs in both the toaster and oven position.
It may not be as cool as the toaster that will burn images onto your bread, but it is far more practical, and it’s available now until February 23, 2023, during our Refurbished Event for only $69.99, no coupon needed.
Prices are subject to change. | 2023-02-22T13:55:42+00:00 | wsls.com | https://www.wsls.com/deals/2023/02/22/a-toast-to-this-refurbished-2-in-1-compact-toaster-oven-for-6999/ |
BANGOR — Bodie Bishop pitched 5 1/3 innings of two-hit shutout baseball to help lead Bronco Little League to a 19-0 victory over Orono-Veazie to win the District 3 Junior League championship at Mansfield Stadium in Bangor on Saturday.
Bronco, of the Hampden area, advanced to the state tourney on July 29-30 at Mansfield.
Bishop struck out 11 and was backed by Nicholas Llerena, who tripled, singled three times and drove in three runs. Gavin Monyok chipped in with a double, two singles and two RBIs and Owen Busick added three singles and three RBIs.
Bishop aided his own cause with two singles and a sacrifice fly and Ashton O’Roak had two singles and two RBIs.
Caleb Tidwell singled twice for Orono-Veazie.
Orono-Veazie advanced to the championship round with an 11-5 victory over Hermon in an elimination-round game on Friday.
Orono-Veazie scored four runs on a hit, four walks and an error in the sixth inning to break open what had been a one-run game.
Kason Bagley sparked Orono-Veazie with an RBI triple and Josh McGovern doubled.
Dylan Phair recorded three singles for Hermon while Thomas Meserve and Alex Boyd each added two singles. Dylan Yeo contributed an RBI double and sacrifice fly.
Bronco moved to the championship round with a 13-2 victory over Hermon Wednesday when Llerena and Nykson Moors combined on a four-hitter.
Moors led the offense with a double, three singles and four RBIs while Monyok chipped in with a triple, single and two RBIs. Rogan Lord contributed a triple and single; Bishop added a double, single and two RBIs, Busick had a double, single and two RBIs and Llerena had a double and RBI single.
Ethan Curtis and Meserve each singled twice and drove in a run to lead Hermon.
In Wednesday’s second game, Bagley smacked an inside-the-park home run and also singled twice with three RBIs to help Orono-Veazie eliminate Holbrook-Brewer-Orrington 14-9.
Wyatt Chandler added a double and single for Orono-Veazie.
Ian Boudreau doubled for Holbrook-Brewer-Orrington.
(Saturday’s Championship Game)
(3-0) Bronco 205 02(10) — 19 18 2
(3-2) Orono-Veazie 000 000 — 0 3 8
Bronco: Bishop, O’Roak (6) and Lord; Orono-Veazie: Ouellette, Watson (5), Allen (6), Tidwell (6) and Chandler
(Friday’s Game)
(3-1) Orono-Veazie 210 204 2 — 11 7 3
(2-2) Hermon 010 210 1 — 5 8 5
Orono-Veazie: Bagley, Gerbi (6) and Ouellette; Hermon: Largay, Merserve (4), Largay (5), Phair (6), Yeo (7) and Curtis
(Wednesday’s First Game)
(2-0) Bronco 203 203 3 — 13 15 1
(2-1) Hermon 200 000 0 — 2 4 4
Bronco: Llerena, Moors (5) and Lord; Hermon: Curtis, Largay (5), Yeo (6) and Meserve
(Wednesday’s Second Game)
(2-1) Orono-Veazie 152 102 3 — 14 9 1
(1-2) Holb-Brew-Orr 026 001 0 — 9 5 4
Orono-Veazie: Gerbi, Curley (2), Haggerty (3), Chandler (4) and Ouellette; Holb-Brew-Orr: Charette, Fernald (5) and Blackwood | 2022-07-17T19:18:29+00:00 | bangordailynews.com | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2022/07/17/sports/high-school-sports/bronco-captures-district-3-junior-league-baseball-title/ |
NEW YORK (PIX11) — Areas north of New York City were forecast to have their first snow of the season Tuesday, but once snow comes to the five boroughs later in the year, students will not get snow days.
The Department of Education policy is for students to participate in remote learning on days when school buildings are closed due to an emergency.
“On ‘Snow days’ or days when school buildings are closed due to an emergency, all students and families should plan on participating in remote learning,” the DOE website reads.
The city used to build at least one snow day into the year’s academic calendar, but then the pandemic hit. Plans for getting rid of snow days were first announced back in 2020. Students also had remote learning “snow days” in the following academic year.
In 2021, then Schools Chancellor Meisha Ross Porter the experience of having kids participating in remote learning taught the DOE a lot. Education Department spokesman Nathaniel Styer previously told PIX11 the DOE wanted “to maximize our students’ instructional time.” | 2022-11-16T03:07:40+00:00 | pix11.com | https://pix11.com/news/local-news/reminder-nyc-public-schools-wont-have-snow-days-this-year/ |
LONDON (AP) — An Islamic State supporter was given a whole-life sentence Wednesday for stabbing a British lawmaker to death in revenge for his voting in support for airstrikes on Syria.
Ali Harbi Ali, 26, was convicted Monday of murdering Conservative lawmaker David Amess and preparing terrorist acts. A jury deliberated for just 18 minutes before finding him guilty.
“The defendant has no remorse or shame for what he has done — quite the reverse,” Justice Nigel Sweeney told the court. “This is a murder that struck at the heart of democracy.”
Ali stabbed Amess with a carving knife multiple times on Oct.15 while he was meeting with voters at a church hall in the town of Leigh-on-Sea in eastern England. Ali, a London man with Somali heritage, said he targeted Amess because he backed voting for airstrikes on Syria in 2014 and 2015.
The whole-life sentence means Ali will never be eligible for parole, and will likely spend the rest of his days in prison.
Amess’s family said “there is no elation” following the sentencing and described the crime as “beyond evil.”
“We will wake each day and immediately feel our loss. We will struggle through each day for the rest of our lives,” the family said in a statement. “It breaks our heart to know that our husband and father would have greeted the murderer with a smile of friendship and would have been anxious to help.”
Prosecutors described Ali as a committed, fanatical terrorist and said he spent years plotting an attack on British politicians. Counter-terrorism officers at the Metropolitan Police said they had evidence that he carried out reconnaissance around the Parliament building in London weeks before the murder.
During the trial, Ali told the court he took action in the U.K. to help Muslims in Syria because he couldn’t travel to join the Islamic State group. He also said he did not think he did anything wrong.
He added he had expected to be shot and die at the scene, but decided to drop his knife after seeing that the first police to arrive were not armed with guns.
Amess, 69, had been a member of Parliament since 1983. He was pronounced dead at the scene after the stabbing.
The slaying of Amess shook the nation, as lawmakers often meet directly with the public. It came five years after Labour Party lawmaker Jo Cox was shot and stabbed to death by a far-right extremist. | 2022-04-13T12:31:40+00:00 | kxnet.com | https://www.kxnet.com/news/is-supporter-given-life-sentence-for-murdering-uk-lawmaker/ |
Charlie Clark discusses new movie 'Green Ghost'
There are big names in a Valley native's movie, Green Ghost.
Besides Charlie Clark from Charlie Clark Nissan being part of his own movie, he was able to get Danny Trejo, famously known as “Machete” and a WWE star.
The movie consists of action-packed stunts, and while the Green Ghost may be the star of the show, he is also the pun of some of the jokes.
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“I had to go after big songs if I was going to make it into a theater,” Clark said. “I got Gasolina by Daddy Yankee – Robert Rodriguez actually reproduced Eye of the Tiger from Rocky in Spanish for my movie.”
The film took two years just to get the green light for the movie.
AMC in Edinburg is currently showing Clark’s film, but it won’t be out for too long. Clark says it will only be there for one more week. | 2022-05-26T17:49:12+00:00 | krgv.com | https://www.krgv.com/news/charlie-clark-discusses-new-movie-green-ghost- |
(AP) — An autopsy has confirmed that a body found inside a car submerged in a Northern California reservoir is that of 16-year-old Kiely Rodni, who disappeared after a large youth party earlier this month.
The Nevada County Sheriff’s Office released the official identification Tuesday in a social media post that did not include any other findings of the autopsy, citing the ongoing investigation.
The discovery was made during the weekend by a volunteer dive team and Nevada County Sheriff Shannan Moon said Monday that it was believed to be the body of the Truckee, California, girl who was last seen alive on Aug. 6. | 2022-08-24T03:18:49+00:00 | kurv.com | https://www.kurv.com/autopsy-confirms-body-found-in-reservoir-is-california-girl/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=autopsy-confirms-body-found-in-reservoir-is-california-girl |
The last time mixologist Tyler Gillespie visited the FOX59 studio, his enthusiasm for his craft was more than one glass could handle.
But we’re not ones to cry about broken glass, so we invited him back to concoct cocktails perfect for the Indy 500, including an Indianapolis take on a classic.
The St. Elmo Sidecar
- 1 oz. St. Elmo Whiskey
- 1 oz. Grand Marnier
- 1 oz. Lemon juice
1. Add all ingredients into shaker with ice, shake
2. Strain into ice filled tumbler
3. Garnish with charred lemon wheels
4. Enjoy! (victory lane not included)
The Elmo Cola
- 2 oz. St. Elmo Whiskey
- Bottle of cola
- 2 Luxardo Maraschino cherries
1. Fill rocks glass with ice.
2. Add 2oz St. Elmo Whiskey.
3. Fill glass with cola
4. Garnish with cherries | 2022-05-27T11:49:33+00:00 | fox59.com | https://fox59.com/morning-news/recipes/indy-500-cocktails-with-mixologist-tyler-gillespie-no-broken-glass-this-time/ |
By JULIE WATSON
Associated Press
SAN DIEGO (AP) — President Joe Biden on Wednesday kept the nation’s cap on refugee admissions at 125,000 for the 2023 budget year, despite pressure from advocates to raise it even higher to meet the need after falling far short of that target this year.
Refugees advocates have been pushing the Biden administration to do more to restore the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program. The program suffered deep cuts under the Trump administration, which slashed admissions to a record low.
Biden raised the cap to four times that amount this year, but so far fewer than 20,000 refugees have been admitted this budget year, according to the latest count in August. The budget year ends Sept. 30.
Biden said in his presidential determination that the admissions should be earmarked for 40,000 refugees from Africa, 35,000 from South Asia and and 15,000 each from East Asia, Europe and Latin America.
Krish O’Mara Vignarajah, head of Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, said the Biden administration must act now to improve the U.S. Refugee Program with the United Nations reporting a record 100 million people being displaced from their homes.
“It must ramp up and streamline overseas processing of refugee applications if this lifesaving program is to remain relevant amid an unprecedented global displacement crisis,” she said in a statement.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission. | 2022-09-28T02:23:33+00:00 | wtmj.com | https://wtmj.com/national/2022/09/27/biden-keeps-us-target-for-refugee-admissions-at-125000/ |
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is set to announce next week that it’s setting up a military training mission in Europe for thousands of Ukrainian troops and will provide around half a billion more euros (dollars) to help buy weapons for the war-torn country, diplomats and officials said Friday.
The aim is to train almost 15,000 Ukrainian troops in a number of EU countries, chiefly Poland and Germany, the officials said. It would range from standard military training to specialized instruction, based on Ukraine’s needs. The EU hopes to have it operational by mid-November.
EU foreign ministers will endorse the plans at a meeting in Luxembourg on Monday. The officials and diplomats spoke on condition of anonymity to provide details before the plans are officially announced.
Several EU and NATO nations are already helping to train the Ukraine armed forces on a bilateral basis, but diplomats said that this would be more cost effective and efficient — with a centralized command structure better able to address Ukraine’s needs — when done as a collective effort.
NATO started training military instructors in Ukraine after Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula in 2014. The military alliance believes that training the trainers is the most effective way of helping Ukraine’s armed forces as it does not require troops needed for battle to leave the country.
At their meeting in Luxembourg, the ministers will also approve a sixth tranche of money, worth around 500 million euros (dollars), from European Peace Facility — a fund being used to reimburse member countries that provide weapons, ammunition and non-lethal military support to Ukraine.
It will bring to just around 3.1 billion euros the total EU sum in security support being made available for Ukraine. Individual countries are also spending more on top of that.
The decisions are set to be announced almost eight months after Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine. Earlier this week, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell criticized the 27-nation bloc for being too slow to come to the country’s aid.
“We had been discussing about the Ukrainian training mission before the war. Before the war. For months, for months before the war,” Borrell, who will chair Monday’s meeting, told a conference of EU ambassadors.
“Then the war comes and people said, ‘Oh, we should have done it.'” | 2022-10-15T12:12:16+00:00 | nwahomepage.com | https://www.nwahomepage.com/news/international/ap-international/ap-eu-to-unveil-ukraine-training-mission-weapons-fund-support/ |
Which TV antenna is best?
It’s a little-known fact, but your TV can pick up local TV channels — without paying for any kind of service — with the help of a good antenna. All you need to do is plug it in and have your TV search for channels. These antennas aren’t the gaudy bunny ears of years past anymore, either.
The best TV antenna is the GE Outdoor TV Antenna. It’s not too pricey and can pick up 4K-quality broadcasts from stations up to 70 miles away.
What to know before you buy a TV antenna
Indoor vs. outdoor
Indoor and outdoor TV antennas have the same goal but get there in different ways.
- Indoor antennas are easier to install — many simply stand on some feet or suction-cup to a surface — but need to be placed in specific spots, such as near windows, to get the best reception. They also have a much shorter range, with few exceeding 50 miles.
- Outdoor antennas can be complicated to install, often requiring mounts, specific tools and a heavy time commitment. However, their range is huge — they can detect signals from up to 200 miles away. Their signal is also cleaner, as being installed high up means they face fewer obstructions.
Channel frequency
Over-the-air signals are sent out on three kinds of frequencies — very high frequency low and high, plus ultra-high frequency. Most TV antennas only pick up one or two of these kinds of frequencies, so double-check the requirements of the stations you want to pick up and choose an antenna accordingly.
Direction
TV antennas are either single-direction or omnidirectional, with the difference becoming more apparent the farther away you are from where your desired signal is broadcast. If you want to pick up many signals, get an omnidirectional antenna. If you want to pick up specific long-distance signals, get a directional antenna.
What to look for in a quality TV antenna
Range
Better TV antennas have longer ranges. They give you greater access to signals and help maintain quality reception for those a long distance away. Keep in mind that the effective range is usually shorter than the maximum range — like reaching for something at the back of a high shelf versus something on the counter.
Indoor antennas have shorter ranges, typically around 50 miles. Outdoor antennas can have ranges of 50-200 miles.
Cable length
Most TV antennas include a coaxial cable to connect the TV and the antenna. A quality cable is long enough to connect the two, with just enough slack to be hidden out of the way. If the cable is too long or short, you can always buy another one.
How much you can expect to spend on a TV antenna
TV antennas typically cost $25-$150. Most indoor antennas cost less than $50. Outdoor antennas typically start around $50 and increase in price with higher effective ranges.
TV antenna FAQ
How does a TV antenna work?
A. To understand TV antennas, you need to start with the TV. Your TV has a built-in ability to understand over-the-air signals broadcast by local TV stations, but it doesn’t have the ability to pick them up. That’s where TV antennas come in — they detect the signals and send them to your TV over a coaxial cable to be translated into images and sound you can understand.
How do I know what channels I’ll be able to pick up?
A. That depends on what stations are in your area, how much range your antenna has and what frequencies it can detect. The biggest aspect is figuring out what stations are nearby — several websites let you input your address and give you a list of stations and their requirements to be picked up. Once you know what stations are available, just decide which ones you want and grab an antenna with specs that match the requirements.
Can an old TV hook up to a new antenna?
A. Yes, but you may need to jump through a hoop if it’s more than a decade old. Modern TVs have built-in digital tuners that can understand and translate the all-digital signals TV stations use. Old TVs don’t have this tuner, so you need to buy a converter box as a go-between.
What’s the best TV antenna to buy?
Top TV antenna
What you need to know: It’s effective and cost-conscious.
What you’ll love: It can pick up signals up to 4K quality at a maximum range of 70 miles, plus it’s weather-resistant. With separately purchased accessories you can send signals to multiple TVs in your home at once. It includes everything you need to install it.
What you should consider: High winds have been known to interfere with its reception. A few consumers had durability concerns in harsher climates. Reception is spotty at the edge of its range.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top TV antenna for the money
GE Ultra Edge Indoor TV Antenna
What you need to know: It’s perfect for picking up nearby stations.
What you’ll love: It can pick up signals up to 4K quality, can detect most frequencies and is easy to install thanks to an included wall mount. It’s small at only 6 by 12 inches and is reversible with a black and a white side.
What you should consider: Its maximum range is only 40 miles. The included cable was too short for some customers and a few reported some reception issues.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
PBD Digital Amplified Outdoor HD TV Antenna
What you need to know: It’s designed to pick up even the most distant stations.
What you’ll love: It can pick up signals up to 4K quality and all frequencies, plus it has a huge range of 150 miles. It has a wireless remote control to trigger its 360-degree rotation, includes a 40-foot coaxial cable and has several built-in amplifiers.
What you should consider: It’s pricey. Some purchasers felt the instructions were confusing and included no information on how to fix issues that may arise.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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BREED, Michael Gordan
Age 92, passed away June 19, 2022. Memorial Service to be determined. Tobias Funeral Home, Beavercreek Chapel, Beavercreek, OH.
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TOKYO — Hiroshima and Pearl Harbor, two symbols of World War II animosity between Japan and the United States, are now promoting peace and friendship through a sister park arrangement.
“Nobody can go to Pearl Harbor, and nobody can go to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial and enter the front door, walk out the exit door and be the same person,” Emanuel said at the signing ceremony at the American Embassy in Tokyo.
“I think the hope here is that we inspire people from all over the United States and all over Japan to visit Hiroshima Peace Memorial and to visit Pearl Harbor so they can learn the spirit of reconciliation,” Emanuel said.
Under the sister park arrangement, the two parks will promote exchanges and share experiences in restoring historic structures and landscapes, the use of virtual reality and digital images for preservation and education, and best practices in youth education and tourism management, the embassy said.
“The sister arrangement between the two parks related to the beginning and end of the war will be a proof that mankind, despite making the mistake of waging a war, can come to senses and reconciliate and pursue peace,” Matsui said.
Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941 propelled America into World War II. The United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, killing about 140,000 people, and a second one on Nagasaki three days later, killing another 70,000. Japan surrendered on Aug. 15, ending a nearly half-century of aggression across Asia.
Since the war, the two countries have built a powerful alliance.
In Hiroshima, some atomic bombing survivors raised concern about the sister park arrangement, saying it could help justify the use of nuclear weapons and should be reconsidered.
“I understand anguish and angst is an emotion but I don’t think you should be trapped by that,” Emanuel said. He said reconciliation between the United States and Japan “is the example of what I think this world desperately needs right now.”
Emanuel said Pearl Harbor is a revered place in the American psyche, while Hiroshima is an equally revered place in the Japanese psyche, “which is why you want to build a sister park agreement to learn from each other.”
The two parks became places of reconciliation when then-President Barack Obama paid tribute to atom bomb victims at the Hiroshima Peace Park as the first serving American leader to visit in May 2016, and then-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, in return, visited Pearl Harbor in December that year.
Those were “key steps in deepening the alliance between our two nations,” Obama said in a statement congratulating Thursday’s sister park signing and calling it “another historic accomplishment.”
“By connecting our two peoples to our shared past, we can build a shared future grounded in peace and cooperation,” he said.
The sister park arrangement is the second between the U.S. and Japan, following one signed in 2016 between Gettysburg National Military Park and Gifu Sekigahara Battlefield Memorial Museum. | 2023-06-29T15:12:55+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/06/29/japan-us-hiroshima-pearl-harbor-sister-park/9461042e-168b-11ee-9de3-ba1fa29e9bec_story.html |
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NEW YORK — Al Jaffee, Mad Magazine's award-winning cartoonist and ageless wise guy who delighted millions of kids with the sneaky fun of the Fold-In and the snark of "Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions," has died. He was 102.
Jaffee died Monday in Manhattan from multiple organ failure, according to his granddaughter, Fani Thomson. He had retired at the age of 99.
Mad, with its wry, sometimes pointed send-ups of politics and culture, was essential reading for teens and preteens during the baby-boom era and inspiration for countless future comedians. Few of the magazine's self-billed "Usual Gang of Idiots" contributed as much — and as dependably — as the impish, bearded cartoonist.
For decades, virtually every issue featured new material by Jaffee. His collected "Fold-Ins," taking on everyone in his unmistakably broad visual style from the Beatles to TMZ, was enough for a four-volume box set published in 2011.
Readers savored his Fold-Ins like dessert, turning to them on the inside back cover after looking through such other favorites as Antonio Prohías' "Spy. vs. Spy" and Dave Berg's "The Lighter Side." The premise, originally a spoof of the old Sports Illustrated and Playboy magazine foldouts, was that you started with a full-page drawing and question on top, folded two designated points toward the middle, and produced a new and surprising image, along with the answer.
The Fold-In was supposed to be a onetime gag, tried out in 1964 when Jaffee satirized the biggest celebrity news of the time: Elizabeth Taylor dumping her husband, Eddie Fisher, in favor of Cleopatra co-star Richard Burton. Jaffee first showed Taylor and Burton arm in arm on one side of the picture, and on the opposite side a young, handsome man being held back by a policeman.
Fold the picture in, and Taylor and the young man are kissing.
The idea was so popular that Mad editor Al Feldstein wanted a follow-up. Jaffee devised a picture of 1964 GOP presidential contenders Nelson Rockefeller and Barry Goldwater that, when collapsed, became an image of Richard Nixon.
"That one really set the tone for what the cleverness of the Fold-Ins has to be," Jaffee told The Boston Phoenix in 2010. "It couldn't just be bringing someone from the left to kiss someone on the right."
'Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions' delivered exactly what it promised
Jaffee was also known for "Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions," which delivered exactly what the title promised. A comic from 1980 showed a man on a fishing boat with a noticeably bent reel. "Are you going to reel in the fish?" his wife asks. "No," he says, "I'm going to jump into the water and marry the gorgeous thing."
Jaffee didn't just satirize the culture; he helped change it. His parodies of advertisements included such future real-life products as automatic redialing for a telephone, a computer spell checker and graffiti-proof surfaces. He also anticipated peelable stamps, multiblade razors and self-extinguishing cigarettes.
Jaffee's admirers ranged from Charles M. Schulz of "Peanuts" fame and "Far Side" creator Gary Larson to Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, who marked Jaffee's 85th birthday by featuring a Fold-In cake on The Colbert Report. When Stewart and The Daily Show writers put together the best-selling America (The Book), they asked Jaffee to contribute a Fold-In.
"When I was done, I called up the producer who'd contacted me, and I said, 'I've finished the Fold-In, where shall I send it?' And he said — and this was a great compliment — 'Oh, please Mr. Jaffee, could you deliver it in person? The whole crew wants to meet you,' " he told The Boston Phoenix.
Jaffee received numerous awards, and in 2013 was inducted into the Will Eisner Hall of Fame, the ceremony taking place at San Diego Comic-Con International. In 2010, he contributed illustrations to Mary-Lou Weisman's Al Jaffee's Mad Life: A Biography. The following year, Chronicle Books published The MAD Fold-In Collection: 1964-2010.
A childhood split between the U.S. and Lithuania
Art was the saving presence of his childhood, which left him with permanent distrust of adults and authority. He was born in Savannah, Georgia, but for years was torn between the U.S., where his father (a department store manager) preferred to live, and Lithuania, where his mother (a religious Jew) longed to return. In Lithuania, Jaffee endured poverty and bullying, but also developed his craft. With paper scarce and no school to attend, he learned to read and write through the comic strips mailed by his father.
By his teens, he was settled in New York City and so obviously gifted that he was accepted into the High School of Music & Art. His schoolmates included Will Elder, a future Mad illustrator, and Harvey Kurtzmann, a future Mad editor. (His mother, meanwhile, remained in Lithuania and was apparently killed during the war).
He had a long career before Mad. He drew for Timely Comics, which became Marvel Comics, and for several years sketched the "Tall Tales" panel for the New York Herald Tribune. Jaffee first contributed to Mad in the mid-1950s. He left when Kurtzmann quit the magazine, but came back in 1964.
Mad lost much of its readership and edge after the 1970s, and Jaffee outlived virtually all of the magazine's stars. But he rarely lacked for ideas even as his method, drawing by hand, remained mostly unchanged in the digital era.
"I'm so used to being involved in drawing and knowing so many people that do it, that I don't see the magic of it," Jaffee told the publication Graphic NYC in 2009. "If you reflect and think about it, I'm sitting down and suddenly there's a whole big illustration of people that appears. I'm astounded when I see magicians work; even though I know they're all tricks. You can imagine what someone thinks when they see someone drawing freehand and it's not a trick. It's very impressive."
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WILLIAMS,
Robert Michael
Age 69, of Franklin, Ohio, passed away on Tuesday, July 12, 2022. He was born September 25, 1952, in Lee County, Kentucky, the son of Robert B. Williams and Carrie (Watkins) Potter.
Robert worked for PCA for 34 years. He enjoyed hunting and loved horses. He was a proud Army veteran who loved his Country. Robert was a loving husband, father, grandfather, brother and uncle.
He is preceded in death by his parents.
Robert is survived by his wife of 45 years, Linda (Potter) Williams; son, Bobby (Jamie) Williams Jr.; daughter, Kimberly (Jeremiah) Gross; grandchildren, Kirsten Short, Isaac (McKenzie Hinkle) Williams, Hannah Williams, Anna Gross, Kaleb Gross, Levi Gross; siblings, Edna (Steve Lofvendahl) Williams, Penny (Jeff) Gayhart, Benny (Tracie) Williams, Jean Ann (Barry) Medley; many nieces and nephews and other loving family and friends.
Visitation will be 10am-12pm, Saturday, July 16, 2022, at Breitenbach Anderson Funeral Home, 517 South Sutphin Street, Middletown, OH 45044. A Funeral Service will follow at 12:00 pm with Pastor Everett Back officiating. Burial will be at Woodside Cemetery.
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The Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared to search for a middle path in an election law clash with weighty stakes for American democracy involving a bid by North Carolina GOP lawmakers to reinstate a Republican-drawn voting map.
Questions posed during three hours of oral argument suggested there was not a majority of justices eager to embrace a sweeping legal theory advanced by Republican state lawmakers that would give near-total authority to state legislatures to design congressional districts and shape the rules governing federal elections in the states.
Instead, some of the court’s conservative justices seemed to favor an outcome that would preserve some role — though perhaps a diminished one — for state courts and constitutions in regulating federal elections.
“You suggest that there’s a ‘narrower alternative ground’ to decide the case in your favor, which would allow some substantive state restrictions to be enforced,” Chief Justice John Roberts asked David Thompson, who represented North Carolina’s legislative leaders. “Could you articulate what that is?”
Conservative Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett also posed questions that seemed to reflect interest in a ruling that would stop short of completely insulating state legislatures from state-level constraints in carrying out federal elections.
In concrete terms, the case argued Wednesday was an appeal of a ruling by North Carolina’s top court that ordered a new congressional map to be drawn after finding the GOP’s version violated the state constitution due to its pro-Republican skew.
But the dispute’s broader implications for the future of U.S. democracy have seized national attention.
The North Carolina Republicans’ maximalist argument is that because state legislatures’ power to regulate federal elections comes directly from the U.S. Constitution, legislatures need not follow voter protections built into state constitutions. In effect, this would shield legislatures from state court oversight and state-constitutional checks in setting rules for how congressional elections are administered, counted and perhaps even decided.
Voters and voting rights groups, for their part, urged the justices not to foreclose a role for state courts, constitutions and election administrators in regulating federal elections.
Neal Katyal, who argued on behalf of voting rights advocates, cautioned that such a ruling would mean “opening Pandora’s box.”
“To accept petitioner’s claim,” Katyal said, “you’d have to ignore the text, history and structure of our federal constitution, as well as nearly every state constitution today.”
The Supreme Court’s three liberal members appeared hostile to the most muscular version of the theory put forth by the North Carolina legislative leaders.
At one point during arguments, liberal Justice Elena Kagan told their lawyer: “I would think that our precedent gives you a lot of problems.” Among the decisions she pointed to was the 2019 case of Rucho v. Common Cause, in which the court ruled 5-4 that federal courts could not review partisan gerrymandering claims — but left the door open for state-court review.
Kagan later turned to what she depicted as the dire consequences of an expansive ruling in favor of the North Carolina Republicans.
“This is a theory with big consequences,” Kagan said. “It would say that if a legislature engages in the most extreme forms of gerrymandering, there is no state constitutional remedy for that, even if the courts think that’s a violation of the constitution. It would say that legislatures could enact all manner of restrictions on voting, get rid of all kinds of voter protections that the state constitution in fact prohibits. It might allow the legislatures to insert themselves, to give themselves a role, in the certification of elections and the way election results are calculated.”
“In all these ways, I think what might strike a person is that this is a proposal that gets rid of the normal checks and balances on the way big governmental decisions are made in this country,” she continued. “And you might think that it gets rid of those checks and balances at exactly the time when they are needed most.”
The once-fringe legal theory at issue, known as the “independent state legislature” doctrine, briefly gained prominence in 2000 when it appeared in a Bush v. Gore concurrence before it largely fell dormant. But in recent years the concept has received fresh attention in conservative legal circles.
The theory is premised on a provision of the U.S. Constitution called the Elections Clause, which states: “The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof.”
At various points, questions posed by some of the court’s staunchest conservatives — Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch — suggested they were receptive to reading the Elections Clause as giving exclusive authority to state legislatures. Earlier this year, those same justices indicated that they would have issued a temporary ruling in favor of the North Carolina lawmakers that would have allowed the state’s GOP-drawn map to be used in the 2022 elections.
Much of Wednesday’s hearing concerned whether and how the justices could interpret the Elections Clause not as a sword to be wielded against state courts, but as something of a constitutional shield. Under this view, the Supreme Court would have the power to overrule state supreme courts that depart too radically from legislative measures governing federal elections.
Elizabeth Prelogar, the U.S. solicitor general, said the justices should generally defer to election-law decisions issued by state supreme courts. But the U.S. Supreme Court could make exceptions in cases where state courts go so far as to effectively carry out a legislative function on their own.
“If the state court decision is so lacking in any basis and has no fair or substantial support and can only be understood as an effort to frustrate federal rights,” Prelogar said, “then the [Supreme Court] can look past that decision.”
A ruling in the case, Moore v. Harper, is expected by late June.
Updated at 3:03 p.m. | 2022-12-07T21:11:31+00:00 | texomashomepage.com | https://www.texomashomepage.com/hill-politics/supreme-court-signals-interest-in-middle-path-in-major-election-law-clash/ |
Investigators like to say the crime scene at a killing tells the story even if no one else does.
In the double murder trial of disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh, his defense lawyers want jurors to believe the crime scene can’t tell them much about the deaths of his wife and son because state agents did a poor job investigating.
Murdaugh, 54, is accused of killing his wife, Maggie, 52, and their 22-year-old son, Paul, at kennels near their home on June 7, 2021, as the once-prominent attorney’s career and finances were crumbling. Murdaugh has denied any role in the fatal shootings. He faces 30 years to life if convicted.
Here are some key takeaways from the 61 prosecution and 11 defense witnesses called so far in the five-week trial, including Murdaugh himself.
CRIME SCENE PROBLEMS
The defense has called experts who said investigators didn’t dust for fingerprints, collect and test blood, or photograph evidence with the angles or clarity needed to study it properly later.
The first officer arrived at the rural Colleton County estate 20 minutes after Murdaugh called 911 when he returned home from visiting his ailing mother. Almost immediately, the local sheriff realized he was dealing with someone whose family dominated the legal system in neighboring Hampton County for generations and turned the investigation over to the State Law Enforcement Division.
It took hours for agents from across the state to get deep into the South Carolina Lowcountry. During that time, more than a dozen family and friends walked around the scene, comforting Murdaugh. The bodies of Paul and Maggie Murdaugh were covered with a sheet, which can absorb fluid, instead of a tarp. Then the sheet wasn’t saved, meaning possible hair or DNA from a killer could have been lost. Intermittent rain fell and the runoff from the kennel roof fell on Paul Murdaugh’s covered body.
“It’s a crime scene. You don’t want water dripping all over the place. But more importantly, I thought it was pretty disrespectful,” Murdaugh’s former law partner Mark Ball testified.
When state agents arrived, they sent Murdaugh and his entourage to the home. Witnesses testified it hadn’t been searched for weapons, bloody clothes and other evidence or even checked to see if a suspect was hiding inside.
Prosecutors have little direct evidence of Murdaugh’s guilt. The weapons used in the killings have not been found. There’s no blood-spattered clothes or surveillance video.
Prosecutor John Meadors told one of the experts that the investigators did the best they could under the circumstances.
“You’re being paid to come in here and say they did a bad job,” Meadors said.
STAR WITNESS
He was the 72nd witness of the five-week trial. But everyone perked up Thursday when Alex Murdaugh headed to the witness stand.
His defense team wasted no time. Their first questions were whether he killed his wife or son.
“I did not kill Maggie, and I did not kill Paul. I would never hurt Maggie, and I would never hurt Paul — ever — under any circumstances,” Murdaugh said.
Murdaugh admitted he lied for the 20 months when he told police, his family and anyone else who asked that he was not at the kennels before he found the bodies of his wife and son there. A video on his son’s iPhone, shot minutes before prosecutors think the killings happened, recorded Alex Murdaugh’s voice. It took state agents more than a year to hack into the phone and find it.
In cross-examination, Murdaugh admitted he stole from clients and his law firm, likely sealing his fate for many of the 100 other charges he faces ranging from theft to insurance fraud to tax evasion.
“I took money that wasn’t mine. And I shouldn’t have done it. I hate the fact that I did it. I am embarrassed by it. I’m embarrassed for my son. I am embarrassed for my family,” Murdaugh said.
COUSIN EDDIE
Outside of Murdaugh and his family, no potential witness has piqued the interest of trial watchers like Curtis “Eddie” Smith.
“Cousin Eddie,” as many have taken to calling him, was the person Murdaugh said he called when he wanted someone to kill him three months after the deaths of his wife and son.
The fatal shot only grazed Murdaugh’s head. Smith told reporters that the gun fired as they wrestled over the weapon and if he had shot intentionally at Murdaugh, he wouldn’t have missed.
Smith and Murdaugh met about a decade ago when Smith needed a lawyer for a workers’ compensation case. Investigators said they ran a drug and money laundering ring together with Smith cashing checks to help Murdaugh hide money he was stealing from clients.
In the end, both prosecutors and defense attorneys appear to have decided Smith could hurt their cases as much as help them.
Defense attorney Dick Harpootlian said Smith had six different explanations for shooting Murdaugh “and any other information you ask him about.”
But earlier this month as prosecutors and Harpootlian discussed with the judge whether Smith would testify, the feisty defense attorney lamented Smith might not be called.
“The cross-examination of Mr. Smith is something I am looking forward to,” Harpootlian said. | 2023-02-26T01:27:10+00:00 | pahomepage.com | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/national/ap-inadequate-investigation-takeaways-at-murdaugh-murder-trial/ |
NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – Across New Mexico, there is a desperate need for early childhood care givers, and the state is launching a new campaign to fill those thousands of positions. The Early Childhood Care and Education Department has a new plan to find those people, whether it’s a head start teacher, a caretaker, or a home visitor.
The campaign, called Developing Futures, includes TV ads, and billboards. The goal – to provide those looking to enter the field with the tools they will need. “We all have the same goal of trying to help these kids with these children with, you know, their social emotional development, a little bit of the fundamentals,” said Cabinet Secretary Elizabeth Groginsky, “just recently, there was a report issued to say that the childcare industry itself lost over a million of our workforce across the nation.”
The state says we need anywhere from 3,000 to 4,000 more early childhood care takers. Along with scholarships for students getting degrees, they are also offering pay incentives for those with degrees, or who are bilingual.
“We can get the word out and people will start clicking on that and learning more about the various opportunities but also the support that’s available. Again, wage enhancement, mentoring, supplemental support for students pursuing higher education degrees,” Groginsky said.
The state has the backing of those in the field, like Mikila Crespin, an early childhood educator in Silver City, she says this will not only help the kids but also the providers. “So many children who need us and it’s, it can be a little bit disheartening, and it kind of makes you feel a little bit, you know, of that pre burnout,” Crespin said.
For more information on the program, visit the state’s Developing Futures website. | 2022-08-22T18:57:18+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/news/new-mexico/new-mexico-launches-campaign-to-recruit-early-childhood-caretakers/ |
Black history class revised by College Board amid criticism
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — High school senior Kahlila Bandele is used to courses that don’t address the African American experience. Then there’s her 9 a.m. class. This week, it spanned topics from Afro-Caribbean migration to jazz.
The discussion in her Advanced Placement course on African American studies touched on figures from Marcus Garvey and Malcolm X to Jimi Hendrix and Rihanna. In her AP European History course, she said, “we’re not discussing Black people at all” — even though they were colonized by Europeans.
Her school in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, is one of 60 schools around the country testing the new course, which has gained national attention since Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis threatened to ban it in his state. The rejection has stirred new political debate over how schools teach about race.
The official curriculum for the course, released Wednesday by the College Board, downplays some components that had drawn criticism from DeSantis and other conservatives. Topics including Black Lives Matter, slavery reparations and queer life are not part of the exam. Instead, they are included only on a sample list states and school systems can choose from for student projects.
The College Board, which oversees AP exams, said revisions to the course were substantially complete before DeSantis shared his objections.
“The fact of the matter is that this landmark course has been shaped over years by the most eminent scholars in the field, not political influence,” the organization said in a written statement.
The revised curriculum will guide the course’s expansion to hundreds of additional high schools in the next academic year. College Board officials said developers consulted with professors from more than 200 colleges, including several historically Black institutions, and took input from teachers piloting the class.
The students at Baton Rouge Magnet High School were aware of the political controversy over the course. But the class on Monday was filled with discussion of the Négritude and Negrismo movements that celebrated Black culture and a painting by the Afro-Asian-Latino artist Wifredo Lam.
Afterward, Bandele, 18, said she doesn’t understand arguments that the course would indoctrinate children.
“I don’t feel particularly indoctrinated,” she said.
DeSantis, a possible Republican presidential candidate in 2024, said he was blocking the course in Florida because it pushed a political agenda.
“In the state of Florida, our education standards not only don’t prevent, but they require teaching Black history, all the important things. That’s part of our core curriculum,” DeSantis said at a news conference last week. “We want education and not indoctrination.”
A spokesperson for DeSantis on Wednesday said the state education department is reviewing the revised curriculum for compliance with Florida law.
Despite the College Board’s assurances otherwise, the notion that the course changed because of political controversy generated fresh outrage Wednesday. “To wake up on the first day of Black History Month to news of white men in positions of privilege horse trading essential and inextricably linked parts of Black History, which is American history, is infuriating,” said David Johns, executive director of the National Black Justice Coalition.
The course has been popular among students in schools where it has been introduced. In Baton Rouge, so many students were interested that Emmitt Glynn is teaching it to two classes, instead of just the one he was originally planning.
Earlier this week, his students read selections of “The Wretched of the Earth” by Frantz Fanon, which deals with the violence inherent in colonial societies. In a lively discussion, students connected the text to what they had learned about the conflict between colonizers and Native Americans, to the war in Ukraine and to police violence in Memphis, Tennessee.
“We’ve been covering the gamut from the shores of Africa to where we are now in the 1930s, and we will continue on through history,” Glynn said. He said he was proud to see the connections his students were making between the past and now.
For Malina Ouyang, 17, taking the class helped fill gaps in what she has been taught. “Taking this class,” she said, “I realized how much is not said in other classes.”
Matthew Evans, 16, said the class has educated him on a multitude of perspectives on Black history. He said the political controversy is just “a distraction.”
“Any time you want to try to silence something, you will only make someone want to learn about it even more,” he said.
The College Board offers AP courses across the academic spectrum, including math, science, social studies, foreign languages and fine arts. The courses are optional. Taught at a college level, students who score high enough on the final exam usually earn course credit at their university.
In Malcolm Reed’s classroom at St. Amant High School in Louisiana, where he teaches the AP class, he tries to be mindful of how the material and discussions can affect students.
“I give them the information and I’ve seen light bulbs go off. I ask them, ‘How does it affect you? How do you feel about learning this?’ " he said. “It’s also new for me, and I’m just taking it in stride. We’re not just learning history, but we’re making history.”
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Mumphrey reported from Phoenix. AP journalist Stephen Smith contributed to this report.
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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Police in northern Poland are facing questions over why they released without detailed interrogation three divers rescued from near a key oil port, where they had no authorization to be.
Security experts say the presence of the divers in the sensitive area of the Gulf of Gdansk last weekend raised concerns, given the high tensions with Russia over its energy deliveries. The divers had Spanish identity documents.
According to Polish media, the divers were rescued early Sunday after they sent a distress message when their unregistered small boat malfunctioned in stormy weather.
They were equipped with professional diving gear and claimed they were looking for amber, but none was found in the boat. They had no permission to dive in the gulf.
Despite a high level of security introduced across Poland due to the country’s support for Ukraine in its war with Russia, police released the men. That has raised questions, the more so because the phone numbers they gave turned out to be inactive.
In raising their concerns, experts are pointing to the underwater explosions last summer that damaged the Nord Stream 2 pipelines that run on the Baltic Sea bed and were to carry Russian gas to Germany. Swedish and Danish authorities have said the leaks were sabotage. | 2023-01-19T10:45:29+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/world/questions-in-poland-over-divers-found-near-key-port/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all |
ST. MATTHEWS -- Funeral services for Mother Leola W. Curry will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, June 11, 2022, at The Church of God In Christ SC Jurisdictional Headquarters, 1339 Coulter Road, St. Matthews, with burial to follow in the cemetery.
Masks are required during the services.
Mother Curry leaves to cherish memories her loving children, Mary Curry of the home, Lillie Curry, Henry Curry Jr. of St.Matthews, Brenda (Robert) Jones, Orangeburg, Barbara Sims, Elizabeth Myers, Janet (Dr. Supt James) McKenney, Sandra (Daryl) Murphy, all of Columbia, and Edwin (Rosalind) Curry of St.Matthews; grandchildren reared in the home, Annie (Anthony) Scott, Tyhessia Curry, Audrey Curry, Terrance Curry, Lavonya Curry and Tiffany Curry; great-grandchildren, Jalonda Howell and Itaevia Curry-Chisolm; sisters, Clara Reed, Green Pond, Ruby Myers, Columbia; sister-in-law, Minnie Singletary, Orangeburg; 21 grandchildren; 47 great-grandchildren; five great-great-grandchildren. Her adopted children list goes on and on. One special son, Freddie Ellis Jr.; loving neighbors and friends who will miss her dearly.
Services entrusted to Jenkins Funeral Services of St. Matthews. | 2022-06-11T05:33:51+00:00 | thetandd.com | https://thetandd.com/news/local/obituaries/leola-w-curry----st-matthews/article_cace26ad-b1f9-5bd2-b403-47b80e11733c.html |
Twin Falls boys squeak by Wood River; Tuesday’s prep basketball scores
The Bruins open conference play with a win
Published: Dec. 7, 2022 at 2:21 PM MST|Updated: 23 minutes ago
TWIN FALLS, Idaho (KMVT/KSVT) — The Twin Falls boys basketball team picked up a conference win over Wood River Tuesday night.
Twin Falls 68, Wood River 66
GIRLS BASKETBALL SCORES
Kimberly 68, Marsh Valley 65 F/OT
Snake River 45, Filer 27
Mountain Home 40, Burley 38
Minico 56, Jerome 44
Dietrich 54, Wendell
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Communications firm outlives its 1963 competitors while operating under same family ownership
COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Strategic communications firm Paul Werth Associates, born in a former candy store on Olentangy Road in 1963, is marking its 60th anniversary this year as one of the few remaining Columbus firms from that time and the only one still operating under the same ownership.
Founded by its namesake, the firm today provides public affairs, public relations, marketing, research, digital and creative services to a blue-ribbon portfolio of local, state and national clients. Located on Capitol Square, Werth has distinguished itself as a sought-after strategist and connector for some of the region's most influential leaders, and as a change-maker on community issues.
"Our 60th anniversary, which we'll be celebrating throughout 2023, has given us a chance both to mark an important milestone and to reflect on how the public relations profession — and Werth — has evolved," said Sandra Harbrecht Ratchford, Paul Werth's daughter and the firm's CEO.
"For the first half of the 20th century, PR was seen primarily as gaining publicity through the news media," she said. "That was starting to change by the time my father founded our firm, and he actually was an early influencer in professionalizing the practice of PR and marketing. While our profession today is still often misunderstood, the best definition I've seen is the one used by the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA), which describes it as 'a process that builds mutually beneficial relationships between organizations and their publics.'"
Werth's work has ranged from helping companies relocate and acclimate to central Ohio (e.g., Honda of America Mfg., American Electric Power, Borden Company, Chase Bank and Anheuser-Busch among them) to advocating for positive public policy related to education, healthcare, environment and workforce development.
"Over the years, we've added more robust research, digital, design and public affairs capabilities," said Julie Granillo, Paul Werth's granddaughter and recently named president of the firm. "As social media proliferated, we became experts in that, telling our clients' stories outside traditional news outlets. And, we've continued to build important partnerships that allow us to connect our clients with those who are vital to their success."
While smaller than the largest national firms, Werth has long punched above its weight when it comes to the sophistication of its work and recognition within the industry. Since the 1970s, Werth has won 10 Silver Anvils, the highest award bestowed by PRSA for work on behalf of clients. Its most recent came in 2021 for its collaboration with the Ohio insurance industry to build a workforce pipeline to fill a projected talent shortage.
"This is certainly an interesting time to be in our industry," Granillo said. "And I'm excited for what the future will bring."
Werth will be celebrating both publicly and with its many partners throughout 2023. In the meantime, a timeline of Werth milestones can be found here.
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SPRINGFIELD — City Council President Jesse Lederman is seeking volunteers to serve on a temporary committee charged with finding ways to get more residents involved in civic life and local government.
This week, Lederman announced the creation of the Working Group on Civic Engagement, which he described as a temporary committee made of a cross-section of city residents. He said it is intended to meet through the fall and make its final presentation in late December.
He said the idea for the group originated with attending many community events this summer put on by volunteers not necessarily involved with the work of local government. The challenge for people in city government is how to find those people, tap into their passion and dedication and then get them involved on behalf of the city, either through government or neighborhood councils, he said.
“Community and public participation should be at the heart of the work local government does every day, and we need more community voices at the table to solve our city’s greatest challenges and develop the next generation of leaders in Springfield,” he said.
“Some of the issues I am thinking about are improving turnout in municipal elections, making it easier to engage with elected officials and local government entities, and encouraging residents to get involved with the important work of our neighborhoods councils, civic associations, and municipal boards and commissions,” he said.
“I want us to reach more people and involve more people in the work of local government. I’m hopeful to engage a diverse cross-section of our community to develop innovative recommendations to make local government work better,” he said.
Members of the group will be selected by the end of September, and the group will meet through October and December with the goal of making a presentation by end of December, he said.
People who are interested may sign up through an online form he has created at https://forms.gle/cNLkA6gpgsQcHE2G6. For more information contact the City Council office at 413-787-6170 or email Lederman at JLederman@springfieldcityhall.com.
He said he does not know how big the group will be. He said he wants it to be big enough to be representative of residents, but small enough where members can feel comfortable having conversations and exchanging ideas. | 2022-08-19T20:04:42+00:00 | masslive.com | https://www.masslive.com/news/2022/08/springfield-city-council-seeking-volunteers-for-civic-engagement-working-group.html |
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Rx-360, an international pharmaceutical supply chain consortium, is proud to announce that it has hired Ben Mills as Senior Director of Operations, Joint Audit Program/Quality and Kristen Farr as Senior Director of Finance.
As a key member of Rx-360's leadership team, Ben Mills will have oversight of the Rx-360 Joint Audit Program® and Quality departments. This leadership position will also focus on membership collaborations to drive the continued success of the Rx-360 Joint Audit Program®.
Kristen Farr will also serve as an integral member of Rx-360's leadership team, having oversight of all consortium finances. She will also work closely with the CEO, Board Chair, and Board Treasurer on pertinent financial matters, including membership engagement and Joint Audit Program® growth.
"Ben and Kristen are experienced and well-respected professionals with an immense amount of knowledge and passion," said Jim Fries, Rx-360 CEO. "As we close out another stellar year for Rx-360, these two new leadership roles will help position the consortium for even greater success moving forward. We couldn't be happier to have Ben and Kristen as a part of our team, helping to further our mission to protect patient safety."
Ben Mills has nearly 30 years of biopharmaceutical experience, having worked for BSI, Amgen, and Synergen Biotech. He has expertise in quality management development and implementation, auditing and supplier quality. With more than 30 years of financial experience under her belt, Kristen Farr has served as an executive-level leader of strategy consulting, management consulting and finance teams in corporate, consulting and non-profit environments. Their unique experiences will serve them well in their new roles at Rx-360.
Rx-360, an international pharmaceutical supply chain consortium, was formed in 2009 to support an industry-wide commitment to ensuring patient safety by enhancing quality and authenticity throughout the supply chain. The organization's mission is to protect patient safety by sharing information and developing processes related to the integrity of the healthcare supply chain and the quality of materials within the supply chain. To learn more about Rx-360, please visit http://www.Rx-360.org or email jfries@rx-360.org.
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Pana dismissed Gillespie by a 51-30 count in Illinois girls basketball action on February 9.
In recent action on February 2, Pana faced off against Vandalia . For a full recap, click here. Gillespie took on Staunton on February 2 at Staunton High School. Click here for a recap.
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2nd man arrested in connection to downtown Cleveland shooting
CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO/Gray News) - A second person has been arrested in connection to last week’s mass shooting in Cleveland, Ohio, that injured nine people, WOIO reports.
Cleveland Police Sgt. Jennifer Ciaccia confirmed an arrest warrant was issued on June 15 for Kevin Raul Del Valle-Salaman, 24.
Lorain Police arrested Del Valle-Salaman on the same day, Ciaccia said.
Del Valle-Salaman is facing nine counts of complicity to commit murder, all first-degree felonies, according to Cleveland Municipal Court documents.
The arrest comes after a judge set a $9 million bond for 25-year-old Jaylon Jennings, who was arrested on July 11 by Cleveland Police and U.S. Marshals.
According to Jennings’ arrest warrant, he saw several of the victims inside Rumor Bar & Lounge and “purposely attempted to cause the death of nine individuals by intentionally retrieving a firearm.”
Cleveland police said Jennings got the weapon from the trunk of his car parked in a lot on W. 6th Street.
After getting the gun, Jennings allegedly did “approach his victims firing shots in their direction”, according to the arrest warrant.
Copyright 2023 WOIO via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2023-07-16T14:57:13+00:00 | kwtx.com | https://www.kwtx.com/2023/07/16/2nd-man-arrested-connection-downtown-cleveland-shooting/ |
The Toyota Crown lineup is due to expand with hydrogen fuel-cell and plug-in hybrid powertrains, as well as multiple body styles, Toyota confirmed Wednesday—although it hasn’t yet confirmed what is coming to the U.S.
The Crown returned to the U.S. for the 2023 model year with hybrid powertrains and a raised-sedan body style Toyota now refers to as the “Crossover type.” Toyota has previously shown conventional sedan, “Sport” (hatchback), and “Estate” (wagon) versions of the Crown in concept form, and on Wednesday released some details on the production versions of these Crown variants.
The first to arrive will be the Crown Sport, launching this fall with a hybrid powertrain, followed by a plug-in hybrid version this winter. The Crown sedan also arrives this fall, and will feature both hybrid and fuel-cell powertrains, while the Crown Estate will launch in 2024 with hybrid and plug-in hybrid powertrains.
Compared to the current U.S.-market Crown, the new sedan will be about 2.0 inches longer, 2.0 inches wider, and will sit about 3.0 inches lower. The Sport and Estate versions will be even shorter than the sedan, but about as wide, with the Estate standing a bit taller than the Sport.
Toyota didn’t provide further details on the powertrains. The Crown was revealed for the U.S. with the automaker’s sportier Hybrid Max powertrain, which revolves around a conventional automatic transmission instead of Toyota’s typical planetary hybrid system, which some versions still get. With the standard hybrid system, the Crown achieves up to 41 mpg combined in EPA testing.
A report of a Crown PHEV, or Crown Prime, to use Toyota’s current plug-in hybrid nomenclature, circulated shortly after the U.S. launch of the Crown hybrid. But Toyota hasn’t confirmed plans to offer the plug-in hybrid powertrain mentioned in this release in the U.S.-market Crown. A plug-in version of the Highlander or Grand Highlander is still expected, though.
On the fuel-cell front, Toyota redesigned the Mirai for 2021 as a sportier rear-wheel-drive sedan, and repositioned its powertrain as having “minus emissions” as it cleans the air. With the Mirai still relatively fresh, there isn’t exactly a pressing need for Toyota replace it, or bring in a second model for the infinitesimal U.S. fuel-cell vehicle market.
Toyota does plan to start making fuel-cell modules in the U.S. starting this year. They’ll be part of a kit that will essentially replace a traditional heavy-duty diesel engine in Class 8 semi trucks. Toyota didn’t mention passenger cars in its announcement of this project, but hydrogen fuel-cell technology could help the automaker meet tougher emissions standards proposed by the EPA.
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- Report: Toyota might start EV production in Kentucky in 2025 | 2023-04-13T21:03:38+00:00 | wjhl.com | https://www.wjhl.com/automotive/internet-brands/toyota-confirms-fuel-cell-plug-in-hybrid-versions-of-crown/ |
By HILLEL ITALIE
AP National Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — Bono opened his book tour Wednesday night in what he called a “transgressive” mood, a little bit guilty for appearing on stage with three musicians who were not his fellow members of U2 and otherwise singing, joking and shouting out his life story to thousands of adoring fans at Manhattan’s Beacon Theatre.
He even performed one song in Italian, a flawlessly operatic take of “Torna a Surriento.”
“This is all a little surreal,” he noted at one point. “But it seems to be going well.”
The 62-year-old singer, songwriter and humanitarian described himself as an eternal boy (born Paul David Hewson) with his fists “in the air,” a “grandstanding” rock star and a baritone trying to be a tenor. He is now a published and best-selling author, his “Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story” out this week and already in the top 10 on Amazon.com.
Through “Sunday Bloody Sunday,” “Where the Streets Have No Name” and other U2 classics, he traces his biography from his stifling childhood home in Dublin and the grief over the early death of his mother Iris Hewson to the formation of the band that made him a global celebrity and his enduring marriage to Alison Stewart.
Former President Bill Clinton, Tom Hanks and U2 guitarist The Edge were among his famous admirers in the audience, which often stood and cheered and sang along. For the 90-minute plus “Stories of Surrender” show, billed as “an evening of words, music, and some mischief,” Bono wore a plain black blazer, matching pants and added color with his orange-tinted glasses. He opened with an account from his book of his heart surgery in 2016, but otherwise pranced and leapt like a man who had never seen the inside of a hospital and belted out songs written decades ago without any sense he had forgotten what inspired them.
Ticket prices were rock star levels: thousands of dollars for the best seats and well into the hundreds even for obstructed views. Compared to a U2 show, the setting was relatively intimate — handwritten illustrations on screens hanging toward the back of the stage and a few tables and chairs that Bono used as props to climb on or to simulate conversations. With warm and comic mimicry, he recalled phone calls with Luciano Pavarotti and his pleas of “Bono, Bono, Bono” as the opera star recruited him to perform at a benefit show in Modena, Italy, and once turned up at U2’s studio on short notice — with a film crew.
Bono also re-enacted his many tense bar room meetings with his father, who seemed to regard his son’s career as some kind of failed business venture. Brendan Robert Hewson’s rough facade did once collapse unexpectedly — when he met Princess Diana, an encounter Bono described as like watching centuries of Irish loathing of the royals “gone in eight seconds.”
“One princess, and we’re even,” Bono added.
He spoke often of loss, of his mother when he was a teenager and of his father in 2001. But he also described his life as a story of presence, whether of his religious faith, his wife and children, or of his bandmates. After what he called the characteristic Irish response to a child’s outsized ambitions — to pretend they don’t exist — he called himself “blessed,” and added that “what was silence has been filled, mostly, with music.”
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CLIFFORD TOWNSHIP, SUSQUEHANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Crews were called to battle a barn fire in Clifford Township after troopers say it was likely struck by lightning.
According to Pennsylvania State Police, a PSP Dunmore Fire Marshal was called to a reported barn fire on the 4000 block of State Route 247 in Clifford Township at 1:35 p.m.
After an investigation, Troopers say the barn owner’s son reportedly heard a loud crashing sound earlier in the day.
Hours after the son left the barn at about 11:45 a.m., PSP report the Clifford Fire Department was called at 1:11 p.m. for a report of smoke coming from the barn.
Crews were met with heavy smoke and fire broke through the roof and front wall, according to PSP.
Fire crews on scene told troopers that heavy thunderstorms came through the area before the fire started.
State police believe lightning may have started the fire.
No farm animals or people were hurt in the fire and state police are investigating the incident. | 2023-07-10T03:39:21+00:00 | pahomepage.com | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/crews-battle-clifford-county-barn-fire/ |
New made in the U.S.A drones are on their way to a Florida police department
By Angela Rozier
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PORT ST. LUCIE, Florida (WPBF) — The Port St. Lucie Police Department’s drone program is grounded, for now.
Sgt. Matt Reynolds said the drones they currently have are DJI drones and are not on the newly approved manufacturer list.
A new Florida law bans government agencies from using DJI drones and requires agencies to purchase drones from an approved manufacturer list.
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The Port St. Lucie Police Department’s drone program was launched in 2020.
Reynolds said the entire fleet is made of DJI drones, which are made in China.
“The intention of the law was for security concerns and the risks,” Reynolds said. “We feel we mitigated that here at this station nothing touched our network. But I get it, it’s good to support U.S. manufacturers.”
Reynolds said the department is phasing out the old drones.
They hope to have new drones up in the air by mid-February.
“We’re going to comply with the law,” Reynolds said.
He said public safety will not be compromised.
“We still have our road patrol officers, the K-9 and our cooperation with our outside agencies that have aviation,” Reynolds said.
According to police, in 2021 there was a total of 240 flights, 69 were for missing persons and fleeing suspects.
In 2022 there was a total of 344 flights, 89 were for missing persons and fleeing suspects.
Officials believe drones are an integral part of the way police respond to emergencies.
“This year alone in our tracking, we found if we responded in the first 30 minutes, 69% of the time we are locating missing kids, missing adults, fleeing suspects.”
Officials said they are currently in the process of purchasing a new drone fleet from an approved vendor list.
They said the newer drones have better capabilities than the old fleet such as better FLIR sensor resolution, all-weather capabilities, and color/zoom camera capabilities.
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NEW YORK (PIX11) — The New York City Council voted Thursday to override Mayor Eric Adams’ veto on several housing bills.
“I’m pretty proud to stand here today and say, Mr. Mayor, not this time,” Councilmember Tiffany Caban said just before the vote.
In the spring, the City Council passed several housing bills, ending a rule requiring people to stay in homeless shelters for 90 days before they can apply for a voucher to help pay for their rent. The council also moved to make tenants facing eviction eligible for a rental assistance voucher before they end up in a shelter.
“Since the state eviction moratorium expired, there have been over 178,000 eviction notices filed in the City of New York,” noted Council Speaker Adrienne Adams.
Mayor Eric Adams quickly voiced concern over the cost of the council’s bills in May.
“The numbers just don’t add up,” said Adams.
Mayor Adams vetoed the City Council’s bills in June and signed his own executive action to end the 90-day rule for rental vouchers.
Thursday, the City Council voted to override the Mayor’s veto, setting up a legal battle.
“We are reviewing our options and next steps,” Adams responded to the council, overriding his veto. | 2023-07-13T23:17:11+00:00 | pix11.com | https://pix11.com/news/local-news/manhattan/city-council-overrides-mayor-adams-veto-of-several-housing-bills/ |
CINCINNATI (AP) _ Medpace Holdings Inc. (MEDP) on Monday reported third-quarter earnings of $66 million.
The Cincinnati-based company said it had net income of $2.05 per share.
The provider of outsourced clinical development services posted revenue of $383.7 million in the period.
Medpace expects full-year earnings to be $6.88 to $7 per share, with revenue in the range of $1.44 billion to $1.46 billion.
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DENMARK - Mrs. Alma "Cookie" Blocker, of 20422 Heritage Highway, Denmark, South Carolina, entered into eternal rest on June 27, 2023.
Graveside service will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Monday, July 3, 2023, at the Zion Hill Cemetery, Highway 70, Denmark, South Carolina.
Visitation will be held from 3:00 until 7:00 p.m. on Sunday, July 2, 2023, at Jackson's Memorial Chapel, Neeses, South Carolina.
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CALGARY, Alberta (AP) — Tyler Toffoli scored at 4:30 of overtime and the Calgary Flames rallied to beat the Carolina Hurricanes 3-2 on Saturday night.
Rasmus Andersson carried the puck up the side boards and deep into the Hurricanes’ end before zipping a pass into the slot that Toffoli one-timed inside the post for his third of the season.
“Ras did a really good job taking it wide and using his speed and I was just trying to find a little space and he made a great play right in the middle,” Toffoli said.
Andersson had two assists and led both teams in ice time at 27:47.
“Our penalty kill had a really good night,” Andersson said. “Still need to get a little bit better five on five, but it was a tough game to play and it was nice to see that overtime goal go in.”
Nazem Kadri and Brett Ritchie also scored as the Flames came back from a 2-0 deficit midway through the first period. Toffoli had an assist and Jacob Markstrom stopped 25 shots to help Calgary improve to 4-1-0.
Kadri is the fourth player to begin his Calgary career with a five-game points streak.
Sebastian Aho and Calvin de Haan scored for Carolina. Antti Raanta finished with 29 saves. The Hurricanes fell to 3-1-1.
“We had a pretty good first period, except we gave up a PK goal and didn’t cash in on our power play,” Aho said. “At the end of the day, that was the game tonight. We get a huge opportunity at the end, four minutes on the power play, and we’ve got to make them pay there. Special teams got us. That’s on us.”
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What’s next for abortion pill after Supreme Court’s action
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nothing will change for now. That’s what the Supreme Court said Friday evening about access to a widely used abortion pill.
A court case that began in Texas has sought to roll back Food and Drug Administration approval of the drug, mifepristone. Lower courts had said that women seeking the drug should face more restrictions on getting it while the case continues, but the Supreme Court disagreed.
The court’s action almost certainly will leave access to mifepristone unchanged at least into next year, as appeals play out, including a potential appeal to the high court.
The new abortion controversy comes less than a year after the Supreme Court’s conservative majority overturned Roe v. Wade and allowed more than a dozen states to effectively ban abortion outright.
The following is a look at the drug at issue in the new case, how the case got to the nation’s highest court and what’s next in the legal case.
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WHAT IS MIFEPRISTONE?
Mifepristone was approved for use by the Food and Drug Administration more than two decades ago. It has been used by more than 5 million women to safely end their pregnancies, and today more than half of women who end a pregnancy rely on the drug, the Justice Department said.
Over the years, the FDA has loosened restrictions on the drug’s use, extending from seven to 10 weeks of pregnancy when it can be used, reducing the dosage needed to safely end a pregnancy, eliminating the requirement to visit a doctor in person to get it and allowing pills to be obtained by mail. The FDA also approved a generic version of mifepristone that its manufacturer, Las Vegas-based GenBioPro, says makes up two-thirds of the domestic market.
Mifepristone is one of two pills used in medication abortions, along with misoprostol. Health care providers have said they could switch to misoprostol only if mifepristone is no longer available or is too hard to obtain. Misoprostol is somewhat less effective in ending pregnancies.
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HOW DID THE CASE GET STARTED?
A lawsuit over mifepristone was filed in Amarillo, Texas, late last year. Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative Christian legal group, represents the pill’s opponents, who say the FDA’s approval of mifepristone was flawed.
Why Amarillo? U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, who was nominated by then-President Donald Trump, is the sole district court judge there, ensuring that all cases filed in the west Texas city land in front of him. Since taking the bench, he has ruled against President Joe Biden’s administration on several other issues, including immigration and LGBTQ protections.
On April 7, Kacsmaryk issued a ruling that would completely revoke the FDA’s approval of mifepristone, but he put the decision on hold for a week to allow an appeal.
Complicating matters, however, on the same day Kacsmaryk issued his order, a court in Washington state issued a separate ruling in a lawsuit brought by liberal states seeking to preserve access to mifepristone. The Washington judge, Spokane-based Thomas O. Rice, whom then-President Barack Obama nominated, ordered the FDA not to do anything that might affect the availability of mifepristone in the suing states. The Biden administration had said it would be impossible to follow both judges’ directives at the same time.
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HOW DID THE CASE GET TO THE SUPREME COURT?
The Biden administration responded to Kacsmaryk’s ruling by asking the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to prevent it from taking effect for now.
The appeals court didn’t do that, but it narrowed Kacsmaryk’s ruling so that the initial approval of mifepristone in 2000 wouldn’t be revoked. And it agreed with him that changes the FDA made to relax the rules for prescribing and dispensing the drug should be put on hold. It said those rules, including expanding when the drug could be taken and allowing for the drug’s delivery through the mail, should be on hold while the case continued.
The appeals court acted by a 2-1 vote. The judges in the majority, Kurt Engelhardt and Andrew Oldham, are both Trump picks.
The Biden administration and the maker of mifepristone, New York-based Danco Laboratories, appealed to the Supreme Court, saying that allowing the appeals court’s restrictions to take effect would cause chaos. At first, facing a tight deadline, the Supreme Court gave itself some breathing room and issued an order suggesting it would act by Wednesday evening. But no decision came Wednesday and the court instead just gave itself an extension until just before midnight Friday. It wasn’t clear why.
The court did make its second self-imposed deadline, issuing its brief decision around 6:30 p.m. in Washington. Two conservative justices, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, said they disagreed with the court’s action but no other justice commented.
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WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?
The case is on a fast track. Now that the high court has set out the rules that will govern access for now, the case can continue on its path through the courts.
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has already announced it will hear arguments in the case in less than a month, on May 17. Both sides as well as interest groups will submit written briefs ahead of those arguments. And a three-judge panel of the court will hear the case, though the court has not yet said who those three judges will be. The group won’t issue a decision from the bench but instead hear arguments and ask questions. That will give the public a sense of what they’re thinking. Their decision will be made privately after oral arguments, and at some point they’ll issue a written decision announcing it.
Both sides then have an opportunity to appeal, taking the case to all the judges of the appeals court or directly to the Supreme Court. The justices take a break for the summer, however, and don’t start hearing cases again until October.
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LAS VEGAS, Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Folded Flag Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization committed to honoring the legacy of America's fallen service members by helping their families with financial support for education, announced its Salute to Service Gala will be held Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022, at The Pierre Hotel in New York City.
One hundred percent of the funds raised from the gala will go directly to providing educational scholarships to the spouses and children of our U.S. military who died in service to our country. Folded Flag selected this date as a way to honor the men and women who joined the military after the horrific events of Sept. 11, 2001.
Craig Barber, chief executive officer of O'Charley's, LLC, 99 Restaurants, LLC and Restaurant Growth Services, LLC, will serve as the gala emcee. Gen. Paul Kern, U.S. Army, Ret., who served as the Commanding General of the Army Material Command for 38 years, is this year's gala keynote speaker. His career blends technical expertise, combat operations, program management, policy development and advising to senior political leaders. Barber and Kern also serve on the board of trustees for The Folded Flag Foundation.
The evening will also feature a special performance by the NYPD Emerald Society, as well as a silent and live auction featuring exclusive and one-of-a-kind experiences. Guests will enjoy delicious food, a selection of Foley Family Wines and the opportunity to network with other attendees while raising money for Gold Star Families across the nation.
"Our Salute to Service Gala provides the opportunity for us to pay special tribute to and honor the thousands of lives that were lost and impacted as a result of the 9/11 attacks. We will never forget the heroism of those brave men and women who came to America's aid, and their sacrifices," said Kim Frank, president of The Folded Flag Foundation. "The legacies of these individuals and all of our nation's fallen service members are carried on by their families and loved ones. The Folded Flag Foundation is proud to offer educational scholarships to Gold Star families from across the nation."
The Folded Flag Foundation was formed in 2014 by businessman and NHL team owner Bill Foley as a way to honor the legacy of, and pay tribute to, our nation's fallen service members. For the 2022-23 school year, The Folded Flag Foundation awarded more than $3.25 million in educational scholarships to 750 recipients. These scholarships help cover the costs of tuition for K-12, college or trade school.
Tickets, tables and sponsorships are available for this event. For more information, please visit FoldedFlagFoundation.org/NYCGala.
The Folded Flag Foundation is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization committed to honoring the legacy of our fallen heroes by helping their families with financial support for education. The Folded Flag Foundation proudly gives 100 percent of ALL donations to families in need. Corporate sponsors Black Knight, Inc., ServiceLink, Fidelity National Financial (FNF) and Fidelity National Investment Services (FIS) underwrite all administrative costs. For more information on The Folded Flag Foundation, including how to make a donation to support its cause, please visit www.FoldedFlagFoundation.org.
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PARIS – Parisians have overwhelmingly voted to banish the French capital's ubiquitous for-hire e-scooters from their streets, in a mini-referendum the mayor said sent a “very clear message."
The 15,000 opinion-dividing mini-machines could now vanish from central Paris at the end of August when the city's contracts with the three operators expire.
The question that City Hall asked voters in its citywide mini-referendum on Sunday was: “For or against self-service scooters in Paris?”
The result wasn't close. City Hall said on its website about 103,000 people voted, with 89% rejecting e-scooters and just 11% supporting them.
Turnout was very low. The vote had been open to all of Paris' 1.38 million registered voters.
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo hailed the vote as a success and repeated her vow to respect the outcome of the consultative referendum.
The voters' “very clear message now becomes our guide,” she said. “With my team, we'll follow up on their decision as I had pledged."
Scattered around Paris, easy to locate and hire with a downloadable app and relatively cheap, the scooters are a hit with tourists who love their speed and the help-yourself freedom they offer.
In the five years since their introduction, following in the wake of shared cars and shared bicycles, for-hire scooters have also built a following among some Parisians who don’t want or can’t afford their own but like the option to escape the Metro and other public transport.
But many Parisians complain that e-scooters are an eyesore and a traffic menace, and the micro-vehicles have been involved in hundreds of accidents.
Hidalgo and some of her deputies campaigned to banish the “free floating” rental flotilla — so called because scooters are picked up and dropped off around town at their renters’ whim — on safety, public nuisance and environmental cost-benefit grounds before the capital hosts the Olympic Games next year. | 2023-04-03T05:13:22+00:00 | wsls.com | https://www.wsls.com/news/world/2023/04/03/parisians-massively-vote-to-banish-for-hire-e-scooters/ |
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Ginger Chandler had a hunch. She'd spent years developing products for major gun manufacturers Smith & Wesson and Remington, so gun safety was a big topic at home. But when her stepfather passed away, she worried that her own gun-savvy mom didn't store his gun properly — the type of common mistake that causes scores of accidental deaths in the U.S. each year. When they went to check on the gun, there it sat in an unlocked drawer with the ammo next to it.
"I said, 'Mom, we talk about this all the time. If you didn't know, there are so many people who don't know,'" Chandler recalled.
This anecdote is part of what motivated Chandler to join the startup LodeStar Works as it develops a "smart gun" that features three options so that it can be unlocked only by its registered owner. This type of technology could help prevent accidental firearm deaths, suicides or homicides by unauthorized users. But it's not gun control, and it also would not prevent a mass shooting perpetrated by someone who legally purchased the weapon used.
"In the United States, there are a lot of firearms out there, and people are just unaware that their own firearms aren't safe. Everybody's kind of going, 'Oh, that guy's stuff is not safe but mine's good,'" Chandler said.
The LS9, a 9 mm pistol that Chandler and her team hope to bring to market next year, uses biometrics so that the owner's thumbprint can unlock the weapon, as well as a PIN pad and a Bluetooth connection that works with a mobile app.
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Gun violence is one of the most confounding and intractable problems in the United States. Every day, over 100 people die from gunshots — part of the more than 300 individuals who are shot each day, according to the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. But the right to own guns is enshrined in the U.S. Constitution, and the issue has torn at America's social fabric.
While not explicitly opposed to smart guns, the National Rifle Association has raised concerns that if these firearms become commercially viable, the technology could become mandatory for all guns sold in the United States. In fact, President Biden's own campaign platform called for all firearms sold nationwide to be smart guns. And a recent NPR/Ipsos survey found that most American gun owners support moderate gun control measures such as background checks or increased age requirements.
But the last time a smart gun was available in the U.S., it failed miserably. In 2014, hackers broke into the radio-frequency identification (RFID) of German manufacturer Armatix's product, and magnets could also disable the locking mechanism.
Chandler is determined to get it right this time. At the next level of testing, when the prototypes will be tooled up, LodeStar Works plans to enroll the help of hackers to identify any potential weaknesses and resolve them. Additionally, the profile of the typical gun buyer has changed significantly, which could help improve the viability of a product like the LS9 on the market. Last year, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, about half of new gun owners were women, and nearly half were people of color.
"They want to own their own destiny. But they also have small children at home. ... Maybe they're working remotely with their older children," Chandler explained. "They don't want to just have firearms out, but they also want to be in control."
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Margot Hirsch has provided support to innovators like Chandler through her Smart Tech Challenges Foundation for the better part of a decade. In 2014, the foundation provided a total of $1 million in grants to 15 gun safety innovators.
"Breaking ground in a very traditional industry continues to be hard," Hirsch said. "The firearm industry is not one to innovate. My sense is they'll only do it when they're forced to do it. And so it takes really brave innovators to forge a path in this area."
Firearm-related injuries are now the leading cause of death among children and adolescents from age 1 to 19, according to expert analysis of data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And that's where Hirsch says smart guns could play an important role in reducing deaths.
"Mass shootings, as horrific as they are — and they obviously dominate the news — they account for less than 2% of the injuries and deaths due to guns," she said. "Although a smart gun might not prevent a mass shooting, they could definitely be used to address youth suicides."
At the same time, it's unlikely that traditional guns would get traded in for smart guns, which aren't even sold yet.
"We do believe that gun owners, when they go to buy new guns, will consider these guns for multiple reasons, and one is for personal protection," Hirsch explained. "This could be the gun that is readily available, let's say, on the bedside table, in the kitchen, wherever, where it's secured and locked and their children can't access it. But they know that if someone broke in their house or tried to take their weapon from them, it could not be used in that type of scenario."
Anti-gun violence activists note that introducing smart guns is also adding to the number of weapons available, but Hirsch stresses that firearms are going to remain available "for the foreseeable future."
"So, if people are going to continue to buy guns, we believe it is imperative that there is a smart gun option on the market. I do think it's imminent," she said.
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Drunk Delta Airlines passenger downs 11 drinks, sexually assaults minor and her mom on 9-hour flight: lawsuit
A belligerent drunk on a Delta Air Lines flight was served at least 10 vodka drinks and a glass of wine before groping a 16-year-old girl and her mother, court documents allege.
Delta flight attendants "blatantly ignored" pleas for help from the women as the intoxicated male passenger behaved aggressively toward them and escalated into inappropriate touching over a nearly nine-hour flight that departed from JFK Airport, a lawsuit filed Tuesday in the Eastern District of New York claims.
Staff then allegedly permitted the drunken man to exit the plane at its destination in Athens, Greece, without alerting local authorities or U.S. law enforcement about the alleged sexual assault.
The $2 million lawsuit accuses Delta of gross negligence and demands compensation for the victims. It states Delta flight attendants continued to serve the intoxicated man drinks even though he was noticeably drunk.
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"The intoxicated Delta passenger appeared to be getting drunker and drunker as the Delta flight attendants continued serving him alcohol," the complaint states.
The intoxicated man was seated next to the plaintiffs on the flight. As he got more drunk, he attempted to speak with the 16-year-old girl, who tried to ignore him. Angered, the drunk became aggressive toward the girl and began yelling at her.
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He also made "obscene gestures," demanded to know her address and other personal information and grabbed her, putting his hands on her back, which "frightened" her, the lawsuit claims.
The girl's mother told the man her daughter was a minor who was still in high school. He allegedly replied that he did not care. He then allegedly reached over the girl and began pulling on her mother's arm.
Other passengers started to notice as the man was screaming loudly at them. But when the women told flight attendants the man was drunk and making them feel unsafe, they told them to just "be patient" and walked away, according to the complaint.
The unidentified drunk, who "mumbled" that he was from Connecticut, then allegedly began touching the minor again, "mumbling drunkenly and forcefully kicking the seats in front of them causing the rows of seats to shake."
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Suddenly, the family recounts, he put his head down "for about thirty seconds," then shot back up and ran to the restroom, where he reportedly was heard puking.
The mother and daughter said they requested the man be moved to another seat and cut off from drinks, but flight attendants allegedly brushed off their complaints.
When the intoxicated man returned from the bathroom, he allegedly had a glass of red wine.
After repeated pleas from the women, the head flight attendant eventually told the man to "stop talking to them," which provoked an explosion of screaming and profanity directed at the family.
The teen was "terrified" and began to have a panic attack. She put her head down in her mother's lap — and that's when the man allegedly slid his "clammy fingers" underneath her shirt and groped for the clasp on her bra strap. "Trembling, petrified and crying," the teen leaped out of her seat and away from the man, the lawsuit states.
But the man proceeded to place his hand on the mother's leg and allegedly "began moving his hand" up the inside of her thigh. She screamed too and jumped out of her seat.
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The mother again demanded that the flight attendants change their seats. The flight attendants allegedly said there was nothing they could do, but another male passenger volunteered to switch seats with the teen girl and sat between the intoxicated man and her mother for the rest of the flight.
Once the plane landed, the flight attendants offered the woman and her daughter 5,000 free airline miles and an apology.
Delta did not offer specific comment on the pending litigation but told Fox Business the company "has zero tolerance for customers who engage in inappropriate or unlawful behavior."
"Nothing is more important than the safety of our customers and our people," the airline said.
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SAN DIEGO, May 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Avidity Biosciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: RNA), a biopharmaceutical company committed to delivering a new class of RNA therapeutics called Antibody Oligonucleotide Conjugates (AOCs™), today announced that on May 20, 2023, the Human Capital Management Committee of Avidity's Board of Directors granted non-qualified stock option awards to purchase an aggregate of 36,900 shares of its common stock and 18,450 restricted stock units ("RSUs") to eight (8) new non-executive employees under the Avidity Biosciences, Inc. 2022 Employment Inducement Incentive Award Plan (the "2022 Inducement Plan"). The awards were granted as inducements material to the employees entering into employment with Avidity in accordance with Nasdaq Listing Rule 5635(c)(4).
The 2022 Inducement Plan is used exclusively for the grant of equity awards to individuals who were not previously employees of Avidity, or following a bona fide period of non-employment, as an inducement material to such individuals' entering into employment with Avidity, pursuant to Nasdaq Listing Rule 5635(c)(4).
The options have an exercise price of $10.82 per share, which is equal to the closing price of Avidity's common stock on The Nasdaq Global Market on May 19, 2023. The shares subject to the stock options will vest over four years, with 25% of the shares vesting on the one-year anniversary of the applicable vesting commencement date and the balance of the shares vesting in a series of 36 successive equal monthly installments thereafter, subject to each employee's continued employment with Avidity on such vesting dates. The RSUs will vest in four equal installments on the first four anniversaries of the applicable vesting commencement date, subject to each employee's continued employment with Avidity on such vesting dates. The awards are subject to the terms and conditions of the 2022 Inducement Plan and the terms and conditions of a stock option agreement or RSU agreement, as applicable, covering the grant.
About Avidity Biosciences
Avidity Biosciences, Inc.'s mission is to profoundly improve people's lives by delivering a new class of RNA therapeutics - Antibody Oligonucleotide Conjugates (AOCs™). Avidity is revolutionizing the field of RNA with its proprietary AOCs, which are designed to combine the specificity of monoclonal antibodies with the precision of oligonucleotide therapies to address targets and diseases previously unreachable with existing RNA therapies. Utilizing its proprietary AOC platform, Avidity demonstrated the first-ever successful targeted delivery of RNA into muscle and is leading the field with clinical development programs for three rare muscle diseases: myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1), Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) and facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD). Avidity is broadening the reach of AOCs with its advancing and expanding pipeline including programs in cardiology and immunology through internal discovery efforts and key partnerships. Avidity is headquartered in San Diego, CA. For more information about our AOC platform, clinical development pipeline and people, please visit www.aviditybiosciences.com and engage with us on LinkedIn and Twitter.
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Ken Paxton’s impeachment trial will begin Sept. 5, with his attendance required
Senators, who will sit as a court of impeachment for the suspended attorney general, spent two days drafting rules that were adopted late Wednesday.
TEXAS TRIBUNE - The impeachment trial of suspended Attorney General Ken Paxton will begin at 9 a.m. Sept. 5, the Texas Senate announced Wednesday night after two days of private meetings to draft the trial rules.
A resolution laying out the rules was adopted on a 25-3 vote without discussion, and the rules have not yet been posted on the Senate website.
A separate resolution, adopted 28-0, requires Paxton to appear in person in the Senate chamber “to answer the said charges of impeachment.”
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The Texas Tribune thanks it The Texas Senate met in private Tuesday and Wednesday to draft rules governing the impeachment trial of suspended Attorney General Ken Paxton but took no public action despite several lengthy meetings in private and multiple recesses.
Senators emerged from a closed-door meeting shortly after 9 p.m. Tuesday and recessed until 10 a.m. Wednesday, then followed up by recessing again, this time until 1 p.m. “as the Senate is working hard on rules,” said Sen. Paul Bettencourt, a Houston Republican who made the motion to recess.
Bettencourt returned later to announce another recess until 5 p.m. Wednesday, expressing hope that additional delays would not be needed. Instead, the recess was extended, twice, first to 6:30, then to 7:30 p.m.
On the final day of the regular legislative session in late May, senators created a committee of seven senators, gave it permission to conduct its business in private and directed it to return Tuesday to present rules of procedure to a “caucus of the Senate” — which typically meets outside of public view. On Monday, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, who presides over the Senate, indicated that the impeachment trial rules might not be made public until later this week.
The resolution that created the committee also gave Patrick the authority to set an impeachment trial to begin no later than Aug. 28.
Members of the committee have not publicly discussed their work, but that has not stopped Paxton’s allies and the House impeachment managers from lobbying for their preferred package of rules.
Paxton’s legal team, led by boisterous Houston attorney Tony Buzbee, has urged the committee to recommend rules that would allow the Senate to toss out the House-approved articles of impeachment, calling the procedure a “kangaroo court” because Paxton was not given the opportunity to defend himself.
The House managers, who have hired Texas legal giants Dick DeGuerin and Rusty Hardin to present the case against Paxton, sent the Senate committee 17 examples of rules that were used in past impeachment trials in Texas, including a recusal rule.
Patrick on Monday tamped down on talk about ending the impeachment trial before it can begin.
“We actually have to address the issues,” Patrick told Dallas radio host Mark Davis. “If not, they could keep Ken Paxton away from doing his job forever. … In general, we have to deal with it.”
The Senate committee’s decision on recusals will be closely watched because Sen. Angela Paxton, R-McKinney, is among the senators who could decide her husband’s fate.
Paxton’s legal team and the House managers have also quarreled about whether the trial should be public and how much discovery and preparation will be allowed.
Buzbee said in his first news conference as Paxton’s lead lawyer that the process of lining up witnesses and documents could take up to a year. And Paxton’s legal team argued in a memo to the committee that it should limit testimony to deposition statements, rather than allow live witnesses, which they said could turn the proceedings into “political theater.”
What do house managers want?
Paxton’s permanent removal from office would require a two-thirds vote in the Senate.
Paxton was impeached by a vote of 121-23 in an unprecedented vote in the House during the final days of the legislative session. He was immediately suspended from his official duties, and Gov. Greg Abbott appointed former Secretary of State John Scott as interim attorney general.
In the run-up to the House impeachment vote, Paxton supporters, including former President Donald Trump, urged lawmakers to vote no.
On Saturday, the State Republican Executive Committee, grassroots leaders who help set the Texas GOP’s platform, condemned the impeachment in a 53-11 vote. A resolution denounced the House for not allowing Paxton to defend himself against the accusations and for not putting witnesses under oath when they were questioned by investigators. It likened the impeachment process in the House to a “banana republic.”
A majority of the impeachment allegations against Paxton originated with eight of his former top deputies who, in 2020, met with law enforcement to accuse Paxton of misusing his power to benefit his friend and political donor, Austin real estate investor Nate Paul. In return, they said, Paxton apparently accepted bribes that included a $25,000 political donation and funding for remodeling Paxton’s Austin home, plus they said a woman involved in an extramarital affair with Paxton was given a job at one of Paul’s companies.
The former officials said Paxton directed agency employees to help Paul gain access to investigative records and that he drafted a legal opinion that helped Paul stall impending foreclosure sales on properties. Paxton also pushed the agency to hire an outside lawyer to harass Paul’s enemies, the officials said.
On June 6, a federal grand jury indicted Paul on eight counts of making false statements to financial institutions. He is involved in numerous other bankruptcy and legal disputes related to his real estate businesses.
Within two months, all eight of the attorney general’s office executives who reported Paxton to the FBI and other agencies were fired or resigned. Four of them filed a whistleblower lawsuit in November 2020 claiming they were improperly fired in retaliation.
Their report set off an FBI investigation that was taken over by the U.S. Justice Department this year.
Some of the articles of impeachment also dealt with Paxton’s eight-year-old securities fraud case in which he is accused of soliciting investors in Servergy Inc. without disclosing that the McKinney tech company was paying him to tout its stock.
Once the impeachment trial rules are adopted, Patrick has until Aug. 28 to issue a proclamation setting the date for the Senate to convene as a Court of Impeachment, according to the Senate resolution adopted on May 29.
The resolution also created the rules committee, which is led by Sen. Brian Birdwell, R-Granbury, and includes Republican Sens. Brandon Creighton of Conroe, Pete Flores of Pleasanton, Joan Huffman of Houston and Phil King of Weatherford, as well as Democratic Sens. Juan “Chuy” Hinojosa of McAllen and Royce West of Dallas.
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Sudan Archives' music celebrates digging. With infectious curiosity, her oddball collages of hip-hop, electronic and globally sourced folk bridge worlds and tramp through them, encouraging you to forge your own routes as well. Across two EPs and an album, the self-taught violinist, producer and songwriter has honed a distinct blend of layered vocals and instrumentation that both pleases the ear and challenges it to parse all the fusion. Her vibrant second album, Natural Brown Prom Queen, details her passages between her hometown of Cincinnati, her adopted city of Los Angeles and the many other locales, people and traditions that inform her idiosyncratic style. The record feels like a world tour of her brain, particular yet capacious — and always active.
Cosmopolitan music often leans heavily into the rush and the signifiers of jetsetting — accents, passports, landmarks, cuisines, runways — but Natural Brown Prom Queen's preoccupation is terroir, the distinct conditions that make a place unique. Sudan Archives doesn't just experience or consume global sounds; she interacts with them, her fingers sifting through the soil as she feels out every little element. "Suck out the honey," she implores on the steamy R&B track "Milk Me," capturing the intimacy and pleasure of her sourcing. Each encounter seems to clarify her own origins and path forward.
The album builds on the conviction of her debut, Athena, which bolstered her signature sound with heftier singing and breezy rapping. The cover of that globetrotting record, which pictured Sudan Archives and her violin as a Greek statue, captures the whimsy, audacity and confidence of her musical vision. Born Brittney Parks and nicknamed Sudan as a child, the artist is a Black Midwesterner with no direct ties to Sudan, South Sudan or Greece. She picked up the violin when a chance performance by Canadian fiddlers at her Ohio elementary school sparked an obsession. She learned to play by ear in various ensembles — something she references on the Natural Brown Prom Queen interlude "Do Your Thing (Refreshing Springs)" — and later became interested in the actual sounds of Sudan, which coincidentally has a culture of ceremonial and experimental violin music. She adopted her stage name after this tacit connection implored her to peruse the broader archive of African folk music. More links followed — many of them hyperlinks on YouTube — as she explored and embraced the string traditions of Estonia, Ghana and Russia. All this cultural gallivanting rules out any notion of "authenticity," a fraught term that, in the name of properly attributing sounds and styles to their sources, often conflates origination with originality and inspiration with extraction.
Natural Brown Prom Queen has little interest in proving Parks' legitimacy and is more driven by her intense curiosity. The acts of borrowing and interpolating are openly embedded in the music. On the closer, "513," she warps the hook of LL Cool J's "Going Back to Cali" into a homegoing reprise. Opener "Home Maker" is an ode to personal space that begins with a quicksilver suite that flickers between snatches of synth, trumpet, keys, harp and a breakbeat before settling into a pulsing R&B arrangement. "I'm a homemaker," Sudan Archives sings on the hook, celebrating her domicile and the many elements that comprise it. Her home is a waypoint rather than an enclosure, the space and its builder changing as people and ideas drift through.
That enthusiasm for both influence and confluence flavors the swaggering and saucy album, which finds the singer mulling relationships, her body and her desires over compositions that shimmer with textures and overtones. The songs, which often have multiple producers, practically glow with life, constantly changing direction and shape. "Ciara" wryly uses sun-soaked melodies to toast to a roughneck relative ("I got a cousin in Chicago / Who will smack you in your face") then empties into a sludgy bridge that shifts yet again into a gale of chill funk. The dewy vocals and production on slow jam "ChevyS10" liquefy, sublimate and freeze like water changing states. Noise rap and hyperpop often use volatility to disorient and dissociate, but as Sudan jaunts from Miami bass on "Freakalizer" to Irish jigs on "TDLY (Homegrown Land)" she sounds more grounded and clear-headed.
"Selfish Soul" melds choral harmonies, violin riffs and pounding drums into a folksy rap track, the busyness of the beat matching Sudan's fraught tales of styling her hair. The theme recalls other considerations of Black hair by women in soul music — India.Arie's "I Am Not My Hair" and Solange's "Don't Touch My Hair" — but Sudan's take on the subject emphasizes working for self-acceptance rather than deflecting outside gazes, subtly underscoring that individual autonomy is at the root of such songs even as they mention experiences relatable to any Black woman. "Copycat" approaches the subject differently, Sudan playfully addressing biters. Calling out plagiarists is standard rap stuff, but the song doubles as a metacommentary on the unappreciated omni-influence of Black women, Sudan asking how she can be both despised and Xeroxed. It's a worthwhile question. In a world with so much erasure of Black women's contributions, what can authenticity even look like for them?
Control comes up often on Natural Brown Prom Queen. On the title track, she alludes to her time in N2, a defunct teen-pop duo with her twin sister. She's said that rebelling against the direction of the group, which was put together by her late stepdad, resulted in her getting kicked out the house. Because of this history, the polyvalent music she makes as Sudan Archives is often read as antipop. But here she makes it clear that she rejected her lack of authority rather than the music she made. "I just want to have my t*****s out / T*****s out / T*****s out," she chants in the outro, again linking creative and bodily autonomy. Her music is less a rejection of pop and more an embrace of her uninhibited self. (Plus, her pop instincts are on full display in the composition of these and past songs. She is very capable of writing earworms and being an ethnomusicological nerd at the same damn time.)
When she's not explicitly talking about authority, she's exuding it in her cocksure rapping and singing, which anchors all the album's motion. She gushes with ideas and approaches to these bustling arrangements, hopscotching across drum patterns ("Yellow Brick Road"), bouncing off of basslines ("Copycat") and gliding over melodies ("Homesick"). Her violin appears on over half the songs, but it's less of a focal instrument, underscoring the growing sense that she is the lead. Her widening web of influences and collaborators (most notably multi-instrumentalist Ben Dickey, who is credited on nearly every song) affirms that she is the conductor through which all these currents flow.
It's fitting, then, that her journeys lead her back to Cincinnati on "#513." "Hollywood will make you hollow / I'm too rooted in my ways," she sings defiantly, setting the song up as a prodigal return. But the tinny song is not an ode to the rustbelt city or a homecoming in the typical sense of the word. Sudan Archives doesn't head home to settle old scores, reminisce on better days or restore herself. She goes simply because, in that moment, that's where she wants to be. That caprice captures the itinerant spirit of her music and the album's arch sense of home. In the world of Sudan Archives, home is anywhere, anyone and any sound that pushes you forward.
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Heat vs. Knicks: Betting Trends, Odds, Records Against the Spread, Home/Road Splits
The Miami Heat are 4.5-point favorites heading into Game 4 of the second round of the NBA Playoffs against the New York Knicks at FTX Arena on Monday, starting at 7:30 PM ET on TNT. The Heat hold a 2-1 lead in the series. The matchup has an over/under of 206.5.
Heat vs. Knicks Odds & Info
- When: Monday, May 8, 2023 at 7:30 PM ET
- Where: FTX Arena in Miami, Florida
- TV: TNT
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Heat Betting Records & Stats
- Miami's 82 games this season have gone over this contest's total of 206.5 points 63 times.
- The average total in Miami's outings this year is 219.3, 12.8 more than this matchup's over/under.
- So far this season, the Heat have compiled a 30-52-0 record against the spread.
- Miami has entered the game as favorites 56 times this season and won 35, or 62.5%, of those games.
- This season, Miami has won 15 of its 26 games, or 57.7%, when favored by at least -190 on the moneyline.
- The oddsmakers' moneyline implies a 65.5% chance of a victory for the Heat.
Knicks Betting Records & Stats
- New York has played 71 games this season that ended with a combined score higher than 206.5 points.
- The average over/under for New York's contests this season is 229.1, 22.6 more points than this game's point total.
- New York is 46-36-0 against the spread this year.
- The Knicks have been underdogs in 39 games this season and have come away with the win 19 times (48.7%) in those contests.
- New York has a record of 2-8, a 20% win rate, when it is set as the underdog by +155 or more by sportsbooks this season.
- New York has an implied victory probability of 39.2% according to the moneyline set for this matchup.
Heat vs. Knicks Over/Under Stats (Regular Season)
Additional Heat Insights & Trends
- The Heat have gone 7-3 over their last 10 games, with an 8-2 record against the spread in that span.
- The Heat have gone over the total in eight of their last 10 outings.
- Miami has done a better job covering the spread in away games (16-25-0) than it has at home (14-27-0).
- The Heat average just 3.6 fewer points per game (109.5) than the Knicks give up (113.1).
- Miami has a 13-12 record against the spread and a 19-6 record overall when putting up more than 113.1 points.
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Additional Knicks Insights & Trends
- New York is 5-5 against the spread and 5-5 overall over its last 10 contests.
- The Knicks have hit the over twice in their past 10 contests.
- New York's winning percentage against the spread at home is .463 (19-22-0). On the road, it is .659 (27-14-0).
- The Knicks' 116.0 points per game are 6.2 more points than the 109.8 the Heat allow to opponents.
- New York is 33-21 against the spread and 35-19 overall when it scores more than 109.8 points.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon lawmakers are poised to pass a sweeping $200 million housing and homelessness package in an expected display of bipartisanship aimed at tackling the state's most pressing crises.
The Senate will vote late Tuesday on the package, which includes two bills. The legislation passed the House last week with support from both parties.
“Addressing homelessness and the affordable housing shortage are among our most urgent priorities in the legislature this year," Democratic state Sen. Kayse Jama, one of the bill's chief sponsors, said in an emailed statement ahead of the vote.
Like much of the U.S. West, Oregon has struggled with a surge in homelessness driven in part by high costs and a lack of affordable housing options.
Much of the funds — about $157 million — would boost homelessness and eviction prevention services. The money would go toward increasing shelter capacity, addressing youth homelessness, rapid rehousing efforts and rental assistance. It would also include nearly $27 million specifically for rural areas to combat homelessness.
Oregon has grappled for years with interconnected affordable housing and homelessness crises. It’s short 140,000 housing units, analysts and agencies have estimated, and federal data shows its homeless population has increased by 22% since 2020.
About 4,000 of the nearly 18,000 homeless people in Oregon live in rural areas, according to the latest 2022 federal point-in-time count.
Republican state Rep. Jeff Helfrich, whose largely rural district stretches east of Portland along the Columbia River and includes Mount Hood, said the package's investments in rural areas — and its $5 million for farmworker housing — were the fruits of cross-aisle negotiation. Helfrich is one of the GOP lawmakers serving on Democratic Gov. Tina Kotek's housing production council.
“It was a bipartisan effort,” he said. “The Legislature can get divided, but this was some common ground that we could actually work together on.”
The package would also direct $20 million to ramping up factory-produced modular housing, in a bid to meet Kotek's housing construction target of 36,000 units per year — an 80% increase over current production.
Some members of the public submitted written testimony opposing the high spending. But most nonprofits have expressed support for the package, saying it would help communities that are disproportionately impacted by homelessness and the affordable housing shortage.
“Promoting stability in the state’s housing laws will increase the wellbeing of communities of color in Oregon,” Jenny Lee, deputy director of the Coalition of Communities of Color, said in written testimony. | 2023-03-21T19:51:51+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/news/politics/article/oregon-lawmakers-debate-200m-for-housing-17852225.php |
Red Sox vs. Athletics Probable Starting Pitchers Today - July 19
The Boston Red Sox (51-45) will look for Justin Turner to continue a 14-game hitting streak against the Oakland Athletics (26-71) on Wednesday at 3:37 PM ET, at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum.
This contest's pitching matchup is set, as the Red Sox will send Brayan Bello (7-5) to the mound, while Ken Waldichuk (2-6) will take the ball for the Athletics.
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Red Sox vs. Athletics Pitcher Matchup Info
- Date: Wednesday, July 19, 2023
- Time: 3:37 PM ET
- TV: NBCS-CA
- Location: Oakland, California
- Venue: Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum
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- Probable Pitchers: Bello - BOS (7-5, 3.14 ERA) vs Waldichuk - OAK (2-6, 6.66 ERA)
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Red Sox Probable Starting Pitcher Tonight: Brayan Bello
- The Red Sox will send Bello (7-5) to the mound for his 16th start this season.
- The right-hander last pitched on Saturday, when he gave up three earned runs and allowed eight hits in six innings against the Chicago Cubs.
- The 24-year-old has an ERA of 3.14, a 3.41 strikeout-to-walk ratio and a WHIP of 1.198 in 15 games this season.
- He's going for his eighth straight quality start.
- Bello has pitched five or more innings in seven straight games and will look to extend that streak.
- He has not pitched this season without allowing at least one earned run.
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Athletics Probable Starting Pitcher Tonight: Ken Waldichuk
- Waldichuk (2-6 with a 6.66 ERA and 73 strikeouts in 75 2/3 innings pitched) makes the start for the Athletics, his 13th of the season.
- His last time out came on Saturday against the Minnesota Twins, when the lefty threw 3 2/3 innings, surrendering three earned runs while giving up three hits.
- The 25-year-old has an ERA of 6.66, with 8.7 strikeouts per nine innings in 22 games this season. Opponents have a .306 batting average against him.
- Waldichuk has collected one quality start this year.
- Waldichuk is looking to pick up his ninth start of five or more innings this season in this game.
- He has made six appearances this season in which he did not allow an earned run.
Ken Waldichuk vs. Red Sox
- He will face a Red Sox offense that ranks fifth in the league with 481 total runs scored while batting .264 as a unit. His opponent has a collective .433 slugging percentage (sixth in MLB action) and has hit a total of 104 home runs (20th in the league).
- Waldichuk has a 6.75 ERA and a 1.5 WHIP against the Red Sox this season in 1 1/3 innings pitched, allowing a .333 batting average over one appearance.
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The Rapid City Stevens girls performed well Monday at the Warrior Invitational at Elmwood Golf Course in Sioux Falls.
Tanna Phares led the way for the Raiders and won the individual title at the event in a two-hole playoff with Sioux Falls Lincoln's Claire Yunag.
Both golfers finished with a 2-over-park 74 through 18 holes and remained tied after a one-hole playoff before Phares sealed the deal on the second hole.
Stevens finished third in the team standings at 48-over behind No. 1 Mitchell (+42) and No. 2 Sioux Falls O'Gorman (+46). Rounding out the field were No. 4 Lincoln (+51), No. 5 Roosevelt (+72), No. 6 Brookings (+77), No. 7 Washington (+110), No. 8 Jefferson (+116) and No. 9 Brandon Valley (+126).
Stevens' Taylor Wit also finished in the top five as she tied for third with O'Gorman's Lauren Sutcliffe. Both golfers shot a 3-over-par 75, one stroke off the lead.
Other Raiders' scores included Reese Howard who finished 20th at 92 and Holland Post and Kamryn Shull who tied for 26th at 95.
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Stevens returns to the course at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday for Day 1 of the West River Challenge at Boulder Canyon Country Club in Spearfish.
Timber Lake boys and girls sweep Last Chance Meet
The Timber Lake boys and girls both finished atop the team standings Monday at the Timber Lake Last Chance Track and Field Meet.
On the boys side the Panthers finished in first with 257 points ahead of No. 2 Herreid/Selby Area with 82 points, No. 3 Bison and Harding County with 32 points, No. 5 McIntosh with 20 points, No. 6 Faith with 16 points and No. 7 Ipswich with 10 points.
Timber Lake boys winners included Jayden Miller in the 100-meters at 11.93 seconds, Caleb Bieber in the 400 at 54.03 seconds, Ian Beyer in the 1600 at 4:58.83, Gracen Hansen in the 300 hurdles at 43.21, the 4x100 relay team at 45.69 seconds, the 4x200 relay team at 1:34.83, the 4x400 relay team at 3:39.47, the sprint medley relay team at 3:54.68, Slater Ducheneaux in the high jump at 6 feet, 2 inches and in the long jump at 19 feet, 3 inches and Chazz Gabe in the triple jump at 41 feet, 4.5 inches.
Other boys area winners included Bison's Lane Krautschun in the 800 at 2:08.31 and Faith's Gabe Bushong in discus at 129 feet, 3 inches.
The Panthers also claimed the top spot on the girls' side with 150 points ahead of No. 2 Herreid/Selby Area (102), No. 3 Harding County (57), No. 4 Bison 53 and No. 5 McIntosh (26).
Timber Lake girls' winners included Averie Marshall in the 100 at 13.94, Meredith Maciejewski in the 1600 at 7:25.29, the 4x100 relay team at 53.95, the 4x400 relay team at 4:42, Jasmine Nash in shotput at 33 feet, 1.5 inches and Carlie Lawrence in the long jump at 15 feet, 6 inches.
Other area girls' winners included Harding County's Kaylen Padden in the 400 at 1:05.51, Bison's Jozi Schuchard in the 100 hurdles at 18.29 and in the 300 hurdles at 55.17, Bison's Taylor Thompson in discus at 92 feet, Harding County's Lexy Rolph in high jump at 4 feet, 10 inches and Harding County's Emily Comes in the triple jump at 31 feet, 2 inches. | 2022-05-17T14:10:24+00:00 | rapidcityjournal.com | https://rapidcityjournal.com/news/prep-roundup-phares-wins-warrior-invitational-in-two-hole-playoff/article_4a60e583-7847-5806-973c-525589ff497d.html |
Tony Gonsolin will try to become the first pitcher in the major leagues to reach 10 wins on Sunday night when the visiting Los Angeles Dodgers face the Atlanta Braves in the rubber contest of a three-game series.
The teams have split the first two games. The Dodgers posted a 4-1 victory on Friday before seeing their four-game winning streak come to an end with a 5-3 setback the following day.
Atlanta manager Brian Snitker said the playoff atmosphere around the series has elevated the play of both teams.
“I mean these are fun games to be a part of. They’re gut-wrenching, but they’re fun,” he said. “There’s a lot of emotion out there and energy and it seemed like everybody (in the crowd) stayed throughout the whole game.”
Gonsolin (9-0, 1.58 ERA) will be opposed by Atlanta rookie Spencer Strider (3-2, 3.40) in the final regular-season meeting between the clubs.
Gonsolin is coming off a win over Cincinnati on Tuesday in which he allowed two runs on three hits in five innings. The right-hander is 4-0 in four June starts with a 1.16 ERA in 23 1/3 innings.
“It’s just throwing a lot more strikes,” Gonsolin said. “I feel like I’m throwing a lot more competitive pitches this year and able to get some early contact, which allows me to be more efficient and go deeper into games.”
Gonsolin is 1-0 with an 0.90 ERA in two career starts against Atlanta. He beat the Braves on April 20 by allowing one hit over six shutout innings.
He will be opposed by the hard-throwing mustachioed Strider, who is coming off his worst start since joining the rotation. Strider gave up a season-high six runs on six hits in 3 2/3 innings in a no-decision against San Francisco. He had fanned 11 in his previous start against Washington.
“There are days when you don’t feel good and you’ve got to work on getting outs and getting ahead of guys and still try to pitch,” Strider said. “I didn’t have great command and feel, so there’s no reason to muscle up and try to throw hard. It’s a matter of getting ahead and executing with two strikes.”
Strider has yet to face the Dodgers in his career.
Both shortstops are swinging hot bats going into the finale.
Los Angeles’ Trae Turner went 2-for-4 on Saturday and has 12 hits over his last five games to raise his average to .320.
Atlanta’s Dansby Swanson went 2-for-4 with a home run on Saturday to raise his average to .307. He has gone deep four times over the last four games.
Atlanta right fielder Ronald Acuna Jr. left the game in the ninth inning for precautionary reasons. Acuna fouled a pitch off his foot earlier and Snitker didn’t want to take any chances. Snitker said afterward that Acuna will receive treatment before determining whether he will play.
“It was just really, really sore,” Snitker said. “We didn’t want him coming out of the box hurting anything else, so we’ll see where he’s at.”
–Field Level Media | 2022-06-27T04:08:17+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/sports/mlb-baseball/dodgers-tony-gonsolin-aims-to-stay-hot-vs-braves/ |
The partnership will empower local merchants with the best user experience featuring delivery tracking, security features, and competitive pricing
CHICAGO, Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bringg, the market leading delivery management platform provider, and Uber Direct in France, the on-demand white label delivery service from Uber, today announced a partnership giving retailers access to the extensive courier network for last mile delivery. Bringg and Uber's collaboration will enable local enterprises to easily launch fast and convenient delivery options to their consumers. Enterprises will be able to offer reliable and transparent delivery experiences for end customers control and visibility for delivery managers. The partnership will enable Bringg to offer greater flexibility and delivery capacity to customers in the EMEA market.
Difficulties within the delivery process have a negative effect on the customer experience and can influence the completion of a shopping journey with a purchase, with 85% of online shoppers saying that a poor delivery experience would prevent them from ordering from that online retailer again. A delivery process that does not meet customer expectations runs the risk of severely diminishing customer satisfaction, even if the user experience is top-notch (e.g., good design, proper customer services, high product variety). Retailers understand the need to prioritize offering a high-quality delivery service that reduces delivery time, enables real-time order tracking, lowers or eliminates delivery costs, and provides a trustworthy service.
As a result of this partnership, Uber Direct France will be able to expand its ability to connect with more local enterprises, enabling faster setup and delivery across the country. Uber will also be better equipped to support current customers as they scale deliveries to unparalleled levels, ensuring customers have the critical capabilities of real-time visibility, cost efficiency, and the capacity for flexible delivery options; particularly crucial with peak shopping season quickly approaching.
"Bringg and Uber Direct France working together will be a force to reckon with in the delivery and fulfillment industry," said Bastien Pahus, General Manager, Uber Eats France, Suisse, and Belgique. "Leveraging Bringg's market-leading innovation and customer-first outlook will strengthen and grow our market presence in the French market and emphasize the importance of last mile delivery. Omni-channel merchants who are willing to offer a best-in-class local delivery option to their clients will be able to benefit from this partnership and existing technology integration to access our large courier network with limited development efforts."
"We are excited about partnering once again with industry giant Uber," said Guy Bloch, CEO of Bringg. "Online businesses are waking up to the fact that maximizing efficiencies and lowering delivery costs are critical factors in the customer journey. Retailers must concentrate on delivering the best experience possible, even when the market is unpredictable and competition is fierce. Bringg and Uber Direct France can provide new delivery options to the French market to address these challenges today and in the future."
Bringg and Uber Direct France will be presenting at the upcoming Paris Retail Week between September 20-22 at the Paris Expo, Porte De Versailles, and are available to tell more about this partnership.
About Bringg
Bringg is the delivery management platform market leader, serving over 800 customers globally. Bringg manages and unifies last mile delivery, fulfillment and returns, empowering enterprises to manage and grow their delivery capacity, reduce cost and provide branded customer experiences. Bringg's open SaaS platform and robust network of over 250 delivery providers, enables enterprises to offer customers any delivery option, whether using internal drivers or external delivery providers, including 3PL, carriers, crowdsourced fleets or independent gig drivers. https://www.bringg.com/
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Attorneys for a Black U.S. military veteran who was brutally beaten by police during a pretextual traffic stop in Colorado are making graphic photos from the incident public and calling for a criminal investigation.
Dalvin Gadson, who served in the Army National Guard as a helicopter mechanic, claims he was racially profiled and subjected to a brutal attack by multiple police officers in Colorado Springs while others looked on and didn’t intervene after he was pulled over for his car failing to display its tags in October.
One of the photos taken in the aftermath of the beating shows an officer smiling while displaying what appears to be a bruised knuckle, presumably from the police violence.
While the traffic stop was taking place, an officer claimed he smelled marijuana and informed Gadson that he would have to take a DUI test. Gadson, who was homeless at the time, was ordered out of the car and told he would be placed in handcuffs.
When Gadson refused to exit his car and asked why he would need to be handcuffed, he said the question was only answered with swift force.
Gadson, who has set up a GoFundMe account to help him pay for legal representation, explained what happened next:
At that moment, one of the police officers violently grabbed my hand, and my body’s natural reaction was to pull my hand back. I did not think to do this. It was a natural reaction.
The same police officer immediately started punching me in the face while pulling me out of my car. After the first punch, I tried to say okay, I tried to say sorry, I tried to lay on the ground, but multiple officers were grabbing me, kicking me in the head, kneeing and elbowing me in the face, and punching me everywhere possible.
After I was punched several times in the face, I lost consciousness. (NOTE: No officers on the scene tried to stop this wrongdoing against me. There was thirteen police officers on the scene) I regained awareness, lying on the asphalt. I was covered in blood, with two black eyes, one eye swelled shut with blood in my cornea, my whole body badly bruised, abrasions all over, lips busted, ribs and spine hurting and my eyesight was halfway gone (NOTE: my eyes, head, spine and back are still damaged from this incident).
Adding insult to literal injury, Gadson was charged with two counts of second degree assault on a police officer, resisting arrest, obstructing a peace officer, driving under the influence and driving without license plates. The assault charges were eventually dropped and the DUI charge was dismissed last week after it was determined that “there was insufficient probable cause to require a blood test.”
One of Gadson’s lawyers suggested the officers involved were motivated by race.
“Dalvin Gadson was a homeless veteran living out of his car as he worked to reenlist and continue serving his country. But all these officers saw was a black man and they beat him for it, smiling for the camera as he lay on the ground bleeding,” civil rights attorney Harry Daniels said in a press release with graphic images of Gadson following the traffic stop. “They beat him mercilessly and now he’s afraid to go outside and the VA can’t see him to treat his injuries and PTSD until January.”
Gadson said he’s been left “terrified” of police officers.
“My liberty and pursuit of happiness is in jeopardy because of this incident,” Gadson said. “I don’t feel safe in my own neighborhood anymore.”
To be sure, this isn’t the first time Colorado Springs has been implicated in anti-Black and racist behavior.
Just last week, comedian and actor Mark Curry claimed he was racially profiled in a Colorado Springs hotel where he was booked to perform.
And back in February, the city of Colorado Springs was ordered to pay $175,000 to a Black Lives Matter protester to settle an excessive force lawsuit stemming from a violent encounter during the summer of 2020.
This is America.
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